CROSSCHECK YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION OF OUR MORTAL BODIES Preached On Friday Evening 26th March, 2021 At The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria By Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY we must examine our Faith this day. I will examine my own, and you will examine yours; so that we know where we are leaning. 15Nobody should lean, on the feelings of his heart. Your opinions, they are nonsense before the Almighty God. You must examine your faith this day.
EXAMINE YOUR FAITH; Preached on Sunday 2nd May 2004; Pg. 24 vs. 14 – 15
PROLOGUE
PRAYER
ALMIGHTY Father, the KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords, THE SON OF MAN Who is living among us; we thank You this very day, O God for having made it possible for us to gather once again this evening to praise You, to worship You and in return, to hear Your Word, mighty Father.
2. Our hearts are full of joy, O God, being in Your presence, Almighty Father and hearing Your Word is a great privilege. We are so grateful to You, O LORD.
3. So we are thanking You on behalf of our Brethren; on behalf O God, of our family members. We thank You O God, for the good works You are doing in our lives. Thank You O God. We are so grateful to You.
4. That is why we say, O God, to You belongeth all the glory, all the honour, adoration, dominion and excellency. May all be ascribed to Your Most Holy Name through Christ our LORD we pray, Amen.
5. This day, O LORD, we are committing our lives into Your holy hand, Almighty Father. As we are in Your presence to receive Thy Word O LORD, may Your Word have a resting place in our hearts Almighty LORD.
6. Keep on strengthening us as the days go by, and never allow us to be hearers of Your Word alone, O God, but may we be doers of Your Word.
7. Please continue to strengthen us spiritually and physically, O God, knowing fully well that the days we are living in are full of evil. Continue to fortify us Almighty Father, so that there will be no room in our lives whereby the enemy will enter to perpetrate evil, O God.
8. But help us, O God that we will always stand in this Path You have paved for us Almighty Father. And never allow anything in this world to divert our attention away from You Almighty Father, but allow us O God, to remain focused in You, following You.
9. And may You keep on upholding us till the end, Almighty Father. No matter our weaknesses; no matter, O God, our shortcomings, do not let us to stray away, Almighty Father, but keep on upholding us, for we are depending on You.
10. We are counting on You, for outside You, we can do nothing O LORD.
11. So, we are committing our souls into Your Holy care, O God. We are committing our entire being into Your Holy care, saying that You should take control of our lives.
12. And do not allow any power that is not of You to be in control of our lives O God, but may You be the Controller of our lives. May You be the Director of our lives. May You be the One strengthening us in everything we are doing, O God, so that in the end, we shall surely say, O God that You and You alone is our helper.
13. All these things, we have put into Your Holy hands and we are equally committing our Brethren at large into Your Holy hands, O God.
14. As they have gathered in their Fellowship, may You raise someone O God whom You will use to minister grace to their hearts, Almighty Father, so that at the end of today’s Fellowship, they will surely say O God that You really touched them at the points of their needs.
15. May You also touch all that are here with You at the point of our need, that at the end of everything O God, we will surely say, THANK YOU LORD.
16. All these things, we have put into Your Holy hands. We say, to You be all the glory. To You be all the honour, for through the Mighty Name, Peter the Christ our LORD, we pray. Amen.
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OUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT DETERMINES OUR PHYSICAL STANDPOINT
THE LORD God Almighty is worthy to be praised, worthy to be honoured and worthy to be worshipped. He deserves our service, for we have proved Him from all ramifications. There is none to compare to Him.
2. If by now, you have no definite experience that can be credited to you, which you have had with The LORD God Almighty, that will make you to fear Him, it then means you are foolish.
3. Just like our Brother Promise who had a supernatural experience that made us even to leave him here. He was hearing our voices, but what pinned him down, he could not say.
4. Was it not a definite experience? He alone knows what happened that day. What if he did not get up again?
5. You see! God just touched him a little. God just showed him something. That we are here with God. We are not merely telling stories here. We are not here to glorify or gratify any man.
6. We are here to give God His due honour, His due worship, His due service, His due reverence, His due sacrifices, for we are the workmanship of His hands; the Flock of His Pasture.
7. I know why I refrained from bringing fully the wrath of God here, for I decided to soft-pedal a little, but I was near almost to showing you something that will make all here to tremble. We sing in our song, “The LORD reigneth, let the whole earth tremble.”
8. If God does not exist; if we are following cunningly devised fables, the question arises, “Are you wiser than our ancient fathers? Are you wiser than all the Prophets?”
9. So, if you are doubting the experiences of all who, from the very beginning, testified about their encounters with the Almighty God; and all their experiences were documented.
10. Then this is our turn. We begin to see ourselves having experiences that compare favourably with those of our predecessors. A sure sign that God has remained the same yesterday, today and forever, for the promises He made, He said were not only for those who were there at the beginning, for those who will embrace this truth, and even for those who will come after, as many as the LORD our God shall call, until we come to the end of the world where we are standing now.
11. It pleased Him that we shall be the human beings he will use to close the history of worship here on earth in this mortal body. We are closing it. After us, nobody in this mortal estate will say, “Praise the Lord”, for all will be like God.
12. All that will be in Paradise will be like Him. Is it not the Scripture? When we shall see Him, we shall see Him just as He is, for we shall be like Him.
13. 2Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [ as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is. [1 John 3:2 AMP]
14. If He is immortal, we shall be immortal. So, there is no room and there will never be any room for worship again, for the essence of worship is to make us to be like Him, that we may live with Him forever.
15. We will only be there rejoicing day and night, sharing testimonies of our experiences when we were having this mortal flesh that is disturbing everybody right now.
16. In no distant time, we are going to shed it. All that are faithful and remain faithful will experience it. The rest will say, “Had I known.”
17. I thank God that I am here at last to affirm and attest to this age-long promise which God made and entered into an everlasting Covenant with His Beloved that at last, I am here. At last, I am here to mark the end of all things.
18. [9]In that day the people will proclaim, “THIS IS OUR GOD IN WHOM WE TRUST, FOR WHOM WE WAITED.NOW AT LAST HE IS HERE.” What a day of rejoicing! [Isaiah 25:9 LB]
19. [17-18]FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS ARRIVED TO LIVE AMONG YOU. HE IS A MIGHTY SAVIOUR. HE WILL GIVE YOU VICTORY. He will rejoice over you with great gladness; he will love you and not accuse you.” Is that a joyous choir I hear? No, it is the Lord himself exulting over you in happy song. “I have gathered your wounded and taken away your reproach. [Zephaniah 3:17 – 18 LB]
20. Who will believe My report? Only those that proceedeth from God. Who will hear My Voice and recognize My Voice? Only those that came from God. The rest will not.
21. So tonight, it is like God wants us to continue from where we stopped. We had a Message we were reading, but it pleased the LORD, while I was praying, to change the topic.
22. And the topic we are going to consider is a continuation of what we have been hearing for almost two weeks now.
23. We want to go through this Message entitled, CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT. CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT. Remember we have been talking about our spiritual standpoint.
24. OUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT DETERMINES OUR PHYSICAL STANDPOINT. OUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT IN CHRIST DETERMINES THE POSITION WE ARE STANDING PHYSICALLY. AM I MAKING SENSE? THE SPIRIT MANIFESTS ITS WORK IN THE FLESH – IN THE PHYSICAL.
25. SO, FOR THAT REASON, OF A NECESSITY, GOD IS AIMING AT SOMETHING. GOD WANTS ALL OF US TO RIGHTLY POSITION OURSELVES WHERE WE BELONG TO. HE DOES NOT WANT ANYBODY TO BEGIN TO APPORTION PLACES TO US.
26. HE WANTS IT TO BE DONE THROUGH HIS WORD, THROUGH HIS REVELATION, THROUGH OUR MANIFESTATIONS. HE WANTS US TO BE OUR OWN JUDGES, AND POSITIONALLY PLACE OURSELVES RIGHTLY WHERE WE BELONG TO.
27. So that on that day, nobody will say, “I would have done this, but Brother was wicked. I would have been there, but it was my Sister that led me out.” There will never be any excuse.
28. So, in continuation of that same Message, I invite our Brother Promise to the Pulpit to handle this Message by reading it audibly and clearer than ever.
29. CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT. This Message was preached by Bishop Chidubem Jonathan in his family in the Household of God in Bonny, Rivers State. Let us pay attention.
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CARNALITY IS OPPOSED TO SPIRITUALITY
CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Preached by Bishop Chidubem Jonathan, Household of God, Port Harcourt on the 18th of July 2020.
2. Page 15; Nugget: UNTIL YOU HAVE TAKEN IT IN THE SAME WAY YOU TAKE YOUR DAILY FOOD, THE POWER IN THE WORD CANNOT BE MADE MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE. …
3. If you have not taken the Word of God inside you in the same way you take food inside, the power of God will never be made manifest in your character, in your daily life and in My own, no matter who you are.
4. You see why the Bible enjoins us that we should desire the Word of God more than our necessary food, for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
5. 12I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. [Job 23:12 AMP]
6. And the Psalmist went further to encourage us saying, “Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I may not sin against you.”
7. 11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. [Psalms 119:11 KJV]
8. THERE IS NOTHING THAT INSULATES A SEED OF GOD; A TRUE CHILD OF GOD AGAINST ERROR; AGAINST USELESS AND SILLY THOUGHTS IF NOT HIS OR HER KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORD OF GOD; OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH HE HAS ACCUMULATED IN HIS HEART.
9. That is why the Bible said that we should not be forgetful hearers deceiving ourselves.
10. In other words, He wants us to retain the knowledge of God we have acquired through the revelation of His Word in our hearts.
11. …GOD‘S POWER OF TRANSFORMATION IS VESTED IN HIS WORD. What am I saying? We take in the Word of God as food for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God.
12. If you take in the Word of God as your necessary food, the same way you take the natural food to enable you get enough strength to live, so you take the Word of God to get spiritual strength which will enable you to live right with God. Am I making sense? [THE POTTER AND THE CLAY; Pg.24:15 & Pg. 25:18 – 19]
13. Matthew 16:21-23 (AMP) From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples [clearly] that He must go to Jerusalem, and endure many things at the hands of the elders and the chief priests and scribes (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court), and be killed, and be raised [from death to life] on the third day.
14. Peter took Him aside [to speak to Him privately] and began to reprimand Him, saying, “May God forbid it! This will never happen to You.” But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on things of God, but on things of man.”
15. Is it possible for that same spirit to rest on a human being today? Was Peter a human being? Married with children and had an occupation? Was he working with Christ? The answer is yes.
16. Why was he reasoning from the human angle? Why was he a stumbling block? Why was he anointed falsely? This is because the Lord Himself said, “This thought of yours did not emanate from God. You are a stumbling block. You are an offence.”
17. The Lord told him clearly, “Peter! You are Satan!” Can somebody be satanic without knowing it? The answer is yes! Why? As at that time, Peter was not yet converted.
18. Peter was still doing the work of God with unconverted heart. That was why he became an instrument in the hand of the devil.
19. To prove him further, before the Lord departed from him and others, He said, “Peter, the devil wanted to gain advantage over you to use you against Me to obstruct My mission, but I prayed for you that your faith fail not. Peter! Anytime, any day you are converted, strengthen your brethren. Help them to be converted.”
20. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. [Luke 22:31 – 32 KJV]
21. You see why the Bible said, “Let him that will speak do so as an oracle of God.”
22. IF ANY MAN SPEAK, LET HIM SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD; IF ANY MAN MINISTER, LET HIM DO IT AS OF THE ABILITY WHICH GOD GIVETH; that God inall things may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. [1 Peter 4:11 KJV]
23. As at that time, Peter was not an oracle of God. Peter was not an instrument in the hand of God to further the mission of the Master. Rather, he was full of doubt and full of hypocrisy.
24. If you go to the Book of Galatians chapter 2 and read from verse 12, you see it clearly written that when Peter was eating with the Gentiles, having claimed to believe in Jesus Christ who came and abolished the law, and introduced grace and truth, nailing the law to the cross, Peter believed it.
25. Peter preached it in the house of Cornelius, but when he was eating with the Gentiles, he was there with James and Barnabas, immediately he saw saint Paul coming, what happened?
26. He started withdrawing. Saint Paul caught the joke and rebuked him publicly, for he was to be blamed. According to the Scriptures, he was not honest with the things he believed, for he was a hypocrite.
27. 11But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. [Galatians 2:11 – 13 KJV]
28. To crown it all, when he saw that the Master was no longer around, he was the one who, instead of going a fishing for men, for the command was, “This day, I will make you fisher of men, if you follow me.”
29. But instead of becoming fisher of men, he led the whole of the Apostles and the disciples to the sea to fish natural fish, to continue with his worldly occupation.
30. He was doing it naked, to the point that when the Master was coming, he could not notice it was the Master.
31. It took John to stoop low and say, “Peter, this is the Lord.” When Peter looked and came to his senses that that was the Lord, what did he do?
32. Hypocritically, he dived into the river, naked. But the Lord saw him from afar that he was naked and that what he was doing was contrary to the commission that was given to him.
33. 2There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas, called the Twin, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, also the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples.
34. 3Simon Peter said to them, I am going fishing! They said to him, And we are coming with you! So they went out and got into the boat, and throughout that night they caught nothing.
35. 4Morning was already breaking when Jesus came to the beach and stood there. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. …
36. … 7Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord! Simon Peter, hearing him say that it was the Lord, put (girded) on his upper garment (his fisherman’s coat, his outer tunic) — for he was stripped [for work] — and sprang into the sea. [John 21:2 – 4, & 7 AMP]
37. Was there any wonder why he denied with an oath, “May God punish me if I know that man.” Who was “That man?” The Lord. The Messiah, who he [Peter] was eating and drinking with, now became “That man”.
38. Then, Peter said, “I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know that man!” [Matthew 26:74 GNB. Also Mark 14:71, Luke 22:60]
39. Satan can use you. When you yield to Satan, you become an instrument in his hand. All your actions will be satanic and your words, satanic. What will you be? You will be a tempter. You will be an obstacle. You will be a stumbling block to others.
40. You see why we must be very sure and certain of our spiritual standpoint, especially at this very hour as we wait for the translation of our mortal bodies.
41. You see why God said we should go home. Let everybody go home and put his family in order. Prepare your family the same way Noah prepared his own for the translation of our mortal bodies, for if we were to cluster together somewhere, a good number of those we call brethren would have been worrying us spiritually and physically.
42. There is not even one of us who will say he was free from the troubles of the mixed multitude, for they were in the majority in every Local Assembly. Do not be surprised that there can be traces of the mixed multitude in our families.
43. After all, those people who were mixed multitudes came from homes. That is why God said we should go home and sanitize our families. Let everybody know his standpoint by the spirit controlling you.
44. BY YOUR UTTERANCES, BY YOUR BEHAVIOUR, BY YOUR THINKING AND BY YOUR REASONING, YOU WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU BELONG TO.
45. So, when we say hypocrites or mixed multitudes, nobody needs to be gazing at the sky or begin to ask, “Is it I?” This is because I know Who I am. I believe you know who you are.
46. I know what I am doing. I know what I am thinking. I know what I am manifesting. If my obedience to the truth is fulfilled, I know. If it is half, I know. HALF OBEDIENCE IS NO OBEDIENCE.
47. If I am merely suppressing my feelings, lest people will begin to look at me as an unbeliever, I know. If I am honest with what I believe, I know. If I am walking dishonestly, I know.
48. The same is applicable to all of us in this Family and in this Bridal Faith, for God has given to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, that we may attain His divine nature. True or false?
49. Is there anything that is left? Tell me, if there be any aspect of human life spiritually and physically which God has never touched in this Bridal Faith. So, we are without excuses.
50. Who will like to be that Satan who will be a stumbling block to others? A tempter, who will speak as an agent of the devil because he does not have the word settled in his heart. The heart was not circumcised. Unconverted heart!
51. Pg. 21 vs. 11. You see why you should always crosscheck your standpoint. He said you are a stumbling block, a trap, an obstacle, why? It is because he was thinking from human side and not God’s side.
52. It was not from the spiritual side. It was carnal.
53. Pg. 21 vs. 12. Nothing breeds disagreement between two persons more than their standpoint. Wherever there is disagreement, contention, dispute, etc two things are involved: either that one party is setting his mind on things of man and the other on things of God or both parties are setting their minds on the side of man.
54. I really do not know whether we are getting this Message. Wherever there is dispute between two or more persons; wherever there is dispute, wrangling, misgivings, hate, acrimony, bitterness, complaining, murmuring, grumbling;
55. Wherever there is a sign of eavesdropping, the person will not be surefooted and move confidently; the person sneaks; watch what is happening in that individual and the people who are having that trouble with that person.
56. One is standing upon the natural things, the earthly plain, the carnal side of life. That is where one is standing. He is reasoning and taking his decisions from that natural point and not spiritual point, while the rest are reasoning spiritually.
57. That person and his colleagues are reasoning physically, earthly and carnally. One is opposed to the other.
58. That is why the Bible recorded in Galatians that the carnal children were in opposition to the spiritual children.
59. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. [Galatians 2:29 KJV]
60. Anybody who is walking carnally is in opposition to somebody who is operating spiritually. The Bible said that the flesh is in enmity with the spirit.
61. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
62. 9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. [Romans 8:7 – 9 KJV]
63. When you are acting based on human impulse, you are acting carnally. When you talk, you are talking carnally. Your views, ideas and manifestations run contrary to the approved lifestyle which God had already decided before now to be the pattern of life for all his children.
64. You see why we must, from time to time, if not always, know whether we are having our standpoint on all issues pertaining to life and godliness on carnal side or spiritual side.
65. This is because, if you are spiritual, you will judge all things. And you, no human being will judge, for once you are acting spiritually, the Spirit of Christ directing you, there is no way the Spirit of Christ can direct you into error. Impossible! I say, impossible!
66. But when you are walking by sight; what eyes can see, what ears can hear, what you can perceive, what you can reason, you are totally lost. You become another Peter. Let there be no such person here.
67. If Peter maintained a good record from the beginning till the end, there would not have been a need for another Peter in this end time. If the first Adam who was a natural man had succeeded in obeying God, there would not have been a need for a second Adam. Are you hearing what I am saying?
68. If the first Jesus was not polluted by the world, will there be any reason for the revelation of another new Name? That name would have continued.
69. But looking at that Name, it was polluted along the way; hijacked by the world. The devil hijacked the name Jesus. That is why all evils today are perpetrated in the Name of Jesus.
70. Even in the shrines, in pagan worship, you see them calling Jesus. In all false churches, Jesus. The uniting name for all heathens today; all unbelievers is Jesus. Though they differ in practices, but they are united in the name.
71. And the LORD dropped that name immediately, for because of that name, the Almighty has suffered the greatest blasphemy in this age.
72. He now revealed a New Name to His Elect, which is secret. Nobody knows it except those to whom God decided the reveal the New Name. And the Almighty God slammed a warning.
73. That is why My eyes are red over anybody who professes the New Name of God in unrighteousness and in ungodliness. There is no way I can spare that person in this life and in the hereafter. There is no way!
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WHAT DOES THE LORD OUR GOD REQUIRE FROM US?
CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Pg. 22 vs. 13 – 14 13Peter took Him aside [to speak to Him privately] and began to reprimand, rebuke, oppose, remonstrate Him, saying, “May God forbid it! This will never happen to You, this must not happen to You.” Maybe Peter forgot his Master’s commission or he could not believe it because it was contrary to his expectation of what could become of the Son of God.
2. 14How can the Son of God suffer in the hand of mere men? How can He even die? Can God die? I can see so many things going on in Peter’s mind about Jesus. …
3. Like it is happening in too many people today, even among us. Hence, you do not know their position in Christ. They are merely joining us in Fellowship, but they lack the spiritual revelation of what we are doing and of what God is doing in our lives and in our midst in these last days.
4. 18This is why the scripture warns us not to act thoughtlessly but to find out the Lord’s will.
5. Do not act thoughtlessly. Try to find out and do that which the LORD is expecting from you. Is it not what is causing trouble today? People acting and behaving thoughtlessly.
6. Nobody sits down to enquire, “What does the LORD our God require from us; the Israel of God.” Are we not the Israel of God? What does the LORD our God require from us? That is what we have been considering in our family altar for two days now.
7. I hope you have not forgotten what we are going through.
8. 21DO NOT ACT THOUGHTLESSLY BUT FIRST OF ALL TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT THE LORD WANTS AND THEN DO IT.
9. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO DISCOVER AND UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD’S WILL FOR US IS THEN ADJUST ACCORDINGLY.
10. 22THIS IS BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY THAT SEEMETH RIGHT IN THE EYES OF A MAN, BUT THE END IS THAT OF DESTRUCTION…. Amen! Amen!
11. You see why God said, “Anybody that is allowed to have his way MUST destroy himself prematurely.” Walking without a Guide; walking alone; walking without Christ. Where do you think that person is ending his life?
12. 21DO NOT ACT THOUGHTLESSLY BUT FIRST OF ALL TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT THE LORD WANTS AND THEN DO IT.
13. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO DISCOVER AND UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD’S WILL FOR US IS THEN ADJUST ACCORDINGLY.
14. 22THIS IS BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY THAT SEEMETH RIGHT IN THE EYES OF A MAN, BUT THE END IS THAT OF DESTRUCTION…. Amen!
15. There is a testimony I received from Enugu. A definite experience! It is better you hear it from the person. And he is no other person but Bro John Barnes; Bro John the Deacon.
16. He went to bed after going through the Message, CIRCUMCIZE YOUR HEART AND NOT YOUR FLESH. He prayed and went to bed. He was meditating, not that he was asleep.
17. The LORD put him in between the two. He heard audible Voice; God querying him. He sprang up furiously from the bed. The wife who was lying by his side sprang up in fear asking what the matter was all about.
18. It took him time to open his mouth. He narrated the experience he had and the Voice that spoke to Him directly, which he heard.
19. I told you the hour has come when God will be meeting us as individuals in different ways to get you convinced that you are really having dealings with God who knows all things and seeth all things. Let us continue.
20. 24…what one thought as blessing could end up being a curse and that presumed as a curse can later turn out as a blessing when attained. Sure!!! Sure!!!
21. 25This is why we should allow ourselves to be guided to enable us to guard our thoughts, guard our words and guard our actions at all times.
22. This is why we should do what? Allow ourselves to be guided by the Word of God so that we that have received the guidance can now help others. We will be a guide to others.
23. But have we submitted ourselves to be guided by God. Are we not behaving thoughtlessly? Do we not fraught our minds with silly thoughts? Who has ever yielded his life and his plans even into the hand of God asking for direction?
24. It is very difficult for man to do it. And that is why we see people lamenting and sorrowing, with some even dying, incurring the wrath of God upon themselves and their families.
25. 25This is why we should allow ourselves to be guided to enable us to guard our thoughts, guard our words and guard our actions at all times. Sure!!!
26. 26From the foregoing, we can see that being a highly placed and honoured member of the church or any religious organization does not immune the person from becoming Satan. Sure!!!
27. 27When you are in the church and the parameter for evaluating everything is from human perspective, the human senses: what you can see, what you can hear, what you can touch and feel, what you can taste, what you can smell surely you will be in opposition. Sure!!!
28. 31But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “WHY WASN‘T THIS PERFUME SOLD AND THE MONEY GIVEN TO THE POOR? IT WAS WORTH A YEAR‘S WAGES.”
29. 32He did not say this because he cared about the poor but BECAUSE HE WAS A THIEF; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it. [John 12:1 – 8 NIV]
30. He was a thief! He was pilfering the money in his custody. He never knew that the Lord Jesus Christ knew it, until He made it public. When he made it public, did Judas deny it. He denied it not.
31. 38Matthew 26:6-8 (KJV)“Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
32. 39BUT WHEN HIS DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY HAD INDIGNATION, SAYING, TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
33. Remember, it was not their money. They were not consulted by the woman, but an act of sacrifice a woman was rendering to her own Lord and Master, the Almighty God by revelation, provoked the so called disciples who were following Him o.
34. They were not heathens drawn from outside o. They were those who claim to be His followers. They became envious. They became jealous. They were devising all these things in their hearts. And all of them, in unison, said it was a waste of money. Did you get the Message?
35. Do you know what is happening in the minds and hearts of all today, for which cause all of them lost their positions and they are now sitting down? Do you know why they sat down, while THE SON OF MAN is still standing?
36. That was what happened in the Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. All these people who were harbouring that iniquity in their hearts; harbouring evil and criticizing, the money did not belong to them o. The perfume did not belong to them.
37. What could be responsible for their demonstrating against it, if not envy and jealousy? Is it not true? I am telling you that this spirit has possessed many people today.
38. What is causing people to develop cold feet in the service of the LORD is happening inside them. And the LORD knows all, no matter who you are. Young or old, God knows.
39. Remember that they did not run away from Him. They were still milling around Him. That was why, immediately the enemies; the Pharisees arrested Him, all of them ran away.
40. There was not even one that followed, except Peter and John. John was following quietly without talking, but Peter, who was making a hell of noise, got there and became dumb.
41. He himself, when he was discovered to be one of the disciples, Peter denied the first time. The second time, Peter denied. The third time, Peter swore an oath against himself, invoking God Almighty to punish him if he ever knew the Lord Jesus Christ.
42. I THANK GOD. FROM MY EXPERIENCES SO FAR, WITH HUMAN BEINGS I MET IN THE BRIDE, ESPECIALLY THOSE I CALLED TO MYSELF AS MINISTERS, FROM THE VERY OFFICIAL BEGINNING ON 30TH DECEMBER, 1992 TILL NOW, I HAVE ACTUALLY BELIEVED WITHOUT ANY IOTA OF DOUBT THAT ENVY, JEALOUSY AND HATE HAVE BEEN THE BANE OF ALL THE MINISTERS THAT LEFT AND THOSE THAT ARE MILLING AROUND ME HYPOCRITICALLY.
43. THEY RAISED THEIR CHILDREN; THEY RAISED THEIR FAMILY WITH THAT SELFSAME SPIRIT. HENCE, ALL OF THEM ARE EXPECTING WHAT THE SON OF MAN WILL DO FOR THEM, AND NOT WHAT THEY WILL DO TO FOSTER THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST COMMITTED INTO OUR HANDS.
44. WATCH THEIR BEHAVIOURS. WATCH THEIR ATTITUDES. WATCH THEIR FAMILIES. THEY HAVE CORRUPTED THEIR CHILDREN AND CORRUPTED THEIR WIVES. EVERY FAMILY IS NOW CORRUPT.
45. NO WONDER GOD HELPED ME TO SEVERE MY FAMILY, AND THEN HELPED ME TO SUPERINTEND MY FAMILY TO MAKE SURE THE CORRUPTION DOES NOT COME INTO THIS FAMILY.
46. AND WHOSOEVER THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO BRING IT IN, YOU ARE NOT BRINGING IT IN FOR US, FOR YOU CANNOT CORRUPT MY WIFE AND YOU CANNOT CORRUPT ME. YOU ARE CORRUPTING YOURSELF.
47. I AM ONLY SOUNDING A WARNING TO YOU. YOU ARE CORRUPTING YOURSELF. YOU ARE GIVING ME REASONS WHY I SHOULD DUMP YOU, FOR MY CHILDREN ARE NOT HERE.
48. EVEN IF THEY ARE HERE, THEY ARE MY CO-LABOURERS. THEY ARE STANDING. THEY KNOW BEYOND YOU. THEY KNOW MORE THAN YOU. YOU CANNOT CORRUPT ANY ONE OF THEM. THEY CAN NEVER BE GIVEN OVER TO CORRUPTION.
49. THEN, OF WHAT USE IS WHAT YOU ARE DEVISING? OF WHAT USE IS WHAT YOU ARE MANIPULATING? YOU ARE DOING IT TO YOUR OWN HURT.
50. I AM ONLY CORRECTING YOU FOR YOUR OWN GOOD; ADMONISHING YOU FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, NOT THAT I AM AVOIDING YOU LEST YOU CORRUPT THE SON OF MAN. YOU CANNOT CORRUPT ME. YOU CANNOT CORRUPT MY WIFE.
51. THIS BUILDING IS NOT MY FAMILY. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? THIS COMPOUND IS NOT MY FAMILY. MY FAMILY IS MADE UP OF HUMAN BEINGS. AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY KNOW ME. THIS BUILDING IS JUST A ROOF. THIS IS A ROOF WE HAVE OVER OUR HEAD. IT DOES NOT MAKE FOR THE FAMILY.
52. THERE ARE SO MANY BUILDINGS WHERE NOBODY IS OCCUPYING. DO YOU REFER TO THEM AS FAMILIES? BUT WHEN PEOPLE PACK INTO THOSE HOUSES, THEY BEGIN TO ANSWER FAMILIES. TRUE OR FALSE?
53. SO, IF YOU THINK THAT IN WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING THAT YOU ARE INJURING ME, YOU ARE CORRUPTING YOURSELF AND YOU ARE INJURING YOURSELF. YOU ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO SAVE YOU.
54. Peter thought; Judas thought, and the disciples that they were withstanding Jesus, but did they succeed? Where are they? He left them behind and then handed them over to the spirit of destruction.
55. Watch John Mark. Watch Barnabas. And all of them. Watch Hymenaeus and Diotrephes. Watch all of them. Philetus and Alexander [the copper smith].
56. Were they not Apostles? But he handed them over to the spirit of destruction.
57. So let me sound it tonight. Why you MUST crosscheck your spiritual standpoint as we wait for the translation of our mortal bodies, and which can take place any time from now.
58. WHEN I AM HERE AND YOU ARE HERE, THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY.
59. May be God knows why He decided to send My children away and allowed you to be around Me, so that I have no other people I am teaching in My own nuclear Family here and now, except you.
60. This is because I love you. I do not want you to perish. But the moment you are manifesting a different thing, contrary to the teachings, you are giving Me reasonable excuse to dump you. You are giving Me admissible evidence that you desire hell more than heaven. Period!
61. 39BUT WHEN HIS DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY HAD INDIGNATION, SAYING, TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
62. They had what? Indignation. The sacrifice offered to the Lord Jesus Christ by somebody else was provoking them.
63. “See the goat that was brought here. A goat was brought to Him. A cow was equally brought to him. He was given money.” And this and that.
64. DO NOT WORRY. MANY ARE OUT OF THE WAY OF SALVATION. AND THEY KNOW. THERE IS NOBODY WHO DOES NOT KNOW HIS SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT.
65. I am only saying these things I am saying so that you may know that I know who you are, and where you are standing. And I know what is happening in the minds of all of them. I know why their hands have grown tired and their legs tired. I know all. So, nobody can take Me unawares.
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GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EVERY MAN’S HEART [1]
CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Pg. 22 from vs. 40.40When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me. Sure!!!
2. A woman is now being commended by the Almighty God. The act of that woman was a welcomed act to the Lord Jesus Christ. How many of those so called disciples ever rendered such service to Him? How many ever sacrificed anything?
3. They were watching Him, with a view to finding faults. If you want to find fault with a faultless fellow, you are the one that will get tired. You are wounding yourself.
4. You are only working against yourself, for the snail that is shedding water while on fire is quickening its death.
5. 43You know the meaning of indignation for you to know the level of anger and condemnation leveled against Jesus for allowing such to happen.
6. 44Dictionary.com defines indignation as strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
7. Remember, not even one of them opened their mouths to speak. The LORD discerned their hearts. He saw the chagrin on their faces. He saw the way they were rubbing their legs on the ground and the angry resentments by which they were shaking their heads, and touching one another.
8. He discerned what was going on and He poured it on them immediately. Not even one argued or said it is not true.
9. GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EVERY MAN’S HEART. AND THAT IS WHAT WILL JUSTIFY YOU OR CONDEMN YOU.
10. 46YOU CAN SEE, THAT IS WHY WHILE OTHER DISCIPLES TRIED TO CONTAIN THEIRS after the Master’s intervention Judas Iscariot could not bear it any longer. He bolted away to plan for revenge with the Chief Priest.
11. 47To him, that was the height of Jesus unfair treatment to them. How could Jesus have allowed such amount to be wasted just like that when they were suffering?
12. As if that would have solved all their problems. Solve the problems today; tomorrow, problems will continue. Am I making sense?
13. As if the cost of that alabaster oil, if it is sold according to them, the money will solve the problems of the whole Apostles.
14. THAT SPIRIT IS CONSTANTLY AT WORK IN ALL THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.
15. When I say children of disobedience, I do not call you children because of your age. You are children as far as God is concerned. Before God, everybody is a child. Am I making sense?
16. Nothing killed all the Ministers if not this greed. If not this greed. Greedy dogs who want to reap where they never sowed.
17. 48“Does it mean this man is just pretending to be caring for them when every opportunity that would have been used to better their lot he converts to his own useless gain with flimsy reason?
18. 49Does he think everybody is like Peter, James and John that he deceives? Thank god I witnessed this one. I will show him that I am an intelligent man that cannot be fooled. I will give it to him hot this time around.”
19. Remember we are revealing spirits that are constantly at work among the children of disobedience. They still mill around Him, but look at the level of hate. Look at the level of hypocrisy. They were merely suppressing their feelings. Look at what they were muttering in their hearts.
20. I gave you a Message titled, I HAVE SEEN MY FAULTS TODAY. After seeing your faults, what did you do? May be they were of the opinion that Jesus was too poor that he could not provide for his perfume. Yet, they were anticipating help from Him o.
21. They were also anticipating help. Which means that He has been helping them, but they were never satisfied. Even if He killed Himself, they will not be satisfied.
22. How I wish he shared the bottle of alabaster oil, so that those who had no dressing will be pouring perfume, “Man, spray this perfume on our bodies.”
23. Who can believe it that common biscuits and banana pushed Okey Nwamkpa out of the Faith? He stopped going to the pulpit. And that is Bishop John Ezemachiri. He is still alive. Groundnuts and banana. Silly things!
24. EVERY MAN MUST GO THE WAY HE IS ORDAINED. YOU MUST KNOW WHERE YOU ARE STANDING. YOU MUST KNOW IT. YOU MUST KNOW IT. I MUST KNOW IT.
25. WHATEVER THAT IS HAPPENING INSIDE YOU, IF YOU SAY YOU DO NOT KNOW IT, YOU ARE LYING AGAINST YOUR CONSCIENCE.
26. THERE IS NO SPIRIT OPERATING IN EVERY HUMAN BEING WHICH GOD IS NOT REVEALING, EVEN TONIGHT.
27. 50Let‟s go down a little and see the outcome of the indignation. REMEMBER ALL THE CHIEF OF THE APOSTLES WERE INVOLVED IN THIS MATTER. … No exemption!
28. Yet, they were milling around Him, sleeping with Him and having everything in common with Him.
29. Can you now begin to see why I came back this evening with My wife? Since morning we left, we wanted to see Mama Ikebude and cheer her up as she clocks 89 years tomorrow.
30. With the little thing we prepared here, we went there to have Fellowship with her and the entire family. We were well received. We were warmly received.
31. Then we sat down with them and encouraged the family and encouraged Mama. And from there, we went to the market and picked few items. We came back here, and I separated Myself. You all saw Me.
32. Then, I sent for Chika. While I sent others for family chores, I called Chika and told him what to do for Me. And it became a problem.
33. CROSSCHECK YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT BECAUSE IT IS THE MATTER AT STAKE RIGHT NOW. IT IS THE MATTER AT STAKE RIGHT NOW. IT IS ANOTHER WAY OF TELLING YOU, “GIVE YOURSELF A NAME.”
34. You can be the Peter tonight, who is now Satan. I wonder when he became the saint. Well, let Me not talk about the old Peter.
35. Let Me talk about that same spirit. It was not in Peter alone. It was in Judas. It was in the rest of the Apostles. Not even one escaped it.
36. Hence, we could not hear anything emanating from their families. They were married and they had children. But the Bible never told us how they ran their families.
37. We could only read about Philip who had five daughters who believed God and became prophetesses.
38. As for the rest, whether their wives were believers or not, we did not know; even their sons and daughters.
39. 8And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea; and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. [Acts 21:8 – 9 KJV]
40. BUT WE GIVE GOD THE PRAISE IN OUR OWN DAY THAT GOD STEPPED IN TO CORRECT ALL THESE IMBALANCES.
41. YOU MUST FIND YOURSELF THROUGH THE WORD, FOR THE MIND OF GOD CONCERNING YOU IS REVEALED TO YOU THROUGH THE WORDS OF THE MESSENGER ASSIGNED TO YOU IN YOUR OWN DAY.
42. I AM NOT A MESSENGER. I AM HE.
43. Let us go ahead with this Message. I hope nobody is dozing. If a Message like this is will be going on and you are dozing, you are the devil claiming to be the Saint.
44. …They were all indignant at him.51THEY CONCLUDED HIS ACTION AS UNFAIR, WRONG, SHAMEFUL, SELFISH, UNRIGHTEOUS, WASTEFUL, OH NO! …
45. Every action of man; every thought of man today; that which you think you are the first, somebody had already manifested it. You see why we warn you, for spirits do not die.
46. You see, they yielded themselves to the spirit of envy; to the spirit of jealousy; to the spirit of hate and greed. And then that spirit that came from the devil possessed all of them.
47. Hence, not even one was converted. The Lord now enjoined Peter, “Any time you are converted, help the rest to get converted.”
48. If Peter who was adjudged by all of them to be the chief or the chiefest was not converted, begin to think of the rest. That was why, immediately he fell away in that hypocrisy, he rejoined with the Jews and all of them followed.
49. Saint Paul who met God on the way to Damascus with this everlasting Gospel, Peter and James now became the greatest stumbling block the devil used to incite the Jews against saint Paul, against Timothy, against Titus and the rest of them; accusing them of not preaching the necessity of Moses’ laws which was the same Message the Lord Jesus Christ handed down which Peter claimed he believed.
50. The Lord knew he never believed, for He knew those who believed and those who will not believe. And as long as you do not believe, there is no way you can get transformed to the image of His Son. you can never have God’s own nature.
51. THERE IS NO WAY ANYBODY THAT REJECTS THE TRUTH FROM GOD CAN HAVE GOD’S NATURE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.
52. He will be a stumbling block and full of indignation, anger, ready to do harm and hurt, even envying things that do not concern Him.
53. The money does not concern you. You did not give the woman the money. You did not buy the materials. You as a man what have you offered Christ? What have you used to celebrate Christ? How many times have you come even with kolanuts as thanksgiving? If you do that, is it a crime?
54. But everyday, you receive a parcel; you receive money; you eat and you drink from others.
55. There are too many who, from the day this Faith started till now who do not know anything called thanksgiving except others are doing it.
56. They enjoy others thanking God and praising God, but to them, nobody has ever taken a glass of water in the name of the LORD from their hand.
57. Yet, these are the people that are always filled with indignation whenever they see THE SON OF MAN receiving on behalf of the Deity sacrifices of Praise, of services and of materials from those who are appreciative of what God has done in their lives.
58. These are the people that got tired. What wearied them down was what was happening in them. It became too much that their feet became cold and their hands cold. They MUST account for all they have benefitted from God.
59. Apostle Kelechi preached a Message titled, WHAT IS THE HOPE OF A HYPOCRITE? In his craftiness and subtlety, all that he has gotten from the LORD; all that he has benefitted from the Brethren in the Name of the LORD at one time or the other; he MUST vomit all. Apostle Kelechi preached it.
60. And he read the scriptures. Whatever a hypocrite gains from God or the children of God in his hypocrisy, he MUST vomit all.
61. He MUST vomit every bit of it, for the LORD will require all from him, and then sentence him to hell.
62. When you become an obstacle because you are the first; you now hinder others from continuing in the Faith, for your attitude is discouraging many, what can you say about the words of your mouth?
63. Are you discouraged? Every true seed of God is greatly encouraged by God’s revelations. It helps you to adjust yourself very well, knowing that God knoweth all things. God knoweth all things.
64. There is no thought and imaginations of the heart of man which God does not hear and see. Even the one you mutter in your heart. He will reveal it.
65. That is why the Word of God is always alive, quick and active, piercing the heart, marrow, brain and mind, revealing the intents of the heart; revealing us for what we really are.
66. THE WORD OF God is a discerner. Even as I am talking to you now, you know your hearts. You know your hearts. You know what is going on in your hearts.
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GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EVERY MAN’S HEART [2]
CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Pg. 38 vs. 59.59Verse 14 – 16: Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, what will ye give me, and i will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
2. SURE!!! As if thirty pieces of silver will solve all his problems. Thirty pieces. Thirty naira or thirty thousand naira.
3. SPIRITS DO NOT DIE. God will expose all these things that are happening in the individuals so that when you are manifesting it, you are not taking God unawares, for He had already seen them.
4. He has heard it. He has known everything you are planning, for He is the Chiefest of all the planners.
5. 54And (the unbelievers) plotted and planned, and Allah too planned, AND THE BEST OF PLANNERS IS ALLAH. [Surah 3:54 Abdullah Yusuf Ali]
6. Can a man outsmart God? Who gave you that sense? Who gave you the brain? Who made you a human being?
7. 60…For Judas to have accepted as ransom of just thirty pieces of silver which is less than a tenth of the worth of the perfume shows the extent of his anger.
8. Is it a lie Brethren? Is it not true? Today, they will plan kidnapping so that they will get their ransom. Profit-sharing! This is true!
9. As if that money will solve your problem in the whole world and send them to heaven.
10. 61Imagine accepting less than a tenth of what a woman sacrificed as part of her devotion to the Master. By worldly and generally accepted standards, ethics, values, ideals, morals, principles name it Judas may be adjudged right and Jesus wrong that time but only time would tell. Sure!!!
11. 622 Corinthians 5:16 (AMP). So, from now on we regard no one from a human point of view… Sure!!! …[according to worldly standards and values]. Sure!!! Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.
12. Watch what He told Judas. He said, “Judas, that which you have planned to do, go and do it quickly.” Quickly! What happened? Did he enjoy the money? No way!
13. He died a shameful death. He hanged himself and died even before Jesus was killed. And before the people who sent him to kill Jesus, He [Jesus] came back to life. A wasted effort!
14. Why? Envy, jealousy, greed and hate because they were of the opinion that Jesus has made them to be unpopular, and because too many people have now believed in him. So, the Jewish Pharisees became disgruntled.
15. Then, those who claimed they were with Him, who were Apostles and disciples, what will be their own reason? They were merely playing hypocrisy.
16. Hence Jesus never trusted in any of them. The Bible said He could not trust any, for He knew how changeable human beings are.
17. [24-25]But Jesus didn’t trust them, for he knew mankind to the core. No one needed to tell him how changeable human nature is! [John 2:24 – 25 LB]
18. Is it in this our own day that human beings are not changeable? Who are you trusting today? Tell Me who you can confide in.
19. Milling around THE SON OF MAN does not make you a believer. It does not make you a Saint, for you may have impure reasons; impure motives; satanic motives why you are clustering around Him. You think He does not know. He knows all.
20. But I thank God that in this final lap, HE that came told you clearly that He is an indestructible Being. He said He is not afraid of your antics and plans. By the time you finish planning, He will strike. He will send you to the great beyond, straightaway!
21. In your planning stage, He will allow you. At the conceptual stage, he will allow you. But at the implementation level, He must surely strike. Of course, you know the testimony.
22. I am not saying it so that you will become afraid of God. No! That which you want to plan or foment, go ahead. He is waiting for you somewhere. After cooking, would you not dish it out.
23. When you retire to your house, would you not lie down? Even if you are standing, He knows how to push you down. He knows where to hold you, and He knows how to stop you. The moment He sees it and tells you, that’s all.
24. If not for one statement, do you not know that Ugochukwu was already dead. Only but one statement saved him. Then, I pardoned him. And then told him, “You will live.”
25. Before then I had already considered him, a young man in the grave because what I wanted to do is best known to Me.
26. HE that will tell Bro Sam, “Look at what is standing before Me; And See the following things. I do not want you to share it with anybody. Let Me not hear it from your mouth. Leave this battle. The LORD Himself will fight this battle for you. And your ears will hear; your eyes will see. Let Me go out.”
27. Is it the first one? Even in My own family, is it not why they run away from Me? Be very sure you do not provoke Me to go that way. Once I notice it, of course you know that you are trailing on the most dangerous ground.
28. 63So from now on we should regard no one, we should judge nothing from human point of view according to worldly standards and values because IF WE DO WE ARE LIKELY TO BECOME SATANIC.
29. That is, stumbling block. We will never escape from all the qualities of the devil. Every attribute of the devil must be found in us.
30. Is there no cause for this Message? Is there no reason why, of all the Messages in the library, this one was selected?
31. And I thank God Chika can tell how it was selected. Promise can tell how it was selected. It was even Promise that helped to give us the correct title. I was saying that it was Examine Your Standpoint, but we checked and could not see it. Then, Promise now said, CROSSCHECK. He even helped and we got it.
32. 63So from now on we should regard no one, we should judge nothing from human point of view according to worldly standards and values because IF WE DO WE ARE LIKELY TO BECOME SATANIC. Amen!!!
33. You know, I fear God. I praise God. When this Message came to My hand, I did not open it. I began to call My son Wisdom, the Pastor.
34. I was sure that he was writing afternoon paper. So I became afraid, lest I call him when he will be writing the examination. And that will be very dangerous.
35. I looked up and looked down and Oh! It was almost 5.30pm. I said, “Ok. Let Me call.” I called him. One touch and he picked and said, “Daddy!” I asked, “Are you through with the exam?” He said, “Daddy, I am at the step. I am coming out of the hall. I am just at the step when my phone rang.”
36. He has not even come to the outside. He had just finished writing. He was coming out and at the step there, the call came. One touch and he picked it.
37. I commanded him to send it global for consideration tonight. He said, “Daddy, I will do it immediately here and right now.” He did not hesitate.
38. I know that as I am considering it in this Family with you, so all of them are considering it.
39. I love him because when he gets orders from me, he handles all of them with precision. No delay. No excuse. It is one of the things that endears him to My heart.
40. 64Begin now to understand what it means to be satanic, to work in opposition to God. …
41. Can you see the irony of it all? How can a servant envy his Master? How can a servant be envious and jealous of his Master?
42. Is it not an act of wickedness for a servant to be envious and jealous of his Master? Is there anything you gave to your Master to keep for you? Did your Master take that which belongs to you? Is your Master hindering your way?
43. If your master is hindering your progress, you leave him and go so as to develop your potentials.
44. Brethren, have you seen that spirits do not die, for man is envious of another man’s prospects in life, which is none of his business. Oh!
45. The spirit is what is dominating the hearts of man, both male and female; including their children.
46. Do not worry. Sincere Brethren, in their homes tonight will know that, of a truth and of a surety that really the eyes of God are now hot and very red, and that something is about to happen in our midst that will make ears to tingle, for I will not spare hypocrites again.
47. Moreso, when I have taken a decision that all notable hypocrites must die, and we will never attend to their burials. I have already implemented it.
48. Umuokanne has stopped making noise because I said it and I meant it, “This corpse does not belong to us. We will never attend. We will never bury.” If it happens to be My test case, praise God. Who knows where the second is coming from?
49. 64BEGIN NOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SATANIC, TO WORK IN OPPOSITION TO GOD.TELL ME, WHO HAS ESCAPED THIS. IT REQUIRES ONE TO BE CONVERTED, LEAVE HUMAN SIDE, LEAVE HUMAN WAY OF ASSESSMENT AND COME OVER TO THE SIDE OF GOD.
50. It requires what? One to be converted. Circumcise your heart and be no more stubborn. Be no more disobedient. Be no more jealous. Be no more envious. Circumcise your heart and not your flesh, and be obedient to the Word of God, knowing who God is, that He is a God that does not treat people with partiality, and can never accept bribe.
51. There is no partiality with Him. And He does not accept bribe. There is nothing you can do to bribe Him to do otherwise. Once you are guilty, you are guilty, you are guilty.
52. Begin now to think about your own personal life. Even as I am talking to you now, charity, they say begins at home.
53. My biological children are not here. What I have here are My adopted children. If nobody will escape this spirit, except one whose heart is converted, are your hearts converted? Have you escaped this spirit? Can you not see traces of them in you? Thou knoweth. Only you know.
54. There is no individual hearing My Voice here who does not know who he is and what he is thinking, planning, meditating and inventing. Even if you do not say it with your mouth, the LORD has captured it.
55. 65“Get away from me, you Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are thinking merely from a human point of view, and not from God’s. SHOWING COMPASSION WHEN IT IS AGAINST GOD’S WILL FOR THE HOUR.
56. Is it possible? is it possible for somebody to show compassion against the will of God? You see why we must be very careful.
57. TO BE COMPASSIONATE IS TO DO THE WILL OF GOD. IS IT NOT TRUE? THERE IS WHAT WE CALL UNGODLY COMPASSION. UNGODLY COMPASSION HARDENS SOMEBODY IN EVIL. IT CAN NEVER HELP SOMEBODY TO COME OUT FROM EVIL.
58. AND WHOEVER THAT CONSOLES AN EVIL MAN, WHEN HE IS EVIL, IS A PART OF THAT EVIL. THE LORD MUST ALSO REGARD THAT PERSON AS A GUILTY FELLOW.
59. YOU SEE WHY YOU MUST NOT MAKE THOUGHTLESS STATEMENTS. THOUGHTLESS COMPASSION. DO NOT ACT THOUGHTLESSLY.
60. REASON IN THE SAME LINE WITH GOD. SEE THINGS WITH THE EYES OF GOD. SEE THINGS THE WAY GOD SEES THEM. HANDLE THINGS THE WAY GOD HANDLES THEM. AND THEN YOU WILL BE JUSTIFIED IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
61. BUT WHEN YOU BEGIN TO ACT FROM THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE, YOU HAVE ALREADY THROWN YOURSELF INTO HELL IGNORANTLY. IT MAY BE RIGHT IN YOUR OWN EYES THAT TIME. BY YOUR OWN ASSESSMENT, YOU MAY NOT SEE ANYTHING WRONG IN IT.
62. Did Peter see anything wrong in it? All those Apostles who were there, full of indignation against their Master, did they know the awful consequences. Look at where it placed all of them in the end.
63. 74Are we not at the end? This is why we should continually cross-check our standpoint. Stop complaining that the message is harsh that we always preach war, war, war. Yes! It is more than war, for the greatest battle that has been on since the creation of man is about to be decided. Sure!!!
64. 75That‟s why Joshua pulled his sword ready to strike: are you for us or against us. You must declare your standpoint no matter who you are. That was the beginning of his ministry.
65. 76Towards the end when he was concluding he gave a little consideration to the Gibeonites contrary to the revealed word of God their power was diminished. When Moses lowered it a bit by considering the people’s opinion they suffered defeat.
66. DO NOT LOWER YOUR FAITH. DO NOT LOWER YOUR HANDS. DO NOT LOWER YOUR FAITH. DO NOT LOWER YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDARD. DO NOT EVER DO IT. RATHER, STRENGTHEN IT. IF YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDARD IS IN RIGHT STANDARD WITH GOD, CEMENT IT.
67. IF YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE, BEGIN NOW TO RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, PERADVENTURE, THERE MAY BE A WAY OF ESCAPE.
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WARNING GOES BEFORE DESTRUCTION
CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Page 48 Nugget: ANY GROUP THE LORD IS LEADING IS A VICTORIOUS GROUP. ANY INDIVIDUAL THE LORD IS LEADING MUST BE A VICTORIOUS INDIVIDUAL. ALLOW THE LORD TO LEAD YOU AND VICTORY IS COMPLETELY SURE.
2. BUT WHERE HE IS NOT LEADING, DO NOT MAKE A MOVE FOR DISASTER AWAITS YOU. THE LORD HAS APPEARED TO LEAD US HOME. IF YOU BELIEVE IT SAY,” AMEN.”
3. You have seen Him that has given us the victory. That is why the book of Jeremiah the prophet said, “To Him belongeth all the praise, honour, victory, dominion, majesty forever more.” [SALVATION LINK HAS BEEN REVEALED: Preached on 6th may, 2012, Pg. 25 vs. 25-26]
4. CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Pg. 61 vs. 37 – 38. 37So, we have no excuse to give. It is the same message that is taking us to paradise. Begin now to cross-check your standpoint as we wait for time.
5. WHEN YOU HAVE A CERTAIN MINDSET, A RIGID STANCE THAT YOU ARE NOT READY TO EVEN RECONSIDER, YOU ARE AN ILLITERATE.
6. 38Alvin Toffler once wrote: “THE ILLITERATE OF THE 21ST CENTURY WILL NOT BE THOSE WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE, BUT THOSE WHO CANNOT LEARN, UNLEARN, AND RELEARN.”
7. 40Have you even recognized the PERSON, the shew bread of your own day, let alone allowing Him to teach you? If you have any gray area, why not seek for clarification. But in our eyes there was no attractiveness at all, nothing to make us want him.
8. 41Nothing at all to make us want Him. But for you and I, we have no option. For others it may be optional but you and I, we better adjust ourselves. That is the only way we can enjoy peace of mind.
9. God loves all of us. I say, God loves all of us. This is the highest manifestation of love. The Almighty God coming down in person to teach and admonish His own children.
10. Do not worry. There is a package I am putting together. Any moment from now, that package will come; and will only go to the hands of those I have penned their names down, so that no matter how the devil will rage and make noise, they will be unshaken.
11. 43“Quit quarreling with God! Agree with him and you will have peace at last! His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong. Listen to his instructions and store them in your heart. (Job 22:21 – 22, TLB).
12. That grasshopper is deaf, who was eaten by a noisy bird. Let he that has ears; Let him hear what the Spirit is saying to all that say they belong to God.
13. To all that are milling around THE SON OF MAN, warning goes before destruction. Warning goes before destruction. Pride goeth before a fall.
14. CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Pg. 67 vs. 1 – 4. 1Job’s wife was opposite of the husband. Who knows why all Job’s children perished? Could it be that Job’s wife was in opposition and never allowed his children to follow the ways of righteousness like their father?
15. 2The only mention about them was in celebration of birthdays and merriment, after which their father will apprehensively atone for them. Not that the sons would join their father in performing the sacrifices.
16. 3Remember that the celebrations and merriment lasted for several days for each of Job’s children and these were yearly events. Going by their number: seven males and three females do you think they had time for God? Never! If they were not in celebration, they would be in planning and preparation for the next. Worldliness!
17. 4God being a righteous Judge could not wait forever for them to change their ways. Amen!!! They remained rebellious. They felt they were smarter than their father. …
18. Do not argue. It was because of their silly behaviours that compelled Job to be rendering daily sacrifices for the forgiveness of the sins of his children who were afar off from him.
19. The Bible said, “Job was doing it everyday on the heads of all those children, peradventure, they have sinned against God where they were.”
20. He knew them. And look at what they were doing there. Their father could not subscribe to that. Rather, he was making daily atonement for their sins and their evils.
21. 4His sons used to go and feast in the house of each on his day (birthday) in turn, and they invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
22. 5And when the days of their feasting were over, Job sent for them to purify and hallow them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed or disowned God in their hearts. Thus did Job at all [such] times. [Job 1:4 – 5 AMP]
23. Not even one desired to pattern after godliness. Not even one desired to pattern after their father. Their mother made all of them corrupt. Their mother was a hypocrite.
24. The standpoint of their mother was made clear when she joined the enemies of the husband to tell the husband when he was terribly sick to curse God and die.
25. His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to be godly when God has done all this to you? Curse him and die.” [Job 2:9 LB]
26. 9Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your blameless uprightness? Renounce God and die! [Job 2:9 AMP]
27. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. [Job 2:9 KJV]
28. Can you imagine this woman who denied God’s goodness to the whole family because of sickness? She never knew that God was the one that brought the sickness upon Job as a test of his faith.
29. She denied the goodness of the LORD. And now turned round to tell the husband, “Curse God and die. You are a sinner.” She was the one that corrupted the children and led the children astray.
30. …When tragedy struck it was while they were partying. Amen! While they were enjoying, dancing and rejoicing, “Man must eat to remain alive. Leave all these people. Whatever we see at last, we will take.”
31. They never knew that God had from the beginning marked all of them for destruction.
32. GOD’S PATIENCE DOES NOT ENDURE TO ALL GENERATIONS. GOD HAS A LIMIT TO HIS ENDURANCE.
33. When the cup of the Amorites was full, the LORD declared it, “The cup of the Amorites is full.” He poured it out. The Bible said, “Their blood was poured on the streets.”
34. When the cup of Ahab was full, did God spare him? When the cup of Saul was full, did God spare him? When the cup of Jezebel was full, did God spare her? When the cup of even Judas was full, did God spare him?
35. How do you think that God will keep on enduring you in your wickedness; in your unrepentant heart, when you are not willing to change? Every day, you are unyielding to the truth, for you have taken a rigid stand against God.
36. How do you think God will keep on tolerating that person because He is a patient God?
37. To the people of Israel, a day came when God told Moses, “I have run out of patience concerning these people. Give way! I am slaughtering all.”
38. Did He spare any? Moses pleaded and God set his plea aside and slaughtered them. Is He not the same yesterday, today and forever?
39. His long suffering towards us all is that we might be zealous and repent. He is not willing that we should die.
40. Pg. 73 vs. 16. 16…Even if the whole world should rise up against the truth it will be an effort in futility because ordinary breeze can exterminate them as it is happening now. Sure!!!
41. 23Looking at how a dead body is dressed, beautified and laid in state, one would think that it will remain there forever. However, no matter all the tribute, drumming, dancing, and all that, the body will be disposed like rubbish interred to earth.
42. 24That is how the wealth of this world is. Sure!!! It is full of illusion. Illusion!
43. 25Let us cross-check our standpoint at this hour, you are either on the side of God or on human side with human values, principles, ideology which automatically make you Satan. If with your human ideology you evaluate the Word of God, you must fault God, adjudge Him unfair, inconsiderate, inhuman.
44. 26You can rebuke Him like Peter. Then, you will be indignant at Him like the disciples. You will become tired of Him even though you are still hanging on. Sure!!! Sure!!! Yes, hanging on, in unbelief, waiting for Him to die like some of the disciples.
45. 29…It is because they lacked the knowledge of the hour. THEY LACKED THE REVELATION OF THE HOUR. They did not know that the little respite, the little comfort they were enjoying was because of His presence.
46. 30Maybe they did not also believe that He would resurrect as He told them. Otherwise, Peter would not have been planning on going a fishing just few moments after His Master’s death. … Sure!!!… They never cared about what became of their Master.
47. 31It was Mary and her fellow woman that sneaked out early hours of the morning, took the risk, when it was still dark that came back to alert the men that they did not see the body of Jesus in the tomb.
48. Note it! Women! Not men. The men had already forgotten everything about their Master because of faithlessness, unfaithfulness, disloyalty. Yet, they were the people that were milling around Him.
49. 34But when we claim that we know what we are doing while still quarrelling with God, quarrelling with and disobeying one that we call Daddy, we are contradicting ourselves. Sure!!!
50. Our characters which we manifest are in direct contrast to the doctrines of Christ we have received; we claim to believe. Our daily manifestations cancel our testimonies concerning our belief.
51. Then, which way Brethren? Which way to go from here? Yet, you are having your eyes on the translation of your mortal bodies with all these your hearts laden with iniquity.
52. It is going to be glorious that day. Let Me just put it that way. “It is going to be noise-some”, quoting Bishop Nnachor.
53. 35The scripture says in Proverbs 30:11-13. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
54. 36There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. (KJV)
55. It is this generation, having their eyelids and eyelashes up. All claiming to be righteous, but full of filthiness. Emptiness!
56. A generation that takes delight in taking the lives of their mothers and fathers. A generation that curses their parents. Cause them sorrows and cause their death.
57. Yet, they go to church. They claim to be innocent, “My hands are clean. Did I do anything”, When they are guilty. It is this generation. “THERE IS A GENERATION.”
58. Tell me if there be any other generation other than this one. It is this particular one, for all the Prophets foretold about the end time; the spirit that will possess people in the end time. So, Solomon foresaw. He saw it afar off.
59. And this is the generation of eyelashes. They fix it and the things will be on top. Watch their hair. Crazy hair! Watch the young men. Very fierce in outlook with their beards. The ear-rings have become a norm.
60. What we have today in the society are no longer men. We have what the Bible calls effeminates. Men that behave like women. Men that pattern after women. They want to look like women. Effeminates! The Bible said that they will never inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.
61. 6KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, NOR EFFEMINATE, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, [1 Corinthians 6:9 KJV]
62. 36There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. (KJV)
63. How lofty are their ambitions? How lofty are their ambitions? Over-ambitious people, who mind high things. The Bible said, “Mind not high things. Condescend to men of low estate.” Is it not Scripture?
64. Be of the same mind one toward another. MIND NOT HIGH THINGS, BUT CONDESCEND TO MEN OF LOW ESTATE. Be not wise in your own conceits. [Romans 12:16 KJV]
65. But there is a generation that is minding very high things. They find it difficult to condescend to men of low estate. They do not believe and accept that they are poor.
66. They over-exaggerate their conditions. They claim to be what they are not. And that is what is leading to all manners of criminalities today, which are traceable to all human beings, both the youths and their fathers. See where we are today in Nigeria, without God.
67. But Brethren, how can we escape, if we neglect this precious teaching; if we let go of this precious teaching God has taken His time to hand down to us? If we treat it with contempt and set it aside, how can we escape the punishment of God?
68. Do you not know that our own punishment will be severer than that of those that know not the truth; and that were not taught?
69. Brethren, we for whom God made out time training and teaching; if we do not take this teaching as important to us, how do we think that we will escape the wrath of God?
70. Will the wrath of God that will descend upon us and the attendant sufferings not be far severer than that of those who knew not the truth; those that were not taught by God at all?
71. That is why God has already passed judgment against this generation, that the type of preaching, teaching and instructions our generation received, if that was given to Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented. Greater than three persons would have been saved.
72. If the generation of Noah had the opportunity we are having, truly speaking, more than eight persons would have been saved.
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BE ZEALOUS THEREFORE AND REPENT
CROSSCHECK YOUR STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE; Pg. 82 Nugget. That is why the Bible said, “Woe unto the man or the woman who is clothed with a covering but not by My spirit.” [Isaiah 30:1]
2. AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT COVERED BY THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY GOD, YOU ARE WALKING NAKED. YOU ARE POOR. YOU ARE MISERABLE. AND YET, YOU KNOW IT NOT. WHAT A PITIABLE CONDITION? …
3. That person is empty. And empty things are given to people who are empty. Things that have no profit; Vain things are allotted to vain people; Mean people.
4. Emptiness is allotted to people who are empty; who do not have the knowledge of God; who do not retain the knowledge of God in their hearts, according to the Scriptures in Romans chapter 1.
5. “When they knew God and they could not retain the knowledge of God in their hearts, He the Almighty God have given them over to reprobate spirit to behave anyhow so that God will be justified in executing the righteous judgment against them. They began to do those things that are very very offensive.”
6. 28AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND, to do those things which are not convenient; [Romans 1:28 KJV]
7. If you can rebel; if you can be stubborn and arrogant, carefree and careless before the Almighty God, begin to visualize what you will be outside His presence.
8. You see why those people could not get God’s nature when they were there with Jesus Christ. When he now left them, was it the time they will now begin to imbibe His nature?
9. You see why he said, “I have too many things I would have told you.” He had a lot of things he would have told them, but they could not bear it, for they were having no faith in Him. No faith in the Word.
10. I HAVE YET MANY THINGS TO SAY UNTO YOU, BUT YE CANNOT BEAR THEM NOW. [John 16:12 KJV]
11. Rather, they were spying on Him with a view to finding faults. They were indignant. How can you learn the habit of someone who you do not agree with? You are angry with Him. You are sad! You are harbouring bitterness against Him. You hate Him, but you claim you love. You are at war with Him. You are having troubles with Him.
12. Were they not having troubles with Jesus Christ? Check the meaning of that word “INDIGNANT.”
13. Meaning of INDIGNANT: [1] If you are indignant, you are shocked and angry, because you think that something is unjust or unfair. [www.colinsdictionary.com]
14. [2] Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting or base: [www.dictionary.com]
15. [3] Angry and surprised because you feel insulted or unfairly treated. [www.Idoceonline.com]
16. [4] Feeling or showing anger and surprise because you think that you have been treated unfairly. [www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com]
17. [5] Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment. [www.lexico.com]
18. Synonyms of INDIGNANT: Irate, Vexed, Outraged, Incensed, Annoyed, Piqued, Cross, Angry, Infuriated, Resentful, Mad
19. For that reason, whatever He was preaching, they were throwing it back at Him. The Lord knew all those things and said, “Nevertheless, when He, the Spirit of Truth shall come, He will be the One now that will lead you into the knowledge of all Truths. He will now remind you of all these things I told you, which you did not believe.”
20. MAY OUR CASE NEVER BE THAT OF THE EARLY APOSTLES. I SAY, MAY WE BE BETTER THAN THEM. MAY WE SUCCEED WHERE THEY FAILED. AND I BELIEVE EVERY ELECT OF GOD IN THIS GENERATION WILL SUCCEED, FOR GOD WILL HELP US TO SUCCEED. Is it not Scripture?
21. 4Who are you to pass judgment on and censure another’s household servant? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. AND HE SHALL STAND AND BE UPHELD, FOR THE MASTER (THE LORD) IS MIGHTY TO SUPPORT HIM AND MAKE HIM STAND. [Romans 14:4 AMP]
22. WE WILL NEVER FAIL, FOR THE UNFAILING HAND OF GOD IS UNFAILING US. WE CANNOT FAIL. WE HAVE OUR TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN HIM, AND WE SHALL NEVER BE DISAPPOINTED.
23. 4As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: BE ZEALOUS THEREFORE, AND REPENT. (KJV)
24. You see that God love us. That is why we are hearing this Message raw, unadulterated.
25. Pg. 89 vs. 17. 17Peter never challenged Jesus until he felt he had known Him very well more than every other person,…
26. Yet, he [Peter] never knew that he knew Him not. By the feelings of his heart, can a man know God?
27. YOU CAN BE OVER-FAMILIAR WITH YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, BUT THERE IS NO HUMAN BEING THAT WILL BE OVER-FAMILIAR WITH GOD. THE EXTENT YOU KNOW GOD IS THE EXTENT HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW HIM. IS IT NOT TRUE?
28. ANYDAY YOU COME TO THE POINT WHERE YOU BEGIN TO THINK OR HAVE THE FEELING THAT YOU HAVE KNOWN GOD VERY WELL, THAT IS THE DAY YOUR DESTRUCTION COMES.
29. The LORD will automatically take you out of the way in a very dramatic way, where people will say, “Of a truth, this is the finger of the LORD.”
30. 19[24]In a marathon race nobody will predict accurately who will come first or second. You see people falling by the way side, others will continue; you see some joining along the way; dropping along the way; yet in there, are some people that took off from the very beginning.
31. 20Courageously they are moving on and because of what is set before them, because of what they will get at the end, they are focused.
32. 21[25]THE REWARD BECAME THEIR STRENGTH just like the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of the joy that was set before Him He endured all things. At the end of the day he was crowned. Of all He got crowned.
33. The reason why a student endures suffering, hardship and every other thing, is it not because of the certificate he will get at the end, which automatically brings a change to his future?
34. Because of that reward, if he can courageously get to the end, enduring everything, he remained focused. Because of that, he knows for sure that whatever he is passing through is momentary. Momentary suffering. Is it not true?
35. It will not endure forever. It will last within the duration of his stay in the school. Is it not true?
36. Whatever we are having now is momentary suffering. It cannot be like this in the end. What awaits us is by far greater than what we are passing through; The glory that shall be revealed.
37. The Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] said “As a result of what awaits all true believers, they will now endure all the hurt, see that the Mahdi, Hazrat Mahdi has appeared, Who is the One assigned to bring them direct to Paradise.”
38. He said, “Leave whatever you are doing. Cling to him. Cling to him. Swear your oath of allegiance. Do not ever draw back. And then make up your mind to bear all the hurts that will be associated with following Him.”
39. It is related that our Prophet (saas) said: The Hour will not come until the Qaim [Hazrat Mahdi (as)], my descendant, appears. This will be at a time permitted by Allah. Those who follow him will be saved, while those who hang back will be perished. O servants of Allah! Fear Allah: WHEN HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) APPEARS, ABANDON EVERYTHING AND RUN TO HIM BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS because he is the caliph of Allah and my heir. [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51, p. 65; Al-Hurr al-Amili, Ithbat al-Hudat, Vol. 6, p. 382]
40. If Allah permits you to see this RUN TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO HIM [FOLLOW HIM] AND NEVER ABANDON HIM. IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL, NEVER ABANDON HIM IF YOU REACH HIM AND FIND THE TRUE PATH. Ah – and he pointed to his chest – how I long to see him. LET NOTHING HOLD YOU BACK FROM SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO HIM [FROM BEING HIS FOLLOWER, FROM FOLLOWING HIM] those who hold you back are those who have always sought refuge in corruption. If they speak, they speak evil, and if they are silent, they are impious and perverse. [Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 252]
41. By all these things we know that it is not an easy way, for there must be something we will pass through.
42. Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I SAY UNTO YOU, WILL SEEK TO ENTER IN, AND SHALL NOT BE ABLE. [Luke 13:24 KJV]
43. [16]IT IS QUITE TRUE THAT THE WAY TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE IS NOT AN EASY MATTER. BUT THE ANSWER LIES IN CHRIST, WHO CAME TO EARTH AS A MAN, was proved spotless and pure in his Spirit, was served by angels, was preached among the nations, was accepted by men everywhere, and was received up again to his glory in heaven.[1 Timothy 3:16]
44. 23[43]If He had picked his Mask from somewhere else we might be cut off. This is why we can now say salvation has come into our homes. Salvation has come to our homes – as many as are found in Him, connected to Him, united in the Godhead – He is pulling all of them along. That is what we are celebrating.
45. 24[44]If you are celebrating any other thing than this, your celebration is absolutely useless. That person has missed the mark. You are celebrating outside the will of God. You are celebrating amiss.
46. 26[46]It is very very easy for people to be sincerely wrong. Many had been sincerely wrong in the past. Many are sincerely wrong today. Many will be sincerely wrong tomorrow.
47. Why must it be you? Why must it be Me that will be sincerely wrong? May God forbid! May My sincerity be after godliness.
48. 27…[8]“That is why I am telling you, if you have a problem money will solve you have no problem; if you run around, by the help of God your fellow human being will help you to solve that problem. That is pure truth!
49. Pg. 105 vs. 53. 53[11]For God said, with many of them He was not pleased; their characters were very noxious in the sight of God.
50. Very noxious! Very unbearable! Unacceptable characters! And the LORD said He was not pleased with such people who were found among children of God. The LORD spotted all of them out
51. 53…God could not stand their wicked behaviours because it is still an act of wickedness to pay back evil for good.
52. 62[35]Whatever is your character tells the whole world the spirit that is controlling you for behind every character there is a spirit.
53. Good in the beginning; Very bad in the end. A good beginning with a very bad end. Who will like to have that bad experience? Automatically, that person will be the worst news. The saddest news!
54. I started very well, and ended very badly. A discouraging report. Disheartening testimony. Who will like to have it as his portion? Started very well, and ended very badly. God forbid!
55. MY PRAYER IS THAT MY END SHALL BE BETTER THAN MY BEGINNING. THE END OF MY LIFE SHALL BE BETTER THAN MY BEGINNING. MAY GOD NEVER PERMIT ME TO CARRY THE ERRORS I MANIFESTED IN THE BEGINNING TO FOLLOW ME TILL THE END. THAT IS THE PRAYER OF A WISE FELLOW.
56. 65[44]Absalom was the first son of David, but a rebellious son. Did he earn a ticket to Paradise? Never! He earned condemnation for being rebellious. So it happened to many.
57. 71[4]Whoever that continues to do wrong is pleasing the Devil, who is his father. A child of God strives daily to please his father, to be in good relationship with his father, so that whenever he presents his request, his father will honour it. That is pure truth!!! He walks himself into the heart of his father.
58. 72[5]The father does not need to walk Himself into the hearts of the children,… Never!!!…for he produced the children. But the children owe it as a responsibility to walk themselves into the hearts of their father so as to earn his confidence.
59. 77[9]You must be rewarded. After the race, the miles are accounted, after the race rewards are presented. At the end, everybody shall be crowned. We are not crowned along the way; it is when we get to the end that we expect to be crowned. That is pure truth! Now the end is very close.
60. 82[17]The money you are holding is valueless, you go inside the market with one million naira, you come back with ordinary waterproof bag, you will be feeling that somebody has stolen your money, but when you sit down to crosscheck, nobody stole even a dime, simply because, you went there with your so-called money and came back empty handed, to show you that you went there empty handed.
61. A situation where a painter [local measure] of Garri is now one thousand naira [₦1,000.00]. Is this how someone will live his life? One painter of millet is now sold for three thousand naira [₦3,000.00].
62. 90Finally, from the Message, AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPETH FOR THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT Chapter 4 from verse 10: “10ANYBODY WHO IS NOT STRONG SPIRITUALLY MUST BE AN INSTRUMENT IN THE HAND OF THE DEVIL TO CAUSE HAVOC IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. That is pure truth!
63. When we talk about our future we think we can protect our future with our hands. It is impossible.
64. 91[11]No human being has ever protected his future with his own hands. It has never happened before and it will never happen! It takes the hand of God to protect our future. Sure!!! God will give us the knowledge that is needed.
65. 92[12]He will give us the needed wisdom that will help us to walk rightly so that our future will be preserved. For if God does not give us all these things, definitely we have no future. Sure!!!
66. 93We have no future and whatever we call our future is likely to be shattered with our hands. [13]And let me tell you, first step in shattering our future lies in abandoning God.
67. 94Abandon God today, you destroy your future with your own hands. Sure!!! Once you abandon God you must become self-destructive.
68. God will abandon you straight, and you become self-destructive. You will commit suicide. Amen
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NO TRUE SEED OF GOD IS DISOBEDIENT TO HEAVENLY VISION
Crosscheck your standpoint, while I crosscheck My standpoint. Brethren, where are you standing as we are waiting for the translation of our mortal bodies?
2. IT IS YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT THAT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER YOU WILL BE TRANSLATED OR NOT. TRUE OR FALSE?
3. IT IS YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT THAT DETERMINES WHETHER YOU WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE NUMBER WHOSE MORTAL BODIES TODAY, SHALL BE CHANGED IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE TO IMMORTAL. THE IMMORTAL BODY HAS BEEN REVEALED.
4. Too many things are happening now. Today is not a day of testimonies. Otherwise, I would have shared too many things with you, which I received from Brethren from outside Anambra State; some of them from the Northern States.
5. Reports of experiences they had; Voices they heard. Even one that was coming out from his house. And all of a sudden, he saw something like a rainbow, and then halted.
6. While he examined the rainbow, he said that inside the rainbow was standing a picture. And the picture was nothing but THE SON OF MAN.
7. While he was gazing at that thing, people did not know why he was standing there. He alone was seeing the drama. A Voice spoke to him and said, “Go back! Go back!”
8. He did not hesitate. Immediately he turned his back, a vehicle that failed brake came straight to where he was standing, and then crushed everything there, including Keke [tricycle] that was parked. But as God would have it, nobody was killed.
9. What if he did not listen? Look at what God did. He used the rainbow to barricade. While he gazed at the rainbow, he saw a picture standing. And that became the picture of THE SON OF MAN.
10. While he was gazing at the picture he saw in the rainbow, a Voice spoke.
11. I balanced it immediately, that whosoever God loves, He will withdraw from the pathway of destruction. Is it not Scripture? He will never allow that person to get to the point where he will be destroyed.
12. What if the LORD did not see the thing? What if the Brother was not in right standing with God? Do you think God would have appeared there in the form of a rainbow which he himself saw?
13. And then he halted, for he was trekking from his house. Then while he was gazing at that thing, people did not know; Look at the picture beside the rainbow.
14. From the picture beside the rainbow, a Voice spoke to him and immediately he obeyed. By obeying, something from somewhere; a vehicle came and swept across. The driver lost control of the brakes.
15. You see how God saves His own people. Assuming he was disobedient to the Voice and to the Vision, do you not know that he would have been a victim immediately.
16. I NOW BELIEVE NO TRUE SEED OF GOD IS DISOBEDIENT TO HEAVENLY VISION. THAT IS HOW WE KNOW CHILDREN OF GOD. THEY ARE NEVER DISOBEDIENT TO HEAVENLY VISION; HEAVENLY VOICE.
17. THEY DO NOT DISCUSS IT WITH ANYBODY. THEY DO NOT EVEN NEGOTIATE IT.
18. When saint Paul received it, did he negotiate it with anybody? Did he discuss it? So it is with all others.
19. Remember we have come to the end of everything. God can meet you in diverse ways. God can meet you in diverse ways.
20. Before we go to bed, let us read this Scripture. Acts of the Apostles chapter 13. I am reading from Good News Bible only. From verse 46 through 48. That is our concluding Scripture.
21. 46But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: It was necessary that the Word should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.
22. 47For this is the commandment that the Lord has given us: I have made you a Light to the Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved.
23. 48When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and praised the Lord’s Message; AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CHOSEN FOR ETERNAL LIFE BECAME BELIEVERS.
24. Acts 13:46 – 48 Amplified version of the Bible.
25. 46And Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly and boldly, saying, It was necessary that God’s message [concerning salvation through Christ] should be spoken to you first. But since you thrust it from you, you pass this judgment on yourselves that you are unworthy of eternal life and out of your own mouth you will be judged. [Now] behold, we turn to the Gentiles (the heathen).
26. 47For so the Lord has charged us, saying, I have set you to be a Light for the Gentiles (the heathen), that you may bring [eternal] salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.
27. 48And when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified (praised and gave thanks for) the Word of God; AND AS MANY AS WERE DESTINED (APPOINTED AND ORDAINED) TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Jesus as the Christ and their Saviour). Amen.
28. Let us bow down our heads. You know your spiritual standpoint. CROSSCHECK YOUR SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT AS WE WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION OF OUR MORTAL BODIES.
29. That is the topic I gave it, not as we wait at the Gate, for we are now waiting for the translation of our mortal bodies.
30. Crosscheck. And I say, not crosscheck, but if it is possible, I will rather say, “I have known tonight, my spiritual standpoint because I know who I am. I know what is happening in me.”
31. YOU ARE THE MASTER OVER THE THOUGHTS AND IMAGINATIONS OF YOUR OWN HEART. I AM THE MASTER OF MINE. ANYWAY I DIRECT IT IS THE WAY IT WILL GO.
32. I have directed My own to the Almighty God and there is no going back. To obedience to His Words, there is no going back. And so I have commanded My Family to do. And I believe that all that are members of this Super Family are included in this command.
33. Let us bow down our heads once again.
CONCLUSION
PRAYER
| O |
LORD our God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, You are our Saviour and our Redeemer. You created us O God in Your own image, with the intent that we may serve You according to Your own will.
2. Here we are tonight, thanking and appreciating You for this wonderful visitation. The experience we have had in Your presence tonight O God, Father may it linger in our hearts throughout eternity.
3. Let there be nothing that will erase this experience. We have known our spiritual stands. If there be anybody whose own spiritual standpoint is not clear to him, let it be so to the individual.
4. As we go to our beds, help us to continue with you. As we sleep, be there for us. Give charge over Your guardian angels to be on guard around our beds and around our premises.
5. Let there be no evil report whatsoever. May there not even be one that will pass from sleep onto death. Heal the sick. Even our infants that are sick. Wherever they may be O God because of change of weather, Father heal them all.
6. Let there not be even one that is numbered among Your Elect, that has believed My Voice, Father, that will stumble into hell. Whatever that may be the cause of that unbelief is not greater than You. Erase it from them.
7. As we sleep tonight, let all our dreams, the meditations of our hearts and the audible Voices we are likely to hear, with real trances, may they come from Your Throne of Grace.
8. Reveal to us our relationship with You and our relationship with one another. Correct us where we need correction. Indict us and rebuke us where we need them. Reveal to us what lies ahead of us. Father, do not allow the devil to meddle into it to confuse our dreams.
9. We bow down and say, “THANK YOU for this wonderful visitation” as we believe You will extend Your mercies and salvation to all and sundry in the four corners of the earth who have come to You for salvation with pure hearts, without any trace of hypocrisy in them.
10. Tonight, O God has been a blessing. Let it remain a blessing to all Your children scattered all over the globe. If there be tomorrow, help us to see the light of tomorrow and to continue with You.
11. THANK YOU for hearing our prayers. Renew our strength. THANK YOU for the vessels You used to read out these Messages to all the ends of the earth. Open their eyes of understanding to see how perilous it will be if their voices will be used to reach to whole corners of the earth, and at the end, they miss eternal life.
12. May we all, father, rally round You. May we all have one spirit, one mind and in one accord, practice all that we have heard, all we have been told, all we have been taught.
13. We have been here for some hours. May it never be in vain. Help us to correct all errors we have noticed so far.
14. To the Glory of Your Most Holy Name, we pray. Amen.