Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: John 17:19
"And for their sakes / sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. "
Golden Text: 2 Timothy 2:21
"If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. "
Brethren, the above texts reveal our lesson. The thought of God and that of man are diametrically opposed. People pray God to give them money, children, car and other mundane things so that they may be missionaries. Whereas God wants you to forsake everything and dedicate yourself to Him before you can be a good missionary.
7.1 Practical example
Our Lord Jesus Christ is an example of a true missionary. It is said that from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. John the Baptist was also a true missionary because he dedicated himself. When you dedicate yourself, God will use you to work. When it is said that there are no missionaries, you argue that you have done much work as a missionary. What have you done? There is no one in the whole world who has dedicated himself to the service of God. Christ had parents and relations, but he forsook all to serve God. That was why God used Him to save the world.
You are deceitful workers, and you can only deceive yourself and not God. You praise yourself that you have served God, but God does not praise you because you have done nothing. Among the blacks, whites, and the entire world, no one dedicates himself to the service of God. That is why the work of God has not witnessed reasonable progress. In the past there was a call in heaven on who would go and save the world. Heaven and earth were silent. No angel or man accepted the challenge except our Lord Jesus Christ. Today, there is the same call on who will go and save the world.
Although you shout O. O. O. all the time, who is prepared to dedicate himself to the mission? You have five children, husbands, wives and servants. When you are seeking how to feed them, you claim that you want to serve God. You actually want to serve yourself. It is said that he that is married cares for the things of this world, how he may please the wife. In the light of the above statement, are you sincere when you request for a wife to enable you serve God effectively? Another person who is married will pray that if God gives him one child he will serve Him better. Is that true?
John lived in the desert to preach. Christ retired to the mountain to pray after the day's work. He did not confide in the twelve disciples. Sometimes He would take only three and at other times He would go alone. Before God can use you as a missionary, you must sanctify and separate yourself. People say that there is no God because no one has dedicated himself for Him to be manifested. Today you all testify that he has come down because of the dedication of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.
After baptism, the spirit led Christ to the wilderness. From that time He had nothing to do with His family. Therefore, if you want to serve God, you must dedicate yourself. That was why Christ said that if you love your father, mother, son or daughter more than Him, you are not worthy of him and you are not a true missionary. God does not watch the physical appearances but the heart. He has seen your hearts that you come to deceive Him for your selfish ends. However, He will find His own sacrificial lambs.
7.2 The Leader shows example
Before a soup is palatable, much money must be spent to procure its ingredients. If the Leader, the Holy Father had not sanctified Himself from youth, we would not have seen the light of God now shining in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Who is prepared to follow the examples of the Leader? It is said that he that is joined to an harlot is one body, but he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. From the beginning I had nothing to do with the world because I am not of the world. I come to save you. But who is prepared to sanctify himself so that I can use him to work?
Christ said: "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also,." (John 14:2-3). But who has agreed to be where Christ is?
The sermon is going on you are conversing and walking about. How can you receive the word? A servant cannot serve two masters. But I thank the Father because He has His missionaries. Since the kingdom is here, the workers are also here. If He does not call, no one can follow him and if he does not elect no one can be worthy. You will live to see the missionaries of this kingdom. This week is set aside to reveal the truth about missionary's work. If you are a missionary you should forsake the world including seeing and hearing evil words.
First lesson: John 17: 9
"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. "
7.3 Who will go for us?
If you love your parents forsake them and dedicate yourself so that God may use you to save the world. If you sympathise with the plight and predicament of the world, dedicate yourself and see whether God will not use you to redeem the world. The world has reached its wits end and workers are needed to go and save them. Anybody who dedicates and separates himself from evil communication, God will use him for all good works even in other planes of manifest.
After the resurrection of Christ, and when He had dined with the disciples, He asked Peter whether he loved Him more than anything else. Peter answered that He knew that he loved him. Christ charged him to feed His lambs. Although you may not work, if you dedicate yourself He will use you to work. People have been here for twenty years yet they do not know that eating of meat, fornication, anger and lying are not good. They do not know that it is not good to be friendly with unbelievers and to be entangled in worldly affairs.
7.4 Evil communication corrupts
Christ passed through Paul to warn that you should not keep company with any covetous man or an idol worshipper, or a railer, or a drunkard, or a trickster. God hates evil and loves what is good. Any day you tell lies, or fornicate, or enter into the house of a native doctor, or play politics, God forsakes you. If you indulge in vain and carnal conversation, he forsakes you, because God is a jealous God. We do not beg people to become missionaries because they had already been chosen. If you want to do part-time work, you need to sanctify yourself and you will be used by God. The angel of the Lord advised Lot and his household to depart from Sodom and Gomorrah without taking anything out. But on their flight, the wife remembered her box of trinkets and turned back and became a pillar of salt till this day. The act of turning behind has an inference (She actually went to collect them).
There are so many people in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, but there are no missionaries because all of you mind earthly things. For this reason, God cannot use you. It is said that the children of the world mind the things of the flesh while the children of God mind spiritual things. To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. You cannot hear the word of God because you are carnally minded. God is not slack to fulfill His promise. If you dedicate yourself today, He is prepared to use you. God does not use your physical person but your spirit. Therefore if your thought is in carnal things, He cannot use you. You should store your wealth in heaven for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.
If you go to America for a missionary assignment but you put your thought in wealth and money, He will forsake you. To be with the Father is not to come and stay here. Wherever you are, if you dedicate yourself, you will be seen with the Father everywhere. This war is not carnal but spiritual. If you get dedicated, the Father will use your spirit to work. That is why people testify that they saw you in the dream coming to save them from trouble. They may think that you are a witch because they are spiritually ignorant.
You want money by all means. What can money accomplish? What is more important is for you to dedicate yourself to be used by God. Why do you waste time to nourish the flesh by plaiting hair and rubbing ointment instead of dedicating yourself for God's use? You become sorrowful if your soutan is not clean, or if you are sick; and you quarrel because of lack of food. What can these material things do for you?
Golden text: 2nd Timothy 2: 21
"If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work "
7.5 Spiritual Missionaries
You will be surprised to hear that I have no brother, mother or relation. I move alone and sanctify myself for the work of God. When you come here to complain and write letters, I do not hear or read your letter because I am always in spirit. It is said, "henceforth, we know no man after the flesh; though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more." There is no need for you to come here for prayers. Wherever you are, God sees and helps you. All those who seek the Father in the flesh are earthly. Why do you seek the living among the dead? I am the Sole Spiritual Head and not sole carnal head. Why do you come to me for worldly things such as prayers, laying of hands, holy water and oil? You are protected and healed in the spirit. If you dedicate yourself, He will use you, not in the flesh, but in the spirit. The scripture says that since the time is short, those who have wives should be as those who have none.
Count the things of this world as dung. You may have children, money and husband, but if you do not put your mind in the things of God, God will not use you to work. We want spiritual missionaries. The flesh cannot go to meet the governor but the spirit can easily do so. When you are in spirit, you can be taken to any plane of manifest to liberate the inhabitants. Let us forsake the lust of this world and dedicate ourselves so that God may use us.
7.6 Dedicate yourself to God
Do not think that you are bewitched or charmed. If you purge yourself of vain words, anger, strife and division, God will use you to perform mighty works. You cannot do anything but He uses you to do everything. You may even dedicate yourself but if He does not use you, you cannot do anything. You are like inanimate images. If you see the nakedness of the flesh you will put your pride aside. Do not ask for anything because you do not know what is good or bad. Therefore you should not put your heart in anything or choose anything. Simply, dedicate yourself and God who knows what is good will use you to accomplish all good works.
It is said that a stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. Those who have ears. let them hear. May God bless His holy words; Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER