Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: John 3:3 - 5
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except, a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
Second lesson: Mark 16: 16-18
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Golden Text: Matthew 3: 15-17
"And Jesus said; Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightaway out of the water: and, lo, the heaven were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
4.1 The bread from heaven is the word of God
Brethren, I have no new instruction to give to you. You need not be told where to look at. It is said wherever your treasure is, there your heart will also be. We have not come here to dance, sing or eat. It is the word of God that has brought us here. Our Lord Jesus Christ attested that it is the spirit who quickens, the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you, they are Spirit and they are life.
The bread which came down from heaven which you hear of refers to the word of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Word of God. The Holy Spirit is the Word of God. God Himself is the Word.
That was why, when Philip said show us the Father and we shall be satisfied, He answered and said "Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works,"
All the inhabitant of the world should now know that God is the Word. Whenever you come here no matter your condition or disposition in life, be attentive to the word of God. Are you sick? Are you blind? Do you have a case in the court? Do you have any one sick at home? Are you poor and wanting in anything? Are you afflicted? Have you trials and temptations? Are you jobless? Then fix your gaze here(on the Leader) and focus all your attention and believe fervently in the word of God and all your problems and difficulties are solved.
This morning I shall not be tedious unto you. What has been read to you (the texts) is what I am going to expatiate to you. All what you have heard are the statements from the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ. He Himself is God and all the words spoken by Him are nothing but the truth.
4.2 Except you are born again, you cannot enter God's kingdom
When Nicodemus heard Him, he believed in Him and so he went to our Lord Jesus Christ stealthily in the night. Have you heard what our Lord Jesus Christ said to him? Nicodemus was a very important personality. He was among those of his days who claimed to know God. But our Lord Jesus Christ told him except a man be born again; he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
We are not talking about church denomination. We are not talking about religion. We are not talking about the children of God. We are not talking about an institution of learning. We are not talking about prayer houses and healing homes. We are talking about the Kingdom of God.
Forget about whether you are a necromancer, or a member of a secret society, a member of any church denomination. Forget about whatever is your status in life. No religion is of any importance here.
Have you heard the message of today? Jesus the Christ says: “except you are born again you cannot enter into this Kingdom, neither can you see it.”
Many of you claim that you are communicants or Elders in the church. There is no doubt about that, but our Lord Jesus Christ says, “unless you are born again, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, neither can you see it.”
It is necessary that we should sit down and cogitate on what will be our profit to be members of the various church denominations and yet at the end, we neither see the Kingdom of God nor enter into it.
Why we refer to our Lord Jesus Christ as the Christ is that He is the only Teacher we have today, yesterday and forever. One who is called a Teacher, is a person who does not only speak but has to practise what He says. He said to Nicodemus, “except you be born again you cannot see the Kingdom of God and cannot enter into it”.
What is it to be born again? If you search the Scriptures you will discover that to be .born again does not imply that you should go back into the womb of your mother the second time and be born again.
4.3 You have no share in the Holy Spirit if you are not born again
I now want to tell you what separates you from the Holy Spirit. You have a share in the Holy Spirit. I have a share in it. Every person has a share in the Holy Spirit. But if you are not born again, you have denied the Holy Spirit and He is not in you.
That has been the cause of the down fall of the entire world. They argue that the Holy Spirit does not exist again, that Christ has not yet come and that God has not yet come.
The truth is that, He has come; He did not go to anywhere. The Holy Spirit is here but if you are not born again you cannot see Him and you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
It is said that the Kingdom of God cannot be entered with your wealth. You can only enter it by faith in God.
I want to put it to you again that all who are born of women are sharpened in sin and are born in iniquity. Whoever is born of a woman is not pure and unless you be born again of water and of the Spirit, you cannot enter into the kingdom of God, neither can you see it. Do not continue to be deceived that the power of the Holy Spirit ended on the day of Pentecost. There has never been a time when God did not exist. He abides forever.
Christ has said that God is a spirit and the true worshippers must worship Him in spirit and in truth. What do you lose when you repent, forsake your sins, get baptized and receive the Holy Spirit? What is your loss? You will see Him and dwell in Him. And He also dwells in you.
4.4 Christ subjected to baptism because of its relevance
John bore witness to our Lord Jesus Christ that He was greater than him. And that he was not worthy to untie the latchet of his shoes.
Why then did our Lord Jesus Christ have to go to confess his sins and be baptized of John the Baptist? Why did our Lord Jesus Christ subject himself for baptism if baptism were not that efficacious?
Have you heard the word of God? If you do not repent of your sins, if you are not born again, if you do not forsake all the things of this world, you cannot receive the Holy Spirit neither can you know Him. You cannot also put on Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Baptism by immersion in water is very important. It has great power to accomplish anything. What has separated you from the Holy Spirit is the fact that you have refused to be born again. It does not cost you money.
Today, after hearing this gospel, if you believe and confess all your sins and repent, by refraining from preparations of concoction, from fornication, from malice against any person, from quarrelling and use of abusive words, from drunkenness, and thereafter be baptized in water, you will realise that when you come out you will not need any person to tell you that you are in the Kingdom of God.
4.5 It pays to be baptized than to spread wealth
Even if you erect a magnificent building and beautify it with gold and call it the house of God, or buy Him an expensive car, it is a waste of time if you fail to repent of your sins and receive baptism. You cannot see this Kingdom and you have no share in it.
If you pack all your money and distribute it to the people along the streets, but you are not born again, you are merely wasting your time. If you do not repent of your theft and fornication, and hatred, and sorceries and receive baptism, you are wasting your time in whatever else you are doing. You will continue to wait in vain until Jesus comes back again if you do not repent. Jesus Christ is here doing His work. The Father, the Son, as well as the Holy Spirit is here working. He is the one doing this work and not any flesh and blood.
If you were to search the Bible, you would have known what our Lord Jesus Christ said to His disciples. He says: “If you love me you will keep My commandment and I will pray the Father to send you another Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot see nor receive. But you know Him because He is in you and will abide with you forever”. Till doomsday, you will continue to refer to Brotherhood members as demented fellows. When we knock our heads on the ground, you will argue that we are knocking our heads to juju, mermaid, or beelzebub. That is what you continue to see because you have no Holy Spirit.
But today you have been given a challenge. Accept Our Lord Jesus Christ, repent and confess all your sins, go and receive water baptism. When you come out of the water and receive the Holy Spirit, let us see whether you will still refer to Brotherhood members as mental cases.
4.6 Follow the example of the Master
I am not surprised by the actions of the world. Our Lord Jesus Christ had said, “if they call me Beelzebub they will also call you Beelzebub”.
Whoever has the Holy Spirit, (who is the doer of the works), has to be called Beelzebub. You will not know what else to call Him; you are afraid of Him and that is why you run from Him.
I have never at any time told any person that I am Jesus, or the Christ, or that I am a prophet or an elder. I am nothing whatsoever. But the one thing I know is that it is the Holy Spirit who works. Jesus the Christ Himself has said: “I can of my own self do nothing. As I hear I judge and my judgement is right because I seek not my own will but the will of Him who sent Me." The Father which He says is living in Him is none else than the Holy Spirit. If He had refused to receive Baptism because of His position as the Son of God, till today, He would not have accomplished anything. He would have remained like any one of us. He lived for 29 years on earth but no one knew or heard of Him because He did not receive the Holy Spirit. The laid down principle is that whoever is not born of water and of the spirit, can neither enter nor see the Kingdom of God.
No doubt, He is God. He is the Son of God. He is the Son of man, but if He was not born of water and Spirit he would have gone empty handed just as you are going away empty; but God will not allow you to continue in your emptiness.
4.7 You cannot know me until you are born again
God has a reason for inviting you here today. Many of you say you are coming to see Olumba Olumba Obu. Have you not seen my head and two hands that I am a man? I have no power. I do not exist. And when you come here and see me, you say, is that the person they have been talking about? You will argue that you should be allowed to rest because he is a human being like yourself. You only say this because you have neither been baptized nor been bestowed with the power of the Holy Spirit.
Brethren, it does not cost you a kobo to get baptized. Many church denominations do not abide by the injunction. They take people and immerse them in water but their concoctions are still in the house, they still fornicate, same still retain their position as the head of the Ekpe cult, or the Obon, the mbiam and others have initiated themselves into different secret societies.
Have they after all repented of their sins? Read Matthew 3: 5-6. Before any person went to John to receive baptism he had to confess all his sins. If he did not confess all his sins he would not be baptised.
4.8 Baptism is not by compulsion and condition
Baptism should not be imposed upon any person as a matter of compulsion. I have already told you that whoever is born of a woman is sinful. You are not pure and the Holy Spirit cannot come to you no matter what you do unless you are born again of water and of the Spirit, then will the Holy Spirit take dominion over you.
John bore eloquent testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ. He said: “I did not know him. But He who sent me to baptize said to me that upon whomsoever the Spirit will descend and settle, same is the one who baptizes with fire and the Holy Spirit. And he bore record that He is the Son of God.”
Even here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star some err. A member will tell you to get baptized so that your sickness may heal or that your case may be struck out. This means that you do not receive baptism as a sinner.
You have to acknowledge that you are a sinner before you are baptized, because this is the injunction of God and the only condition for salvation. If you confess your sins and forsake them all, right now you are going to see the glory of God. I do not say that you will have to wait till tomorrow, right now you are going to bear witness to the manifestation of the glory of God.
If you are here in this world and you have not known the Holy Spirit neither have you seen this Kingdom of God, then you cannot accomplish anything. It means you have not been baptized. You have not repented of your sins. That is your problem.
4.9 Your exalted position counts little if you lack the Holy Spirit
Flesh and blood cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. No person enters it with wealth. It is only by faith that you can enter. It is right now in your midst. It is not an easy thing to know. That is why Nicodemus asked how can an old man be born again? Can he go back into the womb of his mother the second time and be born again? Have you heard the question asked by a wise man? But there is wisdom in that question.
Look at a person like the bishop, elder, pastor, apostle, king, governor, president, or chief. If somebody tells him to get baptized, he will retort that he is a communicant. He will tell you that he himself is Reverend of one church or the other.
Alright, if he lays claim to any of these positions has he the Holy Spirit? It is not an easy thing to convince such a dignitary to be baptized by immersion.
Very many people say that they love Brotherhood of the Cross and Star very much but for the fact that one has to be baptized again. Somebody claims that he himself is a bishop who administers baptism. He has founded a church and so he cannot subject himself to a second baptism because God looks at the heart. The one fact that eludes you and the entire world is that you fail to understand that this is the reign of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit wants you to be holy even as He is holy otherwise He cannot live in you.
4.10 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star projects and upholds total abstinence from sins
You will hear that we in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star do not drink, we do not fornicate, we do not indulge in idolatry, we do not take snuff, we do not smoke and we do not marry more than one wife. We do not initiate into the Ekpe, Obon, Ekpo or any secret cult. We .do not incise anything into our body. We do not commit any sin whatsoever and we do not believe in these things. We have to surrender ourselves completely to God before he can dwell in us. Our first lesson will now be re-examined.
First lesson: John 3: 35
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except, a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
4.11 Without the Holy Spirit you can do nothing
Brethren, have you heard that? This is no question of church denomination. You yourself are the church. Everyone of us is a church but whatever church that does not repent and be baptized, cannot see the Kingdom of God. You are true witnesses to the fact that as faith without work is dead, so the body without the Spirit is dead. If you have not got the Holy Spirit, from where do you have life? You are dead. The Holy Spirit has no other dwelling place. The body was made for Him. But for the reason that we are born of women, we are not pure and so if we are not born again He cannot dwell in us. And if He does not dwell in you, you have no life and you can do nothing whatsoever. You are just like a dummy. It is the Holy Spirit, who is God, that does everything.
If you argue that you cannot be born again, the Holy Spirit cannot come to you. No religion will save you. Prayers will not save you. The government will not save you. Your town or village will not save you. Juju or mermaid will not save you, except when you are born again and the Holy Spirit comes into you and starts His work.
4.12 The Holy Spirit created all things
The Holy Spirit has always been in existence. He is the Almighty God who created heaven and earth. The Holy Spirit was in existence when the world was void and without form. All things were made through Him. The earth was made by Him; the sun, moon and stars and all creeping and flying creatures, the animals and the vegetation were all made by the Holy Spirit.
4.13 Apart from Adam the patriarchs of old lacked the Holy Spirit
Adam alone was made from the dust and so he was not born of a woman. And so the Father breathed the Holy Spirit into him. But the Holy Spirit left him and departed from the entire world when he disobeyed God. Right from Cain through Enoch, Noah, Lot, Abraham and the rest of them, no person was holy. And none of them knew that he ought to be born again before he could enter into the Kingdom of God. And none of them saw the Kingdom of God, because they did not know that the Holy Spirit was in existence. Moses did not know. Isaiah did not know. Cain did not know. That is why we are full of evil thoughts and deeds. We continue to kill and fornicate and tell lies and hate one another.
4.14 Baptism of repentance was of John the Baptist
But when the time was ripe for God to come to the world, He sent out John as His forerunner to baptize people with water, for repentance. Because once you are washed at baptism after confessing your sins, you will be purged and that is when the Holy Spirit can dwell inside you.
Most of the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ were first the disciples of John the Baptist and they were already baptized by John. If they were not baptized by John, they would not have identified or taken cognizance of our Lord Jesus Christ. They would have regarded Him as you still regard Him today. During the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, no other person was bestowed with the power of the Holy Spirit because He had not yet shedded his blood to redeem mankind.
4.15 Christ's baptism is for forgiveness and remission of sins
Peter and the rest of the disciples were following Him sheepishly without knowing who He was. They did not understand what He preached to them. The baptism of John was for repentance from sins but the baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ is for the forgiveness and remission of sins and it is the judgement. And unless your sins are remitted, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.
If you prided yourself on acquisition of degrees in theology from universities in United Kingdom and United States of America, be sure that this will not save you. Go and be baptized. Do not even come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, you can go to America or any other place and get baptized. And then will you see the manifestation of the glory of God in you.
This generation is the luckiest, because during the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ no person received the Holy Spirit. This explains why He said, “it is expedient that I go away. Because if I do not go away the Comforter will not come. But when I go He will come.”
4.16 A trial will convince you
You argumentator, and you who also doubt things, go and experiment on this word of God. Go and get baptized, and you will see the glory of God shinning in you. You will realise that Our Lord Jesus Christ is .here, the Father is here, and the Holy Spirit is here and He knows everything and is the doer of all things. Right now many members of the AMORC who had reached the highest hierarchy or temple, are all coming in here, and before they are baptized, they have to forsake all diabolical things.
If you are a member of the Reformed Ogboni Fraternity or whatever secret society you have initiated yourself in, you have to renounce and denounce them and bundle all your books away and become truly repentant. Receive baptism before the Holy Spirit comes on you.
The moment the Holy Spirit comes in, He supplies all your heart's desires. He is power. He is wisdom, life, food, and your clothes. Everything will be supplied by the Holy Spirit.
Brotherhood members are taught not to go to the hospital for treatment. We do not go to the sorcerer, we do not light candles. The moment we say 'Let, all our problems are solved. If you see any person going to the hospital, he is an unbeliever. He is not a real Brotherhood member.
Do not even pray again, do not sing again if you like, because the Holy Spirit has taken dominion over you. There is no problem for any one. No person can harm you. There is no juju or concoctions. It is not a matter of developing oneself. The moment you believe and are baptized in this kingdom the Holy Spirit will enter into you and every work is completed.
4.17 I have no power of myself, the Holy Spirit does everything
Even as I am telling you this, I have no power of myself. I do not exist. I am not the person doing this work. All that you see is done by the Holy Spirit. As we are packed full in this hall, if you go to Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria you will find people gathering in great numbers. Go to America, India, Britain and all over the world it is the same thing that you will see. I cannot preach nor pray. I cannot do anything but since this is the era of the Holy Spirit, He Himself does all the work. If I tell you that I am the person doing this work, I will then be telling a lie. If I tell you that it is not the Holy Spirit that is doing the work, I will be deceiving you. But He is the person who is doing all the works. Christ has said that when the Spirit of Truth comes, He will lead you to the wisdom of truth. Now that Spirit of Truth is here, and He is doing everything.
You have heard of Napoleon, De Lawrence and others who have been members of different secret societies. You have known of the so-called strong men but have you ever seen a person who can appear in two different places simultaneously? What do you think of such a person?
Our Lord Jesus Christ has said that “whoever speaks evil against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, will not be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come”. And that has been your problem. The Holy Spirit has come to redeem the whole world from tribulation and affliction and from foolishness. He has come to gather together the whole world and remould them in order to abide with them forever.
4.18 Without the Holy Spirit you are empty
What then is your trouble? Without Him you cannot pray. You cannot see, you cannot hear, and you cannot live. You are nothing whatsoever, you have no power, no love, you cannot speak the truth and you cannot do any good thing. I know that the entire world is seeking after the Holy Spirit but you argue He has not yet come. I am telling you that He is already here. He has been here and till eternity, He will continue to dwell here. But the condition is that you should receive baptism, repent of all your sins, and He will protect you. He will protect your house, your thoughts and everything about you. If you fall inside fire, it will not hurt you, If you fall into the river, you will not drown. There is nothing that can harm you. You have tried to refrain from drinking, taking snuff, smoking and committing fornication but you have not succeeded. Repent today of your sins and get baptised. You have the greatest opportunity in your life now.
4.19 Prove me right or wrong today
You can prove Olumba Olumba Obu right or wrong once and for all. Confess your sins and receive baptism and all those bad habits will be eradicated. Try it now.
If you like you can call me Mr Obu; if you like you can call me beelzebub, or any other name, the thing I know is that the Holy Spirit is now operating. If you believe and are baptised, you are saved in the same way. But if you refuse you are doomed.
I am not the person saying this. The Lord Jesus the Christ, is the person who says it. Read our second lesson and you will realise it. It is the same Holy Bible you use. Pick the one in your home and confirm it.
4.20 “I am universal”
And let me tell you that the name of God is neither Jesus nor Jehovah nor Lord. He is Spirit. I have not come for Nigeria. I have not come for Africa. I have not come for the whites. I am universal. I have come for both angels and men and spirits to lead you to the wisdom of truth. All the same, I am neither a prophet nor an elder nor a spirited child. I am nothing whatsoever.
When a boy kills an animal in the bush the animal belongs to him and when he takes it home, it does not belong to him again, but to his father. In the same way, the moment you are baptised and bestowed with the Holy Spirit, you no more own yourself. The Holy Spirit uses you the way he pleases in His services throughout the whole world.
You have no wisdom again. You have no eyes, ears, or even life again. He is all and all. People will be seeing you here and there. It is not you they are seeing but the Holy Spirit. He puts you on as a garment and goes about His work. Read the second lesson now.
Second lesson: Mark 16: 16-18
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
4.21 Baptism makes you a new creature endowed with gifts from God
Brethren, can you now realise the great beelzebub that is in Brotherhood? You say that there is power in Brotherhood but that no person knows the source of that power. Today have you not been told the source of the power? Thomas, go and be baptized today, henceforward, you will pick up serpents. If you drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt you. You will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. I am not talking of tomorrow. Right now if you receive baptism, pray for any sick person and he will tell you that he has become well.
After baptism you receive any of the gifts; the gift of vision, the gift of dreams, extracting of charms, the gift of faith, midwifery and many others just when you are coming out of the water, these gifts are poured on you and you become a new personality . You have a new freedom.
I know that this has been your problem, how you can acquire one of these gifts? And so I have administered injection to you right now. Your problem is that you do not believe that the power that is in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star comes from God. Where then does this power come from if it is not from God?
The taste of the pudding is in the eating. If different dishes are kept before you now you cannot tell which is .delicious, until you taste it. And so do not ask question and do not doubt in your heart. When you leave this hall, or after reading this gospel call someone and confess all your sins to him, and forsake them.
Prove this as a theorem. Even if it is a little child (who has been baptized) who puts you three times in water, when you come out, these signs will follow you and your eyes will be opened. You will speak with new tongues and you will see the glory of this Kingdom.
4.22 The gift of the Holy Spirit is for all who are baptized
These signs have to follow all those who have been baptized. You will drink any deadly poison and it turns to nourish your body. You will pick up serpents and it will not bite you. You will cast out demons. You will heal the sick. It is the same experience both to the young and the old. God has no tendency for partiality. The whole world has a share in it.
You have only heard as stories that our Lord Jesus Christ made the blind to see, the lame to walk; but you have not seen this with your eyes. Right now, can you see any candle or inscriptions here. All those who came with heart problems, or waist pains, whatever affliction they came here with, have been relieved and they are going with testimonies.
4.23 Some accuse Brotherhood of the Cross and Star but others get salvation from there.
Christ had said that all men shall hate you for my name's sake. It is said that many false prophets shall rise and will lead many astray, and since iniquities shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But whoever endures to the end, the same shall be saved. Look at Brotherhood of the Cross and Star: we do not clap hands. We do not use orchestra instrument. We do not administer any medication. We do not believe in any other thing because it is the Holy Spirit who does the work. The doctors we have here are more numerous than the doctors we have outside. Even the medical doctors outside are our clients, they come in here for their problems to be solved. The sickness they cannot cure of themselves, they come here and are cured of their ailments. But when I tell them to write a testimony, they will tell me to wait.
Many members the secret and all mystical societies, necromancers and juju doctors, have their help and salvation here. The moment I tell them to write a testimony, they will say I should wait yet because if they write a testimony, all their customers will run from them. The Reverend of your church comes here to obtain solution for his problems. When I tell them to switch over, they say that there is “food” the other side.
If you refer to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star as ghost or apparition, why do ghosts themselves come here and receive salvation? If you say it is witchcraft, why do all witches and wizards come here to be saved? If you say it is juju or diabolical, why do they all come here to be subdued? Why do you not call a spade by its name? Why do you call a spade by some other name.
4.24 Go and set free those arrested by the Holy Spirit
Brethren, the power of God is unlimited. He did not say until a particular person comes, neither did he specify the time. He says today, if you are baptized, you are saved, all your problems and difficulties are then taken away. And there is no condemnation for you. That is the power that is in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Many of the patients in psychiatric centres are not mental cases. It is the Holy Spirit that is worrying them. Many of those who are in jail have not committed any offence, it is because of their stubbornness. And there are yet others in the hospital.
If you go to the psychiatric hospitals and get all the patients baptised, ninety-nine percent of them will be discharged and will be certified sound. The Holy Spirit is a consuming fire. The moment it gets inside you, it has to consume your filth. If you pray over such a person and get him baptised, he becomes normal again. The problem we have here is that, very many members do not believe and that is why they run to the hospital with even the slightest headache. They consult oracles and sacrifice. But right now, stay in your house, do not even pray. At its own time that problem will disappear. You are not responsible nor is any one else. It is the Holy Spirit that does it. And this is what He has come to do for the whole world, including you and me. So, stand firm. Someone has resurrected after four days, and another after two days. The blind sees and the lame walks. The leper is cleansed. What has the Father not done for you in this kingdom?
But no necromancer or medical doctor does this. There is no person who is able to do anything. I myself cannot do it. But the Holy Spirit does these things. From the day you are baptised and you put on the Hoy Spirit, no person can do you any evil thing. Your mere passing along with a song, all the elementary spirits are rendered ineffective.
Therefore, do not say that this is done by Olumba Olumba Obu. God Himself says that whoever believes and is baptised shall be saved. His word, throughout all ages is sacrosanct.
The Holy Spirit is working throughout the world, When He enters into you, you will be called a demented fellow. If you go to the juju doctor and medicine men, it will not improve the situation. It only calls for baptism. When you get baptized, you will become calm again.
4.25 The Holy Spirit teaches and leads at all times
There is nothing that rules again. The Holy Spirit reigns forever and ever. Concoctions have no power. Ghost does not reign; mermaid, juju or man does not reign. It is the Holy Spirit that has the dominion over everything.
You make a mistake when you call me Leader. I am not a Leader to any person. It is the Holy Spirit who leads. Our Lord Jesus Christ said: “do not think that I have come to abrogate the law and the prophets; I have come to confirm them.”
Heaven and earth shall pass away but not a dot of the law will pass away until all are fulfilled. “Whoever breaks the least of these commandments and teacheth men to do likewise, shall be called the least in the Kingdom of God. But whoever keeps them and teaches men also to keep them, he shall be called the greatest in the Kingdom of God.” This is exactly what obtains here.
We do not add anything to the word proceeding out of the mouth of God. It is not 'Jesus' who is saying these words. It is God who is speaking. He Himself has told you that He does not speak of Himself. He was merely the mouthpiece of God. The Father passes through Him to speak these words. And what God says is what we practise here every day.
If you look at our Memorandum, it is "Love one another'” alone, and we follow the footprints of our Lord Jesus Christ without adding or subtracting from it.
4.26 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star upholds and projects Christ's teachings
But Satan says that we do not acknowledge Jesus. We know Him. He is the Christ; the one anointed by God. He is power. He is wisdom. He is everything. Can you see how God has disgraced Satan? Satan argues that Brotherhood indulges in diabolical things, and that we do this and that and so they warn people not to come in here. But the “Brotherhood pulpit” has laid bare the whole truth. What has Satan to say again? We preach the word of God from January first to December thirty-first. Everyday we work twnety-four hours. And you are free to come here and receive life.
4.27 This is the judgement
It is your place and mine to look for the Holy Spirit; because if you do not have Him you are empty. This is the JUDGEMENT : whoever believes and is baptised is justified. There is no condemnation for him. You are free forever. But if you refuse with the excuse that you have already been baptised in your former church denomination or religion, you are damned. I am not condemning any church or religion. They have their relative standards. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been baptized His disciples also started to baptize people and so the disciples of John went to John and told him that the person whom he baptized, was also baptising people. John answered and said to them. “I have already told you that no man can receive anything except it be given him from above.”
4.28 Invite nobody to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star
I am not against the necromancer. I am not against any person. That is their own level of work. What I am saying is that, this is the era of the Holy Spirit. Do .not allow pride and arrogance, fornication membership in different religions or secret societies debar you from seeing this Kingdom of God and entering into it.
I have told you not to ask any person to come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, but you continue to beg people to come and receive baptism so that their problems may be over. Why do you have to beg him? Is it the physician who goes about looking for a patient or the sick man who looks for a physician?
Amongst you whoever sees that he is a sinner, let him be baptized. But if you claim you are not a sinner, you are condemned. You cannot enter into this Kingdom and till eternity, you will not see it. If you are told that a person was killed by sickness or ghost, do not believe. The Holy Spirit has taken dominion over the world and there is nothing that can rear its ugly head. If you suffer, you only suffer because you have committed sins. It is for this reason that He commissioned us to "go and make all nations my disciples, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world," (Matt. 28: 19-20).
4.29 Your problem is unbelief
The problems besetting us and the entire world is that we do not believe in Him and we have not received the Holy Spirit. All our problems stem from this. Whoever is not baptised is damned. Some people ask, why is it that when a sick person is taken to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and is baptized, his problems are over? Some argue that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star causes people to become sick and after that they get you baptized so that you may become a Brotherhood of the Cross and Star member and for that reason, they cannot come.
Is Brotherhood lacking members? The whole world is Brotherhood. India is sending delegations to Calabar. Other countries including United States of America and Russia, are Brotherhood.
The time of juju, diabolic things and concoctions has passed. If any person collects money from you on grounds of these, he will use it and spite you. That juju doctor is himself in Brotherhood. And so where do you find juju?
The time for diabolic things, juju idolatry had long past. This is the era of the Holy Spirit. Any necromancer coming to you looks for money. He collects your money but remains in Brotherhood. Brethren, I do not intend to over burden you, read our golden text. Our Lord Jesus the Christ makes this statement. He spoke, practised and here wishes all of us to do same.
Golden Text: Matthew 3: 15-17
“And Jesus said, Suffer it be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightaway out of the water: and, lo, the heaven were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.”
4.30 Baptism by immersion in water confers the Holy Spirit
Brethren, have you noted that? You are calling upon our Lord Jesus Christ everyday, have you come out from water? Have you been bestowed with the power of the Holy Spirit? It is not going to the church which is difficult. It is not being baptized that is difficult.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was circumcised on the eighth day according to the tradition of the Jews. Circumcision was the first kind of baptism which Abraham introduced. And, according to the Mosaic law, He was taken to the temple, and water was sprinkled upon His head to purify Him. The one baptism you now hear of, took effect when He was thirty years old. He went by his own volition to John the Baptist to be baptized of John but John argued. He answered John saying, “suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.”
4.31 The Holy Spirit did all the works through Jesus the Christ
If it were not that important, why do you think our Lord Jesus Christ should have gone to John the Baptist? Before this time, our Lord Jesus Christ had no disciple; nobody heard anything about Him. Right from the time He was over-shadowed by the Holy Spirit, the one referred to as the Father started His work.
That is the Spirit. The Spirit did everything. The works were not done by our Lord Jesus Christ, it was that same Spirit which led Him into the wilderness. He was not the one who led the Spirit. All the stories you hear of our Lord Jesus Christ, resulted from the work by the Spirit of God in Him. Because of our Lord Jesus Christ, God revealed Himself to us. This was made possible by the baptism by full immersion which our Lord Jesus Christ subjected Himself to.
4.32 To sprinkle water on one's forehead is not baptism and does not confer the Holy Spirit
In your own case, water is sprinkled on your face. In some cases, water is sprinkled on the faces of very young ones. When you grow up, you claim to have been baptized. Is that the way to be baptized? Have you received the Holy Spirit?
Because our Lord Jesus Christ had said, the Holy Spirit, who is also the Comforter, will teach you everything and will also bring, to your remembrance all that I had said unto you, the worldly knowledge has no part to play here. Whoever has not the Holy Spirit, writes out his prayers and sermons; quoting from Shakespeare's works and other novels. But here, when you come in, no matter how little, the Holy Spirit will carry out His work through you. Here there is neither man nor woman. The Holy Spirit is everything.
4.33 Worldly academic attainment is nothing to me
I have no boast in myself. I have never attended any church denomination. I have never read the Bible nor any other book for that matter. How come what we are now witnessing? Graduates of all the faculties you can imagine, come here with their certificates. Such certificates are not worth anything to me.
The Head of Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy in the University of Calabar came here to see me and I told her that she is a fornicator and she concurred. Whatever a person's status in life is, be he a lawyer, a doctor, a professor, or a philosopher, invite him to come with his credentials and I will bundle him aside with his certificate.
I have to bear the image of the heavenly, because this wisdom is from above and is given by the Holy Spirit. I am not here with a Bible but if you make a mistake while reading the Bible, I correct you from here.
4.34 I have knowledge of all things
Right now, I know all that is in your minds, your thoughts, hearts desires and problems. Do not say them out to my hearing. It is not Olumba Olumba Obu per se who knows it, but the work is done by the Holy Spirit. You have a share in it. I want you now to seek for the Holy Spirit. As our Lord Jesus Christ went to be baptised of John and when John argued He said, “suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness,” go now and become truly repentant, forsake the world, be baptized so that you may inherit this Kingdom of God gratis.
4.35 But the Holy Spirit does all things
You will notice that when our Lord Jesus Christ said, “Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit,” He gave up the ghost. Spirit is life and every other thing. When the Spirit goes out of you, the life in you also goes out. The Spirit also entered back into his body on the third day, giving Him life again. If you do not have the Holy Spirit, what will cause you to resurrect on the last day?
You cannot hear the words that you are hearing now, if you do not have the Spirit. You will not even see Olumba Olumba Obu. You will only be asking people "where is Olumba Olumba Obu" even while you are in this Hall. You cannot see me.
But the man who has the Spirit hears, sees and knows. You cannot enumerate the wonderful things done in Brotherhood. You had thought of seeing a bearded man. The one now speaking to you is Olumba Olumba Obu. In the next ten years I will be younger than I am today.
4.36 The promise of the Holy Spirit is for all mankind.
The same thing will happen to you if you are baptized. This promise is not for me alone, but for all the inhabitants of the world. I am calling on you all to come, so that we should reason together. It is for this reason that when people argue that our Lord Jesus Christ is dead, I ask how and when. He is here doing everything. No person has ever given the Spirit to the other person. No one, apart from the Spirit, has ever served any person. When you pray “until our Lord Jesus Christ comes back,” where did He go to? The Father is here. The Son is here. The Holy Spirit is here.
4.37 Declare to every person that the Holy Spirit is at work in the kingdom
It is very good that you have come to hear from the horse’s mouth; because when Brotherhood members come to you, they attribute the work done to Olumba Olumba Obu. Such is a blasphemous statement. This is what no person can do, but with God everything is possible.
If you tell people it is done by Olumba Olumba Obu, you confuse people. They will then decide that if this is so, then it is witchcraft and apparition. Tell them that it is done by the Holy Spirit, that God is the one working. Preach the Holy Spirit to people wherever you go to. By so doing, their sicknesses will be healed. Your lack and other problems will be taken away. Believe that He is the one doing the work and you will have no more problems.
What are the fruits of the Spirit? They are love, truth, mercy, peace, patience, temperance, self-control, holiness, humility, goodness, meekness, happiness and truth. Here there is neither male nor female. There are no reserved seats. Whatever your position or status in life is, be you a leper, or thief, or a good person, or a lawyer, or a doctor, it does not come into estimation. We all eat from the same plate. He is the ruler of heaven and earth. All of us are brothers and sisters.
4.38 Defile not God's temple
That He dwells in us, explains why you have been told that Brotherhood preaches against drinking. Should you drink, or take snuff, or indulge in idolatry, or inject any powder into your body or fornicate, you have defiled the temple of the most high God.
He has no other dwelling place than our bodies. That is why it is said that we should purify ourselves even as He is pure. Do you not know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit? Whoever defiles it, him will God destroy.
Brethren, that is the root of our problems. You do not have to quarrel. If you begrudge or bear-malice against any person, you have defiled the temple of the most high God. If you quarrel, or curse, or fight, or indulge in idolatry or any other act of sin you render the temple of God defiled. This is why many members who have not yet accepted this true teachings, suffer a great deal.
4.39 Those without the Holy Spirit preach carnality
Right from the day our Lord Jesus Christ came out of the water of baptism, He abandoned His carpentry work and all other chores. It was the Holy Spirit which led Him into the world. In like manner, whoever is baptized like our Lord Jesus Christ has entered into this Kingdom of God. You cannot preach the word of God if you are not bestowed with the Holy Spirit. That is why the gospel of God cannot be preached outside Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.
What will a man without the Holy Spirit preach? He preaches man. He talks of how a member is in love with another member's wife, or how a member has not paid the church dues; or how some members have not contributed to the building funds of the church.
Brethren, it is said, one stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. I do not intend to be tedious unto you. He who has ears let him hear. May God bless His holy words; Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER