X-RAY VOLUME 3

X-RAY VOLUME 3 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

²³Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise and skillful person glory and boast in his wisdom and skill; let not the mighty and powerful person glory and boast in his strength and power; let not the person who is rich [in physical gratification and earthly wealth] glory and boast in his [temporal satisfactions and earthly] riches; ²⁴But let him who glories glory in this: that he understands and knows Me [personally and practically, directly discerning and recognizing My character], that I am the Lord, Who practices loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:23 – 24, Amplified Version

LET YOUR GLORY BE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE

VOLUME 2 REVISITED THE SERMON BY Pastor Chizoba Udochukwu

MODERATED BY THE SON OF MAN

If I am an impersonator, why the vindication? If it is counterfeit, produce the original. If you think this is magic, produce the miracle. Have you wondered why it is limited to Only One Man? Throughout the whole world, no other person has ever appeared wearing the Cloud. I appeared to people that do not need Me. I want you to understand My stand. If somebody or any other destructive spirit that is at work among the children of disobedient men finds its way into your life, suggesting to you that you are believing THE SON OF MAN makes Him something, better carry your bag and go. I never appeared to preach that you may believe. If you believe, you are not promoting My course. If you do not believe, you are not obstructing My course. I am what I am.

– THE SON OF MAN –

THE BASIS OF OUR FAITH EXPLAINED Preached on Sunday 18^th October 2015 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 66 vs. 50 – 52

THE FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM

This encounter that was posted viral to us thing morning between our Brother Chigozie Ibekwe and former Bishop Okechukwu Paul Nwamkpa really gave me joy because of too many reasons.

The Almighty God in our midst has succeeded in bringing all that are willing to that level, standard and point where even He Himself the Almighty God does not use His spiritual powers to deceive any of them again.
If you listen and perceive the type of boldness expressed by our Brother and his utterances, without wasting time, he pocketed a whole Bishop [deposed], one that was superior.
Our Brother used the Messages the deposed Bishop taught him to cow him down. And he was pleading to be given audience, but when he was given audience, he could not make any point.
Do you know that the bishop as he was called only knew the Holy Bible? That was the little he knew. But when he left, the Almighty God went as far as bringing down the Godhead which He God prophesied. He equally taught about it.
God showed us His Original Body of Himself, which the deposed Bishop never knew about. He only witnessed the Cloud [Sunday 7^th April 1996.]
And even when he was asked about that Pillar of Cloud, for it is a truth he cannot deny, he wanted to cite scientific proof. But he ended up confirming it.
He still ended up confirming it that a camera picks many objects. So the Pillar of Cloud is one of the objects that the camera picked. Then the deposed Bishop went ahead to solidify it by saying that this is an object.
Yet, this is the same person who sent the pictures of the Pillar of Cloud to the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] in the United States of America for confirmation. And when the result came out, he collected it and made it public before destroying the files.
You see! How could he turn around to say that it has no scientific proof when he was the one that investigated it?
When the spirit of God leaves a man, there is no length to which he cannot go to, but then he has no point again.
Our Brother told him, “I know the Scriptures as well. So, if you claim you know the Scriptures, I have known it more than you. ”I cannot be your convert.”
And our Brother went as far as pointing him to ancient manuscripts which the deposed Bishop knew not. And it gave me joy. He knew them not, even till now.
And look at his cleverness in trying to use the Message because he will always want to pervert it. The devil has the same plan.
The deposed Bishop said that no man of God, who is ordained of God can ever make a shipwreck, but he was trying to point it to himself that since our Brother Chigozie acknowledged that God used him to preach those Messages which he is still believing up till today, that he [the deposed] can never make a shipwreck. He forgot king Saul.
1 Samuel 15:35, NIV. Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned for him. And the Lord was grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel..
1 Samuel 16:14, KJV. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
1 Samuel 18:8, AMP. And Saul was very angry, for the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed only thousands. What more can he have but the kingdom?
The deposed Bishop, Okechukwu Nwamkpa does not know that God had already made us to understand that every office as we have them in the Bible, God gave some one thing and another thing to the other.
Ephesians 4:11 – 12, KJV. And he gave some, Apostles; and some, Prophets; and some, Evangelists; and some, Pastors and Teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
He never knew that all those offices were highly competitive. But only one Office is not competitive. And that is the Office of the Almighty God. The Office of the son of man. One Office and One Person occupying it.
God went further to tell us that if you are not performing in your own, you can be removed. You can make shipwreck in your own Office just like himself who made shipwreck in his own.
Like others including Bishop Judas.
God pointed us to the ones in the Bible and with our own eyes we look round in our own day to see as many as have shipwrecked.
So the Word of God will quickly x-ray such cleverness before the fallen ones will finish saying them, and you will know where they are going to.
The way our Brother was dribbling him pleased me very well.He was humiliated out. Our Brother told him, “I respect you, but not on this matter. No No No No No!”
Our Brother told him, “You see, this matter that we are talking about, it is higher than you. You cannot convince me against my conviction.” They are definite experiences you cannot explain away. Personal!
So this God that we are talking about is the same God that taught us that worshipping of God is a strict business.
Strive in the worship of God and also continue in prayers and obedience until the time God will come your way and you will have your own personal experience, just like Iyke has had his own today in the night around half past eight. He will never forget it.
A hit-and-run driver knocked down both himself and his first son who he was carrying on his motorcycle. They were knocked into the bush around half past eight in the night, and the driver ran away.
By the time he was able to stand up, he started looking for his child, only for him to see his child where the child was crying.
With the bleeding injuries he sustained on his head and his neck. There was no means for him to go home. He then pulled up his motorcycle, started it and carried his child in front of him with that same accidented motorcycle from Owerrinta, Ugba junction [Isiala-Ngwa South LGA Abia state] and brought him back to Uvuru, Aboh-Mbaise in Imo State.
They are all lying there at the Orient Hospital, Eke Uvuru. Was it a human being that rode that motorcycle? Do you think it was a human being that drove that motorcycle? Was it the expertise of a human being? Do you think that?
A ride that took him straight to the hospital in our home town, from where he how called his wife by 9o’clock in the night. The hit and run driver had already run away. A testimony to the glory of God.
LET YOUR GLORY BE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE Volume 2; PreachedonSunday, 4^th December, 2016 atThe Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN, The Supreme Intelligence; Chapter 1: WORSHIPPING GOD IS A STRICT BUSINESS; Page 15 from verse 1.
¹I want today to be another special day in your heart. … And the LORD has already made it a special day. … I want to inject a level of truth you have not attained all these years.
I am filling a gap. The gap filled today represents the level of truth that has been lacking in our hearts. The LORD filled that gap today.
The truth that kept you standing for hours. Hence, you are not tired from 8.30am to 12o’clock. And you do not know that the struggle is for your own good.
²You have attained some heights in everything but you have never attained even 1mm as height in this regard. For you muddle things up. There is no separating line. You can dash Me food for feeding as I am used to dashing some people for feeding. Is it offering to God?
³If I give you money to go and establish your business, am I offering anything to God? [Never!] It is just like the money we spend on our children for their studies. Is it offering to God? [Never!] We want to alleviate their sufferings, it has nothing to do with God.
⁴Offering that is meant for God is meant for God and only God knows how He will use it. That is where men of God die. When they use offerings meant for God without enquiring of the Lord, you see them incurring the wrath of God. For the owner knows what that offering will be used for, and you cannot change it. You have no right to change it, it must go there!
⁵You see why we are not a denomination. In the denominations, they preach tithe, they preach whatever they preach just to enrich themselves, build mansions, colleges, universities and everything, [including] industries. …
⁸We are having a serious business with God. Worshipping of God is a business, it is an occupation.
God gave us a Message about making a choice. And He told us that the hardest thing to make is choice. He then pointed us to the first [and the best] choice you can ever make in life and you will never regret. And that first choice is the God you will worship.
You see how this man [the deposed bishop] started his subtle talk. He said, “You do not even at times decide to visit us. I am not persuading you to change church o. No! Just decide to pay us a visit.”
This is so that a gullible fellow will say, “No problem! Is it not just visiting you?”
Bro Chigozie asked him, “Where do you stay?” Where? Visit you where? He then started pointing to Yeshua Hamashiach and the address.
¹⁰You have entered into a business contract with God. The contract and agreement must be strictly observed if you must get what you want and get saved.
This is where we have to pay attention. That our worship has gone back to our homes [our families] does not in any way alter or change the strictness of worshipping this God. Everything that has been slated [the fivefold worship] must all be observed as the LORD has taught us.
You see that from the beginning, the LORD spoke of how He wanted to inject the truth, and that we never attained this level all these years.
Then He started with the issue of muddling things up. He made it clear that whatever that is meant for God should be named as offering for God
I am happy that this Message is posted viral. That is why I am saying too many things because I am getting to somewhere.
¹¹Otherwise, you will miss the track, misplace your offering, misplace your faith and on that day, your account will be zero.
On this note, we now have to tell ourselves to check our account with God. Check your account with the Almighty God.
This is because he is the One that said that if we do not look into this contractual agreement with the Almighty God and take worship seriously, it will come to a point where we will have a zero account with the Almighty God.
It is just like in the Book of Malachi. When they were talking together, a book of record was opened. We are talking to ourselves. I told you to get ready for today.
Chapter 2; Page 34 from verse 3. ³We want to go a little further. Malachi chapter 3 verses 16 through 18. “Then those who feared the Lord…” ⁴Those that feared the Lord, not everybody.
Those who fear the Lord, not those who fear men. All those who fear the Lord. The book of Psalms says that there will be blessings for those that fear the Lord and are doing His will.
⁵There will be blessings for those that fear the Lord and are doing His will. Those that fear the Lord. Note! Not those that do not sanctify the Lord, those that do not honour the Lord. No. Those that fear the Lord.
We answer the name, FearGod. This is because the LORD must be feared and reverenced. Where we are, we have known the Personality we are talking about.
FearGod! Do you fear God. FearGod! Do you fear God. To fear God is to restrain yourself from evil – evil minds and evil habits.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and it restrains us from evil.
This is because one that is wise will now use that wisdom to protect him or herself against harm and against evil. And we know that Christ is the wisdom of God.
⁶“Then those who feared the Lord talked…”⁷Talked. Those that feared the Lord, after hearing Him speak, they now gathered and talked to themselves.
⁸It was not [a situation where] one that feared God [was] talking with one that did not fear God. Birds of the same feather should flock together. You discuss good ideas with good people with honest intentions. But when you discuss good ideas with bad people with dishonest minds, they frustrate your plan.
Anyone that comes to you and opens his mouth, if the unction is there; if the spirit is there, you will immediately discern and know whether that person has this fear of God in him or her. This is because where he will be pointing you to will tell you where he is coming from and where he is going.
Those that fear the LORD will discuss no other thing but what the LORD has been doing in His people and among His people, with a view to giving Glory to the Name of God.
But watch one [though the person may be inside] he may be there, but placed by the ungrateful type of people. And then, from there, he will be transmitting whatever that is transpiring or happening within.
When you come before such people, if you are not grounded and rooted in the truth, he will never allow you to discuss anything that will give glory to the Name of God. Their whole attention will be geared towards taking you away from the Spirit of Truth

I am the Justifier. I am THE SON OF MAN. If I set you free, you are free indeed. If I declare you guilty you are guilty. If I want you to stand, you will stand. If I want you to fail you will fail. This is pure truth! For God knows those that will rise and those that will fall. If you doubt Me, bragging that you cannot do it, what happened to others will happen to you there. You will go there and call Me devil and equally call this Faith false

THE SON OF MAN –

HOLDING UNTO THE CERTAINTY OF THE FAITH: FOR THERE UNTO I AM BORN VOL 2; Preached on Sunday 9^th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 43 vs. 24 – 25

THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD

LET YOUR GLORY BE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE Volume 2; PreachedonSunday, 4^th December, 2016 atThe Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN, The Supreme Intelligence; Page 35 from verse 9.

⁹Whatever you agree to do that is noble and proper, they will just tell you, “It does not matter. Leave these things, they are of no use.” “It will not work.” Somebody will bring up a good idea, [but] bad people with evil hearts will frustrate it. When condemnation will come, everybody will be declared guilty. But one was responsible.
¹⁰No matter how the prophet prophesies against evil, warning people that God will take them to captivity, if he does not run away after prophesying, while the people are going into captivity, he will follow. He will be shouting, “I told you about this, I warned you about this thing.” Yet, he is also carried into captivity with the people.
¹¹If he ran away from them after warning them, knowing that God is worshipped personally, directly, practically, he would have found his way.
This God is a God that is worshipped personally. When He is revealing Himself to you, He reveals Himself personally, if He wants to save you. It is that revelation that rekindles the fear of God in your heart, and makes that experience to always be fresh in your mind.
But when He says, “Sustained by Your Experience”, if you do not have that experience, there is nothing that will sustain you. You will be basking on testimonies of others. And any evil wind can just blow the person up and down.
¹²If Abigail, the wife of Nabal who directly discerned; [She discerned] directly, for she knew God. She knew the characteristics of God. And she was acquainted with God. …
It was not marriage that made her to be acquainted with God. She had that personal experience – that personal acquaintance with the Almighty God. And that was why, even marriage could not disarm her of what she knew God to be.
…If she had waited until the whole family came together, reasoned together and then her husband endorsed her going there to seek the face of Almighty God that He might change His mind, let Me tell you, no soul would have been left in that family.
¹³For God had already vowed a vow in David … So in every Age, there must be a Personality in Whom God dwelleth. So, when we are mentioning, “God God God”, you must trace that God down to somebody.
¹³For God had already vowed a vow in David never to leave any soul alive because of the stinginess of Nabal, who had enough to throw to the general public, but refused the plea of One that kept charge over his flock in the wilderness by day and by night; for which cause he became rich.
¹⁴When the woman opened her mouth, it was in condemnation of her husband. …
Can you see it? it was direct discernment. She sensed danger was lurking and she knew that the family was in danger of extermination. And she could not bear such a horrible thing.
In our own day, we have that same God that was in David. And then, as we also have family set-ups, we have our children, our wives and the husbands.
What effort are you making to remedy and redeem your family as a woman? What effort are you making in this regard as a man?
This is because when you want to correct some people with reference to the son of man Who is our standard, you will see them reacting negatively. They will ask you, “Am I the son of man?” Yet, the person is claiming to be in the faith of Christ.
¹⁴When the woman opened her mouth, it was in condemnation of her husband. By so doing, she had already dissociated herself from the judgment that was to come. She not only muted out the idea, she stepped out.
¹⁸“If Haman could succeed in obtaining the favour of the king, after killing all the Jews, they will know you to be a Jewess. They will come after you. So meet with the king at the odd day. Do not wait until the right day, go contrary to the laws of Medes and Persia, meet with the king, plead on our behalf. Otherwise, all of us will be exterminated, including you”.
²³Many that do not know God and how He does His things, blindly and foolishly even meet with God when His anger is hot, defying the order that nobody should make the mistake of approaching the king when his anger is hot.
Many do not know God and how He does His own things. We have to know God. We read it out even last Sunday. The things you should know about.
You have to know God, even before you talk of knowing yourself. This is because, if you do not know God, you cannot know the relationship between you and God. But when you know God, you will now try to be directly connected, directly discerning and having that direct encounter and personal experience with God that will enable you to know even when to approach Him.
This is because there is no King that is superior to God. He is the King of Kings and the LORD of Lords. Hence, you will be defying the order that nobody should make the mistake of approaching the King when His anger is hot.
²⁴It is when you are practically and personally acquainted with him that you will know his mood at all times. You will know when to present your matters. You will even know the time to make calls which he will answer. For there are certain periods you cannot make calls. He will ignore your call or He will receive and give you a warning.
Some will be making the calls at a period or an hour they should know that He is busy [even to eat]. I pity THE SON OF MAN over this phone of a thing.
The is because, even in business, any day you have series of calls, you will get disorganized.
Severe headache! Calls will be giving you serious headache. Once your phone rings, you will be disorganized immediately. Now, can we imagine one man receiving calls from all over Nigeria. How many states do we have in Nigeria, including the FCT? Everybody is calling Him.
Now, check other places worldwide. Check other nations or countries that are connected to Him. He answers both international and local calls.
So, common sense should be there that He should have the time for eating. He should have a time for relaxation at least. And then, you should also know the type of matter to present when you call.
You do not call at a time of serious business and you will be presenting pleasantries. He picked your call because He feels that such a call that came at that time could be an emergency call.
It is just because the person is not fully connected and is not practically and personally acquainted with Him. Such a person has his time for everything, but he does not know that this Being we are talking about has slated periods for everything, for He has no time for such things just as we have.
²⁵You might be asking yourself where you have offended. You have offended by making your call at the wrong time because you are not personally and practically acquainted with Him.
[Malachi 3:16]“Then those who feared the Lord talked often one to another; and the Lord listened and heard it…”
They often talked one to another, the Lord did what? Listened. Did they invite God? Did any one of them call God to come? Because those that feared the Lord have come together, God is there, to honour His word, “Where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there”. Those that feared the Lord gathered to talk one to another. [Sure!!!]
The Lord became the God Man. The Lord heard. The Lord showed interest. Whatever they discussed, the Lord heard it immediately
And He opened the Book of records, for Allah is swift in taking records. “…and the Lord listened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written…”
A book of remembrance was written. He did not mention a special place as the only place the LORD will show interest. Even when you are in the kitchen or you decide to hide yourself in the backyard, he is there. You may say, “Let us go inside the room and lock it up. So that we will run Him down and talk the way we like.” He said a book of remembrance is written.
Remember where we read in the other Scripture, it said, “The LORD has not forgotten.” How? Because He recorded all.
Lam. 3:39 – 42, LB 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, Let 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.
This is because Allah is swift in taking records. That is why, when God is rebuking you, what you have to do is to kneel down, because if you are looking at the present and what has just happened, you are causing God to open your record.
That was what happened to Prophet Moses. If he had accepted the LORD’s judgment, the LORD would not have gone back to start tracing all He did. From the word go.
From the very beginning. May be because of the light brain we have, after some days, the thing will fizzle out. And you think it is so with the Almighty God. That is why we misbehave a lot.
That is why Jesus told the people that accused the woman [Mary Magdalene], for he looked away from the present and went back into history, “If you had not sinned before, be the first to cast your stone on this woman.” And before He could raise His head, nobody was standing there again.
Do not just fix your eyes nor pin your hope on the current/particular spot. What will help to humble you down is to know that you have been a transgressor. If your account is opened, you are not even worthy to live. I am not worthy to live.
So this will now bring us to humility. Then, we apologize and ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness instead of trying to drag him to the defensive measure when He will now be talking and you will be talking back. You will then be replying so that you will prove yourself right.
Job said, “If God will drag you before His court and ask you why, what will you say?”
Malachi 3:16 continued. ³¹“…and the Lord listened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written…”
³²This is what I want to get out. What was opened? A book of remembrance. A diary was opened because of the discussion they were holding. A book of remembrance, it was opened immediately.
It was because of this book of record that the king [Ahaserus – Xerxes] went through and said in surprise, “This Jew that has done this to save the life of the king and the deed is recorded in this book of history, what has been done to reward him?” Finding out that nothing was done, he put an action in motion for his reward.
Esther 6 :1 – 3, AMP. ¹ON THAT night the king could not sleep; and he ordered that the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, be brought, and they were read before the king.
²And it was found written there how Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s attendants who guarded the door, who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
³And the king said, What honor or distinction has been given Mordecai for this? Then the king’s servants who ministered to him said, Nothing has been done for him.
In the same way, the Book of record was opened and God said, “OK! Look at this thing I recorded about king Ahab. What will I do so that the prophecy of My Prophet [My servant] will come to pass?”
2 Chronicles 18:19 – 21, AMP. ¹⁹And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said this thing, and another that. ²⁰Then there came a spirit and stood before the Lord and said, I will entice him.
The Lord said to him, By what means? ²¹And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets. And the Lord said, You shall entice him and also succeed. Go forth and do so.
God takes record of everything. If He does not visit it, it is because He does not want to.
Everything about us is very plain before His eyes. He knows where you are. He knows what you are thinking. He knows what you are doing at any time.
Sometimes, He will call and ask, “Where are you?” He just wants to try your level of sincerity to know if you will cover up that you are somewhere when you are not.
³³“…and a book of remembrance was written before Him of those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the Lord…” … ³⁵“…and who thought on His Name.
How many times have you settled down quietly and you are thinking of the Name of God?
Reverently! Not trying to, counting on what you will say that He has done to you. A quiet moment when you will not allow the devil to come and ask you, “If He said He is God, Why this?”
We are talking about those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the LORD, and who thought on His Name. Meditating on the Name of God, for that is the only power that will help, even when you are in trouble.
If you do not regularly think about that Name, the Name will leave you gradually. And even when you find yourself in trouble, you cannot remember to apply it.
If you apply it because you are now in trouble, He said, “As many as are using Me as spare tyre, one day, you will find out that the spare tyre is flattened.”
³⁵“… And they shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts ³⁷and in that day when I publicly recognize…” ³⁸…Publicly recognize. Something that was done secretly, …
If our Brother Chigozie did not record what transpired between him and the former Bishop, he would have just talked about it. If he never wanted to share the experience, he would have just left it that way.
But the LORD knew about that. The record was already there, but wisdom lead him into making it public.
I am trying to say that we normally have encounters in private places where we should have sanctified the Name of the LORD, but we fail to do so. We may think that nobody saw us.
³⁸In that day when what? Publicly I recognize. Something that was done secretly, God publicly recognized it. And these people never knew God was showing interest. He was listening.
³⁹That was why I gave you a message; “GOD IS A SILENT LISTENER TO EVERY SECRET CONVERSATION”. You might be wondering how He is hearing.
But we do not have any difficulty again because He has shown us the form. If He never allowed us to capture the full Original Body, we would have gone ahead imagining the Godhead to be like a four-footed beast or to be like this and that.
But finally He decided to show us Himself in plain view so that when He tells you, “I monitored you. I saw all you did”, you will not be accusing your Brother. And you will not be accusing your Sister.
He told you in; “THE INTRODUCTION OF THE MIGHTY GOD IN OUR MIDST” that He is not the God that is in one place; that He is everywhere at the same time. That is the God that is revealed in our midst.
⁴¹…and in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special possession ⁴³My peculiar treasure) ⁴⁵And I will spare them…”
⁴⁶I will do what? Spare them! They will never come under My condemnation. [Sure!!!] Publicly, I will acknowledge them, publicly. I will tell the world they are My jewels I collected from the earth. I will spare them.
Psalms 37:23 – 24, MSG. ^23-24Stalwart walks in step with God;… Stalwarts! Those that are loyal to God. Those that are submissive to the Almighty God.
…his path blazed by God, he’s happy. If he stumbles, he’s not down for long; God has a grip on his hand.
These are the people that God is talking about. The people He will publicly recognize. Those that have been loyal and submissive to Him.
He said, “Because they are human beings, they make sincere and honest mistakes.” And when they make such a mistake, they acknowledge it immediately, not engaging God in talking battle, and not trying to prove their innocence. And then, the LORD will give them a helping hand.
When they fail, God will bring them up. They will not stay long when they fall down, for the LORD will always give them a helping hand.

WE HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON

Psalms 37:23 – 24, NIV. ²³The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him; ²⁴though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with His hand.

If the LORD does not uphold you, what will ever sustain you? So this is why we should always be loyal to God, submissive to the will of God which is the Word of God and then, humble ourselves in the hands of the Almighty God.
⁴⁶I will do what? Spare them! They will never come under My condemnation. Publicly, I will acknowledge them, publicly, I will tell the world they are My jewels I collected from the earth. I will spare them.
That is why David also said that blessed, happy, to be envied are those people whom the LORD has decided not to count their sins against them; whom the LORD has decided to forgive their sins. They are these set of people.
God is making this thing public so that no one will claim something that does not belong to him. When you hear it, you will now know the set of people the Scripture is talking about.
“…and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him…”
We just read a Scripture about our being in God’s own institution. God is educating us. In our normal school curriculum, do we not write examinations? Do we not write tests? When we come to school late, are we not punished? All those things are learning processes.
Once you are in God’s institution, you cannot tell the extent He will go in imparting the knowledge in you. He is the only One that knows. It is only the timetable He releases that He wants you to see. He may also have another timetable in Him which he does not want to make public.
Sometimes, you may come into the class and the lecture will come in and say, “We have an unannounced quiz.” You are not there to be picking pebbles with Him.
After demonstrating, you will bring out your pen and paper. If you do not want to write, you walk away. But you know the implications.
Now that we are in God’s own school. You are fully registered and I am fully registered. He now encouraged us that it is better that we follow fully than becoming dropouts.
This is because half-education is dangerous. If you have ever stepped into the institution of the Almighty God, but along the way, you find yourself out, you can never hold anything again.
There is nothing that will be meaningful in your life again. Who will now teach you the one you will learn? The person will become self-destructive.
When someone becomes self-destructive, what it means is that the person has become a destroyer, for he not only ended up destroying himself, but all that will give him the room.
So, this is why God is enjoining us saying, “Continue steadfastly. Do not ever think of becoming a dropout.” Do not ever think of dropping out from the Faith of Christ.
Somebody in America can drop out. Somebody in Onitsha can drop out. Somebody that is living in the house of THE SON OF MAN can drop out. It is not restricted to a particular place. Sure!!! This is because it is a spiritual matter.
Many have already dropped out. And they are regretting it. But the way to come back is now a problem. Look at one thing with this school. You were offered admission when you applied. You do everything and then start reading. But along the way, you decided to stop. No problem. Nobody disturbs you.
After one year or two years, when come back to join, the school will tell you that you are not a student. You willingly withdrew, but you cannot willingly join back.
⁴⁷“…and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him…” ⁴⁸As a man spares his own son who serves him. A son that serves his father’s interest is always the delight of his father. So it is with a daughter. So it is with a servant. … He readily gets favour from the Father.
However you put it. Are you a child of God? Are you a servant of God? Whatever you are, he said that once you are doing it with the willingness of heart, serving His interest [Faithfully] He will do what? Get you spared. He will spare you.
…A maid that serves the interest of her mistress must be greatly rewarded.
That is why the son of man told the three of you, “Now, you have come to My house. You know what transpired before you ever came here; whether you had any personal experience; whether you prayed or anything like that. And then when you were summoned to come, if you were summoned to come or you decided to come. When you arrived, there was something in your heart. What was that which you wanted to achieve?
Then if you were called by the Almighty God, anybody that is called should not preempt anything before coming. It is when you submit yourself that the Master will tell you, “Look at what I want you to do for Me. And you will not listen to any other side talk but the Voice of your Master.””
You take orders from your senior. That is why that institution was outlined the way it should be. Otherwise, you will see somebody who is not even a part of the service firing you in the ministry. When he is not the one that recruited you.
You take orders from He that has called you. That is why He gave us the Message, THE DANGEROUS IMPLICATIONS OF REMOVING YOUR EYES [Mind and attention] FROM HE THAT HAS CALLED YOU TO GLORY AND HONOUR – He that has invited you to come. Sure!!!
If you ever make the mistake of removing your attention from Him, diverting it to somebody else, then your reward should come from that person.
You are gone!
This is because when He comes against you, that person to whom you diverted your attention can never protect nor save you. You may even be dismissed and the person remains.
⁴⁹“…Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.” [Malachi 3:16 – 8, Amplified version]
⁵⁰The end will declare those that served God and those that did not serve God, those that walked uprightly and those that walked wickedly, coming to God with their lips when their hearts are far away. These are the people that will be disappointed on that day.
⁵¹The Son of Man is giving you your own cards in your hands right now. I am placing the cards before you. There is no mago-mago. There is no favouritism. No tribalism. No nepotism. Amen.
Chapter 3 – CROSSCHECK YOUR MOTIVE; Page 47 from verse 1. What is your motive in doing it? You are the one that will crosscheck it rightly. That you are hard-working and you are doing this or that you have done that, what is the motive behind that thing you are doing?
Somebody that is seeing from a distance may think that you have a good motive, but you know why you are doing what you are doing. And that is why God said that we should crosscheck our motives. This is so that if the motive is not why God said you should do that, you stop.
¹I love this atmosphere. Am I deceiving you? If you like, hate Me, I will even appreciate it. I am giving you expo. I am solving it. You are only copying.
God is doing everything. And that is why He said that for one to get this salvation – for you to hide in God’s righteousness, what it means is that you will replicate THE SON OF MAN. You will be SON OF MAN. No plus. No minus. And that is what it means to be in God’s own righteousness.
This is because when you are following One that is walking on a new road, the person is already creating a Path for you.
What you do is just to follow that Path. So, there is no glory to you who walks on a Path that is already created. The glory goes to the One Who has created the Path. And that is why Christ said, “Labour no more to create your own Path. Stand behind Me. I am making this Way. Just follow Me.”
And mark those that walk as you see God for example, and follow them. And then mark those that are walking disorderly, and avoid them.
Those that say that they do not want that Path that was created by the Almighty God, for they want to create their own channel, God said, “Mark them and avoid them completely.” He never mentioned the name of anybody.
Anybody can be guilty of it. It could be your mother. It could be your father. It could be your closest friend.
One who is trying to evolve his own plan of salvation. His own plan and not God’s plan. And he would not tell you that it is his plan. No deceiver will ever tell you that he is deceiving you. He can even swear with his blood.
It takes the spirit of Christ in you to prove him wrong because such hypocrisy cannot continue for too long. Time and events will expose that person. And you will see that the person is making pretenses of what he is not. He is claiming to be what he is not.
When saint Peter was not honest to the Message of Jesus Christ, time and event exposed him; exposed James and exposed Barnabas.
Galatians 2:11 – 13, AMP. ¹¹But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood condemned.
¹²For up to the time that certain persons came from James, he ate his meals with the Gentile [converts]; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he withdrew and held himself aloof from the Gentiles and [ate] separately for fear of those of the circumcision [party].
¹³And the rest of the Jews along with him also concealed their true convictions and acted insincerely, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy (their example of insincerity and pretense).
²What if the Lord had called it quits before now, how many do you think would have made it? [Nobody!] God is giving you all these things so that you will not fall under His condemnation. Amen!!!
God is taking the position of our irresponsible parents. Sure!!! He is filling the gap of that which we lacked at home.
As a responsible God Who is responsible to His creature. He knows what it took Him to create a human being. He now decided to fill the gap. That gap was created by our parents because some of them knew not God.
God loves us more than our parents. Our parents milked us. They said they were helping us when they were destroying us. Watch it! The chastisement they give you is geared towards achieving their own goal, for they want you to serve their interest.
He wants you to serve his interest from where he will make money. They will now use you [as child labour]. Our Message said that many parents are blood suckers by using their children for such goals. Something from which the parents should provide for their families, they now send their children away to go and be engaging in such enterprises.
That is pure truth! Giving them bananas to hawk about even in the markets. Go to River Niger and see what is happening there. You see infants pushing barrow. And they call it training.
Now, the Scripture asked us a pertinent question, “Do you prefer an irresponsible God?” Now that it has been made plain to us that most of us had and still have irresponsible parents, do we also prefer an irresponsible God?
Do we now prefer an irresponsible God Who will behave like our parents? Then where is our hope? Where is our hope, if our God should be as irresponsible as our parents?
Then we will become irresponsible Human beings till eternity. Then we will be a wasted generation.
God is moving us away from that irresponsible orientation that our parents gave us into the responsible orientation and education of the Almighty God which is a fact and a fight. [Sure!!!] And it can never be pleasurable to us. [At all!!!] We have lived long in irresponsibility.
SONG: [He loves Me. I cannot just say why. He loves Me. I cannot just say why. On Calvary’s tree, he died for my sins. He loves Me. I cannot just say why.]
If He never died and resurrected, we will not be what we are today. Our hope was completely lost.
Romans 9:29, AMP. ²⁹It is as Isaiah predicted, If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed [from which to propagate descendants], we [Israel] would have fared like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah.
Matthew 24:13, KJV.But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Endure what? He that will endure what? This thing [Bible] we are carrying, was it written today? The Personality that said it, do we not know him? The Almighty God Himself.Who will endure the troubles? This is because there must be troubles.
The Prophet Jeremiah prophesied it that in the end, those that know not God – the Gentile world and all the nations will come to God and say, “O our fathers inherited lies and falsehood.” They inherited lies, wherein there is no profit.
They were irresponsible parents. But as many as have found favour in the sight of God, they are transferred from the Kingdom of irresponsibility to the responsible Kingdom which is the Kingdom of His dear Son. The only Responsible Family.
If you are transferred from a school of nuisance to a school that is serious about academic works, you will not find your feet there.
Idolatrous family.
You can never find your feet until you endure everything and then, you stabilize in that school. Some will come and they will be discouraged. They will say, “No! I cannot continue with this school.”
They will be finding one fault after another concerning that school. Why? This is because the school is very strict with their academic programmes. Sure!!!
But watch the school he was coming from. Maybe he was taking the first position in class in that former school of nuisance. God said that this person’s condition or position is that of the first among dullards.
Having one intention. That God does not give out half-baked bread. He does not churn out half-baked human beings. Once you graduate from God’s institution, you become a masterpiece. You become a masterpiece. An icon.
Matthew 24:13, NIV. ¹³but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. Amen!
Living Bible. But those enduring to the end shall be saved.
Amplified version. ¹³But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Message Bible. “Staying with it–that’s what God requires. Stay with it to the end. You won’t be sorry, and you will be saved.
You would not regret that you stayed with God. And then, most of all, you will be saved. If you have stayed with God with all your heart, passing through His situation with every amount of humility and submissiveness.

COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE YE SEPARATE

s it any wonder why one who we excommunicated because of his rebellion on March 15^th, 2003 is still running to and fro till now? He has never settled down. How many years is it from 2003 till now? Approximately 19years. But he is still running to and fro.

But FearGod, you are 18years. Are you running to and fro? You are settled. A 19 years old man is no longer a kid.
Since he has not settled down well, how can the family settle down? How can his spirit settle down? He is still moving about likes courier without a baggage.
Those are the irresponsible parents. You can imagine what he is teaching his children.
He will tell his children “Yeshua Hamashiach. This is the latest.” How many has he established. How many groups has he jumped into? This is because he is looking for the place where he will be the leader. Another one is where he will make money because he has no visible and viable means of livelihood.
It is now that he will find things extremely difficult because the man who was nurturing him all along sacked him. and now, the man is dead. His name is G. N. Iheaku.
The only place he could get employment under the sun. Hence, he has been there. Four times, the man sacked him. Four times! After many years, he applied and then signed an undertaking [the last one] that he will never read any newspaper or periodical or read the Bible or come to the office with the Bible. And the foolish man signed because of twenty thousand naira [₦20,000.00] a month. Is it not madness?
He did not know that those who knew him all along and who were there when he was messing himself up had contact with Pastor Christian Dike who is a relation of the man. And all of them were together. And they were relating everything to him. And from there, we got wind of what is happening.
Finally, he messed up the account, and he was dismissed the last time with instruction from the man never to cross his gate. The man sacked him from the house he gave him, calling him an ingrate.
Up till now, he is still running around. He is running around looking for people that has money, who he can trick into the useless nonsense.
I thank God he is not establishing anything. Let him go and carry those his former members that have called him a criminal. They gave him names and then deserted him.
He said that God spoke to him. What was the message? “Go back to tithe. Tithe for fivefold.” Okey Painter cursed him. Goddy Ikechebelu called all of them criminals who carried his goods without paying him.
This deposed Bishop told a brother to bring the money he intends to use for his marriage so that he can see it with his eyes. When the brother brought the money to him, he took the money, pocketed it and ran away till now. Till now!
2 Timothy 2:2 – 6, MSG. ^1-7…Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!— to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did.
A soldier on duty doesn’t get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere. It’s the diligent farmer who gets the produce. Think it over. God will make it all plain. Amen!
2 Timothy 2:2 – 6, LB. For you must teach others those you and many others have heard me speak about. …
Because you believe. Because you practice. Then you have to teach others both in deeds and in words. If we only know in the head, we are having the head knowledge of the Faith.
Coming to the family altar or to the pulpit to handle the Word like I am handling it now, and I cannot allow it to live in Me, then I am just passing on the head knowledge of the truth.
For you to know what you are teaching, both your character and the Word should synchronize. And then, the teaching will be effective.
One day, you will be challenged with what you believe. If you are not challenged today, you must be challenged tomorrow. Even our children are, from time to time, challenged in their schools and colleges concerning their beliefs when they refuse to join their fellow students in their so-called open prayers and religious observations.
They say no and their teachers will like to know what their parents teach them at home. If it has not come your way, pray that it will come your way; or you are compromising in your school.
When they call you to come and open the assembly, you mount there and join them to do, “Hail Mary, full of grace” , say “Our father who art in heaven” and then make sign of the cross, you go there to compromise by telling them that you are worshipping three persons in one God, “blessed trinity”
So, in the home, you are a saint, but in the school, you become an idolater. This is because there is no way you can lift up your Faith in your school without your teachers querying you and bring you closer to know what you really believe that makes you not to join in the collective prayers which they call prayer of agreement.
They hold their hands and form a circle, “Let us make prayer of agreement.” I know that many of you have experienced those things. And you compromise so that they will not sack you from that school.
If you have done that, you need to repent in ashes. Go to God in prayers and ask for forgiveness.
A CHILD OF GOD DOES NOT PRAY EVERYWHERE, AND DOES NOT PRAY WITH EVERY KIND OF PERSONS. Amen!
I know that Bright is an expert in that one. Look at him there. He is laughing. Whenever the call is made, he will rush there. You are a trinitarian.
Before you know it, “Let us make agreement. Hold your hands.” And he will join in holding hands. Does he know anything about it? He will even bend down as they pray. “Bright, lead us in prayer”, He will start his own in the name of Jesus. Idolater!
If you are not standing for God, He will never stand for you. You are either for Him or against Him. Deny Him publicly, he will denounce you publicly. On that day, you will see what you did to yourself.
Our children started defending their Faith from the nursery school. From the nursery! From time to time, we were summoned to come and see that our children were not following them, and I said, “Yes! Talk to them and they will tell you the truth.”
At a point, they started excluding them from religious programmes. They never attended all those religious classes where others were indoctrinated. They never!
How can you be a child of God and your teacher says that the wind parted the Red Sea and not God? And then you believe it. Are you not denying Christ? You are denying Christ and denying His power. Yet, you want salvation.
Nobody will sack you from that school, for the school needs your money and not your faith. The school needs your money and not your belief. Idol worshippers are there. They do not care. What they care about is your school fees.
Give them the school fees. Even if you like, do not come to school. They do not need your faith. To them your faith is useless nonsense. If you like believe in elephant or in hippopotamus.
And according to the law, you are entitled to your faith. Nobody can victimize you because of what you believe. It is your right under the constitution of Nigeria. Freedom of worship.
Nobody has ever been victimized because of his belief. Never! You are entitled to your belief. If you do not know, know it. Compromiser!
2 Timothy 2:2 – 6, LB. ^[2]For you must teach others those you and many others have heard me speak about. …
MUST! So keeping your mouth shut or hiding away is not the solution. Everybody that is convinced about his belief will be looking for an avenue to answer question in defense of what he believes.
Even Chika is guilty. They pray in their line. I have witnessed their prayer several times. He has never for one day declared his faith because of that unanimous prayer in the line. Prayer of agreement.
They have special day. When they want to pray, they pray from that hour till 11o’clock. Sometimes till 12noon. No business until they are through with their prayers.
Hypocrites will stay away so that they will not be there. They will come late. But when they say that if you do not come, you will pay a fine, they will be there.
One that is not with Me is against Me. It is better you will be there and declare your stand, “I am here because I have come to work. But for your prayers, I am not joining you. For your union, I am not joining you. My God differs from your god.”
The people will call upon their own God. Yes! You must stay with people that believe what you believe. When they say Amen, you say Amen.
It should not be a situation where when they are saying it, you close your mouth for fear of being asked, “My friend, are you an idolater? Are you a devil worshipper? Are you an idol worshipper? You do not participate in the clapping when we clap. Neither do you participate in the prayers when we pray. When we sing you do not join in singing. Where are you standing?”
But you cannot avoid all. He joins them in singing and dancing. When they are praying he bends down his head. When they preach he will respond, “Amen Lord!” The next thing he will tell you is that they are preaching the Bible, he does not know the difference between A and B.
Can the two walk together except they agree? I am telling you that all of them are guilty. Compromisers!
You claim that the devil is disturbing you but you are indebted to the devil. Do you not know according the Igbo adage which says that the one that has eaten the male organ of a ram is sure to have enlarged scrotum.
They pray at the mall, but I have never advised any of them to go for prayers, but we go for the meeting, for meeting is after prayers. And the owner of the mall made it that the only thing you do is that you close your shop.
If you want to go to the church, you go. If you do not want, you stay on your own, but you do not open your shop, for if you open it, and anything is stolen in the line, they will accuse you.
So, to sever yourself from being accused falsely, stay away. Stay around and watch over your own, but do not go to that their church.
We are there to do business and not to go to church. Yes! We are there for business and not for church. If it is for church, we have our own. Is it not true?
I am in the school to study. I am not in the school to practice your religion, for the religion must be that of the owner of the school.
Even in the office, I remember when My wife was alive. They called her to pray and she said, “No! A woman should not pray in the midst of men.” The religious director asked, “Is it in the Bible?” My wife said that it is in the Bible.
1 Timothy 2:8-10, LB. ^[8]So I want men everywhere to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from sin and anger and resentment. ^[9-10]And the women should be the same way, quiet and sensible in manner and clothing. Christian women should be noticed for being kind and good, not for the way they fix their hair or because of their jewels or fancy clothes.
He read it and everybody read it. All tongues were silenced. At the end, he started confessing and said, “Mrs. Odoemena, I never knew that such a thing could be in the Scriptures o. I was among the people that were making noise because you refused to pray.”
She said, “OK. That is the much you know. If you want to know more, during your break period, come to my table. And then, we will look into the Scriptures. There are too many things you practice which I do not even do. We are here to do the work for the government. We are here to discuss our affairs as staff. We are not here for church issues. I cannot join you in your prayers. Neither will I pray for you. I pray in my house before I come here.”
They make hypocritical prayers in the open places. Pharisaical prayers! The prayer of the Pharisees, who pray that they might be noticed. Wherever they find themselves in the open air, they are praying. In the streets and in the market places, they are praying with their hands up.
They now combine their prayers with dancing where every one of them dances to his satisfaction. Open prayer! They will tell you to place your hand on your head or on your chest so that they can pray for you. Then they will load both your head and your heart with evil spirits where you are blindly doing, “Amen Lord! Amen Lord!”
I saw one the other day who was just prophesying falsely. I was just watching the false prophet. Did you not see him that day? [Talking to FearGod] An Ngwa man. An Ngwa man living at Omagba and was giving out false prophecies.
He was saying that there were people there who need somebody that will come and do spiritual family work for them. He told them that the person he is talking about is not living with the right fellow. An Ngwa man!

FOLLOW THE LORD’S RULES FOR DOING HIS WORK [1]

2 Timothy 2:2 – 6, LB. ^[2]For you must teach others those things you and many others have heard me speak about. Teach these great truths to trustworthy men who will, in turn, pass them on to others.

^[3]Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, just as I do; …
Why? It is because suffering is a part of the curriculum of this education in God’s institution. You must take your own share. God has said, “It is not punishment.”
And even when you err and you are being punished, He still said that you should accept it gladly, for that is the only way we can be zealous and repent. And it is a sign of love from God.
It is a part of the training, making you to acknowledge your faults before God. It makes you a man.
When you complain that it is becoming too much for you to bear, you are planning to be a dropout. And when you drop out, you are constituting a clog to your own wheel of progress and even that of others.
You compound your problems.
This is because dropping out can never be the solution.
^[3]Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, …
Not a bad one. A good soldier of Christ. So there are soldiers, but when you examine them, you will have good soldiers and bad soldiers.
Bad soldiers do not take their fair share of the trouble.
They shirk from their responsibilities. They avoid their responsibilities because they call it suffering. They call it punishment and complain, “This punishment is too much. ”They want pleasurable ground.
So, you are a bad soldier. We are now talking to the good soldiers of Christ. Yes! Able soldiers. If you are one of them, you pay attention.
^[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.
“The One” not “Those”. One Person that enlisted you into this army to serve his interest. That is Christ!
Last Sunday, He told us that if you become a slave to an ordinary human being, he dictates everything about you. And you will become useless. These are irresponsible people. He said that it is only one person that we should desire to be submissive to, and then it will be well with us. A slave of Christ.
The Scriptures say that we are slaves of Christ. He is the only One Whom we should serve His interest. Aim at satisfying Him and not any other person. And any person that is godly wants to satisfy God’s interest.
That is why a godly husband will tell his wife, “Have you seen what the Message said? Practice what the Message said, you have satisfied me.”
You will feel satisfied also. You will have that sense of fulfilment within you whenever you obey the Word of God. The joy of the fulfilment is always in you.
If it does not happen that way in you, you are a counterfeit believer. You are a counterfeit believer! If obeying the will of God does not give you joy, you are a counterfeit.
And this means that you are compelled. You are not doing it voluntarily. You are being forced to do it or situation is compelling you to do it. Then you are regretting inside. If it is your nature, keep it to yourself. Do not ever transfer it to others. That is what God is saying. Do not constitute a clog in the wheel of their progress, lest they stumble and get wounded, and then become like you.
^[5]Follow the Lord’s rules for doing his work, … Not your own rules. Do not bring up your own ideas and plans. If you know that rule; the Family standard, which is the standard the Message has placed, you follow that way. Do it that same way He has told you to do it.
That is why He told us that if He gives you an instruction, He knows the outcome. [Sure!!!] When you come back and the result is not what He expected, He will know that you have not implemented it the way He instructed you should do. You did it your own way. You evolved your own plan of doing it. You never followed His rule of doing His work.
And you can only do that when you have found fault with his own. You now want to correct God. He gave us an example with the O’level examination they wrote and how some students went about correcting the examination board.
^[5]Follow the Lord’s rules for doing his work, just as an athlete either follows the rules or is disqualified and wins no prize.
An athlete either follows the rule or self-disqualification, and then no prize again. Even if he is the fastest athlete, all the effort and what he suffered are all in vain just like that. So, dropping out is still not an option. If the athlete is disqualified, no trophy.
^[6]Work hard like a farmer who gets paid well if he raises a large crop.
LET YOUR GLORY BE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE Volume 2; PreachedonSunday, 4^th December, 2016 atThe Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN, The Supreme Intelligence; Chapter 3: CHECK YOUR MOTIVE [1]; Page 47 from verse 2.
²…God is giving you all these things so that you will not fall under His condemnation. Sure!!!
³A book of remembrance is always opened in the hand of God for everything we do, whether good or bad. Is it not written in the Bible?
Ecclesiastes 12:14, LB. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing whether good or evil.
Do whatever you want to do, [but] remember [that] God judges everything. Everything must be brought to book. He records. He keeps book of remembrance.
⁴That is why your labour of love in the Lord can never go unrewarded. There is a day God will open your chapter, and your good deeds will be remembered.
⁵What if it is opened and your bad deeds are there? … That is why THE SON OF MAN prays earnestly on a daily basis saying, “God, when this life is over, remember me for good.”
⁵What if it is opened and your bad deeds are there? No good deeds? What if your account is opened and it is zero? You think you have money there. You have nothing there. Nothing is standing in your account; Your account is even minus. Not only red but minus.
When we are talking about our account with the Almighty God, we should not literarily understand it as the accounts we have in the banks.
Genesis 15:6, NIV. ⁶Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Abraham did that which God commanded him to do. And automatically, it translated into his righteousness before God. Obedience to the truth which God has given out to His people is our righteousness in His sight.
Why? Our leader and instructor first obeyed and became the author of eternal salvation to all that will obey Him. Christ first obeyed. He obeyed His Father and became the author of eternal salvation to those who will obey the same way he obeyed.
So if you say you have believed, but continue to walk in disobedience to that which you said you have believed, will it result to your righteousness?
Let us be careful as we study. And do not ever shift this Message to somebody else. Narrow this Message down to yourself as it affects you as an individual. Only then can you tap the rich benefits of today’s Worship Service at the feet of the Almighty God.
⁶Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
First consideration is that you look at the account holder. The One that opened the account is no other personality than LORD Himself, the Almighty God as He told us in Ephesians chapter four verse thirty that you should not grieve the Holy Spirit by the way you live your life.
This is because He is the account Manager. He is the One that will mark you present or absent. He is the One that either credits you or debits you.
Even on that day when salvation is made complete. And you cannot offer Him bribe so that when you should be debited, He will now credit. [Never!]
That is why He says that the only bribe you have to offer is that which Abraham offered. [Obey Him!]
Believe God and obey Him. Do it the way He says you should do it and leave it that way. Follow that standard. Follow that rule in doing it. That is all! And then, your account will be credited by no other person but the Almighty God Himself.
So when we talk about crediting our accounts, it starts with believing in God, obeying Him and then you can sacrifice whatever you want to sacrifice. And the only sacrifice God expects from us is obedience.
If you are doing anything, whether physical work or offering money or anything at all, and you have not obeyed, you will be counting on the much you have expended in offering and the much you have expended in trying to work out your own salvation when you have not even opened your account with God.
The account you should open starts with what? Obedience to His Word. It is when you are accepted that every other thing will follow. If not, your account will remain red. And that red means that you are owing God. Your account will be reading minus, minus, minus.
Genesis 15:6, LB. ^[6]And Abraham believed God; then God considered him righteous on account of his faith. ^[7]And he told him, “I am Jehovah who brought you out of the city of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land.” ^[8]But Abram replied, “O Lord Jehovah, how can I be sure that you will give it to me?”
^[9]Then Jehovah told him to take a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon, ^[10]and to slay them and to cut them apart down the middle, and to separate the halves, but not to divide the birds.
^[11]And when the vultures came down upon the carcasses, Abram shooed them away. ^[12]That evening as the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a vision of terrible foreboding, darkness, and horror.
^[13]Then Jehovah told Abram, “Your descendants will be oppressed as slaves in a foreign land for 400 years. ^[14]But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and at the end they will come away with great wealth.
The One who is crediting and debiting knows when the account of the Amorites will be full and overflowing to the level of destruction.
But watch Abraham! Because he believed and obeyed, God credited it to his account of faith. And then continued other discussions with him.
God opened His mind to Abraham. So when we do not obey God, God seals up His heart against us. And whatever he wanted to reveal to us, He will not do it again, being a sensitive Spirit.

I am for salvation to all the ends of the earth in this generation. That is why I promise you nothing but salvation which is eternal life. Just follow Me. Finish! Follow Me, I will empty all of you that believe in Me into paradise. There is no mistake about it.

– THE SON OF MAN –

BRIDAL WATCH! ISRAEL AND PALESTINE IN PROPHESY VOL 3; preached on Sunday 6^th April 2014 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 28 vs. 22

FOLLOW THE LORD’S RULES FOR DOING HIS WORK [2]

Romans 4:1 – 5, LB. ^[1-2]Abraham was, humanly speaking, the founder of our Jewish nation.

Abraham was, humanly speaking, a human being and the Founder of our Faith. And as a human being, he had a family. How many were they? He had extended family members. He had all those things. He had relationship with people.
So there is no Age that God will manifest without having such human relationships because he took up a body of flesh not counting it robbery. He entered into the body and is now dwelling among human beings.
What were his experiences concerning this question of being saved by faith? Was it because of his good deeds that God accepted him?
It was not because of his own personal good deeds or what he thought was the right thing. Rather, he bought God’s own idea. That is all.
You give up your own and buy God’s own idea. We are in His institution; because we do not know. We have come to learn. We are not coming with any preconceived idea we have.
So, when you want to do your own that will be credited to you as your own righteousness, that is when you will be continually debited. Then you will be wondering and asking “What is happening?” It is because you are trying to channel your own path.
Was it because of his good deeds that God accepted him? If so, then he would have something to boast about. But from God’s point of view Abraham had no basis at all for pride.
^[3]For the Scriptures tell us Abraham believed God, and that is why God cancelled his sins and declared him “not guilty.”
Yes! Because he believed God, God did what? Cancelled! Cancelled! So the record is always there. If we submit to God, it will warrant God moving his hand to cancel.
That is why He said, “When you turn over a new leaf.” You cannot make your wrong right but you can change your life. You can say, “From today, I would not run that way again.”
When you turn over to a new leaf, God will now say, “OK. This new record will now replace the old record.” And no one should go back to that one again, unless along the way you still manifest the traces of that old manner again.
That is why when you say, “I am sorry,” He will accept, but lay greater emphasis on change of attitude, change of heart and change of mind. That is the only thing that can wipe away the previous error. The record is there but God will no longer count on that one.
It is the one God brings out before you that you will know about. He has the record of the whole world. He has the record of all the activities. He brings up the one He wants to use at every point in time. And our attitude at that particular point in time will warrant the one He will bring.
^[4-5]But didn’t he earn his right to heaven by all the good things he did? No, for being saved is a gift; if a person could earn it by being good, then it wouldn’t be free—but it is! …
We can say no to a gift. We can accept a gift. And we can reject a gift. We can reject a gift by our attitude towards Him, towards His instruction, and towards His directives. If we show interest in that gift and He willeth, He will give us the gift.
We are talking about this account of Faith, and of how the account increases and of how it decreases; and what can add to the account. If you are looking at the account of money, what about those that do not have money?
This is for you to see that at every stage you are, you have the account with the Holy Spirit – the Almighty God. Now, when you check in your account, what will you see there? Will the debit side outweigh the credit side?
Remember the experience of Prophet Abraham when he was taken up and he was witnessing the judgment. Some will be judged and they will take the right while others will be judged and they will take the left.
He then enquired of the angel in charge to know exactly what was happening there. The angel told him that those that go through the right were acquitted by God, for they obtained mercy from God and they are now rejoining with the hosts of angels, rejoicing.
But to the people going to the left, the angel told him that those people could not make it. And majority were going there. Judgment.
Then one particular person was judged, but was stock in between. When Abraham enquired, he was told that the fellow being judged is neither for the right nor for the left.
Looking at his account, he was not steadfast. He went on obeying God to some extent, but he could not maintain a steadfastness. That is why his good could not outweigh his evil deeds.
Then Abraham pleaded on his behalf. Abraham then said to the angels that accompanied him, “Let us pray to God and see if we can join our faith with this person and know whether he can enter and rejoin with the saved.”
So this is the account we are talking about – this account of faith.
Romans 4:1 – 5, LB. ^[4-5]But didn’t he earn his right to heaven by all the good things he did? No, for being saved is a gift; if a person could earn it by being good, then it wouldn’t be free—but it is! It is given to those who do not work for it. For God declares sinners to be good in his sight if they have faith in Christ to save them from God’s wrath.
Hebrews 11:7, NIV. By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. …
IN HOLY FEAR! That is why God asked, “What type of fear do you have? The fear of God or the fear of men?” Are you having his holy fear – holy awe – because of the Personality that is involved – the Almighty God?
If your fear is to avoid rebuke, it is not reverential fear. It is not holy fear.
…By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.
Living Bible. ^[7]Noah was another who trusted God. When he heard God’s warning about the future, Noah believed him even though there was then no sign of a flood, and wasting no time, he built the ark and saved his family.
WASTING NO TIME! Have you seen the account of obedience? This is the account of Faith. He said that what He will use to know those that are His is that they have not done it is simply because God has not said it.
With that willingness of heart, wasting no time, look at how he rescued, not only himself, but also his family. Remember it was extended to even those that were around so that if they had keyed into that privilege and opportunity like we have the privilege today, all of them would have been saved, not becoming dropouts like some are prone to becoming today, but God forbid!
He wasted no time. He twisted not the order. He kept record of all the measurements of the ark and all that God said He should use. It was not a day’s job. And it was not something that was very light for him, but he wasted no time in doing it because he knew the Personality that said it. Then he saved himself and saved his family. He never constituted a clog in the wheel of progress of others. If he had wasted time, he would have wasted more lives.
Noah’s belief in God was in direct contrast to the sin and disbelief of the rest of the world—…
Noah’s faith is the direct opposite of that of the rest of the world around him. So you that wants to mix up anyhow, for you are afraid of being suspected.
You are saying, “How can they be praying and I will not join them? They will look at me suspiciously. How can they stand up and I will be sitting down? They will ask me questions and I would not know what to say.”
YOUR FAITH AT EVERY POINT IN TIME MUST BE IN DIRECT CONTRAST, DIRECT OPPOSITE TO THAT OF THE PEOPLE OUT THERE.
Noah’s belief in God was in direct contrast to the sin and disbelief of the rest of the world—which refused to obey—and because of his faith he became one of those whom God has accepted.
^[8]Abraham trusted God, and when God told him to leave home and go far away to another land that he promised to give him, Abraham obeyed. Away he went, not even knowing where he was going.
He trusted God. And when God instructed him, he obeyed. He never gave God some reasons, “I have not been there before” or this and that, “How can I leave my family for that”? No question! No doubt!
LET YOUR GLORY BE IN WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE Volume 2; Page 49 from verse 6. ⁶Now, we know we have a book of remembrance in the hand of God. And nobody is His secretary. God Himself writes.
He has hands. He writes. And He has been writing from the word go.
⁷God listens to all we are discussing. He attends all our gatherings, in our homes, in our workplaces, everywhere. …
That you meet as a Local Assembly and then you are calling the Almighty to give the testimony, He will tell you, “Transcribe and send. ”It is for Him to use it and encourage us and not for Himself. This is because He had already seen all that transpired even before you went for the Meeting.
All these years, we can place ourselves even at the plumb line to know whether we have even rendered acceptable sacrifices to God for one day; whether we have ever at any time placed our sacrifices to God worshipfully, to worship Him or we are coming to God for Him to thank us, clap for us and praise us? This is what we have to check for ourselves.
So in conclusion, I read from this Message THE APOSTLE INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO HIS PEOPLE, PART 2 VOLUME 1; Preached on 27^th December, 1997 by the son of man Himself; Page 97 from verse 47.
Many do not know what I am saying. Some actually know. God has not failed in His Word, but the Bride is yet to bear fruit. The Bible said that before the Bridegroom will catch you away, the bride must have made herself ready. Have you made yourself ready?
This is a question that God asked us. It is not that the Word of God has failed, but how many are ready with all the judgment we have received?
That Message of Friday kept me crying because it is judgment against us. For the Almighty God to be living among us; Yet, He God [THE SON OF MAN] is dwelling in the midst of thistles and torns – Human beings.
So these are the things we have to look into while we are crosschecking our account with God to know whether we are constituting the thistle or the torn. Here I will stop for now.

BENEDICTION AND PRAYER

I hope we benefitted from today’s gathering. I hope we never gathered in vain. He that called us today has justified why He called us. He has touched our lives in a very wonderful way.

I believe that if we leave here and go to our private places, meditating on what we have been hearing from yesterday till now, it shall be well with our souls.
SONG: [When peace, like a river, attendeth my way. When sorrows like sea billows roll. Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well. It is well with my soul.
It is well, it is well. It is well, it is well. It is well. It is well with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, Let this blest assurance control; That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
It is well, it is well. It is well, it is well. It is well. It is well with my soul.
Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD. Oh my soul, praise the LORD. Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD Oh my soul]
Heavenly Father, we THANK YOU immensely for today. We will remain THANKING YOU even in the hereafter. We will remain THANKING YOU. We will remain appreciative of Your loving kindness and mercy to us.
In mercy, You have spoken to us. In love You have taught us. Father, today has become another day in our lives, for You have really touched our lives positively. You have illuminated our eyes of understanding more than ever, O God.
We pray Thee O God to help us to retain all we have heard in our hearts. May we never forget any of them. May we also apply them in our daily lives so that our records that were dirty before, from now henceforth, will be clean records from now till eternity.
May you never permit our garments to be stained again by unbelief, by rebellion, by rising in opposition against the truth. Father, may you never permit that to happen.
Help us O God from now henceforth to humble ourselves at Thy feet, believing in Thy Word that it might be well with our souls in the end.
THANK YOU immensely. Wherever this Message will be sent today, Father divine, may it never come back to You void. Let it achieve the purpose for which it is sent to all the individuals that will receive the Message today and even beyond.
The rest of the day’s activities and the week we hand over to Your care. Be in control all through. Direct all our affairs in the way and manner that will glorify Your Name.
May we never, O God, give any occasion to the devil to have dominion over us again, having liberated us fully from his hands. May we remain free and free indeed.
Father we bow down and say THANK YOU for all You have initiated in our lives. Remain at work in us until we see ourselves in Paradise.
We will ever remain grateful to you while we live. We say once again THANK YOU for answering our heart desires. For Your Name’s sake, O LORD, we pray. Amen.