FIRST LESSON: 2 PETER 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished.
SECOND LESSON: JOHN 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
The above texts reveal our lesson. The Bible text confirms that there is nowhere else where anybody can find love apart from Christ. Therefore, whoever calls upon his name can never fail to get salvation from him. Brotherhood is the Biblical Noah’s Ark.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is the only one who knows how to deliver all those that fear him from temptation. Whether you are a thief, a murderer, a fornicator or a woeful sinner, once you call upon his name. He will not fail to save you. Do not be ashamed to call upon his name and do not be afraid to worship him. He has come to save all those that seek after and accept him.
Money, food or the government cannot save you. Nothing material can save mankind other than Christ. There is equally no other man that is capable of delivering man from his current predicament other than our Lord Jesus Christ. It is for this reason that all should forsake sins. Whoever hardens his heart should change now. Christ is that Noah’s Ark and he has arrived at your doorpost. Follow him, believe in him and seek after him for he has come to search for the lost sheep.
As many as believe in him and practice his injunctions shall have everlasting life. What is practiced in the whole world is retaliation and vengeance. People keep on ill-treating fellow men, obstructing their progress, and doing all sorts of evil to them. The three main texts in this gospel reveal the mission of Christ on earth. One of our spiritual Choruses says, “Weep not child and lament not for the Savior of the poor is not on his way, but is in our midst”. Except the tree falls the axe would not rest. This is the reason why all of us should get into the field to save the lost sheep.
THE LORD OF PEACE
If you say, you love God, that you love Christ and the world, then it is you place to go and save the sheep in the field.
Christ alone is the one who does not impute sin on any person. He is the only one who thinks and cares for us day and night. He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He is Lord of peace and of life. Therefore, we have to resemble him to follow him and to love him. It is a matter of necessity, that a child should resemble his parents.
A house that is divided against itself cannot stand and is doomed. Any house where a member therein engages in quarreling and lusts for materialism, such a house is doomed. Any individual or group of persons who lust after the things of this world is doomed.
Let us seek for God now that is yet day and do so with the whole of our heart, and soul. Let us look for him when it is possible to see him. A time is coming when such golden opportunity will not be available again. This is the time of peace, life and the right time to seek for God. When God extends his divine call to you, do not hesitate, waste no time and harden not your heart but follow him immediately he can call you by whatever means, it may be through sickness, court case, hatred, hardship or through the enemy. God is never pleased with the death of an evildoer. He continues to call his people through various means to himself.
THE EXPERIENCE OF JONAH
Something spectacular happened to Jonah. Many of us today are like Jonah. The voice of God went to Jonah instructing him to go to Nineveh to save souls. But because of his lust for materialism he refused. To fulfill the local adage which says that, “a child that would not want the mother to sleep, would also have to stay awake”. Jonah obtained a fair share of his bargain. A number of us today have been called by God and charged to go into his vineyard but we have refused. We are God’s servants and messengers, just as the angels do.
This is indeed a wonderful time in spirit. God is never pleased with the death of evildoers. It is for this reason that he commissions us daily into the vineyard and save souls. It is said that, today when you hear his voice harden not your heart. There is no other salvation apart from our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other person who can save the world apart from Christ. This is the right time to save those who cannot help themselves.
The ways of God are different from the ways of man. God is not lax in fulfilling his promise but only exercises long suffering. It is not his will that any should perish but that all should repent and be saved.
Governments all over the world, the churches, the various communities, nations and individuals are in a precarious situation and pitiable state.
Now is not a good time for anyone to go about seeking for money, wife, husband, children or any material thing. This is God’s own period for his service and for the manifestation of his kingdom. This is the time to seek for only the living and mighty God. For a time is coming when we shall seek for him but will not see him anymore. Read our lesson again
FIRST LESSON: 2 PETER 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished.
THE END IS AT HAND:
All the events that we see in the world today merely represent “Police Action” The real time of judgment is fast approaching. People are crying and shouting that life is so hard and the going so rough. This is yet a tip of the iceberg. Tougher conditions and harder times are yet to come. The first lesson has it that:
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished:
Tell the world that judgment is coming. What is obtainable now are mere signs of labor and pains. Let all the inhabitants of both the heaven and earth seizes this golden opportunity to serve the Lord. Those that worship him should hold fast and those who do not know him should now return to him. It is advisable to search for a black goat when it is yet day. Do not think that after all, he is the God of love, mercy and grace and because of that you continue to wallow in sinfulness. This is the time of peace and joy. Therefore, you have to seek for peace and joy.
