Preached on SEPTEMBER 2019 By BISHOP OKOH FRYDE “Truth has no substitute” ©BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
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GOODEVENING
The sun has declined to a bearable angle and the elegant neoclassic simplicity of the landscape revealed the benevolent and splendor of sundown.
2. We are in the evening and our God has been telling us about this, that there is no more time. The man we worship is a masquerade housing the deity and the glittering treasure the world has been
hunting for days and nights.
3. He lies buried in a man and the man is the personality in our midst- the Elohim. He is with a small group, the Bride called unto Himself and this small gathering feeds upon the succulent tissues of His divine messages.
4. What He evokes through words touch on the rust and silence and echoes of human spiritual history along the slim road to paradise.
5. In the message FOLLOW THE CLOUD, vol.2 page 14:9 God revealed thus “every minute we find ourselves living here on earth, we are living in God’s own period. We have exhausted ours”.
6. So we must be mindful of all our actions because no one knows when God will snap the existence of this universe to a close”.
7. We are living in a world of luxury, spectacular and pleasure, a world where human race have forgotten everything about God and His prophecies.
8. Even the clergy in the Christian churches are more hooked to the pleasures of life and that is the basic reason why all of them hinged their hope on money, which is the modern God.
9. English proverb says “fools worship mules that carry gold”. Most of us are guilty of this statement but we pretend that we are not covetous in our thinking and actions.
10. God told us to check the stimulus we are responding to- if it is external or eternal- stop and think! These act of wickedness we are manifesting were all brewed by our confused minds. The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
11. This is a statement of fact that calls for mind renewal. We should always meditate and reflect on the words of God who is in our midst.
12. “When you sit alone, meditate on your own fault; when you converse, do not discuss the faults of others”.- Chinese proverb.
13. The Russian proverb says “a good conscience is God’s eye”.
14. In the message HAVE FAITH IN GOD NOT REASONING page 44:1, God said “brethren, at a time like this, what we need is a strong anchor.
15. If you’re not anchored in Christ, if you’re hypocritical, ifs your sense is deceiving you, instead of developing your faith, you’re developing your sense, definitely you will run into troubles any time from now”.
16. In the same message page 47:9, God continued “watch the trouble brethren are having, instead of applying faith in the word, they are applying sense.
17. Instead of obeying, they will give reasons, answers, excuses, even ahead of time to avoid carrying out instructions, to avoid obeying God.
18. They will reason out excuses, they will give the reason”. What kind of reason can you give to God for an offence you know quite well you committed?
19. This is sheer stupidity for we to start telling God lies- this is unbelief of the highest order. We are manifesting a trait that proves we are stark unbelievers, why? Because we are then disproving the fact that God is all knowing.
20. He knows our beginning and ending, then why do we play such a stupid prank? What we should do is to remain steadfast, without wavering. Have faith and trust in Him.
21. Whatever we are doing, we must have behind our minds this fact, God is watching us. God has reminded us in numerous messages that if we are in the faith of Son of Man, we should continue without wavering.
22. Now we have found out that we are in the right path, let’s continue to follow our guide, under rain, under sunshine. If we do, sincerely, there is no way we can develop fear in our minds thinking if God will finally save us.
23. This action will replay when we start again to rebuild the old system that has already been pulled down. We must test ourselves, screen ourselves. From all indication, some of us here are playing church.
24. God said that “80% of people here don’t believe in Him and they don’t also want to leave Him”. Is God telling a lie? How can we worship this God in truth and in love because in love translation is hidden, we must believe Him as God first.
25. The problem most of us have is that we accept Him as God when He has attended to our needs but believing and reverencing Him is temporal and not constant.
26. For you to be consistent, you must be devoted and committed to things of God. Consistency consolidates your commitment and devotion.
27. We should gear up and get involved in all things pertaining to the ministry of the Son of Man. This should not be done grudgingly. Time awaits nobody.
28. A sage says “defer not till the evening what the morning will accomplish” and a Chinese proverb added “a lost inch of gold maybe found; a lost inch of time, never”.
29. Is this statement senseless? God man in our midst is highly interested in saving as many as will believe in Him. His messages are Holy Ghost filled and His intention is to produce Christs within the Bride.
30. By His words, He wants to change us from natural to supernatural beings and this statement is more classified in the message THE TRUE TOKEN vol.2 page 28:58 where Son of Man elaborated on it thus “when people are filled with the holy spirit, they become more like Christ, the sovereign spirit, they behave like Christ. When people see them, they will see carbon copies of Christ on earth.
31. Our prophet William Branham told us that the bride ministry is to produce Christ on two feet once again”. The Son of Man has earnestly revealed Christ to us in all ramifications. Through His life style He has revealed His personality.
32. His strictness, firmness, determination and loveliness have revealed allure of hidden treasures that portray a vision of paradise.
33. Those who believe in Him and accept Him as God Almighty would be striding along confidently, overlapping the promise of something to come; not coloured by superstition or legend but real.
34. All those who wore weird mindset suggesting unbelief, should hide their faces in shame. They cannot hide their feelings.
35. They advertise this fact through their conspicuous coloration, revealing their vast, bleak and desolate nothingness. To be compassionate is to do the will of God.
36. In the message HAVE FAITH IN GOD AND NOT REASONING page 51:17 The Son of Man said thus “the hour we are in calls for exercise of our faith, we don’t walk by sight anymore, We walk by faith. Sight and reasoning go together.
37. Until these things are subdued, faith can never project”. Express what others are afraid to express and they will see great power in you- faith expressed.
38. In the same message page 53:21- He concluded “I am saying from henceforth, who will survive? Only those that anchored their faith in the spoken word of God, these are the people that will survive the holocaust. But as many as walk by sight, definitely, they must be swept off guard”.
39. God said that it is only the people that anchored their faith in the spoken word that will survive the holocaust.
40. How do we anchor our faith on the spoken word? We do that by believing and concluding any instruction(s) given to us. Another aspect is to cast away pride from our lives.
41. Pride comes by seeing yourself above others or when you are commended by God you will feel you are greater than all others and based on that you will start feeling pompous and important. Satan heard it and he will lay a dangerous trap for you on the way to rubbish you and that trap is mainly clothed with pride.
42. In the same message, page 77:30-31 God revealed thus “why the devil succeeds in harming them is because when God commends them, instead of working towards that commendation, they will relax.
43. Instead of striving earnestly to uphold that record from the onset till the end, they will think the commendation has become the end of the journey.
44. Neither do they realize that they will not be saved until they hold unto the profession of the commendation firmly, steadfastly unto the end.
45. That’s why you hear God saying “that was before” because the record is no longer being upheld”. Did we hear what God said? Because the record is no longer being upheld.
THE GOD OF RECORDS
46. Hear this “Everyday of our lives, He records in the book of God. He records whatever we manifest on a daily basis because we are specially made. God’s eye is upon you and me every minute.
47. He records every of our activities. Whatever you are thinking, saying, reading, manifesting, wherever you are at any moment, He knows all.
48. So, do not think that there’s anything you are doing which God does not know or see”. If we are manifesting unbelief, He knows and is also recording same.
49. Listen “Do you know the truth about your life? You are not sincere. If you cannot realize who you are, and what you are manifesting, you feign ignorance of it, the truth is that Christ is not in you. You are not saved”.
50. What Almighty God is telling us remains an undiluted truth. In the message COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS page 117 we are made to understand by Son of Man this fact “Let me tell you, you are in this faith for the TRUTH.
51. Apart from this faith, there is no other place you can hear the truth. People are doomed!
52. If you know that our brother Odoemena is wrong, or you think He is wrong, all you have to do- since you believe you are right and you are in right hand side of God is to kneel down, tell God to meet brother Odoemena and correct that error. If you pray and that your God fails to answer, join brother Odoemena. Because the more you pray, the more I am enriched.
53. Let me put it this way. Whether you like it or not, I am a mountain no man can push. Many have tried to do it”. Hear Him, many have tried to push Him but they couldn’t succeed.
54. Many have tried to suppress this truth but they couldn’t. How can one stop a moving train? Or surging water?
55. As ministers we have unconsciously or consciously contributed our own quotas in the frustration of this ministry by not living the life of the message.
56. How many of us are ministers of God or ministers of the gospel? A minister of God is one who lives the life of what he preaches.
57. I am involved, you are involved. The Son of Man told us that the two people we cannot lie to remains God and ourselves.
58. Nothing hinders progress more than evil thoughts. No matter where you run to, the evil thought is with you unless it is discarded from your heart.
59. A heart filled with evil is godless. How can God live in such a heart? Proverb 27:8 says “But what hope has the godless when God cuts him off and takes away his life? Will God listen to his cry when trouble comes upon him? For he does not delight himself in the Almighty or pay attention to God except in the time of crisis”. A God full of compassion and love is our God.
60. He knows that we are mere dust and if he decides to look at our imperfections, none of us would be alive today. We should continue to pray for His mercy, for without that we can do nothing.
61. Psalm 103:8 says “He is merciful and tender towards those who don’t deserve it; He is slow to get angry and full of kindness and love.
62. He never bears a grudge, nor remains angry for if we can fear and honor God, our lives can never be the same”.
63. Look at the benefits in psalm 103:11-18. Hear the psalmist “for His mercy towards those who fear and honor him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
64. He has removed our sins as far away from us as the East is from the West. He is like a father to us, tender and sympathetic to those who reverence Him.
65. For He knows we are but dust and that our ways are few and brief, like grass, like flowers, blown by the wind and gone forever. But the loving kindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, to those who are faithful to his covenant and remember to obey Him”.
66. So, there is a great reward for obedience. Ecclesiastes 8:2-5 has this to say “obey the king as you have vowed to do. Don’t always be trying to get out of doing your duty, even when its unpleasant for the king punishes those who disobey.
67. The king’s command is backed by great power, and no one can withstand it or question it. Those who obey Him will not be punished. The wise man will find a time and a way to do what He says”.
68. Who is this king? Who is this king that his command is backed by great power and no one can withstand it? Well it is no other king than the king of kings and Lord of Lords. The Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the end.
69. He has made that promise that all those who will obey Him will never be punished and all the instructions He will direct us to do will never fail to come through.
70. All His words must come to pass. Psalm 18:30 reveals thus “What a God He is! How perfect in every way! All His promises prove true.
71. He is a shield for everyone who hides behind Him. For who is God except our Lord? Who but He is as a rock?” (LB). Who is the one who would seduce us out of this truth. One who is/was seduced out is/was not sustained by any experience; none backing him.
72. Those who egress from this faith, meaning leaving this faith in anger must ingress into serious trouble, ie must face serious challenges. Truth will be chasing them about like swarm of flies. No place to hide.
73. The coming of the Son of Man has made it possible for some to be called unto Him. If He didn’t come, no soul could have been saved. His messages are life transforming and that’s why He affirmed it that “any message that is not worthy of life transforming is not worthy to be preached”.
74. He told us that there are three things about the manifestations of these messages in our lives. The three are hearing, understanding and acting.
75. We must hear the message, understand it by studying the messages and not only reading and then acting it.
76. Some will start thinking it is like acting a film which is actuality (artificiality), No! it is a positive action that we must take if actually we want the message to have any effect on our lives. This positive action needs courage to actualize.
77. In the message PRIME MOVER page 21, 2nd paragraph God said “lack of courage is a hinderance to success.
78. No matter what area of man’s life is touched, no matter what weakness is revealed, He still needs courage to put the messages into action”.
79. This is a practical message that needs a practical approach. We should not look at anybody’s face while preaching this message. That is the practical aspect of it.
80. Once the truth is declared without bias, without looking at people’s faces and with boldness, don’t bother, even if they reject it, God will rise up to defend the truth. For His word is the TRUTH, no more, no less. Immortality is not conferred on any person for knowing the truth but by practicing it.
81. Ephesians 5:26 explained it further “to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s word” washed by what? God’s word.
82. God’s word help us to pattern after God both in truth, boldness and love. Once the word of God has total control over us we won’t have any problem.
83. Our prayer should be that everybody should be restored to the fear of God but there is a prize to pay for that, sanitizing our hearts.
84. What will stop God from clothing us with immortality is in our hearts. Our indiscipline must affect our characters. When character is lost everything is lost. Through the steel of discipline, we will forge a character rich with courage and peace.
85. Through the virtue of will, we are destined to rise to life’s highest ideal and live within a heavenly mansion filled with all that is good, joyful and vital to Godliness.
86. Without them, we are lost like a mariner without a compass, one who eventually sinks with his ship. Sinking with our ship, is sinking with our human wisdom and not Godly wisdom, that produce deep happiness in us daily.
87. It is said that those whose experience(s) produce happiness daily are prepared to put off short term pleasure for the sake of long term fulfillment- Amen.
88. Short term pleasures are a great hindrance to our spiritual growth and fulfillment. To overcome it, courage is needed.
89. When we push beyond our limit, we will be able to unlock the mental and physical reserves that we never thought we had.
90. From here, we can muster enough courage to stop some of our acquired habits; habits that are injurious to our health and has no beneficial returns.
91. God told us that there is no habit that is unstoppable. He affirmed that if you consistently stop practicing any habit for 28days in a row, it will be discarded from your memory. When you conquer your fears of not being able to stop the habit, you conquer your life.
92. Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your set goals of converting your mind, secondly accepting the word of God and the one He sent to redeem you and me from our gutted behaviours and also advancing confidently towards the direction of the wind of change.
93. This is one of the ways God has taught us that will rekindle the inner fire that lurks within us which unbelief and iniquitous behaviours have suppressed. We have created scenes of horror and inferno that always provoke God against us.
94. Let us rethink and retrace ourselves. How do we do that? God said “Do not begin to fast and pray for that is not necessary.
95. Only one thing is required of you- refine your thoughts, begin to think positively, avoid every negative thought and everything that will induce negative thoughts, and your character will be refined”. From the message RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE page 16, paragraph 4. Don’t try to make the word of God of non effect. Anytime you find yourself doing that, you have lost the fear of God in your heart.
96. In the message THE NAME OF GOD IS REVEALED TO ALL HIS PEOPLE IN ALL THE AGES- The introduction, page 31:40, God said “why is God saying all these things?
97. It is because He does not want any of us to make mistake, because we are almost at the end of everything; and any mistake that is made now can never be corrected.
98. That is why God is taking His time to make sure that nobody makes any mistake at this period we are in and anybody that cannot be corrected, that person cannot be useful in life”.
99. In the same message page 34:50, God continued to speak “Every evil a man does is against him. You will suffer the consequences not God.
100. God is warning us to stay clear from those habits for our good. Will God go to hell fire tomorrow? God can never go to hell fire. Will He suffer eternal damnation?
101. If He suffers it, who will sentence Him? Who will judge God? But He is talking to you for your own good.” God is talking to all of us to change our negative ways of life and embrace the truth.
102. Because of our hopeless and uncanny behaviours, we cannot be able to openly declare our faith to people outside. When we interact with them, we join them in all their evil ways which are totally against our doctrines.
103. In the same message page 44:24, God commented “due to your interaction with the people of the world, your inability to declare who you are and what you believe inhibits you from openly expressing yourselves to them as men of God or as women of God, as a sister or as a brother.
104. It is a problem; you want to be recognized outside for them to be praising you and calling you good man. Then what does God call you? We have a message titled “knowing your status in Christ”. In page 45:26 of the same message, we are informed that “there is nobody in this most holy faith that practices our teachings and receives indictments, rather when you walk contrary, that is when indictment will come.
105. Thus, if you know God, walk in line with the teachings you have received. The God we are worshipping is not far from us”. Continuing with the same message, page 55:57, God said “how can you be saved when you refuse to do what you are supposed to do? Anybody that is sick must take drugs. If you refuse to take the drugs, there is no way that sickness will go.
106. The word of God is a drug, the instructions are drugs that God is giving to us everyday to make sure one of us is saved; making you to know that this faith has no rival, you cannot see anything like this faith outside”.
107. Those drugs that we take everyday as curative for our sickness, how affective are they in our lives? God has been administering us with bitter drugs but the type we prefer is sweet types.
108. Sweet and mild drugs are prepared for children and not for adults. Reason, because children are not yet heavily contaminated by dangerous virus but we adults have been adulterated with religious beliefs (unbelief) which has become a hindrance to detach from.
109. If not, why the continuous hammering of messages from God telling us who is in our midst and that we should believe in Him as one sent to deliver us from all errors.
110. Have we believed sincerely in our hearts? If we have actually accepted, He will know but we are still hanging on two opinions. I can remember the story of man who was converted from traditional religious belief to christianity. The man was asked to destroy all those charms and amulets he reverenced as gods and turn to the new god.
111. He reasoned within himself and said “where I am going, the god there has not been tested, let me keep some of my charms peradventure if the new one fails, he will have something to rely on (adiamama meaning in case there is an emergency).
112. Some of us in this Bridal faith are still consulting their other ‘gods’ while still coming to fellowship to worship with the supreme Deity.
113. Those of us who indulge in this action believe that (1) God does not know what we are doing secretly in our homes or elsewhere. (2) we are not sure of this God (3) let us keep ‘adiamama’ incase of any eventuality- hanging on the fence.
114. Is it not a self deceit to indulge in something you don’t believe in? it is foolhardy for us to doubt the authenticity of the God man in our midst.
115. He said, don’t worship any other god(s) but believe in me. Believing in me will save you from the approaching disasters. In the same message, THE NAME OF GOD IS REVEALED TO HIS PEOPLE IN ALL THE AGES- The introduction, The Son of Man told us the wholetruth about the impending doom that will befall the children of disobedience. Hear Him in page 91:12-14 “Now I will tell you, in Him- I lie not.
116. If God will use fire to eradicate the world, He has not punished the wicked. If what it entails is God using fire to burn off all mankind, let us forget about worshipping this God; let us go home and have our rest, live our lives the way we want.
117. However, I want to tell you the whole truth- if you believe that I am He, happy are you. Believe also what I told you, that uptill this very moment, the Son of Man is still reasoning with the father to determine the level of punishment He will give to the world.
118. That is, the level, the magnitude of punishment He will unleash to this generation; both the living and the dead. It is not yet concluded.
119. Moreover, the punishment is not something that will come in a twinkling of an eye and wipe mankind off No! it is something that will come stage by stage, stage by stage. And you will not die; you will stay alive so that you will feel it.
120. Those that died before will come back and assume this flesh so that they will feel it also, for He is God of the living and the dead”. Is this not scaring? If it is not to you, it is to me.
121. In the message IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS vol. 2, page 36 paragraph 50-54, Son of Man noted “look at the man that will escape the evil of this day, apart from this categories of people, no other can escape the evil that is pervading our age.
122. This is the greatest evil age. This is the generation of wicked men and women with crooked hearts. A generation of crooks, a generation of vipers, a crooked and perverse generation. A generation that knoweth not God.
123. This is the only person, man or woman, youth; this is the only person that can escape it. For there is nothing that raise a standard in your heart against all these evil ways if not the entrance of the word of God in your heart.
124. If you do not use the word of God as your necessary food, desiring it on a daily basis, going through your jotters which you recorded with your own hands because you confirm them to be true. Going through the messages as we have them in prints. Going through the scriptures, cross checking everything. Going through tapes. Hear me very well, you can never be the same if you obey this instruction.
125. These people that obey God’s words, God’s teachings, God’s instructions, these are the people that can never sit down, relax, feel comfortable in the midst of the ungodly people.
126. Scorners and mockers, let alone imbibing or being submissive to their plans, intents and purposes. These are the only people that will escape, the rest must fall prey to it.
127. ” Can we see clearly now what is about to happen? The truth has been laid bare before us and the choice is now with us. Which way are we following individually? The answer lies in our hearts.
128. In the same message page 48:17 to 25, The Son of Man made it clear that” if you want to go the way you are ordained, do not force me to follow. Finish!
129. If you are ordained to continue in evil, go ahead. If you are ordained in disobeying God, go ahead. If you are ordained to remain a hypocrite, go ahead. If you are ordained to remain a church goer, go ahead. You are ordained to be a make believer, go ahead. Ordained to remain a criminal, go ahead. I am ordained to repent and be converted. That is what the Lord has done for me.
130. I recognize it in appreciation of His love, I now stand to do His will. Once it is the Will of God, I am in support. If God is against it, do not bring it near me. Finish! Because I know that a man’s smartness, cleverness, subtlety is of no use when God is against that man.
131. How do you know that God is against you? He reveals it through His word. He evidences it in your daily living. Your daily living is an eloquent evidence of your dealings with God.
132. When the hand of God is resting upon a man’s business, it must prosper. The evidence that God is resting there is that the man must prosper in God‘s own way. The family must prosper. The peace that cometh from God must be there. The children must prosper.
133. But where God is not and the money is not from God or wealth, crisis must be there. The children will be in crisis. The parents will be in crisis. The entire family in crisis. Money will be there, health will not be there. Money will be there, yet complaining, murmuring, bitterness, worry must be there. No rest. Everybody will be sweating while under an air conditioner.
134. The moment God is backing whatever you are doing: the evidence is seen at a glance. It does not require a prophet to come and interpret the evidence. Number one evidence is the presence of greater peace that passeth all human understanding. Amen”. God has underlined all the causes of our individual problems in the message quoted above.
135. A serious warning is coming to all of us. We should look into our families and try as much as possible to turn the faces of our children and wives towards God. We should stop manifesting ungodly attitudes in our homes before our children.
136. When our families are living as ordered by our messages, the small light that we will produce in our individual families will merge together to produce a bigger light when we converge together in a fellowship, reflecting godliness. God loved Abraham because he made his family to worship Him: the father of faith.
137. In the message IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS, VOL.2, PAGE 56:16 to 17, The Son of Man made it clearer that” a demarcation has been made by the Almighty God as per the character of those that belong to God and character of those that do not belong to God; the wicked and the ungodly. A separation is going on now.
138. For when the Son of Man shall appear, He shall make a separation between the goat and the sheep. Between those that worship God in spirit and truth and those that do not worship Him.” Romans 8:14 says “those who are led by the spirit of God are the children of God.” If you want to serve God and worship Him in truth, keep away your self – interest or ego otherwise you can’t serve God.
139. The truth has come to live with us and it will end in paradise; if we don’t believe that, then why are we here? For Mohammed described everything about the Son of Man, so other prophets pointed us to Him also.
140. Are we wiser than the prophets that pointed us to Him? Those prophets of old knew Him and His personality and that’s why they told us to listen and follow Him.” He is God and will come to you in human form”. He is with us now bodily and that’s why we are having victory.
141. Many ancient manuscripts, books, researches, prophesies etc have all made stunning revelations about the Godman in our midst. All religious and metaphysical organizations in the world believe in His existence as a Human Being, a man, as truth unless the pretenders among them.
142. A clear evidence that people accepted this fact but the problem most of them are facing remains where to locate Him. According to the beliefs of the theosophical society, every two thousand years or so, the spirit of the world teacher inhabits the body of a human being.
143. Without Him there is no savior. We are under His care; taking refuge in Him and our future is protected. He who is with us is greater than the entire world put together. He left His precious throne and came down to live among us. He chose you to be among the beneficiaries of His presence.
144. Now that He is living among us, why do we run helterskelter? Nobody can rebel until he or she is tired of the system. Once you are tired of any system, it means you are not fully engrossed or engraved in that system.
145. The system doesn’t favour you because either you came into the system with another motive or you have a shallow understanding of all that happen within that system. They believe the message to be truth but they can’t render acceptable services to God.
146. Anything that hinders you from serving God is in you. Crave for money hinders that. That you decline from rendering services to God gives another brother or sister a chance to showcase his or her talent. Nobody is indispensable.
147. There is no other way to escape the impending condemnation if not standing behind the Son of Man confidently. If God declares that today is the end of the journey, what is my hope and your hope? This statement should always put us in a reflective and meditative mood.
148. When we reflect around that statement constantly, we will become conscious of our stand and status in Christ. We have to appreciate the favour God did to us by coming in person to rescue us from the religious bondage were we tied to.
149. Now that He has disentangled us from that hook, why do we still refuse to obey His instructions? We kept on murmuring and complaining about our situations in life, but have we ever asked ourselves why and what are the causes? Instead of looking for an escape route provided by God, we still sit at a point without moving while the problems kept on multiplying.
150. “Wheresoever the sun doth shine, wheresoever the wind doth blow, wheresoever there is an ear to hear, and a mind to conceive- there, let the percept of life be known, let the maxims of truth be honoured and obeyed” by an. Unknown author.
151. So brethren, let’s listen to our guide and believe His voice. His voice echoes through the entire universe. Note this “to the seven declared tones of music, add seventy million more and let them ring their sweetest cadence, they shall make but a feeble echo of the music of God’s voice” – Author unknown.
CONCLUSION
1. 1st Corinthians 15:1-2 says “Now let me remind you brothers of what the gospel really is, for it has not changed. It is the same good news I preached to you before. You welcomed it then and still do now, for your faith is squarely built upon this wonderful message, and it is this good news that saves you if you still firmly believe it, unless of course you never really believed it in the first place”.
2. If we had believed in the first instance why have we desecrated the holy tabernacle (God) by our actions towards His words? He has the hammer, he has the nail but why has the wood always cracked when He drives the nail in? Is it human failure and unbelief?
3. There are reasons why this unbelief has been ongoing in the Bride and the word never had a required effect in our minds; it is because we have refused to accept He that is in our midst as God.
4. We have abandoned the weightier matter and go after the inconsequential segments that has no eternal reward attached to it. In the message CONVICTED BY THEIR CONSCIENCES page 8:11-12 God reminded us thus “And this is the word we have been hearing from the Almighty God, who is asking us not to forget the weightier matter in pursuit of the wind. And we have started pursuing wind, abandoning the weightier matter.
5. That is why many have left the faith, but they are still coming to fellowship, starting from the elders. The elders have left the weightier matter in pursuit of wealth and every other thing.
6. Then what is the position of our wives and our children? That is why families are messed up.” Yes! Almighty God is 100% correct. Our families are in shambles because of (1) Neglect and (2) Disobedience.
7. The neglect of the teaching God has handed over to us as regards to families remain one of the greatest problems that is facing all of us. Due to that neglect, some of our wives multiplied their disobedience towards their husbands and the family in general but the few who love and honour their husbands are true daughters of God.
8. Hear God in this matter “Any wife that disposes herself in the form of saying “amen” and “oh! Yes” to the husband has an easy ride. She does not experience any difficulty in life.
9. Any woman that is found in obedience to her husband, she takes all that the husband possesses.
10. The husband can even go borrowing to make sure he satisfies the need of that humble, meek, obedient and loving wife.” – from the message FEAR GOD vol. 1 preached on Sunday 7th December 2014, page 72:48.
11. A woman who finds herself at this position definitely can never allow her family to be messed up. She will go to every extent to take control of the family when the husband is away. She will always make her children to note this statement from God that “the fear of God starts with your strict obedience to your parents.
12. If you go to the book of Jeremiah chapter 35, read about the Rechabites family. Obedience to the word of God starts with obedience to the words of your parents and to fear them.” From the message YOU MUST PATTERN AFTER A GOOD EXAMPLE (CHRIST) preached 13th April 2015, page 37:44.
13. Watch the Rechabite family, what a wonderful example. A family that stuck to the instruction their father gave them even under trials. Listen to what Almighty God said after the Rechabite families resisted the test placed before them.
14. Hear Him. Jeremaiah 35vs 12 to16” then the Lord gave this message to Jeremaiah: The Lord of Host, the God of Isreal says: Go and say to Judah and Jerusalem, won’t you learn a lesson from the families of Rechab? They don’t drink, because their father told them not to.
15. But I have spoken to you again and again and you won’t listen and obey. I have sent you prophets after prophets to tell you to turn back from your wicked ways and to worshiping other gods and that if you obeyed, then I would let you live in peace here in the land I gave to you and your fathers. But you wouldn’t listen or obey.
16. The families of Rechab have obeyed their father completely, but you have refused to listen to me”. If we obey, we must get the reward because Almighty God cannot disappoint us as we have been disappointing Him.
17. At the end of the day our score sheets will reveal our scores and grades. A student that makes a good grade in his or her final exams never rested throughout the academic session.
18. That is why hunters would always say that one that finds himself in the jungle should operate effectively otherwise, if you don’t, you might lose an arm or leg, possibly even your life.
19. It is only God that can help us out, if not, all of us are in danger of been called to question. Once we create a gap between us and God, then an opposing spirit will surely take over our mindset. There is no vacuum in creation. It is either one is filled with the Holy Spirit or unholy spirit.
20. The only way to exorcize any negative thought is by reading, understanding and applying the Word of God in our daily lives. Finish! There is no other Talisman that can cure this aliment than the Word.
21. This is a very bitter drug that needs overdose in most cases to get to the root of the problem. The Word of God doesn’t pamper anybody. A bitter drug is not interested in the facial expression of the consumer but only in the efficacy.
22. So if the patient is pampered, the drugs may not be administered effectively as at when due, so the patient will remain sick. The only good thing one can get from a pampered cow is a spoilt milk. The pampered cow in most cases finds it difficult to obey its master because of over familiarity and that results in full blown rebellion.
23. In the message TAKE MY YOKE, preached on Sun.9th sept. 2007, page 99:3 to 4, The Son of Man told us that we must obey the Words we are hearing, if we must get the rewards” Remember, there is a reward for obedience: at the same time there is always a reward for disobedience.
24. When you disobey, well, you have disappointed yourself. But when you obey, you have done yourself more good than harm’. We should try and obey the message, by so doing we have believed the messenger. The word from the messenger is the Word of the hour.
25. In the message CONVICTED BY THEIR CONSCIENCE page 9 : 17, Son of Man revealed to us thus” we should be practicing what we have received from our messenger, living our lives as He has lived it before us, for He, the very Son of Man, the Almighty God is the perfect example of all men.
26. His wife, our sister Odoemena is the perfect example for all the sisters. Then their children as perfect example for all our children”. These are our template, our standard. There is no difference between us and them as humans but what made them different from us is the Word inhabiting in them.
27. It is the same Word preached to all of us that they practice. So for believing and practicing they became an example to others. Why cant we, our wives and children emulate them?.
28. Note “when you refuse to accept the Word of God, are you a friend of God or an enemy of God?. You have made yourself an enemy of God when you refuse to obey Him, to practice His Word and to do everything according to the message. When you refuse you become Gods enemy”…
29. CONVICTED BY THEIR CONSCIENCES, page 44:1. Also in the message PRIME MOVER, page 25, 2nd paragraph God said one’s ability to ignore peoples opinion, or reaction and do that which God requires leads to success.
30. Stop seeking popular acceptance” we should listen to this, from the message ACTION TIME PART 3 (obedience is better than sacrifice) camp meeting, chpt.2:5, preached on 31st Dec.1997, Son of Man said “ this is the hour of manifestations of sons and daughters of God and there is no other thing that will make us sons and daughters of God except our total obedience to the Word of God. I repeat” our total obedience to the instructions of God”.
31. We should always pray to God, asking Him for enough grace, to enable us to be able to obey His instructions. For without grace no man can obey Him. Let this be our mantra. For God said “He will do everything for us but He will not save us in disobedience ie unbelief”.
32. The Great God of Hosts, give us the enablement not to despise your word. We have no other interest on earth than to worship and reverence you. Let the thought of heaven fill our hearts continuously so we will not forget all you have taught us and also bear in mind the covenant of the Lord who swore to spread the seeds of the chosen across all the earth, even as the stars of heaven.
33. Therefore let us rejoice, ye heavens and ye that dwell there. Woe to the inhabitant of the earth and sea “ for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time”. By the words of our testimonies we would reveal to the outside world the goodness of our Lord.
34. Brethren we should gird up our loins and go forth with faith against the rotten mess we have rolled ourselves over. It is a piteous spectacle that our disobedience has grown beyond proportion both in our homes and outside.
35. “Because iniquity shall abound, the love and spirit of some will wax cold but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.’ Getting unto the end without Christ, is it possible? LET US BE SINCERE TO OUR CONSCIENCE.
36. This is a period of sober reflection. A time we have to check our luggage and see if there are contrabands. A time nobody will remind us to worship God, for we know what it demands.
37. May His abundant love continue to uphold us. May the spirit of worship, service and devotion take absolute control of our lives. May we, as we continue on the journey, never to lose hope. May His glory continue to shine upon all of us. For He, God never called us to kill us but to save us.
38. In the message SECRET OF IDEAL, PEACEFUL AND HARMONIOUS HABITATION, page 103: 50 -51, The Son of Man said “every man must go the way he is ordained. I believe it. You are ordained to believe God, that’s why you are in this faith. You are ordained to be members of Gods holy family, that’s why you are in this most holy faith. You are ordained to receive His visitation, for in every dispensation; God had always predestinated a people that will say welcome.” Did we hear that? This is our God talking to us all, our redeemer and justifier.
39. Hear Him again in the same message page 73:32-33 “have you discovered why God created you? If God created you to be the object of His anger, He will never bring you into His church. I want to say it loud and clear.
40. If God ever created you to be an instrument fit for destruction, nothing will ever make God to bring you into His church. No matter the way you came in, whether you came in through your wife, through your husband, through influence or one way or the other, provided you heard the word and you never stumbled, it is a sure sign that God is the one that brought you into His church.’’ AMEM,AMEN,AMEN.
41. The same God who told us this said that He is capable of changing His mind if He finds us wanting. He has good intentions for us but we don’t appreciate that. Sure, the manifestation is the interpretation.
42. What are our individual contributions in the family if we are actually stake holders? What are our interests in the affairs of the family? We all shall answer this question including me. We just read that He brought us into his church not to kill but to save us, and our lives came back but we forgot that He also added “there is a price to pay”. Have we forgotten that?
43. Every family has its norms and a good child in that family must do everything within his or her power to preserve the good name of the family and protect her interest.
44. If we cannot uphold this basic factor, can we then say we are part and parcel of the family we are talking about. Our contribution determines our impact.
45. We all should try and make positive impacts so that this ministry will continue to ride higher and higher to the glory of HE that called us. God gave all of us different talents and it is our duty to use that talent to glorify Him. “Show your talent.
46. Dorcas is not remembered for preaching the gospel but for sewing torn cloths of the Apostle of God. She was using a sewing machine that was powered by the hand and she did not see it as anything but it was great in the sight of God. You will be remembered according to your work” – Son of Man.
47. Truth hurts the ungodly but a balm to the righteous. What God is telling us is undiluted truth and we should try our humble best to live by it. We should not be passive in worshiping God, for He doesn’t delight in that. We should try and resolve to start now, for it is not too late.
48. The lyrics of the song I AM RESOLVED, paragraph. 2 says “I am resolved to follow the savior, Leaving my sins and strife; He is the true one; He is the just one, He hath the Word of life”. Yes sir “that the Son of Man or our link to the truth need not to be questioned and proved again to any believer of Gods Word at all in this dispensation.
49. Since this IS TRUE that GOD is dwelling among us (God with us –Emmanuel) according to His promise and we are sure, it is considered to be superfluous to begin all over again laying down the foundation of “ GOD IS A MAN”. The choice is now yours, to decide whether to make The Son of Man, The Word made flesh in our day, your absolute or as the Holy Bible which you inherited as the “complete and infallible Word of God” from your fathers.
50. Every predestinated elect of God who before the world began, was chosen for salvation, must make the revealed Christ (anointed one), the Son of Man in the midst of the church (the Bride), HIS LINK TO THE TRUTH and accept His Word as final in all things pertaining to life and salvation of man” from the message – SON OF MAN, OUR LINK TO THE TRUTH, page 106, 3rd paragraph.
51. In the same message, page 119, last paragraph, He said “once the revelation strikes you that the man you have been having dealings with in the church or in any other way, is the only one whom the Father has sealed (conferred with absolute authority), who bears His name in your age or dispensation and the only source of Eternal life which you are looking for, you will always be overjoyed each time you come in contact With Him or He steps His feet unto your bosom or grant you favour to have His audience in all matters”. There is no other Man in our midst except that one who initiated the move in the wilderness.
52. He is the Supreme Deity, unchangeable, immovable, and unshakable. He called us unto Himself to listen to His WORDS AND OBEY THEM. We must also divorce from our hearts our ancient beliefs and cultures otherwise we will be limping between two opinions.
53. In His message FLEE FROM IDOLS part 2, vol. 2, page 53:57, The Son of Man made us to understand that” you must divorce your old, ancient, traditional customary religion, customary belief, for you to embrace Christ.
54. Nobody embraces Christ and still holds tenaciously to the traditions of his people and meets Gods requirement. Impossible!” God knows our actions and secret beliefs. Nobody can deceive Him.
55. HE Said it all in His message titled IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED- THE END, page 87:55. Hear HIM “remember that it takes Christ to point out those that have believed in Him and those that believed Him not. Yet they were all in the same fellowship. Some believed in Him, some believed Him not. Some were following Him because of the gains they were getting from His fellowship.” God cannot be deceived.
56. He knows all of us from conception to present and future. He knows the danger ahead and that is the reason why He has been warning you and me to strive to change our hearts and follow the anointed one.
57. In the message- IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED- THE END, page 81:29-30. The Son of Man made these comments “whoever that is here and all these things are fulfilling, and we are still telling you to repent or perish; you will be begged to repent, you are to be pitied. Did I not tell you? What will close the mouth of everyone has come. The period of doing garagara has gone. Many stars have fallen. Many stars are on the ground.
58. Can you see the reason why God said “let he that thinketh he standeth be very careful. It is not he that willeth or he that runneth but God that showeth mercy” I am sustained by His grace alone.” Human nature has the tendency of always running faster than his or her shadows.
59. Instead of us to allow Almighty God to lead us along, we bypass Him and want God to follow while we lead. In our relationship with one another, we live in suspicion, gossip and accusation which breed hatred. The Son of Man said “our perception towards one another colours our conclusion.”
60. In the message SON OF MAN OUR LINK TO THE TRUTH, page 164:2 He cleared our eyes by saying “believe it if you can, the righteousness of God is revealed! Unless it is revealed, no man can attain it forever and ever.
61. That is why it is necessary to worship God by divine revelation and not by human impulse or emotion, which is full of sentiment and eye service. Without the eyes of our revelation being illuminated, we may not discover when we carry on with expired messages?
62. Yes! There are bunch of expired scriptures in the bible as well as expired messages from God. ”God made us to understand a basic fact; if we actually want to worship God, that should be done sincerely. We must be divinely connected to Him to be part of His leadership.
63. Any group the Lord is leading is a victorious group. He will lead them back to paradise, that point where the first human being was driven away from. Those He will lead back home to paradise are those He sanctified. Those who believe in Him and follow His instructions.
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CAN GOD CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT WHATHE PLANNED TO DO?
God is compassionate and can change His mind about what He has planned to do. There must be a reason for that. If we repent from the iniquities we have been involving ourselves in, God can change His mind and withdraw the planned punishment He wanted to execute on the offenders.
2. After Ahab’s death, God never carried out what He said about him during his lifetime but He (God) went ahead to wipe away all human existence in his lineage because his children refused to change or repent from their evil ways. There are areas God has spoken to us individually or as a family or as a local assembly. We know those areas.
3. All of us God had spoken to, know where the problem lies and the state of our minds towards the warnings, He is aware. Once our hearts convicts us guilty in any action, we should not harden it.
4. Nothing provokes God more than hardening our hearts towards His words. That, He termed consistent disobedience. We should recognize where we have fallen, make amends and God will give us a helping hand.
5. We should always be mindful of our relationship with God at any time – making sure our hearts are right with Him. The only bribe we can give to Son of Man is obedience to His words.
6. Once the word of God regulates our lives and character, we have finally bribed Him. This is the only bribe He will love to collect from us. We should also understand that no compromise, unbelief is small in the sight of God.
7. When we refuse to obey any instruction from God, there is a penalty for that. God told us that “Big instruction does not attract big penalty but simple instruction.” By refusing to carry out an instruction is a total disobedience to laid down order in any organization and it may attract severe punishment.
8. A child that refuses to obey his parents’ instruction, does he or she hope to receive any good reward from them? No! How can you reject a name and when you are in trouble, you call on that name for assistance. Will it work? Not possible.
9. Any God you worship has rules and regulations and its gathering also has code of conduct. The degree to which the member values his membership in the group will also determine its power over him. And only if the member accepts as legitimate the group norm which prescribes a particular attitude will the norm effectively regulate his behavior.
10. A psychologist added “The attitude of the individual formed as he interacts with other person in his group, reflects the belief, norms and values of his group. As he moves into new groups with different belief systems, different norms, and different values, his attitude will tend to show accommodating changes.
11. There must be a character change and what he believes, in most cases, creates faith in him, if not, nothing new has taken place. His own fervent and contagious faith, in virtually anything, will give the secret watchers something to believe in.
12. His actions would be brazen and courageous and consistent in his faith. He won’t behave like idol worshippers who are easy to spot, why! They are the ones pouring their energies into some cause of religion. They often move around over the years, leaving one cult for another.
13. People never know what you think or feel; they judge you on appearance which reflects your character and belief. So our characters should reveal who we are. There must be a difference between our former self and our present standing.
14. In the message RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN, vol. 2, page 71:38, The Son of Man told us “not hearers of the truth are saved, but the doers of the truth. You are my people called by my name, my chosen generation.
15. I have severed you from among other people that you might be mine, saith the Lord God Almighty. How can we now entangle ourselves with the same world from where we are called out” This is outright rebellion and disobedience.
16. In the message I AM THE STANDARD FOR JUDGEMENT TO ALL MEN, vol. 1 page 76:36, The Son of Man warned “the moment you disobey one instruction, the spirit of disobedience will come in.
17. when you take a step forward, and you took it in the wrong direction; if you do not amend it and you continue to walk, you are still moving wrongly”.
18. In another message titled THE FORGOTTEN CREATURE page 30:32, The Son of Man made it clear to us that we cannot be influenced by two spirits at the same time. Either you are habouring the spirit of truth or you are living with the spirit of falsehood. One must occupy your mind.
19. Hear Him “there is no good way of doing a wrong thing. What is more, nobody can be right and wrong at the same time. I do not believe in covering feces with sand. If you do it, flies will be flying around”. Is this clear to us?
20. In another message GOD OVERHAULING FAMILIES, vol. 1, page 109:74 is another reminder from our guide and God, Apostle Peter Odoemena – Hear him “let me tell you, the household of God, the family of God remains the only ground and pillar of truth. Only lovers of the truth can abide in the truth.
21. Anybody that hates truth must feel uncomfortable”. God made it clear to us without mincing words that only those who have the spirit would abide here. He informed us earlier that in the last days every other human being must be deceived except the elects. Who are the elects? Those who are be able to hear the truth and acknowledge it as fact.
22. In the message COPING WITH A REBELLIOUS CHILD page 17:23 The Son of Man explained it further “in the last days every human being must be deceived except the elect. You are numbered among God’s own elect according to His foreknowledge. For He predestinated us even before the world began that we shall be sons and daughters of God”.
23. Note what God said! Our continuous prayers should be that God should direct our ways and in His mercy He should acknowledge that we are mere mortals. We have not done anything that warrants Him saving us. We should stop murmuring.
24. An unknown author wrote “murmur not therefore at the dispensation of God, but correct thy own heart; neither say within thyself, if I had wealth, or power, or leisure, I should be happy; for know that all of them bring to their several possessors their peculiar inconveniences” The Son of Man added His voice in the message, I AM THE STANDARD FOR JUDGEMENT TO ALL MEN, vol.1 page 122:10-11.
25. He said “I have said it; I have repeatedly said it, even in my own private place with many of you as witnesses : it will be very, very easy for me to pardon a murderer than to pardon one who treats my instruction with contempt.
26. It is not the big crime you will commit that will keep you here or destroy you, but little things. Look at God sparing murderers, but slaughtered those that murmured and complained.
27. You say murmuring? Murmuring and complaining in your heart, that is all; going about grumbling”. Son of Man informed us “it has always been a fact and fight to move people from one dispensation to another”.
28. In the message RESTORATION TO MERCY, vol.1 page 32:28-30 The Son of Man said “God has vowed a vow that He will save us if we are willing to be saved. but if we are not willing to be saved, the only thing we can do is to harden our hearts against His word. This is the easiest thing you can do because you are already inside. I am not talking to you as people that are outside, as people that do not know.
29. I now talk to you as people that are inside and as people that know very well, having seen His presence in diverse forms. The only way you can be estranged from His salvation is to harden your heart and be stubborn to His word. You have sealed your doom and there is no room for plea because on that day, this same ignorance or stupidity will echo before you”.
30. Why should we harden our hearts? He has revealed Himself to us in various ways and signs of His divine power and authority hovers around Him. He alone can confidently proclaim the Word and it will stand sure.
31. A man wrote “what made the Hebrews believe in Moses, follow him out of Egypt, and remain loyal to him despite their endless wandering in the desert? The look in his eyes, his inspired and inspiring words, the face that literally glowed when he came down from Mount Sinai – all these things gave him the appearance of having direct communication with God, and were the source of his authority.” It is the same God of yesterday that is appearing in different shapes and form in different ages.
32. We are being held captive by the God of the Bible and we look away from the present God in our midst, that has been our problem.
33. It remains a fact that people have their own set of ideas buried in their minds, which are hardened into rocks by habit; the words of t God entering into our minds (me and you) compete with the thousands of preconceived notions that are already existing there and it will get us nowhere.
34. In the message I AM THE STANDARD FOR JUDGEMENT TO ALL MEN, vol 1, page 45:63-65 The Son of Man said “if there is any time the umpire watches the athletes, it is at the finishing.
35. If there is any time God is watching you and I, very, very closely it is at this time of finishing. The beauty of a house is determined by the finishing.
36. Moreover, He, the master has told you and I that He has fought a good fight; He has secured a victory.
37. Let me ask you Brethren, is God securing victory for Himself? No! God is victorious any day, anytime. For He is righteous and He is holy.
38. However when you hear God said” I have fought a good fight”, for whom is the fight? It is for you and me. For who is the victory secured? It is for you and me.”
39. In another message by SON OF MAN titled DECISION, He made another striking comment. Hear Him “as a child of God, what decision are you making to improve the ministry? Do you want to progress or remain stagnant? Once you see your ministry by revelation as “a calling” in Christ, you must constantly strive to make sure at all times that your” calling and election” stand sure.”
40. In the message REWARD, page 34: 13, God said “behold, I am coming soon and I shall bring my wages and reward with me to give every man according to his work” (Rev. 22: 12). What are the rewards we are waiting for? The answer remains with us.
41. God has a good plan for all of us, but due to negative influences by some brethren who interpret the messages to suit their actions, pluralist ignorance started developing due to deviant attitudes which are expressed privately by those who are seduced out of the truth.
42. The Son of Man is aware that man of all creatures remain the hardest to tame and that is the reason why He has been enduring all our insults. Our stupidity has a limit. Let us be mindful of all our actions, negative or positive, towards Him.
43. In the message SECRETS OF IDEAL, PEACEFUL AND HARMONIOUS HABITATION page 96, part of 29 He said also” I take every mans misbehavior as a manifestation of human imperfection for which cause I am sent.”
44. In another message OUR FATHERS DID NOT GET THE LAND BY THEIR POWER, vol. 2, page 95:49-50 The Son of Man made this clear to us “all that are not called in the Beloved should forget about salvation because there is no election in the Gentile. There is nothing like God saving you for Gods sake.
45. God is saving you by adoption because you have received and welcomed Him whom he has sent.” Who are the people that welcomed Him when He came? When He came, He saw us holding a dangerous custom and religion that were very injurious to our lives, He decided to disarm us from that danger.
46. It is like when a baby has grabbed a sharp knife, do not force the child to drop it; instead, don’t panic, offer the child a packet of biscuit, and the baby will drop the knife to accept your tempting good offer.
47. The Son of Man saw what we were holding, a very dangerous instrument that can harm us, He offered us truth which disarmed us of that religious danger holding us hostage. We became free and followed HIM.
48. The question arises: are we still following Him and upholding the truth He gave us or are we dovetailing between the old traditional belief and the prevailing truth? God is asking us why are we abusing the privilege given to us to hear this truth which others had not the opportunity? Do we think we are better than them? No, just a privilege.
49. Let us Listen to what Almighty God said in this message, RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN, vol. 2, page 71:38, hear Him lament “why are you abusing this privilege? I call it “Grace Abused”. Have you forgotten what you were before? Who has bewitched you, man and woman? Everybody is involved.” God is asking us who bewitched us? Nothing bewitched us except our minds that influenced us away from the truth; we gave room for seducers to apply their demonic style on us; their styles are not designed to communicate or pass information but to persuade, flatter, stir emotional turmoil, much as the serpent in the garden of Eden used words to lead Eve into temptation.
50. One who is not sustained by an experience will find it extremely difficult in time of test to survive the words of seductive spirit. Once we are not gullible and we stand by our convincing experiences, God leading us, there is no seductive oratory that can dis balance our faith.
51. We all are aware that the mouth reveals the truth and from the same mouth falsehood is injected into peoples mind.
52. God said, in the olden days truth was ruling the earth “in the olden days, truth was ruling upon the earth, God was king over the earth, God was in control over the creatures, for that was the norm.
53. But today, the present world we are living in, according to the Bible, is under the power and control of the evil one,” can we see where our problems emanated from?
54. We are engulfed with the tradition of our people which forms a gulf between believing and not believing the truth. We may say, we don’t have anything to do with our communities in terms of village meetings, festival or ceremonies but right inside our hearts, we still appreciate and relate to those ceremonies unconsciously.
55. These are things we should try to avoid as time is closing up. Practicing what our Guide is teaching us is the only escape route. We will continue to procrastinate until the rain starts falling and before we know it, we will be drenched.
56. We should make hare while the sun shines because nobody knows what will happen the next minute. Are we responsible for our lives? Has God given any of us the date He will terminate everything? If it happens now what will be our stand? We may have noble intention of changing our mindset as regards the message but when?
57. Let us hear the Son of Man on this issue in the message, PRIME MOVER, back cover write up “no one is ever awarded for noble intentions. Plans or intentions must be translated into action for any meaningful impact to be felt.
58. However, noble plans have rot away unimplemented in many minds for lack of courage to execute them.” When we quarrel with Gods Word and instructions, it means we are quarreling with God.
59. Job 22:21-23 leads us into abiding truth “quit quarreling with God! Agree with Him and you will have peace at last! His favour will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong. Listen to His instructions and store them in your heart. If you return to God and put right all the wrong in your home then you will be restored.”
60. In the message I AM THE WORD, vol.1, page 29:21, Son of Man said “once you are living the life of disobedience to the truth, your heart can never be right with God”. May our eyes continue to behold the SON OF MAN and His Majesty.
61. His status and arrangements have never been compromised. He is our God, a loving father, humble and an embodiment of Truth.
62. Let His abundant grace keep us on the track and let His peace and love also be upon all of us as we navigate through this challenging world. Amen. Amen, amen.
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HOPE
We have seen that none of us (if any, I don’t know) could measure up to the standard God has laid down for us as a ticket for eternal life. Since 27 years ago, our God has been talking and teaching but our score sheets are nothing to write home about.
2. A teacher who has been teaching his students for 27 solid years and none is sure to pass the exam, not minding the “expo” revealed to him, if any of us is the teacher, how would I feel and how would you feel? Let us put ourselves in His shoe.
3. Some of us have been trying to manually work out our own righteousness but we can see it is not possible. We may manifest self – righteousness which is non-sense, we may manifest church righteousness which is not the issue but the only thing God recognizes is His own righteousness which He alone can bestow on whomever He wishes. Period. It is not achieved by works but by unmerited favour.
4. In the message RESTORATION TO MERCY vol.1, page 25:9 Son of Man said” do not struggle to work out your righteousness so that it will be called your own, so that you will brag that you have tried.
5. Do not ever try it for God has said it in His word that “that time you are trying to work out your righteousness, that is when you will be removing yourself from my presence” in the message OUR FATHERS DID NOT GET THE LAND BY THEIR POWER, vol. 2, page 27:17 – lets listen to our God” God bless you church. God will save all that belong to Him, all that are savable.
6. All that cannot be saved, there is nothing anybody can do to change Gods programme.” Did we hear that? In the same message, page 33:5, He continued” God is not writing any new names.
7. Whatever name He wrote, they were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world” In page 34:8, of the same message, He said “even you that are in this most holy faith, if your name was not included that time, nothing will make your name to be there again no matter how you attend fellowship- after enjoyment you will perish.”
8. In page 54:7 The same voice is echoing “if you do not belong to God in the beginning, you can never belong to God at the end. The only person who is a child of God in the beginning is the only person who can be a child of God at the end” follow me to the message IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED- THE END, page 33:12-13, Almighty God said “there is no competition in destiny.
9. If you have the influence and power to deny me of wealth, you can never deny me of the word of God. You can use the eyes of intimidation, deny me wealth, but you can never use intimidation to deny me the Word of God.
10. Once he says it, that is final. Who can cancel it? Who can cancel what the Lord has decided?” Nobody has the power to cancel what God has said. Once He has concluded, nobody can contradict His statement(s).
11. Once He wants to save us nothing in this world can stop it unless He decides otherwise but our prayer remains that He should not change His mind .He is the Almighty God, the creator of Heaven and Earth.
12. Listen to what He said in the message- OUR FATHERS DID NOT GET THE LAND BY THEIR POWER, vol. 2, page 72:51-53.” Let Cain bring everything in the world to sacrifice to God, Cain must go to hell fire. God decided to include us in the number because He wanted.
13. Do you think that you are in this most holy faith because you have obeyed God more than others? It is the perfect will of God that we should stay in this faith uptill this day. We have never worked in a way worthy of Gods confidence, under grace, the same story.
14. If you know you have worked worthy of Gods confidence, raise up your hand”. Who can raise up his or her hand that he or she has worked perfectly before God?. It is by grace, grace, grace alone that He has decided to allow us stay in His presence till date.
15. If not out of His abundant love and mercy, we all could have started packing our luggage, getting ready to move to where the religious world are heading to.
16. In the same message, page 58:16, let us hear Him “hence if you are saved tomorrow, you cannot say it is because you have done this or that. If the Lord has decided not to save you, no amount of labour will cause you to be saved”.
17. Another of our message by the Son of Man titled INTERLUDE, part2, page 76:38 says” there is no mistake in God. Whatever God does is perfect, but because it runs contrary to human thinking they find it difficult to accept. That is why they find it difficult to say Amen to it”. A paradox.
18. The conclusion of the whole matter is, once God has not spoken, nobody has spoken and don’t ever conclude until God has concluded. AMEN.
EPILOGUE!
Oh! Mighty God, we have heard your word and we have seen our errors and foolishness. Let what happened to Lot’s wife never happen to us, we pray thee. Our God and our redeemer, we adore and reverence your Holiness.
1. The Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End. We have multi- million reasons to worship your Majesty. A great artist You are. Looking around us, we can see and admire the beauties of your creation. We are ecstatic about all your wonderful works. We are clay in your hands.
2. On daily basis, you sculpt us into any form or shape that you desire. The greatest of all is the puzzle game you normally use us as a dice to play. The scattered dices will at the end of each game form a whole. You will throw us up like babies and looking down wards, it seems we are going to shatter into pieces if we hit the ground but you as a father will always stretch your hands to collect us in bulk like soft tissues unhurt.
3. The greatest mystery is that we always find ourselves like squeezed or crushed papers in your hands, wet, but when spread out, not even a crack or torn parts are noticed. Everything intact! MIRACULOUS! Oh! Jehovah, our God, our Maker, you are the Greatest. You lowered your Majesty to be with us as a Man.
4. What a privilege! We eat, drink, laugh, talk and dance with You to the musical timber of your voice echoing like a clash of cymbals, which mingled in harmony with the rising beauties of nature and creation.
5. The sun peered over the Eastern end of the horizon, and its low-angled rays gliding along the unseen road which you have crafted with your superlative wisdom.
6. The road which you alone knows the terrain, leads to a place which you have privately prepared for your chosen lots as a resting home. You will ever remain the inspired, mysterious energy that cannot be trapped but can only be tapped by digging dip into the Words.
7. The name of the Word that has remained inseparable from your humble personality is known as “the indelible truth”. The highest Being stronger than hate is your Humble Self. You are an embodiment of love. You said “anyone who will make paradise must have God in person as His teacher”.
8. You have been our teacher and you have taught us to be humble, kind, loving, peaceful, understanding and courageous. You have let us into the esoteric nature of God.
9. What the Bible did not achieve in us, the spoken Word of GOD has done so. You have been navigating us through tortuous terrains of life unhurt.
10. Your charisma is mysterious, superhuman and inexplicable. Your words, as a strong detergent, have expunged our minds and spirits of our religious inheritance which was inimical to our spiritual development.
11. We pray that the cleaning of our hearts by the Word, will help to clear the hurdles on the way, to eternal destination and without the effect of the word and upholding hands of God, some of us may likely stop their journey half way. We bow before You.
12. Always remember us as that ball of clay in your hands. You stood on the gap for us when Satan was accusing us and you rejected all his accusations against us. We are sure and certain that in the end, the victory will be yours; the trophy will not only represent your victory but everyone’ else’s failure. For you alone will wear the prestigious crown but let us, sir, be found in you. Nothing is achievable except by your Divine Grace.
13. One important factor is to know You, another is to know how to worship You. You are our shepherd and we are the Sheep. May your peace, love and happiness abound with us till Eternity. Whenever your voice roars, let us hear and follow. We thank you Lord.
You are all blessed in Him.
Bishop Okoh Fryde