PREACHED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE FOUNTAIN OF WISDOM AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA ON 17TH APRIL 2016
YOU WANT TO BE AN EXPERT ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING, WHAT YOU NEED IS 10% OF INSPIRATION AND 90% HARDWORK; YOU ARE INSPIRED TO ASPIRE AND YOU CANNOT ASPIRE WITHOUT HAVING A GREAT MIND WHERE YOUR EYES WILL FOCUS, WHOSE STEPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW. WHEN YOU WANT TO BE GREAT AND YOU MINGLE WITH SYCOPHANTS, YOU WILL BE THE GREATEST SYCOPHANTS AND IT PRODUCES GENERATIONAL POVERTY; POVERTY IS TRANSFERRED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
– The Son of Man
Inspired to Aspire preached 7th June, 2015 pg 47:2-3
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BEWARE OF DANGEROUS INFLUENCE
1. Our Lord is good! All the time! You are all welcome here in the name of Christ our saviour. We give God the whole glory, honour and praise for what He has done in our midst all these years, and we are trusting that as we continue with Him, He will guide us through even till the end.
2. I wish to use this opportunity to welcome all our Children that have successfully fulfilled their obligations to this nation Nigeria by completing their one year National youth service assignment. My heart is overwhelmed with joy that we never lost any of them. Too many youth corps Members died on the highway while shuttling to and fro. If you are conversant with events around youth corps members, you will discover that there is no class of people that is prone to road mishap more than youth corpers. After successfully completing their tenures in universities, within the one year they will devote to serve this Nation that doesn’t even care for them, parents will begin to received their corpses.
3. This time around too many parents were thrown into perpetual sorrows for offences they never committed, as a result of hardship. A good number of them volunteered their services to INEC, they were used in the national elections, in some of the states where violence occurred, some youth corps members lost their lives even in Rivers State. No matter the promises that were made by the states as compensation to the bereaved families, I wish to state it categorically clear that there is no amount of compensation that will be paid to the bereaved families that will be sufficient. It is better nothing is paid.
4. I thank God that our children were not tempted to join their foes in the pursuit for money. It was the package that was offered, that enticed those heathen corps members to do the work. They were not compelled, nobody was force, and it was thrown open. It was a voluntary work based on the package INEC offered them, and too many volunteered to work. Some were maimed became incapacitated beyond even restoration. We thank God that in all, we never received any sad reports from anybody. Even those that served in the turbulent areas, in our own southern arrangement we had one in Rivers state (that is our sister Idimma Ojiakor), who served in a Etche, Rivers state, where the election was fraudulent, violent to the point that even the election result was cancelled, the re-run election up till today is still pending because of violence.
5. I thank God who saved her life. If she never listened to me she would have become a victim. She volunteered to escape from the trouble but it was late. The day she wanted to travel home, there was a curfew imposed as a result of the election, no movement of persons from 6 am and a good number of people that violated it paid dearly. Up till this day that State is still turbulent. All that served in the Northern states came back alive. We give God the whole praise. Our brother Miracle the first son of Bishop David, was among those that served and passed out successfully also, in a turbulent area, we thank God on your behalf.
6. Now you have passed out, you have become one of us. You will now begin to address the realities of life; you are no longer students and you are not employed. You will now identify with us. So I am appealing to all of you to remain cool headed. Don’t rush out; that place where you want to go may be the worst not the worse but the worst. The temptation is always there that will warrant you to think of jumping out anyhow, my appeal is that you will examine the ground, the landing point properly. When you are jumping from a cliff, examine your landing point, it may not be as soft as you think, assess it very properly.
7. I will rather suggest, instead of jumping out anyhow, if you have the facilities, the where withal, instead of roaming about the streets, if you obey my suggestion it will not stop you from securing gainful employment, rather it may enhanced it. Instead of roaming about, instead of jumping out uncontrollably, instead of becoming hostile to your parents and guidance because of the horrible condition everybody is in, instead of becoming hostile please, go and pick your Master’s Degree forms, so that we will recognise you as a student still, and continue to take care of you, until the day you will fully be weaned from the family’s breast milk.
8. This suggestion, if adopted can ease your hostilities, because nobody is as hostile as a jobless graduate. This is pure truth, whether male or female, somebody that has attained the age of adolescence who has all it takes to take good care of himself or herself to remain begging bread from the parents, you know it is very disturbing. To the parents, it is equally disturbing.
9. To the female ones, please ensure restrain; do not allow the situation that we are in, to compel you to begin to look for men that will pick you as wives, be civil, virtuous men will come your way, but if you are not civil you are bound to run into the hands of sniffers, hoodlums, who masquerade themselves everywhere as one thing or other, claiming to be something they are not.
10. A young man that tested this faith with us, saw an accurate vision in 1993 which helped us to believe this faith more, married with Children, has been having problems with his Family. The problem escalated to the point that the wife called me and said that, “She was deceived by her husband, that her husband told her when they were discussing marital conditions, that the husband said he attended Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka and got to a level about three hundred level and had a problem and then came out and she believed, only to discover that her husband never passed primary six, by then it had become late”. I called the husband to know whether the report was truth, the husband said, ehh.. what of the lies she told me, she told me,“she had a master’s degree from University of Nigeria Lagos, that she established a boutique at Lagos and this and that and that she had a fabulous bank account” only to discover that she never even had even school cert. that she was selling Okrika.
11. I say okay, biribiri man has married a biribiri woman and they didn’t discover this until they started raising up to two, three Children, now the problem has set in and no human being has ever succeeded in solving marital problems.
12. Our people say that you don’t tell a wise man to go out from the sun. I came here and saw the open roof, they said it happened on Thursday. We are lucky, in some buildings on Thursday the whole roof, even in some filling stations. So those in that row,please relocate immediately, we still have abundant seats. You can even go outside if you wish, but where you are enjoying that ray of the sun, this one doesn’t offer vitamin D. Let me correct it, this one cannot give you Vitamin D. This is not the type of sun that will give you that, you are already in the raining season.
13. Please, I am appealing to all of you especially the females to be very careful from now. There are too many attractive promises that do not contain any iota of truth. To the young men, be very careful, be very, very careful. I am warning against dangerous influence, dangerous influence.
14. Those that went to South Africa have not come back, their parents are longing to hear from them while somebody who is here is volunteering to go, is that person not crazy? I want to state it here that no place is better than where you are for now.
15. Any day you venture outside the shores of Nigeria, you will begin to taste the hardest pills of life. You are going to the place where you have no brother, you have no sister, you have no towns man, you have no friend, a place where nobody will say good morning to you and you will never say good morning because the rule is this, you can only salute somebody you know, anybody you don’t know even if you jam on the step, you go your way, you don’t know him, he doesn’t know you, if you salute him, he can sue you to court. You have no right.
16. Now whatever offence you commit, you will bear the responsibilities. Nobody will come to your rescue for you have nobody. If you have no body, you have no money, it then means you go a begging if you succeed, you eat, if you don’t succeed you stay. If you don’t have a place where you can just pause a little, it then means you will be hanging about wearing the same clothe, one towel, one soap dish. If you happen to see any Mosque or Church you stay at the corridor, you will stay awake-o because if their police will there see you there, that is the end of your journey.
17. You hear me very well, you tune in your televisions and radios, you read in your newspapers too many have perished in their attempts to migrate to other countries; some got drawn in the seas, in thousands every week. There are refugees, there are migrants, migrants hide under refugees and they perished together, why do you declare yourself as an internally displaced person when nobody displaced you?
18. Do not allow unemployment to displace you. Settle down, go back to the messages you have received so far, education is for enlightenment, education is for empowerment, and education is to widen your knowledge about life and things pertaining to life. Education is to help you to fashion out what you will do to succeed. The times when we use certificates like you have presented to us today to secure good Jobs that can offer us prospects is over, that time is completely over.
19. Who can believe this? I tuned in the TV the other day, I saw demonstration. I mean angry graduates demonstrating against the Federal Government decision as many as were employed by the immigration last year August. They underwent the rigorous training, some of them paid up to five hundred thousand to secure that Job. Two thousand in number, Buhari came up one morning and cancelled the whole exercise and asked everybody to go, having spent everything they had both in the training, in securing the appointment, I mean even in transportation because within the period, nobody paid them a dime. They were squatting with friends and well-wishers, at the end of the day, the Job was not offered.
20. Carry it back to the days of Jonathan, when Nigeria lost many graduates because of immigration work, civil defence, all the promises Government made, how their relations would be recruited, up till this day, not even one is recruited. Let me tell you, anybody holding up to Government promise is holding unto air.
21. I thank God, I have people from Orlu in Imo state here, the bogus package Federal Government promised to give the bereaved family of late Okparaji, who died by playing for Nigeria, up till today the mother is living from hand to mouth, the family is worse than any family in the kindred.
22. Go to Umudioka in Orlu and you will see that place. How many have ever visited the late Ditaga’s Family in nkwere? As poor, as poor can be. The federal Government promised scholarship to the whole children and to transform the family. The only thing they fulfilled was to buy a very nice football and two pairs of Adidas boot, place them there that was all. Go there you will see the two pairs hanging there till today.
23. Now don’t carry it too far, I don’t think that anybody in Nigeria that is as prominent as late Doctor Nnamdi Azikiwe. Of all the promises Federal Government made, go to his house at Boromeo, the house is still uncompleted till today. The tomb is still as it was that time, no change, the highest thing was to place mobile police there, to be collecting money from commuter bus drivers. No change, they didn’t fulfil them when Chukwuma Azikiwe was alive, and now Chukwuma is death, Zik is forgotten, promises forgotten. So, don’t ever say Government promised, they are all political promises, that can never materialized.
24. Buhari said that he is going to provide five hundred thousand Jobs, they said five hundred thousand, graduate teachers, and non-graduate teachers, which schools? which ministry of education?.
25. Is Buhari not the one that has borrowed billions from China last week, I told you last week that the budget has already been exhausted before the bill was passed. Who can believe it that last week Thursday, he chipped in, and that is the matter at stake for now, a supplementary budget and the supplementary budget is by far higher than the main budget; what makes it supplementary? In spite of the supplementary, we are still in the first quarter, he has borrowed six billion dollars from China. Six billion dollars; convert it, it runs into trillions in Naira.
26. I am trying to show you a bleak picture of the nation, so that you will begin to look inwards. If we must survive, let all your heads calm down, keep on applying for jobs that do not exist, one day one will exist, while doing it, try to fashion out something that will be enduring, something that can be credited to you. Start somewhere no matter how small.
27. One of them who is about to be called for the youth service, very well known to us, called me last week before she embarked on it she told me, I addressed her. Within this period of one year she has stayed there, waiting for her call up letter which has come at last. She has acquired a very nice skill, besides she used the opportunity to write a very nice book, which she is about to launch. Bro ojiakor don’t you know the person?
28. She just received her call up letter last week, but she has already acquired a skill within that one year, because immediately she passed out, her name was not included in the first batch, she called me, and said ‘Daddy, look at my condition, what do I do?, I don’t want to go back to Edo state, do I stay idle and wait?’, I said no, your certificate without a skill profits you absolutely nothing. pick three skills, Call me and I will mark one for you, she picked three, out of the three, I ticked one, she went, and today she is skilled. She has a certificate, she has become an author. The book will be launched on the 24th of next month. Thank God Bro Ojiakor you know about it. She is a female.
29. See! Be innovative, be creative, develop foresight, don’t wait until somebody will remind you. This is the area where I appreciated our brother Nnamdi. When he was languishing his time at Nnewi, a little while trouble ensued, I called him, bro Nnamdi you have talents that can help you to be a man. If you can obey me I bet you sooner than you think you will be an employer. There is no joy in being an employee, but the truth of the matter is this, we have been deceived for too long, into believing that what it takes to survive is academic excellence, no, I say no.
30. Now emphasis is on diversification of the nation’s economy, a suggestion I muted out long, long time ago. One legged man can never stand at ease. I told Nigerians that that it will not lead them anywhere. I addressed the youths that time. Begin now to look for something that will sustain your future. Pursue your academic career very well, but don’t rely on the certificates for your survival. By the time you will graduate, the unemployment rate in Nigeria will touch the sky.
31. Today the labour market is not only saturated, but super saturated from the least to the greatest, and more are joining. All that completed their youth service by the 14th of this month, and those also that were exempted, plus those that were excluded, all of them are with us numbering millions. You begin now to assess the number of graduates, semi graduates that are vying for jobs that do not exist. If you doubt what I am saying, I don’t want you to be fraudulent.
32. If you want to know the number of graduates seeking an opportunity somewhere. Frame up a letter head, beautify it, and give it an address that does not exist, put phone numbers there that will reach you, upload it, publish the vacancies, specify conditions, don’t attach money. Watch! I bet you within forty eight hours application forms eh, will fill your warehouse. Tell them that the salaries and conditions of service are very attractive but negotiable. Your warehouse will be filled.
33. Now you are out, the question is ‘what next? And this “what next” must be answered. What next? Where do I go from here? You do not tell a wise person standing under the sun to look for shade.
34. Maybe by next week the Lord willing, when all of you must have settled down, we shall behold in our discussions here with a key to finding out your opinions because the number is increasing with every passing year.
35. You can create opportunities for yourselves if only you can understudy the economic situation and your own environment. There must be environmental job opportunities, there are also situational job opportunities; I mean conditional job opportunities.
36. Necessity they say is the mother of invention. I believe there are jobs for graduates if they can humble themselves down, look inwards, what will sustain you and your future is by your corner.
37. There are still too many virgin areas, yet unexploited. As the government is trying to diversify the economy so you should also diversify your own polices, your own principles, your own aspirations.
38. All of us must not make it through the classroom, but it is compulsory that we must pass through the classroom to enable us have wider knowledge.
39. There is a young man who passed out some years back, he graduated from Madonna University and he read industrial chemistry. After his youth service there was no job opportunity for him because we were friends over the years, even the whole family.
40. One day he came to me, we discussed at length, he bought my idea. After about a year he called my number and said daddy I am coming, Are you in the house? I said with all pleasure I am in the house and I was just resting.
41. This young man came, to my greatest surprise he presented a very nice entertainment magazine, a social magazine as his product. I said ah, ah, Uchenna Obizoba, so you bought this my suggestion? He said ‘Daddy it gave me sleepless nights, I approached my parents, I came up with something’.
42. I said how did you managed to cover all this occasions? Including ofala festivals, wedding festivals, and every other thing and then pasted adverts he collected from here and there. I saw the places where he tapped it, the charges. So Uchenna you bought this idea? He said daddy I bought it. He has a very nice, decorated office here now at pacific complex, Awka road. My wife was shocked. Today he is an employer of labour because he first of all employed himself.
43. One of our problems is that we have already bought the idea that we must work for people to earn our living. We don’t even think of having something people will do for us so that they can earn their living through us.
44. All of you that have passed out, you have a lot to offer the world if only you can gather yourselves together both males and females and take off your eyes from quick money. Don’t ever place money first. Anything you want to achieve in this life and money becomes the first surely you will not go far.
45. To those that are aspiring to go to the universities, I have already lectured all of you that it is not entering the university that counts but the course you will pursue.
46. Pursue a course that is relevant to the situation you have found yourselves, courses that will make you to be self-employed. No matter how small, start somewhere.
47. So you are all welcomed, feel free and relax with us. God must make a way for all of you both male and female, but don’t be faster than your legs. Don’t be faster than your legs. There are too many deceitful, blaring, attractive offers everywhere because of the situation we are in.
48. There are some fraudsters that are capitalising on the poor economy to wreak havoc, to exploit the already over exploited, I mean the youths in Nigeria. So be very careful, be very, very careful.
49. When you are pairing up with somebody be careful. If somebody is telling you that there is an opportunity somewhere, examine it very well, least you will become that opportunity for him.
50. Now, in the crave for materialism, no sacrifice is considered impossible. When a wicked heart is set to achieve something, there is no level of sacrifice he will consider to be difficult.
51. So if he says there is an opportunity in Ghana, opportunity in the Niger delta, and find out what that opportunity looks like, because it is hard for you to get somebody who will love you to the point of taking you to the land of gold when he has not acquired that gold enough.
52. Your life is more important to us than any other thing. Once there is life there is gold. Don’t mount undue pressure on them. You were thanking God when they were coming, remain thanking God, remain appreciating. And there is no point they will get to where you will disown them.
53. Experience has proved that if you are really a father or a mother, as long as you are alive you are indebted to your children. They are still looking up to you.
54. So, have that at back of your mind, married or unmarried, as long as you are alive you must fill your gap as long as you have children, Get ready.
55. The joy is having them alive. So, because often times our parents make some unguided statement, horrifying, hurtful, very caustic remarks. Often times they become more antagonistic than mad people. They lack understanding of the situation we are in.
56. I want you all to understand that Nobody has the monopoly of this hardship. There is no human being that can claim monopoly of our economic woes, which is not limited to Nigeria alone. It is a global phenomenon and it has come to stay.
57. All I am trying to say is that we should broaden our hearts. This advice has become necessary because we have started producing our graduates. They were born in the faith, brought up in the faith, raised in the faith, everything in the faith.
58. Do you know those that will graduate next year? And we cannot stop them they will keep on coming. I will like to see a situation where all of us will graduate, every family filled with graduates. When graduates will be numbered, we shall be included in the number. So join the moving wagon because if I do not address it, some of you who are very, very short sighted might be having the feeling that education is useless.
59. Education has no substitute, education has no substitute. Train your children and to lead them along becomes very easy.
60. When you train a people, educate a people, administration of the family becomes very easy, life becomes very easy. Refuse to train them, you must have touts in your house, mechanics and drivers, vehicle loaders will fill your house, Indian Hemp smokers will fill your house, every kind of prostitute will be in your house then you will have no rest. So education helps a lot, education helps a lot, it has no substitute, Amen. This is the much I want to share with you in that regard.
THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND. WILL YOU NOW DENOUNCE CHRIST BECAUSE OF WHAT IS AHEAD OF YOU? THE BIBLE SAID, IF YOU DRAW BACK, YOU DRAW BACK INTO PERDITION. HOWEVER; WE ARE NOT THE PEOPLE THAT WILL DRAW BACK. WE BELIEVE UNTO THE SALVATION. WE WILL KEEP ON MATCHING UNTIL WE SEE HIM FOR IF WE DIE IN HIM, THERE IS GAIN
The Valley Of Decision Preached 1993 Pg 44 : 1
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THE YEAR OF DISASTER
1. We thank God for the journey so far. I want us to consider for our Sunday school this short message here. Pastor Dan you will come and read this message for me “The year of disaster’’. You will come here and read chapters five, six, seven, eight, and nine, stop. You have your copies, the year of disaster. The message came out last Sunday, 2016. We are considering chapter five, six, seven, eight, and nine only.
2. THE YEAR OF DISASTER {NEW YEAR Message, Part Two} Preached SUNDAY 3RD JANUARY, 2016At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE”
3. EXAMINE YOURSELF: Now, let the Pastors take note, especially Pastors in Onitsha. All the aged men and women that cannot move about unless they are being helped by somebody; all the aged men and women that cannot move about unless they are being helped by somebody; from this day, 3rd January, 2016, they are prohibited from coming to fellowship.
4. Their pastors would be visiting them in their homes to take care of them spiritually, and any pastor that refuses to visit such flocks will remain under perpetual curse from Almighty God till eternity for neglecting aged flock.
5. For the book of Jeremiah made it clear in the days of the prophets, “Woe unto pastors that have refused to visit the flock of God and have refused to fed the flocks with sheep’s food.
6. As surely as a live saith the Lord God Almighty, I will scatter them, I will deal with them treacherously and I myself will raise for Myself shepherds that will take care of My flocks by visiting them and by feeding them with My word. And they will not complain anymore neither will they grumble or murmur or be dismayed or be discouraged.”
7. THE YEAR OF DISASTER: THIS IS THE YEAR OF DISASTER. WHO WILL ESCAPE THE WRATH OF GOD THAT IS SWIFTLY COMING BEFORE THE EARTH? I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT GOD HAS POURED THE FIRST AND SECOND VIALS.
8. GO TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION, I THE SON OF MAN, I PROCLAIM BY REVELATION THAT GOD HAS POURED IN UPON THE WHOLE EARTH THE FIRST VIAL, THE SECOND VIAL.
9. THIS IS 2016, WE ARE GOING TO RECEIVE FOUR VIALS. THE FOUR VIALS ARE COMING AND ALL OF THEM ARE BLOODY VIALS. WE WILL RECEIVE THE OUTBREAK OF EPIDEMICS OF DIFFERENT SORTS.
10. WE WILL SEE THE CLIMAX OF NATURAL DISASTER WORLDWIDE. IT HAS ALREADY STARTED. WE WILL SEE HOLOCAUST. BY HOLOCAUST, I MEAN HUMAN BEINGS SLAUGHTERING THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS AS IF THEY ARE WILD ANIMALS. THIS WILL CULMINATE INTO BROKEN HOMES. PRAY HARD THAT YOUR FAMILY WILL NOT BREAK THIS YEAR.
11. ANY FAMILY THAT BREAKS UP THIS YEAR IN THIS BRIDAL FAITH, IT IS A SURE SIGN THAT FROM THE BEGINNING, HUSBAND AND WIFE WERE LIVING AS JUST, NOT EVEN FRIENDS, THEY WERE LIVING AS NEIGHBOURS.
12. THEY WERE NEIGHBOURS; THEY WERE NOT HUSBAND AND WIFE. THE HARDSHIP THAT IS COMING UPON MANKIND, WE MUST GET OUR OWN FAIR SHARE. AND IN THAT OUR FAIR SHARE, LOVE WILL BE TESTED.
13. To marry a man means to marry his God. To marry a woman means to marry her God. WHEN YOU ARE MARRYING A WOMAN WHO LOVES YOU CARNALLY BUT NOT SPIRITUALLY, YOU ARE MARRYING A PAGAN. YOUR CHILDREN CAN NEVER BE CHILDREN OF GOD.
14. NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY TO TUTOR IT INTO THEM, IT MUST BOUNCE BACK. FOR THEY ARE NOT IDENTICAL SEEDS. YOU HAVE SEEDS OF DISCREPANCY IN YOUR FAMILY.
15. Rewind that area gently.
16. To marry a man means to marry his God. To marry a woman means to marry her God. WHEN YOU ARE MARRYING A WOMAN WHO LOVES YOU CARNALLY BUT NOT SPIRITUALLY, YOU ARE MARRYING A PAGAN. YOUR CHILDREN CAN NEVER BE CHILDREN OF GOD.
17. NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY TO TUTOR IT INTO THEM, IT MUST BOUNCE BACK. FOR THEY ARE NOT IDENTICAL SEEDS. YOU HAVE SEEDS OF DISCREPANCY IN YOUR FAMILY.
18. Last week, a heathen said he was sending money to Me, that I should give him five copies. One called last night requesting for the calendar and for prayers for his mother who is suffering from paralysis. And he said he was calling Me from Agbor.
19. I wanted to know how he managed to get My number, he said, he got it from the website. I asked me he does go to go to our website, he said, “Sir, I am every day there. I am pastoring my congregation with the messages I am getting there”.
20. SOM: There was another person that called from Central USA yesterday, he said he is from Delta state resident there, he has already gathered a group of people believing this faith.
21. He said he got acquainted with this faith through a brother here before he left for America about ten years ago. When he heard about the messages being in the websites, he rushed there. He said he is spending a lot every week to photocopy the messages and he is beckoning on me to see possibility of coming over there to help them.
22. I never said yes or no, we have known more than that. If I wanted to shuttle out nobody will be seeing me here, but it takes Mohammed to seat down; watch the mountain and let the mountain watch Mohammed.
23. If you are desiring to see me, sell whatever you have; come and see me. For me to move out to meet you over there, it then means I will be benefitting from your salvation. Your salvation belongs to you; you are not doing me any favour by believing this faith, rather you are creating a lot of headache for me because once you believe, I am bound to work on you and through you. But when you do not believe you make my work very easy.
24. The easiest script to mark in any examination is one that belongs to a non-brilliant student. It is a question of marking x everywhere and one that wrote off point, you simply cross two lines, collect your pay; very easy. However, one that is writing sense, he creates a lot of job for the marker. He has created a very good impression in the opening of the whole thing that will help the marker to scrutinise everything, evaluate the work line by line and wherever the student needs help the marker will assist him. So if you believe; you create work for me. If you do not believe you make my work very easy, very easy.
25. The Revelation of Who God Is Goes To the Elect Only Preached on 10th December, 2000 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE ROCK OF AGES” God Is Great and Must Be Greatly Worshipped
26. But to this righteous Enoch, he will go through Rapture. Hence, Enoch was Raptured. Noah went through Great Tribulation.
27. SOM: Is it true? Enoch was taken away without problem, but, Noah passed through the great tribulation.
28. You know something is going on right now. We have that elected Enoch group that will not pass through Great Tribulation.
29. SOM: Elected Elijah’s group, elected Enoch’s group. Go ahead.
30. The Prophet was asked a question, “Will the Bride go through Great Tribulation?” He said, “Go there to do what?”
31. SOM: “Go there to do what?”“Go there to do what?”He said, “It is impossible.” The Bible said he did not call us to receive his wrath but to receive salvation through Christ and Christ is here.
32. If we are for the tribulation, we will never see the original body. He will only send a prophet who will come with, “thus said the Lord” but now he came himself.
33. He came himself, the same way he appeared to Abraham, from there he went to Sodom and Gomorrah, and said “I have heard, I have come to see with my eyes” and the prophet said after the revelation of the Elohim in human form as he did to Abraham, then the next thing is the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, before then the Bride is already gone.
34. The Prophet was asked a question, “Will the Bride go through Great Tribulation?” He said, “Go there to do what? Go there to do what? He said It is impossible. It is not for the Bride. He said, “What is she going to do there? Nothing!” The Bride is going through Rapture.
35. It is impossible. It is not for the Bride. He said, “What is she going to do there? Nothing!” The Bride is going through Rapture.
36. When He is on the scene, we have to acknowledge His Deity first;
37. SOM: Ehh..When He is on the scene, we have to acknowledge His Deity first; ehh.. Who is on the scene? Congregation answered, God himself. You do what? Acknowledge his deity first.
38. Then things will begin to happen according to your faith.
39. SOM: what! Then things will begin to happen according to your faith; because, it is your faith that will give you the Rapture. It is your faith that will give you everything. Yes, everything works by your own faith. It is your faith that will translate you.
40. It was Enoch’s faith that he would not taste of death and it happened to him according to his faith because he was so convinced of the man who made the covenant with him. Nobody could convince Enoch contrary to his conviction. He was sure and certain, ehh..
41. Nobody could convince Enoch contrary to his conviction. He was sure and certain, Come what may.
42. On that day, Enoch did not worry. He woke up from the bed, came out, and stretched himself that was all. He was caught up in a cloud. He did not invite witnesses. The same way, there must be a pocket group, a small believing minority, chosen and selected according to His Grace, unmerited favour.
43. Not because of the works of righteousness you have done, no. Simply because He has loved you with everlasting love. That is the only reason. He has loved you with everlasting love. He has purposed in His heart to save you to the utmost.
44. We are waiting and we are watching. St Paul looked at the Church at Thessalonica and said “That which God promised has at last happened.” Thus, one day, we shall be privileged to say; so that which God promised has happened at last. But one thing I keep on praying is, “God, may you never consider the iniquity of these people. Ehh..
45. May you never remember their stubbornness. In fact; never, never place them in Your Judgement Seat.” This is my plea. Do not ever try to place any of them in Your Judgment Seat.
46. I was searching My jotter, I called Brother Amankem to come and see that by 31st of July 1999 there was a warning to the whole Churches. He said, “Refrain yourself from excommunicated brethren.” I called Brother Amankem to come and see.
47. You know My greatest joy? When I went further I noticed also that the person that was preaching that day was our former Pastor Nnamdi Ogbogu and he gave the warning.
48. I have told you people who I am. I am the mud that is located at the entrance to the kitchen. Whether you believe it or not, you must place your feet on the mud. If you do not dip your feet there, you die of starvation.
49. I am saying that I am nothing but that mud, that sticking mud or clay that is located at the entrance to the kitchen. There is no way you can avoid me. If you must eat, you must enter the kitchen. Your feet must enter that mud. You refuse to dip your feet there, you die of starvation.
50. AS LONG AS I LIVE, EVERY KNEE MUST BOW BEFORE ME. WHAT I DO NOT KNOW IS WHEN YOU ARE BOWING YOUR OWN. BUT WILL YOU BOW DOWN? SURE! SOME WILL BOW DOWN WHEN IT WILL SAVE THEM. SOME WILL BOW DOWN WHEN THERE WILL BE NO MERCY. I thank God for what is happening.
51. This Generation in Prophecy
52. There is no way we can conceal what God is doing in our midst. We keep on singing His praise of thanksgiving to Him because we recognise that it has been God from the beginning doing all these wondrous works in our midst.
53. For the past three days now, it has been a battle in Israel. They have put all their forces together and they are saying that there is nothing that will cause them to go back from battle. Their Defence Minister said and I quote, “We obliged to the new President. He said; just give us twenty-four hours. Permit us, and we are crossing over to Palestine to pick them with our hands like kernels.”
54. The Defence Minister ran mad with their Prime Minister. He called him all manner of wicked names and forcefully threatening to deal with him treacherously. The man went home, reasoned with his family and then resigned.
55. Ehud Barack has resigned. He said, “After consulting my family and reasoning with my conscience, I am of the opinion that Israel is guilty. That the carnage is so much and they are not prepared to yield to peace negotiation. Seeing where they are heading to, I am not prepared to be responsible for the third world war. So, I feel the best thing I should do is to tender my resignation. Then grant Israel sixty days to elect their new Prime Minister who will now lead them to war. For that is their only demand.”
56. They said, “Ehud Barack, you have conceded so much to the Palestine. We are no longer happy. You are not courageous to lead us to war. Step down! Step down!”
57. In addition, while the man was putting his papers together, radical Jews, you know radical Jews went straight to the praying ground where the Palestinians were praying and gunned down nine boys that were praying. Arafat said that this is the height of genocide.
58. He said, “This was the crime Israel committed against Germany which made Hitler to kill six million Jews.” He said, “They are at it again.” Really, that was the crime Israel committed that time and Hitler was offended. He burnt six million Jews alive. When he was asked why he did it, he said, “The worth of a German soldier is more than one million Jews.”
59. Well, all I want to say is this: God is there directing the whole thing because it is a Prophetic battle which centred on Judah and Jerusalem.
60. On Monday, the battle centred around Bethlehem and killed forty-two there. Bethlehem is Judah. Note, the Bible said “In the last days, I will make Jerusalem and Judah cup of trembling among all the nations round about them. When the nations of the world shall come together to fight Israel, I the Lord will crush them as powder.”
61. The super powers have agreed, put their heads together to salvage Palestine and then establish their capital at Jerusalem which Israel said it is mission impossible.
62. SOM: I hope you are paying attention, all this while you have been receiving messages touching your lives positively. So it will continue, but it is necessary that from time to time, we put you in remembrance of prophetic events you must watch out for; mostly when they are still with us.
63. Most of them are fulfilling every day, so don’t lose faith; fix your eyes on Israel, fix your eyes on Israel. Israel remains your time table. Don’t forget the fact that the third World war is no longer a prophecy. The whole World is set for it. The threat is there, we are waiting for the Nation that will fire the first shot and everybody is looking up to Russia.
64. Russia is set, Russia is set! Russia is now leading NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) followed by Kim Jong – Un of North Korea, Turkey has joined. Don’t lose the fact that Putin is not happy with America. America is not happy with them. Things are happening, heads are going to roll.
65. Any moment from now, that war must explode. That is why God is putting everything together making sure that nobody is lost that day except somebody who had already decided to perish. How do you do that? Resist the voice you are hearing and that is your destruction. Go ahead!
66. Yesterday, the European Union (EU) co-opted into their membership the remaining fifteen countries and they are to operate one currency.
67. SOM: When was this message handled? On the tenth of December, year two thousand. Ehh.. Tenth of December, year two thousand? Yes sir. Go ahead, I am interested.
68. Yesterday, the European Union (EU) co-opted into their membership the remaining fifteen countries and they are to operate one currency. Russia is also in the picture now. The United Nations (UN) is equally waxing stronger, formulating sanctions they are going to use on Israel. Moreover, Israel has already said that they are not afraid of any sanction. That they are not depending on any nation in the world. That they are only depending in the Almighty. They said that they are not afraid of any sanction.
69. The same yesterday, their new President cancelled the agreement they reached with Syria. He said, “Israel will no longer keep it. Everything about Golan Height now belongs to Israel.” All the lands they forfeited in order to make peace, Israel has violated the whole agreement.
70. You watch the little nation that is making this noise, is just like the size of Lagos. A little nation that is making this great noise, a type of the Church.
71. Maybe you do not know that the Church holds the power that is shaking the hour. It is happening there physical, it is happening here spiritual.
72. ISRAEL IS YOUR TIMETABLE. I HAVE TOLD YOU WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING AND EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO AVOID IT. BUT GOD HIMSELF WILL IGNITE THE FIRE. WHAT WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR IS GBAM-GBAM, GBAM-GBAM.
73. WHERE WILL IT TAKE PLACE? AMERICA AND RUSSIA. FIX YOUR EYES ON THE KING OF THE NORTH BECAUSE ONE SINGLE BOMB RUSSIA WILL UNLEASH IN AMERICA, CALIFORNIA WILL SINK.
74. I SAID, CALIFORNIA WILL SINK, LOS ANGELIS WILL SINK; AND THAT WILL BE THE END OF THE WHOLE THING. THAT WILL BE THE END OF THE WHOLE THING BECAUSE GOD IS IN THE BATTLEFRONT GATHERING HIS SOLDIERS, PLACING THINGS THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE SO THAT WE CAN LOOK OUT FOR SOMETHING.
75. If there is anytime the Bride should come together, it is now. Do not allow Satan to fool you that God promises has failed. I have told you, though the world may last for six thousand years, God has a day. In that one day, God has a second. The Bible said that God allotted to Himself a twinkling of an eye. A twinkling of an eye, it will be all over. The battle is determined. I do not care how long the promises have lasted; I am waiting for that promised one second. Moreover, since I do not know when that one second will strike, my duty is to be sober and to watch unto prayer with thanksgiving.
76. Colossians chapter 4 verse 2. I think there is something that can console me there. “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.” KJV.
77. “Don’t be weary in prayer, keep at it. Watch for God’s answers and remember to be thankful when they come” LB.
78. WATCH FOR GOD’S ANSWERS AND REMEMBER TO BE THANKFUL WHEN THEY COME. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS IS THE HOUR WE ARE IN BRETHREN. YOU WATCH UNTO PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING BECAUSE GOD HAS DONE WHAT HE HAS PROMISED. HE HAS LED US SAFELY TO THE END. WE CANNOT GO ANY FURTHER FROM HERE.
79. I AM SAYING THAT WE CANNOT ADVANCE ANY FURTHER. WE CANNOT ADVANCE ANY FURTHER. HOWEVER, WHILE WE STAY HERE, THE SHEEP AND THE GOAT WILL BE MANIFESTING BECAUSE THIS IS EXACTLY THE PLACEMENT PERIOD. IT IS A TIME WHERE NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN OR YOU ARE NOT.
LOOK AT THE SEVEN CANDLE STICKS, THEY REPRESENT THE SEVEN STARS, THE SEVEN MESSENGERS ACCORDING TO THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES. BELIEVE IT IF YOU HAVE THE HEART; I AM NOT A MESSENGER OF ANY CHURCH AGE BUT I AM THE VERY ONE IN THE MIDST OF THE MESSENGERS OF CHURCH AGES (SELAH). IN OTHER WORDS, I AM THE 8TH MAN. THERE CAN NEVER BE SEVEN MESSENGERS WITHOUT ONE THAT IS IN THIER MIDST, WHOSE MINISTRY YOU CANNOT EVEN BLAME.
The day of the lord preached 11th April 1999 pg 61:22-23
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I AM HE
1. While we stay here, the sheep and the goat will be manifesting because this is exactly the placement period. It is a time when nobody will tell you that you are a child of God. This message was handled on tenth, December, 2000. I will mention names, go ahead.
2. Use your tongue and count your teeth. I thank God, I am among the sheep. Even the man that preached the message Sheep and goat; – Apostle Silas, well before he died we saw his position.
3. So the essence of parking us here is to make a separation between the goat and the Sheep in the end, go ahead. This is a prophetic ministry and you are the Children of the Prophets, so pay attention.
4. HOWEVER, WHILE WE STAY HERE, THE SHEEP AND THE GOAT WILL BE MANIFESTING BECAUSE THIS IS EXACTLY THE PLACEMENT PERIOD. IT IS A TIME WHERE NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD OR YOU ARE NOT, NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THAT.
5. IT IS A TIME NOBODY WILL TELL YOU TO WORSHIP GOD OR TO KNOW GOD BECAUSE YOU HAVE KNOWN GOD AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE DEMANDS. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU FULFIL HIS DEMAND AND WHEN YOU ARE NOT FULFILLING HIS DEMANDS. THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOW. Nevertheless, when we see new persons that have obtained mercy, we will try as much as we can to help their faith.
6. What God is doing is just miraculous. To those outside our midst, they cannot understand because it is not meant for them.
7. Nevertheless, I am filled with joy for one thing: The Lord has done something great before Me. I have always told you and I keep on saying it wherever I go that no elect of God will perish. Because there is no man that has the spirit of God in him that calleth the things of God accursed.
8. I have given you many, many illustrations using bush fowl as an example, whose egg was hatched by our local fowl and the local fowl carried all of them into the bush one day, the bush fowl could not come back.
9. Then the question was asked, what happened? The owner answered straightforward: said, I am not surprised. The little thing must have heard the voice of the mother inside the forest and then followed the woman like that. That is the thing now.
10. William Branham used eagle in his own illustration. You know what I mean. We were here one day and Bishop read a nice letter. There were too many letters but I said I appreciated one. Moreover, I said that one after reading it, something in Me started rejoicing that whosoever that wrote this letter must be an elect.
11. I said, “It must be replied”. I asked Bishop Okey to reply the letter and supply the young man with quotes a little that could create faith in him to meet his enquiry because the young man wrote in his letter, he said, “I will like to know the hour we are in for I believe that William Branham was the angel messenger of this age. And that I never knew that there will be another person that will come after him wearing the halo.”
12. 30. He said, “Since William Branham came wearing the halo, and this man appeared after Branham wearing the halo, what does this man stand for? What is His message? Because I do not want to miss what God is doing in my day.”
13. 31. How many heard the message? I read the letter in the Church and then we replied the letter. Now, I want you to know that the man who wrote that letter is now our brother. Thus, he is very much in the race with us. And I want you to know that he has been in the race with us there. For the Bible said, the world does not know us. Only those that have walked and talked with God will recognise us and believe the message; the rest will not.
14. THUS, FOR YOU TO BELIEVE US, YOU MUST RECOGNIZE US, RECOGNIZE OUR VOICE AND THE VOICE OF YOUR FATHER. YOU WILL NOT RECOGNIZE THE VOICE OF YOUR FATHER IF YOU WERE NOT WITH YOUR FATHER RIGHT FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
15. WHEN GOD EXISTED AS THE SOVEREIGN SPIRIT, THE WORLD WAS WITHOUT FORM, WE WERE THERE WITH HIM. WE WERE THERE WITH HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. WHEN THE LAMB WAS SLAIN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SINS, IT WAS THE ATONEMENT FOR THE SINS OF THOSE THAT WERE WITH HIMWHEN THE WORLD WAS WITHOUT FORM.
16. SOM: When he went to Calvary, we went there with him, We went to the cross with him, we resurrected with him. Amen!
17. Then God made consultation: “Let us create man in our own image.” He was consulting us. He consulted us; we gave Him the mandate to go ahead: “Sir, go ahead! For that is the only way we will manifest. When you manifest through Adam, then we shall now manifest. Since it has pleased you to become a human being, now, we are coming out from your loins.”
18. Thus, in the fullness of time, God became a human being. Then we came out from God. God being a human being, produced human beings after His own likeness, full stop.
19. Now that God wants to go home, He is going home with us. Now He wants to go home, He is going home with all His children, with all His families. He cannot leave us here. If He leaves us here, He will come back. Thus, there is no way He can go without us.
20. Our brother is here with us today. I rejoiced when I saw him. To crown it all, his own sister heard this message, examined the message and became convinced. She got baptised also. They are all in the Fellowship.
21. The letter I got from the Pastor of the Church at Aba said that they appealed to him that they will like to see the Son of Man in person.
22. SOM: This letter came from no other person, but brother Sam. Mwantu and his sister who is still with us today whose testimony we share, who prayed touching the Calendar, the following day the husband permitted her and the family to resume fellowship in Jos; that is Sister Fruitfulness.
23. Known unto God are all his works from the foundation of the World and of course you know from that day till now, he identified with us he has never troubled this faith, but rather he has been encouraging many and today he is a Pastor.
24. The letter I got from the Pastor of the Church at Aba said that they appealed to him that they will like to see the Son of Man in person.
25. SOM: And that was that time now Bishop Obediah, he was the Pastor as at that time, Bishop Obediah, he was pastor Obediah.
26. That they said they were not going to ask questions but to see the man because it is happening in their day, in their own country. That they will not have any excuse to give that they will like to see Him face to face and get acquainted with Him. Hence, he permitted them.
27. I read the letter, looked at them; I laughed. You know it is a wise decision and God decided that it should be so.
28. SOM: It was the day they came that I handled the message titled – “God in despised Places” which he collected on the spot, went home and reproduced it in print, brought it here and that is his greatest message today “ God in despised places”.
29. While I was discussing with our brother, he made it clear to Me that God deliberately posted him to Abia State to do his youth service. There, he finished excellently. And his performance attracted the attention of the Governor of Abia State. He gave him an automatic appointment in the state. It is God’s doing.
30. I thank God for that and that is what God designed for his salvation. He is a native of Jos. He is from Mangu Local Government in Plateau State. Look at how God planned his salvation. Una don hearam!
31. I have told you that there are many ways God can save a man. I have told you that there are many ways God can save a man. Yes! He can save him through marriage; He can save a man or a woman through Marriage! He can save you through work. He can save you through imprisonment.
32. SOM: Chukwuemeka stand up there, ehh.. where did you encounter God? The brother answered; “in the Prison” In the Prison- Kirikiri Lagos.
33. God brought him out and since that time he is no longer the old person. God imprisoned him because of a minor offence that he may meet him there. Who did he meet there?
34. He made God, who was that God? Brother Solomon Odikanwa from Onitsha committed crime in his business that landed him into Kirikiri Lagos. He made brother Chukwuemeka and preached this message to him in the Prison. is it not wonderful?
35. Search the Scriptures, it is fulfilling here. St. Paul was in Prison to enable him save somebody; that should be Onesimus. That book; I think that should be one small book “Philemon”. Onesimus that’s the book of Phaedra. Onesimus was imprisoned by his master for doing him, for his sake being an elect St. Paul was imprisoned in the same prison and of all in the prison, all the prison inmates, only Onesimus heard the voice. From prison to heaven. See scriptures fulfilling here. Go ahead!
36. He can save you through imprisonment. I mean God caused you to commit crime and clamp you into jail. God will follow you to jail and save you there.
37. SOM: No! No!! No!!! Sorry, it was not Solomon; it was Apostle Monday. Apostle Monday had a problem. Yes, he had a problem with his boss where he killed an Okada man and the case landed him into kirikiri. In the Kirikiri he met brother Chukwuemeka that was how they met.
38. Apostle Monday was imprisoned for a crime he never committed, a crime he never committed. He opened his door, Okada man jamb the door and fell down another Okada climbed on him and crushed him; then the man ran away, they held Apostle Monday. That crime landed him into prison to save brother Chukwuemeka.
39. If you read the account of Onesimus, you will notice that he was saved in the prison. Is it there? Is it there? In black and white sir.
40. If you read the account of Onesimus, you will notice that he was saved in the prison. It was in the prison that St. Paul met him. In other words, Christ met him in the prison. God knows what He is doing and there is no mistake in it at all.
41. Our brother said he has a question. I said he should ask his question because yesterday I was lying on the floor, meditating and watching things like video. So he asked a question and I laughed. With few words, I tried to create faith in him. I was not aiming at answering the question because when you believe this faith, I call you Nathaniel: Simply follow Me and you will see greater things ahead.
42. JUST FOLLOW ME DOUBTING NOTHING. FOLLOW ME, THAT IS ALL.
43. SOM: Look at what God called him Nathaniel (Bro Sam. Mwantu). Follow me doubting nothing and you will see greater things ahead. Has it not come to pass? Yes! He has reached the point of no going back for he has seen greater things than he saw before he believed. Go ahead!
44. JUST FOLLOW ME DOUBTING NOTHING. You must have your own personal experience-o that will sustain you, otherwise tomorrow you will be speaking Swahili. Go ahead!
45. FOLLOW ME, THAT IS ALL. DO YOU NEED SALVATION? FOLLOW ME FOR I DO NOT WANT YOU TO PERISH. I DO NOT WANT YOU TO PERISH AND I KNOW, I KNOW THE WAY. I KNOW I KNOW THE WAY.
46. I KNOW I AM HOLDING THE TRUTH. I know that I am holding the truth! Though the World may not believe, it will never make me to drop it.
47. I KNOW VERY WELL THAT I AM HE. I KNOW VERY WELL.
48. SOM: You see why I never argue with anybody, your criticisms, your Bible knowledge, your prophecy, all you know about anti-Christ that is to you. For I know who I am. One man visits the whole World establishing himself and his mission whether you believe it or not.
49. Somebody came to me one day in my Office at Upper Iweka, say, sir! Many would have believe you, but there is something they read in your Sermon books, it is even here in your Calendar, “I am the Almighty God” I mean you don’t want people to believe; how can a human being born of a woman, I am seeing you here and you want me to believe; you are the Almighty God.
50. I say sir, yes that is what I am. Say, oh! You’re saying it. Oh! Yes, that is what I am!! Say how do you want me to believe? I don’t want you to believe. I have told you who I am whether you believe it or not, it makes no meaning to me; it doesn’t add or subtract. If you are in doubt simply wait, time will tell.
51. The other one said ahh.. ahh! You talk with authority as if you are sure and certain. Yes sir, if I am not sure I won’t be publishing it. I have made it known to the whole World.
52. So if it doesn’t sink well with you that is your business. I Say Ok; sir let me just ask this question, what if in the end you see no other person but the same person. I say Ok! You want me to answer yes or no.
53. Ok! What if in the end I don’t see you. I say you must see me whether you are going to hell or you are going to heaven you must see me, so if you don’t acknowledge me now get ready, you will acknowledge me when I will no longer help you. He walked away; you know it is a stumbling block.
54. The father of Apostle Ugonna said; in your write-ups and in your Calendar, you said you are an “Enigma” but to me you are not an enigma for what you are is what you have documented.
55. But, I have to say that your people don’t follow you! Your people don’t follow you; they don’t copy your example. I think I have a test case and that’s my son Ugonna. He is a test case before my eyes; as for me I have fallen in Love with you, but, I don’t think he is following you.
56. You see this is the thing. When you open the eyes of the heathens; you are in trouble, at a time you think they don’t believe, they have believed more than you. They are only turning you, they want to see the reality in you. Until they will use the message you preached to judge you, you won’t know the extent they have believed.
57. Heaven is going to spring surprises. Go ahead because you don’t know the number of people that are hooked-up with the websites until you begin to talk may be in the vehicle and somebody will tell you, you are talking like the believers of the Son of Man. I don’t know you, but, I have read his works, you are talking like one of his disciples, are you one?
58. That is why anytime I want to chat with my wife across the other side, I say “Darling, look at me very well, is there anything happening around me that is strange to you? Is there anything you are seeing now which I never told you before I ever went to your parents to declare that I want to marry you? Did I not tell you ahead of time that I am not marriable, that there is no human being that can marry me? But since it is purposed that I must marry, I depended on Him to show me the woman that will be that wife.”
59. I know I am not marriable; I know that.
60. ..How can you marry an unpredictable man? How can? Somebody you know you can never please even if you kill yourself while rendering service, you die in vain. Let Me tell you. I know Myself.
61. SOM: This is the type women like. So your mummy is a strong woman, so she is so great. Mummy, they said you are so-so great.
62. I was watching my late mother’s burial video. My immediate junior sister was interviewed. They asked her to talk about her mother’s conduct when she was alive. She said, “hmm.. My mother was very great, very strong woman. She doesn’t have equals in this life.
63. Jesus as a human being like you, before he spoke with authority, before he could challenge everybody, he was sure and certain.
64. There was no man that ever transgressed against Jewish religion and got away with it. Do not tell Me they were respecting him because he was a young man. But a young man picked firewood on a Sabbath day; instant death, no mercy. But this one, openly he was violating their laws. No man dared touched him until his time came.
65. He could open his mouth and say things that could cost his life. Nobody dare touched him, for his time was not yet come.
66. Look at a young Pastor in Deeper Life Church, he opened his mouth and spoke against Roman Catholic. Members of his own Church beat him up, followed him to his house and burnt down his house. He thought they were his members, he never knew they were Roman Catholics. I said, maybe, he read the message “Behold the Man of Sin,” and he thought he could go and talk anyhow. Thus, you don’t just talk because you want to talk.
67. It will take God to stand openly and condemn all denominations, call them all manner of names, document it in a book and still walk upon the Earth. It will take God.
68. SOM: The thing happened live! Deeper life pastor preached against Roman Catholic doctrines and things like that before his members, he never knew his members were still Catholics. Before he came down from the pulpit, they had already started beating him; ran to his house and burnt down the house and every property. Yes before witnesses. Go ahead!
69. Do you mean to tell Me that they have not been looking for Him?
70. Rewind that area.
71. It will take God to stand openly and condemn all denominations, call them all manner of names, document it in a book and still walk upon the Earth. It will take God. Do you mean to tell Me that they have not been looking for Him?
72. SOM: When you read, “Behold the man of sin” It said, no human being ever publish this for no man can write this, spread it and still stay alive. Go ahead!
73. If you do not know our testimonies, we can tell you a little. When we published “Cry Out Against The System” in 1994, right from this city of Onitsha, seven Reverend Fathers including their Arch Bishops, carried seven copies by hand to Vatican City, after setting up a theological conference at All Hallow Seminaries, to examine the authenticity of our reports.
74. In addition, we were here shouting and screaming. By the time they got there, the man was already having copies of our books because we mailed to him expressly there. We gave him also through his representative in Lagos. Thus, by the time they got there, our books were already lying there. They came back with instruction.
75. They said, “Don’t fight them physically. If you do so, you will advertise their popularity. I know they are in the minority, so what they can publish will be very few. I will counter it from the Vatican in a write up also.” They came back.
76. After their theological conference, they did not know God was following everything. They said they were sure that one of the retired or dismissed Reverend Fathers must be in our midst. For there was nobody that could give us prohibited books except one that has been with them, because we published prohibited books, ancient manuscripts. We did not start today to cause trouble ooo. We never started today.
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THE REVELATION OF GOD IS GOES TO THE PREDESTINED ONLY
1. The Revelation of Who God Is Goes To the Predestinated Only ehh..The Revelation of Who God Is Goes To the Predestinated Only
2. Romans chapter 8 verse 29-31, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
3. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
4. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” KJV.
5. Ephesians 1 verse 3-6 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ:According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
6. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” KJV.
7. I have taught you on the message titled “Predestination,” “Election,” and “Adoption.” I want to rehearse a little passage of the scripture. That sister that is walking there, please come back. Satan is trying to fool you.
8. The word of God is ever new in the heart of the believers. I have always warned you that you do not come to a point where the Word of God will sound common to your ears. Once the word of God becomes common to you, you perish.
9. Satan can never buffet you about until you forget the message you have received and what manner of person you are called to be. When you know where you belong to, Satan cannot operate on you again.
10. How can Satan come and control Me? A son of God will rebuke him say, “Off your hands there. Is he your material? Do you want to harvest where you did not sow?” I am not his material; so he has no property in Me to take. I am not a debtor to Satan.
11. You are indebted to somebody that you ate his thing. I did not eat anything that belonged to Satan. I do not owe Satan any debt. I am a child of God, a Christian, an all round child of God. Not ordinary Child of God, but Super child of God.
12. I am a Super Child of God. One that is not indebted to the Law. As far as I am in this most holy Faith, I am dead to the Law. The Law is dead to Me for I am a child of God. Thus, I don’t care what Satan will do tomorrow, it’s to his own people; not to Me. I only care about what God will do.
13. The Prophet said, “You know I am a man, I make series of mistakes as a man. But when you hear thus saith the Lord; believe it for it cannot fail you.” He said, “If I say anything no matter how sweet or dandy it sounds, if it does not agree with the Holy Bible; throw it away.”
14. In his message he called “The Absolute”, he said, “You know some of you take me as your absolute but I have my absolute, the Holy Bible.”
15. In this Church, in this Faith; our absolute is the Word. THE BIBLE I MEAN IS NOT THE ONE YOU ARE HOLDING IN YOUR HANDS. I MEAN THE ONE YOU BUY FROM MAIN MARKET. THAT ONE IS A PART OF OUR BIBLE.
16. The one we purchase from the market is a part of our Bible. So our Bible comprises the one we purchase from the market. That is the written word, and the Zodiac, that is nature things we can see with our eyes. That is another Bible now.
17. We blend the two. Then there is another Bible, we call the supernatural Bible and these are the ones that are written in-between the lines of the Bible which can only be perceived by a spiritual man, because anything that is spiritual goes to a spiritual man. A natural minded person cannot understand what we are saying because things pertaining to God can only be spiritually discerned.
18. Where we read in Romans chapter 8 from verse 29, there is one word I want to bring out. The Bible said, “As many as God foreknew…” Thus, God must have known you before He will give you invitation.
19. Do you give your invitation to somebody you do not know? You must know somebody for you to extend your invitation to him.
20. Hence, those God foreknew, those He predestinated. Before anything happens, first of all sit down, stop querying anybody. Ask God, “What is my destiny?” Everything about man in this life is going according to destiny. You can change everything about you; you cannot change your destiny.
21. Said, “If you are destined to the sword, you must go to the sword. If you are destined to riffle, you must go to riffle. If you are destined to accident, you must go to accident. If you are destined to Hell, surely; you are going to Hell. If you are destined to Heaven, surely; you are going to Heaven.” So, things work by destiny.
22. Whatever you are passing through in your Pilgrim Journey, these are the things God use to beautify your Pilgrim Journey. They are experiences God permitted in your own Pilgrim experience. Everything is happening as God predestinated it. Thus, you cannot be anything greater than what you are. Do not say “Oh, if my parent have trained me, I would have been so, so and so.” No, God had already programmed the level of education they will give you. Even if you acquire PhD Degree which is the highest, God had already known you will get it.
23. However, He will show you that you will not be rich with your PhD Degree. Thus, blow grammar reach the world, you will not go beyond where God said you would be. If you like, be the Head of State; both your beginning and ending had already been determined before you saw yourself on the throne. In other words, you cannot be higher than what you are.
24. Don’t say you are struggling, can you struggle more than a truck pusher? Can you struggle more than a barrow pusher? If you get to “Ogbo-mmanu,” you will see “dogger-man” agency. Don’t say you are struggling; no.
25. That was why Joseph hated Jesus because as far as Joseph was concerned, Jesus was not industrious. Thus, he was a weakling. Joseph could not see him as one coming to be a King to rule a nation like Israel.
26. Please, note one thing there. That you are not here by your own human design, neither are you here by accident. It is what God has already planned for you when you were not yet a human being. When you have your parents today, there is no other family you could come out from except the one where you are.
27. There is nobody that is more qualified to be your mother or father than the ones you have and here is no accident there. HENCE, THERE IS NO OTHER CHURCH YOU CAN STAY AND HAVE YOUR SALVATION EXCEPT WHERE YOU ARE.
28. If God loves you, He wants to save you. He will bring you to Himself. Rewind!
29. If God loves you, He wants to save you. He will bring you to Himself. You cannot force yourself on God. Furthermore, before God can bring you to Himself, He must have known you when you did not know Him. But He knew you. He saw where you were. He decided He would invite you; then He called you. For those He predestinated the same He called.
30. As many as He called, He justified, declared them not guilty. Thus, I am not following God because I wanted to follow Him. I am now following God because God wanted me to follow Him.
31. He invited me. It is just like our friend who is in the Fellowship (Bro. Samuel Mwantu). He that caused you to write a letter, the same caused me to reply to your letter. I have too many letters in the file which I have not even replied and I do not care to reply them.
32. SOM: Rewind! I am interested in that letter, that letter! I had too many letters in the file which I never replied and I will never reply, but that one attracted my attention. And God said he is Nathaniel, that he saw him ahead of time. Then of all the letters he picked that one and replied it and that brought him face to face with God. Rewind that place!
33. I have too many letters in the file which I have not even replied and I do not care to reply them.
34. God is in the business of saving His children. And these children, God knew them before the foundation of the world and He decided to give His invitations to them.
35. NOW, IF I INVITE YOU TO COME, I AM DUTY BOUND TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU. GOD CAN ONLY INTRODUCE HIMSELF TO THE PEOPLE HE CALLED. NOBODY WILL KNOW GOD, EXCEPT THOSE GOD HIMSELF CALLED. Remember it is God that called us, He invited us to come and share with Him His glory and His Kingdom.
36. It is God introducing Himself to us. He is to tell us why He has invited us. Our duty is to obey and believe that He is serious with it. He is not playing.
37. I want to talk to our Brother and use the opportunity to refresh your hearts that THE REVELATION OF WHO GOD IS, THE REVELATION OF WHOM CHRIST IS GOES TO THE PREDESTINATED ONLY. OUTSIDE THE PREDESTINATED, EVERY OTHER PERSON WILL SEE HIM AS A MERE MAN.
38. Remember the Jews thought they were worshipping God in the right way, they thought they were on their way to Heaven but they did not know that they were heading towards Hell.
39. When Jesus the Christ came and wanted to bring them back, they refused. It has happened again. If you know anybody you know in the denominations who is not God’s elect, present this simple message of salvation to him; he will call you a mad man, tell you that you are deceived. Before you know it, he will tell you the time he was born again.
40. He will say, “I was born again before the war. I entered into Christ in 1960.” Where did you see Christ before you entered into Christ? We are not quarrelling over your experience whether you entered into Christ before the war; that is not the matter at stake.
41. You ask him, “Have you received the Holy Spirit since you were baptized?” He will tell you his own experience: “Why should you ask me that question. There was a day in my Church I was praying and praying and I saw myself speaking in tongues.”
42. Yes, Satan can also speak in tongues. You do not know that heathens speak in tongue. It is just like God’s gift. Please, please; please, do not allow anybody to fool you on this matter. Gift and calling of God are without repentance. God’s gifts are not limited to Christians alone. Stark heathens, stark pagans also receive God’s gifts, genuine God’s gifts.
43. There are some heathens that can have dreams and the dreams will perfectly fulfil. They will talk, you see wisdom coming out. They will give counsel, you see knowledge coming out. Gifts from God vested upon heathens. Yet, salvation is still too far. That is what blinds people. Nothing blinds more than gifts.
44. That is why the Bible said in the Book of Proverbs that gifts blind. If you have gift of prophecy, or dream, vision, if you are not careful; you will centre your salvation around it: “IF GOD IS NOT WITH ME, WHO HAS BEEN SHOWING ME THIS VISION? WHO HAS BEEN INSPIRING ME TO PROPHESY?”
45. HEATHENS PROPHESY AND THEY COME TRUE. SATAN PROPHESY AND IT COMES TRUE. IT IS NOT SALVATION YET. GOD IS STILL TOO FAR.
46. PLEASE IF YOU ARE HERE AND GOD HAS BEEN DEALING WITH YOU IN DIVERSE MANNERS MAYBE THROUGH GIFTS, PRAISE GOD FOR THAT. YOU NEED SALVATION.
ANYWHERE YOU SEE THICK DARKNESS, SMOKE AND FIRE; WATCH, SATAN IS NEVER THERE. IF YOU SEE THE RAINBOW OR CLOUD SATAN IS NOT THERE. THAT IS NOT THE ATTRIBUTE OF SATAN. YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR GOD THERE
Follow the cloud vol. 1 preached 12th Sept. 2003 pg 53 :43
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THE REVELATION OF THE SON OF MAN (CHRIST)
1. The Revelation of the Son of Man (Christ). Thus, the Son of Man shall come in the last days according to the scripture, shall come!
2. The Son of Man shall come in the last days according to the scripture, and He must wear all the garments the scriptures prescribed.
3. Let Me go to the message. It is very important that you know what salvation is all about. If you say you are not blind, Jesus the Christ said, “Your sins remaineth in you because any man that is blind cannot commit sin.”
4. If you say you are blind, your eyes will be opened. Please note it. This will help Me to entertain that question very well; and that question, I noted it.
5. Our brother asked Me this question from Acts of the Apostle chapter 1 from verse 9-11, “It was not long afterwards that he rose into the sky and disappeared into a cloud leaving them staring after him.
6. SOM: Disappeared where? Into; a Cloud! Into; a Cloud!! Into; a Cloud!!! a, a Cloud
7. 4.As they were staring their eyes for another glimpse, suddenly two white robed men were standing among them and said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring at the sky? Jesus has gone away to Heaven and some day, just as he went, he will return.” (The Living Bible.)
8. “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight...”
9. SOM: And a what? A Cloud! Read the Bible well, a Cloud; not the cloud, a special Cloud in the day and the Cloud will also release him. What received Him? A Cloud!
10. What received Him out of their sight? A cloud! So he was sealed in a cloud. He was sealed away in a cloud before their presence while they were gazing at Him. Suddenly the man just disappeared. The thing sealed Him. That was all.
11. “And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
12. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” KJV.
13. Was this message sent to the world? No! This message went to the Church, the little that were gathered there. I mean to his followers who are members of His Church. Did the world know what happened that day? No! Did they see Him? No!
14. If they heard the report, do you think they would have believed? No! They did not believe that report; even till today they don’t even believe it.
15. This report is believed among Jesus the Christ and His brethren. In other words, the message went to Jesus’ brethren. That word there said in the same like manner. Thus, if He was caught up in a Cloud, let us watch when He shall come; for He shall come in a Cloud of Heaven. A Cloud!
16. We shall see in Him coming in the clouds of Heaven. Now, we have seen the account. This is one of the passages our brother read. We want to compare it with the second passage he read.
17. St. Mathew 24 verse 30-31,
18. “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn…”
19. Then shall appear what? The sign, the sign of the Son of Man. We can now see the person we shall expect. We are expecting the Son of Man, and He shall appear.
20. “…And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven…”
21. Coming in the clouds of Heaven. Who will see Him? The world? No! The world? Was He talking to the world? You know Thomas asked him a question, he said, “Master, why is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world? Why is it that you have chosen to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” In other words, the world does not know what we are saying.
22. “…And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.” KJV.
23. These are the two passages our brother read. There are similarities there, things that are very common. In the same manner we shall see Him coming in the clouds of Heaven. Thus, He was caught up in a cloud and He shall appear also in a cloud and we shall know Him as the Son of Man.
24. SOM: Not as Jesus. The World is expecting Jesus while the elects are expecting the Son of Man.
25. NOTE THAT CLOUD; IT IS VERY, VERY ESSENTIAL. TOO MANY PEOPLE MAY APPEAR, BUT WE MUST WATCH OUT FOR ONE THAT WILL COME WITH THE CLOUD, THAT IS THE ONE WE ARE LOOKING FOR. IF ANY MAN COMES CLAIMING TO BE ONE THING OR THE OTHER AND WE CANNOT BEHOLD THAT CLOUD, WE WILL BRUSH THAT ONE ASIDE.
26. Thus, the Son of Man shall come in the last days according to the scripture, and He must wear all the garments the scriptures prescribed.
27. St. Luke 21 verse 27-28 “And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
29. SOM: Until you see him, no redemption, no hope!
30. Did He say immediately you see Him coming with a cloud you fly away with Him? He said you should do what? Get ready, for your redemption draweth nigh. We are reading the same scriptures.
31. THE LORD SPEAKS: For he is coming with full and complete salvation in his hands.
32. My brother, I hope you are following? Because we do not try to dislocate Bible, we place things right. I hope I am placing it right in your heart? I WANT TO MAKE YOU A TEACHER SOMEWHERE; I WANT TO MAKE YOU A TEACHER SOMEWHERE.
33. SOM: Pastor Sam started his ministry as a teacher before he was elevated to the position of a pastor.
34. So I will take My time to groom you on your question. We are still going further.
35. Revelation chapter 1 verse 7 “Behold, he cometh with clouds…”
36. He cometh with clouds. This is now clearer. He cometh with, with.
37. “…Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him…”
38. Every eye; every eye. This was the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Island of Patmos. Was He now referring to the world or to His own? Was he referring to the world?
39. Before He left them, He said, “Father, I am not praying for the world, I am praying for my own. They were thine and you gave them to me”. I have told you that when you hear God talking, try to differentiate God’s statement to His people and His statement to the world.
40. “As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be in the day when the Son of Man shall be revealed.” Is that Bible? Yes sir!
41. Now from there, we do not look for a man who will jump down. We are now praying that God will help us to come in contact with this man because this man will come here and will be one of us. He will mix with everybody but nobody will know Him until He is revealed.
42. Then, when will He be revealed? When the world has turned into Sodomite condition, when there will be moral decay, total lawlessness. Until the faith of many will be failing them. At that point, expect the Son of Man to be revealed.
43. In other words, THE SON OF MAN WILL BE HERE ON EARTH, WILL BE A PART OF THE CORRUPT EARTH. WHEN HE SHALL BE REVEALED, HE SHALL BE REVEALED WITH THE CLOUD. WHEN HE SHALL BE REVEALED, HE SHALL BE REVEALED IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.
44. BUT THERE IS NO CLOUD UPON THE EARTH. IF HE IS EARTHLY, HE CANNOT WEAR CLOUD. BUT HE SHALL BE REVEALED WITH THE SAME THING THAT CAUGHT HIM UP. THAT THING THAT SEALED HIM AWAY, WHEN HE SHALL BE REVEALED; HE SHALL BE REVEALED WEARING THE SAME THING. IN OTHER WORDS, HE WILL BE A MAN WEARING WATER PROOF (NYLON) OR A LAMINATED HUMAN BEING.
45. YOU KNOW WHAT LAMINATION IS? WHEN YOU LAMINATE A CERTIFICATE, IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE OUTLOOK. WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, IT IS VERY NICE BUT IT IS SEALED. IT CAN WITHSTAND ANYTHING RAIN. SO, LOOKING AT THE CONDITION, WE WILL SEE HIM AS A MERE MAN. WE CAN TOUCH HIM, BUT WE DO NOT KNOW THAT WE ARE JUST LIKE SOMEBODY THAT IS TRYING TO TOUCH THE FIGURES THAT ARE LAMINATED.
46. YOUR HAND CAN NEVER GO BEYOND THE WATERPROOF (NYLON). THUS, WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE TOUCHING THE LETTER, YOU ARE TOUCHING WATER-PROOF (NYLON). A MAN IN A CELLOPHANE BAG THAT IS HIGHLY TRANSPARENT. THAT IS CHRIST, EMMANUEL. That was the Name He used that time. But this time, we call Him the Anointed One, Peter the Christ.
47. Now let me ask this question. My brother, you believe the Prophets. I know you believe. This Jesus the Christ that said He would come back, did He say He would come back answering Jesus? When He revealed His coming back in the Island of Patmos, haven’t you come across the Bible that said HE COMETH IN A NEW NAME?
48. In other words, anybody expecting Jesus will miss Him. You expect Emmanuel, you miss Him. You expect Christ, you miss Him.
49. Elijah was promised to come back, and Elijah we were told must come back in a new name. When he came back, they were expecting Elijah but John the Baptist appeared. They missed him because he came in a new name. But they saw attributes of Elijah in him.
50. They asked him a question, “Are you Elijah.” He said, “No, how can I be Elijah? How can?” They said, “Are you the Christ? He said, “No. How can I be Christ?” They asked him, “Are you the Prophet? He said, “No, no; no. How can a Prophet come this time?”
51. Still amazed, they asked, “Then, what are you?” He said, “Well, call me what you want. If you do not want to call me what you want, when you get out tell people that I am just the voice shouting in the wilderness. If you cannot believe until I tell you that I am this or that, that is your business.”
52. You ask me, “Brother, are you Apostle?” How can I be Apostle? “Are you an Evangelist?” God forbid. “Are you a Pastor?” God forbid. “Are you a Prophet? Brother, do not fool us, we want you to be in the fivefold now.” That is your business. I am a child of God. That is all I know. I am a child of God. Thus, stop worrying Me. If you cannot believe My message because I never told you that I am Apostle or this and that, it is because God does not want you to believe.
53. When Elijah revealed himself in a new name, they missed him. In our own day again, Elijah came back revealed himself in another name called William Branham they missed him. Do you know how many times Christ has appeared?
54. Jesus the Christ appeared to the Jews. Fine. The same Christ left them and crossed over to the Gentiles. For the first time He revealed Himself. Paul was Jesus. The first time. That was why when they were talking blah, blah; blah, Jesus the Christ stepped in and said, “He is a chosen vessel unto me to bear My Name among the Gentiles where I will now send him.”
55. Whoever that bears Christ’s Name, what is He? Christ! Can you dispute the report of Jesus the Christ? I mean God Himself said, “He is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name among the Gentiles to whom I now send Him. And I have showed unto him all the things he must suffer for my Name’s sake. Do you need any other person to come and tell you who St. Paul was? He was Christ!
56. That was why the Galatian Church saw him as Jesus Christ. The Church at Thessalonica heard him; they received his words as the words of Christ. When Paul heard it, He said surely that is exactly what it is. No more, no less.
57. Glory be to God. We are in this most holy Faith for something. Paul died, God did not die with Paul. God is still alive and because the time for the Jews has not yet come, God is still with the Gentiles; and He will remain in the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in and then, it will be over for the period of Grace which is the Church Age God decided to save. Then, He will go back to His people.
58. When He shall go back to His people, He is going there with another Name. He is going there this time with the Name they will acknowledge. That is why, before He will go there, the same two angels whom they saw in Acts chapter 1 verse 10 who told them why gazing at the sky? In like manner He will come back. These two persons were the same two that appeared in the Mount of Transfiguration. These were also the two angels that were there in the tomb. These two angels you know them.
59. Apart from these two Prophets, the Jewish people cannot acknowledge any other Prophet. So, they must see Moses and Elijah again, which is the Law and the Prophets. And Christ is the end of the two. Whatever they preached or prophesied Christ is the manifestation.
60. Christ is the end of the Law and of the Prophets. We now look up to Christ. When that which is perfect has come, what are we going to do with imperfect again? We brush them aside. We do not pursue the shadow again. For the Bible said, “The Law was a shadow, shadowing good things to come.” But now, the good thing has come. Why following the shadow?
61. In other words, those that are in the End Time, are still following the shadow. They have missed the reality. The reality is Christ.
62. NOW, WE HAVE READ THESE SCRIPTURES AND IT IS CLEAR THAT HE WILL BE REVEALED A AT TIME WHEN THE WORLD HAS BECOME SO CORRUPT. THERE WILL BE TOTAL LAWLESSNESS, AND TOTAL MORAL DECAY, UNTIL EVERYBODY WILL BE SHOUTING, “GOD COME AND WIPE OFF THIS WORLD.” WHEN THE WORLD COMES TO THAT STAGE, EXPECT THE REVELATION OF THE SON OF MAN.
63. If He is revealed at any other time, than the time the Bible predicted, that is false Son of Man. Thus, the Son of Man could not have been revealed in the First Church Age or in the Second Church Age. This is because the evil in our day is in its peak.
64. The evil in our day can never compare with the level of evil in the days of our fathers. Our fathers did not see this type of ritual killing; get rich quick, or murder or manslaughter that is going on in our day now. Our fathers did not see this level of crime we are witnessing today. What is more, that was the condition Noah found himself. That was the condition Sodom and Gomorrah was. Then God stepped in and destroyed them.
65. If we attain the same height, and God just permits us to continue, He will tender apology to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah; and tender apology to Noah’s day. But can God tender apology? Let it be known to you that we are in the right track.
I AM SAYING THAT FOR YOU TO HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO THIS GREAT AND WONDERFUL FAMILY, IT IS A WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE. RECOGNISE THE POINT OF YOUR ADOPTION INTO THIS FAMILY. IN TIME PAST YOU WERE ENEMIES TO THIS FAITH, YOU WERE ENEMIES TO THIS FAMILY BUT TODAY YOU ARE NOT ONLY FRIENDS BUT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND YOU NOW SHARE IN ALL INHERITANCE IN THIS HOUSEHOLD WHY? THERE IS ONE THAT APPEARED IN WHOM YOU HAVE YOUR WAY INTO HIS FAMILY. IF I DO COME YOUR WAY, YOU WOULD HAVE REMAINED ENEMIES TILL NOW.
God counted me worthy putting me into this ministry, preached 13th Aug. 2000 pg 74:8
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WHEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU IT IS A PRIVILEGE
1. God Is Always Revealed
2. This Jesus the Christ, people saw Him, Shook His hands, Ate with Him. Let us forget about the experiences they had with Him before His resurrection.
3. Let us focus our attention on the experiences people had with Him after his resurrection. Before he died, he was having fellowship with mere human beings. Now he has resurrected from the dead, we want to see him again.
4. First Corinthians chapter 15 verse 3-9, “I pass unto you right from the first what has been told to me that Christ died for our sins just as the scriptures said he will. And that he was buried and three days afterwards, he arose from the grave just as the Prophet foretold. He was seen by Peter and later by the rest of the twelve…”
5. Note the people that saw him: He was seen by Peter, later by the twelve disciples.
6. “…After that, He was seen by more than five hundred Christian brothers at one time…”
7. Five hundred what? Five hundred brothers. Any outsider? No!
8. “…Most of whom are still alive. Though some have died by now. Then, James saw him and later all the Apostles. Last of all I saw him too long after the others as though I have been born almost too late for this.
9. For I am the least worthy of all the Apostles and I shouldn’t be called an Apostle at all after the way I treated the Church of God.” (LB)
10. This was after His resurrection. I want you to see something there. Did He reveal Himself to the world? No sir! When you hear all eyes will see Him, God was referring to as many as will believe in Him. That they should not panic about His second coming. By and by, they must see Him. They will know Him.
11. In His First Advent, He did not come for the world. He revealed Himself only to the elect, the predestinated. In this last advent, the same thing has happened again. For the Bible said that, “What God did before, the same He is repeating again that all men may fear before Him.”
12. Note the people that were privileged to see Him. They were all children of God that believed in Him. Whether they were Apostles or not, the truth was that all of them were believers. You know this is a hard question.
13. Jesus the Christ was Almighty God to His people but a mere man to the world. Thus, you can come in contact with God without God revealing Himself to you. He will serve you everything, eat and drink with you. You call Him a very nice man, very hospitable. That is all, you go your way. However, to another person, He will say “Seat down. Follow Me. From today, I will make you a fisher of men.” That is all.
14. To another one He said, “When you were there under the fig tree, I saw you. Follow Me, you will see grater things ahead.” He did not preach to them. He never preached to Peter, He never preached to James, He never preached to Nathaniel: “Just follow Me. I hope you need salvation? Follow Me. Follow Me, doubting nothing. That is all.
15. IF WE HAVE KNOWN GOD TODAY, OR WE HAVE SEEN HIM TODAY; IT IS A PRIVILEGE. IT IS UNMERITED FAVOUR. IT IS A SURE SIGN THAT GOD FOREKNEW US, PREDESTINATED US; NUMBERED US AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT WILL SERVE AS HIS WITNESSES. THAT IS WHERE I STAND.
16. We are the original Jehovah Witnesses. You have to believe our witnesses for they are truth. We have seen Him with our eyes; we ate and drank with Him. That He praises God with us in His Church is scriptural. If that is what kills people, read Hebrews chapter 2 verses 12: “Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the Church will I sing praise unto thee.” KJV.
17. Brother, I want to answer your question to the fullest. I have cleared it but I want to go further.
18. You know that was what happened when I handled the message on Tithe. People went to their Bible dictionaries to know whether I copied their Bible references and things like that. They searched and searched, it beat their imagination. Where do you think I will copy from? By now, the books might be exhausted. Then, who was the writer? What is the title of that book?
19. When I handled the message on Tithe, because I know you, I know where you erred and I know what Satan will always use to accuse you; I started with those scriptures they know. From the known, I entered into the unknown. As a result, when I finished the whole scriptures which anybody could use to ask questions and I went beyond that, their mouths were sealed.
20. What they did was to warn their members: “Do not ever have anything to do with this Church. You see the Church at Onitsha, if they ask you to come and read Bible with them; do not go. If you dare read Bible with them, they will take you. If they teach you anything, do not ever tell them to show you in the Bible. If you ask them to show you in the Bible, they will show you. Before you know it, you will follow them.”
21. So, their medicine is in the Bible. Well, I thank God for that. It is not Eddy Nawgu. This is the Holy Word of God that is presented to everybody. You cannot believe unless God wants you to believe, and God cannot want you to believe unless you are His own. Because I came to blind some and open the eyes of some.
22. So many want to see God, they have missed Him already because they have a picture in their heart how God would look like. Because people have been desiring to see God, that is why you have seen so many artistic Gods. Some will paint Him as a young man; some will paint Him as a very old man with beard, with long hair. There is no type of picture they will not paint about God after the imaginations of their own hearts. However, God is not in them.
23. The same way they paint devil, paint devil black with two horns. But it is not Bible. Lucifer is the most beautiful angel, a human being, very nice man, humane in approach, looking righteous in appearance. Yet, he is a snake.
24. Let Me just give you one little illustration. I honour everybody; I do not want to ridicule anybody. Look at Jesus the Christ with His whip in the temple, flogging men and women who were doing business in the house of God; flogging old men that were older than his father Joseph. He never respected any of them and they called Him a mad boy.
25. While He was doing that, He was telling people that He was the Almighty God who had to save them. A little while, a Pharisee came like a Reverend Father, making hand like this: “God bless you, God bless you. Receive your blessing, receive your blessing.” And people will be bowing down, saying amen, amen; walking angelically.
26. If you place that reverend gentle man and place the radical mad boy, if you are asked who has Holy Ghost, who is God, who will you take? You will take a gentle man: “God bless you, God bless you. It shall be well with you. It shall be well with you.” You cannot take a mad boy. You will conclude that he is mad. That He has no respect for elders and he is quarrelsome.
27. Because people have their picture of what a man of God should be, that is why every snake has decided to put on suit. Every snake has decided to put on white apparel with red band, with white cap. One that will look like Archbishop with one big cap, one staff and then with one holy book, saying, “God bless you; it shall be well with you. God bless you!” You see people rushing there. They do not know that beneath his bed is a big shrine.
28. IN EVERY DISPENSATION, A REAL MAN OF GOD IS DESPISED. A REAL MAN OF GOD IS ONLY ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE PEOPLE OF GOD. THE REST OF THE WORLD WILL RIDICULE HIM, LAUGH AT HIM, TREAT HIM WITH CONTEMPT. YET, HE IS GOD.
29. Do you know that a man looked at Jesus and called him a mad man and then slapped him? A man looked at St. Paul and said, “Much education has made you mad” and then slapped him. But you dare not try it when you see your Reverend Father or a Reverend Archbishop or General Superintendent who has a lot of security. How can you go near him? How can you go near?
30. BUT GOD IS SO SIMPLE. IN THE BEGINNING HE WAS APPROACHABLE, EASILY ACCESSIBLE, MIXING WITH THE SOCIETY TO SEE WHETHER HE COULD HELP THEM THOUGH THEY DID NOT NEED HIS HELP. THE WAY THEY ARE BEHAVING SHOWED THAT THEY NEVER NEEDED HIS HELP. HE WAS FILLED WITH SYMPATHY.
31. You see, God has helped Me to live almost at the main road where I see Block Rosary people every evening. I see people attending Sunday Mass and night vigils. This time, it is carol. I see Pentecostals observing their power night, Miracle night. I say God, show mercy. This people are very, very sincere. They do not want to perish.
32. However, God is not looking at that type of sincerity for a man can be sincerely wrong. You can be sincerely wrong. Yes, they are sincerely wrong and there is no good way of doing a wrong thing.
33. SOM: There’s no good way of doing a wrong thing!
34. You cannot be wrong and right at the same time. We speak the truth in love. We know that truth has no substitute. We are duty bound to speak that truth. Amen.
35. How People Missed Christ in Our Age. Let me tell you. God is great. Anybody that has gotten rid of the Law completely from his heart, he will say that God is great because until you get rid of it, you will not appreciate what Christ has done. Sure!!You will not know the level of Love God has for you. Because each time we read the Bible, your hearts will become blind again. However, God wants your heart to be illuminated by His fire.
36. Look at these young men on their way to Emmaus, Jesus the Christ met them. From nowhere, He joined in their discussion: “Oh fools, slow to understand. Why have you so forgotten all that the Prophets said? Beginning from Moses to the Prophets?”
37. He expounded the scriptures that were written concerning Him because they were His elect. Remember they were the people that were with Him. They forgot what the Prophet said. He went there again. Jesus the Christ now tried to reveal Himself. When He opened their eyes, they knew Him. He left them.
38. Did He say gather the whole world? Gather every person from the land of Emmaus: “I want to show you that I am He that resurrected.” Did He say, “Look at my hand? You see where they pierced my hand? Look at, look at” Did he say so? No! Now, they were with Him even when He was crucified. Did they see any scratch on his head?
39. SOM: No! He was brutalised! They used bulala to tear the body into pieces and the wounds couldn’t have healed within three days and three nights. Go ahead!
40. Any mark on his palms? Any mark? If they saw signs that he at any time put on that thorny wig or crown of thorns, they needed no other introduction. If they saw openings in His palms, they needed no other introduction. But because He was very fresh, very neat but with a strange appearance, they missed Him.
41. However, He loved them; He called their attention back. He used scriptures. Did you see what happened? But some people today, “The only thing we will use to know Jesus Christ is the scar of the nail wound in His palms.” You miss Him.
42. IF THE ONLY THING YOU WILL KNOW JESUS WITH IS THE SCAR OF THE NAIL WOUND ON HIS LEGS AND PALMS, YOU HAVE MISSED IT. IF YOU CAN ONLY RECOGNIZE JESUS BECAUSE OF THE SCAR ON HIS PALM AND LEG, YOU HAVE MISSED IT. You will not see it. Unless He wants to reveal it.
43. When He came to Thomas, he wanted Thomas to believe fully. He revealed it. He said, “Thomas, look at it. Look at it. Come and put your hand if you can.” Thomas fell down and said, “My Lord and My God.”
44. SOM: That is the much we will take from this Message. Thank you for giving us audience. Continue in Him and you will never be disappointed at the end. Remember he has only but one second, a day in his heart and in that day he has only but one second in a twinkling of an eye. At a time when you least expect, he will wrap up the whole programme of salvation.
45. The essence of putting you in remembrance is to draw your attention that the impending promise is still there. Let the heavens and the Earth pass away, the promise must surely come to pass, although it tarries, wait for it; it can never over stay even by a second. I am putting you in remembrance that we are still waiting for time and it is in his heart and it can be now, it can be later but be found in him that is the most important thing. For you know the voice that has spoken to you.
46. On this note, I wish all of you save journey where ever you will be going today and even within the week. Praying that his mighty hands will sustain you in all your human activities.
Remain blessed in Him eternally