During the era of Noah, this same situation was what took place. People were busy selling and buying; they got married and were equally given in marriage. They engaged in all the trades and pleasures of life to the detriment of God and total abandonment of his message. Noah preached persistently to the people for 120 years yet they refused to listen to him. They rather derided him and regarded him as a demented and idle person. But in the end, the foolish became, wise, the demented sane and the idle active. The first lesson therefore reveals God’s plan and handiwork. If all of us turn to him, follow and worship him, we will surely have salvation. All the songs that we sing, the testimonies that we give, our dances, the words that we preach, all constitute the blowing of the trumpet to the world to repent of their evil ways and come over to God.
All the churches, associations, and individuals must remain one with each other to foster peace, prosperity and eternal life in the world. If the whites refuse to abide by this call they would not be saved. On the other hand, if the blacks refuse his call, they will also perish. Do not think that your color, sex or religion will save you, if you fail to listen to his call to righteousness. Let no church deceive itself that, it will be saved except it lives in peace with all. This is the time that every man should advise himself and unite with one another in peace. Live in peace with your parents, children, friends’ government and all the inhabitants of the world. He has come to rule us in peace and to untie all people in love. Therefore, you should discard the thought for right knowledge, rivalry, war and other reactionary activities for they cannot profit you anything.
All those who seek for love, salvation, peace, and eternal life must live in peace with all. This is the everlasting gospel. Tell the proud and arrogant and those who delight in the abundance of their wealth to surrender to the ruler ship of the Almighty Father so that peace, love prosperity would return to the earth. Tell those who continue to wage wars, and to plan for further wars that, the time for that has since passed. This is the time of God; all should therefore surrender to his ruler ship.
The Lord has come to save the whole world in general and in particular, those that worship him, from temptation. He is also reserving the unrighteous under punishment till the Day of Judgment. You should always remember what the Bible says that, one day is like a thousand years in the eyes of the Lord and a thousand days like one day. On the other hand, one day for men is a thousand years for God. Do not live in the illusion that, after all God had been planning to destroy this world since the time of our great grand parents yet up till now he has not done so. Matthew 24, Luke 17, 2nd Peter 2 and 3 all confirm that fire will be used to examine each individual’s work. He said that as it was in the time of Noah so shall it be on the judgment day. Also, as it was in the days of Lot so shall it be in this generation. As the Father did not forgive the erring angels but held them in detention until judgment, so shall it happen in these days. As he did not forgive Sodom and Gomorrah: as he did not forgive the people during the time of Noah, he shall in no wise forgive this generation. All sinners should repent and turn to him. You should abstain from stealing, fornication, adultery, idolatry, killing anger, disobedience and all the vices. Hold fast to God. He has come to bestow us with love, peace and good health, which are better than raiment. Read our second lesson again.
SECOND LESSON: JOHN 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the would giveth, give I unto you; Let not your heart be troubled, nether let it be afraid.
THE DAYS OF GRACE:
Brethren, you should now realize that this is the time of peace, mercy, love and righteousness. If he is given the cause to withdraw the peace, love, grace, and mercy then the world is doomed. If you refer to Revelation 7:1-3
“And after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four wind of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on the tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea. Saying hurt not the earth, nether the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”
You would discover God’s plan for mankind. This is to remind you that if God withdraws his grace, the whole world will be destroyed. Let us embrace the peace that the Lord has left with us so that we can equally extend it to our neighbors, churches, governments, husbands, wives and all the inhabitants of the world.
ONE FLOCK, ONE SHEPHERD:
There should be one flock under one shepherd. Remember our Lord Jesus Christ’s statement to the disciple when he said that he had another sheep that was present there. And so, he had to go and bring them into his sheepfold, so that, there would be one flock under one shepherd. Do not allow yourself to be deceived that you can have peace except you live in peace with your brethren. You will never be justified except you live in peace with one another. Why the Father commissions us to go into the field is to bring back all the lost sheep together under one shepherd in love and peace. God is not pleased with the death of a sinner but preserves them through his long suffering so that they may repent.
No man dose a good thing and confines such a thing to his house. He will definitely take the thing outside into the full view and appreciation of all. Warri in Delta State is very close to Calabar, yet a certain brother confessed that it was only recently, about two weeks ago, that he heard something about Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. There are those who are looking for help in prison, sick beds, water and forests. There are those who would have only called on the name of the father for their problems to be solved but could not because, there is no one to direct them. In trying to evangelize the world, you should be prepared to answer any derogatory names, which the world will call you in the course of propagating this message of hope and salvation.
God has promised mankind when he said that we should call upon him and he will answer us. The spiritual song, which goes with, the above promise says: “Call upon me in the time of trouble, I will answer you”. The question now is, how will the people call upon the person, they do not believe in? How will they believe in a name they have never heard of? How will they hear when there is no preacher to inform them? And, how will a preacher go out and preach when he has not been commissioned to do so.
A certain brother in America who was in prison was asked to call upon the name and he would be saved. He believed, he called upon the name and was saved.
This also confirms the statement of our Lord Jesus Christ that except a man is born of water and Holy Spirit, he cannot be his disciple. Many are called onto The Lord, but there is a danger when you delay. The song goes thus: “Many are called, unto to The Lord Many are called unto to The Lord, There, is danger if you delay.”
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
THE LAST CALL:
The biblical excerpt above is the last call and the golden opportunity for those who want salvation, whoever delays shall have himself to blame. Do not quarrel with any person or engage in any argument over anything, do not even beg anybody, but only tell it to them and whoever believes and answers the call shall be saved. But if you go to a place and the people there reject you, the Bible says that you should shake the dust off your feet there and that will remain as an instrument of witness against them.
The end of such people or city would be worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. Any house you go into, first say. “Let the peace be unto this house”, and if there be a child of peace, the peace of God shall follow him. Go and preach to individual and groups, preach to the government, preach to all the creation of God to repent and turn to God. Those who hearken shall be saved but those who shall reject you will reject their lives. Go into the enemy’s front for as a soldier of Christ you cannot be wounded at the front.
Tell everyone; that comes across you to forsake sins and follow Christ. Let nobody continue to engage in planning and doing evil to his brethren. Let them know that whoever goes with the sword shall die by it. I know that as you go out the people do ask you what the Father says. Tell them the Father says they should leave their old ways and accept the truth, love and peace. Tell them that Christ is the way, the life and the truth. Tell them that except they passed through him they would not see God and they would not inherit his Kingdom. Inform them that The Lord is willing and ready to accept and wash any sinner clean. Preach to the President, Prime Minister, Governors, Senators and the rest of the people in the corridors of power.
Tell those who want to plant themselves as life President, or Governors that the time has come when they will run away from those political positions themselves. This is the time for Jehovah God and his Christ to reign and rule. The government and the governance of the people are in his hands. The blacks, the whites, men and women, young and old, animals in the bush, fishes in the water, birds in the air, the trees and all God’s creations have to return to their creator. All the activities that men do, none, will help them. If we do not follow him now, we stand to lose his love, peace and grace.
GOD’S PROMISE:
Remember his promise that you should not trouble your minds; that you should believe in the father and in him, for in his father’s kingdom there are many mansions. If it were not so, he would have told us. He said he want to prepare a place for us thereafter he would come and take us there so that wherever he is, we should be there also. He has come to take us all into the kingdom. This is the time to part ways with anything mundane and follow God. Follow him now when it is not late that you will not regret.
Our spiritual chorus says:
“Come O! Come, Come, my Children, I do not want you to be destroyed. Come and make peace with me.”
And another one is: “Those who were with me I will come to take them to myself”
It is advisable that we follow God because he lives, and we shall also live. He does not taste of death.
He has said: but this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. Seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
For such an high priest become us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens (Hebrews 7:24-26)
This is the time he has come to lead the world to salvation. He is our only Savior and treasure.
AN OPEN LETTER:
This gospel is an Open Letter to the world. It should be disseminated to all Nations, all liberation fighters and rebel leaders, all life Presidents and Monarchs, all oppressors and deceivers, and all the inhabitants of the world and the angels. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Your money, education, position, power, color or stature will not help you. There is no life, no glory, no truth, nothing in the world at all, other than sorrows and woes. But whoever accepts this message stands to be saved.
Remember that the same letter was written to Sodom and Gomorrah in Isaiah 1:10-12. If the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah had heeded God’s instruction that they should refrain from iniquities and love one another the young and old, rich and poor, man or woman, they would not have been destroyed. If they accepted to come and make peace with their Creator, he would have forgiven all their iniquities and washed them to be as white as snow as he promised. But because they refused God’s injunction they were devoured by the sword.
Christ is here on earth and the father is here too. Both are calling us to come and be saved. The Lord has come to save the living and the dead. The call is not to follow Obu or Brotherhood, or my church denomination or country or individual. Follow Christ alone for he is here on earth to gather all the sheep under one flock and one shepherd.
Let us refrain from war, hatred, stealing, killing, and every act that destroys a man. We should rather love one another, live in peace, be humble and merciful. If all the inhabitants of the world and all the nations do this, then we shall be saved. A stroke of a cane is sufficient for a wise. May god bless his word. Amen!
THANK YOU, FATHER.
