First
Bible Lesson: Luke 24:49
"And,
behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of
Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."
Second
Bible Lesson: Acts 2:39
"For
the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off,
even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
Golden
Text: Luke 11:13
"If
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much
more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him?"
Brethren,
what has been read to you will serve as the opening address for the December
Pentecostal Assembly. You are true witnesses to the fact that, always when
we open any Pentecostal, it is our tradition that we always start with
the Spirited Children's Meeting. God is a Spirit and the
children of God are spirited children and spirits also. Your mistake
as well as your ignorance is that you do not realize that it is not only vision
which is the Holy Spirit.
A great
many people do not attend this Pentecostal Assembly because they complain that
they have not got the gift of vision, or that they do not remember their dreams
or that they cannot preach the Word of God; and that only those who shake their
heads see visions, and extract charms from people's bodies are spirited
children. This is erroneous. Why we open with this Fellowship is that
it is the most important because except you are born of the water and of the
Holy Spirit, you cannot enter into this Kingdom which is nothing else but the
Holy Spirit.
The
Body Without The Spirit Is Dead
No
matter the amount of money you have accumulated for yourself, if you are not
endowed with the Holy Spirit, you are nothing. Even if you go to the University
and acquire up to a thousand degrees, but without the Holy Spirit you are
useless. Even if you have as many children as the "Spider"; some of
whom are prominent lawyers, millionaires, professors, doctors and engineers,
but without the Holy Spirit, they do not serve you any useful purpose. Initiate
into all the secret societies in the world, develop yourself to any temple,
indulge in all forms of necromancing, study what you may and remain in the world
for a thousand years, but without the Holy Spirit, all these diabolical means
will not profit you anything.
Only
Those Endowed With Holy Spirit Are Loved By God
We have
the reason to be happy and joyous because we are of the luckiest generation. I
sometimes see people testifying that God has so loved them that He gives them
money and they are millionaires. I have always sympathized with such persons,
because they are not loved by God. If God were to love them, He would
have bestowed His Holy Spirit on them. Another person testifies, and
ask what he could do in the service of God because of His love in giving him
prominent sons and daughters, who are so intelligent and prosperous, some being
millionaires, others are professors and prominent citizens. I tell such a
person to sit down quietly because if God were to love him, He would have
endowed him with the Holy Spirit. Another person testifies about the love of
God in Him by giving him the ability to study and acquire many degrees from
India or Russia or Britain or America, and that he has gone to the sun, the
moon and stars to study. But has he been bestowed with the power of the Holy
Spirit? God does not love him otherwise He would have bestowed His Holy Spirit
on him.
The
Holy Spirit Surpasses All Carnal Things
The
world is to be pitied because somebody who is a president is infatuated with
pride, a prime minister is also puffing up, a common governor is also arrogant.
Why are they pompous and arrogant, have they possessed the Holy Spirit?
Notice
that the emptiness of the whole world is due to the fact that the inhabitants
of the world have not possessed the Holy Spirit. This is the greatest problem
and sickness of the world. No matter the amount of money minted by the people
of the world but, as long as they do not possess the Holy Spirit, there is no
life. Can you realize that the world has now reached a population explosion,
but this numerical strength of the people in the world will not serve any
purpose as long as the people do not possess the Holy Spirit.
Wealth
Is Not Profitable But Problematic
All
your carnal possessions are problems to you, money is a problem, children are
also problematic, wisdom and long life all are problems to you. If we were wise
enough, we would not have to ask God to give us long life, if He gives you long
life without the Holy Spirit, what are you going to do with it? God has given
you long life, you beget children and they all grow and die but you are still
living. What type of life is that? He has given you long life, you are always
sickly, you are experiencing certain things you have never noticed in your
life, you have witnessed certain things you have never seen in life, what is
the use of your long life?
To
Be Carnally Minded Means Death
You ask
God to give you money, He has given you money. You fight and struggle for money
but others enjoy it, what is the use? Those who obtain loans from you do not
pay back, thieves break in and steal; your workman also embezzles a great part
of it. In order to recover, you cry and lament, take court action against them
and you are completely disillusioned. What is the need of asking God to give
you money? The same condition applies to your children, some are sick, your
daughters are driven away by their husbands, some are cheated, one has been
caught stealing, another has committed murder. Why then do you ask God to give
you children, what do you want to do with children, you are inviting trouble to
yourself.
No
President Governs The Flies And Mosquitoes
Argue
with me that there is any money magnate who sleeps and has peace for his soul.
All money magnates are in hell fire. Argue also that the fathers and mothers
have peace in their lives. Argue that the learned men are in peace. None of
them has peace, they are in hell fire. The reason for this is that, they do not
receive the gift of God from above. I have told you several times that if you
were to understand the intricacies of this Kingdom of God, you would have
realized that the joy we have is so great that it has neither the beginning nor
the end. The joy we have, words are inadequate to describe because we
have peace, life, joy, power, wisdom and every other thing conceivable as well
as eternal life. The Holy Spirit is the gift of God. This
is the gift that God has bestowed on every person, and unless you are extremely
lucky, God cannot endow you with the Holy Spirit. Once you possess the
Holy Spirit, you overcome the world. There is nothing in the world which can be
compared with the Holy Spirit. If I were to compare him with all the
banks in the world, the result is that the bank is nothing in relation to the
Holy Spirit. Or should I compare him with any person who is enthroned as the
King of the whole world, that is not profitable to any person because a King is
always beset with problems, he is always harassed by flies, mosquitoes, and
ants, he is drenched by rain and suffers under the hazards of the weather, from
the rain and the scorching heat of the sun. It is said if the spirit of
him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Our Lord
Jesus Christ, from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit
that dwells in you, on the last day. If I go to enumerate the significance of
the Holy Spirit, you will notice that the Holy Spirit is the wisdom of
truth, the author of all wisdom in heaven and on earth. He
is super-wisdom, the Father of wisdom, once you possess
Him, He is the master of wisdom, who teaches, leads, exhorts, rebukes.
Once you have him, there is no need going to study in the University. He
is the recondite wisdom of God, super wisdom which surpasses all forms of
wisdom in the world.
The
Holy Spirit Is The Recondite Wisdom Of Truth
When
you possess the Holy Spirit, you will realize that he is the super-power,
all powers in heaven and on earth are in his hands. With Him, it is
needless going to the doctor, necromancer or tree or rock for power. He is the
embodiment of power and the tree of power. If you possess the Holy Spirit,
there will be no need praying to God to give you love, because He is the Father
and Lord of love. All aspects of love expression reside with Him. You will not
even worry yourself about expressing love because he will practice love
for you. When you possess the Holy Spirit, there will be no need to
pray to God to give you wealth. Earthly wealth is counterfeit
but with the Holy Spirit you have heaven and earth and all that is in them. He
has bestowed on you all the wealth in the world. When you possess the
Holy Spirit, you will have eternal joy, there will be nothing which offend; but
rather, there is perpetual joy. It is sometimes said that in order to
get temporary relief from the tedium of life, people go to the ballroom, dance,
or drink, or love women or do any other thing but when you possess the Holy
Spirit you will have eternal joy, you will become the father of joy. When
you possess the Holy Spirit, the peace of God which passes all understanding
will reside with you. I am not talking about somebody giving you
money, talk to you and dance with you, but with the Holy Spirit alone, peace is
assured.
With
The Holy Spirit There Is No Suffering
When
you possess the Holy Spirit, your brothers and sisters will be more numerous
than the population of the world. And you have eternal father, eternal mother,
eternal brother, sister, eternal friend, eternal relation. When you
have the Holy Spirit you will not hunger, nor thirst. Hunger and thirst will be
a thing of the past. Whoever possessed the Holy Spirit, overcomes this
world and the world to come and rules over it. You can only suffer up to the
point you have not got the Holy Spirit.
But
from the second, the minute, the hour, the day, the week, the month and the
year you are bestowed with the Holy Spirit, your suffering ends.
That
was why when Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit of the tree of good and evil and
their eyes were opened, God instructed that they should be driven out of the
Garden less haply, they will, while in the garden, eat of the tree of life and
have eternal life. (Gen 3:22)What is that tree of life? It
is the Holy Spirit. That is why I tell you that except God
loves you and wants you to live eternally, and wants you to rule with Him, He
will not give you the Holy Spirit. Whosoever possesses the Holy Spirit, has the
right to sing and dance and be happy because he has escaped death, suffering,
tribulations and afflictions.
John
The Baptist Baptised Many But Only Our Lord Jesus Christ Received The Holy
Spirit
Brethren,
I do not know how I feel towards you because it seems to me that your hearts
are not wide open, and your eyes have not yet been cleared of the scales so
that you can really see this glory. I do not think you have seen this glory.
That was why our Lord Jesus commissioned his disciples to go and tarry at
Jerusalem (Luke 24:49), because, hitherto all those who followed
him were not bestowed with the Holy Spirit. They were following Him sheepishly
and could not assimilate all what He preached to them. He is not an article of
trade that people should go to buy from the market. He is not money, He is not
a carnal thing but the gift of God. During that time, upon all those baptized
by John the Baptist, only Our Lord Jesus Christ was bestowed with the
Holy Spirit. This indicates how precious and how expensive the Holy Spirit is.
Why he conquered was because of that Spirit which is God. He was the only
person who was powerful, that was why he pocketed all the inhabitants of the
world. That was why also He directed people to go somewhere and they could find
something and when they went they would see the same thing. He would stretch
out his hands and something happened. He was inspired by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Remember also that He caused 5,000 persons to be fed with 5 loaves of
bread and two fishes. (Matt 14:21) The people were so filled
and satisfied that there was taken up, of fragments that remained to them,
twelve baskets.
Peace
Be Still
He said
also to a fig tree that it would no longer bear further fruits, "Let no
fruit grow on thee henceforth forever, "and the fig tree withered
away. (Mark 11:14-21) The disciples started asking what
sort of man he was. He lifted his hand towards the turbulent sea and
said, "Sea be thou still" and the water became very calm. (Mark
4:39). Who did that? It was the Holy Spirit. He also commanded
Simon saying, "launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a
draught", though he hesitated at first, but when he cast, he enclosed a
great multitude of fishes. (John 21:6) Who did that? Was it not the
Holy Spirit? He could also say go your infirmities are healed, and of a
truth their infirmities were cured. Who healed them? It was the
Holy Spirit. That was why the Pharisees concluded that Our Lord Jesus Christ
was using the power of beelzebub the prince of the devil. So He asked them if
satan drives away satan, how can his kingdom stand? (Matt 12:26) Any
kingdom which divides against itself is brought to desolation.
Render
To Caesar What Is Caesar's, And To God What Belongs To God
When
you go to consult the necromancers and juju doctors, they will tell you to give
to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God; (Matt
22:21); and by so doing they will prescribe for you goats, sheep,
cows, cocks, yams and money. Why do they require these things? Why can they not
use the power of the Holy Spirit? Do you think that if Moses were to be
endowed with the Holy Spirit that the Israelites would have sojourned for 40
years, in the wilderness? He had no Holy Spirit. Do you believe that
if Joshua were to be endowed with the Holy Spirit, he would have spent so long
a time before entering the promised land, during which process the Israelites
fought and killed people who stood on their way? Joshua did not possess
the Holy Spirit.
It
seems to me that your eyes are still dim, they are not clean. That is why it is
said, "you should ask if you have not." Ask God for the Holy Spirit,
and He will bestow Him unto you today, and you will receive Him.
If
Your Name Is Written In Heaven, Be Happy
Remember
what the seventy disciples whom he sent out on ministry work told him on their
return. They told him "Lord, even the devils, the serpents, the scorpions
are subject unto us through your name." (Luke 10:17-18) And
our Lord Jesus Christ said, "I behold satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Behold, I have given you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all
the powers of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto
you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. (Luke 10:20)
Observe
that each time he commanded them to do anything, before they went there, the
Holy Spirit had already completed the work. They would come back with
joy. They were thinking they were instrumental, they did not know what was
happening. They could not assimilate all what he preached to them neither did
they understand all what he was doing because it was the Father doing the work.
One
With God Is A Majority
What
name was not given to him? Even his disciples doubted and always asked what
sort of man he was. Neither the disciples nor the people of the world knew what
sort of person he was. He was nothing else, than the indwelling Holy Spirit. If
you have possessed the Holy Spirit, and the Father in His merciful kindness
reveals to you, what do you need to learn from any human being? If you possess
the Holy Spirit, why do you require somebody to introduce himself to you, or to
ask what sort of person he is or what is in him, or what he is thinking or what
is in his mind? Everything about him is laid bare before you. When Our
Lord Jesus Christ was not yet bestowed with the Holy Spirit, he did not have
even one disciple. Without the Holy Spirit, who will follow you? Because
one with God is a majority. You have no power, no knowledge. If you do
not possess the Holy Spirit, you are stricken with abject poverty, you are
blind, you are stupid, you are ignorant, you are a simpleton, indeed, you are
as dead as a door nail. Seek First The Holy Spirit, And All Other Things
Will Be Added (Matt 6:33/Luke 12:31) Brethren, no person can do
anything if he is not clothed with the power from on high. Without Him, you are
not worth anything.
All the
church denominations, prayer houses, governments, institutions and even single
individuals should not ask God for any other thing. The only thing
before us now is to ask God that we be bestowed with the Holy Spirit. And
today, right now, we have to ask God to give us the Holy Spirit.
You
should neither ask God for money nor for children nor for any other carnal
thing, because you are requesting for suffering and death unto yourself,
thereby, incurring the displeasure of God upon yourself. Those who have money
are looking for a place to run for safety, those who have children, they too
are finding where to run to and leave the children behind, but you are still
asking for those empty things. Why do you not ask for the Holy Spirit? When you
have Him, you are absolutely free from all encumbrances. It is only the
Holy Spirit who has dominion over death and life, over poverty and wealth, over
water and dry land.
Indeed
He has dominion over everything.
Ask
For The Holy Spirit And You Will Be Given
This
explains why Our Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples if you love me you will
keep my commandments and I will plead with the Father and He will send to you
another Comforter which is the Holy Spirit. (John 14:15-16) He
knew that they were ignorant of this. But you have remained here for 20 to 30
to 40 years knowing nothing. Who amongst you have ever asked God to endow him
with the Holy Spirit? Your pre-occupation is that you stand in this hall and
ask the Father for children, for money, to pass your examination, to be
promoted at your place of work for a wife or for your sick brother to be healed
of his infirmities. Is it what is lacking in you? The time for the promise of
God to the world is now made manifest. This is the era of the Holy
Spirit, ask and He will be bestowed on you. Ask for him quickly so
that you obtain grace for your soul. Brethren, I do not want to overload you,
the first lesson will now be read, the sermon imparted to you now is an eye
opener. Please listen attentively. Without the Holy Spirit, even if you remain
for a hundred years you will not hear a single gospel neither will you be able
to assimilate, nor practise the gospel nor obtain peace for your soul, nor will
you be able to assimilate nor practise the gospel, nor will you be able to
differentiate between the left and the right. You will appear as an imbecile, a
nincompoop or an ignoramus.
First
Bible Lesson: Luke 24:49
"And
behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of
Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."
Tarry
Until You Be Clothed With Power From On High
Have
you heard what is read unto you? Have you listened to the English phraseology
used. "Until you be clothed with power from on high." When you are
clothed with that power on high, nothing has power over you whether the
government, or poverty, or men, or fire, or sickness or any other thing.
You
will be absolutely free. You complain that you have been having bad dreams or
that your enemy has charmed you or that he has poisoned you or that he has sent
the thunder by diabolical means to harm you. Why are you beset with these
contemplations? You complain that you have nothing to eat, that your wife has
eloped with another man, that your children do not look after you, that you do
not know yourself, that you have so many problems surrounding you. Why do these
things happen to you?
Holy
Spirit Is Everything To Every Man
Do you
not know that the Holy Spirit is the Father, He is the mother, He is the Son,
He is money, He is wealth, house, motor cars, He is everything to every person.
This gift is for me, it is for you and for every person who requests for him
and he will surely be bestowed unto him. Money, children, motor cars, and all
other things are carnal, the only thing which comes from God direct
unto you, is the power of the Holy Spirit.
Remember
that rich fool whose land brought forth plentifully and he expanded his barns
and storehouse to keep the rich harvest. (Luke 12:16-20) He
then said to himself "my soul you have much goods laid up for you for many
years, take your ease, eat, drink, sleep and be merry." But what did God
tell him that day? God said to him, "Thou fool, this night your soul shall
be extracted from you, then whose shall these things be which you have
provided?" He died that night. So it is with a person who lays up treasure
for himself but is not rich towards God.
The
first and the foremost thing that each of us should seek after, should be the
Holy Spirit. Even if it cost you your life, once you have it, you have eternal
life. The purpose of imparting these lessons to you in this Kingdom of God, is
that you may be endowed with the Holy Spirit. I do not impart these lessons to
you that you may have children. You have children, but they do not give you
eternal life. The money you have is counterfeit and your long life is also
counterfeit. None of them can give you eternal life. My contention is thatwhen
you have the Holy Spirit, you have eternal life.
Do
Not Be Carnally Minded
When
you had no child, you had only one problem, when you had no wife, you had only
one problem, but when you had a wife, your problem was doubled. If you have one
child, your problem is trebled. Now that you have two children, your problem is
quadrupled. If you have a job, you add one more problem to yourself, the more
things you have, the more will your problem be increased. Your daughter, son,
motor car, shoes, and a host of other problems are there for you, how will you
cope with this multiplicity of problems. Right now, no man knows exactly what
he is doing. If the way to the hades were to be opened, a great many people
would have opted to go there to rest, (if there is any rest).
Do not
be flummoxed to see a beautiful girl breezing into your house and you plead
with her to go and she will begin to interrogate you as to why you want her to
go, and where you want her to go to. She will tell you that she will stay with
you. In the same token do not be bamboozled to find a handsome, well dressed
young man, driving his luxurious car to your doorstep and you ask him to go but
he will tell you that he would stay with you as a woman he likes. What was good
to him before he came, if even there would be a fight to decide the issue, he
would like to fight. Do not be surprised to see some three or four children
calling at your house and you give them a little food. After eating, they will
sit tight and call you daddy because they would not want to go back to their
parents. If you ask them to go back to their mother, they will tell you, they
prefer to remain with you. This state of affairs is brought about
because the world is in a state of total confusion. There is
nothing in the world, it is but empty because the inhabitants have
rejected the Holy Spirit. You have all rejected the Holy
Spirit and the Holy Spirit is the stone which the builders reject and which has
become the head of the corner. (Psalm 118:22 / Mark 12:10) All
of you here, have rejected the Holy Spirit because you look for money, for
wife, for husband, for wealth, to become a traditional ruler, your number of
years in Brotherhood notwithstanding.
Obey
God's Instruction If You Love Me
Remember
the injunction of Our Lord Jesus Christ to his disciples. He said: "if
you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I will plead with the Father
and he will send unto you another Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit and he
will be with you forever." (John 14:15-16) Do you
think that a thief can be endowed with the Holy Spirit? Do you think that a
prostitute can be endowed with the Holy Spirit. Do you think a liar or
a necromancer can be bestowed with the Holy Spirit? Do you think that the Holy
Spirit consists in shaking the head and shouting like dogs? It is not
that simple to be endowed with the Holy Spirit. If it were that simple, the
whites would have received him. Whosoever possesses the Holy Spirit should rule
over the world, because He is the only ruler. But brethren can you observe how
pitiful and pathetic you are? Our Lord Jesus Christ did not give them any other
condition but he told them "if you love me you will keep my commandments
and I will pray the Father and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may
abide with you forever". Do you believe that he can pray the
Father to give the Holy Spirit to any person who does not keep his commandment?
What is this commandment of Our Lord Jesus Christ? It is "love ye
one another". What is being taught to you today? It is
this same lesson imparted unto you that you should love one another, when you
love somebody the implication is not that, the person should love you or should
give you money but that you should obtain the Holy Spirit.
The
Flesh Avails Little The Spirit Quickens (John 6:63).
What
can a man do unto you? Man is poor, stupid and dead. Man is nothing, as you sit
down here, you are but empty. When the Holy Spirit infuses himself into
you now, you will see the world as an empty place. If you look at
people like the king, the emperor, the president, the governor, the prime
minister, the millionaire, the professor, you will shed tears and sympathize
with them. When you receive the Holy Spirit, you will never be exasperated, you
will not beat up people, you will not curse or abuse any person because you
will be filled with pity for the world.
When
you boast and threaten somebody that you are going to teach him a lesson or to
teach him sense, it is only that you are being as blind as the person you are
threatening. All the inhabitants of the world are like people travelling in a
ship or canoe which capsizes in water and the occupants of the ship or canoe
are all struggling to swim out to safety each gasping for breath. A local adage
has it that when scabies irritate on the body of an animal, it will scratch the
area against a tree but if they irritate on the human body another person will
help to scratch his body.
Somebody
with a wife and five children comes to you for a loan of one naira to buy food
for the family, but you refuse to give him with the pretext that you have no
money. What do you want him to do? Whatever device he can use to get food, he
should use it. If he can break into your house to steal money, he can do it; if
he likes to beat up somebody and forcefully collect money from him, he can do
it; what do you want him to do? Do you want him to die of hunger? He must feed
himself and members of his family. If any of those devices fails, he will give
you a post-dated cheque in exchange for two naira in order to solve his food
problem. He is not a mad person. There is no money in his account, because his
book is in the red, but he is looking for assistance. If you go to draw the
cheque issued when it is due, it will not be cashed because, he has nothing
left in his account. You complain that he deceived you, how has he deceived
you? That was the only way open to him to get something to eat, if he did not
do that, he would have died of hunger and perhaps his children and wife also.
Do
Not Curse A Necromancer But Pity Him
Sometimes,
you pronounce woe to the necromancer. Do you think if he had something to eat,
he would have indulged in necromancing? Do you feel that he finds pleasure in
what he is doing? It is a necessity. So that he can pick any herbs or roots of
trees or bark of a tree and compound something and hand over to you as a
protective charm, so that he can collect money to buy food to feed his family.
It is hunger that has prompted him to behave the way he does. Your woe has no
effect on him.
All of
us know that it is not expedient to do certain things, but in the circumstances
we find ourselves, what else can we do?
There
is no other alternative than for us to flout the expediency of the act, or
would you want to die while you are still breathing? That was why our Lord
Jesus Christ told His disciples, "if you love me you will keep my
commandments and I shall pray the Father, He shall give you another Comforter,
which is the Holy Spirit."
Who
amongst you understand that the Holy Spirit is food? He is land, He is water,
He is man, He is money, He is clothes, He is power, He is mercy, He is glory,
indeed, He is everything to every man! You are small children, because if you
place a twenty naira currency note before a child who does not know the value
of money, and also a one kobo coin, the child will prefer the one kobo coin to
the twenty naira currency note because one kobo is heavier in his hand than the
note. It is the same with you. If you ask God to give you money, and He gives
you one million naira, and you begin to live an extravagant life but if
somebody ask you to request for the Holy Spirit, you would inquire to know what
is called the Holy Spirit. You have no other boast. You have rejected
the Holy Spirit, but He is working hard. He has no deputy and does not rest but
is working round the clock throughout the world. You want to do the work of God
but you have not possessed the Holy Spirit, with what are you going to serve?
You want to be a money magnate but you do not possess the Holy Spirit, how will
you get the money? You want wisdom, but have no Holy Spirit, how do you acquire
the wisdom? The Holy Spirit is God's embodiment, all virtues of God,
patience, love, peace, power, wisdom, wealth, health, glory, and eternal life
all reside with the Holy Spirit, He is the A and the Z.That is why Our Lord
Jesus Christ told His disciples, "It is expedient for you that I go away
for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I
will send Him unto you." (John 16:7)
Without
The Spirit You Can Do Nothing
Listen
attentively to this gospel and your ears and eyes and hearts will be opened and
you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Today, you can jump up and
testify that from this moment you have completely refrained from fornication.
Look! Have you considered your resolution because immediately after testifying
within a jiffy you will see a beautiful girl at the other end of the building
and you fornicate with her within the compound, or even inside this hall. You
can resolve to serve God all the days of your life and a few minutes after
somebody calls in to tell you that he has found business that you have been
looking for and that you should join hands with him in the business.
You
will quit the service of God in order to take up the business. There is no
person who can do this work except he is clothed with the power of the Holy
Spirit from above. Without the Holy Spirit there is nothing, you can do.
Without the Spirit, you preach but confusion, you are always confused in all
your actions, you steal, tell lies, swindle and you become the headquarters of
all vices.
Without
The Holy Spirit You Cannot Refrain From Sin
Do
you think that if Paul were not endowed with the Holy Spirit, he would have
been able to do all he did? Look at women, there were as many and beautiful
women, during the time of Paul as we have them today in the world. Except God
clothes you with the power of the Holy Spirit, you will find it difficult to
refrain from exasperation, quarrelling, fighting, or being carnally minded, and
from involving in men and women affairs. During the last advent of Our Lord
Jesus Christ, when He was with His disciples, He controlled the Holy Spirit. It
was because of this that He used to instruct them on what to do and as they
went, everything was accomplished as he commanded but they did not know what he
was doing. It was the Holy Spirit who used to lead them in whatsoever they were
commissioned to do and so they always returned with joy and happiness that their
work was accomplished. But they could not explain how this was done, because
they had no Holy Spirit. Remember that during the interregnum, when He left
them for a short period, their eyes were opened and they retired to their
various trades in their holes and caves. They forgot altogether about the
lessons the Lord imparted unto them because they had no Holy Spirit. Without
the Holy Spirit, you will not be able to hear what is preached neither will you
understand it, nor be able to open your mouth to preach to others.
Preach
the word of God to the permanent secretary, but you refuse to do it because you
feign shy for fear of being queried. Preach to the governor, or to the Judge,
or to the magistrate, you cannot, unless he endows you with power of the Holy
Spirit, then will you have the boldness to preach to the king, the queen, the
president and to men of all walks of life. And so brethren, I do not want to
continue further, the second lesson will now be read so that you realize that
the promise is to you and to your children's children, and to all those who are
afar off, even as many as the Lord your God shall call. Today, it is incumbent
upon you, to receive this promise.
Second
Bible Lesson: Acts 2:39
"For
the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off,
even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
Brethren,
have you heard that? When you are exhorted to refrain from fornication, theft,
exasperation, drinking, and falsehood, so that the Holy Spirit may indwell you,
have you agreed to refrain? When you are enjoined to love one another as the
Father has loved you, have you complied? When you comply, the Holy Spirit will
come and dwell in you. The only thing now left for you is to refrain completely
from sinful acts because if you resign and surrender yourself to him, when He
comes in, and if you ask, you will receive the Holy Spirit today. It is said by
the words of your mouth you are justified and by the words of your mouth you
are condemned. (Matt 12:37) I want all of you now to rise up in
concert, with one voice, and one spirit, and one faith, and ask for the power
of the Holy Spirit whether you will not observe what will happen
today.
Sanctify
Yourself Unto God
Throughout
this Pentecostal, your only request should be that the Father should bestow His
Holy Spirit on you. In your prayer, in the Holy songs, in testimony ask for the
power of Spirit, if you will not receive Him. If you rejoice because you have
the money, this is not what He promised to give you, neither did He promise to
give you children or any carnal thing, but it was the Holy Spirit which He
promised. If therefore, you sanctify yourself unto Him, He will take dominion
over you.
Have
you never heard of someone who has money today, and tomorrow he is koboless?
Have you not seen somebody who is a governor today, and tomorrow he is an
ordinary citizen? Have you not heard of somebody who was a king yesterday, and
today he is either made to abdicate or he is dethroned? The same thing happens
to the various forms of knowledge acquired which today is and tomorrow no more.
But if you ask God for the Holy Spirit, you will have eternal life. That is why
we have been advised that unless we refrain from theft, falsehood and
fornication, we cannot receive Him. That explains the reason that we
should confess our sins, repent, and forsake
roguery, fornication, denounce our membership of all the secret
societies, refrain from begrudging people and from indulging in all acts of
vices, and thereafter surrender yourself to him, then will you
receive the promise and if you ask for the Holy Spirit, He will be bestowed
unto you.
Whoever
Is Not Bestowed With The Holy Spirit Is Not Of God
What is
now commencing with the black man who will suffer violence; it will be
lamentable. Millionaires, doctors, philosophers, the members of the church
denominations will cry and wail for the Holy Spirit, but it will be too late
for them. I want to put before you that whoever does not receive it, is not
loved of God and he does not love God. How will you conquer without the Holy
Spirit, if you are not clothed with the power. How will you overcome, if you
are not clothed with power from on high. Money is nothing, man is nothing,
wisdom is nothing the whole world is but empty. The Holy Spirit is
power, wisdom, love and God who rules over the universe. The various
names people erroneously call in Brotherhood, whether witchery, concoction,
charm apparition or any diabolical thing refer to the Holy Spirit. Why do you
search for Him? The more you search the less you see, but if He searched for
you, He must surely see you.
Where
There Is Holy Spirit There Is Liberty (2 Cor 3:17)
Brethren,
notice this one thing, that is whether you are educated or not, literacy is not
a sine qua non, whether you speak fluent English or not, whether you have money
or not, whether you are a minor or an adult or whatever you may be, your
education, affluence, children, position in the society is not a pre-condition
but when He arrives at your door step you are free. Once you possess the Holy
Spirit, that is when you are clothed with this gift and you become an expert
linguist because you can speak many languages very fluently; you are an expert
in accumulating wealth, and expert traditional ruler, in fact you are an adept
in doing various things. With the possession of the Holy Spirit no
temptation befalls you, you have no enemies, poverty and wretchedness will be a
thing of the past, you will no longer be drenched by rain or beaten by the heat
of the sun and you will no longer subject yourself as inferior to another
person.
You
Look For Wealth Where You Cannot Find It
God
knows why you go to school, it is that at the completion you maybe able to earn
a living. God knows why you want to study in the University, it is so that you
may earn big money because you feel that your salary as a school certificate
holder is not enough for you. He also understands why you are not satisfied
with the first degree and you go in for the second or the Masters or for the
doctorate because you feel what you earn with your first degree only, is not
sufficient for you, or is too small to carry all your responsibilities. God
knows that it is hunger that has driven you to these quests for knowledge, but
you are looking for wealth where you cannot find it. God also understands that
the reason why you go into business after obtaining the Bachelor's, the Masters
and the doctorate degree is that you are not satisfied with the amount of money
you receive at the end of each month. Not that you would have loved to go into
business, but you want "fast" money. This explains why you take to
business so that you can grasp money from many sources. If you do steal or
swindle, it is the quest for money which has driven you to steal but the irony
of fate is that you look for money where you cannot find it.
The
Promise Of God Fulfilled
But in
His loving and merciful kindness, He makes this promise unto us, that He will
bestow His Holy Spirit on us so that we can obtain peace for our soul and be in
peace and tranquility. But you do not want peace. Yet you complain that you
cannot sleep, that your enemies are waging war against you, that you have no
money, or that you are bewitched, what about this promise of the Holy
Spirit? Ask for Him because this promise is not only to you but also to
your children, and to your children's children, and to all those who are afar
off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Whosoever Jehovah God will
invite to follow Him also has a share in this promise and will be clothed with
power from on high. That is why I tell you that since God
created man, yours is the luckiest of all the generations. This is so, for
that promise is now made manifest. This is the time for the promise,
and we all should open our mouths in praise of Him and to ask for the Holy
Spirit. Do not ask God for any other thing except the Holy Spirit,
for He has surreptitiously arrived at this end of time and all those
who request for Him have received. This is His own reign. No
tree or ghost can rule, the elemental spirit of the Universe cannot rule again.
No man, indeed, nothing else, can rule. This is the era of His reign, and he
will reign forever and ever.
No
Scientist Can Predict Into The Future With Accurate Exactitude
No
matter the amount of money you have, without the Holy Spirit, you cannot use
your money to any benefit to God. No matter how much knowledge you acquire in
the world, if you do not possess the Holy Spirit, you will not be able to make
good use of your knowledge in the service of God, you will not even know God.
The Spirit which is in man knows what man is, but the Spirit of God knows God
and what God is. Why do you continue to doubt what you see? The professor, the
scientist, the astronomer, the astrologer, the meteorologist can forecast the
weather and predict that there would be rain or sunshine. But why do people the
world over, both white and black, continue to ask what is likely to take place?
They are filled with fear and they do not know what is going to happen.
If
the inhabitants of the world were to know themselves, they would have asked for
the Holy Spirit because this is the epoch of the promise when God said He would
pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh and their sons and daughters would
prophesy, and their young men would see visions, and their old men would dream
dreams. (Joel 2:28/Acts 2:17) It is true that He has poured out
His Spirit on us because when you possess Him, you have escaped from death,
from sickness, from the storms of life, from exasperation and from all manners
of sin. We are advised to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and
all other things will be added unto us. (Matt 6:33) The
essence of this is that we should request for the Holy Spirit, because when you
are endowed with Him, you have no more problems.
The
Oath Of Service
From
January to December every year, you are taught how to abstain from sin. People
claim they have the Holy Spirit, it is not simple to receive the Holy Spirit.
If it were that simple, satan would not have failed to receive it. You do
not hear the word of God nor do you practice it, how then will you receive the
Holy Spirit? You neither ask for the Holy Spirit, nor do you wish
to have it, nor do you want to confess your sins and repent of all your
transgressions. How will you receive the Holy Spirit? Have you
forgotten so soon, when people including the whites declared on their pulpits
that the Holy Spirit is no longer in existence, and announced to people that
the Holy Spirit ended with the day of Pentecost with the twelve disciples.
God had
advised that the covenant He entered with them was an everlasting covenant.
When either a man or woman separates himself to God to vow a vow of a nazarite,
he should separate himself from wine and strong drink and from minerals and
shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither should he
drink liquor of grapes or eat moist grape. During the period of his separation,
he should not touch any dead body, he should not cry and wail and mourn and
lament and that he should not commit any sin. You do not know that the
three days dry fasting and other things we do in this Kingdom are meant to kill
the flesh and the place given to the Spirit, as He has arrived.He is now on
earth everywhere and in everything, but he wants you to ask because that
promise is to you and to your children and to your children's children from
generation to generation. (Acts 2:39). This is the era of the Holy
Spirit. All the lesser spirits which go about shaking heads and bodies and
shouting like wild dogs, are elemental spirits of the universe and they see
nothing. But there is the Spirit of God, and when it dwells in you, you have
overcome everything.
Notice
that some people after giving visions and extracting charms will complain they
are sick and that they have no money and that wizards want to kill them. Is
that the Spirit of God? Can a person who has the Holy Spirit see a witch or an
apparition or any diabolical means? Can he tell somebody that God wants the
person to buy a car? The Holy Spirit owns everything. Whosoever has been endowed
with the Holy Spirit, has he any heart to be exasperated, does he own his body
and use it as he likes, can he tell lies, or fornicate or offend against any
person, or sow the seeds of division? He cannot.
Brethren,
from this day in all your prayer, in all your songs, in your dances, in your
silent prayers, you should open your heart and receive Him because He has
arrived unto you. Remember when Peter and the disciples were threatened that
they should not speak at all and should not teach in the name of Our Lord Jesus
Christ and if they persisted, drastic measures would be taken against
them. The disciples were afraid and went to report the incident to
their company. When they heard that they all lifted up their voices to God and
asked God to grant them power to preach the word of God with boldness. (Acts
4:29) They did not ask God to give them money, neither did they ask
Him to send many people to them, nor ask for any other thing but ask that God
should grant His own servants power to preach the word with boldness and to
stretch forth His hands to wrought many wonderful works, to heal and to show
signs and wonders. As soon as they prayed in that fashion the Father poured the
Holy Spirit on them till the house was shaken to the foundation. The golden text
will now be read.
Golden
Text: Luke 11:13
"If
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much
more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him?"
Brethren,
have you heard what is read unto you? I scarcely hear you ask for the Holy
Spirit, you do not ask for it at all but you ask the Father often to take away
your difficulty, to give you promotion, that you are suppressed at your place
of work, to give you a male child, to give you a wife, to give you a profitable
business.
But I
have never heard any person asking for the Holy Spirit in this hall. I often
hear you say when you pray that the Father says you should ask and it will be
given you, seek and you will find and knock and it will be opened unto
you. What is it that you are advised to ask, seek and knock? It is for
the Holy Spirit.
Do
Not Ask Amiss But For Holy Spirit
Let me
tell you one thing. Whatever is your heart's desire, you can have it provided
you are clothed with power from on high. If you are looking for a wife, do not
even pray, look at all the women, as soon as you speak to one, she will accept
your hand and so you do not need to fast and pray placing the matter before the
Father. Do not ask God to give you a child. If you do, but you are not intimate
with a man how will you be made pregnant and from where will you get a child?
But the moment you are intimate with a man the child is forthcoming, therefore
pray no more for a child. When you are intimate with a woman, do not pray to
God that you do not need a child, because the woman is already pregnant, and it
is carnal. It is the same thing with money, do not pray God again to give you
money. Money is everywhere, if you fetch water for people they will pay you, if
you work for somebody or for the firm or government you will be paid at the end
of the week or at the end of the month, but the Holy Spirit is what
comes direct from God in heaven. This is the promise He made to the entire
world, and the time of that promise is now fulfilled. Ask for the Holy Spirit
and He shall give unto you.
How
will you administer church if the Holy Spirit does not administer? Without the
Holy Spirit, with what do you administer the church? Without the Holy Spirit,
with what do you govern your community? Without the Holy Spirit, with what do
you manage the company or the Industry you have established? Without the Holy
Spirit, with what do you administer the government in which you are a president
or governor? Without the Holy Spirit, with what do you administer the church
you founded or the school, college or University you have established? Without
the Holy Spirit, with what do you control the Parastatal in which you are a
chairman or managing director? Whatever you are doing without the Holy
Spirit, you are wasting time.
Except
God Keeps The City The Watchmen Wake Up In Vain
Brethren,
see the cause of your downfall, Is there any government possessing the Holy
Spirit? Which of the presidents in the world has the Holy Spirit? Which
governor, which minister, which commissioner, which permanent secretary, which
King, which traditional ruler, which vice chancellor and which managing
director is endowed with the Holy Spirit?
You
have a wife but you do not possess the Holy Spirit, with what do you control
your house. You name a church denomination after yourself but you do not have
the Holy Spirit to administer the church for you. How will you administer it?
Except the Lord builds the house they labour in vain that build it: except the
Lord keeps the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. (Ps 127:1) Can
you now see why your government or firm or house has fallen? Can you see why
you are poor and wretched? Can you see why the whole world is empty? The reason
is that you have rejected the Holy Spirit.
The
Holy Spirit has come to rule forever. It was written that He will
lead, therefore, he must lead. That promise is for every person. Ask
the president to request for the Holy Spirit, tell the prime minister to ask
for the Holy Spirit, tell the governor, tell the premier, tell the king, the
queen, the millionaire, the professor and men of all walks and dispositions in
life to request for the Holy Spirit because without it no one is capable of
doing anything.
I Am
That I Am
Our
Lord Jesus Christ had said, whosoever will blaspheme against the Holy Spirit
will not be forgiven in this generation and in the generation to come. (Mark
3:29) Throughout his life time, Our Lord Jesus Christ bore eloquent
testimony (Rev 19:10) about the Holy Spirit, which is in your
midst today. Therefore, this privilege is for me, it is for you, it is for
every person and the entire world. Do not be reluctant in asking for Him. He
will be bestowed on you. A spiritual chorus prays that God should give him the
Holy Spirit so that he can wage his own war. Why do you not ask for the Holy
Spirit so that you can fight your own war. There is no other way, through which
you can save yourself, because without the Holy Spirit, you are useless. When
Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden they had to operate through
an intermediary which was an angel. If they had any problem and wanted to
approach God for a solution, they would be overcome by the problem and the
angel would deal drastically with them. Sometimes before God could send an
angel to rescue them, they would sustain injuries and bruises all over the
body. If the Holy Spirit dwells in you and you dwell in him, who will
take away that great "I AM." He will continue to
reside with you and nothing in this whole wide world will have dominion over
you. Death and life are under his footstool, all things
created and uncreated are under the footstool of the great "I AM."
The
Government Should Ask For The Holy Spirit
If the
governments were to abandon every other thing but prostrate on the ground and
plead with God for the Holy Spirit, and comply with the injunctions of God and
love one another as He has instructed, their problems would have been solved.
Brethren, once you possess the Holy Spirit, problems and difficulties would be
a thing of the past.
Who is
the person who overcomes this world apart from Him who has been endowed with
the Holy Spirit? Why was Our Lord Jesus Christ able to overcome the temptations
of the world? It was not Our Lord Jesus Christ per se but the Holy Spirit, who
overcame for Him.
You will
come across somebody who initiates into more than thirty secret societies
because he wants safety, security, and protection, but can he find safety and
security and protection in the societies? A man is educated so that he may have
assistance. A man has money so that he can find aid. He has children that he
may have assistance, but in spite of the high education, money and children,
there is no assistance.
The
Police Have No Holy Spirit So Cannot Maintain Peace And Order
The
government keeps the police force so as to maintain law and order, keeps
soldiers to protect the territorial boundaries of the country and also to fight
at war if occasions warrant it. But these two agencies are never effective,
both the police and soldiers are beaten back and the noise and problems still
continue. The police who goes to maintain law and order has he the Holy Spirit
to guide him? The soldier who wants to protect, has he the Holy Spirit? Before
you are enlisted into the army or you are recruited into the police force you
have to ask God to endow you with the Holy Spirit. The order of the day
now is that before you take up any appointment, you have to ask for the Holy
Spirit. This is the era of the Holy Spirit and any person who would want to see
good days should request for the Holy Spirit, and he will surely receive.
Chastity
And Celibacy
As the
Corinthians asked Paul on things concerning marriage and Paul told them:
"It is good for man not to touch a woman.
Nevertheless
to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have
her own husband. The wife has no power of her own body but the husband, and
likewise also the husband has no power of his own body, but the wife. No person
should defraud the other except it be with consent for a time that you may give
yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that satan tempt you
not for your incontinency.(1 Cor 7:1-5) Can you see the reason that
it would be expedient for you not to touch a woman because this is the sin
which spells doom on the world? Since this is the era of the Holy
Spirit, it is expedient that no one should touch a man or a woman because the
Holy Spirit has assumed His reign. God did not create any woman for a man
neither did He create any man for woman. He created both man and women for
Himself, to live in them. This is the fullness of time which was
promised. The Holy Spirit will dwell in the human body. The Holy Spirit departs
from you the moment you are intimate with a man or woman, and after you have
defiled yourself you do not pray and fast.
Receive
The Holy Spirit As A Gift
Now
the whole world is inquiring to know what to do in order to be saved. The
voice from high heaven proclaims that the world should ask for the Holy Spirit
and they will be given. There is no other thing which can
save, if you like, go to India, or Russia or America, Asia or any other place
but there will be no salvation excepting that the inhabitants of the
world should lift up their voices in lamentation and mourning and then plead
for the Holy Spirit and He will be given unto them. All the secret
societies in the world are farce. Governments are empty. Churches are
farce. But you should ask for the Holy Spirit and He will be given to
you as a gift because this promise is for you and for your children and your
children's children.
Did Our
Lord Jesus not speak openly that the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost whom
the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all
things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26). Now
you see the University being empty, schools, markets, churches are all empty,
it is the Holy Spirit ruling over heaven and earth. He does not rule in part
but will rule forever and ever. The rule of man is over. Money, elemental
spirits of the Universe and all other things are now over. He is the only
monarch of all He, the Holy Spirit, surveys, and the only cock to crow. From
now on do not ask for any other thing but ask for the Holy Spirit. How
do you ask for it? It is for you to obey his commandments, love
every person, do not fornicate, do not tell lies, or indulge in the preparation
of concoction and refrain from all acts of sin and you will receive that Holy
Spirit.
Brethren,
I do not intend to be tedious unto you. One stroke of the cane is sufficient
for the wise. Those who have ears, let them hear. May God bless His Holy Words.
AMEN!
REFERENCE:
Everlasting Gospel Delivered By The Holy Father, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu At The
Opening Of The December
Pentecostal Assembly on:-THE EFFICACY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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