THE TRUE CONCEPT OF LOVE

  • LOVE
  • GOSPEL MEDIA
  • Leader Olumba Olumba Obu

    LOVE

  • Everlasting Gospel

    THE TRUE CONCEPT OF LOVE

    No matter your position in life, no matter how well you may be, and no matter what you may do, if you have no love you are nothing. The entire world has forsaken the path of love and are engaged in things that bring perdition. Whoever wants eternal life has to love one another otherwise his blood shall be upon him. You are not asked to love one another so that you will be rich, or that you will be great and prominent in the society. Be it known to you that love in itself is eternal life and if you have love, you have eternal life. If Adam and Eve and Abraham and other prophets of old had that love, they would have had eternal life. The same love is lacking in the entire world today. The whites and blacks and indeed all the inhabitants of the world do not have eternal life because they possess not love. Man has made a lot of inventions and has manufactured various things but cannot have eternal life. This is so because there is no human being who has love. Love is that cornerstone which the builders have rejected. Man has learnt how to swindle, steal, kill, swim, shoot and do all sorts of things but has refused to learn how to show the expression of love and have the benefit of everlasting life. All things are in abundance in the world today except love and eternal life. 3.1 Love gives eternal life Therefore whosoever desires eternal life should love one another. Neither medicine, nor money, or any other thing can gain one eternal life except love. For want of long life, you consult oracles/medical doctors, and indulge in many other life preserving and protecting endeavours. I stand in the highest heavens and declare unto you that life does not consist in these things. Whosoever desires life should have love. There is nothing on earth that can give you eternal life except love. Eternal life is not found in hospitals, or healing homes or in visiohers houses or in medication. You do not need to worry yourself consulting medical doctors, soothsayers, visioners and indulging in the preparation of concoction and charms. All you need to do is love one another. Your tribe, or tongue colour, race, position or achievements do not matter in this case. Consideration is only given to the injunction, love one another. Even if you run to the sun, moon or star or to the abyss sea or into the thin air, death shall find you out. In order that you may escape death and have eternal life, you must possess love. Right now if you resolve and love one another, you are free from death. I am making it known to the entire world that whosoever does not love one another is a condemned fellow. Do not disturb your mind over things that do not matter simply have love and you are saved. You promise not to reconcile with your enemies and cannot forgive them yet you desire eternal life. How can you have it when you do not love one another. You initiate into various secret societies and do such similar things in order to have eternal life. Is eternal life found in these places? You have sojourned the entire world seeking for eternal life and have attempted to run from God's presence. You do not need to go to any place for eternal life. Practise love and you will have it. Wherever you go to, you will still find God, the only source of salvation is in love. Your only source of eternal life is to have love. You have to refrain from stealing, drinking, smoking, eating flesh and engaging in all evil acts, love one another and you are saved. 3.2 Love solves all problems of life People are complaining of sicknesses, poverty, tough times and all kinds of encumbrances. Some are running into various places for security and solace. You cannot escape encumbrances neither can you find peace in the world except you love one another. Today the entire world blasphemes the name of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and makes all kinds of false accusations against it. Do you think that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star cannot utter a word and wonders will happen. The truth is that, if it is done, the will of God will be prevented and Brotherhood of the Cross and Star will fail. That is why inspite of all that the world has done and said about Brotherhood of the Cross and Star we approach them with love. Satan himself knows that whosoever commits sin has no life in him. That is why he goes about sowing seeds of discord and placing stumbling blocks on the ways of the children of God so that when they fall eternal life will elude them. That is why God is advising us to love one another. Do you know the significance of love. Love is like the human head. You can cut the hands or feet or ears but in as much as the head is not touched life will continue the moment your head is cut off, your life is terminated. When you argue how you can love your enemies and forgive those who offend against you, I laugh at you. Love is the fountain of life, the only source of life and salvation. But because of your disobedience, you resort to visiting visioners, consulting oracles, soothsayers and charm removers for help. 3.3 Visions will not help you Somebody will claim to have removed nails, pains, life lizards, frogs and so on from your body. Is that true? Is it possible for you to exist with those things in your body. When visioners tell you that juju, witchcraft, mermaid and other elementary spirits are tormenting you, you nod your head in agreement. These things are revealed to you because you do not practice the Father's gospel. Since you desire for things you can see and feel, you go to the visioners for such things. You dread the Fathers presence and would not listen to his gospel especially when you have committed sin. In the alternative you visit visioners and healing homes thinking your problems will be solved there. You can see that the problems and afflictions in the world today are attributed to money, women, and other things whereas the source of the problems in the world is because they have forsaken God's love. That is why it has pleased God today to send his love into the world. My duty is to expatiate upon the meaning of love one another. The meaning of it is that we have to love ourselves and live in harmony. It means that love should not be one sided nor should it be deceitful. It means that I should love you, and you love me, the other person loves us as we love him equally. It explains the concept of oneness which is prevalent in Brotherhood; the love of one to another. It borders on mutual reciprocity. Brotherhood of the Cross & Star is the kingdom of God where love is practised, it is a place where there is no hatred, back-biting, division, killing, stealing, swindling and other vices. It is the kingdom of God wherein dwells love. If after reaching out for love you abandon it, do you not see that such is the height of stupidity and sign of perdition? If after you have possessed love which is the perfect state, you steal, fornicate hate and commit other vices, where is your stand'. You have returned to square one and are lost. If you forsake all these vices, you have landed at the state of love which is the state of perfection. When you say that there is love in Brotherhood but fail to practise it, you have no place in it. Those who benefit in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star are those who abide by the rules and injunctions here by practising love one another. The other group consists of those who come here to dupe, swindle, and do all kinds of evil. These are the people who refuse to love-one another. If we love one another, we have kept the law and have passed from death unto life. 3.4 Love is the tree of life This love is the tree of life which Adam was not allowed to have access. When Adam had eaten the forbidden fruit, he was rusticated from the garden that he may not also eat the tree of life and live forever since he would be as wise as God. That tree of life is love. Love neither steals nor fornicates nor tell lies, nor indulges in the preparation of concoction. That is why love is the fulfilling of the law. Do not be surprised that if you are sick, love heals you without the application of any drug. And when you are healed he does not charge you; if you are pregnant it is love who takes care of you and safely delivers you with a child without the application of drugs or going to the maternity, she is delivered free of charge. Do not be surprised to find an impotent brother or barren sister bearing a number of children by love without consulting oracles or sacrificing or indulging in any diabolical thing or going to the hospital for any form of medication and without spending money before getting children. You may go to school and you are so dull that you cannot follow your teacher but love brightens your intellect and teaches you to understand all your lessons. At the end you pass your examination with flying colours and become a highly educated person. More importantly you may be weak, feeble, helpless and ignorant, but suddenly love sets in and salvages you from your ruins and bestows you with the Holy Spirit and so restores power, strength and wisdom to you. All these are done to you free of charge. In the world, there is no sympathy for any offence that you may commit. For any slight offence, you may be taken to court or beaten up and hatred reigns supreme. Most of you do not know where you are because you still complain about one thing or the other whereas you are always well protected by love, and nothing has dominion over you. If you consult an oracle or indulge in the preparation of concoction, you are merely wasting your time and your money to the necromancer or soothsayer for no diabology can harm or penetrate into any part of your body. The different governments of the world have devised certain means like prisons, police force, court of justice, they have manufactured offensive weapons guns, swords, guill tine, atomic bomb, nuclear -weapons to stop the commission of crime and sin. But have these devices and weapons been able to deter man from sinning? But I use the Holy Spirit to drive away evil spirit from you and so bestow Holy Spirit on you. This is love in action. Do you have fervent charity? Since this is the school of love, you have to possess fervent charity. Neither power, nor knowledge can save you but have fervent love and you will overcome everything. During these past era knowledge had accumulated but love has now come along to swallow up every knowledge. There will be no more wars, division, segregation and craftiness because love will swallow up all evils in the world Do not seek for honour and glory because he who is worthy has come to rule. Who is worthy to rule? It is love, because love regards every person in the same way. 3.5 The earthly man shall not rule again It is sacrosanct that the earthly man will no longer rule the world because he is tyrannical, extortionate, fraudulent, but the heavenly man who will rule, governs with love, truth, patience, mercy and tolerance. Whatever your objection may be, he will rule, your reaction not withstanding. When I look at you who profess to be Brotherhood, I shed tears because you have not practised love but continue to fight against yourself. You were called into the kingdom in love but you argue that you cannot show the expression of love. Love does not impute sins upon any person, but you always impute sins on others claiming a holier than thou attitude? Who are you to judge your brother? You go about deceiving and misleading many people when you tell them that the Father is angry with them, or that He has forgotten about them or that He does not want to see them. Can love ever become angry, or can love forget or can love avoid seeing anyone? There is neither change nor variableness in love. If you have doubts, tell lies, fornicate and bear malice; you have no love. If you keep security men, you have no love, if you keep a pen-knife in your pocket, you have no love. These and other such like behaviours are all indices for lack of love. If you wear love as a garment, you cannot sin. You always report yourself to me that you tell lies, beat up people, take court action against people, which means that you have not received the lessons on love. No church denomination has ever seen Brotherhood of the Cross and Star in a good light. There is no church denomination which invites Brotherhood of the Cross and Star to any of its function and Brotherhood of the Cross and Star refused to respond positively. No church denomination has ever commended Brotherhood of the Cross and Star for whatever it does. Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is looked at by the church denominations as demonic and satanic. Even prostitutes condemn Brotherhood of the Cross and Star as a wicked organisation. Inspite of this, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star continues to love all. Despite the blasphemies against Brotherhood of the Cross and Star by the people, yet when they come to Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, they are healed. In this kingdom love covers all faults and commissions. Love is like the ocean which swallows and sinks anything that enters into it. Whatever is your state and disposition, come into Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and love will absorb every evil in you. It is like you putting 20,000 bags of salt in the ocean and everything is dissolved by the ocean. The whites shout love, but do not know the meaning. The blacks shout love but do not know it. There is none who understands the concept of love. People think that once you prepare delicious meals for them, you have loved them. Others think that when you buy a luxurious car for another or sponsor one in the University you have loved him. Some others claim that when you forsake stealing, lying, fornication, that you have love. Some others claim that it is when they take up Bible to preach that our Lord Jesus Christ is either the Lord or the Christ or the Son of God. But all these expressions have no relationship with the love I reveal to you today. 3.6 All things belong to God Why do you pursue a child of God with a gun and claim to have love? Whom are you pursuing with gun? Why do you kill? Why do you make evil utterances against someone? Is he not a child of God? Yet you say you have love? Why do you claim superiority over another and regard yourself better and able than him. You say he is a beast, when you actually know that you are one with him. If you say your continent is Africa, whose continents are those occupied by the whites? Are the inhabitants of the Western world not owned by God. When you reason in this way has darkness not over-shadowed you? It means you have no love. Any person who says I am from Africa and not from Europe has no love. Now in your house, you keep one room for Our Lord Jesus' Christ the other for angel and another for yourself. You still set one aside for the preparation of concoction or juju. You have done this because you have no love. God has created you and the trees. Are you not all Brotherhood? Have you the right to kill a fish or an animal, when they are all your brethren? Do you have the right to cut down any trees? You are not better than a tree. The only power the Father gave to you is to superintend over all other creations. All works, all things, all events and everything belongs to the father. If you and the Father are one and you have love, you would have regarded the whole world as your brethren, because all of you are the children of God. Do not say again you have nobody, the Father owns all. He owns all monies, all days, all months and all wisdom, and you and the Father are one and what you have are His. If you had love, you would not have attributed anything to-yourself nor claim to have anything. The Father does and has all. Regard others as yourself. All things should be shared equally. Do not take the lion share and give a little to the other person. Do not tell any person to dance before you give him food. Do not beat up any person. Do not tell people to wait till you finish eating. There is no need claiming superiority over others. Do not regard anything as yours. You are only a superintendent, to look after all the things in the world. You should regard all the things in the same way. Nothing belongs to you. Your thoughts are his thoughts; the words you utter are spoken by Him, your eyes too are His. He walks with your legs, the hands are His hands, He uses them at will, all the songs you sing are rendered by Him. He shows kindness and benevolence. When you reason this way, it means you have that love. 3.7 Surrender to God If He owns everything, what services can you render to God? The only thing is to surrender everything to Him, bow and worship Him day and night. If you do that, it means you have love. You cannot say, I do not know the Apostolic Church, or Roman Catholic Church or Moslem or Rosicrucian or Native Doctor. Why? Are all these people not owned by God? That is why when you profess to be Brotherhood, those who are far learned will ask whether you actually know the meaning of Brotherhood. If you profess to be a Brotherhood and you go to a certain place and complain that a member of your church is not there, it means you are not Brotherhood. When you claim to be a Brotherhood and you regard your house as your bonafide property; when somebody is sick you do not offer prayers, or when you do not give alms to the poor and needy, you do not care what happens to the afflicted but you sit down in your house and discriminate against others, you have not started and you do not even know what is called Brotherhood because you have no love. 3.8 Be universal in your attitude to all things and people You must always seek for the good of all men both far and near even unto the uttermost part of the earth, for all of them are children of the Father. You should have interest for the sick, interest for a thief, Interest for trees, animal, fishes and everything because they all are your brothers. You speak good of all human beings, all visible and invisible things, created and uncreated .things because all of them are brethren. Whenever you are praying, you are praying for everything. Anything at all you do, do it for all things because God is the embodiment of all things. If a white man comes now and request prayers from you so that he may go to conquer the black man, do not pray. If a black man comes to be prayed for so that he may rule over the whites, do not pray. Because you know that the blacks arc the children of your Father, the whites are the Father's children too. You have to pray that there should be peace everywhere. If somebody tells you to accompany him to somewhere so that his debtor may be influenced to defray his debts, do not go. If you are asked to bear false witness to somebody so that he can collect a certain thing from somewhere, do not bear. When you are singing, it is the Father who sings. When you are dancing know that it is the Christ who is dancing. Do not claim responsibility for anything. If you do, you are still covered with darkness. That is why you argue, always saying, how can this man preach this kind of gospel when he has never attended any school. The doctrines do not come from here. They are not mine. Anybody who practises these teachings will realise whether they are from me or from the Father. Why do you complain that you have no brother? It means that you have no love, why do you complain that you have no money; it means that you have no love. Why do you complain that you have no wisdom, it means that you have no love. 3.9 Avoid segregation No segregation is wanted, whether one is white or black, or a lawyer, or president, or Governor or Principal. For-one to ask you to watch over some thing means you should superintend over the things in peace year in and year out. If you regard God as the God of Nigeria, discard that thought. If you say He is in Africa, change your mind because of all planes of manifest, earth is the smallest. Do you not know that there are heavens upon heavens, some greater than this hundred times. Enoch was a witness to this, when he was translated. He saw quite a good number of people and in sharp comparison declared that the earth was far less populated. Right now all angels are your brethren. You are one with them. Never you say, I wish I were an angel because you are one with angels. Do not say if I were our Lord Jesus Christ because you are one with Him. Do not say I should be like God because you are one with God. Do not say if I were able to be like that woman, you are one with her. What I have brought to you is oneness. Nobody is greater than Jehovah God and His Christ. If you knew that you and all your brethren are equal, you would no longer be able to lie, steal. Harbour anybody in your heart or puff up. If you have this love of God in your hearts, you will not wound people with matchet. You will not pronounce death sentence on a human being like yourself. You will not hold anybody to ransom because he is indebted to you. You will not put on costly apparels and give tattered ones to others. You will no longer say that God loves you than other persons You will no longer say you are rich and the other man is poor. All those who do so, do it because of lack of love. All of you, dead or alive, bond or free, in sickness and good health, in wealth and poverty, when you sum up all the things with the Christ, it is still one. And together our Lord Jesus Christ, all of us and God are only one thing. Add this world to another and to another you will only find one world. There is no discrimination because love reigns in all things. That is why you had been told that there will be no more warfare. Division and hatred will be no more. Visa and passport will cease. Every place is owned by the Father. What is the use of passport and visa? You may say this is my country, whose is the other? Is it not God who owns you and all other places? Whosoever behaves in this manner, is against our Lord Jesus Christ. 3.10 Do not sow seeds of discord All those who sow seeds of discord are scattering. Our Lord Jesus Christ died, resurrected and now lives to rule because of all these things. He does not want any discrimination because the whole world is one person. He has revealed his love to the whole world. But the world knows not what is called love. Brethren, have you not sown the seed of discord with God? Have you not caused division with the Christ? Have you not discriminated against your wife in the house? Have you not caused segregation with your children? Do you see how you are so crafty and cunning? You regard anything of God as some other person's thing. You want God to pay you, or you want somebody to pay you before you can serve your Father. All those who do God's work for wages do not have love. The love of God is not in them. All those who refuse to surrender themselves to do the work of God do not love God .If you were to regard all your possessions as the Father's and all the Fathers as yours, I do not think you would have counted on anything. You will even give out your soutane to others. You would not sit still in your house but would go out on Ministry work to various bethels. If you use all the Father has to serve Him and use all you have to serve Him, it implies you have nothing to yourself at all; When will you be bankrupt? When are you going to be poor and wretched? He says whosoever lacks wisdom should go to Him. He is the Father of wisdom. You claim you are unwise. Is not all your Father's wisdom yours? You complain you have no spirit, who is the Sole Spiritual Head? Is it not your Father? Ask him and he will bestow the spirit on you. You complain you have no love, yet he is the Father of Love. Ask him, all His love is yours. You complain you have no life. When you are together with Him, all your life and His become one. What kills you is lack of love. Do you know that all that you have in this world and in any other world belongs to the Father. Do you know that all the fishes in the water, trees in . the forests, animals in the bush, all the birds in the air belong to the Father? Do you know that human beings, black and white, native doctors roaming about on earth belong to the Father? Do you know that all the angels, tall and short fat and lean and all others belong to the Father. Right from today, those who read this, all their wretchedness, death, lamentations are wiped away. You no longer will beg because you know all that you have belong to the Father and all that the Father has belong to you. When you create poverty and death for yourself because you lack the love of God, you get separated from the love of God. When this happens, you are covered with darkness. You complain you cannot go on transfer to another town because there is no Brotherhood of the Cross and Star there. If there is no Brotherhood of the Cross and Star there what is there? All the people existing there, what are they? All the houses there, are they not occupied by the Father? All the waters you pass by, the road, are they not Brotherhood? You complain about all these because you have no love. Whatever man cannot do is very possible in the hands of God. You complain that your Father is dead. Where has he gone to? What about all these fathers you find in the world, whose father's are they? All the mothers you find here, are they not your mother? You complain you have no child. When I die, I do not know what to leave behind. All the children scattered about in the world to whom do they belong? If you were to be one with the Father and the Father with, you, will you speak in that manner? That is why you are told, if you do not have love it profits you nothing. For this reason, you still grope in darkness. No inhabitant of the world has the love of God in him. Love is therefore universal, it has neither beginning nor end. You cannot say it starts here and ends there, it has no boundary. If we have love, darkness will run away from us, sickness will run from us, tears will leave us, loneliness will leave us, all things will run away from us. That is the manner with which our Lord Jesus Christ has revealed love for us throughout the whole world. That is why he has no conflict with neither man nor angel. He does not say woe unto a tree, or woe unto such a man, woe unto this or that thing. Because he knows that the trees are our brethren. The trees have their assignments, the leaves have theirs, water and other creatures of God have their assignments. But out of grace, you have been appointed to superintend over all the creatures of God. 3.11 All creation are brethren If you were to love God, you would not kill a rat, lizard, flies, or any other thing because all these things are your brethren. Do you believe that the fly and the ant you killed had prosecuted you? You have been found guilty after judgment. You realise that the leaves you pluck had prosecuted you before God and you were condemned after being found guilty. Do you know that everything including the trees you cut have summoned you before God reporting that its brother whom he did nothing to has cut it down. In whatever situation, court action have been taken against you and you have been found guilty after trial. Do you know that the sand you march on, and the ground you dig have also , summoned you before God for disturbing them. That is why you have been asked to obtain prior permission from the Father in everything you want to do. If you are not authorized, stay action. As he looks after you. He is also taking care of flies, rocks, wind, ants, lizards, trees and all other things. As he loves you, so does he love animals, trees, birds, angels and other creatures. His eyes are looking on everything throughout the world at the same time. 3.12 The Christ alone understands God The only person who understood Almighty God was our Lord Jesus Christ because He is God. He was to reveal this love to all the four corners of the world. Because of this love, you cannot compare any person with Christ. He stands quite unique. People commend the works of Moses, Abraham and Melchizedek. Who among them had the kind of love Christ had; Paying of tithe, celebration of feast, praying for the sick and preaching, free will offering and charity do not matter much. What matters is this love. Brethren let us have love. Money, education, feast, white garment, singing are not mentioned When you regard all your belongings as the Father and all the Father's belongings as yours, you are one with the Father, that is all. What belongs to the Father? It is the world and the fullness thereof. What do you possess? It is also that world and it's contents. When you count all these things you will only find one thing. If you have love, you will not say you are anything. Love does not puff up. Love exasperates not, love has long patience, love does not rejoice in what is wrong, does not seek for selfish gains. If we are always together, there will be no fastidiousness and we will have no problems. That is why I have said that you do not know the kind of spirit in your midst. It is the spirit of love. Love is the wisdom of God, love is the power of God, love is life eternal. Whoever does not possess it will not live because everything will pass away but, love will endure forever. Tell me how you will live as far as you do not have love. Any person, who does not love, can only see things close to him but not far off. You will be thinking about yourself, your wife, your children and others of your household. If somebody tells you, let us go to that family, you will say no. They are all witches and wizards. 3.13 Love other people first before considering yourself Cross River State is concerned about herself, Nigeria says pray for Nigeria, Ghana the same thing. What about the rest of Africa, what about the other continents, what about the other planes of creation, do they not also belong to God? That is why we are bestowed with problems and difficulties. If I have only one person possessing this love of God, the whole world will be at peace. He will not pray for things to be good with one and bad with the other. He will not be able to think evil whenever things are good with the neighbouring village. He will not rejoice over the downfall of any village. If you should have this love of God in you, you will never condemn any person, you will walk in the light to anywhere you go, you will have good health and will realise that all will be well. If your love circulates only in Calabar what about other places? If you love only Nigeria, what about other countries in Africa? If you love only West Africa what about East Africa? If you love your life, it is certain that you do not love God. If you love money, the love of God is not in you. If you love food, the love of God is not in you. If you love music, the love of God is dead in you. 3.14 The love of worldly glory and things hinder you. Tell me the truth, of all these aspects of love, is there any of them which is not in you; the love of wealth, money, land, wife and other things of this life? That is why no matter how the word of God is preached to you, it is a waste of time, because your heart is fixed in the things of the world. Love is not money. It is not food. It is nothing in the world. But love is greater than the whole world. One is enslaved to what he loves. When you love something, all your life, thought and desires are in that thing. Some people are looking for husbands, others are looking for wives, because of the quest for husbands and wives you continue to wonder in the world and deviate from the work of God which you were predestinated. It is because of your looking for what you are going to eat, that you fall from the path of God. Because of what you will wear, since you love yourself so much, then you derail from the path of righteousness. Can you now know your enemy and the enemy of the entire world? Whenever you listen to the word of God, go and sleep over it and contemplate on the reason you are told to do or not to do certain things. God advises you not to scramble for feast but when bread and biscuit are brought in, you struggle and overturn the tray. You are warned not to commit fornication, but you stay here and exchange addresses and indulge in dating. You have also been told not to love money, but you remain here to pick pocket. This is your problem. It is not God who hinders you from serving Him, it is the love of this world, which hinders you from serving God. The foundation stone in this Kingdom is for you to invest your love in God: Once you love God, you will succeed in all your endeavours. But if you invest your love in any human being then you stand to fail. All those who cannot practise the words of God have something in their hearts even though they have not disclosed it to anyone. It is because you love life and good health, you swear that whatever will give you good health whether it is mermaid, ]uju or concoctions, you will enslave yourself to it. Now because you love good health, you have denied your God. The troubles of the world right from the beginning have been love for handsome men and beautiful women, beautiful clothings and beautiful houses, beautiful cities and cars, beautiful flowers and landscapes. The creator of heaven and earth has given us as his first commandment that we should not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If we love the world and the things in the world, the love of God is not in us. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear, may God bless His holy words. Amen. THANK YOU FATHER