Preached
on 20TH APRIL 2003 At THE
HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE
SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE” Truth has no substitute” © BRIDE OF CHRIST
MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
When this life is
over, you will know that I am HE. Go
anywhere you want, in search, you must be pointed back to this same person—The
Son of MAN. Fly to the sky, you will be told, “Go down there; He is standing in
your midst.” Believe it if you can… —The Son of Man
(THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD, PP 3)
HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD? You must know God beyond His dress; otherwise,
one day, you will call Him
Devil. If it was very
difficult for people that worked with God for many, many years to recognize Him
when He resurrected from the dead—including Peter—how then can those who never
knew Him recognize Him?
I showed you many ways
He appeared; different ways He showed Himself to His people and yet at every
stage not even one person recognized Him. Some recognized Him through His Word;
some recognized Him by His Voice. Some recognized Him by His manner of prayer
and breaking bread. Some even recognized Him by the nature of behaving, but
physically speaking, He appeared in a different form. At times, He appeared
to a group as a very old man, aged over 80 years and to another group, He
appeared as a very young man, younger than He really was. Remember, I am
calling your attention to something—Immortality, reincarnation.
–The Son of Man (PROPHETIC
REVELATION. VOL. 1 page 110, verse 38-42
SECTION 1
A WORD FROM THE
VINDICATED APOSTLE
APOSTLE
PETER ODOEMENA
THE SON OF MAN
A WORD FROM THE
VINDICATED APOSTLE
Remain
blessed brethren. We do not need any reminder at all, Deacons at the gate take
note, should there be any stranger at your gate, do not send that person away
without informing me. Note it, should you see any face you have never seen in
this fellowship before, one that is not one of us, do not send that person away
without informing Me.
2.
In other words, if a stranger comes, after interacting
with the person, send for Me. Because if you are not careful you may even send
your brethren away ignorantly.
3.
This morning we
will like to listen to His Word, we have ministers that can put us in
remembrance concerning the things we have been hearing. We have our teachers in
the fellowship, we have our pastors and other ministers. Thus, it is my desire
that we listen to his word this morning.
4.
I know that I will speak to you briefly today. I am sure
and certain about it but I just want us to listen briefly to the teaching by
way of putting us in remembrance. I do not know what the topic might be but I
believe it is going to encourage us and even prepare a nice ground for us to
pay attention to whatever He (Almighty God) is going to tell us.
5.
I hope we are glad that we are in His Presence! When we
come before the Presence of the Lord let us get him convinced that we are
really happy and the only way you can express it is to open your mouth, praise
your God, dance around, rejoice exceedingly because you are happy.
6.
I do not believe that if I am happy that somebody will
start pushing me about, no! There is always a pull in me. Every true seed of
God receives a pull whenever God voices out something because God dwelleth in
the praises of His people.
7.
Even if you try to sit down you cannot make it; even if
I ask you to sit down you cannot afford to sit down, because there is always a
pull, you will not know when you will stand up because you are responding to
the pull. But if you can fix yourself on the seat and decide not to get up and
respond to it, question yourself if nothing is anchoring.
8.
Many carrying the Bible today, preaching, don’t they say
they are children of God? That’s their preaching. If they do not believe they
are children of God, do you think that they can go about preaching? All that
call upon of the name Jesus today, they all believe they are children of God
but God knows they that are His. God does not make noise about it.
9.
I do not need anybody to introduce my child to me. Do
you get what I am saying? I do not need any introduction to my Father. Can you
imagine somebody carrying me to my father and telling my father: “Listen, this man
is your son”. My father will laugh at the person because you do not introduce a
son to his father.
10.
I introduced this message so that you can understand
that only children of God are eligible to praise Him. You can have the desire
to praise Him, you may love to praise Him but you are not eligible. Every true
seed of God is legally bound to praise Him and nobody teaches him or her how to
do that. More especially, when we gather in this Little House of No Regrets; yes,
this is our little house of no regrets.
11.
If you come to this Little House of No Regrets and you
are regretting why you are here, you are Mr. Johnson; you can check out, a
little while you will say: “I am
checking out, shit men, I am checking out!” You can check out, any day
you want, you can check in.
12.
Thus, if you are regretting your presence in this most
holy gathering under the sun, you are Mr. Johnson. It is only the likes of
Johnson that will regret every hour they stay in this most holy fellowship
because that is the hour they would have used to make money; hence they say, “Don’t you know that Sunday hustling is gradually
passing me by? Nnaa, one has to hustle!”
13.
Mr. Johnson, I know you will check out today, you will
check out! If you do not check out in the morning, you check out in the
afternoon, if it is not in the afternoon it will be in the evening but you will
check out: “I am checking out leave me
alone for one has to hustle.”
14.
There is nothing as
influential as unbelief. Influential means
something that can motivate; something that can affect; something that can
even push you into doing something you do not want, it is unbelief. I know very
well that Johnson will regret his membership of this family as long as he is
still living with his father in spirit and in truth, I know that.
15.
If you are living with a heathen you must love the wages
of unrighteousness because a heathen aims at making money anyhow for that is
the essence why he is in the township; he has no other thing holding him in the
township if not to make money.
16.
What is more, once he is out to make it, he does not
care how the money is coming, he does not care who is suffering, he does not
care about the sorrow the money is causing him and if you are staying with such
a person, by and by you must be influenced. Gradually they are departing, they
will become visitors like Johnson. Johnson will remain a visitor until he has
convinced us that he is worthy of our green card.
17.
You cannot naturalize with us until we are convinced
that you are one of us; that you will not cause us trouble. Mr Johnson, your Brother
Ifeanyi has departed and more will join him.
18.
Brethren you are all blessed as you continue to follow
God and continue to live according to His Commands, it must continue to be well
with you. Do you know that it shall be well with the righteous? The righteous can never regret anything. As
many of you that have taken the firm decision at least to try to implement half
of what you are hearing from me, I am sure you have testimonies in many ways
even in your living standards you can see improvements in all respects.
19.
What if you obey fully, don’t you think you will receive
more? Because I believe that God has good intentions for His people, sometimes
you do not understand these things. When you obey this message you will be
managing your resources very well, you will even be happy with yourself, when you
look around, you are always happy because I believe without this message none
of us in this Faith can manage our resources very well. Outside this Faith
every other human being is a beast.
20.
If you see the little he has achieved he has wasted more
than that. If a heathen saves ten naira, he has wasted one thousand. That’s the
life of a heathen but it shouldn’t be so with us at all.
21.
Mr. Johnson, you have not added any feather since you
started manifesting unbelief you have not even turned Onitsha upside down
neither have you competed favorably with “Young Shall Grow” transport company. Then
what is the essence of your unbelief? What have you achieved?
22.
Mr. Johnson! Mr.
Johnson!! It is now that your true colors are coming out. Mr. Johnson, the quiet
devil, cool demon, green snake lying on a green grass, very quiet and delicate,
unpredictable Johnson, Mr. Johnson. It will take a foolish man to cherish sleeping
outside when he should feel comfortable in his house with his wife. I do not
think a man that is sincere derives any comfort sleeping outside his family.
23.
He takes pleasure sleeping outside, if it means sleeping
in his vehicle, he will be happy there. I believe there is insincerity
somewhere. If the man is sincere he should tell us the truth.
24.
Johnson, if you tell me that you enjoy sleeping in your vehicle
or in your lorry or in the motor park, that it gives you more enjoyment than
staying in your house with your family, I will believe it to some extent
because it is a sure sign that there is something wrong in your house,
something is pursuing you out of your house. If that thing is not from you, it
is from your wife. I hope somebody is getting what I am saying.
25.
I have always told you that the delicious plate of a
concubine can keep a man away from his house. Even if he is staying with his
family, once he remembers it, he takes his leave, he knows how to do that: “Excuse me, I am coming now, now”. You
will not see him again till the following day. I believe that there is a
delicious plate somewhere that is attracting your attention away from your
home.
26.
Any woman that takes pleasure only in collecting money
and materials from the husband and does not delight in the husband staying
around her; staying around the family, that woman is a fool! To a real daughter
of God, what brings her joy is not the quantity of food you bring home, it is not
the amount of money you dump; it is your presence in the family.
27.
There is nothing that can substitute the presence of the
husband in the home; I mean the presence of the husband in his family has no
substitute. Your brother cannot substitute that; your father cannot do that.
Sometimes you hear some foolish men saying: “I do not know what is her trouble, after all,
I kept money in the house, we have enough food!” Do you think that was
why she married you? Was she dying of starvation before you married her?
28.
If the essence of marriage ends in having enough food
and enough money, let us forget about marriage! Let me just tell you my own
little experience.
29.
Do you know that the presence of a man, a husband in the
house scares away, drives away evil spirits? As long as the man is there in the
house, there is no evil spirit that can attack any member of the household, but
when they look for the man and he is not around, they can even start with the
wife; attack the wife, attack all the children until you see them fainting.
30.
But once the man steps in, everywhere starts heating
again, you see life coming back again. Before you know it without any drug, all
of them are healed because the demons will flee. The voice of a man, the foot
print of the man in the house scares all of them away. Can the rat eat the item
of one that is wide awake?
31.
If you ask me the time children suffer most I will say it
is the time their father is not at home and the mother is always confused, she does
not know what to do, sometimes she will resort to weeping and crying and that will
not solve it. However, once the man comes in, everywhere is bubbling with life
again, demons are flying out from the windows, from the roofs. You see them;
all of them leaving the house for authority has come back.
32.
If you have proved what I am saying to be true why not
show by raising your hand. It is experience! There is something God placed in a
man, that is, the husband. Once a man gets married and assumes his office, God
endows him with that gift for effective administration of the home.
33.
You have not understood what I am saying. You may have
drugs in the house, you can even be a nurse, administer the whole drugs you
want, no remedy. If you like go to the hospital, as long as the man did not
accompany you, no remedy yet. When you recognize this, nothing will ever make
you or force you to plan your business in such a way that you will be keeping
away from your home and you form it as a habit that they will only see you in
the morning, before 2: 00pm you are gone again only to be gone and back by 9
o’clock in the morning the following day.
34.
Thus, every night you will spend it outside. Ask me the
time that Satan is at work, it is always in the night, death shines more in the
night than in the day. You can go to bed, your children can go to bed healthy,
before 2: 00am you see their temperatures running very high without any sign. You
can see your wife who was healthy, you see her shivering. Before you know it,
she has become convulsive, no sign! Why? Because the Devil operates most in the
night.
35.
Any man that abandons his children every night is
running a risk of losing all of them in a twinkle of an eye. Yes, you can lose
all of them because when that night attack comes, the highest thing your wife
can do is to raise alarm and heathens will be attracted, whatever they will
administer that time will be things that
are negative to that sickness and it will result to death.
36.
A heathen cannot recognize anything that will be
positive to a sickness, in that panic condition, all of them are confused,
before you know it the person is gone.
37.
But if the man is there nobody will even hear anything!
For he knows how to bring the situation under control. Even if the woman wants
to shout, he will say, “Will you close your mouth! there is nothing wrong, give
me a bottle of olive oil there.” He will carry the baby in his hands anoint the
baby and go to bed with that baby. Then ask the madam to go to bed, before
morning you see the boy walking about because authority has been exercised.
38.
Experience is better than knowledge. It gets to an
extent where the baby will be sick in the night and the mother will be scared,
the mother will not like to touch the baby again, she will be afraid, it is the
father alone that can have the courage to carry the baby. The mother will only
be running up and down shouting: “Hey!…
my God has killed me!”. Experience is the best teacher.
39.
I have to talk to all of you because it is not easy to
run a home, especially beginners like Mr. Johnson. If you are a beginner, you
have to copy from your brethren. However, if you want to pattern after your
father, we have no objection. You may say that all of them survived and this
and that.
40.
They survived because they were at the mercy of nature;
you can leave your own also. Do you know that sometimes the mother and the
child can develop sickness at the same time? Do you know it is possible? I mean
a situation comes when the mother is sick and she needs help, the child is also
sick. That is where the father will play his role as the bumper. What if he is
not around?
41.
As long as the father is at home, nobody lives in fear.
The presence of the father in the home drives away all fears. Do you know that
once the husbandman of the house is at home, the wife does not believe that
even armed robbers can strike in the house. Even if it rains heavily in the
night she will only be snoring, no matter the noise in the night, it does not
concern her because the husband is there, even if the doors are open, nobody
locked the doors; as long as the husband is there, she has no trouble.
42.
If the husband is not around, she will only be praying: “God,
let it never rain in the night”. That’s number one prayer. Number two prayer
would be: “May there be no gun shots around!” If she hears: “Open the door” and
the husband is not around, even if it was from the neighborhood, “na im be say man don die”.
43.
However, if the man is there, you see him open the door
and go out to find out what is happening, the wife will be saying, “Daddy
do not go out!” but the man will say: “Stay there, I must know what is
happening”. And when he comes back he will ask everybody to go back to sleep,
that there is no problem, that he looked round and saw just little, little
boys, that’s all.
44.
All I am saying is that God has permitted us to get
married and has given us all that we need to defend our children in any
condition. However, if you just go out and come back with one bag of rice, one
bag of fish and one goat, dump one million naira in the house and then go away;
if trouble comes, can all those things solve the problem?
45.
Those things will be there and death will strike. Those
things will be there and Satan will still do havoc and go away. But if you are
there, there is no problem. Do you know that a man in the house knows how to
arrest every situation; that’s what makes him a man. The wife, the children,
the maidservants, all of them are dependent on him and he cannot run away. If he
runs away, who protects them.
46.
Just like a man walking on the main road with his wife
and he sees a masquerade and you see the man running away abandoning the wife.
If I happened to be that woman, the man will not marry me again or I will not
go outside with him again. I am telling you the truth.
47.
If you are a man and you are walking on the road with
your wife; you know masquerade hates women, no matter how fierce or dangerous a
masquerade might be, you carry your wife and place her behind you and stand in
front. All the masquerade will do is to say, “Oga!” That’s all.
48.
I told you my experience many years ago there at Ogbo Mmanu
Junction at New Market Road Onitsha, by that time I have not even had Ijeoma.
We saw so many masquerades, they rushed forward; I was going somewhere with my
wife; so my wife wanted to run, I said, “Wait, do not run.” She came by my side.
What is more, the masquerades started shouting: “Madam, do not run away! We are not looking for you, it is your husband
we are looking for!”
49.
Courageously I stood there, my wife was hiding behind me
about four of them approached Me. they said, “Sir, give us something”. There is no masquerade that can flog
me when my wife is standing behind me, he cannot. He must respect my marital
status and he must know that I never got married without putting on mask one
day, I must have passed that stage.
50.
You do not just wake up and start marrying, no. People like
us who played the game very well, if you flog me in the presence of my wife, that
is to say death has struck, because I know where to grip the masquerade and he
will suffocate. I know where to pull and he will suffocate because I have put
on the mask before.
51.
I invite to the pulpit our teacher this morning. The one
that is going to be my choice of a teacher is no other but Bishop Okey Paul.
Bishop Okey Paul you are welcome to the pulpit. Let us hear God speak through
him this morning.
52.
He has been on holiday all this while and he has rested
a lot; he has gathered enough strength, so this morning if he is happy then we
are happy.
53.
Bishop Okey Paul, it is now your turn! You have been in
the cooler for too long and we want to feed from him. Remember I told you that
God permitting me, I will be in the pulpit today. So if you want to check out
after hearing him, you can check out. Amen.
SECTION 2
THERE IS STILL
BATTLE AHEAD
BY
BISHOP OKEY PAUL NWANKPA
1
THERE IS STILL
BATTLE AHEAD (1)
I have not been
running away from the pulpit, but one thing is clear: I am a man that preaches
my conviction by day or by night. It may run contrary to the belief of the
household, it may run contrary to my own belief
but as long as I am convinced it is the truth, I declare it by day and
by night.
2.
Thus, a time is coming when one day I will boldly preach
a message. The pastors have been inviting me over and over, I told them to be
patient with me.
3.
You see, if I read the Epistle today, do not be
disappointed. I believe that God is God of revelation and He can speak to my
heart outside what is written in the Epistle, yet it is truth; irrefutable
truth.
4.
I do not like stereotyped
sermons or policed message, I love preaching at will and at liberty. Nothing is
wrong with me and nothing is wrong with anybody except what is wrong with the
wrong. Yes, I said except what is wrong with be wrong.
5.
I did not know I will be in the pulpit. I have not
programmed myself to be in the pulpit but He has programmed me to be in the
pulpit. Thus, whichever way I go, bear with me.
6.
I believe in reminding us many things, that is why I said
that if I know I will be in the pulpit today I will remind us of those things
which we have learnt from the very beginning but I thank God for everything. It
is like when the voice was saying something concerning green card, He said, “Until
we are convinced that you are a member of this household we cannot issue you
our green card”.
7.
It flashed up something in me which I know is a
revelation of truth. Do you know that if we give you green card here, anybody
that obtains green card, he only naturalized, you are adopted to be a member of
that nation? It can be taken away because you are not born to be a member of
that nation.
8.
THE LAST WAR WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT IS THE WAR BETWEEN
ADOPTED SONS OF GOD AND BONA FIDE SONS OF GOD. The last warfare is going to be
warfare between adopted children of God and sons and daughters of God. I do not
believe I can be adopted as a child of God; let me tell you what I mean.
9.
If we take away your green card, I have people living in
U. S. A, they stayed many years and because of how many years they have spent
with the nation like I have spent almost thirteen years more in Onitsha, if it
is in America I am qualified to request or apply for a green card because of
how obedient I am, I am not injurious to the nation and also how many years I
have stayed; I can be issued a green card. It is like being adopted as a son.
10.
When you are adopted as a son, let it be known to you that
any father who establishes his family based on adopted children is an impotent
father. Hold your peace, we are coming. If as I am living with my wife now, we
have spent many years without an issue, I went and adopted some children as my
sons and daughters, let it be known to you that I did not begat a child.
11.
Children of God are begotten, they are not adopted.
Jesus was the first begotten of the Father; Abraham begot Isaac read it all
through your scripture, it will tell you this begot this, this begot this, they
are sons, but in this Faith you know, let me tell you one other thing; one
other truth I want you to know: I do not believe that God had begotten children
in Israel and adopted sons and daughters in the Gentile, rather, I believe God
is a polygamist.
12.
God is a polygamist! The name of the first wife is Israel,
the name of the second is Gentile and there was no single child that God ever
adopted, they all were begotten sons and daughters of God. Thus, what reminded
me this truth is because of what was said about our Brother Johnson.
13.
If your green card is taken away from you, that goes to
show you are adopted. Like many of you have been jumping up because of your
adoption, we are not disputing with you, remain in your adoption but very soon,
sons and daughters of God will be made manifest.
14.
It is not a misnomer, I am speaking the true language. As
of now sons and daughters of God are only revealed but they are not made
manifest yet. Let me tell you what I mean. David met Samuel one day and Samuel
told him the Lord has sent him and told him that David shall be king over
Israel, it was a revelation.
15.
David knew now he will be the king, Samuel also knew
that David is the king by revelation but was he made manifest to Israel? He was
not yet made manifest but a day came when the trumpet was blown and the whole
people saw David being made manifest as a king of Israel. That was why, even in
the Bible, it said that the world have not known us that we are children of God
because it is through their revelation.
16.
Like we preach that God is man, it is a revelation to he
that believes it, but that God whom we call a man has not been made manifest to
the world as God but you are holding the revelation that God is a man. That is
what I am trying to say.
17.
The scripture says that when the sons and daughters of
God are made manifest, we will bring nature under control, immortality will
reign. You know, the last Law has not been conquered, I mean the last law has
not been abolished. There is still a law that is reigning and that law is the
king of kings from that day God said: “Thou shall surely die.”
18.
The law went forth, has that law been abolished? No! It
is still reigning, that was why in first Corinthians 15:24, he said that it is
going to be the last that will be crushed. I’m trying to say that until that
last law is abolished, the battle still rages on.
19.
Soldiers of Christ are still on the warfare. But when
you are relaxed, you are like people that are enjoying in Kadesh-barnea. You
are just making merriment at Kadesh-barnea. The warfare is not yet over. That’s
what I am saying: Until immortality swallows up mortality, that is the last law;
we are not free from it.
20.
As at now, I am still longing for He that I will worship
openly as King of kings, He that can bring that king of kings (death) under
final subjection, that is He that merit my worship and adoration.
21.
What am I trying to say, if God still wants to receive
my praise in fullness, the adoration of
his children lavished, it will be the day He will enable His children to put on
immortality and then put death under their feet. That’s what I am trying to say
brethren. If I worship Him for a while, in the cause of time, this stammering
lips will lie silent in the grave, and you know that the dead do not praise God.
22.
What is the bride longing for? The children of God are
longing for God to subject the king of kings in the world under their footstool,
because there is a king of kings in the world and that is death. He is the king
of kings; he reigneth over kings, over princes, over queens, over all creation,
he reigned over Moses in all his miracles signs and wonders.
23.
Why we have not yet seen worship is because the kings of
kings is still somewhere making noise, he is still somewhere making noise, but
God has the King of kings in His Family that is prophesied to bring that king
of kings in the world (death) under subjection, and that is the last battle,
read it in your Bible.
24.
Let us go to the reference book. 1 Corinthians 15. I want to make a statement there, I am just
building a little foundation so that I will read the Epistle and come down
within few minutes. Let me tell you, immortality is our heart desire, that’s what
we are longing for.
25.
While we are in this mortal estate, there is still a
veil hindering us from exercising the full liberty which God has promised His children.
This veil is still our enemy, that’s why some time you get sick.
26.
First Corinthians
15 verse
24, “But
every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are
Christ's at his coming.
27.
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the
kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all
authority and power.
28.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under
his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death!” KJV.
29.
The last enemy is death, let’s clap our hands to God,
finish it, “This two must be defeated and ended”. Let me tell you, no
matter the comfort I enjoy in this present world, I am not at ease. My soul is
longing when He, Christ will bring this death to a final defeat, when there
will never be a day I will remember that one day I am going to die; it will
never come in to my thought. I am not talking spiritually now, No I am not
talking spiritually. I am not talking spiritually.
30.
Spiritually, advance payment has been made but I am
talking about the physical possession of this immortal body. The war started in
the spiritual realm and became manifest in the physical. It is no longer a
spiritual warfare now. It is now both physical and spiritual because God is no
longer a spirit without body, He is a spirit with body, not only with theophany
body but also with a physical body.
31.
God is still a tenant until he has defeated this last
enemy. I am longing for a period when I will stay eternally with Him so that,
not maybe one day when you look for me and you do not see me, you weep. No!
That thought will not rise again. No! That language will not arise again, let
me weep now.
32.
Brethren, you have pulled me contrary. You see, God is
not foolish, He knows what He is doing. I am trying to say that the battle
still lies ahead that the war isn’t over for as children of God, we are not in
a hurry, we know that we are going to manifest but as at now, we know that it
is revealed that we are children of God.
33.
I know who I am, you know who you are but the world do
not know us because we are not yet made manifest. William Branham in his day
called it “forty days walkabout”. That is the great manifestation hour. Then
Christ will lead His Army. You know whom Christ is, I mean not to interpret Who
He is.
34.
I am saying brethren, your attitude presently depends on
the way you are still seeing the truth of the Gospel. Do you know there is Gospel?
Yet there is truth of the Gospel. You may believe the Gospel, Jesus preached
sermons openly, that is a sermon, that is a Gospel but in the inner circle, you
will see the truth of the Gospel.
35.
He will ask them: “Ha-ha, are you still without understanding
like the people who just heard sermon like that?” To them it is hidden
away but to you, I want you to understand what the truth of this Gospel is. Thus,
if you do not know that you will err then, battle is still on.
36.
I believe in all these good things God is giving to us to
prosper both physically and spiritually. Remember, the purpose of God revealing
His children, sending them down to Earth is to come down with them, stay here
fight the battle, bring these spirits under subjection and then Christ will now
establish the kingdom physically, which at the end you will no longer know or
hear: “Brother, we went to a burial service”.
37.
Any day I discover that the only purpose of God sending
us here is after clapping hands then He will bury us, and that is the end of my
race, let me tell you, that God is not worthy to be worshiped. There was a
target for all the pilgrims that ran this race before us and what was the
target: that this tabernacle will be dropped and then we will put on the
immortal tabernacle.
38.
That was why when the Son of Man told us His experience
concerning our Brother Gibson, I believed it. Whom did he see? It was Brother
Gibson. There is no atomic bomb, there is no nuclear weapon, there is no AK 47,
there is no motor accident that can crush that body that was seen along
Benjamin Street Onitsha.
39.
No weapon discovered, no weapon invented can abolish
that body. Yet, it was the type of the “real” that is following every true
child of God. Branham in his day said that your theophany body is always around
you. All that are happening today is signifying that we are approaching the end
and then every true child of God should not allow anything on Earth to becloud his
or her eyes.
40.
Do not allow your testimony to only end in: “God
is good to me, I have raised a house. See in this ministry I have built a house.
See, I am now changing dresses; I am now feeding very well. You see, all I asked
for, everything is around me.” If that limits your vision and you think that
you have arrived the Paradise, you are only fooling yourself.
41.
I thank God, He told us that the land they are
struggling for is our own. In other words, Paradise is on Earth, it is not in
any other place and I believe that man must live on Earth for one day at least,
because our whole aim is that He will bring us to accomplish that one day rest,
before you talk of immortality.
42.
Is it not a shameful thing that since man was created,
the oldest man that ever lived according to history (as the Bible recorded) is
nine hundred and sixty and nine years. Every day you are struggling, before you
know it now, you will start stooping low.
43.
Let me just give you an instance, the Son of Man told us
this thing many years ago that when you see snakes, a time comes when they
shell the scale; the old snake that has stayed over one hundred and something
years, when you look at it, it will be so plump like a baby wearing fresh body,
yet it is the same snake.
44.
That was why when William Branham had a vision many
years ago, he said that he saw beyond the curtain which is the message He
promised to hand down very soon. He said over there, brothers and sister were
hugging one another, saying: “Thank God,
oh God bless you”. But he did not recognize them. Some said: “Don’t
you know me? I am your first wife, Hope.” The other one said: “I am this sister that was ninety years old
but look at me, I am now young.” What happened? They were renewed, they knew who they are.
45.
You know there were many nuggets we have been receiving
all these while, when they go out you think I do not understand but I went
ahead meditating that God will help me understand this truth more and more.
46.
What am I trying to say? If I reincarnate and I do not
recognize who I am, it is profitless. If it was only Elijah and Jesus Christ that
can recognize that they are Christ, then it is useless coming to Earth.
47.
That was why heathens that did not know the truth about it,
once a child is born, they will go to a native doctor, they will ask him: “We have given birth to a boy, who is he?”
They will be enquiring because they want to know, but he that refuses the new
name, at the fullness of time must know whom he is.
48.
If you are Peter, you must know you are Peter, your age
not minding. If you are John, you must know you are John, your age not minding
because God will make it a revelation in your heart.
49.
Not when we are talking about Moses, talking about Judas,
Jezebel, you are trying to guess, sometimes you try to reject it saying, “I do
not want to be Judas! I do not want to be Jezebel! I want to be Joshua.”
50.
No! I say very soon those questions must be settled in
your hearts. God will settle all because when you arrive we know that you have
arrived.
THIS GENERATION IN
PROPHECY
51.
We are still going on. We are coming. When I said “we”,
I am not saying of any other thing than the ministers of the truth of the Gospel
which we also have in your midst, not foreigners.
52.
They will be speaking to you by day and by night, they
have been speaking. They are still the same people you know to breakdown all
that have been hanging all this while so that everybody will know his or her position.
53.
When you make noise you know where you are standing. When
you jump up, you know where you are standing. When you dance, you know why you
are dancing. If there is time for me to
get some archeological materials, I would have brought it and read before you
so that you know that the hour we are living in should be taken seriously.
54.
God is telling us that everything is pointing to the
Middle East; something dangerous must happen there, believe it. If you read the
publication “This Generation in Prophecy,” the Son of Man wrote something
there.
55.
When he was talking about the wars, He said, “This is not what I am talking about now.
Will there be war at the end?” Not world war. He said: “Yes, surely there will
be war, but that is the long awaited Armageddon war. The last action Israel is
going to take against Palestine is going to create a lot of hostility to the
extent that nations will rise against them including America. But this is not
the matter at stake now.” Then He packed it there.
56.
We read the book but we ignored that paragraph because
in that paragraph is what will be making you to warm up because it is a
calendar.
57.
As of last night news, Israel used tanks to kill a lot
of Palestinians and the world is not happy. They keep on doing many, many
things because one day the world will remember Israel, Israel will have no
friend and their only defense will be God and God alone. They will not be
defeated but many of them will be killed, they will suffer, they will pass
through tribulations.
58.
I was happy last week when the voice was telling us
about Pope; what he is about to do and his plans and Israel’s plan to enter into
agreement with European Union for seven years. He said that by the time they
will discover what is going on, it will be too late, then they will react and
the whole people will rise up against them.
59.
Thus, they as well know that they are not friend of this
world. Let me tell you every Jew knows that they are not friend with the
Gentiles, no matter their interaction they still know that they are heathens,
despised and rejected by the whole world. They are not comfortable with any
nation. Even if they go in to any agreement, like you heard, it is by deceit.
60.
Thus, any child of God that feels comfortable in this
present world, with the events around us, if you are still comfortable, if you
are not desperate, if your spirit is not yearning for more and more truth
towards immortality, let me tell you, there is a question mark in him or her.
61.
Last week, the Son of Man was rehearsing before us, some
of the prophecies we heard from the very beginning and I said they are true,
because I have studied some of them over and over. Let me tell you, a time
comes when children of God used to watch prophecies by their Prophets, it is no
longer mainly stopping at doctrines or teachings or lifestyles but you watch
prophecies that went forth through your Prophets.
62.
It was at a time like this that Daniel was watching prophecies
of Jeremiah knowing how many years that it took. It was a time like this that
people like Moses counted the calendar, heard the prophecy and what God told
their father Abraham concerning their stay in Eygpt, they were sure that it was
now time to get ready.
63.
If you look at the whole nation, it appears everybody is
saying we have arrived. William Branham in his day said something, he said: “You preachers, you Pentecostals, I indict
you because you contradict your testimony; your confessions by your character. You
promise people that God is going to burn the world with fire, that the disaster
is coming, that God is going to burn up this Earth, but you go ahead owning
skyscrapers, multimillion dollars, telling the people that God is going to
destroy this Earth, you are not worthy of the Gospel of Christ.”
64.
Yet God said that if you are building, go ahead building;
if you are marrying; go ahead marrying. In closing he said, “Remember that
wherever the man’s treasure is, there his heart is.”
65.
Last week, we were warned to take heed of the motives
why we are in this Faith. There is a
motive why I am in this Faith; there must be something you heard from the
beginning. When Son of Man gave some instances like, some that said they never
believed us, but when they heard us preach the message of grace, they said: “Truly, God is with this people. I know God
is here now, I know God is here!”
66.
That day reminded me of the prophecies I read some years
ago and then I went fresh into it recently, and that prophecy went through the
lips of our Brother, the Son of Man. It was very lengthy. There, He was calling
the congregation mockers! He said, “Woe betide you”. At a point, that prophecy
said: “Watch! Watch out! Church, watch out! Many that did not believe you in
the beginning, they will come, they will come, watch out, every bench will be
filled”. That was the language in the prophecy, every bench he said will be
filled, everywhere filled.
67.
The voice went further, “People that did not believe my
message from the beginning, they will come and believe. Now they said we have
believed, are they going to be a blessing? They will not be a blessing, they
will not be a blessing, watch out, they will come! They will come!”
68.
If there is a time all our benches will be filled like
we heard last week, it is now. And I must tell you, that’s why I have
challenged a lot of brethren that said a lot of things around me. I asked: “When
did this testimony start?” They said, “When we were under the law?” Which law?
69.
I know from the time the Apostle was commissioned we
never preached any message of Law, he preached Christ. It is like what the Prophet
said in Mixed-Multitude: “Tell the
tares I have identified them, I am going to uproot them”. From that time
we were strict. We read the message of marriage 1995 and it brought life to
many, was it law?
70.
Read all our old jotters, tell me, where was Law? Tithe
was abolished from the time the commission started. We never paid tithe from
the day the commission started, we were drinking alcohol, starting from my own
parlor from 1992. We never went to the Temple with turtle dove, we never
observed Sabbath day, nothing at all.
71.
We were not even observing fasting and praying according
to the Law, rather we used to have convocations. When there were cases, the
Lord will call us, summon us at His Instruction, He will say that even infants
will not eat until this matter is sorted out. Then when did the Law come?
72.
What is more, we believe that when we were born into
this world that no law existed because already Christ had died and has taken care
of the Law. Then when did this ministry come under the Law? But people came up
and started standing at the altar, some composed song with it: “When we where
under the Law, we saw many things in the wilderness”, because we were obedient
to the instruction we received from the very beginning. It has been
instructions, commandments, instructions; that’s all.
73.
Then maybe what became Grace was the sexual intercourse.
Maybe that was what became Grace. However, I thank God for the voice that said:
“If that was what you heard and came in, you are perishing, you are perishing”.
Let’s keep that one there because some may now say, “Bishop, you do not believe
the thing again?” I believe in Grace and will ever believe in Grace.
74.
I read that prophecy and that prophecy kept saying, “Back
to the beginning, back to the beginning, back to the beginning.” That is why no
message of the beginning is rehearsed in this sanctuary without a revival
starting up in the flock because some of those doctrines
75.
Let me tell you, this Pillar of Fire, I never saw one
from 1998. All these were taken in 1996 and that was the climax of the ministry,
from 1992 to 1997, that was the climax. However, I am trying to say something,
that the God whom we are worshipping, that is still in our midst, vindicated
all that was preached in this sanctuary from 1992 to 1997 which you called the
message of the Law.
76.
Who were calling it law? Mockers, scoffers in the camp.
Bring back the tapes let us slot them in, we will see that they were just pure
truth but the only thing then was that they were harsh, hard truth and they were
the bones that made the people become what they are. Hence, if we drink alcohol
today that does not mean you are a member of Grace message, because right
from the Law, alcohol was being taken.
77.
Understand the teachings we have received, that will
help you to line up with the instructions that were received, that will help
me. Know it that the strictness of the Gospel is still abounding, that is why in
one of the Epistles Apostle wrote, He said, “You can bear me witness that in all
these years, I have maintained the strictness of an Apostle, and that
strictness was misconstrued to be Law.”
78.
Thus, any minister that will come up tomorrow preaching
this message in its strictness as we received it from the very beginning, many in
this Church will term it as taking us back to the Law.
79.
Thus, be careful of what you believe, be convinced of
the truth that brought you in this Faith. The truth that brought you in this
Faith will determine the type of life you will live and then the life you live
will help your vision to be long-ranged or short-ranged concerning your
spiritual life as a child of God.
80.
Because it was the moment the children of God lost their
experience that they started playing at Kadesh-Barnea in those days, everybody
thought the battle was over. There is a way the message will go in the Church
and I will chill in my bone when it is coming out through the mouth of the Son
of Man. Sometimes you do not know God. I fear when He is in the Church speaking
to us through a human being.
81.
Do you know God?
God was so great that He did not allow Moses, Aaron after all their labour, to
see that land, despite the plea. Aaron ahead of time was dropped, Moses along
the line was dropped and then the children of God continued. This thing I am
saying now, flew into my heart either when Apostle Kelechi or the Son of Man
was speaking.
82.
He made a statement that made me to go back searching
and meditating through the scriptures, I said, “God!” That was the day somebody
was talking about re-circumcision maybe through the Son of Man. He said
something about re-circumcision, I took the Bible and read that account but I
came across something that made my bones to knock together: the scripture
recorded that all that left Egypt, “all” of them died there in the wilderness
and then God commanded Joshua to circumcise the people born in the wilderness.
They were not part of the first circumcision.
83.
For that reason they were now circumcised. They did not
know what circumcision was all about. There was no place it was written in the Bible
that those that were circumcised will be circumcised with knife again, but is
was those that do not know what circumcision is all about that full the
wilderness because war has killed both leaders and chiefs, there was nothing
they have again.
84.
When it was being discussed it seems like it is a myth.
And Joshua started circumcising them, one by one; before they know it, they
have already been circumcised; they all went to their tents and laid down, none
of them went out that day. They stayed some days, maybe three days according to
that record. Nobody went outside until that thing was over.
85.
I say God may it
not be so unto us. You see, the circumcision we know today is no other thing
than you accepting the truth of the Gospel into your life. I, accepting it into
my life and then you see the true fellowship going. True fellowship takes place
in the spirit before it takes place in the body. You can dance around yet
fellowship is not going on.
86.
What am I saying brethren? In this background, if the Son
of Man said that I am coming to give a teaching; teaching means things you
tabled down well, well; line by line; precept upon precept. But I was not well
equipped for that. Hence, I decided to exhort you briefly.
87.
Children of God the battle is yet not over, we have not
yet arrived anybody saying we have arrived tell the person no, we have not yet
arrived. And that was why he told us in the beginning that we should not forget
those things our eyes have seen, our ears have heard lest a time will come when
we feel we have arrived. We have not yet arrived until this mortal body is dropped,
until this supernatural body reigns, we have not yet arrived.
88.
Then you should have this vision in your heart. I mean
your sword will be on, you keep on fighting, your sword will be on. It is because
people feel they have arrived that is why we are hearing warning: “Our
brother stop going to work, why don’t you go to fellowship.”
89.
A time came when this vision was in the mind of many,
nobody reminds you to come to fellowship. That thing that will hinder you, you
try to fight it because the vision is fresh in your heart, that’s what I am
trying to remind you. It is because this vision has eluded the hearts of many:
you ask for food, you get it; you ask for house, you get it; you ask for cloth,
you get it; you ask for pleasure, you get it; you feel you have arrived.
90.
There is no present comfort that can comfort you against
the disaster that will befall the world. The only comfort is for you to remain
where God have kept you, keep following that path until you see yourself
putting on that immortal body. We are not exaggerating immortality but the
truth is that it is real. It is real and that is what our hearts is longing
for. Amen.
2
THERE IS STILL
BATTLE AHEAD (2)
I have in mind to
read this: “Stand Still and I Will Show
You the Word of God”. I will read this epistle to remind you of some things.
Chapter 4, page 37 of Great Sermon. Verse 29: “We who preach the word of salvation have the
same faith with the one who brought the salvation. Believers are only hated
because of the word of truth which they hold without compromise even in the
face of death”.
2.
Note, even in the face of death. We preach what we
preach in this Gospel truth without compromise. I preached a message many years
ago a sermon titled “Social Life versus Christianity”. They are two different
types of life we are here because we will reflect the son-ship. We reflect the
image of He that has sent us here. We do not have two visions and that is the
purpose why he came.
3.
That was why Saint Paul in his day addressed the children
of God as soldiers of the Cross. A child of God is a soldier of the Cross and
he dares not relax until the final battle trumpet is blown. That’s why I said
that it is not yet over until that thing that is called the last enemy (death) is
brought to complete annihilation.
4.
Saint Paul told his people in his day that they should
put on the whole amour of Christ. We are warring, but instead of living as
soldiers many are now living as “agbada men” (civilians). In the warfare that
went forth in Iraq, anybody that thought it is just play-play, you know he is
going! Until you agree that the war is over no soldier will go about playing
away his life. If you go about there with only women being your headache or
ordinary alcohol being your headache, or looting the properties in Iraq being
your headache; let it be known to you that the warfare there will swallow you.
5.
That is why I believe what our Brother IK the teacher
taught many years ago that we are sailing in a ship. Like the world, you know
it is a multitude of water. We are in a ship, really going across; passing
across temptations and trials which are the storms of life. We are sailing. As
long as a man is in a ship he has to be very, very conscious because the world
is full of ocean, left and right.
6.
He was also saying that day, the day he turned the
pyramid upside down, “I believe in balancing God’s word and do not preach a Gospel
that is one-sided, preach the Gospel that is balanced. Any day you preach a Gospel
that is one-sided, you cause fanaticism, you cause trouble”. Yes I believe that
to be truth, yes I believe that pyramid because the pyramid is the rock and I
believe that the children of God are hidden in the Rock of Ages. We use them to
type our messages.
7.
When you are hidden in that Rock you dare not get away
from that Rock, you remain where you are placed. That’s why that pyramid that
is in Egypt which is a type of what is drawn here, no weapon, no missile, no bomb
has ever succeeded in breaking it into pieces, it has lasted centuries. It has
always remained intact, year in year out. So, it is solid ground. Anything that
is hidden therein cannot be tampered with.
8.
When a child of God is hidden in Christ being the Rock
of Ages, no matter the weapon you form, you cannot destroy the person. While we
are still on Earth brethren, we come to fellowship and make our joyful noise. Well,
that is good if you are a child of God but if you are not a child of God, you
will say: “Let them talk the way they used to talk. What is brother trying to tell
us today? Is he trying to say that he is now spiritual?”
9.
We are not interested on how many people that are in the
Church hailing us but we are mindful of the few that are ready to obey the Word.
To a true Prophet of God, if a time comes when people are not interested to
hear him he will come openly and say, “Earth hear the voice of the Lord; Earth
hear the voice of the Lord; I have declared it.”
10.
If ministers come to the pulpit and hand down the truth
of the Gospel and you turn around and say: “Well, that is the way that brother
used to talk, what he says is always somehow”. That is up to you, it depends from
where you are taking your pleasure.
11.
THUS, WE PREACH THIS GOSPEL WITHOUT COMPROMISE. WE HAVE
FOUGHT THE WAR, WE CAN TESTIFY THAT THE BATTLE HAS BEEN FOUGHT OUTSIDE BUT THE
LAST BATTLE NOW IS WITHIN. WE HAVE TOLD THE WORLD THE WHOLE TRUTH. There was a
time when their faces used to change, when we were telling them the hard truth
but a time has come when the last truth will be certain among us.
12.
You are not yet a child of God until the truth is given
to you in a harder way. A time came in the time of William Branham, in his day
he travelled and was coming in, a man was on the pulpit, they met him on the
pulpit preaching a very hard message as he received it from the beginning and
then he kept on preaching and preaching, he did not know that the Prophet has
returned from his trip and was sitting back there. The man was preaching the
hard way.
13.
A time came then he made an altar call like it was being
made in their day. Immediately he finished making the altar call the person
they saw lying present in the altar was William Branham. When William Branham
was praying and crying the man left the pulpit, fell down at the altar and was
crying: “Lord what have I spoken that could bring your servant to this sacred
place, I am worse than him.”
14.
William Branham was saying: “Lord I am a man, nobody is
above this hard truth”. While all of them were roaming at the altar, there were
tears everywhere. I do not know whether Apostle Kelechi has ever come in
contact with what I am saying. I used it as an instance, nobody is above hard
truth.
15.
If this household wants to survive, we should always
begin to say hard truth to one another not only from one mouth or two mouths,
it must be from every member, take it as a decision that the love you show your
brother must be the love of telling him nothing but the hard truth. If it is in
your family tell it your wife, tell it to your brother, if it is in this Santuary,
tell it to one another because nobody wants to perish.
16.
That’s why I told you that as Prophets of God, they
prophesy, they discern, they declare all that God tells them but if people are
not ready to heed, why will they declare? Because they know that if the people will
be taken into captivity, they as well will be taken into captivity.
17.
There was nothing Jeremiah did not tell his people
concerning the evils they were doing yet they hardened up. Like we used to hear
the voice spoken in this Church. People hardened up. But do you know one
amazing thing? When they were taken to captivity, Jeremiah came with all the Prophets,
Daniel was there, everybody were now in Babylon. There was confusion.
18.
Yes, that’s what Babylon means – confusion. That’s why I
said it can never be well with Babylon. Like the Son of Man is telling us
physically or spiritually, it can never be well with Babylon, it will forever
remain God’s enemy. For the first Ecumenical movement started in Babylon; that
was where the tower of Babel was. Those that troubled children of God were
Babylonians, like we heard them in Jeremiah, because they have been God’s enemy,
they are a city of confusion.
19.
You see brethren, in the beginning of this ministry the Son
of Man told us and I believe it to be true, that truth is truth no matter who
speaks it. In that message, He said that even if the Pope of Rome says it, if
it is truth, it is truth; if it is a heathen that said it, if it is truth it is
truth. Truth is truth no matter who said it.
20.
In the year 2000 if it was possible we would have
apologized to the world because we were the people that said whatever that was
said. If you read the beginning of the publication “This Generation In
Prophecy” where he said, “Ye mortal
men don’t you know that this generation have come to an end, If there was no
2001BC how do you expect that there will be 2001AD?”
21.
We said it, we wrote it, and we declared it. You know
the problem we are having in this congregation is that we are now beginning to
fear to tell ourselves the truth. If we start telling ourselves the truth, God
who is in our midst will continue his work more and more. Even, we are
sincerely wrong; we said it, we are not the first to make prediction.
22.
William Branham in his day, if you do not know it, made
a prediction concerning the year 1977 when he preached the message: “70 weeks of Daniel”. There he said: “I am not saying, thus saith the Lord but I
am saying thus saith William Branham. By
the way things are going, by the Jewish calendar, the Roman calendar, I predict;
hear me, I am not saying thus saith the Lord, I predict by 1977 the Gentile
world will come to an end.”
23.
That was a prediction, there was nothing wrong there.
Another evil that befell us then was that whoever that typed that book killed
us. One, he never separated the newspaper excerpts putting them in italics as
quotes differentiating it from what the Son of Man is telling us in our day.
24.
Hence, whatever people read they read it one way. But in
this case like what I said, our Brother IK said we should take it seriously. Seriously
in the sense that what lies ahead of the world now is destruction upon
destruction; disaster upon disaster; wickedness upon wickedness; iniquity upon
iniquity; because there is no place you can lay hand on to declare this present
world a blessed world.
25.
This present world is not a blessed world. It is still an
accursed world. That’s why Apostle Kelechi, you can remember where our brother
preached some messages years ago, where he was talking about baptism of fire,
the last thing that will happen to this Earth is baptism of fire when God will
set this world ablaze by destroying this world and then burn off this planet Earth,
cleanse it; that is the final cleansing. Then you can expect blessing, then you
know that it is no longer a world you will sow a seed and expect fertilizer to
help it. No, it is no longer the time when you will be eating something and
dying.
26.
What am I saying brethren? I will read one other note. I
will say only one thing, in all I have said so far, term it one thing: THERE IS
STILL BATTLE AHEAD. THERE IS STILL DESTRUCTION AHEAD. Who will welcome it? It
is not he that says that he is a member of the household. Those that will
welcome it are really, the true children of God. They know they are children
and they will welcome it, they have this consciousness in them.
27.
We cannot be shouting at you, we will not have to tell
you to go back to the beginning; we will not have to remind you our doctrine;
in your marriage we will not have to tell you what to do because I know we
touched the issues that are causing trouble in marriage.
28.
Many of us know what is causing problem in many homes.
Some husbands know it, some wives equally know it but they do not want to tell
themselves the truth. We do not want to tell ourselves the truth and anybody
that does not what to tell him or herself the truth must continue to have crisis.
However, anybody that tells himself the truth, God knows your level and the
extent you know, and your family will be in peace. Anything you like say.
29.
We heard about the position of husbands in the
introductory part of the Son of Man’s exhortation. There is no medicine that
binds a family together more than love and truth, that is the greatest medicine
because where there is love, truth is there and that love covers somebody’s
mistakes, covers your shortcomings, that love understands you, that love understands
you, then why should you not live together in love? When love and truth are
walking together you will witness peace.
30.
I want to read another thing. The Epistle, chapter 5 Page 40. I am coming down, I
am not going to preach. It’s been a long time, I was told to come in this
pulpit. Pastor called, I said no that he should please exercise patience for me;
I am not running. I came to the pulpit just to read the Epistle.
31.
Page 40 verse 8: “Anybody
that has experienced forgiveness of sin and reconciliation for iniquity is the
only person that can manifest the divine love of God which does no harm to
anybody because it is absolutely good. God himself is love and all who are born
of God, do love all his children but the enemy, one that is on the opposing
side will always want to hurt and even kill them.”
32.
If you love your wife you will not keep her at the
opposite side and you will not desire to kill her. If you love your husband,
you cannot make him your enemy.
33.
What I am trying to say is this: that what keeps the
fellowship lively is this love and truth. The little I have dropped here today
is just to tell you that I am not running away from this very pulpit. I have a
lot to say, if it is coming as teaching,
notify me ahead of time so that I will substantiate myself with a lot of
materials that will help somebody.
34.
But today, Apostle Kelechi asked me whether I was the
one going to the pulpit, I said, “Well, I did not prepare for that.” It is like
what we used to say in this Church: “I
do not believe that there is anybody sitting down here believing nothing at all”.
35.
Everybody sitting down in the fellowship believes one
thing or the other. No vessel is vacant. If it is not filled with water it is
filled with air. Thus, do not tell us that you do not believe something, stop
saying that! You believe something and everybody knows you believe something
but that thing you believe may run contrary to my belief. Not that it is not
true because one problem people have is this: a truth might be brought to focus,
maybe because of the person that said it, you just keep it into dustbin because
you do not like the face, you do not like the person. After all he is too small
or he is too big and for that reason you do not want to take the truth.
36.
But if a truth is brought into focus you can only be
patient, do not call it false unless you are sure it is false, if you are not
sure wait until the revelation strikes you because from the beginning we were
taught that as long as you are sitting down in the Presence God, revelation can speak to the heart of Brother
Sam while Brother Mode will not hear.
37.
Anything might go out openly but the understanding will
differ; the revelations might differ. That’s why we are forging ahead little by
little, getting all that are in our armoury to draw the children of God to the
great magnet which is the everlasting truth from God.
38.
In conclusion brethren, remain in the battle, if you are
a child of God, remain in the battle. From the very beginning the warfare has
always been in the household. Yes, the warfare or the true revelation has
always been in the household because Cain and Abel were in the same family.
That’s why I keep on telling you that not everyone sitting down in the
fellowship is a child of God.
39.
Why? Abel have the real revelation of God, he had to
offer acceptable sacrifice, his brother Cain did not know but they were in the same
house, in the same family, God was speaking to both of them. As a result, be
careful to re-examine where you fit in, where you belong.
40.
The summary of what I am saying is that in the end it
must be remnant. In the beginning it was remnant, in the middle it was remnant,
in the end it must be remnant few. It must be a few. God has a way of doing His
things.
41.
Thus, if while you are sitting down with us and the only
way you know I am your brother is by the time I dance with you, it then means
you do not believe the scripture.
42.
If the only testimony you have is because of the
miracles, it is because of the signs or the healings or the financial
assistance, let me tell you, a child of God while on transit has a guide and
that is that Shekinah Cloud; God Himself guiding him wherever he goes and that Shekinah
Cloud is no other thing but the truth which is God Himself.
43.
If you take him to Deeper Life Church, his eyes are
still there (on the Shekinah Cloud). Immediately the thing leaves he will
follow. When the thing walks into Grace of God Mission, he will remain fixing
his eyes there. Immediately the thing moves he will move. When the thing will
take him and moves into End-time Message, he will sit down there. Immediately
the thing moves he will move too. The Shekinah Cloud will go into the Church at
Onitsha, he will remain and will never remove his eyes from that one.
44.
What is more, he that is leading the children of God has
not stopped, He is still moving. If you believe, I say that He is still moving
and that’s why we are following.
45.
Brethren the only way we can achieve this is by doing
whatever He instructs us to do, only in this way can we abide in Him as a branch
and can then bear good fruits. God has always instructed His people on what to
do and that is the only way of success and victory. And He can say “go ahead”, He
can say “stop,’ He can say “move rightward,” He can say “move leftward”.
46.
There are many things we will share with one another as
we continue, that is why I said I still believe in fivefold ministry. If it is
not necessary, God would not have distributed His Spirit. God believes in
diversities of gifts in order to keep His children alive.
47.
In the days of Moses, that was why he distributed the
spirit that when we come as family of God, he gave some apostles, some Prophets,
that’s why I keep on asking: Since this ministry started who are our Prophets?
Our Prophet is not William Branham. Remember he was the Prophet but we have Prophets.
48.
I have witnessed hands laid on Apostles, I have
witnessed hands laid on Evangelists, on Pastors and Teachers. I have witnessed
hands laid on Deacons, Bishops but I have never seen one called Prophet. It is
a different topic.
49.
Let me tell you what I am trying to say. You know we
call David God in his day. Is that true? I am trying to buttress the point that
any other office, no matter how little, do not belittle that voice because even
if he is speaking nonsense, there may be a little sense there. That is the
secret of survival of the people of God because we build revelations upon
revelations, revelations upon revelations.
50.
If it is a Deacon, hear him; if it is the Spirit of God
speaking through him, the Spirit of God in you will testify that it is from God.
It is not today that a child of God received the spirit of God, I am telling
you the truth. Before you can hear a message and say it is true, who told you
that it is true? It is because you have walked and talked with God before you
became a human being, so you know what God is.
51.
You talked with Him; you walked with Him before ever you
came to Earth. You walked with truth, you talked with truth before you became a
human. That’s why if you join a false group, something in you will resent it
even if somebody has not said anything about it, even when everybody is
jumping, and screaming hallelujah, hallelujah; something in you will keep on
saying contrary until you move.
52.
Then a little while you will hear somebody speaking and
you will say: “Yes sir that’s true, yes sir, glory, hallelujah!” What is moving you? Why did you say
it is truth? Why are you rejoicing? You have a token, you have a deposit, you
have a witness, you have a receptor that is planted in you to receive that same
message.
53.
All these things are beneficial in the Kingdom of God.
Let every minister that is really a minister of the Gospel speak the truth of
the Gospel as it is revealed in your heart to help your brother, to help your
sister.
54.
Let me tell you what I am trying to say. David was God
in his day and yes we believe it, he is a man after God’s own heart but one day
he walked contrary, he counted people, conducted census and was doing a lot of
things that he was not sent to do, but one day a silent man called Nathan that
was not publicly mentioned; nobody knows the man in the village, he walked
towards David and told him a story of a rich man, a sheep and a poor man that
had only one sheep.
55.
When he was telling the story, David declared: “This man has to be beheaded” and the man said: “Thou art the man the Lord has spoken
concerning you. Hear the voice of the Lord: Why did you do this? Why did you do
that?” And then David fell down.
56.
That was when ministers were ministers, when we, men of
God, were men of God; very sincere in receiving the truth no matter where it
came from. And the man that we call God, why didn’t he hear the voice? Why did
the voice of his actions go to somebody else? That was the office of Prophet
Nathan.
57.
That is why I keep on telling brethren as many as love
the truth, anytime I preach this Gospel, make sure that you declare the truth
to me and leave me there. Just declare the truth, do not worry about what I
will do with the truth.
58.
You know this is the secret of fortifying a family.
Pastors, you know we ministers, there are a lot of things ministers of nowadays
do not do. Many things the Son of Man will come to the pulpit and preach, like
Jesus will say openly, everybody will say “yah!” Then the moment He goes to His
closet those that call themselves Prophets and disciples will say: “Master we did
not understand this, please explain it to us”.
59.
If we that answer ministers in this very day will come
to a point where we have God’s nature, if there are things we do not understand,
we go to Him and say: “What speaketh thou like this.” Not
when we gather we toil it away with wine, toil it away with drink and with
other testimonies then the household will be starved.
60.
Thus, let us take time, many things have been brought
before us. Open the old message: “Evil Effect of Unbelief”. Let us bring down
those messages to the understanding of the people. When a man hears aright he
acts aright and I believe that what will make us forge ahead as a good family
is to obey exactly the voice we heard to go back to the beginning.
61.
However, I am sure that many sitting down in the Church
will no longer welcome the beginning. The beginning was not Law, it was Grace
in the beginning and must remain Grace till the end. Grace means nothing than
unmerited favour, do not give Grace any other interpretation. It means no other
thing than: I standing here, I do not merit to be here but God counted me
worthy and placed me into this ministry, that’s all.
62.
That same God called a criminal and set him free, called
a harlot and set her free. That is why I keep on telling some that if Christ
met you at the hotel and picked you as a harlot, do not begin to brag that Christ
met you as a prostitute and then he told you to continue in your harlotry.
63.
If He met me as an armed robber and you join the family,
you will start jumping: “Grace of God Jesus met me as an armed robber
and he told me to go ahead.” No, rather He will tell you go and sin no
more. He said through the lips of Paul saying, “He that steals, steal no more.”
When you have this perfect understanding it will reflect in your conduct. It
will reflect in our order, it will reflect in our character. It will reflect in
our doctrine, it will reflect in our revelation; all of us will be speaking the
same thing.
64.
I know this voice may be unpopular but one day the voice
of God which He has given us from the
very beginning will swallow up all the ungodly. One day, because very soon in
the world now, they are rejoicing, they are possessing Nigeria, they are
controlling everything, they are controlling the oil, they are controlling the
economy and the children of God are walking as beggars, managing their lives with
the little resources God has given them.
65.
But one day those people that were pushed by the side,
they will control the affairs of the whole world. That’s what I am trying to
say. If what I have said so far, you feel that it is not the voice of truth,
you are free to fight against it, but I know that nothing can make this Gospel-truth
to be compromised.
66.
Very soon when God will give me the opportunity to x-ray
or to expatiate or to break or to share into pieces, in short I should not use
that word “break” because I do not believe what the Bible recorded that the
children of God will divide the word of truth. Who are you to divide the word
of truth? The answer is emphatically no.
67.
How can you divide the word of truth and it will
stand? Rather every true child of God,
every true man of God will rightly declare, reveal or preach the word of truth.
Thus, when we come into the Church; one, we will have opportunity to get these
doctrines that are in block, or revelation that are in block right, we will
declare them, preach them for everybody to get his own portion if they are too
bulky for me to carry home.
68.
HOWEVER, I DO NOT SEE ANYTHING LIKE PARABLE THERE
BECAUSE EVERY MAN MUST GO THE WAY HE IS ORDAINED. On this note I am still
saying what I am saying, that I am sitting down on the bench, nobody benched me
rather I decided that any day I felt led to come to the pulpit, prepared, I
will come on my own.
69.
I believe in preaching inspired message. You can call it
inspired of God or inspired of the Devil, whichever way, but let it be under
the leadership of God. Thus, I did not go on holiday I do not know also when
next I will come across your way but because the Son of Man has said that I
should give a teaching this morning, I am now available for that teaching.
70.
Any day you deem fit for me to come for a teaching, I
will be available but tell me ahead of time so that I will bring materials that
can help all of us. Remain blessed. Amen.
SECTION 3
IMMORTALITY, REINCARNATION, ADOPTION AND
COMPLETE SALVATION
BY
APOSTLE
PETER ODOEMENA
THE SON OF MAN
1
RECOGNIZE YOUR DAY AND ITS MESSAGE
Remain blessed
brethren. I am very happy the way the Lord has moved this morning. He has laid
a good background for Me to speak on.
2.
You see, God can do many things we cannot understand. I
never knew that Apostle Kelechi asked Bishop Okey whether he will be in the pulpit
and I was compelled to bring Bishop Okey to the pulpit and now it is a blessing
to me and to all that paid rapt attention.
3.
Sometimes people can hardly pay attention when a message
is going out. When you are listening to a message from any minister, look at
that message from his office. I called him to come and give us a teaching, I
know he is not a teacher but he has taught us. I do not believe that what
people call teaching is when I come to the pulpit to turn you to the Bible, to
show you one verse or the other, then if I do not show you that, it is not a
teaching; I do not believe that.
4.
I thank God I am around, I did not travel. I wanted to
go to Eha-amufu but I changed my mind for if I have been there I will be back this
day, maybe late. Many of you, if the Bishop had handled this message the way he
handled it in this sanctuary, many would have gone home confused.
5.
I have taught you many things, they are all teachings
without opening this Bible. Don’t you believe them to be teachings? Even when I
talked to you earlier on, it was a teaching that you ought to stay at home as a
man from time to time, that your presence can scare away so many things.
6.
However, what if you waited for me to come to the pulpit
to turn the pages of the Bible or to come to the pulpit with some testimonies, maybe
I should come with reports I collected from many places to prove that what I
said is true, I do not have one to give you.
7.
When a teaching goes forth, understand the symphony of
the teaching, find out the office from where the minister is ministering. If he
is a Bishop, he is speaking to you from his bishopric office as one that is not
a novice; one that is very well-experienced for you do not ordain a novice a
bishop. Besides, because he is Bishop he can speak to you from his pastoral
office having tutored you before.
8.
He can speak to you from the Apostolic office for he is
experienced as one that is called into the office of the Apostle. He can speak
to you also as a teacher being a resident minister. He can also speak to you prophetically
because every minister speaking under the anointing of God is prophesying.
That’s where people make the mistake; I will still speak to you on that.
9.
When the message
was going, initially some appeared to be embracing the message but when the Bishop
was going evangelical, within the first ten minutes, there was a great response.
A little while he went pastoral; to elevated title. A little while he went
apostolic and everywhere became silent.
10.
I was assessing everything and many things he said
sounded strange to many and they were even looking at him frightfully. They
were looking at him frightened as if he was planting a new seed and a new
teaching. I even expected him to go further. The brethren were skeptical. I
wondered and stopped, they were looking at me, maybe intending that I will halt
him.
11.
Halt him for what? When I was praying further that he
should come out more and more. If you do not come out, I will not know what you
have as your faith because faith is revelation. I believe that God can reveal
something to the brother in front seat and a sister sitting next to him will
not know. It is revelation.
12.
What is more, that thing which God is revealing to
people is His faith. Then, if he holds it as his faith and the sister sitting
next to him does not know it and then he locks it up, how can the brother and
the sister sitting close to him come to the same unity of the faith?
13.
Since it is
trapped, sister does not know it because brother did not let it out. How can
sister know it? How can sister attain the same faith? Must she wait until God also will reveal it
to her? Do not allow this thing to get out of your mind. Whatever you call your
belief, that is your faith. And your belief is the way you see things; you
cannot see things contrary to your belief.
14.
Now, it is not your belief that counts, it is not the
way you are seeing it that counts, what matters is the way God sees it. If you
see it in a different way from God, no matter how it sounds good to you, you
are wrong because whatever you call your belief which is your faith, if it does
not agree with the revealed faith of God in your day, you are wrong no matter
how you cherish it.
15.
When a man comes to the pulpit, if you love him, what do
you do? Pray for him. Say, “God use him to bless me, refill him more with your
Spirit to bless me.” No matter what is coming out, pay strict attention
otherwise you will misunderstand the whole thing and the message will profit
you nothing for you will be left in a big confusion.
16.
I know that for many of you in this Faith, if I will say
bye-bye to the teaching or to the sermon, some of you will go home confused
today. You do not know where you are standing again because of the way the
Bishop spoke to you randomly.
17.
He picked one thing, he touched a little there and then
dropped it. He picked another one, touched a little thing there and dropped it.
He picked another one, touched a little thing there and dropped it. He touched
on different topics and many looked very much confused, it should not be so at
all.
18.
I noted these things very well and in the beginning. I
will still say and maintain that if we throw our minds back to the year 2000,
we owe no apology to the world because whatever we gave there as our table of
contents or as preambles, the fullness is contained in the book and all that
read the book saw the truth there: that we even dismissed what people called
the end of the world. We told them that the end has not yet come.
19.
The same way we told them that there will be war in the
middle but that it is not the matter at stake that time. It then means that it will
be discussed after. When the world was panicking, God told us not to panic that
we should behave like the Israelites; they were not panicking because God was
there.
20.
The same way, the Church ought to relax. In the time of
storm, remain calm. If you just get a book and you just go to the preface and
stop there, you will misjudge that book. You do not know the contents until you
read the book.
21.
It is just like when I preached the message titled “The Foolishness of God”, many got up
and went away for calling God foolish but as many that did not go away, when
the message opened up, they enjoyed the message.
22.
Thus, you just do not hold a topic like that until you
go through it. Concerning typographical errors which are very common, I thank
God I still have a copy of the book, there were some typographical errors
because it was typed by heathens. But I
want to assure you that all the excerpts from newspapers that the typist recorded;
taken from some newspapers, the date was also taken. Is that not true? Is that
not there?
23.
Anybody who omitted that thing should blame himself. If
you are reading a book and at the end of it, all that you have read is taken
from so-so and so newspaper dated so-so and so, you know it is not the writer
that wrote it, it is an excerpt. You can now go back to the newspaper to know
whether it was right or wrong.
24.
But the problem was that too many preachers appeared,
too many leaders emerged who used newspaper publications to build up their own
messages. The Son of Man used publication from newspapers to show you exactly
how the world is feeling about the situation. You saw my own comments below it,
for every newspaper excerpt, I said something below, separating myself from the
publication.
25.
Besides, what should count is what I said concerning
that publication and not what the publication said, but unfortunately that time
all the newspapers I received, all that called me names, they made references
of publications from newspapers. I thank God I read everything before you in
the Church. Thus, I owe no apology to the world.
26.
If you receive a book that is given to you free, you
have to be patient enough to read it through before you criticize it. You do
not just go through one line and throw it away, no. So please, take note. “No Lie is of The Truth”; “No Deception is of
The Truth”; it is a message we have in tape and another one is this: “That the
Truth of this Gospel Might Continue in You and Me”.
27.
The essence of our strictness is to make sure that the
truth of the Gospel will continue in you and in me. The Great Sermon was published in the year 2001; it was not published
under the Law, no. It was in the year 2001 and it was in the opening of that message
that I told the whole people that believed in my message that I have maintained
the strictness of an Apostle from the very beginning and you are my witnesses.
28.
Even till today I have maintained the same level of
strictness. I have never lowered it for one day but the problem is the problem
of misconception. In every revival, some people are bound to misunderstand
certain things. That was why I gave you a warning when misinterpretation
started causing trouble.
29.
I said, “If I preach anything you do not understand, do
not go to a brother, do not go to a sister. Rather say: ‘Brother I did not understand, help me.’ Come to me.”
30.
If Brother
Kelechi preach something and you did not understand it, do not go to anybody;
go to Brother Kelechi and by so doing the problem of misinterpretations which
led to some serious errors stopped.
31.
I have always told you that the greatest problem people
normally encounter in this life has always centered on one thing: People have
always been deceived by the feelings of their hearts. Another problem that they
always have is the problems of inherited knowledge.
32.
It is not easy to flush out inherited knowledge. Let me
also repeat what I have earlier told you. I said the same thing in my house recently
to a heathen who understood it.
33.
I said that nobody has ever worshipped God using a book.
There is no book written by any man which God has ever approved to be the book
you will use to worship Him. Starting from the day God created man, no man has
ever used any written book to worship God.
34.
Hence, there has never been a book that contains the
comprehensive mind of God. Using a book to worship God means limiting God to
that book. He is an idolater that does
not believe in what God is saying. That is why there is no book, there is no
writing that is adequate, that is competent, that is conclusive enough to be
used as God’s absolute.
35.
Even when there was no book God gave Moses the Ten
Commandments written in a plate or slate yet it was not God’s absolute. From
time to time problems will arise, Moses would go to God and God will speak
contrary to what was written in that slate. Is it not true?
36.
If what is written was enough, the only thing he could
do was just make a reference there and say, “My friend this is what I want to
say,” and that will serve the purpose. But the book will be there and the man
of God will consult God and God will give him another instruction that was not
even contained in the book, instruction that will even contradict what is
already written which was credited to God also.
37.
Was it not God that said: “Thou shall not kill”? Was He not the same person when a problem
arose and Moses enquired of him on what to do, He said the man must be killed?
At a place he said “thou shall not kill,” at the same place He said, “he must
be killed.” You see the problem I am having with you!
38.
You can hardly pay attention so that you can understand.
When you make a hell of noise, you fool yourself. Note, nobody will fool you
but you will fool yourself. If preacher “A” comes to the pulpit and says God is
devil, you will say, “Hey-hey-hey, It is true, it is true!” Another one will
come and say, “God is Almighty,” and you will say: “Hey-hey- hey! It is true,
it is true!” No, it then means you have believed nothing. So, I believe that
somebody can be here and believe nothing.
39.
Someone that does not believe God to be a man, he does
not believe God to be a spirit; he is in support of the two, which one does he
believe? If you say that God is a man, he will shout: “Hey-hey! It is true, it
is true!” If you say that God is not a man he will shout: “Hey-hey! It is true,
it is true!” Does he know what he is doing?
40.
Some people are coming to fellowship for coming sake;
talk of understanding what we are holding, understanding the revelation of the
hour, they do not know.
41.
Another problem you are having is living in the glare of
another dispensation. The moment you get away from your dispensation, you must
corrupt yourself with a message that was not directed to you. Note it, the
moment you see yourself staying away from your own day and its message, you
must land in another dispensation with another message that was not directed to
your day.
42.
For you to save your life, number one; you must
recognize your day. Two; you must recognize the messenger of your day. Three;
you must recognize the message of your day for the messenger of your day is the
only one holding the message of your day. If he makes references to the
messengers that were sent in time past, he is using them to create faith in you
to believe in what he is saying but he cannot point you to that message.
43.
What every messenger does is to update any message that
is relevant to his day. If Paul preached something and it is relevant to my day
and it is a part of the message I have, I will confirm it. If he said something
that is not in agreement with my day and its message which God has committed
into my hands, I will separate it. Does it mean I will tear it away from the Bible?
No.
44.
Remember, there were too many things which Paul said
that was not contained in the Bible. Note it, there are too many things Paul
preached, which Paul wrote that have no place in the Bible. Do you believe
that? Amen.
2
THE REALITY OF IMMORTALITY
Now, I want to clear
some of the doubts that are in you. Number one is immortality. What is
immortality? If you do not know what immortality is all about you will destroy
yourself before your time.
2.
However, I think I have brought you to a level where I do
not need to dwell on these things again but because many appeared confused
after the Bishop’s teaching, that is why it is necessary to touch on these
things again.
3.
Right here, I said before that there are people sitting
down in this Church that still holding firmly to the message or doctrine of
rapture; they still hold firmly that one day they will fly away.
4.
No matter what we preach in this most holy Faith, no matter
what William Branham said, such people do you think there is anything I can do
to disarm them? Because it is their faith which is their revelation, maybe God
has revealed to them that one day He will give them wings and they will fly
like Elijah or like Enoch and then they will vanish into the air. Then, the
rest of the people that served God they will remain here.
5.
Because I believe that the day Enoch was taken away,
there were too many people that were alive, some even died, not even one was
taken away except him. On the day Elijah was taken away, at least Elisha was
there, there were too many people like the sons of the prophets; not even one
went with him. There were people that died, no one fled with him.
6.
Even Jesus the Christ, on the day he resurrected it was
recorded that people that died resurrected with him and they went to Galilee,
there many eyes saw them but on the day he vanished into the thin air only
Jesus vanished. Where were the rest that resurrected from the dead?
7.
Did they resurrect with human body? Did they resurrect with
human blood after many years that they were in the grave? Where are they?
Brethren, where are they since they did not go away with Jesus, since they did
not come back with Jesus?
8.
Whether Jesus came back in spirit or in human form, as
long as they did not go with him, they cannot come back with him. Where are
they? Could it be that they died again? Have you pondered about Lazarus? Someone
who spent four days in the grave until decomposition set in and then Jesus came
and said, “Lazarus! Come out, loose
him.” He was a man. What happened to him after that?
9.
Could it be that he died again? Do we call that one
second death or third one? Could it be that he vanished? Can somebody who was
buried about ten or twenty years ago resurrect in human form, having blood,
having flesh? Is it possible?
10.
In the case of Jesus people went into the grave, the
body was no longer there, only the clothes were there. What can you say in the
case of mixed-multitudes who resurrected from the grave, many of old who were
buried and they came up alive, human beings saw them, live!
11.
Please follow me gradually. I am trying to touch on
immortality. Believe it if you can, only God has immortality. Immortality is
the attribute of God, it is the supreme attribute of God. I wrote it there
because it was intertwined or interwoven with adoption.
12.
Paul told Timothy, he said: “All glory and honour to the only wise God who alone has immortality”. Did
he say that two persons had it? Only God has immortality. How can this
immortality come to us?
13.
Now, go back to the beginning, the first man God created,
did He make him an immortal man? Is there any evidence, any scripture or
history that God conferred immortality on Adam or Eve? If God had conferred
immortality on them, there is nothing they will eat, there is no atomic bomb and
there is no disease that will cause them to die.
14.
Let me give you an example. Lucifer was made like unto
God for he was an angel of God; a messenger of God. God made him like unto Himself;
he existed with God when the world was without form. When God became a human
being, Satan became a human being.
15.
TILL TODAY HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT SATAN DIED AND WAS
BURIED? THAT IS BECAUSE SATAN POSSESSED IMMORTALITY. WHAT IS MORE, THIS SATAN
THAT POSSESSED IMMORTALITY IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF GOD. SATAN IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF
GOD.
16.
I thank God when Apostle Kelechi touched a little on
that. Yes, he quoted scriptures. Can there be any evil in the city and the Lord
has not done it?
17.
Amos 3: 6, “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city,
and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath
not done it?” KJV.
18.
IF EVIL SPIRIT CAN PROCEED FROM GOD TO TORMENT SAUL, IT
THEN MEANS GOD POSSESS EVIL SPIRIT AND EVIL IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF SATAN AND SATAN
IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF GOD. WHY NOT PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER!
19.
Let me tell you something, you have to know where you
are standing. That is why I have always told you that you must be sustained by
your personal conviction that this message is either true or false. Then if by
your conviction it is false, why are you in this Faith? Why do you want to
continue in a false group? Get out! I even documented it.
20.
Even in these last days, I told you I will no longer
excommunicate anybody but individuals are free to excommunicate themselves.
That you can excommunicate yourself and still come down and sit down in the
fellowship. Your position in the body notwithstanding.
21.
Nobody is saved because of his position in the body of
Christ. There is no position that you occupy that will save you. What will save
you is your faith in Christ and Christ is always revealed. If Christ is revealed
in your day and if you have faith in Him, you are saved.
22.
Do you know that many sitting down in the fellowship do
not believe that Christ is nothing but the Anointed One, The Messiah, The
Saviour? Even where it was clearly written in the same Bible they quote and the
Prophet confirmed it that Christ is nothing but the Anointed One. Anointed with
what? He is anointed with the fullness of the Spirit of God.
23.
JESUS WAS A MAN BUT THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD DWELLETH
IN HIM BODILY, HE BECAME A HUMAN REPRESENTATION OF THE INVISIBLE GOD. CHRIST
MEANS NOTHING BUT PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION OR HUMAN REPRESENTATION OF THE
INVISIBLE GOD.
24.
If God wants human beings to behold Him and His Glory,
He will veil Himself in a man and they will see Him through that man. Yes, the
Greeks will see a human being, the world will see a mere man and the elect will
see God. It has been like that.
25.
What is immortality? It is a state where you cannot die;
an indestructible estate. Then the question arises: who and who were promised this
immortality?
26.
Let us start from the beginning. Who was the first
person that was promised immortality? Secondly, when was immortality brought
into focus? Saint Paul said that God has brought immortality into focus through
Christ by the preaching of this sermon.
27.
If Christ is never revealed, immortality can never be
brought into focus. You just have it as a feeling of your mind. What you call
immortality is not what God calls immortality.
Your interpretation of immortality is one million miles away from what
God calls immortality.
28.
Going by what Saint Paul preached, both first and second
resurrections, they have all gone and people do not know for it is not that way
he preached it. Saint Paul told all the people that believed him that he had
the truth in part; that what they had was imperfect and he was pointing them to
the time when that (The Spirit of Truth) which is Perfect will come. And when
that which is Perfect comes, everything that is imperfect will fizzle away.
29.
William Branham said, “You know that what we are holding now cannot help us, it cannot take
us anywhere. We do not have faith for healing; we do not have faith for
miracle. The faith we have now cannot even take us to rapture but there is something
that is going to come into the Bride that will give them that rapturing faith.
We do not have it”.
30.
I mean in Branham’s day, he still pointed them there: To
the One that is coming. Amen.
3
REINCARNATION: MYTH
OR REALITY?
Now, what is
immortality? If I possess immortality, how will I know? All that possessed
immortality, did they know? If you think they knew, do you have any evidence
scripturally and otherwise, apart from Jesus? Did Saint John possess
immortality?
2.
I mean John the Baptist, did he possess immortality?
Please answer now. Did he possess immortality?
Was he a seed of God? Was he adopted? Did he possess immortality? Did
Herod behead him?
3.
That machete and atomic bomb, which one is more
powerful? He possessed immortality and Herod beheaded him. Was he buried? He
was buried. Did he come back? When he came back, did he know?
4.
Even as at the time he was there before Herod killed him,
did he know that he had existed before? Did he say, “Before now, when I came
before, my name was Elijah”? Did he say so?
5.
But he was asked a question: “Are you Elijah?” He said
no. “Are you Jesus the Christ?” He said
no. “Are you the Prophet?” He said no. “Then what are you?” He said: “I am just
the voice crying in the wilderness”.
6.
Then who identified him as Elijah? Was it not Jesus who
told people: “You have been waiting for Elijah but he has come and gone”? Did John
the Baptist possess immortality? Where did he go? Did he come back again?
7.
Do we have evidence that one appeared in our day saying,
“I heard it audibly. As God vindicated John the Baptist to forerun my First
Advent, so shall your message forerun my Second Advent”? Did he answer Elijah?
Did he answer John the Baptist?
8.
Reincarnation: Myth or Reality? Now, one that
reincarnated, can he recognize himself? We will know your reincarnation through
your ministry. Your ministry will tell us who you are.
9.
I am saying that as a man, as a woman, your behaviour
will trace you back. From your behaviour in your father’s compound, the living
will trace your lineage. I do not know whether somebody is getting what I am
saying?
10.
There is always the gene of life that cannot change. If
you are your grandfather, nobody will tell your father about his father. If you
start manifesting the attribute of your grandfather, even people that know your
grandfather they will start saying it.
11.
Is it any wonder why people try to identify their own
personal relations especially great men and women? People that were too dear to
them, each time they die they will place a mark on that person; they will give
that person a mark for they believe the person will come back.
12.
I have told you, any human that is born upon this Earth
and he has a mark; a sign anywhere on his body, it is a sure sign that he has
come before. Have I not told you this in this Church? Even, it happens when
people have the one called “Ogbanje” (to the Igbos), “Abiku” (to the Yorubas).
13.
Sometimes they will give a serious cut on the body so as
to identify the person if he comes back again. And if he comes back he must go
away the same way until something stops it. If it is not stopped, it must
continue to come and continue to die. You say, “Brother, you are sounding like
a heathens.”
14.
Yes, if a heathen speaks the truth, it shall be called
nothing but the truth. Truth is not limited to anybody.
15.
I ask again, what is immortality? The only one who
possesses immortality is God. Now, if God is immortal, His children will be
immortal to the extent God is immortal. I do not know whether you understood this
mystery. No child of God can be immortal more than God’s extent of immortality.
16.
You must find out the extent of God’s immortality.
People are deceived by the feelings of their mind because they have never seen
God before, they do not know how He looks like. They believe He is a Sovereign
Spirit that exists somewhere and because He is a Sovereign Spirit they conclude
that being a spirit, immortal do not die.
17.
Now, if you are holding that view as your belief, as
your faith, as your revelation, you are a pagan; you do not know God. Since you
do not know God, you cannot identify Him and you will miss this immortality
because it is an attribute of God. What is more, every true seed of God is an
attribute of God.
18.
That is why I keep on telling people every day, “Do not
panic, God is incomplete without you. God is incomplete without you whether you
are a man or a woman, as long as you are His attribute.”
19.
You cannot come from God and go back to Satan for you do
not have Satan’s attribute. You cannot graft an orange tree to a mango tree, it
is impossible! We came from God and we are going back to God.
20.
I cannot go to Hell. I will not go to Hellfire for it is
not for me. I do not have the attribute. If you put me there, Hellfire will
reject me. Jesus went to Hell did Hell hold him? He was not meant to be there,
he did not have the attribute.
21.
I will like to talk to you on some certain things before
I will read what we have believed; things we have commonly believed because
once you forget history you repeat the mistakes of the past.
22.
First of all, find out God’s extent of immortality. Can
God die? Has he died before? Then what happened after His death? Why are you
expecting anything higher than that? That is why Saint Paul said: “If it is
only in this world or on Earth we have our last hope, of all men we shall be
the most miserable.” That was Saint Paul.
23.
I want you to know that all our hopes, everything we are
aiming at is in this world, on this Earth. No more, no less. For there was a
reason why He created the Earth, it was not in vain. He created it to be
inhabited by His people.
24.
It was recorded by the Prophets that the kingdom of this
world must become the Kingdom of God and His children. Not the kingdom of the
sky. Where will the righteous march on the ashes of the wicked? Is it not on
this Earth? Did God promise Abraham anywhere rather than the Earth?
25.
But Saint Paul was referring to material things: “If this world ends only at eating and
drinking and dying; now let us not worry, let us eat, let us drink and die and
forget about it. But know it that there is life after death.” Have we
heard it?
26.
You see, before you expect that immortality, you must
die. And when you die you will come out. As immortal, you will still die again.
Note it, you will still die again. Death will not stop reigning upon every
breathing thing until the day God stops dying. As long as God has been coming
and dying, so you will continue.
27.
Then the question arises: has God been coming and dying?
Apart from Jesus the Christ, were there human beings that represented God on Earth?
Where are they? Did they die? Did God die?
28.
You see, we can habour scoffers and mockers who will
look at the Cross and shout: “Hey! God,
you saved people! You healed many, you caused the dead to resurrect. Save
yourself! So, you can die? You said you are God and now you are dying!”
29.
William Branham came to a point where people do not
believe he will die, even when he continued to tell them that one day he will
die; that one day he will leave them. He equally told them that he knew that he
will not die of old age, that he will never die of grey hair. Yet they could
not believe. One day he died in a motor accident.
30.
If you were there, won’t you laugh at him? Will you not say:
“Prophet of God! So you did not see this accident. You did not dodge it? So you could die even in accident!”
31.
Yes. If you do not understand what we are preaching,
your faith can never be rest assured. You will always be muddling things up.
You can never be confused in this Earth until you muddle your faith up with the
message of another dispensation. Amen.
4
THE MYSTERY OF ADOPTION
Immortality belongs
to God. For you to get that immortality which is God’s attribute, you must be
adopted in Him.
2.
Believe it if you can, you were not the original olive
tree. I say believe it if you can. Till today you still belong to the wild olive.
You had no promise; you had not covenant with God.
3.
The Gentiles had no covenant with God. They were not
included in His promise but God deciding to save them as a merciful Father is an
unmerited favour.
4.
God decided to ignore their sin; not imputing sin upon
them. He took a decision to identify with them. God came in the person of Paul
in his day for a covenant of God’s people on that day. After Paul, other
messengers were coming and each messenger represented God’s covenant for the
people of God for that day.
5.
Concerning the Jews, God made the first covenant with
them but a time came when God made a new covenant with Joshua not according to
the one He made with their fathers in the wilderness; a new covenant altogether,
with new regulation.
6.
But what if you say “I am part of this new covenant” and
you are walking in the light of the old covenant, are you Joshua’s disciple?
You can be in his congregation because you are a mocker; you do not understand what
God is doing.
7.
Then as we continued, when Jesus the Christ came, he was
sent for a covenant of his people and he said: “This is the blood of my new
covenant, a different covenant from that of Joshua.”
8.
No matter what, the Voice said: “I am sent for God’s covenant in this dispensation”. Whoever God
sends in your dispensation is sent for a covenant between you and God. He is
the point of your adoption in God. If you want to have immortality, he is the
one that will connect you to that immortality.
9.
There can be electricity in room “A” and room “B” is in
darkness. Nothing will bring light in room “B” until we invite an electrician.
When he comes he will not connect light in room “B” empty-handed, he must need
wire. You see, wire is the only thing that can link the light from room “A” to
room “B”. Without the wire forget about
light.
10.
Thus, once we need light in room “B”, the wire must come
in-between, the wire must come in-between. Do you know that Christ is a
mediator of the new covenant? Then who is Christ? Sitting down are many people
that limit Christ to Jesus Christ alone. Outside Jesus Christ they do not know
any other Christ. They are in this fellowship. I am not telling you not to
broadcast it.
11.
That is why I said that I know those that belong to Me;
I know those that are mine and they hear my voice and follow me. They do not
follow any other voice for they know who I am.
12.
What am I saying? You can never be adopted to God. It is
just like this Spirit of Truth; to believe the truth, the question arises: At what
point in time do you think the Spirit of Truth came into your life? Because the
Spirit of Truth is the Spirit of God, it is also the Spirit of Prophecy.
13.
At what time do you think you started walking in the Light?
For the Truth is the Light. From the time you started walking in the Light that
was the time the Spirit of Truth came into you. If the Spirit of Christ can come
into somebody, then the Spirit of Truth is the Spirit of Christ.
14.
Yes, Jesus was a mere man until one day the Spirit of
Christ came upon him and abode. And it was that Spirit of Christ in him that
made Him God. Then if Jesus tells me that he had the Spirit of Truth from the
beginning, he is a liar. I said he is a liar, unless the Spirit of Truth is no
longer the Spirit of Christ.
15.
Every true seed of God has a day the Spirit of Christ
will rest on him and abide. That is why if any has not the Spirit of God, he does
not belong to God.
16.
You see people calling “Jesus”, carrying the Bible up
and down; do they have the Spirit of God? If you tell them that they do not
have it, will they believe? They can perform signs and wonders, these things
are anointing. The Spirit of Truth is the Spirit of Christ and that is the Spirit
of Prophecy, the Spirit of Baptism and that is the Spirit every true seed of
God undergoes.
17.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit means nothing but the baptism
of Truth. If you said you are baptized with the Holy Spirit and you do not have
this truth, you are a liar and you cannot give what you do not have.
18.
It is when you are baptized with this Spirit of Truth that
you are now in a better position to speak the truth in love. For no falsehood
will come out of your mouth, no deceit will come out of your mouth; then you
are a seed of God, your counsel is perfect; your interpretation is perfect. For
no true seed of God that has the Spirit of God calleth the things of God
accursed.
19.
Adoption is true. I believe in it, I will keep on
believing in it. If I do not have a child or I have a child and I still want
more or by compassion I see a little infant somewhere, I can fulfill the
formalities and then adopt that child. Once I adopt that child, I will give the
child my name.
20.
Once I confer my name upon that child, I confer the
spirit of son-ship upon that child; that child is no longer a stranger in my
family. He is my son, all the rights and privileges of a son will be restored
to that child. Do you get the message?
21.
I can never be at war with my son unless I am insincere
in my adoption, unless I adopted that child for ritual sacrifice. If I adopted
that child honestly to become one of my sons or daughters, I must love that
child, I must cherish that child as equality of love; and while making my will
as a father, he has his own share. He can never be discriminated at all because
I have conferred on him the spirit of sonship by giving him my name.
22.
That was why the scripture said in Psalms 91: because He has called you
by His Name, He must surely save you.” Whatever God is doing, He is doing it
for His Name’s sake. God has always saved our fathers. All that God saved since
the world began, God has always saved them for the sake of His Name.
23.
That was why Saint Paul said: “Let he that nameth the Name
of the Lord depart from iniquity.” Iniquity is that which you know you should
not do but you went ahead doing it. That is iniquity. If you are called by the Name
of the Lord you should not try it.
24.
I believe in adoption and I have a message titled: “The Mystery of Adoption.” The message
is not mine but it is the message of He that sent Me. And if there was a
message there that was greatly vindicated it was that message.
25.
I can remember a prophecy and things that happened
around me before and after preaching that message. It is an experience I cannot
easily forget.
26.
You see, I believe in Adoption. If you do not believe in
Adoption, your faith is useless as a Gentile. For the Gentiles can only be
saved by Adoption.
27.
Then the question arises: Who and who are going to be
adopted? You are going to be adopted by predestination. If God wants to save you
He will foreordain you, He will predestinate you unto Adoption, to be called His
sons and daughters.
28.
God knew that the only way the Gentiles will be saved
will be by Adoption. He gave us a man bearing His Name as a point of Adoption
and as a sign of covenant for His people in the Gentiles as at that time. I
hope it is clear.
29.
Who and who will be adopted? God foreknew them. That was
why Saint Paul got to a place, he wanted to stop, God said, “Do not stop. I do
not have any soul in this place.” He went to another place, they persecuted him
and he wanted to go away but God said, “Do not go away. I still have more of my
people here.” What can you say about it?
30.
If God is for me who can be against me? Can anybody
query God’s actions? Can you query God? Can you call it injustice, God denying
some people the privilege and extending that privilege to another people and
yet He is not partial; saving some and losing some?
31.
Brethren, I am saying that till eternity, the Gentiles
must be saved by Adoption. And let no man make the mistake of telling you that
you have the same covenant with the Jews. No, that is why God established the Church
as a body of Christ. It is only through this body that God will use to raise His
own, that will unite with the Jews at the end.
32.
Are you here with the Jews from the Middle East? Do you
have anybody from Israel in our midst now? I mean presently, do you have them in
our midst? Don’t you believe that they are the original olive tree? Don’t you
know that their blindness was just for a season; that God cut them off that you
might be grafted in; that when God might have finished with the Gentiles, the
redeemed of the Gentiles will join with the redeemed of the Jews?
33.
Because when that
time comes, no Jew will be lost. All Israelites will be saved according to the
promise that was made unto the fathers. Such promises were not extended to the
Gentiles. It is hard to believe but it is true.
34.
What am I saying? I am saying that I want your faith to
be clearly established in the truth, that the truth of the Gospel will continue
without wavering. I am talking on these nuggets lest somebody will be saying, “Bishop
Okey mounted the pulpit today and confused me. He only touched on topics
randomly. There is not even one he exhausted.”
35.
Even if he said one that was contradictory he had no
time to expatiate, but I know even if he is given time to expatiate, he cannot
go beyond where that anointing is leading him because where the anointing is
leading is already in the Epistle.
36.
Anybody in this Faith telling you to go back to the
beginning, ask him: “Which beginning?” It is like somebody in the wilderness,
you were born in the wilderness, you crossed Jordan and somebody tells you that
for you to be saved, you must go back to the beginning. It then means: “Joshua,
about-turn; take them to Egypt for them to have the experience their fathers
had.”
37.
Then the question arises: Their fathers that had the
experiences, did they survive? If they did not survive it why should their
children go to Egypt for them to have the same experience their fathers had and
died? You see, if you are not a careful son, what killed your father will kill
you.
38.
Let me tell you, I cannot plant anything today until I
have uprooted every tare. William Branham preached a message called: “Seed of
Discrepancies.” I never knew when I picked it in my office recently and the one
I picked was the one elaborated by Richard Guard. I read and read it, I shook
my head. I never knew I preserved this thing in my office.
39.
Then it pointed me to a particular message. I said that I
must go to that message. I went home and searched and searched, finally, I got
it. it was titled: “The unveiling of Christ.” When got it, I nodded.
40.
I believe William Branham to be a man sent by God. He
was the physical representation of Almighty God in his day because the way the Lord
revealed all these things to him as he was voicing them out, though without
using scriptures, something in me kept on rejoicing until I did not know when I
dozed off.
41.
You know nothing gladdens the heart more than when you
know that you are standing on the right side. When you know that you are
standing on the right side; on a solid foundation, you are not shaken. There is
no amount of preaching, there is no amount of signs that will shake you because
you are steadfast. You are not standing by what people are saying, you are
standing by the conviction of the Elohim.
42.
Now, this adoption is very, very essential. That is why
from time to time the Voice continues to warn us that we should be very careful
lest we use our mouth to cut down the tree that gives us protection.
43.
If you are not careful, you can use your mouth to cut
down the tree that gives you protection. You will only remember your mistakes
during the great sunshine or great wind.
44.
We said that God can do all things; it is easier to say
than to believe; hence you say, “Yes, God can do all things; that is the God in
the universe, I mean in the abstract body. It is not this one.” That was the
guilt of the Jews. That is why the voice said: “Do not rejoice until you have passed where they failed”.
45.
Many of you will be looking at Me strangely! You have
not asked where they failed. Even among you ministers, you are still holding on
to your old belief. You are only preaching this one because you know if you do
not preach we will rise up against you. You hold the one you believe and you give
us the one we want, I know when you are doing that.
46.
THANK YOU FOR THAT. GIVE US THE ONE WHICH IS TRUE BUT
HOLD THAT WHICH IS TRUE TO YOU WHICH WE SHOULD NOT KNOW. That is why I want all
preachers to come to the pulpit and preach out their conviction, to preach
their revelation because you can never behave more than what you believe. For
whatever you are manifesting is the revelation of your faith and your faith is
your belief.
47.
IF YOU DO NOT TAKE MY WORD SERIOUSLY, I KNOW IT IS YOUR
FAITH, IT WILL TELL ME THE REVELATION YOU HAVE ABOUT ME BECAUSE IF I AM LORD
AND MASTER OVER YOU, MY WORD MUST HAVE EFFECT ON YOU, HOWEVER, IF MY WORD HAVE
NO EFFECT ON YOU, I AM NOT YOUR LORD, I AM NOT YOUR MASTER.
48.
Did Jesus say so? The way you take the word of God is
the way it is going to work in you. Amen.
5
SELF-RECOGNITION
Now, let us look into
reincarnation and self-recognition. It
is just like the end of the world. I have told you a little thing there. What
people call end of the world, is that what we call end of the world? I have
touched on it, I told you.
2.
Now, which one do you believe? Jesus said: “Till the end of the world”. Paul said: “World
without end”. Which one do we take? Do we take world without end or do
we take the one that said, “One day the world will come to an end”? Are they
not scriptural?
3.
Remember that I took you back to scriptures to show you
how the world has been ending, how God destroyed the world of Noah and the
world of Noah ended and yet nobody there obtained immortality.
4.
Is Noah alive till today? Where is Noah? Where are
members of his family? They escaped the mass destruction, did that give them
immortality? I mean did it make them indestructible? Did it mean that they will
not die again?
5.
If after escaping the mass destruction; after the whole
thing, Noah died and his family died, then what did he gain? The only gain was
that he never died when the whole world died. Now, his own death, was it
different from that of the world? Where did all of them end it? They ended it in
the grave. Brethren why not put your hands together!
6.
Because if I do not teach you very well, you are bound
to go fanatical. Sometime many think that God has disappointed them because of
what they have been feeling in their hearts; the way they think it should be
but your thinking is too far away from God’s thinking.
7.
Don’t you know that God’s way are not our ways neither His
thoughts our thoughts? As the Heaven is far away from the Earth so are God’s
thoughts far away from human thoughts. However, once you are baptized with the Spirit
of Christ you now have the mind of Christ; hence you cannot misrepresent the
things of God. For now you are God’s ambassador. When you open your mouth to
speak, you are speaking as an oracle of God.
8.
We have come to a point where I started seeing some
people behaving in a way as to restore the Bible again. Even from the way the
preaching is going, “Going back to the beginning” means going back to the Bible.
I am telling you the truth.
9.
Anybody saying that there is a beginning and he does not
point you to the Bible is a liar; that person is an insincere preacher. Simply
tell us to go to the Bible, tell us that you do not believe that the Bible has
been discarded, we will understand you, then you give us reasons why we should
go back to the Bible!
10.
Please understand me very well because this has been a
controversy from the beginning and a contention. People of God have always been
pointed to one voice but they have always been condemned of having too many
voices.
11.
That was why William Branham preached a message he called:
“Uncertain Sound.” When any man
wants to preach, he should preach as an oracle of God and whatever you are
preaching that does not reflect in God’s ‘Urim and Thummin” (the Anointed
One/Christ) of your day, it is because it contains no truth.
12.
Is the Bible the “Urim and Thummin” in our day? We have
one place where we crosscheck the truth. What must I do that I may do the work
of God? JUST BELIEVE IN THE PERSON WHOM GOD HAS SENT. Did He say believe in the
PERSONS?
13.
God has only sent one man and no successful man of God
has ever worked alone. It is the duty of the one man now to select men that
will work with him. It has been like that. Now he will give them offices to
occupy. Is that not true?
14.
When John was revealed, he was revealed alone. He was
the one that picked people that worked with him. It has been like that. No
successful man of God ever worked alone. Misconception has always shrouded
every Christ ministry. Once the message is misconceived, different
interpretations will appear and every interpretation will produce a faith.
15.
That was why we were warned ahead of time never to
attempt interpreting God’s Word FOR GOD IS THE ONLY INTERPRETER OF HIS WORD. We
use the Word of God to interpret the Word of God. Thus, God is the Interpreter
of His Word.
16.
We are messengers of the same message. All that Jesus the
Christ preached, they all preached the same thing. When Saint Paul came, they
were preaching the same thing. That was why some men left their midst, went
somewhere to teach heresy, thereby leading people into bondage.
17.
They told them that they must go back to the very
beginning, if not, they will not be saved. That they must continue to abide by
the words of Moses again. When the apostles heard of it they ran mad, they
rushed there and rescued the brethren.
18.
Note it very well, the secret of maintaining your form
in football is by retaining your constant practice. If you do not practice
constantly, the little you knew will vanish away. Any day you are bundled into
the field, little boys will make you “ye-ye” (outplay and defeat you).
19.
That is why you see soldiers even when there is no war,
from time to time they will be sent out to the wilderness for a shooting combat
exercise. Go and verify, every three months a battalion must go out for the
shooting and combat exercise. The essence is to keep them combat-ready because
they do not know the day the war will come and they will be deployed.
20.
Can you imagine a soldier that is deployed, he gets to
the warfront and he does not know how to fix his magazine (bullets), he will be
scattered with his rifle.
21.
Ministers, please do not run away from the pulpit. No
matter your position in the Church, Bishops take note. Even if nobody invites
you, nobody should invite you because it is a commission. If you have fallen in
your commission you should weep because you should ask yourself: “To what
extent am I fulfilling my ministry? May be I am dodging my responsibility.”
22.
As it was in the time of Jesus won’t it be the same in
the end? Then who was the first
manifestation of God in the world, because whosoever that is the first, the
same is the second, the same is the third, the same is the fourth, the same is
the fifth, the same is the sixth; world without end. If it changes, two Gods
have appeared.
23.
Brethren you see that you are consuming my time and I
know He is interested. He is interested, that is why He is calming the weather
for Me so that you will not know when you will be here till 5 o’clock because I
made a prayer that I want us to go home happily. I want us to go home saying
that God touched us in a special way.
24.
Everybody has a problem, it can be spiritual it can be
physical. Okey Painter, raise your head there! You are one of the people that have
revelations from the left but you do not know. You can receive false anointing
without knowing it.
25.
No man is above false anointing, you can receive it yet
you will not know, you will still go to the pulpit thinking that you are doing
God a service. It will take one that is on the seat to know that you have veered
off. Do you get what I am saying?
26.
It happened during the days of Branham. A minister went
to the pulpit with false anointing. The Prophet saw it and prayed for him. Okey
take note. It is not having a revelation that matters, it is comparing your
revelation with the revealed Word of the hour. Any revelation you have in your
day must agree with the revealed Word of the hour.
27.
If the revealed word of the hour has made me to know
that God is a man, I can see Him as my own brother, it agrees with the prophecies
and it agrees with the scripture and I have a revelation in this same hour that
is telling me that God is a dove with two wings, does my revelation agree with
the revealed Word of the hour? No! No matter how fanciful it sounds.
28.
I am saying this because I have heard that Okey Painter
has received a revelation and he has crosschecked it with some ministers in the
Church. You know, when one wants to die, he will hold on to a big name.
29.
He came up with that revelation that says: Only men
worship God, women do not worship God and women should not come to worship God
in His Sanctuary. That he will marry a heathen woman and keep the woman in his
hometown while he himself will be coming to fellowship. Does this revelation
agree with the Word of the hour? No sir!
30.
Look up this way, I want to show you that one can
receive false anointing and still be in the Church. You see why you must be very
careful about the association you are keeping. Be very careful about the person
that is advising you or preaching to you or interpreting to you the Word of the
hour.
31.
Assuming you are not fully grounded with the truth and
you come into contact with him; with his testimony that he was here from the
very beginning won’t you be tempted to believe him? Yet his revelation is not
true. It does not agree with the revealed Word of the hour. Amen.
6
COMPLETE SALVATION
Saint Paul espoused
his disciples to the word of God wherein they were sanctified; the only place they
can have a portion among them that are sanctified; those that were saved.
2.
LIKE I TOLD YOU, NOBODY IN THIS MOST HOLY FAITH IS
SANCTIFIED WITHOUT THE FAITH THAT IS IN ME. All of you in this most holy Faith,
you are all standing sanctified; you are all standing justified because of the
faith that is in Me; because whatever you are holding now which you call your
faith, you did not have it before. It was imparted into you.
3.
Thus, you can locate the source of your faith and that
is the source of your sanctification, that is the source of your salvation because
Christ is your baptism, He is your salvation, He is your sanctification even
the forgiveness of your sin. He is your redemption, He is your holiness, He is
your righteousness so that in everything He shall be the all and all.
4.
Christ is the A to Z. Nobody in this most holy Faith is
standing in his righteousness. I am not standing in my own righteousness. If
God should count you righteous by what you think you can do, nobody can attain
it. Nobody!
5.
I am speaking on Complete Salvation. I have told you and
I am still maintaining it. When I heard it from among you, I was very happy for
I lashed you from time to time.
6.
What is salvation? Has God ever saved people before? How
did He save them? First of all understand one thing: GOD HAS NEVER SAVED ANY
NATION OR INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT A MAN.
7.
When God wants to save a nation, He sends a man. When He
wants to save a man, he sends a man. God must come across your way in the
person of a man. There has never been a people God saved without sending a man
and that man has always been God in human form.
8.
You call him man, you call him whatever you want to call
him but that is God. Saint Paul even recognized it. He told his disciples that
God veiled Himself in a man not counting it robbery.
9.
When the Galatian Church received Saint Paul not only as
a man of God or a servant of God but even as Christ, did he not commend them?
He commended them. Did he call it
apostasy? Did he call it blasphemy? No! why? Because he knew whom he was. At
least he knew the office he occupied.
10.
Whoever God sends to bear His Name, who is he? Now, if
brother Onyema sends me out to bear his name and I come to Brother Solomon and
he says “On whose authority are you talking to me,” I will say, “On the
authority of Brother Onyema.” He will take off his eyes off me, he will be
considering Brother Onyema. Is that not true?
11.
If he slaps me, he has slapped Brother Onyema. If he
receives me he has received Brother Onyema because I came in Brother Onyema’s
name, I came in his authority.
12.
A name means authority. Whosoever that receives one that
is sent receives God that sent him. When you reject Him, you reject God.
Receiving Him means accepting His message; rejecting Him means rejecting His message.
Please note it, we are considering Complete Salvation.
13.
William Branham preached a message that salvation must
be in completeness and also in joy. What is complete salvation?
14.
If you are measuring your complete salvation from the
point where you can jump from the sky and you will not break your leg or where
I will fire gun shot at you and it will not enter or where you will stay one
million years on Earth and you will not die, you have missed the meaning of
complete salvation.
15.
Complete salvation is nothing but God banishing
completely any figment of sin in you which holds you guilty, which places you
under the condemnation of death for the power of death is sin. Without sin, death
has no power.
16.
Jesus the Christ looked at his disciples and said, “If
you believe in me, you have passed from death unto life.” All that believed in
him and they believed that they have passed from death unto life, did Jesus the
Christ fool them?
17.
But from that day some of them started dying. They would
have gone back to Jesus and said, “Why did you tell us that we have passed from
death unto life? After all, we have believed in you! Show us what you taught us
which we did not believe?”
18.
Because from the message I heard, if I did not cut it,
that is where you will land. You will be asking: “You promised us eternal
life if we believe in you but till today we are still dying! Where is the promise then? When will
we get this eternal life?”
19.
I really thank God for all these things. God has saved
all His elect from the bondage of sin and death. That was why He made an
eternal sacrifice and eternal atonement and eternal propitiation on the Cross
of Calvary and then He pointed all His elects there.
20.
If there is no sin in you, are you afraid of death? Are
you afraid of eternal Hellfire? But there is nothing like eternal Hellfire.
That one is easier to believe. You believe in eternal life according to your
own interpretation which no man has ever manifested since the world began.
21.
According to the interpretation many of you have about
eternal life, since God made the whole world no man has ever attained it. Adam
died, Methuselah died, Abraham died, Isaac died, Jacob died, Noah died, all of
them died. There is no righteous man that does not die.
22.
You must know what eternal life is all about. You must
know what immortality is all about. Do you know that God is the only person
that can destroy the flesh and destroy the soul in Hell; a place meant for it?
Do you know that? But all that believe God, that is not their portion.
23.
Do you know that whoever that wants to know his reward
before following Christ is not a believer? If you want to know your reward so
as to follow Christ, you are following him because of compensation. Hence you
say: “Tell me how you are going to
compensate me? Let me know whether I can follow you or not or else leave me
alone!”
24.
Such people are in our midst. Let me tell you, I am a
seed of God. I have no other obligation neither do I have any other obligation:
my duty is to follow wherever He leads me. If in the end it will be in the Mediterranean
Sea, praise God. If in end it is America, praise God. If in the end it will be
somewhere in the sky, praise God.
25.
However, my consolation is that wherever He is there I
shall be. That is my consolation. If He is in Hell, let me be there.
26.
YOU SEE WHY I AM TAKING MY TIME TEACHING YOU GRADUALLY!
BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WHEN WE GET TO THE END OF EVERYTHING, MANY OF YOU WILL WALK
OUT AGAINST ME ANGRILY SAYING: “IS THIS ALL I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FOR ALL THIS
WHILE?”
27.
You have started showing me signs already
because things are not going the way you expected. You will be murmuring: “You
see, it is changing, it is changing, maybe this one will disappoint us, we
better go back to the beginning.”
28.
How many were favoured in the beginning with
what they were holding in the beginning? Whatever you call the beginning was
full of falsehood. God never vindicated a message, God vindicated a man. The
voice said: “Come and I will show you He that has been dealing with you all these
years to banish unbelief.”
29.
Did it say “Come and I will confirm your message”? Was
it the voice? A man was vindicated like I read in a quote few days ago. When
God sends a man, He is a vindication of God’s promise for that day.
30.
You see why I am saying that constancy helps a
professional footballer. Even at his own private time you see him jogging with
the ball; he can hit it on the wall and trap it again; he can raise it up and
trap it; he is helping himself because that is where his future lies. If he does
not play, he will not receive match bonus, he will not receive salary, he
cannot renew his license. Even sometime, for lack of performance his license
can be canceled.
31.
Preachers take note and line up immediately. If you a
vibrant preacher, even staying in the cooler, you will feel uncomfortable. You cannot
cage an eagle. An eagle will remain uncomfortable in a cage because something
is bubbling in him.
32.
If I program myself and it works the way I programmed it,
let it be known to you that the hand of God is not in my programme. Because man
proposes but God disposes. If God will allow you to have your way it then means
He has rejected you. When God rejects a man He allows Him to have his way. He can
program himself but if God has you in His programme,he can call you when you do
not expect, he can send you on a mission when you have programmed yourself for
a tight assignment that is personal.
33.
He will say: “My
friend drop it, look at what you will do now.” Your duty is to say amen.
Because you are a soldier, you can be deployed anytime without being given
advance notice.
34.
If I tell you not to invite me to the pulpit, it is for
your own good. If I am sitting down it is for your own good. When I preach it
is for your own good. When I sit down I am judging your ministers. I am
weighing them with the revelation they have concerning the present stage of the
ministry. I am weighing your reaction to their messages so that I will know
where to help you before I will continue because if I run one way thinking that
all of you are following, many must be dropped.
35.
With what I heard from the bishop and your reactions,
assuming I continued with the message “Beyond the Curtain of Time”, I assure you,
if a minister will be saved in this Faith, it maybe one or two. Then, if it is
not easy to save ministers, how many will be saved from the congregation
because I could hear some of the ministers shouting and saying amen to a wrong
utterance.
36.
It does not agree with the faith, it does not agree with
the message, it is pointing you back to Egypt and you are saying “yes sir”. The
people that went back to Egypt, was it well with them? That was the decision
they made with Aaron.
37.
They said, “Now we do not know what has become of Moses,
now Aaron, make up a god that will lead us back to Egypt.”
38.
Let me tell you brethren, I am the One that has been
leading you. I thank God the sign is clear. I am still moving. I say he is
still moving.
39.
I have taken you through hardship, I have taken you
through the Laws and I have brought you to a level where I have established
God’s righteousness in your hearts and I have made sure that you are all
sitting in His Kingdom. This is now time for you to prosper in material things
even as you spirit prospers because everything is happening according to His
Word: “First seek ye the kingdom of God and its righteousness, every other
thing shall be added unto you.”
40.
I did not start with prosperity. Why not put your hands
together! Is there anybody in this Faith man or woman who is confused about his
righteousness? Is there anybody here who is confused as to whether he is
sitting in God’s kingdom or not. Then what is left? Every other thing. Who will
add it? It is the same Source because every good thing cometh from the Lord. It
is the same source no other source.
41.
That is why I have decided to give you a teaching,
stabilizing you. Teaching that will help you now to harness yourself, harness
your resources and then you will become a man. You can talk boldly; heathens
will not have anything around you which they will see and blaspheme God.
Looking at yourself you are not living a beggarly life.
42.
The other way round you are a righteous person in the
sight of God. You are a seed of God sitting in God’s kingdom. Are you not the
possessor of all things? In other words, you have lost nothing.
43.
When Peter was asked a foolish question: “Master we have
forfeited everything, we have followed you, what will be our reward?” What did
Jesus tell him? He said: “My friend I tell you, whoever that has forfeited his
father, his mother, his relations and even material things, he will have them
seven folds in this world and also in the world to come!”
44.
If I do not teach you very well you will not behave well.
Satan will continue to input sin on you until you will be wondering about what
you believe. Fear will come in and fear torments. Before you know it, doubt
will come; you will not know how to behave again.
45.
If not for many things I would have allowed Bishop Okay
to continue with his teachings even today so that I will handle all at the same
time.
46.
Let me tell you something, I do not call a minister to
the pulpit for calling sake. Once I call you to the pulpit, I have something to
achieve. Something prompted it and I want to verify it. I will keep on praying
that all you have will come out but because of time and the way he cut it off,
I did not want to stop him, he suppressed many, they did not come out.
47.
You see, that would have helped me but it will still
help me tomorrow of next. Let me tell you, salvation is on individual basis, like
I told you about immortality.
48.
I will read few things for you, but before then let me
talk about this battle. The battle is still on: “Go back to the beginning.” Now,
if I say “Go back to the beginning”; In short, I have touched on that, I will
not touch it again.
49.
The battle is on. The question arises: What type of
battle? Saint Paul told his disciples to put on the whole amour of God. What and
what were the amour of God? He stated as much as he knew, that was the way he
saw it in his day. And look at Saint Paul’s ministry: Ephesians Church age. I
have told you that the emergence of another age marks the end of the previous
age. And that age that is emerging must be higher than the one existing.
50.
If God is sending another age with another minister,
that person is coming with something higher than what Paul had. If it is not so
there is no need sending him to repeat what have been said already. Is that not
true? Now from Ephesian Church Age to your own age, how many ages have passed?
How many dispensations?
51.
Why is the Bible only a reference book? Why is it a
historical book? What purpose does the Bible serve? We have to answer these
pertinent questions because we may not know when we will even take you back to
Moses’ days because we may even go beyond Paul.
52.
Remember that Paul’s ministry was higher than Jesus’
ministry; do you know that? Paul said many things that contradicted and even
cancelled what Jesus said. But that was Christ on the ascending throne. Christ
on the ascending throne.
53.
Christ is still ascending, He will keep on ascending
until everything will be under His footstool. And as He continues to ascend all
human imaginations, human thoughts and feelings will continue to decrease.
54.
Now, you believe that William Branham ministry is
different from this Bridal Dispensation. If it is not so, we better go back to End-Time
message. Why do we believe that? It is because somebody has come as he
prophesied; vindicated, confirmed as he prophesied yet some do not believe.
55.
Do you think everybody will believe it? You can preach
it yet you do not believe it. That you preach something does not mean that you
believe it. I am telling you the truth. Many people preach something they do
not believe.
56.
However, I am not after what you believe or not, I am
only after the truth of what you are preaching because I know it is written in
the scriptures that some will see the Kingdom but they will not enter. Some
will help others to see the Kingdom but they will not enter and they themselves
will not enter. I know that it is Prophetic. You see, I keep my eyes somewhere.
57.
Let me show you few things in our book titled “Son of
Man, Our Link to the Truth.” Concerning the battle and some other things, let
me read page one of “Our Link”.
58.
Our Link page 1, “The Bible
is a religious book that contains histories of the events that transpired
between God and mankind, nations, moral and political laws for effective
administration of God’s people in the past ages, prophecies testimonies of the
birth of the messiah – Jesus Christ and the events that culminated into his
death and resurrection; testimonies of his disciple concerning their
experiences with his resurrection and words of wisdom.
59.
No living human being today was alive when the first Bible
was written and compiled. It is considered as one of the ancient books that has
stood the test of time by the Quran and many other religious books.
60.
Please note that I said that the Bible is religious
book. There are many religions in the world such as the Hindu, Shinto, Islam, Judaism
etc., and all of them have written books like the Bible which were written by
the scholars in order to preserve their belief for their children to come, but
Christianity is not a religion but a nature and the first Bible is the Zodiac –
NATURE.
61.
Believe it if you can. The Bible has always opposed the
message of God in all dispensations. This is so because religion is opposed to
Christianity.
62.
Religion promotes violence, hatred, suspicion, and
intolerance while Christian promotes love, unity, tolerance, and void of
suspicion because it is God himself. Religion is full of politics which is why
it cannot bind nations together.
63.
If religion and politics cannot bind people together
what then can bind people together? So you can see in a Church or in a family
where there is schism or division, blackmail, slander, haughtiness etc it is a
sure sign that politics and religion exist there. God cannot identify himself
in that group or individual.”
64.
That is why it is expected that in the body of Christ
all of us must say the same thing, mind the same thing and be perfectly joined
together in one vision, in one judgment. If there be anything contrary, it is
politics or religion. No man can be over spiritual to the point of even going
ahead of the leader. You cannot have a revelation more than he that is leading
you. Otherwise he is not your leader.
65.
After all, you were there and God picked him. If God has
left him and has picked you, He will allow His people to know and they will
divert their loyalty, but as long as he has not done so, anything contrary to
the body is politics, it is religion.
66.
If I allowed the teaching to continue it must have
produced division, it must have produced schism, it must have produced hatred,
it must have produced suspicion, it must have produced every kind of evil; a
sure sign that God is not there. It is
politics, it is religion. Everything about Old Testament, everything about the
beginning points you back to religion.
67.
There was a time we were religious, then we were not
saved. There was a time Paul was religious, extremely religious, was he saved?
But he thought that he was on the right track. That was why when he forgot his
experiences he muddled things up again and then caused confusion, he blamed his
ministry.
68.
That thing spotted Saint Paul’s ministry, that singular
act, Paul denied his faith, lost his conviction, became a Sabbaterian,
sacrificing turtle dove, shaving head, paying for the shaving of others because
he compromised his faith, he lost his convictions, he walked in the glare of
another dispensation. And before he knew it prominent ministers followed his
hypocrisy.
69.
You see why I took my time from the beginning to get you
grounded and rooted in the truth, to teach you and I warned you not to be afraid
of any man so that if there be anybody that come to pulpit speaking otherwise,
you can as well bear with him. However, if that person says you must go back to
the beginning or go back to laws of Moses or else you will not be saved, shun
that nonsense, it profane it is a silly talk.
70.
You must shut up the mouths of such people. Paul
commanded Titus that there are so many that are unruly; uncontrollable members
of the Church, unruly members whose mouths must be shut especially those who
still maintain the necessity of continuing in the old laws of Moses and keeping
the Ten Commandments.
71.
He said that they have missed the essence of the law,
that they do not even know what they were talking. He told him not to give such
people even a second.
72.
Our Link, “The Bible that existed before a man of God
is sent has always opposed the message of God from that man of God in his day”.
73.
Is that not right? The Bible that existed before a man
of God is sent has always opposed that message which the man has brought in his
day.
74.
“…This is because, before Man of God is revealed, people
have already glued themselves to the Bible or written message that was passed
to them by their fathers. To cause them shift from the area of their
traditional belief has always been a fight and a fact…”
75.
Is it not true? William Branham has always said it, that
it is a fight and a fact to move people from one dispensation to another.
76.
Once you have established a lifestyle, a tradition
especially the one you inherited from your father without proper investigation,
to shift you, to disarm you has always been a problem; it is a fight and a
fact. From time to time you will like to go back.
77.
That was why the people of Israel died in the wilderness.
While Moses thought they were with him, their minds where in the land of Egypt;
they were ruminating over garlic, onion, cucumber etc.
78.
You see one day after preparing garlic in my house with
cucumber and onions and I tested it with bishop Okey, we nearly died that day,
it was very hot in my stomach.
79.
I came out and said, “Brethren, what is good in this
thing that prompted this people to desire this thing, what is in it that made their
minds to go back to Egypt to remember cucumber, garlic, onion and ginger?” It is
not sweet, you cannot call it salad for garlic is not salad, because garlic s
very hot.
80.
You see, I do not see any good thing in it that will
make my mind to remember Egypt. What am I saying? To me it was a figurative
speech. There is nothing as painful as the Law, there is nothing as painful as
bondage. The law favours only the wicked.
81.
A liberally-minded fellow cannot adopt any law. That is why a song writer said: “Man is born free but everywhere in chains”.
I believe that man is born free but everywhere in chains.
82.
On this note, I say
remain in your sanctified estate, remain blessed in Him eternally. Amen.