WHERE WILL YOU LIKE TO SPEND YOUR ETERNITY? PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 5TH JULY 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN The Decider of One’s Eternal Destiny
INTRODUCTION
PRAYER
Shall we bow down our heads Heavenly Father, here we are before You this morning, praising and adoring your most Holy name because You are the Almighty God that ruleth over the affairs of men, who is being made manifest in the flesh.
Father, in our own day, in the person of The Son of Man, confirmed, vindicated oh God by You, with supernatural signs and wonders.
More especially oh God, You put Your Words into His mouth, the Words of eternal life, where we are feeding for which cause oh God, we have the boldness, oh God to announce to the whole world that we are sons and daughters of God, to whom the Word of God is sent because we have Your fear in us, we respect You, we honour You, we revere You, we hold You to the highest esteem.
For besides You, we recognize no other God. Father, we know from eternity to eternity, You remaineth the same. It has been in this manner that You have been showcasing Yourself even from the garden of Eden, veiling Yourself in a man not counting it robbery.
And You have never changed Your program one bit neither will You change, confirming that You are the same yesterday, today and forever.
Father, help our unbelief. We surrender oh God, to Your leadership. Forgive, oh King of Glory, our stupidities.
Sometimes, we claim to be ignorant of something we know very well to be the truth, simply because the truth does not agree with our lifestyles and our philosophies about life.
Father, overlook all those nonsenses for your truth standeth sure and reacheth unto the clouds. We can do nothing against the truth, we are for the truth [II Corinthians 13:8]. Keep on, oh God, exalting this truth.
Do not, oh God, consider our low estates. Let the truth from Your Holy presence soar and touch the clouds of Heaven. You said You have lifted Your Word above all flesh as a testimony and evidence that You are among us.
For that reason, help us to esteem Your Word above our necessary food, to desire to do Your will, Father, more than satisfying our carnal and fleshy desires.
Father, I pray this hour that You mortify all those inordinate desires that can be traced to us, all inspired by the devil, helping us oh God, to destroy ourselves ignorantly.
Destroy also sinful desires and create, oh God, in us, the desire for righteousness, the desire for obedience to the truth. The desire to live right with You and with one another so that we can never be condemned in the end, Father, because of our willful negligence or stupidity or ignorance or willful, disobedience to the truth which is unpardonable sin.
Let there be nobody, oh God that is named by Your name, who will wilfully decide within himself or herself never to believe Your Word or act on Your Word.
This morning, oh God, we are standing before You, pleading that You melt us, remould us, refill us once again with the earnest of Thy Spirit and help us to stand justified in Your sight so that the devil will have no place, oh King of glory, in our lives where he will begin to shatter and devastate us again.
Insulate us completely from second captivity into the hand of the Devil. Help us to close, oh God, the doors of our hearts, the doors of our minds against all those insinuations, seductive spirits and doctrines of the demon which are likely oh God, to hover around us from time to time.
Open our eyes of understanding to recognize that we are our own greatest enemy so that we will stop looking for our enemies sideways. That the enemy we are afraid of is our mind, our hearts that generate the evil thoughts that lead us to evil actions due to wrong inclinations of our hearts.
Help us to set our hearts right before You so that from today henceforth, oh God, we will be bold before Your presence when we declare, ‘Who will accuse us of some sins, who will accuse us of unbelief.’ That is when we must have weighed ourselves in the balance of Your Word and we are no longer found wanting in any way. Father, help us to achieve that.
It is not by our own might, it is not by our own strength. We are depending on Your grace and this is the grace we have received even this morning, to come, sit at Thy feet only to hear Your Word that will prepare us, oh God, for eternal life.
Create perfect understanding in our hearts, close our ears and our minds to anything contrary to the truth.
Whosoever You will use this morning to speak to our hearts, do not allow anything error, Father, to ever proceed from his mouth.
May we receive nothing but the truth You have ordained for us today. In any way the devil will try to buffet Your children about in other local assemblies, now in their families, even those in distant lands, Father, say no to all.
Build a hedge around every family that is gathered this hour, Father, worshipping and adoring You, oh King of glory, Father, in this old-fashioned way. Bless them all.
After today’s service, may we collectively as a family say, ‘didn’t our hearts burn within us even when we were hearing the Word of truth that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’
Teach us, oh God, to number our days that we may incline our hearts unto wisdom.
This is our earnest prayer and we believe You will do more than we have requested of Thee today for Your name’s sake. Amen.
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HIDING YOUR SINS STOPS YOUR SUCCESS
Be seated everybody. Today is another day the Lord has made and we are alive in the land of the living just for one purpose, to worship and serve the Lord in spirit and in truth which is the whole duty of man.
WORSHIPPING AND SERVING THE LORD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH MEANS PUTTING ALL OUR WRONGS RIGHT.
Any fault we have noticed through the preaching of the Word of God or through the pricking of our consciences, if our consciences are still alive.
Because anybody who is a seed of God, the moment he strays away from the truth, the conscience will arrest that person immediately.
Whoever that is in the wrong and the conscience does not arrest that person, he does not belong to God or he has crossed into the region of the lost. Not even Judas.
Remember that Judas’ conscience arrested him. Peter’s conscience arrested him. Barnabas’ conscience arrested him. John Mark’s conscience arrested him.
Even King Saul of Judah, it was not Samuel that arrested him. His conscience first of all arrested him. That was why he hid the loot he collected from the war at the backyard and hid the King, Agag, at the backyard.
If the conscience of a criminal does not arrest him, why is he hiding his loot away from the neighborhood? Did you get the message?
If a criminal does not know that what he is doing is wrong, why is it that whenever he hears the siren of law enforcement agents, he will run away? He should have been there to tell them that he was not committing crime, that he was doing the right thing.
IF EVIL IS GOOD, WHY DO WE HIDE IT AWAY WHEN WE COMMIT IT? BECAUSE COMMIT AND HIDE IS EVIDENCE OF WILLFUL SIN.
Why do we hide it? We do not want it to be noised abroad. It is because we have been arrested by our consciences. That is if we have living consciences.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was faced by the Jews with a case of adultery as accused by the Jews against Mary Magdalene, the Lord Jesus did not go into unnecessary argument with the people for he knew they would deny their hidden acts of dishonesty.
He wrote it on the ground in the language that all that were there saw, they read it. They interpreted it to mean; ‘If you know you have not committed sin, be number one to cast a stone on this woman.’
The bible said, as they gazed at what he wrote on the ground, their consciences pricked them. They were convicted by their consciences. What happened? One by one, they left the scene without anybody uttering a word.
The Lord Jesus Christ lifted up his eyes and saw the woman standing alone. Said, ‘Woman, where are your accusers?’ She said, ‘Well, they read what you wrote on the floor and one by one, they dismissed.’
