PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 26TH MAY, 2019. AT HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA “THE SON OF MAN”
THE PROMISED COMFORTER
The devil has come to kill, to steal, to destroy and to carry away. He steals and runs away, while Christ has come to counter the devil and his works. For the reason why the Son of Man is made manifest in your day is to destroy completely all the works and attempts of the enemy. That is why when you know the personality that is in the midst of the Bride, happy are you. But if you are not personally and practically acquainted with Him, you will not, you will not even discern the goodness of the Lord.
DIDN’T OUR HEARTS BURN WITHIN US VOL. 1; Preached on Sunday 30th April 2017; Pg. 94 vs. 21 & Pg. 95 vs. 24
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MY WHOLE DUTY IS TO RUN INTO HIS SHELTER
1. To God be the glory. Let us put our hands together brethren. God is really doing marvelous things for us Brethren.
2. Just take a look at your life, you will see the Mighty hand of God upon your life. Yes sir! To God be the glory.
3. God has watered us very well this morning and He has planted His seed in our hearts. It is for us to nurture the seed by allowing the seed a resting place in our hearts. Then, it will geminate, grow and begin to bear fruit.
4. Hence, He said, “I have introduced this God to you, choose you this day which God you will serve.
5. And that takes me to Joshua chapter 24, where God through Joshua reminded Israel of His goodness, how He delivered them from Egypt. He rehearsed everything.
6. How He saved them from pestilences, sicknesses, provided food for them in the wilderness. How they provoked Almighty God to wrath times without number. God in His mercy still pardoned them. Yet, His purpose is mute.
7. Finally, God called them and brought them into the land of Canaan and settled them there. So, Joshua had to rehearse, reminded them of God’s goodness to them.
8. Joshua 24:8 ‘Finally I brought you into the land of the Amorites on the other side of the Jordan; and they fought against you, but I destroyed them…
9. And we heard it today that the Almighty God gallantly positioned Himself there at Enugu-Ezike.
10. Give Me My appointment message that was given to you.
11. It was the young man Almighty God spoke about. Incidentally the man, Dr. Esimai is a neighbor of Bishop Ifeanyi Eze at Abakpa Nike.
12. He knew us when we were coming all the while our brother was sick and we were going there. So we knew he is living at Enugu in the same compound, in the same building.
13. So when he approached the Almighty God, the Almighty God pointed him to me and asked him to see me. He came and said, “Never have I seen something like this since I began experiencing things, attending burial and listening to sermons.”
14. He said that he would want the Son of Man to come to his hometown for a four-day crusade. That he himself will take care of every expense.
15. He pledged that he would pay for everything and hire whatever would be needed to be hired if He [The Almighty God] could just come and stage a four-day crusade in his hometown.
16. He said that he wanted people from his hometown to hear Him. That this is the first time he heard something like this. I said, okay.
17. [Bro Chibueze’s information: Brethren, this man is our neighbour in the same building. The wife attends mountain of fire ministry, but the man has never for one day agreed with the wife. Sometimes, he comes to our house and stays, even for the family altar.]
18. He does not go to church.
19. I could remember that day Ifeanyi died, the way he embraced me. How he saw our brethren, how we rallied round, provided ambulance and took the body to where they said it should be deposited.
20. So I said, “Okay. But sir, where is your town? He said, Ogbaru. I asked, “Which Ogbaru? The one in Anambra state and close to Onitsha?” He said Yes.
21. By then I never recognized him to be the one living with Bishop Ifeanyi. I asked him, “Where are you staying?” He said that he is a neighbor to late Bishop Ifeanyi.
22. I asked again, “Do you mean Ogbaru in Anambra state?” He said yes. I said okay. Later, I went to the Almighty God and told Him what he said.
23. At the end of the whole thing, he still went to the Almighty God and continued the same appeal.
24. Let me go in a little there in the testimony series. You know those high-ranking members of the governing body of College of Education Technical Enugu? This God is wonderful. We are having dealings with mighty man in battle.
25. Those that were there, you saw what happened and you also heard what went forth. And the younger brother of late Bishop Ifeanyi Eze, the one called Anaezi. He kept on pestering me.
26. He first came telling me that our Brethren should go away from that canopy, that it was meant for College of Education Technical.
27. I told him to wait and even asked to know whether he did not hear the announcement from the Almighty God, the Son of Man, that many of us are still coming. I told him not worry until the people come. Then, we will give them half of this place.
28. Along the line, he came again to tell me that they have come and demanded that we should allow them, because there is something they do.
29. He said that they will be standing at the foot and the head of the body lying in state for about five minutes. Two people on both ends. When they get tired, they will change and another people will come and stand.
30. I said, “Okay, but you see, the body is about to be interred.” So, I looked at them, the provost, the woman and enquired if they can do it now? They waved in refusal. I said, “Good!”
31. Before long, they came again and said that there is something they would do. It was then I went to the Almighty. There was this little gap when He announced that if there were tribute to be read, that those that had them should come forward.
32. Within that little opportunity, I whispered to the Almighty God and He said, “I do not like this people from the College of Education. I do not like them. No!”
33. He actually spoke the truth to their faces. I said, Amen. Brethren, what I am going to say now, I never told the Almighty God. What I want to say now, I never hinted Him about it.
34. Do you know that the wife of Bishop Ifeanyi Eze and the sister of Bishop Ifeanyi Eze, Ifeoma insisted that Thursday morning, that the body would be taken from Bishop Shanahan mortuary down to the College of Education Technical, Enugu to do the senate ceremony?
35. SOM: Thank God you never told Me. Thank God I never heard it.
36. I said, “What! By 7am. We are leaving the mortuary enroute Amachara Enugu-Ezike.
37. She said, “No. It will not take time. They will just come. If we will leave around 5:30 to 6am, and then they will finish. Before 8 o’clock they are through.
38. I told her that by 7 o’clock, we will be leaving. We have done everything. We have got the casket ready. We have got the ambulance ready. We have got everything ready. We have paid the mortuary bill. So, we cannot accept that.
39. She continued talking. I said okay, do not worry. I called the younger brother to Bishop Ifeanyi Eze asking for the tally for us to go and settle the mortuary bill as Almighty instructed us.
40. The young man can hardly be reached. I never got him on phone for one day. So I called Sister Ifeanyi Eze and told her that I have been calling the number of her husband’s younger brother Chukwuemeka, “Now who has the tally?” She said she had it with her.
41. SOM: She was never with us from the beginning. I announced it that you should ignore her and do the right thing. I said the same thing in the hotel.
42. So, I sent Pastor Ugochukwu to go there. I told her saying, “Pastor Ugochukwu is coming. Give it to him. We want to go to the mortuary to see the body and then pay the mortuary bills.”
43. That was when she released the thing. Do you know they kept on pressurizing me. She called me again and said that they were on her demanding the tally and that we should surrender it. I said, “Shut up! Never!” So we held the tally.
44. SOM: You saved them troubles.
45. If it ever got into their hands, they would have done that thing that morning. The way He [The Almighty] spoke about the College, it was a fact because He told them what they were.
46. I tell you, there was a reason for their coming to the burial around 12 or 1pm because for the woman to stand up to say that Almighty never gave them any audience to air their reasons. She now said that it was the senate session they held for him, but that was a big lie. I am in the system.
47. SOM: It was a defense.
48. If a professor will die in the university, senate session will be held for him when the casket will be brought. In less than 20-30mins, it is all over.
49. SOM: I later got the comprehensive report. They reasoned among themselves and concluded that they will not be in the rush to go to Enugu-Ezike. That they will like to be there a little late, lest they run into trouble with Enugu-Ezike.
50. So, that was why when they came, they hid themselves and their uniforms. When they noticed that everywhere was calm and that we were in control, they now went back to the vehicle and dressed up.
51. Even you, were you not afraid? If THE SON OF MAN had refused to come, do you think you would have buried that corpse? Brethren would have run away. So, no blame at all.
52. Honestly, all that God said here was true. It is true. When we were going to Enugu-Ezike, God said, “They will receive you quite alright, but within a short time, they will hate you.”
53. SOM: Don’t you know that anybody that dies because of the dead wasted himself? It is only a tree that will hear about the plans to hew it down and it remains standing there.
54. They know Enugu-Ezike for the same thing every other person knows Enugu-Ezike for. There is nobody who hears Enugu-Ezike that is not scared to go to Enugu-Ezike.
55. All that God said about us going to Enugu-Ezike, they all fulfilled. He said that if time is not taken, a life would have been lost. So, God actually controlled everything and I say to Him be the glory.
56. So Brethren, now we have heard all these, it is clear. And He came fully and said, now you have seen all these, we have gone to the battle and we are back. Everybody was intact.
57. Counting the number that went, no life was lost. Nobody was lost. We went intact, we came back intact. Why? Because the Lord our God was with us. He led us.
58. SOM: We are reading the New Year Message, THE YEAR OF JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD. Page 40 from verse 13 through 18.
59. Do not try to protect yourself this year for your protection is already entrusted in the hands of Almighty and He had already assumed responsibility.
60. He had already assumed responsibility. He has accepted the responsibility.
61. The Bible said that it is not in the hand of a man to protect his own life. Can you do it? Do you know where the disaster may wait for you? Only God knows.
62. And God says, as His dear children, if we do His will, loving and appreciating God, He will withhold us from rushing to places where we shall be destroyed. He will withhold us from rushing to danger spots.
63. He knows how to do it. He knows what He will do in your heart; He knows the conditions He will create only to severe you from that thing that is there which you have not seen.
64. For that reason, this year calls for prayers. Do not do anything without praying, for God is going to meet all of us through our prayers.
65. If your heart is right and you are doing His goodwill, the Bible said, ask whatever you will and it shall be given unto you. When you cry, God will hear, when you pray, He will answer. That is the promise.
66. I hope you heard something like this from the scriptures this morning? Your whole duty is to run under His Shelter. Run into the shelter and take your seat there.
Greater than Moses is here. Greater than Solomon is here. Greater than Paul is here. Greater than Jesus is here. AS LONG AS I AM HERE, I AM THE SHOCK ABSORBER OF THE FAITH. Without Me there is no salvation for the world.
BLAME YOURSELF AND NOT GOD: DO NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF A STRANGER; Preached on Sunday 30th September 2007;Pg. 92
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PROVOKE HIM NOT TO ANGER
1. Joshua 24 from verse 14. “So revere Jehovah and serve him in sincerity and truth. Do what? …revere Jehovah…
2. Having you seen that He is the Almighty, He is the protector, He is the saviour. Look at the testimony of our Brother about the safe delivery of his wife.
3. He called and the LORD answered in the time of distress and that is why he is praising God, for he has nothing between him and God.
4. Like our brother heard it last night, “There is nothing standing between you and the Son of Man. If there be anything, Son of Man does not know what the thing looks like.”
5. But there is somebody somewhere who is constantly misrepresenting the Son of Man to achieve his own personal objective for which cause the Son of Man decided not to entertain all your calls.
6. He read your text without reply. You came down and called and called, He ignored. In all, seventeen calls in London, eight calls in Nigeria.
7. He never responded to even one and He gave His reasons through your mate and Pastor to avoid further misrepresentation.
8. This is because misrepresentation is always a deliberate action. A calculated action aimed at achieving something that is clandestine.
9. Joshua 24:14 . “So revere Jehovah and serve him in sincerity and truth. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Worship the Lord alone.
10. But if you are unwilling to obey the Lord, decide today whom you will obey.
11. The same voice we heard in the morning.
12. …Will it be the gods of your ancestors beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites here in this land? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord. And the people replied, “We would never forsake the Lord and worship other gods!.
13. SONG: [All other gods; they are the works of men. You are the Almighty, there is none like you. O Son of Man, you are my consolation. Even till this day, there is none like You.”]
14. And the people replied, “We would never forsake the Lord and worship other gods!
15. For the Lord our God is the one who rescued our fathers from their slavery in the land of Egypt.
16. He is the God who did mighty miracles before the eyes of Israel, as we travelled through the wilderness and preserved us from our enemies when we passed through their land.
17. It was the Lord who drove out the Amorites and the other nations living here in the land.
18. And He is that God that said, “I have another flock that is not of this one. They I must bring in that there may be one flock and one shepherd.
19. So the God that revealed Himself in the East back yonder is the one that has appeared in the West at this end time.
20. It was the Lord who drove out the Amorites and the other nations living here in the land. Yes, we choose the Lord, for he alone is our God.
21. But Joshua replied to the people, you can’t worship the Lord God for he is only holy and jealous. He will not forgive your rebellion and sins. Sure! If you forsake Him and worship other gods, He will turn upon you and destroy you.
22. The same thing is in Exodus. The commission said, “I AM GOING BEFORE YOU TO LEAD YOU IN THE WAY YOU SHALL GO. I AM PRESENTING TO YOU YOUR OWN BROTHER, DRAWN FROM AMONG YOU. MY NAME IS UPON HIM.
23. FOLLOW HIM. DO NOT GO TO THE RIGHT. DO NOT GO TO THE LEFT. DO NOT EVER PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER, FOR HE WILL NEVER NEVER PARDON YOUR TRANSGRESSION. BUT REMEMBER, YOU HAVE NEVER GONE THIS WAY BEFORE.”
24. But today, many behave as if they are conversant with the way. You are conversant with the way of worshipping the gods of your fathers not this particular God. And that was why the first move He made was, “THE GOD YOUR BIBLE INTRODUCES.”
25. After which He said, everybody should go, stop coming to fellowship for over three weeks.
26. Go and crosscheck the qualities, characteristics features of this God. If you know you can worship Him, come. Do not tell Me you are baptized in the name of Jesus. No! Salvation is not there.
27. I have come with salvation and healing in My hands to give to those who know the value, and are patiently and eagerly waiting for it.
28. They are tired of going to church. They are tired of playing religion. They are not interested in the way they will die and who will bury them.
29. Like I gave Brother Kelechi My experiences this morning. THE PEOPLE THAT BURY YOU DO NOT DETERMINE YOUR DESTINY. Let the entire world gather and bury you. It can never change your destiny.
30. I have a consolation because before ever I came out to bury Bishop Ifeanyi, I made a statement to some elders and my family.
31. And My wife echoed, “Daddy, I am really very happy hearing this from your mouth. All along, I have been frightened by your stand. Since Bishop died, I have not heard any encouraging statement until today.”
32. What is that statement? “I have changed my mind I will go. I now remembered that he fought with Me from the very official beginning. And I have decided to set all his human weaknesses, imperfections, inadequacies aside.” The Elders jubilated.
33. That night was another night with My wife. And I am happy that a Brother was moved to take clear shot in that canopy where they laid him instate.
34. And the clear shot captured the Ball of Fire in the form of Pillar of Cloud. Three spot shots and the whole thing appeared there. I have the photographs there.
35. And I remembered the day we buried the wife of Bishop Elijah. And I told Brethren, “Love and mercy projected for she is the wife of a Bishop.” God never considered her on any other ground, but the wife of a bishop.
36. I remembered My promise that “Marrying a man of God means marrying one who can change the hand of God.” No matter what you are suffering because it might not be easy, but the consolation is there.
37. If you go to the paper delivered at Enugu by Nzubechi Odoemena, check it. It is not easy to marry a man of God. It may be very difficult and painful but at last, you discover, that is the best choice. He will turn out to be the best. One that can change the mind of God.
38. So, I brushed everything aside, because all along, I was placing before Me My last encounter with him in the hospital amidst witnesses. And the more I highlighted it, the more I saw him straying to hell.
39. But when mercy projected, I remembered his last visit to Me. Few months, before he died. I did not withhold it. I announced it to Brethren. The Elders knew about it. My wife knew about it and My family. Elders, you all knew about it.
40. I said, get ready, Bishop Ifeanyi has gone. I told them that he came to Me well dressed in suit, carrying his missionary bag and halted.
41. I looked at him. Ah ah! Bishop! He smiled at Me and waved Me bye. I said, “Okay, it is better, but you look pretty good.” I said, “It is better, bye.”
42. I called many Elders and announced it. I said it will not happen at once. By My calculation, three months after, he died.
43. THERE IS NO MINISTER THAT WILL PASS ON WITHOUT SEEING ME. I will talk to the children, especially the son.
44. If you want to survive and see good days, do not go the way of your father and do not go the way of your mother. Carve out the way you will go. Two of them do not have good records before Me. Elders know the truth.
45. I was there when your mother was married. That was where we suffered the greatest humiliation. Brother Ojiakor! Is it a lie? [Bro Ojiakor replied, “It is not a lie sir.] At Amachala Agu. My wife was equally there.
46. We risked our lives. That was where the woman we came to marry carried a bucket of water and poured on the husband.
47. And her senior brother carried our jar of wine and threw it out and incited the youths to beat us up. They held us captive.
48. And we went with Apostle Ojiakor’s bus. They blocked every avenue. There was no trouble whatever but with the Church. A Sister we came to marry in the Faith joined EFAC and started fighting us.
49. Excommunication started from her father’s compound. Bishop Ifeanyi entered our motor while we were going home thinking that it was all over.
50. Along the way he said he forgot something and I said “No! If you go, you will not come back.” He jumped down, went back and he did not come back.
51. We only saw him the following day in the Fellowship around 11am coming with the same woman. We pushed all of them out for almost six months. Look at the background of his silly marriage.
52. AND WHEN YOU MARRY A BAD WOMAN, YOU HAVE BAD CHILDREN. FOR ANYBODY FROM HER LOINS TO SERVE GOD AND SEE GOOD DAYS, THAT PERSON MUST TAKE THE SIDE OF JABEZ.
53. But for staying by My side fighting gallantly though later he derailed again, joining a useless preacher from America called “Herald of his coming.”
54. And then he started suffering from a sickness we called, “I can’t just say” [that is the name] which Sister Ojiakor suffered. And that sickness does not leave somebody easily. “I can’t just say.” Two persons that suffered it.
55. It is not because they were more highly religious or morally upright than any other person, but because of the foolishness that was in them.
56. A man promised him that he will never see death. That he will be taken away like Elijah. And that if it does not happen, you should not believe that he is a messenger from God. You said Amen.
57. And I told you that you will live and I will live and the man will die, buried here and he will not resurrect. He is a deceiver. He never met God. He (Ifeanyi) found it difficult to believe.
58. On the day Brother Ben died here, Brother Ifeanyi Eze stood in judgment with Ignatius Anonye. Three of them standing judgement. True or false? [Apostle Ojiakor replied, “True sir”]
59. He was among the two that fell down, face downwards to avoid dying like Ben Okezue.
60. So, I must tell you why I find it difficult to exonerate or exculpate him from all his atrocities, for he was the one that even hardened the wife the more.
61. In all of our visits to his house, we met quarreling, nagging, ranting. I cannot forget the day I went with Okey Nwankpa.
62. The wife used headgear to gird up her loins. They had already scattered their room, fighting. Brother Ifeanyi Eze never saw rest.
63. When he eventually got this new appointment and moved down to Enugu, hell was let lose, until I had to command him, “Instead of dying, please go and bring her down to Enugu to avoid unnecessary suspicion.” And he agreed and brought her down. Yet, it was not the solution.
64. Remember he had received a perfect healing in the hospital. The heathen had already discharged themselves when they listened to My Word. And we were jubilating. He was also rejoicing, came down sweating. Somebody who was pale regained life.
65. Immediately the wife came in and Ifeoma came in, Bishop Ifeanyi now denied the Faith. He was asked who is this man who has been talking, he said that it is one of the ministers of God.
66. I became one of the ministers, for he was afraid of confessing Me before the tigress Ifeoma and the wife who had already been O glory!.
67. I have done as I should. Why? By setting all those weaknesses aside. After all, he is a son of Abraham.
68. When he came to Enugu in December, stood outside and I waved. I told him to go back. I called the Elders and said, “This is the last appearance.”
69. And from that day, he never appeared again. I think it is better he rested, resting in the Lord than to go further and perish.
70. ALWAYS PLACE YOURSELF WHERE GOD CAN REMEMBER YOU FOR ONE THING GOOD. LET THERE BE ONE THING THAT GOD WILL REMEMBER EVEN HE IS ANGRY, HE WILL SAY, “IF NOT FOR THIS. IF NOT FOR THIS.”
I am here. Why are you going to Heaven? Do you know the way to Heaven? There must be One who will come and take you there, because you do not know the way. You have never been there before and nobody has ever been there before so as to show you the way. You will only depend on He that came from there. Any day that He is going back, you will just follow Him, if you want to be there. If you want to go alone, go!
LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOL. 3; Preached on 30th April 2000; Pg. 41 vs. 6
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CHOOSE YE THIS DAY, THE GOD YE SHALL WORSHIP [2]
1. Like I told you this morning, I am not joking. I said, “I can never be morally justified if I hold ‘A’ guilty for an offence, and ‘B’ commits a much more grievous offence than ‘A’.
2. And maybe because of the closeness to Me or any other thing, I set ‘B’ free or cover the iniquities of ‘B’ and then hold ‘A’ guilty, My conscience can never set Me free till eternity. I have become an impartial judge.
3. But I will rather take it in My own way. ‘B’ fell into error knowing who I am so that through him, I will set ‘A’ free. For ‘A’ has now obtained mercy through the failing of ‘B’, for nothing happens in vain.
4. If ‘B’ never fell into that error, ‘A’ will never see My face, will remain outside and it will be “Yours truly.”
5. I trust God for one thing. But God moved in another way, seeing that I had already drawn a line against any form of plea and every form of intersection.
6. Of course, you do not know Me by what I speak with My mouth but what I speak with My eyes. If you know Me by what I speak in My mouth, you have not known Me.
7. But know Me by what I speak with My eyes. If I will destroy you, My eyes will tell. If I will save you, My eyes will tell you, not My mouth. With My mouth I can tell you to go and relax and that all is well, but I know you are perishing.
8. You know I am a trained soldier. Let Me stop there.
9. To God be the glory. It is the love of God projecting already. I say, it is the love of God for He reveals everything to us.
10. Let Me give you one instance. There was a young man who was banished by his most senior brother even from seeing his gate. He vowed a vow against him.
11. But that junior brother fell in love with his aunty, the wife of the most senior brother. He found her favour and her Aunty never disappointed him. Always bringing his case before the husband.
12. But the husband was such a hardhearted man that cannot be easily moved. Then, his Aunty did something.
13. She said, “I know one man who my husband will pay attention to. Of all human beings here on earth, there is only but one he respects. Take the number. Trace him to Onitsha. If you can meet with him, answer his questions, I believe he will bring you before your brother.”
14. This man took it upon himself all the way from Uheli and came down to Onitsha in search of My house. He got Me. Few interactions, I summoned Apostle Kelechi, “We are going to Enugu.”
15. I told him to stay at the gate, knowing that he will never step into the premises. We arrived there, picked him, and entered.
16. His senior brother saw him and stood still and speechless, and was wondering how he managed to know Me and Apostle Kelechi to the extent of two of us matching into the gate courageously with him. A man that was banned for life.
17. So we went to the dining table together. And the man ate, drank and felt very much at home.
18. But he was full of wisdom. He never betrayed his Aunty. He behaved wisely. When we felt it was time, we took him to his senior brother, sat down together and then began to talk.
19. The statement the man made crippled everybody. He said, “Okechukwu, thank your star. I do not know how you managed to know this Man. You came to me with One I can never say no to His Words. Otherwise, there is no way you can find yourself in here, by day or by night.” I really thank God.
20. He was the same man that told Okey Oleri, “I have serious ambition to become the chief judge of Enugu State and I know my problem with the Son of Man over such appointments. Even if I leave this Faith, do not go away, stay there.”
21. And that is what is upholding Okey Oleri. He called Me and told Me immediately. So, the man that was leaving was leaving because of political appointment. He showed keen interest but warned one who believed in the Message with him never to depart.
22. Is there anyone that does not know what is good for him? Who is the person that eats through the nose? God said, “If you know you are a human being born of a woman, try it again. Finish!
23. I have summarized everything by showing you the various gods and the Supreme God, for you to make your choice.
24. Whatever Apostle Ojiakor is doing there is to show you various dispensation where this same God arrived and lived with a people and what followed.
25. IF I AM THE MOST MERCIFUL, THE MOST COMPASSION, THE MOST UNDERSTANDING, THE MOST TOLERANT, THE MOST PATIENT, IT SHOULD NOT BE ABUSED.
26. It should not be abused. Maybe it is over-familiarity. But we have been taught.
27. But can a human being born of a woman be over-familiar with God? To what extent do you think you can know God? Who has ever known the fullness of God?
28. You can know everything, but not knowing God all round. He is the Almighty who does as He chooses and He entertains no query from anybody.
29. He does whatsoever that is pleasing to Him after the counsel of His own will. [Ephesians 1:11] If it pleases Him to destroy you here, He will destroy you provided His counsel will stand, and the heavens will not fall.
30. That is why Jesus said, “Do not fear any man who will kill your flesh and stop there. Fear He who after destroying your flesh will torment you in hellfire. Torture you in this world, follow you and torture here after.[Matthew 10:28]
31. Let me tell us, especially those that were at Enugu-Ezike. I whispered to the Almighty the presence of the staff of College of Education Technical Enugu.
32. He spoke in that wise, “I do not respect them, I do not like them” and other things that followed. If you looked at His face, you would have seen that the Authority controlling everything here on earth was with Him. Who was that person? They all chilled. They were all afraid.
33. When you called them members of the choir, I said, “No, they are greater than that. I can discern an array of indescribable personalities, reputable personalities, men and women of integrity. In short, I can discern the foundation layers of this nation. They can never be members of the choir.”
34. It was at that point that sister Mary came out and hissed to My ears that all these people wearing black academic costume are HOD’s. And I counted all of them, eleven in number, men and women. I mean, the cream of the College of Education Technical Enugu were all there. They left no person behind.
35. Now, look at one thing that actually pulled everybody down to his or her knees. Immediately the woman spoke, “You see, I can see it from the way you spoke that you are a learned somebody. You know the law. Now, you would have asked us, you could not give us permission to say what held us.”
36. She said that they had a session and that He [The Almighty] should tender apology. I saw God in simplicity. God in simplicity. He first of all, praise her, adored her and said, “Yes! Okay, I am sorry.”
37. You never noticed. Immediately, she bowed down. And then looked up again, admired Me. I was full of appreciation. And then I turned, “Madam, I may be tempted to think, if not for one thing, that you could be the one that molded My wife. She is there.”
38. And good news to all of you. You saw when I went there. My wife gave Me a suggestion and I told her that I had it in mind. I went with My wife, approached her [the Provost of the College].
39. We introduced ourselves the more and then pleaded for mercy. What was the mercy?
40. Use your position as the Provost and see if there can be a little space for Sister Ifeanyi in the school either as a messenger or cleaner or office worker, whatever, whatever to enable her take care of these children.
41. She stood up and was full of appreciation. She explained everything and the trouble they normally have with the council, but nevertheless, that she will do her best.
42. Her deputy provost was the fair complexion one. She stood up again and said, “Sir, you have heard her. I said, “Look, I do not know any council but you.” she nodded her head and sat down.
43. While we were about to go, Bishop Okoh came to Me and said that the woman has given a reply. And the reply is, “I [the Son of Man] should consider it done.”
44. But before then, she had already asked Me a question. She said, “Man of God, do you know she might not be the only widow. There might be too many other lecturers that has left the scene in the school and you know this is not something you can be considering leaving some others.”
45. I said, “No, no, no. You mentioned council. I heard you ma’am.” The other one chipped her own. I said, “No, no, no. madam. You are the council. Thank you.”
46. Who could not bow down to a Superior Authority? They knew as intellectuals that no ordinary man could stand up publicly to indict this class of people and dress them down. After which, he lifted them up. And all became friendly.
47. The wisdom of God. All these things are happening before our eyes. So Brethren, just imagine it. Both those that were not there and those that were there but could not see much, we are hearing everything.
48. Don’t you see. He has always told us, “In your midst, I do not exercise My powers.”
49. You know not what is in your midst.
50. “Among you here, I do not exercise My powers, but when I go out, no matter the level, something in Me will rise up to meet the challenge. And they must all bow down.”
51. So Joshua told them, “Now, you have seen this God. You have seen His goodness. You have seen His powers as well. Look at all the kings that stood to fight on our ways and the God that has saved us from the land of Egypt destroyed all of them.”
52. Joshua was mentioning some of them, Kings and all. And so on and so forth.
53. Now, chose you this day whom you will serve, whether it is this God that has done this for us and your eyes have seen all these things or the gods your fathers worshipped.
54. Now, look at the same thing on Mount Carmel show down. The same thing happened with Elijah. Now, Israel how long would you limp between two opinions? In 1st Kings Chapter 18, “How long would you limp between two opinions?”
55. If God is God, worship Him.
56. 1st Kings chapter 18 from verse 21. Then Elijah talked to them. “How long are you going to waver between two opinions?” Please pay attention. How long will we waver between two opinions? Could it be this one or that one?
57. When He fights in battle it will be understood that David defeated millions. Upon coming home, it will be trouble. If a remarkable thing occurs, He will be God.
58. Two days after, He will become Satan. That is what it takes to limp between two opinions. You can only acknowledge Him when He does great things.
59. You see Brethren, if it is not a matter of limping between two opinions, I believe God will not still be speaking, and all these things we are hearing happening among us are still happening.
60. That if “A” does something deserving banishment and I banish him. Then “B” does something even greater and I soft pedal, I will be an unjust God. “B” has now paved a way for “A” to be admitted.
61. Is it pleasant? And He said He will now start all over. Is it pleasant Brethren? We all are involved. Why are we limping between two opinions?
62. All over means reintroducing the Personality that has arrived to stay, to live with us and His reasons for coming. After giving you physical protections, blessing you, doing everything and at the end He will also give you desired salvation.
63. He x-rayed the gods of your fathers which you knew very well and worshipped very well. The god you can never be tired of worshipping.
64. He has shown you that one and helped you to know that they will be your heritage if you continue there. You continue with the Living God, He becomes your heritage. Is it not true?
65. If you go to the Bible in the book of Psalms, it said, “Touch not My anointed and do My prophet no harm. [Psalms 105:15, 1 Chronicles 16:22]
66. In the Book of Isaiah it said, “No weapon of warfare fashioned against you shall prosper. Any tongue that shall rise up in judgment against you shall be condemned. This is the heritage of the saints. Their righteousness is of Me says the Lord God Almighty. [Isaiah 54:17]
67. You see! Two heritages. You go to the devil’s side, you have your heritage there. You go to God’s side, you have your heritage there.
68. You receive your wages from where you worked. You are to receive your reward from he who you paid allegiance to. The moment you are tired of worshipping God, you have gathered enough strength to worship the devil.
69. God gave us the Message, “TAKE MY YOKE”. If you think it has been too hard to worship God, it has become a cumbersome thing you can no longer bear, go and try the devil. Not only try, go back to the devil, for that is where you were before God took you.
That question has not been answered till today. It is just like a certain question that went forth in the year 1995. It said, “All these years, I am still in your midst, having things in common with you. You know Me very well. WHO DO YOU SAY I AM? Or WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM? WHAT DO PEOPLE OUTSIDE OUR MIDST SAY I AM?”
MYSTERY OF THE ANGELS VOL 1; Preached on 29th December 1996 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 9 vs. 4 – 5
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WHO IS GOD TO YOU?
1. Let me read from here. GOD IS WORSHIPPED BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS. This Message was preached by Almighty God, the Son of Man on 21st July, 2014.
2. Let Me tell you the truth. The greatest cankerworm destroying many here, that is what I want to tell you. Number one is presumptuous sin.
3. They presume and conclude that their presumption is right when it may not contain a single truth. That is one.
4. Number two is that they feel downgraded, disrespected, debased by God. That God is taking too much. Go home and think about these two cankerworms.
5. Before you hear somebody saying, “Let me go and talk to Him in His face”, that was what happened between Moses and the people of Israel. True or false?
6. And God said it happened for example and read for our learning that we should not try to go that way. They never knew they were confronting the Almighty God who was hidden in Moses. They never knew that Moses had no word of His own.
7. He was God’s mouthpiece like others. Moses had nothing to be careful about, for everything about him was under strict control of the Almighty.
8. And there was no other way to know when you provoke God if not paying attention to Moses and His reaction. Whatever is the reaction of Moses is the reaction of God that has veiled Himself in Moses.
9. That was why when the people sinned, they never went to the mountain or to the valley. The Bible said, they ran to Moses and said, “We have sinned against God”. [Numbers 21:7]
10. They knelt down at His feet. If there should be intercession, no Israeli, no Jew ever made any plea, intercession for himself. It behoveth on Moses to make intercession.
11. If there should be sin offering, who should offer the sacrifice? Moses. Is He not the high priest? Can you commit sin and offer sacrifice?
12. To rebate sin, you must go to the high priest, present the sacrifice and He will now use the sacrifice to mediate for you.
13. IF YOU KNOW WHO GOD IS, HAPPY ARE YOU. I MEAN, WORSHIPPING GOD HAS BEEN GREATLY SIMPLIFIED IN OUR DAY. SO, SALVATION IS NOW AT OUR DOORSTEP.
14. I read page 23 of the Message GOD IS WORSHIPPED BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS. Preached on 21st January, 2013 from verse 2:
15. Who is God to you? What is God to you? You worship God because of who He is to you. If it is not because of what He is, you have no right even to bow down before Him.
16. You revere Him, you praise Him, you adore Him, you exalt Him because of who He is to you. That is where I fell off at Enugu.
17. Let Me put it this way. Peradventure there may be any program with Me and Enugu tomorrow or any other person, do not ever give Me Deacon John Onyia as a protocol officer. Do not ever do that.
18. If he must do it, consult Me first. I hope you are hearing Me? Good. A protocol officer that keeps Me in the dark is not worthy of My acceptance.
19. Who is God to you? What is God to you? You worship God because of who He is to you. If it is not because of what He is, you have no right even to bow down before Him. You bow down before God because of who God is to you.
20. WHAT IS THE SON OF MAN TO YOU? AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE TO HIM.
21. I do not know what He is to you, but I know what He is to me. This is the basis of worship. What is God to you? Who is God to you? I go down to verse 8.
22. He can be your spare tyre. The person that can only be consulted as the last resort.
23. A true seed of God can never be tired of worshipping God. What! A true seed of God can never be tired of worshipping God.Once a seed of God is tired of worshipping God, he is already in the grave.
24. A true seed of God can never be tired of worshipping God.
25. You can never err until you forget what God has spoken on any matter. And you can never err until you allow some other things to take the position of God in your heart. Then God becomes secondary. “Later”. If He keeps quiet, it does not mean He is happy.
26. The scripture said that we should not allow anything to occupy the place of God in our heart. [1 John 5:21]
27. A true seed of God can never be tired of worshipping God. Once a seed of God is tired of worshipping God, he is already in the grave. Finish.
28. [This is] because he is a part of God. God is a part of him. How can you be tired? A stranger can be tired but a true seed, one that is born of God, how can you be tired?
29. What do you mean by being tired? You see, that is why we are against religion.
30. You can be old in everything but you can never be old in serving God.
31. Take your biro pen everybody, write these Scriptures. Psalm 19:13. King James Version first.
32. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
33. Living Bible: And keep me from deliberate wrongs;…keep me from what? …deliberate wrong;…
34. Anything presumptuous sin is deliberate and well calculated. It is conceived in the heart, manipulated in the heart.
35. It may not contain a single truth. Because I have taught you that, often times, presumption appears to be stronger than reality.
36. Even in journalism, investigative journalist is always advocated. Speculative journalism is very dangerous. True or false?
37. You just speculate and begin to write. The ignorant public will think it is truth. But an enlightened society takes delight in investigative journalism.
38. And keep me from deliberate wrongs; help me to stop doing them. Only then can I be free of guilt and innocent of some great crime.
39. Good News Bible.Keep me safe, also, from willful sins; don’t let them rule over me. Then I shall be perfect and free from the evil of sin. Thank you!
40. PRESUMPTION MEANS WILLFUL. IT MEANS DELIBERATE. You see why God said, “If there be anything that appears to be confusing to you, whether by words or by action or by implication, do not draw conclusion, ask question.”
41. If you do not ask question, you may not know the truth. That you know everything, do you know the mind of everybody? You only know your own mind. Do you know the mind of your brother or sister?
42. Are you a mind reader? Are you the Almighty? Who knoweth even the thoughts of every man’s heart? Or do you assume a position you do not occupy?
43. Remember, when you presume, you are likely to upset an innocent soul. You wound people ignorantly.
44. There is calmness in the Camp. And you can hardly go back and check all the while you have been presuming and presuming, how many turned out to be reality?
45. It can only be one in a million. It can only be one in a million, the rest were mere figments of imagination.
46. Let Me ask this question: How many will like to enjoy God’s blessings and protection and lose his salvation?
47. You run into the umbrella of God to shield you for the sake of protecting you here on earth, saving you from diverse calamities, blessing you with material blessings and deny you eternal life.
48. How many will be happy to have it that way? It then means you have missed the whole essence of God’s coming here and residing here.
49. From the same Message, GOD IS WORSHIPPED BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS page 57 from verse 14: You can be old in everything but you can never be old in serving God.
50. ONCE YOU ARE ABOVE CORRECTION, YOU ARE ABOVE GOD. THE MOMENT YOU ARE ABOVE CORRECTION, YOU ARE ABOVE GOD. ONCE YOU ARE ABOVE REBUKE, INDICTMENT, YOU ARE ABOVE GOD.
51. You have attained your own self-perfection. I said, self-perfection. NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL GOD HAS DECLARED THAT PERSON PERFECT.
52. Brethren, the problem we are having is that we hear God as we are hearing. Later it will be documented just as I am reading out this now.
53. It is like at the end of the day, everybody goes facing his own, “God, stay where you are. Whenever we come together again, we hear Him.”
Let Me tell you, I am standing here on “A RENEWED CONTRACT.” I said, “A RENEWED CONTRACT.” My “First Assignment” has gone away. Why? He looked round, according to Him, He could not find even one. He weighed everyone on the balance, He could not pick one that could take “the position” and He reasoned with Me. Nevertheless, to keep His Word, He paid the price. I said, He Himself paid the price and asked Me to continue on “A NEW CONTRACT” which shall soon unfolded to the Bride. It shall soon unfold. If you like call it Son of Man on His “SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY.” My first contract is over.
FORGIVENESS; Preached on Sunday 6th January 2008; Pg. 20 vs. 1 – 2
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I AM ON A SALVATION MISSION
1. SOM: Let Me chip in something. Experience has confirmed to Me and reports reaching Me from too many families, that God used Onitsha as a test case and commanded every other Local Assemblies never to join.
2. That He wants to prove something by telling them (Onitsha) to stop gathering on Wednesdays and that they should be meeting in their various houses as families.
3. Some pretended they were not happy, while they were jubilating within. Some were given the desires of their hearts.
4. Experience and information reaching Me has confirmed that the whole heathens in Onitsha are very happy that powers has been given to them to handle their families the way they want to and not the way the message wants;
5. To build their own doctrine and not Christ’s doctrine; to come up with their own personal interpretation of Messages that are clear, knowing that their wives cannot challenge it, their children cannot challenge it.
6. And they cannot bring their wives to come and preach. Neither do they permit their children. They are the gods.
7. And whatever they interpret and preach, they make it a law everybody must obey, even when members of the family know they are wrong.
8. And they can never preach any message that will ever touch their personal life. What they preach is their wife, their children and the need for them to obey, “I am the head. Obey your husband. Obey your father. This and that.”
9. But they will never preach anything that will touch their personal lives. So, it is a ticket to wield authority and fame in the home, and not to cause the family to obey God and respect God and walk according to the will of God.
10. Is it not a disastrous thing? Some will even go as far as placing a curse that they are speaking for the Son of Man. If anybody will wrestle against it, that the person is cursed. The person will go to hell.
11. Ticket has been given to them to propagate falsehood and nobody will ask them any question less you go to hell, when their characters are even contradicting the Faith.
12. They know what they will preach to justify their sin. They are already in heaven, but they are preaching because of their wife and children, when they are manifesting great shortcomings.
13. And they have even changed the time. They gather whenever the man wants and dismiss whenever the man wants. If he does not want, nobody will gather. I wonder whether anybody can be saved in Onitsha again.
14. Seeing that this experiment has failed, I will be stupid to tell others to borrow a cue from Onitsha.
15. There is no family that is not in bondage in Onitsha now, because their heathen husbands and fathers have change the thing well, well against the truth because they cannot obey. And they do not want the children to know the truth lest they find fault with them.
16. They are now turning the grace of God into another thing. That is why the wild life and wild profligacy.
17. They have money for ceremonies out there but not in our midst. And they do not provide money to take care of their homes.
18. But every burial ceremony even if it is in hellfire, they will be there. Wedding, they will be there. Naming ceremony, they will be there. Coronation, investitures, there are there.
19. Every associational meeting, they are there, but there is no money to run the family and you dare not ask why. If you misbehave, you are in trouble.
20. The family altar is for vengeance. Family altar is for Jezebel and not for Ahab. Onitsha families, am I bearing false witness?
21. If you know that I am speaking the truth, show by raising your hands, do not be afraid. [Many Brethren from Onitsha Household of God raised their hands] Brethren see hands.
22. And the Jezebel does not know that it takes an Ahab to marry a Jezebel. Why is she a Jezebel? It is not for murmuring and complaining against the preaching that contains no truth, but for cementing the man’s evil habit.
23. Some even placed a law, “Any day you report me to the Son of Man, this house will not accommodate us again. After all the message says, “I am the Son of Man in this house.’
24. Son of Man said that every man is the son of man over his household, whether he is living right or wrong.
25. BUT THEY WILL NOT QUOTE THAT WHOEVER THAT DOES NOT TAKE CARE OF HIS FAMILY IS WORSE THAN AN INFIDEL. No, that one is not mentioned at all. Nobody should talk about that one.
26. EVERY MAN WILL BE PASTOR OVER HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. What are you pastoring your family with? Are you giving them the sheep’s food or your own concocted food aimed at building fame? To God be the glory.
27. Then what shall we do to save families in Onitsha? I am mindful of My own. I will never dismantle it. Go ahead and carry your families to hell. Bye.
28. Apostle Ojiakor: I am forced to go through this Message, WE STUMBLE OVER THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD preached by THE SON OF MAN on 9th February, 2014; Page 52 verse 51.
29. Let Me tell you. I am on a salvation mission. And I know it is not easy to save a human being. Whatever it will take Me to kill that dangerous spirit, I will do it so that we will be liberated. Let us keep watch.
30. Please, I ask myself this question. THE SON OF MAN is doing everything to make sure I am saved.
31. And we are doing everything to make sure we perish. Even as He is doing everything to make sure I am saved.
32. SOM: Somebody told Me that it is only when they come here for Sunday fellowship that they listen to the truth from God that touches every man’s life.
33. But talk of what is coming up in their families, she said, “No! It is for me and my children, and not for my husband. Somebody who has no other message than quoting Job, “God help me to put my family as it should.”
34. And in what way is he desiring his family to go? To go in the way he wants, not in the way God has commanded. Is the person praying that the family will be saved?
35. Since you want the family to go the way you want, not the way God has commanded, you are greater than God then. You will save yourself and your family.
36. I know that many have noticed that they are heading to hell, and they do not want to go alone. They want to carry both their wife, their children, their property into hell. Pure truth!
37. Does a dying man seek the end of the war? When the devil lost the battle, he said, “What else can he have but the kingdom?” He began to discourage many from following God, lest they get that thing which he forfeited.
38. You see why, man or woman, you must be on your feet. If there is anything I will say now to encourage you, that is this: Be careful you are not in error while doing it.
39. IF YOU ARE SURE AND CERTAIN THAT YOUR HUSBAND IS OUT OF THE WAY OF TRUTH AND HE IS TRYING TO USE INTIMIDATION, EMBARRASSMENT TO FORCE YOU TO BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT TRUE, RAISE YOUR HAND AND RAISE OBJECTION.
40. IF HE DOES NOT LISTEN TO YOU, WALK OUT. GO AND REPORT TO THE NEAREST ELDER, BUT DO NOT REPORT TO AN ELDER WHO IS LIKE THEM. BECAUSE IF YOU REPORT TO A PARTNER IN CRIME, IT IS LIKE REPORTING ONYEMA TO PASTOR DAN. DID YOU HEAR ME?
41. IT IS LIKE REPORTING BROTHER SHED TO MIKE UDOH.
42. YOU COMPOUND YOUR PROBLEM. YOU REPORT SOMEBODY THAT IS BAD TO HIS ADVISER WHO MADE HIM BAD AND YOU WANT A GOOD ANSWER. HE WILL SPOIL HIM THE MORE SAYING, “DO NOT MIND THEM. LEAVE THEM ALONE. ONCE A MAN DIES, THAT IS THE END OF HIM.”
43. SO IF YOU ARE MAKING A REPORT, HAVE A DISCERNING SPIRIT TO KNOW THE TYPE OF PERSON YOU ARE GOING TO LEST YOU ENTER THE HAND OF YOUR ENEMY WHO IS PRAYING FOR THE DESTABILIZATION OF YOUR FAMILY AS WE HAVE WITNESSED HERE IN TIME PAST.
44. I did not say, come to Me because many had already been warned, “If you go to THE SON OF MAN, you are gone.” Do not come to Me.
45. PLEASE, IF YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THIS MATTER, WHEN YOU WANT TO REPORT TO YOUR FELLOW WOMAN, HAVE A DISCERNING SPIRIT, LEST YOU RUN INTO ANOTHER WRONG HAND. THIS IS PURE TRUTH.
46. Maybe the person you want to go to may be the one holding your husband captive, and not ready to allow him go. Understand?
47. WHO THEN WILL YOU GO TO? MAY THE HOLY SPIRIT HELP YOU TO SELECT A RELIABLE AND DEPENDABLE ELDER. FINISH!
48. Apostle Ojiakor: When Almighty God was saying that the heads of families at Onitsha have now built and wield authority around themselves.
49. A kingdom outside the truth.
50. I saw young, young brothers concurring, saying yes. Young brothers, even when Almighty God asked for the witnesses to the truth he has exposed. The majority of the hands were young brothers who are not yet married.
51. SOM: This is because they are victims.
52. What the Almighty is doing is that He is all out to salvage us, to save us. This is salvation ministry. Think about it.
53. I have even decided to be sending ministers I rely on to be paying surprise visits to families, especially on fellowship days, just to see whether somebody can be saved. This is because there are some families that do not meet at all.
54. On Wednesdays, the man will be at Egerton Street, Onitsha by 9 in the night, the wife will be at first gate, College of Education by 10 in the night, while the children will be where they are watching Man-U and Chelsea, Arsenal and Birmingham. Brethren, is it true or false?
55. Am I guilty of it? Am I responsible for it? Nobody crosses My gate after 7 o’clock in the evening.
56. Apostle Ojiakor: WE STUMBLE OVER THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD page 54 verse 58. The easiest way to check evil is by exposing it. I have made it public because you do not know the decision the Son of Man has taken this year until something has happened.
57. Now, it was a case He treated and I just read out this. God has flashed this and see what I have read out here where He said, “I am on a salvation mission. And I will do everything to save somebody.”
58. We Brothers, Husbands, Elders, Ministers, if we are actually co-labourers in the same vineyard, this should be our mission.
59. Everybody will now swear, “God, lead me along. To make sure I am an instrument, I am on the line, [duty line or line of duty] that God passes through me to save my family, for He is on a salvation mission.
60. All of us here have to be careful. We have to be very, very careful.
61. SOM: We do not need to be over-flogging a direct and clear Message. If we over-flog it, we may nullify the effectiveness.
62. On that note I say, “Apostle Ojiakor, invite the pastor to dismiss us.”
63. To those handling the compendium, please, I want you to redouble your efforts immediately. We have buried our late Bishop. The great task ahead is to get the second compendium published before the end of this year. Thank you very much, bye.