HELP FROM ABOVE VOLUME 1 OF 3

HELP FROM ABOVE VOLUME 1OF 3 Preached ON Sunday 11^th September 2022 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Lord of Spirits

Transcribed by Deacon David Mbah, Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State.

¹hearken to me, you who follow after rightness and justice, you who seek and inquire of [and require] the Lord [claiming Him by necessity and by right]: look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the hole in the quarry from which you were dug; ²Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him when he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many. ³For the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song or instrument of praise. ⁴Listen to Me [the Lord], O My people, and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a [divine] law will go forth from Me, and I will establish My justice for a light to the peoples. ⁵My rightness and justice are near, My salvation is going forth, and My arms shall rule the peoples; the islands shall wait for and expect Me, and on My arm shall they trust and wait with hope.

Isaiah 51:1-5 Amplified version

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

INTRODUCTION

PRAYER

Our heavenly Father, we have come to You as a family. You are the only One and true God, and You have only but one family both in heaven and on earth where all Your children are members and where they are united spiritually, O God. And that forms the Invisible Union of the Bride where the Bridegroom is presiding over the affairs.

Father, we bow before You this morning and reverence Your Name. You had already instructed that it must be one God, one Faith, one doctrine, one character, one spirit and one family.
We give You the praise for counting us to be worthy of being members of this unique Family that is called by Your Name, for You said that every family in heaven and on earth Must be named after Christ. And we are privileged O God to be members spiritually and physically. What a wonderful privilege we are enjoying!
All that belong to this Super Family globally, LORD we pray this day that You meet their souls’ demands as You meet their physical demands.
We have come to worship You in spirit and in truth. We have come, O God to renew our strength in Your presence, for the entrance of your Word in our hearts renews our strength and gives us the hope of a brighter future. While You live, we believe we shall face tomorrow.
We are rejoicing exceedingly that today, You have added another soul to this Family. Unto us a new soul is born into this Family by marriage by the Holy Spirit.
Our Pastor before now has been a single young man, but today, O God, we can see him as a couple with his wife who he presented before the Elders, even THE SON OF MAN yesterday evening. We glorified Your Name. We will remain glorifying Your Name.
LORD, we have handed them over to Your care. Everyday, we keep on handing them over to Your care. They have never gone this way before. Teach them O God, all that they need to know about this new road that they have now decided to go.
They are undertaking the longest journey. Apart from death, marriage is the second. See them through. In all the trials and temptations that are associated with marital life, be there for them.
May You never use anything O God, you know they cannot surmount to test their love or to test their faith. Please, I pray Thee O God, remember the hour is very short. May they enjoy their union spiritually and physically.
Others married and died spiritually. May it never be so with them. May they remain alive spiritually and physically while the blessings of marital life will follow them.
To us O God, who are witnesses, we pray Thee to be with us all through. May we live, O King of Glory, to see Your Name being glorified in that family.
This day, O King of Glory, we have come believing that You will open our eyes of understanding to know the truth and nothing but the truth about the type of preparation you are making for us while we wait for the translation of our mortal bodies.
We have come because You promised You will summarize all the teachings and doctrines we received in this Faith from December 27^th 1992 till this morning. Father, You promised You are going to summarize all of them in one Message.
And the devil fought gallantly, using everything within his power to make sure that this Message is not coming. But LORD, Your mighty hand prevailed.
This morning O God, I pray that You forgive the sins of all that are called by Your Name. If there be anything stain, wrinkle or blemish that is attached to any of them, Father, I detach all from here.
You said, “If THE SON OF MAN shall set them free, they shall be free indeed.” And any sin we forgive here, You have forgiven in Heaven. Any one we bind here, You have bound in Heaven.
I stand here O God upon the Authority conferred on Me as the vindicated and confirmed SON OF MAN revealed in this Age bearing Your Name and declare all and sundry that are called by Your Name, that worship You in spirit and in truth– I declare all their sins forgiven.
Help them to forgive all those that offended them. May we never hold any grudge or anything against any human being so that the devil will not accuse us before Your Throne of Grace. The same way You have forgiven us, cause us to forgive others.
Father, speak to our hearts directly this morning, and help us O God to hear, understand and then obey for our own good.
Peradventure some people might have been playing with previous Messages, let there be no one who is desirous of eternal life that will play with today’s Message, knowing the Source of the Message. May they never see a man. May they see You behind the veil.
May Your perfect will be fulfilled here today and in every other gathering, in every other tent where Your children gather today to worship You. Be there for them. Meet their souls’ demands for Your Name’s sake, I pray. Amen.

Some people, you know, due to “lack of revelation” think they are in “Peter Odoemena’s Church.” Some even think that if they leave the Church, I am losing something. But let Me tell you: If you leave the Bridal Faith today, I am losing nothing. If you come into this Church – Bridal Faith – I am gaining nothing. You are a burden to Me, because I know I can do without you, but you cannot do without Me. I do not need you but you need Me. As far as I live, I am the True Vine and you are My branches. You can only bear fruit and your fruit will remain if you abide in Me.

– THE SON OF MAN –

LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOL. 1; Preached on 30^th April 2000 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 12 vs. 13

NOBODY LEAVES THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND GETS ANY BETTER

Be seated everybody. Today is another wonderful day here. And I welcome all Elect of God globally to this day’s Worship Service.

Bear with Me wherever you may be for I am going to go in a very unusual way today. Unusual in the sense that I will not over flood today’s gathering with too many songs and praises. The Word is the most essential thing today, for I know I am going to take the greatest risk. You will know why I call it the greatest risk today.
I handled a Message I entitled CONDEMNED AND AWAITING EXECUTION on the 29^th of August 2021. Today, if I must give whatever I must handle a title, I will give the first title HELP FROM ABOVE. HELP FROM ABOVE.
The Psalmist said he looked up the sky (the heavens, the starry heavens) and he looked sideways, even behind himself and then asked a pertinent question, “Where cometh my help?”
And he got a reply from the Almighty saying, “Your help will only come from the LORD God Almighty Who created the heavens and the earth.” So help cometh from above.
If your help or the one you are desiring is not coming from that Source, it is no help at all. It is no help. It is a disappointment because man is filled with disappointments and confusion, but there is no disappointment in God. Simply trust Him, even unto death. Trust God in all situations.
If God does not help, who then will help? If God does not help you out of your situation, tell me who else will help you out. That is why the Bible said and I believe it that he remains our present help in the time of need. In the time of need, not in the time of want, for He knows what we have need of at all times.
Psalms 46:1, KJV. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
But you must trust Him—believe in Him, trust in Him, confide in Him and rely on Him. Then, cast all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. We sing it in our song: [He careth for me. God careth for me. Through sunshine and shadows, He careth for me.] God cares for us in all situations through sunshine and through the shadows.
So, this morning, I want us to take off immediately without hesitation. Bring out all the copies of the holy Bible as we search the Scriptures.
Because of those who do not have the faith to believe in the Spoken Word, I will begin with the written Word to see whether I can create some elements of Faith in them.
And this is because faith dismisses doubt. I say faith in Christ– faith in His Word dismisses doubt. So, if you have been doubting, this morning, I want the doubt in you to be dismissed by your faith in the Word.
The same way, faith in the revealed Word of God settles every confusion and every misunderstanding. The moment you have faith that whatever God has said is final on any matter– you have that faith that nobody has spoken until God has spoken, and that until God has concluded your case, whatever any man is saying is absolutely nonsense.
Until you have such a faith settled in you, there is no way your misunderstanding can be settled. There is no way your confusion can be settled.
I was rejoicing this morning after we shared testimonies of our experiences yesterday during the meeting of the Elders which could not even be disturbed by the rainfall, for they challenged themselves and came by faith. And their faith stopped the heavy rainfall. We had a wonderful time.
I saw Brethren doing their videos, and some were recording the Messages, but this morning we saw the vindication. I instructed that everything should be posted worldwide. So when you open your handsets, you will see something today.
That is the testimony following our yesterday’s gathering where our Pastor for the first time since we came into contact with him as a young man presented somebody he held with his own hand as his wife.
I thank God that I am still alive to witness it, which is the climax. Then the next thing will be his translation. Maybe God ordained it that translation will not take place until he is married so that he will have a completed experience in Christ. A completed experience in Christ. Maybe that could be the perfect will of God.
I want to, first of all, address one dicey issue. I have been receiving too many test messages from too many people from Aba in Abia State.
I call them “Too many people” because I do not know what they really believe. I am trying to see whether they will understand what the faith of Christ– the faith of THE SON OF MAN is all about.
I have not been privileged to be acquainted with any of them. I do not even know who their overseer is. I believe that they are sincere in coming to God for eternal life and not for material gains.
I am believing that because since the man who gathered them, being Pastor Moses, was exposed in unbelief, I have not received any report that they stopped gathering in their families. I linked them up to Onitsha platform.
I do not know whether they are following or not. And nobody is giving Me any report about them. They do not even report to Me. I know that they do not report to Pastor Chizoba who is the Pastor in charge, and who linked them.
So they have been on their own. That is why, to call them My Brethren is very difficult for Me. This is a very hard truth.
I love them with the love of God. One of them, the wife of our late Brother Casmir, her son is with Me here. He has been with Me all along for over one year now.
No matter how we interact over the phone, that does not make Me to call them Brethren because I really do not know what Pastor Moses planted in them, for no man can be a Roman Catholic more than the Pope. No man can claim to be more Anglican than the Archbishop of Canterbury.
So there is no worshipper that can claim to be higher than the Pastor in charge, the overseer who is nourishing them spiritually.
If Moses Nnaemeka could not find his feet in the Faith, begin now to wonder why I find it very difficult to regard those he raised as My brethren. He raised them in disobedience, and he was cut off completely from what God is doing in the midst of the Bride.
Hence, up till this year 2022, he never knew we have been worshipping in our homes since 2020 because he was leading a movement he formed. And the movement blinded him so much and removed him, although he was removed from among us before them.
By 2016, the people he called the New Aba household of God never came into existence. We knew nothing called New Aba Household of God by 2016. They were non-existent. Moses was still with Aba as Pastor. He has been there all his life since he came back from Republic of Benin.
What hindered him from hearing the Voice of God? I queried him after reading his text. He said, “If he heard… If he knew…” I asked him, “What hindered you?” Nothing but unbelief which led to quarrelling.
Instead of hearing the Word of God, he was busy quarrelling with his fellow Ministers over the pulpit.
To crown it all, till this day, he does not purchase Sermon Books. He does not! I wonder if he reads Sermon Books. Even his wife! For he is desirous of leading a movement that can be called by his name.
When I gave instruction that they should go to Obingwa, he refused. He disobeyed Me flagrantly and began to assemble his colleagues in the market with a new name and became the only one that found a worship place in a secondary school or primary school where they were gathering. Until we left, he continued.
And he became another son of man among them where they were beating drums for him. He never knew that he was raising the synagogue of Satan – Satan’s Eden.
I knew about it. I warned. When I noticed that his mouth was filled with words, I allowed him to have his way. After all, I never knew those people.
Even when he brought them the first time with a vehicle, I asked a pertinent question, “Who is going to take care of these people? What and what did you tell them? How are they going to start? Do you not know the hour you brought them in? Have you forgotten what I said? Okay. If you can open the books and give them salvation, do it. But may they never associate themselves with the members of the old Aba. Keep them aloof from them to enable Me know exactly what they heard from you and now that moved the to come to see Me. You must have told them something.”
And what he told them or what he taught them reflected in the best he had. His best is this Bright who has been living with Me and whose name has filled the whole world as a stubborn and hard-hearted young boy that is not ready to change.
But patiently, I have been enduring him and watching him alongside his age to see whether I can squeeze out a sign of a human being in him at last. It has not been easy.
And you know My heart accommodates people’s weaknesses to a very large extent. That is why, the moment I show you the way out, that means I have exhausted everything I know I have that can transform a human being from a beast to a real human being.
And watch that person I have shown the way out. Every day, he will get worse, for he can never be better anymore until the day he will destroy himself with his own hands.
Nobody leaves the presence of God and gets any better. The moment you leave the presence of the Life-Bearer; Life-Giver, what do you meet? Death bearer. Death giver.
The whole Ds will follow the person. I say the whole Ds ranging from Disappointment to Disaster to Disdain to Death. Everything will follow that person.
Now, he has put this people in Aba in jeopardy. It is better he allowed them to remain where they were than to bring them out and get them much more confused, being a pharisee, for the pharisees will go to all length to make a convert. After which they will make that convert to be more of a candidate of hell than of heaven. A regrettable ordeal.
But I pray that they will hear My Voice today and do the right thing.
When Saint Peter spoke on the day of Pentecost under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, those who were desirous of salvation stood up and asked a question, “Men and brethren, what shall we do now since we do not want to perish.”
Acts 2:36-37, KJV. ³⁶Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. ³⁷Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
What do we do, since we have discovered that a deceiver deceived himself and deceived us? An impersonator has misrepresented Christ and misrepresented the truth.
The dangers of impersonation. In these last days, people will get deceived and will be deceiving others.
There is no way anybody can impersonate Christ and succeed. Those who attempted it in the time past as recorded in the holy Scriptures, their nakedness was made manifest.
The Bible said that such hypocrisies cannot be hidden for too long, for they must be surely exposed.
Luke 12:1, LB. ^[1]Meanwhile the crowds grew until thousands upon thousands were milling about and crushing each other. He turned now to his disciples and warned them, “More than anything else, beware of these Pharisees and the way they pretend to be good when they aren’t. But such hypocrisy cannot be hidden forever.
Now, to those at Aba who have good hearts, if there be any, I will not tell you what to do. If you are in a journey with a leader and you discover that he is in error– moreso, when the Almighty God has illuminated your eyes of understanding, the only thing He is telling you is to run for your life. Run for your life. I would not tell you where to run to. Run for your life.
It is not packing away from Aba that will give you eternal life. If you pack away from Aba, where do you settle down?
This is because you must settle with the group where you will be fully accommodated. You must settle in a club, a group or synagogue where people there behave like you and believe the same thing you believe, behave the same way you behave and have the same vision you have concerning your life. True or false?
If I am desiring eternal life, I will stop at nothing until I will settle with somebody who has that goal or else, I will remain the Antipas. I will stay alone with My own conviction of Who God is, for I know what I am looking for.
Revelation 2:13, AMP. ¹³I know where you live–a place where Satan sits enthroned. [Yet] you are clinging to and holding fast My Name, and you did not deny My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed (martyred) in your midst–where Satan dwells.
After all, in the race to Heaven, nobody impersonates anybody’s thumbprint. You can impersonate every other thing but not another man’s thumbprint, for the moment the thumbprint is placed, the picture of the owner will appear. So, if you place your own thumbprint, your picture will appear.
You can place your own– put My name Apostle Peter Odoemena, and then place your thumbprint to represent Me, the picture they will see will be your own. If it is a woman, they will see a woman. They know Odoemena is not a woman.
So be very careful. That is why there are places you cannot cheat. Where you are now, nobody can practice cheating. You cannot cheat. You cannot even cheat yourself where we are now.
That is why I want to summarize the race. After which I will blow My last whistle. The moment I have summarized what this Faith is all about, the next thing you will expect is the last whistle. Am I making sense at all?
If you are not expecting the last whistle by now, something is wrong with you. It then means you have not been following the son of man and the trend of events around Him.
You think I will be here forever? Why then did I send My wife to go ahead of time? Why am I preparing My children to be ready?
All of them are tied to somebody, while the boys are already preparing a people who will go with them. They are all going away with those that they have prepared. I do not need to give them any signal. I am preparing and they are preparing.
Now, the Message of last Friday documented by Pastor Daniel Atta said PREPARATION FOR YOUR DEPARTURE. It may put somebody into desperation.
If you want to pack away from Aba, it is your right. If you want to stay back, it is your right. But be sure you have obeyed every other Message with all your heart, for the problem is not packing away from Aba only.
If you pack away from Aba, you are not declared righteous. You must be sure that you are not guilty of other previous Messages.
The instruction went forth in 2016. You just heard a reminder and you began to trouble Me. No! Do not! But My joy is that all that are writing spoke in the same vein that they have been wasting all their energy in Aba for years even before they came into contact with this Faith.
There has never been any proof that Aba has been helpful to them while they stay there. And the more they stay, the worse the situation becomes. Are you surprised?
Aba is known for three things. [One] RIOTING, [Two] MURDER and [Three] STEALING. The three occupations of Aba.
Aba has been in the history of the world for that is the only place in black Africa, even in the whole world, where women rioted – the Aba Women’s riot in the early twenties. In November-December of 1929, Aba disturbed the whole world.
Aba set the whole of Igbo land ablaze and killed many expatriates. When we were under the British colony, Aba [Ngwa people] challenged the whites with their matchets, burnt down courts, schools and colleges because the then government of the British said that their women should pay a little tax to help in the training of their children. They went wild.
Is it any surprise why people from that area do not value academic education? It started from the very beginning. All they know is for their women to go and marry. And then for their boys, “Take matchets! Go and steal! Then make money.”
So you must know the history of the place where you are. It gives me joy that when I found fault with Onitsha, I announced it. Up till today, I still say it that a good number of our Brethren are suffering from Onitsha spirit.
And I vowed a vow that they have a goddess THE SON OF MAN can never worship. If what will sustain Me and My Family will come from the goddesses, let me die of starvation and hunger. Let Me die of thirst.
And the LORD opened My eyes and took me away from Onitsha to Goshen, far away from Onitsha. So I now visit Onitsha from another Local Government. We are all in Anambra State, but I am in Anambra East Local Government Area and not in Onitsha anymore. I do not have any connection with Onitsha.
So, those who moved away with Me have their testimonies to tell the whole world for good. Those that remained have become worse off. They have become more and more impoverished that they cannot even pay their rents and they cannot even feed their families.
I do not want to give the impression that I am living when I know that I am dying. That is Onitsha. So, let us face the stark realities.
As for Aba, all that are desiring eternal life that are resident in Aba, enquire of the LORD before you make a move. I say, “Enquire of the LORD, and then make a move.”
The Bible encourages us to enquire of the LORD. And he will show us the right path to follow – the right path to follow. And He will also teach us how to profit.
Unless I want to show you extraordinary favour based on your spiritual value, I can pull you out and tell you where to go and settle. But will you accept it? This is because where I may send you may be contrary to your expectation.
I remember the first set of people I moved from Onitsha. They were looking for accommodation in Onitsha, but I said, “Do not! Do not ever. Even if it is given to you free of charge, do not accept it, unless you want to perish with your family. If you believe Me, go to Nsugbe College of Education. Go and look for a place there. You will get [one] a better accommodation with better facilities. [Two] it will be an entirely new environment. Do not call it a village.”
It is better you live inside a bush and take good care of your family both spiritually and materially than to live in the urban center and die of starvation and incur debts you cannot pay, only to answer a name, “I am living in Onitsha” as if the name will provide all you need.
All that obeyed are jubilating with their families. All! Not minus one. But it was not easy for them to obey. Most of them queried My instruction. I compelled them to go, and that I Myself will be going there, but I want to move you first.
And these were the people that were with Me at Benjamin [street]. Notably among them, I will mention Pastor Thomas and family, Brother Sam Agu and family, Bishop Nnachor and family. And they were always with Me in My house at Benjamin. I moved them. Then I joined them the same year, not another year.
When others noticed that those I moved have been visited by the Almighty God, for they were blossoming, they were all attracted. Even without further instruction, they rushed down to this place. And then, I called it Goshen of the Bride. So this is our Bridal Goshen.
Must everybody come here? No! I say no. But before then I had earlier warned that if you want to live in Onitsha, look at the areas you should not go and look for accommodation.
Do you know that till today, some are still packing there, thinking that I will stop them? But since they packed there, what is happening? They have been crying. They have been weeping. It has always been, “They nearly killed us.” They have been running helter-skelter.
Why? They have been in disobedience. There is no peace with the wicked. And the wicked is the disobedient one. There are too many other things but they are not for today.
It pays to pay heed and to obey God’s instruction. Do not complain. It may not be palatable. But at the end, watch the result. Watch the result.

