THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY KNOW CHRIST

THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY KNOW CHRIST PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 3^RD NOVEMBER, 2024. BY BISHOP JOE UKPONG DURING THE GENERAL GATHERING OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD AT AKWA-IBOM Approved and authorized BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN Transcribed by sister Peace Ukpong.

OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH IS THE BEGINNING OF WORSHIP

I welcome you all, my fellow Saints of The Most High God, to this spiritual gathering in the comfort of our brothers home, in the precious Name of our Most Holy Father who came down to live with us in these last days.

As our great teacher, instructor, counsellor and guide, He introduced us to worship. Obedience to the truth is the beginning of worship.
We must have His (the Spirit of Truth) help to worship Him as we should.
Many even among us the Bride, are still holding to the necessity of going to church, which they were introduced to even before He appeared on the scene. That is why you see people do not take this gathering we are having very serious.
Even if you are an individual, you can worship God. They look at it as if, I do not go in the midst of people that are plenty, that means there is no worship there. Why? It is a tradition you have taken into your heart that is causing it.
That is why you find out that people do not take it serious when they say Fridays, we gather 6pm and Sundays, 8am in the morning. Nobody takes it serious. It is at home, so I can start at anytime; I can end at any time.
You are walking contrary, because the beginning of worship is obedience to the truth. What did the truth say? The truth said we gather in our homes at 6pm on Friday. You can close anytime. He did not give any closing time. We gather in our homes on Sunday at 8am in the morning. He did not give us closing time. It is as The Lord leads you.
Once you obey that voice, that is the beginning of worship. Obedience to that truth is the beginning of worship. But many do not see it. Why? They inherited something.
They were introduced to church going. So, that church-going has given them church righteousness. Have you now seen it? Church righteousness! I go to fellowship. I read the message. I listen to tape.
So I am doing the right thing. Not knowing that the weightier matter, which is obedience to His instructions, you have ignored. You are now doing those things you are doing the way you feel, not the way He instructed.
Have you seen it? Once you are holding to church attendance, what you will attain is church righteousness and not God’s righteousness. And church righteousness is what is killing many today. For religion is worshipping an imaginary and unknown God. You are imagining that you are pleasing God because you listen to the tape.
You do it the way you want. You read the message at the time you want to read.
But there is a specific instruction. We gather at a particular time. Do not play with that instruction. You make sure you gather at that time.
But are you following His instructions? For people do not know that you can be in this Faith and you are just a religious person. You are just doing things the way you feel is right and imagining that God is accepting you anyhow.
Look at the situation where we are all gathering in a city and The Son of Man knows you are there, but you do not honour the gathering. And now you want to say you are still a part of the Faith of The Son of Man? No. Do you not see that somebody is fooling himself? You are just making a fool of yourself.
If you are a part of what God is saying, you will follow all His instructions in everything. Not because somebody is going to ask you why you did not come. No, no, no. I am (individual) obeying what God said!
God you said I should be in my gathering and today is a gathering of the Saints in Akwa-Ibom, so I am If it is in my home, I am there.
If it is an individual, by that time I am up and separated from whatever I am doing. I must honour that time, and after that, I go back to whatever I am doing.
Like sometimes I am at work, I build an altar. I know I am going to do other things in my place of work, my fellowship might be short but I have honoured that time. Even if it is short, I commit myself unto God and continue what I am doing.
Honour Him! For He told us even before we started worshipping at home, that you cannot be in a city and while fellowship is going on, you are in your Keke, riding around. You are in your business place, doing what you are doing.
If you like, say you have built an altar in that place, you are fooling yourself. Because something is taking place in your town and you are there in that same town, why can’t you close that place and go? That is when we were still gathering in our fellowship centers o! What about now that we are gathering in our homes? I have the opportunity that I can close whatever I am doing and go back to my home, will it not be foolishness for me to stay back in that place?
Some of us that are there working, it is because we are under somebody’s authority. If you leave that place, the owner has a right to say ‘why did you leave my place before time’.
But if the opportunity is there for me to leave, I will leave and honour God. Is it not true? That is why God said, look for a way to free yourself from that leadership of man.
And that is what we are still planning for our lives till eventually we will come out of that.
It is just like what we see the Muslims do. If it is on the road, he will stop the car, stand on that road and be praying. He is looking at his time with his God. He stops the car without asking any of you his passengers for permission, he will just go and pray. When he comes back, if you like say what you want to say, do what you want to do, it is not his business. Because he has time with his God. So he is dedicated to what his God has told him and that is what he is going to do. Whether he offends you or not is not his business.
Let us start by visiting the Bible. I want us to read Jeremiah 16:19 from King James, Amplified and Message Bible. So that you can see that we inherited lies from our fathers. We will first of all read from King James, then the Amplified and Message Bible last.
Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies,… Did he say the Jews? The Gentiles! We are the ones. We will come before Him and say surely, our fathers inherited lies. …vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. KJV
I want you to watch that place. [Then said Jeremiah] O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold, and my Refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, worthless things in which there is no profit! AMP
Surely, nation’s apart from Israel will come to Him and say, surely, our fathers inherited lies.
JEREMIAH 16:19 GOD, my strength, my stronghold, my safe retreat when trouble descends: The godless nations will come from earth’s four corners,… The godless nation’s will come from the four corners of the earth. …saying, “Our ancestors lived on lies, useless illusions, all smoke.”
My emphasis is for you to see that our fathers inherited lies. So it took the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive, to come and replace the lies that is in us with the truth. For the lies placed us in darkness. He now came with truth which is light, and started replacing that darkness in us.
That is why I believe with all my heart that spiritual growth is the replacement of lies with truth. That is how you are growing.
As you are allowing this truth that has come to flow into you, it is replacing lies that you inherited from your father’s.
Many inherited lies from their fathers in this Faith. For they were giving to their children and relatives, their own ideas of the Faith. Is it not why we hear people say, God will save us anyhow. How can God save you anyhow. Impossible! If He can save you anyhow, why is He giving you teachings and instructions? And the instructions are simple.
From the above scripture we can see very clearly that our fathers inherited from their ancestors, nothing but lies, falsehood and unprofitable things.
And passed the same things they inherited even to you and I, their own children. That is the reason the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] came, and has taken us to all the truths. They are thereby replacing the lies in us with the truth.
Whatever obedience you have to the truth, reflects in your character. Also, whatever disobedience you have to the truth, reflects in your character. How do you know the disobedient ones? They have a very clever way of laying aside the word of God, in order to make sure that the false traditions and doctrines they inherited from their fathers will stand. By this, they make the Word of God of non-effect.
Let us refer back to the Bible to see what our Lord said in Mark 7:7-9. Good News Bible alone. It is no use for them to worship me,… It is no use for that worship when you are doing things the way you want. You see people in their homes on Sundays like this, they will sit down wearing their night gowns in the parlour. Are you worshipping God? Is that the attitude you had when you were going to the central gathering?
It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were God’s laws!’ “You put aside God’s command and obey human teachings.” And Jesus continued, “You have a clever way of rejecting God’s law in order to uphold your own teaching. Have you seen it? You have a clever way of rejecting God’s teachings in order to place your own.
Whether we like it or not, some people are bound to worship God in vain in this Most Holy Faith. The question is, why must it be you and I? The right answer we supply will help us to do the needful.
I read a quote before I go to my message. It says; The condition of the heart at any point in time, will determine where the heart is going. You loose fellowship in the heart before you will loose it in the flesh. The moment you commit sin and go contrary to the revealed Word in your day, you are in trouble. You have lost connection from God. You have disfellowshipped from God. Until you make it right, then you will rejoin in the fellowship. – THE SON OF MAN. From the Spoken Word message titled SPIRITUAL MATURITY Volume 2 Page 108 verse 35.
Another quote says; Events around you is prompting me to remind you of something I had earlier taught you. Lest, you forget and then roll away from where God said you should wait for Him. You have been packed at a place and the Voice said, wait until I come. Your duty is to watch and wait. For you do not know the hour when the Master will return. Whenever the Master returns, He wants to meet you doing His will, not doing your will. – THE SON OF MAN. From the Spoken Word message titled, THE STATE OF THE NATION (THE BRIDE) Volume 3 Part 2. Page 24 verse 3-4.
The Resurrection Revival is on in the Bride right now. Is it not true? For the Bride of Christ remains the only group that has spiritual food that can sustain her from now till eternity. When you hear “the Resurrection Revival”, what do you understand by this? We are expecting the resurrection of the sleeping Saints any moment from now. For it will take place before the translation of our mortal bodies.
Even the devil knows that this is the step we will take before we put on immortality. Even the devil knows about it. That is why the battle has become hotter. And God is showing us that many have already forsaken the Faith. Not “will forsake”; many have already forsaken the Faith. They have fallen completely, and many are going to depart the more. We are quarter to putting on immortality. And what is that quarter left?
Any day you and I see mummy Joy Nzubechi Odoemena (because I am very concerned about mummy Odoemena), it is all over. For we will see her. All of us that love her so much, we will see her. Any day we see her, 40 days from that time, it is all over.
Remember that when He resurrected, He stayed 40 days with them and then The Cloud took Him away. So that is the revival. So God is saying, you that is dead, you that has not fallen away, you that is about falling away, come back to life; come back to your senses. Something is about to happen.
How could the message meant for 2025 be coming in now. Why do you think The Lord is doing it? Something He kept as a secret to Himself, now He has uploaded it. Why? He is the Watchman. He has seen something ahead. Any moment from now, something can take place. That is why we are still in the revival.
Even as I am talking to you now, the revival is on in the Bride, and the devil knows it. For I want to show you in the Qur’an where He told God, give me respite till the resurrection. Have you seen it? For he knows that once resurrection strikes, he has failed, he can do nothing again.
Let us go to the Qur’an. Surah 15:35-41. So that you can see that Satan knows this great revival that is taking place and is fighting tooth and nail to see that he can pull some, but not the slaves O! For a slave has no right. He only does what his master says.
Surah 15:35-43. And indeed, upon you is the curse until the Day of Recompense.” That recompense means the day of resurrection. He said, “My Lord, then reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected.” Have you heard it? Who told God? Satan! [Allah] said, “So indeed, you are of those reprieved Until the Day of the time well-known.” [Iblis] said, “My Lord, because You have put me in error, I will surely make [disobedience] attractive to them on earth, and I will mislead them all…
You see what people do not know, even in the Faith. He (Satan) is just making things attractive. He is telling you to do it anyhow; God is going to save you anyhow. He knows he is fooling you. You think he is talking to the world?
No, he is in the midst of us in the Faith. He has already said he will receive them, not the world. He has finished with the world. They are under his control.
The Bible said outside us, the world is under the control of Satan. Except, among them, Your chosen servants.” [Allah] said, “This is a path [of return] to Me [that is] straight. Indeed, My servants – no authority will you have over them, except those who follow you of the deviators. And indeed, Hell is the promised place for them all. SAHEEH INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION.
“And the curse shall be on thee till the day of Judgment.” (Iblis) said: “O my Lord! give me then respite till the Day the (dead) are raised.” Give me respite till the day the dead are raised. So once the dead rise, it is over for Satan. He knows his own has finished.
(Allah) said: “Respite is granted thee “Till the Day of the Time appointed.” (Iblis) said: “O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,- “Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace).”
(Allah) said: “This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads straight to Me. “For over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such as put themselves in the wrong and follow thee.” And verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all! YUSUF ALI TRANSLATION.
Have you seen it? Except those that put themselves in the wrong and follow you. Is He saying anything about the world? It is among the true people of God that he is operating.
If you want to survive this final battle which Satan is fighting very hard, follow God as a slave. For a slave can do nothing but what he is asked or instructed to do. That is why God – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] said that, there is every need for us to come together to review ourselves in line with the word of God.

When you come to a point where you roll into sin and then repent a little, you roll into sin; you repent, you are holy, yet sin is still overtaking you, but you don’t continue in it, you are still a saint. But when you come to

perfection, you will no longer mention sin. When you attain this perfection, the fullness of the Stature of Christ and sin is mentioned in you, go and check it, revisit yourself, you are claiming what you are not. God is taking only the perfect, for Translation is for the perfect.

-THE SON OF MAN

BE YE PERFECT FOR I YOUR GOD AM PERFECT

PART 1 PREACHED ON PREACHED SUNDAY 3^RD MARCH, 1996 PAGE 78:51-53.

GOD’S WAY OF MAKING US RIGHT WITH HIMSELF DEPENDS ON FAITH

et us now begin by proceeding to the Bible as we read Philippians 3:7-10 Living Bible translation. But all these things that I once thought very worthwhile—now I’ve thrown them all away so that I can put my trust and hope in Christ alone. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

I have put aside all else, counting it worth-less than nothing, in order that I can have Christ, and become one with him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting Christ to save me; for God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith—counting on Christ alone.
Now I have given up everything else—I have found it to be the only way to really know Christ and to experience the mighty power that brought him back to life again, and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with him. Amen!
May The Lord bless the reading of His word. I am placing my emphasis on verse 10. It says; Now I have given up everything else—I have found it to be the only way to really know Christ and to experience the mighty power that brought him back to life again, and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with him.
I want us to discuss this little topic; THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY KNOW CHRIST, IS TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIFE. I am saying that the only way to really know Christ – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], is to give up (throw away) everything you knew about God and His people in the past.
Whatever you were taught about God and His people in the past, throw such things away. Whatever you were in the past, forget about that and humble yourself at His feet and then learn of Him. Throw away your psychology and learn of this God.
All those things that we once thought were very worthwhile, very important, we should discard them so that we can put our hope and trust in Christ – Apostle Peter Odoemena[BBHMHN].
You and I must know by Divine revelation that every other thing in our life is worthless when we compare them with the priceless gain of knowing Christ our Lord.
Now you must put aside all those things in your life; all your old ideas about God and His people, your position in the society or your church, your educational background, count them all worthless in other to have Christ and become one with Him. For God’s way of making us right with Himself depends on our individual faith in Christ – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN]. When we suffer with Him, we must surely reign with Him.
I want to show you something. Once God has told you to put something away, put it away. What is Israel suffering till today? They did not do what God said. God said, when you go into that land I am going to give you, destroy everything. Everything means everything.
Do not leave anything. Why? Because God knows that anything you leave now, is going to become a problem to you in the future.
The things that are holding us not to run this race freely, are those things we did not put away. When we came face to face with God, He said whatever you have learnt about God and His people, throw it away.
Let it be known to you that we inherited all those lies from our fathers, even when we were in endtime.
Endtime was also doing what the denominations were doing. A man will just stand up and say I am the pastor. Who ordained you? Who confirmed the church and the souls of the people? Is it not what we inherited? That is what we were doing and that is what we passed to our children. For William and Pastor were born with us outside. The people born in the Faith are Peace and Timothy. That is why end timers do not know these ones, but they know William.
Even today, they that are born in the Faith have lost consciousness of themselves. Why, because their fathers were teaching them their own ideas of the Faith. Do not teach your children your ideas of the Faith. Teach and point them to Christ. That is why some will say my children know The Son of Man.
Knowing The Son of Man, is it salvation? Are you obeying The Son of Man? You can know The Son of Man but are you obeying Him? That is the question they should ask themselves. Those things that you and I thought were very important in our daily lives, are they things that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up? So we must get rid of them by throwing them away so that we can run with patience, the particular race that our God has set before us.
If you take all these things in your life to be more important than Christ, you must perish. These are the things that are holding you back from total obedience to the word of God. They are the things you use in pleasing the heathens, which can never please God.
So you must forfeit them for you to have faith in Christ and please Him. Christ must cost you something. Your faith must cost you something.
Let us proceed once more to the Bible. Hebrews 12:1-3. THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight)… Is it not a continuation of the scripture we read? Telling us to throw those things away. They are going to wrap themselves around your feet and they will not allow you to be free. They will cause you to trip and fall. By the time you are about to brace the tape, they will trip you up.
Dying minute injury is the worst in any game. Is it a lie? For example, if you are given an injury in wrestling at the dying minute, can you wrestle again? The person will use that injury to pin you down and finish you. If it is in football, it is that wing they will use to penetrate. In athletics, the injury will cause you to fall and others will overtake you and brace the tape. Before you rise up, it is all over. That is the danger.
THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us;
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds. AMP
Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. Who is our leader? The Resurrected Body – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], the very Christ Himself. Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterwards; and now he sits in the place of honor by the throne of God.
If you want to keep from becoming fainthearted and weary,.. If you want to keep yourself from becoming faint hearted, think about what He passed through. Not only in the first Advent, but what He is even passing through today. All the names they called Him, today is He not ruling the world. He is The King of Paradise.
If you want to keep from becoming fainthearted and weary, think about his patience as sinful men did such terrible things to him. Amen! Set your eyes on Christ, and be found in Him always.
We behave as if we own our lives. That is why we set time for ourselves. The time to obey God and the time when we disobey God.
If you do not see the very short distance between your beginning and your end, you will never take the word of God very serious. For it is in the hand of The Almighty Adonai to shorten or elongate your life here upon this planet Earth.
I want to show you two examples from the Bible. 2 Kings 20:1-6. King James version. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart,…
Did he argue with the Voice of God? He turned and prayed. …remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,… Before he could even get to the middle of his compound, God had answered Hezekiah.
…afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
Why am I reading this? So that you can see that it is not late for you to change your heart. As you are hearing the truth, pray to God. He is listening to you. Hezekiah heard the truth, he turned to the wall and started talking to his God. The mouthpiece of the Lord spoke and was walking out while Hezekiah was praying, and as he was going the Lord told him, Isaiah, go back. Tell him I have heard your prayers, I have seen your tears, I will heal you. You were asking for one day, I will give you 15 years to live. Who elongated the life? God!
So there is One we are serving that can elongate your life. There is One that if you become careless, he will shorten your life. He can stop your life tonight. Is it a lie?
Luke 12:16-21. King James version. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Is it not useless now?
That is why God said, forget about trying to accumulate wealth. Think about pleasing the God you are worshipping. That is why the Bible said, set your eyes on Him. For we know Him. We are not worshipping an imaginary God.
We know Him, the Great God, the Adonai. He is called The Son of Man, Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN]. Set your eyes on Him.
There is a very big danger in removing your eyes from Him. Once you remove your eyes, something else will attract you. Is it a lie?
So, let the fear of God dominate your heart and constantly pray. Be sure you are in Christ always. For you cannot be in the Faith of Christ and then continue in your old way of life. You cannot be in the Faith of Christ and please Satan.
Let us proceed to the Spoken Word message; REPUTATION Volume 1. Page 49:1-3. If you believe in the message that is meant to transform your life for the better, there is no way you will continue to walk on your old way of life. Continuing in your old way of life that is sinful and hateful before God and before all mankind, tells everybody that you blatantly rejected the truth. Is it a lie?
You blatantly rejected the truth, that is why you are still walking in your old ways. For any truth any man rejects, can never work in his life. This truth transforms. This truth changes from black to white. Is it a lie? Any truth you reject, can it control your life? Can it work? You have said no! No means, I will never practice it. Away with it.
You have forgotten that the truth is Christ which you have rejected. For He is the message of life which we preach. What we are preaching is the message of life. If you reject it, you have rejected Christ. You have put Christ away.
Same message Page 50 verse 6. There are many ways we can say “away with Christ”. For Christ is the anointed Word, and without the Word there is no God. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God and is still God.
Page 52 verse 12. So when you reject the Word of God, you have rejected God and God has labelled you a reject. Have you seen it?
Page 54 verse 19-27. Why did the people say, away with the Word? Away with the message? Away with the Christ? It is because Christ is attacking their wickedness. It is because Christ is doing what? Attacking their wickedness. Christ is attacking their sinful lives, attacking their unbelief and attacking their foolishness. For that reason they say away with Him.
If you have that spirit, God is saying this morning, change your mind.. If you have that spirit, God is saying this morning, change your mind. Do not say, away with that message, for you are saying away with Christ. If you have such spirit in you, change it.
Change your heart. Change your attitude, because the truth you have rejected, will be discovered to be at the end, the truth God sent to set you free from your condition and from your hopeless condition.
This is because the truth man has always rejected, has been proved to be the truth that holds the solution to that man’s problems. Did you get the message? The truth man has always rejected, has been proved to be the truth that holds the solution to man’s problem, if they would gladly and courageously submit to the Word by believing it and allowing the Word to be in operation in their lives.
You cannot believe with your mouth and reject with your heart. Did you get the message? Accepting the truth that changes lives has never been an easy task, especially to a heart that is not ready to repent and who is not tired of his wicked ways. That is what the Lord is telling us.
What is wicked ways? Any way contrary to the truth is a wicked way. If God is telling you not to live that way and you continue in that way, that is wickedness.
Now listen to the warning in verse 25. That is why when you are not tired of living wrong, make no mistake of identifying with God. Have you seen the warning? If you are not tired of living wrong, make no mistake of identifying with the truth, because it will cause you a serious problem. Otherwise you will incur the wrath of God.
For hearing the Word of God without putting it into practice is blasphemy. It makes you a mocker, it makes you a scoffer, it makes you a blasphemer. And God will never hold you guiltless for blaspheming His Name, scoffing His Name and for mocking Him.
Page 59 verse 34. Punishment awaits anybody who heard the truth and became disobedient, stubborn, stiff-necked, hardhearted and unrepentant. Amen.
I am showing you these messages to help us for we are in a very dangerous hour. I thank God for what the Pastor read from the message. We are standing as individuals before God. If you do not learn anything, learn what has taken place in Enugu. Is it not true? Do not think your father will help you. Are the children of Apostle Orjiakor out of the trouble? Did their father help them?
We continue in the message; YOUTH CONFERENCE. THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS DELIVERED BY THE SON OF MAN ON THE 28^TH OF DECEMBER 2019 at Onitsha. All of you were there. It is only I, Bishop and sister that were not there. My wife was there. She was one of those that spoke.
This is to show you that many of our youths are not even living by what they heard here. That is why I am bringing it back, so that you can hear again what The Lord said there to you. The youths, how are you living by these words?
Page 71 verse 182-190. No good thing can come from evil. There is no way.
Anything evil is evil. Anything good is good. You cannot be in evil and then it will automatically become good. That is a lie. No good thing can come from evil. No good thing ever came out from evil. Every condemnable act in the sight of God is evil. Every condemnable act in the sight of God is what? Evil!
Do we know that God? The Son of Man – Apostle Peter Odoemena is the One still speaking to us. Anything He calls evil is evil. Anything He says is good is good. If you continue in the evil, that means you hate Him. Is it not true?
So if you do not know what evil is, evil means a condemnable act in the sight of God. For nothing is good until God approves of it. And nothing is bad until God condemns it. Remember, every evil comes back to the individual in one way or the other. For that is the law of retributive justice.
God keeps emphasizing it. There is no religion that you belong to, that you can escape it. Whatever you sow, you must reap it. That is the truth. You must reap whatever you are sowing. You cannot escape it. So that is why you sow to yourself in righteousness, so that you may reap in mercy [Hosea 10:12].
God is searching our hearts, intending to see one or two, man or woman, with upright hearts,.. Whether young or old; child or adult. He wants to see the one that has an upright heart. Is He looking at your face? No! ..With integrity and with a reputation to protect.
If you are committed to having a good reputation, you must have it. But where you are committed to living a loose life, the Almighty will only tell you the implications, but He will never, never pull you back…
Please take it again. He will never, never pull you back. But He will only tell you about the implications. ..But He will never, never pull you back on something you have made up your mind to be doing. God can deliver you from everything, but not on that thing you are taking pleasure in doing.
You are the one taking pleasure in it. The day you hate it, God will help you. But as long as you take pleasure in doing it, He will not pull you back. He will only tell you the danger. Because you are sowing a wrong seed and you are going to reap a wrong fruit.
And you cannot stop the evil you have not hated in your heart. Any evil you have never resented in your heart can never be avoided. You see why out of your heart cometh the issues of life and death. [Proverbs 4:23]
So watch over your affections as it is recorded in the book of James 1 verse 20-21. Watch your affections. Remember, it is only in the returning and waiting shall we be saved. Thank you. If peradventure you have wandered away, return.
Please repeat that place. If peradventure you have wandered away, return. God is still saying the same thing even this morning. He is still telling you, if you have wandered away from the reality, return. Just come back. It is that simple. If you are failing, just come back. There is no big deal in this thing.
It is not how good you are or how bad you are, the question is, are you obedient to God? When He told you sit down, did you sit down? When He said stand up, did you stand up? When He said do not go there, did you stop going to that place? That is the main question. You were disobedient to His instruction. It is not your goodness nor your badness.
Do you know that there are people that can be stubborn, doing their things anyhow, but they have a voice that they do not play with. They have a voice they fear. Immediately someone tells him that that person is talking to him, you will see that stubborn person will just quieten down. So if you do not have somebody you are afraid of, you are going to end up perishing.
Be afraid of the voice of this Man. This Man called Odoemena Peter, do not play with His Voice, for that is The Almighty God. That is the Voice that will soon call the sleeping Saints to come out. That is the same Voice that will change our bodies from mortal to immortal. Do not play with this Voice.

Any money that is earned dishonestly can never, never be useful to the user instead, it will take the little you have. Instead of any wealth or money acquired in dishonesty to be useful, it will cause even what you had before to fizzle out. If it becomes useful at all, then the Word of God is no longer effective. That is the reason why I do tell you to borrow a cue from Me. Be honest to yourself and God. The little you have, the Lord knows how to multiply it. Was it not the little

quality of oil the woman had that God used to enrich the woman and her family? The Lord will always ask you, “What do you have?” Tell God the little you have and see what will happen.

-THE SON OF MAN

I AM THE WORD (VOLUME ONE) PREACHED ON 19^TH JANUARY, 2014 PAGE 30:37-38.

BE DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET

Remember, it is only in returning and waiting shall we be saved. Thank you. If peradventure you have wandered away, return. If peradventure you have wandered away from the pathway of right, pathway of truth, do what? Return! Where do you wait? In the Word of God. That is the truth!

Please I want us to go through these scriptures to help us get clearer, the message the Lord is passing across to everyone of us. Hosea 10 verse 12 only. King James version. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
The Bible said plant the good seeds of righteousness. That is complete and total obedience to God – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], and you will reap a crop of His love. Plough the hard ground of your heart. For now is the time to seek the Lord.
Do not rest until He comes and rains righteousness on you, and showers salvation upon you. Remember that our God is searching our hearts, intending to see a man and a woman, young and old, with upright heart, with integrity and with a reputation to protect. If you are committed to having good reputation, you must have it. Allow the Word of God to break down the hard ground of your heart. You see why you must be diligent to protect your mindset?
Proverbs 4:23. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. AMP
Above all else, guard your affections. For they influence everything else in your life. LB So watch over your affections.
James 1:20-22, Living Bible and Amplified. For man’s anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires].
That is why, this is not the time to be angry. It is not time for anger. If I am wrong, I am wrong. If I am right, I am right. All you have to do is just go back and do what the Son of Man is saying. That is all. For that is the greatest love that He has now.
The greatest love is, where you failed, go back there and put it right. That is all. It is not “I am sorry o!” He said He does not want to hear any I am sorry.
Remember the man that has two sons. The man told his first son to go to the farm and do some work. The first son said no, I am not going. He told the second son, go to my farm and work for me. He said yes daddy, for sure I will be there. Then the first son thought about it; this is my father, why did I say I will not go. Did he go back to say I am sorry to his father? No, he just went to the farm and did the work. Then the second son that answered yes daddy, I will go, the foolish one did not go. Have you now seen it?
For man’s anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires]. So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts].. In a gentle, modest, very right spirit, receive this truth and welcome it into your heart, you will see what it is going to do for you.
..and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. AMP
There is a reason why I like the Living Bible. It says this Word we are hearing is not for hearing alone. It is for putting it into practice, obeying it.
For anger doesn’t make us good, as God demands that we must be. So get rid of all that is wrong in your life, both inside and outside, and humbly be glad for the wonderful message we have received,.. Is it not a wonderful message? It is a very wonderful and loving message.
Do the right thing for you are the one that will enjoy it. I have always said it that if you go to school and come out, you are the first person that will enjoy the fruits before you think of your parents. So anything you do good, you are the person that will enjoy it.
So get rid of all that is wrong in your life, both inside and outside, and humbly be glad for the wonderful message we have received, for it is able to save our souls as it takes hold of our hearts.
And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. So don’t fool yourselves. LB
So watch your affections. Guard your heart. Protect your mindset.
Let us proceed to the spoken word message titled; THE WORDS OF OUR FATHERS ARE THE WORDS OF WISDOM (Testament of the twelve patriarchs explained) Volume 1. Page 55 verses 33-34. Anybody who takes delight in opposing the truth, ignoring the truth, countering the truth, living anyhow after receiving knowledge of the truth, that is the devil.
Who called him the devil? Almighty God! Anybody that takes delight in rejecting the word of God, refusing to follow the truth, what is he? The devil himself. Please repeat it!
Anybody who takes delight in opposing the truth, ignoring the truth, countering the truth, living anyhow after receiving knowledge of the truth, that is the devil.
Was Peter not called the devil? But when he changed, did he not become a Saint? So you can change from the devil and become a Saint. Yes, your attitude matters.
In other words, he takes delight in unrighteousness. Something God has already condemned, gives him joy. Something God has already condemned, why will it be giving you joy?
That person is living under condemnation and he may not know it immediately. And he may not know it! But as time progresses, he will see the havoc he has wrecked in his own life. Have you seen it? That person is living under condemnation and he may not know it immediately. But as time progresses, he will see the havoc he has wrecked in his own life.
Page 131 verse 12-15. Evil can never be a way of life for all the youths. Have you heard it youths? Evil can never be a way of life for all the youths. In the midst of the majority, there must be a handpicked minority that has the fear of God. In the midst of the majority there must be a handpicked minority which must be found among our youths.
Let that handpicked minority be found among you. Be that handpicked minority that will have the fear of God ruling your life. When the fear of God rules your life, you can rule your own world. I love this part. When the fear of God rules your life, you will now rule the world. The world will not rule you. But when the fear of God is not ruling your life, the world will rule you. The world will turn you anyhow, they will use you for anything they want.
The world will rule you together with all it’s attractions. And you will not see death hiding in the attractions. You will never see disappointment, you will never see shame, you will never see ridicule, reproach all hiding. You cannot see poverty, neither imprisonment. All are hiding inside that attraction.
Why, because the world is ruling you so your eyes are blind. But if you are ruling the world, if you are having the fear of God, you will be ruling over the world. You will see those things and the dangers, and you will never go that way. Take note of that word and apply it to your life. “When the fear of God rules your life, you can rule your world. This is a reality.
Let us proceed to the spoken word message titled; REPUTATION Volume 1. Page 60 verse 36-37. This is because whatever that touches on character touches on Faith for Faith is character. So if you say you believe this Faith and your character is contrary to this Faith, is it this Faith you believe? You are not believing this Faith. You have your own Faith.
Remember, The Son of Man in this message we listened to on Sunday, used brother Isaac to talk about late brother Joseph. Now the voice said, I cannot give account of this brother Isaac. He (bro Isaac) was the one giving account of the late brother Joseph, his character and everything. But today, The Son of Man said there are many of you, even those sitting around me that I cannot give account of.
Even though I know you, I cannot talk of you because your character is now far from the truth. The Faith is your character and if your character is contrary to the Faith, you are not holding on to our Faith. Tell yourself the truth. That is the hour we are living in.
This is because whatever that touches on character, touches on Faith for Faith is character. True or false. Your belief is reflective in your character. My own belief is reflective in my character, from head to toe.
So what our Lord God and Master is saying is that you and I should be very careful about the life we are living. For He the Great Masquerade whom we are having dealings with, has four eyes. So there is no hiding place for you and I. He sits down where He is and is seeing that brother before He said He cannot give account of him, because he is living contrary to what I am teaching.
He sees us using spiritual eyes, and He wants us to see Him also with both our spiritual and physical eyes which will help us to see Him as God and give Him His true honour and respect, knowing that you cannot hide anything from Him. When you have spiritual eyes, you know that you cannot hide anything from Son of Man. Whether I am in His presence or far from Him, there is nothing I can hide.
This will help you know the kind of life you are living. When you put your leg somewhere, you will tell yourself that Son of Man is seeing me here, is what I am doing fit for His approval? If He will not approve of it, I remove my leg from there.
Page 76 verse 27-29. God is seeing us using spiritual eyes. Then He equally wants us to combine the two; the spiritual and the physical! That will make up a real human being. That will make us real human beings. You think everybody is a real human being?
Through your physical manifestation, we will know whether you fear God or not. Is it not true? Is there any other way we can judge and conclude that somebody has no fear of God if not through his character and manifestations? This is because the manifestation of everything is the interpretation thereof. True or false? That is the truth. If there are children that should be very respectful today, it is our children. They will not play with disrespect.
If my daughter is disrespecting sister here, how can she tell me that she respects her mother? Are you not fooling yourself? Because people are watching you. What you are doing to that woman outside is the same way you are treating your mother. Charity begins at home.
The most respectful people should be our children because they know what respect is. Everybody should be using them as example. But for somebody to come and be pointing at a disrespectful believer of this Faith, and you are telling me that that person believes God? No. Let us tell ourselves the truth that your character is your Faith.
If your character does not resemble this Faith, you are not believing the same thing with me. That is why I have the right to avoid you. Yes, for you are not living according to my Faith, so I have the right to avoid you. I cannot compromise. This is not the period for compromise. Avoid them that do not live according to your Faith.
So let us know the hour we are living in. What our Lord and Master is saying is that you and I should be very careful about the life that we are living. You know who you are. I know who I am. You know what you are manifesting and I know what I am manifesting. You know what the Word of God says concerning your character and I also know same. So if you are bearing the right fruit, you know. If you are not bearing the right fruit, you also know. If I am bearing the right fruit, I know. If I am not bearing the right fruit, I equally know.
That is why the Word of God told us not to fool ourselves. Rather, we should tell ourselves the naked truth which will help us to do what is needful. Do you know that the Faith is your security? Your Faith is your identity. That is what will help you and protect you. If you do not protect your Faith, your Faith will not protect you.
Page 88 vs. 2-3. Nobody falls sick physically without first falling sick spiritually. The same way, if you are not spiritually sound, there is no need talking about character. Character is a formation of the spirit.
Even success and failure are both spiritual. When you fail spiritually, you must fail physically. You better think about it and begin to reposition yourself immediately. [Nugget from the Message; STRIVE TO BE A STAR; Preached on Sunday, 2^nd September, 2007 Page 15 verse 12]
Anything greater than this? If you want to succeed physically, just make sure you succeed spiritually. And can there be success spiritually, without you doing what The Son of Man says you should do? Our Lord and Master said and I quote; Every lifestyle is a doctrine. My life is my doctrine. Your life is your doctrine. Our Lord is saying that my desire and your desire, must be guided by our doctrine.
If you make your life the doctrine of this Faith, and I do the same with my life, that is our guide. Any of my desire that is contrary to the doctrine, I throw it away. Any of your desires that is contrary to the doctrine, you throw it away. That is the guiding principle.
Have a doctrine, which is the doctrine of the Faith, so that whatever desire rises in you, if it does not agree with your doctrine, wave it away. That is what God is telling us. That our desires must be guided by our doctrine.
If your desire is outside your doctrine, then it should not be implemented. For any desire that is outside God’s doctrine is a devilish desire, and should not be implemented. Once the heart is polluted, the action cannot be right.
The life every human being is living is a matter of decision. So that life which you have decided to live, nobody will change it. The life you have decided to live, is it the life of the Faith of Christ? That is the question you should ask yourself. If it is not the life of the Faith of Christ, leave it. That is where you will survive. For we have a life and it is the life of Christ. If you do not know that we have a life, it then means you are not in the Faith. We have a life in this Faith and that is the life of Christ! Is it a lie? That is why we are looking at Him. If my life does not agree with Him, I change it. It is simple. It is determination.
So if you want to be like The Son of Man, you can. It is a decision you make. So you will be watching His life and be watching your own. Once you are not going right, you correct it.
We are matured in the Faith now, we are not children again. When we were like children, He guided us. You sit down and look at yourself, if you are not living up, you begin to line up. It is not time for anger. Anger does not give us the righteousness God wants in His presence. Is that not what we read in the book of James?
Page 179 vs. 57-60. If the light has come to you, reflect it. If the light has come to you? Reflect it! Reflect the life of the Faith. The life of Christ – The Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena, has it not come to us? Then reflect it!
If the light has come to you, reflect it. But when you hear the truth and you do not reflect it, it then means your whole character, your body is covered with darkness, and you are groping in darkness. Help yourself for the hour is a risky hour.
You are merely doing, “Try your luck”. Groping in darkness means that you are merely manipulating your life. You have not allowed Christ to have control. The Word is not taking over yet. You are the one manipulating. You are the one thinking. You are the one crafting it and designing it.
STOP DESIGNING! ALLOW CHRIST TO DESIGN YOUR LIFE. I AM THE CHIEF DESIGNER. BY THIS MESSAGE YOU ARE HEARING, I AM GRADUALLY, SPONTANEOUSLY, SPORADICALLY DESIGNING YOUR LIFE. AND I WILL STOP AT NOTHING UNTIL I SEE YOU REFLECTING CHRIST.
What kind of love is greater than this one. I will stop at nothing till I have seen Christ, which is Himself, His life, being molded in you and I. Allow Christ, Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] to design your life, for He is the chief designer. And He will stop at nothing until He sees you and I reflecting Himself.
Let us proceed to the spoken word message titled; BE STRONG IN THE LORD Volume 2. Preached on Sunday 18^th April, 2021 by The Son of Man at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe. Page 79 vs. 8-9. AND CHRIST IS THE ORIGIN OF GOOD CHARACTER.
TAKE AWAY CHRIST THERE IS NO GOOD CHARACTER, FOR NO MAN CAN BE GOOD EXCEPT CHRIST. AND IF YOU ARE NOT REFLECTING CHRIST, YOU ARE REFLECTNG THE DEVIL. DO NOT ALLOW ANYBODY TO DECEIVE YOU WITH PARADISE. THERE IS NOBODY WHOSE CHARACTER IS NOT LIKE THAT OF CHRIST WHO WILL SMELL PARADISE. Is it not a clear thing? If I want to be in Paradise, will I play with it?
Page 47 vs. 50-53. YOU HAVE NO SELF CONTROL UNTIL YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR SPIRIT, FOR THE SPIRIT OF A MAN IS UNDER HIS CONTROL. THE SPIRIT THAT IS IN ME IS UNDER MY CONTROL. SO IT IS WITH YOUR OWN. IS IT NOT TRUE?
So do not carry your disobedience too far. You are the one doing it. Your disobedience is willful, in the sense that you know the right thing. You have heard the truth, and you know the right thing to do; you know what a condemnable act is in the sight of God, but you, for reasons best known to you, decided to go that way.
And then, God will give you a place where people like you are given their own places, for you will never be given a place where you do not merit.
ANYWHERE YOU MERIT IS WHERE YOU WILL GET. YOUR CHARACTER WILL MERIT, GIVE YOU A PLACE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, EITHER TO HELL OR TO PARADISE.
Your character is going to give you a place, either in hell or in Paradise. If you say you are really afraid of this hell, then why are you doing things that will take you there? Is there any right thinking human being that is not afraid of hell, although he does not know what hell is.
Branham said hell is not a place for human beings. You have heard that it is not a place for human beings and you are afraid to go there, then why are you doing things that will take you there? These are the things that we must sit down and think about. And this is the hour for me to speak to myself; moment of truth!

Let me tell you one thing with perfection, when you attain perfection, maybe you are in a family, every other member of the family that has not attained perfection, you look at them as unbeliever. See the problem, the same way you treat heathens is the same way you treat them. But their countenances would change within their minds because the way you are seeing something is not the way it is. Their reaction over matters will not be your reaction over matters because you have attained perfection. And nothing will ever shake you in any condition. Your life is stabilized. That is what perfection is all about.

-THE SON OF MAN

BE YE PERFECT FOR I YOUR GOD AM PERFECT

PART 1 PREACHED ON PREACHED SUNDAY 3^RD MARCH, 1996 PAGE 99:86-88.

YOUR LIFE MUST BE REGULATED BY THE WORD OF GOD

Let us go back to the spoken word message titled REPUTATION Volume 2. Page 91 vs. 3-8. LIVE A LIFE WITHOUT CHECK AND END IT IN DISASTER. IS IT A LIE?

Any man who does not have anybody whose words he will respect, and whose views he will respect and fear, will he live a godly life? That is why I said so, do not be afraid of me nor your mother, do not be afraid of anybody, be afraid of this Man – He is God.
It is because you do not believe that He is God, that is why you are now looking at Him as a second person in the Godhead, whereas He is God. For if God takes flesh, He must call Himself “Son”.
You must have somebody you will respect and fear all his words. Otherwise, you are going to end your life in disappointment. Anybody who does not have someone he fears in this life, does he live a good life?
Do you not see that Nebuchadnezzar will be better than that fellow who does not fear God, and does not respect human beings? For Nebuchadnezzar was sent into the bush. He grew hairs on his body like an animal. He passed through those things before God allowed Him to come out. For you now after hearing the experience of Nebuchadnezzar to continue in that foolishness, Nebuchadnezzar is now better than you.
Do you not see that Nebuchadnezzar will be better than that fellow who does not fear God, and does not respect human beings? You are a beast! “I do not fear God. I do not respect human beings.” You end your life in disappointment. It then means you are going to build a world of your own, where you will not have any interaction with God or with human beings. Create your own world and dwell there alone.
ONCE YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING, YOUR LIFE IS UNDER STRICT CHECK BY GOD OR BY YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. TRUE OR FALSE? So we are one another’s check.
Page 102 vs. 38-40. So, the way you are behaving tells us the revelation you have about the Faith of Christ revealed to you in our day. True or false? Good! Was it not somebody that saw Him and called Him Christ?
Another saw Him and called him spirit. While another saw Him and called Him devil; Beelzebub? Is that not individual revelations?
So the one you are holding will reflect in your character, in your attitude, and in everything you do. Anyone that sees Him as a mere human being, will the person respect Him? One that sees Him as the devil, will the person bow down before Him? Will His Words be effective to such a fellow?
So you can now see that your character will tell the whole world whether you are believing what you are being taught or not. For our characters are really reflections of what we believe.
The way you see The Son of Man matters. If you see Him as the devil, will you worship Him? If you see Him as a man, you will not take His words serious. But immediately you see Him as God, you will not play with His words.
That is why if I tell you I have a revelation of this Man, that He is my God, do not begin to argue with me. What you are supposed to do is to go and pray and say God, open my eyes to see for this is what I heard from this man, but I want to know the reality. I am telling you what I have seen, why not go and pray if you think I am fooling you.
There was something that Elisha was seeing before he asked God to open the eyes of his servant. Where we just read said, did not one person see Him and called Him Beelzebub, another called Him a liar, but one saw Him and called Him “my Lord and my God”. So it is very necessary for you to say God, open my eyes. You see the difference.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS (2019 YOUTH CONFERENCE) on 28^th December, 2019. KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY Son of Man, Page 91 vs. 242-246. So, do not be a burden to yourselves by constituting self-obstacles to your progress. This is because one that wants to go the evil way is constituting his own self obstacle.
When you get into trouble or have a police case, who caused it? You are the one! Sooner than you think, everybody will hate you with perfect hatred. Nobody will be willing to assist you anymore and wherever you find yourself, the evil that drove you away from Onitsha will also expose you at Enugu.
Do not run away from a city because of your evil. You think when you change from Uyo to Lagos, your life is going to change? You are carrying the same evil from here to that place.
What am I saying? An evil fellow is an evil fellow wherever he is found. So do not think that if you go to Lagos, you have escaped. You are running to Lagos with your character.
Anywhere you run to, you are going there with your character. That is why, to marry you becomes very difficult. To you, being a young man, for virtuous ladies to accept your hand in marriage will be absolutely difficult for they have known you.
I do not care whether you are living in London, a sincere daughter of God will not accept your hand in marriage because you are living in the moon. For she is going to put herself in fire in the name of America or London.
REPUTATION Volume 2 Page 37 vs. 12-14. If you are unreliable, God will not help you. Your fellow human beings will not help you. Nobody helps a fraudulent fellow. Have we not heard this same voice from two different messages?
For God to grant you the favour of the heathens because He had already promised that the fruits of the heathens ye shall eat, but you will not eat it in unrighteousness. Your faithfulness must be visible before God and man. GIVE IN GOOD FAITH.
Let us continue in the message; THE WORDS OF OUR FATHERS ARE THE WORDS OF WISDOM Volume 1. Page 44 vs. 2-4. If there be anybody who is not benefitting from God, he is benefitting from the devil. Anybody that is not benefitting from God, is benefitting from the devil.
PAY ATTENTION. ANYONE YOU ARE BENEFITTING FROM IS THE ONE YOU WILL GIVE YOUR ALLEGIANCE. TRUE OR FALSE? IF THE DEVIL OFFERS YOU MUCH MORE BENEFITS BY DOING HIS WILL, FOLLOW THE DEVIL. IF GOD OFFERS YOU THE GREATEST OF ALL BENEFITS BY DOING HIS WILL, FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THE LORD. THIS IS MY ADVICE.
Is this not the same thing brother Branham told his son Billy Paul? He said, look at my two hands, the right leads to heaven, the left leads to hell, make your choice. That is what God is saying. If you are benefitting from the devil, follow the devil. If you are benefitting from the Lord, follow the Lord.
Page 57 vs. 40-42. A time comes when he will stop persuading you. After He has given you all the advice, a time will come when He will stop persuading you. Have you seen the time we have arrived at now? A dangerous hour.
A time comes when he will stop persuading you. He will allow you to continue the way you have chosen to live. And that brings disaster, disappointment, despair, disdain and death.
Disgrace will follow someone, who after knowing the truth decides to live wrong. He is already incurring supreme disgrace; supreme shame, for he must be left behind. He must be left behind.
To you they swear by Allah. In order to please you: But it is more fitting that they should please Allah and His Messenger, if they are Believers.
KNOW THEY NOT THAT FOR THOSE WHO OPPOSE ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER, IS THE FIRE OF HELL?-WHEREIN THEY SHALL DWELL. THAT IS THE SUPREME DISGRACE. [Surah 9:62 – 63 Abdullah Yusuf Ali Translation]
FAMILY MENU Volume 2. Section 2: Page 50 vs. 8-9. There are many things prohibited in God’s true Faith. God delivered His people from the laws of the Bible, and then handed them over to the laws of The Son of Man who is the true Guide, leader and instructor. So we are not permitted to behave the way we like.
Though we live in a democratic era, it does not mean behave the way you like. For there is no total freedom anywhere in the world. Freedom has limit. Nobody is given absolute freedom.
Page 51 vs. 13. God gives you freedom to be a free moral agent, but you are not given that freedom to do whatever you want. Your life must be regulated. Therefore, you have freedom in God, but not freedom to do whatever you like.
Page 52 vs. 18-21. There are things God has prohibited us from doing in this Faith. Or has He allowed everybody to have access to everything at all times? Is there no restriction about certain things?
Are we permitted to talk anyhow, behave anyhow, is that the Faith? Was that the message we received? Your life must be guided and regulated by the message you hear.
For Faith cometh by hearing. What then is the essence of the message if it is not to regulate human behaviour’s? It is a question! If you say we can behave anyhow, then what is the use of these messages?
Every message from God is aimed at regulating the habit of man. We come to God to be educated and to be enlightened by Him, so that we will behave rightly. It is only in that way that we can be useful to ourselves, to the society and to God.
However, it is wrong for you to receive the message, go home, misinterpret it, behave anyhow and call it freedom in God.
You better tell yourself the naked truth, for this is the moment of truth. Find out if you have been practicing and displaying things that are strongly against the Faith of God. For life entails checks and balances. Find out whether the way you have been behaving, has been telling people false stories about this Faith of Christ. If it has, change!
Page 52 vs. 23-25. Life entails checks and balances. Anyone living his life without checks and balances, will end it at nothing. From time to time, call yourself to order. Did He say I should call you? Pastor, did He say you should call me? He said call yourself to order.
From time to time, call yourself to order, take full inventory of your life and ask yourself how you have fared all this while. God is now talking to individuals. Ask yourself how you have fared all this while.
Are you going forward or backward? What can you say concerning your life? What is responsible for your present state? Truly speaking, if you are sincere, by the time you are through with checking yourself, you will see many things that are against you, which you imported to harm yourself. So there is need for checkpoint.
The checkpoint is me checking myself. What am I using to check myself? The word of God! Let us go to the MINISTERS MEETING Volume 4. Preached on the dawn of 27^th December 2015 by The Son of Man. Page 69 vs. 16. The nature of the ministry you have received, demands complete purity of the heart.
Your life must be transparent. It demands that you and I must denounce hidden things of dishonesty and we stop working in craftiness.
Page 30 vs. 7-11. I have told you that the word of God remains the only regulatory instrument with which He regulates human activities. And anybody whose life cannot be regulated by the word of God is not a seed of God.
Every true seed of God is known for one thing; no matter what he intends doing, or what he is doing, the moment the word of God is spoken, he stops.
If what you are doing does not harmonize with the message you have received and you feign ignorance, anyday, anywhere, anytime the word of God is spoken, touching on that thing which you are doing or you are trying to do, if you are a seed of God that is the end of that thing. You will not proceed again.
You were doing that thing and you thought within you that it is okay, only to hear the word of God condemning that thing, you will stop.
Let us turn to the Bible, Living Bible alone. Colossians 3:10-11. You are living a brand new kind of life… This is what I want you to know. We are living a brand new kind of life. The life of Christ is a new life.
You are living a brand new kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right,.. You see the kind of life? It is continually learning more and more. …and trying constantly to be more and more like Christ who created this new life within you.
In this new life one’s nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant; such things mean nothing. Whether a person has Christ is what matters, and he is equally available to all.
You and I are now living a brand new life. The kind of life that is continually learning more and more of what is right and trying more and more to be like Christ – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] who is the one that created this new life within you and I. In this new life, ones nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant. What matters is whether you have Christ-Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], who is equally available to everybody.
Take note of this point; continually learning more and more of what is right, not what is wrong. Is Christ not our living example? He is the most important thing in our life. To emulate Christ and be like Him is what matters.
Colossians 3:12. Since you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life, and because of his deep love and concern for you, you should practice tenderhearted mercy and kindness to others. Don’t worry about making a good impression on them, but be ready to suffer quietly and patiently.
Who has given us this new life? God! Because He has deep love for all of us, that is why He is offering us this protection, to avoid troubles of the future by learning what is right.
Colossians 3:16-17. Remember what Christ taught, and let his words enrich your lives and make you wise; teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing to the Lord with thankful hearts.
And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, and come with him into the presence of God the Father to give him your thanks. The scripture we read said; whatever we do or say, we should do it as representative of Christ – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN].
What He cannot do, let us never do it. And where He is silent, let us remain silent there. You are an ambassador. You are representing Him in Akwa-Ibom. I want to show you something in Psalms that it is not today these things started. When people look at God as a man, they begin to see Him as a common man like themselves.
Read Psalms 2:1-6 LB. What fools the nations are to rage against the Lord! How strange that men should try to outwit God!* For a summit conference of the nations has been called to plot against the Lord and his Messiah, Christ the King.
“Come, let us break his chains,” they say, “and free ourselves from all this slavery to God.” But God in heaven merely laughs! He is amused by all their puny plans. And then in fierce fury he rebukes them and fills them with fear.
For the Lord declares, “This is the King of my choice, and I have enthroned him in Jerusalem, my holy city. ”This is the vessel I have chosen to dwell in, hear ye Him. That is the Tabernacle. God’s permanent dwelling place. Right from the onset He told us clearly, “I will never depart from this Tabernacle”.
So now we have seen in the Bible that God has a permanent dwelling place on Earth. Do you think it is in that house in Nsugbe? It is the Personality He is dwelling in, and the personality must have a house. What makes that house Holy? It is The Son of Man – Apostle Peter Odoemena; the permanent dwelling place of God.
To some people, worshipping and obeying God is slavery. That is why they said, let us join hands together and liberate ourselves from this slavery, this bondage of God. So it never started today. Man has always tried to fight God because God has always been a man.
The scripture says, this is what fools the nations, but God is in heaven laughing at them. When we say God is in heaven today, you know the heaven. The presence of God, Mount Zion. We know where our blessings are coming from.
Because He is a man like them, they see it as slavery obeying the Messiah. Of course, if He is not a human being, how would we be able to serve God? Have you seen the foolishness of men. They do not know that God has to dwell in a vessel and then produce many member bodies. For it must take a man to produce children. So also, it has to take God to produce His own. But they look at it as if it is slavery.
It is not slavery to serve God. It is a wonderful thing to serve God. Whatever He tells you to do, you do. For He is your guide, your protector and your designer. He came to design you to be something, for there is a purpose He has for you and I. That is why the Hindu said, if God wished to hide, God will choose man to hide in. That is the last place man will look for God.
This has become a reality for He has hidden Himself in Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN]. This is the last place man will look for God. That is why no man can come to Him, except the Father draws you near to Him. That is why it is difficult for them to believe. They will tell you yes, we agree that God is a man but why must it be this man. So it is not an easy thing.
When God opened our eyes, we became the greatest favoured human beings upon the earth.
Let us read it from the Bible in 1 John 4:6, that except you have walked and talked with Christ, you will never believe us. So do not be ashamed of what you believe, whether they believe it or not. It is only those that have walked and talked with God that will believe our testimony.
1 John 4:6 LB. But we are children of God; that is why only those who have walked and talked with God will listen to us. Others won’t. That is another way to know whether a message is really from God; for if it is, the world won’t listen to it.
So why is it that people are not listening to our message today? It is because it is from God. That should encourage you the more, to know that you are from God. You are different. If we are not differently made, why is our thumbprint different? So you are a different person. Know that your life is not to be like the life of those people you call your friends.
Once you estimate Christ from a human point of view, as a mere man, you will never take His word seriously and that is the basis of the disobedience we are seeing today.

THE BEST FOOD IS THE WORD OF GOD Nevertheless, the best food is the Word of God. After nourishing you with the Word of God for your spiritual strength, you have every course to glorify Him through thanksgiving because of what He has done in your life. Amen.

-THE SON OF MAN

BE DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET PREACHED ON 15^TH APRIL, 2007 AND 22^ND APRIL, 2007 PAGE 13:20.

GOD IS CLOSELY WATCHING US WITH HIS WORD

Surah 23:24 & 33-34. But the chiefs of those who disbelieved among his people said: “He is no more than a human being like you, he seeks to make himself superior to you. Had Allah willed, He surely could have sent down angels; never did we hear such a thing among our fathers of old.

And the chiefs of his people, who disbelieved and denied the Meeting in the Hereafter, and to whom We had given the luxuries and comforts of this life, said: “He is no more than a human being like you, he eats of that which you eat, and drinks of what you drink.
“If you were to obey a human being like yourselves, then verily! You indeed would be losers.
THE NOBLE QUR’AN. The chiefs of the unbelievers said to the others, “He is a mere mortal like you. He wants only to be superior to you. Had God wanted He would have sent the angels (instead of him). We have never heard from our fathers anything like what he says.
Because what they received from their fathers are lies. That is what they are saying today. Our fathers never told us that Jesus Christ is even God, they told us that it is His son. Is it not the same thing being said in the scriptures?
He is only an insane person. Wait for some time. Perhaps he will come to his senses”. A group of his people who disbelieved him and had called the Day of Judgment a lie and whom We had made prosperous in this life, said, “He is a mere mortal like you. He eats and drinks as you do. If you follow a mortal like yourselves you will certainly be lost. MUHAMMAD SARWAR.
That is how the people see it that if you follow a mortal like yourself, you will be lost. If He does not come in that flesh of a mortal, how can He suffer so many things and be rejected?
If He comes with the supernatural form that He can appear and disappear, do you not know that everybody will believe Him? Then who will reject Him? The scripture will fail. For the scripture said that He must first be rejected by this generation.
God made man as mortal first before man became immortal. He was mortal, he was flesh before God breathed into him His breath of life and gave him His glory which man lost.
While others see Him – Apostle Peter Odoemena, our Lord as a mere human being like themselves, we the true children of God know that we are not seeing an ordinary human being but the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is a man and that man is Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN]. He is The King; the choice of The Almighty. Whether the world accepts it or not, He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lord’s. The choice is the Lord’s.
We know all these things about our Lord who has come to live with us, but sometimes we need to be reminded so that we will know where we are at every given time.
Please read Psalms 17:15 GNB. But I will see you, because I have done no wrong; and when I awake, your presence will fill me with joy. This should be our heart desire and prayer point at all times.
Let us hear The Lord as we proceed to the Spoken Word message titled; GOD IS USING YOUR SUFFERING TO MAKE YOU READY FOR HIS KINGDOM Volume 2. Preached on Sunday 1^st December, 2019 by The Son of Man. Page 148 vs. 61-62. THERE IS NOTHING BETWEEN ME AND MY GOD. SO THAT EVEN IF I SLEEP TODAY, WHEN I SHALL AWAKE, I SHALL AWAKE BEHOLDING HIS FACE IN PARADISE.
Should this not be our desire? Even if I fall asleep today, when I rise I shall behold His face.
EVEN IF I FALL ASLEEP IN DEATH, IF I RESURRECT, I SHALL STILL BE IN HIS PRESENCE IN PARADISE – IN ETERNITY. WHAT IS YOUR CONTENTMENT? AS FOR ME, MY CONTENTMENT IS NOT IN WEALTH. MY CONTENTMENT IS NOT IN BUILDING. MY CONTENTMENT IS NOT IN MY STATUS, BUT KNOWING YOU, SEEING YOUR FACE AND RECOGNIZING THAT THERE IS NOTHING STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND I, SO THAT WHEN I SLEEP IN DEATH, ON THAT RESURRECTION DAY, I AM RESURRECTING BEHOLDING YOUR FACE IN PARADISE. THAT’S ALL!
Page 150 vs. 65-74. WHAT IS YOUR OWN CONTENTMENT? Colossians chapter 3 verse 16 only. Amplified. LET THE WORD [SPOKEN BY] CHRIST (THE MESSIAH) HAVE ITS HOME [IN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS]… And have what? Have it’s home in your hearts and minds.
Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have it’s home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making Melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts.
Let the word spoken by Christ have it’s permanent home in your hearts and in your minds so that you do not forget it. Christ has spoken.
Isaiah chapter 30 verse 20 through 21. Good News Bible. THE LORD WILL MAKE YOU GO THROUGH HARD TIMES,… Who will make you go through hard times? The LORD. Pay attention. The Lord will make you go through hard times, BUT HE HIMSELF WILL BE THERE TO TEACH YOU,… Is He not here teaching us?
For it is with the hard times that He will separate His real children from the fake ones. He Himself will be what? He Himself will be there. To do what? To teach you.
…AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO SEARCH FOR HIM ANYMORE. If you wander off the road to the right or left, you will hear His Voice behind you saying, “Here is the road. Follow it.”
Page 154 vs. 2. The Psalmist said, “Your Word have I hidden in My heart that I will not sin against you”. WHEN THE WORD OF GOD IS IN YOUR HEART, THERE WILL BE NO MOMENT THAT IS CALLED UNGUIDED MOMENT.
From all we have taken time to go through, it is a clear indication that The Almighty Adonai in His permanent dwelling place- Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], is telling you and I (His chosen vessels), that we should obey Him and live as we should by His teachings and the example He has laid before us. That is the only command He is giving to us.
So whenever He speaks to us, it is not negotiable. It is taken by you and I as a command that must be carried out. It is mandatory and not optional. We are only depending on Him who appeared to us and taught us; laying a perfect example before us.
We must sacrifice everything for the sake of our calling. While we wait for the promise of God, we will keep on putting ourselves in remembrance of what He has taught us, so as to be sure that we are standing where He commanded us to stand.
Let us look at the message titled; AN UNDELIEVER IS A BURDEN TO HIMSELF. So God is trying to tell us, that whatever you are doing, you are doing it to yourself. This message was Preached by Pastor Wisdom Odoemena on Friday 10^th July, 2020 at Enugu.
Page 25 vs 33-35. SO, PEOPLE LIMIT THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST. BUT IF, AS A CHILD OF GOD, YOU ARE NOT INVITING CHRIST, YOU ARE INDIRECTLY SENDING AN INVITATION TO WHAT? CRISES; Yes, we have seen it that people limit the presence of Christ, but you and I that are children of God know that if we are not inviting Christ by living the positive life, we are indirectly inviting the devil by living negative lives. By so doing, what are we inviting to our lives? Crises!
MAKING YOUR HEART A FLOODGATE OF CRISES. YOU SEE THAT PERSON; WHEREVER HE PUTS HIS HANDS, NOTHING WORKS FOR HIM. NOT BECAUSE HE IS NOT TRYING TO DO WELL, BUT BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY FORCES ACTING AGAINST HIS PROGRESS. MANY FORCES ACTING AGAINST HIS SUCCESS. MANY FORCES ARE ACTING AGAINST EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. WHERE ARE THOSE FORCES COMING FROM? FROM THE INDIVIDUAL HIMSELF.
We limit the presence of Christ by the way we live instead of inviting Him by being obedient to His words. When we begin to behave negatively, we are inviting crises instead of God. That is why it is dangerous for you to be in the Faith, but you are a religious person in the Faith.
The Faith said we should listen to tape, so you listen to tape. You read the sermon books, but you are just doing it religiously. You are not doing it spiritually.
Go to Page 84 vs. 46-49. Understand what out Pastor was passing across to us. As long as you are acting negatively, you are inviting crises. It is not that you are not trying to do what you are doing, but because you are inviting crises, you are not making it as God would have guided you to make it.
IF A SEED OF GOD INVITES CHRIST TO HIS AFFAIRS, CHRIST AUTOMATICALLY AND PERMANENTLY REGISTERS HIS PRESENCE IN THE LIFE OF THAT SEED OF GOD.
That is why we have accidents and we have big problems. And at the mention of that name, we will be delivered from all those evils.
Have we not heard testimonies? We heard that of Bishop Chidubem when he was serving. On the way, their vehicle would have dropped into the ditch which would have been death, but because of calling on that Name, the vehicle stopped.
Even the people beside him in the vehicle started asking what Name did he call. It did not happen to him alone, it has happened to many.
And at the mention of that name, we will be delivered from all those evils. In the same way, the child of the devil also makes an invitation.
NONE OF THESE SPIRITS COME WITHOUT YOUR INVITATION. There are two spirits. The Spirit of God and the spirit of the devil. None of them come without invitation.
SO, YOU ARE EITHER INVITING THEM BY YOUR ACTION POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY. THE POSITIVE ACTION YOU EXHIBIT ON A DAILY BASIS IS AN INVITATION OF CHRIST INTO YOUR LIFE. AND THE NEGATIVE ACTION THAT I TILT TO ON A DAILY BASIS, IS AN INVITATION OF CRISES INTO MY LIFE.
Check yourself each time. Are you acting positively according to the message or acting contrary to the message (negatively)? You are the one inviting any of these spirits by your actions and behaviour. So whatever resultant effect you get at the end of the day, you are the cause because you are the one that invited that thing into your life.
Now, how does a seed of God invite Christ? The positive actions you exhibit on a daily basis, invites Him into your life. How do you reject Christ and invite the devil (which is crises)? Through your daily negative actions.
Doing the things Christ does not like, rejects Him and invites the devil.
Turn with me to the Bible; Proverbs 5:21 LB. For God is closely watching you, and he weighs carefully everything you do. What is He using to weigh your actions? His Word!
God is closely watching you and I, and He sees clearly what we are doing. When we are doing the right which He taught us, we are inviting Him and He will always be on our side. When we are doing the wrong, contrary to what He taught us, we are rejecting Him and inviting crises (the devil), and He (Christ) remains far from us. For the Bible says that God is far from the wicked.
Same message, Page 88 vs. 60. GOD WATCHES CLOSELY EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING TO MAKE SURE WE DO NOT WALK OUTSIDE HIS WILL. WHAT IS GOD USING TO WATCH OVER US? IS IT NOT HIS WORD? IT IS THE WORD OF GOD THAT WE USE IN WATCHING AND WEIGHING OURSELVES.
I want to use these two messages to close. We will take just one verse from each. MIDNIGHT CRY Volume 1, Preached on Sunday 26^th April, 2020. Page 21 vs. 21-23. BUT NOW, WE DO NOT WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO OUR OWN DESIRES.
This is the basic I want to give to everybody as I come down. We do not worship God by our desire. It is not by our desire, it is the way God wants it. BUT NOW, WE DO NOT WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO OUR OWN DESIRES. WE WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WILL.
IF YOU DO NOT DO IT ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, YOU ARE DOING HIM A SERVICE, HEAR ME VERY WELL, OUTSIDE HIS WILL. THAT IS WHY WHATEVER SERVICE YOU ARE RENDERING TO GOD MUST BE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE WILL OF GOD.
WHAT YOU ARE DOING, IS IT ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD? IF IT IS NOT ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD, YOU ARE DOING IT OUTSIDE THE WILL OF GOD. YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING IT FOR GOD BUT IGNORANTLY, YOU ARE REVERENCING THE DEVIL.
Lastly, let us look at the message titled; THE SALVATION LINK FOR YOUR AGE HAS BEEN REVEALED. Preached on the 6^th of May, 2012 by The Son of Man. We want to read Page 25 vs. 27-28 as we close. ANY GROUP THE LORD IS LEADING IS A VICTORIOUS GROUP.
Is The Lord not leading this group? So if we are being led of the Lord, we are a victorious group. Will I only have victory when I have come in the midst of my brethren? No. Wherever I find myself, I am a victorious person. I can never be a loser. That is why we are the winners. Forget this people of living faith that call themselves winners. We are the Winners. We are the victorious people.
ANY INDIVIDUAL THE LORD IS LEADING MUST BE A VICTORIOUS INDIVIDUAL. ALLOW THE LORD TO LEAD YOU AND VICTORY IS COMPLETELY SURE. BUT WHERE HE IS NOT LEADING, DO NOT MAKE A MOVE FOR DISASTER AWAITS YOU.
THE LORD HAS APPEARED TO LEAD US HOME. IF YOU BELIEVE IT SAY AMEN. You have seen Him that has given us the victory. That is why the book of Jeremiah the prophet said, “To Him belongeth all the praise, honour, victory, dominion, majesty forever more.”
So on this note, I say remain blessed my brethren. I believe that all I have said will help us. For it is not my word but His Word. So that we will guide ourselves.
Let us not be foolish in the hour that we are living in, but live in a guided way that will help us and He will see us through.
Remain in your sanctified estate and remain blessed in Him eternally. Amen.