BEFORE GOD? PART TWO Preached on 3rd May, 1998 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE”“Truth has no substitute”©BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
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GOD IS A MAN
They received their word as the Word of God, not word of men. Because Galatians’Church first of all recognized St Paul’s scriptural commission as the light to the Gentiles and to be for salvation even unto the ends of the earth.
2. Do we have another person that is for salvation unto the ends of the earth if not Paul,known unto you all?The ends of the earth are being saved for I am the Saviour, without Me there is no other. No other Saviour.
3. They searched the scriptures, they noticed that these things were exactly, so no other people than that which the prophets foretold.
4. I am trying to help many of you because this had been your problem all these years, I know that very well and I am trying to diagnose it, no way and I have been praying for a day like this because the moment I talk to you on that practice I have washed off my hands concerning the Bride.
5. Ignorance of this matter have killed many, that’s why a little while some will murmur, some will complain, some will disobey instruction, they think it’s a light thing, they don’t know they are hanging themselves. To them it’s a light matter but they don’t know that they have decided to commit suicide.
6. That was why Joshua warned the people saying you cannot serve this God, for I know you people very well, that you are very stubborn and controversial people. You are never serious with what you claim to say. You can’t serve this God.
7. They said surely we must serve him. He said well I won’t hinder you again but one thing is clear, you are witnesses against yourselves. So that when the thing will starts to happen I will say,“I told you.”
8. Joshua was warning them based on his experiences with the people starting from Egypt to Canaan because he was a Living Legend. If any man does not believe the testimony of Joshua, that man must be a fool.
9. Now from the Scriptural Commission of the Apostle in our midst, I will also go further to do something which we can now see Exodus 20: 20-23, we can see Isaiah, Acts of the Apostles, we can see Revelation all pointing to one thing, we will now go into the vindication of God in all the ages, because if these people were seen as God, received as God, acknowledged as God, obeyed as God, reverenced as God and we have one in our midst, we cannot please Him until we are certain that He is the True One.
10. Because God has not changed and will never change, the same way He was with those people, the same way He vindicated Himself because these people were God in human flesh but there was something that vindicated them before every man.
11. We will go back to that thing again.I want to trace something after which the minister will come here at the command of the Holy Spirit. Is anybody in a haste, I hope nobody is in a haste?
12. Thank God no place is too far in Nigeria. I can dismiss you by midnight and still go with all of you here, nothing will happen.Yes, I say nothing will happen.
13. St Paul suffered in the hands of armed robbers all for the sake of Christ, are we serving another Christ? Amen.
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THE ANOINTED ONE
WEARING THE SHEKINAH GLORY
Glory be to God, for God is the Tabernacle which leads to the Church. Brother Joshua is restored to his office as a Deacon. Onitsha Churchrejoice, I say Rejoice. Onitsha Church I say rejoice.
2. We really thank God brethren; I am the happiest man here today. Why didn’t this thing happen until I am about to introduce the Deity, why has He kept silent all this while, waiting for the time the Deity is about to be introduced and the He stepped in immediately to make a move that will now comfort each other?
3. Now I go further.Follow me gradually; don’t be in a haste because I am taking my time, believing one thing, that Eternal Life is not negotiable. It is going to be a very costly mistake for one to allow himself to be fooled or deceived at this closing hour we are in, when we know time is no more.
4. That’s why everybody here must be wide awake spiritually and physically, follow everything because it will be the highest joke of the age for one to labour and labour and hear at the end that he is deceived. That will be the greatest joke and we cannot afford to hear that.
5. God help me here, let’s go back a little while and see whether there will be a little comfort somewhere.
6. Bro Kelechi do you have that photograph? Come quick please. I cannot do without that photograph. The complete set. Thank God there is going to be another photograph today, but not for his Shekinah Presence.
7. We are not exhibiting photographs we want to exhibit Christ on two feet because the essence of the Bride is to produce Christ on two feet, and you are Christs. I say you are Christs. You are not amateur Gods; you are real Gods. Is that not scripture?
8. Psalms 82: 6 – 7. You are children of the Most High God but you die as mere men. Whatever God produced must be God, didn’t God die? A time came when God died. So we, being Gods as human beings we will die.
9. God as a human being suffered many things, there was a time He became disobedient, in other words in the beginning He wasn’t obedient but when He went through sufferings He became obedient through the things He suffered because He was a human being.
10. Can God suffer? If God was obedient, obedient to who? I said obedient to who? When there was nobody higher than Him whom He can use his name to swear, He swore by His Name (Selah).
11. Thus, God was obedient to Himself. God humbled Himself down. Can you imagine God weeping, God was crying, weeping and you could imagine how He was making his mouth while crying? Who can imagine how God was eating corn? That corn is not different from the corn you eat, how He was eating bread, like the one BrotherAmankem was eating, eating fish. Did that remove Him from being God?
12. Now, in every age God has always revealed Himself as a man. God is a Spirit and that Spirit must dwell in a man. In the beginning, Jesus wasn’t God. Christ in him made him God. Christ is a Spirit; Jesus was a man.
