TRUST GOD EVEN UNTO DEATH PREACHED ON 19TH JULY, 2020 @ THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE, ANAMBRA STATE By PASTOR, WISDOM ODOEMENA MODERATED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA The Son of Man THE SUPREME JUDGE
56 Let Me tell you, once you start using adult sense in this Faith, you will start battling with your salvation. There is nothing we will say here which will be clear to you again because adult sense is now clashing with the Message. 57But if you trust God like little children, confide in Him, believe Him, have faith in Him, follow Him, surely, you will never be disappointed. And you will not have a problem in this Faith.”
– THE SON OF MAN
‘POSSESSING CHILDREN FAITH’ preached on Sunday, 20th May, 2001 at the
Household of God Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria. chapter 3 verses 56-57,
PRAYER
Let us bow down our heads. Our dear heavenly Father, we have come before Your presence once again tonight. Father to appreciate You for Your protection, for Your blessings and for Your magnanimity towards all mankind.
That we are alive till this hour is not of our own making. It is Your grace. It is Your loving kindness. Otherwise, Father, when we went out, we saw too many horrible things that befell human beings today. But in all, we only saw them with our eyes, and only heard them with our ears.
They never reached us. They never reached any of our relations and our Brethren. Father, we say “Thank You” indeed. To those that are affected, comfort them, O God.
Our Lord and our Saviour, here we are tonight pleading that You forgive us all our shortcomings, all the iniquities and transgressions of Your people, O God. Father, set all of them at naught because of what Christ has accomplished for the Elect worldwide.
Tonight, O God, we are here to renew our strength in Your presence, for in Your presence, there is anointing that breaks every yoke. Break the yoke of unbelief in our hearts. Break the yoke of hypocrisy, the yoke of carelessness and the yoke of laziness.
Father, help us O God tonight that the entrance of Your Word into our hearts will revive our mortal souls.
Make us brand new individuals. Change, O God, Father, even our self-esteem for the better. Every plan of the devil against us tonight, Father, to spoil our recording machines as we encountered last Sunday, Lord we pray, do not allow that to repeat.
Help us that whatever we shall hear from Your throne of Grace tonight through the appointed vessels You will use, that all of them will be engraved in the tapes that they will help our faith as we journey along.
Create perfect harmony among us, perfect understanding so that, at the end of tonight’s worship, at least Lord, we will have every cause to glorify Your Name.
Take all the glory for answering our prayers as we hand over, O God all the vessels You will use to talk to us tonight into your Holy hands.
Help them, O God that they will talk to us as real oracles of God. Take away all human intellect. Let Thy Holy Spirit take control. Through Christ our Lord, we pray.
“21…the way you receive the Word of God will determine the level it will work in you. If you receive it as the word of man, there is no way the word of man can transform you, for the word of man profiteth nothing. However, if you receive it as the Word of God, by and by, it must work effectually in you.”
– THE SON OF MAN
‘WHY YOU MUST BE MINDFUL OF THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS’ preached on 23rd November 1996 at the Household of God Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria. Chapter 2, verse 21,
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THE WORD OF GOD CAN ONLY CHANGE GOD’S ELECT
BY THE SON OF MAN
We have gathered tonight. Be seated everybody. It is an informal gathering in the sense that the devil attacked us on Sunday but did not win. We won the battle.
That we could record the Message using the same system we were using, 6 hours, 10 minutes, and saved the Message, only for us to open it, and everything was empty.
It started recording, but after about 2 minutes, it stopped and there was no power interruption. Nobody touched the wire.
We also noticed that the android we were using also had the same experience. Two different handsets we have been using all the while, experiencing the same thing. That one started recording, immediately the Pastor was invited to the pulpit and he was about to talk, it tripped off.
We thank God. That one was noticed when it was late with the result that the Pastor ministered for 58 minutes unrecorded, while the recording was still on.
What hindered it from being recorded, we do not know but we believe it is the devil that was attacking the instrument for he could not attack the individuals. He could not attack us as human beings. Then, he attacked the gadgets we are using so that the Message will not be passed across.
Nevertheless, what remained of the Message of Sunday was very, very satisfactory and met the needs of every soul that is desiring to survive.
Hear Me well. If you have made up your mind the way you want to live your life contrary to the truth, if we scream here from now till the next world, you will remain the same, FOR THE WORD OF GOD CAN ONLY CHANGE GOD’S OWN ELECT.
IF YOU ARE NOT A SEED OF GOD, THE WORD OF GOD CAN NEVER TRANSFORM YOU, FOR IT WILL NEVER HAVE A DWELLING PLACE IN YOUR HEART FROM WHERE IT CAN BEGIN ITS RENEWING ACTIVITY IN YOUR LIFE.
THE WORD MUST BE PLANTED IN THE HEART OF MAN AS A SEED. THEN, IT WILL GERMINATE, NURTURED THROUGH PRAYERS AND ADMONITIONS and YOU SEE THE WORD NOW RENEWING THE INDIVIDUAL FROM WITHIN. IS IT NOT TRUE?
But where the Word has no resting place in the heart, there is no way the seed will germinate. If you go to the parable of the sower, three different grounds.
3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop–a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. …….
18″Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.
23But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” [Matthew 13:3-8 & 18-23 NIV]
If your ground is not a fertile ground meant for the Word of God, it will never survive there. Did you get the Message?
Then, if the ground is fertile and the seed germinates and comes up, if there are thistles in your heart, they will never allow that seed to bring forth good fruits.
Thistles mean the cares of this life. The desire to be one thing or the other will choke up the Word of God, and it will no longer produce the desired fruits.
Then the worst is the rocky soil; the stony soil, a representation of the stony heart that is repulsive to the truth. No matter how the truth will come, he will wave it aside. After hearing the Word, he will live his life the way he has purposed.
I call him a free man that lives the life he wants to live, thinking that he owns the world, not knowing that he is Satan’s agent.
Anybody desiring freedom is telling the whole world that he is Satan’s instrument for the devil can never use anybody God is using.
The devil can only use those who are dormant, and who are not being used in any form or shape. Then the devil will now use them as instrument.
[27]Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece. [Proverbs 16:27 LB]
That is why a sinner, an unbeliever is unprofitable in all things pertaining to life and Godliness, but a profitable material in the hand of the devil for the devil will always be using him to achieve his target.
If he [devil] wants to provoke us to anger, he will use the person because that person is an object of provocation.
Whatever evil that we are experiencing in the world today, the devil is using human beings to perpetrate them. True or false?
SO, IT IS THE INDIVIDUAL THAT REFUSED THE WORD OF GOD THAT IS BEING USED BY THE DEVIL TO UPSET HIS FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. TRUE OR FALSE?
THAT IS WHY AN UNBELIEVER IS AN UPSET [offence] TO THE RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE AROUND HIM OR AROUND HER. A HYPOCRITE IS AN UNBELIEVER, AN UPSET, A VERY BIG UPSET TO THE RIGHTEOUS AROUND HIM.
Their righteous souls will be vexed every minute of THE day by the character and attitude of the hypocrite who hears the Word of God, echoes “Amen”, claims to be one of us but in action, in character, you see the contrary.
That is why, no matter how we claim to be one thing or the other, there is only but one measuring rod, AND that is character; That is the fruit we bear.
16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? ……. 17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree 18bring forth good fruit.
19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. [Matthew 7:17 – 20 KJV]
We were wondering, “Who could still be this hypocrite, even after hearing the Word of God? Who could be this Satan’s agent who claims to be the seed of God sitting in the midst of God’s people?”
How do we know them? Weeds and undergrowth among the real seed in the farm. The Lord Jesus answered and said, “By their fruits, ye shall know them for every good tree must bring forth good fruit. Every bad tree must bring forth bad fruit.”
16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from Thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. [Matthew 7: 16 – 20 NIV]
So, a bad tree is one that rejects the Word of God, for we are planted here on earth like trees. The Bible said we are planted like trees, human beings. Any tree that does not produce good fruits must be hewed down and then will end it in fire.
But the one that produces good fruit will be preserved and encouraged to produce more and more. Why is that one producing? The seven virtues of God are in him.
