Preached By PASTOR WISDOM ODOEMENA At BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE. (Family Altar Message) On 5TH DECEMBER 2018
WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU MUST PROVE TO YOU THAT YOU ARE EITHER IN GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION OR GOD’S PLAN OF DESTRUCTION. GOD SAID THIS IS NOT THE TIME YOU ASK YOURSELF, WHY IS MY FAMILY ACTING THIS WAY, WHY IS MY CHILD BEHAVING THIS WAY, YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF WHY AM I BEHAVING THIS WAY.
EXAMINE YOUR STAND IN THE FAITH. PREACHED ON 18TH NOV 2018. PG. 84 VS 29
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WHO IS AT WORK IN YOU?
1. 16 Secrets to Retaining your Sanctified Estate in Christ. And God asked a very pertinent question, you must be in your sanctified estate before retaining your sanctified estate.
2. What does it take for one to be sanctified? What does it mean for God to sanctify? I don’t know how many of us that went back, paused and also thought about that message.
3. So before reading this message, I want us to consider the scriptures, Let’s turn to Philippians chapter 2 verse 13,“ for God is at work within you, helping you want to obey him and then helping you do what he wants”. (LB).
4. For God is what? Constantly at work in you, the same way you can only yield yourself to God; it is when you yield yourself to God that God will be at work in you, likewise the devil also being at work constantly in you. Helping you to achieve his own will.
5. SOM: Yes, helping the devil to destroy you, we heard that one this morning. The same way the Lord is at work in you.
6. “ for God is at work within you, helping you want to obey him, helping you want to obey him, the same way, if you yield yourself over to the devil, the devil will also help you to do his own works, he will also be at work in you.
7. SOM: He will help you to kill yourself. So whenever we are talking about your sanctified estate, you should know what God means. At that point when God is espoused in your life; God wants you to do his own will, not your own will.
8. “for God is at work within you, helping you want to obey him and then helping you do what he wants”. And then helping us to do what he wants, not what we want, but what God wants.
9. SOM: that’s where the problem lies.
10. What he wants to do, he continues with it, he does not want to know whether God is talking against it or not. Even if God is talking, that one is God’s business.
11. You don’t know that the devil is at work in you, helping you to disobey God and you achieve the devil’s aim, which is to destroy you, hindering you from obeying God.
12. Whatever that will hinder you from obeying God, is it not the devil? The devil is always in disobedience and he wouldn’t like to see somebody obeying God. He is opposed to God. So, you maybe an agent in the hand of the devil, yet you will be going to church, shouting, claiming you are in the faith of the bride, faith of Christ, while you are an agent in the hand of the devil.
13. The devil is constantly at work in you, hindering you from doing the will of God and permitting you to do your own will at all time.
14. So we should be mindful of whatever we are doing at any point in time. You heard that voice on Sunday that you can be disobeying God; you can be working contrary to God, thinking that you are doing yourself a favour, not knowing that you are helping the devil to destroy you. You are giving him more things to equip him for your own destruction.
15. SOM: That is what the Holy Ghost told us, the moment you neglect godly instruction, you become self-destructive. Because you have refused godly advice, you have used your hand to destroy yourself.
16. He doesn’t know age. The devil doesn’t respect anybody’s age if you don’t know. The devil respects nobody’s age, nobody’s position. Whatever you like call yourself, even if your head is full of grey hairs, the devil does not respect it at all. Be the President, the devil doesn’t respect it.
17. Let me read something from this message titled, Is Your Heart Converted? This message was preached on 11th of May 2014, page 86 from verse 24, I say you are already there, not you are almost there, you are there already.
18. This is the last purging and I call it self-purging, self-purging, don’t say God purge me, purge yourself of all impure conscience, I say purge yourself. Remember nobody can change you but you. If you decide not to change, will you change? Answer is no!
19. God is saying at this point in time, we don’t need anybody to tell us what to do, call yourself to order. Search within you to know what is making you to always do what you are doing.
20. Last Wednesday we read the message titled, “Do not follow the errors of the wicked,” in that message, God was pointing to us that once we are in God’s hand, once God has purposed you for destruction that no matter the instruction, no matter the message, no matter the prayers, no matter the intercessions, it can never stop that person from manifesting what he is known for.
21. SOM: The anointing is already on him for destruction.
22. Let me continue from that message page 69 verse 13 “When your heart is converted you can differentiate between good and wrong, evil and good. but when the heart is not converted, everything is good in your sight.
23. Once your philosophy doesn’t condemn it at that point, it becomes right. Once your heart is not converted, your vision guides you, your vision will only guide you, not what God says.
24. Once your heart is not converted, you are only walking by sight and not by divine revelation.
24. You can never come to the realization that what will count at the end is not your vision, but what God has said concerning it. Check yourself very well. Check yourself very well; do not count on the number of years you have been in this faith.
25. You can be in this faith from the very beginning but you have never entered into Christ for one day, even for one second.
26. SOM: You don’t see yourself in Christ, but you are in the church, they call you ‘anika’.
27. “You have been guided all along by your human impulses and inclinations, you have been going about, displaying every kind of sensation as a result of the food you have perceived.
28. All you knew was in the past and now you are a noise maker. Once the heart is converted, every noise ceases, the heart discerns the desire of all the thoughts of men, the heart becomes suspicion of every environment, for nothing is as suspicious as a converted heart.
29. “a converted heart cannot stand every information, cannot stand every discussion, your heart is already telling you, what are you doing here? Am I supposed to be in this place?
30. SOM: What do you gain by this? What do you gain by doing this? That is when you know that your heart is converted if you are in Christ.But when you are in Christ, You will be resenting evil and appearances of evil. Not when you see it, you jump up and shout and embrace it, promote it more than the person that committed it.
31. Once somebody is not in Christ, nothing is checking the person. Once the person goes to where there is a contrary spirit, you will see the person behaving the same way. When he comes to the children of God, he will behave the same way.
32. I was talking to our brethren when we were working last week, I told them that the worst person in this faith is a make believer.
SOM: Exactly!
33. A hypocrite is better than a make believer. A make believer will help to the point of even preaching, singing, but outside, the true colour will come out.
34. SOM: He will give you the impression that he is spiritual, that he is even obeying, he may even pray more than the people have been praying. But any place he sees himself, he will take it that way showing you that he cannot change his nature.
35. “Nothing is as suspicious as a converted heart, because it does not take people for what they said they are, but what the converted heart proves them to be.
36. The heart that is not converted cannot try every spirit, rather it welcomes every spirit. This is where the problem lies.
37. SOM: Because it is not converted, it welcomes every spirit. But the converted heart tries every spirit, to know whether it is of God; it tries every action, every utterance, to know the spirit that motivates the person.
38. Anything the person sees he will want to have it; he will like to make sure he follows everything he/she sees or even reads.
39. “Even the children that are born in this faith, if your father is a priest, it does not make you a priest,
40. That you were conceived and born in this faith does not make you a saved person before God. The same condition God gave to your parents, the same condition he is giving you now. As long as you can reason, as long as you know when you have done good, you know when you have done evil, you can tell lies to avoid punishment, you are now accountable to God.
41. Once you can feel offended which means you can feel angry, you know when something has displeased you, you can also be happy, it goes to show that you have reached the age of accountability, You have no excuse before God.
42. Your parent converted hearts can never ever be transferred to you.
43. There is nothing like transferred Salvation or transferred Eternal life, it does not exist. If there is any you can cite as an example where it existed before, please lets mention it.
44. SOM: Not even in one place.
45. Repent and be saved with your family. If your heart is converted that is when you are able to get your family converted. But where you lack the power to get them converted, the courage to get your family converted, then, they must surely perish.
46. I am reading from the same message page 53 from verse 31 “Every utterance from the mouth emanates from the heart, because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Every thought and imagination of the mind emanates from the heart, is it a lie? “The cloud is here.
47. Is this the message I have for you today? I don’t know; it may be. Look around and see what the lord is doing. This is not the hour you begin to look at your left or at your right. It has narrowed down to individuals, because if your heart is converted, you will know, if my heart is converted I will know.
48. It is not a matter of God try me and search me. It is not a matter of my brother try me and search me or my husband try me and search me. Search your own heart.
49. God is telling us that we should do what? Search our own heart. You are your own Judge on this matter.
50. Why are you erratic in your behavior? Why have you not attained a permanent status in Christ? Why have you not imbibed a custom, a culture, a tradition, a character that can be credited to you no matter where you find yourself?
51. SOM: No matter where you find yourself. Even if they said you did it, the person by your side that knows you will say no, you didn’t do it. That you should know more than that.
52. If it is thoroughly scrutinized and seen that your hands are clean, it will be seen that you didn’t do it, that you are being framed with lies. But if you were framed that you are the one that did it and at the end of the day it was true, don’t you see that the person is in trouble?
53. Because he does not have a good character by which he will be known that can never be influenced away.
54. Search your heart; you are your own judge in this matter. Why am I erratic in my behavior? Why haven’t I attained a permanent status in Christ? Why haven’t I imbibed a custom, a culture, a tradition, a character that can be credited to you?
55. God is asking us this question. There must be something that people will surely know you for. There is a picture that you are always presenting wherever you are.
55. when we were still coming up, God told us in one of the messages Family Menu, in that message he was telling us that we are like a city that is seated on a mountain where we can never be hidden. All eyes are on you, some are wishing you to be good, some are wishing you evil. Why will you now allow the wishes of the enemy to be fulfilled? Why will you now aid the devil to fulfill that evil wish against you?
56. SOM: If they see you, they will call you a human being. If people see you, they will curse you, that you can never achieve anything, look at your character, does he behave like a human being? You will use your ear to hear it, helping them so that you can never amount to anything good. This thing that the enemy is pushing you to do will come to fulfillment. Don’t you see that the person hates himself? Even doing guy with it. Can you play with death? Using what is meant for the ear for the eyes.
57. Am reading from the same message Chapter 3, is your heart converted? From verse 1 that is page 40. The scripture says, if you stop at repentance, your sin abideth with you. if the only thing you do is to change church, may be you were born into a church, your parents continued there and you decided to say no and go to another one, you have only changed church.
58. The scripture also says repent and be converted that your sin will be blurted out, then, comes the time of refreshing that will come from the presence of God. A refreshing wind from the Holy Spirit will begin to blow in your heart, blow in your life. You will begin to enjoy greater peace as one that knows the Lord.
59. SOM: Greater peace have they that know the Lord, nothing shall by any means offend them. The refreshing wind of the Holy Spirit is already at work in the individual.
60. You begin to enjoy greater peace as one that knows the Lord and nothing shall by any means get you offended because the heart has been converted. You can repent without being converted,
61. SOM: that is where the problem lies, but you can never be converted without repenting. Repentance means, finding fault with where you were before, finding fault with what you believed before, finding fault with your own personal principle.
62. Then if you see a group that believes what you believe, you now be with them, you have now changed your mind, but you are not yet converted.
63. Repentance will help you to prove the truth, to approve the truth and then propagate the truth, yet your heart is not converted.
64. What does conversion mean? By turning a black object into a white object and white becomes its permanent nature.
65. When this black is bleached, white automatically becomes its permanent nature.
66. SOM: When you bleach white, you get nothing but white. If it must turn to black again, it must be by the use of dye, you dye the clothe.
67. SOM: you will know that it was done by a human being, someone did it. Because it has assumed a permanent white nature. Any little drop that drops on it will be noticeable, not only by the wearer of the clothes, but by all that comes into contact with the person.
68. If it is one that appreciates his new nature which is white, not by the old nature that was black, he will rest at nothing until that spot is blurted out. He will heave a sigh of relief.
69. SOM: That is why white does not hide dirt. The person whose heart is pure like white, can he hide evil? Evil can never stay with him, once it enters, it will be noticed immediately. The way you are wearing white and if it is stained by oil or charcoal you will see it. That is the way it is in the heart.
70. A heart that is converted, there is no way evil will come that the person will not notice it immediately, and remove it.
71. Then cometh the refreshing wind of the Holy Spirit, blossoming in the hearts of every individual.
72. SOM: Pure truth! Because once evil enters the heart of a person, it will not allow the person to rest until he/she fulfills it. It pushes the person, if it is to fight or insult, anything at all.
73. Once evil comes into your heart, it will ignite you, do it, do it fast, fast. Before you know it, your nature will change. When the person that is with you looks at you, your face becomes another thing, another countenance, because evil is now in your heart.
74. This is truth, because the face is the window of the mind. No matter how you smile, the person that knows you well knows that something is happening in you; that there is something going on in your heart and that thing reflects in your character and face, however you yourself have refused to find out, but those that know you have already seen it.
75. That is how to know a heart that is not converted, it is not yet converted. If you ever push him and push him out, he will go back to his old association; he will go back to his former association. Because what he did was to leave there, he never hated it. He left, but he never hated it. But when you repent and you reject, repent and reject, that is when conversion will come in. when you confess and then reject it, you will see that conversion has come.
76. If you cover your sin, you will not prosper, but if you confess and forsake you obtain mercy.
77. According to the bible in proverbs 28 verse 13 it is written there. “He that covereth his sin shall not prosper: but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy”. (KJV). If you are confessing and at the same time continuing in it, every time your mouth is full of “I am sorry”, your sorry is repentance and not conversion, that is why after I am sorry, next minute you continue in that same thing; I am sorry, I am sorry, I am sorry, that goes to show that you are not converted.
78. Because the same thing is still holding you on the ground. It is winning you, sin is winning you. The book of Hebrews said that the reason why sin is winning us is that we have not even vowed to resist it to the shedding of our blood.
79. Instead of doing it, let me die. We have never said such words in our hearts. I will never attempt it, I will never try it, instead of doing it, let me die. Deny us everything, I will never do it. For the sake of Christ, I won’t do it. That is when you will win sin; sin will then be underneath your feet.
80. Every moment “I am sorry”. I am sorry, I am sorry is no longer useful. It is now like a song one sings, because it didn’t enter the heart, but lip service. I am sorry. When one is sorry from the heart, have that sorrow for evil he did, confess and says that he is sorry, will he go back to it again? No sir!
81. “Then cometh the refreshing wind of the Holy Spirit blossoming in the heart of that individual that is what is called the joy of our Salvation.
82. SOM: Pure truth! Where we always say God restore us the joy of our salvation. If you have experienced it for the first time, if anything tampers with it, you will know. You become restless, worried, very restive, but once you mend your relationship with God, you will see overflowing Joy.
83. People will be wondering what is happening to you. You won’t know what is wrong with him. If you watch somebody who doesn’t have the Joy of salvation, he is always moody. There is never a time he is happy. If he wants to smile, he smiles a little and it will be short-lived.
84. “That is what we call the Joy of our Salvation. Salvation must be in completeness and in Joy. If salvation doesn’t bring about joy in your heart, you are merely deceiving yourself.
85. SOM: You never experienced it.
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STRIVE TO BE CONVERTED
1. “The prophet said that sometimes people contact a deceiving spirit that resembles that of Christ and they will begin to make a hell of noise, they will be wandering, they will be jumping up and down “hey I have got it, I have got it, I have got it”, for when it comes to displaying the character, you notice that the spirit is not yet there.
2. They are having mere sensation and euphoria, ‘…which cometh by the knowledge of the truth above the people around you, you will then be employed in argument with the heathens.
3. SOM: Like it is happening now. You now have knowledge above the people around you; you can now argue with people here and there calling it preaching when you are indulging in augments, but your character will prove you otherwise. Because you are having euphoria due to knowledge you acquired above people around you. You now become the seven sons of skiver
4. “You begin to argue with the heathen, argument with the Pharisees and you must win your argument wherever you go. Yet the heart is not yet converted, your sins abideth with you. This is the problem I am having now, and I am thinking of the best way I can approach it, I believe the best is what is revealed to me which is “let my people where know they are, who they are and how I am seeing them”.
5. Follow me to page 50 of the same message from verse 24 “If the Sovereign Spirit is in you, all your actions must be of Christ, but where the Sovereign Spirit is not dwelling in you, your actions are of the devil. Which means you can believe this truth, you can also propagate this truth, as long as your heart is not converted, your old character remains with you that which you were known for, from the very beginning will remain with you. Which then means, you have a physical transformation and not a Spiritual transformation.
6. “Because with the mouth you draw nearer to God, with the heart, you are far away from him. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, for with the mouth confession is made unto forgiveness of sins.
7. Why are you black today and white tomorrow? It is because there has not been a permanent change in you.
8. God is asking us this question now. Why are we black today and we are white tomorrow? Today you will fall, tomorrow you will rise up, it then goes to show that we are not yet converted.
9. SOM: Saint Paul said that we can never make it through rising and falling. Rise in the morning, fall in the evening. No consistent life reflecting the faith you said you have believed. If action is faith expressed, it then goes to show that our actions prove us wrong.
10. If action is faith expressed and our actions run contrary to what we claim we believe which is a sure indication that we are liars, for if we are honest, our actions must harmonize with our belief or else, we are deceiving ourselves. If your actions, your character doesn’t harmonize, synchronize with your belief, then you are counterfeit. Your characters and what you believe must be one.
11. If what God is shouting on as your character is what you believe, don’t you see that you have not entered into God? The Spirit of truth has not entered into you; your heart is still dark. The light of salvation has not yet come in. Because your character shows what you believe, all of them are out of God’s programme. There is none that God marked good. He that fails exams continuously, does he expect promotion?
12. I am reading from the same message page 31 from verse 5 “I wish to take you down to the messages you knew from the onset, I am not preaching baptism in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, neither am I preaching that you should go to River Niger again.
13. No, I am having a very big problem. I am having three categories of people in this faith; the last made it four. “It is likened to one of them also. Note what I am going to say, for it affects all of us, everybody is involved in this matter, and that is why many of you will not be translated.
14. SOM: This is type of message we need. It will not prevent us from listening to others, but we need this one more. “Remember, you are already there, the garments are here. I can see people with their garments by their side, but I can see too many people without any garment hanging on their seats.
15. Remember, it is the one that is hanging on your seat that you will put on. Many are sitting down without white garment by their sides.
16. SOM: Not even one has been assigned to them.“I am not preparing new garments, the garments were finished long long time ago and you were bid to collect your own.
17. If you collect your own and refuse to put it on, who do you blame? Collect your garment and put it on, the word of God is your garment. But you must put the Word on for the Bride must be dressed with the full Word from head to toe. The costliest apparel that Bride dresses herself with is the fullness of the Word of God.
18. “Your life must constantly reflect the teachings you received constantly. If I say dress yourself with the Spirit of God, I am saying, be clothed with the Word of God. Make the Word God your helmet; make the Word of God your bullet proof; make the Word of God your trousers. Make the Word of God your wrapper, your Head tie, your weavon.
19. Put on the full regalia of God not plus, not minus, not manmade doctrines, not your personal philosophy, not your personal idea. It is not what you think or what you feel, but it should be what God says. It is not what you think or what you feel,
20. SOM: It is not your interpretation! “Not manmade doctrine, not your own personal philosophy, not your personal idea, not what you think or what you feel, but it is what God says.
21. Remember, in the end, what counts is what God says, not the way you see it, not the way you feel. Not the way you think it should have been done, no! What will count in the end is what God says.
22. And when God speaks on any matter, that is final. That I am having a problem with many of you, it is a problem many of you have not yet recognized. Amen.
23. Repentance means changing your mind, changing your heart, changing your direction and changing the thoughts of your heart. Where is it done? It is not done in the fellowship; it is done in your house.
24. Nobody comes to fellowship to repent. “You must repent in your house, you change your mind, you change your attitude, you take your decision in your house, you now come to the fellowship with the saints and then begin to be taught all the teachings of Christ, with rules and regulations governing the family of God, the doctrines of Christ that are able to sanctify you. That is able to get your heart regenerated and converted, that is the work of the Spirit of truth.
25. The only cleansing agent that is capable of transforming the heart of a man, regenerating the heart of a man, converting the heart of a man, remains the entrance of the word of God in the heart.
26. Have you seen the sanctified estate that was said to be retained, preserved and sustained? Look at it. You must be inside and sanctified, before you can talk of preserving; have you people seen where the thing is? I am happy with the message.
27. “It is not done in the fellowship, it is done in your house for nobody comes to fellowship to repent, you repent in your house and you change your mind in your house. You change your attitude, you take your decision in your house. You now come to fellowship with the saints and then begin to be taught all the teachings of Christ, rules and regulations governing the family of God, the doctrines of Christ that are able to sanctify you.
28. This is what I wanted to point out before we read this message titled The 16 Secrets to Retaining Your Sanctified Estate, because God asked us a question this morning, have you been in your sanctified estate? Because you must be in your sanctified estate before you retain, preserve that sanctified estate.
29. SOM: Lest you cement your heart in evil. Then I said we must trace back to know what our sanctification is, know where our point of sanctification is.
30. SOM: It is a definite experience every child of God will have. It is an individual experience, you must have it. It is not what you can think, it is not a feeling, it is an experience, because if you don’t know what you were yester-years, you won’t know when a change has taken place in your life. If your life today is a continuation of yesterday that was dirty, then no change has taken place.
31. You may be hardening even. Instead of improving in well doing, you will be improving in evil doing. You will be increasing every day. If you bring this sense today, tomorrow you bring another one, thinking you are deceiving anybody, you don’t know you are doing it to yourself, because at the end it will end at one thing- hardening insensitivity, which will becloud your heart that truth cannot enter again!
32. The person will enter in the region of the lost and still be going to church. That’s why William Branham said what he said, “those that will be disappointed at the end; that it is people like that, that will say “if I had known”, because he knows what to do and refused to do it.
33. If you do not know what your life was, your character was, yesterday, yester-years, you don’t know what you are known for, how will you then know when change has come?
34. It is when those things which you cherished before, God condemned them, that no one should do it and it shouldn’t be mentioned among us, and then the desire leaves you completely. When you remember all the things you did in the time past you become angry, denying that evil old way, now you are on the new path, pathway of truth, pathway of life and you are enjoying it more than you were enjoying that evil way.
35. The thing will give you joy, will be what will be making your heart to rejoice in the Lord, that is when you will know that your heart has been converted.
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THE WORD OF GOD SANCTIFIES
1. If you say that you are converted, all the things you are known for in this world is still there, all old lifestyles are still in you, what will 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17 do?“therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (KJV) ” When did that ever fulfill in your life? Which means you have not been in Christ, for once you be in Christ, automatically there must be a positive change.
2. A positive change without grudging, without complaining. A change that will give you Joy, give you Peace. Because a sinner has no rest, all the time he is being talked about. Wherever he goes, he is being talked about, people are angry with him. If he passes, people will look at him and sigh, because what he is known for is bad life.
3. He will carry bible and be going to church, hearing the word of God, continue also in the same habit, you make matters worse. The more you harden your heart, the more you give people reasons to hate you more and more, and God will hate you more and more. So it is very bad.
4. Know very well that the way you will know when change has taken place in you; if in the beginning you were object of provocation, you will no longer be provoking people to wrath, but your character will be provoking people unto good works, as to edification. Anybody that is a source of provocation to his fellow man, is it a good thing?
5. Anytime he comes in, trouble will start, there will be no peace, but anytime he comes, people will begin to sigh, is it a good thing? These are the things we watch out for. Not that the person was hated, if he goes up-trouble, goes down-trouble. Wherever he is, it is a must that he will be pointed out.
6. It is when those things are no longer in you, if there are occasions for those things to come up, no way, you have won it. No more! Joy will enter into you, only then can you tell people of what God did in your life, because your testimony is what God has done in your life. If it is not your testimony, you have no testimony.
7. Testimony is not how you fell and the angels caught you, and the car somersaulted up to seven times and you landed on the car, and nothing happened to you. Then erosion came and carried your house and bed, and you shouted Jesus! You call Peter the Christ! And the rain stopped, it is no testimony.
8. The only testimony God will recognize is the testimony of your conversion. I was a sinner, now I have become a saint, I was lost, now I am found, I was blind but now I see, that is the testimony.
9. Not when you were shot at, and you didn’t die, you were cut with a knife and the knife flew up, it is not the testimony. Testimony that pleases God is the testimony of conversion. Watch Saint Paul, when he was converted, didn’t you see what happened?
10. He kept testifying of the kind of life he lived, he said that you know my conversation in time past, for I was doing this, I was doing that, but now a change has taken place. There is a song we used to sing, and it goes like this “am no longer what I was in the beginning, I am no longer what I was in the beginning, since God entered into my life, I am no longer what I was in the beginning”
11. Since God came into my life, I am no longer what I was in the beginning, I am no longer what I was in beginning, it is not what I was known for before that I am known now.
12. People will then be asking when this change took place, so this is how God works, so the person later turned out to be good, thank God. When people see you, what do they thank God for in your life? The thanks they are giving, is it how you grew and how beautiful you are to be looked upon?
13. You wear clothes and after beautifying yourself, you begin to shake your body, those that know you before will exclaim that you look nice and healthy.
14. Is that the testimony? That you are healthy means that your character is nice, for your character is your beauty, that the character you were known for is no longer there. Not that you ate and drank and had rest, and added weight, and also good to look at.
15. Or that you had the money to buy new clothes, shoes, suit and you begin to shake your head, and people will be telling you that the place you are is good ooo, that you should stay there ooo!
16. Is that the testimony while you are in hell fire? As long as your heart is not converted, you are merely beautifying the flesh, which you will regret in the end. For the flesh is controlling you, the flesh is destroying you, deceiving you.
17. If you are asked about growth, it is spiritual growth. That is why as you are growing in the flesh, also grow in the spirit, grow in wisdom and understanding, if it is not like that, you are an imbecile, robot. Amen.
18. Let’s continue from the message, “when you now come to the fellowship of the saints and then begin to be taught all the teachings of Christ, rules and regulations governing the family of God; the doctrines of Christ that are able to sanctify you; that are able to get your heart regenerated and converted.
19. Let’s turn to the book of John 17 verse 17“make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth.(LB) In Kjv. God said: Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. The teachings of God, is the only teaching that can sanctify us.
20. SOM: Read that your translation, brother Promise. “Make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth. Amen. Through teaching them your words of truth. Have you seen it? That the truth is the one that when you accept it, your life will change.
21. It is not ordinary truth, but the truth that changes men’s life if they believe, but that your life refused to change, you refused to be holy and purified, to be good in the heart, and character is a sure sign that you rejected God’s word.
22. You are rejecting the teaching, just as we are here receiving teachings, is it not our teaching? If anyone accepts and puts it into practice, it will be good for the person, his heart will be free, his life will be free, his relationship with God will be cordial.
23. After hearing all, he will say it has been long we heard this message, it has been long it was said or that you are above it, look for another thing to tell us, he will be keeping it by the side, there is no way your life will be good in this world.
24. There is something I want to be reminding you all at all times, anytime that we are here, hearing the word of God, never allow your heart to depart from where Ugochukwu Mbah is, a typical example.
25. Listen to me, a land that rejected water, one who blocked his heart against the truth, blocked his heart against teachings, and yet he goes to church, he reads the bible, he preaches the word, he sings, if he dances, he will dance more than all.
26. But when the word was coming, due to he is already an instrument in the hand of the devil, he confesses it with his mouth, rejoicing over it, his brain telling him what he will do, it will come and tell him, ehn! As you are here now pretend that you are going to school, he rushed into the room to take the opportunity, he will fly like a bird, because he flies, straight into the house, to search the whole place.
27. As he finished bathing one day, he was the one that cooked food by himself, fed himself as you people know yourselves. The meat that he was cooking, he would be the one that would eat it, nobody was struggling over it with him.
28. He then went to collect the meat with fork and in the process took the one that had bone in it. He kept fighting with the meat, when he heard my footsteps, he swallowed it by force. I then asked him why tears were coming out from his eyes, he couldn’t talk. I then said Ugo, what is wrong with you, let it not be the meat on fire that you swallowed, yet he couldn’t talk.
29. I told him to go outside and bring it out, he then told me that he had swallowed it. He saw hell, the heat started through his tongue down to his throat; he then went to one corner. You can see what bad thought, and evil spirit can do to people.
30. You may be here and the word is going forth, your brain will be giving you another thing. Your brain is still telling you what to do, but your eye is on the bible, your hands on your biro pen, you are writing like Ugo. But what your brain is telling you is different. Know very well that it is the devil that is operating in you, helping you to destroy you, to disbelieve God, to have your way.
31. He that doesn’t know when the devil is using him as his instrument, that person is a goat, he is not meant to live. If you don’t know when you are the devil’s instrument, you don’t also know when you are instrument in God’s hand. He that has wisdom, will he allow himself to be an instrument in the hand of the devil?
32. Evil spirit will be using you to work, what hope do you have in this world? You have no hope of progress; you have no hope of eternal life. That is the pure truth! The moment the devil is using you as an agent, you have no hope of progress in this life, you have no hope of eternal life, and you can never enjoy peace in this life. Then of what use is you living?
33. See how the devil does it, he presents something that is temporary, that will give you temporary joy. Two minutes enjoyment, five minutes enjoyment and deny you eternal enjoyment. Deny you long lasting enjoyment, long lasting peace, comfort, the devil will deny you of that.
34. Whenever the devil comes does he tell you that he is the devil? That he has come? No! You see why the heart must be converted, so that you can now begin to discern the devices of the devil, for when you have the spirit of God, scripture will be fulfilling using you, that we are not ignorant concerning the devil’s devices.
35. We are not ignorant and we cannot say we don’t know the different ways he operates in, that he uses to seduce people away from the truth. We have known his tactics. So he cannot come near us anymore. The people he looks for are the people that are weak, people that are porous, hypocrites, make- believers and the devil knows them all.
36. The way he knows the seven sons of skiver, “I know Jesus I know Paul, who are you? Are you among those that are giving me headache? Are you people among? Look at how you people are, ok you people come”. The devil knows his people, God equally knows his own. Amen.
37. Any spirit that does not allow you to retain the word of God is the spirit that will destroy you.
SOM: Pure truth!
38. That is the problem we are having. The problem we are having is your inability to understand, to retain the word of God,
SOM: Retain it in your heart
39. And retain it in your heart, because you can only practice what you have believed, what you know, what you can remember.
40. SOM: The word of God can never have a resting place in that heart. The resting place of the word of God is always in the heart of man. Then from the heart it brings about conversion. But if the word of God doesn’t have a resting place in your heart, forget about conversion.
41. You are a normal human being, a mortal man. Every kind of evil will be associated with you, because you have no discerning Spirit, you have no protector even, there is nothing that checkmates your health, your heart can never smite you for doing evil, because you cannot differentiate between good and bad.
42. You see Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20 fulfilling in your life. If you see evil, you call it good thing, if you see good thing, you call it evil. Thereby, adding iniquity upon iniquity, bringing evil upon evil. Does evil action have any defense? Eh? No sir!
43. There is no good time for doing evil; there is no bad time for doing good. There is no proper time for doing evil, and there is no bad time for doing good. So at all times, you should be thinking of doing good.
44. Reading from this same message page 38 from verse 23 “that is why the message asked us a question, does the word of God have a resting place in your heart? Does the word of God have a resting place in your heart?
45. SOM: Does the word of God have a resting place in your Heart? If you check, that is where the problem of every individual starts in this faith,.
46. SOM: You can interprete it to mean this way “do you have rest spiritually when you hear the word of God? Or does it bring confusion to you?
47. For the way you receive the word of God will determine how it will work in your life. If you receive the word of God in anger, for God has said that you can never receive his words in anger,” ok let me do it, let me know if their hearts will be ok”, can it bring out the righteousness of God? No! Man’s wrath can never produce God’s righteousness.
48. “Let me do it, let me see whether they can allow me to rest, let me see whether they will give me chance. Since they said that it is what we shall be doing, ok oh, Nna, ok let us do it like that”. Have you obeyed?
49. The person that didn’t do it is better than you. “That is why the message asked us a question; does the word of God have a resting place in your heart? If the word of God does not have a resting place in your heart, there is no way you can be converted. Nobody is saved, nobody obtains Salvation through repentance.
50. SOM: Hebrews made us to understand that Christ first of all obeyed and became the author of Eternal Salvation unto them that will obey. Have it in your mind, Christ is the anointed one, the Messiah, the Savior, he first of all obeyed and then became the author of eternal salvation to those that will obey him.
51. There was never a time he lived a life of disobedience. He obeyed, even to the point of death. He was never found in disobedience, then, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all of us who will faithfully and joyfully obey him.
52. And look at what the bible said, those that joyfully received the word, they were the people that were converted, they were the people that were added to the number that should be saved.
53. Do you receive the word of God joyfully or grudgingly? Or with murmuring? Or with anger in your heart? When the Gentiles heard the word of God, the bible said they rejoiced exceedingly.
54. You watch all the families that got the salvation of God, Lydia, Phoebe, Dorcas, check all of them even zaccheus. All that got salvation made a feast and invited people, look at Cornelius, he called his neighbors and in-laws, he was full of Joy.
55. Salvation came to Abraham, he killed a goat, it came to lots house, he cooked food, everybody was joyful. Even when Salvation came to Manoah and his wife, parents of Samson the great, they killed a goat and even cooked because salvation gives joy that is what I am explaining.
