WHO WILL DWELL WITH GOD IN PARADISE? PREACHED ON SUNDAY 19TH JULY 2020, @ HOUSEHOLD OF GOD AT AKWA IBOM BY BISHOP JOE UKPONG
You have no reasonable excuse to give as far as the present stage of the Ministry is concerned. God has revealed His invisible nature and we have seen it. We are sure and certain, what God displayed in our midst was His invisible nature. Right from the beginning of Creation, God has manifested it in diverse ways.
THOU ART INEXCUSABLE BEFORE GOD; Preached on 19th September 2002 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 127 vs. 15 – 21
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TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO PARADISE
We thank God who has been speaking to us since in the morning hours up to this moment. It clearly shows us that we are children of God.
2. Remember that the world also makes the statement that they are children of God. But we know this God, the Ancient of Days, the I am that I am, the Alpha and the Omega, that has taken flesh today to dwell with us. He is the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name.
3. So when we say we are the children of God, let us always recognize one thing that we have a commission. What is that commission? We came to please Him our God. Not to please ourselves, not to please any man. We came to do His will at all times.
4. These are the clear things that people like Daniel of old, Enoch of old, the three Hebrew children and all saints of old had in mind; they knew that their commission was to please Him and to do His will.
5. That is why they never murmured, they never complained. It is when you are thinking that He came to do things according to your own will that you murmur.
6. But when you know that you came to do everything according to His will, you do not murmur, you do not complain.
7. The three Hebrew children said Oh King live forever. Even if He does not come and deliver us, we will not bow. We will remain pleasing Him. Brother Branham said, Lord, if you do not come, you will pick my bones here. I will not do anything to displease you.
8. This is the heart the children of God have. It is always in their lives to make sure that they are pleasing God at all times.
9. In the message Blame Yourself And Not God, there is something there in page 50, ‘If God has not come your way, don’t bother. There is no situation He cannot address if He wants to, but you must be obedient. No wonder He said that God would bless us in everything but not in disobedience. Disobedience is a sign of unfaithfulness’.
10. If the Lord has not come your way, do not bother. Do not begin to murmur. Do not complain. Do not begin to worry. Know that He will come. He has always done His things according to His will and His counsel. Nobody is His counselor.
11. Let me go straight to what I want to speak to the family on this very day. My topic is: Who Will Be Afforded The Privilege To Triumphantly Enter Into Paradise With The Son Of Man? We are talking about the triumphant entry into paradise.
12. Then the question goes; who will be afforded the privilege to triumphantly enter into Paradise with the Son of Man? Let us look at the message Triumphant Entry Into Paradise preached on 01-04-2012. Chapter 3:18-20
13. ‘18We are talking about the TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO PARADISE. Jesus had a triumphant entry into Jerusalem; the Son of Man is talking about triumphant entry into Paradise.
14. Who will be there? Which ass, which donkey will He ride on? He was received by fellow human beings but the Son of Man shall be received by host of Angels.
15. But who is that ass, who is that donkey? 19All these years, you have been directing your ways and remained tied to the stake. You have been owning yourselves and remained tied to the stake.
16. However, somebody is saying, ‘Tell the owner I need it, loose it and bring it to me’. 20All is in your hands. If you want to continue to conspire against Him, go ahead: Sing His praise today, say ‘crucify Him’ tomorrow. With your mouth sing His praise, with your heart kill Him, no problem.
17. Nevertheless, as many as are willing to kneel down that the master will mount on the donkey, I bet you, the difference in no distant future shall be made manifest’.
18. Watch what God said there. He said, ‘Nevertheless, as many as are willing to kneel down that the master will mount on the donkey, I bet you, the difference in no distant future shall be made manifest’.
19. Who is the donkey and who is the master? I am the donkey with my family. We are the donkey. The Son of Man, Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name, is the Master. He is God. No one can get into paradise without Him.
20. This is true. Natural things type spiritual. Let us look at President Buhari today as an example; just because He is the President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, there are many places He has gone to which His ADC [Aide-de- CAMP], would not have had such privilege to go to, even though He is an Army Officer.
21. He can be an Army Officer and would not have the privilege to ever enter the White House for one day. But because of the President Buhari, he has entered the White House twice now; slept there because of the President.
22. These are natural things that type the Spiritual. It is a privilege. Buhari chose Him saying, ‘out of all these Army Officers, this is the one I want to use as my Aide-de- CAMP (ADC)’.
23. This is the same thing that I am typing with the Spiritual. The Son of Man particularly said, “I want this ass, this donkey. Go to the owner and untie it”. As long as the Son of Man does not select you, you remain there tied.
24. You can not have the privilege of going anywhere. Are you getting the message? That is why He said, ‘Nevertheless, as many as are willing to kneel down that the Master will mount on the donkey, I bet you the difference in no distant future shall be made manifest’. This is because we shall enter with Him triumphantly.
25. This is why the Son of Man said, ‘I asked my son, I said do you see the coronation in the United States of America of the present President Donald Trump? That of paradise will be greater than it’.
26. Imagine how it looks like in such coronations not to talk of what will take place in paradise. Jesus Christ entered triumphantly into Jerusalem, He was received by men but the Son of Man will be welcomed by angels.
27. Then when He is coming in, He is coming in with people putting on white and the question the angels are asking is, “Who are these people?”. And He said, “These are the people that I redeemed from the Earth”.
28. So you see that you and I are the donkey, the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name is the Master. The donkey must be prepared to kneel down. What I am saying is that I came to do His will, I came to please Him.
29. It is what pleases Him that concerns me, not what pleases anybody. The donkey must be prepared to kneel down. For the first time, the donkey that carried Jesus Christ was moving majestically on a tarred road which he had no opportunity to move on before because he was tied.
30. But he was moving majestically on a tarred road flooded with red carpets. People threw down so many clothes for him to match upon.
31. If it where not for the Master, how do you think the donkey would have been afforded that privilege? If only we will recognize the Master and kneel down, humble ourselves, do what the Master is asking us to do, we shall be that donkey.
32. For every instruction He is giving there is a reason, warning He is giving, there is a reason for it. All the messages we are receiving just like we have received today, it is for a purpose that is for our own good.
33. Let this stubborn donkey learn to kneel down that the Master will climb and use him to perform His purpose. You are not the one doing anything, but the Master is the one using you to ride the trail. The Son of Man is riding the trail.
34. Remember the voice that went forth from the Prophet William Branham, “I will ride this trail once again”. Foolish End-timers thought it was talking about Bro Branham not knowing that it is Christ the Omnipotent God that will ride this trail.
35. Can you now imagine that He is using you and using me to ride this trail? Without Him the Master can I be afforded this privilege? Can you be afforded this privilege? Never! You can now see the favor.
36. We are walking with a power that we know nothing about. A power you cannot explain. Why? If you see a magnet and you bring iron to it, it will just magnet it but you do not see the power.
37. You do not see the power in the magnet, you just see the metal. Go close and you will see that it will magnet but your physical eyes cannot see any power. That is exactly where we are.
38. I am telling you the truth that people who know nothing, they walk, behave and talk anyhow, do so because they do not know that something is revolving around us in this Faith. We are dealing with a power that we cannot see.
39. That is why whatever He is telling us, no matter the situation we find ourselves, let us be determined in our heart to please our God, for that is our commission.
40. No matter what the situation is this commission should remain in our heart, that my mission is to please my God. Then I can now look at myself and say, “Am I pleasing my God?”. I am not to turn around and say, “Is my God pleasing me?”. No! I did not come for Him to please me, I came so that I will please Him.
41. The donkey is ready to please the Master. This is why when the Master is ready to climb him, he kneels down, saying ‘Master climb me and use me. For it is a privilege which not many can get’.
42. The Bible said that He will use the foolish things of the world to comfound the wise. Is it all the foolish? No! It is the particular ones He has chosen.
43. When we say we are the foolish things of the world, it is because we are the particular ones He has chosen out of many. There are many foolish who are still out there.
44. They are not given this great opportunity that we have. Let us look at the scripture, Hebrews 3:12
45. ‘12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the Living God’ KJV.It is a warning.
46. ‘12My fellow-believers, be careful that no one among you has a heart so evil and unbelieving as to turn away from the Living God’ GNB.
47. When you look at the great privilege that we have, will you and I not be foolish to allow anything to slip into us and jeopardize this opportunity?
48. This is why the scripture warns, ‘my fellow believers, be careful that no one among you has a heart so evil and so unbelieving as to turn away from the Living God’.
49. Hebrews 4:1, ‘1LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it’ KJV.
50. ‘1Now, God has offered us the promise that we may receive that rest He spoke about. Let us take care, then, that none of you will be found to have failed to receive that promised rest’ GNB.
51. We can now see that God has offered us the promise that we may receive that rest He spoke about. Let us take care then that none of us will be found to have failed to receive it because it is a great privilege. Just imagine.
52. The Master said, ‘Go there, tell the owner to loose the colt, the master has need of it’. Is He begging the person? No! ‘Bring Him to me’.
53. So look at the privilege we had. If we are left in the world without Him particularly selecting us, we will continue there. We will remain tied by the things of the world, by the laws of Moses, thinking we are worshipping God when we are playing church.
54. So you can see the privilege that He has given to us. This is why He does not fail to warn us. He has been warning us all along.
55. Remember, when history is forgotten, the mistake of the past will repeat itself. He is not talking about my mistakes alone, it includes the mistakes of our fathers of old as well.
56. That is why they are written in the scriptures. So that we can go back to the scriptures, see it and learn something from it.
57. Let us go back to the message again; Triumphant Entry Into Paradise and read Chapter 4:9-11, ‘9He said, ‘Go and check your fathers when they tempted me in the wilderness’.
58. Who said so? God! He said go and check. Why? One thing we should know is that these scriptures are written for our learning. ‘9He said, ‘Go and check your fathers when they tempted me in the wilderness and they prove my word’.
59. 10Now what was the word of God in the wilderness? God said, “All of you that are healthy and are conspirators, you shall not see my rest” and their carcass fell in the wilderness.
60. YOU SEE, WE ARE REALLY STANDING ON A THRESHOLD OF SOMETHING THAT IS TOO POWERFUL AND WE ARE MESSING UP WITH IT’.
61. We are messing up with it. A great power which God described as the centrifugal force.
62. Remember this centrifugal force, when you want to go in one direction it takes you to another direction. It is not where I want to go, it is not what I want to do, no! That was why He came from an opposite direction, opposing all my actions, behaviors and everything, so that I will manifest His own, so that I will please Him.
63. From start to the end, He is the one helping us. Number one, if He had not particularly selected us, we would not be privileged to ride this trail with Him. Number two, if He does not help us, we cannot even worship Him.
64. ‘Let us be very careful at a time like this. If you think that God has closed the Ark, and feel that anybody has the right to live anyhow or do anything or behave anyhow, you are taking the greatest risk.
65. Let me tell you plainly, as surely as God liveth and He is in the flesh; He can change His mind about His Word’.
66. Is He not in the flesh? He is! Good. ‘I do not know if you are getting me? As surely as God remaineth a human being, God can change His mind about His Word.
67. If anybody thinks he has a ticket to do anything, that the Ark is sealed, up to you. Nevertheless, I know that God is still a human being. Thus, we must be very careful’.
68. When you hear all these warnings, are you not scared? Does it not send a message to you?
69. I want myself, my wife, my children; William, Timothy and Peace to have it behind our mind that our commission on earth is to please our God who is the Son of Man, Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name.
70. Let us look at Chapter 4:13-14, ‘13Now, is God’s hand short that He cannot save all? No! You see, somebody is a donkey and you tied him to a stake; and as surely as you are not used; you will remain in that stake as a donkey’.
71. Have you seen it? As long as you are not used because all of us where tied. We were all donkeys tied. As long as we are not used, we remain there.
72. But look at the great privilege. He particularly chose you and me. ‘Lo and behold, a man said, “Loosen this particular donkey; let me make use of it”. 14If the donkey knows what it means, knows what privilege it is; it will remain happy’.
73. What will make me to be sorrowful? Is it the little situation around me or hardship? Then I become unhappy with my God? I will be a foolish person. ‘Then as he goes, he became very humble and obedient to be used by the man who said, “Remove him from this stake and give him to me”.
74. He appreciated the privilege. ‘So out of all these donkeys, I have been given this privilege’. It made him happy. He now became obedient and humble so that He that has delivered him can make use of him.
75. When you know what has happened to you, you will appreciate it, that without the Son of Man, I would have remained there, tied. Remain in that condition, remain facing what the world is facing today.
76. But look at the privilege. Then why shouldn’t I be humble and obedient to the Master? Chapter 4:16-19, ‘16Just like we are in this most Holy Faith, not all have the salvation but salvation is as plenty as a mighty sea. You tell people, “Take this salvation” they said no.
77. 17Even, many of them believe this man holds the salvation, but they refused to accept the salvation’.
78. They know that He holds the salvation but they refuse because when you refuse to obey, you are refusing to take the salvation. ‘Note, believing that the man in our midst is God is different from accepting Him as God. You know that’. Many believe that He is God but they do not accept Him to be God.
79. ‘If you see a man that is powerful more than you, you will know that he is more powerful than you. But it is a different ball game to say, “Sir, you are powerful more than me, I humble myself before you”.
80. 18If you say you believe, the scripture said that you should be careful lest at anytime a spirit of unbelief creeps in you’.
81. That means the spirit can creep in once you become careless. Once you play with instruction like we heard it today that we should remain praying, studying and watching.
82. Once you become careless about those things a spirit will creep in and this spirit is a spirit of unbelief. Your enemy is always around you, you cannot sleep.
83. ‘18If you say you believe, the scripture said that you should be careful lest at anytime a spirit of unbelief creeps in you and then you cannot be part of God’s rest.
84. 19Remember, God has promised us a rest and if you are in this Faith, I am in this Faith, all the people in the Bride Ministry are in this faith and we cannot get this rest; it means we are fools who have walked where angels are afraid to trod because you cannot get this type of message anywhere in the World’.
85. Can you get this type of message anywhere in the world? No! Chapter 4:26-28, ‘26If you accept the Message, it will always reflect in your life and in your behavior towards the Word of God. It is as simple as that. However, you will believe, but if you do not accept it, it will also manifest in your life’. You can believe and you do not accept and it will manifest.
86. ‘You will only be saying with the lips, “I believe the Son of Man is God”, it is not an achievement anyway. 27If you believe that Son of Man is God, you have not done much for even the Devil and the mad man who has the familiar spirit have confirmed that this man is God, hence you have also placed yourself on equal status with the devil.
87. 28Believing the Son of Man places you in the same position with the Devil that said ‘This man is God’.
88. He acknowledged but does the Devil accept Him? No! Immediately you accept something, you will please that thing. When you have accepted Him as God, you will please Him, you will obey Him, you will humble yourself and allow Him to use you because you are His property.
89. Chapter 4:30, ‘30What are we saying? It means that if we are not careful we may sit down in the Church on the benches like William Branham said, and refuse the message of the master, then die in the Church where salvation is overflowing everywhere’.
90. Many have died in the church already. This is because the church is the kingdom of God and even the devil has the opportunity to come in. Many have died. Sitting down and rejecting the medicine that is prescribed by the doctor.
91. For the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name is the Great Physician. The Prophet said that the sickest body upon the surface of the earth is the body of Christ. What will heal us? The Word which God is giving to us.
92. Chapter 4:34, ‘34Thus, if we are boasting, we must boast of our obedience to the Faith. We must not boast that we are all in the Ark; forget that now. We are talking about coming into the house of salvation and picking the salvation. You do not witness the salvation, no, but you pick the salvation which God has given to us free of charge’. Amen
And of mankind, there are some (hypocrites) who say: “We believe in God and the Last Day” while in fact they believe not. They (think to) deceive God and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves, and perceive (it) not! In their hearts is a disease (of doubt and hypocrisy) and God has increased their disease. A painful torment is theirs because they used to tell lies. THE HOLY QUR’AN; SURAH 2:8 – 10
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WHAT IS YOUR BOAST
My boast is that I am in obedience to my God. That is it. That I know my God and I am obeying Him. That is my joy, that is my boast. Whatever I am doing, I am doing it to please Him that is my boast.
2. But if I am doing any other thing and boasting because I am in the ark, boasting that I am this and that it earns me nothing. How obedient are you to the master?
3. How humble and obedient are you to the master? We go to the message, Remember Lot’s Wife preached on 12-08-2019. Page 46:48-49,
4. SO, BE IT KNOWN TO YOU THAT NOBODY HAS ACQUIRED SALVATION OR INHERITED SALVATION. SALVATION CAN ONLY BE ENTRUSTED TO YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH REVEALED TO YOU BY THE ALMIGHTY IN YOUR OWN DAY THROUGH THE MESSENGER HE SENT TO YOU’.
5. Today did He send any Messenger? No! He sent Himself. He Himself the Almighty came down and then revealed these things unto us.
6. That is why we are a peculiar people, different and precious. Even the angels and Prophets where wondering, who are these people that are enjoying such a grace, having the privilege of being with the Lord Himself?
7. ‘49IN HIM, YOU ARE SANCTIFIED. IN HIM, YOU RECEIVE YOUR FORGIVENESS FOR SIN. IN HIM, YOU ARE MADE HOLY. IN HIM, YOU ARE DECLARED FAITHFUL, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE HAS FOUND YOU WORTHY.
8. HE HAS FOUND YOU AS SUCH. YOU WILL BE SAVED THROUGH HIM, BUT ALLAH WILL SAVE HIM’.
9. Any that believed Moses in His day was saved by Moses and God saved Moses. This is the same thing happening in our day for He is our Holiness. He is our righteousness. He is everything.
10. That is why God told us in the message Are You Walking With God or Walking Alone? that you should know the point of your sanctification.
11. It is not what I can do or I have done that is sanctifying me, no! It is my obedience to the Master. For when we talk about the Faith, we are talking about the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena, for outside Him, you and I will not have the Faith.
12. The Faith would not be there without Him. He is all and all. He is the Tabernacle that has the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Everything is in Him. If He goes, we are finished.
13. That is why we humbly follow our Master. We humbly respect our Master for we can do nothing without Him.
14. Confirmation of the Son of Man By the Ancient Book of Enoch page 7:13-14, ‘13God is holy in all His ways and He wants us to be holy in His own eyes. And there is no other way we can be holy in the sight of God if not by paying heed to His word‘.
15. When we play with the Word, we cannot be Holy. When we act ‘I don’t care attitude’ towards the word of God we cannot be Holy.
16. ‘14Obeying the Word of God automatically makes us a Holy people in the sight of God‘. Obeying the word of God automatically makes us holy, righteous, it automatically justifies us.
17. ‘Disobeying the Word of God makes us renegades and rebels in the sight of God‘. Triumphant Entry Into Paradise Chapter 4:43-45, ‘43We must be very, very careful at a time like this’. This is the voice of God. ‘The greatest privilege for a man to say, “Untie the donkey for me”.
18. It is a great privilege that we received for the master to say untie this particular donkey for me. ‘The greatest privilege for a man to say, “Untie the donkey for me and let me use it. Untie this donkey for me for I have need of it”.
19. It is not easy for there are other donkeys everywhere but God spotted a particular donkey and said, “Go to this particular place, tell Him to loose this particular donkey and then bring it to me for the Lord has need of it”. Finish’.
20. Look at the great privilege that we have. There are many donkeys, there are many foolish things but He particularly now chose us. ‘44Thus, if you are privileged to be that donkey, you have no option than to be totally loyal. Repeat it! ‘44Thus, if you are privileged to be that donkey, you have no option than to be totally loyal’.
21. Totally loyal. It will be arrant stupidity not to be loyal. If you where not chosen, will you be untied? No! You would have continued in your foolishness.
22. ‘Remove the spirit of conspiracy; remove the spirit of disobedience and undue stubbornness for that will throw you out of the Kingdom of God. 45William Branham said, ‘God in His kingdom has His own medicine that cures all problems. So if you are in the Kingdom and you refuse to take the medicine, who is to be blamed?’.
23. You are the one to be blamed. ‘Then you blame yourself and not God’. This is because you are the one that refused it.
24. The great physician had given you all you need that will solve your problem but you rejected it. Look at Him giving us the medicine to facing temptations by telling us never to allow a wrong desire to get into us.
25. For temptation is simply a trial of my faith. Look at the temptation that was on Paul. It was sickness. God said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you”. So God decided to leave it there.
26. Ours can be different and when we are in that condition, we will not begin to be annoyed with God. This is what the world does not know because my faith must be tried, your faith must be tried.
27. Philippians 2:13. LVB, ‘For God is at work within you, helping you want to obey Him, and then helping you to do what He wants’. I have made you to see something, that the first thing is for you to be selected.
28. He chose you, He said, “Go and bring him I want to make use of him”. Secondly, without Him being in you, you cannot obey Him. You cannot do the things He wants you to do if He is not in you.
29. The Bible said God is at work within you helping you to want to obey Him and then helping you to do what He wants.
30. Let us look at what God said in the message Who Has Been God’s Counselor? Preached on 26-03-2017. Page 127:59-62, ‘59For God is at work within you HELPING YOU WANT TO OBEY HIM,… which means, nobody wanted to obey’.
31. As long as we remained tied there was no way we could obey. ‘WITHOUT GOD RENDERING A HELPING HAND, EVERY HUMAN BEING IS DISOBEDIENT TO GOD. If you believe it, say Amen’. Amen! ‘60So, if you find yourself obeying, the credit does not go to you’.
32. Of a truth, the credit does not go to us. The credit goes to the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name.
33. We should be thanking Him. We should be appreciating Him. We should be pouring all our loyalty to Him for He is the one doing it. ‘The credit goes to He that gives you the helping hand to obey Him so that you will not perish. 61He knows you cannot do it alone. He comes from the opposite direction’.
34. Did He not know that we cannot even stand the temptations on our own? He knew! He gave us a remedy and at the end of it He said He will help us out. A loving Father, a caring One.
35. He is our shock absorber. Without Him we cannot absorb the shocks. ‘61He knows you cannot do it alone. He comes from the opposite direction, opposing your nature, opposing your habits, opposing your desires, opposing everything you stood for. 62For God is at work within you, helping you want to obey Him, and then helping you do what He wants. Amen’.
36. He opposed those wrong things in us and got rid of them. This is why He said, “Simply be in My hand like the clay is in the hand of the Potter’.
37. He came to oppose every of those things inside of us. With those things inside of us, we cannot obey. With those things inside of us, we cannot be humble and loyal. When you allow Him, He begins to work on you and then you see yourself a different person.
38. That is why the scriptures said He that is in Christ is a brand new individual. If God is not living in you, you cannot worship Him.
39. Remember He first of all had to select and choose you and then He now works in you by opposing everything in you and then He can now dwell in you. You can then worship Him. But without this, you cannot worship Him.
40. When we read the scripture and see that Christ is coming to those that are waiting for Him eagerly and patiently in Hebrews 9:28, it simply shows us that He is coming to do a work.
41. He is coming to those who are patiently waiting for Him to do that work for they know that without Him there is no hope. If God is not living in you and in me, you and I cannot worship God. God does not live in a temple built with hands, He lives in you and in me. Apart from this, you and I cannot worship Him.
42. If God is not in you and in me, coming to Him means coming for condemnation for God sees your coming to Him as a temptation. As long as He is not dwelling in you, if you come to Him whatever He tells you, you will not take.
43. Many go to the Son of Man and instead of accepting what He is saying, they are insisting that He should accept what they want because He is not in them. So they simply go to tempt Him.
44. But a true seed of God that God is dwelling in, comes before Him to ask for the Masters will. If He says no, that is final. If He says yes, it is final. In this hour we are living in, it is total submission God is calling for; total loyalty, total obedience to God. Not partial but total.
45. The spoken word is not optional, it is mandatory for every elect. Triumphant Entry Into Paradise Chapter 2:23-24, ‘23He came as a humble lamb, He came not to have rule but to serve. THUS, WHEN I SAY LET THE SPIRIT THAT WAS IN CHRIST BE IN YOU, I MEAN INDIRECTLY THAT THE SPIRIT OF HUMILITY SHOULD BE IN YOU’.
46. He is humble, He came to serve. He did not come for Mastership. Everyday He gets more humble and humble. He is the King of Kings, He is the Lord of Lords but when you go to Him you see a great level of humility in Him. He does not even show the Kingship, the Lordship.
47. ‘23He came as a humble Lamb, He came not to have rule but to serve. THUS, WHEN I SAY LET THE SPIRIT THAT WAS IN CHRIST BE IN YOU, I MEAN INDIRECTLY THAT THE SPIRIT OF HUMILITY SHOULD BE IN YOU; THE SPIRIT OF SELFLESS SERVICE SHOULD BE IN YOU.
48. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, I SEE THE SPIRIT OF HAUGHTINESS, OF ARROGANCE, OF PRIDE, OF ENVY, OF JEALOUSY, OF MALICE; OF HATRED, MURDEROUS SPIRIT IN MANY OF YOU’.
49. He can never accuse us of what is not there. He sees these things in us. This is why the hour is the hour for the final selection. ‘24YES, MURDEROUS SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT TO KILL A FELLOW HUMAN BEING IS IN MANY OF YOU. THERE ARE MANY WAYS YOU CAN MURDER SOMEBODY: YOU CAN MURDER ONE EVEN WITH THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH.
50. WHEN THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH WILL DESTROY THE REPUTATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND MAKE PEOPLE TO LOOK AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY; HAVE YOU NOT MURDERED THE PERSON? YOU HAVE MURDERED THE PERSON’.
That He may admit the believing men and the believing women to Gardens under which rivers flow (i.e. Paradise), to abide therein forever, and He may expiate from them their sins; and that is with Allah, a supreme success, And that He may punish the Munâfiqûn (hypocrites), men and women, and also the Mushrikûn (Polytheists, pagans, idolaters, and disbelievers in the oneness of Allah and in His Messenger Muhammad) men and women, who think evil thoughts about Allah, for them is a disgraceful torment, and the Anger of Allah is upon them, and He has cursed them and prepared Hell for them, and worst indeed is that destination. And to Allah belong the hosts of the heavens and the earth. And Allah is Ever All-Knower, All-Wise.
THE HOLY QUR’AN: SURAH 48:5 – 7
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REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE
This is why God is saying ‘Begin to examine yourselves one after the other. I am talking of the hearts of the individuals that accorded Jesus Christ that reception in His triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
2. Was there any iota of love in that reception? Absolutely no‘. The same people who said hosanna in the highest, Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord, they same people turned around and said ‘crucify Him’.
3. The same people not a different people. So if they believed Him to be the true God, they would have supported Him. But these where the same people that where according him a great reception in His entry into Jerusalem.
4. Human beings are not different. Many will tell you if I was there that day,… but today God has given you the same privilege. What are you doing to that same Christ?
5. Chapter 2:33, ‘33Begin to examine yourselves in the light of that manner, for whenever a man of God appears on the scene, scriptures are bound to fulfill over and over again’.
6. God is in the business of repeating it so that you will not say, if it was in my own day… God will say yes, look at your own day, how have you been better than those that acted this way in their own day?
7. This is why God is repeating it. We see scriptures repeating itself even in our own day. The Resurrected Body, the Original Body is here with us.
8. Is your heart right with Him The Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name? He remains the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
9. His humility can never remove anything from His personality. His simplicity can never distort anything from His personality. His selfless service to mankind can never distort anything from His personality.
10. Whatever the people are assuming Him to be, whatever the interpretation they are giving to His appearance is completely immaterial, He is who He is, the Almighty God Himself in human flesh.
11. This is why today we tell the people that if the people on the net worldwide have no argument than to submit themselves, who then are you a mere local personality to argue with us? We do not have time for local arguments.
12. For the world knows that Christ has appeared on the scene in human vessel, that is why they are surging to the net from various countries for the gospel has gone round the whole countries.
13. Anybody making a noise today, is just making a local statement, we do not have time for such because that is only an attempt to distract our attention. So we ignore it.
14. Chapter3:1-5, ‘1Watch, the triumphant entry to Jerusalem is not a continuous ceremony commanded by God;’ Just like we see them doing today. The Catholics and other denominations. It is not a continuous ceremony.
15. ‘It was not even commanded. However, the people that received Him honorably where hypocrites. They where paying lip service.
16. If they where sincere, they would have stood for Him. They would not have been a part of the conspiracy against Him. 2To prove that all of them joined hands together, when He was brought before the whole public, they shouted, ‘Crucify Him! crucify Him! crucify Him!’ Who where the people? They are the people that said, ‘Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord’.
17. What was His crime? That He is a man and He made Himself God. Is that not the same crime today? Are the Gentiles any better? No! This is the same statement that is going on, He is a man, He made Himself God. He is God, He never made Himself God. He is God. It is God who has stepped down in human flesh to be with His family.
18. ‘3You might be saying, “If I where there that time, my case would have been different, I would have acted otherwise”. Shut up your mouth!
19. This is your own day; don’t you know who you are? Don’t you know what you have done so far? Don’t you know what you have been planning to do? 4This is your own day, if you where there that time, whatever you are today is what you would have been there.
20. This is Judgement! Begin to examine yourselves in the Ark and outside the Ark. Begin to scrutinize yourselves to know whether you are in the Ark resting and abiding in Him or you are outside.
21. 5Don’t you know when you are wearing your cloth and when you are naked? If you do not know when you are in Christ and when you are not in Christ, it then goes to show that you are a reprobate.
22. Being in Christ means being in the Ark. The Ark, like I have told you is not made of hands, it is not a wooden Ark. The ark is a human being. Triumphant Entry’.
23. And that human being is no other person but the Son of Man. The ark is Christ the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name.
24. So you know when you are in and you know when you are not in. Can you be speaking evil against Him, accusing Him and you are in Him? No! When you know that your heart is not right with Him how then do you think that you are in Him?
25. Let us look at the scripture, Luke 17:32. We have seen that the people that gave Jesus a triumphant entry into Jerusalem where hypocrites.
26. We want to see another hypocrite which is Lot’s wife. That is why the scripture said, ‘Beware of Lot’s wife’. It is just a verse, a reference. Just that statement. ‘Remember Lot’s Wife’ KJV.
27. A reference calling your attention to something. In their day, they came face to face with the Lord in the vessel He has chosen to dwell in.
28. They gave Him a reception, people thought that they were sincere not knowing that it was lip service. That is hypocrisy. A hypocrite is one that says one thing and does another.
29. Why are we asked to remember Lot’s Wife? It is because she was a hypocrite and our God said ‘Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy’.
30. Let us go to the message Remember Lot’s Wife Page 4:1, ‘1I am asking you. What is the hope of the hypocrite? What is the hope of the hypocrite? [Job 27:8] One that says one thing and does another.
31. One that is in our midst, but living a life contrary to our Message. One that receives the truth but lives the life of falsehood. One whose life is full of craftiness and deceit. What is his hope?’.
32. You had the privilege of God selecting you, ‘Go and loose that ass, tell the owner the Master has need of it”. It was a command, He was not begging. He just loosed you. Look at that great privilege. Instead now of making sure your life agrees with the message, you now want the message to agree with your life.
33. You are not coming to impose your life on the message but for the message to oppose every wrong thing in you. God said that anyone that is in our midst, living contrary to our teaching is a hypocrite. And the message says that God will expose all hypocrites. Genesis 19:15-17.
34. We want to see the hypocrisy in this woman. She had every privilege. She was not a heathen, she welcomed the angels. She was there. She had the angelic visitation. She cooked and welcomed them. She sat down and heard the message.
35. A time came the angels carried them, both husband and wife and took them out, gave them the same command but she refused to obey.
36. ‘15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, “Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city”.
37. 16And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
38. 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, “Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed”. KJV.
39. “15At Dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. “Quick!” they said. “Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed”.
40. 16Lot hesitated. The Lord, however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.
41. 17Then one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won’t be killed.” GNB.
42. Have you seen that they where all complete? That is why it is a dangerous thing. God told us the ark is locked but the window is open. We do not want to mention names but what we heard God say to the family of Orjiakor frightened me.
43. We must come to that point of knowing that this God we talk about is not a respecter of persons. He does not look at anybody’s face. His words, once He has spoken it, He has spoken it. What He is watching is how obedient you are to His word.
44. What happened to Lot’s wife here? We will see it, as we read from the message Remember Lot’s Wife, page 16:36-45, ‘36They left as two. They ended as one’.
45. You see? Between husband and wife, one is taken, one is left. Who left one, is it God? No! She is the one that refused. This is not the issue of one was taken, one was left by God. No! He has already given the two the instruction to go but she refused.
46. ‘36They left as two. They ended as one. They heard the same Message, received the same angelic visitation, received the same last minute help, and where escorted outside the city gate.
47. 37DELAY CAN BE DANGEROUS IN EVERYTHING. I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH. EVERYBODY SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL. WHAT ALLAH IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE AROUND HIM IS HIS ORIGINAL CREATION AND NOT FAKE, NOT COUNTERFEIT, AND NOT IMITATION‘.
48. Original creations is what Allah wants around Him now. It is the original creations that are obedient, the fake are not obedient.
49. ‘38ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME? ANY WOMAN THAT SEES HERSELF AS A DAGON; ANY WOMAN WHOSE NAME IS DAGON, COUNTERFEIT CAN NEVER SMELL PARADISE.
50. 39Look at Sarah. The wife of Abraham. She was not a counterfeit. Look at Elizabeth, the wife of Zachariah. Let me pick only but these two. She was not a counterfeit. 40But Moses’ wife was a counterfeit.
51. Is it a lie Brethren? The wife of Eli, counterfeit. But Hannah, the wife of Elkanah was original creation. The things of God gladdened her heart.
52. The Zeal was in her. 41If you go further, you will see that Timothy’s grandmother and mother where originals. Is it a lie Brethren? 42When you go to the Old Testament, you will see a King who wanted to do good but the mother was counterfeit and led him into various kinds of evils, by giving him evil advice.
53. 43When God gives the King instruction on what to do, she will advice the King to delay that God would not carry out His threat immediately.
54. 44Whatever God instructed the King to do, his mother will give him a contrary counsel to delay carrying out God’s instruction, “Where are we hurrying to? Is the world coming to an end today?” [2 Chronicles 22:1-4]
55. 45It continued until the attitude of disobedience became a part of the King, and he became the mother’s King. He was no longer the people’s King. He was no longer the King ordained by God. He now became the mother’s King’.
56. Who chose the King? God! Who chose Lot and the wife? God! But now she was listening to herself, to her desires and her wrong desire caused her to refuse to follow God.
57. The King who was chosen by God now chose to listen to his mother that was a counterfeit. Almighty God said he that is not ready to forsake mother, father, forsake brother, sister is not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
58. It is an individual affair. Salvation is for individuals. Page 21:50-54, ‘50IF THERE IS NO DANGER AHEAD, THERE IS NO NEED FOR WARNING. REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE. AND THAT IS THE ONLY THING WRITTEN IN THAT VERSE.
59. NOTHING ELSE WAS ADDED. GO TO THAT VERSE. WHAT WAS WRITTEN THERE IS, “REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE” BEFORE ANOTHER VERSE. 52It became a [reference] statement, and I am here alerting, confirming that I am THE SON OF MAN. What happened in the days of Noah is happening now.
60. What happened in the days of Lot is happening now. 53LOT’S WIFE MUST APPEAR. IT IS A SPIRIT. IT MUST APPEAR. IT MUST MANIFEST. 54Be it known to you that Lot’s wife was not a heathen. Lot’s wife was the same person that received the angelic visitation’.
61. God is telling us, it is a spirit. Once God has spoken that it must manifest, it must manifest. We have received abundant revelation to know that this God we are worshipping, once He has spoken, it must come to pass.
62. So I say “Lord, let it not be me or my wife or my children for I know that as long as you said it must manifest surely it must manifest. But Lord do not use me or any member of my family to fulfill that part of your Word”. It is not for us to begin to say, “Lord is it I?” No! We know for sure that once He has spoken His word must come to pass.
63. Let us look at the Holy Quran, Surah 2:8-10. We will see that God is not looking for any make up. No counterfeit but the Original Creation, this is what He wants around Him.
64. ‘8There are some people who say, ‘We believe in Allah and the Last Day’, while they are no believers at all. 9They abandon Allah and those who believe, but they (as a matter of fact) only deprive themselves (of the blessings of God), and they do not perceive (it).
65. 10In their hearts was a disease (of hypocrisy), and Allah has increased their disease (by making Islam triumphant).
66. A woeful punishment awaits them because of their persistent lies’. Another version says, ‘8And of mankind, there are some (hypocrites) who say: “We believe in Allah and the Last Day” while in fact they believe not.
67. 9They (think to) deceive Allah and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves, and perceive (it) not. 10In their hearts is a disease (of doubt and hypocrisy) and Allah has increased their disease.
68. A painful torment is theirs because they used to tell lies’. God is against hypocrisy. God wants you to be straightforward. That is why Jesus in His little message said ‘let your yes be yes and your no be no’. Any other thing is of the devil.
69. Let us look at the message, The Comforter page 23:38-41. God looks into all of us, there is nothing that can be hidden, He sees everything.
70. The message No Hiding Place shows you that there is no hiding place except in Christ. Outside Christ, there is none else. There is no place you will be that this destruction will not get to you except in Christ.
71. The God we are worshipping, once He looks out, except He does not want to tell you, He sees everything. But today we thank God He is speaking to us in plain language nothing is hidden.
72. Page 23:38-41, ‘38In Jesus’ day, He spotted one without a garment. Others where putting on spiritual garments. Before Him, they were white, but He spotted one in another type of garment.
73. the days of Job, they gathered; it took God to spot out one who mingled among them. He said, “My friend, where did you come from”. For God knows all that belong to Him. He calls them by their names and they hear His voice. Is it not true?
74. 39A good shepherd must know His sheep and recognize them by their names. He calls them by their names and they know Him; once He passes by, you see them following. However, if a stranger should come, they cannot recognize Him.
75. 40I will begin to punish Ministers for not coming to fellowship with the different translations of the Bible; because you do not know why I am going this way.
76. You heard me shouting weeding time, weeding time; I am about to weed out all unprofitable Ministers from this Faith’.
77. This is what He said long time ago. This message was Preached on the 22nd and 29th of August 2010. Since then this prophecy went forth.
78. ‘40I will begin to punish Ministers for not coming to fellowship with the different translations of the Bible; because you do not know why I am going this way.
79. You heard me shouting weeding time, weeding time; I am about to weed out all unprofitable ministers from this faith. I am about weeding out all causes of disobedience in this Faith. I want to narrow down the totality of this Ministry to the size God said it should.
80. 41I have been over compassionate to many. I am about to weed families – father, mother and children – out of this Faith so that this Bride of Christ will produce what God intended to. Mixed-multitude is making my work very difficult and it is delaying the journey more than necessary.
81. When an important message is preached, they (strangers) will bring in the traditions and customs of their forefathers that contradict the truth, which we received from God’.
82. Page 27:47, ‘47I told you I am initiating a work, when I shall come to an end, all eyes will see, every tongue will say, “Is this the reason God took us back?”.
83. Back to where? Back to our homes! Is this the reason why He took us back to our homes? ‘47I told you I am initiating a work, when I shall come to an end, all eyes will see, every tongue will say, “Is this the reason God took us back? No wonder”. Begin to tighten up your belts very well’.
84. God is doing a work. Can’t we see it today? It is becoming clearer per day. We are not told to relax. As a football team injury time does not call for relaxation. The best form of defense is attack.
85. Do not relax. Once you become careless that is when this spirit of unbelief creeps into you. You can become careless and prayer less.
86. You fail to study, you fail to watch. You need to watch to know exactly what is happening on a daily basis. It is not time for us to become careless.
I KNOW I AM YOUR KINSMAN REDEEMER, BUT HOW MANY BELIEVE IN ME TO THE SAVING OF THEIR SOULS? You can believe in Me as your Brother. You can believe in Me as an Apostle. You can believe in Me as a Son of God, but to believe Me as the Elohim, the Saviour, the Redeemer, the all and all, in whom dwelleth the fullness of the God head bodily, this is only by divine revelation. Only those that are given to believe this can believe it. The rest will not.
CHRIST IS THE IDENTITY OF EVERY ELECT; Preached on Sunday 8th February 2015 at the Household of God, Onitsha;
Pg. 76 vs. 13 – 14
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ESTEEM OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD ABOVE YOUR PERSONAL LIFE
Remember Lot’s Wife page 26:63-66, ‘63I AM HERE. I AM NOT GOING BACK AGAIN. I MUST SEE THE END OF EVERYTHING. SO, IF YOU ARE FILING BEHIND ME AND I AM QUERYING YOU, IT THEN MEANS YOU WOULD NOT GET MY SALVATION’.
2. Have you now seen the danger of it? If you are filling behind me and I am querying you, that goes to show that you will not see my salvation.
3. ‘64IS THERE ANYBODY WHO WAS QUERIED BY MOSES THAT EVER GOT MOSES’ SALVATION? IS THERE ANYBODY WHO WAS QUERIED BY JOSHUA THAT EVER GOT JOSHUA’S SALVATION?
4. 65Did Achan get it? Even with the fact that He was a centurion. Rather, Joshua used a centurion, [a Brigadier-General] and his family as an example that Allah is no respecter of persons. That was what He did’.
5. Did He not finish them? He did! They where not spared. The word said, ‘Let nobody tamper with the Babylonian garment and he took it, brought it home’. His wife was aware of it, the children aware, they kept quiet. God wiped them. ‘66He started with his second in command, who he executed along with his family and every living thing that belonged to Achan, only to make the Word of Allah stand sure. [Joshua 7:24-26]’.
6. God is telling us to be ready at all times because it is not a time of relaxation. He gave us those key words; Study, Watch and Pray. Page 29:1-6, ‘1YOU SEE WHY YOU MUST ESTEEM OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF GOD MORE THAN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. 2IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO LOOSE YOUR LIFE FOR THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
7. 3IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO FORSAKE FATHER, FORSAKE MOTHER, FORSAKE EVEN YOUR LIFE AND COUNT IT AS NOTHING, YOU ARE NOT A CANDIDATE IN PARADISE‘.
8. We are asking; ‘Who will be afforded the privilege to triumphantly enter paradise with the Son of Man?’ ‘THIS IS THE BASIC TRUTH EVERYBODY MUST KNOW.
9. 4THAT IS WHY THE FEARFUL AND THE UNBELIEVING CANNOT BE FOUND THERE. IMPOSSIBLE! THE FEARFUL AND THE UNBELIEVING! 5The fearful is always gripped with Spiritual paralysis.
10. Each time the person sees any danger signal, he or she will start trembling. The person’s heart will be failing. That was why they where not able to enter Canaan’.
11. The Lord had already told them “I have given you this land”. But they went and saw the Anaks, tall people, their heart melted. Can’t you learn and understand that the God who said He has given us this land has made us more than able and He will see us through.
12. ‘6They saw the giants. They saw the sons of Anak [Numbers 13:33], but Joshua and Caleb saw bread in their hands, “These people that our people are afraid of, we are seeing them as mere bread in our hands. Only permit us to go.
13. We shall enter and we shall conquer. We shall occupy” [Numbers 14:9]. And that is what Allah needed. Faith in Jehovah gave them the victory’.
14. Page 36:21-36, ‘21So everybody should take what you are hearing seriously’. All that we are hearing from the Son of Man we should take them very seriously.
15. ‘If you want to be a resident of hell fire, there is no problem about that…’. You are the one making the choice. ‘…but make sure that you do not drag others there. 22But be it known to you that your iniquity is upon your head. Your righteousness is equally upon your head. My child cannot be saved because I am THE SON OF MAN’.
16. That is why we say there is no message like this. God saying my child cannot be saved because he is a child of the Son of Man. He has to be obeying, to be following instruction.
17. Are they playing with it today? No! We have read it that the family is striving everyday making sure they are abiding by the instruction of the Lord. Then we said this is our example. This family is our example. If we want to pattern after anything, it must be after this family.
18. ‘None of My children will be saved because the person is THE SON OF MAN’s biological child. 23If there is anything like that, it would have started with Moses. Was Moses’ wife saved? Even his two children, where they saved? What about Samuel, the Prophet.
19. Were his wife and children saved? What about Eli the high priest. Was his wife or any of his children [Hophni and Phinehas] saved? 24But look at a stranger who was co-opted as a servant.
20. A stranger! Samuel, now heard the voice of God. He was now the person God used. But Eli the high priest, his wife and children, all dropped. Renegades! Banished from the presence of God.
21. 25This was the reason God vowed that He is going to give a punishment to the family of Eli for which no sacrifice or plea will ever atone or make Him change His mind.
22. And it was as a result of the life of the high priest, his wife and children and the abominations thereof. 26And as soon as God’s Ark of Covenant left the house of Eli, salvation also left that house because of the sin of a woman and her children, who where taking things casually; who where never serious; who where make-ups’.
23. They where makeups, never serious, playing with the things of God, playing with the word of God, when God Himself does not play with His word. Do you know that the word of God keeps God sleepless? It gives Him sleepless nights.
24. Once He has spoken, He must make sure He brings it to pass. A time came He had to say, ‘I want to make sure that the word of my servant Elijah comes to pass’. Then the lying spirit said, ‘My Lord send me’ because He is the God of all spirits.
25. So you can see that He remains restless till His word comes to pass. Then if God does not play with His word, who are you to play with His word and go free?
26. Page 41:34-37, ‘34SO, YOUR INIQUITY IS UPON YOU. YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS UPON YOU. YOUR DESTRUCTION IS ON YOUR HEAD. GOD WILL NOT PUNISH YOUR WIFE BECAUSE OF YOUR INIQUITY.
27. 35GOD WILL ALSO NOT PUNISH YOU BECAUSE OF THE INIQUITY OF YOUR WIFE. GOD WILL NOT PUNISH THE PARENTS BECAUSE OF THE INIQUITY OF THE CHILDREN.
28. 36EVERYBODY’S INIQUITY IS UPON THE PERSON’S HEAD, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT. BETTER BELIEVE IT NOW. WHY? SALVATION WILL COME TO INDIVIDUALS. 37If any of Noah’s children had refused to enter the Ark, would that person be saved?’ Like his first son, he was not saved. ‘When Lot’s wife refused to go further, was she saved. Was she given any consideration?’. There was no consideration.
29. Page 43:40, ‘40ANYBODY WHO IS COMMITTING INIQUITY AND LIVING IN DISOBEDIENCE, GOD IS SEEING IT AS A DELIBERATE ACT. YOU ARE DOING IT WILLFULLY. YOU WILL NOT SAY THAT YOU ARE IGNORANT OF THE TRUTH’.
30. Why is God seeing it as a deliberate act? It is because we have been well taught. If we were not taught it would have been a different thing but let me use the words of Bishop Isaac Igwe, we have been over taught by God.
31. There is nothing that God has not done in us. Not just once but He has gone over and over, revising and revising these things with us.
32. What is this iniquity? What you know is wrong and you continue in it. You keep living in disobedience, God is seeing it as a deliberate act. You are doing it willfully, you will not say that you are ignorant of the truth. Is ignorance an excuse? It is a deliberate misfortune.
33. Page 45:44, ‘44WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE AND WHEREVER YOU BELONG MUST MANIFEST IN YOUR CHARACTER’. If you belong to God it will manifest in your character.
34. If you believe God and you receive God it will manifest in your character. Character is our transporter. That is what is carrying us and it will show clearly who is who.
35. Who Has Been God’s Counselor? Page 128:63-64, ‘WHO HAS EVER BEEN GOD’S COUNSELOR? When the Apostles and disciples came to this type of revelation about the master who changed from being a servant to a Son; from a Son to a Prophet; from a Prophet to Apostle: from Apostle to Messiah; from Messiah to Almighty God’.
36. You see, they came to that revelation as we have come to it now. This is because as at the beginning, we all saw Him as Apostle but we began to see that He is no other person but the Almighty Himself.
37. We where ignorant even of that message of Bro Branham that said, “No other person is coming behind me but the Almighty God”. This was the revelation that former Bishop Nath caught.
38. “Nobody is coming behind me but the Omnipotent, the Almighty, the very Christ Himself”. When the Apostles got this revelation, they said, “Master, you do not speak to us in parable again, it is just plain”.
39. Who then would be foolish to say I am ignorant when you know the personality that is talking to you is no other person but the Creator of the Universe?
40. He has decided to hide Himself because He said so, “A little while the world seeth me no more but you, a privileged few will have the opportunity to see me for I will be with you till the end.
41. The world seeth me no more”. For they are not even expecting the Comforter, they cannot receive Him. It is only the true elect that can receive Him.
42. You can now see why the Hindus say if the Lord wants to hide Himself, he will hide as a human being, as a man.
43. ‘64When He made it plain to them, He no longer spoke to them in parables, in proverbs, in figures, in types, they exclaimed, “Now, everything has been laid bare. Now, we are equipped with all we need to know about you. No wonder things have been going the way they have going. Help our unbelief”. Help our unbelief.
44. They cried out, “Lord help our unbelief”. That is the truth. Help us Master for we know you are God. Please, do not bypass us. We said, “Oh this temptation and trial, Father help us”.
45. Then at the end He said ‘Yes, you that have accepted me and been obedient to My instructions, I will help you’. He is a loving and a caring Father.
…ALL I NEED IN MY LIFE IS CHRIST. CHRIST IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME. HOW MANY WILL LIKE TO HEAR FROM ME? I AM BODILY PRESENT AND ALSO SPIRITUALLY. WHATEVER HEAVEN IS MADE UP OF IS HERE. THE POWER UPHOLDING THE UNIVERSE IS HERE. WHATEVER YOU THINK GOD IS MADE UP OF IS HERE. THE DEITY IS HERE. YET, MANY DO NOT KNOW. IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE, THROW IT AWAY. BUT I AM SURE AND CERTAIN THAT HE THAT CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH IS HERE THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW HIM. HE IS HERE PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY. THE TOTALITY OF WHAT GOD IS ALL ABOUT IS HERE.
MY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ME (OPI SERIES); Preached in 2001; Pg. 23 vs. 1 – 2
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THE OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US
Proverbs 13:13-14, ‘13Despise God’s Word and find yourself in trouble. Obey it and succeed’.
2. This word of God we are talking about is the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name, for He and His word are one.
3. ‘14The advice of a wise man refreshes like water from a mountain spring. Those accepting it become aware of the pitfalls on ahead’ LBV.Yes. sir
4. The wisest man upon this Earth is the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name. Whatever He is telling us helps us to see the pitfalls ahead of us.
5. Once we are paying heed to the word of God, we cannot fall into those pitfalls because He has already shown us the danger that is ahead of us. What is He doing today? Warning us of the dangers that is lying ahead of us.
6. The period we are in is a period that we love our God and love means to abide in and obey Him. He said, if you love me, keep my commandments. Loving God means abiding in and obeying His teachings.
7. Triumphant Entry Into Paradise Chapter 4:56, ‘56Brethren, we must be very careful including ministers. Anybody who has been called to follow must of a necessity be very much obedient and careful so that we do not run into trouble’.
8. There are two key words there, obedient and careful. It did not say you should be obedient and careless or carefree. Can you be obedient and carefree? No! Be obedient and very careful.
9. This is what is expected of us in this hour that we are. We must be obedient for we have been called to follow. It is a privilege, it is not a right. There were many out there. Out of the many, He made a choice for the choice is His to make.
10. The choice belongs to no man. It is He that decides who follows Him. For giving us this kind of privilege, the advice we are getting says, ‘This is the period we have to be obedient and careful or else we run into trouble’.
11. Chapter 4:60-61, ‘60What are we saying? God is saying that we must be very careful at a time like this so that we do not become part of what God is doing today and then cannot pick up our own ticket’.
12. You see, many are a part of what God is doing today and yet they cannot pick up the ticket. ‘We cannot pick salvation in the ocean of salvation, you are seeing it, you are even touching it but take your own; you refused to take it, you are standing still, it will do you no good at all.
13. 61But as surely as God liveth and extended His hand of salvation to us, let us be humble enough, let us be obedient enough, let us be submissive enough as to go down, bend down and say, “My Lord, give me my own”, and you receive your own because now it is clearer that not everybody was sealed into the Ark, so that we do not deceive ourselves in the ocean of salvation and we go home without salvation. Amen’.
14. We must be careful, it is a very delicate moment. God is telling us at this point in time to lay hold on Eternal Life. Lay hold on Eternal Life, do not play with it. The opportunity has been given to us.
15. I always love the song my wife keeps singing I will never, never stop my journey half way until I reach my home.
16. Chapter 5:3, ‘3I have told you, I am still repeating it that the most important thing is not jubilating that the testimony has been sealed and the book closed.
17. The greatest testimony you should share is that you are sure and certain that even if the Heaven and the Earth will shatter into pieces, be removed in their places or positions; that your name is engraved there.
18. Otherwise, what is awaiting you is something you cannot bear. You will regret the day you were born’.
19. When Jesus called the Apostles plus the seventy in His day, after teaching them, He sent them out among the wolves. They went and came back and they boasted that even the Devil obeyed them.
20. He told them no, do not rejoice because the devil obeyed you but rejoice because your name is written in the lambs book of Life. This is what God is telling us today that our joy should be that our name is there.
21. Hold to it knowing that even if the world shatters your name is there. Hold unto Eternal Life. Do not play with it. Lot’s wife removed her name. The King we saw removed his name for God was the one who placed him there and called him but he listened to a mother which he ought to have ignored. Yes.
22. When you find out that your mother is a counterfeit, ignore her. You find out that anyone around you is a counterfeit, ignore that person.
23. But look at Timothy’s mother and thank God we have Timothy in our day and your mother will never encourage you in the wrong. She is not that type.
24. Chapter 5:18-19, ‘18This heart of unbelief is not a big thing. Unbelief is not like this building, it is just like calling a man a poor man. You are not a poor man because you have no money.
25. You might be poor even being a millionaire. You can be a millionaire and yet you are still poor. Thus, a poor man is not one without money but one without Christ’.
26. The world today are making their noise and God decided to show them that your money is useless nonsense. When COVID19 came, how many of them could withstand the sickness? Don’t they have the money? They do! Their money could do nothing for them because they do not have Christ.
27. That is why they ended in their graves. Showing them that with your money without Christ you are useless nonsense.
28. ‘19A poor man is not one without material things of the world, but a poor man is one that can boast of having every good thing in the world but he has no Christ’.
29. As long as I have Christ, I am rich. But a man can have all the landed properties and all material things, but he is poor because he does not have Christ. Nobody carries those things to the grave. It is only yourself and your box.
30. ‘He does not have salvation; he has no hope of Eternal Life. He is the most miserable being that should be pitied upon the earth. The day such a person is born is cursed’.
31. Chapter 5:24-25, ‘24TAKE HEED, TAKE HEED. TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED. WE HAVE COME TO A VERY DELICATE POINT IN THE HISTORY OF THE BRIDAL FAITH.
32. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN HOW DELICATE THE HOUR IS, IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE BLIND. ALL GOD TOLD US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING ARE BEING REVISITED TO HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND KNOW YOUR STATUS IN CHRIST.
33. THAT IS THE WHOLE AIM. 25IF YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR STATUS IN CHRIST, DO NOT REST UNTIL YOU HAVE DISCOVERED IT OR ELSE YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME. IT GOES BEYOND MAKING NOISE, IT GOES BEYOND PREACHING, IT GOES BEYOND LEADING US IN PRAISES, IT GOES BEYOND HOSPITALITY’.
34. It goes beyond all these things. The Almighty is letting us know that at this hour all the messages that are coming forth is to help us know our status in Christ. We thank God.
35. If you must fight anything, fight the spirit of unbelief that is at work in you. God told us that unbelief is not in the Church it is in the family, it is in individuals.
36. Chapter 5:64, ‘64You might be asking, ‘Where is that heart of unbelief in me?’ And God will raise this matter and say, ‘What does your doctrine say concerning this matter?
37. Then what have you done?’ Is there any good way of doing a wrong thing? Any reasonable excuse for these things?’.
38. Somebody can be asking, where is the unbelief in my heart? And all those questions God is hearing it loud and clear. If God said unbelief is in the family, believe Him that it is in the family and fight it because it is a disease and it is a contagious one as well that you can pass across to another person.
39. The great matter is; is your heart right with God who is Apostle Peter Odoemena Blessed be His Most Holy Name? Once we accept Him as the true and living God, we owe it as a duty to accept and believe and also practice all that He would tell us and that will be our righteousness in His sight.
40. For you cannot say you have accepted Him and what He has told you to do, you are not doing it. The life He wants you to live you are not living it.
41. things He wants you to do in the faith you are not doing it and you are still asking the question where is the unbelief in me? It is already evidently clear because once you believe, you will act. The evidence of believe is action.
42. Chapter 5:68-71, ‘Whatever the faith of Christ does not permit, should not be permitted by anybody. Whatever the faith of Christ permits, must be permitted by all that belong to God.
43. However, do we all have the Faith of Christ? Not all have our Faith. Whatever I said concerning Faith, is to those that have the faith’.
44. Those that do not have the faith will not obey. ‘I am talking to those that have the Faith, but to those that do not have the Faith; I am not talking to you. Use that one which you know is your faith, but keep it to yourself. Do not bring it near me.
45. 70I am trying to help you to see what heart of unbelief is all about, lest you begin to think that unbelief means fighting Brother Vin. No! Lest you begin to see it and say, ‘No, I do not believe’ or shaking your head or walking about.
46. 71Unbelief is very simple – as simple as salvation. What it takes to save you is simple faith and not compound faith. What is more, the Message of salvation is the simplest Message with the greatest impact’.
47. Chapter 5:74, ‘74May God bless all of you and preserve you within this period we have rolled in. May God see you through in all your activities and keep you safe and secured from all manifestations of unbelief until we are clothed with immortality. This is my earnest prayer’.
48. This is the prayer that God has made for us. We must take our time to follow all the instructions that we are receiving from God. This is not the period to be careless.
49. It is not a time for mind wondering. God has told us that if you could not achieve many of your desires before this period we rolled into, is it now you are going to achieve it? This is the period to simply follow Him.
50. Whatever we can do He will tell us to do. If the opportunity is there to go to school, you will go. If it is not there, Eternal Life is far greater than school. Eternal Life is far greater than work or any business.
This is why God made that loving prayer for us. He is indeed a Loving and a Caring Father. He has told us not to rest until we are clothed with immortality. AMEN.