WHEN THE SEVEN VIRTUES ARE IN YOU AND ABIDE, THEY WILL MAKE YOU TO BE FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORKS. BUT WHERE THE VIRTUES ARE NOT IN YOU, YOU ARE POOR, YOU ARE BARREN, YOU ARE MISERABLE; AND CONCERNING EVERY GOOD WORK, REPROBATE. IS IT NOT TRUE?
HOW DO YOU IMBIBE THE VIRTUES? IT IS BY PAYING HEED TO THE WORD OF GOD.
And that is why we have gathered here tonight to pay heed to the Word so that we can use the Word to renew the right spirit in all of us and rekindle the light of hope for eternal life.
We have jostled and toiled throughout the whole day and this evening, God has given us the opportunity that is so rare. He has restored the light. We now have a conducive light without noise. So, we can now give ear to the Word of God.
Remember how we took off last Sunday. I broke the news of the departure of our Brother Casmir, a new brother that came into the Faith in Aba among those that are being taken care of by Pastor Moses, and who before he died had a very good confession before the Brethren and before the Almighty God.
And the Lord foreseeing too many things that are coming ahead of time, knowing that he will not survive them, the Lord allowed him to go and rest so that on the resurrection morning, he will be numbered among the first fruits that will resurrect in righteousness having been washed and cleansed by the Word.
From the day he left his former place, The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival, and embraced this truth, he has been measuring up fine.
I hope you never trusted EEDC? Trusting in this electricity means foolishness. Maybe because they restored it today, you think it will last? No!
Please, give Me ear. Always have it at the back of your mind that the devil is against all of us and against this Message.
Have you seen what is happening now? Immediately I started thanking God for the electricity that we will use it now, a conducive atmosphere devoid of noise, no sooner had I made the statement than the light went off.
But we thank God that we have a substitute we can control. Until we are through, let nobody ever change the line. I said, “Until we are through, let nobody ever change the line.” Go and check the recorders. Once bitten, twice shy.
If you know you are for this Fellowship, I want you to be seated. I was telling you about the departure of our brother, Casmir, who the Lord brought in at this delicate hour, cleansed and washed, made him holy and pure.
Then took him home for he is pure blooded in the sense that all the old living has been taken care of by his new faith and his new experience because he has really encountered Christ, encountered the truth and he bore a very nice confession before he died.
So, he slept in Christ. He never knew that when he went to bed, the following day he will not wake up.
That is what I was telling you last Sunday that we should strive to live every day God give us the opportunity to live as if it is our last day, for you do not know what awaits you.
I was coming back this afternoon from Onitsha, and at exactly that place where Road Safety people used to stay, almost all the Okada riders [motorcyclists] that ply that route dropped there. And I saw one 608 and saw Keke windscreen that was shattered.
I looked and I saw somebody lying on the ground. I do not know whether he was dead or alive. When I was going in the morning also, around that same place, with Brother Chibuzo Chikezie, we equally met another horrible sight between Keke Napep [tricycle] and another big lorry.
So, these are human being, but we went out and we came back safely. We have good reasons why we should give God the praise, for there are some that will go out and they will never come back.
Some will end it in the hospitals. Some will end it having their legs amputated or even having their eyes removed.
Let us praise God. Now that we have the opportunity to listen to God while He speaks, give ear to the Word of God. Do not say, “I heard it last Sunday.”
If you have the spirit of God, you will know that there must be a divine reason why God said, “Go back, Revisit that same Message and see whether you can reproduce it. It may not be verbatim. It may even be better than the first.
Remember what happened when I handled the Family altar Message “Temptation (Trials of Your Faith).” You were all carried away. Your handsets were with you. It was after the Message that you realized that nobody recorded it.
Everybody was lamenting; this one said, “I thought Brother recorded.” That one, said “I thought Brother recorded.”
We missed it, only for us to come back that same day with the Message and then it became a global Message and no longer a nuclear family Message. What we received the second time we came became the highest so far.
So I believe that when we pray together with one spirit, our expectations today must be met. I want you also to look at the other angle.
Do you know that the entire world today is pinning their hopes on this Family? Do you know that?
You see why there should not be any sign of foolishness among us; no sign of misbehaviour, for your misbehaviour will earn you a bad reputation globally. Your name will go round the world as an evil man in the house of God.
Is it a light thing for you to be labeled evil and your name will go round the world? Unless you are a shameless fellow. If you are not a shameless fellow, nobody will tell you to comport yourself. I hope I am making sense?
When you are dozing, you are not with us. You are dozing because your spirit is not in the Message. Am I making sense?
Anybody who is dozing when we are handling the Word of God, is not a part of the message we are handling.
He is saying to hell with you. He is absent-minded, for you cannot doze off when you are in the Message.
So, I appeal to all of you to be sober and to be on the alert. If the minister is standing and he is talking, so we shall be standing and hearing him. Amen!
On this note, I invite our Pastor once again to the pulpit, and you know him. That is our Brother, Pastor Wisdom Odoemena to revisit that same Message. I have already given it a title. “TRUST GOD EVEN UNTO DEATH!”
So, Pastor, can we hear what God has for us through your mouth tonight as we surrender ourselves to the leading of the spirit of truth.
“20If you are really a part of God, there can never be a disagreement between you and God. Anytime there is disagreement in you with your spirit, bear it in mind that you are not a part of God. Remember the Message, “Spiritual Harmony.” If the spirit is not harmonizing with the Word you are receiving, you are not a part of the Word, and the Word is not part of you.” – THE SON OF MAN
‘RE-EXAMINE YOUR FAITH’, preached on 6th December, 2007 at The Household of God Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, Chapter 13 verse 20
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LET THERE BE NOTHING BETWEEN YOU AND GOD
Remain blessed Brethren. We thank God for what He has done for us, for this energizing word. It is a really great thing to stand before You.
God made us to understand that as far as we are still here on earth, as far as God is still with us, that we must continue to fight all the devices and strategies of the devil. We are not ignorant of it.
Let us consider 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11. This is because behind everything that happens to a seed of God, there is a reason why God wants it to happen. This Message that was preached yesterday, God knows why He did it.
God said that the devil will continue to fight us as long as we are still in our mortal bodies. We will continue to fight. we will continue to wage that war. If the devil comes out and labels himself the devil, we are going to avoid him.
But that is why he will cloth himself with many strategies, with many devises. It will only take the true Elect to recognize that this is the devil and fight him from the point of the Word of God.
2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11, Amplified version. To keep Satan from getting the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his wiles and intentions.
Good News Bible. In order to keep Satan from getting the upper hand of us; for we know what his plans are.
And the plans of the devil are to make sure there is no seed of God that is saved in this generation. That is why the devil fights all his battles day and night, supplying you with everything.
God said that the devil will use everything around you to fight you. He will use your home. He will use what you see. He will use what you hear. He will use wherever you are going in fighting you, just to make sure he destabilizes you.
He will use the food you eat, use your wife, water. Even use your bed.
The devil will use your friend through the phone calls and text Messages. Everything that he has, he will use it to fight the Elect of God.
He will do it just to have access to you.
The devil does not fight one that is not a seed of God. The devil does not fight his own. God knows who His people are, the same way the devil knows who his people are.
In the Holy Quran, God said the devil has sworn to adorn the pathway of error to all mankind, excluding Your chosen guided slaves purchased by Grace.
Pure truth!
39[Iblîs (Satan)] said: “O my Lord! Because you misled me, I shall indeed adorn the path of error for them (mankind) on the earth, and I shall mislead them all. 40″Except Your chosen, (guided) slaves among them.” [Surah 15:39 – 40 Hilali-Khan Translation]
39(Iblis) said: “O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,- 40″Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace).” [Surah 15:39 – 40 Abdullah Yusuf Ali Translation]
Except Your chosen guided slaves purchased by Grace.
We are slaves of God. Purchased by Grace.
Sure! That is why we are not ashamed to accept that we are slaves of God, because if you are not a slave of God, you are a slave of the devil. You must be purchased by Grace. You must be washed. What is that Grace?
