Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: Matthew 11: 27
"All things are delivered unto me of my Father; and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him".
Second lesson: Matthew 6: 9
"After this manner therefore pray ye; Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name."
Golden text: Matthew 23: 9
"And call no man your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, which is in Heaven."
Why is it that this hall is not filled with people? This is the Father's Week and where are His children? Do you now see why I say that the intricacies of this Kingdom are not clear to you? This week is called the Father's Week but where are His children? Brethren, I do not blame you because it has always been like this and will continue like that till eternity. You have heard that whom the Father loves, He reveals the Son unto him and also whom the Son loves to reveal the Father unto.
You have been told not to call man on earth Father. Upon all the persons you refer to as father you have only One Father.
25.1 The significance of the Father's week
When you are told that the Father wants you, do not ask which Father because there is only one Father. We have many brothers and sisters but we have only one Father. Your insolence to the Father should stop for now. Whenever you hear “Father” it is that One Father who is calling you. If the whole Brotherhood had known what Father means, all the inhabitants of the world would have known what to do. We use earthly things to illustrate heavenly things. The word of God says if you do not love your brother whom you have seen how can you love God whom you do not see? That is why in all things the Father uses earthly situations to illustrate heavenly situations. He says whoever honours the Son also honours the Father. That is why this Week has been set aside as the Father's Week.
If you cast your minds back, you will realize that the Father's Week has never been kept at any point in time because no person has ever known the Father. He has set this week aside to reveal the Father to the whole world. The whole world and even members of the Brotherhood regard this week as a very insignificant week. The women will say that the week belongs to the men and that they had their own Mother's Week. And I ask how many Fathers have you got? If all the brothers and sisters had realized what is meant by "Father's Week", not even the children would have been left out of this gathering.
25.2 Our Lord Jesus Christ was the only person who revealed God as the Father
The one and the most significant work which our Lord Jesus Christ did was to reveal the Father, The greatest work which Brotherhood of the Cross and Star has done in this generation is worshipping the Father and setting aside one whole week to celebrate the manifestation of the Father.
It is not just lip service but a means of rejoicing with Him and glorifying Him throughout this month and throughout this year by all the inhabitants of the world so that all creations may realize that the Father has come. This is the week set aside for the Father who sent the Son. The Father whom our Lord Jesus Christ always referred to as "Father, Father" which prompted Phillip to ask Him "show us the Father," that Father has been revealed to you.
25.3 The Father's reign
The whole Brotherhood of the Cross and Star world should celebrate this week amidst songs, feasts, dancing, charities, in offices, at homes in the bethels and everywhere until the whole world acclaims that they have really seen the Father. Because this is His reign, Did our Lord Jesus Christ not tell you about the Father? Did He not bear witness to the Father? He said “my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth, give I unto you”. If you had known this you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; and the Father is greater than me. Right from his infancy, when he was twelve years of age, he was always calling on the Father. He bore witness to the Father.
When they went to the feast at Jerusalem, he was only twelve years old and his earthly parents left him behind after the feast. He went and sat in the temple with the doctors of law, the lawyers the priests and the scribes. He was asking them questions and answering theirs. That was a child of twelve. Did they know that that was the Son? He is the Son of man, Son of the Father and the Father Himself. Because it is said that he humbled himself unto the stature of a Son of man, and even as the Son of God, He humbled himself unto man. There is a local adage that a child starts his delicacies with a snail.
Because if he had said that he is God, then people would have rent their clothes. You have to dream of something before it is manifested physically. And then he will remind you of the dream and you will remember. From Genesis to Malachi you will not find any portion where God is referred to as Father, Abraham did not know him as the Father. But earthly things are used to illustrate heavenly things and so Abraham was called "Father Abraham". He is used in the illustration because he was the "friend" of God, He became God's representative. That is how the Name "Father" came to be known. But the substance of that name is what you now have.
25.4 Father is the husbandman
Christ had said that this generation will not pass away until all these things are fulfilled. Christ also gave us a parable about a king who planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servant to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruit of it.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the Lord, therefore, of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They themselves replied and said: "He will miserably destroy those wicked men and will let out his vineyard unto the other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons." I am telling you that the husbandmen in the parable is the Father whose week you are celebrating today.
25.5 Our Lord Jesus Christ bore witness to the Father's glory
This is the Father's day. This is the time of the Father, This is the generation of the Father, Jesus said unto them, "Did ye never read in the Scripture, "the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner; this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? "Therefore say I unto you, that this kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." I am telling you that our Lord Jesus Christ was bearing witness to this glory. He said when the Father shall come He will reveal all things unto you because he will glorify me. He will testify of me because I bore witness to Him. For all that belongs to the Father belong to me. There is no division between them. He bore witness to the Father and the Father bore witness to him and therefore, his glory is revealed fully.
25.6 All glories belong to the Father
Any house which is divided against itself cannot stand The Father and the Son are one. There is no division among them. And all that belongs to the Father also belongs to the Son and all that belongs to the Son also belongs to the Father. That is why whoever honours the Son also honours the Father. And all those who honour the Father, honour the Son also. That is why the Son bestowed all glories to the Father. The Father is not worried because He knows that all the glory is His Son's. The Father himself has bestowed all glory unto the Son and you will wonder what then remains for the Father? I am telling you that all the glory still belongs to the Father,
25.7 Jesus our Lord was killed because He claimed Himself the Son of God
Your own problem is that you have refused to surrender yourself completely to the Father. If you had done this, you would have had no problems, It is said that whoever speaks of himself seeks his own glory.Since you are seeking your own glory, that is why you speak of yourself. If the Father is not known, how can you be known? And if you are not known, how can He be known? Can you realize the wisdom of God? He came and declared that He was the Son. He did not claim that He is the Father. He called Himself the Son on earth. That is why the Jews wanted to kill Him, that He being a man should regard Himself as God. They did not know Him. If you bear witness to yourself your witness is not true but if another person bears witness to you that testimony is true. Your problem is that you complain that in your family you are the only light. When you say this you have disgraced God. Our problem is that wherever we go we continue to boast of having the power to do one thing or the other. Have you got this power? You have failed. If you bear witness of another person, people will believe your testimony but when you bear witness to yourself people will not pay any attention to you.
25.8 Love one another
You are taught to love one another but up till today this teaching is not clear to you and you do not know what it means, nor do you know how to love one another. It is said let the man love his own wife as himself because no man ever hates his own flesh; because when the husband loves his wife he is loving himself. And the wife is told to reverence the husband because by reverencing the husband she is reverencing herself because she and the husband are one flesh. But the woman instead of doing this will ask "is he my father that I should so honour him." Let me remind you that it means a lot to honour him. You are one with him, and you honour yourself by honouring him. What does the wife lose by honouring the husband? What does the husband lose by loving the wife? The man has failed by refusing to love his wife. It means that if he does not love her he does not love himself. That is the cause of failure of the husbands.
The wives also have failed because they continue to argue that they can never honour the husband. If you do not honour him can you honour yourself? Have you not heard that the head of the woman is the man and the head of the man is Christ and the head of Christ is God. This indicates that the wife honours God when she honours the husband and she also honours herself. If a man also loves his wife, it implies that he loves the Christ and God; He also loves himself. That was why Christ did not advise them to love Him but he said love ye one another even as I have loved you.
25.9 Do to others what you wish them do to you
Have you not heard the teaching he has given? "Whatever you wish that people should do to you, do thou also to them."
Can you realise, the deep meaning and recondite wisdom which "underlines that statement? But since understanding is limited you begin to wonder how you can do to others what you expect them to do to you, that you cannot do it. You will want to do it first to yourself. You have failed. Have you not heard this question: “He who is unfaithful in that which is another's, who will give him what belongs to him?” When you hear that it is' more blessed to give than to receive, you wonder how that can be true because if you have a bicycle and give it out to another person what will you gain? You argue you cannot do it, and that the statement is not true but a parable." People have tasked their brains with this riddle. You think of how you can give the twenty Naira you have to another person and remain empty handed?" You argue, that you cannot do it and because it is unnatural.
25.10 God creates the world and the fullness thereof
It is only God who has fully demonstrated this teaching, because He begins His own counting with zero.
You should realise that there was nothing at the beginning. The world was empty and void and without form. He then created the earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, and the stars. He made the "trees, the fishes in water, the birds and the animals in the forest. Finally, can you realise how kind, generous and unselfish God is? He said “let us create man in our own image and in our own likeness”. If you were God you would have created man in the lowest position because you want man to be your servant. And after creating, man God said "let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over, the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earthy" Tell me what else is remaining for God? He put man as superintendent over all things.
Any person who speaks of himself and arrogates to himself any power will be looked at despiteful but when you tell people that they are beautiful and wealthy and kind the people will begin to applaud you not knowing that you are talking about yourself. This is the wisdom of God.
If you do not give glory to someone who will give glory to you? If you do not love somebody who will love you? If you are not obedient to someone who will be obedient unto, you? It is God alone who has all the virtues. Do you not observe how he has glorified the stone because God Himself is the stone? Have you ever heard any person who starts counting with the number one? You have to start from zero, then one, two, three and so on.
25.11 The evolution of religion
That explains why He told Cain and Abel to offer sacrifices to him. He Himself did not seek for these sacrifices, but He wanted to test them. From the beginning people worshipped whatever they liked. Whoever worshipped a stone was regarded as worshipping God. Whosoever worshipped fire was regarded as worshipping God because God himself is fire. When you do evil, fire will consume you because God is a consuming fire. Man started worship with worshipping inanimate objects.
But gradually angels were revealed to man, and man ignorantly accepted and worshipped them as God. This was however an advance over the worship of inanimate objects worshipped before by man. The names people called God, such as Jah, Elohim, Jehovah etc., are names of angels revealed to man. They were accepted by man as God and worshiped. The worship of God advanced from the worship of angels to when God revealed Himself in the identity as His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. God was in Him manifest on earth to carry out His mission. God would say that He would come as a Prophet, but when He comes, He is usually not recognised and are even rejected only for man to regret it after the departure of the prophet.
Hezekiah was sick of abscess but turned to God for help that God should remember what he did for him at his youth. God advised him to use the leaves of a tree to cure the abscess and God extended his life for another 15 years.
There has never been a time when any person starts to worship God and admits that what he worships is God. He has to start by worshipping trees, stones and the inanimate objects. When you go and trace the evolution of religion you will realize that man started by worshipping stones, trees, roots, leaves and other inanimate objects.
That is why He told Adam to eat of all the trees in the Garden except this one and from there he started teaching them about Himself. You will then realize how difficult His way is. This is the very last generation, the end of times. God is here to teach us and lead us to the Truth
First lesson: Matthew 11:27
"All things are delivered unto me of my Father; and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him".
Brethren, have you heard that? He says “my Father has delivered all things unto me”. No one knows the Son except the Father and no man knows the Father except the Son, and whosoever the Son will reveal him. Is that statement not fulfilled today? Philip asked our Lord show us the Father. And I ask why is it that right from Adam no man has known the Father? Every person calls Him Jehovah, but Jehovah is an angel, and not God.
When you hear that Abraham saw God, he only saw an angel. They worshipped angels and rocks and trees, and the winds. When God created Adam how would it sound if God had told him that he was Adam and are God, and he should worship himself. What would be the meaning of that? Who is that man that would ever greet another person in this world? Who would ever have regard for another person? He has given us an injunction to love one another and this implies that something important was on the way. The thing that lies ahead is you yourself. We have an adage that the fame of a man is greater than his person. Do you not realize that the fame is greater than what we see? When you hear stories of a famous person you desire to see him. When you see him, what is he? He is nothing. His greatness consists in the fame that people spread about him.
25.12 Abhor self glory
I want you to experiment on what I am going to tell you. Tomorrow morning send out somebody to deliver a message to another person.
Tell your servant to tell him that his master says he should take action on the instruction at once. The moment the person receives this message, even if he is a lawyer he will begin to shiver because he does not know what the master of this servant looks like and how he came to know him. When you send out somebody in this way, you will look big in the eye of the person who receives the message. But when you go out to meet the fellow and tell him that you are the person who had been sending the message to him. The person will begin to gather himself, and express surprise because he has known you all the time. And from that day your reputation is gone. That is why you are not to glorify your own self or speak of your own self. You have to bear testimony of another person.
25.13 The tendency for man's quest for the future
If you should go out and proclaim to people that someone is coming from Lagos who will preach to them and take away all their problems and sickness and that you yourself are nothing.
People will turn out in large numbers. As a matter of fact when that person comes wonders will happen because they have already believed in him and so the glory of God will be revealed. And if this person in turn tells them that he has not done anything because the one greater than him is coming, they will ask "is there a greater person than this one?" He is the person we want! That is exactly how God lives his own life in this kingdom.
25.14 Both John and the Christ testified about each other
It is He Himself who is doing all these things, that is why when John came he said he was nothing. That another person who was preferred before him was coming. He is so great that he John was not worthy to untie the latchet of his shoes. He was that same God. The Christ in turn said, of all men born of woman, there is none that is greater than John except he who is least in the kingdom of heaven. Can you notice this? John is bearing witness to Jesus and Jesus also is bearing witness to John.
Finally our Lord Jesus Christ told them verily verily I say unto you whoever believes in me will do the works that I do and greater works than these will he do because “I go unto the Father" He also told them that the Comforter who is also the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and lead you unto the accurate wisdom of the truth and He shall also bring to your remembrance all that I have told you." And so every person was waiting eagerly for the coming of that Comforter. We have another proverb which says: "An old thing is your own thing and a new thing is a thing of joy”. And so all of us are eager to hear new doctrines, because you will hear people telling you to go away with stale news: they are fed up and want something new. The new thing is a thing of joy. That is why God always renews Himself. He is always new with a new name,. but He is the same God.
25.15 God revealed as the Father
And so when John taught his disciples to pray, the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ also went to him and told him "Teach us to pray even as John taught his disciples.”
Remember whath he said; "that the Father has given everything unto him," that no person knows the Son except the Father and that no one knows the Father except the Son" and to whomsoever the Son would reveal him. He also says I and the Father are one. Did He not reveal the Father to the whole world? The greatest work which our Lord Jesus Christ did which no person had ever done was to reveal God as the Father.
25.16 To worship God in Spirit and Truth
During the conversation of our Lord Jesus Christ with the woman of Samaria, the woman said unto Him. "Our Fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship” Jesus said unto her, “woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye knew not what; we know what we worship; for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth."
25.17 The real and most appropriate name of God is Father
This is that time referred to. The spirit referred to is the "Father." This Father is the God who made heaven and earth. The Son is in Him, the children are in Him, the prophets are in Him. All the apostles are in Him. All the elders, all created and uncreated thing are in Him because He is the Father who created the heavens, the earth, the waters, the rocks, the winds and whatever flies and creeps. This is His Week.
Noah did not know Him as the Father. He worshipped Him with the name Jehovah. God is not His name. Lord also, is not His name. His name is not Elohim, I am that I am' is not His name. Creator of heaven and earth is not His name. Most High is not His name. The only befitting name of God is "Father”.
What does Father mean? All spirits emanate from Him. The Head from whom all things are derived is what is referred to as Father. Everything including man, trees, fishes in the water, fire, water, power, wisdom, truth, everything created by God even death come from Him. That is why He is called "Father". When you call God you should realize that there are gods. The word God is a mere semantic. The spelling is g-o-o-d which is good. One 'O' is omitted and it is being called God. And so the word G-o-d has no meaning again. It is a terminological inexactitude. I am not criticizing them. I am only correcting them. This is the time of perfection and so imperfection must pass away; because half education is a very dangerous thing. I do not blame Adam, I do not blame Eve, I do not blame Enoch or Moses, I do not blame any person because that was their level of understanding, Those who worshipped trees have not sinned because they were worshipping the God of some kind. Those who were worshipping water as God have done no wrong. It is the same God. That was how they understood Him.
But now is the fullness of time for all the trees, the waters and everything to worship the Father who is the Father of all creation because this is His reign. Since He created stones, He is the Father of stones. He is the Father of the waters. He is the Father of man. He is the Father of the animals. He is the Father of the winds and sun and earth. He is the Father of everything. And so we know Him only as the Father. Let the second lesson be read.
Second lesson: Matthew 6:9
"After this manner therefore pray ye; Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name."
Brethren, what have you learnt from that? Did any person ever impart this kind of teaching revealing God as the Father? Do you know that you dishonour God when you call another person father? Begin to trace the genealogy of your father; it ends with Adam. And who is the Father of Adam? Is He not God? Why not call a spade a spade?
25.18 The Father who is in heaven
This is the time to call a spade by its name. The movement of the Israelites from Egypt during the deliverance to Canaan can be compared to a parable. They wandered for 40 years. Right from the time of Adam count the number of years up to date, yet people have not known God. You can now realize that His way is mysterious. People go to the sun to search for God. Some go to the moon, they go into water, they go into the deeps, they go to America, India and everywhere, but was He lost? Here He is. He is the Father. The Father who art in heaven. Can you see how the wisdom of God has eluded the world?
25.19 Always seek after God
Our Lord Jesus Christ said that He was sent by the Father. I am going back to the Father because the Father is greater than I. But today no person seeks after the Father. They rather seek for Jesus. No person asks "where is the Father? or "when will the Father come?" You continue to ask "when will Jesus come again" Oh Jesus the Son of God! But about God himself, is He not the Father? God sent Moses as a prophet and when Moses died the people wept for one full month complaining that their God was dead. They did not wait for God who sent Moses, the one who did those works. Can you realize the stupidity of man? But God wanted to show them their foolishness and so raised up Joshua. And Joshua did greater works than Moses; even then, they did not learn.
25.20 The tabernacle of God is with man
It is written that we are labourers together in the vineyard of God. We are God's building. We are God's husbandry. We are God's vineyard. You are walking and working with God. You are the vineyard He has planted. Therefore He is the Father. Have you not heard that the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of Jehovah God and His Christ? He is the Father. He is the great Father who lives in you.
It is said the dwelling place of God is now with men. And He shall be their God and they shall be His children. Right now there is no other name. Do not call any man on earth father. Do not contemplate it in your heart. He alone is the Father.
25.21 God is called Father
Jehovah God is not His name., His name is not Christ. Elohim is not His name. His name is the "Father" He had allowed all those names so that you may realise that He has neither bias nor discrimination. He gives the leaves its own glory. He gives water the glory that belongs to it. The same with the fire, But now He has confiscated all the glories unto Himself. But you may go to Him and tell Him to heal you. He can direct you to go and wash three times in water, and you will be well. But you begin to argue that since he has come in person he should touch you and you will be well. Just go and do as you are told, that water may be glorified.
Now you may just come back from a ministry work only to be told to go on ministry work again in Lagos. Go to Surulere and pray there. Pay your tithe and your problems are taken away. You begin to argue "but the Father is here, what have I to do in Surulere?" I say you should go. Before you get there and complete what you were instructed all your problems are over and you become well.
25.22 Hallow the Father's name
You may be told to go and meet one small boy in a certain town who will pray for you. And you argue and ask what a small boy can do, that you want a senior prophet or the Father to place his hands on you and pray? That small boy is the Father. Go to him and all things are well. Sometimes He will tell you to go and pray in the bethel. Observe dry fasting for one day and your problems are solved. You will argue that you were in the bethel on fasting yesterday. Just go and do same. If you do what He tells you, your problems will be over.
He was the one who gave all the glory to the Son. Everything is the Father. That is why he has taught the whole world: "Our Father who art in Heaven; hallowed be thy name." Who is the Father who is in heaven, is it not this same name? Who is the Father who is in heaven, is it not this same Father? This is the Father's week but have we hollowed His name?
25.23 All creation, should hallow the Father's name
It behoves the children of God to worship and honour His name throughout this week. During this week all the markets and offices should remain closed and when it is asked, the answer should be that people are worshipping and hallowing the Father. Everywhere, every person should dance and rejoice and give alms generously because this is hHis week. This is His reign. Have you ever heard any person who practises the injunction "Let us honour your name - our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name?"
This week, the whole Brotherhood has to honour His name. All the inhabitants of the world should hallow His own name. This is the Father's week set aside to honour Him. Fishes in the waters, trees in the forest, animals in the bush, angels, spirit, everything created by God should all hallow the name of the Father. You have heard what is said, that no person knows the Son except the Father and no person knows the Father except the Son and whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.
25.24 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star: The first to celebrate the Father's week
Search from genesis through the Revelation of John, search throughout the world, search through the ages; have you ever heard of the Father's Week? Have you read of it in the Bible? Is it recorded in history? Have you heard it mentioned in the world? Throughout the whole universe this is the first time such a week has ever been mentioned.
I have never heard of it myself. It is said that six days belong to the thief and the seventh belongs to the farmer. God has never revealed this week at any point in time. He kept it and reserved it to be celebrated at this time by all inhabitants of the world.
25.25 Obedience subsumes righteousness
What is being used to reveal the Father's week? It is said that earthly situations are used in illustrating heavenly situations. Was it not said that Abraham was called a friend of God because he sacrificed his only son, Isaac to God? Because of that he was called Father. That was how the Father started to introduce Himself. And now as it has been written, if you do not honour a man whom you see how will you honour God who you cannot see? If you worship what you see, you have also got to worship that which you do not see. Abel sacrificed a fat ram unto God and God counted it to him as righteousness.
I want this gospel to be written and circulated to all parts of the world because the concept of Father's Week is not clear to many of you. You think the Father is man; He is not man but Father, the Father who created the heavens and the earth, Relate the Father's week celebration with that of the Mother's week and the sister's week and the brother's week; how many are they? It is said but for your Father would you know your mother and but for your mother would you have come into this world? Whose glory is it then? It is the Father's glory. Now the men know no better than to put on their suits and drive their long cars and speak their Queen's English. But they have never known of the Father's Week as it is being revealed today. When they come here it is to eat their feast and go away.
If you were to know that this week is the Father's Week, the Father who created heaven and earth, the hall would have been filled up. The whole of this town and the entire world would have remained in festive mood. Many people think that the Fathers Week refers to the biological father of the Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. How did the Leader come to this place? How did that other person who begot the Leader come about? Finally, what we have is Father. Our Father who is in Heaven is the one we are referring to; the One who made heaven and earth and the fulness thereof. Therefore, we should all worship and honour Him. Trace the geneology of the father that begot the Leader. That father, who was his father? And finally you will end with Adam. And so it is that Father who made Adam and Eve that we are talking about. This is His Week.
25.26 Father's week must from now be eternally observed
Other religious organisation have different days and festivals for saints and what have you; but there has never been a thing like Father's Week, Father's Day, Father's month or Father's year. But from today it has to be observed forever and ever.
It has no other meaning apart from Father's Week. I want this gospel to be published so that if any person asks you what is Father's Week you hand this gospel to him. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name". That is exactly what we are doing. There is no other thing. If you bring in another father you are doomed. In which other way can we reveal the Father except in this way. When somebody asks you "What are you doing?" You tell him that you are celebrating the Father's Week. And he asks "Which Father?" Ask him how many Fathers have you? This Father's week embraces all the governments, the trees, the rocks, angels, winds, fishes, created and uncreated things, all have a share in it. There is no man who is the Father. There is no tree that is the Father. There is no angel that is the Father. There is no wind or fish or animal that is the Father except Him alone that is the Father and the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
25.27 Who is the Son of God?
If you call any man 'Father' you have erred. You cannot refer to Adam as your Father. If you do that you have erred. The Bible will tell you that Adam was the Son of God and Our Lord Jesus Christ was also the Son of God. The Father that created Adam and Eve, the Father that sent Our Lord Jesus Christ, He is the Father. He is the one and only Father. Adam was a begotten Son of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself was the begotten Son. You yourself are that one Son. Even if you fill the whole world, including trees and animals - all are that one son. Therefore we all should worship Him and serve Him. This is the time of His glory and so we must worship Him. You can call God or Jehovah. We know He is not the one. If you call Elohim, He is not Him. But when you mention Father, that is Him. Do you ask questions? Do you argue? Bow down and worship. There is nothing like God-Father. There is no Deputy-God. There is no Deputy Father. It is only one Father and He is for all the heavens and earth.
25.28 Your parent is your daddy not Father
This is the time of His glory and so we all should give glory to Him. Do not call any person by that Name. Do not even refer to any person as your step-father. Do you not realise how wise the whites are? They call .the parent "Daddy". The whites have gone very far. Have you ever heard them call their parent Father? They will not, because they know that there is only one Father. But the blacks will call even somebody they have never known 'father', because he is an old man. Afterwards they will refer to another person as their earthly father. "Does it mean that there are two "fathers?" You can call him "daddy", papa, "brother" that is all. That is accepted. That could also be alright. But make no mistake in calling him 'father', for we have only but one Father. This is the Father's day; this is His week; this is His month, and days ahead.
25.29 Call no person Father
You are His child. Every person is His own child. Who then should you call the father amongst his children. That would be a blasphemous statement. Our Lord Jesus Christ had taught, that you should call no man upon the earth, teacher; that you call no man father. There is only one Father who is in heaven.
All what you had done, the Father has forgiven you. Right from today, the 25th day of November, 1985, that it has been revealed from the highest heaven to the four corners of the world, both angels and human beings, no more make the mistake of calling any man, Father, so that you may not be consumed. Wherever you come across the word father, you have to be fearful, for there is no deputy but the Father alone exists.
You have to regard the celebration as a very important event. You have to hallow that Name. You have to fear that Name, and to bow down to it. At any time, the name is being mentioned, you have to realize that He is the One.
Why I have been shown the second lesson is because that prayer is often offered by all the church denominations. The prayer is, "Our Father, who is in heaven, hallowed be thy name" If at any time you call on the Father, and you are asked, 'which Father', you have to refer the inquirer to Matthew 6:9. Tell the person that you are calling on that Father. If the person insists refer him to the golden text, Matthew 23;9. “Know ye no other man as the father.” Everything emanates from the Father. This is the reign of the Father.
25.30 Take the revelation of the sons of God
Brotherhood means the brethren. They are the children of this one Father, We have therefore to demonstrate, dance, and celebrate the Father's Week in a grand style. It is a pity that you have not yet started his celebration because you do not know what it means. You have only come to play. It is said, the earnest expectation of the creatures is for the manifestation of the sons of God. When the children of God are revealed, then the Father will Himself be revealed. When the Father is revealed, then the children of God will be revealed.
25.31 The Father's glory
As the children of God, we have to honour his name. We have to reveal his name to every person. Let no one call any person Father. Wherever you go to, you have to make people know that name. Because of our celebration of this week, people will be forced to ask, "what are you celebrating this week"? The answer will be, "Father's Week". If you are asked, what is the meaning of Father's week, then you have to present this gospel which marks the opening address of the Father's Week.
This Gospel has to be read to all to learn by heart as a recitation. You have to memorise it so that the flesh might be destroyed fully. For the glory of the Father is actually revealed. I am not the Father. No one is the father. There is no other father excepting the one in Heaven. He is the only Father. At anytime you address a letter to the Father, I know the person you are referring to. You are referring to the Father in heaven. I do not intend to take you further let our Golden text be read.
Golden text: Matthew 23:9
"And call no man your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, which is in Heaven."
Brethren, have you heard that? It is combined when it is said, God is a Spirit. That is why I tell you that the Spirit which is now here has never at any time come down. The Father has come Himself sending no one.
The Father who is in heaven is the Father of all the Spirits. All the angels and the children, all human beings, the trees, animals, and whatever you may think of are from Him. This is so because His name is "Father".
25.32 God is monotheistic
You have to remember when an angel in heaven, an angel of deceit asked God that he should be allowed to enter into five hundred persons in order to deceive that king since he had refused to believe in God.
That is why that spirit of falsehood said, "Let me go into five hundred persons; to deceive the king that he would be victorious, since he has refused to believe in God." So that spirit came and entered into five hundred persons. And as the king went to them one by one he was told that he would be victorious in the war. Because of these other revelations, he turned round to blame the prophet of God, that the stupid prophet was only deceiving him, and he did not love him, hence he has to suffer. Wherever the king went to, he was told that he would be victorious. Five hundred people you know are not just five people. It is said, words of testimonies in the mouth of two or three confirm a fact. You can now see that the words of testimonies from the mouths of five hundred people can be false.
God is but one. One is of God but two are of Satan. That is why we are for one Christ and one Son.
There is only one Lord, and Father and one Spirit. All of them put together constitute the Father. People hold that the commandments' of God are very many. They are not many. There is only one commandment, "Love ye one another."
25.33 There is no earthly Father
Here we have only one Father. It is written boldly, “call no man upon the earth, neither in heaven, nor in the moon, nor in the sun, nor in stars, Father" Do not wonder in thoughts. As soon as you call on the Father, realize that it is only the Father who is in Heaven. Do not call on the Father through the name Jehovah, or God, or Elohim. Once you call on him as the Father, it is sufficient. It is Him you are calling upon and whatever you may desire, you will have. I do not want to hear that word 'carnal father'. What is the meaning of your carnal father? It is simply 'Father'.
25.34 The Father creates everything
The greatest of all the names is "Father", The holiest of all the names is Father. The most powerful of all the names is "Father". The only name which surrounds, and envelops both heaven and earth is the "Father". The name, "Children" comes from the Father. Angels emanate from that name. All spirits, be they white, black, or yellow come from that name. The sun, the moon, the rain, fire, stones, and all other things emanate from the name Father. He is therefore a Father indeed.
Lay aside your insolence and honour that name, for He is the Father. Lay aside those funny names as Jehovah, Jah, Elohim, and Jaweh for they all emanate from Him. And none is the name of the Father. His name right from today; for which you have to decide and abide by is simply Father. When you do that, wonders will actually happen.
I believe that, ever since the creation of man, this 25th day of November, 1985, is the greatest of all the days. It is a day set aside by God for Himself in order to reveal His name, and to hallow His name. Right from now all the inhabitants of the world, both angels and human beings, must hallow the name of the Father, so that we may be saved that we may receive blessings, and praises and the glory kept for us.
25.35 The power of the name
Your problems emanate from the fact that you do not know the Father and that life eternal is to know the Father. Even though it is said that everything should be asked in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, but the central figure is the Father. Therefore, at any moment you knock your head, call on the Father, thanking Him for what He has given unto you. By so doing, wonders will happen.
You only have to thank him for the life He has given unto you and all other things will be bestowed unto you. It is not a matter of long statements. As soon as you call on the Father from your heart of hearts, wonders will surely happen. You will be healed of your sickness. You will no more be in lack. You will have many other things bestowed unto you. You will be surprised right from the day that the Father Is revealed to you,
25.36 The Father is our shepherd
Feel your pulses and you will find a change. We are in the Father. Our Lord Jesus Christ is in the Father. Everything is in the Father. All trees are in the Father. There is only one flock under one shepherd. There is only one Father. Therefore, there is no more problem.
When our Lord Jesus Christ came, whom did He call? Did he ever call on Jehovah? He continued calling on the Father. At all instances, He was calling on the Father. That is why Phillip was prompted to say “show us the Father that it sufficeth us”. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not condemn but only made the correction to show that He is the Father and He is the Spirit.
He did not dispute about certain things because everything comes from the Father. But the accurate wisdom of the truth is to know Him as the Father. It is said, whoever has the Father has no problems. Whoever knows the Father has no encumbrances. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "I am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman. All the statements of our Lord Jesus Christ centered on the Father. Throughout this week and in the weeks ahead, you have to attribute everything to the Father. I want you to give the glory to the Father both in your offices and everywhere. Say to all, both governors and others that it is the Father who does everything. They will be forced to ask you, which Father; to which you will say, “our Father who is in Heaven”.
25.37 Fear God
His instruction that you should honour your father and mother is only referring to Himself. When you are told to honour your father and mother so that you may live long on earth this is but the primary stage. An attempt to take you off the elementary stage, at times proves difficult. That is not what He meant. All those statements are referring to the Father. Whom do you refer to as your father and mother. Are they not the Father in heaven? The Father had given you an injunction, that you should love the brethren. This again refers to Himself. Who are the brethren spoken of? Is He not the one? It is said, “Fear God”. Who is God? He is the Father. You are told to honour the King. Who is the King referred to? It is also the Father. As soon as you call on the Father, it means you have called on everything; ; things created and uncreated are therefore all included.
By mere writing the word, Father, made up of six letters of the alphabet, it means that everything is accomplished.
25.38 Revelation of the Father is followed with changes
Today is the luckiest day and a glorious day of blessing. You will see the changes throughout the world; both in the television and in the radio broadcast. You will hear of good news, what you will see both in your dream and with your naked eyes? Also the changes in your body, and in your footsteps, and all other things will show to you that it is the Father who is at work.
Calling on brother or sister is a simple thing. But once the name of the Father is pronounced, you have to lie down on the ground, having known who He is. When you call on 'brother' you know exactly what it means. The brother himself knows what it implies. When you call on 'sister' she knows what it implies, and you too know the meaning of it.
25.39 The Father is responsible for whatever happens
When you say, Brotherhood, you know what it means and he also knows what it means. What is the meaning of brother. It means the Father. What does sister mean? It means the Father. What does Brotherhood mean? It means Father. Therefore, do not bother yourself by going round and round. Simply call a spade a spade. Right from today, do not hold by the legs, neither the tail alone. But rather take hold of the head. (1st Corinthians 15:28 )clearly states that the last enemy to be overcome is death. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. You should not know any other thing apart from the Father.
When you ask, who is singing, the answer should be, it is the Father. When you are asked the person testifying, you have to say that it is the Father. If you are asked who has healed this sickness, your answer should be the Father. Who is he that has called us? You have a reply that it is the Father. Who has changed us? It is the Father, Who is the visioner? It is the Father, Who is he that is doing every work? It is the Father. We have a spiritual chorus which says: “In the morning, it is the Father who does the work. In the afternoon, it is still the Father who does the work. And in the evening it is the Father; In the night it is the same Father who does the work.”
25.40 Honour all men
The Father has passed through. It is He alone who passes through. The Father is still at work. As the Father likes. Right from today; whether you have been calling on the Father jovially or have been calling in ignorance, you have, to know that the word Father is true.
All the names that are borne are given by the Father. But the Father has neither the beginning nor the end because everything comes from him. Heaven and earth come from the Father. That is why man is placed as the father. The woman is placed as the child. The father is, therefore, told to love his child. All of them sum up to the Father. That is why you are told to honour all men, love the Brotherhood. Fear God, Honour the king; for that is God.
Whoever does not honour the son does not honour the Father. Whoever honours son equally honours the Father. If you honour the brethren, you are in effect hallowing the Father. If you honour the mother, you are honouring the Father. If you honour the earthly father, it means you are honouring the Father.
Anything you do unto the children, you are doing unto the father. Remember what that angel whom John wanted to worship said, "see thou do it not to me but to the Father. For I am your fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets”. It is the Father whom you have to worship. That time of foolishness had past; the time whereby men worshipped funny things. This is the time for the glorification of God. The glory of the Father has been revealed already.
God does not only exist today. From today, you have to reveal the Father to every one. You have to reveal the Father everywhere until even the blind will be forced to ask, who is the Father. At that point, this gospel has to be shown to him.
25.41 Try to know the Father
You have been revealed as the sons and He has been revealed as the Father. Here in Brotherhood, He is known as the Father and you as the children. A great many people who are in detention or in prison are being discharged today. Millions and millions of souls who are afflicted, who are sick, who are in chains, are being discharged and acquitted today. Millions of people who have not known the Father have all today known him. All those who had been lacking what to eat, who had been in penury, had been sick and also with cases in courts; by revealing the Father today; all cases and lack, tribulation and suffering, have been cast aside. For we have a spiritual chorus in Igbo which says, “any tree which bears good fruits has a person who has been watering it”. Therefore, any person who does not know the Father has actually suffered torture.
The problem and suffering besetting the whole world comes from the fact that they do not know the Father. As many souls as know the Father, they are being fed with milk. Those of you who are doubting Thomases, you have to listen over the radio today. If you have none, you have to go and listen over one, watch the television and also read the newspapers, Even throughout the four corners of the world, there are great changes right from this hour.
25.42 The Father has revealed His children
That is because the Son has revealed the Father to all the inhabitants of the world as the Father. Call no other person Father. The Father Himself has revealed His children, His Christ, that all the inhabitants of the world are His children. You are therefore the sons of God. You are all children of God. We are all brethren.
Can you not realize that if all the inhabitants of the world believe in the Father, that they have also believed in the Son? Every person believes that all the inhabitants of the world are the children of God and that they are Brotherhood. It means that they have also believed in the Father as the Father of all.
In the days past, we have revealed you as Brotherhood, but there has never been this type of revelation, whereby the Father is being revealed as the Father, Creator of heaven and earth.
25.43 The Father reigns supreme
You can remember the time we had started to deliver the Gospel. The time had gone up to 12 noon. We ought to have started at 9.30 am. But in order to show that it is the Father who is doing the work, He has the power to start at any time. He can make and unmake. The Father does not start anything as the Son but as the Father. Listen attentively and you will understand that the Father does not speak as does the Son. He does not speak as a prophet; neither does He speak as an angel. He does not speak as a messenger, but simply as the Father.
The Father's day at Biakpan is going to be very great. You only have to go and watch. Even right from today, all those who came with sickness, with tribulations, right now there is joy in your hearts because the Father has passed through. He has entered into all the four corners of the world. He has taken complete dominion of all of you.
25.44 The Father dwells in you
The one who dwells in you is the Father and not the Son. The Father and the Son are one. Once you see the Father, you have seen the Son. Wherever the Father is, there the Son is and also the Holy Spirit. Wherever the Holy Spirit is, there you have the angels, the prophets, apostles, and everything.
Brethren, if I go on to narrate to you the affairs of the Father, it will take even millions of years, without being exhausted of words. Rather, it will continue to expand. But I am thankful to the Father for saying that except the Son reveals the Father and except also the Father reveals the Son, no one knows. Therefore, I am thankful to the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That statement has been manifested today. The Father has revealed the Son and the Son has also revealed the Father. Therefore, the children also have to reveal the Father.
Brethren, we will not take you further than this. It is said, one stroke of the cane is sufficient for the wise. Any person who has ears to hear, let him hear. May God bless his holy words; Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER