Preached on SUNDAY 11TH FEBRUARY, 2018 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE JUDGE OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE BEWARE OF MIXED MULTITUDE (1)
Now I am crossing over. BEWARE OF MIXED MULTITUDE. Be wary of the mixed multitude, the make-believers that are still hanging on in our midst.
2. No matter the positions they are occupying in this Bridal Ministry, do not accord them any respect, for they do not merit it.
3. Only those that walk in conformity with the revealed Word of God should earn the respect of the children of God. The rest would not, for humiliation awaits all of them that are not walking in line with the Truth that has been evidently set before their eyes and they echoed loud Amen, only to go home to annul it and cause others to disobey it.
4. Yet they come here every day to dance around us, giving us the impression that they are with us when they are enemies of the Cross of Christ, for they are planning nothing but to take us back to the Cross. There is no other thing; reverting us to those things that are unprofitable for which cause Christ came and paid the price once and for all. That is their aim. The Judaizers among us. The dogs, the Nicolaitans.
5. They have their doctrines. Do not forget about the doctrines of the Nicolaitans. “Nico” means minority conquering majority. Minority conquering the laity with their useless doctrines. Be wary of the Herodians. The Herodians mended fences with the Pilates to suppress Truth. Whenever you come across the Herodians, you think they belong to you.
6. If they see a man from Assemblies of God, they will join hands with him to persecute you. You see somebody you call your Brother taking sides with Deeper life to tell them that you do not even join them in what they are doing. That you do not join in the prayer. That as for him [the herodian] that he does not believe everything. That is where you will hear it.
7. It is just like one that use to come here. He will say, “In the Assemblies of God, they tell you not to take alcoholic drink, but I drink all. What I believe is not what Assemblies believe. It is true that I am a deacon.”
8. He is a deacon in Assemblies. He will still have his fill of alcoholic drinks. He will still proclaim that he does not believe what Assemblies believe even while he is a deacon there.
9. If he sees his members approaching, he will tell you to keep the drink on my own side so that they will not know that he is the one drinking it. You tell him that you will help him finish it. He will disagree vehemently even holding you on your legs. He does this to Me steady.
10. I may tease him, “Neighbour, let Me help you finish the drink.”
11. He will struggle for it with all his life because all his attention is still on the drink. Before his Church member leaves, he has collected the drink with his left hands, “There is no other time this person will come to greet you if not now that I am enjoying this drink.”
12. People that are not sincere with what they say they believe. Yet they sit down here. When you look at the person, you will think that he or she understands what the Message is all about. That is why the judgment has come at last, for without God judging His people, you would not know who is who.
13. The one you think is Holy Ghost-filled might turn out to be the naked devil. If an unbeliever is pointed out to you in the Camp now, you will never believe that such a person is an unbeliever. But anyone you call an unbeliever will be very much offended. It is better that judgment should come so that we can look at the record book to know who has passed. Amen.
14. There is no Expo in this one. You cannot manufacture it. Be wary. Be careful. Be vigilant. Be on the alert. There are mixed multitudes around you. Make-believers and some naked heathens. Many of them may be your Ministers that will be here shouting like I am shouting now.
15. They may preach more than Me, balance Scriptures, all to impress you, to make you believe that they are real, Holy Ghost-filled men of God, when they are not.
16. Even if when you preach, the stars of Heaven will fall down, live Me the Gospel. Go back to the Message titled, IS YOUR LIFE [YOUR CHARACTER] WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL YOU PREACH? Is your life worthy of the Gospel you say you believe? If you say you believe, where is the evidence?
17. This is the judgment already and I will recompense, I will compensate, I will determine, I will settle, solve the cause and cases of My people. Whether you like it or not, I must be God over you.
18. Whether you like it or not, believe it or not, in the end, only a hand-picked minority will make it and this will only be those that will make it by the election of Grace, who have declared themselves helpless.
19. Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak but Thou art mighty, hold me with Thy powerful hand. Songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee. Thank you Lord. Songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee.
20. I am weak, but He is Mighty. Just a closer walk with Thee; Grant it Saviour is My plea; Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. I am weak but Thou art strong, Lord keep me from all wrong; I’ll be satisfied as long as I walk let me walk close to Thee. This should be our song. This should be our story. Do you offer help to one that still has the strength to keep fighting? Keep fighting.
21. The joy of the Lord is the strength of His people. For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The Word is reviving. The Word is food. The Word gives energy.
22. Numbers chapter 11 verse 4. “And the mixed multitude among them…”
23. Note what the Bible wrote. And the mixed multitude among them
24. “…And the mixed multitude among them [the rabble who followed Israel from Egypt]…
25. What? Rabble! Spell it. R.A.B.B.L.E. (Crowd)
26. “…[the rabble who followed Israel from Egypt]…”
27. They followed Israel from Egypt, from the official beginning. They heard, “Pharaoh, let My people go.”
28. When the people were leaving, the rabble followed. The mixed multitude followed. Look at what they did. Why you must be wary of them for they followed us from the beginning and they are still here. Some of them were married before they came in. Some got hooked up to their girlfriends before they embraced the Faith.
29. We permitted them to marry, believing that the Word will tell us who is who because if anybody says he is a Seed of God, you give him the Word test. If he accepts the Word, you accept him. If he rejects the Word, reject him. That is why we cannot call you unbeliever or believer. The Word has the final say.
30. “…[the rabble who followed Israel from Egypt] began to lust greatly [for familiar and dainty food], and the Israelites wept again and said, Who will give us meat to eat?” AMP
31. They have stirred up trouble. See the mixed multitude that refused to go back, who joined from Egypt, crossed the Red Sea. This thing is happening in the wilderness.
32. Can you imagine! The people God rescued. The mixed multitude crossed the Red Sea. Whatever the children of God enjoyed, they enjoyed. When they got to a dry land they stirred up trouble.
33. “And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?” KJV
34. “There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites.”
35. There were what? Foreigners! Travelling with Israel from Egypt. Foreign, foreign, foreign people joined. You talk and talk and talk, they will remain here.
36. In every Local Assembly, they are in the majority. It is documented in The Great Sermon, including Onitsha Local Assembly. Foreigners are in the majority.
37. Let Me tell you. Nature speaks louder than this. In every city, foreigners are greater than the indigenes.
38. Here in Onitsha, foreigners are greater. In Enugu, foreigners are greater. In Nsukka, foreigners are greater. Who is fooling who? Do you want Me to believe that all of you are children of God? Is it because you dance? The Son of Man has refused. I refuse completely and publicly.
39. “There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat,…” They had what? “…a strong craving for meat…”
40. They had a strong craving for meat. The cause of the trouble now is meat. They now remembered the lumps of meat and the way they were eating it in Egypt. Coming to the wilderness, they did not see any meat.
41. “Nna, every day eba, no meat. Every day eba, no meat. White eba even. No! These people want us to die here o. It would have been better for us if we were left in Egypt to eat as we like and still continue with our suffering.”
42. The real people of God heard it. Not knowing that they were foreigners, they now joined in complaining and murmuring, and regretting the journey.
43. Yesterday, I told Elders that you will even hear wives saying that they are regretting the day their husbands married them. That same night I received a call.
44. THE SON OF MAN ASKED A BROTHER: What did you tell Me? Speak!
45. THE BROTHER ANSWERED: There is problem in my family.
46. THE SON OF MAN: What was your wife saying? Or is it Ben that was saying it?
47. THE BROTHER ANSWERED: My woman said that she is regretting my marriage, even the Evangelist self.
48. THE SON OF MAN: That she regrets why she married him. The wife regrets why she married him. Is it?
49. THE BROTHER ANSWERED: Yes! And she said that she is not my grade.
50. Elders that were in My house, 100%. Did anybody know that such a thing was on? We ended our Meeting at some minutes after 7:00pm and I was called after 9:00pm in the night, reporting this case, using the words I used before the Elders: What they should be expecting from families now. A sign that God’s judgment is there.
51. Another one is a statement: “If not for this Faith, I would have committed murder.”
52. Judgment is at work there. Another one is holding the man on the neck, refusing him to talk and refusing him to go out. All the signs I placed fulfilled before their eyes. There are no stories you will not hear.
53. Do not worry. Some will even lock up their wives inside the room, refuse them to go to work, refuse them to go to market, even to cook. Imprison them illegally, not minding what the law is saying. Some will even buy hand-cuff. Get ready. People will be having scanty teeth in their mouths. If the man does not kick out some, the wife will kick out some. Broken bones. Broken ribs.
54. All they are watching as Chicago wrestling, Japanese wrestling, you will see them. Blood will mean nothing to them from now. Stories in the Bride, for the hand of God is at work. Judgment is at work. Many will even try to commit suicide. With the rope they will strangle themselves. Then the neighbours will then help to bring him down.
55. This is the time the evil man will continue in his evil. The good fellow will continue in his goodness. No U-turn, unless you pray each time you hear the thing touching you.
56. Repent! Change your mind, instantly there. Do not say, “When I get home.” If you get home, another devil is waiting for you.
57. The devil that is not ready to change is waiting. Will only show interest in what you heard. And from what you heard will fire questions, suggesting that that one you are holding, “E no concern me. Is that all that you heard?”
58. I hope you love this Message. I know you do not love it. I know nobody loves it. You are just pretending. You are filled with strong forebodings.
59. There is a type of Message that gives joy. Those that were set free are now asking, “What type of freedom is this? This one is greater than the one we have been hearing before.” It is not greater. Amen.
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BEWARE OF MIXED MULTITUDE (2)
God is The Righteous Judge. Do you know why I love God most? If not God, nobody will ever adjudge the case of a Pharisee and declare a Pharisee guilty. It takes God to declare a Pharisee guilty. And if not the Word of God, there is nothing that can help God to handle the case of a Pharisee.
2. Beware of the Pharisees here. Remember they are spirits. The Nicolaitans. The mixed multitude who specialize in stirring up complaining, arguments and murmuring aiming at taking people back to Egypt, taking them to areas we had crossed long long time ago.
3. “There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves began to complain: “If only we could have some meat!” GNB
4. They started complaining. Who brought about the complaining?
5. Numbers 14 from verse 26 through 35. KJV “And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation,…”
6. How long shall I bear with this evil congregation? What made them evil? The presence of strangers who had no other stock in trade than to inject poison, inject falsehood, their unbelief into the hearts of the real children of God because the children of God could not separate. They could not identify them to be foreigners: “Remain blessed Brother. Remain blessed Sister.”
7. Because they were there from the very official beginning. Can that stop them from being what they are? You are what you are. I am what I am. You cannot be a stranger and an indigene at the same time.
8. “….How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me?”
9. Which does what? Murmur against Me. Can you imagine? Who brought about murmuring? Who stirred it up? Murmuring is rebellion. Mixed multitudes, strangers that mingled with the real children of God and refused to go, refused to change. Some of them [strangers] gained prominence even among them. Yes!
10. Remember the history of Sanballat and Tobiah who were even vying for celebrated seats in the congregation of God’s people, not minding that they were strangers, who were opposed to God’s move.
11. And God warned, on completion of the temple, that such people are bound to come for they are influential. They have the wherewithal to fight their ways into your midst. Do not give them a chance that the truth of the Gospel might continue.
12. A little while, Sanballat and Tobiah came, vying for positions in the pulpit. Then, the prophets reminded the people what the Lord had earlier said. They bundled them hands and feet and threw them out. In short, they hauled them out.
13. We had that inscription here from the beginning. It said, “BEWARE OF SANBALLAT AND TOBIAH” that have never believed from the beginning. But when they noticed that we have won the battle, they became ardent believers, yet not ready to change their old habits.
14. “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel,…”
15. I have heard what? The murmurings of the children of Israel. Who heard it? Were they using loud speakers to announce it? They were murmuring in their tents. They were murmuring in the hearts and the LORD heard it. Go back to the Message titled THE INNER VOICE.
16. Murmuring! How many are free from murmuring here, even murmuring against God? How many are free. This is the judgment. And the LORD will recompense. He will compensate.
17. “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.”
18. Which they murmured against God. You see, these people were not afraid. The book of Jude described them as ravening wolves, who are never afraid of dignitaries, for they speak of things they know not and even speak evil of dignitaries. They murmured against God. Can you imagine a human being God came to help was murmuring against One that came to help him out?
19. “…Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears,…”
20. As God has spoken in My ears. Just like I spoke to Apostle Kelechi in those days. He pleaded. I said, “I have made up My mind. I would not continue with Okey Nwankpa. I am stopping his journey.”
21. I took him outside on a missionary trip. In the bed, I woke him up by 2 O’clock in the morning, “Apostle Kelechi, I am fed up with this man. I am stopping him. I do not care how. The damage he is doing now is greater that the help he renders.”
22. I stopped him straight away. “I would not kill him. I will make him run mad so that he will blaspheme Me, blaspheme the Faith, do rash things and make it impossible for him to repent and say, ‘I am sorry.’ That is what I will do. I will withdraw My Spirit.”
23. To Silas, you were here as Apostle. I called all of you. I called the wife, “Go and tell you people. Get ready. You will put on mourning dress.”
24. Where is he? Gone! Because he was injurious. I gave the wife a mourning dress, publicly: “Go and tell your people what I said. The heavens will not fall.”
25. And I told you, I do not deal with people ruthlessly and decisively until they become injurious. But to the other one I said he will live to see the end of the Ministry.
26. But today, where is he? He is on the run. Apostle on the run. From Pastor to Bishop. Bishop to Apostle now on the run. Who is pursuing him? The evil he committed.
27. People are looking for him here and there for offence he committed. Things he could not have done if he remained with the Faith.
28. But there was something that happened. Pride goeth before a fall. Yes! Lucifer was given some powers. One day he started desiring the highest seat.
29. I told you that rebellion makes Me strong. Rebellion, opposition brings out the best in Me. If I was scared by your threats, you would not be here. You were with Me when you heard it from them that any day he leaves that not more than four people will be left behind.
30. I said, “Look at this man. Let Me open the doors. Everybody, follow!” Before his eyes, nobody followed. I allowed another three months, nobody followed. I closed the door. Is it that I am afraid of rebellion? I have seen 99.
31. “…Say unto them,…” Say unto them.
32. “As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:…”
33. As you have spoken into my ears, so shall I do to you. If you know all the murmurings you have been murmuring in your hearts against Me, which I have heard with My ears, that is the same way I will deal with you. I will recompense you. The same cup you measure unto Me, I will measure it back.
34. For the Bible said, “A time came when the people of Israel walked contrary to God and God also walked contrary to them.” The same measure.
35. One of My townsmen said that if a child crawls up to Me and pinches Me, I will equally crawl to the child and pinch the child so that the child will have the same experience.
36. Since crawling is the reigning fashion. You crawl up to Me and pinch Me, when my hands touch the floor I will show you I had crawled before and so I will crawl to you and pinch you. That is what God is explaining to us. Though hand join in hand, no sinner will go unpunished.
37. Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
38. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
39. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.”
40. The helpless ones. The little ones now received the promise of inheritance, but those that claim they knew more than God, for you must know more than your master before you begin to murmur against Him. They said they were strong and the LORD abandoned them. Finally, their carcasses littered the wilderness, twenty years and above.
41. I told you. These twenty years and above are those that murmured against God, for God can never destroy the righteous in the midst of the wicked. He knows how to preserve the righteous until the day of his salvation. He knows how to preserve the wicked until the day of his destruction. Is it not Bible?
42. There are those, according to the Scriptures, God has been keeping, enduring them, waiting for the day of their destruction. Find out whether God had been enduring you knowing that he will destroy you in the end.
43. But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years,…”
44. Have you seen it? What rebellion cause?
45. “…and ye shall know my breach of promise. I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.” Amen.
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BEWARE OF MIXED MULTITUDE (3)
Numbers 16 verse 41 through 49. KJV “Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
2. And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly,…”
3. Note the number.
4. “…famous in the congregation, men of renown:…”
5. Famous in the congregation. Men of renown. Not ordinary members. No wonder I saw our late Brother Ferdinand in My early hour vision today. I was breezing into the Congregation, there was jubilation around the PA system. All the youths were jubilating, dancing, clapping their hands. I was wondering the song they were dancing like mad people.
6. On getting there, surprisingly, I saw a vibrant man wearing My ancient suit. Stripe colour. Lo and behold, it was late Bro Ferd, sweating and dancing the same way he used to dance.
7. I was surprised, I said, “Gentlemen, will you give way! Do you know that this our Brother died long ago? Bro Ferdinand, how many times have I warned you to stop appearing? Remain in the grave. In no distant time, I will bring you out.” The thing left Me.
8. A prophet is a prophet. Even if he dies, on the resurrection day he will also be a prophet. The only Brother I gave My pair of suit, in appreciation for his wonderful work and that was what he put on and entered the grave.
9. Yes! 250 of them. Famous in the Congregation.
10. “…And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron,…”
11. And they did what? They gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron. Ganging up never started today. Although they were men of renown, but there was one thing common. They were among the strangers that joined from Egypt, rose to prominence and became leaders.
12. Do not respect anybody by virtue of the office he occupies. But respect every Brother, every Sister by virtue of his or her virtues in Christ. If he does not have Christ’s virtues, run away from that person.
13. “…And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you,…”
14. Ye do what?
15. “…Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them:…”
16. They were now telling Moses that the congregation, their own congregation, they were holy. Then Moses and Aaron were the sinners. They were to tell Moses when the presence of God was in the Camp and when the presence of God was no longer in the Camp.
17. Another way of telling you that the hand of God had left two of them. That God had forsaken him. So God is now with them. They were now higher than Moses, higher than Aaron and holier than them.
18. “…wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?…”
19. They were indicting Moses and Aaron, accusing them of lifting themselves above the congregation of the Lord o!
20. “…And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even tomorrow the Lord will shew who are his,…”
21. Even tomorrow, God will vindicate all that belong to God. There is no need arguing with anybody. The LORD will vindicate who is Holy among us. We will know who God’s tabernacle is.
22. “…Even tomorrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.”
23. Even he whom HE has chosen will he cause to come near unto HIM. That is, the Man, according to them, God has left Him o.
24. With the mouth people blaspheme a lot. One who is being deceived by the thoughts of his heart, thinks he is right. Telling the Chosen One of God, with Aaron to assist Him, that He is taking too much. That he was lifting himself above the congregation:
25. “Who does he think he is with his brother? The two Brothers. Why must it be the two? One senior to the other.”
26. These are strangers. They were not the real people of God. They were the mixed multitude. The rabbles that followed them from Egypt. For the fact that they were with them from the beginning and have stayed with them for too long, they now gained prominence and occupied renowned positions.
27. They began to draw converts unto themselves, the people, not knowing that they were perishing. Do you think it is a light thing to murmur against God’s chosen One? Do you think it is a light thing.
28. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is here as I am talking to you. I remember in those days at Amazu Oil, from time to time I will scream, “How I wish you can see He that is standing behind Me so that you will be afraid.”
29. One day, Apostle Kelechi was privileged to see Him. He projected Himself in the Congregation. Many eyes saw Him. He retreated.
30. “This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the Lord tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
31. And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi: Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
32. And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also? For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
33. And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
34. Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
35. And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them….”
36. Moses said to God, “Do not ever accept these offerings. I have not even taken a dime from it. It is an abomination.”
37. And the LORD said Amen, because the moment Moses rejected the offerings, God has rejected it. It settled there.
38. Numbers 16:41–49 “But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.”
39. You know the story. That was when the Lord judged a case and the land opened, Korah and his company sank. Then, miserable comforters went about demonstrating again. They saw the power of God at work. They saw God fulfilling His Word.
40. Instead of giving Him the glory, they became miserable sympathizers because their own kinsmen were involved. Some of them might be their husbands, their brothers. They were involved in the rebellion.
41. Whenever rebellion fails, all that were rounded up must pay the penalty for rebellion. Even if a son of a General is there, it makes no sense. Let the traditional ruler’s son be involved, it makes no sense. Whoever that is involved must pay the price.
42. And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
43. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, go you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them:…”
44. The same person they called unholy is the One that is making atonement to stop the plague, to stop the punishment. Otherwise, they would have finished. There death has already touched Moses again. The compassionate Moses. Go back to the Message titled, WHERE THERE IS NO INTERCESSOR.
45. Moses placed Himself in the gap against death, seeing that many had already died. Fire consumed some. The land opened and swallowed the rest.
It behooved Moses to stand in the gap to stop the plague.
Thus, when they saw that there was nothing left, all those people that were guilty of murmuring fell flat. God had vindicated the just. A sinner has become a saint. Sinner in the sight of the people. Saint in the sight of God.
46. All of you that think it is light to murmur even against God, you have jeopardized the chances of your salvation. Note the word I have used. JEOPARDIZED. You have made it increasingly difficult for Me to shift because I warned you from the beginning.
47. You heard the Voice, “I have sent from among you, One of you, your own Brother as My Messenger, like I chose Moses. I am sending Him before you for He is bearing My Name. He will lead you in the way you will go. Make sure you do not go to the left or to the right. Remember, you have never gone this way before. And be careful that you do not provoke Him to anger, for He will neve,r never pardon your transgression.”
48. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And I told you, I am not one of the Messengers of the seven Church Ages. I am HE that walked in the midst of the seven golden candle sticks.
49. Nobody came down but God Himself. He sent His Messengers and they killed them. He sent His son, they killed Him. He came by Himself.
50. And when you doubted, He said, “Continue to doubt and I will continue to move.” At the end, what have you seen? Is anybody left in the dark again? Where are those doubting Thomases who were of the opinion that I was leading you to error? Where are they today?
51. Remember there was one who left us claiming to be one thing or the other. I read the Message, REWARD which I handled in His house in 1997. That was Dr. Francis Nwufo. Everything that destroyed him and his family I prophesied on his dining table. Go back to your libraries and get the Message titled REWARD.
52. I went with the Ministers enroute Jos, made a stopover and handled the Message. At the dining table, I opened up. Everything about him, the wife, the family and called it the Church in Dr. Francis Nwufo’s house, separated it from the Church at Abuja.
53. That is not all. Under the Church, under the bridge there at Wuse Zone 2, all that were with Me suffered. I announced it, “Brother Emma, teach him how to turn the pages of the Bible. I do not know what I will preach that will make a doctorate degree holder to condescend together with your wife.
54. I know you are here for something. Gather enough information. Enough knowledge that will help you float your millionaire Church. But to worship this God, it is not why you are here.”
55. He went to Igne and said, “I do not know whether I should run away o. This man does not want me to worship God o. God knows that my heart is clean.” Do not worry. That was 1997.
56. By 1998, he floated a Church. Multi-millionaire Church at Abuja using even My own publication, BEHOLD THE MAN OF SIN, which he stamped in his name.
57. He gathered all that we excommunicated including Watson Fihala and Ben Adiukwu. He furnished the Church with Air-Conditioners (A.C.), fans, beautiful chairs, televisions, bought musical equipment, hired real musicians with bill boards everywhere.
58. On the day he was to declare it open, all his ministers came, flooded his house. The following day which was slated for the opening, they all went to the venue of the Church. By the time they got there, nobody could locate the position of the Church again.
59. When they were telling Me about the big Church he was floating, I declared from the pulpit, “We are two master builders.” I gave you that as a Message. Let him build and let Me build. God will vindicate the one that is built on a solid Rock and the one that is standing on sinking sand. If he stands, I am not He.
60. On that day, from a distance, they were watching in amazement. They could not locate the Church again. Everywhere had become a playground. Federal Government led by El-Rufai used caterpillar overnight to level both property, house, TV. They never even allowed them to take even one item out, with the help of soldiers supervising. They were astonished.
61. Look at another funny thing. While they were watching in disappointment, after sometime they decided to go back to the yard. Getting to the house in the yard, they saw a notice placed by lawyers from the Federal High Court, Abuja.
62. They never knew that there was a case that was being handled in the court against the owner of the building for he built the structure on another man’s land owned by General Wushishi.
63. While they were thinking the lawyers were playing, caterpillar came, scraped the whole place off. When God wants to torment somebody, He knows what to do. He lured him out to the Church site, erased it before he got there. Brought him back, erased this one. Hell was let loose.
64. Remember that somebody invited you to come when he had already put himself together, intending to talk blasphemy. I told you to go, but by the time you got there, the mouth that invited you could not talk. It remained sealed. The mouth got sealed. The eyes closed. He never knew when you came. All he put together. There was nothing again.
65. You know what you are thinking about God, but how God is looking at you and what He is thinking about you, you know it not. And when He will give you a catastrophic blow, one-blow-seven-akpus, a technical knock-out, for God will not always chide.
66. This is our judgment, murmurers, complainers, rebels that think it light to open their mouths so wide even against God, that think it wise even to murmur in their hearts against The Almighty God that brought them into existence, think it right to stir up strife and rebellion among God’s people, even biasing their minds. God’s people may not know that these people are numbered among the strangers.
67. Remember the sub-heading: BE CAREFUL, BE WARY, BE VIGILANT, BE ON THE ALERT ABOUT THE MIXED MULTITUDE THAT ARE IN THE MAJORITY AMONG YOU.
68. For I am a fisher man that lowered his net in the high sea, pulled it out, the contents are too many. There are too many frightening creatures, aquatic creatures.
69. For that reason, I must be careful also, lest I sponsor a coup that will overthrow Me.
70. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein…”
71. He has already stopped the plague out of compassion. The same thing He said, He will judge us. For the favour He will show to the Ministers, He will not carry it too far. He knows where He will stop, for when God starts, He makes an end.
72. When He judged the house of Eli, He made an end. When He judged the house of David, He made an end. Yes! But that does not mean He will not accomplish His mission. At least the first victims must be the notorious ones. Amen.
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BE WARY OF REBELLION,
MURMURING AND COMPLAINING
Deuteronomy chapter 1 from verse 22 through 27. “And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
2. And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.
3. Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God: And ye murmured in your tents,…”
4. They did what? They, first of all, rebelled against the commandments of the LORD. Then, in their houses, in their tents, these same strangers, mixed multitudes, they changed style. Problem now changed hands. Murmuring has changed from the congregations to their tents.
5. Whoever that comes to their house must get a fair share of the murmuring. Problem has changed hands. They think that God is not present in their tents.
6. That which they were murmuring in the tents, the LORD also monitored, for the searchlight of God is everywhere. His eye and ears run to and fro all over the earth and He is a silent listener to every secret conversation.
7. Problem changed hands. It is now in their tents. Whatever you like say, one that is destined to die must die. One that is dying does not want the war to end. When you approach from one end, he will run to another end.
8. When death comes resolutely to kill, it does not come straight to kill. It comes with malaria. When you treat malaria, typhoid will appear. When you treat typhoid, hepatitis starts, it will turn to waist pain. When it turns like this, you know the person is dying.
9. And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.”
10. Note it. Because the Lord hated us. Have you ever seen one that spoke like this? “We know He hates us. I found out He hates Me long time ago. God does not want to see eye to eye with me. He hates me so much!
11. Tell Me that thing which is the object of controversy between a human being and God that will make God to hate the person. When God is busy thinking good thought about how to take you to Paradise where you will rest from all your labour, and have abundant life, the same beneficiary is saying that God hates him.
12. A man spoils his ways only to turn round to blame it on God. Your willful disobedience is now attributed to God. This is the one whose heart is hardened about what he is going to do, so full of himself, he goes ahead to do it. Now trouble has come out and he is saying that God hates him.
13. Mixed multitudes! Strangers! Leave us alone, you refused. From Egypt, you crossed the Red Sea, sojourned with us all the way to Jordan and even crossed Jordan.
14. William Branham said they are hanging on looking for faults among us and they are many. Whatever you want to see among us is what you will see. If you want to know our faults God will show you millions. You want to see devil, you will see devil. You want to see Christ, you will see Christ. Whatever you want to see is what you must see. Amen.
15. The person that sees devil and calls him God, sees God and calls Him devil, does the person know God? Does he know the devil? Let us keep marching on.
16. Exodus chapter 16. I did not finish that one. I did not even go far, but you can read your Scripture in your private time. I will give it a name when I am concluding.
17. Exodus 16:1-8 KJV “And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month…”
18. Begin to note. On the fifteenth day of the second month. God keeps records. Fifteenth day of the second month, they arrived there. God noted the date.
19. “…on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.” Have you heard it? OK! And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:…”
20. Have you seen another incidence? Have you seen another incidence? Are you sure these people want to move at all? They do not want to go and they do not want others to go. Do we have such people among us? Dem plenty nyafu nyafu.
21. There is nothing you can do to placate them. We call it the white man’s corpse. To carry it up, wahala, that is, trouble. You bring it down, trouble. How do we carry someone with a broken hip? He is not worthy to die and he is not worthy to live. What do we do to them?
22. Are we not the same human beings? Are we not manifesting similar traits? What is the evidence that we are scaling through the judgment?
23. Let Me tell you, the only way to scale through the judgment is not to face the judgment at all. The only way to escape from breaking the law is never to have any law at all.
24. Since we have all agreed to appear before judgment, no going back. Whatever we see, we take.
25. “…And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
26. Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.”
27. This type of food that is given in anger; meat and food given in anger. If you read down you will see that the Lord said that when they were talking about Him, death came. God now committed sin by relocating them from Egypt to Canaan.
28. “And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
29. And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?”
30. Psalms 106. Let us see what the Psalmist recorded in Psalms 106 verse 21 through 27.
31. “They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
32. Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word.”
33. They believed not the Word of God. They despised God’s Word. Instead, they started murmuring again. They forgot the good thing God did to them. All the wondrous works of God, they forgot all. All memorable things He did, even how He saved them from the hands of death and crossed them through the Red Sea, healed them of their sicknesses.
34. They were bitten by terrible snakes but God healed them, gave them food which they never paid for. The Bible said, “They forgot all, despised His words and instead turned into murmuring, complaining against God.”
35. “Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word. But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.”
36. They murmured where? In their houses. In their tents and stopped believing God’s promises. They were on their own without God. Simple-minded Jews thought that those people were still with them, not knowing that they had already backslidden in the hearts and that only their bodies were in the Fellowship of the Saints. Their hearts were far away. Do we have such people among us?
37. Let Me tell you. What will save us from the wrath of God is Truth. Nothing will deliver us but truth.
38. Any attempt to play any hypocrisy in this judgment, any attempt to suppress feelings will be to your own peril, for God said that the only thing that will save us is to repent and change our minds immediately there.
39. THIS IS THE TRUE CONSCIENCE COURT. For murmuring is what you can do as an individual without your neighbour knowing, without anybody in the house knowing.
40. Complaining and murmuring can continue in your hearts endlessly. The same way, when you are repenting, do you invite the world?
41. We are now in the court trial. I may not talk to you again in this vein throughout this year because I am dishing it out once and for all, judging the Bride in one day. Then I will be waiting for the outcome.
42. For every murmuring and rebellion in the Camp, the journey stops. The journey is delayed. I remember when we heard the Voice, “You are delaying yourselves here. You would have gone long long time ago, but you held yourselves here.”
43. Like Israel is holding itself there. About two nights ago, their warplane was gunned down. The second they had lost and many things are still going on till now.
44. Deuteronomy chapter 1 from verse 1 through 14 AMP. “These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel [still] on the [east] side of the Jordan [River] in the wilderness, in the Arabah [the deep valley running north and south from the eastern arm of the Red Sea to beyond the Dead Sea], over near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
45. It is [only] eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea [on Canaan’s border; yet Israel took forty years to get beyond it].
46. How many days journey? Eleven days journey. How long did it take them? Forty years. What was responsible? Rebellion, Murmuring and Complaining. Unbelief. They could not believe God’s promises again. They could not walk with God and it affected everybody.
47. You see why you must be very careful. Know who you are partnering with. Know who is influencing you actions and decisions. Otherwise you may stop your journey with your own hands thinking that you are reasoning with a Jew, a fellow Jew, not knowing that it is a counterfeit Jew.
48. A stranger who followed from the beginning and refused to go away, only staying with us to find faults and to discourage people from continuing.
49. Did I mention anybody’s name? But I have called the names of everybody. If you have not heard your name in this ministration, something is wrong somewhere.
50. Something is wrong somewhere. Does it mean that I am praying that you will fail? No! It depends on the side you are hearing your name. Amen.
51. “And in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them, After He had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth [and] Edrei.
52. Beyond (east of) the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying, The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have dwelt long enough on this mountain. Turn and take up your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South (the Negeb), and on the coast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
53. Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them. I said to you at that time, I am not able to bear you alone.
54. The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised you!
55. How can I bear alone the weariness and pressure and burden of you and your strife?
56. And your strife.
57. Choose wise, understanding, experienced, and respected men according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. And you answered me, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.”
58. If you go further you will now see. God gave them blank cheque to choose for themselves their leaders. They went and chose strangers for they were influential, prominent, men of renown among them. Men of timbre and calibre, well known among the people. These were the people they selected and sent to Moses.
59. If I say I want to meet with the Elders now, you will now see the calibre of Elders that will gather. Elders that cannot even balance what they believe. Elders that cannot balance the Godhead. Elders that cannot close the mouths of gainsayers using the Messages.
60. Elders that cannot speak publicly, I mean, announcing their Faith. They can only make their Faith known to their fellow Brethren and not to their friends outside, not to their relations.
61. There are many here that have never opened their mouth one day in public to announce their Faith before their colleagues, before their relations.
62. How can they hear, if nobody speaks to them? Why can’t they do it? They are not living right. They have not separated. They are township believers. Do we have such people? They are many! And these were numbered among the people the Israelis chose to be their leaders, for they were prominent.
63. No wonder the Prophet said in the message he handled before he died; he announced it, “Prominent people, influential men and women can hardly make it into Paradise.”
64. Was anybody’s name mentioned? Good! But your name was mentioned. Crosscheck! If not your name, will it be the names of the spirits that will be mentioned? Amen.
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FEAR GOD
Let us go further a little. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 from verse 1 to 6 AMP. “For I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our forefathers were all under and protected by the cloud [in which God’s Presence went before them], and every one of them passed safely through the [Red] Sea,…”
2. This is Son of Man’s Day. I told you, “Every dog must have a day.” The day of judgment belongs to Me. Yes! I am the Judge of the whole Earth. The Judge of the Heavens and the Earth. The Judge of the living and the dead.
3. Yes! For thereunto I am ordained. If you doubt Me, go back to My Commission. I will rest at nothing until I have judged the earth in righteousness and the isles will see My judgment.
4. Go back to the Commission. And Judgment comes last. Judgment comes last. Examination marks the end of every semester. No semester starts with examination. You must teach a people before you examine them.
5. Have I not taken time to teach you? If I begin to test you after 25 years, is it an impromptu testing? A war which date had been set aside can it ever consume the cripple? The judgment was foretold.
6. I want to see you flexing your muscles again. Flex your muscles, both your heart muscles and your physical muscles. Let us exchange blows.
7. I told you that a day is coming when many of you will use lantern, use torch and look for The Son of Man. You will not see Me again. My face shall be hidden from you.
8. And then you will remember the good old days when you were having access to His face, but it will be no more. I announced it ahead of time. At every stage, I normally announce it.
9. “For I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our forefathers were all under and protected by the cloud [in which God’s Presence went before them],…”
10. Are we under the Cloud? Are we protected by the Cloud? Is God’s presence guiding and leading us? OK!
11. “…and every one of them passed safely through the [Red] Sea,
12. And each one of them [allowed himself also] to be baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea [they were thus brought under obligation to the Law, to Moses, and to the covenant, consecrated and set apart to the service of God];…”
13. Consecrated and set apart. Separated, for the services of the Lord.
14. “….And all [of them] ate the same spiritual (supernaturally given) food, And they all drank the same spiritual (supernaturally given) drink. For they drank from a spiritual Rock which followed them [produced by the sole power of God Himself without natural instrumentality], and the Rock was Christ.” The Rock was Christ.
15. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with the great majority of them,…”
16. Who was not pleased with the great majority? We are reading New Testament. With many of them, God was not pleased. Why not ask, “WHY MUST IT BE ME?”
17. After seeing the glory of God, sharing the testimonies of what God has been doing, benefitting directly and indirectly, I will forget everything and become a blasphemer to the extent that God will no longer be pleased with Me.
18. If God is not pleased with you, is it a good situation? Let Me tell you. Before God will destroy somebody, he will hate that person.
19. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with the great majority of them, for they were overthrown and strewn down along [the ground] in the wilderness.
20. Now these things are examples (warnings and admonitions) for us not to desire or crave or covet or lust after evil and carnal things as they did.”
21. 1 Corinthians 10:9-11 AMP “We should not tempt the Lord [try His patience,…”
22. We will do what? Tempt the Lord or try His patience. You know what it takes to tempt God?
23. “Let us see what He will do. If you know that thing you want to do, do it.” Or try the patience of God.
24. Continually, you remain unchanged. Messages will be going forth, but you will keep on doing what you are doing. One day, the cup of the Amorites must be full.
25. “We should not tempt the Lord [try His patience, become a trial to Him, critically appraise Him, and exploit His goodness] as some of them did—and were killed by poisonous serpents; Nor discontentedly complain as some of them did—and were put out of the way entirely by the destroyer (death).
26. Now these things befell them by way of a figure [as an example and warning to us]; they were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax (their consummation and concluding period).”
27. 1 Corinthians 10:1-6 LB “For we must never forget, dear brothers, what happened to our people in the wilderness long ago. God guided them by sending a cloud that moved along ahead of them; and he brought them all safely through the waters of the Red Sea.
28. This might be called their “baptism”—baptized both in sea and cloud!—as followers of Moses—their commitment to him as their leader. And by a miracle God sent them food to eat and water to drink there in the desert; they drank the water that Christ gave them. He was there with them as a mighty Rock of spiritual refreshment.”
29. He was there with them as a Mighty Rock of spiritual refreshment.
30. Yet after all this most of them did not obey God,…”
31. Most of them did not believe God after all these things. Why? They were strangers. They had no part in the life that God gives. But they mingled among God’s people through marriage.
32. Yet after all this most of them did not obey God, and he destroyed them in the wilderness. From this lesson we are warned that we must not desire evil things as they did,”
33. 1 Corinthians 10:9-11 LB “And don’t try the Lord’s patience—they did and died from snake bites. And don’t murmur against God and his dealings with you as some of them did,…”
34. Do not murmur against God and His dealings with you.
35. “And don’t murmur against God and his dealings with you as some of them did, for that is why God sent his Angel to destroy them.”
36. He sent His Angel to destroy them. If you go to that Angel, you will notice that the Angel turned out to be snakes. God used snakes as Angel. God can use anything as a messenger to deal with somebody who is rebellious.
37. “All these things happened to them as examples—as object lessons to us—to warn us against doing the same things;…”
38. To warn us against repeating what these people did.
39. “…they were written down so that we could read about them and learn from them in these last days as the world nears its end.”
40. Any lesson to learn? Somebody might be thinking that it happened in the Old Testament. Look at the warning. Why is the warning here?
41. He is the same yesterday, today and forever, and judges every man by one standard.
42. Those that died under the law shall be judged with the law. Those that died under grace, will be judged with the grace. Whether law or grace, The Son of Man is there. Amen.
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DO ALL THINGS WITHOUT MURMURING AND COMPLAINING AGAINST GOD
I go further. Romans 15 from verse 3 through 4. Amplified and Living Bible. AMP “For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me.
2. For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our instruction, that by [our steadfast and patient] endurance and the encouragement [drawn] from the Scriptures we might hold fast to and cherish hope.”
3. Any sense there?
4. LB “Christ didn’t please himself. As the Psalmist said, “He came for the very purpose of suffering under the insults of those who were against the Lord.” What?
5. “He came for the very purpose of suffering under the insults of those who were against the Lord.”
6. As many as were against the Lord, Christ paid the whole penalty by absorbing the whole insults. I know there is One among us that came up and said, “I AM THE DUSTBIN OF THE SAINTS.” I assume responsibility even for offences I never dreamt about, let alone committing. I assume responsibility even for actions that are credited to all of you.
7. He said, “How I wish they will leave you alone and then let Me absorb all the barrages of accusations, whether spurious, unfounded, baseless or real. I care not, because after that, what next?” Can the Almighty wrestle with flesh? Mere dust!
8. I AM THE DUSTBIN. You heard it from the very beginning. Then, WHO AM I? Christ is identified by His characteristics as we identified last night. But have you bent down to trace the characteristics of that Christ?
9. “These things that were written in the Scriptures so long ago are to teach us patience and to encourage us so that we will look forward expectantly to the time when God will conquer sin and death.”
10. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 9 through 12. AMP “Therefore, whether we are at home [on earth away from Him] or away from home [and with Him], we are constantly ambitious and strive earnestly to be pleasing to Him.
11. For we must all appear and be revealed…”
12. We must all appear and be revealed before Him. We must all be revealed.
13. “For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ,…”
14. Before the judgment seat of who? OK o.
15. “…so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing].”
16. Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over [to persuade them]. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God,….” Amen.
17. 2 Corinthians 5:9-12 LB “So our aim is to please him always in everything we do,…”
18. Our aim is to please Him always in everything we do. Do we have this common aim?
19. It is an individual matter. I only know about Myself, but I do not know about you. I am alone on this matter. You are alone on this matter. What is your aim?
20. “So our aim is to please him always in everything we do, whether we are here in this body or away from this body and with him in heaven. For we must all stand before Christ to be judged and have our lives laid bare—before him.”
21. And have our lives made bare before Him. We must!
22. “Each of us will receive whatever he deserves for the good or bad things he has done in his earthly body. It is because of this solemn fear of the Lord,… “
23. It is because of this solemn fear of the Lord.
24. “It is because of this solemn fear of the Lord, which is ever present in our minds, that we work so hard to win others. God knows our hearts, that they are pure in this matter,…”
25. Philippians chapter 2 verse 14 through 16 AMP “Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and complaining [against God]…”
26. Do what? Do all things without murmuring and complaining and grumbling against God.
27. “Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and complaining [against God] and questioning and doubting [among yourselves], That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse],…” Amen.
28. Living Bible. The Book of Jude verse 10 through 15. “But these men mock and curse at anything they do not understand, and like animals, they do whatever they feel like, thereby ruining their souls.
29. Woe upon them! For they follow the example of Cain who killed his brother; and like Balaam, they will do anything for money;…”
30. Like Balaam, they will do anything for money. Money is what decides their action. When they say they love you, they are Cain.
31. You know what it takes to do anything? Even, they can do point and kill for money, provided money is involved. That is all they want.
32. “and like Korah, they have disobeyed God and will die under his curse. When these men join you at the love feasts of the Church, they are evil smears among you,…” They are? Evil smears. “…laughing and carrying on,…”
33. What? Laughing and carrying on. They will be in our midst and as I am talking, they are laughing. Leave us! No way.
34. You will even be asking, “What has this person come here to do?” When a Message that should touch him goes forth, he or she starts laughing.
35. His colleagues are remorsefully crying wherever they are because they know they are guilty, but this one is laughing in the seat and pretends it does not concerns him or her.
36. If you ask such a person whether he or she is understanding what the Message is all about, the reply will be, “Do you want me to cry.”
37. Their judgment had already been foretold long long time ago. Even in the days of Enoch, God foretold these things.
38. When these men join you at the love feasts of the Church, they are evil smears among you, laughing and carrying on gorging and stuffing themselves without a thought for others.
39. They are like clouds blowing over dry land without giving rain, promising much, but producing nothing.
40. They are like fruit trees without any fruit at picking time. They are not only dead, but doubly dead, for they have been pulled out, roots and all, to be burned….”
41. Let Me round off. I hope I have not wearied you down. Even if I weary you down, you merit it.
42. The Son of Man is not wearying you down. Your condemnation is written on your faces. It is your condemnation, your guilt that has wearied you down, not The Son of Man.
43. I am just trying to help you see the awful consequences of all the calamities you are heaping for yourselves all these years, for we have come to the end of all things where you cannot escape judgment whether you believe it or not.
44. If you like, die now, you must come to judgment. Whether you are away from Him or at home with Him, whether you are dead or alive, see the judgment.
45. Therefore no condemnation to those that are holding unto the righteousness of Christ who are found in Him always, not holding their own righteousness that is of the law, who are free, for the law of the Spirit has set them free from the law of the flesh, who do not count on what they can achieve in the flesh, for the flesh profited nothing.
46. Because they are worshipping spiritually, it is impossible for them to murmur against God. It is impossible for them to complain, for they know that all things work together for good to those that love God, to those that are called according to His purpose.
47. And these are numbered among the Elects, whom the LORD cannot impute sin. Amen.
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WALK AFTER THE DICTATES OF CHRIST
Romans 8 verse 1, AMP. “THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.”
2. How can you walk after the dictates of the Spirit and then be complaining and murmuring? Is it possible? Never! This is because murmuring and complaining, they are spirits. They are evil spirits.
3. Sometimes, you see the victim looking like one that has just been recently treated of madness, sitting alone and biting randomly at the lips, murmuring, the face filled with anger.
4. You salute, “Good morning,” trouble. You salute, “Good evening,” trouble. You say, “Remain Blessed,” it will be worse. Do we have such people? Implacable people.
5. Our late former Brother and Evangelist, Malachi Osuagwu called such people, “cool demons.” Cool demons! Unpredictable human beings. Unreliable, undependable, traitors, chameleons. When they see a white man, they will turn white. When they see a black man, they will turn black.
6. From morning till this hour, I have been aiming at one thing. Helping you to judge yourselves, and not God, by giving you the parameter, so that from all these ramifications, you can check your conscience. You may not know what will befall you, but you know what you are doing. You know what you have done.
7. What you do not know is what will happen to you, but you know what have done and what you are about to do. You can outsmart everything, not your conscience. This is because when Truth comes, it revives your conscience, so that you can judge your conscience.
8. Romans 8:1-2 AMP “THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.” Amen.
9. LB “So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. For the power of the life-giving Spirit—and this power is mine through Christ Jesus—has freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death.” Amen.
10. 2 Corinthians 13 verse 5 AMP “Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?”
11. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 12 through 14. Amplifies version. “But about going further [than the words given by one Shepherd],…”
12. Going further than the Word spoken by One Shepherd.
13. “But about going further [than the words given by one Shepherd], my son, be warned.”
14. What? Given by One Shepherd. The Flock must be One. One Shepherd. One Flock. One Voice. Once there are many voices, people are bound to be confused. There MUST be One Shepherd, One Flock, One Voice. And that Shepherd is Christ.
15. The One Voice is the Voice of Christ. The Voice of the Bridegroom is the only Voice that Must be heard in the midst of the Bride. Every other voice, SHUT UP! It is a discordant tone.
16. That is why, no matter who you are, WE ARE MESSENGERS OF THE SAME MESSAGE. For by One Spirit, One Message are we baptized into this One Body, not two. Christ is One. His Name, One. There can never be many voices without error.
17. One day, the voices of women will be stronger. As in many families, women appear to be having stronger voices. Men are in the cooler. Then idolatry now reigns supreme. I say, idolatry reigns supreme.
18. A situation where a man will speak and the wife will counter and they are in the same Faith, receiving the same doctrine, having the same Christ, having the same Spirit. What can you say about it? The judgment is already here.
19. If what you believe is what I believe, application is made easy. No misconception. No misinterpretation. No suspicion. This is because we believe the same thing. We have the same Spirit.
20. “But about going further [than the words given by one Shepherd], my son, be warned.” Be warned! “Of making many books there is no end [so do not believe everything you read], and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
21. I hope you are hearing what God is saying because, today, your library is now your handsets. Every information in the social media, you now muddle up with the Faith.
22. Some use newspapers. Some use periodicals. And the more you read all these things, be sure you are listening to many voices.
23. Brethren were able to overcome death. One said, “This Faith held me back, for when I was about to strike, I remembered the Message that said, WE HAVE ONE COMMON ENEMY.”
24. While meditating, he dropped the weapon. On going out, he met a Brother on the staircase, embraced him and then shared his experience.
25. Another one said he had already made up his mind, but he remembered the Message titled, UNGUIDED MOMENTS IN A MAN’S LIFE. As he meditated, he dropped the idea of killing. What if there were no such Messages that are powerful enough to check them? What if they never believed them?
26. If you are fond of reading periodicals, going through social media, believing whatever you are getting there, muddling them up with the glorious Message of salvation we have received from One Shepherd, you are the one that will be destroyed in the end, for you are indirectly heaping condemnation to yourself.
27. I do not care how intelligent the writers might be, you cannot use that information in our midst for it will never work. What works for the heathen do not work for us.
28. We are a particular people. A peculiar people all together. So be very careful about who your instructor is, who you are listening to.
29. IK Ezindu, are you paying attention? Thank you. If you do not pay heed to My Message especially today, what happened to Pastor Obinna will happen to you.
30. You will soon get your last Message through somebody also. You were the one God used to minister to him the last Message. If you joke with this Message, somebody will minister to you the same way.
31. “All has been heard;…”
32. All has been heard. So, if you are hurrying the Minister so that we can go, it is finished already. You say we have been hearing it for a very long time, thank you.
33. “All has been heard; the end of the matter is:…”
34. The end of the matter is:
35. “…Fear God [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is]…”
36. Knowing that what? He is. In the book of Hebrews chapter 1, whoever that will come to God will, first of all believe that He is and He exists.
37. “All has been heard; the end of the matter is: Fear God [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is] and keep His commandments, for this is the whole of man [the full, original purpose of his creation, the object of God’s providence, the root of character,…”
38. The root of character, for the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
39. “…the foundation of all happiness,…” The foundation of all happiness is obedience to God. the adjustment to all inharmonious circumstances and conditions under the sun] and the whole [duty] for every man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good or evil.”
40. It is time for Me to go. I don’t know ooo. Did I hear you say… You do not know what I am singing? I thought you would have said Go! Bye-bye! To God be the Glory.
41. This is the conclusion of the whole matter, whether you believe it or not. He that does not want to believe must believe when he is lying still and cold inside his burial mat.
42. On this note, I say, “By and By, when the morning comes, when all the Saints of God are gathered home, we shall tell the story how we overcome, for we’ll understand it better by and by.”
43. Thank you, thank you Lord, we thank you Lord. We thank you Lord for everything you have done today. Thank you, thank you Lord, we thank you Lord.
44. We thank you Lord for everything you have done. We say thank you. Thank you, thank you Lord, we thank you Lord. We thank you Lord for everything you have done.
45. On this note, I say thank you and remain blessed in Him eternally. Remain blessed. Amen.