HELP FROM ABOVE VOLUME 2 OF 3

HELP FROM ABOVE VOLUME 2 OF 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

What am I saying? Is your family great in the sight of God? I have told you that a poor man is not poor because he has no money. He is poor because his character is poor, for when character is lost, everything is lost. Education without character is ungodliness. Money without character is devilish. You see why it is necessary that My family must retain its identity which is Christ for Christ is the identity of every family that is in Him. If Christ is not your identity, you are fooling yourself.

– THE SON OF MAN –

WHAT MAKES YOUR FAMILY GREAT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD? This message was preached on 22nd February, 2015 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 115 vs. 1

DO NOT BE IMPRESSED BY CHARISMA; LOOK FOR CHARACTER [1]

Revelation 3:9, MSG. “And watch as I take those who call themselves true believers but are nothing of the kind,…

They call themselves what? True believers. Conqueror. Fear God, I hope you are paying attention. Those that call themselves true believers.
Do you believe the son of man? I believe! We went to Elders Meeting today. everybody, true believers! Man and woman, true believers! But only God knows who believes and who does not believe.
Only the Almighty God knows those that believe in Him and those who are unbelievers pretending to be the members of this Faith.“This our Faith. We are the people”
When you enquire from such a fellow, he will tell you that they were there from the very official beginning. You are a Methuselah of the Bride of Christ Ministry. I was born in the Faith 18 years ago. Have you had one second experience in Christ?
Stop counting the number of years you have sojourned in this Ministry. You might not have spent even one second with Christ, for your heart have been abhorring the truth. You have never given the Word of God a resting place in your heart.
You are an expert in talking to others, helping others to be saved, while you are heading to abyss – heading to hell. Such are special messengers that call themselves Apostles, Evangelist, fivefold ministry.
Pastor Chizoba, check all of them you met who assumed that title “Fivefold ministers”. How many are standing? How many are upholding the Faith of Christ. Not even one, but they are clamouring for office like those at Isiala-Ngwa.
Look at Chikezie Ukasanya writing Me, “Sir, thank you for healing me. I appeal to you. Restore my bishopric office to me. Let me be addressed as Bishop.” Look at Nath writing, “Please, restore my title and my office as Bishop.”
Can you imagine? They are making this request as if eternal life is in that title. And they fail to realize that God said that often times, He will give people higher position to expose them so that people will see what is in them.
Some will take that high position and it will be a blessing. Even when they do not merit it, by giving them that position, they will work to merit it, and then they become perfect.
While with others, pride and arrogance will set in. And God will expose them to be counterfeits, misfits and misguided foolish people who are out of the way of truth. Those who call themselves ardent believers – true believers, only for them to be counterfeits. Do we have them? Their characters could not reflect.
How do you know them? By their fruits ye shall know them. Do you want me to call their names? I do not want to call names, but watch what they are manifesting.
Let Me show you the Scripture. The LORD Jesus was asked a question, “Who could be these tares in the midst of the crops you planted? Who could be the tares in the midst of the wheat?”
Look at his answer in Saint Matthew’s Gospel chapter seven verse sixteen. I am going to that Revelation. Jesus was asked the question, “Who could be these tares in the midst of these wheat?” Who could be these goats in the midst of My sheep?
He answered and said, “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” By their nature; by their manifestation, you will give them a name. Needless to tell you it is Brother A or Sister B.
Watch them in line with the doctrines of Christ given to all of us which gave us a common salvation. Watch them as they apply the teaching of Christ that are commonly believed among us.
Matthew 7:16, MSG. ^15-20“Be wary of false preachers…Be very careful. We heard the voice of one of such an Evangelists, God-dropout discussing with a Sister with false laughter.
I called the Sister yesterday for she was here. I asked her a question, “This man who claims to be your late husband’s friend, when your husband died, did he participate in the burial?” She said no.
Has he visited you and your children since your husband died? She said no. “Even till this day?” She said no. How comes it that he was claiming boldly to be a friend to the family and to your husband? And even to you. Even to you! And he was laughing.
Be wary of these preachers. When you see them in the pulpit with their smiles and jests, with illustrations that will suit you, because they tell people what will suit the people.
They do not tell them the truth. They want to make a fair show that they are servants of the Most High God, like the one we have at Nsukka who posted his own, only to tell them that he was preaching the same Message that everybody should be worshipping in the home. That is rubbish, even when you have already been excommunicated. He never knew the vision was given to Me long long time ago before ever he left.
^15-20“Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot,…Watch your television and see all those preachers, how they use smiles to deceive their followers into believing that they are friendly with them.
They are pretending to be friends only to make money from them. Am I bearing false witness? Tune in your television and you see them. Go around and interview their members. They pretend to be friends by telling people what the people will like to hear.
That is why their messages boil down to prosperity and deliverance. No more. No less. How many have they delivered? How many have they prospered, when they are exploiting their members on a daily basis.
The Bible calls them temple robbers who rob their members to become richer while their members will become poorer. Do they notice what the members are passing through? Who is interested? Do they work?
Their work is to carry their big bag and enter the sanctuary and their office and be looking for people they will pray for and collect money. Interpret dream, you pay. Vision, you pay. Prophecy, you pay. Deliverance, you pay.
You pay tithe. You pay offering. You pay for everything. You pay even for the dress you wear. You buy motor, you pay for it. You pay tax.
Yes! You belong to football club, you give offering. For all European football clubs and all the members play the match in the church. Chelsea versus Man U. Who will win? Chelsea group, this way. Man U group, this way. Look at your offering box. Let us see who will win.
Can you imagine? My friend told Me this. It happened in the basilica of holy trinity. And the papal knight bore witness that it happened in his presence and that it is a regular practice. So if you belong to any association, you must give special offering for that one.
What am I saying? Let us be very careful. Be wary of these false preachers who will be smiling and laughing, pampering you and tapping your jaw and touching your cheeks.
That is why women love such places where they will be gorgeously dressed and they will be given front seats. Where they can dance to the admiration of the preachers.
And when the preacher will be preaching, they will be eyeing him to come and shower money on him. He knows what they need. Be wary of such preachers.
That is why the crowd is following them, for they preach nothing but earthly things. And they are earthly, and speak about earthly things. Earthly human beings follow them. Heavenly-bound people cannot be there.
If you see any earthly fellow among us, he is here to exploit us. He is in our midst for us to collectively carry his personal burden, which he knows that if he goes back to that Anglican or catholic or any of those Pentecostals, he will not be recognized.
So he will rather stay in a small group where he will be recognized and his burden will be carried collectively. But when we say, “No! You work with your hands. Earn your living and stop being a burden”, all of them will sit down. Nobody will stand up again. You cannot hear praise the LORD from them again.
^15-20“Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity.
The Bible is such a wonderful book that after describing, you can place the name of one you know. Practiced sincerity! Some can even swear oath, “God punish me if I should tell you lies or if I should lead you astray. I know God will judge me by everything I preach.”
It is just to curry your favour. It is to win the favour of the congregation into believing that he is speaking the truth or that he is on your side, but God knows that he is an impostor. He does not have your welfare in his heart. No nononono! Your spiritual welfare is not his concern.
… Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don’t be impressed with charisma; look for character. …
They look holy in appearance. Green snake in green grass. Outwardly, they look very good, but inwardly they are grievous wolves.
Do not look for what? Charisma. Go for character. Character maketh a personality. When character is gone, everything is gone. So, by the character of these people, you can give them a name.

TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS

Do not ask Me, “Who do I begin to follow now among us?” I will answer, “Who did the Bible say you should look unto and follow and who should be your example in all things pertaining to life and godliness?”
How many people did God present to us? One. How many voices? One. How many instructors? One. Following more than one has already deceived many.
Who is your Counselor? Many have many counselors, but God gave us one Counselor, one Teacher, one Instructor, one Guide, one Leader, everything, one.
He gave us one Shepherd because we are one Flock. Following the voice of more than one shepherd brings about confusion and leads us astray.
Anybody can claim what he wants to claim, but there is One, the Elohim Who will vindicate and Who will confirm.
It is just like what happened yesterday evening. We gathered here as usual, but there was a special ceremony to honour the origin of life, for life started its origin by ordaining husband and wife.
At the end, I stood up to share the testimony of a true witness as I saw it happen.
I narrated everything because of those impostors among us; those Pharisees who behave as if they are pious when there is no iota of piety in them. Inwardly, they are grievous wolves – ravenous wolves that should be feared. Such committee members.
For their sake, I stood up to bear the testimony of a true witness. And God Who delights in backing up truth vindicated it immediately.
I thank God I was not the one that took the photograph. The photograph swallowed all that were around Me. Even My face became the shining light. Everything. Only few hands were seen from the bottom clapping. The rest were unseen and unknown.
We have a true witness. And that is God. That is the Almighty God. If the Almighty God is not your witness, you have no witness. You have no witness.
Watch these people. They seek men’s glory. They seek the approval of men. They never and will never seek the approval of God. They preach so that men will applaud them as men of God. They dress so that they will be recognized and applauded as men of God.
Come and see the way they shake their hands and their feet. You will think that they are helping you when they are destroying you. And people follow such people.
Their testimony is, “It was something else today. Holy Ghost moved in a special way.” Where did you see Holy Ghost? Simply because he is making a noise and shouting, pretending to be good.
Watch what follows him whenever he leaves that pulpit. Watch the home where he is entering. Watch what is happening in that home. That will tell you the spirit that is in operation in him. Amen.
You want Me to call their names? No! Do not go for charisma. Go for character, for nobody has charisma more than the devil with a smiling face, touching people whereverhe goes, and pretending to be the best of the best when he is the worst of the worst. Amen.
When you look at the face of an Ngwa man, you can never believe that he can be violent. Sister said it is true. What?
Sister ChizobaUdochukwu responds: It is true sir.
This is the first day she is participating in our Fellowship, and it is the LORD’s doing. It is marvelous in My eyes. And there could not be any other place than here, for this is where her husband took his origin. And this is where he has introduced his wife to his own God.
So, at last, the God she believes is the God she is sitting down with, together with her husband in the same house where God is the Supreme Head. Amen.
That is the end. All of you will eat the food God prepared with His hand today. Living Manna. Let us continue with the spiritual manna.

What if you have not even come into the Bridal movement or you have come into the Bridal movement but you are not keeping pace with the message? What if now that we are checking in, your character, your life, your manifestations have not measured up to the required standard God had already set for people that will enter paradise, for people that will be translated, that will put on immortal bodies? Because God cannot cloth you with immortal bodies with your evil characters, with your evil nature. What if by now, those who want to check in do not have God’s nature? They are not Christ-like in behavior, what is the hope of that person?

– THE SON OF MAN –

RE-EXAMINE YOUR TICKET AGAIN; Preached on Friday, 20^th May, 2022 at The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Pg. 42 vs. 43-44

DO NOT BE IMPRESSED BY CHARISMA; LOOK FOR CHARACTER [2]

Matthew 7:16, MSG. ^15-20“Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don’t be impressed with charisma; look for character. …

Character maketh the difference. The difference between the devil and God is character.
No matter how the devil shouts and places the Word of God right, he can never manifest Christ’s characteristics, for the devil is identified by is characteristics. God is also identified by His characteristics.
So, character maketh the difference. The difference between A and B is character. And that character is Christ.
Hear me very well. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 said that the fear of God is the beginning, the origin, the foundation of character building. Fear God. Obey Him. That is the root of character and the solution to all inharmonious behaviour.
Eclesiastes 12:13, AMP.¹³All has been heard; the end of the matter is: Fear God [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is] and keep His commandments, for this is the whole of man [the full, original purpose of his creation, the object of God’s providence, the root of character, the foundation of all happiness, the adjustment to all inharmonious circumstances and conditions under the sun] and the whole [duty] for every man.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, but fools shun it.
Watch all these people. Look at how God described them.
…Don’t be impressed with charisma; look for character. Who preachers are is the main thing, not what they say. …
This is because they can be criminals. Hardened ones, dupes, 419 [fraudsters]. Yet, when they come to church to impress the people and cause them to believe that they are one of us, come and see the way they will be dancing, giving the impression that sugar will not melt in their mouths.
I thank God we have seen many of those phonies. We have seen many of them. Today, preaching has become the lawyers’ business.
Running churches and prayer houses has become a lucrative venture that lawyers now abandon their chambers and go after it, for that is where they perfect in telling lies, for they know the antics they use in winning their members into believing that they are telling the truth.
And their members will be flooding in, lest when they have a case, they will invite their pastor who happens to be a lawyer to represent them. Do we pray for cases? Only criminals pray for cases to come.
We have one advocate. And that is Christ. If you are living right and you are in right standing with God, you must also be in right standing with everybody. So there would not be any room for hiring that lawyer. What is he coming to do?
The law is meant for disobedient people. One who is obedient has no need of law. True or false?
If I give regulations in this house, I am giving it to you because you are not obeying. You are not obedient. Maybe you are born to be disobedient.
And you have not discovered it that your problem started from the very beginning. And God is revealing it now that we are at the end so that you will know your fate. Amen.
^15-20“Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don’t be impressed with charisma;look for character. Who preachers are, is the main thing, not what they say.
What you are is the main thing, for your life is preaching the Gospel also. Is your life preaching Christ or preaching Satan? If your character is of the devil, you are equally serpent’s seed.
You are a product of those preachers because you can never live a life higher than your preaching. That which you believe, you must manifest. If you believe what I am saying, you manifest it.
If while I am preaching one thing, you are manifesting another thing, you are not My member. Is it not true? If all of us are behaving alike because we received the same teaching, will there be rebuke? Will there be correction? Will there be indictment?
It is because we are having crafty people who pretend to be one of us, while they are not. They are following because of what they want to get from us. They want to exploit us.
So do not think it is for those that mount the pulpit. You equally mount the pulpit. As long as you claim that you are a child of God– remember where we read before. We are going back there.
… A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. … Thank you! …these diseased trees with their bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned.Thank you!
There is no way God can spare them. He will never because from the very beginning, God is the One revealing them. If they are not revealed, you cannot avoid them. They are everywhere.
We are children of God but the rest of the world around us are under the power and control of Satan. Always have it at the back of your minds that the next person near you is a Satan. The next person near you is a Satan.
That is why I tell you, “I believe in you. That is why I accommodate everybody until I prove you otherwise.” How do I prove you otherwise? When your life runs contrary to the revealed teachings of Christ, I know who you are. You cannot deceive Me anymore. I will place you where I placed Mbaise people and Ngwa people.
They have good voices to sing. They can dance more than any other person. When they sing praises, you will think the cherubim and seraphim are here. You can never believe that they can be murderous.
See the one writing us that he has repented and that he will never go to where they are killing people again. I posted it worldwide so that the whole world will read and know that I am not shouting in vain.
The family I attacked exposed themselves, and the world saw that THE SON OF MAN does not hate anybody. If hating you means telling you the truth, I will hate you the more because I will tell you the truth more and more until it will bite you out of My presence.
This is because when you feel disgruntled because of the level of truth– you feel embittered to the extent that you cannot tolerate Me, you pack your bag and go. Amen.
How do you know them? The bad apples they produce. Bad character. After preaching and preaching and preaching, thank you! Go to their families. Go to their homes. Look at them. Look at their wives. And look at their children.
I told Brethren and I still say it openly, “If the best of the best at Isiala-Ngwa is this one with me here, then there is nobody at Isiala-Ngwa.” And FearGod equally acknowledged it that if he did not step out that there would not be any hope of salvation in him. Yet, he was adjudged the best.
The trouble of being one that is highly cherished and respected among evil people. You are like one who is adjudged to be very brilliant in academics, for he comes first in the class, not knowing that the rest are moribund. He takes the first position in a class of stark dullards. Amen.
I hope I am not biting harder. I am summarizing.
They were with us. I started with mixed multitudes. And I cannot summarize and avoid these multitude, for the last separation is what THE SON OF MAN is doing now. That is His last Ministry.
The next thing is the last judgment which is the final blast of the whistle. Then you will know who is who. I am not calling names, but I will call with time.
Revelation 3:9, MSG. “And watch as I take those who call themselves true believers but are nothing of the kind, pretenders whose true membership is in the club of Satan…
I told you that your character does the placement. Your nature is your character. True or false? Anybody that does not have Christ’s nature can never be in Paradise with Christ.
To live with Christ eternally with evil character? No NoNoNoNo! do not ever think of that, for evil is not associated with God. No man who is evil in his heart will even smell the Gate of Paradise.
Note these people who are false members. Although they are among us, they know where they belong to. In the Fellowship, they form groups. They form associations.
Those at Omagba, those at Nkpor, those at Woliwo and those at Nsugbe, they know who they are. Birds of the same feather flock together. They have their splinter associations because the two can never walk together except they agree.
If you tell me the person you take delight in mingling with, I will tell you why you are always in friendship with that person.
We were indicting a family openly. And that is the family I ordered to be written, not for warning, but for excommunication, for they do not belong to us, but we are bearing their burdens.
This is a family where the man in charge of the house who said he is a brother from childhood and who has been with us for more than twenty years is indicting the wife for making us know that he was sick.
And we were the people that came out spending our money. And up till today, we are still the people carrying his burden and that of the wife, even till this morning.
Then we now discovered that they took delight in telling the heathens on the street what they are passing through. I am saying that that is the club where they belong to.
Is it not he that you trust and confide in that you can tell your secret? Anybody you can reveal your personal problem to is because you trust that person. That person you say, “Do not! I will never tell him. Instead, let me die” you do not trust that person. That person is not one of you.
By this now, it is clear. It is very clear. Every man must go the way he is ordained. Why should I be following you when you are rejecting Me? Why should I be bearing your burden when you do not want My help?
Yet, the heathens do not help. And you have nothing. And you do not even return the help we are giving.
Such people claim to be our members. You might be one of such people. I may be one of such people who make that claim, pretending to be one of us when you are not.
You are pretending to be believing when you are not believing, for if you believe, you must practice it.
“And watch as I take those who call themselves true believers but are nothing of the kind,…Listen and hear what The Almighty God is going to do to them. …pretenders whose true membership is in the club of Satan—watch as I strip off their pretensions and they’re forced to acknowledge it’s you that I’ve loved. Thank you!
This is what God has done at last. They have at last acknowledged that God gave us only but one Man. From the time of Covid-19 lockdown till now, it is one Voice.
And people who thought we have come to the end of the journey and that the Faith has collapsed are now shocked that by their sitting down, they energized THE SON OF MAN more than ever.
They created room for THE SON OF MAN now to use grasshoppers. Grasshoppers! And then dropped the giants.
That is why God is not interested in any elephant in the Faith. Rather God shows interest in any one that is relevant to the Faith. If your inclusion is an elephant inclusion, you are going to be humiliated. Let your inclusion be a relevant inclusion.
There are too many people that are enjoying elephant inclusion in the Faith of Christ, while the minority is enjoying relevant inclusion – dignified inclusion. And God handles their cases with utmost dignity and integrity.
Check whether you are occupying an elephant position and not a relevant position in the heart of THE SON OF MAN.
Are you surprised at what I am saying? I want us to meditate. You are either occupying a relevant position in the heart of God or an elephant position.
Those who make pretenses and who God will strip off and their nakedness shall be seen by everybody that from the beginning, God who has been revealing all these things from the very beginning knew from the onset that they never belonged to Him.
They are just like those people who joined the people of God from Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, entered the wilderness and then started making trouble. Not even one of them could cross Jordan except Jethro who was given superlative amazing grace to enable Moses wife Zipporah and the two sons have the place meant for Moses in Canaan.
This is so that when the Gentiles shall be called into Paradise, Moses will be there. The desert people who will inherit Paradise, that is the time Moses will come in.
But before then the wife Zipporah and the two sons who were preserved by Jethro his father in-law together with his father in-law and the family, all were settled in Canaan till this day.
And God renamed them the Rechabites as you can see them in Jeremiah chapter thirty-five. An exemplary family. The Rechabites family. Jeremiah 35.
See their behaviour where God was not looking at charisma, but he looked at their character, for behind every character, there is a spirit.
If you look at charisma, nobody will go to hell from Mbaise and Ngwa, but if you look at character, you will know that no child of God can be posted there. I used the word “POSTED”. Take note.
And my in-laws equally used that word “POSTED”. They narrated and testified before the whole world that God decided that they should be the parents of Nzubechi Juliana Odoemena, but God posted her to Mbaise to Apostle Peter Odoemena, for that is where the Ministry will be needed, and not in Nsugbe.
And from that day I married her in 1988 till today, no soul from Nsugbe has ever been identified in our Faith as one of us. So, God singled her out. And that is all.
Maybe your wife will be the only one that God will single out from Aba Ngwa. An indigene of Aba Ngwa. The only one that is in our Faith now is this your wife.
And look at what God did. God pulled her out from her childhood and took her to Nsukka where she was raised in a strange land, until Nsukka thought she was their daughter, but she had another spirit.
Look at typical Nsukka upstart and see how they are faring. They are having difficulties because by nature they are idolaters. They find it difficult to abhor the customs and traditions of their people. They love going to church, but they do not worship God. I hope I am not biting too hard.

This generation should expect no other sign than the sign of THE SON OF MAN, but people are looking up towards the sky when the Scripture guided them perfectly: “When THE SON OF MAN shall come, He shall be revealed in the Cloud of Heavens. No man knoweth the Son but the Father and to whosoever the Son shall choose to reveal Himself.” Thus, if the Son does not want to reveal Himself to you, you are wasting your time. Anybody can come claiming to be THE SON OF MAN, but anytime THE SON OF MAN comes, all the children of God, all the Elects who are conversant with the Word of God, who believes God seriously will always look for the sign of the Cloud for He shall be revealed in a Cloud.

– THE SON OF MAN –

DESPISE NOT THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS; preached on Sunday 6^th January 2002 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 75

3 ONLY BY DIVINE PROMISE CAN YOU WORSHIP GOD

Let us look at that Bible again. Revelation 3:9, AMP.⁹Take note! I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who saythey are Jews and are not, but lie–behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and learn and acknowledge that I have loved you.Amen!

They must bow down and acknowledge that God has loved the Man He chose of all. He said, “Have I no right to choose from among you one who is My delight to bear My Name? And you are murmuring against it and complaining because My choice runs contrary to your own choice. Who are you? I have made My choice and it is final.”
We all heard it. We all heard it. He said, “Who are you despising My Servant Whom I have chosen and Who bears My Name? As surely as I live, saith the LORD God Almighty, I must push you out. And all that you have deceived will never smell My Paradise.”
Do you know how many they have deceived that are still with us? Do you know how many the so-called Ministers in Isiala-Ngwa deceived including their own children? That is why I am posting their confession for the whole world to hear. These are those you call Bishops, deacons, Elders and Pastors.
A Pastor that attempted to take away his own life. And that is a Pastor that is pastoring people to Heaven. That is a lie. Isiala-Ngwa. All violent people.
Well, FearGod, how I wish you will fear God from now. I say, how I wish you will fear God from now. To fear God is to shun evil and behave rightly, for God is not looking at your fine face. No NoNoNoNo!
God is looking at your character, for your character is what God is after. No more. No less. So if you like put on the best cloth in the world and beautify yourself the best way you can, but if your character is not in agreement with what God has stipulated, you are Satan’s product.
Remember that the devil was a very beautiful fellow. A very beautiful fellow and fair to look at. The most beautiful among all the angels was Lucifer. Is it not Bible?
Ezekiel 28:13 – 15, AMP.¹³You were in Eden, the Garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the carnelian, topaz, jasper, chrysolite, beryl, onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and your settings and your sockets and engravings were wrought in gold. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
¹⁴You were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing [wings], and I set you so. You were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [like the paved work of gleaming sapphire stone upon which the God of Israel walked on Mount Sinai].
¹⁵You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until iniquity and guilt were found in you.
I want to do a lengthy reading. Do you want me to continue with this teaching? I am not discussing punishment. Rather, I am discussing counterfeits, pretenders, make-believers who claim to be our members, to be children of God and who claim to be Jews when they are not.
One thing is to make a claim. Another thing is to substantiate it. I hope you are hearing Me. If there be any who will come on the scene and say that the LORD called him to be this and that, all we need is evidence.
We need unquestionable evidence from that person. And that evidence must be scriptural evidence. Then the more sure Word of prophecy, for every sign from God is a stop sign. There must be a voice out of that sign.
If the voice is not the voice of God, children of God will say, “Get away! Get away! We need evidence.”
Just like last night. By the time I had already finished, the evidence was there. A confirmation was there bearing witness of the truth.
How I wish that those who will see it will ponder. They will know that we are not here to joke. We do not come here to eat and to dance. They will know the Personality again Who is reaching them.
But they were giving their attention to eating and to drinking, fixing their eyes on meat and pepper soup.
And the person I thought would have stood up to say, “Oh! Glory be to God” because he is equally favoured in the sense that his sister who is now your wife as a Pastor is drawn from his own extraction as Ngwa people – owners of Aba
I expected a happy welcome – a reception. Even after the whole thing, you ate her food and everything. I mean, “Oh! Sister, you are welcome! Thank you! Thank you!”
I never saw anything like that. How ungrateful people could be. And it is better that it was not done because even if it was done, it would have been done in hypocrisy. No truth!
I thank God that there could not be a better day than today for you to be here in the Fellowship with your wife for the first time. There was a time she came here for the medical check-up. She only partook of the family altar and then went home. But today, she is wearing a ring while participating in this Fellowship.
Romans 9:6-27, MSG.Don’t suppose for a moment, though, that God’s Word has malfunctioned in some way or other. …
Never! Can the Word of God malfunction in some way or another? If there be any malfunctioning, it is in the man handling it. When you handle the Word of God in unrighteousness, you make it of non-effect.
Do not ever suppose that the Word of God has failed. How can the Word of God fail or malfunction in some way or the other? Impossible! It is a lie. The Word of God is God Himself. God is behind His Word.
To show it never malfunctioned, watch what happened last night. The same vindication. The same Person and not another.
… The problem goes back a long way. From the outset, not all Israelites of the flesh were Israelites of the spirit. …
Are you paying attention? From the onset. From the very official beginning. From creation. Who is the One revealing from the beginning? God has been the One Who is revealing everything from the beginning.
You can bodily be A member of this Bridal movement. We count bodily, but God counts spiritually. If you are not a spiritual member, you are not a member, for God must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
No more mechanical member or numerical member. Oftentimes, we count on our numerical strength, instead of our spiritual strength.
When you count the numerical strength, you count the living among the dead. You will even include God’s greatest enemies. You will include the tares and the weeds.
But the Spirit does the separation, for if any does not have the spirit of Christ, he or she does not belong to God. True or false?
…It wasn’t Abraham’s sperm that gave identity here. …Amen!
We read it in the Book of Philippians. God has sperm. Divine sperm. This one says it was not Abraham’s sperm. It was the devil’s sperm.
Why? In Genesis chapter six, God recorded that evil spirits impregnated women – daughters of men. And they gave birth to giants whose stories are endless even till today.
Genesis 6:4, Living Bible.^[4]In those days, and even afterwards, when the evil beings from the spirit world were sexually involved with human women, their children became giants, of whom so many legends are told.
Can a woman be impregnated by evil spirit? Yes! Pure truth. A woman can be in the bed in a dream and have intercourse with apparition. Oh no! The devil will appear to a woman in her dream in apparition in the form of a man and impregnate the woman.
When the woman wakes up from the bed, she will see every sign on her body that a man had an affair with her. Yet, there was no man in sight.
And that same woman will lie with the rightful husband, and she will take in and rejoice, not knowing that she had earlier been impregnated by a spirit who came in the form of her husband.
Why we are having troubles here on earth is because we find it difficult to believe the Bible [the Scripture] that what happened before is what is happening now. Nothing is new. God is repeating what happened before so that men will fear before Him.
How could God say that Adam was not responsible for the conception of Cain, but that Cain was conceived of the evil one. The devil’s sperm produced Cain, while Adam’s sperm produced Abel. It is hard to believe o.
Are you not interested? So if I call you child of Satan do not be offended. I am calling you because of what you are manifesting. If I call you devil, it is what you are manifesting. By Peter’s character, he became a devil.
…From the outset, not all Israelites of the flesh were Israelites of the spirit. It wasn’t Abraham’s sperm that gave identity here, but God’s promise.
God’s promise. It was not Abraham’s sperm which produced other children that gave identity to the man Isaac. Isaac was the son of Promise and not the son of Abraham’s sperm.
So, the Spoken Word which Sarah and Abraham received was what gave birth to Isaac, but the others came by natural descent – man and woman meeting naturally.
But it is not so with the conception of Isaac, for Sarah had already gone beyond menopause at the age of 80, while Abraham was 90. Who could think of them having desires again? Never never!
Remember how it was put: “Your family will be defined by Isaac”? That means that Israelites identity was never racially determined by sexual transmission, [Sure!!!] but it was God-determined by Promise.
SONG: [He has promised He will never fail me. I will follow. I will follow God. He has promised He will never fail me. His faithfulness is forevermore. His faithfulness is forevermore.]
Has He promised anything and He has never done it? The Bible said that His promises in Him are yea and amen.
By the Covenant and by the Promise. These are the two immutable things from which God cannot draw back from or pull out of. God cannot pull out of His Covenant. Hecan never pull out of His Promise. We were rehearsing them last night.
Hebrews 6:17-18, AMP.¹⁷Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. ¹⁸This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].
The Bible said that God made this Promise to Abraham when he was in Babylon. The law that came by Moses 430 years after could not cause God to pull out of that Covenant or that promise. Never never! Law or no law, the promise remained there. The Covenant unshaken.
When He remembered the Covenant He entered into with Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and so on, God rested. That is why you must remember the Testament of the Patriarchs of Israel. Do not forget them. They are our Patriarchs.
We sing that we are heirs of the Father. When you are Christ’s, you are Abraham’s descendants and joint heirs with Christ. You are heirs according to the Promise. Whatever God promised Abraham now belongs to His descendants. True or false?
But now all he had by natural descent are his descendants. His descendants are children of the promise. Did He promise to save the whole world? No! He promised to save some. And you are in the “some”.
Remember how it was put, “Your family will be defined by Isaac.” That means that Israelites identity was never racially determined by sexual transmission,but it was God-determined by Promise. Remember that promise, “When I come back next year at this time, Sarah will have a son”
^10-13And that’s not the only time. To Rebecca, also, a Promise was made that took priority over genetics.
A Promise took priority and preeminence over what? Genetics. The promise of God is mightier than race or tribe. Genetically, an Ngwa man cannot worship God. An Mbaise man cannot worship God, genetically speaking.
But by Promise, you can worship God if only you can believe in His Promise when it comes to you. Do not claim a promise God made to another person.
He knows you. He knows your name. He knows your activities. He knows where you are dwelling. He knows whether you are labouring or you are not labouring. He knows whether you hate evil or you love evil. He knows everything in your heart. He knows where you are landing.
Genetically, you cannot worship God, but by His divine Promise, you can do that, for he will keep His Promise. Am I making sense?
SONG: [He is able. Abundantly able to deliever. To secure. God is able. Abundantly able to deliver those who trust in Him.]
He knows those that will trust in Him. He knows those that will trust Him not. That is why Jesus said, “Do not be like doubting Thomas.”
SONG: [Why worry, when you can pray? Trust in the LORD, and he will make a way. Don’t be like doubting Thomas who trusted not His Promise. Why worry worryworry, when you can pray.]
Do not be like doubting Thomas who could not trust the Promise of God. When God said that He is able, Thomas said, “How?” How? Every doubting Thomas shows interest in asking, “How?” How? He will see the impossibility, but God is seeing the possibility.
So you can be saved if only you can believe the promise doubting nothing. Genetically, you are serpent’s seed.
That was what happened to Jabez who was born under a curse. He was born with a curse. He cried to the LORD saying, “I do not want to continue with this curse. Please change My condition. LORD, please change Me genetically.”
God said, “No! No man can be changed genetically.” Genetics can only be modified. You can only modify genetics. The two can be modified and then what you will get out of it will be a hybrid. BUT THE PROMISE GOD GIVES SURPASSES GENETICAL CHANGES.
That means that Israelites identity was never racially determined by sexual transmission,but it was God-determined by Promise. …
It is not by DNA. DNA has to do with genetics. No politics.
…Remember that promise. When I come back next year at this time, Sarah will have a son. ^10-13And that’s not the only time. To Rebecca also a Promise was made … Do you know who Rebecca is?
… To Rebecca also a Promise was made that took priority over genetics when she became pregnant by our one-of-a-kind ancestor, Isaac, and her babies were still innocent in the womb—incapable of good or bad—she received a special assurance from God. Blessed assurance!
SONG: [Blessed assurance. The LORD is mine. O what a foretaste of glory divine? Heir of salvation. Purchased of God. Born of His spirit. Washed through the Word.
This is My story. This is My song. Praising My Saviour all the day long. This is My story. This is My son. Praising My Saviour all the day long]
Look at it. The assurance. The assurance. Do you have the assurance? It is not insurance, but assurance. Life assurance, not insurance. The spelling starts with A-S-S- not I-N-S-
… To Rebecca also a Promise was made that took priority over genetics…
It took priority over DNA. It has nothing to do with your biological relationship. It cuts across all those barriers. I have my ancestors as this and that. Put it aside.
Thank you LORD that somebody can see a way out of his or her condition today. HELP FROM ABOVE. That is the topic. And that is the revolution God said is coming to the family of Ugwu, not Udochukwu. Ugwu in NdiaguObukpa in Nsukka .
… To Rebecca also a Promise was made that took priority over genetics when she became pregnant by our one-of-a-kind ancestor, Isaac and her babies were still innocent in the womb—Incapable of good or bad—she received a special assurance from God.
What God did in this case made it perfectly plain that His purpose is not a hit-or-miss thing dependent on what we do or don’t do, but a sure thing determined by His decision, flowing steadily from His initiative.
Determined by whose decision? God’s decision. I will save whosoever I want. Anybody I want to destroy, I will destroy. I have conferred authority to THE SON OF MAN holistically to give eternal life to anybody He wants to.
If God will save anybody he wants to and destroy anybody He wants to, can you drag Him to court. But He has given us a yardstick that he is interested in people with good hearts. And wise people should pray that God should give them good hearts and that they should prefer obedience to God’s Word to making money.
And to any other earthly thing; any other material thing, prefer obedience to the truth – to the Word of God.And then God will love you and appreciate you. Eternal life to you is just a reward for your obedience to the truth.
God told Rebecca, “The first born of your twins will take second place”. Later, that was turned into a stark epigram: “I loved Jacob; I hated Esau.”
^14-18Is that grounds for complaining that God is unfair? Not so fast, please. God told Moses, “I am in charge of mercy. I am in charge of compassion.” Compassion doesn’t originate in our bleeding hearts or moral sweats, but in God’s mercy.
The same point was made when God said to Pharaoh, “I picked you as a bit player in this drama of My salvation power.” Sure!!! All we’re saying is that God has the first Word initiating the action in which we play our part for good or ill.
¹⁹Are you going to object,“So how can God blame us for anything since He’s in charge of everything. If the big decisions are already made, what say do we have in it?”
²⁰Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question?
Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that molds it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flower and another into a pot for cooking beans?
If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show His angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show His glorious goodness, isn’t that all right. Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to other people. … Gentiles.
Hosea puts it well: I will call nobodies and make them somebodies; I will call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, “You are nobody!” they are calling you “God’s living children.” Amen.

I am the son of man. The Smoking Firewood. The Man that is troubling the whole world. The difference is clear! Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world. We have seen the Star. We have come to worship the King. You can now look for your position. I am there!……

THE SON OF MAN –

IT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 87 vs. 47

HE HAD US IN MIND BEFORE LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH

I want you to really pay attention to this teaching. If God does not liberate you today to know exactly what preparation for your departure is all about, definitely, you will perish.
If a sheep is told by the owner that he is coming to collect wool form that sheep next week, and that the sheep should make adequate preparation so that whenever he [the owner] comes, he will collect wool from that sheep, will the sheep be running helter-skelter on how to produce the wool so that the master will collect the wool?
Did you get the Message? What the sheep will say is: All right, I am waiting for that day, sir. This is because, in life or in death, wool is all over the body of the sheep, for by nature, the body of the sheep must be covered by wool. It does not require to be making any other preparation.
I hope I am clear. I hope I am clear. The Bible said that a true child of God does not make practice of sinning, for the seed of God abideth in him.
In other words, a child of God is one that is in right standing with God. One that does good and abhors evil. One that is living the life of obedience to the truth, and that is his nature, does he require any other preparation? What is he going to do again? Nothing! So I meet Him just as I am. Period!
SONG: [Just as I am without one plea that Thy blood was shed for me and that Thou biddest me come to Thee, O Lamb of God I come. I come.]
I come presenting Christ and His righteousness. Finish! Not what I have done or what I have not done. This is because those whose names have been written there had already been atoned for.
I want to show you what we are enjoying. Hence, I do not run helter-skelter. This is because, if I am already in Christ, I am a brand new individual. I am no longer counting on my old life. A new life that is in me is what I am living.
So the life I am living is not I that is living it but Christ Who lives in Me. And I live My life everyday to please He that is in Me. My Father who is in Me has not left Me. He isalways with Me. Even last night, you could see that He is with Me, for I do those things that please Him.
Ephesians 1:1-10, MSG.^1-2I, Paul, am under God’s plan as an Apostle …What an axiomatic statement. Irrefutable. Sure and certain. A blessed assurance.
It is just Like THE SON OF MAN used to say, “I know Who I am. I know where I am standing before making My assertions dogmatically.”
^1-2I, Paul, am under God’s plan as an Apostle, a special agent of Christ Jesus, writing to you faithful believers in Ephesus. I greet you with grace and peace poured into our lives by God our Father and our Master, Jesus Christ.
^3-6How blessed is God! And what a blessing He is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in Him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundation, …
Who laid it? Who laid the foundation of this earth? Hear me very well. Before ever it was laid, Who is the One revealing these things from its original beginning? This is for you to know where you are coming from if you are a part of what God is doing.
…Long before he laid down earth’s foundation, He had us in mind, …
Who had us in mind? Is there any accident before God? No way! I say, no way! No way! No way! I am not here accidentally. No! I am not doing the work God assigned to Me accidentally, for thereunto I am born and also ordained.
…Long before he laid down earth’s foundation, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, …
You heard what happened last night. God said and I quote rightly, “From the day I took this young man as a boy from Nsukka, I led him by My hand. He had nothing. I knew he is a Pastor.” Did we hear it last night? It is in tape.
From the day I took this young man, Sam UcheUdo from Lagos with this “Sack & Motor” bag only, his parents and relations never knew where he went to. I took him by My hand from Lagos to this place.
I knew I was going to use him to provoke Nsukka to jealousy. How many heard it from Me? And I approved for him something I have never approved for anybody in the bridal Faith from its inception. And I commanded him to do it, even things he does not take.
How I wish we can try to understand what God is doing in our own day.
I am saying also that I said, “I was nurturing this young boy from a boy to a man now step by step, taking one step at a time, knowing that I will manage him into marital life until I have settled him in his own personal family with a wife.” And that today, My joy is fulfilled to the letter.
And then, there can be accident in birth. Yes! There can be accident also in marriage. We have accidental marriages with man and woman coming together but not having marriage in mind and one thing or the other compelled them to marry. True or false?
We have compassionate marriages, which God decried. God decried accidental marriage. Impregnate and marry. God decried compassionate marriage. Marriage to alleviate one’s social sufferings or condition.
God approved only but one marriage. God’s ordained marriage. He said that it must be neat. It must be neat from all circles. And in that regard, God will not be wicked to give a man a wife that is not the man’s nature, or give a woman who fears and honours God a man that is not the woman’s nature.
God cannot do that, for evil fellow is created for evil day. An evil woman must go to evil man. And evil man must go to evil woman. Whether they like it or not, a man must marry his character.
I say that some people say that days are gone when God use to point people to man or woman they will marry. I said, “There are still Eleazers today whom the master can detail with a sign, ‘Tell Eleazer to go to so so and so place and get a wife for My son. And look at what you will place on the way as a sign.”
Now, that brings Me to these counterfeit members of our Faith who use to be with us but they are God-dropouts, while some of them are still hanging on. Some are hanging on. Yet, they are dropouts.
Not all dropouts leave the school premises. Some hang there with ID cards. They attend lectures, but they are not students. Some even write examinations, but nobody marks their scripts. Nobody!
Even if their names are posted on the notice board as students that have been dismissed, they still hang around in the school premises. True or false?
To disarm them of the school ID cards has always been a difficult thing. Even if you collect it, they will program another one from the computer.
Pay attention to what I am saying, for I know that God is with Me, and He will not allow you to be led astray, especially at this critical moment.
All that glitters is not gold. Compassionate marriage, God decried it. Evil man for evil day. Evil woman for evil day. Evil woman for evil man. No mistake in marriage. A man marries his character.
William Branham said and THE SON OF MAN confirmed it, “If anybody says he is a child of God, give him the Word test.” Give him the Word test. The Word is Christ. If you say you are a child of God and a member of our Faith, all we have to do is to give you the doctrines of our Faith which we received from Him confirmed and vindicated. We watch the way you will manifest it.
No matter how good and pious you look in appearance, if your character does not dovetail with the doctrines of Christ, you are a counterfeit.
This is because only those who came from God will go back to God. Only those who are born with the spirit of Christ will accept the Word of God verbatim – hook line and sinker. They will never give the Word of God undue interpretation. Never! Never! Never!
So we watch you when we give you the Word test. If you pass the test of the Word, we acknowledge you to be one of us because the Word is reflective in your character.
The Word is not merely the book. You are the written book, the written epistle everybody will read. So, by your character, we will know whether you belong to God or not.
That is why, even this day, a book of record has been opened where all is being written. On that day when God will collect His jewels, this book will be opened and characters will be assessed based on what I have handled this day.
From what is being manifested, we will know those who proceeded from God and those that are making mere pretenses – counterfeits, rejects and dropouts who are pretending to be one of us, but they know that they are not a part of us.
I hope I do not have such a person here. I hope I do not have such a person. Search your consciences. Search your minds and your hearts.
Do not tell Me that you are genetically molded that way. No! claim God’s promise that in every place, in every family, in every race, whosoever that fears, honours and obeys God, the same is made acceptable by God.
He came to his people, but they said no. Then He went to the other people that do not belong to that race and said, “As many as will receive Him, to them he will give the Promise, the power to be called the sons and the daughters of God.”
Believing God means believing His Promise. Is it not true? You cannot say you believe God, but you disbelieve God’s Promise. Amen.
When Abraham believed God, he believed His promise. And that was imputed unto hiM for his righteousness, Whose descendants you are.
I will show people that said they believe Abraham and that they have Abraham as their father. They were not born of fornication or adultery as they could think. Yet, they were children of Satan. They belong to Satan’s club – the accusers of the Brethren. The accusers of the brethren are the worst in our midst. Amen.
Do you know one thing with these dropouts and counterfeits who are our members? They are experts in punishing people, but they do not punish themselves because they are giants and elephants among us. Untouchables so to say. Experts in judging others while they themselves are the worst offenders. Am I making sense at all?
That is why I do not know who you are, and will not know who you are, but you will introduce yourself to Me.
Go to the Message INTRODUCE YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY [preached on 21^st August 2021 by Bishop FrydeOkoh].
Go to another Message GIVE YOURSELF A NAME [Preached on Sunday, 9^th August 2009 by THE SON OF MAN]
Your name is nothing but your character, for the manifestation is the interpretation of you character.
^3-6…Long before He laid down earth’s foundation, He had us in mind and had settled on us the focus of his love,…
This is because our names had already been documented. An atonement had already been made. God’s own purchased possession.
..He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family…
So we are not accidental members of God’s family. It is a decision he had already taken long long time ago. Who is the One revealing these things from the beginning? God.
…Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.
^7-10Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free!
He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed. up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth. Sure!!!

Nobody is repenting or being baptized again. Baptize unto what? I am your baptism. I am your sanctification. I am your holiness. In Me, all God’s demand for your salvation is met in your day. No more. No less. God does not know anybody called you. If you are God’s heritage, I am the Manager of God’s Heritage. The Totality of what God is made, I am the Sole Manager. Thus, it is because He made it possible and you cannot challenge it. Your unbelief cannot alter it. It is settled.

– THE SON OF MAN –

ARE YOU THE PROMISED ONE TO COME OR DO WE WAIT FOR ANOTHER? VOL 1; preached on Sunday 26^th August, 2012 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 56 vs. 36 & Pg. 57 vs. 39

DO YOU HAVE THE TICKET? (GOD’S NATURE)

Ephesians 1:1-10, AMP.¹PAUL, AN apostle (special messenger) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah), by the divine will (the purpose and the choice of God) to the saints (the consecrated,set-apart ones) at Ephesus who are also faithful and loyal and steadfast in Christ Jesus:

²May grace (God’s unmerited favour) and spiritual peace [which means peace with God and harmony, unity, and undisturbedness] be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Watch those people. They were already Saints, consecrated, set apart. People that had attained this particular height, but not by their own merit or by their labour, but simply because of what Christ had already accomplished for them, do they have any need to be running to and fro making preparations?
What type of preparations will be needed again? I hope you are hearing what I am saying.
That is why those who are having tickets that have not been okayed should go and re-examine the ticket and find out whether they purchased the right ticket from the right office.
If you have the right ticket from the right office, endorsed by the sole signature that is needed, your duty is to wait for the time, and you just move into the plane.
It is just like my son. I know he must have landed at Enugu by now. He did not need to be worried. He told Me, “Daddy, look at My flight and look at the time.” I said okay. The next thing I heard is, “Daddy I have checked in.” Where did he purchase the ticket? From Enugu down to Lagos. Return ticket today. Look at him there.
If you have purchased your ticket and you know that it is the right ticket, okayed and stamped for that flight, do you run to and fro? Your duty is to wait. Watch and wait and say, “God, hasten it.” You will be praying for the aeroplane to land because you are completely ready.
If the Bride has not made herself ready by now, let the bride forget about it.
The bride and the bridegroom, who takes the wedding ceremony as very important? Who shows the greatest interest in the wedding? Is it the bridegroom or the bride? Who shows the greatest interest and the greatest concern in wedding? Is it the man or the wife? Speak!
Sister ChizobaUdochukwu answers: The wife.
What?
Sister Chizoba answers again: The wife.
We now have a woman today. You know, we are having a wonderful Fellowship. Who is very much concerned?
Sister Chizoba answers again: The wife sir.
So, if the man does not show up during the wedding, who takes the greatest shame?
Sister Chizoba answers again: The wife sir.
The world is hearing her voice. This is because she is about to be taken to her home. Permanent! Amen.
The man has done everything. The wife who is showing concern is the one that must be ready first before the husband, and not the man being ready before the wife.
The wife must have made herself ready together with the flower girls [the bridesmaids], and the man will admire her from a distance and nod his head because he is going to present his wife to the public for admiration.
Having dressed her and equipped her with everything. He now presents her to himself for the world to know and acknowledge that this one belongs to me and I am taking her home
If by now, the bride has not made herself ready, whosoever that is called that bride, whosoever that called herself that bride should re-think. She should have a re-think.
Maybe she is a counterfeit. Maybe she is a dropout. A bridal dropout. Maybe she is an impersonator. An impostor claiming what she is not.
What can we say about the man?
³May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!
⁴Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world,that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.
⁵For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us)…You can walk out of your destiny. He foreordained us and destined us to this eternal plan.
⁵For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [ because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]—
⁶[So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favour and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
⁷In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favour,
⁸Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence), ⁹Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him,
¹⁰[He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth.Amen!
This plan is an eternal plan God made for all those people God had already engraved their names. We used to ask this question, “Has your name been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life?”
If your name is there, you do not need to panic. Atonement had been made. If you have been following and you know that Christ’s nature is your ticket, you do not need to go to market to purchase Christ’s nature, and you cannot work it out.
It is not a worked-up nature. Every worked-up nature is charisma. I call it Ngwa spirit. Mbaise spirit.
Nature has nothing to do with charisma. Nature has to do with characteristic features. Nature is permanent. Charisma changes according to circumstance. True or false?
There is no circumstance that can change nature. Nature remains the same. Constant. Nature is constant, but charisma varies. True or false?
So let us go ahead. Remember what we are discussing. Pretenders, make-believers, hypocrites that flood this Faith. All of them are waiting for the translation of their mortal bodies, even when they do not belong to God.
The problem is not when the promise will come to pass. The problem you should have is: if it should come to pass now, will you be a partaker? Are you a part of what we are waiting for? Are you waiting with Christ’s nature or with devil’s nature? How can serpent’s seed be waiting for God’s promise? Are you a part of it?
And watch all these mixed multitudes. They are the people discouraging the real members, for they are very much impatient. And it is very hard to pastor them. I am telling you. Anybody who is not a seed of God cannot be pastored. He or she is a difficult person to pastor. Amen.
Romans 2:24-29, MSG.^17-24If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, …
What is that religion? “Salvation is of the Jews” which they quoted before Jesus. And the LORd said, “Never say that nonsense again. The days are gone when you begin to talk that nonsense. Now is the hour when those that will worship God will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Salvation is now for both Jews and Gentiles and to only those that will believe in Him and obey Him, for not all the Jews belong to Jehovah. Not all the Jews belong to Abraham as their foster father. So not all the Jews received the promise of salvation from God.”
Do not allow your religion to fool you into believing that God is the God of the Jews. The God of the Jews is the God of the Gentiles. The God of the valley is the God of the mountain. Take note of what I am saying. The God of the desert is the God of the ocean.
^17-24If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God,…
Like those who are sojourning with me in this Family, thinking that it is a ticket to Paradise. They do not know that THE SON OF MAN has already told them the truth that it is either from here to hell, or from here to Heaven. The choice is yours. The choice is yours. From here to hell. From here to heaven. Make your choice.
^17-24If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines!
Like Onitsha people. Unto us God first appeared to take for himself a people. Instead of striving to be a part of that “a people”, they claim collective salvation.
Hence, everybody is behaving as he or she wishes. Careless! Not even one is taking the things of God seriously, for they believe God will save Onitsha, “for unto Onitsha God first appeared”.
But God said, “Do not allow anybody to fool you. I am using you to make tapes. I know you do not believe in Me. You make politics with me. Those that believe in Me are from Ugwuoba up North. The south make politics with THE SON OF MAN, while the North believe and practice His teachings.” And the North he said is from Ugwuoba up North. Amen.
…I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you?Elephants who cannot be led.
…I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you? The same with adultery. The same with idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law. The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you Jews that the outsiders are down on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going to go away.
^25-29Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised—in fact, better.
Better to keep God’s law uncircumcised than break it circumcised. Don’t you see: It’s not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart,…
It is the mark of God on your heart that makes you a real Jew, a child of God.
…It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics.
Recognition comes from who? God, and not from legalistic critics. Whatever you can claim to be claim. Whatever you can think, think. It is your right. Has God ever recognized it? Has God recognized it? Has He approved of it?
As long as God has not approved of it, you are just wasting your time. It is a dissipation of your own energy. Something is right because God said it is right. It is wrong because God said it is wrong. There is no other interpretation anybody can give. Am I making sense at all?
Do not ever say, “Because I am born a Jew, observed my circumcision on the eight day, having Abraham as my father”, that is rubbish! Absolutely rubbish!
Whatever God is saying, give ear to it. God’s interest is focused on those who will hear His Word and obey, and not on those that will be making a fair show of having knowledge – head knowledge of the Word of God, but the Word has no place in their hearts from where regeneration will take place. Transformation takes place in the heart and not from your head.
That you are having head knowledge of the Word of God and desperately moving from place to place with your Bible, you will be a market preacher.
You will become a market preacher. An Ngwa man. The man from Ngwa. Ngwa people will say that I am in enmity with them. I am fighting Aba spirit.
If you want to doubt Me, go to all the markets in Onitsha and everywhere. They are notable for one thing. They are open market preachers, after which they will collect tithe and offerings, and collect traders’ goods through trickery. Trickery!
Watch all these people that go from place to place claiming to be opticians and ophthalmologists; people without primary six certificate. All of them are from Ngwa, claiming that they are giving eyeglasses free. These are people that did not go to any school.
They hide in uncompleted buildings and commit crimes. These are people that are not afraid of going to prison. May God help us escape from community spirit. Amen.