Preached
on Sunday, 4th March, 2018 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF
GOD ONITSHA

INTRODUCTION
BY APOSTLE KELECHI
UWAKWE
INTRODUCTION
We are very, very
grateful to the Almighty God, Who has kept us alive till this very morning.
Many of us came face to face with death, but God said, “No!”
2.
The same road we travel every day, many travel there and
that is the end of their life. But God allowed us to be alive that we might
even obey His Words which we could not obey yesterday.
3.
We thank God this morning, having made it possible for all
of us to be in His Presence . I want all of us to pay strict attention.
4.
Last Sunday, we were very grateful to God the way He moved
and opened our eyes to see what idolatry is all about.
5.
Before, we had that primitive idea that worshipping idol
is when you just cut down a piece of wood and paint it or buy one rubber or
whatever and place it in your house. We did not know that idol worship takes
place in the heart. In wickedness, they do not know this.
1
FLEE FROM IDOLS (1)
We are sons and
daughters of God. Every other person around us is under the power and control
of the Devil. You see, let Me tell you: Before last Sunday, many of you were
here as heathens, for you were promoting the course of the heathens.
2.
Instead of promoting the course of Christ, you were
promoting the course of the idols of your people. I wanted to revisit the
Message I handled long ago, HOUSEHOLD GODS, where I exposed the different gods
that are worshipped by families. There is no family without a god.
3.
That is why the Bible recognized that there are too many
gods, but to us children of God, there is only but One God, His Name One. And
only Him shall we worship. As long as we live, that is the only God we
recognize. This is because anyone you recognize is the one you will accept.
4.
Before last Sunday, many of us were idolaters sitting down
in the Fellowship and the Almighty God had been hammering on this long time
ago. I have used many Messages to attack this. Getting rid of your community
spirits became a problem. To drop the idols you have in your hearts, a big
problem until you faced judgment.
5.
I spoke to the Elders at length yesterday. For over two
hours, I ministered yesterday to the Elders. They do not come to Me anymore
expecting drinks or food. They now come for spiritual upliftment and spiritual
enlightenment and they learn every minute they stay around Me. They add fresh
feathers and their strength is renewed.
6.
There is no family without a god. Our parents espoused us
to their gods. Some of us were carried when we were infants and dedicated to
family idols, requesting for protection, yet baptized in the Church. Dedicated
to idols, asking for idol protection and baptized in the Church.
7.
After going to Church, they will still go and pay their
vows to the idol. If they promised the idol a goat yearly, that is what they
will do. It would not stop them from going for their thanksgiving in the Church.
They have their adage, “Give to Caesar that which belongs to Caesar and give to
Jesus that which belongs to Jesus.”
8.
But the Master said, “Will you eat in the table of Caesar
and in the table of Christ at the same time? Can you be loyal and faithful to
two masters at the same time?” He said, “No!”
9.
Give Caesar that which belongs to Caesar and give to Jesus
that which belongs to Jesus. Why? The heathens have their own clever way of
seducing your hearts away from the Truth, for the remnants of the heathens
today are weeping and crying because the emergence of Pentecostalism has
destroyed the little that was left by the missionaries.
10.
Hence in every family, you see those things in pockets
now. Physically, they are in pockets. Spiritually, they inundated the hearts of
all. What is more, they use their words to create [and put] fears in their
children and in their fellow human beings. Always exaggerating the ferocity of
those gods saying, “If you try it, aaaah!
You do not know what this god is called o!”
11.
When I was talking to My wife last night concerning these
nonsenses, I said, “I love My Dad. I still love My Dad even in the grave.” A
man that believes in practical reality.
12.
It happened in My own time when I was in my first year in
the secondary school. One man who was the chief priest of Amadioha, which is the god of My own kindred and if he [the chief
priest] gives way, another person will take over. They know how they select it.
13.
You see, this man became one of the educated people in My
area, trained by whites up to Standard Six. He became the councilor and over-dominated
My people because he was doing letter writing for people for a pay.
14.
When he became the chief priest of Amadioha, he enriched himself using that god. But at the end of the
day, he paid dearly for it. He could not erect a structure for himself. He died
in misery.
15.
You see, My Dad was a very nice fellow. He loved people.
He opened his arms. Being a wood worker and also a farmer, he reared goats. As
at that time, My father could boast of having up to fifty goats, excluding
sheep. Some [people] were coming to beg and take some [of the goats], while he
sold some.
16.
One day, I just came back on holiday. That man came with
palm frond in his mouth, with white chalk marks around his eyes and everywhere,
wearing rags, with a metal staff locally called oji which makes some sounds as the bearer moves with it. You know, they love to do something
that will make people to be afraid.
17.
He came closer. We were living in a shanty. We could boast
only of goats. He came, stooped at the little entrance and shouted, “Okwute! Okwute!
Ohaeri! Okwute!”
18.
My father came out. I equally came out with him. We saw
him. A very lanky man. He started moping around and shaking. I said, “Something
must be seriously wrong.”
19.
A little while, he removed the palm frond in his mouth and
said, “Okwute! I have come to see you. Amadioha
sent me to come and give you the message. Tomorrow is Eke. The next day is Orie.
Orie-Ukwu. You should bring one he-goat, one [keg of] palm wine, one fowl
and five hundred naira.” That time money had value.
20.
“Amadioha said I
should tell you that these are the thing you should bring, having protected
your family, including your brothers who are abroad and for one year, nobody brought
back a corpse home and nobody died in your family.
21.
“This is what Amadioha
needs from you as thanksgiving. He said I should come and tell you. And you do
it immediately. Otherwise, that which you do not expect will come.”
22.
My father said, “All my children are here with me. You
said my brothers who are living abroad, that Amadioha protected them. I am not doubting you. Go and tell them
that Amadioha protected them. They should
bring one he-goat, one [keg of] of palm wine. My son is here. He is a student.
My children are here with me. For those outside, go and tell them.”
23.
The man retorted, “Okwute!
This is just your problem. You are stubborn. When the first and the second
corpses will be carried home now, you will run to me. Do not ever make
Amadiaoha angry.”
24.
My father looked at him and said, “De Nwaogu! If you
desperately want to eat goat meat, tell me so that I can give you one he-goat
so that you will kill it and eat of it. Stop telling me about Amadioha. Leave Amadioha to come by itself. Almighty God is the one protecting me.
My Lord is alive. I am not worshipping anybody. You wanted to hear from me and
I have said it.”
25.
The man angrily left. He went to so many other families,
deceived some, created fear into them. We remained. My father never even bothered
to tell his brothers that were outside. So we remained and until my father
died, we never buried even one. All of them are still there. I am still alive.
26.
The same way the one who said he is holding Ala came. Before our eyes, he died. He
told my father we should do this and that. Otherwise, Myself and My immediate younger
sister would die. He gave the date we would die and that we were dying at the
same time.
27.
My father looked up and looked down and said, “But if I
bring all these things you said I should bring to your shrine, including one
type of fowl with naturally ruffled feathers. If I bring all these things
including the drinks, that means Oshimiri and Rosa will not die again.
28.
“Richard! You go to Church. Yet, you still carry
sacrifices to Ala. If Oshimiri and
Rosa should die in one day, I am their father and I will bury them in one day.
I will bury two of them in one day. But I am telling you, they are not dying,
unless you will send my enemies to come and poison them.”
29.
The man left. That
was why they hated my father with perfect hatred.
30.
One of our wives fell sick. They said it was spiritual
attack and that the late husband attacked her. A woman that was having kidney
problem and got swollen. They selected people that will go to one place that we
use to call Umuorgu to consult an oracle to know what they will do so that the
woman will live.
31.
They consulted and said that my father should be among
those that should go. The woman who was in the sickbed said, “Do not include
Ohaeri. Ohaeri will say, ‘Instead, let Margaret die.’”
32.
They said, “If Ohaeri is not going, who else will go?”
33.
At the end of the day, they hardened their hearts and
came. They told their lengthy story and at the end of the lengthy story, my
father asked them, “Does it mean that if I follow you to this place, we do all
that were prescribed to be done and enquire as you have in mind, then Margaret
will survive?”
34.
They all said, “Yes, once we go she will survive.”
35.
My father told them that it is a lie and that it is better
that Margaret dies now and he will bring out all the money he has to join in
her burial instead of going with them to consult an oracle. He also advised
them against going to that oracle and that if they go to consult that oracle
Margaret will die before three days.
36.
He also advised that if they rescind their decision,
Margret will survive. He also revealed to them that Margaret and her husband
never patronized native doctors and that they were only pressurizing her to
agree to what she does not believe because of her illness. “Leave her alone for
God will heal her!”
37.
The first daughter of that our wife came. My father spoke
sense into her. Nobody went anywhere again. Miraculously, this woman recovered
and lasted for 101 years before she died. It happened in My compound there.
38.
Stop recognizing things that are against you, things that
are imaginary, which, because you have recognized their existence, when they do
not exist, the information you gathered from your people built a definite form
in you and started witch-hunting you.
39.
Even in your sleep, you will be seeing strange pictures
because of what you were told. Even if you want to come out in the night to
urinate, you are not afraid of thieves but afraid of the shrine and everything.
40.
I am telling you, even if you are walking alone in the
night, crossing such places, you will pause and look round whether people are
coming so that you join them and cross. Sometimes you run. Who is pursuing you?
41.
That was why I cleared that evil forest in front of My
house and planted cassava, yam and everything. Nobody runs across My compound
again. But before then you will see infants, everybody;
42.
They will stay at one place until they are up to ten in
number. Then they will be clapping hands while crossing in the night so that
the spirit will not catch them. Men will continuously hoot the horns of the
vehicles while crossing.
43.
My uncle collapsed one day because of something that never
existed. We never knew he was afraid, while he was returning from a wake-keep
with his touch. On getting very close to My house, he tapped the thing the
torch could not come on.
44.
He said that he tried and tried but no way. He turned the
other way and flashed the torch and it flashed. Fear overpowered him and
slumped as he shouted. He started foaming. They said that he saw a spirit there
and the spirit quenched the torch.
45.
I went there, took the torch, flashed it up and down, the
torch was flashing. I said, “No! What stopped it was misapplication of his
hand.” He touched the wrong button because of fear. What was he afraid of?
Something that does not exist, but it built in you something that has become
definite due to what you have heard.
46.
God said, “If we can use that zeal by which we admit this
nonsense; If we can use that zeal to admit the existence of God, serve God,
create the fear of God in ourselves and in our children, nobody will deny us of
Eternal Life.”
47.
A Brother told Me last Sunday saying, “Daddy, you may not
understand what I am saying. I am telling you that the whole world, no matter
the Church they are going, they are worshipping the Devil.”
48.
He went further and said, “Even among us here, if anybody
says he was worshipping God before last Sunday, the person is a liar! Everybody
was having the sense of that particular god either in their community or in their
own house.”
49.
Sometimes, your father may even be the chief priest, who
handed over to another person. It can be your family holding the shrine.
Whatever setback, they say it is because of that god. Every death, that god.
Every sickness, that same.
50.
That was why, before God liberated the people of God from
Egypt, he first of all disarmed them of the gods of Egypt and conquered them.
51.
Thus, if you must be liberated, you must know the point of
your liberation and what you are liberated from.
52.
That is what salvation is all about. It is now that
salvation has come to your doorstep. Your ability to reject with all your heart
every figment of idol. Even, the knowledge of idol should be flushed completely
from your system. Otherwise, you may not know when you will impart it into your
children.
53.
And the people that have this mind can hardly have
progress, for they are highly suspicious. I am telling you. Watch all these
people that serve idols, they can never be progressive.
54.
Watch a family that is gifted to idol, no matter the level
of Church they go, prayers they make, deliverances, there can never be progress
in that family. They will live in penury. They will live in shanties. Majority
will be living in squalour.
55.
And if any overcomes it by revelation, he resents it and
the LORD shows him the way out. Remember, it is going to be one in a million.
The whole world around him will be on him. There is no blasphemous name they
will not call him. And he will be highly dreaded. Nobody will even collect a
glass of water from him because he is not like others.
56.
What I am telling you is the Truth. Mediate on what I have
just told you. Mediate on it very well. If you go to My Message, where I gave
you, LIFE WORTH LIVING, it says that an unexamined life is not worth living
because there is something in a man which if not properly examined, scrutinized,
evaluated and checked, can make this life a regrettable ordeal.
57.
Check it very well. Every man can have his own obstacle.
There are too many things that are operating in us which are hindering us from
achieving fuller success in life. And most of these things we are afraid of are
things that do not exist, but we give them undue recognition. We created them.
The thing will enter into our memories, settle down there and begin to torment
us.
58.
Stop creating enemies that you do not have the capacity to
flush out. Amen.
2
FLEE FROM IDOLS (2)
Let us go back to the
topic: FLEE FROM IDOLS. That is our topic.
2.
I have seen many places where these things are working,
but I have not seen one that was killed by evil spirits. Rather human beings
kill and attribute the killings to the spirit so that nobody will dare talk. It
never started in your day.
3.
A man of God, Gideon, in the Book of Judges, filled with
the zeal to do God a service according to His will, demolished shrines. The
people were not happy. They were infuriated. They came up to kill him, came
straight to his parents asking that Gideon should be brought to them for them
to kill him.
4.
The man asked them why. They said, “He desecrated our shrines
and pulled down our notable shrines all in the name of his God.”
5.
The father looked
up and looked down and said, “All of us are Jews. We are pursuing the same course.
Since Gideon could destroy your shrines and your gods, why are you coming to
make a case? Do you want to tell me that your gods do not have the power to
kill Gideon? Why are you coming to kill Gideon? Are you the gods? Are you the
representatives of the shrines? Leave Gideon to battle it with gods.”
6.
The people shamelessly went away. Gideon went further to
demolish the remaining idol altars. Did anything happen to him? If the
community does not kill you, there is no idol that can kill you.
7.
Has there ever been anybody who killed python in Ogidi and
python came to him in the night and killed him? Human beings are the ones that
come looking for the alleged defaulter in the day, claiming that you desecrated
their tradition, “Why did you kill this
snake?”
8.
You should have allowed the snake to come and attack him.
Now all of you will mask yourselves in the name of masquerades to fight for a
snake.
9.
I just want to narrow it down to know whether our eyes are
opening at all. That one you harbor in your heart which your parents told you
about; all that you were told are stories. Yes, they are all stories.
10.
And if you watch, whatever they want to achieve is that
they are all protecting it. They are all protecting it and in the attempt to
create that protective aura, they put everybody into bondage and put the whole
community into bondage. If you come to that kindred, everybody is at the same
level, living in penury.
11.
I want everybody to be very careful. Bro Onyema! Didn’t
you father tell you that, in everything, you and your siblings should move at
the same pace? But I am telling you that overtaking is allowed.
12.
People do not queue up in the process of making money. You
can surpass your brother. Your brother can equally overtake you. Thus, go and
tell your dead father that he lacks wisdom.
13.
You say, “That one
don pass?” Has it passed away from your heart? Thank you!
14.
It is by hearing. Information is power if it is after a
Godly sort. If your father is a native doctor and then you resolve that you
will also be a native doctor, one that inherited his father’s ritual
paraphernalia was jubilating saying that, though others got reasonable
inheritances, but that he got the highest.
15.
If that your inheritance was effective, why then did your
father die? If that idol was effective, why then did your father die?
16.
This is 21st Century, all those primitive ideas
about idols prevailing everywhere. In short, I lack the adjective to qualify
them. It is more than belief. It is more than ideology. Primitive creations.
You can be a human being but of a primitive creation.
17.
Recreate yourself. That is what I am saying. Let me
recreate myself and become a modern man fashioned after godliness. Stop being a
primitive man.
18.
And if you watch a primitive man, his words are primitive.
Dressing, primitive. His house, primitive. Everything he does is primitive.
Even if he is married, the wife will be cooking primitive food.
19.
If you take a closer look at him, you will notice that he
is a young man by age but looks very old in appearance. He will be smelling
because of his primitive ways. Watch primitive creatures, they smell. ALL IDOL
WORSHIPPERS ARE DIRTY. Filthy!
20.
This is because they believe in the use of bones and
skulls and feathers of dead animal as a way of mystifying their shrines and it
appearance, thereby creating fears in the people. When you come into such a
place, it will be reeking with stench like that of a decomposing corpse.
21.
He thinks that this is the way to collect money from you.
Those that patronize [eat and drink in] such places are like the owners of such
places. You must resemble the God you worship.
22.
We are worshipping a dynamic God, a very intelligent God,
full of wisdom and understanding. God who abhors every form of idolatry and who
does not even recognize their existence.
23.
All these primitive creatures in our midst, as old as the
early men of history, begin to recreate yourselves, recreate your minds,
recreate your mentalities, recreate your hearts.
24.
When I was talking about ethical re-orientation, I am
talking about recreating yourself, becoming a brand new fellow within and
without. Once a dirty fellow will now become clean in the heart and outwardly.
25.
Get rid of filthiness of the heart and of the flesh. Let
us worship God in purity. Purify your hearts with the Word of God, so that
there would not be any room for anything idol in your heart. Even, let the
sight alone displease you.
26.
You are the people I gave the testimony why I love My Dad.
When he takes action I support him. When I take action he supports Me.
27.
When I was building My house at home, I saw too many
things. One day, the enemies packaged something. As I was driving in, he called
my attention to it and said, “Oshimiri, just look at this thing? In short,
these people do not know what they are doing! Look at what a human being
packaged and placed here for me.” He simply picked it up with his left hand and
threw the thing away.
28.
I came into my office, looked around and sat down on My
seat. I stood up again and deep inside Me, I knew that the seat was not the
seat which I built for myself. I lifted the seat and turned it only to see a
lizard pinned to the seat with white and red cloth.
29.
I laughed. I alerted our Director and My colleagues in the
office who came and witnessed what I had discovered and they were asking and
saying, “How manage?”
30.
They wondered because nobody stays around apart from
Ndiuwa and his colleagues. Moreso, I was using that table as a field officer. I
only come in sparingly. Sometimes, you do not even see me except on Fridays to
write My reports.
31.
I looked at Mr. Elunwogo of Isiala, a Deltan who carefully
studied the thing and said, “These people have challenged you. The only
hindrance is just this your Jesus Church. If not, I will take you to my
hometown. When we get to Delta, along with this thing, he will tell us who did
it. We will severely punish the person there in my hometown and come back.”
32.
He pointed me to what happened when his money was stolen
in the office. He went home and came back and told the person to go and replace
the money. That he saw the person in the mirror and also saw how the person
stole the money. He claimed that once we get there, we will see everything.
33.
I asked, “Is that all?” He said, “Yes!” I told him not to
worry himself. With a stick, I removed the thing, threw it away, put down my
seat and sat on it. Why? I am the highest animal God created and gave me authority
over lower animals.
34.
I am even higher than the biggest animal, stronger than
the strongest animal. Even if that animal is hippopotamus, I am higher than the
animal. How is it then possible for someone to trap me with a lizard?
35.
It then means my life is lower than that of a lizard. If
you must get Me, you must use something whose life and blood will be higher
than mine. To pin a lizard with coloured pieces of cloth for Me? Abeg go siddon.
36.
So do not have this type of fear. The greatest destroyer
of the heathen is fear. What if that fear is in you? The fearful and unbelieving
cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Get rid of fear from your heart and from
your whole family.
37.
You do not stop to verify anywhere you see powder
believing somebody is challenging you. You see hair on the floor, which may be
that of your child, you start feeling that somebody has placed it there to
challenge you.
38.
What I am telling you is the Truth. When you wash and
spread your cloth on the line and the wire in the line tears your cloth, you
start insinuating that somebody has cut off your cloth with razor. This is
because there is fear in your heart.
39.
I am liberating you and I told you it is total liberation.
If you are not liberated when others are liberated, you are dying and you do
not have the hope of coming through Christ. This is because anybody that has
divided loyalty can never step into Paradise. It is impossible.
40.
It is by One Spirit that we are baptized into One Body,
One God, One LORD, One Church, One Baptism, One Spirit. Everything one. Once
you have divided loyalty, you are not coming there. I do not care the way you
look at it.
41.
At the end of the day, I will round it off with another
thing, lest you go to the extreme. This is because the greatest problem facing
Me has always been the problem of checking fanaticism.
42.
Otherwise, you may go home now and begin to demolish
idols, when you have not even preached to your people. Then you incur the wrath
of the community and begin to call Me.
43.
The only one you have the power to destroy is the one in
your custody. The one that is in your custody. The one in your heart is already
attacked, you get rid of it. You now go home and do the same, if there is one
in your own personal custody.
44.
Assuming I am the head of the family like My father was,
the family god is under My custody. I will do what My father did. Let them go
and make another one and hand it over to whoever that is interested.
