WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES INTRODUCTION

WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES? INTRODUCTION A Teaching Delivered ON Sunday 21^st January 2024 AT

THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The LORD God Almighty

Transcribed by Bishop David Mbah, Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State.

^[11]If the Jewish priests and their laws had been able to save us, why then did God need to send Christ as a priest with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of sending someone with the rank of Aaron—the same rank all other priests had? ^[12-14]And when God sends a new kind of priest, his law must be changed to permit it. As we all know, Christ did not belong to the priest-tribe of Levi, but came from the tribe of Judah, which had not been chosen for priesthood; Moses had never given them that work. ^[15]So we can plainly see that God’s method changed, for Christ, the new High Priest who came with the rank of Melchizedek, ^[16]did not become a priest by meeting the old requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but on the basis of power flowing from a life that cannot end. ^[17]And the psalmist

points this out when he says of Christ, “You are a priest forever with the rank of Melchizedek.” ^[18]Yes, the old system of priesthood based on family lines was canceled because it didn’t work. It was weak and useless for saving people. ^[19]It never made anyone really right with God. But now we have a far better hope, for Christ makes us acceptable to God, and now we may draw near to him.^[20]God took an oath that Christ would always be a Priest, ^[21] although he never said that of other priests. Only to Christ he said, “The Lord has sworn and will never change his mind: You are a Priest forever, with the rank of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:11-21, Living Bible.

Christ has remained here on earth. The only difference is that He has been changing personality. But it has been that same old Eternal Spirit that has been incarnating and re-incarnating. And that is why people missed Him due to blindness. They are waiting for Him to come back and answer “Jesus.” …… All I am trying to say is this: That we are sure and certain that we are following God and not man for He is the only person that will speak and it will come to pass. …… Do not ever be tempted to say that God does not want Me to speak. No! I am coming up with the Message. Satan made a mistake. I documented those things for your sake. And as for Me, the entire Message is in Me. I say, I am the Message. Amen!

THE SON OF MAN

NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28^th February, 1999; Pg. 18, Pg. 48 vs. 10 – 11 & Pg. 54 vs. 6 & 8

INTRODUCTION

PRAYER

Our Heavenly Father we come before You crying “Holy to Your Name” for Your Name is Holy and must be revered. Throughout all our generations, we hold You to a high esteem for there is no other God besides Thee.

As long as we live, we recognize no other. You are sufficient for us. The God of Israel. The only One that ruleth over the affairs of men, in Whom there is no variableness.
We have come to You this very hour just as we are, hiding nothing from You for You know us more than we know ourselves.
You know what you used in forming all of us. You created us for Your own use and purpose. We are just ordinary clay in your hands.
Father, You are the Potter. Whatever You want to make of us are all in Your hands. Anybody You want to destroy, You will. Nobody will query You. Anybody You want to save, You will. Nobody will query You.
No matter how we praise You, it does not add to what You are. It can never subtract from what You are. Our righteousness means nothing to You. Our evil means nothing to You, for You do not benefit from any. Neither do You lose anything from any.
We are all [Father] doing everything for ourselves, for we are the people that need Your help. You do not need our help. You have been sojourning alone. Before You created us, You existed. You were not [O God] complaining of Your solitude.
You just decided to bring us into existence, and decided within yourself after the counsel of your own will to make us [O God] partakers of Your Kingdom, sharers of your inheritance simply because You wanted to.
Whatever we are today and whatever we shall be [Father] in the future is nothing but what You have decided to make us. Can a man [O God] make anything for himself? Absolutely nothing.
Whatever plan we are making, they are useless nonsense, for if you do not establish any plan, what we are doing is just sheer waste of time. So, we depend on you completely O God.
Holistically, this morning, we surrender ourselves to You. Search us and try us. Try our reins and our hearts after truth. Try every aspect of our being. Try our intellect, our minds and our thoughts peradventure [O God] there is anywhere wickedness is hiding which is disobedience to Your Word.
Wherever that spirit is hiding in us, we might not know it. This day, O God, we pray. Search all of them out, and flush them out of our systems. We really want to be yours and yours alone, knowing that we are coming back naked to You Father.
The same way we came empty handed and naked, we are surrendering everything back to where we got all of them. If there be anything we have today which we will be priding ourselves about, Father, they are all earthly. They are sensual. They cannot foster our goal.
For that reason, when we are leaving this planet earth, we are not even taking a grain of sand out of it. Teach us this wisdom. Teach us to number our days so that we incline our hearts unto wisdom, unto those things that are necessary, O God.
May we never for any reason at all surrender to the fashions of this world– to the fashions of this world. May our affections be on things that are on high. May our affections be on things that are eternal.
Father, may we give little or no attention to material existential things which are likely to disappoint us even as we hold them in our hands. They fail us everyday.
But You have never failed all that have put their trust and confidence in You. We have too many records behind us we can rest our legs and say, “Really, You have remained faithful from the word go.” And till the end, You will remain faithful. From everlasting to everlasting, You will remain faithful.
We bow before You and implore Your mercy, Your loving-kindness upon ourselves and upon every Elect of God scattered all over the world. We make this solemn plea on their behalf, that Your love and mercy will project towards all, young and old, even the destitutes, physically challenged persons, those that are languishing in the dungeons [Father] provided they belong to You. Those that are in their sick beds in various hospitals, those that are in limbo [Father] even in the villages without any help in sight, be there for all.
Let there be not even one that took his origin from You that will be trapped here on earth. Let the blind, the cripple, all of them be beneficiaries of this eternal salvation which we have received this day.
Help us O God to consolidate on our gains by remaining obedient to Your Word. Let there be nothing in us or around us that will make us to doubt [Father] Your promises or to doubt whether You will save us or not, for we are sure and certain that You will do that which you have promised. Otherwise, You would not have identified Yourself with us.
Of all people here on earth, we are the most privileged, selected by You, chosen by You for salvation and not for destruction.
And to confirm it O God, the fullness of Thy Deity came down among us. We can now see the Adonai feeding under the Cloud, surrounding us, surrounding every family. Every individual that took his origin from You.
Father, that is the basis of our rejoicing. Any other thing is useless, baseless and of little or non-effect.
We therefore plead with You. Speak to our hearts this morning. Reach out and correct every error and every imbalance. Wherever there is any noticeable fault [Father], address it today.
Give us listening ears. Give us believing hearts. Reach out to all and sundry today that will hear this Message. May they have a rethink and do that which is right in Your sight.
Create no room for the devil to tempt our hearts away or to tempt our minds away as we stay in Your presence to hear Your Word. Speak and we are ready to hear and obey, for Your Name’s sake O LORD we pray. Amen.

If you belong to the Elect, believing God to be Man, it is an easy case. There is nothing difficult there. But if you do not belong to the Elect, it is an unbearable saying which attracts death penalty. ……. And that is to show you how far you have gone, because if He that is in our midst has come to repeat exactly what we have known of in the Pentecostals, what is then the essence of God sending Him? That is why, when He appeared on the scene, we received something one million miles away from something we knew before, yet everything agreed with the Holy Scriptures. Then we can say, “We know you are a Man of God, for the Word of God coming out from your mouth is truth.” We have verified everything. Even if you command us today to lie down, we will lie down at Thy Word. Why? We have verified. We are sure that the Word of God coming out of your mouth is the Truth.

THE SON OF MAN

NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28^th February, 1999; Pg. 74 & Pg. 98 vs. 34 – 35

IT TAKES GOD TO INVITE YOU TO HIMSELF

Be seated everybody.

SONG: [We are ready to obey Thy Word. We are ready to obey Thy Word. We are ready to obey the Living Word of God. We are ready to obey Thy Word.

Let the Spirit of the LORD Come down upon us. Let the Spirit of the LORD come down. Let the Spirit of the LORD from Heaven come down. Let the Spirit of the LORD come down.
We are ready to obey Thy Word. We are ready to obey Thy Word. We are ready to obey the Living Word of God. We are ready to obey Thy Word.]
I hope you are ready to obey His Word?
SONG: [Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy with the LORD but to trust and obey.
When we walk with the LORD in the Light of His Word, what a glory He sheds on our way. While we do His good will, He abides with us still, and with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy with the LORD but to trust and obey.]
That is the only way you can be happy with the LORD. If you do not trust and obey Him, you will not have peace if you are a Seed of God.
If you are constantly in default and you refuse to do something in your life, something you do not even envisage will take you unawares. Sooner than you think, you will be removed from His presence once and for all.
Remember where you are, all of you that are here today to worship with us in this studio, this is a different place altogether. This is the place where the Word that is shaking the hour comes from.
You have come to the City of the Most High God. This is God’s awful entrance to Heaven. This is God’s awful entrance to Heaven.
All that are here today, it is not your right. You have been privileged to be in God’s own Holy Habitation—Holy residence.
This is where the Almighty God who ruleth the whole world is residing, hiding Himself in simplicity among the trees, making it impossible for people to notice Him so as to give Him His due honour and worship.
The Prophet Isaiah said, “You are the God that specializes in hiding Yourself among the trees”, the trees referring to human beings. “You hide yourself among human beings. You make it impossible for people to identify You so as to worship You, give You Your due honour and respect.”
REFERENCE: Isaiah 45:15, NIV.¹⁵Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.
And the LORD Himself acknowledged it as He said, “I hide Myself among My creatures for I take delight in hiding Myself. I choose to be so.”
That was why, in the days of the LORD Jesus Christ, even his own brothers and sister challenged him, “If you know that what you are doing is true and is of God, why do you not go out where people will see you? Why must you stay only here among us to be telling us all these things? Why not go out? The crowd will meet you there!”
Reference: John 7:3-4, TLB. ^[3]and Jesus’ brothers urged him to go to Judea for the celebration.
“Go where more people can see your miracles!” they scoffed. ^[4]“You can’t be famous when you hide like this! If you’re so great, prove it to the world!”
³So His brothers said to Him, Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do. [This is no place for You.] ⁴For no one does anything in secret when he wishes to be conspicuous and secure publicity. If You[must] do these things [if You must act like this], show Yourself openly and make Yourself known to the world!
And you know that wherever the crowd is, you see nothing but carrion vultures. I say, only carrion vultures. True or false?
Amarachi, it is your popular slogan. It is Amarachi’s anthem. Read it! Hold your Bible to yourself. Let nobody ever share Bible with anybody. If you do not have a copy of the Bible, it is because you do not want.
You should have your personal copies because here, I do not like people using handsets to search Scriptures or to read from handsets. No! Until I command. When the handset was not in existence, we were reading the Bible. True or false?
Read it there in the Book of Matthew Chapter 24. I think I am correct. Announce the verse. Pay attention!
Matthew 24 from verse 26 through 28. ^26-28“So if they say, ‘Run to the country and see him arrive!’… See who arrive? THE SON OF MAN. The Son of Righteousness. Run to this place. You will see Him there. Run to the other place. You will see Him there. He said, “Do not listen to them.”
[INTERLUDE] Pastor Chizoba. My discipline will start with you. Remember you have done what others did and died. You are now stepping your legs into those big shoes which people that stepped into it died. Only one man stepped into it and remained alive.
Why did he remain alive? In his youth, he was vibrant with the truth. He was holding the truth without compromise. He never for one day deceived Himself. And he never jumped into it because it is a choice people have made and died.
^26-28“So if they say, ‘Run to the country and see him arrive!’ or, ‘Quick, get downtown, see him come!’ don’t give them the time of day. The Arrival of the Son of Man isn’t something you go to see. …
The arrival of Who? …the Son of Man… So they knew He must arrive. Did He promise He will be back? Yes! When I shall return, the world will be in a sodomite condition. You begin to see all those things that happened in time past repeating because I am on the scene.
The arrival of the son of man is not something people will begin to tell you, “Go to Enugu! He is coming from the sky. Go to Nsukka!” No nonono! Wherever you are, He is leading you there.
If you know Who you are serving, better for you. Of course, common sense should have told all of you that every first day of the week, you do not stay in your bed beyond 3AM.
Such things you do when you wake up after your morning prayers, you take your bath and then go out.
GO AND PUT THE SANCTUARY [WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO STAY] IN ORDER. PUT IT IN ORDER IMMEDIATELY.
All the microphones must have new new batteries, for which cause we are spending the money to make sure that we will not use anything called battery that will disappoint us.
Within a week now, I bought a full packet. What is the reason for saving it? Am I complaining.
THE WISEST WAY OF SPENDING MONEY IS SPENDING IT ON THE THINGS OF CHRIST. THAT IS THE WISEST WAY OF SPENDING YOUR MONEY.
We spend on frivolities, but we find it difficult to spend on things pertaining to Christ. You do not know how many souls that have benefitted from this particular studio.
From here, all human beings throughout the whole earth have the opportunity to be saved. This is the only place God had chosen to place His Name, from where He is reaching out to other people out there, throughout the four corners of the earth.
If you like, be in the desert. He will meet you there. Do not run helter-skelter looking for THE SON OF MAN.
… The Arrival of the Son of Man isn’t something you go to see. He comes like swift lightning to you! …
He comes to you! He comes to you! You do not require to be running helter-skelter. He will come to you, for He knows where you are and because you belong to Him. This is true! Every true Jew– A true Jew does not run up and down to worship God.
He stays in his house to worship God. He knows that on that great day of the great assembly of God’s children, God will come there and take them. God Himself will come and take them to Himself.
If the Father never called you, nobody has ever called you. If God has not invited you to Himself, nobody has ever done that. It takes God to invite you to Himself.
[interlude] This one is dead. This battery is dead. It has hibernated. I bought two packets. Then where is the problem coming from? Or are you giving room to the devil so that you will blame the devil? Find out where the problem is coming from before I will open the Scriptures, for I am coming with a Teaching that will last long. I say, I am coming with a Teaching that will last long. Make sure everything is in order.
But why must it be now that I am on the stage? That is sheer carelessness or stupidity. You cannot be adjusting these things because I am on the stage already. I should have not less than three microphones prepared for Me because you cannot have Me always. Moreso, when I have decided to handle a Teaching to correct all imbalances arising out of misinterpretation and misapplication.
Today will be one of the greatest days in the history of all that belong to the Faith of THE SON OF MAN. Where I took off is exactly where I am landing now. Now I am landing there, it is all over, for that was where I took off.

when you know the Source of the Spoken Word, that the Source of Spoken Word is the Message of God sent to you in your day, happy are you. That He has become a human being, living among you, married with children, is not deviating from the order. It has been God’s way from the beginning. ……. While I am here, I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows Me can never grope in darkness. Take Me away, you are living in darkness, and you must stumble. I say, you must stumble because I am paving the way for you. Did you get what I said? No matter the way you look at it, across the other way, you cannot hear another voice than the One you are hearing now. All that have been privileged to be taken over to the other side, they never heard any other voice than the Voice of the Bridegroom that is speaking in our midst. Are you getting what I am saying? …

THE SON OF MAN

NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28^th February, 1999; Pg. 178 vs. 14 & Pg. 179 vs. 17 – 18

NOBODY RECOMMENDS ANYBODY TO GOD [1]

Matthew 24:26-28, MSG. ^26-28“So if they say, ‘Run to the country and see him arrive!’ or, ‘Quick, get downtown, see him come!’ don’t give them the time of day. The Arrival of the Son of Man isn’t something you go to see. He comes like swift lightning to you!

You do not need to go to Him. How can you go to somebody you do not know? You do not need to go to Him. He will come to you. He knows you. He knows your dwelling place. He knows everything about you. Nobody directs God where to go and where not to go.
Whenever you see crowds gathering, think of carrion vultures circling, moving in,…Whenever you see great crowds gathering, I mean, people climbing upon the other, “Great revival! Great crusade!”, with people numbering millions, this and that, people might be rejoicing that they are pulling crowd.
Whenever you see crowds gathering, think of carrion vultures circling,…Think of what? Carrion vultures circling. Vultures! That is what inundates such gatherings.
…think of carrion vultures circling, moving in, hovering over a rotting carcass. Hovering over what? A rotten Message! Rotten! Earthly! You see earthly people surrounding earthly Messengers.
All these earthly messengers, their messages are from the earth. And they point people to earthly things. For that reason, those that are earthly will surround them.
But when a Heavenly Messenger appears on the scene, only those who proceeded from heaven will hear Him, and they are always in the minority. They do not even go to Him. He goes to them. Nobody even directs anybody to Him.
If you talk of Nathanael, Nathanael was not directed to Him, for He saw Nathanael. Before ever his brother Philip could go there, He had already seen Him. He knew him as a man of good heart.
He had already pinpointed Nathanael before ever his brother went to him and began to tell him, “My friend, we have seen the Man whom the law and the Prophets spoke about.”
Then Nathanael queried, “Who could be this?” Philip replied, “I mean, the Messiah—the Prophet. We have seen Him.” Nathanael asked, “Where?” Philip replied, “Bethlehem!” Nathanael said, “You have spoiled everything. Why Bethlehem? Can anything good come out of Bethlehem?” “Come and see” was the reply.
But before all those things, the LORD had already seen Him and had already known him. The man who went to him was his brother. Could he discern the heart of Nathanael?
But the Master who saw him saw his heart, knew everything about Nathanael and told him, “You are an Israeli whose heart is pure who has no guile. There is nothing bitterness in your heart.”
REFERENCE: John 1:45-48, AMP.⁴⁵Philip sought and found Nathanael and told him, We have found (discovered) the One Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote about–Jesus from Nazareth, the [legal] son of Joseph!
⁴⁶Nathanael answered him, [Nazareth!] Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip replied, Come and see!
⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said concerning him, See! Here is an Israelite indeed [a true descendant of Jacob], in whom there is no guile nor deceit nor falsehood nor duplicity!
⁴⁸Nathanael said to Jesus, How do You know me? [How is it that You know these things about me?] Jesus answered him, Before [ever] Philip called you, when you were still under the fig tree, I saw you.
Who could say such a thing concerning a human being. God knows that the heart of man is very deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it if not God. He singled the young man out. A different man in his own day.
It is just like the centurion—the incomparable man—the Roman centurion posted to the Jews.
So, nobody directs anybody to God. Nobody recommends anybody to God. You do not need to run to God. IF YOU BELONG TO GOD, STAY WHERE YOU ARE.
for every true Seed of God must be positionally placed where he will– where she will acknowledge what God is doing in his or her day. And will not only do that, but will also be a part of it. Did you get the Message?
BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ELECT, GOD CANNOT BYPASS ANY ELECT. IF YOU ARE NUMBERED AMONG THE CHOSEN ONES OF GOD, CHOSEN FOR SALVATION, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO KEEP SERVING GOD THE MUCH YOU KNOW. ONE DAY WILL BE YOUR TURN. EVERY DOG MUST HAVE A DAY.
Check how you came into this Faith of THE SON OF MAN. If someone brought you in, you have not come in.

If somebody used sweet words and empty promises, promised you marriage and promised you this and that, only to bring you in– promised you healing, promised miracle, promised employment, for there are too many things people can promise just to bring somebody into their fold, that is Pentecostalism. That is the Pentecostal way.

If you are a Seed of God, the whole thing takes you unawares. It is like a dream. You would not say, this is your experience. You will be there. Before you know it, it will bottle up in you. The LORD will come your way spiritually.
Before you know it, He will manifest physically just to justify what had already taken place in your heart. That is why somebody who has that conviction has a sure anchor.
That is where I blame too many people that tell lies. They came with different motives but not eternal life. That is why the moment they achieve their aim, they become weak. They cannot move any further.
But one who is here for eternal life will never rest until the body he is wearing is translated from mortal to immortal. That is the fullness, the completeness of your salvation.
But if there be any other thing that brought you here, truly speaking, once you achieve it, you are going to be cold. You will be cold. You will develop cold feet. The zeal will vanish. Your strength is gone because God has settled you. This is true.
I use to hear from Pentecostals singing in their song, “God settle me so that I will rejoice with my mates.” How do you want God to settle you.
What it means is that if God settles you, you were a tenured servant to God. You want God to establish you by setting up a business for you. “God settle me so that I will rejoice with my mates.” Who are these people you refer to as your mates?
I hope nobody has that spirit here. “LORD settle me so that I will rejoice with my mates.” What type of service did you render to God for Him to settle you?
YouR reward is an eternal reward. And that is eternal life. Finish! Remember your reward.
But if you want money, you want this and you want that, when you are settled with a job, you will run away. If you are settled with a wife, you develop cold feet to the things of God. If you are settled in anything, your ministry is finished.
If God settles you and you have children like our Sister filed her own here, and that will become her treasure, “So all these children are mine.” For that, God is finished.
You are not in Paradise because you have children. You are not in Paradise because you are married. Rather, assignment has been given to you to bring them up in the fear and admonition of the LORD, or else you have wasted your time and energy. You may even go to hell because of them.
If they become such a distraction that you can no longer have time for Christ, all your time will be devoted to rearing children, you are perishing with your children.
You see carrion vultures around earthly messages to devour rotten carcass
… Whenever you see crowds gathering, think of carrion vultures circling, moving in, hovering over a rotting carcass. You can be quite sure that it’s not the living Son of Man pulling in those crowds.
Sure!!! You can be what? You can be quite sure that it cannot be the LivingSon of Man, not dead one, not previous one. The present son of man can never pull such a crowd. Go to such a ground, He is not there.
The Resurrected Body cannot pull such a crowd around Himself for He does the selection of the people that He will work with, and they will work with Him.
Nobody imposes himself or herself on Him. The choice is His, and when He makes His choice, it is absolutely final. If you like grumble and murmur, that is your business. It is a settled matter.
That is why, if two are not favoured, they are in danger of losing one. They may be husband and wife in the bed. One will be taken, but the other left. They may be in the farm. One will be taken, but the other left. So they will be in the mill. One will be taken, but the other left.
Be very careful that you are not rejecting what God has approved. Otherwise, in the end, the rejected may be the chief cornerstone of the building. This is true.
People that rush first to believe in God do not believe in Him. People that rush first to embrace God do not believe in Him. They embrace gifts. They embrace gifts.
The moment they succeed in getting one gift or the other– it may be gift of healing, speaking in tongues, interpretation and things like that, [Oh!] God is there. They do not know that God is not there. God just threw out the attractions there for the birds of the air and not for the children of the Kingdom.
When the children of the Kingdom will come, they come in singles. They come in singles. And they come on their own because God will send invitation. God will send invitation. They may be mad people. They may be prostitutes. They may be anything.
He gives a command to His son, “Go to the streets. Get anybody who will be willing to follow you. Bring that person to Me.” That’s all! At His command, they will do it. He will equally go with them. He knows those that will follow and those that will not follow.
And at the end of it all, there will be one that must reject the uniform. He will be inside o, but he will reject the uniform. Others will be given the dress they will put on—The White Garment which represents the righteousness of the Saints.
They will put it on, but there will be one wicked one who loves himself, who will find fault with that dress. He will refuse to take that dress and still sit inside the Fellowship. Then God will spot him out and say, “Bundle him out to the outer darkness.”
When you refuse to receive the Word of God which sanctifies your heart, which makes you holy, then you have not put on the Garment. You have not put on the spirit of Christ.
You can be in the Fellowship of the Saints without possessing the Spirit of Christ, which is your garment—your real dress. That is the righteousness of the Saints. It is not the one you are putting on as your apparel.
I will use carnal things to type spiritual, but not today. Let Me go straight to the matter at stake.
Pray that My legs will see Me through. Pray for Me, and pray for yourselves for I am addressing a serious issue. The devil has packaged many. If you go to the Message, THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN, you will know who is accusing the Brethren.
By the Brethren now, I mean the Saints. Saints are being called out from among the Brethren. So if you happen to be a Saint, nobody can bring any accusation before God against you, for God has already declared you holy in His own sight—perfect.
That is why He sojourns with you freely. He is not afraid of any of you as to whether you will do this or that.
But not all of you are clean. Not all of you are Saints. Among you are also Brethren that have not found their ways into the bosom of the Father. If you have not walked yourself into the bosom of God, that is into the heart of God, your salvation is still in question.
Until you walk yourself into the heart of God, you have not entered the holy of holies where you cannot come out again. Once you walk yourself into the heart of God, the mind of God becomes your own mind.
Everything about Him becomes your attribute for the Scriptures said, “The Saints” which He referred you to, “You have the mind of Christ, and you know all things. And you have no need that anybody should be teaching you even the first oracles of God again” because the mind of God is your mind.
REFERENCE: 1 Corinthians 2:15-16, AMP.¹⁵But the spiritual man tries all things [he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things], yet is himself to be put on trial and judged by no one [he can read the meaning of everything, but no one can properly discern or appraise or get an insight into him].
¹⁶For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.
God’s decision is your decision. As He thinks, so you think. Your line of thinking is the line of thinking of God. Then you have walked yourself into his bosom.
And when you walk yourself in there, you have no secret again with God, for God must reveal to you all things. All things!
That is why, among the brethren, you become an odd ball. You behave differently because of the abundance of revelation you have from Him. He that is in the bosom of the Father knows the mind of the Father. True or false?
You cannot be in the bosom of the son of man without knowing His mind.

Did you get the Message? “Anybody the Son wills deliberately.” It is not because you merit it or you have persuaded Him or you have prayed and prayed, or you have ever found favour. He has just deliberately decided. That is why I keep on telling you in this Faith that you do not know Me yet. In addition, there are things I believe which you do not believe and you do not have My Faith yet. But you are trying to have My Faith. When My Faith will be fully revealed in the Bride, you will know that I am He, but My Faith cannot be fully revealed in the Bride until you have lined up with One Voice

THE SON OF MAN

NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28^th February, 1999; Pg. 185 vs. 27

NOBODY RECOMMENDS ANYBODY TO GOD [2]

So be very careful as we listen to the Message this morning. It is not even a Message but a Teaching. That Teaching, I have handled it in diverse ways, but because of the troubles we are having now and the reports reaching Me from here and there, I know that those reports are coming from people who are not in the truth.

They are coming from people who are fault finders. They are coming from people who are not willing to obey God.
Once you are willing to obey God and walk according to His precepts, all is well with you, for no man can condemn somebody whom God has already justified.
I hope you are hearing Me. So give Me undivided attention. Call My attention back on anything that is not clear to you. That is why I am here in person to handle this matter once and for all.
It is not that I have not been handling it o. I started with it. And now, I am ending with it.
Be it known to you that the son of man has never preached morality. No man has ever been saved because of his high morals. Nobody has ever been declared lost because of his low morals.
The high morals of the Jews could not save them. Rather, it made them to find fault with the LORD Jesus Christ.
If you want morality which is the hypocritical way of preaching tradition and religion– I say, hypocritical way! Evidences abound that people that lay emphasis on morality are not having good morals.
They preach against themselves. They preach against nature, for anything that runs contrary to nature cannot be obeyed. It will be obeyed with the lips. It is full of eye service. Am I making sense?
If you had been to any denomination, anything called church, even religion—traditional religion, protagonists of traditional religion do not practice it. They use it on others to condemn them. But they that use it do not obey them.
Was it not the guilt of the Jews? Why laying such a thing on your brother and on your sister which you are not obeying. A burden they could not carry, that is what they are hanging on the necks of others.
The LORD Jesus warned, “You should not be such Pharisees; Do not be such Sadducees that place a burden upon their fellow human beings, which neither they nor their fathers were able to obey, when they were aware that even if they obey those things, it will not save them.”
REFERENCE: Acts 15:10-11, AMP.¹⁰Now then, why do you try to test God by putting a yoke on the necks of the disciples, such as neither our forefathers nor we [ourselves] were able to endure? ¹¹But we believe that we are saved through the grace (the undeserved favour and mercy) of the Lord Jesus, just as they [are].
Let us take for instance Saint Paul who obeyed all the laws of the Jews without a single fault, with high morals. Yet, he was not saved. He needed salvation.
If high morals could give salvation, Saint Paul would have been number one—first among all his equals. He obeyed all the laws without a single fault as credited to him in the Scriptures which cannot tell lies.
REFERENCES: [1] Acts 26:4-5, TLB.^[4]“As the Jews are well aware, I was given a thorough Jewish training from my earliest childhood in Tarsus and later at Jerusalem, and I lived accordingly. ^[5]If they would admit it, they know that I have always been the strictest of Pharisees when it comes to obedience to Jewish laws and customs.
[2] Philippians 3:4-12, TLB.^[4]Yet if anyone ever had reason to hope that he could save himself, it would be I. If others could be saved by what they are, certainly I could!
^[5]For I went through the Jewish initiation ceremony when I was eight days old, having been born into a pure-blooded Jewish home that was a branch of the old original Benjamin family. So I was a real Jew if there ever was one! What’s more, I was a member of the Pharisees who demand the strictest obedience to every Jewish law and custom.
^[6]And sincere? Yes, so much so that I greatly persecuted the Church; and I tried to obey every Jewish rule and regulation right down to the very last point. ^[7]But all these things that I once thought very worthwhile—now I’ve thrown them all away so that I can put my trust and hope in Christ alone.
^[8]Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have put aside all else, counting it worth less than nothing, in order that I can have Christ,
^[9]and become one with him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting Christ to save me; for God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith—counting on Christ alone.
^[10]Now I have given up everything else—I have found it to be the only way to really know Christ and to experience the mighty power that brought him back to life again, and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with him.
^[11]So whatever it takes, I will be one who lives in the fresh newness of life of those who are alive from the dead. ^[12]I don’t mean to say I am perfect. I haven’t learned all I should even yet, but I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ saved me for and wants me to be.
What can you say about the young lawyer?
REFERENCE: Matthew 19:16-22, TLB.^[16]Someone came to Jesus with this question: “Good master, what must I do to have eternal life?” ^[17]“When you call me good you are calling me God,” Jesus replied, “for God alone is truly Butto answer your question, you can get to heaven if you keep the commandments.”
^[18]“Which ones?” the man asked. And Jesus replied, “Don’t kill, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, ^[19]honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself!” ^[20]“I’ve always obeyed every one of them,” the youth replied. “What else must I do?”
^[21]Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ^[22]But when the young man heard this, he went away sadly, for he was very rich.
[INTERLUDE] We do not hear anything ringing of a phone in this studio. So if you are a new comer today, begin to praise God who brought you here, and walk according to our rules. The Studio abhors any strange noise. We only hear joyful noise emanating from the Saints. From the Throne of God’s Grace, we hear the joyful noise. We make joyful noise unto the LORD. We do not hear strange sound. It is uncertain sound.
I am saying that from the onset, I never laid any foundation for morality. I laid a foundation for spirituality. Spirituality is opposed to morality. Morality is opposed to spirituality.
Morality is mechanical. Spirituality is absolutely spiritual and profitable. Morality is carnal. It is unprofitable. It perishes with the user. It perishes with whoever that must have attained it.
If you want to attain it, up to you. Keep it to yourself. Do not attribute it to your salvation for concerning your salvation, you contribute absolutely nothing. Your duty is to hear and obey. Finish!
I do not know anything that is called work of salvation. Remember I am here to bring all, starting from the first church Age to the last church Age [Branham]. I am here to bring them to perfection.
I am equally here to bring to perfection, starting from Adam and Eve to the last child that will be born here on earth. All of them are looking up to the son of man.
I am running last and I am coming first. I am holding the original baton, for I was there from the very official beginning.
What was the reason for which cause the Jews could not believe in Jesus? Was it not because they adjudged him to be a man of low morals? And he went about picking people of low low morals. Look at what he is raising. Raising drunks, gluttons, prostitutes and things like that. For that reason, they could not believe in Him.
REFERENCE: Luke 7:33-35, KJV.³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. ³⁴The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! ³⁵But wisdom is justified of all her children.
^[33]For John the Baptist used to go without food and never took a drop of liquor all his life, and you said, ‘He must be crazy!’
^[34]But I eat my food and drink my wine, and you say, ‘What a glutton Jesus is! And he drinks! And has the lowest sort of friends!’
^[35]But I am sure you can always justify your inconsistencies.”
³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ ³⁴The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.” ‘ ³⁵But wisdom is proved right by all her children.”
When you look at the man Jesus flogging elderly men in the temple, flogged and pushed them out violently, pushed the tables down because what they were doing in the temple was not good in his sight.
Looking at Him and the violent way He chased elderly people who were older than His father Joseph, the violent way He disgraced and humiliated them out, calling them whitewashed sepulchres;
When you look at Him and his behaviour there, and compare them with the behaviour of your parish priest, to the behaviours of your reverend pastors or your bishop with his big Bible in his hand, with very good three-piece suit, looking gentle, waving the hand, “Alleluia! Bless you! Bless you! Bless you!”
If you look at him, compare that young man [Jesus] with this pious-looking gentle man you think sugar will not melt in his mouth, who will believe Jesus to be a child of God? Who will believe in Him to be God?
You will say, “This boy lacks respect. This boy is insolent. This boy is wild. He is this and that. If He is a child of God, He should have respected the elders. He should have done this and that. Look at him! Look at how violent He is.
He will sit down anywhere and eat, even without washing His hands. He does not care. Everywhere He sees Himself is ideal for Him to eat and drink and then mingle with people. Look at His defense.
If you ask Him, “You say you are a Messiah. Why do you mingle yourself with these people? Do you not know who they are?”” He will tell them to shut up their mouths.
In reply, He will say, “I CAME FOR PEOPLE LIKE THAT. I HAVE NOT COME TO SAVE ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT SAY THAT THEIR HANDS ARE CLEAN. NO! I HAVE NOT COME FOR THESE SELF-RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE.”
You can get all these things from your Bible while I am talking. You do not need to wait for Me. Get all of them there. Put them down.
REFERENCES: [1] Matthew 9:9-13, KJV.⁹And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
¹⁰And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners?
¹²But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. ¹³But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
[2] Mark 2:14-17, NIV.¹⁴As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. ¹⁵While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
¹⁶When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” ¹⁷On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
I have not come for these self-acclaimed righteous people because only he that is sick has need of a physician. If you are not sick, do you have any need for a physician? No! No! these are the people I love.
In the days of saint John, he preached his own message God gave him, and the Bible said, “All the people believed. Even prostitutes and criminals believed John, except the Pharisees, the Scribes and Sadducees. They believed him not.” But “wicked” people, “the most wicked” believed. “The most unrighteous” believed.
So, innocent or guilty, God will destroy you if He wants to. Do you believe that? Good. Can a man proclaim himself innocent before God. Can you declare yourself holy before God.
It takes God to make you holy in His own eyes. And what it takes to be holy in the eyes of God, you may not know until he reveals it to you. Amen.

If there be True Christ, He cannot deny His doctrine, because He changeth not. He will own up His Words. He cannot add or subtract, because He is always mindful of His doctrine. If there be True Christ on the land today, He will restore the whole truth and preach the wholesome doctrine. He cannot be cut and nail. Because He is a Heavenly Messenger, He will point people away from earthly things and point everybody to things concerning heavenly. Ever mindful of eternal life. He can never make merchandise of the Word of God. It is very easy to identify Him and He will always identify the Deity in human form. I say, “He will always acknowledge and preach the Deity in Human form.” Very easy. Amen.

The son of man

CHRIST IS REVEALED IN HUMAN FORM, NOT TO THE WORLD, BUT TO THE TRUE ELECTS; preached on Thursday 26^th August, 1999 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 45 vs. 33 – 37

IF GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU, HE WILL SAVE YOU

So anything I say and you know it is scriptural, look for it immediately. And when you find it, right it down because I am coming there again. That is the essence of standing in the pulpit, having you as Ministers around Me.

When I say Ministers, I include men and women here, young and old because you will hear something from Me that will make you marvel this morning. Yes! It will make you marvel.
I had already implemented it before saying it. I am waiting for the day somebody will write Me and say, “Brother, why have You now permitted even our Sisters to be reading Scriptures when the Bible said they should not be heard. They should not speak. They should learn in silence.” Learn in silence from who?
“If they want anything, if they want to know or they want to be taught, they should consult their husbands.” What if their husband are pagans? What if their husbands are hypocrites? No nononono!
What if the husband cannot search the Scriptures? Do we not have such people? There are places where a man does not know the A B C of the Faith. And then you tell the wife, “Do not ask questions. Do not! Only when you get home.”
Then your foolish, rejected and God-forsaken pastor at home will offer you what? I say, God-forsaken. God’s greatest enemy.
I know women will rejoice today because I am coming their way. The same way I came their way in the beginning to regulate their activities, the same way I have come in the end to put a final full stop in regulating the Saints.
I regulated the Church. I regulated the Brethren. That is the Bride. Now, I am regulating the Saints of God so that they will know where they are heading to.
In the land where I am about to empty you, there is no woman, and there is no man. There is no woman. There is no man. You are all going to be there angelic. You will be angelic there. Only one Man will be the husbandman of all of us, and that is Christ. As it was in the very beginning, so shall it be in the end.
You will now begin to know what Jesus said of the woman who married seven times and never had a child. She died and the question arose, “Master, during the resurrection of the dead, who among the seven will be her rightful husband?”
The Master said, “You are foolish and dull in understanding. Do you not know that in heaven, there is no marriage there? Do you not know that in heaven, you will not be man, and you will not be woman? You will be angels there.”
REFERENCE: [1] Matthew 22:23-30, TLB.^[23]But that same day some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection after death, came to him and asked, ^[24]“Sir, Moses said that if a man died without children, his brother should marry the widow and their children would get all the dead man’s property.
^[25]Well, we had among us a family of seven brothers. The first of these men married and then died, without children, so his widow became the second brother’s wife. ^[26]This brother also died without children, and the wife was passed to the next brother, and so on until she had been the wife of each of them.
^[27]And then she also died. ^[28]So whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For she was the wife of all seven of them!”
^[29]But Jesus said, “Your error is caused by your ignorance of the Scriptures and of God’s power! ^[30]For in the resurrection there is no marriage; everyone is as the angels in heaven. [also found in Mark 12:16-25]
[2] Luke 20:34-36, TLB.^[34-35]Jesus replied, “Marriage is for people here on earth, but when those who are counted worthy of being raised from the dead get to heaven, they do not marry. ^[36]And they never die again; in these respects they are like angels, and are sons of God, for they are raised up in new life from the dead.
And the way angels reproduce is the way you are going to reproduce. What is that angel? Every animal is an angel. No animal knows what sin is. Animals were made sin because of man’s transgression.
The goat did not sin. No animal in the forest committed sin against God. They were all friends to human beings until human beings transgressed. God turned the hearts of animals against human beings.
Human beings began to kill animals. Animals in return, began to kill human beings.
But before then, they were friends. The lion, the adder and every harmful animal today, they were all living in co-habitation with man. Do you believe that to be true?
You should read Prophet Isaiah, to know when you have arrived there in the Garden of Eden, you will be there with all those animals again. They will be your friends again. Not even one [including snakes] will harm anybody. Not even one as it was in the very beginning.
REFERENCE: Isaiah 11:6-10, KJV. ⁶The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
⁷And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
⁹They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. ¹⁰And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
That is full and complete restoration and reconciliation to God. When you are reconciled and restored, you will be reconciled and restored to all creatures as well.
Today, all creatures are still groaning in pains, travailing, waiting for the day sons and daughters of God shall be made manifest in the Garden of Eden. So, all of them will be liberated from the bondage of death.
REFERENCE: Romans 8:19-23, NIV. ¹⁹The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. ²⁰For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Do you think that the chicken you kill is happy to be killed? Did it commit any crime against you? Did God empower you to kill the chickens? Did God command you to kill the goats? Did He command you to kill the cows.
It was not until after the deluge—the destruction of the first world that God commanded Noah and said, “What do you have in your ark? Begin to kill those animals. Use them as meat and as food.” That was all.
So be very very careful this morning that you do not miss the track. You do not miss the track.
If you have your morals that you do not discard, I condemn you not. Keep it to yourself, but do not ever attribute it to God’s plan of salvation. God’s plan of salvation has nothing to do with your morals. I hope you are hearing Me.
The rogue on the cross, what was his morality? Who preached to him? Did he hear “Thus saith the LORD”? was he not on the cross because of the crime he committed? Did he attend any meeting?
IF GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOU, HE WILL SAVE YOU. But with your heart, you must believe unto righteousness. With your mouth, confession will be made unto your salvation.
THE GOD YOU DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE WILL NEVER SAVE YOU. I HOPE YOU ARE HEARING ME. A GOD YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE AS GOD OVER YOU CAN NEVER SAVE YOU. HE CAN NEVER HAVE POWER OVER YOU.
THAT IS WHY THE IDOLS OF YOUR COMMUNITIES CAN NEVER HAVE POWER OVER YOU, FOR YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THEM. YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THEM. NEITHER DO YOU GO CLOSER TO THEM.
SO, THEY DO NOT EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU. I HOPE YOU ARE HEARING ME.
A GOD YOU HAVE REFUSED TO ACCEPT CAN NEVER BEFRIEND YOU. A GOD YOU HAVE NEVER ACCEPTED CANNOT BE IN INTIMACY WITH YOU. NEVER!
Do you not know that before you enter into marital relationship with a woman, you must have been a friend to that woman? One: The desire will be there. Two: the likeness will be there. Then Love will be established.
You do not meet somebody on the way and then you begin to establish love. You must have seen the person, monitored developments around the person, and then befriend the person before love will manifest.
Do you go to somebody you hate and discuss love or discuss marriage? You do not try it at all.
We are in a marriage union with Christ because He first loved us. In return, we love Him because He first loved us and purchased our salvation on Calvary’s tree, not love us when we were cleansed. When we were yet sinners, He died for us.
He never waited until I became righteous, “Clean your hands. Clean your this and that.” He said, “COME JUST AS YOU ARE.” If you could make yourself better, there was no need going to Him. COME JUST AS YOU ARE hiding nothing.
William Branham said that your salvation is not tied to washing your hands and washing your feet; cleaning your this and cleaning your that. No!
If you could do that, then what will Christ do for you? If I could save Myself, what use will Christ be to Me? So, if your clean hands and your clean legs will save you, no problem. Go ahead. Let them remain clean.
But I will tell you what it takes to be clean. You must be clean today by the Words which I have spoken to you. If you accept it, believe in it and act upon it, you are clean in the sight of God. Is it not the Scripture?
Why? With the Words I have spoken to you. But He looked inside and said, “But not all of you, for there are some among you that have refused to obey.”
And He knew them who did not obey and will never. He knew them who did not believe. Is it Scriptural?
Reference: John 13:10-11, AMP.¹⁰Jesus said to him, Anyone who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you [My disciples] are clean, but not all of you. ¹¹For He knew who was going to betray Him; that was the reason He said, Not all of you are clean.
He knew them instantly there that will not believe. They will be paying lip service, playing church, answering Brethren. I do not want to mention name today, but if your name comes into My mouth, you are in trouble today, for I will not erase it from My mouth till eternity.