WARNING FROM GOD BEFORE JUDGEMENT

WARNING FROM GOD BEFORE JUDGEMENT

Preached on SUNDAY, 5^TH APRIL 2015 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE” Truth has no substitute” © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE

HE WATCHES OVER US

You all are blessed in Him eternally. If you are for today’s fellowship, please come inside.

There was a statement we heard in time past. It says, “Anybody that is worshipping any god that is not capable of protecting him should quit”. Quit that god!
There is nothing to compare to life. Physical, spiritual, nothing to compare to life. I am not here to share testimonies of the Lord’s doing for I believe that I am a living testimony. You are all living testimonies.
However, there is no way we can gather without sharing our experiences with God. In diverse ways, God came to our way last week.
Do not forget that election and its campaigns are still on. I told you that Nigeria is not worth dying for. Thank you very much.
Before I will talk to you today, it is My pleasure to read few scriptures for obvious reasons. I am not here to preach neither am I here to teach. But I just want to encourage you by ministering to you that which you know very well, very, very well.
You will do well to bring out your jotters, especially Onyema Eze and family. The time for your destruction has come; the time for your salvation also has come. The choice is now in your hand.
I wish to make it clearer, not that you do not know it, that drawing nearer to the vessel God is using in every dispensation, getting acquainted with Him, coming closer to Him or closest to Him must be for two reasons. One, for your condemnation or for your justification. The choice depends on you.
When you believe in Him, trust in Him, confide in Him, depend on Him, rely on Him, act according to His instruction, it becomes your justification.
But when you defy His words, His instructions definitely you are coming to judgment. For the Lord must surely live to judge iniquity.
Let hands join hands, no evil fellow will go unpunished. Is it not scriptural? I wish to read few scriptures, putting you in remembrance of how we took off, so that you will know that His spirit is still with us.
THE TESTIMONIES WE HEARD YESTERDAY OR THAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING US HAS EVEN TESTIFIED AGAINST US THAT IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL, YOUR JUBILATION TODAY MAY BE YOUR SORROW TOMORROW.
BUT TO THOSE THAT HAVE MADE THEIR CONSECRATION THAT THEY WILL NEVER DRAW BACK FROM GOD, THEY WILL DO NOTHING UNLESS THEY HEAR HIM SPEAK.
HEAR ME VERY WELL. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WILL OVERCOME BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONIES.
I know many must have heard how the Lord saved the life of our son, the last born of our late Elder Mike Nwanga, who died and resurrected last week before many witnesses.
He went to market with his mother, fell asleep in the shop. The mother was busy attending to customers outside. Little did she know that the devil was watching. The devil pulled down the shop, the decking collapsed on the boy.
The deck that collapsed damaged all the items in the shop and crushed the grinding machine into pieces—a very big grinding machine, but what happened? The Lord made a demarcation between where the boy was lying down—face up—from where the thing collapsed, a demarcation was made.
People rushed to know what was happening, the boy got up, dusted the dust off his shirt. No scratch, no pain.
When we heard this testimony, Pastor Thomas remembered his relation who had the same experience while he was lying down with the children. A part of the deck collapsed and the thing fell on top of the man and he died there.
Begin to imagine the weight of the object that crushed a grinding machine and battered it. What if it landed on that boy while he was lying, face up?
You see, He watches over us. He that keeps watch over His children does not slumber neither does He fall asleep one bit. He watches over us even when we are sleeping. He gives charge over His angels to keep watch over us.
Hence, we are not afraid of any amazement by day or by night. For we know that He that keepeth Israel does not slumber neither does He fall asleep. Our God is wide awake.
I know you heard about Deacon Mike who also resurrected from the dead. He is in the fellowship. He has been praising God.
His resurrection from the dead caused trouble, but I will not comment. It requires those that were there who are living and eyewitnesses to testify of what happened at Iyi-enu hospital. I won’t speak there. Amen.

AMEND YOUR WAYS AND DOINGS

Now please, I wish to invoke some scriptures in the interest of every person. Don’t tell Me you are above these scriptures, you are not.

I have My reasons. Because the Lord from the very beginning asked us to pray that we should not fulfill dangerous scriptures, dangerous prophecies. You must be mindful of the prophecies and scriptures you are fulfilling ignorantly.
You might be thinking it is a light thing but wait when the Lord will rise up in judgment against you and your family, ears will tingle.
Follow Me as we read the book of Jeremiah. But before then, there was a statement I heard from Pastor Dan this morning. He was calling “my brothers, my sisters,” that was when he was saluting everybody, addressing all of you as his brothers and sisters.
Immediately I heard it I said, “Yes, he is right. But are you his brother, are you his sister?” You that responded to the salutation, have you scrutinized your identity and come with the conclusion that you are indeed what he called you or you merely assumed and carried down to the salutation?
Onyema Eze met Me outside and I saw him, he was calling Me Daddy, I said, “No, I am not your Daddy. Do I look like your Daddy? I cannot be your daddy”.
A man that sets his house ablaze, has he any reason to make noise? If you teach your children evil practices, when they begin to practice what they learnt from you, do you need to cry wolf? No!
Hear Me very well, the young shall grow. Whatever you are doing, remember the evening hours. In all your doings in life, remember the evening hours: when your legs can no longer carry you, when your strength can no longer sustain you, when you will no longer be as strong as you are in your youth, and you begin to see the seed you planted bearing fruit coming to maturity.
That’s why the Bible said we must tame our children; teach them when there is hope. But before then, we must first and foremost, tame ourselves. For you cannot give to somebody anything you do not possess.
A good teacher teaches by example. Take note of it. Jeremiah chapter 7 verses 1 through 4.
“The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word,….
Stand where? In the gate of the Lord’s house. Stand where? In the gate of the Lord’s house. Who gave the command to the prophet? The Almighty God commanded the prophet to stand at the gate that leads into the Lord’s house.
When the Lord spoke to the prophet, did He make it a public announcement? It was a communication between the prophet and God. The people of Israel never heard it.
You may not know when the Lord has passed judgment against you until the prophet comes your way. By the word of the prophet you will know the mind of God concerning you; you will know the judgment of God concerning your action.
This place is the house of God called by the Name of God which He said from the beginning and I quote, “The camp of My people must be separated from the camp of the ungodly”. This was a part of the prophecies we heard that confirmed the presence of God in the midst of the Bride: The unfailing sign.
The camp of My people must be separated from the camp of the godly. In other words, the ungodly cannot feast in our feast of love, our feast of charity. The Bible regards such people as spot in our feast of love.
Take note. The Lord spoke to the prophet saying, “Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD,….
Hear the word of the Lord, He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And up till this very moment He is still sending Apostles and Prophets. For the Church of God is built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. By the Prophets, He brought them out of the land of captivity, by the word of the Prophets He established them.
Thus, there is no way you can be neglecting the word of the Prophets and come out of captivity. Every human being is in captivity as far as the devil is concerned. The devil is holding every human being in captive for which cause Christ is sent to set the captive free.
That is if the captive will volunteer to go. If the captive is taking pleasure in the captivity, there is no way Christ can set him free. Christ can never deliver you from the iniquity you take pleasure in practicing. Christ will only deliver you from that iniquity you have hated with perfect hatred, but you don’t know the way out. Not when you are jubilating in it, resting in it, enjoying it, you want Christ to set you free from it.
Even if Christ will drag you out, you will run back. Because you are not yet tired. When the people got tired of staying in Egypt, deliverance became possible. God will never deliver you from that iniquity unless you are tired of doing it, but you don’t know the way out.
The Lord will come your way and give you a helping hand. But when you are still busy fomenting it, planning higher and higher, next level of crime, next level of atrocity you will commit and you want God to deliver you, na lie.
The Lord will not deliver you but for the sake of His children, for the sake of innocent souls, He will rather hand you over to a destructive spirit. Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and declare thus saith the Lord of hosts.
Hear the word of the LORD all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts,….
The people that were coming to worship the Lord, hear God’s voice to them.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways…
Do what? Amend your ways. Do what? Amend your ways and your doings. Do what? Amend your ways and your doings. Amend your ways and your actions.
Was He speaking to the people outside? He was talking to the people that came to worship God in His house, the place He has chosen to place His Name. And they were coming, laden with iniquity; they were not prepared to abandon their evil ways, thinking that God will carry on with them anyhow.
God is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity. Amend your ways and your doings.
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
I will cause you to dwell in My presence. You will dwell in Zion with God, you will dwell in the presence of God, you will dwell in the house of God if only you will listen to the words of His prophets and believe.
Amend your ways, amend your doings, you that have come into the house of God to worship. Amen.

