HELP FROM ABOVE VOLUME 3 OF 3

HELP FROM ABOVE VOLUME 3 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

I am not sent to everybody. I am sent to the lost sheep of Israel. I am not sent to everybody. I am not a worldwide Minister. I told you that. I came in search of My own. Anywhere I see that My own, I will make noise, and he will embrace Me. My sheep heareth My Voice, and they follow Me. The only thing that will attract them is My Voice. Once I speak, they will follow Me.

– THE SON OF MAN –

BE CAREFUL ABOUT LAST MINUTE MANIFESTATION OF UNBELIEF (FOLLOW ME AS I FOLLOW HIM [THE CLOUD] REVIEWED); preached on Sunday 8^th September, 2013 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 75 vs. 28 – 29

A RELIGIOUS FELLOW CANNOT SERVE GOD

I want to use King James version of the Bible. Galatians 6:16 only. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Who are the Israel of God? The Israel of God are those that obey the Word of God, not those that have that legalistic and ritualistic observance of their natural laws by cutting their flesh ad claiming that they are descendants of Abraham.
I want to identify certain people here. Saint John Gospel chapter 8 from verse thirty-three to forty-five. Let me identify some people.
John 8:33-45, MSG. ³³Surprised, they said, “But we’re descendants of Abraham. We’ve never been slaves to anyone. … Note! These are the people that are claiming to be Jews. They are claiming to be Jews, to whom belongeth the salvation of God.
…How can you say, ‘The truth will free you’?” ^34-38Jesus said, “I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave. A slave is a transient, who can’t come and go at will. The Son, though, has an established position, the run of the house. So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through. I know you are Abraham’s descendants. But I also know that you are trying to kill me because my message hasn’t yet penetrated your thick skulls. I’m talking about things I have seen while keeping company with the Father, and you just go on doing what you have heard from your father.”
^39-41They were indignant. “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus said, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would have been doing the things Abraham did. And yet here you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth he got straight from God! Abraham never did that sort of thing. You persist in repeating the works of your father.” They said, “We’re not bastards. We have a legitimate father: the one and only God.”
^42-47“If God were your father,” said Jesus, “you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn’t come on my own. He sent me. Why can’t you understand one word I say? Here’s why: You can’t handle it. You’re from your father, the Devil,…
God knows those that belong to Him and those who are making ordinary claims. Have you seen the demarcation now? Not all Israelis are Israelis. Not all of them are approved of God for salvation.
Isaiah 10:21-22, AMP. ²¹A remnant will return [Shear-jashub, name of Isaiah’s son], a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. ²²For though your population, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return [and survive]. The [fully completed] destruction is decreed (decided upon and brought to an issue); it overflows with justice and righteousness [the infliction of just punishment].
Not all that go to church and carry Bible belong to Christ. Not all that are in the Bride of Christ Movement are there for Christ. Some are there because of their belly. Some are there because they think they will gain cheap popularity. Some are there for one thing or the other. But God knows among them the few that belong to Him.
And those that really belong to God are known for one thing: They fear God and they hate evil. They fear God. they hate evil, for the fear of God restRians us from evil. true or false? that is scripture.
Now, God has shown them where they came from. Who knows the descent of every man more than God? By their character, they have revealed their descent. By your manifestations and your character, where you came from is very clear.
…You’re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. …
He fills the world with lies – with his lying nature. So a habitual liar proceeded from the devil. That is why the Bible said, “Let your yea be yea, and your nay be nay.” Anything outside that is from the devil.
I love this calmness. I said I am now going to pour out everything. Let Me show you this category. They are always in the majority. They hate the truth. They hate anybody who tells them the truth, even in their faces.
I am saying that these people are among the group that are allergic to the Word of God because they are addicted to evil. Once you are addicted to evil, you must be allergic to the Word of God. You must be indignant with the Word of God.
The Word of God will be discomforting you. When the Word of God is brought up you hiss indignantly. For want of something to do, you will even face down and start sleeping or pretend to be busy.
Then who said you came from the devil. The Master. The Creator of all human beings has disowned you. When God disowns a person, that person is disowned. Why forcing yourself into Christ when Christ has already disowned you?
Does it mean that He will kill you immediately? No! He will not kill you. What you did will kill you because the moment you are condemned, a day is set for your execution. God has appointed a day he is going to destroy you. And you will not know that day.
It is not because of any other thing but because of your willful rejection of the truth caused by your descent, for you proceeded from the devil. And God gave you a promise of salvation and you turned it down. You turned it down because you have gotten yourself addicted to evil.
The Bible said that evil destroys the wicked, not God.
John 8:33-45, AMP. ³³They answered Him, We are Abraham’s offspring (descendants) and have never been in bondage to anybody. What do You mean by saying, You will be set free?
³⁴Jesus answered them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Whoever commits and practices sin is the slave of sin. ³⁵Now a slave does not remain in a household permanently (forever); the son [of the house] does remain forever.
³⁶So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. ³⁷[Yes] I know that you are Abraham’s offspring; yet you plan to kill Me, because My word has no entrance (makes no progress, does not find any place) in you.
Do you know how you will know whether you came from God or not? If you came from God, you will delight yourself in the Word of God. If you do not belong to God, the Word of God will have no place in you at all. After hearing, you will walk away and remain the same. A sure sign that you are serpent’s seed.
³⁸I tell the things which I have seen and learned at My Father’s side, and your actions also reflect what you have heard and learned from your father. ³⁹They retorted, Abraham is our father. Jesus said, If you were [truly] Abraham’s children, then you would do the works of Abraham [follow his example, do as Abraham did].
⁴⁰But now [instead] you are wanting and seeking to kill Me, a Man Who has told you the truth which I have heard from God. This is not the way Abraham acted. ⁴¹You are doing the works of your [own] father. They said to Him, We are not illegitimate children and born out of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
⁴²Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me and respect Me and welcome Me gladly, for I proceeded (came forth) from God [out of His very presence]. I did not even come on My own authority or of My own accord (as selfappointed); but He sent Me.
⁴³Why do you misunderstand what I say? It is because you are unable to hear what I am saying. [You cannot bear to listen to My message; your ears are shut to My teaching.]
⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.
And all that is fake. Counterfeit. That is what Aba is known for.
⁴⁵But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me [do not trust Me, do not rely on Me, or adhere to Me]. Amen.
It is because the person does not have that nature. If you do not have the nature of Christ, there is no way the Word of God will have a home in your heart. It is a sheer waste of time even to listen to the Word of God.
This is simply because the reading glass is not useful to a blind man. I am saying that wearing of eyeglass profits a blind fellow absolutely nothing. Wearing of eyeglass is unprofitable to a blind fellow. It cannot change the person’s condition because the eyeglass does not give sight. If the eyeballs are dead, they are dead. Amen.
John 6:64-65, MSG. ^61-65Jesus sensed that his disciples were having a hard time with this and said, “Does this throw you completely? …
Are you having hard times with this statement? With all that you have been hearing from Me this morning, are you allergic? Is it scandalizing you? Are you having difficulty comprehending it because this is HELP FROM ABOVE?
The whole thing is happening to us as individuals. Is it a lie Brethren? I do not know what is happening in you. You do not know what is happening in Me. Everybody knows what is happening in him or her.
We want to know exactly whether we are wasting our time or whether we are in the number God had already assured of that new body which is exactly the matter at stake now – the topic of discussion.
^61-65Jesus sensed that his disciples were having a hard time with this and said, “Does this throw you completely? What would happen if you saw the Son of Man ascending to where he came from?
The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making.
But some of you are resisting, refusing to have any part in this.” (Jesus knew from the start … He knew from the very beginning– from the start …that some weren’t going to risk themselves with him.
He knew also who would betray him.) He went on to say, “This is why I told you earlier that no one is capable of coming to me on his own. You get to me only as a gift from the Father.”
John 6:64-69, LB. ⁶⁴But some of you don’t believe me.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who didn’t believe and knew the one who would betray him.)
Who knew from the very beginning? Anyone that is called an unbeliever will become angry. If I say that you do not believe, you are angry at Me. I say you are not one of us, you are angry.
Why are you angry? Is it because I am telling you the truth? I am telling you where you belong to so that you stop wasting your time following Me.
⁶⁵And he remarked, “That is what I meant when I said that no one can come to me unless the father attracts him to me.” ⁶⁶At this point, many of his disciples turned away and deserted him.
At this time, many of them turned away and deserted him.
⁶⁷Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you going too?”
Are you following them? Are you going away with them?
⁶⁸Simon Peter replied, “Master, to whom shall we go? You alone have the words that give eternal life, ⁶⁹and we believe them and know that you are the holy Son of God.” Period! We are sure and certain.
John 6:66-68, AMP. ⁶⁶After this, many of His disciples drew back (returned to their old associations) and no longer accompanied Him. ⁶⁷Jesus said to the Twelve, Will you also go away? [And do you too desire to leave Me?]
⁶⁸Simon Peter answered, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words (the message) of eternal life. Amen!
Can you imagine? Jesus who fed them in thousands, even over five thousand. This time around, for telling them the truth, all of them left, remaining twelve.
If you happen to be the minister of a church where, after preaching, the whole church left, leaving only but twelve behind, would you not be tempted to think that what you are speaking is not the truth because majority has left?
He turned to the remnant [twelve] to show you that He is not interested in their membership, for they are a burden to Him. He asked them, “Gentlemen, are you staying behind? Would you not follow your brothers and sisters and go away?”
Peter said, “Master, to whom do we go to seeing that you alone have the Word of eternal life and that is why we are following you. We are sure and certain about it. Then we are not going anywhere.”
Now, if you happen to see a Man of God so-called surrounded by such multitudes, and all of a sudden they left, would you not put a question mark to what he is preaching?
If you are not a seed of God, you might be tempted to think that God has left Him. But if you are wise and understanding, you will come to the realization that he had already spoken to you concerning the crowd.
And that those in the crowd do not follow Him for eternal life, for He told them, “I know you are following Me, not because you believe in Me, but because you are eating from My hands. You are following Me for material gains.”
Then He spoke to them about the Word of life. They said, “Who can bear this saying. Who can bear this thing? It is a very unbearable saying. To your tents O Israel.” Fulfilling what He said that the Word trims down the crowd.
Remember that they thought that they were going away, but they never knew that He had already known them that they never believed in Him. They were following because of material gains.
[ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE CLOUD OR THE CROWD was preached by THE SON OF MAN in the midst of the Bride on Sunday 7^th August 2016]
So, there is nobody today who can take God unawares, for God is taking nothing but His own. He does not take Satan’s property. If you proceeded from Satan, you are going back to Satan.
A religious fellow cannot serve God. If you are interested in going to church and clapping your hands, they are all fine. But if your interest is not in obeying the Word revealed to you, you are serpent’s seed.
Let Me go further again.

WOE TO YOU HYPOCRITES AND PRETENDERS [1]

John 3:27-34, MSG. John answered, “It’s not possible for a person to succeed—I’m talking about eternal success—without heaven’s help.

Is there any way anybody can succeed without God of Heaven helping you? You make success on eternal thing? Impossible!
You yourselves were there when I made it public that I was not the Messiah but simply the one sent ahead of him to get things ready. The one who gets the bride is, by definition, the bridegroom.
And the bridegroom’s friend, his ‘best man’—that’s me—in place at his side where he can hear every word, is genuinely happy. How could he be jealous when he knows that the wedding is finished and the marriage is off to a good start? “That’s why my cup is running over. This is the assigned moment for him to move into the center, while I slip off to the sidelines.
^31-33“The One who comes from above is head and shoulders over other messengers from God. The earthborn is earthbound and speaks earth language; the heaven born is in a league of his own. He sets out the evidence of what he saw and heard in heaven. No one wants to deal with these facts. But anyone who examines this evidence will come to stake his life on this: that God himself is the truth.
“The One that God sent speaks God’s words. And don’t think he rations out the Spirit in bits and pieces. The Father loves the Son extravagantly.
He turned everything over to him so he could give it away—a lavish distribution of gifts. That is why whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever!
And that is also why the person who avoids and distrusts the Son is in the dark and doesn’t see life. All he experiences of God is darkness, and an angry darkness at that.”
John 3:27-36, LB. ^[27]John replied, “God in heaven appoints each man’s work. ^[28]My work is to prepare the way for that man so that everyone will go to him. You yourself know how plainly I told you that I am not the Messiah. I am here to prepare the way for him—that is all.
^[29]The crowd will naturally go to the main attraction—the bride will go where the bridegroom is! A bridegroom’s friend rejoice with him. I am the Bridegroom’s friend, and I am filled with joy at his success. ^[30]He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. ^[31]He has come from Heaven and is greater than anyone else. I am of the earth, and my understanding is limited to the things of the earth. ^[32]He tells what he has seen and heard, but how few what he tells them! ^[33-34]Those who believe Him discover that God is a Fountain of truth. For this one—sent by God—speaks God’s words, for God’s Spirit is upon him without measure or limit.
^[35]The Father loves this man because he is his Son, and God has given him everything there is. ^[36]And to all who trust him—God’s Son—to save them have eternal life; those who don’t believe and obey him shall never see heaven, but the wrath of God remains upon them. Amen!
1 John 4:1-6, LB. Let us test every spirit ^[1]Dearly loved friends, don’t always believe everything you hear just because someone says it is a message from God: test it first to see if it really is. For there are many false teachers around, ^[2]and the way to find out if there message is from the Holy Spirit is to ask: Does it really agree that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, actually became man with a human body? If so, then the message is from God.
^[3]If not, the message is not from God but from one who is against Christ, like the “Anti-Christ”…
So anybody who does not believe that God is a human being is an anti-Christ. How many anti-Christ’s are in the world today?
…like the “Anti-Christ” you have heard about who is going to come, and his attitude of enmity against Christ is already abroad in the world.
^[4]Dear young friends, you belong to God and have already won your fight with those who are against Christ, because there is someone in your heart who is stronger than any evil teacher in this wicked world.
^[5]These men belong to tis world, so, quite naturally, they are concerned about worldly affairs and the world pays attention to them.
^[6]But we are children of God; that is why only those who have walked and talked with God will listen to us. Others won’t. That is another way to know whether a message is really from God; for if it is, the world won’t listen to it. Sure!
Check your delight. If a Message is from God, the world will not listen to it, and they will not believe it. If a Man is from God, only the Elect will acknowledge Him. The world will not receive Him. Everybody will be scared because He comes with heavenly Message.
Check the Message you delight yourself in. The Message you show interest in, that will tell you where your delight is. That will tell you where you came from, for if you came from the world, you are a part of the world, and you are earthly.
Everything about worldly messages will be your attraction. When we begin to disclose heavenly messages, you will be allergic. You will be discomforted. They will be things you would not like to hear because they will be regulating your character.
A Message that transforms human character must be biting. I say, it must be very very biting. It cannot be palatable to everybody.
It is just like a medicine that is not bitter, It can hardly be effective. So it is with the correction that changes life. It is very painful. Do you believe that?
Soft correction does not change. Any correction that changes people must be harsh. Any chastisement that changes character must be hot chastisement.
That is why God chastises us with His hot displeasure. If you are not being chastised that same way, you are a bastard. Complete bastard.
How does He chastise us? By using His Word and not by using ordinary mechanical device to flog us. No! He uses His Word, for if you are not afraid of God talking to you because of your error in a harsh way, that goes to show that you are a serpent’s seed.
So, let us pay attention. I am going to read something, and it is an extensive reading.
1 John 4:1-6, MSG. My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. …
He that comes from God will not only talk about God, but will live the life of God, for that is the greatest Message that makes the greatest impact in the lives of the people who are personally and practically acquainted with Him.
Yes! Not everybody that talks about God believes in God. Is this not a statement we should ponder about? Is this statement not dreadful?
We sing it as a song: [All the people that are carrying the Bible about are all claiming and saying that they are also children of God. But knows those who are His.
All the people that are in the churches are all claiming and saying that they are also children of God. But knows those who are His.]
God already knows those who are His people. A long Bible does not translate to a strong faith. Long chaplet does not mean a strong faith.
Not everybody that talks about God belongs to God nor believes also in God, for the devil talks about God. The devil also believes in God. He said that he believes that God is One, but he can never live the life of Christ.
For that reason, you must test that person. What do you use in testing? Use the Word of God. Do not use charisma. Use character. Do not use charisma. Use character.
If you watch the way the so-called Brethren in Isiala-Ngwa and Mbaise speak from their pulpit, you will think that they will be the number one to enter Paradise.
Watch their write-ups. Watch their letters. If you watch their apologies, [Oh!] you will think they are sincere. Please, please, please. May your parents never die prematurely.
Let My mother and My father die, for there is nobody that will not die. Please forgive. Please forgive. And you will think that there is truth in the plea. Yet a matchet is concealed within him.
We are destroying spirits.
…Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. Note it! There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.True or false? True or false? By their characters, you will know them.
There is how you test for the genuine spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his Faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person comes from God and belongs to God.
And anyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of anti-Christ that you heard was coming. Well, here it is sooner than we thought. Sure!
My dear children, you come from God and you belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the spirit in you is far strong than anything in the world.
These people belong to the Christ-denying world. Yes! They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens.
The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the spirit of truth from the spirit of deception. Amen!
Which is constantly at work in the whole world today. NO DECEPTION IS OF THE TRUTH. NO DECEPTION IS OF THE TRUTH.
We go finally to this lengthy passage. I will read it in two or three translations. It is a very lengthy reading. Get it from the Living Bible, Amplified version and the Message Bible.
BEWARE OF SUCH PEOPLE GOD HAS BEEN EXPOSING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. BEWARE OF THE PHARISEES AMONG US. BEWARE OF THEIR LEAVEN – THEIR DOCTRINES. BEWARE OF THEIR TEACHINGS FOR THEY ARE HYPOCRITES.
THEY MAKE PRETENSES THAT THEY ARE SERVING GOD, WHEN THEY ARE NOT. THEY GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY ARE GOOD WHEN THEY ARE GRIEVOUS WOLVES.
THEY HIDE WICKEDNESS UNDER THE CLOAK OF THE FAITH OF CHRIST AND PERPETUATE INJUSTICE. GIVE EAR TO THIS WARNING!
Matthew 23:13-35, MSG. ^13-14I’ve had it with you. You’re hopeless, you religion scholars, you Pharisees! Frauds! Your lives are roadblocks to God’s Kingdom. You refuse to enter and won’t let anyone else in either.
¹⁵You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds. You go halfway around the world to make a convert, but once you get him you make him into a replica of yourself, double-damned.
^16-21You are hopeless! What arrogant stupidity! You say, “If someone makes a promise with his fingers crossed, that’s nothing, but if he swears with his hand on the Bible, that’s serious. What ignorance! Does the leather on the Bible carry more weight than the skin on your hands?
And what about this piece of trivia: ‘If you shake hands on a promise, that’s nothing, but if you raise your hand that God is your witness, that’s serious’? What ridiculous hairsplitting!
What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands? A promise is a promise. What difference does it make if you make your promise inside or outside a house of worship? A promise is a promise. God is present, watching and holding you to accounts regardless.
^23-24You are hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God’s law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it.
Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required. Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that’s wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons?
^25-26You are hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You burnish the surface of your cups and bowls so they sparkle in the sun, while the insides are maggoty with your greed and gluttony. Stupid Pharisees! Scour the insides and then the gleaming surface will mean something.
^27-28You are hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You’re like manicured grave plots, grass-clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it’s all rotting bones ad worm-eaten flesh. People look at you and think that you’re saints, but beneath the skin you’re total frauds.
^29-32You are hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You build granite tombs for your prophets and marble monuments for your saints. And you say that if you had lived in the days of your ancestors, no blood would have been on your hands. You protest too much! You’re cut from the same cloth as those murderers, and daily add to the death count.
^33-34Snakes! Reptilian sneaks! Do you think you can worm your way out of this? Never have to pay the piper? It’s on account of people like you that I send Prophets and wise guides and scholars generation after generation—and generation after generation you treat them like dirt, greeting them with lynch mobs, hounding them with abuse.
^34-36You can’t squirm out of this: Every drop of righteous blood ever spilled on this earth, beginning with the blood of that good man Abel right down to the blood of Zechariah, Barrachiah’s son, whom you murdered at his prayers, is on your head. All this, I’m telling you, is coming down on you, and your generation.
Matthew 23:13-35, LB. ^[13-14]Woe to you, Pharisees, and you other religious leaders. Hypocrites! For you won’t let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and won’t go in yourselves. And you pretend to be holy with all your long public prayers in the streets, while you are evicting widows from their homes. Hypocrites!
^[15]Yes, woe upon you hypocrites. For you go to all lengths to make one convert, and then turn him into twice the son of hell you are yourselves.
^[16]Blind guides! Woe upon you! For your rule is that to swear ‘By God’s Temple’ means nothing—you can break that oath, but to swear ‘By the gold in the Temple’ is binding!
^[17]Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifies the gold? ^[18]And you say that to take an oath ‘By the altar’ can be broken, but to swear ‘By the gifts of the altar’ is binding! ^[19]Blind! For which is greater, the gifts on the altar, or the altar itself that sanctifies the gift?
^[20]When you swear ‘By the altar’ you are swearing by it and everything on it, ^[21]and when you swear ‘By the Temple’ you are swearing by it, and by God Who lives in it. ^[22]And when you swear ‘By heavens’ you are swearing by the Throne of God and by God Himself.
^[23]Yes, woe upon you, Pharisees and other religious leaders—hypocrites! For you tithe down to the last mint leaf in your garden, but ignore the important things—justice and mercy and faith. Yes, you should tithe, but you shouldn’t leave the more important things undone.
²⁴Blind guides! You strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. ^[25]Woe unto you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders—hypocrites! You are so careful to polish the outside of the cup, but the inside is foul with extortion and greed.
^[26]Blind Pharisees! First cleanse the inside of the cup, and then the whole cup with be clean. ^[27]Woe to you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders! You are lie beautiful mausoleums—full of dead men’s bones, and of foulness and corruption.
^[28]You try to look like sainty men, but underneath those pious robes of yours are hearts besmirched with every sort of hypocrisy and sin.
^[29-30]Yes, woe to you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders—hypocrites! For you build monuments to the Prophets killed by your fathers and lay flowers on the graves of the godly men they destroyed, and say, ‘We certainly would never have acted as our fathers did.’
^[31]In saying that, you are accusing yourselves of being the sons of wicked men. ^[32]And you are following in their steps, filling up the full measure of their evil. ^[33]Snakes! Sons of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?
^[34]I will send you Prophets, and wise men, and inspired writers, and you will kill some by crucifixion, and rip open the backs of others with whips in your synagogues, and hound them from city to city, ^[35]so that you will become guilty of all the blood of murdered godly men from righteous Abel to Zechariah (Son of Barachiah), slain by you in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.
Matthew 23:13-35, AMP. ¹³But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.
Do we have such people even in our midst? They know they have come to the end of their journeys. They are only there to discourage those who are vying for the kingdom of Heaven, not knowing that they had already been sealed in. They do not know.
I show you a sign. There is nobody born of a woman who can discourage a seed of God under the umbrella of THE SON OF MAN, for I know those I have so far sealed in. I know those I have checked in. I know those that are bearing My mark – not mechanical mark. I know all of them throughout the whole world. I can tell the whole world the number of people that are seated comfortably in My Ark right now.

I have scrutinized this Ministry. I have scrutinized all the Messages that proceeded out of My mouth, backed up by the Holy Spirit, there is not even one that can be faulted. But there is something wrong in the recipients. The people that receive this Word do not manifest the Word; the level of hypocrisy in you is very very high. ……. Our relationship with God is likened to a marital conjugation. The Almighty God is our Husband. Do you believe that? If we are what we claim to be, the family of God, then God is our Leader, God is our Head, the very Christ is our Head and our Husbandman.

– THE SON OF MAN –

FAITHFULNESS EXPLAINED; Preached on Sunday 31^st May 2009 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 15 vs. 19 & Pg. 25 vs. 41

WOE TO YOU HYPOCRITES AND PRETENDERS [2]

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows’ houses and for a pretence to cover it up make LONG PRAYERS; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.

Long prayers! They invade widows houses, and there, they make long prayers. Watch the one that was laughing yesterday. The voicemail attempting to invade a widow’s house, not knowing that the widow is wiser than him. And he hit the rocks. How I wish all other widows will behave like that widow.
That is why it pays to be grounded and rooted in the truth so that you can resist such grievous wolves. There are too many that are not even widows, but who are porous and very very gullible.
The antics of these Pharisees– pretenders who pretend to be good. In appearance, they look pious. In appearance, they look dandy, but inwardly, they are whitewashed sepulchres. Grievous wolves.
The devil has never told anybody he wants to ravage that he is a devil. The devil has always been masquerading as a lion in sheep’s clothing. Then you admit the lion as a sheep, and he will wreak great havoc in your family.
Watch people that come into our homes. With open hearts and with open minds, and the love of God compelling us, we bring them in and show them love. They might be strangers.
In keeping with the Word of God, we extend our bowels of mercy to them. In return, they will steal our property before going.
You know My testimony when one man who is a brother to Badru. The man from Oyo State. His brother, a hardened criminal and a muslim. I admitted him into My house to pass the night because of his brother who travelled to Jos.
I respected his faith and allowed him to stay in that room. I evacuated my children and our sisters who were serving our interest whom we harboured in the house due to persecution.
During our family altar, we thought he was taking his bath, for he said he was in a hurry. He came in the night and was brought to Me by our watchnight.
At the end of the day, I gave him money to buy something on the way and carried him in My motorcycle along with the Ghana-must-go bag he was carrying.
Little did I know that he ransacked the house and looted everything in that room. The Ghana-must-go bag he came with was filled with newspapers and empty cartons and he emptied all of them into our room and then collected all the dresses meant for our sisters, including sandals and shoes and other valuables.
And nobody could notice it because we were in a separate place. I got to the park and paid for his transport fare to Jos, for he said he had no money.
I was there when I started receiving calls that the man had looted everywhere. I rushed back to the park to know whether he could be there. I ransacked everywhere but I could not see him.
I told them the number to the ticket I bought for him at Ifesinachi Motors. They checked, but it was discovered that this man had already exchanged that seat and ticket for money and vanished. He had already sold the ticket to a woman.
They brought out the woman who was holding that ticket with the number and she described the person who sold the ticket to her because the vehicle was about to leave when we got there.
Criminals! He came in with sheep’s clothing, but inwardly, a grievous wolf.
Has it not happened to Me here? Have I not harboured Brothers here who are in the same Faith with Me. Do you not know them? You know what they did?
They looted this house and looted the Church treasury for which cause I could not keep a kobo that does not belong to Me in My house again. Every money pertaining to the Church, outside. No more!
Who looted? So-called Brethren who I was taking good of. Not one. Not two. Not three. Am I sure the present ones are not criminally minded?
Am I sure the present Brethren who are surrounding Me now are not also criminally minded? Am I sure they are not lions in sheep clothing, hypocrites and serpent seeds surrounding Me, for base gains?
That is why yesterday, I was testifying about our Pastor Chizoba who was just a boy when I picked him from nowhere. I never asked for permission from his parents. I do not even know where he is living. I have not been to Obukpa. I have not been there.
I just showed interest in him. The way he was coming up in the fear of God and showing interest in the things of God and travelling long distance of over 15 kilometres with bicycle to Fellowship.
I saw him with that school uniform and pleaded that he should be helped by the Brethren to live with them in Nsukka. I noticed the way they were behaving as if I was giving them a burden they could not carry.
Then I picked him and brought him down to Onitsha here. He has sojourned with Me from 2002 to 2022, and no story has ever been told around him. No evil story.
He was sojourning with me when I was working in the Federal Ministry of Labour when I was even dumping money in the house. In everything and in every aspect, I never hid anything from him, and we never for one day suspected him of any foul play.
He had access to everywhere even to the kitchen and to the pot. He was not serving Me as a servant. He was a Brother going to school and sojourning with Me.
I had to place it on record that there was no Sister that served us that we found wanting. Of all the Sisters that served us, all of them married from My house. They got married to our Brothers. Not even one was guilty of stealing anything from our house. Not even one.
Even if they proved stubborn, that was a different ball game. But talk of indulging in evil, not even a single one of them indulged herself in such. I can name them from here. Chika, you know all of them.
There was not even one that was accused of anything evil. Hence, they could marry from My house. My wife and I took good care of them.
But almost all the so-called Brothers I harboured except our Pastor Chizoba, you know all of them, and you know what too place. This means that Brothers are more evil even at tender ages than Sisters to the extent that if I should look for serpent seeds, I should look for serpent seeds more from among the Brothers than from the Sisters.
Sisters have more of the fear of God than the Brothers, age notwithstanding. I owe no apologies for this. I make bold to make it clear.
Even the ones that are with Me now, are you not criminally minded? Even when you had told me that your whole desire is on how to make money, and that your problem is money. Is money not the root of all evils?
See how you are putting your hands on your waist and watching Me, waiting until I stop. Looking at you from head to toe, I do not need a Prophet to tell Me who you are.
That is why speaking the truth from God means destroying and exposing evil spirits that are in operation in people.
I will not conclude about Chika because he is still on course. But so far, so good. I say, so far, so good. If he is weak, I know his weak points.
If you are performing well, I will commend you. If you are not doing well, I will not commend you. I will rather expose you. And you know that My testimony about you is according to truth. I am happy that you all know about all these people.
Why are we raising all these criminals from so-called godly families? It is because they came from counterfeit families. They all came from God-dropout families. Check all of them. Check their backgrounds.
Not even one came from a godly home. Their parents are evil, pretending to be our members. Hypocrites! And you can see what is happening in their families.
That is why I am publishing whatever they are writing now. I am publishing any to enable Me know the ground where I will show mercy. All these things they are now making public, were they not hidden in them all this while?
Why must it be at this point of the last introduction of who God is that all of them have decided to open up. All along they have been trying to make Me a liar, but now they have opened up, the world has seen who is on the LORD’s side.
More are coming, while some, out of fear and shame, have suppressed their own, only to be revealed any moment from now.
This is the hour where I encourage all who are walking according to the way God has revealed to us for example– all that are walking as you have Me for your example, go ahead. But the rest who are walking contrary, I wish you good luck.
Go ahead, for we have come to the end of all things. The righteous will continue in their righteousness, while the wicked will continue in their wickedness.
My greatest joy is that he that will mediate for mankind has gone ahead of time. I am facing everybody. As you face Me, so I face you. Period!
Matthew 23:13-35, AMP. ¹³But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.
How? By becoming objects of provocation. Always provoking innocent souls to wrath and to anger; trying to do thing that will make them to over-react, tempting their patience.
They have become tempters because the moment you are not obedient to the Word of God, you have become a tempter to your brethren. True or false?
Once you take a decision to disobey the Word of God, you have become a tempter to the children of God. Your duty now will be to make the children of God do things they do not want to do, say things they do not want to say and provoking them to wrath unnecessarily. And when you provoke them to anger, you laugh. To you, it means nothing.
Hear Me very well. The moment somebody is a hypocrite, he becomes a stumbling block to others. Because of their hypocritical ways, they make the way of God look difficult for others.
Begin to watch what I am saying from the grassroot. You trace it to these names that are not in the LORD’s Book of Life. And they themselves have discovered it and said like their father, the devil, “What can he have but the kingdom.”
The devil and his children are all out to seduce the real sons and daughters of God out of this Kingdom race, and God said No!
We are in the last days. Once you belong to God’s own Elect or you are holding God’s Promise or Covenant, be rest assured, unless you are the one violating it.
This is because the Covenant of God is the Covenant of salvation and Covenant of peace. When you keep your own side of the Covenant, God is obligated to keep His own. Any day you withdraw from your own, God withdraws it. Straight away!
So it is with God’s promises. It requires patience. It requires faith and trust in Him Though it tarries, wait for it. Abiding faith. Abiding Faith promotes patience.
Matthew 23:13-35, AMP. ¹³But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.
FearGod, are you hearing it? Are you hearing it? I have told you that you are not here to convert us. There is nothing in this life nor in the life to come that will make us to follow a bad example. We will never.
Woe unto any man who will be convinced or lured away from the truth that has been evidently set out before him, and which he has already believed.
That is why we were commending our Sister last night that the tyranny of her uncle could not, for any reason at all, cancel her belief in the truth.
The threat of her sponsor and her guardian, even to withdraw all help and banishing her from crossing his gate or entering the compound– that threat could not compel her to change her mind against the truth she had already believed, even when it was also the same man that introduced her to that same new and living way, and even confirmed it before her eyes, only for him to turn back because he was corrected and rebuked.
He thought that by his position, he could overshadow everybody or that he was above rebuke and that he could come to Fellowship at any time he liked. No no no!
We handle the Word of God without respect of persons. The highest thing you can do is to criticize us. It is your right. Scandalize us. It your right. But God will judge. Heaven and earth must stand up against that individual.
When heaven and earth will testify against that individual, where will he run for safety. Heaven will not accommodate the person, and the earth will not accommodate the person.
That is why, the moment you bear false witness against the truth, your conscience will never set you free. You will never sleep in your bed. You know the truth and you deliberately begin to act contrary to that truth, if you dare sleep and have rest, you are serpent’s seed.
If you are a seed of God, you will weep and cry until you cry yourself out of that condition and think yourself out of the bottle because, once you are a slave to sin, you have bottled yourself. You have imprisoned yourself. You are in Satan’s Eden. Satan’s Eden. Congregation of the dead. That is what the Bible calls it.
The moment you go beyond this truth revealed by God, you land yourself in the congregation of the dead – synagogue of the dead.
Proverbs 21:16, KJV. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
That is why Peter said, “To whom do we go to, seeing that you alone have the Word of eternal life. And we are sure and certain. If we leave your presence and go to somewhere else, shall we get that eternal life there? For eternal life is found only in one Person.”
And we have found that Man Whom the law and the Prophets spoke about. See Him! He is holding what we are looking for.
I told you, if I needed converts– If I needed disciples, will I be here? If I want the world to hear Me, will I be here? Will I lock up My door and lock up even My gate?
Even people that are hearing My Voice call me and say, “Sir, please, you have stopped us from going to church. The moment it is 8 o’clock, we switch off all our radios and everything. We stop our children from playing to enable us hear from You, for whatever You are preaching is ringing bell up there. We hear You. Allow us to come into Your compound and stay outside and listen.”
I said, “No. Not that way. I am running a sacred studio. Do you enter Sapienca studio? No! You do not! This is a sacred studio. It is very very very sacred.”
The sanctity of this studio must be maintained, for that determines the sanctity of the Faith from where the entire world is blessed.
That is why God has surrounded it with Hosts of angels to make sure that no error can be traced to what is coming out from here. From here, all errors are corrected. We are at home with the Messiah here.
Those who were with Me the day that Great Light followed that way and then followed this way, have you forgotten? Was it not the Cloud? Was this not the weather that day? This is exactly the weather.
You saw what happened. Any day you forget it, you are perishing. And I told you that he did not come and went away. He has been with us. He is sleeping with Me every day.
That is why I authorized My wife to shuttle between the heavenly plain and the earthly plain until I am through and then we go together. But she will remain there in the Cave of Treasures,
Those who saw that Great Light, if they are not afraid up till now, something is wrong with them. Who can believe that Chiemelie Mbah saw it and still misbehaved himself out of this house?
Even you, Chiemelie Casmir. Were you not here that day? Did you not see what happened? Has that instilled the fear of God in you? Never!
Anybody who does not have the fear of God in his or her heart, I regard that person as Satan’s agent or serpent seed. When the lion has roared, who will not be afraid? Only a serpent seed.
We do not worship God in fear. We worship God in love. He first loved us. Look at something we could not achieve by our effort, but God has done it for us.
Our duty is to gather to praise Him, to obey Him, cherish Him, and adore Him, while waiting for the Promise which we know must surely come to pass. Though it tarries, we are not relenting.
¹⁴Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows’ houses and for a pretence to cover it up make LONG PRAYERS; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.
¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, [a single disciple] and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are.
¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath].
¹⁷You blind fools! For which is greater: the gold, or the sanctuary of the temple that has made the gold sacred? ¹⁸You say too, Whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound; but whoever swears by the offering on the altar, his oath is binding.
¹⁹You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred? ²⁰So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. ²¹And he who swears by the sanctuary of the temple swears by it and by Him Who dwells in it. ²²And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected and omitted the weightier (more important) matters of the Law–right and justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly] to have done, without neglecting the others.
²⁴You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel! ²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.
²⁶You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may be clean also. [Clean your heart] ²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything impure.
²⁸Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity. ²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
³⁰Saying, If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have aided them in shedding the blood of the prophets.
³¹Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. ³²Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins to the brim [so that nothing may be wanting to a full measure]. [You then fulfill that which you parents could not achieve.]
³³You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)? [How can hypocrites and pretenders escape the penalty which they will suffer in hell?]
³⁴Because of this, take notice: I am sending you prophets and wise men (interpreters and teachers) and scribes (men learned in the Mosaic Law and the Prophets); some of them you will kill, even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue and persecute from town to town,
³⁵So that upon your heads may come all the blood of the righteous (those who correspond to the divine standard of right) shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar [of burnt offering] Amen!

Recognize who you are

Before we go, Matthew 16:6-12, AMP. ⁶Jesus said to them, Be careful and on your guard against the leaven (ferment) of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ⁷And they reasoned among themselves about it, saying, It is because we did not bring any bread.

⁸But Jesus, aware of this, asked, Why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? O you [men, how little trust you have in Me, how] little faith! ⁹Do you not yet discern (perceive and understand)? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many [ small hand] baskets you gathered?
¹⁰Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many [ large provision] baskets you took up? ¹¹How is it that you fail to understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But beware of the leaven (ferment) of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
¹²Then they discerned that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Not all that go about preaching, holding the Bible, talking about God– not all of them believe in God. Not even one is sent by God. They are using it as a means of making both ends meet. It is what they have as their occupation from where they are making their livelihood.
Matthew 16:6-12, MSG. ^5-6On their way to the other side of the lake, the disciples discovered they had forgotten to bring along bread. In the meantime, Jesus said to them, “Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisee-Sadducee yeast.”
Keep a sharp eye out. Open your eyes. Shine your eyes. They are everywhere according to the Scriptures. And it is not written on their forehead. You cannot see any of them with the inscription on their forehead, “I AM A DECEIVER. I have come to deceive you”. You will not see anything like that.
…Jesus said to them, “Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisee-Sadducee yeast.” ^7-12Thinking he was scolding them for forgetting bread, they discussed in whispers what to do.
Jesus knew what they were doing and said, “Why all these worried whispers about forgetting the bread? Runt believers! Haven’t you caught on yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves of bread and the five thousand people, and how many baskets of fragments you picked up?
Being hypocrites, their mind went to earthly bread – natural bread. No other place. Then they missed the whole thing.
…Or the seven loaves that fed four thousand, and how many baskets of leftovers you collected? … If that was what he needed, he had enough.
…Haven’t you realized yet that bread isn’t the problem? The problem is yeast, Pharisee-Sadducee yeast.” Then they got it: that he wasn’t concerned about eating, but teaching—the Pharisee-Sadducee kind of teaching. Hypocritical kind of teaching.
Matthew 16:6-12, LB. ^[6]“Watch out!” Jesus warned them. “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ^[7]They thought he was saying this because they had forgotten to bring bread.
^[8]Jesus knew what they were thinking and told them, “O men of little faith! Why are you so worried about having no food?
^[9]Won’t you ever understand? Don’t you remember at all the five thousand I fed with five loaves, and the basketfuls left over? ^[10]Don’t you remember the four thousand I fed, and all that was left?
^[11]How could you even think I was talking about food? But again I say, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’” ^[12]Then at last they understood that by yeast he meant the wrong teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 16:6-12, KJV. ⁶Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. ⁷And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. ⁸Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? ⁹Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹⁰neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹¹How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? ¹²Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Thank you very much. Be seated. We want to dismiss for today. And My concluding assessment of the journey so far is this: Pharisees and Saducees are running the affairs of a good number of families that make up the Bridal Ministry.
If the man is a Pharisee, a pretender, a hypocrite who claims to be a seed of God while he is not, and the wife the same way, is there any miracle that will make them to give right teaching, right doctrine to their children? Will they pass on to their children something they do not have.
Since all our families are now filled from the time of Covid-19 lockdown to this very era– our families are filled with nominal believers, nominal worshippers, Pharisees and Sadducees, scribes who pretend to be good when they are terribly bad, what type of products are we expecting to come out of their families?
I want us to pause and think. These Pharisees are tired of the heavenly race, and they are not prepared to leave our midst because the type of help they are getting from us, they will never get it elsewhere. All round help.
These are the people that are going about spreading false teachings among the Brethren by giving the Holy Spirit- inspired Messages of Christ undue interpretations to suit their behaviours.
They have regulated their families out of their destinies, for not even one is standing in the presence of God where the love and grace of God can reach and bless them again.
This is because a man cannot give what he does not have. Neither will a woman give what she does not have.
At a time like this, when we are patiently expecting the last clarion call, the last Voice that will cause those in the grave who died in Christ to resurrect, even if no other will hear the Voice, He that will pull them along is standing before Me here.
Now we are about to hear that Voice, and our mortal bodies are about to be translated, how many now can we count on – young and old? For we know ourselves. We are too small to ignore anybody.
Because of our numerical strength which is very very small, we will have no difficulty in monitoring developments among us. And which we are doing every day.
And from what we have gathered so far, if by now, the summer is ended, the winter is all over, the crops are being harvested, and yet My people are not in the Ark of salvation, what can we say is responsible for their non-inclusion in the Ark?
The truth of the matter is this: From the very beginning, God has been the One that has been revealing this truth that the Kingdom of God gets narrower as we get along, and will get to a point where only one person will go through that track at any given time.
So those who mounted on people’s back have been dropped, for the track could not accommodate the person who is pushing them as barrow, while those barrow pushers themselves are tired.
I am not mentioning the name of anybody, but you know who you are. There is only but one Scripture I will use to conclude it.
2 Corinthians 13:5-8. That is the concluding Scripture. ^5-9Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. …
Did it say, “God test me or SON OF MAN test me”? What are you going to use to test yourself? THE WORD and YOUR CHARACTER. What are you using to test yourself? THE WORD and YOUR CHARACTER, For the word is the spirit and the character is the manifestation of the spirit.
… Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. … Do not get along taking everything for granted.
… Give yourselves regular checkups. … Did it say I should give you or that you should give Me? Be your own doctor and your own nurse. Give yourself regular checkups.
… You need firsthand evidence,…
I personally need firsthand evidence that I am in the number; that I proceeded from God, and I am going back to God. I need personally My own firsthand evidence.
Am I allergic to the Word of God or am I addicted to the Word of God? Am I addicted to the Word of God and allergic to evil? Or am I addicted to the evil and allergic to the things of God?
Is evil pleasurable to me while I am irritated by the things of God? Are the things of God pleasurable to me while evil and useless thing irritate me?
… You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay,…
The Bible said that whoever wants man’s commendation is a fool. The best commendation is God’s commendation. We are commendation letter of Apostolic Ministry. If you are not a commendation letter of Christ’s Ministry, it then means you are counterfeit.
… You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it.…
If you fail the test, did it say you should fold your arms or remain where you are? Do something about it. If you character is not pleasing to you– if what you are manifesting is not in agreement with the revealed Word of God, it said, “DO SOMETHING TO IT.”
… I hope the test won’t show that we have failed. But if it comes to that, we’d rather the test showed our failure than yours. We’re rooting for the truth to win out in you. We couldn’t possibly do otherwise. Amen!
2 Corinthians 13:5-8, AMP. ⁵Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. …
Why? By their fruits, ye shall know them. By their manifestations, ye shall know them.
… Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you–unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
⁶But I hope you will recognize and know that we are not disapproved on trial and rejected. ⁷But I pray to God that you may do nothing wrong, not in order that we [our teaching] may appear to be approved, but that you may continue doing right, [though] we may seem to have failed and be unapproved.
⁸For we can do nothing against the Truth [not serve any party or personal interest], but only for the Truth [which is the Gospel].
HELP FROM ABOVE. The Psalmist looked up and looked down and said, “Where will my help come from?” I was in a distress condition when help was needed, not from any man or from any other source, then he asked that question, “Who will help me out. I need help.”
And the LORD answered and said, “YOUR HELP WILL ONLY COME FROM HEAVEN, FROM THE ALMIGHTY GOD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.”
Who has been revealing all these truths all this while from the very beginning? God. Why? He wants us to know our positions in Him so that nobody will run helter-skelter saying that he is preparing for the catching away of the saints or for the translation of his mortal body.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IS TO RECOGNIZE WHO YOU ARE. WHO ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM? WHERE ARE YOU NOW? WHERE ARE YOU HEADING TO?
With these few comments and Scriptures I have just given to you, I trust God that He will help you, if only you are desirous of eternal life, not paying lip service to it but mean it with all your heart, with the readiness to obey the teachings you have so far received, preferring obedience (to the Word of God) to any other thing that distracts man’s attention– if only we can do it, I believe that help will come from the presence of the Almighty God. I believe that to be true.
So, do not run helter-skelter. Receive this help that has come to you from above today. Go back to the Scriptures again. Read wider than where I have read to the glory of God our Father. Amen.
We move that our Pastor close us in a brief pray.

CONCLUSION

PRAYER

Father the Holy One, we thank you this very moment for this help You have given unto us.

Help is not help; liberation is no liberation; salvation is no salvation unless it is accepted. Father, with our hearts wide open, we accept this help. And may it work effectually in our lives with the same joy and reverential fear which we have received it as a help from no other personality but the Supreme Being in heaven and on earth.
As we are dismissing now, we are not going away from your presence. May Your Spirit continually follow us so that this help which we have accepted will actually work for us now till eternity, for we pray through Peter Christ our LORD. Amen!