MY REAL SELF, MY ORIGIN AND MY MISSION

First lesson: John: 8: 14-16 “Jesus answered and said unto them. Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true, for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. Ye judge after the flesh: I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me”. Second lesson: Revelation: 21: 1-3 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away: and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city. New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He dwells with them, and they shall be His people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God”, Golden text: John: 6: 26-29 “Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. Then said they unto him, what shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them. This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent”. 2.1 Stop worrying about my identity Now what happens is that many people even in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star want to know the origin of the Holy Father and the origin of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star instead of practising the gospel given to them daily. I have told you time without number that you should not be concerned with the genealogy of these because it will bring no benefit to you. Many of the writings about the genealogy of the Holy Father are absolute falsehood. The only opponent to the entire world is the testimony of the skull of France, an oracle in France. You say that the Leader is a native of Biakpan but the Skull of France confirmed that the Holy Father is not what ignorant people regard Him to be. He is the Promised Comforter, the Holy Spirit, incarnate now on earth. If all of you were to refrain from saying what you do not know but put into practice the daily gospels taught, you would have no problem. I am never interested in all that the worldly people are saying. What interests me is only to love one another. That is all. Brotherhood is likened to the elephant, which the six blind men visited. Each of them described the elephant differently according to the respective part which each of them touched. The same thing is what the world is purporting the Holy Father to be according to each person's viewing and wisdom. As a matter of fact, He is never any of those things. 2.2 God does all the work here From now on, let it be known that some of the words that you come across in the Bible are guesswork. The same thing happens to most of you when you are asked about the origin of your Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. I will not say a word to all those who are trying to write about the origin of the Holy Spirit. What I know is to love one another. Be watchful and you will see that very shortly many people from different institutions of higher learning will publish different ideas about the Holy Father. Whatever a person likes let him do. I am not concerned about that. What I know is that God the Father is at work in this Kingdom. Then I ask you: whom do you think is doing all these wonders? Are you the person? When you hear me saying "Go, I am before and behind, I am everywhere in the water, sun, moon, and on the surface of the globe”, do you believe that what I say will come to manifestation? Do you think that I only make the pronouncement for fun? When you come to receive blessings and in the course of the blessings, you hear me pray for all, touching on all aspects of people's problems, who do you think is doing the work? Do you think that hands or weapons do these works? No, they are done through the words of God. That is why when I utter a word on your problems, no matter how difficult and numerous, they have to be subject to the word and vanish away immediately. 2.3 The name: Olumba Olumba Obu This great name Olumba Olumba Obu has a special assignment, power and dignity and the day it will be revealed to the whole world, wonders will happen. That is why you are always advised to be careful on how you use it. The first Olumba has a special meaning and duty, the second has it's own significance and assignment. Obu has its own different meaning and work. (THY WILL BE DONE FATHER). If you had known this, you will not have used it anyhow. A man wrote the Name of the Holy Father with an intention to send it to India for investigation. The Holy Father appeared to him and warned Him. He did not heed but sent the name to India. When his colleagues proceeded to investigate what the name means, they were also seriously warned not to tamper with the name of the Holy Father. He sent the name to their other colleagues in Denmark who warned them that they should not attempt to be at loggerheads with this name because it is a holy name. Whatever I say is sure and must come to fulfillment. There is no person to oppose me in anyway. The reason why I do not say out words at random is that once I utter a word it is just like a flame of fire. Whatever I say out, no amount of prayer and fasting will remove it. I bring peace, truth, humility, love, oneness and all the good virtues from God to you. That is why, when you commit sin I will not hear you, rather I will advise you not to repeat, such practice next time. Since I do not believe there is any other power but of God, I always advise you to refrain from concoctions, and believing in vain powers of this world. You are to forgive one another because you are all sinners as well as debtors to that precious blood which was shed on behalf of our sins. The main reason why I say that God loves Nigeria, West Africa, Africa as a whole and the entire world is that God has produced a phenomenon by which the whole world could embrace His grace more abundantly. Can you remember that people always ask you to tell them where in the Bible it is written about Olumba Olumba Obu. If you search the scriptures properly, you will find that Moses did not write about our Lord Jesus Christ. If no person wrote anything about our Lord Jesus Christ but all of a sudden He came from the blues would you have believed such a person? It is the same situation now. The prophets spoke about the Messiah, called Emmanuel, not about Jesus. 2.4 A prophet has no honour in his home town Take the Biakpan Community, which you visit, everyday and go on pilgrimage to yearly. The Ohafia people, the nearest neighbour to Biakpan, regard the people of Biakpan as infidels, heathens, and as the most backward people in the country. People who travel to Biakpan know what they suffer on the way before they get there. The Presbyterian Churches first arrived in Biakpan in the year I9I9 but till today it is not improved. No Biakpan man goes there. The people only stand afar off to see what the strangers and the teachers do in the mission. Upon the revelation of the glory of God in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, upon the singing, dancing, visions, miracles, and the yearly visits of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star to Biakpan, how many Biakpan people have you seen in Brotherhood? This is indicative of the true spirit of Biakpan. Considering the above then, what type of tongue will you use to convince any person, especially Ohafia people, that God has reincarnated in human form in Biakpan? No Ohafia man will believe your story that Biakpan is the New Jerusalem, the city, of God. But he will believe if you tell him that there is human meat, witchcraft mermaid and concoction in Biakpan. Even if you go and tell a Biakpan man that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is the greatest religious teacher in the world, they will ask you where He had received His training as a priest for He has never attended any seminary or Bible College or training College. His father did not attend any church and neither his mother. How is it possible for Him to become a priest without any formal training? He himself has never attended any church. He was a trader. He will conclude that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is deceiving his followers. If he says this, he is correct because I have never been a member of any church denomination. I was not baptised into any faith and so it will not be easy for any person to believe your stories about me in spite of the glory of God they have all witnessed. Brethren have you seen why the people are sitting and looking at you as foolish men and women being deceived. If I had been a member of any church denomination, I would have been tied to the apron strings of my church. I would not have found it easy to cut the strings and establish afresh, a New Spiritual organisation as you see now. If I had been brought up in a strict Presbyterian way, I would have attended the Presbyterian school and Sunday school. I would have attended the Presbyterian Secondary School or the Presbyterian Teachers Collage after which I would have been sent to Trinity College, Umuahia to train as a priest. I would have held my allegiance to the Presbyterian Church. I would not have withdrawn from it. If you were told that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is the Sole Spiritual Head of the Universe, you would not have believed. You would consider that being a trader. He would not have had time to train in the Seminary or Bible College to become a powerful religious Leader. People continue to speak evil of you and say you are enslaving yourself. In spite of your high education, good parentage and good upbringing, you allow yourself to be misled by an illiterate Biakpan man. 2.5 I preach about God We do not preach Presbyterian; Mount Zion, and Apostolic, or such things. We preach Christ and Jehovah God. That is why the world has been put to shame. I am not under them because when the priesthood is changed the law has to be changed with it. The priesthood is now changed, the law is also changed. As for those who doubt, I do not know them. They can break, say what they like, but I shall continue to preach Christ as God. I am only preaching Christ and the truth. Which Bishop will ever call me his colleague? Which University man will say I attended school with Him. Which University will ever call Me an old boy or Archbishop will claim that I was brought up under Him? Who can call Me his equal? No person can say hello to me. I preach the truth and point out their faults to them. Are they not using the same Bible as we are using here? Right now somebody from Ahoada has handed over his church to the Father. The same is true of a woman in Onitsha who had her church. She has handed it over to the Father. Church owners in Ivory Coast, Ghana and Liberia have formerly handed over their churches to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. What else will they do because their members do not hear them again. 2.6 I am who I am Before the war a non-Brotherhood person testified that if the Sole Spiritual Head went out to preach all the churches would close down. This is true. If I should want to go out now the police would not be able to control the traffic. Many people would come out to catch a glimpse of the Leader. The whole town would shake. Brethren upon all that you have struggled I have never told you that I am one thing or the other. The fact remains with me alone. I am not an Elder, or a Christ Servant, or a Prophet. I am nothing. But what about this work? Its fruits identify the tree. If you do not know a tree by its fruits, what else? I know myself. Our Lord Jesus Christ who told you that He was the Christ, did you know him? He said I am he. But did we know Him? He went on and declared throughout Israel that He was the One, but did any person believe Him? What else do I want to tell you? You can say what you like. You can preach what you like, and you can do what you like. I only look at you because I know Myself and Myself knows Me. Whom have I ever said I am? Have I ever told you? It is said; hold on to what you believe in your heart? People ask, why does this man preach as if He does not see any other person? Whom do I see? Who is there that I should see, tell me? Pray that God may reveal "Olumba Olumba Obu" to you. Fast and pray so that God may reveal me to you. Our Lord Jesus Christ lived for about thirty years on earth but I have doubled that age; but no person knows Me. You accuse Me of being a ghost, juju, mermaid, beelzebub. Continue to call Me what you wish, but I go one-way because I know where I come from and where I am going to. I know myself and Myself knows Me. 2.7 Your different notions of me You allege that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star drinks blood, and kills people for rituals. What businesses have I with such allegations? That is your business. You argue that Brotherhood of the Cross and star has power but the power is not from God. You argue that it is the power of Satan. I have no business with that. What I know is that I know Myself and Myself knows me. I know from where I come and where I am going. You also should know from where you come and to where you are going. Let everyone know himself because you cannot know another person if you do not know yourself. You argue that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star comes from God. That the Leader is Jesus, He is Christ, He is the Saviour, He is Spirit, He is God. I have no business there. That is your business. I am not interested. If you go to a place with all your documents, your salary and certificates, and all that you are, is there, is there any need looking for recommendation from anyone? Do you need any person to recommend you and tell you what you will earn? Your qualifications, your papers identify you. I came with my power from God, my wisdom from God, and my righteousness of God. If you say that you have elevated Olumba Olumba Obu, where are you elevating Him to? Do you know Him? If you say that, you want to abase Him, where are you going to debase Him? You say, you are worshiping Him, where are you worshiping Him? Whatever your reaction or statement, it makes no difference. God is in control always. There is no person who sees me or knows me but I know myself. There is no person throughout the entire world who has even dreamed of who I am. But I know myself and I will not reveal My identity to you. I preach the Father to you and Our Lord Jesus Christ because he is your friend. I have come to preach Our Lord Jesus Christ whom you disclaim. I am preaching Him to the entire world and you will know Him whether you like it or not. Because when you know Him you will know the Father also. 2.8 My duty on earth is to reveal God to You My duty is to reveal Him to the whole world as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I have come to preach Him to you day and night till eternity. It was your mother who took you to the various church denominations. You were born and you grew up there. But here if the Father does not call you, you cannot come. It has been revealed to a great many people right from childhood about this kingdom. They have been shown people dressed in white and it is not strange for them to see what is happening here. They walk majestically into the Kingdom. If you remind such a person that he or she has not got any child, or prosperity, where is God's blessing to him; he will tell you that he did not come with any child into the world. He has nothing to do with money or husband. People start to wonder what I have given to you. I have nothing. It is because you know yourself, so you look forward to the Kingdom of God. Any member of the Catholic Church can speak evil of the Pope and they will laugh over it. Members of the Anglican Church can speak evil of the Archbishop of Canterbury and they will also laugh about it. But here, your father and mother can speak evil against you and your friends. But the moment they want to mention your Leader, you will tell them to stop there. If you give a hundred million Naira to a Brotherhood of the Cross and Star member to agree that their Leader is a wizard, he will tell you, your money perishes with you. This shows that you know yourselves. You know where you come from and you know where you are going. Nothing can snatch you from the hands of the Father. What transpires here from day to day is that which was ordained to happen. And here is like a landing base. It is like a laboratory where all these things are expatiated for your understanding. When you experience what is happening you will then flash back to your memory, things that had happened at a certain point in time. And if you say you have suffered so much, have you not seen a greater torture here? It is for this reason that I am the Supernatural Teacher, for I have come to explain all these things to your understanding. All the things that are happening here are meant for you to draw lessons from. If these things have happened to the Father, how then shall it not come to you? Now, everybody choruses that even the Father is suffering the same happenings. So you accept because you know yourself. People will argue that the Father is riding on a white horse or that where he is, you cannot experience any noise making there. Nothing disturbing happens. They will claim that these types of troubles are never found where He is. Have you not seen pandemonium here? Have you not seen things being torn apart here? Yet I still remain indifferent. Anytime I go to 26 Mbukpa Street, and I go under the rain, they bring the umbrella, and I say I have no need for it. Your coming here is to come and receive this great teaching. I go bare footed, therefore, when you go and board a vehicle it means you have gone against the ordinances of the Father. You will easily flash back your mind that the Father goes barefooted. And everything that is transpiring is meant for you to take a clue from. Whether they hate Me or do this or that, they are meant for you to look upon those things happening and draw lessons from them and be able to forge on with the calling you have received. My duty is to expatiate upon the meaning of "love one another". The meaning of it is that we have to love ourselves and live in harmony. It means that love should not be one sided or deceitful. It means that I should love you and you love me. The other person should love us as we love him equally, and so on. It explains the concept of oneness that is prevalent in Brotherhood of the Cross and star, the love of one to another. It borders on mutual reciprocity of love. 2.9 You are spiritually blind When I look at you and the whole world, tears roll down my eyes, for, you are all blind. You should be very observant that all the preaching I deliver from January to December is about myself. I have not read from any book, neither have I read them from the Bible. They are therefore nothing but the truth? I thank God immensely for the Holy Bible. It has helped me a little, for when I speak, I quote from the Bible because you at least accept the Bible as the word of God. If the Bible were not available people would have questioned the source of the teaching. I tell you if I had not come, the whole world would have perished. It is a veritable truth that these teachings do not come from here. Think of it, somebody who has not been taught in any school yet He teaches. This is what shows that He is the Supernatural Teacher. If these gospels are documented and circulated, they will save many lives. The reason our teaching is powerful is that we talk about our own city. I was not taught; neither did I receive it in any dream. If you go about begging, cheating, and deceiving people, what do you think you are doing? If somebody should give me money when I have done nothing to merit that, I will ask why and will not take it. When you are hungry you must labour, for that is the law of nature. 2.10 I reveal myself Thus, I preach of myself. Even though I may have money tied around my waist, I still toil to eat. There is no single day that I do not toil for my feeding. At all times we should labour with our hands to feed ourselves. You argue that you do not know what sin you have committed and I ask you; have you not eaten somebody's food for nought? The people who have been ministering unto you, what have you done to reciprocate their kind gesture to you? Do you not know that it is the cause of your problems? If you have the Holy Spirit in you, He helps you out of all the problems. If not, who could have done this work? I have not read anything anywhere. You can see the teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He said," Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life as ransom for many," I came to serve and minister. I have worked very hard and I still continue to work. I do not eat anybody's food for nought. This is because in the Kingdom of God, laziness does not exist. What you use your own hand, same do you eat from. Now people ask why the Father does not give way for others to preach. Pastor B. J Etuk testified that the entire work Father is doing, is being done in Etinan Bethel. And I say, you see what I am doing; the same shall all the inhabitants of the world do. It is astonishing that I have never been taught. I went to farm and used my hands to do all things. If you give something to me and I know I cannot do anything to reciprocate, I shall not take it. If I know you owe me 50K and you give me one nairaI will not take it to owe the difference of fifty kobo. For it is said that a word is enough for the wise. You pray that God should send somebody to do good to you; do you know that you have handed all your wealth over to him? What is the significance of the Scriptural statement, "owe no man anything but love" This means that if somebody does something to you, you should reciprocate. You should also do something in return for that person. Our Lord Jesus Christ has said that when He shall come he will lead you to the accurate wisdom? 2.11 Accept the Leader: I have come for all Do not reject the rulership of the Leader. Do you not see the love of God? He said, the Comforter whom His Father will send in His name will teach all things. Know from today that I have not come to teach the whites alone. Neither have I come to teach the blacks alone. I have come to teach all the creations of God including all human beings, animals, birds, fishes and the rest. You can recall when Dr Bazie (A.K Agarwal of India) came. He stood here in front of the altar, and began to retreat back. He said he saw fire and questioned why he saw fire and not the Father? He questioned me: "can I not see you physically. Instead I behold a furnace of fire or a great illumination?" Who was to give him the answer to such a question? I commanded him to ask himself. He was asked to be baptised, but He refused. Instead of baptising he was ready to go back home. I ordered that he should come in. What did he see? What would he take back home? He came with nothing and returned with nothing? God's words tell us that one that has come to rule the whole world has come with a New Name. He has a Name inscribed on his garment, which no one knows, but himself alone. I am speaking to you, but you are waiting for Jesus. I am speaking to you, and you are waiting for Christ. I call your attention to this, you are waiting for Jehovah. I speak to you who are waiting for Messiah; I am addressing you, who are waiting for Elohim. I am addressing you, who are waiting for Jehovah Jah. You who are waiting for the Saviour Emmanuel, you will not see them. Emmanuel may come and tell you that He is that Emmanuel that you heard of but it will be a deceit. Here is a situation where I have realised that my children are perishing and in such a situation I stand to challenge all forces, all principalities, and all power and to subdue them. What do I have to do with storey building? What do I have to do with a tie? What do I have to do with material things of this world, when what is paramount is your salvation? You have been trampled upon, you have been bound hands and feet and for this reason I have come to set you free, to set fishes free, and to set all creations of God free. That you all may be free, I am prepared for any challenges even if it is a small boy coming to challenge me. If I am fighting with you, a child, I fight as though I am fighting with an adult. I fight to win, and I always win. I have already experienced these things, so I have no fear. I am well prepared for anything. Who is the fool? You want to enter a swampy thick forest; you clothe yourself with tie and jacket, and shoe and then intend to enter into that forest: How can you do that successfully? Who is the fool?, yourself or Myself? Do you not know that the world has long perished? If somebody had told you years ago that what you are witnessing now would come to pass, who would have believed such a story? Because the conception in the world had been that Satan had taken over ruler-ship in the world. But now the reverse is the case. Testimonies are coming. You have not even heard testimonies yet. Great testimonies are coming from left and right, to confirm the salvation that is wrought upon you. In the same manner did Our Lord Jesus Christ go about doing his work, suffering great tribulations? Clothe yourself with this armour of God. Clothe yourself with tribulation. Whatever comes to you, do not budge. Do not fidget because God is ever by you. Take example from what happens here. Anybody who comes here, be he president or governor etc, I give him the word of God. I rebuke him of his sin. I tell him the truth, and expose his nakedness. 2.12 I am for spiritual things But in your own case you always have one fear or the other when you are talking to people in case you will seek favour from them. But in my own case I have not come for any of the things of this world. I have come for your sake. When the war is ended, when everything has been subdued, you will engage yourself in football, you will play music and wear whatever dress you want to wear. You will eat what you want to eat, you will do what you want to do but for now we are in the battlefield. We must put on the armour of love and righteousness. I started fasting when I was not up to three or four years old. I subjected myself to fasting and I did not eat or drink because I realised that there was nothing in the world except Jehovah God and His Christ whom we should surrender ourselves to and obey. The carnal things of this world are deceitful to man, If you allow anything to rule over you, you will fall and you have already fallen. It is advised that nobody should be angry, fight, make noise, or quarrel. But you say it is hard and that you are a human being. Does that mean I am an apparition? I surrender myself to God. 2.13 I am everywhere I am aware that this lecture is too advanced for you but then you have to receive it. I have opened your ears, eyes and have broken the walls, of your hearts for this word to go in and dwell. The song you render that the Father is stationary at 34 Ambo is always wrong. The Father is in your house and in your heart. The Father is with you along the road. He is above and beneath you. The Father is in the water and is present everywhere. Who tells you that the Father is stationary at 34 Ambo Street, Calabar? Is it not faithlessness that causes you to speak in this manner? You are equally wrong to claim that the Father is here on earth. Who tells you that? I am making a declaration to you from the high heavens, and those words are heard and received by all the inhabitants of the world, all creations of God and all planes of manifest. Those who are asleep receive the same Gospel delivered. Those in the water, those above, those in America, India, and all the countries of the world, all spirits and angels and indeed all creation of God receive these words. Nobody has told me this but that is the truth. Why do you bother yourself, having known that the Father is here with you? The Father knows whatever type of problems you have and He has taken them away. You do not need to tell somebody your problems. Faithlessness has always been your problem. You are shouting "Olumba Olumba Obu," everywhere and He has done all things for you but you have always refused to behave and are faithless. Like those from Asata Bethel, Enugu, I just laugh at them. Perhaps they think I do not know what goes on there. I am at Asata and I am here too. Some of them have started believing now. When you come to me, before I start asking you questions I have answers ready with me, which are things I have known already. But when you begin to enumerate what transpired, to whom are you talking? There is a power failure here at night, and surprisingly you begin to whistle, sigh, and make noise. By so doing have you not fallen? You get troubled at heart. You start to run helter skelter to find lanterns or look for torchlight. Others will query why there is power failure at all? Or why the plant operator has not acted promptly? But I will still remain at my comer unperturbed. You ask to know the where about of the organist or why the organ is not operated so that the songs in this place will be controlled? 2.14 Moderation in everything You will be so disturbed that you will find it uneasy to follow the music without the organ being operated. But I am not bothered whether it is there for twenty years and nobody operates it, because I did not come with it. Whether it is operated or not we are always going forward. But you have attached yourself so much to the organ that any day it is not operated you are ready to fight and kill. Do all things moderately. Be moderate in your undertaking. It is for one to drink, but whether you drive or eat, take a little quantity of water and food. Moderation is necessary in these matters. If you have no food the next day, control and adjust your desire so that you may not be troubled. But now that you are troubled at heart, you have been told already not to be troubled. You must not allow food and water to dominate your life. Do not take much food. Some days you can decide to stop taking food at all. I told you that during my infancy, sometimes I fasted for three or four days. I stayed without food for days (even when there was enough food to spare). That means if I go to a place where there is no food, I can conveniently survive and I am used to this system of life. But are you all attuned to this sort of life style? I was born with this sterling quality. I can conveniently stand under the sun even for twenty hours unperturbed. I can stay in the water with my head on the shore and my body inside water and I am used to that. The rain has beaten me from here to a far distant place without my umbrella. I do not complain because I enjoy it. But in your own case you will complain. Myself and the world which loves the other most? Does the world love them? Do you love God? But I love you and I have come to save you. Tell me why I should lead you astray? At your house people are scared of you, having realised that you do not move alone. God is always with you. Wherever people venture into, with the intention of harming you, it is the Father who will appear. But yet you do not believe. Others testify that they have seen the Man who wears red garment. At places they consult oracles they see "Olumba" when they attempt to kill you. It is "Olumba" who will appear. But you do not seem to recognize His wonderful manifestation. In the wake of this you always say you want to go to Calabar and report what you have done to my “Father”. "What do you mean by my “Father”?" I am convinced that as many millions shall believe, the same are saved. All those who complain of one trouble, difficulty, problem or the other are unbelievers. Those who believe have no problem. They do not even pray but they move freely in a problem free world. Whatever is your problem as I am here now talking, your problems are now over. The Holy Spirit does not require your money, wisdom or anecdotes; He does not long for prayer, fasting, or your feast. But He expects you to believe in your heart that there is no witch, apparition, death, and lack, tribulation and that all things are made well with you. You are saved by mercy and grace. Faith subsumes what one does not see but believes. I believe that the type of work I do, you are doing, and that you shall remain with me, though you argue that nobody can stay with me. 2.15 My mission and the power of my unwritten and spoken words. I have not come into the world to joke. I have not come to teach the word of God in theory but in practice also. You also go about trying to resemble Leader Olumba Olumba Obu in the way that He dresses. You wear white shorts, white short-sleeved shirt and go barefooted. In the case of a sister, she puts on a white gown and a white headscarf. But if you indulge in fornication and other vices, what is the usefulness of wearing white and going barefooted professing to be a Brotherhood, if you do not comply with my teaching? All the gospels that I give to you daily are only introductory teachings leading to my main assignment. If I do not do all these things, you will not come to the accurate knowledge of truth. I have known Adam, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Enoch, Elijah and all their assignments in this world. The work that I have come to do on earth is so great and significant that no one else has ever done such work before. It is also impossible that any other person can accomplish this work. The major assignment that I have come to do has never been done before nor will it ever be done again. It is to reform a sinner and return him to the standard required by God, so that he may live according to the expectation of God. I have come to establish the New Kingdom of God on earth. This is the new heaven and earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Moses in his own advent came to establish judgment. But our Lord Jesus Christ came to shed His blood to save us and came to modify and confirm the judgment of Moses. 2.16 I come to make all things new My mission is to establish the new Kingdom of God on earth, so that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. In this new Kingdom, I have nothing to do with abuses, annoyance, and hatred of any kind. I have not come in order to judge and condemn you, but to make everything new. Therefore, no matter how badly behaved your children are, do not beat them. I have told you that many of you do not understand my mission on earth. Just as you have in the secular world, various stages of establishment like the magistrate court, the court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, also does the same situation prevail in the spiritual world? The Supreme Court is the equivalent of the Holy Spirit personified. From time to time, Jehovah God and His Christ send a human being to the world for a specific assignment. Where one person stops, is where the other person will begin. The assignment of God can be likened to a contractor who is erecting a building. It is not the bricklayers who will do the roofing of the house neither will it be the carpenter who will handle the wiring of the house and so on. The same thing happens when God sends a person to perform a certain assignment on earth. When one person finishes his assignment, another will continue. I have often told you that you do not understand the meaning of this kingdom. I have warned you not to compare Me with Moses, Melchizedec, Adam, Elijah and Jesus Christ because their assignments were different and have already been completed. I have come to accomplish a new phase, which even our Lord Jesus Christ was not able to achieve. The assignment is the establishment of the new Kingdom of God on earth. I have no business with churches, prayer houses or other religious denomination. 2.17 God does the work here People continue to ask you what will happen when the Leader dies. How does He die? We are all in the Kingdom and so there is no problem whatsoever. No matter where you are, you are in the Kingdom. We are the Christs and Christ does not die again. He abides forever. The Leader does not move about in the flesh but His glory is revealed in all parts of the world. This is to show to you that He has come to gather all things unto Himself. If you say that it is the Leader who does this work, what about those who do the same thing in India? What about America, who is doing it? Who are those that are working in London? Who is the one doing the work in Liberia? This body, the House, covers the Holy Spirit which neither you nor I can see. It is He that hides us. No person sees us, and no evil sees us. And so they say that you are ghosts and witches. That is not true. Such a thing does not exist here. It is Christ who is here. 2.18 Do your own assignment too Do you not see that you have not yet started your work because your work is to go and reveal Christ to the whole world? He has revealed every hidden thing in every place. Did you see me in such places? In Ikono somebody resurrected after three days. You have similar testimonies everywhere because He is in everything and He rules over all. Once upon a time an Apostolic Church man claimed a part of the portion of land belonging to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, the quarters Christ Students are currently occupying. I called him when he cleared through the portion and did not yet lay the foundation and pleaded with him to give up, that I was going to pay him all the expenses he had incurred but he refused. This man started his building up to window level and stopped briefly, I called him again the second time and spoke to him this time asking him why he had not completed the house up till then. I proposed to him that I was even ready to give him money to enable him complete it as soon as possible. Also I later gave him some feast and prayed for him. He left that day only to send a message to Me the following day that he had given up the piece of land to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. That he had thought the Leader would make trouble with him on the land but instead He (the Leader) called him, made feast and prayed for him. I happened to have done all that I did so that peace will prevail because apart from the Apostolic man who was ready for any trouble with Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, I abhor trouble of any sort and will do everything to prevent it. I want you to possess the characteristic of peace. If you want to know whether these teachings come from man or they come from God go and practice them. The same lie the world told against our Lord Jesus Christ they are telling them against me. Have I ever made any statement offhand? All what I say are quotations from the Bible. Have I ever arrogated any statement to myself? I speak God’s words. Do I send you to fetch water for me or go to the market or plant a garden for me? What I tell you is the gospel of the Lord. When God speaks you rather say it is Olumba Olumba Obu who says it. Have I said anything? When our Lord Jesus Christ said the Father and I are one, the people took up their stones to stone Him that He had arrogated to Himself the position of God. In the same token when I tell you at this end of time that God says something, you allege that Olumba Olumba Obu has declared himself God. If I tell you who made the statements, are there carnal words found in the statements? If I claim to be the speaker then I am a liar. From Genesis to Malachi and Revelation, He alone is the truth. He is the only person who does the truth. That is why from January to December we preach the words of His mouth because He is the word of God. That is why when you hear me, you say that the Leader talks like He is God. And I ask, am I speaking my own words? Have I anything to say? If it were you, you would put up a long chain of qualifications as evidence of your capability. Before I was five the Holy Spirit had told me that the whole world are liars. That there is no single person who speaks the truth, why then should I go to them when I know that there is no truth in them? This teaching is not mine because I have never studied the Bible. I have never been to any Seminary or Bible College. What do I have to do with Bible College? One greater than the Bible College is here. If they are my words, I am not the one speaking. Have you heard of a person who has never been to the Church, He did not attend any Seminary and yet He is wiser than books. Can you not see that it is the Holy Spirit doing these things? It is His own teaching. He teaches and does everything. I have told you truly that I have no power. I am not the person doing this work. It is the Holy Spirit that does this work. In your own case when you go to your station you claim that you were born with this power. But I say that it is the Holy Spirit doing the works. He sings, He heals and He does everything. I do not exist. 2.19 My teachings comes from the Holy Spirit Do not look into the Bible only without the teaching of the Holy Spirit also. I do not read it because some of the records in it is confusing and can be misleading. One portion will tell you to kill; another place will tell you to preserve life. Another place will advise you to burn him inside fire. If you only follow the Bible you get lost. Take the case of Solomon- a person who married 700 wives and had 300 concubines and is still a servant of God. You will see people who claim to be disciples of Solomon. If you want to follow David, his father, you will see that before he married one daughter of King Saul, he was told to bring the heads of 300 Philistines as dowry of the one daughter. David immediately went and killed the 300 people and brought the heads to Saul. That is why you have all these murderers who claim to be disciples of David. If you follow the Bible you are lost. I do not use it for everything because there is not everything in it. I use it as reference for your sake because I know you believe in it. It confirms what I tell you. What I tell you is the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Did our Lord Jesus Christ say anything about the Bible? He said that when the Comforter comes he will lead you to the wisdom of God. Roman 3:11 confirms this. No one is righteous, no not one. The more you continue to read the Bible the more hardened you become. The Bible has caused a lot of trouble in the world. I do not own a copy. The Spirit of truth, which is the Comforter, is my Bible. He teaches here. You say that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star does not read the Bible but from the pulpit when I give my sermon I quote from the Bible. Have you ever heard me quoting from the Old Testament. If you quote from the Old Testament, people will not fail to kill each other. That is why sins abound in the world. But when you turn to the New Testament and look to that young man. Jesus Christ, the light will shine in your heart. Have you seen me seeking after my own glory? I do not seek to be recognised by anyone. I do not seek for praise. I do not tell you that I am the person doing the works. These words are not mine. God speaks them. He does the work- All the works are not mine. The Holy Spirit does all the works you see in you and in the entire world. I cannot boast because since God created man, the work, which could not be done by any man, has been done by the Holy Spirit. You cannot compare this era with the era of Moses or with the era of Jesus Christ b for He Himself bore witness to the Holy Spirit. 2.20 I come to transform you All that He did were what He had to do because He was in the flesh. You can see that He wept, when Lazarus died. What day have you seen me weeping? Brethren you can now see that you do not know yourselves? Why do you not know me? I came to change you. What do you think of a man who stays in the same town for forty years and the inhabitants of the town do not know Him yet that man knows all of them? Even you who are sitting down here, why can you not know Me? It is because of your abominable lives. That is why you do not know Me. You have witnessed all those qualities read to you in me. Right from February I942.I threw a challenge that I will reward whichever person succeeds in making me angry. Why do you not try, or do you not want a reward? The people continue to say all sorts of things against me, that I drink blood, that I am Beelzebub but have you seen me get annoyed? Rather you are the people that choose to weep for me. I have not felt the pain of my hunchback but you keep on weeping over me. I am the one to be annoyed by these words, not you. But no person has succeeded in making me angry in order to prove that I am angry. The whole worlds have risen with their armour but do you see me with a spear? Do I have a machete? I only stay here in my corner and pour out my peace, peace! All the church denominations come here and pour abuses on me. They say I am dead but I always pray and always embrace them. That is my duty. I do not owe any person anything other than to love the whole world. People think that Spirit is something, which cannot be seen with the eyes. You can see the Spirit, what is called Spirit. Spiritual man is the person that does not cause division; He regards every person as Himself and loves everyone in the same way. The carnal man is the person who causes divisions. He differentiates between persons, nationalities and is always sectarian. He has not the spirit. History is repeating itself today. The people continue to ask where he attended his university. Is he a white man? Is He a coloured man? What does He look like? Is my colour the voice you are hearing today? Yet every time I realize that I have no wisdom, I do not know anything, I do not exist, the Father does the work. But you say that I preach very much. How do I preach very much? What do I preach? Can I preach anything? It is the Father, the Holy Spirit that preaches and does everything. It is the voice of God. Fortunately for me and unfortunately for you, I have exonerated myself that I am not God but Olumba Olumba Obu. And so they will draw your attention to this book whenever they see you. It is you who cause trouble around, not me. 2.21 Olumba Olumba Obu is the cover and clothing for God now on earth. When the people of the world read that book, “I am not God but Olumba Olumba Obu”, they will rush in here with excitement but when they later discover that the same personality is again referred to as God, they are 'confused. I am not the person speaking. As I am standing now, I am not the person standing. It is the Father at work. People here do not come here naked. All of us have cover on our body. In the same way do you expect God to incarnate on earth naked? He has to cover himself with something. The one standing here as God's cover now on earth is Olumba Olumba Obu, but the Being that is speaking is the Holy Spirit. You have heard that man is co-labourer in God's vineyard. Having known this where do you want to place God? You all are the vineyard of God. You are his building and the city he has built. His own city. If you watch carefully you will discover that you are not the person who is speaking to accomplish His work. Did you know this? The words that I speak are not mine, and are not from angels but these are the words of the Creator, the Holy Spirit. These words come with life, power and salvation. 2.22 My weapons of war I want to count to you my weapons of war. One of them is to wear a smiling face. Another one is that I always sing your praise and flatter you. The third is that I always look kindly on you. The fourth one is that as soon as I see you notwithstanding your sinful base, I will embrace you. And the fifth one is that I make sure that your requests are granted without any delay. And you begin to wonder whether the Holy Father knows that you are an evildoer. It is my duty to reform you. You claim that you do the work of the Father but you abandon God's work for your personal business. Is that my work? I will judge each of you according to your own personal file or records with me. In the records all your daily behaviours, utterances, and deeds are recorded. I want to reveal to some who are hypocrites, that when you disperse, from my presence you go and indulge in sin. My name is Olumba Olumba Obu. Why is it that other people, who answered Olumba are not recognised, by any body, except that I am the only one recognised and worshipped all over the world? The answer is that my work follows after me. Since I work round the clock for eternity and discharge all my services to others freely, my spiritual accounts are in inexhaustible. The whole world will enjoy my wealth and my wealth will never finish. The Holy Father, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is seen lavishly in all planes. I have never asked you to go to the mountain top or the seashore to pray, because God is within you. I have told you before that whenever I give my gospel, I am standing in the high heavens to deliver these words. I have never been taught by any body, but everything that I tell you is nothing but, the truth. At the moment you concentrate on looking for cars, money, and buildings. But what am I looking for? I am declaring this from the high heavens, have I ever told you to involve yourself in the things of the world? I do say this because I know that if you involve yourself in these things you will perish. I do not drink and so I advise you not to drink. I do not wear watches or shoes and I tell you to do the same. Whatever I do not do, do not do it. I was preaching and the rain began to fall. People brought me umbrellas to protect me but I refused them. I know that I am in the Father, the gospel is from the Father and the words, that I speak are from the Father. Do you think I am you? I was not yet three years old when I knew my mission on earth. Since I knew my assignment on earth, I do not require any instruction or advice from any body at all. All advice to me is rendered null and void. They are useless. 2.23 I operate spiritually Some of you misunderstood me when I told you not to wear shoes, have a radio set and tape-recorders. This was only to test your faith in me. I have people among the ordained ones, choristers, elders, and congregation that have faith in my teachings. I want to reveal one thing to all of you, and that is, do not fear me when you see me physically. But fear me when you do not see me in the flesh. I have not come to receive or rule anyone neither do I want any one to rule over me. I am not interested in anything that you have. I do not tell you to do what I preach, but I tell you to do as I do. I am at the top of the palm tree and I tell you that the palm tree fruits are not ripe. You on the ground are telling me that the fruits are ripe. So I tell you to cut the fruits down as you are looking for cars, houses, wives, and husbands. You will fail since you are looking for these things. You do not emulate me, rather you do the reverse because of your pride and pomposity. I am a practical Leader. You have to imitate me exactly. Wherever I put my foot that is where you will walk. I do not use a dead tortoise to make my experiments. I use a life one to make my experiments. Right from January I956, have you ever seen me returning to Biakpan? The roads are quite good, but have you ever seen me going back there? You are always going home to visit your parents. How many years from January I956 until now? In your own case one week does not pass without visiting your relations. Are you observing my action as a person who has no head? You have heard that any one who loves his life will lose it. But any one who hates his life will gain it. There are some people in the hall now who were witnesses to the time when what ever you do, I remain here without any reaction. I am not interested in whatever you do in the world. My interest is in your purity and sanctity and to keep your body undefiled so that God may come in and dwell therein. You are afraid of what people will say that you are going to Brotherhood Church. You call My Kingdom a church whereas it is not so. You are a church. I am a church, and everyone is a church." Instead of doing exactly what I say and instruct you to do, you continue to research and investigate the source of the power. You ask, where does the power come from? How did it start and how can we acquire this power? I tell you that you will investigate this power until the end of the world and you will not come out with any answer. 2.24 The world’s ignorance I am in sympathy with the world that says Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is not of God because they are very rich and a man of God has to be poor. I am telling you that money has not yet come to me. What is not pleasing to the whites is that they thought I would discriminate against them. There is no division at all in me and in this Kingdom. If I came to please man by now I would have acquired all material things that I need i.e, a bicycle (if not a car), shoes, watches, hats and the rest of the other things. But have you seen me with any of these things? Have you not had all these things? Who do you think stops me from driving a car? Who prevents me from living in a storey building? Who is responsible for my not wearing trousers and big shoes? All these things are carnal, the work of the flesh and man's lust. I have come to disgrace the flesh and give glory to God. I have brought the gospels of oneness to the entire world, to teach the truth. 2.25 No Leader like me From the creation of the world, has there ever been a Leader like the one you are having today? If I go out into the street now, somebody who had never known me will hardly believe, when told that I am the Brother (Leader) Olumba Olumba Obu. Yes, because with my small short- sleeve shirt and short nobody would like to believe. That is why with all your flowing gowns, three piece suits with ties and shoes to match, the moment you sense the presence of the Father you painstakingly go on your knees, indicating the condemnation of yourself. Wear whatever pleases you I am not bothered. What do you think will happen if I appear on the street or field with my white short and shirt? The world would bum you to ashes because of your unbelief. Brethren, all these things are not pleasing unto God because everything had been said and done but nobody was prepared to believe in God. I have now come to put those words into practice to the letter. Exactly what is written in the Bible about Jehovah God and His Christ is what I do, without adding or subtracting anything. You are living witnesses to the fact that if I were like any of the worldly and carnally minded leaders, the nature of the house I would have lived in, my type of car I would have driven, the calibre of aides I would have had and the type of food I would have been eating would be exceptional and for the most part imported. But now here I am having no such problem. I wear a very simple type of dress. Initially people used to think, through ignorance that the Leader is never seen by His members, and the face is always masked or veiled. But when the people started seeing things for themselves, they became overwhelmed with the simple life the Holy Father lives. 2.26 I do the will of God I am doing the will of my Father, anyway and not that of man or myself. And so I do not even care for anybody's compliment and love. When I was young I used to think why, should I wear a red garment? But what is happening now? Has the garment not become my daily official dress, which I am obliged to wear so that the glory of God will fulfill? I do not seek for my own glory but for the glory of Him that sent me. I have no choice of mine. I have not come to please any body, not even myself. I always ask you to focus your attention on me because if you do, you will be able to please God. You all are in a fix. This is because despite your big shoes and flowing gowns, except I sign a document, your signature, no matter how nice and expensive cannot be honoured. Unless I recognise you, nobody recognises you. Have you people heard me add my knowledge into the gospel of God? I neither add nor subtract because I seek not for my own will and glory. I pursue only the will of Him who sent me, to reveal the glory of God. I do not seek for the glory of mine. Of all the millions of people who are gathered here and beyond, is there any person who will say that the Holy Father has ever collected their money from them? Instead when you come here I give you food, cloth you, accommodate and then heal your sickness and discharge any problem you have come with. I need nothing from anybody. That is the will of God. It has to be fulfilled. If you render any services and demand for money or any cooperation whatsoever, you are working for the flesh. I have never asked God to forbid anything. Where will He take them? Eventually I have never asked God to bring or do anything. No. All I do is to ask His will alone to be done and use me for His services. I always follow Him like a blind man. It has been a long time since I went to Biakpan and indeed any other place physically. It does not take much time to get to Biakpan, but I have not come to seek for my own glory. I move from 34 Ambo Street to 26 Mbukpa Street and back every day. I am not here to please any man but God. Before this time I used to go to Biakpan frequently. I am like salt whose absence in the food makes it unpalatable. If I tell you tortures I have under gone you will marvel. I started fasting when I was three. I have no father or mother, no brother or relation: Just nobody except the Father alone. And it is His will I have come to do. I have no business with any other thing carnal except to serve God and please Him alone. I decided to undertake such a risk because I imagined if my parents happen to pass away what will I do? So I started to train myself, to cease living a parasitic life or to be a burden unto anybody. I did not complain either because I come not to serve my own purpose. I ate nobody's food. I drank from nobody's house and did not request anything from anybody. But you take delight in going around to collect one thing or the other from people and having a field day. That is why your soul shall be requested for. The lesson, which I give to you, is perfect. All that I speak are not spoken by me and I am ignorant. I cannot do anything by myself but what I hear I give you without adding or subtracting. I cannot hide anything from you. I do not claim to be anything. Anybody who receives a letter from the Leader will rejoice for one month, and any sick man who sees the Leader will be healed instantaneously, because of unspeakable joy. It is my wish that everybody should be like myself but people are differently gifted so they should be allowed to follow their own course. I have all powers to reveal all mystery because this is the dispensation of the fullness of time. Whatever name you ascribe to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, whether you call it church, prayer house or school, I must tell you the truth and lead you to know God. The Leader is now trying to mitigate the judgment, which Christ had delivered against the world. Now all that the Leader speaks are fulfilled. Brotherhood is the word of God and is God. 2.27 My words reach all planes of manifest When I deliver any sermon, all those who are sleeping and are in the dreamland, and all those who are in England and the world over are hearing these words, because I speak from heaven. This is a new Kingdom where the word of God rules. You cannot lock up the word in a cupboard. If the Father gives any pronouncement against fornication, you will hear the reaction in the word. In I965, the Father predicted about the civil war in Nigeria. All that happens is done by words. It travels far and wide. The Leader has come to open what was locked to set the world free. You go about declaring that Olumba Olumba Obu is God. How can you prove this statement? Go and tell people what he does. When you declare Olumba Olumba Obu is God, are you not trying to cause confusion and trouble? I have taught and have brought you to a height, which nobody on earth can measure up to you. It is surprising to see some of you still groping in ignorance. I therefore, want to ask you this: Can you tell me anything that poses itself as an obstacle to you in understanding my teachings so that I may break up such obstacle? People used to ask, show me in the Bible information written about Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. But since the publication of the Supernatural Teacher, no person has any more questions to ask. A late Rev. said that the Holy Father is a doctor of philosophy. He can afford to twist the words of God to give Him just the type of result he requires. He said nobody should go and joke with the Holy Father because such a person will not be able to cope with the words proceeding from His mouth. All right, let us continue to see the Leader as human and let us continue to preach the Christ we were pre-ordained to preach. I am not Christ, I am a man. I want us to continue to preach that I am not Christ, I am human. But those who say that they are scientist and astrologers should give me an explanation for this. When you are planning to go somewhere I am already there, praying, blessing and preparing the place for you. Before you arrive, I have concluded everything there and returned. If you go to Port Harcourt, the Holy Father is doing His work. You go to Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and everywhere the Holy Father is doing His work while I am sitting down here with you. Have I ever crossed to Oron? Why do you say that I am the person doing the work? It is the Father who is doing His work. If you say I am the person doing the work, would you want to say that you have ever seen the Spirit? If you have ever seen a spirit then you should know that I am the person doing the work. Some of you say I am a wonderful man, I am just laughing at you. Who has put into practice what he has received and who has emulated my examples? Do you think that I leam all these Godly virtues? Or do you think that they are painful to me? I live a pure natural life. I have been living this same life ever before the foundation of the world. My life is unchangeable. What I have come to do is to teach you a righteous life, how to look at me and emulate my examples and live my type of life. 2.28 The Holy Spirit now on earth The Holy Spirit has reincarnated into our midst as the Sole Spiritual Head of the Universe. He is to modify the evil intention in human beings. He is the person who overpowers these other spirits and He knows how to subdue any evil spirit. When the Father's sermon was published titled, "I am not God but Olumba Olumba Obu," the people who used to publish the gospel found it difficult to publish it. They rather said they have followed the wrong man. Why have they wasted their time all these years? So there was a big conflict between the members here and some people started to backslide. In spite of this, some people continued to say that I am God and that I was camouflaging. I was nothing else. Immediately, after finishing the sermon somebody just woke up and said, “this is the real God". Up till today there is still confusion in the world. Many people would take up the book and say to others. " Have you heard what the man has said that He is not God but Olumba Olumba Obu? I have told you always that He will die." Yet you remain steadfast. But if I tell you that I am God, I am telling you falsehood. The propaganda of the church denominations in I977 was to make it possible for people not to have the belief in the Father. because they knew that everybody concentrated attention on Him. 2.29 Mankind is blind The churches met and plotted that the best thing to do would be to make sure that people no more believe in Him, to kill that faith. Therefore, all the churches and denominations in Calabar met and decided to spread that false rumour that the Holy Father is dead. That was why at that time you would be going about your business and somebody would just come to you and say, "I have heard that your Leader is dead, I am very sorry." You would say "get away, the man is not dead. He is alive and kicking”. Yet he would oppose you and say that the Leader is dead. People ask why is it that your Leader stays in one place without moving about? If you tell them He is Christ, they will ask you why is it not possible for Him to move about as our Lord Jesus Christ was moving about? They also go on to say that their annoyance is that when somebody dies the Father does not go to give the last blessing, and it is alleged that He does not see the face of a dead person. What do you think about these things? The answer is simple. Upon all the love I have for you, would you expect me to come to your house or bethel or office with my Bible, or on a motorcycle or in a car? How would you like it? Now as I am standing here, I am in your house, I am in your office, I am in your bethel, I am everywhere. Would I therefore, be so stupid to move around, when I know that wherever I am, I am present everywhere? Is there any need of my going about? Have you heard that? Is that not what has been worrying people? The people say that as long as the Holy Father is there, people would continue to follow Him. But if He is no more the people will be scattered and He will not have followers. 2.30 I am the greatest Teacher I am the greatest universal Teacher. I have never said or done anything of my own will or volition, but the Holy Spirit always directs me. In the year I938,I was blind, I could not see but now I am cured. I can read the smallest letter. Who has cured me of my blindness? I did not treat myself in any form. I did not complain to any person. Who was capable of curing me of that type of illness? Do you think it is simple thing to preach the word of God with blindness? There is an adage that if you do not go to the country of the ghost, you cannot see the young ghosts. I have been able to preach to you boldly because I have gone to the country of the ghost and have seen young ghosts. 2.31 My persecutions From my beginning of existence I have been the centre of persecution, from left, right and centre at all times. But I have never resisted any persecution. I remain as I am. When I am persecuted I become stronger. Persecution started against me when I was in the womb. When I was brought into the world, there was persecution from right, left, and centre. As I grew up, persecution continued. It is this persecution that has strengthened me and I always walk with boldness. I have never resisted any persecution. That is why I have seen Him face to face. When the Biafran soldiers came here, they had already had the name of the Holy Father that He should be killed. They were quite prepared on the I8th to kill Him. Several letters were written from Calabar to Lagos informing the Nigerian soldiers that when they arrive at Calabar, the Leader should be killed. I am asking you whether I am not the person standing here now. God had revealed to me that I am the Captain controlling the boat and if I made the mistake of running away, it would have brought about the Third World War. Many world powers, like Britain, Russia, America, and France had involved themselves in that war, but we called it a civil war. If I had made the mistake of running away, then the whole world would have involved itself and it would become third World War. If a situation arose in which the Holy Father had to run away from this town, the whole town would have been vacated. They were only waiting to hear that the Leader had gone away from this place because all of them had their hopes on the Leader. In August I969, the Head of State General Yakubu Gowon wrote a letter requesting the Holy Father to offer special prayer, in order that the civil war may be brought to an end. And in September of that very year brother T. E. Etuk, alias Etesis, had a dream about the end of the war. It did not take two months before the war was brought to an end. Persecution continued from many quarters. On the1st of October I962, and from 25th September, to 2nd October I962, it was at this time that the whole of this town planned to kill the Leader when the daughter of the then Obong of Calabar died in Lagos. In the year I954, I went to Biakpan from here and did something to the amazement of every person to the effect that they gave praise to God. They openly said “You are God," because no other person could do what I did for them. That was in the year I954 but in the year I955.I received a letter warning me not to come to Biakpan that the people there were quite prepared to destroy me. They had gathered all sorts of weapons in Biakpan. They had prepared all types of charms and concoctions and so I was warned before hand. The person said that I had never regarded anything as important but that I should not make the mistake of coming to that town. The letter was handed over to Pastor Bassey to print it into a small pamphlet, but he came back to tell me that it was lost. Whether it was really lost or something happened to it I cannot say. It is only God who knows. 2.32 The Holy Spirit is here The Holy Spirit has come in person, but people begin to wonder what happens when the Leader is no more on earth. What about Our Lord Jesus Christ? What about the Holy Spirit? What about God himself? Will they also fail to exist? He is here, and has not gone anywhere. He has arrived to take dominion over the earth and heaven. The Holy Spirit has wrought wonders. All kinds of dances are found here. When you sing that Olumba reigns all over all that flies and all that creeps, the people will ask whether that is what he has brought? That will not happen on this land of their forefathers. The government also asks: “does it mean that now that there is a president, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star also rules over him”? That will not be here. The brewers, the prostitutes, tobacco dealers, and parents of children all cry out that Olumba Obu is going to capture everyone. Why do you quarrel and yet you have not seen the person you are quarreling with? Do you not see that this thing is beyond the ability of man? You cannot see the person who is fighting the war for us. But if you go to London, America, India and all over the world, you find that he is still capturing souls. They are coming in from east and west. Man does not do this; it is the word of God. The songs, prayers, testimonies that are rendered here are nothing but the word of God. You do not see any other thing here except the work of God. We do the work of God. We preach the word of God. We pray the word of God. I do not judge any one. Our Lord Jesus Christ gives all judgment. But if you have love for one another, all men shall know that you are his disciples. Upon the number of people in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, which day, have I ever suspended any person, or punished you, or imputed sin unto you, upon all your sins? You commit sins constantly which day have I reprimanded you? If any of you sent me an envelope purporting to be for any function or fund- raising, I will not send in any kobo. But those who are here, (I do not even know if they are human beings or trees) if they send envelope, I have to send something to them. The reason is that if I give you say, a thousand Naira to a Brotherhood member, he does not count it as anything. But if I sent the money where it is least expected, there would be great rejoicing and so they show a thankful heart. Everyday envelopes keep coming and I keep stuffing them with money. So you who are here will ask what these people have done for this preferential treatment while you are here looking for the same money? You cannot understand this thing. I do not intend that it should be clear to you. After all, love is not subject to reason. Everyday they come, I continue to stuff the money. When you see them you begin to frown your face. You should not do this because they are not coming to you. Your mother does not want you. None of your relations wants to hear of Brotherhood. You know the names they give to Brotherhood, that Brotherhood is ghost, witchery, juju, murderers, and vampire and evil names. Every evil thing and occurrence is attributed to Brotherhood. They do not want to hear of Brotherhood and they do not want to take their eyes off. When somebody dies they will say that Obu takes him. Accidents are said to be caused by Obu. Every evil word is said against Him. If you write the inscription O.O.O. they will urge you to erase it. There is no native doctor who wants to hear of this name. There is no sorcerer who wants to hear the name of Brotherhood. When you write the letters O.O.O. on your door, they will strongly urge you to clean it. It never occurs to them that these are common letters, which we come across in our alphabet and numerals. They do this because of one person. Even if you write one O. alone they will tell you to erase it. Brethren can you now see that no person is responsible for this state of affairs? I show little children round my room and even up to my bedroom to see things for themselves. If you come to me, I tell you to go and that all your problems are solved. Some of you would write petition and request for material things and earthly things. Do I have any of these things? None of these materials things reside with me. When I say "Go all is well," that is the end of everything. The word spoken becomes manifest and begins to do its work. It does not involve my touching you, or you drinking the holy oil, fasting, praying on you or doing anything. Once the words are spoken they are sent forth and they have to carry out the assignment. Some of you think that it is important that I should teach somebody how to produce the Holy Oil. They feel that if I am no more, there is nothing that can be done without the holy oil, and so I should teach someone else, how to produce the Holy Oil. Why should you engage yourself in that type of thought? Some people think that My powers are derived from the Biakpan water. They think my forefathers or mermaids are resident inside there, so that when you drink or wash with it, you get power out of it. Brethren, you can speak the word and I can speak the word. When others speak, nothing comes out of it, but when I speak, it must be fulfilled. That shows the difference between you and me. The difference is that I speak as I hear. God speaks in me. When I look at the whole world I shed tears because all of you have behaved as if you do not know anything. I have not come for any particular creation but for all of them. I come here to teach you men, trees, animals, birds, and all. That is why when a Sermon is delivered many people do not hear or understand. 2.33 My honour, glory, lifestyle and food This is the time of the Holy Spirit. It is only the Holy Spirit that can reveal the Leader and His true identity to you. You cannot know me except the Spirit reveals me to you. Whether you say I am God or devil does not interest me. My interest is to preach "love one another." Remember how Jesus told His disciples to go and wait in Jerusalem until they were clothed with the Holy Spirit from the Most High God. Today, do I tell you to go and wait at Jerusalem? Who is among you that, I have not given the Holy Spirit to? You fasted and grew long beards like Elijah and Moses, yet you did not see the Comforter, and your problems were not solved. How is it today? The Comforter speaks only a word and whatever your problems are, they are taken away immediately on the spot. Worldly wisdom or technical know-how does not come in here This Government is theocratic. Therefore for you to tell people that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is God, you have automatically made God to be man. That is why many people suspect that there is something hidden underneath in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. According to them, Jesus Christ who was the Son of God came and died, and had at no time spoken in the first person. Here is Leader Olumba Olumba Obu an ordinary human being they know and you say He is God, What will happen if He dies? What will happen to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star? Who will be able to step in and do His works? Brethren, I have examined myself very well, I do not have any power of my own. I have no wisdom of my own, I am not a preacher neither am I the doer of anything. I demand that you love me with your whole heart and soul, and love your neighbours as yourself. I invite all and sundry who are plagued with various problems to come to me. They should focus on my scarlet garment, the vest that is dipped in blood, and they shall be delivered. 2.34 I exist in all planes I am a Supernatural Teacher and so I know how to handle you, because I want to lead you to the accurate knowledge of the truth, I exist in all planes at the same time. As you see me physically here if you go now to the sun, moon, stars and all the planets, you will see me physically as I am standing before you at the same time. The same teaching I give to you now is the same teaching I give in all these various planets simultaneously. Therefore if you were to project into other planes and tell or inform them that I teach physically here on the earthly plane, they would also tell you that I teach them in their various planes. 2.35 My real self Do you realise that I am established physically here at Calabar. I am also established physically in America, London, India, Russia, Ghana, and all over the universe? Have you heard that in America I delivered lectures, physically to 500 people, and people there see me as you are seeing me now. In Calabar many of you, see me in your houses both physically and spiritually. I visit many people in Calabar in the flesh and give them handshakes. Now where do you think I am, in heaven or on earth? I am not recognised, feared, honoured in this world as it is in the spiritual world. When the spirits, angels hear my arrival, all of them bow and cover their faces on the ground. Everything in the spiritual world stands still and in perfect silence when I appear. Even the wind does not know that I am here with you on this earthly plane, but it is unfortunate that human beings do not recognise the Holy Spirit in their midst. Every object in the spiritual world is inscribed O.O.O because He is the Sole Spiritual Head, but on the earthly plane it is not so. The time will come when you will remember that the Holy Father used to stand, dance and advise you. The new members will not believe you. I am telling you that soon you will not see me again. You are very lucky because I am ruling with love. Do not give me any name. I am not a prophet, Moses, Elijah, or Jesus Christ. I am a Supernatural Teacher. I was born in the year I9I8 at Biakpan. I was waiting for the Father to reveal this to the visionaries so that they could inform the world. But at the time of my birth there was neither school nor church in Biakpan. Therefore my parents could not record my date of birth but the Holy Spirit told me just now that I should tell you that you are lucky, for no one in this world has ever known my age. My mission as a Teacher of the Gospel of love and truth was revealed to me at the age of 5 years. I told the villagers in Biakpan and environment to call me Teacher and Leader. At God's appointed time, when I had to attend to my call, I forsook everything and followed God. From the day I was born I had known that I had nothing to do with the world and its lusts and desires because I am not of this world. I sought not knowledge, wisdom, or wealth from anybody. I am in 34 Ambo, but wherever you go, you will find me there. I do not wear slippers. Simplicity is the watchword. I know nothing. I am blind, lame, and deaf. He uses me to do whatever He desires. I detest lies, fornication, disorderliness; I have taught you everything, hiding nothing from you. I teach you nothing short of my life style. I am telling you that in the next twenty years I will be younger than this. There was a time I used to go from house to house. There was a time I was a trader. There was a time I used to walk from 34 Ambo Street to 26 Mbukba Road. I have stopped to receive visitors in the vestry. Hitherto I have been attending to people. There was a time when I used to wash people's feet, but now I have stopped. The scripture has an appointed time for everything. I have no private life. I do not eat anything. It is abominable to eat meat. Knowledge is inborn in me. I do not read from a book. I knew this fact when I was not yet five years old. 2.36 My Mission in the world I have come to establish the new Kingdom of God on earth. This is the new Heaven and Earth where in dwelleth righteousness. I have told you before that I have not yet opened my bag containing the article of trade I have brought to the world. I am not interested in your money, your beauty and whatever thing you have. I rather have come to sell my article of trade to you than buy yours. If I tell you all things I have brought to you, they will appear to you like in the dream and non-existent. What I have brought into the world is love. I have not come with any machete, gun or bow and arrow except love, which stands by itself and is very distinct. I have come for both blacks and whites and for all living and nonliving things because everything created are one. Since I started I have no connection with any person. I have no friend because I have come for a purpose. I do not associate with any person or group of people. I do not belong to any group. I do not go to church; I do not go to mourning houses or to hospital. I am here as somebody on business. I came to do something. I have not come to play. I am your Leader and I use the truth to execute judgment. I use truth in waging war. I am preaching about myself and not about any other person. The most costly apparel I bought was a pair of pants costing five pence and a sleeveless singlet bought at one shilling and three pence. Have you ever seen Me telling lies? Have you ever heard that I bear a grudge or malice against any person? Have you ever seen me being exasperated or annoyed with any person? Have I ever said woe to you? Once you indulge in any of these things you are already dead. People come here hoping to see somebody so big and robust as the Leader of Brotherhood. If you observe very carefully too, you will find that I grow younger and younger everyday. My state of being is not caused by taking tablets or through the application of anything. But I am saying in the next twenty years, I will be younger than this. I have already told you when first I arrived in Calabar the first pot of soup I prepared cost only one penny. After preparing the soup I used it for eight days. I was taking half a cup of Cassava flour (garri) for every twenty-four hours. And I had no problem. When you complain every time that you are looking for this or you want to eat this or that, I have never hustled after anything. All these things do not interest me. No matter what you have I am not bothered. Food is nothing to me, clothes are nothing to me, and houses are nothing to me. In fact all the things you can think of in the world have no place in my thought. I have no private life. Have you ever known any person in this world who all men and elements of the universe wage war against but he does not revenge? He has no weapons to fight against them but he overcomes all his accusers. The knowledge is in born in me. I do not read from a book. I knew this fact when I was not yet five years old. 2.37 This is Africa’s time to receive from God Let my peace and blessing, abide with the entire world now and forever more. If you are not the author of peace how can you utter such? I had told you that since I980 two white men approached me to persuade me to come over to the United States, that they were ready to shoulder many responsibilities about Brotherhood of the Cross and star and to practice it to the letter. That it would be very shameful for them to come down to Africa and worship God, they who first brought Christianity to this part of the world. The whole western world knows me but Africa does not. Those whites accepted to provide their conditions for me if I accepted their offer: They would provide free atmosphere for me to operate, undertake and propagate the faith and to tell their white brethren that the Holy Spirit has arrived. The answer is that this is the time for Africa, so the Holy Spirit started His operation physically from Africa. This is the time for Africa to realise the manifestation of the glory of God. You call me a Leader. This is correct because God has provided a living example for you in me in order to lead you to God's Kingdom. The qualities you see in me are for you to emulate. But to call me God; no please. I am not the one. The reason I do not worry myself to move from one place to another, to preach is that, the Father is here and all things have been subjected to Him and He is the One doing all things. He is the One to reconcile the whole world to Himself. Under Him I am free just as you are. I used to wonder why I did not eat meat or fish, or fowl and I could not find any answer. I was born a vegetarian. I have never been taught in school, I have never read the Bible. There was no church in Biakpan and no church will preach that one should not eat meat. As I was born just like that, I tried to eat meat because I wondered how anyone could live without eating meat. Still I could not eat meat. Right from childhood my food has consisted of maize, yam, beans and fruits alone. I do not know anything about fish and meat. And I am free. I am not telling you that I purposely did this just to acquire power but I was just born like that with abhorrence to eating meat and fish. 2.38 Accept and abide by my teachings Whoever obeys the injunctions of God will be saved. That is why I have set aside three periods in a year for you to come and learn about the way of God and hear from me. As from today do not fail to attend the Pentecostals for your own safety and interest. Since I discovered that most of the members ran away due to the fact that they did not want the Father to ordain them, I then changed my steps to Easter Mondays. Few who were ordained were weeping bitterly, that they were not worthy to be anointed to do God's work. When I discovered that members were running away on Easter Mondays, I then changed my steps to ordinary days. Any member I want to ordain, I will call him or her to give testimony. As soon as he or she had finished it I would sing the Spiritual song "Eyen Di Da Itie Fo." God has done this because He does not want you to perish. He ordained you because of the love he has for you. If you despise my teaching you will one-day lament. Whatever I do is for your best interest and not mine. I need nothing from you. I do not need your money or house but your salvation. I do not want you to recognise me. I do all for the reason that I do not want the blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed, to be a loss. The work I have come to do is so great, and so significant that no one else has ever done such a work before. It is impossible that any other person can accomplish this work. The major assignment I have come to carry out has never been done before and will never be done again. It is to reform a sinner and bring him to the standard required by God. I have never said that I am God or Jesus Christ. Did you read one of my publications, in which I said, "I am not God but Olumba Olumba Obu"? And you should not compare me with Jesus Christ. I am here on a special mission, to the world and that is why I have always taught you to love one another. Now the inhabitants of the world are calling me juju, ghost, apparition and Beelzebub. But there is no scratch or incision on my body. I do not believe in such things. Do you not realise that if you resemble me, you will also be called my same names? Have I ever told you that this power is mine, or that I have any power of my own? Have I ever told you that I even exist at all? Moses and others who came were powerful people. Jesus the Christ was powerful but all I know is that, now that God who created the heavens and the earth has come down to make His dwelling among mankind. He is the one doing all these works and not myself. Do you think that the teaching I gave 20 years ago is the same with the one you are hearing these days, I am telling you capital '”No” because I have many ways of doing things. I continue changing gear every day and every moment. What I have brought to the world is love. I have never been to Lagos. But if you go to London, you will find me there. Are you not surprised? I have never gone out to teach people or to be taught the Bible but let any theologian come before me and I will render his knowledge elementary. 2.39 The world and me I sympathise with the world because of its emptiness. If this Kingdom had emerged from America where they have money and technical know how, it would not have been the one. If it emanated from London, it would not have been the one because these people brought Christianity to you. If the Leader had come from Lagos or even Calabar, would He be the One to fulfill the Scriptures? The first Nigerian Government was at Calabar, and due to the work of early missionaries, they had already known God. The Scripture specifically stipulates that God chooses base things and things despised so as to confound the wise, and the mighty. Even if He came from Akwa Ibom State where they had already known God, He would not have been the One written about. No king or community will allow His Son to be foolish, base and despised. If you are a millionaire, highly educated, popular and from a renowned town, you are not the one, because it is stipulated He must come from a place not known by people. When I confess that I have never been to any church, the world frowns at those who come to me and wonder what I would teach them. If I had attended any church before coming to found Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, it would have been an imitation. People call me a man from Biakpan, a cloth seller, who has never been to school and wonder where I get my wisdom. Their allegations are true. The teachings are not mine but He that sent me. This is a very deep mystery which if God is not with you, you will never believe. Imagine a person, who has been trading in cloth, when will he get time to learn theology? For this reason the unwary world hold firm to their unbelief. They allege that those who regard the Leader as a wonderful teacher are being deceived, but that they cannot be deceived. God does His thing in this way so that all glory should go to Him. Other people glory in university education and theological degrees. But I have never been to school or church, and no man has ever taught me. I was born like this and it is only The Father who does everything. I now sound a note of warning that you should stop investigating who the Leader is, but go and practice His teachings whether they are from God or from man. My answer to the world is that I have not gone to any school or church. But go and bring any Dean of the faculty of religion, the Pope, Arch -Bishops and other clergies of any Episcopal Seminary and I will confound them because they are all practicing occultism, and know very little or nothing about God and His will for man. I am seen everywhere. As I am here now, I am seen physically in Los Angeles. When you hear such testimony, you say that the Leader indulges in witchcraft but that you are worshiping the real God where you are worshippin. Notwithstanding this, you will stay with your real God and perish. I am a Nigerian as you are and a black man as yourself I am a human being as you are and I used to trade in clothes. You knew my father and mother. Therefore, there is no way to compel you to believe in me. As you are there so will you be, no matter what is preached. You shall remain in that state. Since I left Biakpan in January I956, it has been over thirty years now; I have not been there but I remain here. What would I go there to do? Do they want Me? For the scripture says, a prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and his own house. What is the need of going home? You have heard this scriptural passage. Why then are you going to waste time? Our Holy Mother brings about what you see in Biakpan. But for me I have no business there and there is no wisdom preaching the word of God to them because this statement is nothing but the truth. Do not fool around with the word of God. 2.40 You action fulfills the scripture The reason behind your inability to repent, to change, to comprehend the intricacies of Brotherhood the Cross of and Star , or to worship in the true Brotherhood the Cross and Star pattern is not caused by you but it is said that " A prophet is not without honour except in his own country, and his own house? That is why you sit here to make noise not withstanding the fact that the Holy Father is present. I have remained indifferent behind such a behavioural pattern. Do not toy with God's word. Whatever word of God I deliver unto you must touch down on the ground and break mighty rocks and rise up to fulfill it's will. Nothing shall ever take it away from being manifested. When that Yoruba brother got baptised here and I conducted him round the vestry, he asked whether it was possible for a person to touch me, because it never occurred to him that man can come near me. I had to embrace him and he was surprised. What is the situation here? But for the hand of God, you would not mind rending my raiment. A certain child almost tore off my garment and I had to run into hiding. For so long will I believe in the efficacy of this statement, a prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and his own house. You cannot change it. No matter what you preach, do what you may, a prophet is not without honour except in his own country. Therefore, I am very careful of myself. I do not apportion any blame on you but I am honouring that scriptural passage because it is exactly what is happening in the world. You always thank God that if the Holy Father was in America, how would you have got money to travel down there? And I will laugh over such a statement for I wonder if you are aware of the realities of the moment. Have you heard what the scripture says here? In America, India and other places in the world, if the name of the Holy Father is called, everybody worships Him. But here, people curse their souls on hearing the name. They continue to know Him as a trader in clothes. 2.41 I have brought you the truth Whatever I have brought that have I given to you. These I have not received through vision or dream nor have I read them in any book. I am born with them. I want you people to receive this truth also. God is no respecter of any person neither does He buy any person. The situation is that you should endeavour to do that which is good in the sight of God. All those who speak evil against the Leader should pray fervently for themselves because a great punishment awaits them. I have not come to judge any person. I am not the one who called you and I do not judge you. Whatever I am doing is exactly what I have come to do. From January to December of each year, I base my lessons from Bible quotations therefore I do not say anything from my own volition. All these are the words of God delivered from the Bible. I have not come to found a church or healing home or prayer house or to establish a school. I have come to lead you to the accurate wisdom of truth. As it is said the Comforter who is also the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my Name, He will teach you and bring to your remembrance whatsoever Our Lord Jesus Christ, had spoken. I have come to teach you, to change you and to bestow this Kingdom of God unto you. This Kingdom of God is neither a tree, nor fish nor stone but it is made of human beings. As many as receive these teachings will follow me. You call yourselves Jehovah, Christ, Prophet, I am none of these, and I do not answer any of those names I am not an Elder, I am not a prophet, I am not a priest, I am not God, I am not Christ, I am nothing. But one thing I do know which is very clear in mind, is that whatever a man sows same shall he reap. Continue to do good whether you are a freeborn or slave. I knew all these things when I was not up to 3 years old, and that is why I have no problem. People claim that Brotherhood the Cross and Star is Beelzebub, they drink blood, and they do not worship the true God and therefore are not a church. These entire allegations do not bother me. What I know is that for everything you do, whatever good or evil, you will receive your due reward. There is nothing good that can be found in me and I do not know anything, but the Father does whatever you see. I have nothing; I have neither wisdom, nor power nor anything at all. It is the Father who has power, wisdom and everything. One thing I know is that whatever you are doing, do it, as you are doing it to God, whether you are freeborn or slave. I am telling you what is implied in the words of God. It is the Father who does everything. If He does not do anything then you cannot do anything. If the Father does not teach you, you cannot know, if he does not bestow you with wisdom you cannot be wise. If He does not think you cannot think and if He does not see and talk you cannot see and talk either. Therefore whatever thing you do, do it as using the power bestowed on you by God and that it is not through your own power. 2.42 I have come to judge the world I have come to give judgment and to reward every person according to his work. The primary mission of Our Lord Jesus Christ was to come and shed His Blood for the redemption of mankind. It was also said that He came to speak in parables, and without parables will He not speak. That explains why He spoke in parables. And that is why He made a categorical statement that the Comforter who is also the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in His name, will teach you and bring to your remembrance whatever. He had taught you. And therefore whatever was spoken and kept by Our Lord Jesus Christ, I have come to expatiate to you. From January to December of every year, I teach and explain a single word for more than a hundred times to you. The world does not know that I am a doctor of words. A certain Reverend confessed that the Father is a Doctor of Theology because he found Him to be the only person who can explain and expand each verse and word of the Bible. That is why when you choose the passage I have chosen to preach on you will not be able to preach anything instead you will surely nimble. And it is for these reasons the people of the world argue that we are using a different Bible from theirs. All the gospels I preach to you are contained in the Bible. If I read out a passage from the Bible now and want to explain and expatiate, we shall not finish in a year. A certain sister who studied religion in Europe came to see the Father and when she heard His gospel, she confessed that they are wasting time claiming to be studying the Bible. They only re-echo the words of the Bible and explain nothing out of it. But here the Father explains every bit of word and brings it to your understanding. 2.43 Accept tribulation You all bear me witness that I have never invited anyone to come and be in Brotherhood the Cross and Star with me. I have again never asked why you are here. All I know is that God is at work until the Almighty Father manifests His glory. If God were to look at all that people have been doing, who would remain? The Lord says you should neither steal nor kill but you say that you have stolen but have not killed. I stand in the high heaven to tell you that if you steal you have killed and if you kill you have stolen. I have only come in here to set up something new. You carry your hands on your heads and continue to lament. Oh Father, do not allow this rain to be upon me, do not make people to say I am Beelzebub. And I ask, do you want them to call you God? As I have put tribulation on as armour of war upon myself, tribulation has turned to be my meat. I am always joyous when it comes. Turn this side and it is said Olumba Olumba Obu is a good man, and I will not come to that side. But when it is said he is a bad man, is an abominable person, an evildoer, is a ghost or apparition I will shout and say that is myself. I will go to them and bubble with joy. You go your way; I will continue to forge ahead in the face of tribulation. You heard our text? And this was said a long time ago through the mouth of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Job, Isaac and the rest of them that he must first suffer many things. The plight that befell Jonah where do you think it came from? He was facing this tribulation. All the suffering faced by Jeremiah and the rest of the prophets was the same tribulation that was facing them. What sin did Daniel commit to cause him to be thrown into the den of lions? He committed nothing but he was facing this tribulation. What felony did Shedrach, Meshach and Abedenego commit to be thrown into the furnace of fire? It was this same tribulation that they were facing. This, I say to you, so that you may rearrange your thinking because, may be hitherto you have been running away from tribulation. You have been saying. Let me not commit any sin, let me not tell lies, let me not do this or that so that I might not be disgraced. No matter what you do, tribulation is what must come unto all children of God. 2.44 Accept that God is now incarnate on earth But now the source of all dynamic powers has arrived. All things animate and inanimate, seen and unseen must submit to the Supreme Being, the Guest of the time. All kingdoms, rulership, all power and authorities must bow to this great Ruler, the Almighty God now on earth. Your foremost responsibility is to believe that God is present here on earth and that the Son and Holy Spirit, the angels and the prophets and all the children of God are here to provide all things for you. He has come to reveal all His children to the world and to receive the honour and glory due Him before the world was. Go and tell the world that you made a mistake, when you told them that the work done here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, is performed by a man. Because what you see done here and heard here is not anything that can be done by a man, angel, prophet or the Son of God. Tell them that God Himself has come to dwell with men and that God is the one doing all these things. I am declaring to you from the highest heaven that I have never had any plans, I have no suggestion to make. What do I have to suggest? The Holy Spirit has taken dominion over the whole world and even the world to come. I have told you that since I938 till today, I have no time fixtures to do anything. It is the Father who plans and executes everything. This is where the whole world is confused when you tell them that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is God, and that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is the one doing all these works. Do you not see how confused they are, for they look round and at no time do they see Leader Olumba Olumba Obu moving from one place to another. Then how does He perform these things? It must be something hidden underneath? They suspect and give it a name. Many of you have been members of some secret societies. You have been members of different religious organisations. Did you ever see your leaders appearing to you in dreams or otherwise? Did they take away your problems: at your mere sight of them? Did you see them speaking just a word and it takes effect at once? When I say "Go all is well" that is the end of everything. That word spoken becomes manifest and begins to do its work. It does not involve touching you or your drinking the holy oil, fasting, praying on you or your doing anything. Once the words are spoken they are sent forth and they have to carry out the assignment. It is only the Holy Mother who knows that every word that comes out from my mouth is supreme. There is no word, which comes out from my mouth that is not fulfilled. I have told you that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star does not originate here, neither did I study these things, nor achieve this through the art of development and reading of the Bible. All the things I teach you, I was born with them. No matter the extent you practice Brotherhood, heal the sick, make the blind to see, and the lame to walk, do you know the source of the power? I have not come for the Biakpan people or for Nigerians or Africans or the blacks alone. I am a universal person. I have come for everybody. I had known this from the time I was born. 2.45 My all-pervasive nature You will recall the case of Assassu Inyang Ibom. He used to regard himself above every other human being, and God was not very meaningful to him. But God wanted and caught him. Two of his sons fell sick. God wanted to show Inyang Ibom that God alone was powerful; Inyang Ibom applied all the mystical powers known to him, but none of them worked. One of the children was taken to hospital and incidentally died there. What could he do? He then left. One Eno Muffat directed him to take the remaining child to a Brotherhood the Cross and Star bethel at Ekot Ekpuk. When the name Olumba Olumba Obu was mentioned he became angry. He decided to watch and see which other power existed other than that of God, that was capable of healing sickness that all mystical and meta-physical powers have failed to do. He thought he had power but little did he know that he was an empty can. Any way, as a strong man that he was, Inyang Ibom needed a powerful bullet too. Inyang Ibom's child was healed. But he was not grateful instead he went up in anger against the name and the person Olumba Olumba Obu. His contention was that if that type of power existed, and was allowed to grow, his dubious profession would be useless. Inyang Ibom went to war with that "strange name" and the power and mystery that surrounded it. The fight did not end with Inyang Ibom alone. He and others fought a lonely fight and failed anyway. They roamed and explored all the spiritual planes. But there was no way. Unluckily for them, they were captured and chained and ordered to go forth into the world and proclaim the presence of the wonderful "man" and his power throughout the world. 2.46 My knowledge is inherent People refuse to believe in God manifest. Can you remember that people always ask you to tell them where in the Bible it is written about Olumba Olumba Obu. Even if you go to tell Biakpan that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is the greatest religious Leader in the world, they will ask where he received his training as a priest for He never attended any Seminary or Bible College. His father did not attend any church and so with the mother. How is it possible for Him to become a priest, without any formal training? He Himself never attended any church. I have never been a member of any church denomination. I was not baptised into any faith. It would not be easy for any person to believe your stories about me inspite of the glory of God they have all witnessed. Ambo Street, Calabar is always inundated with people who wish to see the Father and receive blessings from Him. Do you realise that now as I am standing here, I am in heaven, on earth, in the waters, in the air, in London, and all over the world even in hell. I am everywhere. I tell you that I am omnipresent and exist simultaneously everywhere; I travel faster and faster than anyone of you here. You should go; I am before and behind you. Your shouting on the streets that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is your Father without abiding in his teaching proves you a liar. If I had been a member of any church denomination I would have been tied up to the apron -strings of that church, I would not have found it easy to cut the strings to establish afresh. If I had been brought up in the strict Presbyterian way, I would have attended the Presbyterian School, Sunday School or Presbyterian Teachers collage after which I would have gone into Trinity College, Umuahia to train as a priest. I would have held my allegiance to the Presbyterian Church; I would not have withdrawn from it. Under such circumstances it would not have been possible for me to resign from my post of a priest to establish a new faith. Many people continue to ask you, how many degrees has the Leader of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star? If you say He has none, they will blame you for your foolishness in following Him. People continue to ask all of you why you are enslaving yourself in-spite of your high education, good parentage, and good upbringing. Why do you allow yourself to be misled by an illiterate Biakpan man? Right now somebody from Ahoada has handed over his church to the Father, the same is true of a woman in Onitsha who had her churches handed over to Brotherhood. Before the war a non-Brotherhood member testified that if the Sole Spiritual Head went around the world to preach, all the churches would close down. This is true. If I should want to go out now the police would not be able to control the traffic. Many people would come out to catch a glimpse of me. The whole town would shake. But I will not go out to any place to avoid trouble. If the Father were to move to Oron there would be a lot of commotion from all section of the society. The police would go and see him if only to know Him. 2.47 I am omnipresent When they are told that the Father will not die they are so angry. They said since Christ died. He would die. "I am asking you is Christ dead?" He is very much in the world. He is existing. There is no need for my going out. Since I know that I am omnipresent that is why you all can see me in your different houses, farms, offices, physically and spiritually. Wherever a Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is, whether they are as many as the sand of the seashore. I am always before and behind all of you. I am not only in houses and offices and in the flesh but I dwell inside all of you. As I am standing here with you in the flesh, I am also seen lavishly in the flesh all over the world at the same time. Does this mean that I am alone? As I am lecturing you now physically, I am giving this lecture in all planes, in Hades and both the living and the dead have received this lecture as you have received. I am standing in the highest heaven giving this lecture to all of you. Sometimes in your dreams, you see houses, motorcars, lorries, fire, snakes, wind, and other things. Whatever you see in the dreams is living inside you. That is the reason when you come before me I always tell you “GO” I have given you a unique promotion, and children, wife, husband, house, work, and you are free from your case in the high court. "Go your sickness is cured." Why do you always doubt me? Then why do you doubt what you see in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star? Where are words used to accomplish all the mighty works that shake the world? When Brotherhood members come to your house to pray and call upon me Olumba Olumba Obu, I will come and they will always see me. I am in a great sympathy with many of you who say, I cannot do without meat or fish. I have told you that animals and birds are human beings. I am the only one who sees far and wide because all of you are dead and blind. I see the things far and near equally. I am begging you to bring your testimonies, but you refuse, because you do not know that testimonies are the power of God. You need not tell people to come to Brotherhood the Cross and Star . You should testify what God has done for you. You are not sent out to go and shout that Olumba Olumba Obu is Christ. You are not sent to bear that type of witness. The type of witness you are sent to bear is to go and tell people what you have seen and what you have heard from me. If you just tell people that, they will decide for themselves. You came here with tears and lamentations, but I just uttered a word and said, "go everything is well with you” and it was well with you. When you declare Olumba Olumba Obu is God are you not trying to cause confusion and trouble?. It is through your testimonies that people will know and declare that He is God. 2.48 Testify to the world If the people appealed to you to bring them to me, saying that they had sickness for ten to twenty years, you would therefore, bring them for cure, and they would automatically be healed. Right from the moment they listen to your testimonies they could be convinced. Of all that has been revealed to you, you keep sealed lips and refuse to tell people. But you continue to shout Olumba Olumba Obu is the most High God. How can you prove these things? The only proof is for you to go and tell people, what you have seen and what you have heard. Every time you complain that you have no money to worship God, I tell you God does not require your money. What I want is for you to give testimonies of what I have done. When you proclaim Olumba Olumba Obu is God- you are blaspheming, and you are causing trouble. You will cause somebody to fight. Upon all the words of God preached to you, upon all the practical demonstrations shown to you, who has resembled me? Who has put into practice, what he has received and who has emulated my examples? Do you think that I learn all these godly virtues or do you think that they are painful to me? I live a pure natural life; I have been living this same life even before the foundation of this world. What I have come to do is to teach you how to live a righteous life, how to look at me, emulate my example and live my type of life. All what you have been taught in different institutions and by other fellows are counterfeits. They do not come into estimations in the things of God. You remember Assassu Inyang Ibom who said that they went through the various planes, but all that they could find was Olumba Olumba Obu and the children of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star all over the plane. They went to Hades and searched for him but they could not find him. When they went to one of the planes, they were asked who they were looking for, and they replied that they were looking for Olumba Olumba Obu. They were told that they could not see him because their intentions were not pure. All the same, they were told that he was beside them and everywhere but they will not see him because their hearts were not clean. In the same way when Aggarwal was standing here he was moving backwards and when he was asked why he moved backwards, he asked if they did not see the fire. He said that whenever he looked at the Father all that he saw was a ball of fire and he asked in his letter to the Father if this is as a result of his many sins. He is someone who understands himself. You are witnesses that the students introduced the inscription, the Sole Spiritual Head of the Universe. If you mentioned that the Leader is Christ, many students will stone you since they profess Him as the Father. Many people here claim that the Leader is a wonderful man. Some say He is a pastor, some still hold that he is just their leader. While others still, contend that He is a prophet. They wonder uncertainly in their thoughts. There was a lawyer who was a chain smoker. He did all within his reach to stop smoking all to no avail. In the long run, it was suggested to him that except he goes to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, he would not stop smoking. Only Brotherhood of the Cross and Star could remove that spirit from him. It was a sister who brought him to one Brotherhood bethel. When he came to the bethel, he was asked to get baptised and come back. After that the Holy Spirit will take control. Since that day till today he does not smoke again. Even though you have you carnal father but since I have begotten you through the word of God, you refer to me as your Father. When you hear the Father of spirits, it does not refer to a dead person neither does it refer to a tree, but is the person who teaches the word of God. I am the Spiritual Father to all of you. Your carnal father relates to you concerning the things of the flesh, which cannot lead you to anywhere. But the teachings I give you lead you to eternal life. The unfortunate thing is that you do not hearken to the instruction of the Father of all Spirits who is your Spiritual Father. 2.49 Obey the Father of all Spirits The Father of all Spirits is greater than your biological father. He created all of us. He is the one who saves our souls and watches over us. It is not your carnal father. He is the one who will give account of us. It is for this reason we will listen to him. Your carnal parents will advise you to make certain protective charm for yourself. They will tell you not to greet another family because they are not in good terms with them. But why is that when the Father of Spirits gives you instruction that you should not commit sin, you refuse. The Father of spirits is the one who teaches you the word of God and He is the greatest. He is the one who leads you to eternal life. Why do you say you an Efik man and the other person is an Igbo man or an Ibibio man? Does it mean that you are still in the flesh? When you are asked about your father you reply you have no father. It means that you are still in the flesh. The first thing you should know is that I have used the Holy Spirit in begetting you and you are no longer children of the flesh. You are no longer from Calabar or Nigeria or Africa or from anywhere else. You are all children of the kingdom. You are no more of this world. You are in the Kingdom of God. You have heard the expression "The Sole Spiritual Head" I am your Spiritual Father but you will not listen to what I tell you. Although you were begotten by your carnal father, “I am the Father of Spirit and your Spiritual Father." Even your carnal father has the same father as you. I beget both of you. 2.50 Let us all do our duties People complain that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star does not do the work of God but engages in commercial activities. I accept that I trade and farm, I am a contractor, and I clean houses for people. I fish and do all kinds of lucrative work. It is what I have seen Our Lord Jesus Christ do. I do not want to be chargeable to any person. Let no man be chargeable to any person, no man, be chargeable to me. That should be the attitude of other people too. I am preaching about myself I am not preaching about anyone else I do not remember any day in my life that I decided to rest. What is good with me that I should rest? What about the amount of work that accumulates for me? Split wood, cut people's hair, fetch water. Who will do them? Do you think people will bolt from the blues to do the work? It is for you and me to do. You know me as a dealer in clothes only. I am also a fisherman, tailor, barber, farmer, washer man and cook, I am everything. There is nothing that I am not. Brethren, when you come to see the Father you feel that He is only concerned with preaching. I cover other areas as well. I have my duty and all others have their duties. We have to join together and do the work so that we may have peace and what to eat and good health. Do you think that if boarding a vehicle from here to 26 Mbukpa were to be a very good thing, I would not fly there in an aeroplane everyday? It is a sin. What I do that is the best. I walk the distance to and from and exercise my body. By that, I warm the operative engine of my body system. I am teaching you what I possess. I walk on foot for 9 kilometers and more. I walk from here to Akpabuyo. I walk on foot while you ride your bicycle. But before you get to your destination, I will arrive there, because I am used to it and take pleasure in doing so. In your own case, you are lazy and aged. It is the result of your craftiness. If you know the distance between Biakpan and Umuahia, you will be surprised that I covered the distance on foot. Apart from walking to and from on foot, I also carry a very big load. I am a carrier. Three persons would not carry the loads that I can carry on my head. I have never been a burden to any person. I have been a burden neither to a woman, nor a man, nor to a child. I carry my own burden everyday throughout the twenty-four hours of a day. That is what we do in my place. Our Lord Jesus has taught you that it should be done on earth as it is done in heaven. What you are taught now is what is done in heaven. If I come to your house I have to sweep the floor, fetch water, split wood, and other jobs you want me to do. God has ordered that each person should bear his own burden. Do you not find me sweeping the floor? I do any kind of work. Why should I not? Am I not a human being? It is my responsibility. It is the basis of my teachings. If there is any sin that is greatest, it is laziness. When you sit down and shout, calling on Okon, to give you slippers. Grace to open the gates; what is it that you are doing? Who are you? Even if you are a Governor or President or Prime Minister, or Head of state, Queen, or whatever you think you are, you must work. Do not be a burden to any person. Otherwise you should put yourself into fervent prayer. 2.51 Believe in God now with man Today you have nothing more to say, not even a word to defend yourself. He has revealed Himself openly to you. You are to blame yourself for not rejoicing with Him in this last advent. You are therefore guilty; But we, rejoice with One sent in His name, and are justified today. You can now see how piteous the people of the world are. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the one who testified about the Holy Spirit. The very Jesus, whom you pray, "Until He comes again," is the one making this statement that "whoever rejoices with the messenger whom the Father shall send in my name, rejoices with me.” What else do you want me to say? All His words testify about the Holy Spirit, so that we may rejoice with Him and know that ours is the last age. Do not ask questions again or make any statement. The only work you have to do is to receive, and rejoice with the Holy Spirit. Do not ask any person where this power comes from, or where He derives this wisdom, or how a certain thing is done. Such inquisitiveness spells destruction on you. Note that the Comforter has neither the beginning nor the end, and He has no genealogy. When the world was void and without forms the Holy Spirit was in existence. When the heavens and the earth were created He still existed. He was a part of the process when He said, "Let us make man in our own image." He was a Witness as well as a Creator. You will rightly recall as per the scriptures that after He had created man. He entered into man, because man is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. Without Him, man is nothing and does not even exist. You are His building. You are His City. You are His husbandry. Now the question is. Who is the Holy Spirit? No one can answer questions for the Holy Spirit when He himself is alive. He speaks for Himself and reveals Himself. You of this generation have seen Him, heard Him speak, and have been taught of Him. Believe now in Him. A stroke of the cane is sufficient for the wise. Let those who have ears, hear what the Spirit teaches. May God Bless His holy words; A-men. THANK YOU FATHER