X-RAY VOLUME 2

X-RAY VOLUME 2 Preached ON Sunday, 14^th August 2022 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Spirit of Truth

Transcribed by Deacon David Mbah Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State

Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.

2^ND CHRONICLES 8:18 AMPLIFIED VERSION

If you do not have the conviction that I am what I am claiming to be, you are not My disciple (an Elect). He that created the Heaven and Earth is here with you bodily. If you are not here by revelation of who I am (The Supreme Intelligence Himself), you are not with Me.

– THE SON OF MAN –

MY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ME Preached in the year 2001; Pg. 8 paragraph 1

Truth versus facts

I have told you times without number that God does not use facts in His judgment. He uses truth. God does not use facts. He uses truth.

Facts are meant for men and the court of law established by human beings. Truth is meant for God, but there are facts that do not contain truth.
Let Me use one instant example and show you what a fact is. Judges in all courts will tell you, “From all the facts available to us, we pronounce this man guilty as charged and sentence him accordingly.”
And the innocent fellow will be weeping as he goes to jail for offence he never committed. Why? Facts were used to condemn him, not truth.
Facts are visible. They are not imaginary. That is why nobody imagines anything in the court. Nobody uses hearsay. Nobody uses feelings. Truth is evidenced both spiritually and sensibly.
Let Me show you the difference between facts and truth. I will use one notable case in the Bible. And that is the case between Potiphar’s wife and Joseph the Jew.
Potiphar’s wife was the one that was making amorous looks and amorous movements around Joseph the Jew. Joseph, being a Jew abhorred such life, for it ran contrary to his training, to his discipline, to the customs and traditions of the Jews.
He resisted, but the woman was furious, and she made up her mind that she must have Joseph by all means. She was very beautiful and fair to look at.
But one day, she lured Joseph into the house to do a domestic work by pretense. Joseph entered the house and noticed the way the woman was making advances to him. he could not bear it. And then the woman gripped him. he shouted and screamed, but there was no help in sight.
He said, “Madam, do not do this to me. I am a Jew, it is against my lifestyle. It is against our custom. How can I commit this great iniquity against my God. No! it is a heinous crime I cannot indulge in with you. Besides, my Master has given me the whole of his house and everything to look after and to do as I wish, except you. Why? Please leave me and let me go.”
The woman held him firmly to her body according to the Scriptures. With force, he broke loose from the woman’s hand. Then while trying to escape from the door, the woman tore a part of the garment he was wearing.
Then she reported the incident to the husband and to the elders of the land that a Jew that was brought to the house to help them attempted raping her.
They wanted evidence. She narrated the ordeal and then said, “In the scuffle, I wanted to break loose from him. You know, being a young man, he wanted to overpower me. and look at what I did. See the evidence!”
The evidence became a fact that was presented to the jurists. The elders formed a court of law. They judged the matter using the torn dresses as evidence, and an innocent man went to prison for offence he never committed.
Genesis 39:12 – 20, GNB. ¹²She caught him by his robe and said, “Come to bed with me.” But he escaped and ran outside, leaving his robe in her hand. ¹³When she saw that he had left his robe and had run out of the house, ¹⁴she called to her house servants and said, “Look at this! This Hebrew that my husband brought to the house is insulting us.
He came into my room and tried to rape me, but I screamed as loud as I could. ¹⁵When he heard me scream, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me.” ¹⁶She kept his robe with her until Joseph’s master came home
¹⁷Then she told him the same story: “That Hebrew slave that you brought here came into my room and insulted me. ¹⁸But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me.” ¹⁹Joseph’s master was furious ²⁰and had Joseph arrested and put in the prison where the king’s prisoners were kept, and there he stayed.
Is this illustration clear to you? Too many facts have been presented to courts in the attempts to imprison innocent people. Often times, mean persons are paid to come and testify falsely before the court against an innocent man. True or false?
1 Kings 21:9 – 10, KJV. And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
Matthew 26:59, KJV. Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; but found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, [Also found in Mark 14: 55 – 64]
So be very careful. If it is not true, it is not true. If it is true, it is true. Cases abound, but I do not want to go further there. It is not My Message, but there is no way I can bypass it fully.
I had already handled it, TRUTH VERSUS FACTS. I say, TRUTH VERSUS FACTS. Oftentimes, we misinterpret people’s actions that way, especially when our hearts are dirty, our minds are dirty and our eyes are equally evil.
That is why the Bible said that, “to the one whose heart is evil, his eyes are evil and everything around him are all evil”, How can he see anything good. Whatever he sees, he will label evil because evil has dominated him and dominated his assessment of situations and things like that. Get the Message.
A woman ran into the kitchen just to get something, only to see the maid trying to wash off her hands. But because she had been suspecting that maid to be dipping her hands into her soup pot, she immediately gripped the hands of that maid and brought her before her children and her husband and said, “Today, I have caught the rogue.”
This girl said, “Mummy, I never dipped my hand into your soup pot. How can I try such a nonsense? I was eating. Look at the plates.”
The madam countered, “That is not true. See your mouth! See your hand. How could you be eating? And then look at the area soup got your hand. Immediately you saw me, you swallowed the meat in your mouth.”
She said, “Mummy, I never. The meat I ate and swallowed was the one you gave me in that plate.”
But the whole children and the husband descended on the girl because the woman had been looking at her suspiciously. And the opportunity came. So her hand that was covered by soup and so on has become an evidence – a fact.
That is why THE SON OF MAN is warning you to be very careful. Do not allow the feelings, thoughts and imaginations of your heart to becloud your judgment on any matter. Do not allow your imaginations and your feelings to ever have overriding influence over your sense of judgment.
Then the man himself went to that kitchen only to notice that the soup was intact boiling with steam. The man came back and called the wife before the children and said, “No! I can never subscribe to this thing you are saying. I can never subscribe to it. Look at the soup. It is still on top of the fire. And no human being can dip his or her hand there without the hand being burnt.”
He said, “Come and see! Come and see!” The woman flared up and said, “I do not know why you are always in the defense of this girl. May be there is something going on between you and this girl. That is why whenever I want to send her away, you say no. The truth is now coming out.”
She was bursting more and more. Because of her feelings towards that girl and towards her husband, she started looking for a way to incriminate an innocent girl.
The man said, “madam, please she is your maid. I have nothing to do with your maid. She is under your authority. If you want to send her away, it is up to you. if you want to retain her, it is up to you. but to join hands with you and to begin to punish this girl with this your useless and baseless accusation, God will never spare me. I will never be a part of it, for no human being, not even me as a man can dip my hand into this boiling soup to take anything. What would she take?”
The truth has now come out, but going by what the woman presented and the way she presented it, you see that the feelings of her heart has beclouded her sense of judgment. But it was not so with the man.
This is why people that are gullible to gossip are those that are always carried away by those gimmicks. They do not want the truth. They want facts. No matter what the facts look like, they believe it anyhow.
It is not so with the son of man. That is why, when you carry your complaints to Me, you will hear, “I have heard you. Relax your mind.” Finish!
If you wait for Me to act, till eternity, you would not hear about it because I know the truth. I know the full truth on that matter. This is so especially on family issues. I know when the truth has come out. I know when truth is exaggerated. I know when truth is suppressed.
And I allow time to take its toll on the matter. Any problem time cannot solve should exist there till eternity.
So, all of you should be very careful. Remember where I took off. The Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. It tears everybody asunder, revealing us for what we are, for God watches over all of us wherever you are and whatever you are doing as the One to Whom you must come before and give account.
WHO IS THAT GOD revealed IN YOUR DAY? If Christ is the mystery of God revealed in every dispensation, who is that Christ. Who is the mystery revealed? Bro Chigozie has declared his own publicly. You must declare your own.
If human beings can call witnesses against God, what else can they not do? He that hired witnesses against the LORD Jesus Christ, who do you think he hired those witnesses for?
Man by nature specializes in hiring witnesses against God, in presenting facts just like they presented facts in the days of Jesus.
One said, “We were there watching Him. He pointed to the temple and said that He must pull down this temple and rebuild it in three days. Deny it if you can. Were you not the one that said it?”
Mark 14:57 – 58, KJV. ⁵⁷And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, ⁵⁸We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
So they hired witnesses – the woman – Jezebel. The witnesses testified against the young man Naboth who stood his ground that he will never sell his father’s inheritance to a king because of money.
The woman said, “OK. The matter is now in my court. She went and hired mean persons to come and testify falsely against an innocent man.” They came presenting facts that “He said he must kill the king if the king dares mentions to buy that land – that he must do away with his life. Did he say so? They said that they were there.
1 Kings 21:11 – 14, KJV. ¹¹And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. ¹²They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
¹³And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. ¹⁴Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
This was the same thing they did to that prostitute, Mary Magdalene. They said, “We caught her in the act, red-handed. Madam! Deny it.” Where is that man who was lying on top of her when you caught her red-handed? Where did you keep him? Where did you keep the man? We were there. We saw!
When the heart is dirty, the feelings must be dirty. The eyes must be dirty. The judgment must be false. And innocent person must be imprisoned. Keep on reading that word of God.

Who then holds the truth? You must have your own reasons why you are sure and convinced that you have not made a mistake accepting the Son of Man as your own God. You must have your own reasons and be sure and convinced, whether He is devil or not.

– THE SON OF MAN –

JESUS IN RELATION TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD (CONTROVERSIAL TRUTH) VOL. 1; Preached on Sunday 14^th September 2003 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 14 vs. 18

PROGRESSIVE LIFE EXAMINATION

ebrews 4:12, MSG. ^12-13God means what he says. What he says goes. …

This means that He has the final say. In everything we do, God has the final say. If singing it in our song is all you know, you are a fool of all fools. It must be a revelation in your heart before you sing it as a song.
Do you know Who has the final say? You say, “God! Jehovah has the final say.” Final say in what? In everything pertaining to life and godliness, He has the final say. Does it apply to you as a person?
Does God have a final say concerning you? Who has the final say in everything pertaining to you? Life and godliness, is it not you? Who dictates the way you will talk, the way you will move, things you believe and things you do not believe? Is it not you?
Until man ceases to live for himself and begins to live for Christ, his problem will linger for too long Until a man stops living for himself and begins to live for Christ, his problem will keep on lingering.
When Saint Paul recognized it, he kept to the realization and now said, “The life I live is not mine but Christ’s Who dwelleth in me, directing and leading me.”
Galatians 2:20, AMP. ²⁰I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
As long as man is still leading himself, he must lead himself to destruction. You have no leader until Christ has come to lead you.
you have been walking alonE and you will remain walking alone, with the devil hardening your heart and telling you that you are walking on the right path. when you are walking on the way to hell fire, the devil will tell you, “Go ahead! it is the right way, Simply because it is very smooth and pleasurable.
When God comes your way, he will make you to turn back to the very beginning. It becomes offensive to move you away from your old lifestyle to the new lifestyle introduced by God. It is always a problem.
It has always been a fact and a fight to move people away from one dispensation to another – from something they know to something they know not; from a particular character they have established over the years to a new one that is being introduced to them; from an old way to a new and living way, it has never been an easy task.
The greatest fight that was ever fought is the fight between falsehood and truth; the fight between error and truth, for man finds it extremely difficult to admit that he is in error. Anybody who admits that he is in error does not have a defense for that error.
Somebody said, “God will forgive you if you make the wrong right, and I said, “That is not truth.” Tell me. How can somebody make something that is wrong to be right. There is no way.
But somebody can turn over to a new leaf and begin to live a new life for a new day, for sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof. You lived in evil yesterday, but yesterday is gone together with that evil. today is a new day.
You then turn over to a new leaf, and not going back to yesterday to begin to renew or refresh yesterday. Am I making sense? Do not remember the former times. Throw them away and then create a new and enviable record for yourself which God will continue to consider till the day you will leave this flesh.
See what the Word of God is and what it does to the believing hearts. But in one that hears and shies away from it, the Word does not do this work in you.
…His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense,… Whether doubt or defense, it cuts through it. …laying us open to listen and obey. And not to listen and walk away or to listen and remain as we were.
…Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it—no matter what.
You cannot get away from it, no matter your smartness or subtlety. You must be brought to account. So do not dodge something you know you cannot dodge and succeed. Why attempting the impossible? Amen!
Let Me read this in the Amplified version of the Bible. Hebrews 4:12. ¹²For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Sparing no aspect of your human nature, look at what the Word does. It sifts [examines, selects, scrutinizes, sieves, filters].
It does this like you sift your rice after parboiling it. As you sift out the true rice and separates it from stone, so God sifts everything that enters your heart, for the heart of man is desperately wicked and very deceitful. Who knows it if not God.
Too many things are being processed in the heart of man. There are too many voices that are unheard by human beings which are speaking to a man’s heart every minute of the day. The one you listen to determines the way your action will be, for you are listening to voices.
but there is only one Voice speaking in the heart of a child of God. Listening to more than one voice sets in confusion into your life. True or false?
And in the confused estate, you are easily deceived. The devil will sweep you off the track.
The Word of God will not only sift, but it will also analyze to know why you want to go that way. While you are thinking that way or feeling that way, the Word analyzes it.
… it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
What do you really want to achieve by that? That is your purpose. What is your purpose in that thing which you are thinking and meditating upon in your heart; that thing which is giving you sleepless nights. What is your aim? What do you want to achieve thereby?
I mean, this Scripture speaks volumes in the hearts of all who are born by the spirit of truth. True or false? If you are born by the Spirit of Truth which is the Spirit of Christ, you will agree with Me that this Scripture we have read is enough for today.
It changes your attitude towards the Word of God. You begin now to adjust your mind and your footsteps to suit the Word of God, knowing that anything contrary is attempting the impossible and will bring you into loggerhead with God. It will make you God’s enemy. Before you know it, you will begin to quarrel with God. In many ways, we quarrel with God.
The next thing is that you bring mean mean persons who will buy your idea to come and testify against God that you are telling the truth.
At the end of the day, that thing you said will rope you round and then present you to the world. Amen!
This is My little Word of exhortation, but I will go further. I said, “I. I. personal! I will go further.” Amen.
Hebrews chapter twelve.. I want us to read from verse one through thirteen using the three translations [MSG, LB & AMP]
Hebrews 12:1 – 13, MSG. ^1-3Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. …
Let Him be your example in all things. …Study how he did it. Do what? Study how He did it and succeeded. Follow His footsteps. Follow that pattern. Follow His example.
…Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed— …
He was conscious of Himself, of His commission and of His Ministry. He never lost sight of where he was heading to. He never lost consciousness of Who He is or what is lying ahead of Him on the Path to His destination.
…he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: [Sure!!!] Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
Despising the shame, the ridicule and everything. The challenges on the way meant nothing to Him, for He was focused. The joy that was ahead of Him by far surpassed all that He passed through.
Do you know that the sufferings of this present time are nothing to be compared to the glory that awaits any child of God that will emerge victorious in Paradise?
There is no real life here. Whatever we are living here is counterfeit life full of suffering, hate, acrimony and bitterness. The real life is still coming when we shall embrace the Elohim fully in Paradise to part no more.
… When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, [Thank you!] item by item, …
When you are flagging, go back. Rewind it again. Revisit your life. You are always in recession. You are erratic. You are fluctuating. You are unstable with your faith. Never stabilized. Go back. Revisit it over one by one – item by item. Scrutinize it. Evaluate it. Review it.
Any character that is not subject to review must lead you to disaster. Life is subject to re-examination from time to time. An unexamined life; an un-reviewed life is not worth living at all.
You might be thinking you are living in heaven while you are swimming in hell. You will only notice when you re-examine, review and re-evaluate your life with the present stage of the Ministry. Then you will see how backward you are.
That is why I keep on telling you, “If you are not moving when others are moving, you will be left behind.” For that reason, keep on swimming with the moving. Watch where the tide is heading to. Face that way while swimming.
If you are facing backward when the tide is moving backward, you are climbing a mountain. You must get drowned.
A sailor who is facing the opposite direction of the tide finds it difficult to surmount the tide.
…When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, [It is a story] item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! …
That will add strength – adrenaline – into your souls. You will be bitter with evil. You will be bitter with evil doers. You will hate everything called evil. You will never allow it to be named among you, not even once.
You have not wrestled against sin because you have not volunteered to lose your life so that truth will abide.
^4-11In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, …
Have you heard it? You think your own is the worst. Many have suffered far worse things than us. Why crying as if your own is the worst instead of doing the right thing God said you should do by addressing it squarely?
A problem that you are shying away from increases in strength, but when you embrace it face to face, the strength diminishes. True or false?
This is because every step you take reduces the distance from where you are to where you are going to. Am I making sense?
If you are going to the gate, and you remain here, standing still and saying that you are going to the gate, you will never get to the gate till eternity. But any step you take forward will reduce the distance between where you were and where you are then the gate. One step at a time.
Your own condition is not the most miserable, but you are making it the most miserable by ignoring it.
Ignoring a problem compounds it. when you ignore a fault, it develops into another fault. This is fact about life. Ignore your weakness and more weaknesses will arise.
It is just like your vehicle. If your vehicle develops a fault – maybe the brake is faulty. And instead of repairing it, you want to manage it anyhow, you will notice that the moment the brake fails completely the vehicle will be driving to an unknown destination.
Unknown in the sense that where the vehicle is taking you is not where you wanted to go. You are now at the mercy of the vehicle, which can land you in your grave prematurely or land you in prison yard.
This is because if you kill somebody because your vehicle brake failed, [Yes] it failed, but you are still guilty of murder or manslaughter depending on the way the person was killed and how many people that are involved.
What cause it? Your negligence of your vehicle brake fault. The brake was faulty, but instead of repairing it, you wanted to manage it, and you caused greater havoc, greater sorrows and pains, and greater expenses, for one fault leads to another if it is not squarely addressed. Did you get the Message?
If you are a habitual thief, and you do not want to stop, it will take you to habitual lying. Because you must tell a lie to cover it up. It may even cause you to run away from home. And you become an escapee – a refugee somewhere in the forest or in an unknown place from where you may not come back again.
What caused it? You refused to change your character. You refused to stop stealing.
it is The same way with lies which I call the greatest human weakness. The greatest manifestation of human weakness and imperfection is lying against the truth.
What is a lie? A lie is nothing but truth perverted. You must know the truth before you tell a lie. Am I making sense?
That is why God does not take it lightly, for the first crime that was committed in the Garden of Eden was lying against the truth. The devil lied against the truth, and seduced the woman to join in the lying. Every sin has accomplice. No sin is committed by one person alone.

Until you are convinced, sure and certain about the personality you are having dealings with, you have no right to echo amen in this Faith. And you are not My disciple. I am not sent for you. You are not for Me. You are far from Me as I am far from you. You are equally far from the salvation for which cause I was sent.

– THE SON OF MAN –

HOLDING UNTO THE CERTAINTY OF THE FAITH: FOR THERE UNTO I AM BORN VOL 1; Preached on Sunday 9^th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 110 vs. 42 – 43

TRAINING FROM GOD IS NOT PUNISHMENT [1]

ebrews 12:1 – 13. MSG continued. ^4-11In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves.

Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline, …
Do not shake away. Do not throw away. Do not despise God’s own discipline. When God wants to discipline you, He wants to make you a better individual for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Your parents discipline you so that you will be useful to them to serve their purposes, but God will discipline you for your own good that you may be a partaker of eternal life with Christ.
… My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline, but don’t be crushed by it either. It’s the child he loves that he disciplines; … Any child God loves, He disciplines that child.
… the child he embraces, he also corrects. God is educating you; …
Who is educating us? God. How I wish all of us are here by faith in Christ believing His Word. Rejecting it means rejecting God’s way of educating people.
May be it is harsh to you. Maybe it is not the way you desired it. God does not come your way the way you desire, but the way He wants, for He knows what is best for us at all times.
Isaiah 55:8, AMP. “⁸For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.”
Jeremiah 29:11, KJV. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
… God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. … Sure!!! Anybody who is being educated by God can never be a dropout if you take God’s education seriously and you are brilliant in God’s education.
Remember one fact. The people of God must have God in person for their Teacher. Who has been educating you all these years? Who has been your Teacher all these years?
John 6:45, AMP. ⁴⁵It is written in [the book of] the Prophets, And they shall all be taught of God [have Him in person for their Teacher]. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me–
Have you seen why you cannot drop out if you have been following. But where you are not following, you must be a dropout. That is why we have too many school dropouts. They drop out in the system where others are continuing. The shortest cut to eradicating poverty and ignorance.
But you see many drop out, not because of impediments, but simply because they are not coping with the lectures and with the instructions. They are not coping with the studies. Then they drop out.
Sometimes, they want to make money. They esteem making money more than their careers. They drop out of school. In the end, they will not make that money, and they will not have that qualitative education. They have missed it all. Is it not happening? Is it not happening?
… God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; …
This trouble you are in, for which cause you are weeping and crying is not punishment. You are undergoing a disciplinary education. God is giving you a new ethical re-orientation.
An orientation away from that which you received from your parents, for which cause you could not behave rightly and wisely.
I saw a mother among us with the children. I looked at the children and I looked at the mother. I could not stomach it and I said, “Sister, it is like your parents never gave you dressing ethics. And you have passed it to your children. Look at them and look at yourself. No dressing ethics. How am I sure you have eating ethics which you can transfer to your children?”
IN THIS LIFE, WE HAVE ETHICS IN ALL WE DO. WE HAVE DRESSING ETHICS. HENCE, WE KNOW WHAT IS PROPER AND IMPROPER DRESSING.
WE HAVE EATING ETHICS. HENCE, WE DO NOT EAT LIKE VULTURES. WE HAVE DRINKING ETHICS. HENCE, WE ARE NOT HERE TO RAISE DRUNKS. THERE ARE ETHICS IN WHATEVER YOU DO.
THAT IS WHY GOD SAID THAT ALL WE NEED FIRST IS TO HAVE ETHICAL RE-ORIENTATION THAT WILL REGENERATE THE CORE MORAL VALUES WE HAVE COMPLETELY LOST.
HUMAN BEINGS HAVE LOST THEIR CORE MORAL VALUES. THAT IS WHY LIFE IS VALUELESS TO MANY PEOPLE TODAY. TRUE OR FALSE? AND THIS IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOST THEIR CORE MORAL VALUES. EVERYTHING IS JUSTIFIABLE IN THE SIGHT OF A FOOL WHOSE MORAL VALUES ARE NO LONGER THERE.
That is why I frown at the way you place your dresses haphazardly. Anywhere you see, you dump. You dump your shoes. You dump your dresses. Everything! Even to maintain your teeth and to bath with clean soft water is difficult for you.
Water is available. Soap is there. Sponge is there. Everything! Your perfume is there. Your cream is there. Your toothpaste is there. Your toothbrush is there. What is wrong with you? You even have your body freshener; roll-on. What is wrong with you?
The environment is there. Broom is there. Packers are there. Why should you not be neat within and without? Why should somebody be reminding you to tidy your surroundings and to live a neat life?
What is that person doing? He is trying to re-orient you [to re-position you]. he wants to instill the right ethics in you.
Then, you will know that as a living human being, common sense will tell you that you owe respect to your fellow human being, and that the younger must respect the elderly one, and not to call Him names, vice versa. For respect is reciprocal.
You must know how to honour your seniors. You must know how to honour your parents. You must know how to behave yourself in every situation without people calling you here and there.
When you develop yourself to that point, you will now know that effective communication the eyes do.
With the eyes, we communicate to wise and intelligent people, but with the mouth we communicate with fools who lack understanding.
With the eyes, you talk to a wise and intelligent person. Is it a lie? That is why the Igbo adage says that you talk to an elder with the eyes, but with the mouth, you talk to a child.
The same way, you can expel someone, if that person is an adult. But for a child, you expel with the word of the mouth.
Just like our Brother Chigozie was ordering the Bishop [Okey Nwamkpa], “We are through now. Buy what you want to buy. Let us do business and you go your way.
I am not coming to that place you are inviting Me. If you cannot come to my office and bring your Bible along and we settle it here, why must I be there first. That is Jeroboam’s altar in Bethel.
Better refrain from it. Why are you hindering people from going to the right place to receive the Word of life? Why are you telling them you were with them? Ancient Prophet! What are you offering them? Yeshua Hamashach. Meaning what?”
He [Bro Chigozie] said, “You can deceive anybody, but not me, for I know my experience with God which never started today. Not with the Apostle, THE SON OF MAN. No! But there was no way God could meet me without Him.”
The Testimony I called “Another visitation in the month of August” because it will help many to try to be rooted and grounded in – fully established in the Faith of Christ so that they can stand on their own and defend whatever they believe.
I saw it ahead of time and gave you the Message, “BE READY TO ANSWER EVERY MAN THAT WILL ASK YOU THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU.” Why are you following this Gospel truth? Why are you following this Man?
Be ready to give your answer. Do not say, “Let me go and call Him or our Pastor to come and say” or “Let me go and bring my book.” Stand there and defend what you believe.
He did not say, “Let me go and call Daddy” or “Let me go and call Pastor.” He finished and then forwarded the recording. This is because he is ready at all times.
And he told him [Okey Nwamkpa], “I am ready at all times. I am no longer a human being. I am now a supernatural human being.” Which means that he [Brother Chigozie] is a supernatural believer.
Natural met with the supernatural. What are you? Are you supernatural believers or natural believers, if you have believed anything at all? Your mouth is full of lying, complaining and grumbling instead of bending down to find out what is wrong with you which is unbelief, and then to know what you can do so that the Word of God can enter your heart and begin to do the work He is doing in everybody.
Why are you different from all? Why is it that the Word of God is not working in your life the same thing which the Word is sent to do? Why are you trying to prove impervious [impenetrable] so that the Word of God cannot regenerate you? The truth is that the work is being done in your life, but you have a bad nature.
An Igbo adage says that a child that eats the mother’s food, but keeps emaciating is testifying falsely against the mother. If you are eating nourishing food from your mother’s hands, but you are looking malnourished, you are bearing false witness against your mother.
You are a bad child. You are a bad child. You are painting a false picture of your parents, giving the impression that they are not taking good care of you, when you are living the life the way you want to live and not the way they taught you.
That is why God separated in judgment that of the parents from the children so that you stay as individuals and then eat what you prepared for yourselves.
… God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, …
It is what? TRAINING! Why not say it with Me? The trouble I am in is not punishment. It is God’s training. God is training me so that I will be perfect like Him.
With the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. With the heart, man believeth unto righteousness. With your mouth, confession is made unto salvation. You do not believe and keep quiet.
When you believe, you open your mouth so that when the devil will come like a flood to trouble you, you stand bold like Brother Chigozie and say, “I know you from the beginning. I know why you are here. you pretend you are coming to buy goods from me. I am ready for you.”
He switched on his handset without the knowledge of the wandering star, and then opened up his mouth.
And the man did not know. The deceiver did not know that it is impossible to snatch an Elect from the hand of God, for God who is holding him is mightier than whatever gimmick the wandering star might be preaching in the name of Yeshua Hamashiach – Yamaha Suzuki – no longer church of Jesus Christ. This one is Yeshua Yamashiach.
Look at where we left as far back as 1986. It is now that he has discovered that one. He will soon go to Yahweh. Before you know it, he will formulate another teaching that they will go to Israel and settle in their homeland like Dr. Chukwuedozie Mba of former Riches of Christ Mission.
When somebody is out of the way of truth, the devil messes him up by taking away shamefacedness from him. He thinks he can make both ends meet by spreading falsehood.
…This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment;…
This trouble I am in is not punishment. I am equally in My own type of trouble. And then everybody is in his or her own. If you say you have no trouble, you are a liar. You have your own. I have My own.
Even staying without My wife is a trouble in My flesh – a trouble in My Spirit. It gives Me sleepless nights. But it is not God’s punishment. I have understood it. It happened because God approved it for Me. God approved it for her.
So, God never punished Me. It is not God’s intention to punish THE SON OF MAN. If He wanted to punish Me, He would not take away My wife. And there are many ways He could punish Me.
This is included in My own salvation plan. It is included in My ministerial work that I must come to this level where I am now. So, it is not punishment from God. It is training from God. No matter how harsh the training is, it is for My own good.
When you enlist in the army, every training that is given to anybody – a trainee – in the army is to save his life in the war front. And no training is joyous. It does not give joy.
Sometimes, you may be flogged. Sometimes, you may be locked in the guardroom without food for weeks. Sometimes, you may be sent for the desert training where you will be abandoned with a parachute.
They will parachute you in the air and you drop in the desert. And then allow you to find your way to your Camp. You will be eating everything raw from the wilderness – from the desert. You do not know the bearing.
So you will keep on wandering. Anywhere you see people [if you can see people] you ask them, “Where do I take to get to a major road.” This is to see whether you can catch up with anything called a human being.
In the night, you sleep with wild animals. That is why every soldier is a friend of wild animals. Snakes do not bite them. Lions do not trouble them. Nothing troubles a soldier in the forest, for he is more or less a beast. He is trained to endure hardship.
While the training was on, we felt it was a punishment. But after the training, you begin to realize the good benefits of harsh training – hard training.
Then we begin to glorify our instructors, for they instructed us the right way. Hence, we could cope in any condition, even putting on one dress for almost six months without washing it.
You must know why God trains us in a very hard way.
If you happen to be a boxer or watch boxers as they do their training. You may think that the trainer hates them, for the trainer will give you very hard punches. Sometimes, he will punch you and you will faint. He will help you and revive you.
If you ask him, “Sir, do you want to kill me? These punch you are giving me is too much! Is this a training or punishment?”
He will tell you, “My dear, You will not understand what I am doing now. I am giving you this rough training, hard hard punches because you do not know who your opponent will be in the ring. When you enter the ring, do you know your opponent? Do you know the training he received? The punch he will give you may be harder than my own. It may be straight on your eyes or on your nose. The punch may even remove your teeth because he wants to win the trophy.”
You see why, if you do not receive very hard training, you can never be a steadfast and immovable child of God who can endure all things; know how to live your life in the time of plenty and in the time of scarcity; and know how to address every situation that befalls you, without complaining, without grudging, without murmuring.
You will know how to possess your vessel in honour and not in dishonour. Your stomach will no longer be your God. Your mouth will be bridled, your eyes circumcised and your heart circumcised.
You will never allow filthy imaginations and feelings to over-flood into your heart anymore because those things have no room again in you.
You must know that all these things are real. They are all real experiences we pass through every day. So, do not ever say No to God’s training or begin to interpret it to mean God’s punishment simply because when you were with your parents, they never told you this. And they never brought you up in this way.
And you never knew that as you journey through this life, you could come to the point where God could come your way, and then render all you learnt before useless nonsense because you learnt something that will destroy you.
You learnt to be lazy instead of being industrious. You learnt to do things with “I-don’t-care” attitude which is an abomination before God. What you received were anti-progressive teachings and training where twenty people will gather as a family for three days doing the work of one person. And they claim they are busy, but doing nothing.
Some are sleeping, while some are walking about. When she is asked, “Madam! What are you doing with the children?” “We are doing the work in the farm.” How many are doing the work?
At the end of the two days, go there and see what they did. You will find out that it is not up to what a man can do in one day, but twenty did it in two days.
Residual unemployment brings about untold hardship to the families, for it promotes laziness. It promotes laziness.
And God came your way like He did to Jeremiah. What did He do? He broke every foundation into pieces, uprooting the root of that lazy habit which is unbelief, destroying and carrying it away. And then planting the Word of life in a fresh heart that you may grow thereby.
So if you want to survive, desire the sincere milk of the Word of God that you may grow thereby. That is the only way you can change this old, rotten, unprofitable and unprogressive orientation which your parents gave you.
Why? They knew not God. If you do not know God, you do not know the truth. And the way of life, you know not. When you see good, you call it bad. If you see bad, you call it good.

I am THE SON OF MAN because I am the Truth. I am the Way. I am the Light. No man seeth God or cometh to God or talks of eternal life without Me. I am The Only One Sealed and Sent by the Almighty. Standing in His presence, I make all My declarations. I know where I am standing. Of course, you know Me by now.

– THE SON OF MAN –

HOLDING UNTO THE CERTAINTY OF THE FAITH: FOR THERE UNTO I AM BORN VOL 1; Preached on Sunday 9^th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 119 vs. 74 – 76

TRAINING FROM GOD IS NOT PUNISHMENT [2]

Hebrews 12:4 – 13, MSG. ^4-11…This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. …

It is nothing abnormal. But by the way you were brought up you were above correction. You were incorrigible, for your parents lived that useless life and it profited them nothing. And you came up, only to toe the same line.

For God now to reverse the trend, it is not an easy task, moving you away from old habit to a new habit.
Is it a surprise that when God wants to bless a man, He starts by separating him from his family? He pulls him out and sends him to a place where He [God] will meet with him; after which, He will send him back as a brand new individual.
Check all that God separated that way, how they went back and the testimonies that followed them.
But when you refuse the training, you will be dismissed and repatriated as an undesirable element. An undesirable element who has refused to take in the Word of God that he may be grow thereby.
One that is refusing the training must be a dropout. Then there are too many dropouts in the Faith already. And I told you that in the Faith, there are dropouts. As we have dropouts in the schools and colleges, so we have in this progressive Faith of Christ.
Many have already dropped by the wayside. Some are still forging ahead, while some are at the brink of falling away. I do not know the category you belong to.
Are you among those that are at the brink of falling away [dropping] or those that have dropped already, or those that are forging ahead anyhow.
This is because when the going becomes very strong and tough, [Oh no!] Come and see wise men who are determined to succeed, they become stronger, blazing the trail.
Watch the language! Our ancestors [Patriarchs] that blazed the trail, and who we are quoting today, they passed through these huddles we are passing through.
Any way that is not filled [fraught] with troubles of all sorts; with ups and downs, that way leads to nothing. I say, it leads to nowhere. Any road that leads to somewhere that is useful, beneficial must be filled with challenges, troubles and obstacles of different magnitudes.
It is your ability to blaze through all of them that helps you to touch the sky. And that makes you great.
That is why the fearful and the unbelieving cannot be worthy of the kingdom of Heaven. Those that walk by sight cannot be found there. If you walk by the leading of the Spirit, there is no obstacle you cannot cross.
There is no huddle you cannot jump, for God is able to see you through, for God is able to see you through. He that started the journey is by your side, helping you to surmount all of them.
Then tomorrow, your name will be written in gold. You will go down the annals of history alongside those great minds we now call the veterans that blazed the trail. Amen.
If you want to be numbered among the dropouts, it is up to you. But if you want to be numbered among those that blazed the trail, it is also up to you.
…This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; [Sure!!!] it’s training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. … Note!
How responsible were your parents? How responsible are they, even till today? A man who dodges his responsibilities is an irresponsible man. A woman that dodges her responsibilities towards the family and towards the children is an irresponsible woman.
How responsible are your parents? Their responsibilities are all we are witnessing in your characters. That is what you are suffering from – The level of training they gave to you. That is where you are.
From now henceforth, the onus lies on you to accept the training God is giving you, which runs contrary to that of your parents.
On the other hand, you fix your mind and your affection on the day you will go back and continue with your parents, and then stop where they stopped. You must arrive where they arrived whether you like it or not.
This is because any man that is walking on the way that is established by his father must stop where his father stopped.
But when you carve out your own way with your own vision, and your father does not know what you have in mind, you will cross where your father stopped. Am I making sense at all?
We have too many irresponsible parents who are alive, yet they are dead. They are dead in the sense that they do not give their children the right training that will help them to succeed in life.
They give life a wrong interpretation, for life is a matter of the interpretation you give to life. If you interpret life to mean a mere bed of roses where you can just come and enjoy, you have finished your life. You have destroyed your future. You have nothing to protect.
What interpretation are you giving life? Life reflects in your attitude to life. Do you believe it? The interpretation you give to the Word of God determines your attitude towards the Word of God. True or false?
When you give the Word of God a wrong interpretation saying that He is a mere man, the Word of God can never work out the purpose of God in your life.
Saint Paul said that he preferred the Thessalonians to the Philippians. When the Thessalonians heard the Word of God, they believed the Word they heard from Saint Paul and the rest to be the effective Word of God. And the Word of God worked effectually in their lives. This is because they believed it to be the Word of God and not the word of mere men.
1 Thessalonians 2:13, AMP. ¹³And we also [especially] thank God continually for this, that when you received the message of God [which you heard] from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its superhuman power in those who adhere to and trust in and rely on it].
So the way you believe the Word of God determines the way the Word of God will reflect in your character, for the word of man profiteth nothing, but the Word of God is profitable in all.
What is the interpretation you are giving to the Word of God that comes your way? That determines your attitude towards the Word.
I am sorry, I am pulling the legs of many. I never knew I could stand here to talk again, but necessity is laid on Me that there are some people that need My help because of the calls I received within the period I was sick near unto death.
Many said, “Daddy, please live for us. Daddy, we do not want You to die. We do not want You to go away! We still need You around us. Daddy, if You leave us now, we are doomed, for we do not know what to do again. Daddy, please live for us.”
And I believe that the Almighty Who liveth in Me heareth their prayers and their cries.
Many a time, we believe or we are tempted to think that God hates us because of the way He administers the training to us. If your trainer handles you in a soft way, he has corrupted you. You can never cope with hardship associated with military life.
Do you know what I am saying? The Bible said that you are soldiers of Christ. And no true soldier that received the discipline of a soldier [the training of a soldier] mingles himself with civilian affairs. And as a true soldier, he is always vigilant, knowing that his enemy [his adversary] is roaring about, seeking to devour him.
And being a true soldier, he does not slumber. He does not sleep. Walk in a way to win the confidence of He that called you – he that recruited you into His army.
2 Timothy 2:3 – 4, AMP. ³Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first-class) soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of [civilian] life; his aim is to satisfy and please the One Who enlisted him.
Living Bible. ^[3]Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, just as I do; ^[4]and as Christ’s soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in worldly affairs, for then you cannot satisfy the One Who has enlisted you in His army.
You are soldiers of Christ, marching for war. In the name of Christ, we must win this battle, for the Name of Christ must give us the victory. Yes! We are more than able to go out and conquer that city.
Yes! From Jordan to the Sea, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. We are more than able to possess the land. If you say it and mean it with all your heart, God will back you up. But if you pay lip service to it, truly speaking, today will be the day you will regret all your life.
God’s visitation comes in different ways. God is the One that will beat with the right hand and comfort with the left hand. Am I making sense?
He is the One that wounds us. He is the One that binds our wounds, for the idea is not to destroy or to kill. The idea is to save, for if he does not come that way, there is no way He can save you.
Job 5:17 – 19, AMP. ¹⁷Happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves; so do not despise or reject the correction of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering]. ¹⁸For He wounds, but He binds up; He smites, but His hands heal. ¹⁹He will rescue you in six troubles; in seven nothing that is evil [for you] will touch you.
There is no way you can throw a rope into the sea to save a drowning man without hurting him. To save a man who has attempted suicide is not easy.
Disbelieving the Word of God means attempting suicide. You set aside the Word of your salvation? You are attempting suicide. It is suicidal. You are killing yourself.
Refuse training and see what will become of you tomorrow. And if you run away from the army because the training is harsh, you will see what will become of you tomorrow.
…This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? …
An irresponsible God is the God who will not correct that imbalance that is in you, created by your parents.
God is now taking it as His own personal responsibility to give you that training which your parents could not give you because they were irresponsible. They never knew that they were destroying you and your future, and you were rejoicing with them, thinking that you have arrived. You were in hell, but you thought you were in heaven. To God be the Glory.
You see why to save a soul in this generation is God’s Supreme Achievement
…We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God’s training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. … The much they knew.
…But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best.
God’s Holy B-E-S-T! God is now making you the Best of the bests, for He knows what is best for us at all times. That is why we are Super Saints. God said, “The last shall be the first.”
A good instructor instructs his students [his children] in such a way that he will not register any failure. That is a good instructor. And there is no good instructor who is better than God.
…At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. …
At this time, it is coming to you. Discipline isn’t much fun. F-U-N. It does not give joy. It can cause you to weep and to sorrow and to even cry aloud with tears rolling down your cheeks.
But in a little while, you will see what it will produce in your life if you exercise yourself and receive that training and refuse to throw it away.
You are likened to one that is sick of malaria, and you are given a bitter drug. Take it! Do not consider its bitterness. If you can swallow it and rest for thirty minutes, watch! Your body will calm down. But throw it away, your condition becomes worse.
…At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God. … Sure!!! And with one another!
The language our Brother used, “I am now a mature man in Christ. There is nothing you can tell me on this matter. I am not depending on anybody. I know Who God is, and I know how He is dealing with me as an individual. My faith is not hanging on anybody, but on Christ Who visited me.”
This is the type of fellow I would like to fellowship with. That is My Brother. That is My Sister, and not those who are repeating what others said – who are riding on other people’s testimonies. You are merely riding on the back of others. You have nothing to show as your own experience in Christ.
This is simply because you have not obeyed Him for one day, for there is no way you will volunteer to obey God and you will remain the same. Amen.

I am raising young young men and women with elderly vision. That is wisdom which, if it is displayed, people will know that you have had an encounter with the Son of Man. ……. If any Message does not go directly to human nature, how can it effect a change in human nature? It has no power to transform the human nature. That is why, if you have come into contact with Me, The Son of Man, The Smoking firewood, The I AM THAT I AM, I mean The Great Rock of Ages, The Supreme Intelligence that governs the universe, and your life remains the same, two things are there: It is either I am not sent for your salvation or you never proceeded from God. Amen.

– THE SON OF MAN –

DIDN’T OUR HEARTS BURN WITHIN US VOL. 2; Preached on Sunday 30^th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 101 vs. 31 & Pg. 106 vs. 54 – 55

Training from God [3]

Hebrews 12:12 – 13, MSG. ^12-13So don’t sit around on your hands! …Folding your hands and sitting down as if you are being cheated or hated, and you are thinking or aiming at attracting human sympathy. Do not!

it takes a fool to sympathize with a soldier who is under strict training. Nobody shows sympathy to a woman that is under labour, for it is a must.
There must be labour pains before delivery. That is why to be in labour is not sickness. It is a sign of maturity of every woman. You were born by your mother. You must give birth to your own, for it is your turn to deliver a human being also.
…No more dragging your feet! … No more foot-dragging to the extent that you will be dragged along and always be reminded of your responsibility. If you are not reminded of your responsibility, you forget them.
You will always be forgetful because your mind has wandered away from us. Your mind has wandered away because you think that somebody is maltreating you.
…Clear the path for long-distance runners…
And not short-distance runners. When God gave us the food, he said, “Eat the food! Eat the food! Eat the food, for the journey is still too far.”
Clear the path! If you do not want to continue with the journey, give way for long-distance runners [athletes] – for marathon runners that are aiming at lifting the trophy, and not those that joined for mere physical body exercise.
…Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, …
This is because when you are a dropout, you constitute an obstacle. People will hit their legs on you and fall. If you are a dropout, do not constitute a stumbling block. Give way for us, for there are people who have the stamina and who are ready to run the race.
You fell before the mark and remained in one place, thereby becoming a stumbling block. All that must pass will now jump a huddle. Some will even be knocked down by your legs in their attempt to jump over you. and with that take-off strength and speed, the person will fall and also find it difficult to rise up again.
That is why God told us that the greatest stumbling block in the Faith of Christ are those people who claim to be member of the Faith of Christ, but they live lives contrary to the truth.
They constitute the greatest obstacle to those who are desirous of making it to the end. So it is in every family. “It would not work! It would not work!” They are the same set of people.
Too many of them are in our Faith today. They are not willing to continue, and they do not want others to continue. They constitute stumbling blocks, weakening others. They do not know how to pray. They do not know how to read the Messages. They are good for nothing.
They do not even have the word of encouragement for their Brothers and Sisters. But wherever there is food to eat, they are there. When they see drinks, they will be revived.
You will begin to hear them sing, “The more we are together, the happier we shall be” because they have seen one crate of beer and one crate of mineral [waters].
If they see one pot of jollof rice, no more! Everybody will rise up with praises, “Some have food, but cannot eat. Some can eat, but have no food. We have food and we can eat. Glory be to God. Amen! Sir remain blessed! God bless you!”
You see them agile, running from kitchen to parlour and carrying plates. Everybody! All hands on deck, washing and with spoons.
Those that are alive only to eat. Wise men eat to stay alive, while the foolish are alive to eat and to drink, for that is the interpretation they have given to the Faith.
Clear the path for long-distance runners… Do you know one funny thing? They do not even watch THE SON OF MAN. They do not even watch the divine Personality in their midst on Whose cost all those things were coming.
Just like last night. You were there with Me. I saw them scrambling for garden eggs, scrambling for wine and scrambling for both the hot drinks and everything. And I was sitting down quietly there, watching. At the end of the day, they said, “Bye-bye!”
Nobody saw Me dipping My hand to pick anything. I do not drink beer, they know that. Even that hot I said, “Take and drink”, they drank all. Their garden eggs? They finished all because they came with empty stomach. They do not care. These are obstacles.
I think that when you enter a man’s house, the Bible said you should do something. Do not allow the dining table to attract your attention. Otherwise, you may misbehave yourself. And when you misbehave, you have left an indelible prints [thumbprints] that will be difficult to be erased as a glutton.
Whenever a glutton sees food, he will be running up and down like a dog. Remove your eyes from the king’s table, and then go for the work. The life of a man does not consist of what he eats or what He drinks, but of righteousness. Period!
1 Samuel 20:27 – 29, AMP. ²⁷But on the morrow, the second day after the new moon, David’s place was empty; and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today? ²⁸And Jonathan answered, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem. ²⁹He said, Let me go, I pray, for our family holds a sacrifice in the city and my brother commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favour in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers. That is why he has not come to the king’s table.
Man does not leave by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
…Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in a hole and sprain an ankle. …
The fallen one intentionally sets his leg across the path of one desiring to run the race till the end and cause him to trip. He will fall down and break both his hands and legs. Then his journey will come to an end.
The fallen one will put a stud. That is the handiwork of all these ancient men and women that have refused to go away.
God said, “Be very careful about all these ancient men and women that have left this Faith. They are out of the way of the truth, but they are still sitting down and milling around us.”
Why are they in our midst? They want us to bury them when they die. No more. No less, they are no longer desirous of Paradise or eternal life.
They know that they cannot fit into any other association of human beings, for they do not have the wherewithal to represent themselves there. But this place where burial will be organized for them free of charge without disturbing their parents, they will say, “Let me stay here.”
They will not only stop there. They will bring in their parents and their relations. So this Faith has become a social security trust fund. It offers them social security. Education, free. Food, free. Rent, free. Everything, free.
Wrong interpretation of the Faith. A misleading interpretation of the Faith. Can they go far? Thank you!
Help each other out. And run for it! Amen!
Hebrews 12:1 – 13, LB. ^[1]Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.
^[2]Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterwards; and now he sits in the place of honor by the throne of God.
^[3]If you want to keep from becoming fainthearted and weary, think about his patience as sinful men did such terrible things to him.
^[4]After all, you have never yet struggled against sin and temptation until you sweat great drops of blood.
That is why you have not conquered sin in your life. You have never vowed, “Instead of this thing to overtake me, I better die. Instead of me to tell lies, I better die. I better die. Instead of indulging that thing, it is better I die.”
Has it ever occurred to you? Has it ever come into your heart? As long as you are not prepared to place your life on the line that the truth will prevail, there is no way your life can meet the standard God has set for us.
^[5]And have you quite forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you, his child? He said, “My son, don’t be angry when the Lord punishes you. Don’t be discouraged when he has to show you where you are wrong.
^[6]For when he punishes you, it proves that he loves you. When he whips you, it proves you are really his child.”
^[7]Let God train you, for he is doing what any loving father does for his children. Whoever heard of a son who was never corrected?
^[8]If God doesn’t punish you when you need it, as other fathers punish their sons, then it means that you aren’t really God’s son at all—that you don’t really belong in his family.
^[9]Since we respect our fathers here on earth, though they punish us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to God’s training so that we can begin really to live?
^[10]Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years, doing the best for us that they knew how, but God’s correction is always right and for our best good, that we may share his holiness.
^[11]Being punished isn’t enjoyable while it is happening—it hurts! But afterwards we can see the result, a quiet growth in grace and character.
^[12]So take a new grip with your tired hands, stand firm on your shaky legs, ^[13]and mark out a straight, smooth path for your feet so that those who follow you, though weak and lame, will not fall and hurt themselves but become strong. Amen!
You can keep the rest and read them when you want to enable Me create room for the Pastor. I want to read the last Scripture here because I love this Scripture. It is one verse.
To all of us that have been exercising this Faith honestly, let us be very careful. We are accountable to somebody. Give that person you are accountable to reasons to account of you joyfully.
Hebrews 13:17, MSG. Be responsive to your pastoral leaders. Listen to their counsel. …
Pay attention to their counsel. Take their counsel very seriously. If it is possible, immortalize their counsel in your heart. You can joke with everything, but not with the counsel of your pastoral leaders if you really acknowledge them as men sent to you by God.
They are alert to the condition of your lives and work under the strict supervision of God. [Amen!!!] Contribute to the joy of their leadership, not its drudgery. Why would you want to make things harder for them?
When you are not obeying the counsels, the training and the instructions, you make the work harder for them. And they will not report joyfully concerning you to the Almighty God Who you have to give account of everything.
Hebrews 13:17, LB. ^[17]Obey your spiritual leaders and be willing to do what they say. For their work is to watch over your souls, and God will judge them on how well they do this. Give them reason to report joyfully about you to the Lord and not with sorrow, for then you will suffer for it too. Sure!!!
If they report about you to the Almighty God with sorrow, you must suffer for it. Give them reason to report about you joyfully.
Hebrews 13:17, AMP. ¹⁷ Obey your spiritual leaders and submit to them [continually [Always!] recognizing their authority over you], for they are constantly keeping watch over your souls and guarding your spiritual welfare, as men who will have to render an account [of their trust]. [Do your part to] let them do this with gladness and not with sighing and groaning, for that would not be profitable to you [either].
If you are giving them reasons; you are troubling them; you are fighting and making war with them, making the work difficult for them, you will become one of the difficult people for them to pastor, for there are difficult persons in our midst.
There are too many of them – men and women; young and old who are very difficult to pastor. They are not pastorable at all. They have incorrigible spirits.
They are obstinate, hard-hearted heathens who are hiding under the cloak of the Ministry of THE SON OF MAN to perpetrate every kind of injustice. I call them the handwork of Satan among us.
Hebrews 13:17, KJV. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
And not with sorrow, for that will be unprofitable for you.
So, with this few Words of encouragement or exhortation, I do not care the way you look at it, for you might call it Words of testimony from the time I mounted this pulpit till this hour, I have only but one target:
TO FILL THE GAP THAT I NOTICED THAT IS STILL UNFILLED IN YOUR LIVES. TO FILL YOUR LIFE WITH THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. TO FILL YOUR LIFE WITH THE WORD OF GOD. TO REVIVE YOU, TO INJECT A NEW STRENGTH INTO YOUR MUSCLES SO THAT YOU BEGIN TO RUN HASTILY RIGHT NOW, FOR I AM SURE THAT IF YOU BELIEVE ALL THAT PROCEEDED FROM MY MOUTH TODAY, YOU ARE LIKELY TO OVERTAKE SOME ON THE WAY.
BUT WHERE YOU COUNT IT AS NOTHING, YOU WILL REGRET AT THE END. I LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE OF GOD.
The title of My exhortation is X-RAY. X-RAY. No other title. And I am not yet through until the Pastor has read for Me THE GREAT SERMON AND HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED EPISLTES, Epistle 20 chapter one only.
He will read it for Me. After which, he will take what is on the pulpit and then minister to us the sermon for today. Thank you for giving Me audience.
You can see! I believe that it is the power that is in the Word that pulled all of you up, but when you look at the time, you will know how many hours you have remained standing.
You are not dozing and you are not complaining. That is why sleeping is a matter of the mind. It is like hunger. Hunger is a matter of the mind. If you remember that you have not eaten, you will become hungry.
If you think you are hungry, you become hungry. If you think you are weak, you become weak. If you think it is time for sleep, you must sleep.
But when you say that this Message does not call for winking of your eye or blinking of the eyes, for it is top priority and the most important matter at the moment, the power of this Message is by far greater than natural food. It is greater than sleeping spirit.
It is greater than that hunger spirit. It is greater than hunger for physical food. And I believe that we have benefitted, and will benefit more if we remain wide awake spiritually and physically.

Some people, you know, due to “lack of revelation” think they are in “Peter Odoemena’s Church.” Some even think that if they leave the Church, I am losing something. But let Me tell you: If you leave Bridal Faith today, I am losing nothing. If you come into this Church – Bridal Faith – I am gaining nothing. You are a burden to Me, because I know I can do without you, but you cannot do without Me. I do not need you but you need Me. As far as I live, I am the True Vine. And you are My branches. You can only bear fruit and your fruit will remain if you abide in Me.

– THE SON OF MAN –

LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOL. 1; Preached on 30^th April 2000 at the Household Onitsha; Pg. 12 vs. 13

Quit quarrelLing with god

The great sermon and holy spirit inspired epistles and revelations [2019 Revised Edition]; Epistle 21 [CONCLUSION] Chapter 1: Page 454.

¹“AND I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry)’ (1 Tim. 1:12, KJV).
²“I give thanks to Him who has granted me (the needed) strength and made me able (for this), Christ Jesus our Lord, because He has judged and counted me faithful and trustworthy, appointing me to (this stewardship of the ministry’ (1 Tim. 1:12, AMP).
³I am very grateful to Almighty God, who before the world began, counted you and I worthy and faithful to be members of His own very family as His dear sons and daughters.
⁴I have to praise the Lord Jesus Christ, who in His mercy and love, decided to abolish the Laws of Moses for all His children so that we can worship God spiritually in spirit and in truth with consciences void of offence before God and before man.
⁵This agrees with the scripture that says that it is not he that willeth or he that runneth but God that showeth mercy. It is not by power nor by might, but by the grace of God which is the spirit of love and mercy.
⁶“Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the Word of the Lord unto Zerubabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 4:6, KJV).
⁷To the rest of you that remains faithful to the faith, I warn you to be very careful about the rebellious instinct that is in man.
⁸It is this instinct that inspires people to rise up to find fault with the servant of God from time to time.
⁹These people do not understand one salient point; that God does not hear or pay any attention to them.
¹⁰There is only one person God will pay attention to his words or petition at any given time and that is His well- beloved Son who bears His Name. He is both the mouthpiece of God and of the people of God.
¹¹For example, if Moses sinned, God will never send Aaron or Miriam or any of the Elders in Israel to reprimand him. He is God’s servant. God alone is the person that will reprimand him.
¹²See the case of Job, where many of his foes rose up and accused him before God and hear his defence.
Romans 14:4, LB.^[3]Those who think it is all right to eat such meat must not look down on those who won’t. And if you are one of those who won’t, don’t find fault with those who do. For God has accepted them to be his children. ^[4]They are God’s servants, not yours. They are responsible to Him, not to you. Let Him tell them whether they are right or wrong. And God is able to make them do as they should.
Roman 14:4, KJV. Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Amplified version. ⁴Who are you to pass judgment on and censure another’s household servant? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he shall stand and be upheld, for the Master (the Lord) is mighty to support him and make him stand.
Good News Bible. Who are you to judge the servant of someone else? It is their own Master who will decided whether they succeed or fail. And they will succeed, because the LORD is able to make them succeed.
¹²See the case of Job, where many of his foes rose up and accused him before God and hear his defence.
¹³“You have said it in my hearing yes, you’ve said it again and again — ‘I am pure, I am innocent; I have not sinned’. ¹⁴You say God is using a fine-toothed comb to try to find a single fault, and so to count you as his enemy. And He puts my feet in the stocks; you say, ‘and watches every move I make’.
¹⁵All right, here is my reply: in this very thing you have sinned by speaking of God that way. For God is greater than man. Why should you fight against Him just because He does not give account to you of what He does? (Job 33:8- 13, LB).
¹⁶“(Oh, that there were someone who would listen to me and try to see my side of this argument. Look, I will sign my signature to my defence; now, let the Almighty show me that I am wrong let Him approve the indictment made against me by my enemies. I would treasure it like a crown. Then I would tell Him exactly what I have done and why, presenting my defense as one He listens to)” (Job 31:35-37, LB).
¹⁷In the same manner, the Lord Jesus was accused by the Pharisees, from time to time, of sin. No matter how right they seemed in their accusations, the Father never paid any attention to them.
¹⁸Jesus Christ was accused of breaking the Laws of Moses and also taught His disciples to do same. That was true. Yet, it was no sin because nobody can impute sin on God’s Elect. Behold The Elect One
¹⁹“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keepeth the Law? Why go ye about to kill Me” (John 7:19, KJV).
²⁰“None of you obeys the Laws of Moses! So why pick on Me for breaking them? Why kill Me for this” (John 7:19,).
²¹“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. (If that is the truth) why do you seek to kill Me (for not keeping it)? (John 7:19, AMP).
²²So brethren, each time you are rebuked by God, please, do not feel very much offended but take the advice in the book of Lamentation.
²³“Why then should we, mere humans as we are, murmur and complain when punished for our sins? Let us examine ourselves instead, and let us repent and turn again to the Lord,
²⁴Let us lift our hearts and hand to Him in heaven, for we have sinned; we have rebelled against the Lord, and He has not forgotten it (Lam. 3:39 – 42, LB).
²⁵“Why should we ever complain when we are punished for our sins? Let us examine our ways and turn back to the Lord. ²⁶Let us open our hearts to God in heaven and pray, we have sinned and rebelled, and You, O Lord, have not forgiven us” (Lam. 3:39 — 42, GNB).
²⁷“So it is best for us to wait in patience — to wait for Him to save us — and it is best to learn this patience in our youth. When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience; we should bow in submission, for there may still be hope. Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it for the salvation of the Lord. (Lam. 3:26 – 30, GNB).
²⁸“It is good both to hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a young man to be under discipline, for it causes him to sit apart in silence beneath the Lord’s demands, [Sure!!!] to lie face downward in the dust; then at last there is hope for him. ³⁰Let him turn the other cheek to those who strike him and accept their awful insults,” (Lam. 3:26 – 30, LB).
²⁹Should you be punished by the Church because of wrong doing, please, do not rashly throw in your towel or tender your resignation. It is not the solution.
³⁰“If your ruler become angry with you, do not hand in your resignation; serious wrongs may be pardoned if you keep calm‘ (Ecclesiastes 10:4, GNB).
“If the temper of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place [or show a resisting spirit]; for gentleness and calmness prevent or put a stop to great offenses.” (AMP)
“If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offenses.” (KJV)
“If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great errors to rest.” (NIV)
³¹To those that still have the Spirit of quarrelling with God, I warn you to desist from that at once for your own good. God is mightier than any human being.
³²He will destroy you or even crush you to powder or even banish you from His presence forever. His simplicity does not overlap His Lordship over us. Remember we are all adopted in the beloved of God and He is the Son over His Father’s heritage.
³³Please, brethren, I am not saying all these things to you so as to build a hedge around myself against accusation or criticism. Do not think that way please. ³⁴As surely as God lives and I live, I must welcome constructive criticisms. ³⁵But I hate and God also hates destructive criticisms. Destructive criticism is a calculated attempt mooted out by somebody out of sheer hatred, malice, envy, jealousy, and a feeling of inferiority, to run down the reputation of his enemy.
³⁶It is a blackmail directed to somebody by his adversaries to discredit him before his adherents for base advantage. It is a brazen display of rampant and misguided folly on the part of such miscreants.
³⁷This is a dangerous spirit and you must try to avoid it. Such despondency does not allow its perpetrators to make any meaningful contribution to the faith.
³⁸We all are built up together as a Church, as God’s holy habitation and it is expected of us to speak the same thing and be perfectly joined together in one mind and focus our attention on the mark of our holy and high calling in Christ Jesus.
³⁹Whatever that may bring schism or suspicion in the Body of Christ, must be avoided by all means with all malice.
Job 22:21 – 22, LB. ^[21]“Quit quarreling with God! Agree with him and you will have peace at last! His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong. ^[22]Listen to his instructions and store them in your heart.