Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: John 13 :1
"Now before the feast of the Passover when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world He loved them unto the end".
Second lesson: Mark 14 : 1 - 2
"After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft, and put Him to death. But they said, not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
Golden Text: Matt. 26 :17 -18
"Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? And he said, go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, the master saith my time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples. "
Brethren, that is the revelation. Note the portions just read out to you. Just as you have heard, those were the perfect utterances of our Lord and Christ. They signify preparation of our Lord Jesus Christ to leap through the last hurdle of His assignment that all of you should be here today to be intimated with the events of that particular period. The whole world is invited to come and listen to the unveiling of the past events of the week of crucifixion and also to be acquainted with the manner in which humanity got his salvation.
Many people in the entire world suffer accidental deaths and some unaware of the time of their deaths. There is no human being in the entire world who will not cause trouble if he is aware of the time of his death. But our Lord Jesus Christ was aware of the time of His death. Even then He humbly endured the hard period and attended every situation with love. The story of this King is inexhaustible. The love of our Lord Jesus Christ for humanity has no comparison and is greater than that of the world.
He is our Lord, Saviour, Benefactor and Redeemer. If the whole world were to know this, they would have thanked Him, revere Him, sing His glory always, and regard Him as a thing of pride. All our needs are satisfied by Him. It is not the love of money, clothes, shoes, and language, but His love is an eternal one. It is so profound that He gave up His life so that we might live.
6.1 The feast of Passover
What I want all of you to take cognizance of is the day He was hanged on the cross for the sake of our sins. This is why we have "Watch and Pray" and celebrate the "Passover" every Wednesday. We here in this kingdom particularly celebrate this last supper and Passover during the Holy Wednesday of the Holy Week to commemorate the one our Lord Jesus Christ did with His disciples in Jerusalem. Many people think it is out of hunger that we eat bread, banana and groundnuts on that night. They are completely not aware that it is in commemoration of that great day of the last supper.
An Efik adage has it that when the initiator of an event or thing is not recognised he is bound to feel offended. If you forget where you had salvation, you are bound to stumble and fall. The Passover celebrated by the Jews had a beginning and a reason. During the time of Abraham, there was no celebration of Passover. In the time of Isaac, there was no Passover celebration. In the time of Jacob, there was no Passover celebration. Even when they were in Egypt, there was no "Passover."
When did the celebration of Passover begin? It started four hundred years after the Israelites went into slavery in Egypt. This “Passover” started after Moses had displayed all his miracles before Pharaoh, and he still refused to let the Israel go out of Egypt. When all avenues to get Pharaoh release the children of Israel from Egypt had failed, God instructed Moses to instruct all Israelites in Egypt to slaughter a ram each and smear the blood on their doorposts on Wednesday night. This "Passover" was celebrated to make the death that was to plague Egypt to be of no effect on the Israelites. The following morning, corpses were found everywhere in Egypt. All the first born in Egyptians' homes died including the Pharaoh's son. Directly after this incident, Pharaoh allowed all the children of Israel to leave Egypt under the leadership of Moses. From that day, anniversaries of this Passover became a yearly event.
6.2 Our modern Passover: The actual day
Brethren, note that what is worth honouring and worshipping must strictly be observed. If the children of Israel who never believed in God strictly observed the anniversary of "Passover" in remembrance of the day they were released from bondage in Egypt, how much more those who are redeemed from the bondage of Satan? This is why every year, we must commemorate the day we were emancipated from sin and also show appreciation for the love our Lord Jesus Christ has for humanity. It is at this time also that we have to expatiate to you all the events of that particular period.
We are not here to serve the government, man, or angel but to show appreciation for the love our Lord Jesus Christ had for humanity. This should be an infinite celebration by humanity to show appreciation for the love our Lord Jesus Christ had for the sons of men. The lesson says that it was two days to the feast of Passover and I ask, count from this day and see whether it is not really two days that is remaining in compliance with what stated in the scriptures above.
The real day of the feast of Passover according to the Jewish tradition is Friday and it was this day that our Lord Jesus Christ referred to when He said two days to the day of Passover. Now if our Lord Jesus Christ celebrated the Passover on Wednesday night, thereafter he was arrested, judged and condemned to death on Thursday, do you not see the world's claim that our Lord Jesus Christ died on Friday is wrong? As you have been told in the scriptures that Saturday is Sabbath, it therefore means that Friday is the day of Passover. The Jews never wanted to crucify Him on Friday which is the day of Passover nor on the Sabbath being Saturday because there would be tumult, and because of this anticipated tumult, they hastened the crucifixion for Thursday.
6.3 Is there any Good Friday?
Behold our Lord Jesus Christ as the sacrificial lamb for the Passover, and avoiding the anticipated tumult that would occur on Friday, the actual day of the Passover, they preferred the crucifixion day to be Thursday. This is in conformity with the statement of our Lord Jesus Christ, when He said that the nations seek a sign and no other sign will I give them other than the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. So, brethren, join me in counting the three days and three nights. Thursday daylight is one day, Friday daylight makes the second day and Saturday daylight makes the third day. Starting with the nights we have Thursday night as one night, Friday night is the second night and Saturday night as the third night.
This is to re-emphasize that our Lord Jesus Christ is the truth and all what He spoke are truth. This is also why the utterances of our Lord Jesus Christ is regarded as words of prophecy; and what is meant by prophetic words, are veritable truths. There is no word uttered by our Lord Jesus Christ that will not be fulfilled. The world has turned this truth by saying that our Lord Jesus Christ died on Friday instead of Thursday. Because this truth is hidden from them and exposed to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star they always marvel at the mode.
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star do their things. What is meant for today is what Brotherhood is doing. That was why our Lord Jesus Christ said, "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you". He said the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, will reveal His glory and the entire world will know that the glory belongs to Him. This glory does not belong to man or angel, but it belongs to the Son of man, Son of God and God Himself. If this knowledge had dawned on humanity, they would have honoured and kept this remarkable day.
The adage says, man could not have known his mother except through his father. So it is that for this remarkable day. The entire world has seen that our reign, salvation, redemption and joy started from this particular day? It is at this occasion that our Lord Jesus Christ told the disciples that the world would rejoice and they (disciples) would mourn. The great mourning you heard of started today - the day He (our Lord Jesus Christ) celebrated the last Passover. He decided to celebrate the Passover on Wednesday because He knew the plan of the Jews to kill Him. It was referred to as the last supper because it was the last food He took with His disciples before His arrest that night and subsequent crucifixion on Thursday.
6.4 The love of Christ for humanity
To show the depth of love our Lord Jesus Christ had for humanity, He did not get grieved about the ordeal He had to face, and did not get annoyed with His disciples. He also did not question God why He should be exposed to such an ordeal. He demonstrated His love for man on this day and enjoined His disciples to dwell in this love. As He loved, He did not reject us nor ex-communicate us from His Kingdom. As He gives us life and does not hate us, the same He has enjoined you to do to your fellow human beings. He saw as God wanted to destroy the entire world. He was in heaven as the King of all the angels. When the Father, God wanted to destroy the world, our Lord Jesus Christ pleaded with Him not to do so.
I want you to comprehend the glory of the Son of man, Son of God and God Himself. People are prompted to ask why all these glories should be given to our Lord Jesus Christ. Does it mean there was no other person? The simple answer is that He was the only person who volunteered to love and also die for the sins of the world to redeem man and unite him with God. Without Him, nothing could have remained in this world. All would have been destroyed by God.
When the voice from heaven asked of the one to go to save mankind, there was perfect silence in Heaven. You all are witnesses to the position He held as the King of all the angels and what do you think would necessitate Him to come down to the world to expose Himself to all the torments and persecutions He experienced apart from love. When He saw the state of Heaven when this question was asked, He was very pitiful of humanity, and filled with mercy, He accepted to go to save the world.
There is an adage which says that the owner of the corpse holds the head. Because of the love Christ had for the Father, He decided to come down to earth to save humanity. Thus the Father was grieved that His only begotten Son was going to face a fatal ordeal for the sake of mankind. When you read the scriptures, you will see where God regretted having created man. He saw man as a very treacherous animal and had not lived according to the injunctions of God, and for this, God decided to destroy the whole of humanity.
6.5 God is ever dwelling with man on earth
At no time has God left the world. God has been with mankind throughout. At a time, God sent Enoch to the world to see whether man has borne the desired fruits. When Enoch reported to God that man had gone out of the way, God regretted His creation of man. Brethren, you see the events that had prevailed and this prompted God again to send Noah who preached for one hundred and twenty years, but nobody paid heed to his teaching. Finally, Noah was asked to go into the Ark with a pair of everything created by God (male and female). Noah, his wife and children totaling eight and all the other creatures, were the only creatures that were saved from deluge.
The world again was re-established but it deteriorated than before. It was just rejuvenation of the old stock. I will now tell you of Sodom and Gomorrah that you have heard of.
6.6 Noah and his days
When Noah was still in the former world, he got drunk and became naked. When the first son saw him, he laughed at him. When the second son saw him, he covered the father's nakedness. When Noah regained consciousness he was told of what transpired and he became angry. This prompted him to curse the first son. That is why, no matter what it takes, the sinner will not escape punishment. That is why you are told to evade sinful actions. Sodom and Gomorrah were filled with the sons, daughters, grandsons and grand-daughters of the first son of Noah. This was in fulfillment of the scriptural saying that the iniquity of the fathers shall be visited upon the children and unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me. The population of the world today and the riches in the world means nothing to God. Take a lesson from what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah with their people and riches which did not debar God from executing His plan for those iniquitous cities. The scriptures say that the token of remembrance for any person is cut off from the father.
6.7 Jesus the Christ came to redeem not to judge man
Brethren, do not compare your material achievement with the word of God. They have no part to play as far as the execution of God's plan is concerned. The happenings in Sodom and Gomorrah was what was used to remember the word of God which was fulfilled on the first son of Noah. The destruction of the first world of Noah and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, motivated our Lord Jesus Christ to accept to come down to the world to redeem mankind. God seeing the acceptance of His only begotten Son asked Him not to go for man will never change, but his Son begged His Father to allow Him go that the world might be saved. The Father wept for the only begotten Son for accepting to die for man who will never change his evil ways. At last He came in human form with all determination within His power to change man, but no one man listened to Him. No matter how sinful, He never imputed sin on man. He uses love in prevailing in all ways to redeem man from his sinful nature. Because He knew man, He did not judge man and no matter what reports went to Him, He overlooked all because His mission was for redemption and not judgement. That is why He said, "come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy ladden, and I will give you rest". People said that our Lord Jesus Christ is a friend of sinners. Yes, He is, for it is because of this that He came to the world. Read the first Bible lesson.
First lesson: John 13 : 1
"Now before the feast of the Passover when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world He loved them unto the end".
Brethren, you have read the first Bible lesson. Get the statement of our Lord Jesus Christ perfectly absorbed. Though sinful we are, Christ still loves us. He was not worried over all the ordeals He was made to face by man. It was not because of the perfection of man and His twelve disciples that made Him endure the ordeals He had to face but because of the scriptural saying that love works no ill to his neighbour: He does not love the world because they were well behaved towards Him, nor because they loved Him, but He loved mankind because it is the purpose for which He came. He knew the behaviour of man and did not love because man behaved well; He could have evaded death, but if He did, His mission would have been defeated.
During this last supper, Judas Iscariot left them and later led in the Jews who were to arrest Him. This was because our Lord Jesus Christ could not be identified among His disciples, hence the Jews asked who He was that bore the name Jesus the Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ answered them that He was. Think about that man who had no physical weapons of war but when the soldiers who came to arrest Him met Him and asked of Him, He answered that He was the one wanted; the soldiers fell on the ground with all their weapons. Think of the love He had for mankind by surrendering His life as a ransom for our sins.
6.8 No man appreciates Christ's love for the world
Many people say: when they do a good turn, they are always repaid with evil, and I ask, what did our Lord Jesus Christ do to humanity to warrant death? Our Lord Jesus Christ came to redeem humanity from the shackles of sin, suffering death and all maladies of life, but despite all these good gesture, humanity colluded and had Him killed. Though all maltreatments were meted out to Him, His love becomes unfettered. His love remains the same yesterday, today and forever. That is why it is said that our Lord Jesus Christ is the same today, tomorrow and forever.
Christ had loved us before the foundation of the world was laid. He is still loving us and He does not impute sins on us and this is the type of love He has enjoined humanity to go and practise. He preaches His sermon and gives life and all good things of life to humanity free. He does not seek our appreciation. Whatever man does to offend, He does not count it against him but remains in love with him. He does not disgrace, excommunicate, and is not partial.
That is why you should not imitate any other person apart from Christ. Do not look on Moses, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for it was not written of them to do this work of love. Our Lord Jesus Christ was the one who was to do this work of love and it is He we must look on. Do not be tired of well doing and do not complain that whatever you do people do not see. This advice is given to you because you are not working for anybody.
Humanity had never begged God to come and save them but God out of love came down to save humanity. Upon all what our Lord Jesus Christ did to save mankind, there was no “thank you” from any man but instead they regarded Him as a murderer and sinner of the worst order. This attitude of man did not stop His continual love for man. There is no other person that man should look on apart from our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the source of our salvation. He is the perfecter of all things. Read our second lesson.
Second lesson: Mark 14:1-2
"After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft, and put Him to death. But they said, not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people."
I want you to count for yourself and see whether it is not two days before the day of Passover. Wednesday, one; Thursday, two. This is done to show you that our Lord Jesus Christ and His words are true. He said that “when the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name comes, He shall teach you all things, and bring to you whatsoever I have said unto you”. Knowing that everything had been planned, He decided to have His last supper with His disciples on Wednesday. In other words, this could be called a send-off party. By His drinking of the cup of vinegar, He took away all the sins of humanity.
6.9 The secrets of the Feast and Baptism in this Kingdom
I want you to know the significance of this feast we conduct in all the bethels. Though some people normally refuse to take, He said that any fellow who fails to drink of the cup and eat of the bread He was going to give, shall not have everlasting life.
People are always wondering why they are hated, immediately they come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Let this be clear to you today that since you drank the blood and ate the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, you cannot be exempted here. If you do not partake of this meal, you are not yet a member of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. When our Lord Jesus Christ had not taken the cup, nobody could lay hold on Him or kill Him. There are two secrets in this Kingdom which are the source of our power. You are exposed to all disgraceful situations in life when you enter Brotherhood of the Cross and Star because of these two secrets. Why are you afraid that man can harm you when you are in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star? The immunity hangs on these two secrets. When the mother of the two sons of Zebedee came to ask our Lord Jesus Christ to allow her sons to stay one on the right hand and the other on the left hand, she was informed that it was meant for those the Father (God) had destined, though they could drink of the cup and have the baptism He had. The baptism you have here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is the first secret. It means dying with Christ and rising with Him. Partaking of the cup means hanging all the sins of the world on you. As He surrendered His life for humanity, you should also endeavour to do so to your fellow man. From the day you had your baptism, the life you have becomes a life to glorify God alone. You are no more of yourselves but of Christ. Christ died once and after that He rose and conquered death. The same thing happened when you are baptised, which indicates dying and rising with Christ. This automatically makes you conquer death. Being immersed in water means dying with Christ and going out of water means rising into eternal life. Partaking in the feast we do here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star means you have taken on yourselves the sins of humanity and thereby ready at any moment to surrender your life for their freedom.
Directly, you partake of the feast and drink of the cup, you become looked upon as a belzeebub, and the worst person in the society. Even your wife in the house sees you that way. When our Lord Jesus Christ had not taken of this feast and drank of the cup nobody could do Him anything. Even your houseboy could abuse you. You on your part should not retaliate because you have taken of the cup and volunteered to surrender your life for the freedom of humanity. All sorts of disgrace, maltreatments and accusations leveled against members of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star are because they had drunk of the cup and so taken on them the sins of the world and are ready to surrender their lives for the freedom of their fellow men.
That night our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and His sweat turned to blood. One time during that period He said that the spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. That is why today when, because of persecutions you complain that it is too much for you to bear, since you have taken of the cup with Christ and volunteered to die to restore your fellowman, there is nothing, you can do. It is too late to complain. Since Christ has conquered you too have conquered. Since Christ has surrendered His life for the salvation of humanity, endeavour also to surrender your lives for the salvation of your fellowman. There is no going back in this assignment. Since Christ has conquered death, you have conquered also. And since Christ is life, you are full of life also. The feast you partake here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star gives you life and power, and it is the “eating my flesh and drinking my blood” which our Lord Jesus Christ talked of.
6.10 Baptism into Brotherhood is total surrendering to God's will in you
From time to time the Father passes through mysterious ways to perform His will in the world but this knowledge is hidden from man. It is said that whosoever believes and is baptised is saved, but whosoever does not believe is condemned. Nobody forces you to be baptised but you should accept baptism yourself. From the day you submit to be baptised, you are dead, and coming out of water means rising to eternal life. Your baptism surrenders you to the Father and the Father from then has the right to use you for all things glorious to Him. When God asked Cain and Abel to make sacrifices unto Him, and Abel used the fattest ram, he (Abel) failed to know that he was offering Christ Himself. If Abel had not used the ram for sacrifice to God, he would not have been killed.
Indirectly he surrendered himself as a sacrificial lamb. If our Lord Jesus Christ had not gone to John for baptism, He would not have surrendered Himself as a sacrificial Lamb. If our Lord Jesus Christ had not taken the cup, nobody could have killed Him. Since He died and rose, death no longer has power over Him. Though He drank of the sins of humanity and died, He rose and did overcome death. This life we are living now is in God. If our Lord Jesus Christ had not taken that cup, He would have lived for years and nobody would have touched Him. Man would have perished in his sins. Brethren let us read the Golden Text.
Golden Text: Matt. 26 :17 -18
"Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? And he said, go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, the master saith my time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples. "
6.11 The day of Passover must be observed accordingly
Today being a Wednesday is that day our Lord Jesus Christ uttered that statement. This is to make you know that this Passover was not prepared in the church, prayer house or in the bush, but He simply told the disciples to go to the city and to a certain man's house. Bread was not taken with them. Where do you think the bread for the feast of Passover will come from? Again He said "he who eats with me in the same dish", and I ask, do you eat bread in the dish with people? While we are here the Passover is being prepared and you have partaken of the Passover with Him. He said, "whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5; 19)
This feast is not celebrated because we have money, or because we are worthy, it is not performed for our well being, but it is done for a remembrance and also for people who were not there that day to know what happened. It is said that when one sees the corpse, definitely tears must come out of the eyes. You can now see that he was not crucified on Friday but Thursday to avoid tumult. You will also note that this Passover was not prepared on that Wednesday but in advance, and this further confirms His words to be the veritable truth. This afternoon, the Passover started, and according to the Jewish way of counting time, the Thursday started a minute after 6pm. That was the start of His travail. In our system this Wednesday night from 6:00pm till 6:00am Thursday morning was His time of travail at the garde. If you partake of this feast, at 5p.m. or 6 p. M., it is not the Passover. After 6 p.m. the Passover takes place. In your custom if one dies and is buried and you do not pour libation right in front of him, you nave not poured to him. If a man dies on Monday and when you want to remember him, you do it on Tuesday, you are wrong. That is why we do exactly what happened on that day at the appropriate time whether humanity believes or not. This shows you that Christ is the same today, tomorrow and forever.
The disciples asked our Lord Jesus Christ where the Passover would be prepared and the same question has come up today. Do not term this question as asked by the Jews and Greeks but regard it as asked by you now. This question also goes to all Christendom: where are you going to prepare the Passover? The Son of Man is going into His glory and are we not to prepare the Passover? It is not calling Jesus! Jesus!, Lord of lords and King of kings but go into the world and ask of where the Passover will be prepared? The direct answer is that you should go into the city and enter into a certain man's house and make him know that the Teacher wants a place prepared for the Passover.
6.12 The truth has come to stay
That is why Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is called Christ Universal Spiritual School of Practical Christianity. Nothing is added or subtracted and there is no studying but a practical demonstration of the truth of things. As God has rightly said in the Bible, any person who adds any word to His word of prophecy will have all the afflictions and will have his name removed from the book of life. Here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star nobody adds and, or subtracts and this is why our Lord Jesus Christ said that the Comforter will reveal to you all the truth. It is wrong to say that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu said this or that but say that our Lord Jesus Christ said it. That is why when people read through our publications, they would tell you that the Leader has confirmed that He is not Christ and now what are you talking about? It is Christ that had said, continue to say and will say everything forever.
6.13 Wednesday Night, Holy Week
The Passover will be prepared and eaten tonight and as soon as you eat it, you have taken on yourself the sins of the world, and you will surrender your lives as ransom for the salvation of the world, as our Lord Jesus did. That is why on Wednesday we have the Bible class in the afternoon, Watch and Pray from 12:00pm midnight Wednesday till 3 a.m. Thursday morning our time. At 6 a.m. on Thursday morning we start the fasting in remembrance of the time He was sentenced to death by Pilate. Spiritually He died from that time. We have no other work to do but to unveil the events of that day to those who were not there. You may have been there when this event happened and that is why it is always said that we of the olden times have come back again. If you were not there then, how do you come by these names, pastor, prophet, apostle and evangelist? Many of you do not know why you are placed in these positions. It is exactly what happened in the past that is re-established and a fulfillment of the proclamation of our Lord Jesus Christ when He said that “the Comforter shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
"And God had set some in the Church, first Apostles, second Prophets, thirdly Teachers, after these miracles, then gifts of healing, helpers of governments, diversities of tongues” (1st Corinthians 12:28) and this is what you are seeing today done in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, falling in line with what our Lord Jesus Christ had said when He said that the Comforter will open to you all the truth. All that you have seen is the revelation of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, not the glory of anybody. You should not look for your personal glories but that of Christ. What is done here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is what had been done, it is what we have to do and will be done forever. It is sorrowful that many members of the Brotherhood do not partake of the watch and pray and the feast we conduct regularly but they rather say that God dwells in their hearts.
Have you not heard what he has said? He said “whoever does drink of my blood and eats of my flesh will have eternal life”. Again Jesus said to His disciples: If you watch with me for an hour and if you watch and pray you will not enter into temptation. Watch out and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.
Did the disciples not enter into temptation? Yes, they did because they did not watch and pray. Our Lord Jesus Christ was arrested at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning our time, this is the reason we observe a vigil night every Wednesday to watch and pray till 3 a.m. on the following day Thursday and then start fasting at 6:00am.
From 3 a.m. until 6 a.m. our Lord Jesus Christ was tortured. This is exactly how we conduct our system so that nothing is added nor subtracted. At 9 a.m. on Thursday He was nailed on the Cross and at 3 p.m., He shouted and gave up His Ghost and finally at 6 p.m. His body was removed by Joseph of Arimathaea. The 6:00am when he was condemned to 6:00pm when His body was taken down and buried was His first day light of death.
If you take stock of what happened to Him on the cross you will realise that our Lord Jesus Christ deserves to be worshipped, honoured and respected and we should worship Him with reverence by refraining from sins. Here in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star people say that we are worshipping man. We worship God and honour God. If you say you are a Brotherhood and this night you are not here, what Brotherhood are you? If you say that you were here for the Pentecostal Assembly and today you are not partaking in the great feast, which type of Pentecostal were you coming to attend? Can you now see people claiming to be in Brotherhood for twenty years without deriving any benefit? If you preach and teach others to practise same you are the highest. Some Bethels do not keep watch and pray at all, while in others they do it and stop at 1 a.m. Is that watch and pray? Some Bethels do it without feast. Is that what I teach you? Is that watch and pray? Even here, some Pastors, Apostles etc., do not come to watch and pray. Is that the way you can reward Christ?
This celebration will continue forever. Dear brethren, I do not want to be tedious unto you, those who have ears let them hear. May God add blessings to His holy words; Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER