Preached on 11th June, 2017 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
THE MOMENT YOU WALK YOURSELF INTO THE HEART OF THE SON OF MAN, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO HAVE YOUR REST. WALK YOURSELF INTO HIS HEART SO THAT HIS HEART, HIS EYES WILL BE BEAMING ON YOU TWENTY FOUR HOURS OF THE DAY.
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FORGET THE PAST
AND PRESS ONTO THE FUTURE
To God be the glory for everything He has done. We are thanking God because of what He did before; we are praising Him because of what He is doing right now.
2. We are equally full of expectation. That is why we are worshipping Him because of what He is going to do in the future. Yes, do not be satisfied with yesterday. Am I making sense? Do not allow yesterday to be enough for you when you are alive today.
3. The life of yesterday was for yesterday; experiences of yesterday were for yesterday. This is a new day, a new folder has opened. Do not allow anything to bore your spirit down.
4. If you are a seed of God, I do not care what you are passing through, I do not care what is buffeting you about. You have an anchor. I have an anchor.
5. What is My anchor? All things work together for good to those that love God, to those that are called according to God’s purpose. You can love God but you will not be called according to God’s purpose.
6. Thus, be sure you love God, be sure you are numbered among the called. For whoever God calls, him He justifies, places the person in right standing with Himself. Is it not true? That is why, if God is for us, who can be against us?
7. If God has set me free and set you free, who is that person that will stand on your way? Never, never; unless you are not numbered among the called according to His purpose. God has a purpose which He purposed in Himself concerning me, concerning you after the counsel of His own will.
8. Nobody gives Him counsel; nobody corrects His mistake if there be any. He takes every counsel after His own will. But the problem we are having is that, not all that are sitting down here are called according to God’s purpose.
9. They love God and they decided to mill around God. They love God for one thing or the other but the Lord never said, “Come, Follow Me! Come!”
10. If you do not hear “come” and you are going because you see people following, you are not recognized in the number that was given invitation.
11. Invitation said, “Come! Follow Me”. He that called you has a very nice intention. He knows why He has called you and until He achieves it, He will not have rest. That is why, you must differentiate between “followership” and “calling.”
12. Did God call you? Were you somewhere and God said, “Come, follow Me?” That is why everything is working after the counsel of His own will, not your own will. For God calls people contrary to their wish, contrary to their will.
13. That is why if you watch people, everything must turn around for their own good. Though you may call it calamity, but in the end, watch it, it will turn around for their own good. Because He that called you is already at work in you. He is at work in you constantly and He will not stop until He has perfected His work in you.
14. Whatever He will use to perfect it is not your business. The way He is going to do the work is not your business. Your duty is to cooperate and collaborate with Him.
15. If you want to understand it, you will err. For His ways are too high and passeth all human understanding. His ways are not your ways neither His thoughts, your thoughts. Thus, do not allow yesterday to be sufficient for you.
16. Isaiah 43 from verse 18 through 20. Good News Bible. It has the clearest understanding for everybody, though you know this scripture very well.
17. Good News Bible, Isaiah 43 read from verse 18 through 19. But the Lord says,…
18. Who says? The Lord.
19. “But the Lord says, do not cling to events of the past…
20. Do not cling to the events of the past. They are past. You cannot reverse them.
21. Even the Almighty cannot change the past. Do what?
22. …or dwell on what happened long ago…”
23. Or dwell on what happened long ago. If you are asked “When did it happen” you begin to quote many, many years back.
24. “…Watch for the new thing I am going to do…”
25. Do what? Watch out; be on the alert, otherwise you will miss it. For what? For the new thing I am going to do. If you do not believe in a new thing, you do not believe in a new day. Once there is a new day, there is bound to be a new thing. God does not settle down in the past. God is always moving ahead.
26. You see why everything turns around for the good for every true seed of God. If we can go back to the history of old, you will see people that served God diligently with their heart, you will see how things happened around them.
27. Even events that happened, that brought about scoffers and mockers around them, at the end, the whole thing turned out to be for their own good, for their own exaltation. Do not cling to the events of the past, they are all gone. Do not be satisfied with yesterday, otherwise you will miss a new thing.
28. “…Watch for the new thing I am going to do…”
29. Watch for the new thing. Did God tell you what the new thing is? That new thing is strange. If you had experienced it before, it is not a new thing. It is something that even if you are told about it, you will not believe.
30. Did God say so? “I will do a new thing which even if it is explained to you, you will not believe.”That is why He is the Almighty God.
31. If you are following God, you are following a Paradox. Yes, you are following a Paradox. The more you look, the less you see. His ways are higher than your ways; His thoughts are higher than your thoughts. But there is always a consolation that the thoughts He has towards His children are the thoughts of good and not of evil, no matter the way it happens.
32. Brother Ojiakor, I hope you are taking note; everything is turning around for your own good, for My own good. Look away from yester-years, two days ago, a day ago, look away from that.
33. Bishop Obadiah, I do not know what inspired you to come with something I have not come across. Well, shake My hand again.
34. He is an elder; he knows the scriptures from Old Testament to New Testament. He is acquainted with God. He was the first I dressed when we got the Bridal T-shirt; he was number one I dressed, while he was still at Aba.
35. YOU SEE, THE MOMENT YOU WALK YOURSELF INTO THE HEART OF THE SON OF MAN, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO HAVE YOUR REST. WALK YOURSELF INTO HIS HEART SO THAT HIS HEART, HIS EYES WILL BE BEAMING ON YOU TWENTY FOUR HOURS OF THE DAY. You are settled. That is all.
36. Who knows what will be my righteousness in the sight of God? Of everything, He thought it wise, and the way he came appreciating. I am not looking at the cost of the gift and things like that. It is an offering. I mean, he meditated before he came to the Throne of Grace. He meditated, he prayed, he received his revelation on how he will appear before the Throne of Grace.
37. And I was watching the way he was coming, he was coming with dancing, he was coming with praises, holding the thing in his hands. And if you do not know how God reacts, look at the reaction of the tabernacle where God dwells.
38. You do not need to hire a prophet to tell you that the masquerade is happy or angry. When you see a happy masquerade, you will know. Once God is happy, God is happy; watch the tabernacle templing God. And you will know that the glory is here, the Cloud is here starting from the time we were praising; because He is here. You may not understand, but events will reveal more to you.
39. To God be the glory. So, Brother Ojiakor, I am talking to you and Myself.
40. Philippians 3: 13 said that we should forget the past and press on to the future. Whatever experiences you have yesterday, day before yesterday, they are all gone. They are past-tense.
41. You cannot gain anything by flogging a dead horse. A new chapter has unfolded brighter than that of yesterday. For there must be exaltation after trial. If the Lord had not intervened, sorrow would have filled this camp. We have been battling for a week and now, even up till this morning.
42. Brethren at Nsukka, you can understand what I am saying. We nearly lost a deacon there but God said no, for he was rushed to the hospital in coma. Here also, just like two kilometers, we nearly lost Apostle Ojiakor and Brother Elue, but God said, no: And the battle continued.
43. When they got to Enugu, the battle increased. I said that the devil is awake, but God is wiser than the devil.
44. I was talking to Brother Matthew who came from Lagos. I said that I must give him a message for his family because I was the One and I am still the One, I am perfectly in control.
45. I brought the wife; I brought them together, live together. At My word, live together. And he accepted it without querying Me and things started happening.
46. Let Me tell you what you do not know. We are heading to the city where the Maker and Builder is the Lord and the Maker and builder is here! It is not that He is coming from somewhere. I want to show you scriptures you know very well.
47. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1. Good News version: In the past…”
48. Note, in the past, not today. In the past,… Many people are still in the past, walking in the light of the past. When you are walking in the light of the past, you omit today. And today is what you need, not the past.
49. In the past God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways through the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end. He reflects the brightness of God’s glory…
50. He reflects the brightness of God’s glory. He is the One that created the whole universe, visible and invisible. He is the One. You see, God has separated the past from the present. No prophet was given this honour but one Man. Let us know who that man is.
51. Hebrews 2: 6, “Instead, as it is said somewhere in the scriptures, what is man Oh God that you should think of him? Mere man that you should think of him? You made him but a little while lower than the angels.
52. I want it in another translation. Something was omitted there, “Who is the Son of Man”.
53. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the Son of Man that thou visitest him?Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands
54. :Set Him what?
55. over the works of thy hands:
56. We all are the workmanship of God. The flock of His pasture. One man is incharge. There can never be two but one. Who is this Son of Man?
57. We have traced Him to its finality. Stop there. I think it is upon this backdrop that the website is filled. The website is filled every week, and I am very much interested in the response I am getting these days from this website, “The Bridal Chronicles”, for that is where you can see the portrait of the Son of Man.
58. If you go to there and type in, “The images of the Son of Man,” the world is clashing there. Apostle Ojiakor opened it, saw what is there, called Me immediately and said, “Sir, I am amazed, this one is not the one we uploaded. This is the one America just compiled and then loaded it separately pointing everybody to it.”
59. Bridal Chronicle response for this week: United States of America, 5,253. Nigeria, 4,417 we are talking about the Bridal Chronicles. South Korea, 3,362. Kenya, 3,361. Italy (the home of the Pope) 2,355. Germany, 2,351. Israel, 2,311.
60. It is of no use rehearsing all these things. This is for this last week. We got it yesterday evening. They have not finished with the Son of Man, for God has not finished with Him.
61. God has never finished with the Son of Man, that is why the Son of Man is still alive till today. Whenever God finishes with the person He is using, He will pack Him home, you see another one riding the trail.
62. As far as He is still on the trail, He is God En-Morphe to the elect, but a mere man to the world. Amen.
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CONSIDER YOUR WAYS
We were testifying of the goodness of the Lord yesterday in My house with the elders and I was talking to them concerning the event that took place at Nsugbe. A popular Pastor resident at Nsugbe, the billboard is even in GRA here, “Something tabernacle”.
2. Whenever you see him, he looks like Okey Nwamkpa with one hand on his jaw. Who can believe this? This man heartlessly hacked down his landlady in the afternoon and that was on Friday. The woman died instantly there. He strangled his landlady in the daylight. People descended on him. The police rescued him.
3. Now, search was conducted in his house. Come and see, that was where the whole world gathered. The placenta of a woman, human skulls, various parts of human body with concoctions in basket and then fresh blood in a bucket. It was not at night, I mean “korokoro” (plainly)in the afternoon.
4. What is more, we are tracing him. We want to know where he hails from. If he is not from Imo State, he is from Abia State. We are tracing him.
5. At Enugu, another pastor desiring to make converts and make money; that one is everywhere now. He killed two of his subjects, used their bodies to lay foundation of his new temple. Luck ran against him. Information got to the police. They exhumed the bodies.
6. All of them are carrying Bible, calling Jesus, tomorrow you see them erecting tabernacles and synagogues. But I thank God we are not in any other place than here. When we dismiss, we go away. We do not have a place that can be called our own, we have no secretariat, we have no head office. You cannot trace the Bride of Christ Ministry to anybody’s house. As it was in Acts of the Apostles, so it is today.
7. In Acts of the Apostles, there was no Church, there was no gathering point, they were meeting from house to house. You could not know their meeting places as it is.
8. I was telling brethren that the moment we leave this place, we will go home. We may not get any other place. I never knew it was written in the message. This morning, they presented it to Me. You do not know what God is doing for you here. Because of the simplicity that is in God, if not for the simplicity that is in Christ, we will not be saved.
9. There is not even one person here who is worthy to worship in any denomination for you cannot meet their demands. But look at Christ, the unwelcomed Man in every dispensation, very humble, meek and lowly, easily entreated, easily approached, mingles with every kind of person until they regarded Him as ‘mister nobody’. Yet, in Him is the supernatural power of the Almighty God hidden.
10. We will keep on giving God the glory. There are testimonies to share but not immediately until we share the testimonies of the word of God which is the greatest of all testimonies.
11. I am led this morning to take you back by putting you in remembrance of the hour. When you see iniquity everywhere, all we have to do is to fall back on the messages, for the message is your security. The message is your security.
12. Remember, no tenant can eject the landlord from his house. You know what it takes to be a landlord. You are the owner of the house. A tenant is sojourning for a while. Is it not true?
13. If God is the landlord, the devil can never; the devil can only be a tenant and can be commanded to leave once he is noticed. So please, follow Me this morning as we look into the prophetic message as it relates to the hour. After that we will begin to hear amazing testimonies, amazing and astonishing testimonies to the glory of God.
14. If you say that God is not at work, it is because He is not at work in you. It is God in Me both to do and to work after the counsel of His own will. God is constantly at work in Me. God is constantly at work in every elect of God.
15. Anybody that is here and is sure and certain that God is not constantly at work in him/her, his/her sitting down here profits him/her nothing. And when God is constantly at work in you, you grow in knowledge, you grow in wisdom, you grow in understanding on the things of God until your mind and the mind of God will be one.
16. But if God is not at work in you, it is because you are a visitor. You can never notice any change in you. Thus, I want everybody to get defrosted.
17. First step towards modifying your life begins by defrosting your old life. When you melt it, you become free. You know what it means to freeze, maybe meat in your freezer that is being held tightly by ice block.
18. Do you carry it and put it inside your soup? Because you want to make use of it, what do you do? You bring it out, allow air to act on it or use hot water on it, you do what? Defrost it!
19. Once it de-freezes, all the pebbles of meat will run separate, then movement takes off. A little while, you begin to see the benefit of what you purchased. Too many people are frozen, they are like frozen fish.
20. There is no way the word of God can come to them and then melt them. But if you are an elect of God, the Word comes to melt you, the Word come to remold you, the Word comes to sieve you, then you become object of God’s pleasure; no longer object of anger. Then God will begin to make use of you.
21. Defrost yourselves this morning and let the Word of God do its rightful work in you. For what is awaiting you is greater than what you are pursuing. A good number of you have gone astray especially the ministers.
22. When a minister comes to a point where he cannot locate “For God so loved the world” in the scriptures, you give ministers just a portion of the scripture just to get from the Bible, all of them will rob their heads and minds together for two hours.
23. One, they do not know the book again where they will look for it; they will be searching from Revelation to Genesis. It is a sign of departure, a sign of backsliding. All of them have backslidden, they are just making noise. The affairs of this present world have consumed all of them.
24. Yet, the more they pursue these things the more empty handed they are coming out. If the Lord does not come your way, you will die while laboring and you will get absolutely nothing.
25. Even if you realize that money, you will discover that you will put it in a porous pocket. Consider your ways. Haggai said, all these years, you have been laboring and you have been getting a little.
26. You get your wages, you put them into a porous pocket, you eat and eat and eat yet, you are never satisfied. You drink, yet you do not even satisfy your appetite. He said, “Oh man, consider your ways.”
27. The kingdom of God is far beyond eating and drinking, it is far beyond possession of material things, it is far beyond husband and wife, it is far beyond children. A day is coming when the childless woman will rejoice much more exceedingly than he that has children.
28. If God never said it and documented it, nobody believes that it can be true and we know it is true; for you can never compare the headache of one that is weighed down with family to one that is living without anybody.
29. Your headache will be equivalent to the size of your head. In your attempt to make both ends meet because you are feeding too many mouths, you will leave God behind. That is why God said we should cut the little we can chew, for the kingdom of God consists not of what the eyes can see, what you can brag about.
30. That is why I keep on telling you that God knows the reason why He has placed Me in front so that while talking to you, you will not have reason to ask Me why, for I have seen the two ends of the world. I have seen A to Z.
31. Solomon saw more than that, came and concluded everything as vanity, yet he was the richest in his day. In all his wisdom, he said in everything in terms of marriage he had seven hundred wives, three hundred concubines, one thousand in all.
32. The children were not even numbered. Abraham, the same thing and the rest of them, yet all of them, vanity of all vanity. What is the weightier matter? Lay hold on eternal life.
33. I was commending bishop Obadiah because he walked himself into the Son of Man. It is not this morning. He may not know how the thing took place; he may not know what is attracting the attention of the Son of Man into his family.
34. Hear Me very well. Wherever a man places his jewel, that is where his heart, his mind will be. Anywhere a man places his property, his mind, his eyes are there twenty four hours.
35. But where he places nothing, even if that place goes into flame, God is not interested. God can because of one person like Zachaeus, do unimaginable thing to rescue Zachaeus because he is this property. He is a property that belongs to God.
36. Hence, the prophet said that the only property God has on earth remains the Church and that Church, he said, is the elect-lady, the elected group, not this one we are seeing here. We are seeing ourselves because we are constantly in fellowship with one another. But God is having His eyes on the elected few. Who elected them? God.
37. Why? He wanted to. He did it after the counsel of His own will. He knew them before the world began, predestinated them unto adoption. So, come what may, come rain, come sunshine, they are in His program. And that is why God places something which will be a sign of the covenant; something God will see, something God will remember, His eyes will be there.
38. For His eyes according to the scriptures are upon His elects, upon His own. God does not take what does not belong to Him. Whoever that is born of the flesh is flesh, whoever that is born of the spirit is spirit. Is it not scriptural? Is it not true?
39. And these are the people that will understand God for God is spiritual. Only spiritual people will understand God, but a carnal minded man cannot comprehend it because everything pertaining to God is spiritually discerned. It can be foolishness to a naturally minded man because he cannot understand the things of the spirit for they are spiritually discerned.
40. There is something peculiar with this group of people. If you study the scripture, there you have hope. Through the encouragement of the scriptures, you know how God works. Amen.
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ARE YOU DIVINELY CONNECTED TO GOD? (1)
Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1. King James. God who at sundry times and in diverse manners…”
2. At sundry times and what? Diverse manners through dreams, through visions, through prophecies and many other ways, spoke to people in time past.
3. …spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days…
4. Hath in these last days…
5. … spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;That is all.
6. Christ was in the world before the world began. Christ created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible; principalities and powers, all for Himself, for His own use. Is it not scriptural? And if you do not know who Christ is, you can bypass Him.
7. Just like I was talking to brethren yesterday. We are children of God, the entire world do not know who we are. We know ourselves. When you are talking about Christ, Christ, the entire world know no other Christ but Jesus, for they do not know the meaning of Christ. They do not know that Christ was there before Jesus was born.
8. Christ was there before the world began. That it was Christ that tabernacled in Jesus that time that made Him God. He became God because of what tabernacled in Him. When He gave way, the same thing continued until it has come to our own day and behold, we have seen the Majesty. He has displayed everything. Are we still in doubt? If you are still in doubt, you are not worthy to be in this holy assembly.
9. We are no longer in doubt as whether we are following Christ or not. But not everybody has this spiritual insight about who He is. If the world of Jesus’ day knew He was God, the Creator of heaven and earth tabernacling in the vessel called Jesus, nobody would have slapped Him, they would not have buffeted Him about and finally killed Him, thinking He died.
10. Then He came back again and the journey continued in another form. Christ does not die, He changes His tabernacle. How people miss God in all the ages.
11. In diverse times, in time past but in our own day, God is speaking to us using a Man. It will be arrant stupidity of you, a sign of unbelief that Christ is standing on the scene and you are coming to Him to tell Him that God said, “God revealed to you.” Bishop Nnachor, was it not the discussion yesterday?
12. This is the basis of all these counterfeit men of God you see everywhere. They do not know that Christ is here standing on the scene and they are fooling their members into believing that there is Christ that is coming who is revealing to them. “God revealed to me.”
13. God cannot do anything without first of all calling on the vessel that is on the scene. For the Lord our God will do nothing but He revealeth His will unto His servant, the prophet.
14. The same thing is applicable. Unless Abraham is not on the scene. But there must be an Abraham in every dispensation.
15. Tell Me what God will do without first of all calling on His friend Abraham. How can somebody go to Abraham and say, “God revealed to me.”You cannot go to Abraham and say, “God revealed to me” neither will you go to the prophet and say “God revealed to me.”
16. It is like going to Jesus Christ in His day and saying, “The Father revealed to me” when the Father was already in Him. Who is the Father?
17. Who is that God? Who is that Christ? This is the problem we are having in every generation. Anybody that is worshipping God without divine revelation is missing the track.
18. You must have the divine revelation. And you cannot have divine revelation unless you are divinely connected to God. Every elect of God is divinely connected to God, not carnally connected, not physically connected. When somebody is divinely connected to the Elohim, nothing in this life nor in the life to come disconnects him because it is a spiritual affair.
19. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE DIVINELY CONNECTED TO GOD? I SHOW YOU ONE INDICATOR AND THEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE REST. IF YOU CHECK EVENTS AROUND YOU, HOW THINGS HAPPEN AROUND YOU, YOU WILL SEE THAT ALL HAVE DIVINE ORIENTATION.
20. EVERYTHING AROUND YOU MUST ORIGINATE FROM GOD. I DO NOT CARE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. IT IS COMING BECAUSE GOD WANTS IT THAT WAY FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU AT ALL TIMES.
21. IF YOU ARE DIVINELY CONNECTED TO GOD, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT ETERNAL SECURITY IS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU ARE CARNALLY AND PHYSICALLY CONNECTED, YOU MUST DISCONNECT. YOU MUST DISCONNECT.
22. Watch all that were carnally connected to this ministry of the Son of Man, a good number of them are no longer here, but watch as many as the Lord Himself called to Himself and they are spiritually, divinely connected to God, let the heavens fall, let the world dispossess them of everything, let maggot eat up their flesh, no way. I say, no way.
23. That germ of life which came from God Himself. Remember that He that called you saw many. Is it not true? He went to the river and saw too many fisher men; He picked two and left the rest. He went to another place, saw too many tax collectors, he called one, left the rest. How do you know when God is the one that called you because often times it appears confusing to some people?
24. HOW DO I KNOW THAT IT WAS GOD THAT CALLED ME INTO HIMSELF? THERE IS ONLY BUT ONE SIGN, NOT TWO. THERE IS ALWAYS AN IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO OBEY. NO MATTER THE REASONS YOU MAY HAVE WHY YOU SHOULD NOT RESPOND, BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU SEE YOURSELF RESPONDING CONTRARY TO YOUR THINKING, TO YOUR WISH. YOU ARE NOT THE ONE DOING IT.
25. That is why the Bible said, “Nobody can resist God’s call unless God is not the one that called you.” When God calls you, look at when He called Peter and the rest.
26. They had opportunity to become millionaires, but they now remembered they came out from the water after toiling empty handed. They were frustrated; they were almost giving up, no hope. They were about to go; they were about to pack.
27. The Master said to them, “Gentlemen, do not give up, cast your net on the right side”. They pulled it out, the boat was filled with fish. The Master watched them.
28. The opportunity they would have used to become millionaires, the Master said, “Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men.” Nobody argued. Nobody said, “Let me take a single fish out of the boat”. The Bible said they left all and followed Christ.
29. They were not the people that followed. It was an irresistible urge, a force greater than the vessels. Let Me tell you. For somebody to fly into the sky, he must conquer gravitational force. For it is easier to land from the top than to climb to the top. Is it not true?
30. If you are climbing a hill, you notice that you are losing a lot of strength, but when you are descending a hill, you gain strength. Am I making sense?
31. BY NATURE, NO MAN CAN SERVE GOD. YOU SEE WHY IT TAKES GOD TO COME INTO US AND HELP US TO SERVE HIM. BY NATURE, NOBODY CAN OBEY GOD. IT IS GOD THAT IS IN US HELPING US TO OBEY. IN WHAT WAY? YOU ARE DIVINELY CONNECTED TO GOD.
32. GOD COMES TO YOU CONTRARY TO YOUR NATURE WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE. YOU DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT. YOU WILL NOT KNOW HOW THE WHOLE THING HAPPENED.
33. YOU SEE HOW YOU WILL KNOW WHEN GOD IS THE ONE THAT CALLED. EVERY ATTEMPT YOU WANT TO MAKE TO RESIST, YOU SEE YOURSELF FAILING.
34. IN THE BED, YOU WILL NOT REST UNTIL YOU RESPOND. IF YOU TRY TO RESIST, YOU WILL BE FORCED, BECAUSE GOD IS THE ONE. IF YOU REFUSE TO COME, YOUR CORPSE WILL BE CARRIED TO GOD. JONAH WANTED TO RESIST, GOD BECOME A FISH, SWALLOWED JONAH. THEN VOMITED JONAH IN THE SAME PLACE, MADE THE JOURNEY EVEN FASTER.
35. IF IT IS NOT LIKE THIS IN YOU, YOU ARE IN THIS FAITH BECAUSE YOU THINK IT IS NEW. YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOUR RELATIONS ARE HERE. YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU ARE USING IT AS A COVER. YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU ARE LIKELY TO BENEFIT.
36. BUT ANYBODY THAT IS CALLED BY GOD CONSIDERS NOTHING. HE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE GOD IS TAKING HIM TO AND HE DOES NOT EVEN ASK, “WHERE ARE WE GOING INTO?” THIS IS AN IRRESISTIBLE URGE THAT CONQUERS NATURE AND YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT IS HAPPENING. YOU ARE SAYING NO AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE OBEYING.
37. WITH THE MOUTH YOU SAY ‘NO’, IN ACTION YOU SAY ‘YES’. BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU START SUPPORTING SOMETHING YOU ARE ALSO AGAINST AND BE READY TO DIE FOR IT AND PEOPLE WILL BE WONDERING WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. YOU ARE NOT THE ONE DOING IT. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN GOD IS THE ONE THAT HAS CALLED?
38. WHEN YOU WANT TO DO GOOD, YOU DO EVIL. WHEN YOU WANT TO DO EVIL, YOU DO GOOD. FOR GOD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE YOUR WAY.
39. ST. PAUL SAID, “THOUGH HE FINDS HIMSELF IN THAT CONDITION, HE QUERIED HIMSELF, HE THEN UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS GOD IN HIM DOING EVERYTHING AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL. HE NOW YIELDED AND SAID THAT HE IS NOW PERSUADED THAT GOD IS ABLE TO KEEP THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED INTO HIS HAND.
40. HOW CAN GOD ALLOW YOU TO HAVE YOUR WAY? IF GOD SHOULD ALLOW A HUMAN BEING TO HAVE HIS WAY, NOBODY WILL WALK ON THE STREET.
41. THAT IS WHY IF YOU WATCH IN YOUR LIFE, IF GOD IS THE ONE BEHIND EVERYTHING IN YOU, WHICH MEANS YOUR ORIENTATION IS GOD, IN HIM YOU LIVE, IN HIM YOU MOVE, IN HIM YOU FREELY HAVE YOUR BEING, LOOK AT WHAT WILL HAPPEN, YOU WILL BE PROPOSING, AND GOD WILL BE DISPOSING.
42. Why is it like that? You are divinely connected to a force that is beyond your control, irresistible, supernatural. Another thing you will know when you are divinely connected; as long as you are alive, everything appears to be possible and light, easy to handle. How the knowledge will come, you do not know. Because He that made everything possible is the One you are connected to.
43. To you everything becomes possible. There is nothing that will be impossible and nothing will upset you again for there is no problem you cannot bring out the solution. And you will not go to bed to plan, it is when the thing is coming, you see the thing supplied.
44. The cloud is here. So that when you go home, your duty is to sit down and examine how things are happening around you and when it started happening that way. Whether it was the time you never responded or from the time you responded to God’s call.
45. For the calling might be coming from your childhood, you may not understand it. Yes, when God called Samuel, Samuel never understood it. It took Eli to understand that it was God that was calling Samuel.
46. Whatever that is happening in you now is connected to God. You are not connected to God this morning. You connected to God when you were in the spirit form, before you entered your mother’s belly. Am I making sense?
47. Let Me tell you what I mean. Before Jesus was born a man, remember the husband of Mary paid the dowry, everything or bride price. When he was about to go home, something took place. The man discovered that the virgin was pregnant; virgin in the sense that she has not slept with that man for one day.
48. Then the man wanted to bring the woman out, according to the laws of the Jews, to be stoned to death. That same God, not another one, remember there was a divine connection that was to appear in human form. From spirit it is now coming.
49. At the end of the day, the Lord spoke as He wrote in the Hebrews how He spoke to people in time past through dreams, vision, audible voice and things like that.
50. God said, “Fear not to take Mary to be your wife, I am responsible for the pregnancy.”
51. Have you seen divine connection? A little while a baby boy was born. Many, many things started happening around Him, although people could not believe, Herod believed.
52. Remember, he was too tender. Less than two years, Herod ordered the killing of all infants in order to get rid of a small baby that has never done anything good or bad. Why? The baby was divinely oriented. It is a royal blood.
53. That is why the Bible said that we should not forget the fact that Jesus the Christ was born as a royal Man from King David’s royal family. Royal blood now entered in the house of Joseph, from the lineage of royals. Royal blood now has come to Joseph’s house.
54. Now, do you think that it was by mistake? Why must it be Joseph and not another? Why must it be Mary and not another? For Joseph was divinely connected for that purpose. That God will have His material that will always attract His attention to Joseph’s family.
55. When calamity came, who ordered that Joseph and Mary should take the boy to Egypt? God. Communication was established, a relationship was established, an eternal one.
56. Let Me tell you, there is something in the message I read few days ago, “Examine your family upbringing”. Examine your orientation.
57. How many know about Jephthah? How many know about Jabel? I will show you scriptures if there is time. I will show you how God decided to use prostitutes to raise a royal lineage. A woman that came all out with a lot of men impregnating her in diverse places, had many children with different fathers to the point that the children do not know who their fathers are.
58. Hence, they know that there was no way they could have come to this world without a man impregnating their mother. And their mother cannot even lay hand on any of them. In the future, God stepped in and then used one to establish a royal lineage.
59. Why must it be that one? The material God placed in him was not placed when he was born, but before he became a human being and if he can trace his father, his father can be traced to God also. I am not telling you what I do not know I am telling you what I know very well.
60. If you check all that are divinely connected, they trace themselves back to their ancestors that feared God, honoured God. No mistake in what God is doing. If you do not have a divine orientation, you do not belong to God.
61. You do not belong to God because you do not have the spirit of God, you do not have the spirit of truth. Things will be working for you after the counsel of your own will, not after the counsel of God’s own will. And for that reason, you can never go far in life.
62. Sooner than you think, you will be tired and you will keep off, because you are using your strength, you are using your might; you are using your power. You are not a spiritual fellow. But those that are spiritual, nobody talks blah, blah, blah before them.
63. They are the fountain of wisdom and knowledge and they do nothing except at the command of the Lord, for they are in direct communication, in direct relationship with God. They have been with Him before the world began.
64. Let Me just explain to you what I am saying. If you go to the book of 1st John, the Bible said, “We are of God, the entire world lieth in wickedness. Nobody knows who we are except those that had walked and talked with God.”
65. Who were these people that walked and talked with God? Only those people will know who we are. When did they walk and talk with God? Was it here? What were you before the world began? Were you a bad spirit or a good spirit? If you were a bad spirit, you will go where bad spirits are.
66. Maybe you do not know that every child of God is a spirit human being. Every true seed of God is a spirit human being. That is why he does unimaginable things. Things that work around him surprise the heathens.
67. Often times, they are astonished and wonder where he got this skill, this knowledge, this wisdom and this and that, whether he goes to school or not.
68. If you are not spiritually oriented, divinely oriented, you have no part in the Son of Man. You cannot identify the Son of Man and the Son of Man cannot acknowledge you. This is the truth about the whole thing. Everything in Me must stumble you.
69. Every of My action, every of My Word must surely stumble you. But if you are divinely connected, I am your Delight. If I spray insecticide here, it will be a sweet perfume. Amen.
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GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY
I want to espouse you to something. I decided that I will go through this message. This morning, it was presented to Me by Apostle Kelechi showing Me what I was discussing with the elders. It is documented here. After going through it brethren, I was astonished. That is chapter 5 of this message verse 60.
2. It said, “Surely the matter will be decided here in the Valley Of Decision. We are not going to any other place. Even if we leave here, where else do you think we can find accommodation where we will stay? Where can we find a place like this in Onitsha?
3. “Thus, the matter is ending in the Valley of Decision. The battle will be decided here in the valley of decision.”
4. I never knew that such a thing will be here and I was addressing the elders in My house. This morning, they presented it to Me, I glanced through it and it agreed with the message I was holding, “Upset the Faith of the Son of Man and end it in the grave.”
5. Another one, “If you continue in My word, you are My disciples indeed.”
6. Out of the three, My choice is, “The day of the Lord”. Whatever is contained there, please pay attention. Remember when I say, pay attention, the cloud is here. You do not need a prophet to tell you.
7. I am talking to the children of God. I am not talking to everybody. Whenever the Word of God goes forth, it goes to the elect, those that are divinely connected, those that have divine orientation. These are the people I am sent to come and bring home.
8. And they have entered into a covenant with the Son of Man by sacrifice. So there is something in them, there is something around them that constantly attract the eyes, the mind, the spirit of the Son of Man to wherever they are 24 hours of the day.
9. Do you know that the Pharaoh called Joseph was the one that put his golden cup into the bag of his brother Benjamin? Why? Benjamin was divinely connected to the king.
10. The king craftily put that material there so as to exclude the rest, allowed them to go with their packages, accused them as thieves, sent his guards to go there and search them, capture the thief and bring him back, so that the rest will be excluded.
11. Can you say he accused him falsely? There was a divine purpose he wanted to achieve. And all of them vowed a vow, “Anybody this cup is found in his bag should be killed. Take him and go and kill him.” They denied it was not in their midst.
12. Finally, the cup was found in the bag of Benjamin. The man they least expected. They sorrowed and sorrowed. Some were jubilating in their hearts, “His own is over.”
13. They brought him back, presented him before the king, the king claimed he was angry over the missing cup while he was laughing inside. Then, of all of you that came from Jacob, how many were the cup hidden in their bags?
14. The king material was there. What was that? The royal cup. A royal cup was found there. They wanted to see blood but they saw exaltation for the king succeeded in his plan. For there was no other way he could exclude them if not by making a demarcation.
15. Elders, you are pulling your fingers. God works in a mysterious way but if you do not know who God is, you can commit suicide.
16. That is why God said in the beginning, “Do not disturb yourself by asking question, why people behave the way they behave. Do not be concerned about it.
17. “Let it not trouble you, but be very much concerned with your own connection with God, how God is dealing with you so that you will be in the position to know when the hand of God has left you.
18. For if you do not know how God deals with you, you will not know when the hand of God has left you.” Amen.
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LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE
The Day of the Lord” volume 1, preached on 11th April 1999, at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, the very Son of Man, the Supreme Intelligence, the Lord God Almighty.
2. When Saint John was drawn in the spirit, he saw the Lord’s Day. Please note it: “Now when he looked back to hear,” OR to see that voice that was sounding to him like the voice of a Prophet, but it was not a Prophet. However, the voice was clear and loud.
3. You know, a Prophet’s voice is clear and loud. John the revelator looked back to see He that was voicing out those words. Lo and behold, he saw Seven Candlesticks (Selah); and in the midst of those Seven Candlesticks, there is One that is like unto the Son of Man. Glory be to God.
4. Look at the Seven Candlesticks, they represent the Seven Stars, the seven messengers according to the seven Church ages. BELIEVE IT IF YOU HAVE THE HEART: I AM NOT A MESSENGER OF ANY CHURCH AGE BUT I AM THE VERY ONE IN THE MIDST OF THE MESSENGERS OF THE CHURCH AGES (Selah).
5. IN OTHER WORDS, I AM THE 8TH MESSENGER. I AM THE 8TH MAN. THERE CAN NEVER BE SEVEN MESSENGERS WITHOUT ONE THAT IS IN THEIR MIDST, WHOSE MINISTRY YOU CANNOT EVEN BLAME.
6. Whose ministry you cannot blame. Perfection ministry.
7. If when we came to Laodicea, William Branham appeared as a messenger to Laodicea, then we have completed the circle by seeing the seventh candlestick. If there is not One (Almighty God, the Elohim on two feet) tying the whole thing (loose ends) together starting from the first Church age, there will be no Translation.
8. The Elohim on two feet, God En-Morphe in the midst of His own people. Not in the world. For the prophet said, “He will be here in the last age in the midst of the Bride. The world out there will not see Him. You cannot behold Him until you go there and see a part of Him.”
9. Revelation chapter 1 verse 12-13, “And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”
10. Halleluiah. Was it different from what was revealed? You see why we are the most favoured people on earth? Having interactions with the supernatural God drawn from among us yet to God it is not robbery.
11. To God it is not robbery. God veiled Himself in a human being drawn from among us not counting it robbery. RUN AWAY FROM OVER-FAMILIARITY OTHERWISE TOO MANY THINGS ARE LIKELY TO HAPPEN.
12. Note, the Ephesian Church Age had a messenger, which signifies a candlestick. William Branham, you know how the thing came about.
13. After drawing the Seven Church Ages in a mountain, an unseen hand reproduced it before witnesses because the hand of God was with him. But God started it with the Ephesian Church.
14. You saw the Ephesian Church, from 53 to 170 AD, that was the first Church Age. We saw Irenaus, from 170 to 312A.D. We saw Martin from 312 to 606AD.
15. Columba, 606 to 1520AD. Luther 1520 to 1750AD, the time his own ministry and revival started. Wesley, 1750 to 1906A.D, the year Zik (Nnamdi Azikiwe) was born.
16. Please note one thing about these dates a little. William Branham, from 1906 to 1965 A.D. because he died in the month of December, 1965. His own ministry finished. Then where is that One (the Arch Angel) that is moving in the midst of the Seven Candlesticks.
17. Halleluiah! The messenger of the 21st century.
18. These messengers, they are human beings. That One (Christ on two feet) moving in their midst (the Angel Messengers to the Seven Church Ages), the Bible did not say it is son of goat or son of devil (crosscheck it).
19. The Bible said, “He is the Son of Man”. Where is He? Remember the message is the message for Laodicea and we are part of the Laodicea Church before we were called out. Amen.
20. The Two Foundations of our existence as we approach the end. Vol. 2. Page 18 verse 26. The time is near even to our doorsteps. Events around us are confirming it. If you do not have any other reason to believe it, believe it because you have crossed the Laodicean Age.
21. Laodicean Age finished with the messenger of that dispensation. He said that no other person is coming than the Person he foreran. If we know exactly where we are; that the Bridegroom is in the midst of the Bride preparing her, we will rejoice.
22. Has He not vindicated Himself? THE WORLD OUT THERE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE, THAT IS WHY THE EXPERIENCES WE ARE HAVING ARE NOT COMMON EXPERIENCES.
23. THEY ARE ONLY COMMON TO THOSE WHO ARE ACQUAINTED AND COVENANTED WITH THE PROMISE OF THE HOUR. IF YOU ARE NOT DIVINELY CONNECTED TO THIS PROMISE OF THE HOUR, YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING. Amen.
24. We do not belong to the End-Time again. That was why I was warning our mother, Mama Ikebude, to be very careful. If she is not careful, I will not even permit her to participate in the so-called marriage ceremony. I am keeping my eyes open because if because of merriment and entertainment, you get yourself out of the Kingdom, then you are lost!
25. I told her with a very stern voice, “If you attend the wedding, I throw you out of the Church straight away. Your daughter is there, your son is there, they will represent the mother and the father to that extent.
26. I am permitting you here for one purpose: to travel to that hopeless shrine because you are the mother, what is the pride that you have somebody you cannot be with even in eternity?
27. To have somebody in your house called your son, your daughter, you will never be with in eternity. The barren is better than you. The unmarried is better than you.
28. To have a wife you cannot live with in eternity, to have a husband you cannot live with in eternity, the unmarried is better than you. Your union terminates here on earth, it can never get to the end. What does it profit you? Think about it!
29. You have no children that can be assigned to you if you are a seed of God except those that are divinely oriented, divinely connected to you. They will live with you in eternity. So it is with your wife, if your wife is not divinely connected to you, your marriage is not divinely oriented, it will terminate midway. One must be left here.
30. That is why Jesus saw it and said, “Two will be in the bed, one will be taken and another will be left behind.”
31. The two may be at the mill as husband and wife trying to do things in common, helping each other, helping the family. There at the mill, while grinding their food, one will be taken, the other will be left.
32. THUS, IF THERE IS A UNION OR FUSION CALLED MARRIAGE, IF THERE IS A HOME THAT IS CALLED A FAMILY, CHECK THE ORIENTATION. IF IT DOES NOT HAVE A DIVINE ORIENTATION, PAUSE AND THINK.
33. IT MUST BE INSTITUTED BY GOD OR ELSE DO NOT IN ANY AWAY ASSOCIATE IT WITH GOD. IF IT IS NOT INSTITUTED BY GOD, DO NOT EVER, DO NOT EVER, EVER ASSOCIATE IT WITH GOD.
34. And of course, every true seed of God knows that I am speaking the truth. Every true seed of God has the spirit of truth. The spirit of truth in you will bear witness that I am not deceiving your ears.
35. A GOOD NUMBER OF SO-CALLED MARRIAGE UNION WILL STOP HERE, IT CAN NEVER GO BEYOND THIS WORLD. ONE WILL CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY TO ETERNITY WITH GOD, THE OTHER WILL CONTINUE HER ETERNITY IN HELLFIRE. VICE VERSA. THE SAME WAY IT IS EVEN WITH OUR CHILDREN.
36. NO MATTER HOW WE LOVE AND APPRECIATE THEM, WE MUST MAKE SURE THEY ARE FROM THE ROYAL LINEAGE. THAT WAS THE REASON WHY GOD SAID, HIS SONS MUST MARRY HIS DAUGHTERS SO THAT THEIR CHILDREN WILL COME FROM A GODLY ROYAL LINEAGE. Is it not scriptural?
37. There is no other way you can have sons and daughters of God if not God reproducing through human beings. Remember, one mother can give birth to many, but all of them may not come from the same God.
38. That is why God said, “I know My sheep, My sheep also know Me. I call them by their names and they will never perish for I will give them eternal life. They proceeded from God and they will wind up also in God.” Amen.
39. I know why I am sounding very hard. It is operation please nobody.
40. Operation what? Please nobody.
41. I do not aim at pleasing a human being again. Deny Me of everything, it is your right! But you cannot deny Me of this kingdom of heaven where I am already inside.
42. Where I am already inside and then beckoning people to come in, helping people to come in. I will not be outside and be putting people inside the boat.
43. I will first of all take My own seat and then bid people to come in. It will take a foolish man to stand outside and be ordering people inside. Before he knows it, he will not know when the people inside are now more than the seat available. When tickets will be collected, he will have nothing to offer.
44. He will be bidding people to go and pay for ticket when he has none. When asked, he will say that he wants the vehicle to be full first so that the vehicle will move. He will not know that his name is not in the manifest.
45. He will be sharing testimony that he was the first person that arrived the pack. “I came before any other person.”
46. “Where is your seat?” “I placed handkerchief on the seat.” “Is your name in the manifest?” “I forgot to write it.”
47. “Please you can wait for another vehicle. This one is full.”
48. THE MINISTRY OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS IS OVER. We are no longer in the ministry of the Seven Candlesticks because the Churches have heard the voice.
49. We are in the voice message, the spoken word message, the original seed.
50. WE ARE NOW IN THE MINISTRY OF HE THAT IS MOVING IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS.
51. If you believe it, say Amen. ‘Amen’. Who is that fellow according to the scriptures, according to the revelation of the Island of Patmos? Who is that person? It is as clear as the day.
52. Prophet William Branham foreran He that come after him, who will increase and he (The prophet) would decrease if peradventure he would be on the scene when this great Man will be on the scene.
53. This great Personality we are expecting, assuming he (the Prophet) is walking here now, nobody will hear him again. But God cannot allow him to remain here, otherwise, He will tender apology for removing John the Baptist. He will tender apology for removing Elijah that Elisha will come up; for removing Aaron that Eliezer will come up. What are we doing brethren?
54. God is always in the business of removing the former that He might establish the latter. For there cannot be two here at the same time. The prophet said, “Put your hand in the scripture, it is not there.”
55. Two of us cannot be here at the same time. “One day, I will be in this sacred pulpit, read my last scripture from the holy Bible, close the book and I will give way. He that will come will come.” And it happened as he saw it.
56. IF YOU ARE ASHAMED OF PROFESSING THE NAME OF THE SON OF MAN BEFORE PEOPLE, THE SON OF MAN WILL BE ASHAMED EVEN TO CALL YOU IN HIS KINGDOM.
57. FOR YOU ARE TRANSFERRED FROM THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE SON OF MAN. THAT IS WHY, IF THE SON OF MAN SHALL SET YOU FREE, YOU ARE NO LONGER UNDER CONDEMNATION TILL ETERNITY.
58. Who will condemn you? For He is the judge of all the whole earth. He is the One that will declare you approved or disapproved. We must know exactly what the message is all about. Amen.
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ARE YOU DIVINELY CONNECTED TO GOD? (2)
We are reading the message, “The Day of the Lord, preached on 11th April, 1999.”
2. How we should be on the alert as we see the day approaching. Detach yourselves from all encumbrances, for many of us are strongly attached to the things of this world.
3. Many of us even sitting down here are very strongly attached to material things of the world, to social life. To God be the glory.
4. HOW MANY BELIEVE THAT MARRIAGE IS A SOCIAL AFFAIR? HOW MANY BELIEVE THAT? CHECK MARRIAGE, IT FALLS WITHIN THE SOCIAL AFFAIRS, INTERACTION BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN, PURELY A SOCIAL AFFAIR. THAT IS WHY EVERYTHING RELATING TO MARRIAGE IS PURELY SOCIAL, DOMESTIC. IT ENDS HERE.
5. FOR THAT REASON, SALVATION IS PLACED ON INDIVIDUALS. OTHERWISE, A MAN WILL BE CARRYING THE WIFE ON THE HEAD INTO THE KINGDOM BUT IT IS NOT SO. THE WIFE WILL CARRY THE HUSBAND INTO THE KINGDOM, IT IS NOT SO. SOME WILL LIKE TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN INTO THE KINGDOM, IT IS NOT SO.
6. IF YOU LIKE, HAVE ONE MILLION CHILDREN, YOU CANNOT TAKE ANY INTO THE KINGDOM. ONLY THOSE THAT ARE HEAVENLY BOUND WILL BE THERE. AND THEY ARE NO OTHER THAN THOSE THAT ARE DIVINELY CONNECTED TO THE SUPREME BEING.
7. YOU CAN FORCE YOURSELF INTO EVERYTHING BUT NOT INTO CHRIST. CHRIST WILL ACCOMMODATE ANYBODY HE WANTS TO ACCOMMODATE.
8. WE ARE NOW IN THE MINISTRY OF HE THAT IS MOVING IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS. IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE NOW IN THE MINISTRY OF THE SON OF MAN, IN THE MINISTRY OF ONE THAT WILL COME AFTER 1965.
9. In the ministry of One that will come after 1965. Many of you here were born before that time but you were not a part of it until He had appeared.
10. For the fact that you were able to recognize Him and get covenanted with Him, it goes to show, you were appointed unto His day. You were appointed unto His day. You could not have made another move until His day, for that is your own day. The message is for you.
11. You must recognize your own day, your own messenger, your own message. Three things. Without the messenger, there is no message
12. William Branham went as far as telling us that we are very far from Pentecost where we are as at his own day, just as the heaven is far away from the earth according to him.
13. He said, “Wesley does not have to look back to Luther. Luther does not have to look back to the other man. We are not to look back to Pentecost, for we have gone too far.”
14. Then as many as are in this ministry of the Son of Man, you do not have to look back to Branham. You do not have to look back to Wesley or Luther or Paul or Martin or Columba or Iraneus. They have gone too far.
15. Your own started from the day He appeared on the scene. You cannot come before the Son of Man and say, “The prophet William Branham said, the prophet Branham said.” That is for you.
16. If you had believed Branham, you would have believed the Son of Man. If they had believed John the Baptist, they would have believed Jesus. Amen. God want to put us in remembrance as we see the day approaching. For many of us are now strongly tied, strongly attached to the affairs of this present world as if we have lost our experiences.
17. For that reason, I removed the photographs from your eyes. Because I want all the memories to vanish from those who are not divinely connected to God. As many as were connected to the photograph, supernatural photograph, I am telling you, gradually this message is fizzling out.
18. And what they are manifesting is telling you that the fear of God is gradually leaving them. But those that are divinely connected, they had already seen the photograph before they were taken.
19. They anchored where there was no supernatural vindication of Omnipotence. For they were a part of Him before the world began. They only heard His voice, they made comparisons, and they said, “This Voice is the Voice of God. This Voice is different from all.” They proved it.
20. Some even concluded this is the Original Word. They crosschecked everything. Before even signs and wonders started following, they had already proved the Word to be true.
21. Even a heathen, a lawyer of repute saying, “My Lord, with due respect I say that this man is not an ordinary man. Never have I come across a man speaking like this. I have been a member of secret societies. 16 different secret societies. I have the powers to prove them.”
22. You do not know what happened here some weeks ago. Our Pastor Chidubem was going home to Port Harcourtwith Apostle Ugo and Elder Dike. Along the way to Port Harcourt, a police inspector parked the vehicle, enquired about them, where they were coming from and where they were going.
23. Inspite of copies of our messages and the Bible, the man picked on the driver of the vehicle, Pastor Chidubem: “Introduce yourself!”
24. Pastor Chidubem) introduced himself. The man said, “No, I do not believe. Who are you?” The matter became a very big matter.
25. The man said, “This vehicle is not moving again until you identify yourself.” Apostle Ugo came out and told the man, “This is our Pastor!” Elder Dike came and confirmed it.
26. The police man said, “This man, your pastor? You are a liar. I cannot believe you. How can he be your pastor? This man, are you a pastor?”
27. “I am a pastor.” Our brother replied. The man said, “Ok, look at me very well. I am from Kogi State, Igala. I am a spiritualist. I prove everything. Just give me few minutes, I will tell you whether you are a man of God or not, now.”
28. The man shifted and then began with his incantation and invoked spirits. They said, the eyes of the man changed entirely. His eyes, everything turned white, even his head. A little while he returned to his normal estate, looked at our brother menacingly in the face and said, “You are a man of God.”
29. Before then, he had already threatened, “If after my spiritual invocations, I discover he is not a pastor, all of you are in trouble.” They kept quiet. The man demonstrated it on the road. Yes, we meet people of all calibres.
30. I told you my experience at Enugu where I saw Myself in the midst of learned people. Most of them appeared to be retired top civil servants. After handling them, handling their issues, one of them turned and told all that were there when I was about to enter the vehicle; “This Man is not a human being.”
31. All of them went home with My phone number. The cloud is here. You see, there are too many things. Do not provoke Me to that point. Let Me have My seat. Well, we do not need to go further.
32. You know, there is a way I will keep on talking, it will look as if I am trying to persuade you to believe in Me. Who are you? What will I gain if you believe? You are My headache, especially those that call themselves believers in Nigeria.
33. Those that have believed outside Nigeria are better than you. They do not trouble Me. I have never received any printout, any letter from any of the email boxes including My own, calling Me antichrist, or calling Me names or scandalizing Me. Not even one.
34. We read the correspondences here, all of them praising God, asking for My visitation, asking how they will come into contact with Me.
35. But among fools and nonentities, who know nothing, that is where the Word of God is ridiculed. I am telling you, in our midst is impunity which God will judge.
36. Is there a ministry here that has risen after 1965? Yes sir!
37. If you know you were born before 1965, stand up. I am one of them. I said, stand up, I did not say, lift up your hand. If you know you were born before 1965 stand up, men and women.
38. There are places where you can tell lies, not here. That you do not know your age has nothing to do with this matter. If you know you were born before 1965, stand up. I am standing, I was born before 1965. I hope I am making sense?
39. Have you seen that God allowed us to remain alive when we knew not Branham? We knew not the truth, we were going to Church like other people, God preserved us waiting for “HIS” coming.
40. All that were born from 1965, they were born in the days of the Son of Man, for I was here before he gave way. I had already appeared but two of us cannot be here at the same time.
41. Was there any prophecy that there is One coming after him (Branham William) with a ministry traced on to the Bible, that will go in the newspaper form, reading materials until it will encircle the whole earth…
42. Put your hands together brethren! As at that time this message was handled, it was just a mere prophecy. The message was circulating around us. We have not started printing our publications not to mention of opening website. But today, we have gone beyond human imaginations.
43. We have finished with all the countries in the world. We have penetrated their villages, their local governments. Who will now begin to tell Me that William Branham was not a prophet?
44. To those that were not divinely connected to God, they labelled Him false prophet. But to us who were with God before the world began, although we never saw His face, his voice made us believe that he proceeded from God—A sure sign that we were with God when the world was without form.
45. We could identify with His characteristic features. Hear Me very well, if I tell you the characteristics of God, it then means you are not a child of God. There is no child born in the family who does not know the character of his father, the character of his mother. Is it not true?
46. Anybody can be told about the character of David not Solomon. Remember that the throne of David is still here. That He that is talking to you is the Root and Offspring of David and His Throne will remain even till eternity and He that is talking to you will be on the Throne of David judging the world.
47. What makes the Throne of David indestructible? Then how do we identify David and He that is on the Throne? You must know the characteristics of David before you condemn Solomon whom God never condemned.
48. You must know the characteristics of Jesus the Christ before you condemn Him. If you do not know the character of Jesus Christ, to trace His lineage will be difficult for you. When a child is seen, his father will be remembered.
49. Any tree that produces two different kinds of fruits is an artificial tree. It is not original. Any time coconut tree produces coconut and pawpaw, nobody will eat both the coconut and pawpaw.
50. If David will rise up again, he will be the same old David. Solomon, the same old Solomon. Jesus, the same old Jesus. What can you say about the God of the whole Universe? Who believes in unity in diversity, who gives even the renegade dignified inclusion? Glory be to God in the highest.
51. Was there any prophecy that there is One coming after him (Branham William) with a ministry traced on to the Bible, that will go in the newspaper form, reading materials until it will encircle the whole earth, until every true elect will lay hand on the material? Yes sir!
52. Note, it will not only encircle the whole world, it will remain encircling until every true elect of God will lay hand on the material, on the message. Is it not fulfilling? There are some countries you will see one or two persons for now.
53. There are some you will see thousands. I hope I am making sense? We are many if we begin to estimate the number of seats we have here. But when we say every man here stand up and begin to identify his own local government of origin, you may observe that there are some local governments that are not here. There are some States that are not represented.
54. Known unto God are all His works from the foundation of the world, not today. All that belong to God must surely come to Me. All that belong to Almighty God, man and woman, young and old, I say MUST come to Me.
55. When the Lord Jesus appeared, He made the same statement that no man can come to Him except the Father brought him to Him. And all that the Father had already designed to go to Him must surely come to Him.
56. He said, “MUST”. Because it is irresistible. The Lord Jesus used that word ‘Must’. No man brings you to Me but My Father, and all that My Father brings to me, must come to Me and he added, “And I must give them eternal life.
57. They will never perish neither will anybody, any devil snatch them out of My hand, for My Father that gave them to Me is mightier than the trial, than the temptation, than every other thing that will bring the person out of My hand.” 3:42:45
58. Whatever is placed into the hand of a lion, can you bring it out of the lion’s hand?
59. That is why I told you that every elect of God must be positionally placed where he will identify God’s move in his day and partake of it. I do not want to identify and get lost. I want to be a part of what God is doing.
60. I AM NOT PREACHING TO OTHERS, NO. I AM PREACHING TO MYSELF. All I am trying to prove brethren is that what John the revelator saw on the Lord’s Day was real. He saw Paul, he saw Irenaus, he saw Martin, he saw Columba, he saw Luther, he saw Wesley, he saw Branham. He even saw after Branham.
61. That is pure truth.
62. It is just like Nebuchadnezzar’s day, when they cast Shedrack, Meshach and Abednego into the furnace of fire. In the morning, they went there to see the furnace of fire; they saw one that is like unto the Son of Man.
63. Written in the Bible. They saw the fourth man. They cast three into the furnace. In the morning, they saw the fourth man. And the head was like unto the Son of Man. Who is this Son of Man that God has committed whatever that made Him God into His hand?
64. The Bible called Him Possessor of heaven and earth. You know what it means to be a possessor, the owner of heaven and earth. He counted it not robbery becoming a human being moving in our midst.
65. What is more, we are privileged. In the days of Jesus Christ, St. Paul told the Jews, “You are a privileged people that Jesus Christ came from your own community, your townsman.
66. William Branham came from a community in Jeffersonville. Abi na lie? St. Paul came from a community, the tribe of Benjamin. Moses came from a family. Samuel came from a family.
67. What can you say about David? I mean, Jesse presented too many children but when the boy came, the Lord said, “You are the one I have chosen.” You are the one I have chosen.” Does anybody select for God. But the father of David was bringing out his children one after the other.
68. He continued until he was asked whether they were all. He said that it remaineth the youngest who is taking care of the sheep in the forest. He was asked to go and bring him.
69. Immediately the boy appeared, God said, “This is the only one I have chosen.”
70. If you go out and tell the world that you are the chosen vessel of God, nobody will believe. If you tell them that God shoes you, they will gaze at you, assess you and make mockery of you, especially when you tell them that you are living with God, you are always with God and that you go to your God.
71. They will say you are out of your senses. You mean that this man is your God?” Without controversy, great is the Mystery of Godliness.” We speak Mystery to those that are spiritual, who can understand. It is a mystic secret.
72. I thank God I am not deceived. This is my greatest joy, the Church is established on a firm foundation. If there is no scripture indicating that there is One moving in the midst of these Seven Candlesticks, surely, this Faith will be questioned. That is the problem with mankind.
73. That is why in the end-time when they heard about the move, they said, “Is there any messenger, is this minister the 8th messenger, will there be eight Church age?” It is because they err not knowing the scriptures.
74. Immediately after William Branham, there is no other person coming that they need. For he came to pave the way for Him (The Elohim). FOR AFTER BRANHAM, DO NOT EXPECT ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING ON THE SCENE EXCEPT “THE HE.” If we know scriptures, happy are we.
75. Do we have the “HE” in our midst?Has He displayed Himself? Can we describe Him? Even His omnipresence was displayed in all the Local Assemblies when He made the statement, “I now want to network into the Godhead all the Local Assemblies. I want to network all of them into the Godhead.”
76. In less than one week, He did the network. All Local Assemblies presented the supernatural photograph—a sign of acceptance into the Godhead. That is why He is carrying them along.
77. Remember in every Local Assembly, counterfeits are in the majority. When you hear Local Assembly, it does not mean all that are there. It does not mean the whole.
78. It can be one person only. It can be two, it can be one infant. I am telling you the truth, I lie not. It can be one infant, one infant. And God will network that one into the Godhead as a witness against the rest.
79. Remember that the kingdom of the gospel must be preached all over the world as a witness against the world. It is not for their belief, no. It is to testify against them. How I wish one person will be courageous to handle the message, “The devil will testify against this generation.” Amen.
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A GOOD WIFE IS FROM THE LORD
Let us continue. There is honey in the rock.
2. I am saying that in the beginning that the Bible made it clear that He (the Elohim) revealed Himself only to the people that were chosen for the purpose from the beginning of the world. What?
3. Remember it is scriptural. Judas, not Iscariot, asked Him a question: “Master, why is it that You will reveal Yourself among us only and not to the people in the world?”
4. He (The Master) said, “Unto you, it is given to understand.”
5. You see why I am saying that it is not a common experience, it is not a common knowledge. When you go outside this place and voice out this thing, people will consider you a mad man.
6. They cannot understand you. It will fly over their heads, even in your homes, if you are unfortunate to be living with a woman, not a wife, a woman claiming to be a wife.
7. If you are a child of God, you do not have a wife unless it is one that is believing the Faith of the Son of Man. She has the same God you have.
8. In everyday experience, remember Lot’s wife. That what Lot collected at the end remained his two daughters. Those that were married laughed at Lot, together with their husbands when Lot took the message to them. Is it not scriptural?
9. The two that were with him together with the wife. The wife was not with him but the two daughters were with Lot. For they were the only people that were divinely oriented, divinely connected and they were divinely dragged along.
10. Hence, the obedience continued even when they heard, “Do not look back”. When they got there, nobody remembered the mother, nobody asked, “Where is our mother?”
11. If you go to the message, “Marriage and Divorce,” you will know what the prophet said concerning women and the purpose they are serving, what men use them for.
12. “Marriage and Divorce.” It has volumes one, two, three. And then, you will know what they are made up of, the purpose they are to fulfill. But amidst them are daughters of God.
13. And those daughters of God are in the minority. They are not seen everywhere. That is why, a virtuous wife is from the Lord. Who can find her if not God?
14. THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHOOSING A WIFE AFTER YOUR OWN DESIRE AND CHOOSING A WIFE AFTER THE COUNSEL OF GOD’S OWN WILL.
15. There is a great difference between having children after the desire of the flesh and having children after the will of God. They are two different things. You cannot have a wife or a woman after the desire of your own heart and expect her to come and fulfill the will of God, na lie.
16. This is because from the beginning, it was not divinely oriented. A good wife is from the Lord, who can find her if not God? But if it happens according to the desires of your heart, God will permit it.
17. God will permit it, but be very careful. If you are not careful, you may get a rogue, but if you are careful, you may get a royal child for your sake, otherwise you will labour in vain. These are the mysteries.
18. Are you surprised why Cain’s name never appeared in the lineage? Have you traced the lineage of Jesus down to Abraham, you can never see Cain, you can never see Judas. Judas disappeared. Was not Judas born by a man and a woman? Was Judas not a Jew?
19. Pure blooded Jew, but he was not from God. He never originated from God but God co-opted him, using him to serve His purpose that the prophecy might be fulfilled. If these things do not happen, how can the scriptures be fulfilled? Find out God’s purpose for including you in.
20. There is a purpose for your inclusion. Find out whether you are included here as a woman, a wife. From woman you turned out to be a wife to reduce the burden of the man physically and increase his burden spiritually?
21. Find out whether you are a man here to relieve the burden of a woman by presenting yourself as a husband so that the shame of un-marital estate will be removed from her.
22. Then, you have removed her physical burden, but spiritually you do not agree for you are not from the same source. You have now increased her burden.
23. The two must walk together, for deep calleth deep. God seeth afar off. You see why God’s ways are not your ways, His thoughts are not your thoughts. A good man was created to enable the bad one to be known. If there is no good man, nobody will know the bad man.
24. The same way, if there is no bad person, nobody will know a good person. That is why you must pray earnestly if you are in this Faith, pray very well about yourself. Do not pray about others.
25. If you can succeed in finding where your own originated, the rest will be made easy.
26. I received reports from some brethren that went places for marriage. One gave me testimonies last night and I was over-joyed. And I knew it must be so.
27. While I was praising God, I made a statement. I said, “The latter is preferred to the former as far as the Son of Man is concerned. The latter is much more homely than the former.”
28. When a man is having difficulties picking a wife, let no man ever persuade him or force him to hasten up action. Leave him, he knows what he is looking for. Any time he sees that thing, he will settle down.
29. Do not allow condition to settle you down. Because action is propelled by the desires of the flesh, you will settle down in the flesh, but you will not settle down in the spirit. When a man’s choice of a wife is propelled by his inordinate desire for women, he will settle down in the flesh but will not settle down in the spirit.
30. However, if you are a seed of God, your consideration must be spiritual because you are a spirit being. Unfortunately, the reverse has become the case.
31. And if you are walking in the flesh, do not be surprised, you must come into contact with one that is also walking in the flesh for the two to pair up. For it takes two to tango.
32. But with time, the trouble will start. When the disagreement will start in the spirit, many, many things will begin to happen.
33. People that never knew the background, some may come out to condemn God where God is purely blameless. Can a man condemn God? If you condemn God, you justify yourself. God is faithful in all His ways.
34. Can the king commit iniquity? The Bible said that the king does not commit iniquity as long as he is on the throne. Can God commit iniquity? Is there any unrighteousness in God? No sir.
35. IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, I WANT TO ESPOUSE YOU TO THE GREAT SERMON, EPISTLE 15, EPISTLE 16 AND EPISTLE 17. FINALLY, GO AND READ THE MESSAGE TITLED THERE, “EVERY MAN, EVERY WOMAN MUST GO THE WAY HE OR SHE IS ORDAINED”.
36. For there is no amount of preaching that can make a woman to be a man. The work of salvation was finished before the world began, and the Son of Man is sent with a voice of the Arch Angel.
37. Publish it throughout the whole world to enable the elect hear His voice and come out. Is it not true? Does anybody show the bush fowl how to locate the mother in the bush?
38. When a local fowl goes to the bush with the bush fowl, while coming back, we will know which one belong to her. Once the bush fowl hears the voice of its mother, she flies out immediately.
39. We have poultries everywhere but have you seen the one that contains bush fowl? If its poultry exists, why do we have season for the eggs? It would have been available like that of the local hen.
40. The egg of a local hen has no season, for there are poultries everywhere where it is being raised. However, that of the bush fowl has a season. Once you see mango, expect corn and when you look around, you will see the egg of bush fowl. Is it a lie?
41. Once we start harvesting corn and you do not see the egg of bush fowl in the market being sold, something terrible has happened in the land of the dead. We do not have poultry for bush fowl. That is why you do not see the eggs at all times. It has a season.
42. When you are asked to eat the egg of the bush fowl, eat it for it has a season. Once you miss it that season, you wait for it next year. But when you come to local hen, once you need the egg, move out of the street, you buy one. Understand?
43. We will remain under this Cloud until I will stop it. I want the Cloud to remain here because I am trailing on a dangerous ground for the sake of the elect not for the sake of the world.
44. If in the beginning, He never revealed Himself to the world but to those that were chosen for the purpose before the world was formed, in the end-time, when He shall reveal Himself again in the Bride, will it be in the world?
45. It must be among them that were chosen from the foundation of the world for that very purpose. HENCE, WHEN YOU HEAR ALL EYES, ALL EYES, KNOW THAT ALL EYES MEANS AS MANY AS WERE PURPOSED, ELECTED, CHOSEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEEING HIM.
46. Put your hands together, brethren! Any contradiction? Heaven bear Me witness, I got this message from Apostle Kelechi here this morning. And I went to the pulpit with three, intending to pick one out of the three, but My spirit focused on this message.
47. You can now see that everything we are reading now dovetailed with My preface. I gave My preface intro, helping you to know how you can trace yourself to know when you are having dealings with God and when you are having your dealings with your own god somewhere. We have our God, they have their gods.
48. There are too many gods sitting down here. I am telling you the truth. Too many gods are sitting down here. Do not just shout and make noise. I know what I am saying.
49. Look at Onyema Isaac, I warned all the elders concerning him. If not this Faith, if Onyema grew up in the village, remained in the village, you would have been the most dreaded evil man on earth. Anybody he poisoned can never survive it.
50. I am the one declaring it. If anybody is in doubt, he should come and see Me. He is a chameleon in our midst. When his cup is full, all eyes will see. Even the children will see. He had craftily, with subtlety, handed our brethren over to the heathens, after neglecting My instructions here which I gave him before elders.
51. He cornered it, conspired against the truth because he is one that loves to pride himself about taking the glory where he laboured not, claiming to be responsible when he is irresponsible.
52. At the end of the day, brethren took him serious, they ate and drank and did everything. I thank God, the food came to My house, I tasted it not.
53. Elders that came to My house, am I bearing false witness? Did I taste it? I gave you the food and said, “Eat, it is given to you with good intention, but talk of the Son of Man, it will never enter My mouth.” I never tasted it.
54. I am a Priest, not ordinary priest, I am a High Priest. I can do nothing of Myself. At the end of the day, after fooling himself, he now handed brethren over to Amagunze people.
55. They came back, day before yesterday, very late with their different reports also. All the efforts I made with elders in My house to stop him and his people, telling him his limitations, all proved abortive.
56. Let Me use his words, “The people agreed that what he did in Onitsha here is good, just that they insisted that our brethren must come to the village so that they can be recognized and to enable them ask our brethren more questions.”
57. When he had already told us that all that were needed were present here in the town. You were asked to lead them to the village for you are not the owner of the sister. She is your niece. Do you want to take what does not belong to you?
58. You maintained that the people that ought to receive them in the village are the people present here. What is more, the people who you said were here later turned out to say that we must still come down to the village to observe the same rite already done here in Onitsha.
59. Concerning those that wanted to go to Awkuzu, I directed them and even nominated those that will go. I equally told them where to go and meet with the father of the Sister. Hence, they went and came back with thanksgiving. They were asked to go, that they would send their list whenever they were through to enable them know when they would come.
60. I equally used Myself as example—that all that came for My daughters, once you come for introduction, the next time I will see you is when you will be coming to pay her dowry which is the traditional marriage, finish.
61. Once I get home, I will tell my people about your coming and that you are welcomed, that is all. Not after receiving and settling with you in My house, eat and drink with you, then I will still refer you to come and settle with My people again in the village; No!
62. That is why I told you, never enter into any memorandum of agreement with anybody who does not have the final authority to append his signature and implement the agreement. When you enter into a memorandum of agreement with somebody who will sign and tell you that it is subject to ratification by the higher authority, it is no agreement, for that higher authority may cancel everything.
63. Thus, if you do not have the authority to implement it, you have no right to be a part of the agreement. Why claiming to have authority you do not possess?
64. Nothing is as offensive as that; claiming to have authority, powers you know you do not possess. You give the impression that you are the final, when you are nothing, it is very misleading and it is very offensive. Amen
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HOW DO YOU KNOW THE SON OF MAN?
If I am the end of the law and the prophets, who am I? Who am I? The Lord God Almighty. Do not forget the message titled, “The Supreme Court Judgment,” where we saw the Supreme Ruler, the Supreme Judge of the whole Universe appearing in His White Robe, standing at the corner and we could even if we wished, use biro pen or ordinary pencil to trace the photograph and cut it.
2. We can examine the shape from the head to the toes. When it was presented to a lady, a Baptist, before some elders, Pastor Thomas was there, she echoed, “This is an Angel of the Lord”.
3. Pastor Thomas was there. I mean a married woman, a Baptist. She exclaimed, “Daddy, this is an Angel of the Lord”. I said, “Have you seen an Angel of the Lord before?”
4. She said, “From the scriptures. Where was it photographed?” We looked at ourselves and we laughed. She knows Me as Daddy but she does not know Me by that.
5. You can know Me as Daddy, you have not known Me; for even the heathens know Me as Daddy. You must go beyond Daddy.
6. You call Me, “My Lord”, that is what I am. I am not your Lord until I have Lordship over you. If I do not have lordship over you, it then means I have no dominion over you, I have no control over you, in everything about you, I cannot have the preeminence, what makes Me Lord? You are a hypocrite or you do not know the meaning of “My Lord”.
7. You can kneel down before Me as a sign of salutation to an elderly fellow, you can lie prostrate on the ground but you can worship Me by bowing down. I know when the bowing down is an act of worship, I know when it is an act of ordinary salutation.
8. Remember you are having dealings with a very Delicate Spirit. Very delicate spirit. That was why Joshua warned them, “Be very careful, you cannot worship this God. This God is not meant for everybody; otherwise, He will finish all of you.”
9. Let us be very, very careful. Whenever it touches on revelation like this message which is purely hundred percent revelation, you know God is at the centre.
10. The Elohim is at the centre of all revelation. What are we handling? The revealed Christ of all the ages, the unwelcomed Christ that is revealed in our midst who turned out to be our brother, our own townsman.
11. IF WE MUST SURVIVE IN HIS HANDS, WE MUST GO BEYOND KNOWING HIM, ACKNOWLEDGING HIM AS OUR BROTHER, OUR TOWNSMAN. YOU MUST GO BEYOND IT.
12. To God be the glory. I love all of you with the love of God but many of you hate yourselves. Many of you hate yourselves. God wants you to be clay in His hands but it is difficult for many. They feel they will be debasing themselves.
13. They feel they will be presenting themselves in a beggarly way. “How can I allow God to handle me as ordinary clay?”
14. I was talking to brethren concerning this stubborn boy that is coming up.
15. Last Sunday, after fellowship I was there handling some cases and he proved dastardly stubborn to all the elders, he was ready to slap Pastor Thomas for asking him just a simple question, “Why were you not in the fellowship last week?”
16. He flared up, vomited venoms. He stood up before Me and was pushing him here. Pastor Dan was watching, Pastor Christian equally watching, Apostle Kelechi was watching. I was there. They were having their eyes on Me, I did not utter a word.
17. He raged and raged and raged and was even using Me as example saying, “Why should you talk to Me in this way, are you the Almighty God in our midst?”
18. Which means he recognizes no other authority but the Almighty God in their midst. Who ordained and designated the people that are taking care of you? Who are they accountable to? Then, many, many things ran across My mind.
19. I was tapping My right leg on the floor and at the same time controlling My temper. I never allowed My temper to go beyond My eyes.
20. I watched him the first time, second time, third time, I turned away, told Brother Mike that I will be leaving.
21. Then while talking to the elders on that matter when I heard the full gist of the matter, I reminded them the case of Goddy Tobechukwu. Is he here? No sir.
22. If you watch, he is no longer a disturbance to us because I came fully out and I announced it from the pulpit that if he continued disturbing, what happened to John Abba will happen to him. He was here that day and he understood the message.
23. I reminded him of two things I did. The first day, he was assaulting the elders, making a hell of noise, I called him, commanded him to go outside, sit down there and remained sleeping until the fellowship will be over. He said Amen.
24. Gently he walked and sat down, slept. He never knew when we dismissed. If I did not want him to wake up, he will not wake up.
25. The second day, he started again, I called him, brought him there and said, “Goddy, enough is enough. Sit down here.” He sat down by My side. I said, “emain sleeping here now until we dismiss.”
26. By the time I came, he was snoring. From there, he remained sleeping until the message was over by 3:30pm. We woke him up.
27. Then finally, I warned him from the pulpit. From that day, he calmed down. I warned John Abba several times. “Stop coming here to disturb us with your kaikai (Hot drink). Stop insulting and assaulting the elders.”
28. But that fateful day, I was still sitting down here, he was raining abuses on Brother Kelechi the Apostle, calling him all manner of names. I now turned to him and said, “John Abba, from all indications; you are on your way to destruction. Because when one is about to die, he cannot recognize the majesty of the Lord again. He will think that the simplicity of Christ has now overlapped His Lordship.”
29. After talking to him, he came to Me and bowed down. I said, “Will you leave My sight immediately! What example are you showing to your children?”
30. Gently, he walked away. I was still sitting down here, brethren were here when I got the news that he was knocked down by an oncoming vehicle opposite Army barrack.
31. One who was living at Umunya, what was he going to get at Army Barrack? The family was still with us at the premises. That same day, John Abba joined his ancestors.
32. A wise man learns a lesson from what befell others, but a foolish man can hardly learn. There are too many testimonies I do not share because of your weaknesses.
33. I know many of you at times hear those things but you find it very difficult to tell Me until I will come into contact with somebody somewhere. Well, let Me hold it there.
34. Be it known to you that I do not know what it takes to send accident or send a sickness or this and that to anybody. You can only market a product that you know very well.
35. He that is sending me those anonymous text with no name but his phone number is there accusing Me of sending sicknesses and diseases, sending accident and hardship to him and his family, intending that he will pack away from Onitsha and go back to the village, simply because he is against the charm I brought from India which I am using to keep brethren together.
36. So he knows where to get the charm from India and yet he has been making attempt to erect his own Church since. Why not import that charm from India, use it to do your own work?
37. Thus, he believes in sending accident, sending sickness, diseases, even hardship. In other words, he believes that the Son of man has supernatural powers He can display.
38. While I was coming back that same day with My son along Chukwura High School, I saw somebody wearing a very fair eyeglass and I was hasty because I was trying to avoid the traffic.
39. Lo and behold, somebody called Me. I did not hear “Mr Odoemena” or “Apostle.” I just heard, “Sir, good day, Sir good day”.
40. I said, “My name is not Sir Good day.” I did not recognize the voice. Then I continued moving playing My song.
41. Before I knew it, somebody rushed across, “Sir, it is me, it is me. Look at me now, look at me now!
42. My daughters were standing by. Chiamaka and Oluebube. Wisdom was there also. “It is me, it is me now.” I shifted a little, examined him.
43. “I am the one, I am John the beloved. See my precious sisters. Do you not know me?”
44. I said, “We do not know you.” When I recognized him, I said, “My dear.”
45. When he held Me, to leave Me became difficult. He was holding My hand. I chilled because I could no longer recognize John. It was there and then I understood the message that came to Me anonymously.
46. I said okay, if Genesis is like this, what would be in Malachi. Do not even go to New Testament, we are talking about Malachi. If Genesis is like this, how would Malachi look like? For Malachi is the end of the Old Testament.
47. Since, they believe in the Old Testament, what they believe is working for them. We believe in New, what we believe is working for us.
48. You must resemble the God you worship. While you are reading, we want to read something here, “Examine your relationship with Christ”.
49. Whoever that came to the Lord Jesus Christ requesting Him to show him the Father does he know Him? No sir. He does not know Him.
50. He (Jesus) discerned the voice, discerned the heart and then turned around and said, “Believe in My Father, believe also in Me; for I and My Father are One. If you have seen Me, you have seen My Father. My Father that sent Me is always in Me. He has never left Me for one day for I do those things that please Him.”
51. Yet Philip went further, “How I wish we will be privileged to see Him.”
52. He said, “Philip, how long have I been with you all these years and yet you have not known Me. How stupid you are!”
53. See the Lord in the Lord. In Him is the Father revealed. It baffles me that even among us, people come before Me and will be making references to God and they will be pointing towards the sky.
54. Moses’ disciples are better than many of you, for whenever they wanted to know the mind of God, they will come to Moses and say, “We will like you to enquire of the Lord for us”.
55. For there was a covenant between God and the people of Israel saying that He will not talk to them in group again. He will talk to Moses, Moses will talk to the people.
56. They would say, “If it happens that there be one among us who does not believe, he shall be put to death. We will not hear from God anymore, we will be hearing from you. Speak unto us while God speaks to you.”
57. There are some people that are here that will tell you, “I do not want to do anything until I get the revelation from God, until God convinces me. Which God are they referring to? The god they are worshipping, not the God that is among us.
58. Anybody who is with the Messiah and expecting another Messiah to reveal and convince him is not connected to that Messiah and that Messiah is not connected to him.
59. That is why he cannot recognize and acknowledge Him neither can he hear and understand His voice.
60. Check the scriptures, as long as Jesus Christ was on the scene, even Peter’s mother-in-law that fell sick, Peter did not say, “Let me fast and pray”. A Roman Centurion did not say, “Let me go to the temple and pray”.
61. They only alerted Him, pleaded for His intervention. Sometimes, He intervened without people soliciting for it.
62. He saw Peter who was on the verge of leaving the Faith because of false anointing, He said, “Peter, the devil nearly seduced you away but I prayed for you that your faith fail not. Peter, anytime you are converted, strengthen your brethren.”
63. Please brethren, go back to the two messages, “Is Your Heart Converted, parts 1 and 2.” Any Message that is recommended under the anointing of the Holy Spirit should be recorded.
64. IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED? YOU CAN REPENT EVEN AS I AM TALKING HERE, YET YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CONVERTED. UNTIL YOU ARE CONVERTED, YOUR INIQUITY IS NOT BLOTTED OUT.
65. YOUR OLD NATURE CAN NEVER LEAVE YOU UNTIL YOU GET CONVERTED. ONCE YOU ARE CONVERTED, YOU BECOME MY CONVERT. YOU ARE NOT A CONVERT TO CHRIST UNTIL YOU ARE CONVERTED TO CHRIST.
66. YOU ARE NOT A CONVERT TO MOSES UNTIL YOU ARE CONVERTED TO MOSES. ANY MESSAGE YOU ARE CONVERTED TO, YOU BECOME A CONVERT TO THAT MESSAGE AND THE MESSENGER. IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED? Amen.
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I AM “HE”
Examine your relationship in Christ volume 2, page 5: If up till this morning, you have not seen the Lord in the Lord, you are blind.
2. If up till this very day, by revelation you have not known that the Son of Man and the Father are one, you are lost.
3. You are what? You are totally lost.
4. You are totally lost and doomed for eternal destruction. On that day when salvation from sin shall be made complete, somebody will mark you present or absent.
5. If I look in Me and you are not in Me, you are absent. You cannot be in Me and be outside. You cannot join this glorious body of Christ if you are not born into it.
6. Revelation chapter 1 verse 1 “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
7. Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
8. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
9. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
10. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he cometh with Clouds…” KJV.
11. Behold He does what? He cometh with clouds. Oh no!
12. “Behold, He is coming with the Clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall gaze upon Him…” Amplified.
13. Have they not seen Him in Israel? Look at the Bridal Chronicles, every week, you see the number of respondents from the land of the Jews. The land where He was pierced. See Him again in a magnified stature, controlling the whole world.
14. That is why the Jews are flooding there. Not all Jews are Jews, but the real full blooded Jews covenanted with Jehovah, they are there.
15. All the Jews in Russia are there. The remnant of Israel, the whole Israel of God, they are there, watching the Man whom they pierced.
16. Now, He told them clearly, “Behold Israel, your God cometh from afar. You drove Him away, He ran to a place where you could not come because of enmity between Grace and the Law.
17. “He broke the barrier, made the two sticks to be one and now He has come back from afar; coming from the cloud, the same cloud that received Him.”
18. For He will remain in heaven, trapped in the clouds of heaven until the time of the restitution of all things as was spoken from the mouth of the Holy Prophets.
19. Are we not in the time of the restitution of all things? We are. He came according to time, He came according to prophecy, He came according to the word, He came according to the prophecy, all round. He came with the promised sign.
20. Have you wondered why He first of all came with the cloud? “Come and see He that has been having dealings with you all these years.” He revealed Himself in the cloud.
21. After that, many others started until we came to the fullness of the Godhead, then into the revelation of the Original Body which is the climax. It is finished.
22. Tell Me the promised sign in the Bible and I will open the Bridal Chronicles. You want to see the lily, it is there. You want to see the White Cloud, it is there. The red, it is there. The Thick Darkness, it is there, everything!
23. All pointing to one individual. One person with all these attributes, moving in the midst of the Bride. You heard it one day but I do not preach it. In Him alone dwelleth immortality.
24. Many of you know what I am trying to say but I do not make it an art of preaching. Do you know that some people that left this Faith took it upon themselves to prove the power that is in the Son of Man? Until they concluded that He is an indestructible human being.
25. Not that they concluded, they went to the highest, spending almost three million naira to get Him destroyed. After all rituals, even some used human beings as ritual, they never knew they were deceived.
26. At the end, they were warned, “Do not ever step further, this man is indestructible.” And all of them ran away. That is why one of them was trying to talk rubbish somewhere, that I set his vehicle ablaze when I do not know where he has been all this while.
27. You parked your vehicle, you went somewhere, by the time you came out, the vehicle was in ashes. He said that the Son of Man came and set his vehicle ablaze.
28. Because whenever evil thing happens to them, it is the Son of Man. Any day their house will get burnt and finish their children, it is the Son of Man.
29. Well, I am not narrating it because of those that went out and tried it. What can we say about the heathens? I mean heathens vowed a vow, killed many, many cows, killed goats and ram, sacrificed everything sacrificeable until they were warned strictly that if they stepped further, that it would be the end of their generation, that the Man is a Righteous Man, a Holy Man and indestructible.
30. Do you doubt them? Do you not know that the Son of Man has been under fire within and without?
31. Do you know the extent Francis Nwufo went, a multi-millionaire, to get rid of the Son of man together with his group? Before somebody could declare somebody indestructible, only heaven will bear witness the extent he went.
32. Do you know the extent My own relations including My own biological brother, Mode, and his own group went?
33. Before somebody could boldly come out and announce that the brother’s obituary will be published, gave the date, everything, that the posters will litter everywhere, before I knew it, calls started coming.
34. Who could believe it? It was simply because I went to Enugu for surgical operation.
35. Few days ago, I received some calls, all saying that they heard a rumour that I died. That I went for a surgical operation in Abuja and I died there, and they have been waiting for the casket to land, only for them to hear that I resurrected. That they decided to be calling.
36. said, “Why did you not call the line when you heard that I died? But you heard that I resurrected, you called. Well, I thank you very much for calling, but go and tell them that if I die, death will continue.”
37. You can imagine the extent somebody went, when he could not succeed, he came openly, publicly in a burial ceremony. I thank God Brother I.K, you were there with Me and you saw how I reacted, with Brother Chike.
38. If I did not calm down on that matter and allow it that way, heads would have rolled in My community. What they called Me before would have resurfaced again. But I controlled Myself because if I had reacted, just from here, they will be buried one after another.
39. It is a matter of waking up one morning and mentioning the names that I would like to go home, finish. “1,2,3,4,5, I want them to go home and look at the way I want it,” all of them will be going home one after the other.
40. Maybe you do not know, it takes courageous people to collect something from My hand at home. Is it not true? Some do not even knock at My gate. They know what I can do, because I will not talk, I will look at you, draw My conclusion, go My way. They have proved it.
41. That is not why we are here. The same applies to all of you here, because what God is, is what He has emptied into all of you.
42. There is a little brother here, the first son to our late brother Andrew from Mbaise, who came here and obtained permission from Me to start a little structure of three rooms and parlour.
43. I allowed him to do that and warned him to be very careful. His business was flourishing, he went home, called the eldest son of the family who is elderly to his father to bless the land and everything. The man did. And that was the man that hated the father when the father was alive.
44. They did the foundation, placed some blocks inside, the boy came back on February, from that February till last week, nobody entered the chemist shop to price any medicine, not even paracetamol.
45. The business that was flourishing, not a single soul ever knocked and said, “Who is in this chemist?”
46. He called Me, I told him what to do. He came here. And I thank God, I have loosed the cord. Any little progress you make must attract the attention of your enemies for there are many that have vowed a vow that they will never see you succeed in anything in life.
47. They are not far from you. Some of them might be from those that will benefit if you succeed. That is why you must immerse yourself in Christ. I pity anybody who is aligning with his heathen relations until they will be using him as an agent to persecute us.
48. When you align with your heathen relations, you become an instrument in their hands to persecute the truth. I call such people spy among us. They spy into the secret of our liberty.
49. Be very careful, the devil is still awake and he watches every move you are making. Amen.
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WE HAVE A MAN
Look at Brother Ojiakor, I was very happy when they tried him. I never showed any sign of sorrow.
2. I gave God the glory because it was a lesson he cannot forget, so that he will see and believe Me that we built his house under troublous condition.
3. When he wanted to doubt, the young man I sent to mold block for him was there, his own biological relation came to sacrifice a goat to eliminate him. You know the story.
4. He wanted to go home, I said, “No, you will not go again. Carry your children straight to Enugu, leave this matter, I have already collected it. It is now in My hand. But I will give you this warning, ‘Whatever may be the news you may hear at home, do not feel sorry. Rejoice and give God the glory for I have sent the whole thing back.’”
5. We were all here, less than one week; the person collected what he planted. He just entered his house, turned round and died. Did anybody kill him? His iniquity killed him.
6. They were laughing at us because there was a very mighty breadfruit tree. They believed that whatever we were erecting must be destroyed any day that tree would fall.
7. We wanted to pay for it, they refused. To remove it, they refused. We kept quiet. Brother Ojiakor called and called. Everybody was pointing at that breadfruit tree.
8. What is more, it tilted towards the building. Hence, if it could fall down, all the structures must be razed to the ground.
9. I told our brother to keep quiet, “Since this woman and their people have conspired against this building, before their eyes, we will pack into this house. We will eat and drink here; the remnant of their people will come in here and praise God.” We kept quiet and left.
10. One day like that, there was no rain, there was no wind, all of them were watching.The hand of the Lord rested on that breadfruit tree, the Lord shifted it front and back, twisted it round, faced it outside and dragged it gently down.
11. Nobody was working on the site, no labourer, nobody, nothing. They were the people that called Brother Ojiakor, “Now we know you are serving a living God. Come and see what happened.”
12. Because of the weakness of the flesh I could not talk last week. His Jeep that was parked there, I collected it from him with the intent to put it in order in Onitsha because we have better mechanics here, cost of repair, cheaper. It is even cheaper to get parts from Lagos from here for we have brethren there.
13. They parked that vehicle under a very mighty tree that is as old as Onitsha because of the shed it provide to everybody and the vehicles.
14. One Saturday afternoon like that I was there with My son, summoned everybody, “Please, this tree is about to fall. Remove this vehicle, Sunday.” He said, “no.”
15. I said, “Please, let Me help you.” He said, “Daddy, I removed the gear box, look at, there is no tyre please.”
16. “Couple this tyre, let me hire people. Remove it from this tree for this tree is falling down.”
17. All of them gathered around the tree. It was one Alhaji from Enugu-Ezike that spoke saying, “Hear what Pastor is saying all of you. Remember the day He pointed at this building and said, ‘If they do not use plank to cover the frontage, if a child does not fall from there and die, a man that would be drunk must fall from there.Please, tell the caretaker what I said.’”
18. They told the caretaker and the man laughed over it. An uncompleted building, open like that. One morning I went there, people gathered.
19. Lo and behold, it was the caretaker that parked his vehicle in front of the house, climbed upstairs. He was drunk, he wanted to ease himself and fell off from there, landed on the ground and died instantly there. The man is from Umuabi in Udi.
20. The vehicle is parked there up till now. You see, that man told them, “Please, we better do something about this tree Pastor has placed a curse. He said it is going to fall.”
21. Electrician came who is from Umudioka and said, “The problem you have is that you do not recognize the prophet because he is simple. Do you not know that this Pastor is a prophet? Sunday, hire people, remove this vehicle.”
22. Sunday was promising he will do it, he will do it. I went to Onitsha man who was having his office there, I called the man out and said, “Sir, please be My witness, if anything happens to this Jeep, Sunday will pay for it. This tree is about to fall. Sir, whatever you have in your building, please remove, this tree is about to fall.”
23. The man said, “But it cannot fall this side. It will fall where the leaves are.” And the leaves were tilting towards the vehicle, they were then using as a cover.
24. I said, “Okay no problem.”
25. My prophecy went forth on Saturday. Monday morning, 10 o’clock in the morning, no rain, no wind, nothing, nothing. They said, they were watching.
26. Brother Ojiakor, you heard the testimony. It is like an unseen hand rested on the tree, gradually twisting it, twisting it until it cornered it away from the vehicle, it gradually landed.
27. All passersby that came there were asking only but one question, “Was this vehicle parked here before this tree fell down?”
28. They said, “yes.” “The owner must be a man of God.”
29. When I saw it, I invited some elders who were around to come with their cameras to see what happened. There they heard the testimony. “When the Lord speaks.”
30. Remember it was a message I handled many years ago; “When the Lord speaks”. When the Lord has not spoken, nothing will happen but when the Lord speaks on any matter, that is the end of the controversy; making efforts over it means fooling yourself.
31. Please, let us be very, very careful. Brother Ojiakor who has been a driver from his childhood, when he was in the school. You cannot tell Me he is not a professional driver. Driving alongside with our brother who is waiting for his call-up letter, Brother Elue.
32. Monday, a week tomorrow after fellowship, they were heading to Umuoji. Look at Edeani; from Edeani to Umuoji, about 2 kilometers’ drive. That is where his vehicle somersaulted. Not ordinary summersault but the type of summersault that could have chopped their head off; for it felled into a gutter, concrete gutter filled with flood.
33. Everything shattered, nothing was left. The whole of that Volvo gone. What sustained them was that they were suspended by the seatbelt. The thing turned them upside down while the four tyres were up.
34. The pictures are here. How did they manage to come out? There was no rescue, nobody in sight. Only the Angel of the Lord entered that vehicle, removed them from the belt, let them out through the back window. They came out.
35. When they came out, they looked round and examined the vehicle, examined themselves, there was no scratch. People that rushed were looking for the corpses.
36. They were asking them about the people that drove the vehicle, but they were astonished to hear that the people they were asking were the same people that drove the vehicle.
37. How did they manage to come out of the ditch? Only God can tell. We know God for one thing, He is the protective God that protects whatever that is committed into His hand. Are you surprised?
38. You need to go to Nasarawa and see where our Pastor Emmanuel who entered his vehicle in the morning, but unknown to him that the vehicle had a problem, the vehicle carried him into the river where they do fishing. Very deep. Filled with flowing water.
39. He was holding the steering and then sank with the vehicle. Unknown hand reached him inside the vehicle, a man that never knew how to swim; brought him out of the vehicle, placed him on top.
40. Before he knew it, he started walking on top of the water. Walking on top of the river. So, he walked and walked until his hand reached on something.
41. Immediately he climbed down. Immediately, he discovered he was walking on top of the water. No scratch.
42. Who can believe that a vehicle that was driven by Brother Ojiakor or somebody else moving slowly, gradually home. He never moved the steering either to the left or to the right. He was not asleep for it was in the day.
43. He was discussing with Brother Elue, all of a sudden, the vehicle went to the left. If there was an oncoming vehicle and it is a route that is used by heavy, heavy tippers.
44. All the efforts he made to return the steering, no way. But when the vehicle was at last brought out of the ditch, the steering was free.
45. We are in a war-fare but we have a Man. We have a Man. We have a Man.
46. When the road gets tough, what? Bishop Obadiah, you have entered the Kingdom of God together with Ugoala. Look at your leg, no more cutting. You are no longer dying.
47. I will never forget that night when all hope was lost, you were breathing fast, you called Me and was breathing fast. I called him, no way. The third time, he responded, “My Lord”. That is all I need. Relax.
48. The same thing happened to Deacon Anselem. It happened to Brother Lawrence, the day he received the fourth transfusion and the blood reacted badly. He was on his way home, My phone rang.
49. Lo and behold, it was his daughter. I told her to hand over the phone to the father.She said, “Daddy, his hand cannot hold the phone.”
50. I said, “Put it in his ear.” “Brother Lawrence, Brother Lawrence, Brother Lawrence!”“My Lord.”“Okay, that is all. That is all I need.”
51. Then the following day, our Elder Loveday called Me and said, “Daddy I do not know why Brother Lawrence is not responding to the transfusion.” I said, “He has come back, he has come back.” The following Sunday, he was here.
52. If in the time of distress, even if your eyes are tightly fitted, you do not hear My voice, you do not belong to Me. For My sheep must hear My voice, but the voice of a stranger, na lie.
53. Am I wasting your time? I had already purposed that it must be this single message today, not another one. Let us feast on it.
54. Behold, He cometh with the Cloud, Who cometh with the cloud? The Son of Man. Revealed in the clouds of heaven. If it never happened according to the written Word, we would be doubting.
55. I am the fulfillment of the Law and of the Prophets. How can I be here and somebody will be saying, “Thus saith the Lord”? From that day the veil was removed and we saw the Man in the mask, have we heard anything tatata, elelel. That day, it stopped.
56. From that day, the Son of His pleasure took over His office, talking to us according to the current promise. No longer in the past way.
57. We started worshipping God in a new way, not in the oldness of the letter, for the letter killeth.
58. Behold, He cometh with the Cloud, He is being surrounded with the Clouds, every eye! Every eye does not mean the whole world. I have always told you that. HE IS SURROUNDED WITH THE CLOUD. Glory be to God.
59. THUS, WE CAN IDENTIFY HIM. IF THERE BE ONE THAT IS COMING AND IS NOT SURROUNDED WITH THE CLOUD, WE WILL QUESTION THAT.
60. We will say no, he is not coming according to the word.
61. BUT WHEN WE SEE ONE STANDING IN OUR MIDST SURROUNDED WITH THE CLOUD, THAT SETTLES THE MATTER. What else do we look out for?
62. We will be looking for the voice of the sign. Because there can never be a sign without a voice.
63. THUS, IF YOU ARE NOT IN THIS FAITH TO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE FLIGHT, YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED. These brothers that ride commercial motorcycles, Brother Leonard and Brother Modecaiah, take note, you are becoming spectators in the Body.
64. Up till now, Leonard is still a spectator. There is no Pastor here that can give account of him. Yet he claims he is one of our brothers. Simply because the Pastors are dumb dogs. Instead of telling him the truth, they keep quiet.
65. Oftentimes, I see the children here. I do not know whether they are coming because I spoke to Leonard that we cannot go and oversee his family as he was trying to tell us to try to go when they were sick.
66. For we do not know who they are, they do not come to fellowship. We do not know where they are living. The same way we do not know the god they are worshipping in Bauchi.
67. We do not know who established the fellowship for you. That god he is worshipping that is permitting him to trade on prohibited drugs, it cannot be the God of the Son of Man.
68. Allowing somebody to trade on drugs the government banned, drugs that are capable of destroying the lives of human beings. Tell him he is a murderer.
69. From time to time, he is being arrested by NAFDAC, he was arrested by Drug Law Enforcement Agents. How many cases has he faced in the law court? He can be using money to bribe his way but can he bribe God?
70. Well, I do not know what else to say but only that if you claim to be a Pastor over somebody you do not see, well, you will pastor somebody that will make you a witness to his crime.
71. I do not know whether the eyes of the elders have spotted two of you out and some others like Brother Okechukwu painter. You are trying to become spectators in the camp.
72. How many of them are here?
73. Remember I called Echezona, they said on AWOL. Goddy Tobechukwu, on AWOL. Tomorrow, if there be any problem, all of you will be running to My house to tell Me stories as if you are blind. He that is not with Me is against Me.
74. Pastor Dan, remember what I said before many witnesses, when you were trying to talk to Me about Echezona and his marital plans.
75. My question was, “Are you sure he is prepared to marry? Are you sure he is not playing fool of you?”
76. A minister without discerning spirit will be a toy in the hands of crafty manipulators in our midst. We have crafty manipulators. They know how to manipulate you to agree with them. Manipulators.
77. Nobody wants to ease himself again? Man shall not live by bread alone. The Word is food.
78. Living Bible, verse 16 through 20 of Revelation 14: “Just then the angel who has power to destroy the world with fire shouted to the angel with sickle…”
79. Angels that have the power to destroy the earth with what? Fire. Fire has been ravaging South Africa together with Florida, getting to a week. Unquenchable fire.
80. They have been using water, the rain has been falling, no way. Like it ravaged California last year. God showing signs in the air and on the land.
81. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS ALREADY SURROUNDING US. AND THIS KINGDOM OF GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HELLFIRE. IT IS THE KINGDOM OF THE SAVED, IT IS THE KINGDOM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, IT IS A HOLY NATION, FOR THE HOLY ONE IS ALWAYS IN HIS KINGDOM.
82. HE IS A KING OVER HIS DOMAIN. HIS PRESENCE MAKES HIS PEOPLE HOLY. SO, THEY ARE ALWAYS WRAPPED IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
83. What then makes people holy? For they are wrapped in His righteousness.
84. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS ALREADY SURROUNDING US. AND THIS KINGDOM OF GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HELLFIRE. IT IS THE KINGDOM OF THE SAVED, IT IS THE KINGDOM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, IT IS A HOLY NATION, FOR THE HOLY ONE IS ALWAYS IN HIS KINGDOM.
85. HE IS A KING OVER HIS DOMAIN. HIS PRESENCE MAKES HIS PEOPLE HOLY. SO, THEY ARE ALWAYS WRAPPED IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. On the Anointed One of this age we stand, any other ground outside the Anointed One is a sinking ground, is a disappointed place.
86. “When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh, may I then in Him be found. Dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.
87. Lord, lift up and let me stand by faith on heaven’s table land, a higher plane than I have found; Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
88. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger…”
89. You that pray for the Day of the Lord to hasten up, thinking that you will enjoy the world.
90. “…Cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it…”
91. That is operation wipe off. Who is a sinner? I thank God you know the meaning of sin. SIN IS NOTHING BUT UNBELIEF.
92. BECAUSE THEY HAVE REJECTED HIM WHOM HE HAS SENT, THAT IS THEIR GUILT. Some called Him a heretic; some called Him a babbler, some called Him a mad man. There is no type of name they have never called Him. And they called Him from the very beginning.
93. IF THESE THINGS DO NOT ACCOMPANY HIS MINISTRY, WE KNOW HE IS COUNTERFEIT BECAUSE GOD HAS NOT CHANGED.
94. “…For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their ligh: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their Evil…”
95. Did he say “I will punish Nigeria; I will punish Africa?” No. I will punish the world. For their evil. No sinner will go unpunished.
96. “…The heavens will be black above them. No light will shine from stars or sun or moon. And I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sin, I will crush the arrogance of the proud man and the haughtiness of the rich. Few will live when I have finished up my work.”
97. Few will live when I have finished My work. Who will escape? Only those that are found in Christ revealed in your age. For every messenger is appearing with His own elect drawn from that age.
98. “Behold, the day of the Lord is coming!—fierce, with wrath and raging anger—to make the land and the [whole] earth a desolation and to destroy out of it its sinners.
99. Where is the Lord coming from? Zion. Where is Mount Zion?
100. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.
101. And I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their guilt and iniquity; I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible and the boasting of the violent and ruthless.
102. I will make a man more rare than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than the pure gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth shall be shaken out of its place at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of His fierce anger.” (Isa. 12:9 – 13).
103. On this note, I say thank you and remain blessed in Him eternally. Remain blessed. Amen.