GOOD AND EVIL WORK TOGETHER TO MANIFEST THE GLORY OF GOD.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: ROMANS Chapter 5 verse 20

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound.
SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW Chapter 12 verse 29
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except
he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
GOLDEN TEXT: ROMANS Chapter 8 verse 28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to the
m who are the called according to his purpose.
The three lessons have shown you the nakedness of everything in the world. Those
things you regard as evil have been reveal by the three lessons.
Zero and one do the same work. One and two do the same work. Day and night are o
ne and the same thing. Man and woman are one thing. The word and God are One thi
ng. The Word is not distinct from God. God and man are one and inseparable. In t
he city of the rich there is a poor man. The mother of the prophet of God is als
o the mother of the false prophet. Aaron who made a golden image for the Israeli
tes to worship has the same father and mother with Moses. This is to show you, a
ll the creations of God are male and female. The male is not complete without th
e female, and both of them are not two but one. When asked how many people there
are in the world, you will say, there are very many people. There are not many
people in the world, but only one person. That is why, according to the teaching
s in Brotherhood, if a man is the president of any Fellowship or any meeting, a
woman will be the Vice-President. If a man is the Chairman, the woman will be Vi
ce-Chairman. If a man is the Secretary, a woman will be his Assistant. Wherever
there is no man, there is also no woman. Wherever there is no woman, there is no
man. If you say, a man is a troublemaker, a woman is also a troublemaker. If yo
u take a man into a forest to live there alone, there will be no quarrel because
he is alone. The same applies to a woman. She cannot quarrel and fight with the
trees. The moment you bring a man and a woman together in the same place, they
will start fighting, may be likely that very day. They will shout and beat each
other. They will quarrel, get angry, fight and shout. Within a short time they w
ill be blessed with first issue, and they will begin to increase in number. Yet
they are fighting, quarrelling and wounding each other. Death then sets in. Ther
e is weeping. Soon you hear, thieves have stolen something. They will complain,
this is an evil world, full of so many temptations. And yet people are increasin
g, food and houses are also increasing. There are wars and manufacturers of war
implements. That is the order of things in this world. It is the way God has mad
e the world.
SORROW AND JOY:
Wherever there is no sorrow, there is no joy. Wherever there is no joy there lie
s no sorrow. The person who has no child never complains of a sick child. The pe
rson who has no child, does not have a dead child. Anybody who has no child, wil
l never report somebody has beaten his child. Nobody has ever stolen a child fro
m a barren woman. If you have a child; know, all these will befall you: your chi
ld could fall sick, would be stolen, beaten, or could die. All these things brin
g glory to God. Therefore we should not say, God does not know about these thing
s. You should not ask why God should allow such things to happen to you. You hav
e heard what the first lesson says. That the law entered, that the offence might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. (Romans Chapter 5 v
erse 20).
You say, the world is a bad place and things are not going on well in the countr
y. How can you explain that, when we are a Republic and we mint our own money. W
e rule ourselves and make our laws. We can fight a war today and make peace tomo
rrow. We have this great freedom at our disposal. Tell me how the world is a bad
place.
You were all here during the civil war and you saw how people died like flies. T
he streets were all littered with corpses. Today look at the explosive populatio
n. Women are giving birth like a hen hatching her eggs. Men who could not beget
children are now bearing children. What evil was there in the world? Is it when
you had to go and study in Universities abroad things were good? Would you say,
the good years were when Primary Six holders of Certificates were made headmaste
rs and governors, as compared to now when we have many lawyers, doctors and phil
osophers around?
PROSPERITY AFTER EACH WAR:
The world continues to advance and progress and there are so many people that yo
u can do nothing about it. After the 1914 war there was prosperity. After the 19
39 war there was another spell of prosperity, and the arrival of freedom. During
the Nigerian Civil War every person was left with nothing. No person thought, t
here would ever be anything known as prosperity. But since the war ended, people
have become very rich. You even find women becoming millionaires. There is incr
ease in population and knowledge. Show me what evil there was in the war.
If you meet a millionaire who explains to you the sufferings he has passed throu
gh before becoming a millionaire, you will vow, you would never want to be one.
You can see a very poor man who would like to narrate to you how rich he used to
be, and the amount of wealth he accumulated in the past. But today he is left w
ith nothing. You will be surprised at the ups and downs of life. That is exactly
the way the Father wants it.
The gospel of today has really taught us the wisdom and the nature of God. Becau
se we think, Satan is troubling the world, that there are many wicked people, wi
tches and juju are disturbing the place. None of these things is troubling the w
orld. Everything is perfectly in order. There is nothing evil in this world. The
re is nothing done by man. God does everything. He has ordered everything for Hi
s own good. That is the way He has created the world and maintains its growth.
GOD CREATED EVERYTHING FOR A PURPOSE:
God created the heavens, the earth, the mountains, the seas, the trees, the sun,
the moon, birds, animals and everything, and blessed them. If there is no rainf
all again, the whole world will perish. If there is no sunshine, then the world
will equally perish. If there is no air, the world will perish. If there is only
the wind, then it will blow everything out of existence. If there is no fire th
en the world will perish. But it was fire, which was used to destroy Sodom and G
omorrah. The world of Noah was destroyed with water. Tell me, fire and water whi
ch is evil, or which is the more evil of the two? Which is the better? Are they
not the ones ruling? Have you not seen, the law entered that offence might aboun
d. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Famine comes in so that h
unger may come. Hunger comes so that there may be sickness, sorrow and death. Al
l these will finally give way to progress, life, prosperity and joy. You have he
ard here, there was a certain community in which for seven years no person was s
ick, no person died and no person put to bed any child, (Nobody gave birth to a
child). The inhabitants left that place and said it was an evil place. They went
and lived in another location.
When they arrived at the new place somebody died. Shortly, many women were pregn
ant and they rejoiced over this situation. These are the things which add rest t
o life. And God has kept them so. Quarrelling, fighting, anger, divisions, unity
, peace, love and joy all work hand in hand. When you reconcile with someone you
quarreled with, you will find, there is much more joy and love between you than
before. This is the wisdom of God, which eludes man. Except now that the Holy S
pirit has come to reveal him, no person would have ever known the way of God.
HONOR AND DISGRACE WORK TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
The night has its own work, which the day cannot do. The day has its own work, w
hich the night cannot do. Without the night there is no day, and without the day
there is no night. Both of them do one work. Just as sickness alone cannot do t
his work, so also good health alone cannot do it. Both of them go together as on
e entity. Life alone cannot do this work and death alone cannot do this work. Bo
th of them work together to manifest the glory of God. Honor and glory alone can
not do this work; disgrace and shame alone cannot do it. Both pairs work togethe
r for one common good. People wonder why a man of God should starve, or be in la
ck, or get killed. Have you not heard our lesson? If he is not treated this way,
his work is not complete. And so all we see is the glory of God. God uses these
things for revealing His glory. There is no Satan, ghost, juju or evil. When yo
u are not sick, you will not value good health. You always complain, things are
bad with you. When attention is drawn to your good health, you will ask if good
health is good. Another person has money but he is very sick and cannot sleep. I
f you talk about his money, he will tell you he is dying and his money cannot gi
ve him life or good health. Can you see the work of those twin brothers?
CELEBRATING HIS RETURN:
Everyday we are lamenting, and everyday we are joyful. Whenever you lost your on
e naira, you will become sad. You will become angry with every person in the hou
se and you will say all sorts of things because of that one naira which you have
lost. When suddenly you recover the one naira, you will rejoice and call the ch
ildren to come and sing with you. If it did not get lost, would you sing and dan
ce and rejoice as you are doing now? Just as the first son told his father, I ha
ve always remained with you, but you have never given me a cow, not even a fowl
to celebrate a feast with my friends. But when your son who went and squandered
your wealth with prostitutes came back, you celebrate the feast for him with cow
s and sheep. His father told him, son, you are always here with me and everythin
g I have is yours. But this brother of yours was lost and is now found. He was d
ead and he has now come back to life. It was necessary that we should rejoice wi
th him. Have you now seen the glory of God? If your father is a wealthy man and
does not take you round his estates and riches, how would you know the wealth of
your father? He owns death. He owns good health and everything. He has to take
us around his vineyard so we can see how beautiful it is. If you hear, your fath
er is very rich, without first seeing his wealth, will you believe?
IF YOU ARE SURROUNDED WITH WEALTH YOU CANNOT SEE HIM:
Job said, he heard of God with the ears but now he has seen Him face to face. Wh
en did he only hear the voice of God? It was when he was rich, and was not sick.
His children and all were intact. That was when he heard of God with the ears a
nd did not see Him. If he did not lose his children and all his wealth, how woul
d he have seen God face to face? Right now you are desirous to see God face to f
ace. If God Surrounds you with wealth, children and every good thing, you cannot
see Him. You can only see these things surrounding you. Unless He takes all the
se things away from you then and only then, will you be able to see Him face to
face and converse with Him. The reason is, when you are surrounded with money, w
ealth, and people you will feel, without these things you will die. You do not k
now anything about God. You regard a house as God. You regard money, wealth and
relations as God. No matter how much you are told about God you will not believe
. You will think, it is your wealth which has sustained you. But whenever He tak
es you unawares with incidents like premature birth, when He binds you hands and
feet and takes away all your wealth, you turn left and right and there is no so
ul by you. But, you continue to live and you are still happy. That is when you s
ee God's face and know, He is the source of everything.
GOD IS ALL AND IN ALL:
For one to be in affluence and for one to be in lack is the same thing. For one
to be sick and for one to be in good health is one and the same thing. There is
no difference. The sick man is with God and the healthy man is also with God. Bu
t God is all and in all. He is sickness, He is good health, He is poverty, and H
e is wealth. From time to time He has to show you the different aspects of His p
erson, so you can fully comprehend your Father. And when you stand up to speak a
bout Him, you can speak with authority.
Somebody who has never been sick is very impatient with a sick man. You are very
weak. Why can't you stand up as a man, as he would say to the sick man? He does
not know what it is like to be sick. If you have a sick man who has never enjoy
ed good health, he will not be able to tell you what it is like to enjoy good he
alth because he has never experienced good health.
And so when you are sick, you have experienced what it is to be sick. When you a
re in good health you know what it is to be in good health. You have been to the
se two cities so that when you meet a sick man you can give him words of encoura
gement and that will cheer him up. Let us read the First Bible Lesson.
FIRST BIBLE LESSON: ROMANS Chapter 5 verse 20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound.
GOD IS AWARE OF EVERY HAPPENING:
Have you ever had this wisdom? You who lament, things are very difficult with yo
u and death should come and take you away, have you known where sin abounds, gra
ce much more abounds? Do you know this? Do you not know God is responsible for t
he bad situation? He has seen there is much grace around you, and so He toughens
the situation so that when you are pressed to the extreme, He may come and show
er much more grace unto you. That is how God sees to the progress of His Kingdom
, by these ups and downs of life.
Many people are saying, God should take away death. If God takes away death, the
re will be no life as well. If someone does not die, no person is born. If you a
re not sick you will not be healthy. If you are not poor you will not be rich, a
nd if you are not rich you will never be poor. All these things are one and they
do the same work. That is why no matter how you pray or preach, these things co
ntinue the way they are. God grows everyday and his grace is multiplied everyday
. Do you not want His grace to abound? When you ask God to take away this or tha
t, it means, you want Him to regret. It cannot be so.
You have already been told, it is tribulation which brings glory to God. If Adam
and Eve did not transgress, how would God come down and live with man? If it is
through their offence, God has come down to dwell with man, can you show me wha
t evil there is in that? If we examine ourselves we will realize, all the tribul
ations that come to us bring much more glory to us in the end. You say, the whit
es did not practice the Word of God; if they did practice the word of God, would
the word of God reach you?
TAKING OF BRIBES AND AFTER EFFECT:
Every offence is committed so grace may abound to many people. Right now there a
re no job vacancies in the Public or Private sector. People are no more employed
. Millions of applicants are roaming the streets. If the few in the offices do n
ot take bribes or commit one offence or the other, how would they be driven away
for others to be employed? He has to collect bribes so he may be sacked in orde
r to create room for another person to be employed. You cannot ask God why he co
ntinues to do these things. He is not wrong in doing these things because where
sin abounds, there grace did much more abound. No person can stand the tribulati
ons which Christ faced. Even today you often hear people say, you should not tem
pt them because they are not Jesus Christ. You cannot compare them with Him. But
who has assumed the glory today? The people of the world say, you should not co
mpare them with Our Lord Jesus Christ because He alone suffered tribulation. Tha
t is true. How many of them are glorified today? And so if you are a child of Go
d be ready to suffer tribulation with Christ. If you suffer with Him, you will a
lso be glorified with Him. The reverse is the case today. No person wants to suf
fer tribulation, but you are all waiting for the glory of God.
It is quite impossible, because no cross, no crown. It means you want to enter t
hrough the window. When you hear, this is the Kingdom of God, you start looking
for short cuts into it. There is no short way. It is said, "The law entered, tha
t the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound."
(Romans Chapter 5 verse 20). Many people say, there are many laws in Brotherhoo
d, which say: do not eat meat, do not eat fish, do not fornicate, do not drink e
tc. They cannot practice these and they would rather go to the Church where they
are free to indulge in these sins. Many people have fallen because of the many
laws. They are drinking, fornicating, telling lies and stealing. But it is also
here, you find many people who have forsaken drinking, fornication and other sin
s. Grace has much more abounded.
NO ONE BELIEVES IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD:
No person knows the way of God. That is why if you go and tell people, God is he
re on earth, they will tell you to shut up. It was said, when God comes people w
ill no longer be sick, there will be no more deaths, or lack. And he will quote
the Scriptures to you. He will conclude by saying, the world is still filled wit
h evils and Satan is ruling. If you go and tell the whites, God is in Nigeria, t
hey will ask you why there are still wars and hard-ship in the country. If you t
ell a fellow Nigerian, God is here, he will tell you to shut up. Because if God
were here, people will not be sick, or be in lack, or die any more. It is said,
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Have you not seen the abundance
of grace here? Whenever you want to rejoice in this Kingdom an outsider will com
e and tell you, it is Beelzebub and that we drink blood. Your joy will consequen
tly be dampened. You should not advise God. Paul said, lest I should be exalted
above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a
thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalte
d above measure. (2nd Corinthians Chapter 12 verse 7).
If it were not for these thorns now and then, many of you would become insane be
cause of joy. This Joy is so great you cannot contain it. God has to put in thes
e small thorns as messengers to keep you from being over joyous. When you are re
joicing somebody will come and tell you, now you are dancing but your brother is
very sick. Your joy will be taken away. You will begin to ask if this is the Ki
ngdom of God why should my brother be sick, especially as I have surrendered mys
elf unto God. There are all kinds of temptations, even in farming, you have stud
ied farming so well you will become a real successful farmer. But during harvest
, your yams are all dead. The gain in your business cannot offset this loss. Thi
s is done by God. You send out two people with articles of trade thinking, there
will be much profit with two people sent out. God is watching you. Be assured,
one of them will come back with profit and the other with a loss. This happens s
o you may still remain between joy and sorrow.
DO NOT SERVE GOD FOR ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVE:
Brethren do not disturb yourself again. Do not ask questions about any situation
or event. Every thing is at the instance of God. There is no Satan, no mistake
nor any evil power responsible for anything. The grace of God is sufficient unto
us. Whether you pray or not, whether you know God or not, it is the same. Do no
t seek to know God, or to please Him and serve Him for any ulterior motive. Noth
ing depends on this. The person who prays and the person who does not pray are o
ne and the same. You are praying but there is no kobo in your house. The other p
erson does not pray but he has so much money. The person who does not pray but h
as money will turn to you and say, brother you are a man of God, have this money
. You will knock your head on the ground and give thanks to God. Have you seen w
hat the person who does not pray has done for you? You have been regarding him a
s an evil man who will go to hell. He has given you some of his money so that yo
u can shut up. You may find some other person who says there is no God. And he i
s very rich and wealthy. He will say to you why are you wasting your time with G
od? There is no such thing. Do you not see my wealth, my children and all this a
ffluence? This idol has given them to me. I can show you how you can also acquir
e them. Very soon his children will start to die. His wealth will begin to go. H
e is afflicted with sickness. You who were the man of God, you start to prosper.
He will come and knock his head at your feet and ask for prayers, and some food
. You will ask if he did not once say there was nothing like God. He will tell y
ou to forget about that. His wealth and children have gone and he himself is ver
y sick. You will begin to supply his needs from your abundance. That is the text
which says, who can enter into the house of a strong man's house, and plunder g
oods, without first binding the strong man hands and feet. (Matthew Chapter 12 v
erse 29).
A RICH MAN DOES NOT HEAR THE WORD OF GOD:
That is why the Word of God says, when you seek for God you will not find him. B
ut whenever he wants you, he will find you. That is why Christ also said, I have
told you, "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him
: and I will raise him up at the last day." (John Chapter 6 verse 44). If you go
and tell a millionaire, you want to pray for him and preach the Word of God to
him; he will tell you, he has no time. He will continue to tell you, he wants to
attend to his business; he wants to go to the bank. He will ask his wife to fin
d you some money because you are hungry and have nothing better to do. He does n
ot want to hear the Word of God. He will tell you, he himself is God and can off
er prayers for himself. He is not concerned with whatever you have to offer.
You have heard the sister who testified last night, it was her quest and desire
for a child that brought her into Brotherhood. Her husband was strongly against
this. Within two months she was pregnant. The man told her, he will follow her t
o wherever she has received this help. The wife told him, it was no other place
than Brotherhood of the Cross and star. And the man said, let us go there. What
is the evil in that? If that did not happen the sister and her brother would nev
er have come to Brotherhood. And so before you enter into the house of a strong
man and plunder his goods, you have to first bind him hands and feet. It is not
that you want to kill him. You want to bring him to salvation.
SUE WAS BOUND HANDS AND FEET:
The sister herself said, she did not want to come to Brotherhood because many pe
ople had told her about Brotherhood earlier. But when she went to the doctor she
was told, it would be impossible for her to have any issue. If that doctor had
been able to give her a child she would never have come to Brotherhood. When her
 sister told her, if she comes to Brotherhood she will be saved and she will hav
e children; she said, she has heard of it before and will not come. When all hop
es were lost, she reasoned if it is coming to Brotherhood that will solve her pr
oblems, then she had no option. She has been bound hands and feet. What was the
evil in her stand? Today if you tell her to leave Brotherhood she will refuse. I
t is said that the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abo
unded, grace did much more abound. Have you not seen how the grace of God abound
s in us? Let the second lesson be read so you may not weep, or lament or become
sorrowful again.
SECOND BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW Chapter 12 verse 29
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except
he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
THEY EXECUTE THEIR POWERS AT WILL:
Have you heard that? You can see the situation of the world today. God has tied
everyone hands and feet and there is hardship, famine and difficulties everywher
e. If it was not for these who would seek after God? How would people come to re
pentance? The governments say there is no God. They think, they are the Gods of
the earth. They can imprison you, or kill you or do whatever they like to you wi
thout being questioned by any person. If you go to preach the word of God to the
m, they will warn you not to preach the word of God here because this is governm
ent office. If you take the Word of God to the hospital they will tell you not t
o preach or pray because the doctor is around. Today, it is the doctors who invi
te you to come and pray for them. This is because they have failed. Their medici
ne does not heal any longer. In the past necromancers, medical doctors, and scie
ntists said there was no God. Today something has happened in the world until pe
ople now seek for a hiding place. If things did not happen this way who would se
ek for God or know there is God.
You will hear testimonies from new members coming into Brotherhood they have ser
ious court cases, they are sick, their businesses have folded up, some of them s
ay, "My children are all dead," and they will continue to enumerate their proble
ms. Who has brought about these problems? It is the Father. If these problems di
d not come, would they seek for God? You will also see old members asking you to
pray for them, that there is too much temptation facing them, their children ar
e stubborn and they do not want to hear the word of God, some others say their h
usbands are troubling them and, so on. It is the Father who has put this thorn i
n their flesh so they may not be over exalted. If these things were not so, you
do not know what could have happened.
THE IMPRESSION OF PEOPLE ON BROTHERHOOD:
Today the whole world regards every other church denomination as worshipping the
real God while they regard Brotherhood as satanic, they believe we drink blood
and we will all go to hell. Have you seen the thorn which God has put in your fl
esh, to keep you from being over exalted? If he did not do that you will run mad
with joy. When somebody comes and testifies, Brotherhood is the real God, you a
ll knock your heads. When he says, God is in your midst and he has seen him face
to face, you will all applaud. But another person will tell you Brotherhood is
Beelzebub and your joy will be diminished again.
Anger and Joy do the same work. In the fit of extreme anger, you may drive yours
elf into doing a very important thing in life. It could be you are not a homeown
er, but you are a tenant in somebody's house. As a tenant you are not content wi
th each apartment you rent and so you continue to move from house to house in se
arch of the perfect apartment. Or may be your various landlords are not happy wi
th you and so you keep on moving from place to place. People will then ask you,
can you not build your own house? Your mates have all got houses. For this reaso
n you will stamp your feet on the ground and vow come death, even if you have to
starve and walk naked, God stand by me, you are going to build a house. And you
build a house. If you eventually become a homeowner, what is the evil in that?
CURSE IS NOT ALWAYS A PUNISHMENT:
There is a certain play, in which there is a song, and they say, "If you are cur
sed know they are teaching you a lesson." Because there were two brothers who we
nt to school together. One of them became a teacher and the other did not go fur
ther. The teacher one day told the other brother, did we not attend school toget
her? Today I am a teacher but what are you? For this reason his brother decided
to further his studies. The one who boasted about the fact he was a teacher stop
ped at standard four. But this man who went out of anger went as far as obtainin
g the Grade II Teacher' s Certificate. He became the greatest teacher. What evil
was there? If he was not abused, may be he would not have become anything in li
fe. Do not be angry when somebody tells you, "What can you do to me? A foolish m
an like yourself." Do not be angry with him. He is strengthening you to stand fi
rm and do something. Rather than somebody praising you, let him abuse you. Rathe
r than somebody loving you let him hate you. God has made it such that amongst t
en people, five will hate you and the other five will love you. Twenty people in
a place and nineteen will hate you while the one person will love you in a wond
erful way. Out of forty people thirty-nine will love you but one vagabond will n
ever want to hear anything about you. If you asked what wrong you have done to h
im, he will say, you have done nothing; he only does not want to see you. It is
the Father who is doing this.
YOU WILL BE HATED BY SOME PEOPLE AND LOVED BY SOME PEOPLE:
That is why it is said, if every person loves you then you are nothing, you are
lost. If every person hates you, you are equally lost. God has made it such that
wherever you go, a certain number of people will love you and a fraction will h
ate you. That is when they strike a balance. Our brother testified this morning,
the students of the Unicross drove Justice Udo Udoma out of the Campus, when he
went to launch his book there. The reason, according to the students was, he wa
s against the creation of more states in Cross River State. It is the Father who
is responsible for this. Do not be troubled over anything, event or situation b
ecause everything works together for good for them that love God. It was through
the sin of Adam suffering came to all, even to those who did not commit the sam
e sin as Adam. Today, through Christ, salvation has come to all, even to those w
ho have not done any good thing. What was the evil in what Adam did? If it was b
ecause of the sin of Adam, Christ came and died and redeemed the world, what evi
l did Adam commit? Where sin abounds, grace did much more abound. Have you not s
een the fulfillment of this statement. I will not leave you desolate. I will com
e again to you. Has this not fulfilled today?
HIS GRACE IS ALWAYS WITH us:
Have you not seen the word fulfilled, I will not leave you nor forsake you? God
does not forsake man for a minute and he does not fail man whether you are tall,
fat, rich or poor; it means nothing. God is God, forever. Since Adam was sent o
ut of the Garden have you heard, any person has replaced him, or an angel has ta
ken over his place? Is it not man who is still ruling today? Is it not Man who i
s still the Son of God? Why is it then you do not believe, where sin abound ther
e grace did much more abound? Have you not seen the abundance of grace around us
.