¹⁰If I am not sent, you will not come. I came and then released the Word; The Word magnetized all that belong to Me, for no man can come to Me except the Father brings him to Me. I know My sheep, My sheep knoweth Me. My sheep heareth My Voice and I call them by their names. ¹¹They would never perish for I will give them eternal life. Neither would anything pluck them out of My hand, for My Father who giveth them to Me is stronger than any seducing spirit, any tempter, any opposing power. If you belong to this category, be happy. And how do you prove it? ¹²There is an inner force, inner drive, inner passion that can never calm down. It is always bubbling. It is always bubbling. When the tempest rises, the inner force raises a standard, immediately the situation is stemmed, the word automatically controls it, places the tempest where it belongs to.

– THE SON OF MAN –

BRIDAL WATCH (NO PLACE TO HIDE) VOL. 6; Preached on Sunday 24^th April, 2016 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 47 vs. 6 – 10

GOD KNOWS ALL THAT BELONG TO HIM

Now, HELP FROM ABOVE is the topic I want to consider. I prayed before I gave it this title, for if God does not come to our help, the help of man is vain. So if there is anytime we need this help, it is now.

We sing it in our song. [O God our help in Ages past. Our hope for years to come. Our shelter from the stormy blast and our eternal home]
He has been our help even in Ages past. He will remain our help even in the years to come. Till eternity, he will remain our home and our shelter from the stormy blast. Amen.
So please, follow Me gradually for you will understand where I am heading to. I say you will understand Me.
2 Timothy 2:19-20. From the Message Bible. Another person should hold the Amplified version, while the other should hold Living Bible. My reference Bible will be King James version. I said My reference.
MSG. ¹⁹Meanwhile, God’s firm foundation is as firm as ever, these sentences engraved on the stones: God knows who belongs to Him. Spurn evil, all you who name God as God.
Shun evil all of you that name God as God; who mention the Name of God as God. Remember, the Name of God must be revered. Thou shall never mention the Name of God in vain. Never never!
Thou shall not play or joke or jest with the Name of God, for the Name of God is holy. The Name of God is a mighty Tower where the righteous hide themselves and get secured.
The Name of God is the power of God, which is the Word of God. You can never mention that Name anyhow nor hold it in hypocrisy or with pretenses. Look at the firm word there. Read it.
There is something engraved in the stone. A firm. Formidable and strong foundation, immovable and unshakable that endureth to all generation from the time of creation.
¹⁹Meanwhile, God’s firm foundation is as firm as ever,… Not weak. You see why in the Message BUILDING PLAN: GOD’S PLAN TO ESTABLISHING HIS CHURCH, it said, “I am laying a firm formidable foundation that can never be eroded away.” Come what may, it can never be shaken because I am a time-tested Master Builder.
I do not give out half-baked bread. Never! I know that I am building on the solid Rock – a firm foundation. The Rock that followed right from the Wilderness. The continuation is here. And that Rock is Christ, not was but is; ever present tense.
That is the Rock. Upon this Rock, I build My Church. Knowing that there must come the period of storm, I make My foundation so that it can stand the test of time. And if your anchor will hold on that solid Rock, that is all you need. That is all you need.
There is no wave– there is no tempest there is no storm there is nobody nor wind that can shake it. It is immovable. It is immovable.
And that is why all that have their names engraved upon that stone are known by He that engraved their names there. I do not know where your own is engraved. If it is not there, it is not a monument. I say, it is not a monument.
¹⁹Meanwhile, God’s firm foundation is as firm as ever, these sentences engraved on the stones: God knows who belongs to Him. …
Who knows who belongs to God? Everybody can claim. Anyone can claim that he or she is a child of God, “I proceeded from God. Who created me if not God?”
It is your right. It is incontestable. Declare it, it is your right, but has God said so. Has God ever claimed you to be His own? He that gave you a separate thumbprint from your parents your mother has her own. Your father has his own. If you are one million that are born by one woman, all will have different thumbprints.
If you like, be quadruplets, I do not care. The same woman and the same father produced Cain and Abel, but God disowned Cain. God said that Cain was born of the treacherous one. Cain was a child of the devil, for he proceeded from the devil.
Hence He said, “If you are loving your brothers and sisters, let it not be the type of love Cain claimed to have for his brother Abel and lured him out to the field, only to kill him.” Why? Cain was devil’s incarnate. Serpent seed. But Cain was of the same father and mother with Abel, the righteous one. Abel was righteous from the womb of Eve. Cain – serpent’s seed. Abel – God’s seed.
You claim God to be your father. It is your right, but has God owned you? You may be claiming God as your father, but God knows you as a bastard. Do you not believe that to be true?
Remember, I have started with the foundation, but I said I am summarizing. I am summarizing. HELP FROM ABOVE.
As I continue, you will understand Me. Look at the inscription: GOD KNOWS ALL THAT BELONG TO HIM. He that gave you your own thumb with a different number from that of others, He knows where you belong to.
The same way God knows who should be a male child and who should be a female child from creation right from conception. Inside the mother’s womb, God ordained one to be female and the other to be male.
Has a man ever done that before? I mean a man. Has a man in his craft, in his knowledge and in his science produced by his own efforts anything that can make that determination of who should be a man and who should be a woman.
When the water was poured into the woman’s uterus, it was mere water. Nothing has been formed. Nothing! Just a droplet of water that percolated and the Almighty had determined everything about that little thing that percolated thee.
I want to subject all of us to sincere thoughts about God and life if God has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness, that we may be able to attain His divine nature.
Having given us exceedingly great promises that are unfailing, we are in a better position to talk to people and to tell people who we are.
If you do not know who you are, a mad man is better than you are. You must know who you are. You must know where you came from. You must know Who your Father is physically and spiritually.
As you know your earthly father. So you should identify with your spiritual Father, for the spirit went forth before the flesh came into existence. True or false?
You were a spirit before you became a human being. What was deposited into the womb or uterus was a spirit. It was mere water. That water now started metamorphosing. And finally, we saw a complete human being molded out of nothing, but water.
Do you believe that to be true? Well, maybe I am going too far. Let me lower it a little. I do not want to go into details.
You must shun evil. I must shun evil. What is evil? Whatever God hates. Whatever God hates. Anything or any practice, any thought or any imagination God does not approve, that runs contrary to the revealed Word of God, say no!
I say, say no, come what may. I do not care who is enticing you. I do not care what he is using to allure you. Say no!
¹⁹Meanwhile, God’s firm foundation is as firm as ever, these sentences engraved on the stones: God knows who belongs to Him. Spurn evil, all you who name God as God.
^20-21In a well-furnished kitchen … Just like the one My wife left behind here. …there are not only crystal goblets and silver platters, but waste cans and compost buckets ….
Compost buckets. Do we have any in the kitchen there? That is the refuse dump. The refuse baskets. Refuse water-proof bags. Are they not in the kitchen? Do you cook them and eat?
… some containers used to serve fine meals, others to take out the garbage. Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to His guest…
Be a type of container; Be a kind of container – the kind of plate, the kind of spoon, the kind of cup the Almighty God will only use while entertaining very important guests and not for everyday use that can be rubbished even in the dustbin. Even if the daily-used plates break like plastics, we care little or nothing about them.
There are plates that are not easy to replace. They are very important. They do not come out anyhow. They only come out during special occasions for special people.
God is saying, “Become like one of those plates – those ornaments.” Become like those costly vessels that are not brought out regularly. The only time they are seen and made use of is when a notable person is hosted.
It is just like the president is about to go to Imo State. Not everybody will be privileged to go to the high table with him, but he must be there with people. Not everybody will be privileged to be in his entourage, but there must be people who will be in that entourage.
Be like those people in the hand of God. Be precious!
…BECOME THE KIND OF CONTAINER GOD CAN USE … Who can use? You see why many are called but few are chosen, for what God is collecting from the earth are nothing but jewels – vessels of honour and not of dishonour.
…Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to His guest for their blessings. For what? …for their blessings.
2 Timothy 2:19-20, KJV. ¹⁹Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. ²⁰But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. ²¹If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
When I want to handle teaches, no matter how I flood it with Scriptures, I still create room for other translations. Maybe the fullness will be whenever we are publishing it in book form. Then you will see other translations.
If I insist on reading all, we may not leave here till tomorrow, for it is not easy to summarize a move that took off in the year 1992, precisely on December 30^th. This is 2022. By December 30^th, we will be exactly 30 years.
And in thirty years Message, sometimes we had daily worship – daily fellowship. And I came out to summarize all in one session of a meeting like this. Do you not know that I am taking a risk?
NIV. ¹⁹Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.” ²⁰In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble.
GNB. But the solid foundation that God has laid cannot be shaken; and on it are written these words: The LORD knows those that are His, and those who say that they belong to the LORD must turn away from wrongdoing. In a large house there are dishes and bowls of all kinds: some are made of silver and gold, others of wood and clay; some are for special occasions, others are for ordinary use.
LB. ^[19]But God’s truth stands firm like a great rock, and nothing can shake it. It is a foundation stone with these words written on it: “The Lord knows those who are really his,” and “A person who calls himself a Christian should not be doing things that are wrong.” ^[20]In a wealthy home there are dishes made of gold and silver as well as some made from wood and clay. The expensive dishes are used for guests, and the cheap ones are used in the kitchen or to put garbage in.
Now, check the foundation first. That was where the problem took off. Foundation. If your foundation is not on Christ, the solid Rock, your name was not written and engraved on that Rock.
You were merely pretending. May be because you were born into the Fellowship of the Saints, and then you claim membership – you are right.
May be because you have THE SON OF MAN as your father biologically, you claim you are saved. You are no better than the sons of Eli the high priest – Hophni and Phinehas, who were children of the devil.
Yet, they were sons of the high priest Eli. They were also priests in the temple with their father.
So, the position you are occupying in your Fellowship or in your church cannot give you eternal life. It can never ever make you a seed of God.
So it is in marriage. Do not forget that Abigail married. Abigail, being a Jewess, got married to one that hated God. True or false? The name of the man she married to is a man whose name sounded like his character according to the Scriptures that he is as evil as his name.
Do you know the name of that man? Nabal. Nabal. That Nabal married Abigail could not make Nabal a Jew. And the two had different thumbprints for which cause, while Nabal volunteered to die, his wife volunteered to live.
Nabal rallied around his wealth and riches, but the wife dissociated herself from the wealth of the wicked man and ran to the Source of life, King David in the wilderness, from where we can trace the genealogy of the LORD Jesus Christ.
The same was applicable to the mother of Solomon, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. A Hittite married a Jewess. She married from a forbidden nation, but look at how God pulled her out. Beersheba, of who the history is still there that that is the lineage of Jesus Christ, for she gave birth to Solomon. And from Solomon we could see what happened. We see Jesse. We see David. We see the LORD Jesus Christ.
Pay attention. There is something in a foundation. Known unto God are all His creatures from the foundation of the world.
Remember, the work of salvation was finished right from the foundation of the world. The Lamb was slain and the blood was used for atonement for those whose names were already documented in the Lamb’s Book of life.
Before the world began, atonement was made for them when they were in the spirit form. Later they became human beings.
Hear me well. Your foundation means a lot. My foundation means a lot. If your name was not inscribed on that solid Rock, the Rock of Ages, there is no way that Rock can cleft for you.
The Rock can only cleft for those people whose names were already engraved on that stone, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, Barbarians or Greeks. I do not care. Pay attention.

We thank God for what He is doing in our day, more especially the appearance of THE SON OF MAN. THE SON OF MAN has appeared but He will not take us home immediately for He has a work to do. Maybe we do not know the meaning of THE SON OF MAN; I say may be! If we know the meaning of SON OF MAN, then we can now look for His Ministry. Believe it if you can, THE SON OF MAN has a Ministry. The Bible said, “God judgeth no man, but has committed judgment into the hands of His Dear Son, THE SON OF MAN. Thus, Christ, THE SON OF MAN forgives all manner of sins, that it might be known and believed that THE SON OF MAN has the power to forgive all sins.” In the Ministry of THE SON OF MAN, when He appears on the scene, the Bible said that He is going to separate the goat from the sheep……

– THE SON OF MAN –

CHANGE YOUR HEART AND MIND; Preached on Thursday 31^st October 1997 at the Household of God Abuja; Pg. 8 vs. 1 – 3

ARE YOU A PART OF WHAT GOD IS DOING?

Acts of the Apostles chapter fifteen. Look at verse eighteen. Acts 15:18, MSG. ^13-18James broke the silence. “Friends, listen. Simeon has told us the story of how God at the very outset made sure that racial outsiders were included. …

Racial! Racial! Racial! Racial! People that were outside the race of Israel.
This is in perfect agreement with the words of the prophets: After this, I’m coming back; I’ll rebuild David’s ruined house; I’ll put all the pieces together again; I’ll make it look like new So outsiders who seek will find, so they’ll have a place to come to, All the pagan peoples included in what I’m doing. “God said it and now he’s doing it. It’s no afterthought; he’s always known he would do this.
Acts 15:18, LB. That is what the LORD says, who reveals His plans even from the beginning.
AMP. ¹⁸Says the Lord, Who has been making these things known from the beginning of the world.
GNB. So says the LORD, who made this known long ago
KJV. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Known unto God who has been revealing all these things right from the beginning of the world. Who has been revealing all these things? God. Who knows all His works from the beginning of the world? God. Who knows the end from the beginning? God.
And this is God who said, “I know all that belong to Me. I know all that are mine.” That is why when the LORD Jesus was making a prayer, he said, “I am praying for My own. I am not praying for the world.”
Anybody can claim whatever he or she wants to claim. It is the person’s right. But has God said so? Has God claimed you? Have you ever received any affirmation or confirmation from God that you are His or that you are a child of God and that God is your Father?
Remember I am taking off from these two Scriptures. Now, follow Me to the Book of Isaiah chapter one from verse one through four. First, the Message Bible.
Isaiah1:1-4, MSG. ¹The vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw regarding Judah and Jerusalem during the times of the kings of Judah: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. ^2-4Heaven and earth, you are the jury. …
You know what jury is? Heaven and earth, you are the judge. Heaven and earth, bear witness this day. The moment God declares heaven and earth to hear His Voice on a matter that is the end. The moment God calls heaven and earth to bear witness over a matter that is the end of that matter. Though human beings may deny, heaven and earth will never deny.
That is why we have a Message, HEAR ME O HEAVEN; HEAR ME O EARTH as I declare THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS [preached on Sunday 16^th June 2019].
It is the LORD Himself Who took it upon Himself to be revealing these truths right from the very beginning of the world.
Watch the names of those kings that ruled Israel in the days of Prophet Isaiah, who was the prophet that prophesied about the coming Messiah Who will gather the ruins of David and the pieces and knit it together creating room for the pagans also to be partakers of God’s salvation.
This is in consonance and in agreement with His plans that in every place and in every nation, whosoever that feareth and honoureth Him is made acceptable by God. No discrimination between Jews and Gentiles. Gentiles means pagans, heathens, Barbarians or Greeks.
Upon this particular truth that God knows all that belong to Him– that was when Peter was introduced to Joppa in the house of Cornelius in a vision, he saw reptiles and he shouted, “No! No! I cannot eat and I cannot kill, for God said, ‘Kill! Eat!’ but he said ‘No! I have been a Jew. We are prohibited from eating reptiles. From birth, we do not touch it and I have never touched any.’”
God said, “Peter, take. I am the one that directed you to do it. Whatever I have called blessed, never call accursed. I have already decreed that a day cometh when I will bring the Gentiles in to share in the salvation. Now, why saying no.
Stay here. A man is coming to meet with you for there is one out there, Cornelius who is a very good man with a good heart who serves My interest and keeps to generosity. His alms have reached My throne of Grace but one thing remaineth, even as he is not far from the Kingdom of God.”
When the messenger came, Peter followed. Before he got there, Cornelius had already arranged a Fellowship hall, calling his neighbours, friends and well-wishers to be partakers of God’s salvation.
And there, the Holy Spirit baptized them. And they baptized as Jews without obedience to the law, seeing that God had made them acceptable. Why? God said, “Irrespective of your race.” No racism. He is the Saviour of all His own. And His own are scattered all over the world, but known unto God are those people.
Your religion does not make you a child of God. Pay attention. There is no religion that you will belong to that will make you a child of God. Your religion cannot give you eternal life, for eternal life has no religion.
Take note of what I am saying. Your religion will only espouse you or introduce you to a group of people and make you a member of that club where you enjoy social benefits – social security. That is all. But it can never give you eternal life.
Today, what are we seeing everywhere. All religious groups are now recreational centres. Centres for entertainment and merchandise no matter the name you call that group. If there be any that has escaped from it, mention it.
Recreational centres, where people will go and forget their sorrows. Merriment everywhere. Entertainment everywhere. Another one is “Going! Going! gone” making money. Merchandise. So take note.
That is religion. Religion gives you the impression that you are serving God when you are serving the devil. Religion gives you the impression that you are going to heaven when you are already swimming in hell, when you are hardening yourself more and more.
This is because religion gives you false impression. That is why all that are practicing religion make pretenses about God. They pretend to be godly when they are ungodly. You are not getting saved through any religion. Amen.
Isaiah 1:1-4, MSG. ¹The vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw regarding Judah and Jerusalem during the times of the kings of Judah: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. ^2-4Heaven and earth, you’re the jury. Listen to God’s case: “I had children and raised them well, and they turned on me.
The ox knows who’s boss, the mule knows the hand that feeds him, But not Israel. My people don’t know up from down. Shame! Misguided God-dropouts,…
Can somebody be a God-dropout? Can somebody be a school dropout? A marriage dropout? A career dropout? You can be a dropout in any field of life. You can also be a dropout on spiritual matters.
On matters concerning relationship with God, you are a dropout. You started very well, but you ended very badly. You started very well, but you could not endure till the end.
If there would not be dropouts, there would not be warning that only those who will endure till the end shall be saved. We are only saved if we hold on to the profession of our Faith without wavering unto the end. Is it not scriptural?
Now, in the Bible do we have God’s dropouts? Too many. In the Old Testament, there are too many. In the New Testament, beginning with Barnabas, he was God-dropout. Is it not true?
John Mark in the Acts of the Apostles, God-dropout. Where? In Cyprus. Because of what? Entertainment. Because of tourism in Cyprus which is their major occupation that gives them money, John Mark said he will not continue with the missionary journey.
Barnabas was asked to continue, but he said no. He went to Cyprus, where business was flourishing. What could be the business if not entertainment which is the main occupation of Cyprus till this morning?
They have no goods they are exporting. Rather, when people get money, they will go to Cyprus on holidays to enjoy the money with prostitutes, for wherever there are hotels and lodgers, prostitution abounds there.
Reckless living. The evil of Cyprus, even from the Bible has remained prostitution because it provides a conducive environment, having that Mediterranean climate. Now, he became God-dropout.
What can we say about Judas, who because of envy, jealousy and money became God-dropout? He started very well, shared testimonies among the seventy that were sent out to go and preach the Gospel, healed the sick and cast our demons.
They came back and testified of how God went with them. With their hands, they wrought miracles, signs and wonders, and healed even the sick. Yet, Judas, being a Bishop became God-dropout.
What can we say about the Apostles Philetus, Hymenaeus, Alexander? God-dropouts.
Then in our own day, go to the Message IS IT A STRANGE THING IF PEOPLE ABANDON THE FAITH? God said that this Faith must come to a point where those who believed in the beginning will begin to drop out, calling it even devil. Some will say they are tired. If it does not come to that level, know that this Faith is not from God.
When we got to that level, what happened? The litany of those dropouts are now endless. What about those who are now sitting down? They are not going any further. God said, “Their vehicles spoilt. They are now running without the baton.”
While some just concluded, “We are not going out. Whatever we see in the end, we will take. We will not blaspheme God, but we know that the strength is no longer there.”
What wearied them down? Why should a follower sit down when the leader is still standing? Do you not know that there is a cause? Bro Ben Okezue who preached that Message [IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?], where is he today?
They were all warned from the very beginning. Watch the trend. Watch where we are heading to.
… My people don’t know up from down. Shame! Misguided God-dropouts,… They are what? …Misguided God-dropouts,… Do we have such people? In the GREAT SERMON, God said that it was a misguided folly on the part of those miscreants – those dropouts!
So do not be God-dropout. If you drop out from school, somebody can help you up. But when God Himself drops you, you are completely dropped. That is why nobody perishes until God has declared him or her as one who must perish.
Nobody has left this Faith except the one the Almighty God said he has left. If God has dropped you, you will never rise again. If God has dropped you, you will only be playing religion.
Remember, God will only drop those people who took off very well with Him, but along the way, their visions were truncated and they started following the ways of Demas. Demas left for he started appreciating the present world and what the world offers him. And he became God-dropout.
You might be dropped and you are still sitting down among the Brethren. That is why God said, “Be careful about an Elder who is out of the way of truth and is still sitting down in the midst of the congregation of God’s people.”
…My people don’t know up from down. Shame! Misguided God-dropouts, staggering under their guilt-baggage, Gang of miscreants,… Miscreants carrying couriers without any baggage. …band of vandals Band! Group of vandals.
…My people have walked out on me, their God… They have walked out on Me. People stepping out of their destiny. Is it possible for someone to walk out of his own destiny? Sure!!! Wise people walk and step into their destiny, but the foolish steps out of the Ark of salvation that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.
…My people have walked out on me, their God, turned their backs on The Holy of Israel, walked off and never looked back.
They walked off and never considered the awful implications. They have given themselves over to this world’s affairs. They have given themselves over to burials, drinking parties, and orgies here and there, merriments and merchandise.
And they still come together to clap their hands, mocking God. These are the mockers and the scoffers of today.
Do not worry. I am progressing a little. You will know Me as I journey along with you. Any moment your eyes open, I will stop.
Isaiah 46:10, MSG. ^8-11“Think about this. Wrap your minds around it. This is serious business, rebels. … Think about it. Wrap your minds about it. It is a serious business. Rebels – the disobedient ones. Dropouts!
Do you have a rebel in your family? Coping with rebellious people in the midst of God’s people. Do we have a Message like that? COPING WITH REBELLIOUS PEOPLE. [Coping with a rebellious child was preached on Sunday 29^th March 2009. Coping with a rebellious child EXPALINED Volumes 1 & 2 were preached on Sunday 7^th May 2017]
There is nothing you are manifesting now which somebody has not manifested before you were born. Spirits do not die. They live to anoint others.
You might be thinking that you are taking us unawares, but we know where you belong to? And God knows that you came from that same specie.
I will show you where you will be in the end, for you will be in the group or in the club of those people, for people with identical characters will be placed on one side. God cannot make a mixture of good and bad in one Camp.
He did it before, and that was in the days of Noah, but He regretted, and then vowed that He will not try it again. Rather, when THE SON OF MAN shall come, He shall separate the goat from the sheep, for the two cannot be in one Camp. Never, never!
No matter how they look alike, they are of two different species. Animals of the same specie must stay together whether they be male or female. True or false?
Pay attention. If you do not have the nature of Christ, you can never stay where the children of Christ are, for you will cause trouble there. You will be a foreigner. You are a strange body – man or woman.
That is why, in this generation where we are in, God from the beginning is desiring that the sons of God MUST marry daughters of God. They are sons of God because from the beginning, God engraved their names on that stone.
They might be born to pagan parents, but God knows how to sever them out of that paganism. They might be born in religious families like our Sister, but God knows that in the end, He will sever her.
When God wants to punish a man, he gives him a bad wife so that he will have bad children. But when God wants to bless a man, He will give him a good wife so that godly sons and daughters will come from that family – people that fear God and honour God.
“Think about this. Wrap your minds around it. This is serious business, rebels. Take it to heart. Remember your history, your long and rich history. I am God, the only God you’ve had or ever will have incomparable, irreplaceable …
Incomparable and irreplaceable. God has no substitute. Truth has no substitute. The moment you abandon Him, you embrace the opposite. That is the devil. You cannot wed the two at the same time.
… I am God, the only God you’ve had or ever will have incomparable, irreplaceable From the very beginning …
God is always revealing from the very beginning. You must know where you are coming from, know where you are and know where you are heading to. You must know where you are coming from, where you are and where you are heading to.
If the road where you are following is not leading to where you are heading to, what do you do? You make a U-turn. If you want to go to Heaven or you want to live with God eternally, and you are following the road created by the devil, where will it lead you to?
You are following the devil and his ways and you are going expecting to meet with God in Paradise. Is it possible? No way! And this is exactly what is prevalent in our midst.
People say they want eternal life and they want to be translated, but they have not discovered for themselves that they are not a part of what God is doing. They are only helping others to worship their God.
… I am God, the only God you’ve had or ever will have— incomparable, irreplaceable— From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be,…
From the very beginning, God told us– He told Paul what the end will be. For every step you take, God knows where you are going to land. Whatever you are manifesting, no matter your hypocrisy, he knows the end from the beginning; declaring the end from the beginning.
Isaiah 46:10, KJV. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Amen!
Declaring the end from the very beginning. Even things that have not come to light, he declared all. And He went further to say, “My counsel shall stand.” Future continuous tense.
This is the purpose which he purposed in Himself before the world began that he will only save those that are found in Him, whose names have already been documented before they came into existence as human beings when the world was only but one people.
There was no nation called Nigeria. No Africa. Nothing nothing! We had only but one nation – the nation of God, when the whole world was practicing Theocracy – Government of the people by God alone.
We never saw or heard about different languages until the tower of Babel was constructed and the people now scattered. The origin of denomination. They denominated. People started stepping out of their destinies.
But God decided that a day will come when he will gather the ruins and knit everything together, for there shall be one God and one people. One God, one people. One Family.
SONG: [We are heirs of the Father. We are joint heirs with the LORD. We are children of His Kingdom. We are Family. We are one.]
He did not say, “We are families.” Rather, we are Family. We are one. Amen!
He that knows the end from the very beginning knows what will become of every human being. Do you believe that?

I do not know where you belong to, whether you are this and that; it is not in Christ. In Christ we are one. You do not talk of Muslim or Christian. The Almighty God does not belong to any group. He stands alone as the Self-Existing One. He does not spearhead any religious movement. That is why I said it without mincing words that I am not a Christian and I will not be a Christian. Nothing will ever make Me a Christian. Neither am I a Muslim. I AM A REALIST. I stand for the Truth. No more. No less. Moreover, I stand for peace. Yes! That is why I do not violate the path that leads to peace. I make sure I do not impose Myself on anybody and I do not impose My belief on anybody. I preach My Message which is My Faith, My belief. I say to all and sundry, “BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN.”

– THE SON OF MAN –

BE ON THE RED ALERT; Preached on Sunday 30^th September, 2012 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 77 vs. 34 – 35

The hereafter is for few

Let Me just help you a little. Before I go to the full Scriptures, I have touched the beginning. Let Me go to the end. Go to the Book of Revelation chapter two and read verse two in the Message Bible.

Revelation 2:2, MSG. ^2-3“I see what you’ve done, your hard, hard work, your refusal to quit. …You are really struggling and working hard. And have also refused to leave.
… I know you can’t stomach evil, that you weed out apostolic pretenders. I know your persistence, your courage in my cause, that you never wear out.
God knows all we are doing, all we have done and all we are going to do. Watch that first church [church of the Ephesian Age]. See what God said there.
He has tried and tested them that call themselves Apostles, only to discover that they were pretenders. They were pretending to be apostles of God when they were not.
In our midst, is it any wonder then if the devil can masquerade himself and pretend to be Apostles of Christ? Apostles of righteousness? His [devil’s] ministers who follow perditious ways.
Will they escape it? They will be doing the deeds of their own masters who were fake, counterfeits and rejects.
Mere pretending to be a child of God cannot give you eternal life. You can preach, do everything and make noise, but God knows that you are still at Satan’s level, for Satan preaches.
Satan does miracles, signs and wonders and all these nonsenses, but there is one thing he cannot do. He can never live the life of Christ. No devil can impersonate the life of Christ.
What is the life of Christ? Obedience to the truth. This is because the devil is a liar from the very beginning and the father of all lies. So there is no way he can abide in the truth.
He abode not in the truth. If he seeth truth, he calleth it a lie. He seeth a lie, and he calls it truth. There is no way he can abide in the truth. It is impossible.
Watch those who pretend to be Apostles, Pastors, Teachers, Evangelists. If they were what they pretended they were, should they have left us?
The Bible recorded in the Book of John thus, “They left us because from the very beginning, they were not a part of us. They were merely pretending to be one of us. They left that the Scriptures might be fulfilled that from the beginning, they were merely pretending to be one of us.”
They knew what brought them in. When their desires were met, they left. For some, when their desires could not be met, they abandoned the Faith, for from the beginning, they were not with us. They were not desiring eternal life.
Do we have such people? Have we seen a lot of them? Have we seen such people who pretended to be one thing or the other?
If they are what they claim they were, why are they sitting down while the Master is standing? Why have they been wearied down? Who wearied them down? Has the journey been competed? Have we been clothed with immortal bodies? Why have they become God-dropouts?
Open your eyes and let the Glory of God shine upon you so that you will know how few we are. If you are numbered among these few, blessed are you, for the world we are living in is meant for many, but the hereafter is for few. Many are called, but few are chosen.
That you are a Pastor or a Bishop or everything does not make you a child of God. God used Pharaoh. God used Nebuchadnezzar. God used Herod. God used Pilate.
God can use anybody the way he wants, after which he will destroy the same person. Why? From the very beginning, thereunto he is ordained. You must know your foundation. You must know what is happening around you and in you.
No matter how you suppress it and pretend to be Deacon or pretend to be Elder, do you not know who you are? Do you not know when your obedience to the truth is fulfilled or not? Do you not know the spirit that is in operation in your life? Do you not know what you are manifesting?
By their fruits, ye shall know them. I do not want to call names, but keep your spiritual eyes open and you will see why you lament, “Oh! Has he left? Oh! He has left. He is no longer in our midst.” Shut up your mouth! Was he with you before?
Our problem is that we have not departed from the Pentecostal spirit where we think that when somebody comes into our midst, automatically he or she becomes one of us – a blessing. You are mad by thinking that way.
There are whole families you cherish very highly but God does not have a soul there. God does not have one there.
These people you celebrate so highly may not have a part in the life that Christ gives, but they are only showcasing themselves to be Ministers of Christ when they are not serving God. Let us be very careful. We have come to the end of all things.
Revelation 2:9, MSG. “I can see your pain and poverty—constant pain, dire poverty—but I also see your wealth. And I hear the lie in the claims of those who pretend to be good Jews,…
I hear the lies of those that pretend to be real sons and daughters of God. God said they are what? Liars lying against the truth. The greatest of all abominations. They are impersonators impersonating Christ, claiming to be what they are not.
If what they claim they are is what they are, why the noise? If I now, being the Apostle and the son of man, should backslide, where will I backslide into? This is exactly what I am saying. I am showing you what is already documented.
…And I hear the lie in the claims of those who pretend to be good Jews, who in fact belong to Satan’s crowd.
FOLLOW THE CLOUD AND SHUN THE CROWD. How do you know these people? They are always in the majority. That is why God said, “Be very careful of the Mixed Multitude. They are greatly found among the Ministers and their families.”
A true seed of God follows the Cloud. Counterfeits follow the crowd. They follow the attraction. These people are in the majority. Liars! Pretenders! Impersonators!
Revelation 2:2 & 9, AMP. ²I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ)
You have done what? Appraised critically and tested very well those who call themselves Apostles.
…and yet are not, and have found them to be impostors and liars.
Brethren, do we have such people? They appeared in the old and they are still among us even till this very hour. You see why God said that God is not saving you because of your status that you are Pastor or “I am Evangelist.”
When you see them, Brethren will be doing obeisance to them. Even when they are doing that, deep down in their hearts, they are querying them for they noticed their shortcomings. Watch those people who claimed. They claimed! They claimed!
²I know your industry and activities,… Referring to this Ephesian church Age that had Saint Paul as its Messenger. That was where all these people appeared, from the very first church Age where Paul was the Angel Messenger.
If they appeared there from the very beginning, who has removed them? They will equally appear there in the end. You might be those people calling yourself a child of God. Impersonating spirit at work because we are in the era of preaching, era of carrying Bible, and in the era of “men and women of God” to the point that you cannot even see any shrine again. No shrine again.
You then begin to wonder, “who then worships the idols?” Everybody is now a worshipper of God. Some say that the spirit of God has been poured upon all flesh. Everybody is now “a child of God”.
Following the crowd marks you out.
Even their children. In their schools and colleges, nobody knows what they believe. Nobody! Come let us pray, they join. People like Bright. No separation. He does not know the difference. He thinks we are still in the chosen charismatic movement.
Do not laugh over it. Your life is in danger. The lives of your parents are also in danger, for you all were given wrong foundation. It is now that you can sit down and find out whether you are going to be saved or you are already condemned and awaiting execution.
²I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance,…
These same people. They were all a part of those sins, fighting. You see them in the pulpit where they are fighting. Watch their eyes and their feet. Watch the way they handle the Word of God. You will think that they are already in heaven.
Watch the way they rebuke and indict people among us, you will think that they are Saints. They run up and down. Is it not the era of running up and down? This is the era of running to and fro, carrying the Bible, full of activities.
God said, “I know all your activities. All your laborious activities. Full of labour. Full of activities, but there is no truth there.” Pretending to be serving God, when they are serving their bellies and serving their personal interests.
God said, “I have tested them.” And you also, real Elect, you have tested them and proved them to be mere impostors. Impersonators! We are living in the era of impersonation of Christ and His children. Everybody now is answering a child of God.
Is there anybody who will be referred to as the son or daughter of Belial and he or she will be happy? But look at where God has allotted them. Club of Satan. Synagogue of Satan. Congregation of evil. Satan’s group.
²I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, … Fasting and praying. … and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ) and yet are not, and have found them to be impostors and liars.