The Grace is the opportunity that God has extended to all of us to walk ourselves into Him that we will know the truth. If it is not Grace, we will be wallowing away in various denominations and in our various ways of lives thinking that we will be saved there.
2 Corinthians 2:11 King James Version. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
That is why we are gathered here this evening, reminding ourselves of these truths that we know.
So that the devil will not mock and laugh at you.
Sure! So that he [devil] will not do what? Have an advantage over anybody in this Family.
As long as we have not put on our immortal bodies, we have not yet won the battle. We will keep on fighting until we see ourselves wearing that immortal body as Christ wears it.
Let us know that the devil is fighting every one of us individually. When you see it from that perspective, obedience to the Word of God becomes natural to you. This is because people have always seen obedience to the Word as doing God a favour. No!
My obedience to the Word of God is mainly helping me to overcome these strategies and devises of the devil, because you do not know what they are.
God said that our weapons of warfare are not carnal. The war we are fighting is not a carnal war, but a spiritual war.
4(for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) [2 Corinthians 10:4 KJV]
We heard the testimony of what God said about our Brother that passed on. It is to show us that we do not have every day in our hands.
Every single day that you see yourself living, see it that you are living your life for Christ and Christ alone.
When you see that you are living for Christ, you will do what the Psalmist said which is numbering your days and inclining your hearts unto wisdom. Let us get it in Psalm 90 verse 12.
12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. [Psalms 90:12 KJV]
Psalms 90:12 LB. Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are. Help us to spend them as we should. Amen!
And the best way to spend our days is spending our day with Christ, spending our day with the Word of God because the next minute, the next second is not guaranteed.
So what we should do is to make sure that every single day, our relationship with Christ is strong and active; having that vibrant relationship with God.
Anytime spent without Christ is a wasted time. A mere dissipation of human of energy.
Sure! Anytime spent without Christ is a mere dissipation of energy.
a wasted timE!
This is because Christ is the one that controls our affairs.
Just like a human being without Christ is a wasted human being.
Yes sir! So, this is what we should be doing. Inclining our hearts unto wisdom, knowing that the next second, the next minute is not guaranteed.
It is on that note that we do not postpone our salvation or our obedience to the Word of God. Whatever service we want to render to God, we do not postpone it to the next day. We do it that same day because we do not know if we can get the opportunity of living tomorrow.
If Brother Casmir had postponed his obedience to the next week or even to the next two weeks, he might have missed this opportunity. He might have missed this eternal life.
The moment one drops down in death, eternity begins. Destiny is decided. No reversion.
Sure! So what we should do is to make sure that our relationship with Christ is always strong.
Let us consider the Message titled: “God is known by His Attributes VolumE 2. This message was preached on 4th January 2015 at the Household of God Onitsha; Page 54 from verse 19
The worst thing that can befall any fellow is for THE SON OF MAN to keep you on a suspended silence. If you are intelligent, it is better that I talk to you, harass you, embarrass you, indict you, rebuke you than to keep you in a suspended silence.
So we prefer God indicting us. We prefer God’s indictments than God keeping quiet about us. The moment God keeps quiet about you as a child of God, your life is in danger. This is a time we should never allow anything to come between us and God.
We sing it in our song; [Nothing between my soul and the Saviour, Naught of this world’s delusive dream: I have renounced all sinful pleasure, Saviour is mine, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between my soul and the Saviour, So that His blessed face may be seen; Nothing preventing the least of His favour, Keep the way clear! Let nothing between.]
There should be nothing between you and God at a time like this. What is that thing that creates enmity between us and God? It is sin. What is sin? Unbelief. Disobedience.
That which you know to be the truth but your refusal to do it automatically becomes your sin. It becomes iniquity.
So, we should build ourselves up at a time like this. We should continue to move with God, following Him pace to pace. Whatever God is doing, we make sure that we are doing it so that God does not drop us.
We heard it on Sunday when God said that this move is on, and that God is in the business of dropping and also bringing in people.
He said that you might still be in the Fellowship, but God has dropped you. Brethren are you getting the Message? That you can be in the fellowship but God has dropped you.
That is, excommunicate you.
You can be in the Faith, yet God has dropped you. I am coming to somewhere.
Let us consider this message, “God delights in repeating what He did back yonder”. Volume 2. Sunday 3rd September 2017 at The Household of God Onitsha; Page 36 verse 15.
If it is a tree that is bearing good fruits, which no hand reaches, you will see some sticks on the leaves. whosoever that comes across it will pick up a stick and throw it on the fruit just to pluck it.
But if it is a bad fruit, even if it is at a level where peoples’ hands can touch it, whosoever crosses there will not pluck it. Though its seedlings are nice and rip but it is of no use.
For people to pick it is because it has good fruits and it is useful. You are the tree. I say, you are the tree!
Brethren, did we not hear this Voice this night? That every bad tree must produce bad fruit and every good tree must produce a good fruit, no matter where you plant it.
So what is my life showing you? With the level of the Word of God I have received, am I a bad fruit or am I a good fruit? We are the ones to answer these questions now.
With the level of teachings we have received, with the level of Messages we have received in this Most Holy Faith, is my life showing that I am raising the good fruit or that I am raising the bad fruit?
God said that when you begin to have an enmity with God, when there is something blocking your relationship with God or when there is something making that relationship to become very loose, your life is in danger.
You must have been bearing a bad fruit for your relationship with Christ to become very loose. True or false Brethren?
You must have been bearing bad fruits for God to start questioning you.
Even Distancing you.
Sure! God does not distance one that practically obeys His Word.
If you are intelligent enough, you better accept My harassment, indictment than for Me to keep silent over your matter.
It then means THE SON OF MAN has drawn conclusion, for God will not always chide.
“10I want to show you how God moves among His people and how God visits His people so that your faith will fail not. I have spoken to you concerning the VISITATION OF ANGELS and I said, “Do not carry it too far for that same Angel you are expecting is the Angel that is in your midst. You know Him very well and that was why the Church at Jos missed Him, not knowing the hour of their visitation.” 11In addition, the Lord has given them this last opportunity because they did not mean to do that but they were bewitched…,” – THE SON OF MAN
‘MYSTERY OF THE ANGELS’ Vol. 1, Chapter 1 verses 10-11, Preached on 29TH December, 1996 at the Household of God Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria.
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YOU CANNOT PREDICT THE LAST HOUR OF GOD’S VISITATION
We continue with the Message: “God is known by His Attributes volume 2; preached on 4th January 2015. Page 53:12 – 20. The time is over when THE SON OF MAN will lavish His time because of you. You are the one that needs the services of THE SON OF MAN. He does not need you.
You are the one that should stick to the time, when you have been privileged to be granted your request.
Do you know how many since last week that have been calling, writing, coming and asking THE SON OF MAN to grant them the opportunity of coming to see Him with their families? Yet, no way. …
How many know that THE SON OF MAN has no convenient time? If you are waiting for the convenient time, definitely till eternity.
Pure truth!
If you are looking for a convenient time, looking for the best time to obey God, thereby postponing your day of salvation, God said, “Till eternity, you can never see it.”
There is no convenient time for obeying God and there is no convenient time for disobeying God. There is no convenient time for doing bad, for doing evil. Am I making sense?
Every true seed of God is totally good for God is totally good. If you are not absolutely good, something is wrong with you.
If the Bride has attained perfection according to William Branham’s Message, the moment Christ has reproduced Himself in human form in the midst of the Bride, it then means you are not numbered among those that have attained that perfection for there is something that is still wrong in your life. If you doubt Me, you go to the Message titled: YOU ARE NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT ONE THING REMAINETH.
SO, THERE IS NOTHING THAT WE ARE MANIFESTING TODAY WHICH GOD HAS NOT SPOKEN ABOUT IN TIME PAST BECAUSE GOD SAID, EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF HIS MOUTH AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES A PROPHECY THAT STANDS TO BE FULFILLED, EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY.
Will the prophecy be fulfilled? Yes! Who will be the person that will fulfill it? We do not know. That is why a true seed of God makes the prayer, “I should not be the one that will fulfill the negative side of the Scripture. I am not ordained for that.”
