GOD IS USING YOUR SUFFERING TO MAKE YOU READY FOR HIS KINGDOM VOLUME 2

GOD IS USING YOUR SUFFERING TO MAKE YOU READY FOR HIS KINGDOM VOLUME 2 Preached On Sunday 1^st December, 2019 At The Household of God, Onitsha By Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN

Transcribed by Pastor Emmanuel Innah, Household of God, Cross-River State

⁴Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. ⁵Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ⁶So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. HEBREWS 13:4 – 6, KJV.

YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD

building the True Temple; Page 51 from verse 17. ¹⁷We send the Message out, not minding whether you are contributing or not. We were only focusing our attention on completing the work that is assigned to us. But this time around, the Branch is building the True Temple. And you are the True Temple.

The Branch! The Branch! The Righteous Branch that grew out of itself is building the True Temple.
… And you know that Holy Ghost is a Man. And I want to announce to you that the Church and the Holy Spirit have now agreed that the Epistle should be printed so that every temple will have a copy for that is the only way the Branch can succeed in building that Temple. I hope somebody is taking note of this!
¹⁸If you feel that you have been strongly built already; that you have no need for what is coming up, please do not sponsor it.
The Righteous Branch is the One vested with the Authority to build the True Temple. And to enable Him build the True Temple, He is making a proclamation that you are going to make your contribution.
He will tell you what you will bring. When Moses finished announcing everything, the people went home to their tents to prepare their gifts as the Spirit of God stirred them up.
¹⁹“So all the people went to their tents to prepare their gifts…”
To prepare what? Their gifts. It was not an impromptu decision. They heard the announcement, and they went home. In their homes, they reasoned together and came up with their decisions.
¹⁹“So all the people went to their tents to prepare their gifts. Those whose hearts were stirred by God’s Spirit…” Not everybody!
Those whose hearts were stirred by God’s Spirit returned with their offerings of materials for the Tabernacle, its equipment and for the holy garment. Both men and women came, all who were willing-hearted…”
²²Note! All that were willing-hearted. It is also in the New Testament that he that must give, must give willingly and you dare not give willingly unless you have the revelation why you must give.
2 Corinthians 8:11 – 12, AMP. ¹¹So now finish doing it, that your [enthusiastic] readiness in desiring it may be equalled by your completion of it according to your ability and means. ¹²For if the [eager] readiness to give is there, then it is acceptable and welcomed in proportion to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
2 Corinthians 9:7, AMP. Let each one [give] as he has made up his own mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion, for God loves (He takes pleasure in, prizes above other things, and is unwilling to abandon or to do without) a cheerful (joyous, “prompt to do it”) giver [whose heart is in his giving].
²³“They brought to the Lord their offerings of gold, jewelry- earrings, rings from their fingers, necklaces and gold objects of every kind. Others brought blue, purple and scarlet cloth made from the fine-twined linen or goats’ hair and rams’ skins dyed red and specially treated goatskins.
Others brought silver and bronze as their offerings to the Lord and some brought the acacia wood needed in the construction.
²⁴The women skilled in sewing and spinning prepared blue, purple and scarlet thread and cloth and fine-twined linen and brought them in. …
So all hands were on deck, with women fulfilling their roles, and the youth doing their own. Everybody!
…Some other women gladly used their special skill to spin the goats’ hair into cloth.
²⁵The leaders brought onyx stones to be used for the ephod and the chest piece and spices and oil- for the light; and for compounding the anointing oil and the sweet incense.
²⁶So the people of Israel – every man and woman who wanted to assist in the work given to them by the Lord’s command to Moses brought their freewill offerings to him…”
They brought their freewill offering.
²⁷Did the Bible say strangers? There was a time God was about to build a temple in the time of Solomon. God commanded them to collect gifts from strangers, but this time around, in the time of Moses, He warned them never to do so. The commandment went to the people of God to do the work, and not to strangers. And the people of God were to finance the work and execute it.
²⁸Verse 29. “So the people of Israel – every man and woman who wanted to assist in the work given to them by the Lord’s command to Moses brought their free will offerings to Him”. Amen.
²⁹Nobody went from house to house to collect it. They were convinced that it was the Lord that gave them the command to do the work, and Moses passed the information across. The Bible said men and women went home to prepare their gifts.
The following day, as many as were stirred up in their hearts by the Holy Spirit went to the House of God to give their offerings. The God they gave it to was Moses Who was instructing them on how the thing was to be used.
That is the much I want you to take from the Message. At home, you can get your copy of the Message, Building the True Temple.
I do not need to comment on it because the proclamation went forth that the work is still ongoing. We are not relenting. We are stopping at nothing.
If you have given anything and it is accepted, begin to rejoice, for there are some whose gifts or offerings were returned and turned back, not because of the quantity, but simply because God does not want them to participate.
There are some also because of whom God gave the instructions, “Do not collect a kobo from this Local Assembly.”
Thus, if you happened to be among those that offered and God received, begin to praise God, for God can do without it. He never saw you before He initiated it but His giving you that privilege to participate is because He has numbered you among the chosen ones. Finish! I do not need to comment further on that.
I want to give you the Good News while the work is still on with both the Great Sermon (2019 Revised Edition) and the Bridal Compendium Volume 2. I believe that on or before 15^th of December, we will be able to be reading the copies. The devil can never stop it.
We cannot shy away from the sole responsibility of the spreading of the Gospel worldwide because we are printing. It will interest you to know that the Revised Edition of the Great Sermon has gone worldwide.
What is more? We are working day and night to upload the Bridal Compendium. We had a problem last week over the conversion because it was disjointedly sent to us in five different batches and in a very disorderly sequences which required rearranging everything.
Otherwise, some will be overlapping into others, thereby distorting the meaning. So we are taking our time to streamline the whole thing so as to enable us upload it.
Thus, those who are doing these things for us, take note. If we tell you to give us a Message streamline the Message. We do not want disjointed Messages where number one will become number four and number five will become number 3 or number 3 will be number 7 and they are not numbered. It creates a lot of confusion.
We are working on it. Keep on praying for us. The Good News I have to share with you is that we will remain in the air. By air, I mean in the Internet; in the websites whether we like it or not, for God is behind it. He that is behind it will never allow it to stop until He is through with the programme.
Last week I told you that about two websites will be expiring. One will expire on 31^st December, 2019, and another one on 20^th January, 2020. In short, almost all of them, but God helping us, by last week, we were able to succeed.
I have the pleasure to announce it to everybody because I am now holding the receipt from both the Go-Daddy and Google. We succeeded in renewing the four websites and carried all of them to the year 2022. That is, if there will be 2022.
So we will remain there and every day we are maintaining the broadband spectrum. We are still occupying the greatest space, the widest space throughout the whole world, and we are maintaining it. So we give God the glory that we will remain alive in the Net till the year 2022, if there will be 2022.
We do not care about the exchange rate. He that started the good work is still in control. Yet, it will never disturb the work we are doing. We are focused. Amen.

I am your Saviour. I am here to tell you things you do to get eternal life. Without Me, there is no salvation. Without Me, there is no eternal life. Believe it if you can…….

– THE SON OF MAN –

BUILDING PLAN: GOD’S PLAN TO ESTABLISH HIS CHURCH; Preached on Sunday 26^th September, 1993 at Abagana; Pg. 3

GOD IS FAIR AND JUST IN ALL HIS WAYS

Awful Implication Of Removing Your Eyes From He That Has Called You To Glory And Virtue; Preached on Sunday 14^th August 2016 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, the Son of Man.

Page 73 verse 51. “Immediately he drew back, where did he go? He went back to his former association. Immediately he drew back, he landed in the congregation of the dead – people with identical beliefs. Where he stopped was made manifest.
⁵²Did that stop Saint Paul? Never! Rather, Saint Paul was energized the more because the exit of some people strengthens the man of God to believe more that “Really, many are called but few are chosen.” It made him to believe more that not everybody will endure till the end.
⁵³WHY DID GOD SCATTER ABA? IT IS UNFORTUNATE. LET ME SOUND A WARNING. IF YOU LOVE YOUR LIFE, DO NOT EVER KNEEL DOWN TO PRAY THAT GOD SHOULD GATHER HIS PEOPLE AT ABA OR GOD SHOULD RE-ENACT FELLOWSHIP IN ABA.
⁵⁴DO NOT EVEN PRAY FOR ANY OF THEM. EVEN IF THEY LIKE, LET THEM BE YOUR BEST FRIENDS, RELATIONS AND ALLWHATNOT. DO NOT EVER. RATHER, IF YOU ARE WISE AND INTELLIGENT, IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT YOU WANT TO BE SAVED, RUSH AND WITHDRAW THAT PERSON FROM THAT CITY.
⁵⁵IF IT IS POSSIBLE, I WILL EVEN MAKE A PROCLAMATION THAT NO CHILD OF GOD SHOULD PITCH TENT IN ABA FROM NOW HENCEFORTH. ABA IS NOT GOING TO BE A BLESSING TO ANYBODY THAT TASTED THIS FAITH FROM NOW HENCEFORTH.
Underline it. No good thing will ever come from Aba from that date and from that date till now, no good thing has ever come from Aba. All of them are living a life of frustration.
They are begging food. None of them who have tasted this Faith can pay his or her house rent. No matter how they try, they must be beggars for the hand of God is behind it.
⁵⁵IF IT IS POSSIBLE, I WILL EVEN MAKE A PROCLAMATION THAT NO CHILD OF GOD SHOULD PITCH TENT IN ABA FROM NOW HENCEFORTH, ABA IS NOT GOING TO BE A BLESSING TO ANYBODY THAT TASTED THIS FAITH FROM NOW HENCEFORTH.
I have never seen a land of failure. Aba is never a land of opportunity. No man has ever made it either wealth-wise from Aba. You carry your vehicle to Aba for business you will sell it before you come back.
⁵⁶I, the Son of Man, will make life very unbearable for all the residents of Aba from now Keep watch! Keep watch!
Who will make it unbearable? The Son of Man. 2016!
⁵⁷IF THE WORK THAT WAS DONE IN ABA WAS DONE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH, NO SOUL WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST. ABA IS AMONG THE LOCAL ASSEMBLIES THAT SAPPED MY BLOOD.
The same thing is applicable to Isiala-Ngwa.
⁵⁸Onitsha, guard up your loins. Begin to strengthen that which is weak in you individually and collectively. Of course, I announced this thing at the early stage of this year.
⁵⁹In My maiden address to you this year, I told you to throw into the dustbin all you knew the Son of Man for. If you know anything you knew in time past about the Son of Man, He said, “Throw them into the dustbin.”
⁶⁰For this year, a new Son of Man will emerge on the scene who will not be an Advocate anymore. He can never advocate for any being.
⁶¹When John Mark withdrew, he never knew the danger of detaching himself from the Tree of Life.
Saint Paul was the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden in his own day, with the Word of God – the Shewbread which they were feeding on, fully stored in him.
⁶²Hence he could tell them, “So that those that read might understand the mystery of God as it is revealed to me [Paul] which has never, never been revealed to any other messenger since the world began.” Amen.
Ephesians 3:1 – 5, KJV. ¹For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, ²if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: ³how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words; ⁴whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,) ⁵which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
⁶³Do you know that without Saint Paul, nobody would have known that Christ is the mystery of God revealed? Saint Paul called white, white. He never minced words.
By day or by night, I never gave any order that Aba worshippers should go to Obingwa. I never transferred them to Obingwa. The problem of Aba Fellowship has never been the hall where they were worshipping.
If we are having any problem in Onitsha fellowship, I do not believe it is the roof of the Fellowship hall. Do you believe the roof is housing their problem? No!
Who sinned against God for which cause they were scattered? Was it the building?
Then if THE SON OF MAN should move the same individuals that committed iniquity to Obingwa, what has He done? He has indirectly scattered Obingwa. It means transferring their problems to Obingwa.
That is why THE SON OF MAN said that there would not be anything called Fellowship in Aba under the umbrella of the Bride of Christ Ministry Worldwide till eternity.
Nevertheless, if there be any among them man or woman, young or old who will wish to serve God as an individual in our own Faith, the person is free to go to any other Local Assembly of his or her choice, whether Obingwa or any other place, provided the aim is to gain eternal life.
The information reaching Me from Pastor Chikere is saying that Aba worshippers told him that I drafted all of them to Obingwa. That is not true. And I dare not try it. Rather, everybody is at liberty to.
I equally included it in My writing. You can travel to anywhere you like, bear your own risk and pay your transport fare. After all, the eternal life you are looking for is purely personal. It is in that letter.
Why giving it another interpretation? I am saying that when God rejects a people, wise people should do what? Steer clear!
Based on that, I can never and will never command anybody from Aba to go to any place. It is a matter of individual choice.
If I should drag them to Obingwa, they will go there to scramble over the pulpit for they will never allow Pastor Chikere to pastor them. All of them are pastors, apostles and teachers.
You will be hearing, “I have a Message,” until they pollute that place, for Aba will never worship anywhere they will not be pastoring people.
Aba loves pastoring. They want to be pastoring, beginning with Obadiah, Isaac Monday, Moses, James Nnadi, Onwudinjo. In short, all of them.
Please, all references to Brethren at Aba should be past. There is no present tense reference. We are saying “Once upon a time, there was a Local Assembly called Aba.”
Is it the first? Once upon a time, there was a Church at Dadinkowa. Once upon a time, there was a Church at Lokoja. Even Abagana and so on.
Thus, do not ever think that the Son of Man does not know what He is doing. He takes delight in scattering heathens that masquerade as sons and daughters of God.
Onitsha, do not forget the fact that I threatened you, and it is not an empty threat. My threat will materialize if you do not purge yourselves. However, when you purge yourselves you will abide in My Presence. Amen.
I believe by now Onyema’s family must be through with everything called burial. That is Onyema Njom.
We pray that the children will come back safely. And then, we will know whether they are with us or not. This is because it is from now that we will know where they belong. Do not misunderstand Me until the next one month.
Let me come back to something that is troubling Me here. What is that thing? Illegal marriages.
It is absolutely wrong for a man to live with a woman called a wife without fulfilling the traditional, customary and statutory obligations. It is absolutely wrong and sinful in the sight of God.
And I am trying to chip in something that is very crucial. If you know you are legally married according to your local custom and tradition, whether you are wedded in the Church or not; take note of what I am going to say from now.
Of a necessity, the traditional ruler of the community where you picked your wife must be involved. He must give you and your wife identification letter or certificate from his office, identifying your wife as a legally married women in his community according to their custom and tradition.
If your wife is from another state, he [the traditional ruler] will stipulate it there clearly that by birth, she is a native of so, so and so state, but by marriage she is a native of so, so and so state.
I will use myself for example. I have My own, which the traditional ruler issued to My wife and then gave Me My own as one that is legally married to her. And he indicated that she is a native of Nsugbe in Anambra State, Nigeria by birth, but a native of Uvuru in Aboh-Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria by marriage.
With that, we proceeded to the Local Government to get the Local Government Identification Certificate. They gave Me My own. And they gave her own to her. With these two, we now attached them to the statutory marriage Certificate from the marriage registry, which is a federal Government certificate.
Take note of what I am saying. It is believed that upon marriage there must be necessity in changing of your name [because there must be a change of name – statutory change of name in a national Newspaper]. You cannot go into marriage and maintain your maiden name. It is illegal and unacceptable.
It is unfortunate that many do not know this. Some that know it do not want to obey. The same way, all your children must have identification certificate from their Local Government of origin. IT IS A MUST. There is a reason why I am reminding you of all these statutory stipulations.
If you have not wedded your wife under the statutory law as enshrined in the constitution by the Federal Republic of Nigeria and you are only married customarily and traditionally, it is acceptable in the sense that whenever there is trouble between you and your wife, you cannot divorce her in any law court for the State has not recognized your marriage.
Hence, you cannot drag your husband or wife to a court asking for divorce on a marriage that does not exist under statutory laws. Nobody will entertain it.
You are mere friends permitted by your local traditions and customs to live together and have children. Even if you change the name in the National daily newspaper, you have not legalized it.
That is why after wedding you here, we still refer you to your Local Government or to the Local Government nearest to you, where you are residing and have resided in that Local Government continually for not less than ten years. You are authorized to go there and obtain your marriage certificate from the marriage registry.
The same way, you can also obtain that Local Government identification certificate for your children. The Local Government will issue them. If you do not know the importance, know it. No school will admit you if you do not produce your Local Government Identification Certificate.
Note it! Of a surety, if you are a civil servant, there no way your wife can be recognized if you do not have the statutory marriage certificate peradventure you want to travel out, you can never travel out with your wife without statutory marriage certificate. Your children cannot travel out without it.
Thus, if your marriage is a statutory marriage, that is, after fulfilling the local customs and traditions, you step up to wedding your wife either in the Church or in the marriage registry and obtain the statutory marriage certificate.
In the event of divorce, there is no traditional ruler that will entertain it. No villager will entertain it. You must go to the court of competent jurisdiction to seek for divorce.
Even if you are being maltreated by your husband or by your wife, your tradition cannot look into it. If you file a suit on that issue, where will it be resolved.
Thus, when you are not married you cannot be divorced. You can only divorce when you are married.
Now, if you stop at the local marriage according to your local laws and customs, and you want to divorce, the rule is that you will go to your traditional ruler who will summon members of his cabinet. They will summon your kindred and summon your in-laws. Then, deliberations will ensue.
If they give the ruling, then the community will carry wine according to their own tradition and collectively lead the woman back to her parents. If the woman is the one divorcing, collectively they will return the bride price to the man in the palace of the king (traditional ruler) before his cabinet.
I have noticed among us that too many are living outside the real marriage as authorized by both the local laws and custom and the statutory provisions of the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for which cause you are living with a man without protection.
Your marriage has no protection. That is why, from time to time, you receive the threat, “I will throw you out! I will push you away! I will do this and that!” Yes! This is because she is a girlfriend. There is no law protecting her interest.
If you wait until your husband will die for your marriage to be recognized, you are running a risk—a very big risk and your children are also running a great risk. Whether you are the first, the second or the third, there is a provision in the law for you.
Thus, you cannot just wake up in the morning and say, “I am a wife”, and begin to raise children. You are running a risk you cannot bear. And your children may even be denied anytime.
Please, seeing the way things are going among you in the name of marriage, I am no longer pleased. I have to voice out for it will be a disservice to the Body of Christ if I see this evil ravaging the camp and I keep quiet over it.
This is because the people we least expect are the most guilty. I am the One affirming it. Some use laws to tie their wives around themselves. Some women use law to tie themselves.
Please, let this information sink deep. Go home and revisit your marriage again. Do not tell Me your wife is stubborn to you like Peter Onwudinjo who is always complaining, “My wife, my wife”, even when he never married for one day.
Why should a woman not be stubborn? Somebody who has raised so many graduates for Peter Onwudinjo without the man even giving the in-laws a bottle of Locally made dry gin or one kola nut or even introducing himself as the husband. That is abomination!
What can you say about those that I spotted out in Port-Harcourt who are now fulfilling their own? Some of them, their children are about to enter the university. Brethren, true or false?
Thus, I do not know where your own stopped. If you know where your own stopped, begin from there and complete it. All in your best interest.
Married women, stop at nothing until you are sure your marriage is legalized and concretized, and not because you are raising children.
You can raise children outside wedlock. By wedlock I mean, outside the statutory laws. What makes you husband and wife is not how long you have lived with a man or a man has lived with you or how many children you have. No, no, no! You can have 120 children. Yet, you are a harlot under the law.
The constitution says a harlot can raise children for a man. And these are children that will be called the man’s children provided he takes good care of the harlot during pregnancy and after delivery.
Brother Enemmuo is it not true? (Brother Ifeanyi Enemmuo answers, “It is true sir”) Thank you!
Many are playing harlotry in the name of marriage. I do not care the number of years you have lived together. I do not! I am not talking in vain.
There was an issue that reared its head because of the death of Onyema Njom. If not divine intervention and the wisdom God gave us, it would have affected this Fellowship, but I stood my ground, remained undaunted and pushed everything to where it belongs, so that it will never encroach into this Faith.
That is why nobody went there from among us. And no regrets. And the people are happy with us because of the stand we took. They approved it. Amagunze respects us because of it. We do not know who will be the next victim.
Thus, better protect your marriage or else there will problem, if there is a demise of any. Also protect your children’s identities with their communities. It is very, very essential. I do not care how old they may be.
You have to give full proof of it. And if you get there to the registry and you are denied of it, they will give you the reason.
Many do not go because they know that something had already been posted there that they are not born by the man they are claiming to be their father.
They know they are from that village or community. And for that, they are afraid of going to the registry. Do not be afraid. It is better you know where you come from and go there. Continue to worship your God freely. Something prompted it. Amen.

Let Me tell you: He that is teaching you has no need of someone teaching Him, because He is the source of knowledge and wisdom; The Beginning and the End. In Him lies the totality of what God is made up of. Believe it if you can………

– THE SON OF MAN –

HOW PEOPLE CONSPIRE TO FRUSTRATE THE MOVE OF GOD; Preached on Tuesday, 14^th April 1998 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 3

BE MINDFUL OF WHAT GOD SPOKE concerning YOU

To those who are customarily, legally and traditionally married and they are staying in marriage, turn with me to the Book of Colossians chapter three from verse six.

Living Bible. ^[6]God’s terrible anger is upon those who do such things. ^[7]You used to do them when your life was still part of this world; ^[8]but now is the time to cast off and throw away all these rotten garments of anger, hatred, cursing, and dirty language.
^[9]Don’t tell lies to each other; it was your old life with all its wickedness that did that sort of thing; now it is dead and gone.
^[10]You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right,…
Continually learning more and moreof what is right not what is wrong.
^[10]You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right, and trying constantly to be more and more like Christ…
Is Christ not our living example? If after telling you all these things and I know I am guilty, do you not know it profits me nothing, but condemnation?
I have fulfilled these things long, long time ago, all my children had their own long, long time ago. I have My own – My statutory authority. And My wife has her own. Thus, nobody can query My indigene-ship or citizenship. Nobody can query My identity.
^[10]You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right, and trying constantly to be more and more like Christ who created this new life within you.
Who did what? …created this new life within you.
^[11]In this new life one’s nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant; such things mean nothing. Whether a person has Christ is what matters,…
That is the most important thing. To emulate Christ and be like-Christ.
Most of these intellectuals are guilty of this thing which you have heard. Too many professors [lecturers] are raising children with men without legalizing their marriages. Is it not true?
They know the laws. Even lawyers are guilty, male and female alike. But they will only raise alarm whenever there is a demise of one. You begin to hear, “I did not marry her. I deliberately decided not to legalize it.”
There are some men who have become so suspicious about their wives that they vowed never to legalize the marriage. Some are suspicious about their children and they have decided never to legalize their identities.
While some are having their real children—according to them—floating somewhere. Do not be surprised that we have such people in our midst.
Whenever the man dies, you begin to see ladies, gentlemen, girls and boys coming, and claiming that the late person is their father.
What is more? When you look at the photograph of the late man and the children, it is carbon copy. Is it a lie? It has happened in many places
^[11]In this new life one’s nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant; such things mean nothing. Whether a person has Christ is what matters, and he is equally available to all.
^[12]Since you have been chosen by God… Since you have been chosen by who? By God. … who has given you this new kind of life… Note it! Who has given you this new kind of life.
^[12]Since you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life, and because of his deep love and concern for you, you should practice tenderhearted mercy and kindness to others. …
Because God has deep love for all of us, that is why He is offering us this protection to avoid troubles of the future by learning from what has befallen some.
… Don’t worry about making a good impression on them, but be ready to suffer quietly and patiently. ^[13]Be gentle and ready to forgive; never hold grudges. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. ^[14]Most of all, let love guide your life,…
Remember that I am reading passages for those that have fulfilled these statutory and local customary conditions and they are still staying in marriage.
^[14]Most of all, let love guide your life, for then the whole church will stay together in perfect harmony. ^[15]Let the peace of heart that comes from Christ be always present in your hearts and lives, for this is your responsibility and privilege as members of His Body. And always be thankful.
^[16]Remember what Christ taught, and let His Words enrich your lives and make you wise; teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing to the Lord with thankful hearts.
^[17]And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, and come with him into the presence of God the Father to give him your thanks.
Whatever you do or say, let it be as what? As a representative of Christ.
I know some that are wicked people among us who will go home today and say, “Praise God. Praise God! I am on my own.”
In other words, the woman has wasted her time and then you begin to see why you have been suffering what you are suffering in the hand of the man and the man is suffering in the hand of the woman, for marriage was never contracted for one day.
This is because there is nothing protecting the marriage institutionally, locally and otherwise. And that is why in such a home, you can never see anything called respect for each other. You can never see love. I mean, real affection binding the two. They are always at loggerheads.
Why this calmness? I believe everywhere is calm because this is truth. Who does not know the atmosphere prevalent in his family? Who does not know the relationship that exists between him and his wife?
There are some that might be praying that the woman will run away but the woman refuses and stays for the sake of the children. And now, the man has seen the truth.
If you go home and change your mind, when you have already messed the woman up, of all human beings, you are the most wicked man on earth.
The same way, as a woman, if you go home to mess the man up, instead of two of you joining hand together to fulfill your obligation, you are the most wicked woman on earth.

GOD JUDGES BY ONE STANDARD

^[18]You wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you.
Note! To those that are still staying in marriage.
^[19]And you husbands must be loving and kind to your wives and not bitter against them nor harsh. ^[20]You children must always obey your fathers and mothers, for that pleases the Lord.
^[21]Fathers, don’t scold your children so much that they become discouraged and quit trying. ^[22]You slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not only trying to please them when they are watching you but all the time; obey them willingly because of your love for the Lord and because you want to please him.
^[23]Work hard and cheerfully at all you do, just as though you were working for the Lord and not merely for your masters, ^[24]remembering that it is the Lord Christ who is going to pay you, giving you your full portion of all he owns. He is the one you are really working for.
^[25]And if you don’t do your best for him, he will pay you in a way that you won’t like—for he has no special favorites who can get away with shirking.
God judges every man by one standard. That is exactly where I landed. He judges every man by one standard. And we have no other standard as far as marriage is concerned.
That is what I have reminded you of. It is not that you never knew it, but let Me remove whatever that has been hindering you from legalizing your marriage so that your homes will be peaceful.
A situation where somebody will live with a woman, raise up to four or five graduates and does not visit the woman’s place; the woman’s mother died and the so-called husband cannot go. And the children cannot go there boldly because they never fulfilled their marital obligations, is it a good thing?
If they are traced to this Faith, do you not think that the heathens will be laughing at this Faith? Who will believe our report again? What if I allowed what Sister Chika Onyema wanted to do? What if we permitted her? Do you not know that this Faith would have been ridiculed?
That is why I have decided to engrave it again in a very short exhortation.
And on this note, I say happy new month while I wish all of you God’s protection and God’s blessing throughout this year. Amen.
And I am believing God that as we are clapping here today, so we shall live to clap on 1^st January, 2020. Amen.

IS YOUR WORSHIP SPIRITUAL AND REAL?

BY Bishop Chidubem Jonathan

MODERATED BY THE SON OF MAN

IS YOUR WORSHIP SPIRITUAL AND REAL?

I am really happy being in your midst today. Also, I thank the Almighty for giving me the privilege to come and say “Good afternoon!”

Remain blessed and happy new month also. I do not know whether you are happy! If you are happy, please let us give a round of applause to the Almighty God.
You see, when the Message was going forth, we have a Man who writes history ahead of time.
When we were reading from the Epistle titled, Awful Implication Of Removing Your Eyes From He That Has Called You To Glory And Virtue,concerning what He the Almighty has already stated, people were shouting, but it was written boldly there far back in 2016.
It said, “Watch for it.” Like play, like play, everybody forgot. Are we not seeing it today? We are just reading it as a confirmation of what He had already sounded forth.
You see, that is why sometimes when I sit down, I begin to imagine the love of God unto each and every one of us, bringing us to this place where we are now.
Really, my being in Jerusalem took me unawares, but I believe that the Almighty God that called me here will equally be here to support me.
I thank God. One thing I find very hard to do is to sit down and be writing and writing and writing, but sometimes when it pleases me like last Sunday, while we were in the Fellowship in my family, before you know it I started.
How I wish somebody is recording the things we are hearing. Because we never knew that when He the Almighty has something to say to help our faith, surely from nowhere the inspiration would strike.
While I was sitting down in my seat, I looked at the stature of the perfect man, when I got to the last point, I saw the Holy Spirit.
There was Paul, Irenaeus, Martin and so on and so forth, but at a particular place, there was a break. And then that break, the bridge is the Holy Spirit.
And we have heard it, “Holy Spirit – the Holy Ghost is a man.” We are always happy when we come before Him. And that is why we are not supposed to take His Words with levity. He sees ahead of time.
Check! August 14, 2016. When I was checking I saw it, and I shouted. Coming to Fellowship in Jerusalem, and hearing it again, I said, “Indeed we are really sitting in heavenly places with the Almighty. No less a Personality.”
John 4:21 – 22, Living Bible. ^[21-24]Jesus replied, “The time is coming, ma’am, when we will no longer be concerned about whether to worship the Father here or in Jerusalem. For it’s not where we worship that counts, but how we worship—is our worship spiritual and real?…
Is our worship spiritual and real? These two things must be there. One, it must be spiritual. Two, it must be real. We areRealists.You see why we are called realist. It must be real. But something must make it real.
While I am standing here, it is only when you can touch, you see and you hear, then you say it is real. If you have not touched, you have not seen and you cannot hear, what makes it real? Then you are just imaginary worshippers.
1^st John 1:1. That is where I want. The worship must be spiritual. It must be real.
^[1]Christ was alive when the world began, …
Underline it. Christ, not Jesus. Christ was alive when the world began. Who was there when the world began? Christ.
Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 – 2, LB. ^[1]When God began creating the heavens and the earth. ²the earth was a shapeless, chaotic mass, with the Spirit of God brooding over the dark vapours.
The Spirit of God was doing what? …brooding over the dark vapours. The Holy Ghost was brooding over the darkness. That is why John could say that Christ was alive when the world began. He did not say “Jesus.”
1^st John 1:1, LB. ^[1]Christ was alive when the world began, yet I myself have seen him with my own eyes…
Note! I myself have seen Him with my own eyes. REAL!
^[1]Christ was alive when the world began, yet I myself have seen him with my own eyes and listened to him speak.
I have not only seen Him. I have listened to Him speak. Saint John wrote it in John 4: 22-23 that your worship must be spiritual and real. And he is confirming to us what makes the worship real. It is not imaginary. It is not a matter of feeling. It is not a matter of, “I think”, but “I have listened to Him speak.”
^[1]… I have touched him with my own hands. …
Oh My goodness! A round of applause! We can actually say so even today that the same Christ Who has been alive before the world began, “I have seen Him. I have touched Him. I have heard Him speak. Real! I have my proof.”
You see why we are, of all men, the most favoured from generation to generation.
^[1]… I have touched Him with my own hands. He is God’s message of life.
He is God’s Message of life. Go to the same John chapter one verse one where he said that Christ has been there.
The other translation [KJV] says, “In the beginning was the Word.” God’s Message of life. Will you hear any Spoken Word without a human being? Will he use a bird? “Dwell, dwell, dwell!” Will He come from nowhere?
Even if you are walking and you hear a word, and you did not see the person, you will be sure and certain that somebody was there. True or false?
You cannot hear a word without somebody uttering it. You may not be able to see the person, but he is somewhere. He sometimes calls your name. Our worship is spiritual and real.
John 1:1 – 3, LB.^[1-2]Before anything else existed, there was Christ with God. He has always been alive and is Himself God. ^[3]He created everything there is–nothing exists that He didn’t make.
Psalms chapter 2 from verse 1 – 6,Living Bible. ^[1]What fools the nations are to rage against the Lord! How strange that men should try to outwit God! ^[2]For a summit conference of the nations has been called to plot against the Lord and his Messiah, Christ the King.
^[3]“Come let us break his chains”, they say, “and free ourselves from all this slavery to God.”
To some people, worshipping God and obeying God is slavery. If you are numbered among those people, the Scripture said that God is laughing at you.
“Let us join hands together and liberate ourselves from this slavery to God.” It never started today. The Scriptures said that this is what fools the nations.
^[2]For a summit conference of the nations has been called to plot against the Lord and his Messiah, Christ the King.
^[3]“Come let us break his chains”, they say, “and free ourselves from all this slavery to God.” ^[4]But God in heaven merely laughs! …
But God in heaven merely does what? He merely laughs. They see it as slavery, obeying the Messiah – the Christ. Of course, if He were not a human being, they would not have seen it as slavery.
But because they see Him as one of themselves, it has become slavery. They now said, “Let us come together and shatter this castle of slavery. It is becoming too much.”
2 Corinthians 5:16, AMP. Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh].
The Holy Qur’an – Surah 36:14 – 15, Hilali-Khan Translation. ¹⁴When We sent to them two Messengers, they belied them both, so We reinforced them with a third, and they said: “Verily! We have been sent to you as Messengers.” ¹⁵They (people of the town) said: “You are only human beings like ourselves, and the Most Beneficent (Allah) has revealed nothing, you are only telling lies.”
Surah 21:3, Hilali-Khan Translation. ³With their hearts occupied (with evil things) those who do wrong, conceal their private counsels, (saying): “Is this (Muhammad) more than a human being like you? Will you submit to magic while you see it?”
Surah 23:24, 33 – 34, Hilali-khan Translation. ²⁴But the chiefs of those who disbelieved among his people said: “He is no more than a human being like you, he seeks to make himself superior to you. Had God willed, He surely could have sent down angels; never did we hear such a thing among our fathers of old. … ³³And the chiefs of his people, who disbelieved and denied the Meeting in the Hereafter, and to whom We had given the luxuries and comforts of this life, said: “He is no more than a human being like you, he eats of that which you eat, and drinks of what you drink. ³⁴“If you were to obey a human being like yourselves, then verily! You indeed would be losers.
Surah 26:185 – 187, Hilali-Khan Translation. ¹⁸⁵They said: “You are only one of those bewitched! ¹⁸⁶“You are but a human being like us and verily, we think that you are one of the liars! ¹⁸⁷“So cause a piece of the heaven to fall on us, if you are of the truthful!”
That is why sometimes somebody will get instructions, but when you go back to your family, you twist it. When you come here, you present a different thing altogether.
But I thank God that the present stage has really shown us that the Personality we are seeing is not an ordinary human being, but the Holy Spirit.
After the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, He could appear and disappear. He could enter the innermost places. He could search your thoughts, going back to original form – the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is a Man.
But the Scriptures said that God in heaven merely laughs.
^[4]But God in Heaven merely laughs! HE IS AMUSED BY ALL THEIR PUNY PLANS.
He is amused by all their puny plans. [puny means weak, tiny, feeble, frail etc]
^[5]And then in fierce fury rebukes them and fills them will fear. ^[6]For the Lord declares, “This is the King of my choice,…
People were ganging up, “Let us go and thwart His plans. The slavery is too much. This is too much.” So they were complaining and murmuring, and God is laughing at them. I mean just look at them.
Let us take that verse again. ^[4]But God in Heaven merely laughs! He is amused by all their puny plans. ^[5]And then in fierce fury rebukes them and fills them will fear. ^[6]For the Lord declares, “This is the King of my choice,
This is the King of my choice. He never consulted with anybody in the whole world, white and black before He made His choice. He said, “This is the king of my choice.”
And He never made any mistake. No consultation! No mistake! Thus, whether you like it or not, the choice is your own.
^[6]For the Lord declared, “This is the King of my choice, and I have enthroned in Jerusalem, My Holy City.” ^[7]His Chosen One replies, “I will reveal the everlasting purpose of God, …”
The Chosen One did what? …replies, “I will reveal the everlasting purpose of God, for the Lord has said to me, ‘You are my son. This is your coronation day. Today I am giving you your glory.’”
^[8]“Only ask, and I will give you all the nations of the world. ^[9]Rule them with an iron rod; smash them like clay pot!”
Let us get the same verse from King James version of the Bible. If you like, thank God. If you like, murmur. If you like, hold secret meetings with your family within yourselves. God is merely laughing at you. Yes! He is merely laughing at you.
Psalms 2:6 – 7, KJV. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree:…
Did we not hear that voice, “I will declare! I will declare!” on the Holy Mountain Zion – the heavenly Jerusalem.
We heard, “I will declare all my counsels.” And all that we are hearing today are nothing but what He is declaring, so that if you are shaking your head, you had better known the Source of the declaration.
I was sharing something with somebody. I said, “The problem with people is that they just limit their view on the badger skin, even when Jesus said, “The flesh [and blood] profiteth nothing”, just to help them see beyond the flesh.
John 10:33, NIV. ³³“We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, A MERE MAN, CLAIM TO BE GOD.”
When they saw the Badger skin, every action and His attributes, was He not just an ordinary fellow like us, a mere man, without knowing that there is a man in the man. We are talking about the Holy Spirit.
And the Voice said, “We have evil spirits. And we have good spirits too.” Since we have evil spirit, and we have good spirits, it then means that inasmuch as you believe that you as a man, you have a spirit. Oh No!
How else will the Almighty – the Sovereign Sprit make appearance if not in human form? And whatever any man is doing or saying or thinking is being inspired by the man’s spirit.
Remember what John the Baptist said. He said that He who comes from God speaks the Word of God, why? Because God gives him his Spirit.
John 3: 27 & 34, NIV. ²⁷To this John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. … ³⁴For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
You know, in the Scripture he said, “All the prophet had the Spirit of God with measure.”
Hebrews 1:1, AMP. ¹IN MANY separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets,
And they all held His message bit by bit, but there is a Man that is coming with its fullness. So all the prophet, from time to time, came with the Spirit of God, bit by bit, but there is a Man that has the fullness.
Hebrews 1:2 – 4, AMP. ²[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].
³He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high.
^4[Taking a place and rank by which] He Himself became as much superior to angels as the glorious Name (title) which He has inherited is different from and more excellent than theirs.
Isaiah 9:6, AMP. ⁶For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace.
When you meet that Man, whatever His action might be, is inspired. All actions are inspired by your spirit. So, the Man’s actions are being inspired by His spirit. Then you give yourself the answer.
Psalms 2:6 – 7, KJV. ⁶Yet I have set my King upon the Holy Hill of Zion. ⁷I will declare the decree: the Lord has said has unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
This day! You see, all I am doing is just putting us in remembrance of what we already know. IS YOUR WORSHIP SPIRITUAL AND REAL?
That is why we are gathered because our worship is spiritual and real. Otherwise, we do not have any business coming here. Many other people are gathering. We have all the evidences.
The Lord: Only facts are convincing. Reality.
Let us go back to where you were reading before. John 4:21 – 24, Living Bible. ^[21-24]Jesus replied, “The time is coming, ma’am, when we will no longer be concerned about whether to worship the Father here or in Jerusalem. For it’s not where we worship that counts, but how we worship—is our worship spiritual and real?Do we have the Holy Spirit’s help? For God is Spirit, and we must have His help to worship as we should. The Father wants this kind of worship from us. But you Samaritans know so little about Him,...
We know it but we keep on rehearsing it. We keep on talking and emphasizing it so that it becomes real revelation to everybody, and so that we can move beyond the Bible. This is because if you do not move beyond the Bible, you will be trailing behind.
Jesus told them, “You are searching Scriptures because you want eternal life, but these are the things that testify about me, but you have refused to come to me.”
John 5:39 – 40, NIV. ³⁹You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, ⁴⁰yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
We should really realize that every word of God that goes forth, we must underline it in our heart.
For instance, this prophecy concerning Aba, if they realized it that it has weight, they would have underlined it. They would have been reading, meditating day and night over it until God will speak otherwise. But maybe they thought it was just one of those things. Amen.

You know I am part of the Word. The moment I came here, there must be inspiration to tell Me to open it from one Message or the other. Either to cancel it or to support it. I am supporting that God has visited us in human form again. We can now see God walking in the Galilee of the Gentiles. He is no longer walking in Palestine. He is now walking in one of the jungles in Africa. Where do you find Him? Where the prophet said you must go to see Him……

– THE SON OF MAN –

DAYBREAK IN AFRICA; Preached on Sunday 25^th October 1998 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 69 vs. 10 – 11

GOD IS A BLACK MAN [1]

John chapter 1 verse 17 – 18. Amplified Bible. ¹⁷For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favour and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ.

¹⁸No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father,…
The earlier Apostles, out of joy and out of enthusiasm preached Jesus beyond His Age [dispensation]. They preached Jesus beyond his Age. Out of enthusiasm, out of joy, out of the privilege they found themselves in, they carried it beyond boundary. Let me stop there.
I was checking a Scripture concerning the woman that came to Jesus pleading for healing of her daughter. Jesus specifically told the woman, “I was not sent to the Gentiles.”
As clear as the day. Jesus said, “I was not sent to the Gentiles. I am not a messenger to the Gentiles.” He said, “I am not a messenger to the Gentiles. Get away woman! I cannot use the food meant for children and give to dogs!”
It is what we know that, sometimes we need to be reminded so that we will know where we are.
Jesus could not even be moved if not that the woman kept on persisting. He told her clearly, “I am not a messenger to the Gentiles. Get away woman!” Go and read your Scriptures. That is why He said, “I go to my own, the Israelites.”
If you are waiting for Jesus to save you, you will be lost forever!
¹⁷For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favour and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No man has ever seen God at any time…
Who verified it that no man has ever seen God. They were talking about their own Age. They were talking about their own generation. That was what they were talking about.
Let us go and look for Moses to see whether Moses saw God or not. This is because, already Manoah saw God live! But they are generalizing, carrying Jesus [J-E-S-U-S] too far.
Exodus 24:9 – 11, AMP. ⁹Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside]. ¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel [that is, a convincing manifestation of His presence], and under His feet it was like pavement of bright sapphire stone, like the very heavens in clearness. ¹¹And upon the nobles of the Israelites He laid not His hand [to conceal Himself from them, to rebuke their daring, or to harm them]; but they saw [the manifestation of the presence of] God, and ate and drank.
Living Bible. ^[9]Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up into the mountain. ^[10]And they saw the God of Israel; under his feet there seemed to be a pavement of brilliant sapphire stones, as clear as the heavens. ^[11]Yet, even though the elders saw God, he did not destroy them; and they had a meal together before the Lord.
Think of your Age. Think about your own time and not about other people’s time. Remember, I was just called to say good afternoon to you.
Numbers chapter 12 from verse 1. King James Version. ¹And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
²And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
³(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
⁴And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
⁵And the LORD came down in the Pillar of the Cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
⁶And He said, Hear now My Words…
Who said? The Lord. Note! The writer – John made references to Moses. Let us see what happened in the time of Moses. He mentioned Moses that the law came through Moses. But grace and truth through Jesus.
He said, “No man has ever seen God but only the begotten.” I agree. It will take the only begotten of every Age to see God.
“And He said, Hear now My Words: If there be a Prophet among you,…
Note! If there be a Prophet among you.
…I, the Lord will make Myself known unto Him in a vision,…
I, the Lord will do what? Make Myself known unto Him in a vision.
…and speak unto him in a dream. ⁷My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
In other words, Moses was greater than a prophet.
⁸With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?
Living Bible. Numbers 12 from verse 6. ^[6]And the Lord said to them, “Even with a Prophet,…
If there be any Apostle among you. If there be any Bishop among you, no matter what you call yourself…. I hope even our elders are catching up somewhere?
Remember, the Lord was speaking concerning Miriam and Aaron who eventually were Moses’ elders biologically.
If there be anybody that has the right to reprimand Moses these are the people, but they never knew when something happened. After all Miriam said, “I was the one that took care of you. Otherwise they would have killed you.” True or false?
She never even knew that she did not do it. Oh no! God has the capacity. If there be anybody that has the right to say, “Moses sit down! And let me talk to you”, these are the two persons. No other person.
^[6]And the Lord said to them, “Even with a prophet, …
Even with a prophet. Even with an Apostle. Even with a Bishop. Even with a Pastor. No matter what you call yourself. Even if you have been there many years before. Even if you are the one that converted Him. Even if you are the one that preached to Him. Even if you are the one that taught Him even the Scriptures.
^[6]And the Lord said to them, “Even with a prophet, I would communicate by visions and dreams; ^[7-8]but that is not how I communicate with My servant Moses. He is completely at home in My house!
He is completely at home in my house. why not give a round of applause to the Lord. I hope we are following?
You are a prophet? It is no problem. You have been anointed before Moses came? No problem. Has God spoken to you? Sure!
Has the anointing rested on you? Superlatively! Then he said “but.” He said it is not by man. He is at home.
“I and the Father are one. I am in My Father; And My father is in Me.” He is at home. Inseparable! Inseparable! He is at home. He is my home! In Him I dwell.
^[7-8]but that is not how I communicate with My servant Moses. He is completely at home in My house! With Him I speak face-to-face! And He shall see the very form of God! Why then were you not afraid to criticize Him?”
Note it again. He shall see the very form of God. Okay, so why was John saying, “No man has ever seen God.” Yes! He was right because he was talking about his generation. Thus, if you carry it beyond, it will be on your head.
⁷…With him I speak face-to-face! And He shall see the very form of God! Why then were you not afraid to criticize him?”
Alright! Remember I am just putting you in remembrance.

One of these days, I am coming here to establish that God is a Black Man and has remained a Black Man from creation. Nobody has ever seen God as a fair-complexioned man. One day, I will take you by surprise just like the day of your translation. The day of your translation will come almost the same way the Message of Grace came. When nobody will have time to put things like your vehicle, your soup or your market [in order]. You will abandon them that day, because, that day you will hear a Voice telling you, “Open your jotters, take up your biro pen. I do not know when I am coming down from this pulpit, and I may not come down again. Forget about whatever you kept in your house. Attention this way.”

– THE SON OF MAN –

GOD IS REVEALED/MARRIAGE VOWS; Preached on Sunday 7^th November 1999 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 69 vs. 12 & Pg. 70 vs. 14

GOD IS A BLACK MAN [2]

Numbers chapter 11 read from verse 24. ^[24]So Moses left the Tabernacle and reported Jehovah’s words to the people; and he gathered the seventy elders and placed them around the Tabernacle.

Moses gathered seventy elders, both those that are older than himself and those that are younger than himself.
Remember that we all know about the parents of Moses. Don’t we? I need not take us along how he was born, the woman, the man, the challenges they were having, the sisters and the brothers, and How he even killed and became a murderer.
And while He was running away, He went elsewhere and lived there. He went as Moses, but returned as a different person. They never knew that something happened because He met Something which no other person met – the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Ghost is a man. People believe that somebody can be possessed by demon. And then all the action of the person will be that of the demon. Do we not believe that? Hence, they say, “This man is possessed. That is why he is behaving like this.”
If evil spirit can possess somebody, is it the Holy Spirit that cannot possess somebody?
And when you say that evil spirit or demon possesses somebody, if the person claps hands, you will say, ‘It is the spirit.’ If the person jumps up, you say, ‘See the way he behaves.’
However, when we see the Holy Spirit, we begin to differentiate the one that is of God and the one that is the person’s as if there are two spirits there.
²⁵And the Lord came down in the Cloud and talked with Moses… Talked with who? Moses.
… and the Lord took of the Spirit that was upon Moses and put it upon the seventy elders;…
Whose spirit were the elders having? The Spirit that was upon Moses. So, where was the Spirit of God?
The Spirit that was in a Man and he remained calm. Then removed it in bits. The Bible said, “Some, Small, A bit”, and then spread on seventy [elders] – small, small, small, and they were dancing around.
My people perish. Why? For lack of knowledge. You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, but these are the things pointing you to Him – A Man.
Why I picked only Moses is because the writer of the account in the Book of John selected Moses only, and also selected Jesus.
We want to find out why he said, “No man has ever seen God except Jesus in his own day.” And we know we are just rehearsing and putting ourselves in remembrance.
^[25]And the Lord came down in the Cloud and talked with Moses, and the Lord took of the Spirit that was upon Moses and put it upon the seventy elders; and when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied for some time.
Moses was calm o! But let us get another translation. There is a translation that said, “Some.” Let us check Good News Bible.
That translation said that God picked some – just a little – and shared it. He divided it into seventy. And seventy hefty men were dancing around, talking blah blah blah.
So where went the Spirit of God? Where went the Holy Ghost, that it was now… [Oh!] Moses was the central bank. I call Moses the central bank. Central. He will take a little and give to the seventy, “You take a little.” And the man was watching them.
Whatever we are holding today is a bit of His Spirit. And before you know it, people will begin to make noise as if there is anything in them before.
Numbers 11:25 – 26, Good News Bible. Then the Lord came down in the Cloud and spoke to Him. He took some of the spirit…
He took some. Is it not Scripture? Not even taking all. Not even many. Not even most. Unless English language has lost it meaning. It said, “Some of the Spirit.” He took point-something percent and even shared it. And they were jumping up in glory, but the bank was looking at them.
In the central bank, money cannot finish there. They have the right to mint and print. They have the right to produce more. That is the inexhaustible fountain.
²⁵Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not for long.
They began to do what? To shout like prophets, but not for long. You see! I am shouting now. As I am shouting. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes sir! Amen.
²⁶Two of the seventy leaders, Eldad and Medad, had stayed in the camp and had not gone out to the Tent. There in the camp the spirit came on them, and they too began to shout like prophets.
Even two persons that were not immediately there, the Spirit located them where they were. The Spirit of who? Moses. The Spirit of who? Moses! Located the people in Zonkwa. Look at the photograph here! They were not in the camp. They were not there, but the Spirit located them. You cannot hide anywhere. No hiding place.

While he was there with them where they gathered, He is here in Jerusalem. And He is there in Zonkwa. Let us give a round of applause to the Lord.
Yes! You can see I am shouting and jumping! Yes sir!
Matthew chapter 15 verse 22 through 24. Good News Bible. Let us see whether the believers of Jesus did what we are saying very well. They exalted their master. It is now our own turn to exalt our Master.
²²A Canaanite woman who lived in that region came to him. “Son of David!” she cried out. “Have mercy on me, sir! My daughter has a demon and is in a terrible condition.”
²³But Jesus did not say a word to her. His disciples came to him and begged him, “Send her away! She is following us and making all this noise!” ²⁴Then Jesus replied, “I have been sent only to the lost sheep of the people of Israel.”
Who said that? The Scriptures recorded, “Jesus said, ‘I was sent only for the lost sheep of Israel.’”
Every man of God has his commission and he cannot go beyond his commission.
That is why he could not enter the Gentile world or carry the salvation Message across to the Gentiles. It took Paul to do that.
The Lord speaks: He labours that the Word of God may dwell richly in you.
Living Bible. Matthew 15:22 – 24. ^[22]A woman from Canaan who was living there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, King David’s Son! For my daughter has a demon within her, and it torments her constantly.” ^[23]But Jesus gave her no reply—not even a word. …
Note it! Not even a word. It is useless to Him as far as Jesus the Christ was concerned. He did not even utter a word because that was not His commission.
^[23]But Jesus gave her no reply—not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to get going,” they said, “for she is bothering us with all her begging.” ^[24]Then he said to the woman, “I was sent to help the Jews—the lost sheep of Israel—not the Gentiles.” Amen!
Note it again. He said, I was sent to do what? To help the Jews – the lost sheep of Israel. Not the Gentiles.
But you carried it down here. See the boundary line. Why are you shifting the landmark? Jesus said, “I was sent for the lost sheep of Israel, not the Gentiles.”
Let me tell you. Everything God is doing was foreordained by Him.
Even when Prophet Branham said that the Sheep will be black, He mentioned black! Black! Black! And you thought he [Branham] did not see it. He saw it clearly. And maybe you do not know that when you mention black, you are mentioning Nigeria.
Acts chapter 13 from verse 1, Living Bible. Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch were Barnabas and Symeon (also called “The Black Man”) …
Called what? THE BLACK MAN. Get me another translation. There is a particular translation that called it Nigger or Niger. That you are Nigerians means you are blacks.
NIV translation: Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger…
A round of applause. THE BLACK MAN. THE BLACK MAN! Maybe you do not know that those that gave Nigeria, Niger is typifying (symbolizing) black—the black man.
Let us read it again. Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: … Note! Certain prophets and teachers.…Barnabas, Simeon called Niger…
Spell it. N-I-G-E-R. Niger! Let us give a round applause to the Lord.
The Lord speaks: Nigeria – Niger. Monkey. Black Africa. Niger means monkey – black monkey. That is the why Africans are called blacks – monkeys.
NIGERIA DID NOT DERIVE HER NAME FROM THE RIVER NIGER. SHE DERIVED HER NAME FROM NIGER. NIGER AREA, NOT NIGER (RIVER) AREA. BLACK MONKEYS!
The black man. The black people. Thus, when the Prophet saw Him as a black man, he [the Prophet] said, “Wait for Him.” He had already seen Him. Another way of saying that He is a black man is that He is a Nigerian or Niger-area (Nigga-area).
The Lord speaks: From Africa.
Acts 13:1, AMP. NOW IN the church (assembly) at Antioch there were prophets (inspired interpreters of the will and purposes of God) and teachers: Barnabas, Symeon who was called Niger [Black], Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
We are not the authors of the Bible. So whatever that is happening never takes God unawares. It is not a surprise that we are where we are today. We have been in God’s original plan right from the very beginning.
Psalm chapter 17 verse 15, Good News Bible. But I will see you, because I have done no wrong. …
Let see what the Living Bible says. Any other translation there? “But as for me, my contentment is not in wealth but in seeing you and knowing all is well between us. And when I awake in heaven, I will be fully satisfied, for I will see you face to face.
This should be our statement or rallying point. As for me, as for you that have found it faithful being in His Presence, I identify with Him.
The Lord speaks:Read it again. But as for me, my contentment is not in wealth but in seeing you and knowing all is well between us. And when I awake in heaven, I will be fully satisfied, for I will see you face to face.
But in seeing you and knowing that all is well
The Lord speaks:There is nothing between me and my God. So that even if I sleep today, when I shall awake, I shall awake beholding His face in Paradise. Even if I fall asleep in death, if I resurrect, I shall still be in His Presence in Paradise – in eternity.
What is your contentment? As for me, my contentment is not in wealth. my contentment is not in building. my contentment is not in my status, but knowing you, seeing your face and recognizing that there is nothing standing between you and I, so that when I sleep in death, on that Resurrection Day, I am resurrecting beholding your face in Paradise. That’s all!
On this note, I say remain blessed in Him. Thank you very much.
The Lord speaks: I told you that even if the Bishop does not have anything, let him say “Good morning! Happy new month!” But he has gone beyond that. Amen.
what is your own contentment?
Colossians chapter 3 verse 16 only. Amplified.¹⁶Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds]…
And have what? Have its home in your hearts and minds.
¹⁶Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts. Amen.
Let the word spoken by Christ have its permanent home in your hearts and in your minds so that you do not forget it. Christ has spoken.
Isaiah chapter 30 verse 20 through 21. Good News Bible. ²⁰The Lord will make you go through hard times,…
Who will make you go through hard times? The Lord. Pay attention.
²⁰The Lord will make you go through hard times, but He himself will be there to teach you,…
He Himself will be what? He Himself will be there. To do what? To teach you.
…and will not have to search for Him anymore. ²¹If you wander off the road to the right or left, you will hear His Voice behind you saying, “Here is the road. Follow it.”
Thank you!

I know I am your Kinsman Redeemer, but how many believe in Me to the saving of their souls? You can believe in Me as your Brother. You can believe in Me as an Apostle. You can believe in Me as a Son of God, but to believe Me as the Elohim, the Saviour, the Redeemer, the All and All in Whom dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily, this is only by divine revelation. Only those that are given to believe this can believe it. The rest will not.

– THE SON OF MAN –

CHRIST IS THE IDENTITY OF EVERY ELECT; Preached on Sunday 8^th February 2015 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 76 vs. 13 – 14

GOD IS GOOD TO US

Remain blessed brethren. We really thank God for that Word. It is energizing. And it is encouraging. A great question he: Is your worship spiritual?

The Psalmist said, “Your Word have I hidden in My heart that I will not sin against you.” When the Word of God is in your heart, there will be no moment that is called unguided moment.

TESTIMONIES

We have testimonies. Testimonies to the glory of God by Deacon John.
The Lord speaks: Before he comes, can you tell us the experience Miracle had with his master? So you are not there. We want to hear the experience you told us which Miracle had with his master.
Our brother Miracle Emmanuel, the son of Deacon Emmanuel Mike told me that his boss in the office, who is also a pastor using Church for money-making. You know all these business centers.
He said that the man is acquainted with Messages of Prophet Branham. So, in the course of their discussion, from time to time, they do discuss spiritual matters.
Thus, the man saw one of the pictures. He saw this one (Pastor Chizoba pointed at the very picture hanging on the wall of the Fellowship hall at GTC).
That pastor shouted, “How did you come about this picture? This was the man that appeared to prophet Branham. This was the man prophet Braham saw in his vision.”
Then Bro Miracle responded. Bro Miracle reminded the pastor of what he had been telling him, “We are having dealings with Him. He is the One leading us. He is the One directing. All I have been telling you is from Him.”
The man said, “No, no, no! I do not believe it. Do you know the realm you will get to before you will able to behold Him? I have evaluated the Messages.”
This is because, from time to time, that pastor collects Messages from our brother Miracle. He goes through the Messages.
He went ahead to tell Bro Miracle, “I have evaluated all His works. He speaks like William Braham. He speaks authoritatively, but there is one thing that marvels me. And that is the point of my disagreement. Prophet William Braham was pointing to someone. One that will come, but this Man, from all indications, is pointing to Himself and Himself alone.” Amen.
When you hear something like this, how do you feel?
The Lord speaks: He is a Jew. The Jews said, “Moses told us about the One that will come. The Prophets said so, but this One is pointing everybody to Himself, saying that He Himself is the God. But we know him to be a Man.
Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 – 19, LB. ^[18]I will raise up from among them a Prophet, an Israeli like you. I will tell him what to say, and he shall be my spokesman to the people. ^[19]I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to him and heed his messages from me.
Matthew 13:55, AMP. ⁵⁵Is not this the carpenter’s Son? Is not His mother called Mary? And are not His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶And do not all His sisters live here among us? Where then did this Man get all this? ⁵⁷And they took offense at Him [they were repelled and hindered from acknowledging His authority, and caused to stumble]. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.
John 10:33, NIV. ³³“We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
John 16:12 – 14, NIV. ¹²“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.
Luke 17:24 – 30, MSG. ^24-25“You know how the whole sky lights up from a single flash of lightning? That’s how it will be on the Day of the Son of Man. But first it’s necessary that he suffer many things and be turned down by the people of today. ^26-27“The time of the Son of Man will be just like the time of Noah— everyone carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ship. They suspected nothing until the flood hit and swept everything away. ^28-30“It was the same in the time of Lot—the people carrying on, having a good time, business as usual right up to the day Lot walked out of Sodom and a firestorm swept down and burned everything to a crisp. That’s how it will be—sudden, total—when the Son of Man is revealed.
Hebrews 4:8, KJV. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Hebrews 4:8 – 11, MSG. ^8-11And so this is still a live promise. It wasn’t canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn’t keep renewing the appointment for “today.” The promise of “arrival” and “rest” is still there for God’s people. God himself is at rest. And at the end of the journey we’ll surely rest with God. So let’s keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience.
1 John 3:1 – 2, AMP. ¹SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him. ²Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is.
The Lord speaks. If you do not believe that I am he…..
Deacon, please come forward and give your testimony.
Deacon John: Where is Ikenna and the rest? Without the Son of Man today, none of these people you are seeing here today would be alive. So where are they? Where are Ojiakor’s children? For all of us were inside that vehicle. You know, this thing actually happened.
The Lord speaks: All that were in that vehicle, you are the ones to give the testimony. Don’t you know you all died and resurrected from the dead?
Brethren! You know, as I was saying before. I said, “Once you set out to come to Onitsha to worship God, your mind, your soul and everything will start pointing to what? Onitsha. You are no longer seeing anything except Jerusalem.
I do not know whether it happens to another person. Your mind is focused that you are coming down to Jerusalem.
On our way, it was a free and smooth journey. There were no much vehicles on the way. But God had always been there with us. Anytime we set out to come to Onitsha, we must do our Fellowship inside the vehicle and the Pastor who is always there with us, He knows what I am saying. After our worship song, prayer would continue. And things will continue coming like that.
When this thing actually happened, many of us saw it live. It was a direct miscalculation on my own part because I saw the vehicle very clearly. Even though the vehicle did not put on its trafficator and the conductor was there, but he was not saying anything.
I do not know what saved us from falling into the ditch. I moved to the other side only for the man to swerve back. And there is nothing I could do again. If I hit the man in a head-on collision, all of us will just perish.
I do not know how the thing happened, but the same God changed my hand. And in front of us was a very big gully. The vehicle stopped at that point of falling into the gully.
At the point of entering that gully, that was when the vehicle stopped. If we had entered that gully, nobody knows what would had happened. Instead of entering, the thing stopped at that point and was dangling.
Surprisingly, I started the car again and the engine responded and I drove past that gutter a little bit and then, landed on the road. That was when I stopped.