IS THE LORD PLEASED WITH YOU? Compiled On 21st February, 2022 By Pastor Daniel Peter Atah. Household of God Umuahia Abia State, Nigeria.
Approved and Authorized BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SUPREME INTELLIGENT
Before God will say, “I am pleased in this place; I am pleased with this man; I am pleased with this woman;” God is certain that, that man can stand and say “Which of you can convince me of sin?” It is only then that God can stay on high and roar in His Voice and say; “In thee I am well pleased.” Until that time that voice will not be heard. God must settle it in that man, in that woman until what is found in him or her is nothing but the faith of Christ.
-PASTOR OKECHUKWU NWANKPA
“IN THEE I AM WELL PLEASED” Preached On 8TH May 1994 Page 32:26 & Pg 33:29.
Because God cannot cloth you with immortal bodies with your evil characters, with your evil nature. What if by now, those who want to check in do not have God’s nature? They are not Christ-like in behavior, what is the hope of that person? What do you use to validate it? Your manifestation validates your ticket. He that validates the ticket is already with you and has given you teachings, doctrines, instructions which if you obey gladly will transform your life to be like His own. The moment it is done, He marks you okay. He places a seal on you. And that seal is an irrevocable seal.
-THE SON OF MAN
RE-EXAMINE YOUR TICKET AGAIN PREACHED ON FRIDAY, 20TH MAY, 2022 PG 28:44 & PG 43:16
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GOD’S NATURE IS YOUR TICKET TO PARADISE
We give thanks to God Almighty who in his mercy has been preserving us all these years. Even in this wicked world we are living in, if it is not the Lord, I don’t think whether we can still be standing. No matter what is happening, God is still faithful to his word.
- Without wasting our time, I want us to look at where we are in this Bridal Faith. One thing I want us to understand is that, God allowing the wife of his youth to depart from among us is a significant sign that God is about to take his Spiritual Bride away. For whatever that is happening around the Son of Man’s family is a significant sign that we must be mindful of.
- The physical Bride that typifies the Spiritual Bride was taken away because she has lived a fulfilled life. Which invariably, she attained God” standard of salvation. For that she lived a fulfilled life before God asked her to go and rest. By so doing, she became the Queen of queens.
- And for the first time, women have somebody that can intercede on their behalf. That which Eve could not do, I mean the first woman God formed, the second Eve perfected her.
- And I also strongly believed that she lived a fulfilled life by having the Nature of God. For nobody can dwell with God eternally without having God’s nature. For God’s nature is our only ticked to paradise.
- Now, this is where many are having problems. For ever since God has been shouting and shouting, majority pay deaf ear to what he was saying. Many turned out to be stubborn to his word.
- Let us look into the book of Isaiah chapter 5 verse 1 through 7. “1Now I will sing for the one I lovea song about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyardon a rich and fertile hill.
- 2 He ploughed the land, cleared its stones, and planted it with the best vines. In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a winepress in the nearby rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of sweet grapes, but the grapes that grew were bitter.
- 3 Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard…”
- The Almighty ploughed the land, our heart is the land which he ploughed and cleared all the bad life, bad characters we inherited from our various denominations, so that at the end we may produce sweet grape, sweet character which he will harvest, what we produced at the end is bitter grape, bitter life which is not the reason why he planted his seed which is his word.
- Now he said, you people in the Bridal Ministry are to judge between him and us. What is that thing that is remaining that he could have done which he did not do? When he expected good and sweet grapes, why did you produce bitter grapes – ungodly life?
- “4What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done?
When I expected sweet grapes, why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes? - 5Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.
- 6I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.
- 7The nation of Israel is the vineyard of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people of Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected a crop of justice, but instead he found oppression.” LB.
- The essence of Him the Lord God Almighty planting the vineyard is for him to have a good harvest. But what he later got was not what he intended – what He has in mind. For the farm produced wild life which is not the expectation of the farmer.
- And we forget to realize that the only thing that will be harvested are those that have his nature. For we must as a matter of fact have his nature for that is the only thing God recognizes.
- For the scripture says that whenever He appears, we must be like Him. How can we be like him when we do not pay heed to the teachings we are receiving from him? For the teachings of God are His life.
- Let us look into the Spoken Word that is with us. The Secret of Rapture volume 1 preached on 19th December 1999 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Resurrected Body. Chapter 1 verse 3 through 7
- “You know Grace is revealed! When Grace was revealed, instead of building according to the revealed Message, they were building outside the revealed Message.
- The revealed Message of your day is the Masterpiece, the building plan; everybody has to pattern after it. When you were under the Law, you have to pattern after the Law. When you come under Grace, you have to pattern after Grace.
- Remember, I preached the Message titled “Justification by Faith and “Salvation by Grace” in this most holy Faith. Do not try to muddle these things up.
- The last Message I have preached in this Faith is the Message of Grace which is the Message that will take you to rapture, which is what the Prophet said that it will be the last Message that will be on Earth before the Church will be taken away. Amen.
- Talk of Faith; He has already developed a little faith in you—look at it here. I am coming to something.
- I TOLD YOU LONG, LONG TIME AGO THAT THE GREATEST STUMBLING BLOCK YOU MUST CROSS IS LOVE. FOR YOU TO CROSS OVER LOVE, SURELY, THERE IS WATER OF SEPARATION; AND THAT WATER OF SEPARATION IS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
- HOWEVER, IF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT THERE, IF YOU ARE NOT MANIFESTING ALL THESE ATTRIBUTES, THAT IS: BROTHERLY KINDNESS, GODLINESS, PATIENCE, TEMPERANCE, KNOWLEDGE, VIRTUE AND FAITH, IF THESE ATTRIBUTES ARE LACKING IN YOUR LIFE, SURELY, DO NOT TALK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOU MEASURE THE TYPE OF SPIRIT YOU HAVE WITH ALL THESE ATTRIBUTES.”
- These are the divine nature of God which qualifies one for harvest. If all these attributes of God are not in there, it then means something is wrong somewhere. For God can never overlook anybody’s nature.
- Let us go ahead a little. If we say we have come to worship God and we desire to be with him till eternity, these are the things he was expecting us to imbibe – to pattern after if we must live with him eternally. For that is the only thing he is coming to harvest – his nature.
- The same message verse 8 of the same chapter. “You do not need to start building faith, after faith, virtue, then knowledge; no, no. All you have to do is to pattern after the Message. WHEN YOU BELIEVE THE MESSAGE, YOU ARE fILLed WITH THE HOLY GHOST OF PROMISE. WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COMES IN, HE COMES WITH ALL HIS NATURE.
- BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN, THE HOLY GHOST HAS A NATURE, IF YOUR NATURE IS NOT REFLECTING ALL THE SEVEN NATURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SURELY YOU HAVE A WRONG SPIRIT, you have a wrong encounter.”
- Can we see what we are saying and what God is telling us? This is the only condition for harvest. I mean, God’s nature is the only condition for harvest.
- How can you plant corn in the ground and expect to harvest another thing? When you plant corn, you must rip corn. So, if we have accepted the word of God into our lives and it has a dwelling place in our hearts, what God will harvest is that heart of the individual that is harbouring his spirit.
- The spirit of God is in the heart of every man or woman that welcome the word of God. But if the spirit of God is not in there, the spirit of the devil is there for the heart can never be vacant. If God does not occupy your heart, the devil is occupying your heart.
- The same chapter of the same message verse 18 through 26. “I said, “Look at the pyramid, look at the headstone, the headstone is what will pull all of us away.”
- YOU MAY HAVE THE GIFT OF HEALING, SPEAKING IN TONGUE, GIFT OF HOSPITALITY, YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING AND CAN EVEN GIVE YOURSELF TO BE KILLED BECAUSE OF THIS GOSPEL BUT IF THIS GENUINE LOVE OF GOD IS NOT FOUND IN YOU, IT IS USELESS NONSENSE.
- Maybe somebody thinks that what I am saying is not scriptural, you can go to 1Conrinthians chapter 13 to the end. Give all you have to the poor dash him everything, do everything you can but this real love of God is not there, it is an empty waste, you have laboured in vain.
- Furthermore, this genuine love of God cannot be there except you are filled with the Holy Spirit.
- Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot condescend with men of low estate. Without the Holy Spirit, there is no humility in you; and without the Holy Spirit, you cannot render services to one another without grudging, without murmuring, without complaining.
- Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot esteem others higher than yourself. It is the Holy Spirit that will take away selfishness and self-pride. I mean what I am saying.
- That is why the Holy Spirit is the token, it is your transporter to this particular pyramid. If you watch this love ministry, it is a different ministry altogether it is complete—a complete pyramid, a different ministry altogether.
- Moreover, I told you from the very beginning that, this Faith is the Headstone Ministry. This is Christ, God is Love, love is of God; He that loveth is of God, so it is His ministry, you cannot be ushered in there without the Holy Spirit. You must pass this water of separation.
- Also, I told you in that Message that the higher you go, the narrower it becomes. Hence, I should have been expecting a narrower congregation. But you are giving the impression that all of you are believing. Everywhere is filled. If you look at the Faith, look at the weed.
- Everyone accommodated in this Faith, who does not know there is God, who does not believe God. Even heathens believe that there is God, you talk of virtue they say they have it. Knowledge and temperance, the higher you go the narrower it becomes.
- IT IS NARROWEST AT THE PEAK, YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS LOVE CAN ONLY ACCOMMODATE VERY FEW. ONLY VERY FEW WILL HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD, THE REST CAN HAVE HUMAN COMPASSION WHICH IS CONTRARY TO GOD’S LOVE.
- To be compassionate is to do the Will of God. YOU GIVE ME RICE I GIVE YOU BEANS, YOU COME TO MY HOUSE, WE STAY TOGETHER, WE EAT TOGETHER, WE DRINK TOGETHER, THEY ARE ALL FINE, I DO NOT CONDEMN EVEN ONE. THIS GOD’S LOVE IS WHERE HE IS LOOKING AT YOU: LOVE WITHOUT HYPOCRISY, LOVE THAT IS CORRECTIVE, LOVE THAT HATES EVIL.
- THIS LOVE ACCOMMODATEs EVERYTHING BUT EVIL. THIS LOVE REBUKES EVIL, DOES NOT HIDE HIS FEELINGS TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER. THIS LOVE DOES NOT GOSSIP, HE DOES NOT BACKBITE, HE DOES NOT BLACKMAIL, THIS LOVE IS PURE, IMMACULATE, WHITER THAN SNOW. THAT IS HOW YOUR HEART SHOULD BE BEFORE GOD AND ALL MEN. Amen”
- You see why God has been talking and shouting? God is of the purer eye than to behold iniquity. When God is talking to us, His love is being made manifest for he does not want any to perish, he does not want any to die. But man want to perish, man want to die. That was why God said, “Thus saith the Lord, put your house in order for you are about to die.”
- The same message, chapter 3 verse 9 through 21. “In Antioch, the Bible said they saw them moving, they were not talking and people studied their lives and said, “Behold these people are like Christ,” and there they were called Christians, that is, people that behave like Christ, they knew Christ, they saw Christ. They knew Him as a good man, they saw His way of life.
- When they saw people that behave like Him, they immediately identified them. We have come to the point where people can identify us today and say, “Really, they are like their leader.”
- People that know our leader, our instructor, they know Him, they know His manner of life, they know His doctrine, can they see somebody that said he has believed Him today and say, “In short, without anybody telling me, you are His disciples, you behave like Him.”
- I am trying to bring back something, that even while we are at Amazu Oil, we were being accused that our Pastor has already put His saliva into our mouth, that we all patterned after our Pastor. That was why End time Message could not penetrate, for all the families they secretly visited, they were speaking the same thing.
- When they went to the Pastor, the Pastor will talk to them seriously on that matter. They will visit another person thinking they will convince the person; finally, when they get there, the same person without consultation will start from the very beginning and then they will be repelled. There, they were accusing us that we are one, at the beginning of the ministry that we are one…”
- Can it be like that today? When everybody is no more interested in what God is saying. When many do not even listen to the audio messages God is sending to us. How can our character be the same? It is only but a few that are still marching on by God’s enabling power. These are the people that God has come to harvest.
- “…It was evident, it was noticed, it was proclaimed far and wide to the point that people heard it in Kaduna and they came down. They said that they have come to see the Church that was making such a noise when we are at Ugwumba.
- Then the Message went about that there is only one place in the whole Nigeria where End time is still alive and they are staying at Onitsha.
- They say that when you get there, the love in their midst alone is enough to move any ministry. Hence, they were flying in and flying out.
- I am trying to bring out your old record. Moreover, it was this your record that made me to abide in your midst, it was this your record that caused Me to settle down.
- However, today we continue to grow in number every day, as we grow in number we continue to stray away from the original foundation. We continue losing sight from where we started; we continue to spoil our old record until today that we have no record again, as if we are trying to rebuild again a demolished structure.
- How are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
- At times when I sit down alone in my chair to meditate and cast my mind back, tears will start coming from my eyes. I said have I not made a mistake of making a stopover with this people?
- However, I thank God I still have few remaining that are called by My Name, who are trying every day to pattern after Me.
That is why you have to take heed to yourself and to the doctrines we have received. That is why God gave us the message, “Is your life; Is my life worthy of the Gospel that I preach? This is because the greatest message that makes the highest impact is your character. There are no two ways about it. Take heed that you do not contradict your message with your life.
-THE SON OF MAN
BEWARE OF SPIRITUAL DEATH VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 12th April, 2020; Chapter 4 verse 8
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ONLY ONE CHARACTER WILL BE FOUND IN PARADISE
I am trying to say something now. We have seen that the Bible said that Christ is the author and finisher of our Faith, our Instructor and Leader. The Bible said, “Look unto Christ the author and finisher of our Faith.”
- If any man said he is a disciple and he does not pattern after Him, he is deceiving himself, he cannot fit in; he is disapproved on trial.
- In other words, GOD IS EXPECTING EVERYBODY THAT IS COMING TO SHOW ONLY BUT ONE CHARACTER, ONLY ONE CHARACTER WILL BE FOUND IN PARADISE. ONE CHARACTER WILL ENTER PARADISE, NOT TWO CHARACTERS, ONLY ONE CHARACTER.
- IF THE DOCTRINE IS ONE, THE FAITH IS ONE, BAPTISM IS ONE, THE LORD IS ONE, PARADISE IS ONE, CHARACTER MUST BE ONE. AFTER ALL CHARACTER IS YOUR DOCTRINE REFLECTED, FOR YOUR DOCTRINE REFLECTS IN YOUR CHARACTER. NO MAN CAN LIVE A LIFE HIGHER THAN HIS DOCTRINE.
- IF I HAVE GIVEN YOU DOCTRINE AFTER HOLINESS, SURELY IT MUST REFLECT IN YOUR CHARACTER. IF IN THIS FAITH WE TEACH YOU HOW TO FIGHT, IF IT IS OUR DOCTRINE THAT WE CAN FIGHT OR GO TO COURT OR MAKE TROUBLE WITH ANYBODY OR EVEN GO TO POLICE, SURELY IT WILL BE REFLECTING IN YOUR CHARACTER.
- WHATEVER YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE MUST REFLECT, IT IS YOUR DOCTRINE, IT IS YOUR FAITH.”
- You do not have Gods character and you expect Him to take you there anyhow. When God is expecting all of us to have one character, one life, one judgement. You see that you have already marked yourself out of paradise.
- The same message chapter 4 verse 1 through 29. “THE SECRET OF RAPTURE, WHO IS YOUR MASTERPIECE? EVEN IF I KEEP IT SECRET ALL THESE YEARS, I THINK BY NOW IT HAS BECOME PLAIN, YOU DO NOT NEED ANYBODY TO COME AND TELL YOU BECAUSE I HAVE INSTRUCTED YOU ALL THESE YEARS;
- GUIDED YOU PERFECTLY WITH THE SCRIPTURES ALL THESE YEARS UNTIL I HAVE COME TO A POINT WHERE I HAVE PLACED YOU IN A RAPTURING CONDITION. YOU ARE ALL PLACED IN HEAVENLY DIGNITY.
- UNTIL NOW YOU WERE ALL LOST, TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE PROMISES. THEN YOU DESIRED RAPTURE, THERE WAS NOTHING IN YOU THAT WILL MAKE YOU EASY TO BE LIFTED. Nothing! THE POWER OF TRANSLATION WAS NOT IN YOU.
- IMMORTALITY IS BEING BROUGHT INTO FOCUS BY THE PREACHING OF THIS GOSPEL. without the preaching of this gospel, there is no wa immortality can be brought into focus, because immortatlity on its own dwelleth in the greatest elohim.
- note, the great god, immortality dwelleth in him and it is being made manifest unto you by the preaching of the gospel of the apostle of your day, the anointed one of your day.
- it has been released. beofore then, it was god in a vessel. but you have believed in him that is revealed in your day, immortality is TRANSFERRED into them. (those that BELIEVED)
- Because when you believe in Him, all his attributes of human kind will come to you. If he is immortal, you are immortal. Whatever he is, that is what you are. Whatever He is, that is what you are; then, you must pattern after somebody whether you like it not. I am coming nearer to the message…”
- Permit me to quote something from this book “In Tune with the Infinite” written by Ralph Waldo Trine in the year December 1899.
- In a sense there is nothing in all the great universe but law. If this is true there must of necessity be a force behind it all that is, the maker of these laws and a force greater than the laws that are made.
- This Spirit of Infinite Life and Power that is behind all is what I call God. I care not what term you may use, be it Kindly Light, Providence, the Over Soul, Omnipotence, or whatever term may be most convenient. I care not what the term may be as long as we are agreed in regard to the great central fact itself.
- God, then, is this Infinite Spirit which fills all the universe with Himself alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing that is outside,
- Indeed and in truth, then, in Him we live and move and have our being. He is the life of our life, our very life itself. We have received, we are continually receiving our life from Him.
- We are partakers of the life of God; and though we differ from Him in that we are individualized spirits, while He is the infinite Spirit including us as well as all else beside.
- Yet in essence, the life of God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one. They differ not in essence, in quality; they differ in degree.
- We see that whatever God is, is what we are. But in degree, we are different. For the scripture says that since God’s children are human being, he became human being too. For as a human being, can he relate with them and save them.
- Now, the question now arises, are we what he really wants us to be? For God wants us to be like him in degree. For the scripture said when he comes, we shall see him just as he is and be like him. So, whatever God is, that is what we should be as children of God.
- For the scripture said in John chapter 1 verse 12 AMP. “But to as many as did receive and welcome him, He gave the authority, (Power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (Adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name.”
- We continue brethren with the message. “…Who is your Masterpiece? This is the secret of rapture. The moment you discover your masterpiece, happy are you.
- Right inside the church, I can see people divided and that is why I do not want anybody to trouble this Onitsha Church. If you stay in your local setups, believe whatever you want to believe, that is your business…”
- When you hear Church or local setups, let not your mind go to the general assemblies. Your family is now what God is referring to as the church now. If you are divided in your houses, as many are now divided in their houses, you are not troubling Son of Man’s family or any other family. You are only troubling your family.
- You are behaving the way you are behaving because you are believing whatever you want to believe. For if you have believed in the message of the Son of Man, in His teachings, it could have reflected in your character and in the character of your family members.
- “…I have preached uniform messages to all the churches; I do not have private interpretation to the Word of God. Any way you want to interpret it, it is your business. If you want to interpret it to your own destruction, go ahead. If you want to interpret it to the saving of your soul, go ahead.
- However, all I know is that the Heaven will bear Me witness that I never speak to you in parables, I never used idioms or parables, or proverbs in any preaching. I gave you plain message…”
- So that you will not say it is because of the parables or idioms that God has been using, for that reason, you do not act well because you do not understand. God never used parables or idioms. He has been speaking to us in a plain language. So, no excuse from nowhere.
- “…I can see a situation where inside the church, there are cases in the church where people will pattern after A, another group will pattern after B, another group will pattern after C. You are right. That is, the group of people that have one philosophy will now come together and pattern after one another.
- People with the same philosophy will now move together, the other side, another group with another philosophy will move together. I have seen it already in the camp.”
- We have seen where some patterned after their father wrongly in a family. Another group patterned after their mother wrongly. Even the children, patterning after themselves because they have the same philosophy. God said, I have seen it already happening in the families. And it is actually happening. And these people are waiting for translation of their mortal bodies.
- “…That is why there are some ministers that will mount the pulpit and a lot of members in the church will bend down. They will never write anything; they will never say amen until such ministers will come down simply because they do not believe the ministers. It is happening in many local churches. I know that.
- Then the question arises, who are you patterning after? Whether Paul is preaching or Apollos or Andrew, you should believe; it is the same spirit, the same Christ. I do not care who is preaching it, provided we are called into this same vineyard. Whoever that is there, is there under His seal and authority.”
- In a situation where in a family, the family members, the wife and their children do not believe that their father is a man of God, what do you think will happen? This is the ugly picture that you will see.
- “…I know in some local churches; some ministers are favoured or more favoured than others. And these ministers know their own way of dividing the flock; they know those they will visit with their philosophy, they know those they will not visit.
- Besides, as they go about having such evil visitations, hardening themselves in unbelief, they are there expecting rapture but it is not that way.
- We must have one character and one spirit. Because by one spirit are we all baptized into one body. And if we have one spirit and the spirit controls our character, our characters must be one. Ministers, take note.
- Whatever is your motive in the faith is what you are going to reap in the end…”
- God is talking to the fathers that are now Pastors over their family members. Be careful of what you are giving to your family members. For whatever is your motive, is what you are going to reap in the end.
- “…Some people preached the message with wrong motives. Yes, a minister can be in the pulpit, preach a right message with a wrong motive. In other words, your message is Holy Ghost, it is truth but the motive is wrong.
- You must preach the right message with the right motive. I repeat, it must be the right message with the right motive. We do not fight one another in the pulpit.
- We do not try to make converts to ourselves by coming to the pulpit to pamper people in unbelief so that they will love and cherish us. We do not do that. We do not come to the pulpit to make friends; friends are too far from the pulpit.
- This is the reason why I say that all local churches must stay in their own setups, they know themselves and they understand themselves. In Jerusalem, you know yourselves and you can understand yourselves also. However, in all, there is nobody that will be excused in the last day…”
- Reason why God said we should go back to our houses and look into the state of your family members because you know yourselves. The husband knows the wife and the wife knows the husband. The children know their parents and their parents equally know them and they understand themselves.
- If the man is deceiving his family, they know. If the woman is not believing, the family know. If the children are not obeying, their parents know. So, they cannot fool themselves in their family for they know each other.
- You see, any family that is not having the nature of God which is the only condition for harvest, that family or individual can never be there. Let us begin to have a second look into our lives again. Re-examine yourself, pause and think.
- Let us take full inventory of our lives and see if there be anything that is lacking in our lives. For I know that many things are lacking in the life of many. That was why God said, concerning the knowledge of the message, you have it 100% but something remaineth. And that thing that remain is the life of the Son of Man which is the only condition for admittance.
- “…Believe it if you can, you are coming with one token; you are presenting only but one character.
- Now, you are the one that will even sit down and study the character of Paul, if Paul was a messenger sent to you and he was ministering here and he was living here as a human being, you are in a better position to know his character more than himself.
- After all, he does not know his character. A man of God does not know his character, Jesus never knew his character. What he was doing was what the spirit was leading him to do, for he did nothing on his own.
- But it is you that is commanded to pattern after him that will be on duty to make sure you know his character.
- You know me, my manner of life, my doctrine and you have to use me as your example. One, you must believe my doctrine. Two, you must pattern after me in character. Pattern after me in every way.
- If you say you believe apostle Peter Odoemena, you have said a very nice thing, it is commendable. But, if you do not do what he has done, if you do not pattern after him, you are a liar.
- If any man said he believes Christ and he does not pattern his life after Christ, is he not a liar?
- How many of you can sit down and say, “God thank you for giving us a perfect instructor and leader in our day, one we can look up to?”
- It is very easy to acknowledge the Deity around the Son of Man; it is very easy to acknowledge the message, even the revelation. Now, how many of you have acknowledged that God has sent me to lead you home?
- How many of you have believed that I am the Son of Man by revelation? How many of you have believed that the message I have given you is truth from the very bible? How many of you have believed these things and say “Thank you for my life and the life of Brother the Apostle are now one”? How many of you can say SO.?”
Do not emulate evil.” DO NOT EMULATE EVIL, FOLLOW AFTER GODLINESS. DO NOT EMULATE EVIL, BUT FOLLOW AFTER GODLINESS. Follow those that are patterning after godliness. Pattern after Christ. But a fool patterns after evil things. Before you speak, he or she will frame up something he or she will tell you. All he or she will be using as examples are children of disobedience.
-THE SON OF MAN
YOU MUST PATTERN YOUR LIFE AFTER A GOOD EXAMPLE (CHRIST) Preached 13th April 2015 pg. 22:26
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YOU MUST KNOW ME AND PATTERN AFTER ME IN ALL THINGS
Can you now see that Son of Man’s nature is the only condition for harvest? If we acknowledge the message to be true and our lives are in opposite to his own life, can he take us there any how?
- For a man to marry, his nature and the nature of the wife must be one. I mean they must have the same character if they must live together for that is the only condition. Can two walk together unless they agree? No! For there to be agreement in the flesh, it must have taken place in the spirit.
- I am saying that no man marries a woman until they have married in the spirit. For marriage takes place in the spirit before they come together in the flesh that is physical. Before it metamorphosed in the physical. That is what we are saying.
- Any marriage that does not take place in the spirit must be filled with many troubles, crisis of all sort. And that marriage can never last long.
- “…I told you what I told my wife one day. I said, “My darling, you have been doing well all these years, but one thing remaineth. You must be broadminded like me…”
- Which she is, before God took away from us. Because her testimonies testify for her. There is nobody that come before her whether man or woman, even children testify of her sterling qualities. That was why she is a Perfect Bride for the Perfect Bridegroom.
- “…From that day she heard that word, if she is a very wise sister which I believe she is, this will be her watch word. Try to sit back and study how broad the mind of this man is.
- How does he see things? Things people see and jump up, how does he react? Things people see, get offended and make a hell of noise up and down as if the heaven will fall, when such matters come to him, how does he see them? What moves this man? What thrill him? What and what he does not want to see?
- Why is this man claiming that he is broadminded? Is he easily infuriated? Does he get sad at everything? Is he hot tempered? More especially when she has already heard that this man had the hottest temper in him and does not talk, that was his greatest fault.
- You stay with him from morning till night; the highest thing you will get is “Thank you,” “Good morning” because all his talking and strength are all in his hands. Maybe that was the way he was brought up that time.
- Moreover, seeing that something supernatural has taken place, a dumb man became a talkative; a strong man became a woman that is supernatural, it cannot be natural anymore.
- Things he could see and flare up, and no man will dare come his way, when the man sees these things, he will just laugh and says, “Brother, take it easy! Relax your mind! Is that all? Go your way.”
- Now, you must know my manner of love, that is my manner of charity. Know whether I preached charity with my mouth; know whether I paid cosmetic approach to charity which is love or whether I am realistic about it from the very beginning.
- Know how I react to insults and abuses, even to ridicule. You must know me, my manner of life, my doctrine.
- You must know me: how much has this man condescend? How much, to what extent has he humbled himself? Has situation humbled Him or is it His nature? Has he anything he can boast of? If there should be pride, has he anything he can say at least He can say he can pride Himself in that area?
- You know condition can humble somebody? Is this man humbled by condition or by His commission which has become His nature?
- For you to pattern after a man, you must walk close to that man. That is why William Branham said that you can never know Him any better until you come closer to Him, His manner of life by day and by night. His reaction over matters, things he cherishes, things he does not cherish.
- You have to come closer. Until you come closer, there is no way you can study Him. If you do not walk closer to Christ, the Son of Man, you cannot study Him.”
- This was a message God gave us far back in the 2000 as our expo, as a condition to be with Him. How many years back? 21 years and three months now. Any child that is 21 years old and refuse to grow, is that child not imbecile? Ever learning but not coming to knowledge of God.
- The Secret of Rapture volume 2. Preached on 31st December 2000 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Resurrected Body. Chapter one verse 36 through 37. “From the scripture, I will give you the one that is truth;
- I gave you this “expo” on the secret of rapture—someone that is going to an exam with expo and fail, use your knowledge to know what should be done to that person.
- A big examination that you are expecting, it is not only you that is expecting the examination, others are equally running around to see what they can do, then somebody called you and told you, “Do not read your book randomly, see what is going to come out;
- IT IS NOT THE DOCTRINE YOU KNOW, YOU MAY KNOW THE WHOLE DOCTRINES AND STILL PERISH. SEE WHERE IT IS. SEE IT, ONCE YOU GET IT, LOOK AT WHERE YOU ARE.” I gave you one instance that magnet can only magnet iron.”
- God gave us all these. Instead of us reading randomly because we are not the only people that are preparing for this examination which will qualify everybody for admittance. Many people are preparing for it. But he came to us and gave us what we must do that will qualify us to be there.
- If anybody that failed any exam after expo has been given to that individual, that person should be pitied. That means, you do not value good thing. You are saying you know more than the examiner. You are saying, with your nature, you can make it and you don’t need that of the examiner.
- And God told us that He can never save us anyhow. He can never ignore what we are. For the only thing God recognize is nothing but His nature – His life, His character in a man.
- How can you say you believe in God and your nature is different to his own? And you think that he will admit you anyhow? No, it is not possible.
- Let us go to the message God’s nature is your ticket to paradise. (As we see the days Approaching) Preached on 9th January 2011 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man. Chapter 3 verse 43 through 54.
- “If we cannot dwell together in unity, in love, husband and wife and we are hoping for that day when we shall be clothed with immortality, it then means we are hoping against hope, that is, we are misplacing our faith and our hope, for God is coming to take a Bride that has no wrinkle, no spot, no blemish and that Bride is made up of individuals that have the Spirit of Christ alone.
- Let no man ever fool you into believing that God clothing you with immortality will ignore what you are. If He will ignore it and take you anyhow, what is the essence of giving you His words all these years?
- The essence of God giving us His word is to refine us, reform us, renew us, revive us and regulate our habits to suit His purpose. No more, no less.
- If the Word does not reform, does not refine, does not renew, does not revive, it is a sure sign that the person has no part in God. When He said, “Come that I may wash you by the water,” which is the word, you think He does not know what He is saying? Nothing cleanses you but the Word of God.
- You are revived by the Word; you are cleansed by the Word which I have spoken unto you. When you believe in this truth, walk by the truth, iniquity cannot be found in you. However, when you say you believe the truth and walk contrary to the truth, you have committed iniquity for you have known the truth about the matter and have decided to harden your heart against the truth;
- And you expect God to take you anyhow for you to become headache again, the same headache He is getting rid of is what you think you will take there, if God takes you there anyhow, then the number one person that will be there is Lucifer.
- Yes! Unmerited favour will carry Satan there. God will take Lucifer there; it is unmerited favour. Jezebel will be there; it is unmerited favour not by might but by His Grace.
- Jezebel will be there by His Grace, Lucifer will be there by His grace, Jeroboam will be there by His Grace, Herod will be there by His Grace, Pilate will be there by His Grace. Pharoah will be there by His Grace, Nebuchadnezzar will be there, all His Grace.
- You think that God made a mistake when He warned us, when you hear His word, “Harden not your heart as in the days of tribulation,” and it is only in the days of tribulation that the hearts of people will be hardened and we have rolled into the period of that tribulation when the hearts of the people have been hardened by unbelief, by the glamour of iniquity.
- Nothing hardens the hearts of the wicked than the glamour of iniquity. Who can hear the Word and make a shift? It is a seed of God, the rest will hear and still have their ears towards the sky, walking as if God will take us anyhow. Well, there is no need coming to fellowship even for worship.
- Many have taken unmerited favour which is Grace of God to be that: whether they do evil of good, they say that Grace is sufficient.
- The Word of God that is given to you in your day is sufficient to save you. If you believe, that is by Grace. Maybe you do not know that it is by Grace we are blessed with Apostolic Ministry.
- Do we merit it? Are you better than the people in the world? By Grace Israel was given a Saviour, by Grace the Bride is given the greatest gift which is the gift of the SON OF MAN, not by merit, this is the difference between you and other people.
- If the Son of Man has not been given to you, you would have been in the dark like the people in the world who are in the dark.
- If you have been illuminated and liberated and then you want me to believe that, if you continue to walk as people that are in the dark in spite of the illumination, that God will take you anyhow put your hand in the scriptures, it is not there. No man of God has ever given that type of liberation.
- If you continue to rebel, if you continue to disobey, God will do everything for us but He will never save us in Disobedience. Even to the people of Israel He never saved them in disobedience, rather He called them back into His Word. Amen.”
- Where then is that silly believe that we can do any or behave anyhow and at the end we will be saved. So, God can never save anybody outside His word which is His nature. Our nature has to be the same with that of our father. How can the taste of water you fetch be different from the one you fetched? The water must give the same taste as that of the one you fetched from.
- I am saying that the character must be the same. The colour must be the same. Everything, the same. If the water is bitter, the one you fetch must be bitter. If the water is sweet water, the one you fetch must be sweet water.
- How can we received Holy Ghost message that is capable to save us and refuse to give out the same character that is in the message?
ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD? ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD OR ARE YOU WALKING IN ALONE? WHEN YOU ARE MURMURING, COMPLAINING, AND GRUMBLING, YOU HAVE ALREADY STOPPED YOUR JOURNEY. YOU PEGGED YOUR JOURNEY, GOD DIDN’T PEG IT. BE VERY VERY CAREFUL, MANY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THIS MESSAGE. GO HOME AND THINK ABOUT IT. ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD? WALKING WITH GOD MEANS FOLLOWING HIS FOOTSTEPS.
-THE SON OF MAN-
ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD OR WALKING ALONE?
Preached 12TH October 2011 page 26:9-10
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BE CAREFUL ABOUT THE LIFE YOU ARE LIVING
Let me get something from this book. “In Tune with the Infinity.” There is a reservoir in a valley which receives its supply from an inexhaustible reservoir on the mountain side.
- It is then true that the reservoir in the valley receives its supply by virtue of the inflow of the water from the larger reservoir on the mountain side.
- It is also true that the water in this smaller reservoir is in nature, in quality, in characteristics identically the same as that in the larger reservoir which is its source. The difference, however, is this: the reservoir on the mountain side, in the amount of its water, so far transcends the reservoir in the valley that it can supply an innumerable number of like reservoir and still be unexhausted.
- And so in the life of man. If, as I think we have already agreed, however we may differ in regard to anything else, there is this Infinite Spirit of Life behind all, the life of all, and so, from which all comes, then the life of individual man, your life and mine, must come by a divine inflow from this Infinite Source. And if this is true, then the life that comes by this inflow to man is necessarily the same in essence as is this Infinite Spirit of Life.
- There is a difference. It is not a difference in essence. It is a difference in degree.
- If this is true, dose it not then follow that in the degree that man opens himself to this divine inflow does he approach to God? If so, it then necessarily follows that in the degree that he makes this approach does he take on the God-powers.
- And if the God-powers are without limit, dose it not then follow that the only limitations man has are the limitations he sets to himself, by virtue of not knowing himself?
- The only limitations man sets to himself is by virtue of not knowing himself. Man fell away from the nature of God in the Garden of Eden and at this last days, God has come to us to restore man back to his lost glory.
- That was why God warned us to be careful about the life we are living for we must preserve the purity of the message till the end. Nothing impurity is needed from God.
- Let us go to the message “Why you must be mindful of the words of the Apostles and Prophets. Preached on 23rd November 1996 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man. The Laminated Human Being.” Page 50 verse 28 through 31.
- “The rest of the congregation I come to you now. Your most holy Faith must be preserved by all means. Others have Faith, everybody claims to have holy Faith, we are not quarrelling with that but the Lord is saying that you have the most holy Faith.
- If you do not recognize what you are holding, if you do not know the importance, preserving it will be nonsense to you.
- When a man spends millions of naira to purchase a V-Boot Mercedes car, will he play with it? He can never allow people to come near that vehicle any longer; so it is with what you have right now; so it is with what is handed to you. You have received the most holy Faith in this generation.
- It is the most holy Faith that will produce the most holy people; the most holy individuals. If you know that what you have is the most holy Faith, it is not claiming.
- The day I demonstrated it in Onitsha Church, I called it “Mercury Message”, “Snow white message,” “spotless message,’ “tried message producing a tried life,” it must be preserved…”
- If the message of God which is handed over to us is not preserved, are we not setting limitations to ourselves? Will God be pleased with us?
- Now, ask yourself this question, is God pleased with you, with the life you are living today in your family? The life you are living with your wife as the husbandman of the house, the life you are living with your husband as the wife of the house, the life you are living as the children of the house, is God pleased with you? Because this is harvest time and whatever that is going to be harvested is that which is in conformity with the life of Christ.
- “…How do you preserve it? By paying heed to every message that you have received so far—by paying heed to the words of the Prophets and of the Apostles. By obeying every instruction from the approved servant of God.
- By so doing, you preserve your most holy Faith, you keep it unspotted from the world and you are preserving your life for your life reflects your Faith.
- If your Faith is most holy, watch your life you can never be a crow or a vulture. You must be in a position to hate whatever God hates and appreciate whatever God loves.
- It is when people forget the importance of what they are holding that they go about misbehaving, they go about and talk anyhow, behave and think anyhow…”
- You see, it is when people forget the importance of what they are holding that they go about behaving the way they like.
- Behave the way you like and cut yourself off from God. For if you are living the life of disobedience continually, the Lord can never be pleased with you.
- We continue a little bit Saints of God. Do not forget that God said that brethren has come to an end and saints of God has taken over. Please be patient with me for we are coming to something.
- From the same message verse 33 through 46. “1st Peter chapter 2 verse 9, “But you are a chosen race, o royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God’s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds {and} display the virtues and perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” AMP.
- You see why it is necessary to preserve your Most Holy Faith. You are a special person, God’s own chosen people, God’s own purchased special people, bestowed you with His own Faith which is God’s own Faith.
- That is where the Bible said, have not the Faith of Christ with respect of persons. Such a Faith you are holding, is not even your Faith, it is the Faith of our Christ that has been bestowed on you.
- In addition, there is only but one group of people that will escape with that Faith, and that is the Bride of Christ.
- For the Bride and the Bridegroom must be one. It requires the most holy Christ to marry the most holy Church. Otherwise, the two can never live together in harmony. There must be disagreement.
- I keep on telling my brethren that it requires a holy people to live with a holy God. For God is of a pure eye than to behold iniquity. People that cannot pay the price, people that are weak, people that have been rejected, that are condemned in this present age go about saying that it is heresy.
- Tell me what makes it heresy? Is it not well written in your Bible, “Be ye Holy for I am Holy”? If God is demanding holiness from us, is He demanding too much?
- Can’t we trace from the Bible people that lived a holy life even under the blood of animal? How much more in our own dispensation where God shed His own Blood which is higher than that of a human being?
- If under the blood of ordinary beast which is below a human being, a man could be holy, then in this dispensation where Christ shed His own blood, a man should not be only holy, for if we stop at being holy, it then means that Christ’s blood is just like that of ordinary beast.
- We are not ordinary holy people but we are most holy. The most holy God produced the most holy children who will know what is in your heart.
- It is because of the nature of this Faith, this most holy Faith that you have decided to abandon everything you were. He hates any spot, any wrinkle or blemish in any form or shape. He does not know any other thing than the Word because the Bride and the Word must be one.
- If it is not the Word, the Bride cannot echo Amen to it. In addition, nothing separates the Word from the Bride if not evil.
- How I wish you can understand what I am saying for that will help you. I am talking of the Bride as if the Bride is coming from somewhere. You are the person I am talking to. You are God’s only habitation.
- You must preserve your most holy Faith. I am trying to put down a little background.
- James chapter 2 verse 1, “My brethren, have not the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.” KJV.
- In your honest attempt to preserve this most holy Faith, you must never look at anybody’s face.
- The Faith does not know your wife, your son, your daughter; your mother or this and that for the Faith can only recognize Christ in a human being.
- The Faith calls white, white; and black, black. This Faith is not partial in judgment. It does not respect anybody but Christ.
- Whatever we are doing in this Faith, we aim at pleasing Him who has called us. We aim at preserving this Faith, keeping it unspotted in every manner—that has been our target.
- If you do not know the importance, keeping it becomes very difficult but the moment you know the importance, it becomes very easy to keep. If you spot your own, it can never lift you up because rapture is your Faith.
- It is your Faith that will take you to rapture, and for your Faith to take you to rapture, your Faith must be an outstanding Faith. It must be the most holy Faith.
- If what it takes to preserve this Faith is that the whole world will hate us, we will be ready to bear it. Whatever it demands, we are ready, provided that this Faith is kept Faithful till the end. If we fall, we blame ourselves.”
- In all these injunctions God has given to us, how many are still holding unto it? Only but a few. Majority have lowered down the standard of the faith. Many have lowered down their hands. Go the family of a man of God, it is full of vomit. They are now treating the faith with respect of persons which God hates.
- That is why God has come to harvest the few he has gathered so far. Or do you think that God will continue planting and weeding without harvesting? This is the time for harvest. This is harvest time.
- The same message page 87 verse 15 through 22. “Ecclesiastics 3 verse 1-4, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
- A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.” KJV.
- It says that there is time for everything. There is a time for sowing, there is a time for reaping. God will not continue to sow the seed from January to December. He must save out time for harvest. Hence, we cannot continue preaching and preaching, going to places with every amount of message and so on; then that will be endlessly.
- There must be a time God must come to harvest the Earth. What is more, the Earth is ripe to be harvested. Somebody had already seen it in a vision, clearly written: “Christ Harvest”. Another person saw it as: The end, the end, the end.
- In addition, it was rolling from one end of the Earth to another end, with the word “The end, the end, the end.” And then something followed thus, “Christ Harvest.”
- WHO WILL NOT BELIEVE IT? IT IS SCRIPTURE. WE HAVE COME TO THE END OF THE JOURNEY. AS A WATCHMAN OVER YOU, I AM SHOUTING IT. I KEEP ON SHOUTING IT WHEREVER I GO: GET READY FOR YOUR DEPARTURE.
- Everyday get ready, prepare to meet your Saviour, and prepare to meet your Lord for it is sooner than we think. I am not crying wolf where there is no wolf.
- Disburden yourself of anything that will wear you down. If you have been sinning, stop sinning from now. Amend your ways before it will be too late. Otherwise you must surely stand and say “Had I Known”.
- Amend your ways before it is too late. If there is anything you do not believe, tell us why you do not believe it. Anything we preach which you said that you do not believe, make us know why you do not believe. Peradventure, there might be a remedy.”
God is not pleased with anybody for pleasing sake. Before He will testify about me and you, He must be certain that the type of life we are going to live, He must know that we will have the ability to control what He has entrusted in our hands. That nobody is going to abuse it because God doesn’t want to cast our gold to swine, for the swine will end up playing with it.
-PASTOR OKECHUKWU NWANKPA
“IN THEE I AM WELL PLEASED” Preached On 8TH May 1994 Page 62:59
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Is the Lord pleased with you?
Since we have rolled into a delicate hour like this which is harvest time, is the Lord pleased with you? Is the Lord pleased with me? Is Lord pleased with you as the man? Is the Lord pleased with you as the woman? Is the Lord pleased with you as the children?
- Is the Lord pleased with you as a Brother? Is the Lord pleased with you as a Sister? Is the Lord pleased with you as a minister of God ordained into the vineyard to work with the Lord?
- We are to answer all these questions as individual for God said that if you have believed in Christ walk alone. Do not forget the fact that God saved the people from the land of bondage but with many of the, He was not pleased. Is the Lord pleased with you? This is the title for this short exhortation.
- If we can go back to the first scripture quoted in the book of Isaiah, Almighty God asked a question: What is that thing I suppose to do to this vineyard which I have not done, testify against me.
- Was he pleased with that vineyard? You are I is that vineyard. Is God pleased with us after all these years He has sojourn with us? From all we have read so far, God revealing the secret of translation to us and what we should do to attain it, is there anything we will say God has not given to us? Is the Lord pleased with you? For the Lord must be pleased with you before He can save you.
- You know, after Jesus was baptised at the bank of River Jordan by John the Baptist, the Spirit of God descended on him like a dove and abode. And the voice spoke from the excellent glory saying “This is my well beloved some in whom I am well pleased hear ye him.”
- 1st Corinthians chapter 10 verse 1 through 6. AMP. “For I do not want you to be unaware, believers, that our fathers were all under the cloud [in which God’s presence went before them] and they all passed [miraculously and safely] through the [Red] Sea;
- And all [of them] were baptized into Moses [into his safekeeping as their leader] in the cloud and in the sea;
- And all [of them] ate the same spiritual food; and all [of them] drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.
- Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with most of them, for they were scattered along the ground in the wilderness [because their lack of self-control led to disobedience which led to death].
- Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.”
- We can see that no matter what God did for them, they were found in unbelief and God was not pleased with them. For that reason, he destroyed them in the wilderness.
- It is now in our hands to find out if the Lord is pleased with you and I for that will determine our eternal destiny.
- Let us go to the message, “There is virtue in Loyalty volume 1. Preached on 20th April 2014 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena. The Supreme Intelligence. Chapter 4 verse 1 through 6.
- “We thank God for the journey so far. Today is another day. Another day in the sense that we are not in His Presence to play. We are in His Presence to take full inventory of ourselves in relation to the Faith we have believed, which we claim that will save us from the wrath of God.
- Find out for yourself whether God is pleased with you or not.
- The scripture said, “When they were in the wilderness, having escaped the wrath of Pharaoh in Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, went many miles into the forest. The Lord provided all they needed. Yet, in spite of that, God said, with many of them, God was not pleased.”
- Is God pleased with you? Is God pleased with me? This is the question we must answer as individuals. For if you are numbered among those that God is not pleased with, definitely, you will be among those he had already sworn an oath that they will never see the promised land.
- I was telling my family in our family altar what they should watch out for if they want to succeed.
- I am not praying for anybody’s failure. If you want to succeed, God will help you to succeed. But where you don’t want to succeed, God will help to fail. This is the truth about the whole matter.
- The secret lies in knowing where you are coming from. Recognize where you are coming from, recognize where you are now, remember also the number of miles that lie ahead. Once you forget these three things, danger is lucking. You can hardly escape.”
- Have we recognized where we are? If we have not recognized where we are, then, danger is lucking and we can hardly escape. For when you know the hour you are in, where you are and what is happening around you, you can now guard up your loins. To God be the glory.
- In Thee I am well pleased preached on 8th May 1994 at the Household of God Onitsha by Pastor Okechukwu Nwankpa. Page 24 verse 5 through 8. Luke chapter 3 verse 21 through 22. “21Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized, and [while He was still] praying, the [visible] heaven was opened.
- 22And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are My Son, My Beloved! In You I am well pleased and find delight!” AMP.
- If you are in the spirit; the title of the message is already known. We are not in the faith to play. We came into this Most Holy Faith to worship God because the book of Ecclesiastes 12 verse 13 says: The whole duty of man is to Worship God, to serve Him, to praise His Holy Name”
- That is, the only way we can please God is to serve Him in an acceptance way. I am speaking on a very little topic; “In thee I am well pleased.”
- The same message page 26 verse 11 through 32. “1I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.
- 2Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].”
- Anybody that is running a pilgrim race, I believe that this must be his or her vision.
- Your godliness is not crowned until the time you hear the same voice, because God is the Father of all of us, if we are children of God. And in any way that God confirms His Son, that is the same way that He has always chosen to confirm all His children.
- Anything that any of His child does and God says it is acceptable, it is pleasing, He is delighted in it, if another son of His does it, God will also say the same thing.
- Whatever God delights in one of his sons, He delight in it in all His children. Many a time today, so many people will keep on crying to God, jumping up and down but they are not mindful whether there is a thorough confirmation from God that will make them to be sure of their worship.
- You see from where we read, Jesus went to the river like any other man. He was not the only being that entered that water. The Bible said while many others were being baptized, Jesus came also and then he walked into the water, because he was fulfilling the righteous mind of God. He has a revelation of the scripture.
- It was revealed to him that he must keep it. And then he was walking towards that obedience. The moment he fulfilled God’s will and did exactly what the scripture revealed concerning his day, there went forth a voice from above saying, “In thee I am well pleased.”
- The voice did not sound for anybody except Jesus Christ because there were too many people that were there that day.
- God knew that there were many nations, and then he chose Israel and confirmed them to be his people. And because God confirmed us to be His own people, God expected us to walk according to His word.
- What is more, the Bible said that the eye of the Lord is upon the righteous. He is mindful of everything they do.
- From the day you entered this faith, God is mindful of every life you live, of every doctrine you teach, of everything that you do because you are now doing it in God’s name.
- Whatever you do then, people will attribute it to God. For that reason, God is mindful. That is why if you fail, God will say, “Yes, he is going out of my way,” so that no other person will follow you along that way.
- And when you are doing God’s will the same God will say, “Surely this is my will to provoke others that they will be desirous to follow that way that is approved of Me. In thee I am well pleased.
- So many a time people fail to understand why Jesus Christ had this confirmation. If you read St. John chapter 8 verse 46, Jesus the Christ asked a question, “Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?”
- Which of you convicteth me of sin? We are called to bring others to the same height. That we can stand before all our enemies and ask a question and say, “Which of you can convict me of sin? Who can accuse me in this congregation of sin, of debauchery; of lies, of iniquity? Who can accuse me in this world of sin, of unbelief, of falsehood?…”
- Just like we read from the book of Isaiah chapter 5 where God was talking to the vine yard which is you and me, he said we should testify against him.
- Can we convict him of anything He has not done? That is why majority are in danger of being called to question.
- “…Until you come to this point, that voice cannot sound on such a person. Jesus Christ came to this point before he could hear this glorious voice that said, “In thee I am well pleased.”
- God is mindful of saying this to any human being. He does not say it to everybody, he does not say it to every Church. He does not say it to every nation because He does not speak for speaking sake.
- Before God will say, “I am pleased in this place; I am pleased with this man; I am pleased with this woman;” God is certain that, that man can stand and say “Which of you can convict me of sin?”
- Until a man can stand on this ground, because the thing that kills denominations is that they are believing that no man can do without sin. But a Church of God continueth not in unbelief.
- God should not be holding you guilty of unbelief every day. The church of God does not continue in unbelief. You will no longer be hearing God saying, “Unbelief will kill you.”
- There must be a day unbelief shall cease in their midst. That is the only ground they shall hear the voice of their father; when God will no longer be accusing them of unbelief; when the entire Churches are filled with the faith of believers of Christ. That day, there will be no speech of unbelief.
- It is only then that God can stay on high and roar in His voice say; “In thee I am well pleased.” Until that time, that voice will not be heard. God must settle it in that man, in that woman. Until what is found in him or her is nothing but the faith of Christ…”
- Until the nature of God, the life of Christ is found in us, this voice can never be heard.
- Now, let us take a look at what we have heard and answer the question: Is God pleased with you? If you cannot answer it, you cannot be with him till eternity. Because only one condition is needed, God’s nature finish.
- “…He can now stand on high and say, “Which of you can convict me of sin? Which of you can convict me of doubting the Apostle? Of doubting the Prophet? Of doubting the Teacher? Of doubting the Evangelist? Of doubting the Pastor which is God’s mouthpiece in the flesh.”
- God must confirm His own before many unbelievers, not in secret. God must do something supernatural among his people; around their lives that will be blessed among unbelievers. It will not only be a testimony among believers, unbelievers will say, “We are witnesses, we heard that voice.”
19THE SCRIPTURAL COMMISSION OF EVERY MAN OF GOD TELLS THE ENTIRE WORLD WHO HE IS AND THE OFFICE HE OCCUPIES. AND THAT DETERMINES HOW PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE HIM, FOR EVERY TRUE MAN OF GOD SENT BY GOD COMES WITH A SCRIPTURAL COMMISSION.
Compiled By Deacon David Mbah
THE LAST INTRODUCTION OF WHO GOD IS
SECTION FIVE “A pocket of people” (SEE THE LORD IN THE LORD) Preached on Sunday, 13th May 2012 pg. 469:54
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THE COMMISSION OF THE SON OF MAN IS OUR COLLECTIVE COMMISSION
The same message page 47 verse 20 through 26. “1BEHOLD MY Servant, Whom I uphold, My elect in Whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice and right and reveal truth to the nations.
- 2He will not cry or shout aloud or cause His voice to be heard in the street. 3A bruised reed He will not break, and a dimly burning wick He will not quench; He will bring forth justice in truth.
- 4He will not fail or become weak or be crushed and discouraged till He has established justice in the earth; and the islands and coastal regions shall wait hopefully for Him and expect His direction and law.” AMP.
- Before God can say, “Behold my servant in whom I am delighted,” God is certain about the person He testifieth about. Before God can give him judgement to execute, God has predestinated Him that He will execute Righteous Judgement.
- God doesn’t chose a wife and after say, “I made a mistake.” Whoever he calls His wife, He is certain that she is His wife whether she is beautiful or ugly. There is something God saw in her that made Him choose her as His wife.
- People might see the outward beauty but God might have seen that he is able to bring her to shape in order to entrust into her hands the Word of the kingdom.
- You don’t leave your house to a harlot because the moment you leave it, she can pack your things and go. Because there has never been a day she is in your house as her own home, she will know that she has her own home.
- “In thee I am well pleased.” God entrusted something into the hands of he that is faithful, in whom I am delighted. Am I making a point? You are going to get me.”
- The Lord God Almighty told us that the commission of the Son of Man is the same commission God gave to all of us. To the family, the same commission. To the individual, the same commission. To the ministers, the same commission.
- Now, how many are staying true to this commission God has been holding till today? That is why we are seeing too many failing away from the true faith.
- How many families are still standing? That is why God is not pleased with many families now in the Bridal Faith. Many families are not following the foot step of Abraham of their day. For God said, “I know Abraham that he is able to lead his family to me.”
- Let us see it in the book of Genesis 18 verse 17 through 19. “17And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham [My friend and servant] what I am going to do;
- 18Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed through him and shall bless themselves by him?
- 19For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and the sons of his house after him to keep the way of the Lord and to do what is just and righteous, so that the Lord may bring Abraham what He has promised him.”
- It is one that God is pleased with that this voice can be heard about his family. Now, check, is God pleased with your family? The Lord is not please with many families today because they Have decided to raise wasted generation just like Eli. They are covering their family is iniquity like Eli. That is a family that God is not pleased with. And what happened? They were destroyed in one day.
- 1st Samuel chapter 3 verse 4 through 18. “4When the Lord called, Samuel! And he answered, Here I am.
- 5He ran to Eli and said, Here I am, for you called me. Eli said, I did not call you; lie down again. So he went and lay down.
- 6And the Lord called again, Samuel! And Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, here am I; you did call me. Eli answered, I did not call, my son; lie down again.
- 7Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord was not yet revealed to him.
- 8And the Lord called Samuel the third time. And he went to Eli and said, Here I am, for you did call me. Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy.
- 9So Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down. And if He calls you, you shall say, Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
- 10And the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, Samuel! Samuel! Then Samuel answered, Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.
- 11The Lord told Samuel, Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of all who hear it shall tingle. 12On that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.
- 13And I [now] announce to him that I will judge and punish his house forever for the iniquity of which he knew, for his sons were bringing a curse upon themselves [blaspheming God], and he did not restrain them.
- 14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for or purged with sacrifice or offering forever.
- 15Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. And [he] was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. 16But Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, here I am.
- 17Eli said, what is it He told you? Pray do not hide it from me. May God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that He said to you.
- 18And Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing. And Eli said, it is the Lord; let Him do what seems good to Him.” AMP.
- He is the Lord, let him do that what seems good to him. This is what many families and individual are now saying including some ministers that have lost the vision of their calling in Christ.
- They lost the vision of their calling because they are not mindful of the advice God gave to all the ministers in the sermon book. Why we must be mindful of the words of the Apostle and Prophet. Page 48 verse 23 through 27.
- “Now ministers, a time will come in your ministry where the Lord will try to tempt you. He will loose your nut. Well, let me use the language that you will understand.
- You are going to see a day in your ministry where you will not know whether you are going up or you are going down. It will appear as if your ministry is stagnant, it will appear as if there is no headway. You sit down and pray, search your Bible yet you find it difficult to get a message. You come to the pulpit, you will look very much confused. What is happening around you, you cannot actually say it. WATCH, THE HAND OF THE LORD IS BEHIND IT.
- At that hour, something very terrible will befall you. Take note of it. If care is not taken, if that thing comes, you will abandon the Faith. At that stage, the Lord will loose the nut very well and allow you to dwell in a grief that will even embarrass you. WATCH, THE HAND OF THE LORD IS THERE.
- He will permit you to roll into it, He will help you by bringing you out of that pit, and you will notice that because of one experience, you will regain strength more than ever. WHERE YOU WILL RISE UP WILL BE HIGHER THAN WHERE YOU FELL DOWN.
- That experience will shoot you up to a very high realm where that experience will no longer be mentioned in your life. IT IS NOT PUNISHING YOU BUT IT IS A HELP.”
- From what we read, how many of the ministers can still remember this statement? You see why it is very important that we must continue to put ourselves in remembrance of the word we have received so that we can be established in the present truth?
- Now, is the Lord pleased with you and I? The question we ask ourselves is not the problem but the answer we supply. If we can supply the right answer to this question, I believe our attitude towards the things of God will change because this is the time of harvest.
- We have to bear it in mind that it is one with God’s nature that God will harvest at the end.
- So, on this note I say, thank you Lord for the enabling power and spiritual strength that you gave me to compile this short exhortation. May your name be praised forever.
- My prayer is that may you continue to uphold us your elect till the end. For by our power and strength, we cannot make it. Thank you Lord.