THE MEMORIAL VOICE OF THE QUEEN OF PARADISE VOL 1

THE MEMORIAL VOICE OF THE QUEEN OF PARADISE VOLUME 1 Preached ON Sunday 10^TH APRIL, 2022 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY

APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN

THE ETERNAL ROCK OF AGES

Transcribed by Sister Ifunanya Okoh Household of God, Enugu

INTRODUCTION

PRAYER

To God be the Glory, Honour, Praise, Majesty, Dominion, Victory, Worship, Thanksgiving, Adoration, Exaltation and everything thereof now and forever more for all that He has been doing for us.
We will forever remain grateful to Him. Words are not enough to express our gratitude to Him that we are alive in the land of the living, and numbered among those He chose before the world began to be praising and adoring Him in spirit and in truth in this crooked and perverse generation of vipers.
Father, here we come this day to express our thanksgiving and our gratitude to You and to You alone, for only You are worthy to receive our worship, to receive our praise.
Father divine, we give you the whole glory. Whatever we are today is what You have decided to make us. Whatever we shall be tomorrow is what You have already purposed for us, even before the world began.
You know those that will rise and those that will fall. You know those that will die and those that will live. Anybody you want to prosper, you will prosper. Anyone You do not want to prosper, You will never prosper.
Both life and death are in Your hands. Both good and bad, O God, they are all from You, for You are the Alpha and the Omega. You are the KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords.
You are the only One that holds the keys of both hell and Heaven. You hold the keys of both life and death. Anybody You have decreed to die today must die today. Anybody You decreed must live must live. What else can we boast of achieving?
For there can never be evil in any city without You [O LORD] spearheading it. You bring calamities upon people. You also bring happiness. You bring prosperity to some.
Father, nobody directs You in what You must do, for all human beings put together are the workmanship of Your hands.
Father, You know why You made them, some vessels of honour, and some as vessels of dishonour. Who made them all? You, for Your own purpose and use.
The same way, You created all spirits, principalities and powers, even spiritual wickedness in the high places. You created and arranged all of them, and assigned them with their various duties as angels.
Hence, You assigned one angel to each operation. There can never be a rise of the tide, which we call flood, without an angel assigned there to do that. There can never be death without an angel assigned to go and bring people home as angel of death.
There can never be an angel of good tidings if You never assigned one to bring good tidings. Neither can there be an angel of warfare, if You never arranged one.
Father, even before the world began, there is no activity here on earth where You never assigned an angel to do it. Hence, You have assigned one [Father] to handle rainfall; some to handle Harmattan; some to handle the thunder and some to handle [O God] every event here on earth.
Father, supernaturally O God, You control the affairs of the human race, even without their knowledge. Some prosper and think it is because of their effort, but they do not know that so You ordained them before the world began for reasons best known to You.
For there is nothing You have done without [O God] having good reasons why it must be so, be it life or death; be it poverty; be it the destitutes.
Father, wherever they may be, You made them destitutes, for You decided that that is what they are good for. Even some that are crazy today, they are crazy because You permitted them to be crazy, and not that they have taken anything others have not been taking. Simply because You permitted it to be so, that is why they are running amok.
Father, we really believe, O God [I in particular] that You are the Supreme Intelligence that control the whole universe. You control all the powers that govern the universe to Your own Glory, Honour and Praise.
Hence, O God in everything, You said we should give You all the glory. You did not say we should complain or murmur. You did not say we should criticize.
Rather, You said that in everything, whether they be good or bad, [Father] that is to us. But to You, all of them are good. All of them are proper. All of them are visiting us in their own seasons and in their own times according to Your own divine order which You have already set before the world began.
Before we came into existence, You had already decided our destinies. Of what use then is our complaining and murmuring when we know O God that we cannot change anything You have already put in order?
Father, help us to obey You. That is why You told us that the essence of bringing us into existence is to worship You and to praise You. That’s all! That is our whole duty, knowing that one day, we are returning to You, whether we like it or not, for there is nothing that has eyes that will not sleep one day.
Whether we sleep or we remain awake, let it be in Christ. It has always been our prayer.
For that reason [O God], we gather at Thy feet this morning, praying that You open our eye salve, please [O God] from anything that will be a blockade to the entrance of the Word of God into our hearts.
Let the Light from Thy Lighthouse shine upon every Elect of God worldwide. Father divine, may they begin to recognize that Your hand is behind every development and every event that is taking place under the sun.
And there is not even one that is accidental to You, even the politics of the whole world, for there is no throne unless the one You have already set. You are the One that seteth thrones, and You pull down thrones.
Father, there is no authority except from Thee. Anybody You have established in authority will remain there. Anybody You have not established and You want to pull down, You will pull down [Father divine] to show the whole human race that there is nobody that is much more powerful than You, for You are the Creator and Author of the way things will go.
Whether they be contrary or they be very very progressive in our eyes, that is our own assessment. But as long as You are the Self-existing One, the very Elohim, all Your actions and decisions are perfect.
And everything, according to Your own assessment is moving the way You had already planned and ordained it – Some ordained to perdition. And some ordained to salvation.
And we are numbered among those You called, not to receive [Father] Your wrath, but to receive Your salvation. While some are ordained to this present condemnation, some are ordained to this present justification. And we happen to be in the number.
That is why O God, Your presence in our midst gives us joy. A confirmation that we are numbered among the Chosen ones for Your salvation, for You have not revealed Yourself among us to destroy us. Otherwise, we would not be talking till now.
You made Yourself manifest, even in human form. After revealing Yourself supernaturally, [LORD divine] in diverse ways, You never destroyed any.
Now O God, we have come to the end of all things. We are raising our hands towards the sky, praising and adoring You because any moment from now, we shall rest with You in Paradise. And that is our hope. That is our Faith. And we know that we shall never be disappointed.
You never [O God] came down in human form, became one of us and displayed Your supernatural attributes, even the Deity [Father] for our condemnation. No!
It is for our justification, for Your presence has become [O LORD] our holiness. It has become [O God] our righteousness. It has become our perfection, even our sanctification.
Father, it has become our baptism. It has become our translation, for whenever we look at the photograph, we see You O God. Our heart rejoices that You are with us. The essence for which [Father] You revealed Yourself to us will be made fresh in our minds again.
As many O God as have lost the vision of their calling into the Body of Christ, which is the invincible Body, Father help them by this prayer to recognize where they have erred, and to run back, lest the gate will be closed against them.
Father, we say THANK YOU once again, because You are here with us, for whenever we gather, You are there. Whenever we pray, You answer. Wherever we are, Your presence has always surrounded us.
This morning O God, I hand over to Your care every family that is called by Your Name; every individual that is called by Your Name, whose name was documented [Father], engrafted in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
Whether they be dead or alive, I bring them before You. Remember You are not the God of the living alone. You are the only God that came fully and claimed and justified that You are the God of the living and the dead.
You will justify the living, and also justify the dead. You will cause the dead to resurrect, and cause the living to be translated. What then can we boast of doing? Absolutely nothing!
We therefore praise You because of Who You are. This time, I hand over all of them into Your hands, not that You have forsaken them. I am just bringing You in remembrance, not that You have forgotten them.
Father, whenever you are saving Your people, save all of them to the utmost. Let there be not even one that will be left behind or be a castaway, even their offspring O God.
Be merciful unto Your children, for if You are to judge iniquity among them, not even one will smell Paradise. Nobody will stand before You.
Father, consider them in their low estate, and use their little Faith [O God] to save them to the utmost according to Thy multitudes of mercy and love. Reach out O God, to all the four corners of the earth and harvest Your own.
To Your Name we give the Glory as we continue to worship You in spirit and in truth. Receive the praise. Receive O God our worship and thanksgiving this day. For Your Name’s sake O LORD we pray. Amen!

HEAVEN IS THE FINAL ABODE OF A TRUE CHILD OF GOD

Today is another day the Lord has made. We must rejoice exceedingly that we are alive in the land of the living. Not all that started with us this year are still marching on.

I am not talking about those that died. I mean those that are still walking upon the earth as living dead. They are alive in the eyes of human beings, but spiritually they are dead. And that is what is giving me the greatest concern.
Too many are departing from the Faith every day. The love of many have waxed very cold. The love of God is no longer in their hearts.
But what is amazing is that, that which frustrated them; that which stumbled them out of the Faith of Christ, they have not gotten, and they will never get it.
There is no other thing that is making people to fall away from the Faith if not the cares of this life and their desires to become one thing or the other in the world.
This is the only thing that is choking up the truth that is planted in them so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.
The Lord Jesus gave the illustration by giving the parable of the sower. The sower went out to sow with good seed. He did not go out with two different types of seed. He went out with one particular good seed, for he is the Good shepherd and the husbandman.
He selected his seeds. He went out with the best of the best of his seeds. As he went out to sow, he continued to spread the seed. And that is the word of God. The Seed; The Germ of life.
He gave us an illustration that some of the seeds fell on rocky soil. That is, they fell upon the stones. Some fell upon the thorns, while some fell upon the loamy soil; the good soil.
All of them sprouted in due season, but something happened. Something happened to the one that fell upon the stony heart, for that stone is a representation of the heart of man.
Reference: Matthew 13:2,4-8,18-23 Living Bible. ^[2-3]…..“A farmer was sowing grain in his fields. ^[4]As he scattered the seed across the ground, some fell beside a path, and the birds came and ate it. ^[5]And some fell on rocky soil where there was little depth of earth; the plants sprang up quickly enough in the shallow soil, ^[6]but the hot sun soon scorched them and they withered and died, for they had so little root. ^[7]Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns choked out the tender blades. ^[8]But some fell on good soil and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as he had planted. ……. ^[18]“Now here is the explanation of the story I told about the farmer planting grain: ^[19]The hard path where some of the seeds fell represents the heart of a person who hears the Good News about the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it; then Satan comes and snatches away the seeds from his heart. ^[20]The shallow, rocky soil represents the heart of a man who hears the message and receives it with real joy, ^[21]but he doesn’t have much depth in his life, and the seeds don’t root very deeply, and after a while when trouble comes, or persecution begins because of his beliefs, his enthusiasm fades, and he drops out. ^[22]The ground covered with thistles represents a man who hears the message, but the cares of this life and his longing for money choke out God’s Word, and he does less and less for God. ^[23]The good ground represents the heart of a man who listens to the message and understands it and goes out and brings thirty, sixty, or even a hundred others into the Kingdom.”
Hence, the book of Ezekiel said that the Lord in the end will break that stony heart. He will change the stony heart of all that will believe him and give them a new heart that will receive the Word of God.
Reference: Ezekiel 36:26, Amplified version. ²⁶A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.
That is why a true child of God prays that God will remove his stony heart; a heart that is resenting the Word of God; a heart that takes delight in going to church; a heart that takes delight in preaching; a heart that takes delight in hearing the Word, spreading the good news, but does not take delight in obeying that Word so that he can bear good fruits and his fruits will abide.
That is a stingy heart; a very obstinate and unrepentant heart, who delights himself in going to church, dancing, praising and doing many things.
These are the people that will be rejected in the end. They will be disappointed at the end.
You will hear, “Depart from Me! You worker of iniquity. Although you were performing signs and wonders, and miracles in My Name.
Yes! I was not honouring you. I was honouring my name. I was honouring My Word which you were dishing out, but talk of you, no! I did not honour you. Leave My presence, for I do not know you.
You hypocritical worker of iniquity! You were doing all those things to please Me quite alright, but your heart was far from Me, you never for one day obeyed any.
You were a Pharisee who specialized in giving the people burdens they cannot even carry. And will never help them to carry the burdens.”
Making righteous stipulations for people to obey, when you do not obey it makes you a pharisee. Am I making sense at all?
And this is what we are seeing amongst ourselves. Too many people know the truth. They say they believe the truth. If you end it at knowing and believing that truth, you have not gone beyond Satan, for the devil knew the truth and believed in the truth, but one thing he could not do was to practice the truth. That was what marked him out of God’s salvation.
So if you know the truth, believe the truth and propagate the truth like the devil propagated it, the Bible said, “You say you believe that God is one. The devil believes that God is one. The devil believed and trembled out.”
Reference: James 2:19, Amplified version. You believe that God is one; you do well. So do the demons believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as make a man’s hair stand on end and contract the surface of his skin]!
The way many are trembling out today, the same way the devil trembled out of God’s salvation. Why? He could not meet the standards God set.
Why? He was having his eyes on the affairs of this present world and the Lord noticed that he was very much desiring to be something in the world; to be popular, to be rich, to be this and that.
Then, God decided to hand him over to the affairs of this present world. That is why the world you are in is still under the control and power of Satan. Believe it if you can.
And anybody who is desirous of getting the material things of this world so as to become very popular and become something. Remember, you are making yourself God’s greatest enemy.
Scriptures said, “Love not the world nor the things that are in the world. All those things your sinful eyes will behold, all those things your heart will be desiring, they are not of God.
They are of this present world and this world is perishing. This present world is passing away together with all those follies. And those that spend their whole lives in pursuing those things will perish with the perishing world.
Reference: 1 John 2:15 – 17, Amplified version. ¹⁵Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]–these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself]. ¹⁷And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.
That is why we were told by God and are still being admonished this day to see these things as a tenant sees the house he hired to live.
He is not the owner of the house. He is just a tenant. He can be given quit notice. He has the right also to quit from that house and then relocate. If that house becomes very unbearable, he will relocate. Yes!
That is what God is equally doing. If the house where God is domiciling becomes uncomfortable for God, the Lord will abandon that house and relocate.
Reference: 1 Samuel 16:14, Amplified version. ¹³Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. ¹⁴But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and troubled him.
So, before God will abandon you, you must have made yourself very uncomfortable for the Spirit of God to dwell in. When by your lifestyle and your character, God finds it difficult to dwell in you, He will pack away from you. So, God packs away from people.
The same way God comes in, and the devil will pack away; when the devil comes in, God will pack away, for the two cannot share habitation in one man; harbouring God and harboring devil. Can it happen? Impossible!
Take note of what I am saying. The Bible says and I still affirm that we should not be strongly attached to the things of this world, that we cannot disengage ourselves again.
We should use them as tenants use property for we are pilgrims. We are strangers heading towards a city whose Maker and Builder is the Almighty God, and where we shall have our permanent rest because this earth we are living in [whether you like it or not] God designed it for strangers.
The abode, final resting place and final home of every true seed of God is heaven, and not this earth. Believe it if you can.
That is why the earth which the Saints of God will inhabit is not this one. It is going to be a new earth and a new heaven.
Who will inhabit it? The new man. And that is the new kingdom. A new heaven and a new earth – the new kingdom.
Only these people whose hearts have been regenerated, who have been clothed with immortality, who are now like God; these are the people that will rule here on earth with the Almighty God.
Only then will the will of God that was done in heaven be fulfilled here on earth. Then we will know the essence of God creating this earth.
The Bible said that He created the earth, not in vain, but to be inhabited by his sons and daughters.
In the beginning, remember there was no death. Death came as a result of iniquity. Willful disobedience to God’s instruction brought about death.
Today, how are we dying? Spiritually! This is because we are no longer worshipping God mechanically. We are now worshipping God in spirit and in truth.
So, the worshipper now knows when he is spiritually sound; when he is spiritually alive. He equally knows when he is spiritually dead.
Well, the bible said, “Anybody who is going after the affairs of this world, now that he is alive, he is considered to be spiritually dead. As long as God liveth, he is a living dead. A walking corpse. He is merely existing. He is not alive.
You are only alive if you are living, enjoying life in Christ. Any other thing outside that, you are numbered among the living dead.
Believe it because I am the mouthpiece the Almighty is using to talk to the entire world, whether you believe it or not.
From the time God decided to showcase the Son of man, He never allowed Him for one day to be tied strongly to the affairs of this present world. He specified and stipulated how he should live his life.
Just like I was telling some people yesterday. See, I know that My wife is no longer with Me. My children are not with Me.
I can now stand up and say, “I had a father like you, but I have no father again [earthly father]. I can tell you I had a mother, for I was born by a woman.”
Through the conjugation of a woman and the husband, I came into existence according to the perfect will of God.”
I had a father. I had a mother. They are no longer alive. They are not with Me. They do not decide My fate anymore.
I equally had a wife, a companion, a sweetheart and the joy of My heart. I mean, the apple of My eyes, the desire of My eyes and My strength. I lived with her and then raised My own children through her, with the two of us enjoying our union, enjoying the union of the children and so on.
And we brought the children to the point where they can exist alone, for there is no way a hen will continue with the chicks.
At a time, the mother hen will allow the chicks to disperse. The mother hen sends forth her chicks when they are strong enough to fend for themselves. So it is with the nanny-goat.
So, God allowed her to stay until the children attained the age of adolescence. All of them have become graduates of universities. Not even one is an infant.
So, I do not have any infant in my family that can be called My son or My daughter. My daughters are now mothers. I hope I am making sense?
It pleased the Lord that My wife should leave when she fulfilled her own Ministry. She fulfilled her own side of the Contract by standing by My side, helping, encouraging until I came to the end of the Ministry.
There would not be any reason why she should stay any longer. She had to depart. I never asked her to depart, but HE that brought her to Me came [live] on the first day of the week, on 29^th August 2021, and then parceled her home.
We rejoiced exceedingly. She equally rejoiced exceedingly, for she acknowledged her departure. She knew that the Elohim came for her. And she said, “He came looking for me, and here am I.” That is the testimony.
Whether you believe it or not, it is real. It is truthful. It is worthy to be accepted universally, for you know He that is testifying. And I thank God it never happened in the night.
It was not something that happened between her and Myself. No no no no no! We were witnesses. It happened in the Fellowship of the Saints. All that were in the Fellowship used their eyes [naked eyes] to see what transpired.
So, I am not being a false witness. Good! If you know anybody the Elohim in this generation has appeared to in time past to take home, mention that person.
That Brethren gathered in the Fellowship and it was announced that we are going to receive God’s visitation that same day. And it happened according to the Voice we heard in the opening of the Service. The Elohim visited for a purpose, for He does not display such supernatural signs in vain.
God does not use supernatural signs to embarrass a people. No! Wherever you see God in the Shekinah Light, He is coming for something. You cannot see Shekinah with the visible eyes anyhow. It is for a mission. I hope I am making sense.

I AM THE RESURRECTED BODY

If I want to remind Onitsha of something, let Me remind you of the case of Kenneth Umeh. The Shekinah Light came to take away Kenneth Umeh from our midst during the Fellowship, but I halted the Light. And the Light came because I was provoked.

He was trying to prove the power of God in our midst, having resisted all the Ministers.
And I came back from a Missionary trip, heard the report and then went to the pulpit. It was in the day, and not in the night. It was in the cool of the evening, around 4.30pm.
He knelt down with his two hands up, saying, “Lord, I surrender.” I halted it. Otherwise, a great havoc would have been wrecked in our Fellowship. People would have gone about spreading false rumours about that development.
At another time, Pastor Dan Nwadike resisted all the Ministers, and even insulted Apostle Kelechi, even in My absence.
I came back and heard the whole reports. I allowed him to go to the pulpit and speak to Brother Peter Odoemena, not the son of man anymore, so that the Elders will see. His wife was there. Brethren gathered. Elders gathered.
I left the pulpit and mounted him there. I then went back and asked everybody to draw back so that he will be there. Then I said, “Pastor Dan Nwadike, now you have resisted all voices, any question I ask, answer Me as Brother Odoemena, not as the Son of Man. Thank you!
I began. And the elders saw what happened. First question, the Light [supernatural Light] went forth. He himself saw the Light. Everybody saw the Light.
The second question, he ran away from the pulpit and fell flat on the ground. The whole Elders fell flat because the wife had already testified against him before the whole Elders. His own wife bore witness to the truth.
It was upon that backdrop that I developed real love for his wife. The truth is that she is fumbling now, but I believe she must come back to her senses because if she spoiled, she spoilt herself. It is not the father nor the mother that spoilt her.
She allowed the husband to spoil her with social life, not the parents. I will stand to say that wherever I am.
If she turns prodigal, nobody should talk to her. She will talk to herself. And I believe she is gradually coming back to her senses.
The same will happen to her siblings, for there is not even one that will accuse their parents of raising them in an ungodly way, but they were spoiled by influence.
If you are easily influenced by this present world and its affairs, be sure that you are heading to hell because there is no way God is sparing this generation again.
The hand of God has rested upon this present age of this world for destruction. I am not here to highlight the news that are everywhere.
Even the blind, the deaf and the lame are conversant with world events as I am talking to you now. The whole nations here on earth are now in turmoil. They are all boiling and the economy of the whole world has completely collapsed.
When you look at what is happening, do not look at it from the Nigerian angle. See it from the global angle.
If education has collapsed, it is not in Nigerian alone. In all these war-torn nations, do you mention education? You are talking about your own life and your safety.
What can you say about our students who went to Ukraine to study. A good number of them are medical students. What can you say about them?
They do not have any hope of going back to Ukraine. They do not have anything called textbooks. Those that were working there who are unfortunate, lost their certificates. Some lost their lives.
Although we have not received any record but the records will come out after, for there is no way it can come to an end without casualties.
So, take note of what I am saying. The economy of the whole world had crumbled already. The center is no longer holding. Not even the police dog of the world called America. They are equally having their troubles as I am talking to you right now.
Germany is having its trouble. So do not say it is a Russian affair. No! Any moment from now, France will go to the pools. And you will know whether Emmanuel Macron will be there or not.
So, too many things are happening. Too many nations are gradually returning to military rule, and the United Nations cannot stop any of them.
They do not ask for United Nation recognition because they have already concluded the United Nations to be a toothless bulldog that serves only for barking. It cannot bite. So, this is the situation we are in.
I am saying that once upon a time, I had a mother, I had a father and I had a wife. Currently, I am blessed with children and they are still alive. They can never be with Me always.
And as long as I live and they live, they are now visitors. They only visit Me once in a while. And then, they go back to their stations.
I cannot stop them from struggling for their own existence. I will rather pray for them to succeed through Christ in Whom they have already taken refuge.
And I am believing God that He will never disappoint any of them as long as they continue in the faith of Christ, holding unto the profession of their faith without wavering.
And in the end, they will have easy ride into Paradise, together with their mother. They will meet with their mother again.
Shall we meet with our loved ones again? The answer is Yes. I know that one of these days, we are embracing all of them, even those you knew not.
On that day, you will know them. For nobody will be found in Paradise except all that believe in the son of man. That is the Faith that will resurrect the dead and quicken the living. That is all.
Only then will you be acquainted with the numerous believers that have believed in the truth which the Son of Man has given to the whole world.
If what He has given to the whole world is not truth, by now a religious group or some individuals would have countered it with success, for I know that there are too many of them that have the wherewithal even to preach, and even document that which can counter this truth, but truth has no substitute. Any attempt to counter it will even help in substantiating the truth. Amen!
This is the only Message; the only Truth and the only Individual that has come and has broken the bounds of persecution for there is no ground for persecution because of your belief again.
Why? There is no religious group He has spared. He traversed through all of them and gathered every iota of truth that is contained in every religion because all of them reveal portions of truth.
But God is not using portions. He is using full truth and full truth is not found in any one particular organization for there are too many messengers God sent.
References [1]: John 16:13, Amplified version. ¹³But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].
[2]: Hebrews 1:1 – 2, Amplified version. ¹IN MANY separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets, ²[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].
There is no group that rose up here without Almighty God giving them a messenger with a portion of truth, but when that truth was perverted, the Lord left them. Any group that perverts truth, God will abandon them.
William Braham made it clear that the Roman Catholic church was patterned after Pentecost with unity in belief, unity in doctrine, unity in practice and unity in everything. He said that God would have used Roman Catholic church to reproduce Pentecost until they fell away from the true faith and joined themselves with the state.
Immediately the church united with the state, it became a state religion. Politics took over and the man who united the state with the church became a notorious leader of that particular country till today.
Of course, nobody should ask who is that person? In our own day, we know that the state of Rome is sitting on Caesar’s seat. Whoever that is occupying the seat of Rome is the Pharaoh of today. Do you get what I am saying? Fine!
These are powerful kings that ruled this earth. The Roman empire was being ruled and controlled by the Caesars. Today, do you mention Caesar again?
But Caesar’s seat is still there. Somebody is occupying that seat. Who is that person? That is the revelation of the hour. You must know who you are following. Somebody is occupying Pharaoh’s seat.
When you get to Iran, Iran can never do without the Ayatollah Khomeini. It is a seat. It is a seat.
It is just like here. We are all in Onitsha. All these places are all Onitsha. Yes! We call it Nsugbe.
My late in-law, Ozoemena Nsugbe [a prominent musician] prophesied it many many years ago in one of his records. He said, “Nsugbe will soon become Onitsha.” And today, Nsugbe has become Onitsha.
Is it not true? Is there anything you want in Onitsha that is not found in Nsugbe? Is it the traffic congestion? That of Nsugbe is even the worst.
What is more? Onitsha indigenes now live in Nsugbe. If they die here, they bury their dead ones here. So they live in Nkwelle [Ezunaka] and everywhere.
So, the Igbos that developed Onitsha have developed Nsugbe. There is no demarcation between Onitsha and Nsugbe or Nkwelle and Onitsha. They are all but one. Has that prophecy not come to pass?
Let us follow events as they unfold. Be not deceived. Every musician is a prophet, for he is always being inspired to make some utterances which may be seemingly unbelievable to the unspiritual mind.
If God could use them, what can you say about all these churches? There is no group where you can never see an Elect of God.
You are not an Elect because you are in the Bride of Christ Ministry. You are an Elect because you fear, you honour and you obey God.
If you have reverential fear of God and you serve him with worshipful obedience, that is what makes you an Elect.
This is because in every place, every nation, every family, wherever you are, every religion, whosoever that does the will of God is acceptable by God.
Reference: Acts 10:35, Amplified version. But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him].
What is God demanding? Total submission to your Creator which is the basis of God’s own religion which people abhor because we call the religion Islam.
This is Ramadan period. We have to call white white. If you are totally submitted to the will of God when you are alive, you are a Muslim, for that is what Islam is all about.
That is the only religion God approved for all mankind. And that is the religion of God right from the word go! That is the religion of God right from cradle to the end. That is the religion our fathers practiced.
If you doubt Me, I have enough evidence to show you. I have enough evidence. If you are a Christian, I more. You are a Muslim, I more. You are of Baha’i religion, I more. You are a Hindu, I more for the crux of Hindu religion is one thing, one thing. You must know the crux of every religion.
If you go to the crux of Roman Catholic religion, the crux of the religion is the apostle’s creed, “I believe in one God, the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. He that is visible and invisible.”
The second is like the first, “And the word became flesh and dwelleth among us.”
If you want to round it off, you round it off by reciting it very well, “Mary, the mother of God.” The mother of Who? God. Who is that God? The Lord Jesus Christ.
References [1]: Isaiah 9:6, Amplified version. For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace.

[2]: John 1:1 – 4,10 & 14, Living Bible. ^[1-2]Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God. ^[3]He created everything there is—nothing exists that he didn’t make. ^[4]Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind. ……. ^[10]But although he made the world, the world didn’t recognize him when he came. ……. ^[14]And Christ became a human being and lived here on earth among us and was full of loving forgiveness and truth. And some of us have seen his glory—the glory of the only Son of the heavenly Father!

[3]: Colossians 1:16, Living Bible. ^[16]Christ himself is the Creator who made everything in heaven and earth, the things we can see and the things we can’t; the spirit world with its kings and kingdoms, its rulers and authorities; all were made by Christ for his own use and glory.

[4]: Hebrews 2:14, Living Bible. ^[14]Since we, God’s children, are human beings—made of flesh and blood—he became flesh and blood too by being born in human form; for only as a human being could he die and in dying break the power of the devil who had the power of death.
That is why in Islam, Muslims recognize Him and call him Jesus the son of Mary who will come in the last days and become the Judge [Arbiter] of the living and the dead.
[5] Islamic Hadith; Sahih Bukhari, Kitab Bad’ul Khalq, Bab Nazooli Isa Bin Maryam. And I swear by the Lord who holds my life in His hands that the Son of Mary shall surely appear among you as Just Arbiter and shall break the cross, annihilate the swine and abolish Jazia.
[6]: Islamic Hadith, Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, Vol. 2, p. 411. Whosoever lives from among you shall meet Isa, son of Mary who is IMAM, MAHDI, ARBITER and JUDGE.
[7]: Islamic Hadith, Tafsir Araisul Bayan, Vol. 1, p. 262. Before pondering over these traditions of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, regarding the advent of the Messiah and Mahdi, it must be kept in view that the Holy Quran as well as the traditions of the Holy Prophet are unanimous in their verdict that Jesus, son of Mary, has died his natural death. Further, the Holy Quran and the traditions of the Holy Prophet both are in unison that the dead never return to life in this transitory world of ours. Hence when it is narrated in the traditions that Jesus son of Mary will come, it should not be taken literally but rather to be understood in the metaphorical sense as has been interpreted by a scholar of great repute and regenerator of his century, Mohyyud Din Ibn Arabi, when he says: “His descent in later ages will be with a DIFFERENT body.”

“If there be any, be you Muslim or whatever, who does not believe in Him” the Prophet said, “You are going to be doomed. Allah will never accept you.”
[8]: Surah 3:55, Yusuf Ali – Saudi Revision 1985.“”Behold! Allah said: “O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall ye all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.””
[9]: Surah 43:61, Yusuf Ali – Saudi Revision 1985. “And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way.”
[10]: The tafsir of Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır – Mukhtasar Sayyid Sharif, p. 46.“It is definite that He is a sign for the hour – an evidence and sign stating that the hour will come and that the dead will revive and stand. For, Hz. Isa is an evidence for Doomsday in terms of his emergence, his miracle of reviving the dead and informing about the revival of the dead; and he is a sign of Doomsday as it is mentioned in hadiths.”
I mean that we are not numbered among those people who go about propagating what they do not know. Knowledge is expensive. Go for it.
Allah said, “Go for knowledge. Spend whatever you can and acquire Allah’s knowledge. And when you get that knowledge, it will help you to draw closer to Allah.”
When you draw closer to Allah, you will be in a position to pattern your life after Allah. Only then shall we be made acceptable to Allah.
The next thing is wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom; they go together. For you to have wisdom, I do not want to go there again, let me go back.
Reference: The Ethiopic Book of Enoch 5:9. ⁹And then wisdom shall be given to the elect, and they shall all live and never again sin, either through forgetfulness or through pride: But those who are given wisdom shall be humble.

EVALUATE YOURSELF NOW [1]

When you have made your choice, remember, in making your choice, the first thing you have to do according to the teachings you have received is to arrange your priority chart. Classify it very well.

Your priority chart matters a lot. You place things in their order of preference. What do you place first? God.
When you make God your choice, you have made the first choice and the best of the bests. He now takes over control of your life. He now becomes your Director, your Instructor, your Guide and a Pattern you must look up to.
Hence, the Lord Jesus Christ became the pattern. And we are all enjoined to look upon to him who is the author and the finisher of our faith. Let him be our example.
Reference: Hebrews 12:2, Amplified version. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Do you want to be a Muslim? No problem. You have a pattern and an icon in Prophet Mohammed Raheem (PBUH).
He walked close to Him, who never disappoint the Apostles and Prophets. He acknowledged even the Lord Jesus and walked in their footsteps and became the most righteous and the most faithful of all that trailed upon the earth. Do not mind people that claim what they are not.
William Braham the Prophet said what the Bible said in 1^st John chapter 2, “Whoever that claims to be a child of God ought to conduct his life as Christ conducted His life. The person ought to walk and talk and do everything as Christ did.”
Reference: 1 John 2:4, NIV. ⁴Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. ⁵But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: ⁶Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
Christ is the common denominator to all religions. There is no religion that does not mention Christ. Christ means the Anointed one; the Messiah.
Reference [1]: John 13:17, Amplified version. I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it does take place you may be persuaded and believe that I am He [Who I say I am–the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah].
[2]: Message to the Blackman in America by Elijah Mohammad, Chapter 6 verse 4. …No one has been able to tell us the hour of the judgment. No one but He, the great all wise God, Allah. He is called the “Son of Man,” the “Mahdi”, the “Christ”. …
Some may avoid Jesus, but they cannot avoid Christ. And you call Jesus Avatar. When you call Jesus Avatar, you are also indirectly calling Him Saviour.
Do not mind people that claim what they are not. We know who we are. That is why definition is very very essential.
The first person you have to define is yourself. Who am I? Why am I what I am? How did I come into existence? What is my purpose of existence here on earth?
Am I here to make mere contact or to make impact? What type of impact am I here to make? Is it positive impact or negative impact?
You cannot think of making positive impact when you are thinking negatively because the thoughts of a man’s heart directS his path. They dictate his behavior.
When you think positively, you act positively. You think negatively, you act negatively.
That is why, for you to prosper in Christ, you must get rid of all negative thoughts, negative imaginations and then purify your mind and purify your conscience. Your conscience should be void of offence before God and man.
You place every human being on equal platform, the same way you have placed yourself. That which is good to you, is good for your fellow man. When you are thinking good of yourself, you think good of your fellow man. And this is what is lacking in the world today.
Aside this, selfishness will reign. And where there is selfishness, there must be envy. There must be greed. There must be avarice. There must be hate. There must be bigotry. There must be divisions of all sorts.
Then what will follow? Antagonism which will bring about all forms of violence. Is it not what we are suffering globally today? May God help you to understand me wherever you may be today.
I thank God Who has given Me the enabling power to Voice from this Studio today again. This is because yesterday, I never knew I could be here.
And I have already told you that any day you see Me, glorify God because I am on my way home. I am just a mere shadow of a human being. My real Being is no more. So, whatever you are enjoying from Me is extra grace. Take it from Me because I am not fooling you.
And I said, “I had a father. I had a mother. I had a wife.” So, there is nothing you can tell Me about family life. I am privileged to be blessed with children; obedient children; godly children that do not trouble Me.
Otherwise, I would have died before My wife. Or now that I am a bachelor, the trouble I would have been receiving from them will be enough to frustrate Me to join My early grave when God has not called Me home.
I am at peace because I am at peace with them. Even if you reject Me, they will not reject Me. Although they visit Me at intervals, each time they come, it becomes a revival.
There is no day they do not call Me over the phone, both male and female, and including my sons-in-law. They want to know about My welfare and my well-being. And I feel good.
I am saying something. Because I know God and I am a seed of God, I cannot because My wife is no more begin to misbehave Myself. Any character and any life I never lived when she was alive, I dare not try it because she is no more. I hope you are paying attention.
Her absence from Me can never change My behavior one bit. Rather, it will even add beauty to My behavior. If I commanded honour and integrity when she was alive, and now, she is not there, I would even command it more.
I do not even feel that she is not there. If I see she is not there, why am I making more and more enlargements of her pictures? I am surrounding the whole rooms with fresh enlargements because I want to be beholding her face in every room I enter, even in the dining. Wherever I find myself, I want to be beholding her face.
It makes Me to feel comfortable. Although she does not speak back, but at least, I have memories of her voices ringing bell in My heart. Very sweet sweet memories just like we sing,
SONG: [Precious memories; how they linger. How they ever flood my soul. In the stillness of the midnight, precious memory still unfolds.]
Precious memories unfold during the wee hours of the night. You begin to see the precious memories re-echoing again, holding me, making me stronger than before.
So, what am I saying? God is never in exile. God cannot go on leave. If I was afraid of her, she was My God then. If the life I was living that made Brethren and everybody to acknowledge me; If it was because I was fearing her, now she is no more, the fear is gone. I will be living my life anyhow. Then that makes Me the most foolish human being.
Who then brought her from Egypt and made her what she is? She is what she is because that is what I made her. She exalted me and at the same time received exaltation. She made me a king and she became my queen. Did you get what I am saying?
So, in the attempt of a woman to promote her husband, she has promoted herself. If you debase your husband, you have indirectly debased yourself. Where is your honour?
Whatever that happens around her in life and in death is as a result of her marriage to the chosen One that bears the name of God in this dispensation.
She becomes a blessed and favoured woman; highly esteemed by her womenfolk and men as well. So, she was not the one directing me. I was the one that directed. now she is not there, would I need direction?
I feel the pinch. I feel the pain, but the memories are still there refreshing Me, along with the hope of embracing her again one of these days, sooner than you think.
That is why I warn you, whenever I come your way, make the best use of Me, for one of these days, you will look for Me and you will not see Me. You begin to weep when you remember one of the days of the Son of Man. You will be praying to have them again but you would not have them.
What gives me joy? I am not leaving the scene alone. I am leaving with a few. I am leaving with a few [handpicked, selected] who have been with Me. I am leaving with them.
That is why I told you, if I am not comfortable associating with you here on earth, I will never feel comfortable living with you elsewhere.
The lord Jesus Christ felt comfortable with John, Peter and James until His link with them became very envious.
So, it is not any wonder that He pinned his hopes on the two or three. And if you watch the roles the three played in the holy Scriptures, not even any other could play that role except saint Paul who came in due season for the Gentiles.
So, take note of what I am saying. Do not think that when you are discomforting Me, you are receiving praise. The devil will only praise you for discomforting the Son of Man, for the devil knows that he is bringing you to hell.
Whether you are big or small, I do not care. Pray that it must be from the Son of Man’s Family to heaven, and not from here to hell. Pray earnestly! Pray earnestly!
Wherever you find yourself and you begin to misbehave because you think God is not there, it is a sure sign that God has already rejected you and you knew it not.
This is because God is with you while you are with him. If you forsake Him, He will forsake you. Acknowledge Him wherever you go.

Make him your priority. Let Him be your goal, just like the ultimate goal of this Family has always been to do the will of God; to please him at all times and to maintain unbeatable record in the sight of God from the beginning to finish.
I do not know your own goal. I do not know what your priority is. I do not know whether you want to make money and become like Dangote which you know you will never be. You will never be.
Then after which you come and serve God. Then whenever you come into the congregation of the Saints, you become a Saint. When we leave, your real nature will also manifest. You think you are deceiving anybody? You are deceiving yourself. So be on the alert.
This morning, I am happy that I am equally strong again for some of the Brethren knew what I passed through yesterday. And that is what I should pass through.
I do not attribute it to the devil at all. The devil has no hand in Me. And the Lord stepped in immediately and healed Me. He did not want it to linger. Otherwise, I would have been bedridden in the hospital by now. But he straightened everything and this morning, the whole thing has come out.

I can feel My hand there. Chika you can see it. You know what you saw here yesterday.
An opening was created in My body. And it happened where I had a major operation. It became a hole that could not allow Me to stand up. It did not allow Me to breathe. I struggled through life until I had to lie down straight. I then beckoned on him to put things right. And then he did it.
That is why I am standing now. And I moved about yesterday in the compound, though I spent the greater part of My life lying down. All that came here never noticed I passed through hell. To God be the glory.
So, while we are here, every minute of the day, we refresh our memory. Do not tell Me that you are still kids. The young must grow.
Even if you do not have any other thing in mind while hearing this Message, put your own nuclear family within your heart and your mind now. It will help you to know whether your parents belong to God or not.
It will help you to know the condition under which you were raised. It will help you to value salvation from Christ because many do not know what God has salvaged them from.
Until you hear the Word from the lips of Christ, it is then you use it to judge the atmosphere prevalent in your own family where your father and mother delivered you and raised you up.
You begin to wonder if you had continued to live with them in that condition, what would have been your end? Who loves you? Is he the one who came to your rescue or the one who was arming you against yourself.
This is because in many ways, due to ignorance, parents arm their children against themselves by supporting them and helping them in things God is completely against.
Ignorantly, parents are promoting evil in the lives of their children by introducing them to dangerous lifestyles that will destroy them and destroy their future, just for base gains.
So, if God has delivered you from such a mess, you have reasons to glorify God.
When we sing, I have a reason to praise the Lord, have you any reason why you should praise Him? Have you any reason why you should follow God?
If you do not have any reason why you should follow Christ, you are following Him in vain. If the reason is just to satisfy your material needs, you are [of all men] the most foolish and the most miserable. You are going to be the most disappointed human being.
What will it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your soul? The days are over when we used to say, “There is no God. There is no devil. There is no hell.” Human beings now experience hell while they are here.

EVALUATE YOURSELF NOW [2]

There is always a great difference with things that happen around the children of God and things that happen around those that know not God. This is because, he that does not know God will be from prison to prison; and then from prison to death.

Why? He does not know God. Ignorance! Why? It is a self-inflicted injury. Ignorance is a self-inflicted injury. It is a deliberate misfortune because you have the opportunity and you do not want to use it.
Just like I told you the other day. Who is the most foolish human being? I will show you four categories and you make a choice or place yourself where you belong to.
Number 1 category is this: One who does not know. He does not know that he does not know. And he is not willing to know.
The prophet Mohammed Raheem in the Holy Qur’an, Surah 18 said, “Have nothing to do with such a stupid fellow. He will corrupt you.
And the Bible said in the Book of Proverbs, “Make no mistake of following a foolish fellow, for he will teach you foolishness.
Reference: Proverbs 13:20, Amplified version. He who walks [as a companion] with wise men is wise, but he who associates with [self-confident] fools is [a fool himself and] shall smart for it.
You have nothing to learn from a foolish man, a foolish boy or girl other than foolishness. Follow the wise and you will become wiser.
Number 2 category Look at another person: One who knows, but does not know that he knows. One that knows and one that have been taught, educated in the things of God in every facet of human life, but he does not know that he has been educated.
He does not know that he has been trained and educated in the things of God.
[The LORD addresses a technical interruption to the sound system] Switch it off! We apologize for the distortion to whosoever that will hear this Voice.
That is to show you that the devil is not happy with what is happening here. Can you imagine? All these years and all the while we have been using this equipment, this kind of interruption has never happened.
But because I am correcting the imbalance in every family which has affected the life of all that are raised in families negatively.
See what the devil attempted to do to distort the Message by magneting what women are playing along the street who are preparing themselves for the celebration of the so-called “Mothering Sunday”, preparatory for their Easter celebration.
Look at how far away they are from My house. But there is a church behind My house. Look at the church there. Every Sunday they gather, but it has never magneted it.
Now, look at what the devil is doing, using Roman Catholic women who are passing by and their instrument which is just very small. This is just to disturb this message and to distort it so that the hearers will be confused.
And Chika aided them, that up till now Chika does not know that that equipment has off and on. You better study it. If it is off, the distortion cannot work. Once there is distortion, put it off.
So, we give God the glory. I told you the second category of persons you cannot have dealings with is: one who knows, but does not know that he knows. This is the person that is the devil’s incarnate. He is trained. He goes to church. He receives messages. He reads the sermon books. He preaches, but in practice, he denies all.
It is just like one who goes to university, polytechnic or higher institution and obtains a good certificate from there as one who is brilliant but every time, he mingles with fools, not recognizing that he is a graduate that attained a level of knowledge and a level of exposure used to influence people around him to do good.
When he sees fools, he will be there. He sees the drunk, he will be there. He sees jesters, he will be there, his education notwithstanding.
Why? Whenever he goes out, he forgets that he has been educated to differentiate between good and bad. That is the worst human being. A chameleon.
He knows but does not recognize that he knows, being a person that forgets himself; very easily. You cannot misbehave until you forget who you are. Am I making sense?
Who are you? That is the Message I gave you long ago in print. Who am I? Who are you? Who do people say I am?
It is just like My wife. It is not because the husband said or because the children said. I mean, the entire world that came into contact with her, who were practically and personally acquainted with her, had written and documented about what they knew her for. And these came from different states in Nigeria, even from abroad.
You are nothing but what you are. And we know you for who you are. So be very careful that you portray a good record of Christ; a good image of Christ before people, living your life within the confines of the Faith, and making sure that the Word of God is not blasphemed through your character.
This is your own time to create your own record. Ask yourself this question, “If I should leave the scene today by death, what will be your legacy?
This is because some will go by death. God will harvest some through death. He will harvest majority through translation of their mortal bodies.
Whichever way God harvests you, what will be your legacy?
What will you be remembered for? What will be the record you will leave behind? Will you leave the record that while you lived your life, you pleased God and God was pleased with you?
Or will you leave a dirty record behind of how you were disobedient to instructions? Will you leave a record of how you flaunted God’s way and went about having your way, instead of God having his way? Will you leave a record that you were all aiming at having your own way?
And that’s how you know such people. I call them educated fools who do not reflect what we have been taught in their daily living. Run away from such people for they are the most fearful people on earth.
When they see black, they become black. they see white, they become white. Run away from such people.
Remember the two categories of people: [1] The one that does not know. he does not know that he does not know. and he does not want to know.
[2] One that knows, but does not know that he knows. And for that, he does not manifest the knowledge.
Two dangerous people! So, watch another one.
[3] One that does not know. He knows that he does not know. And he is desirous of knowing. He is ignorant. He recognizes he is ignorant. And he is willing to acquire knowledge that eradicates ignorance, because sound knowledge eradicates ignorance. If you do not go for knowledge, God will not send it to you.
That is why the Prophet said, “Sell off whatever you have and all you know you have acquired to get that knowledge of who God is. And knowledge of who you are; Why God created you; And why you are here.”
Reference [1]: Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51, p. 65; Al-Hurr al-Amili, Ithbat al-Hudat, Vol. 6, p. 382 … O servants of Allah! Fear Allah: WHEN HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) APPEARS, ABANDON EVERYTHING AND RUN TO HIM BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS because he ıs the calıph of Allah and my heir.
[2]: Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 252 If Allah permits you to see this RUN TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO HIM [FOLLOW HIM] AND NEVER ABANDON HIM. IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL, NEVER ABANDON HIM IF YOU REACH HIM AND FIND THE TRUE PATH. Ah – and he pointed to his chest – how I long to see him. LET NOTHING HOLD YOU BACK FROM SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO HIM [FROM BEING HIS FOLLOWER, FROM FOLLOWING HIM]……
Are you here as a finality or are you here as a means to achieving the finality? You have to answer these questions.
Look at that man [3]. He knows that he does not know anything. He does not know anything. And he has acknowledged it with all his heart that he does not know anything. And he is willing to be taught. He wants to acquire that knowledge. The prophet said, “walk with him. He is an easygoing faring man.”
He is an easygoing, well-faring man, for he is desiring to acquire the knowledge he did not have. For that, he must be humble. He must be meek. He must be lowly.
He must be obedient, for he knows these are necessary things that will help him obtain that knowledge. If he is stubborn and disobedient, his master will drive him away.
You that want to learn, are you meek? Are you humble? Are you lowly? Are you peaceful? Are you obedient or are you stubborn to your teacher? Instead of obeying, you are finding fault with your teacher.
Finding fault with the way you have never gone before makes you the most stupid human being on earth. For you to fault your parents, you must have acquired the knowledge your parents never acquired that will make you to be higher than them.
With that knowledge, you can begin to correct their evils. It is not when you are still sitting on the same platform with them, you tell them to repent. Repent of what? Even when you are helping their unbelief even.
You are cementing their unbelief because after sojourning with the Son of Man for years, it is believed that you have acquired a quality and an experience that will help you to succeed where others failed.
But at the end of the day, you are bundled back as a reject and as a misfit. What a disgrace!? What a discouragement?
That is why the Bible said, “Woe unto that person who because of his evil ways will make people to speak evil of the way of truth; whose ways will hinder people from embracing the truth.”
This is because when you receive the truth, but you go out and live contrary, you stumble people.
One that is ready to learn is ready to accept corrections, for you cannot begin to learn and assume perfection immediately.
There is no way you can learn to drive without being obedient to your instructor. And you cannot perfect driving in one day. Even if he comes down from the steering and hands the vehicle over to you, you will still fumble for some time before you master it.
That you made a mistake does not write you off. It goes to show that you have not mastered it.
That is why a learner must be ready to shift from the tyranny of the fact to mastery of the fact.
Being a learner, it is agonizing and very fearful, the first day you hold the steering. The vehicle will be looking as if it will run off from your hand and cause destruction. This is simply because you are a learner.
After some days, you will now begin to realize that the vehicle will not move until you permit the vehicle to move. And that you are the one that is driving, not the vehicle driving you.
The learner will also realize that the speed is dictated by him. Even the slow movement is dictated by him. The brake is applied by him. And the steering is wheeled by him. Is it not true?
He is the one that decides the direction the vehicle will go, and not the vehicle directing. What is happening? He is escaping from the tyranny of fact to the mastery of the fact.
The fact is that, he has bought a vehicle, and he must drive it on the road. It is a fact. He cannot use it to pack his dresses. It is to help him in his movement.
The moment he has mastered the art of driving, he becomes a master. Only then will he be comfortable entering his vehicle, starting and moving at any time in the day, even in the night. He masters how to use his headlamp, trafficators, parking light and things like that. The fear has completely vanished.
Anywhere he sees anybody with ‘L’ in front of another vehicle indicating learning, he remembers what he passed through. That is why we respect learners on the highway, for once upon a time, you were a learner. Somebody taught you how to start a motor, and how to fire the motor.
So, it is in every art of life. So it is in serving God. Am I making sense at all?
Well, for you to learn all things very readily and quietly, you must be meek, humble, lowly, obedient to instructions, ready to accept corrections.
This is because if you make a mistake, the instructor may slap you. Not that he intended to slap you, but he wants to drive the virtue home that you are making his work very difficult. And that is what happens when the flock is making the work of the shepherd very difficult.
He [the learner] does not know that he is spoiling the shepherd’s record, and that the shepherd will be reporting back concerning him to God.
On that day when salvation shall be made complete, your record will be placed before you, and people who knew you will bear witness, for the record concerning you is accurate. It is a fact. Nobody is telling lies against you. It is your habit.
So, what is the last category the prophet said? Walk with that man. He is a very good man. He is a leader of today and the leader of tomorrow.
[4] He said, “One that knows and recognizes that he knows; and his knowledge dictates his behaviour. He is the one that is afraid of misbehaving himself before God and before man knowing that he will receive a greater blame and a greater punishment having been adjudged to be highly educated and he accepts that he is educated and he knows that he is willing to make use of his education in every facet of his life; He is the one that avoids all things that will bring blasphemy and reproach to Allah. Walk with him.
There are four categories of people I have so far highlighted according to the Holy Qur’an.
There are equally biblical injunctions from the book of Romans, and even the book of Ecclesiastes. With the Roman Catholic edition of the bible, you go to the book of wisdom, it is littered there.
Who do you associate yourself with? Because evil companionship spoils good character.
You go to your school, birds of the same feather must flock together. That is why, when you tell Me the person you associate with, I will tell you who you are, for the two can never walk together except they agree.
Watch all that run away from My wife; all wives and all sisters that find it difficult to come near her, watch why. But there are some that take delight in milling around her.
Two categories of people that mill around her [THE QUEEN OF PARADISE]: [1] Those that are seeking help materially. [2] Those that are seeking help spiritually. They [2] are in the minority. And she mentioned all of them and then told her children to remain in love and in fellowship with them.
But to those [1] who were milling around her for material benefits which was given also to them freely like that, she warned them to be wary of them, for while they are seeking the help, they are also fault finders.
So, these are the two categories of people she highlighted before she gave up the ghost. I was there and I listened to her. I did not make any comment.
That is why we have that exclusive tape for forty-five minutes. We only let it out to people we want to let out especially members of her family, her own relations and her siblings.
They heard her voice and they told us to stop the tape, “Stop the tape.” They could not hear more. We preserved it for posterity. Should anybody be in doubt, we play the tape and we will listen to her voice.
And this morning once again, I want us to listen to her voice which I now call her memorial voice that will linger throughout eternity of eternities.
There is one thing with human beings. Osadebe a popular musician is no longer on the scene, but his words are still with us, evergreen. Celestine Ukwu [the philosopher] is no longer with us, but his works are still with us evergreen.
Ezebuiro Obinna alias Sir Warrior of the Oriental Brothers is not with us, but his works are here with us. Am I making sense?
Jim Reeves of America is no longer with us, but his works are with us. T. L. Osborn; his works are with us. Daniel Curry is here with us. All of them! D. L. Moody, his works are with us.
We remember them for good and for the positive impact they made in the lives of many. What will you be remembered for?
So, today we have received the first memorial service sermon and the second memorial service, but this one we will receive will be the Memorial Voice. Memorial voice of the Queen of Paradise; our blessed mummy, Nzubechi Son of Man.
That is what we are about to receive this morning. And I know the entire globe will like to receive this glorious voice, direct voice. Not altered, but the direct voice of the Blessed Queen of Paradise. And by the entire globe I mean, the entire world of Elect.
If there is any day she will be our Minister in this pulpit, it is today. It is fully authorized because one is coming here. And he is no other person but our Pastor Chizoba to come and handle this voice, which is the direct voice of the Bride. Direct voice of the Bride.
I hope you are ready to hear. And then when you hear, do not say, “I am not married. I do not want to marry now.” No!
The young must grow. Use your experience. Use what you will learn to see whether you can effect the change. A change! A permanent change in the family where you were born and raised.
And then use the experience you will gather today to re-model your life because a pattern has been laid before us. Anything short of that pattern will never be a partaker of Paradise. To God be the glory!