At first there was no university in Nigeria; you had to go abroad to study. Toda
y there is a university in almost every state. Where does this come from? Before
we had only one governor for the whole country and he was a white man. But toda
y we have nineteen governors and more are coming. Even new States are created as
often as possible. Can you not see how grace has abounded? If our master did no
t starve us, would we have this glory? You can then see, everything works togeth
er for good for them that love God. Do not fear whatever you hear because it is
only for your well-being. Everything, which you hear and see, brings goodness an
d peace to us. Do not say, that person is destroying the earth. Do not say the o
ther person is very good. No person is good and no person is very bad. It is God
alone who is good. Who is the one clothed in white? It is still the Father. He
is the beginning and the end. He is the first and the last. If He does not do so
mething, such a thing is not done. Everything is good. Nothing is evil. Watch ca
refully and you will see the grace of God in the midst of everything which you s
ay is evil.
MAN PROPOSES BUT GOD DISPOSES:
The selling of Joseph into slavery in Egypt became an upliftment to the Israelit
es. The putting of Shedrack and his two friends, Mershark and Abednego into fire
led to the upliftment of the glory of God. The imprisonment of Paul led to the
spread of the word of God, and the strengthening of the faith of the believers.
Caiphas thought, if Jesus was killed His work would come to an end. But his deat
h has brought about the spread of His word and fame. And many people have now co
me to believe, He is still alive. This is because if He did not die, he would no
t have resurrected. If He did not resurrect, the world population would not incr
ease. It is said, "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abide
th alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." (John Chapter 12 verse 2
4). Have you not seen how Christ has multiplied and filled the whole world? If y
ou plant a bad seed here, when it germinates it will fill the place with bad fru
its, but if you plant one good seed, it will germinate and bring forth many good
fruits. That is why you find there are children of God all over the world. This
is because of the death and resurrection of Christ. Let our golden text be read
.
GOLDEN TEXT: ROMANS Chapter 8 verse 28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to the
m who are the called according to his purpose.
THEY FLOCKED INTO BROTHERHOOD BECAUSE THEY WANTED POWER:
Have you heard that? Caiphas said, He should be killed because it is expedient f
or one man to die than for the whole nation to perish. That prophecy was not fro
m him but from God. He Caiphas was the high priest that year. He prophesied Jesu
s had to die for the nation and not for that nation alone, but to gather into on
e all the children of God scattered all over the world.
Have you not seen what his death has brought to mankind? The children of God hav
e multiplied all over the world. Caiphas thought, he was doing an evil thing but
can you see the abundance of God's grace, which this evil thing has brought abo
ut. It is said one's enemies shall be those of his house. All those who hated Ch
rist are now the children of God. Today, history has repeated itself. People tho
ught, if they removed Olumba, Brotherhood would come to an end. And every person
will return to his former church. And so they started saying, the Leader has be
en caught in a net. The whole world came out to see this. And when they came, th
e 'NET' caught all of them and they got baptized into Brotherhood. They say, it
is Beelzebub and those who know what Beelzebub is and the power in it, that was
what they were looking for. The thing is at our doorstep why do we have to pay o
ur way to distant places and acquire the power of Beelzebub. And so they all com
e in here because they are looking for the power of Beelzebub. People say, the L
eader has a house inside the water, in the sun, in the moon, he has great power,
he kills, he drinks blood. When others hear this they will want to come so the
Leader can kill their enemies for them. And so all those who want people to be k
illed for them flock into this place.
THEY FLOCK INTO BROTHERHOOD BECAUSE THEY WANTED VENGEANCE AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES:
If somebody's property is stolen or an enemy is troubling him, he wants to come
so that the Leader can kill his enemy for him. But when he comes in he does not
return again. Those who want Beelzebub powers or some other protective charms ru
sh down here when they hear the Leader is Beelzebub. That is how the whole world
is brought in here. It is not they deliberately came here to worship God. Anoth
er group of persons will say, He is the Christ who has come again. All those who
were waiting for Christ rush in and see the glory of God. Others will say the L
eader of the whole world has come and those who were waiting for such a world le
ader rush in here. Other people will say he is Satan, he is juju, he is Beelzebu
b, some say He has American power, there is great power there but no person know
s its source. People will say, it is exactly what they were looking for. Since t
hey are looking for all these satanic powers, they will come in. And so in this
way those who seek for God and those who seek for Satan are all brought in here
because God is everything. This is so, all knees must bow to Him and all tongues
should praise Him. All those who are the children of God, when they hear, God i
s here, they will rush in. All those who are the children of Satan since they he
ar, Satan is here, they will come in. Both of them come and meet together. What
evil is in that?
THEY FLOCK INTO BROTHERHOOD BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IT IS THE HIGHEST SECRET SOCIET
Y:
Others say it is the highest society. You find people abandoning their other soc
ieties and coming into this highest society. Others say, it is the long expected
Kingdom of God people have been waiting for. Those who have been waiting for th
e Kingdom of God will rush in. The people of the world are defeated. All their s
trategies have failed. They have called Him all kinds of evil names and people s
till flock to him. And now they decide on another thing. If we say the man has d
ied people will no longer go to Him. They decided this was the solution to the w
hole matter. They then go about telling people the Leader is dead. When people h
ear this, they rush down to see if it is true. This again has become a source of
bringing more sheep into Brotherhood.
EVERYTHING WORKS TOGETHER FOR GOOD:
A police officer visited one of his friends and he saw the Father's picture ther
e. He then commented the Father was dead. The other said he was not dead but sti
ll alive. In the process of the argument about five policemen decided to come he
re and verify. It was during the Pentecostal Period and when they saw the Father
, they all went in for baptism. The death rumor has brought in more people. They
then try another line of action by maintaining, the Leader has died and that th
e person who has taken his place is his brother who resembles him. The similarit
y in appearance of the two brothers and power has brought a great many people in
to Brotherhood. Everything works together for good. Do not disturb yourself agai
n. Be convinced whatever happens in your place of work is good. All things work
together for your good and they bring about the glory of God. That was why Paul
said, for light affliction, which is for a moment, is not to be compared with th
e glory which shall be revealed in us. (2nd Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 17). Wha
t persecution, or imprisonment, or lack is there that can be compared with this
glory, which we now find ourselves? What will take us away from this Kingdom. Is
it disgrace, sickness, persecution, hunger, famine, insults or slander?
Everyday people are coming to Brotherhood in large numbers. The worldly churches
are lying empty. One will say to the other, what are you waiting for? I am goin
g to Brotherhood. If it was said here is God, the Presidents, the governors and
all the millionaires would fill up all the seats and where would you be? Would y
ou not perish? But God does not want us to perish. He says, the afflicted should
not weep because the Savior is not on the way but is right here with us. He has
first to reveal this glory to the poor and afflicted before he brings in the ri
ch of the world. Can you not see the greatness of God's wisdom?
GOD, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOW ON EARTH:
He does not regret over His election. With regard to the gospel we are His enemi
es because no one can practice his words. But as regards election, we are electe
d out of grace because of the promise He made to our Fathers. He does not regret
His electing us. Do not trouble yourself any longer your mother does not come t
o Brotherhood and so she is lost. She is not lost. God has said through the righ
teousness of one man the whole world is saved. Do not say God has forsaken the w
orld because there are many evil people in the world. Where sin abounds there gr
ace did much more abound. God has not left the world. The Father is here. The So
n is here. And the Holy Spirit is here. Everything works together for good and a
ccomplishes this work. Life and death work together. Good health and sickness wo
rk together. Man and woman work together. Man, Woman and God work together hand
in hand. Day and night are the same things. Do not say you want the day and not
the night. If you do not want the day, you do not have the night. If you do not
want the night, you do not want the day. Do not despise anything. Do not say the
leaf is nothing. Do not say the trees are nothing. But for the tree, you will h
ave no food to eat here. All these seats are made of wood.
The dirtiest place in the world is the toilet. Where does the dirt come from? Wh
ere there is no man, there is no toilet. Wherever there is man, there is toilet,
and the subsequent smell and dirt. All these smell and dirt come from the man w
ho is very handsome and beautiful. Have you seen the tree being sick? Have you s
een the leaf being sick? It is only man who is sick. It is only man who dies. It
is only man who has this glory. And so when the work of nature is being made ma
nifest do not doubt or ask any questions. Everything is to reveal the glory of G
od.
One stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. Those who have ears to hear,
let them hear. May God bless His Holy Words. Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER.