PREACHED ON SUNDAY 8TH MARCH 2020 AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA. BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE
The only way to run away from destruction is to line up behind him. Stand behind him. If you go in front, you destroy yourself because the moment you go in front you leave him behind. You are on your own. When you go beyond the word of God that is revealed in your day, you are in front, God is behind, man and woman alike. Pass this information to your children. You will all be saved if you abide in me and I abide in you.
OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH COUNTS MORE; Preached on Sunday, 10th June 2018; Pg. 42 vs. 9 – 10
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OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH COUNTS MOST
I welcome all of you to the presence of the Lord. And I know you are all happy. Do not allow anything to steal away the joy of your salvation. That is, if you know you have been saved and your name has been engraved in the Lamb’s book of life among those that have been saved by Grace.
My Name is there. I know that one for sure. You have to talk about your own. I will not talk for you. If your name is there, and you say you do not know, well, you are trying your luck.
If I have passed any exam, I know I have passed. No matter who marks My script, I know I have passed, for I have supplied all that is needed to give Me a credit.
No matter how strict the examiners and the markers might be, I know I have made a credit. And whenever the result is published, I do not look for My Name among the failures. I am looking at the upper chamber, because I know where I belong.
Do you not know where you belong? In your class academically, there is no student that does not know where he belongs.
If you belong to the average group, you know. That is the group of students of average intelligence. If you belong to the first class, you know. If you are trailing behind, you know that you are managing to succeed. So it is in the Faith of Christ.
I have told you that I have taken you beyond telling people “By the Grace of God, I am there”. It then goes to show that you are not sure. You know you are here sitting down, and you are watching Me the way I am watching you, wearing your dresses.
You cannot tell Me, “By the Grace of God, I am here. By the Grace of God, I am wearing dress. By the Grace of God, I am seeing the son of man. ”No No No No No! I am not there with you.
Are you seeing the son of man? Emphatically YES! Are you with Him? YES! You can describe everything around Him this morning. Finish!
Do not tell me “By the Grace of God” Do you know what Grace of God means? Amen.
So we are here to glorify the Name of the Lord in the land of the living, for having given us that privilege to come before Him. And He is here with us. I mean, nothing gives Me joy more than that.
Saint Paul said, “When you gather and My spirit is there with you.”
3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, [1 Corinthians 5:3 – 4]
No, I am not talking about My Spirit. I am talking about My physical presence. I think I am making sense? The prophet never said you will be saved when you have encounter by your feeling with the spirit of God.
“… I will promise you this; you’ll never be any closer to Him until you meet Him face to face. …” [PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES; Preached by William Marrion Branham on Friday, 20th November 1959 at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, California, U.S.A. Pg. 62]
“Quit being frustrated and wondering about, you’ll never be any closer until you meet Him face to face, while remember, in the Bible, Thus Saith The Holy Spirit, He’s in your midst, how can you doubt?’ He’s proved that His presence is here.”[FROM THAT TIME; Preached by William Marrion Branham on Wednesday 2nd March 1960 at the Madison Square Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Pg. 68 Paragraph 3]
“”I’ll raise up my hands. I now want to accept Him while He’s here, I’m in His presence, you’ll never be any closer till you see Him face to face, because here, all of His characteristics is identified right here now; healing the sick, and knowing the secret of the heart. He is the Word of this hour.” (CHRIST IS IDENTIFIED THESAME IN ALL GENERATIONS; Preached by William Marrion Branham on 15th April 1964 at the McKay Auditorium in Tampa, Florida, USA; Pg. 93)
He said, “You will be privileged to see Him face to face, touch Him, shake His hands, talk to Him and He will talk back to you. If you have never come to that point, you have no experience to share.”
He said, “The same way Moses met Him, at the back of the mountain. So everybody must encounter Him there. You talk to Him. He will talk to you.
This is because He is a human being like you, but His influence is felt everywhere.
Do you know how many people that are clamouring to see Him? Even Apostle Kelechi’s landlord is making honest efforts just to see this Man life, and then shake His hand, if fear will allow him.
He said that fear has never even allowed him to dial My line. He confessed that once he heard My Voice, that he nearly fainted.
He is worshipping God at home. He has changed his mind. He is no longer a Sabbatarian. He has encountered super truth that removed all doubts.
Can you imagine? At his age and as a learned fellow like that, he went as far as packing his tithe. Brought his tithe and called our Pastor, but Pastor said, “No! We do not collect tithe.”
He called Apostle Kelechi, who also said, “No! Do not go there. That one is the old way of doing things. God is no longer there.”
He continued searching, reading the sermon books, and then came out last week again [that should be Thursday] with a big envelope, he said it is his free will offering.
And he said that he should take it to THE SON OF MAN, for that is his contribution. He called the Pastor, but the Pastor told him, “No way! No way! We do not accept that.”
He said, “What? What then will be my contribution.” Simply believe the Word and live the life. Free will offering does not concern you.
He now went to Apostle Kelechi and said, “I do not have the heart to dial His Majesty, His Eminence, His Grace. I do not have the heart. I do not think I can withstand the Voice. So tell me the truth.
Apostle Kelechi said, “I have told you the whole truth. We have seen more days than today. Where you want to send this free will offering, it is not needed.”
He cited Scriptures. We cannot accept free will offering from you, unless you are one of us. When you have become one of us, then we can collect free will offering.
We cannot even collect your vow or your pledge, for you are not one of us. But keep on striving, maybe one day, if there is a space, God will cut you in.
Apostle Kelechi told him that there was a woman, a teacher in time past, who stacked her tithe in a Ghana-must-go bag for years. She never gave it to any denomination at all, but said that God said she should keep on stacking them until God will appear.
And when God appeared, she said that He revealed himself to her and God said, “Take this Ghana-must-go to him. That is your tithe.”
Brethren were there. I looked at the woman. I saw the sincerity of her heart. I said, “Madam, God spoke to you and said the accumulated tithe you packed belongs to Me? Go and crosscheck your experience.”
She said, “What?” I said, “Madam, go and crosscheck your experience. You had an encounter with a spirit that resembles that of Christ, but not Christ. You met a deceiving spirit. I do not collect tithe. I do not even preach tithe, for I will not die again. I have paid the price for tithe. So I tithed myself on the cross, came down and liberated all who were tied there. Take your money and go your way.”
She said, “What? You mean you have rejected me and rejected my tithe?” I said, “Madam, please leave my house. Take your money. Gently pack your Ghana-must-go into your motor.”
While she delayed, Brethren helped her and carried the big bag into her vehicle. She drove away.
That was where Okey Nwankpa died. Few minutes after, he saddled his motorcycle to the woman’s house, talked nonsense, cancelled his faith and went for the bag, but the woman shunned him away.
She drove to her mother’s house at Obosi and warned her to steer clear from that idiot and that she now has great respect for that little group.
You see! You cannot bribe God with money. Neither can you purchase the gift of God with money. OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH COUNTS MOST. Where you are living the life of disobedience, whatever you want to offer to God is like throwing it into a dustbin. Amen.
…If you have reason to doubt whether I am able to save you, you are already lost because I am the Perfect Guide assigned to bring God’s people home in this generation. Hence, I signed My life in. So My life is there. The life of the pilot is involved. If there is to be plane crash, the life of the captain is involved, for He signed His life in with a covenant to pilot everybody safely to the shore, including Himself. …
OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH COUNTS MORE; Preached on Sunday, 10th June 2018; Pg. 43 vs. 11 – 12
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HAVE FAITH IN GOD
This morning, to me, is going to be another morning. A morning of sober reflections. I do not intend to give you any new Message, if there should be anything called new or teaching.
But I want us to rehearse the nuggets contained in some of the Messages we heard in time past. Because we ignored them, we started having problems upon problems.
I saw our Sisters rejoicing, and our Brothers rejoicing. I equally rejoiced that God is still blessing us materially.
I saw Sister Okoh dancing as never before. Somebody might be wondering. Enugu received, let me say, a great wind of blessings. Sister Okoh got promoted to the post of a principal substantive in her college. So she is now a grade one principal.
WHILE WE ARE GLORIFYING GOD THAT YOU HAVE RISEN TO THAT HEIGHT, ALWAYS HAVE IT AT THE BACK OF YOUR MIND THAT HIGHER POSITION MEANS HIGHER RESPONSIBILITY, HIGHER CHALLENGES.
Have it at the back of your mind. Only but a step left between you and directorship in the seat. So it is a very big responsibility.
At the same time also, Sister Shade Okechukwu-Oleri was remembered by the Almighty God, though she has never been forgotten.
I told her before she came down to the east, after a thorough warfare. We first of all entered into the war of words, from there it escalated to naked rebellion.
I contained all for the sake of Brother Okey. And then used authority to push her down to the east contrary to her desire.
While she had already succeeded in making good arrangements to pull Brother Okey down to Lagos, I forced her down to the east.
I assured her that her coming to the east will be a blessing and not a curse. And I am happy to say that it has always been a blessing.
No sooner she came down here, than she was promoted. In her office, the only officer that was promoted became Sister Shade. And her promotion came at a time when her colleagues were thinking that she could be declared redundant.
I do not know why things are happening that way towards you. Then, from one office to another, they elevated her to be in charge of a local government.
Too many directors were on her neck, but God was supporting her. They called her a non-performer. At a time, they were threatening to issue her queries. Her own staff were equally against her. She became afraid of losing her job. I said, “No! Nobody can remove you.”
Recently a new director came and became the worst of all. She was crying over the phone, but I said, “Cry not. What they are saying will turn out to be for your own elevation, for there must be a day of reckoning.”
As God could have it, about 3 weeks ago or thereabout, the same director came with evaluation of performances of all the zones in Enugu state, offices and officers.
All of them came together and assessment was done openly. To her greatest surprise, our Sister came second. So after the director, our sister came.
What was the reward? They rewarded her with something great. They gave an ultramodern Nissan Hilux, as official car for her. The same was given to the director. All who were and are still very much senior to her got nothing.
The same day, she was rejoicing over it, that same day, her brother all the way from Lagos brought her newly purchased Highlander to her. It is there, you can see it there.
I believe her coming down to the east is a blessing. It can never be a curse.
And Brother Okey, you have alot, I mean to tell the whole world. I say you have a lot. You have alot.
We give God the praise. I say God has remembered Enugu for good. In the next few weeks or months, Enugu is likely to launch another thing. I am saying launching, not celebrating.
The same way I am looking forward to seeing a day Bishop Okoh will call me, and then I will tell you why. Bishop Okoh! I want you to have faith in God.
There is one statement I keep on making, not because I am involved. I do not care who might be involved tomorrow.
At least, let Me use our president Muhammadu Buhari. He is our current president and Commander-in-Chief of Nigerian armed forces.
As long as he is still holding on to that throne, anywhere you come into contact with him, he is still what he is, until his tenure is over. True or false?
What if you meet with him in a restaurant, and you refuse to open up? Whatever might be your problems which you believe is in his portfolio, you will be waiting until the day you will trace him down to his villa in Aso rock. You may die with your problem.
Meeting him at that restaurant gives you a wonderful opportunity, no protocol again, no filling of form, no crossing security gates, “Sir please, I think it is for my sake that God brought you here. I have been desiring to see you sir. Look at what I am passing through.” I think you are getting me right.
So, stop telling Me to give you a day you will come with your whole family, to come and tell Me what you are passing through. Is that the reason why you will come to see Me from Enugu? To enable Me know you are suffering, or you are passing through hard times. To me, it does not warrant it.
I have established a meeting point with all mankind. And that meeting point is the tabernacle where I have chosen to be featuring every now and then.
If I give you appointment to come and see Me in the Fellowship, you are a wonderful fellow, for there is no better place I can have everything that is in Me to respond to your request if not in the Fellowship.
If you meet Me in My house, I am still what I am quite alright, but I may be cracking jokes with my children. I may be there eating one thing or the other, drinking and giving you attention passively.
The highest you will get is “Relax your mind”, and then you go. But in the Fellowship, I believe the totality of what I am is wrapped in Me. So the hem of My garment alone is enough.
I gave you the appointment, “Do not waste your time and money coming to My house. Come and meet Me here.” How many weeks ago? Two weeks.
What has happened since then, has it happened before? I mean, have you forgotten several attempts you made and I brought you here. What followed it? Why can you then not have Faith. WHEN I SAY HAVE FAITH IN GOD, I MEAN HAVE FAITH IN THE SPOKEN WORD. Sit down!
IF YOU CANNOT GET WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR HERE, YOU CAN NEVER GET IT AT NSUGBE. EVEN IF YOU LIE DOWN IN THE SAME BED WITH ME, YOU WILL NOT GET IT, FOR WHATEVER GOD WANTS TO OFFER YOU, IS IN ME AND YOU WILL HEAR IT FROM MY MOUTH.
This is because, from the mouth of God, heaven and earth were created. And I do not think there is any creation, greater than heaven and earth. Is there any creation greater than that? God’s greatest creation remains the heaven and the earth.
SO THE POWER OF THE WORD, THAT SEPARATED THE LAND FROM THE SEA, IS HERE, IF ONLY YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR FAITH. REMEMBER WHEN YOU BELIEVE, ALL THINGS WILL BE POSSIBLE. BUT WHERE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, WELL, NOTHING WILL EVER WORK.
Apostle Ugo! I am happy you are here. Sit down! And I am happy you carried out My instructions. Good! And now, I am handy with everything that surrounds that incident, and our Brother is guilty.
This is the only ground whereby love and mercy can now project, for the person he ran to, ordered his arrest and detention, saying that he is interested in the case, for he will like to know whether he is a part of the problem of the place, and that he will follow it to the minutest details.
And I responded by saying, “I placed my thumb there. I am in support.” Is it the first time? There have been cases here where I made it clear that I will like this case to be investigated to the letter, for I want to know My Brother’s involvement.
You see, I was a civil servant. There is a way we know when people are guilty of anything they are being accused of.
Once somebody hears that a panel of investigators will be paying a surprise visit and that they will like to look into the records of all personnel, all the culprits in the office will run to the OC Admin [Officer in charge of administration], soliciting for one thing or the other.
But the most important thing is this: They will go to all length to influence the Admin. Officer to remove all the pages in their files that contain dirty records, especially queries, replies to queries, and other minutes recorded at various times in the files that can be against them.
IF YOU ARE INNOCENT, YOU ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING. You cannot go to the admin and tell them to tamper with your records. If they should remove those pages, what are they going to use to replace them. And then we are handling a case that bothers on crime investigators.
What if the OC Admin. is a part of the investigating team? Then, how do you think an officer of that calibre, can be investigated when the files have not been collected and forwarded to the appropriate panel.
What if you give the money and then the following day you will be arrested? The money will be tied to the file as evidence that you are offering so, so and so amount to admin to remove dirty records, and replace them with what?
That is why in the service, we try as much as we can to maintain clean records. Whether in the open files or confidential files.
Another thing we try to look into is this: if I give you a responsibility to carry out, I will keep watch over you, for you must give me a feedback.
Then if you are in Onitsha, and you had a problem or many problems, and we felt very much uncomfortable with you after queries, both oral or written, we decide to move you from Onitsha maybe to Awka, and allow you to be in charge of a platoon or a company there [a section of operation] with new personnel you knew not and who do not know you.
If the same thing that happened at Onitsha repeats there two or three times, we felt uncomfortable and moved you away, maybe to Nnewi to meet with another new set, and within two weeks or one month, the same thing happened there, you are the carrier of that problem.
Anywhere you went, you went with that style of work or administration. And nothing stops luck from running against that person one day because many have occupied that position before.
By running to the superior who has vacated that position, you have already reported yourself. And He is now watching those he trained to know how they will handle it.
He signified his interest, for he served as IGP and served as chairman, Police service commission, which is the highest disciplinary organ in the police. So he showed interest.
Immediately he called, the CP called the DCP and then they narrated series of incidents emanating from his sectors where he headed, and even this last one. The man he called said, “Arrest, detain, investigate and then, orderly-room trial.”
I am happy you are here. It gives Me joy. But what is the way forward. Love and mercy can project. And that is why he was moved from the first place to where he is now, for if he had remained there, hell will be let loose.
There are too many interest groups, so that is why God influenced them to move him away and now placed him in another place, under strict surveillance.
So I think you are now handy with the information. I have already conditioned the wife.
You know, I love God for one thing. All that attended our meeting here in Onitsha yesterday went home sober. In their homes, just like in My own home, the few of us who gathered, we were not ourselves, for the fear will remain there for too long. And my prayer is that the fear will not vanish.
Let the fear be made permanent so that many of us as we are here, physically and spiritually will address the truth. My prayer is that, that fear will never and should never depart from us, for it will help us. It will help us. Amen.
ANY KNOWLEDGE YOU ACQUIRE THAT WILL NOT MAKE YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF DOWN BEFORE YOUR HUSBAND, MAKES YOU A VISIBLE DEVIL, YOU ARE OPPOSING GOD’S DIVINE PLAN; AND YOU CANNOT BE SAVED IN THE END. YES! I CAN SAVE A MAD FELLOW FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING, BUT I CAN NEVER SAVE A SENSIBLE FELLOW THAT FLAGRANTLY FLOUTS THE WORD OF GOD.
OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH COUNTS MORE; Preached on Sunday, 10th June 2018; Pg. 72 vs. 11 – 12
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ONLY THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD SHALL STAND
I want us to rehearse the Messages we have received long long time ago. There might be some typographical errors or repetitions, but try your best to get the import of the Message.
Who is adequate to help us read this Message? To Me, I will give it to somebody who will also benefit. Apostle Ojiakor can you please come to the pulpit.
I love this atmosphere prevalent now, and I wish it will be sustained atleast till I am through with the rehearsal. Take up your pen, take up your jotter, and then open your ears and open your hearts. We are not going to rush it. It is like reading too many sermon books at a time.
Forget about the grammatical blunders if any. Try to see whether you can catch the Message. We are not here for the test of the use of English language. No! So Bro Orjiakor! Read! And try to Igbonize your reading.
The message GOLDEN NUGGETS volume 3, TIME FOR TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO GOD compiled by Brother Emeka Ani.
I want to give it a background. Can somebody there give Me Living Bible, Amplified version, King James Version and New International Version, if we have it; and any other. If the Good News Bible is around, let us have it.
Let Me just read one Scripture. Are you ready with the copies? Okay. I want one person to do the reading. Let people around you open the place I am going to quote. When you read, you drop and pick another one, but tell us the translations. Make no mistake of reading from your handsets, read from the published books.
The book of Proverbs chapter 19 verse 21. You can give it the acronym 1921. “PROVERBS 1921”, so that you do not forget it. Because many of the things that are troubling us and making it impossible for us to live the life of the gospel of Christ may be summarized in that sentence, or in that verse of the Scripture.
PROVERBS 1921. Remember my suggestion, let it be your acronym, “PROVERBS 1921”.
Good News Bible.21People may plan all kinds of things…” people may plan all kinds of things. Put your name among the people. People may plan all kinds of things.
There are too many ideas in the head of every human being. There is no human being that is not having many plans. True or false?
Man or woman, young or old; All have many plans. There is nothing wrong in having many plans, but let us know what God said about it.
People may plan all kinds of things…All kinds o! Good and bad, they are all plans. …BUT THE LORD’S WILL IS GOING TO BE DONE.” But what will be done? THE LORD’S WILL IS GOING TO BE DONE.
Living Bible.MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES.” Any other thing there? That is the only verse. MAN PROPOSES BUT GOD DISPOSES.
Bro Nnamdi, I looked for that Message in the system, you never posted it. So search for the Message in your own system and transfer it to us at the office. A copy is lying on my table. You can see it so that you can trace it easily.
MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES. I will revisit it.
New International Version. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, BUT IT IS THE LORD’S PURPOSE THAT PREVAILS.” It is the Lord’s purpose that will do what? Prevail.
King James Version. There are many devices in a man’s heart…There are what? Many devices in a man’s heart. …NEVERTHELESS, THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD, THAT SHALL STAND.”
NEVERTHELESS, IN SPITE OF THE VARIETIES OF THE DEVICES, ONLY THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD SHALL STAND.
Now, I want you to join it with this quote. Pay attention. The moment you leave God behind, you must meet the devil face to face.
THE MOMENT YOU ABANDON GOD, GOD IS NOW BEHIND, WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU IS FACE TO FACE WITH THE DEVIL. AND YOU KNOW WHAT FACE TO FACE WITH THE DEVIL MEANS.
IF GOD IS IN FRONT, THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS ON THE RUN. I SAY, THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS ON THE RUN, FOR GREATER THAN THE DEVIL IS IN FRONT.
WHENEVER THE DEVIL SIGHTS HIM, THE DEVIL WILL TAKE OFF WITH SPEED. BUT THE MOMENT YOU PLACE GOD BEHIND, AND YOU ARE THE ONE NOW IN FRONT OF GOD, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO CONFRONT? THE DEVIL. YOU WILL CONFRONT THE AUTHOR OF DEATH;WHICH MEANS, ANYTHING CAN KILL YOU.
ANOTHER NUGGET. BE VERY SURE THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING GOD WILL STOP ON THE WAY, AND TALK TO YOU USING AN ASS.
BE SURE YOU WILL NOT BE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A HUMAN BEING, GOD WILL STOP ON THE WAY, AND USE A WILD ANIMAL TO TALK TO YOU. BECAUSE, BY RIGHT, GOD SHOULD SPEAK TO THE HUMAN BEING USING A HUMAN BEING.
But because of intransigence and hardness of the heart, God halted Balaam on the way, and used a wild animal to talk to Balaam. Just Balaam. Did Balaam come back? He ended the journey that way.
Make sure you will not be another example. With these few nuggets, Bro Ojiakor, open the Message.
Page 20 verse 22. … Note this one thing, that God can never step in, until He sees the willingness in you to change for the better. Then He will step in and help you. …
So, when the willingness to change is not there, will God step in? So that you know why you are where you are. God does not hate us. We are the haters of ourselves.
Page 21 verse 24. Decision is the forerunner of obedience. Decision goes together with prayer and openness of heart; then you are willing to obey God. God now steps in. Obedience to His Word is made simple and easy for you and I. But it will not be so, until we receive the Word of God unprocessed.
UNPROCESSED! UNPROCESSED! UNPROCESSED WORD. It should not be processed, for the Word of God came to you from the highest spiritual point, and the Word of God is pure.
What is our problem? We are trying to purify the pure Word, by reprocessing it in our own way.
You are given a medicine that will help you, but instead of taking the medicine, you are there trying to analyze the contents of the medicine.
You are meant to take the medicine holistically, but then you use eye glass to remove many things, and then you want that medicine to work? You have watered it down.
Stop reprocessing the Word of God; The Word that is refined, tested, evaluated, scrutinized from the highest spiritual point. And a mortal man like you is finding fault with it.
You must find fault with the Word before you begin to interpret it the way it ought to be. “God made a mistake, this is the way God should have put it.”
William Branham said that, to distort the Word of God is death. To distort the Word of God is death, for the Word of God is of no private interpretation. Is it not scriptural?
9We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: 20KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT NO PROPHECY OF THE SCRIPTURE IS OF ANY PRIVATE INTERPRETATION. [2 Peter 1:19 – 20 KJV]
20[Yet] first [you must] understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is [a matter] of any personal or private or special interpretation (loosening, solving). [2 Peter 1:20 AMP]
Who is capable of interpreting the word of God? Nobody! Nobody! God had already finished everything about the interpretation, weighed it, scrutinized it, evaluated and brought it the way it is even this morning. My duty is to place it the way it came to Me. As pure as it came, I put it there.
Page 21 verse 25. When you receive the Word of God in you, don’t process it in your brain. Because the Word of God is already pure, clean, it is coming to you and I in the purity of His Majesty. …
FINDING FAULT WITH THE WORD OF GOD MEANS FINDING FAULT WITH GOD. TRUE OR FALSE?
HOW CAN A MORTAL MAN FIND FAULT WITH GOD? IF YOU FIND FAULT WITH GOD, YOU ARE GREATER THAN GOD.IF YOU DO NOT NEED GOD AND YOU DO NOT NEED ETERNAL LIFE, WHY ARE YOU HERE THEN.
YOU MUST KNOW WHERE YOUR PROBLEM IS EMANATING FROM. YOU WANT TO RE-PROCESS THE WORD OF GOD TO SUIT YOUR EVIL DESIRES. AMEN.
REMEMBER THAT THE WILLINGNESS TO OBEY MUST BE THERE, FOR GOD TO STEP IN. Do not say, “God I need a brand new car, but please help me”, when you do not need it.
YOU ARE NOT YET READY TO DROP YOUR EVIL WAYS, EVIL THOUGHTS AND MANY DEVICES IN YOUR BRAIN; YOU WANT GOD TO HELP YOU, WHEN THE WILLINGNESS TO CHANGE IS NOT THERE.
If I place a ladder here and ask you to climb, the willingness to climb must be there. Then you recognize the ladder as a help that will make you to climb this wall very easily.
But when the willingness is not there, even if I push one leg up, the other one will remain there. Anywhere I push, that is where you will stop, until finally the ladder will fall.
Page 21 verse 25. When you receive the Word of God in you, don’t process it in your brain. Because the Word of God is already pure, clean, it is coming to you and I in the purity of His Majesty. It is from the purest source ever.
All we have to do is to send it straight to our hearts for action to be initiated immediately. This is the only way we can please God.
But if we choose not to please God, through implicit obedience to his word, then we are at loss in five different ways:…
If you choose not to please God by obeying His Word, who will be at a loss? The disobedient fellow.
[1] We wasted our transport; [2] We wasted our energy;[3] We wasted our brain power;[4] We wasted our time and [5] we are at risk of being in hell if we are not already in hell…”
Rewind it. Quote the losses. If you have your copies, mark what you are likely to lose. If you do not have, I told you come out with your jotter and jot only salient point that will help you.
These are what you will lose by being disobedient to the Word of God. Remember that partial obedience is not obedience
But if we choose not to please God through implicit obedience to His Word, then we are at a loss in five different ways; [1] We wasted our transport. [2] We wasted our energy. …
It is just like I can see the people that gathered here today. You see, if you come here and, after hearing the Word of God, then you will not repent, you wasted the money you spent. All the efforts we made coming here are wasted.
So we came here on a visit; mere sight-seeing just to see our faces and exchange greetings. Is that why we come? That is not the reason why we come.
… [3] we wasted our brain power; [4] we wasted our time; and [5]we are at risk of being in hell if we are not already in hell, FOR IT WILL TAKE A MAN OR A WOMAN THAT IS ALREADY IN HELL NEVER TO ACKNOWLEDGE, WORSHIP OR OBEY GOD. Sure!!!
Page 23 verse 30 – 31. … Remember in our faith we have the written and unwritten Word of God. The written Word of God is our messages, that contain bridal truths, but the unwritten word of God is THE SON OF MAN, hence there could be instructions that are not written.
There could be commandments that are not written. Once it has to do with the son of man, it is the Word of God.”
How many believe that to be the truth. Anywhere the president speaks, it is the word of the president. As long as the statement has gone out, the authority exists. But who will tell Me the expiry date of the statement of THE SON OF MAN.
Okay, let us remove THE SON OF MAN. Tell us the expiry date of the Word of God.The Word of God is always alive and active. When will it expire? It can never expire. If you know what the Word of God is, I AM THE WORD.
12For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. [Hebrews 12:4 NIV]
Page 24 verse 34 – 35. …It must take the Word of God which we refuse to obey to save us, when the troubles of disobedience set in. THE ONLY SOLUTION IS STILL IN THAT WORD WHICH WE BYPASS.”
The Word of God that you refuse to obey has always been proven to be the thing that solves your problem.
10…When you protect this Faith, this Faith will protect you, for this Faith is your life. 11In your attempt to destroy the Faith, you will end it destroying yourself. And you cannot destroy the Faith. You cannot. ……. 13Why is it that people do not take recourse to the Faith while committing crime? Why? It is because they are not stakeholders to the Faith. We have stakeholders of the faith. Am I making sense?
GOD SHALL JUDGE AND VINDICATE HIS PEOPLE [REVISITED]; Preached on Sunday 17th May 2020; Chapter 2 verse 10 – 11, 13
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OLDEN NUGGETS VOLUME 3; Page 25 verse 35. RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE; Page 20 verse 3. I am confirming that one can stand against himself or his progress by neglecting the rules of life and going contrary to the teachings God has given him. He [or she] is merely hurting himself.”
Page 28 verse 4. …One desiring to have his way when God is involved is the beginning of disobedience. …and the beginning of all human failures.
You are desiring to have your way when God is involved; which means that God cannot control you. God cannot check anything you do again. You can carry out your many devises.
Whoever that is refusing to obey the word of God is indirectly telling the whole world that he does not want anybody or Almighty God, to meddle into his affairs. True or false?
“I do not need any interference in my affairs. Allow me to live my life the way I want.” True or false?
Then, you are your own creator. You created yourself. You nurtured yourself to whatever you are right now. You have no need of God. You have no need of your fellow human being.
It then means you will be an island. Whoever that wants to live that type of life has corked himself inside a bottle. There are too many here that have bottled themselves inside a bottle with a very strong lid.
And that is why they are looking frustrated, angry and hostile, for they have bottled themselves inside a bottle and corked it, “I do not need the help of God. I do not need the help of man. I do not need any human interference. It is my affair. I will live the way I want and do things the way I want.”
What is the end? The person is already in hell. This type of individual is in hellfire already. So, you do not need to pray for such people again, for the prayer cannot work.
The person has decreed God out of his or her programme; and also decreed his or her fellow human beings out of his or her programme.
A self-sufficient human being does not require help. But who is so self-sufficient that he does not require the help of his fellow human being? Does the person exist? Even the dead needs the help of his fellow human being for his burial.
So, I do not want to be numbered among people that will need the help of fellow human beings in death to come and make noise and ring bell that somebody died.
That is the only time you require help, when you will not recognize the help because you died alone. Many are in hell and they know it not.
5There is no way God cannot be involved because we are his children. We belong to him. Even sometimes when we do not know, He comes our way to solve one problem or the other. ….
The moment a human being decrees God out of his life, who takes over? Who takes over? That is why the person becomes the devil’s incarnate. The person becomes a visible representation of the devil, for God has been decreed out and nature abhors a vacuum.
You can never live without God and serve God. It can never happen. Away with God and stay with the devil. Away with the devil and stay with God.
So find out who is the God of your soul. He is the one you have welcomed and that is suggesting everything to you. That is your partner.
5There is no way God cannot be involved because we are his children. We belong to him.
EVEN SOMETIMES WHEN WE DO NOT KNOW, HE COMES OUR WAY TO SOLVE ONE PROBLEM OR THE OTHER. THIS IS THE GREATEST LOVE.
Sometimes He comes our way, even when we do not invite him. You do not even know. You do not even invite him. He just showed interest. That is the highest manifestation of God’s love.
6Now when we want to have our way, it must surely bring struggle between us and God. …
When a child wants to have his or her way, would it not be a trouble between that child and the parents? When your infant is holding and playing with naked flame or knife to his or her delight; and you come to take the danger away from the child, does the child keep quiet?
The child will resist and fall on the floor in protest. Some infants will even run away with the dangerous thing. When you chase the child and disarm him of that fire or knife, the child will throw himself on the ground protesting that you have done him a great harm.
Will you let the child have the knife or the flaming object simply because he is crying and protesting?
What is compelling you to do that[to disarm that baby] inspite of the crying? Love. The baby knows that he is alive and he is a human being, but he does not know the suffering the parents passed through in having him as their child.
The child does not know what the parents has invested on him. The child does not even know what the parents have in mind for him.
The child does not know that whosoever that gives him knife or flame has apportioned death to him, but his parents apportioned life to him.
6…If you know the same way you do not allow your child to fall into the river or hold a knife, or any harmful object and when you try to collect it from the child, the baby will start dragging the object with you.
Sometimes you have to initiate a beating to pass your message across and collect the harmful object. So it is with us and God.
You flog the child thoroughly, disarm him and let him cry about it. Crying does not kill a child. If the child does not cry, will we know that he is a human being? The child is only doing an exercise. Yes now! Crying is an exercise. After crying, the child will sleep.
The main thing is that he has been disarmed of the knife and the naked flame. If he likes let him keep on quarrelling and throwing stones. That is his business.
7But should a man or a woman, a boy or a girl, a student or a workman, a civil servant or market man or woman, strive with his maker?
THE GREAT SERMON AND HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED EPISTLES [2001]; Page 341 vs 6-13. How can a man born of a woman, rise up against his Maker or Creator?”
A DISOBEDIENT PERSON IS ALREADY A REBELLIOUS ONE. THE MOMENT YOU ARE DISOBEDIENT TO GOD’S WORD; DISOBEDIENT TO GOD’S INSTRUCTION, IT IS AN OPEN CHALLENGE OF GOD’S AUTHORITY.
THAT IS WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH, IS A NAKED REBELLION.
23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. [1 Samuel 15:23 KJV]
…GOD, THROUGH THE PROPHETS, PROCLAIMED WOE TO ANYBODY, WHETHER MAN OR WOMAN, THAT WILL RISE UP TO STRIVE AGAINST HIS MAKER.
WHOSOEVER THAT DOES THAT, HAS PUBLISHED HIS OBITUARY. Note what the person has done. …SUNG HIS FUNERAL SONG, AND ATTENDED HIS BURIAL, ETC.
The person has conducted his own funeral ceremony while still alive, published his own obituary, fired cannon shots as is the tradition during funerals. Am I making sense?
He dug his own grave and buried himself, all by himself. He even read his own funeral oration. Begin to paint a picture of what type of burial the person will be receiving. One that committed suicide and also buried himself.
11…No man is qualified to question God’s actions whether good or bad. He is Almighty because he can do all things without entertaining any question from any being in relation to his actions. …
Can the action of God be bad? Can anything bad be traced to God? Everything God does is perfect in His eyes and in his own assessment. Even if He wipes all of us off, He is right. If God will kill all of us now, He is perfect.
HAVE IT AT THE BACK OF YOUR MIND THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD CAN NEVER DO INIQUITY. GOD WILL KILL, BUT HE HAS A REASON FOR KILLING. GOD WILL KEEP ALIVE, AND HE HAS A REASON FOR KEEPING ALIVE. HE IS THE ALMIGHTY.
HE KILLETH AND HE MAKETH ALIVE. THAT IS WHY HE IS THE ALMIGHTY. HE MAKES PEACE; HE CREATES WAR. HE KNOWS WHAT YOU NEED AT ALL TIMES, AND THAT IS WHAT HE WILL GIVE YOU.
6The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. [1 Samuel 2:6 KJV]
9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. [Psalms 46:9 KJV]
14He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. [Psalms 147:14 KJV]
…You must know where you are standing. It is either God is at work in you or the devil is at work in you. Somebody and something must be at work in you. You can never be empty at any point in time. There must be a source from where you are drawing your strength and your power.
EXAMINE YOUR STAND IN THIS FAITH; 11th November 2018; Chapter 5 verse 10
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As His workmanship, he expects us to do all things at His Word, even if we do not understand why. This is the only way man pleases God because reasoning the Word of God produces unbelief or partial obedience.
PROCESSING THE WORD OF GOD PRODUCES UNBELIEF, OR PARTIAL OBEDIENCE WHICH IS NO OBEDIENCE. EVERY HALF TRUTH IS A LIE.
13From the above scripture, one can see that challenging and reasoning the Word of God in order not to obey, is death both spiritual and physical.” Q.E.D.
THIS IS BECAUSE THE MOMENT REASONING STARTS, IT IS AN EXCUSE FOR NOT OBEYING. YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A LOOP HOLE; YOU WANT TO SEE A LITTLE AREA WHERE YOU CAN STAND AND EXCUSE YOURSELF.
But God does not give such a way. You might think it exists. It exists in your memory and in your feeling. Cross check the Word of God. It is not there.
And the moment you do it because you have the power to do it, you will suffer the awful consequences. And that is when God will be brought into the picture again to suffer for something he never did and to be bothered.
This is because the moment a person’s iniquity puts him into trouble, that is the time God comes into the picture. Every day will now be, “SON OF MAN. SON OF MAN. My Father, I am in your hands. My Father, please pray. My Father, I need divine intervention.”
Golden Nuggets Volume 3 [time for total obedience to God]; Page 31 verse 13. …One may say that it is being said that at the age of 18 years, a young man or a young woman is free to have his or her ways… That is not true. Yes. But remember, God never said so.
THAT IS WHY IT IS NOT TRUE. IT IS ONLY TRUE IF GOD HAS SAID SO. THERE IS NO AGE ANY MAN CAN ATTAIN IN LIFE AND THEN LOSE THE CONTROL AND ADMINISTRATION OF GOD, AND OF HIS FELLOW HUMAN BEING. EVEN IF YOU ARE THE OLDEST HUMAN BEING ON EARTH, GOD MUST GIVE SOMEBODY AUTHORITY OVER YOU.
Your governor in your state is not in that office because he is the oldest man in the state. True or false? Is your community leader the oldest?
So do not tell me “At the age of 18, I am of age, this and that.” You are not of age to do evil. You are of age to do the right thing, for you can now differentiate between good and bad; what is proper and what is improper. That is what age is all about.
FOR THAT REASON, WHEN A MAN IS GROWING IN SIZE, GROWING ACADEMICALLY, BUT HE IS NOT REASONING INTELLIGENTLY, WE CALL THAT MAN AN IMBECILE.
That person is an imbecile, a half-baked human being. That is what he is, for he is growing in size and in stature, but mentally retarded. Mentally, he is not growing at all.
When you see him act, it will be like the behaviour of an infant. You will now be querying whether the person is developed at all, “Can’t he be sensible enough to know what is required of him in that situation?”
There are men, who after observing their behaviour just like when we were gathered yesterday, I will suggest that if it were possible, I will go to the market and buy diapers [Pampers®] and then nominate some sisters to be putting it on these men.
I am telling you God’s truth, for the Bible said we should constantly desire the sincere milk of the Word of God that we may grow thereby.
2as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: [1 Peter 2:2 KJV]
There are certain behaviours somebody will begin to depict, and I liken that person to a mere kindergart who requires napkin [diaper]. Who should be going about with napkin[Pampers®]. I hope I am making sense.
THAT IS WHY I KEEP ON SAYING THAT AN OVER PAMPERED HUMAN BEING CAN NEVER BE USEFUL TO HIMSELF AND TO THE SOCIETY. AN OVER PAMPERED HUMAN BEING IS ALWAYS A LIABILITY TO HIMSELF, TO THE FAMILY AND TO THE SOCIETY.
Check all that are over pampered by their parents and see what they are manifesting in the society.
Whoever that is over pampered by THE parents must be a public nuisance and IT begins with himself. FOR HE CAN NEVER THINK HIMSELF OUT OF A CARTON, NOT OUT OF A BOTTLE BUT A CARTON.
A carton that is sealed with ordinary cello tape, which you can use your head and push it. Seal him in a carton with cello tape, he will remain there. He cannot think a way out.
I cannot remain in a carton, let me look for a better casket. One whose corpse is taken home in carton, is he a reasonable human being? “Buy a mat; Bring carton so we can us use it to tie his corpse.” Is that fellow a reasonable human being?
A goat slaughtered for sale in the market is better than such a fellow. This is true.
HEAR ME. REMEMBER THAT THE LEVEL OF SUCCESS A MAN ATTAINS IN LIFEIS A PRODUCT OF HIS MENTALITY. IF YOU REASON RIGHTLY, YOU BEHAVE RIGHTLY.
A MAN THAT IS MENTALLY RETARDED HAS NO FORESIGHT. AND TO HIM, EVERY ASSIGNMENT IS AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
HOW CAN YOU BE A GREAT MAN, IF YOU DO NOT ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE? YOU WILL NOT DISCOVER WHAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE.
You may be number one to succeed and tell the people that it is possible to succeed, for others approached it with lazy attitude.
What is the lazy attitude? They have been told that that road is very rough. And that no vehicle can ply it.
It may be the best and the safest, but because of potholes. But a diligent and careful driver will put his steering there, gradually you see him emerging there. He becomes number one that has used that road and survived it.
That is why I gave you the Message, “COURAGE AS A TONIC”. Courage as a tonic. When you have that courage, you will tell yourself the truth,“I will succeed even when people are not expecting me to succeed. I will succeed to convince people around me that really, with God by my side, I am a winner. I am not a loser.”
IF MY CASE IS NOT DIFFERENT, WHY AM I A DIFFERENT FELLOW. I AM A DIFFERENT FELLOW IN THE SENSE THAT, WHEN THE ENTIRE WORLD IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE DEVIL, I AM SEPARATED FROM THE ENTIRE WORLD.
So my case must be different. I am a peculiar fellow. A Destiny child. When you are a peculiar fellow, your destiny is assured. You can see your end from where you are standing now. Amen.
I HAVE TAUGHT YOU THAT IN MOVEMENT, FOUR CARDINAL THINGS HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED, IF YOU MUST MOVE.
[1] THE SPACE MUST BE THERE. I say the space for the movement must be there. It is not when the space is not there, you begin to talk of movement. Will you climb upon people?
[2] TIME MUST BE THERE. You must allow yourself time, for movement has never been an easy thing.
[3] THE DESIRE TO MOVE MUST BE THERE. If the desire is not there, you are comfortable with any condition you find yourself.
Finally, [4]THE DETERMINATION / THE STRENGTH MUST BE THERE. What is the strength? The outcome of the move if I should succeed builds inner strength.
WHAT STRENGTHENS A STUDENT TO ENDURE ALL THINGS IS WHAT AWAITS HIM IF HE COLLECTS A WONDERFUL RESULT.HE HAS SHORTENED HIS JOURNEY, BECAUSE EDUCATION REMAINS THE SHORTEST CUT TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND IGNORANCE.
Refuse to follow the education way, you become a hustler. You join the dogger man’s club, and every dogger man has no second hand value. Dogger man’s agency.
So you see why we advocate education for all, so that you can have a second hand value. You can add value to your life, add value to the society and add value to everything.
AND ONCE YOU ARE ADDING VALUE TO LIFE, MONEY AUTOMATICALLY IS THERE. WHATEVER ADDS VALUE TO LIFE, ATTRACTS MONEY. TRUE OR FALSE? IT ATTRACTS GAIN, IT ATTRACTS DIGNITY, INTEGRITY, IT ATTRACTS REPUTATION.
Show Me an indolent man and I will show you a man with bad reputation, a drunk who specializes in perambulating. A tale bearer, rumour monger who sees everything that happens in Upper-Iweka in Onitsha or Aba from his sitting position in his house. And he will equally talk about them. He will be telling the false stories and swearing oaths upon oaths.
He will be telling you that the declaration of the Republic of Biafra will surely be on May 1, that it had already been signed and that Donald Trump is coming. He will also assert that Benjamin Netanyahu has already nominated the person that will lead.
That is how you know such people. Expert tale bearers that go about inciting troubles by creating hope where there is no hope.
CHOOSE THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE FROM NOW.
You know My Voice is deadly to one that is destined to perdition but it is reviving to one that is on his way to Paradise because My Voice gives you a helping hand. It reveals to you many, many things you do not know about yourself.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Page 19 vs. 21.
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WHEN MONEY IS IN CONTROL, THE DEVIL IS IN CONTROL [1]
GOLDEN NUGGETS [ TIME FOR TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO GOD]; Pg. 32 vs. 16….Money that is pursued outside Christ; outside the Word of God, must surely take one out of the boundaries of the Faith…Brethren, is there truth in it?
Pg. 34 vs. 19. …God does not know anybody. He is only after His Word in a man or any human being. Once He sees His Word being obeyed, he becomes interested.
He is looking for His property. Whoever that is housing, harbouring God’s property, that is where God will stop. Does a man not stop wherever he has found his property?
If you are harbouring the devil’s property. You are the bus stop of the devil, for the devil can never bypass his property.
The same way, God cannot bypass his property. Does the quantity of palm wine in a keg remain the same after the carrier meets with someone he knows?
Just like when I am driving on the road. Sometimes, I see some vehicles carrying our sticker and I will be flashing ahead of time until the person will stop.
Oftentimes, they will be buses that I do not know the driver and I do not know the owners. That goes to show that some of them are getting it from among us.
And when I got to the police last week, the DPO, a woman, was telling me that it appears your members are now everywhere. I asked, “Madam why?”
She said, “The number of vehicles carrying your sticker are many. In short, it is in almost all of them now. In no distant time, Onitsha as a whole will carry your sticker.”
But I know that many of you are distributing the stickers. Do not distribute stickers. Distribute the Word. I say, the Word. Pasting the sticker without the Word makes matters worse. You have made that person an impersonator.
This is because I halted that bus I was flashing, and I could not recognize the person. He is not My property. So he is an impersonator; a counterfeit.
What if you are among such people? You Fellowship with us, you paste it on your doors and everything, and THE SON OF MAN will come there and look at it and then remove it or ignore you. Yes!
I know I have removed it in, atleast, three vehicles in this compound, and the owners went about looking for their own. Some I scratched very badly, for they are not worthy. They are not worthy.
“God is only after His Word in a man or any human being. ONCE HE SEES HIS WORD BEING OBEYED, HE BECOMES INTERESTED.
So God has no interest in any man, or woman, or child that does not obey His Word. It is scriptural.
As long as you are not interested in obeying the Word of God, God can never show interest in your welfare or in anything pertaining to you.
WHATEVER GOD IS TO YOU, IS WHAT YOU ARE TO GOD. BRETHREN, IS IT AN ABOMINATION? WHATEVER GOD IS TO YOU, IS WHAT YOU ARE TO GOD.
If you know the way you take God, that is exactly the way God takes you. If you are interested in the things of God, God will be interested in the things concerning you. If you treat the things of God as important and serious, God can never treat anything concerning you casually.
It is scripture. The same cup you use to measure to God, he will return the same cup to you.
2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. [Matthew 7:2 NIV]
Page 34 verse 20 – 22. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of Godand his righteousnessand all these things shall be added unto you.
All these things you are going after, God will give them to you with His own hands, for God maketh a man rich, and he addeth no sorrows to it.
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. [Proverbs 10:22 KJV]
Page 36 vs. 29 – 30. Therefore, if we must sustain our physical life with this money, God must be a part of our business or occupation so that we will not err. God is only interested in our business or works just for one purpose, to help us not to fall into the devil’s traps.” True or false?
We know that THE GREATEST TRAP which the devil has set to lead a child of God astray, remains money. If you believe it, say Amen.
MONEY RULES THE WORLD. I SAY, MONEY RULES THE WORLD.WHEN MONEY SPEAKS, THE WORLD WILL STAND UP IN ATTENTION, BUT WHEN GOD SPEAKS, MONEY STANDS IN ATTENTION.
WHEN MONEY SPEAKS, THE WORLD BECOMES QUIET, BUT WHEN GOD SPEAKS, MONEY BECOMES QUIET.
Go to the Message “REPOSITIONING YOURSELF FOR A BETTER TOMORROW” and you will see the source of money.
So when you are praying, God give me money, you are making the worst prayer. God does not give a man money, for God has no hand in money.
God will endue you with knowledge, wisdom, understanding, sound health and power.
God will endue you with a talent, with virtues and then direct you on how you will use them to help humanity and then money will come.
God has never, for one day, boasted of making anybody a millionaire, and God can never do that, for God never created money.
God created human beings, human beings created money. If money has value in the sight of God, somebody can use it to bribe God and then to get eternal life or find a space in heaven.
You can use money to buy yourself a celebrated seat in the counterfeit churches because that is where money is valued; but in the Kingdom of God, money has no value. God values human beings.
In the world, human beings are messengers to money, but in the family of God, money is a messenger to sons and daughters of God. We order money on what to do for us, but in the world money orders people.
In the world, money controls people, controls their mentality, their consciences and everything. And when money is in control, the devil is in control.
We know that the greatest trap which the devil has set to lead a child of God astray, remains money because money is his property. Money is the property of the devil; unrighteous mammon.
GOD HAS NEVER CALLED ANYBODY A SINNER FOR NOT HAVING MONEY. NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE HE HAS MONEY OR WEALTH.
Rather God has been warning people concerning acquisition of wealth, that will hinder them from worshipping God, especially in this closing hours of the history of mankind.
In the last days, people will be worshipping their wealth instead of God. Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. They will be going to church, but they do not believe anything they are being taught. From such people, turn away.
[1]You may as well know this too, Timothy, that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian. [2]For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad. ……. [5]They will go to church, yes, but they won’t really believe anything they hear. Don’t be taken in by people like that. [2 Timothy 3:1 – 2, 5 LB]
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ……. 5having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [2 Timothy 3:1 – 2, 5 KJV]
Why are too many people in the prison? Money. Check the prisons. Before now, prison was meant for armed robbers but today majority are biro pen robbers, office robbers.
In time past, the prison was meant for illiterate people; people that did not go to school, but today Governors are there. Presidents are there; everybody is there.
Before now, when somebody is called an ex-convict, he does not come out on the main road. He does not even contest for anything in the village.
But today, somebody can be a president from the prison yard. There was a one-time senator from Oyo state who won election while he was in the prison. A senator in prison, contesting and won.
He was in the prison yard for the crime he committed before and now, from the same prison yard, he won an election again.
THAT IS WHY, IN THE END, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE RULED BY CRIMINALS. And then, what will be the condition of the ruled. There will be an adage, “If you cannot beat them, join them. ”So, the world is under total condemnation.
COVETOUSNESS! WHAT IS COVETOUSNESS? GOD SAID, IT IS IDOLATRY. ONE THAT IS NEVER SATISFIED WITH WHAT HE HAS. HE CAN NEVER BE SATISFIED WITH WHAT HE HAS. ……. THE MOST DELICATE AND DANGEROUS HUMAN BEING IS A COVETOUS MAN. IT IS COVETOUSNESS THAT HAS TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN. IT IS NOT LIMITED TO MONEY. A COVETOUS FELLOW CAN COVET EVEN WIVES, CHILDREN, PROPERTY, LAND, OFFICE. I MEAN STATUS.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Pg. 54 vs. 5 – 7
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WHEN MONEY IS IN CONTROL, THE DEVIL IS IN CONTROL [2]
TAKE AWAY MONEY, EVERYBODY IS EQUAL. WHO USED MONEY TO GRADUATE OR STRATIFY HUMAN BEINGS? DID GOD TRY IT?
God never said if you have money more than Myself that it makes Me a fool and no longer a human being because I have no money. God never said so.
Human beings now use wealth to categorize their fellow human beings into first class, second class, third class and fourth class. And then there are some that are not even recognized. I call them the unclassified. The unclassified!
What is the yard stick? What is the measuring rod? Money. Without money, there can never be any meaningful academic attainment. Do you not know?
Have you forgotten the old nursery rhyme? [Education is interesting, though difficult to acquire. But if you are patient and steadfast, you will acquire it, ONLY IF YOUR PARENTS HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL.]
The world over, education is expensive. It requires money. Not ordinary money, but huge sums of money.
That is why there was a professor that said, academic education cannot be for everybody. It is for those who can afford to pay the price.
THEN, IF ACADEMIC EDUCATION IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY, IT IS NOT FROM GOD. I SAY, IT IS NOT FROM GOD; WHICH MEANS THAT THE POOR CANNOT HAVE IT, BUT THE POOR HAS THE RIGHT TO LIVE.
When God distributes His own, He distributes it severally. And Igbo adage says that the poor does not partake of something that is purchased with money. Bro Ben, is it a lie?
Do you think that the person who did not go to school is not sensible? The reason why he did not go to school is due to lack of money. You will acquire academic education if your parents have the money.
What do you think hindered our parents from going to school? A good number of them were very brilliant, but they lacked sponsorship.
Their parents were peasant farmers. What they were realizing was not enough even to send them to primary one.
The thing continued until it got to our own turn. Most of us today attained the little we attained courtesy of our own efforts. And you know where it could take us to.
But those that were born with silver spoon or golden spoon in their mouth; I mean, those that came from the ivory towers, you know what I mean.
When Nigeria knew nothing about education, Emeka Ojukwu became the first graduate in the Nigerian army, with a master’s degree from Oxford University.
When we were labouring to eat, the first millionaire in Igbo land had already sent his son to Oxford University. Even our own school fees as at that time had not been paid. The money spent on one person could train the whole Nigeria.
So what am I trying to say? Let us be very careful. Let us be very careful. Even this education I am talking about, the days are gone when education was considered to be neat.
Education is now very dirty. Very dirty! I say, very dirty. Too many things are hidden under the cover. There is no evil that is not perpetrated under education. Every type of crime is hidden in education. And that is why education has lost its quality. Quality!
Education has no quality because education has become the right of the millionaires. If you have the money you can stay in your house and program PHD from reputable universities both at home and abroad.
No matter how brilliant you are, if you do not support your brilliancy with money, forget about it.
So education is another area we must watch out for. The devil is awaiting us there. Yes! There are too many things that are attached to education.
Those who are in that field, you know what I am saying. You know what is obtainable in your schools, starting from the primary level to the university level. Nowhere is free from corruption. This is why we must say, “God save us from this hour.”
Page 36 verse 30. We know that the greatest trap which the devil has set to lead a child of God astray, remains money because money is his property. That is why we must not move out in search of this money without the consent of the Almighty God.” Amen.
Go out without the consent of the Almighty God, you must be a victim in the hand of the devil, for the devil must give you conditions before he will give you money, starting from telling lies to adulteration and many other things.
You must meet the stipulations of the devil, for money to come into your hand. You see why you must consult the Almighty God who will regulate you, go before you and make a way for you. Otherwise, you must be a victim.
Who has escaped it? If nobody has escaped it, why are we here. So we are here to celebrate our funerals. This is the main truth. If nobody has escaped it, it then means the teaching I am giving you are nonsense.
Remember what I said in the beginning, that God measures a man’s sincerity using the smallest thing. And that smallest thing in the sight of God is earthly wealth. Earthly wealth!
Why is it the smallest? It does not belong to you. It does not belong to Me. It is not your permanent property. You hold it today, you lose it tomorrow.
When you leave the scene and you join your ancestors, it will remain here. And no man has ever departed and carried all he amassed into the grave.
It is such a useless thing that when you amass it, without using it judiciously according to the directive of God, your enemies will use it. You labour and leave everything in the hands of your enemies. True or false?
This is because no man can predict accurately, who will manage his wealth when he leaves the scene. If you depart in death today, do you know the person that will take charge of your wealth?
Why is it that after one had laboured to acquire everything, the children he leaves behind will sell off everything in one week? They will squander the whole thing and the premises will be overgrown with grasses.
An Igbo adage says that the person that does not know the cost of a gun mishandles it.
HEAR ME VERY WELL. THE SMALLEST THING IS WHAT GOD IS USING TO TEST US. THAT IS WHY THE VOICE SAID, IF YOU CANNOT BE SINCERE ON MATTERS CONCERNING MONEY, YOU CAN NEVER BE SINCERE ON ANY MATTER AGAIN ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
IF YOU ARE NOT SINCERE ON MATTERS CONCERNING MONEY, YOU CAN NEVER BE SINCERE ON ANY MATTER IN THIS WORLD.
This is because you are the owner of money, for you came into this world and met money, and it will remain here even when you have died and left the scene.
The little you used will not prevent you from dying. It will not also exhaust the whole money in the world. You cannot even depart with even one kobo.
Why then will you not be sincere on matters concerning money? That is why a sensible fellow who understands what God is saying knows that a beggar is better preferred to a thief.
UNTIL WE GET RID OF OUR INORDINATE DESIRES TO BECOME WEALTHY, THE WORD OF GOD CANNOT TAKE ITS PLACE IN OUR HEARTS.
Especially now that even at infant age, our children are desiring to build skyscrapers, ride the highest cars, and if possible, ride aeroplane. You do not know who is beating the drum for them.
As parents, we should call them back. If you do not call them back, they are running to their premature graves.
Listen to Me. You know what a local fowl is. Any fowl that has been earmarked for slaughter is lured into captivity with grains of corn. As you keep dropping the corn for the fowl it will keep on moving in the direction the captors want it to go, even into the house and the door is locked against the fowl.
This is exactly what the devil does to a human being. The devil will be lining up things for you and you will be picking the them without looking up.
You do not know that the person that will take you into captivity is standing by and with your face to the ground, you bypass your captor who will lead you into captivity with the things he is dropping for you, for you will speedily run into his house and he will shut the door against you. Then, you are finished. He will then save the remnants of the things he used in alluring you into captivity
Even if someone says that we should not speak the truth concerning money, then Paradise is no longer for us. It then means that all the Messages we have received are all in vain.
WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD? IS IT NOT OUR ONLY REGULATORY INSTRUMENT?
Is there any nation that has no constitution? I think the highest law of every nation is the constitution of that land. Apart from the constitution, there are some other laws that regulate human activities. Without the law, you will not know when your rights are being infringed upon. True or false? Good.
WITHOUT THE WORD OF GOD WE WILL NOT KNOW WHEN WE ARE IN ERROR. SO THE REGULATORY INSTRUMENT IN THE HAND OF GOD, GOD’S OWN CONSTITUTION FOR HIS CHILDREN, FOR HIS KINGDOM IS HIS WORD.
Through the Word of God, I will find My place and you will find your place. So you cannot say, “Brother said” or “Sister said”.
IF YOU CANNOT FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE WORD OF GOD, IT THEN MEANS YOU ARE NOT A HUMAN BEING. WRITE YOURSELF OFF. YOU ARE IN THE GRAVE. I HOPE I AM MAKING SENSE.
Maybe you do not know that the Bible said that Christ will be our example in all things. Is it not scripture?
15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. [John 13:15 – 16 KJV]
He said, “I overcame; and for that reason, you must surely overcome.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. [John 16:33 KJV]
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. [1 John 5:4 KJV]
What did He overcome? The devil showed Him wealth of the whole world and said, “If only you will bow down before me, then you will take the entire world and the wealth.”
What did he say? “Get thee behind me, you Satan. It is written, “thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.’”
6And he said to Him, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, and grace), for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whomever I will.
7Therefore if You will do homage to and worship me [ just once], it shall all be Yours. 8And Jesus replied to him, Get behind Me, Satan! It is written, You shall do homage to and worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve. [Luke 4:6 – 8 AMP]
How can you use My own property to tempt Me? You are using My own property. Where were you when I formed the whole world? Lucifer, where you there? Did I consult you.”
WHAT YOU KNOW THAT BELONGS TO YOU CAN BE YOUR TEMPTER. YOU ARE TEMPTED WITH THAT WHICH IS YOUR PROPERTY.IS IT NOT TRUE?
If we live the right life approved of God, sooner than you think, we are reigning here. The kingdom of this world must surely be the kingdom of God and his children.
God’s attitude towards money, should be our attitude towards money. Use money as your messenger, but do not be a messenger to money.
That is where we have become idolaters. We are now messengers to money. If money tells you to lie, you lie. It money tells you to kill, you kill. If money tells you to be crafty, you will become crafty.
If money tells you not to go and worship God, you will stay back. Even if you want to go to worship, you go late, and that will be after you must have finished doing whatever you are doing.
Whatever money commands you to do, you do it.Yet, the more you get the money, the poorer you are.
One that is not satisfied by the meal he was served, will he then be satisfied by whatever he gets while picking his teeth? With one attack of sickness that will afflict you, all the money you have acquired will not even be enough to manage it. With just one trouble you will incur to yourself, the whole money you have will not be enough to settle it.
When death comes, will you know the location of your bank account? Your bank account may be there and your children will all die of starvation.
That position where you are, somebody was there before. One day you will vacate, and another person will be there. Is it a lie Brethren?
So, “Without me, the world will not go ahead” is a lie. You are a liar. The world will continue without you. The world will continue without Me. So we come, and we go. And the world will continue. Do not tell Me, “Without me, nothing will not function.” Who are you?
Do you know the great men that have appeared here on earth, touched money and still went away? Do you know Felix Okotie-Eboh who was a one-time federal commissioner of finance [under Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]? Where are all the money he made.
Of all the wealthy men and women of old, tell me where they kept all their money. Great men who touched money, where are they today? No human being had ever being remembered because of his wealth since the world began.
Does anybody remember Abiola again? Do you hear his voice anymore? One day, Dangote will be past tense. Does anybody talk about Luis Ojukwu of Nnewi?
How many people see the owner of “Ekene Dili Chukwu” [Chief Augustine Ilodibe] and salute him, “EkenendiUwa!” in the usual hilarious way?
Do people still talk about “Ifesinachi”? But as at that time, his trip to Nsukka was always heralded with a rousing ovation of his nickname, “Okosisi 1!”
Where can you see you see him again? But people travel to Nsukka and Enugu-Ezike. Okosisi is no more. He that traverses the spiritual realm. Where is he? He has gone to the spiritual realm.
Whatever you may be, even the best native doctor does not have the antidote for death. He must go to that place where he will end up. Where are all the wealth and the show of it?
WHY NOT LEARN A LESSON FROM THE DEAD AND KNOW THAT ONE DAY, IT SHALL BE YOUR TURN? ONE DAY, IT SHALL BE MY TURN. AND YOU SHOULD REALIZE THAT WHAT COUNTS IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE AMASSED, BUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.