THE WRATH OF GOD COMETH UPON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE

Jeremiah chapter 7 verse 4: Trust ye not in lying words,… Do what? Do not trust in lying words.

…saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. KJV.
Another translation now. “But the Lord said to Jeremiah, “Go over to the entrance of the temple of the Lord and give this message to the people. O Judea, listen to this message from God, listen to it, all of you who worship here….
All of you who worship here.
….the Lord of host, the God of Israel says: Even yet, if you quit your evil ways I will let you stay in your own land. But don’t be fooled by those who lie to you and say that since the temple of the Lord is here, God will never let Jerusalem be destroyed.
What!…don’t be fooled by those who lie to you and say…
Don’t be fooled; don’t be deceived by those who tell you lies.
…don’t be fooled by those who lie to you and say that since the temple of the Lord is here, God will never let Jerusalem be destroyed. LB.
Have you seen it? As long as we are here, as long as we are in the house of God, the Lord will not destroy us; we are children of God because we are in the house of God. The Son of Man is here, God in human form (blessed be to His Holy Name, Selah).
If anybody is deceiving you, fooling you by giving you the impression that the moment you have come to worship in this bridal faith where the Son of Man is a Son over His Father’s heritage, that you are getting saved. Na lie. I say, na lie.
Let nobody ever fool you by vain words because of this. The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience. Is it not scriptures?
The Apostles warned both the Corinthians and Galatians, everybody. Let nobody deceive you with vain words. If I am chased outside and I run inside, no more.
Even if you are a criminal or doing all sorts of evil habits, once you run into this place, you are secured. Do you know me? I am a child of God. Is the Lord talking to people outside? That time He spoke to people that were coming into the house of God to worship God.
Today, He is giving us the same message, for He is the same yesterday, today and forever, He doesn’t change.
Let us consider another translation, up to verse 4. Goodnews. The Lord sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them:
“Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here.
Change what?
“Change the way you are living and the things you are doing,…
Change your way of life and the things you are doing. You might be thinking that God doesn’t know. He knows what you are doing; He knows all your ways.
…and the things you are doing, Stop believing those deceitful words,…
Stop believing those deceitful words.…‘We are safe! This is the Lord‘s Temple, this is the Lord‘s Temple, GNB.
“We are safe as long as we are in the Lord’s temple.” Don’t worry; continue from Jeremiah, we want to read from verse 8-11. Jeremiah 7 verses 8 through 11. “Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
Look, you trust in lies, you trust in deceitful words especially your likes. For birds of the same feather flock together.
That your likes will present to you deceitful words saying, whether you do good or bad, you are safe. I will know whether the God you are referring to is different from the One who revealed Himself to us even from the very beginning.
The first message He gave us was, “The God the Bible reveals;” so that we would go home and know whether we can worship Him or not.
Do not trust in lying words, because you put your trust in deceitful words. You cannot receive deceitful words unless you mingle with deceivers.
This is end time where the Bible predicted that evil men and seducers will wax stronger and stronger, deceiving many and they themselves getting also deceived.
Evil men, seducers, people that will seduce the children of God out of the truth by giving them the impression that they should live their lives anyhow and get saved.
If you go to the Great Sermon, God said that He has delivered you from the laws of Moses; you are now under the laws of the Son of Man (blessed be to His Holy Name). That grace is more difficult than law.
You steal, murder,…
You do what? You steal, murder…
commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
You carry charm in your vehicle, follow people to native doctors and even lead people to where they will do their charm. At the end of the day you will still come to this place called by the Holy Name of God and say, “We have been saved and allowed to behave anyway we like.”
You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence,…
And you still stand in My presence clapping your hands, dancing, calling Me your brother, calling Me your sister, telling Me remain blessed.
Instead of you to be ashamed of yourself, instead of you to cover your face in shame and seek the face of God, you boldly stand before the saints to dance, clap your hands after doing all sorts of evil. If it was possible you will even request that you will be given microphone to you to share testimony.
You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence,…
In My presence, this is the most annoying part of it. Not that after committing crime, you ran away, you hide yourself in shame. But shamelessly, you walk into God’s sanctuary to dance.
Hence you say, “What will the Lord do? What will He do? Whatever that pleases Him, let Him do it.” Don’t look at anybody; look at yourself for you know yourself.
After doing all these things that God hates, you still have that shameless face to stand in the midst of the congregation of the saints clapping hands and giving offering. Which offering? The first offering you give is yourself.
…then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple,…
In My own temple. My own house.
…and say, ‘We are safe!’
We are safe! I am safe! After practicing all sorts of evil, I will still say I am safe. Can one deceive God?
…Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers?…
Look at the question. Do you think, the Lord is talking still? Do you think that My own holy house, My temple is a hiding place for criminals, for thieves, for murderers, for liars?
Is that what you are thinking?
I have seen what you are doing. GNB. What? I have seen what you are doing.
Who said so? Almighty God. Who said that He has seen what you are doing? God. Who caught you? Who caught me? God. But you said there is no God. The Lord said that He has seen you.
Did He say that somebody told Him? He said, “I have seen with My eyes what you are doing, the atrocities you are committing.” It is no longer that it has gotten to His ears, He has seen with His eyes.
Another translation. Living Bible. “You think that because the temple is here, you will never suffer? Don’t fool yourself. Do you really think that you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie and worship Baal and all of those new gods of yours, and then come here to stand before Me in my temple and chant, “We are saved’ only to go right back to all these evil things again?
Is My temple but a den of robbers in your eyes? For I see all the evil going on in there. LB. Amen.

MY PEOPLE MINGLE WITH HEATHENS…

Let us read the book of Hosea chapter 7 verses 8 through 9, Living Bible. “My people mingle with the heathen,…

My people do what? My people mingle with the heathen.
Did God say, “Heathens mingle with My people?” No.
William Branham the prophet said, “You are inside, the devil is outside. For you to meet with the devil, you must meet him outside. You cannot be in Christ and meet the devil, you must jump the fence, you must jump the camp for you to meet with the devil out there. Because out there is the devil and all his agents.”
My people now mingle with heathens. My people leave the camp of God’s people and associate themselves with heathens outside the camp.
My people mingle with heathens, picking up their evil ways;… Do what? …picking up their evil ways;…
Copying their evil ways, picking all their evil ways, doing whatever they see the heathens doing. If they want to kill, you join them, they say let’s do this, you join.
They say, “Let us go and steal a vehicle,” you join them. Any way they place it, you join, because it is a reigning thing among the heathens. Somebody that called himself a child of God will leave the congregation of God’s children and join them in doing it.
After everything, he still comes into the house of God, clap his hands, dance, and say, “Did God see what I did?” YES, God said that He has seen with His eyes.
…picking up their evil ways; thus they become as good-for-nothing…
They become what? Good-for-nothing. As half-baked bread. That’s why the Bible said, “A sinner is unprofitable in all things. He is not worthy to live; he is not worthy to die.” Why, they mingle with heathens and copy their evil ways. They become good-for-nothing.
I want somebody to challenge the scriptures. Challenge the scriptures and I will give you a battle from the Spoken Word. My people jump the camp, jump the fence and meet with them out there. Before you know it, they will form unholy alliance.
They will be calling the Son of Man over the phone that they had a friend they spoke with, that he will like to be a part of this message.
It is a lie! He is trying to bring in a criminal who is being policed about by the law enforcement agents. That is why; the safest ground where criminals normally hide remains the Churches.
In the Churches you see all manner of criminals. They believe that the moment they ran into the big Churches, they are insulated from the prying eyes of law enforcement agents. And the law enforcement agents are afraid of probing into those Churches to conduct a search.
Remember what happened in Lagos a few months ago. A Nigerian police officer from Panti-Yaba; a superior officer went to worship in a very big Church in Lagos, he came face to face with a notorious armed robber that escaped from the police cell and the police officer on duty was detained by the Police because he was not vigilant and the young man escaped.
But look at how he came face to face with the superior officer from that police formation, and the man immediately arrested him there. With the help of other officers, they took him back to Yaba-panti and released the police officer in detention.
This man has been hiding in the Church for over three months; little did the police know that the Church has become a hiding place for notorious criminals and murderers.
How I wish the law enforcement agents will begin now to search all the Churches starting from the general superintendent. Even some general superintendents hide armed robbers in their houses because they give them plenty money.
Few months ago we read from a newspaper, a woman pastor from Orlu in Imo State, the police arrested alongside with car snatchers that have snatched over seventeen vehicles. Even the sports utility vehicle (SUV) the woman pastor was riding, was a stolen vehicle.
The police recovered nine stolen vehicles from the Church leader. Because members of the Church were arrested by the police over a car theft. There is no atrocity that is not traceable to the Churches today. Kidnappers are in the Churches, I am telling you the truth.
Kidnappers are hiding in the Churches, armed robbers are hiding, every kind of evil fellow is hiding in the Churches. Where are they getting their strength? From the general superintendents. They are rendering returns to them. No general superintendent can lose a member of his Church that donates millions to him, that gives him vehicles as gift, as offering, impossible.
This is where I am blaming the Nigerian police. They have not done a good work in this regard. All that glitters is not gold. A good number of the general superintendents are also robbers.
Whoever that arms an armed robber, is he not a robber? There are many of them and the Lord is saying, “Do you now want to convert the house of God that is called by the Name of God into the house of criminals?” God forbid!
For the house of God’s people must be separated from the camp of the ungodly. There must be a demarcation between those that serve God and those that serve Him not.
That’s why God said that we should raise up a standard using the word of God, for if we do not raise up a standard against evil, we are bound to reproduce Sodom and Gomorrah. We better be careful brethren!
Ministers be on the red alert, let your eyes not spare! Don’t close your mouth, don’t be dumb dogs. Disassociate yourselves from such people, mark them and send them out!
Nobody repents in the Church; you must repent out there then come to Church to worship God. You don’t repent in the Church. “Repent or perish” is not preached in the Church.
Once you come into the Church, it is believed that you have already repented. You now come into the Church and continue in the fellowship of the saints. The Church is for fellowship, repent or perish is for the people outside.
A sign that you have repented is now that you come into fellowship with the saints and continue with the doctrines of the Apostles and Prophets; don’t go about fooling yourself: “Son of Man said you cannot be better outside.” No, that is when you are overtaken by sin.
When you are overtaken by sin, we will punish you. After a while, when you change your heart and your mind, we will bring you back knowing that you cannot be better out there. But not when you have not repented, you came here as an unconverted soul, with your whole load of evil behavior and you want to spread it in our midst, giving this place another look? God forbid!
This place that is called by the Name of God can never be turned into the house of renegades. We better be careful.
My people mingle with heathens; they mingle with unconverted people and learn their wicked ways. And they have become good-for-nothing like half-baked bread. Unprofitable in all things.
Examine your ways. The Lord said, “I have seen you”. All your doings, I have seen everything. Nobody reported to the Lord, the Lord saw you with His eyes. You ask Me how, I believe the scripture that says that the eyes of the Lord runs to and fro all over the earth, beholding everything that is done therein.
The secret place is as bright as the day in the eyes of the Almighty God. Stand at the gate Oh Son of Man and make this proclamation to these people that are trooping into this house that is called by My Name everyday, saying that they have come to worship the Great Jehovah. People that are laden with iniquity, not ready to change. God forbid. Amen.

WHO IS YOUR BROTHER—WHO IS YOUR SISTER?

I go further. Who is your brother? Who is your sister? Psalms 119 verse 63. WHO IS YOUR BROTHER? WHO IS YOUR SISTER? IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS PASSAGE, STOP MAKING GENERAL STATEMENTS.

YOU CAN BE MY FRIEND AND NOT MY BROTHER. YOU CAN BE MY NEIGHBOUR AND NOT MY BROTHER. THAT WE ARE IN THIS SAME FELLOWSHIP HERE DOESN’T QUALIFY YOU TO BE MY BROTHER OR MY SISTER.
THERE IS ONLY BUT ONE THING THAT QUALIFIES YOU TO BE MY BROTHER, TO BE MY SISTER. IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT THING, WE ARE NOT BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
Living Bible, Psalms 119 verse 63. Anyone is my brother who fears and trusts the Lord and obeys him. LB.
Anyone is my brother, anyone is sister who fears, trusts, honours and obeys the Lord. If you do not trust, you do not honour, you do not fear God, you do not obey God, from the scripture, you are not my brother, you are not my sister. It is the fear of God in the heart of men that restrain them from evil. He that indulges in criminality, does he fear God? Does he honour God?
More so, when the person is coming into the house of God from time to time hearing God speak, beholding Him in person. I mean, that person is trailing on the most dangerous ground.
So Pastor Dan, you can see the person that should be your brother. But if you fall in the category of people that do not honour, fear, trust and obey God, well, you may be right in pairing yourself with such people. Because you must pair yourself with people that believe what you believe. Who is my brother? Who is my sister? I mean, God has made a demarcation now.
Even in the family, who is my son? Who is my daughter? Who is my wife? Who is my husband? Because you have no brother except in Christ, you have no sister except in Christ, no husband except in Christ, no wife except in Christ, no children except in Christ, no father, no mother except in Christ.
In other words, if any is not found in Christ he doesn’t belong to God. He is not my brother, he is not my sister until he or she is found in Christ. The meeting pointing for all God’s children is in Christ. If you don’t meet in Christ, you meet in crisis.
We either meet in Christ or meet in crisis. Look at the qualification if you want to be in Christ: you must fall within the category of people that fear, honour and obey God.
When you do these things you will find yourself living in Christ and Christ also living in you. It is this spirit of Christ in you that will raise a standard in your heart against all negative thoughts, negative feelings that lead to negative actions.
But where Christ is not there, the devil is there. For no heart is empty. No heart is empty, no vessel is empty. Nature abhors vacuum.
If Christ is not in your heart, the devil is in your heart. The devil and Christ can never be in your heart at the same time. Never, never. There is no way light and darkness can stay together. If light comes in, darkness will vanish. Anybody that doesn’t have Christ in his heart is living in darkness even till today.
And it is this darkness that have covered his mind, covered his heart that he will not see the light of truth. He doesn’t know the meaning of light.
Christ is the Light of the world. Whoever that follows Him, can never walk in darkness. Whoever that is living in iniquity is living in the dark, for darkness has comprehended him that he cannot know what is good and bad again. Once it favours him, to hell with everybody.
When he is all out to get what he wants, nobody can stop him. Even if the Son of Man will stand there watching him, he will use his left hand to brush Him aside and go after his loot. Brother Kelechi, have you not received such a testimony? He said he has.
Is that person from the sky? Is he not drawn among you? Who saw somebody coming out from the bank, rushed to collect the money, the Son of Man was standing there. And he saw the Son of Man live in the day time.
But he needed that money by all means. He said that if he will continue to respect the Son of Man, he won’t get that money, that he needed the money. He backed the Son of Man, went after the man, collected the money and ran away.
The Son of Man turned and vanished away in the day. The Son of Man was in His house at Benjamin and also there. He saw him live.
Immediately he came back, the Son of Man called him over the phone, “Where did you go? What did you do? Yet, he has never learnt his lesson.
Let us go further. I said, I am reading scriptures. I think I am going beyond reading scriptures. Are you pleased? Are you sure you are pleased?
I am not sent to come and please many. I want to hear, “I am not pleased.” For many must be offended by the Son of Man. Blessed is the man or woman who is not offended.
That person shall be called the child of consolation. But woe is the fellow that is offended by the Son of Man. Woe is that fellow. Anybody that truth offends is a devil in human form. Amen.

SOW TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, REAP IN MERCY

Proverbs 14 verses 13 through 14, living Bible. Despise God’s Word and find yourself in trouble.

Do what? Despise God’s Word and find yourself in trouble.
Despise God’s word this day. Despise the word of God you are hearing this morning, neglect it, don’t ever take it serious and watch where you will find yourself. Watch what is going to befall you from now.
It is better you withdraw from the Faith and live, than to stay in the Faith and die outside Christ where the saints will not even bury you and will not come to your rescue. It is better that you stay with your village relations, when you die, you see people that will bury you, than for you to die and nobody will come after you?
Despise God’s word and you must find yourself in trouble. Despise the words of God you are hearing this day and see where you will land. You must land where you will regret your life. Because warning goes before judgment. Warning goes before judgment.
Despise God’s Word and find yourself in trouble. Obey it and succeed.
Obey the word of God and do what? Succeed.
The advice of a wise man refreshes like water from a mountain spring. Those accepting it become aware of the pitfalls on ahead. LB.
The words of a wise man sound like a refreshing water from the stream. Whoever that accepts them averts the danger ahead. Any word that proceeds from the mouth of a servant of God sounds like a refreshing water that comes from the fountain of life, when you drink it, you live, but when you neglect it, if death didn’t strike you, know that it is not from God.
Whoever that takes the word of God seriously averts the danger ahead. For God will protect him with His word and he will never be killed by what killed others. God is with you while you are with Him. If you forsake Him, he will forsake you.
This message, this Faith is our security. When you secure this Faith, preserve this Faith, this Faith must surely preserve your life, secure your life.
Destroy this Faith, you are destroying your life. It is our security. For Christ is our security. The time of this ignorant God has overlooked for too long now.
Hosea chapter 10 verse 12. Sow to yourselves in righteousness,…
To all of you here including Myself. The Lord in conclusion is saying that we should sow to ourselves in righteousness that we may reap in mercy. If you sow to yourself in unrighteousness, you must reap in judgment. You must reap in condemnation.
Sow to yourself in righteousness and reap in mercy, reap in justification. Sow to yourself in unrighteousness, sow to yourself in wickedness, in criminality, you must reap in judgment of God, you must reap in wrath of God.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground:
Break up your fallow ground this day, break all of them up.
…break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD,…
For it is time to seek the Lord. Because you are still alive. Break up your fallow grounds, challenge yourself. Say no to that temptation, say no to that evil habit.
You have lived in it for too long yet you gained nothing. Tell Me what you think you have acquired through that type of wicked living that has made you the President of Nigeria or Governor of your state. Instead, it debases you, it belittles you, it makes people to look down on you. For a criminal doesn’t command respect in the society.
Nobody respects a criminal, nobody respects an evil doer. Even if they hail him in his face, at the back they ridicule him. They sneer at him. Your children will be criminals, your wife criminal; whatever you have will be that of a criminal.
Even the ones you suffered to get all will be an act of criminality. Your mother is the mother of a criminal, your father is a father of a criminal, your community will be the community of a criminal.
Righteousness exalts an individual, righteousness exalts a people, righteousness exalts a nation, a family, but sin is a reproach to anybody, to any family, to any community, to any nation.
God said from the beginning. I have placed before you this day, life and death. Chose life that you may live. Character is a matter of choice. Character is a matter of choice. If I want to be a drunkard today, nobody will stop me, if I want to be a criminal, nobody will stop me. But I must consider the future consequences.
Before you make a choice of a character, a habit, a life you want to live, consider the attendant consequences. Not when you chose to involve yourself into the act of stealing, when trouble comes out of it, you will be looking for people to come to your rescue.
If you harden your heart to commit crime, harden your heart to bear the consequences. Don’t run helter-skelter looking for help. That place you are looking for help, did they send you to go and commit crime. Did they share your loot with you?
If you must expect help as a criminal when you are in trouble. Go to your own association, go to your gang, people that share the loot with you, they should be ready to join you in the trouble. You should go to where you took your bath and collect your cloth.
Will you take your bath in Obosi and collect your cloth in Ogidi? Even a mad fellow cannot do that! If you did not handle something that has odour, will you smell your hand?
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. Break up the fallow grounds everybody for it is time to seek the Lord. This is the time, tomorrow may be too late.
…break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. KJV.
Until the Lord has visited you in person as a person and has rained righteousness upon you. Stop at nothing until the Lord has declared you righteous. And the Lord can never declare anybody righteous anyhow. For there is a standard you must attend. What is that standard? You must fear Him, honour Him, love Him, trust Him and obey Him.
When you are not doing all these things, the Lord cannot input His righteousness upon you. If the Lord will save you anyhow, heaven will be filled with criminals. Sodom and Gomorrah will be better than heaven. you must know what it takes to be righteous in the sight of God.
It is a matter of one minute decision. One second decision, the whole thing will end there. You have not escaped from your old ways of life because you have not given it a fight even to the losing of your blood.
You have not decided that instead of me to do it, let me die. Let me die of hunger. Enough of this life style. I have lived this life enough. I have tested it and get nothing but sorrow.
No criminal can have a happy home for the children must be hooligans. Then if at the end of the day, all your children turn out to be hooligans, what have you benefited from stealing, from criminality? If you succeed in stealing, murdering people, duping, intimidating and threatening people, if at the end of the day, there is no peace in your house, all your children becomes useless, of what gain is your suffering, criticism, flogging and every evil names you received in this life? Whoever that rides a vehicle by stealing, the person walking barefooted is better than that criminal. Whoever that builds a house with stolen money, somebody living in a gutter is better than that person.
Whatever that is gotten by the side of the pot ends by the side of the mouth. It is what the hen commits in dry season that snatches its chicks during rainy season. We are the cause of our woes. God is saying today, stop and think.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness everybody, reap in mercy. Break up the fallow ground for it is time to seek the Lord. Do not relent. Those that fear the Lord, relent not in your prayers until He has come and has rained righteousness upon you. Until God has declared you righteous in His sight, only then are you made fit for heaven.
You are only fit for heaven, adopted where God Himself has declared you righteous. Break the fallow grounds immediately for it is time to seek the Lord. Everybody is involved. Go ahead. Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. KJV. In the multitude of thy mighty men. Yes, criminality calls base things mighty. Mean persons, they are mighty before their eyes. Are you getting what I am saying?
“Hardman,” is it a good name? People will be hearing him, this man is great, he is very strong. An ungodly fellow, somebody that does not have the fear of God uses such person to boast. He parades with such person: “Do you know us? If you talk nonsense, I will make a call and they will burn this place down, everybody will run away!” As if there is virtue in it.
Those people he calls mighty, God calls them mean persons. Unprofitable people, people that are ready to die anywhere. He can commit suicide for the sake of money. Somebody that collects money to die, is that person profitable? If you give him money and tell him to go and pull down a house, he will do it without restraint. Hence, he won’t care, “If I am caught, what will I do?”
An evildoer does not think twice. The only thing he thinks in life is evil. If a criminal ever put death in his programme, he can never steal again. If a criminal ever put death in his programme, he can never steal again. Do you get Me?
No criminal thinks of death. For any day he remembers that he can be shot dead, he can never indulge in that act again. Then the question arises, What is that thing that gives an evildoer sleepless nights, vanity upon vanity. What will the mighty achieve in his hardness? Hard death.
This man is very tough, where will he end his toughness? Death, restlessness. For there is no peace with the wicked saith the Lord God Almighty. He will be running helter-skelter hiding from one bush to another.
Each time he is in the house, he will open his doors and windows. Once he hears any noise, off he moves. You can never see him crossing the main road freely; he must watch very well so as to see whether the road is clear. Every “apiam” way is meant for the evil man.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. Break up the fallow grounds for it is time to seek the Lord. Rest at nothing, keep on seeking His favour, keep on seeking His face until He shall come to you and rain righteousness upon you.
Only then are you declared feet for paradise. Read it in another translation.
Hosea chapter 10 verses 12 through 14. “Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will reap a crop of my love; plow the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower salvation upon you.
This is the time to seek the Lord that He may come and shower salvation upon you.
“But you have cultivated wickedness and raised a thriving crop of sins. You have earned the full reward of trusting in a lie—believing that military might and great armies can make a nation safe! LB.
Brethren, a word is enough for the wise. This is My little word of love for all of you that are here today. Remain blessed.
Remain in your sanctified estate, remain blessed in Him eternally. Selah.