Everlasting Gospel
First lesson: Matthew. 23:37-39
"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest 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!
Behold your house is left unto you desolate. 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.”
Second lesson: John 4: 21-23
"Jesus saith unto her Woman, believe me, the how cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know 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."
Golden text. Matthew 21:40-41
“When the Lord therefore of the Vineyard commeth, what will He do unto those husbandmen? They say unto Him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and He will let out His vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.”
Brethren, listen to this gospel as it is a revelation to the entire world. This message belongs to all the creation of God both animate and inanimate objects. Therefore, you should not allow anybody to make you go astray from the path of righteousness, for heaven and earth shall pass away but not an iota of the word of God shall pass away unfulfilled.
I have told you time without number that I do not bring any new doctrine into the world but I come to remind you of all the doctrines of our Lord Jesus Christ. He had never said that in His second advent He would be in the Americas, Asia, Jerusalem, India or in anywhere in the world. Before He departed He warned that if somebody should tell you that our Lord Jesus Christ was in the desert, you should not go because He would not exist there and that as the lightening flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. Then they asked Him when that would be. And He told them that where carcasses are there would the vultures be.
The Pharisees likewise asked Him when He would return. He said that the kingdom of God did not come by observation so that people would say 'lo it is here' or 'lo it is there'. He added that the kingdom of God was within man.
The word of our Lord Jesus Christ is true since He is the truth. Note what our Lord Jesus Christ said about Jerusalem and all its inhabitants: This is to reveal to you openly that mankind does not believe in God. Remember in our second lesson a woman told our Lord Jesus Christ that their fathers worshipped on the mountain and He responded that it was not only in Jerusalem that people could worship or even the mountain. What God Himself replied is what you are going to hear now.
"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chicken under her wings and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 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."-
26.1 Worship the God within you
It is not on the mountain or in Jerusalem or in the forest or in the deepest sea or in any other special place in the universe that you will have to sit down and worship God. You worship God within you, since God is a spirit and dwells within you.
This is the time for the entire world to practise the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ. What is the point building a house which you call a church, yet you are still fornicating or you are still deep in vices? What is the need building all these temples when you are in sin? What is the point going about preaching that God says you should leave all sins, when you are in sin? What is the point parading the streets with the bible, admonishing others against committing fornication, adultery and the rest of the vices, yet you take active part in all these things? Any preacher who is still in sin does not know what he is doing.
The mission of our Lord Jesus Christ in the world was to stop people from worshipping in temples since God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
It is now useless in its entirety for Christians to travel all the way from Nigeria to worship God in Jerusalem just because Christ was born in Jerusalem. In times past worshippers used to migrate to or assemble in Jerusalem because they claimed it was only in Jerusalem that people worshipped God. In those days, if people did not go to Jerusalem they would not be accepted as true worshippers of God. It is quite clear that people going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem were not pleasing to God at all. It was indeed worshipping God in the flesh. Solomon built a house for God yet he did not believe in God. Since he did not believe in God his empire declined and fell. This is no more the time for people to fool you, asking you to follow them to Jerusalem to worship God. It is the time for you to practise the gospel within you as taught by Christ and the Holy Spirit.
God is not as foolish as we are. People have the foolish notion that in those days of old, prophets were hated, persecuted and killed. So they too begin to hate and persecute prophets of today. Had such people heard what God said about the people of Jerusalem who persecuted the prophets they would have pitied themselves. If your forefathers worshipped God in Jerusalem, yet they persecuted and killed the prophets of old can you not learn a lesson from there? If Solomon built a mighty temple for God and yet he did not practise the word of God and at the long run he perished would it not be a lesson to you?
Brethren, it is not the cathedral or church that is important but the practising of all the injunctions of our Lord Jesus Christ which is important.
26.2 God is every where
Now you are free to worship God anywhere you are on the surface of the globe. This is the time for practical Christianity. All the inhabitants of the world must practise the word of God. Even for you to go on pilgrimage to Mecca, what are you going to do there? God is not there in Mecca nor in America. You say, let us go to Africa to worship God. God is not here in Africa. God is within you. That means you do not commit fornication, adultery, do not steal, do not take vengeance against your enemy. Do not commit any of the evils enumerated in the Bible.
If you love one another as Christ has instructed, it means you have worshipped God. You can build a mighty cathedral and you stay to cause confusion there. You do not worship God. This is what the people of old did. They did not worship God. This is why Christ said they worshipped what they did not know.
26.3 Your action reveals your worship
You see God within you by your action, your utterances and your relationship towards your enemy. This is why our Lord Jesus Christ says if somebody tells you God is in the mountain do not go because you see God through people's action. Our Lord Jesus Christ revealed Himself to the world by His actions, His utterances and His relationship with another person. This is the way He presented godly work.
The church denominations profess worshipping God yet their behaviour and actions deny God.
Can you say that God is in Jerusalem and yet they killed all the prophets of Christ from Abel up to Jesus Christ? Can you say that God is in India yet when you go there you see people fighting, quarrelling and killing? Or do you want to tell me that you see God by living an abominable life? Who were they who killed Zechariah? Were they not the same people? In this present generation, who are they who persecute the children of God? Are they not the same people? These are the same people who hate being told . the truth about God. They parade the streets with long garments pretending to be followers of Christ while inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You remember when that young lawyer approached our Lord Jesus Christ and asked Him what he would do to gain eternal life? Our Lord told him: You know all the laws honour thy father and thy mother; do not fornicate; do not kill; do not hate anybody but love your neighbour as you love yourself. At this point, the lawyer tried to show the Lord that he had intelligence and so went on to ask who our Lord referred to as His neighbour. Our Lord went on to tell him the story of the good Samaritan and at the end of .the story the Lord asked him who among these three persons he would say was the victim's neighbour and the man replied saying the third traveller who took the victim to hospital. Our Lord then told him, to go and do like wise.
So brethren, this is exactly what you are asked to do, otherwise you are not a Christian. This was the reason behind the instruction which our Lord gave His disciples, saying, "help the needy, help the sick, cloth the naked and pray for the distressed and as a law, always render good services to others.
Our Lord came not to be served but to serve the world. The work of God is to do good services to humanity. And anyone who professes to do the work of God but is devoid of these injunctions to mankind is not a Christian. Therefore, brethren, no matter what you profess to do, the sinner must receive punishment for his wrongdoings.
You have heard of Jerusalem and you have read where our Lord said, 'I am going to Jerusalem” and behold it was in that same Jerusalem that He was killed. All the apostles were killed in that same place, Jerusalem. For those of you who want to go to Jerusalem, do you want to go and see the graves or the bones of those apostles who were murdered by the Jews? Note that anytime you go to Jerusalem you are only going there to suffer. Therefore, brethren, we all have to listen to the directives of the Holy Spirit since this is the period of His reign and we have to endeavour to do only those things which are pleasing to God.
In these last days, we have to worship God wherever we are since He dwells in us. We must neither think that it is only in Jerusalem that one has to worship God nor should we think that you can be saved only when you become a member of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star or Catholic or Apostolic church. If this could be so, is God a Catholic or an Apostolic member?
It is said not all Israelites are the true sons of Israel and not all the heirs of Abraham are the true sons of Abraham but the children of promise are the real children of God. In like manner, it is not all the members of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star that are true Brotherhood. The bible clearly states that you should have nothing to do with any person who call himself a brother but indulges in fornication, adultery, theft, hatred and all manners of vices. If you go to any place and you find people who profess to be Brotherhood but who indulge in vices, keep yourself away from them.
26.4 You are saved by your good works
Do not be deceived that you are saved the moment you shout on Jesus, or Jehovah, for salvation is granted only to those who practise the laws of God. Therefore, if there is anybody who tells you that you should come to his church or house to see God, he is a deceiver because if he abides in the words of God, then you could see God transparently in him.
God is not a stone, a tree, water, not a mountain and not a building, but good virtues. This is why the Bible condemns anyone who sees his brother in problem and instead of helping he offers him God's blessings. How can the man who purchases and stores ammunition for himself and always prepares to fight or the man who is always ready to sue others to court call himself a Christian?
Christ teaches love and forbids us to fight with the evil doer. He teaches us to love our enemies and pray for those who wish us evil. Therefore, the true worshippers of God are those who put into practice his instructions. If we do not abide by the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ, then we do not worship God. If God were not pleased with people who built houses for Him; but continued in evil deeds, what do you think of yourself who, after Christ has shed His precious blood to cleanse you and has advised you against evil, continue in them?
I am only reminding you of the words of our Lord Jesus which He spoke some thousands of years ago.
26.5 Jerusalem rejected Jesus Christ
Here was a man whom the Jews had rejected and Jerusalem rejected. How would He go back to them again? If you were God, would you go back to a people who killed and rejected all your messengers and even your Son?
