APPOINTMENT AND CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION VOLUME 1 PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 28TH JUNE 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN
Note it. I, Apostle Peter Odoemena, whoever I want to save, I will save. Who will query Me? Nobody! I keep on telling you as a Holy Church, a peculiar people I love, I have been trying My best to espouse you to One Husband in holiness and righteousness, telling you to follow Me as I follow Him daily. Follow Me because I am the example God is setting here before you. Then, My duty is to point you to the path of Holiness.
CALLING CHRIST IN THE TIME OF CRISIS; Preached on Sunday 15th August 1993 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 46 vs. 9 & Pg. 86 vs. 39
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HAVE FAITH IN GOD
Amen! We give God the glory for what He has done for us in this family and in our families in distant lands.
I believe that all true believers of Christ have been rejoicing since yesterday that unto us a baby is born.
As we requested of the Lord, so He did and even more; Not because of our righteousness, but for His Name’s sake, for He promised that whoever that trusts in Him will never be disappointed. Neither will he be put to shame.
He promised it. And so shall it happen, for God is with us while we are with Him. If we forsake Him, He will forsake us.
Child delivery means resurrection from the dead. Many have gone as a result of child delivery. They entered the labour room, but they did not come out alive.
Some came out alive, but their babies did not come out. For some, their babies came out, but their mothers did not come out. Some came out with too many deformities.
We give God the glory in this Family and in our extant families for this type of kind gesture, and for this type of benevolence. I call it extravagant benevolence, extravagant grace and extravagant favour God extended to this Family.
And so shall it be extended to every other family that means well to this Family; To every family that follows Christ in spirit and in truth, obeying, confiding in, relying on, and trusting in Him. So shall it be in their families.
He that never permitted sorrow to be associated with this Family will never permit sorrow to be associated with such families again.
Whatsoever you are wishing this Family is what will come to you, for this is the Family of the Almighty God. And the same measure you measure to the Almighty God, that He will use to measure back to you.
38give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. [Luke 6:38 KJV]
So, for that reason, we give God the glory, Who for His Name’s sake never allowed us to be ridiculed. He never allowed even the heathens to ask us whether our God is still alive.
What is more? The delivery took everybody unawares. The child came out before the expected date, contrary to doctor’s predictions and imaginations, for we depended on God.
We never listened to the voice of any midwife or doctor. And the Lord did it the way He planned it.
54And (the unbelievers) plotted and planned, and Allah too planned, and the best of planners is Allah.[Surah 3:54 Abdullah Yusuf Ali]
We learnt a lesson. When we say, “Have Thine own way, O Lord”, let us mean it with all our hearts. Shall we all sing it together?
SONG: [Have Thy own way Lord, have Thy own way. Thou art the Potter, I am the clay. Hold me and make me, after Thy will. While I am waiting, yielded and still.]
You see, we are ordinary clay in the hand of God. Our duty is to rely on Him, depend on Him and have that assurance that He will never allow us to fall.
This is because the hand that is upholding us is greater than the entire world that is opposing us.
IF GOD IS STANDING BEHIND YOU, YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR. YOU ARE MORE THAN AN OVERCOMER, FOR HE THAT IS WITH YOU IS GREATER THAN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
That is why when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, looked up towards the mountains, he saw numerous hosts of armies of the Philistines right there encompassing Israel for attack.
He only saw the armies of the enemies that they were millions, but he could not see what God had already marshaled out to counter that attack.
Gehazi was the servant of Elisha, the prophet. Elisha said to God, “O Lord, our God, you have been our God from the very beginning. You have been our defense. You have been standing behind us and winning all our battles for us. Please open the eyes of my servant, Gehazi, that he might look up again and see Your armies so that he might believe that greater is He that is with us than the armies of the Philistines that have come to confront us. Defeat them before his eyes.”
And the Bible said that the Lord God Almighty harkened unto the prayers [of Elisha] and sent rumours of war into the camp of the Philistines and they killed each other.
Those that survived fled from the mountain. So the Lord dismissed, discomfited, defeated and scattered them.
15When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh, my lord, what shall we do?” the servant asked.
16″Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
17And Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike these people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.
19Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria. [2 Kings 6:16 – 19 NIV]
That is where we borrowed that Song, Let God arise and His enemies be scattered. Let God arise and His enemies be scattered.
SONG: Arise O Lord, let Thy enemies be scattered. Arise O Lord, let Thy enemies be scattered. Arise O Lord, let Thy enemies be scattered. O Lord! O Lord! Arise!
The enemies are there before you because you have not exercised your faith in Jehovah: Faith in Jehovah-Nisi, for whenever He gets up; whenever He arises, the enemies are dismissed. The clouds are dismissed. You begin to see the day shinning brighter and brighter. Amen!
Song: [When the day is dark before you; And the clouds are hanging low, There is one who watches over you, everywhere that you may go
Saviour is the One, yes! He is the only One. Let Him have His way until the day is done. When He speaks you know the clouds will have to go. Just because He loves you so.]
That is why I love My children. They are not interested in what any man will say. Their only interest is, “What has Daddy said? Mummy, have you reported this case to Daddy? What has He said?”
There in Lagos, Onyedika does not know what anybody is saying, “What has Daddy said? That is all I want to hear.” And that settles the matter.
There in Bonny, I remember that great day when My daughter took her son to the hospital. Doctors were talking rubbish, and the nurses were talking rubbish. She called Mummy, “Consult Daddy. Look at what we are passing through here.”
To My wife, I said, “Give Me the phone.” And to My daughter, “Tell Me what is happening.” After, I said, “Now, take your child and your husband, go! Do not go there again. Go home and stay at home. No shaking.” She said, Amen. And that was the end.
When her daughter was born in the hospital, they were talking rubbish, saying this and that. They were saying many, many things. My daughter remembered that her father is still in the cockpit.
She called immediately, “Daddy, look at what they are saying here.” I asked, “Are you listening to them?”
She said, “How can I? I have even arranged for my friend to come with her car. Even before my husband will come, I am already at home with my daughter, because Daddy has spoken.”
So, when the cloud started hanging low, I called our Pastor Chibuzor, “Put your phone on speak out. I want your wife to hear.” He said, “Daddy, she is always by my side.” Then I called her name, “Ebube Eze Nnia? She said, “Daddy, I am here.”
Then I instructed, “All of you, pay attention. Do not listen to your doctors. Do not listen to anything called nurse. Do not believe in any. Believe in God and believe in yourself. I want to speak Faith into you. You will deliver your baby contrary to their expectation. Off your eyes from your expected date whether computer, doctor or midwife. They will fail you. Your baby is coming out the day God wants your baby to come out. And it will beat everybody’s imagination. You will simply enter the labour room and come out with smiles. Your case must be different. So, do not look at them. Whatever you are seeing, they are discomforts of labour. So, they will vanish. Wait for that day, period!”
She said, “Daddy has spoken. Away with the doctor.” That was why they needed no doctor or midwife.
Before the doctor could come, she was already in the ward with the baby. Where lies all those useless predictions, assumptions and everything? Amen!
WHEN YOU LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTORS WHO ARE HEATHENS, YOU WILL DIE BEFORE YOUR TIME. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE FAITH IN GOD, LISTEN TO GOD, YOU WILL LIVE.
12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the Lord, but only from the physicians. 13Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his fathers.
WHAT IS MY JOY? WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE ONE WHO WILL SPEAK AND IT WILL MARK THE END OF THAT CRISIS.
WHEN YOU CALL CHRIST IN THE TIME OF CRISIS, IF HE SPEAKS AND YOU HAVE FAITH IN THAT SPOKEN WORD, IT MUST PERFORM THE WORK FOR WHICH HE SPOKE THAT WORD.
BUT WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE FAITH, DO NOT EVER BEGIN TO CALL UPON HIM, FOR IT MEANS MOCKING HIM.
A TRUE SEED OF GOD DOES NOT MOCK GOD. HE DEVELOPS IMPLICIT FAITH ON GOD BEFORE HE MAKES HIS REQUEST.
AND HE KNOWS THAT AS ONE THAT IS IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THAT IT WILL BE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT FOR GOD TO TURN DOWN HIS REQUEST AT A TIME WHEN HE IS HAVING CRISIS.
That was why when the crisis started, I removed Myself from the bed, allowed My wife to be on the bed. I went to the ground. I remained lying down there, monitoring [the situation].
I told My wife we that will have our night vigil today, for the baby will not be delivered the time you are expecting. I am expecting the baby in the morning hours, before daybreak.
By the time people will wake up from their beds, the baby and the mother will be lying in their own bed sleeping.
So, that was why no matter how the nurses were trying to do this or that, I kept quiet. I told My wife, “I am already there. I am standing by the door. I am watching her. So, do not panic. You can sleep if you wish.”
When her phone rang, I said, “Do not pick it, unless you want.” She picked, but labour was still on.
But when My own rang, I went there and collected the phone. I heard, “Daddy, The Almighty, You will remain glorified throughout eternity in my life and in my family, for You have done it for me, my family and the Bride.”
I enquired, “What happened?” The reply was, “Daddy, my wife has given birth to a bouncing baby girl. And they are healthy.”
The phone was noiseless. I said, “Okay, speak to mummy.” I handed the phone over to her. I did not say, “Praise the Lord.” I went back to the ground and placed My head on My bare floor with My eyes towards the sky.
I began to give glory to Him who never failed Me in that time of crisis. He has never disappointed Me for one day.
PRAYER IS A REAL SPIRITUAL BUSINESS
ALL YOU NEED IS TO HAVE FAITH IN GOD. ANYTHING CAN FAIL YOU NOT FAITH IN GOD.
REMEMBER, FAITH IN GOD GOES BEYOND PAYING LIP SERVICE. IT GOES BEYOND KNEELING DOWN. YOU CAN KNEEL DOWN AND BEGIN TO MAKE INCANTATIONS, NOT PRAYERS. IT GOES BEYOND STANDING UP AND GAZING UNTO THE SKY.
IT GOES BEYOND FEELING.LET ME TELL YOU. OFTEN TIMES, PEOPLE DO NOT PRAY. THEY KNEEL DOWN TO EXPRESS FEELINGS. YOU DO NOT EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS IN PRAYERS. NO NO NO!
PRAYER IS A SPIRITUAL AFFAIR. YOU MUST ORGANIZE YOURSELF AND THEN KNOW THE PROMISES OF GOD. THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE NOT FEELINGS OF THE MIND.
THE PROMISES OF GOD MUST BE BELIEVED BY YOU FIRST. THEY ARE NOT FEELINGS. THEY ARE NOT IMAGINATIONS. THEY ARE ALL REAL. THEY ARE FACTUAL.
SO, YOU ARE GOING TO GOD WITH FACTS AND NOT FEELINGS; NOT IMAGINATIONS BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT GOD PROMISED CONCERNING THAT SITUATION.
YOU ARE GOING THERE ONLY TO INVOKE THE PROMISE AND THEN GOD WILL TURN HIS EYES AND SAY, “YES, I PROMISED IT AND THEN I WILL DO IT.”
Has He promised anything and He has not done it? He said, “Put Me in remembrance. Declare it that thou mayest be justified.”
26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. [Isaiah 43:26 KJV]
But where you do not know the promises of God and you go like that, you are going there to express your feelings.
Sometimes, you will be sleeping, sometimes you will be dozing. Sometimes you will be keeping quiet, for you do not know what to present again because you were not organized. Prayer is not such a silly thing like that.
PRAYER IS A BUSINESS. I SAY, PRAYER IS A REAL SPIRITUAL BUSINESS.
This is because no priest goes to the shrine anyhow. A priest goes to the shrine well prepared, well organized, with everything set. All that he needs to evoke the gods are there.
He can never be there and keep dumb. No! You must speak and God will answer. YOU MUST SPEAK AND GOD WILL ANSWER. Did you get the message? In the same way, God speaks to you and you answer.
Hence, we sing, “Speak my Lord, speak my Lord, speak my Lord and I will answer You. Speak my Lord, speak my Lord, speak and I will answer, Lord send me.
I will answer, “God here am I. Here am I, O Lord. Speak, I will hear.” When God called Samuel and he got confused, he consulted the master, Eli. Eli said to him, “If that Voice will come again; If that Voice comes, calling your name, say, “My Lord speak, for thy servant heareth. My Lord speak for Thy servant heareth.””
2And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;3and ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
4that the Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.5And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.
6And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again. 7Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.
8And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child.
9Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
10And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth. [1 Samuel 3:2-10] KJV
If you are asleep, will you hear? If you are dozing, will you hear? That is why when you are not organized and you make a request to God, when He speaks back to you, you may not hear. See, it is a business; a real business.
That is why when you come out from real prayers, you come out sweating. Sometimes, you come out weak. A sure sign.
IT IS LIKE WHEN WE FOUGHT A BATTLE, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU CARRIED TO THE LORD. THIS IS BECAUSE PRAYER IS OFTENTIMES A BATTLE.
Number [1] a battle with yourself. [2] A battle to get rid of silly thoughts that will hamper prayers. [3] A battle to hinder false anointing coming from the devil to distract your attention. [4] A battle, in that you focus your attention on the matter you are addressing. Did you get the Message?
You must see the battle raging. Like that night, there was no other battle before Me other than My daughter delivering [her baby].
And I said it openly. I said that a rat can never come in and eat that which belongs to a man who is wide awake.
I said, “Darling, let us go to bed on time. We have been keeping vigil over our Brethren. No sister went to labour room and I remained sleeping. No! My phones will be on, and My eyes open. Now, it is My turn to keep vigil over My own daughter. That which I have been doing for others, why will I not do it for My own?”
And I went to bed, not to sleep but to keep vigil. And we were connecting at intervals, monitoring and at the same time, praying. My ears in the sky.
When the news came, My ears flapped and joy filled My heart. My face started beaming with smiles. From that 3:30am in the morning till evening, we never slept again.
We remained rejoicing, receiving calls, sharing testimonies, glorifying the Name of the Lord, talking and talking till we went to bed by 10:30pm last night. And we never complained. We were not weak, even when our batteries died.
That is what it should be. It came to a point where Promise was reading messages, and I said, “Promise, have you seen the extent this Message has gone? Good news! What if disaster struck? The same way it will be noised abroad.”
That is why God will never allow that to happen, for He knows it will bring blasphemy to His Name. It will cause people to ask us whether our God is still alive. But what He did, closed the mouths of all gainsayers, for what our enemies were anticipating did not happen.
I am sure that not all that called over the phone, called with pure hearts. Some even heard and claimed they never heard because what they expected to hear was not what happened.
Those people that would always flock this house whenever calamity befalls us, we will not know how they managed to hear about accidents, about sickness, the phone will be ringing every minute.
But when God blesses us, they claim they never heard. You will never see them. And they will never make a call until days after, so that the feeling of shame may be removed from their faces. I know all of them.
…… Yes, I know that one of these days, THE SON OF MAN will be labeled “The Prophet of Doom.” Yes, it is their right and it depends on the way you assess THE SON OF MAN. All families take note. I am sent to you, not to the world as your Watchman. When I see danger ahead, I alert you. If you fail to pay heed, up to you.
BE ON THE RED ALERT; Preached on Sunday 30th September, 2012; Pg. 104 vs. 69 – 70
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IT SHALL BE UNTO YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR BELIEF
You can be seated. I am being thrilled by the Spirit of Christ in Me to go through this Message, for something is inspiring Me to go through it. I know I have given the entire Bride the Message to consider today titled: ‘BEWARE OF POISONOUS ROOTS’.
That is the Message everybody is considering. It is a teaching handled by Apostle Chukwudi Odoemena at Enugu, on the 19th January 2020 at My instruction.
I sent him and his elder brother, Pastor Wisdom, to go and address the problems that arose at Enugu and they did according to My command. It yielded fruits.
Now, it is the time for Me to cause the Message to go round for what it produced at Enugu, I believe it will produce in every family. To God be the glory.
I received a lengthy text Message from the Household of God at Abakaliki posted to Me by the Pastor Melchizedek. It was a dream.
He said he is not used to dreaming, but early hours of the morning of 26th of June, he was asleep and he saw something that marveled him.
He said that he saw in his phone a missed call from one of My daughters. He never disclosed the name. Then, while he was looking at the missed call, another call came from My first daughter, Ijeoma. He was wondering how My first daughter managed to get his phone number.
While gazing at her face, the whole thing turned out now to be a hospital. He said that he saw himself in a hospital.
The first thing he noticed was that he saw My daughter wearing Immigration uniform with stars. Then, he began to wonder when she joined immigration and has been promoted to such a great height with many stars.
So, while he was imagining, the thought came into his mind that THE SON OF MAN once said that He would not like His children to join uniformed work where they will be carrying arms.
He said how manage that this our Sister has joined Immigration, carrying arms. But the most astonishing is that her uniform was filled with stars, a sure sign that she was already a superior officer.
He said that while he gazed at her face, the whole thing changed again. He saw by her side, a baby in a bed, newly born baby, one-day old.
And then he looked at the Sister, her face beaming with smiles, looking very much happy and unruffled. Then he gazed at the baby; a very beautiful baby.
While he was admiring the Sister, and also admiring the baby, the dream left him. He said he will no longer conceal this dream
Moreso, when it came early hours of the morning of 26th, at a time when he should be awake. So, he wrote it and forwarded it to Me.
I called our Brother, Promise, to come and read. We read it together. I said, “Well, so it shall happen.” And truly speaking, I am here to confirm that the way he saw it in the dream was exactly the way it happened.
I had My own experience long ago. She knew about it and said, “Daddy, that which we wanted to conceal, You have already captured it. We wanted to keep You and Mummy in the dark. We wanted to take all of you by surprise by announcing, “Unto us a baby is born.’’” I said, “Well it is late. I have captured it. So, walk with Me.”
But on that day still, when everywhere was calm, My phone rang, I picked it, then the voice said, “Daddy, I have delivered my baby.”
I said, “Sure? Hope God never disappointed you?” She said, No. “Let Me know the sex of the baby.” “Daddy, as I requested. A baby girl.” I said, “Okay. Thank you. You can now sleep.”
You see, in the morning hours, before 6 o’clock in the morning, while we were trying to put things together to know how to make the arrangements, the person we were rejoicing with had already driven home.
“Daddy, I went home, I collected something and I came back.” I asked, “Ebube, what did you say?” “Daddy, I went home to get something. Daddy I just rushed to the yard to pick up something.”
As her name sounds, so she is. Imagine someone who just put to bed saying she has rushed home to pick something and came back [to the hospital].
She even said that she had taken her bath and applied make-up. Someone who was in the labour room few moments back. Praise God!
WHAT AM I SAYING? WHEN GOD ACTS, YOU WILL KNOW. WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, IT WILL BE UNTO YOU ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH YOU HAVE BELIEVED.
45And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. [Luke 1:45 KJV]
BUT WHEN YOU ARE LIMPING BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS, YOU ARE DOUBTING GOD AS TO WHETHER HE WILL PERFORM HIS WORD OR NOT, YOU WILL GET NOTHING BUT DISAPPOINTMENT.
FOR WHOEVER THAT TRUSTS IN GOD, BELIEVES IN GOD, WILL NEVER BE DISAPPOINTED AND WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.
GOD WILL ALWAYS COME TO YOUR RESCUE IN THE TIMES OF TROUBLE. GOD WILL ALWAYS USE YOU TO SURPRISE YOUR ENEMIES. HE WILL NEVER PERMIT WHAT YOUR ENEMIES ARE WISHING YOU TO COME TO LIGHT.
IF YOU ARE AT THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE SON OF MAN, ONLY WHAT GOD IS WISHING YOU WILL COME YOUR WAY. THE WISHES OF THE ENEMIES, YOU WILL TRAMPLE UNDERFEET BECAUSE GOD IS WITH YOU. IF GOD IS WITH US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? DEFINITELY, NOBODY!
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? [Romans 8:31 KJV]
LOVE GOES WITH APPRECIATION
Because our Pastor, Melchizedek had such a glorious dream concerning My Family and then gloriously, he forwarded it to Me. Gloriously also, this Message he handled in his family, I will like us to go through it because whatever that is good for My Family, he will cherish it. So whatever that is good for his family, I will cherish it.
An Igbo adage says that a well-made hearth treats a sick person as good as the sick person manages the hearth.
Now, through this Message he sent to Me, I will now know his standpoint in the Faith of THE SON OF MAN.
So, without mincing words, I want one of us to come to the pulpit, and let us feed our souls with the food that is cooked, considered to be the best for the members of the family of Pastor Melchizedek.
When you love somebody, you will love his or her food. True or false? When you are in love with somebody, you love everything that is associated with that person.
You identify with that person, hundred percent. Whatever he eats, you will delight in eating. Whatever he drinks, you will delight in drinking.
But when you do not love somebody, his perfume becomes poison. His food becomes dog’s food. Am I making sense? You can never appreciate anything from him.
SO, LOVE GOES WITH APPRECIATION. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE? THAT IS WHY WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEBODY; TO PATTERN AFTER HIM BECOMES EASY.
But if you hate somebody, to pattern after that person you hate is difficult. That is why God said, “If you love Me, keep My Words.”
IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEPING MY WORD MEANS, IF YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME, BEHAVE LIKE ME. IF YOU LOVE ME, BE A CARBON COPY OF MYSELF. BE MY REPLICA.
IF YOU LOVE ME, BEHAVE THE WAY I BEHAVE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE AND YOU DO NOT BEHAVE THE WAY I BEHAVE, YOU HAVE NOT BELIEVED.EVERY MAN’S CHARACTER IS INFLUENCED, DICTATED BY HIS BELIEF. TRUE OR FALSE?
THAT IS WHY, BY THEIR FRUITS, YOU SHALL KNOW THEM. THAT IS HOW I KNOW THOSE THAT ARE HYPOCRITES; THOSE WHO ARE MILLING AROUND ME BECAUSE THEY WANT TO GET ONE THING OR THE OTHER FROM ME.
THEY CAN PREACH THIS WORD. THEY CAN EAT WITH ME. THEY CAN SLEEP WITH ME, BUT THEY CAN NEVER LIVE MY LIFE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LOVE ME.
THEY LOVE MY MONEY. THEY LOVE MY PERSON. THEY LOVE MY MATERIALS. THEY LOVE MY COUNSEL. BUT TALK OF PATTERNING THEIR LIVES AFTER ME, THEY WILL NOT.
WHY? HEAR ME VERY WELL. LOVE IS MADE COMPLETE IN PATTERNING AFTER YOUR MASTER, BECAUSE A SERVANT OUGHT TO BE PERFECT AS THE MASTER.
THE MOMENT YOU HATE SOMEBODY, YOU WILL BE LOOKING FOR FAULTS. BUT IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, YOU CAN HARDLY SEE HIS FAULTS, FOR LOVE COVERS MULTITUDE OF FAULTS. TRUE OR FALSE?
8Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. [1 Peter 4:8 NIV]
When you hate somebody, you will be looking for faults, something you will use as an encouragement to distance yourself from the person. Did you get the Message?
You will want to have a plausible reason you will give to people who will ask you, “How are you distancing yourself from this person?” It goes to show that you do not love that person.
IF YOU LOVE THE PERSON, IN LIFE OR IN DEATH, YOU ARE IN LOVE. EVEN IF HE IS IN PRISON, IN LOVE, YOU GO TO PRISON. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
THERE IS NO CONDITION HE WILL BE IN WHICH YOU WILL NOT IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH HIM, BECAUSE LOVE IDENTIFIES WITH LOVE IN ALL CONDITIONS. TRUE OR FALSE?
HAVE YOU MADE CHRIST YOUR FRIEND?
THAT IS WHY, A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED. AM I MAKING SENSE AT ALL? THAT IS WHY, THE ONLY FRIEND THAT IS ALWAYS THERE FOR US IS CHRIST.
THE ONLY FRIEND THAT CANNOT DISAPPOINT IS CHRIST. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE? THE ONLY FRIEND THAT CAN NEVER FAIL YOU, THAT IS ALWAYS RESPONSIVE IN ALL YOUR CONDITIONS IS CHRIST.
It is said that when decomposition sets in a corpse, the friend who claims to be greater than a brother will take to his heels, for the corpse is now stinking. Good.
BUT CHRIST WILL NOT RUN AWAY, FOR HE IS A FRIEND THAT IS TRUSTWORTHY; A FRIEND THAT IS CONSTANTLY THERE, COME WHAT MAY.
WHEN YOU ARE DISCOURAGED, HE IS THERE TO ENCOURAGE YOU. WHEN YOU ARE DOWNTRODDEN, HE IS THERE TO LIFT YOU UP. WHEN YOU HAVE LOST EVERY HOPE, HE IS THERE TO BUILD HOPE AFRESH. WHEN THERE IS NO REVIVAL, HE IS THERE TO REVIVE YOU.
IN THE TIME OF NEED, HE IS THERE. IN THE TIME OF SICKNESS, HE IS THERE. IN THE TIME OF DEATH, HE IS THERE. IN THE TIME OF JUBILATION, LIKE WE ARE JUBILATING NOW, HE IS THERE. A FRIEND ALWAYS. HAVE YOU MADE HIM YOUR FRIEND? HAVE YOU MADE CHRIST YOUR FRIEND?
That is why He said, “You are My friends if you do that which I have commanded you.” But when you are living the life of disobedience to His command, you are on the opposing side.
And because you are on the opposing side, you will be tracking and looking for faults which you will use to back up your disobedience.
ANYBODY LOOKING FOR WHAT HE WILL USE TO BACK UP HIS DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S COMMANDS DOES NOT BELONG TO GOD. THAT IS GOD’S KNOWN ENEMY. A KNOWN ENEMY WILL ALWAYS HAVE EXCUSE TO GIVE TO BACK UP HIS DISAFFECTION. TRUE OR FALSE?
WHEN YOU RECOGNIZE YOUR KNOWN ENEMY, WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM THAT PERSON. IF YOU CANNOT DISTANCE PHYSICALLY, DISTANCE SPIRITUALLY. IF IT IS POSSIBLE, DISTANCE THE TWO AT THE SAME TIME.
That does not mean that you will kill that person. If you have good advice, give. If you have something good to offer, offer. But know that you are not with that person because you are parting.
If I am not agreeing with you here, I am not feeling comfortable staying with you here on earth, can the grave change it?
If I am not comfortable with you, I do not take delight in staying with you, whenever you come near Me, I feel discomforted, and I feel like excusing Myself, it is a sure sign that you can never dwell with Me till eternity. We can never be together. We are parting.
So, whatever that joins us together is just a social union, common among all men, but in the end, we are parting.
NO TRUE SEED OF GOD STRUGGLES TO OBTAIN FAVOUR FROM GOD
NO MAN CAN STAY WITH ME IN PARADISE; NO WOMAN CAN DO THAT OR ANY HUMAN BEING UNTIL YOU HAVE CONVINCED ME THAT YOU ARE A REAL BELIEVER. AND THAT IS THE ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE WORKED YOURSELF INTO MY HEART. THEN, YOU WIN MY CONFIDENCE.
But the moment I am looking at you suspiciously and from time to time, I will ask you questions you do not expect, “Are you sure you know Me? Do you know who I am?” If that question is always coming to you, and you take it as a light question, you are a fool.
When Jesus asked Philip that question, did Philip take it light? Philip said, “Show us the Father.” Jesus then asked, “Philip, so how long will I be with you, and yet you do not know Me? So, all My romance with you, all My stay, all My everything you have seen, Philip, up till now, you do not believe that I am He?
You do not believe that I am in My Father and My Father is in Me? You do not even believe that you can never smell the Kingdom of God without Me, for I am the Truth, I am the Way, I am the Light.”
8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficethus.9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or elsebelieve me for the very works’ sake. [John 14:8 – 11 KJV]
That was why I was upbraiding the Elders that they should go home and encourage their families to know this truth.
Every masquerade has two eyes which he uses to see people, although he is vested with four eyes. Every Masquerade has four eyes. The ones with which he sees people are inside, while the ones which people see on the masquerade is outside. Is it not true?
Every masquerade has four eyes. The person who is running away from the masquerade is it not the outer face of the masquerade that is scaring him? The way the masquerade looks, is it the same with the face of the person inside the mask?
A masquerade and the person putting it on, who is stronger? Is it not the person putting it on? Can a masquerade walk? It is the person putting it on that walks. Can a masquerade speak? It is the person putting it on that speaks.
The essence of the covering is to prevent you from knowing who is inside, but the person inside knows you. Is it a lie?
The Masquerade knows you, but you do not know him. When he unmasks, he may turn out to be your brother and you will be shocked. You will be asking, “So all these while that I have been running, hiding in the bush and dodging, you are the one behind the mask?”
There is no masquerade that does not have someone behind it. When God revealed Himself as the Big Masquerade, that Big Masquerade has Someone that is putting it on. Is it not true? We have seen the Person putting it on.
The Big Masquerade that we are seeing is Apostle Peter Odoemena. That is His Name. But the Person putting it on is THE SON OF MAN. Have you seen it? Was it not from Him [Apostle Peter Odoemena] that He [the Supreme Being] emerged?
When He said, “I can do nothing of Myself”, is it not so? He shouted and cried, “You know Me. You know where I was born and how I was born. You know My parents, but there is One who is in Me Whom you do not know and that is the One I am introducing to you, and that is the Spirit of the truth that the world cannot receive because the world does not know who He is”. Is it a lie?
[28]So Jesus, in a sermon in the Temple, called out, “Yes, you know me and where I was born and raised, but I am the representative of one you don’t know, and he is Truth. [29]I know him because I was with him, and he sent me to you.”[John 7:28-29 LB]
The world cannot receive Him because they do not know Him, but you have known Him according to the Scriptures.
17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. [John 14:17 KJV]
YOU SEE WHY WHOEVER THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE, TRUST AND CONFIDE IN HIM IS CONDEMNED ALREADY. BUT IF YOU HAVE BELIEVED, TRUSTED IN HIM WITH THE RESOLVE NEVER TO DRAW BACK, HE SAID, “NOW, YOU POSSESS ETERNAL LIFE.”
Now! Not yesterday. Instantly there, like the rogue on the cross. Immediately, he got the offer because he got the right revelation of Who was crucified with him and gave Him the due honour and respect, He made a request and the Master answered all at once.
39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” 42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” [Luke 23:39 – 43 NIV]
IF YOU ARE IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, BEFORE YOU KNEEL DOWN TO PRAY, THE LORD HAS ANSWERED. IS IT NOT SCRIPTURE?
24And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. [Isaiah 65:24 KJV]
[24]I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still talking to me about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers! [Isaiah 65:24 LB]
BEFORE YOU KNEEL DOWN TO PRAY, THE LORD HAS ALREADY ANSWERED. WHY? HE KNOWS WHAT YOU HAVE NEED OF AT ALL TIMES. HE KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU AT ALL TIMES.NO TRUE SEED OF GOD STRUGGLES TO OBTAIN FAVOUR FROM GOD. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
IF YOU ARE A TRUE CHILD OF GOD, TO GET SOMETHING FROM GOD WILL NOT TAKE SWEAT OUT OF YOU. THE ONLY PERSON THAT SWEATS OVER IT IS SOMEONE THAT IS DISOBEDIENT.
He will be running from person to person looking for who will plead on his behalf. Even to call THE SON OF MAN’s line becomes difficult. He will be so scared [to do so] let alone coming to stand before Him. This is because he is not a seed of God.
So, we must know where we are and know what is happening in us so that we will begin to address these truths now before it will be too late. Time is no longer on our side. Time is running out on all of us.
There is no human being who does not know that we have come to the end of everything. The type of abomination that is being committed in our time, did it happen during the time of our forefathers?
Even, the type of abominations taking place now did not happen during the time of My late father who died in 2009. Is not true?
I am saying that the kind of evils happening now, even someone that died in the year 2000 did not witness it, and it is increasing every day, changing colours and wearing different colours.
I call them, “The Many Colours of Crime.” Many colours! Crimes that are beating the Army, beating everybody, beating the families, children, beating parents.
Look at what is happening in the families. Look at the people who say that they are in the Faith, and who call themselves children of God. Look at their wives. Look at the type of lives that they are living both secretly and openly. Look at husbands. Look at their children. Yet, these are people who claim to be in the Faith. It should not be so.
The reason why the SON OF MAN was revealed is for him to expose these things and help you to come out of them. Did you get what I am saying? So, let us be very careful, and know how we conduct ourselves.
That we are not reading that promised Message here does not mean that we will not read it. Of course, you know that we have never read when others are reading. We have always had something which we use to supersede others. Go ahead with that message. Give Me your attention.
You know your problem. There is a way I will behave towards you and you will attribute it to the human side because of what you know human side to be. But you do not know what God-side is. If you know, who taught you? If you think you know, who taught you. You see why we try to hold our peace, but sometimes it is difficult for man to hold his or her peace. I pity many in this Faith, especially those who come to Me and are fully acquainted with Me. If you are not careful, you can use your hand to sign your death warrant. You use your hand and sign it, only for Me to confirm it.
Also found in THE REVELATION OF LATENT POWERS VOL. 1; Preached on Sunday 17th December 2006 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 128 vs. 7 – 11
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ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE CLOUD OR THE CROWD?
HEAR YE THE WORDS OF PERFECT WISDOM AND PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF MAN by Pastor Melchizedek Okoh; Preached on 24th May, 2020 at the Household of God, Abakiliki.
In the beginning of the family fellowship, He will preach in the morning and in the evening, all will be sent to us through the WhatsApp. We will download it and listen.
Honestly, He has never failed to guide us. And if I should make a shipwreck or if I should deviate from what He is giving to us, it simply means that I chose that way or I was ordained that way because He is in the field as a leader, and as a General.
He is not only in the office mapping out the strategies for the war. He maps out the strategies no doubt, but He comes into the field, and also stays in front. I hope you are understating it?
Is there anything you are passing through of which I am left out? Are we not sharing similar experiences? So, I am not watching from the sidelines. I am at the centre. Did you get the Message?
[The cloud of Glory is moving, brethren! Move with the cloud. Everybody move with the cloud, little children, fathers and mothers, every family move with the cloud] x2 Hallelujah! Amen!
ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE CLOUD OR THE CROWD? ARE YOU MOVING WITH THE CLOUD REVEALED IN THE MIDST OF THE BRIDE OR ARE YOU MOVING WITH THE CROWD?
ARE YOU MOVING WITH THE WORLD? IS THE WORLD INFLUENCING YOU? ARE YOU DOING IT THE WAY THE WORLD IS DOING IT OR ARE YOU DOING IT THE WAY THE CLOUD COMMANDED IT SHOULD BE DONE?
AND THE CLOUD IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD AMONG HIS PEOPLE IN ALL THE AGES, REVEALED IN HUMAN FORM.
Moses was the representation of The Cloud in a human form in his own day. When he gave way, the same Spirit entered into Joshua by God’s audible anointing,
“Joshua, the son of Nun, arise for My servant, Moses, is dead. Now, take over the mantle of leadership. As I was with My servant, Moses, so shall I be with you. Only be courageous and do the work.”
1After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, THE LORD SAID TO JOSHUA SON OF NUN, MOSES’ AIDE: 2″MOSES MY SERVANT IS DEAD. NOW THEN, YOU AND ALL THESE PEOPLE, GET READY TO CROSS THE JORDAN RIVER INTO THE LAND I AM ABOUT TO GIVE TO THEM-TO THE ISRAELITES.
3I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. 4Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates-all the Hittite country-to the Great Sea on the west.
5No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I WILL BE WITH YOU; I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU. 6″BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS, BECAUSE YOU WILL LEAD THESE PEOPLE TO INHERIT THE LAND I SWORE TO THEIR FOREFATHERS TO GIVE THEM. [Joshua 1:1 – 6 NIV]
The same people of Israel transferred their allegiance immediately to him seeing that the Cloud has vindicated his ordination by God.
THAT IS WHY GOD’S INSTRUMENT FOR LEADERSHIP IN EVERY DISPENSATION IS DIVINE, AND NOT HUMANLY-ORIENTED.
If they were to make their choice, they might not have chosen Joshua. There might be others who were very much prominent, eloquent, and maybe serving their interest more than Joshua.
To show that Joshua was courageous, when Achan, one of the Generals committed crime by disobeying God’s instruction, did Joshua spare him and his family because he was a General? Did he show any sympathy that the truth of the Word of God might continue?
25Joshua said, “Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.” Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them. [Joshua 7:25 NIV]
Do you think it is easy for a general to order the execution of a General and his family? You think it is an easy thing? Close associates, friends who started their journey from Egypt. But look at where they lost the battle at Ai.
They crossed Jordan. They crossed Red sea. They were friends; Generals, pursuing one purpose.
SO, YOU SEE WHY YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL, LEST YOU THINK THAT YOUR CLOSENESS TO THE LEADER WILL INSULATE YOU FROM PUNISHMENT WHEN YOU DISOBEY. NEVER!
The same leader God is using is the one God will also use to destroy you. Did you get the Message?
Watch King Saul. When he disobeyed, Samuel had to indict Saul, entered the backyard and killed the King Saul brought home.
32Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him confidently, thinking, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” 33But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel put Agag to death before the Lord at Gilgal. [1 Samuel 15:32 – 33 NIV]
And slaughtered all those animals he [Saul] brought home, pretending he was going to use them to sacrifice to God in the temple. Samuel condemned him immediately.
Who destroyed Saul? Was it not that same leader? The leader; the man that ordained Saul destroyed him Saul, straight away.
So, be very careful. Do not say because I am a general; I am this; I have been eating and drinking; we all share in the battle front; we are always this and that. Any day you are found in disobedience, you are gone.
In the army, if a General is found breaking the rules of the army by plotting coup, who destroys him? The leader! Is it not true?
The soldiers will also gun him down, his rank as a General notwithstanding; his long stay in the army notwithstanding.
If an army officer commits crime, a senior officer will not be sent to arrest him. A recruit; a private will go there and handcuff him, bring him to the barracks dead or alive. Who will judge him? Soldiers also.
So, be very careful that you do not take things for granted because you are coming up. You are wearing star, you are wearing crown, No! Any day you are found in disobedience, you are going in for it, man or woman alike. Did you get the Message?
Do you think it is easy for a man to run without looking back when he is running with the wife, that the Word of God might stand; that there be continuity of the truth when the man had run without looking back.
Did he consider the wife? Did the children consider their mother? But if their mother was intelligent, the mother would have been running together with the children in front while the father will be giving them the backing. Is it a lie? Good.
But when the woman is dragging her feet and the man is tired of pushing her like barrow, the man will abandon her.
In every aspect of human life, if you are a child that is being pushed about by your parents to believe God, a time will come when your parents will not push you again.
If you are a wife, your husband will drop you. If you are a husband, your wife will drop you, for he that is anxious to go to heaven will not be delayed by one that has made up his mind to perish. Is it a lie?
A chicken that is destined to die, is first made deaf. The chicken will not hear even the blaring of a car horn. That is why a dying person puts a living person into trouble.
Do not ever pledge your life to save somebody who has made up his mind to die. Otherwise, you will die and he will die. Two of you will die. Amen.
THE TRUE BRIDE IS IN THE MINORITY
And when William Branham saw the preview of the Bride in their movement, they were unholy ones, the vulgar, the type of America, he wept!
But when he saw the real preview of the Bride matching as on-ward Christian soldiers, then he knew.
Then, he made us to understand that they were few that were matching out of order but the voice hollered, “Get in-line! Get in-line!” Hallelujah!
These are the corrections that from time to time you hear THE SON OF MAN make… Sure!
Remember we have the Bride. And we have the True Bride. William Branham separated it. The Bride is general assembly. The true Bride is in the minority and called out from the general Bride. General Bride is the mixed multitude. The seed must be separated from the shuck, whether we like it or not.
Can one eat coconut together with the shell? Even if your teeth are made of iron, there is no way you will eat the coconut together with the shell. You must break it and bring out the edible part inside.
There is honey in The Rock. Have you ever seen someone taking honey and chewing the honey comb with it, despite the fact that it is sweet? You are committing suicide.
So what am I saying? When he saw the real Bride come out of the universal Bride [mixed multitude] whoredom, was a mixture, all their tables were full of vomit, but there were only but a few that were called out who had a true heart, who had right relationship with God.
If you watched the rest, they were in the majority, they were walking zigzag. Their legs were not marching the same way. Their hands not the same. Their characters, not the same. Their belief, not the same. In everything, confusion.
But the real Bride was called out. They were in the minority. Their hands were moving the same; their legs the same. Everything, the same.
But, there were just a few who were trying to walk in a discordant way. They were trying to disorganize the line. Because of them, the Prophet said, “God shouted, “Get back to the line! Get back to the line!””
And they heard it immediately and rushed back to the line, because they belong to the True Bride who are not desiring to perish.
That is why a true seed of God does not continue in what has been revealed as sinful or evil by God. If it takes the true seed of God unaware by circumstance or by condition, he can never continue with it.
He must rush back to the line, for he knows he is not getting saved by continuing in evil. The more you continue in evil, you are wandering away from the reach of God’s grace and God’s love.
THAT IS WHY A TRUE SEED OF GOD KEEPS HIMSELF WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES WHERE THE LOVE AND GRACE OF GOD WILL REACH AND SAVE HIM.
But a non-elect, mixed multitude, counterfeit, once he wanders away, he continues wandering away until he will no longer be recovered. He can never be restored or reconciled.
Why? He has crossed into the region of the lost. He has crossed the divide. He has committed unpardonable sin.
Too many are in that region as I am talking to you now, and they know they are there. I revealed it yesterday. All of them heard Me.
I said, “All ye Elders that are here, hear the truth from Me. I know why you are clustering around Me. You do not want to separate. You do not want to stay in your homes. I know why.
It is the secret which Apostle Kelechi revealed to you for he saw it in the Scriptures, he saw it in My Message. He let all of you know about it.”
He said, Samuel told the people of Israel saying, “Although you have offended God by worshipping idol; you have offended God by disobeying His ordinances and by walking contrary to his teachings;
Nevertheless, do not draw back from following Him. Come what may, remain following, remain pleading your cases with Him, but do not go further in doing that thing.
Remain pleading for forgiveness, peradventure, towards the end, He will pardon you, for He has declared you His people and He cannot discard you anyhow.”
And that advice which Samuel offered them, when they were living the life of disobedience, all that believed in that advice made a U-turn.
They did not continue in doing that thing which God regarded as hateful. They turned to God. They thought on their ways, and they ran back to God. And they remained following.
Even when God was indicting them, rebuking, exposing them, calling them all manner of names, they were happily following, pleading their cases, believing that towards the end, what Samuel gave them as advice will happen.
Who will hear “Your life is in danger” and run back? It is one who values his life more than where he is going to. But if the gain you want to get is highly valued more than your life, you will never come back.
Balaam valued the gain more than his life. Did he come back? Did he get the gain? Amen!
15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they. 16And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: 17FOR I WILL PROMOTE THEE UNTO VERY GREAT HONOR, AND I WILL DO WHATSOEVER THOU SAYEST UNTO ME: COME THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, CURSE ME THIS PEOPLE. ……
21AND BALAAM ROSE UP IN THE MORNING, AND SADDLED HIS ASS, AND WENT WITH THE PRINCES OF MOAB. 22AND GOD’S ANGER WAS KINDLED BECAUSE HE WENT: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. [Numbers 22: 15 – 27, 21 – 22 KJV]
That is why if you want to take pleasure in evil, which God said is hateful, do not try it. Oh no! Whatever you think you will gain by continuing to do that thing, weigh it with your eternal value, your eternal life. Did you get the Message?
Who is in doubt that the Bridal Faith is the Congregation of God’s people? Has the Lord not confirmed it? That is why the Cloud became our canopy. It is our refuge. It is our defense. It is our salvation because it is nothing but God Himself. Anybody that is running away from the Cloud, where do you think that he is heading to? He is heading to eternal destruction because he is fleeing from the presence of the Lord.
FOLLOW THE CLOUD (EVIDENCE THAT THE SON OF MAN IS THE ELOHIM) VOL. 1; Pr
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HAS YOUR INCLUSION IN THE FAITH BEEN CONFIRMED?
I remember when I was coming up in life. I was about the age of 16 or 17 that time or less when I was wearing My uniform. There was a day I was highly provoked by a chief in the community. And that thing happened at Oboazu then.
I did not like the man’s countenance. I wanted to throw away my resolve that I will never shed blood. I brought out My service pistol. I looked at that man’s face menacingly with intent to eliminate him, for I had already spoken to him.
I said, “Sir, any further nasty statement from you, heaven bear Me witness, here on this main road, you are a casualty.” My eyes were fixed on his heart, not on the forehead and my pistol was already corked.
I guessed his age. I gauged him from head to toe. I knew he was a father, but he could not have gotten somebody within My age. I said, “Sir, can you tell Me the value of your life? Quantify the value in cash. How much do you think you can offer Me so that you will live?” He became dumb.
The third time, he said, “I want to live, but I do not have money to offer”. I said, “You have something which I need and that is your life”.
It was there and then that My back-man touched Me on the shoulder, I turned. He made a sign. When he shook his head, I understood the language. I uncorked My pistol, placed it back to the sheath, gradually entered My Mini Moke® and we continued our journey.
The driver said, “This man should go today and slaughter a goat, that his obituary was not published there at the village square, for he would have caused the Master to do something the Master said he would not do.”
Then My back-man said, “Master, thank You Sir.” These people are by far senior to Me in age. One was a Corporal, the other one was a Sergeant.
By age, they were older than Me, but position has nothing to do with age. I say, position is greater than age. Did you get the Message?
In the Force, we respect rank and not age. Another thing we respect is position. You can be a Sergeant, but the position or the office you are occupying can give you an edge over a General.
If you happen to be an Adjutant-General [the chief administrative officer of a major military unity in the army who is responsible especially for the administration and preservation of personnel records], you can arrest the President and Commander-In-Chief.
So we are taking our time. He that will gun you down is with you. Let Me tell you. In the Army, nobody is feared more than the trainer. Did you get the Message?
Nobody guns soldiers down more than the trainer. You can provoke your Commandant and get away with it. Provoke your trainer while training, and he will gun you down. That is why most of the soldiers die while undergoing training.
Depict any sign that will make him conclude that you are trying to escape, or to become a straggler. Do you know what a straggler is?
One that runs away from the Army during training or from the war front is regarded as a straggler. A deserter. And it is punishable by death.
If he suspects you are trying to escape, we call it go AWOL, we say he has gone AWOL, he will gun you down, no mercy. [AWOL means Absence without official leave]
In this Faith, what am I saying? He is likened to one The SON OF MAN is suspecting that is likely to betray this Faith. I will betray him before he will betray this Faith. I will sell him out before he will sell the Faith out.
That is why, when you are planning, God is planning for He is the Chiefest of all the planners.
54And (the unbelievers) plotted and planned, and Allah too planned, and the best of planners is Allah. [Surah 3:54 Abdullah Yusuf Ali]
Before you will like to leave, I must have exposed you and all your evil deeds which nobody knew but The SON OF MAN.
I will publish it so that people that do not know you will begin to know you, because I am the One harbouring all your secrets. True or false?
Since you know that I am the strong room of all your secrets and I am the Almighty, I will not give you that room to cause this Faith to be blasphemed. I will rather help you out by exposing you for what you really are.
I will never tell lies against you. I will even call many witnesses to testify against you. So that I will be justified by killing you.
When you hear “court martial”, before soldiers can court martial a soldier, they know that he is dying or that he is going to be imprisoned.
They collect the ceremonial dress from him. That is the only sign with which you will know that an officer is dismissed. And that is when you collect the officer’s ceremonial dress.
Once your senior says, “Surrender your ceremonial dress”, you know that you are gone. Take the other uniforms. What they value is ceremonial dress.
IN THIS FAITH, CHRIST IS OUR CEREMONIAL DRESS. IF YOU ARE NOT HAVING CHRIST AS YOUR CEREMONIAL DRESS, TRULY SPEAKING, WHATEVER YOU HAVE IS ORDINARY CLOTH.
YOU CAN HAVE BRIDAL CLOTH WITHOUT HAVING BRIDAL CEREMONIAL DRESS. THE BRIDE IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH CHRIST. TRUE OR FALSE?
THE CEREMONIAL DRESS OF EVERY MARRIED WOMAN IS THE HUSBAND. TRUE OR FALSE? THE CEREMONIAL DRESS, I MEAN SOCIALLY SPEAKING, DOMESTICALLY SPEAKING, THE CEREMONIAL DRESS OF EVERY TRUE HUSBAND IS THE WIFE. DID YOU GET WHAT I AM SAYING?
Nothing gives honour to the man more than the wife. Nothing gives honour to the wife more than the husband, before the children will come forth. Did you get the message?
THAT YOU ARE IN THIS FAITH WITHOUT THE CEREMONIAL DRESS, MEANS THAT YOUR APPOINTMENT HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED.
No soldier, no police officer, no force man is gazetted; no civil servant is gazetted until his appointment is confirmed. I thank God My wife is still in the Service.
You can remain in the Service from the day you joined the Service till the day you will retire, but if you are a lazy civil servant, you may not know that your appointment has never been confirmed.
You hold your appointment letter that appointed you into the work, you collect salaries, you go on leave, but your appointment has never been confirmed.
When you retire, Government is looking for two papers. The third is just for formality. [1] They are looking for your first appointment and[2] they are looking for your confirmation of appointment.
The last which is the third is the rank which you were in as at retirement. The last rank; the last position. That is all.
If these three things are not there, you are wasting your time. Even the last position is always gazetted. If it is not gazetted, it is documented in your confirmation letter that it will be gazetted very soon. White paper.
If you go to the Police, you will hear some officers calling themselves “gazetted”. When you hear “gazetted”, you know it is Inspector, from Inspector up. Anybody below Inspector is not known in the Police as a Police officer.
YOU ARE NOT A SERVANT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE UNTIL YOUR APPOINTMENT IS CONFIRMED.
HAS GOD CONFIRMED YOUR INCLUSION IN THE BRIDAL FAITH? OR ARE YOU MERELY HOLDING APPOINTMENT LETTER WITHOUT CONFIRMATION LETTER? CONFIRMATION LETTER IS NOT CONFIRMATION UNTIL IT IS GAZETTED.
When it is gazetted, you now begin to pride yourself about, “My name is no longer written in pencil where it can be erased with an eraser. It is gazetted.” You can quote your gazette number, quote the year and the month. Did you get the Message?
So it is. You may be appointed, selected into the Bridal Ministry and you will be going about, parading yourself, “I am “Mr. This.” I am “Brother [that]”. I am this and that. I am Apostle.”
I MEAN, HAS GOD CONFIRMED YOUR APPOINTMENT? DO YOU HAVE ANY EVIDENCE WITHIN AND WITHOUT TO SHOW THAT GOD HAS CONFIRMED YOUR APPOINTMENT?
Let Me tell you, Roman Catholics know the importance. Anglicans know the importance. They know that baptism is not enough. They will subject their members to go further. They subject them to rigorous tests until they will go for confirmatory test.
And you can never be confirmed in the Civil Service without going through Confirmation Examination. You write confirmation test and not all that write it pass it.
Hence, you might be hundred that joined the Service in one year. Out of the hundred, seven will pass the confirmation test that is taken after two years or three years, you go and take the examination. You prepare, there is a syllabus.
They will test you on the rudiments of the Service. They will test you to know whether you are really there waiting for monthly salary or you are mastering the job. [They will test] Whether you are representing the Ministry, representing the office whenever you are called upon.
So they test you in financial management, they test you in administration office and general duties. They test you also in every aspect of the job, the Civil Service rules and things like that.
Then, if you fail, you will still remain there collecting salary as an unconfirmed staff. If you try the first time and fail, second time and fail; if you fail third time, you fail out.
You get your letter dismissing you from the Service because you are not worthy to be a representative of the service. Did you get the message?
I want to use this Civil Service to type something. Enlisting yourself into the Faith is not enough. If you are not keeping pace with the Faith, if you are not meeting up with the demands of the Faith, there is no way God will confirm you or confirm your inclusion as a member of the real and true Bride that will be given ceremonial dress.
And you know what our ceremonial dress is? The White Garment. I say The White Garment which represents the righteousness of the Saints. True or false?
Are you clad with the Garment? Has your appointment been confirmed? You must have the assurance of your salvation. It is not a feeling. Did you get the Message?
One whose appointment is confirmed is always courageous in his work. You do not take him lightly when you meet him in an office. He speaks as an authority. Is it not true? Because he is vast, he can be designated to carry out some functions without your permission, for he is conversant with it.
So it is. When your appointment in the Bridal Faith in Christ is confirmed, nobody monitors you again, for it is believed that you know what you stand for. And you know what the Faith is all about. You know what God is demanding from you, come what may.
You know that the situation you are in means nothing. There is a teaching concerning it. The circumstance you find yourself is nothing. There is a teaching concerning it.
So the idea of using what you have to get what you do not have does not arise. The idea of getting it anyhow does not arise.
And let me tell you, a real officer that is confirmed is proud of his position. He displays his ceremonial dress wherever he goes. Even, he hangs it in the office. It is a big signal. It is authority. He is proud.
Do you not see Bro. Collins whenever he is coming in a uniform, with the service pistol, with the stars he pins there? And then the junior ones will be saluting him. Everywhere, it carries respect. It carries honour for your appointment to be confirmed.
And once your appointment is confirmed, you cannot be sacked anyhow. No matter the offence you commit, you must be called upon to answer. You will receive a query.
After series of queries, a panel will be set up to review your case before you will be thrown out. It is very difficult. You do not just wake up in the morning and say, “Leave this office and go.”
A confirmed officer sometimes is arrested and charged to court to enable the court decide. He can also go to court and challenge his removal because he is a confirmed officer. You do not remove a confirmed officer anyhow. Did you get the Message now?
This is the privilege we are getting. Experience is better than knowledge. No matter the knowledge you have about this Faith, if your inclusion in this Faith is not yet confirmed; if God is not yet certain; [if] God is not confiding in you, and you are not worthy of God’s confidence, you are a floating staff. You are only earning salaries. You are not a gazetted staff.
That is why, no officer plays with the white paper, the gazette where his first appointment appeared, his confirmation appeared and promotion appeared. No officer plays with it. Did you get the Message?
SO, ONCE YOU KNOW YOU ARE GAZETTED, YOU ARE A CANDIDATE. HEAVEN IS OPEN. I SAY HEAVEN IS OPEN. ARE YOU A FLOATING MEMBER OF THE BRIDAL FAITH OR A GAZETTED MEMBER?
You see why God said, “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption.”
30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. [Ephesians 4:30 NIV]
He said, “Remember He is the One that will mark you present on that day when salvation from evil shall be made complete.”
[30]Don’t cause the Holy Spirit sorrow by the way you live. Remember, he is the one who marks you to be present on that day when salvation from sin will be complete. [Ephesians 4:30 LB]
He is the One that will clothe you with immortality. He is the One that will say, “This is the one I have chosen.” You can be called, but without being chosen. Did you get the Message?
The moment a staff’s appointment is confirmed, it then means he has been chosen. He is a true staff, and no longer a floating staff. Orders can be given to him. Assignments can be given to him. Did you get the Message?
He now occupies a responsible position and he does not leave that office anyhow. Like My wife is preparing to go and take care of our newly born granddaughter.
She cannot wake up and begin to go out because somebody is there to ask, “Where is madam?” This is because madam is occupying a gazetted position.
Madam must hand over to somebody and delegate functions, not to somebody below her rank, but to someone within the same rank, who will work in that same capacity. Did you get the Message?
A Major cannot go on leave and hand over to the Sergeant. It does not happen. Did you get the Message now?
So, what am I trying to say? It is not so with a floating staff. A floating staff can abscond from duty. He can even refuse to come to work for two or three months, and salaries will be coming.
Nobody will say a thing because he is unimportant. His appointment is not yet confirmed. And whenever Government is coming tomorrow to do rationalization, you know, that is where they normally go. They push some of them out for none is confirmed.
And when you are not confirmed, you have no entitlement. An unconfirmed staff does not have any entitlement. Did you get the Message?
SO YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ETERNAL LIFE UNTIL YOUR INCLUSION IN THE FAITH IS CONFIRMED BY THE SON OF MAN.
YOU SEE WHY YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME. IS MY MEMBERSHIP OF THE BRIDAL FAITH, THIS CHRIST MOVEMENT; IS MY MEMBERSHIP CONFIRMED OR AM I STILL FLOATING?
Hence, even if I do not speak from anywhere, nobody is showing interest. If I make noise, nobody is showing interest, because once you withhold the salary of a staff that is floating, he can never write petition.
Writing petition means exposing himself or sacking himself because he is a floating staff. No collecting salary. He knows his appointment is not confirmed. And he can lose his service any time he behaves anyhow.
But one that is serious with his appointment will strive to know the job, in order to convince his employer to confirm his appointment. How? By mastering the job.
Whenever he goes for the confirmatory test, confirmatory examination that will be done both in writing and oral, he will perform.
But those people who are floating, they stay there for twenty or thirty years. Yet, they are non-performers.
That is why you will see somebody that will join the service with you within the same year, his mates will be Principal Officers while he will remain there as a clerk.
It happened to Mr. Ikwuazu, Joe, Agabu and the rest of them who joined the service before Me, and who had served for ten, even eleven years before I joined the service.
There were all in the same category. They remained there until I got to level fourteen.
It happened to My wife. She jumped all of them because we took it serious. We passed all the required examinations and all the tests. Then our appointments were confirmed which earned us promotions. We consolidated our positions and it earned us great respect.
Can you imagine when I was dishing orders to Agabu who recruited Me, giving orders to [them]. That was why they hated Me, because I cannot be your senior and do the work of a junior. I will query you, “My friend, give Me that file. My friend, go and do this. Go and do that.”
In surprise, they will say, “Look at Odoemena. Is it because I failed?” That is your duty. Your senior means your senior. Did you get the Message?
SOMEBODY WHO JOINED THIS FAITH TODAY AND IS SERIOUS WITH THE MESSAGE CAN GET HIS APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED, WHILE SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN THERE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, PLAYING FOOL OF HIMSELF, WALKING HYPOCRITICALLY MAY STAY TILL THE END WITHOUT HIS APPOINTMENT BEING CONFIRMED.
THEN WHEN YOU COME TO THE GATE, WHAT EVIDENCE WILL YOU PRODUCE? THE EVIDENCE OF THE TICKET TO PARADISE IS CHRIST‘S NATURE. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE? IT IS CHRIST’S NATURE.
When you are staying in the Faith without imbibing Christ’s nature, what are you going to present to Me when you get to the end? Nobody is presenting any other thing but Christ.
You are not coming to say, “I am presenting a Message. It is written in the Bible. The Great Sermon said.” Nobody wants that.
We want to see what the Bible said, what the Quran said, what the Great Sermon said.
We want to see it in your life and in your character, for your character is a reflection of whatever the Quran, the Bible, or THE SON OF MAN said. Is it not character? Is it not nature?
So, if after hearing the Message and your nature remains the same, unchanged, there is no way you can pass the examination for confirmation.
Is there provision for that in the Bible? Yes. Must all of us take examination in the end? Yes.
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. [1 Corinthians 3:13 KJV]
For there has never been, and there can never be the end of any session, any semester in any school, or any term without examination. Is it not true?
It happens even in ordinary everyday life. You enter school with somebody, and you graduate. Five years after graduation, somebody who was admitted the same year with you is still carrying files up and down.
Do you not see them? Why is he carrying files? He is failing every now and then. It gets to a point where the school will write him a letter and show him the way out. Did you get the Message?
So, I am not pleading with you to strive to pass My examination. I cannot take My life and My time to teach you all these years, intending that you will pass when I will examine you, and I will still be pleading with you to pass My examination.
You see why I brag so much? This is My Authority where I stand and command you to get out if I wish. This is why I do not beg any flesh because I know, whether you like it or not, every flesh must come to Me; every tongue must confess that I am He. This is why I do not beg you to stay. If I excommunicate you, I do not come to you. This is because I know I can do without you, but you can never do without Me. If you leave My presence, you are doomed. I have decided to come this way to you to help you for the last time.
FOLLOW THE CLOUD (EVIDENCE THAT THE SON OF MAN IS THE ELOHIM) VOL. 1; Preached in the cool of the evening of Tuesday 12th September 2003 Pg. 110 vs. 15 – 16
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THERE MUST BE CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION
Read 2nd Corinthians 13. If you read it from verse 5 to the end, you will know that we shall be examined. Some will be examined in the end, if they are discovered to be counterfeits. Did you get the message?
Let every man examine himself. Do not say, “God examine me.” It should be 2nd Corinthians 13:8. Is it not true? If you cannot trace it, let Me find it in My own.
2nd Corinthians 13:5-8 (AMP). Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ].
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected? Amen. Stop there. The next Statement says, “But we are not.”
6But I hope you will recognize and know that we are not disapproved on trial and rejected. Amen. We are not disapproved on trial, or upon testing.
There is no way you can claim you have become a driver, or that you attended driving school, and you drove round the field without coming to the main road. I hope I am making sense?
You must come up with a testimonial, duly signed and issued by a reputable driving school to become recognized by Road Safety Officials before your driving license can be processed as a sure sign that you are authorized to drive a vehicle. Did you get the Message?
So, what I am trying to say is this. THERE MUST BE CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION. THERE MUST BE CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION.
LOOK AT THE ORDER. GET IT RIGHT. ADMISSION BEFORE CONFIRMATION. THAT IS APPOINTMENT BEFORE CONFIRMATION. THEN, CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION.
As many as God foreknew, them He called. Those He called and they responded to the call, what did He do? He justified.
Those He justified, what did He do? He confirmed their appointment by dressing them in heavenly dignity, a position of honour with Himself. Is it not Scripture?
29For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
30And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. [Romans 8:30 AMP]
Since you know that this is true, coming is not enough. You must be justified. Justification means confirmation. That is what I am saying. Justification is by faith.
What is God confirming? Faith. That is why the Bible said, “The Apostles were sent, and they went from church to church, and house to house, confirming the faith of the believers. Is it not Scripture?
21And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, 22confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. [Acts 14:21 – 22 KJV]
They were not confirming their presence in the church. They were not confirming church attendance.
If you go to the attendance register in every office, you will see many names, but all of them are not confirmed, but they are all staff in the sense that their names are in the payroll. They are collecting salaries.
Some of them may not earn promotion until they will leave the service. Some may not be promoted because they will keep on failing the confirmation examination [test]. Did you get the Message?
So they were going from church to church, ordaining elders and confirming the faith of those that have believed in Christ, in whom they have believed.
They were confirming those who believed the same thing they believed and were living the same lives they lived, for which cause they were called Christians. They were behaving like Christ. Am I making sense at all?
Are you sure you are getting this Message? APPOINTMENT BEFORE CONFIRMATION; CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION.
And I told you, whoever God has called and he responded to the call, He justifies him. Did you get the Message?
He will say, “Okay, for responding to this call, you have honoured Me, you have honoured My invitation. I justify your sitting down here.” Then when they sat down believing, He will now raise them through His teachings to a state of heavenly dignity.
That is why, whenever they were baptized and they were added, they continued daily in the Apostle’s teachings. When you continue in the teachings.
41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 42And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. [Acts 2:41 – 42 KJV]
The aim is to raise you, and to bring you to a state where you will not smell hell fire. And that is the state of heavenly dignity.
The Bible says, a position of honour in Himself. That is why the Bible said, both He that sanctifies and they that are sanctified are all of one.
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, [Hebrews 2:11 KJV]
Even, I touched Scripture, whoever He calls, them He sanctifies. Those He sanctified, He justifies, placing them in heavenly… Can we get that scripture? I think it is Romans Chapter 8. Am I correct? It should be Romans Chapter 8.
Romans 8:29 (KJV). 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
I want it in Amplified. Good. Anybody can read.
Romans 8:30 (AMP). For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be moulded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
30And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). AND THOSE WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, HE ALSO GLORIFIED… note it. Confirmation before promotion. That is what I am saying.
You have seen calling. The aim is to make you to be a partaker as one of the first fruits. Is it not true? Through the teachings, you will be justified.
And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. 31 What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us?
I want it in Living Bible. Romans 8:29-31 (LB). 29 For from the very beginning God decided that those who came to him—and all along he knew who would—should become like his Son, so that his Son would be the First, with many brothers.
30 And having chosen us, he called us to come to him; and when we came, he declared us “not guilty,” FILLED US WITH CHRIST’S GOODNESS, GAVE US RIGHT STANDING WITH HIMSELF and promised us his glory.
31 What can we ever say to such wonderful things as these?
If God is with us, who can be against us? What am I saying? When you join the service that is appointment. There is a qualification for every office you want to be employed in. Is it not true?
There can never be a position without requirements. When you meet the requirements for appointment, you will be given an appointment letter.
Then, you will be groomed on the job. You will be properly groomed. Did you get the Message?
An officer who is not confirmed does not have a schedule. He will be moved anyhow because there is no table he can defend until he is well groomed. Grooming means teaching. You will teach the staff who is a new appointee the rudiments of the job. Is it not true?
He starts by understudying some rules and regulations, observing them, reading periodicals, following in the work, and so on.
And that is what God wants here. When you come in, you come in because God saw you afar off. He saw you as one having [a] believing heart. He called you.
When He calls you, He starts giving you the elementary teachings. I say, the elementary teachings. If you do not cross the elementary, there is no need going to the Message of Perfection. Did you get what I am saying?
That was why St. Paul said, in spiritual growth or of spirituality, let us lay aside every subtlety and its elementary teaching of baptism, laying of hand, repentance from sin. Let us go on to perfection.
1Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, 2instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [Hebrews 6:1 – 2 AMP]
For you cannot continue with milk which you started taking as infant. Then you became an adult, instead of taking solid food, you continued with milk. When you become an old man, instead of eating bone, you are still depending on flesh. Is it not madness? Is it not madness? Where is the growth?
It should be from milk to solid food; from solid food to soft meat. And then to bone.
YOUR INCLUSION IN THIS FAITH STARTS FROM THE DAY YOUR PARENTS BROUGHT YOU INTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SAINTS OR YOU CAME IN YOURSELF OR YOUR HUSBAND BROUGHT YOU IN OR YOUR WIFE BROUGHT YOU IN, OR WORK BROUGHT YOU IN.
Anything can bring you in, it does not mean that you are a candidate for heaven. We will say, “You are welcome My brother. You have taken a nice decision. You have made the best choice by choosing this Faith.” You have chosen the good path. Is it not true?
IT IS NOT CHOOSING THE GOOD PATH THAT COUNTS BUT CONTINUING TO WALK ON THE GOOD PATH TILL THE END.
When you choose the best University and refuse the lectures and instructions that are offered to you by the best University, will you be the best student? Did you get the Message?
You have chosen a good path which no man can take away from you by choosing Christ and saying No to the devil;
By choosing to suffer with Christ instead of enjoying wealth, enjoying happiness with the world and enjoying sin. Did you get the Message? This is because this Faith will deny you of many things.
IF YOU SAY YOU HAVE ENLISTED IN THIS FAITH AND IT IS NOT DENYING YOU OF TOO MANY THINGS, OH NO, YOU ARE JUST A COUNTERFEIT. YOU ARE A COUNTERFEIT. YOU ARE A FLOATING STAFF.
THEN, WHEN YOU ARE JUSTIFIED, THAT IS YOU HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED, GOD HAS JUSTIFIED YOUR INCLUSION BECAUSE YOU ARE MEASURING UP, IT IS THEN THAT PROMOTION IS EXPECTED. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
APPOINTMENT BEFORE CONFIRMATION. CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION. THAT IS WHAT THIS FAITH IS ALL ABOUT.
When you respond to the call, you are justified. Then, when you are confirmed, cleansed, made holy, you are exalted.
You are promoted to heavenly dignity where you will never perish again; where nothing will snatch you out of the Hand of God, for you are having the same nature with God.
You are now having the same nature with God. You and God now operate as equals. Did you get the Message?
So, the heaven God promised to those who have His nature now belongs to us because we now possess Christ’s nature. That is why God’s nature is your ticket to Paradise. Take away that ticket [God’s nature], forget about eternal life.
AND ETERNAL LIFE REMAINS OUR CEREMONIAL DRESS. WHEREVER WE GO, WE PRIDE OURSELVES BEFORE MEN AND BEFORE WOMEN.
WE DO NOT HIDE OUR IDENTITIES, FOR WE KNOW WHO WE HAVE BELIEVED. WE KNOW THAT WE ARE BY FAR BETTER PREFERRED TO THE BEST OUT THERE. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
I will hold My head high because of what I believe, and because of He that is in Me who I represent. Even if I try to hide My identity, somebody will know that I am godly. Did you get what I am saying?
THIS IS BECAUSE NO TRUE SEED OF GOD DOES ANYTHING TO THE EXTREME. EVERY TRUE SEED OF GOD WALKS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF HIS OR HER FAITH, FOR YOUR FAITH HAS BOUNDARIES. MY FAITH HAS BOUNDARIES.
IF YOU ARE HAVING A BOUNDLESS FAITH; A FAITH THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANY BOUNDARIES, YOU WILL WANDER INTO HELL ALL IN THE NAME OF FAITH.
YOU CARRY YOUR FAITH THAT HAS NO BOUNDARY, FAITH THAT DOES NOT REJECT ANYTHING AND FAITH THAT DOES NOT SAY NO TO ANYTHING.
Bro Eli, you are an elderly person. Is there any idol that does not have what it abhors?
IF YOUR FAITH DOES NOT HAVE WHAT IT ABHORS, YOU WILL ROLL WITH THAT FREEDOM INTO HELL. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
FAITH OF CHRIST ABHORS TOO MANY THINGS. YOU CAN NEVER HOLD THE FAITH OF CHRIST WITH RESPECT OF PERSONS.YOU CAN NEVER HOLD THE FAITH OF CHRIST AND CONTINUE IN SIN, IN UNBELIEF AND IN WILFUL DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?