PREACHED ON SUNDAY 2ND JUNE 2019 @ THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE VERY SON OF MAN
INTRODUCTION
PRAYER:
1. Let us bow down our heads! We bow down before Thee, The Great Jehovah, The Supreme Lawgiver, The Righteous One. We bow down at Thy feet.
2. He that liveth and reigneth forever and ever, The Creator of the whole universe, The Father of all Spirits, He that governs the affairs of men.
3. Life and death are in your hands. The All-powerful God. We are before you the Most Holy, the Most Righteous, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, Most Loving, Most Caring, Most Patient, Most Understanding and Most Tolerant God. We are before you.
4. The Only One that can forgive iniquity. Life and death are in your hands. Anybody you want to live will live. Anybody you want to die will die. We are before you.
5. The only God whose eyes searcheth out all the secrets of men, even the thoughts and imaginations of the heart, for all our ways are naked before you. Where shall we hide without you seeing us? That is why we come this morning.
6. We are here with you, O God this morning with sorrows and tears simply because we cannot understand, for there are too many things we cannot understand in this earth, but when we cross over there, we will understand all things.
7. [By and by when the morning comes, when all the saints of God are gathered home. We will tell the story how we overcome, for we’ll understand it better by and by.]
8. Father, we are here before you asking for your help. If you do not help us, who else will do it? The help of man is vain.
9. Out there, people are boasting and priding themselves about with their bows and arrows and with their physical strength.
10. Father, using their money as their armour, their businesses, their wives and their children, their property as their armour.
11. We are here O God, having only but one armour: “YOUR INFALLIBLE PROMISES”. We know who you are, for you are the Most Faithful God, ever faithful to your promises.
12. Here we are O God this morning praising and adoring you, worshiping you O God the much we know.
13. And at the same time, using this golden opportunity this morning offered to us in the land of the living to say farewell to our Brother Elochukwu Amobi, who it pleased you O God that he should be wrapped up to prevent further dangers.
14. You told us to be watchful; to be on the alert against spiritual dangers, but Father, we are feigning ignorance. We now behave as if there is no spiritual danger.
15. We now walk free, talk free, act free as if we are no longer under supervision, as if you will not bring us to judgment for all our misbehaviours.
16. Every misconduct is sinful in your sight and you hate people who are noted for misconduct and you take delight in those who do your good will.
17. [When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, what a glory He sheds on our way. When we do His good will, He abides with us still and with all who will trust and obey. Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy with the Lord, but to trust and obey.]
18. Help us O God. Teach us to trust and obey you. Help us to understand that YOU ARE OF PURER EYES THAN TO BEHOLD INIQUITY. Help us to understand that you are the only Righteous Judge who judges without respect of persons.
19. Father, we have seen your similitude and we have no way of escape again, for you have told us that you have come to live among us.
20. And you have charged us with a great responsibility that if we are sure and convinced that we have chosen you as our God, we should come out fully and worship you in spirit and in truth.
21. But where we are not sure and certain, that we should leave your presence alive with our families and then go and worship those things we think that are gods, which we know are no gods.
22. You made it clear to us that God is never destructive until He has revealed Himself to His people. For every misbehavior, disobedience, He regards as willful error, a deliberate act, a slight to His person, a slap on His face, a great insult He cannot tolerate.
23. Hence, He said “I myself personally will handle this case”. Thank you because your glory is here. Your presence is here.
24. Thank you father, for we are enjoying your goodness and mercy. In your wrath, in your anger, please I make this request. Permit your grace and truth, your love and mercy to project.
25. To the family of our late Brother Elochukwu Amobi, Father we hand over to your care. I, the Son of Man, am sure and certain that if you do not step in, there is going to be bloodbath, for I know our Brother had a family but no home, and he set his family ablaze and then ran away into the grave.
26. Heavenly father, help all of us to bear it with joy and to rise up, respond wherever duty calls for us to see whether we can avert bloodbath.
27. A vacuum has been created among us for he remained our Treasure house, our store house, the Financial Secretary and our Treasurer, our Book keeper, our Librarian.
28. Father, who will fill this gap for us? Where do we go from here? That is why we decided to spend this hour standing in your presence worshiping and adoring you, making it clear to you how we love you.
29. [Oh how I love the Lord. Oh how I love the Lord. Oh how I love the Lord because He first loved me.]
30. Father, we have nothing to offer than to say, “Thank you.” Praises, honour, majesty, adoration be ascribed to your most Holy name for all you have done and all you are going to do.
31. Let your Spirit move through the Camp, saturate the hearts of all your children with your love and with thy truth. Comfort us with comfort wherewith others are comforted. For your name’s sake we pray. Amen.
YOUR DUTY IS TO DISCOVER WHY SOME DIED BUT YOU ARE ALIVE. SOME WERE ABORTED BUT YOU ARE ALIVE. SOME ARE CRIPPLED AND BLIND BUT YOU ARE HEALTHY AND COMPLETE. HAVE YOU DISCOVERED HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE FOR YOU? SOME ARE MARRIED WHILE SOME ARE UNMARRIED AND WILL REMAIN UNMARRIED UNTIL THEY DIE. SOME MARRIED AND DIVORCED, BUT YOU ARE LIVING IN YOUR OWN FAMILY. YOU ARE HAPPILY MARRIED WITH YOUR WIFE AND SO ON. SOME HAVE CHILDREN AND DIED. YOUR OWN ARE STILL ALIVE. HAVE YOU DISCOVERED WHY? FOR ANYTHING GOD IS DOING IN YOUR LIFE, THERE IS AN ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE HAS ALREADY PURPOSED FOR YOU AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL. WHEN YOU DO NOT DISCOVER THESE THINGS, THE TENDENCY IS THERE FOR YOU TO BE FINANCING GOD’S ENEMIES; FINANCING FORCES THAT ARE AGAINST YOU. BRAGGING!
33. OPEN YOUR EYES AGAINST SPIRITUAL DANGER (Every sign from God is a Stop Sign) VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday, 31st January, 2016; Pg. 36 vs. 59 – 62
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WE ARE SERVING A GOD THAT REVEALETH SECRETS
You can be seated. I never knew you could stand with Me for such a very long time. And when you sit down, you give Me audience.
2. Every dog must have a day. One that is often reproved, yet hardeneth his heart, what awaits him is sudden destruction. [Proverbs 29:1]
3. Pastor Dan take note. Stop eyeing the window. You got a Message from the mortuary that came to you direct last night.
4. The same way I have two Messages for other people. And I remember when Bishop Ifeanyi Eze died, I called the Elders in My house and said, “Heads are going to roll from now, for I did not see one single Elder standing before Me.”
5. Did I make it open? Elders did I say it? Apostle Orjiakor, did I not tell you this? Are you not aware of it? I hide nothing from the Elders.
6. What was my idea? To see whether they will take precaution, but instead, they are rolling into more grievous sins.
7. Apostle Kelechi had his own experience last night. It coincided with what I was telling you in My house. I authorized him to go and tell you the dream of how we abandoned you in the mortuary.
8. Whether you came out or not, he never knew, and you were busy refusing instructions, turning corpses that passed on, and we abandoned you in the mortuary.
9. If you like, call it a dream out of envy or hatred. I do not care. I know that we are serving a God that revealeth secrets. And I know it is not a good thing to abandon somebody in the midst of the dead, in the mortuary. I know it is not a good thing.
10. Moreso, when a Voice had already roared on your head, pointing you to that before the dream came. When God wants to confirm the truth, He comes in diverse forms.
11. Let Me announce to you that our Brother Elochukwu Amobi has joined his ancestors. His death was announced yesterday evening at exactly 6:47 pm.
12. We saw him as a human being last on Saturday, a week before yesterday. He came with four kola nuts in his usual manner and I did not take it lightly with him.
13. Elders who were around Me were more than ten. We gathered to share testimonies from Enugu Ezike. I descended on him heavily, not because I hated him, but it has been the same manner. I descended on Apostle Orjiakor who has been feigning ignorance.
14. Let Me tell you. If you are My friend, you will fight My course. But as long as you are opposing it by your character, by everything, I will declare you a known enemy.
15. If I am ready, number one I will gun down is you. This is because it is easier to learn evil from a friend than to learn from an enemy. True or false? Good.
