MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY

MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY Message at the Wedding of Bro Clifford & Sister Believe MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY Message at the Wedding of Bro Clifford & Sister Believe Preached ON Saturday, 3^rd December 2022 AT The King’s Choice Hotel, 3-3, Onitsha Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THESON OF MAN

Transcribed by Deacon David Mbah Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State

I am making a proclamation and declaring Myself to you. If you like, take it. If you do not want, do not take it. But do not come to Me to query this and that there, because I am certain that at the end, you will know that I am HE. Selah. Otherwise, I would not have been telling you to believe in Me and you will have eternal life. Reject My Message and you will perish. No second chance there.

THE SON OF MAN

HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD? Preached on 5^th April, 1997 at the Household of God, Onitsha Pg. 42 vs.

17 – 18

come to me AND HAVE eternal life

I welcome all of you once again. I know you came from different places. But if you are resident in Onitsha, bear with Me with joy. Today is My own. I repeat, today is My own. I made it known to you.

Ah ah! Madam, are you the one looking like this? You be My mate.
How about those from Mbaise? Iyke! So, you know the way to Onitsha again. Congratulations! I want to identify with everybody. We have those from Nsukka. [“We are here sir”, they responded]
Those from Nsukka, you took number one in the gathering. Am I making sense? So, if I am coming to Nsukka, especially Opi, I now have My two daughters there.
That is the reason why I said I will crush you. I say, that is the reason why I will pray for your destruction, for the sons-in-law of Lot never believed in Him. Rather, they laughed him to scorn. So, I do not pray for your salvation. I pray for your destruction. But you can pray for yourselves if you want.
To Nsukka proper, is there anybody from Nsukka proper. You! Okay. You are Eha-Alumona now. [The Brother responds, “Bro Chukwu”] Yes! This one is Chibueze from Aku. Is there anybody from Edem or Edemani? Nobody. And nobody from Orba? You were selective.
John Onyia! You are looking like the vice president when you are not a politician. Pastor Ugo! Bishop Okoh came, but not for the wedding. He came to see Me. Hold your peace if you want us to stay in peace. You did not come for the wedding. You came for Me.
Elder Nwobu! We were together last week.
These faces here are strange. Are you with us? Are you here for the man or the woman? The man? Are you from Opi? Idi Opi? Why have I not known you all these years? I believe I should know everybody from Idi.
This one looks like the bridegroom. That is the most senior brother to the bridegroom who is living at Awgu. Where is your wife? Oh! I have seen you today.
Clifford! I have seen the invisible man. You were visible at Mbaise, but I was not there. You are welcome. I want to identify with more of you.
All other people here are, according to a proverbial Igbo satire, “The recognizable face of an old knife”. There is no new face among them. I want to see a new face and not an old one. Others are still coming.
Bro John Onyia! Only you from Enugu and your Pastor? Ah ah! Apostle Okey Oleri! But we do not have something that you will swallow here o. We do not have anything for you to swallow. Do not swallow Me.
I wanted to see too many faces I could not see at Mbaise in the month of March. You know, I became blind since September 13^th last year [2021], but now, I am beginning to see clearer. So, I thought I would have addressed too many.
The earlier you send for My microphone, the better. Otherwise, I will just drop this one.
I say, I have survived at last. Were you not praying for My survival? It was not easy. Yes! I have to appreciate your prayers and your concern. Not you alone, but almost all My friends and well-wishers rallied round Me, men and women alike, doing everything within their power to make sure I survive and live for others. Not for Myself. No!
I cannot live for Myself anymore. I only live for others. That is, those that know My worth.
Pastor Chizoba, be very sure that this will not be your last feature. This is the first wedding I am featuring in, for a very long time now. For over ten years, I have not featured in your wedding, if not the one I wedded in My parlour. And that is Chidi Agbom. True or false?
Those I wedded at Owerri are very fortunate, for I was carrying death in My body. But necessity was laid on Me to be there. Since then, I ceased from public appearance.
My microphones are at home. You know where I keep them.
So, all of you that are here already, you are all blessed. I say, you are all blessed. Yes now!
Blessed are those that were counted worthy to be invited to the marriage supper. Whether it be of the Lamb or lion or goat or sheep, marriage supper is marriage supper.

I AM HE

I know what you want Me to say, but why am I going to say it? Did Jesus Christ marry? Does he know anything about marriage. He does not know what it takes to take care of a woman 24hours of the day. Was there any day He lost a baby? Did He take his wife to hospital or to ante-natal? Did He bury his dead child? He does not know the pain.
He was a young man. In His youth, He featured. In His youth, He gave way and promised to be back in another way to continue with the hard pill of life.
Just like when I talk to you and you say Paul. Who is Paul? Paul had no experience. A bachelor! So when we gather together, we talk to ourselves.
Of course, you know Me. But there is one thing you do not know. You know, I speak great blasphemies against many religions. Blasphemy in the sense that it does not sink down well with many of them.
If you take Jesus as your saviour; Jesus as your master, I more.
[At this juncture, the LORD expresses disappointment in the technical hitches experienced with the microphone]
I will break this microphone. One thing is to invite Me. I need My microphones or anyone that is better than this, and which is multidirectional. Even the blind Ministers, do you not know that I do not feature anywhere without my own microphones. Why try My patience?
You invited Me. I am not here because My daughter is wedding. Otherwise, I would have stayed at home. I never featured in her traditional wedding. I sent My son and others.
But I have My reason why I honoured this invitation. It is a necessity. Why? Too many that lost hope of My survival will be privileged to see My face, hear Me speak, see Me move about, handle Me with their hands and know that I am flesh and blood and not a mere story.
This is so that when you get home, you will tell others that you were privileged to embrace Me, to hear from Me and to touch My flesh. That is why I am here. Otherwise, I will stay at My home and then be monitoring the whole thing.
No matter how close it is to My house, I made it so, just to enable Me feature. So if you are privileged to be here today, it is a blessing.
I will transgress your beliefs if you are foreigners to Me. But if you are not foreigners and you are not strangers, you are at home with the truth, you must go home happy.
If you hear anything that runs contrary to your belief, simply note it down. Meet Me when I come down or take the corresponding Scripture, for if it is not scriptural, it is not truth.
But still, if I say Scriptures, your mind will go to your Bible. Your Bible contains just figments of truth. In short, your Bible is empty. Your Bible is as empty as empty can be. And what you are looking for is not found in your Bible.
And the Bible told you clearly, “Give way. What you are looking for, for which cause people are carrying it and turning it over and over is not there.” Do you doubt Me? Do not doubt Me.
If you know you carry the Bible, for any other reason than for eternal life, show by raising your hand. If you know you go to church, you answer a Christian, you belong to this and that, I do not care about your denomination, but you believe in the Bible; if you know the reason why you are carrying the Bible, sleeping with it, turning it over and over and over, if you know the reason is not eternal life, please, show by raising your hand. No hand, except My own.
Okay. You believe the Scriptures; I believe the Scriptures. And the Scriptures testify about Me. You believe the LORD Jesus Christ; I believe more than you. Scriptures testify about Him that He is the Word made flesh and dwells among men. The Word was made flesh, and He dwells among us. God becoming a Son [a man-child] for our sake.
References: [1] THE FRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE by Rutherford Platt; Chapter 14 [The Earliest Prophesy of the Coming of Christ] verse 3 through 5. ³Again said God to Adam, “All this misery that you have been made to take on yourself because of your transgression, will not free you from the hand of Satan, and will not save you. ⁴But I will. When I shall come down from heaven, and shall become flesh of your descendants, and take on Myself the infirmity from which you suffer, then the darkness that covered you in this cave shall cover Me in the grave, when I am in the flesh of your descendants. ⁵And I, who am without years, shall be subject to the reckoning of years, of times, of months, and of days, and I shall be reckoned as one of the sons of men, in order to save you.”
[2] 2 Timothy 2:8. ^[8]Don’t ever forget the wonderful fact that Jesus Christ was a man, born into King David’s family; and that He was God, as shown by the fact that he rose again from the dead. LB
Mary delivered a son and became the mother of God. Who could be that God? They say, “Hail Mary”, and end up calling her “Mother of God” and also say, “pray for us now and at the hour of our death.” Who could be that God that had Mary as the mother?
I mean, we are here to celebrate. We cannot celebrate without knowing where we are standing. Do you have any copy of your Bible? I want to quote a prominent Scripture that is not at least, misread, misunderstood and misinterpreted. I said misread, misunderstood and misinterpreted.
John 5:39 in all translations. When you read, mention the translation of the Bible. I told you, “Come with all the translations.” If they do not convey the direct meaning, they have something nearest to the meaning. I do not want to use My Word.
Begin with the King James version. That is the oldest you are having. But if you can read Latin and interpret Latin, you take My own Codex vaticanus, and then Latin students here can interpret it. They mean the same thing.
Alternatively, you can take My Holy Qur’an and go to Surah 9 from verse 22 and you will get it there, “Jesus, son of Mary said. Jesus the son of Mary said”.
References: [1] The Holy Qur’an—Surah 9:31. “They take their rabbis and their monks for their lords apart from Allah, and also the Messiah, son of Mary, whereas they were commanded to worship none but the One True God. There is no god but He. Exalted be He above those whom they associate with Him in His Divinity.” Tafheem ul Qur’an.
³¹They (Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allah (by obeying them in things which they made lawful or unlawful according to their own desires without being ordered by Allah), and (they also took as their Lord) Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), while they (Jews and Christians) were commanded [in the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)) to worship none but One Ilâh (Allah — God) Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He). Praise and glory be to Him, (far above is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him).” Hilali-Khan Translation.
And the same Jesus will come back to Judge the entire world—both Christians, Muslims and the rest of all mankind, and then unlock the Gate of Paradise, let in first, the first man and the first woman [Adam and Eve], who before now, are still in the Cave of Treasures.
[3] Sahih Bukhari, Kitab Bad’ul Khalq, Bab Nazooli Isa Bin Maryam. And I swear by the Lord who holds my life in His hands that the son of Mary shall surely appear among you as just arbiter and shall break the cross, annihilate the swine and abolish Jazia.
[4] Sahih Bukhari, Kitabul Anbiya. What will be your condition when the son of Mary will descend among you and he will be your Imam from among yourselves?
[5] Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, Vol. 2, p. 411. Whosoever lives from among you shall meet Isa, son of Mary who is IMAM, MAHDI, ARBITER and JUDGE.
[6] Imam Nawawi, Commentary on Sahih Muslim. The Prophet Jesus (as), son of Mary, will definitely descend as a just judge and a just ruler.
[7] Sunan Ibn Majah. The Judgment Day will not take place until the Prophet Jesus (as), son of Mary, comes as a fair ruler and a just imam.
[8] Sahih Bukhari. By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, the son of Mary (the Prophet Jesus [as]) will shortly descend among you people as a just ruler.
[9] Tafsir Araisul Bayan, Vol. 1, p. 262. Before pondering over these traditions of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, regarding the advent of the Messiah and Mahdi, it must be kept in view that the Holy Quran as well as the traditions of the Holy Prophet are unanimous in their verdict that Jesus, son of Mary, has died his natural death. Further, the Holy Quran and the traditions of the Holy Prophet both are in unison that the dead never return to life in this transitory world of ours. Hence when it is narrated in the traditions that Jesus son of Mary will come, it should not be taken literally but rather to be understood in the metaphorical sense as has been interpreted by a scholar of great repute and regenerator of his century, Mohyyud Din Ibn Arabi, when he says: “His descent in later ages will be with a DIFFERENT body.”
John 5:39-40, King James version. Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life:… note the clause. Search the Scripture for in them you think. Underline that clause, “You think”.
Deeper Life will just try to win everybody by telling them, “Search the Scriptures. In it, you have eternal life.” It is not written anywhere.
Search the Scriptures because in it, you think. You are thinking from the content. It is just your own thoughts and imaginations. It is not what is contained therein.
Your thoughts are not God’s thoughts. Neither your ways, His ways. So be sure you do not mislead anybody.
Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life:.. You think that in the Scriptures, you have eternal life. This is your own opinion. Your thinking.
…and they are they which testify of me. … Those Scriptures testify of the LORD Jesus Christ. … ⁴⁰And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. And you refuse to come to Me, that you may have that eternal life. Where is eternal life found? [The Brethren chorused unanimously, “In a man”.]
Joh 5:39-40, Amplified version. ³⁹You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. … You suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them.
… And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me! ⁴⁰And still you are not willing [but refuse] to come to Me, so that you might have life.
Have you heard it? Who is holding eternal life? The Bible or the Man Who they refused to go to?
Living Bible translation. ^[39]“You search the Scriptures, for you believe they give you eternal life. And the Scriptures point to Me! ^[40]Yet you won’t come to Me so that I can give you this life eternal!
You refuse to come to Me so that I can give you this eternal life, for which cause you are turning over the Scriptures, sleeping with it under your pillow. Some even deify the Bible. The Bible has become a deity to some.
Hence, they can present it as an oath material like the heathens, “Are you a Christian, Muslim or a pagan?” If you say Christian, they will tell you, “Take the Bible.” Muslim, “Take the Qur’an.” Pagan, “Machete or gun or hoe. Now, swear.” This is because there is no power in it. There is no power in it.
New International Version of the Bible. ³⁹You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. You think that in studying them, you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, ⁴⁰yet you refuse to come to me to have life. Any contradiction so far?
The Message Bible. ^[39-40]“You have your heads in your Bibles constantly… You do what? I love that translation. You have your head in the Bible constantly to the extent that you inscribe it and paste it on the door of your houses, “Have you read your Bible today?”
You have your heads in your Bible constantly, 6-to-6, sweating it out because you are desirous of eternal life.
To those that do not know Me, if you do not know what to call Me, call Me the devil no human being can avoid. THE UNAVOIDABLE DEVIL. But when I come down, you will be My judge.
“You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you’ll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. If you are looking for trees, where do you go to. I love that translation.
These Scriptures are all about Me! The individual! One Man! And here I am,… Introducing Himself. …standing right before you,… I love this translation. …and you aren’t willing to receive from me the life you say you want. And you are not willing to receive from Me the life you say you are looking for.
God entrusted the totality of His creation into the hands of one Man and gave Him authority over all flesh, even to give eternal life to whosoever He willeth. So, it is not of him that strives, that runneth or wills, but of Him that showeth mercy. You contribute absolutely nothing.
He said to Moses, “Anybody I want to destroy, I will destroy. And Anybody I want to save, I will save. Who are you to query Me?”
We are here to celebrate something because God has counted us worthy, adopting us into that LITTLE, SUPREME, DESPISED Family that cannot be seen anywhere, but is hidden somewhere.
Let me respond to this invitation. Within 30 minutes, you will smile. I am here to put smiles on your faces.
SONG: [When you come to THE SON OF MAN, you will go home with joy and happiness.]
I am not here to thrill you with songs. No! What I have come is for somebody to help Me and give Me one source of that Amplified. One source. One unit. I do not need any interpreter. I was born and brought up in Igbo land. So, I can igbonize everything.
If you like, you shake your head. If you like, do not shake your head. But in the end, you must shake it anyhow.
You know, I have seen some faces that know Me, but not by this they are seeing. But they have been nursing it within themselves, “This Man Who is living an isolated life in this bush must be hiding something or must be a Man extraordinary.
This Man the entire world is clustering around and following, yet he hides Himself in solitary places must be, let Me say it, “A Sage”. He must be a Sage.
Now, I want you to go to the same Bible you believe and read there.
I know many have come to see how this wedding will go. It will not go in any other way than the usual way.
Chiamaka! I do not like your face. You are not smiling and you are not weeping. My friend, remove your eyeglass. Eyeglass is only good when a woman wants to dupe the husband. O man, remove your own also. I want us to be seeing our faces. Lies are better told in English language. Okay.
As you look at me, you also look at my daughter. And you O daughter, also look at him with the corner of your eyes.
You came from Nsukka and then sat down here. And the lot has fallen on Me today to do as I have been doing to others. So today is your turn. After you, IT remains two. Then, I will go home.
I would not waste time in wedding them so that everybody will go. Let us stand up as we honour the Word of God.

I am your Saviour. I am here to tell you things you do to get eternal life. Without Me, there is no salvation. Without Me, there is no eternal life. Believe it if you can…….

THE SON OF MAN

BUILDING PLAN: GOD’S PLAN TO ESTABLISH HIS CHURCH; Preached on Sunday 26^th September, 1993 at Abagana; Pg. 3

YOUR WAYS ARE NOT MY WAYS, SAITH THE LORD

PRAYER

Our Redeemer and our righteous Living Father. You are the Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the Ending. You made this day, even before the world began for Your children to celebrate it with joy. There is no accidental occurrence before You.
You ordained that today, our Brother Clifford will go home with a blessing of a wife from Your Holy Presence. We are here as witnesses and partakers.
We pray Thee that Your Glory will envelope all of us, and that Your blessings will follow everyone of us, now and even forever. Create no room for the devil to tempt our hearts away. Cause the entrance of Your Word into our hearts to renew our spiritual strength and then remove the blindness and ignorance that have been with us and that followed us even down here today, by illuminating our eyes of understanding to recognize this new and Living Way which you have made for us by which we will be reconciled and restored [Father] into the Garden of Eden which is Paradise that eluded all mankind from the day Adam and Even were chased out of it.
We are in the year 7,000. The promised year. May we never give our lives to eating and drinking and making merriment, forgetting the hour we are in or forgetting O God that we have spent the previous years doing all those things, but now calls for sober reflection.
Help us to reflect on the past, meditate on the present and then see the future closer than we think.
Bless every soul that will hear My Voice here today, for Your Name’s sake, I pray. Amen.
Be seated everybody. Please, I am appealing to all and sundry to bear with Me in My foolishness. I say what I mean, and I mean what I say.
I never knew I could be the officiating Minister in this wedding, being the Chief Host, but nevertheless, I have accepted it anyhow.
This is the first outing I am making this day since September 23, 2021. Of course, you know the reasons. I am just trying to pick the relics and then see whether I can knit something together that will look like a semblance of My old self.
I was torn to shreds. Of course, you knew all. This was simply because I could not resist the Voice. I had no choice than to say, “May Your perfect will be done”, though it was very painful and very agonizing.
Up till this day, I am still been haunted about by the nostalgia of that experience of 10^th December, 2021 while I was watching My glory, My strength, the love of My heart, I mean the desire of My eyes closing her eyes in death before Me, and I was to travel back home alone. It was horrifying, which nobody could wish to befall his greatest enemy.
Well, with the little strength I have gathered, let Me see whether it can carry Me through this wedding today.
Let Me have a season to rejoice in part, for I know what today could have been like if while standing here, I could see the face of Nzubechi.
I know what today could have been. And I know all we put together concerning our daughter. But God helping us, we will fulfill all so that her spirit will remain joyful like her name, JOY NZUBECHI.
So, I am trying to adjust Myself. I do not want the sorrows of the past to deny Me the joy of the present. After all, since then, heads have been rolling.
Turn with Me to your Bible, for that is what I will use. You are Christians and that is why I am going to use the Bible.
If you are of the Grail Message, of course you know that I will use the lectures of your master, Abdruschin to lecture you.
If you belong to Hare Krishna or Eckankar, fine! Then, I would have been at home with almost everybody.
You know, we are living in a world that is full of fantasies. Anything human beings cannot comprehend, they call it devil. But that devil may turn out to be the devil we need to survive. So, do not call anything God or devil until I come down.
I am not going to read new Scriptures, but this wedding will take a new shape. Do not preempt anything. Do not hold on to the topic, but hold on to the contents, for people are bound to hold the topic. And if the topic does not sink well with them, they will kiss the contents.
You remember when I handled a teaching, THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD [Preached on 2^nd March 1996]. A professor at University of Nigeria Nsukka picked it and asked, “My dear, how can God be foolish?”
I said, “What? Do you believe your Bible let Me show you that God accepted that he is foolish?” I read Scriptures with him and then, he marveled but said, “Remove the topic. Write another thing.”
I said, “No no no! This is what I am led to put down on this Book—THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD.” God in His foolishness is wiser than the wisest being. Is it not scriptural?
Has He not chosen the foolish things of the world to humiliate [I mean] the wise, the scholars and the great debaters of this world’s affairs? God has used the foolish things of the world to set all of them at naught.
Saint Paul told them [the Jews], “This way you call the way of foolishness and the way of heresy, this is the way we worship our God.”
The things of God sound foolish and unreasonable to one that is on His way to destruction. The simplicity of God has always made God’s plan for salvation to fly over the heads of many. Many think that God could be a colossus. Do not worry.
References: [1] 1 Corinthians 1:20-21. AMP. ²⁰Where is the wise man (the philosopher)? Where is the scribe (the scholar)? Where is the investigator (the logician, the debater) of this present time and age? Has not God shown up the nonsense and the folly of this world’s wisdom? ²¹For when the world with all its earthly wisdom failed to perceive and recognize and know God by means of its own philosophy, God in His wisdom was pleased through the foolishness of preaching [salvation, procured by Christ and to be had through Him], to save those who believed (who clung to and trusted in and relied on Him). AMP
[2] 1 Corinthians 1:25-29. ^[25]This so-called “foolish” plan of God is far wiser than the wisest plan of the wisest man, and God in his weakness—Christ dying on the cross—is far stronger than any man. ^[26]Notice among yourselves, dear brothers, that few of you who follow Christ have big names or power or wealth. ^[27]Instead, God has deliberately chosen to use ideas the world considers foolish and of little worth in order to shame those people considered by the world as wise and great. ^[28]He has chosen a plan despised by the world, counted as nothing at all, and used it to bring down to nothing those the world considers great, ^[29]so that no one anywhere can ever brag in the presence of God. LB
Is God not foolish by dwelling in the Prophet and telling him to go naked for three years? A married man with children? He ran round the city for three years, naked and proclaiming “Thus Saith the LORD” whether they will believe it or not. He commanded Isaiah to do it.
Reference: Isaiah 20:2-3. ²the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off all your clothes, including your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot. ³Then the Lord said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia. NLT
He commanded Jeremiah to feed from animal dungs publicly and at the same time proclaim, “Thus Saith the LORD”.
Reference: Ezekiel 4:9-15. ^[9]“During the first 390 days eat bread made of flour mixed from wheat, barley, beans, lentils, and spelt. Mix the various kinds of flour together in a jar. ^[10]You are to ration this out to yourself at the rate of eight ounces at a time, one meal a day. ^[11]And use one quart of water a day; don’t use more than that. ^[12]Each day take flour from the barrel and prepare it as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire, using dried human dung as fuel, and eat it. ^[13]For the Lord declares, Israel shall eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I exile them!
^[14]Then I said, “O Lord God, must I be defiled by using dung? For I have never been defiled before in all my life. From the time I was a child until now l never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that l found injured or dead; and l never eaten any kinds of animals our law forbids.’ ^[15]Then the lord said, ‘All right, you may use cow dung instead of human dung.’ LB
What can you say if you were there in the days of the LORD Jesus Christ and you met Him along the seashore roasting fish, eating bread and beckoning on you to come and eat? Would you not call Him a hungry man? Holding the Bible and missing God.

⁴I may relax some measures in some areas of life but not in marital life, for that is where life took off. ⁵It has become clear to Me that I should help you to know the basic truth that informs marriage and Allworth not that is associated with marriage. ⁶One thing is to desire to marry, another thing is to have the capacity. Remember I gave you the three Cs and one I: Capacity, Capability, Credibility and Intelligence. If I want to speak on capacity, we will not go today. ⁷The reason why we are having problems in marriage in many families is because marriage was entered into without considering these basic four necessary ingredients.

THE SON OF MAN

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD; Preached on Sunday 20^th January 2019 at GTC Onitsha; Pg. 48 vs. 4-7

Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life

Let Me wed My daughter and have My rest. I think I will rest today.

We want to go to the land of truth. I know the topic will stumble you, but bear with Me. Who will help Me to read? Follow Me as we go to the Book of Matthew chapter 19. They are popular Scriptures. Extensive reading may not be here today. It is equally contained in the Book of Saint Luke, but I want to use that of Matthew.
Matthew 19:10-12 only. Why not start from the King James version, lest somebody will think that I am the author or translator or printer or marketer of that version. Thank God you have your android handsets where you can download the various versions of the holy Bible as Christians.
I never printed any. And I do not intend to print. I do not even have the capacity to do that. So, I am using the ones that are generally accepted by the entire world.
If you have Roman Catholic edition, read. Are you hearing Me? New world translations of the holy Scriptures by Jehovah’s witnesses, read. Whether Russel or Rutherford, they were Bible students before they became Jehovah’s witnesses.
So, I do not abhor any, for there are some portions of the truth in all of them.
¹⁰His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. ¹¹But He said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying,…
Take note! All human beings, all men, all women, all creatures cannot receive this teaching. In other words, this is truth that is not meant for everybody. It is truth for only concerned people. If it does not concern you, shake it off, but it remains there.
If you say like the Yoruba people in their popular local dialect, “It does not concern me”, shake it off. If it does not concern you, one day, it will concern you.
¹¹But He said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, [Take note!] which were so born from their mother’s womb:… There are some who were born eunuchs from their mother’s womb.
You know who a eunuch is? We have too many, who came here on earth without even having signs of testicles. We have some women [I have addressed too many because of My position] who are not women and they are not men. Enugu! True or false? Thank you!
They are not women. They are not men. There are lots of men, gorgeously dressed, and who are not men and they are not women. And these are the people I call, “Angels here on earth” in that regard. We will know the truth further.
Besides that, remember this is nature. Nature made it so. They never for one day desired to be impotent, but they were naturally born impotent. They were born sterile, both man and woman.
There is no amount of pathological investigation, morphological changes that can change the record. We call it a physiological defect which has no medicament.
And if you invite God into what God had already ordained, He will turn His back against you. You begin to wonder, “What is wrong with God.” Nothing is wrong. It is in your own plan of salvation. Only be patient.
There are some that are born eunuchs.
For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men:
There are some eunuchs who were made eunuchs by their fellow human beings. Do you believe that to be true? Cases abound where wicked people abduct men and women, castrate them—take away their reproductive organs, thereby rendering them sterile or impotent. Their fellow human being did it.
There are some that are as a result of accident of life. This accident of life ranges from physical accidents to chemical accidents, for there are certain drugs somebody can take and in the next 15 minutes, his testicles will shrink.
If she is a woman, automatically, she becomes barren for life. If he is a man, he becomes impotent for life.
That is why we warn, “Never you indulge in self-medication”. Seek medical advice from the right sources. Do not claim you are a repository of all knowledge. Your knowledge is limited.
So, I am saying that there are some who are eunuchs—sterile and impotent—courtesy of fellow human being’s maltreatment and punishment. There are some which are as a result of accident of life which can occur in diverse forms.
There certain sicknesses that can befall an individual and the resultant effect will be impotence. They are everywhere today.
A woman who had a problem and the uterus is removed, do you expect any conception again? No way! We can open blocked fallopian tubes through prayers and certain medications, but to replace the womb is not easy. What are you going to use?
Remember, we are talking about three categories of people that are here today. You may belong to one. I may belong to one.
No matter where you belong to, glorify God in that estate. YOU ARE FAVOURED, FOR GOD CANNOT INFLICT PUNISHMENT ON YOU.
EVEN IF IT IS CAUSED BY YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, IT HAPPENED BECAUSE GOD PERMITTED IT. IF GOD NEVER PERMITTED IT, HE KNOWS HOW TO AVERT IT.
AND IF YOU GO ON YOUR KNEES AND CALL UPON HIM, HE MUST CHANGE YOUR RECORDS. Amen.
… and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. …
There are some also, that have decided to make themselves eunuchs for God’s sake, for they want to be partakers of heaven. They do not want to entangle themselves with men or with women. There, we see celibacy. Celibacy as a personal decision, not as a doctrine.
Remember, I was a seminarian. In the articles of faith of the Roman Catholic church, it is documented there in the canon law that celibacy is not an article of faith in the Roman Catholic church, but an order—a proclamation—by a particular pope in a particular year as a result of prevailing circumstances around the priesthood, for they were few in number as at that time.
One reverend father could oversee up to 20 Parishes. So, if he is invited on a sick call, being a married man with children, to respond to that secular duty will be very difficult. By the time he will get there, the person is gone.
The case was too rampant in Europe—from Constantinople and France. A meeting was held and orders issued from saint Peter’s basilica that the priesthood should henceforth desist from entangling themselves with marital life, but Bartholomew said no!
That is why we have the orthodox Catholic priests that marry and have children, while the non-orthodox Roman Catholic priests practice the imposed celibacy.
But it does not stop them from meeting women. If you say you do not want to marry, desist henceforth from eating the food prepared by a woman. They tell you that they practice celibacy, but you still have many women and ladies clustering around you?
That is nature. Anything that is opposed to nature is opposed to God. Do you believe that to be true? This is the law of diametrical opposition. Once there is a man, there must be a woman. Once there is light, there must be darkness. Once there is God, a devil is there. You cannot avoid it.
So, do not regulate anybody outside nature. Of course, you know you cannot succeed.
There are some who were born naturally as eunuchs. There are some who their fellow human beings made eunuchs. Others decided to as a personal principle—a decision they took for themselves as the best way they think they can handle their bodies and get eternal life. But does it give eternal life?
Colossians Chapter 3 said, “These are rigours of the flesh that do not check the indulgence, but instead, it promotes it.”
… and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
He that is able to believe this, let him believe.
Give Me that Message Bible because I cannot over-flog the Bible reading. When you get home, use your android handset if you cannot have copies, download the various translations and crosscheck.
Behave like the Bereans [the inhabitants of the city of Berea, known today as Veria in northern Greece]. When they received the Message from Apostle Paul, they went home and searched the Scriptures to ascertain the veracity of the information they received. No sensible human being will gamble with his eternal destiny.
Matthew 19:10-12, The Message Bible. ¹⁰Jesus’ disciples objected,… Jesus’ disciples did what? Raised objection, “Master! Objection! We disagree! If the case of a man is like this, then a man should not be making the mistake of thinking of yoking himself with a woman all in the name of marriage.”
AN EARTHLY ARRANGEMENT THAT HAS NO ETERNAL VALUE. YET, MANY ARE DYING FOR IT.
¹⁰Jesus’ disciples objected, “If those are the terms of marriage, we’re stuck. Why get married?” ^11-12But Jesus said, “Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. … What? Who said?
Jesus said, “Not everyone—man or woman—is mature enough to live a married life.” Are you with Me? Not everybody!
I know you are beginning to see My topic between the lines, for I have asked you, “Why inviting Me again?” I have been lying fallow for some years now, and I have appreciated it.
A time came when the LORD Jesus reclined in the upper room for three good years, only for those who belonged to the upper room—men and women—to be coming there. This is as documented in the Gospel according to saint Luke Chapter 8. True or false?
Reference: Luke 8:19-21. ^[19]Once when his mother and brothers came to see him, they couldn’t get into the house where he was teaching because of the crowds. ^[20]When Jesus heard they were standing outside and wanted to see him, ^[21]he remarked, “My mother and my brothers are all those who hear the message of God and obey it.”” LB
Saint Paul reclined in the upper room; in his own rented apartment. From there, he received all that were coming for enquiry, for prayers and for guidance.
Reference: Acts 28:30-31. ^[30]Paul lived for the next two years in his rented house and welcomed all who visited him, ^[31]telling them with all boldness about the Kingdom of God and about the Lord Jesus Christ; and no one tried to stop him. LB
But I am yet to observe that. I only announced My leave for which I applied and the reply was negative. If I commit suicide, will anybody blame Me after serving for more than 67 years without going on leave for one day and no rest? I am not complaining, but I am agitating.
^11-12But Jesus said, “Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. … Is it clear? Not everyone is qualified to even mention marriage talk less of dabbling into it.
The deepest ocean that has drowned many and still looks as if nothing happened. Many have drowned in the ocean of marriage, both man and woman.
Why are all of you gazing at My face? I know you have not seen Me in this line before. This one is strange. I am going the way I am led. Bear with Me in My foolishness. Thank you!
^11-12But Jesus said,… Did it say, “Apostle Peter said”? or Paul said? But the LORD Jesus Christ Himself said, “Not everyone is qualified, mature to be a husband of a woman.”
Even women know this to be truth. The experiences they are having with men and the experiences men are having with women prove that not all are mature to handle this all-important issue—all-important hydra-headed evil. Yes! You say, Brother? I am saying evil. Yes!
I was a mass server in the early 60s before the civil war. Do not look at My stature. My small stature has completely over-masked the age.
I was a mass server when the parish priest in those days organized mass wedding. And the women folk used it to initiate their fellow women into the Catholic women organization.
A native doctor in My community and a polygamist also volunteered because they were pestering him. They said that he must wed the first wife to enable the first wife to receive communion and then join the CWO.
The man said that if that is the only demand, that he will volunteer to take the wife to the altar so that the trouble will be over.
On that day, the man came with the first wife. The remaining three were at home. And all of them had children.
See the irony of it all. The second and the third had their children as seminarians at saint Peter Claver’s seminary Okpuala, preparing to be priests. Rejecting the devil but still eating at the table of the devil. You will be served by the product of the devil whom you claim to have rejected. May God help us.
So, what happened? On that glorious day, the young dressed very well in his soutane, approached the native doctor and said, “Sir, we welcome you to our church at least for today.”
The native doctor said, “No! I was baptized in 1936 at saint Patrick’s Catholic church Okpuala when you were not born. I have been a Catholic. I have never been to any other church, but I am a native doctor. So do not tell me that. I have been going ever before you were born.”
The priest then said, “Sir, have you denounced the devil and his works?” the young man was asking a silly question.
The man looked at him and asked, “How old are you? You are not up to 30. Do you know what the devil is? Can you identify the works of the devil? Is that why you invited Me? You told Me to come and wed my wife. Did you tell me to denounce the devil? So I will destroy my shrine? Who will give me money? Of course, I can understand you. I have not denounced the devil my son, and I am not ready to denounce the devil and his works.”
The priest said, “Baba, how now?”
The native doctor hushed him and then asked, “Are you married? You are not married and you can never marry, but you love women more than me. You love children more than me. See the devil [pointing to his wife]. I brought the devil here. My wife here is the devil, and her children, the works of the devil. I love her and I love my children. And I am not complaining. I will live with this devil I know and love.”
So, we were all astonished. The young man—the reverend father—looked at him. He thought the man was playing. He pulled his walking stick and left us and said that we were kidding, “How can a man denounce the devil when he is married? How can a man avoid the works of the devil when he has children? Is there anything that can provoke a man more than his wife and the children? You have never seen anything.” He was shouting as he was going.
AND IF YOU HAVE NOT TASTED THE DEVIL, IT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT TASTED MARRIAGE. FORGET ABOUT OUR OUTWARD APPEARANCES, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE APPEAR IN THE PUBLIC.
THERE IS NO MAN OR WOMAN THAT DOES NOT KNOW The atmosphere prevalent in his or her family? Who do you think is a kid?
You have incurred trouble by inviting Me, reminding Me of the experiences of the past and then helping Me to judge you rightly, for you were with Me.
You saw Me living with that same woman who is adjudged to be a devil. And I was able to make her a Saint before your eyes. You all celebrated her. Globally, she remained celebrated.
It is to help you to see the beauty that is in that marriage that brought Me to fore, showcased My wife before the whole world and then I asked a question, “Who can accuse her of unbelief? Who can accuse Me in the whole world?” I stand as the Icon. I converted the devil to be a Saint.
Among the Igbos, the witness of a man’s wife as a support to her husband’s claims or testament is regarded as false. But on the other hand, it is acceptable for the community can bear witness to the man’s testament.
We never lived in the sky. We lived here on earth. We went places. We showcased our family. Up till today, I am still showcasing. And that is why you are clustering around Me.
I AM A FATHER OF ALL FATHERS. SHE WAS AND IS, AND WILL REMAIN THE MOTHER OF ALL MOTHERS.
Where is My neighbour? For the few years you sojourned with her, you have your own testimonies. When she gave way, what has never happened in My estate happened, and is still happening.
I am not saying that because the world celebrated her, that is why. No! Of course, you know, her departure was pre-planned, agreed and attested to, although it was very painful.
Who has ever heard such a Voice in our day? The Man heard the Voice, and His wife heard the Voice several times. When the years approached, He came and sounded the alarm. She heard it. I heard it. We were told to be ready.
You heard it, when I told you, “There is something that is draining the whole water in My life. I know I have a problem money cannot solve. And prayer cannot solve it. Who will help Me out? Look at the Voice I heard. And I know that He cannot change it.”
I went into prayers and supplications. And I made matters worse. I placed My life on the line in exchange for hers. He said, “Why? No!” you all know all these things.
On that glorious day, 29^th August 2021, which was the first day of the week, at about 9.30am, He appeared and then, took her away.

¹⁰Let me tell you, marriage is grossly abused among the academia more than the illiterates. Yes or no? Marriage is grossly abused by the academia. They call themselves the intelligentsia, but they are not intelligent. Any intelligence that cannot make you to be godly is from the devil. ¹¹Capacity, capability, credibility, intelligence have nothing to do with your academic attainment. the greatest number of divorce cases can be traced to the academia. ¹²The greatest number of polygamists are found among the academia. Prominent among them are the so-called learned men and learned women. ¹³I do not want to speak there, but let Me go straight to what I have. In a nut shell, the most expensive partner, the most expensive thing money can fetch for a man is a wife. A wife that is undervalued must be underrated.

THE SON OF MAN

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE WORD OF GOD; Preached on Sunday 20^th January 2019 at GTC Onitsha; Pg. 49 vs 10-13

MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY [1]

I am talking about this all-important issue for which cause we are here. I am not going to be too explicit, but I want to be direct.

The LORD Jesus was confronted by His disciples on this all-important issue bordering on marriage. If the case of man is such that once married, always married; no divorce, then it is not proper that a man should think of having a woman called his wife.
He [Jesus] said, “Well, Believe it if you can. This is a very serious matter. MARRIAGE IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY.”
So please, put it in your jotter and at the back of your mind that THE SON OF MAN is talking to you today on the topic: MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY.
Is it an obligation? Yes! Is it for everybody? No! So, you have the right to decide whether to go into it or not. But you must weigh your pros and cons before you ever put your assent to anything marriage, for it is a delicate thing no human being should experiment or test.
Our inability to follow God’s approved plan in making a choice of a wife has resulted to too many sorrows and pains. Husbands are complaining. Wives are complaining. Children born to such families are equally complaining. Why? Truth was not established before the agreement to stay together was reached.
I want to stress this truth today that no matter the way you look at it, it is your right to decide to marry. It is your right to say no to marriage. Nobody will deny you of that, provided you have very godly reasons.
I did not say goodly. It can be good in your sight, but not godly, for every way that seemeth right in the eyes of a man, the end thereof has always been disastrous.
Follow God’s way—God’s approved plan—and it shall be well with you in the end. And I will show you that God’s approved plan.
Marriage is not meant for everybody, but if you have decided to marry, be sure you want to. Do not allow somebody to coerce you into it. Do not allow anything circumstance or situation you find yourself to push you into it.
^11-12But Jesus said, “Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. … It requires what? A certain attitude, and also grace. … Marriage isn’t for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you’re capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it.”
What if you are incapable? What is the cause of broken families? [1] Incapableness of both parties. [2] Immaturity of both parties. [3] Lack of understanding of what marriage entails.
Marriage goes beyond “I love you. I love you.” It goes beyond leading a woman to the altar. It goes beyond raising children. It goes beyond walking along the streets, holding your hands.
You see why, when I was told that I would be your officiating Minister, I considered My daughters faith and the husband’s faith and asked them the question, “Have you forgotten My experience in Lagos few years ago where the metropolitan city was set agog?”
Ministers of God from around Lagos clustered around Me with press men enquiring, “Sir, May we know who you are. Which denomination do you belong to? We are all ministers of the Gospel, but never have we come across one speaking like this. Are you sure Favour is your real biological daughter?”
You were all there. I said, “Yes! She is My biological daughter, but I was not invited as her father. I was invited as the officiating Minister to Lagos. My fare was paid for. I was accommodated. Now after this, I will also feature as the father. And then, I will identify My son in-law. But for now, I am on My duty post to establish a home, and not a family.”
One said, “Brother, what are you saying?” and I replied, “I am on My duty post to establish a home, not a family. A home is not a family. A family is not a home.”
Chiamaka! You and your husband; are you sure this wedding; this wedding…. Okay. Let Me continue.
Do you know that you can have a home and a family? Once you have a home, you must have a family. But you can have a family without having a home. It is like love. You can spend money without loving, but you can never love without spending. True or false?
Pause a little. You spend on somebody you love. You spend on something you love. And often times, you spend without loving; But you cannot love without spending.
Follow Me gradually. I know many that HAVE A family, but they do not have a home. A home offers rest. A home offers peace. True or false?
Have you wondered why a good number of married people spend the greater part of their days outside their families? Some take delight in sleeping in restaurants. I mean, recreational facilities. These are for them. What are they looking for? They are looking for a place where they will have rest and peace.
If the needed rest is offered them in their families, they would have remained there. Who made that family a living hell? A woman!
This is because whatever might be the prevailing atmosphere in every family at any given time is dictated by the wife. If she wants to set the house ablaze, a must. If she wants peace to reign, a must.
And no matter how weak a woman might be, God gave her a talent. She must have the capacity to tame a man to dance to her tune. True or false?
I will tell you something about it. Do not strangle Me for now, but understand this:
If you want to go into marital life, you commit no crime. But first and foremost, pray. First and foremost, pray. Seek the face of God. Seek counsel from time-tested memorials so that you will know exactly the height, the width and the depth of the ocean you want to [I mean] do your swimming.
You must develop strong shock absorbers. Your heart must be strong. Your legs, strong. Your hands, strong. Your brain [Oh no!] will not only be functioning, but will be highly sensitive so that you can discern and monitor any change in attitude of your spouse, for women are very horrible people.
If she says she is very happy, she is sad. Intelligent ones pet husbands most when they are sad, intending to corner the man somewhere, where he will pass sleepless nights talking.
Let Me go back to the Message. Remember My topic. MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY. For not everyone is qualified to go into marital life. And you cannot credit this statement to Me. You credit it to the LORD Jesus Christ who is the author and finisher of our Faith. True or false?
You know, marriage is an experience. Marriage is not a theory. It is not a hypothesis. If I should say, marriage is a law.
Let Me go back to the Message again. We have seen that we are here to celebrate something that is not meant for everybody. And we have been told that for a man or a woman to go into it, they must have the needed mature minds.
You must depict maturity, Brother Clifford, in handling the affairs of marital life. Chiamaka, you must also show maturity and great understanding in handling marital issues. Otherwise, you may set your house ablaze ignorantly.
I will come to that, but when? When-able. Must I finish everything today? If I finish it, would you not marry tomorrow? If you marry, would you not invite Me? I am introducing something I will continue with until somebody will tell Me, “Brother, let me reconsider my stand on marriage.” Amen.
So you know what maturity is. Provocations might be there. Your ability to withstand provocations or enjoy provocations and add beauty to provocations by swallowing it as a sweet fluid is your maturity.
Remember My remedy. I told you why I enjoyed My marital life for 34 years without being provoked or stretching out My hand against My wife or nagging or using caustic remarks on her.
We were operating as equals because the moment a woman obeys her husband, truly speaking, they operate as equals. No more authority. That is the secret. What is another secret?
I personally discovered that it is a wonderful privilege God gave Me by giving Me somebody who will be depending on Me. Somebody I call My own. And then, each time I come back, she will embrace Me. And that becomes My best friend. How can My best friend provoke Me?
So, whatever I see as provocation, I see it as demonstration of love, for by nature, every woman is jealous. True or false? I mean, it is not sin. The name of God is jealous. He said, “I am a jealous God. Thou shalt not have any other god besides Me, lest I consume you in My wrath”. In the Book of Ezekiel, he said, “Call Me jealous. My name is jealous.”
Reference: [1] Ezekiel 39:25. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; KJV
[2] Exodus 34:14. for thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose Name is Jealous, is a jealous God. KJV [Also see Exodus 20:5, Deuteronomy 4:24, 5:9 & 6:15; Joshua 24:19, Nahum 1:2; Zechariah 1:14 & 8:2]
Envy is sin. JealousY is no sin. It is jealousy that builds the wall of protection around every marriage. Any woman who refuses to build the protective walls of jealousy around her family, truly speaking, must reap the whirlwind.
Jealousy helps love to thrive and to grow. Do you believe that? Do you believe that? Sure!
When jealousy rears its head, it shows Me that I am important to My wife. She does not want to lose Me. And then she is of the opinion that she is not the only one that saw Me. There could be some others o. so she will hold Me tightly.
The LORD then sang the chorus of a once popular Nigerian music, “Hold am tight. Hold am tight.” No no no! I am not jesting. I say what I mean.
I used the toad as an example. You know what toad is. It is an amphibious animal [living in water and also on land]. Watch the female toad. The female toad carries the male toad on her back wherever it goes.
Then, you ask the female toad, “Why are you carrying this man on you back?” It says, “Leave me alone, lest somebody’s property will turn to be for another. If you think he is a load, let me bear the burden, for a husband is a burden.”
Husband is a burden, and not everybody can carry it. A woman is not a burden, but a husband is.
In these hard times we are facing, do you know that 95% of families today are sustained by women. Yet, they are quiet. Am I making sense? I do not want to go there. I want to focus on who is adequate to marry.
Follow Me again as we go to the Book of Matthew. I will use the synoptics more than any other. Are you with Me at all? We go to the Book of Matthew again, and see whether there is any word of consolation there.
Gospel according to saint Matthew. I will read Chapter 22 from verse 24 through 30. Living Bible.
^[24]“Sir, Moses said that if a man died without children,… Note it. If a man dies without an issue called a child, …his brother should marry the widow… His brother should do what? … marry the widow… His brother should do what? … marry the widow…
By your tradition, by your custom and by their culture, you can trace your descent. Circumcision in Igbo land; in the southeast in particular, is not a law. Is it a law that the male child should be circumcised on the 8^th day?
So, among the Igbos, it is our custom. It is our tradition. It has become even our culture to circumcise every male child on the 8th day.
Then, globally, is there any nation that has it as their law from their own God? The people of Israel; The Jews.
Remember, some of you who have not been following, I have told you time without number that the word “Igbo” is a mispronunciation of the word HEBREW. I do not want to teach that today again. You have it in book form.
^[24]“Sir, Moses said that if a man died without children, his brother should marry the widow and their children would get all the dead man’s property.
Is it not the custom of the Igbos? Is it not the custom of the Igbos? Okay o!
^[25]Well, we had among us a family of seven brothers. The first of these men married and then died, without children, so his widow became the second brother’s wife.
^[26]This brother also died without children, and the wife was passed to the next brother, and so on until she had been the wife of each of them. ^[27]And then she also died.
^[28]So whose wife will she be in the resurrection? … Underline this question. Who will be the husband in the resurrection? Who will be the authentic husband of this woman? I want you to reason very well as we read the truth.
If you cannot believe the written word, forget about the spoken word which is the original seed.
I am trying to establish your faith on the written word, which you can verify. But by the time I want to talk to you from My Throne, you will know Who I am.
I am trying to correct something I have never unearthed while handling marital Messages among you here during weddings.
These are perplexing questions about marriage. Who will marry me when I get to heaven? When I get to Paradise or Garden of Eden, who becomes my husband? I will answer it from the Scriptures.
^[28]So whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For she was the wife of all seven of them!”
^[29]But Jesus said, “Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures… Your error; your misconception on this all-important matter arises out of your ignorance of the Scriptures.
In other words, they erred not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. If they had known the Scriptures, such questions should not have bothered them one bit.
I know that all these philosophers from Enugu [Coal City], with the way you are looking at Me, it is like you are seeing another son of man. No!
SONG: [Yesterday, today, forever, Christ remaineth the same. All may change but Christ will never. Glory to His Name. Glory to His Name. Glory to His Name. All may change but Christ will never. Glory to His Name.]
^[29]But Jesus said,… Note! Who said? I want you to go home, quoting Jesus. If anyone is talking, let him talk as the oracle of God.
But Who is Jesus? Do you know who He is? If you see Him on the way, will you recognize Him. The highest you can do is to do what Mary did when she got to the graveside, likening the Messiah to be a watchman. But there was something in Him that could not change.
Mary said, “Master, please show us where they laid the corpse that we may perform our rituals. That is why we are here.” Then the Voice was distinct, “Why seeking the living amidst the dead.” Mary heard the Voice and rushed forward and said, “Rabboni!” [Master].
The stature will change. Appearance will change. Everything will change. Colour will change, but the Voice remains the same.
^[29]But Jesus said, “Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures and of God’s power! … Just like your errors in supposing the Bible to contain eternal life or Words of eternal life.
If you do not know why the Bible was documented, I will tell you. It is also in your Bible. If that is not the reason you are carrying it, you are carrying rubbish.
Reference: Romans 15:4. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. KJV
^[29]But Jesus said, “Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures and of God’s power! ^[30]For in the resurrection there is no marriage;…
In the resurrection, there is what? No marriage. Did Jesus Christ resurrect from the dead? Even Moses heard it. The Prophets testified. It is littered in the entire Holy Qur’an.

You know I am part of the Word. The moment I come here, there must be inspiration to tell Me to open it from one Message or the other. Either to cancel it or to support it. I am supporting that God has visited us in human form again. We can now see God walking in the Galilee of the Gentiles. He is no longer walking in Palestine. He is now walking in one of the jungles in Africa. Where do you find Him? Where the prophet said you must go to see Him……

THE SON OF MAN

DAYBREAK IN AFRICA; Preached on Sunday 25^th October 1998 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 69 vs. 10 – 11

GOD IS A MAN

There is no religion that never believes in the resurrection of the dead. When the Sadducees could not believe, the LORD Jesus convinced them using the words of Moses whom they believed.

Then they subscribed to the resurrection of the dead and God’s judgment. These are the two core elements that are common to all religions.
If there be any other thing, it is the second coming of the Great Mahdi, the Avatar, Who will be here on earth in the last days to round off the history of worshipping God.
And it cuts across all religious barriers because in every place; in every nation, whosoever that feareth and honoureth God, the same is made acceptable unto Him.
So, God does not know your religion. He does not know your denomination. Whatever you like call yourself. What matters is how do you worship Him.
The Bible said in the Book of John that Jesus told the Samarian woman, “Where you worship does not count, but how you worship.” Is your worship spiritual? Is it according to truth?
What do we see everywhere? Will worship. Carnal worship. Mechanical worship. People trying to justify themselves in the flesh even when God has said that by the deeds of the flesh has nobody and will nobody ever be justified, for the flesh profiteth nothing. You are going to be justified in the spirit. Even the LORD Jesus was justified in the spirit
References: [1] John 4:23-24. ²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. ²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. KJV
[2] Romans 7:6. ^[6]But now you need no longer worry about the Jewish laws and customs because you “died” while in their captivity, and now you can really serve God; not in the old way, mechanically obeying a set of rules, but in the new way, with all of your hearts and minds. LB
[3] 1 Timothy 3:16. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. KJV
Your flesh is opposed to your spirit. Your spirit is opposed to your flesh. With the flesh, you serve sin, but with the spirit, you serve God. And God is worshipped in spirit and in truth, not in the flesh.
That is why mechanical worship was cancelled long long time ago. And people are still carrying that brazen serpent.
Remember when the brazen serpent was broken far back in 1992 the same way Hezekiah came and asked them, “What are you carrying about?” And they said, “The bones of our father Joseph.”
He said, “No! That is idolatry! Let me have that bag.” He poured the thing on the ground and used a sledgehammer and broke all to pieces and burnt everything. People imposing rigours upon themselves, thinking they are worshipping God. You worship the devil in ignorance.
You must know Who God is. Until the LORD introduces Himself to you, you are doing what I call imaginary worship. But is God imaginary? God is real. Is He visible?
You cannot tell a Jew that God is imaginary. You cannot tell a Jew that God is invisible. The Hindu religion made it clear, “If God wants to hide Himself from human view, He will hide where no man will ever go and look for Him. And that is inside a man.”
References: [1] India’s Gracious Gift to Mankind by Crystaqueous; Chapter 7: The Reality; Page 66, Paragraph 2. The Hindu says: “If God wants to hide, God would choose man to hide in.” That is the last place man would look for God.
[2] BHAGAVAD GITA by Sri Swami Sivananda Chapter 9: The Yoga of the kingly Science & the kingly Secret—Summary of Ninth Discourse, verse 11.¹¹FOOLS DISREGARD ME, CLAD IN HUMAN FORM, NOT KNOWING MY HIGHER BEING AS THE GREAT LORD OF (ALL) BEINGS. COMMENTARY: Fools who do not have discrimination despise Me, dwelling in human form. I have taken this body in order to bless My devotees. These fools have no knowledge of My higher being. I am the Great Lord, the Supreme.
And the Bible said, “God veiled Himself in a man, not counting it robbery.” And went further to say that God’s children were human beings and God also became a human being like them. Is it not Bible?
References: [1] Philippians 2:5-8. ⁵Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: KJV
Saint Paul said, “Jesus Christ was a Man born in King David’s family lineage, and he is also God. And because I preached Him as Almighty God, I am being persecuted, and I am in prison, but the Word of God is not in prison.”
Reference: 2 Timothy 2:8-9. ^[8]Don’t ever forget the wonderful fact that Jesus Christ was a man, born into King David’s family; and that he was God, as shown by the fact that he rose again from the dead. ^[9]It is because I have preached these great truths that I am in trouble here and have been put in jail like a criminal. But the Word of God is not chained, even though I am. LB.
All the prophets of old saw Him, shook His hand, ate and drank with Him and they did not die. Is your own age different? Are we not in the same generation of Jesus Christ? Let Me go back to My Message.
Reference: Exodus 24:9-11. ^[9]Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up into the mountain. ^[10]And they saw the God of Israel; under his feet there seemed to be a pavement of brilliant sapphire stones, as clear as the heavens. ^[11]Yet, even though the elders saw God, he did not destroy them; and they had a meal together before the Lord. LB
Is your own age different? Are we not in the same generation of Jesus Christ? Let Me go back to My Message. Amen.
I am about to wed them o. Do not think I am crazy. When I ignite something, I stimulate something, My aim is to sensitize every soul here. When I sensitize you with the truth, I have one thing in mind. It is that today, you will go home and begin to have a rethink.
To those that are personally and practically acquainted with Me, that have not seen Me in this way, they can now begin to balance their views before making assertions.
THE CLOUD IS HERE.
You do not jump into quick conclusions. Otherwise, you will be like a young man who saw God and called Him devil. But he saw devil and called Him God. The truth is this: He neither knows God nor the devil.
If you see God and call Him devil; and you see devil and call Him God, you do not know God and you do not know devil. But you must know Him.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

It is because people do not speak the truth again, that is why a sacred institution is being messed up. Young boys rush into marriage without counselling. Our Prophet Branham said that it should be entered advisedly. You must be advised by God. The Word of God must tell you when you are up to a standard, you do not go because others are going; you do not marry because your age grade are marrying. That is the foolishness, all hands are not equal. If your age grade are marrying, and you do not have the capacity to marry, wait, otherwise you mess it up. That is why you see many divorces today….

THE SON OF MAN

MARRIAGE – THE OLDEST INSTITUTION ORDAINED BY GOD VOLUME ONE; Preached on 7^th November 1993 at Abagana; Pg. 80 vs. 17 – 20

MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY [2]

Matthew 22:29-30, Living Bible. ^[29]But Jesus said, “Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures and of God’s power! ^[30]For in the resurrection there is no marriage; everyone is as the angels in heaven.

Go to Gospel according to saint Luke Chapter 20 from verse 30 through 35. Living Bible. Be fast. Let me wed them by reading a Scripture which they know I must read.
Luke 20:30-35, Living Bible. ^[30]His brother married the widow and he, too, died. Still no children. ^[31]And so it went, one after the other, until each of the seven had married her and died, leaving no children.
Remember, Luke was an eye witness. He documented the Acts of the Apostles and he also documented the Book of Luke, warning Theophilus to be very careful.
He said, “Inasmuch as many have taken it upon themselves to write accounts pertaining to the beginning and ending of the LORD Jesus as eyewitnesses, some of those accounts were not reliable. I, being one who was there from the very official beginning, want to document from the minutest details. And my aim is to hinder you from following the error of the wicked—to protect you against error.”
Reference: [1] Luke 1:1-4. ¹SINCE [ as is well known] many have undertaken to put in order and draw up a [thorough] narrative of the surely established deeds which have been accomplished and fulfilled in and among us, ²Exactly as they were handed down to us by those who from the [official] beginning [of Jesus’ ministry] were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word [that is, of the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God], ³It seemed good and desirable to me, [and so I have determined] also after having searched out diligently and followed all things closely and traced accurately the course from the highest to the minutest detail from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, ⁴[My purpose is] that you may know the full truth and understand with certainty and security against error the accounts (histories) and doctrines of the faith of which you have been informed and in which you have been orally instructed. AMP
[2] Acts 1:1-2. ¹IN THE former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report] dealing with all the things which Jesus began to do and to teach ²Until the day when He ascended, after He through the Holy Spirit had instructed and commanded the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen. AMP
Luke 20:30-35, Living Bible. ^[30]His brother married the widow and he, too, died. Still no children. ^[31]And so it went, one after the other, until each of the seven had married her and died, leaving no children.^[32]Finally the woman died also.
^[33]Now here is our question: Whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For all of them were married to her!”
^[34-35]Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth,… Note! That is where I want to strike. Jesus did what? He replied. Marriage is for people that are here on earth. It is an earthly arrangement. It has no heavenly undertone or heavenly implication.
That is why I gave you a Message the day I wedded Brother Chimee Nwachukwu, “MAARIAGE: A CONDITION FOR HELL OR HEAVEN.” Make a mistake in marriage, and your hell starts here. Make the right choice in marriage [husband and wife], your heaven begins here.
^[34-35]Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth, but when those who are counted worthy of being raised from the dead get to heaven, they do not marry.
Those who are counted worthy of being raised to heavenly dignity, they do not marry. Neither are they given to marriage. Why dying for an earthly arrangement that is not meant for everybody?
What shall it profit a man or a woman if you marry the most handsome, the wealthiest man, marry the most beautiful and anything you can think of, and at the end of the day, you raise a battalion of children that can be called your own, and at the end you, your wife, your children, all become cannon fodder? What does it profit you?
You see why Saint Paul said, “If you are married, stay in marriage with your wife. If you are not married, I pray, remain as you are, like me Paul, for when a man is married, his whole attention is geared towards pleasing his wife. And the woman’s attention towards pleasing the husband. God is set aside. And then, where is the hope of eternal life?”
Many hold tenaciously to their wives and to their husbands as if that is the source of eternal life, not knowing that it is the easiest ride into bottomless pit, for it is all earthly and must end here. it started here, and it will end here. it imparts no virtue. rather, it destroys virtue.
I hope I am not harsh. Do not be tempted to ask this question, “Why did Brother withhold this thing, and now that the wife is no more, He is coming up with this type of Hard Truth?”
Was there any time I withheld it? Go back to the Messages, [1] MARRIAGE: THE OLDEST INSTITUTION ORDAINED OF GOD; [2] MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. How many volumes? Marriage and divorce, two volumes. Oldest institution, two volumes. Then go to what it takes to marry a wife, [3] DECISION TO MARRY, and many others.
Of all Messages I have so far mentioned, marriage has taken the bulk. At least for now, I can boast of having 78 publications, all dealing on marital issues.
WHEN THE SPARKS FLY, FAMILY MENU Volumes 1 & 2, RECOGNIZING AND ACCEPTING YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, an ideal husband; and ideal wife, and too many like that.
I mean, globally I stand tallest, not only preaching or teaching, but living the life thereof.
Brethren, it is wonderful. Well, My son made a statement last night. My Voice was not friendly to him. He said, “Daddy please, this is the least we can offer to Sister Chiamaka. Sacrificing our lives for Sister Chiamaka is not even enough, but this is the least we can offer. We are not rendering any service to the husband. We are rendering the service to Chiamaka which is our Family. So, our Family is worth dying for.”
I said, “Thank you My dear. Come closer. Carry the other vehicle.” This is because he has convinced Me that his Family is worth dying for. Amen.
And My mood automatically changed for the better, for I had already started shaking My left leg with the intent to collect the whole keys. To God be the Glory.
You see why I told you that while I live, it is for your own gain. As for Me, it is very grievous, for I can no longer enjoy this life. There is no way.
I do not know what you will promise Me now that will make Me to be joyful. But I try as much as I can to make Myself happy. I try. But if I am harsh, bear with Me. If I am hostile, bear with Me. Remember what I was in time past. The friendliest human being on earth, but something tampered with Me. Amen.
^[34-35]Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth, but when those who are counted worthy of being raised from the dead get to heaven, they do not marry. Amen.
When you get home, crosscheck it. Remember, where we read before said, “If you think you are capable; If you have adjudged yourself adequate to go into marital life, go into it. Do not avoid it. Go into it. Be mature in handing marital issues as they arise.” Will they arise? Yes!
Remember the Message I gave you, TESTINGS IN MARITAL LIFE. The worst testing is temporary barrenness. If it lingers for too long, relations from both sides will begin to cast aspersions on the marriage, especially from the husband’s side, “Aaaah! He married a man. We said it!”
People that did not say anything will say that they said it. If it is from the woman’s side, “Aaaah! Are you surprised? She wasted all her eggs running around men. Now, she is looking for her own children.”
Let us learn to be patient. Let us learn to be quiet and allow God to act. No matter the way the test comes, remember that God understands. He knows all things.
You might be eating on the table, but when you venture into marital life, your table will be turned up-side down. You will be tempted to blame it on your new wife. Some will say she came in with bad luck. Many tongues will be wagging that might be too far away from the truth.
It could be by sickness. The woman or the man might be enjoying sound health, but the moment they come together as husband and wife [I mean] sickness will now visit them which may defy medicaments.
In such a situation, suggestions will, be coming from here and there. That time, you will see the people I call miserable comforters suggesting that you go to the river, or you go to the mountain; you go to mount Zion.
Then you will begin to hear, “I will do prayers for you. I will do prayers for you.” You know, we are living in the age of “doing prayers.” They do not say prayers, but they do prayers, “If it becomes too much I will take you to the holy mountain and do prayer for you there” with muscle, but not in vain o. You will be charged five hundred thousand naira.
Well, get Me 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2. I want you to read from verse 4 through 5 for Me. Living Bible translation only.
^[4]For we speak as messengers from God,… For we do what? …we speak as messengers from God, trusted by Him to tell the truth;… Trusted by God to tell the truth. …we change his message not one bit to suit the taste of those who hear it;… Never never! …for we serve God alone, who examines our hearts’ deepest thoughts.
^[5]Never once did we try to win you with flattery,… We do not try to win anybody by flattery. Never! If I flatter you, My God will take Me away. What are you going to offer Me?
^[5]Never once did we try to win you with flattery, as you very well know, and God knows we were not just pretending to be your friends so that you would give us money! No!
^[6]As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else,… Thank you! If you go further, the Scriptures will tell you, “Such sinful practices, we have already abhorred and decreed them out of our hearts.”
If we must be your friend, where will you see us? We are the group of people that know ourselves and know where we are. There is nowhere you can trace us under the sky. We are the only people that know where we are. We know how we gather. We know where we gather. We know what we believe.
In the day, we are natural men and women, but we can be anything. You do not know the type of questions I entertain from friends around My premises.
Some will courageously come and say, “Daddy, tell us. What and what are the conditions we must meet for us to have fellowship with You and Your Family?” I say, “Ah ah! It does not require much. Stay in your house. Stay in your house and do that same thing which I am doing in My house.”
They will say, “Is that all?” And I will say, “Finish! Finish! If it disappoints you, hold Me guilty. At My age, I am on My way home. If I begin now to fool you now; something I never did from the beginning, even at the prime of My youth; Somebody Who mounted the pulpit at 12. And up till this day I am still there. And I never deceived anybody. Is it now that I am going home that you will begin to see deceit in My life? No no! It is too late.”
I say, “It is too late. Very very late. You do not allow such thoughts to ever fizzle into your hearts.” Amen.
Now, you have seen that marriage is an earthly arrangement. Are you surprised? [1] If you are looking for a wife, you are looking for companionship here on earth. Did you get the Message? [2] Another reason is for procreation, for there is no other source human beings can come into creation if not through the conjugation of a man and a woman.
And by so doing, you replenish the earth. True or false? But with what do you replenish the earth? With the products of the marriage. If the marriage meets God’s approved standard, it will produce godly children.
God said, “Abraham’s children must marry from the lineage of Abraham so that the world will be filled with godly children like Abraham.” But unfortunately, today, people started taking for themselves wives as they choose.
I do not want to talk about believers marrying believers, for I do not know who is a believer and who is not. But one thing I know is that Deep calleth deep. A man marries his character. A man marries his character.
If a man makes the mistake of making a choice that is not compatible with himself, he must notice it at a glance. From the first day of the union, that marriage union will continue to make a hell of noise.
And I have told you that whenever noise begins, cracks will begin to develop in that marriage. If you have a pattern of problems associated with your marriage, for every problem and in your marital life has a pattern, that goes to show that you have developed a pattern of divorce, whether you like it or not.
You may be married but alone. Marriage takes place in the heart. Did you get the Message? A man may divorce his wife in his heart, and still be raising children with her. Yet, there is no love lost between the two anymore, if there was any in the beginning.
Can a man marry his enemy? Yes! Can a woman marry her enemy? Yes! You mean it is true? Yes! Why? When friendship is not established before marriage, enmity reigns there.
Friendship must be established fully because as a friend, I cannot harm My friend. I confide in My friend. He confides in Me. I mean well for her and she means well for Me. With this deep-seated friendship, it culminates into marital union.
The same way, people rush into raising children and forming families, instead of, first of all, establishing a home.
For now, My daughter is busy trying to establish a home by blending her character with that of the husband, for they are now understudying each other with a view to making their dwelling place a habitable home; a Paradise on earth, not because of money or material acquisition. No!
Money does not make for happiness. True or false. You can have money and still be unhappy. The best of the beds can never offer you sleep. You are lying on the best bed. Yet, you are not asleep. What causes sleep is peace of mind. When you are restive, there is no amount of pillow or mattress that can bring about sleep.
In the same way, if love is not established, do not open your mouth to say, “I love you”. “I love you” has put many into trouble. A casual statement that gradually metamorphoses into an eternal conjugation that has become difficult to break. Do you believe that?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The secret of abiding with God is abiding in His Love. Abiding in His Love means nothing but obeying His instructions. That is all. You cannot be disobedient and still claim to have the Love of God. Once you are disobedient and rebellious, God will run away from you, because you are living against yourself. Although you will be coming to Church clapping your hands and praising God, your praises are abomination before God. This is because no deception is from God. Anybody that is living in disobedience, not abiding in God’s Love, you are disobeying God’s instructions, you are stubborn and rebellious, though you go to Fellowship every day, sacrificing the sacrifice of your lips, whatever you are doing is useless-nonsense.

The son of man

NO DECEPTION IS OF THE TRUTH VOLUME 2; Preached On Sunday, 28^th January 2001; Pg. 66 vs. 39 – 41

MARRIAGE IS AN OBLIGATION THAT IS NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY [3]

Let Me tell you one mystery about marriage. The cheapest thing money can fetch for a man is a wife. With one thousand naira you deposit with a carton of beer or a jar of palm wine, nobody will price that woman unless you will say you do not want again. True or false?

With that alone, the parents can hand her over with trust. You go and begin to reproduce. But you can never buy your vehicle on credit.
Then you notice one thing. When you want to marry a wife, you involve your friends and well-wishers, and you also involve your community, but when you want to buy a car at Oguta Road [Onitsha], you can go alone, pay millions, take your receipt and drive it home. It is not so with a wife.
A wife is like a dress. When you are dressed inside the house, you look fine. But when you want to remove the dress, your two hands must go up.
When you want to wear your dress, you simply bring it out and gently put your hands into it one after the other and adjust it to your taste, but when you want to remove that same dress, your two hands must go up, saluting the community.
It may become so difficult sometimes that people will come to your rescue by helping you to pull the dress up from your back and off your head, just to ensure that the cloth is removed. I hope you are following Me.
So Clifford, I am talking to you in types and in parables. I am talking to you figuratively, but I believe that you and your wife are with Me.
The reason why I will not over-flog the Message is that you married My daughter from My Family. All that is in My wife is in her. And she is not number one that married. All that are married, their records are diverse.
And I thank God that My first daughter is married in your village. This is the second one coming to Opi. Whether Ibeku or Idi, all of them are Opi. And the one who went first is not giving any of you any headache. This second will not give you a headache.
The first has remained a blessing. The second will also be a blessing. If you never treated the first well, do you think I would have given you the second?
So, I cannot tell you to love your wife or not to love your wife. If you do not love your wife, you give Me reason to come and take her because I do not collect money. I collect love and then give you My daughter, believing that you are a man enough to know that what is good for you, is equally good for her.
And having lived a shining example before all of you, I believe I have become a written epistle to all of you that you have read at a glance. True or false?
All you have seen in Me and all you saw in her mother, do all. My wife is the mother of the Faith. Is she not the mother of the Faith? Take away My wife, there is no Faith. She is the representative of the Bride.
And the Bridegroom is talking to you. That which you have seen in her over the years, I think that is what brought you to My family. Without it, you would not have come. True or false? So, I am not shaking in mind as to whether you will make it or not.
Then to those who believe that a man should leave his family; you leave your parents and join yourself to your wife, and the two will become one—inseparable, I believe it. I have read it in Ephesians Chapter 5 from verse 30 through 33.
Reference: Ephesians 5:31-33. ³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. ³²This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. ³³Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. KJV
There is no Scripture I have never read. He that revised the whole Bible, taught you to go through all and then criticize the Bible, I believe is in Me.
All those doctrines and teachings concerning marriage, you have heard them in your churches. There is no church that does not preach it, but what you are hearing here today, appears to be very strange. Yet, it is truth that resembles a lie.
Now, I am not saying that Bro Clifford should abandon his parents and cleave to My daughter and then, My daughter will now cleave to Me and her mother and her siblings, I will be a wicked preacher. If it is good for the husband, it is good for the wife.
So follow Me. When I read this Scripture, I will join you.
Get Me the Book of Psalms immediately. I said I am not here today for preaching. I am here to show you that God really answered our prayers collectively. I am alive. I have survived it.
Psalm 45:10-11. Give it to Me in Living Bible translation. Let us wed them. ^[10-11]“I advise you, O daughter,… Chiamaka, pay attention. Before this array of indescribable faces that have come here to witness your wedding, I advise you My daughter.
“I advise you, O daughter, not to fret about your parents in your homeland far away. … Not to do what? Fret about your parents’ compound, your parents’ village or your parents’ house every now and then. Do not ever try it.
Because you are at Enugu and we are at Nsugbe. Therefore, every weekend you come. Never try it. Stay with your own husband. Let me not even hear about it.
“I advise you, O daughter, not to fret about your parents in your homeland far away. Your royal husband delights in your beauty. …
Your royal husband. That is royalty. If you. If you believe that your husband is a king, you are also a queen. If your husband is a king, you are a queen.
So, a woman that promotes the husband’s dignity and integrity has equally promoted her own. Behind every successful man is a wise, intelligent, humble and spiritual wife. Did you get the Message?
Therefore, never let your husband’s royalty down or else, you lose the position of a queen.
Your royal husband delights in your beauty. … Your royal husband is Clifford Eze. Look at her face. Do you not delight in her beauty?
[Bro Clifford responds convincingly, “Very well”]
Very well! He wants you to stay around him 24 hours of the day. If you like sleep on his laps, for he is your royal husband, and not ordinary husband. You know what royalty means. Kingly husband. And you are his queen. See your decoration. See his own.
… Your royal husband delights in your beauty. Reverence him, for he is your lord. Do what? Reverence him, for he is your lord. Do what? Reverence him, for he is your lord.
Say it everybody! [Everybody responded, “REVERENCE HIM FOR HE IS YOUR LORD”]
Chiamaka, you are hearing from everybody here. Revere your husband, for your husband is what? Your husband is your Lord.
The Bible said that you Christian women should reverence your husbands to the extent of regarding them as your Lords like Sarah reverenced Abraham and called him “My Lord”.
Reference: 1 Peter 3:5-6. ⁵For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: ⁶even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. KJV
Any woman that does not want her husband to have his Lordship over her is liable to divorce. She is not worthy of marriage.
I have too many things to share with you, but not now.
… Your royal husband delights in your beauty. Reverence him, for he is your lord.
Reverence him by day and by night. Never call him names. Never answer him back. In short, this is the totality of the Message. I have summed all.
Whatever you read in the synoptic write-ups, in the gospels and in the letters and epistles, I have summarized them using this Psalm.
Your Lord is your husband. Reverence him day and night. Any day you answer him back, well, whatever you see, you take.
Remember, if you insult your husband, you are insulted. If you debase your husband, you debase yourself.
Finally and finally, from the beginning of creation, how God did it, I want us to see Genesis Chapter 31 from verse 14 through 15, using the same Living Bible. Genesis is the beginning of marriage.
^[14]Rachel and Leah replied,… Rachel and Leah were the two wives of Jacob who was surnamed Israel. Do you believe that? Jacob is Israel. These were his two wives, Rachel and Leah, born of the same parents.
That is where we saw the costliest marriage, where a man spent 21 years salary in marrying two wives from one man and one woman.
Now, these two ladies were married to one man, Jacob [Israel]. They reasoned together among themselves.
^[14]Rachel and Leah replied, “That’s fine with us! … It is fine with us. That is fine with us. There’s nothing for us here—none of our father’s wealth will come to us anyway!
None of our father’s wealth will ever come to us again.
^[15]He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women; he sold us, and what he received for us has disappeared.
Another translation said, “He has sold us. He has also spent the money he realized as our bride price.” So, we have no other inheritance in our father’s family.
Good News Bible. He treats us like foreigners. He sold us, and now he has spent all the money he was paid for us.
Amplified version. Are we not counted by him as strangers? For he sold us and has also quite devoured our money [the price you paid for us].
If you are a married woman shuttling between your father’s house and your husband’s house, your exit from your husband’s house is imminent.
When you get married stay in your husband’s house. Wherever you husband is living, that is where you shall live also.
Any day you decide to go and see your parents, the two of you will go together. If the two of you will not go, it will take your husband to send you on that visit to your parents’ house.
Stop shuttling between your husband’s house and your father’s house. If you are contending for inheritance in both your husband’s house and your father’s house, you are not married. You are not married for one day. You are the architect of all the troubles on earth.
Everywhere is calm.
You are married woman. Yet, you are shuttling from your husband’s house to your father’s house, participating in the meetings of the females born in your father’s kindred [Umu-ada].
You are a member of the “Umu-ada” in your father’s house and also a member of the married women [co-wives] in your husband’s kindred. You contend for inheritance from the right-hand side and you do same from the left-hand side. When you mold building blocks in your husband’s house, you then construct a house in your father’s house. Yet you are married. You better allow the sleeping dog lie.

A woman contributes nothing to her marriage, but she contributes a lot to her home. It must be marriage before a home. Marriage before a home. You married me. Then, two of us will now build a home. I do not know why I am going this way, but please bear with Me. You see, in this life, let us face the reality. Marriage is enjoyed and not endured.

The son of man

MARRIAGE IS FOR BETTER FOR BEST; Preached on Sunday 17^th February 2019 at the Household of God Onitsha; Chapter 2 verse 22 through 23

BENEDICTION

THE wedding proper

Chiamaka and the husband should come up with their rings. I am not here for preaching. I am here to highlight. I am here to highlight what marriage entails.
Somebody should give Me the Olive Oil. The Pastors are not around. So I am operating alone. Since you are not serving Me well, I will not wed you. Another person will wed you. That is what you will forfeit.
Give Me your hand. Your left hand. He is a novice. And I love it. I do not need to ask you further questions. You entertained My questions before you got married. So I will be stupid to begin to ask you questions again.
Go ahead. Let Me see you put that token of ownership. Look at it, it is a token of ownership this day. Chiamaka, from today, you have been branded. Fine. Do you think I will sing? No!
I do not indulge in those Pentecostal gimmicks. I am a realist. How can you come to marry My daughter, and then stipulate that she will search you out with the cup of wine that had already been given to her to show who her husband is? I will be the one to point you out for her.
Thank you! Come up. When a short person causes commotion in the market, he or she must come out so that everybody will see. Stand here so that I invite the musicians.
All along, I have been the father, the mother, the brother and the sister, all and one.
SONG: [He is everything. He is everything to me. He is everything. He is everything to me. He is my father, my mother, my brother, my sister. He is everything to me.]
SONG: [Glory to His Name. glory to His Name. There to my heart was the blood applied. Glory to His Name.]
I now want to introduce to everybody this Chiamaka, Chiamaka, Chiamaka. I will not fail to produce before you also the representative of the father of the husband.
But now, let whosoever that is the legitimate, legal and biological parents of Chiamaka come out. Put your hands together.
Ah ah! Brother, what are you now? You are saying that you are the owner of Chiamaka, but who are these people now? I am the best man. I rejoice over the success of My friend.
We have seen them. Go there and stand by them. Take your position. Stay here. Fine. Take your photographs as you wish.
The person representing brother Clifford as the father, I saw you here when I came. Come forward with your wife. Come with your wife.
[The LORD said to Deacon Mike Emmanuel and his wife] Stay by the side. You are coming back again.
SONG: [To God be the Glory great things He hath done. So loved He the world that He came down Himself, and yielded Himself as an atonement for sin. And opened the life gate that we may go in.
Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD. Let the world here His Voice/ Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD. Let God’s people rejoice. O come to the Father through Christ our LORD and give Him the Glory, great things He hath done.]
Take your photographs. Take as much as you can. Take as much as you can.
SONG: [O LORD my God, when I awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy hands have made. I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder. Thy power throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee; How great Thou art, how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee; How great Thou art, how great Thou art!]
Before I sit down, I owe all of you here immense and great debt of gratitude. With all My heart, I say, “Thank you” for participating in this wedding. Thank you for giving Me audience.
You will be blessed when you go home and search about the meaning of life, for life without Christ is meaningless. Life here on earth started one day, and must terminate one day. Then, eternity begins. Thank you all.