Have you come to the level where you will say, “I am not ordained to fulfill that negative side of the Scripture? I am ordained to fulfill all the positive prophecies that God has mentioned about me.” Have you come to that certainty?
Have you come to that stage where you will be bold enough to say, “I am part of this translation? Without me, translation can never happen.” It is only possible when you are sure and certain that you have obeyed all that God has given to you.
You must keep on mounting pressure, keep on calling Me, and keep on repeating. One day, I must listen. I want to stress it in clear terms.
I love all of you. I do not have any preference. If there should be a preference, why should Apostle Ojiakor be weeping and crying just to hear Me talk?
And this is what is happening now. So whatever God said in time past has a continuous fulfilment.
And you remember that last Sunday, I shared the testimony, of how; while we were discussing about him and his children; his text message came in, full of apology.
While we were talking about his son who is staying at Awka, his own came in around 10 o’clock in the night on Saturday. And we read all of them together.
In the morning, we read this Message. When we got to this point, we marveled that what he fulfilled many years back in 2015 has not been conquered even till now.
It is not a good record that can be credited to him and his family that the Voice that roared on him in 2015 is still perching on him 5years after.
If he is alive in the Spirit, he should rest at nothing until this dirty record is erased. Can you imagine? The same thing word for word.
So that is why God said, “Be careful of the Voice that has roared on you.” What has God said concerning you? What efforts have you made to correct that which God has said concerning you? This is because God is ever watchful of His Word, making sure He brings it to fulfillment.
The same God said that if I should tell an individual that I would destroy him and he changes his heart, what did God say He will do? God said that He will reverse all that He has passed on that nation or that individual.
So, do not say, “God has spoken evil about me last four years.” You can make it right today. I say you can make it right this night.
It never took The sinner or the robber on the cross five years or ten years to make that decision. It was a statement that changed his eternal destiny. That decision was not made, planned or pre-planned for ten years or fifteen years.
So, you can make a decision this night, “That thing that is blocking me from God; that thing that is hindering God’s love and mercy from reaching me; that thing that has made that same Voice spoken about me many years ago to fulfill on my head, I can change it this night, only if I can accept it and believe it with my heart.”
Remember the thief was hanging on the cross, not intending to come down alive. He had already been crucified according to the ways the Jewish people used to crucify people.
Seeing that he was still alive on the cross; not given up the ghost yet; and Christ was also hanging there but committed no crime, he saw it as a wonderful opportunity.
He used his last minute opportunity, last minute grace to appeal for his eternal destiny. He used that last breathe, “I know I am not coming down, but let me use this last breathe and make this humble appeal. My Lord, ignore that foolish man by your left, I know you to be a righteous one that never sinned.
We are guilty of the offence for which cause we are dying, but you are guiltless. I make this solemn appeal my Lord, “If I have found favour in your eyes, remember me in your Father’s Paradise”, he said.
Jesus replied immediately, “I tell you most solemnly this day, not another day, but today, you will be with me in my Father’s Paradise” And that settled it.
32Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals–one on his right, the other on his left. …….
39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:32-33, 39-43)
Then the young thief now rested in peace, had a quiet resting place in God while the foolish misused the opportunity.
Instead of using the opportunity wisely, he used it to ridicule the Messiah, to scoff at him, to laugh at him and to sneer at him. And he ended it where the scoffers and mockers will end it even in our own day.
YOU MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY of CHRIST COMING YOUR WAY. IT MAY BE YOUR LAST HOUR OF CHRIST’S VISITATION.
THERE IS NOBODY HERE WHO CAN PREDICT HIS OWN LAST HOUR OF GOD’S VISITATION. THAT IS WHY WHEN YOU HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, USE IT IMMEDIATELY. DELAY NOT, FOR DELAY CAN BE DANGEROUS.
So, knowing fully well that God is ever upholding us, ever guiding His own and making sure that we do not fulfill those negative sides of the Scripture, what should we do? We should keep on trusting Him even unto death.
Whatever it is going to take for us to keep on trusting Him, we would keep on believing, and we would keep on following, knowing that all these things that seem to be stories or that seem to be parable are going to fulfill one day.
Brethren, let us consider the Book of Psalms 48 verse 14 (AMP). For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even until death.
He will do what? Be our Guide even until death. What is He doing today? Guiding us from error, making sure that we do not bear that past route.
He is making sure that at the end of the day, our toils and our sorrows, all will be forgotten when we see ourselves in Paradise.
Brethren, is it not the aim of God? That is why we bear all the harassments and embarrassment with joy because every correction that changes life must destabilize you. It must hurt you. It must scatter you.
Even Scandalize you.
It must scandalize you for that correction to bear fruit in your life. So it is better God keeps on shouting at me. It is better God keeps indicting me than for God to close His mouth concerning me. So happy is the one who God embarrasses, who God indicts, who God chastises because He loves such a fellow. Amen.
11For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness–in conformity to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God]. [Hebrews 12:11 AMP]
[11]Being punished isn’t enjoyable while it is happening—it hurts! But afterwards we can see the result, a quiet growth in grace and character. [Hebrews 12:11 LB]
Psalms 48: 14 LB. For this great God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide until we die. He will be our guide until we wear this immortal body. This great God is our God.
Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5 through 6 (AMP). Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances…
Brethren, is there anything now that cannot change even the economy? One that is thinking the world will get better, Brethren is there any sign for that?
He is blind.
You should be satisfied with your present circumstance, knowing that all is well between you and God. That should be your satisfaction.
The Psalmist said that I do not bother about gold, land, silver, whatever, money; the only thing that matters to me is that I wake up and find out that all is well between me and my God. It should be our greatest satisfaction at this point in time.
That All is well between us and God.
[36]Help me to prefer obedience to making money! …….. [71-72] The punishment you gave me was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws. They are more valuable to me than millions in silver and gold! [Psalms 119:36, 71 – 72 LB]
Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5 through 6 (AMP). Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. Hallelujah!
He will never in any way leave you or leave us without support. So when that indictment is very hot, God is there helping you. The Book of Philippians 2:13 said that it is Christ in us helping us want to obey Him.
He is the One that will chastise you and still be at the back to hold you.
17″Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. 18For he wounds, but he also binds up; he injures, but his hands also heal. [Job 5:17 – 18 NIV]
He is the One that will indict you. He is the same God that will call you back and hold you. What a precious God that we serve?
[I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not… Brethren, three times! [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down… Amen!
He can never let us down nor forsake us. So in every trial, in every temptation, in every problem, He is there always watching over us.
For the Lord can never forsake His own. He is always mindful of His own.
And the Bible said that whosoever that trusts Him can never be disappointed. Neither will he be put to shame. But woe is he that trusteth in a man.
5They cried to You and were delivered; they trusted in, leaned on, and confidently relied on You, and were not ashamed or confounded or disappointed. [Psalms 22:5 AMP]
5Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. [Jeremiah 17:5 KJV]
Hebrews 13:6 AMP. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
I will never relax My hold on you. So, He is the One holding us firmly, holding us very strong, making sure that we do not fall away. Amen.
6So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me? (AMP)
“21 One can easily notice how Satan easily deceived Eve, a type of the Church of God in the beginning. THE DEVIL NEVER CAME AS A STARK UNBELIEVER, RATHER HE ACCEPTED THAT WHAT EVE (THE CHURCH) QUOTED WAS FROM GOD BUT IN HIS SMARTNESS, HE QUESTIONED THE WORD AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD, ONLY TO INTRODUCE HIS OWN SYSTEM.”
– THE SON OF MAN
‘THE BOOK OF PROPHECIES (REVELATION) FULFILLING’ VOLUME. 2, Preached on 21st August 2011 at The Household of God Onitsha, Chapter 2 verse 21
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AN UNBELIEVER IS AN UNBELIEVER
Hebrew 13:5-6 LB. 5Stay away from the love of money;…
Which is the root of all evils. The love of money is the root of all evils.
…be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never, never fail you nor forsake you.” Amen!
6That is why we can say without any doubt or fear, “The Lord is my Helper, and I am not afraid of anything that mere man can do to me.”
Romans 8:6, AMP. 6Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. Amen.
The mind of the flesh is what? Sense and reason without the holy spirit, without the guide of God
But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. Amen.
Good News Bible.6To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace.
Living Bible. 6Following after the Holy Spirit leads to life and peace, but following after the old nature leads to death 7because the old sinful nature within us is against God.
Our human nature has always been proved to be against God. That is why God said we must rig away all human senses and all human reasoning.
You can never have this human sense and human reasoning; this adult sense and expect salvation from God.
Impossible!
So we keep on holding on to this more sure word of His promise.
Brethren, let us consider this Message titled: THOSE THAT DO NOT BELIEVE OUR FAITH, Page 9 verse 9. Once you get into God, once you are in God, you have entered. Nothing can bring you out again.
Even if you desire to go out, there will not be any way for you because what is sustaining you is greater than you, for God is greater than you. Hallelujah!
So it can never be easy for the devil to pull us out again at this point in time. It is a thing of joy. What are we doing? Trusting God even unto death.
The problem we are having is that people contact sensational spirit they run around us, communicate with us, fellowship with us, giving us the impression that they have the spirit of God.
But there are certain things we will be seeing around them that will make us to start suspecting them because an Elect does not suspect an Elect. There is always a dividing line in each of them.
For you to come into the inner court, there must be a water of separation. You cleanse yourself there before you come into the inner court.
There in the inner court, you do not go into the holy of holies. There will be blood that will be sprinkled upon you. That is another cleansing.
When people are operating in the outer court, they are baptized in the name of Jesus. They can prophesy, they can see visions and do everything, but there is no separation there. That is why nobody is saved in the outer court.
Moreover, in that fellowship there is always the anointing that he is drawing from his fellow brethren. As a result, he will feel he is a part of what God is doing, while he is not a part of what God is doing.
Brethren are you getting the Message? So he is shouting and saying Amen because others are saying Amen. He is believing because others are believing.
The heat from his fellow brethren will be heating him up, but he does not know that he is not a part of what God is doing.
So, one thing is for you to follow God. Another thing is for God to recognize that you are following Him.
AN UNBELIEVER IS AN UNBELIEVER: What is more? When they are in the Fellowship, we must assign duties to them and assign offices to them.
They must hold offices in the Body whether they like it or not. Whether you are a man or a woman, you must do something in our midst because you cannot enjoy the worship of God’s people like that.
For that reason, we will give you some work to do. Yet, you are operating outside. With that position or office, the worship and the sensation, he thinks he is inside.
If a little thing happens to him, that is when you will see him saying, if not for this thing, nothing would have put me out. It is a lie. The fact is that he or she has never entered into Christ for one day.
It is pure truth. He has been in the Fellowship but not in Christ.
Sure! He has been having mere sensation and euphoria.
Being in the fellowship without being in God. A very pitiable condition. Dying in the Fellowship and dying in the work of the Fellowship thinking you are doing the work of God.
You attend to the needs of the Brethren. Whenever they are in need, you rush there. You are very, very benevolent. These things are very good, but you do not know that heathens do more than that.
Instead of fighting your way into Christ first, so that you can be sure of your ticket inside the kingdom of heaven before you can begin to look sideways.
That is why the number one commandment is “seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness. Every other thing shall be added unto you.”
Which means, every other thing becomes secondary. I must be in the vehicle, stay inside and then beckon other people to come in. I will not be outside the bus. I will be inside, pay my fare, collect my ticket, sit down on my own seat number and be beckoning people to come in.
Lest I will stay outside, and by the time I will realize I am making a mistake, the ticket has finished and the manifest, filled. Then, you begin to tell the driver, “I was number one that arrived here. I helped people to enter.” That is rubbish.
As long as you never obtained the ticket, you are not a part of the trip. Who okays your ticket? The Son of Man. Who okays your ticket? The Son of Man. You must be sure and certain that you have collected the ticket to Paradise.
You must know your position before that D-day so that if you do not make it, you do not need to ask why. If you ask why, you will be the one that will answer the why, for what will hinder anybody is known by that person.
If you are in this Faith believing with all your heart, you know. If you are floating, you know. Am I making sense? If the Message is a good news to you, you know.
If it is a sad news, you know. It is sad news in that it is running contrary to your human nature. And you are not ready to adjust. And the Message is not ready to compromise with you. Amen.
Can God compromise with mere man? Impossible! Who are you? Mere maggot. How many years are you going to stay here on earth and perish?
So, while we are trusting God, it means trusting God’s Word. We are trusting God’s promises, making sure that we are believing all that God has promised us.
This is because if you have not believed, if you have not anchored your faith, there is no way you can put your trust in it.
If you must believe something, you must believe somebody before placing your trust in the person. Are you getting the Message?
So, I want to just point a few of God’s promises to us which God is not ready to change and which your unbelief cannot stop. My unbelief cannot stop them. And we will keep on trusting that promise until we see ourselves wearing that immortal body.
You can never trust in, confide in, depend on somebody you do not believe in.
Let us consider Hebrew chapter 7 verse 25 AMP. Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity)
Brethren, let us take note of this. Therefore, God is what? …able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Amen.
Hebrew chapter 7 verse 25 Living Bible. He is able to save completely all who come to God through him.
Our God is able to do what? …save completely all who come to God through Him. Since he will live forever, he will always be there to remind God that he has paid for their sins with his blood.
Brethren do we believe that God will live forever? This is what Christ is going to do, if only we believe that He can save us. Most of us do not believe that God can save us.
A Message went forth where God said that “On that day, most of you will be surprised when you see yourself in Paradise and you will say, “Oh! So the Son of Man can save me.””
This is because you will not believe that after everything you have done that He will go out of His way to save you. God said He will always do what? Save us. He is always willing to intervene and to intercede for His own.
Let us consider 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 1-5, AMP. Peter, an apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ, [writing] to the elect exiles of the dispersion scattered (sowed) abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood:
May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be realized in and through Christ, freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts].
It is through the entrance of this Word of God that we now have freedom from fears.
Freedom from agitating passions, and moral conflicts. And what? moral conflicts.
1 Peter chapter 1 verse 2-5 Living Bible. 2Dear friends, God the Father chose you long ago and knew you would become his children.
God did what? He chose us long ago and He knows that we are going to be His children. Hallelujah!
And the Holy Spirit has been at work in your hearts, cleansing you with the blood of Jesus Christ and making you to please him. May God bless you richly and grant you increasing freedom from all anxiety and fear.
3All honor to God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family.
So we are now members of God’s own family. Brethren have we seen what that grace has offered to us?
It is when you accept that grace that you will be set free from your conflicting agitations, your conflicting emotions, your passions; those things that direct your thoughts; those things that influence you. God will set you free from all, if only you can take Him at His Word.
1 Peter chapter 1 verse 3-5 Amplified Version. 3Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4[Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable],
God said that immortality is the inheritance of the Saints. Hallelujah. It is this grace that has given us this opportunity.
Let us consider Romans chapter 8 verse 32 through 35. It is when you accept this salvation, this grace that God has offered to you, that is when you will become happy in God.
That is when obedience, doing God a service will become very natural. Nobody will push you. You are not looking at your brother or your sister. You are not looking at anybody. You are only taking cognizance of you and God.
This is because when you keep on watching people, when you keep on watching what people are doing, you might slip away.
You become like a Pharisee that came to confess his sins and began to hear the confession of another person and said, “Oh! I am even better than this man. I thought he was holy. I thought this person was good.” Do not see any other person but see yourself and God. I should see myself and God.
“4…Brethren, there is nothing wrong with this Faith but something is wrong with those that are professing to be in this Faith. 5I was trying to remind you of the voices where the Devil is going to capitalize to destroy you, somebody heard it and fainted after confirming it to be true… 6GOD SAID, ONE: MAKE NO MISTAKE OF TELLING THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN: “I FORGOT IT.”… 7NUMBER TWO: MAKE NO MISTAKE OF TELLING HIM THAT YOU NEVER KNEW THAT HE MEANT IT, YOU DID NOT KNOW HE WAS SERIOUS. FOR HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS AND SAYS WHAT HE MEANS. THAT IT IS EASIER FOR HIM TO FORGIVE A MURDERER THAN TO FORGIVE THESE GREAT INIQUITIES.”
– THE SON OF MAN
‘I am the Standard for Judgment to all Men’ vol. 1, chapter 7 verses 4-7
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JEHOVAH IS RIGHT AND WE ARE WRONG
Romans 8:33-35 AMP. 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s Elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself?
Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? … Certainly nobody! … Will God, Who acquits us?]
34 Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us?
35 Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love? … Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love Brethren? Have you seen why God said we should quit quarrelling with God? Quit making arguments with God. Quit bringing God into arguments.
You should quit quarrelling with God! Accept this teaching as it is being given to you because once you obey God; once you hear His Word, all must be well with you. All must be well with me
Can a human being strive with his Maker? Can you strive and fight with your Maker? You know, often times people talk and behave in such a way that they might be thinking that they might be justified and God declared guilty.
Who has ever won his case against God? Has God ever failed in any law court? Who has ever dragged Him to court? That is why I warned you to remember the three “J’s”. (Jeremiah 12:1-6; Job 9:24; 10:1-3; Jonah 4:1-11).
Do not allow the three J’s to slip off your memory. Number one was Jeremiah, who thought He was finding fault with God by even calling God names.
He said, “Why do you allow wicked people to prosper, while righteous people suffer terribly in want and deprivation? It is injustice! And the Lord replied him in His own way.
He looked at Him and said, “If running with this mere men of Anathoth is wearying you down, what can you say when I will now unleash mayhem on you?
Where were you when I laid the foundation of the world? Can you tell me how many pillars I used to sustain it?
Jeremiah said, “I place my hands on my lips because I have asked too much.” That was Jeremiah.
In the case of Job also, the same thing happened. Job was querying and the Lord replied in the same vein.
Job now said, “I have sinned, for my mouth has caused me to err. Who am I that I should find fault with the Almighty, even when I know that He is the Almighty who can do all things and that innocent or guilty, He must destroy if He wants to?”
Your innocence means nothing if God wants to destroy you. That is why a man’s cleverness, subtlety, craftiness, your brilliance; can never save you, if God is against you.
Your riches won’t help you on Judgment Day; only righteousness counts then. [Proverbs 11:4 LB]
If you are wise and intelligent, no matter whatever might be your disposition, make sure you do not cause God to swear an oath against you, by saying “I have vowed within myself that no sacrifice, no prayer, no offering will atone, will appease Me for your iniquity, for I must surely destroy you and your family. And when I begin, I will make an end to it that the living will say, “Of a truth, this is the finger of the Lord.””
Job said, “I placed my hands on my lips, for I have spoken too much; all vanity!”
Then Jonah. Remember the three J’s. Prophet Jonah was sent to Nineveh, and he started accusing God, “I know You. You are a compassionate God that readily changes His mind. You will put me into trouble now. If I go to Nineveh and proclaim doom as you have directed me, they will now repent and You will change Your mind.”
God ignored Him. He went there, preached the Message. By the time he left, the whole Nineveh repented. And God changed His mind.
He started demonstrating against God. He went under an oak tree and sat down weeping, in anger and saying, “I have become a laughing stock to the people of Nineveh. I said You will put me into trouble. Now You have changed Your mind. You are no longer killing them. I have wasted my time.”
God looked at him and said, “Jonah, place yourself in the shoes of the people of Nineveh. If I wipe off Nineveh, what will be your profit? If I wipe off Nineveh that have gone away from their iniquities, Jonah what are you going to gain from their blood?”
“Now, if I should wipe off your own people when they have turned to righteousness, how will you feel?” Jonah said, “I am sorry. I put my hand on my lips. I have spoken too much.”
Can a man strive with his Maker? Whoever that does that has published his obituary, wrote his funeral oration, prepared his grave, garnished it and stacked food for his burial.
And he alone will attend his burial, bury himself and close his grave so that one hand will be on top. The whole world will see the hand as one that wrestled against God.
One hand must be on top. Anybody that digs his own grave and buries himself, one of his hands must be on top.
Just like we have seen the dreaded disease that is ravaging the whole world, called Bubonic plague. I have seen the pictures of those who are carrying it about in Japan, China, Bolivia and so on. Their hands on top.
Everybody is raising two hands towards the sky. God has won. God has always remained the winner and He will keep on winning till the end. That is why every true seed of God will remain a winner through Christ. Amen.
Job 21:22 21 “Quit quarreling with God! Agree with him and you will have peace at last!… Do what? Agree with Him, and you will have peace at last.
…His favour will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong. Amen! What will surround you Brethren?
…His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong.
I hope we are not sleeping? What will surround you? His favour!
Because God, Jehovah is always right and we are always wrong. Jehovah is always right, but man has always been in the wrong. True or false? Amen!
Any woman that is having disagreement with her husband and she is [feeling] at peace, feeling unconcerned, and saying she is enjoying peace, was never married from the very beginning. That woman never married. True or false?
But when she agrees with the husband, she begins to enjoy peace. Begins to enjoy sleeping, begins to enjoy food. She heaves a sigh of relief. True or false?
So it is between God and the Elect. Once you are an Elect of God, you have the seed of God in you, and you offend in one way or the other, you will feel like dying. Your heart will be fainting. Your legs will be shaking.
Any little thing, you are afraid. You know that your life is insecure until you make it right, and the love God has for you at the initial stage is restored. You are restored and reconciled with God.
Then you will go and celebrate. There will be inner celebration, inner joy and inner peace. Is it not true?
Whosoever that offends God and goes on priding himself about, saying; “Whatever God wants to do, let Him do”, that person is not a seed of God.
That is a seed of Cain, for Cain was number one born of the devil who answered God back. When God queried, “Cain! Where is your brother, Abel?” He said, “Why are you asking me this question? Am I my brother’s keeper?”
And he walked away from the presence of God, for which cause God placed a perpetual curse on him. Amen!
That is why whoever that hardens his heart against God must receive a perpetual curse that will open (expose) him or her to perpetual shame and perpetual reproach like Cain.
No true seed of God answers God back. True or false? Every true seed of God keeps quiet when God speaks. He only speaks when God wants him to speak. Amen.
Can a man argue with God and win in his argument? The ways of man are crooked. Is it not true?
The Bible said that God has considered all the ways of man, “And in all their plans, I have discovered they are always crooked.” Man delights in walking in a crooked way. Amen.
ANY CHILD THAT FEELS COMFORTABLE WHEN HE IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH HIS PARENTS, THAT CHILD IS A BASTARD.
There is no child born in a family that is at peace or comfortable when he is having problems with his father. And until he makes peace with his father, he will never be at peace.
He will always feel insecured. When his phone rings, he will jump to know if it is his father. If he hears the horn of the car, he will jump to see if he is the one.
And watch it. That time he has not made peace, he is afraid of the parents and he does not go near the parents.
But the moment he makes peace, he comes with every amount of boldness; every amount of confidence because he knows that the father or the mother cannot hurt him. This is so between us and God.
When you are having problems with God, that is when you will lose boldness before God.
Sure!
Even the time to preach, you cannot even kneel down and pray because within you, you know God cannot answer that prayer.
Everything will be opposing you. If you are on the highway, the vehicle will spoil or you have an accident. Everything around you will oppose you.
Everything means everything.
Yes sir! This is because you are in enmity with your Maker. And you will rest at nothing until you will walkk yourself to the point where that peace and that love are restored.
The report reaching Me from the Elders since Friday, from Nkpor says that one of you, numbered among the youths, above fifteen years of age, was rebuked for doing evil. And she ran away from the house since Tuesday last week, and ran to her boyfriend. I am telling you the truth.
They thought she died, I said, “No, she is in the hands of a man.” On Saturday, they saw her there at Afor-Nkpor where she was buying few things, after which she found her way back to the boy.
The father is here. The mother is here. Among all the Brethren, she did not run to anybody’s house. She ran to her heathen friend at the age of fifteen. And she was born and brought up in this Faith, with tattoos all over her body right now.
You see? There is something in Divine course. No matter how you twist and scream, hear me well. Every man, every woman must go the way he or she is ordained.
If you are not ordained to serve God in Spirit and in Truth, there is no way, there is no adjustment you will make, that will make you to fit into God’s plan.
This is because as far as a seed of God is concerned, everything fits into God’s plan. Whatever that happens around a seed of God is fitting into God’s plan.
But if you are not a seed of God, there is nothing you will do, even the thoughts of your heart, imaginations, plans, all of them will run contrary to the will of God.
Your desire, watch it! Everything you will be doing will be contrary to the will of God. You will be an expert in opposing the ways of truth, for everything in your life will be negative. Amen.
And in that negative condition you are standing, when you are hewed down, you will still be negative on the ground. The grave will never change it. Amen.
So how do you know such a fellow? Watch the person. Once the Message goes forth; once an instruction goes forth, it will only end at suppressing his/her feelings. The person will suppress his/her feelings for a while.
But in less than two weeks or three weeks, the real colour will manifest because what is controlling the person is by far greater than the individual.
“9 I love God…. I said, ‘Devil, you cannot see any good thing for snatching Bon Diuka away from Me.’ 10However, when I remember the Voice that spoke to Me concerning him, I said, ‘Well, to God be the glory’….When any man comes to the end of his own ministry, God knows how to stop it because God can never make a mistake….11When John the Baptist achieved his purpose God was not mindful of him again. 13….When He (Jesus) heard that John had been beheaded, what did He do?…,He just went His way. 14Somebody might be asking, ‘Was He not the man that claimed He could cause someone to resurrect?’ Was He claiming to do that? He did it…16The Apostles, the same way. Besides, we are still in the days of the Apostle. We are in the days of the Church. Trust God even unto death.”
– THE SON OF MAN
‘THE TRUE TOKEN’ VOL.2, Preached on 29TH December 1994 at the Household of God Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria. Chapter 3 verses 9-11, 13, 14 & 16
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TRUST GOD EVEN UNTO DEATH
We have a Message titled: “You Are Controlled by a Force Greater Than You.” And Christ is that force that is greater than us. And in another way, the devil can also be another force that is acting towards you or acting on you, which makes it that you can never condescend or give ear to the Word of God.
It is because he has been God’s enemy from the very beginning and aims at making everybody to be in enmity with God, for God will never destroy a man until he becomes God’s enemy.
Remember that fire will come from the Presence of God to devour all His adversaries. Adversaries mean God’s own enemies.
Who is God’s greatest enemy? One that is always acting contrary to the truth that is evidently set out before his eyes. He is challenging God’s power.
That is why St Paul said, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to them that believe, both the Jews and Gentiles.”
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16).
Is there any other power God will use to save us if not through the Word? Anybody opposing the Word has already marked himself out of eternal life. Seeing that you do not believe, you have counted yourself unworthy of eternal life.
So, know where you are and who you are when you are in God. Check your experiences. Check the Word that has been going forth on your head.
This is because what happens to those individuals is that when they hear the Word of God, they begin reasoning the Word of God. They begin quarrelling with God inside.
Outwardly, they will say Amen. Outwardly, they will say “Yes Sir”. Outwardly they will look angelic. These are the people you should avoid in your families, in your congregations because they are the ones that are experts in leading other people astray.
DISOBEDIENT PEOPLE HAVE ONLY BUT ONE MISSION: THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE WORD OF GOD. THEY WANT TO HAVE THEIR WAYS IN EVERYTHING. THEY WANT THEIR OWN WILL, AND NOT GOD’S WILL TO BE ESTABLISHED. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE EXTREMELY SELFISH. THEY ARE EXTREMELY SELFISH.
He wants only his way and he will oppose every correction or every word that is aimed at correcting him from that evil way.
And look at another thing you will take note of. He will like to draw many souls to himself so that he will not be the only person that will be destroyed.
That is what the devil did from the Garden of Eden. He pulled three-quarters to his side.
He pulled three-quarters to his side just to make sure he is not being destroyed alone. The person will tell you that it does not matter. “DOES IT REALLY MATTER?” This is true. This is the beginning of you falling away from the Faith.
Every true seed of God stands where God stands.
The moment you have that spirit of “IT DOES NOT MATTER”; Once God labels somebody an unbeliever, he will stand where God said that over-sympathizing with an unbeliever makes God a liar.
When you show sympathy; showing unnecessary sympathy to one that is out of the way of truth, you are indirectly making God a liar.
And you will bear the consequences with him. Like all that sympathized with Ahab and their family, did God spare them? They got the same punishment.
This is because God said that He is not only going to be against those that commit sin but those that take pleasure in them that commit sin. Those that are doing evil. Those that resist the Word of God, brag and boast with the devil and boast in their strength.
If you join hands with them, taking delight in following them, God will not spare you.
God will not do what? Spare you. So watch that place. Watch the individual that you are calling your asylum. Where do you run to when the Word of God goes very hard on you?
When the Word of God is aimed at correcting you, who are you running to? Who is housing you? Because if the Word of God does not comfort you, there is nothing that can comfort you.
[1] The Word of God that you receive is that same Word of God that will break you. [2] The Word of God will still build you. [3] That same Word of God will restore you back to your former position. The Word of God does these three things at the same time.
But when the Word of God destabilizes you, where are you running to? Who is your point of comfort? Where are you hiding? Who are you hiding under?
But every true seed of God takes his refuge under Christ.
Whoever that disbelieves God is God’s enemy. That is why the Bible said, “Do not give that person a handshake.” A handshake of an enemy of God can never be an asylum for peace.
20All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. …….. 22If anyone does not love the Lord—a curse be on him. Come, O Lord! [Corinthians 16:20, 22 NIV]
God will place you where that his enemy is, for a true seed of God hates whatever God hates, and does not rejoice in iniquity. Is it not true? How do you know whether you love God?
Love does not rejoice in iniquity or in evil. Love does not take sides with it at all. To love is to hate evil. Are you getting what I am saying?
To love is to hate evil. So whosoever that always corrects you, chastises you, embarrasses you whenever you are in evil, cherish that person most.
But he that accommodates you, gives you comfort when you are in enmity with your Maker, the person wants your destruction.
He is your known enemy.
Sure! Mark that person as your known enemy.
Let us consider this Message titled: THOSE THAT DO NOT HAVE OUR FAITH, Preached on 11th September 2001 at the household of God Onitsha; page 16 verses 27 – 31. I was already SANCTIFIED and SEALED before I was sent. I was JUSTIFIED, SANCTIFIED, SEALED before I was sent. Otherwise, I will not be capable to carry you along.
I am the CAPTAIN of this Ship of Salvation. I was already guaranteed before I was sent. Hence, I am not struggling to repent. I want that one to settle in your heart.
Talking about hell, you have the right to mention it, but if you associate Brother Odoemena with it, you are just dreaming.
You can be an interpreter interpreting for Me. Yet, you have not entered. So, the emphasis is that you should make sure that you have entered.
The place you are entering is our Holy Ghost That is our place of rest. It is our only Token. Whoever that enters that place, he rests. He rests with blessed assurance.
Our refuge!
That is when you can say that you are now resting with your blessed assurance.
Song: Blessed quietness, holy quietness, what assurance in my soul. On the stormy sea, He speaks peace to me. How the billows cease to roll.
That is when you can say you are now hiding on that Solid Rock. That is when you can say you have anchored your soul on that haven of rest that cannot be shaken.
Where you are having a quiet resting place. What a quiet resting place.
There will be no suffering again, no sickness, no pain. Nothing suggesting to you that there can be danger around you.
But when you are not in that rest, you will continue to have sorrows. You will continue to have crises because Christ is absent.
The absence of Christ in the life of a man is the presence of crisis in that life. If God [CHRIST] is not in your life, there is crisis in your life. The two can never be in your life at the same time.
So, if you watch that civil war that is going on in your life, it is because you have not allowed Christ to reign in your life. You have not trusted in His Word or in His promise to be able to keep him.
And anyone you are supporting is the one that will rule you. That one will have control and dominion over you, whether Christ unto life or the devil unto death.
30But when many of you comes into the Fellowship of the Saints, you feel that you are saved because of the anointing that is in Me [the Almighty].
But when you go to your various homes and have an examination of your life in line with the Faith, you will see that you are even warring against the Faith in one way or the other. A sure sign that you have not entered. You are still outside.
31This matter does not know who you are. It is for you. It is for your Brother. It is for your Sister. You have to make sure that you have entered.
THOSE THAT DO NOT HAVE OUR FAITH; Page 20 from verse 37. Let it be known to you that those things that were written in the Epistle and all our Messages were written by God Himself. They must fulfill in the Bride.
When we started the Message, I told us that you must either fulfill a positive side of the scriptures or a negative side of the scriptures.
DO NOT EVER RELY ON GRACE. GRACE IS TALKING TO YOU. HE, THE SON OF MAN, THE MERCY SEAT, WHO IS TALKING TO YOU THIS DAY IS THE GRACE AND TRUTH.
So, the time when you say “the Grace of God will save me and the Grace of God will do this” are over. God said that it is the Grace of God that you are hearing the Message this night.
And if you can anchor your soul this night; if you can change that stony heart this night; if that heart can become a fertile heart this night, God is still offering salvation up till this day. God still saves, if only we can trust in God’s power of salvation.
Song: I have anchored my soul in the haven of rest. I’ll sail the wild seas no more. The tempest may sweep o’er the wild stormy deep. In Christ, I am safe evermore.
Let us consider Jude verses 24 – 25 in the Amplified version of the Bible. Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]
To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it).
Verse 25 again: Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished…
Brethren, have you seen the aim of God all these years? He said He will rest at nothing. “Continue to doubt, I will continue to move. Continue to doubt, I will continue to go.” He said that your doubt and unbelief can never stop this move. And we have seen it.
Watch all those that have been doubting God, and look at where we are now. If they were told that we will get to this place, they will never believe it. But God said, “Keep on believing Me, keep on following Me. Towards the end, you will understand all things.”
…and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]……
Jude 1 verses 24 – 25 LB. And now—all glory to him who alone is God, who saves us through Jesus Christ our Lord; yes, splendor and majesty, all power and authority are his from the beginning; his they are and his they evermore shall be.
And he is able to keep you from slipping and falling away,…
He is able to do what? Keep us from slipping and falling away. Brethren do you believe that?
…and to bring you, sinless and perfect…, Amen! Have you see the aim of these correction, embarrassment and the indictment? It is just to bring us sinless and perfect before Him.
…into his glorious presence with mighty shouts of everlasting joy. Amen.
Song: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD all ye earth. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. make a joyful noise all the earth. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord…….
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GET RID OF ALL THAT IS WRONG IN YOUR LIFE
Brethren before I come down, I want to remind us that God should never keep quiet concerning us. Have you seen that His aim is to bring us sinless and perfect?
So we should accept the embarrassment, the indictment, the chastisement, no matter how hot it comes on us; no matter how it destabilizes us; and no matter how it puts us away, accept it in good faith because He is not doing that to destroy us, but to save us.
So I am reading from the Message again GOD IS KNOWN BY HIS ATTRBUTES VOLUME 2; Preached on Sunday 4th January 2015; Page 54 from verse 19.
The worst thing that can befall any fellow is for the Son of Man to keep you on a suspended silence.
If you are intelligent, it is better that I talk to you, harass you, embarrass you, indict, rebuke than to keep you in a suspended silence.
Even if you ask a question, I will tell you “Bear with Me for now. I have nothing to offer you, for now and in the near future.” You go further, I will tell you, “I do not know. Do that which you want.
And that which God does not know, who knows it? But when you have taken your decision, then He will speak, pointing you back to the voice He spoke to you long, long time ago on the same matter.
The greatest love God can show you is to point you back to the same Word that He spoke to you which you failed to obey.
Lastly Brethren, let us consider James chapter 1 from verse 21 to 22 in the New International Version of the Bible.
Therefore, GET RID OF ALL MORAL FILTH AND THE EVIL THAT IS SO PREVALENT… Brethren do what? Get rid of all moral filth.
The filthiness of the mind and the filthiness of the soul, God said we should get rid of them this night. Did God say tomorrow? Let us not postpone it. God is saying this night.
Therefore, GET RID OF ALL MORAL FILTH AND THE EVIL THAT IS SO PREVALENT…
Brethren all these things we heard today, are they not prevalent in the world today? Even in the midst of the Bride, as we can hear what God said today, there is a great departure from the truth. People are now doing that which they think, and no longer what God said.
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,…
Brethren God is begging us. We should humbly accept this Message today which He has planted into us.
…and humbly accept the word planted in you WHICH CAN SAVE YOU. Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Do what this Message says. Let this Message push you up. Let this Message lead you back to the presence of God if you have wandered away.
Let this Message restore you to your original position. God said He is not willing that any should be destroyed. That is why He is still reaching out to us.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. [2 Peter 3:9 KJV]
See this day as an opportunity to walk yourself back into Christ.
James 1:21 – 22 AMP. So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness,… It is wickedness for us to disobey God. The Bible said it is wickedness. God sees it as a challenge.
The moment you disobey God, God sees every disobedience to His Word as a challenge. That is why He will come out with full force to face you.
Disobeying God means that you have a better way of doing it. And God will like to see it. But God is saying this night that we should do away with that.
Stop contending with God. Stop quarrelling with God. Stop arguing with God. Stop having problems with God. Accept the Word of God, and all may be well with you.
So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls.
It does what brethren? Contains the power to save your souls. Brethren I cannot hear you. Let us say it again. It has the power to Save our souls.
But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it,…
The same way I am talking to us, I am also talking to myself because God is not looking for great preachers but great believers.
….betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth].
By merely listening, you betray yourself into deception by reasoning contrary to the truth.
James 1:21 – 22 Living Bible. SO GET RID OF ALL THAT IS WRONG IN YOUR LIFE,… Brethren, get rid of all that is wrong in my life and in your life. Did God say tomorrow?
7Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, 8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: [Hebrews 3:7 – 8 KJV]
Today, because you do not know what the next minute awaits.
SO GET RID OF ALL THAT IS WRONG IN YOUR LIFE, both inside and outside, and humbly be glad for the wonderful message we have received,…
Brethren, if you are glad why not give God a wonderful round of applause for the wonderful Message you have received. To some, this Message will provoke them. This Message will trigger the wrong spirit, for it will provoke some people.
But God said we should be glad. and humbly be glad for the wonderful message we have received, for it is able to save our souls as it takes hold of our hearts.
So if it does not take hold of our hearts, can it save our souls? This Word should be able to take hold of our hearts.
And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to So don’t fool yourselves.
On this note, brethren I say remain blessed in Him eternally. As we keep on believing; as we keep on obeying all these messages; in no distant time, we will see ourselves sliding in Paradise. This is our earnest desire.
“8 1Was God wrong in His accusations? God forbid. Many of us did not know the essence of this Faith, for if you are given this gold, you carry the gold and put it in your closet, that gold is not purified to start with. Thus, how can you appreciate the gold? For it is the word of God that we are receiving on a daily basis that will purify you and I unto that hour. The Son of Man said that the voice we are receiving is the transforming power that will transform you and unto immortality.”
– THE SON OF MAN
‘I AM THE STANDARD FOR JUDGMENT TO ALL MEN’ VOL. 1, Preached on 7TH October 2012 at The Household of God Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, Chapter 1 verse 81
CONCLUSION
To God be the glory. You can now see that a Seed of God can never tell lies. Exactly the same way we heard it yesterday, God reproduced it again.
I believe that the Word of God is settled in heaven where the devil cannot get into. So the bank where the Word of God is banked is in heaven and that heaven is here with us.
If God says, “Go and reproduce it”, He will release anointing. He will release the inspiration. He will keep on pumping it until it is reproduced. So that the aim of the Message and the purpose for which it was preached must be achieved.
The devil worked against it. And that was yesterday, but not today again. Amen! Shall we bow down our heads as we thank God tonight?
Song: [To God be the glory. To God be the honor. To God be thy glory. Great things He has done. We give you all the praises. We give you all the honor. We give all the praises. Great things you have done.]