13. Christ dwelleth in a man called Jesus and Jesus became Jesus the Christ. Remember in Him dwelleth the fullness of Godhead bodily.
14. William Branham said when Christ was walking on two feet, the Shekinah Glory was dwelling in Him. There was no other place the ShekinahPresence was seen except around Him. He said, “Watch, when He shall come back again, watch out for the Sign of the Supernatural.”
15. That SupernaturalDeity will always be found around Him. But we must first of all identify that Supernatural Person, how God has always revealed Himself around the Tabernacle He has chosen to tabernacle in every age.
16. Exodus 13: 21- 22.Let us see the way He presented Himself to the people of Israel. I told brethren that nobody saw this Glory except Moses, that was why the Bible said that anywhere the ShekinahGlory stopped, the Pillar Of Cloud stopped, Moses will announce to the congregation to stop.
17. When he moves, He will announce to them and they will move. In other words, the ShekinahCloud was dictating their movement; it wasn’t Moses dictating, but the Shekinah Cloud which was the presence of the Almighty in the midst of His people.
18. How can Moses lead the people? Moses was born and brought up in Egypt, did he know the way? He didn’t know the way to Canaan; he has never gone that way before. But he was depending on the ShekinahCloud which was dictating the movement.
19. Have I gone this way before, have you gone this way before? How then do we know that we are moving on the right track? But there is One that is leading us, whose Presence is always in our midst, He is the One dictating (directing) the movement.
20. That’s why from time to time he would say, “Church halt. We can’t move any further again.”The message will cut, he will say,“I have cut it off let’s watch.”
21. A little while He will announce,“Anytime from now we are moving.” This is the only ministry you will hear the present stage, the present stage where we are now. That was why Weston Fihallacouldn’t abide, he said, “The Church has gone too far, I don’t know if I can cope up again.” And really we have gone too far.
22. Anybody that didn’t leave Egypt until Moses crossed the Red Sea with the people, is he not lost forever? If he wanted to make a move, who will part the Red Sea? Will he swim? If he will swim, can he carry all his luggage and swim?
23. Supposing he succeeded in swimming across, who will give him light in the wilderness? If his food finishes, who will give him food? Who will show him the way since he doesn’t know the way? By and by he must die because the leader and his people have gone far.
24. Exodus 13: 21- 22, “And the Lord went before them in the pillar of Cloud…”.
25. Did the Bible say Moses went before them? The Lord went before them; remember the people were having their eyes on Moses. Moses was having his eyes on the Cloud. Being a Seer, he was the only one that was seeing the Cloud.
26. By day in a Pillar of a Cloud and by night a pillar of fire to give them light to go by day and night, he took not away the pillar of Cloud by day nor a pillar of fire by night from before the people.” KJV.
27. Exodus 24:15-16 .And Moses went up into the mount, and the Cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the Cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the Cloud. KJV.
28. God took Moses out of the midst of the Cloud. Follow what I am saying gradually.
29. Exodus 34:5-7,And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
30. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
31. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ..
32. Numbers. 12:5. “and the Lord came down in the pillar of Cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle…”
33. And The Lord did what? Came down and stood where?
34. “And the Lord came down in the pillar of Cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.”
35. Numbers 11:25. And the Lord came down in a Cloud and spake unto him and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and did not cease.
36. Note the Presence of God. When Moses was about to die and God said he should present Joshua, let us see what happened there.
37. Deuteronomy 31:15-16. “And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
38. And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.”
39. Joshua 1:5 “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
40. I am trying to confirm that the same way God walked with Moses He has appeared to Joshua. When Moses presented Joshua what came down? theShekinahCloud came down. The same God and then tabernacled in Joshua. Remember we are in Joshua ministry.
41. Nehemiah 9:19. Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the Cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light and the way wherein they should go.
42. I am going to establish why they can never go astray. There is One mightier than a human being that is dictating the move, that is leading. It’s not a man leading but Christ leading using a human badger skin.
43. While nobody should think of missing the way but rather be very careful that you don’t perish along the way because of unbelief. So Old Testament is still bearing witness, Nehemiah bearing witness, David also bearing witness.
44. 1 Corinthians 10:1. Let us see whether there is an evidence given to the Church. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the Cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the sea.
45. We all know about the conversion of St. Paul on his way to Damascus, he was not numbered among the first twelve. On his way to Damascus what came down? The Pillar of Light radiated.
46. What St. Paul met was exactly what the other Apostles met in Christ. That was why St. Paul could not contradict the message, although he wasn’t there from the beginning, to show that he met the same God he was speaking the same thing. The Apostles in Jerusalem bearing witness. Amen.
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I AM THE CLOUD
Now I go a little further. St. Matthew 17:5. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
2. Note it: HEAR YE HIM! Meaning the mystery of adoption. That all of you here are adopted in the Beloved. Because you are called in the Beloved. Everybody in this most holy Faith is justified in the Beloved.
3. You are not getting this message. If other Churches didn’t know, don’t you know, have I not taught you? Just few weeks ago. Mystery of adoption. That God has only but one beloved. For anybody to answer the beloved he must be called into that the beloved.