45.
I never commanded you to go home, anywhere you see shrine,
you pull down. Evil forest, you cut, whether it belongs to you or not, when you
have not preached your Message. That is fanaticism. You will incur the wrath of
the heathens.
46.
Get rid of the idol in your hearts and the one you
established and recognized in your household. Then help your extended family,
because apart from your nuclear family, any other relation is under extension.
Your elder brother is in extension. Your sister, extension.
47.
After saving your nuclear family, if there is hope, you
now turn to them and declare the Message. If they will believe, they will get
rid of idols and come over to Christ.
48.
Remember in My Message MODERN IDOLATRY, you can disarm
anybody of idols, not Roman Catholics and Anglicans. This is because they
modernized it. They now worship it inside the Church. Whatever you want to do
now for the ancestors, you bring it into the Church. Once the reverend father
touches it, and if you have the money, you can even invite him and he will come
over and do it with you in your house.
49.
I am telling you. And in their homes, you see inanimate
objects which they venerate. You dare not touch any of them. You see some
establishing useless altars with pictures and molded plastic images with light
inside, creating a frightening picture around that area where that altar is
established.
50.
Shrine! It is everywhere. Even the Pentecostals now
establish shrines for which cause they now proudly threaten, “If you disturb me, do not worry, tonight I
will go to my shrine. If I kneel down before my shrine and mention your name
two times, you will run mad in the name of Jesus.
51.
I will say, “Ok. No problem. Go and mention My name. I
want to run mad.”
52.
Be very careful! You are a peculiar people, called out
from the people around you. You now belong to God. God is your father. You want
to live with God eternally. And do not ever stain your hands. Do not pollute
yourselves with idols of your people.
53.
By the time this Message will be through today, I will
sprinkle water on all who have divorced idols from their hearts. I would not
sprinkle it upon you while you are sitting down. It cannot be for everybody.
You are clean, but not all.
54.
But as many as have made that consecration, vowed placing
their lives on the line, come what may, I cannot avoid the war because of
casualties. Any controversy that is not fought headlong can never be resolved
till eternity.
55.
In this modern time, 21st Century, everybody
should be careful. Any technology that is aimed at catching up with the past,
is it a good technology? You see the problem we are having. Whatever you are
doing and you are aiming at catching up with the past, you are retrogressive.
56.
Idol worship is no longer in tune with the age we are in.
This is the age of Christ. This is a dynamic age. An age of Reality—practical
Reality. Re-examine this wisdom of yours which is taking you back to the age
and practices of your fathers which never even helped them in any way.
57.
How can you wake up tomorrow and organize a masquerade
festival where you will join hands with your community to re-enact idol worship
and practices? No! No! They bring out musical equipment and place them on the
ground with ancient drummers and you join them in their chants and dances.
58.
If you take a close look at these things and even the
people who practice them, you will notice that they are far behind this world,
living in the glare of primitive era. It is just like a situation where someone
dies tomorrow, you start giving the corpse of the dead person undue respect.
59.
The widow will be caged because of the death of her
husband, mandating that she will not go out for one year. Will you provide food
for the widow and her children?
60.
If she is a civil servant, she will be dismissed. Can such
a thing be done? She will be held down to shave off all the hair on her head
and many other obscene practices. In this modern age?
61.
I want you to understand what we are talking about. When we
are talking about idols, your minds should not be fixated only on kneeling down
before objects.
62.
All those traditions that are against the Truth that are
created to subject people to torture, to humiliate a people. Some are aimed at
accusing people falsely so that they may kill that person.
63.
Widows will be humiliated. Shaving off all the hair on a
woman’s head with razor blade and forcing her to dress in black or white cloths
every day for one year, prohibiting her from going to the market and going back
to her work.
64.
How can you be involved in the practice of those ancient
primitive things? You shamelessly defend it as the culture and tradition of
your people.
65.
A Brother had a dream where his father and a late relation
of his father who is an evil woman according to them, came looking for him with
the intention of capturing him. He fought for himself, carried a stick and went
into a fight with them.
66.
He was a foolish fellow because after the fight he started
crying because his mother was told about it. He does not know that the mother
is the person used in fighting against him. You will not know that your mother
is your enemy until you come into this Faith. You have no mother except in
Christ.
67.
If you cannot meet with Me in Christ, I do not belong to
you. The meeting point of all the children of God must be in Christ. And in
CHRIST means, IN HIS WORD. That is where we are all united: The Uniting Point.
68.
If we are not united there, it then means we are not one.
The Scriptures says, “We are joined there both in our marrow, sinus, arteries
and veins.” And this is the point where they are all joined together.
69.
When the water in you blends with your blood and your
blood vessels and every other thing in you are all joined in Christ, let Me see
the space available for any other thing.
70.
How can you now punish a child of God with the customs and
traditions of your community because it is the way your people do it? May be,
because the father or mother, his wife or her husband died. Even if he is responsible
or the one guilty of the murder, charge him to court.
71.
Look at another thing. God said you should not take oath.
People, because of being accused and forced to swear before a shrine, and then
you consent to swearing.
72.
Who are you swearing to? Is it to the wood which they call
shrine? You do not know that people are looking for something they can lay
their hands on so that they will you.
73.
Once you touch that thing in an act of swearing or taking
an oath, they will go home and conspire against you because all they want is whatever
that could be done so that the person will die. Whether the person is shot to
death or killed with a vehicle, his death by any means will be attributed to
the shrine to which he swore an oath.
74.
Why are you swearing or taking an oath? For what reason?
Let your yea be yea and your nay, nay. And sometimes, you do not talk. You go
your way because talking will mean according undue respect to a worthless
thing. You know more than that.
75.
When Jesus Christ noticed that his assailants had made up
their minds about what to do to Him; If he speaks, he will die. If he keeps
quiet, he will die. He just kept quiet. Is there anything he could say to
convince them contrary? They were hardened. They had already made up their
minds. Amen.
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GET RID OF IDOLS (1)
Let Me tell you. Stop
yielding to the dictates of the heathens. I do not care the way it is operating
in your own area. We have only but one common ground.
2.
The common area is in Christ. Common ground, Christ.
Teachings, Doctrines, Life and everything, they must agree. Our Conduct, Order
and Doctrine encompass all these things.
3.
Thus, when we are talking about idolatry, in many forms we
are idolaters. I do not know whether you understand what I am saying.
4.
My father’s sister lived all her life in idolatry.
Whenever it was the season for the new yam, she would come over from
Ngor-Okpuala. She was always very prepared with a lot of items including yams.
She then proceeded to where her idols are situated.
5.
She came for the same rituals in one certain year, my
mother banned her from her kitchen. Her name is Ulunma. My father banned her
also from crossing his gate and told her that he had respected her as his elder
sister for a long time.
6.
My father insisted that she will never enter his compound
again. He instructed her to do her preparation in her husband’s house, from
where she would proceed to her idols and then go back to her husband’s house
from there.
7.
The people my kindred said that my father was harsh, since
the woman was his only sister. My father told them that it does not concern
anybody and that, if she dies in her idol worship, he will never take her
corpse nor participate in her burial per adventure she dies before him.
8.
As God would have it, do you know that My father died
before that woman. This woman died at the age of over a hundred and sixteen
years. We never attended. They never told Me.
9.
I went home with My wife and we heard people saying that
she died. We also heard that her son who happens to be the only son she had,
who is also a member of Cherubim and Seraphim, does not come to our house for
he is afraid.
10.
He dropped and abandoned the mother’s corpse at Orient
mortuary in My hometown, giving them false information that he brought her
mother’s corpse from Kano and that he will go back to Kano to make arrangements
for the burial.
11.
The mortuary attendants collected the corpse for
preservation. Do you know that this corpse was there at the mortuary for two
years before we got this information!
12.
I told them that the corpse was the corpse of My father’s elder
sister. We investigated and found out that it was true. I remembered the words
of My father. We did not go.
13.
The son abandoned her there and went his way. Whatever
that transpired between the mortuary and the police, we do not know till now.
What was the reason? She died as an idolater. And there was no way we could get
involved in that.
14.
Can you imagine! The type of house she lived with her
husband cannot be inhabited by a normal human being. A mud house with thatched
roof.
15.
If you want to continue to worship idols, go ahead! Idolatry
will always be on your way to progress. I have never seen anybody that
benefitted from the worship of idols.
16.
Idols will only give death in place of life, giving you
one thing and then taking ten from you and you will live a miserable life all
the days of your life for recognizing that idol exist.
17.
Are you afraid of that which you do not know? Good! I want
this fear to fly away completely from everybody. Let this fear fly away completely
from everybody. If you are sick of malaria fever, go to the hospital and treat
it.
18.
If you have stomach upset, treat it. Whether you are
taking herbal or orthodox medication, treat it. Stop thinking or attributing it
to your fathers’ idol or that it is as a result of your urinating on the shrine
of your father’s idols.
19.
I went to Egbema in 2002, after confirming the Church.
Thank God, I saw Bishop Isaac Igwe there. We went outside for there was no
place. In the open air, we took our bath. We saw the shrines around. We were
sitting on the idols as we were taking our bath in the day. Women saw us. Men
saw us and raised alarm.
20.
They said we desecrated the land. What abomination we
committed, taking bath naked in front of their much dreaded idols molded in the
form of men and women and infants that were all made to be in a sitting
position. We stood there and had our bath very well.
21.
The following day, hell was let loose. They came to the
Fellowship with their Okoroji masquerade.
They said that anywhere Okoroji
masquerade came, people must die. With palm fronds, they cordoned off the
Fellowship.
22.
Pastor Promise called Me and told Me the problem and I
said, “Are you afraid? Did they harm any of you?” He said, “No!”
23.
“They said, Okoroji!
Okoroji! Are you afraid of Okoroji? Well, let Me tell you
something. The same people that came with Okoroji,
some of them will come and worship there. Continue!”
24.
We never lost anybody. Instead, from among them, about
five came into this Faith when they noticed that Okoroji had no power.
25.
Let no man frighten you using idol saying, “I will report you to the shrine. You will
be taken to the shrine.”
26.
Is it not because you recognize the existence of idols? If
someone tells you that he will report you to the idols, you will start
panicking, “He said he will report me to
the idols.” You have more fear for idols that the Almighty God?
27.
When mention is made of idols, someone will still be
panicking? If you tell him that the Almighty God will destroy him because of this
practice, he will disagree and only insist in whatever justice he feels the
idols will offer. He believes that the judgment of the idols is instant. He said he is reporting me to the idols.
28.
He is not taking you to any idols or shrine. All he is
telling you is that he wants to kill you. He knows that if he kills you, the
law enforcement agents will arrest him. He will now want to take you to his
shrine so as to obtain the license to kill you so that your death will be
attributed to the idols of the shrine.
29.
Hear Me very well. All idolaters are murderers, whether
ancient idolaters or modern idolaters. Modern idolaters are in the Church.
Ancient idolaters are sitting down on their shrines.
30.
Get rid of idolatry. The Message says, FLEE FROM IDOLS!
TAKE FLIGHT FROM IDOLS! DO NOT GIVE IT ANY PLACE IN YOUR HEART. STAMP IT OUT OF
YOUR FAMILIES AND OUT OF YOUR MINDS. Amen.
FLEE FROM IDOLS (3)
BY APOSTLE KELECHI UWAKWE
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FLEE FROM IDOLS (3)
I am very grateful and
we all are very grateful, how God has explained to our perfect understanding, what
idolatry is all about. We have seen the ancient idolatry in the days gone by
and the people participating in those things.
2.
But now, I want to deal more on modern idolatry that takes
place in the heart, which is the one God accused the people of Israel as time
continued. And in the New Testament, the Apostles and Prophets warned us
seriously concerning those modern idolaters.
3.
1 Samuel 15:22 – 23 Living Bible: “Samuel replied, “Has the Lord as much pleasure in your burnt
offerings and sacrifices as in your obedience? Obedience is far better than
sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to him than in your
offering the fat of rams to him.
4.
For rebellion is as bad as the sin of
witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols.
5.
You see what God
called the rejection of his Word? Rebellion is witchcraft. Stubbornness is as
bad as worshipping idols. Now, these were what God had been accusing the
children of Israel of all the years.
6.
And now in our midst,
it is because of this stubbornness and arrogance filled in the heart, because
you cannot reject God’s good instructions, good advice without being stubborn.
You must be stubborn and arrogant before you reject the advice that will help
you in life.
7.
Jeremiah 11:8 Good News
Bible: “But they did not listen or obey. Instead, everyone continued to be as
stubborn and evil as ever.
8.
You
see it now! Because of their stubbornness which God said is as bad as
worshipping idols. If you are stubborn, you are an idol worshipper.
9.
This is the greatest
one. God does not take it lightly. A time came in the land of Israel in the
time of Judges when the people of Israel forsook God. They started worshipping
every type of idol until God gave them over into the hands of five countries,
the Philistines, the Amorites, the Assyrians, the Girgashites, the Jebusites and
so on to torment Israel for 18 years.
10.
In that punishment,
they started weeping and crying and calling upon God but God said, “No! I have
delivered you for so long. Now go to those gods you have chosen to worship. Go
to them to deliver you in the time of trouble.”
11.
Stubbornness! The
modern idol of today. Whether you are man or woman, young or old, little
children. That was why the Scriptures said that if your child disobeys, use the
rod, a little flatling. Flog the child for flogging drives away foolishness in
the hearts of children, for foolishness is borne in their hearts.
12.
Zechariah 7:11-14.
Good News Bible: “But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds
and made their hearts as hard as rock.
13.
My people stubbornly
refuse to listen. It is this stubbornness in our hearts that leads so many
people to go to that physical idol of the ancient people.
14.
Now, God warned us to
flee from idolatry. Run away! Pull it down! The one in your heart that always
hinders you from obeying God.
15.
ASSURANCE
OF SALVATION Page 32 vs. 33 – 35: “MANY OF YOU HERE ARE IDOLATERS.
YET YOU DO NOT KNOW. YOU THINK THE ONLY PERSON THAT IS AN IDOLATER IS THE ONE
THAT IS BOWING DOWN TO A GRAVEN IMAGE? NO! THERE ARE SO MANY GRAVEN IMAGES IN
YOUR HEART. WORSHIP TAKES PLACE IN THE HEART.
16.
GOD IS SAYING THAT THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS PEACE. EFFECT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ASSURANCE. BLESSED ASSURANCE. CHRIST IS
MINE. IT IS A BLESSED ASSURANCE THAT GIVES YOU A BLESSED HOPE THAT, COME WHAT
MAY, I AM SECURED IN HIM ETERNALLY.
17.
NOTHING UPSETS ME, BECAUSE A REAL CHILD OF
GOD, NOTHING UPSETS HIM……”
18.
The Gospel according
to Saint Mark chapter 7. The Amplified Bible. Verse 7 – 10.
19.
“In vain (fruitlessly and without profit) do
they worship Me, ordering and teaching [to be obeyed] as doctrines the
commandments and precepts of men.
20.
You disregard and give up and ask to depart
from you the commandment of God and cling to the tradition of men [keeping it
carefully and faithfully].
21.
And He said to them, You have a fine way of
rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment
of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)! Amen!
22.
So, it never started
today. That is why they will tell you that it
is beyond being a member of a Church. Church doctrine does not have any
influence over it. They will
bring this thing into the homes and be teaching it as doctrine and obeying them
carefully and religiously.
23.
ASSURANCE
OF SALVATION Page 45 vs. 8: “NOW, IF I HAVE NOW NOTICED BY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT GOD LOVES ME, WHAT WILL NOW MAKE ME TO HATE BROTHER
JAMES? IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO HATE BROTHER JAMES UNTIL I SEE
BROTHER JAMES HATING GOD. BECAUSE THE MOMENT BROTHER JAMES STARTS HATING GOD, I
WILL HATE HIM.”
24.
If you go to Psalms
139, that is the only place you will see hatred, for God, it becomes perfect.
25.
Psalms 139:21 – 22: “O Lord, how I
hate those who hate you! How I despise those who rebel against you! I hate them
with a total hatred; I regard
them as my enemies.”
26.
Outside this matter,
hating one that hates your God, hating one that loves those things God said,
“Do not do.” Outside this, your hatred is wrong. You must hate one that hates
your God.
27.
As God was giving us
all these teachings, that we should make sure that all these idols in our
hearts are taken away, anyone that harbours one in his heart, nourishing it,
then you will hate the person with perfect hatred.
28.
Judges 10:14. GNB: “Go and cry out to the
gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble.”
29.
These were the people that worshipped other gods. It is just
like we are facing judgment now, if not that God in His mercy brought us back
to the Word. The only place mercy can project.
30.
After knowing who God is, after having the knowledge of
who God is, you reject God in your heart without giving Him that due respect
and start worshipping idols, God will turn His back on you and tell you to go
and ask those gods you have chosen to deliver you from whatever problem that will
beset you.
31.
This matter caused us
sorrows some years ago and made some people lost their loved ones in our midst
because they attributed the things of God to a human being.
32.
After attributing
those things to human beings, the thing was so much that God said, “Ok! Start
going your own way.” Then many lost their children. Many lost their wives. Many
lost their businesses. Amen.
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THE COMFORTER (Chapter 3), Page
125: “THE ORIGIN OF THE PROLIFERATION OF MANY GODS: Now, we go back to how
your fathers worshipped their gods. Man was created as a worshipping being.”
2.
The Lord
Speaks: The Comforter, chapter 3. Preached when?
3.
Apostle
Kelechi: It was preached on the 22nd August,
2010
4.
The Lord
Speaks: The Comforter. THE ORIGIN OF PROLIFERATION OF
MANY GODS. Let us hear what the Spirit said concerning the matter.
5.
THE
COMFORTER (Chapter 3), Page 125: “THE ORIGIN OF THE PROLIFERATION
OF MANY GODS: “Now, we go back to how your fathers worshipped their gods. Man was
created as a worshipping being, let Me say, by intuition. The art of reading
and writing were not yet invented. Man already had the knowledge of God within
him.
6.
Man had already started bowing down to
something he could not see. He started imagining how that thing would look like.
Then, man invented for himself gods…”
7.
“Then, man invented for himself gods….”
8.
Man
invented for himself gods. Who are we hearing his Voice? THE RESURRECTED BODY.
THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. He was there when the world was without form, when there
was nothing called idol.
9.
And He
is telling you how these things came into existence. Human beings invented
these things. God created human beings. Human beings created idols for idols
are manmade.
10.
And God
said, “Can a man make for himself God?” He said, “Such things are no God.”
11.
That is
why the gods of the nations are gods that were put together by human hands
using carpenters, bricklayers, and everything. Every kind of craftsman will
come and play his own role.
12.
After
putting the whole thing together, they will kill fowl and spray the blood upon it
and put certain things and some leaves they call spirit leaves, from Ogirisi
tree, Aloe vera, just to make the whole thing look very fearful. They will tell
you, “The god of this
village, this is where it is dwelling.”
13.
Every four days, they
will kill one animal or the other and pour the blood there. The feathers of all
the fowls they slaughtered will be poured there. When they bring out food,
before they will take food, see the knowledge, they dare not put anything into
their mouth without first giving to the idol. Idol will take first. And they
believe they are giving it to their god. God first.
14.
That knowledge, God
first. If he breaks colanut, God first. After every libation of offering with
colanut, a bit is cut off and thrown to the gods. When served with food, he
takes a lump of the fufu, uses the
lump of fufu to collect a little of
the soup and he throws it out as an offering to the god. If it is meat, he cuts
a piece and throws out to the god. Before he will eat or even any other person
will eat, these things must be done.
15.
But there is a lesson
to learn there. THAT GOD MUST BE FIRST IN OUR LIFE AND MUST TAKE A FIRST
POSITION IN EVERYTHING WE DO, EVEN IN OUR FINANCES. LET US NOT RUN AWAY FROM IT,
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT RUN AWAY. JUDGMENT IS ALREADY WITH US.
16.
It is unfortunate to
note that offering ceased in the Bride. I would not talk. Pastor Thomas will
address all of you today. Offering ceased. Do not worry. You will know his
experiences.
17.
We are coming to
something. We are not going to talk about money. We are talking about idolatry,
but remember that the money you are holding, God called it unrighteous mammon.
You are holding the Devil in your hand, but you do not know and which, if you
do not know how God said you should manage it, that your money will put you
into eternal hell.
18.
When you hear that it
is the root of all evil, have you pondered to know why. God said, “It is very
difficult for rich people to enter Paradise.” That it will be easier for a camel
to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Paradise.
19.
It is because of what
his wealth is to him. If your wealth has become your god, if money is your god,
you are an idolater of the first order. And that is why, if money says you
should kill, you will kill. Whatever money commands, you do.
20.
As long as you do not
know what money is, you do not know why God has given you money, you cannot
employ it in the way God wants you to employ it.
21.
Whenever money comes,
find out from God, “What is this money for? How can I use it?” Otherwise, your
money can bring condemnation to you. Whatever you have can bring condemnation
to you if not properly administered.
22.
There is nothing bad
in somebody becoming wealthy. If there is any evil side of it, it is in the
heart of the wealthy man. It is in the heart. If you read the Book of James,
you will see what the Bible said concerning wealthy people and why they will
not make eternal life.
23.
It is because of the
way they handle that wealth. They use it to oppress the poor. They use it to
oppress the widows. They use it to wield fame. They do not employ it in the
work of God. They do not use it to help the needy. They do not use it in a way
that even the masses can benefit. They do not even use for the furtherance of
the Gospel of God.
24.
God is decreed out of
their money. Some think that if they do it, God will become richer. That is
where they fail. God can never be poor, has never been poor and will never be
poor.
25.
So, underline that in
your heart. I will come to that, but not today. And that is when we come to
MANY FORMS OF IDOLATRY, so that you begin to see the many ways you worship
idols.
26.
Your wife can be your
idol. Your husband can be your idol which you worship. Not respect. Not fear.
Real veneration. Your husband is your idol. It can be your children. It can be
your work. Some worship their work. What I am telling you
is the Truth. Some worship their work. And they have their adage, “I do not joke with my work at all!” But
they can joke with the work of God.
27.
I was commanding Bro
Ojiakor one day, “I do not care who is calling you. Let that patient die in the
theatre. Until I finish with you, a greater than any call is what you are
entertaining. Then after that, go home and attend to whatever.” He got there after
hearing from Me, he met the patient dead. Before his eyes, the patient woke up.
28.
That is why people
miss a lot of things. And at times, if I call you and you do not respond, make
no mistake of calling back until after 3 hours, for it will be provoking Me more.
This is because you should be on the alert.
29.
I should not be on the
alert for your call. You should be on the alert for My call because I can call
you anytime, any day and you do not know the mission I will send you.
30.
Thus, whether you are
driving or whether you are sleeping, keep your phone on. I can stop you on the
highway. The highest I can ask you is, “Are you safe where you are? Park in a
safe corner and pay attention.”
31.
That is how the Word
of God comes to people. God does not speak through the air again. He now uses
agency of men. But in sundry times, He
was speaking through dreams, visions and things like that. Now He speaks
through A Man He has chosen.
32.
Thus, A Man is now His mouthpiece. The same way,
God spoke to Moses. Moses spoke to the people. That is where we are now.
33.
If you say, “I will
not believe until I hear from the whirlwind,” go ahead! You will not hear from
the whirlwind. Neither will you hear from the thunder or from the storm. You
have missed it.
34.
I am against those that
put their phones on silence and at the end of the meeting, they will not remove
it. It is no excuse. What if I say, “I wanted to pass information that I am
going away and I will like to go with you.” And I called, you did not pick. I
will change My mind and pick another person one way! And you have missed it.
Ok! Let’s go!
35.
“When the art of
reading and writing were not yet invented, man already had the knowledge of God
within him. Man had already started bowing down to something he could not see.
He started imaging how that thing would look like.
36.
Then, man invented for himself, gods since he longed to
see somebody he could respect, somebody he could even pay back for his goodness
and protections. Hence, too many festivals emerged.
37.
Festivals were designated as a means where men could show
appreciations to their god; hence, they looked at their bumper harvests every
harvest season, and they said, “No, the god of harvest must surely be praised
for this!” That is the origin of New Yam Festival.
38.
No matter the time it is done in Igboland, every
nation has her own period. In the areas or regions where they do not cultivate
root crops (e.g yam and cassava) but grains (e.g rice and maize), they still
give glory unto the queen of heavens.
39.
They say she prospers their grains in order to produce
better harvests. They considered the moon, the stars and said, “Oh! The god of
the moon is worthy to be given thanks.”
40.
As a result, they established a god for the moon. They
considered the stars, and then established a god for the star. They saw the way
lightning flashes from one end of the Earth to another end of the Earth, they
marvelled at that and said there must be god of thunder.
41.
They considered the river; the thing was very
marvellous to them and they said, “The god of the river who has put a boundary
so that water will not overflow and drown us all must be appeased.”
42.
You will see the origin of too many gods. When they
considered the sun they said, “No, this is too much! We will appease the god of
the sun.” Thus, everything has a god that is attached to it.
43.
This is the origin of proliferation of too many
gods,…” Period! “…not only in Rome; it is equally seen in your own area.”
44.
Not only in Rome. It is also existing in your own
area.
Every festival is strictly dedicated to a particular god. U see, the
gods are too many.
45.
Why is it so? The Devil vowed a vow that as long as he
missed that Garden of Eden, he forfeited it, he vowed that he will never live
to see any man benefitting from it. Just like Saul went after David, seeing that
he had already lost the coveted throne.
46.
Saul said to himself according to Scriptures, “What
else can he have but the kingdom.”
47.
He said, “Over my dead body.” He muted out plans to
execute David. Even setting his daughter out for a trap, presenting his daughter
as a wife, Michal, to lure David into the palace.
48.
The Devil is crafty. We believe he exists because he
was one of the best angels, Lucifer. There are so many luciferians in the
world. Luciferians! Let Me just say it. I do not care the way you look at it.
49.
Every Church, forget about the name, every
association, every cult, every society, be it secret or open, every pagan
worship, check all of them; they are all controlled by Lucifer. The members are
luciferians, but they can never believe it, for they do not know what it takes
to be a luciferian.
50.
It takes you and I, with eyes of the holy Scriptures
to detect it. Without the eyes of the Scriptures, nobody can notice the
presence of an idolater in the midst or in the gathering of the Saints.
51.
Mark chapter 7 verse 6 through 9. “But He said to them,
Excellently and truly [ so that there will be no room for blame] did Isaiah
prophesy of you, the pretenders and hypocrites, as it stands written: These
people [constantly] honor Me with their lips,…”
52.
Look at the words: “Pretenders!” “Hypocrites!” Isaiah saw
them. Before Jesus appeared, Isaiah had already spoken concerning them. When
the Church had not been established, the prophet saw them. Pretenders!
Hypocrites, sitting down in worship with the Saints.
53.
“These people
[constantly] honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far
distant from Me. In vain (fruitlessly and without profit) do they worship Me,…”
54.
In vain, fruitlessly, without profit, which means they are
wasting their time. Like I am talking to you now, I was talking to Pastor
Thomas saying, “Do you see what they wrote in the Bible fulfilling?”
55.
It was this type of thing that provoked Moses. He said to
God, “Do not accept the offering of these people and I will not accept it.”
56.
God said, “So, be it.” and the Lord came and shattered
their means of livelihood.
57.
I said, “Who can believe that this is offering made to
God?”
58.
Why is Pastor Ejike not in the Fellowship? Pastor Ejike, are
you in the Fellowship? Thank God. I will talk to you again. Anybody can depart
from idol, not you. Anybody can abhor idol, even in his heart, not you.
59.
I will still visit
you in my own way. Your idolatrous practices have made me sick, but I thank
God, Scriptures are fulfilling again and again.
60.
He delivered them from Egypt, gave them everything. In the
wilderness, he spoke truly to them saying, “Among them were wicked people. With
many of them, God was not pleased.” With many of them, God was not pleased.
61.
Saint Paul said he was preaching to see whether he could save
some. Jesus came and said, “Some.” Why not include yourself in that SOME? But
some instead of walking to getting included into the salvation plan, they are
walking away. Seeing the Kingdom, yet could not enter.
62.
Hear Me very well. You can know Scriptures without knowing
God. You can know Scriptures, A to Z, teach Scriptures, be eloquent in the
Scriptures without knowing God. But you can know God without knowing
Scriptures.
63.
Which one is better: to know God without knowing
Scriptures or to know Scriptures without knowing God? That is, holding the
Scriptures and missing God and without any knowledge of the Scriptures, you
know God. You reverence God.
64.
I am saying that these people that were idolaters, a good
number of them knew not Scriptures, neither did they know the power of God. If
anybody could be, at least, pardoned, they could be considered.
65.
But what can you say about somebody who knows Scriptures,
eloquent in the Scriptures, knowledgeable in the Scriptures, but he does not
know God. And when he said he knows God, he does not revere, he does not
venerate, he does not obey, he does not fear God. Of what use is that
knowledge?
66.
People are making fair show of knowledge of Scriptures, but
God wants you to make a fair show of the knowledge of who He is. Let him that
glory, glory in that he knows the LORD. He is personally and practically
acquainted with Him. He fears, he honours, respects, he venerates; he obeys Him
as the God of Judgment and Equity.
67.
Thus, if you are basking with the knowledge you have so far
acquired from The Son of Man because nobody has opened the Scriptures more than
Him, you may hold these Scriptures and still perish.
68.
Scriptures can only make me to worship God, if you know that
which the Scriptures command you to do. But as long as you are in default, there
is no better way of doing a wrong thing. You are still under condemnation.
69.
And everything we are considering that hinders us from
giving our full allegiance, loyalty to God boils down to idolatry. Placing many
more things in our heart before God. We have our priorities. God is at the back
bench. God is remembered at last. God is at the backbench. In all our
priorities, God is at the backbench.
70.
These pagans are better than us. Their gods were always at
the front. Hence they could do nothing, they dare not step out without that
god. They dare not go to bed without consulting. They dare not go to farm
without consulting it. Whenever they come back, you see them going there to
thank. From time to time, you see them carrying their fowl, killing and
sacrificing. That was the little they knew.
71.
But now you know better, you should have performed better.
Why do you condemn people when you have not performed better? You condemn
Pentecostals, but the Pentecostals are better than you in many ways.
72.
I am telling you God’s Truth. Pentecostals are better than
you, for if the knowledge you have is given to Pentecostals, I believe they
would not be what they are.
73.
In vain do they worship Me. Hypocrites! Pretenders! With
their oratory and everything, they approach Me.
74.
In vain (fruitlessly
and without profit) do they worship Me, ordering and teaching [to be obeyed] as
doctrines the commandments and precepts of men.”
75.
Ordering. Teaching. Commanding.
76.
“You disregard and give up and ask to depart from you the
commandment of God…”
77.
It is of no use to them. An idolater will say, “It is beyond being a member of a Church. This
matter I am telling you about is beyond the Church. You cannot avoid it by
going to Church. Forget about what they are saying in the Church. I say, forget
about what they are saying in the Church. That is what the white man brought
down here. This one is the tradition of our land.”
78.
“…and cling to the tradition of men [keeping it
carefully and faithfully]. And He said to them, You have a fine way of
rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying…”
79.
A fine way of rejecting. Thus, nullifying, thwarting the
Word of God, only to establish the traditions of your fathers.
80.
“…You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and
nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your
tradition (your own human regulations)!”
81.
Your own human
regulations, which your fathers invented or created. Amen.
6
GET RID OF IDOLS (3)
Apostle Kelechi! It is better we give you a
chair to help you because we are going to do a lengthy reading from there. I
have My own way of being in the pulpit today.
2.
THE COMFORTER, chapter 3. That is where we are. THE ORIGIN
OF PROLIFERATION OF MANY GODS:
3.
“This is the origin of proliferation of too many gods,
not only in Rome; it is equally seen in your own area.”
4.
There is no area that does not have more than 20 gods.
Some, 50 gods. Yes! With different names and worshipped in different ways. One
man alone can worship more than 30 gods in the community.
5.
Who is free from the pollution of idols? Concerning
the worship of idols, who is free? I never knew that people would troop into
this Fellowship today. I thought that after last week, everybody would have
escaped through the window, saying, “It
is time we go.”
6.
You are asking where you will run to. You run to
idols. Idols are better, in this 21st Century. You are not even
ashamed that you are called an idol worshipper in 21st Century. Do
you know what it means? Something that stinks from the ears, the nose and the
eyes?
7.
You even see people seated in such places, dishing out
orders and threats, “Our land will strike
you dead. The land will strike you dead.”
8.
You will be wondering the land that will strike you
dead. Is it the land I am farming on, eating the fruits thereof and going my
way? They keep threatening, “the land
will strike you dead. The land will strike you dead.”
9.
And when you see
them demonstrating, it will look like the clowns that merchandise herbal
remedies in the open market, promoting the power of the god of the land.
10.
“They considered
their lives, the lives of their children, they said that there must be a god
that protected those lives and they established that one. They considered their
lives, the lives of their children, they said that there must be a god that
protected those lives and they established that one.
11.
They considered their businesses; they said that there
must be a god in charge of their businesses. In general, they monitored
developments around these gods. If any area of their lives was not performing
well, they would attribute the non-performance to the crime the land committed
against that god.
12.
Any aspect of their lives—whether social, marital,
agricultural—that was not doing well, they would conclude that they had
offended the god in charge of that area.” That is
Truth!
13.
“Any year they failed to get bumper harvest, it was their
general belief that the god of harvest had been offended. Hence, their crops
had refused to bring their increase.
14.
They would gather; reason together and come out with a way
they would go and appease the god of harvest. They would buy many things, call
the people together and present it to the god of harvest. It was called their
sin offerings.
15.
Then, if peradventure the next season, they got bumper
harvest, they would attribute it to the atonement they made to a particular
god.
16.
They would conclude
that it was the sacrifice they made to that god, that is, the atonement they
made for their sins to appease that god. To them, the god has started blessing
the land.
17.
That year, instead of bringing offerings for sins, they
would bring offerings for thanksgiving. It would be celebrations and no longer
mourning or sorrowing. Please, I want your understanding spiritually and
carnally also.
18.
If you study the Bible very well, you will see that Israel
was prevalent with too many ceremonies such as New Moon Festival, New Yam
Festival, this festival and that festival until God said, “I am tired of all
these festivals all this while.”
19.
If you watch Israel, by tradition, they offer different
sin offerings. Every iniquity had its own offerings. These things happened
according to their own tradition and they inherited them from their fathers.
Their fathers later gave those things unto their children as ordinances to
keep.
20.
This is to say that traditions have become laws to the
extent that if anybody infringes on any of them, punishment must follow.” That is Truth! “It
is the people’s beliefs that guide their lives and their activities.
21.
Please, follow me strictly; I am handling something. If
you miss my background, you will miss it all; for I am rounding off this Message
entitled THE COMFORTER. Once you miss this background message, you will
complicate it all.
22.
Note, anytime something they did not like happens, if an
evil omen befalls them, maybe their youths started dying or their pregnant
wives started experiencing premature deliveries or miscarriages, accidents
began to occur; that is if unhealthy developments were noticed, note what
normally takes place.
23.
They would conclude within themselves that they had committed
iniquity against the gods they believed could cause those things. Hence, the
community would gather with too many things—as they would agree on—to offer to
those gods in order for the gods to roll away their anger.
24.
These things are still in vogue; they are still presently
being practiced in many villages, even in our own Igbo land till this very day.”
Yes! “What
am I doing? I want you to see the condition under which you were born;
25.
I want you to see what your fathers inherited, which later
became their ordinances and they were observing them with their accompanying
rituals. Worshipping such gods was accompanied with rituals. There is no way
you could worship those gods without rituals being involved.
26.
You must go with goat, ram, coin or paper money; sometimes,
pieces of cloth, sometimes, you are required to get some parts of your body or
bring sand from your footprint. The things required are those things that have
no place in the real worship of the real God, but these are what human beings
made for themselves.
27.
That is why the Scriptures said, “Can a man make for
himself gods? Yet, such are no gods, for the idols of nations are woods,
silver, golden ornaments, things they imagined for themselves and these are the
things that bring destructions to them by forsaking the real God.”
28.
They give allegiance to gods that are no God; gods that
cannot protect them. That is why the Scriptures went further to say that
those who worship idols are like the idols they worship, for there is no life
in those things.
29.
To such idol worshippers, there is one thing common among
them: as far as they are concerned, there is nothing called natural occurrence.
They do not recognize natural occurrences.” At all! “For anything to occur, that thing must be
traced to a cause. They held on to that belief.
30.
Even, when Jesus the Christ appeared; they came to Him and
said, “A building just collapsed there and killed many people. What can you say
about it?” He said, “Do you suppose that you are more righteous than those
people that were trapped in that building?”
31.
It was because they believed that for calamity to befall
anybody, that person must have offended the god of the land or offended the god
responsible for protecting him.
32.
Jesus the Christ met them with that same mind and
imagination, which prompted Him to say, “Do you suppose you are more righteous
than they were? Or do you suppose that they were trapped there because of their
sins? I want to tell you, if you do not repent, you shall in likewise perish.”
33.
Another set came to report a similar case saying, “Herod
has used human beings to make sacrifice to his gods.” He asked them, “Do you
suppose you are more righteous than the people he used for his sacrifice? Of
cause not. I want to tell you that if you do not repent, you shall in likewise
perish.”
34.
Why did He say that to them? He said it because it was in
their own notion and belief that those people Herod used for his sacrifice
deserved it since they must have offended the god of the land, the god that
offered them protection, in one way or the other.
35.
He met another set of people who came to Him and said,
“Rabbi, we have seen great things you have been doing in this city. Look at
this man, he is deaf and dumb, and also blind; what could be responsible for
this? Could it be his own sin or the sin of his parents?”
36.
Jesus the Christ looked at them, shook his head and said,
“He committed no sin; neither did his parents commit any sin. Rather, he is in
this way that the Name of God be glorified.”
37.
Note, each time calamities befall our fathers when they
knew not God, they made for themselves many gods.
38.
By intuition man knows that there is a Supreme Being but
the way He is, he does not know. How He (the Supreme Being) works, man does not
know. By his own imagination, he started making something real.
39.
Remember that Aaron was able to make a golden calf. When
Aaron made the golden calf, he called the people to go and behold their god who
brought them out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, that idea of making a god
with gold and silver did not start today.
40.
Remember that what Aaron used in making it was the
ornaments he recovered from the women. He then melted and molded that calf. In
other words, that heart, that mind was still in Aaron; he had not forgotten the
act of worshipping god the way his fathers did it. The spirit was still
there. The mind was still there.
41.
Thus, things were happening to Aaron according to what he
inherited from his fathers. Was the molten calf introduced to the people by
Moses? No. What Moses introduced to the people was it not the Supreme God, Who
spoke with them and ate with them?
42.
Could the molded image of calf talk? No. Could it eat and
drink with the people? No. Yet, the people delighted in it because that was how
their fathers knew god; all of them joined hands with Aaron in running round
the molded calf they called god. They made joyful sound for the molten calf.
43.
This was the origin of all these things. Because their
people worshipped a calf as god, the eating of calf was prohibited in their own
area. It was a great abomination for the people of their own tribe to eat the
meat of a calf.
44.
Note it. You eat snail, I eat snail also. Many people do
eat snail, but it is an abomination in some areas. Why? It is because they
worship snail as their god. I eat goat meat, but there are some places in Nnewi
in Anambra State of Nigeria where they do not eat goat meat. Even the giant
rat, Nnewi people do not eat it because they worship it as god, it is a taboo
for anybody to kill it.
45.
What about the snake everybody see every day? It is called
viper, short in nature. If you kill it in Idemmili Local Government Area in
Anambra State of Nigeria, you will bury it like a human being because it is
their god.
46.
I am tracing something. Watch that thing which is a
taboo in your hometown, in your family or your kindred, that is automatically
what your people gave their allegiance to as their god, even till this day.
Some even do not eat some vegetables.
47.
There is one vegetable we call ukpo they use it like they
use the thing they call achi; do you know that some people do not eat it? Some
do not eat cocoyam; it is an abomination to some. Some do not eat ukazi; they
do not even bring it into their houses.
48.
Some reverence the little tuber we call Ona; It is
reverenced by some people in Igbo land. They kneel down before it. I
want you to see the great favour you have received from Christ.”
49.
We are the most favoured.
50.
“If Christ never
appeared and opened your eyes, you would have been like they are, worshipping
idols; worshipping dumb, dumb things.
51.
Man used his wicked
heart and his mouth to inject powers into something that has no power. Yes! Man
used his mouth to give common snail power, something my wife can easily use to
prepare a very delicious meal for me; that is what one that calls himself a
sensible human being will carry a cock and sacrifice to as his God.
52.
YOU ARE LIKE THE GOD YOU WORSHIP: I do not know how best to make this Message sink deep
into your heart for you to understand what Christ has really done for you by
opening your eyes of understanding.
53.
While they were trying to bring God
into focus, they started developing those things. Remember, they turned their
intelligence upside down and from that time, things started working against
them. No idol worshipper ever prospers; go and cross check.
54.
Majority of them, their children are
useless, their children turn hooligans, unprofitable and good for nothing.”
55.
That is Truth!
56.
“They may be numerous because they marry many
wives, produce numerous children that are chaffs. Yes!
57.
Because they have nothing to offer
to their children than what they have already done. They espouse their children
to their different gods and they pay obeisance to them.
58.
Do you know that some people especially
in the riverside areas worship rivers to the point that even now, some believe
in many things concerning the water. You see the River Niger we bathe in and
even drink from, many people are worshipping it.
59.
Some carry sacrifices and pour them
into the River Niger every night and every morning. Go to some place at Upper
Iweka in Onitsha, you will still see goats that are tired hands and feet; you
will see some eggs left in a saucer (plate or bowl) placed at the junctions
with some coins and old Naira notes.
60.
Sometimes, when I see these things,
I laugh. Even in Onitsha—the home of idolatry in Igbo land—they carry live cow
and drop it into the River Niger.”
61.
That is Truth!
62.
“The moment they vacate, the Hausa
people will come and carry the cow; slaughter the cow and sell it in the Main
Market.
63.
Sometimes, they do slaughter a cow
which they will never use any pot to cook. All of them will gather opposite
Union Bank building at Ose Market beside the Main Market and roast it on fire.
64.
What will they do with it after
roasting it? They will eat the meat until the whole cow finishes. Whatever that
is left, they will pour it into the River Niger.”
65.
Note it. In any community where idol worship is
prominent, that is also the place where you find proliferation of Churches and
the Churches will be in a greater number because the same people who worship
the idols are the same people in the Churches. Amen.
7
GET
RID OF THE IDOLS IN YOUR HEART (1)
Another
thing you will notice in a community where idol worship is prominent is that
they do not joke with title-taking ceremonies.
2.
There, everybody would want to be a red cap chief both
those strongly inclined to the idols only and those who are members of the Churches.
As a rule, he must take title.
3.
A man will take a title and even take on behalf of the
children who are not yet of age, so that when they are of age, they will be
parading themselves with the regalia of the chieftaincy title. The will be
priding themselves about in the community that they are titled men.
4.
What is that title you have? Your father has initiated
and dedicated you to idols. Did you go to the venue of the title taking to know
the rituals that are involved in it? Is there anywhere titles are taken without
idols been worshipped? Do you really know the implications of the red cap that
was put on your head? You have been made a king of the gods. King of idolaters.
5.
You worship in the so called Churches and also with
the worshippers of your community idols. They hail you, “Igweeeee!” The
traditional ruler of Onitsha is the head of all the idol worshippers in Onitsha
town, yet he is a knight of the Catholic Church.
6.
That is why they say that it is beyond Church.
Educated, influential and the wealthy elites of the community are all staunch and
loyal worshippers of these idols. Reverend fathers are also involved. Reverend
fathers take titles. They will give him the idolatrous title and put a red cap
on his head and all other rituals immediately. Pastors are involved.
7.
They will tell
you that there is nothing in it. Pentecostals are also taking these titles. When
he makes money, he will tell you that his people have decided to give him a chieftaincy
title.
8.
“My people said I should come so that they will give me a
chieftaincy title. What is your title name? Okaa Omee I. He will be proudly showing
you his regalia and paraphernalia, asking proudly, “Do you know what it took me to get this title? It was officially
conferred on me.”
9.
Nobody can
escape this thing except one that is in Christ. Being in the Church is not the
same thing as being in Christ. You can be here, yet you are operating outside.
You are with your people. God knows all that are in His hands and those that
are in His hearts.
10. Everybody is in the Church claiming to be the children of
God, but God knows His own people. Everybody is carrying Bible about claiming
to be the children of God, but God knows His own people. He that we worship
knows His own. Jehovah knows His own.
11. God knows all that worship Him in spirit and in truth. Go
and have a look at Nze, Okaa Omee, Ozor,
Ichie and all the title holders that
are coming from here and there, they are all in the Churches.
12. They will even take the title of knight. He will afterwards
brag that he has completed his title-taking. “It is now complete. In the Church,
we are the elites. In customs and traditions of our people, we are in charge!”
13. Once he builds a house and buys a car, the next thing is to
take a chieftaincy title in the community. When he gets the title, he will come
up to the city to join his colleagues.
14. I was living with one here in Onitsha. Immediately he got
married, the wife had two issues, a female and a male. He told us that there
was nothing left. I thought he was kidding.
15. He said, “I will now go home and fulfill the traditional rites
so that I will have a place in my home.”
16. Before our eyes, this man went home, printed invitation
cards, withdrew a large sum of money, bought a large quantity of drinks and
everything and took them home. All the daytime and night time rituals and
running round the village market, he fulfilled all including the final Ozor
title-taking ritual [Imacha Ozor].
This thing took this young man over five hundred thousand Naira [N500,000.00] in his hometown Lilu.
17. After that title-taking, he became poor. The wife became a Lolo in infancy and her husband, chief. He was shuttling the village on a
weekly basis to attend the meetings of the chiefs. He also attends that of the Church
at Holy Trinity Cathedral. He also attends that of his chieftaincy group in his
hometown.
18.
Are
we sure that there are no red cap chiefs in our midst? Are you sure that in our
midst that some people have not taken these chieftaincy titles? Even those who
camouflage and feign ignorance claiming that it was their father that got it
for them?
19. There is nowhere title-taking will be done without the
worship of idols. Chieftaincy titles are taken according to the traditions and
customs of the awarding community. There is nowhere customs and traditions of a
people will not involve idols. Every
titled man is a prominent idolater.
20. Are you sure we are not harbouring people with their red
caps in our midst? Even those who wear their bangles and conceal others at
home? While coming to Fellowship, they will keep back some of these items. God
knows you are still harbouring idols under your beds.
21. You must denounce it. Destroy it. Get rid of any sign. The
Bible said, “The semblance of…”
22. If you resemble the God you worship, praise God. Jesus was
confronted by the people to make him king, but he refused. Was there any
prophet that was conferred with any title? Did any prophet take any title?
23. This chieftaincy title has become such a dreaded thing that
a lot of young men are dying for these titles. It is now competition. Anyone of
them you meet introduces himself as chief.
24. If you come to Imo state, Mbaise in particular, those that do
not have a place of abode, even Okada
riders, all adorn themselves with either the black or the red cap, yet moving
about in bathroom slippers, looking dreadful malnourished and they still go to Church.
25. I have one in My compound. He is a catechist as well as a
chief. If you take a close look at him, you will prefer to go to hell.
26. Please do not recognize those things. Do not subscribe to
those things, but if you have done them already, God said, “Get rid of all!”
Remove them from your eyes. Some are bragging with their own. Some even hang or
display their regalia in their parlour, decorating it with all types of Yoruba
and Igbo beads and you will think that it is a human being.
27. This is the type of thing Pascal from Enugu can do. He can
do it. He has the tendency. He can do it. Some people wear this red cap in the
cities but when they get to their hometown, they remove it for it was not
traditionally conferred on them, but they want to attract some level of majesty
to themselves, even bragging and asking to find out other people’s chieftaincy
title names, “What is your chieftaincy
title? Which title have you taken? What is your chieftaincy title?”
28. When he is travelling to his hometown, as soon as the
vehicle he boarded gets close to his hometown, he removes the red cap from his
head.
29.
“Very
early in the morning on Sunday, go there, you will see some women sitting there
already. They are dedicated to their god and that god does not make a move
since Onitsha existed or was discovered as a village, or as a town, that god is
still there opposite Union Bank building at Ose Market beside the Main Market.”
30.
Even
as we are reading here now, go there now, you see elderly women, half-naked,
sitting down there now. All of them educated. One happens to be a retired
Principal of QRS [Queen of the Rosary College]. The people that worship the
idol referred to as the Ani Onitsha [The
land of Onitsha].
31.
They call it Ani
Onitsha which literally means
the Land of Onitsha. Go and check. Women are still there now with too many
things they spread there even now, in this 21st century.
32.
If Christ never appeared, up till today, twins would
have remained abomination in your villages; is that not true? This is because
they do not believe in anything natural gift. Thus, if a woman delivers twins,
they see it as an abomination.
33.
Initially, they were killing both the woman and her
twins; later, they said that only the last one that came out among the two kids
would be killed. They would spare the woman, spare the first child and kill the
second child.
34.
They said it was an abomination; that either the man
or the woman committed a crime against the god of the land for which cause the
woman delivered twins. This spirits are still at work in all idol worshippers
and their children even to this moment.
35.
When we are saying “get rid of your community spirit,”
you think it is a small thing. Do you know that it was not easy for Aaron to
get rid of his own? Do you know how many years he stayed in Egypt? Was he not
the one that saw God face-to-face? God made him a prophet.
36.
Was Aaron not working hand in hand with Moses? Didn’t
he see the glory of God? Was he not among the seventy elders that saw God and
dinned with Him? Yet, idolatry was in him.
37.
No wonder God later remembered it, called him to the
mountain, presented the judgment to Aaron saying, “Aaron, now is your own cup
full. So, so and so years ago, you moulded an image and introduced it to my
people to worship as their god, thereby committing great iniquity against Me.
Now, can you tell Me why you did it?” God postponed killing him because they
were on course, that is, on a journey.
38.
Finally, when they had already settled down; God said,
“Aaron, your cup is now full. I will strip you of all your garments and the
whole Israel will see your nakedness. In your place, your son Eleazer will take
over the priesthood.”
39.
You see how the priesthood departed from Aaron. God
made him naked on the mountain; everybody saw Aaron on top of the mountain
naked. Before their eyes, the Lord smote him dead.
40.
All the same, if you can remember what happened in the
wilderness when Moses said, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” Aaron was the first to
run to his side and the rest killed themselves at the command of Moses.
41.
Yet, Moses knew very deep in him that it was not well
with Aaron; for the Lord was the One who commanded Moses to carry on with him
since there was no other person suitable to do the job he was doing. As a
result, God used him; after, He then destroyed him.
42.
The idols of the nations are silver, gold and wood,
ornament and things like that, made with human hands. Can the Almighty God be
in such things made with human hands? The Almighty God is the Creator of
Heavens and Earth.
43.
THE BIBLE BROUGHT THE DEVIL INTO
FOCUS:
44.
Note it.
45.
Now, another thing I want you to understand is this:
in all those calamities they were passing through, for which cause they were
pouring their libations and sin offerings, your fathers never attributed anything
to the Devil; they never said the Devil was punishing them.
46.
Rather they said that the god in whom they believed
was the one punishing them for being wicked to that god. Therefore, to them, Devil
did not exist. To them, anybody called the Devil never existed for every
calamity that befalls them was attributed to their disobedience to the god in
charge of that thing. Pure Truth!
47.
If the rain delays longer than necessary, they believe
they had committed a crime against the god of the rain, for which cause the god
of the rain has refused to give them rain. Whatever might be their sin
offerings or libations would be gathered together and offered to the god of the
rain; note, not to the Devil.
48.
For all the crimes they committed, there was not even
one they attributed to anything called Devil because they never believed they
were worshiping anything called Devil, and there was no idol they erected and
called it Devil.
49.
Whatever they erected was good in their eyes. As a
result, their disobedience to that—according to their own judgment—would bounce
back on them. In other words, for their disobedience, there must be
repercussions.
50.
It was the knowledge of the written word; that is the
knowledge of the Scripture that brought the existence of the Devil into focus.
Without the Scripture, nobody would have known whatever encounter Adam and Eve
had with God and with anybody called Devil in the Garden of Eden.
51.
It is what was documented that painted the picture of
the Devil, which anybody could see and identify. Whether it is real or not is
not what I want to say.
52.
Even in that picture, there is no evidence of any
place, in the Old Testament, where people offended God and the Devil punished
them for offending God.
53.
There is no place like that in the Bible; rather, you
will see places where people broke their allegiance with God by establishing
something that is not God and God would call it idolatry for He said, “Only I
shall you worship.
54.
You shall not make anything god, in resemblance of
anything in Heaven or on Earth or beneath anything anywhere at all. You should
not do it and you should not bow down to them.”
55.
When Saint Paul appeared on the scene, he said, “You
suppose that the idols of the nations are this and that; but today, God has
come into plain view.”
56.
The time when you supposed that God was like silver or
this or that is over for God is not like those things and can never be like
those things. Amen.
GET
RID OF THE IDOLS
IN
YOUR HEART (2)
By Apostle Kelechi Uwakwe
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GET
RID OF THE IDOLS IN YOUR HEART (2)
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e thank God, we have seen the origin of idols. How man
invented idols by himself with his own hands.
2.
The LORD
Speaks: God created
human beings. Human beings created idols. Instead of worshipping their creator,
they started worshipping their creature.
3.
Instead
of man to bow down in worship of his Creator, he is now bowing down in worship
of the thing he created by himself. The one he created for himself.
4.
That is
the thing man is now offering food and sacrificing fowls to, and even fearing
and giving up for the sake of these idols the land he should have been using
for the production of food. Man even sacrificed his children to this thing he
created.
5.
Apostle Kelechi continues: The same thing today. God has given us His
character through the teaching for us to emulate Him and allow His Word to be
in us.
6.
If you
refuse the Word of God to be in you, to change your life, then you have molded
for yourself your own character through the thought of your heart, you depict
that your own character, which you will pass on to your children and they will
become wicked.
7.
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
Pg. 69:12 – 13 “ALL I AM SAYING IS THAT THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS MOST HOLY FAITH THAT
DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER HE IS KEEPING GOD’S COMMAND OR NOT. DOES IT REQUIRE
PROPHECY? YOU KNOW THE TEACHINGS YOU HAVE RECEIVED IN THIS CHURCH AT VARIOUS
TIMES.
8.
IF YOU OBEY THEM, YOU KNOW. IF YOU ARE NOT
OBEYING, YOU KNOW. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE BROTHER TELL ME. SISTER, TELL ME WHEREIN
I HAVE OFFENDED. BROTHER, TELL ME WHEREIN I HAVE ERRED. NO! YOU KNOW WHERE YOU
HAVE ERRED.
9.
BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING PERTAINING
TO GODLINESS THAT YOU MIGHT ATTAIN HIS DIVINE NATURE. HAVE YOU REALLY ATTAINED
HIS DIVINE NATURE? IF AFTER RECEIVING ALL THESE TEACHINGS AND YOU HAVE NOT
ATTAINED GOD’S DIVINE NATURE, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU AND NOT WITH THE
MESSAGE.”
10.
By disobeying the
teaching, you have already invented for yourself behaviours and characters
which God rejected. That is what you are doing and that is what you will pass
unto your children.
11.
Ephesians 4:19 – 19
GNB: “In
the Lord’s name, then, I warn you: do not continue to live like the heathen,
whose thoughts are worthless…”
12.
Have you seen now? The
heathens’ thoughts are worthless. They cannot think the right thing. The same
thing is applicable to one sitting down here, after hearing all these
teachings, he refuses to accept the teachings in his or her heart. Then his
heart, his thought will be worthless.
13.
“In the Lord’s name, then, I warn you: do not
continue to live like the heathen, whose thoughts are worthless and whose minds
are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are
completely ignorant and stubborn.
14.
They have lost all feeling of shame; they give
themselves over to vice and do all sorts of indecent things without restraint.
That was not what you learnt about Christ! You certainly heard about him, and
as his followers you were taught the truth that is in Jesus.”
15.
As Christ’s followers,
we were taught the Truth that is in Christ. The Truth that is in Christ is what
we are receiving now. Christ telling us that there is no real existence of
idols. There is no one before Him and there is no one after Him.
16.
In heaven, under the
heaven and beneath the earth, there is no being existing before God and after
God. Human beings used their hands to invent all these things.
17.
The LORD
Speaks: Everybody
established his or her own in the heart.
18.
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
Pg. 84:29 – 30 “ALL I AM SAYING IS THAT ALL OF US ARE STILL OPERATING WITH YOUR OLD
STUBBORN AND STONY HEARTS. NO MATTER HOW THE WORD OF GOD IS PREACHED, WHICH IS
THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY HAVE NOT BELIEVED. IF THEY HAVE BELIEVED, RIGHT FROM
THE HEART WOULD HAVE COME OUT TRANSFORMATION.”
19.
The LORD
Speaks: That is Truth.
20.
“Don’t
you know that when you believe the Word of God from your heart, automatically
from your heart, you are regenerated?”
21.
This is why God is
giving us this teaching, putting us in remembrance of the things He taught us.
22.
In one of our Messages
called JUDGMENT, God said that the reason why He puts us in remembrance of the
things He taught us is because it is the only way to hinder us from erring.
23.
The only way to bring
us back if we have erred is to come back to God. And that was why God said last
Sunday that somebody must be saved. If, after hearing this teaching, you go
back home and allow those idols to remain in your heart, you have committed
suicide.
24.
“…YOU ARE NOW A NEW INDIVIDUAL? YOUR OLD WAY
OF THINKING, OLD WAY OF DOING THINGS WILL PASS AWAY. OLD HABITS WILL PASS AWAY.
A NEW SPIRIT IS NOW IN YOU, LEADING YOU INTO A NEW LIFE. A NEW EXPERIENCE.”
25.
When one is in Christ,
it does not mean sitting down here. Being in Christ is a definite experience
which only you as an individual will experience it and the manifestation will
come out through your character which all around you will see and say, “Of a
truth, this Brother, this Sister, this Church; they are different from other Churches
and other human beings on earth.”
26.
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
Pg. 79:13 – 15 “Thus, you can be in this
Most Holy Faith, yet you are not born of God.”
27.
This is where we ought
to purse and meditate deeply as it concerns us as individuals.
28.
That you are in this
Most Holy Faith as you are in this Most holy Faith, God said, “You can be in
this Most Holy Faith, yet you are not born of God. You did not proceed from
God.”
29.
“AS MANY AS WERE BORN OF GOD HERE MUST AGREE
WITH WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THEIR DAY AND WILL BE A PART OF IT.”
30.
And this is how to
know whether you are born of God or not. If your agreement with what God is
doing here is directed by God’s Word, you see yourself obeying. You see
yourself doing it without duress, without threat to your life. Then you are
from God.
31.
“HOWEVER,
IF YOU ARE IN THIS MOST HOLY FAITH AND YOU ARE NOT A PART OF WHAT GOD IS DOING,
MAY BE YOU ARE IN OUR MIDST, PRYING INTO THE SECRET OF OUR LIBERTY, YOU ARE A
STRANGER IN OUR MIDST...”
32.
Remember, it were strangers
that came out of Egypt and joined the people of God coming down to the Promised
Land that stirred them up in murmuring. Those strangers were those that came
with their different gods.
33.
The Scriptures said that the mixed multitude
among the people of Israel stirred the congregation up to murmur against Moses
and against Aaron.
34.
You see why you must
be very very careful. Monitor all around you. The Scriptures said, “Note those
that cause division among you.” Those that twist the Message. Those that twist
the teachings through their life and character. The Scriptures said, “Avoid
them.” Now, they are spying into the secret of our liberty. You are a stranger
in our midst.
35.
“…IF YOU ARE NOT BORN OF GOD, YOU ARE A BORN
OF THE FLESH OR YOU ARE BORN OF THE WORLD. FIRST OF ALL, CHECK. ARE YOU REALLY
BORN OF GOD? THE BASIS OF THE NEW FLESH LIES IN HAVING FLESHY HEART THAT IS
RECEPTIVE TO GOD’S WORD.”
36.
This Message we read,
titled THE COMFORTER, not everybody was here when it was preached. And many of
us that were here when the Message was preached have not gone through that
Message. Some have gone through it but have forgotten. And God has re-enacted
it now, making it fresh for us to accept.
37.
In the time of Israel,
God told them in Deuteronomy chapter 13 and said “Watch! Anybody that is an
Israelite that tells you, ‘come let us go to this place and worship idol,’ He
said, ‘Do not go. Be the first to stone the person to death.’”
38.
But now, in this
modern age, if you see someone coming to you, telling you things, telling you
stories contrary to this Faith, you still have the guts to walk with the
person, eat with the person, interact with the person, you do not know that he
is imparting into you false anointing for words are spirits.
39.
The same way, the Word
of God is Spirit and the life, entering into us all this while. It is casting
out demons, for preaching the Word of God is casting out demons and all these
evil spirits that are causing us to draw back spiritually.
40.
The LORD
Speaks: That is Truth.
41.
Let me tell you
something in the Message SPIRITUAL PARALYSIS.
42.
The LORD
Speaks: Every character is controlled by a demon. Mary
Magdalene had seven different characters depicted by seven different demons.
Jesus cast all of them out of her.
43.
Many of us are
possessed by more than forty. In some, more than two hundred like Njom family.
Mary Njom, Onyema Njom and the rest of them.
44.
All the Njoms here. As njo (ugly/bad) as
Njom. I do not know whether your
deliverance will come from the moon. Amen.