MORNING ALTAR MESSAGE AT THE HOUSE OF REFUGE, MBAISE, NIGERIA ON SATURDAY 29TH JUNE 2019 DEDICATED TO EVERY FAMILY IN THE BRIDAL FAITH BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE GREAT RABBI
Ponder over the following scriptures:
I cannot understand how you can bother with mere puny man, to pay any attention to him! And yet you have made him only a little lower than the angels and placed a crown of glory and honor upon his head. You have put him in charge of everything you made; everything is put under his authority: all sheep and oxen, and wild animals too,
the birds and fish, and all the life in the sea. O Jehovah, our Lord, the majesty and glory of your name fills the earth. Psalm 8:4-9 (LB)
what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! (NIV)
And the future world we are talking about will not be controlled by angels. No, for in the book of Psalms David says to God, “What is mere man that you are so concerned about him? And who is this Son of Man you honor so highly? For though you made him lower than the angels for a little while, now you have crowned him with glory and honor. Hebrews 2:5-7 (LB)
It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. But there is a place where someone has testified: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor. (NIV)
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Acts 7:56 (KJV)
“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” (NIV)
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. Psalm 80:17-18 (KJV)
Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself. Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name. NIV
The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” John 1:43-45 (NIV)
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.” Psalm 40:7-8 (NIV)
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’”First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. Hebrews 10:7-9 (NIV)
You who answer prayer, to you all people will come. Psalm 65:2 (NIV)
Excerpts from
WE ARE NO LONGER IN THE BIBLE DAYS
PAGE: 118-121
Sunday 27th April, 1997
By
Apostle Peter Odoemena
The Son of Man
“The Laminated Human Being”
PROPHECY
THE VOICE OF THE SMOKING FIREWOOD
1. This is my own hour. If you do not join Me and praise My God, I will not be happy. “BEHOLD, HE IS CALLING. GOD IS FAITHFUL. GOD IS FAITHFUL. RECEIVING PRAISES, RECEIVING THE SACRIFICES.
2. HOW SHALL WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME TO END UP ALL THINGS? IF I SHOULD DEPART FROM MY PEOPLE, WHERE ELSE CAN I BE ALMIGHTY?
3. DON’T YOU KNOW THAT IF NOT IN HIM, I STANDDECIEVED? OUTSIDE OF THEE, I AM NOWHERE. YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYES. YOU ARE MY CONSOLATION UPON THIS EARTH. YOUR ENEMIES SHALL GATHER IN VAIN. DID I NOT SEE OTHER PEOPLE? I NEVER GATHERED YOU IN VAIN.
4. VERY SOON, VERY SOON, IT WILL BE CLEAR TO ALL THAT I NEVER GATHERED YOU IN VAIN. I PURPOSELY GATHERED YOU HERE IN MY NAME. YOU NEVER SOUGHT ME ONE DAY. I SOUGHT YOU OUT. YOU HAVE NOT WORSHIPPED ME ONE DAY. BUT I HAVE A LIFE TO LIVE.
5. AMONGST ALL MEN ON EARTH, I HAVE NEVER SEEN A MEEK PERSON LIKE I HAVE SEEN IN YOUR MIDST. FOR THAT REASON, AS WE GATHER, JUSTIFY MYSELF BEYOND REASON, BY PLACING MY WORD HERE AND THAT IS MY PRESENCE IN YOUR MIDST.
6. THOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN HANDLING YOU WITH UNCLEAN HANDS, YET I MUST HONOUR YOUR NAME PERPETUALLY. I HAVE NOT GATHERED YOU IN VAIN. VERY SOON, IT WILL BE OVER. I HAVE DECIDED TO SAVE A REMNANT FROM SHAME. THIS VESSEL I HAVE MADE A COVENANT AMONGST MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.
7. I NEVER CAME TO SAVE ALL THE GENTILES; NEITHER DID I COME TO SAVE ALL THE JEWS. ALL OF THEM DO NOT BELONG TO ME. HOWEVER, ALL THAT BELONG TO ME MUST SURELY COME TO ME. IT HAS HAPPENED LIKE THIS THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE PILLAR OF CLOUD AND THE PILLAR OF FIRE HAD BEEN MY VINDICATION IN ALL THE AGES.
8 I HAVE REMAINED IN MY SUPERNATURAL FORM, BUT BECAUSE I AM A BEING, AS GOD MADE IN MY OWN DAY, I MUST IDENTIFY WITH YOU AS A BEING ALSO. BUT WHEN I WANT TO MAGNIFY MYSELF IN YOUR MIDST, I WILL SHOW YOU MY ORIGINAL BODY, THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE ONE THAT HAS GATHERED YOU, SO THAT NOBODY WILL BRAG BEFORE ME.
9. VERY SOON, SOONER THAN PEOPLE THINK, IT WILL BE ALL OVER FOR THE GENTILES. REMAIN HERE. HERE I WILL DECIDE THE WHOLE MATTER. THUS SAYETH THE LORD.
10. GOD IS NOT A MAN THAT HE CAN LIE. HE HAS NOT PROMISED AND FAILED ONE DAY, AND WILL NEVER FAIL US. THAT IS MY CONSOLATION. AMEN.
On that day My Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory and shall try the works of the righteous, and their places of rest shall be innumerable. And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see My Elect One, And those who have called on My glorious name: 4Then will I cause My Elect One to dwell among them. I will transform heaven and make it an eternal blessing and light, 5And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing, and I will cause My elect ones to dwell on it. But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot on it.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH Chapter 45:3 – 5
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THERE SHOULD BE A SEPARATING LINE BETWEEN BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS
1. We give God the praise who made it possible that we are alive to see this day. We bow down and reverence God because He deserves it. There is nothing we will give to God that will be enough. Also we cannot praise God too much.
2. The prophet said “There are too many things you can do too much, but you can never praise God too much and you can never worship God too much.”
3. So, when we have it at the back of our mind, there is no way somebody will begin to think that he has done enough.“I have tried all these years”
4. HOW OLD ARE YOU? HOW OLD IS GOD? WHEN DID YOU START WORSHIPING GOD? WHEN DID YOU START PRAISING GOD SO AS TO GET TIRED? THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THIS. I KNOW FOR SURE, I KNOW THAT THERE IS NOBODY WHO DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF.
5. You see these kids here, they know themselves. There was something I told Bro. Iyke yesterday and he understood what I said. Everyday we see the illustrations Jesus Christ used coming to pass.
6. While I was with Bro. Iyke yesterday, I asked him, “HAVE YOU ACCEPTED THAT NOBODY CALLED ALMIGHTY GOD EVER CREATED EVIL? THERE WAS NEVER A TIME GOD CREATED EVIL. HUMAN BEINGS DEVISED EVIL. HUMAN BEINGS CREATED EVIL.”
7. He was looking at me. I asked him, “Did you understand what I said? Man created evil. THAT THE SOCIETY IS NOT GOOD TODAY IS BECAUSE OF MAN.THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT LIVING PEACEABLY IS CAUSED BY MAN.
