Preached on 9th September, 1995 AT Eha-amufu By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE” Truth has no substitute” ©BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
PRAYER
Holy
Father, we are back here in this second session of the meeting. We dedicate our
hearts unto You and we pray You should have mercy on us.
2.
Don’t spew us out of your mouth, rather, oh God receive us
unto Yourself. Whatsoever is the problem Father, reveal it unto us and we will
repent of it in Your most Holy Name we pray. Amen.
1
THE DANGEROUS
EFFECT OF BEING
LUKEWARM
Brethren, God bless
you. I told you that this meeting is a different one altogether. You all know Me,
My manner of life and preaching. And you know when I am preaching with a burden
and this burden must be lifted if we must continue.
2.
The Book of Revelation Chapter 3 verses 15 through 16. ‘I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So, then because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.’
3.
I will title this message: WHY THERE IS LUKEWARMNESS IN THE CHURCH OR THE REASON FOR LUKEWARMNESS
IN THE CHURCH.
4.
Brethren bear with Me. Let us pay real attention while we
read scriptures.
5.
When a Church becomes lukewarm, that Church automatically
becomes a bat. We all know what a bat is. Looking at a bat, it is not an earthly
bird; it is not a heavenly bird. A bat is not a bird and it is not a rat.
6.
Looking at a bat, it has ears like that of a rat, head
like that of a rat, teeth like that of a rat but it has wings. It can fly and
it can walk on the ground.
7.
When somebody is lukewarm, he is partly godly and partly a
devil: partly godly, partly pagan, partly heathen.
8.
He will have a little knowledge of God to know what sin is
all about. He will have a little revelation of God to know when he committed
sin, but he will not have much knowledge of God to run away from sin; he will
not have enough knowledge of God to make him live above sin.
9.
He will know what
sin is all about but how to avoid it, no way. That person becomes automatically
lukewarm. You cannot call him a believer; you can never call him an unbeliever.
10. He will be in the Church,
believe all the Gospels, no way; say no to all of them, no way. He can never
have revival with the saints.
11. Remember, the moment
Elijah is in the pulpit, Ahab is always very uncomfortable. When you see Elijah
in the pulpit Ahab is always uncomfortable. The greatest enemy Ahab has on
earth is Elijah.
12. Ladies that are here, I
know after today’s meeting, all of you will hate Me, especially this one that
is wearing earring. You are here with another god. Our God says that one is a strange god. You
must remove it no matter how tiny it is. The spirit that put on that tiny one
will put on the giant one.
13. If that one makes you
a woman, then you are not a woman from the beginning. If what makes you to know that I am a man is because
of my dressing, it means you don’t know that I am a man.
14. What makes you a lady
or a girl is not your earring. From the day you were born, you were born naked.
Nurses, midwives, your mother, everybody confirmed you as a girl; even without
piercing your ear, everybody knows you are a girl
15. Even if you put
trousers on, looking at you, we must know that this is a makeup; that you are a
girl. If putting on earring makes you a girl, what about men that put on
earrings?
16. I have seen men that
put on earrings. Some put on the nose. Haven’t you seen one before? If jerry curling
your hair makes you a woman, I have seen a lot of men with jerry curl; even
some pastors in denominations.
17. When a Church becomes
lukewarm, that Church is automatically dead. In other words, God will spew out
that Church out of His mouth together with all the members thereof. No mercy!
God can never change His mind concerning His word.
18. Now, what will make
somebody to be partly heathen and partly godly? Partly God, partly devil? We
will know as we consider scriptures more and more.
19. Why have I deemed it
necessary to speak on this little topic by way of putting you in remembrance?
It is because time is no more. If there is anytime we have to be very, very
vigilant, it is now.
20. Moreover, the Lord has
told us that He is going to do a great work in our midst. Brethren, I believe
it with all My heart that the Lord will do it.
21. Haggai 2:6-7(Living Bible).
‘For
the Lord of hosts says, ‘In just a little while I will begin to shake the heavens
and earth and the oceans, too, and the dry land.
22. I will shake all
nations and the Desires of all Nations shall come to this Temple, and I will
fill this place with My glory’, says the Lord of hosts.’
23. Hebrews 12:26-27, ‘When
he spoke from Mount Sinai, His voice shook the earth, but, ‘Next time’, He says,
I will not only shake the earth but the heavens too.’ By this He means that He will
sift out everything without solid
foundation’.
24. Pay attention
brethren. That God said He is going to do a great thing in the Church and He has
given us the date 25th October to the middle of November and I am
now backing it up with scriptures that God said He is not only going to shake the
heavens but also the earth, and all the nations and all the churches.
25. Now, see Hebrew
confirming it. And what is God’s plan? The essence of shaking everything is to sieve
out those things that have no solid foundation; all that are not deeply-rooted
and grounded in the truth; all that are not deeply-rooted and grounded in this Gospel.
All that have very shallow foundations would be shaken out; will be sifted out.
26. ‘So that only
unshakeable things will be left.’
27. Just to give room for
those whose foundations cannot be shaken and can never be shaken. Those that
are fully convinced of what they are doing; these are the people that will then
remain.
28. God said that He
Himself will do the sifting. How is He going to do it? I don’t know. I am
sounding an alarm as your Watchman.
29. God has made Me a Watchman
over you. If I see any sign of danger coming and fail to sound the alarm, God
will require your blood from My hand.
30. However, if I sound
the alarm and somebody did not take heed of it, to prepare himself, to run away
from the danger, when you perish, you blame yourself.
31. There has never been
anytime God made a great move and somebody was not dropped. The most
unfortunate dropping is somebody that is here, not knowing that God has dropped
him.
32. When you have been dropped by God and you are
sitting down here watching, that is the most unfortunate human being. Somebody
can be dropped and yet he is here.
33. The Bible told us
greatly about those that didn’t believe God, that is, as many as did not
believe God. God knows what He is doing at these dying minutes.
34. Hebrews 3:12-14.‘Take heed, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the Living God.’
35. Evil heart of unbelief
will make you to depart from the Living God.
36. ‘But exhort one
another daily while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin.’
37. Sin deceives brethren.
And the moment somebody is hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, that person is
doomed forever.
38. ‘For we are made
partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end,’
39. without wavering. That
is when we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our
confidence steadfast unto the end. What was handed down to us, what we received
at the beginning is what we are going to present at the end.
40. If we hold that baton
steadfastly till the end, then we will be made partakers with Christ.
41. ‘While it is said, Today
if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For
some when they had heard did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by
Moses.’
42. You see the dangerous
effect of it. Many of them after hearing God’s word, they still continued
provoking God, nevertheless, not all of them.
43. ‘But with whom was he
grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell
in the wilderness?
44. And to whom sware he
that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So, we
see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.’
45. God knows what He is
saying. Somebody may be here, unbelief does not mean when a message is preached
and you raise up your hand and say, ‘I don’t believe that one.’
46. The Book of Jude 5
said, ‘I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how
that the Lord, having saved the people
out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.’
47. What is unbelief?
Unbelief is a matter of the mind. It takes place in your heart. You may be
sitting down in the Church and a message is going forth, scriptures are being
read before you, Holy Ghost helping us to interpret, and then there in your
heart you are rebelling against God’s word; you are resenting it. You are not
raising your hand but in your heart, you are rejecting it.
48. Just like these ladies
that are here before Me and the message is going forth. Inside your heart, God
understands what you are thinking and the way you are seeing the whole thing.
49. You may call it my own
message, well, that is your own way. It is My message anyway. On the last day
you will know it is God’s own message.
50. I have no message of My own. I have only but
the message of Christ, that no unbeliever will inherit the Kingdom of God and
anything you say you believe and you can never put it into practice, you don’t
believe it.
51. God is looking at us from the ability to put everything
into practice. Therefore, you can go home and conclude in your heart the way
you will twist the word of God, ‘Well, I just did it that way’.
52. Why should you do it
that way? It is Satan that is trying to kill you. It is your sin that is
deceiving you.
53. ‘God judges inward and
not outward appearance.’ Who said so? The Bible said, ‘I beseech you brethren by
the mercies of God that you present your body unto God a living sacrifice.’ Search
your Bible, ‘It is the temple of the living Holy Spirit.’
54. God is going to do a
shaking and a sifting to separate His own Elect from the mixed-multitude for
the last time. God is going to take away or sift away any Brother, any Sister that
has no solid foundation: any Brother; any Sister whose foundation has been
completely eroded by worldliness.
55. What causes
lukewarmness? Why is there lukewarmness in the Church? What is the cause? With
one single statement, I will say, ‘worldliness’.
56. The moment the world and the cares of this
life come into your heart to dominate your life, you are gone: too much thought
about life, about tomorrow and what it will offer you.
57. Any education that
will dislocate a woman’s position is of the devil. A woman’s position is always
in the kitchen. That means she is a keeper of the home. Any education that will
make a woman the head in the family is of the devil.
58. The position of the
woman is to be a helpmate. She renders a helping hand. That is all. She can
never come out to take supremacy over the man and say, ‘I am the Lord and
everything’. Never! Never! Never! Never! It cannot happen.
59. Moreover, it is only
in this Faith that an educated woman can humble herself to that extent. Otherwise,
women will bring problem in the house, ‘Why should I? Why should I?’ Then she
will be drawing examples from here and there: ‘Look at this one; look at that
one. Her husband is pastor; so, so, and so. Why should it be me? Why should?
Why should?’ I say God help Me.
60. Remember, God is about
to make a great move and all those that have no solid foundation; those that
are not rooted and grounded and settled in this truth will be shaken out. Why
should it be you? Why should it be me? Amen.
2
WHY THERE IS
LUKEWARMNESS IN THE
CHURCH (1)
Luke 13:23-30, Living Bible,
‘Someone
asked him, ‘Will only a few be saved?’ And he replied, ‘The door to heaven is
narrow.’
2.
Christ’s reply to the questionnaire, ‘The door is very
narrow; that door that leadeth to the Kingdom is very narrow.’
3.
‘work hard to get
in.’
4.
Did he say, ‘Go inside and sleep? Then be lazy and get it.’
He said, ‘work hard.’
5.
‘For the
truth is that many will try to enter but when the head of the house has locked
the door it will be too late.’
6.
The truth is that many will try to enter but when the head
of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. There is no other
scripture that said that person would come in again. He has locked the door; it
is too late. It will be medicine after death.
7.
That is where I keep on telling people what education is
producing; rubbish; nonsense. Can you imagine somebody that wasted his father’s
money and time and his own time also only to labour day and night and at the
end, he became a modern human anatomist. You see education is of the devil.
8.
How can somebody go to school to learn about his body? I
still maintain that medicine is of the devil. That is why doctors die. Nurses
die. Your lecturers die. Pharmacists die. God holds life.
9.
There are thousands
and thousands of cases; the doctors after evaluation they say, “It is hopeless.”
Many, many cases till today, they abound. Doctors diagnose and their conclusion
was, ‘hopeless.’ It is God that holds life.
10. If you doubt Me, I
will tell you how He takes care. Cause a little scratch on your body now and
let a little blood come out, without taking any injection, leave it, few days, the
whole thing is over. Your body produced something that cured it because there
is life in your body. And that life is God’s work.
11. Medicine is poison;
medicine is poison; poison. [A brother responds from the congregation: That is
true Sir.] God bless you sir; it is poison.
12. Before any medicine
can do anything in your body, it must first destroy something. It must destroy
something; every medicine has a side effect.
13. Too much medicine will
reduce your lifespan. Doctors even know more than that. Gradually we are
looking into that.
14. I said this person
that read human anatomy, what is the credit? What will be used to determine
whether you read right or wrong? I do not know how people will examine him.
15. It is just like somebody
going into the university; spend years and money only to read Home Economics.
What are you economizing? Go to the
village so that mothers in the village will teach you how to cook.
16. I saw one at the
function I attended at Enugu; a cook was hired and she landed with a book and
with her white cloth. She was looking into the book, ‘This one, ten minutes;
that one, three minutes. Add this and wait for thirty minutes.’
17. They had to go and
bring women from the village; under ten minutes everybody ate food and left. Home
economics; go to their homes, they can hardly organize their homes well. They do not know anything.
18. Can you learn this one
from any book? When you finish school, the village women will teach you how to enter
your kitchen. They do not even know how to manage their children. Some do not
even know how to manage finances; how to manage resources, yet they read Home
Economics. That is what they went to learn in school.
19. I thank God. They
wasted money in school. Your parents that raised you, did they read Home
Economics? Do you know how to take care of families more than them?
20. Do not worry; you will
soon know that education is of the devil: the thing that causes the world
sleepless nights, equally causes us sleepless nights also.
21. Look at the world;
they are all scrambling for certificates. What is the reason? Only to make a
name:; ‘I am a chartered accountant.’ That is all; only to make a name. You have
all certificates, OND, PhD, OVF, PYB, OMR; you keeping on reading until you
perish.
22. Education will even harden somebody in
unbelief. Then you will reach to a point where you will even be doubting the
existence of God. You will be doubting whether the reality of God is actually
true; whether it is not manmade. And you will have a lot of things you will use
to back up yourself.
23. Nobody has ever found
God through much learning. Rather much learning will make people to doubt God
and challenge His authority.
24. It was much learning
in the days of Noah that prevented people from believing his message: ‘The door to heaven is narrow; work hard to
get in, for the truth is that many will try to enter but when the head of the
house has locked the door, it will be too late.
25. Then if you stand
outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us,’ he will reply, ‘I
do not know you.’ ‘But we ate with you; you taught in our streets,’ you will
say. And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you. You can’t come in here
guilty as you are. Go away!’
26. You cannot come in
here guilty as you are. Go away. Anybody that tells you that there is another
way that person can perfect himself and come in, it is an indirect way of
preaching purgatory and that is Satan’s device in the end time message. ‘Foolish virgins; foolish virgins, they will
come through later.’
27. Who said so? If
William Branham said so, what did the Bible say? Look at the Bible saying, ‘Go away, I don’t know you. You cannot come
in.’ No second chance!
28. If there is any way that person can be
purified and then he will go and be presented spotless, let it be known to you
that there is purgatory. But there is no purgatory. It is appointed unto men once
to die, after that Judgement.
29. Now, why were they
foolish? Why were they coming too late? The Bible said Christ is coming for
those who are ready for Him. Why were they coming too late? Where did they go? Didn’t
they receive the message? Just like Thomas, the man that doubted.
30. Thomas, where did you
go? Where did you go? He had no answer. He had no reason. He had no reason why
he should not be in the midst of the brethren always. He had no justification. No
room again; the door was locked.
31. When others were
working very hard to go in, he gave himself over to worldly things. No time to prepare himself; no time at all; too
much activities about life.
32. God is sounding a
warning that very soon, as many as do not have a solid foundation, what will
happen in the Church will not spare such people. Do not trust in your power
this time.
33. Peter trusted in his
ability but when the thing happened, Peter said, ‘May God punish me if I know
this man,’ because Holy Ghost was not in Peter as at that time.
34. What if you think you
have the Holy Ghost and that time your nakedness will be made manifest? When
you have no Holy Ghost in you and you keep on idling away your time, you must
regret it.
35. Before the wind will
blow, you see yourself being blown away like dust and the alarm is going forth
right now. Amen.
3
HOW PEOPLE MISS THE KINGDOM
Saint Luke 14:16-24, ‘Jesus
replied with this illustration: ‘A man prepared a great feast and sent out many
invitations.
2.
When all was ready, he sent his servants around to notify
the guests that it was time for them to arrive. But they all began making
excuses.’
3.
They began making excuses. See the people God invited.
They got the invitation, privileged people that were called into the Kingdom free
of charge, not by merit but by privilege.
4.
And they said, ‘We are ready; we are ready, we are coming.’
And it was midnight invitation. They began to give excuses.
5.
‘One said he had just bought a field and wanted to inspect
it and asked to be excused.’
6.
Why must it be that time?
How can a man inspect his field at midnight? All through the day, what
did he do? At midnight you want to inspect your field; you see the reason?
7.
Will he go to the Kingdom of God with that farm? Earthly
things; sensual, material things of the world. ‘Have me excused.’
8.
‘Another said he had just bought five pair of oxen and
wanted to try them out.’
9.
He said, ‘Have me excused. Let me go and check the
equipment I bought.’ Just like Brother Damian bought a vehicle, ‘God just
allowed me to enjoy my vehicle for the first time and then I will go home with
my people and be rejoicing, have me excused.’ Just like that man, ‘I want to
check my equipment, have me excused.’
10. Another has just been
married and for that reason couldn’t come.’
11. Just like you; you are
married; your wife is pregnant and about to deliver, ‘God, you know, you know,
you know, have me excused. Let me make some money. I don’t want this delivery
to take me by surprise.’
12. However, if you are
not careful, the day your wife will deliver, you may not even have one naira. You may not even have one naira and she is
about to deliver.
13. Now, why must these
people be giving excuses? That is the question. And what they are using as
their excuses, are they necessary? Will these excuses help them to get eternal
life?
14. These are the people
that are called to come and get eternal life free of charge and every man with
his own excuse. All those excuses, did God consider one? Not even one. I don’t
know what you have as your own excuse.
15. Like these ladies that
are here, ‘I know if I marry I will
worship God.’ ‘If somebody will continue in this type of Church, who will marry
her? You want me to look like Mgbeke (a bush girl)? Nobody will marry me in
this modern age. I will be coming to their Church for the time being and be
hearing; when I marry, I will make up my mind.’
16. Don’t worry, you may
not even marry; you may not even make up your mind. What if you die tomorrow?
You do not put death in your program. However, a wise man considers death.
17. If God will accept your own excuse today, it
means He will tender unreserved apology to those people. Your work is not your excuse. The tradition of
your people is not your excuse. God has nobody on earth He will treat with
preference.
18. There is nobody God
will say, ‘Well, I have considered your word, this and that.’
19. Just like Thomas, when
you want to console yourself in unbelief, ‘’God,
you know my heart; God you know my heart.’ And actually God knows your
heart that you are a stark unbeliever; a stark, naked miserable unbeliever.
20. ‘God, you know my heart, you know,’ yes, He knows your
heart very well. Therefore, I do not know what will be your excuse.
21. Now any Church that is
filled with people with these type of excuses, what do you think will be the
nature of that Church? It must be a lukewarm Church; a Church where nobody
wants to work hard; nobody has the vision that people must work hard to enter
the Kingdom.
22. Nobody has the vision
that the door will never remain open forever. Nobody has the vision that one
day the door will be locked; nobody has the vision to ask themselves, ‘What if
the door is locked against me?’ What will that Church produce? Lukewarm believers!
23. Nobody wants to
consider, ‘What if my brethren will go
away tomorrow and I am left behind and people will ask me why I didn’t go with
them? What will be my answer?’
24. Nobody wants to go and
work hard. Well, somebody is thinking that God will make him go anyhow, ‘He is the God of mercy. With the much I have
done, He will take me.’ Well, nobody can bribe God.
25. Saint Matthew Chapter 11
verse 21 through 24, ‘Woe unto thee Chorazin! Woe unto thee
Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre
and Sidon,’
26. if the messages I have preached to you were
preached to Pentecostals and even Catholics, let us continue.
27. ‘they would have
repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you it shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgement than for you.’
28. Why? Because on that day of judgement, God will
judge them with all the sermons they received. All the messages that were handed down to
them, God will judge them with all of them.
29. If God will judge us in
this Church with all we have received so far, what do you think will be our
condition? Where can we appear if God’s judgement will start among us in this Church?
30. Now that we are
hearing this Voice every day, if God will use all the Gospels we have received here
to judge us, where do you think we will appear? By and by that is what He is
going to use. The question of using, ‘if’, should be completely ruled out.
31. God must use all that
we have received; all He has given to us, put them together and judge us by
them. That is why I am here to put you in remembrance though you once knew the
truth about it all so that nobody will be a cast away.
32. We are living at a very
dangerous hour. Anybody that is sent away from the Church now can hardly come
in until the whole programme is over.
33. I was told how
Okechukwu Omenobia is struggling to come back but all in vain. He was sent out
of the Church for telling lies. You ladies that are here, lying; we hate it. If
you are guilty of telling lies and we warn you to stop it, and you continue, we
will send you away.
34. We do not wait until
you commit fornication, no. We do not wait until you fight and quarrel, no. Telling
lies is all that we need from you, and then we excommunicate you from the Church;
from the congregation of the saints immediately. Because the Bible said that we
should lie not one to another for we are brethren.
35. And thou Capernaum,
which art exalted unto heaven shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty
works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained
until this day.
36. But I say unto you
that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment than
for thee.’
37. Put yourself in the
position of these people. The Gospel you have received so far, if it was
preached to the Pentecostals and Catholics, don’t you think some would have
repented? Don’t you think some would have been more faithful than us today?
38. Now, let us see why we
should avoid everything worldliness. We know that God hates a lukewarm Church and
when worldliness creeps into the Church through individuals, he becomes a witch
that will be sucking the blood stream of the Church, making the Church to be weak
and weary.
39. When worldliness
creeps in it means the word of God will be warring with the world. The world is
opposed to the Word of God and the Word of God is opposed to the world.
40. We must work with
heathens with wisdom, otherwise, we perish. When a Man of God Jehoshaphat could
not realize what he was he compromised greatly with a man that hated God; a man
that hated God and he risked his life. Only amazing grace delivered him.
41. You see, I have to be
very sincere to all men because I am a dying man. The Bible said that it is not
all that commit sin that are guilty but also they that have pleasure in them
that commit sin.
42. That is why the Book of
Proverbs condemns a man that makes friend with a thief and likens that man to a
thief also because he enjoys the fruit of violence; the fruit of robbery.
43. In other words, if I
know that my brother sleeps with different women and I know that any woman that
comes across him is going to sleep with him, if he sends me to go and call a
lady, I wouldn’t say I don’t know the purpose. I really know the purpose.
44. Be spiritual. The lady
that I am going to call equally knows the reason why I am calling her. If I say
‘Well, Brother is calling you,’ and with all pleasure she just agrees, I
believe she knows why she is being called.
45. No matter how I criticize
my brother, I am also guilty because I am the instrument he is using. I take
delight in it. It is just like somebody that condemns sleeping with women and
then gives his room to those that sleep with different women.
46. You condemn excessive
drinking of strong drinks and you sell whisky and kaikai and that is your business, who are you deceiving? We should
stop deceiving ourselves.
47. If I give my room to
be used by those that sleep with different women, I am now the middleman. When the
lady comes and the man is not around, she will leave a message through me. When
he wants to go, he will leave a message through me for the lady. I am now the
mail runner. I am now the middleman.
48. Anytime God will visit
that man and the lady with His wrath, He will not spare me. I will speak my
last truth. Although it is hard, yet it is true.
49. When you are working
with heathens, be very, very careful. It is better you recommend for your
transfer than for them to say very nice things about you and you perish.
50. Heathens know who is a
real child of God and who is a hypocrite. If I am a real child of God that
doesn’t compromise my faith, everybody must know me for that.
51. In addition, when it
comes to matters concerning my faith they must be very careful the way they
approach me.
52. Brother Remi, for now,
it must have become clear to you what your Provost is using you for. It must
have become very, very clear. It is not every message that you will accept from
him with effect from today.
53. If he will not promote
you, let him not promote you. If he will sit on you, he is free. I think the
earlier he makes you the school bursar the better. Because if you become the
bursar tomorrow, I do not think he will be using you as the messenger.
54. You will be restricted
to that office and to that office alone. He will now have another messenger that
will be carrying one bag of rice and one bag of beans up and down. You cannot
say you do not know why he is sending those things. You cannot say so.
55. Many a times, you may
even be forced to be defending his devilish actions contrary to your faith. The time has come when you will be in a
position to stand in judgement against all ungodliness; all ungodly practices
in the school. You cannot be a partaker in them. This is the hour. I said this is the hour. I
56. It is either you
liberate yourself now or you perish! If they are making you school bursar, let
them do it now so that you will be free. When you are travelling out, you will
be travelling out as the School’s Bursar. You limit yourself to your own
office, but right now, I call you an officer without portfolio. I call you a
minister of special duties.
57. The man is only using
you as minister for special duties. When he wants to see the honorable Minister
of Education, he calls Odo. He wants to
see the Council Men Kaduna, special assignment, Odo.
58. Wherever the duty
becomes very tough, real confidential, exclusively for the Provost, Odo will
go. You will not say you do not know the extent he has used you so far, and now
the earlier I call a spade a spade the better for Me because I am going away.
59. I don’t want to be guilty before any man and
before God. It is hard truth. You had
earlier been warned that from now, henceforth you will be hearing hard, hard
things and that many will stumble.
60. Will you stumble? I
don’t know. Who put the hard, hard truth in my mouth? Almighty God. Ask
yourself whether what you have heard has not been giving you troublesome nights.
Have you not been feeling this way?
61. If you have not been thinking this way, it
means you have been hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Jehoshaphat risked
his life. Amazing grace saved him.
62. Don’t worry; you don’t
know where you are working until something happens. You see that man, one day,
you will be his greatest enemy. And that day also, your wife will be the
greatest enemy of all other lecturers in institution. They will label you
things you cannot even imagine.
63. I think it is better
you liberate yourself before something will liberate you. You had better take
side with God than to take side with that man. Any service that you are
rendering to him now, be very, very careful.
64. Any day he is leaving
the college, you are leaving the college with him. People love your bursar more
than you now. Others see you as a threat; they see you in the same light they
see the Provost of that College. No matter what you may have as your excuse,
you cannot wriggle out of it.
65. That is why I have been
subscribing that he should make you the bursar so that you will be restricted
to activities in your own office alone; not minister without portfolio,
minister for special duties; duties that are not defined; duties that are
never, never defined.
66. Even if he gives you
the whole world of opportunity, there is nothing you can achieve there unless you
want to offend your God. I am going somewhere. Amen.
4
WHY THERE IS
LUKEWARMNESS IN THE
CHURCH (2)
First John 2: 15-17, Living
Bible. There is a reason why I am using this Living Bible. I want to drive the
message home, once and for all.
2.
‘Stop loving this evil world,’
3.
What!? Stop! It is a commandment. Stop loving this evil
world.
4.
‘and all that it offers you for when you love these
things, ’
5.
All that it offers
you, sisters that want to go to the university and graduate by 1999. In the
case of Sister Eliza, if you must pass your sandwich this your, you will
graduate in the year 2000 and then be using the certificate in the millennium.
6.
The truth is that when we want to die, something will just
come up to anoint us falsely. Nobody can fool me again concerning education and
what is happening.
7.
Every higher education is where Satan has already built
his incubator to incubate and manufacture every kind of atrocity in the world.
Every evil in the society today emanated from the University.
8.
Masturbation started there; homosexuality started there;
drug addiction, every kind of evil. Watch them on the street. I wonder the type
of Holy Ghost you claim you have; where you will go there, you will see ladies;
I saw some at Oko, I said, ‘Is this the place our sisters are desiring to go?’
9.
I went to Jos, the same experience. I went to Nsukka, the
same experience. I said this must be devil. Both married and unmarried ladies
behave alike.
10. I went to Bro Remi’s
house on campus and saw some the other time, I said, ‘God, have mercy. Is that
where Brother is dwelling? This is the synagogue of Satan. Come and see ladies
putting on pants walking about with it on the main road.
11. They go to classroom that
way. I saw one that put on something like apron that only covered the breasts
with pants. I looked at the picture and said that could this be a human being? So, I passed.
12. I turned back again
only to discover that her whole back was purely open. I said, ‘God thank you Sir.’
How can I see such a horrible sight and dwell in their midst? In the classroom,
the same way.
13. Mothers; there is no
mother there. There is nothing like; no virtue there. No matter how you claim
to be godly. Sister Eliza was there; even the one that claims that she is in
the CU (Christian Union), nonsense, hypocrite! They all mess themselves up. It was that statement I made that made open
confession come out. You noticed what happened that time. The tongue that was
wagging became silent. Her eyes opened. She started shivering.
14. They were not coming
because you left them, because somebody was running round you and you were
running around him. You messed up yourselves. Go to the Pentecostals and all
other denominations, fornication is not sin. It is a way of life.
15. Can you imagine a
situation a young man dressed in knickers sat down and a young lady in pants
sat down on his laps and then was caressing the man openly in the day in the
name of higher institution. I went to the Rector and said, ‘Sir, what about
this horrible thing you see before you?’
16. He said, ‘My friend,
these are beasts and I am controlling them. What do you think I am?’
17. I said, ‘A beast,’ he
said, ‘of course; it will take a beast to control beasts.’
18. I said, ‘How do you
cope up with this type of horrible sight?’ You see some in their chieftaincy;
students in chieftaincy. You see some that will dress like Fela; I don’t know
what to describe them like and that is where our sisters are desiring to go? You
will go and sit down there and then they will be stuffing you with evil.
19. Just like a Sister in
our midst that said, ‘Brother, I want you to counsel me; our lecturer gave us
one question. He taught us that a great wind parted the Red Sea and people of
Israel passed through. Now, if it appears in exam, what do I write?’
20. I said, ‘It is a
tempting question?’ If at all she came to believe, can she tell me that she did
not know the answer? She was limping between two opinions: whether to write down
what somebody said was the religious master’s programme.
21. All that said they are
teaching Christian religious study, is there any Christian religious study in
the Bible? Both the teachers and the students, they are all lying. It is
literature. You could have called it Bible literature. They are only there to
study to pass their exams and then get meal ticket; get certificate.
22. Whatever you are
writing is just to please the lecturer so that they will mark good, good. I
said, ‘Sister, who parted the Red Sea? If you know who parted the Red Sea go
and put it down and then you will fail.’ She said, ‘Brother, what do I do?’
23. I said, ‘Go and write
the truth that is revealed to you. If it is wind, write wind. If it is God,
write God. That will determine whether you will remain a godly or not. After
all, when you were going to that higher institution you never invited God.’
24. They will only teach
you how to tell lies and let me tell you, there is no need somebody coming here
to fool himself. No matter the way you say you read Accountancy; whatever you
say you read, when you come out, you can hardly practise it. Whatever they
taught you in the University, you could hardly practise it.
25. If you read Political Science,
come out, Nigerian politics will conquer you one way. You read Accountancy;
became conversant with Nigerian Accounting System, I do not know why we are
dying, go to the company you will see young, young boys that did not go beyond
RSA page one; they will coach you there. You learn a lot from them.
26. You come in there with
your university theory they tell you, ‘not
this one; this is company accounting. I have been in this company for 17 years,’
they will coach you there.
27. Watch our engineers,
after they graduate, mechanics in the streets will come and teach them. Where are we heading to? Every evil in the
society is manufactured in the University and yet people want to go back. They
know what they are doing there. I said they know what they are doing there.
28. Let Me tell you, mere
purchasing of the handout will give you 25%, attendance will give you 15%. On the whole, you have already scored
40% which is pass mark.
29. It is pass mark. That
is why some big men’s children don’t waste their time, they just go there and enlist
and continue their business. At the end
of the whole Semester exams, they will just come and give you N5,000 and then
they go to another class. They keep on doing like that.
30. At the end of the day,
they collect First Class; many traders in Onitsha, many traders in the Main market,
they just go there and say, ‘My friend , stop making this noise; look at my
certificate’, and it is truly from Nigerian University here.
31. I don’t know why we want
to covet things God is debarring us from, saying ‘It is all that the world
could offer.’ The Bible said, ‘don’t go,’ repeat that place, ‘after what the
world will offer.’
32. ‘Stop loving this evil
world and all that it offers you.’
33. What does it offer
you? What does it offer you? Popularity, foolishness, pride of life. Pride, I
mean sheer pride. Many of your professors in your university did not go beyond
first degree.
34. There are many of them
that did not go beyond first degree, yet they are professors. Too much learning
will make you to doubt God and to go out of God’s own programme.
35. Tell Me if there is
any course in the university which is not defined by lies. Is it in medicine? Tell
Me any course you will do in the university without telling lies? There is no
science without lies; not even one single science.
36. Tell Me that course in
the university you will go and then come out with without filling yourself with
bundles and bundles of lies.
37. If you are a child of
God, watch, I will show you a sign. If you are really one of the seeds of God, no
matter the way you try to go further, from the time God meets you, you cannot
succeed. Even if you start a programme, you cannot complete it.
38. You will see something
that will push you out; you will forfeit your money; forfeit everything and
come out. After all, you are not the wisest people that ever lived. Saint Paul
knew why he counted his certificate as useless nonsense and continued in the
faith. Temporary, temporary things that the world is offering us.
39. All of you that have
been desiring to have additional certificates for selfish purposes, God knows
what He is doing. I said, God knows exactly what He is doing. Keep on reading.’
40. ‘For when you love these things,
it shows that you don’t really love God. For all these worldly things give evil
desire.’
41. Evil desires, worldly
things will make a woman to abandon her family and then travel to Nsukka to
settle down.
42. Won’t you be ashamed
of even carrying the book to read in devil’s institution? How do you think you
will feel in the classroom sitting with heathens? There is no student that ever
did any programme without telling lies.
43. I know a lot of people
that came to me in my office so that I will rig industrial elections for them.
Even though I did not go to the university I conduct industrial elections in
Anambra State. I said, ‘Sit down, after your lecturers dribbling you and
getting all your resources and telling you to go and submit. That is your Master’s
degree? Go and sit down.’
44. Copyrights here and
there; telling lies here and there only to acquire certificates. Any day God
accepts a liar to be in the kingdom, every armed robber will also be there. Prostitutes
will be there.
45. You cannot say, ‘God,
you know my heart, I am a student, others are doing it, there is no other way I
can make it if not this way; God I have carried it out anyhow.’ That is
rubbish. It is your own foolish excuse! You cannot deceive God.
46. Foolish worldly people
are using you to make money. If a lecturer will succeed in printing out one
thousand handouts and then give them out in three months, he will make a lot of money; N20, N25 per handout.
47. What are they doing?
Are they doing fresh research? Never, never, never. It is merely reproducing
the handout year after year. And then you say you want to do your research, ‘I
want to do research,’ you want to defend your project.
48. That is bundles and bundles of lies; copywriting
from here and there. You copy this one, you copy that one and credit it to
yourself. That is rubbish. I do not believe in that nonsense.
49. I will show you
something when we finish reading.
50. ‘For all these worldly things give
evil desires, the crave for sex.’
51. Go to Universities; crave
for sex, very high. I said it is very, very high. They don’t know who is
married and who is not married there in the higher institution. Some of these
foolish, foolish married women defiling themselves with lecturers only to score
pass mark.
52. Moreover, I believe if
you are a child of God, you cannot compromise with them. All you have to do is
to read very hard so that the senate will justify you at last, but talk of the man that wants to defile you, there
is no way you can pass through, you must petition against him so that others
will mark your papers and then score you.
53. You keep on exposing
yourself to dangers and temptation here and there, all in the name of education
as if after getting your degree you will run away from your husband’s home and
build another mansion.
54. I do not know what you
will be doing after you come out from your school. It is what you are doing
now. Even if they will give you the whole degrees in the world, when you come
home, unless you forfeit heaven, what you are doing now is still what you will be
doing.
55. You can never get
another higher reputation outside because this message has humbled you. It has made you, your learning and your
education nothing, but foolish so that you will gain Christ.
56. If you are having a
picture where you will be seen as Margaret Thatcher again, you are finished! Anybody
you will be discussing with you will be saying, ‘You know, I am a master’s
degree holder,’ you are lost. They will see you the way they see Eha-amufu
market women.
57. God knows what He is
doing. Some of you do not know that you are suffering others somewhere. Maybe
because of your own writing, they will seize the whole result for that year. God
knows how to do it. They will not release the result.
58. In addition, from what
is about to take place, those that are on holidays can hardly go back. Watch
out. I must be justified. Those that are
on holidays can hardly go back and from November 30, all federal institutions,
if they can pay staff salaries, know that I am not a Seer. I said if they can
pay salaries.
59. Abacha is great. All federal institutions
including police, army, education, works, presently, they are owing them in arrears.
And all the universities, there is going to be a breakdown of law and order.
60. What of teachers in
the secondary? The setting of TSS may not even allow them to stay long and they
will go on strike, and if the government will approve that TSS, they cannot pay
it. Implementing it will be another problem.
61. Almost all
universities are having problems right now. And God may use the problem to
frustrate his own elect; keep them here. Somebody may remain in final year
until Translation will take place.
62. Already somebody has
it on record that he has been in the final year for two years now because of
incessant rioting and strike actions. If they continue that way, the end is not
insight. Nsukka will soon go back to court again. Ahmadu Bello University is
already in court. Jos is not certain whether they will go back or not.
63. ‘The ambition to buy everything that appeals
to you,’
64. THE AMBITION TO BUY EVERYTHING THAT APPEALS TO YOU IS OF
THE DEVIL.
Whatever you see, you have the ambition, ‘I
will have it. I will have it.’ This is what is making the Church lukewarm.
65. Worldliness has crept
into the hearts of the believers. They do not have the zeal which they received
from the first day. They have lost the first zeal. They have lost the first
love.
66. Everybody is now
having his eyes in the world: how to get everything in the world the world can
offer as if that is eternal life. When we die, all these things will perish in
the grave.
67. ‘And the pride that
comes from wealth and importance, these are not from God.’
68. That pride that comes from wealth and
importance, popularity, a learned man, a learned man. Thank God you are not
preparing to go back and then go in for ICAN; ICAN certificate.
69. I am a chartered accountant. Even if you have 20 certificates from ICAN you
will not do much more than what you are doing now. It is just for pride. Bible
said, ‘These things do not come from the Lord.’
70. 1st
Corinthians 1, from 19,‘for God said, ‘I will destroy all human plans
of salvation, no matter how wise they seem to be and ignore the best ideas of
men, even the most brilliant of them.
71. So, what about these
wise men, these scholars, these brilliant debaters of this world’s great
affairs, God has made them all look foolish and shown their wisdom to be
useless nonsense.’
72. Including that of your
Provost. Great debaters of the affairs of this world, all their education, all
these mighty scholars, their education, God said is useless-nonsense. What you
are going to acquire is useless-nonsense. It can never help you in your marital
life; it can never help humanity; useless-nonsense.
73. Sister Ojiakor, where
are you? [She responds: Sir] You are too far from what we are saying here. And
we are making a tape. Brother Kelechi said, ‘It pays to be an eye-witness.’
74. Let us repeat that
place, ‘So, what about these wise men, these scholars, these brilliant debaters
of this world’s great affairs,’
75. great scholars,
‘I am a scholar; professor so, so and so,’
76. ‘God has made them all look foolish and shown
their wisdom to be useless nonsense.’
77. Useless-nonsense. Let
us go further.
78. ‘for God in his wisdom saw to it
that the world will never find God through human brilliance and then he stepped
in and saved all those who believed his message which the world calls foolish
and silly.
79. It seems foolish to
the Jews because they want a sign from heaven as proof that what is preached is
true and it is foolish to the gentiles because they believe only what agrees
with their philosophy and seems wise to them.’
80. You see the problem
with mankind? A group of people will only believe what agrees with their
philosophy; they do not want to know what God is saying. As long as it does not
agree with his own ideology, he will say he will not believe it.
81. However, whether you like
it or not, you must believe God’s own philosophy. God said that all these
certificates we are going to acquire, they are useless-nonsense that will make
you abandon your family, abandon your wife and children and so on, only to go
and answer ‘Ma’ and ‘Sir’, start telling
lies; living in sin, in hypocrisy, having ungodly conversation with ungodly students.
They go after it the way they go after money.
82. Tell me what a man
could tell his wife to do which she will agree to do readily, but mention school
certificate, she will jump up. Tell her to go to the farm, she will have a
reason; tell her to go to the Eha-Amufu market, she will produce a reason, but
send her to the university to acquire more certificates, she will say, ‘thank
God’.
83. I wonder whether I can
stay in any institution of higher learning for even one hour. If you close my
eyes and drag Me there, the moment My eyes open, I will run away. I cannot stay
there; even if they build a private classroom for Me. I do not think I will
stay.
84. If what I am saying
does not agree with your own philosophy, that is best known to you. Know you
are a gentile, you are a heathen, you are a pagan, ‘Well, Brother has said his
own philosophy; it does not agree with my own idea. For that reason, I will not
take it.’
85. Now, you are a gentile.
Sister Ojiakor, are you hearing what I am saying? God said, only gentiles
reject those things which do not agree with their own philosophy for the word
of God is opposed to the word of man.
86. God’s own desire is
contrary to your own desire. God’s own desire is that you will live a holy and
chaste life in your own family as a married woman, be a blessing to the Church and
to humanity, not in the institution.
87. Even all that said
they are married and are lecturers, watch them very well. You know all of them;
even Pentecostals amongst them. Where do we start? That is where the Spirit went
forth and that lady started making confession.
88. You know the greatest
thing that happened. People will know themselves, know how they committed the
atrocity and they will be gossiping about it, ‘Have you seen what is happening
between these two persons?’ But nobody will have the courage to come boldly to
declare it.
89. ‘Nna, I saw it; keep your mouth shut ooo!’ From that day, you
become a partaker. Come and see how they are messing up themselves here and
there.
90. There is nobody that
can fool Me! A lot of things exchange hands in their mad crave to become heads
of departments, mad desires to become Heads of Departments, go and see the evil
they are practising. Many things will happen.
91. I say I thank God. I
can never stay even one hour in any higher institution. Close my eyes, drag me
there; the moment my eyes open, off I go.
92. God has chosen the
poorest things of the world to confound all that say they are wise.
93. ‘So, when we preach
about Christ dying to save them, the Jews are offended and the gentiles say it
is all nonsense. But God has opened the eyes of those called to salvation, both
Jews and gentiles to see that Christ is the mighty power of God to save them;
94. Christ Himself is the centre
of God’s wise plan for their salvation. This so-called foolish plan of God is
far wiser than the wisest plan of the wisest man, and God in his weakness-
Christ dying on the cross- is far stronger than any man.’
95. Take this message to
all these people you call wise scholars, great debaters of the affairs of this
world, they will call it nonsense immediately because they don’t know what we
are talking about Christ dying on the Cross to save them.
96. That is why when you
get to Kaduna they will begin to adjudge you as a fool because you do not agree
with them. The way they see things is not the way you see them. Nevertheless,
you will try to see a place where you can compromise so that the discussions
will conclude.
97. If you don’t
compromise in one place, discussions can never flow well. Something must
happen. Let us be very careful. Amen.
5
HUMBLE YOURSELF DOWN
First Corinthians 3:18-19, ‘Stop
fooling yourself. If you count yourself above average in intelligence ,’
2.
If you count yourself above average in intelligence, ‘I don’t know; may be Apostle didn’t go to
college, he didn’t go to university, that is why he is saying all these things.
How can I? How can I? You know, a man like me; I read medicine; I am a legal
practitioner; I have so man y degrees,’ nonsense.
3.
What is keeping people from believing the message? ‘How can I go and sit down with those little
boys; those unlearned fellows?’
4.
For that reason, they establish class fellowship. You have
undergraduate fellowship; you have graduate fellowship; that is class
fellowship. ‘How can? How can?’ That
is what education can produce. It is what certificate can produce.
5.
I tell people that I am equal with Abacha in death, ‘My friend, you are not higher than me,
after all, we will conclude it in the grave.’
6.
Gowon is going there; Abiola is going there; Obasanjo,
Yar’adua, all of them, we are equal in death. God will not say, ‘Because this one is head of states, he
will not die again and Odoemena is a poor man; he will die.’ Na lie.
7.
No matter what you call the casket; whether you call it a
casket or a coffin, all of them are going down there. We are all equal in
death. The Provost of the College of Education, Eha-amufu, we are all equal in
death. He is fooling himself in unbelief.
8.
‘Stop fooling yourself,’
9.
Stop fooling yourselves. Tell yourselves the truth. You
know the evils going on in the university. You all know. All the certificates
you have, you acquired all when you were heathens.
10. It is only here that
God justified all of you. When the Holy Ghost came down, He justified all of
you for He concluded that as “sin of ignorance” but if God should judge you on
how you acquired it, all of you told lies.
11. Some were works that
were carried out by somebody else only for you to put your name there. You
acquired them when you were heathens. What you should be saying is, ‘God, since
You have forgiven me in that one, I won’t do it again, no more.’ See what is
killing them.
12. ‘If you
count yourself above average in intelligence as judged by this world’s
standard,’
13. As judged by this
world’s standard. Who told you that you are more intelligent than somebody that
attended elementary six because you graduated from the university?
14. It is the world that
is judging it that way. They think going to the university added something? It did
not add anything. If going to the
university adds something, the whole world will be there. It has never remolded
any man’s status, rather it worsens it.
15. Watch all these ladies
in the university, perambulating the streets of Onitsha, watch all of them
messing up with stark illiterate traders and houseboys, living in naked
prostitution. Watch their men and women, the same thing.
16. Of what use is the University?
Beasts! Before my eyes, a lady that is not married kissing a father that will
be the age of her own father openly in the College.
17. She will ask you, ‘Do you
want it?’ And watch the old man, a security man messing up the same way.
18. God knows I cannot
tell lies. It happened before My eyes. That place is not worth going to. I do
not know whether it is worst than Oko. May
God have mercy!
19. You know the worst of
it all? The classroom is not meant for students. 99.5% roam outside; few will
be inside writing exam. Will you be examined outside?
20. I don’t know what they
are doing brethren. In the evening hours, go out and see how they are messing
up themselves in the streets. Then the person comes out the following day and
tells you, he or she has average intelligence; that they are higher than
average. God help us.
21. ‘You had better put this all aside.’
22. Put these things all
aside. Put your certificates and all this worldly knowledge aside; humble
yourself down and worship God.
23. ‘And be a fool rather
than let it hold you back from the true wisdom from above.’
24. Be a fool instead of
allowing much learning and education to hold you back. Be a fool. Let them call
you ‘mumu,’ let them say, ‘the money
spent in training him is useless.’
25. All that have decided
to follow God’s wisdom, they have been labeled nonentities in their families. Some will call them disappointments. They will
say the money used in training you is a waste.
26. They will be labeled
disappointments in their families because they were trained to be used to make
money; to show off, ‘We have a mechanical engineer and three doctors; three accountants’.
27. Watch the ungodly
parents bragging with things that can breathe and die, ‘My daughter is an Accountant
and her husband is a Medical doctor.’
28. There is nothing else
to it other than the pride; not that the person is successful; just the pride, ‘My son is an engineer married to a lawyer,’
as if they say the husband is a carpenter it becomes an abomination.
29. That is why they
cannot humble down and believe God. All these things that will hold people back
from believing Christ, God said, ‘humble yourself down.’
30. It is only in this Message
that you can see graduates worshipping God with every sincerity of heart; men
and women. You can never know that they can read and write.
31. Outside this Ministry,
they must identify with their various class fellowships. It is either IFL or Very
Important Personalities where they mess themselves up and transfer and inherit
diseases. Little, little girls here cannot contact AIDS.
32. People that carry AIDS
are first class ladies with first class diseases; first class ladies with first
class sicknesses. Where are they produced? In the universities.
33. I do not know what
AIDS is; I cannot contact it. I do not know what homosexual is. It will take a
homosexual to identify it. Watch all of them who are being given money only to have
sexual intercourse with dogs; they are university graduates.
34. A white man will pay
them and place a dog or chimpanzee before them to have sex with them because of
their crave for sex, worldliness, so that they can be given money.
35. There is no type of illegal business that is
not done there. Even firearms are being exchanged in the universities; armed
robbers, in the university. What is good there? Amen.