4. Here is my only BelovedSon in Whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him. One voice, then He vindicated His Presence there by the Shekinah Cloud. And outside Him, the ShekinahPresence was never witnessed around any other human being while He was watching Him.
5. Remember he is the same Moses. Moses told us, “A prophet shall the Lord your God raise like unto me from among you. It shall come to pass, if anybody or group of persons fail to hear him, that person will be cut off from among his presence because God said, hear ye him.”
6. The Scriptural Commission of a man of God will tell you who that man is and the office he is occupying and then that will tell you, that will dictate how you are going to follow that man.
7. Some followed Him to their own peril, some followed to their salvation. It has been like that in all the ages. Anytime there is a revival, some will follow the man God had appointed for that day to the salvation of their souls while some will follow him to the destruction of their soul. It must repeat in this age. That’s how it is going to wind up.
8. Some are in this most holy Faith for the salvation of their soul, some are in this most holy Faith for the destruction of their soul.
9. As I continue further you will know what will become your destruction and your salvation. Did God measure the size of Moses, No! Did He measure the size of Christ? No! Whether Moses was tall or dwarf, that is not the matter at stake.
10. Did He call Moses because he was the most educated? No! Was Christ educated? No. I am coming to something. It’s raining in the town heavily. Let’s continue.
11. St Mark 9:7. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.” KJV.
12. This bears the true witness.
13. Acts 1:9-11. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
14. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
15. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” KJV.
16. Many have wrestled with this passage, this particular portion of the scripture to their own peril, to their own destruction. But I don’t want you to be numbered among such people. “Behold your God cometh,’ I have taught you. Now let’s see scriptures.
17. Matthew 26:64 “Jesus said unto him, thou hast said: nevertheless, I say unto you, hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the Clouds of heaven.”
18. What! You will see the Son of Man sitting in the right hand of what? Power. Don’t say right hand of power is the right hand of God. When you see, sitting in the right hand of the Father, he is referring to nothing but power or majesty. Sitting at the right hand of majesty.
19. Not that there is a person there where He is sitting on the right hand of power. That was why, when He came down, He became the power, as the badger skin taking the right position on the right hand side. The Majesty has to appear on the right hand side. He will come with the Cloud and then rest on the right hand side of Power.
20. We are seeing the following scriptures being made manifest in our midst. Let me go a little further.
21. Matthew 24:30 “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the Clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
22. They shall see the Son of man coming from the Clouds of heaven. Where was he received? He was received into the Clouds of heaven. Men were fixing their eyes there. The two men wearing white apparel said, why are you beholding your eyes in the sky?
23. This young man you are seeing received into the Clouds of heaven, the same way you will see him coming from the Clouds of heaven.
24. Acts 1:9-11 again.“And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up and a Cloud received him out of their sight.
25. A Cloud received him out of their sight
26. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
27. Which also said, Ye men of Galilea, why stand ye gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
28. I am standing here now, what if in a twinkling of an eye, I will just varnish away, won’t you be gazing at the sky? You can’t look for me beneath, everybody will be gazing at the sky. Your eyes will be drawn up; I have been received into Glory in the Clouds. Clouds will cover me. Then if I would be coming back again, expect me coming from the Clouds.
29. If in the first coming, He came through a human being, the second coming must be through a human being. The third coming must be through a human being. In every age, God has never come without using a human being. Check the Bible very well. God has never appeared without coming from a source and that source must be a human being.
30. Moses came from a source and note, Moses was God. See God, the man that came from a source. We could trace even his habitation.Paul had a source. All the messengers of God in all the ages, they came from a source. We could trace them down. I am coming to something please.
31. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
32. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds….
33. Anytime you will be caught up, where will you be caught up to? In the Clouds. In other words,I am going to prepare a place for you, after which I will come and take you. That wherever I am, there you would be. I don’t know whether you are getting what I am saying?
34. He was received into the Clouds. He came from the Clouds of heaven and when you will be received you will be received in the Clouds of heaven also.
35. Mark 14:62 “And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting in the right hand of power and coming in the Clouds of heaven…”
36. I AM. Full stop. And you shall see the Son of man doing what? Let no man fool you tomorrow.Let nobody fool you tomorrow into going about the Right Hand of the Father when you have known scriptures enough. You think you’re going somewhere to see somebody called Father somewhere. No! Amen.
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I AM A SIGN TO THIS GENERATION
Mark 13:26 (KJV):“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the Clouds with great power and glory.”
2. Revelation 1:7 (KJV) “Behold, he cometh with the Clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”
3. Now, feel free now and ask yourself again. Show the stranger, or visitors. Show them that place, all of them. After him you can collect and give to some other persons.
4. If there be anybody here that has not believed, it is because you are born with unbelief. Whatever I am saying is putting you in remembrance to enable me show you where the basis of your unbelief is coming from; where God is holding you guilty of unbelief; because you saw, you acknowledged, you believed.