I would like you to visit the Jews to prove to yourself that they do not love God. You may go to the western world and see the huge cathedrals which were built only in the name of God. Now they have been converted to disco halls, and places of worshipping idols. Then there is this racial segregation. You have been so eaten up by this apartheid policy. The whites do not love the blacks and the blacks do not love the whites. The whites do not even love their fellow whites how much less people of other races. There is even no compromise among churches and religions, and for them, truth is non-existent.
Yet you spend your money and time to travel abroad in the name of going to worship God. Now I ask you; do those people you go to, have God or know God?
26.6 Africa, just as bad
Come back here in Africa, people bluntly refuse to worship God, rather they go about making charms and injurious concoctions. God does not need anything from us. He does not need our houses, or our wealth. All He requires from us is to do His will, love, meekness, gentleness, temperance, refrain from fornication, drinking, idolatory and all manners of evil.
Here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star you say you are a pastor or an apostle. But you still indulge in fornication, stealing, drunkenness, idolatry and all vices, then I ask: what kind of pastor or apostle, are you? Now, you tell people that in Brotherhood there are no thieves and no fornicators but a brother or sister loses his or her handbag at the end of worship. How do you convince the fellow that there is God here?
This is why it is said that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees you can not enter the Kingdom of God. And I tell you that unless you are born anew, you will not enter the Kingdom of God. No matter your position, status or nationality, when you come in here, if you are not born anew, you cannot inherit this Kingdom.
The instruction that Jesus Christ received from His Father was that whosoever loved God must also love His brother. Whosoever did not love the human being he sees with his naked eyes, can he say he loves God?
26.7 God dwells in you and not in a house or a town
This is not a time that you can deceive anyone by saying that you can go to Biakpan to worship God. He can only be seen in your character. God is not in Calabar, Biakpan, in Nigeria or in Africa. He dwells within you. If you have the ability to practise the word of God it means that you love God and God dwells in you.
Do not allow people to deceive you that God is in any town of the universe. You are the house and place of God. The scriptures say the dwelling place of God is with men. God will be our Father and we will be His own children. The Bible says we should not love in words but through deeds and action. Jesus says that it is not those who call Him Lord, Lord that will enter the Kingdom of God, but those who do His will.
First lesson Matthew 23: 37 39
"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest 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!
Behold your house is left unto you desolate. 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."
Brethren, have you heard the words of God? “You shall not see me henceforth till you. shall say blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord”. You see what deceived the people of old? Since the scriptures had said that when the Son of God will come nobody will know His father and mother and so when our Lord came they refused to accept Him because they knew his earthly mother and father.
John came and was killed; Jesus came and was killed, Jeremiah and all the prophets of old were killed by these same Jews. So brethren take this text and sleep over it and you will see its implications. What do you benefit from persecuting the children of God?
When Pilate asked, whom he should release, whether Jesus or Barabbas, the Jews exclaimed, “give us Barabbas and crucify Jesus”, and even went to the extent of saying “let His blood be on us, on our children and on our grand children”. Now is that wish of theirs not manifesting on them?
About seventy years after the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, Israel wanted independence but the Romans refused and since they insisted, they were wiped out, leaving only ninety thousand and this number was scattered to other parts of the world so that these Jews would not riot, or regroup to plan a counter offensive.
26.8 The Christ will not incarnate in Jerusalem again
Now with this, tell me when God will go back to live in Jerusalem? Do you realise that up till now Israel is still at war with the Arabs? This is why it is said, no matter what happens the evil doer will never go unpunished. Whatever you do out of your volition, when not directed by the Holy Spirit, God leaves you to yourself but He will be by you if He calls you to do that .thing. Is it not surprising that although Jesus came from Jerusalem the Jews do not believe anything you tell them about Christianity? Surprisingly, the Holy Spirit has revealed to the advanced nations that God is here in Africa, yet you here still waste your time and money to go to Jerusalem and Mecca in the name of going to see God. What do you think you will find there when the Holy Spirit is here incarnate in Africal?
Your major duty now is to spread this good news to the entire Western and other countries of the world. If they accept then they will experience peace, because up till now, they have not accepted that Christ has come again into the world. The laws and prophets had said that Elijah would preceed the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. They still have not believed Elijah has come, so how will they believe that Jesus Christ has come?
Since the Jews knew Elijah and had his image, they were sure in themselves that the day he would come, they would see him since he will be the true resemblance of the image they had of him. With this foolish idea, they refused to believe that Christ had come since the Elijah they knew had not come. But Elijah had reincarnated in John the Baptist whom they killed and so when Jesus came, they killed Him, saying, then He was not the expected Messiah.
Therefore, brethren, to think that Jesus Christ can be born again in Jerusalem is a big fallacy. This is why the scriptures say that they will not see God again until they proclaim, “blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord”. You will weep if you visit Jerusalem now because of the sorrowful situation the Jews have put themselves and I tell you that the mere sight of their present position will convince you to worship God if you had not decided to do so. Do you not realise that this gospel of the Kingdom should have come from them? But today the situation is the contrary.
26.9 Inform the world of this Truth
So brethren, I am telling you that God is everywhere but He reveals Himself only to those who abide by His teachings. God is no respecter of any person. If you had the intention of going to Jerusalem to see God, then you will go in darkness and only go there to crucify Christ a second time. Whoever does not abide by the precepts of our Lord Jesus fights against Him. Therefore, you have to carry this gospel to all parts of the world and to Jerusalem and tell them that the Holy Spirit has come and if they accept, the peace of God will come on them. It is wise that you go there but let your mission be to show them the truth about the kingdom and not with the aim of worshipping since the truth is not found there again.
There is only one thing you can learn from them and that is that you should not commit any act of sinfulness so that you do not fall a victim to the kind of fate they have found themselves. The spirit has a reason for arranging your pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is neither to enable you see Jesus, Joseph nor Abraham but to enable you learn a lesson when you see the sad position God has placed those who first refused accepting Him.
Since it was said that when the Lord Jesus Christ will come no one will know His parents, it is now your duty to go and tell the people that the Holy Spirit has come and that all must learn to love and refrain from all evil and follow righteousness. Go and bear the testimony that the Holy Spirit whom the Lord had promised has come and so they have to refrain from their old ways of life and follow God. Your going to Mecca is not for you to go and learn or worship God but to go and announce this message there also.
26.10 Where is the headquarter of this kingdom?
You are to go around the whole world and announce this news and not to stay in any particular place since God has no headquarters. Do not say that God's headquarters is at Calabar or Lagos or anywhere, because His headquarters is love, peace, meekness, holiness, gentleness, temperance, longsuffering and each and everyone of you who receives the words of God constitutes the headquarters of God.
Therefore, it is a mistake to say you are going to Calabar, Biakpan, Jerusalem, Mecca or anywhere to see God because wherever you go you will see thieves, fornicators, juju-men, drunkards and all types of evil men and you cannot be convinced that there is God there. If you go to Jerusalem, Mecca, Britain or America, you will find these same kind of people and so if God should have a headquarter it should be devoid of evil. But here we are evil is everywhere. This is why the Bible says, not all who call me Lord shall enter the kingdom of God, but those who do the will of God.
The Holy Spirit has come to lead you into the knowledge of truth and this knowledge of truth is to refrain from fornication, drinking, juju making, falsehood, envy and all manners of evil. Tell them about the presence of the Holy Spirit on earth and warn them to refrain from worshipping idols and from, vices. The only problem facing you in the execution of this assignment is that you have not also refrained from evil and this truth is not seen in you and if this is not seen in you, how can the people you are going to preach to believe what you are going to tell them?
26.11 As evangelists, be righteous
Let this gospel dwell in you so that as you take this gospel to them, they will see the Holy Spirit in you and believe your words. I have told you that this gospel must be preached throughout the universe; before the end comes. So you are now debtors to Jerusalem, Mecca and the entire world because you have not taken this gospel to them. A very great percentage of the world is in darkness because they have not heard this gospel, and it is your duty to take it to them so that they may have the light. Tell the world to love one another and forsake the spirit of apathy since there is no division in Christ. Extend this news to the Arabs, Russians, the Jews and the world over. Tell the Russians and the Americans that they must stop the production of atomic bombs and other weapons of war since God does not want these things. Tell them to stop producing and taking of drugs; to forsake fornication, drinking, quarrelling, fighting and all vices but seek the Holy Spirit and that in worshipping Him they must do so in spirit and in truth. This spirit is truth, love, meekness, patience, long-suffering, peace, gentleness and all good qualities. That was why the Jewish woman told our Lord that when the Messiah would come, He would teach all things. But Jesus replied: "I standing here am He." This proves that the world does not know the correct way of worshipping the Lord.
26.12 Worship God in spirit and truth
In the years gone by, people used to offer sacrifices in the bush, thinking that they were worshipping God. But this was a mistake. Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son to God but I tell you that did not constitute the worship of God. Some people in those days used to migrate from one spot to another all over the world, indeed to Jerusalem, only thinking that they were worshipping God. But, this did not constitute the worship of God. In order to correct these misconceptions, Christ came and from then anyone who indulged in these acts has become covered with darkness. Thus Jesus said; “believe me, a time shall come when neither here nor in Jerusalem shall men worship God".
Christ came with the accurate knowledge of truth to teach the world. It is only then that you get the full wisdom of God. You do not say you have the spirit just because you can tell visions or prophecy. Worshiping God in spirit and truth means doing every bit of the instructions of God, and anyone who defaults in any of these instructions is the least in the kingdom of God; but whoever does and teaches others to keep these laws, shall be regarded as the greatest in the Kingdom of God.
Do not bother yourselves about how to get to Lagos or Mecca or Jerusalem to do the work of God, but bother yourselves about how to practise the laws which will lead you to the kingdom of God. If anyone compels you to follow him to anywhere to worship God, do not go for God is not found there and if he says there is power here or there, do not believe either. Here in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, you do not need to go to any special place to get the Holy Spirit because it exists everywhere and all you need do is to abide by the instructions, and the power comes automatically on you.
Second lesson: John 4: 21- 23
"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the time cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the. Father.
Ye worship ye know 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."
Brethren have you heard that? This is why Christ said that God is a spirit. You have to travel from place to place to preach the ideology of the kingdom to everyone. God is the word, the word is God and the only way you can worship God in spirit and in truth is to have this word in you and teach others to do same. Whoever does not preach the word of God, does not practise the word, and does not worship God.
We are the custodians of the key, and so, we must show good example of truth. The children of this kingdom are those who go out to preach the gospel and show people the truth of the kingdom. Preach, forbid them from drinking, smoking, fornicating, hatred, quarrelling, taking people to court and all vices. Outside this, there is no kingdom.
You call yourself a pastor, or a child of God but you keep offering people drinks, what type of pastor are you? Real children of God neither drink nor offer drinks. Indeed, the greatest of all duties on earth is to practise the word of God and possess Love.
26.13 Follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit
If you read the old testament from Genesis to Malachi, you will see that it consists of the works of the prophets, and the people who live according to these books will deviate from the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of the Holy spirit.
When Christ came He accomplished the works of the old testament. That is why the work of God has now been revealed to the world. But for our Lord Jesus Christ, no one would have believed in the Old Testament scriptures. Remember that before the New Testament came to being, there were other books by the prophets and that is why they are referred to as the Old Testament. Therefore, from Genesis to Malachi is referred to as the old Testament while Matthew to Revelation is the new covenant and is referred to as the Gospel. This, then is the time to practise these gospels and not to waste time to read the old testament.
It is now your duty to practise every bit of the gospel for this is the only way to worship God in spirit and in truth. People forget that as soon as they base their learning on the books from Genesis to Malachi, they are completely covered with darkness. They have forgotten that the time of that old covenant is passed. We are now completely in the new covenant period and must be guided by the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of the Holy Spirit.
God is a spirit and where the spirit of God is there is deliverance. What you see here is the glory and kingdom of God. All of us here are one. Here we have no woman, no man, no slave, no citizen, no rich, and no poor. Everybody is equal and linked with this Spirit of love. This kingdom of God does not belong to the blacks alone; it does not belong to the whites alone, it is not for Africa alone; nor is it for Europe alone. It belongs to the entire creation of God, the fishes in the waters, the birds of the air, the animals in the bush, human beings, trees and what have you. The headquarters of this new Kingdom is not in Biakpan, nor is it in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria or Africa, or even in the Western or Eastern worlds. The headquarters is you, it is LOVE and we all are in that love.
Remember the gospel which says, "we are waiting for a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells" Now it is righteousness that rules the entire creation of God Whatever rank you hold here or in any other denomination, whether you are an elder, pastor, bishop and apostle remember that it is only the Holy Spirit and righteousness that take dominion over all the creations of God. Do not belabour yourself on how you will open a bethel for God or how you will be able to build a healing home for God. What should preoccupy your mind is how you could perform acts of righteousness, that is all. If God wants to build a bethel or healing home for Himself, He will do so. So, do not bother yourself with the problem of building a bethel or healing home for God. Rather, occupy yourself with how you could lead a life of righteousness.
You will remember that Solomon built a "house for God," but what does the gospel say? It says, “Jehovah God does not live in the house built by man”. The heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool. What type of house can you build for God? Is it not my hands that created all these things? If God wanted a house, would He call you to come and build it for Him? I am His own house; all of us here and everywhere are His own house which He built for His occupation. Why do you want to return to Egypt to go and revive all those out-moded ways of worship which God has decreed should never be practised?
26.14 Avoid Moses’s teaching
Moses and all the people of old went under bondage by practising all those profane methods of worship. Why do you now want to go back and follow them and do what they did and provoked God to anger. People go to Mecca because they do not know what they go to worship there. Our Lord Jesus Christ had said that a time will come when people will not go to the mountain or Jerusalem to worship God. I am not telling you that you should come and stay here in this hall in order to worship God. No! The gospel we preach here, all the pamphlets we publish, if you read them and practise what are written in them you will be worshipping God in Spirit and truth. That is why it is very necessary for these gospels to be written down, translated into all languages and published. No dates should be put in them for these gospels will last till eternity. Read and practise them and you will be worshipping God in spirit and in truth. Do not worry , yourself by thinking that unless you go to Biakpan you would not be worshipping God in spirit and in truth. Do not allow anybody to deceive you that there is a particular place somewhere in the world where you have to go and worship God. No! Your main duty now is to worship God in spirit and in truth.
You are not to bow down to any idol or fetish object. You are not to perform sacrifices. You are not to go round perpetuating lies and falsehood. You are to practise every bit of the word of God. It is only by so doing that you can worship God in Spirit and in Truth.
Remember that young lawyer who went to our Lord Jesus Christ and asked Him, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life? What did our Lord Jesus Christ tell the lawyer? He told him “love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thine power and with all thy soul. That was the first commandment. The second was love thy neighbour as thyself. All the laws of the prophets hang on these two laws”. Some people say God has ten laws. That is not true. God does not have ten laws. Is God ten Gods? Definitely He is not. Some other people say that the laws of God are so many that you cannot count them, this is not true. The laws of God are not many. They are only those two laws I have told you. It is not when you go among thieves, dance and sing with them, that you worship God in spirit and in truth. Staying in the church like this is not worshipping God either. The children of God are those who practise the injunctions of God. All those who abide by the instructions of God cannot commit sin. Therefore, the word of God protects them and no evil can come near them.
Do not allow anything at this end of time to cause you to deviate from the path of rectitude. All those who do not want to follow this instruction and do not want to keep the laws and commandments of God, but rather take glory in tormenting the children of God, this is the time for their suffering. This is the time that the sheep are going to be separated from the goats. When you go out here, you should not go and tell the world that the Leader said this, or the Leader said that. It is not the Leader who says anything. It is our Lord Jesus Christ who says all that you have heard today. Did you not hear our first lesson which said, “0! Jerusalem! 0 Jerusalem! you who have killed all the prophets"? Who was speaking those words? Was it not our Lord Jesus Christ? The one which says, "Woman, believe me, the time has come and is already come when the true worshippers of God shall worship God not on the mountain or in Jerusalem, but in spirit and in truth", were those not the words of our Lord Jesus Christ? Were they not the words of God? Are they the words of Olumba Olumba Obu?
Our Lord Jesus Christ further said, "because salvation comes from the Jews, the time is come and is already here when the true worshippers of God shall worship God in spirit and in truth". He added that in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word is God, Are those not the words of our Lord Jesus Christ? Were they not the words of God? Are they the words of Olumba Olumba Obu?
It was with the word that everything seen and unseen were created. So, we have to hear the word of God; speak the word of God and practise the word of God. The word of God says, “today when you hear His voice, do not harden your heart”. So all the gospels which you are given here day in and out, put every bit of it into practice, then shall you be the true worshippers of God who worship God in spirit and in truth. Brethren, I do not want to take you too far. Let our golden text be read to us.
Golden text: Matthew 21:40-41
“When the Lord therefore of the Vineyard commeth, what will He do unto those husbandmen? They say unto Him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and He will let out His vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.”
26.15 Israel loses inheritance
Brethren, are those words not fulfilled today? The gospel says when the owner of the vineyard will come, what will he do to those wicked husbandmen who had killed all the prophets, stoned many more to death and even killed His only begotten son? They replied and said unto Him, that he will kill all the wicked husbandmen, dispossess them of the vineyard and give it to another nation who will yield good fruits unto Him.
Have you not seen today that God has dispossessed them of this vineyard and has handed it over to another nation who bears good fruits to God? Do you not see that He has taken the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, this very Jerusalem that had destroyed all the prophets right from the time of Abel to Zacharias and even killed our Lord Jesus Christ? Jerusalem did all those murderous acts, God has taken the Kingdom from them and has handed it over to another race that will bear Him good fruits. God is not interested in the colour of the skin or language. He is interested only in those who obey His commandments.
This message comes from the high heavens. It is the message from the Most High God to Jerusalem and its surroundings. This message should be printed immediately arid sent to them, informing them of the gospel that proves God's consistency. Because they had killed the prophets sent to save them and even killed the only begotten Son of God, God will take the Kingdom away from them and give to any nation that will bear good fruits. This gospel reveals that this has been fulfilled today. An adage says, no matter the situation, a sinner will never escape punishment. This Jerusalem which had killed Abel, up to Zacharias and even killed our Lord Jesus Christ, there is not even one prophet sent to it whom it did not spread its murderous hands to destroy was cursed by our Lord Jesus Christ saying, “Ye shall see me no more, I have left your city to you as a desert until you shall proclaim, blessed is He who commeth in the name of the Lord."
Do you not see what is happening now? The war that has been raging between the Arabs and the Israelis, do you not know that it is the work of God? The only option open to the children of God here is when you go to Jerusalem, not to go and visit and admire its historical monuments, graves and cathedrals, but to go and impart to them this good news, peradventure they would say “Blessed is He who commeth in the Name of the Lord" and be saved. Let the Jews not take pride in their historical past, their Cathedral built by Solomon, the grave of David, Abraham, Jacob or Isaac. They should not claim they were the owners of the kingdom by virtue of their being the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. No! Rather they should repent and proclaim "Blessed is He who commeth in the name of the Lord" in order to receive the last condition for forgiveness from God, for the Kingdom they are boasting about had long been taken away from them.
Brethren, do you not see that God is no respecters of persons? Therefore, the moment He calls you, do not harden your heart and perish as the people of old did and perished.
26.16 God is now universal God
The gospel says, “Did the Israelites stumble in order to fall? The scripture also says “No! it was because of their sins, salvation came to the Gentiles". Some people used to say, “God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob”. This is quite inapplicable today. God is today a universal. God and no more a God of the Israelites, God is now your own God, my own God and God of everybody.
So use this chance to practise the word of God so that you might be saved. Many people do not even know the cause of tribulations, troubles and wars in that part of the world. The Israelites and the Arabs have engaged themselves in a long drawn war for years now. This is the result of what they did. This is to prove to you that the owner of the vineyard has come by Himself and this is the reward He has come to give them. The gospel says that Jehovah God knows how to come to the rescue of those who accept Him and also knows how to keep those who disobey Him in perpetual punishment. This very gospel should be translated into all the languages, printed and distributed to all the churches and religions all over the world so that they may know the reward for wickedness and the fulfillment of the words of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do not say. within your heart that you have got love. How can you get love when you have not got the Holy Spirit? It was written that the Holy Spirit will lead. Who is leading us now is the Holy Spirit. The gospel says, an axe has been laid at the foot of every tree and the tree that bears not good fruit shall be hewn down. All the troubles and persecutions everywhere now in the whole world is as a result of God's judgement on the whole world. Our main duty now is to pray fervently to God to forgive the sins of the Arabs, the Israelis, the entire Jerusalem and its environs and the entire world for what they did.
26.17 Now is time of the Gentiles
The scripture says, what was done to the Israelites will be done to the Gentiles. Now is the time of the Gentiles. Who are the Gentiles? They are those who receive God in their midst and do God’s will in their life. You should learn your own lesson from this event and know that God is no respecter of persons. If the Gentiles on the other hand do not learn their lesson and thus go against the instructions of God, God will not mind taking away the kingdom from them and giving it back to the original owners, the Israelites, or any other nation that will bear fruit to Him. Because the scripture says, from the time of John, the kingdom of God is obtained by violence and it is only the strong who inherits it.
26.18 But beware. Africa arise!
Today, have you seen any difference between what happened in Israel and what is happening in this part of the world? Today, are people not colluding among themselves and trying to fight against the Holy Spirit? Is the whole world not contemplating and saying among themselves that Jesus will fall from the sky like a bird. Do you know that your trip to Jerusalem will mean going to redeem them? Because as soon as you go and tell them of this good news of the advent of the Holy Spirit on earth and they proclaim saying, “Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord," they will immediately receive their forgiveness and salvation. God has given a very long gap for you to repent and receive the word of God, but have you? Have you not realised the work of the Holy Spirit? Africa, arise to your calling now.
26.19 Inform Israel
Your visit to Jerusalem is primarily for you to go and proclaim the good news that the Holy Spirit is on earth. If in doing so, they repent and proclaim saying, 'Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord", they will immediately receive remission of their sins and would be readmitted into the kingdom. In doing this you should also be very careful, so that you yourself may not fall short of the glory of God and perish, because God is merciful and does not waste time going to anyone who wants Him. So, if the Israelites during this revisiting hold God thus revealed to them more devotedly and reverently than you do, I am afraid, they can take the kingdom back from you.
Remember what our Lord Jesus Christ said to Chorazin and Bethsaida. He said if the type of work I do in you had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, those cities would not have perished. Remember our Lord Jesus Christ did mighty works in Chorazin and Bethsaida, but when He came back to those cities, He realised that not one person repented. He, therefore cursed them saying, woe unto you Chorazin and Bethsaida, because the type of work I have done in you; if this had been done in Sodom and Gomorah, those cities would not' have perished".
26.20 Nigeria awake: accept God in your midst.
Now, look at this part of the world. Look at the mighty work God is doing in this city, in the Cross River State, in Nigeria and, in the entire world. If this type of work was done in Jerusalem do you not think they would have repented? Now is the time for you to go to Mecca, Russia, India and all other places, because you have the children of God existing everywhere. If you go to any place and they do not accept you flee from there and go to another place. If Mecca does not accept you go to any place in Africa. If Africa does not accept you, go to the western world; go to Asia, go to America. Proclaim the good news of this kingdom.
This Kingdom will be taken away from anybody or nation and given to any nation that will be prepared to bear good fruit to Him. Do not rejoice in your hearts saying, this kingdom is in Calabar, Cross River State or it comes out from my family. So did the Israelites say but did not believe in the kingdom they proclaimed they had and so the kingdom was taken away from them.
You who continue to persecute the children of God; you who continue to have an unrepentant heart; you who continue to be wicked; you who continue to kill the prophets of God; take ample lesson from this very example of Jerusalem. The Israelites openly declared saying, “Let, the blood of Jesus Christ be upon us, upon our children and our children's children and all the future generations”. What has happened today? That blood is exactly on their heads.
26.21 Why you should go to Israel
If this present generation has any wisdom and takes a cue from what happened to the people of old, they will humble themselves and practise the injunctions of God. God does not want you to build any cathedral or bethel for Him. What He wants each and everyone of us to do is to get converted and practise the word of God. Remember the reason we have to go to Jerusalem is the fact that the whole place is dead and deserted. Spiritually there is nothing there. There is no spirit of God there. Go and pray there and restore the Israelites to eternal salvation. The gospel says, just as from one man sin came into the world, it is also from one man, our Lord Jesus Christ, salvation came to the whole world. So, as you go there, it will be you that will liberate the whole place. It is therefore, our supreme task to go to the world with this good message, this good news of great joy. Go to the rest of Africa, to America and to all parts of the world with this good news, informing them that the Holy Spirit has arrived and that the whole world should worship God in spirit and in truth. This is no more the time for wickedness, it is not the time for fornicating or committing adultery; it is not time for drinking and getting drunk; it is not the time for wickedness; it is not the time for any sort of outrageous acts. This is the time for practical christianity. It is the time to liberate the whole world and remove them from acts of sins and unrighteousness.
26.22 Go to the lost sheep
The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ says, how many people will have a hundred sheep but one was lost and he will not leave ninety-nine others and go in search of the one sheep which got lost: When he finds that lost sheep, he would be so happy that he would celebrate the recovery with a big feast and invite all his friends to partake of the feast. The position is the same today. It is now our duty to go to the lost sheep everywhere in the whole world. We are to go and liberate them and by so doing there will be a great joy in this kingdom for every service of redemption extended to the lost children of God..
Brethren, it is said that one stroke of the cane is sufficient for a wise man. Let all those who have the ears to hear, hear the word of God. May God bless His holy words; Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER