GIVE YOURSELF A NAME EXPLAINED PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 6TH OCTOBER 2019 AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE ALL-KNOWING GOD
In Me lies the mysteries of creation, life, death and hereafter; I AM THE ONLY BEING THAT CAN TELL YOU THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. Believe it if you can…… I AM HE, THE SELF-EXISTING ONE, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. I AM THE ONLY BEING THAT CAN TELL YOU THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE AND DEATH. Believe it if you can…… I am the Author of Life, HE that knows the secrets of the heart. The Beginning and the End. The Lord God Almighty. Believe it if you can……
ACTION TIME PART 1 & 2; Tuesday, 30th December, 1997; Pg. 3 & CHRIST IS REVEALED IN HUMAN FORM, NOT TO THE WORLD, BUT TO THE TRUE ELECTS; Thursday 26th August, 1999; Pg. 3
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I KNOW WHO I AM
You are all welcome to His presence this day. Let Me use this golden opportunity to say welcome to the month of October to as many as were not here with us on 1st October, notably those that came from other stations.
2. Last Tuesday, when I breezed in here, I was wondering whether spirits became human beings and filled the whole seats.
3. If I am correct, which I know I am, you should look around and see whether there are members of Onitsha Fellowship that are missing. I mean this morning.
4. This is because this was exactly the capacity crowd I saw here on Tuesday. There was no empty seat. Everywhere was jam-packed. And I was highly impressed that, at least, 75% of them were here spiritually.
5. I am referring to Tuesday. I am not talking about today. The devil can be here today. That Tuesday was an extraordinary one to Me. I do not know about you.
6. For the first time, I mean, in the history of Onitsha, the word of the Pastor was honoured by all when no announcement went forth. I simply advised the two Pastors who were always with Me, and he used his handset to send out text.
7. I have been wondering if there could be one that was absent there that day. I enquired. I went round. There was only but one young man who was absent and that was Mbanefo [Emma Nnachor]. He was conspicuously absent.
8. Another person was our Brother who travelled home, Enoch, for the burial of his late mother. Apart from these two, I do not know any other. If you noticed any, I did not notice any other.
9. It was quite an impressive gathering. I equally made it clear that day that you should not be expecting My family to be here. No! The Meeting was for a special purpose. The purpose was achieved.
10. I came here. I presented Myself and also told you that I am an Igbo man so that you stop mistaking Me for something else. And I told you that My family coming here was quite unnecessary and that they are already in My bedroom. So, there was no need coming here.
11. Let me just tell you the truth. I come here sacrificing My life because I love humanity. Otherwise, what I have in My home, where I am the Overseer, what I have is sufficient for Me. With them, I will remain happy till eternity.
12. If I am provoked, it is not My family. It can be strangers in My family but not My biological family. No!
13. I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING, AND I KNOW WHERE I AM STANDING. I KNOW WHO I AM. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME FOR WHO I AM, I KNOW WHO I AM. I BELIEVE MYSELF. I SAY, I BELIEVE MYSELF.
14. AND I AM SURE THAT THERE IS NOBODY THAT IS ACQUAINTED WITH ME BIOLOGICALLY OR OTHERWISE THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE ME FOR WHAT I AM.
15. I told you clearly that what I have been looking for all these years; for the past 26 years, I have been nurturing you, watering you, looking for only one thing.
16. And that Tuesday, I came in here trusting God so much that the vision I saw in My house, for which cause I hurriedly came down here, was not a false one, for I was vindicated.
17. Before I go further, Bro Ojiakor stand up there. This is because I love you. You are burying your step-mother. Be sure you do not bury your whole family. Be sure you do not bury both yourself and your whole family.
18. I have buried My late parents, whose burials attracted the cream of the society. I was very cautious. I made adequate preparations for the security of my family first.
19. By 2009, when I buried My father, My building at Mbaise was an uncompleted building. I was putting on something hastily with the help of the Brothers to make sure I secure the lives of all, making sure nobody ate or drank outside My family.
20. And nobody was housed outside My family. For that reason, I hurriedly put a flat into use for the security of My own nuclear family first.
21. I locked them inside that apartment, although it was not completed, so that they could eat their own food they prepared with their own hands.
22. They drank their own water. They were sleeping together, all of them. And My eyes never departed from them while I was in charge.
23. What I am seeing in you is not burial but euphoria, which can bury your entire family if you are blind. The world has never become a better world. Do not think your enemies love you. They have not loved you yet.
24. I know the level of precautions I took when I buried My late mother in 2015. You were all there. No burial has ever attracted such a mammoth crowd in My home town than that.
25. No matter the crowd, My glory filled everywhere. I never lost sight of one thing, for there is no way My friends will gather and avoid My enemies. I was sure and certain that My enemies were in the majority.
26. For that reason, I took all the necessary precautions, taking into consideration that it was amazing grace that saved Me in 2009. I would have been buried before My late father.
27. You were there. You helped in taking Me to Owerri where there was no hospital in sight. We bid you to continue your journey to Enugu. I abandoned all the Elders in My house.
28. If not for Bro Emma Agu and Bro Iyke Nwobodo, I ended My journey at Uli, where I received a call from an unknown caller, asking for My whereabout when I was already drowned inside a pool of water, where I dropped on the highway.
29. After the fall, My wife’s call came. It was on a Fellowship day, on a Thursday asking whether all was well and I said with every amount of certainty, “I am hale and hearty. We are coming. Go to Fellowship.”
30. She never knew I was lying on the highway. Why? A trusted friend gave five fruits of the local pear to an infant to give to Me. Unsuspectingly, I took it. You saw what happened.
31. So, do not think your enemies have repented. Rather, they have changed their colors. They have changed their colors. I am addressing you here because I am seeing too many lapses around you.
32. I have never ceased from praying for you and your family. You know the type of family you have, and you know the type of person you are.
33. It is better we stay alive and celebrate, so that we can say “Happy fare well” to our guests. No matter the honour we give to the dead, the dead can never say, “Fare well” to the guests.
34. Does a dead person salute the guests in his or her funeral or wish them fare well? Is it not the living that does that? Celebration is best enjoyed while one is still alive. Do not doubt Me because I have seen more days than you.
35. This morning, the testimony we shared concerning our Brother Iyke Obasanya of how God saved him several times, but the worst was when we had our Camp Meeting.
36. Little did we know that he was on his way home. He did not come today? Okay. The testimony we were sharing concerning him was how he got home and dropped dead for no just cause. The prayers of the Saints brought him back.
37. The same thing happened last night. He became the saviour. Brethren left My house happily. We ate nothing other than the Word of God. Word of encouragement.
38. While they left because we had a lot of setbacks on the highways as a result of the traffic jam, which I also suffered, little did they realize that Brother Tony Egbuna who also came to My house with them, together with Bro Iyke [Obasanya] were still very much behind.
39. Along the way, they started waiting for them, only to hear at last that Brother Tony Egbuna dropped on the way unconscious. If not for the help of Brother Iyke, the story would have been another one, which was exactly what happened to Bro Iyke that year.
40. The testimony was shared. In short, we re-visited it last night by way of encouraging ourselves to realize that the enemies are still very much around, and they are strictly monitoring us. No matter where they are, they are still monitoring.
41. Do not lose sight of the fact that THE SON OF MAN said, “Every little achievement attracts the attention of the enemy. No matter how you are trying to do good voluntarily with all your heart’s honest intentions, the same people that are praising you are the same people saying that you are trying to outshine everybody.”
42. You see, I love God for one thing. If you are too liberally minded, it will be misinterpreted. You do otherwise, it will be misinterpreted. You keep to generosity, it will be labelled another thing. Refuse to give, another interpretation.
43. SO WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? HE THAT DIES WHILE TRYING TO PLEASE THE HEATHENS, DIED IN VAIN, FOR YOU DIED WHILE TRYING TO PLEASE PEOPLE THAT CAN NEVER BE PLEASED.
44. They sing your praise when they are holding your bread in their mouths, holding your wine in their mouths. You are the highest. Few minutes after, “Crucify him. He is not worthy to live.”
45. So be very careful, now you are going home. Be spiritual. If you are not spiritual, you may not come back complete. Take note and talk to your wife, if she will hear. Talk to your children, lest they get to Umuoji to advertise themselves and parade themselves before their greatest enemies.
46. It dawned on Me that I should talk to you in the midst of the Brethren so that tomorrow, nobody will blame Me. Go home with your children. Pray. Allow God to show you the better way.
47. When it came to My turn, I reasoned with the Spirit that was in Me and is still in Me. I gave the heathens over to the heathens. I gave Myself over to the Brethren. And by so doing, I created a demarcation by allowing My worst enemy to serve his likes of people.
48. I handed everything over to Vita and Emma, “Take care of the village. Take care of your everything and everything.” In-laws, if you know whoever you are marrying from My family, look up to that person.
49. To all of them, if you want to entertain people from your own area, wherever they married you, that is not My business. Look at what you have. Go there with them. Not in this compound. Go and pitch your tent anywhere you want with them. If you have any difficulty, come and tell Me. Period!
50. Remember that you have started making mistakes already, not because I never told you. I told you long long time ago and I kept on reminding you.
51. At the end of the day, what I was discussing with you has become real, which if the community is like My own, they will not allow you to participate in the burial. You will never. You and your senior brother.
52. They will tell you, “Nay! You do not need to participate.”And they will give you reasons.
53. I know what I am saying because I am an elderly fellow, if I am not the oldest in the world. Let Me just say it that I have not seen one that is senior to Me yet.
54. Hear Me! Whether you like it or not, one day, you are receiving a shocking news that your father in-law is dead. Your mother in-law is dead.
55. That was the same way I told you to get ready for this woman who told us her stand against this Faith. Period!
56. That is where I love that woman. She spoke to Me in your parlour. She said, “While I am here with you, I will be following you to Fellowship because I cannot trek to My own. But to leave Anglican, No! I have gone too far.”
57. Remember what I am saying. If the news comes tomorrow that your mother in-law or your father in-law is dead, there is an obligation, a traditional obligation you can never dodge. And until you have paid your debt, nobody stands behind you.
58. That was why I told you, “Come out from where you were standing. Do not be in the front. Be a sympathizer. Do not be the chief mourner, unless you want to bury yourself and your entire family. Come out! You and James, your senior brother. Go behind! Go to the rear as sympathizers. Do not ever present yourself as the chief mourner. Your senior brother should not attempt it. Entertain visitors like any other family.”
59. Is it not when you present yourself that you are known and called upon? Get ready to pay all the debts. And you do not know where the debts started. You do not know when the last man paid his own.
60. So, you will pay their own and also pay for your own to enable you respond to any other that will come after.
61. Whether we like it or not, we keep on burying our elderly ones as they die. If your father in-law dies tomorrow, you must go there with a cow. If your mother in-law dies, you are going with a cow. It must not be in the form of meat [beef]. The cow must be delivered live to that family.
62. One that did not present a cow for his dead parents, does he go to another land during a funeral with a cow? Does he attend any ceremony that involves the use of cow?
63. I will tell you something about tradition. If you want to avoid tradition, avoid all. If you want to keep the tradition, enquire. They will tell you your limits. I know why I am sounding this way. IF THERE IS NO DANGER AHEAD, WARNING IS USELESS.
64. This is the ocean. I know its depth. It is not a light ocean. That is why elderly people in the land do not allow people to dabble into it anyhow. A lot of enquiries must be made, for if you make a mistake, you start all over.
65. When you are clearing the areas, you must clear all. You want to abandon, abandon all. People have deferred noisy burials because of their family’s indebtedness. True or false?
66. The tradition is worldwide. You can download this tradition anywhere you want. It answers many names, but it is one tradition and I can balance it in the Bible straight away. So, let us be very careful.
67. If you have not given your parents befitting burial, you have no right whatsoever to give any other person a befitting burial. True or false?
68. One whose parents died when he was still an infant and the community gathered and helped in burying them, a promise is made that when the children grow up, they will give their parents a befitting funeral.
69. A sign that you have made money enough to be spent in feasting and also built a house where guests can be entertained is to do the funeral. When you jump the order, you land yourself in trouble. Am I making sense?
70. [To Elder Nwobu] Has it been done in your own place? It was done, not quite long ago in your place. What did the community tell you when you approached them to tell them what was happening? Brethren listen.
71. ELDER NWOBU SPOKE: The community told me that one who never presented a cow in the funeral of his father cannot present a cow during the funeral of another person, either his in-law or any other person. They said that it is not done.
72. What happened in the case of your family?
73. ELDER NWOBU SPOKE AGAIN: That of my family is that there was one my brother did and the community came and reported to me. it is only God that has kept that matter hanging for me to be alive today.
74. This is because I undertook my mother’s funeral with the money equivalent of a cow. I gave them the money equivalent of a cow.
75. Though I undertook the funeral rites of my father, I did not do that by presenting a cow. It is still hanging even till this very moment. That is what I am striving to fulfill with the help of God.
76. Sit down. What I am saying is greater than that. What I am saying is that often times, we over expose ourselves and incur the wrath of the heathens ignorantly.
77. [Elder Nwobu appealed to the LORD to speak again.] He is an Elder.
78. In the case of that cow, it was THE SON OF MAN who enquired of me whether there was any rite I fulfilled by paying money, and I replied Him saying, “Yes sir. It was the cow. I paid money instead of presenting a cow.” He now said, “Okay” and summoned me.
79. I came down and he gave me money and encouraged me to use that money to pay instead of presenting a life cow, for He saw danger ahead. I never had any previous discussion with THE SON OF MAN on this issue.
80. What did you your junior brother say?
81. My junior brother said that he will present a cow. THE SON OF MAN said, “No!”
82. Thank you! It is just like this case of Apostle Ojiakor. The highest you will do is to present a cow to James. The highest thing you will do is to give money to those whose mother or father died.
83. When they gather as a family with their eldest man in their midst, whatever money you have to support them in the burial, give it to them and go your way. Then you wait for the visitors that will be coming to your house.
84. The burial is around the corner. I say, it is around the corner. And we have already been invited. As many as will be free that day, it is believed that we shall be there. So let us behave ourselves.
85. We are not going there to bury Bro Ojiakor. He is alive. We are going there to sympathize with him over the loss of his late uncle’s wife. Have I defined it? We are not going there to bury the late mother of Brother Ojiakor.
86. So, Bro Ojiakor! Change the narrative immediately for your own safety. Begin now to tell people that you are there to join the family to bury the wife of your late uncle, who assisted you during your school days. Period!
87. Make no mistake of referring to her as your mother. Spirits do not die. Spirits do not die. If you do not change this narrative, I assure you, you will see the face of your late mother. She will appear. You will see her. She will introduce herself.
88. The reason why it lingered so far is because [1] she died during the war period. [2] Everybody had been patient with you until you have a place that is called your own.
89. Being patient means you ran away from your community because of your belief in Christ. If you had entangled yourself, this debt would have been paid long long time ago. Your first salary from Ukpor, that is where you would have invested it. Amen.
90. So, that is by-the-way. I saw our Brother Enoch. Stand up there. You are welcome. We followed events in your hometown in Zakibiam, Benue State. He buried his late mother, and the burial was a success.
91. We continued monitoring, even from the night. They brought down the corpse according to their tradition. The corpse passed a night in their family, and was buried the following day.
92. Everything went peacefully. He continued communicating, and we were directing. At last, he is back. Sit down.
93. He did not bury himself. Rather he opened his mouth and won converts there. The problem is how to nourish them spiritually.
94. So, he has advertised his belief, to the point that he volunteered to be the Minister that will bury the late mother. So, we thank God for that.
95. For Bro Sunday Ugorji, the Deacon, it is all over with the wife. Bro Emeka! He is not yet back. Why claiming you will be here on Saturday, by and by; or Friday even? We discussed with him and he said he is coming back on Friday. I said, it will not be easy. He said by and by.
96. Any of them here? No! they are on the way? Today? Praise God. Let us pray they will be here at last. But for Bro Sunday, he told Me reliably that we should expect him from Wednesday this week. It is proper. I say, it is proper. So, we give God the praise.
97. Be it known to you that 19thOctober is equally around the corner. That one is a wonderful ceremony that has a testimony behind it. A wedding ceremony taking place at Owerri. Bro Modestus Oduah wedding the daughter of Deacon Denis of Umuokanne.
98. Already, there is a testimony concerning it. Pastor Chizoba! You are acquainted with the testimony. Thank you. We give God the praise, believing that it shall be well.
We are entering into another stage of this ministry, “Spoken word ministry”. You know it is a big work, how long would it last? I don’t know. “Spoken Word Ministry”. By Faith we will be there, by Faith we will create things. By Faith, we will shake the world. Faith in Jehovah will shake this earth. Have Faith in God. We are listening to the voice of God. Amen.
FAITH; preached on Friday 12th March 1993; Page 51 vs. 39 – 40
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WITHOUT FAITH, YOU ARE WORSHIPPING IN VAIN
Tuesday’s experience in Onitsha will linger for too longer. It was an impromptu Meeting by revelation. Why? The Word went forth from Onitsha. Unto Onitsha, God first appeared to take for Himself a people. So, I am not surprised that from Onitsha also, Faith has appeared.
2. I am not quoting William Branham. I am quoting Myself and the Spirit that is in Me. What I have been looking for, for which cause I am sent has finally showed its appearance in Onitsha.
3. BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN. I AM SENT TO BRING FAITH TO THOSE THAT SHALL BE SAVED. NOT ORDINARY FAITH. FAITH THAT CHANGES MEN’S LIFE, IF ONLY THEY WILL BELIEVE THAT I AM HE.
4. The totality of the Message of the LORD Jesus Christ was this: IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT I AM HE, YOU WILL PERISH WITH YOUR SINS. Not if you do not believe in the miracles. You do not believe in the signs and wonders. No No No!
5. They had already believed those things. And those things were the things that made the people to say that He was a good man. But for declaring that He was the Almighty God in human form, they said, “He had a devil”, and that He was a blasphemer worthy of death. But concerning other attributes, no query.
6. IT TAKES FAITH TO BELIEVE THAT A HUMAN BEING COULD BE THE ALMIGHTY GOD. AND WHEN YOU EXERCISE SUCH A FAITH IN WHOMSOEVER THE PERSON MIGHT BE, THAT IS THE POINT OF YOUR JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. SO, YOU WILL BE JUSTIFIED BY THE FAITH THAT IS IN HIM WHOM YOU HAVE NOW BELIEVED.
7. Jesus was asking the question, “When THE SON OF MAN shall come, shall He find what?” FAITH. Not find church. Not find Bible or find worshippers. WITHOUT FAITH YOU ARE WORSHIPPING IN VAIN.
8. The Faith that bringeth salvation has already appeared. You must know the person in Whose Faith you are justified; in Whose Faith you are sanctified; in Whose Faith you are declared holy and righteous, without a single fault.
9. I saw it appearing in Onitsha and I was overjoyed. It is now that I am convinced that My statement has come to pass, that I KNOW I CAN NEVER LABOUR IN VAIN. GOD MUST SURELY SAVE SOMEBODY FROM AMONG US.
10. It could be you. It could be someone else. But God must surely save somebody by My Gospel. FAITH.
11. Far back in 1993, He gave us the summary of the journey. Journey through life. Journey through the Wilderness, knowing that we have never gone this way before. He said He is coming to lead.
12. [1] MIXED MULTITUDE [2] JERUSALEM TO JERICHO [3] FAITH. He said, “Faith is Grace. This is the Faith that will stay here until you are translated.” No other thing.
13. By revelation now, you can begin to see the meaning of the Scripture that whosoever that must come to God must first believe that He is. [Hebrews 11:6] He is what? [1] He is a human being. [2] He exists. Not a human being that existed before, for Hebrews 13:8 said, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.”
14. So, you must first believe He is and He exists. Then, He is with you always, even till the end of the world. [Matthew 28:20]
15. So, Tuesday was another Tuesday. In the interest of those who were not here, especially from outside, if you have never done it, do it.
16. Pastor Chinemezu called Me with his own experience how he downloaded the Message of Tuesday. And I was asking whether there was a Message. There was not a Message. There were Messages.
17. There were Messages. Revelations. It is now that God is worshipped by revelation of who He is. Why? Faith is Revelation. Faith is Revelation.
18. Because of what happened here on Tuesday, I had to rush back home to pick the Message of 1993, 12th March, titled FAITH, not neglecting the rest. Amen.
19. And we remembered how God confirmed that Message that night, where we saw the worst wind we have never experienced. From that time till now, it has never happened again.
20. And God had earlier announced how He will use that wind to confirm the Faith. The wind is blowing again.
21. NOW, WHEN FAITH IS SOWED AS A SEED, IT MUST GERMINATE. FAITH COMETH BY HEARING. HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. BUT THE WORD OF GOD IS THE SEED. A SEED OF GOD DOES NOT COMMIT SIN. IF YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, YOU CANNOT COMMIT SIN, FOR THE SEED OF GOD IS ALREADY IN YOU.
22. Faith is a Seed. You planted it as a mustard seed. It is germinating. All of them will not sprout at the same time.
23. When you plant your yam in the farm, all of them do not come out at the same time. But the truth is, no matter the time they are coming out, no matter the time they are being planted, they must be harvested at the same time. Mature or immature; ripe or unripe, they must be harvested at the same time.
24. What do we do to Faith? When you see Faith like yam you planted, some will find no difficulty in coming out. You see the plumule. It starts developing leaves. You see some others being silent.
25. Sometimes, you may be tempted to scratch to see whether it is still alive. When you scratch, you notice that it is still alive, you cover it again and go your way.
26. These ones are climbing the stake. Some are coming up, but these ones are dormant. But they are still alive. If you scratch it, you notice the greenish nature of the yam seed.
27. Then, a little while, you see the land cracking. You notice that there might be something holding it. What do you do? You open the land a little, pour a little water. Two days, go there, you will see it.
28. In your farm where you planted the yam, do you put stake everyday? For any one that comes up, you put a stake and it will be climbing the stake. Faith is growing higher and higher. The other ones are coming in their order. Your duty is to be putting stake. They will be coming.
29. It gets to a point when you do not put any stake again. Did you get the Message? All of them are now climbing the stake. At this point, there is no mistake about the yam. You have seen all of them attaining the same Faith.
30. By the time they will be harvested, it is believed that they have attained the perfect stature of the perfect man. How can you grow in Faith that has not sprouted?
31. Faith must first of all, germinate. You put stake and it will be growing. You begin to water it and you begin to nurture. You nurture all of them until they will come to the same level, unto the perfect stature of the perfect man, presenting only but one yam tuber. No one will answer cocoyam. All of them, yam. Did you get the Message?
32. Now, I have seen Faith appearing in Onitsha gradually. Before you know it, it will spread. I say, it will spread. As we keep on nurturing them, you see everybody coming to the same level of Faith until we all come to the Unity of the same Faith, unto the fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ.
33. So, where the Word went forth was where He first appeared and was the first chosen place of worship. No mistake about what God is doing.
34. When He said, “Preach the Gospel”, he said, “You start preaching from Jerusalem. Then, to Judaea. Then, to Samaria. And then to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
35. Now, it is Onitsha first. It is Onitsha first. Then, which one second? Eha-Amufu. Did you get the Message? Second Eha-Amufu. Let Me reserve My comments.
36. On this note, I invite Ngosike to the pulpit. Give ear to this ancient Message. Before the teaching of today. Everybody is involved. I am involved. Good.
37. Anybody from Aba? Nobody.
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A MESSENGER OF ANOTHER DAY CANNOT SAVE YOU
GIVE YOURSELF A NAME, preached on Sunday 9th August, 2009 by THE SON OF MAN, Apostle Peter Odoemena at the Household of God Onitsha.
2. Page 3 Nugget: I am HE walking in the midst of the seven candle sticks. I am only gathering the loose ends from the first Angel Messenger, to the last to raise a Bride for Christ. Believe it if you can…
3. Rewind! Pay attention. Stop writing everybody. For 26 years, you have been writing. Yet, your life is not depicting what you have written down. Writing means acquisition of knowledge. Knowledge is not Faith. When was this Message preached? Sunday, 9th August 2009. 10 years ago.
4. I am HE walking in the midst of the seven candle sticks. Do you have Faith to believe this now? If you must be justified by Faith, whose Faith? If it is not the Faith of the Messenger of your day, then you are fooling yourself.
5. You cannot be justified by the Faith of the Messenger of another dispensation because it means living in the glare of another era that does not belong to you.
6. I cannot be justified by the faith of Wesley or Martin Luther or Branham. No! I cannot be sanctified by their faith. The faith of Paul is too far away from where I am.
7. It was during the weekend that Brethren saw that the reformers were all reverend fathers. Some ended in writing songs. John Wesley was a reverend father. Martin Luther was a Monsignor. All in the catholic dominion.
8. All of them starting from Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, they were all reverend fathers who came during the dark ages to see whether they can institute some reforms with very little light.
9. The light of saint Paul can never shine today. The light of the reformers cannot shine today. The light of William Branham cannot shine today. Even Pentecost light cannot shine for we have gone too far from Pentecost.
10. There is a STAR shining. A LIGHT shining. Refuse to walk by the LIGHT shining, you grope in darkness. You will be left behind. A messenger of another age cannot save you.
11. So, Moses cannot save you. Joshua cannot save you. Caleb cannot save you. Samuel cannot save you. No Prophet of old can save you, but they can be your reference point.
12. SONG: [Glory to His Name. Glory to His Name. There to My heart was the Faith applied. Glory to His Name.
13. Glory to His Name. Glory to His Name. There to My heart was the Faith applied. Glory to His Name.]
14. Do not envy Onitsha, for they never picked it on a platter of gold. The price was paid. The price was paid. Amen.
15. Can you nourish THE SON OF MAN more than Onitsha? Can you take care of THE SON OF MAN more than Onitsha? It is an empty boast if you are thinking that way. Amen.
16. No matter their transgressions, Onitsha remains My first wife. In life or in death, Onitsha remains My first wife. Amen. Others are My wives o. They came one after the other, but number one is Onitsha. Amen. Pay attention. Stop writing.
17. I am HE… Note! I AM HE. That was the introduction in 1993. He said, “I am not a Messenger to any Church age. There is no Church age that appeared that I never appeared. So, do not ever look at Me as one of them. No!”
18. I AM HE THAT WALKED IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLE STICKS AND IS STILL WALKING AMONG THEM TILL TODAY. I AM HE THAT IS SENT TO GATHER THE LOOSE ENDS AND PRESENT WHAT? CHRIST. BELIEVE IT, IF YOU CAN.
19. HE SAID, “EVEN IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, FOLLOW ME. TIME AND EVENTS WILL VINDICATE WHO I AM.” I KNOW WHO I AM.
20. I am HE walking in the midst of the seven candle sticks. I am only gathering the loose ends from the first Angel Messenger to the last to raise a Bride for Christ. Thank you! Believe it if you can…
21. Believe it if you can. To raise what? A BRIDE. For who? FOR CHRIST. Have I succeeded in raising the Bride? Even if you do not believe, I know I have raised the Bride, fully adorned, waiting for presentation. Presenting to who? To Himself.
22. He is not presenting the Bride to another person. He is presenting the Bride to Himself as a glorious, chaste virgin of the Word, without wrinkle, blemish or anything; He will dwell with in all eternity. No divorce. Amen.
23. Page 5 Nugget: Have I not been telling you that many will be disappointed in the end? Pay attention now. Everybody. Be sober.
24. Those heathens and unbelievers in this Faith. Who…Those heathens and unbelievers in this Faith.
25. In the great Sermon, He said, “Do you mean heathens and unbelievers among us?” And he said, “Yes! They are in the majority, greatly found among the Ministers and their families.” 2001. You call them heathens and unbelievers? Yes! Fellowshipping with us.
26. Last night was another night all together. And I thank God I sent Echezona away before I visited his case. Otherwise, he would have been hostile to people, because he does not know the genesis of his problem, but the Brethren knew it.
27. They knew it from the beginning but they forgot it. It was when My instruction was disobeyed, then he started having experiences he has never had from the day his mother conceived him till today, that My Word might come to pass.
28. NEGLECT THE VOICE OF THE SON OF MAN, YOU LAND WHERE YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LIFE.
29. Have I not been telling you that many will be disappointed in the end? Have I not been telling us at that time, and I am still reiterating it till today? Many will be disappointed at the end.
30. Those heathens and unbelievers in this Faith. Those heathens and unbelievers in this Faith, even among the Ministers. I know them. Even their families. And they know that I know them.
31. Check what happened in the Wilderness. The seventy elders that were ordained, how many survived? Death started with the elders [ministers ordained], for they were rebels. They were unbelievers. They were heathens. They never believed God.
32. They never took Him at His Word. They never took God serious. And their heads rolled in the Wilderness. Their followers also paid dearly. This is because after the seventy, the two hundred and fifty that rebelled again paid the price.
33. Who deceived them? Notable elders who were heathens, pagans and unbelievers. Yet, parading themselves as Moses’ disciples.
34. Do not worry. I am addressing you now that the Message has gone home according to the prophecy of old which said that it must surely go home. It must surely go home with you, where you will be the overseer to pastor your family either to hell or to heaven.
35. Have I not been telling you that many will be disappointed in the end? Those heathens and unbelievers in this Faith, even among the Ministers. I know them. I know their families. And they know that I know them. They will be disappointed in the end. – SON OF MAN [UNTO YOU GOD FIRST APPEARED; Pg. 70 vs. 26]
36. ASK YOURSELF A QUESTION. Do what? ASK YOURSELF A QUESTION. You should ask yourself a question and I should also ask myself a question.
37. God is worthy to be praised. He is worthy to be worshipped, worthy to be exalted. IF YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH GOD, YOU ARE JUST A NOMINAL WORSHIPPER. Sure!
38. Nothing is sustaining you. You have no personal testimony. You may call Him, “My Lord and personal Saviour.” That is not true. You are only giving Him a title. You are not a partaker of that salvation.
39. He is not yet your Lord and personal Saviour, until you have had your own definite experience that will get you convinced and certain.
40. If you have no personal experience with God; if there is nothing that has happened in your life personally; I mean what you can attribute to the hand of God, you cannot worship God by revelation. We worship God by revelation.
41. There are somethings we are passing through. Somethings we experience every day and we know that really, this is the finger of the LORD. That is why we worship God.
42. Is there nothing we have passed through? Is there nothing that has happened in our lives? Even one thing that we have experienced in our lives? Is there nothing for which cause we can say that this is the reason why we are worshipping God?
43. One thing you will look at and you will be convinced that it is not of a human making. That you are alive and healthy, it is not traditional medicine. It is not your strength, but it is the hand of God.
44. I was meditating this morning concerning too many things because, for some time now, I have been living in the near future. My brain is still overloaded.
45. I was meditating about the standing of things, where we have arrived and where we are still heading to, because My head was full this morning.
46. And I asked, “Who has noticed hernia in the waist of God? Who has smelt any bad odour in the mouth of God? Who can join in the work of God? These were the questions I asked Myself.
47. Who? Can everybody climb Mount Zion? Who can dwell in mount Zion? Who can walk with God? These are great questions. 2009.
48. Nobody willing to walk with God. Nobody is willing to dwell with Him in Mount Zion, the City of the Most High God, the Heavenly Jerusalem. Nobody! Both man and woman.
49. Then I started from the beginning. I started from Onitsha because if you must look nice, it must start from your home. Remember, charity begins at home, but never ends there.
50. I started with Brothers. Anyone I mentioned, I ask about the person. What is happening? Who is trust-worthy? Will I do this work alone? I asked these questions within Myself.
51. Whoever I mentioned was not trust-worthy. Who then can I trust. I then said, “Instead of getting angry, let Me keep Brothers aside.”
52. Then I turned from Brothers and began with Sisters, especially the mothers. Whoever I mentioned, I was told that the person has no experience.
53. The person has no experience. Nominal worshipper. No experience.
54. I mention another, no experience. So they were merely following their husbands, but whatever God was teaching, they were just writing without experience. Nominal churchgoers. No experience.
55. I mentioned a particular Sister, the answer is, no experience. To a particular Sister, the answer is, no experience.
56. Actually, does she worship God? She worships God but she has no experience. Can you worship God without experience? Yes! You are a worshipper without experience. Then, what is sustaining you? Nothing! You are not rooted and grounded. Anything can take you out.
57. Where are you heading to? They say we are going to heaven. They say. Do you believe what they are saying to be true?I do not know. Anywhere I see myself, I will take. My husband said they are going to heaven. My husband said what they are preaching is true.
58. Can you doubt God? You see why God said, “Go home. I have lectured you enough.” When you get home, the standard of your family, starting from your wife, will tell you where you will begin to work. Some will need REPENT OR YOU PERISH. Some will need JOHN 3:16, for God so loved the world.
59. In other words, nothing has happened in her life. I mean, what she can rely on and worship God. She is worshipping God because she knows that God is worthy to be worshipped. But has anything happened in her life? The answer is no.
60. I continued to mention them one by one. Some were ticked good. Some had full stop. SOME WERE TICKED GOOD. SOME HAD FULL STOP.SOME WERE MARKED BAD.
61. I then asked again, “Will I do this work alone? Can I alone do this work? Will I cook and eat alone? Will I tap the wine and drink it alone? Have you seen somebody that did so?” It cannot be done.
62. Nobody is ready to work with God. Man and woman. Ten years ago.
63. 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.
64. CALLING CHRIST IN THE TIME OF CRISIS; Preached on Sunday 15th August 1993; Pg. 46 vs. 9 & Pg. 86 vs. 39
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WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU? [1]
Your name is your character. My name is my character. If my character is the character of Nebuchadnezzar, my name is Nebuchadnezzar.
2. If My character is a resemblance of Ahab, automatically, though I bear “His Holiness, holy reverend”, my name in the sight of God is Ahab.
3. What is your name before God? Or do you not know yourself. What is your name before us? Before the Almighty God, what is your name? Give yourself a name. What do you want God to call you? What do you want us to call you?
4. What do you want God to call you? What do you want the Brethren to call you? A good man before the Brethren, a good Sister, but evil in the sight of God? Having good commendations among the heathens, but being the worst in the sight of God.
5. What do you want us to call you, as Brethren? And what do you want God to call you? What Brethren see you to be and what they call you, does it harmonize, is it in agreement with what God says you are.
6. I just thank God for what is happening here. All the Elders who were with Me when Elochukwu Amobi died, heard My Voice. And I said I will not speak much about Elochukwu, lest the corpse will remain in the mortuary forever.
7. I said that if I speak, Brethren will not volunteer one kobo, and nobody among us will attend his burial. Elders, did I say so?
8. I continued concealing too many things around him until a point I could not bear it anymore and I withdrew. I told them that it will be miraculous for Me to be a part of his burial. That was why I was only persuaded at the dying minute.
9. I left with Bro Kennedy and Apostle Ojiakor reluctantly wearing only bathroom slippers so to say.
10. Everything I said concerning him, for which cause I demanded all our books for auditing, not knowing that his own kindred ordered him to submit their books also, I am vindicated to the core.
11. Last week, the wife wept sore at the sub-treasury. Let Me say it without mincing words. 75% of the money we realized here while Amobi was our treasurer, financial secretary and everything was looted by Elochukwu and his children, who were constantly breaking his house and carting away our money, and their father covering them up.
12. From the day we discovered a hidden sum of two hundred thousand naira [₦200,000.00] that belong to this Family of God, which Elochukwu hid under the bed and covered it with his tools, because he ran into difficulty and money was needed, he now disclosed.
13. I was there. Apostle Kelechi was there. Our Elder Nwobu was there also. We sent a word to the wife, “Go to that place. Search!”She got there and found the money.
14. Even the day he died, we gave him a reasonable sum to pay into our account, he paid in about one hundred and eighty thousand naira [₦180,000.00] and then reserved ninety thousand naira [₦90,000.00] for himself, which the children took immediately he died.
15. Their consciences could not spare them. They came reporting to Me, that they were using it to eat.
16. He was to submit the books to Me on Saturday. The same day, he was to submit all the books to his kindred for auditing for a huge sum was missing from the family account. Over ₦1.5million.
17. Then he developed sickness on Friday, and died on Saturday. I showed no interest when I was called because he was worthy of death.
18. Those who went to Nsukka and were in the same hotel with Me during My daughter’s wedding, if you forget what I said there, it may be your turn again, for I told you I was not threatening anybody. I attached no name.
19. I told you, “Do not be carried away by My simplicity because I was sitting down on a bare floor while talking to you.” You were eating and drinking and I was tasting nothing. And I told you I was not happy. And I will do something that will create fear in the Elders.
20. “One of you is going away. And he must be one that is dear to Me, strongly attached to Me, who claims to be one of us when He is not.” Did I say so? Fear gripped all of you. And I said, “If you know your hands are clean, fear not.”
21. THOSE WHO PAID THE PRICE DURING THE DAYS OF ACHAN WERE PEOPLE WHO HAD ALREADY DESIRED AND COVETED ALL THOSE FORBIDDEN ITEMS WITHOUT PEOPLE NOTICING THEM. BUT GOD CAUGHT THEM.
22. If not amazing grace, I would have bundled Apostle Ugo home, so that Egbema will bury him, that the rest will live. But My love and mercy projected. I cannot fire an Apostle and allow him to remain here on earth. He received the greatest grace.
23. Elochukwu’s wife wept sore. Last week, she called Me and I said, “Come and see Me in the yard.” She came in the evening defying the rain. I pitied her. Before now, I knew what she was passing through.
24. When Apostle Ojiakor was trying to make a case for him, I said no, publicly, “Do not ever tell the son to follow the footsteps of the father. How do you know that the father is in our Faith? If he was in our Faith, his children will be in our Faith. Olisa Amobi, you are not in our Faith. You can decide your fate when we go.” Finish!
25. Today, is he here? Is he in our Faith? They were following their father. He was only coming here to know how much we were raising every day, so that he will use phone to call his sisters who will be waiting for their father to come back. The moment he enters the bathroom, they will break the house and carry the money.
26. That is not all. Elochukwu maintained two finance registers. One for himself. One for us. The doctored one is for us. The wife testified. Every Fellowship day, he will come back and spend over three hours balancing account in two books, with his eyeglass.
27. Being an accountant by profession, he knows how to dupe, cheat and steal, and cover up.
28. Let it be known to all of you that when he died, we were given his Fellowship bag when they had already collected the money. What we saw were one book, 2 jotters he used to write amount of money and things like that, one hymn book. No Bible. No sermon book. No jotter.
29. A man that never encouraged the wife and the children for one day, but was only coming here. Hence, his uncle said, “He held us with a deadly grip by his teeth. He held you where you could not do anything.”
30. I mean, his uncle said to My own hearing, “SON OF MAN, why did you trust someone to this extent and he held you where you could not do anything.”
31. See what happened at last, immediately after the burial. We have tried to put the family in shape. Sister Amobi went to bank, collected money, and shared 50-50 with the children, not knowing that she was sharing her salary [pension salary].
32. First time, second time, third time she went, trouble ensued. It was then discovered that what she regarded as joint account with the husband, which they opened with her photograph and everything;
33. Remember, we took pains with the uncles to open those accounts. Elochukwu Amobi was receiving the alerts. Elochukwu Amobi forbade Sister from going to bank. Sister’s salary was what was made joint.
34. Elochukwu had his own private account from where he was getting his salaries, and made that of the wife joint on the condition that he alone goes there.
35. Whenever salary was paid to the wife, alert will come to Elochukwu’s phone. He will now tell the wife who, without suspecting, will now tell him, “Okay, now bring money.”
36. Elochukwu will pay the wife from our money. Elochukwu was paying the wife from the money realized from this Family called by name of God and then personalized the wife’s account.
37. And he will be going there at intervals to pick the money as he wished, while his own was unknown to the wife. The wife thought they were sharing joint account money, not knowing that it was her salary that was shared between Elochukwu, herself and the children. And until her own money finishes, Elochukwu will not bring out one kobo.
38. That is not all. He tricked Sister into opening joint account for the education of the children on the condition that the contribution must be 50-50.
39. Sister withdrew the whole money she had and handed over. Two of them went to the bank and opened it with the sum of eight hundred thousand naira [₦800,000.00] with the Union Bank.
40. Immediately they left, Elochukwu went back and changed the whole thing and personalized the account.
41. Her daughter now gained admission. Sister thought there could be money there, only to notice that Elochukwu had wiped everything off. That is not all. I now blame banks for their infidelity to the customers.
42. Elochukwu tricked Sister into opening an account with the UBA, at least, to let her run it as a domestic account. Innocently, she accepted and opened the account with the UBA, not knowing that the husband went back and changed the photographs, signature and everything, and became the owner of the account, to the point that he collected ATM card with PIN which Sister did not see until Elochukwu died.
43. We recovered it, went to UBA, only to be shown from the screen how Elochukwu used ATM to wipe off Sister’s account. So, he did all these things to make sure that the wife does not even have one kobo anywhere.
44. Then what happened to his own? This is where the problem now lies. We have used joint account as we saw when we gathered the whole family, with the help of Kenneth Amobi to see whether we could help the family out.
45. Now at last, they said they were no longer paying Elochukwu pension and that pension stopped immediately he died. I said, “No! It does not stop that way. He is entitled to pension for five years. Now he is dead, the balance should be calculated and paid to him en bloc.”
46. Sister knew it and then went to the sub-treasury of the Local Government Headquarters, only to notice that Elochukwu had been paid up to September 2019.
47. Sister was seeing the alerts on the phone, which Elochukwu never missed for one day. She said Elochukwu could forget the car keys, the keys to his room, but to forget that phone, she said it is impossible.
48. And the children are now ridiculing him that the phone their father never joked with is now everybody’s phone.
49. What happened? She was referred to the bank. She got there, only to notice another bank account in the name of Elochukwu Amobi, which he was using.
50. They referred her back to the Local Government. And from there back to the bank. The whole thing now boils down that for a kobo to come out, Sister must go to probate.
51. And you know what it takes to go to probate. But for the rest of the accounts, Sister did not go to probate because the husband forbade her from knowing anything about those accounts.
52. I liken his attitude to that of late Paul Agubalu who opened the same joint account with the wife, only to enable him know when the relations of the wife resident abroad, paid money into that account to help their sister’s business.
53. Seeing that the man was the one using his number to receive the alert, whenever the alert came, Paul Agubalu will go to the bank and wipe the money off without even telling the wife, not until his in-laws will call from abroad reminding their sister that they paid so so and so into the account, only for Sister to get there and see an empty account, for the husband has wiped it off.
54. It has become necessary for Me to expose these things, for there might be many of you here that have succeeded in tricking your wives into believing that you are running joint account where they have no access to.
55. With this, I think I am justified for sentencing Elochukwu to hell. While he was here, he received the judgment.
56. There might be many of you here, sitting down, who must have tricked your wives into believing that you are running joint accounts when they are mere single accounts. I have been wondering how a joint account can have ATM. It is impossible.
57. So, check yourselves very well. If you have joint accounts with your wife, how do you operate them? Who operates them? Does your wife have access to those accounts? Can she go there to make some withdrawals whether you are there or not?
58. Sister confessed that even if Elochukwu is deadly sick, and Sister wants to go and get money, Elochukwu will say No. He will be the one to go. He will carry the death on his body and go to bank. And he never disclosed the balance to the wife for one day or disclosed reasons for going to bank.
59. I AM NOT SENT TO EVERYBODY. I AM SENT TO THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL. I am not sent to everybody. I am not a worldwide Minister. I told you that. I came in search of My own. Anywhere I see that My own, I will make noise, he will embrace Me. My sheep heareth My Voice, they follow Me. The only thing that will attract them is My Voice. Once I speak, they will follow Me. …. If you are in this Faith and you are hostile, you are not in this Faith. You are in your own faith. The Faith of THE SON OF MAN is the happiest Faith in the whole world. …
60. BE CAREFUL ABOUT LAST MINUTE MANIFESTATION OF UNBELIEF (FOLLOW ME AS I FOLLOW HIM [THE CLOUD] REVIEWED); preached on Sunday 8th September, 2013; Pg. 75 vs. 28 – 29 & Pg. 79 vs. 43
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MY FAMILY REMAINS THE STANDARD FOR JUDGEMENT
How do you run your joint accounts with your families? Is it what I taught?
2. Nzubechi, stand up there, I thank God you were there also when we received this report. Stand up there because you are a standard for judgment for all women. I am the standard for all men.
3. She is there. Look into My eyes and look into the Congregation. Speak the truth in love. How do you maintain joint account with your husband?
4. Who opened the accounts? Were you the one or your husband opened the account and joined you? Who goes to bank? Is there anyway one can go without the other knowing?
5. Are you constantly in touch with the account to the point that you even ask for statement of account, even without alerting your husband? Speak to them. Let them know.
6. MUMMY NZUBECHI ODOEMENA RESPONDED: We opened the account together and both of us are signatories to the account. Most of the time, I am the one that goes to the bank, may be to make some withdrawals.
7. Did you say we opened together or I brought you into an account I had been running?
8. Yes sir!
9. Good! I did not open any account with you for one day. I opened My account. I deemed it necessary that My wife should be a part of the account. I called her to bring her particulars, took her there, she signed all documents and became a signatory to the account. Was it not how it happened?
10. It is.
11. Concerning your salary account, is it a joint?
12. My salary account is not joint.
13. Good! Have I any access to it?
14. No sir. You advise me on what to do.
15. Thank you! Stand up there! It remains one. We opened students’ education account. I took you to the bank and I told you, “My signature will not be there. You and Ebube will run it.” When Ebube became of age [over 18], everything was transferred to another account. Whose account? Who controls it.
16. I control everything about the account of our children.
17. Am I a signatory to that account?
18. No sir!
19. Who deposits money into that Account?
20. You normally do the depositing.
21. My duty is to deposit. Her duty is to withdraw. Even the Brethren who are with Me, they know that I am always reluctant to go to the bank. I hate queuing up. I am impatient. For that reason, I do not want to develop hypertension.
22. That is why wherever I do any banking, I use to make a hell of noise. Sometimes they will call her.
23. I remember one day I went with her, they said, “Ah! Madam, Is Oga [The Master] your husband? Aaaah! Oga is a trouble maker o. Whenever he comes here, nobody will rest until he is settled. That is why whenever they see His face, our madam will come up and collect his paper to settle Oga to enable Him go.”
24. This is pure truth. I do not have that time to come and wait. You cannot place computers, place human beings, and then ask Me to go and sit down. What are you doing? Take it!
25. I want you to see how a joint account is run. And that is what I taught. That is what I established. That is what I am practicing.
26. The same way also, some men here; I have taught that over and over. Nzubechi, stand up there! From the day I married you till today, have I ever stretched My hands and said, “I need your salary?” Use your microphone and talk.
27. No sir!
28. Have you ever collected it and given Me and I put it in My pocket or elsewhere?
29. No sir!
30. Have I spent a dime on My own from there?
31. No sir.
32. That’s all! Sit down. She will only inform Me and I will direct her. “Daddy, they have paid us.” Finish! Look at what you will do. You cannot hear, “Give Me” from the day I married her till today.
33. Remember I married her from My office. We were in the same office and remained there until I retired.
34. What am I saying? A leader leads by example. If it is not what is obtainable in My family, it then means she is lying against herself. But that is how My family is operated.
35. My children are aware of everything. I carry all along so that they will know where we are at any given time, to hinder them from over-demanding.
36. It is not the situation where if you see any new dress in My wardrobe, you present a request. No! You must see the statement of account. After all, you have no access to it, unless your mother will give you access.
37. So, you must know it, lest you think I packed money in the sky. It is all over. Finish!
38. Woe is that person whose account will be known only when He dies. Now look at the stipulation currently. Sister Amobi will go to the probate. She will only succeed on the condition that the money will be shared 50-50 with the probate, or else, nothing will be done.
39. If it is one hundred thousand naira [₦100,000.00], if they finish it, Sister will go with fifty thousand [₦50,000.00]. Then Elochukwu has now laboured. Strangers are now enjoying, not even the family
40. IF YOU ARE CHEATING YOUR WIFE, YOU ARE CHEATIMG YOURSELF. YOU CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN, YOU ARE CORRUPTING YOURSELF.
41. IF YOU ARE REAL CHILDREN BORN IN THE FAMILY, YOU HAVE THE INTEREST OF YOUR FAMILY IN YOUR HEART WHICH IS YOUR OWN INTEREST, FOR YOU HAVE NO OTHER FAMILY THAN THAT.
42. IF DISCLOSING THE WHOLE MONEY, THE WHOLE ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY TO YOU WILL MAKE YOU TO ACT OTHERWISE, IT THEN GOES TO SHOW THAT YOU ARE A DEVIL. YOU ARE A DEVIL.
43. YOU MUST COME TO A POINT IN YOUR FAMILY WHERE YOU BEGIN TO DELEGATE FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS AND FINANCIAL ERRANDS TO THE FIRST, MAN OR WOMAN.
44. Like I am here. I cannot have Wisdom who is pursuing his Masters’ degree, and I have a problem in Lagos involving money and you think I will go there and board airplane or bus. What is he doing?
45. He has to undertake it on My behalf and on the behalf of the family. By co-opting him in, he is gradually becoming a replacement. He is gradually becoming a leader because I will soon give way. Then, he will be on the scene.
46. Many think bringing their children into whatever they are doing means corrupting them. That goes to show you are not sure of your children. You did not give them real godly training or you gave, and they rejected it.
47. EVERYTHING AS A FAMILY MUST BE DONE TOGETHER AS A FAMILY. IF I DIE, BURIAL WILL BE AS A FAMILY. MOURNING AND EVERYTHING WILL BE DONE AS A FAMILY. WE CANNOT BE FAMILY ONLY WHEN WE DIE. WE MUST BE FAMILY NOW WE ARE ALIVE. SO, YOU MUST RUN A UNIQUE FAMILY.
48. That is why the Message went forth in My house on Friday, STRIVING ERNESTLY TO MAINTAIN THE HARMONY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE HOME IN THE BOND OF PEACE. That was the topic in My home on Friday. And we touched on different areas.
49. I said, I am talking to them this way because of strangers in My house. Strangers because they have decided to make themselves strangers. But when they decide to make themselves children born in the family, they become members of My family.
50. So, as My children take My Word, so they will take My Word. As I delegate functions to My children, so I will delegate functions to them, including going to bank, trusting them.
51. But when they behave like strangers, I treat them as such. This is because you will tell Me what I will call you. WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU?
52. Brethren, a man who has children and anytime he is going out he locks all his rooms under lock and keys; do you understand what we are saying? Are his children trustworthy? The reason why we lock every part of our house, is it not because of thieves and robbers.
53. A man that locks everywhere under lock and keys is simply calling his children thieves and robbers. Both his wife and children, they are all criminals. They are not trustworthy.
54. But if they are trustworthy, even if they find the man’s money on the floor they will keep it properly for him. When the man comes back, they will present it to him and tell him where the money was picked up.
55. When they want to wash cloth, they search the cloths. It is not only receipts that you recover from cloths. You also recover money. See receipts and money. We got them from your cloth we washed. We got it from your cloth we were ironing.
56. This is because sometimes, out of tiredness, a man may dress down without bringing out the things that are in his cloth after dressing down and he dumps all in the dirty cloth basket and they will be taken that way into the water for washing without knowing that there was money inside those clothes.
57. If there is a thief in that house, he will simply say, “God, thank you! Thy kingdom come. Is this how good you can be to me? Wonderful! God has buttered my bread.”
58. Blessed is the family that does not harbor a criminal, either as a sister, a brother, a son or a daughter. Blessed is that family who does not harbor a suspicious fellow, one with suspicious character, one that is not trustworthy.
Now, the Son of Man is on the scene. The Man whom the law and the prophets spoke about. A little while, the world seeth Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, ye shall live also. God is the perfect interpreter of His Word. What am I saying? At a time when they knoweth it not, the Son of Man appeared, born in the likeness of a Man, by a woman, married like every other person. Because the people He was sent to are human beings, He also became a human being, for only as a human being can they hear Him speak. He did not come as a goat. He did not come as a bird. He came as a Man, as He has also been. He has never changed His programme one bit.
IT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16th September 2012; Pg. 163 vs. 36 – 38
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WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU? [2]
You must know the basis of translation. You must know why this Message has now gone home. WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU?
2. What is your name before God? Or, do you not know yourself? What is your name before us? Before the Almighty God, what is your name?
3. Give yourself a name. What do you want God to call you? What do you want us to call you, “his holiness” or “his majesty?” Your character is your name. My character is my name.
4. Looking at our faces, nobody will like to be called a criminal, but once you are involved in criminal activities, your name is “a criminal.”
5. Nobody will like to be called a liar. Nobody wants to be called an unfaithful fellow; but the moment unfaithfulness is manifested in your character, lying becomes your habit; you have automatically given yourself a name.
6. Though you may bear “his holiness,” “most holy reverend,” “his righteousness” and things like that, yet your name is bare (naked) before God. Before us, you have a name. Before the Almighty God, you have a name.
7. On that great day, when the Almighty God will round off the programme of mankind, He will not say, “Brother Amankem, come this way; Brother Thomas, come this way.”
8. Rather, you will hear, “All liars, come this way. All evil doers, this way. All good people of God, this way.”
9. And there is no mistake in passing judgment. For you judge yourselves here. Or, do you mean to tell Me that you do not know what you are doing?
10. ….I am saying that your character must be in harmony, in agreement with the profession of your faith. For your character tells everybody what you believe. Whatever you believe determines the way you behave.
11. …You want to lie down on a garnished bed, but you do not participate in keeping the bed clean; what do you want us to call you? What do we call you? Maybe you are becoming “a pair of trouser.”
12. In the village, there are some children in the family that will behave somehow; their parents will call them “trousers.” You know what trousers mean. Once you see trousers in the village, eating and drinking is somewhere. That time people were known for wearing “shorts.” “Trousers” may come during feasts, or festival.
13. If it comes for feasting, it is “trousers,” but if it is work, it is “shorts.” “Trousers” do not take part in labour, they only participate in feasts. “Trousers” do not do any work, they only do the eating.
14. Trousers come out during eating. Knickers come out during work. Gluttons will then come out in their trousers. Does it then mean that feasting translates to trousers? Does it mean that work means knickers?
15. What does the work is “Shorts.” People do not mold blocks wearing long sleeve, but mold blocks putting up polo or singlet.
16. Do you dance to a traditional music dressed in suit? If you dance to a traditional music dressed in suit, who knows how that performance will look like?
17. …GOD IS ONLY INTERESTED IN HIS NATURE IN YOU. What! GOD IS ONLY INTERESTED IN HIS NATURE IN YOU…which is your ticket to Paradise.
18. Let me tell you what I believe about fellowship. In this gathering that is called by God’s Name, you cannot come in and worship God the way you want. Yes!
19. …..When the eyes of the Lord are focused in that Assembly, God Himself is there. GOD IS NOT INTERESTED IN A LARGE ASSEMBLY THAT DOES NOT WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, BUT DELIGHTS HIMSELF IN THE MINORITY THAT DEVOTES THEIR LIVES IN THE WORSHIP OF THE LIVING GOD. Attention!
20. In our Epistle, THE GREAT SERMON, I want to show you something there. It is the Church at Eha-Amufu that got that commendation. At the concluding part of THE GREAT SERMON, God was saluting all the Churches and at the same time pointing out their mistakes, admonishing and encouraging them to change their habits.
21. Please note that God said that the GREAT SERMON will remain in our hands as our “reference point” until the Bride is clothed with immortality; for every Scripture that is relevant to our day according to the Word of God was carried forward.
22. THE GREAT SERMON, page 437, chapter 4: “THE CHURCH AT EHA-AMUFU: This Church at Eha-Amufu has proved to all and sundry that God is not mindful of the number of people in the Church but He is mindful of the nature of people in that Church.”
23. Take note! God is not mindful of how many you are in your family, but He is mindful of your natures. You can be one hundred with devilish natures, with both husband and children criminals. Untrustworthy.
24. You may be basking you are running a very large family, greater than that of Abraham, but how many there have the nature of God from the father to the least. THE CLOUD IS HERE.
25. God is not mindful of the number of people in the Church, congregation, and in the Fellowship. He is mindful of their nature. You can be one million people here without God’s nature.
26. God is interested in one, two, or three persons that gather in His Name, having His nature.
27. FELLOWSHIP IS A HUMAN BEING: Pay attention! As many as went to Mbaise with Me, the last family altar I conducted opened the eyes of everybody there; that one man in the hand of God is greater than one trillion people in the world, using Samson as a great fellow in the Hand of God.
28. ….Antipas recognized—because he had the nature of God—that Fellowship is a man. Fellowship is a human being. Do you have that revelation?
29. Church is a human being. So, you are that great temple for you are that great temple God dwells in, not the synagogue or building.
30. ….DO YOU HAVE THE NATURE (CHARACTER) OF GOD IN YOU? I really thank God for what is happening everywhere. God is not interested in the number of people in the congregation, but He is interested in the nature of the people that make up that congregation;… which is your ticket to Paradise.
31. I really thank God for what is happening everywhere. God is not interested in the number of people in the congregation, but He is interested in the nature of the people that make up that congregation; so it is in your own nuclear family and in my own nuclear family. Church in your family. Church in My family.
32. The number of children I have does not make any meaning but the nature of my children is the most important thing. If you believe it say Amen.
33. If you have 20 children with beast’s nature, one child with God’s nature is mightier than they. Do you believe that?
34. ONE PERSON WITH THE NATURE OF GOD IS GREATER THAN ONE MILLION PEOPLE WITHOUT THE NATURE OF GOD.
35. Onitsha, your character tells us your nature. That character you manifest continually, that condemnable character you manifest always which you find it difficult to drop is your nature.
36. Onitsha, your character tells us your nature. That character you manifest continually, that condemnable character you manifest always Condemnable character you manifest regularly which you find it difficult to drop is your nature.
37. That evil character you manifest always for which you are rebuked and scolded, which is very difficult for you to drop is your nature.
38. Any ambiguity? WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU? AND WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE OUT THERE TO CALL YOU. ONE IS CALLED ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH HE OR SHE DOES.
39. Do you have the character of God or the character of him that is against God? He that is not with God is against God.
40. If you are working contrary to the Word of God, you are working contrary to God. The Name of God is nothing but the Word of God. If you believe it say Amen. You cannot see God anywhere except in His Word.
41. Two things are before man: obeying the Word of God or disobeying the Word of God. Period! 2009. 10 years ago! Have it at the back of your mind. Is it standing the test of time?
42. You cannot be obeying God and disobeying God at the same time. Can it work? You are either obeying or disobeying. Whether you like it or not. The journey is over.
43. NUGGET: When you read God’s Word, think about it. Think on your ways! Maybe you have been walking on the wrong direction. And you know it not. Turn round and make haste back to Him. Do what? Turn round and make haste back to Him.
44. AS I THOUGHT ON MY WAYS. May be you have been walking on the wrong path, rejoicing in the glamour of iniquity. He said, “Turn around. Make haste. Run back to God.”
45. Tomorrow may be too late. Today may be the last opportunity you have to make everything right. The next day may be your obituary. What if Brother Tony who was with us last night died when he slumped down?
46. We will be saying, “Our Brother came, we sat together, we had everything in common. On the way, he slumped down and died.”
47. Remember, we gathered here in the Fellowship one day, our former Brother came all the Way from Bayelsa.
48. We were feasting and eating here, but little did we know that it was the last handshake, until he was brought before me there, lying prostrate on the ground. I commanded the Elders, “Take him away. He is dead.”From here, he ended in the mortuary.
49. When you read God’s Word, think about it. Think on your ways! Maybe you have been walking on the wrong direction.
50. TURN ROUND AND MAKE HASTE BACK TO HIM. Run very fast! Maybe you have left your “former estate” and you do not know.
51. I know SON OF MAN will save you; He will save you according to His doctrines. Amen. I say, SON OF MAN will save you according to His doctrines!
52. [This is] Because I am His disciple if I continue in His doctrines. That is all. Thank you! If I remain obedient to His Teachings, I am His disciple. Then I love Him.
53. If I say, “I love THE SON OF MAN,” and I do not continue in His Word, do I love Him? No!
54. You are His greatest enemy. You might be eating together, having everything in common, yet as enemies, not as friends.
55. Job said, “I will see Him that day, meet with Him, not as an enemy, but as a friend.” This is because he was loyal. He was obedient. He was tested all round and he never recanted his faith.
56. So, love is not there. If I love Him, I will obey His commands, I will walk according to His doctrines as a sign of loyalty and devotion to Him. – SON OF MAN. [AS I THOUGHT ON MY WAYS 2—PG 66, VS 32 & 34.]
It is not out of place for Him to talk about family life. He must experience it and use His experience to help others. How can He be a succor if He does not pass through the same experience with us? How can He be touched by our infirmities if He does not pass through the same experience? He is not qualified to talk about family matters if He has no family. Neither can He talk about husband and wife loving one another, cherishing and encouraging one another without experience. He has to have one. WHAT IS MY MISSION ON EARTH? TO GATHER THE LOOSE ENDS. TO GATHER THE LAW, THE PROPHETS, THE PSALMS, THE APOSTLES AND THEN PRESENT NOTHING BUT CHRIST. NOTE: NOT JESUS, BUT CHRIST.
IT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16th September 2012; Pg. 163 vs. 38 – 41
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WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU? [3]
WHAT HAS GOD SAID CONCERNING YOU? Remember the Message, YOU MUST BE MINDFUL OF THE VOICE THAT ROARED ON YOU. Do not be mindful of the Voice that roared on somebody else.
2. Be always mindful, conscious of the Voice that has roared on you, for it can never come back void. Refuse to do something to amend it and watch it come to pass.
3. Let Me give you one instant example right now. Brother Modestus called Me all the way from Port-Harcourt with a testimony. He said, “Daddy, I know it might shock you to hear this testimony.” I asked, “What is that testimony Mode?”
4. He said, “Daddy, in 2017, I travelled in the same vehicle with you from Opi to Ovoko during the traditional wedding of late Bishop Moses’ daughter, Afoma.
5. We were in Apostle Ojiakor’s vehicle. Apostle Ugo was also there with Pastor Obinna. Now discussion ensued in that vehicle concerning marriage.
6. Daddy you told me clearly that I should make haste and marry, the same way you spoke to Pastor Obinna. You spoke to us at length, but I continued noting every word.
7. So when I came back, I swung into action. I did not joke with it. I made moves starting from Onitsha. I saw a Sister. We agreed. The father equally agreed but I could not say how the whole thing terminated. They just cancelled the whole arrangements. They did not continue. I kept my calm.
8. Then, we attended Deacon Sam Beer’s wedding at Nsukka. I was with you and the rest in the hotel and you faced me again. You said, “Mode, would you not marry?” I said, “Daddy I am making efforts. I saw one also.”
9. I mentioned that one I saw. You told me, “No! Have you told the parents?” I said, “No!” And you said, “Do not go further. She cannot be your wife. See me after.” I could not bear ‘See me after.’ ”
10. I continued watching you to know when you will be free for me to see you in the hotel.
11. Finally, I came face to face with you and you said, “Get up! Mode, get up! What is the problem?”
12. I asked, “Daddy, since this one is not my wife, how do I know who my wife is?”Daddy, you told me, “Mode, look at Me in the eyes. Your wife is near you. You will marry somebody you do not know. And she does not know you. you have nothing in common with her. You wife is coming from Lagos. You do not know her. I do not even know her. Just be patient.”
13. Then at another time also, we gathered for a wedding in a hotel at Owerri. I came again and you said, “Mode, have you seen her?” I said, “Daddy, I have not seen her.” “Mode, your wife is coming from your backyard. It will not be far from your home.”
14. He said, “Daddy, the thing put me into desperation. So I continued praying, thinking and watching. I could not remember if there could be any, not until one day, when we had also another gathering. And in the process of discussion with some people, I overheard people asking a Sister whether she had settled down in the East and whether she would not like to go back to Lagos again. she said yes, that she has settled in Owerri.”
15. Then I said to myself, “This could be the one Daddy was talking about.” I mustered courage and approached her the first time. It was just mere introduction. Second time, I mentioned marriage, and she interrogated me all round.
16. Finally, she said, “Well, if what you have told me is what you are, I will say, come and tell my parents. As for me, I have no problems again.”
17. She took me to her home. She now turned out to be the daughter of Deacon Denis. Now that the marriage has been contracted and the wedding fixed.
18. He said, “Daddy, I have found my wife from Lagos at my backyard. That is why when they gave me the long list of traditional rites, you asked me whether I could do that and I said, ‘Daddy, at Thy Word, I will do more than that because I can see that this marriage is ordained of God.’”
19. I said, “So, you could trace all these things. Bro Mode, I reserve My comments until your wedding day. Simply pray that I will be there live.”
20. My uncle will be buried that day, a prominent fellow that is very dear to Me; he contributed much to My education. The little I had. His burial will take place on the same 19thOctober 2019.
21. But I told everybody, including the first son, “Do not expect My physical presence. I have an engagement greater than that, as one of My sons who had always been mortgaging his life for My sake, who is always standing by My side; no matter the situation, He is always there.”
22. If it means forfeiting his job and taking the risk, he will be there. Oh no! I am only waiting for time. I say, I am only waiting for time. That’s all! I am waiting for time. We are already there.
23. What is burial? Wedding is just that day. If I miss it, I would not order him to come and wed again, but burial is endless. Burial is endless.
24. GIVE YOURSELF A NAME. WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU? WHAT ARE YOU BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY GOD? WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR, WHO DO YOU SEE? IS IT WHO YOU ARE OR WHO YOU WILL LIKE TO BE?
25. WHY DO YOU EXAMINE YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AFTER DRESSING, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN? YOU PUT ON DRESSES FOR YOUR OUTINGS, YOU GO TO THE MIRROR. SOMETIMES, THE MIRROR WILL MAKE YOU TO QUERY YOUR OUTFIT.
26. AUTOMATICALLY, YOU CHANGE IT, UNTIL YOU PUT ON THE ONE THE MIRROR WILL SAY, GOOD! WHO IS YOUR MIRROR? WHERE DO YOU GO AND SEE YOURSELF FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU ARE?
27. WHAT HAS GOD SAID CONCERNING YOU? Give yourself a name, even this day. What is your name; what do you want us to call you; what is your name before God? It is your character. God is not interested in having one million people in any fellowship without God’s nature, but takes delight in one man, one woman, THAT LITTLE CHILD THAT BEARS THE NAME OF GOD AND REFLECTS THE NATURE OF GOD.
28. That is the Word of God. A reflection of the true Seed.
29. And God is saying that Eha-Amufu will remain few among the entire Brethren in this Bridal Faith,… What? Let me testify. Till this morning, in all the Fellowship centres in the Bride, Eha-Amufu Fellowship is the least.
30. The smallest in number, made up of only two families: Family of Brother John and the family of the security man. Not Pastor Sam. Pastor Sam is Enugu. Jonas! Thank you! It is Brother John and Brother Jonas. Period! Bro Jonas and Bro John and their families. Period!
31. The smallest throughout the whole world. God is saying, “Eha-Amufu Fellowship will remain the smallest; the fewest in number.”
32. As at that time, there were too many names there. Big big names also, but they were in the minority when compared to others.
33. Remember, Brother Izundu who was there is now Enugu-Ezike. Can you remember? Apostle Ojiakor who was there is now Enugu. Bishop Moses is now Nsukka. Did you get the Message?
34. Their Pastor is now Enugu, with the family. Chinwendu is now Enugu. That the word of God might come to pass, that Eha-Amufu will remain the fewest in number.
35. And the love between Bro John and Jonas can move this building. THE FEWER THE NUMBER THE MORE THE UNDERSTANDING. AND THE MORE HARMONIOUS.
36. And God is saying that Eha-Amufu will remain few among the entire Brethren in this Bridal Faith, as the only Local Assembly, though in the minority but the members have the nature of God. Note! As at that time. Even now. What God doeth endureth forever. Nothing can be added nor subtracted.
37. Although they were the fewest in number, He said, “THE MEMBERS HAVE THE NATURE OF GOD.” Pay attention!
38. See what God said concerning the Church at Eha-Amufu.
39. Verse 2: “Bishop Moses and Pastor Ifeanyi Eze have remained the pillars supporting the Church since Brother Ojiakor went to Enugu-Ezike.”
40. Note that God noted the pillars that supported that Church.
41. Who noted? Who remarked the Pillars? You see why God said their labour of love can never go unrewarded. The two Pillars: Bishop Moses and Pastor Ifeanyi who was also a Bishop. Remember the Message we are considering. GIVE YOURSELF A NAME. 2009
42. Note that God noted the pillars that supported that Church. The same way God noted the caterpillars. Go back to the Message titled, PILLARS AND CATERPILLARS IN THE KINGDOM. Pillars are supporting. Caterpillars are pulling down. You are either a pillar or a caterpillar.
43. He (God) said, “Since Brother Ojiakor left Eha-Amufu to Enugu-Ezike, Bishop Moses and Pastor Ifeanyi Eze—who is now Bishop Ifeanyi Eze—have remained the pillars supporting the Church.”
44. They did not allow that structure to collapse. They never allowed that structure to do what? To collapse. They never allowed the torch that was entrusted into their hands to get extinguished as few as they were.
45. Nature, nothing speaks louder than nature. ANYTHING CAN BE SUPRESSED, NOT NATURE. That is why God said, “The Message of Grace has appeared to reveal everybody’s nature, for you are no longer being chained by the law. You are now under the law of liberty, meant for free men.”
46. And God said, “You should not employ your liberty in devouring one another, doing evil like Elochukwu Amobi.”
47. Verse 4: “The Church has pleased Me so much because from the beginning till now, no evil report has been received from her. Eha-Amufu!
48. She has always reduced my troubles. Pastor Ifeanyi Eze has very gallantly fought this fight of faith. What?
49. Pastor Ifeanyi Eze has very gallantly fought this fight of faith. What will God say concerning you? Are you fighting the fight of this Faith, or are you all out to destabilize this Faith by biasing the hearts and minds of all, spoiling your Brethren’s visions about their Faith, giving the Faith another interpretation? God takes note of all these things. Every role we are playing, God takes record.
50. It is true that he had some serious problems in the beginning because… Who! Bishop Ifeanyi Eze. Remember you had a problem in the beginning which you have not remedied even till now, simply because your father has become a dumb dog, carried away by sentiment that you are working in the bank.
51. As if being a bank staff is heaven. Bank staff can be hell. Bank staff can be hell. Wherever money is, hell is nearer there. Trouble is closest there. One slight mistake will land you into jail.
52. Apart from one slight mistake, what happened in Kogi can happen anywhere. Yes! No matter the security. Hoodlums came from nowhere, fired the whole Police, from the backyard, gained entry.
53. Who were the first victims? The bank staff. When they succeeded in killing the Police officers, the rest ran away. Then it was face to face with the bank staff. You open the strong-room or meet your waterloo.
54. SO, OFTEN TIMES, WE SEE MONEY BUT WE DO NOT SEE DEATH BEHIND. RISK IS GREATEST IN TWO AREAS. [1] WHERE MONEY IS. [2] WHERE THERE IS ARMOUR. WHERE THERE IS ARMOUR.
55. OFTEN TIMES, HOODLUMS WILL STRIKE ONLY TO CART AWAY ARMOUR, AND PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES IN THE ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THE ARMOUR.