FROM THE PULPIT

THE TRUTH ABOUT RESEMBLING GOD OUR FATHER

Contd. from Sunday, July 27

If you resemble your religious sect in their murderous or deadly activities, where they shed blood, fighting fanatically, defending vanity (represented by their religious, segregational doctrines and diversionary, brainwashing dogmatism) you will perish with them. If they divert you and you follow them blindly, you will join them and start fighting. shedding blood. defending vanity, defending their doctrine, defending their sect, you are simply emulating your religion, not God our creator who does not support wickedness or bloodshed. Because they are murderous in their nature, as we are surprisingly seeing in the world today, things are spoiling and they are suffering in one way or the other because there is no peace for the wicked. Don't you see what is happening, that after they must have brainwashed people and after killing others they will trickily call it "holy war"? Such people are murderers in action not on 'holy war' for God in any way at all. All killings are evil; not "holy war". They are killing and shedding blood. Remember that when Peter cut off somebody's ear in defence of Jesus, Jesus warned him and said: "return your knife for they that kill by knife will go by knife". But many are killing and blindly defending their religion today, using the name of God and our kind Christ as covers. Are they the people you want to imitate? No; you must be perfect like your Father!
As we get into the word of God more, you may say that Leviticus is in the Old Testament.          Let me take you now to the New Testament. Let us go directly to Matthew chapter 5 verse 48 to hear the command of God. You must resemble God, not your religious sect or any other vanity. You must resemble God, not your mother or your father who may be swimming in sin. You must not resemble any painted sepulchre warned seriously against in Matthew 23: 25-28. You must resemble God, not your relations who may be bribe-takers, thieves, harlots or occult members. If you imitate or resemble them, you'll resemble their Ogboni or cultic activities represented by their Grail Message and other such circles of confusion, and perish with them. Now, sele that Matthew chapter 5 verse 48 which says: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father, which is in heaven, is perfect".
You may say Leviticus is Old Testament. You have now heard it in the New Testament. It says: "you must be perfect". Nobody is begging you to be perfect. If you refuse to be perfect, if you refuse to resemble your Father, you will smell it badly.
You will end up disastrously. Even God made mango fruits to resemble their kind.
Orange resembles' orange. Banana resembles banana. Why should you as a child of God not be like your Father? If you are not, then something serious is deadly wrong. What happened and continue to happen in dirty or polluted lives are what we will discover in Ezekiel 28 verses 14 and 15. There, you will see that Lucifer himself was created in perfection, in God's nature, until iniquity was found in him. Then God had to flush him out, because God who is holy and in heaven has nothing to do with iniquitous activities. That's what brought the downfall of Lucifer, as you can see in that very Ezekiel 28: 14-15. He was demoted from grace to grass as a result of sin. If you want also to know about the fall of man, as Lucifer (Satan) tuned them to disaster, go to Genesis chapter 2 verse 16 and Chapter 3. Man failed and got into trouble too because of the same iniquitous activities. God who is/ holy could not tolerate nonsense. If you are not like your Father, you will be like the devil, the architect of iniquities, confusion, and destabilizations.
This is your chance to come back to God. You must behave like the prodigal son with the required urgent action. He (the prodigal son) said: "I will go back to my Father". The prodigal son determined to resemble his Father no matter the cost like in the clear action of the genuinely repented people in Acts 19: 18-end, especially in verses 18-21 of the same chapter. He said: "I will go back to my Father and apologise". You may have been fondling girls' breasts, disturbing people's wives and husbands, killing, shedding blood in order to get money in occultism, and may also be relaxing in other deadly actions like the blindfolded people in 151 Corinthians 10: 7-8. You're doing the work of devil! If you want to know whose child you are, go and see the rebuke of Christ to people of the perishing world like yourself in John chapter 8 verse 44. He said: "you are from your father the devil". The devil is the architect of sin, deceit, murderous activities, confusion in the world, and confusions in offices, schools, families, business centres and other places. Denounce him and come back to your Father and resemble your Father through genuine repentance.
Again if mango can resemble mango, if orange can resemble orange, why is it that you are behaving like devil who did not create you? Come back to your creator. He will amend your life. If you want to know whose child you are, please visit again that (John chapter 8 verse 44. See also the standard that God set for His people individually and collectively in 151 John chapter 3 verses 3-10. You will know (especially in verse 8) that anybody that is committing sin is from the devil and that Jesus came into the world to destroy the work of devil in your life, bringing you back to sanity, bringing you back to God's side, which we all lost through the disobedience of our first parents (Adam and Eve). Lucifer failed in Ezekiel 28:14-15; our parents (Adam and Eve) did the same in Genesis chapter 3 by disobeying God's commandment in chapter 2: 16-17 of the same book of Genesis.
Remember that God said He will create man in His own image in Genesis 1 :26-28. Why are you behaving like devil? Why are you still behaving like occult people? Why are you living the life of hooliganism or "gagagagaa". You must come back to God. Whether you are rich or poor is no issue at all in this matter. God is not God of partiality and does not look at faces in His judgment as confirmed in Colossians 3:25. You must resemble your Father. Your money, materialism, beauty, handsomeness, religious affiliation and other vanities cannot save you. Come back to God now through Christ who is the way, truth, life and also the light (John 14: 6, 13-14 and John 8: 11-12).
People wandered away from God Almighty through sin and through other satanic manoeuvres, according to 151 Timothy chapter 5 verse 15. But now, God is calling people to order as He is kindly and mercifully calling people back to Himself for secured security as confirmed in His lovely invitation in Matthew 11: 28. I want to refer you to Acts of the Apostles 17 verse 30 to see a wonderful assurance from God Himself through Christ. It says that every sin or every evil thing you did in the past, God regards them now as done in ignorance but that He is calling upon all men to come back through Christ and repent genuinely. You must repent and amend things in your life, returning all people's stolen property and setting aside your certificate, driving license and other things got through dubious means. This is because any month you work and get paid with 'expo certificate' (certificate got through exam malpractice), you are a child of devil and you are stealing. You must destroy the devil's certificate. Some people are driving with 'bribe-licenses'. They are doing evil! You have to go back to the Traffic Officer and get sin-free driving license. It is true that many of them are corrupt in Nigeria and some other parts of the world, but it's your part or duty to resist Satan and his hidden and open agents (James 4:7), then insist on getting a sin-free driving license and sin-free everything. Emulate Brother Ben Unegbu who even at this age has not got a passport simply because he refused to give the bribe demanded, which they normally call 'kola' in order to kill, without minding the warnings in Proverbs 15: 27 and Proverbs 17:23. Like that no nonsense governor in Nehemiah 5: 15, there is no way I can give bribe of any type to kill and destroy my life and the lives of the receivers and join in corrupting the society because I recognize that "it is better to suffer than to sin". Similarly, you must go back to the examination hall and get sin-free certificate or you end up disastrously if you continue to resemble Satan in his sins because Satan is not your creator. He is an enemy of God and enemy of humanity and progress.
Turn to God and see peace. 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verses 19, 21 and 22 made it clear that God's standard which is complete freedom from sin and other satanic activities must be maintained. When you make a u-turn and return to God through Christ, in the company of the Holy Spirit, your life and peace must be restored even for effective service to God and humanity to the glory of God only. He says: "if any man purges himself (2nd Timothy 2:21) he will become a good vessel unto honour". That's what the prodigal son did, coming back to God in genuine repentance and in time too.
This is your chance and may be your last chance. The standard of God stands sure as clearly demanded for in 2nd Timothy 2: 19. Then you join genuine people of God (as instructed in that same 2nd Timothy 2:19, 21-22 especially in verse 22) to worship a holy God. Join people of God, purged people of God (not people of empty human religious denominations), to serve a living God. This is your chance to give your life to Jesus Christ in genuine repentance as I take you to the throne of grace. You must repent fully and resemble your Father. That was what happened in my own life, which made me now to be like a released prisoner to the glory of God Himself. Do something and do it in time before it is too late. God bless you more as you pray now and surrender to God through Christ in genuine repentance without delay and without reservation, knowing fully that Proverb 28:13-14 made is clear that he that covers his or her sins will not prosper but he/she that confesses and forsakes them will find mercy. If you want to do it, do it now for tomorrow may be too late (Proverbs 27: 1).