First Bible Lesson: Matthew 23:37-39
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
stonest them which are sent unto thee. How often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not! Behold your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye
shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, "Blessed is He that cometh
in the name of the Lord."
SECOND BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 4: 21-23
"Jesus said unto her," Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation
is of the Jews. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to
worship him."
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 21:40-41
When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will He do
unto those husbandmen? They say unto Him He will miserably destroy those wicked
men, and He will let out His vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render
him the fruits in their seasons."
Brethren, listen to this gospel as it is a revelation to the
entire world. This message belongs to all the creations of God, both animate
and inanimate objects. Therefore you should not allow anybody to make you go
astray from the path of righteousness, for heaven and earth shall pass away but
not an iota of the word of God. I have told you time without number that I do
not bring any new doctrine into the world, but I come to remind you of all the
doctrines of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He had never said that in His Second Advent
He would be in the Americas, Asia, Jerusalem, India, or anywhere else in the
world. Before He departed He warned if somebody should tell you that Our Lord
Jesus Christ was in the desert, you should not go because He would not exist there
and that as the lightening flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so
shall the coming of the Son of Man be. Then they asked Him when that would be.
And He told them that where the carcasses were there would the vultures be.
The Pharisees likewise asked Him when He would return. He said the
kingdom of God did not come by observation, so that people would say, "Lo
here, lo there." He added that the Kingdom of God was within man. The word
of Our Lord Jesus Christ is true since He is the truth. Behold what Our Lord
Jesus Christ said about Jerusalem and all its inhabitants: This is to reveal to
you openly that mankind does not believe in God:
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together even as a hen gathereth her children under her wings, and ye
would not! Behold your house is left onto you desolate. For I say unto you ye
shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, "Blessed is He that cometh
in the name of the Lord."
It is not in the mountain or in Jerusalem or in the forest or in
the deepest sea or in any other special place in the universe that you will
have to sit down and worship God. You should worship God within you, since God
is a spirit and dwells within you. This is the time for the entire world to
practise the doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ. What is the point in building a
house which you call a church, yet you are still fornicating or you are still
deep in vices? What is the need of building all these temples when you are
still in sin? What is the point of going about preaching that God says you
should leave all sins, when you are in sin? What is the point in parading the
streets with the Bible admonishing others against committing fornication,
adultery and the rest of the vices yet, you take active part in all of these
vices? Any preacher who is still in sin does not know what He is doing.
The mission of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the world was to stop
people from worshipping in temples since God is a spirit and they that worship
him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. It is now entirely useless for
Christians to travel all the way from Nigeria to worship God in Jerusalem, just
because Christ was born in Jerusalem. In times past worshippers used to migrate
to or assemble in Jerusalem, because they claimed it was only in Jerusalem that
people worshipped God. In those days, if one did not go to Jerusalem one was
not accepted as a true worshipper of God. It is quite clear that the people
going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem were not pleasing God at all. It was indeed
worshipping God in the flesh. Solomon built a house for God, yet he did not
believe in God. Since he did not believe in God, his empire declined and fell.
This is no more time for people to fool you, asking you to follow
them to Jerusalem to worship God. It is the time for you to practise the gospel
within you. God is not as foolish as we are. People have the foolish notion
that in those days of old, prophets were hated, persecuted and killed hence
they too begin to hate and persecute the prophets of today. Had such people
heard what God said about the people of Jerusalem who persecuted the prophets,
they would have pitied themselves. If your forefathers worshipped God in Jerusalem,
yet they persecuted and killed the prophets of old, can you not learn a lesson
from there? If Solomon built a mighty temple for God and yet he did not
practise the word of God and in the long run, he perished, is this not a lesson
to you?
BRETHREN, IT IS NOT THE CATHEDRAL OR CHURCH THAT IS IMPORTANT, BUT
THE PRACTISING OF ALL THE INJUNCTIONS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. NOW YOU ARE
FREE TO WORSHIP GOD ANYWHERE YOU ARE ON THE SURFACE OF THE GLOBE. THIS IS THE
TIME FOR PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD MUST PRACTISE
THE WORD OF GOD. Even for you to go on pilgrimage to Mecca, what are you going
to do there? God is not in Mecca, nor is He in America. You say, right, let us
go to Africa to worship God. God is not here in Africa. GOD IS WITHIN YOU. That
means do not commit fornication , adultery , do not steal, do not take
vengeance against your enemy. Do not commit all the evils enumerated in the
Bible. If you love one another as Christ has instructed, it means you have
worshiped God. You can build a mighty cathedral and stay in there to cause
confusion. By so doing you do not worship God. And this is what the people of
old did. This why Christ said they worshipped what they did not know.
You see God within you by your movement and your utterances and
your relationship towards your enemy. This is why Our Lord Jesus Christ says if
somebody tells you God is in the mountain do not go because you see God through
people's actions.
Our Lord Jesus Christ revealed Himself to the world by His
movements, His utterance, and His relationship with other people.
This is the way He presented godly work. The church denominations
profess to be worshipping God yet their behavior and actions deny God. Can you
say that God is in Jerusalem and yet they killed all the prophets of God, from
Abel to Christ? Can you say that God is in India yet when you go there you see
people fighting, quarrelling, and killing? Or do you want to tell me that you
see God by living an abominable life?
Who were the people who killed Zacharias? Were they not the same
people? In this present generation, who are the people who persecute the
children of God? Are they not the same people? These are the same people who
hate being told the truth about God.
They parade the streets with long garments pretending to be
followers of Christ, while inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You remember when
that young lawyer approached Our Lord Jesus Christ and asked Him , " What
do you do to gain eternal life ?" Our Lord told him, " You know all the
laws, honor thy mother and father, do not fornicate, do not kill, do not hate
anybody, but love your neighbor as yourself." At this point, the lawyer
tried to show the Lord that he had intelligence and so went on to ask Our Lord
who Our Lord referred to as his neighbor. Our Lord went on to tell the young
lawyer the story of the Good Samaritan and at the end of the story, the Lord
asked him who among these three men he would say was the victims neighbor. The
young man replied saying that the third traveller who took the victim to the
hospital was the victim's real neighbor. Our Lord Jesus Christ then told him to
go and do likewise.
So brethren, this is exactly what you are asked to do, otherwise
you are not a christian. This was the reason behind the instruction which our
Lord gave to His disciples, saying, help the needy, help the sick, clothe the
naked and pray for the distressed and as a law, always render good services to
others. Our Lord came not to be served, but to serve the world. The work of God
is to do good services to humanity. And anyone who professes to do the work of
God, but is devoid of these injunctions to mankind, is not a Christian.
Therefore, brethren, no matter what you profess to do, the sinner must receive
punishment for his wrongdoing.
You have heard of Jerusalem and you have read where Our Lord said
, " I am going to Jerusalem and behold it was in that same Jerusalem that
He was killed. All the apostles were killed in that same place, Jerusalem. For
those of you who want to go to Jerusalem, do you want to go and see the graves
or the bones of those apostles who were murdered by the Jews? Note that anytime
you go to Jerusalem you are only going there to suffer. Therefore brethren, we
all have to listen to the directives of the Holy Spirit. Since this is the
period of His reign, we have to endeavor to do only those things which are
pleasing to God.
In these last days, we have to worship God wherever we are since
He dwells in us. We must neither think that it is only in Jerusalem that one
has to worship God, nor should we think that you can only be saved when you
become a member of Brotherhood, Catholic, or Apostolic churches. If that is so,
is God Catholic or Apostolic?
It is said, not all Israelites are the true sons of Israel and not
all the heirs of Abraham are the true sons of Abraham, but the children of
promise are the real children of God. IN LIKE MANNER, NOT ALL THE MEMBERS OF
BROTHERHOOD THAT ARE TRUE BROTHERHOOD. THE BIBLE CLEARLY STATES THAT YOU SHOULD
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY PERSON WHO CALLS HIMSELF A BROTHER BUT INDULGES IN
FORNICATION, ADULTERY, THEFT, HATRED,AND ALL MANNERS OF VICES. IF YOU GO TO ANY
PLACE AND YOU FIND PEOPLE WHO PROFESS TO BE BROTHERHOOD, BUT INDULGE IN VICES,
KEEP YOURSELF AWAY FROM THEM.
Do not be deceived that you are saved the moment you shout on
Jesus, or Jehovah, for salvation is granted only to those who practise the laws
of God. Therefore if there is anybody who tells you to come to his church or
house to see God, he is a deceiver, because if he abides in the words of God,
then you could see God transparently in him.
God is not a stone, a tree, water, a mountain nor a building BUT
GOOD VIRTUES. This is why the Bible condemns anyone who sees his brother in
problems and instead of helping he offers him God's blessings. How can a man
who purchases and stores ammunition for himself and always prepares to fight,
or the man who is always ready to sue others to court call himself a Christian?
Christ teaches love and forbids us from fighting with the evil doer. He teaches
us to love our enemies and to pray for those who wish us evil. Therefore, the
true worshippers of God are those who put into practise the instructions of
God. If we do not abide by the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ, then we do
not worship God. If God were not pleased with people who even though they built
houses for Him, they continued in their evil deeds, what do you think of
yourself who, after Christ has shed His precious blood to cleanse you and has
advised you against evil, and yet you continue in sin?
I am only reminding you of the words of our Lord Jesus which He
spoke thousands of years ago. Here was a man whom the Jews had rejected and
Jerusalem has also rejected. How would He go back to them again? If you were
God, would you go back to a people who killed and rejected all your messengers
and even your son? I would like you to visit the Jews to prove to yourself that
they do not love God. You may go the western world and see the huge cathedrals
which were built only in the name of God, now they have all been converted to
disco halls, and places of worshipping idols. Then there is this racial
segregation. You have been so eaten up by this apartheid policy. The whites do
not even love their fellow whites let alone people of other races. There is
even no compromise among the churches, and for the churches, truth is
non-existent.
Yet you spend your money and time to travel abroad in the name of
going to worship God. Now I ask you, do those people you go to have God or know
God? Come back here in Africa, people bluntly refuse to worship God, rather
they go about making charms and injurious concoctions. God does not need
anything from us. He does not need our houses or our wealth. All He requires
from us is to do His will and possess love, meekness, gentleness, temperance,
abstention from fornication, drinking, idolatry, and all other vices, then I
ask, what kind of pastor, or apostle, are you? Now you tell people that in
Brotherhood there are no thieves and no fornicators, but a brother or a sister
loses his or handbag at the end of service, how do you convince the fellow that
there is God here?
This is why it is said that unless your righteousness exceeds that
of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter the kingdom of God. No matter
your position, status, or nationality when you come in here, if you are not
born anew, you cannot inherit this kingdom. The instruction that Christ
received from His Father was that whosoever loved God must also love His
brother. whosoever did not love the human being he sees with his naked eyes,
can he say he loves God?
This is not a time that you can deceive anyone by saying that you
can go to Biakpan to worship God. He can only be seen in your character. God is
not in Calabar, Biakpan, Nigeria, or in Africa. HE DWELLS WITHIN YOU AND IF YOU
HAVE THE ABILITY TO PRACTISE THE WORD OF GOD,THAT MEANS YOU HAVE GOD WITHIN YOU.
Do not allow people to deceive you that God is in any town of the universe
because you are the house and place of God. The scriptures tell us that the
dwelling place of God is with men. (Revelation 21:3). God will be our
Father and we are His children. The Bible says we should not love in words but
in deeds, ie actions. Jesus says it is not those who call him Lord, Lord, that
will enter the kingdom of God, but those who do His will. (Matthew 7:21).
First Bible Lesson: Matthew 23:37-39
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
stonest them which are sent unto thee. How often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not! Behold your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye
shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, "Blessed is He that cometh
in the name of the Lord."
Brethren, have you heard the words of God? "You shall not see
me henceforth till you shall say blessed is He that cometh in the name of the
Lord." You see what deceived the people of old ? Since the scriptures had
said that when the son God will come nobody will Know His father and mother, so
when Our Lord came they refused to accept Him because they knew His parents.
John came and was killed. Jesus came and was killed. Jeremiah and
all the prophets of old were killed by these same Jews. So brethren take this
text and sleep over it and you will see its implications. What do you gain from
persecuting the children of God? When Pilate asked whom he should release,
whether Jesus or Barabbas, the Jews exclaimed, "give us Barabbas and
crucify Jesus." They even went to the extent of saying let His blood be on
us, on our children, and on to our grandchildren. Now is that wish of theirs
not manifesting on them? You will now see that about seventy after the
ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, Israel wanted independence, but the Romans
refused and since they insisted, the Jews were wiped out by the Romans, leaving
only ninety thousand and this number was scattered to other parts of the world
so that these Jews would not regroup to plan a counter-offensive. Now with
this, tell me when God will go back to live in Jerusalem? Do you realize that
up till now Israel is still at war with the Arabs? This is why it is said, even
if the two palms are clasped together, the evil doer will never go unpunished.
Whatever you do out of your own volition, when not directed by the Holy Spirit,
God leaves you to yourself. But he will firmly stand by you if He calls you to
do that thing. Is it not surprising that although Jesus came from Jerusalem,
the Jews do not believe anything you tell them about christianity? Surprisingly
the Holy Spirit has revealed to the advanced nations that God is here in
Africa, yet you here still waste your time and money to go to Jerusalem and
Mecca in the name of going to see God. What do you think you will find there
when the Holy Spirit is here in Africa?
Your major duty now is to spread this good news to all the Western
and advanced countries and if they accept them they will see peace, because up
till date, they have not accepted that Christ has come to the world. The laws
and prophets had said that Elijah would precede the coming of Our Lord Jesus
Christ. They still have not believed Elijah has come, so how will they believe
that Jesus Christ has come? Since the Jews knew Elijah and his photograph, they
were sure of themselves that the day he would come, they would see him since he
will be the true resemblance of the portrait they had kept. With this foolish
idea, they refused to believe that Christ had come, since the Elijah they knew
had not come. But Elijah had reincarnated in John the Baptist (Matthew
11:14), whom they killed and so when Jesus came they killed Him, saying
that He was not the expected Messiah.
Therefore, brethren, to think that Jesus Christ can be born again
in Jerusalem is a big fallacy. This is why the scriptures say that they will
not see God again until they proclaim, "Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of Lord." You should not resist weeping if you visit Jerusalem now,
because of the sorrowful situation the Jews have put themselves in. And I tell
you that the mere sight of their present position will convince you to worship
God if you had not decided to do so. Do you not realize that this gospel of the
kingdom should have come from them ? But today is the result not to the
contrary?
So brethren, I am telling you that God is everywhere but He
reveals Himself only to those who abide by His teachings. God is a respecter of
no person. If you had the intention of going to Jerusalem to see God, then you
will go in darkness and only go there to crucify Our Lord Jesus Christ a second
time. Whoever does not abide by the precepts of our Lord Jesus, fights against
Him. Therefore, you have to carry this gospel to all parts of the world and to
Jerusalem also. Tell them that the Holy Spirit has come and if they accept, the
peace of God will come onto them. It is wise that you go there but let your
mission be to show them the truth about the kingdom and not with the aim of
worshipping God there. This is because the truth is not found there. There is
only one thing you can learn from them, and that is that you should not commit
any act of sinfulness so that you do not fall victim to the kind of fate they
have found themselves victims of.
The spirit has a reason for arranging your pilgrimage to
Jerusalem: it is neither to enable you see Jesus, Joseph, Abraham but to enable
you to learn a lesson when you see the position God has placed those who first
refused to accept Him. Since it was said that when the Lord comes, no one will
know His parents, (John 7:27), it is now your duty to go and tell the
people that the Holy Spirit has come and that all must learn to love and
refrain from all evil and follow righteousness. Go and bear the testimony that
the Holy Spirit whom the Lord Jesus Christ promised has come and so they just
have to refrain from their old ways of life and follow God.
Your going to Mecca is not for you to go and learn or worship God
but to go and announce this message. You are to go around the whole world and
announce this news and not to stay in a particular place, SINCE GOD HAS NO
HEADQUARTERS. DO NOT SAY THAT GOD'S HEADQUARTERS IS AT CALABAR OR LAGOS OR
ANYWHERE, BECAUSE HIS HEADQUARTERS IS LOVE,PEACE, MEEKNESS, HOLINESS,
GENTLENESS, TEMPERANCE, LONG SUFFERING, and each and everyone of you who
receives the words of God constitutes the headquarters of God.
Therefore, it is a mistake to say you are going to Calabar or
Biakpan or anywhere else to see God. This is because wherever you go you will
see thieves, fornicators, juju-men, drunkards, and all types of evil men and
you cannot be convinced that there is God there. If you go to Jerusalem, Mecca,
Britain, or America, you will find these same kind of people and so if God
should have any headquarters it should be devoid of evil. But here we are. This
is why the Bible says not all who call me Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom
of God, but those who do the will of God. (Matthew 7:21).
The Holy Spirit has come to lead you into the knowledge of truth,
and this knowledge of truth is to refrain from fornication, drinking,
juju-making, falsehood, envy, and all manners of evil. Tell them about the
presence of the Holy Spirit on earth and warn them to refrain from worshipping
idols and from vices. The only problem facing you in the execution of this
assignment is that you, also, have not refrained from evil, and this truth is
not seen in you, and if this truth is not seen in you, how can the people you
are going go preach to believe what you are going to tell them?
Let this gospel dwell in you so that as you take this gospel to
them they will see the Holy Spirit in you and believe your words. I have told
you that this gospel must be preached throughout the universe before the end
comes. So you are debtors to Jerusalem, Mecca, and all the world because you
have not taken this gospel to them. A very great percentage of the world is in
darkness, because they have not heard this gospel, and it is your duty to take
it to them, so that they may see the light. Tell the people of the world to
love one another and to forsake the spirit of apartheid since there is no
division in Christ. Extend this news to the Arabs, the Russians, the Jews and
to the whole world. Tell the Russians and the Americans that they must stop the
production of atomic bombs since God does not want these things. Tell them to
stop producing and taking drugs, tell them to forsake fornication, drinking,
quarrelling, fighting, and all vices. Rather they should seek the Holy Spirit
and in worshipping Him, they should worship
Him in spirit and in truth. This spirit is truth, love, meekness,
patience, long-suffering, peace, gentleness, and all good qualities. That was
why the Jewish woman told our Lord that when the Messiah would come, He would
teach them all things. But Jesus replied:" I standing here am He."
This proves that the world does not know the correct way of worshipping the
Lord.
In the years gone by, people used to offer sacrifices in the bush,
thinking that they were worshipping God. But this was a mistake. Abraham was
asked to sacrifice His son to God, but I tell you that did not constitute the
worship of God. In order to correct these misconceptions, Christ came and from then,
anyone who indulged in these acts has become covered in darkness. Thus Jesus
said: "Believe me a time shall come when neither here nor in Jerusalem
shall men worship God." Christ came with the accurate knowledge of truth
to teach the world. You cannot say you have the spirit when you tell visions of
prophesy. Worshipping God in spirit and in truth means carrying out every bit
of the instructions of God, and anyone who defaults in any of these
instructions is the least in the kingdom of God. But whoever does and teaches
others to keep these laws, shall be regarded as the greatest in the Kingdom of
God.
Do not bother yourselves about how to get to Lagos or Mecca or
Jerusalem to do the work of God, but bother yourself about how to practise the
laws which will lead you to the kingdom of God. If anyone compels you to follow
him to anywhere to worship God , do not go for God is not found there and if he
says there is power here or there, do not believe either. Here in Brotherhood,
you do not need to go to any special place to get the Holy Spirit. This is
because the Holy Spirit exist everywhere and all you need to do is to abide by
the instructions, and the power comes automatically.
SECOND BIBLE LESSON: JOHN 4: 21-23
"Jesus said unto her," Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation
is of the Jews. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to
worship him."
Brethren have you heard that ? This is where Christ said that God
is a spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Those in any synagogue have to travel from place to place to propound the
ideology of the kingdom to everyone. God is the word, the word is God and the
only way you can worship God in spirit and in truth is to have this word in you
and to teach others to do the same. Whoever does not preach the word of God,
does not practise the word and does not worship God. We are the custodians of
the key, and so, we must be examples of truth. The children of this kingdom are
those who go out and preach the gospel and show people the truth of this kingdom.
Preach, forbidding people from drinking, smoking, fornicating, hatred,
quarrelling, taking people to court, and all other vices. Outside this, there
is no kingdom. You call yourself a pastor, or a child of God, but you keep
offering drink to people, what type of a pastor are you? The real children of
God neither drink nor offer drinks to others.
Indeed, the greatest of all duties on earth is to practise the
word of God and possess Love.
If you read the old testament from Genesis to Malachi, you will
see that it consist of the work of the prophets and the people who study these
books do not do the works of God. But when Christ came, He accomplished the
works of the old testament. That is why the work of God has been revealed to
the world. But for our Lord Jesus Christ, no one would have believed in the
teachings of the Old Testament. Remember that before the New Testament came
into being, there were other books by the prophets and that is why they are
referred to as the Old Testament. Therefore, from Genesis to Malachi is
referred to as Old Testament, while Matthew to Revelation is the new covenant
and is referred to as the gospel. And so do not waste time to read the Old
Testament unless you have not been circumcised.
It is now your duty to practise every bit of the gospel for this
is the only way to worship God in spirit and in truth. They forget that as soon
as they based their learning on the on the books from Genesis to Malachi, they
are completely covered in darkness. They have forgotten that the time of that
old covenant is passed. We are now completely in the new covenant. God is a
spirit and where the spirit of God is there is deliverance. What you see here
is the glory of the kingdom of God. All of us here are one. Here we have no
woman, no man, no slave, no citizen, no rich, no poor. Everybody is equal and
linked with this spirit of love. This kingdom of God does not belong to the
blacks alone, neither does it belong to the whites alone. It is not for Africa
alone neither is it for Europe alone. It belongs to the entire creation of God-
the fishes in the waters, the birds of the air, the animals in the bush, human
beings, trees, and what have you. The headquarters of this new kingdom is not
in Biakpan, nor is it in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, or Africa, or
even in the Western or Eastern Worlds. THE HEADQUARTERS IS IN YOU, IT IS LOVE
and we all are in that LOVE.
Remember the gospel which says, "We are waiting for a new
heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." Now it is
righteousness that rules the entire creation of God. Whatever rank you hold
here or in any other denomination- whether you are an elder, a Pastor, Bishop,
or an Apostle, remember that it is only the Holy Spirit and righteousness that
take dominion over all the creations of God. Do not belabor yourself on how you
will open a Bethel for God, or how you will be able to build a healing home for
God. What should preoccupy your mind is how you could perform acts of
righteousness, that is all. If God wants to build bethel or a healing home for
Himself, He will do so. You will remember that Solomon built a " house for
God," but what does the gospel say?
It says Jehovah God does not dwell in the house built by man. The
heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool. What type of house can you
build for God? Is it not my hands that created all things?(Acts 7:47-50).
If God wanted a house, would he call you to come and build it for Him? I am his
own house, all of us here and everywhere are His own house which He built for His
residence. Why do you want to return to Egypt to go and revive all those
outmoded ways of worship which God has decreed should never be practiced?
Moses and all the people of old went into bondage and practiced
all those profane methods of worship. Why do you want to go back and follow
them and do what they did and provoke God to anger? People go to Mecca because
they do not know what they go to worship there. Our Lord Jesus Christ had said
that a time will come when people will not go to the mountain or Jerusalem to
worship God. (John 4:21). I am not telling you that you should come
and stay here in this hall to worship God, No! The gospel we preach here, all
the pamphlets we publish, if you read them and you practise all the injunctions
written therein, you will be worshipping God in spirit and in truth. That is
why it is very necessary for these gospels to written down, translated in all
languages, and published. No dates should be put on them for these gospels will
last till eternity. Read and practice the gospels and you will be worshipping
God in spirit and in truth. You are not to bow down to any idol or fetish
object, you are not to perform sacrifices, you are not to go round perpetuating
lies and falsehood. You are to practise every bit of the word of God. It is
only by so doing that you can worship God in spirit and in truth.
Remember that young lawyer who went to Our Lord Jesus Christ and
asked Him, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life? What did Christ tell
the lawyer? He told him, " Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,
with all thine power and with all thy soul." That was the first
commandment. The second was, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." All the
laws of the prophets hang on these two laws. (Matthew 22:37-40). Some
people say God has ten laws. That is not true. God does not have ten laws. Is
God ten? Definitely He is not. Some other people say that the laws of God are
so many that you cannot count them. This is not true. The laws of God are not
so many. There are only two laws as I have told you. It is not until you go
among thieves, dance, and sing with them that you worship God in spirit and in
truth. Staying in the church like this is not worshipping God either. The
children of God are those who practise the injunctions of God. All those who
abide by the instructions of God cannot commit sin. Therefore, the word of God
protects them and no evil can come near them.
Do not allow anything at this end of time cause you to deviate
from the path of rectitude. All those who do not want to follow this
instruction and do not want to keep the laws and commandments of God, but
rather glory in tormenting the children of God, this is the time for their
suffering. This is the time that the sheep are going to be separated from the
goats.
So, we have to hear the word of God, speak the word of God, and
practise the word of God. The word of God says, today if you hear his voice, do
not harden your heart. So all the gospels which you are given here, day in and
day out, put every bit into practice After that you shall be the true
worshippers of God, and those who worship God in spirit and in truth.
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 21:40-41
When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will He do
unto those husbandmen? They say unto Him He will miserably destroy those wicked
men, and He will let out His vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render
him the fruits in their seasons."
Brethren, are those words not fulfilled today? The gospel says
when the owner of the vineyard will come, what will he do to those wicked
husbandmen who had killed all the prophets, stoned many more to death, and even
killed His only begotten son? They replied and said unto Him that he will kill
all the wicked husbandmen, dispossess them of the vineyard, and give it to another
nation which will yield good fruits unto Him. Have you not seen today that God
has dispossessed them of His vineyard and has handed it over to another nation
who bears good fruits to God? Do you not see that He has taken the kingdom from
Jerusalem, this very Jerusalem that had destroyed all the prophets, right from
the time of Abel to Zacharias, and even killed Our Lord Jesus Christ? Jerusalem
did all those murderous acts, and God has taken the kingdom from them and has
handed it over to another race that will bear Him good fruits. God is not
interested in the color of a man's skin or his language. He is only interested
in those who obey His commandments.
This message comes from the high heavens. It is the message from
the Most High God to Jerusalem and its surroundings. This message should be
printed and immediately sent to them, informing them of the gospel that proves
God's consistency. Because they had killed the prophets sent to save them, and
even killed the only begotten Son of God, God will take the kingdom away from
them and give it to any nation that will bear good fruits. This gospel reveals
that this has been fulfilled today. An adage says, no matter how tightly the
two hands are clasped together, a sinner will never escape punishment. You see,
this Jerusalem which had killed Abel, up to Zacharias and even killed Our Lord
Jesus Christ, was cursed by Our Lord Jesus Christ saying, " Ye shall see
me no more. I have left your city to you as a desert, until you shall proclaim,
blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord." Do you not see what is
happening now? The war that has been raging between the Arabs and the Israelis,
do you not know that it is the work of God? The only option open to the
children of God here is to go to Jerusalem, not to go and visit and admire its
historical monuments, graves, and cathedrals, but to go and impart to them this
good news, peradventure they would say, "Blessed is He who cometh in the
name of the Lord," and be saved. Let the Jews not take pride in their
historical past, their Cathedral built by Solomon, the graves of David,
Abraham, Jacob or Isaac; they should not claim to be owners of the kingdom by
virtue of being the sons of Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. No! Rather they should
repent and proclaim, " Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord," in order to receive the last condition for forgiveness from God,
for the kingdom they have long been boasting about that they have, had long
been taken away from them.
Brethren, do you see that God is no respecter of persons? (Acts
10:34). Therefore, the moment He calls you, do not harden your heart and
consequently perish as the people of old did and perished. The gospel says,
" Did the Israelites stumble in order to fall? The scripture also says,
" No! it was because of their sins, salvation came to the Gentiles."
Some people used to say, " God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of
Jacob." This is quite inapplicable today. He is today a universal God, and
no more a God of the Israelites. God is now your own God, my own God, and God
of everybody. So use this chance to practise the word of God so that you might
be saved. Many people do not even know the cause of tribulations, troubles and
wars in that part of the world. The Israelites and the Arabs have engaged
themselves in a long drawn out war for years now. This is the result of what
they did. This is to prove to you that the owner of the vineyard has come by
Himself and this is the reward He has come to give them. The gospel says that
Jehovah God knows how to come to the rescue of those who accept Him and also
knows how to keep those who disobey Him in perpetual punishment. This very
gospel should be translated into all languages, printed, and distributed to all
the churches and religions all over the world so that they may know the reward
for wickedness and the fulfillment of the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do not say within your heart that you have got love. How can you
get love when you do not have the Holy Spirit? It was written that the Holy
Spirit will lead. What is leading us now is the Holy Spirit. The gospel says an
axe has been laid at the foot of the tree and the tree that does not bear good
fruits shall be hewn down. All the troubles and persecutions going on now,
everywhere, in the world, are a result of God's judgement on the whole world.
Our main duty now is to pray fervently to God to forgive the sins that the
Arabs, the Israelis, the entire Jerusalem and its environs, and the entire
world for what they did.
The scripture says that what was done to the Israelites will be
done to the Gentiles. You should learn your own lesson from this event and know
that God is no respecter of person. If the Gentiles on the other hand do not
learn their lesson and thus go against the instructions of God, God will not
mind taking away the kingdom from them and giving it back to the original
owners, the Israelites, or any other nation that will bear Him good fruits.
Because the scripture says, from the time of John, the kingdom of God is
obtained by violence and it is only the strong willed who inherits it.
Today, have you seen the difference between what happened in
Israel and what is happening in this part of the world? Today, are people not
colluding among themselves and trying to fight against the Holy Spirit? Is the
whole world not contemplating and saying among themselves that Jesus will fall
from the sky like a bird? Do you know that your trip to Jerusalem will mean
going to redeem them? Because as soon as you go and tell them and they proclaim
saying, "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord," they
will immediately receive their forgiveness and salvation. God has given a very
long gap for you to repent and receive the word of God, but have you? Have you
not realized the work of the Holy Spirit?
Your visit to Jerusalem is primarily, for you to go and if in
doing so, they proclaim saying, " Blessed is He that cometh in the name of
the Lord," they will immediately receive remission of their sins and would
be readmitted into the kingdom of God. In doing this you should also be very
careful, so that you yourself may not fall short of the glory of God and
perish, because God is like a prostitute and does not waste time going to
anyone who wants Him. Remember what Our Lord Jesus Christ said to Chorazin and
Bethsaida. He said if the type of work that I do in you had been done in Sodom
and Gomorrah, those two cities would not have perished. Remember Our Lord Jesus
Christ did mighty works in Chorazin and Bethsaida, but when He came back to
those cities, He realized that not one person repented. (Matthew 11:21-24).
Now, look at this part of the world. Look at the mighty work God
is doing in this city in the Cross River State, in Nigeria, and in the entire
world. If this type of work was done in Jerusalem do you not think they would
have repented? Now is the time for you to go to Mecca, Russia, India, and many
other places, because you have the children of God existing everywhere. If you
go to any place and they do not accept you flee from there and go to another
place. If Mecca does not accept you go to a place in Africa. If Africa does not
accept you, go the Western world. This kingdom will be taken away from anybody
or nation and given to any nation that will be prepared to bear Him good
fruits. Do not rejoice in your hearts saying, this kingdom is in Calabar, Cross
River State, or that it comes out of my family, because so did the Israelites
say but did not believe in the kingdom they proclaimed, and so the kingdom was
taken away from them.
You who continue to persecute the children of God, you who
continue to have a stone heart, you who continue to be wicked, you who continue
to kill the prophets of God, take ample lesson from this very example of
Jerusalem. The Israelites openly declared saying, " Let the Blood of Christ
be upon us, upon our children and our children's children and all the future
generations." What has happened today? That blood is exactly on their
heads. If this present generation has any wisdom and takes a cue from what
happened to the people of old, they should humble themselves and practise the
injunctions of God. The gospel says, just as from one man sin came into the
world, it is also from one man, Our Lord Jesus Christ, salvation came to the
whole world. So as you go there, it will be you who will liberate the whole
place. It is therefore our supreme task to go to the Western world with this
good message , this good news of glad tidings. Go to the rest of Africa, to
America and to all parts of the world with this good news, informing them that the
Holy Spirit has arrived and that the whole world should worship God in Spirit
and in truth. This is no more time for wickedness; it is not the time for
fornicating and committing adultery; it is not time for drinking and getting
drunk; it is not the time for all sorts of outrageous acts. This is the time
for practical Christianity. It is the time to liberate the whole world and
remove them from acts of sin and unrighteousness.
The gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ says, " how many people
will have a hundred sheep but one is lost and he will not leave the ninety-nine
others and go in search of the one sheep which got lost?" When he finds
that lost sheep, he would be so happy that he would celebrate the find with a
big feast and invite all his friends to partake of this feast (Matthew
18:12-13). The position is the same today. It is now our duty to go to the
lost sheep everywhere in the world. We are to go and liberate them and by so
doing there will be a great joy in this kingdom for every service of redemption
extended to the lost children of God.
Let all those who have ears to hear, hear the Word of God. May God
bless His Holy Words. Amen!
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