5. If Godsends a man, certifying the scriptural office, He will send the same sign, which He has always used, to back up whosoever that has occupied that scriptural office. His Shekinah Presence must surely appear around that man, otherwise the people will find it difficult to follow that man.
6. These Jews, they know how their God appeared to them. Are you getting what I am saying? So nobody can fool a Jew. A Jew cannot follow anybody anyhow.
7. You can’t just say you have seen God and expect a Jew to follow you. You must be prepared to convince a Jew that God is with you, and they know the way their God used to appear. If it fails to appear that way, they will tell you to get out.
8. And we also being Jews, no man can fool us. Now we are convinced beyond measure that really he that is in our midst is not an impersonator. Can God back up an impersonator? Can God confirm something that is wrong? Can He take side with error? Thus,
9. That’s why when he came down he opened the eyes of understanding of the Gentiles, and made their sacrifices acceptable unto him, for before then, they were worshiping something that were no God. Worshiping God that they do not know. Doing God a service outside his will. God had to come to correct the error, for if God fails to step in, mankind is without hope. We will all get lost.
10. When they were convinced that God called Joshua, that God called Moses, they threw their weight behind these two men, to the point that they made a decree…when they were convinced that they were not impersonators.
11. That Moses never impersonated anything, because theyhave seen the supernatural thing that is impossible for Satan to impersonate.
12. Don’t we have photographers everywhere? Have you not seen students go to studios to take photographs? Thank God that we are still in the same place.
13. Then to show that He has accepted you to be His people, He covenanted you in the Beloved. He adopted you in the Beloved, because if He rejected you, He wouldn’t have come down to rest on the congregation. The picture is clear there. That congregation represents the Bride.
14. The twelve tribes of Israel are all represented in Jerusalem. Anywhere this message is preached, is a part of the body. It is covered by the Covenant because what covenants people is this message.
15. Yes, what covenants people is this message. What God has come down to confirm is this message and the messenger for there can never be a message without a messenger; when you say God has called you, Amen; that’s number one.
16. Show us evidence, that is number two. Tell us what God told you. If you come telling us the same thing that we know before, God has not called you. God has not sent any man to come and repeat what everybody has already known.
17. When God appears on the scene, we expect a new thing. Although that thing may appear new in the eyes of the people, yet it will be scripturally backed up, because God cannot do anything outside the scriptures.
18. God show signs and wonders. The signs and wonders must be scriptural signs and wonders. If what you have seen in the photographs is not scriptural, please counter it. I say if it is not scriptural, I say counter it or throw it away. But if it is scriptural, you are without excuse.
19. Now that you have acknowledged the scriptures, in other words, you have welcomed Him Whom He had sent, indirectly you have welcomed Him Who sent Him.
20. When you reject the messenger, you reject He that sent Him. You acknowledge Him, you acknowledge He that sent Him.
21. You cannot receive the Son and reject the Father. The moment you receive the Son, you have indirectly received the Father, for the Fatherdwelleth in Him. You can’t see the Father outside the Son.
22. No man knoweth the Father but the Son. No man knoweth the Son but the Father,and whosoever the Son shall reveal. So worshipping of God is by revelation. If God fails to reveal Himself to you, definitely you will never know Him. You can even slap Him.
23. Today, they are still looking at the sky, and they will hear “He has come and has gone”. From that time till today, have you received a report; or heard, or seen, or read in a newspaper, the Shekinah presence of the Deity around any badger skin anywhere here on earth? All over the world? Because He has swallowed Himself in the badger skin for there can never be two walking on the earth at the same time.
24. I have come for the consummation of the earth. I come for a purpose. That is why wherever I go, I don’t plead with any man to believe me, because shaking your head is wounding yourself. As long as you’re a human being, you must believe whether you like it or not. What I don’t know is the time you will believe.
25. Some will believe when it will save them. Some will believe when it will no longer save them. For the living, it is a must.
26. All that said “Noah get away”, they called him devil. When water started flowing from the heavens and beneath, Noah entered the ark and the Angel locked up the ark.
27. People rushed to the ark for salvation. Have they not believed the message? Were they saved?Many that didn’t take Lot serious, when Lot left the city, fire rained down from heaven and they looked for a way of escape. Have they not believed the message of Lot? Did they escape?
28. As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it happen also in the days when the Son of Man shall be revealed. Who said it? The first Son of Man.
29. Luke 11:30.
30. I am a sign to this generation. This generation will see no sign except the man standing before you. You can never see the greatest vindication of his omnipotence in this earth again because it has been done and concluded.
31. Remember that the prophet prophesied that the Church is now standing on the threshold of the Greatest Vindication of his omnipotence the world has ever known.
32. He said, “He that is coming is by far mightier than me, with a great ministry, straight on to the Word. He will increase, and I will decrease, if I remain alive to see him.”
33. I am not begging you to believe. Neither do I persuade you. What I am trying to show you is where God is holding you guilty, so that you don’t follow this ministry to the destruction of your soul.
34. Many of our fore-fathers walked with Him, were covered by the Pillar of Cloud, ate manna from heaven and still perished. Some walked with Him, sat down with Him, broke bread with Him, slept with Him, heard Him speak to men in parables, heard him lead men in songs.
35. The Bible said that in the midst of the Church will I sing praises to God. In the midst of the Church will I sing praises, yet men perished
36. Don’t aim at acquainting yourself with the Son of Man. Make sure you have been adopted in the Beloved. Make sure you have been fully adopted in the Beloved. Because it is only in the Beloved that you are sanctified. In the Beloved you have your perfection. In the Beloved you have your righteousness.
37. And the sign that you have been adopted in the Beloved is that you will vow a vow that every word of his mouth, you must obey, when you are adopted in the Beloved. When you are in the Beloved, you continue in His Word. Amen.
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I AM THE TRUE VINE, ABIDE IN ME
Luke 11:30.For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
2. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
3. The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.” KJV.
4. He that said all these things, is he alive? You are waiting until the Son of Man will tour the whole nations. I thank God for He has already concluded the message.
5. The Ark of Salvation in Noah’s day, was it a mobile Ark? If you must be saved no matter your location all over the world, you must travel to that place.
6. When he was in Galilee, was he in Nigeria? When he was in Bethlehem Judea, was He in America? People spend money to go to Europe for education and friendship with the world. Some go to make business. But to travel because of the salvation of their soul in Nigeria, they are sitting tight somewhere, hearing it as ordinary rumour. Are they not condemned? Jesus had already condemned them before he sent the Son of Man.
7. Ethiopia to Jerusalem, is it a walkable distance? But a woman travelled from Ethiopia in East Africa to Jerusalem. Even the Ethiopian Eunuch travelled from there to Jerusalem. They didn’t say “Let us wait in Ethiopia, the man will come”.
8. That’s why I don’t persuade anybody neither do I beg anyone. I owe no apology to the world. Once Christ is born, crying in the manger somewhere, Christ is born to the whole world. Wise men travelled from the East to Bethlehem to behold the child lying in the manger. The Bible said “Wise men from the East.”
9. At every age, God has always appeared somewhere, and He will only be privileged to visit few towns. Check the Bible; He will only be privileged to visit few towns.
10. When William Branham appeared on the scene, did he come to Nigeria? That plane that carried him to South Africa, is it not enough to carry him to Nigeria?Glory be to God.
11. You cannot see another sign. Knowing this to be true, back it up with scriptures. I will go a little further. Let me go a little further.
12. Joshua 1:17 (KJV):According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses
13. So they hearkened unto Moses in all things. So are they transferring their allegiance now to Joshua, seeing that God has vindicated his servant before their eyes.
14. Exodus 24:1-4And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
15. And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
16. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
17. And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
18. Notice one thing there; God summoned Moses and the seventy elders to come to him. While they were going, the Lord told the people that was going with him to stop somewhere. Say “Moses, come up”. The rest stood afar off.
19. And the Lord discussed with Moses. Whatever he discussed with Moses, the people didn’t know, yet they were elders having the same spirit Moses had.
20. Pastors take note. Ministers, take note. You have a ministry; you know that? So that the moment I notice any recklessness on your side, I have to halt it. That was why Moses was able to halt that of Korah and Abiram, being members of the Seventy Elders, Moses brought them to a halt.
21. Because, no matter how they think they have known God, they have been bestowed with His Spirit, they still have his spirit in them, but unto Moses, the Spirit was upon him without measure.
22. The reason why the apostles couldn’t cast out evil spirits until the matter was brought before the Lord Jesus was because he gave them the spirit in measure. If God will reveal to you or hand over to you all that makes him God, he ceases to be God.
23. No matter how God loves you and wants you to follow Him, He will only reveal to you only all that will help you to understand Him and follow Him.
24. He will give you the thing in part, but that which makes Him God remains with Him; so that any day you think you have come of age, now, rise up. Then you will hear, “Who are on the Lord’s side? This way”.
25. What will you do? You will hear, “Come tomorrow at about this time, God will vindicate who is holy? Because these seventy elders one day they will say Moses you have taken too much, after all we are equally elders. We prophesy like you. We hear from God like you. We cannot continue to follow you anyhow again. They couldn’t carry out his instructions again.
26. Some started thinking that because they are now ministers in their own Local Assemblies, that that gives them the power to do whatever they want to do. No. you are under a strict authority. I say God can never leave his Church without a Watchman. You are under a watchman. You are under a perfect guide.
27. If you detach yourself from the true vine, you will ripen prematurely. If a branch of a tree bears much fruits and that much fruits makes that branch to think it can exist alone, independent of the original tree, what will happen? Let that branch break off. 24 hours, all the fruits will ripen and then fall off. The whole thing will end in the fire.
28. I am the true vine. Abide in me. Remain in me. You will bear fruits and your fruits will surely abide. But any day you detach, surely you will ripen prematurely, and you will fizzle out.
29. I have noticed in the Bride, that because of lack of revelation, there is nobody that will try to offend God. I know that very well. Everybody will try to please God. Everybody will like God to commend his efforts. Sure, it is right. But spiritual blindness has made many to walk in a way that will bring destruction not only to themselves but to their flock.
30. People not only err; they also cause their flock to err. In other words, when your works shall be visited with fire, it shall be utterly consumed. If I don’t tell you this, I am not a Good Shepherd over you. Yes, If I don’t tell you this I am not a good Watchman. And that is why I want to diagnose this case once and for all, pointing your eyes:
31. One, to the commission of He that is in our midst, showing you that it is a Scriptural Commission. Tracing that office back to the first person that occupied it.
32. Now it is in your hands to go back and watch how people followed to the destruction of their soul, and choose the way that you will go.
33. I am going further. I have not come to the message. Remember I am talking to you on the topic titled: Who Knows What Will Be My Righteousness BeforeGod?
34. What did God say to be the righteousness of the people of Israel? When you hearken unto my voice through the prophet, that will be your righteousness in all the ages. And surely, any nation that comes across you will say that you are a wise and understanding nation.
35. When you listen to my voice and obey, surely it becomes your righteousness, and anybody that comes across you will acknowledge that indeed you are a wise and understanding nation.
36. What did Solomon pray for? Wisdom and understanding.Let us try to succeed where Solomon failed
37. Today is a talking day. I hope nobody is wearied, when I am still saying, “You are welcome”. I have not delved into the message. And that message I will give to you in types, after which I will present the magazine to the world. To the Bride first, and then to the world. To the Bride for her justification; for her wisdom and understanding in raising the building to completion; and then to the world for their judgment. Amen.
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IN ME DWELLETH THE DEITY
I go a little further.Exodus 19:7-9 (KJV):And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
2. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
3. And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick Cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe theeforever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
4. Notice why He came in the ShekinahCloud, for the people to believe Him, That He the Almighty had sent Him,that the people may fear and reverence Moses. That was the only reason God came down.
5. Remember, when Christ came, the same vindication appeared. And that was why many that understood the handwriting on the wall rushed in to him with fear and reverence.
6. Those who were spiritually blind lashed him, called him mad man. Some called him devil, some called him deceiver, yet he remained the only Saviour.
7. That is why I tell you, I tell you wherever I go, don’t defend me. Whatever they call me is a part of my Name. You hear them calling me criminal, fine; I am a criminal by their own assessment. You hear them calling me rogue, fine. Murderer, fine. Deceiver, fine. Devil, fine. That is exactly what I am before them.
8. Because if they were of Abraham, they would have known me. And because they have no part in Abraham, there is no way they can have a part in me, after all, I am the true seed of Abraham.
9. An Elect can never persecute an elect. Deep calleth deep. No man that has the Spirit of Godcalleth the things of God accursed. Every man that is of God must acknowledge the things of God.
10. God has come down in our day, doing something no human being can believe God can do. What is really in man that God is mindful of Him?
11. This little flock that are always receiving the word “fear not little flock”, for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you his kingdom.
12. What has God seen in you, of all men, that has made God to condescend so low, as to reveal Himself in badger skin, using one of you. Maybe before you He has committed a crime. The Bible said God veiled Himself in a man not counting it robbery
13. Do you know that St Paul was made a Chosen Vessel unto Him, to bear His Name? And he said, “My Name is on the angel whom I have sent”. What is the Name of God? The word of God. In Him is the shewbread which we feed on. In Him is the Deity. Outside is just ordinary badger skin.
14. If you look at Him, He is a mere man. Moses was a mere man, that was why he could marry and have children. Jesus was a mere man, that was why Jesus married and had children. True or false?
15. Visitors, don’t stumble. Enquire. I say, enquire. Will there be a Bridegroom without Bride? What is Bridegroom? Husband. Will there be a husband without wife? Once wife is mentioned, children are mentioned.
16. Are you not the children of God? God is the husbandman to Israel, so Israel is the wife. And the Church is the Israel of God, according to Galatians chapter six. I’m I correct? Can we confirm it?
17. Galatians 6:16 (KJV):And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
18. Paul was addressing the GalatianChurch. Where is GalatianChurch located? In the Gentiles. And St. Paul said the same message which I preached in GalatianChurch, the same he preached in all the Churches.
19. Thus,St.Paul today will call us Israel of God. For we are true Israelites because we are circumcised in the heart. The circumcision that qualifies you to be an Israelite is the circumcision of the heart, not fleshy circumcision. For you are not a Jew because you are circumcised in the flesh.
20. All the other children of Abraham that were born in the flesh, were they not circumcised? Yet they were not Jews, so not all Israelites are Jews.
21. Our friend, bear with me a little. I will come your way. Let me talk to my people. But you may decide to be my people from now. If you have seen something greater than you, why not bow down and say “my Lord and my God”?
22. When Thomas saw something that was greater than anything he had seen, Thomas did nothing than say “my Lord and my God”. Amen.
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WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL BE MY RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE GOD!
Let me go a little further. We continue reading scriptures.Exodus 35:4-6. And Moses spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
2. Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair…”
3. In every age, God wants to do something. There must be a work God will commission his people to do. There is no way God will call a man, give him disciples, without giving them a work to accomplish. And that man God has called will not rely on people outside the people God has given him.
4. Whatever that man must accomplish in his day, he must accomplish it with the cooperation of those people God has given him. And when God is rewarding him, he will reward also all that worked with him.
5. What was the account of Enoch? Enoch walked with God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Noah walked with God, Noah was counted perfect. Elijah walked with God and he was counted perfect. Today are you now walking with God?Who Knows What Will Be My Righteousness Before God?
6. What if you are not relieving the burden of the man but you are worsening it? All that walked with the man of God in his day relieved that man of his burden. They were not increasing his burden, in other words, he was reporting well concerning them before the Almighty.
7. Hebrews 13:17 (LB). Onitsha brethren, I know this message is throwing you on the ground because you were building your hopes because you have heard the message Who Knows What Will Be My Righteousness, and now it is going in another dimension. You can call it part two.
8. Hebrews 13:17 (LB). “Obey your spiritual leaders…”
9. Obey your spiritual leaders and be willing to do what they say.
10. Obey your spiritual leaders and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls, and they know they are accountable to God. Give them reason to report joyfully about you to the Lord...
11. Give them reason to report joyfully about you to the Lord. Ugoala take note. When you trouble your spiritual leader who watches over your soul, you are troubling He that sent him and made him a watchman over you, you have not given him reason to report good or well over you to him that has called him.
12. In other words, you are putting yourself in danger of being called to question for your rebellion and unruly behaviour before him whom he has called.
13. When you are despising the leader of a local Church, you are not despising the man but him that placed him to watch over you. Can you get away with it? Never, never, never, never, for the scriptures can never be broken. If you know all these things, happy are you because you do not know that the Scriptural Commission Of The Apostle – the Son of Man—who is in the midst of the Church, the Bridegroom, who is preparing the Bride for the presentation which is about to take place, that is not walking in isolation.
14. When He was sent,He was sent with hosts of angels that will minister to him. And then his commission is their commission. His office is their office. His calling is their calling. The calling of St.Peter, was it different from the calling of the Lord Jesus?
15. That is why when you despise them, glory be to God. You are one way or the other burying yourself alive. If you know what it means even to raise your hand, or even a thought rising up in your heart, challenging their words or their action – if you know the consequences you will even faint because on the day that he will call you to appear like Miriam and Aaron, you appear like Dathan, Korah and Abiram, that day the ground will open up
16. He that called him, didn’t he see you before he made his choice? Didn’t he see you before he made his choice? And he has made his choice and that is final. Whether you like it or not, he has imposed his choice on you. Since you know you cannot change it. All you have to do is follow. Dragging your feet will destroy your life. Anything you don’t have the power to change, don’t try to force it out for you cannot succeed. Are you getting what I am saying
17. Authorities in Nigeria, they don’t have the power to change the moral condition of the nation and they want to force it out with the barrel of the gun. Have they succeeded? Let them continue making laws upon laws, until they start killing their mothers.
18. “…give them reason to report joyfully about you to the Lord. If you don’t, then you will suffer for it too…”
19. You will do what? When your ministers are reporting about you to the Son of Man with sorrow, and you’re rejoicing somewhere, you are fooling yourself because you can never go unpunished. If you know this mystery, happy are you.
20. I am showing you where God is holding almost everybody guilty in one way or the other because with the words of our mouths, we testified against ourselves. If we had rejected him in the beginning, it would be alright than for us to follow him and then begin to drag our feet.
21. Now watch. In every age God sends a man, he must assign men and women that will work with that man. Working with that man means believing that man, following his leadership. And God will come in the same manner to convince all of them that they have not followed cunningly devised fable.
22. He will bring all of them to equal revelation. Subject them to a corner where none of them will have any reasonable excuse. And then there must be a work for them to do. When that work arises, God will expect that it will be the only way that they will express their joy, satisfaction and happiness for their inclusion in that work because there might be others who might be willing with their money to be partakers, but God will say no.
23. But spiritual blindness will not allow the people to rejoice rather they will conspire in the spirit and murmur, and complain, and find fault, aiming it at driving away the Holy Spirit. Such people by that action already they are burying themselves alive.
24. Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that when you withdraw from the word, that God will stop. God is God of replacement. Nobody will do anything too much for the work of the Lord.
25. The wisest investment I know, is investment for the preaching of this Gospel Truth. There are many things money cannot buy you. Money can buy you amusement, but money cannot buy you happiness. Take note of it.
26. Money can buy you amusement, but money cannot buy you happiness. Money can buy you a house, but can never buy you a home. Money can buy you a beautiful bed, but can never buy you sleep.
27. Money can buy you Church pew, but can never buy you salvation. Money can buy you a very big cross, crucifix, but can never buy you salvation. Money can buy you books, but money can never buy you brain.
28. It is very hard to believe but a wise man will believe. You know that we did not go to school, but we are depending on he that is unlearned to fool those that are learned.we keep on talking and talking until people will say where cometh this type of wisdom.
29. And then a wise man will say,“Is it a surprise to you, don’t you know that they have been with the Messiah?”
30. It happened with Jesus. One second encounter with him will change your life.Fishermen that didn’t go to school were what God used to preach the message of Eternal Life.
31. That’s why Job said through much learning nobody has ever known God. But much learning will only make you to challenge God, you can question everything. If you’re not careful, your education will take you to hell. Education without Christ will lead to hellfire.
32. Glory be to God. I hope I am not sounding too harsh. Now watch. God called Moses. The Jews were witnesses. God vindicated that he called Moses. They rallied round Moses. The time now came for them to exercise authority and then show God that really they appreciate their inclusion in Moses army. God gave them work to do.
33. Moses summoned the elders of Israel. They came according to their tribes. Moses said “thus saith the Lord, we are going to work for the Lord. Now, everybody is going to try his best to make sure that this work which we have agreed with the Holy Spirit to do will not be abandoned halfway.
34. Let us vindicate to God that He did not make a mistake in calling us, that we are able ministers of the New Testament.” And then the people rallied round.
35. Exodus 35.And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
36. Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it…
37. Note. Number one: for you to become a partaker of that building, of that work which God had commanded his people to do for him. For you to bring your money in support of it, it must be from a willing heart. That is number one qualification. You can never give anything grudgingly.
38. You can never give by persuasion or murmuring. That was why Solomon prayed for wisdom and understanding to do God a service according to His will, which was to govern God’s people without any selfish motive.
39. Number one: you must be of a willing heart:
40. “…let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,”
41. Note that the people continued to bring until they had enough. Read from verse 22 – 29
42. “And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted,…”
43. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted. Both men and women, without persuasion. Nobody was rebuking them. Apostle was not writing reminder.
44. Remember Moses was an apostle. The Bible said so. The apostle didn’t write a reminder. He didn’t go in a beggarly way as if he was begging them to feed his family. He was feeding fine with his family.
45. If Moses was poor, the people made him poor because they were even overburdening the man to the point that they were demanding things the man couldn’t even afford. They were living with the man but the people were demanding more than what a human being could afford, yet he continued
46. Now, both men and women felt concerned in the work. Gladly the people felt very much concerned and involved themselves willingly, man and woman. But when it comes to our own, it becomes a discussion in the family first. Brother will first of all discuss with sister. Sister will discuss with brother.
47. If Abigail waited until Nabal will give her the go ahead to go and see David, the entire family would have been exterminated because Nabal by nature was a stingy man. Are you getting what I am saying. Who was not showing gratitude for what people did for him in the wilderness by preserving his sheep, for which cause he was throwing the party.
48. If Nabal was rich, David made him rich with his men in the wilderness. But when David demanded a little token he refused. The anger of David was kindled against the family. Abigail saw what was about to take place. Immediately, she took that single decision and then proceeded to the wilderness with an ass, using one of the servants of the master.
49. She paid homage to David. David was already on the way with his men to wipe out the family. The attitude of the woman calmed the anger of the Lord down, and it became her righteousness. If she waited until she will consult the husband on that matter, definitely the family would have perished. And Abigail definitely would have perished with the family
50. Note. WhenMoses was called, he called the people together, people who have been taking him serious. The Bible said both men and women with willing heart, from there, to support the work, to bring their offering.
51. “And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered an offering of gold untothe LORD.
52. And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.
53. Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD’S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
54. And all the women that were wise hearted…”
55. All the women that where wise hearted, not foolish hearted. Women that were wise hearted like Abigail. Abigail was a wise hearted woman. Don’t allow Satanto tempt you into thinking that apostle is now begging your wives to come to him with riches. No.
56. Because every time a message goes forth our accuser is always at the background to misinterpret it but I am trying to show you the angle where God is holding you guilty as an unbeliever. Because you have vowed to follow the man he sent and obey him. But by your actions you have denied it. You said that whatever he will tell us by the name of the Lord, that we will do. But today, by your actions you have failed.
57. In other words, you cannot worship this God. It has become clear that you have become transgressors in his sight because you have testified against yourselves that whatever he will tell you that you will do. And now, you are dragging your feet.
58. You now do something when you are being forced, or indicted, or persuaded; or when it has become a strict obligation. Nobody does anything with a willing heart simply because every heart has become foolish. Nobody is wise hearted again to actually recognise the commission we have received from the Almighty, and to ask ourselves: “Have we actually accomplished this commission?”
59. Didn’t God see many people in the world and then he chose us? Are we not grateful that out of the lot in the world, the Lord called us and handed over this matter to us for the salvation of mankind?
60. For God to make you saviour of the world, leaving others behind, is it because of your own making? Did you bribe him? It is a wonderful privilege for he has commanded us to be saviours and a light unto the Gentiles.
61. “And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
62. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom…”
63. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom. I don’t know whether somebody is getting the message. Somebody’s heart must be stirred up with wisdom to recognise the necessity of the work and the necessity of your participation in the work.When you start the work and abandon it halfway, people will laugh at you. Amen.