APPOINTMENT AND CONFIRMATION BEFORE PROMOTION VOLUME 3 PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 28TH JUNE 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN
The same Mercy Seat will become your Judgment Seat. The same Mercy Seat is the Judgment Seat. Who knows that Christ is the Mercy Seat? Is it Scripture? But who know that Christ is the Judgment Seat also? God Bless you! When you know these fundamental Truths in Christ, happy are you. You will know how to conduct yourself.
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION; Preached on 7th March 1999; Pg. 72 vs. 20 – 21
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OUR DOCTRINE REMAINS OUR SUPREME LAW [1]
Do we start repeating the mistakes of the pasts? Do we start repeating the mistakes that Moses made; the mistakes David and the rest of them made?
This is because we have God in person teaching us, the Bridegroom is in the midst of the Bride. What more do we want? What else do we need?
45It is written in [the book of] the Prophets, And they shall all be taught of God [have Him in person for their Teacher]. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—[John 6:45 AMP]
Over familiarity is associated with marriage; not only husband and wife. It extends to sons-in-law and fathers-in-law. Guard against it.
GUARD WHAT? GUARD AGAINST OVER-FAMILIARITY. A SEPARATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. What was God doing before them that year? He was separating relationships that should exist between in-laws from that which existed.
Even before we became in-laws, a relationship was existing. Christ-relationship. We were co-labourers in the same vineyard before we became in-laws.
So, it will be very very bad for us to muddle the two together. Is it a lie Brethren? It will make us to become blind. We do not know when God is talking to us and when our in-law is talking to us.
THAT IS WHY, THE ONLY REMEDY IS, “I AM HAPPY GOD IS MY IN-LAW. I AM HAPPY GOD IS MY FATHER. I AM HAPPY GOD IS MY HUSBAND. I AM HAPPY I AM A BIOLOGICAL CHILD OF GOD.” PERIOD. IS IT A LIE BRETHREN?
There is a song we sing: [I am a child of the King; I am a child of the King with Christ my Saviour. I am a child of the King. I am a child of the King; I am a child of the King with Christ my Saviour, I am a child of the King.]
Can the child of a king be found guilty in the court? Who presided over that case?
YOU SHOULD BE VERY HAPPY WITH THAT ONE. YOU SHOULD BE VERY VERY HAPPY WITH THAT ONE BECAUSE, AT LEAST, THERE IS A LEVEL OF IMMUNITY YOU ARE ENJOYING. IS IT A LIE?
There is no way that the police will just come in here and arrest Promise. Promise, I do not know why each time I want to give an instance, I will use you.
I like it because you are the oldest among these children that are here. But their lifestyle is better than your own because what is happening in you is different. Perhaps, God does not want you to perish. That is why He puts your name there.
A Policeman cannot just come in here and say, “Who is Promise? He should enter the vehicle.” No! He will respect Me. He will first call Me aside.
Then we will discuss. After his own narration, I will say, “Okay. Let Me sign your warrant. Go. I will bring him to the station.”
This is because I know how it will look like for the police to come here and arrest Promise and take him away in their van or Black Maria.
And the whole world will know that he was arrested from My own house. Will such a shame ever go away? Will such a shame ever go away?
So it is better that I tell them to go, and that I will bring him to the police station Myself to the police station. I will then carry him in my vehicle and gently take him there. Then whatever might be his crime, we will discuss it.
What do I want to save? He is not the only one I have saved. I also saved Myself and all of you too, lest they will think that the rest of the inhabitants of this house behave the way he behaved for which cause he was arrested.
This is because, whenever police wants to carry out arrest, their eyes will be fixed on the houses where robbers live. The places where they can arrest robbers and yahoo boys [advance fee fraudsters]; the house from where all the perpetrators of evil in the neighbourhood live. Is it a lie Brethren?
So that whatever he must have done, people will not ascribe that reputation to the rest of you. Because when the police is going to make arrests, their eyes are always on thieves.
Once the police gets information about a robbery incident, the first place they will go for arrest is that same place they normally arrest perpetrators of evil activities. Is it a lie Brethren?
That is why evil can never cross this gate. Once you are evil, do not ever come near this gate. That was why I sent Ugoo away before it becomes late.
But his parents wanted My Voice to be heard outside, but I held My Spirit. This is because speaking outside will amount to gross belittling of My entire personality.
Can you imagine a situation where his son was forcefully evicted and he returned to his father’s house? A people that are not ashamed that their children are thieves. Do you not see that this person enjoys the gains of unrighteousness?
Can someone who enjoys the gains of unrighteousness ever be courageous enough to call his child a thief? Vigilante group will come and they will arrest your child just as Ugoo has been arrested twice.
Any day he is arrested in his current place of refuge in Oba, their mother will be forced to raise them in Ogidi. I have already told her so.
We should guard against what? Over familiarity, which is associated in marriage even between husband and wife.We should guard against it.
THERE SHOULD BE A TOTAL SEPARATION OF WHAT THE HUSBAND IS AND WHAT THE WIFE IS, WITH THE HUSBAND STANDING IN HIS DUTY POST. Sure!
[The evangelist encounters difficulty reading the message] It is a typographical error. It was preached, typed, proofread in Abakiliki by substandard people, who handled it, not by Pastor Melchizedek.
Pastor Melchizedek has sound grammar and sound presentation as you can see in there, but the people that did the work for him are heathens who do not know the truth. Sometimes, what they are reading there is putting them off.
It is like this GREAT SERMON. The man who printed it is a Pentecostal. He said that it was amazing grace that helped him print it for us, for many of the contents run contrary to his belief. Yet, they were truth.
He said that the truth contained in THE GREAT SERMON helped him to ignore the teachings of his church and to do the right thing.I said, “Sir, you are not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.”
When we printed the HARD TRUTH, was it not the same story? When we printed CRY OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM at Benjamin, the man was a Catholic and also a Knight of St John.
He told us that if not because of Myself and My wife, he would never print the work, for the contents are against his faith, for he is a knight in the Roman Catholic.
He thought about returning our job and refunding our payment, but looking at My life and the life of My wife, My children and all that were living with Me, he said no, for any teaching that is capable of producing this kind of life is the kind of teaching somebody should listen to.
Then our Sister who is still with us; [Sister Florence] the wife of Dan Chukwuemeka, who happened to be our neighbour, lived there and attended Zoe ministry.
That is where we use to sew our clothes, at Ali’s place who is a Yoruba man. I was going there to distribute the books and to also preach the Gospel.
When she eventually got married and the husband brought her into our Faith, she knew us, but we could not recognize her anymore.
The day she shared her testimony, she said that what strengthened her is that there is an extent to which you know somebody and it will become a stumbling block to you.
But she said that she was thanking God that her acquaintance with Daddy Apostle Peter Odoemena and his wife and children did not stumble her. Instead, it helped her faith.
She said that it got to a level during the preaching of the Message, and she was watching them. And we were wondering if these people are human beings at all?
She testified that in the whole of Benjamin [street], their family was different; their children were different; all the people living with them were different. And their righteousness is unquestionable.
This was the reason why our Landlord called for a meeting and told everyone that he knows only but one person who worships God. Our Landlord was a catholic. The whole place was flooded by the members of the Knight were there
What he said attracted enmity to us from the youth and his members who were all knights in the Roman Catholic and also people from Grace of God mission.
He said that only one person truly worships God with every amount of seriousness along with his family and which manifests in their lives. He mentioned it that the man is Odoemena and his family. And that whatever others are doing is politics.
Finally, he relocated us to the upstairs of a four-storey building. When we got there, the youth that were fighting Me convened a meeting of the tenants in the yard even becoming the chairman.
He pleaded passionately with all to respect Odoemena and His family, for that which he believes is what he is seeing in them, for it is practical Christianity, and that is what he believes.
He said, “Imagine this man that just packed into this yard, and within two months, the yard has become a new yard. He told them that He [Odoemena] does not care who is who, but has cleaned up everywhere within the back yard, and even cleaned the gutter around the lines where they spread their clothes.
He said that Odoemena sweeps the steps down to the last and had been maintaining it for one year without anybody assisting Him.
He said that it got to a point when He [Odoemena] was mobilizing His Church members for work both in the front and the back of the yard, which is pure truth.
He even told them that He [Odoemena] did the same thing in the yard where he was living before.
When we were living in Obi Lane, Obi Lane never forgot Myself and My wife for one day. We came and recovered a dilapidated compound. We gave them a toilet and also a bathroom. We introduced them to the use of disinfectants.
We cleared the faeces they deposited there and taught them what cleanliness is all about, and that is the reason why the children of the landlord have never failed to associate with us. Even after we packed away, they were coming with their wives till now.
NO MAN WHO BELIEVES IN THE TRUTH BECAUSE OF THE VALUE OF TRUTH, LOVES TO DISENTANGLE HIMSELF OR HERSELF FROM SOMEBODY WHO HOLDS THE TRUTH AND PRACTICES THE TRUTH. I HOPE YOU ARE HEARING WHAT I AM SAYING. THIS IS A SECRET.
While at the shop, the man from Akokwa who sells drinks used to ask Me, “What is happening? Is there any charm you use on the people that serve Me in the shop?”
I was surprised. And I asked him, “Do I make charms? Are you not in possession of My Messages and My calendar? And I live the life of the contents.”
He told me that he does not mean that kind of charm, and that what he meant was the secret. I told him that I do not know any secret apart from Christ. I asked him if there is anything wrong in what I said, but he said no.
He said that he is referring to the girls that I employ in the shop, for any that does not get married from here goes into higher institution or even go to some other different place of value.
He said, “That is not all. There is nobody that left Your shop who does not visit You. Once the person comes around, the fellow must come to salute You and the people around You.”
I then said, “Okay! Is that where your attention is? If I had maltreated the person, will she still be coming back? Am I making sense? Is it not where a dog is treated well that it frequently goes to?”
Any family or wherever a dog visits and it is given leftover food, fish bone and all, do not be surprised that one day, the dog will leave its owner house every morning for your own place, sit down and also guard your house.
The owner of the dog will then be beating the dog because he owns a dog but the dog takes delight in going to stay in the neighbour’s house.
It is so, because that is where the dog is treated very well. The dog has seen the person that treats it very well.
Then I told him something. You employ someone and after one week, you sack the person. You do not pay them. After one month or two, they will resign. Upon that, you also use abusive words on them.
It is just like this woman here that beats her own worker. What is left is stripping her naked publicly instead of paying the poor girl her accumulated salary of three months.
I do not owe my staff. I know that they have responsibilities. There is none of my staff who falls sick and I do not take care of the person. You can see how I relate with all of them. That is all.
If I am eating Abacha [tapioca] and they signify interest in eating, I will instruct the seller to dish out one hundred naira [₦100] worth for everybody. And they will all partake of the meal.
If My children come back from school and come to the shop, they will all be served the same thing immediately. Everything in common. You may think we are running a family; which is really a family.
If the person gains admission into a higher institution, she will give Me a notice of the admission and will subsequently proceed.
The one that is about to marry will equally give Me a notice and will subsequently proceed for the marriage. Even when the person wants to visit her home town, the person also tells Me.
And if peradventure the person comes into Onitsha, she must surely come to see how we are faring. Some of them still call Me on the phone, even till tomorrow. I am not the only one involved. It is the same experience with My wife, even with Ogechi.
He (Christ) is now fulfilling that thing which the law could not do, and then He was teaching and preaching to people what they must do to be perfect. He Himself, first of all, made Himself perfect. Then He made Himself the Author of eternal perfection, unto them that will obey the teachings, not Moses’ laws because now that He is on the scene, Moses is no more. Christ will now continue and all that will now inherit this eternal perfection will now obey Him.
FIVE-FOLD WORSHIP; Preached in the year 1993; Pg. 56 vs. 44 – 45
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OUR DOCTRINE REMAINS OUR SUPREME LAW [2]
SO, WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? THERE IS SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE. YOUR LIFE WILL EITHER TRY TO ATTRACT PEOPLE TO YOU OR SCARE THEM AWAY.
BUT WATCH THE MANNER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ATTRACTED TO YOU AND WHAT IS ATTRACTING THEM. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
FIND OUT WHETHER THEY ARE COMING BECAUSE OF MATERIAL GAINS OR THEY ARE COMING FOR SPIRITUAL GAINS.
Someone who comes to you for advice whenever trouble comes out, is he interested in your money? Am I making sense?
If peradventure the fellow has a personal problem; even if he contracted a disease; he comes to you and confides in you, explaining everything to you, did he come for your money? It is not money.
There is something the person saw in you which is different from other places, for an Igbo adage says that when a maiden marries two husbands, she will know the better of the two.
This is the secret, even in the work place. If you are doing well in your place of work, there is no way you will not be in good terms with the owner of the business. You will even be in good terms with his wife and children.
It will come to the point where your wife [as the boss] can make a list and call the person at the shop on phone to tell him/her what she wants. It happens in my place. Is it a lie?
But if I have any secret dealings with any of them, when they see my wife coming, they will run away or become hostile. None of them will even come out and give her ordinary salute.
There is a way I test them. I can send the person on an errand with a load which I know can be carried by the hand to the destination I want you to take it.
This is so as to know whether I will run that errand with pride by looking for a wheelbarrow or anything. But if you carry it on your head and walk along the main road to the place, I will mark you good.
I will send you on such an errand that will make a young lady to first sit down and observe herself in the mirror and then make-up herself and change her footwear.
Once I get such a person, know that I will sack her. That was how I sacked the one that stole from Me. But this one that is still here, when you send her on an errand in response to a call I received, she will speedily go, even with her bare feet. It gives Me joy.
So you, as a man, will become disciplined enough, so that you will not drag the confidence reposed on you in the mud. For once you drag that confidence in the mud, respect will go. Is it a lie Brethren? That person will never respect you again.
Is it not virtue that people respect in a human being? For anybody, whether man or woman, it is your virtue that earns you respect. This is the reason I and My wife were respected in the Federal Ministry of Labour.
A woman came, her fellow woman, who was married with children and enquired from My wife whether she ever quarrels with her husband.
“Do you ever get tired of this your husband? You are living in the same house with your husband and sleeping on the same bed and when you come to the office you are entangled together.
When your husband is on break, and when his colleagues have all gone to the place of eating and drinking, your break time is still spent with him on his table. And your husband’s break time is equally spent on your own table.”
Who can believe it that My house is very close to the office. Yet, there had never been a day I said I was going for break and went home to My house.
Who will I go there to look for knowing that all My children are in school? I and My wife are there in the office. Even if she is eating groundnuts, she will leave some that I will eat when I come back from work. I do not know whether you understand what I am saying?
We were sharing our testimonies the other day and I said, “God, to You belongeth the Victory, Glory, Honour, Praise, Adoration, Majesty, Who kept Me in Onitsha and I retired in Onitsha.”
Despite all the move they made to move Me away, My director said no because I was doing that which was pleasing to all of them.
They never allowed my transfer away from Onitsha. I started work in Onitsha and retired in Onitsha after twenty-seven years.
The same thing is applicable to My wife. They transferred her to Lagos, but God said no. They transferred her to Abuja, but God said no. Her colleagues said no. The Director also refused, stating that he will never get an Administrative Officer that will be like Mrs. Odoemena.
Her transfer was prevented everywhere and she was brought back to Onitsha. And by the grace of God, she will retire here in Onitsha. I am the One that benefitted thereof, even the two of us.
What it did for us that we got married in Onitsha, lived together in Onitsha, had children in Onitsha, blended together and we are still remaining together till now. 32 years. We never parted. We never parted from our children for one day.
Even if I go to work in Kaduna, Lagos or anywhere, I still come back. Even if I go for this course she attended, we are coming back. We never parted from our children for one day.
But there are some whose wife will be working at Zaki Biam while they are working at Zungeruwa. Some will be in Bauchi, while the wife will be in Maiduguri. Some will be in Lagos, and the wife will be in Abuja. This is just to amass worldly riches.
The man will be in custody of some of the children while the wife will be staying with some. Look at the picture of the family.
BUT MONEY NEVER INFORMED OUR DECISIONS. WHAT INFORMED OUR DECISIONS WAS SERVICE TO GOD AND THE LOVE WE HAD FOR OURSELVES AND OUR CHILDREN.
It has affected our lifestyle so much that even at this old age, even my wife knows that to allow My wife to go for omugwo [postnatal care], is a ding-dong affair.
The one that is not yet married now knows that she is going to have a problem. The person that is going to put to bed tomorrow knows that there will be problem.
There is no time, if the family is sincere to themselves, the man prefers the wife around him more than when the man is ageing gradually.
That I survived was because Oluebube assisted Me alongside her brothers. It was when My wife was away that I got paralyzed in this house, if you will remember.
It was when I went to take my bath, only to come out crawling on my knees. From there, I could not walk. I was now being carried. I could neither sit nor stand. I then carried the matter to Physiotherapy.
I was in that condition until my wife came back and noticed that I was in hellfire for the period that she was away. In short, that was a part of what terminated her stay for postnatal care over there.
She did not complete the period she was supposed to stay because she was called over the phone telling her the condition in the house.
She came back and saw that it was true that I could not walk, I could not sit; I could neither lie on the floor nor sleep on the bed. I go to bed at night, and with my back to the wall, I will keep groaning in pains till daybreak.
What if she was not around to handle Me that night? Could there be any of my children that could have done that?
I do not pray that such a thing should befall Me. But they are all experiences we share as we grow older, and as we progress in age. Did you get the Message? Good.
So, go back to the Message again. I share My experience as My testimony. I want it to be embedded in that same Message.
If someone gets the Message from Pastor Melchizedek, the person will come across this testimony. Refuse to listen to this one today, you have missed many things. True or false?
There should be total separation of what the husband is and the wife is; the husband standing in his duty post, the wife standing in her duty post as prescribed by our God’s code of conduct and doctrine.
In Nigeria, we have what we call the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Everything we do in Nigeria revolves around the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria and the bye-laws.
But the major thing [the bane] is the constitution, so, we are a nation in a nation. The doctrine is what we call the constitution of the bride. Everything!
The supreme law of every nation is the constitution of that nation. Is it not true? Our supreme law remains our doctrineS. Is it a lie? Thank you!
THE CONSTITUTION OF NIGERIA, IS IT ONE STATEMENT? IS IT ONE CHAPTER? IS IT ONE VERSE? IS OUR DOCTRINE ONE STATEMENT? IS IT ONE VERSE? YOU KNOW THAT A FOOL IS BEREFT OF WISDOM.
YOU CAN NEVER TAKE ONE PORTION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND NEGLECT THE OTHER. THAT ONE YOU NEGLECT WILL BE USED IN JUDGING YOU TOMORROW. IS IT A LIE BRETHREN? IF YOU WANT TO OBEY THE CONSTITUTION, BE CONSCIOUS OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING. OBEY ALL.
So, we should guard against over familiarity that will make us not to honour the doctrine, order and conduct of The SON OF MAN. Giving to homes the standard, every family must measure up to.
Many do not realize that we have a message like that. A teaching, a doctrine titled C.O.D, Code of Conduct or Code, Order and Doctrines of the Bride of Christ Worldwide.
THAT CODE MEANS CODE OF CONDUCT. ORDER MEANS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER OF EVERY FAMILY; ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER OF ALL THE CHURCHES; ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER OF THE HUMAN SELF, THE INDIVIDUAL.
YOUR ADMINISTRATION BEGINS BY ADMINISTRATING YOUR OWN SELF AND YOUR AFFAIRS. IS IT A LIE BRETHREN?
ANY MAN WHO CANNOT HAVE CONTROL AND ADMINISTRATION OVER HIS OWN AFFAIRS IN A GODLY MANNER IS LIKE A VEHICLE THAT FAILED BRAKE. WHEN A VEHICLE FAILS BRAKE, IT LOSES CONTROL. IS IT A LIE BRETHREN?
WHEN YOU LOSE CONTROL OF WHO YOU ARE, TO ADMINISTER YOUR AFFAIRS BECOMES A DIFFICULT THING. TO ORGANIZE YOURSELF, YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR HABITS AND EVERYTHING, EVEN THE FOOD YOU EAT WILL BECOME DIFFICULT. IT WILL AFFECT EVEN YOUR FAMILY.
EVERYTHING WILL BE HAPHAZARDLY DONE BECAUSE YOU CANNOT ADMINISTER YOUR OWN HUMAN AFFAIRS. ONE WHO IS UNABLE TO ORGANIZE HIMSELF, CAN HE ORGANIZE HIS AFFAIRS?
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW A DISORGANIZED WOMAN, ENTER HER KITCHEN. ENTER HER BEDROOM. YOU WILL SEE CLOTHES LYING WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT LIE. YOU WILL SEE FOOD ITEMS KEPT WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT BE KEPT.
ENTER THE PARLOUR, THE PARLOUR WILL BE ANOTHER STORE. YOU CAN HARDLY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEDROOM AND STORE OR PARLOUR AND KITCHEN BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO ADMINISTER THE FAMILY, FOR SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS CALLED SELF-ADMINISTRATION.
THE THING IS APPLICABLE IN HER OUTLOOK. WHAT SUCH SILLY WOMEN KNOW TO BE ADMINISTRATION OF SELF IS MAKE-UP.
Now that we have weave-on, and we have wigs of assorted designs, the hair might be smelling, with the hair unkempt and unwashed for 3 months or 5 months, and sometimes 1 year.
All she knows is, “Whenever I want to go out, I will take one wig and cover. I will take the plaited one and cover.” But when you uncover that one, everybody will run away.
So it is with dressing. The only thing that is called self-administration is to look beautiful on the outside; use very neat clothes, maybe new ones to cover dirty one you are wearing inside; Put dirty one inside, and use better one cover on top. And you see the person smelling.
Even without taking their bath, they will take perfume and spray on the body and also perfume the dresses. When heat is generated from the body, everybody will be scared.
You see the person looking beautiful in appearance; neat in appearance, and yet smelling. Does it happen? Do you not see them?
Gorgeous women and gorgeous men, who are gorgeously dressed. When they enter the same vehicle with you, you will feel like running away. If the person comes to your table to talk to you, you will be lifting up your nose.
If the person comes to your house, you will feel like keeping the fellow outside. If you bring such a fellow into your parlour, then you will have to open the windows.
If they pass through the staircase and you also go through the same staircase, it will be a trade mark. Is it a lie Brethren?
This is because the fellow covered a dirty under garment with a neat one. Does the person bath? It is perfume all the time. Make-up! Applied on the lips and to the eyes.
She will put on an unwashed and unkempt weave-on which has never been taken to the salon for two years.
Silly silly people! Lazy lazy people. This is simply because that person cannot administrate her own affairs.
Now, if she is a married woman that cannot administer her affairs, can she administer the affairs of the husband?
WHENEVER A MAN IS DIRTY, IT SHOULD BE BLAMED ON THE WIFE. TRUE OR FALSE? WHEN A MAN IS DIRTY, THE WIFE SHOULD BE BLAMED. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
BUT IF THE WOMAN IS DIRTY, WILL THE HUSBAND BE BLAMED? NO! NO! THIS IS A SECRET MANY HAVE NOT DISCOVERED.
A DIRTY WOMAN MUST PRESENT A DIRTY HUSBAND TO THE WORLD. SHE MUST PRESENT DIRTY FOOD, DIRTY FAMILY, DIRTY CHILDREN, AND EVERYTHING DIRTY TO THE WORLD.
AND SHE MUST ALSO PRESENT A DIRTY LIFESTYLE. A DIRTY LIFESTYLE IS A LIFESTYLE OF ONE WITHOUT VIRTUE, ONE WITHOUT STANDARD, ONE WITHOUT TASTE. AM I MAKING SENSE?
When money is lost, nothing is lost. When life is lost, something is lost. But when Character is lost, everything is lost. ….. Then we traced character formation and character destruction. Just like mentioning life and death; you cannot separate the two. The day life came into existence was the day death came into existence. You cannot separate the two. We cannot talk of God without talking about the devil. We cannot talk of good without talking of evil. They are there. One is opposed to the other. They are human manifestations whether we like it or not. There can never be evil anywhere that is not traceable to a human being. There can never be a good development anywhere that is not traceable to a human being.
DISOBEY THE VOICE OF GOD AND LAND YOURSELF IN TROUBLE VOLUME 1; Preached on
Sunday 22nd April 2018; Pg. 21 vs. 6 – 9
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NOTHING IS AS EXPENSIVE AS SERVING THE DEVIL
SHOW ME A BROTHER’S WIFE WHOSE STAND IN THE FAITH IS SHAKING OR QUESTIONABLE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU HER HUSBAND WHO IS A HYPOCRITE. AMEN.
SHOW ME A BROTHER’S WIFE WHOSE STAND IN THE FAITH IS SHAKING OR QUESTIONABLE… Unstable! Questionable! Unreliable! Undependable!
SHOW ME A BROTHER’S WIFE WHOSE STAND IN THE FAITH IS SHAKING OR QUESTIONABLE AND I WILL SHOW YOU HER HUSBAND WHO IS A HYPOCRITE. AMEN.
…. If we raise our family to be ungodly, we will leave no history or footprint in the sand of time. Why do we remember Abraham today?
WE WILL LEAVE DISASTER BEHIND, FOR DISASTER MUST BEFALL THEM WHENEVER THE PARENTS GIVE WAY. IS IT NOT TRUE?
WHEN YOU ESPOUSE YOUR CHILDREN TO GOD AND GIVE WAY, YOUR FAMILY REMAINS AN INDELIBLE FOOTPRINT ON THE SANDS OF TIME. A REFERENCE POINT FOR GOOD.
BUT WHEN YOU ESPOUSE THEM TO THE DEVIL BY DENYING THEM KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, BY RAISING THEM HYPOCRITICALLY, TRULY SPEAKING, YOU ARE ALSO LEAVING A LEGACY THAT WILL BECOME THE REFERENCE POINT FOR AN EVIL FAMILY. IS IT NOT TRUE?
WHEN YOU GIVE WAY, DISASTER WILL BEFALL YOUR FAMILY. BECAUSE THE EVIL THAT MEN COMMIT DO NOT LIVE WITH THEM BUT ALSO LIVES AFTER THEM.
BOTH YOUR OWN EVIL AND THAT OF YOUR HUSBAND, YOUR CHILDREN MUST PAY FOR ALL OF THEM, FOR THEY WILL NEVER DEPART FROM EVIL.
Ahab’s children never departed from evil. Is it true? Is it true? If they had departed from evil, God would have visited them with blessings.
Seeing that their parents were evil, they learnt evil from their parents. And when the parents gave way, they continued in evil.
What befell them? Disaster! Total annihilation! It became a reference point for an evil man that raised evil family as a legacy.
1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. 4Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction. [2 Chronicles 22:1 – 4 KJV]
That is why an Igbo adage says that the person who begets an evil child is actually childless. If such a child does not die in prison, he will be shot to death.
It is just like the ones from our home town that ran to South Africa, thinking that life will be better over there. Three of them died in one day.
We were now summoned to contribute money to bring home the corpse of one we have never seen for seventeen years. There is no legacy he left behind. His parents and siblings died but he never came for their burial.
We got the message but we replied them, “We are not coming home and we are not contributing. All of them should be buried in South Africa, for we do not know them.”
The traditional ruler signed the paper and returned it to the police, with an instruction, “Send it back to the Interpol. They should be buried there.” Period!
….If we raise our family to be ungodly, we will leave no history or footprint in the sand of time. Why do we remember Abraham today, Isaac and Jacob? Why do we remember Zachariah?
Why do we remember all those families? It is because they left a giant footprint on the sands of time.
Who has ever remembered the family of Cain? Who has ever remembered it? Who has ever remembered all the evil men?
There are so many of them in the scriptures? Who used them as example? Except you want to use them as examples of bad ones.
SO, WHY WILL YOUR FAMILY BE REMEMBERED FOR BAD?
When you hear “REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE”, one verse in the Bible, will your mind not run back to what happened?
Okay in our midst today, remember we are writing history. Every member of the Bridal Faith is writing history. If I say “Remember Okey Nwankpa”, do you not know what your mind will run to? Am I making sense?
What if I say, “Remember Mrs. Nnamdi Ogbogu?” People that know her; people that heard about her, their minds will go back to something.
IN THE SAME WAY, ONE DAY, YOU WILL BE QUOTED. AND I WILL BE QUOTED. IF IT COMES TO YOUR TURN, WHAT WILL YOU BE REMEMBERED FOR? YOUR FAMILY WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR ONE THING OR THE OTHER. TRUE OR FALSE?
Look at one man that died. He is My mate in My home town. He was the chief Priest of Ala; the shrine they call Ala. He died. He wedded in Roman Catholic before he became the chief priest of Ala. He died while holding the shrine.
They went to their Reverend Father, a new one that came to their parish to come and bury him, and that they were ready to pay the dues.
This is because they weighed the cost of burying him according to the rules and regulations governing the shrine and the traditional rights of the community and it became too enormous.
They ran to the church. The church said no, and that it will bring reproach to Roman Catholic; that they will realize money, but they will lose their popularity and that they will lose their fame in that village.
For that reason, seeing that he died while upholding the faith of the shrine, that members of the shrine and the community should bury him according to the tradition and according to his belief.
That is why the corpse is wasting in the mortuary. The young man who came out to bury him does not have the money to foot the bill.
NOTHING IS AS EXPENSIVE AS SERVING THE DEVIL. THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING YOU WILL LOSE IS YOUR REPUTATION, WHICH YOU CAN NEVER BUY WITH MONEY. IS IT A LIE BRETHREN?
THE WORST AND THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING THE DEVIL WILL PLACE ON YOU FOR FOLLOWING THE DEVIL IS THAT YOU HAVE A REPUTATION AS AN EVIL MAN.
If you were behaving well and people were respecting and honouring you, the devil will like to corner you to the point where the same people that knew you as a good fellow will begin to cast aspersions on you.
“Oh! We thought he was a very good man. We thought she was a very good woman, but look at what she is doing now, even at this old age.”
Have you not lost your reputation? Is it not a great price you are paying for evil? You can lose your property in the hand of the devil while following the devil.
but the moment you lose your reputation, your integrity, your prestige, because you are now being known as an evil man, everything is gone.
Even if your building is standing, your money is there, you have lost your reputation. Nobody will respect you and your wealth again. True or false?
In the same way, nobody will respect your children. They will call your children “children of the evil man.” Even if there be any that lives right, nobody will recognize it.
Neither will anybody recognize your wife as a good woman, no matter her virtuous life. This is because your character has dented her reputation. Is it a lie Brethren?
When someone whose child is an armed robber buys a car, people will say that it is a stolen car. If he builds a mansion, they will say it is through robbery. The children are equally regarded as robbers. Is it not true?
In the same way, the person that is married to a prostitute or a child whose mother is a prostitute, what do people say?
That is why a good number of them are not earning respect in their homes because of the characters of their parents.
Even those who are trying to repent and do right, the community does not recognize it, because the character of the parents dented their images and also dented their reputation; Even blocked their future. Is it a lie Brethren?
You see why righteousness exalts a family, a nation and an individual, but sin brings a reproach.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. [Proverbs 14:34 KJV]
SO YOU EITHER LIVE A LEGACY THAT IS GODLY OR UNGODLY. BUT WE ARE LEAVING SOMETHING WHEN WE LEAVE THE SCENE. EVERY MAN MUST STAND TO BE QUOTED. EVERY WOMAN MUST STAND TO BE QUOTED. IS IT A LIE? GOOD.
There was one who said that he has something to tell Me when I saluted him. I patted him and told him that I have heard about his life experiences. After the salutations, he told Me that he has something to tell Me. I said, “Anyway, let it be something good.”
He replied, “How can it be something good and my countenance is like this? I told him I already know what it is. Do not tell Me about it now, but control your spirit. And He said Amen.
I know why he called Me. Are you hearing Me? Will you blame a man who ran away from his home to avoid being consumed by his wife and the consequences of her evil deeds?
Do you know that there is a lifestyle a woman will indulge in and if she cooks and gives to her husband, the husband will eat and die? Bro Eli is it true? (He replies: it is true sir).
If the husband does not die, he will start misbehaving like an imbecile. If it does not happen that way to the husband, all the children will be useless throughout their life because they ate food prepared with hands that committed atrocities. Bro Eli, is there truth in it? (He confirms it to be the truth)
So it is with the Word of God, so that when you hold it in unrighteousness, you make it of non-effect. It will no longer bear good fruits.
SO, EVERYBODY SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL. THE LIFE WE LIVE HAS A LOT TO SPEAK ABOUT OUR TODAY AND OUR FUTURE. TRUE OR FALSE? THE LIFE WE ARE LIVING SPEAKS VOLUMES CONCERNING OUR TODAY AND OUR FUTURE.
And this is the crux of the Message I posted worldwide; BEWARE OF POISONOUS ROOT. Beware of poisonous root. Think before you act. Think before you talk. Do not look at today. Consider the future.
Consider those who are depending on you. Consider the impression you are leaving behind in their hearts. Consider your prominence and what that thing will do. Did you get what I am saying?
That is why I have taught you here that I have the power to do everything, but everything can never be convenient for Me, for I know I have gained prominence.
[12]I can do anything I want to if Christ has not said no, but some of these things aren’t good for me. Even if I am allowed to do them, I’ll refuse to if I think they might get such a grip on me that I can’t easily stop when I want to. [1 Corinthians 6:12]LB
I SHOULD BE LIVING A RESTRICTED AND REGULATED LIFE IN KEEPING WITH WHAT MADE ME PROMINENT, FOR WHAT MADE ME PROMINENT IS NOT MONEY. I DO NOT HAVE MONEY, BUT I HAVE SOMETHING GREATER THAN MONEY.
WHAT IS THAT THING? THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE HAVE PINNED THEIR TRUST, CONFIDENCE AND ETERNAL LIFE ON ME.
AND GOD HAS REPOSED THE GREATEST CONFIDENCE IN ME, BY DWELLING IN ME, SELECTING ME THROUGHOUT ALL HUMAN RACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD TO BEAR HIS NAME.
HE IDENTIFIED WITH ME, TO THE POINT THAT THROUGH ME, HE SHOWCASED HIMSELF. HAVE YOU HEARD IT NOW? I MUST TAKE THESE THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION IN WHATEVER I DO.
THAT IS WHY WHAT OTHERS WILL SEE AND STOP, I WILL PASS WITHOUT RECOGNIZING IT. THAT IS WHY I DO NOT BEHAVE THE WAY PEOPLE WANT ME TO BEHAVE.
I DO NOT SAY WHAT THEY EXPECT ME TO SAY BECAUSE I AM NOT LIKE THEM. I AM NOT LIKE THEM.
Some say that Daddy is a difficult person. Some say He is a Man you cannot understand. Some say nobody can please Daddy. Some say He is a very ungrateful Man. Whatever you want to say, say! It depends on your approach.
If I should dance to everybody’s tune, what kind of picture will I be painting about Myself and God? I dance to the tune of truth, and nothing but the truth.
SO NOTHING INFLUENCES MY BEHAVIOUR MORE THAN TRUTH, FOR IF TRUTH IS NOT THERE, CHRIST IS NOT THERE. LIFE IS NOT THERE.
SO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, WHAT IS INFLUENCING YOU? IS IT TRUTH OR ERROR? IF WHAT IS INFLUENCING YOU CAN BE TRACED TO ERROR, LET ME TELL YOU; YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO ETERNAL DESTRUCTION AND YOU KNOW IT NOT.
It may give you joy today, but tomorrow it will cause you sorrow and pain, whether you like it or not. Even before you die, you will begin to reap the reward of walking in error. Did you get the message?
LET ME TELL YOU. BLESSED IS THE MAN; BLESSED IS THE WOMAN WHO WILL HEAR THE WORD OF GOD THAT IS ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH AND HE WILL TREMBLE AT THE WORD. IF YOU DO NOT TREMBLE AT THE WORD OF GOD, THE FEAR OF GOD HAS LEFT YOU.
A child that does not tremble at the rebuke or indictment or correction of the parents, can that child be a useful child?
When you are correcting that child, instead of paying attention, the child is countering, trying to bring out or proffer a defense or a reason why he should not repent. Will that child repent again?
That child is earmarked for destruction. And when you leave such people behind, you have left disaster behind. And that disaster will begin to attack you when you are alive.
Records abound where parents refused to give their children proper upbringing in the fear of the Lord and the children now turned out to become thorns in their flesh at old age, when they [the children] have crossed irredeemable borders.
Somebody can be within a redeemable zone where he can be redeemed. But when somebody has come to a point where nothing can be used to ransom the soul, there is no ransom you can pay to redeem the soul of that child.
What caused it? Parental irresponsibility. Parental neglect. Parental laziness.
That is why the Bible said, “You that know the law, obey the law and are personally and practically acquainted with the law, keep not quiet until righteousness reigns in the hearts of My people.
1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 2And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. [Isaiah 62:1 – 2 KJV]
You that know God very well. You are having dealings with God. You know what God abhors. You know what gives God joy. Do not keep quiet until righteousness reigns in the heart of the children of God.
That is why when a righteous man closes his mouth against evil, the Bible said ungodliness reigns; crime reigns; evil reigns.
But when he opens his mouth, even if the evil man will not change, at least, he [the evil man] will be doing it, knowing that somebody knows what he is doing. Is it a lie Brethren? Good!
If you do not let a thief know that he is a thief, he will become proud of it. But tell him that he is a thief and that he had been caught in the act before, he will know that you know. He will stop been so proud of himself. At least, he will calm down a little. Is it a lie Brethren?
I am the Chief Instructor. Any child that is born in this Faith, brought up in the Faith and turns out to be a dunce, should blame himself or herself. This Faith is blessed all round and the most brilliant of all students is expected to come out from this Faith, for there is no group that grooms children more than this Faith – all round grooming, making you to struggle for a position among those that hold the pillars of the society, not moving away from your ground in Christ.
I AM THE CHIEF INSTRUCTOR; Preached on Sunday 4th March 2012; Pg. 168 vs. 51
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TRAIN YOURSELF IN YOUR YOUTH [1]
…THE FIRST TRAINING A MAN GIVES IS TO THE WIFE. First training a man gives goes to the wife. And the wife must be prepared to accept that first training, for an Igbo adage says that the thing which is used in instituting an idol remains that idol’s demand.
IF THE FIRST TRAINING YOU GIVE TO YOUR WIFE IS DRESSING HER LIKE A QUEEN, WHEN SHE HAS NOT EVEN STARTED LIFE, CAUSING HER TO BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS A BED OF ROSES, TO DISARM HER IN THE FUTURE BY TELLING HER THE TRUTH WITH TIME, WILL BE DIFFICULT.
If you begin to teach her that there is money to lavish by hanging out with her, instead of introducing her to cook in the kitchen; you begin by hanging out and eating here and there forms the habit, and tomorrow you begin to tell her, “Go to Ochanja [market], buy things and cook.” Do you think it will be very easy?
What if you spoil her by bringing maidservants when she never needed them? When the family has no need of maidservants and you flood your house with maids so that your wife will be resting in the bed.
If tomorrow you ask her to wake up and go and cook, will she be happy with you? That which you never introduced to her when you first married her can hardly be learnt when she becomes old.
You will be hearing, “Is that the reason why you brought me here? Is that the reason why you married me? If you are tired of me, tell me, let me go back to my parents.”
This is because we are living in the age when women are dastardly stubborn. Dastardly stubborn! Unacceptably stubborn and reckless! An age where women want to have their ways in everything.
That is why William Branham said, “Sooner than you think, the entire world will roll into the period we call woman’s world.” And women are in control right now. What a man can do, they say a woman can do better.
They carry arms. They go for armed robbery. They are in politics. They are in medicine. Is there any sphere of life where women are not found?
Even sometimes they dominate, like they have now possessed and monopolized the education sector. Education sector has become a monopoly of women from the nursery to the university.
It is hard to believe, but not until you go out and see what is happening there. Monopoly! They now went to monopolize politics, but men are saying no. So, that is why they struggle even here.
Women are now engaging in child trafficking. Can you imagine? Mothers who know the pains of labour and the agony are engaging in child trafficking just to make money.
In business, they are now business magnates and business moguls here and there. Every sector is possessed by them. And you know what the hour calls for.
BE SENSITIVE. BE VERY, VERY SENSITIVE. DO NOT YIELD IN, BECAUSE IN ANY COMMUNITY, ANY CHURCH, ANYTHING YOU ARE DOING WHERE WOMEN ARE IN THE MAJORITY, THE TRUTH IS THAT IS THE HOME OF THE DEVIL. THAT IS THE HOME OF THE DEVIL!
If there be anyone there that tries to live a virtuous life, all of them will conspire against her.
The days are gone when women were afraid of going to native doctors. Today, they are the people helping native doctors to thrive. Am I making sense?
There is no type of charm they do not produce to seduce men, to kill and to destroy. There is no type of destruction they do not engage in. Are you hearing what I am saying?
A woman mobilized her boyfriends to come and kill her husband because he annoyed her. When they shot the husband, he fell to the ground and they thought he has died. Later, God had mercy on him and the man recovered.
Police then started investigation and the person that was arrested became the very one that that confessed that it was the man’s wife that paid them to assassinate her husband. Can you believe this? Simply because the husband revealed her secrets to her, she became incited.
Look at the incident that happened in Benin City recently where a lady was raped inside the Redeemed Church of Christ. A lady was raped and murdered in the church.
Now investigation started and police arrested the people that committed the crime. Lo and behold, it was the pastor that impregnated the lady.
And then hired assassins to go there and rape her during her private hour, for that was the private hour during she used to meet with the pastor in the church.
And while they were meeting during that private hour, the lady was pretending she was going there to study. By going there to study, the pastor arranged it with her, and the two agreed. In the process, He impregnated her.
Then to prevent the lady from letting the thing out, he went and hired rapists and assassins, to rape and kill, so that when the doctors will carry out autopsy, they will see a mutilation of the private part and then begin to accuse them of murder and rape.
It was noised abroad, even the church members and family painted a picture in the television news that she was a virgin as could be traced, but now the autopsy revealed that she was pregnant.
The confessional statement made by the people now proved that the lady was pregnant. She was impregnated by the pastor who hired them. Both the pastor and the culprits; all of them are now in the police net.
There is no crime that is not being committed under the sun. If such a thing could happen inside the church by the overseer of the church, inside the church, in the day, and not in the night. Look at the time. 10 – 11am. What can we say to all these things?
How can the police begin now to respect such people? You cannot come to the police and say I am a clergy man wearing any identification.
They have no respect for you. They have no respect for you for they have seen lots and lots of such make-ups. Is it not true?
A pastor’s wife is in the police net in Abuja for drug trafficking. Drug trafficking! A pastor’s wife! Follow the news and know what is happening.
Then how can they begin to respect pastor’s wife, when the wife of a pastor is indulging in child trafficking and in kidnapping members of the church,
Children that come to church will be missing in the church; They will be declared missing or declared kidnapped, only for them to be found in the hands of the pastor and the wife.
They were grouped; about twenty-two of them. And the people that will take them across the sea were around to take them, but luck ran against them.
Look the one at Ibuzor road [I mean in Asaba here] that affected a man from Orlu in Imo State, the wife and the son. How many of them? Seventeen of them. Children of church members. They were collecting from churches when the church session is on.
The police are doing a very good work this time around by uncovering these things. And for whatever that is missing now, the place they will go is the church.
They know that the church has become a hiding place for criminals of all sorts. And it starts with the Overseer, the wife and the clergy men in that place.
Glory be to God that we are now in our homes. Everybody will now be responsible for the crimes they commit. Any crime you commit is on your head.
That is why I shun people that trouble Me with their problems emanating from their families during this COVID-19. You are coming to Me to report that your child joined a secret cult and that he is about to kill you.
What do you want Me to do? For how long have you been seeing him with those people? You answer that it is more than five years.
Is Covid-19 Lock-down up to one year? But the evil in your house has exceed five years and you are calling Me into it. “Was he not coming to church with it? Were you not also coming to church alongside your husband? Have you ever told your pastor what is going on in your house?”
The other person came to tell Me cock and bull stories about how her child left the house for three days and has not returned. I asked her if she knows where the daughter went, but she said that she does not know. I told her that anything can get missing easily, but not a young girl. A young girl who has not come back for three days is comfortably staying somewhere
Later that evening, she called Me and told Me that her daughter has returned. I then asked her, “Where did she go?” She replied that the daughter said that she went to visit one of her siblings, and from there to another place and another place. Rubbish! It is what she tells you that you will accept. Is it a lie?
Another person brought her own child here, and I told them to come inside. The mother was wailing. It is Covid-19 lock-down. “Madam, bring her inside so that we can see everything together.” Nobody could believe such a thing could happen.
I pity both men and women. This is pure truth. The number that is moving about with diseases in their body are more than those who are healthy. And these things are covered with clothes, with painted faces and lips. You will think they human beings. You will not know that the person is a disease depot. Disease depot!
I told her mother to look at her. “What have you to say about this?” She was speechless. I said, “Okay. Let us call Pastor Dan so that he will bring drugs.” Period!
First of all, you MUST be trained. If you do not train yourself, you cannot train your wife.
IF YOU DO NOT TRAIN YOURSELF, YOU CAN NEVER TRAIN YOUR WIFE. ANY TRAINING YOU GIVE YOURSELF IN YOUR YOUTH DETERMINES THE TYPE OF TRAINING YOU WILL GIVE YOUR WIFE. IS IT A LIE?
I gave myself a training. That is My testimony. And I share it everywhere. I am known for it. I was a hermit. I do not loiter on the streets. I do not go to people’s house.
My little room was enough for Me; And My siblings who were with Me. Once I come back from work, I am in My house. I was not attached to any meeting. So there was nothing that can put Me away from the house.
That is why all of you are witnesses. My wife, since I married her 32 years ago, I have never presented anybody to her as My friend. I do not have any friend. I have no friend.
That this person is My friend; it does not exist. So there has never been a problem I encountered and My wife will say she is going to tell My friend.” She knows that I do not have any.
THIS IS BECAUSE THE TYPE OF FRIEND YOU WILL KEEP HAS A STRONG INFLUENCE IN YOUR LIFESTYLE. IS IT A LIE?
I developed Myself in a godly way, by reading godly periodicals, going to church in My little way, praying and reclining to Myself and My God. And I was moving with intelligent people in the office.
I never mingled with fools. The best among them was My Director who happens to be the most senior of the Dibuas. And I learnt a lot from him.
All that grew up through him and accepted his teachings, they behave like Me. They can never be wild. If they are wild, it is because they decided to drop the teaching. This is because when you drop that teaching, you will become wild.
Let me tell you. It never started with him. I was disciplined from childhood. If I was not disciplined, I would not have lifted the trophy for the MOST DISCIPLINED STUDENT OF THE GRADUATING CLASS IN 1977.
So from 1977; in 1978, I started work. And I married in 1988, ten years after. Yet, I never lived a wild life because I was working and earning money.
Instead, I saved money. I opened bank accounts with the small amount I was earning. And those accounts are still open till today.
When I married, I took My wife to the bank and then joined her in the account. This joint account started with Myself and My wife before we had our first child. She is here to bear witness.
I carried her along. And from that time we spent together, I noticed that she is the type that does not want to go out. So we had no place we could go.
We remained together, morning and night. Moreso, when we were working in the same office, we became very good companion to each other. So God made it.
She became My girlfriend or My woman friend and everything. I was her boyfriend and everything, husband. No place to go.
The highest place we could go was to go and visit her senior brother at New America. And we come back immediately. But we took delight in receiving people in our home.
We wanted people to be visiting us. We were entertaining them. But to go to people, we were not doing that. Then it became our own lifestyle even till today. I say, even till today!
You are witnesses unless you want to tell lies against the truth. You are living witnesses.
Look at here in Nsugbe, who can believe that these brethren that live here, that I do not know where they are living? How many years now?
If not Pastor Thomas and our Pastor there and then Brother Chibuko who invited Me, to come and bless his house and bless his shop and that of the wife. I cannot find My way to his house.
Till today, if you tell Me to go there, I do not know how to locate that place because he took Me through corner-corner way.
At Onitsha, if not for the landlord of Brother Kelechi, I would not have known where Bro Kelechi is living. I know the house, but I do not know the room. I do not know the flat.
I went to the landlord and then went my way. It was when I came out that they were telling Me that he was the one living downstairs and this and that. Yet, I was not moved to go.
GET ME RIGHT! THE TRAINING YOU GIVE YOURSELF WHEN YOU WERE IN YOUR YOUTH WILL DETERMINE THE TYPE OF HOME YOU WILL RUN.
IF YOU KNOW THE TRAINING YOU GAVE YOURSELF IN YOUR YOUTH; THE TYPE OF LIFE YOU WERE LIVING IN YOUR YOUTH, THAT DETERMINES THE TYPE OF HOME; THE TYPE OF FAMILY YOU WILL RUN. FIRST, IT WILL DETERMINE THE TYPE OF WOMAN YOU WILL MARRY.
If you were living a wayward life or nursing it in your heart; and you loved flamboyant things, you will marry a devil. A devil will paint her face, paint her fingers and attract your attention.
You bring her in, only for her to ask you the question the devil asked Simon Onwe, “Are you sure you are a child of God? Are you sure you prayed before coming to me? Even your pastor who prayed and joined you together, are you sure he did not mislead you?”
Then the woman turned into a snake in the day. Simon ran away. She became a woman and called Simon back. Finally, she killed Simon, killed the children and then killed herself before many witnesses.
Simon laboured in vain. And he made the wrong choice by abandoning this Faith. SO YOU CANNOT ABANDON THE TRUTH WITHOUT EMBRACING THE DEVIL. DID YOU GET ME RIGHT?
… However, as long as I am here, I still believe I am your Consolation, because I am a Perfect Guide. Yes! I am not giving you instruction from behind. I am leading in front so that if there is any pit, I will fall in first. I signed My life in. So I am involved. You have every cause to glorify God. If by now, nobody from anywhere, even from the moon, has succeeded in defeating you. I mean, disarming you, let it be known to you that you have won your battle.
GOD IS REVEALED/MARRIAGE VOWS; Preached on Sunday 7th November 1999; Pg. 61 vs. 31 – 32
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TRAIN YOURSELF IN YOUR YOUTH [2]
It is that thing you are avoiding; that thing you do not want to do that you will first of all tell your wife. Something you do not want to be associated with you, you tell your wife. Did you get the Message?
These things must be discussed before marriage. It is not after paying the bride price, you bring her and begin to give rules and regulations.
What if she will say no? Will you drive her away? Tell her everything about your life to help her form opinion and form her decision. Is that right? I am guiding all of you because I know the young must grow.
REMEMBER THAT THE TYPE OF WIFE YOU MARRY DETERMINES THE TYPE OF FAMILY YOU WILL RUN. THAT WILL ALSO DETERMINE THE TYPE OF CHILDREN YOU WILL HAVE AND WHAT YOUR FUTURE WILL HOLD FOR YOU.
IT MAY SOUND RIDICULOUS IF I SAY IT, BUT THAT THE FUTURE OF EVERY MAN IS IN THE HAND OF THE WIFE, WHETHER IT IS GOING TO BE GOOD OR EVIL; WHETHER IT IS GOING TO BE PROGRESSIVE OR RETROGRESSIVE.
That is why the Igbos say that the day a man marries a bad wife is the day his life endeavours ended.
Did you not hear what our friend, Barrister Okolo of Okolo & Okolo Associates, mni [member of the National Institute: National Institute for policy and strategic Studies, Kuru], a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said when he attended My birthday ceremony? Did you not hear it?
He said that best things God will do for a man in the life are [1] to give him a good wife. He said that the life endeavours of a man who makes the mistake of marrying a bad wife has ended.
That is why they keep on saying it in the English adage, that there can never be a progressive man without a woman who is virtuous with progressive vision standing behind him. Is it not true?
THERE CAN NEVER BE A MAN WHO IS A FAILURE, THAT IS NOT TRACEABLE TO A WOMAN WHO IS LAZY, UNREASONABLE, SELFISH AND EXTRAVAGANT STANDING BEHIND THE MAN. A MAN CAN NEVER SAVE MONEY WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE WIFE.
BUT WHAT IF THE WIFE IS EXTRAVAGANT MORE THAN THE HUSBAND? THE FAMILY SUFFERS A SETBACK. TRUE OR FALSE?
IF A MAN MARRIES AN EXTRAVAGANT WOMAN, THE WOMAN WILL FINISH HIM OFF STRAIGHT AWAY. IS IT A LIE?
SO GIVE YOURSELF A TRAINING WHICH YOU WILL PASS ON TO YOUR WIFE AND YOUR WIFE WILL PASS THE TRAINING UNTO YOUR CHILDREN. WHATEVER TRAINING A MAN GIVES TO THE WIFE MUST BE PASSED ON TO THE CHILDREN.
SO WHEN YOU BRING UP YOUR WIFE IN PLEASURE, SHE WILL PASS THE SAME PLEASURE TO YOUR CHILDREN. IN THE END, YOU WILL REAP THE WHIRLWIND.
BUT IF YOU TEACH YOUR WIFE THAT YOU MUST LABOUR BEFORE YOU ENJOY, SHE WILL ALSO PASS THE INFORMATION TO YOUR CHILDREN: “LABOUR BEFORE ENJOYMENT.” NOT ENJOYMENT BEFORE LABOUR. IT IS BURDENSOME.
You keep your wife on a table, even when you know that there is nothing that will sustain the table. When what is on the table gets exhausted, she will come down from the table, and from there, problem will start.
Every table must have something that will support it; four legs. Do you understand what I am saying?
THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT THE TRAINING YOU ARE GIVING YOURSELF IN YOUR YOUTH. HAVE YOUR DOS AND DON’TS BEFORE YOU THINK OF MARRIAGE.
DEVELOP A LIFESTYLE THAT WILL BE CALLED YOUR OWN, WHICH YOU WILL LIKE TO BUILD AND IMPROVE UPON WITH TIME.
AND IT WILL HELP YOU TO KNOW THE TYPE OF WOMAN THAT WILL HELP YOU TO ACHIEVE IT. AND THAT WILL IN TURN HELP YOU TO RAISE A FAMILY THAT CAN BE QUOTED FOR GOOD.
IF YOU RAISE A SOCIAL FAMILY, YOU PRODUCE SOCIAL CHILDREN. TRUE OR FALSE? AND NOTHING IS AS EXPENSIVE AS HAVING SOCIAL CHILDREN OR RUNNING SOCIAL FAMILY.
IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE, FOR WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO RAISE THERE WILL BE HALF BAKED HUMAN BEINGS; USELESS PEOPLE. AND USELESS PEOPLE BY NATURE ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE. TRUE OR FALSE?
Read that thing again. I am interested. May God bless Pastor Melchizedek abundantly. This is the first Message I have collected from him since I met him in this Faith and it is very much thrilling. It is heart-warming.
It contains lots and lots of information. When you manage this information we are getting from this Message, it becomes your intelligence, for when information is well managed, it becomes intelligence. Did you get the Message?
But when you waste useful information, it becomes foolishness. So it is foolishness to waste useful information, but it is wisdom to manage useful information which will turn out to be the greatest intelligence that will cover your life today and in the future.
Am I making sense? Thank you. We are going beyond the Message, but we are trying to limit it to something. Read that thing again.
THE FIRST TRAINING A MAN GIVES IS TO THE WIFE… THE FIRST TRAINING A MAN GIVES GOES TO THE WIFE BEFORE CHILDREN WILL BEGIN TO COME. IN OTHER WORDS, A MAN TRAINS HIS WIFE SO THAT SHE WILL NOW IN TURN TRAIN THE CHILDREN.
But when you leave your wife without any training, she will equally leave the children without any training. That is why brother Shedrach is suffering.
Brother Shed never trained the wife who was selling banana before he captured her on the way. She came in thinking that what it takes to be a very beautiful woman is marriage.
“I am now married. Once a woman gets married, that is the end of everything on earth.” The next thing is to start producing children. Producing children that are bereft of training, for the husband never gave her any training.
Will the husband blame the wife? Will he blame the children? Did you train your wife and she failed to train your children?
What if you also give your wife a bad training by making her to live above your means. Maybe, you borrowed the money or it could be the little business capital that you are lavishing on glamour so that she will not think that you do not have anything. Then she will think that you have something, and by so doing you corrupt her.
If she wants to buy clothes for her children, she will leave the ones that are sold for five hundred naira [₦500.00] and go for the ones that are sold five thousand naira [₦5,000.00]. The impression is that there is money. The children will also adopt the same lifestyle.
When eventually it is discovered that you have nothing, you now want her to come down from the height where you kept her, is it easy? Brethren, it is not easy.
If you want her to come down, she will tell that she is used to it. She will look for a way out. She will look for someone who will sustain her at that height.
She will look for someone who “generates current.” That is the reigning thing now. They will say, “Leave that man. He does not “generate current.” Attention will be on the person that generates current.”
This is the reigning language among such silly women who were corrupted by their husband and by their evil desires.
THAT IS WHY GOD IS TELLING US TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT PRIDE! PRIDE! PRIDE! PRIDE! PRIDE! PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL. PRIDE IS VERY DESTRUCTIVE. PRIDE! EVERYBODY SHOULD BE CAREFUL.
The problem is that we jump into marriage without training. Sure!!! We marry our wives. We did not train our wives. And we wish to have a family like THE SON OF MAN. Is it possible?…
Can it happen? You hear My testimony of how I took My time. And even till today, I have to say it. Look at this study Bible. This is My study Bible which I handed over to My wife.
I never gave her money. I never gave her Intorica or Jorge. And she never went about naked. The highest gift I gave to My wife; she preserved it till today.
You see this Bible I am holding? This Bible in the hand of My wife is thirty-two years, but in My hand, this Bible is more than thirty-five years. This is My study Bible. I marked it within and without.
Although it is now in shreds, yet My wife is still preserving it, for that is the highest thing I gave her. Hold this Bible. Then I bought another Bible also from the World Bible Society. Another study Bible that helped two of us to stay together.
And where ever we were staying, either outside or inside, we never came outside without holding it. We had no other conversation than scriptural conversation.
And that was why within the shortest period, I raised her above the overseer of Baptist Church, above even every clergy, and above all the End Time Message, even till today.
She does not joke with Scriptures, for that was what I espoused her to. And that was My greatest treasure. Is not what one has that he gives out to another person? That was what I had. And that was what I gave to her.
I equally held on to it and is still using it to hold her till today. That is what we handed over to all our children.
We used it to place a sign before God thus; Any of my children that I give a Bible and he/she rejects it, I will know that such a child is not mine.
Anybody that you give a Bible and the person rejects it and puts it aside, even while you have a great interest in that Bible, watch that child. The child came from somewhere. Is it a lie Brethren? Fatherhood is never established based on resemblance. The child may resemble you, until you go for DNA test and know that the child does not belong to you.
Even from the child’s behaviour, your spirit will be telling you that you are not the father of such a child. The mother knows that you are not the father, but she will be hanging it on your neck because the child looks like you. Is it a lie Brethren? Thank you!
Did you not see how THE SON OF MAN was prepared? He says, in everything the most important thing is planning and preparation. So that goes to show the philosophy of the 6Ps: PROPER PLANNING PRECEDES PROPER PERFORMANCE.
PROPER PLANNING BEFORE PROPER PERFORMANCE. PROPER PLANNING LEADS TO PROPER PERFORMANCE. BUT WHEN YOU PLAN POORLY, YOU PERFORM POORLY. TRUE OR FALSE?
WHEN YOU ARE NOT PLANNING TO SUCCEED, YOU ARE PLANNING TO FAIL. ANYTHING A MAN OR A WOMAN IS ENGAGING IN WITHOUT PROPER PLANNING WILL BE DONE HAPHAZARDLY, AND CAN NEVER PRODUCE THE DESIRED RESULT. IS THERE TRUTH IN IT?
You do not wake up and jump into marriage because you have seen your age mates marrying… Never! …or because you have been doing asoebi [bridal train or groom’s men] for others, as a reason and then you feel it is time for others to reciprocate. No!
You must be prepared. And then if you are not prepared, what you will do is to have your re-sit. You will not graduate. Others will graduate, but you will be left behind.
OUR CONVOCATION IS AROUND THE CORNER. ALLELUIA! THE CONVOCATION OF THE BRIDE IS AROUND THE CORNER.
We are about to be convocated. So if you must convocate with your colleagues, what will you do? Check your registerable courses you are having as carry-overs, because you will not graduate with even one carry-over.
So, this is the time for all the families to have their carry-overs resited to make sure you make it. Amen.
Amen! That is the much we will take from this Message. It is a very voluminous Message, though I was having My interlude from time to time to enable us get the real import of this Message.
And I believe that the much we studied from this Message is a blessing to all of us. It is going to be a blessing to those who will hear this Message afar off. Is it not true?
But what have we gained if after knowing the truth, we go about and act contrary? Of all human beings, would we not be the most miserable? To whom much is given, much is expected.
By this Message, you are still ahead. And I pray that you remain always ahead. Can we bow down our heads and pray to God; thanking God for today.
Thanking Him on behalf of our Brother Melchizedek who He used to give us this teaching; thanking Him on the behalf of our daughter and her baby, committing their lives into the hand of God, together with the husband and the entire Brethren over there.
Thanking God for today’s fellowship in every family, not only in Nigeria but globally; committing the rest of the activities for today into the hands of God. Can somebody lead us in prayer?