Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: Romans 9:11
“For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might stand, nor of works, but of him that calleth”
Second lesson: Romans 8:30
“Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called; them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
Golden text: 1 Peter 2:9
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Brethren, that is the revelation of our lesson this morning. Many people say that the way of God is straightforward. He is not like a human being. He makes no mistakes and in Him is found no guile. He does not take the advice of any human being. He does everything according to His wish. You will realise that whatever happens here does not depend on what you can do. It does not depend on your righteousness: but rather as stated in the scriptures, right from the beginning when the children were not yet born, when they had not done anything good or evil it had been nominated that the elder will serve the younger, as was the case between Esau and Jacob.
1.1 Everything happens according to the will of God
This goes to show when you sometimes lament that it is because of the sins that you have committed that you have found yourself where you are, I tell you that this is irrelevant. It does not depend upon how much you conduct yourself or how much you protect yourself. He does not do anything for any specific reason. He has no reasons and no conditions to comply with. He does His things simply because He is the Almighty God.
It does not show that He loves the other person more than you but He does everything for the fulfillment of His own will. Many people say that God loves them, while others say that God does not love them. People complain that God has done something for the other person, it does not mean that He does not do anything for them. And God says: " Those people who were not my people, I will call them my beloved children." Who knows where these people would come from?
1.2 The words of God fulfil mostly in man
He further said: At the fullness of time those who were not called my beloved children would be called “dearly beloved wife." Who are not the beloved children of God? The problem is that we do not fully grasp or believe the words of God which would definitely come to pass once spoken. When the words of God are said, they always come to pass. The words of God can never be manifested on trees, rocks or any other inanimate thing. They must be manifested on human beings. If there are any words of God that are to be fulfilled in the trees it would certainly be fulfilled in the trees. But the majority of the words spoken by God are fulfilled in human beings.
1.3 The identity of God is not easy to recognise
Sometime ago it was prophesied by the old prophets that a young virgin will be conceived and would bring forth a child and He would be named Emmanuel. No specified name was given. No particular village was mentioned; no street, road or particular station was mentioned. No person bothered to know what was prophesied about Christ or what would happen, but after he was born and at the fulfillment of all the prophesies, it was clear that He was the man who was prophesied about. That is why we should search the scripture. Once you are able to search the scriptures, you will understand therein as said by God.
That was why, when Andrew saw Our Lord Jesus Christ, he went and called his brother Simon saying: “Come, we have found the Messiah who was written about”. If people were to read the bible, they would have understood what is right. Your looking at somebody's facial appearance will not easily show to you what that person is. Immediately you are able to search the scriptures, then whatever you are able to deduce from the scriptures, you will be able to identify him."
1.4 The first shall be last and last first
On the prediction that the elder will serve the younger, very many people regard Jacob as a very crafty and cunning person as if it were not the prediction or prophesy of God. If you regard him as a cunning fellow, you should go and play that type of prangs with people and see whether you will succeed. It was not only in the case of Esau and Jacob, you are also aware of the passage in the scriptures that “the first shall be the last and the last first”. Our Lord Jesus Christ has also indicated that all those who came before Him are thieves and robbers. These words have been made manifest.
While the people believed that the Son of God had made His visitation on earth, was that all? The predictions that were made and written were fulfilled at the fullness of time when Our Lord Jesus Christ came to the earth in the likeness of man. He was God on earth. He came down and people saw the manifestation of His deity.
1.5 The will of God is supreme
Whatever you do in this life, which does not comply with what has been preordained stands null and void and without effect. That is why the scientists and all the learned men of the world have endeavoured to get the Bible burnt so that they can write their own scriptures that will comply with their own teachings.
You will see newly written versions of the Bible from America; some of them are called the Revised Standard version, "Duo version”, etc and they end up distorting the salient facts in the Bible. But have you come across or read from names like America, Britain, London, Lagos, Madrid, or Paris in the Holy Bible? You can never see Nigeria, neither Ghana nor any other modern city in the Bible. But something has been written about a particular place which shows itself when you look carefully on the situation of things.
1.6 What God will do to the wicked of the world who reject his messengers
Our Lord Jesus Christ gave a parable that a certain man had a farm. He kept in the farm some husbandmen, and from time to time he had to send some men to inspect the farm. Each time they went, they were tortured, beaten up and some were killed. He again sent another set of people to inspect the farm and they were treated in the same way. At the end he sent his only begotten son, thinking that when he appears before the husbandmen they would fear him and regard him as the Son of the farm owner. But as soon as the only begotten Son of the farm owner arrived in the farm, they said. "Look at the person who is the heir to the inheritance, let us kill him." And so they communed together and killed the Son of the farm owner. That was why He asked, when the owner of the farm comes what shall He do to those wicked husbandmen? They answered that when the owner of the farm would come He would bring His soldiers to exterminate all the wicked husbandmen and the whole farm would be handed over to a righteous nation. And Our Lord Jesus Christ said: “Yes, you have rightly answered." And He answered and said: “Have you not heard that the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief comer stone?”
1.7 Righteousness alone exalts a nation
He concluded by telling them that this kingdom of God would be taken away from them to a nation that would bear good fruits. He did not mention Calabar, England, Nigeria, or any particular place, rather He said: “This Kingdom will be taken away from you and given to a nation which will bear good fruits." It is an act of foolishness for any person to say that he is going to Jerusalem, Bethlehem or to any other place. What purpose will it serve for you to go to such places? Have you not been listening to the words of God? Some people claim that they have gone to where Our Lord Jesus Christ was buried and entered into the sepulchre. In all these, you are wasting your precious time and energy. Have you not heard what the scriptures have told you that this Kingdom will be taken away from them and given to any nation that will bear good fruits? You may be the one; it may be any other person, community or continent of the world.
1.8 Jerusalem is no longer a holy city
Any time you want to go to Jerusalem you say you are making a pilgrimage to the holy city. Why do you describe it as a holy city? Abel was killed there; Jesus Christ Our Lord and many others were killed there. You would rather call it an evil city, a city where people commit all types of atrocities and the Father (Leader Olumba Olumba Obu) would never go there. Sometimes I hear people say that they went to Jerusalem. What have they gone to do in a place where God has rejected? Sometimes you say that you have gone to Egypt, Jerusalem and Bethlehem and I ask you: What did you go to do in the rejected cities? He had said that this kingdom will be taken from them and given to any nation; the emphasis is on nation, and I ask you: Is that nation Calabar? They have not mentioned Nigeria, Ghana, Britain, or America, but any nation that bears good fruits.
1.9 God's kingdom manifests where the will of God prevails
If you find any city where the inhabitants do the will of God that is the city which is referred to by this passage. You have also heard; that many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of God.
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out of the kingdom. It is the height of foolishness for you to say that this kingdom emerged from the black man's country, or from my own territory, or it does not come from the white man's country. Have you not listened attentively to the scriptures?
Have you not heard how the people queried who Jesus is? They claimed to have known His father, mother, brothers and sisters and where He comes from, but that when the Messiah will come no person will know His father, mother and where He will come from. Is that not a very stupid type of statement? Another person asked; should the children of Israel not stumble so that they should fall; but rather through their fall salvation would come unto the Gentiles."
1.10 The first born is still loved
Ponder over that statement, that the elder will serve the younger. It is just as you have water inside the canoe, and when the boat rows the water goes forward and backward. Now that He has first elected the second born, what do you think will happen to the first born, will He also bestow His blessing on him? Prophecies will pass away, languages will vanish but love will abide forever. That first love which He had for the first-born, do you think that love has eluded him? He will continue to show that expression of love for the first-born.
1.11 Esau symbolizes the Black race
And Jacob the White race
The two children you hear about were Esau and Jacob. Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Esau and Jacob and the two of them were twins. It was prophesied before they were born that the elder would serve the younger. In order to fulfill the scriptures, you have been hearing stories about Esau how he was toiling and labouring all day, throughout his life. Esau symbolises Africa and the Black race and Jacob symbolises the White race.
I want to make it clear to you that Africa is ever known as the cradle of civilisation. Whatever invention and discoveries you can think of today, their impetus all came from Africa. God Himself was born in Africa. All what the Europeans are struggling now, are in vain since it had already been written, signed, sealed, stamped and delivered. The whole thing tends to tilt towards Africa. The irony of it all is that the Africans do not even believe this. They believe that the whites have gone very far and that there is no possibility of catching up with them. What he does not know is that Africa is the land of salvation. God was born in Africa and all good things must come from there and therefore, the whites must come down and worship God in Africa.
Can you, therefore, see the type of manipulation the Europeans have adopted to outwit you? Can you definitely say that Our Lord Jesus Christ was born in Britain, America or that He was a white man? Was He really an English speaking person? Did He know how to speak English language? He had never been to America, Britain, but He had gone on a ministry work to India. This is just to indicate to you that God does not behave the way human beings behave, no matter what Jacob did to usurp the first position of the brother. His brother struggled and did everything but since God had declared and it was written. He had signed, sealed and delivered it, no person can expunge the episode from the annals of Bible history. What God had caused to be documented remains forever. It actually means that the older will first of all toil, and toil before he takes his rightful position. That rightful place is being returned to Esau now.
1.12 Whoever wants to be great must be a servant
Have you not heard the statement of Our Lord Jesus Christ that whoever wants to be great amongst you must, first of all, make himself a servant, and messenger? If you want to gain an important position, you have to serve diligently in order to establish your position as a prominent person. Whoever wants to be a leader, must, first of all, enslave himself to others. The way that leads to God is very narrow and difficult to pass through. It is filled with all sorts of thorns and intimidating weapons. If you find somebody trying to meander through, such a person would always complain that heaven and earth are against him. If you see somebody sitting at akimbo, enjoying himself you feel that he is in heaven. It is not so, the situation cannot be a bed of roses. Our Lord Jesus Christ said; “the Son of Man did not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many”. Have you seen the manifestation of this statement in the world today? Have you observed the manipulation of words when in another passage (Hebrews 1:6) He says “again, when He will bring in the first begotten into the world". He has not said when He will bring in His second begotten. He says: When He will send down His first begotten into the world. He will say: Let all angels of God worship Him. This shows you how flexible the words of God are.
1.13 The world wars prepared the world for the coming of the Holy Spirit
When, in another statement, He said that the people who were not my people would be called the beloved children of God, to what place did He refer? Is it not Africa? What I am telling you are fully understood by the whites. When they will come in, if you are not careful, they will so embrace and enjoy the activities in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star to your amazement. What remains is that since God had promised to give this kingdom to all of you, He will not take it away from you.
Have you not heard what is said that whether there be prophecies, tongues or knowledge, they shall vanish away, but love will endure forever. This is a very important statement. You will realise that the world wars (the 1st World War of 1914-1918, the 2nd World War of 1939-1945) were meant to usher in something into the world. All that we have learnt is the ushering in of the visitation of God into the world. Every spectacular event that occurred was in preparation for the arrival of God, and for the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
1.14 Freedom came to Israelites and Africans through God's grace
Considering the period of time that the children of Israel were enslaved under the Egyptians for 430years, what sort of weapons of war could they have acquired for themselves in order to fight and liberate themselves and move out from Egypt?
For all the years that the Africans were under the slavery of the whites and colonial rule, what implement of war would they have acquired for themselves in order to fight against the whites and liberate themselves. If it were a matter of war, Africa could not have faced the whites, because if you talk of money and military might, the whites have them. The Africans buy military hardwares from them. You will not be able to manufacture your own in order to fight against them. Have you seen the way God has used in liberating you? That is the same way God had used in liberating the children of Israel from the land of bondage. Do you realise that all what obtains in the world are the fingers of God in action?
1.15 God's promise to any person is incontestable
There is nothing like Satan, apparition and mermaid. There is nothing like disappointment. Whatever you see from day to day is the fulfillment of the will of God. Read the first lesson.
First lesson Romans: 9-11
"For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth."
I now ask the question: Does it now mean that Jacob has become the first-born? Even though the first is serving the second, has Jacob the position of the first son? Once you are the first, you continue with the position of the first forever. The first has really to serve the second but the position of the first born is incontestable, but continues to remain for the rightful owner.
As it was written about Our Lord Jesus Christ that people would persecute Him, kill Him and He would rise after three days from the dead the people had taken such steps against Our Lord Jesus Christ. Did they remove from Him the position of the Messiah, the Christ of God? All what has been written about you that people will persecute you, hate you, kill you, punish you, torture and torment you, these things have been written to be fulfilled in you. These situations cannot cause the promise of God not to be fulfilled in you.
1.16 Esau regains his due
If you search the scriptures, you will discover that Jacob was not wealthier than Esau. After his journey in strange lands for a long time, he came back and when he met his brother Esau he bowed down showing that Esau was still his senior. He divided some of his wealth to his brother, but before he did this, Esau had already established in the land. The relationship between him and his brother was just the fulfillment of what had been written. Esau was the first born, he served his father day and night, that was why Isaac wanted to give him the blessing, but because of the mother's manipulation, Jacob received the blessing instead of Esau in order to fulfill what was prophesied that the elder will serve the younger.
1.17 God is unchangeable
The whites have known this truth, but they are struggling in their own way. Because of the humble position of the Africans, they are struggling in their own way but it has now dawned on them that God has arrived. They (Africans) are now to take their rightful position. God has never forgotten His own promise. What He has promised stands forever. Do you think that God can forsake His first “Son” and replace Him with the “second”? That prophecy has now been fulfilled and set aside, but the glory of God must continue to be manifested. It was also prophesied that Our Lord Jesus Christ would be persecuted and crucified and that prophecy has also been fulfilled and set aside. Right now there is no such thing again. He has now come to rule over the whole universe. When you hear of any prophecy do not begin to quake. Stand firm because God is unchangeable.
You are advised that you should not be weary in well doing, for in due season you will reap good fruits if you faint not. Since God has elected His first Son (man) to take over the superintendence of the entire world, no matter what others do, it is man who has been elected to rule. After God had created every other thing, including birds, animals, fishes in the water, trees and creeping things He then gave man the superintendence over His creations. Even that the spirits of those who prophesy will continue to remain under His rule.
1.18 Africa is the kingdom of God
That is why that Centurion told Our Lord Jesus Christ: "For I am also a man set under authority and I say to one go, and he goes and I say to another come and he comes”. You are also a man set under- authority, you can say to a spirit “go” and he goes, if you say to another “come” and he will come. From the beginning, God has not given that, angels should rule. No matter how weak a man may be, no matter how stupid a man may be. God can never regret the position He has given to man. That position He will continue to nurture and glorify.
In the same token since God had made the pronouncement as regards the city of God, the kingdom of God is Africa and God came out through Africa. That has been written, it has been signed, sealed and delivered, there is no running away from it. It has come to stay. Any time the name of the Father is mentioned, people laugh arguing that there is nothing you can do since you have neither money nor the ability to invent anything. The visit of our women to Great Britain was the handiwork of God. God is doing His work in a very marvelous way, under the ground, in the air and everywhere.
God gave the worldly people the opportunity to open universities, departments of religion, seminaries, bible colleges, and trinity colleges to study the bible, theology and religion but within a twinkle of an eye, He turned the table and things turned the other way round. If it were said that the black man would go and teach the white how to manufacture aeroplanes and motorcars, that could have been acceptable to them. But that spiritual knowledge now comes from Africa is something the world did not expect.
On a lighter note, if it were said that the Africans should open universities for the whites to come and learn, it would have been acceptable to them. But to say that the whites should come and receive the words of God and be taught by an African, that is what they think is unacceptable to them.
1.19 The incomprehensibility of God's ways
The Americans feel that should God have to come back on earth He would be born to them hence they had started making preparations. I wonder whether they have been reading the scriptures to know what was written about this time. These people rather than look for Christ are looking for riches. They will accumulate riches for a time and after a while the riches disappear. The ways of God are incomprehensible. If there is any person who argues that he cannot fear God, let such a person think about himself. Up till now you still doubt and ask, why should this type of thing happen here in Calabar (in Nigeria), not in any other place, but in Nigeria, indeed in Africa? God has never forgotten you, He has not failed to fulfill His promise, but He exercises patience. May be many of the whites have been conjecturing why things happen the way they are. No person has been able to know why things are happening the way they do. I am going to tell you the reasons today. Why you are doubting is that you think that there is no good thing that has ever come from Africa to the European countries.
1.20 Can any good thing come from Africa
You are witnesses to the fact that you are all poor people; you are stricken with abject poverty. You have no money, you have no wisdom, you have not attained any height in worldly knowledge as other races of mankind have attained. Why should this type of thing happen amongst you? All church denominations originated from European countries, all monies came from the European countries, general languages of communication came from there, wealth were brought from there. But just look at us here. We do not know anything, we cannot do anything but many spectacular things have happened here. You still doubt and do not believe but rather depend so much on the whites. God has never forgotten the black man. He had already made His promise. It does not depend on how rich you are or how educated you are. It does not depend on the good things you can do but He has redeemed His promise by allowing His wishes to be fulfilled in you.
1.21 The Blacks are favoured according to God's promise
You would see why it has been possible for women to travel to overseas countries. Children and illiterates have travelled to European countries. This is not done out of their own volition, but it is the fulfillment of the will of God. You do not find millionaires, governors, princes and princesses, kings, emperors and principalities of this world here. You do not find presidents and great military personalities of the society here presently., You have no money and have nothing at all, but you continue to doubt why these things should happen in your midst. You have not gone to school, you do not know how to speak any foreign language, but you see how things are moving in mysterious ways with you.
1.22 Brotherhood manifested
Brethren, many people look astonished with what is happening in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. They become so perplexed when they ask to know which Bible College you attended or how many years you spent in the university, to be so good in your presentations on scriptural issues. But they always get amazed when they know to the contrary. A more surprising thing is that news about God is everywhere now. Go to the streets in London, America, or Nigeria you cannot hear of any other thing apart from Brotherhood the presense of God on earth. If you go into the midst of people, you constitute yourself an object of fear to people. Even in your families people look at you with great fear. So, brethren, when you read the scriptures, you should be very careful. Read between the lines the words spoken by God.
1.23 No one takes the place of another
That is why I ask why you look at me as if I use my power to do all the things you see. It is the fulfillment of the prophecy of God. You will see the manifestation of what God had promised, which will come to pass in this last age. God does not forget the destitute and the afflicted. What He has chosen, He has chosen, what He has loved He has loved. Already people are complaining that when the whites come into Brotherhood they will take over their places from them and I ask; with what will they take your places from you? Will they take them away by wealth or by attainment in education? They can never take your places from you. And so, brethren, I do not intend to take you farther than this, I do not preach but I am revealing. You have to listen attentively to the second lesson that is going to be read to you.
Second lesson Romans: 8- 30
" Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: And whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
1.24 Africans are justified and glorified by God
You have been reading through the above passage, have you ever understood the meaning of the passage? Those whom He first predestined He called, justified and glorified. Because He first called the Africans He kept them in the position which He first called, but you feel that you are a rejected race. How has He rejected you? He has predestined you and has called you back to give you that glory which was yours. Have you not seen the position of the elder even though it was said that the elder would serve the younger? Already, that prophecy has been fulfilled. But the position of the first born is still there. God first of all justified him, and has kept him in the position of the first born to glorify him now.
If you read the history of the world, you would see the various stages of civilisation. After the Egyptians, you will see the land of the River Tigris and Euphrates, the Middle East, the European countries and the African countries. All these places were there. That position of the first born was given to Africa. That is why He has come back even though you must have been cheated in the past, and relegated to the background. Now He has come and on His arrival He has first called you and has predestined you. He has justified you now. He has given you the glory.
1.25 Your sonship is based on predestination
If any person should ask you why these things should happen, open that passage to him. Let him see the evidence for a proof because God does His things according to His will. It does not depend on how righteous you are or what you can do but once He has predestined you for any position; He must have to fulfill His promise. The whites have gone to the moon and to the planets, they have learnt and perfected in nearly all disciplines of man but since God has given this glory now to you, have you not seen His appearance? He has, first of all, predestined you and has kept His promise for you. He has now fulfilled that promise by calling you and placing you at your rightful position. He has blessed you, justified you and has glorified you. He has given you a commission to move into all parts of the world and to liberate them.
It does not consist in the knowledge of science or technology, or in any other thing, but He has emphasised that those whom He first predestined, He first of all called them, and since He had first called them He has justified them, and since He has first justified them, He has glorified them. He has not considered others yet but has first of all predestined you, called you, justified you and glorified you.
1.26 Calabar, headquarters of God's city
Why do you find England and America the theatres of Christian religion this day? This is because these two countries feel that they are the only cocks to crow, , therefore, no other country should introduce the idea of Christian religion to any part of the world except them. God had made His visitation to this part of the world and they had sent their people to all parts of the world. Why is it that the city of Calabar has experienced more concentration of activities of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star? Calabar is not that easy a place to operate from, but Brotherhood of the Cross and Star has flourished here. Of all the towns and cities in Nigeria and indeed West Africa, the first place where the first missionaries arrived was Calabar. Why is it that Calabar has become the headquarters of the city of God? People from various tribes of this country are here. Nothing has ever had its roots in Calabar. No matter what it is, people of Calabar will uproot it. They had sworn that no white man would preach the word of God in their land. They would pay deaf ears to the whites not to talk of a black man. No person says anything here or gives anything and he is taken serious.
1.27 You are chosen as predestined by God
I hereby ask, is it because we are good, or righteous or because we are looking for God? We have no good conduct and we have not served Him rightly that we should be led into this Kingdom? All these time did you know that you were the people selected and kept from the beginning of time and you were the persons to whom God had kept this promise? Many people have asked the question; why is it that God has first of all selected me? He should have, first of all, selected the important personalities, and those who have good conduct. It has been laid down by God according to His divine plan, before the foundations of the world were laid; your name has been booked in that register. Do you realise that God has justified all of you? You have no case to answer. Have you realised that God has glorified you? He has bestowed unto you that glory which you had from the beginning of the world.
1.28 You are now known and recognised
That is the crown he has placed on your head. Are you not surprised that you, who were not known anywhere, but now everywhere you go to, every person recognizes you and wherever you go to, people show respect for you? They now know you but in the past no person had known you. You had never been known in your family. Whenever any person mentioned your name, no person recognised you, but now you are the monarch of all the surveys. So, brethren have you now realised why God first of all came down to the Africans? This is because He had kept this glory for Africa, and has predestined Africans. This glory is bestowed on them because it was kept for them before the foundations of the world were laid.
1.29 Paradise lost is regained
The emphasis is that those whom He first predestined He has first called them, He has justified them, and He has glorified them. It does not mean that others will not come, but He will first of all consider you. Very many educated and highly placed Africans come into Brotherhood of the Cross and Star first of all in London or America. If you call them at home, they would say “Ah! Who is your leader, is He educated, how many degrees has He, I have had up to four degrees". But when they go to Britain or America that is where they would embrace Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Have I not told you that work has not started in earnest? When it starts, you will travel to all parts of the world, you will travel to all nooks and corners, and will reach even the uttermost part of the earth. You will go to India, Asia, China, and everywhere. Have you realised that the power God had given to Adam to superintend over all creations, to name them and take control of everything, that glory which was lost has now been regained, that paradise lost has now been restored to Him?
1.30 Man was destined to rule
He did not say that animals, birds, fishes, trees, or sticks or any other thing should superintend or take dominion over the creations of God. He had appointed Adam to superintend, to control, and to have dominion over all the things He had created. God has never used the trees, the birds, the animals, fishes or any other thing to reveal His glory. He uses man to reveal His own glory. That is why God said: “Let us create man in our image and likeness”. It is this man He is using to reveal His glory. This is not something that somebody should ask you to gird your loins. You should get yourself fully prepared because you have never seen such a thing in Africa, or Nigeria, where people gather to glorify God, where people gather and donate handsomely. Have you not seen how God has worked mysteriously, do you not see how things are working smoothly here?
1.31 Some go to church for pecuniary reasons
A black man does not go to church because He wants to listen to the words of God, but he goes there because he is hungry. The white man would bring money to feed him, and out of this he would not contribute any money, and the work of God in that particular church will not grow. Sometimes people ask you whether the headquarters of that church (Brotherhood of the Cross and Star) is in Britain or America. This is because the church denominations which they have been members, came from either America or Britain. The white missionaries used to give them money, and so when you say that Brotherhood is from Calabar, in Africa, they feel that there is no rich man here who can give them money. Brethren, do you not see what has happened? This is the fullness of time. God can even use the rocks to fulfill His own promise. He is sending you out, this would not have happened in the past, but right now being the fullness of time, he has commissioned you. You are charged to enter into all parts of the world and give people the words of life comfort.
1.32 If these were to hold their peace the stones would cry out
You will see what is going to happen. Every person is thinking about evangelism. You want to enter into all parts of the world to preach the words of God. This has been the pre-occupation of every person now.
During Our Lord Jesus Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the people were shouting “hosanna to God in the highest”. The people asked Our Lord Jesus Christ to tell people shouting to keep quiet but He told them. "If these people would hold their peace the stones will immediately cry out." So, brethren, you have to be watchful because no person is responsible for what is happening, it is the fullness of time.
1.33 The vision of the nuns concealed by the Pope
Anything done by the fingers of God will be fulfilled at this end of time. First, have you known that you are one of those for whom God had kept this kingdom? In the second place, have you known that God has elected you? Thirdly, have you known that you have been justified and you have no case to answer? In the fourth place, have you known that God has bestowed His own glory on you? You have been given the commission to rule over the creations of God? If it were something to purchase with money, you would have boasted, but now everything is in the hands of the Father.
He is the only person who knows. Even if you were told you would not understand. Most of those who were members of Roman Catholic Church have been converted here now. Have you not heard about the vision of the three Nuns and what has happened at this end of time? This vision had been given to them, it was written and sent to the Pope in a sealed envelope. After seeing what was contained he sealed the envelope and refused to disclose the contents so that people might not know that an African was going to rule. People have been pestering the life of the Vatican officials to release the vision of these three Nuns, but no person wants to release. If you were the Pope, would you have released it? After reading that the person who will rule the world is a black man, an African, would you have released it? That means He will rule including every person.
1.34 It was a taboo to read the Bible in some Church denominations in years past
Have you seen the behaviour of the whites? But the Bible says, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed and there is nothing hidden inside the house that will not be brought on top of the roof. What they had tried to conceal, has it not been disclosed now? Those of you who were members of certain church denominations knew that in the past you dare not open the Bible otherwise you were committing a grievous sin. Then no person from the Catholic Church read the Bible. What were read were the extracts from the Bible and the missal. But recently they said that they would not continue to conceal this, they have started to read the Bible and since they have seen that their doctrine does not comply with the teachings of the Bible some of them have withdrawn and others have revolted. So, brethren, no person can conceal what is kept by God, when the fullness of time comes, it would be laid bare before the public and every person would know its manifestation.
Do not glorify yourself, rather give glory to God because all what He has spoken has become manifest. The golden text will now be read, you will see what was written about and you also see the fulfillment.
Golden text: 1 Peter 2-9
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people: that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
1.35 Africans are a chosen people
Brethren, have you heard what is read to you? He has chosen you. He says that you are a chosen people. You are a royal priesthood and a holy nation which you heard about; a peculiar people who have been called out of darkness. Then you should go forth and show the marvellous light. That is why you are referred to as wonderful people. It is impossible for you to regulate what you do because; you are not living for yourself again. As you are sitting down here, you are thinking about so many things: as well as how to project the image of God throughout the whole world. Until you get to Russia or Netherlands, you would not know. Others will travel by plane, others by motorcar, some by ship or submarine. You will reach all parts of the world declaring the words of God. And when you are chosen into this kingdom you have no other work to perform apart from spreading this marvellous works to the people, and converting your offices into Bethels. Everywhere you go, you have no other duty to perform apart from preaching the words of God.
1.36 Brotherhood is a royal priesthood
This is why they complain that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members leave their offices and go on ministry work. This is the fullness of time and so these things must come to pass. Your mind is filled with the thoughts of God. You have no other thing to pre-occupy your mind. You have to think about Him and you have to go about working for Him.
A Brotherhood member who gets appointed as a pilot, turns his aircraft into a Bethel. If he is appointed a captain of a ship, he will convert the ship into a Bethel, it is not his own making; it is the handiwork of the Father. If you appoint a Brotherhood member a staff in any school, he would convert the school into a Bethel, whether he is a police, he would convert the police barracks into Brotherhood Bethel and would preach Brotherhood in the whole establishment. No man is responsible for all these. It is because you have been glorified and commissioned to go and preach and where people were in darkness you bring them out into the light.
1.37 Preach the good news to all wherever man is found
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood; you are a holy nation, a peculiar and wonderful people. That is why whenever you go close to people they try to keep you at arms length. As you are here, some people are going inside the forest, towns, cities, villages and hamlets preaching to people. You cannot sit down in your place of work, or your market place; or with your husband or wife in the house. People continue to complain that I am responsible for all these things. I have not done anything. Have you ever seen me sitting down in one place? It is the handiwork of God.
Do not say that you are tired and that you are going to rest but continue to preach day in and out throughout the year. Do you consider that this work is done by man? Have you not ever seen a married woman, abandoning her matrimonial home and her husband and going on ministry work to America or Europe? Do you think that she has done it out of her own volition? No person is responsible for it because it is the handwork of the Father. Have you ever found a government official leaving his place of work sometimes without permission, taking his Holy Bible on ministry work and preaching the words of God without fear of being disciplined. Are you not surprised that you can leave your office for one month on ministry work and on your return no person queries you and at the end of the month you are paid your correct salary, without any complaint against you?
1.38 Where the Spirit of God is there is liberty
Are you not surprised that even if you are in the Governor's office you would stand up to preach and people would gather around you and hear the words of God. And no person would raise an eyebrow; rather they would listen to the words of God. Do you think man is responsible for this? It is the handiwork of God that at the fullness of time such a thing would happen. It is because you have been called and assigned to go to do His work that is why He has called you; He justified you and glorified you. He has called you a chosen people, the royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people. That is why He wants you to go out and proclaim His wonderful works. Where there is darkness, you bring about light.
1.39 Show the light and people will follow
If you go to a place where it is said that no person should say anything about Brotherhood, you would be prepared to pack away from such a place. So, brethren that is what is before you. That is the job you have to perform. You have to go out and show people this light. Go and sing His praises, go and magnify His name that you have been brought from darkness into light.
Brethren, a stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise, those who have ears let them hear. May the Lord bless His holy words. Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER