WHO HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO? VOLUME 3

WHO HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO? VOLUME 3 of 3 Preached ON Friday 15^TH October, 2021 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE ETERNAL ROCK OF AGES

Transcribed by Sister Biola Ajewole Household of God, Lagos, Nigeria

²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 10:27-28, King James Version

You do not know that I am your Justifier. You also do not know that I am He that will condemn you. If I set you free, you are free. Anywhere you like go. If the Son of Man sets you free, you shall be free indeed. There is nobody; There is no Angel, no matter where the person is coming from, that will condemn you. That is why I said [that] if I tell you to do something, do it because I said you should do it. Quote Me; “I did it in the Authority of the Son of Man.” Let the heavens challenge your action. Bring it before Me. If I say, “Do not try it.” Stop there. Do not move an inch. He that sent Me is still with Me. He has never left Me one bit.

– THE SON OF MAN –

I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; Preached on Sunday 31^st December 2000 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 61 vs. 65 – 67

IF GOD IS NOT WITH YOU, DO NOT MOVE AN INCH FORWARD

Sad news from the Lord God Almighty; Preached on Sunday 19^th July 2020 by THE SON OF MAN; Page 75 verse 29-34.
²⁹Every True Seed of God has only but one choice. … Simple! That is the only choice. ²⁹EVERY TRUE SEED OF GOD HAS ONLY BUT ONE CHOICE, TO DO THE WILL OF GOD. TO DO THE WILL OF GOD.
Rebellion is an instinct. I say, rebellion is an instinct. Oftentimes it is not pre-meditated. That is why l commanded Apostle Ojiakor to go back to that teaching he gave us at Ugwumba Street precisely in 1991. He gave us that message, “BEWARE OF REBELLIOUS INSTINCT IN MAN”. [1991]. l still have it at the back of my mind. Beware of rebellious instinct in man. That was what put Absalom into trouble. And many other.
³⁰Song: [Thy will be done. Thy will be done. Teach me O Lord from my heart to say, Thy will be done] ³¹Not my will, but let thy will be done. … Sure!! That remains our prayer. Let the will of this God we are worshipping be done in our lives.
³¹…Teach me Lord to say it from my heart and mean it. Not saying it with my lips when I do not mean it. Sure! When it comes to allowing God to do His will, you will be the obstacle. You become the obstacle to God doing His will. Why?
³²SONG: [Have thine own way Lord. Have Thine own way. Thou art the Potter. I am the clay. Mold me and melt me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still.]
³³If God is the Potter and we are the clay, and we say, “Have your own way” from our heart and we mean it, God will be pleased with us. … Sure!
…But unfortunately, we sing the song because it is very sweet, when we do not mean it with our heart. … That is the problem. We are not meaning it. …We pay lip service to it.
³⁴You see why we are hypocrites. … Who is a hypocrite? One that says one thing and does another thing. You are saying you are with God, but your manifestation is contrary. It is because you are playing hypocrisy with what you have believed.
…That is the Sad news. You are the sad news for you say you are worshipping God when you are a hypocrite. …
You are a hypocrite. That is what your manifestations are saying.
…Heathens are better than unbelievers. And God cannot continue with such people. At all!
That is why God is telling you that one thing remaineth. One thing remaineth, for this is not the attitude and characteristics you will manifest in the Kingdom of Heaven. If that is our utmost goal, we must have a change of attitude today.
SAD NEWS; Page 131 verse 26 through 28. A true seed of God is always at home with God. … That is it. …He takes side with God, come what may. We read it in the message today.
²⁷When God keeps quiet over all your actions, He keeps you in a suspended silence. Your life is in danger. …
If you are wise, you will pause and begin to think. Remember you are the one that He spoke to. You confirmed it that He [the Almighty] told you saying, “I will not speak to you now”.
Personally! A one-on-one encounter you had with Him [The Son of Man]. He told you, “I will not speak to you now”. Do you not know that God is watching you and waiting for you somewhere? And you are still running on the same evil path you are on.
Instead of such voices to make you to ponder and ask yourself, “Why is God keeping silent over my matter? Is it for good or is it for evil? Why is God keeping silent over my matter?” you are unconcerned. These are what you should ask yourself.
When God puts you in a suspended silence, your life is in danger.
It is just like what happened few days ago, when the Elders were here and my phone rang. Our Brother ThankGod Ogini from Port-Harcourt called Me, requesting that I should give him a date for him to come to My house with his wife to dedicate his wife before Me.
I said okay. You said l should give you a date. He said yes. It will be next year. He shouted. He begged and begged and begged that it should be anytime soon, but I said, “No! It must be next year.” And I switched off my phone. He called again crying, but I told him that I cannot speak to him again on this matter again.
He wrote me a lengthy text which the elders read before Me, thinking that my saying next year was may be because he over-delayed.
This is because he had earlier agreed with Me to continue with whatever he was doing as per marriage, and that I will see them whenever he was through. That did not even make him to know that danger was lurking.
Three times I called him concerning that marriage, “Are you not through with that marriage? Have you run away?” He was talking and talking and talking.
Now this thing happened last week. You have seen the product of that conversation. The marriage that was contracted just about a month plus now, and they were about to come to Me for dedication and consecration of the marriage, but look at where it is heading to.
I saw it ahead of time. Now the man has abandoned his house. He is on the run because the wife is all out to kill him and he is equally all out to kill the wife.
The same thing happened also. No matter how our Brother Okwy [of Enugu household] pleaded that he should come to Me with his wife for presentation and consecration, I said. “Not yet! Not yet! You have finished with your marriage and everything. Keep on living. But for presentation and dedication, not yet!” And in the “not yet”, eyes have seen. There are too many others like that.
If God is not with you, do not make an inch forward. Hear me very well. Moses said in Exodus, “God was sought because he wanted to know the mind of God before they would go out.
He told God, “If you will not go with us, then it is useless for us to make an inch forward. Be it known to you Almighty God that if you refuse to go with us or go before us, our lives will be in danger. So we are not taking any step forward unless you go first before us.”
The Lord harkened unto his plea which he made from the sincerity of his heart. Then the Lord replied to Moses, “I will go before you and make a way for you. You can now go.” Then they journeyed along with God.
Today, even if God will say No, those who call themselves sons and daughters of God will continue to go.
Recognizing that oftentimes whatever they want to present to The Son of Man may be dismissed, may not be acceptable, may not be approved, they have devised their own way. They will now inform Him when they had already finished whatever they wanted to do.
They neglect the Voice that said, “If you want Me to be a partner to whatever you want to do, inform Me about that thing truthfully starting from the conceptual stage, and not when you had already embarked on it, and you have gone a very long way and then dangers started showcasing, you then remember Me. I will not give ear to your plea or request.
This is the new style they have now evolved. “O boy! If he does not agree with us, we will agree on his behalf.” If God does not agree we will agree for Him, we are going to do it anyhow, after which we will inform him.”
When you inform Me of what you have done, what do you expect me to do, other than to say thank you very much.
²⁷When God keeps quiet over all your actions, He keeps you in a suspended silence. Your life is in danger. Maybe He has drawn a conclusion about you.
Maybe he has drawn a conclusion. Is that conclusion for good or for bad?
You know the angle from which you see God. You know what you are thinking about God, but you do not know what He is thinking about you?
That should be enough to make an individual to ponder. You know how you are seeing the Son of Man and what you are thinking about Him, but do you know what he is thinking about you before telling you, “I do not want to talk to you now?”
Do you know what he is thinking about you before He tells you that you have a case to answer?
Should these things not make you to reflect upon your life and begin to make a change, even telling you clearly that you tried causing a disunity, a division in the family?
And now He brought you back and you are still plying on the same route, bringing testimony that will not help the family.
Instead of bringing testimonies that will spur the testimonies the Messages God is speaking concerning this family, your testimonies are rather trying to pull down the reputation of the family.
Remember, reputation is in the hands of others, but your character is in your own hand. I say, your reputation is in the hands of others, but your character is in your own hands. It is your character that gives you your reputation.
What are people hearing about you when your name is mentioned? What do they know you for? Do people know you as a person that is always troubling his family? Do they know you as the person that is always troubling the Faith, and that is what you are known for?
Is that the reputation you came to keep in the Faith? Is that what you will be proud of? But there are many who when their name is mentioned, we say, “O Glory to God. That is a loving Brother. Always in the bosom of the Lord.”
Why can your own testimony not be like that? What is the reputation you are keeping for yourself? With the manifestations around you, can you see anything good anybody can say about you?
²⁸It is better He scolds you, He slaps you, slashes you, embarrasses you, calls you devil, calls you demon, calls you prostitute, calls you a mad man, calls you a fool, calls you Idiot, calls you a dog or a vulture. It is all for your own good. because you can now take correction.
It is better because you can now take correction. But you are not praying to God to show you a way out of your troubles. You are not praying that God should come into your life and rescue you from every doldrum.
“I do not want to take these things to the judgement throne for I cannot face the judgement of God. I do not want to come on that day and I will be told my case. Let my case be reviewed today while there is hope.”
If this is not yet your desire, [oh!] should this not be your desire now? “God scold me today. Judge me and acquit me while there is hope so that my tomorrow might be better. This is better for me than keeping silent over my case because you have not even seen a change of heart in me.”
Why? There is no zeal to come out of that iniquity. And every shortcut you are trying to take out of your problem is doing what? Making the journey longer. It is not helping out.
Let us go to the Message, YOU ARE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT ONE THING REMAINETH Volume 1; Preached on Sunday 15^th December 2019 at the Household of God Onitsha; Chapter 4 [Page 89] verses 19 and 20.
¹⁹YOU HAVE BELIEVED THAT GOD IS WITH HIM. YOU HAVE BELIEVED ALL THIS THINGS… Just like Daddy was saying.
…BUT ONE THING REMAINETH. BELIEVING AND YOUR LIFE REMAINING THE SAME IS A SURE SIGN OF REJECTION. BELIEVING AND REMAINING THE SAME, ACTING THE SAME AS YOU WERE BEFORE THE TRUTH CAME TO YOU IS A SIGN OF TOTAL REJECTION.
²⁰How do I know you have believed? The manifestation is the interpretation. Why? By their fruitS you shall know them. By their fruitS you will know them that believe and they that believe not.
That is why I am standing to tell you that you are not in the Faith if these are the manifestations that will be coming around you. Yes!
It is better to know your position today so that you can help yourself to walk your way back to God than deceiving yourself in the name of ‘Brother’ or ‘Sister’. We have gone past that level. Let ‘Bride of Christ Ministry’ not deceive you.
You are only in the Faith when you are manifesting the attitude and attributes of God. When the fruits of the Word of God are manifesting in you, it is making others to glorify the Lord. That is why you can stand and say you are in the Faith.
It is not because you are in the family, you come to fellowship, you clap hands, you can stand and read the message, you put offering in the offering box. And for that, you are in the Faith because nobody has put you out.
“I am in the faith”, but look at your manifestations. Are they proving to you that you are in the Faith? That is what we are talking about.
You are not too far from the kingdom of heaven, but one thing remaineth Volume 1; chapter 5 [Page 131] verse 68-69. ⁶⁸You say you believe, but one thing remaineth. You are still conforming to the dictates of the world, using the world as your example to buttress your unbelief. Using the word, “Am I the only one? Is that not what is obtainable everywhere?” For that reason, you justify a condemnable act.
⁶⁹See what God said: He will never pardon you. He will never! Rather, He will descend upon you with His angry displeasure. Will your heart bear it? Will your heart not faint by the time He must have finished with you? Will you still exist?
Is that the testimony you want to carry? Why using the world as your measuring rod in your life, attributes of people in the world rather than the children of the kingdom.
I read verse 78 of the same message. Those that break this contract, this agreement, this covenant, because you have entered into a contractual agreement with the Almighty God, that in life and in death, we will worship Him, for He is our Maker, our Creator and our all and all. We could not have come into existence without God.
Is that not true about this family? We have heard it. It is in tape and in the printed Messages. We have entered an agreement with God. We have vowed a vow that this family must stand with the Lord and with the Almighty, Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Very Son of Man [BBHMHN].
We have no other God. We have entered into a contractual agreement, and nothing can change it that this is a godly family built upon Christ and there is no other faith.
There is nothing else we can tolerate apart from Christ. If it is not Christ in you, then there is a problem. I say if it is not Christ in you, then there is a problem. It must be Christ in you, for that is the only hope of glory. That is the only hope of glory.
So there is not a problem because there is money. There is no problem because we are not doing well financially. But there is problem if our life is not the life of Christ. If what is happening around us is negative. We must query our self and that is what we are doing even this day. Amen.
I read chapter 5 verse 30-31. You could deny the prodigal son everything but not the heritage of his father. …
If you have seen yourself as a prodigal son, I think nobody should tell you what to do for now, true or false?
…He knew he was prodigious. He knew he was erring. … Do you know like you have said in your text that you are erring? …Did anybody point him back? No! what brought him back? He faulted himself. …
And that has been your greatest problem. You are waiting for others to fault you. Fault yourself. Find fault with your own life or else you cannot remedy it. If you do not know what you are doing or that what you are doing is not right and that it is not helping you nor your family, no matter what any other person will say, you will not see it.
The prodigal son faulted himself. And that was when he discovered his error. Fault yourself and discover your own error.
…Situation brought him back to his senses. … Can this situation around you, bring you back to your senses? … He realized his fault, and courageously he went back.
³¹That is why as many as proceeded from this family must go back to this family in life or in death. You do not need to begin to trouble a sheep to produce wool. Whether the sheep is alive or dead, wool is there. Amen!
I do not need to tell you how to run back to God. If you are not wise, the adage says that when a dog bites one person more than once, he has become a customer to dog bite.
Everywhere you go, it is negative report. You were in Jos. It was negative report. You went to Markurdi [to school], negative report. You went to Port-Harcourt, negative report. You came to Akwa-Ibom, negative report.
What is the problem? You are the problem. Pause and ask yourself why. Is that what will continue to accompany you?

HAVE YOU RECOGNIZED HE THAT CAN PARDON INIQUITY?

I am rounding off too. And I am crossing over to the legendS of the Jews part 1 Volume 3; Preached on 24^th May 2021 at the Voice of God Studio; Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Anambra State, Nigeria; Page 146 verse 46-51.
⁴⁶Happy is the man, whom the Lord reveals his iniquity. I hope you are hearing? If God reveals your evil ways, telling you He is not happy, this and that, you should be the happiest human being.
Your Joy should be that God is telling you and pointing you back to himself, showing you your wrong doings; that should be your joy.
⁴⁷^[17]Happy and fortunate is the man whom the Lord reproves; so do not despise or reject the correction of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering]. [Job 5:17, AMP]
⁴⁸This is because the Scriptures says that there are too many people whose sins shall be made open for the Lord to forgive them. …
Is it not better that way? May that be your condition, that your sins will be open for God to do what? Forgive you. Rather than for it to be concealed till you go to the Judgement Throne where you shall never see mercy. May God expose us today.
…And there are many also whose sins be embedded in them; will never be made public, and they will carry them, only to be revealed at the Judgement Seat.
⁴⁹^[24]The sins of some men are conspicuous (openly evident to all eyes), going before them to the judgment [seat] and proclaiming their sentence in advance; but the sins of others appear later [following the offender to the bar of judgment and coming into view there]. [1 Timothy 5:24 AMP]
⁵⁰To reveal my fault; my sins now that I am alive, and set me free, I believe it is the best thing I can obtain from God; than to conceal it and allow it to remain concealed and for me to move about, not knowing that God is angry with me; not knowing that I am going to have queries to entertain in the end.
Do you not hear it that there is no coincidence? Nothing is a coincidence. God is making those things happen so that they can expose situations around you.
See it that God is exposing situations around you so that you can repent today because there are those that He is leaving, but they think they are succeeding in their evil life. They think they are succeeding in their evil life. A day is coming when they will know that God has already sealed their doom. Learn wisdom.
⁵¹You see why God is a mysterious God. His ways are not our ways neither are His thoughts are our thoughts. Amen.
LEGENDS OF THE JEWS Volume 3; Page 152 verse 78 through 82. ⁷⁸As many as God will spare in His judgement are already adjudged righteous. … Are you among those God will spare? …And there is a promise that the gate of Paradise will never reject any righteous fellow.
⁷⁹The same way, the Gate can never hold the righteous captive. God, the Almighty can never forsake the righteous. Take note of it.
⁸⁰WHAT IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD? THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD IS NOTHING BUT THEIR STRICT ADHERENCE, OBEDIENCE, LOYALTY, REVERENCE, AND WORSHIP TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
⁸¹THE ONLY WAY THAT CAN BE MADE POSSIBLE, HE REVEALED IT. THE DAY; THE MOMENT YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THE PERSONALITY, THE DIVINE PERSON THE LORD HAS SENT, YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED ALL. PERIOD!
⁸²SO, MY RESPONSIBILITY AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IS NOW TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORD THAT WILL PROCEED FROM HIS LIPS, FOR HE ALONE HAS THE FATHER SEALED AND SENT. ANYTHING CONTRARY TO THAT, YOU ARE DOING YOURSELF MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
Brother William, the only person that can tell you your true condition remains The Son of Man, Apostle Peter Odoemena (Hallowed be His Name). Amen.
That is the Almighty that can reveal you for who you really are. Any other thing anybody is saying is mere flattery. This is because the Person that presents the perfect picture of who you are remains The Son of Man.
You have only but one duty: If you have truly acknowledged Him as the Almighty God in your life, listen to His Words. That is the only way you can obtain help from God. Else, you are heading for destruction.
Finally, I read page 159 verse 87 and 88 from THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS PART 1 Volume 3. ⁸⁷So I give God the glory that there is always a provisor in our day. … Who is He? …THE SON OF MANhas appeared with the Shekinah Glory. He has appeared with the Shekinah Cloud.
⁸⁸He has appeared revealing Himself in the Original body and even in the Godhead with the Authority, Power and Might conferred upon Him upon the Earth to do what? To pardon iniquity, to restore the backslider and to judge the wicked.
Which one do you belong? Are you among those whose iniquity should be pardoned? Are you among those who He will restore, who was a backslider but God restored? Are you among the wicked?
It is your attitude that will determine all these things that I have mentioned. Did you hear it? [1] To pardon iniquity, [2] To restore the backslider and [3] To judge the wicked. He that committed iniquity. He went wrong. He went astray, but because he recognized his error and cried to God, God pardoned him because we are with HE that has the power to pardon iniquity.
He allowed the wrong spirit to control him, but because he is a seed of God, when he heard the Voice of God, he ran back to God when he thought on his ways. God restored him to himself.
Are you going to be in that category or will you be the wicked who when he went wrong and despite the many voices he is hearing, he is still remaining where he is and there is no change in his life?
What will God do? He will condemn that individual for you have not yielded to God. [Sure!!!]
These are the three [3] categories William. Where do you belong to? You are before He that has the power to pardon your iniquity. And He has told you, “You have a case to answer”. You have a case with who? With He, The Almighty.
Why not, by your attitude, prove to God that you are seeking His mercy. I say by what? Your attitude. By your attitude, prove to God that you are seeking His mercy. But if, by your attitude, you are still showing God that you do not give a damn, you do not care, there is no problem. He will seal you for destruction.
There are too manylike that.
You become the wicked in whom God invested all His effort in raising, but then you turned out to be a rebel, After all God has done to restore you and to save you to the utmost, for He never prepared you for destruction, you turned around and paid Him back with evil. Can you tell me why God will not smite you?
Whichever one you desire is all in your hands. I will give you the solution now as I come down and close this matter. I say, I will give you the solution now.
But pay attention to what God is saying to you since morning through the voice of your father and by His power. He has helped me to talk to you. Listen to the solution as we go back to the Scripture where we will conclude.
If you do not catch this Message I am about to pass to you right now, you will miss it. I am about to pass to you a very clear Message. Already, you have really started in the right direction. You wrote to your parents. Well, I do not know what inspired you, but I said glory be to God.
Like Daddy has said, let us believe that it is really a positive change about to start in you. Not that tomorrow you will go back to error again. And I am about to consolidate it for you by showing you the solution.
You have not erred before anybody. Your case is with who? God. Your case is with who? God. I say your case is with who? Your case is with the Almighty. Your case is with the Almighty and before the Almighty.
Remember that your parents are mere caretakers. Their job is to nurture you and I, but we are answerable to one person, Who is the Almighty.
And that God is standing in the flesh. That God has already spoken to you, not once and not twice concerning your situation, but have you responded? Have you responded positively?
In your home, have you responded positively? Have you even cried out to Him before? I am about to give you the solution. Amen.
Follow me to the Scriptures as we conclude this matter Brethren. I want to read Psalm 32 verse 1 through 11 [Living Bible and Amplified]. And I am telling you Brother William to pay attention to what that message is saying.
Psalm 32:1-11, LB. ^[1-2]What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven! What joys when sins are covered over! …
Do we have He that has the power to pardon iniquity? Yes! Are we with Him? Have we recognized him? It is a question you ask yourself.
This is because if you have recognize Him, know that He is the One who has the power to rebuke me today and pardon my iniquity and nobody can hold me guilty again. He is the One that can look at you and tell you, “You have no case to answer.”
I am telling you, do you know what joy it gives that no matter how human beings are looking at you, God is telling you, “You have no case to answer”? The road is clear for you. You have that BEING with you.
Number one is to recognize Him. Number two is to cry out to HIM. But when I have not recognized Him, for I know and I am still trying to hide my iniquity from the All-seeing eyes, how can I obtain this pardon? Do you see what God is seeing?
Those whom God says they have no case to answer, is it because they have worked their righteousness? No! It is because He has pardoned our iniquities. He has covered us with His righteousness.
No matter how the enemies are pointing accusations, and those things they are saying are true, but God has decided to cover all. Why? Submission to the Almighty Himself. Have you submitted to Him and He has not pardoned your iniquity? You are still trying to hide it from Him.
…What relief for those who have confessed their sins… Have you confessed to the Almighty God?
^[3]There was a time I wouldn’t admit what a sinner I was. … There was a time you were always arguing, and never admitting what a sinner you are.
… But my dishonesty made me miserable and filled my days with frustration. Was that not what you said with your own mouth through your text? “Miserable and frustrated” because you have not accepted what you have done.
You have not confessed to what you have done. The burden is still there, but when you have relieved yourself by admitting your errors, dropping it, confessing them, you are freed of your burden.
I am not happy with you. All Igbo people here. Do not think you are pleasing Me. You are not pleasing Me one bit. You are My headache. In this My last move, I mean My last step upon this earth, let nobody born of a woman provoke something in Me. I begged you in the beginning. I will never beg you this time. You MUST bow down by force. Whether you like it or not, you must bow down. Do not ever attempt shaking your head. If you dare say, over your dead body, definitely you will die, and the promise will come to pass.
– THE SON OF MAN –
ACTION TIME PART 2 (TRAINING OF CHILDREN) CAMP MEETING; preached on Tuesday, 30^th December, 1997 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 30 vs. 27 – 28

It is not the beginning that determines your destiny [1]

^[3]All day and all night your hand was heavy on me. …. God’s hand remained heavy on him. See the psalmist speaking to us. Let God’s hands remained upon me because I refused to confess and accept my guilt.
… My strength evaporated like water on a sunny day. My strength evaporated physically and spiritually. I was weak like you are, physically and spiritually, because you are carrying a load of iniquity in you which you have refused to unburden and be saved of the Lord
^[5]until I finally admitted all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. …
Until I did what? Repeat it three times. – Until I finally admitted my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. – Until I finally admitted my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. – Until I finally admitted my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them.
May the Lord give you the Spirit and help you to understand what I am passing to you because I expect a response from you before I send my own response there before the ending of this week, for I am speaking out. I am not keeping quiet anymore.
^[5]…I said to myself, “I will confess them to the Lord.” Confess them to the Lord. I will confess them to the Lord.
This is because it is the time to speak out and not the time to conceal iniquity. When you conceal iniquity, it will producedeath. The Book of James said, “When sin is conceived, itimpregnates the sinner.” What will it deliver? It will deliver death, disappointment, disdain. Andall the Ds will be there.
James 1:15, AMP. ¹⁵Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death.
A foolish person will say that Brother Joe Ukpong, the Bishop and Apostle Timothy are addressing William. Their mother is representing all mothers there. Their father is representing all the fathers and all the Ministers. Brother Timothy, the Apostle representing the youth because it is a case study and they are samples.
God presented our Sister who is taking side with God to condemn the Son – her first Son, telling him that he is heading to death if he does not make a U-turn immediately. So she has now represented all mothers harbouring such children in their family. Is it not true?
Bishop Joe Ukpong is representing all the Elders and all the fathers, warning the son of danger ahead of him, should he continue to live the life without the fear of God.
He is exculpated from blame. He has exonerated himself. He has washed off his hands.
The junior brother who is the second son in the family took side with the family and with God to upbraid the most senior.
Evil has no age. I keep on saying that. SIn has no age. Evil has no age. At any age you find yourself and iniquity is found in you, you are a sinner at that age.
This Boy who is a case study is used as example to reach families of all Ministers, of which My own is number one. He started very well with good report, obeying the parents, following the truth, and maintained a good record before God and before man.
But along the way, iniquity was found in him. He followed the multitude. He could not work alone. He walked with the majority. And look at what his life is now.
So it is with every other youth. So it is with every other human being, male or female.
If you are wise and intelligent, you pray that the end of your life should be better than the beginning.
But a foolish fellow, started very well and ended sadly, while a wise fellow started very badly and ended very well.
Which one is better preferred? One that started very well and ended very badly or one that started very badly and ended very well?
Take note of what I am saying. It is not the beginning that determines your destiny, but your ending.
If you have taken off with good records, at any point where your record got spoilt, you will never restore it very easily, for it is easier to pull down than to rebuild. It is easier to fall down from a cliff [from a height] than to climb the height.
That is why whenever wealthy men fall, they do not rise again for they are sinners. When a sinner [a heathen] falls, he does not rise up.
But if a righteous man falleth, he will rise. Why? The moment he is corrected, he runs back to God and takes a decision that he will never repeat that mistake again.
^[5]…I said to myself, “I will confess them to the Lord.” Confess them to the Lord. I will confess them to the Lord, not to my ear. …you forgave me! All my guilt is gone….
There is only one Person that has the power to forgive sin.
Whatever your father and mother want to say, I can talk to you as a compassionate brother. As a compassionate sister, Peace can talk to you.
But only one Person can say, “I have forgiven”, and that will be final. If you have not heard from that Being, do not ever think your case is over. [Sure!!!]
If God has not spoken, nobody has spoken.
It is just like I have my children. In all we have been reading since yesterday and in other manuscripts and things like that, Brethren have been pouring praises upon this Family because of their godly behaviours within and without. Many are using them as pattern of good works.
As long as I have not spoken, nobody has spoken. That is why, if they go by the commendation of others, they will perish. But if they go by my commendation, which is God’s commendation, they will be saved.
Why? Because they are born in a Righteous Family by a Righteous Branch. That does not mean that they will not err, for there is no righteous man that sinneth not.
Because of the Super Family, Brethren might be respecting them. Some might be afraid of reporting them. Even when they see them in error, they will keep mute. They will not speak out, but they themselves know that they are in error. If they err, they know they are erring.
If they are disobedient, they know they are disobedient. They know that. If they are rebellious and confrontational, they know. But when they see Brethren, because of the family status and because of the positions they occupy in the hearts of the Brethren as Ministers of the Gospel, they will pretend as if all is well.
But they know that all is not well with them, for they have not met their father’s requirement so as to commend them. When I say that oftentimes God will give you exalted position, it is [1] to help you meet the standard so that you will be justified in the end or [2] to expose you. The two things why God promotes somebody.
If you are wise, instead of the position you occupy to expose your foolishness, let that position help you to work relentlessly to meet the requirements of that position.
A Pastor has requirements. Evangelist has requirements. Apostle has requirements. Qualifications! Even if a Bishop will rise up from here, there are qualifications.
A mother in this Family has qualification Requirement. She might be an angel out there, but not to many. But because of her position, many that know her short-comings may not speak out but within themselves, they murmur and they nurse it.
They might be right. You do not need to draw a conclusion because Brethren are praising you. For that reason, you are justified. What has your Father said concerning you?
For the Bible said, “Absalom rose up in rebellion. He drew the youths to himself.” And all that have the same ideology and philosophy greatly among the youth – rioters including Ahitophel, David’s counselor.
Can you imagine? All the elders who took delight in rebellion, who wanted offices any day he will be crowned king, they will be prime ministers and ministers in the Palace, all of them stood up for him and running round him.
2 Samuel 15:10-12, AMP. ¹⁰But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, Absalom is king at Hebron. ¹¹With Absalom went 200 men from Jerusalem, who were invited [as guests to his sacrificial feast]; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not a thing. ¹²And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy was strong; the people with Absalom increased continually.
That was why when the rebellion was crushed. All of them were crushed. And that was the end of Absalom and his cohorts. We are living in an age when people support evil more than good. True or false? [Pure truth]
Let somebody now rise up against the government. He will win support because he does not know what the Scripture said about government and those that are in government of how we should be praying for them that God will help them to succeed and to rule us well.
How we should be praying even for the police, for they are to check evil. How we should be praying for the traditional rulers. Pray for those that are in authority so that we may live in peace. How we should be subject to all of them, without giving them reasons to query us or to imprison us.
Exodus 22:28, LB. You should not blaspheme God, nor curse government officials – your judges and rulers.
1 Timothy 2:2-3, LB. ^[2]Pray in this way for kings and all others who are in authority over us, or are in places of high responsibility, so that we can live in peace and quietness, spending our time in godly living and thinking much about the Lord. ^[3]This is good and pleases God our Saviour,
Romans 13:1-5, LB. ^[1]Obey the government, for God is the one who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. ^[2]So those who refuse to obey the laws of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow. ^[3]For the policeman does not frighten people who are doing right; but those doing evil will always fear him. So if you don’t want to be afraid, keep the laws and you will get along well. ^[4]The policeman is sent by God to help you. But if you are doing something wrong, of course you should be afraid, for he will have you punished. He is sent by God for that very purpose. ^[5]Obey the laws, then, for two reasons: first, to keep from being punished, and second, just because you know you should.
1 Peter 2:13-17, MSG. Make the Master proud of you by being good citizens. Respect the authorities, whatever their level; they are God’s emissaries for keeping order. It is God’s will that by doing good, you might cure the ignorance of the fools who think you’re a danger to society. Exercise your freedom by serving God, not by breaking the rules. Treat everyone you meet with dignity. Love your spiritual family. Revere God. Respect the government.
Rise up now against anybody in the society, you will see too many people following you because we are living in a rebellious age. This is the age that is climaxed with rebellion.
Rebellion against authority – constituted authority even from God, for there is no authority except from God, for which cause I have been warning all our youths to steer clear of whatever that is happening in the society and stick to Christ and Christ alone. Yet, in our own kingdom, we have rebels.
Anybody who is rebelling against the family order, that is patterned after righteousness is a rebel. Such a person is a rebel in the kingdom of God. The person is a rebel in the family of God, for the family of God is One, where we are members.
Anybody working contrary, is he not a rebel? A rebel! Will you allow such person to sojourn there and to pollute others? You better take note of what I am saying. Nobody is drunk this morning.
David the psalmist said in the book of Psalms, “Early hours of the morning will I rise up from my bed and seek the face of the Lord my God. And He will hear me. He will answer me.
That is why I say, “Let us go to bed. When we wake up tomorrow morning, for I know there must be a morning, let us go into the Message proper.”
We used last night to lay the foundation. Today, we are going to nail down the message into our hearts before it will be published.
There is only one person that has the power to forgive sin, even with whatever your father and mother want to say. I can talk to you as a compassionate brother. And as a compassionate sister, Peace can talk to you. But only one person can say “I have forgiven”, and that is the final.
If you have not heard from that Being do not ever think your case is over. If you have not heard from that Being do not ever think your case is over. Yes!
Psalms 32:6, LB. Now I see that each believer should confess his sin to God when he is aware of them,… Amen!
I have always been saying it. Experience has proved to me and some other wise people that those that specialize in putting people into trouble with God do not help them out.
Situations that put people– circumstances that put people into opposition with God and with the Word of God do not bring them out of God’s judgement.
Rather, they help to condemn them before God, for there is no condition that is permanent. There is no condition that is for you alone.
We are living in changing times, changing conditions and circumstances. That is why circumstances we find ourselves do not make us what we are, but reveal who we are.
The condition you find yourself, the environmental circumstances surrounding you can never make you what you are, but they will rather expose you for who you are, for the whole world to know.
You might be hiding. Preaching the gospel does not make you a Saint. The devil preaches.
The only thing that marks you out from the devil’s hand is the life of Christ that is being exhibited in your daily living; The fear of God being made manifest in your life, for it is the fear of God that helps us to refrain from opposition to the truth.
If you do not have the fear of God, you must oppose the truth. And evidences abound, proving that the truth we oppose have remained the Truth that solves all our problems; truth that sets us free from condemnation, from error, from disappointment, and from regrets.
Be very careful that you do not listen to the heathens and use their commendations as your yardstick and parameter showcasing that you have become a saint. You are not a saint yet.
When I say heathens, I do not mean heathen outside. Heathens outside may praise you because they do not know what you believe. They do not know your teachings. I mean and I am talking about heathens in our midst who know the truth and live in error.
If they see anybody from a godly family, a commended family behaving the way they [the heathens within] are behaving, they will befriend that person immediately so that two of them will be condemned together. For the two can never walk together except they agree.
ANY DAY THE DEVIL BEGINS TO SUGGEST TO YOU TO DO THINGS WITHOUT APPROVAL FROM GOD, AND WITHOUT LETTING GOD KNOW, THAT IS THE DAY YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE IN PRISON CUSTODY AND YOU KNOW IT NOT.

“Lo I make all things new.” Thus, anybody moving at the old style may miss it. That is the promise of the hour. Anybody looking at the Earthly Jerusalem is missing it. We now have a New Jerusalem which is Heavenly. It is not Earthly but Heavenly, which is the Church of the First-born, where all of you are registered members. I am there! Whether you like it or not, I am the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden. You are just My branches. You can only bear fruits and your fruits will remain if you abide in Me. I am the True Vine. Cut off from Me, and in a few days you dry off.

– THE SON OF MAN –

GOD HAS COUNTED ME WORTHY, PUTTING ME INTO THIS MINISTRY; Preached on Sunday 13^th August, 2000 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 80 vs. 39 – 42

It is not the beginning that determines your destiny [2]

Now, the psalmist is advising others because he has experienced it himself that each believer – not the unbeliever nor the hypocrites – if you have seen yourself as a believer, but you know that you have erred, what is the psalmist saying?
Psalms 32:6, LB. ^[6]Now I say that each believer should confess his sins to God when he is aware of them, while there is time to be forgiven….
Confess your sin to God when you are aware of them.Oh! While there is time. So there is a time that it will not be forgiven. There is a time it will not be forgiven, while there is time for it to be forgiven.
I am giving you a second chance and you have seen it manifest here because the mindset I know I came to fellowship with has changed.
…Judgement will not touch him if he does. Judgement will not touch the individual if he does confess his sins.
^[7]You are my hiding place from every storm of life, you even keep me from getting into trouble! You are surrounding me with songs of victory.
^[8]I will instruct you (says the Lord) and guide you along the best pathway for your life; I will advise you and watch your progress. ^[9]Don’t be like a senseless horse or mule that has to have a bit in his mouth to keep it in line!
^[10]Many sorrows come to the wicked,… Remember we just read about the wicked in the legend of the Jews. The one that will not accept his wrong. The one that will continue in the evil path. Many what will follow him? Many sorrows!
But the backslider – the one who has erred and he knows he is a backslider – he is crying for mercy. There is One that has the power to forgive iniquity and He is with you.
^[10]Many sorrows come to the wicked but abiding love surround those who trust in the Lord.
Those that will trust in the Lord, abiding love will surround them. If I will hide my iniquity from any man, I will not hide it before God Who has the power to forgive me.
That is the reason why you see yourself keep on pulling away from God because something is a hindrance. Something is still hindering you and keeping you away from God. That is why you cannot come closer simply because you are still hiding too many things from God.
When Adam sinned against God together with his wife, what did they do? They ran away from the Garden and went a distance away from where they usually meet with God and hid themselves.
But did they succeed in hiding themselves? When God came down in the cool of the evening to have fellowship as usually, He knew what they did. He called Adam, “Adam! Where are you?”
O man! Where are you? O woman! where are you? O child of God! Where are you now? Where are you? Do we have that Message? O Brother! Where are you? O Sister! Where are you?
[The Message OH MAN! OH WOMAN! WHERE ARE YOU? OH BROTHER! OH SISTER! WHAT ARE YOU TODAY? was Preached by Brother Joseph Michael of Lagos Household of God on 19^th January 2021]
Hear Me very well. When you see a child born in a family avoiding that family and staying far away from the family– even if he is still living within the vicinity, he finds it difficult to call home. He finds it difficult even to reach home. He will be having excuses– watch that child. Watch that child.
Another spirit has engulfed him. He has contacted another spirit. He has fallen away from his estate. So, from that day, he will be detesting the face of his father. He will be detesting the face of his mother.
You will be pleading with him to come home, but he will be giving excuses upon excuses because he is no longer a part of that home. He has ensnared himself with too many bad thoughts and friends. Then he lacks the boldness to come home.
If he comes, he will be confrontational. He will not listen to the voice of reason, for his mind is fixed.
Wise parents should not talk to them. Leave them. Wait for their return, for they will return in a casket or in the prison yard or in the hospitals where their legs will be amputated.
Take note of the three places they will return. [1] In casket [2] In the prison [3] In the hospitals with amputated legs.
Those that will trust in the Lord, abiding love will surround them. If I will hide my iniquity from any man, I will not hide it before God Who has the power to forgive me.
That is the reason why you see yourself keep on pulling away from God because something is a hindrance. Something is still hindering you and keeping you away from God. That is why you cannot come closer simply because you are still hiding too many things from God.
You cannot come closer. Why not unburden yourself before the Lord? You are trying to hide from One that you can never hide from. If you do not face Him in life, you will face Him in death. But can you escape? No!
You are with the One that will sentence everybody to hell and then guide and usher in those that will go to Paradise as well. He is the one that will make that decision and you are trying to run away from Him.
Can you not even see it in the life of families today? The testimonies we are receiving everyday, is it not proving to you that nobody can hide from this God.
Those that try to hide iniquity in their homes, what has it resulted to? What are they reaping?
^[11]So rejoice in him all those who are His, and shout for joy all those who try to obey Him, all those that try to obey Him.
Let me pray that you catch this Message. At your private time, go and read that Scripture again, for it is a Message to you. I am showing you the way out, for that is the only time true repentance can start.
Why do you think that every time you are sorry, but you still go back to your old Life? It is because something is still hidden in you. It is still hidden in you. That is why, after you say ‘I am sorry,’ then tomorrow, when everybody closes his or her mouth, you still go back there.
You go back there because that voice will still be whispering in you, “They do not know now. Forget it! They do not know”. Why not disappoint the enemy? This is because the Scriptures say, “When you put the devil to shame, he will run away. He will flee”.
James 4:7, KJV. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
When you put the devil to shame, you disappoint your enemies. When you resist the devil’s temptation and live right with God, maintain right standing with God, resist all those insinuations, falsettos, slurs and half-truths he is peddling around your mind intending to seduce you away from the pathway of truth—
If you succeed in resisting it [Oh!] you have humiliated all your enemies, for there is no human being without enemies who are wishing his downfall, enemies who are expecting his shipwreck.
It is just like I used to tell My children. Remember you are Ministers. You are not the first that were drawn from this Family. There was one Apostle called Kerian Odoemena.
When he mounted the pulpit, heavens fell. He became the delight of Late Justice Umezulike and many others. His messages shook the mountains and the rocks. But where is he?
He could not hold on to the profession of his faith till the end. Today, he is what he has decided to make himself. A disappointment to himself, and not to God. A colossal failure.
From that time he decamped from the Camp of God and then the devil gripped him. Even when he was privileged to be blessed with millions, the millions fizzled out, for a sinner who knew the truth can never succeed in life.
There is nothing he will put his hand in that he will prosper, for he has become a wicked fellow in the sight of God. And the Lord God Almighty, in keeping with His Word vowed a vow to frustrate all the ambitions of the wicked, and to make the ways, paths and ambitions of the righteous prosperous.

RUN BACK TO GOD

You have not put him [the devil] to shame. He knows that you are still ready to harbour him. Yes! You are still ready to harbour him. So the devil is still there because you are still giving him the ability to build a stronghold in you because you are still harboring him.
When you harbouriniquity,it will build a stronghold in you to the extent that you will find it difficult to wriggle out.
I read that Scriptures before you: 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 from the Living Bible. ^[12]I can do anything I want to if Christ has not said no, but some of these things aren’t good for me. Even if I am allowed to do them, I’ll refuse to if I think they might get such a grip on me that I can’t easily stop when I want to.
^[13]For instance, take the matter of eating. God has given us an appetite for food and stomachs to digest it. But that doesn’t mean we should eat more than we need. Don’t think of eating as important because someday God will do away with both stomachs and food.
But sexual sin is never right: our bodies were not made for that but for the Lord, and the Lord wants to fill our bodies with himself. [LB]
King James version. ¹²All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. ¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. [KJV].
But when you confess him before the Almighty, he [the devil] knows that this man has turned his back, “He is finally ready to turn his back against me”. He will do what? He will flee.
Then God can now possess you, remold you, and reshape you. Then you become a testimony to others, of one that erred and ran back to God. Then your testimony will change. There is nothing a man can achieve outside God.
We do not need to read much more anymore. You are the one that has declared yourself redundant and has retrenched yourself even in the family, for God said “In every family it is a team work.”
And we have identified you that you are not playing your part in the family. You have been redundant and you have been retrenched for so long because iniquity have been weighing you down. And I am showing you the solution to your problem so that you can begin to play your part.
Else, you will be cut off like a dead flesh on the hand. You know that a dead flesh is not painful again, but if you try to take this skin now Oh! The pain will be great! Why? It is still useful.
But when you have retrenched yourself, you become a dead flesh. Somebody will use knife and be peeling it, and you will just be looking at him. Why? It is no more a living flesh. It is just hanging there.
Are you a dead flesh so that God can cut you off from the family? You think God cannot do that? He will trim down the family to what He wants.
Which one are you? If you are not a dead flesh, run back to God. It is time for confessing your iniquity before Him. Then He knows that you are ready for a change, not when you are still hiding many things and you are still running away from His presence. Not when you are still trying to be smart about the things you are doing, and then you are saying “I am sorry”. You can never be productive that way again. You can never!
Note it! Being smart in evil and in disobedience, for that is the work of the devil. The devil will always tell the foolish one that he can outsmart God. “Go and do it. Do not allow your parents to know. If you must consult them, they will not allow you to do it.”
Is it not the way devil tempts a man away from God? Was it not the way he tempted Seth, by telling Seth, “There is no need going home to consult your parents before you follow me. Follow me, and I will make you a billionaire. I have a greener pasture. If you go home now to tell your parents they will not allow you to come with me, for they will not like you to be richer than them. They will not like you to be wealthier than them. Follow me. Just pass a night”
He [Seth] said “No! I have never attempted it and I will not try. I have been the consolation of my parents. They depend on me. They reposed great confidence in me. Never have I slept outside our family without their consent, I cannot. But since you cannot permit me to go home and obtain their consent, let me go to the Cave of Treasures where you met me and make supplication and enquire of the Lord to know whether He will permit me to follow you.”
He [Seth] rushed there, immediately he knelt down before the Lord, the Voice spoke about him [the devil] saying, “Seth! That man who is talking to you, standing there is not a woman but a man. That is the very Satan that led your parents astray in the Garden of Eden. Avoid him the same way you avoid death.”
Seth stood up immediately according to THE SECOND BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE, ran home to the parents and reported the incident. You see by so doing, he had already put the devil to shame, who thought he had gotten him. Disguising in the form of a woman. Can you imagine!
THE SECOND BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE; Chapter 6 [Seth’s conscience helps him. He returns to Adam and Eve.] verse 3 through 15. ³But Seth said to him, “Thy speech has amazed me; and thy beautiful description of it all.” ⁴“Yet I cannot go with thee to-day; not until I have gone to my father Adam and to my mother Eve, and told them all thou hast said to me. Then if they give me leave to go with thee, I will come.” ⁵Again Seth said, “I am afraid of doing anything without my father’s and mother’s leave, lest I perish like my brother Cain, and like my father Adam, who transgressed the commandment of God. But, behold, thou knowest this place; come, and meet me here to-morrow.” ⁶When Satan heard this, he said to Seth, “If thou tellest thy father Adam what I have told thee, he will not let thee come with me. ⁷But hearken to me; do not tell thy father and mother what I have said to thee; but come with me to-day, to our world; where thou shalt see beautiful things and enjoy thyself there, and revel this day among my children, beholding them and taking thy fill of mirth; and rejoice ever more. Then I shall bring thee back to this place to-morrow; but if thou wouldest rather abide with me, so be it.” ⁸Then Seth answered, “The spirit of my father and of my mother, hangs on me; and if I hide from them one day, they will die, and God will hold me guilty of sinning against them. ⁹“And except that they know I am come to this place to bring up to it my offering, they would not be separated from me one hour; neither should I go to any other place, unless they let me. But they treat me most kindly, because I come back to them quickly.” ¹⁰Then Satan said to him, “What will happen to thee if thou hide thyself from them one night, and return to them at break of day?” ¹¹But Seth, when he saw how he kept on talking, and that he would not leave him-ran, and went up to the altar, and spread his hands unto God, and sought deliverance from Him. ¹²Then God sent His Word, and cursed Satan, who fled from Him. ¹³But as for Seth, he had gone up to the altar, saying thus in his heart. “The altar is the place of offering, and God is there; a divine fire shall consume it; so shall Satan be unable to hurt me, and shall not take me away thence.” ¹⁴Then Seth came down from the altar and went to his father and mother, whom he found in the way, longing to hear his voice; for he had tarried a while. ¹⁵He then began to tell them what had befallen him from Satan, under the form of an angel.
And then the Lord made it clear that the devil changes forms. The devil can disguise himself as a woman or as a man. He comes with lofty but empty promises that can never be realized till Eternity.
He paints a rosy picture of a dream world so that you can leave the present world and go after a dream world. And you end it living in a fool’s paradise. That is how the devil deceives the heart of the simple and easily seduces the person with such gimmicks.
The final Scripture which is still what I am telling you is Proverbs 28 verse 13 through 14 [Living Bible & Amplified]. Read Amplified at your own time, but the Message has been pass there by that Scripture.
I wanted all the translations, but I will pick Goodnews. I will buttress what I have just read from the Scriptures there to you this hour.
Proverbs 28:13-14, Good News Bible. ¹³You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. … You will keep on going round and round. You will keep on dancing around the same thing.
And the more you are doing it, it is making your journey longer, you can never succeed if you try to hide it from God.
…Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you…
Confess them and give them up. Then God will show mercy to you. But when you are still trying to play smartness with God, God will just be watching you, “Does this one know what he is doing? That I am seeing everything he is doing, can he even know?”
You are trying to outsmart God. Can a man outsmart God? It is impossible. You are only compounding your problem.
¹⁴Always obey the Lord and you will be happy. If you are stubborn, you will be ruined.
I have passed the Message this hour. I say, I have passed the Message this hour. That is the much help I know I can give to you. A word is enough for the wise. I say that if you do not see this one that is dedicated to you, you cannot have another chance outside this.
If you do not see this last opportunity, you might not have another. If you really desire righteousness– if you are really sincere about the text you have sent, even to your parents, and you know that it is not just something that will water down their mind again or so that they will not even investigate you more, maybe there is still more you are hiding. So, it is because you do not want them to continue to pry more, now that they are digging.
It is like what is happening in politics. You now confess small. Whenever somebody says that EFCC [Economic and Financial Crimes Commission] is coming after him, he will confess small.
Forget about that one he has brought out. He is hiding more. Why? It is so that they will think it has finished. But then, the main thing will be hidden. The crux of the matter is still somewhere hiding.
Maybe that is what you are doing so that they [your parents] will feel that “Ah! William is coming back. Okay! He has really repented.” You now sent a text to mellow down their hearts, while you are still sitting and balanced on top of your iniquity.
When their hearts are calmed down and the tempest have died down a little, you go back to your old life. Maybe that is what you are doing.
I repeat: What you will start manifesting from today will prove it. Already, your manifestations is what has proved that you are not with us. Can you suppress it?
Even under our nose, look at the things that are still happening around you. Is it not even enough to show that you cannot deceive God? You cannot suppress it. You cannot play smartness, and that is why everything is happening around you the way it is.
This is to show you that you cannot deceive anyone. So also, if that text you are sending is just false, your manifestation from now will prove it. You cannot deceive anybody.
But if you are sincere, I have shown you the way out. I have shown you the way out to prove what you are really saying only if you are sincere; if you are ready to make a change and if you are a part of this family, for this family is a part of The Son of Man’s Family.
And nothing can change it, for it is the way of God which he has given to men even before the foundation of the world, and nobody can change it.
On this note, I say Remain blessed. We have spoken to Brother William. I have spoken to myself. Take it that you have spoken to yourself.
God is giving us another chance, for WE ARE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT ONE THING REMAINETH. Let us fulfill that one thing so that the Gate of Heaven will open wide for us, and we shall all go in together. To God be the Glory.
Song: [To God be the glory for ever and ever, I will praise Him for He is the Alpha and Omega.]
That is the much wewill take from the Message as we bow down our head.

CONCLUSION

PRAYER

Our Heavenly Father, the Creator of the whole universe. The Author of life. The Alpha and the Omega. The only God that knows the end from the very beginning. The only God that ruleth over the affairs of men. The only God that made it clear in the Scriptures that the hearts of all the kings and rulers of this world are in Your palms.
You are the only God that converts the soul. You are the only God that pardons iniquity. You restore the backslider and reconciles even the prodigal son.
Father, we come to You this morning thanking and appreciating You O God, on behalf of ourselves here and on the behalf of the family of Bishop Joe Ukpong and other families that belong to the same household of faith with us, not only in Nigeria but globally.
Father, we present ourselves just as we are, hiding nothing. We are thanking You, for the Word we have received has exposed us for what we really are, pierced us asunder, and brought out to focus the thoughts and imaginations of our hearts that have been trapped in us [hidden] revealing our hypocrisies, our infidelity, [Oh!] our incorrigible spirit.
Father, we stand here before you. What can we say if not to say thank you, for this is the only way You have decided to reach us today, having only but one aim, which is to help us to know that we cannot hide ourselves from You.
Neither can we hide our plans from You, that You know all we are fomenting, what we are doing, where we are heading to and where it will lead us to.
For the Scriptures said in the Book of Revelations, “I know you. I know your dwelling place. I know your doings even your works. I know your name. I call you by your name.”
Where shall we hide ourselves and the Almighty will not see us? For your eyes runneth to and fro all over the whole Earth beholding everything that we are doing. Whether in the day or in the night, all of them are the same before you.
Father, we fall prostrate at Thy feet. We bow our heads low in shame, we admit we are guilty, we confess before you that we are guilty.
Thank you for using our Brother William as a test case, a case study, and example. Thank you for using the family of Brother Joe Ukpong as a case study and example of a godly family, the Son – a rebellious son.
Thank God he is still alive receiving this correction in love from the family, even from the Son of Man Who is confirming it, believing that he is not the worst, for there might be too many people out there in many other families who are worse than William, and whose parents cannot open up because they are equally guilty.
Father, we really thank you for this day. Through this studio, You have published this Message, this Word of correction, this love letter, this Message of love, a Message of restoration to mercy and reconciliation.
You have published it to every family in the Bridal Faith globally so that the errant ones will see themselves in the picture, both parents and children. You have x-rayed us for what we are.
I stand in the gap for every family that will hear this Message and accept it as Truth from your Throne of Grace and walk by the light of this Message. I stand in the gap for all of them, both parents and children alike.
Lord, I pray for them. Forgive their sins if they turn away from wickedness and begin to do right. Forgive O God, and set their shortcomings at naught.
I pray You restore and reconcile them to Your Family and to yourself. Uphold them. Do not permit them to stray away again, for they have learnt their lessons.
But are there some that have hardened up their mind, perhaps saying that until they will see destruction with their own eyes, Father help them to meet that destruction from today – Young and old. Parents and children alike.
But as many as have turned away from wickedness upon hearing this Word and have trembled at Thy Word, Lord bring them to Your Fold so that they will rejoin with the entire Flock.
Today is another wonderful day. You have initiated this move right from yesterday. Today, You have superimposed it. When we shall be gathering here in the evening hours as Elders, may this Message be our watchword.
Wherever the Message will get to globally, use it O God to effect a change, a permanent change of mind and attitude [Father] in the life of all that will believe in it.
Bless the family of Brother Joe Ukpong. Prosper them spiritually and physically. Bless every other family that will hear this Message, accept it and practice it without prejudice.
To Your Name alone O God we give the glory. No matter how the devil will attempt to attack this Message in our heart by insinuating counter Messages into our minds, Father help us to resist all those words, and all those messages that are likely to counter this truth.
May we abide by this Faith as it is revealed to us by the Almighty Himself, and not by any other Being. Having heard from this Sacred Throne, the confirmation of this Message, let our lives confirm it the more to be the Truth, as it will be evident in our life style from now hence forth.
Give us the boldness. Give us the grace. Give us the courage Father to stand by our conviction of this truth and be a part of what You are doing now and even till the end of this age. This is our earnest prayer.
I pray for that young Brother, Apostle Timothy Ukpong whom you have given the boldness and courage to join hands with the Bishop to stamp out evil from that family.
Be with their mother Sister Grace who is equally gallantly fighting out evil from that family.
Grant that all other mothers will borrow a cue from her by condemning evil and doing everything within their own power and capacity to stamp it out of the lives of their children.
Father, we say thank you. May your name be praised, worshipped, adored and reverenced by all flesh for hearing our prayer and for attending to our spiritual and physical needs. For Your Name’s sake O Lord we pray. Amen!