16. Ik Ezindu! If you go out today, go and eat. Rejoice exceedingly because what happened to you or what would have happened to you, your mother captured it in Italy.
17. A woman who has never called Me for over one year now called, crying and kneeling down, pleading and making confessions. I have told you, and you confirmed she told you. I never compelled her to confess anything to Me.
18. She told Me the extent she did Me hurt. And I am happy I never hid it from the Elders and from My family that this woman did Me a great hurt and was coming to Me using IK, creating a room, understudying Me with the intent to hit.
19. But I was showing her love upon love, love upon love, and with love, I disarmed her. I even gave her a room in My house where she was staying any time she came from Italy. I charged her not a kobo.
20. I do not want to go further because if I should revisit it again, I will destroy IK. But thank your star that you listened to Me, “Do not move an inch. If you move, you will not get home.” And really, he would not have gotten home.
21. Begin to thank your God that number one, you were able to get Me online. The first time you tried, you did not get me. It was a missed call. After about an hour, you called again and you got Me.
22. You got the Message and you obeyed instantly there. That is your saviour. Those I sent to Ogidi yesterday, you were there when I stopped Pastor Dan from following just to save his life. And you know the time you came back.
23. Pastor Thomas never came back until few minutes to ten o’clock. That is to show you that it was not an easy trip in the night.
24. I know I will give you the report as I know. It is your entitlement from Me. There is no way a bird will fly in the sky without somebody seeing the stomach. Nothing happens for nothing. It will take the hand of man to handle a gun before it will fire.
25. Anybody who denies that he does not know that Elochukwu Amobi set his house on fire, that person is a liar. When you set your house on fire, that fire will burn you first. There was one musician that gave out a very nice song. He said, “Fire will burn you. Fire will burn you.”
26. Why will fire burn you? It is not the fire ignited by somebody, but the fire ignited by you. Is it an abomination if the trap you set for another man grips you?
27. If you are one who delights in making poison, is it an abomination that your own poison is put into your cup for you to have a taste of it?
28. If you love the family, pray for that family. I am not talking about home. There is no home. This has been a problem, and I have never given him a breathing space in addressing this issue. Because of the fire he set, all his children left the Faith.
29. We buried his first wife. Brethren true or false? We can talk about the second wife and how she came. Anybody can be a foreigner to Me, not Elochukwu Amobi.
30. So, on Friday morning, around 8:30, I got a call from our Brother Elochukwu Amobi. Do not be shocked that I am calling him Elochukwu Amobi. We fondly arrogated to him “Igwe Amobi” or “Igwe Ndi Nso.”
31. It is true that he is a born prince. He is the son of Igwe [traditional ruler], number two in the family, for he came from a royal family until the kingship became controversial.
32. Ogidi people then kicked against that family, saying there was no royalty attached to that family. They went to their ancient records and the case has been pending in the law court till now.
33. Igwe [traditional rulership] does not exist in Ogidi in general. And the reason why the people abhorred kingship coming from there is because they weighed all the so-called men, and there is not one worthy of the throne.
34. Ogidi dynasty is known for one thing just like Onitsha. They do not allow sycophants to take their stool. All that occupied that stool from the first Igwe to the fourth Igwe, there was not one that was not a notable figure.
35. You know about the one that was gunned down at Enugu. The medical Doctor, Igwe Amobi. He was gunned down by his own uncle, born of the same father. Big name! Igwe! There is no character that is not there.
36. So, be it known to you that we fondly refer to Elochukwu as Igwe Amobi. If you go to Ogidi and call him Igwe Amobi, you will be penalized. His family will be penalized.
37. Begin now to change your tongue to read “Brother Elochukwu Amobi” or “Prince Elochukwu Amobi.” Make no mistake of addressing him as “Igwe” before ogidi people.
38. It is like wearing a red cap in Ogidi. He can never try it, for he does not hold any chieftaincy title. If he tries it, they will burn his house.
39. So begin now to follow Me to call him Bro. Elochukwu Amobi so that by the time we organize the burial, you will be conversant with the address “Brother Elochukwu Amobi.”I hope I am making sense?
40. I want to save you from trouble, lest you go there and run into dangerous hands by addressing him as Igwe Amobi, and somebody will hold you on the waist.
41. So, Friday morning by 8am, I got that distress call from him directly. He said, “Sir, I woke up this morning and my legs are paining me seriously.”
42. I asked him, “Any other problem?” He said, “No.” “What of your hands?” He said, “No, my hands are okay.” I asked him, “Is there any other area paining you?” He said, “No other place, but my legs.”
43. I said, “Okay. Maybe you never slept well but nevertheless, Iyienu Specialist Hospital has been your hospital and it is a stone’s throw from your house. Go there for a checkup. Now pay attention to Me. When you get there, if Doctor Omaliko is there, mention My Name. If he is not there, meet any other doctor. They should test these things I am going to mention; [1] Random sugar, [2] Fasting sugar, [3] Your Blood pressure, [4] Widal test, [5] Malaria.”
44. He said that I should repeat. I repeated all of them again. Then he left with the Word, “When you come back, let Me know the outcome, for some of the results will come out immediately, while the others will come out after.”
45. In the evening of Friday, around 7pm, he called Me again. He said he came back from the hospital, and that the doctor saw him, gave him some drugs and then carried out only but one test.
46. I asked the nature of that test. He said that they only did scan. Surprised, I asked, “Scan? Where? He said, “On his legs.” I said, “You see why I call these big hospitals “BIG DEATH CENTRES? ”BIG DEATH CENTRES!
47. I said, “Igwe Amobi, please is there any other nearer hospital? A private hospital where you can go and do these tests I prescribed? He said he does not know any other.
48. I said, “Ok. I would have told you to come down to General hospital Onitsha, but it is already late. Tomorrow morning, being Saturday, you cannot get anybody there except those that are at the emergency unit. But let us pray till morning. You must do these tests.” He accepted.
49. I want you to understand also that that same Friday, he drove himself to the hospital and drove himself back.
50. Then, when he got there he said he could not walk about freely, they had to use wheelchair to help him by pushing him around, after which he entered his Volvo, manual gear and he drove himself back.
51. On Saturday morning, as early as 6:30am, My phone started ringing. We were having our Fellowship in the morning hours.
52. By 7:30am, I called back. He said he called Me to inform Me that he never slept the previous night and that it appeared the pains on his legs were getting worse.
53. I inquired about the hands. He said the hands were Ok. “What of your brain and everything? What of your mouth?” He said, “No, only that I am feeling a little weak.”
54. I said “Ok, stay there. I am sending people now who will come and assess you.
55. I called Apostle Kelechi, instructed him to take Bro. IK Obasanya who is mobile to rush to Ogidi immediately because they are very close there at Omagba.”
56. I knew they would try to take their early morning bath but I banned them, “Do not brush your teeth if you have not brushed. Do not attempt taking your bath. Go direct!”
57. The reason why I am sending them, they knew not. I did not want to disclose anything. My instruction went thus; “When you get there, call Me from his house.”
58. They obeyed even without brushing their teeth. They called Me from there to give Me the true narrative of the situation. They said they met him eating his breakfast. He was taking pap according to them.
59. I said, “Ok. Did he recognize you?”Surprised, they said he called them by their names and that they exchanged greetings. I told them to stay there till he finished eating.
60. They said he was using the food to take his drugs. At the end of the whole thing, they said that they noticed that he was actually weak.
61. I told Bro. IK who could describe the whole thing very well to collect the phone from Bro. Kelechi. He gave Me a rundown of the physical outlook.
62. I told Bro. IK, “From what you just told me, danger is lurking. The cells are gradually going down. I can see the whole thing progressing with time. After taking his drugs, all of you should come back to Omagba. I want to talk to you, but not while you are there. I am foreseeing that the brain will soon crash.”
63. They left that place, called Me from Omagba, I now explained vividly what they should expect.
64. Then I called home. His daughter [Ifeoma] picked My call. She said, “Dad, I was calling you, but your line was engaged.” I said, “Yes! I was discussing with Apostle Kelechi.”
65. She said they came. And she told Me everything. She said, “Daddy, after taking the drugs, my father’s condition became worse. He snapped and entered into coma. So, he became extremely dizzy.”
66. I now instructed that girl, “Do everything within your power. Arrange for a vehicle and rush him to the same Iyienu as emergency case.”
67. This is because they said his results would come out on Monday instead of admitting him, keeping him in the bed, watching over him for at least 48 hours.
68. I later discovered that it was not the doctor’s fault but Igwe Amobi refused saying that his house was a walk able distance. Secondly, he was querying, “Who will pay the bill?”
69. This is because there had been a big problem over money between him and the wife, which made them to divide accounts and spending. If they want to buy yam worth N10, the wife will bring N5 and Igwe will bring N5.
70. And I have tried to solve this problem, but there is no way. They are at daggers’ ends. Even the shop they established, they partitioned it.
71. Igwe cannot cross over to the wife and the wife cannot cross over to Igwe. And these people are sitting down here every Sunday shouting “Praise the Lord.”
If you are carrying the Bible, you will never know this one. Jesus never knew this one. The Apostles never knew this one. But the Son of Man, in whose generation you are, is the Hidden Revealer. We are living in the days of the Son of Man and not in the days of the Apostles. This is the day of the Son of Man. He is to tell you what God has in stock for you. He alone knows the way of escape for all mankind, for He has come as an Angel of Judgment and at the same time as a Messenger who holds the full and complete salvation to give to those who have been eagerly and patiently waiting for Him. Not everybody. I am not dealing with sin. Jesus Christ has finished with sin. I am here for My own mission which He had already alerted the world and they were in expectation.
HOLDING UNTO THE CERTAINTY OF THE FAITH: FOR THERE UNTO I AM BORN VOL 2; Preached on Sunday 9th April 2017; Pg. 62 vs. 30 – 36
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BE CAREFUL OVER MONEY
If you know you have seen Elochukwu Amobi here, this is his position. If you have ever seen him writing in a jotter, copying Message, show by raising your hand.
2. If you have ever seen him with a copy of the Bible or turning the Bible, show by raising your hand. The same is applicable to the wife.
3. But they are all educated. Elochukwu studied at Oko. He is a product of Oko Polytechnic. All of them retired as super civil servants at level 14 as auditors. So, they are all knowledgeable. They are intelligent. They can read and write.
4. They enter the same vehicle but they do not sleep in the same room, unless they want to fulfill their matrimonial obligations. But down home, the wife does not cook for the husband.
5. When Apostle Kelechi got there with Bro. IK, the wife was narrating the controversy that arose over breakfast, and when were they going to prepare the breakfast? By 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Somebody who had been sick since Wednesday was contending for breakfast and he had money.
6. His daughter reliably told Me that the father did not trust anybody concerning money. I said, “Yes! This is a characteristic feature of all Accountants. They value money more than life.”
7. So, if you are an accountant, pray that the spirit of money will not kill you. You may not be an accountant by profession or academically. You may be worse than the academic accountant.
8. Hence, your calculator will always be busy pressing how much you gave your wife, how she spent it, how many days you thought it will last, always accusing her of stealing your money and calling for rendition of account.
9. So, all these chartered and hired and self-imposed accountants, be very careful over money. Money was here before you came. I hope I am making sense?
10. I am sure and certain and I saw the cheque containing the amount Elochukwu collected last year as his gratuity. I saw that of the wife.
11. And I am sure and certain that even if they do not do anything, the amount contained in that cheque as gratuity, having served maximally and retired at level 14, truly speaking, will sustain him for the next ten years.
12. But the money remained in the house, remained in the bank and they were dying of starvation. They came to a table and divided themselves.
13. The wife said, “No more next of kin. Delete me and I delete you. We do not have next of kin. Spend your own, while I spend my own”. So, whoever his own finishes should now begin to endure. She took her own children and assigned the rest to Igwe Amobi.
14. Brethren, I have seen hell in that family. The more we talked, the worse it became. How many times have I brought him before the Elders?
15. Elders bear Me witness if I am telling lies. Have you not been joining Me in handling this useless case over and over and over? Even to give out money to the daughter Ifeoma to go to hospital for checkup, Igwe found it difficult.
16. For him to give them money for food, they must call Me over the phone. I had to mediate for Igwe to volunteer money to buy wrapper for the son’s wife.
17. I summoned Igwe and the wife, and summoned the whole Elders at Nsugbe, spoke for over three hours to convince them to help this small boy who impregnated a girl to take care of her, lest the girl will die. She is pregnant again and now Igwe is dead.
18. IF MONEY DOES NOT KILL YOU, YOU WILL KILL MONEY. IF YOUR GOD IS MONEY, YOU ARE PASSING ON.
19. Somebody who retired just about a year and nine months ago is now in the mortuary, not for any other thing but for the troubles he caused to himself and the wife will not learn her lessons. Let us be very careful brethren.
20. So what happened? He told Me everything and we rushed him there. I alerted the Brethren.
21. From the moment he entered that hospital, the story changed. All the Elders were with Mein My house yesterday.
22. I never stepped out except to see Pastor Chizoba and his family briefly. I rushed back for My phone continued ringing.
23. Igwe became violent and hostile to the point that he remained kicking, biting and wounding everybody. Nurses ran away. When they gave Me that report, I knew he was already on his way home.
24. But why should a Saint die that type of death? The only person I remembered became Pastor Obinna of Mbaise with horrible, horrible confessions he was vomiting out of his mouth, attacking his wife, attacking his children, attacking everybody. Yet, the eyes were closed.
25. He could not stay anywhere. The infusion fell off. Doctors were watching. When he got tired of talking, he closed his eyes and gave up the ghost. Is this a good confession?
26. I think we should go back to the 2019 NEW YEAR MESSAGE. And we should also go to the Message I saw on the table today, REMEMBER YOUR REWARD.
27. Remember the end of your life. And do not do away with the Message I handled at Enugu-Ezike while burying late Bishop Ifeanyi Eze; LIFE HERE STARTED ONE DAY: IT WILL END ONE DAY.
28. But what shall be the end of your own life? What troubled others, is it troubling you? The way you are going to die, when you are going to die, how you are going to die.
29. Did he know he was dying? Somebody who developed sickness on Wednesday, alerted Me on Friday and died on Saturday. And died on a memorable day June 1.
……when you know the Source of the Spoken Word, that the Source of Spoken Word is the Message of God sent to you in your day, happy are you. That He has become a human being, living among you, married with children, is not deviating from the order; It has been God’s way from the beginning. … While I am here, I am the Light of the world; Whoever follows Me can never grope in darkness. Take Me away, you are living in darkness and you must stumble: I say, you must stumble because I am paving the way for you. Did you get what I said? No matter the way you look at it, across the other way, you cannot hear another voice than the One you are hearing now. All that have been privileged to be taken over to the other side, they never heard any other voice than the Voice of the Bridegroom that is speaking in our midst. Are you getting what I am saying?……
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 178 vs. 14 & Pg. 179 vs. 17 – 18
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CONDUCT, ORDER AND DOCTRINE (1)
And because of this June 1, I want to remind you of something you have forgotten. Crucify Me if you can. I have always been drawing your attention to one thing.
2. If you know you are tired of worshiping God [if you ever worshiped Him for one day. I mean, for one second] If you are tired, please leave us.
3. We are not here to bury heathens that go to church. If we must bury, we should bury confirmed children of God. Confirmed by the Holy Spirit, approved by the Almighty God who has made His home in our midst.
4. You should not be identifying with us so that when you run into difficulty, we will come. If you die, we will take up the whole responsibilities because most of us come from wretched families that have nothing to offer.
5. If that is the reason why you are enduring everything and you are staying here, you are of all human being, the most miserable. What if we declare we are not attending your burial, will you take us to court? Are we indebted to you? A day is coming when I will use one as a naked example.
6. Please, with effect from this morning, I want to remind you of an order. Go to the Message C.O.D. In all our Messages on marriages, family and so on, God slammed the order.
7. NO WIFE THAT IS MARRIED, THAT HAS A HOME SHOULD ENGAGE IN ANYTHING WORK, PERSONAL WORK ON A SATURDAY. SATURDAY, FROM THE BEGINNING, WAS DECLARED WORK-FREE DAY FOR ALL HOUSE WIVES. BRETHREN TRUE OR FALSE?
8. Even heathens! Watch heathens. Many of them do not go to that work. They use that day to take good care of their homes and put many things in order. True or false?
9. If I do not say it, I am seeing a future where people will work even on Sunday. Another one God stipulated when God said, “WORK IS ORDAINED OF GOD.” He said, “OVER TIME IS ONLY APPROVED FOR MEN, NOT FOR WOMEN.”
10. And the Voice said, “I WILL CHANGE EVERY OTHER DOCTRINE, BUT NOT MARRIAGE DOCTRINE.”
11. In that marriage doctrine, He said, “WHEN A WOMAN’S STUBBORNNESS COMES TO A POINT WHERE THE HUSBAND PERMITS HER TO DO AS SHE WISHES; A WOMAN’S STUBBORNNESS COMES TO A POINT WHERE THE HUSBAND PERMITS HER TO DO AS SHE WISHES”, HE SAID, “BE IT KNOWN TO YOU THAT YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL AND YOU KNOW IT NOT”.
12. You can go to all the marriage doctrines. GOD STIPULATED IT THERE THAT A WOMAN IS A HELP MEET FOR THE MAN, NOT THE BREAD WINNER.
13. THAT ANY MAN THAT DISPLACES THIS ORDER HAS ALREADY PREPARED ETERNAL HELL FOR HIS FAMILY. THIS ORDER STARTED FROM THE BEGINNING AND MUST BE THERE TO ALL GENERATION.
14. THE WOMAN CAN ONLY BE THE BREADWINNER IF THE HUSBAND IS INCAPACITATED OR THROWN OUT OF WORK, WHICH MEANS HE IS UNEMPLOYED.
15. THE SAME WAY, GOD CANCELLED THE IDEA OF A WOMAN BORROWING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE FAMILY. HE SAID, “IT IS UNHEARD OF. IT IS UNHEARD OF, A WOMAN OBTAINING LOAN, BORROWING TO RUN THE FAMILY WHEN THE HUSBAND IS ALIVE. THE HUSBAND SHOULD GO TO A MORTUARY.
16. I am now bringing you back to the area where you have fallen VERY grievously.
17. AND GOD SAID THAT AS LONG AS IT IS NOT CHEATING, IT IS NOT STEALING , EVERY MAN, AN IDEAL HUSBAND MUST LABOUR TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIS FAMILY, MEET UP WITH HIS DIRECT RESPONSIBILITIES AND NOT SHIFTING THEM TO THE WIFE, FOR YOUR WIFE IS ONLY GOING TO OFFER A HELP. I HOPE I AM MAKING SENSE?
18. I do not want to talk about the income because many have now built their own doctrines.
19. BUT THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST SAYS THAT EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE OFF HIS EYES FROM HIS WIFE’S INCOME. THAT IF YOU ARE WISE, INSTEAD OF COLLECTING IT FROM HER, YOU WILL ADD MORE TO ENABLE HER MEET WITH THOSE CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES.
20. HER DUTY IS TO PRESENT THE SALARY TO YOU EITHER BY CASH OR BY ANNOUNCING IT TO YOU, AND NOT FOR YOU TO DEMAND FOR IT FOR YOUR PERSONAL EXPENDITURE.
21. THAT A WOMAN’S SALARY IS FOR DOMESTIC EXPENDITURE WHILE THAT OF THE MAN IS FOR INVESTMENT. AND THE GREATEST INVESTMENT IS EDUCATION. THE SECOND IS BUILDING A HOUSE. Brethren, true or false?
22. Today, the man is not investing and yet, he is not investing in the domestic side, he is not investing in a project.
23. WHEN THE WIFE HAS TAKEN OVER THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MAN, YOU HAVE ARMED YOUR HUSBAND TO BEHAVE AS HE WISHES, SPEND HIS OWN MONEY THE WAY HE WANTS. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO QUERY BECAUSE YOU ARE CAPABLE, YOU HAVE ASSUMED IT ALL.
24. If my children are driven away from school for nonpayment of school fees, who should cover his face in shame? My wife or myself? Myself. This is because it is my direct responsibility.
25. A DUTY I OWE MY CHILDREN IS TO GIVE THEM QUALITATIVE EDUCATION. MY WIFE WILL ONLY COME TO MY HELP. IT IS NOT MY WIFE’S RESPONSIBILITY. GOD NEVER ASSIGNED IT AT ALL.
26. I am here restoring you to the holistic truth so that you know God’s standard of judgment. When you die, you know whether you are dying in righteousness or in unbelief because I know the judgment is still on.
27. AND THE JUDGMENT SAID, “SOME WILL DIE. SOME WILL SUFFER A GREAT DEAL OF SETBACK. WHILE SOME WILL ONLY BE EXPOSED, MARKED BAD AND ALLOWED TO STILL REMAIN IN THE FELLOWSHIP.”
28. I think that one is even worse. You are exposed as an unbeliever, marked bad and allowed to stay.
29. WHO WILL DIE? THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME NOTORIOUS, INJURIOUS, WHOSE EVIL HAS BECOME SO GRIEVOUS AS THEY HAVE STARTED INFESTING THE CAMP, INFLUENCING THE CAMP TO DO EVIL, AND STILL COME IN THE MIDST OF THE BRETHREN, LAUGH, PRETEND THAT ALL IS WELL. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE GOD CALLS MOCKERS and SCOFFERS.
30. THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD SAID, “THEIR PORTION IS ETERNAL HELL FIRE”, FOR THEY MOCK THE CHILDREN OF GOD. THEY MOCK THE FAITH.
31. WHEN THEY COME BEFORE THE PEOPLE IN THE FAITH, THEY GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY ARE WITH THEM.
32. WHEN THEY GET OUT THERE AND MEET WITH THEIR FOLKS WHO ARE OF THE BOOK, THEY WILL SAY, “DO NOT MIND THEM. WE ARE JUST THERE. WE DO NOT MEAN IT.”
33. HE SAID, “ALLAH HAS PREPARED AN EVERLASTING TORMENT FOR THEM FOR MOCKING AND SCOFFING ALLAH.”
34. How I wish I am to encourage you with the Word. I would have come here today with the Holy Qur’an comparing many things.
35. There is nothing in the Holy Qur’an that is not in the Holy Bible. And everything in the Holy Bible, they are all there.
Thus, if there is any health hazard in the Camp, do not ever run helter-skelter. Any Brother or Sister you see with the tag, tell the person the problem. Straight away, it goes to the Son of Man. The person must go to the Son of Man who knows the right fellow that will attend to that problem. … IF IT REQUIRES DIVINE HEALING, I AM AVAILABLE. …… Neglect the Voice of the Son of Man, you must land yourself in trouble; And at the end, you must come back to the same Voice. The highest favour God will show us, He said, “Is to remind us of His Voice we have not obeyed.”
CAMP RULES; Preached on Sunday 25th December 2011 Pg. 79 vs. 50 & Pg. 104 vs. 30
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CONDUCT, ORDER AND DOCTRINE (2)
Can you permit Me to read Romans chapter 9 verses 1 and 2 in different translations? And I want to tell you exactly how I am feeling for you. Romans chapter 9: My feelings for all of you here.
2. Romans 9:1-5I say the truth in Christ, I lie not my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,…I say the truth in Christ. I lie not and you equally know that I am not lying.
3. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. I have great heaviness and continual sorrow concerning you that claim to be Elect of God and disciples of the Son of Man.
4. UNTO YOU GOD FIRST APPEARED TO TAKE FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE. And from among you, the Word went forth. This time around, He said He has come to live among you.
5. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:… My kinsmen according to the flesh, friends and well-wishers whose faces I cannot afford to dispense of, that have come to me for salvation and yet, not ready to obey.
6. And they are dying everyday, suffering great deal of setback, and you think I am happy? As a result of their intransigent, impenetrable hearts and insincerity, very dishonest people walking on crooked path and yet, milling around the Son of Man as their Kinsman Saviour and Redeemer.
7. As if what will save you is maybe, let Me put it the other way, your communal inclination with the Son of Man or fraternal inclination. No. It can never.
8. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
9. Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
10. Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever.KJV
11. I AM speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me That I have bitter grief and incessant anguish in my heart.
12. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off and banished from Christ for the sake of my brethren and instead of them, my natural kinsmen and my fellow countrymen.
13. For they are Israelites, and to them belong God’s adoption [as a nation] and the glorious Presence (Shekinah).
14. With them were the special covenants made, to them was the Law given. To them [the temple] worship was revealed and [God’s own] promises announced.
15. To them belong the patriarchs, and as far as His natural descent was concerned, from them is the Christ, Who is exalted and supreme over all, God, blessed forever! Amen (so let it be). AMP
16. As far as natural descent was concerned, Christ came from among them.
17. O Israel, my people! O my Jewish brothers! How I long for you to come to Christ.
18. My heart is heavy within me, and I grieve bitterly day and night because of you. Christ knows and the Holy Spirit knows that it is no mere pretense…
19. This was the man who was with them when they were practicing their Jewish faith until God met him and he got converted.
20. Now, he [Paul] is pleading with them [because his eyes of understanding have been illuminated] that they should come over to where he was and the people were very reluctant. Maybe they were thinking that he missed the way and he was luring them to error.
21. FOR YOU TO DISOBEY INSTRUCTIONS FROM GOD, YOU MUST HAVE GOOD REASONS. YOU MUST HAVE BETTER IDEAS.
22. I told Elders what happened. I was talking to somebody who was always found in disobedience. He said, “Daddy, in short, you cannot understand.”
23. If I cannot understand, who else will understand? What is that thing I cannot understand? What is the condition you are in which I have not passed through? If I cannot understand, who then will understand? Then you are more knowledgeable in everything than God.
24. O Israel, my people! O my Jewish brothers! How I long for you to come to Christ.
25. My heart is heavy within me, and I grieve bitterly day and night because of you. Christ knows and the Holy Spirit knows that it is no mere pretense…
26. It is no mere pretense. My desire is that you should be like I am, bearing the same record which I am bearing before the Almighty.
27. Christ knows and the Holy Spirit knows that it is no mere pretense when I say that I would be willing to be forever damned if that would save you.
28. God has given you so much, but still you will not listen to him. He took you as his own special, chosen people and led you along with a bright cloud of glory…
29. Led you along with what? …a bright cloud of glory…God chose you and called you His own people. Is it not true? Did you not hear that Voice? He said, “I have come to stay, to make My home in your midst.
30. The Prophets foretold about all we are enjoying in this Bridal Movement. True or false? What is the basis of your disloyalty, naked disobedience and naked unbelief?
31. THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU MIGHT BE A STRANGER TO THIS CAMP WHO IS TRYING TO INFEST THE CAMP. MAYBE BECAUSE YOU ARE PROMINENT, RECOGNIZED AMONG MANY, THEY THINK YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD JUST LIKE ELOCHUKWU AMOBI.
32. If not, the Elders can testify to My efforts geared at bringing him and his family to repentance, and they remained hard-hearted, stiff-necked until the head of the family has been cut off.
33. And the man that died yesterday by 6:47pm, by 8:30pm, reports had already started coming to Me from the house that, “If I should… If I should…”
34. Let Me hold My peace there. I am not blaming anybody there. And I am not rushing for any rescue. I want to see the bloodbath as it is being threatened already.
35. Is it strange? Have you not seen the wife of Elochukwu attending this Fellowship with bulged eyes, broken bodies and everywhere, as a result of family fighting?
36. Do they fight as human beings? They fight as real enemies. It is always a civil war. How many times did she come here and we went out there, with the whole children and Elochukwu investigating why the serious cuts?
37. They use machete. They use bottles. They threaten that somebody must die in the house.
38. At another time, one of the daughters tore off Amobi’s wife’s dress, leaving her naked in the yard. His son collected the wrapper and ran away and they would be flogging the buttocks, “Look at the heavy buttocks. Look at the leg.” Elochukwu was there watching.
39. Elders am I bearing false witness? Did we not judge that matter together? A woman that just woke up in the morning to go and urinate, a young girl forcefully collected the wrapper she used in covering herself and threw it to her brother and he ran away with the wrapper.
40. The woman was now left struggling and stranded outside. And the one inside locked the gate and all doors in the house, shouting.
41. There might be some other families sitting down here worse than that. The Son of Man is not shouting in vain. I know why I am shouting. I am no longer shouting for Amobi.
42. I am shouting for criminals here; diehard criminals here, running criminal families, raising the worst type of families, and yet they are here claiming to be members of the Bride.
43. Experts in social life! There may not be money for food in the house, but there is money for social activities out there. Nothing goes for nothing.
44. 4God has given you so much, but still you will not listen to him. Has God not given us so much here? Do you not know what you were before you embraced this Faith?[1 Corinthians 1:26]
45. If you are here with regret, show by raising your hand. Let me see your hand that you are regretting. Do you not know your condition before you embraced this Faith?
46. Do you not know your condition? Those who thought that you will die and become worthless, today, what are they? Are you not the envy of the people around you?
47. 4God has given you so much, but still you will not listen to him. He took you as his own special, chosen people and led you along with a bright cloud of glory…
48. What a privilege we have been enjoying God choosing us among others as His own special chosen people, and came to lead us with the bright Cloud [with the pillar of Cloud].
49. And it has never been seen anywhere even till now. If it has manifested somewhere, we would have seen it in the internet.
50. He took you as his own special, chosen people and led you along with a bright cloud of glory and told you how very much he wanted to bless you. He gave you his rules for daily life so you would know what he wanted you to do.
51. He gave you what? His rules for daily life so that you will know what He wanted you to do and yet you cannot obey because money has become your God.
52. Many have now flouted everything about our teaching. Even the so-called elders can shamelessly run to women and men requesting for money without even letting Me know or letting their Pastor know.
53. Why? Because they know they just go there to dupe the innocent people. They say they will pay back when they do not mean it. They borrow, but they do not pay back.
54. A sure sign that they are wicked people, for the Bible said that the wicked borrows and he does not pay back. [Psalms 37:21]
55. And to you who is the lender, we have a doctrine. You have no right whatsoever, man or woman, to lend a dime to any Brother or Sister without informing your Pastor or the Son of Man. These are the people that are in the position to tell you all they know about the borrower.
56. Everywhere is calm. Whosoever that aids an evil man must take the reward of an evil person. It is in the Holy Koran, it is in the Bible. You can’t support an evil fellow without receiving his reward. [Surah 4:85]
57. He gave you his rules for daily life so you would know what he wanted you to do. He let you worship him and gave you mighty promises.
58. 5Great men of God were your fathers, and Christ himself was one of you, a Jew so far as his human nature is concerned, he who now rules over all things. Praise God forever! TLB
… I know that I know the way. Follow Me! Do not be afraid. He that is leading you knows the way. Do not be dismayed, the Son of Man knows the way. Do not be afraid. He that is leading you knows the way. Do not be dismayed, the Son of Man knows where He is going. I know where I am going and you also will say, “I know who I am following and the Person I am following is God that knows the way!” if you know whom you are following, finish!
GOD HAS A HIDING PLACE VOL. 1; Preached on Sunday 28th April 2013; Pg. 176 vs. 34 – 35
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WHOSE DISCIPLES ARE YOU?
Romans 9:1 – 6 1I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not lying 2when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart…
2. Who would be in My position without being in sorrows and pains, having sojourned with a people for over 27 years, spending My time day and night, teaching and encouraging them, living an example for them to follow. At the end of the day, look at what I am seeing!
3. Whose example are you copying? I was telling Brethren that it is the responsibility of the man to do over time, and not the woman. I used myself as a test case.
4. I did that over time by way of accepting contracts here and there when I was in the service, but not to enrich myself one bit. The whole elders and ancient men, you know the truth. I was laboring because of this Faith.
5. I was going to work as early as 5 o’clock in the morning, coming back, going to civil service work, dismiss by 4pm, go back again and return any time.
6. I never enjoyed My leave for one day. I sold My leave to expatriates who hired My services. I was shuttling from here to Lagos, Abuja, PortHarcourt and so on, even travelling every night.
7. I was making the money in an honest way but where was I spending the money? The money was for this Faith. I was using it to sponsor all the missionary trips and publications.
8. And I never took any Brother out for a missionary work without depositing money to the family which they will use to eat and to meet their obligations till we came back.
9. I was paying transport fare to the place where I was going. From my money, I would give them money to support the meeting. Sometimes, they depended on Me hundred percent and that was where the money was going to.
10. I managed to get that 504 [Peugeot] which Bro. Mike completed with N50,000. I paid back. I repaired the motor, fully air conditioned and you all saw it.
11. My wife never entered that motor. I never entered. It never came to My house to park. From the place where it was released after the whole repairs, Brethren went there and carried it, went for a missionary trip at Obosima.
12. For months, that motor did not come to My house. I was fueling. I was repairing. I was doing everything. Brethren, true or false?
13. Charles Nwaobiara became the driver. They called it “Missionary Vehicle”, but they never gave Me a kobo.
14. Up till today, I find it difficult to go out with a Brother without first of all taking care of his family, and there is no event whether burial or anything at all I will command them to go without doing so.
15. Helping them even to sustain the financial situations in their homes. What has been My reason? It is so that when I take you out, you will concentrate on our mission and you do not present the Gospel in a beggarly way. Your stomach will not be your god.
16. And when we get there, I will allow them to sleep on the bed while I will sleep on the bare floor. Sometimes, I will sleep in the corridor. I make sure they feel comfortable. Let Me suffer.
17. But today, men do not do over time to help themselves and their families instead they command their wives.
18. I was asking a question yesterday. A woman that goes to work in the morning by 7 O’clock and dismisses by 5:30pm, how many hours? 10 hours 30 minutes. Check it very well. Approximately.
19. If you dismiss by 5:30pmfrom the time you left the house at7 o’clock in the morning, check how many hours the person has spent outside.
20. And the worst job I know is teaching. Nothing saps energy more than teaching. And the worst type of teaching is teaching at kindergarten level. Teaching Nursery, primary or secondary. Do you think it is easy?
21. You remain talking from morning till evening and then you dismiss by 5:30pm. Calculate the number of hours. Then you go for another private teaching somewhere and spend another 3hours. Add it all.
22. At the end of the day after spending 3hours, you spend not less than eighteen hours working. How many hours are left for your sleep, for your domestic work and for preparing for your next day’s work?
23. How much have you gained after all these things? What is more? What a sordid sight it presents for a married woman to be seen on the street everyday jumping from this and that?
24. Your husband will let you out. You go to a man’s house married to a fellow woman as wife The children will come out there. A woman that has family!
25. Because of money, you sit down there teaching them, when your fellow woman is in the house with the husband doing some other things.
26. Then when you come out there, you carry your bag and go to another place. At the end of the month you will be going to collect money as if you are doing Isusu [Thrift management]. Who will take this woman serious?
27. This work is good only for a divorcee. It is not even good for a widow. It is only good for a divorcee.
28. It is much more honourable for a woman that is a teacher to arrange for a session in her house, advertise it and allow parents to be bringing their children to her house.
29. Does it not look more honourable than perambulating the streets all in the name of making money? Something God condemned outright!
30. You O man, why do you not dismiss from your own work and then carry a bag, use bell and then be going about the streets, [“Buy corn! Buy this! Buy that!] so as to get more money.
31. You know when you are tired, but you do not know when your wife is tired. Watch your wives and their faces. They are all growing older than their ages because of over labouring.
32. IF THE REASON WHY YOU MARRIED YOUR WIFE IS TO MARRY YOUR BED AND BECOME VERY LAZY, YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO MARRY.
33. DEFEND YOUR INTEGRITY. DEFEND YOUR REPUTATION. MINIMIZE THE LABOUR OF YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR WIFE BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FATHER. I HOPE AM MAKING SENSE?
34. There was a day I looked around and I considered the time. I did not see my wife in the bed. I opened the door and saw her with a lantern. She said, “Daddy, this exam we are preparing…”
35. I said, “Fold it! Fold this nonsense! Go to bed! What are we going to gain even if you get PhD? What do you think you will get in the work that you are envisaging when you retire, which you did not get when you were in the full time service?
36. If your salary is not enough for you, is it overtime stipend that will be enough for you? How can the tiny bits you pick from your teeth get you satisfied when your main meal was not enough for you?
37. The institutions are not yet done with employing healthy youth, talk less of old men and women.
38. If you tell Me that you want to engage your brain in an exercise, I will accept it, but not to use your supposed income to feed Me or to compete with me in the discharge of My responsibilities. No! No! No! Do not go there. I say, “Do not! It is my no-go-area.”
39. You must accept your responsibilities that belong to you. A man’s failure begins by shifting his responsibilities to someone else. Not even your wife is ready to take your responsibility.
40. Surrender your responsibilities and surrender your power. Surrender your authority and become what? Ordinary football! Ordinary balloon. Blow-blow! People without shame!
41. Romans 9:1 – 6 GNB1I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not lying
42. 2when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart 3for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God’s curse and separated from Christ.
43. 4They are God’s people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God’s promises;
44. 5they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen. Amen. GNB
45. And Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. Today, Christ as a human being is an Igbo man. He is your Brother. He is your townsman. The same yesterday, today and forever. [Hebrews 13:8]
46. What do you think will hinder Him from grieving if He sees that you do not understand and follow Him? He came to save you. He came for your own good and He has done great good to you than He has done to people out there. Will He kill Himself for you people?
47. Do you think I take pleasure in the death of a sinner? You remain in your wicked ways, testimonies of evil following you until you die with evil, when I know that you cannot change the course of justice.
48. As long as you were warned when you were alive, you hardened your heart and died in that evil, you are heading to hell. And if you did not direct your children very well and they follow you, thinking you are right, when they die, they are going to hell.
49. If you cannot put your family in order when you are alive, will it be when you die? Do you know who will take charge of your family in your absence and all you laboured for like Igwe Amobi?
50. That money which he did not want to spend, whether he kept it in the bank, or under the bed, another person will spend his pension. If the wife finds where he kept it, she will conceal it, head to the Probate and file suits in the court.
51. Then the next of kin will appear by force. All his daughters are graduates. Struggle will now come, over who will be his next of kin. The house will be set ablaze. We will see another Nollywood. Family war.
52. That was why the daughter called Me last night telling Me to intervene now before the situation will get out of hand. They had hardly deposited the body in the mortuary than trouble started.
53. The corpse was still on its way to the mortuary. They were also crying, but the tears quickly dried up, for trouble has ensued. Amen.
54. I give God the praise for everything. But will the living learn a lesson from the dead? If any one of you or Elochukwu Amobi was told that today, we will be talking about his death which was not as a result of a road accident nor in the hands of armed robbers, but right inside his own house after a brief illness that lasted for two or three days and now, he is in the mortuary, will he agree?
55. If you go to bed today, do you know the one you will wake up with tomorrow? Even as you know today, do you know tomorrow? You see why you must prepare your way and stop killing yourself. And do not allow another person to kill you. Are you hearing Me?
56. If you do not know, know it that hunger is a type of sickness. There is no way it will be well with somebody and he will be roaming about aimlessly.
57. But wickedness is in the heart. Wickedness is right inside the heart. Nothing goes for nothing. Are you hearing what I am saying?
Note it, I, APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA, WHOEVER I WANT TO SAVE, I WILL SAVE. Who will query Me? Nobody! … I keep on telling you as a Holy Church, a peculiar people I love, I have been trying My best to espouse you to One Husband in holiness and righteousness, telling you to follow Me as I follow Him daily. Follow Me because I am the example God is setting here before you. Then, My duty is to point you to the path of Holiness. … However, in the last poll, what did He promise to tell us? That He is going to speak to us through dreams and through visions. Since then, he has been dealing with us in that way. The Urim is in your midst. The Urim is the Word, A Man in your midst.
CALLING CHRIST IN THE TIME OF CRISIS; Preached on Sunday 15th August 1993;Pg. 46 vs. 9, Pg. 86 vs. 39 & Pg. 94 vs. 66
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NO ONE KNOWS YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF
I Will never make any other case for any family, for I have come to the realization that many have now bound their hearts together to perish.
2. Money will be here and we will throw your corpse away. The highest thing your money can purchase for you is a nice casket.
3. I repeat, the highest thing your money can purchase for you is a nice casket, if really you have money. If there is any other thing your money can purchase for you which will be your own personal inheritance, mention it.
4. If you like, acquire the whole wealth on earth, your inheritance is a nice casket. Of all the properties in your house, there is none that will be brought out except a casket. The highest property that will come from a room. It will be sent to your home town.
5. Since you know that all the wealth you are acquiring is just for a casket, when you get home, think about it. All the savings you are making, what are you saving for? A casket.
6. That is your single apartment. Self-contained room. Your food is there, your wine, your shoes, your belt is there.
7. Was it not belt that caused trouble at Enugu Ezike? Someone demanded that a belt be provided for the corpse of late Bishop Ifeanyi Eze.
8. I then asked them, “If you give him belt, what will the living inherit?” Had it been you went close to the casket, you would have seen his belt and his shoes there. Mad people!
9. Do they know that a dead person does not wear clothes? You call it cloth, but the thing is torn or cut and placed on the dead body. If it is suit it is cut in the same manner. The same with the trousers.
10. I dress corpses. When rigor has set in, you can never bend a corpse again. The clothings are simply cut and placed on the corpse and it will seem as if the body is dressed. So, there is no way you can put a belt on a corpse, for there is no waist for a corpse.
11. A dead body cannot flex the legs for shoes? Nothing! There is no way you can force the shoes in, for the corpse remains stiff. You cannot bend it. It is good to visit the mortuary once in a while.
12. Those in Enugu, do you go to the Anatomy Department at all to witness what medical students do with corpses so that all may understand what their lecturers are teaching them.
13. Your inheritance is your casket. Once you enter there, it will be closed. Period! The spot where you will be buried does not belong to you. How many years? Within three, four or five years, someone will cultivate that land or lay foundation for a building there.
14. Your self-contained apartment is your casket. Your food is there. Everything is complete. Air conditioner is even there. You can never share it with anybody.
15. Do you know why I am saying this? I am a Record Keeper. Starting from Bishop Nnachor to Bro. Chibuko and to the Pastors, if you know, for one day that you received an envelope from Elochukwu Amobi with inscription, “For the work of the Ministry”, or “For Missionary”, or “For Needy Brethren”, from the day he came in till the day he died, show by raising your hand.
16. Brethren look around. Any hand? Who did he give? Come what may, come rain, come sunshine, that is where I constantly disagree with him. I told him that hunger would kill him and his wife where they are disputing over money matters.
17. THE ONLY PERSON THAT KNOWS THE VALUE OF MONEY IS AN ACCOUNTANT. THE ONLY PERSON THAT KNOWS HOW FIVE PERSONS WILL SHARE A KOBO. NOBODY COVERS FINANCIAL CRIMES MORE THAN AN AUDITOR. TRUE OR FALSE?
18. And that is why no accountant lives long after retirement because their means of livelihood is cut off. They do not depend on salary. They depend on others’ salaries and allowances which they slash.
19. They know how to prepare composite vouchers just to pull out the whole money in the treasury into their account. They know how to convert account, from one subhead to another.
20. Am I trying to discourage you from studying Accountancy? No! But I am trying to discourage you from imbibing accounting spirit, especially on financial matters.
21. Check the Scriptures. All that held that office ran into difficulties. Check the Scriptures. What made the tax collector a notorious sinner in the eyes of men? Is it not taking of bribe?
22. Check it very well. If you do not bribe an accountant, he will never pay you any of your allowances. If you come, he will tell you it is,“With and with.”
23. The ones in the pension office like Elochukwu Amobi, only God knows how much of dead people’s money they have looted. We constantly disagreed on this matter.
24. If I am always having sharp disagreements with you and this disagreements continue until you die, you are gone. The grave can never stop us from having sharp disagreement.
25. If we are at rest here, we are at rest yonder. That which will make you not to be there, I will reveal it to you every minute you come before Me.
26. If you are wise and understanding, you know who is in your midst and who is talking to you, you will go home and amend it, and then normalize relationship.
27. He is a liar, whoever that says that he does not know where rain started beating him. If you have a misunderstanding with God and you say you do not know the bone of contention, are you sincere?
28. It is just like a woman that is having problem with her husband but says she does not know whatthe bone of contention is. Is she sincere? Is the man sincere?
29. There are things [of which] you can claim ignorance, but not yourself. You know yourself. You know that which you have in your heart. You know all you have done.
30. Let Me go back to My seat but I will not go without quoting this Scripture. Somebody should come and carry this Bible. Apostle Kelechi get ready to come here. You are not having runny stomach today.
31. Psalms 37. I want to finish it. Good News Bible. The Cloud is here bearing Me witness.
32. I have lifted one so that the rest will know that God knows who they are, what they are doing and their intentions for tarrying here.
33. 1 Do not fret because of those who are evil….What? 1 Do not fret because of those who are evil… If you are righteous, you are working in agreement with God, do not fret because of evil people. Do not change your conviction. Do not join them.
34. And before he finishes this Scripture, let Me give My announcement. When we dismiss this afternoon, I will like the Pastors and Elders here present, not only from Onitsha but also from other Local Assemblies; I will like to see all of you together with your wives. I said together with your wives. I have my reason for that.
35. Whatever that is happening now is family sin. Family sin! I can see, if we do not take care from now, Sapphira and Ananias are bound to manifest.
36. 1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither,… What?
37. 1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
38. 3 Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. 4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
39. 5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: 6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.
40. 7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
41. 8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. 9 For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
42. 10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
43. WHO IS A WICKED FELLOW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD? HE THAT KNOWETH TO DO GOOD BUT DOETH IT NOT. TO HIM IT IS EVIL.[James 4:17]
44. 11 But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity. 12 The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;
45. 13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming. God laughs at the wicked for He knows that the day of the wicked is coming.
46. 14 The wicked draw the swordand bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
47. 15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken. 16 Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;
48. 17 for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.
49. 18 The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever. 19 In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.
50. 20 But the wicked will perish: Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
51. 21 The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously; 22 those the Lord blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed.
52. 23 The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; 24 though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
53. 25 I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.
54. 26 They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing. They are what? They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing. GNB
May be you do not know that in the end-time, there is going to be an over-spreading of evil. You do not know that the Bible laid credence to what is happening today. That the evil that started in the Garden of Eden which culminated into the death of Abel, the blood of all the prophets and Apostles of old shall be required of the people of this generation. Which means God was right when He spoke revealing grace, that He did not judge the people that died in time past, but He kept them in the grave, waiting for the day the Son of Man will come who will be the judge of the living and of the dead, in whom they shall remain justified. I AM THE JUSTIFIER. I AM THE JUDGE OF THE WHOLE EARTH. IT IS AN IRREVOCABLE FACT. BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN. LEAVE IT IF YOU CANNOT BELIEVE IT
HOW ARMED ARE YOU FOR THE TROUBLOUS TIMES?/RECOGNIZE THE WEAKNESSES OF YOUR WIFE; Preached on Sunday 17th July 2016; Pg. 42 vs. 14 – 17
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WALK BLAMELESSLY BEFORE GOD
Psalm 37:1-40LB 1Never envy the wicked! 2Soon they fade away like grass and disappear.
2. 3Trust in the Lord instead. Be kind and good to others; then you will live safely here in the land and prosper, feeding in safety.
3. 4Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart’s desires. 5Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it, and he will.
4. 6Your innocence will be clear to everyone. He will vindicate you with the blazing light of justice shining down as from the noonday sun.
5. 7Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for him to act. Don’t be envious of evil men who prosper. 8Stop your anger! Turn off your wrath. Don’t fret and worry—it only leads to harm.
6. 9For the wicked shall be destroyed, but those who trust the Lord shall be given every blessing. 10Only a little while and the wicked shall disappear. You will look for them in vain.
7. 11But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.
8. 12-13The Lord is laughing at those who plot against the godly, for he knows their judgment day is coming.
9. 14Evil men take aim to slay the poor; they are ready to butcher those who do right. 15 But their swords will be plunged into their own hearts, and all their weapons will be broken.
10. 16It is better to have little and be godly than to own an evil man’s wealth; 17for the strength of evil men shall be broken, but the Lord takes care of those he has forgiven.
11. 18Day by day the Lord observes the good deeds done by godly men, and gives them eternal rewards. 19 He cares for them when times are hard; even in famine, they will have enough.
12. 20But evil men shall perish. These enemies of God will wither like grass and disappear like smoke. 21Evil men borrow and “cannot pay it back”! But the good man returns what he owes with some extra besides.
13. 22Those blessed by the Lord shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall die. 23 The steps of good men are directed by the Lord. He delights in each step they take.
14. 24If they fall, it isn’t fatal, for the Lord holds them with his hand. 25 I have been young and now I am old. And in all my years I have never seen the Lord forsake a man who loves him;… I have never seen the LORD forsake a man whom loves him. ..nor have I seen the children of the godly go hungry.
15. Never! Never! Children of the godly can never go hungry, whether the man is alive or dead, for God takes care of the children because of the faith of the righteous man.
16. 25 I have been young and now I am old. And in all my years I have never seen the Lord forsake a man who loves him; nor have I seen the children of the godly go hungry.
17. 26 Instead, the godly are able to be generous with their gifts and loans to others, and their children are a blessing. 27 So if you want an eternal home, leave your evil,…
18. If you want what? …an eternal home, leave your evil…Leave your evil. Abandon your evil. Walk uprightly before the Lord your Maker. Do not allow evil men to cause you to be fretting, changing your conviction and changing your mind.
19. After speaking the truth, you tender apology against the truth as if you were forced to speak the truth. A MAN THAT IS CONVICTED AGAINST HIS CONVICTION. WAS HE CONVINCED?
20. 27 So if you want an eternal home, leave your evil, low-down ways and live good lives. 28 For the Lord loves justice and fairness; he will never abandon his people. They will be kept safe forever; but all who love wickedness shall perish.
21. 29 The godly shall be firmly planted in the land and live there forever. 30-31 The godly man is a good counselor because he is just and fair and knows right from wrong.
22. 32Evil men spy on the godly, waiting for an excuse to accuse them and then demanding their death.
23. What? 32Evil men spy on the godly,… Evil men spy on the godly, waiting for a little excuse to accuse them.
24. So, evil men are accusers of the righteous, looking for a loophole they will capitalize on, “What about this one? Was he not the one that did this?” Evil men! That is why they go about looking for faults.
25. 32Evil men spy on the godly, waiting for an excuse to accuse them and then demanding their death.
26. 33 But the Lord will not let these evil men succeed, nor let the godly be condemned when they are brought before the judge. 34 Don’t be impatient for the Lord to act!
27. Do not be impatient for the Lord to act! In other words, BE PATIENT WITH GOD, for you have need of patience, that when your obedience to the truth is fulfilled, you will get the promise. You do not get the promise without fulfilling the demands.
28. Keep traveling steadily along his pathway and in due season he will honor you with every blessing,…
29. Keep traveling patiently. Do not go to the left or to the right. Do not change your mind. Keep on traveling, keep on walking with the Lord.
30. I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE IMPOVERISHED OF ALL THINGS, BUT NEVER HAVE I SEEN A MAN THAT IS MADE POOR FOR SERVING THE LORD. HAVE YOU SEE ONE? NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN MADE POOR BECAUSE HE SERVED THE LORD.
31. Keep traveling steadily along his pathway and in due season he will honor you with every blessing, and you will see the wicked destroyed. 35-36 I myself have seen it happen:
32. I myself have seen it happen. SUSTAINED BY MY EXPERIENCE! Even in My own day, with the little number of days I have clocked here on earth, I have seen it.
33. Great and mighty men of valour who terrorized their fellow human beings are no more, while those they called cowards are still matching on. True or false? There are too many in your villages, even in your neighbourhood.
34. 35-36 I myself have seen it happen: a proud and evil man, towering like a cedar of Lebanon, but when I looked again, he was gone! I searched but could not find him!
35. 37 But the good man—what a different story! For the good man—the blameless, the upright, the man of peace—he has a wonderful future ahead of him.
36. Oh glory be to God. Look at how husband and wife, Elizabeth and her husband. The Bible said Zachariah walked blamelessly before the Lord. WALK BLAMELESSLY BEFORE THE LORD.
37. Were they not human beings like us? Did they not live here on earth? Were they not the parents of John the Baptist? To God be the glory.
38. HOW I PRAY EVERY DAY THAT GOD WILL HELP ME AND MY WIFE TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES, UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD IS DOING FOR US AND WALK BLAMELESSLY BEFORE HIM, SO THAT OUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE NO EXCUSE SHOULD THEY TURN RENEGADE. BUT GOD FORBID.
39. Whatever life you are living with your husband, you are living a legacy. Your children, in one way or the other, must emulate your lifestyle.
40. That is why God said, “Do not tell them your success alone. Tell them your failures. And warn them never to toe the path you toed that led to that disappointment. Otherwise, you have not given them good training.”
41. 37 But the good man—what a different story! For the good man—the blameless, the upright, the man of peace—he has a wonderful future ahead of him.
42. He has what? …a wonderful future ahead of him. But the wicked has a disastrous future ahead of him. The future is always bleak and unpredictable.
43. When you do not settle down and serve the LORD, how can you teach your children to settle down and serve the LORD?
44. You are reckless. You are intransigent and incorrigible. You find it difficult to say amen to the truth. You love falsehood more than truth. Are you not imparting such to your children?
45. Will you blame them tomorrow when they begin to manifest different forms of wickedness which they emulated from you? And the worst is hypocrisy. Giving the impression that you are good when you are terribly bad.
46. But Allah knoweth everybody. He knows the ways, the thoughts and imaginations of everybody, and rewards everybody according to truth. [Surah Al-An’am 6:117, Surah An-Nahl 16:125, Surah Al-Isra 17:84, Surah Al-Baqara 2:261]
47. 37 But the good man—what a different story! For the good man—the blameless, the upright, the man of peace—he has a wonderful future ahead of him. For him there is a happy ending.
48. For him there is what? …a happy ending. Who would not like to have a happy ending? For him, his end is “REST IN PERFECT PEACE.” And his home, while he lives, must be peaceful. He cannot run a boiling home and end his life in peace. Is it possible?
49. SO, IF YOU ARE WISE AND UNDERSTANDING, BEGIN NOW TO MAKE YOUR CHOICE BETWEEN THE GOOD AND THE BAD. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT THE END OF YOUR LIFE COUNTS MORE THAN THE BEGINNING OF YOUR LIFE.
50. THE BEGINNING OF YOUR LIFE DOES NOT DETERMINE YOUR DESTINY BUT THE END, FOR NO MAN IS CROWNED UNTIL HE GETS TO THE END.
51. MISTAKES CAN BE MADE ALONG THE WAY. IF YOU CAN CORRECT THEM BEFORE YOU GET TO THE END, GLORY BE TO GOD.
52. HYMN: [The sands have been washed in the footprints of the stranger on Galilee’s shore, And the Voice that subdued the rough billows, Will be heard in Judea no more. But the path of that lone Galilean, With joy I will follow today; And the toils of the road will seem nothing, When I get to the end of the way.]
53. The toils of this road will seem nothing. Whatever might be the pains, the sorrows and troubles it took you to put your home in order, as it should, to walk in God’s plan, to desire obedience to the truth more than making money, you notice that whatever you forfeit is worth forfeiting, according to the Holy Qur’an which says that no true seed of God regrets whatever he forfeits for the sake of paradise. It said, “That goes to show you have paid your price.”
54. When you are not ready to forfeit anything, you are gripping the whole world with your two arms, fretting because the wicked are around you, you are chameleonic. When you see black, you become black. When you see white, you become white.
55. Praise the Lord! You shout, “Halleluyah”! Evil people will go to hell, you shout “Amen!” Where do you belong?
56. Where Elochukwu Amobi is can never be reversed. It is easier to reverse the course of a river through channels than to reverse where he is. Do you know what I mean?
57. I am an expert. If I want to reverse the course of a river, I will build a barricade. Once I build a barricade, I construct a channel back. As long as the fountain is coming, once it gets to the barricade, it diverts.
58. What happens to the one I barricaded? It will fizzle out. With time, it will become a valley. True or false? Do not mind Me. I am a fool today. Tomorrow I may be wise.
59. 38 But evil men shall be destroyed, and their posterity shall be cut off. 39 The Lord saves the godly! He is their salvation and their refuge when trouble comes.
60. 40 Because they trust in him, he helps them and delivers them from the plots of evil men. LB Let us remember our reward.