Said, ‘Not even one cast a stone on you? Well, go and sin no more for I condemn you not.’ Did you get the message?
But today, we are having dealings with heartless people that do not have the fear of God, people that will be in error instead of repenting or looking for a way out, they are looking for defenses to continue in their evil, to harden their hearts against the truth which their consciences bear witness. Amen.
So, this morning, I want us to pray within ourselves that God will make us to be numbered among the wise people for the book of Saint Luke made a demarcation between the wise and the foolish.
HE SAID, WHO IS THE WISE MAN? SAID, IT IS THAT MAN THAT WILL HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND PUT IT INTO PRACTICE.
He is likened to one who built his house on the rock. The tempest touched it, pushed it; the wind pushed it; flood tried it; nature tried it, it stood still because it was constructed carefully on the solid rock.
WHO IS FOOLISH? HE SAID, A FOOLISH MAN IS ONE WHO WILL HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, KNOW IT IS TRUTH, BELIEVE IT IS TRUTH AND REFUSE TO PRACTICE IT AND CONTINUE IN FELLOWSHIP ANYHOW AS IF BEING IN THE FELLOWSHIP WILL OFFER YOU SALVATION IN DISOBEDIENCE.
He said, that person is likened to one who constructed his own home on ordinary sand. You know what that building will look like? No matter how fanciful it will be, said, immediately the flood came, tempest came, the wind came, the whole thing crumbled and the fall was very great. Nothing was picked from the rubbles. [Luke 6:47-49, Matthew 7:24-27]
Remember, these are two categories of human beings that were milling around Him. Two categories of people that are found in every family, every fellowship. But I said, may we never get somebody like that person in this family.
MY WHOLE AIM IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS NO WORTHLESS FELLOW THAT CAN BE FOUND IN THIS FAMILY.
I gave you a message; A WORTHLESS FELLOW IN THE FAMILY OF GOD. In the family of God, in the sense that the person is also continuing in fellowship with the real children of God. We call her ‘sister’. We call him, ‘brother’.
We number them among our youth because they are rendering one service or the other. For that reason, we give them that inclusion in the number of the brethren. They themselves know that they are not one of us. They know what they are doing both in their private closets, in their secret closets and in open places.
If there be any of us who says he does not know what they are doing, that person is telling lies. If you also say that you are unaware that the bad thing you are doing is bad, you are also a liar. Because whatever God says is evil, is evil. If God says it is right, it is right.
So, whoever that is indulging in any act God had already condemned, that person knows that he is wrong. If you are doing that which God has justified, you are right. That is why I gave you the message titled; DOING THE WILL OF GOD AT ALL TIMES.
THAT IS WHY A TRUE BELIEVER WILL ALWAYS SAY, ‘FATHER, MAY THY WILL BE DONE. OH, TEACH ME FROM MY HEART TO SAY, LORD, MAY THY WILL BE DONE NOT MY WILL.’
YOU MUST SET ASIDE THE WILL OF GOD FOR YOU TO ESTABLISH YOUR OWN WILL. THE SAME WAY YOU SET ASIDE THE WORD OF GOD THAT YOUR OWN MIGHT PREVAIL.
WHOEVER THAT IS MISBEHAVING IS SETTING ASIDE THE DOCTRINES, THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST SO THAT HIS OWN PHILOSOPHY ABOUT CHRIST WILL COME FORTH. FOR WHATEVER ANY MAN IS DOING, YOU EITHER DO IT IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND GET APPROVAL FROM GOD OR YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME.
FOR EVERY ACTION OF MAN THAT DOES NOT RECEIVE APPROVAL, TRULY SPEAKING, IS A CONDEMNABLE ACT AND CAN NEVER GIVE THAT PERSON THE DESIRED ETERNAL LIFE NEITHER WILL IT GIVE THE PERSON REST EVEN HERE BECAUSE EVERY SINNER IS RESTIVE.
Every disobedient fellow is always restive. Why is the person restive? He has known the truth so the moment he begins to act contrary to the truth he knows very well, he becomes restive because he is being labelled a wicked fellow.
It is better I acknowledge that I am wrong and then plead for leniency than for Me to be wrong and claim that I am right. I will be a wicked fellow before God and before man and there is no peace with the wicked and the wicked can never see good days.
That is why the bible made it clear. Let us read it in the book of Proverbs chapter 28 verse 13. I want Living Bible and any other. Proverbs 28 verse 13. When you read, you tell Me the translation. We are reading from Good News Bible.
13 You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins.
You will never succeed in life if you try to hide away your sins. Can you hide it from God?
Song: you cannot hide of away from God (2x) when you are covering up your iniquity, thinking that others will not know about it, you cannot hide of away from God.
You cannot be faster than your buttocks. Did you get what I am saying? Neither can you be faster than your heels, it is impossible.
YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED IN LIFE IF YOU TRY TO HIDE YOUR SINS. Who are you hiding your sins away from? Are you hiding it away from man? It then means the fear in you is the fear of man not the fear of God.
If the fear that is in us is the fear of man, it then means we are only afraid of what man will do to us, what man will say concerning us, we are the most stupid people on earth if we do that.
That is why the bible said, let God alone be your fear, let Him be your dread. Do not fear man, what will man offer you? Can man offer you eternal life? Let man condemn you but let God justify you. [Isaiah 8:13].
Yes, if a human being condemns Me because My ways do not sink well with his own ways, did you get what I am saying? But God justifies Me because He has approved of My ways, I remain justified till eternity for whenever God sets a man free, he is free indeed.
I do not want God to put Me in prison, if I am imprisoned by man, God will bring Me out for He came to set prisoners free. But if I am in God’s own prison custody, who will deliver Me? I said, who will deliver Me?
YOU MUST FIND OUT THE REASON WHY YOU ARE TRYING TO LIVE RIGHT. ARE YOU TRYING TO LIVE RIGHT SO THAT MEN WILL NOT TALK AGAINST YOU? OR YOU WILL BE GOOD IN THE SIGHT OF MEN WHEN YOU ARE INWARDLY EVIL? YOU ARE GOOD IN THE SIGHT OF MEN AND BAD IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. THAT IS WHAT MAKES PEOPLE HYPOCRITES AND PHARISEES.
Jesus said that Pharisees are those people who walk religiously on the streets. They pray in the market places, they walk holy-holy in the schools and colleges, in the homes, everywhere, pretending to be good when they are inwardly very bad.
He said, from such people, run away! Jesus said, they do this because they seek the praise of men instead of the praise of God.
WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, WHOSE PRAISE ARE YOU TRYING TO ATTRACT? Often times, because of the pressure of men, we compromise our faith, we com promise our belief. We hide away, even our identities.
And that is the point where we begin to roll into evil, into sin that will make us not to sleep in the night. Only the person who is guilty will know what he is passing through.
If you are a seed of God and you have found yourself in that useless life, you know what caused it, you will be hostile to everybody around. They may not know the reason for your hostility. You are no longer happy with yourself.
And when you are not happy with yourself because you have done wrong, did you get what I am saying, there is nobody who will come before you that will see your face.
By your face, I mean your spiritual face. We have spiritual face We have carnal face. You can beautify the social face, carnal face when the real face which is inside is very dirty, stinking.
That is why when a man of God or anybody commits iniquity, he hides his face from God. That does not mean that he is not moving about, God is not seeing him. He loses boldness to come before the Lord.
Even when he kneels down, he is trembling, he does not know where to start to begin to plead his case until he gathers a little courage. And that little courage is when he goes down to the scriptures like we are reading it now.
IF YOU TRY TO HIDE AWAY YOUR SIN, YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED IN LIFE. If God says it, it is guaranteed.
That is why the Word of God is like a light that shines in the dark corners of our heart. If you switch on a torch here, the torch is not needed because there is light. But the touch serves you when there is darkness. So the word of God shines in that dark area. That is why when the message will be going forth, your name will not be mentioned, but the message will be speaking to you personally. Through the light of the Word of God, your life will be x-rayed. You will be asking, “Is this how I am? Who told Pastor this? Who reported me to Daddy?
Spiritual Accountability; pg.22:17-19
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CAN YOU HIDE YOUR SINS AWAY FROM GOD?
We are reading the book of Proverbs 28 from verse 13, Good News Bible. Repeat it again.
13 You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up;
Confess them to God and give them up! Tell God you are sorry for what you did. Do not try to look for excuse. Did you get what I am saying?
For any excuse you are looking for will be a part of your problem, will end it compounding your problem with God. Check for yourself, which one is better – to have problem with man or to have problem with God?
The problem you are going to have with God is you and God alone but your problem with your fellow man will attract the attention of your fellow men who will try to look into it and help you to resolve it amicably.
That is why the bible said, if a man has a problem with his fellow man, God becomes his mediator but when you are having problem with God, who then intercedes for you? Who then is your mediator?
Do you see why nobody was a mediator between the Lord Jesus Christ and Judas. Was there any mediator? There was no mediator between Prophet Samuel and King Saul. Any mediator? Not even one.
But when the people sinned against God in the wilderness, Moses became the mediator. Is it not true?
So, when we sin, the Lord Jesus Christ became the mediator, that was when He was our advocate. But now, He is no longer our advocate, he is no longer sitting somewhere at the right hand side of Majesty.
He is now the Majesty Himself. He is now here for judgment and for full and complete salvation. Two roles He will play.
For those that have been patiently and eagerly waiting for Him, He has shown Himself the second time for full and complete salvation and then for judgment of the unbelievers, no longer as our advocate.
That is why He told us here, ‘Look at the man I am sending before you. He is drawn from among you. He is your brother. Do not allow over-familiarity to set in for this has been the bane of all the ages.
I have been the One that chose them, I am always with them for God is always with the vessel He has chosen to bear His name.’
Why is God strongly attached to that person? To protect that person so that he will not err.
That is why I boldly tell you, I show you scriptures, ‘Every action of a man of God is God, is inspired of God for a purpose that is Divine.’
You might not know it. That is why you do not open your mouth anyhow because you see a man of God eating excreta or you see a man of God eating animal dung or you see a man of God rolling with a prostitute, keep your mouth shut!
For you do not know what is happening, you do not know the purpose he is achieving or you see him walking on the street naked, close your mouth!
You never called him. You do not know the Words of his covenant with He that is in him for whosoever that is in him is He that sent him. He that sent Me is still with Me. The Father has never left Me for I do those things that please Him.
Although Jesus made that statement, did it stop the Jews from accusing him?
They were accusing him of sin, calling him a sinner, calling him Beelzebub but he knew that even mingling with people with questionable characters, mingling with criminals, becoming friends of criminals was the purpose for which he was sent not for those righteous people, self-acclaimed righteous people who claim that their hands are clean when they are inwardly grievous wolves. Did you get the message?
So, He came to do the will of the Father who sent Him. He alone knew the will but to you who are My followers that say you believe in Me, the will of the Father has been made known to you through the preaching of the gospel. Is it not true?
If not through the preaching of the gospel of Christ, preparing you for full and complete salvation, nobody would have known the perfect will of God, nobody would have known what he will do to get eternal life.
That is why He was always pointing them to the man that is in Him whom they knew not. They only knew where He was born, they knew the father, they knew the mother, they knew the siblings but there was One who was in Him whom they knew not.
Who He was trying to introduce to them as One that sent Him in whose stead He was standing and was fulfilling His will, the will of He that sent Him.
They were not ready to pay attention. Why? They never belonged to God. They were not a part of the eternal life which Christ has promised to give to those that will believe in Him. Is it not true?
Good! If you are a part of that eternal life for which cause Christ has come, truly speaking, you will believe Christ. That is what He said to believe, to believe in God.
If you say you believe in God and you do not live like Him, you are a hypocrite, you are a liar because if you say you believe in Christ, you ought to walk and conduct yourself in the same way Christ walked and conducted Himself. Is it not scriptural? Is it not biblical? Fine!
Because a servant cannot claim to be greater or higher than the master. What does it mean to be a follower? You have to watch the man you are following closely. Then you open your ears to hear his instructions for he will guide you perfectly well on what you should do and what you should not do at any given time.
SO NOW, THE LORD IS SAYING TO US, IF WE HIDE OUR SINS AWAY, WHO ARE WE HIDING IT FROM? Are we hiding it from men, will men give us eternal life? Are we afraid of men?
If you watch the reason why people hide away their iniquities, it is because they want to avoid what people will do or what people will say. Is it not true?
It is better I come out and tell you all like Saul said, ‘I have sinned against You. I have transgressed, I have walked disobediently. I am really sorry, my Lord. Please let Your love and mercy project towards me.’
And God who is plenteous in mercy, who pardons iniquity readily to every heart that has completely turned away from wickedness, will harken to that prayer. Because that is the prayer that God delights in answering.
WHEN A SINNER REPENTS FROM HIS HEART AND GOES ON HIS KNEES, TOTAL SURRENDER, NEVER TO GO BACK TO THAT SILLY AND EVIL WAY AGAIN, THE LORD TAKES PLEASURE IN ANSWERING SUCH A REQUEST FOR HE DOES NOT HAVE PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF THE WICKED BUT HE WANTS HIM TO REPENT AND LIVE. Is it not true? Is it not scripture?
That God does not take pleasure in the death of a sinner, rather, He is pleading that a sinner should repent and be saved.
