BE READY TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF YOUR STEWARDSHIP TO ALMIGHTY GOD VOLUME 2

BE READY TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF YOUR STEWARDSHIP TO ALMIGHTY GOD VOLUME 2 Preached On

Sunday 10th October, 2021 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria

By Apostle Peter Odoemena The son of man

THE GREATER RECKONER Transcribed by Pastor Emmanuel Innah Household of God Cross-River State

⁵Thus says God the Lord–He Who created the heavens and stretched them forth, He Who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, He Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: ⁶I the Lord have called You [the Messiah] for a righteous purpose and in righteousness; I will take You by the hand and will keep You; I will give You for a covenant to the people [Israel], for a light to the nations [Gentiles], ⁷To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness from the prison. ⁸I am the Lord; that is My name! And My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images. ⁹Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.

ISAIAH 42:5 – 9, Amplified version

¹²You see, if you are still criminally minded, let Me tell you that you are running the greatest risk. To be criminally minded is death. ……. ¹⁴Remember I told you that criminality has no scale. A criminal is a criminal. But bear it in mind that in law, criminality has not expiry date. …….. So, run away from all forms of criminality. Remember, I have been de-emphasizing on all forms of criminal acts.

– THE SON OF MAN –

RUN AWAY FROM ALL FORMS OF CRIMINALITY; Preached on Saturday 22^nd February 2020; Pg. 20 vs. 12, 14 & 16

THERE IS NO GOOD WAY OF DOING A WRONG THING

Let me give this message a title. Ecclesiastes 12:14, Amplified version. For God shall bring every work into judgment whether it is good or evil.
Now let us go to Romans 14:10, Amplified version. Why do you criticize and pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you look down upon or despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. Amen!
We shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. Remember it was not God’s intention from the beginning to bring anything to the charge of the Elect.
But, now because of the influx of wicked people who have now mingled with the true seed of God, influencing them to do wrong at will.
The Lord has now decided to bring everybody to that judgement, no more express ticket. No more express ticket, no matter who you are.
And now, if you do not want to come there, nobody will tell you to run back. Nobody will you what to do. Any day I beg you to repent, know that I am crazy.
I am known for one thing: I am the self-existing one. I take delight in living in isolation. I know why it behooveth on Me to get married and have children that I may live with human beings here earth first.
If it is not a condition for sending me, I would not have indulged in it. It is an unavoidable condition superimposed on Me by the Almighty. And I cannot say no.
Take note of what I am going to read from now. Let us go to the scripture again.
Gospel according to Saint Luke chapter sixteen, from verse one through five. Amplified version. I want to use only but one version to enable Me create room for the Message I place on the pulpit for consideration.
Luke 16:1 – 5, Amplified version. ¹Also [Jesus] said to the disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a manager of his estate, and accusations [against this man] were brought to him, that he was squandering his [master’s] possessions.
²And he called him and said to him, What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management [of my affairs], for you can be [my] manager no longer.
Surrender the management of My estate for, from now henceforth, you will no longer be My manager.
A day of accountability is on the way. We will give account one by one like this estate manager who was given an estate to manage for the master.
While the master was away, he started squandering the proceeds of the estate until information reached the owner of the estate about the wild life of his estate manager. He summoned him without delay to account for his stewardship.
The title is “BE READY TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF YOUR STEWARDSHIP TO GOD.”
Man and woman, young and old; whatever that is engineering you to rebel against God; whatever that is engineering you to act the way you are acting, get ready for your defence.
Be ready to give account of your stewardship before the Almighty God. I must be ready. You must be ready.
Then the Lord God Almighty will know where you were deriving your strength, your teachings and your doctrine that empowers you to behave the way you are behaving. He will like to know where you are getting your influence.
Look at that shrewd estate manager. While he was obedient and loyal, the master surrendered everything into his hands. If he had managed it well, there was no way reports concerning his excesses would have gone to the man.
So the angels are reporting to the Son of Man concerning you. Spirits in heaven and on earth, even principalities and powers, they are under My control.
Colossians 1:16, Living Bible. ^[16]Christ himself is the Creator who made everything in heaven and earth, the things we can see and the things we can’t; the spirit world with its kings and kingdoms, its rulers and authorities; all were made by Christ for his own use and glory.
I hear your reports. I see with My eyes. You must give account of your stewardship before the Lord God Almighty. If you know who He is, you will know that He judgeth no man but has committed this judgment into the hands of His Son for He is the Son of Man.
John 5:22, 27, King James version. ²²For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: ……. ²⁷and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
You will know that you cannot talk, for the Divine incarnate; the Divine Personality is already standing on earth with His eyes running to and fro all over the whole earth.
Prepare your defence. Prepare your forensic advocate who will speak on your behalf.
I warned ahead of time, “Be very careful the way you behave, for one day, this your Advocate will be promoted to be your Judge.”
Advocacy will be no more. What you will be hearing is “It is written. It is written”, like I read it yesterday. All heads bowed down in shame weeping. They saw the year God spoke to them. They now saw what they are manifesting this year.
²And he called him and said to him, What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management [of my affairs], for you can be [my] manager no longer.
³And the manager of the estate said to himself, What shall I do, seeing that my master is taking the management from me? I am not able to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
I am not able. I am not strong to do anything manual labour. And I am not prepared to go about begging. What will I do to earn my living. I am doomed. I have destroyed my future with my own hands.
I was watching a play yesterday afternoon when I wanted to have a little relaxation of My brain. So what I met interested Me so much.
A man had money and also had an estate, but he was blessed with two boys who were terribly bad. They were evil.
He sent them to school. They had opportunity to study to any level, but they ran away from the schools and colleges, came back home and began troubling the parents. The trouble made their mother to get paralyzed, and she died.
They had only but a daughter who happened to be a PhD holder and then married, and enjoying life with her husband. She lamented when the mother died, but the evil boys never felt the death of their mother.
They now descended on their father, telling him to settle them one by one. He said, “Settle you on what? You are two boys only. You want me to make a will?”
The first said, “We need that will. Make it and read it while you are alive. Share the property.”
The second said the same thing, “Let us sell off our own and use the money to find what we are going to do. We cannot settle down here as landlords and be collecting rent. No.”
The man said, “You are all evil. I sent you to school. This one, you are a university dropout. This one also, you are a polytechnic dropout. There is money for your training and everything. Why did you drop from the schools? Do you not know that if you had completed your studies, you would have been enlightened enough even to manage my estate after my decease? But because of your mediocrity, I know that when I leave the scene, you are going to sell off the whole estate and lavish the money.”
They said, “We are not going to sell off, but all we are saying is, “Share the properties.”” He said, “Ok. Do not worry. Give me time.”
While they were doing it, the younger one went and hired a lawyer to prepare a fake will on the behalf of their father. The most senior did not know that the junior was planning something like that.
So the man he approached [a fraudulent lawyer] prepared the will, and did as the young man instructed. The lawyer collected the money and willed the whole estate into hands of the junior one, leaving the other son (his senior) without a building.
So, the boy now was in possession of the whole documents relating to the father’s property, for the father trusted the second one and gave him all the document relating to the estate.
He now used the papers to prepare the will. Holding the property, he started disposing them. He sold off a four-storey building [a hotel], and collected millions.
He sold the house. I mean, a house where tenants were living in, and collected millions. The first son did not know what was happening until what was left was where they were living.
Then the first became angry that the father could not die. One day the father slept. Where the man was sleeping, the first sneaked into that room and strangled his father to death.
This was because the second son said, “Our father’s Will will not be read until he is dead, for a will cannot be read when the writer [the owner] is still alive.”
So the first son hastened the death of their father so as to enable the lawyer read the will, not knowing that the property had already been sold off.
Then the second also went to that room and saw their father, and the way he was leaning on the cushion. He locked the door and call him many names. He did not know that his senior brother had already strangled their father to death.
He thought the man was sleeping and now gripped the man on the neck and turn the head over and over, round and round. He thought he strangled his father, but while he noticed the body, he was shocked. He said, “It is like our father died before I gripped him. But how can this be. How could our father die like this.” He shouted and went out.
The first son accused him of killing their father. He was weeping. Their sister came, and they nearly killed their sister for querying the death of their father.
Immediately, they arranged for the burial. They buried him within two days to enable them read the will, not knowing that the house where they were living had already been sold, and documents transferred to the new owner, but the first son did not know.
And the second son went to one boy they call Miracle his friend with the money he realized from the sales of the estates.
That his friend told him that if you should put this money in the bank that inflation will take the value of the money away, and that even the government may begin to query him about how he managed to get that money at that age.
Miracle told him that he is suggesting that there is a better way of safe-keeping that money.
Miracle told him that he should place the money in account he called Bitcoin, and that he should use it to put account in the Bitcoin. Surprised, He queried Miracle, “I hope you are not trying to dupe me. What is Bitcoin?”
His friend explained how Bitcoin works. After explaining, he was still sceptical. Miracle said, “I have told you the truth.” Then he replied, “If you dupe me I will kill you.”
Miracle said, “How can I do that. We have been friends over the years. I cannot do it. Put the money in the Bitcoins. Look at the way it will work. Whenever you want money you just go there and do it; take a little.
Miracle convinced him. This boy emptied the whole money he realized into the Bitcoin investment.
Then trouble ensued between him and the senior brother, for when the will was read, it was discovered that the whole thing was willed to him.
The senior brother wept bitterly and wanted to kill him. Then he ran to his friend [Miracle] to tell him that he needed some money to establish something, but the friend was nowhere to be seen.
He called his line, but his friend switched off his phone. He went to his friend’s house, but some other tenants are living in the friend’s flat. The boy vanished, and the money vanished.
He wept and ran to the senior brother and confessed that their late father never wrote any will. And that he was the one that faked the will with the help of a lawyer. He went further, “That is not all.” He told his senior brother that of the whole money he realized, his friend Miracle duped him with Bitcoin, and he lost all.
The brother then beat the hell out of him, after which, the person that bought the place where they were dwelling came and then used lawyer and court to eject everybody from the building, and then had full occupation.
The two now went to the village. What was their occupation in the village? Hunting rats and cracking kernels in the village. And that was where they perished. Two of them. They killed their mother. They killed their father. They nearly killed their only sister. Now, they wasted the money. Bitcoins!
After watching that thing yesterday, I felt very much happy that I can now talk to the youth concerning Bitcoins. Central Bank has banned Bitcoins. Yet, they are still indulging in it.
There is one name they give it. Cryptocurrency. Bitcoins is no investment. It is fraudulent investment.
So young men, young women who are on it already and many other types. They have too many types. It is another MMM – Means of Making Money. I have to condemn it in toto [totally].
No matter the way you look at it, there is no good way of doing a wrong thing. Go through the approved way.
There is one they established in Nigeria by one Hausa man. The central Bank has closed that also. It has to do with this type of business. Bitcoins!
There is nothing the devil is not inventing in these last days just to lure our youth away from reality.
Matthew 24:23 – 25, King James version. ²³Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very Elect. ²⁵Behold, I have told you before.
Any youth that is being attracted by all these traps the devil is setting, from the very beginning never believeD the truth from God.
The person is over-ambitious in making money and if money becomes your priority, the devil is your God.
Whoever that places money above integrity is worshipping the devil. Take note of what I am saying.
Nobody had ever placed money before him or before himself without ending his journey through life half way.
Mad pursuit of money has rendered a lot of youth useless and unproductive.
Many have even run away from schools and colleges in the bid to make money fraudulently. Some are ending it in disaster.
I thank God we have a Message on that handled by our brother Ikechukwu the journalist, who is equally a youth like you.

We are in danger of being called to question. Check your Bible very well. Check this Message; check your calling! Are you faithful to your calling; man and woman? If the Lord should rise up today and call you to question—man and woman—for your misbehaviour, for your misconduct, what do you think will be your excuse?

– THE SON OF MAN –

We are in danger of being called to question; Preached on 5^th April 1998; Pg. 78 vs. 1 – 2

ARE YOU A TRUSTEE OF GOD’S SACRED TRUST?

Let us continue with the Message. Saint Luke’s Gospel Chapter twelve from verse forty through forty-eight.
Luke 12:40 – 48, Amplified version. ⁴⁰You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour and a moment when you do not anticipate it.
⁴¹Peter said, Lord, are You telling this parable for us, or for all alike?
⁴²And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful steward,… Who then is that faithful steward? Who is that faithful servant?
Hear me well. Every true seed of God; every child of God [man or woman] is conferred with a very big trust, a sacred trust as a trustee.
As children of God, we are all trustees of God’s sacred trust. And this sacred trust is to preserve this truth undiluted and incorruptible; and also to reflect this incorruptible Word of God in our daily lives.
If the Word of God dwells in you and in me; and the Word of God is incorruptible, why are we corruptible?
It is because the Word is yet to settle down in our hearts and reform our character and our attitude from the within.
When the incorruptible Word of God finds its way into the heart of a corruptible fellow and settleS down there, the corruptible becomeS incorruptible, for the Word of God is incorruptible.
That is why a child of God sinneth not. Why? The incorruptible seed of God abideth in him.
1 John 3:9, Amplified version. ⁹No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God.
Living Bible. ^[9]The person who has been born into God’s family does not make a practice of sinning because now God’s life is in him; so he can’t keep on sinning, for this new life has been born into him and controls him—he has been born again.
1 John 5:18, Amplified version. ¹⁸We know [absolutely] that anyone born of God does not [deliberately and knowingly] practice committing sin, but the One Who was begotten of God carefully watches over and protects him [Christ’s divine presence within him preserves him against the evil], and the wicked one does not lay hold (get a grip) on him or touch [him].
Living Bible. ^[18]No one who has become part of God’s family makes a practice of sinning, for Christ, God’s Son, holds him securely, and the devil cannot get his hands on him.
We are trustees of a sacred trust. If you are not a trustee, it then means you are not a stakeholder. You are a passer-by, a make-believer and a stranger to whatever God stands for.
This is because every trustee is a tested being who is capable of administering that which is committed to his trust incorruptibly without compromise, without favouritism and no parochialism.
If you are not a trustee, you are not a stakeholder. You are not a partaker of the life that Christ gives, for that life is in His Word.
That life is in His Word. That is why we call the Word of God the Word of life. True or false?
Are you a trustee of God’s sacred trust? You know what it means to be sacred. Something that is holy, consecrated and set apart. That which cannot be abused.
That is why I gave you the Message “RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN”, for there are many who have received it in vain already.
When you receive the Word of God, the Grace of God, the Word of salvation and still behave contrary to the truth, have you not received it vain? Amen!
It is just like somebody that spends the money he has in this world to train his children, believing that they will be useful when they come out.
But they turned out to be renegades, nonentities and sycophants. Has that man not wasted his money in vain?
It would have been better that he gave it out to charity than to use it to train profane persons.
I wish every true seed of God will settle down with this message. You must give account of your stewardship before the Almighty God any time from now. I must!
That is, if I am one of them. But I know I am not. And I will show you reasons why.
This is because you are all coming to this office, you are coming to this pulpit whether you like it or not.
You must know that I am He and believe that I am He, whether you like it or not, either in life or in death.
Some will acknowledge it when it will save their lives, while some will acknowledge it when it will be their condemnation. But will the world acknowledge it? Yes!
I do not beg any flesh to listen to Me. No! I have already concluded by telling the whole world, “hear my voice O heavens. hear my voice O earth.” [Volumes 1, 2 & 3 on Sunday 16^th June 2019]
I am speaking to the Bride in righteousness. I have never withheld anything that is meant for their salvation from any of them.
I have revealed all things pertaining to life and godliness that will help them to attain God’s Divine nature. So, they are without excuse.
Luke 12:42 – 48, Amplified version. ⁴²And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful steward, the wise man whom his master will set over those in his household service to supply them their allowance of food at the appointed time?
⁴³Blessed (happy and to be envied) is that servant whom his master finds so doing when he arrives.
Happy, blessed and to be envied is that Steward or that servant whom the master who gave that office as a sacred trust; the trustee of that sacred trust.
If the master will come back and meet him doing that work the master assigned to him, [Oh no!] The master will be happy. And the servant will be blessed.
In short, he is worthy to be envied, for his reward will be very great from his master.
But what if the master comes back and he is not in his duty position anymore?
Instead, he is going about eating and drinking, fattening himself, jesting, mingling with the heathens and encouraging evil. This is because if you are not discouraging evil, you are encouraging it.
⁴⁴Truly I tell you, he will set him in charge over all his possessions.
⁴⁵But if that servant says in his heart, My master is late in coming, and begins to strike the menservants and the maids and to eat and drink and get drunk,
⁴⁶The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour of which he does not know, and will punish him and cut him off and assign his lot with the unfaithful. Amen!
He will give him a portion with the unfaithful; the sinner, where he will be gnashing his teeth; grinding his teeth.
⁴⁷And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act as he would wish him to act shall be beaten with many [lashes]. Thank you!
But he who did not know and did things worthy of a beating shall be beaten with few [lashes]. For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required; and of him to whom men entrust much, they will require and demand all the more. Amen!
Has God not entrusted much into our hands? I will show you scriptures
1 Corinthians 4:1 – 5, Amplified version. ¹So then, let us [apostles] be looked upon as ministering servants of Christ and stewards (trustees) of the mysteries (the secret purposes) of God.
What! ¹So then, let us [apostles] be looked upon as ministering servants of Christ and stewards (trustees) of the mysteries (the secret purposes) of God.
²Moreover, it is [essentially] required of stewards that a man should be found faithful [proving himself worthy of trust].
³But [as for me personally] it matters very little to me [Sure!!!] that I should be put on trial by you [on this point], and that you or any other human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me. I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself.
⁴I am not conscious of anything against myself, and I feel blameless; but I am not vindicated and acquitted before God on that account. …
That is Saint Paul’s and Saint Peter’s account
It is the Lord [Himself] Who examines and judges me.
⁵So do not make any hasty or premature judgments before the time when the Lord comes [again],…
“When the Lord comes again.” Has the Lord come again?
Song: [Christ has surely come again. Chris has surely come again. Government is now upon His shoulders. Christ has surely come again. THE SON OF MAN has come again. And the Sovereignty power of this Kingdom; All that are His true Bride will be handed to the LORD. And the Saints of God will be with the Elohim. Your Kingdom is from everlasting. Those who abide in your Words are like Zion which cannot be removed, but abideth every day. No more death, crying; pains will be gone.]
We believe it. We are here with Him. And that is why He came as the Angel of judgement. And He will not rest until he has judged whole earth in righteousness, and then usher in a reign of righteousness upon the earth.
If Paul could not appear before any panel, a greater than Paul is here. He has already adjudged himself blameless before God.
And I am saying that the Justifier of Paul is here. The Justifier of all the Apostles is here. The Justifier of all the prophets is here, for without him, not even one is perfect.
A Man who ran an imperfect ministry [Saint Paul], and was expecting that which is perfect, for whenever that which is perfect appears he will drop that which was imperfect.
And now the perfect One is here on the scene, Whom the LORD has already made strong for Himself and His sake; Whom the LORD has already declared righteous, made Him holy and then sent Him to be the judge of the whole earth.
I give God the glory; not because I am involved. If any other person was chosen, heavens knows that I belong to God even before the world began.
Nothing would have hindered Me from being a part of what that same person might be doing in My day, for I believe I am numbered among the Elect chosen by the Almighty before the world began for salvation and not for destruction.
I am not praising myself. No! I am declaring what I am and why I am happy to be what I am.
If you ARE not happy to be what you are, it goes to show you are not ordained to be what you really are.
If what you are is giving you joy presently, thereunto you were ordained, whether you are doing good or doing evil.
Whatever you are you are doing now, from where you are deriving your permanent happiness, that is where you are ordained. I do not care what that thing looks like.
We are stewards that must give account of our stewardship.
⁵So do not make any hasty or premature judgments before the time when the Lord comes [again], for He will both bring to light the secret things that are [now hidden] in darkness [Amen!] and disclose and expose the [secret] aims (motives and purposes) of hearts. …
Is it not what is happening among us? From the time THE SON OF MAN appeared up to this day, is there anybody reporting anybody to Him?
He knows you for who you are. That is nothing that is hidden from Him about any human being. That He decided He will not be embarrassing people is to enable peace to reign.
BUT NOW, HE IS INVOKING IT AGAIN. AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING AT AMAZU OIL SO SHALL IT BE FROM NOW.
Then every man will receive his [due] commendation from God. Thank you.

Enough is enough. Idolaters in the Camp, this is the hour of manifestation of sons and daughters of God. Do you not know I have not come to bring peace but separation? Do you not know that our God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God of separation? The author of separation. ……. Now, I am about to destroy the whole world, the world is ripe for destruction and I have come down in person to see for Myself and I am satisfied that the world has gone back to exactly the age of Noah and the age of Sodom and Gomorrah.

– THE SON OF MAN –

ACTION TIME PART 1 (HUSBANDS AND WIVES) CAMP MEETING; Preached on Tuesday, 30^th December, 1997; Pg. 64 vs. 5 & Pg. 67 vs. 13 – 14

EVIL AND GOOD CAN NEVER WALK IN AGREEMENT

To the Bishops, you are all trustees of this same sacred trust together with your entire families.
Titus 1:1 – 11, Amplified version. ¹Paul, a bond servant of God and an apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) to stimulate and promote the faith of God’s chosen ones and to lead them on to accurate discernment and recognition of and acquaintance with the Truth which belongs to and harmonizes with and tends to godliness,
²[Resting] in the hope of eternal life, [life] which the ever truthful God Who cannot deceive promised before the world or the ages of time began.
³And [now] in His own appointed time He has made manifest (made known) His Word and revealed it as His message through the preaching entrusted to me by command of God our Saviour;
⁴To Titus, my true child according to a common (general) faith: Grace (favour and spiritual blessing) and [heart] peace from God the Father and the Lord Christ Jesus our Saviour.
⁵For this reason I left you [behind] in Crete, that you might set right what was defective and finish what was left undone, and that you might appoint elders and set them over the churches (assemblies) in every city as I directed you.
⁶[These elders should be] men who are of unquestionable integrity and are irreproachable, the husband of [but] one wife, whose children are [well trained…. Whose children are what? …[well trained and are believers,…
And are what? Believers not unbelievers. Where do we find such families today? Is this not the doctrine we took off with? Is it not the teaching we took off with?
…whose children are [well trained and are] believers, not open to the accusation of being loose in morals and conduct…
Their children must not be open to accusations that they are loose in morals and conduct, but the opposite or the reverse is now the case.
Check all that called themselves Elders. Check their wives. Check their families. Check their children. Yet, they have the boldness to appear before the Son of Man, hypocritically asking, “Wherein have we erred. Daddy tell us where we have gone wrong?”
⁶[These elders should be] men who are of unquestionable integrity and are irreproachable, the husband of [but] one wife, whose children are [well trained and are] believers, not open to the accusation of being loose in morals and conduct or unruly and disorderly.
Being unruly and disorderly has become their stock in trade. And they infesting the innocent ones.
⁷For the bishop (an overseer) as God’s steward must be blameless, not self-willed or arrogant or presumptuous;…
So, somebody can walk blamelessly before God.
…he must not be quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious (brawling, violent); he must not be grasping and greedy for filthy lucre (financial gain);
⁸But he must be hospitable (loving and a friend to believers, especially to strangers and foreigners); [he must be] a lover of goodness [of good people and good things], sober-minded (sensible, discreet), upright and fair-minded, a devout man and religiously correct, temperate and keeping himself in hand.
⁹He must hold fast to the sure and trustworthy Word of God as he was taught it, so that he may be able both to give stimulating instruction and encouragement in sound (wholesome) doctrine and to refute and convict those who contradict and oppose it [showing the wayward their error]. Amen.
¹⁰For there are many disorderly and unruly men who are idle (vain, empty) and misleading talkers and self-deceivers and deceivers of others. [This is true] especially of those of the circumcision party…
Those of the end-time party. Circumcision party. The legalists that abused the grace of God. The hypocrites.
… [This is true] especially of those of the circumcision party [who have come over from Judaism].
They have come over from Judah. End timers that crossed over to the Bridal faith. These are the people we are suffering in their hands right now. They are the people polluting the Camp; and polluting this young, youngsters who knew nothing about end-time.
We thought they are pure blooded virgins of the Word of God, but they have now corrupted themselves through silly conversations, interactions and silly silly movies. They have become good-for-nothing like their parents.
¹¹Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.
See their purpose. Anywhere they are favoured, their poisonous messages will be left behind. Anywhere they can get food and drink, they must pollute that place with their evil characters. Nobody is mindful of reputation again.
And now, watch their children who are patterning after them. Watch their wives. Emphasis is now on business, which they cannot even flourish thereby.
How many Bishops have met this standard? Only but a few.
If I should mention their names here now, many will face them because we are living in the days where haters of good people are in the majority. The spirit of the last days is at work in many individuals.
Once you commend a Brother, a Sister or a family for good, the whole attacks will go to them, showing you that they are agents of Satan.
This is because once somebody is commended; whoever that attacks somebody who holds a good report before God must be an agent of the devil; a hater of those that do good.
An evil person who does not want to see a righteous person. If you give a good testimony concerning a righteous person, the evil man or woman will vow that he or she will do everything possible to bring about the downfall of the righteous so that it will be noised abroad to show you that this [evil] person is in the hand of the devil. Amen!
But the Almighty God vowed to build a strong hedge around those faithful elders who are helping me to protect this faith from being defiled, no matter how they [the evil ones] wedge war spiritually and physically against them.
Even if they like, let them use members of their families. They will never succeed, for God has built a strong hedge around those individuals and families who are now binding themselves together to serve God Almighty with a vow and with a covenant never to draw back. Come what may.
This is because they are sure and certain that their belief in God will never disappoint them.
But to the chaff, let them roar. No matter how executive they look like, regard them as mere executive roaring of Lions.
They gather as assembly, regard whatever that is emanating from them as mere Peter peterizing. Finish! Place them where they belong to.
A true seed of God pays deaf ears to such executive roaring of an executive lion, simply because of the offices they occupy as mere tag.
And then, the Peter peterizes their assemblies where they gather their families together against innocent ones because they know they are in error.
Pay deaf ears to those nonsenses and forge ahead, knowing that time will vindicate all things. We have come to the end of everything.
This is a situation where an evil man cannot make a U-turn, a good man cannot make a U-turn. It is one-way traffic right now. You are on your lane, while I am on my lane.
And nothing will ever make Me to summersault to your lane because there is no connection between evil and good. The two can never walk together in agreement.
If in this Family you are evil, your evil will keep on troubling you until you are troubled out. But if you are good, you are building a good reputation for yourself here and in the hereafter.
That is what every good steward is doing. He is building a good record for himself for a peaceful and harmonious co-existence with God here on earth, which will culminate into their entry and co-existence also in Paradise.
This is because, if God is feeling uncomfortable living with you here, He will still be feeling uncomfortable if He will have you in Eden; in Paradise.
Whatever your relationship with God here dictates what it is likely to be peradventure you might be considered for entry. But it is impossible to consider one whom the Lord is not having comfort dwelling with. Impossible?
That is why the sifting is lasting longer than you think to make sure no mistake in the selection.
Being a steward, you notice that not many mighty; not many noble were called, for God looked down on those lofty things of the world and handpicked the mediocres of the world using them to shame the wise and the prudent men and women of this world.
1 Corinthians 1:26 – 29, New International Version. ²⁶Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
²⁷But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
²⁸God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things —and the things that are not —to nullify the things that are, ²⁹so that no one may boast before him.
For that reason, it is not by your might, nor by your power, nor by your personal achievement that you were selected or elected. It is just amazing grace that came your way.
Roman 9:16, King James version. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
That is the more reason why you must be a faithful trustee. You must be a dependable trustee handling this sacred trust, making sure that your calling and election to this office of a trustee will not be a misplaced confidence in the end.
I told one of our Elders that the confidence I reposed in him in the very beginning has turned out to be a misplaced one.
And it is not that I did not know. I knew and I disclosed it to him ahead of time. He said over his dead body, and that I should try him.
I said, “Now, look at where you have arrived. Did I not give you every ample opportunity to make full proof of your ministry, your calling and election to stand sure? Were you not superintending Me even when I was present in gatherings. I give you the power. Have I not been conferring powers on you, sending you in my stead to Local Assemblies, even to confirm churches. Where have you arrived at and what happened to you.”
This is because everyone I ordained, I give the freehand to manifest that which God had already placed in that person whether it be good or bad.
Even if you are serving Me here, you notice that I do not interfere in whatever I have assigned to you. If you fail, you are failing because you have decided to fail, for I cannot send you to farm without giving you farm implement.
I have supplied you with all that you need to live happily and to achieve your dreams while you are staying with Me.
I have never for one day frustrated any of your ambitions, provided you are aiming at doing something to enhance your godly life, your godly living, your future. I have always been playing supportive role.
Then why do you turn around to disappoint yourself through evil habits, which you never learnt from Me nor from my family.
But it is what you are learning out there because you are using heathens as your example. You are being attracted by their lifestyles.
Let Me tell you. It is a defeat to hear that somebody in the house of the Son of Man is giving Him headache through low Morals and bad behaviour. It is a signed of defeat.
And that thing marks the individual out of My house. You are a misfit if you cannot cope with the simplicity that is in Christ.
You are my witnesses. The entire Brethren can bear witness that there is no family as simple as this family.
The hardest signature for anybody to emulate is a simple signature. To counterfeit a simple signature is not easy.
And that is why, for a good number of you, what you think this Family will be is not what it is.
It is not a king’s family. It is a poor man’s family. A simple man’s family where life is lowered to the base. Where you share everything in common with the Son of Man.
Whatever He eats is what you are eating. You give Him what He eats. You eat better than Him. He provides, and you eat. Sometimes, He does not eat. Yet, He makes sure you are eating as you will.
You stay together. You chat together. You have everything in common, for that is the only way you can learn a good behaviour.
But unfortunately you are bringing in something that is absolutely strange. A sure sign that you are a stranger.
This is because whatever that attracts the attention of a stranger must be something that is strange in the family of God, for you are telling Me the people you mingle with out there.
I will do my best and you will act your best, but at the end of the day, get ready. You must give account of your stewardship before the Almighty God Who has veiled Himself in this last days in the person of Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE VERY SON OF MAN. Believe it if you can.
I am not a stranger to you. Neither am I a stranger to your attitudes towards Me, towards the Word you are hearing nor towards one another. I am not a stranger. I do not need a reporter. Amen

You do not know that I am your Justifier. You also do not know that I am He that will condemn you. If I set you free, you are free. Anywhere you like go. If the Son of Man sets you free, you shall be free indeed. There is nobody; There is no Angel, no matter where the person is coming from, that will condemn you. That is why I said [that] if I tell you to do something, do it because I said you should do it. Quote Me; “I did it in the Authority of the Son of Man.” Let the heavens challenge your action. Bring it before Me. If I say, “Do not try it.” Stop there. Do not move an inch. He that sent Me is still with Me. He has never left Me one bit.

– THE SON OF MAN –

I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; Preached on Sunday 31^st December 2000; Pg. 61 vs. 65 – 67

MY WORD OF CONSOLATION

Before I roundup this Sunday school, I want us to read First Peter chapter four from verse eight through twelve. Use Amplified unless I say otherwise.
1 Peter 4:8 – 12. ⁸Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others].
⁹Practice hospitality to one another (those of the household of faith). [Be hospitable, be a lover of strangers, with brotherly affection for the unknown guests, the foreigners, the poor, and all others who come your way who are of Christ’s body.] And [in each instance] do it ungrudgingly (cordially and graciously, without complaining but as representing Him).
As what? …as representing Him). As what? Representing Him). Representing who? Christ. You are the ambassador. You are My ambassador.
¹⁰As each of you has received a gift (a particular spiritual talent, a gracious divine endowment), employ it for one another as [befits] good trustees of God’s many-sided grace…
As befits what? …good trustees of God’s many-sided grace… Many-sided grace. …[faithful stewards of the extremely diverse powers and gifts…
Faithful stewards of what? …the extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by unmerited favour].
¹¹Whoever speaks, [let him do it as one who utters] oracles of God; whoever renders service, [let him do it] as with the strength which God furnishes abundantly, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Amen. To Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever (through endless ages). Amen (so be it).
Thank you very much. Before I come down, Second Thessalonians chapter two verse fifteen through seventeen. Bring King James, Amplified version and living Bible.
This is because God has already consoled Me with everlasting consolation using the handpicked people in this last days drawn from all spheres [of life]; the young and the old; the ancient and the modern; youth and even infants and mothers.
Blessed, happy, to be envied are those God the Almighty is using to grant everlasting consolation to all the saints of God.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 – 17, Living Bible. ¹⁵With all these things in mind, dear brothers, stand firm and keep a strong grip on the truth that we taught you in our letters and during the time we were with you.
¹⁶May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and hope, which we don’t deserve, ¹⁷comfort your hearts with all comfort, and help you in every good thing you say and do.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 – 17, Amplified version. ¹⁵So then, brethren, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions and instructions which you were taught by us, whether by our word of mouth or by letter.
¹⁶Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave us everlasting consolation and encouragement and well-founded hope through [His] grace (unmerited favour),
¹⁷Comfort and encourage your hearts and strengthen them [make them steadfast and keep them unswerving] in every good work and word. Sure!!!
2 Thessalonians 2:15 – 17, King James version. ¹⁵Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
¹⁷Now our lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, ¹⁷comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. Amen.
Good News Bible. ¹⁵So then, our friends, stand firm and hold on to those truths which we taught you, both in our preaching and in our letter.
¹⁶May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope, ¹⁷encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.
This is My Words of consolation. Have we been taught on how to behave aright before God and before men? Have we been taught how to maintain right relationship God?
Have we been taught? I have washed off my hands. This Sunday is as clear as the day.
Be ready – man and woman, young and old – to give account of your stewardship before the almighty God any time from now. This is because as a child of God, you a stakeholder, a trustee of God’s sacred trust.
It is expected of you to be faithful in all your house. In all your doings, you must transparent. You must prudent.
You are accountable before God who gave you this assignment. He saw others, but He selected you and handed over the preaching of this Gospel and the preserving of this truth into your own hands.
If you go the last ministers meeting of 2012, I encouraged all the Ministers of the New Testament to strive to make their calling and election in Christ stand sure;
I encouraged them to strive to make sure that they do not receive the grace of God in vain, and that this Ministry be not blamed in their hands [man and woman], for we have receive a Ministry that is incorruptible.
To God be the glory. I never knew I could have the strength to stand today talk less of ministering. When this Message came to Me last night, when I was meditating, I was asking for strength; physical strength and not spiritual to enable scratch it a little as a Sunday school, and use it to build a background.
Now the message I have for everybody is a reminder. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD.
I invite our brother to come and read it to the hearing of every fellow who wants to hear, for many have stuffed their ears and their hearts so much that the Word of God has no place in their hearts anymore.
But a few are still desiring the Word of God as they desire sincere milk to enable them live thereby.