PREACHED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE GREAT MAHDI THE TWELFTH IMAM AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA
ON SUNDAY, 27TH JANUARY 2019
Learn of Me 6
CHAPTER SEVEN
Obedience to the Truth must be Total 84
EPILOGUE
1. Before we continue with our praises, I have an announcement to make. The Almighty God is here, and today, He has given us another opportunity.
2. And that opportunity is for you to pen down or write down whatever question that has been agitating your mind on any matter where you do not understand. To allay every fear, He said you should not write your name.
3. So when I come down now you start writing immediately any question at all. Write down do not write your name. And then we make sure the thing arrives here before He will call for it.
Christ has remained here on earth. The only difference is that He has been changing personality. But it has been that same old Eternal Spirit that has been incarnating and re-incarnating. And that is why people missed Him due to blindness. They are waiting for Him to come back and answer “Jesus.” ……All I am trying to say is this: That we are sure and certain that we are following God and not man for He is the only person that will speak and it will come to pass
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 18, Pg. 48 vs. 10 – 11, Pg. 54 vs. 6 & 8
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PARDON IS NO PARDON UNTIL IT IS ACCEPTED
1. Be seated everybody. Deacon Vin! Have you received My Message? Let Me shout it. Go to the Message titled I AM THE WORD, Volume One. Read chapters 1, 2 and 3.
2. I am here for another thing. Otherwise, you and your entire family would have left here this morning.
3. And I do not know whether you will smell this compound again unless for your business. God will not destroy a man without warning him. Go to the Message, I AM THE WORD Volume One. I AM THE WORD Volume One. Read chapters 1, 2 and 3.
4. Apostle Kelechi, I know you have read your own from verse 18. I AM THE WORD Volume One, chapter 1 from verse 18 where your name appeared. Good! I know I gave you last warning. I know I have given Deacon Vin last warning. I know that.
5. I want all of you to bear Me witness. I have waited for a very long time. So if I close My bowels of mercy now, it is not an act of wickedness.
6. You were all here with Me the day when I granted Ngozi Tobechukwu unconditional pardon. True or false? I equally said you should pass the Message across to her that she is free to come and worship God in her own way.
7. If you want to know everything about Ngozi Tobechukwu, the husband, the marriage and everything go to the Message I AM THE WORD Volume One. You will see everything about the family. God has finished with the matter long, long time ago. I hope you are hearing Me. Go through it.
8. Goddy Tobechukwu, with his mouth, declared to the entire world that he was not married to Ngozi. He said it even to Ngozi’s people, cemented it in his yard and denied all the children born to him by Ngozi.
9. I summoned the Elders, gave him instruction to attend his late mother-in-law’s burial. And I threatened him.
10. He said he was going to think about it and at the end, he flouted it. And the people took their decision. They came and took their daughter away.
11. Goddy came to me. I summoned the Elders. He pleaded that I should permit him to go and do whatever the in-laws said he must do.
12. He [Bro Goddy Tobechukwu] said that he has the money as at that time. Pastor Dan confirmed it. I granted him the lease to go. At the end of the day he fooled himself and he fooled his in-laws.
13. All boiled down to the fact that what he said is what he is doing. So, for that reason, the will of God must stand.
14. So, I am not standing on the will of man but on the will of God. I was looking forward to seeing a loop hole from where I can help them out, but at the end of the day, what God concluded is final. So up to this day, Ngozi never admitted the pardon. Her sin remaineth with her. The door is closed against her with effect from today 27th January, 2019.
IF YOU BELONG TO THE ELECT, BELIEVING GOD TO BE MAN, IT IS AN EASY CASE. THERE IS NOTHING DIFFICULT THERE. BUT IF YOU DO NOT BELONG TO THE ELECT, IT IS AN UNBEARABLE SAYING WHICH ATTRACTS DEATH PENALTY. …WHEN YOU KNOW THE SOURCE OF THE SPOKEN WORD, THAT THE SOURCE OF SPOKEN WORD IS THE MESSAGE OF GOD SENT TO YOU IN YOUR DAY, HAPPY ARE YOU. THAT HE HAS BECOME A HUMAN BEING, LIVING AMONG YOU, MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, IS NOT DEVIATING FROM THE ORDER; IT HAS BEEN GOD’S WAY FROM THE BEGINNING.
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 74, Pg. 178 vs. 14
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PERFECT LOVE DRIVES AWAY ALL FEARS
1. Our pastor announced that you should write your questions. Yes. Do not bring your questions here. Put them down in writing and submit them to the Pastor. Do not put your names. I am not interested in knowing your names.
2. To those who cannot write, I will like you to meet with your Pastor privately there or any other Minister. Tell the Minister what your question is all about and I will receive it.
3. But if you have the boldness and the courage to stand up and tell us, I will equally entertain it. But I am making a way for people that are feeble minded, people that do not have the perfect love of God in their hearts.
4. This is because if the love of God is not in your heart, fear will fill your heart as far as I live and the Word of God abideth forever.
5. Look at this monkey man. So you cannot monitor this thing. Yet, you are making tapes. You should be monitoring. That is why you are there.
6. If the sound is uncertain it will not deliver the Message. There was a Message William Braham preached titled UNCERTAIN SOUND. UNCERTAIN SOUND!
7. May be you do not know that in every community the town crier has a gong. There is another one made of wood we call Ikoro [a big wooden gong stationed at the village square]. The beating tells the community what is at stake.
8. If it is for normal meeting, the beating is different. If somebody dies, the beating is different. If it is for war, the beating is different. Is it not true?
9. You think God is not interested in those things. These were the means of communication in those days. Before these scientific gadgets were now invented, we were using gong and we were using the Ikoro, Uhie and things like that. It differs from community to community. The town crier was the announcer. Yes.
10. So if what you are doing is giving Me uncertain sound, which means it is echoing, it is left for you to control the echo, block the hole a little and filter it.
11. If you have been serious with that Ministry, by now, you should have trained many people. You have not even trained yourself because so many things are occupying your mind. You think I am here to play. Do not worry. You were with Me yesterday and you heard Me live.
12. I am not here to threaten anybody. I am here to help you. If I should threaten you, what is My gain? Threaten you for what? I am here to help you.
13. If you have perfect love in your heart, truly speaking, boldly, you can stand up and express yourself without any fear of being misunderstood by anybody.
14. This is because there is no fear in love. PERFECT LOVE DRIVES AWAY ALL FEARS. YOU ARE HERE TO LEARN. IF YOU WERE PERFECT, YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE.
15. So My duty is to help you, teach you that which you do not know, aiming at bringing you to a level where God will no longer have reason to ask you why. If I do not teach you, there is no need blaming you.
16. But if I have taken My time to teach you, the Almighty vindicating that what I am giving you is nothing but the truth, and at the end of the day, you do not manifest it, I am not guilty. You are guilty.
17. So feel free. Write out your questions. I will entertain all, God willing. That is why we are here this morning. I came as early as I could to erase all figment of doubt from the minds of everybody. Put down your questions.
18. Let Me help you. The three major areas: [1] Your doctrine, which is God. [2] Your family [3] Yourself.
19. [1] God, which bothers on teachings and doctrines, [2] family [3] Yourself. That is the summary.
20. Before then, it is My pleasure to give you morning tea. But I do not know whether this morning tea should come first or last. I should use this morning tea to summarize the questions and answers.
21. This is because, if I give you the morning tea, your questions and answers will neutralize the effect of that morning tea.
22. It is very very pertinent that I spare time for you today to entertain your questions.
23. A time came in the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, he discerned that many were not following. Reasons being that they were not understanding him. Neither were they understanding the parables. So he asked them a question, “UNDERSTANDETH THOU THIS?
24. They were sincere. No hypocrisy. They were not afraid. They said, “Master, how can we understand? Help us!” Then at his own private hour, the Bible said, “They went to him.” And he explained the meaning of the parables to them. Then they heaved a sigh of relieve.
25. At another time, he took out time and then explained who he is, the Word. At the end of the explanation, collectively they said, “Now you have spoken to us in plain language. We are no longer in doubt as to whether you are the one or not, for we are sure you are the very Messiah.”
26. So, I will like to receive the first gunshot. You are on equal platform. Do not look sideways. Look up to Me and look up to yourself.
27. Remember you are on your own. You have no appendage. You are not carrying anybody and nobody is carrying you. You are on your own.
28. So, that person you think might be laughing at you or at your question, it is better that person laughs at your question provided you will be satisfied. Laugh at Me but let Me clear My doubt. I do not want to be an unbeliever.
29. There is a message William Marion Branham preached titled, HEARING, UNDERSTANDING AND ACTING. When you hear and you do not understand, you will not act right. But if you hear and understand, you will act right.
30. With these explanations given so far, it is pertinent that I spend time with you to entertain your questions, if any.
31. Do not pretend as if you do not have question. Make no pretences about it at all. THE CLOUD IS HERE. So you are now free. I want to receive the first gunshot.
32. Remember, I will not give you the world of opportunities because I am not going to minster to you today, but I have a Word for you. Ministers will be coming here.
33. At least, I know our Pastor obtained permission from Me to give this pulpit to his fellow Pastor who is coming from afar. I consented to it, and I must give way.
34. Fire the first gunshot. I have not received any paper here. May be, you are collecting and piling instead of collecting and giving me. You want to transcribe it to a readable form? Is it not readable? Try and read now.
35. Attention everybody. One person’s question may be more than twenty person’s question. So if somebody asks the one that is agitating your mind all you need to do is to pay strict attention. Yes!
36. This is because what is agitating your mind may be in someone else’s mind.
37. If you cannot read it, give it to the person to read. If you write something we cannot read, it is useless.
…Do not ever be tempted to say that God does not want Me to speak. No! I am coming up with the Message. Satan made a mistake. I documented those things for your sake. And as for Me, the entire Message is in Me. I say, I AM THE MESSAGE. Amen!
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 54 vs. 6 & 8
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ONCE A WOMAN BELIEVES, SHE HAS BELIEVED
1. QUESTION: Does being a man give one express ticket to paradise? Number two! QUESTION: Does being a man make one to know all things or to have more understanding than a woman, or does it mean that women are not intelligent?
2. WELL, I AM HERE. I AM NOT REFERRING YOU TO SOMEBODY ELSE. WHATEVER YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE MAJESTY IS HERE. AS LONG AS THE CLOUD IS HERE, THE TOTALITY OF THE GODHEAD IS HERE. THE ORIGINAL BODY IS HERE. SO THE ELOHIM IS HERE.
3. For He was the one that told Ezekiel, “Your people are coming with questions. Do not begin to reason what you are going to answer, for whatever questions they want to ask, I will put My answer in your mouth. And you will give it to them.
4. Some are not asking because they do not know. They are coming to ask, tempting you. While some have already hidden their idols in their houses, in their heart and look at what they are saying in their private closet. Come closer to the wall hear them talk.”
5. NOW, I SAY, “THE CLOUD IS HERE. THE GODHEAD IS HERE. THE ORIGINAL BODY IS HERE. THE DEITY IS HERE.” Good!
6. And I am talking to you in the belief that from last Sunday till now, you must have rehearsed the teaching titled THE WORD. THE WORD. THE WORD introduces THE WORD. THE WORD answers THE WORD. THE WORD explains THE WORD. In the end, THE WORD will meet THE WORD, for Deep calleth deep. I am coming to something.
7. The reason why THE WORD is made flesh is that those that hear THE WORD will also be made flesh. Unless THE WORD is made flesh; unless THE WORD has became the hearer of THE WORD, THE WORD is not yet emptied into earthen vessels.
8. Take away THE WORD, the Son of Man is an earthen vessel. But the difference is that THE WORD is in him.
9. So, you are an earthen vessel and the Son of Man is striving to make sure you open yourself that THE WORD will now enter, dwell and you became earthen vessel filled with THE WORD.
10. Then THE WORD has become flesh. Then, that which I do, you can now do. whether I am there or not, for what is in Me is also in you.
11. Now pay attention. I want to go to the question. Does it mean that only men or once somebody becomes or is born a man, it gives him express ticket to paradise? [A man means male. M-A-L-E]That is the question?
12. The second question interpreted the first. The second said, “Does it mean that men are more intelligent than the women and that the women do not know anything?
13. Remember the other one: Is qualification for eternal life based on being a male human being, or are women included?
14. I am trying to explain the questions so that Tom, Dick and Harry will understand what the question that was asked is,
15. “Does it mean that being a male human being automatically qualifies the person for the Kingdom of God and that he has gotten eternal life? Does being a woman make you an unintelligent fellow, totally lacking understanding?
16. This question could also be paraphrased to be: Is the Kingdom of God and eternal life only for the men?
17. I believe I understood the questions. If there be any misconception, please call Me back. And I believe there would not be any misconception. IF I DO NOT HAVE A PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF ANY QUESTION, WHO ELSE WILL?
18. In as much as I am not trying to redirect the question or reframe it, let Me go straight to the answer.
19. ANSWER: IN CHRIST, THERE IS NO MALE AND THERE IS NO FEMALE. THE CONDITION FOR ETERNAL LIFE FOR MEN IS THE CONDITION FOR ETERNAL LIFE FOR WOMEN. AND WHAT IS THAT CONDITION? TRUST AND OBEY DOUBTING NOTHING. THAT IS THE SUMMARY.
20. If a woman hears the Word of God and obeys it with all her heart, she is qualified. If a man hears the Word and obeys, he is qualified. But if any hears but disobeys, no matter who you are, eternal life is not for you.
21. What shall I do that I may fulfil; that I might complete; that I may do all the works of God? He said, “Believe in him whom He has sent [John 6:28 – 29].
22. Whether man or woman, whether Greek, whether Jew, whether Barbarian, whether Arab, whether Egyptian, the same condition.
23. So in every place, in every family whosoever that heareth, obeys, honoureth, respects, reverences, worships in spirit and in truth, believing God, the same is made acceptable unto Him, man or woman. [Acts 10:35]
24. In the book of Philippians, precisely chapter 4, the Bible recorded lots of women. Some names were equally mentioned there by St. Paul when he mentioned Euodia and Syntyche, and too many other women whose names are in the book of life, who were also helping Paul and other ministers in the same ministry. [Philippians 4:2 – 3]
25. We saw Dorcas. [Acts 9:36] In the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Luke’s Gospel chapter 8 is very clear. The women, first of all, obeyed the Word. When they obeyed, they became disciples. They became a part of the ministry. They now rendered their services.
26. SO, IF YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED, DO NOT RENDER ANY SERVICE. THAT OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE IS NOT LIMITED TO WOMEN. IT IS FOR EVERYBODY.
27. EVEN THE SACRIFICE OF YOUR PRAISES IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO GOD, FOR AS LONG AS YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED THE WORD OF GOD, DO NOT EVER ATTEMPT TO RENDER ANY SACRIFICE.
28. IF I WILL USE MY OWN AUTHORITY HERE, I WILL SAY WITHOUT MINCING WORDS THAT WOMEN ARE MORE PRIVILEGED THAN MEN, AS FAR AS ETERNAL LIFE IS CONCERNED.
29. AS FAR AS ETERNAL LIFE IS CONCERNED, WOMEN ARE MORE OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD THAN MEN.
30. I WANT TO SAY IT AND AFFIRM IT. WOMEN OBEY THE WORD OF GOD MORE THAN MEN. THE PROBLEM IS THAT MEN HINDER WOMEN FROM COMING OUT FULLY TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR FAITH IN GOD.
31. Starting from the Old Testament, it has taken women to remind their husbands of the need to support the ministry of God.
32. Check Scriptures. All the prophets of old, they took delight in resting with women than men, for women were more sincere than men.
33. AS FAR AS SERVING GOD IS CONCERNED, WOMEN ARE MORE STRAIGHT FORWARD THAN MEN; MORE TRANSPARENT.
34. Men are filled with subtlety, craftiness and unnecessary politics. They give the impression that they are serving when they are not serving. Men take delight in eye service. Women are not known for eye service.
35. Let Me just tell you. This is why God grouped women where he grouped infants because they have straight forward faith.
36. ONCE A WOMAN BELIEVES SHE HAS BELIEVED. IF SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE, SHE WILL TELL YOU SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE, AND THAT SETTLES IT. BUT IT IS NOT SO WITH MEN.
37. If you watch infants, there is no difference between them and women. And God use them as examples, “Except you make yourself like these infants, you will never smell the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew 18:3 – 4]
38. LET ME NARROW IT THE OTHER WAY. ANY DAY A WOMAN BEGINS TO REACT TO THE HUSBAND ACCORDING TO THE MAN’S FOOLISHNESS, THAT HOME WILL SCATTER. ARE YOU HEARING WHAT I AM SAYING?
39. NOBODY ENDURES CHEATING; NOBODY ENDURES EMBARRASSMENT, HARASSMENT MORE THAN WOMEN. TRUE OR FALSE? IF A WOMAN REACTS ONE-TENTH TOWARDS A MAN’S FOOLISHNESS, THE MAN WILL BLOW OFF THE ROOF.
40. That is why the Igbo adage says that spots are better on the body of a python. But there is God who knoweth all things, who searches the hearts of everybody.
41. It is very rare for you to see a heart like that of Zachariah and Elizabeth. Very rare to see a heart like that of Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.
42. It is very rare to see a heart like that of Abraham and Sarah, who was even handed over to Abimelech for a wife, for the husband denied her.
43. And God restored her. Yet, that woman never queried the man or reacted, “Why did you deny me? So, you handed Me over. You divorced me. Nothing like that.
44. Even when her son was taken to sacrifice to God, she openeth not her mouth. She never grumbled or murmured. That is why, if there should be any human being that will be clothed with eternal life, begin to look for them among the Mary Magdalenes.
45. I say any human being. And I said, “Begin to look for them among the Mary Magdalenes, among Johns the Revelator, the Saint Peters, who amidst hostility pulled his sword.”
46. You know what it takes for somebody to express her love for her Messiah, even at the point of death. When everybody ran away, early hour the following day, the women went there, reasoning among themselves, “Who would roll away the stone for us to enable us anoint the body of our Saviour and our Lord with this ointment.”
47. No man ever remembered that that could be done according to the laws of the Jews, but these women, even at death, they were there. That was why He first revealed himself when he resurrected to the women.
48. And women have been found to be favoured by God more than men. Search your Scriptures. Now, if God is the same yesterday, today and forever, what do you think of men?
49. I am trying to explain the case of women as far as eternal life is concerned. I am coming to something. I have not finished with that one. I can give you examples.
50. If you look into the prophetic side, you look at people like Naomi, Ruth, Esther, who even volunteered her life, went to the king on a day that was not permitted, “If I perish, let me perish.” And she became a saviour. True or false?
51. So women are saviours. Women are saviours as far as God is concerned. There is no discrimination in eternal life.
52. ONCE YOU MEET THE QUALIFICATION WHICH MEANS, LOVING GOD WITH ALL YOUR LIFE, YOUR HEART, YOUR INTELLECT AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE MADE UP OF; YOU LOVE YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEING THE SAME WAY YOU LOVE YOURSELF; YOU OBEY THE VOICE OF THE MESSENGER GOD HAS SENT TO YOU, YOU HAVE FINISHED EVERYTHING.
53. LET ME TELL YOU. ANY WOMAN THAT FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO OBEY THE VOICE OF GOD IS A STRANGER; A COMPLETE STRANGER.
54. THE PROBLEM WE ARE HAVING IS THAT OUR MEN ARE SPOILERS. THEY ARE SPOILING OUR SISTERS. THEY ARE HINDERING THEM.
55. THERE ARE TOO MANY THINGS; TOO MANY REVELATIONS THEY HAVE. THEY DARE NOT SHARE THEM EVEN WITH THEIR HUSBANDS.
56. Some of them are aware that their husbands are unbelievers to this Faith, but they dare not voice it out. And this is why families are making noise.
57. That which you think your wife does not know, she knows better than you, but she is keeping quite so that peace will reign. Is that peace? No! It is not peace.
58. It is no peace until it is born out of obedience to truth. Anything that is not done according to truth is false. It can never last.
59. Let Me just tell you this. Of course you know what I mean. That somebody got stranded, [a brother so to say] and approached a Sister, pleaded that if she has some money, that he will like a little help to enable them transport themselves home after fellowship.
60. The Sister voluntarily offered sincerely, without having any grudges and without attaching any meaning. She just told the husband, “At the end of the fellowship, our Brethren were stranded. Brother came to Me and I gave them so, so and so amount to transport themselves.”
61. The man flared up. If not amazing grace, he would have beaten the wife to coma for assisting somebody who was stranded, attaching no meaning, expecting nothing in return.
62. That man who said he is a man of God, a husband and that woman, who did the will of God? But the man is basking on authority, “She did it without permission.”
63. This is because you know you are not willing to give. Even if you are approached you will even say that you do not have, when you have it.
64. You see, these are people who do not want to worship God and they do not want others to worship God. They know things that are commonly believed among us, but those things that are commonly believed among us are better practised by them, not by their wives.
65. When they practice their common belief, it is no sin. But if their wives will ever try it, she is divorced. Then who is doing the will of God?
66. I am saying that it will take God to speak for women, to stand for women and to defend them. No man has a defence.
67. When we talk about liberty, God has given us the liberty. It is not liberty to do evil. Is it not true?
68. But the liberty God has given to us is restricted to men. No woman exercises liberty. Not even one. They are living in bondage and they know they are living in bondage.
69. When I will come to responsibilities, you will now know that the responsibilities of the homes are now shouldered by the women, and yet men are not appreciating it. I am telling you God’s truth. I lie not in the Holy Spirit. But I do not want to go there until I receive a question from there. Let Me go back.
I know that many will disagree with this Godly Message which says that a man and a woman are equals because, man from the onset, finds it easier to believe lies that have been told several times than truth he just heard once. Man has been guilty of misinformation and holding on to false beliefs. Discrimination against girls and women in our society is a devastating reality. It results in millions of individual tragedies, which add up to lost potential for societies. There is a direct link between society’s attitude towards women and her progress socially and economically. The status of women is central to the health of a society. If one part suffers, so does the whole. Female gender discrimination means that girls and women do not have the same opportunities as boys and men for education, meaningful careers, political influence, and economic advancement, family care, etc.
Gender Discrimination, Culture and Religion, Torment of Choice; [undated]; pg. 11 paragraphs 1 – 3
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OBEDIENCE IS THE MATTER OF THE HEART
1. Now, to number two question that bothers on intelligence. Let Me narrow it down to wisdom. If I use intelligence, somebody may begin to misunderstand Me. We have intelligence quotient [IQ].
2. INTELLIGENCE IS NOT A MATTER OF MANHOOD OR WOMANHOOD. I HOPE I AM MAKING SENSE. YOUR MANHOOD OR WOMANHOOD HAS NO ROLE TO PLAY AS FAR AS INTELLIGENCE IS CONCERNED.
3. Your manhood can only play a role in reproduction, and that is social life. And your own has a role to play while that of the woman has her own role to play also. They play complementary roles. Is it not true?
4. But when we come to talk about intelligence, we talk about knowledge, we talk of understanding, we talk about wisdom.
5. It is through the application of whatever that is in you that we can begin to rate you. We can place you where you belong to without making any mistake.
6. Academically speaking, I do not have anything as a prove that men have performed better than women.
7. In all fields of human endeavour, there is no record of any particular field where women have not played their own roles. In science, they are there. In social life, they are there. In politics, they are there.
8. Now when we come to the knowledge of God, they have in-depth knowledge more than a lot of men, but for the fact they are prohibited from mounting the pulpit.
9. Remember it is only in our own Faith. It is only in the Bride of Christ Ministry. In the denominations, we have too many women General superintendents and General overseers of churches; I mean, administering the affairs of men of various calibres. They are counsellors to men, not only marriage counselling, but counsellors in all field. So we have it in all higher institutions.
10. Let Me just use our Sister. Sister permit Me to use you because you are holding the highest office any woman is holding here.
11. We have doctorate degree holders but she is more than a doctorate degree holder, for she is a professor and that is the highest your degree can take you to. So, I believe she has touched the sky.
12. She is a member of the senate in their own university. Men are there, and women are there by qualification. I say by qualification. You know what qualification entails. So, that which a man is qualified to do, a woman is also qualified to do it. Am I making sense?
13. How do you begin to underrate a woman that found her way to the presidential seat? Is she a cheap woman?
14. A woman administering the affairs of a whole country including the army, the police and others. I mean a woman is there as the president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Not only in Africa, but even everywhere.
15. I know why this question is coming. Please, whoever might be responsible for writing, you are already blessed and you will be blessed more and more.
16. Now in terms of intelligence, a lot of women here, if I should place them in the pulpit, they are better than all the Pastors and all the Apostles here.
17. If not for one reason, I would have used one this morning to handle Sunday school. You must go there for family altar. You will not find your feet.
18. So, the fact that you are carrying the Bible, wearing suit and then jumping up and down does not make the woman that is sitting down quiet and silent a nonentity. No! She is filled with THE WORD. She is filled with the Holy Spirit.
19. In terms of obedience, they are obeying more than men. Obedience is the matter of the heart. It is not something you begin to jump for and then hit the roof.
20. The best, the loudest that applauds a Message may be the greatest unbeliever. The best dancer might be the worst idolater.
21. THAT IS WHY GOD SEETH THE HEARTS OF ALL. HE DOES NOT LOOK AT YOUR FACES. HE LOOKS AT YOUR HEART. WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, GOD IS NOT INTERESTED, BUT HE IS ONLY INTERESTED ON THE MOTIVE.
22. ONCE THE MOTIVE IS RIGHT AND THE HEART IS RIGHT, GOD MARKS IT APPROVED. AM I MAKING SENSE?
23. SO WOMEN ARE NOT IN ANY WAY CHEAPER THAN MEN OR EXCLUDED IN ETERNAL LIFE OR LESS INTELLIGENT THAN MEN. NEVER NEVER! FOR INTELLIGENCE IS NOT A MATTER OF MANHOOD OR WOMANHOOD.
24. Do we need a prophet to tell us what we are seeing with our eyes that some men are mere statues and structures? You see them looking good in appearance but when they behave, when they talk, when they reason, you see how shallow-minded they are.
25. Infants are better than them. You will even be saying, “If this is what it takes to be a man, let me remain a woman till eternity.”
26. SO IF YOU ARE A WOMAN, BE PROUD OF YOUR COLOUR. IF YOU ARE A MAN BE PROUD OF YOUR COLOUR, IF YOU CAN DEFEND IT. I SAY, IF YOU CAN DEFEND IT.
27. I do not need to go back to telling you what it takes to be a man. You know that wearing trousers or wearing khakis does not make you a man. There is something that is expected of a man. As long as it is not there, you are not a man.
28. I think I have over-flogged this question. It is not because I intended it to be so, but I wanted everybody to get it to the grassroots that salvation is for whosoever, man or woman.
29. But the problem we are having is that we had already put ourselves in bondage before the Word of God came to us. So to de-bond us has become a big problem.
30. If a good number of us here heard this Message before we went into marrying wives, the person you are living with might not be your wife; might not be your husband. Yes!
31. Our homes are filled with misfits. I do not need a prophet tell Me that. I know husbands that speak and do everything on equal terms. And I know where there is superior and inferior. I know where these things operate.
32. IF YOU SEE A HOME THAT IS BEING RUN BY A TYRANT AND A DESPOTIC LEADER, YOU WILL KNOW. BUT IF YOU SEE A HOME THAT IS BEING RUN WITH THE WORD OF GOD, THE WORD OF LOVE, THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, BOTH MAN AND WOMAN, EVERYBODY SPEAKS ON EQUAL PLATFORM.
33. NOBODY IS IN BONDAGE BECAUSE WHEREVER THE SPIRIT OF GOD RULES THERE IS LIBERTY. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS. THE WORD I SPEAK TO YOU THEY ARE SPIRIT THEY ARE LIFE. [John 6:63]
34. If I am hearing THE WORD of eternal life; I am receiving it from God and Bro Onyema is My wife, hearing THE WORD, I do not need to tell Onyema what to do because he knows what to do.
35. I do not need to begin to judge Onyema. If he wants to perish, it is up to him. If I want to perish, it is up to Me.
36. If I must judge him, I will be judging him on the domestic side because My duty is to go and labour to get the food. And her duty is to prepare the food and give to everybody to eat.
37. While I am here working, she is at home taking care of the family which is the major reason. The other one which is raising children is a joint responsibility. She cannot raise the children alone.
38. Two of us must come together and children will come. When they come they are a joint responsibility. I cannot blame him and he cannot blame me. For My wife has her role and I have My role.
39. But all of them will work together to build up the family and the children. But concerning eternal life, who am I to dictate to My wife how she should worship her God?
40. Is she not receiving the Message I am receiving? She does not even need to consult Me. IT IS AN ABOMINATION FOR ONE TO CONSULT HIS BROTHER OR SISTER ON HOW TO WORSHIP GOD.
41. What if I put limitations which God did not put, then you obey me and disobey God? Judge for yourselves, “Is it comely to obey man than to obey God?” I mean, judge for yourself. Is it not scriptural as recorded in the Acts of the Apostle? [Acts 4:19]
42. That was when they were giving such command, limiting brethren on the extent they would worship God. They said, “No! We will not comply. Judge for yourself. Is it proper to obey man rather than God?”
… WHEN YOU HEAR DIVISION AND STRIFE, IT IS IN A FAMILY THAT DOES NOT HAVE ITS ORIENTATION IN CHRIST. A FAMILY WHOSE FOUNDATION IS NOT FROM THE SOLID ROCK, IT MUST SURELY DIVIDE! THUS, WHEN I SAY LIVE YOUR LIFE AS IF YOU ARE NOT MARRIED, I AM SAYING YOU SHOULD STOP WORSHIPING YOUR WIFE. STOP WORSHIPPING YOUR HUSBAND. WORSHIP GOD, OBEY GOD, REVERENCE GOD, YOU WILL NOW DISCOVER THAT INDIRECTLY THAT IN YOUR HONEST ATTEMPT TO REVERENCE GOD, OBEY GOD, WORSHIP GOD, YOU HAVE FULFILLED ALL THE DEMANDS OF YOUR HUSBAND WHO IS ALSO GODLY. IS THERE ANY OTHER THING A MAN IS DEMANDING FROM THE WIFE OTHER THAN WHAT GOD IS DEMANDING? AND THESE THINGS ARE RECIPROCAL. IN YOUR HUSBAND’S ATTEMPT TO FEAR GOD, HONOUR GOD, DO THE WILL OF GOD, YOU NOW DISCOVER HE WILL NOT HARM YOU. HE WILL NOT DO YOU HURT, HE CAN NEVER WALK CONTRARY, YOU WILL ENJOY HIM, HE WILL ENJOY YOU FOR YOU ARE ALL GODLY. AMEN.
I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE BUT STRIFE AND DIVISION; PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER 2017; PG. 66 VS. 60 – 62
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THE FAITH OF CHRIST IS THE MINISTRY OF GENEROSITY
1. A MAN IS GOD TO THE WIFE IF HE IS A MAN OF GOD, AND THAT IS ONE DOING THE WILL OF GOD. AND IF HE IS DOING THE WILL OF GOD, THE WIFE IS ALSO DOING THE WILL OF GOD.
2. YOU CANNOT BE A MAN OF GOD MARRYING A WOMAN OF DEVIL AND THEN THE TWO WILL BE LIVING TOGETHER.
3. ONCE I AM A MAN OF GOD, MY WIFE IS A WOMAN OF GOD. WHATEVER SHE IS DOING, MY DUTY IS TO KEEP ON ENCOURAGING HER UNTO GOOD WORKS BECAUSE WE ARE DOING THE SAME WORK.
4. Let Me put it this way. Her own side of the Ministry of the Son of Man, My wife is fulfilling it one hundred plus percent [100+%].
5. I praise her daily for her dexterity and her revelation, for she was very small when I married her. And she gave herself over to the Ministry of the saints to the point that she could forfeit her bedroom to the Brethren.
6. Elders, were you not in My house when I was sharing the testimony. Apostle Kelechi even confirming more.
7. When Okechukwu Nwankpa was wedding, My bedroom become a place where I hosted people that came from Lagos. I was sleeping on the ground with My wife.
8. Visitors were sleeping on My bed. My matrimonial bed. This is because that was the doctrine we received. That your Pastors and Ministers cannot sleep on the ground and you, being an ordinary member, sleep on the bed, even in your own house. And I obeyed to the letter without grumbling and without murmuring.
9. Bro Ben, is it not true? (He responded, “It is true sir.”). You benefited from it. (Bro Ben responded, “Yes My Lord”). You were sharing My bedroom with Me, with My wife, with your wife and everybody. And in how many rooms were we living?
10. My wife’s kitchen has remained burning. From that 1990 till now, she has never complained for one day. And I have not complained.
11. If I have been complaining, she will be complaining. I have never raised any eyebrow. She is never tired. She works overnight, giving herself over to the Ministry of the Saints.
12. I went further to tell you the extent she went, sponsoring families. All that wedded, she provided their materials and everything, even without consulting Me.
13. She bought everything for the wedding including the wrapper and everything without consulting Me. Why must she consult Me? Is it not her Ministry?
14. When I heard it, I gave God the glory that I have a generous wife who understands what the Faith of Christ is all about.
15. THE FAITH OF CHRIST IS THE MINISTRY OF GENEROSITY, MINISTRY OF HOSPITALITY, MINISTRY OF LOVE WITHOUT HYPOCRISY.
16. Some were coming for holidays. I mean the whole family. Pastor Chizoba reminded us of one who even came and said as he wrote in that letter. What was his request? [Pastor Chizoba answered.] Good!
17. That he wants to came to My family with his family for fattening. They want to come down, feed well and add weight. From the North. I allowed them to came and stay for one week. I never hindered any for one day.
18. Often times, I will be sleeping at the corridor to enable Brethren in My house. The first car I bought, I told them about it. I finished everything, super air-conditioned, but that car never came to My house.
19. Brethren went where it was being repaired, carried it from there and went on their missionary journey. I went in a public transport.
20. We went to Egbema in 2002. Charles Nwaobiara was carrying them. They left, carrying My motor. I came back in a 608 bus. I did not complain. Were they maintaining My vehicles? No! Was there any day they gave Me a bag of rice to feed Brethren? No!
21. This is 2019. Yet, that kitchen is still burning. It is still burning. It will remain burning. That is not all.
22. In spite of that, she helps Me in searching the Scriptures more than Apostle Kelechi here. Any Scripture she does not get, Apostle Kelechi will not get it, even right now.
23. Yet, that does not stop her from her activities even as a civil servant and also a student. Even as I am talking to you now, she is still a student pursing her Masters’ degree. Of course, all of you know that. How many years now?
24. From National Open University to ANSU [Anambra State University]. From ANSU to Nwafor Orizu [College of Education]. And then from Nwafor Orizu back to ANSU.
25. This is because she is preparing her landing ground. Any moment from now, she will retire and then enter the lecture hall.
26. So, please bear with Me. I know what I am talking about. WOMEN ARE MORE SINCERE AND MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD IN THIS MINISTRY THAN MEN, AS THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FROM GENESIS.
27. There are too many ideas in the hearts of our Sisters, but their husbands are the stumbling block. I am telling you God’s truth.
28. Let your brother come to your house and your wife will serve him food, the man will die that day. That man, his obituary will be published that day. I am telling you God’s truth.
29. Instead of helping Brethren according to the wife’s suggestion, he will prefer to throw it away.
30. LET ME TELL YOU. MEN WORSHIP THEIR MONEY. THEY DO NOT WORSHIP GOD. MEN WORSHIP THEIR MONEY. THEY DO NOT WORSHIP GOD. IF YOU KNOW WHO IS ANSWERING THIS QUESTION HAPPY ARE YOU?
31. Oh Ezekiel! They are coming with their questions. Fear not what you will answer, but what I will put into your mouth that you will declare to them.
32. MEN WORSHIP MONEY. I MEAN, MEN WORSHIP MONEY AS GOD. CHECK FROM GENESIS. WOMEN HAVE RECEIVED GOD’S VISITATIONS MORE THAN MEN.
33. WOMEN HAD ALWAYS BEEN INTRODUCING GOD TO THEIR HUSBANDS. WOMEN INTRODUCING CHRIST [GOD] TO THEIR HUSBANDS FROM GENESIS. CHECK VERY WELL.
34. Why is it that God does not appear to men? Is he afraid of men? Check your Scriptures. How many women joined hands in crucifying Jesus? How many women joined hands in killing the prophets? Not even one.
35. But a lady named Veronica courageously confronted the elders of Israel to rescue Jesus from their hands. They pushed her away. She used her handkerchief to wipe off the blood and the tears amidst troubles.
36. Men are fond of saying “Crucify him!”, but women will be sorrowing. They will be sorrowing. It is unfortunate they have no place in Nigerian politics, very unfortunate.
37. LET ME GO BACK AGAIN. SO SISTERS, YOUNG OR OLD, LET NO MAN EVER INTIMIDATE YOU, EMBARRASS YOU, HARASS YOU OR THREATEN YOU.
38. BETTER ACCEPT TO DIE AND GO TO HEAVEN THAN TO SUCCUMB TO THAT USELESS THREAT AND THEN GO TO HELL.
39. Remember, during the inquisition, the women that served God, were they spared? No! Did they deny their faith? Not even one woman denied her faith.
40. Some were skinned alive. They were still holding unto their faith. To some, they poured hot lead into their ears. Women! Their loved ones and their children were turned asunder, burnt before them. They never lost their conviction.
41. ONCE THE WOMAN HAS BELIEVED SHE HAS BELIEVED. AMEN. SO YOU ARE IN A BETTER POSITION IN THE HAND OF GOD THAN MEN SO CALLED AS FAR AS ETERNAL LIFE IS CONCERNED.
42. WHETHER YOU ARE POOR OR RICH, IT MAKES NO SENSE BEFORE GOD. AS LONG AS GOD LIVES, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR. NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL.
43. LET NOBODY EVER FOOL YOU THAT BEING A WOMAN HAS MADE YOU INFERIOR AND THAT YOU HAVE BECOME A CANDIDATE OF HELL.
44. God did not say so. God did not say it, and it is not found anywhere. It has never happened before and it cannot happen till eternity. Good.
In a Message titled “ARISE AND EAT FOR THE JOURNEY IS TOO FAR” preached in 1995, God said, “TAKE MY WORD, EAT MY WORD, TAKE ENOUGH OF MY WORD, FOR A DAY IS COMING WHEN EVERY MAN SHALL BE A PASTOR OVER HIS OWN FAMILY. WHEN IT BEGINS TO HAPPEN, IT IS WHAT YOU HAVE THAT YOU WILL NOW BEGIN TO DELIVER TO YOUR FAMILY. FOR EVERY FAMILY MUST LOOK UP TO THE HUSBANDMAN OF THAT FAMILY. FOR HE IS THE PASTOR OF THAT CHURCH IN HIS FAMILY. IF IT DOES NOT COME TO THAT ONE, I WILL COME DOWN FROM THE PULPIT.”
WE ARE SERVING A LIVING GOD; Preached on 15th January, 2012 Pg. 34 vs. 6
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IF YOU REFUSE TO STUDY, YOU REFUSE TO GROW
1. Another question. Only this one. Fine! I want to have many questions.
2. QUESTION: Please my Lord, how do I balance the Godhead and its characteristics?
3. Number two.QUESTION: How does a father play his role in his family especially towards knowing the status of his sons and daughters concerning the faith?
4. Number three. QUESTION: Please sir How do I retain God’s love, communication and His relationship with me?
5. ANSWER: How you want to balance the Godhead. Is it not? Well, I refer you to your Pastor. Brethren, did you hear Me right? There is no other thing I can do than to refer you to your Pastor.
6. Number two. I refer you to your Pastor also who will refer you to already preached doctrine there. CHRIST IS IDENTIFIED BY HIS CHARACTERISTICS.
7. Number three.How you want to retain the Word of God in your heart?There is no magic. There is no miracle. There is no magic. There is no miracle.
8. THE ONLY WAY THE WORD OF GOD CAN BE RETAINED IN YOUR HEART IS NEVER TO PERMIT ANYTHING THAT IS AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD TO COME INTO YOUR HEART. DO NOT ALLOW ANYTHING AT ALL TO TAKE THE PLACE OF GOD IN YOUR HEART. [THE WORD; Preached 13th January, 2019; Pg. 97 vs. 45– 53]
9. God and the devil cannot live in one heart. The moment you say no to the devil, you are saying welcome to Christ, which is the Word of God. Have I answered that one?
10. So concerning Godhead, Apostle Kelechi and the Pastors. Concerning Christ being identified by His characteristics, these doctrines are already in your sermon books. They will help you.
11. If I delve into it, it then means we are not going to go today. I have handled these things and I have documented all.
12. Now I will rather give you one solution to all these things. The solution is this: Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needed not be shamed but rightly dividing the Word of truth.
13. [2 Timothy 2:15] Till I come your way, give yourself over to studying and to prayers. [1 Timothy 4:13]
14. For it was through the study of the Scriptures that Daniel came to realized that they had only seventy weeks left. [Daniel 9:1 – 2]
15. It was through the study of the Scriptures that St. Paul came to realize that nobody could be saved by obeying Jewish laws, for nobody had ever obeyed them.
16. What if he never studied? He would not have discovered the amazing truth. So you have to study. If you refuse to study, you refuse to grow. Amen.
17. QUESTION: This question is from the Message THE WORD; page 28 verse 33.
18. “The days are over when you think that your carnal cleavage to the Son of Man will give you eternal life. No! It must take your spiritual cleavage.” I want to know the meaning of CLEAVAGE in the context of this Message.
19. ANSWER: Thank you very much. Well, it is a matter of semantics. Semantics means the use of language. The use of words. Cleavage means connection. True or false?
20. The days are over when people use to say it, though it is something that resembles truth but is not truth, that anybody who has Abraham as a father, can never go to hell.
21. This is the perfect interpretation. CARNAL CLEAVAGE means the Messages you already have: NO DECEPTION IS OF THE TRUTH and THE DANGERS OF OVER-FAMILIARITY.
22. CARNAL CLEAVAGE means, “He is my brother. She is my Sister. He is my townsman. I mean, my biological relation. He came from my community. He is my colleague. We even eat together. We sleep together. We have everything in common.”
23. For that reason, His Word has no meaning to you. So the days are over when people think that such consideration could give them eternal life.
24. Even from the very beginning, it never gave anybody eternal life. Even if you give yourself to be burnt for the sake of this gospel, but in disobedience to the truth, you are dying in vain.
25. That is why Jesus knew that many would be hanging on their carnal cleavage. He warned them ahead of time and said, “On that day, some will come to me saying “master, Lord, we ate and drank with you. We slept with you. We gave you dresses. We gave money. We did this and that. We even preached the gospel on your street. I mean, you saw us. We healed the sick. We prayed in your name.”
26. He said, “I will tell them, ‘Depart from me, for I know you not. For you were doing all those things with your lips when your heart was far from obeying the truth.’ ” [Matthew 7:21 – 23]
27. OBEDIENCE MUST BE FROM THE HEART. IF YOU DO NOT OBEY, DO NOT RENDER ANY SERVICE. SERVICE IS THE FRUIT OF OBEDIENCE.
28. The result of obedience is wholesome service and selfless service as a result of obedience to the truth and no sacrifice is too much to make. Have I answered it?
29. CARNAL CLEAVAGE; CARNAL CONNECTION IS NOT A CONSIDERATION FOR ETERNAL LIFE. If it is, the biological brothers and sisters of Jesus would have been in Paradise. True or false? But John and James, who paid strict attention to the Word, became beneficiaries.
30. Look at Martha. Martha thought carnal cleavage could have earned her the ticket by giving herself over to cooking, fetching firewood, doing everything to make sure that the master does not go hungry. And she came complaining.
31. “Master, since you came I have been encumbering myself to make sure you eat and drink before you will go, but look at my sister Mary. She has been sitting down here listening to you.”
32. Jesus turned and said, “O Martha, why troubling yourself over those nonsenses, while Mary has chosen the right path which no man can take away from her, sitting down, hearing the master speak.” [John 10: 38 – 42]
33. So I have answered it.
34. If carnal cleavage is a ticket to eternal life, I will tell My wife to go to main market to do whatever she wants. My children will not be here. Of what use?
35. Am I not their father? Is the Almighty not dwelling in me? Am I not holding the keys of heaven and hell? Why troubling them to be coming here, to be turning the pages of sermon books and the Bible; or paying attention?
36. I mean, if carnal cleavage is a ticket, My children will not be here. My wife will not be here. To do what again? It is a matter of doing hand like this and all of them will jump in. But it is not so.
37. Carnal cleavage did not give Lot’s wife salvation. Remember Lot’s wife. If carnal cleavage was enough, Lot would have pulled his wife. No man can allow that to befall him.
38. You think it is easy. You are in a journey with your wife and your children with an order, never to look back. And you were not quarrelling.
39. Because of the price, nobody looked back. The daughters never looked back. Lot never looked back. They got to the escape place before they realised that madam was no longer there. Whatever that happened to madam on the way, only God and madam knew
40. But to Lot, he thought that the wife was running after him. Seeing that the children were running and the foot falls were behind, there was no need looking back. Have I answered it?
41. CARNAL CLEAVAGE DOES NOT OFFER SALVATION. CARNAL CLEAVAGE DOES NOT OFFER ETERNAL LIFE, BUT OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH IS THE ONLY CONSIDERATION. AMEN.
42. Remember, Jesus was teaching like I am here teaching this morning. Some people came to him, “Master your parents, your brothers and sisters are out there looking for you.”
43. He turned to them and said, “Who are these my parents? Who are my brothers? Who are my sisters? My brothers and sisters are these people who are here, hearing my Word. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WILL DWELL WITH ME ETERNALLY IF THEY OBEY ME. [Matthew 12:46 – 50]
“THE SUPREME GOD THAT CREATED THE HEAVENS AND EARTH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE BRIDE. HE IS NOT TOO FAR FROM YOU. HE IS ALWAYS WITH US, CONSTANTLY WITH US, WATCHING US, PROGRAMMING OUR FOOTSTEPS. HE IS THE ONE THAT HAS TAKEN US TO THIS PARTICULAR POINT WHERE WE ARE NOW. I AM SAYING THAT I AM HE. YOUR UNBELIEF OR BELIEF CANNOT CHANGE IT. WE ARE NOT CONFRONTING ANYBODY. BUT EVERYTHING IS ON THE RUN. Amen.” … “IF YOU HAVE SEEN ME, YOU HAVE SEEN GOD. THERE IS NO GOD BESIDES ME. I AM THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD, BUT THE SKIN IS DECEIVING YOU.”
MODERN IDOLATRY; Pg. 72:54 – 55 & LEARN OF ME; Pg. 95:14.
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LEARN OF ME
1. Remember, He obeyed before he became the author of eternal life. True or false? Christ first obeyed and then became the author of eternal life to them that will obey. [Hebrews 5:9]
2. ETERNAL IS IN THE HAND OF A MAN AND THE MAN WHO HOLDS IT IS THE ONE WHO IS TALKING TO YOU.
3. If you go to 1st John 5:20, The son of man has come. He has given you an understanding that you might know him that is true and you are in him that is true, even in his son.This man is what? The true God and eternal life. Thank you.
4. 1st John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true,… we are in him that is true. Yes. …even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. KJV
5. And we know that Christ God’s son has come to help us understand and find the true God and now we are in God because we are in Christ His son who is the only true God and he is eternal life. LB
6. Have you heard it? The only true God and he is eternal life.
7. And we [have seen and] know [positively] that the Son of God has [actually] come to this world and has given us understanding and insight [progressively] to perceive (recognize) and come to know better and more clearly Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true–in His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). This [Man] is the true God and Life eternal. AMP
8. Hebrew 5 verse 8 – 9 8though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; KJV
9. He obeyed and became the author of eternal salvation. Yes! That is what I want to hear.
10. Hebrews 5:8 to 9 8though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
11. 8Although He was a Son, He learned [active, special] obedience…
12. …through what He suffered
13. 9And, [His completed experience] making Him perfectly [equipped], He became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to ALL THOSE WHO GIVE HEED AND OBEY HIM, AMP
14. He became the Author of eternal salvation to ALL THOSE WHO PAY HEED AND OBEY HIM. DID HE SAY MAN OR WOMAN? Whether you are a man or whether you are a woman is not considered. ALL MEANS ALL.
15. You think He never suffered. He learnt active obedience through the things he suffered. So there is nothing you are passing through which the Son of Man is not passing through.
16. If this Message is harsh on you, it is harsher on Me because I am your Teacher. If I should go contrary, My punishment will be ten times.
17. And I must obey before I accuse you of disobedience. If I do not obey, who will obey then? That is why I have told you, “If I teach anything, and you do not know how to handle it, you find it difficult to obey, watch the way I do it. That is exactly what God wants from you.
18. Who can accuse Me of unbelief to any iota of My doctrine? Who can rake it up? And I will repent now. That is why My door is always open to all of you, 24 hours of the day. I have no secret. You all know where I am living. Both here and at home.
19. Thank God Bro IK is here. Is there any room that has any key? Both upstairs and downstairs? You have access even to My bedrooms. So if I have a shrine, you know. If I do not have, you know.
20. Here at Nsugbe, no key. Only that first entrance. No other place. Everywhere is open. That was why the robbers ransacked everything because they had a field day. There was no key anywhere.
21. I do not trouble myself over those things because whether I like it or not, I am passing away with time. My life is not tied to any earthly thing. I say, My life is not tied to anything earthly. Never never!
22. If you have come into contact with Me or you are acquainted with Me, you will always be happy. You will always be happy the way I handle earthly things or material things.
23. They do not give Me headache one bit because they have no guarantee of permanence, whether you like it or not. You are leaving them behind, whether you like it or not. Amen.
24. The day I came into this world, I came empty-handed. While I will be leaving, I will be leaving with one casket. And that casket, I will drop it in the grave. It does not belong to me o! We do not ponder or meditate.
25. Few months ago, we were here with Bro Goddy Ikechebere, but today we are planning his burial. Yet, the living cannot think. The living cannot think.
26. WHATEVER THAT THING MIGHT BE THAT IS MAKING YOU TO BE UNFAITHFUL TO GOD, CHECK IT VERY WELL. IT MUST BE SOMETHING YOU INHERITED FROM HERE. YOU WILL LEAVE IT HERE. I think I have solved that of carnal cleavage.
….And I gave them four things you must settle before you begin to worship God. Four things! You must settle it as an individual. If you do not settle these four, you are worshipping in vain. Number one is CONVICTION: Settle it. ARE YOU CONVINCED ABOUT THE GOD THAT HAS BEEN REVEALED IN THE MIDST OF THE BRIDE WHO IS DEMANDING IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORD AND INSTRUCTIONS? Are you convinced that He is the True and the Only God? Are you convinced that He is the Real One? Are you convinced? That is number one. CONVICTION…
Learn To Possess You Vessels in Honour; Preached 4th June, 2018; Pg. 56 vs. 3 – 4
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OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH MUST BE TOTAL
1. QUESTION: If you are married and your partner claims to be a believer of the Message, but practically denying every aspect in principle, what do you do?
2. ANSWER: That your partner is an unbeliever now. I am living with a pagan. Yes! Once I am sure and certain that he is an unbeliever, and I try to bring him to conviction and he is saying No, I must pack.
3. I must obey the Scriptures, “Let the unbelieving partner depart.” I am not under obligation. [1st Corinthians 7:14 – 15]
4. A MAN IS NOT MARRIED UNTIL HE HAS MARRIED ONE WHO IS SERVING THE SAME GOD HE IS SERVING.
5. The prophet said the same thing; Marry one that believes what you believe so that when you say, “Amen!”, she will say, “Amen.”
6. In the same way, you must go to the church that believes what you believe, so that when you kneel down to pray, you pray with one accord.
7. How can I harbour somebody who is fighting My Faith and I call her wife? Do you not know that all your children will be unbelievers? Children that are born in unbelieving homes are pagan. That is how iniquity is multiplied.
8. Are you wiser than God who came up in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, used His mighty hand, called the elders and then sent all heathen women back to their parents, together with their children? For their children could not speak Jewish language.
9. The Bible made it clear that the reason why God permits us to marry one another in our midst is to enable us raise godly children and have godly descendant. So you do not marry anyhow if you are a seed of God.
10. EVEN WHEN YOU WERE NOT IN THIS FAITH, YOU WERE ALSO A SEED OF GOD, FOR THE SEED OF GOD ABIDETH IN YOU. A MAN MARRIES HIS CHARACTER. A MAN MARRIES HIS CHARACTER.
11. If you are not marrying your character, one is a misfit. And trouble will never stop there. How do you know whether your wife is your character? Give her the Word. How do you know whether your husband believes in God? Give him the Word.
12. If there be any aspect of the doctrines of Christ your husband does not agree with, know him as a heathen, a pagan. It is as cleared as the day because the moment you refuse to obey one, you have not obeyed any. Your obedience is not complete.
13. BE IT KNOWN TO YOU THAT YOUR OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH MUST BE TOTAL.
14. If you go to the book of James it said summit yourself totally to the Almighty God, to the will of God. [James 4:7] That is why ISLAM means TOTAL SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF GOD, TO ALLAH.
15. Have you wondered why no Moslem struggles over land for anything. For according to the Holy Quran the owner of the land is Jehovah; is Allah. Another person the developer.
16. Whoever that develops the land is the owner of the land. So, as long as it is empty and nobody is developing it, Allah owns it. But if tomorrow you jump into there and develop it, it becomes your own.
17. You know, there are some sections of our Laws people find difficult to invoke. Constitutionally, according to the Land Use Act, if you have lived in a land for ten years undisturbed, that land automatically belongs to you. True or false? [Bro Ifeanyi Enemmuo, a Barrister at law answered, “True sir!”]
18. But today, you can live for one million years and somebody will be claiming the same land.
19. If you have lived in a particular land for ten consecutive years undisturbed, nobody querying you or querying your habitation, the laws say that the land belongs to you legally.
20. Go to any court, you will lose your case [if you contend for it with the inhabitants]. I am not here to teach you law. I am here to teach you the truth.
21. QUESTION: If you have said the truth concerning any matter yet, you are termed or called a liar, what do you do?
22. QUESTION: If you have done everything sincerely according to the Message yet, voices continue to roar on you, what do you do?
23. QUESTION: A situation where a Minister comes to you for something, but has a selfish motive and because you could not meet the demands, he then builds a Message just to intimidate you and he also goes about giving wrong testimonies about you, what do you do?
24. ANSWER: Is that all? Okay pay attention. Everybody pay attention, for everybody is involved here. Give Me that number two again.
25. WHEN YOU HAVE SPOKEN THE TRUTH ABOUT A MATTER; THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, LEAVE IT THERE.
26. Let your yea be yea. And your nay, nay. Any other thing is from the devil. I do not speak the truth so that you believe me. I tell you the truth to clear My consciences before you and before God.
27. For I know that I should not tell you lie because we are Brethren. And if I tell you lies on any matter, I am deceiving you. You will act on My deceit and your life may be endangered. So I better tell you the truth and bear the consequences of speaking the truth.
28. Often times, truth attracts dangerous consequences, especially when it is told to an unbeliever. If you tell an unbeliever the truth, you are in trouble, for an unbeliever loves to be told lies. But must you tell him lies because he is an unbeliever? The answer is No!
29. Tell him the truth and let him do that which he wants to do. And then God is there to intervene. Humanity will hear. There must be one that will be anointed with the spirit of truth who will ask questions.
30. So when you have told anybody, even the Almighty God, the truth from the bottom of your heart, whether he is believing or not, leave it there.
31. QUESTION: If you have sincerely done everything according to the message….
32. ANSWER: Okay! You have sincerely done everything according to the Message. That is, the way you understood the Message. I hope I am making sense.
33. You have done everything according the way you understood the Message, for your understanding may differ from the truth. Yes. You can be sincerely wrong.
34. IF YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING ACCORDING TO THE MESSAGE, AND THE PERSON YOU ARE HAVING DEALINGS WITH APPEARS TO BE MISUNDERSTANDING YOU, PLEASE DO NOT EVER QUARREL.
35. [1]Consult a Minister who will not look at your face or at the face of the person that is involved.
36. [2]Tell the person [the Minister] the extent you have gone with the truth you know and what the person is saying or doing about it.
37. [3]Pay attention as you will be properly guided because not everybody has our Faith.
38. Although we are here, I am sure not all of you here have the Faith of the Son of Man, which you must have without respect of persons. Have not the Faith of Christ, the Lord of glory with respect of persons.
39. So if the person is not showing understanding, go to a Minister that you trust, that will not have respect of faces that will not mislead you.
40. Tell him what you have done peradventure you must have misapplied the Message. Is it possible? Yes!
41. Even St. Paul, in spite of his knowledge of the laws of the Jews, misapplied the faith due to ignorance. But when he was corrected, he became very happy and then followed the right path.
42. A wise man allows the wiser counsel to prevail. By wise man, I mean, man and woman. So do not ever be expecting Me to say a wise woman, wise man. Wisdom has no discrimination. There is no gender discrimination in wisdom.
43. QUESTION: The other one is somebody comes to you for one thing or the other with impure motive, selfish motive. And because you could not meet the person’s needs, he frames a message.
44. Because he knows you may not have access to the pulpit so easily, he frames a Message and goes to the pulpit to clamp down on you. What do you do in that regard?
45. ANSWER: Please pay attention. Number one: Are you sure you have the correct discerning spirit to discern that the person come with wrong motive?
46. Pay attention there. Are you sure? This is because discernment is a matter of the individual?Am I making sense? Am I sure I am rightly discerning the heart of My brother?
47. This is because somebody who does not want to help in any form or shape may have his or her reasons. Are you sure the person has wrong motive? Are you sure the person is not sincere in his request?
48. If you are sure then, and because you refused, he goes to the pulpit to clamp down on you, feel free. It is a sure sign that the message cannot lift a pin.
49. The message cannot encourage anybody unto good works because it is a message that is being handled with unclean hands and an unclean heart. It can never yield any result.
50. A MESSAGE IS NOT FROM GOD UNTIL IT IS INSPIRED OF GOD. I HOPE YOU ARE HEARING ME. A MESSAGE IS NOT FROM GOD UNLESS IT IS INSPIRED OF GOD.
51. Check! No prophecy of any Scripture has any private interpretation, for they never came by the will of man, but by the will of God. For the Holy men of God spoke as they were inspired by the spirit of God. [2nd Peter 1:20 – 21] True or false? So if it is not inspired by the spirit of God, it is inspired by the spirit of the devil.
52. In every request, yes is answer. No is an answer. True or false? I may have it and refuse to give. Will you kill me? I am sincere and I have told you I am not giving it to you. Finish. I will go My way.
53. I would not tell you that I do not have it. And I would not give you reason why I do not want to give you. But the truth is that I said I am not giving you. Let your yea be your yea and your nay, your nay.
54. Stop interpreting. Stop trying to discern whether impure motive or pure motive. It will lead you into error and that error is dangerous because it will lead to presumption sin. What if you presumed wrongly? Then you became guilty.
55. That is why I have told you, “I treat everybody on face value and on the basis of who you are. You remain My brother and you remain My sister, until I prove you otherwise.” Amen
Did you get the Message? “Anybody the Son wills deliberately.” It is not because you merit it or you have persuaded Him or you have prayed and prayed, or you have ever found favour, He has just deliberately decided. That is why I keep on telling you in this Faith that you do not know Me yet. In addition, there are things I believe which you do not believe and you do not have My Faith yet. But you are trying to have My Faith. When My Faith will be fully revealed in the Bride, you will know that I am He, but My Faith cannot be fully revealed in the Bride until you have lined up with One Voice.
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 185 vs. 27