So, let us be very, very careful. WHEN YOU COVER UP YOUR SIN, HIDE IT AWAY, GOD SAID YOU WILL NEVER SUCCEED IN LIFE.
Even that one you are hiding away, are you not foolish? Because whether you like it or not, in the end, if you do not repent, it must be televised where the whole world will see you and see what you did.
At the judgment throne, nobody will talk. What we did is what will speak.
When we leave this world and enter another realm. When we cross this veil, when we drop this flesh, this particular veil, we face the real eternal judgment, all our deeds will be televised.
I will see Myself, you will see yourself, in that order for God is not in a haste while judging people. He is always patient with people. He will televise My own and televise your own.
The same way we do playback. When you see your playback, you see why you are condemned, you see why you are going to hell.
YOU MUST KNOW THE TRUTH, RESIST THE TRUTH FOR YOU TO GO TO HELL AND IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A STRUGGLE FOR THE CONSCIENCE TO RESIST THE TRUTH. THAT IS WHY TO GO TO HELL HAS ALWAYS BEEN A STRUGGLE. TO GO TO HEAVEN, A STRUGGLE. NOT EVEN ONE IS EASY.
I am telling you the whole truth because before you act wrongly, you must have planned it in your heart, planned the way you will carry it out. Sometimes, it becomes a struggle within you. Something will say, ‘Do not try it’, another will say, ‘It does not matter’.
A little while, your body will become hot, you do not know the way to go. You appear to be confused but you are not confused, simply because the power that is pulling you is greater because that is where you are yielding to.
Is it not the bigger and heavier side of the tree branch that the tree leans to when it wants to fall? Any force that pushes down a tree will always push it towards the side with the bigger branches and heavier concentration of fruits.
So, if your weight is leaning to the devil, it then means your resistance has been lowered very greatly. Even, mere somebody leaning on the tree can push it down because nothing is sustaining you again. Your whole leaning is no longer on the Lord but on the Devil, on the desires of your heart.
BUT WHERE DID GOD SAY OUR LEANING SHOULD BE? HE SAID, ‘LET THE LEANING OF YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY BE ON GOD!’ Is it not true?
WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF, GOD OR MAN?
When you have divided loyalty, there is nothing that will save you from crumbling. You must crumble.
I am saying that no man hides away his iniquity and succeeds in this life because it is, ‘Thus saith the Lord’.
Then the question arises; ‘Hide it from who?’ Are you hiding it from Me, what am I going to do you? I can only talk to you. Will I destroy you?
Fear not he that will even destroy you, the flesh and that is where he will end. Fear God who will destroy you here and then take your soul and destroy everything in hellfire. You go into hellfire where there is eternal torment.
LET US BE VERY CAREFUL THAT WE DO NOT HAVE THE FEAR OF MEN. DO NOT ALLOW THE FEAR OF MEN TO PROPEL YOU TO BE DOING GOOD SO THAT MEN WILL PLEASE YOU WHILE YOUR REAL SELF IS CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU ARE MANIFESTING OUTSIDE. Amen!
WHAT IT TAKES TO WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH IS TO SURRENDER YOUR WHOLE INTELLECT, SURRENDER YOUR SPIRIT, YOUR SOUL AND BODY TO GOD, ALLOW HIM TO OVERHAUL YOU SO THAT THE FEAR OF GOD WILL RESTRAIN YOU FROM EVIL.
IF THE FEAR OF GOD DOES NOT RESTRAIN ANYBODY FROM EVIL, IT THEN MEANS THAT PERSON IS A SINNER. Did you get what I am saying?
WHAT IS RESTRAINING YOU FROM INDULGING IN EVIL? WHAT IS CAUSING YOU TO MAKE A U-TURN?
Assuming you have been doing evil, what did you hear and then you turned back and said, ‘I will not continue that way.’ Is it the word of man or the Word of God? WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF, GOD OR MAN?
So, when you are hiding away your sin that nobody will know, I call you the most stupid human being on earth.
If what will compel Me to live right, I hope I am making sense, is the fear of men, it then means that the fear of God is not in My heart.
Wherever there is no human being that knows Me, I will be doing it now. If I go to a strange town where I am unknown, I will be swimming in the ocean of evil. But when I come home to the people who know Me, I will become holy again because I am afraid of men no longer afraid of God.
BUT A REAL SEED OF GOD IS AFRAID OF GOD WHEREVER HE FINDS HIMSELF. In your home, you are afraid of God. On the highway, you are afraid of God.
That is why when you hear the Word of God speaking contrary to your behaviour, you tremble, you faint, you bow your head low and say, ‘Father, I am sorry.’
If what should make you to cry and weep, even go on your knees before the Lord and ask for his mercy, for his pardon; If that type of thing is what will be giving you joy, for which cause you will be bragging, and you will be laughing over it as if it does not matter, that person is doomed to destruction. I do not care who that person is. That person is doomed to destruction.
CLOSE THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART PART 1 PG. 91:27
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GOD WILL NOT PARDON UNTIL YOU CONFESS AND FORSAKE YOUR SINS
Read that scripture again. Whoever that tries to cover his sin will never succeed in life.
13 You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you. GNB
Confess them, give them up! Did you get the message? God will then show you mercy.
13 He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes his sins will obtain mercy. AMP. Amen!
13 A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. But if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance. LB.
I believe the whole thing is boiling down to one thing? There is not even one place God said, ‘If you commit and hide, you will prosper, you will succeed, you will be pardoned’.
GOD WILL NOT PARDON YOU UNTIL YOU MAKE YOUR CONFESSION BEFORE GOD AND TURN AWAY FROM IT. NOT MAKING CONFESSION AND CONTINUING. Did you get what I am saying?
You can carry it even to the book of 1 John chapter 3 from verse 9. It said, ‘A child of God does not continue in sin for the seed of God abideth in him.’
Watch the prodigal son. Did he sin? Yes! He wandered away from home, squandered the father’s riches with women. Who spoke to him before he came back? Nobody ministered to him. He came back to his senses. He realized that he is a son of a King, a Prince! Did you get what I am saying?
It was when he forgot who he was that he mingled with those criminals and prostitutes until he wasted the father’s wealth which he got his own fair share. Did you get the message?
But immediately he recollected himself, what did he do? He ran back home. When he got home, he was trembling with fear, pleading with the father; ‘I am not asking for son’s position, give me a servant’s position. That is all I need.’
Then the father looked at him, looked at the way he was. When he came back, the Bible said he knelt down and said, ‘Father, I have sinned against thee and against heaven.’
Read that scripture, the prodigal son. ‘Father, I have sinned against thee and against heaven. I am no longer worthy to be called your child.’
You see, he has acknowledged his guilt. The father looked at him compassionately.
‘Father, I am sorry. My brethren, my siblings, my brothers and sisters, I am sorry. I offended the family. I gave a sordid picture of the family outside. I have learnt my lessons in a very bitter way, in a very hard way. Please I am pleading with all of you, forgive me. Find a place in your hearts and then forgive me.’
And the father was watching a confession of sincerity of purpose. We have confession of sincerity of heart, we have confession of insincerity – Ehn, I am sorry, I am sorry.
Lip-service ‘I am sorry’, God does not listen to it. The highest reply you will get in such a case is, relax your mind. That is what you will get and then you will be jumping up, ‘Eh, I told Son of Man I am sorry. He said, relax your mind.’
You are doomed for you did not listen to the tone of the voice that said, relax your mind. For you do not know how many times He has recorded such evil against you and yet you never turned away rather you are looking for a way to defend the indefensible.
Even before the Elohim, you are looking for a way to excuse yourself out before the Almighty God. That was what Saul was looking for – excuse to give to Samuel. He never knew that Samuel was the representation of Almighty God there.
Did it augur well with him? Was he given a second chance? Never! For he was insincere in his apology.
SO, THAT IS WHY THE PRAYER OF A MAN OF A BROKEN AND CONTRITE SPIRIT, GOD WILL NEVER OVERLOOK. When you make a solemn prayer before God, turn away from your evil, with a broken heart, with tears in your heart.
Your eyes might be dry but the tears are rolling down in your heart, full of regrets for what you did.
Sometimes, you ask yourself, ‘what could be responsible for this my silly behaviour, could it be I was beside myself? Oh Father, if you will forgive me this and set me free…’
You plead like David, ‘I will surely worship You all the days of my life and I will teach sinners to come to You for that is where there is life.’
David was a man of God. If you go to Psalms 50 and 51, you will see what happened in Psalms 51 where he confessed his sins. And look at all that he did.
He said, ‘God, I know that all my deeds are naked before You for I have sinned against You and You alone and I am greatly troubled because I am doomed to destruction if You do not come to my rescue.
I am asking for mercy. I am not here to justify myself, I have no reason to give that will exonerate me from being condemned but I am asking for one thing- forgive and give me just another chance. Try me again and prove me, see whether I will fail You again.’ Did you get what I am saying?
You are not failing God, you are failing yourself. God will never go to hell but you stand the risk of going to hell because of your willful disobedience to God’s Word. Amen!
So, this morning, we have our messages we want to consider. I hope I am making sense?
LET ME TELL YOU, INIQUITY THAT IS HIDDEN IS VERY DANGEROUS. That is why David said, ‘If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will never answer my prayers.’
If I regard iniquity in my heart, if I should harbour evil in my heart, if I should conceal my wicked act, my evil act before God and I kneel down to pray when I have not made it right with God, he said, God will not answer my prayers. Do you believe that to be true?
That is why the prayer is an abomination before God. Many are wasting their time. Sometimes they say that if God is God, you say Son of Man is God but I have been praying all these years.
THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD’S PROMISES STRENGTHENS THE FAITH OF EVERY ELECT
Look at the man praying, like God gave us the message of the new year starting from 2018, judgment of the Bride, which rolled into the judgment of the world, 2019, because many did not repent.
Was it not what we heard? And God said, from now, it is going to be continuous. He said, watch out! Whatever you see that will happen in the Bride, give God the glory for many things will happen from now.
If you hear that families went to bed and did not come out, He said, praise God. You hear they perish, praise God. but I will show you a sign, many families will be broken from now in the Bride.
Said, a lot of wives will pack away from their matrimonial homes without any genuine reason only to enable them fulfil their will. A lot of men will give divorce certificates to their wives only to get rid of them to enable them bring whoever they want to bring.
He said, married and unmarried, man and woman, He said, watch what will happen in every family in the Bride.
Now you are living witnesses, said, it will take a family that is insulated by the Word of God to escape it. He said in some families, they will be existing as families without home.
Said, the woman will be there just for the sake the of children not for the sake of marital status. And wherever a woman comes to the point where what is sustaining her is the love she has for the children, who married her? It then means the marriage is gone.
And then look at what is happening, matrimonial liability, matrimonial burdens, matrimonial irresponsibility being manifested in many families right now.
The man sees the wife as a burden, the woman sees the husband as a liability. Nobody is seeing the other as an asset, nobody is a relief to the other. Whatever a woman is, is for her own relief and that of the children.
If not for the children, one kobo will not come out and the man is not taking care of the wife. The man sees the wife even as his greatest enemy. He cannot give out something even for the children’s sake. Never! The man shows interest in him alone.
Some have shifted their burdens even to their wives, to pay rent, to pay school fees, to feed, to do everything. If it is possible, they will even carry their wives’ clothes and display for sale.
Now pay attention. When God said all those things that we will be expecting in the Bride, He said, do not be discouraged. Always remember what God said through the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ that in the last days, iniquity shall abound.
He said, there is going to be an overspreading of evil. For that reason, the love of many will wax cold. Anybody whose love for God waxes cold because of God’s fulfillment of His promise, does he belong to God?
THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD’S PROMISES STRENGTHENS THE FAITH OF EVERY ELECT. Did you get the message?
Okay, God has told us what to expect and now they are manifesting, will it weaken My faith? It will strengthen My faith more and more. For the Lord God spoke about it and then it has happened at last. It helps me to believe that all that lies in the future will also come to pass.
FULFILLMENT OF GOD’S WORD MAKES THE LIVING BELIEVER TO BELIEVE MORE. TO BELIEVE MORE AND MORE!
THEN BEGIN TO WATCH HIS OWN LIFE TO KNOW WHETHER THERE WAS A TIME GOD MADE A STATEMENT THAT WAS NOT GOOD CONCERNING YOUR BEHAVIOR SO AS TO LOOK FOR A WAY OUT. FOR IF YOU DO NOT LOOK FOR A WAY OUT, YOU WILL MANIFEST IT.
THAT IS WHY ONCE EVIL IS NAMED, OR EVEN DISCOVERED IN THE LIFE OF A TRUE SEED OF GOD, HE BECOMES VERY RESTIVE. HE STOPS AT NOTHING UNTIL HE HAS, I MEAN, MADE IT RIGHT WITH GOD. IS IT NOT TRUE? WHEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS SEVERED, AND YOU ARE FEELING HAPPY, REJOICING AND LAUGHING OVER IT, IS THE PERSON NOT DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION?
CLOSE THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AGAINST YOUR KNOWN ENEMY PART 1; PG. 91:28-29
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THE TRUE ELECT ARE MADE MANIFEST DURING AN OVERSPREADING OF EVIL
Now look at this last week, I am not talking of others. This last week that started; Sunday last week up to yesterday Saturday.
I thank God I am not alone in this house. I did not go out to meet anybody, but you saw all of them trooping in here from everywhere. From Monday till now I have never rested. Entertaining cases emanating from families. True or false? Are you not witnesses? Even their own children also. Are you not my witnesses? Good.
How many divorce cases now? I mean in the bride? There at Umuahia; a married woman who married twenty-eight years ago with children, packed her baggage and ran back to her parents saying she was tired. Tired of marriage, tired of the Faith! Twenty-eight years!
ONCE A WOMAN THAT IS MARRIED IN THE FAITH, IS STAYING IN MARRIAGE IN THE FAITH, GETS TIRED WITH THE HUSBAND, SHE IS TIRED WITH THE FAITH. Did you get the message? Fine! Because if she is not tired with the Faith, the matter would have come to the Elders to look into it. The matter would have come to the Son of Man to look into it.
But it was a unilateral decision without even consulting the children. Twenty-eight years of marriage with bag and baggage and then left the house.
There also at Obosima; you know that one, packed bag and baggage from 2018 till now. That is the wife of Pastor Vitalis. Packed Bag and baggage, went and started wearing trousers, going into street prostitution.
Can you say it is because of the Faith? These has been her desire which she has not been fulfilling because of the Faith. The Faith has been restraining her from certain things. That is what I believe.
That which you were not doing because you were not given the opportunity to do it, any day you begin to have freedom to do it, maybe because of your age and things like that.
It then means that has been where your heart is. The desire will not leave you until you have already accomplished it and find fault with it.
If I want to eat mango, and then after eating it, it troubles my stomach, will I continue eating it? No, I should throw it away. If I am salivating for bitter kola because I envisaged it must be very sweet when I listen to the sound it makes when others eat it. If after putting it in my mouth and the bitter taste is too much for me and I spit it out, will I ask for bitter kola again?
Our people say that when a child eats that thing for which it has been awake all the while, it will sleep. Amen!
Pay attention all of you. Look at this last week, the report reaching me from Abakaliki which we read here. A husband beat the wife to coma.
From the fellowship, the fight ensued to the house. Did you get the message? Too many have been excommunicated even by their family members in the family worship. While some excommunicated themselves.
Where a married woman said she will not come out, that she will lay in the bed and be hearing what they are saying in the parlour. Has she not excommunicated herself? All in the Faith. Did you get the message?
On Saturday, from Onitsha here, a married woman with three children. Did she deliver the three children at a time? She came to Me here. Brethren you were with Me; you saw how long we deliberated.
She said, “I have come to tell you I am tired of marriage, I am packing away. I am leaving only but one to the man, I am taking two away. Let me go and hire my own house and live, and see whether I will worship God. I do not want to perish.”
I said ehh! You feel this decision is the right one? Well what I will tell you is “go to your parents and tell them what you have planned”, if you have not executed it so far.
How many divorce cases? All in the bride. All of them are ministers oh. Some are teachers, some are pastors.
Look at Nassarawa, Abuja. See what is happened in a minister’s house. The first and only son was raised in criminality. Today, to change the criminal tendencies have become very difficult. He is increasing in crime to the point the father has been arrested and detained with the Police because nobody knows his whereabouts after committing the crime.
Look at what is happening in the ministers’ families. You see why I am raising a standard here that evil should not even be mentioned here even once. These are young men who attended our meeting – the youth conference.
How many are pregnant today? If you ask them, they will say they deliberately went into it that they want to be independent. They want to be single mothers. A language we never heard before. One day a man will be pregnant. Mothers are there, fathers are there. They feign ignorance. Am I making sense?
Even here in Onitsha. Who can believe it that a youth who also attended the youth meeting have become a cultist, sleeping in the forest, eating rubbish in the forest with his co-cultists? And had the boldness to even come back to announce to Me and to the family, what he has done. Did you get the message?
That he feels guilty, he feels condemned, I should help cleanse him and deliver him. I brought out suggestions for the help of the man, he ran away. Ran away from home, ran away from everybody. The parents can never account for his whereabouts even now. When they call him over the phone, he will tell them “I am somewhere, I will come”.
When does he come back? In the night 1am, 2am, he will come, force the door open. Before 5 o’clock, he will leave. Born and brought up in the Faith. Where is it happening? Ministers’ house here in Onitsha. Brethren, am I bearing false witness, do you not know them? Good. That is why I shunned the parents away.
There are too many other cases. Many other cases. Not only in Onitsha but everywhere. But these are the people that compose of the Bridal Faith. Now that God who said all hypocrites will be exposed and troubled out of our midst. Do you know the way God is going to expose the hypocrites? Did he say the way He is going to expose them?
God knows how to wait for them, He knows how to catch them. Hypocrites that walk contrary to the truth; see what is happening in the families. But there are some sincere families, where their children, even their youths are every day engaged in the work of the Ministry. They are engaged. They have no time for nonsense. No time for moving about. No time for roaming the streets.
God said it is when we go home that the real sons and daughters of God will be made manifest. Then you begin to see loose families that lost control of their children long time ago. What can we say about the reigning one now? I do not need to call their names because you know them. Their parents purchased android handsets for them just to make sure they win their love against their father.
When a woman wants to win the love of her children against their father, she will be using everything she has to buy gift items to bribe away the hearts of the children. Even when the man will rise and say “no, this is too much for this child, this is unnecessary, this money could have been used for something else”, she will flare up, “is it your money, is it your money?”
With that language alone, she has incited trouble between the children and their father. Their father will be seen as their enemy who does not want them to look like the people in the world. What are they using the android phone for? They are using it to play games, Naija games, Nairabet and every kind of thing.
They use it. Go and see what they are posting on Facebook; like one I arrested yesterday. The elders were here. I exposed it immediately. Immediately! The elders saw it. Happening here in Onitsha. I said praise be to God that I was around when this one happened.
I told the person that was involved the naked truth before all the elders, and all the elders rallied behind Me and condemned the whole thing. I have told our brother “flee from all the appearances of the devil for we are living in dangerous times”. So seeing all these fulfillments of what God had earlier told us that we should expect in our midst.
IF YOU SEE THEM HAPPENING THE SAME WAY GOD SAID IT, WILL IT GET YOU DISCOURAGED? WHAT YOU WILL DO NOW IS TO TIGHTEN YOUR BELT. GUARD UP YOUR LOINS. THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO. IT IS A BIG ENCOURAGEMENT BECAUSE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECIES ENCOURAGES A TRUE BELIEVER BUT DISCOURAGES A MAKE-BELIEVER. WE KNOW THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE AN OVERSPREADING OF EVIL.
When you go to the book of Timothy; can you not see that in the last days, perilous times where it will be difficult for people to live Christ-like life? Where people will be behaving like animals, uncontrollably bad. Is it not scripture? It is written there. It said “they will go to Church, will they go to Church? Yes, they will go but will never practice anything they are taught.
I do not believe there is a man in his right mind who will gather the children to teach them to live wrong. No way! But there must be somebody whose voice they will accept, that is the person that will influence their lifestyle. Anybody that you accept his voice that is the person that will influence your lifestyle.
If your father is a disciplinarian who is always lambasting, always talking against evil, but your mother loves your way of life. No matter what your father says, she will corner all of you by the corner, indoctrinate you against what your father said. Before you know it, she will confront your father openly before the children just to discredit the man so that the children will not believe him.
“Are you paying their school fees, what is your interest? Do you feed them? Do you even pay the house rent? Can you imagine? Is she not discrediting the man before the children? Then the man will lose his prestige, lose his integrity, lose his pride, then he will be just a passive man in the house.
But the controller of the house is now the devil, masquerading herself about as a human being called wife when she is not a wife.
That is why we are having matrimonial problems everywhere, matrimonial burdens, matrimonial liabilities, and matrimonial irresponsibility. Where people behave like a very bad fowl that will lay egg, use the beak to perforate the egg and suck the liquid.
A woman that destroys her family with wrong advice, wrong teaching by encouraging evil, the pregnancy was carried in vain. I said the punishment, the trouble, the labour (in pregnancy), they were all in vain. It is akin to a hen that lays eggs, then subsequently pecks open her own eggs and sucks the contents.
What is my joy? Whatever seed I am sowing today I will reap the fruits tomorrow. If I am sowing bad seeds today, I will reap the fruits tomorrow. Is it not true? If I sow evil, I will reap evil. If I sow good, I will reap good. I am happy that so far, I have no regrets.
I said so far, I have no regrets for I have taught my family how to walk blamelessly before God and before man; how to esteem the word of God more than their necessary food; how to start their lives with the fear of God which is the beginning of wisdom. That even if I die today – the path I have established for them – they will never leave it.
I have taught them that there is virtue in upholding the faith of Rechabites’ family who never departed from the words of their parents even over three hundred years after their parents died. God came –through Prophet Jeremiah to test their faith by presenting to them that which God warned them against through their parents never to touch or come near or drink. And then God said, “thus saith the Lord”.
The Almighty God can come to you after teaching you the truth, He will come to you and say “thus saith the Lord, do it!” to know whether you have that at the back of your mind that God cannot counter His words. That is why God said even if you have a dream and it comes to pass, please be very careful about it for it might be the Lord coming to test you.
But whenever that dream leads you to do wrong, to do anything contrary, know that it is the devil. For when the devil comes to you with dreams and they will come to pass, “thus saith the Lord, they will come to pass” Watch where he will point you to.
If he points you away from the truth, away from God, away from the word of God. It said run away from there. It is not God. Did you get the message? So God is ever mindful of that word He has spoken. He watches over it bringing it to fulfillment.
I never intended to go evangelical this morning but there is no way I can close My mouth today being the first day of the week without saying good morning to the entire brethren scattered all over the world. So let us be weary of the hour we are in.
DO NOT BECAUSE OF THE OVERSPREADING OF EVIL, GET DISCOURAGED. RATHER LET THE OVERSPREADING OF EVIL IN YOUR OWN DAY ENCOURAGE YOU TO WORSHIP GOD MORE AND MORE. Do not forget the fact; in the days of Noah, there was an overspreading of evil.
It was during that time that Noah severed himself and his family to do the right thing, and became the only righteous man in his generation. Then God saw his righteousness and then came to him, showed him what? Favour that is grace. The grace he obtained was favour.
God told him what he will do to salvage his family because he saw him as one that feareth God and avoideth evil during the period of overspreading of evil. Did you get the message?
It is during a great wind that we know the tree that has a deep (tap) root. The wind is blowing. When the temptations come, that is when we know who the true believers are.
The wind is blowing right now. Temptations are everywhere, on every land, on every heart. It is now that we can see the real colour of the real elects. The real colour, the real nature of the real elects can never come out when everything is good. It is when there is an overspreading of evil that the righteousness of the elect shall be made manifest. Until then we are likened to other people. Is it not true?
You watch in the days of Lot; Sodom and Gomorrah, there was an overspreading of evil but Abraham was not numbered among it. Lot himself hated it. Then God showed Lot favour. He obtained favour. God showed him the way of escape from destruction. True or false?
Now what can you say about Rehab. In the land of Jericho, there was an overspreading of evil but Rehab obtained grace from God. Did you get the message? Then when Jericho was destroyed because of widespread lawlessness evil, it encouraged the faith of Rehab.
I am saying that fulfillment of prophecies encourages every elect of God to continue doing good. For nobody does good and regrets it in the end. You can regret everything but you can never regret any good service you rendered to God. You can never regret your obedience to the Word of God.
But I have seen things if not all. Nobody disobeys the Word of God given to him in his day without ending his life in regret.
‘had I known’ always comes in the end. ‘Hei, what then did I gain?’ Are you really going to throw away your life in hellfire because of the profits of this world?
How many years are you going to stay here on earth? There are many who would not make it to the end of this week. There are many who would not make it to the end of even today! What then shall you profit?
What shall it profit a man if he will gain the whole world, enjoy the pleasures of the world and spend eternity in hell? Did you get the message?
So My little exhortation; I will title it “WHERE WILL YOU LIKE TO SPEND YOUR ETERNITY?” Where will you like to spend your eternity; that is the topic of this short exhortation and it is on this note that I invite our brother who will come and read this short exhortation also that came from this family. My choice of the brother is our brother Chiemerie.
He will come forward, read this message to our hearing. It is not the one I posted for everybody. I gave this one to selected few to top whatever they are going to read today.
For I charged everybody; if you have not finished listening to the audio voice message “CLOSE YOUR HEART AGAINST YOUR KNOWN ENEMY” part 1, part 2, part 3. If you have not finished listening to them, do not ever go into today’s worship. You must finish all before you cross over. You must finish all before you cross over.
If I being the Son of Man will have the time to hand out messages in My family, with members of My family paying attention. I believe somebody who is desirous of eternal life will also spend time with his family to pay attention to it.
For whatever it takes Me to hand it out is what it will take you to listen to it. Even if I spend eight hours, common sense will tell you spend eight hours and pay attention. If we are to stay together in the Fellowship of the Saints maybe at GTC or elsewhere, will you run away? You will remain there until I leave the pulpit.
So that is why I have handed it over to all the heads of the families. And the heads of the families will use their discretion to appoint their children and wards, and brethren with them who will join hands in the reading of the message so that the head of the family will be the moderator. Did you get the message? Reading the word is not preaching the word.
I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority, but a woman can read this message. If My wife is here and the strength is there, she will read it. Anybody can read this message but I am the One who will moderate it. I will give the message the interpretation that is where it is needed. Or give it the explanation where it is needed to enable everybody benefit from it. Did you get the message?
In the family altar I allowed her. A man who does not allow the wife access to family altar messages is blind. Did you get the message? Do you not see our mummy here handling family altar? Is it not true? Because it is our family altar. She is an integral part of this family. We are pursuing the same purpose.
For there is no better place a woman can stay and talk to the children and husband respectfully if not in the family altar. A woman can lead in praises in the family altar. Is it not true? A woman can even pray in the family altar if permitted by the husband.
That is why in the general assembly, the woman will not teach or usurp authority. If she has any questions she will go home and ask her own husband. Now we are in our homes, the question arises. What if the man does not know anything? What if the man is empty, can the wife depend on that man for salvation? You see why the woman is permitted.
Have you seen it? If one does not know, his neighbour/relative should show him the way.
Concerning salvation from God, there is no gender discrimination. The condition for eternal life for a woman is the condition for eternal life for a man.
The man will not be arrested because of the woman neither will the woman be arrested because of the man. For that reason, it will take a silly woman to keep quiet and allow the husband to drag her into hell because of matrimonial nonsense, matrimonial bondage that contains no truth.
If it contains truth, why are people divorcing, why are they complaining, why are they murmuring? Why are they feeling insecure? Because when the marriage is making noise, insecurity is there. I say insecurity is there. If the marriage is making noise, there is destabilization in the family, the tendency is there that a crack has been developed.
And there can never be a crack developing on a wall without lizard forcing itself inside the crack. Whenever there ia a crack in the wall of a building, you are sure to see a lizard squeezing itself between the cracks. Rats, cockroaches, wall geckos will all squeeze themselves in there.
I am saying that undesirable things can hide in that crack to embarrass people even when they are sleeping. Embarrass them when they want to eat. Assuming you are on the dining table, you want to eat and lizard jumps from the wall paam on the table, will you not run? What if it jumps on your body in the bed? Accident will occur.
Why? There is a crack that was neglected. No matter how little that crack is, do not ever neglect it. Crack means a faulty line. A faulty line. It requires reinforcement. Amen! Crack in the wall, reinforce it let it retain its original strength. Create no room for evil to have rule over you in any form or shape. Did you get what I am saying?
I am the Son of Man born to righteousness. My Name is the Almighty. You know that to be true but I can never go about bragging Myself with it. It will make Me humble. It will make Me lowly. It will make Me approachable.
There is no human being that can make equality with Me. You cannot equate Me with any human being in Heaven and on earth and beneath the earth. The entire world is aware of this truth.
I make laws, I cancel laws. I say I make laws and I cancel laws. And as the Son of Man, if I do not set you free, nobody will set you free. For the totality of everything pertaining to God and His kingdom, everything, human beings, man and woman, they are all in My hands.
God has given that authority to His Son to save anybody who will do His will. Now if while I am here you get lost, who will you blame? Because I will hide nothing from any of you.
I am revealing everything you need to know about Paradise, about Eternal Life so that comporting yourselves in accordance to the teachings shall be made possible. Very possible.
I see serving God as everyday way of life. If you do not see your service to God, obedience to the truth as a way of life, it then means it is a burden
If you see your kitchen as a burden, you die of starvation. Entering the kitchen now is a way of life. Is it too much of a burden to any of us in this house? Even as Mommy is not here, is there anyone here I need to drag about to do what is supposed to be done in the kitchen? Each and every one of you already know what to do. Even by 5pm we have all had our dinner. Those who want to read will go and read. Those who want to watch the television will go and do so.
Everything is going on smoothly. I do not need to tell anyone to go pump the water. It is a way of life. Do I need to tell anyone to go bathe? It is a way of life. Do I need to ask you to wash your hands?
You know they are routines we have been doing whether somebody is there or not. And then it has become our mannerism. Our way of life. That is all. So to us it is no longer a burden. That is why whenever brethren come here they feel astonished, “how many people are leaving here, why is it that this place is everyday neat?”
Kitchen neat, backyard neat, rooms neat, everywhere. They say “daddy, what is happening?” I say “well, I do not know the way you are looking at it, this is the way we have established our own lifestyle.” Every family has its own established lifestyle. Any lifestyle that is established, that is not after godliness is devilish.
Cleanliness we believe is next to godliness, and God gave us a teaching on that. Is it not true? God gave us a teaching on cleanliness, environmental sanitation. For God is not a filthy God and He does not live in a filthy place. Do not be neat outside and dirty inside. Both physically and spiritually.
There are too many people, whenever they want to go out, they put on the best dress but in their house, everywhere is smelling. Everywhere is smelling. And if you see their rooms where such people that dressed gorgeously outside, if you see where they came out from, it is like a nest, a roost, it is like a poultry.
Why? The children are not taught, their mother is not taught, and their father does not like good things. He can only like a good thing when he goes out, but to carry it to his own house is very difficult. So we thank God. I am raising all of you. Keep it up because brethren come here every day and it is a challenge to all of us.
There are people that do not receive visitors from year to year. Is it not true? Since nobody comes to them, they are careless and they are very dirty, after all nobody is coming. They are not anticipating anybody. From year to year, no preparation is being made to receive people. Seeing that these days we do not know when they will come, they do not give us notice.
So we are ready at all times. And by being ready at all times, we see ourselves fulfilling the positive side of the scriptures.
We have given ourselves a culture. A custom, a tradition, a habit, that will be impossible to be broken. That is why even all of you here, when you get to your families, get to your parents’ houses, you find it difficult to sit down.
I remember the day Chika went to his parents, I told him to sleep, he tested no water, tested nothing. He said he found it difficult even to sit down. Why? Because he has attained a standard of hygiene which he cannot lower down again rather he will try to consolidate on it. Did you get what I am saying?
That is what God is doing; using His Words to raise a standard in our hearts. In our behaviours against all those things we are doing in time past. So that when we come out, we will be children of God without rebuke, without indictment, without reproof, in this crooked and perverse generation where there is an overspreading of evil.
Overspreading of evil to the point that nobody is spared. Parents are not spared; children are not spared in the evil. All the high places are full of vomit; so, there is no correctional centres anymore. Rather the slogan is “where you cannot beat them, join them! Anywhere you see yourself, you take it like that.”
That language is our greatest abomination in this family, we do not make that statement in this family. We are for God and for God alone, and we know where we are heading to. Our eyes are there; our minds are fixed.
We will do everything within our power provided God has revealed it to us to make sure we attain that height, and that is the essence of talking to us. Otherwise, God is talking in vain. Amen! So please give ear to what we are going to hear from now.