56. Anybody that salvation comes to his house rejoices over it. It is because of the Joy of Salvation that Noah and his family got eternal life. When it got to the house of Job, he rejoiced over it. When the word of God that gives eternal life comes to you, does it give you Joy? Or does it put you in too much thinking?
57. You start thinking of how you will live a bad life, old pathway. When God met Saint Paul, did Saint Paul think about it? Did he say let him go to the Jews and tell them story, that later he will come back. Instantly there on his way to Damascus, he went to Ananias who told him what to do immediately. Do you wait for it? My dear continue reading.
58. Let’s read from the message titled, the 16 secrets of retaining your sanctified estate page 91 verse 2 “if you have the desire to do anything, if you have been inspired to do something, if the urge is in you to do something or to say something, please, settle down and find out the will of God about it.
59. For if you do not find the will of God about it you may end it in death. You may think that God will be pleased in the end, not knowing that God will not be pleased. It may even cause your death spiritually and physically. On this note I say brethren remain blessed in him and thank you.
60. SOM: You are blessed. What is the essence of this message? All that you read and we heard now, the mind of God is for us not to rejoice over things that are unprofitable. That if we are to rejoice, that what should be our joy is that we are already saved, that we are numbered among those God gave eternal life.
61. That is what should give us all joy, not to have the whole wisdom, know what the Prophet is saying, what Mohammed is saying, Prophet Elijah, Prophet William Branham, Prophet Jesus, that you have known all that was said and that Daddy has said it, that he said it since 20 years ago, blah blah.
62. You may rejoice in all this things, yet you are not a part of the whole thing. The mind of God in all these things we heard is for our joy to be made complete, so that it won’t be after rejoicing in wisdom and yet at the end, you will not have eternal life and you will be given a place where the unbelievers are placed.
63. That is what God is saying, that you will be here and know your condition and I will be here to know mine. Listen to me, there is something happened in our midst, 16 secrets to retaining your sanctified estate, what was used in opening this message of Okechukwu Nwankpa is different, for he said that he heard it with his ear over and over, over and over.
64. He told him Okechukwu Nwankpa be very careful that you don’t depart from this faith. That he heard it and it kept coming. That a time came when he had to write it down in his jotter, it continued to a point that he said that even right now that he is hearing many voices, that please if brethren gather, that they should pray for him.
65. That the devil wants to destroy him, you can be here, reading bible for us and yet you are hearing many voices. Because at that time it is what is happening in his heart that the devil was using to pump in more and more, until he became restive. There was nothing he took seriously.
66. At that time, if he went to the pulpit any message he preached will be canceled, he then became angry, that he didn’t know what was happening, that he could no longer stand at the pulpit and lay down the doctrine so as to avoid finding fault, because the heart was no longer right. That was what happened inside Judas.
67. Till He rejected Judas heart, Judas’ could no longer stay anytime he was with the Saints, he would pee outside and come in, and he would go to toilet and come in. Sometimes he did not feel like peeing, is just for him to go out, busy thinking on how he would establish his evil plan. At the end of the day, what happened? He didn’t get heaven neither did he inherit the earth. He committed suicide.
68. Whoever that stays in this faith and at the end finds himself in hell fire, he put himself there. That is why God now came at this end; to use those people you never thought of to testify for you, that you are on the right track, that you are being given unadulterated message.
69. If I go up now, anyone that wants to come up should come and listen, you will hear more, Islamic articles of faith. I read it upstairs and I laughed, it is because of you people, is because of you people, I have known it in the beginning. I am giving it to you so that I will be justified.
70. You people don’t know what it is, I am the one that told you what it is, and you never knew what it was. It is so that you will know that God doesn’t make mistake. This message never came down on its own, it came with God. When I saw this book, I looked at the back and it said by the time he would be sent, i.e. the ministry will start, that is what it meant by sending. That he will be between the age of 30 and 40 years, I started laughing.
71. Let me believe that precisely 30th December, 1992, was the commission, 30th December, 1992 was it not the commission? How old was I that time? You see that I was between the age of 30 and 40, if it is 1993; I was at the age of 30 and 40.
72. Do you people understand what I am saying? So, whatever God is saying, there is truth in it. There is truth in it. After staying in the truth and this truth saved others and you were not saved, what it shows is that there was never a time you accepted this truth.
73. If you accepted this truth, it will save you. We are rejoicing that we were given malaria drugs that was shared equal. The person that kept his own under the pillow, has he taken the drugs? When others are rejoicing that they are now ok, he will be saying that he doesn’t know what is wrong with him, and he was asked whether he has taken the drugs and he said yes, meanwhile the drug is under the pillow.
74. If he dies, who killed him? He killed himself! Finish! If you know how to pound, pound in the mortar, if you don’t know, pound on the ground. Let us praise God. Bro Promise; close us with a word of prayer.