( A
MESSAGE PREACHED AFTER BRIDAL WATCH VOL. 4) Preached
on Sunday, 7th June, 2015 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE
PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE
SUPREME INTELLIGENCE” “Truth has no
substitute” © BRIDE OF CHRIST
MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
THE APOSTLE
INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO HIS PEOPLE
BY APOSTLE LUKE OJIAKOR
1
THE APOSTLE INTRODUCES
HIMSELF TO HIS PEOPLE
The message, “No
Deception of the Truth: Volume one, page 60”. The caption there says, “We are
in the Faith for eternal life”.
2.
From verse 13. Now, all the while you have been
coming here, what do you gain?
3.
All the while you have been coming here, what do you
gain?
4.
Let us now agree as a Church and face the stark realities
of our Faith. I have reviewed these things so that everybody will see the
matter as clear as the day.
5.
From now, you will start appreciating one another -
that my Sister is coming here because she doesn’t want to perish; my Brother is
coming here because he doesn’t want to perish.
6.
And since all of us have one motive, that we don’t
want to perish, let us now close ranks collectively with one mind and face the
stark reality.
7.
Anything that
is contrary, we will collectively say no to it. In other words, we as a Church
will collectively preserve this Faith in its purity. I do not want to perish;
you do not want to perish.
8.
You saw other places; you did not want to be there.
This is where you want to be. It is not you yourself taking the decision, but God
doing it in you.
9.
Brethren, why are we here? God Himself has said, He
has viewed everything and reviewed everything and has come to the conclusion
that of a truth, all that are here, they have something in their hearts. Their
target, their aim is nothing but eternal life.
10.
Nobody wants to perish. And He said, “Since it is
truth, let us now close ranks and then work towards preserving this Faith. For
nobody wants to perish. Outside this Faith, we are all perishing.
11.
Outside this Faith it is death. He told us that He had
left us a seed and that is why we are alive in Him. We should close ranks and
preserve this Faith. Why are we here, is it not for eternal life? I believe
that is why we are all here: for eternal.
12.
The last verse of where we read said, This is
where you want to be. It is not you yourself taking the decision, but God doing
it in you.
13.
St. John gospel chapter 15 from verse 1
through 7. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
14.
Now ye
are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide
in me, and I in you.
15.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I
am the vine, ye are the branches:
16.
He that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If
a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men
gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
17.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. KJV.
18.
“I am the true Vine, and my Father is the
Gardener. He
lops off every branch that doesn’t produce. And he prunes those branches that
bear fruit for even larger crops. He has
already tended you by pruning you back for greater strength and usefulness by
means of the commands I gave you.
19.
Take care to live in me, and let me live in
you. For a branch can’t produce fruit when severed from the vine. Nor can you
be fruitful apart from me. “Yes,
I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him shall
produce a large crop of fruit. For apart from me you can’t do a thing.
20.
If anyone separates from me, he is thrown
away like a useless branch, withers, and is gathered into a pile with all the
others and burned.
21.
But if you stay in me and obey my commands,
you may ask any request you like, and it will be granted! My true
disciples produce bountiful harvests. This brings great glory to my Father. LB.
Amen.
22.
We have been hearing
for two, three weeks. God has been trying to introduce Himself once again to
us. And I want us to understand that none of us ever chose ourselves to be
here. None of us ever chose this God. None of us chose God. He Himself decided
it, came down, identified with us. We never knew anything and then He started
working in us.
23.
Look at what we
heard in the message titled “Bridal Watch, volume 4”. The tonic we have
received, everything dovetailing. And where we read in “No Deception is of the
Truth”, it ended by saying: “It is God
making His decision in us.”
24.
Thus, the ability to
do a thing is just God. In other words, there is nothing we can do on our own.
He said, “Wherever you are and there is trouble, do not begin to look up and
down, run to this place and wait for further instructions.”
25.
And He said that He
will assign us to somebody who will lead us while He Himself will go forth to
wage the war. Hence, He is the object of the war. Don’t you know who is the
architect of that war?
26.
In line with what we
heard, God said that we, being in the congregation is not a guarantee that we
have been saved; we must be found in Him. And we must know Him. For that has
been His intention from the beginning.
27.
Hence, He said that
He has espoused us to everything, starting from the bible, from what we knew to
what we never knew, introducing Himself to us why He is God.
28.
And now we are at
the close of the age, it is very clear, everything is declaring the end, the
end, the end! I want us to consider a scripture.
29.
Exodus chapter 19
verse 9. “And the Lord said
unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear
when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever. And Moses told the words of
the people unto the Lord. KJV.
30.
“Then he said to Moses, “I am going to come
to you in the form of a dark cloud, so that the people themselves can hear me
when I talk with you, and then they will always believe you. LB.
31.
Chapter 20 verses 18 through 23. “And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the
noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it,
they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses,
Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we
die.
32.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that
ye sin not. And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near
unto the thick darkness where God was.
33.
And the Lord said unto Moses,
Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have
talked with you from heaven. Ye shall not make with me gods of
silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. KJV.
34.
All the people saw the lightning and the
smoke billowing from the mountain, and heard the thunder and the long,
frightening trumpet blast; and they stood at a distance, shaking with fear.
35.
They said to Moses, “You tell us what God
says and we will obey, but don’t let God speak directly to us, or it will kill
us.” “Don’t be afraid,”
36.
Moses told them, “for God has come in this
way to show you his awesome power, so that from now on you will be afraid to
sin against him!” As the people stood in the distance, Moses
entered into the thick darkness where God was.
37.
Moses entered into
the thick what? Darkness where God was.
38.
And
the Lord told Moses to be his spokesman to the people of Israel. “You are
witnesses to the fact that I have made known my will to you from heaven.
39.
You are witnesses of
that fact that I have done what? Made known My Will from heaven.
40.
Remember, you must not make or worship idols
made of silver or gold or of anything else! LB.
41.
Brethren, from
Exodus chapter 19 verse 9, God told Moses He was coming down in a Thick Cloud.
42.
“And the Lord said unto Moses,
Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak
with thee, and believe thee forever. And Moses told the words of the people
unto the Lord.
43.
In chapter 20, God
said He displayed those signs; “Seeing that I have spoken to you, you have seen
these manifestations...”
44.
In other words, God
seeing what was in a man, that man is unpredictable, a little thing, he might
begin to shiver and begin to deviate, He (God) had to do something that would
stick in their memory. He had to come down in a Thick Cloud, He thundered and
the people quaked: “Moses, please, enough.” In 1996, 7th April,
before then, on 24th March, the Lord said we should come here on 7th
April that we might see He that has been having dealings with us all these
years to banish unbelief.
45.
In the year 2012, He
told us that whenever God wants to magnify His name among His people, He would
do what? Show us His original body. Hence, He stopped us from taking photographs.
If we had been taking photographs till now, the whole of this wall would have
been filled with supernatural manifestation around the Tabernacle He has
chosen. I am saying; let it not be a dream. Let us know He, understand He that
is in our midst. That He is no other being but the Almighty God.” It must be
very clear to you as an individual. There must be a point where your faith must
anchor for Jacob had an experience. The bible said that Jacob wrestled with God
till daybreak. When the Angel told Jacob to allow Him go, Jacob held Him,
insisting that the Angel should bless him.
46.
The bible said that
the Angel struck Jacob’s hip and knocked it out of joint. Then Jacob started
limping as a mark. Jacob could not forget that he met God face to face. And in
all we have seen, God has kept on asking, “Was this photograph taken in My
parlour? Was the photograph taken in My compound? May be He would say, “Get
ready” and then he would do abracadabra.
47.
Everybody was taking
randomly and we were seeing things in faraway places. Who is this person? He
will stay here and tell us things happening in the world.
48.
When you tune in
your radio and television, you see the things happening. Who is He? Has He not
displayed the supernatural attributes of the Deity in Him? Is it clear to you
or are you still questioning?
49.
You must be fully
convinced by personal revelation. If God is still shouting that somebody may be
here yet not in the Faith, that would be the greatest disappointment.
50.
Let us look at, “No
Deception is of the Truth” once again. Page 47. If you know Him, understand
Him, what actually is expected of you?
51.
Remember He said,
since we have all come here for eternal life, let us now join hands together,
close ranks and protect this Faith, for that is our life.
52.
Outside this Faith, we are dead. Page
47 verse 10 through 18. The caption says, “ANYTHING THAT IS NOT DONE BY
REVELATION IS SIN”. I do not want you to fear me, but I want you to fear
God; do not believe me, but believe God. Do not reverence me, but reverence
God, because I trust that by now, you must have known who God is.
53.
Anything that is not done by revelation is sin.
Whatever that is not done by revelation is not done by faith, because faith is
revelation; it is sin. Your fear, your reverence, adoration, worship must be by
faith and revelation. It must be by revelation in the sense that from your
experience from the Word of God, you have discovered for yourself. You are sure
and certain that whatever you are doing is what is necessary. You are not doing
it because any man is compelling you to do that. You are not doing it so that
people can see you and praise you; you are doing it because you know it is what
is required of you. You are sure; you are certain. As many as have come to this
standard, they are the people I call “matured Children of God”.
54.
They are the people that do not walk by sight. They
are not aiming at pleasing Brother or Sister; they aim at pleasing God. Once
God is pleased, they do not care about what others are saying; and this is the
duty of every true Children of God.
55.
He is always trying to be in the right relationship
with his maker, his God. It is his obligation. Once he notices that he is on
the wrong side, at the preaching of the word, you will see him taking
correction and he is doing it by revelation.
56.
Who will do that? A
true seed of God.
57.
He is doing it by revelation in the sense that he has
already discovered his error. He has discovered where He has erred. Now, he has
taken measures to correct it for he knows what God needs from him.
58.
He will be doing it with joy; I say he will be doing
that thing with joy. It is only then that he will begin to appreciate whosoever
God has used to correct him. It is only then that he will begin to appreciate
God’s love for him.
59.
Otherwise, he will hate even what God is doing and
will put everything to fight. He will equally come to a point where he will be
having the feeling that every person in the Fellowship now hates him. This is
because he is being compelled to do something he doesn’t want to do. He has no
revelation.
60.
Brethren, watch what
God is telling us. God is worshipped by revelation. Are you telling me that God
has not touched you as an individual in a special way? I mean, in a special
way, that you cannot deny it, you cannot attribute it to anything else. It is
just God.
61.
Look back; see how
the whole thing happened, once again, and again, and again. What can you say?
Are you now saying that after all these manifestations, even God Himself going
out of His way to come to you as an individual, even in your house, in the
market, in the work place, God has touched us individually.
62.
He said that we are
still lacking the revelation of He that is in our midst.
63.
Why is God still
shouting, still talking, still warning us to be careful? Remember the prophecy
went forth that a time will come when we will just gather, worship God happily,
rejoice before God, praise God and then go home. This is the time. Have you got
the revelation? Is it clear now?
64.
Let us look at this
message, “What is God to You?” To you as an individual, to me as an individual,
what is God to you? What is God to you? This message was preached in the year
2004, by the Son of Man. page 37 verse 34.
65.
“It is when you lose the revelation of He
that is given you and the essence of His mission that you run into error. That
is why the word is not effective in your life. Because you do not have the
revelation of the personality that is speaking in the Bride.
66.
Is it a lie? See the
Lord in the Lord. If because of the pride of life, you harden your heart
against the truth, you must surely be destroyed.
67.
Brethren, what
actually is our problem? All we have been hearing and are still hearing, I
mean, we should fully understand, know for He has revealed, displayed, shown us
everything.
68.
Your source of existence, your source of
livelihood, your source of wealth, your security, your protection even your
beauty is this God.
69.
That I, myself, am
alive today is this God, that you are alive today is this God. Have you seen
Him, understood Him, received Him as God Almighty, worshipping Him by that
revelation?
70.
“Who Is God To You?”
verse 34 of page 37, It is when you lose the revelation of He
that is given you and the essence of His mission that you run into error.
71.
It is for our sake
that a Savior is sent. If we are not lost, why sending a Savior?
72.
That is why the word is not effective in
your life. Because you do not have the revelation of the personality that is
speaking in the bride. That is why, many of you today behave as if you want to
renew the Bible.
73.
Brethren, who is
this personality that is speaking in the Bride? Doesn’t He have scriptural
backing, scriptural commission? Don’t we know all of them? Isaiah 42, Isaiah
49, Hebrews, Acts of the Apostle and so on.
74.
Do we go back to
them to introduce Him again? Is He like any of the so called men of God in the
streets or in the world?
75.
Isaiah chapter 42,
let us see something. And then what is His mission? Have you understood why He
is here? Or have you not understood that you were lost?
76.
A brother asked me a
question some time, that a brother was praying and said, “God, we were born in
sin, and shaped in iniquity”.
77.
He said that the
thing troubled him because he believed and still believes that as long as we
are in the Faith of the Son of Man, no more, we are clean.
78.
I said yes, the
brother that prayed the prayer asking God, admitting that we were shaped in
iniquity, we were born in sin, do you not know that it is only this one seed, a
seed that has made us right with God?
79.
We were all born in
iniquity, knowing no God, given to dumb idols, following our forefathers who
were idolaters. Even when we started going to church, we were following temple
robbers.
80.
And many of us
patterned after them, came into End Time Message, started fighting over tithe,
because the scripture says that their god is their belly. Real jobless
people. Amen.
INSPIRED TO ASPIRE (1)
By
APOSTLE PETER
ODOEMENA
“THE SON OF MAN”
2
INSPIRED TO ASPIRE (1)
Yes, many came into
End Time Message, started fighting over tithe because they do not know the
truth about it. They do not know that they must protect the human dignity first
which is hard work.
2.
Yes, you want to be an expert on what you are doing, what you need is
10 percent of inspiration and 90 percent of hard work. You are inspired to
aspire. And you cannot aspire without an icon.
3.
You cannot aspire without having a great mind where your eyes will
focus, whose steps you would like to follow. When you want to be great and you
mingle with sycophants, you would be the greatest sycophant. And it produces
generational poverty: Poverty is transferred from generation to generation.
4.
Nobody has ever discovered what made his predecessors poor. They
exerted their energy on menial matters, menial things; cutting of palm fruits,
harvesting crops, farm lands. Do not develop your house; you are the house. Develop
yourself.
5.
How do you know when you are really developed? When you have come to
the point when you can define who you are. Differentiate between who you are
from what people think you are. You may not be what people think you are. For
nobody knows you more than you.
6.
Nobody can talk about you accurately except you. Whatever you do not
know about yourself does not exist.
7.
Define who you are. When you define who you are, you can now look at
yourself at the mirror and know whether you are seeing somebody else or
yourself.
8.
Are you what you think you are or are you still what you would like to
be. If you stop at what you are seeing at the mirror, you would not move an inch.
You will never move an inch.
9.
But stay at the mirror; begin to see what you would like to be.
Otherwise, I can wear a “safari” suit, if I watch myself at the mirror, I would
be satisfied. Nobody is God-made.
10.
You are nothing but what you have made yourself. God said that great
man hardly comes from great families. Note it. Often times, good fruits do not
come from best specie.
11.
You see best specie with bad fruit. Why? Because of self-discipline.
When you define who you are right, you can define your objective right. And
once you are wrong, you are wrong.
12.
That is why I believe that the first step a human being should take is
to develop himself. That is why I say, DO NOT GIVE A FOOLISH MAN MONEY FOR
ESTABLISHMENT, RATHER DEVELOP HIM SO THAT HE WILL RECOGNIZE CHALLENGES AHEAD OF
HIM AND KNOW WHY HE IS EMBARKING ON WHATEVER HE WANTS TO EMBARK ON.
13.
When you develop yourself very well, there is no work that would be
difficult for you to embark on.
14.
When the elders came to my house, I told them that when you are using a
machete that is not sharp to cut down a tree, you are using your strength, not
the machete. Thus, if you are given ten minutes to cut the tree, use nine
minutes to sharpen the machete, then use one minute and cut it off. No energy
is exercised.
15.
ENERGY IS NEEDED, DEVOTION, COMMITMENT, VISION, COURAGE, THESE THINGS
ARE NEEDED.
16.
Focus is self-development. Most is self-denial. That is why we say that
you must sacrifice many things. Often times, you sacrifice even your integrity
to steal a technology. You must be ready for all these things.
17.
Thus, sharpen your knife using nine minutes, then cut down the tree in
a minute. Develop yourself very well and get the skill that is needed for that
which you want to do.
18.
Receive the training, which is the skill. Then embark on that thing, I
tell you, there is no difficulty, no problem that will arise out of that thing
which you can never surmount because you have received the skill.
19.
I threw a question to members of My family, all of them. I asked them a
pertinent question which I have been asking.
20.
Hear Me very well. He that feeds an orphan and he that marries a wife
for a jobless orphan, who showed that orphan the greatest favour?
21.
Wait! I am the examiner. He that feeds an orphan and he that marries a
wife for a jobless orphan, who showed that orphan the greatest favour? If you
are of the opinion that it is one that feeds the orphan, show by raising your
hand.
22.
Raise it very well, let Me see it. Thank you, Hands down. If you are of
the opinion that he should be given a wife, show by raising your hand. Thank
you very much.
23.
If you know that you are not in support of any one, both marrying for
him and feeding him, show by raising your hand. Let Me see your hands. You are
of the opinion that he should not be fed or given a wife, show by raising your
hand. You mean that he should be buried alive.
24.
In other words, you are saying that every poor man is a witch. Pay
attention. Eyes have seen it that those in support that he should be given a
wife are greater than those who said he should be fed very well. Thank you very
much. I appreciate all of you.
25.
Now, I want only two people who are of the opinion that he should be
furnished with food and not with a wife to raise up their hands. A Brother and
a Sister.
26.
Sister Ogoochukwu, let us hear why you said that he should be given
food and not wife. One reason.
27.
Answer: I am of the opinion that he should be given food
because it is only the living that can talk about the future.
28.
A Brother answers: I said that he should be given food
because when somebody eats food, he can be alive to decide on what to do in
life. Thank you.
29.
If you are of the opinion that he should be given a wife, I want two
people also. A Brother and a Sister. Stand up so that I will recognize you. Please
be patient with Me, I am not crazy. I am dubbing a clear message.
30.
This is quantitative and qualitative reasoning. A man can never grow
higher than his reasoning ability. Whatever height a man or a woman reaches in
this life is determined by the extent of the person’s reasoning.
31.
Sister, let us know why you said that he should be given a wife and not
food. One reason only.
32.
Answer: my reason for saying that he should be given a
wife is because two heads are better than one.
33.
Bishop Nnachor, why are you of the opinion that the orphan should be
given a wife and not food?
34.
Answer: I said that he should be given a wife because
God created the man first and then created the woman as a helpmate to the man.
35.
Ok, thank you. Now, all who said that he should be given food bring
down your hand, those who are saying that he should be given a wife; bring down
your hands also. Trace it to anywhere; all of you are having reasons for your
answer. Brother Ojiakor, tell us your own opinion.
36.
Answer: I am of the opinion that he should be given
food.
37.
Attention, we are in a family. If you are talking while your teacher is
talking, you are learning nothing. Every day is a learning process.
38.
When you stop learning, you become old, and when you become old, you
would be discarded. Whenever anything has waxed old, it must surely be phased
out.
39.
The reason why we are living in an impoverished age is because; this
age is the age that politicizes education instead of concretizing it.
40.
Let it be known to you that wishes at times cannot be where it is. It
is applicable to dreams. The same way I tell you, speculations can hardly be
reality. Rumors appear to be stronger than realities.
41.
I am not painting any hypothetical picture of the Faith or this
fellowship or the Bridal Faith. I am very, very happy.
42.
By this quantitative and qualitative reasoning, I have assessed the
Bride. I have seen why we are what we are. And yet where we are now is higher
than what I met in 1990. There is a remarkable improvement. Amen.
INSPIRED TO ASPIRE (2)
By
APOSTLE PETER
ODOEMENA
“THE SON OF MAN”
3
BE INSPIRED TO ASPIRE (2)
Let it be known to you that there can be alternatives to everything,
but there has never been and there will never be any alternative to education.
2.
Once you are not well-educated, you must be well-deformed. I can see
that there are some people that are following strictly the lectures we are
delivering here in the name of sermon or teachings.
3.
Let me put it blank. One said in My house that, watch an orphan who does
not have anything to boast of, no means of sustenance, that what you have to do
is to marry a wife for him, then he will settle down and plan his life.
4.
I said, “Fine. Well said.” He that feeds an orphan and he that marries
a wife for a jobless orphan, who showed him love?
5.
He who saw an orphan, who has nothing with him and you married a wife
for him, has added injury to his wound. You have buried him alive. He will
remain a beggar till eternity.
6.
Since he could not feed himself, he does not have anything doing, and
you still added another burden to him, let it be known to you that you will
feed him together with the wife you married for him. If he impregnates her, it
will be the worst.
7.
Secondly, you have trapped him down, for he will not have time to go and
learn anything again. Rather, he will only concentrate on things that can put
food on his table. He will desire daily pay: Wait and take.
8.
Anyhow work, just for eating: “Wetin man go eat”. He can never think of
changing his clothes, to build a house does not concern him. Remember that he can
never eat a meaningful food, he will be eating food meant for beggars.
9.
What can you say about the children born in that family? Poverty has
started from the parents and transferred to children and even grandchildren. When
will the hardship end?
10.
It is only the living that can talk of what he will do tomorrow. Strength
is used to fan embers fire. A horse runs better uphill when it is well fed. A
hungry man is an angry man. A hungry man does not sleep.
11.
Do you know that a hungry man does not have any brother? A hungry man
is a thief in the making. He inclines to bewitching. He is full of envy,
because hunger breeds envy.
12.
Hear Me very well. The highest love you can show to an orphan who has
nothing is to give him food, so that he can eat and live. When you eat, you can
now pay attention. It is then you tell him to go and look for what he would do
because nobody eats very well and still desires to beg. Rather, he would join
his mates.
13.
He can then desire to feed another person. The only way you can feed an
orphan is to train him. For his wife cannot remove that skill from him.
14.
Hence, he can decide to go anywhere in this world just to make sure he
meets up with his mates. Whenever the time for marriage comes, he will marry,
the time for having family comes, he will marry. He knows the number of
children he will give birth to for he knows that nobody is training them for
him.
15.
The day you marry a wife for an orphan is the day you buried him alive.
It is the day you transferred poverty from his generation to his children’s
generation; and even his generation yet to come.
16.
Have you seen why poor brethren in our midst are greater in number? It
is because we have been failing to develop ourselves above the primitive level.
We have not been developing ourselves in line with the demands of our day.
17.
In the days of our fathers, they believed in early marriage even when
the person had no occupation. More so, if the person is a rascal, the mother
will volunteer her money to marry a wife for him so that the head of the son
will cool down; but yet it does not cool down, because hostility that
accompanies poverty, frustration that accompanies poverty will make the man to
be a victim of xenophobia. A victim of all sorts of criminality.
18.
Hence, they are running to South Africa, running to Dubai, Germany,
walk on foot through Mediterranean Sea. From Casablanca to Spain, from Rabat to
Spain.
19.
When you hear that people sank in the Ocean, migrants from a nation
that has no war, migrating to other nations illegally. Watching all of them,
they fall within this category of never-do-wells.
20.
Because they impose on themselves and also allow their parents to
impose on them a burden instead of giving them a skill. The burden of the
society bothers on these categories of people. The burden of every family
centers around these insurgent groups.
21.
Expect insurgence in your family if you are habouring such people who
desire marriage when they are empty handed. No skill, no training, no
education, who are the people supporting and sponsoring them? Their likes of
parents, their likes of brothers and sisters.
22.
Permit Me to use one example. When Brother Shed was shouting over the
condition of his family, little did he know that what is giving the wife
headache was how to save money and marry for the younger brother who is not
doing anything.
23.
Simply because his brother said that until he married, that there was
nothing he would do that would prosper. He is doing absolutely nothing. He is
depending on the mother, the sister, the brother. When he noticed that nobody
wanted to listen to him, he became violent.
24.
Because he is frustrated, he ran to Nsukka and started troubling the
old mother. What he needs is training and not wife. If you marry for him, you
are marrying for the old mother.
25.
This is why we discourage our children from mingling, associating,
having anything in common with such nonentities who refused every inspiration
that will help them to aspire.
26.
Be inspired to aspire. Who is the source of your inspiration? Number
one is the Holy Word of God.
27.
Number two is great achievers who rose from grass to greatness, who
became something out of nothing.
28.
How many know that Bill Clinton of America was an adopted child who
never knew the parents? He became the governor of Florida. From there, he
became the president of America. Who knows that Obama was an orphan in America?
That Obama never knew up till today who his father is?
29.
He was brought up by the mother, he took up the challenge, working and
reading; had first class in Law in Harvard University, recruited as a junior
lecturer. He proceeded until he got his Doctorate Degree and became the first
black man to be a member of the American senate.
30.
From American senate, he is now the President of America, without the help
of his parents. Nobody assisted him.
31.
When you talk about Zik of Africa, his case is a different thing
because his father at least, having served in the West African Frontier Force.
32.
But generally, upon his greatness, can you name a great man that came
from his family?
33.
Who succeeded Awolowo? Since Awolowo gave way, has there been any
Awolowo we can quote? What of Felix Oketie Ekpo? What of Akintola? What of
Tafawa Balewa? Aminu Kano? Margaret Ekpo?
34.
I mean great men hardly come
from great families. If we have numbered somebody that would have been number one
in the East, I mean, late Owelle of Onitsha, Chukwuma Azikiwe, would have been
that fellow.
35.
I mean, who transcended from the pedigree of Great Minds, Great Zik of
Africa. But he died a drunkard, he died a pauper. He lived in his father’s
house until he died, yet he attended the best university in the world, was
occupying a celebrated office in Shell BP. You see that his academic excellence
does not mean resounding success.
36.
Because you are a Ph.D. (Doctorate Degree) Holder, highly placed in
your office; you can be a General Manager of a Bank and yet a pauper; occupying
the best position in an organization, paid the best salary and be a poor man. Why?
Your reasoning faculty is poor.
37.
A senseless fellow is a poor fellow. This is why I emphasize on human
capital development, so that you can recognize your challenges and then begin
to define who you are, what you are, where you are coming from and where you
want to arrive. When you arrive there, you will know.
38.
They teach people how to beg and not how to work. Denominations will
teach you how to be a professional beggar. But in this most holy Faith, we
raise you as a professional in your own area of operation. We motivate you to
the next height.
39.
If people have been there, somebody must be there. Who must be there?
Somebody who has discovered the secret of getting there; which is 10 percent
inspiration, 90 percent hard work.
40.
(Apostle Luke
Ojiakor speaks: Remember the family altar message at Nsugbe, where God was
talking about getting into your destiny. He said, it is for you to walk and get
into your destiny).
41.
You must walk into
your destiny. For your destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of
choice.
42.
You must walk into
your destiny and then stop blaming anybody. If you must blame, blame yourself. Amen.
ASPIRE
TO BE A GREAT ACHIEVER
By
APOSTLE PETER
ODOEMENA
“THE SON OF MAN”
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ASPIRE
TO BE A GREAT ACHIEVER
Brother Ojiakor, we are having another message here. I am not trying to
ridicule anybody, but I am talking to My people.
2.
The bane of My own people at Mbaise in my own family, in My own kindred
at village is the bane of every other family. Unless you recognize it and fight
it.
3.
Early marriage leads to early poverty. And this is the bane of My own
community in Imo State man to impregnate a woman when he is not employed, he
has no craft, no occupation, nothing, nothing.
4.
The parents will support their son to stay with that lady: “With time,
he will pay. When the children will come up, he will pay the bride price”. Na
lie.
5.
When he could not pay when he was a single man feeding himself alone; will
he now begin to pay when the enormous family demands will be weighing on him,
then he will save money to pay. What is the resultant effect?
6.
Number one, he will take delight in living in a thatched house. A thatched
house will be like a zinc house to him. He would delight himself in living in a
thatched house.
7.
Watch such people even in the township, they do not live in the town,
they live in a suburb where they will live free of charge.
8.
They will even accept to be caretaker, cleaning the compound, becoming
gardener, watchman, everything, so that he will live free. Watch such people;
they take delight in riding bicycles, not motorcycle, bicycle!
9.
I do not think that bicycles would be eradicated in Mbaise in the next
generation. Yes, once you are uneducated, you have no skill; definitely, your
blood must provide the needed energy.
10.
Anybody riding bicycle furiously is exerting themselves, both man and
woman. And they would like to teach their children, infants the act of riding
bicycle, using blood to make fuel. Why? They did not sharpen their knives;
great energy is exerted to eke out a living.
11.
You work more and earn less. But when you sharpen your knife, no energy
is exerted to earn a living. You work less, you earn more.
12.
When you are educated, let me give you one instant example. I will use
one who is in our midst. Our Brother Victor Nnachor, he is now a staff of First
Bank.
13.
His salary for four months covers the whole expenses that were made on
him for five years in the university, youth service and the unemployed period.
His salary for four months covers more than that.
14.
In other words, the journey, the race Brother Sam has been running for
over fifteen years; hear Me, Brother Victor will use one year to overtake him.
15.
Brother Sam will labour from morning till night, no public holiday, no
leave, no transfer, no resting period, no time. But Victor will work for specified
hours and earn more. What is the difference? He discovered the value of
self-development. While this man enlisted in doggerman’s agency.”
16.
Let Me tell you, marriage is no achievement. The cheapest thing money
can provide is a wife. With five thousand naira, you are married, but you
cannot use five thousand naira to buy a car. Even to buy doggerman’s vehicle,
using blood as fuel.
17.
I am saying, we are no longer living in the age of doggerman’s agency, “doggerman’s
work. This is scientific age where we are informed of reducing stress, hard
labour. It is through skill acquisition, it is through training, it is through
education which has no alternative.
18.
If you know the alternative to education, tell Me. Absolutely, it does
not exist. So, young, young boys and girls here, begin to cherish education
above your necessary food. Begin to be inspired so as to aspire. I want to see
somebody who will touch the sky at a tender age if we tarry.
19.
Thus, say no to early marriage without any occupation or skill. Even if
it is imposed on you by your parents, say no. and the worst thing that will
happen to a man is to allow parents or relations to marry a wife for him, a
sure sign that the man is a failure. That man is a failure.
20.
Early marriage leads to early poverty, and the outcome is transferring
of poverty from one generation to another. It will only stop if a strange being
appears on the scene with a strange vision and say enough is enough.
21.
Enough is enough. He will restructure, re-organize, re-orientate,
revolutionalize everything and then create a new and enviable way for those
that are coming behind to improve upon.
22.
But unfortunately, sycophants do not copy good examples. The easiest
example to copy has always been a wrong example. The easiest influence that put
people offline has always been a wrong influence. Only few subscribe to good
influence. Only few.
23.
That is why 90 percent of our wealth is controlled by 10 percent of the
population, while 90 percent of the population contend for 10 percent.
24.
What is it producing? A wide disparity between the rich and the poor.
Who made them poor? They made themselves. Lack of vision, lack of focus.
25.
It is My wish that you prosper both physically and spiritually. Glory
be to God in the highest. That is why I do not like any man with very shallow
ambition. I hate such a fellow.
26.
There are some brethren that came to Me with their building plans to
approve for them, I considered now, considered the future, considered the
family setup, considered prospects.
27.
You know, a successful man is always optimistic. A successful man is
always optimistic.
28.
Number one man today is General Muhammadu Buhari. He remained undaunted
for three successful tenures. Today, he is there.
29.
It is easier to quote Abraham Lincoln of America. Quote General Muhammadu
Buhari, for he contested the first under the democratic era, he failed. He
never gave up. The second, he failed, he never gave up. The Third time, he
failed, he never gave up. The fourth attempt, he won.
30.
Yes, Great Achievers do not give up, for you cannot succeed, you cannot
be great without failures. Failure means that you have not mastered the
techniques, you are still a learner, you are an apprentice.
31.
Today, watch what happened. Nigeria as a whole voted massively for him.
Even those in opposition voted for him, for he mastered the art of going to
that Aso Rock.
32.
A great man is a man of vision, a man of great optimism. Even in the
face of odds, he is focused. I am talking to Myself, I am talking to all of you.
of course, you know My record. I never came out in a great family.
33.
Many of you here have better family background more than the Son of
Man. Better placed; better upbringing than the Son of Man. My ways have been
rough from childhood till today. But I remained undaunted.
34.
No situation has ever moved Me. I have maintained rigid possession of
My drive, fixing My eyes on My track every minute of the day, believing I must
arrive at the picture I painted for Myself from My childhood.
35.
Glory be to God in the highest. Let us hear the message not throwing
away this one. Let us hear the fullness of the message, not discarding this
one. Remember, He that preached the one you are hearing is the one talking. And
this one is fresh manna.
36.
This is the essence of travelling long distance to worship at His feet,
for you can never go home the same. You will recognize your fault. For nothing helps you more than the mistake
of the past.
37.
If you can recognize and correct them, tomorrow is going to be
brighter. Where you are is not enough. Consolidate your gains. Thank you very
much. To God be the glory. Amen.
REPOSITION YOURSELF
By
BY APOSTLE LUKE OJIAKOR
5
REPOSITION
YOURSELF
A round of applause
to Almighty God! This is another motivational piece. Look, our problem has been
that we have not recognized and do not have the revelation of He that is
speaking in the Bride.
2.
And the mission for
which He is here. You have seen the drama, you have seen the exercise we have
carried out now and God has assessed us, scored us. Now you know where you fall
into. You know your position.
3.
Reposition yourself
immediately. That is the essence of God giving us all these teachings. You see,
where have you heard it like this? Where have you seen it like this? Is it in
the denominations? They are spoilers.
4.
Where we read, it
gave us two things: the revelation of the personality who is He. And the
revelation of His mission for which He is here.
5.
Isaiah 42 verse 1-7.
Behold
my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put
my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He
shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
6.
He shall not cause
his voice to be heard on the streets.
38.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the
smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He
shall not fail nor be discouraged,…
39.
He shall not fail
nor be discouraged. I remember God said, “You will hear so many accusations,
everything leveled against Me. Do not ever defend Me.
40.
Son of Man speaks: Not ordinary, but disturbing accusations. Do
not ever attempt defending Me. It is the mark of My calling.
41.
Any
leader that is afraid of criticism is bound to fail. Any leader that settles
down to defend his accusations and counter accusation has already failed,
because a leader can avoid everything but not accusations, suspicion,
criticisms, for it makes him strong.
42.
All
these years Buhari fizzled out of the history of Nigeria, but today, every
headline of all newspapers is carrying Muhammadu Buhari.
43.
Nobody
knew about President Goodluck Jonathan when he was a lecturer in the
university, but coming to limelight, newspapers publicized his manifestoes.
44.
Whether
you like it or not, crime publicized Osama Bin Laden. But that is not
greatness. No man has ever been called great for indulging in criminality. For
righteousness exalts a man, wickedness causes reproach. There is nobody who
will draw his example from such criminals, no!
45.
Verse 4. He shall not fail nor be
discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait
for his law.
46.
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created
the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that
which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
spirit to them that walk therein: I the Lord have called thee in
righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for
a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, KJV.
47.
I, the Lord, have
called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and
give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles.
48.
Living bible. See my servant, whom I uphold;
my Chosen One in whom I delight. I have put my Spirit upon him; he will reveal
justice to the nations of the world.
49.
He will be gentle—he will not shout nor
quarrel in the streets. 3 He will not break the bruised reed,
nor quench the dimly burning flame.
50.
He will encourage the fainthearted, those
tempted to despair. He will see full justice given to all who have been
wronged. 4 He won’t be satisfied until truth and
righteousness prevail throughout the earth,..
51.
He
will not be satisfied until what? Truth and righteousness prevail throughout
the earth.
52.
And look at the
website now. Who is this scripture talking about? I am saying, the personality
that is speaking in the Bride. Have you understood it? Please, let us try and
understand these things.
53.
…nor until even distant lands beyond the
seas have put their trust in him.
54.
The Lord God who created the heavens and
stretched them out, who created the earth and everything in it, who gives life
and breath and spirit to everyone in all the world, he is the one who says to
his Servant, the Messiah: “I the Lord have called you to demonstrate my
righteousness.
55.
I will guard and support you, for I have
given you to my people as the personal confirmation of my covenant with them.
You shall also be a light to guide the nations unto me.
56.
King James Version says. I the
Lord have
called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and
give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.
57.
The Covenant God. If you are in this covenant,… When
Bishop Moses snapped the Son of Man, this is what appeared and He said, what
about the entire congregation?
58.
That the Elohim swallowed all of us. He swallowed all of
us as a covenant to the people. He is here as the covenant God and it is in Him
that you and I have appeared.
59.
Psalms 80 verse 17. “Let
thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest
strong for thyself. So will not we go back from thee: quicken
us, and we will call upon thy name. KJV.
60.
Let thy hand be upon the man at thy right hand, upon the
Son of Man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
61.
What is more, we read it in Isaiah verse 6 of chapter
42. It says, “I will keep thee for a covenant to the people and let thy hand be
upon the man at thy right hand even the Son of Man whom thou hast made strong
that we will not perish, we will not go back.
62.
If not this seed,
let me tell you, I have told you, that no brother or sister here should boast
on what he or she can do, for we are not better than those people that are
there who tasted this Faith and left. You know the scripture is fulfilling
every day.
63.
It said, that it is better for somebody not to have
tasted the Lord, than for somebody to have stayed under the cloud, tasted the
good word of His grace and even testified that the Lord is good, then turns
round to call this same thing evil.
64.
The Son of Man speaks: Immediately, evil will follow that person. The Lord will dispossess the
fellow of everything and automatically, that person must be a laughing stock to
people around him.
65.
His heart will be
filled with sorrows and regrets while he lives.
66.
It is God actually keeping us. Now, what is His mission?
He said, we must understand the personality, understand the mission of the Son
of Man.
67.
He continued saying, “My mission, My mission.” What is
actually His mission? It is to call you and Myself back to Himself, to glory.
68.
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 28. So
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for
him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. KJV.
69.
Living bible. So also Christ died only once as an offering for the sins of many
people; and he will come again, but not to deal again with our sins. This time
he will come bringing salvation to all those who are eagerly and patiently
waiting for him. LB.
70.
Brethren, the first place we read in the “No deception
is of the truth,” it said that I have come to realize that everybody that is
here is here for salvation.
71.
And He said that He is coming not to deal with sin or to
die on the cross but this time, he is coming to bring salvation to as many as
are eagerly and patiently waiting for Him.
72.
If you are here for salvation, your attitude must be
different from the attitude of somebody that is here for mere coming to church.
For you are not the author of that salvation, you do not know the way to
salvation. He that has salvation in His hand, whatever He tells you to do, what
do you do?
73.
You do it! Because you are here for salvation. You do
it, knowing the personality that is speaking. Just imagine now. How He has
elevated us again.
74.
Unless somebody who is blind. Even if you have been
trying and yet it seems nothing is moving for you. There is something I
believe.
75.
If people are saying that something is a big problem, I
do not believe that it is a big problem. I believe it is a responsibility. It
is a big responsibility, let us face it. It is meant for us. And you tackle it.
76.
I am saying, even if you think that your condition is
the worst and God has now spoken, once there is life, you will be able to plan.
You will be able to get focused. Target something.
77.
Have a vision, and he is here even to guide. Ask
questions, He will tell us what to do. And when you go ahead, definitely, you
must see the ray of light at the end of the tunnel. Amen.
WHAT IS GOD TO YOU?
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WHAT IS GOD TO YOU?
What is God to you?”
Page 60 verse 43 through 53. Anybody worshipping a universal God is devil
himself. The God I serve is not a
universal God.
2.
He is a peculiar God to a peculiar people. He is a God
to one nation and not a God to all the nations.
3.
The God I serve is not a God to all the nations and not
the God of the world. He is a God for a nation, a God to a particular people, a
peculiar people. For He is a peculiar God. You can serve whatever you want to
serve.
4.
The word of your day is not effective in you, in your
life because from the beginning you are not of God. Many can come to Me calling
Me all kinds of names, all to prove to Me that they belong to Me, but I know
that they are liars. They have no part in Me, for their characters marked them
off.
5.
In Jesus day, He asked, “Why is it that they cannot hear
thy word? It is because, they are not of Me. For he that is of God heareth the
word of God.”
6.
You cannot say that you are of God and when God speaks,
you do not hear, you do not understand, you do not believe, and you behave the
way you want to behave.
7.
I believe if we are soldiers, we are under a commandant.
We must receive command from Him, and he is to instruct us on the way we should
go, the way we should do everything.
8.
We must live a regulated life. If you are a soldier
under a command and you are not obeying the command of that commandant,
automatically, you are calling for your death; straight away, he will order one
of his boys to gun you down so that you will not be a disgrace.
9.
How many people in this most holy Faith are being
controlled by the words of the Apostle today, by the words of the Son of Man
today?
10.
How many really believe that we have a dedicated
Apostle, that this is God En-Morphe? You must believe that.
11.
If you do not believe that, you cannot believe in other
Apostles. You must believe that we have a vindicated Apostle.
12.
If you do not believe that, you cannot believe in other
Apostles. When you believe the Apostle of your day, to believe in the Apostles
become easy.
13.
If you do not believe the Apostle, you cannot believe
the Apostles. We have the Apostle, and we have Apostles.
14.
In Jesus day, He said that He was the Apostle and the
high priest. Yet it behoves on Him to appoint Apostles to Himself. How many in
this Faith are being controlled and led by the word of the Apostle?
15.
Why are you having difficulties? Why are you saddled
about the troubles? It is because you have lost your experience. The fear of
God is no longer in your heart.
16.
Can you imagine Apostle Silas, an Apostle wearing rags?
If not for one thing, I would have dealt with him treacherously in My house.
But I do not punish one that comes to Me.
17.
If I had come to him, I would have given him a sign in
his life. I told you that you have the right to behave the way you want to, but
do not associate it with this faith.
18.
When you know you are working contrary to the message,
do not ever tell people that you belong to this fellowship. If you know your
life is not worthy of the gospel, you are a reproach to the gospel, do not ever
make the mistake of telling people that you are a member of the family of God. Sure!
19.
Even the prophet William Branham said so in the message
titled, “Is your life worthy of the gospel of Christ?” He said that why people
incur the wrath of God is because they cause reproaches.
20.
Thus he said, do not make the mistake of telling people
that you are a child of God when your life does not agree with the message of
God for your day.”
21.
If when God speaks and you are disobedient, what makes
you a child of God? Where lies your claim? To many in this most holy Faith, God
is God when they run into difficulties.
22.
For now, God has become a very nice spare parts, spare
tyre. He is now a spare tyre that can only be remembered when there is trouble.
But when everything is going fine, to hell with God.
23.
When was this
message preached? It
was preached in 2004. If you know that He that holds the entire universe is the
one whose voice you are hearing; brethren, I do not know why.
24.
At times, I ask myself this question, “What actually has
gone wrong with many of us? If we understand Him, why the wrong behavior among
us?”
25.
Why is it that the word of the Son of Man still sounds
light in our ears?
26.
The Son of Man
speaks: Over-familiarity. The greatest destroyer in the Bridal Faith and in
every faith of Christ revealed in every dispensation. Starting from the days of
old. Over-familiarity caused them to rebel against Noah, Lot, and Abraham.
Moses’ own was the worst. All the prophets suffered it. The Apostles suffered
it. Jesus the Christ suffered it.
27.
Human beings have never changed. But why must
we fail in our own day having the knowledge of all these generations documented
in our day as a lesson that what happened to them should not happen to us? I
mean, you should know better.
28.
In the message, “The foolishness of God”,
God asked a question there. “What blinded the Jews? Over-familiarity.”
29.
He said, “Can we the Gentiles succeed where they failed?”
I remember also the scripture which said that a prophet is not recognized in
his own country and among his own people.
30.
And God said that it is not for the elect. The elect
should recognize their saviour, their Messiah. It is for unbelievers outside.
31.
The Son of Man
speaks: Any
child that does not know his father, is he a real son? Any child who does not
know the father is one who the mother took away from the father.
32.
Look at where we read. It said that God is not God to
all but God to a peculiar people. That we are not worshipping a universal god.
Because He is a peculiar God. Pay attention brethren. A peculiar God to a
peculiar people. Is He not the same God on the side of Abraham?
33.
Is He that same God? It is the same God. Why is He
peculiar? And why are the people worshipping Him peculiar?
34.
Remember God told
us that Abraham was a Gentile, for you must be a Gentile before you become a
Jew. Have you forgotten?
35.
Abraham came from Mesopotamia. His parents were
idolaters, and Almighty God called him. He (Almighty God) did not tell him
where he was leading him to.
36.
He said, “To a place He will show him. Abraham obeyed,
kept on moving until he told him where to settle, and he then settled.
37.
And then showed him the land and told him, He will give
him all. Let him continue believing. I am saying that Abraham was separated
from his kindred, from his family.
38.
God decided to call him and the wife to Himself so that
nobody in his family will be a disturbance or a stumbling block to Abraham,
seeing that Abraham carried out every instruction from the Almighty.
39.
He called Abraham away from his family to be out
completely where then He decided to bless Abraham. Read your scripture. Genesis
chapter 15.
40.
Imagine God, if you can count all the stars of heaven,
so shall I make your seed on earth. Did Abraham have any discussion with God
before he was called?
41.
Did Abraham appeal to God first before God called
Abraham? Did Abraham know what God had in stock for him? Abraham was fully
depending on God.
42.
The Son of Man
speaks: Don’t you know he was an idolater with his parents before God came his
way? For he had another spirit.
43.
God saw the spirit in him and called him away, decided
to lavish His blessings on Abraham. I am saying that we are the children of
Abraham. For we are in that seed and that seed is here.
44.
In Him we are blessed with the blessings of Abraham. If
we understand this, why is it that we still feel as if we are on our own? You
are a slave of Christ, for He has purchased you with His own life. Is it not
true?
45.
Now, why should you begin to dictate what you will do,
ignoring the instruction given to us by our Master, our Owner and our Father?
What area has this God not spoken to us on as a loving father?
46.
Is it in our families? Is it in our work places? Why are
we finding it difficult to allow Him have rule over us?
47.
We are a peculiar people serving a peculiar God,
worshipping a peculiar God. Bear that in mind. And He called us for a purpose.
48.
“Fear God” volume
one, page 44 from verse 54. “It is not brother Odoemena, it is the very
Elohim paving the way.
49.
This message was preached on 7th December,
2014. Today is 7th June, 2015. Exactly six months today. 7th
December, 2014 to 7th June, 2015. Page 44 of “Fear God”.
50.
It is
not brother Odoemena, it is the very Elohim paving the way. After all, we are
coming from one side. People that left at the beginning, left because of their
blindness.
51.
The Son of Man
speaks: They are regretting. They now want to come back but no way. They used
the words of their mouth to seal their doom.
52.
People that left at the beginning, left because of their
blindness. Because they did not know that Brother Odoemena was not the one,
they could not see the Elohim paving the way for us. They know it was the third
exodus and God was on the lead but all of them wanted to see the cloud. They
did not know that it took Moses alone to see the cloud.
53.
The Son of Man
speaks: If you believe it, say “Amen”. The cloud was before Moses. He was the
one seeing it and the people were seeing Moses.
54.
They did not know that it took Moses alone to see the
cloud. It took Moses alone to hear from God and tell the people. That God can
only speak to the people through the mouth of Moses whom He had
appointed God over them, with Aaron as their prophet.
55.
“I will declare. Will
you declare? Yes, I will. Will they believe? Yes, they will. How? I say this
thing because I have taught them.” How many were there that day?
56.
They know it was the third exodus and God was on the
lead but all of them wanted to see the cloud. They did not know that it took
Moses alone to see the cloud. It took Moses alone to hear from God and tell the
people. That God can only speak to the people through the
mouth of Moses whom He had appointed God over them, with Aaron as their
prophet.
57.
But everybody wanted to be a prophet, they wanted to be
Moses, they wanted to see the cloud, they wanted to see everything. How many
gods would be operating in that camp?
58.
Not minding, some people were privileged to see the
Ancient of Days coming out of a human being, proceeded in front and went back
to the human being.
59.
The Son of Man
speaks: But today, you have seen the reality that came out with the head white
dressed, everything and proceeded front, went back to the same vessel.
60.
People that do not
have the eyes of vision, can you see Him? Confirmed! Go ahead. If it is magic,
many magicians are still existing.
61.
Verse 28. They began to see too many things that
surprised them, from there, Faith started coming up. Yet, rebellion remained in
the hearts of men. Do not forget this fact, that our fathers were coming out of
Egypt, being guided by the pillar of cloud. The cloud is God’s vindication in
all the ages which the devil has never impersonated and can never, never
impersonate.
62.
The Son of Man
speaks: They can never impersonate. Bishop Ebenezer, abi na lie? Brother Okoh,
abi na lie? Take
note brethren.
63.
Of all the signs, miracles, wonders Jesus Christ warned
the wards, His followers to be worried of, according to Mathew Gospel chapter
24, the pillar of cloud was not there.
64.
Of all Jesus the
Christ warned His disciples saying, they will come with this, display this.
65.
They can even raise the dead, heal the sick, turn water
into blood, the pillar of cloud was not mentioned. The thick darkness was not
mentioned, the rainbow was not mentioned, the bright cloud was not there, for
nobody can impersonate them.
66.
Then why are we
still doubting? Then why are we still seeing brother? I mean, it was last
Sunday here that: “In Him was the Father Revealed”, was revisited.
67.
Along the line when the message was going on, I remember
that time, if anybody would say something, he would say: “Holy Ghost said, Holy
Ghost said. But today, it is “Kelechi said.” “Brother said”. (Almighty said that they do not add brother
again.”
68.
“Kelechi said.” “Ojiakor said.” So brethren, remember
the message I am reading. It said; “Fear God”. Let none of these things we are
beholding turn round to condemn any of us, please.
69.
Verse 30. For the devil has never impersonated the
pillar of cloud, the pillar of light, the rainbow by day and by night. They are
not the attributes of the devil. The thick darkness is not the attribute of the
devil, for God Himself dwelleth in the thick darkness.
70.
For we must never forget dear brothers, what happened to
our people in the wilderness long, long time ago. God guided them by sending a
cloud that moved along ahead of them and He brought them all safely through the
waters of the red sea.
71.
This might be called your baptism. Baptized both in sea
and in cloud as followers of Moses, their commitment to him as their leader.
72.
Their commitment to Moses as their leader.
73.
They were following Moses while Moses was following the
cloud. They were committed to Moses’ leadership.
74.
Why should the people of Moses condemn us? God forbid!
He said, can we succeed where they failed? They followed Moses while Moses was
following the cloud.
75.
Whatever Moses told them, they did. All that rebelled,
met death. If we go to 1st Corinthians chapter 10, they are all
compiled, and they are a warning to us that we should not lust after evil
things.
76.
We should be committed to the leadership of the Elohim
in our midst. He is the One leading us.
77.
Do not see “Brother.” Brethren, see “Almighty God.” For
that is the personality, by personal revelation, it is very, very clear to you.
78.
Verse 36. Go back to the message titled, “Commitment”.
How many are committed to the leadership of the Bridal Faith by the Son of Man?
79.
If you are
committed, tell Me why and how you feel you are committed to this ministry.
80.
What is the level of your commitment to this Faith that
is protecting you, protecting your family, protecting your future? What is your
commitment?
81.
Remember the first message I read when I came up here,
from No Deception is of the Truth: Seeing that we all have come here for
eternal life and eternal life alone, let us rally round and defend this Faith.
82.
What is your level of commitment? There is something
there. If you are committed to something, definitely, you must protect that
thing.
83.
You must do everything possible to make sure that
nothing happen to that thing. You can never play with it.
84.
Instead
of being committed to the course of the faith, many are exploiting the faith.
The same way they were exploiting Moses in the wilderness, demanding things
Moses could not provide.
85.
In short, they became burdensome to Moses more than the
burden of leadership. They imposed burden on Moses. Instead of helping to
relieve Moses burdens, they were adding burden on Moses on a daily basis,
feeling disgruntled.
86.
Moses was bringing them out of the land of slavery and
was taking them to the land of rest.
87.
If you go back to that message, “Family Menu—the Good
Shepard”, remember, what is the duty of the flock to the Shepherd? You should
do everything to alleviate the level of burden, level of work of the shepherd,
by being obedient, making His work easy.
88.
When an instruction goes forth, everybody, every hand
will be on deck to make sure that, that instruction is carried out. And he will
be very, very happy.
89.
Let us cast our minds back and bring up everything
before God. Remember, He is bringing us into the land of rest.
90.
Verse 29. In
other words, they were not tired of staying in slavery. Hence, many of them
coveted worldly things, for that they went back to Egypt.
91.
Some made captains
for themselves who will lead them back to Egypt because of garbage, onions,
cucumber and water melon, banana as well as apple, that they will now go back
to Egypt.
92.
The Son of Man
speaks: Brethren, Is there anything
good that is in cucumber and garlic and even white onion?
93.
Let us look at this message, “Warnings from God before
judgment” page 37 verse 19 through 23.
94.
“Hear the word of the Lord. He is the same yesterday,
today and forever and up till this moment, he is still sending Apostles and
Prophets, for the church of God is built upon the foundation of the a Prophets
and Apostles.
95.
By the Prophets, He brought them out of the land of
captivity, by the words of the Apostles, He established them.
96.
The Son of Man
speaks: This is the much we would take for this Sunday school. Remain blessed
everybody as we invite Brother Ben Okezue to the pulpit to complement this
message. Amen.
