THE NEED FOR HARMONIOUS LIVING

THE NEED FOR HARMONIOUS LIVING Preached ON Sunday, 5^th March, 2023 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Uniting Point of All the Elect

Transcribed by Deacon David Mbah

Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State

^[3]Harmony is as refreshing as the dew on Mount Hermon, on the mountains of Israel. And God has pronounced this eternal blessing on Jerusalem, even life forevermore.

Psalms 133:3 Living Bible

If we are in the Faith without a Comforter, we are lost. I say, we are completely lost. You had better accept this truth. If we are, as a Church or children of God and the Comforter He promised to send us is not with us, we are lost. Our claim is false. We are completely deceived. Who is our Comforter? The Holy Word of God. The Holy Ghost. What is keeping us together? Is it not the Word of God? What is the basis of our rejoicing? We have the Word in our midst, full stop.

THE SON OF MAN

LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOL. 3; Preached on 30^th April 2000 at the Household Onitsha; Pg. 92 vs. 46 – 47

INTRODUCTION

PRAYER

Let us bow down our heads.
Our Heavenly Father, here we are in this Family that is called by Your Name, where Your Glory [O God] has been dwelling all these years. And You promised to dwell with us here in love, in peace and in harmony, even Father in the next world.
In Your Holy Family O God are all Your children scattered all over the world. It is a spiritual Family and not a mechanical one.
As many [O God] as are real members of this Family that is called by Your Name [Father divine], we bind our hearts this morning wherever we are saying, THANK YOU for Your visitation once again. THANK YOU O God, for counting us worthy to be called Your sons and daughters. Thank you immensely for being a caring, loving and patient Father to us.
You have proved beyond reasonable doubt that greater is He that is with us than he that is opposing us. You have closed the mouths of all gainsayers. You have [O God] humiliated all critics.
You have made a name for yourself. You have made Your Name mighty [Father] in this Family and in every other family that is connected to this Family. Forever, You will be our God. Forever, we will worship You. In the hereafter, You will be our King.
We adore You. We praise You. We give you all our thanksgiving. For You are worthy to receive all. You have put smiles on our faces. You have erased all our sorrows. You have restored our joy, our gladness, our peace.
You have even [O God] increased our Faith to believe You the more, for You have never failed us for one day. And we believe that You will never fail us, even till the end.
THANK YOU O God for what You have done already. THANK YOU for the ones we are expecting. Thank you Father, even for our son who is on the highway. Guide him safely to his station in Port Harcourt, and be with him over there.
There are some here O God, who will be travelling back to their stations this afternoon. We hand all of them over to Your care. The flight they will take, in the same manner [O God] you brought them here safely, take them back to their station safely and be with them there.
Bless them. Keep watch over them for good, twenty-four hours of the day. May You never allow the enemy to assail. Father, may they enjoy peace that cometh from above which passeth all human understanding.
Pour [O God] upon them the spirit of meditation, the spirit of prayer especially at this time we are in.
We have a big challenge also. By the 24^th of this month [March], Father You know about it. We have been mentioning it in our daily prayers. Take preeminence in everything we are going to do.
Let all that will come from the east to the west and from the north to the south, come safely, enjoy their stay and go back to their homes safely.
Provide all that is needed. Provide all [O God, Father] to make it a glorious outing. Father, may You never permit the devil in any form or shape to be heard or seen. In everything we are going to do there, take absolute control.
LORD, we are praising You for the wondrous gift we received this morning. It is a good news. It is a gift from above. If we do not acknowledge it, we are ingrates. Nobody can close our mouths for any reason at all.
We praise You as we bow before You that today is exactly one year [365 days] we came back from Mbaise with anguish, with pains, with sorrows that lingered right from 10^th December 2021, and engulfed all of us; engulfed all our families like a wild fire.
Today [O God], we are happily standing in your presence, lifting our heads towards the sky. With our hands [O God] towards the heavens, we shout Alleluia to Your Most Holy Name, for coming to our rescue when we needed You most.
You crowned it O God by blessing us within the period of one year with two bouncing babies. What a blessing money cannot fetch for us? Our parents [if they were alive] cannot give it to us. Friends and well-wishers cannot give it to us.
Father, You are indeed the God of consolation. You have told us to stop crying, and then turn our cries to praises. Father, we owe you a great debt of gratitude while we live in this flesh and even in the hereafter.
There is no amount of expression from our lips that will be sufficient to appreciate You LORD, for never permitting [O God] anything that will bring about sorrows again to be associated with this Family. Instead, we are seeing upliftment.
Continue in the good work You have already initiated. May You never relent until You climax it [O God] with eternal life. Thereunto, we are born. Thereunto, we are ordained. Thereunto, we are called.
For You never called us to receive Your wrath, but to receive salvation from You through Christ. We have responded, and we will remain [O God] obedient.
Forgive O God, all our human inadequacies, imperfections [Father] which we manifest every day. We believe that when we attain that perfect standard, the perfect stature of the perfect Man, all those imperfections and human weaknesses will be mentioned around us no more.
We look forward to that day [Father] when we shall put on the incorruptible body, the indestructible body, the immortal body, according Your promise. It is a gift from You. And we will rest at nothing until we are sure and certain that we have received our own fair share of that gift.
This morning, a Word from You is what we need to comfort our hearts. Speak O God, and we will give listening ear to Your Word. We will believe and we will do according to Your command.
Take all the glory and praise for answering our prayers, for Your name’s sake O LORD, we pray. Amen.

Thus, it is not a surprise that I first of all introduced that man to you, through the Prophets, through the Holy Scriptures. Through supernatural occurrences, I introduced the man to you, whose Voice you must harken and all of you said Amen that God has blessed us in this generation. We thank God for coming down in person for we all agreed that we now have God in person as our Teacher. We have him in person as our Teacher for no man can teach like this if He is not God. We acknowledged it.

THE SON OF MAN

ACTION TIME PART 3 (OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE) CAMP MEETING; preached on Wednesday, 31^st December, 1997 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 46 vs. 22 – 24

THANK YOU LORD!

You can be seated. To God be the glory. I know that one day, we shall gather just for praises and nothing more.

Somebody may not know why we are rejoicing. Somebody may not know the secret of our composure. This is because throughout last night, I was counting on God’s blessings, just like we sing in our song, “COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS. NAME THEM ONE BY ONE”. You will notice that they are inexhaustible.
Unless we are not sincere. What took place here on Friday, with the mortal eyes, it was a simple gathering, but with the spiritual eyes, it was more than meet the eyes.
Even some of My friends [neighbours] who came marveled. One of them, an honourable gentle man said, “Daddy, is this what You are calling a small gathering? What is small in this type of gathering with over three hundred people seated and they are enjoying their lives in the presence of God? And You say it is a small gathering? It is a mighty gathering. Do You know that even this my event centre cannot accommodate them?”
I said, “It is true.” He went further to enquire, “But how did You expand this Your compound?” I said, “Sir this is one of those miracles God can do.”
This is because I said it that where there is love, accommodation is nothing. One seat can accommodate 30 persons. God can enlarge that seat. The same way, He multiplied the food and multiplied the water and everything. I saw the mighty hand of God at work. Everything went peacefully.
I threw it open. Only those who were ordained to come, attended it. Nobody came carnally. Only those God Himself chose for that gathering were there.
There were too many people that tried their best, but they could not make it. It was not because of money or any other thing, but one thing or the other interrupted them or truncated their ideas.
But those who came, came spiritually. They came peacefully. And I appreciated their composure.
Now look at the climax. That same night, we experienced a heavy downpour. I said, “This is the blessing from God.”
Now, while we are still rejoicing that as we are observing the first one year anniversary, we dedicated a new born baby. An addition to the Family. A consolation again. This morning a super consolation came.
I do not know what to call that child. In short, I have been thinking of what I will call that baby. Will I call her Nzubechi too? I do not know the type of name that will suit that baby.
We have already started jumping up in mind, looking forward to the day we shall meet at Nsukka, presumably during the burial which comes up at the end of this month. And that will make the whole thing glorious.
We will no longer be looking at the casket. We will be looking at the baby. What a glorious outing we are likely to make.
If I am to say, we should begin now to rethink o. Begin now to rethink. If Christ’s death was a blessing to His people; and if it is a blessing and a joyful thing if a Saint [a child of God] departs, we should begin now to have a rethink.
From all ramifications, I will say that the departure of My wife attracted greater blessings to this Family.
Looking back very well, I can now begin to see reason why a mother and a Sister [her best Sister] wrote some of My children just few lines and said, “Stop weeping. Stop crying. The departure of our Mother, Mummy Nzubechi is a blessing to all of you.”
And they misunderstood it. They frowned at it and said, “How could our mother’s departure be a blessing?”
Yes! Yes! That time, it was not a blessing by their interpretation, but today, the handwriting is clear on the wall. I am telling you the truth because I know what I have been passing through all along.
It was like the Light was dim before, but it is illuminating brighter now. May be somebody has gone ahead of time to clear the air so that the real sun will radiate fully upon us. May be somebody has paved the way.
And it could not be any other person than one who, from her track records right from the Garden of Eden could be traceable to this Family. The second Person the Almighty God appeared and took away.
The first was Sarah, the wife of Abraham. The LORD Himself appeared. In disguise, adoring her beauty, praising her that her only begotten son could be admitted as a sweet-smelling sacrifice by the Elohim.
And the woman rejoiced exceedingly that the fruit of her womb was used as a living sacrifice. The type the LORD Himself accepted very well.
She said, “Now, let your maidservant sleep in peace.” She never knew she was pouring the whole of her heart to One that has come to take her away. After all those praises without any guile in her heart, He that was standing there tapped her on the shoulder and said, “You are a blessed woman.” She slumped down and died.
Reference: THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM PART 4 [From the papyri found in Egypt 1831 and translated by John Bryant] Chapters 147 & 148.¹BUT Sarah said, Surely the heart of my Lord Abraham is right with the Lord his God for he walketh before Him in all His ways. ²Nevertheless, shall my son Isaac be offered as a burnt offering and I not be there to weep over him and strengthen him and pray for him that he be an acceptable offering unto the Lord God of Abraham? ³Nay, but I shall go to him. ⁴And Sarah departed with her menservants and her maid servants and went as far as Hebron but found us not. ⁵Therefore, Sarah rested in Hebron and sent her young men to find us, who searched all the land round about and even in the city of Shalom but found us not.
⁶Then Sarah prayed unto the lord saying, O Lord God of Abraham, surely I know that all things are in Thine hand, and I do not fear for my son Isaac for I know that mine husband Abraham is an high priest after Thine holy order. ⁷Nevertheless, it is my desire to be with my son at this holy hour that I might share his joy and his sorrow before the Lord our God.
CHAPTER 148 ¹THEN the Word of the Lord came unto Sarah saying, Surely I have accepted the offering of Isaac and have provided a ram prepared before the foundation of the earth was laid to be offered in his place; wherefore, thy son liveth and is with his father Abraham and even now searcheth for thee. ²When Sarah heard these Words, her heart was filled with joy so that she could not contain it and her spirit was lifted up to see the Paradise of God and she exclaimed, Behold, I have seen my Redeemer and it sufficeth me, and she gave up the ghost. ³Thus did Sarah die in Hebron being one hundred and twenty-seven years old and she died having seen her Redeemer and having received from him the promise of eternal life.
You see, we gathered here. It is now a precious memory worthy of rehearsing. We gathered here on the 29^th of August 2021 in this hall, not any other. And then, we saw the glorious appearing of the Elohim.
While My wife was there in the dining taking her Greek yoghurt, the Great Light came. She was in her usual seat, but left it for that dining table.
I was in the pulpit with Chiemelie, while others were seated including Brother Elijoe. Chika was seated there.
The Light came, visible. The first one came. It was like a flash. The second one was a slow motion. Then the third one, even if the blindest being was here, it was not hidden. And then the Light traced her down there. From there to the kitchen.
I shouted, “How I wish Nzubechi is here to see what is happening.” I never knew that the LORD blinded Me from seeing her. She responded from the dining, “My LORD, I saw everything. He came looking for me.”
We were very glad to receive that visitation. As we continued praising and worshipping, hearing the Word that opened the Fellowship, I was about to make a prayer to enable Me to hand over. All we saw was the same Great Light, this time in the form of a beam that scared everybody away. It came directly from here.
Chika jumped. Elijoe stood up to run. Chiemelie ran. Straight it went directly to her, pulled that fan there closest to her and increased the speed. It was like a drama. Then her body swallowed all.
It reminded Me of what took place in the Fellowship at Amazu Oil before we went to GTC Onitsha. I kept it to Myself at Amazu Oil lest they thought I was exalting My wife.
But at GTC, nobody could conceal it. It became clear that what wrapped the husband wrapped her. All witnessed where she was enveloped by the Cloud. Amidst others who sat around her, the Cloud enveloped her. The pictures are with you.
So, I am saying the LORD has already put smiles on our faces. May we never allow the devil to come and counter this great joy that is overflowing.
My prayer is that it will remain overflowing in our hearts until we enter Paradise. There, we meet her face to face. Then we will tell the story of how we overcome.
My prayer is that if I should taste of this death again in this flesh, let Me die the death of the righteous. Let Me taste it the way Nzubechi tasted it or even higher than her.
Do you know that it is a glorious thing for somebody to be parceled home by no less a Personality than the Almighty God Himself? Who has been privileged to receive this type of honour? She was highly honoured by the Almighty. I am sure and certain about it.
And that is why the Almighty God now decided to comfort some of us who grieved so much as if we were without hope. He now decided to come in another way.
If you go home today, meditate on how things have been happening around you, your family, your work place and everything from that day till now, even how we recovered quickly from the huge expenses we incurred. A miracle of all miracles.
So, My joy is complete today. My children came and said that their Dad is looking refreshed. I will refresh more because I said it on Friday. After the whole thing, I gathered them upstairs and said, “Do you know that today is the day we buried your mother.”
We say it in Igbo here, and I know it is so everywhere. The dead is not yet buried until those that buried the dead stay alive for complete one year.
There are too many families where the moment one is laid to rest, others will follow. If she is a woman, in less than six months, the husband will follow. And their children will be taken one after the other until people will begin to wonder as to what could be wrong.
That all of us could stay alive inspite of all we passed through, is it not the mighty hand of God? This is the mighty hand of God. Honour and glory should be given to Whom it is due.
It is the LORD alone. It is His doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes that our daughters who were not pregnant while their mother was buried, in one year, two of them were visited by God and blessed with two kids. Is it not amazing? It is amazing.
They were not pregnant when their mother was buried. After the burial, the LORD visited them. Exactly one year of her burial, we are presenting two new babies. I mean, let us juxtapose the whole thing. Can we say that we are on the losing side?
I am saying that God gave us extra after everything He did for us. We are not on the losing side. Is it not a consolation? If I should begin now to talk nonsense or to begin to grieve again, do you not know that it will be an act of ingratitude to God.
So, what we owe God from now is pure appreciation from our hearts, for He has done that which we never thought about. In short, there is no one among us who ever thought that we could be in this state by now. I am telling you the whole truth. In short, from My side, I never even wished it.
The LORD decided to have His Way. And I pray that He continues to have His Way.
SONG: [Have Thine own Way LORD. Have Thine own Way. Thou art the Potter. I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still.]
I think I am singing a new song. It is not a new song. Have Your Way. You have molded Me. Fill me with Thy Holy Spirit. While I am still waiting, I yield Myself to You. Take Me as a vessel of honour to Yourself. Amen.
We are having among us My extant families that will be travelling during Fellowship hours. So, I advise you to go and pack your luggage. Pack them into the vehicles so that when you look at the time, if it becomes due, you simply enter your vehicle, and go straight to the airport.
The good LORD Whom we serve, and Who brought you here has already heard our prayers. And He will do more than we have requested of Him. Fear not. Whether on the land or in the air, I say fear not.
This is because if I share the testimony of what took place here last night, it is amazing.

When the time arrives for her to emerge from the womb into the open world, the same angel addresses the soul, “The time has come for thee to go abroad into the open world.” The soul demurs, “Why dost thou want to make me go forth into the open world?” The angel replies: “Know that as thou wert formed against thy will, so now thou wilt be born against thy will, and against thy will thou shalt die, and against thy will thou shalt give account of thyself before the King of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.” But the soul is reluctant to leave her place. Then the angel fillips the babe on the nose, extinguishes the light at his head, and brings him forth into the world against his will. Immediately the child forgets all his soul has seen and learnt, and he comes into the world crying, for he loses a place of shelter and security and rest.

The legends of the Jews, Volume 1 Section 2; “THE SOUL OF MAN”; Paragraph 20

LIFE IS IN THE HAND OF GOD

I was wide awake watching over My daughter. I did not want to make it public. I only disclosed it to Ijeoma my first daughter. While you were eating and jumping about, I knew she was in labour. So, I concealed it. We watched over the whole thing.

About 5AM this morning, the mother-in-law called Me and said, “Daddy, Your intervention is urgently needed. From what we are witnessing there, if You do not intervene, we may have some difficulties.”
I said, “Stop talking. She is My daughter and there is no need reminding Me. And tell her to stop pressing that child. The child will come out on her own. Where is the husband?”
I called and the husband picked. I enquired, “My friend, where are you?” He said that he was I the labour ward. I asked him, “What are you doing there? Carry the phone and come out from there.” He came out. I started talking to him. About two minutes I spoke with him, he heard the cry of the baby there on the spot.
The mother in-law marveled, for she was equally there. “Tell her to stop pressing that baby. The baby will come out on her own.”
For there is a mystery about birth many have not discovered. Let me use one instance. If a hen is hatching her eggs, naturally she must be in the roost for 21 days.
It is not compulsory that the eggs will be hatched precisely on that 21^st day. Why? All of them were not laid on the same day. They were not fertilized the same day. So, they will be hatched according to their order. Anyone that was not fertilized can never hatch.
So if you watch, while the chicks are being hatched, they are struggling to come out. The chick uses its beak to perforate that egg. Then gradually gradually, you see the chick struggling. Before you know it, the egg will be gradually breaking, giving way for the head to come out first.
The moment the head comes out, you can now hear the cry of that little chick that is trying to come out. The chick will be struggling jerking the head left and right. You may be pitying that little chick. That is the way God ordained that it should come out.
The mother cannot come to help. If you are the owner, you may be sympathizing with the chick, “Oh! This chick will die, it is suffering too much.” No!
If while it is struggling to come out, and out of sympathy, you now want to render a help by using your hand to tear a part of the broken egg to let the chick out, you will kill that chick. It dies automatically.
But while you just ignore the chick, for that is the normal way others came out, you will see that the chick will keep struggling and struggling, sometimes from morning till evening. By the time it comes out, it becomes a little weak, but in less than 15 minutes, it will revive and then begin to move about.
I am saying that the hen does not suffer to help the chick to come out. So it is in delivery. Doctors know this truth. The moment the time is right for delivery, unless there is obstruction inside, the baby will be strong enough to find its way out. It will use the head that is strong to force the cervix open and press the pelvis wider to accommodate the head.
The moment the head comes out, that is all that is needed. The shoulder is just a minor thing. A little contraction forces the shoulder out because the amniotic fluid is already there lubricating.
So telling the woman to exert strength until her eyes will bulge is punishment. Some will even resort to flogging and beating the woman as if they are aiding her. They make matters worse.
So, it is science that is torturing human beings. We are under torture today because of the knowledge we have acquired through science. And if you watch, mortality rate – maternal mortality and infant mortality rates – in the days of our fathers were smaller than what we are experiencing today in spite of advancement in medical practice.
So that is why the type of immunization programmes we are undertaking today were unknown by our fathers. A good number of us were not born in any maternity home. We were born in the kitchen, crude.
I am saying that life is in the hand of God. If the LORD does not come to our aid, whatever we are putting in place is useless nonsense. Our doctors do not know what they are doing. I have read it in the Scriptures, “Do not trust your doctors, your physicians. Trust God.”
Reference: 2 Chronicles 16:12-13. ¹²In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa developed a disease in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but [relied only on] the physicians. ¹³“So Asa slept with his fathers [in death], dying in the forty-first year of his reign.” AMP
Professors of medicine and gynaecologists wrote a Sister off. They were the people that blocked the fallopian tubes. They were the people that declared her barren. But God said no!
Any moment from now, we will be receiving good news from that end. Is it not true? Who did it? God, beating science hollow. So, trust not in your science. Trust not in anything. I do not care how they present it to you. God has the final say. I say, Jehovah has the final say.
I do not want to talk much. The only thing I am here saying is, “Thank you to all of you for supporting Me, surrounding Me with your love, and surrounding Me with everything that made this ceremony a huge success. May the good LORD reward all of you in His own way, for there is no amount of reward I can give that can compare to the level of love you have expressed for Me and My Family.”
The only thing I pray is that the Almighty God will grant that all of us will meet in the hereafter where we will not part again, for we have mastered ourselves. We have learnt to stay together. So we can manage ourselves without causing trouble.

³³That is why you must be vigilant. You must be on the alert. You must be sober. You must be loving. You must be godly. You must be appreciative. You must be peaceful. ³⁴Meditate on those things that are pure, those things that are good, those things that are of honest report, those things that are edifying. ³⁵If there be any virtue in you, think of these things. Create no room in your heart whatsoever for evil thoughts to ever come in. Remember the Message, BE DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET.³⁶Remember where I started encouraging you; That we are fighting one common enemy. And the moment we identify him, we will off our eyes from our Brothers and Sisters.

The son of man

WE HAVE ONE COMMON ENEMY; Preached on Sunday 21^st May 2017 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 49 vs. 33-362

LIVE IN HARMONY AS BRETHREN

That is why it is good for Brethren to stay together in unity. Let somebody read it for Me in Psalm 133. If you are a Brother, be a Brother without hypocrisy. If you are a Sister, be a Sister without hypocrisy. If you have any problem, it can be easily addressed.

BUT WHEN A HYPOCRITE HAS A PROBLEM, TO ADDRESS IT IS VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE A HYPOCRITE CAN HARDLY DECLARE HERSELF OPEN, THEREBY MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR BRETHREN TO SHOW INTEREST IN SOLVING HIS PROBLEM.
Psalms 133:1-2, Living Bible. ¹How wonderful… Note! How wonderful. ¹How wonderful it is, how pleasant, when brothers live in harmony. ²For harmony is as precious as the fragrant anointing oil that was poured over Aaron’s head and ran down onto his beard and onto the border of his robe.
Where is Ijee? Ada Daddy! Please, I read this thing because of you and because you have borrowed a cue from your mother. You have started running a big family. Nnee, the same thing.
Wisdom is coming up the same way I grew up. I have started seeing him showing interest in gathering his fellow Brothers around himself.
But there are some who do not want to associate with their fellow brethren. Rather, they take delight in associating with the heathens and people with suspicious characters.
When you stay with your fellow brethren, you minimize the incidences of being lured away by evil men and women. You reduce the incidences of temptations that can tempt your heart away, for the devil is out there, but you are inside.
A child of God goes out to meet the devil there. The devil can never trace you inside. He is waiting for you outside. So you must be drawn away in the heart, in the spirit and in the mind.
Before you know it, you will abandon the Fellowship of the Brethren, and then begin to desire the company of the heathens. You will come back with “I nearly died”. Sorrows will fill your heart. Disappointments, sickness and every kind of thing.
I say it here. From 1998 when I handled the Message of Grace, I have never handled a single case of a Brother or a Sister that contacted a contagious disease from any Brother or Sister.
But cases abound that they strayed away and came back with HIV. They strayed away and came back with gonorrhoea and every kind of communicable and infectious disease. They contacted all of them outside.
And the LORD placed a bar that they will never infest our Camp. The moment they come, the LORD will expose them. They will be bed-ridden. They will be in pains until the whole thing will be made manifest. Then Brethren will mark them bad.
Watch Dinah the daughter of Jacob. Was she raped from among the Brethren? She strayed away to meet with the heathens out there. Then, they messed her up.
Reference: Genesis 34:1-2. ^[1]One day Dinah, Leah’s daughter, went out to visit some of the neighbourhood girls, ^[2]but when Shechem, son of King Hamor the Hivite, saw her, he took her and raped her. LB
So, let us be very careful. See how wonderful it is for Brethren to stay together in harmony. With this word alone, I am confirming the name you gave to Chidiebere Harmony.
Psalms 133:1-2, Living Bible. ¹How wonderful it is, how pleasant, when brothers live in harmony. ²For harmony is as precious as the fragrant anointing oil….
So HARMONY is now both a verb and an adjective. It is a noun, a verb and an adjective. It is everything. HARMONY
²For harmony is as precious as the fragrant anointing oil that was poured over Aaron’s head and ran down onto his beard and onto the border of his robe.
Please when you get home, keep on reading this particular portion to the hearing of HARMONY; what she is like and what she stands for.
King James version. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
The Message Bible. ^1-2How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along! It’s like costly anointing oilflowing down head and beard, Flowing down Aaron’s beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes.
Good News Bible. ¹How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God’s people to live together in harmony! ²It is like the precious anointing oil running down from Aaron’s head and beard, down to the collar of his robes.
New International Version.¹How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
Amplified version.¹BEHOLD, HOW good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Amen. Please, I am not crazy. If you have other translations, go through.
This Family is a Masterpiece. I say, this Family is a Masterpiece. This is the only family here on earth where Brethren from all walks of life, irrespective of their tribe, language, human or personal idiosyncrasies converge. This is their converging point.
And when they come here, you see this Scripture fulfilling to the letter. Nobody is given a schedule of duty. They enjoy the unity of the Brotherhood and the unity of the Sisterhood.
No schism. No discrimination. No fighting. No backbiting. No scandalizing. They eat together. They drink together. They sleep together. They go to work together. They fetch water together. Everywhere.
And if you look into their hearts, there is no iota of hypocrisy or eyeservice. They do not even complain of where they will sleep. I mean, even this parlour can accommodate all.
You see! What is the secret there? The LORD has noticed this. And he made sure that what you will eat and what you will drink and whatever you need will never lack in this house.
At times, people might be thinking that there might be some supplies from somewhere or contributions made to provide all these things. Never never never! It has been the order right from the very word go. My wife maintained it.
So, Ijeoma! Onyedika! You are here. Your families are coming up. I want your homes to be in harmony. To be in harmony. Let the harmony in your families influence the habit of others.
Even those who are known for trouble making, the moment they come here, the Spirit will possess them. Too many things you could not do in your families because the atmosphere is not conducive, but here you will be given the opportunity for the gift to manifest without any restriction.
This is that Abraham’s Family. And there is no Abraham without a Sarah. If the home is built by women who are wise, intelligent and understanding, the same Bible said that foolish ones destroy, while the wise ones build.
So whatever we are enjoying here is a legacy left by Nzubechi SON OF MAN. And now, we vowed we must continue, for it has become our custom, our habit and our culture. Nobody can cause us to do otherwise. And this is what Paradise is all about. Paradise on earth.
If we cannot live in harmony here, how can we dream of living together in the hereafter? Can it happen? And the more we stay together, the more we understand ourselves.
So, it takes one who is out of the Spirit of Christ to shoot up trouble. That is why the Bible said that we should be bound together.
Give it to Me in 1 Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 10 through 11.Then you go and pack. Living Bible translation:^[10]But, dear brothers, I beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ… Where you see Brothers, it is a company. Brethren means brothers and Sisters.
…I beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to stop arguing among yourselves. Let there be real harmony so that there won’t be splits in the church. I plead with you to be of one mind, united in thought and purpose….
King James Version. ¹⁰Now I beseech you, brethren,…Comprising of Brothers and Sisters.…by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
¹¹For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
If there are contentions among us, we cannot stay together like this. We must avoid that which causes disunity. And nothing brings about disunity more than hypocrisy. I hope I am making sense.
If you are here suppressing your feelings, you will not have peace in the presence of the Brethren. This is that white-like life which is lived from within where no iota of doubt or hypocrisy or eye service can be traced.
In this New Year message, God said, “Strive to live your life among yourselves As Brethren. Yoke not yourself any more with the heathens so that the LORD will have reasons why He will stretch His hands out for you, for when you begin to yoke yourself with the heathens out there, you are giving God reasons why He should ignore you.
Reference: 2023 New year Message; Preached on Sunday January 1^st 2023 at the Courtyard of the Bridal Lodge Nsugbe; Pg. 122 vs. 68-69.⁶⁸If it is possible, live your life among the Brotherhood and among the Sisterhood so that to fetch you will be very easy. ⁶⁹To those who take delight in living far away from where others are living, please, have a rethink. I say, please, have a rethink. To be far from God is to be far from His protection and from His blessings. If you have the opportunity, live where others are living – within the same area.
1 Corinthians 1:10-11, The Message Bible. I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I’ll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. M-U-S-T. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common.
Cultivating what? A life in common Harmony! My attitude will be your own in all situations. What I hate, you will hate it. What I approve, you will approve it.
It is not written there for fun. And there is no way you can practicalize it if not by clustering together as one, not to discuss politics or economy, but to discuss what Christ has done in your lives.
When you remember what you were in time past, you compare it with what you are today to know whether you have reasons to continue to serve God, for without God, I would not be what I am today. And what I think I will be tomorrow is also in His hands. Is it not true? Good!
SONG: [Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, Because He lives, all fear is gone. Because I know he holds My future, my life is worth a living just because He lives.]
The Bible said that we must, from now henceforth, stop living like the heathens whose thoughts are worthless, who mind earthly things. Let us bind our hearts together, walk by the same principle and the same rule so that if there be any that walks contrary, even the Spirit of Christ in your midst will reveal.
Reference: Ephesians 4:17. ¹⁷So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds. AMP
So let us take this short exhortation and use it as a principle of life. Anywhere you are, look around. If you feel comfortable staying in the midst of the heathens, that is where you belong to.
Any group of people; any person you want to associate with freely and comfortably, querying nothing, that is exactly your God ordained partner.
That is why I do not frown at people who take delight in moving with the heathens, for that is where they belong to, for animals of the same specie must flock together.
A true seed of God must be uncomfortable each time he sees himself in the company of the heathens. He only feels at ease when he comes out of them. Even expressing himself fully there will always be a problem for fear of being misunderstood. True or false?
But when he opens his mouth, wisdom flows. You will notice that no matter how lowly placed he is in that place, if they have not dragged out his opinion, nobody will be at rest.
They will tell you, “We have been talking and talking, but this man has not spoken. It is better we hear him o.” And if he speaks, everybody will see that every other statement made in time past will be reverted. You see wisdom?
So, do not live your life from now henceforth as the heathens do whose minds are in the dark, who do not know the truth. The Bible called them the unsaved people, “Do not behave and act and live your life as the unsaved people do, for they do not know this truth. And they do not have the life that Christ gives. ”In other words, they will spoil you.
Reference: Ephesians 4:17. ^[17-18]Let me say this, then, speaking for the Lord: Live no longer as the unsaved do, for they are blinded and confused. Their closed hearts are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds against him, and they cannot understand his ways. LB
Tell Me who your friend is, and I will tell you exactly who you are. Is it a lie Brethren? Once you tell Me who that your friend is, I will tell you who you are immediately.
He or she that behaves the same way I do, is that person not the one I refer to as My bosom friend? What makes that person your friend is that he or she behaves the same way you do. You live harmoniously.
Deep calleth deep. Children of God that have the Spirit of God identify themselves without any formal introduction, for there is something in them that pull them together.
And each time they come together, they do not feel like dispersing. When they meet, the food they will eat will be their testimonies. If they have not checked, they may stay awake, sharing testimonies.
So, I espouse all of you to the Word of His testimony that when you get home to your stations, anywhere you find yourself, remember that the worst Brother or the worst Sister is better than the best heathen out there. The worst Sister or the worst Brother is better than the best heathen there.
Who is a heathen? One that hates the truth. One that hates hearing the Word of God. That is a heathen.
So, with these few Words, I say, may the good LORD abide with you forever. Go and pack your things, preparatory for your movements.
To the rest, you can listen to your Pastor. Maybe he has a few words of comfort for you.

INTERLUDE

Pastor Chizoba Udochukwu: Remain blessed Brethren. We are grateful to God this day for His blessings upon us. Actually, our hearts, our mouths and everything in us are filled with praises and thanksgiving to the LORD God Almighty Who is in our midst bodily.
If not for Him, what would we do? That is why we sing in our number, “If not God, what will I do in this life.”
We have had a nice time ever since our families joined us from different places. And I thank God for providing for them, making it possible that they will arrive here safely. It is a very great thing.
Ever since they arrived, the Family has been beaming and booming. It is like they should not go back again, but it is not possible. It is a joyous re-union. We are glad to have you.
We pray that God will still provide a better opportunity that will enable us re-unite again in joy, in harmony and in happiness.
We continually give glory to His Name. We thank Him for blessing us even on this first Sunday in the month of March 2023. He opened it on a very sound note with joy. And we pray that it will continue that way.
I do not have much to say. We have too many Ministers here. And before I will read few things here, I will be inviting our Pastor before they will leave to say hello to us. We have heard what the LORD has said to the numerous families that are here.
Let us welcome Pastor Rotimi in charge of Lagos Household of God as he is here just to say hello.

A SHORT EXHORTATION BY PASTOR ROTIMI AKINTAN The Household of God, Lagos

Please take note of it that you are a blessed people having God in person as your Teacher, as your Prophet, as your Apostle, as your Pastor, as your Evangelist, as your Deacon, as your Bishop, as your Elder, as your everything and all in all. Why am I saying this? We are Messengers of the same Message. No Messenger can have his own Message. The whole Message comes from One Source. The Messages come from a Pool. The Pool, which is the Pillar of Cloud, as you can see it in the photograph of the Pillar of cloud, is with us. He is a Vindicated Messenger, A Vindicated Apostle.

THE SON OF MAN

GOD’S PROPHECIES ARE TIED TO TIME; Preached on Sunday 2nd January, 2011 at Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 100 vs. 39 – 42

Fix your attention on God

Remain blessed Brethren. I thank you for this opportunity. I will maintain the same protocol that the LORD has started with us this morning. Before we go, permit me to read just a few Scriptures to us.

The Book of Roman Chapter 12 verse 1 through 2. Living Bible, Message Bible, go ahead.
Romans 12:1-2, The Message Bible. So here’s what I want you to do,… Here is what God wants us to do.…God helping you:…God doing what? Helping you.
You see! Without the help of God, we are nothing. God is helping us. This is God telling us what He wants us to do. He has opened up this new month for us on a good note for us to live in harmony, to live in peace and to live among ourselves. So God is saying that this is what he wants us to do.
Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
Alleluia! Going forward, God is telling us that the way we live our lives should be in consonance with the Word we have received. We have been encouraged to live a united life with the Brethren. Hence, the way we do thing must agree with the Word of God. Alleluia!
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.
On who? On God! Alleluia! Remember, the way we eat, the way we live, and the way we do things [going forward], God is saying that my attention and your attention should be on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out.… What? You’ll be changed from the inside out…. Oh no! Alleluia!
Readily recognize what He wants from you… I will readily recognize. Oh no! You will readily recognize what God wants from you and from me. In other words, we must live our lives in consonance and in agreement with the Word of truth. Alleluia!
Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. unlike the culture around you, …
God is attacking our human nature and attacking our environment. The culture you meet in your various cities should not influence your life. Rather, what should influence your life is the life of God. Alleluia!
Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity.
What? …always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Amen!
Romans 12:1-2, Amplified version. ¹I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, [Alleluia] which is your reasonable (rational,…
You can now see that it is only a child of God that is rational. It is only a child of God that is reasonable. As for those beings like those wild beasts out there, God has made us to understand this morning that out there, we have the wild set of people out there.
But in God, you are rational. With God, you are reasonable. So you are the only normal human beings.
…make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.
²Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs] …It is a superficial custom. It is not the real life of God. Alleluia!
…but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], [Amen] so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, [Amen] even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. [Amen]
Romans 12:1-2, King James version. ¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. Alleluia!
New International Version. ¹Therefore, I urge you, brothers [and Sister], in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship.
²Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. Humble service in the Body of Christ. Amen.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17 only. The Message Bible. Don’t become partners with those who reject God……Is it not what we heard this morning? I am being on the laid down protocol. Do not become partners with those that reject God.
How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; …You cannot merge right and wrong together.
…that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? No! Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives.
God himself put it this way: “I’ll live in them, move into them; I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. Amen!
King James version. ¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: …That was what God was telling us this morning. You cannot feel comfortable among them.
…for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? ¹⁵And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
¹⁶And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹⁷Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Amplified version. ¹⁴Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mis-mated alliances with them… God highlighted it this morning…or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith].
For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
¹⁵What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Can there be any harmony there? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Nothing!
¹⁶What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
¹⁷So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favour, Amen.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17 only. Living Bible: ^[14]Don’t be teamed with those who do not love the Lord, for what do the people of God have in common with the people of sin? How can light live with darkness?
^[15]And what harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? Nothing! How can a Christian be a partner with one who doesn’t believe?
^[16]And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For you are God’s temple, the home of the living God, … The home of Who? …THE LIVING GOD, … Yes sir!
…and God has said of you, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.” ^[17]That is why the Lord has said, “Leave them; separate yourselves from them; don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. Amen.
1 John 3:1-2, The Message Bible. What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! Alleluia!
That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he’s up to.
Is it not what God told us this morning? They have no understanding. They have no idea of who you are. So why should we mate with them or mingle with them in the first place? It should not happen. Alleluia!
But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. Amen. Has it not fulfilled already?
King James version. ¹Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. ²Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Amplified version. ¹SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him. Yes! ²Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is.
Are we not God’s replica? We are His children. You see! Scriptures fulfilling.
Living Bible. See how very much our heavenly Father loves us. For he allows us to be called His children. Think of it. And we really are. But since most people do not know God, naturally, they do not understand that we are His children. Yes dear friends, we are really God’s children right now and we can’t even imagine what it is going to be like later on. But we do know this that when he comes, we will be like Him [Amen!] as we will just see Him as he really is. And everyone who really believes this will try to stay pure because Christ is pure. Amen.
2 Corinthians 7:1-4.The Message Bible. With promises like this to pull us on dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that distracts or defiles usboth within and without. Let not our entire life cease an holy temple for the worship of God.
Trust us. We have never hurt a soul. Never exploited nor taken advantage of anyone. Do not think we are finding fault with you. I told you earlier that I am with you all the way no matter what.
I have in fact the greatest confidence in you… God has what? The greatest confidence in us …if only you knew how proud I am of you. …Is God not proud of us this morning? I am overwhelmed with joy despite all our troubles. Amen.
Are we not overwhelmed with joy this morning? I mean, see Scriptures fulfilling. We are fulfilling Scriptures ignorantly.
2 Corinthians 7:1-4, King James version. ¹Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
²Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. ³I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
⁴Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. Amen.
Amplified version. ¹THEREFORE, SINCE these [great] promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates and defiles body and spirit, and bring [our] consecration to completeness in the [reverential] fear of God.
²Do open your hearts to us again [enlarge them to take us in]. We have wronged no one, we have betrayed or corrupted no one, we have cheated or taken advantage of no one.
³I do not say this to reproach or condemn [you], for I have said before that you are [nested] in our hearts, [and you will remain there] together [with us], whether we die or live.
⁴I have great boldness and free and fearless confidence and cheerful courage toward you; my pride in you is great. I am filled [brimful] with the comfort [of it]; with all our tribulation and in spite of it, [I am filled with comfort] I am overflowing with joy. Amen.
2 Corinthians 7:1-4, Living Bible. ^[1]Having such great promises as these, dear friends, let us turn away from everything wrong, whether of body or spirit, and purify ourselves, living in the wholesome fear of God, giving ourselves to him alone.
^[2]Please open your hearts to us again, for not one of you has suffered any wrong from us. Not one of you was led astray. We have cheated no one nor taken advantage of anyone.
^[3]I’m not saying this to scold or blame you, for, as I have said before, you are in my heart forever, and I live and die with you.
^[4]I have the highest confidence in you, and my pride in you is great. You have greatly encouraged me; you have made me so happy in spite of all my suffering. Amen.
James 4:7-10 only. The Message Bible: ^7-10So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet. Amen.
King James version. ⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, Resist who?… the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.
Amplified version. ⁷So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you. ⁸Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery]. ⁹[As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins]. ¹⁰Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up and make your lives significant]. Amen.
Lastly, Colossians 2:6-7, King James version. ⁶As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: So walk in Christ. Alleluia! ⁷rooted and built up in Him, … Be rooted and built up in Christ. And established in the faith, as ye have been taught,[Alleluia!] abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:6-7, Living Bible.^[6]And now just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust him, too, for each day’s problems; live in vital union with him. Live in vital union with Christ.
^[7]Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him. See that you go on growing in the Lord, …See that we keep on growing in the LORD. …and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Amen! Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done.
Amplified version. ⁶As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him. Yes sir!
⁷Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], …Fixed and founded in Christ.…being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, [Amen] just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. Amen.
Colossians 2:2-4 & 6-7, The Message Bible. ^2-4I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery.
All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery! I’m telling you this because I don’t want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or “the Secret.” ……. ^6-7My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith.
NOW DO WHAT YOU’VE BEEN TAUGHT. School’s out; QUIT STUDYING THE SUBJECT AND START LIVING IT! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.
On this note, I say remain blessed Brethren. Till I come your way next time, we pray for a better tomorrow.

A SHORT EXHORTATION BY PASTOR CHIZOBA UDOCHUKWU The Household of God, Onitsha

³Even governments make laws and regulations that apply only to aliens. If a foreigner’s conduct is regarded as undesirable, he may be deported.⁴Why is all these of serious concern to the child of God? How should it affect his or her way of life? ⁵First of all, I want you to see yourself as a child of God. Secondly, as a child of God, you are likened to a city that is seated on a mountain that cannot be hid. Thirdly, as a cynosure of all eyes because you are a foreigner with a strange behaviour. Lastly, that you are surrounded by a large crowd of witnesses with different aims and objectives.

THE SON OF MAN

FAMILY MENU Volume 1: [Undated]

Chapter 2 verse 3 through 5

MEMBERSHIP OF GOD’S FAMILY

IS SPIRITUAL [1]

We thank you Pastor for that wonderful hello to all of us, the Scriptures bearing witness of all we heard this morning, lining up.

Before we call it a day, let us call to mind certain things the LORD has handed over to us.
Yesterday, we had a very nice time in the evening when the Elders gathered and the Word of God was also raised as our standard to refresh our minds.
And the LORD spoke to us. Our joy was that He was present spiritually and physically. And we called to mind so many things, starting with our experiences.
There was something which the LORD told us and we picked the text from the Scripture using the Message Bible.
The LORD told us in the Great Sermonand holy spirit inspired revelations and epistles that any time we gather like this, whether in our families or in a General Assembly [when we were having general Assembly] or now that we have Meetings from time to time, we make every effort and every attempt to preach the Word and to drive it into the hearts of all that are seated with one aim.
The aim is that everyone will understand, act upon the Word, know Who God is and then possess this eternal life, for the Scriptures said that all that have believed in Him now possess the eternal life. They have now crossed over from death unto life; from darkness to Light, for we shall work in the light for Christ is the Light.
Even today, we heard that this is the pure white-like life that is lived from within. This is Christ in a Man. Without Christ in a human being, there is no pure white-like life in you. There is no way you can live that life because that is the major demarcation between the devil and Christ.
But the devil knows every other thing. He possesses power. He operates to the extent he can, but to come and live that life of light, he does not have it. It is not his nature. And that is why God pegged it that God’s nature is our ticket to Paradise.
So, in that GREAT SERMON, God was teaching us, little did we realize that we wrongly concluded and we think that everybody that has come, has come for eternal life.
But he said “Nay! There is no amount of preaching; there is no amount of revelation; there is no amount of vindication, aimed at clearing every doubt that will ever metamorphose a dog into a chick, nor remove the spots on the skin of a leopard. And that every seed of God has that germ of life in him or her. So that wherever he or she is found, the life is there.”
Reference: THE GREAT SERMON [2019 Revised Edition] EPISTLE 12 – “EVERY MAN MUST GO THE WAY HE IS ORDAINED”, Chapter 1 Pg. 313 vs. 6 What am I trying to portray by this Epistle? I am affirming that there is no amount of preaching on transformation that can transform a goat into a sheep, or a pig into a monkey, or a fowl into an eagle.
A seed of God has God’s Spirit from birth and all His attributes, and that is why he or she recognizes the things of God, while the rest of the world, who are destined to perdition cannot but call the things of God accursed. Every seed of God is likened to a sheep, whether alive or dead, wool is all over its body. He does not struggle to produce wool. A pig is not taught how to be dirty; it can only be clean when it is put in protective custody or bondage. Once it is let out of the custody, it must go back to the garbage, because it is its nature from creation, let it wear coat and be perfumed, surely it must go to the garbage. In the same token, nobody teaches a duck how to swim. Just expose it to the water and go away, there is no fear of the duck getting drowned. A true seed of God is not caged with the Law or policed about, so as to obey God. Simply give him the word of God and go away, there is no fear of death. All I am trying to say is that God who knows the end from the beginning, knows what will become of every man that comes to him, A to Z.
That is why, even this morning, He said, “They have likeness or common things that will attract them if they are children of God – the real Seed of God.”
There could be one. Though the person may be sitting here, but he or she does not have that germ of life, such a fellow will always draw more of his or her comfort from the outside than from within
Let us read 2 Peter 1:1-2, The Message Bible. I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Writing to those that have had experiences with God. And then their experiences are capable of changing their lives.
Hence, some people can still have that experience; still be where those things are taking place, but their lives will still remain the same thing and there is no evidence that they have any association with Christ or have ever had anything in common with Christ.
Now upon that ground, We invited our Deacon, Mike Emmanuel to come and share his experiences as he had encountered in Christ, “That life-changing experience you can share with your family, share it here and let us hear from you.”
And then he recounted certain things. And then from there we also saw what God told us on Friday of how God made it plain to him, “Whether you like it or not, you must serve this God.”
We now took it to the two categories of people that salvation has been directed to: [1] Some by mandate [compulsion], [2] Whosoever will. Coming to “Whosoever will” God said that the final determination and the final authority rests on Him – the Almighty God.
In the message Now Your salvation is now in your hands, He gave us that opportunity to know that even if you were born a Nigerian and to Nigerian parents in Nigeria [for example], you are a citizen of Nigeria by birth.
But then you also have that power to approach any other country [where you are sojourning] to apply for citizenship, once you meet with the country’s requirement[s]. Granting such citizenship application rests with the authority of that country.
Hence, he said, “If you realize that you are not there by covenant, you can now apply”, as contained in that Message, YOUR SALVATION IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. Then, the final authority will look into it.
Then for those whose salvation is mandatory which is on the basis of “Whether you like it or not”, He [the Almighty] has been telling us that somebody must be saved.
You see! Somebody must be saved whether we like it or not. Those are the people for whom salvation is mandatory. Even if they do not want it, God must work out a plan that will enable him save those people. He asked, “Did I mention names?”
Now, even if you discover that you fall within this category, He said, “Do not be puffed up with pride. Do not be arrogant.”
And to the other category, He said that there are many ways applicants for this salvation can get in. He used an instance of one getting connected to a member of the Family of the son of man.
This is because there is no other family from which one can draw salvation or eternal life from if not this particular Family of THE SON OF MAN.
Now, I want to approach it from another angle. If you are attached to the Family of THE SON OF MAN, remember that when God was talking to our Patriarchs, He specified it for them thus, “You, your children, your wife or your wives, manservants and maidservants and even those you bought with your money [the slaves], provided they will follow this channel; provided they will do it this way I have spoken, their salvation is guaranteed.”
References: [1] Genesis 17:10-14. ¹⁰This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your posterity after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token or sign of the covenant (the promise or pledge) between Me and you. ¹²He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male throughout your generations, whether born in [your] house or bought with [your] money from any foreigner not of your offspring. ¹³He that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money must be circumcised; and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴And the male who is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. AMP.
[2] Genesis 18:17-19. ¹⁷And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham [My friend and servant] what I am going to do, ¹⁸Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed through him and shall bless themselves by him? ¹⁹For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and the sons of his house after him to keep the way of the Lord and to do what is just and righteous, so that the Lord may bring Abraham what He has promised him. AMP
The LORD has advised His Family this morning so that wherever you are located, you will be a beacon light that should keep on shining. That candle stick lighted by the Holy Spirit that makes the total difference.
I want to call up something from this Message, DAILY GUIDE FOR ALL THE ELECT OF GOD WORLDWIDE Part 2 Volume 1; Handled by the Elohim, THE SON OF MAN here at the Voice of God Studio, Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria on Saturday 21^st November 2020; Pg. 39 from verse 24.
Once I strike where I am going to, I will round it off.
²⁴Do you not know that there must be a Family that must be credited to God whenever THE SON OF MAN shall be revealed? True or false?
²⁵If THE SON OF MAN came, and there is no consecrated Family, a family that is set apart for God and for God alone, who are conscious of doing God a service according to His will, it then means there would not be a Noah in our day. …It then means that everybody will perish. It then means that there is no Salvation Boat for us. … It then means the Word of God has failed.
²⁶The moment the world returns to the state of Sodom and Gomorrah; to the state of Noah’s day, expect the handpicked family, notably Noah who was complete in number except the first son, who was errant.
But in our own day, God is saying that we are here, looking into all these things, for they were written aforetime to enable us correct those errors.
²⁹May it never be so to Me and to this Family. Amen! Our first son MUST be there. Amen! He will never be another Absalom. Neither will he be the first son of Noah.
³⁰Rather, he will live to correct the errors, to prove all wrong that a first son can worship God rightly and take a kingly position in Paradise as a Prince. I say it because wherever he is, he is hearing My Voice.
³¹To all of you here, you are to cancel, bring to naught in your own day, correct the imbalance in the family of Eli where his sons messed up the temple of worship and they desecrated the Ark of Covenant, for which cause the Glory of God departed from Israel.
³²You are to correct that error. You must take it up as your own challenge that there shall never be an Ichabod in this Family; a renegade.
³⁷There should not be an evil heart of unbelief traceable to this Family; or to a man or a woman in this Family in departing from the true God.
³⁸How do you depart from the true God? When you say no to the Word of the Prophet the Messenger, where God has veiled Himself in your own day, God’s own Envoy, from where He is reaching you; from where you have the hope of salvation; Who is ordained your Instructor, your Guide, your Teacher, your Leader. When you say no to His Word, you are doomed. You become the Ichabod. The Glory of God will depart from you.
³⁹But in this Family, there can never be an Ichabod. How I wish all of you will regard yourselves as members of this Family and no longer as strangers and foreigners.
I do not know if there is anybody here regarding himself or herself as a stranger. That will now cause you to take a stand that whenever we talk about this Family, whatever that is said about the Family, you will estrange yourself. You will remove yourself from it. But that is not what it should be.
⁴⁰Regard yourselves as fellow citizens of this Family which is a representation of the nation of God; A nation of holiness; so that iniquity will stop in your lives. Carelessness will stop. Lawlessness will stop.
All the families that have been designated to this Family, gradually, I am about detaching them. I have seen reasons why I will detach almost all.
This is where I have been heading to. When we are attached to this Family, we should not give God reason why he should detach us from the Family, even when we have found that opportunity; that avenue whereby we can be saved; whereby we can be redeemed by getting ourselves attached to the Family.
God has extended His arms [His branches] to enable people to be saved. Hence, He has sent us saviours. Anyway you are attached to the Family; whatever brought you in, you should never allow anything or give God reason to detach you.
This is because apart from the people in the list for mandatory salvation, the rest are looking for an avenue for this attachment, or else no salvation.
⁴²This is because they are not walking towards making full proof of their membership of this Holy Family of God.
Have you seen the reason why God is trying to detach as many as are not meeting up? This is because the Family has a standard. God erected the Family; set it up on a Mountain top. He set the standard. The presence of God sanctified the Family, made it holy.
And then anybody that is coming in should not come in with any idol. The person should not come with any other doctrine, any other belief or any other idea, but you are coming to have a replacement.
That is why we sing in our song that the Spirit of the Living God should break us, melt us, crush us, and then remold us and fill us. When you are being broken, crushed and melted, all the figments of your old lifestyle are being crushed together.
This is so that when the LORD will be refilling, He will be refilling with this Family’s spiritual life. That is the only way detachment will not take place.
⁴³You can be a member of the church in your family or a member of a church anywhere, but not a member of the state and common wealth of the Family of God. Membership is spiritual and not carnal.
That was why on that Friday, when He was addressing us during the second Part [Vote of thanks], he said that we heard from the Message recently that at the end, this structure that was erected called “The Bride of Christ Ministry Worldwide” will have all the unbelievers in it lumped together and then destroy the structure together with all those unbelievers.
And then when He was talking about unbelievers within, He said that if any Prophet should tell us that this Faith can be rid of unbelievers before the day of translation, we should tell the prophet that it is a lie.
God went further to remind us that there are too many unbelievers within and that they are greatly found among Ministers and their families.
⁴³You can be a member of the church in your family or a member of a church anywhere, but not a member of the state and common wealth of the family of God. Membership is spiritual and not carnal.
⁴⁴And that is where God is worshipped spiritually and not mechanically. God is worshipped and honoured in spirit and in truth.

⁶In this world, true children of God are aliens and temporary residents for they are earnestly and desperately looking forward to a permanent abiding place devoid of violence, hardship, sorrow, pain, death etc and this is the promised “Paradise” of God where God Himself will rule His children the world over in righteousness and peace. ……. ¹¹The views of these counterfeit children of God that are mixed up with you in your congregations or that of the unbelieving world around you, should not make you as a child of God to begin to feel ashamed or doubtful of your conviction with your professed faith in Christ. ¹²From the divine standpoint, your alien status as a child of God, is one of virtue and dignity that is enviable.

THE SON OF MAN

FAMILY MENU Volume 1: [Undated] Chapter 2 verse 6 & 11 through 12

MEMBERSHIP OF GOD’S FAMILY

IS SPIRITUAL [2]

2Peter 1:16, The Message Bible. We weren’t, you know, just wishing on a star when we laid the facts out before you regarding the powerful return of our Master, Jesus Christ. We were there for the preview! We saw it with our own eyes: …

THE SON OF MAN: It is not a hearsay. They were there live. They witnessed it with their own eyes like we were here on the 29^th of August in this Family. With our eyes, we saw. Not one person. Not two.
The same way, we were there at GTC and several times, supernatural occurrence took place. A god number of us have died long long time ago. Some abandoned the Faith because, from the beginning, they were not a part of us.
Some of us who are still alive till today by His grace, we are passing the information of what we saw to you from the time God visited us. Look at how we were sure. Look at His appearance. Look at what we heard from Him.
If you say you will not believe, it is because you were born an unbeliever.
You know we are the most privileged. God really loves us. Watch! In the days of the LORD Jesus Christ. Many things He did, He did them just before few witnesses. And He will bar them even from sharing their experience.
But in our own day, the number of the people present when God will do something will be very great.
Secondly, we will have the opportunity to hook up with whatever that is happening so that nobody will lament saying, “Had it been I was given the opportunity”. God is giving everybody equal opportunity to have that salvation. Take a look at all the experiences we have had in this Faith.
That is why, in the Messages, He will ask you, “Was any of the supernatural photographs taken in secret?” As at the time we were having general fellowship he will ask us, “Did any of them take place in My house?”
When we brought Fellowship home, He now came to prove that this is the Home of the same Person Whom the Supernatural manifestations had been following round and about. And these things still followed Him home.
This is so that we know that it was not imported. It is inborn. It is equally to show that this is THE SON OF MAN Who is born to righteousness.
That is why when our Sister was invited to give her testimony, she said, “It is not that somebody conferred it on Him. It is inborn.” It is what He does that gave Him those Names. If He had been learning how to do it, there would have been some errors along the way. But because those things are in Him, He is what He does. He is His Name. His Name is the Word of God.
2 Peter 1:10-11, The Message Bible. So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, his choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. … God’s own invitation. God is spreading His arms very wide. That is why He said, “My heart is larger than My size” to accommodate as many as are coming in and as many as should be saved.
And then we are the ones that should confirm this invitation. And the Scriptures went further to call it the best of invitations
THE SON OF MAN: Were you the only persons that were invited. He saw many, but He invited you. If you are coming to a ceremony on invitation, are you afraid? But if nobody invited and you just decided to follow people who were invited anyhow, you should be sore afraid because you can be treated anyhow. You see! God has invited you and made you His own choice.
So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, His choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. Do this, and you’ll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen!
You see! God said, “Appointment, Confirmation, and then Promotion.” That God extended this invitation to us, if you respond positively, He will now appoint you unto Himself. He will now make you a part of Himself, grafting you into the Family – the Life Boat. And then, other things will follow as you can see the Bible outlining.
But when you have not taken the first step, the other ones will not link up. That is why He said that this is a chain effect. Once you have stepped in rightly, then other things will follow accordingly.
On the other hand, when you take the first step wrongly, other steps will be wrong all the way until you make U-turn and then you ask of the old path where the LORD God Almighty enjoined our people to walk, for which cause they were not ashamed and were not afraid.
They were very courageous, encouraging their children, “I know that when I leave, look at what you are going to do. Even when this God I am talking to you about will now come in human flesh, look at how you are going to insult Him and even killing the badger skin he is dwelling in, thinking you are doing harm to Him, but not knowing that you are harming yourself. Do not ever try it.”
Why were they saying it? It is because they had already tested it, they had known that the Word of God is good and that the LORD is good. Then, where are we now? Where are we today?
When the LORD was speaking this morning, I just saw fatherly advice to His children to guide us on the pedestal, to be well rooted and grounded in this truth, and that the location you find yourself does not cause a problem. Your location is not why you are not firm in the Faith, but what is inside of you.
He went further to tell us that when we internalize the Word of God, wherever we find ourselves, even outside Nigeria, we are still upholding it firmly. That is why he said that it is a spiritual affair. The membership of this Family is spiritual.
And this is so that one that is present here will not be complacent about it saying that because you have now physically found yourself into the Family of THE SON OF MAN that you are now okay or that you have obtained that salvation.
He said, “No! It is a spiritual affair to the extent that someone outside Nigeria may be better connected to God than somebody that is here frequenting the house of THE SON OF MAN.
2 Peter 1:10-11, The Message Bible. ^10-11So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, His choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. Do this, and you’ll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
^12-15Because the stakes are so high, even though you’re up-to-date on all this truth and practice it inside and out,…
That same white-like life lived from within and then, it will manifest on the outside. That will cause somebody that sees you to ask, “Where does this person belong?”
And anyone that knows you will say, “Do you not know that he or she has an affinity with THE SON OF MAN? Do you not know that he or she is a child of THE SON OF MAN? Do you not know Daddy? This person is His child.”
I’m not going to let up for a minute in calling you to attention before it. This is the post to which I’ve been assigned—keeping you alert with frequent reminders—and I’m sticking to it as long as I live.
2 Peter 1:10-11, Living Bible. ^[10]So, dear brothers, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen,…
No slacking! No lagging behind. That means keeping pace with the Message and not sitting down when the Leader is still marching on. Something must catch up with that person.
…and then you will never stumble or fall away. Yes! And this is because you are walking with the Light of truth – the Light of God. It is only when darkness has engulfed the person’s way that the person can now stumble or hit the leg somewhere and tumble. What will cause it? Disconnecting and not following up spiritually.
^[11]And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Where are we now?
2 Peter 1:10-11, King James Bible. ¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: ¹¹for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
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.
It is an automatic event. When you divert your love to one side, the other side will automatically disconnect. You cannot carry the two along.
The Bible said, “You cannot serve two masters at a time.” You must displease one to please the other. You must detach yourself from one for you to attach yourself to the other. If you insist on going with both of them, you may even lose the two
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].
Yesterday, we were carrying out a review of the journey so far when Deacon Mike Emmanuel was telling us about the prophecy where God emphasized much on the event we shall experience. And one of the events is that money [liquid cash] will be very difficult to come by.
He told us that he never thought of it fulfilling from this angle, in the way we have found ourselves this day. He said he was thinking that it will be a matter that concerns joblessness or something like that.

But God is the perfect interpreter of His Word. The manifestation became the interpretation.
That was why He [God] told us that if He says, “Let there be light”, just watch out or look out for it if you do not know what light looks like. You will see it and believe that really, God spoke about it.
Now that the prophecy has started fulfilling, even our little ones are beginning to hook up with what is happening now which has made it extremely difficult to come across naira now.
The situation is such that we even value naira now more than hard currency. Even if you go to exchange dollars, who will give you naira in cash? You see!
But God prophesied it ahead of time that money will even be very difficult to come by. There was no reasoning that will ever give you the revelation to hook up with this type of development that this is the way he will bring it to fulfilment.
THE SON OF MAN: You use naira to buy naira.
You use naira to buy naira at exorbitant rates.
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]–….
When we were reviewing all these things, God now reminded us of what He had earlier told us that we should condescend to men of low estate. He said, “Now, all these people that are doing these petty businesses, they are now the sources God is using to sustain many.” They are the ones bringing this cash we are looking for. Is it not God sustaining His children?
That is why He said, “Agree with God. Fall into His plan. He knows what he is doing if we can just pin our hope on Him.” If He is doing it now, it may be an arrangement that may come to fruition in the 10 years. But just follow Him gradually and follow the way He wants it. When the thing will now mature, nobody will tell you for you will say, “Oh! Is this what God was planning.”
But many of us have been experts in obstructing God’s plan. Do not re-plan when God has already planned. All our plans must fail.
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].
Yes! The Father will provide the one that will sustain us. Just like that yesterday, He said, “God promised us that we will never be the worst hit. If you know that you are the worst hit, stand or raise your hand.” We confirmed that we are not even anywhere near the worst hit, talkless of being the worst hit.
THE SON OF MAN: Are we begging food today? Many are begging for food.
Well-dressed people, looking corporate, but they will beg you for just a meal. I bought carrots one day. I washed them and I was taking the thing in a vehicle. Then somebody came and told me that he has not eaten anything, and that he needs money.
Then I said, “Oga! The money I have here is just the one I can use to transport myself. Do you need carrot?” He said yes. I shared the carrot into two and gave him some groundnuts. Come and see appreciation. He started taking it immediately for you to know that he was genuinely hungry.
I am saying that God is wonderful, fulfilling His Word – His promise. Just sit down quietly and meditate over it. You will see that God is very wonderful.
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. Amen.
1 John 2:15-17, The Message Bible. ^15-17Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. That is what God is encouraging us this morning to do. While going back to our destinations and for those that are within here; wherever we are located, do not love the world’s methods.
Some will acquire the world’s method of dressings, method of talking, method of eating, method of pursuing money, but God said no that He will take care of those things. Just focus your attention on Him, and His Word alone.
Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. …
Wanting, wanting, wanting! Remember what God told us about wants and needs. He said that our wants are endless. And God does not act on those wants. God is the One that knows our need at every point in time.
Hence, whatever that is happening now is what we need. And God will provide what we need so that we will not be victims of the hour.
It is just like Deacon Mike was telling us of how he was bribed with too many things so that he will leave the Faith. It is all about self-importance. They will promise you many things and tell you that they will make you this and that.
This is just like they were also telling Mummy that time, “Come so that we will make you a Sunday School superintendent.”
THE SON OF MAN: And that is the person I was teaching.
Somebody that was already in the School of the Almighty God.
…It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—
THE SON OF MAN: The world is on its way out along with its numerous wantings. When one dies, is there anything he is struggling to get?
The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
Whoever that does the will of the Almighty, you are set for eternity. Wherever God is found, that is where we will be.
And on that note, I say, may it be so to us. Amen!