8. I told him to take a look at his children and also Udochukwu’s children. Immediately I mentioned it, he took over. He shouted “Daddy! Daddy! Look at the way these children were behaving. There was nothing like division among them. They were loving themselves.”
9. In surprise, I asked him, “So you noticed it?”
10. ANY DAY YOU SEE DIVISION AMONG CHILDREN, THEIR PARENTS TAUGHT THEM THAT. IS THAT TRUE?
11. Since these children love one another, no one hates the other, if they want to eat, they eat together, they play together, having everything in common, if by tomorrow, one starts avoiding the other, they learnt it from their parents. Their parents devised it and instilled it into their children. Is it a lie Brethren?
12. Have you seen why it is difficult for you to understand the Message HAVING A CHILDLIKE FAITH? POSSESSING CHILDLIKE FAITH. Who is that person possessing it? Check all those who are claiming that they are following THE SON OF MAN.
13. It is only through the life of the doctrine that you will know whether you are in this Faith or not. YOU MAYBE IN THE CHURCH CALLED BRIDE OF CHRIST MOVEMENT OR MINISTRY.
14. Sit down! All of you should sit down. Must you sit down on the seat? Sit down on the ground. They do not even know what it means to sit down on the ground.
15. You see the way you are raising them? I do sit on the ground, let alone these infants. You see the way you are raising them? You are raising children who do not have respect.
16. The Word I will speak here now will be very painful. SISTER FAITH! YOU ARE NOT TRIANING YOUR CHILDREN. IYKE! YOU ARE NOT TRAINING YOUR CHILDREN.
17. YOU ARE JUST FEEDING THEM, CLOTHING THEM, PAYING SCHOOL FEES FOR THEM. BUT TALK OF SINGLE TRAINING, YOU ARE NOT GIVING THEM.
18. THE TWO OF YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL THAT YOU DO NOT RAISE CANNON FODDER. THIS IS BECAUSE THE NUMBER ONE THING YOU WILL INSTILL IN YOUR CHILD IS FEAR. NUMBER TWO IS RESPECT.
19. A CHILD THAT DOES NOT HAVE FEAR AND DOES NOT HAVE RESPECT, IF HE GROWS WITH IT, IS THE CHILD NOT GONE? AND THIS IS WHAT HAS KILLED MANY PARENTS. THIS IS BECAUSE MANY PARENTS DO NOT HAVE FEAR.
20. IF YOU WATCH THE WAY THEY TALK TO THEIR OWN PARENTS, YOU WILL ALSO SEE THAT NONE OF THESE CHILDREN RECEIVED ANY TRAINING AT ALL.
21. SINCE I CAME BACK, I HAVE BEEN OBSERVANT. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING HEATHENS AND THOSE THAT CALLED THEMSELVES CHILDREN OF GOD. I DID NOT SEE ANY DIFFERENCE.
22. IF YOU SEE THE WAY A CHILD TALKS TO THE MOTHER, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THAT SHE IS THE CHILD’S MOTHER.
23. THE CHILD WILL BE HARRASSING BOTH THE MOTHER AND OTHER ELDERLY PEOPLE AROUND BECAUSE THAT IS THE WAY THEY WERE BROUGHT UP. NO FEAR, NO RESPECT.
24. DO THEY GO TO CHURCH? YES! THEY GO TO CHURCH. DO NOT EVER THINK THAT THAT THING WHICH YOU FAILED TO DO AT HOME, THE CHURCH WILL DO IT FOR YOU. EVEN IF CHURCH TEACHES THAT, WHEN YOU GET HOME, YOU WILL STILL DISTORT THE TEACHING.
25. THERE IS NO CHURCH THAT TEACHES ITS MEMBERS TO PRACTISE EVIL. RATHER, THEIR MEMBERS DECIDED HOW THEY WILL LIVE THEIR LIVES.
26. JESUS SAID, “IF YOU DO NOT HUMBLE YOURSELVES LIKE THESE LITTLE CHILDREN, YOU WILL NEVER GET INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN” [Matthew 18:2 – 4]
27. Have you ever sat down to think about why He used children as example? Whenever a child comes to a point where he or she starts to count offenses, iniquity has registered in that child. Check that child very well, the parents have started injecting evil into that child’s heart.
28. If you leave a child as pure as he or she was born, and guide the child with godly examples, give the child godly teaching, and the child grows up with it, the child will not depart from it.
Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbors, for you shall be slain in Hell. Woe to you who make your foundation that of deceitful (sin) and lies, and who cause bitterness on the earth; for they shall thereby be utterly consumed. Woe to you who build your houses through the hard labor of others, and all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you, you shall have no peace.
THE BOOK OF ENOCH; ETHIOPIC BOOK, CHAPTER 99:11 – 13
29. This is because God keeps to His promise. He said, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” [Prov. 22:6]
30. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF THE SOCIETY TODAY? It is because those that called themselves parents were not properly trained. Read the BOOK OF ENOCH [Ethiopic Book of Enoch; Chapter 99:12].
31. Did you not see it there? It is bad foundation, poor foundation, foundation of falsehood, foundation without truth, foundation without Christ, foundation without fear of God, foundation without reverence for God and no respect for humanity.
32. AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT RESPECT HUMANITY, YOU CANNOT RESPECT GOD.
33. THAT IS WHY GOD WARNED YOU BY TELLING YOU THAT IF YOU WANT TO BE A USELESS AND WORTHLESS FELLOW THAT WILL PERISH, IT IS A MUST THAT THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS WORLD WHOSE WORD CAN MAKE ANY IMPACT ON YOU.
34. AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT HAVE ANYBODY WHOSE WORDS CAN RULE YOUR LIFE, SOMEBODY WHOSE WORDS CAN MAKE YOU TREMBLE AND FEAR, YOU MUST BE USELESS IN LIFE. ABSOLUTELY USELESS.
35. Even if you make money, the money will be useless. Even if you have the whole world, you are heading to abyss because the whole world will be on you. These are the people called “Money Miss Road.”
36. And these are the people that get involved in every type of criminal activities in order to become rich due to the fact that such a fellow does not know the value of money. All he knows is to make money, eat and drink, buy cars, build sky scrapers, etc.
37. Within a short time, you will see, he will go into the grave prematurely. “Premature grave” he will enter there because he does not heed to any instruction. neither does he obey guidance.
38. Nobody instilled the fear of God in him. He does not have respect for humanity. He does not have respect for God. And so, he will be going about without wisdom.
39. Teach your children to learn to humble themselves. Let Me tell you. When we were coming up, just like these kids that are here, this is the number one sign I use to know a child that is trained. Are you getting me?
40. If really you gave your children training, when they come in here, fear will not allow them to sit down on the seats. This is because you did not even train yourself.
41. Even at my age, no matter my personality, there is a family I will enter, I dare not take any seat there, unless they command Me to sit down. I will look for a low seat where I will sit down. I will see myself as one who is not worthy to sit on their seat.
42. Darling, you remember the day I went to Nnewi, when I took you and others with Me to Barrister Okolo’s house.
43. We saw people. We saw everything, but we were waiting because we did not know where to stay and we were not worthy to sit where there were many State Governors, Ministers, Senators sitting for they all were there.
44. I saw myself as one who was not up to that level, even with those in My entourage. Because I was invited, I did not go ahead to arrogate a table or seat to myself. Those that went with Me also behaved wisely.
45. To our surprise, the man who invited us and who is the chief host at the ceremony walked away from the high table to receive us. And all by himself led us and ushered us in, with people looking at us in utter surprise and the videographers having a field day.
46. They were asking, “Who could these people be for whose sake Barrister Okolo abandoned the high table with all the dignitaries and traditional title holders there just to welcome them?”
47. He left all the members of the high table even the likes of GUO to come and usher us in. The wife rushed immediately shouting, “Daddy! Daddy! In short a great thing has happened to us today for the fact that you came here in person with Mummy. It is great that we have seen you live today.”
48. You see, when you humble yourself down, God will lift you up. But when you position yourself up, God will bring you down. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN HUMILITY,FOR A CHILD DOES NOT TAKE SEAT IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ELDER.
49. You do not know it because you did not travel around. You were born and brought up in Ngwa. Your wife was born and brought up in Mbaise here. You have not mingled with the wise. That is why you are foolish.
50. Read the Scriptures. When you mingle with the wise, you become wise. You mingle with the foolish, you become foolish. [Proverbs 13:20]
51. That is why the people you measure yourself with; the people you compare yourself with are the heathens around you. That is why more of your life reflects heathenish, instead of Christ.
52. So, there has not been a separating line between you and the heathens, by your way of talking, your way of dressing and everything.
53. Yesterday, I was reprimanding you, telling you that you are very dirty to my dislike, and that it is contrary to our teaching. You are supposed to have known how to keep yourself neat so that you can help your children to be neat and orderly.
54. THERE SHOULD BE A SEPARATING LINE BETWEEN BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS. Separating line does not mean locking your children inside the room, with instruction, “Do not salute this person. Do not go to that place.” That is your own understanding.
55. Your own separating line is “Everybody should stay on his own. We will tighten up. Everything different, different, different.”You see, you misunderstood the whole thing.
56. SEPERATING LINE MEANS CHARACTER. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. [Matthew 5:16] You are sent here as a light to the Gentiles. Is it not the commission? I am sending you as light to the heathens.
57. But when the heathens are better than you, are you now the light? That is why the Bible said, “Be sure that what you call light in you is not darkness.” [Luke 11:35]
58. Be sure that darkness has not even covered your eyes and your heart that you cannot see the truth again, to the extent that even when the truth is spoken to you, you will not understand. [Matt. 6:23]
We know the Son of Man has appeared and has given us the spirit to understand the Truth and we are in Him that is True, even in the Son of Man. This is the True God that holds the eternal life. You must know the true God, differentiate between the true God and the false god, and that is eternal Life. But many do not know that He has appeared or He has been here, because it is not a noise-making Ministry. He cannot quench a burning flax, neither will you hear His Voice on the street. He is not a worldwide Messenger. He came for His own and His own only know Him. He came for those that have been eagerly and patiently waiting for salvation. Unto them will He appear the second time, not to deal with their sins. No! but to give them eternal life. No more. No less. I am not here to deal with sin. Sin has been taken care of, unless you do not believe. But when you believe, it shall be unto you according to your faith. Amen.
FORGET NOT WHAT YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN PART 2; Preached on Sunday 6th August 2017; Pg. 74 vs. 83 – 86
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THIS IS THE SON OF MAN, WHO IS BORN TO RIGHTEOUSNESS
1. The spiritual standard of your family, hear me very well, has a lot to speak in the lives of your children. I am not talking about you and your wife because you are going the way you have decided to go.
2. There is no human being that does not have control over his character, over his emotions, impulses. Everything you do, you have control over it. That is why whatever that is ruling your life is what you had already decided.
3. The life you are living is a matter of decision. The life you have decided to live, nobody will change it.
4. God will only tell you the implications, “If this is the way you have chosen to live your life, this is the implication.” If you do not know that we have a life, it then means you are not in the Faith.
5. The Book of Enoch, the seventh generation Prophet said, “If you belong to the elect, you must live the life of the Elect. Lift up your eyes to see whether you can behold the Elect One, if you know who the Elect One is. [Ethiopic Book of Enoch Chapter 39:6,9; Chapter 40:5]
6. AND HE IS THE SON OF MAN. HE IS THE ONE THE WHOLE HEAVEN AND EARTH BOW DOWN TO. GOD SAID HE WILL KEEP ON RAISING HIS NAME IN HIS LIFE TIME UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW HIM AS THE SON OF MAN, HIS NAME WILL BE VANISHING.INFANTS, GREAT AND SMALL WILL CALL HIM SON OF MAN, SON OF MAN.
7. We were discussing upstairs yesterday with the Elders, in the whole references that were made from the village square, I did not hear anybody make mention of “The son of Okwute.”I did not hear anybody make mention of “Sunday.”
8. What I heard was “THE SON OF MAN, THE SON OF MAN. THE SON OF MAN”, right from the village square. I was upstairs. This is what I was wearing that morning of yesterday. Didn’t you people hear it?
9. When the corpse was brought back, Bro. Loveday [and Deacon Sam] were going downstairs and I asked them where they were going to. They said they wanted to stand with me. I said no that I cannot receive the corpse like that because there are implications to that.
10. I reminded them that they heard when the MC was announcing that the corpse should be brought in so that The Son of Man will receive the corpse of his father’s wife because it is his due responsibility, which is pure truth.
11. Dee Kelvin is the head of the kindred for now, but in terms of that corpse, it belongs to Me. The corpse which I received yesterday, Dee Kelvin cannot receive it. Dee Nwa-boy cannot receive it.
12. I am the one to receive it. Both by tradition and everything, I am the one to receive it. Vita just relaxed because he knew I must be the one to receive it. The whole community knew that I am the one to receive the corpse. And I could not shy away from that responsibility.
13. When I came back, I ordered it back, must for the corpse had not arrived yet, “Move on with it.”There was an outburst of joy. Everybody everywhere was clapping happily. Both young and old were all happy saying, “See! The One who knows the tradition has come. The Wise One has come. He said that this place does not belong to us, but to another family;“We are borrowing this space.” Was that not what I said? “See our own there. Our own space is around that big tree.”
14. All the Elders raised their hands in submission and in awe yesterday. I ordered the thing back and they all obeyed. When they were then coming back with the corpse, they started shouting “SON OF MAN, come and receive the corpse. Come and free us from the casket.”I showed what made Me THE SON OF MAN.
15. While Vita was seated, I stood up. I came to the place where the corpse was received and then gave them money for their efforts. If it were in ancient times, what I would have given them were a fowl and drinks.
16. But that money I gave them, those that carried the casket will buy drinks with it and share among themselves, the same way you give to those that dug the grave.
17. After doing that, they lowered the thing into my hands. I then told Dee Emma to carry it. Emma and Chukwudi then carried it inside. And people respected and honoured Me because of my life. Look at the crowd that came, look at my siblings that came. What did you learn?
18. Are you the only one living in the midst of the heathens, Iyke? What type of example are you showing? Can people look up to you because of good things? You do not know who you are. And it is the same thing with your wife.
19. Your children are willing to learn, but nobody is teaching them. I do not know what you are teaching them.
20. As long as you confessed it with your own mouth before Me that they are mingling together with other children, and there is nothing like division among them, they are happy with themselves and jubilating, then the condemnation lies on you and your wife.
21. This is because what you are planting in your children is hate. If the person who lives around you that you called a heathen is imparting evil as teachings into his or her own children, what you will use to defeat such a fellow is righteous living.
22. Invite [all] to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance.
23. THE HOLY QUR’AN, Surah 16:125
24. The Bible said, “Use good conduct to conquer evil conduct.” [Romans 12:21. Also Psalms 119:101] Even if your enemy is treating you with evil conduct, treat such a person with good conduct.
25. By so doing, you heap a coal of fire. Not a hypocritical one, not the one borne out of condemnation, and not to make them believe. Just as I came here. I did not come here because they love Me. No!
26. I did not come here to consider any human being. Whatever I did, I did it to fulfill my responsibility towards my family as the son born in this family. I always tell my wife and my children that I did not do it because of Vita. If I consider Vita, I will not do it.
27. I never did it because of anybody. I did it so as to clear my conscience as a child of God, as a man of God, as a prominent personality who the entire community is looking up to.
28. This is because if the burial is a failure, I will get my own fair share of the blame. Even those who claim to be the members of the kindred, did you not see how they stood by as onlookers?
29. I have those with whom I am a part of the same kindred. I also have siblings born of the same mother as Myself. When a matter that has to do with the kindred comes up, we all gather as kindred. But when it bothers on those born of the same mother, we will gather just that way.
30. And the bond of siblings born of the same mother is stronger than that binding the kindred. That is why if a woman [who has children] remarries as a widow, her children will still look out for their siblings, though of a different father.
31. Those linked between those of the same mother is stronger. That is why girls go by the name “Nneka”. If you trace it down the line, the woman we buried was my father’s immediate elder sister. My father was born after her.
32. So, the bond is stronger between those born of the same mother than it is with those linked by the same father, but from about four different mothers who are married to the man. No!
33. The bond is stronger around those of the same mother than around children of the same father, but different mothers. Do you understand what I am saying?
34. So, let us be very careful the way we behave. When we blaspheme this Faith, we are blaspheming Christ. We are creating obstacles we cannot jump.
35. This is because whatever you are doing now, you cannot run away from your evil. You can never run away from the implications because God has revealed the whole truth. It is left for those He has given this Truth to receive [accept] it.
36. THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN ACCEPT THIS TRUTH REVEALED BY CHRIST AND YOUR LIFE REMAINS THE SAME. IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN.
37. If one that has malaria receives an antimalarial injection and the sickness continues, let it be known to you that that drug injected is fake. If the patient receives the original antimalarial drug [injection], the fellow will recover.
38. THE ONLY REMEDY TO UNBELIEF WHICH IS SIN; I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU CALL SIN. THE BIBLE CALLED SIN UNBELIEF.
39. Is there anybody here with a copy of the Bible? If you have a copy of the Bible, read Hebrews chapter 4 from verse 1.
40. PAY ATTENTION. WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE FAITH IN WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD, WHAT IS IT? UNBELIEF!
41. I know you do not know where the Book of Hebrews is located in the Bible because you have not harnessed yourself, not to talk of harnessing your family.
42. Hebrews 4:1 – 3. Living Bible.Although God’s promise still stands–his promise that all may enter his place of rest–we ought to tremble with fear because some of you may be on the verge of failing to get there after all.
43. For this wonderful news–the message that God wants to save us–has been given to us just as it was to those who lived in the time of Moses. But it didn’t do them any good because they didn’t believe it. They didn’t mix it with faith.
44. For only we who believe God can enter into his place of rest. …TLB
45. This version said, “Because they did not believe it” Which is unbelief. “They did not enter because of unbelief.”
46. Hebrews 3: 16 – 19. King James Version.For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
47. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and where he came from, and why he went with the Ancient One? And he answered and said to me:”THIS IS THE SON OF MAN WHO HATH RIGHTEOUSNESS, WITH WHOM DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS, and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden, because the Lord of spirits hath chosen him, and whose lot has preeminence before the Lord of spirits in righteousness and is forever. And this Son of Man whom you have seen shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats, and the strong from their thrones and shall loosen the reins of the strong, and break the teeth of the sinners.
ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH, Chapter 46:2 – 4
And he began his story saying: Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in heaven, which the angels showed me, and I heard everything from them, and I saw and understood, but it was not for this generation, but for a remote one which is to come.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH, Chapter 1:2
48. And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. KJV
49. The same message we received. Thank God you have heard it from the days of Enoch. From the time of Abraham to the time of Jesus Christ is 42 Generations. From the time of Adam to the time of Enoch is 7 Generations.
50. Consider 7th generation. Look at 42nd.See the time He appeared. He was called the Righteous Enoch. Being righteous in the sight of God, God revealed the whole Truth from the beginning till the end to him.
For one year we will leave you with your son, until you give your last commands, that you may teach your children and record it for them, and testify to all your children; and in the second year they shall take you from their midst.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH Chapter 81:6
51. After which, The Almighty sent messengers to bring Him home alive so that He would not be polluted. But before then, he told Him “Go back home and prepare your family. Tell them you are going away.”
52. He went to His family again and again to inform them. It is from that same family that he begat Methuselah. The same Methuselah who lived about 965 years was the son of Enoch. [Genesis 5:21 – 27]
53. Go and look at His lineage. There was not even one that later became a story, simply because He prepared His wife, He prepared His family. Then, he gently followed the messengers and nobody saw him again.
54. And Michael the Archangel took him immediately showed him the Ancient of days, showed him One in the similitude of a man standing by the right hand side of the majesty. Wherever he went, He saw Him.
55. He [Enoch] asked “Who is this Man?” He [the Angel] told him, “That is THAT SON OF MAN who was born to righteousness, who is righteousness. This is the person. He is the controller of the whole universe. The totality of the head of spirits is in Him.”
For wisdom is poured out like water, and glory will not fail before him ever. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness, and unrighteousness shall disappear like a shadow, and will no longer exist; because the Elect One stands before the Lord of spirits, and his glory is forever and ever, and his might for all generations. In him dwells the spirit of wisdom, and the spirit which gives insight, and the spirit of understanding and of might, and the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH, Chapter 49:1 – 3
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THE TEACHING YOU RECEIVE MUST REFLECT IN YOUR CHARACTER
1. As they were moving on, they were inquiring about the Name of this Son of Man until one day, the name was revealed to them. And they glorified the Name of the Almighty God that at last, the Name of THE SON OF MAN has been revealed to them.
2. I gave you an assignment to read THE GREATEST STUMBLING BLOCK OF ALL THE AGES: GOD IS A MAN. At your age, and at your age in the ministry, a Pastor is the one who was told to repent or you perish.
3. It is like what I told you. What you were told is that you do not know who God is. The moment you are told you do not know who God is, what it means is that you are an unbeliever. Is it the people you are pastoring that will be believers or your family?
4. I have seen that the spirit operating in you is Ngwa spirit and I made it very clear to you, “Until you get rid of community spirit, fight it out of your system, for the Community spirit of Ngwa people is church spirit and Community spirit of Mbaise people is church spirit.”
5. Did you not see what happened here yesterday? Did you not see church? See church at work. Mothers group, fathers group, youths group. Did you not see them at work? This is how it is in Ngwa.
6. The same mother gave birth to Ngwa and Mbaise. The same spirit is holding them captive. All that Ngwa people are known for are all Mbaise people are known for.
7. So, if you happen to come from these areas, it will take Amazing Grace to redeem you from this sinful world because what will becloud your mind is craftiness, hypocrisy, eye service. This is because these are what they are known for. So, be very careful.
8. It is like Lambert and his brother Udochukwu, when they meet their likes of people, they will become Pentecostals and call Jesus.
9. But as they come back here where they find the group of their likes, they will drink until they get drunk. There is no type of lifestyle you will not see them indulge in here. Does such a person have the fear of God?
10. ONCE YOU HAVE THE FEAR OF GOD, THE DOCTRINES OF GOD BECOME EVERYTHING TO YOU. THAT IS WHY YOUR LIFE MUST BE AN ELECT LIFE WHICH IS THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, THAT ONCE YOU ARE FOUND GUILTY WITH THE DOCTRINE YOU HAVE RECEIVED, YOU ARE GUILTY BEFORE GOD.
11. THE TEACHINGS YOU HAVE RECEIVED, IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN THEM, IT MUST REFLECT IN YOUR CHARACTER, FOR YOUR CHARACTER IS A REFLECTION OF YOUR BELIEF. IS IT A LIE BRETHREN?
12. IS IT NOT OUR CHARACTER THAT TELLS PEOPLE WHAT WE BELIEVE? THE CHARACTER OF YOUR CHILDREN SHOWS WHAT YOU ARE TEACHING THEM. THE CHARACTER OF YOUR WIFE SHOWS WHAT SHE BELIEVES. YOUR CHARACTER SHOWS WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
13. THIS IS THE WAY IT WILL BE IN THE CONGREGATION. EVERY CHURCH, EVERY LOCAL ASSEMBLY TAKES THE SPIRIT OF THEIR PASTOR. ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION; IF YOUR CHURCH TAKES YOUR SPIRIT, ARE YOU LEADING THEM TO HELL OR TO RELIGION?
14. HEAVEN IS TOO FAR. HEAVEN IS VERY FAR. BE VERY SURE YOU ARE NOT LEADING THEM TO RELIGION. SEE RELIGION AT WORK. ANYBODY THAT DOES NOT COME TO FELLOWSHIP WILL BE FLOGGED.
15. ANYBODY THAT COMES LATE, YOU WILL PUNISH THE PERSON. THERE IS PUNISHMENT FOR EVERY THING PERCEIVED TO BE WRONG
16. DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU CAN COME EARLY TO FELLOWSHIP YET YOUR HEART IS RESISTANT TO TRUTH? DOES LONG CHAPLET SIGNIFY LONG FAITH? DOES BIG BIBLE SIGNIFY BIG FAITH?
17. THERE MAY BE ONE WHO DID NOT COME TO FELLOWSHIP BUT THE PERSON IS MORE DEEPLY ROOTED AND GROUNDED THAN YOU THAT ARE MAKING A FAIR SHOW OF THE FAITH. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF RUSHING TO FELLOWSHIP.
18. Let me tell you. If at the end of the day you perish, let it be known to you that all your running around Onitsha were just eye service. All those burials you attended just to showcase yourself, they are useless.
19. Do you really ask yourself this question; If at the end of the day, it pleases God that He will translate this mortal body and you are dropped, even as one that calls himself Pastor, you get the same portion that were meant for the unbelievers because that is Scripture, that “On that day, as many as refused to live according to the standard shall be given a place among the unbelievers.” [Luke 12:46]
20. If by tomorrow, those you called unbelievers you share the same inheritance with them, what will you say? When they will ask you “Oh man, did you finally come here? I thought you said you are holy, you will be alive and go to heaven. So we share the same fate with you? What did you gain from your faith? I thought you condemned ours? Why did your faith not save you?”
21. That is why the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. If you have the fear of God and have the reverential fear of God and you know who God is, you can never operate beyond the boundary where His love can reach and bless you.
22. But due to the fact that you do not know God, and you do not know the old boundary line, you will cross it, your wife will cross it, and your children will cross it. You do not know what is offensive.
23. It is like the question I asked you the other day. I told you that I discussed this thing with you in Onitsha physical, live. I pleaded with you. When you left, I called you on phone and pleaded with you.
24. I told you, “Please, this is what I want you to do for Me in all these rooms, for what you will use to do them are there. Please do it.”
25. Is it a must that you will be the one to do it? Can’t your wife do it? Anybody can do it. These brethren that are here with Me, do they live here?
26. You do not know that I am The Commander of the Host of Angels, and that if I give a command, you will see more than one thousand people here from North and South, just to do what I want them to do for Me.
27. But when I asked you, you told me that you did it. But look at one shameful remark; “I did it the way you instructed me, but it was my children that scattered it.” This is due to the type of training you gave your children.
28. So even if I am not around, upon what I told you that you should abstain from desecrating this house, you neglected it, for which cause your children had the audacity to climb on a bed that has been dressed already only to scatter it.
29. The other day, My wife’s box was opened only to see your child’s pants in my wife’s box of clothes.
30. And I was wondering the type of a human being you are. Are you sure you know who I am? Even if I am not anything, by My height in the society, are you supposed to behave this way?
31. I asked you yesterday, “What is that thing which makes you a brother to me? Why are we members of the same Faith? These are the questions you must provide answers to.
32. Why do you belong to the Brotherhood of Christ? Why should I trust you more than the heathens? Why should I be entrusting things into your care more than I do to the heathens? Even what I will eat, I will entrust it into your care more than the heathens? Do you really ask yourself questions?
33. Even that remark alone has marked you and your wife off. This is because the way you take this house is the same way your children take it. And that is how you take Me and My wife.
34. That your children can have access to the rooms again and scatter the beds that you had already dressed before, and you started shouting at them unnecessarily. Who are you shouting at? These little infants. What do they understand from you shouting? What did you learn from that? Did you learn anything from there? Is there anything to learn there?
35. Our people said that locking up a door will not prevent the ghost from attacking the inhabitant. Does locking the whole doors with keys to prevent them from intrusion mean training them? When you unlock the door, they will still enter in.
36. That is why you must give your children culture. If this could happen at a time and on a day you knew I was coming back, and you also knew that many people will be coming for mourning, what if I am here without anybody?
37. That is why I came back with keys. I came back with keys because I saw all these things ahead of time. I then went ahead and purchased keys. Enough is enough.
38. Even if the rain should come in through the roof and flood here, when I come back I will know what to do. I will lock and take my keys and go away, and transfer my fuse upstairs, lest this place will be gutted with fire.
39. You can then handle your own side with the power generating set you like. I will uninstall the fuse and take it upstairs and lock everywhere.
40. I came back with keys. If you come, I show them to you. This is because I saw these things ahead of time. Notwithstanding that I called you live and travelled down to Onitsha, and I sat down with you as I spoke to you talk to you, and you promised Me that it will not happen again.
41. I told you to bring the spare keys to Me and then hold these set, peradventure the day Bro. Chinemezu comes, I will give him keys. If he comes and you are not around, he will enter the house.
42. I have told you never to tell me to collect keys from your wife whenever I come down here. Was that not what I told you? Good! You accepted, labeled all the keys and brought them to me. But it is useless. Absolutely useless.
43. CHRIST IS IDENTIFIED BY HIS CHARACTERISTICS. IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING CHRIST’S EXAMPLE, IT WILL REFLECT IN YOUR LIFE.
44. You are not even Aaron to Moses. You are not even the head of your own Fellowship. What are you teaching? Bro. Iyke, what are you teaching your flock? What are you teaching your family? What are you teaching yourself, since you do not know God, and you do not know who God is because that is the first step?
45. Whosoever that will come to God must first of all believe that He exists. Look at Hebrew 11. Read verse 6. Read it, so that it will not seem as if I am just saying it for saying sake.
46. Am I even mandating you to read it, do you not know it? Is there any scripture I will read now which you do not know? Is your problem that you do not know the truth, or that you do not know where it is? Does your wife not know the truth or where it is?
47. Were you not the people that made Me to believe that her father died in righteousness. If really her father died in righteousness, look at his family.
48. I will not tell you about the report I got recently from Ugoala’s family concerning the family of Bro. Obinna’s father; about Cele and the mother. Very horrifying report. And I thank God that you received yours from the children of Bro Obinna, for which cause I am being called now and even the rest. Did you not receive it?
And then wisdom shall be given to the elect, and they shall all live and never again sin, either through forgetfulness or through pride: But those who are given wisdom shall be humble. And they shall not again transgress, Nor shall they sin all the days of their life, Nor shall they die of the anger or wrath of God, But they shall complete the number of the days of their lives. And their lives shall be increased in peace, and their years will grow in joy and eternal gladness and peace, all the days of their lives.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH, Chapter 5:9 – 10
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CHANGE YOU HEART AND MIND
1. Whosoever that is running, has something pursuing him. If their father has settled them at home as the first son, would whatever that is happening now take place?
2. Why was he not able to settle them down? Is it not wrong character? Is he not a churchgoer, displaying Mbaise spirit because his father is a Catholic for which cause he regarded the father as a heathen, while the father’s life is better than his.
3. Even while he was in one church in Obinze before he identified with this Faith, did he ever for one day manifest the teachings of that church which brought about serious conflict between us and his in-laws?
4. Even while you were in the other church in your place in Ngwa, did you manifest the teachings of that church? Police were arresting and locking you from time to time, and from one zone to the other which made you and your siblings customers of police cell.
5. If the reason why you left Ngwa is to escape so that your brothers will not kill you, they will still kill you. If your reason is to escape prison, you will still go to prison. That which you are trying to avoid, you will still enter into it.
6. The only way out is when you run into Christ. If you are not in Christ, let me tell you the truth, you are still outside. You are still outside. You have not received protection from the Lord.
7. It is not something to cry about. And it is not the case where when I leave, you will start crying. Cry for yourself.
8. TEAR YOUR HEART DO NOT TEAR YOUR CLOTHES. IF THERE SHOULD BE TEARS, LET IT NOT BE TEARS FROM YOUR EYES, BUT TEARS FROM YOUR HEART. LET YOUR HEART BLEED BECAUSE OF YOUR LEVEL OF UNBELIEF WHICH YOU ARE NOW PROPAGATING AND IMPARTING INTO ALL THAT COME AROUND YOU.
9. LET IT BE KNOWN TO YOU THAT YOU NOW HAVE ONE SUPER FAMILY. THE SUPER FAMILY IS NOT THIS THING YOU AND FAITH ARE MANAGING HERE. SUPER FAMILY IS THE ENTIRE SOULS ENTRUSTED INTO YOUR HANDS AND THAT OF YOUR WIFE.
10. WHEN GOD CALLS A MAN, HE CALLS HIS WIFE. OR DON’T YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? IF YOU ARE A PASTOR, YOUR WIFE IS ALSO A PASTOR. AND CHARITY, THEY SAY, BEGINS AT HOME, IF YOU DON’T KNOW.
11. Read that place. Hebrews 11:6. Tomorrow you will call Me to tell Me that the problem is all over. When will it really end?
12. Hebrews 11:6. You can never please God without faith, without depending on him. Anyone who wants to come to God must believe that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely look for him. TLB
13. But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder ofthose who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].AMP
14. Later you read it to know whether you will understand anything. How can you continue with Somebody you do not believe that He is God. You do not believe that He exists. You do not believe that He rewards people that sincerely [not hypocritically or selfishly] look for Him.
15. There were people that looked for Jesus selfishly because of what they were gaining from Him. Some were following him hypocritically.
16. But there were people that followed him sincerely. And these were the people who were following Him for eternal life. He has the Word. But they first of all discovered that He is the One and that without Him, there is no other.
17. Do you know what it means to depend on somebody, rely on somebody and cling to somebody? It is written there.
18. How can you depend on somebody you do not believe in? How can the God you do not believe be your God? How can you have faith in something you think that does not exist?
19. One that is in this world who does not have the fear of God, is it the fear of men that he will have? You do not have the fear of God.
20. That is why God asked Miriam and Aaron, “Who are you? Since you do not have the fear of God to behave like this before my servant Moses. Even if I have Prophets and talked to them in diverse ways, it is not so with Moses. I talk to Moses mouth to mouth, ear to ear.”
21. God went further to ask them, “So you do not have fear to talk in this manner and to behave in this manner before my servant Moses. Because of this, look at your punishment.” [Numbers 12:1 – 10]
22. Look at Saul. He was not afraid to talk back to Samuel. Look at the punishment which Saul received. [1 Samuel 15]
23. Look at the punishment that followed Jeroboam, “You Jeroboam was not afraid because of the fact that you were the king, and that was why you stretched forth your hand towards a Prophet of God. You do not know that He is God? The hand withered immediately. He did not even touch his clothes and the hand withered. [1 King 13]
24. When a man does not have the fear of God, what will stop evil habit in him? This is due to the fact that you do not believe in God, you do not depend on God, and you do not believe that God is a rewarder?
25. He [God] said “I am coming to reward every man according to his work.” [Revelations 22:12] There is a message that was given to us recently titled REMEMBER YOUR REWARD.
26. Remember your reward, for there is nothing you are doing in this world for which you will not get the reward thereof, whether good or bad. Let no man deceive you, God is not mocked. Any seed a man soweth, that he must reap. [Galatians 6:7]
27. Is there any part of the Scripture you read that instills fear in you? Anybody sitting down here who does not have a part of the Scripture or the Message you hear that puts fear in him, your evil character can never stop in this world. This is because it is the fear of God that helps us to refrain from evil.
28. Look at St. Paul. Are you greater than him? Who said he is afraid of God because it is a very terrible thing for one to appear before the judgment throne of God because God is a consuming fire. [Hebrews 10:31, 12:29]
29. A mortal man like you! You do not know that one day you will lie silent. If not amazing Grace that projected, what we will be saying is, once upon a time, there was one man called Iyke.”
30. Even the word I spoke to you out of a pure conscience and love, I told you, “Iyke, I love you. I brought you to My side for salvation, but if you are not careful, you will go where your father in-law went.”
31. Before ever you started calling Me, shouting and telling Me how you spoke to your wife and that I should call her and verify from her. You said that you told your wife that based on the problem you were having, that even if you die now, you died in unrighteousness.
32. Were you not the one that told Me that? Very good. Have you put an end to the unrighteous living? The Bible said, “You should be faultless in the sight of God. You will live a life without rebuke, without indictment or correction in this crooked and perverse generation”.
33. Are you the first person? Was it not in a crooked and perverse generation that Enoch appeared? It was the same condition when Elijah appeared. Same when Job appeared. In the same crooked and perverse generation, Zechariah and the wife appeared?
34. And they were all declared righteous in the sight of God. Why? They walked with God. They depended on God. How can you depend on something you do not believe in, and you do not believe that He exist?
35. To understand that God is a human being is hard for you. You have not passed that test. You only passed it in reading it as letter. The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life. [2 Corinthians 3:6]
36. But that Spirit of the Word has not yet entered into you. Once it comes into you, nobody will know that you live here. You will not even be showcasing yourself. You will be showcasing Christ.
37. If the Spirit comes into your wife, you will be example of good works. It is applicable to every true seed of God. Paul told Titus to be a pattern of good works, not bad works. [Titus 2:7]
38. So, we were given rule of life and that life is the life of the Elect. As long as you do not belong to the Elect, condemnation awaits you because there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ. [Romans 8:1]But as long as you are not in Christ, there is condemnation upon you.
39. The Messages you are hearing is heaping more condemnations on you. I do tell you this over the phone. I also tell you face to face, “Bro IK, are you sure you are not heaping condemnations to yourself, by knowing the truth and refusing to act by the truth?”
40. One who knows the truth, and also knows what is expected of him, but refuses to do that, what is it called? Sin! It is sin because he does not believe it.
41. KNOWING GOD CANNOT GIVE YOU SALVATION.CALLING HIM DADDY CANNOT GIVE YOU SALVATION. YOU CAN KNOW HIM WITHOUT ACCEPTING HIM AS GOD.
42. AND AS LONG AS YOU HAVE NOT ACCEPTED HIM AS GOD, HE CAN NEVER GIVE YOU THE POWER TO BECOME A CHILD OF GOD. TO THEM THAT RECEIVED CHRIST, TO THEM HE GAVE THE POWER TO BECOME SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD. [John 1:12]
43. HE CAME TO HIS OWN, HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT. [John 1:11]AND TO THOSE THAT RECEIVED HIM NOT, THEY SAID, “WE KNOW HIM, WE KNOW HIS PARENTS, WE KNOW WHERE HE IS BORN AND HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THEY ARE WITH US. WE KNOW HIM VERY WELL. [Matthew 13:55 – 56] BUT THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM.
44. YOU MAY KNOW ME, KNOW MY PARENTS BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN WITH ME OVER THE YEARS, KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ME, BUT NOT AS GOD.
45. EVEN IF YOU ARE TOLD THAT THIS PERSON IS GOD, YOU WILL NOT ACCEPT IT. YOU WILL NOT ACCEPT IT. NOT THAT YOU WILL BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT EVEN ACCEPTED IT. HOW MANY YEARS NOW?
46. YOU WERE IN THIS FAITH BEFORE YOU GOT MARRIED. WE HELPED YOU TO MARRY NKWAOMACHI. IT WAS THE SAME UNBELIEF THAT CAUSED ME TO SACRIFICE MY LIFE FOR YOUR SAKE. THE SAME UNBELIEF CAUSED WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
47. DO NOT FORGET THAT THE BAD NAMES THEY ARE CALLING ME IS BECAUSE I WANTED TO SAVE YOU THEN. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT MY PROBLEM STARTED DURING THE ROOFING OF THE BUILDING.
48. YOU WERE TOLD TO GO AND REMOVE A ROTTEN WOOD BECAUSE THE WORKERS WANTED TO PASS THROUGH THERE. YOU AGREED TO REMOVE IT. THEY THOUGHT YOU HAD REMOVED IT. THEY CONTINUED THEIR WORK AND TWO WORKERS CLIMBED UP THERE AND FELL DOWN.
49. WAS IT NOT IN FRONT OF THIS BUILDING THAT IT HAPPENED?I TOOK UP THE RESPONSIBILITY. AND WE CONTINUED MOVING ON.
50. YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL THAT YOU DO NOT BRING MORE CONDEMNATIONS TO YOURSELF AND FAMILY, [TO YOURSELF AND FAMILY], BECAUSE IT IS WHAT YOU HAVE THAT YOU WILL GIVE TO YOUR CHILDREN.
51. IF YOU BRING YOUR CHILDREN CLOSER TO YOURSELF, THAT THING WHICH YOUR PARENTS COULD NOT DO FOR YOU BECAUSE THEY DID NOT KNOW THIS WAY, AND THEY DID NOT GO THROUGH THIS WAY, YOU THAT ARE NOW PRIVILEGED SHOULD DO IT FOR YOUR CHILDREN.
52. IT IS LIKE ONE WHOSE PARENTS DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL, BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU WERE TRAINED UNTIL YOU GOT A SCHOOL CERTIFICATE, WILL YOU STILL BEHAVE LIKE THOSE WHO DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL?
53. ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION; WHAT IS THE TRUTH I AM RECEIVING PROFITING ME? AM I RECEIVING IT ONLY FOR ME TO USE IT FOR ARGUMENT? AM I RECEIVING IT SO THAT I WILL USE IT FOR POLITICS WITH CHURCH GOERS?
54. The Bible said that those that received the wisdom of God, they are humble and they are always sober and quiet. You have not received the wisdom of God. And the Bible said, “Christ is the wisdom of God.”In the book of Corinthians chapter one, Christ is the wisdom of God. [1 Corinthians 1:24]
55. So, you are operating outside Christ. Why claiming you are serving Christ when you are serving yourself? You are self-willed. Christ has no control over you, your character, your emotions, your impulses. You are a self-made man.
56. You will now work out your own salvation with your own blood. That is what it means. Because Christ cannot save you. Christ will only save those that are found in Him, doing His will.
57. As long as you are not doing the will of God, you are operating outside Christ. How can Christ save you? Just as we are in this house now, is there anyone who does not know that he or she is inside the house?
58. If you are inside the house, do you not know? If you are outside, do you need to be told? We are all wearing clothes. If you go out and someone tells you that you are naked, will you talk to the person? You will simply ignore him because you know you are putting on clothes.
59. If you are not putting on any clothes, do you need someone to tell you? This is what being in Christ is all about. Let me give you another Scripture there.
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.
THE HOLY QUR’AN, Surah 9:62 – 63
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WILL YOUR ARMS OF STRENGTH SUSTAIN YOU IN THAT DAY?
1. 2 Corinthians 13:8Our responsibility is to encourage the right at all times, not to hope for evil.TLB
2. Encourage the right at all times, not to hope for evil and not to plan for evil. This thing is important.
3. The Bible said, people go to their beds and foment evil in their hearts. And in the morning, they came out and begin to practice evil, for they feel it is in the power of their hands to do as they wish. [Micah 2:1]
4. They feel that way, but they do not know that their breath is in the hand of the Almighty God. Your breath is in the hand of who? Almighty God.
5. In that 2 Corinthians, God said, Examine yourself. Do not say Christ examine me? Do you not know when the spirit of Christ is in you or when it is not in you by your ever growing progressive experience in Christ, do you not know if you are in Christ?
6. If you do not know when Christ is in you and when Christ is not in you, you are a counterfeit, a reprobate who will be disallowed, disapproved, disqualified on trial in the end.
7. We have come to the end of everything. Everybody is saying end, end, end. The world is saying the same thing. Whosoever that is thinking of the end the way the world is thinking of the end, will the person repent?
8. Maybe you are among the people that say world without end. One day, you will meet Christ alive in a way your mouth will not be able to talk. You will meet Him the way your father in-law met him.
9. I have warned you to be careful that you do not receive your last letter which will be your last sermon. As you were sent as a messenger to somebody to preach the last sermon to him, last messengers may come to you to give you your last sermon because it is better than to continue to allow you to blaspheme the Name of God in the name of Pastorship. Pastor, man of God everywhere. Even police men recognize you as Pastor.
10. Uvuru knows you as Pastor. The people of your community know you as Pastor. But, are you a Pastor? Do you see yourself as a Pastor?
11. You were rushing the other day, telling Me that you were going back home and I said No. you insisted you were going, for the sake of the sheep that were entrusted into your hands which you have been away from for a long time.
12. Do you even know that any sheep was entrusted into your care? Are you sure you know that a flock of sheep were entrusted into your hands, and whose lives you must account for.
13. Supposing you fulfill the dangerous side of the Scripture by helping them to enter the Kingdom of God and you become a cast away. [Luke 9:25]
14. Saint Paul said, “I am praying that God should help Me that after helping others, I should not be a cast away.” Are you striving to be a cast away, after helping others into the Kingdom?
15. Jesus said, “Some will see the Kingdom. They will not enter.” Some will be there at the gate. They will not enter and they will not allow others to enter. While there are others who will help people in and they themselves will perish.
16. Check to know whether you are in any of these three categories. Whether you are one who is blocking the way, who does not want to enter and will not allow others to enter. Your wife and children will not enter because you are like a tree trunk that fell across the road making it difficult for people to pass.
17. You do not want to enter into the Kingdom of God. You do not also want your Congregation to enter. Are you one that is telling his followers to take his word but not his character, using the words of your mouth to put people into the Kingdom of God, while you will not enter?
18. It is important to know all these things. Are you one of the people that saw the Kingdom, is certain that He is the One, but refused to enter. Seeing the kingdom and its righteousness, but refusing to enter.
19. This is because the work was finished before the world began, and they were bid to enter, but the Bible said that they refused to go in because they did not believe.
20. They felt they were being deceived. God deceiving them. The reason why you do not believe is in you. If you have reason why you do not believe, nobody will erase it. God will help you to continue in your unbelief.
21. If you keep on doubting, God will keep on moving. That is what He has been doing until we got to the end where we are now.
22. Just look at yourself. Look at your wife. In this whole world, who knows that the two of you are existing. If you go to the website and see the respondents and the countries, do you fit in?
23. Somebody is saying that he or she does not believe because the person feels that he or she has better knowledge and is wiser. You have better knowledge than people from all those countries in the world.
24. You have better understanding than these people that are writing us from the web, acknowledging the truth and believing.
25. It was only last week that we received a visitation. This time, from uniformed men who read the Message in our website and two soldiers enlisted immediately, telling us, “Put us in your list. We are members of this movement. Though we are carrying our rifles, we have seen our own way, made for us. This is what we have been longing for.” Two people signed in.
26. Plus Christian Ejiofor, an army Captain from Enugu-Ezike who was the first to enlist. For the sake of the Faith, this one left Bauchi for Enugu-Ezike and met with Pastor Oliver, who now wrote a letter concerning them.
27. You think you know better than everybody in the world. Whatever you are doing, the eyes of the Almighty God is seeing you. That which you are thinking in your heart, the eyes of the Almighty God is seeing you.
28. This is Judgment. Truth has come. Light has come. People refuse to walk in the Truth and also refuse to walk in the Light because they had already planned the way they want to live. Then why do you complain when calamity will befall you tomorrow.
29. That is why he asked us a question, “Will your heart endure? Can your heart see you through? Can your strength see you through in the day I will rise up to your slaughter, O unbeliever?”
30. Will your heart endure; will your arms of strength see you through in the day the Almighty will rise up to your slaughter, O man that refused to believe.
31. You go and read in the Book of Hosea. People that were trusting in their power, in their strength, in their large heart, “I am courageous. I do mighty things. I am strong.” For that reason, that was their boast, instead of Christ.
32. He said, “Will your heart endure? Can you bear it with your heart? Will this your courage and your strong arms bring you salvation on the day the Almighty God will rise to your destruction?”
33. If the answer is No, nobody should tell you what to do, O man. I am not talking to you alone. I am talking to everybody. I am talking to Myself. And I am raising a Standard so that you will know the Standard where the family is.
34. If at your stage in the Ministry, I am still making recommendations to you to go and read GOD IS A MAN; THE GREATEST STUMBLING BLOCK, which means, Iyke you have not jumped it. Let us pray.
John 4:25-46 (NIV)
35. The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” The Disciples Rejoin Jesus Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
36. Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” They came out of the town and made their way toward him. Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
37. Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food? My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
38. Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers.
39. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
40. After the two days he left for Galilee. (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him.
41. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there. Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
“And O my people! let not my dissent (from you) cause you to sin, lest ye suffer a fate similar to that of the people of Noah or of Hud or of Salih, nor are the people of Lut far off from you! (Surah 11:89)
PRAYER
42. Our Heavenly Father, we have heard your Word and we pray that you create an entrance into our hearts, so that your word will settle in our hearts and not in our brains.
43. From our hearts, O God, reform us and reform our characters. If there be any heart that is willing to submit to your Word, help the unbelief.
44. But if all of them have made up their minds and hardened their hearts against the truth, Father pay them back according to the hardness of their hearts.
45. I hand over, O God, all your Elect worldwide into your hands. Father, as we depend on you, may our faith in you never fail us in the end.
46. Help all of us to number how many days we have to live here on earth, so that we will incline our hearts unto wisdom, from now henceforth.
47. To the Glory of your Most Holy Name we pray. Amen.