DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATION VOLUME 2 Preached ON Sunday, 22nd December 2019 AT The Household of God, Onitsha BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Ancient of Days
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.
1 Corinthians 1:9 – 10 NIV
You do not know that I am your Justifier. You also do not know that I am He that will condemn you. If I set you free, you are free. Anywhere you like go. If THE SON OF MAN sets you free, you shall be free indeed. There is nobody; There is no Angel, no matter where the person is coming from, that will condemn you. That is why I said [that] if I tell you to do something, do it because I said you should do it. Quote Me; “I did it in the Authority of THE SON OF MAN.” Let the heavens challenge your action. Bring it before Me. If I say, “Do not try it.” Stop there. Do not move an inch. He that sent Me is still with Me. He has never left Me one bit.
I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; Preached on Sunday 31st December 2000; Pg. 61 vs. 65 – 67
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MAKE A NEW FOUNDATION [1]
Turn with Me as we go to the Book of Romans chapter 7 verse 14. Give Me ear O ye children of God. More hearing than writing please. I do not want you to see another person. See yourself.
2. Living Bible. [14]The Law is good, then, and the trouble is not there but with me because I am sold into slavery with sin as my owner.
3. You know what it means for one to be a slave to sin; to unbelief. He is being led captive. He is now a captive. He has been adopted by sin; unbelief.
4. Nothing is wrong with the Word, for the Bible said, “God has given us his commandments and they are not grievous.” They are not cumbersome.
5. SO IT IS NOT OUR MESSAGE THAT IS MAKING YOU TO BE CORRUPT. IT IS YOU THAT HAVE DECIDED TO CORRUPT YOURSELVES.
6. [14]The law is good, then, and the trouble is not there but with me because I am sold into slavery with Sin as my owner.[15]I don’t understand myself at all,…
7. It then means a mad man is better than Paul when Paul was in this condition; when he was a new believer. A mad man said that he knows what he is doing, but he does not know what is happening to him.
8. And this man said, “I do not know myself again. And I cannot understand what I am doing. You ask, “Brother, what is happening? He will reply, “Brother, I do not know what is happening to me o. I cannot just say.” But to worship God you want to worship God.
9. [15]I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right,… I really want to do what is right, but I cannot. I want to work in the uprightness of the heart. I want to be reckoned among those that have integrity but I cannot do it. Although I know the importance, why can I not do it?
10. 15…I do what I don’t want to—what I hate.[16]I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong,…
11. If you have found yourself in this condition, show by raising your hands? You see! Bring down your hands.
12. When David came to this point, he said, “I have sinned against you and you alone. And I know that what I have done is wrong. And what I am doing is also wrong. But what do I do?”
13. Somebody asks you, “Are you okay at all? Your reply will be, “Please, I am on my knees. Please forgive Me. In short, I do not know what I am doing.”
14. THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU THIS MORNING, FOR IT MUST BE SALVATION IN COMPLETENESS AND IN JOY. IT IS WHEN YOU MADE THE SON OF MAN TO FEEL AT HOME A LITTLE THAT THE BEST IN HIM WILL COME OUT. AND YOU WILL SEE THE REMEDY FOR UNBELIEF.
15. Sir rewind it again because I know you are also guilty.
16. [Deacon David replies, SURE!!!]
17. Are you guilty?
18. [Deacon David replies, “Very well sir!”]
19. Thank you! You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Happy are you if you are here physically and spiritually.
20. Do not say it is limited to you. Saint Paul passed through it. When he conquered it, he became a Saint. And now transferring the experience to us so that if you find yourself in this category, do not write yourself off.
21. Apply the remedy he discovered. What saved him can save you, if only you will apply it.
22. [14]The law is good, then, and the trouble is not there but with me because I am sold into slavery with Sin as my owner.[15]I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can’t. I do what I don’t want to—what I hate.
23. [16]I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking.
24. [17]BUT I CAN’T HELP MYSELF because I’m no longer doing it. IT IS SIN INSIDE ME THAT IS STRONGER THAN I AM….. What? IT IS SIN INSIDE ME THAT IS STRONGER THAN I AMTHAT MAKES ME DO THESE EVIL THINGS.
25. Sin in you that is stronger than you is causing you think to obey him [sin] instead of obeying God. Then if sin that is in you [unbelief] is stronger than the righteousness of God, where is the hope of eternal life?
26. You see! The Word is not in there. The Spirit has not come in. This is because once the Spirit comes and dominates the heart, every action is of God.
27. Can you imagine somebody knowing that what he is doing is wrong? Yet, he said that he does not know what is happening to him. Then later, he discovers that the sin in him is greater than the righteousness in him.
28. And he laments, “I am no longer the one doing it, but the sin in me, for I am now the home of sin. I have allowed unbelief to build a home in my heart.
29. Do not attribute your evil ways to God. First of all, admit you are the one. Saint Paul, first of, admitted that he is the one. Nothing is wrong with the Word of God, but he was the one doing wrong by breaking the Word of God; by breaking the whole command.
30. And the desire in him to live contrary is stronger than the desire to do right. He now noticed that he has become a prisoner; even prisoner of his own conscience. He said that his conscience is bearing witness against him, for he is not obeying the truth.
31. PAUSE A LITTLE. IF YOUR CONSCIENCE IS NOT PRICKING YOU, THEN YOU ARE UPRIGHT, IF YOUR CONSCIENCE IS RIGHT; I MEAN IS ALIVE.
32. BUT HOW CAN IT BE ALIVE? IF THERE IS A LITTLE LIFE IN IT, YOUR CONSCIENCE WILL FIND FAULT WITH YOU, IF YOU ARE A SEED OF GOD FOR DISOBEYING TRUTH THAT IS EVIDENTLY SET OUT BEFORE YOUR EYES.
33. YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUTH. YOU BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUTH, BUT IN PRACTICE, YOU DENY IT.
34. That is what he is saying. Has he been born again? No! Has he been converted? No!
35. St. Peter also found himself in this category. Hence, he denied Christ before the cock crowed three times.
36. He found himself in this category when he went to Pontus Galatia and was eating with the Gentiles and Barnabas. Immediately he saw Paul coming, he become hypocrite.
37. He washed off his hands and behaved as if he was not eating. Before we knew it, James even joined. Many people joined in the hypocrisy; that dissimulation. Why? It was moral conflict.
38. 11But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood condemned.
39. 12For up to the time that certain persons came from James, he ate his meals with the Gentile [converts]; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he withdrew and held himself aloof from the Gentiles and [ate] separately for fear of those of the circumcision [party].
40. 13And the rest of the Jews along with him also concealed their true convictions and acted insincerely, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy (their example of insincerity and pretense). [Galatians 2:11 – 13 AMP]
41. They have not been converted. And the Lord saw it and said, “Peter, the devil wanted to destroy you, but I prayed for you that your faith fail not. Any day you are converted, strengthen your brethren.”
42. Who is worthy to receive this advice? Who is showing sign of repentance and conversion? THE SON OF MAN can turn and say, “My brother, when you get rid of this, help Me and strengthen your brethren.”
43. If my boat is Empty up till now, are you surprised? Who is adequate to go with Me? You see! If he does not step in, you end it here, and join the world in hell.
44. This is because you know what you are doing. And what you are doing is not right, but you harden your heart and do it anyhow.
45. Not that you do not know the truth. But instead of obeying, you are trying to build a defense. You are looking for what to use and defend your word of lies and bad habits.
46. Evil has no defense, I say, evil has no defense. Do you know why? It is because there is no good way of doing a wrong thing. If you have discovered the good way of doing a wrong thing, tell me. You can never be wrong and right at the same time. Amen.
47. Bro David, today is your day. I know you will heave a sigh of relief.
48. [18]I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned.
49. I know I am rotten. You see the confession that saves from sin? It must be confession from the heart of hearts, with the willingness to repent and never to go there again. Whoever that confesseth his sin, and turns away, obtains mercy from God.
50. 13He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes his sins will obtain mercy. [Proverbs 28:13 AMP]
51. That is why a seed of God does not continue in evil, for the seed of God abideth in him.
52. 9No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. [1 John 3:9 AMP]
53. AND THE SEED IS THE WORD. THE WORD IS CHRIST. CHRIST WILL IMPREGNATE YOU, FERTILIZE EVERYTHING IN YOU AND YOU PRODUCE LIGHT.
54. IF THE DEVIL WILL IMPREGNATE YOU, YOU PRODUCE DEATH. WHEN SIN BECOMES PREGNANT THE BIBLE SAYS IT PRODUCES DEATH. WHEN SIN BECOMES PREGNANT IT PRODUCES DEATH.
55. 15Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death. [James 1:15 NIV]
56. A MAN CAN BE PREGNANT. A WOMAN CAN BE PREGNANT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. IT DEPENDS ON WHO IMPREGNATED YOU; WHETHER CHRIST UNTO LIFE OR DEVIL UNTO DEATH.
57. WHAT YOU DELIVER WILL TELL US WHO IMPREGNATED YOU. SIN IMPREGNATES. RIGHTEOUSNESS IMPREGNATES. WHEREVER YOUR EYES ARE, THERE YOUR HEART IS.
58. Are you thinking on what to do again? The one you have done is not enough for you. You have gone to prison. And now, you have been freed. You have married, and have children. You have made money, and have lost money. I will show you something today.
59. Follow me as we go back to the scriptures. [18]I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned.
60. Will you accept that you are rotten? If you do not acknowledge your sin, you must acknowledge your guilt. First, be ready to confess it. With the heart, man believeth unto righteousness; With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
61. Do not say, “God knows my heart.” What did He see in your heart? He knows the heart of everybody. He tests the heart of everybody. Is your own different?
62. [18]I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. Amen.
63. As far as my old sinful nature is concerned, they are still in me. I am trying to build on a faulty foundation. I did not destroy the old leaven, and I want to put the old leaven in the new leaven.
64. God said that I should cast away the old one. I am carrying my old life along. Old living! Old world! Bro Tony Egbuna, are you hearing what I am saying? This Word does not recognize where you come from, whether you are from Onitsha or from Ado.
65. CHECK YOUR OLD LIFE, WHETHER IT IS NOT STILL THERE. IF YOUR OLD LIFE IS STILL THERE WHAT IS YOUR TESTIMONY THAT CHRIST HAS MET YOU OR THAT YOU HAVE MET CHRIST. IT WOULD NOT WORK.
66. That is pouring a new wine into the old bottle that contains old wine as well. Pouring sour wine into a good wine all of them will become sour. Pour old drink into a new drink, and they will become old drink.
67. THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING. YOU ARE USING THE NEW MESSAGE OF CHRIST THAT GIVES LIFE TO BUILD ON TOP OF A CORRUPT FOUNDATION THAT REQUIRES TO BE EXCAVATED AND EVACUATED COMPLETELY.
68. MAKE A NEW FOUNDATION WITH THE TRUTH YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM CHRIST AND THEN START LIFE ALL OVER.
69. It is like using 9 inches block on top of 4 inches block, all in the name of building a storey building. Will it get to the lintel level? It will kill both the builder and others.
70. This is what we are doing because the glory of the New Testament, by far outweighs the foundation you laid before, which was the law of Moses; Religion.
71. HOW CAN YOU PLACE A PERFECTION MESSAGE ON TOP OF THAT USELESS WEAK ELEMENTAL SPIRIT YOU WERE SERVING?
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MAKE A NEW FOUNDATION [2]
Romans 7:18 – 19, Living Bible. [18]… No matter which way I turn I can’t make myself do right. I want to but I can’t. [19]When I want to do good, I don’t; and when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway.
2. When I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway; Anyhow! Do you not see that this thing is greater than human beings? Then who are those posing and priding themselves about that they are going to heaven or going to Paradise?
3. Immortal body! Immortal body! Will I cloth you with immortal body in evil, so that you will come over and trouble God? And then you come over and start disturbing God again.
4. You see why God has to present a Leader Who is born to righteousness, for righteousness can never depart from Him, for God Himself has declared Him righteous, made Him righteous before ever the world began; and presented Him to mankind so that He will show them the way out.
5. The point of reconciliation is here. Christ is here reconciling you to God, so that your sin will no longer be imputed on you if you can believe in Christ and do as he said you should do, for he has presented him and said, “This is My well beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.”
6. It shall come to pass that if there be any that fails to hear Him for any reason at all, he must be cut off from among his brethren. You have no hope of eternal life.
7. Why do you make noise outside? It is because you are showcasing knowledge. You are merely going about proselyting and showcasing knowledge, not light.
8. Do you know the truth? Yes! Do you believe it? Yes! But do you manifest it? No! When you want to manifest it, you manifest evil. Sometimes, evil will be asking you, “Why do you want to do me?” You will say,“I will do you anyhow.” Is it strange?
9. It must stop today. Once I show you a perfect example of a sinner that became a saint; who suffered through moral conflict, and had moral conquest, have you any excuse again? I have presented a pattern.
10. Do you think THE SON OF MAN never suffered it? He learnt obedience through the things He suffered. He, first of all, obeyed.
11. When He obeyed, He became what? The author of eternal salvation to those that will obey like Him. When He was obeying the Jews were finding fault with Him and criticizing Him because they do not know the way of truth, for He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
12. That is why I told you, if I teach anything and you do not know how to follow, look at Me. He said, “Follow Me. The way I have done it, do it. That which you have seen in Me; that which you have heard of Me, go and do it.
13. If God will ask you a question say,“I am doing it because THE SON OF MAN did it? I am doing it because He commanded me to do it.
14. IF THE SON OF MAN IS NOT YOUR DEFENSE YOU HAVE NO DEFENSE. AMEN.
15. Remember that Saint Paul is not preaching Christ he heard of. In his testimony, he said, “I have seen Him with my own eyes.” True or false?
16. 3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8AND LAST OF ALL HE APPEARED TO ME ALSO, as to one abnormally born. [1 Corinthians 15:3 – 8 AMP]
17. So he knows The Man that spoke to him. He met Him. He was shocked. He was startled. So when this conflict arose, he depended on Him, and The Man wanted to show Paul how weak Paul was, for Paul was constantly obeying the lower nature.
18. Lower nature that made him a miniature human being; a man without quality. But when he conquered, he gave glory to God, for without God, religion would have put him into hell.
19. 20If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?–such as]
20. 21Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them], 22Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines. [Colossians 2:20 – 21 AMP]
21. ANOTHER ONE IS SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS OF NO VALUE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, NEVER ALLOWED THE JEWS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH FROM JESUS CHRIST.
22. [20]Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is:… What? [20]Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is:…
23. Where my trouble is coming from is no longer hidden. If what I do not want to do is what I am doing, it then means I am also against myself. I am my greatest enemy. I am sentencing myself to hell. I am self-destructive. God is no longer destroying me; I am the one now destroying myself. Can you not see the truth there?
24. [20]Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is: SIN STILL HAS ME IN ITS EVIL GRASP. Amen.
25. Sin still has me in his evil grasp. You know what evil grasp is?Sin still wraps himself around me. It chained my legs, hands, heart, head and mouth. It is plain where the whole thing is coming from.
26. There is one Scripture, which the evil in you will not allow you to notice. Another person holding Living Bible from behind. Bro David, hold your own.
27. I want another person holding living Bible from Behind. Let Me show you where the problems of this world centers. The devil will never allow you to see it.
28. Any Living Bible? I want somebody to read James chapter 1 verse 10 through 11. Living Bible. [10-11]But a rich man should be glad that his riches mean nothing to the Lord, for he will soon be gone, like a flower that has lost its beauty and fades away, withered—killed by the scorching summer sun. So it is with rich men. They will soon die and leave behind all their busy activities.
29. They will soon do what? Die! And do what? Abandon and leave behind, all their busy activities; all they acquired; all they are trying to acquire;
30. All the things that are giving you sleepless nights; what you have and what you do not have; even the ones you will acquire fraudulently, anyhow; the devil will not allow you to see how old you were when you got it and how many years you will enjoy it before you die?
31. Even if you got it at the age of 10 years; even if your father bequeathed it to you at infancy, will you remain here till eternity? When you depart, what happens? They all become abandoned property.
32. You will never know who inherited it. If it is sold off and the proceeds used in night clubs, will you know?
33. I want you to see that the devil has put a strong hold; built a stronghold in your heart.
34. He is not giving you a breathing space. When the devil has chained the heart, legs, and hands and closed your ears with its hands, to you, the church has become a social centre. The Fellowship venue becomes a tourists’ centre.
35. Then, coming to fellowship means to forget your sorrows for a while. After all the toils of the day, God has given us a place where we will go, clap hands and say, “Praise God.” Is that why we are here? I pity you.
36. IF THE REASON WHY YOU PRAY TO COME HERE IS TO REJOICE, DANCE, CLAP YOUR HANDS, AND EASE YOUR FRUSTRATIONS FOR A WHILE, OF ALL MEN, YOU THE MOST MISERABLE. YOU ARE A SATAN-DECEIVED HUMAN BEING.
37. David enters the sanctuary with a view to knowing where he had wronged God, so that he can make it right.
38. One day he entered. From the entrance of the Word in his heart, he noticed that his leg nearly slipped off while he was considering the prosperity of the wicked’
39. He did not realize that the wicked has only but a short time to stay, and he will leave all his activities here on earth.
40. [2]But as for me, I came so close to the edge of the cliff! My feet were slipping and I was almost gone. [3]For I was envious of the prosperity of the proud and wicked. [Psalms 73:2-3 LB]
41. 2But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped. 3For I was envious of the foolish and arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. [Psalms 73:2 – 3 AMP]
42. Man or woman! Whatever you have laboured for can never save you when death comes. Amen. They are all vanity upon vanity, foolish!
43. But the devil will not allow you to see it because he has led you away captive, both men and women, including children.
44. 39[Iblîs (Satan)] said: “O my Lord! Because you misled me, I shall indeed adorn the path of error for them (mankind) on the earth, and I shall mislead them all. 40“Except Your chosen, (guided) slaves among them.” [Surah 15:39 – 40 Hilali-Khan]
45. 39(Iblis) said: “O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,-40“Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace).”
46. Romans 7:20 – 21, Living Bible. [20]Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is: sin still has me in its evil grasp. [21]It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
47. You know what a fact of life is all about. So, evil doing has become the person’s nature. Man acquiring a nature that is far greater than his power to destroy.
48. Advertently or inadvertently, he acquires a bad nature through constant practice of evil, to the neglect of the right path of life. You neglect the right living; you go to the wrong living.
49. As you continue, sooner than you think, you have acquired a habit. Human being and sin have now become a part of life. Evil is now your nature and your name. Wherever you are found, you are in evil. Wherever you are found, the impression people have about your conduct will be, “Let him be. That is his nature and character. That is what he is known for.”
50. What is the characteristic feature of a child of God? Is it evil? What then is the characteristic feature of the devil? Is it not evil? Since you are known for evil character, what then makes you a child of God? What is your hope of looking forward to eternal life?
51. Son of Man, be fast and clothe us with immortality. You want immortality so as to go and finish the evil you have started, and for God to start having headache again over there? It will then be carryover.
52. How many are born again? How many have the hope of eternal life? Your hope must be dashed if it is not pinned on Christ and Christ alone, so that at the end you will say Christ and Christ alone is my helper.
53. And that is why I have come to reveal everything to you. This is so that you will not say, “I am the only man passing through this condition.” No man born of God can ever make it without passing through this. David passed through it.
54. A time came when Jesus was confronted with conflict. He was told what He will suffer. He agreed to come, but when the time came, He said, “Father, if it is possible, let the cup pass over. I do not want to drink it again.”Did he know what He was doing?
55. He came back to his senses and said, “Nevertheless, let Thy will be done, and not mine.” And the father took over. The Father took over. He took control.
56. Initially, He thought He could make it with His own power and strength, thinking it is by might or by power. The more He was doing it, the more God was exposing him.
57. Before you know it, temper will rise. Before you know it fight will start. Before you know it, lying will come. Before you know it, every kind of evil will manifest.
58. Yet, that is the man who is desiring every day to live right; to be in right relationship with God. Before your fellow Brethren, you present innocent relationship and appearance, pretending that all is well. But in you, something is saying, “Are you sure? Are you speaking the truth?”
59. Saint Paul said, “Even my conscience could not set me free, for I knew I was rotten.” You must acknowledge your guilt before help will come. Help comes to the helpless. Am I making sense?
60. I DO NOT NEED ANYBODY TO BE MAKING GREAT NOISE. I WANT SELF-INVENTORY; REAL SELF-EXAMINATION THAT WILL LEAD TO SELF-PURGING.
61. LOOKING AT OUR FACES, NOBODY IS WORTHY TO GO TO HELL, BUT WE ARE ALL HELL-BOUND. IF GOD DOES NOT INTERVENE, WE ARE HELL-BOUND.
62. If it is like this among you where God is talking to you live, and you are seeing everything; and you know that you are not deceived, what can you say about the denominations that do not know where they are going to again?
63. What can you say about the denominations who are pinning their hopes only in this world, amassing the wealth of the world, and using it to brag?
64. If it is like this with us, what will be the fate of those that do not know God? You see why the Bible said, “If the righteous can scarcely be saved, what will be the fate of those that do not know God?
65. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? [1 Peter 4:18 KJV]
66. And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” [1 Peter 4:18 NIV]
67. It did not say that the righteous will be massively saved, but SCARCELY SAVED. If it is hard to save the righteous, where will the unrighteous; where will those that do not know God be?
68. Count yourself as a righteous fellow, and all your self-striving like Saint Paul with a view to see what you have achieved? Yet, evil is still in you, wrapping itself tightly around you.
69. God will talk and talk, and you will break down and cry, but when you get home, you still continue in your old ways. Sometimes you will be angry. Nobody knows who you are angry with; Nobody knows whether you are angry with God or with yourself.
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JUDGE YOURSELF
Let somebody read living Bible, from behind give me James chapter 1 verse 20 only. 20for anger doesn’t make us good, as God demands that we must be. Good!
2. Anger does not make us good. You do not manifest the righteousness of God in anger. If you are angry, it will be worse. You see why you must quietly calm down. Quiet down.
3. Do not look at your Brother. Do not look at your Sister. Look at yourself. Do not look at your wife. And do not look at your children.
4. Do not cast away this Gospel with the thoughts of your heart, “Is this not what I have told my wife? This is what is causing the trouble[s] in my family.”
5. Who are you having this trouble with? Tell Me the person you are having the trouble with. Have you conquered your own? Have you conquered your own personal troubles?
6. Are you teaching others what you have not taught yourself? Cry for yourself, and mourn yourself while you are still alive.
7. If you free yourself through prayers, then you will be able to help another person to pray him out of his own troubles.
8. Does the person who has a noose around his neck drag another person? A rope with noose on both ends are fixed on your neck and also on another person’s neck; and you decide to drag the other person. You will strangle yourself in the process. Amen.
9. [22]I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; Note! With new nature he loves to do God’s will, and is no longer living under the Jewish nature or law. He is now in the newness of life.
10. [23-25]BUT THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE DEEP WITHIN ME,… There Is what? …SOMETHING ELSE DEEP WITHIN ME,…
11. Has he known the truth? Has he believed the truth? Something remaineth. There is something else within. He has known the Word of God in his head, and has also believed it in his heart.
12. He knows it to be the truth, but there is something within. There is something within, which is supposed come out, but is yet to come out.
13. WHEN YOU ARE RENOUNCING, RENOUNCE ALL, AND NOT HALF AND HALF. IF YOU OBEY ALL AND YOU ARE GUILTY IN ONE, YOU ARE GUILTY IN ALL. RENOUNCE ALL.
14. [22]I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; [23-25]but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind…
15. In your lower nature, which you inculcated when you were yet to know God. You inculcated it into yourself and drank it as if you were drinking water when you were still in the denominations. To leave you has now become difficult. And the Word of God was given to you to displace it, but you threw the Word away, because the thing inside you is still giving you too much joy.
16. [23-25]but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind…at war with what? …my mind…
17. You see! Sin operates in the mind. It works against the good plans you have for yourself. There is something in you that is fighting it, telling you never to try it;
18. “Are you not a man? Are you not woman, Do you have common sense? The deceived is the loser. Is it because of this nonsense that you are so worried about. Please let me have my peace.
19. As you are struggling and trying to free yourself, so the thing is struggling to hold you captive. I am at war with my mind. Which means that you do not have the mind of Christ yet. You do not have the mind of Christ yet.
20. Once you have the mind of Christ, you are settled. You are grounded. You are rooted. You can never be buffeted about again. And you must know all the devises of the devil. Then, you have the power to resist the devil and he will flee from you.
21. [22]I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; [23-25]but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave…
22. And does what “…WINS THE FIGHT AND MAKES ME A SLAVE…”
23. Can you imagine? Instead of you to win, to conquer, the thing is always winning you and conquering you. Unbelief! One who is still conquered and dominated by sin.
24. Forget about the multitudes you see carrying the Bible and going to church. I have been telling you that everybody is in the church, proclaiming that they are children of God. Everybody is carrying Bible about, proclaiming that they are children of God, But God knows His own people.
25. God knows those that worship Him in spirit and in truth. How can you be naming the name of God and you are still struggling with iniquity and struggling with your lower nature?
26. 19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. [2 Timothy 2:19 KJV]
27. You do not know that which you will do and it will be good. You do not know that which you will do and it will be bad. You do not know what you will do and offend God. That goes to show that you do not know who God is.
28. Something is good because God said it is good. Something is right because God said it is right. What then makes you a child of God? You do not know that which is right. And you do not know that which is wrong. You are still moving from pillar to post. You are suffering from indecision.
29. LET WHOSOEVER THAT NAMETH THE NAME OF THE LORD DEPART FROM INIQUITY.
30. And you have not departed. Yet, you are a Pastor. You are an Apostle. You are an Evangelist. You have now assumed everything, thinking that title is the thing that will save you, forgetting that Judas was a Bishop. Barnabas was an Apostle. You forgot that Alexander, Philetus and Hymenaeus were Apostles before God. You forgot the abundance of Pastors. Yet, they could not make it.
31. WHAT CAUSED IT? IT IS THIS MATTER. YOU ARE PARADING AND PRESENTING RELIGION AND NOT CHRIST. CHRIST IS NOT YET IN YOU.
32. I TOLD YOU SOME ARE ALREADY IN CHRIST. SOME ARE WELCOMING CHRIST. WHILE SOME ARE AT THE BRINK OF FALLING AWAY. MAJORITY HAVE NOT EVEN WOKEN UP FROM SLUMBER.
33. YOU ARE TOO FAR AWAY FROM WHAT I AM SAYING IF YOU ARE YET TO WAKE UP FROM SLUMBER. BUT AS MANY AS ARE MAKING EFFORTS HAVE COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHO I AM, WHAT I LOVE AND WHAT I HATE.
34. God delights in the upright. He delights in integrity. There is no variableness in Him.
35. Who will save me from this nonsense? If you have found yourself in this dilemma, who do you cry to? You are the one for which cause the Saviour is sent. It is because of people who have this honest desire to serve God.
36. But the devil has his stronghold on their lives, making it impossible for them to be liberated.
37. For them, Christ has been sent to set the captive free. He came for those that are in prison, to liberate them and then to declare the acceptable year of the LORD. Today is the acceptable day of the LORD. Today is the day of salvation if you will stretch your hands. You must lay hold of it.
38. 1The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; [Isaiah 61:1 – 2 KJV]
39. [22]I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; [23-25]but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant,… in my mind I want to be what? …GOD’S WILLING SERVANT…
40. Is this an evil intention? When you are desiring to be God’s willing servant you are desiring an honorable profession, but the devil is there fighting.
41. Needless to tell you that THE CLOUD IS HERE.
42. I want to be a real child of God. I donot want evil to be associated with me anymore. Yet,I am battling with something.
43. 24… In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin.
44. HAVE YOU SEEN THAT WE ARE FIGHTING ONE COMMON ENEMY? BE IT MALE OR FEMALE, CHILD OR ADULT, WE HAVE ONE COMMON ENEMY.
45. It is not your wife that is hindering you. It is not your husband hindering you. Neither is it your business nor your children hindering you.
46. What is hindering you is what you have admitted into your life. The captivity of the devil is based on agreement with the captive.
47. So where you think your problem is coming from is not where it is coming from. You are the one. You opened the barn and the destroyer entered.
48. Do you not know that it is easier to bring in an idol into the family than to take it away? Bringing in an idol into a family is very easy. It is much easier than taking it away. Does it come into any family and go away empty-handed? Satan [Iblis] is like his name. Devil is like its name. A crafty fellow. A murderer
49. So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! What? Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! What? OH, WHAT A TERRIBLE PREDICAMENT I’M IN!
50. Brethren, God loves a sincere heart; a true heart. Is this man not sincere? He was all out to get rid of it. He did not close his mouth. He did not want to die in silence.
51. He shouted, “O! What a terrible predicament I am in. Is this now my fate? So the way I will end all my efforts and struggles is, “Depart from Me, for I know you not.”
52. You see why we must examine ourselves [and not God] to know whether we are in the Faith and progressively bearing the fruit thereof;
53. And not whether we are in the church or whether we are in the fellowship, embracing and loving Brethren with generous gifts.
54. You see why, of all the offering you cast here yesterday, God recognized only one.
55. Would you not go to rapture again? Would you not fly away? Go and make long white flowing gowns and wear like the members of Cherubim and Seraphim. And then crown yourselves with golden crowns, so as to start causing trouble again in the Kingdom of Heaven.
56. But you are being invited into the Ark, but you are playing with it. You can never get it through dancing. Neither can you get it through your smartness. You must, first of all, tell yourself the truth. Tell yourself the truth from the inward heart. Judge yourself.
57. Are you in right standing with God? Are you standing with upright heart in the sight of God? Is your heart right with God? Is your belief not clashing with your actions?
58. If your belief runs contrary to what you are doing, who is deceiving who? Who should be blamed? Now you have seen that it is plain; you know where it is coming from. Who will deliver you from this terrible predicament? Is there any one that is exempted here?
59. Let me know if the family will be a little conducive. Where a man will be thinking about himself; the woman thinking about herself, and the children also thinking about themselves too.
60. This is because salvation awaits all of us. And at the same time, hellfire is there for all that are disobedient.
61. YOU CANNOT BE A SINNER AND A SAINT AT THE SAME TIME. SO STOP PARADING YOURSELF AS RIGHTEOUS WHEN YOU SHOULD BE CRYING AND ASKING FOR GOD’S HELP.
62. That you are a Minister of the gospel, you come to the pulpit; it does not make you upright, for you know your conscience will tell you that you are not upright; You are not living according to the Gospel of Christ which you have received.
63. Then why do you stand in judgment against others? Why are you standing in the pulpit in judgment against others? When you are not behaving right, who do you want to behave right?
64. It was only recently that one whose child is about entering the university went to pay the bride prize for his wife simply because I had to force him.
65. He has a daughter that is ripe for marriage. Yet, he has not fulfilled even one kobo of the traditional marriage demand for the marriage of his own wife. My wife. My wife. Shameless people!
66. Your conscience must, first of all, arrest you. When your conscience arrests you, fighting the devil becomes easy, for you do not want to remain in conflict with God and with your conscience. Set yourself free. That was where Saint Paul rested and said, “Save yourself from this untoward generation.”
67. If you do not save yourself from this condition by narrowing this truth to yourself as it applies to you as an individual, and stop looking sideways, raking up Messages against your family when you are the evil doer; You are the importer of the evil, even the headquarters. Let Me hear noise again!
68. WHO WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS DANGEROUS CONDITION I AM IN. WE ARE NOT CALLING FOR THE BEST PREACHER. WE ARE CALLING FOR ONE THAT WILL SHOWCASE CHRIST.
69. THE AIM OF THE FAITH IS NOT TO PRODUCE THE BEST PREACHER, BUT TO PRODUCE CHRIST WALKING ON TWO FEET HERE ON EARTH.
70. Who will free me from my slavery? Who will free me from slavery? You are a servant to any spirit you are yielding yourself to; either to God to do good or to devil to do bad. True or false?
71. Remember that the symptom of the devil manifests in your brain and in your mind. Your mind will conjecture it and project it. Your heart will capture, before you know it, activities will be reflecting it. Amen.
72. Anybody who wants to avoid fighting should, first of all refrain from quarrelling. He must resist pushing. If you want to avoid fighting, resist nagging and resist pushing.
73. What is the reply for “WHO ARE YOU?” The reply for “WHO ARE YOU?” has never been a palatable one. Sometimes you reply with a slap. Sometimes with push. Sometimes with folding of long sleeves and trousers
74. So, if you want to avoid folding your trousers and long sleeves, avoid “WHO ARE YOU?” If you want to avoid “ELDERS OF THE LAND, I SALUTE YOU”, avoid committing sacrilege. Otherwise, you will come to the village square with two hands up, “ELDERS OF THE LAND, I SALUTE YOU.”
75. Are they avoidable? Yes! If I say, I am not fighting, I will not fight. If I say, I am not nagging, I will not nag. That is why God said, “Get away from all the appearance of the devil.”
76. Do not see the devil and begin to confront it; or begin to romance the devil, and you think that you can escape? You will not.
77. 25…Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free. Amen!!!
78. Look at the Person. See Him here! …He has set me free. He has set Me free from the bondage and slavery of the devil by showing Me the right way; by showing me the truth and helping me to understand that I cannot use my sense, my physical strength to get rid of evil.
79. 6Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. [Zechariah 4:6 KJV]
80. For God is at work within you, helping you want to obey Him, and then helping you do what He wants. [Philippians 2:13 LB]
81. I CAN ONLY GET RID OF EVIL BY BELIEVING IN HIM, CONFIDING IN HIM, DEPENDING ON HIM, RELYING ON HIM, DOING EVERYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WORD. ONLY THEN WILL I FREE MYSELF.
82. That is why there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ, for the lower nature does not rule them again. A new life has just begun. The old foundation which was corrupt has been destroyed.
83. That is why Saint Paul said, “They were accusing me, saying that I am also preaching and believing the law. I said that is rubbish. If I am preaching and believing the law, that means I am rebuilding the old foundation I have been pulling down. And if I do it, it will make me a transgressor. How can I rebuild the impossible road?”
84. Many of you have rebuilt it in your homes in the Jezebel’s altar and Nabal’s altar. No altar of Abraham whose sons and daughters you are. Very easy!
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GODLY YOUTH AND WORLDLY YOUTH
When you go to second Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 to 6 of the Living Bible, it said, “Know of a surety!”
2. [1]You may as well know this too, Timothy, that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian.
3. [2]For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad.
4. [3]They will be hardheaded and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and troublemakers and will think nothing of immorality. Youth, take note! Your meeting is coming up. They will be rough and cruel, and sneer at those who try to be good.LB
5. You will see them with a totally shaven head, but with beards like a wild hog. Beards is now a reigning fashion.
6. Then, someone who calls himself a child of God will be following the pattern of the world. If they barb punk hairstyle, you will join and barb. If they wear tight fitting clothes, you will also wear tight fitting clothes. If they go naked, you also go naked.
7. They go about with exposed buttocks in the streets and touts will be pouring water into the exposed buttocks of a woman. Men and women are now walking about naked. Walking about naked means nothing anymore. What have we not seen? We are now in the city of mad people.
8. The world is finished. No virtue to protect. No integrity! No reputation. Character, beast. Beast!
9. The citadel of learning has become the citadel of corruption. What do we see around there? Institutionalized evil, where everything is completely institutionalized. Cultism, institutionalized. Prostitution, the same thing. Armed robbery, Yahoo and every kind of thing.
10. Hear Me very well. The zenith is now the University. The highest place of learning has become the highest place of learning evil and practicing evil. Evil is now being incubated there and hatched out daily in different forms.
11. Youths, take note of your conference. You will know the difference between worldly youth and Godly youth.
12. If you love yourself do not be absent in the meeting, for the meeting will benefit you more than your academics. Good! Yes!
13. It is going to be a practical meeting. It is not going to be a classic one. You will address yourselves in the language and Level everybody will understand.
14. [4]They will betray their friends;… Is it not common? …THEY WILL BE HOTHEADED, PUFFED UP WITH PRIDE, AND PREFER GOOD TIMES TO WORSHIPING GOD.
15. Can you imagine? These things were written aforetime. Why? Anybody whose foundation is not laid in Christ must be a victim and a slave to these characters. These are the characteristic features of the last days. Is it not true?
16. When somebody is infatuated with all these vices, when he tries to do good he will be doing evil, for he has become a slave to this condition. This is simply because he never started his life with it.
17. Let me ask you a question. Circumcision at infancy and circumcision in adulthood which one is more painful? To circumcise your child at infancy and to circumcise the same individual at old age, which one is more painful?
18. Bro Ojiakor, if you are to be circumcised now, do you think that the whole Onitsha will be able to restrain you? You must be chained hands and feet and then tied to a tree. Yet, your mouth will be screaming. You may bleed to death, for the tissues have all come to maturity.
19. When a child breaks his bone, it joins again very fast. But if the same thing happens to an old person, it may lead to amputation.
20. What am I saying? When you never circumcised the heart of your children at the time the heart was circumcizable. God said, “Circumcise your heart and not your flesh, for we are the true circumcision, not with hand but with the Word of God.”
21. If you never started building Christ and his righteousness in the heart of your children when they were tender and you waited until they have become fully grown adult and have graduated in all forms of evil, and you now begin to disarm them by harassing, intimidating them using hellfire, you are going to cause them to suppress their feelings. You are raising hypocrites. Any sense there?
22. If there be any that will yield to that type of circumcision, it must be borne out of struggle. That is one that has seen the utter uselessness of living such life. But the rest must fall prostrate helplessly to such spirit until they have been fully enslaved.
23. That is why, if you take them to prison, it is for a while. When they come out they will commit the same crime. Some will even go there to learn higher levels of crime. When you go there you will be hearing the language, “I am here for the next level.”
24. SO IF YOU HAPPEN TO COME FROM THE FAMILY WHERE THE BACKGROUND IS CHRIST, YOU ARE A BLESSED INDIVIDUAL.
25. But to you that have escaped even at adulthood, God enjoins you, “Do not make the mistake your parents made, for they knew not God. And they started your life with social life, by providing you with shoes and everything, eating, drinking, junketing, going to parties and every other thing; creating too many orgies in you when you were still a child.”
26. From infancy, you will be walking and twisting your waist, even turning about to see if anybody is looking at you; simply because of the fact that since your mother is putting on weave-on, you are also putting on one.
27. Your mother braids her hair, and you do the same. She wears skirts and you also wear skirts. She wears bra and you also wear bra. For that reason, you have become the mischievously proverbial Timothy who “knew the contents of the Bible” at infancy. There is no “Scripture” we will quote, which you will not tell us that you know it.
28. BE VERY CAREFUL YOUTHS! IF YOU DO NOT DESTROY YOURSELF IN YOUR YOUTH DUE TO YOUTHFUL EXUBERANCE YOU MAY BE LIKE THE SON OF MAN TOMORROW.
29. The wine of the youth intoxicates the foolish and the unreasonable. You know the youth is a wine. The youth is a wine.
30. But the wine of the Word of God is what should be intoxicating you in your youth; borrowing a cue from other youths that used their youthful age to do God a service according to the will of God.
31. WHO DO YOU WANT TO PATTERN AFTER? WHAT TYPE OF A PERSONALITY DO YOU WANT TO PRESENT TO GOD AND TO HUMANITY?
32. Brother go back to that scripture let me see where the remedy lies.
33. [5]They will go to church, yes, but they won’t really believe anything they hear. …
34. They will never believe any. Church today is a social affair. Sometimes, they are being troubled by their parents to go to church. They are being persuaded. They are doing it contrary to their desire. They are not going with their conviction. They are not going because they want to.
35. They have even many other evil places they would have gone, but their parents are forcing them to follow them anyhow, for they are trying to bend the unbendable.
36. If you want the yam plumule to look very beautiful, you put a stake for it. You place it on the stake the way you want it to grow. There is a level it will get to and it will not come down again from the stake. It will then continue spreading as it climbs the stake.
37. Your duty will then be to be weeding the farm. On the day of harvest, you will just come and harvest your yam tuber.
38. But you abandon the yam plumule to be creeping on the bare ground, the heat of the soil will scorch it and the leaves will turn yellow. It will wilt without maturing. During the time of harvest, what will you see? Empty! You laboured in vain. So it is with human beings.
39. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO GO WHEN THEY ARE WITHIN THE TEACHABLE AGE AND WHEN THEY BECOME ADULT THEY WILL NEVER DEPART FROM IT.
40. How can you tell somebody who has committed series of abortions to stop meeting a man? Is she afraid of meeting a man? The highest thing is pregnancy. And she knows how to take care of it.
41. It is like I have started the seminar already? But there is one thing she will not know. That is, the level of destruction that has taken place within [her], which might not manifest immediately, but with time.
42. This is because it is not the day that one commits sacrilege against an idol that the idol strikes him dead. Even the Almighty God does not kill people instantly for committing sin. He gives them moments of respite, peradventure they will recognize their foolishness and turn back to life.
43. Do not worry. Pray that I will not come to your meeting, for I know where the problem is [1] THE PROBLEM OF PROMISCUITY. Preserve your youth and achieve your dreams. And [2] OVER AMBITIOUSNESS TO GET HUSBAND AND WIFE, even when you are not prepared.
44. You do not have the wherewithal. You do not have the quality. You do not have the courage even to enter into it, and you harden your heart to go into it anyhow. The disastrous consequences will leave you shattered and devastated.
45. Some young men do not even consider what it takes to dabble into unplanned marriage. Unplanned marriage due to unwanted pregnancy will land you where you hate to land. It will make you to marry somebody that is not your choice. It will put you into perpetual regret.
46. What is more? Your future is completely impaired. What causes it? Lack of self-development which leads to lack of self-control.
47. Once you lack these two, you become a servile slave to your passion. You can never lack these two without being a servile slave to your passions and emotions. True or false?
48. Pray that I do not come to your meetings. But the wise ones will say, “Daddy, I will like to have You.
49. This is because I will tell you what is destructive education and what is gainful education [Academically and unregimented] so that you will know the one you are yielding yourself to. Amen.
50. If you are finding it difficult in getting a wife among us I blame the two and not one. The two are not developing themselves mentally. They are not developing spiritually. They are not developing even emotionally; while a good number of them are having what I call physiological defect, of which doctors among us will tell them on that day.
51. Many of you are having physiological defect. You are suffering from something that is more than what I think it should be. Neurotic psychosis. I say, neurotic psychosis, which no orthodox doctor can handle. All your pains are psychosomatic.
52. Pray that I do not come to your meeting. What is it leading to? While the girls are developing academically, you are developing immorally. The girls are developing academically, while the boys are developing immorally, graduating in all forms of lazy habits.
53. And when they want to marry, they want to marry elevated women with higher knowledge of life and depth than them. How can the two meet? Two incompatible, for which cause, I left them open.
54. It is unfortunate that nobody has ever presented one. You sisters or daughters, if you see a man that meets your heart’s desire, church or no church, decide to marry or not. If you agreed to marry, come to Me and present that person. Period!
55. This is because when the young men are not developing, it then means they have no quality. They have no character. They have no reputation. They have no integrity. They have no future.
56. Why the calmness? It is like I am delivering My own lectures immediately. Why are some families suffering? It is because of half-baked materials who joined themselves together as husband and wife. And they are not ready to advance further.
57. The man is semi-illiterate, and the wife is semi-illiterate, in the sense that they can write their names, read letters, write text messages and answer calls. It does not make you educated.
58. Let Me just tell you. Such families are suffering too many domestic, social, mental and all forms of defects. It is a defect family.
59. Something that resembles a man wants to marry a full-fledged woman. Who do you want to marry? A semi-illiterate is pointing at a graduate. And yet he is not ready to elevate his academic status.
60. What is your means of livelihood? He becomes quiet. He wants a lady who is industrious, and who will take over all his problems of life and then, will stay at home at the receiving end.
61. Before you know she will become a family nanny. There is no need hiring a nanny when you are there. Be the nanny. “Take care of the children, wash cloth and make sure the house is in order. I am going to work. I will come back in the evening.”
62. If you want to get a wife from among us, begin now to run while they are running, having your eyes in three or four, and believing that one will accept. Start somewhere.
63. You cannot be like John Ekwueme and begin to point at a Sister here. It is better you begin to look outside. May be there is one old cargo who may consider you because of death and sickness so that they will write, “Left to mourn him is his wife”
64. Or incase of sickness, somebody will be there to prepare pepper soup for you and be begging you to take it, no matter how small. Amen.
65. Brethren, this seminar is going to be a wonderful one o. I say it is going to be a wonderful and glorious one o. Never have we had something like this before. This is because it is going to be divided into two sessions.
66. Number one: The Lecture Session in the morning. Then after your break in the afternoon, you enter into the plenary session which will be an All-Youth-Affair, where you will discuss your affairs, and minister to yourselves till day break.
67. You cook for yourself. You eat your food. You do everything. We have gotten every facility for you. That is all! You manage yourself 100%.
68. No mother will cook for you. No father! We can pay you a visit and go away. Guest speakers will speak to you; then go to the places where we hired for them and have their rest.
69. Then the youth will be there meeting themselves using whatever they will collect as the messages; plus the one they have for themselves, for he that wears the shoes knows where it is pinching him. Amen.
70. If you can change your penchant for making money to penchant for acquiring higher education or higher skills. I mean a conventional skill that is in tune with the hour, which can help you to run an ideal family.
71. How can you run an ideal family when you are hanging about? No, no! That era is completely over. We know what we are looking for.
72. 2 Timothy 3 from verse 5. Living Bible.[5]They will go to church, yes, but they won’t really believe anything they hear. Don’t be taken in by people like that.
73. [6]They are the kind who craftily sneak into other people’s homes and make friendships with silly, sin-burdened women and teach them their new doctrines. Amen.
74. People that receive the truth; the remedy is what? Christ. No other remedy. Remedy means answer. If you do not want to pattern after this evil age, evil world, the remedy is, to embrace Christ.
75. Embracing Christ means embracing His teachings. Embracing His doctrines, living by them, and you will not pattern yourself after the world anymore. The spirit that is working among the children of disobedience can never work in you.
76. If we are having problems with our children, they are traceable to one thing. Their inability to live godly life which is difficult to live in this last age because they never started with Christ.
77. And the parents were merely taking them to churches without engraining into their children the nature of Christ, creating enmity in their hearts against anything that is not sound living; sound doctrine.
78. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE EVIL BY GOING TO UNIVERSITY. YOU CAN GO THERE TO CEMENT IT. YOU CAN GO THERE AND LEARN DIFFERENT KINDS OF EVIL.
79. Do you know one thing? We must hate evil. Evil has no age. I say, evil has no age. Sin has no age. Anybody can be evil. Anybody can be evil.
80. There was a time Saint Paul was evil before he became a saint. So if you are evil today, you can be a saint tomorrow. It depends on you. If you are delighting yourself in evil, you are deriving joy and pleasure on it, can you come out of it?
81. NOBODY COMES OUT FROM AN EVIL HABIT THAT GIVES HIM JOY. That is why you must avoid the glamour of iniquity; the deceitfulness of sin. It deceives. It gives you the impression that God will save you anyhow; that you are not the worst of all; you may not know that you may be the worst.
82. You are seeing this brother. Have you seen one that has escaped? The one you are using as an example, do you know the effort he is making to escape? He may escape and abandon you there. Amen.
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PUT ON ALL OF GOD’S ARMOUR [1]
Okay! We go back to the Word. I have not finished reading. I want you to read that same place. Let us hear it from Good News Bible. Romans 7 from verse 14.
2. [14]We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
3. If you are not spiritual, you will become a slave to sin. Is it not true? Once you are carnal, you are a slave. You are under condemnation.
4. Romans 8 verse 1. 1THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. AMP.
5. Romans 8:1 Living Bible. 1So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2For the power of the life-giving Spirit–and this power is mine through Christ Jesus– has freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death.LB
6. So there is power in what you are hearing, for the Word spoken by Christ is full of living power.
7. Romans 7 from verse 14. Good News Bible. [14]We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. [15]I do not understand what I do; for I don’t do what I would like to do, but instead, I do what I hate.
8. [16]Since what I do is what I don’t want to do, this shows that I agree that the law is right. [17]So, I am not really the one who does this thing, rather it is the sin that lives in me.
9. [18]I know that good does not live in me–that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
10. [19]I don’t do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. [20]If I do what I don’t want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
11. [21]So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have. [22]My inner being delights in the law of God.
12. [23]But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
13. [24]What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death? [25]Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen!
14. I want to read Amplified version. Romans 7 from verse 5.
15. 5When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death.
16. 6But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life].
17. Now, we have noticed that the whole thing centers in our foundation. When we believed in God, we believe in the truth. We never cast away our old knowledge of evil that dominated our hearts. True or false? Our old foundation remains there.
18. So we must know your foundation in Christ; whether the foundation is based on the new living or on the old living. If you do not know what the new living is all about, I will show you. I will make a comparison again.
19. Follow Me as we go to 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7. I will give you Scriptures and go away. [7]Remove this evil cancer–this wicked person–from among you, so that you can stay pure. Christ, God’s Lamb has been slain for us. LB
20. 7You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. GNB
21. 7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: KJV
22. Think what it will be to use a flour that was mixed with bread, but it did not rise. Then you mixed it with new flour with new yeast, expecting it to rise. Can it rise? Half baked bread is even better than that nonsense.
23. You are transferring whatever might be the impurities that is in the other one that did not help it to rise. You are transferring your old character; your old life into the new life, muddling things up.
24. It will make you a hypocrite; a chameleon. If you see white, you become white. If you see black, you become black. You have known. In the gathering of the children of God, you become a saint. If you go to the gathering of gamblers, people that play pool, yahoo boys [fraudsters], you still belong there.
25. This is because it is something you know very well. You refused to retire from it because it is said that a man does not grow old in his area of specialization.
26. Why do you delight in moving with evil men? It is because this evil life has not been purged out of the person. The desire is still there. It has not gone out. In your mind, you think it has gone out, but it has not.
27. When you will know that it has gone away from you is when you get there and you former colleagues will be watching you, only to find out that you are not even using the slang and everything. You do not even want to tint it a little. And you are not regretting leaving them. If you see them, it will be like an abomination.
28. You regret all the past years you lived among them. That is when you will know that you have abandoned them. That is the time you will know that you are no longer with them. Do not come to tell Me that you have overcome until you revisit that place. If you have not gone there and come out unhurt, you have not overcome.
29. That old leaven must be cast away. Saint Paul recognized it. And when Christ spoke, he paid attention. There was no figment of law of Moses found in him again, which was what marked him out to be a sinner.
30. He was no longer spiritual. He was purely carnal. AND WHOEVER THAT IS LIVING CARNALLY CAN NEVER PLEASE GOD. He wanted to do good, but he was doing evil. But he overcame through Christ.
31. Christ said, “Because I overcame, you must surely overcome.” If God says it, it is guaranteed. Where you refuse to overcome, it is no longer God. It is you. You decided not to say, No! Enough is enough.” And then, follow the way of Christ. If you follow Christ a little, and then follow the devil, will it ever stop?
32. A white dog and a black dog fighting in your heart. One trying to conquer the other. Any one you support is the one that will conquer. If you support the white one a little and support the black one a little, can the war end?
33. You are merely supplying weapons to the two enemies. This is exactly how many of us are, living our own lives and attributing it to God. A little for God. And a little for the devil. Put the two together. What kind of a human being will it present? A hypocrite!
34. Saint Matthew 16 verse 6 and 12. “Watch out!” Jesus warned them. “Beware of yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” … Then, at last, they understood that by yeast, he meant the wrong teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. LB
35. Jesus said to them, “Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” …Then the disciples understood that he was not warning them to guard themselves from the yeast used in bread but from the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. GNB
36. 6Jesus said to them, Be careful and on your guard against the leaven (ferment) of the Pharisees and Sadducees. …12Then they discerned that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. AMP
37. 6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. …Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. KJV
38. There is another translation that said, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
39. Whether wrong teaching or hypocrisy, they are all but one. Leaven of the Pharisees. Their wrong teaching.
40. Remember, that was the wrong teaching that Saint Paul stuffed himself with. Hence, he said he was blameless, concerning the teaching of the Pharisees because he was a member of the sect of the Pharisees.
41. Luke 12:1 King James Bible. In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, BEWARE YE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES, WHICH IS HYPOCRISY.
42. All these people standing at the back, go to your seats. That is why you are causing unnecessary scene there. Even if somebody is collapsing there, let the person collapse. I hope you are hearing me? Go to your seat.
43. You are tired of seating down. I am not tired of standing up. You must cast out all forms of old living. Cast out all forms of hypocrisy.
44. The Bible said, “Laying aside all subtlety and hypocrisy. Let us put on the new MAN which is created after Christ in righteousness, and in right living.”
45. 1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, [1 Peter 2:1 KJV]
46. 24and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. [Ephesians 4:24 KJV]
47. How do you intend to build a new structure upon an old, cracked, faulty and useless foundation? The law is faulty. The law is weak. The law is useless. The law is unprofitable.
48. Why do you carry the glorious Message of Christ and build it as a foundation upon a foundation, while you have heard, “No other foundation shall any man lay, except that which is now laid, which is Christ?
49. WHY DO YOU BUILD CHRIST UPON MOSES? WHY DO YOU BUILD CARNAL UPON SPIRITUAL? WHY DO YOU OBEY CARNAL LAWS THAT CLASH WITH THE SPIRITUAL LAWS? WHY BUILDING A GREATER EMPHASIS TO WASHING OF HANDS INSTEAD OF WASHING THE HEART?
50. Was it not what nearly destroyed Paul? He now noticed that the old life; lower nature which was sin; sin caused by the knowledge of the law, for the strength of sin is the law. True or false? Is it not Scripture?
51. 56The sting of death is sin; AND THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. [1 Corinthians 15:56 KJV]
52. This man could not lay it aside. He could not destroy it. He wanted to carry them together, and the thing clashed. It became a conflict. It becomes carnality verses spirituality.
53. Carnal law which he had already adopted, opposing the spiritual law that giveth life. When he found himself in that dilemma, he raised alarm.
54. DO YOU KNOW THAT BY THE DEEDS OF THE FLESH, NO ONE CAN PLEASE GOD, FOR THE FLESH IS UNPROFITABLE? THE FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING. THAT IS WHAT IS KILLING ALL OF YOU.
55. Where does sin operate? Flesh. Is it not scriptural? Who is a sinner? He that is laying this foundation; renewing the old foundation we have already destroyed, all in the attempt to be a very spiritual man; A man of authority. Yet, outside the will of God.
56. When the spirit has taken over, the flesh loses its power. True or false? A spiritual man judgeth all thing, but him no man will judge, for the spirit subjects everything to the command of the spirit. True or false?
57. 15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. [1 Corinthians 2:15 KJV]
58. Let Me go further. How do we war this war? 2 Corinthians 10 from verse 1 through 8, and verse 17 through 18, Good News Bible.1I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you—I who am said to be meek and mild when I am with you, but harsh with you when I am away. By the gentleness and kindness of Christ 2I beg you not to force me to be harsh when I come; for I am sure I can deal harshly with those who say that we act from worldly motives.
59. 3IT IS TRUE THAT WE LIVE IN THE WORLD, BUT WE DO NOT FIGHT FROM WORLDLY MOTIVES. 4The weapons we use in our fight are not the world’s weapons but God’s powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments;
60. 5we pull down every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God; WE TAKE EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE AND MAKE IT OBEY CHRIST. We take every thought captive. And cause that thought to obey Christ.
61. 6And after you have proved your complete loyalty, we will be ready to punish any act of disloyalty. 7You are looking at the outward appearance of things. Is there someone there who reckons himself or herself to belong to Christ? Well, let them think again about themselves, because we belong to Christ just as much as they do.
62. 8For I am not ashamed, even if I have boasted somewhat too much about the authority that the Lord has given us—authority to build you up, not to tear you down. …….
63. 17BUT AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, “WHOEVER WANTS TO BOAST MUST BOAST ABOUT WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE.” 18FOR IT IS PEOPLE OF WHOM THE LORD THINKS WELL WHO ARE APPROVED, NOT PEOPLE WHO THINK WELL OF THEMSELVES. Amen!!! GNB
64. This is because a disobedient person is a rebel. By the word of God we capture rebels and bring them back to the fold.
65. 2 Corinthians 10 from verse 2, Living Bible. [2]I hope I won’t need to show you when I come how harsh and rough I can be. I don’t want to carry out my present plans against some of you who seem to think my deeds and words are merely those of an ordinary man.
66. They were thinking that his words; his deed were those of an ordinary man. How can they obey the words of an ordinary man?
67. It might be your condition here. That is why whenever I come here, I want you to focus your eyes there. Look away from the mask. Look through the one wearing the mask.
68. [3]It is true that I am an ordinary, weak human being, but I don’t use human plans and methods to win my battles. [4]I use God’s mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil’s strongholds.
69. [5]These weapons can break down every proud argument against God and every wall that can be built to keep men from finding him. With these weapons I can capture rebels and bring them back to God and change them into men whose hearts’ desire is obedience to Christ.
70. [6]I will use these weapons against every rebel who remains after I have first used them on you yourselves and you surrender to Christ. [7]The trouble with you is that you look at me and I seem weak and powerless, but YOU DON’T LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE.
71. Is it not the trouble many are having? You are seeing a mere man. You have never seen Him beyond mere man. You have never looked beneath to see the Divine Personality that is wearing Him as mask. It never started today.
72. ……. [17]As the Scriptures say, “If anyone is going to boast, let him boast about what the Lord has done and not about himself.” [18]When someone boasts about himself and how well he has done, it doesn’t count for much. But when the Lord commends him, that’s different! Amen! LB
73. Whoever that commends himself is a fool. He that commends himself is a fool.
74. 2 Corinthians 10:17 – 18, King James Version. 17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
75. Amplified version.17However, let him who boasts and glories boast and glory in the Lord. 18For [it is] not [the man] who praises and commends himself who is approved and accepted, but [it is the person] whom the Lord accredits and commends. Amen!!!
76. You have seen the weapon of warfare. It is not carnal. It is mighty through God to pull down strongholds and any thought that will exalt itself contrary to the knowledge of God; contrary to the word of God.
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PUT ON ALL OF GOD’S ARMOUR [2]
2 Corinthians 10 verse 5, King James Version.5casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2. Ephesians 6 verse 10, Living Bible. [10]Last of all I want to remind you that your strength must come from the Lord’s mighty power within you. strength must come from where? …the Lord’s mighty power within you.
3. What is the LORD’s Mighty Power within you? The word spoken to you by Christ; full of living power, alive, active energizing. And that is if you take it in.
4. [11]Put on all of God’s armour so that you will be able to stand safe against all strategies and tricks of the Satan.
5. The devil has strategies. The devil has tricks. But we are not ignorant of his devices. And that is when the Word spoken by Christ has taken our hearts as it home.
6. WHEN THE WORD OF GOD IS IN OUR HEART IT WILL RAISE A STANDARD AGAINST THE DEVIL. WHENEVER THE SPIRIT BEGINS TO ANOINT US TO DO CONTRARY, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORD ACCUMULATED IN YOUR HEART WILL RAISE UP A STANDARD AGAINST IT. IT WILL NEVER PERMIT THAT TO HAPPEN.
7. BUT WHEN THE WORD IS NOT STORED IN THE HEART, THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN RESTRAIN YOU FROM DANCING TO THE TUNE AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE DEVIL.
8. TO BE TEMPTED IS NOT SIN. EVERY MAN CAN BE TEMPTED, BUT WHEN YOU YIELD OR WHEN YOU SUCCUMB TO THAT TEMPTATION, YOU HAVE COMMITTED CRIME BEFORE GOD.
9. REMEMBER, NO MAN IS TEMPTED BY GOD WITH A PROBLEM. GOD TESTS EVERY MAN’S HEART, TRYING TO SEE WHETHER THERE WILL BE AN UPRIGHT HEART.
10. [11]Put on all of God’s armour so that you will be able to stand safe to all strategies and tricks of Satan.
11. [12]FOR WE ARE NOT FIGHTING AGAINST PEOPLE MADE OF FLESH AND BLOOD BUT AGAINST PERSONS WITHOUT BODIES.
12. Do you believe it? The prophet William Braham saw them. They are here now. If God will open your eyes and you see the millions of demon following you about, you will marvel.
13. When they were let lose many years back from the River Euphrates, they went into war with all mankind to make sure that no body smells eternal life. That is why the anointing grows according to age. But this is the last of its operation.
14. The evil that started in the day of Adam and Eve is climaxing in our own day. That is why we are accounting even for the blood of Abel. It will be required of the people of this generation.
15. Do you know how many generations that it is covering? The days of Noah; the days of Sodom and Gomorrah; plus your own day. Of all the evils, the climax is this. Who can be saved?
16. You see why it takes God to come down, for if God fails to come down, no flesh shall be saved. How can you escape it?
17. Let God open your eyes and you see what is following you about. When you want to do good, you will do evil; influencing you to do evil at all times; provoking you. Sometimes, thoughts you never envisaged will come into your mind. I am telling you the truth. You will be struggling with yourself. Amen!
18. [12]For we are not fighting people made of flesh and blood but the evil rulers of the unseen world, those MIGHTY SATANIC BEING and great evil princes of darkness WHO RULE THIS WORLD;…
19. Jesus said that the ruler of this world is coming, but he has no part in Me, for he was the Word made manifest; and then wrapped Himself in the word. That is why he told you to escape. You can escape. For the words I spoke unto you; they are spirit. They are life.
20. I told you how to pray always that you fall not into temptation. Do not live a loose life. Follow the way of the Master. Follow your Guide. Get acquainted with Him so close that you know Him, His doctrines and His manner of life.
21. [12]…the evil ruler of the unseen world, those fighting satanic being and great princes of darkness who rule this world; and against this huge numbers of wicked spirit in the spirit world.
22. Look at what is warring against a child of God. Go back to last Sunday’s week. That is, GOD’S PRESENCE IS THE GLORY. You will see it that the greatest enemy of Satan is a child of God.
23. If you are a child of God, you are in a warfare. That is why you must be on the alert, for your enemy; your adversary is roaring about you, seeking to devour you. The devil does not mean well for anybody.
24. [13]So use every piece of God’s armour to resist the enemy whenever he attacks, and when it is all over, you will still be standing up. Will he attack? Yes! Will he attack? Yes! Good. And God has given us the armour,
25. [14]But to do this, you will need the strong belt of truth… You need what? …the strong belt of truth…
26. Quit like a soldier. Use truth as your belt. No falsehood. Use the truth as your belt in order to reinforce your waist as a warrior that is going for war. Guide yourself with truth.
27. …And the breastplate of Gods approval. Do you not know what it is? Bulletproof that is used to protect the chest. What is that? Uprightness with God. Righteousness! Right standing. A heart devoid of evil.
28. That is how your heart should be. That is what you will use to shield your heart at all times because evil attracts evil. An Igbo adage says that one who has eaten the penis of a ram is indebted to a condition of enlarged testicles.
29. If something that belongs to the devil is not in your custody, the devil cannot come to you demanding anything. One from whom the devil is making a demand is in custody of something that belongs to the devil. The spirit of an idol cannot come to you if you have not desecrated it.
30. [15]Wear shoes that are able to speed you on as you preach the Good News of peace with God. [16]In every battle you will need faith as your shield to stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan.
31. You need what? Faith. You do not need works. Do not come to tell Me how you preached the Gospel and all the cock and bull stories of how you used the Gospel to gun down the devil. That is rubbish.
32. FAITH COMETH BY HEARING; HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME, SHALL HE FIND FAITH. FINISH! FAITH IN CHRIST MAKES EVERYTHING RIGHT. SO THE REMEDY IS STILL CHRIST.
33. [18]Pray all the time. Ask God for anything in line with the holy spirit wishes.
34. Pray at all times. A life of victory is a life of prayer. But when you want to live your life anyhow, prayer is completely forgotten; studying the Word of God is completely forgotten.
35. What will stop the devil from taking you to captive? You have no armour. Put on the armour of God. When you go home, read other translations. Amen.
36. Follow Me; let us consider another passage before I will go. 1 Peter 1 verse 13 Living Bible only. [13]So now you can look forward soberly and intelligently to more of God’s kindness to you when Jesus Christ return.
37. Amplified Version.13So brace up your minds; be sober (circumspect, morally alert); set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace (divine favour) that is coming to you when Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is revealed.
38. Have you received it? Did you receive it before it was revealed? When it was revealed, it was revealed with grace and truth. What were you holding before then? You were holding the impossible road to heaven.
39. What if you do not recognize the revealed Christ, and you are waiting for one that is coming? Whatever we are saying is not applicable to you. And there is no way you can come out of it till eternity.
40. 1 Peter 1 verse 14, Living Bible. [14]Obey God because you are his children;… Are we the children of God? I hope you are not going to be disobedient from today. If you obey God you will not be limping between two opinions; serving the devil and serving God.
41. You must know who you are. You must be certain of where you are standing by day and by night. If I ask you whether you are a member of God’s Family, you will say, “By the grace of God” or “I think.”
42. [14]Obey God because you are his children; don’t slip back into your old ways–… Which you wore with your present knowledge of the Truth.
43. THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN CONTINUE WITH YOUR OLD LIVING AND MANIFEST THIS FAITH. YOU CAN NEVER MANIFEST CHRIST. BELIEVING MOSES, AND MANIFESTING CHRIST? IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN.
44. [14]…do not slip back into your old ways–doing evil because you knew no better. [15]But be holy now in everything you do, just as the Lord is holy,who invited you to be his child.
45. [16]He Himself has said, “You must be holy, for I am holy. [17]And remember that your heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favourites when He judges. ….
46. God, our heavenly Father judges every man by one standard. He has no favourite. He that doeth what is good is righteous. He that doeth what is evil is evil. So you cannot have an upright heart and corrupt heart. You cannot be devil and God.
47. If, after today, you continue to say you do not know where you are and what is happening in you, just pack your bag and leave us. Just pack and go. This faith is not for you.
48. And THE SON OF MAN cannot help you because your altar is making it impossible for you to be helped. You have established a very big firm altar. Let Him say what He wants to say, this is what I want to believe or do. I will not change it.
49. [17]… So act in reverent fear of him from now on until you get to heaven. Until you see yourself clothed with immortality; which you know is pure truth. He has already shown us everything. We said we shall be like Him, for that is His promise.
50. Until we see ourselves like THAT MAN, you have wasted your time following THE SON OF MAN. THE SON OF MAN is made manifest so that you might be where He is. And I have shown you the final destination of every Saint. If you do not end your journey with THE SON OF MAN that way, you are ending it in hell.
51. Remember your eternity start the moment you give up the ghost. No room for repentance again. Another eternity is when you remain in your fault, with unrepentant, stubborn spirit, and then translation takes place, definitely you must be dropped, for God can never put immortality upon a stubborn fellow.
52. It then means that God has sponsored rebellion against Himself by making that man indestructible; and God also indestructible. Can God do it? Has he done it before? The little moment he had with Lucifer thought him a lesson. Amen.
53. [18]God paid a ransom to save you from the impossible road to heaven… Who can make it possible? God said it is impossible. The Apostles confirmed that it is impossible. Who among you will make it possible? And many here are luring you to go that path because they are not part of us.
54. They are here spying into the secret of our liberty, always intending to bring us back to bondage. And when you resist it, you became their enemy. They will call you many names.
55. [18]God paid a ransom to save you from the impossible road to heaven. which your fathers tried to take,… The road which our fathers attempted, and it did not pay off. They attempted and they failed.
56. Saint Paul attempted it. He gave it hundred percent. Yet, it failed him. It failed even Moses. Hence, Moses turned round and requested for God’s grace.
57. [18]God paid a ransom to save you from the impossible road to heaven which your fathers tried to take, and the ransom they paid was not mere gold or silver as you very well know.
58. [19]But he paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.[20]God chose him for this purpose, long before the world began…
59. Can you now believe it? Christ was in the world before the world began. Who can tell Me the beginning and the ending of the Man there?
60. You can know the beginning and the ending of the mask, because every mask has a beginning and ending. But do you know the beginning and the ending of the Man who has been changing mask since the world began?
61. He chose Him before the world began. And in the dispensation of time, the Father chose to reveal himself through the Son. And the Son made the children to know whom their Father is, and declared His Name.
62. 27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. [Matthew 11:27 KJV]
63. You think it is a light price that gathered you here? A light price? Your father sacrificed animals and things like that, but they could not see the face of God.
64. If it were bullocks, we would have sacrificed many, for we now have money. But what He wants goes beyond sacrificing bullocks and lambs. What does he want? YOUR HEART.
65. [20]God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but only recently was he brought into public view. What?
66. Only recently was He brought into public view. Tell Me how you could have seen Him in your own day, if God never allowed THAT MAN to continue according to His promise that, “I will not leave you even till the end of the world.”
67. Now is your own day. This is the hour of your own visitation. He has now arrived to live among you, doing the same work. If He was not chosen aforetime by the Almighty, who then chose Him?
68. Who then anointed or ordained Him? Who appointed him? Who gave Him the Message? Who is confirming what He is telling you as the truth? Who is the One bearing witnesses Who commanded you to pay attention to Him. Who introduced Who?
69. What are we saying? I do not care the way you look at your condition. Your condition will remain with you until you turn to Christ. Any day you turn to Christ and give total submission to His will, if you do not come out of that trouble or condition, know that I am not HE.
70. But as you continue to dangle, deceiving yourselves, being double minded, serving diverse lusts, and claiming you are serving God, I bet you, you must be disappointed at the end.
71. After all, the Judge of the whole Earth is talking to you. If I do not tell you the truth, what do I gain? I am here to tell you the whole truth. And you are to act the way you want to act.
72. But every true seed of God must act in agreement with the revealed Word of God, for no true seed of God takes delight in walking contrary to the will of the Father. A true child born in a family does not delight himself in going contrary to the father’s instruction. True or false?
73. On this note, I invite the Pastor. Thank you for giving Me audience.
EPILOGUE
74. Anybody who would like to be a chicken can chicken out now from among the youth. It is not an obligation that all of them must be there. If you want to chicken out, chicken out.