Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: 1Timothy 6:1-2
“Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.”
Second lesson: Matthew 10:8
“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.”
Golden text: Luke 8 : 1 3
“And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with Him, And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils. And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others which ministered unto him of their substance.”
13.1 The fulfillment of Christ's prayer
Beloved, the above texts reveal how this kingdom began. In the pamphlet, "My Mission", you will realise that my duty is to teach, change and reconstruct man. This is a new world, the kingdom of God, which began like a mustard seed. Many patriarchs had tried to establish it right from the time of Adam but could do nothing.
Despite the way Brotherhood of the Cross and Star was vilified by the world, it still stands. This is the manifestation of that part of the Lord's prayer which states:
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven”. (Matthew 6: 10}.
By interpretation, the above quotation means that everything must be given and obtained free in this kingdom. Nobody should claim ownership of anything. Everything belongs to God.
This kingdom does not condone laziness. The correct thing which we need in this kingdom is nominated in the golden text.
Brother Otu really understands this kingdom and he testifies about it. My joy is that the kingdom of God, the new world has come.
13.2 How America started existing
If you look at the whole world, you will realise that America is the world's most powerful nation today. The foundation of America is laid on the word of God. The Americans originally were Britons that left Britain to settle in a strange land which is now known as America. Those immigrants were a group of people who had the burning desire to serve and worship God appropriately.
And, in fulfillment of such a desire, they had to go in search of a suitable land to settle, undisturbed and worship God.
They settled in a place now known as America and began to practise the gospel. However, they could not really practise the real word of God but the same old covenants.
The land which now accommodates the Americans originally belonged to the Red Indians. The idea to move was conceived by one person before others joined when he had actually moved. It was a kind of a liberation struggle, as the government of Britain then was against such movement (to West Indies, now America). It is about five-hundred years today since the exodus of people from Britain to West Indies and America. America now stands abundantly blessed because of her interest for the word of God.
All the nations of the world look up to America for aid and protection. Indigenes of various countries, especially the third world countries, want to live in America. Most of the churches trace their origin to America. This explains why she is believed to be God's own country.
America is the country that sustains Israel and finances its budgets. There is no country or organisation which America does not give aid to. That is the only nation where there is freedom in earnest; and where the doctrine of live and let live is practised.
The Britons did not immigrate from their country to another place because of political or economic reasons. They did so in fulfillment of their burning desire to serve God. If God could, in appreciation, extend His blessings to them for merely accepting Him, blindly though, what do you think God will do now for you when you accept God and worship God in spirit and in truth? Has the scripture not said that you should not eat a man's food for nought? This is the period of the glory of God and it is expedient that we should unite and love one another.
The Israelites have failed. The Greeks have failed. The Egyptians have failed. The Roman Empire and the rest of the empires have been failing, one after the other. None had stood the test of time. The Americans have also failed because they have fallen short of God's expectation. But Brotherhood of the Cross and Star here is the kingdom of God which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream and Daniel interpreted to him. This kingdom is the one that was written in the book of Daniel that, when it shall emerge, it shall swallow every other kingdom. (Daniel 2.44) Our Lord Jesus Christ also spoke and referred to this kingdom.
“0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not...
For I say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” (Matthew 23 : 37 - 39).
13. 3 All peoples will come here
You have to watch carefully and observe closely that you do not weep in the end. Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is the kingdom of God that had long been expected. This is the place the whole world will come for salvation. This explains why this kingdom does not admit lies, hatred, deceit or any vice at all. If you follow God in this kingdom craftily and dubiously, you have yourself to blame.
This is the kingdom that the people of old had been waiting for. Those who have one foot here and the other outside will have themselves lo blame.
If Israel had embraced the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ, she would have been the world's leader. Their understanding of Christ was that, He was coming to obtain their independence from the Roman empire and make Israel a sovereign nation. When they realised that such a duty was not included in His agenda, they scoffed at Him.
This is the reign of Jehovah God and His Christ. The time for the rulership of man has since passed and gone. This is not the time for any man to seek for his glorification. God had taken away the rulership of this world from men and kept it for Himself. This is the time of God and His rule. Therefore, if God has called you, you have to come and glorify Him throughout your life time. This is the time for you to surrender yourself to Him and be steadfast.
13.4 Do not be ungrateful
God has never disappointed any man and He will never. He has never left us comfortless rather, we are the ones that reject Him. God has never cheated any man rather, it is man who cheats Him.
This is so because, each time God blesses and exalts you, instead of reciprocating the gesture by glorifying His name, you would prefer to glorify your name. Even the Americans that were led by the desire to serve God, today such desire has been overtaken by the crave for materialism. America today passes for the devil's den. For this reasons, many of them are planning to come down to Africa; to Nigeria in particular. If this people come here, where will you be? They have received the awareness that God is now with men on earth.
Right now, you are unsteady - partially in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and partially outside. You are ungrateful, deceitful and disobedient. If you refuse to glorify God, is it the trees or grass that will glorify Him? God called you that you may serve Him and for Him to bless you too. God called you so that you may glorify Him and that His kingdom may be revealed in the whole world. By glorifying God we will share in His glory and we will obtain abundant blessings from Him. Instead of doing just this, people come in here as the biblical Nicodemus at night to obtain the healing of their infirmities and to go back immediately after. You come to God only when you want a child, money or any material thing, and when your prayer is answered, you leave unceremoniously. If you continue in this way, who are the ones to serve God and glorify His name?
Any person who engages in any activity or trade wants to profit from such an activity. A local adage has it that, a man who marries desires to raise children.
Similarly, God called us that we may serve Him day and night and glorify His name. He wants us to propagate this kingdom to the entire world. Our Lord Jesus Christ for instance, went to the two cities of Bethsida and Chorazin and did wonderful works, expecting them to repent. He passed on to other areas for evangelization. But when He returned to the two cities and realised that the people were unrepentant, He cursed them (see- Matthew 11 : 20 - 24 and Luke 10:13-16.)
It is not the dead, the sick or the disabled that will propagate God’s name and glorify Him. Those that are expected to do this work are the living and those that are physically strong. Right now, you are well and filled with vigour. What stops you from serving God with one heart and in love, peace, mercy, truth, and patience and with everything? This is the time for all men to serve Him.
Heaven and earth belong to God and the fullness thereof. If everything therefore belongs to God, where will you cart His property to? God Himself has no where to pack His belonging to. He wants us to come together and enjoy His goodness and glorify Him. We belong to Him, we are His property. Therefore, we have to glorify His name. If God provides a house, food, clothing, patience, power or anything at all, His intention is that, we should enjoy all those things in praise of His name and continue to live in joy. Once people see the manifestation of God's glory, they will praise God.
13.5 Emulate the three wise ment
Our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world with nothing. But the three wise men paid Him homage with gifts. So also the women He healed and other people sold their property and took the proceeds before the Lord as gifts.
These gifts, Christ used to maintain His disciples and the rest of the needy and the disabled. With this, the work of God continued to progress. The same is expected in this kingdom. You have to show appreciation over what God has done for you in this kingdom that God may be glorified.
It is said that you should not eat any man's food for nought. Are you not eating one's food for nought? God heals you, protects you, gives you a wife or husband and children, gives you employment and promotion and does everything for you. What have you done for God? He gives you power, wisdom and good health and has also changed you. But what have you done as a token of appreciation to Him? God is now seeking for labourers and you are scouting for your own labourers too, thus competing with God.
God has no car yet, He has given you one but instead of making such a car available for the use of a servant of God, you give it out to your relations. If you take good care of the people of the world than the children of God, what will motivate such people to follow God?
If Satan lives a more luxurious life than a child of God, how then will such a person accept to follow God? If you refuse to make available what God has given you for the use and enjoyment of the less-privileged, how will God's name be glorified? It is said,
“... For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more,” (Luke 12:48).
If you were to understand that, this is the kingdom you have been expecting, would you continue in the foolishness that you are now?
Is it possible for any man to serve Satan and God at the same time? Because of your drunkenness, you fell sick but God did not mind your unwholesome attitude. He healed you. Because of fornication and adultery, you met death but God raised you, out of His infinite love. Because of stealing, you got inflicted with an infirmity which also was healed. But how many people have submitted themselves to His service or have even expressed any appreciation? What some people do is to drop few coins in the tray during blessing (collection) for God and go back to their houses and continue in their old ways of sin and their businesses.
No person is ready to serve God. Every person is busy scouting for business, money, food and other material things. You have not, for one moment, asked yourself who owns all the wealth you are amassing for yourself, and who is keeping you to continue to run here and there? Is God not the owner of all you are converting to yourself? What have you done as a token of appreciation to God who owns all those things and sustains you?
13. 6 Emulate Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles
If our Lord Jesus Christ had gone back to His father's (Joseph) house to continue in the carpentry work after receiving the Holy Spirit, who would have brought salvation to the world today? How would the glory of God been made manifest? If Peter had asked Christ to say the word again and again so that he would continue to make bigger and bigger catches, who would have accompanied Christ during His ministerial period?
Who would have endeavoured to propagate the word of God and glorify Him? If John, James and the rest of the disciples had asked the Lord to speak the word that they might be rich and build houses and own cars, who would have formed the crew of His disciples? If the disciples had concerned themselves with the things of the world and only paid their tithes, how would the word of God be propagated and who would have done it? By so doing, you are merely exhibiting your ignorance, blindness and deafness about God. God has removed us from dust, from nothingness, from death, from pestilence, prison, chains and from bondage into grace, strength, prosperity, good health and has finally exalted us. But what have you done in appreciation?
13.7 The devaluation of values
Before now, any person who has one pound sterling was regarded as a rich person. Today, the money in circulation has been totally devalued and it is worthless. Little or no significance is accorded to money now. In the days gone by, the First School Leaving Certificate (standard six) was a mark of high education. Today, there are chains and battalion of professors, and education has lost its prestige. In those days, it was a mark of respect for one to travel to the Western world. Such a person was known and addressed as a "been to". The early returnees from abroad enjoyed a rousing welcome. Today, the situation is different. It is no news going abroad and coming there from with or without a degree. These days, even the illiterates, the young and the old go abroad as a matter of leisure.
Added to the devaluation and falling standard of education is the high unemployment rate. All the worldly values had ceased to be recognised. The only recognisable thing is Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and her members. Members of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star are able to hold their heads and are held in high esteem by even the so-called world powers. This is the reason why the Royal Highnesses and people in the corridors of power prostrate before you and request you to pray for them. What appreciation have you shown as a mark of honour and obedience to God? Worse still, if you go to America, you will find “teenage” professors and doctors. While you are struggling at your old age to count money in hundreds, at the next corner, you will find a teenager who is already a millionaire. Therefore, the struggles over education, wealth and status have been devalued. The only thing that has not lost and will never lose its taste and value is the word of God. It is Brotherhood. That is what all of us have to go out and propagate.
To go to church and drop a few coins and go back to your houses and offices does not constitute the work of God. All along, you had been doing business, farming and working, have these things brought you eternal life? Have the houses, money and food brought you good health, faith or salvation? These things are mundane and devilish. The only source of salvation and eternal life is the word of God and going out to propagate it.
13.8 Worship God openly
All the very important persons and millionaires in Nigeria and the whole of Africa come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star only in the night so that they may not be identified. And when they come, they contribute nothing towards the progress of this kingdom and do not even want to be identified as members of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. And so, whatever God does to such people, they would not go out and testify His goodness to the world. What do you stand to profit from your behaviour? Is there any wisdom in such a behaviour?
Many people regard Brotherhood of the Cross and Star as an organization for the poor and destitute. Whoever is sick, hungry or is afflicted .in any way is directed to come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. But when the going is good with such people, they even refuse and avoid passing through the area where Brotherhood bethel is situated. Whom do you think you are deceiving?
Matthew was a wealthy man by the time he was called into Christ's discipleship. He forsook everything and followed Christ without turning back. But in your own case, if you have two naira you will hold your head high and will not go to God at all, except the money is finished. Alternatively, if you go to God at that time, it would be to ask Him to turn your two naira into three naira or more. You come here to ask for money, children, knowledge and the rest of the material things. And when those things are given to you, you will take your time to desecrate the fold and disappear into the world to enjoy yourself. You will be so busy at the time that, none of your moments would be allocated for God. Who then will go out and preach the kingdom and glory of God?
While you were sick or afflicted in one way or the other, you larvished your money consulting oracles and building houses for soothsayers and native doctors yet, none of your infirmities were healed. But when you were taken to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and was consequently healed, instead of showing appreciation to God, you claim to offer God your heart. Moreover, as if that ungratefulness was not enough, you will ask God to speak the word so that you may be blessed with money, wife, husband, children and other material things. If you then claim to have been baptised in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, of what good is your baptism?
You come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star only when you are afflicted and cannot obtain help from anywhere else. To some people, it is always the last resort. In this situation, who are the people that will go out to propagate the kingdom and glory of God? You rather glorify Satan and build mansions for prostitutes, native doctors and other such children of perdition. And for God, you always claim that He needs the heart. Many people spend their fortunes in politics, crying for favour and buying votes. When such persons go to church, they only pray to God to make them win the election. They would not drop even a coin for God but will purport to offer their hearts to Him. How then will the kingdom and glory of God be manifested?
Satan is a very arrogant man. If he visits you, as a child of God, and sees your door frames without the door, he would even undertake to install a metal or golden door to secure his stay there. In that instance, there is no gospel that you can preach to such a person (the one whom Satan indwells) for him to take you and your God seriously.
13.9 The beginning of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star
It is natural that only a single individual would found a market square and then be gradually followed by many other traders.
That indicates the beginning of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star as the mustard seed from a single and humble beginning. Our Lord Jesus Christ started this kingdom from a very humble beginning to the magnificent stage it has now grown to. Very soon, the magnitude of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star will surprise the world.
There shall be every kind of occupation or trade in this kingdom. This kingdom shall lack nothing. But who are the ones to labour for the manifestation of the kingdom to such a stage?
If your child who is used to luxury - good food, well furnished house and a fleet of cars - is taken to the house of God where there is no such things, he will return to his father's house immediately and denounce God. There is a local adage which has it that, a palm tree that is without ripe fruits will not attract birds. God has given you life, good health, children, power, knowledge and everything so that you may use the resources for His glory. Why not use them?
The foundation of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star was laid from zero. God provided and continues to provide free to us.. Everything in this kingdom is offered free. If you were to attend a conventional institution, you would spend plenty of money and time to acquire such knowledge.
But here, everything is given to you free. You often are not even regular in the "class".
You do not know that this is the kingdom of God where eternal life is sure.
The Father is the reservoir of knowledge and power which He bestows upon you. He does not need your money or anything else other than for you to propagate this glad tidings and glorify His name.
Render unto others every service free. Freely ye received, freely ye should also give. This is why you are enjoined to be benevolent in every way with the person who imparts the word of God to you.
The Americans and their government have played a very remarkable role in sponsoring ministers and giving them gifts. If I had accepted to go to America, I would have made a fortune. The difference is that this is the kingdom of God. You have to live and let another person live. Give unto a man of God what he is in need of. The person who gives you the word of God is the person that gives life, salvation, and wisdom. He is the one that really loves you. If God does anything to you, you have to express appreciation or show a thankful heart. Let your appreciation manifest in action and deed. Read the first lesson:
First lesson: 1 Timothy 6 :1-2
“Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort “
13.10 Glorify God with your resources
If your child has been chosen by God to serve Him, cease to consider that child as your bonafide child but God's. It does not mean that you have to reject him, or ignore him in any way. Rather, you have to continue to minister to him and provide his needs. You have to encourage him in every way to serve God diligently. If you do so people will have no cause to blaspheme God's name.
Also, if it is your father or mother who has surrendered him/herself to God, you have to be kind and benevolent to such a person and respect him as though you are doing it to God. Whoever serves a man of God stands to be abundantly blessed by God in return.
13.11 Assist missionary service
The Christ's students, Christ's servant, the Children of God and the rest of the missionaries should each own a vehicle for missionary duties. This has not happened. However, individual members are keeping fleet of cars for themselves and their families. Is that not selfishness and foolishness? This is the only time to serve God otherwise it will be too late.
The service of God transcends tribal, sex, age and class sentiments. If God is depicted to be poor, without car or house, what then will attract people to such a God? If you continue in your selfish attitude, how will God have full-time servants in His vineyard? If there are no full-time workers in this kingdom, how will the kingdom and glory of God be made manifest?
There are many Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members who are homeless, having been ejected by their landlords. And there are Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members who have estates but only keep such to themselves and for the purpose of making money to the detriment of the needy members. Some of the members are ejected from their rented apartments on the ground of being Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members and their landlords would ask them to go and be accommodated by their God. If you fail to accommodate such people, how will the glory of God be manifested?
When you were sick and dead, if God did not heal and raise you, would you have been healed? If God did not give the money, would you be able to build that house? Why then do you refuse to glorify God? Therefore, it is your responsibility to cater for the full-time servants of God so that they will continue to serve Him diligently.
The visioners and the rest of the workers, because of lack of care and selfishness of the members, resort to shady deals, such as giving false vision, duping and even stealing. They will tell someone that God says he should buy a car, build a house, give them food and so on. That is so because, the members have not encouraged them to continue to glorify God for others to praise His name. All they endeavour to do is to exalt themselves and strive to protect their reputation.
13.12 emulate the Apostles
God called Paul, Matthew and the rest of the people that they may serve Him in their individual capacities. Similarly, He wants you to use your wealth, your knowledge, your power and everything that He has blessed you with, to serve Him. But because of your selfishness, you claim that God does not seek for money and other material things. If you say that God has no need for such things, what are the things He has need for? Man aspires to be great and prominent, aspires to be rich and to be recognised. What then does God require?
We are God's kingdom. Even if millions of money are kept here without such being put to use, it will profit us nothing. Even if you provide a fleet of cars to God, if there are no people to board them, the cars will be useless. If you happen to build a mighty cathedral and have no person to assemble therein for a worship, of what use will such a cathedral be? Will Satan not laugh at you if such a cathedral and fleet of cars are provided but no person to use them? If you cook plenty of food expecting a multitude of people to share with you, but the people fail to turn up as expected, will the food not be useless? Such an incident took place at 8, Eton Street and the Sister who celebrated the feast wept bitterly.
13.13 Complement God's work
A person who cooks food expects such food to be eaten by people. Also, the person who provides a big hall or luxurious bus intends such facilities to be used. Why do you need compliment? The same applies to God. He wants you to complement His efforts by reciprocating His kind gestures. If God has called you, you have to be steadfast and remain with Him. You need to pull your resources together and rise in concert to glorify God's name.
It is said that you should love the Lord thy God with the whole of your body, heart and soul. All your children, landed property, power, knowledge and beauty which God has endowed you with, should be used or invested in His service. Where you fail to do that, you are ungrateful.
He is the owner and Creator of everything. Our life, the earth, the heavens, the food, the money etc., all belong to God. But the problem is that we do not glorify Him rather, it is Satan that is exalted and glorified by men.
Men do not give God His due glory. He gives us power, life, money, wisdom, among other things yet, no man cares to show a token of appreciation. But men obtain all these things from God, take them to Satan and thus continue to cheat God. All those who continue to cheat God have no share in His kingdom. Those who are partially members of this kingdom should know that there is no other kingdom like this one.
13.14 Brethren are ungrateful
Of a truth, some members of this kingdom are ingrates. There is no element of love at all in them. If you are grateful to God for what He has done for you, His care, protection, and sustenance; He will bless you the more. Those that will enjoy God's goodness are the ones that serve Him. If you surrender yourself, your office, farm, life, time, wisdom and power to God as investment into His kingdom, He will in turn bless you abundantly. It is like the game of football or tennis that has to pass from one leg or hand to another. By so doing the glory and kingdom of God will be revealed in the entire world.
13.15 This is the only kingdom of God on earth.
This kingdom is provided free. This is not a profit making organisation. If you count your blessings and observe the goodness of God you will not fail to praise Him and glorify His name. All the inhabitants of the world are coming into this kingdom to obtain salvation. All kinds of people will be rushing into this kingdom to obtain salvation. This kingdom will provide rulers and governance in the world.
The world practises retaliation, the doctrine of "do-me-I-do-you". If you do not identify yourself with your community or village, if anything should happen to you, they will denounce you. The people of the world greet only those that greet them and are nice only to those who are nice to them. For those of you who stand out partially in the world and partially with God, what will be your fate? Can you see how you are joking with your salvation? It is really pathetic that the Father has called you into this kingdom yet, you are not steadfast.
Your father, your mother, your children, your friends and community and even the government will disappoint you but God will not. The second lesson below will reveal to you that He is a merciful and an impartial God. Man is so foolish and ungrateful. There are many who are not prepared to serve God and would not allow others to. All what such people are interested in, is God's goodness and would not even show any appreciation to Him when He blesses them. Read the second lesson again.
Second lesson: Matthew 10 : 8
“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils freely ye have received, freely give.”
13.16 Reciprocate God's gesture
If you go to the hospital, is there any service that you will enjoy free? Nothing is done free in the hospital or anywhere in the world. A patient has to pay for the card, admission fee, bed fee, buy the drugs and even the syringes and needles. Often, the doctors are not even available to treat the patients. In this kingdom, however, patients are healed free. They are not merely treated as is done in the conventional hospitals. Here you are healed free, fed free, clothed free and accommodated free. If you so enjoy such goodness, is it not time for you to repent and praise God? Everybody comes to Brotherhood to loot without contributing to its growth.
The world is blind, poor, deaf, lame and dead. She wants to be served free. The implication of such demand is for everyone to do same to others. That is why it is said, freely ye received, freely ye should give. As you are fed free, clothed free, healed free, accommodated free and so on, you have to extend the same gesture to others, free. You may have a house, fleet of cars, factories and so on, but these things will not help you in your sickness or during any affliction. In Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, everybody is healed by mere prayer, and all infirmities are taken away free. You have to surrender whatever you have to God. It is not enough to only thank God for healing you without showing appreciation in kind or cash after your healing.
The preachers in this kingdom suffer a great deal when they are posted to stations. Some of them hardly have food to eat. In some of the Bethels, members are well-to-do but would not assist the preachers in any way. Such people are doing more harm to themselves than good. If you invest the resources God has given you in His kingdom. He will continue to bless you abundantly. Brother Nwagbara is one of such people. Because of what God has done for him, he has surrendered all his estates to the Father. He has single-handedly erected a cathedral, complete with auxiliary facilities such as a bookshop, offices, healing home, maternity home, guest house and a farm. The brother donated a car to an Apostle who went there on ministry work. And so, whatever you can do to a servant of God, do it.
It was through our Lord Jesus Christ alone that the world has salvation. Are you not laughing at the servants of God today? Do you not treat them disdainfully? Do you not prefer white collar jobs to the work of God? Even if you happen to be a president, governor or minister, will that bring you eternal life? Will the much celebrated job which you have not end you in prison? If the people of the world who hold political offices and work for other persons can afford to drive cars and live well, is it not more appropriate for a servant of God to enjoy the more? This is what the people of the world do not know and would not want to do. Understand therefore that for any one thing that you do for a man of God, you will be rewarded abundantly. Try this. There is no way you will serve the true God and He stops rewarding you abundantly. This we all have to do so that the name of God may be glorified.
Human beings however, prefer evil to good, hardship to plenty,and starvation to plenty, death to life. Even though Brother Nwagbara provided a Pentecostal centre in his zone, the members there refuse to worship in the centre, out of malice. They claim that he was already a community head (chief) and that by building the cathedral he also wanted to install himself as their spiritual head. Because of the above reason, the members preferred to worship in .small makeshift places. Human beings have no conscience.
13.17 The essence of appreciation
The essence of appreciation is to strike a balance and bridge any existing gap between you and God's love. For example, if a man from a rich family marries from a poor family or vice versa, the essence of such event is for the wealthy family to extend their wealth to the poor family. If a prince or princess marries an ordinary citizen, such a citizen becomes a princess or prince as the case may be. A local adage says that the wife or child of king is a king. This goes to confirm the reason why the Lord instructed God's servants not to carry with them any bag, staff or purse while carrying out His job. He made it clear that a labourer is worthy of his hire. The Lord might have thought that men would disobey Him, that is the reason why He said freely ye received and freely ye should give.
13.18 Be grateful to God
Any person that has no thankful heart does not know God? The two villages of Ukwa Ibom in Cross River State and Achara Ihe in Abia State had been engaging in an agelong civil strife until Brotherhood of the Cross and Star intervened. The two villages had been killing and eating each other.
The government, the churches and various other bodies tried to calm the situation but failed. God, passed through Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and settled the misunder-standing. When the two villages were asked to produce some money for an enlarged full feast to celebrate the peace accord, Achara gave seven hundred naira while Ukwa Ibom produced three hundred naira. When I realised the ungratefulness in their attitude, I asked them to keep their monies and I produced three thousand naira for the feast. Right now, the preacher that is assigned to Achara, is catered for by the Father.
The government is ungrateful, States are ungrateful, and individuals are also however ungrateful. However Akwa Ibom indigenes who now have a State have reciprocated the Father's gesture. It is the Father who created Akwa Ibom State for them. It is the Father who has held the country together and has, forbidden any civil war and has put a stop to any successful coup.
Do the churches know God? Every person comes to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star to be blessed, and be prospered and be paid salaries for what services they give here. Who should pay the other salary? Is it me or you? Who else would have been able to do this work? Is it an angel, Son or prophet? Have you seen man's level of ungratefulness?
13.19 The Father stopped coups in Nigeria
Coups in this country were organised frequently. But today, the situation has changed. This is so because the Father had pronounced that the Babangida administration has to handover to a civilian administration, and therefore he would not be oustered in a coup. Despite this abundant benevolence, do the governments show appreciation to God? Do they even know Brotherhood of the Cross and Star? The only country that recognizes and appreciates God's work and power is America. All the same, I have come to bind and unite the world together. If we all come together, pooling all our resources (both human and material) together, then .poverty, diseases, starvation and other associated problems would have been stamped out. The problem with you is that, when you go to God and obtain His blessing, you cart whatever He gives you to Satan. But when the world deceives you and loots your wealth, you run back to God again as a prodigal son; ignorance is a very bad disease. All the same, this generation is the luckiest. No man would have been able to do this work. And as such, when you bluff the people of the world, they feel jealous and say that you are only doing so now that your Father is alive. But I wish to bring to your notice that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is world-wide. It is for the entire world. It is the new Jerusalem which is not limited to language, colour or distance. The whole world will become the New Jerusalem.
I have seen that you are poor, blind, ignorant and foolish. But people who will really understand this kingdom are coming. This is the only place where there is truth and uprightness.
In the world, the juju priests and soothsayers will deceive, cheat and defraud you. They will give you a long list of items which you have to provide for the procurement of charms for you. They will collect goats, fowls, yams, cows, yards of cloth and many other materials. But unfortunately, these materials will only be used by their family yet, you will not be healed and will have no peace. But here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, immediately a member, even a child prays over you, you are healed free, without any ceremonies or rites.
13.20 Passport and Visa requirements shall end throughout the world
This kingdom will in due season, be abundant with wealth. But what we have to do now is to surrender everything, including ourselves, to God and His rulership. He has come to unite the entire world into one. I have told you that shortly passport and visa requirements shall cease all over the world. Once there is co-existence and the pooling of all resources together, strings and conditionality shall cease. At that time unemployment, starvation, poverty, diseases, disasters and war shall cease.
The expenses that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star incurs every month through electric bills, water rate, feeding and other humanitarian services are heavy. This is so because the facilities here in this Kingdom are enjoyed by all free. But it is not so in the world where the slightest service is offered for a fee. We are all one and need to co-exist happily. It is the duty of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, house the destitute and raise the dead. That is what Brotherhood is all about. That is why it is said that he who gathers much, has no extra and he who gathers little, is not empty. The reason is because we brought nothing into the world and shall depart with nothing too.
Whatever is given to you is meant for general use. If you hoard anything God gives to you, thieves will break in and steal it. Most of your problems, therefore, are traceable to selfishness.
It is written in the scripture that we are debtors. This is true because God has begotten us. He cares for us and gives life, power, wisdom, food and everything free, but what have you done for Him? God wants you to distribute your resources to the less privileged, free. The lion, it is said, will lack food but the children of God will never lack anything. There is no time Brotherhood shall be in lack.
13.21 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is the centre of power
The current news all over the place is that, whatever the nature of your problem, it can be solved in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. This is the centre of power. A member of Church of God who was bedeviled with an evil spirit that looted his house obtained salvation here in this kingdom. Initially, when he invited members of his congregation and priests to pray in his house, the evil spirit stole all their shoes and other property they took to the place. The people ran for their dear lives. The man invited another Reverend Minister to pray for him and when he arrived the man's house, the evil spirit snatched his Bible and other things he went to the house with; He too, ran away for his dear life. The man again invited a native doctor to dispel the evil spirit. He bought everything that was listed for the job. When the native doctor went to his house to perform the task, all the materials bought disappeared before him into thin air. The native doctor too had to flee for his life.
13.22 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star came to his rescue
Finally, the news came to a Brotherhood of the Cross and Star member. The member promptly sent words to the man informing him that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members would visit him. The man's wife objected to this idea. But the brother reiterated Brotherhood's desire to come to his house. On a Wednesday, members got set to depart. Before this time, information had it that, a certain member of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star had gone to the place and also lost his property. And it was revealed to those who wanted to go to the man's house that before they finally embark on the journey, they should go there with machetes. They had doubted such a revelation initially but later had to obey. It was only when they arrived at the place that they realised that the premises had been over-grown with weeds because the man and his family had abandoned the house. All their property which they had removed from the house and kept in friends’ houses were equally stolen by the devils.
On that fateful Wednesday, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members arrived the premises, cleared it and conducted evening prayer and watch-and-pray which led them to the following morning. Throughout the period, nothing happened. On Thursday, as they continued to observe the fasting, all the stolen property were returned, one after another until they were all complete. This is to show to you the nature of power available in this kingdom. At the end of it, the man was required to celebrate a feast. The man complained he had no money to celebrate the feast. And Brotherhood members organised the feast for him right there. Out of joy, the man offered the house to Brotherhood for its use. The man's wife vowed that over her dead body, she would not live with Brotherhood of the Cross and Star member in the same house. Can you see how human beings are?
Some of you claim to have hard times in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. I bet you to go out into the world to experience the hell there. You are healed, fed, housed, liberated and changed free, instead of showing appreciation for God's goodness, you rather would find one way or another to defraud Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Instead of putting your knowledge into God's service by repairing whatever equipment goes bad in this kingdom, you will rather destroy it so that we may buy another one because, according to you, there is plenty of money here. Many of you are knowledgeable and experienced in different professions and trade, but instead of putting such knowledge into God's service free, you want to be paid. How much did you pay Brotherhood of the Cross and Star that trained you? What is the sense in such behaviour?
In our bethel at Ikang, Cross River State, there were only five members; four women and one man. The only man was a fisherman and had no money but had the physical power. As the people had no place of worship, the brother decided to put the power God had given him into His service. He went into the bush and fetched sticks, ropes, bamboos and mats with which he erected a Bethel there. Our local adage says that what ever type of cloth a poor man has, same he clads his child with. This indicates that, that man did his bid in the service of God. Many of you are variously gifted but you have refused to invest such talents into God's service except on payment of a fee.
God does not feed the lazy and thus disapproves of eating a man's food for nought. If Brotherhood should join forces and resources and other outfits, together all will be for the good of us all. We will work there, eat from there and continue in God's service. There is no other hope for the world from elsewhere than in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. This is where you find love, peace, mercy, oneness, patience and all the virtues. Faith without work is dead. Everywhere in the world, people are listening and asking to know what the Father says. Read the golden text again:
Golden text: Luke 8:1-3
“And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with Him.
And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils.
And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.”
13.23 Serve God diligently
Brotherhood means mutual co-existence, unity, oneness, love and eternal life. Brotherhood desires that you should live and prosper but you want it destroyed.
A hungry man is said to be an angry man. There are many preachers who are sincerely desirous to serve the Father but hunger and poverty would not allow them. Some of them who persist to stay in bethels undergo forced dry fasting for lack of food. Is it proper for a man of God to go to Satan for food? Will Satan not ask him why his master has not given him food? If the servants of God go to Satan to hire his vehicle, will he not ask them why they were not provided with one? Satan then will be happy to deny them his vehicle so that they would not proceed on the evangelical work.
When the going is good with you, the world will identify with you and hold you in high esteem. They will only be pretending to love you. When your wealth is no more, none of them will even greet you, not even your brethren. All the people who had dined and wined with you when the going was good will then turn against you and call you names. So does Satan take delight in seeking for the downfall of the children of God. But today, he stands disappointed because God has come to make all things new.
Whatever you are capable of doing, whether it is farming, trading or any kind of activity, do it here in this kingdom for the common good of all. It is this oneness and co-existence that made the King of Kings visit to Akwa Ibom and Rivers States so successful and memorable. The women were healed and many among them brought out all that they had in appreciation. In your own case, you will be healed and instead of showing appreciation, you will go and bring your family to dwell here, claiming that you want to serve God. Even at that, if you are asked to sweep the floor, you will refuse. Such persons only roam from one house and bethel to another, begging for alms and shamelessly telling people that they have been rejected or denounced in their families for accepting Brotherhood, but in the days of our Lord Jesus Christ, the people that were healed gave Him all they had in appreciation. They also surrendered themselves to the Lord's use.
In some bethels, the women's fellowship unites and raises funds through common labour and develops their bethels. In other bethels, some members gather jobless brethren and train them on furniture making.
This is in fulfillment of the golden text which says in part, that amongst them that were healed by Him, each expressed gratefulness by bringing out all that they had to the Lord. If all that are healed of their infirmities, saved from danger and raised from death endeavour to show appreciation, this kingdom would have been even more enjoyable by all.
What unites us is not by sleeping or lying together on the same bed or mat. It is not maintaining different bank accounts and putting up different identities. What really makes us one is our common sharing together. If we pull our resources together, even if we live in different homes or sleep on different beds, we are still one. That is why it is said that a house that is divided against itself cannot stand, and that if Satan fights against Satan, his kingdom cannot stand. Right now, if you do business with an unbeliever, such a venture will not succeed. This is because unbelievers are filled with evil, hard and bad luck and are generally deceitful. That is why I declare that we should all rise in concert and pull our resources together for the good of all of us.
13.24 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is our home
Brotherhood is our farm, city and house. Whatever we desire to organise, be it a football team, or gymnasium, everything must be one. Your problem is disobedience and dishonesty. All along, you have been struggling on your own, how successful have you been? You may decide to revolve the business around your family by employing your brothers and sisters and by making them directors or shareholders. These are the same people who will ruin and plunder your business.
It is said that penny wise but a pound foolish. There is no love in the world; there is no mercy, truth, meekness, patience and goodness in the world. This is so because the world does not have the Holy Spirit. This kingdom is wonderful and good because it is the home of love, peace, mercy, patience, meekness and all the virtues. That is why, in due season, everybody will be coming into Brotherhood and asking for Father to choose a Governor, President or any form of political leader for them. For now, the government, the churches and individuals are corrupt and dishonest. But here, the case is different.
This kingdom is a model, and there is none of its kind. Any time the world is in lack of anything, they have to come to Brotherhood, for rescue. Some people who invested their fortunes into politics come here to lament and regret such adventure. He who does not serve God must serve Satan. And if you serve Satan, you will return empty handed. Moreover you will be tormented by Satan and he will seek to kill you.
Those who have money should bring it out and those who have knowledge or strength should also do so. All the resources should be pulled together for the common good of all of us.
The whites had tried to establish something similar to Brotherhood but could not. No person ever comprehended Brotherhood or thought it would grow this fast and large. Can somebody who is washed clean fall into a dirty pool to wash himself again? You have refrained from drinking, taking snuff and smoking yet, you join into partnership with an unbeliever who indulges in all these things; how then will your business prosper?
Often times, when he enjoys himself by eating all these things, it is your business that will be debited. How then can you prosper? This is a golden opportunity for us to denounce the world with its lusts. If we try bit by bit, gradually and finally, we will conquer. Rome after all was not built in a day.
God is ready to exalt us and to prosper our activities. Americans prosper today because of their zeal in God's service. Even so, America is still lacking in the absolute freedom and unconditional love of God. Such freedom and love are only obtainable here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. The Father has come to change man and gradually lead him to his lost glory. People will be coming from far and near to behold this kingdom. It is a unique place; that is why the police, the military and the rest of the law enforcement agents do not come here. Brotherhood of the Cross and Star behaves differently and does its own things in a well organised way.
A stroke of the cane, it is said, is sufficient to the wise. May God bless His holy words; Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER.