PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 3RD MAY 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY PASTOR WISDOM ODOEMENA MODERATED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN
WE HAVE AN ALTAR. THE SON OF MAN IS THAT ALTAR WHERE ANYBODY WHO IS TRYING TO ATTAIN GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS BY OBEYING THE JEWISH LAWS CAN NEVER BE HELPED. IS IT SCRIPTURAL? I AM THE MERCY SEAT. IN ME YOU OBTAIN MERCY. I AM ALSO THE JUDGMENT SEAT. BE CAREFUL, LEST YOUR ADVOCATE BECOMES YOUR JUDGE. ADVOCATE TODAY. SUPREME JUDGE TOMORROW. FOR IF I TALK TO YOU AND YOU DO NOT OBEY, I CONDEMN YOU NOT.
BUT IN THE END, THE WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU, THEY WILL CONDEMN YOU FOR NOT OBEYING. THIS IS THE JUDGMENT THAT LIGHT HAS ALREADY COME TO THE WORLD AND PEOPLE HAVE REFUSED TO WALK BY THE LIGHT, BUT DECIDED TO WALK IN THE DARK, FOR ALL THEIR DEEDS ARE EVIL.
Crosscheck Your Foundation in Christ Vol. 3 Sunday 25th August 2019 Pg: 25:19-22
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HAVE NOT A CLEVER WAY OF REJECTING THE WORD OF GOD
Remain blessed Brethren. We thank God for this wonderful Message we have received this afternoon. Before we dismiss, I just want us to read some few quotes to confirm the Message we heard which is titled, “Fear God”.
GOD HAS FINISHED WITH YOU; Preached Wednesday 1st March, 2017; Page 65 verses 26 – 28. GOD’S POWER OF TRANSFORMATION IS EMBEDDED IN THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD. IF YOU DO NOT SHOW INTEREST IN THE WORD OF GOD, GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
IF YOU DO NOT DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE WORD OF GOD, THERE IS NO WAY GOD WILL DELIGHT HIMSELF IN YOU.
IF YOU DO NOT DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE TEACHINGS YOU HAVE RECEIVED, THERE IS NO WAY GOD CAN BE DELIGHTED IN YOU.
WHATEVER YOU WILL BE DOING IS CARNAL SERVICE, CARNAL WORSHIP, NOMINAL ATTENDANCE TO FELLOWSHIP.
Nominal attendance to fellowship and family altar. To fulfill all righteousness, tradition. It is how we do it every morning.
WHATEVER YOU WILL BE DOING IS CARNAL SERVICE, CARNAL WORSHIP, NOMINAL ATTENDANCE TO FELLOWSHIP.
IT IS JUST LIKE I AM HERE. IF YOU LIKE, SLAUGHTER YOUR BODY AND COOK FOR ME. GIVE ME WHATEVER YOU HAVE, IT CAN NEVER GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IF YOU DO NOT PAY HEED TO MY WORD.
SO, IF YOU HAVE NEVER PAID HEED TO THE WORD OF GOD, THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE SERVICE YOU CAN RENDER UNTO GOD THAT CAN GRANT YOU ETERNAL LIFE IF NOT OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF GOD.
God said that obedience to this message you have heard this afternoon marks the confirmation of God’s salvation on you.
We heard it in the Message, “Fear God” that the moment you obey all these teachings. Remember, this is not a Message to be heard only.
I will continue to drum it in our ears. Do not ever let this Word become common in our ears.
Do not set it aside because it works contrary to your own human principle. This is because people often reject those things that work contrary to their own human principles and traditions.
Because the truth hurts you, God is saying that you should not dispose of that truth.
THAT EVERY TRUTH THAT BRINGS RIGHT LIVING IN A MAN MUST FIRST OF ALL DESTABILIZE THAT PERSON.
We heard it during the Friday fellowship. For the truth to make you whole, it must destabilize you. It must hurt you. It must embarrass you.
Mark 7:9 – 11, Amplified. And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God.
You have a fine way, a clever way. This is because once the devil wants to destroy a human being, he will give you Messages to support your evil ways.
I say, he will not bring out a new Message. You will be the one supporting yourself, “God said it is by grace and grace alone.”
You will keep on motivating yourself in an evil way, a devilish way, because devil wants to destroy you.
He will supply you with Messages you know. He will now thwart the meaning and give you another meaning that suits the evil convenience of that evil deed you want to do.
Most people thwart the Word of God so as to suit their evil convenience. And thwarting it does not mean that God is not seeing you. He is seeing you for He is registering it. He is registering it against you. Let us not lose sight of this.
THAT GOD DID NOT SPEAK CONCERNING THAT EVIL THING YOU ARE DOING IN SECRET DOES NOT MEAN GOD DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT IT.
This is because people tend to believe that whenever God does not talk about their evil ways, He did not see them. But God has been watching you, giving you an opportunity to see if you can make amends.
Chiemerie, are you hearing it?
If you do not make amends, that particular thing, that particular character will follow you to the judgment throne.
So, do not have a fine way, a clever way and an intelligent way to deceive us, nodding your head, saying Amen, so that everybody around you will see you. We read it in the Message, “Fear God.”
Just like the kind of thing Chimee displays in Fellowship in GTC, waving his hand
Raising up your hand and saying “Yes sir! Ride on!” just to convince people around you that you have believed, when you do not even understand, for most of the Brethren do not understand.
IT IS ONE THING TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND ANOTHER THING TO UNDERSTAND.
IF YOU MISUNDERSTAND THE WORD OF GOD, IT MUST LEAD TO THE MISAPPLICATION OF THE WORD OF GOD. EVERY MISUNDERSTANDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF GOD MUST LEAD TO MISAPPLICATION.
That is why God said that why we went to our families is for us to ask questions. Where it is not clear to you, ask questions so that it will be made clear to you.
Your misunderstanding of the word of God is not an excuse for not obeying the word of God.
Mark 7:9 – 11, Amplified. And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)!
For Moses said, Honour (revere with tenderness of feeling and deference) your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely die.
But [as for you] you say, A man is exempt if he tells [his] father or [his] mother, What you would otherwise have gained from me [everything I have that would have been of use to you] is Corban, that is, is a gift [already given as an offering to God]. AMP.
So, they will hear the Word of God. They they know what that Word of God is saying. They will now go home and give it their own private interpretation.
Not that they do not know the Word of God. Are we getting the message? God never said they do not know. They know the Word of God.
We heard it in the Message, “Fear God”, that we have warned people to always take note of when they hear the Word of God and they deliberately twist it and sin against God.
The person will say he did not do it deliberately. God said that most of the time, the person knows what he is doing.
You might deny everything but you can never deny what is going on in you.
That is why, when the Word of God goes forth, through the anointing of the Word of God, it brings out whatever that is in your heart, the intent of our hearts and that which you are about to do that you have not done. God will reveal it through His Word.
And a wise man will just pause and know that God has caught him there.
Even when it is night, everybody knows where he or she kept his food. You cannot just go to the kitchen and take the food that Bro Elijoe kept there with the excuse that it is night. He will let you know that he overlooked it for a purpose.
What I am telling you is the truth. Does darkness prevent one to know where he kept that which belongs to him?
It is only a thief that thinks that the owner of that thing does not know that it is here. Whenever the person that kept his property comes, will he not know that someone else has taken that which belongs to him?
Is it a lie Brethren? By then, that thing which you did in the dark has been revealed. Even if you deny that you are not the one, you mind will be testifying against you, “Are you not the culprit? Won’t you bring it out? What are you waiting for.”
You will then suppress your feeling. Even as you are suppressing, you feeling, everybody is looking at you and discussing with the eyes, for they all know that you are the one.
That is why we say that once a person’s crimes fizzles out of the minds of the people around him, he will commit another one. One day, one trouble.
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YOU MUST REFLECT THE GOD YOU WORSHIP
IF YOU KNOW THE VALUE OF GOLD, PRESERVE IT; Preached 12th August, 2012; Page 86 verses 50 – 55.
If you want to know about that family that God is referring to, go back to the Message titled, “Borrow your example from the Recabbite Family.” The Message was preached by the Son of Man between 1994 and 1995.
Who is your example? When you are modelling your family, which family do you look to as your icon?
Do you know that some people in this Faith have hated THE SON OF MAN and His family to such an extent that they will never pattern after them?
If you are doing that, you are likened to a man building his house without building plan for you have no icon.
God said, “Do not erect your family anyhow. You must build according to the plan that was revealed to God’s people in the wilderness.” The Bridal Faith is the church in the wilderness.
There can never be this family if THE SON OF MAN is not as family man. Thus, whatever His family is, is the reflection of the SON OF MAN’s family.
Maybe you do not know that we are running this Faith as a family. That is why we are serving a family God.
I am a Son over My Father’s heritage. If you like, believe it.
IF YOU ARE NOT PATTERNING AFTER THE SON OF MAN’S FAMILY, YOU ARE BUILDING OUTSIDE THE REVEALED TRUTH.
If you are not patterning after the SON OF MAN’s family, you are building outside the revealed truth, especially now that we are at home.
GOD SAID THAT WE ARE WORSHIPPING A FAMILY GOD. SO, EVERY INDIVIDUAL IN A FAMILY MUST REPRESENT; MUST BE LIKE THE GOD HE IS WORSHIPPING. Your character must reflect the God you are worshipping.
That is why, if you watch this guy that is doing this traditional thing. Once you see him, looking at him facially, you will know that this person is an evil person.
YOU MUST REFLECT THE GOD YOU ARE WORSHIPPING. WHATEVER YOU CLAIM TO BELIEVE MUST REFLECT IN YOUR OUTLOOK [CHARACTER].
So, do not tell us that maybe, my Faith does not speak this, “I am not doing this” and “I am not doing that.”
You might be having one thing in your mind, but your face will reflect another thing. Are we getting the Message?
There is no way your children can be godly if they are not following a godly family. The family of God remains a guide to every family. What am I saying?
Some ministers in this Faith have vowed a vow that they will never borrow a cue from the Son of Man’s family.
While some of them, instead of borrowing example, they fix their eyes to find fault like Balaam.
Even if there is a fault in My family, you will not find it. I am the only one that can fault it. You cannot fault it.
What you call evil might be their righteousness before Me. So, if you are intelligent and wise, you should copy it “A” for “A”; “I” for “I”; “B” for “B”. I mean everything, Leaving nothing.
Now that we are at home, God said that we are worshipping a family God.
FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO was preached in 1993. It was in this Message that God said that we should continue. And that a time is coming when He will scatter us.
This Message was preached 9th March, 1993. Pastor Rotimi sent it to Me this morning. Page 68 verse 88.
I know I am vying for the truth. Why must I be afraid? I better not be afraid. I know that one day, this place must be closed. We will scatter, every man to his own, every woman to her village. Then we will know whether you are godly or not.
1993, 9th March. Quote it! Quote it again.
This Message was preached on 9th March, 1993; Page 68 from 88.
It was the Message of His proclamation in March that was preached from 5th to 9th March.
I know one day, this place must be closed. We will scatter, every man to his own, every woman to her village. Then we will know whether you are godly or not.
Godliness is not in the church. Godliness is in the home. Godliness is your yard. It is your business. It is in your market and it is in everything you do. So, godliness is not in GTC.
It is now that we will know the people that truly believe God because by their fruits, you shall know them.
But if up till now, something is being found in your character, there is still something missing, it then means that right from the very first time, from the very first beginning, the person is not a seed of God.
You only come here to receive training and then you go outside to practice it.
You see why you must worship God by revelation, that no man, no woman, no preacher will preach you out of your conviction because you are certain, “If He is not here, I will not be here.” This is the truth. Amen.
If He is not here, I will not be here. Sure!!! If God is not here, I will not be here. 9th March, 1993.
Page 98 from verse 7. Do not conform to the world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove that which is good, which is holy, which is perfect and which is the acceptable will of God to you.
Do not ever conform to the world. This is the instruction. How does the world conform itself? Look at the world today. They have their own way of dressing [and] their own way of doing everything.
Go to their homes. You can hardly find a place where they worship God. Watch them! When they come into the church, that church becomes the world.
It becomes a worldly church, do not conform to the world.
Once they come into a church, that church becomes what? A worldly church.
It is their character that they display, showcasing pride. They are churchgoers. The come to church empty-handed, without even a copy of the Bible, just moving on like that.
By the time the service is over he is already in the main market or land himself in the beer parlour, “We are just here sight-seeing.”
THAT IS WHY IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING GOD, LET GO OF YOURSELF AND DO NOT PREEMPT. DO NOT PRESUME. ONCE YOU START PRESUMPTION, YOU MUST COMMIT PRESUMPTUOUS SIN BECAUSE THAT WHICH YOU ARE THINKING IN YOUR HEART MAY NOT HAVE EVEN COME IN. The greatest sin before God is the sin of unbelief. That was why God gave us the message from the very beginning and said, “If you want to survive, if you want to have eternal life, look at the secret. He gave us two messages: Number one, ‘They forsook all and followed Him’. Number two message was like the first. He said, ‘At Thy Word O Lord’.”
GOD HAS GIVEN US EVERYTHING PG.43:25-26 & TAKE GOD AT HIS WORD PG. 14:14
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OBEY GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WORD
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD. Page 110 verses 40 – 44. You are still coming to Fellowship. You think you are still part of what God is doing but yet, you are outside whatever God is doing.
Let us be very careful. Make sure you are always found doing whatever God said you should do.
DO GOD A SERVICE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. Obey God according to His Word, not according to our own.
Obey God according to His word. So, the Word of God remains the standard. But right now, so many people are trying to raise up their own standard above the standard of God.
That is why they are finding it difficult to take the word of God, simply because they exalt their own human way of thinking, their own village traditions above the Word of God.
That becomes their own standard.
We are not going to bend God to obey our own word. You must bend to God’s Word.
So, you can never aim to bend God to suit your evil convenience. Rather, you must change that your evil convenience to suit the Word of God that is meant for your own salvation.
This is because you are the one that is desirous of salvation. And that which is necessary for salvation, you must do.
So, whenever we hear the Message, “Fear God; Fear God”, let us have an in depth understanding of what that message means. Amen.
Do not come to the point where the word of God will sound common to your ears.
Do not come to a point where you will think that, “Yes, I have heard this Message before. I am conversant with this Message. No! That will be the beginning of your destruction.
“I have heard this message before. We have read it before. I know more than that.” God said that it marks the beginning of your destruction.
Never come to a point where the Message of God; the Word of God being handed down to you will become common in your ears.
God will bless you in everything, but not in disobedience. It is only in obeying God that you will be blessed.
Every bit of the blessings that come with obedience; every bit of the blessings that is attached to obedience will be all yours only when you obey His Word.
You will obey all minus nothing. You will obey all, not subtracting anything.
THE GREATEST ENEMY OF SATAN IS GOD, FOR THE MOMENT HE DISCOVERS THAT GOD HAS STARTED BUILDING YOU FOR SOMETHING GOOD, WATCH OUT.
SATAN CAN NEVER ALLOW YOU TO STAY ALONE. YOU BECOME THE OBJECT OF ATTACK. HE WILL TRY IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO PULL YOU DOWN, TO QUENCH THAT MOVE.
THAT IS WHY EVERY MINISTER MUST BE EXTRAORDINARILY CAREFUL.
That is why, to every Minister; to every child of God, this is the time when you should be extraordinarily careful.
The same way God is fighting to make sure we do not lose this great hope, and to also make sure we do not lose this salvation He has given to us, this is the same way the devil is fighting.
God said that the devil can never leave you alone. He will fight you through your thoughts and even through your phone. He can lay hands on everything around you just to make sure that that fight is on. He will use your phone
Once you are sitting down in the toilet, the thought is in you. He can never give you any breathing space. The person will always be thinking. Brethren, is it not true? I am talking from experience.
The person will decide to pray. He might kneel down, but instead of praying, the person’s mind has already left him and another thing will be presented to him other than prayers.
This is the time the devil is fighting tooth and nail to make sure that no Elect of God escapes from his grip. The same way, God is always still fighting to prove to him [devil] that He [God] must redeem His own.
God said that the greatest enemy of Satan is God and the greatest enemy of God is Satan. [and] That whenever he [Satan] discovers that God is using you for something good, he is not happy.
Always ask yourself and you will discover that your problem always starts that moment when you are happy. When everything is working out fine, he will just inject the problem so as to spoil that joy in you.
THAT IS WHY GOD SAID THAT WHEN THE WORLD IS TESTIFYING ABOUT YOU IN A GREAT WAY, OR GIVING TESTIMONIES ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, THOSE TESTIMONIES SHOULD MAKE YOU ALL THE MORE HUMBLE.
THIS IS BECAUSE THE MOMENT YOU BECOME PROUD; THE MOMENT THE PRAISES, THE TESTIMONIES ENTER YOUR HEAD, THE DEVIL WILL CREEP IN, CAPITALISE ON IT AND MAR THAT RECORD.
The devil can use anything, even your fellow Brother in the faith or your fellow Sister. He can use anything around you so as to mar that record.
This is where many Ministers are having problems because when God praises them, they capitalize on it and become gods over their Brethren.
The person automatically becomes a saint. He can never believe that he is in error again. And he will like whatever he says to be final, just because of that single commendation, not knowing that it is the same thing the devil will still hold on and make sure he loses that testimony.
I was reading a Message where God was saying that we say “It is well with our souls.” How well is it with your soul?
When you are sleeping and translation happens at that point you are sleeping, are you sure you are going to be part of the translation?
When you are doing that thing you are doing and translation occurs, how sure are you that you are going?
God did not say we will gather in the Fellowship and translation will occur. Some will be in the market places, some will be in the farm, some will be doing many things.
If it happens that day, wherever you are, as far as you are a seed of God, God must translate you.
So, if you are in the school, how sure are you that that place you are at that point in time, that God will translate you?
So, let us ask ourselves this question, “How well is it with our souls?”
If the teachings of God are going on and your heart is still pricking you, it goes to show that there is still something holding you.
The aim of God preaching all these messages is to make sure that we enter Paradise undisturbed. Amen.
…whenever he [Satan] discovers that God is using you for something good, he is not happy. He will love to change your testimony. He will love you to become an object of his attack.
He will love you to be an object of mockery. Brethren, Why not say “I REJECT? This is where many Ministers are failing.
Like of John Abazie, Okechukwu Nwamkpa. These are people that stood for the truth, but who have now become objects of mockery because that is what the devil has in stock for them.
And then they also equipped the devil to destroy them.
All of them! They armed the devil to destroy them. An unbeliever is arming the devil against himself.
God said that in every man there is a civil war going on. You must help one to win. I said you must help one to win [either God or the devil].
And that is the one you like. The one you cherish!
That is why we have to be careful of that second captivity in the hand of the devil.
And that is only if you have escaped from the first. If you have been there in Satan’s Eden, dungeon; you have never come out from the first captivity, and we are talking about the second.
Brethren let us take note of this message.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD. Page 110 from verses 47. …he will love to change your testimony. He will love you to become an object of mockery.
And when you become the object of his attack, you will lose sight of who you are; lose sight of your calling in Christ; you will only become an object of attack.
You become the object of attack. He will try in one way or the other to pull you down, to quench that move in you.
That is why every Minister must be extraordinarily careful. You must be very careful. Satan is always at work to make sure he changes your testimony.
Inasmuch as we call devil, devil, devil, we are the individuals that will know those things the devil will use to tempt us. In the message, “TEMPTATION [TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH]”, God made us to know that He [God] does not tempt any man. We are been tempted by what? The desires of our heart! And God told us that it is a rat’s delight that is used to set trap for it. These are the things. It is the thoughts of the things which are going on in you that you will start desiring, “I need this. I need that.” Those things you delight your thought in are what the devil will present to you. It is not the devil. From the desires of your heart, everything you will be meeting are those things that are alluring, along with the desires of your heart.
SPIRITUAL ACCOUNTABILITY TO GOD PAGE 11:25-29
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DO NOT BE THE OBJECT OF THE DEVIL’S ATTACK
Philippians 2:13 said it that God is the one in your helping you to obey Him.
For God is at work within you, helping you to obey Him, and then helping your to do what He wants. [Philippians 3:13]
The same way devil is also at work in you, helping you to obey him.
And to disobey God.
The devil helps his captive to disobey God and obey him.
He will love to quench the fire in you. That gift, that talent God stored in you, he will love to change it.
If it is the person that is gifted to sing, he will slack. And God will remove that gift of singing. I am telling you the truth.
If you are not careful at a time like this to see what the devil is doing, the moment he removes the joy of your salvation from you, the person becomes a fault finder.
And the person is an implacable human being. There is nothing you will do to delight the person again because he has acquired another spirit.
You must be very careful, he will like to twist it so that you will start doing his own will, winning souls for himself. We must be very careful, prayerful and discerning at all times.
Note! We must be very careful, prayerful and discerning at all times.
Deuteronomy chapter 18 from verse 13 through 22. Amplified version and New International Version.
You shall be blameless [and absolutely true] to the Lord your God. For these nations whom you shall dispossess listen to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet (Prophet) from the midst of your brethren like me [Moses]; to him you shall listen.
This is what you desired [and asked] of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.
And the Lord said to me, They have well said all that they have spoken.
I will raise up for them a prophet (Prophet) from among their brethren like you, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
And whoever will not hearken to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. AMP
Deuteronomy 18:19, NIV. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.
Verse 19, Living Bible. I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to him and heed his messages from me.
Can you see it now? So, your punishment is coming directly from God Himself, when you decide not to obey this truth that has been evidently set before you.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD; Page 111 from verse 64.
Drawing closer; drawing nearer to the vessel God is using in your day, drawing closer or nearer to Him is for two reasons;
One, for your justification. Two, for your condemnation. And the choice depends on you. This is not the time to say God help me.
The choice depends on you because He has given you His Word. And by and by, that is where judgement has waiting for you.
You condemn yourself when you disobey, murmur against Him and remain stubborn to His Word.
Are we getting the Message Brethren? So that person has already sentenced himself to hell without knowing it.
You condemn yourself when you disobey, murmur against Him and remain stubborn to His Word.
When you are an unbeliever; when you live a life that does not synchronize with the Message that you profess; when your character is not harmonizing with that which you preach, that is when you are going to receive that greatest condemnation from God.
[This is because] you justify yourself by obeying Him. Obedience to the Words He gives you justifies you. Obedience to God’s Words justifies you in His sight.
Obey the Word, for you have no other choice. You do not have a choice. You do not have an option than to obey God and that is all.
In our Message last week, God was saying that it might be optional for people outside, but for this Great family, it is mandatory! Compulsory! Are we getting the Message?
That is why we cannot lower the Message or bring it down so as to make you understand. If you do not understand and you do not obey, it is because you do not want to believe, and not because the Message is not true.
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH; Preached on 15th March 2001 by Brother Amankem Uwakwe; Page 53 verse 33 to 38.
At a time like this, Brethren, do not believe every spirit, but test that you find out if that spirit comes from God. Do not believe every spirit.
Is it not confirming the Message we heard this morning which said that many Brethren will arise to say this and say that. God said, “Do not believe every spirit.”
1st John chapter 4 verse 1 through 3.
Dearly loved friends, do not always believe everything you hear
Remember where God said here in this Message that we should be careful, prayerful and discerning every spirit. What we are treating is still FEAR GOD.
Dearly loved friends, do not always believe everything you hear just because someone says it is a message from God: test it first to see if it really is.
For there are many false teachers around, and the way to find out if their message is from the Holy Spirit is to ask: Does it really agree that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, actually became man with a human body? Living Bible.
My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God.
But test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For God said that the only way you can know a true seed of God is by giving him the Word test.
So, if any Brother or any Sister is coming to you, use the Word of God to check the spirit that the person is using to come to you.
I say, use the Word of God because we are living in a time when the devil can use your friend to deceive your heart from the truth.
The devil can use your brother who is out of the way of truth to lure your heart away from the truth. God does not mount undue pressure on any of his child.
Every pressure mounted on any human being comes from the devil. Believe it if you can.
GOD CANNOT MOUNT PRESSURE ON YOU TO DO THAT WHICH HE WANTS YOU TO DO, BUT THE DEVIL MOUNTS PRESSURE ON YOU TO DO THAT WHICH HE WANTS YOU TO DO. True or false, Brethren?
So, watch! Any time undue pressure is being mounted on, that pressure comes from the devil. When you sit down, your heart is boiling, “What will I do?” Your heart is boiling. That pressure is only coming from the devil.
Watch every Word of God. That is why God will always tell you, “Believe it if you can.” God has never mounted pressure on you on anything, “You must do this. You must do that.”
But the devil will continue to bring in suggestions, “Look at opportunity; Look at this; Look at that”, all to make sure that you end up doing it.
So, God does not mount an undue pressure on a child of God, but every pressure comes from the devil.
The devil will give you opportunities where you can do that which he wants you to do and escape without anyone seeing you, but he will blind you from seeing the evil recompense.
And when he will deceive you into doing that, he can never stand in for you when God is judging you.
He will end up putting you in enmity with God, but he can never stand in for you when God’s judgement is proclaimed upon you.
That is why God is saying, test every spirit. When somebody is talking, know where that person is coming from. Know where that Message is going to.
Do not read it carnally because we are now children of God, and God has given us the power.
For all those that have become children of God, He [God] has given them the power; power to understand and power to discern. Are we getting the Message?
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: [John 1:12 KJV]
1st John chapter 4 verse 1 through 3. My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God.
For many false prophets have gone out everywhere. This is how you will be able to know whether it is God’s Spirit:
anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God.
But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. Good News Bible.
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH; Preached on 15th March 2001. … The truth is that when you hear the truth about God as a child of God, it tingles because it is the only truth.
Whenever you obey that truth, the moment you understand what that truth is, you believe, and your faith is anchored on that belief.
The moment you understand what that truth is, your faith is anchored on that belief.
You are now in the position to fight the good fight of faith. The fight will come in diverse ways. Brethren are we getting the message?
The moment you understand the cause of the battle, you are in a position to win the battle. You must understand that the cause of the battle is eternal life.
What the devil is fighting tooth and nail is to hinder you from going to paradise.
So, for you as a child of God, why will you stop fighting when your opponent is still standing?
You continue to resist him. God said all these trials and temptations are not only peculiar to you, but is the same for all the Elect of God.
I do not know if most of us have taken time to go through the website report that is always posted in our Bridal group chat to see how the whole world is tilting to the Word of God.
Columbia is taking the first position, followed by Nigeria. And watch the Messages that they are reading. They are Messages concerning the hour.
Watch the messages they are tilting to. It is in our group chat. This is to show you that they are fighting. Everybody is making sure he or she does not lose his or her position.
Nigeria is even number 5 in one of them.
You must understand the cause, the reason why the devil is fighting you.
We are reading the message FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH.
If you do not understand why the devil is fighting you, you might lose the battle.
You should know when the devil is fighting you or you are the devil yourself, for the devil cannot fight the devil. The devil can only fight a seed of God.
The devil does not fight the devil. The devil fights the seed of God. For any house that is divided against itself must collapse. So, the devil can never be against itself. It is impossible.
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: and if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? [Matthew 12:25 – 26 KJV]
Find out whether the devil is fighting you or you are a serpent seed. Find out whether the devil is fighting you or the devil is using you to fight children of God.
Once you yield to the devil and become an instrument in the hand of the devil, he will be using you to fight sons and daughters of God, to accuse them, to provoke them to anger and to do something that will make them to be badly offended so that bitterness will rise up in their hearts.
You always want to do that thing that will make God to arrest a child of God and to query a child of God.
Your aim is always to make the children of God find themselves where God will ask them “Why?”
So, find out whether the devil is really fighting you or the devil is using you to fight the children of God.
In one of our Messages, God said, “are you sure you are not THAT WEapon of warfare that is fashioned against yourself?”
You might be praying, “All weapons of warfare fashioned against me shall not prosper”, but God said “Maybe you might be that weapon of warfare that is still fashioned against yourself.”
Are you sure you are not the one constituting your own self obstacle, by cutting down the oak tree that will hinder your movement, and then blaming it on the devil? You might be that same devil.
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WITH THE MOUTH, CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION
Page views by countries from: www.chroniclesofbridalfaithworldwide.org; From April 25th to May 2nd 2020. The first 10 countries and the number of vewers for the last week.
[1] United States 4,632; [2] Ethiopia 4,207; [3] Germany 3,641; [4] Israel is 3,625, [5] Ukraine 3,225; [6] Kenya 2,854. [7] Nigeria 2,545; [8] Mauritania 2,214; [9] Finland 2,204, [10] Great Britain (UK) 2,201.
The first Message there is “COMMITMENT; THE SECRET TO ACHIEVEMENT”. Another one is “CHRIST IS IDENTIFIED BY HIS CHARACTERISTICS” Another message of the English version is “Ordination of Pastors” which has 1,201 page views.
The next one is “Re-examine your Faith; the Lord shall judge and vindicate His elects”; The next message is “Be aware of the hour you are living in”; “Be diligent to protect your mindset.”
Have you seen the trend of the Messages they are considering, all to make sure that they are retaining their sanctified positions?
Re-examining their Faith; you will see that the Message we are preaching is the same standard worldwide.
Every Elect of God must be positionally placed where he or she must be a partaker of what God is doing in His day.
And they are really reading the Messages.
They are reading the Messages to know what the hour calls for. God never gave them mandate on what to do, but because they are spiritually discerning, they know what the hour calls for.
I am still reading from this Message, FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH. In other words, God must approve your Faith, He must approve the truth you are holding for you to fight this good fight of Faith.
Grace and truth came by Christ. So, if you are fighting, know that you are fighting for eternal life.
The moment you understand that you are fighting for eternal life, it becomes a revelation to you, and you are in a position to win that fight because God has given you a strong belt of truth.
So, you must know the reason. You must know the cause why you are fighting that good fight of Faith.
While we are putting down these Messages, let us know that we remain quoting this truth steadfastly, immovable, unshakable, knowing that one day, in His grace and mercy, if we will continue preaching, continue believing, continue waiting for Him at His word, this promise will be given to us.
2nd Timothy 3:10 – 17 (AMP) Now you have closely observed and diligently followed my teaching, conduct, purpose in life, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, persecutions, sufferings—such as occurred to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Indeed all who delight in piety and are determined to live a devoted and godly life in Christ Jesus will meet with persecution [will be made to suffer because of their religious stand].
But wicked men and imposters will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and leading astray others and being deceived and led astray themselves.
But as for you, continue to hold to the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced,
Note, God has spoken about wicked people that they will continue to deceive people and they themselves being deceived.
But as for us who are devoted to the course of Christ, we have made a vow to remain in this truth. Note what God is saying now.
But as for you, continue to hold to the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced, knowing from whom you learned [them],
Continue to hold unto the things you have learnt and of which you are convinced.
2nd Timothy 3:14 NIV. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it.
And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings,
Have we not from childhood been taught this truth? Brethren, I am asking us a question. Have we not known this truth from childhood?
Has God been established in us any other Faith apart from this Faith? For God is talking us to continue in this truth of which you are convinced.
God said to the righteous, “Do not ever get tired of fighting because He will give you His grace. God must always help you to win.
But to the person that has devoted himself to the devil, the devil will continue to use you. And the time when you will realize what the devil has done to you might be the time when the saints have been translated. But God forbid. It can never be in this family. Amen!
And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation.
They are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for the needed salvation you want.
This means that salvation is not outside the Messages we are hearing. That is why we pray to God for understanding, for insight, to know Whom this Message is coming from.
Which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus.
So, all your personality should be leaned on Christ, for Christ remains your example in everything.
Which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the [a]leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness]. Amen!
Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error.
Every instruction from God is profitable for [1] instruction [2] reproof.
And conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience,
When we read in Ecclesiastes chapter 12, the Scriptures said that it the remedy, the all inharmonious circumstances under the sun was the fear of God.
Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience,
So, it is only in the Word of God [in the Messages] that your error can be corrected. If you are correcting the error, it goes to show that the Word of God is now above you. This is why we come to the presence of God; to correct our errors. This message is set to give us eternal life.
Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness,…
So, in whatever you are going through, which includes this vigorous training you are going through is to make you righteous before God.
So, it can be painful. It can be very painful and very embarrassing. But after sometime, it yielded a quiet growth in grace and character.
Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action).
Brethren, can we see why God is giving us this training? Can we see why we are coming to the house of God?
If all these things do not happen in you, you never came to the house of God with your heart.
Every Word you hear from the mouth of God, from the mouth of the preacher God has ordained, God said that it must do all these things that are enlisted.
Can we hear the Message? In our private times, we can use different translations to read this particular verse so as to see what the Word of God should do in your life.
So, if the Word of God is not doing all these things in your life, it goes to show you are not a seed of God.
[and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), So that the man of God [a child of God] may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. Put yourself there.
So that I, Pastor Wisdom, so that I, Promise, so that I, Brother Elijoe, will be what? Well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.
You must dedicate your whole life and lean your entire personality on Christ. You be committed to the things of God and say to your heart, “I have no better option than this one I have chosen”, for the best choice a man can make in life is the choice of eternal life.
That was what Peter and the rest made, “We are following not because of bread and butter. We are following, not because we are hungry or anything like that.
We are following for one thing. You alone we have vowed to have come in our own day with the Word of eternal life and we are certain.
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. [John 6:68 KJV]
For that reason, they were committed, and they leaned their entire personality on Him. They were always found at His feet hearing His word, with the readiness to go out and spread the good tidings to others, for when you are saved, you become the point of reconciliation to others.
You cannot be saved and you close your mouth. If you are saved and your mouth is shut, you are not saved.
YOU ARE NOT SAVED UNTIL YOU USE YOUR MOUTH TO PROCLAIM THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD.
To those who knew you as an evil man, they will be wondering when this type of change took place.
You have repented and your mouth is shut, that is not true. I want to see the first zeal. There must be the first zeal.
So, when you say you have repented and there is no zeal, darkness is still covering you. If you do not open your mouth, you are not liberated. How do I know what you believe? Is it by moving calmly on the streets? Who are you fooling? You are still ashamed to spread the Good News. You can only spread it inside the house. You cannot go out to tell people that you are a child of God, lest they will ask you, “When did this happen?”
This is because you know the life you are living outside. You must go and tell people what you believe. If you are ashamed of proclaiming the Message of God outside, you have not changed you mind. You have not changed your mind.
I want to tell you, “Change your view. THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR SECRET DISCIPLE. A SECRET DISCIPLE HAS NO PLACE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
IF YOU ARE ASHAMED OF PROCLAIMING CHRIST TO THE WORLD, CHRIST WILL BE ASHAMED OF PROCLAIMING YOUR NAME BEFORE THE FATHER IN PARADISE. YOU WILL NEVER SMELL PARADISE.
2 Timothy 3:16 – 17 Amplified. [16]Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), [17]So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. AMP
So, you must give a testimony. You must proclaim the testimony of your salvation.
You cannot say that you have repented and yet you are quiet. God said that you must testify with the word of your mouth. You must proclaim to the people around you.
People that knew you before will know when that change has occurred in you and they will glorify God for it is the evidence of your salvation in Christ.
So, on this note Brethren, I say, let us continue believing God. In everything that we do, let God help us to remain in obedience to His word, to His teachings and also following Him, knowing fully well that one day, all these Messages that seem like stories to us will become a reality, and we will see ourselves sitting in Paradise with Him. Amen!