PREACHED ON SUNDAY 8TH MARCH 2020 AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE
Why the murder? Why the arson? Why the rioting? Why too many gimmicks, even the political violence for which cause too many innocent souls are dying? Why the rigging of elections? Is it not born out of covetousness? Why stealing government’s money? Why robbing the treasury by ministers, Presidents, governors? A governor today, a prisoner tomorrow. Why? Covetousness. Why the scramble for leadership? Why do people borrow money from banks to invest in politics? Where do they aim to get the money back? By what means? In the villages, no peace. Why? One man wants to covet the whole land in his community so that he will be the mayor. Why do people oust their traditional rulers? Why is there no peace in the families even when there is money? Why are people becoming uncontrollably bad? University dons duping even students. Vice Chancellors duping their subordinate staffs, denying them of their little stipends when they are in the best position as head of state and commander in chief of those universities.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Pg. 56 vs. 13 – 16
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WHEN MONEY IS IN CONTROL, THE DEVIL IS IN CONTROL (3)
Ever since university education came into existence, has there been anybody who studied beyond PHD? Once you get to the PHD level, you rest. Is it a lie Brethren?
Some people may not even get there, but it will just be awarded PHD just like that. People are awarded PHD without going to the university. Nnamdi Azikiwe never went for a PHD programme. He ended his education at the Masters’ degree level. He was then awarded a PHD.
Many people have been conferred with PHD, even those that are illiterate. Such people have been freely awarded honorary doctorate degree, and they go about with the title “Dr.” And I will also put “Dr.” for we are all doctorate degree holders. We will be doctoring the thing.
Whether it is PHD or not, thou knowest. I do not want to know. Doctor is Doctor. Even if it is native doctor, I will put an “N” [N/Doctor]. They are all doctors.
WHAT AM I SAYING? DO NOT ALLOW THE POSITION YOU OCCUPY TO EVER ENTER YOUR HEAD. WHEREVER YOU ARE, DEATH IS THERE. I SAY DEATH IS THERE.
The greatest monitor assigned to man is death, which is your transporter to either heaven or hell. My transporter to heaven or hell is what? Death. And it is monitoring me and following me about.
Look at the way it followed our Brother Ben Mbah. He never knew that a transporter was around him. Anywhere he went, he followed him. And then when he slept, the transporter carried him and rested him in peace.
Another person took his vehicle. That position he vacated, somebody is there now. The company continues. The highest interest they showed was to ask us the day he will be buried, and not the day the company will be closed or the day money will stop.
Money is still available. Overloading is still going on. Even the sharp practices are still undertaken, but not for him again. He will now be accounting for what he did within the short time God allotted to him. What have you done with that time.
YOU ARE THE MOST FORTUNATE GROUP IN THIS DISPENSATION, HAVING GOD IN PERSON AS YOUR GUIDE, INSTRUCTOR AND TEACHER, and Who you can look at; Who can tell you, “If I teach anything and you do not know how to practice it, do not trouble yourself. Come closer. Watch the way I do it.”
The prophet said, keep close to your guide. If you do not keep close to your guide and your instructor, you will not know his manner of life and how he handles all these things, for which cause, he is adjudged perfect.
“…DON’T EVER DISPUTE YOUR GUIDE’S WORD. FOLLOW HIM. IF YOU DON’T, YOUCOME UP LOST. AND REMEMBER, WHEN YOU LEAVE HIM, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN, SO WE WANT TO KEEP CLOSE TO THE GUIDE.” [A GUIDE by William Marrion Branham; Delivered on Sunday evening, 14th October 1962 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A. Paragraph 46]
If you step your leg into My shoes, nobody will query you. Even if anybody queries you, “Why have you done this?” tell the person, “I am following the Master’s example. Somebody is in front and I am only following.”
Who is the one that ever followed Moses’ example and got condemned? Not even one. I say not even one. Who followed Joshua’s example and got condemned? It does not exist. Who followed the pattern of the prophets and got condemned?
Who followed the pattern of the Apostles and got condemned. Who followed the pattern of Jesus Christ or even prophet Branham[I mean of just recent memory] and got condemned.
YOU CAN NEVER FOLLOW SOMEBODY GOD HAS ALREADY PERFECTED AND SENT, AND GET CONDEMNED.
But your condemnation comes when [instead of following] you will be finding fault, dragging your leg, and querying Him.
You are no longer a follower. You are now in front, and He is behind. He is a spectator. You are now the leader.
I know God’s messengers for one thing. No one has ever been a ruler, but they have always been leaders.
God does not give rulers. God gives leaders. But the people appoint rulers. It is easier to follow rulers than to followleaders.
I AM SAYING THAT IT IS EASIER TO FOLLOW THE DEVIL THAN TO FOLLOW GOD. THAT IS WHAT I AM SAYING, FOR THE DEVIL IS A RULER AND THAT IS WHY MONEY IS RULING THE WORLD. BUT GOD IS A LEADER, ONLY A FEW WILL ACCEPT HIS LEADERSHIP.
Page 36 vs. 30. …We all know that God wants to keep us right with himself, and money never started today “
We still have civil servants serving, of whom my wife is equally one of them. And I thank God that by His grace, about this time next year, I will be spreading my arms if life tarries, to welcome her, for God has answered My prayers.
Remember when I told you at the beginning of this ministry, that I made a special prayer to the Almighty God. While I was growing in the service, I saw the future and I said, “God do not ever place Me in a position where I will disburse money.”
And then, My colleagues thought I was joking.
They asked, “Boniface, what type of prayer is this? Others are wishing that God will keep on promoting them until they will become controllers of state, where you will be disbursing money, have authority to incur expenditure [AIE], control subheads. And then, whatever you give the auditors, they will take and ignore all.”
I asked them, “Is that all? I am still maintaining My prayers.” And I started making this prayer when I was a young man, vibrating. I was not married then. I married, and I continued in that prayer.
“Heavenly Father, do Me this favour. Do not ever allow Me to be promoted to a rank or to a position where I will disburse money.”
I have about two reasons. [1] I will incriminate my predecessors, for the way I will handle government finance will cause many of them that are already retired to be arrested and arraigned before the court for fraudulent acts. [2] I will be retiring money [paying back unspent money into the government coffers].
The money they say is incomplete, my own will be excess. This will get to the extent that I will be retiring almost a quarter of the allocation back to central bank every year.
This is because I saw the abuse with all controllers. I know the level of correspondences we were handling, I know that if I can buy two packets of A4-size papers, I mean for one quarter we may not have not finished it.
Moreso, when we are receiving letter headed papers, envelopes and things like that. The store is rich.
Then, why giving Me money for stationary when we have enough. Must I be buying stationary every day? In the area of maintenance of office equipment, is there anyone that is spoiling? Who spoils them.
These things have been there from the very beginning. They fake every kind of claims. That is when they make claims for refund of transport.
In transport claims, somebody will travel from Upper Iweka to Benjamin, and he will write six hundred naira, simply because nobody is ready to scrutinize it.
Upper Iweka to Benjamin, instead of hundred naira, he will write six hundred naira. From Onitsha to Enugu, two thousand five hundred naira, and nobody will verify. It is just to siphon money.
At the end of the day, they prepare the composite voucher. From composite voucher they will flush all subheads. They will veer from one subhead to another, and then give money to the officers in the finance to pass the voucher, starting from federal pay office, to accountant general of the federation’s office.
Every Christmas you send package and bags of rice. ANY OFFICER THAT SPECIALIZES IN SENDING CHRISTMAS GIFTS, BAGS OF RICE, ENVELOPES TO HEADQUARTER IS A CORRUPT OFFICER. THAT PERSON IS A CORRUPT OFFICER.
Where is he getting that money? Who told him to send all those things. Who financed them. All of them are rogues.
That is why My best friend when I was in the service challenged me, Clement Iloh, a PHD holder; We did our induction together in 1984. A very brilliant officer. We were handling industrial relations together.
We happened to go for a special training in the university of Nigeria, Lagos. Then I watched the young man the way he was coming up, and found out he is very greedy. He is from Issele-Uku [Delta State of Nigeria].
Where did he end it today? He became the permanent Secretary, was arrested for corruption and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. Look at where he is, for he used money meant for the office.
Darling what do you call that type of fund? SUREP [Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme]. He used Money meant for SUREP to establish hotels in Asaba, in Edo and everywhere.
Can you imagine? When he was arrested, they saw a whooping sum of five point eight billion naira in his account. A civil servant without shamefacedness.
That was why God answered my prayers. I was in the kitchen with my wife, when pressure started coming from Mrs. Adaba, a doctorate degree holder also, controlling Inspectorate Division.
She said, “Boniface, get ready. It is your turn to move. You have overstayed in Anambra. You are going to either Zamfara or Kebbi to head the state. Congratulations!”
I said, “Madam, Zamfara or Kebbi; that is not My headache. Is that why you are congratulating Me?”
She said, “Why not? Do you know how much people are paying to be there? And it is given to you free of charge. You will be controlling finance and everything.”
I said, “Is that so? Thank you.” She went on, “You do not want to ride vehicles and build houses? I said, “Madame, thank you. I will think about it.”
On the second day, the call came again, and I said, “Madam, let Me just tell you the truth. I am not going anywhere.”
She said, “Do you know the awful implications?” I said, “I know that. I am not going anywhere.” She said, “Okay, you are tired of working. I said, “If that is what it means, there is no problem.”
She went on again, “Many scrambled and paid huge sums of money at the headquarters for them to become controllers of states, but Odoemena ran away.”
I said, “No, I will never control. There is no way I can control it without soiling My hand, for money carries lots and lots of temptations.”
That is why I said, “There are too many occupations. If you have chosen to join the police, or army, or security operatives, you have chosen to go to hell, for there is no way you can be content with your salary.”
I wrote it in My message, you have seen it, “RECOGNIZE YOUR DAY AND ITS OWN MESSAGE”.
Is salvation extended to all of them? The answer is yes. But can any of them live by their salaries? Never never!
When teachers cannot live by their salaries, but impose illegal levies on the children.
That is why whenever they are promoted to such ranks like Sister Okoh, they will be jubilating because they will be awarding contracts that do not exist and be depending on kick front and kick back [bribe].
Do you know how much the owners of these schools are collecting from contractors? You think contractors are coming in here and doing the job like that. No!
What is that thing which is sought after at the base of the plate? Fish! Why are you going after that position? My brother go! Money! The root of all evil.
I know you may say that THE SON OF MAN is saying this because he is poor. I am not poor. I am very rich. I am a great man.
I AM A GREAT MIND, FOR MONEY CANNOT CONTROL MY CONSCIENCE. I PLACE MONEY WHERE MONEY BELONGS TO. THAT IS WHY I AM IN MY HAPPIEST FORM WHEN I DO NOT HAVE MONEY.
Those who are working close to me know this truth. They have discovered it. I do not like money to stay in My hand. I will give instruction on what you are going to use it for. Why must it stay? When I give it out, then I have My rest. I will have My rest.
The world actually lieth in wickedness. On the issue of idolatry, who is free? Why do people abandon the Faith of Christ? Check it very well. COVETOUSNESS! They feel, if they continue with the truth, they will not meet their targets on time. For every human being that is covetous has a target but he does not include death.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Pg. 67 vs. 58 – 59
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IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE
Golden Nuggets Volume 3; Page 37 from verse 31. 31Acts of the Apostles chapter 5 from verse 1 through 3.But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira his wife…
Yes! That is the man who was exposed alongside with the wife by money. A certain man! You can be the certain man.
Remember the Message we handled yesterday. It was the Message I quoted on a Sunday, “IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE”. IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE.
And we gathered yesterday to interpret it in Onitsha, it affected all of us. IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE. Since you know that people die every day and you have not died, do you not know that you are on the waiting list.
Every living human being is on the waiting list. Do you know when it will get to your turn? Do you know how many people that remains before it will come to you?
What if your own will come today? IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE. Everywhere is quiet. Because it is such a roll call that you do not know the number. You do not know your number. You do not know where your number is.
So, you cannot say “Until next year” or “This evening”. It can be now that you are sitting down.
Our brother went to work last week, and he was teaching. Unknown to him, after handling the first lesson, he went to the other class. Unconsciously he fell down and fainted.
They were using water to resuscitate him, and it was from there to hospital. They alerted Me. We started praying. God answered us and he came back to life. What if he did not get up?
There are too many people that fell down that way and they did not get up, even in the market places. Some even die on the bed. Why are you looking at Me as if what I am saying does not exist?
I SAY, IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE. IT IS MY TURN TO DIE. If you do not have that consciousness, evil will never depart from you.
31Acts of the Apostles chapter 5 verse 1 through 3.But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira his wife sold a possession…
Wait a little. Pay attention to this certain man. This certain man may be IK Ezindu and the wife. It may be anybody.
31But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira his wife sold a possession and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it.
And brought a certain part and laid it at the Apostle’s feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land?
He lied to the Holy Ghost. The devil tricked him to tell lies to the Holy Ghost. Do you know why? Because it was his time to die. It is because it was his time to die, so he could not know the implications again. He did not even know who he is telling lies to. Why? It is his turn to die.
Sister Ozioma, I know you can understand what happened; How we tried to stop Bro Ben. The wife tried. You tried. The children, and even the last born tried. Why didn’t he pay attention? It was his time to die.
When God is warning and warning and warning, your conscience warning you, the word warning you, events around you warning you, and you do not want to pay heed to the warning, it is because it is your time to die.
Warning before judgement. No man ever dies without jumping all the avenues whereby God speaks to every man; Through dream, through vision, through your fellow human being, through events around you and even through sickness.
Somebody can go to bed healthy, but by midnight, he will develop severe sickness. What do you think came? Death came. I say death came.
Page 37 from verse 34. See what happened in the above Scripture. God was interested through Peter. And so God has been interested in the affairs of all His children including checking this money, lest we all kill ourselves for lack of it or try to amass as much as we can lay our hands on…
As much as will not be exhausted till eternity.
…thereby neglecting the Word of God to the detriment of our own souls. Remember that God said, “We are there”, but also remember that “It is not over until it is over”.
We are trying to place this money where it belongs to so that we can worship our God with joy and gladness…
And because it is our time to die, and we can never die as sinners and resurrect as saints. Good!
We are going to place this money where it belongs to, so that we can worship our God with joy and gladness of heart whether we have money in our pockets or not.
We all know the account of this man called job. God permitted Satan to take away all his wealth that he had acquired because money does not belong to God.
But watch what God said concerning that which belongs to him. After Satan had taken away all the money that this man had, the man sinned not. He was still standing immovable, and continued worshipping and honouring God.
Satan came back another day demanding to touch his flesh, God said, “Go ahead, but concerning his soul, do not ever go closer to that side.”
Thank you, the soul belongs to God.
From this account it is clear that only one thing belongs to God, that is the soul where the Word of God dwells.
And that is what maketh for a man. A living soul is the one where the Word of God is dwelling. Since the Word of God is alive and active, the soul is alive and active.
Page 39 from verse 40. I have been trying to tackle these two questions. [1] Is money the first priority in life one should consider?” No sir! [2] If the blessings of God should be counted, do we include money?
Page 40 from verse 44. …Then, why are we killing ourselves for something that is almost having the last position in a man’s life. A messenger for that matter…
A messenger controlling the master. A messenger controlling the master, and even using the master.
…because of a messenger, we will disobey God. No no no! God forbid! It is like one who sent away his legally married wife because of his housemaid. Brethren, is it a lie? Because of a maidservant, you sack your wife. Is there any foolishness greater than this?
If we have not come to a point where when we are pursuing money and God stops us and we will stop there, our claims of being children of God should be questioned.” Sure!!!
Until you have come to a point where while pursuing money God says, “Stop”, and we stop; If you have not come to that point, you are not a seed of God. You have not even encountered salvation, talk less of retaining salvation. Salvation is still too far.
You see why I love God. From the beginning, He never fooled us. God said, “If you are coming to Me for anything else other than eternal life, I do not have it. I do not offer it. If you are coming so that I will make you a millionaire or make you to own the world, I do not do it. I will never attempt it. Better go to the world. It is only the devil, that can grant you that, God can never.”
But there is one thing God will promise you. [1] eternal life tied to your obedience to the truth, whenever it is fulfilled. [2] you will never go about begging bread. Your daily food, clothing, shelter, they are all guaranteed.
And there is no child of God that can stand up and say, “God has denied me these things.”
Even the poorest or a beggar on the street does not go hungry. How much more somebody who has two hands. A blind man on the street does not go hungry.
Then what is our problem. [1] Inordinate ambition, [2] unbridled penchant for materialism not for daily living. [3] We are desiring to own the whole world, if it is possible.
Yes! You know Dangote does not believe he will die, but he cannot tell us the position of Dantata. Whatever goes up must surely come down.
If he believes he will die, he will not come all the way from Kano to buy Ochanja market where he wanted to use as depot. And Andy Uba agreed within the three months he was in the office as governor.
If not for the demonstration of the traders, how many thousands of people would have been rendered jobless because one man who wants to become the owner of the world.
He is the richest man in Africa. And very soon, he will be the richest of the world. After that, what next. After that, what next.
He has all these things, but he does not have Christ. He does not have the hope of eternal life. And he does not even have safety while he is moving about. Can he move about without earthly security?
What can you say about God’s own security that can penetrate all security networks?
Abacha made it, thought he was safe, but God entered, bypassing all the security networks in Aso Rock, met Abacha on the table while writing, called him Abacha, it is your time to die. And in the next one hour, he was buried.
MAN PROPOSES BUT GOD DISPOSES. You know what you are thinking. You know what you are planning; and your many devices, but God will approve the one he wants to be in effect. Any one God approves will stand. True or false? Keep on devising. Keep on processing. It is my turn to die. it is your turn to die.
Maybe you do not know that death visits us every day. When you went to bed last night, where did you go.
How many times did you wake up to visit your shop? How many times did you call your account holder in the bank to know whether hackers have hacked your account? How many phone calls did you answer while you were sleeping?
Did you do browsing? What of your Facebook and WhatsApp? How many people did you WhatsApp? It is when you woke up in the morning that you remembered your handset was lying beside your pillow.
Do not worry. One day another person will use the handset to call THE SON OF MAN. That handset for WhatsApp and everything, one day, it is your turn, SON OF MAN will hear from that handset, “Why are you calling with this handset? Daddy! Daddy!!What is Daddy?
Don’t you know that every visitor must one day go home? Amen. IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE. Do we die as a result of old age? Anybody can die. I say, anybody can die.
And there are many ways we can die. There is no approved way of dying. How many people do you think will die before it will be your turn? Even among us here, how many people do you think will die before it will be your turn?
In your family, in your village and even in your work place, have you not been burying your colleagues? Do you not know that one day, it will be your turn to die? Amen.
If there is a Meeting that gave me joy, it was the meeting of Onitsha yesterday where we considered the message “IT IS MY TIME TO DIE”.
If you want to know the contents, you can call the Pastor, for it is your turn to die o! I know what I am saying. When you are calling for entertainment ceremony, you are equally calling for funeral.
He that is calling for the celebration of life is equally calling for the celebration of death. Life and death have a common Source. Amen.
A wise man, the Bible said, “Thinks about death. A foolish man is occupied by the affairs of this present world. A wise man said that he is not troubled by death, but he is troubled by what he will pass through before he will die, for he does not know the type of sickness that will terminate his life.
You do not know whether the sickness will get to an extent where a bucket will be placed by your bedside for both urine and faeces in your isolation room. You do not know whether it will get to an extent when everybody will desert you.
In your claim of the knowledge of everything, do you know the type of sickness that will take you to your grave?
IT IS MY TURN TO DIE. IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE. SO, AMEND YOUR WAYS.
Page 41 from verse 46. Please do not say I am sounding like this because I do not have money. No! I have money, but money must be placed where it belongs to. Otherwise, we will offend God and perish. But God forbid!
Is there anybody who does not have money? That thing you are putting on, what did you use to buy it? What did you use to pay your fare before coming down here? Even your shoes, your food, and the barbing of your hair.
Why do you say you have no money? There is a type of money you are looking for. The one you are looking for is not the one you have. Yes!
There is a type of money you are looking for. And that which you are looking for is the one that has declared your obituary. Your obituary is tied to it.
Elder Dike, so you also came down? It is your turn to die. Good! Amend your ways.
Let me tell you, this is the best salutation. You salute your Brother or your Sister, “It is your time to die. It is your time to die.” A good salutation, so that the person will know that death is real and has not stopped. This is so that we will be conscious of it.
IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS OF DEATH, YOU WILL NOT BE CONSCIOUS OF YOURSELF AND YOUR WAYS OF LIFE CAN NEVER PLEASE GOD.
What brought about pride? What brought about quarrelling and fighting and dispute? Is it not because the persons involved do not know that death is real. Anybody talking will be talking as if he will live eternally.
All the caskets that were manufactured, were they made for dogs? They all belong to human beings. So, if your Sister salutes you, “IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE”, you reply. “IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE”, and the two of your will say Amen.
You know I speak the truth that resembles a lie. Brother go ahead but remember IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE.
Is there any other reason why our obedience to the Truth has not been fulfilled? A wise man said that God should help him to prefer obedience to making money. ……. Help me to prefer obedience to making money. Turn me away from wanting any other plan than yours. Turn my heart away from desiring any other plan except God’s own plan. Help me never to desire to have my own plan; a plan that God does not approve.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Pg. 74 vs. 85 & Pg. 77 vs. 95
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IMBIBE CHRIST’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS MONEY
GOLDEN NUGGETS VOLUME 3; Page 48 from verse 61. Money is very very strong. It can control nations, it can control states, it can control powerful individuals, but the only thing capable of controlling money is and will still remain the life of Christ.
CHRIST ATTITUDE TOWARDS MONEY. IMBIBE IT. FOLLOW IT.
He used money to pay tax. He used money to buy food. He used money to pay rent. If he married, he would have used money to take care of his children. If there were vehicles in his day, he would have used money to buy vehicles, and build a house.
CHRIST ATTITUDE TOWARDS MONEY IS THE ONLY WAY OF CONTROLLING MONEY.
Money is very very strong. It can control nations, it can control states, it can control powerful individuals, but the only thing capable of controlling money is and will still remain the life of Christ which is the message of god in the bridal faith. The message we have received from the white throne; the purest source; a message that has taught us about different areas of life,…
Page 53 from verse 14. All I am saying is, know when God says you should do something. Simply because you have made up your mind to do that thing anyhow and because you have pressurized Him. …He gave you permissive will.
… you have made up your mind to do that thing anyhow… I am resolved. I must do it, no matter who is saying otherwise and no matter what is been said. Pastor Dan, are you listening?
“All I am saying is, know when God say you should do something. Simply because you have made up your mind to do that thing anyhow, because you have pressurized God. This is the attitude of mockers in the Camp of God.
The attitude of who? …mockers in the Camp of God. Pressurizing God after hearing God’s Voice. They have known the truth, but because they have made up their mind that they must do what they have purposed in their hearts anyhow, they will come pressurizing, “Daddy, Please leave the proposal and let me implement it the way I have made it.”
Then He will tell you, “Okay, go ahead! ”And you will proceed like Balaam. And then wait for you on the way
Page 53 verse 14.This is the attitude of mockers in the Camp of God. They will conclude their plans… Before telling God. …conclude everything and still come to the presence of God to tempt God.
Chinedu Udochukwu, are you hearing it? Sam Agu, are you hearing it? Steven Eze, Sam Kalu and the rest of them. Even Chibuko, Solomon Odikanwa, Philip. You know yourselves. And many others.
IF IT IS ME, I BETTER START CHANGING MY HEART. What! IF IT IS ME I BETTER START CHANGING MY HEART. This is because it is the persons turn to die.
Page 56 verse 23. Remember that the Word of God in every dispensation is the same. The Word of God comes to people of God according to the prevailing circumstances in that dispensation.
It comes to your family, depending on what is happening in your family. It comes to work men, students, apprentices etc. according to the prevailing circumstances around that individual or a group of people. True or false?
Is it not through the condition you find yourself that God will speak to you?
… but in all, it is and will remain the Word of God which brings salvation.
Page 57 verse 25 – 26. The instructions God will give you depends on who you are. … And what he wants you to do.
… That is why the Lord said on Sunday 19th April, 2015 that his judgement has started with Onitsha. Date again! Sunday 19th April, 2015. Pastor take note.
Do not forget also that the Lord said that there has never been a person or group of persons that has ever gone to the judgment throne of God and come back without being condemned.
That is why they collectively sentenced THE SON OF MAN to death, even here in this our assembly. Everybody left. Onitsha witnessed it.
Page 59 verse 30. … Have you assumed a nature produced by the entrance of the Word of God in your heart, which no situation can influence away? Can you be your own police man? Can you judge yourself rightly?”
Can you be your own police man, your own judge and judge yourself rightly? Bro IK, can you do that to yourself, if you could fight on the main road amidst heathens, until heathens will be judging between you, your wife and your child, who was right and wrong?
Every time heathens are condemning you and you are paying penalty to the heathens. I wonder what you are teaching your flock.
You told Me you flogged your wife in the house, but the truth is that you flogged your wife in your shop, on the main road. You flogged your son and flogged your wife there on the main road amidst heathens, until heathens had to serve you a notice that you contravened the law of the land.
This is because it is an abomination in My community for a man to stretch out his hand against his wife, or a wife to stretch out her hand against the husband. Up till this day, it is an abomination.
No sooner you finished than they served you a letter[with letter head] telling you where to appear with ten thousand naira, drinks and everything for contravening the law of the land or vacate our village.
And they called Me and said they have given you first and second warning; and that with the third incident, you are going to Isiala-Ngwa whether you like it or not. And I said, “Amen”, for I cannot change the law of the land.
That was why I asked you, “is there any problem on the land? Why is the traditional ruler calling Me to the extent that I have up to seven missed calls? Have you contravened again?”
Maybe it is to tell Me that they have given you the last warning. The next offence, after paying the penalty, the youths will take you and your family back to Ngwa and never to see our home again.
Page 51 verse 31. IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED; Page 38 verse 22 through 23. …
Pay attention everybody. This is why I said take your biro pen, anyone that is quoted which is very very salient, note it. When you get home, you go to your library, bring out that particular sermon book and get the full text of the Message.
The only cleansing agent that is capable of transforming the heart of man, regenerating the heart of man, converting the heart of man, remains the entrance of the word of God into the heart. If you believe it say, Amen.
Who will change any situation the Word of God cannot change? This is because the Word of God is God Himself, and we sing that God can change any situation.
If you want to go to Paradise, you want eternal life, whether you like it or not, you must follow His own plans and drop your own. The same way, He canceled all human plans of salvation and brought His own. Whether you like it or not, you must drop your human plan. I do not care your age. At any age you think you are when truth is revealed to you, if you do not take side with that truth, you do not belong to God.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1;
Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Pg. 87 vs. 1 – 3
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IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST?
GOLDEN NUGGETS, VOLUME 3; Page 60 verse 33. IS YOUR HEART CONVERTED? Page 51 verse 27 to 51. Why are you black today and white tomorrow? Why are you a chameleon? Why are you a bat? You do not belong to the birds of the air nor the animals that live on the earth surface.
Page 61 verse 34. …All your actions are still tailored to the same old notorious life. Why? Every action of man emanates from the heart.
The information gets to the brain, is processed and then sent to the heart. From the heart, your physical nature[your flesh] displays the action which is the output. YOUR ACTION IS THE OUTPUT OF WHAT YOU HAVE PROCESSED WITHIN.
Verse 36. … This is not the matter where you begin to look to your left or to your right. It is narrowed to individuals… Yes! IT IS YOUR TIME TO DIE.
Page 62 verse 38 – 39. … Why are you erratic in your behaviour? Why have you not attained a permanent status in Christ? Why have you not imbibed a custom, a culture, a tradition, a character that can be credited to you?
Watch what you are holding. Are you among those that have repented? [Who] changed church, from one church to another. …That is repentance. It is just like you are changing dresses.
Verse 40 – 43. Peter did it. He was told by the messiah himself, “Peter I am leaving the scene. I am handing over the entire work to you. Any day you are converted, strengthen your brethren.”
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and WHEN THOU ART CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN THY BRETHREN. [Luke 22:31 – 32 KJV]
…Peter was not converted from the day he was enlisted into the faith by grace of God at the bank of the river, while fishing, even [with] the miracle that happened when he fished overnight and caught nothing;
At the sea shore he met a young man who said, “Gentlemen and fishermen, you have toiled all the night, and you have got nothing and you appear to be tired. Thank you very much. Cast your net on the right-hand side, no matter how shallow that place was.”
They could not pull out the number of fishes they caught. Their eyes of understanding opened, that they had met the messiah through fishing.
What he saw even the miracles God wrought in the hand of Peter, it could not make Peter to be converted. Peter was still holding the doctrines of the Nicolitans…
Let Me just hold it there. Take Me in the place of that Peter who represented Christ in his day, and then be that Jesus Christ.
You are leaving the scene, and I was among the first people you selected and taught. And I followed strictly, witnessed everything around you and even preached alongside with you.
While you are still alive, you conferred me with authority and power that helped me to cause the dead to resurrect. And I believed that you never deceived me.
If [with all those things I have already acquired from you and learned from you] I refused to be converted when you were having your monitoring eyes around me;
If you leave the scene and hand everything over to me [when I look for you, I do not see you] that conversion which I never received or attained when you were with me, is it possible for me to attain it again?
Who then will I be fearing? Who then will be monitoring me? Who then will be rebuking me? Who then will be finding fault, for I am now my own authority?
You see why Jesus told them, make your hay while the Sun shines. Walk while there is day, for the hour of darkness is coming, when no man shall work.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. [John 9:4 KJV]
IF WHILE I AM HERE YOU NEVER ATTAINED SALVATION, FORGET ABOUT IT. IF WHILE I AM HERE, THE FEAR OF GOD IS NOT IN YOU, FORGET ABOUT IT.
IF I AM HERE, YOU HAVE NOT ATTAINED A PERMANENT NATURE, YOU HAVE NOT STABILIZED YOUR LIFE TO BE IN AGREEMENT WITH MY OWN LIFE, AS YOUR LEADER, INSTRUCTOR, GUIDE, EXAMPLE, FORGET ABOUT IT.
If the practical reality is taken away, the imaginary can never give you what you want, for no man can get it by mere feeling or imagining it.
The best way to teach is by example. Thank you. Remember there are some people that have a nature. They feel they will belittle themselves, if they will follow a simple example.
They feel they will be letting themselves down if they condescend to men of low estate, for they want to be seen, and they want to be heard. They love celebrated seats. There are people that have that nature. They do not copy any good example.
Page 64 verse 43. … Peter was still holding the doctrines of the Nicolitans. He was still holding the doctrines of the Jews, the Pharisees, the scribes, the Sanhedrin.
Hence when the master left the scene, he compelled Apostle Paul to recant the faith of Christ, to recant the Grace of God.
Brethren, is it not true? Who compelled saint Paul to recant his faith? Who compelled Paul to circumcise Timothy, and to circumcise Titus?
Who said that their presence in the temple was a defilement. Peter went back to old associations, old religion, and became a persecutor of the truth.
21They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.
22What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, 23so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow.
24Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. [Acts 21: 21 – 24 NIV]
That is why if your heart is not converted, as long as God liveth and you live, you are injurious. You are injurious to the brethren. Nothing good can ever come out of you. And anybody associating with you is risking his salvation.
The person is risking his salvation, for you must constitute an object of provocation to everybody that comes your way.
In short you are “brother cactus” or “sister cactus [the plant that refuses to accept rain and water.] The leaves turned out to be thistles. The whole body is covered with spikes.
That which it could have used to form leaves turned out to be thorns because it does not take water. That is why it blossoms during the dry season but dies down during the rainy season. There are many of them here and in all other Local Assemblies. Cactus!
They want things to go their own way, and not God’s way. They have a clever way of setting aside the word of God, that they might establish their own word, their own principle, their own lifestyle.
9And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)! [Mark 7:9 AMP]
They have a clever way of distorting the truth so as to give it another meaning to enable them be lords over God’s own heritage.
Some even exercise physical strength. Physical strength! When a Pastor tells another person, “If you do not stand up and leave here, I will break your teeth with my hand”. The other person then said, “After fellowship, wait for me on the way, so that we can settle it.”
Is this life? One kept chasing the wife with a cutlass until he chased her into the forest. If not for the people that were collecting grasses for their goats, the man would have used the cutlass to cut his wife into pieces. When he comes to the pulpit, he will be teaching repent or you perish.
The other one fought until he was fighting along the main road, shouting and flogging. After, you will come and tell people that God said. The Lord said. Which Lord?
IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST? If the answer is no, why are you wasting your time. Why are you fooling yourselves? We have it in a Message.
There is one question I love everybody to ask himself or herself. “If all of us that claim to be children of God will behave and act the way you act, talk the way you talk, do things the way you do, how will this great family look like?”
“If all of us here who claim to be the children of God will emulate youR character and live according your character, what will people say we are?”
I am saying that our characters preach the greatest and most effective sermon wherever we are. True or false?
Page 65 verse 45. …Peter now became a persecutor which means Peter never got converted when the master was on the scene. Never never!
Although he could perform signs and wonders, do this and that in the power of the man who was standing there, but when the man left the scene, Peter proved how empty and porous he is.
Page 66 verse 47 – 50. They were considering him from his outward appearance and from his acquaintance with the Messiah, Jesus Christ, for they were always in constant fellowship.
Anybody could be omitted from the Fellowship of Christ, but not Peter, James nor John. Just like Kelechi Uwakwe.
There is no other person that fits that example than Kelechi Uwakwe.
There is a way you will run round a God-sent man, and those living round about you might be esteeming you higher than themselves. They might not know that you might be an empty barrel, a stumbling block even.
Like those that use to come to My house everyday. They have been known even in the neighbourhood. Their families know that they are always with Me.
When they come out, they command a very big air of superiority over others. Some might be looking at them as blessed and privileged people that fellowship with Me every morning, come what may. But little will they realize that they might be empty barrels. Empty barrels!
So you can run round a God-sent man, have everything in common with him, and still be an empty barrel Because what will determine what you will be, is the desire of your heart.
If you are desiring power, he will give you power. You desire knowledge, he will give you knowledge, but be watching you from a grand stand to display them.
Do you know why the Lord God Almighty, who sent Me said I should continue even in a second round that will terminate at a time nobody knows?
A journey which should have terminated long long time ago. He looked around, of all Apostles, of all Deacons, Pastors, Evangelists, He could not pick even one that can stand for Him, stand for the truth and proclaim the truth without fear or favour, and without compromising their consciences because of money or because of food and shelter. …and other material considerations.
Page 69 verse 56. What am I saying? You might be following from the very beginning, become a mighty preacher and not a mighty believer.
Like Bishop Nath, former, who is crying everyday. What is uppermost in his heart is not changing his character, but “Son of man, please return me to my position as a bishop.”
What does it profit you to carry bishopric office and go to hell? Don’t you know it is better you repent, get converted without assuming any title and get eternal life than to answer Bishop, and bishop yourself into hell fire.
It is just like IK Ezindu who was clamouring to be a Pastor by all means; and to the point that he was even making a call, “Check my ID card. If it is carrying ‘Brother IK’, change it to ‘Pastor IK’.” So he is very happy to wear a tag, ‘Pastor’.
You do not know that “Pastor” will expose you. It has already started exposing you because OFTENTIMES, GOD GIVES SOMEBODY EXALTED POSITION TO HELP HIM OR TO EXPOSE HIM.
Since Bro Nath became bishop, his family has never seen rest. He has become a torment to his family; a terror. Idi Amin of all Idi Amins. He became another Fidel Castro and Gadaffi. Whenever a wicked man is on the throne, everybody is in fear.
… God never said, “Those that know the truth will be saved.” But He said, “Those that do the truth will be saved. ”Hence He said, “Do not be hearers of the Word, deceiving yourselves.
IT IS BETTER TO BE A MIGHTY BELIEVER THAN TO BE A MIGHTY PREACHER.
Page 70 verse 58. THE HIGHEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE ME IS YOUR HEART. Give Me your heart. Period! IF YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT WITH GOD, YOUR GIFT IS AN ABOMINATION BEFORE ME.
That is why many have been humiliated out of My presence and My premises with their so-called gifts, thanksgiving and nonsense. I am not interested.
Anything I cannot afford for Myself, I do not need it. Whatever I need, I can afford it. Need is not want. Am I making sense? Need means essentials of life.
Things that will help Me to keep life going, not building castles in the air. Whenever an aeroplane flies, I will say, “This is my type of aeroplane.”
But once your heart is right, everything around you is right. Pure truth!
Once the heart is right, actions are right. And everything is right. But once the heart is wrong, can anything be right again? It is like expecting a positive result from a negative action. Can it happen? Oh no nono!
Has your heart been converted? Can you boldly say, “My sins have been blotted out because my heart has been converted? When your heart is converted,…your sins will be blotted out, according to the Scriptures.
Repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. But when you repent and stop there, you are still standing where you were. No change!
Page 71 verse 60 – 61. …Once your heart is not converted, your vision guides you, and not what God says. You can never come to the realization that what will count at the end is not your vision but what God has said. Thank you!
What counts at the end? Your vision? No! Your ambition? No! Whatever, whatever! What counts at the end is what God has said, and not your dream, not your feeling, and not the way you see it or the way you do not see it. But what counts is “What has God said.” Final!
Brethren, it is only a tree that hears it will be cut down, and still remains there.
It is the tree that hears, “YOU WILL BE KILLED TODAY. IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE.” And it will say, “Well, you are God. Do as you wish.”
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good. [1 Samuel 3:18 KJV]
IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE. Why not behave like Hezekiah, “Lord, why should I die. I do not want to die now. At least, add some days for me. ”It is your turn to die.
1In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
2Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,3″Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4Then the word of the Lord came toIsaiah:5″Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. [Isaiah 38:1 – 5 NIV]
This is the hour for those that are the children of the Kingdom of Heaven to know themselves, who they are and what they are made up of. Maybe, you do not know that the devil vowed a vow, having lost the Kingdom of Heaven, that no human being born of a woman will inherit it, for which cause Messiah came, live, to take a people for Himself because it will take the Messiah to come down, live, to take a people for Himself. And these are the people that have obeyed Him, that prefer obedience to Him to making money; that do not desire to have their own plan but will always do everything in line with God’s plan for them.
BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 28TH October 2018; Pg. 81 vs 108 – 109
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ARE YOU A STRANGER OR A BONAFIDE CITIZEN?
GOLDEN NUGGETS VOLUME 3; Page 72 verse 1. THE WAY OUT: THE WAY OUT! Remember we are considering GOLDEN NUGGETS; Excerpts culled from different sermon books, compiled by our Brother, Emeka Ani.
We are still considering a way out of this statement from God Almighty, MY JUDGEMENT HAS STARTED WITH ONITSHA.
My judgment has started with Onitsha. Yes! That is the headquarter where the glory came down. If the judgment does not start from Onitsha, God has made a mistake.
Page 73 verse 6 – 7. …I am telling you today, that the only thing you and I must do for God to be pleased is to obey him whom God has sent.
REMEMBER THAT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM OBEDIENCE.
This two are not the same thing because one can acknowledge the truth, even shouting in the Fellowship, but does not obey any single truth. He stops at acknowledgement. He will be a big preacher, not a big believer.
Page 74 verse 10. The most amazing thing is that, there is no special place which was reserved for HIS WORD. He speaks to us in the Fellowship. He speaks to us in the car. He speaks to us in his parlour. He speaks to us in the market place. …I sit a lie? … He speaks to us in the street. Anywhere you meet him you will receive his word. Yet, too many things are still being required of us.
I am ashamed of myself. You should be ashamed of yourselves too, that God is still beating us left and right to be in the line.
This is because it is our time to die. It is your turn. It is your own time to pay for all you have done. I am happy that God has made it very clear. The time when we said “After all, man-die-go” is over.
If you die, let the message get to THE SON OF MAN. He will bring you back, and with your mouth, you will answer questions before everybody. After answering, He will give you one day or two. You go out, see the world and then die.
He will give you two or three days for you to move about and see things for yourself. After then, you will come back and die.
But you will, first of all come and answer questions for the one you have committed. With your own mouth, you will say it. When God has started, will He go back?
Pray that you will die today and see if I will bring you back to life to come back to life and talk. And your words will be recorded. See the one I am having here. It is the transcription of one that was recorded.
It is someone who died that was called back to life, and his words were recorded. He bid us bye and convened a meeting announcing that he has died. And he died. We then read the rest for him.
It is your turn to die. And it is appointed unto all of us to die. After that, cometh judgment.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: [Hebrews 9:27 KJV]
An Igbo adage says that the deaf is not alerted about a pandemonium in the market place. God has said it that you will run and abandon money. You will run and leave the things of this world.
We were told to continue with what we were doing in the fear of God, for they will not stop us from entering Paradise. Then, we gave all our life to the things of the world. When you give a man the opportunity to travel for one mile, he will make it twenty.
Page 75 verse 11 through 14. Why am I stressing on this judgment that God has proclaimed on Sunday 19th April, 2015.
I won’t keep quiet. Please do not ever keep quiet. Do something about it in your family and in your heart as an individual.
Let us join hands together in one accord; in unity to obey the truth individually. So that God will Change his mind.
THE WAY FORWARD. Brethren was it not what we heard yesterday here? Word for word. Remedy.
Remember once you get to the judgment throne, you are not coming back. Coming back means that you have defeated God, which is absolutely impossible.
Some people think they will win God in the judgment. They have sharp mouths to argue their cases through to victory against God. Go and get all the lawyers you have in this world to the Judgment throne.
Instead of man to seek ways of changing his lifestyle, he will be preparing to win God at the Judgment throne.
I wish to remind all and sundry in the Bridal Faith, especially in Onitsha that this Faith, the Bridal Faith, was sealed with a Covenant. And the day that Covenant God was preached, God displayed it in the sky physically, that same day, that same hour, that same moment,…That is truth!
We were there and we saw it. The Lord came down in the form of a rainbow[The bow] on that day this covenant was entered into between Onitsha and the Almighty. In the day time. No rain. No sunshine. We saw the whole rainbow. We were in the old hall. Brethren is it a lie?
All of us that are in this Covenant, we can never break it. The trouble comes from the people that are ignorant of this Covenant. The Elders that saw it, now because of what they will eat; because of money and because of things that have no value, joined with the strangers in our midst.
Whenever anybody is leading in a rebellion, watch the people he will lead. Strangers and foreigners. Strangers and foreigners!
Once there is a new disease, check where it will strike first. Corona virus disease has come into Nigeria. Who brought it into Nigeria? An Italian! Is he a Nigerian? An Italian!
He left his own country and brought it here. Who are the other people that will contract the disease? They are those who like the whites, both men and women.
They will rush to welcome the white man. And from hugging and kissing, they will contract the disease and then spread the disease everywhere.
When HIV came in, the first recorded case of HIV was a white person. Blacks went there and through hugging and kissing, they contracted it, and then started spreading it. White man’s disease.
When it got to the blacks, it became more popular than it was in Europe and America, for it came into the country of people that do not have the fear of God and who lack self-control.
And the day that Covenant God was preached, God displayed it in the sky physically, that same day, that same hour, that same moment, that same message.
That the same messages being echoed from the pulpit, a big rainbow with the highest colours ever displayed, appeared.
Brethren is it a lie? Do not think that we are in this Faith just for the fun of it. There is a reason why we have decided to die here. Among us, to who it is clear, there is nothing that can remove us from our position. And there is no stranger that can take us away.
If you are a stranger, follow your fellow strangers. If you are an insatiable fellow that lacks control over his appetite, follow your colleagues, for these people are easily entrapped.
Do you give a medicine that abhors meat to someone that loves meat? That will be the day he is killed. How can you tell a person who eats more meat than dogs that there is something he must abhor in order to take a medicine? And that thing turns out to be meat.
He will tell you that death has finally come. He will enquire to know whether his sickness is as a result of the meat he ate. He will tell you that what will kill somebody has come.
Page 76 verse 15 – 16. …Let us all remember that the Covenant was an unbreakable one. Yet, many of us are trying to tamper with it by being disobedient to God’s Word.
Epistle 14 page 331verse 53. Recognizing God in your day means nothing but [1] accepting, [2] believing, [3] depending, [4] relying, [5] confiding and [6] trusting in Him whom God has sent in your day, no matter His relationship with you or His race or tribe.
Page 79 verse 23 – 25. … Let us start changing our mind now. Let us drop anything that is against this Faith of Christ which we profess.
Remember that it is the situation surrounding the big masquerade, that dictates whether his sword will be in its sheath or drawn in his hand… Sure.
It is what the masquerade sees that will determine whether it will draw out his sword or leave it in the sheath.
And when the sword of a masquerade is drawn in his hand, it signifies no other thing but war; destruction.
When Peter pulled out his own, did he play with it?
What is your heart telling you now? I mean, our youths. Are we ready to change our attitudes concerning coming to fellowship? … Or have we decided to die…. Are we ready to obey our elders? Or have we decided to die.
Page 90 verse 26. …THE GLORY OF A YOUTH LIES IN TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF GOD. If you believe it say Amen.
…Serving the interest of God with all his strength, with all his might, with all his mentality. Serving God with everything you have, without reservation and with all your heart. …
Using his youthful strength to serve God. Using his youthful zeal to serve God.
Page 93 verse 33. Proverbs 17 verse 16 AMP. Of what use is money in the hand of a self-confident fool to buy skillful and godly wisdom, when he has no understanding or heart for it?
Living Bible. “It is senseless to pay tuition to educate a rebel who has no heart for truth.
Good News Bible. It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.
You make him a bigger fool by sending him to school. He will harden in iniquity. Promise are you paying attention?
Living with THE SON OF MAN. It does no fool any good to spend money to acquire higher education. From Amplified version of the Bible, shout it there.
Of what use is money in the hand of a self-confident fool to buy skillful and godly wisdom, when he has no understanding or heart for it. Amen.
Page 103 verse 59 – 61. Remember, this Paradise is our home. Yes! We are waiting at the gate.
The only way we can convince God who is our landlord to open the gate for us, is by removing all those impurities that are in our individual lives.
GET RID OF ALL THAT IS WRONG IN OUR LIVES.
And it is only through total obedience to the Word of God that all these impurities can be removed. Remember we cannot obey without decision, for decision is the forerunner of whatever we do in this life. And to worship God is to obey his Word. Amen.
Is the Message worth rehearsing?
Short Exhortation By PASTOR CHIZOBA UDOCHUKWU
Over familiarity is the greatest destroyer! … The power in heaven and on earth has been compressed into a Being who became a Branch that never grew from any stem; a Branch that developed on His own, not hanging on any; not deriving nourishment or trait from any, but hanging alone: The Self-Existing One. No man appointed Him. No man conferred authority on Him. No man voted Him into power. But your eyes are limited to the natural things. No man is saved by Christ until He steps into the office of Christ. For you to be saved by Christ, you must walk yourself into the office of Christ….
HOW DO YOU KNOWTHE SON OF MAN? Preached on30TH JULY 2017;
Pg. 45 vs. 2 – 4
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LEARN TO KNOW GOD BETTER
The Word of God is ever current. This is a condensed package. If you heard your name in that message, show by raising your hand.
Even if the person is dead. Those of us whose turn it is to die, we heard it.
This is a condensed package. When God pronounces it is your turn to die, something is required. And when we do that which is required, he will extend our days.
I take this text from, ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO GOD’S PLAN; Preached on 30th July 2008; Page 83 vs. 1 – 2.
I want to seal up this exhortation with this statement, “GOD IS WITH YOU, GOD IS WITH ME, GOD IS WITH US WHILE WE ARE WITH HIM. IF WE FORSAKE HIM, HE WILL FORSAKE US.”
The long suffering of God towards us, is that we might change our minds immediately. It is not tomorrow. It is not in the next one minute, but immediately.
If you know that you are living a life that will cause the Name of God to be blasphemed if it is heard, or if people will hear about it, it will cause the Name of God to be blasphemed, change now, for God must defend his Name.”
IT IS YOUR TURN TO DIE.
Why is God telling us all this? He is saying that He must defend His Name. He is not appointing you to come and defend Him.
That is why He said, “You hear people saying different things against Me and against the Faith, it is My work to defend Myself.”
That is the difference between God and idols. The idol worshipper will say that somebody has profaned or that somebody has gone contrary, and they will go to all lengths and bring the person to book, either to kill the person or to punish the person. But in our own case, God is the one defending Himself and defending His name.
…change now, for God must defend His Name. I say God must defend His Name.”
Living Bible, 2 Peter 1 verses 2 through 5.2DO YOU WANT MORE AND MORE OF GOD’S KINDNESS AND PEACE? This is a question that needs an answer. Brethren, do we want more and more of God’s kindness. Do we want more and more of God’s peace? Okay, let us see what follows.
THEN LEARN TO KNOW HIM BETTER AND BETTER. That is why in Igbo parlance, we call God THE ENIGMA [THE PARADOX].
There is no day you will say you have known all about God. That is why we always come before God to listen to His Word.
The aspect you think you have known, when God visits it again, you will understand that you have not known it. We should continually, consistently and persistently learn to know God more and more.
3FOR AS YOU KNOW HIM BETTER, HE WILL GIVE YOU THROUGH HIS GREAT POWER EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR LIVING A TRULY GOOD LIFE:…
God will grant us that on the condition that we have started persistently learning to know God better and better, and not throwing away the ones you have already learnt, and may be clamouring for new knowledge.
…HE EVEN SHARES HIS OWN GLORY AND HIS OWN GOODNESS WITH US. 4AND BY THAT SAME MIGHTY POWER, HE HAS GIVEN US ALL THE OTHER RICH AND WONDERFUL BLESSINGS HE PROMISED;…
The same mighty power of the Word of God, for the power of God is embedded in His Word. The Message we have says that God can do nothing outside His Word.
For those of us expecting God to perform contrary, He said He will never go contrary to His Word, for God’s Word is God Himself.
4AND BY THAT SAME MIGHTY POWER, HE HAS GIVEN US ALL THE OTHER RICH AND WONDERFUL BLESSINGS HE PROMISED.
The Message started with the salutation, “Remain blessed”. And then He said, do we really know the meaning of “Remain blessed”?
This is because when we say, “May God bless you”, both of us will start thinking of wild things. If those wild thought do not materialize and are not associated with you, then God has not blessed you.
He said, “If you are not fit for eternal life, you are not blessed. Even if you have the whole money in the entire world, you have the whole knowledge in the world or you have everything, but you have missed that one, you are not blessed.”
…for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness all around us,…
He promised to get us severed and separated from ungodly desires and lusts of all sorts. Did God promise to save us from those things? Yes! How? Through the standard of the Word.
He will raise a standard. And if we are mindful of the Word; if we are not protesting against the Holy Word of God, then we will get this promise.
That is why He compared this Message with the military, and told us that once God issues a command, it is expected to be carried out immediately.
No thinking. No reasoning or expecting God to tell you why the command comes. It is the result of your actions that will now tell you why the command has come.
…for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness around us and to give us his own character.
With His character, we will now become one with Him, just like they were with Jesus Christ. When they acted; when they talked or when they reacted, the people said, these people are acting like that man who called himself Christ.
Remember what we considered last week, about those claiming to be messiahs. They started with Jesus. So up till today some people still regard it as a claim.
That is why they said these people are acting like that man, who called himself Christ because their character has become one.
They have accepted it completely (wholeheartedly). They never set the Word of God aside. They never set aside the word which the man preached unto them.
Remember he was a man born into a royal family; king David’s family.
[3]It is the Good News about his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who came as a human baby, born into King David’s royal family line; [Romans 1:3 LB]
That is why he said, it is true that I am a human being on the outlook. I will not develop wings because of the spirit of God in me and be flying so that you will now believe that I am He. He must be of the same like fashion with you.
5BUT TO OBTAIN THIS GIFT, YOU NEED MORE THAN FAITH;…The Scripture said that in order to obtain this gift, we need something greater than faith. Can we see the level of Faith? We know the Scripture is not lying. We need something greater than faith because faith without work is dead.
…You must also work hard to be good, and even that is not enough. For then you must learn to know God better and discover what he wants you to do. Amen.
We must know God’s plan for us. Let me rush these invitations before I invite the Almighty God for a word.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:18 KJV
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EPILOGUE (BY THE SON OF MAN)
I will talk from here o. Please, everybody should listen attentively. We got a Message which came from Umunze this morning. Umunze is the hometown of our late Brother, Ben Mbah.
We have met with his kinsmen, but after all the discussion, we found out at last that the date we took will coincide with school examination period.
We gave them 18th March and 2nd April and it coincided with examination period. Since we know that Bro Ben’s children and even those of his relations in the village all go to school, it then became important that the burial be re-scheduled to take place during the holiday so as to give Bro Ben’s wife and children the opportunity, whether they like it or not to stay in Umunze for three or four days before the corpse will be brought home. This is a MUST!
SO, if the proposed date fell into exam period, there will be problem. The holiday period is better.
Something happened when they brought the Message this morning. They said that they have taken or proposed April 15th and 17th. Everybody should listen attentively.
They proposed that the burial ceremony will start on the 17th, while the burial proper will be on the 18th. I then told him that it will not be possible. I told him that it will be impossible for the burial to take place on 15th and 17th.
I thought an invitation is lying there on the pulpit. If it is not there, it then means that Bro Ojiakor has not given it. I know that Apostle Ojiakor took 14th for the traditional marriage of his daughter at Umuoji on the 14th of April.
Victor Nnachor then took April 18th for his wedding ceremony with his wife at Enugu.
So, you can see that the ceremonies of 14th does not make it proper for a burial to be done on the 15th. It is simply impossible.
We cannot come back from a traditional marriage ceremony and on the following day, embark on a burial. It is simply impossible.
Their proposal says that the burial activities will start on the 17th, while the burial proper takes place on the 18th.
Already, for the wedding that is taking place at Enugu, the people that will attend will be leaving for Enugu on the 17th for the wedding on the 18th. So, it is clear that it will not be possible.
That is why I called for this Meeting here and now to look into this matter thoroughly.
Even as we are talking now, Apostle Ugonna of Lagos Household has already slated the 16th and 17th April for the burial of his late father. The father’ corpse will be brought back on the 16th for burial on the 17th of April.
So you have seen now that from 14th to the 18th April is already exhausted. And there is nothing that will make us to go back to March.
Teachers here present, help us. When are the schools closing in April for Easter? This is because if we concede the choice to Umunze people, there will be trouble.
Teachers here present, from both public and private schools, please help us, especially those in Anambra State. We are talking about Anambra State because their closing date for schools is not always the same with Enugu State.
Are there no teachers from Anambra State here, even when we have School proprietors here? 9th April. Ok.
What date is Easter? 12th April. This is going to be wonderful. Brethren, it is going back to the date we allotted to it originally. It will go back to April 30th which was the first date we took.
With the calendar, please check the actual day of the week that is 30th April. Thursday. April 29th is Wednesday.
Pastor, please you have to write a letter, for this is beyond ordinary discussion. Write another letter to be dispatched to the Mbah family of Umunze to tell them that after due considerations, the Body of Christ, of which their brother is a member, was convened and we agreed that all the dates previously proposed by both parties are all engaged, and that the date we have chosen are April 29th and 30th 2020.
Also let them know that if they agree to our proposal, they should inform us, and remind them that it should be treated as urgent, for we will not allow his corpse to be kept beyond April. Thank you.
The Body of Christ do you agree to that. [The whole Church echoed, “Yes sir!”] Is there anybody who has slated an event during these agreed dates? Unless you will be the one to die and then we will bury you on that same date.
This is because anybody who agrees to die must surely die. All it will take is being disobedient to the Word of God. Disobey and reject godly counsel. Set at naught, all that God has being saying, place God behind and you must surely meet the devil in front.
If the devil tells you to go, then you go. But if the devil tells you to lie down there, you lie down there. Thank you
On Saturday, 21st March 2020, Pastor Obinna of Port Harcourt and his wife will be wedded in Owerri.
So there is no invitation there that is older than the invitation from Bro Victor Nnachor. How did you take this type of jump? Finish with the events in March first.
Is there no other invitation for March there? Where is that of Clinton? Has the invitation not come? Did you purposely remove it? Are you angry? Announcements for events in March have to be concluded before we go over to those of April.
That is the way things are done. Ome-mgbe-oji [Bro. Chidi Agbom] and his wife will have their traditional marriage ceremony in Obi-Ngwa at the house of Pastor Chikere on 26th March 2020.
[The traditional marriage and wedding ceremony between Bro Victor Nnachor and Sister Idimmachineke Ojiakor on Tuesday 14th April at Umuoji and Saturday 18th April 2020 in Enugu respectively]
Brethren, we are overwhelmed by ceremonies. We will now sow uniforms for attending ceremonies. If anybody is sowing, let the person also sow water-proof that will be carried behind and the ones that will be carried by the hand.
In all these invitations, is “Rice and Stew Very Plenty” [RSVP] included?
[Brother Chibuzor Agbom gives his testimony]
Do you not know that God loves Onitsha? He would have distributed the death. We heard a terrible news, but we refused to accept it. After all, you were neither having headache nor fever before you went to school.
You have tasted death. You have seen how that place looks like. You have seen the vision. I say, you have seen a little of what that place looks like.
Believe it, death is a journey. If you journey and come back you talk, but if you journey and remain journeying, there is a boundary you will cross, and you will not come back.
That means you have joined your ancestors. You have crossed the human realm. You are now in another realm; another world. But people here will be shouting and screaming, weeping, when the man is somewhere else feeling nothing in another world.
What is troubling us is not death, but our destination. Patty Obasi said that what hurts is not death. The thing that hurts is our destination.
If your destination is bad, you lived an empty life. Number one is that the people you left behind will never rest, for they will be constantly seeing you where you will be walking about like the ghost of a man that never received a proper funeral.
In the night, you will come and finish all the food that were kept because you are severely hungry. If the doors are locked, you will break the window.
If the dead were to be somebody like Bro Nath, if someone passes by, you will stone the person at his back so that the person will know that you are angry.
If the dead were to be somebody like Bro Iyke, he will flog the passerby with twig of goat weed.
But nobody sees the spirit of anybody that rested in peace. He does not make any move. Such a person will rest in peace in his grave until the day is dawn.
All these ones that are moving about are the dead men that never received proper funeral, for he has not gotten to his destination. The Saints have not said welcome to such a spirit.
It will be terrible if this person is rejected by both heaven and hell. The person’s judgment will be going on simultaneously at both the gates of heaven and hell.