First Bible Lesson: 2 Thessalonians 3:8
"Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we may not be chargeable to any of you."
Second Bible Lesson: Ephesians 4:28
"Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth."
Golden Text: Luke 16:12
"And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?"
Brethren, that is the theme of our revelation this morning, it is what is called the recondite wisdom. This knowledge has eluded the whites and all humanity. Listen with rapt attention for something spectacular has happened. When I look at you and the whole world, tears roll down my face for you. You are all blind.
You should be very observant that all the preaching I deliver from January to December are about myself. I have not read them from any book, neither have I read them from the Bible and I have practicalised them. They are therefore nothing but the truth. I thank God immensely for the Holy Bible. It has helped me a little, for when I speak, I quote from the Bible. If the Bible were not available people would have questioned the source of the teachings.
I tell you, if I had not come the whole world would have perished. It is a veritable truth that these teachings do not come from here. Think of it, somebody who has not been taught in any school yet he teaches. This is what shows that He is the super-natural teacher. If these gospels are documented and circulated they will save many lives but I do not know what the people at the gospel center are doing. They do not write these gospels out.
Do you know that for you to eat somebody's food for nought is an act of overdraft against you? It could be likened to having not a kobo in the bank and yet borrowing N10,000. If you squander that amount collected from the bank, it becomes a debt for you. If somebody gives you something and you take it freely, you become indebted and may even die with such indebtedness. This is why many people in this part of the world die with debts. You deposit a small amount of money but borrow very much more, and lavish it. Don't you know that you are indebted to the bank and that your indebtedness will lead you to your wits end? It is also like somebody who signs a surety for another person who goes to borrow money (say N2000); that if he does not pay, you should be held responsible. If he does not pay you will surely be held. Again it can be likened to somebody who rents a bicycle, a room or any other thing for say N5.00. The debt will be piling up if he is unable to redeem it in the end.
The natural law is that you should eat nobody's food for nought. Rather, you should labor with your hands to feed yourself. The moment you take somebody's food without giving back anything that is commensurate with it, i.e. reciprocation, you have contravened the law, and this leads to damnation. The situation can further be likened to somebody who wins a contract and receives part of the money in advance. Such people do not even do the work and are thus on their way to perish. This is what brings pandemonium, or problem on us because the moment you eat anybody's food freely you have contravened the law. It is against this background that in the Civil Service you have to work hard to the end of the month before you are paid. Anybody that is paid in advance has to work hard in exchange to merit the payment received.
All of us are witnesses to the fact that if you go to somebody and he gives you food, the way you eat differs much from when you prepare it yourself. Similarly, your pattern of expenditure will be different if you pick money from the ground from when you toil for it. Don't you know that when you enjoy the rainy season you are indebted to the dry season and when you enjoy the dry season you are indebted to the rainy season? Are you not aware of this truth? This is why you are called all sorts of names - wizard, apparition, blood-sucker, juju, etc. They point accusing fingers at you. When you go to somebody's house he kills a goat for you but when he comes to you, you fail to kill same in reciprocation. Don't you know he will go about to blackmail you? You have to pay back spiritually. That is why in accounting system when you want to balance your accounts and you have one kobo surplus you have to find out and correct it so that they balance or else you will be imprisoned. Can you then not realize that there is an error? If not, why the surplus?
Even if it happens in an office where you can control millions of naira, the surplus of one kobo will have to be checked well to know where it comes from. In the same token if there is a shortage of one kobo you will not be set free. You will have to find it because if you fail you will be jailed. When you hear of accountants, they are blessed and are well versed in economics.
Here, in this Kingdom we believe in spiritual values. If somebody gives you N10.00, and you fail to pay anything back that is commensurate with it, such a value is subtracted from your spiritual accounts. Know that if somebody gives you N1000.00, that will be taken away together with interest from your spiritual accounts to balance it. In this kingdom you cannot cheat anybody. The principle of live and let live operates and you are to work for your daily bread. That is why during the days of our ancestors they were servants and slaves. They laboured and toiled and by so doing they were building up their spiritual accounts. They therefore became rich in no time. You must labour and toil with your hands so that in the end you reap bountifully.
You must first of all labour with your hands before you eat but now the reverse is the case. Everybody goes about wanting to eat gratis. In this kingdom no one eats freely. You must work before you eat. If you see any wealthy person today he has suffered, toiled and laboured. When you see such a person you say that he has struck gold. This is not so. It is just because he has toiled and should reap his reward. The scriptures says that whatsoever a man soweth he reapeth. (Gal 6:7). For you to bid somebody farewell without giving him anything, what sort of farewell is that? Don't you know that if you eat somebody's food freely you are worse than an armed robber? You can now realize why the children of the rich men cannot do well in education. Even, before education reached the present height the children of the affluent were not sent to school, they were told to stay at home and enjoy while the slaves and their children were sent to schools. You can then see the state of those who labour. When somebody goes to school and after graduation builds a house, buys a car and enjoys life you must remember that the suffering he has gone through can hardly be imagined. He goes through hard times and sufferings and in the end people say, "Oh! He is blessed." It is not that he is blessed, but that he is reaping what he sowed through toiling and suffering. All the Nigerians studying overseas labour 24 hours each day. Outside their school work they do menial jobs to earn their living. Sometimes they move from where they live to other places only to labour to sustain themselves and in the end they reap bountifully and enjoy from their sweat. You have heard, as the scripture says that "if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?" (Luke 16:12) You are to labour with your hands for your own otherwise you lose much.
Why our teachings are powerful is that we talk about our own city. I was not taught, neither did I receive it in any dream. If you go about begging, cheating and deceiving people what do you think you are doing? If somebody should give me money when I have done nothing to merit that, I will ask why and will not take it. Think of how the bush rat reasons. Use the palm fruit as a bait to make a trap for it. On seeing the fruit he will know that palm fruits are always on top of the palm tree and not on the ground. If the fish is reasonable he will know that the bait is a hook and not free. He will therefore know that by taking the bait he is invariably swallowing the hook which may kill him. You can now see why you must obey the natural law by labouring and toiling for your own food. All the mistakes you make in your life emanate from the fact that you do not want to labour for your own food. God does not give food to an idle man. You must always use your hands to labour for your daily bread. Even if somebody gives you something, it is equally subtracted from your spiritual accounts. I don't want any person in this kingdom to go about begging for what to eat. Do not place your hopes on your carnal fathers' and mothers' wealth. Instead, use your hands to labour for your own. If somebody gives you something you should do something for him in return. Even if that person is your parent, do not eat his or her food for nought. When you hear that somebody is poor or has gone bankrupt, he is one that goes borrowing, robbing Peter to pay Paul. If somebody offers to take you in his car do not enter freely. Give him something that is commensurate in value with the distance you cover. You see how the white men do it. If they travel from here to Mbukpa they calculate the meters covered and pay its exact value to the driver.
If somebody gives you advice (for example) you should give him something in return, otherwise, the advice will not work. This is the first commandment that man has lost. Do not eat any man's food for nought. Instead, labour with your hands for your daily bread. Look at Abraham. When his wife Sarah died, he went to the community in which he lived and informed them that his wife had gone on eternal transfer. He then asked for land to bury her. Knowing that Abraham was a good child of God they offered to give him land freely. Abraham would not take it as a free gift so he brought a commensurate amount of money to pay for the land. The elders of the community did not want to take it but he pressed it upon them and they finally accepted the money. As a result, Abraham owns that land forever. (Gen 23:15-19). Think about it. If you are given land freely and later the children of the owner turn, in his absence, to claim it back what will be your position? If I should go on to reveal the disadvantages of the theme of today's gospel to you, you will realize that it is this that has brought about the downfall of many people, but I only want to give it in a nutshell. Let our first lesson be read.
First Bible Lesson: 2 Thessalonians 3:8
"Neither do we eat any man's bread for nought: but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you."
Today, brethren, are you not chargeable to your neighbor, and do you know the destination of your action? A commensurate amount of that which you have been receiving from here and there has been subtracted from your spiritual accounts and that is why you are suffering. Nothing is surplus to the one that has much and the one that has little is not suffering either. How come you go to somebody's house every now and then and each time you go he gives you food? You describe such as interesting, and I ask: "how?" Is the money he uses falling from heaven? Why do you want to live in somebody's house freely? If it were not difficult to build a house why can't you construct your own? Is it built freely? All those looking for things gratis, can they say there is nothing in their body? Somebody carries you in his car, don't you know that he bought the car, bought petrol and serviced it with money? And when you get down from it you just say, "thank you". Can he use your 'thank you' to service or maintain the car?
This is the cause of the downfall of mankind. You want to eat freely. Look at the attitudes of the white man. When he parks his car in your care and goes somewhere, he will make sure that on coming back he gives you something for your service to him. Somebody says he wants to live with you and serve you for no remuneration. Don't you know that he is an armed robber? Similarly if you employ somebody without paying him, don't you know that you are a duper? The whites have not been able to practise any gospel but they have a pass in the practice of this very one. Have you ever seen any white man giving money to an idle man? They do not believe in the concept of generosity - giving away money freely. Instead they give you job and pay you accordingly. As for charity, they are against it because they know that no man should eat another man's food for nought. On the other hand the black man will give you drink, food, etc. freely and when that happens you reach your wits end. All the dupers, deceivers and the like give money and other things freely. When they give you, be observant and you will see what happens, for such gifts are all from Satan.
When somebody tells you to receive something for nought, don't. Rather, ask him how he will want you to pay for it. In this Kingdom I don't want anybody to go begging. In all situations, I want everyone to labour with his hands for his daily bread. Blackmail, bad luck, penury and all other adversities in life emanate from eating somebody's food for nought. It is said that it is not he who recommends himself but he that is recommended by God. If you receive something that God has not given you, you have already crucified yourself. You can realize that the governments of this world are not functioning. This is the government of God. That is why he has given us hands, legs, eyes and all other parts of the body to use to fend for ourselves. That is why if somebody is blind, he is still given a kind of education that befits him such that after graduation he can work and have something to eat.
In the same vein, that is why if somebody is deaf, or is a cripple, or having his hands or legs amputated he is equally given a befitting education that eventually aids him to fend for himself. This is the law of nature that no man should eat any other man's food for nought, and that no idler should be given food. If somebody gives you food to eat in a day will you toil again in that day? Can you then realize that in the spiritual world something is subtracted from your accounts to pay for what you eat freely?
When you are hungry you must labour, toil and travail to make ends meet for that is the law of nature. This, I preach of myself. Even though I may have money on my waist I still toil to eat. There is no single day that I do not toil to eat. There is no single day that I do not toil for my feeding. This is why there is multiplicity of trades and occupations in the white man's land. Immediately you descend from an aeroplane somebody comes to clean your shoes and do other things for you, even without asking for anything. If you want poor and wretched people come to the African countries. Look at the situation in Fernando Po where our people went to offer cheap labour for money. No matter how small, you are paid; and so it is with the Roman Catholics, no matter how little, they make sure they pay for the services you render them. Therefore, this is the first commandment in this kingdom. Eat no man's food for nought. Instead, labour with your hands for your food and do not feed an idle man. Don't be charitable to any person. If you go on a ministry work to any bethel and immediately sweep and wash dirty things there, know that the type of blessing you receive is special. Our guiding principle is live and let live. If you eat somebody's food for nought, that is what brings about frequent incidents of problems because if you eat another man's food for nought you have fallen. If you look at the example given you about accounting, the moment you discover a surplus when balancing, you have to check and correct it otherwise you cheat somebody. Similarly when there is shortage you have to correct it, since that connotes that you have been duped. If you give things to people freely without requiring that they should pay back anything at all; don't you realize that your accounts won't balance? It simply means that you have given them your livelihood. All of you have accounts and if after consuming you still have surplus, it means that you have duped somebody somewhere. The world knows not this but God knows it is the law of nature. The moment you put it aside, sufferings and problems begin. Anyone who knows the intricacies of this will never cheat any person, not even a child and such a person will be received everywhere. No disdainful word will ever be spoken against him.
Assuming somebody comes to you and you minister unto him. If after the first visit, it becomes his habit to come frequently and you continue ministering unto him, even if he is a Pastor how will you regard him? He has invariably sold his own right to you by that action. We should all live within the confines of the dictum, live and let live. There is no obscurity, no diplomacy and nothing is hidden in this gospel. At all times we should labour with our hands to feed ourselves. You argue that you do not know what sin you have committed and I ask, have you not eaten somebody's food for nought? The English have a saying that ignorance is no excuse in law. Search the scriptures and see if you have eternal life. The people who have been ministering unto you, what have you done to reciprocate their kind gestures to you? Don't you know that they are the cause of your problems? If you have the Holy Spirit in you He will help you out of all the problems. If not, how could I have done this work. I have not read anything anywhere. You can see the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. He said, "even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mark 10:45).
He told his disciples "whoever wants to lead will first of all have to be a servant." (Matt 20:27). He also said "Whoever wants to be the greatest among you will first serve as your messenger." He again told them, " - he that is greatest among you shall be your servant." (Matt 23:11). You can realize that these teachings are all the same with what we have received today. You enjoy the fan and all other things without paying anything in reciprocation. This is what has brought problems to mankind. Read the second lesson.
Second Bible Lesson: Ephesians 4:28
"Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth."
Brethren, have you heard that? God has given us our hands to labour with, so as to have what to eat because all the intelligence and knowledge He has bestowed on mankind are to help us to find food to eat. That money you picked on the road, you have stolen because it is for somebody else.
When you hear somebody has struck gold and that he has become very rich it simply means that another person has fallen down and his downfall has registered the other one's success. As I have been seeing here people go successively to an individual to demand from him and if eventually he becomes poor, is that from God? It is greed that disturbs you. If somebody has one naira and you do not collect it you cannot sleep. But God has told us "Let him that stole, steal no more" but labour and travail with his hands so that he may have what to eat. Fetching water, sweeping the ground, laundry, taking care of little children are all jobs which one can do to earn a living. For whosoever labours is wealthy. Even if your hands are amputated , if you are dropped somewhere, somebody will see you and will pity you. If somebody that is blind or deaf goes about shouting, people will hear and take to their heels.
All of us have our own personal files and no man is deceiving you. All your files have been brought here and it is important that each person should use his hands to look for his meals. If you do not use your hands and you become poor you are responsible. Everyone of you is responsible for the situation in which you find yourself. Even if your father is a millionaire, struggle, for your own. Don't be solely dependent on him. If somebody gives you something, he seals your mouth and ties you to his apron strings. Why is it that you are so indebted to your neighbour? This happens when he continues to be kind, generous and benevolent to you all the time. He gives you your needs and when anything happens between you, he will prove his case. Somebody can deceive you but nobody can deceive God (Gal 6:7). All of you can be foolish but God is not stupid.
I am not saying that if somebody gives you something you should not take it, but that you should also do something for him to reciprocate his kindness to you. If you are a person going about seeking for other people's help, stop and labour with your hands, otherwise, you will not have even a pin. What you don't use your hands to labour for is what you withdraw from your spiritual bank accounts. Those you receive from others are your spiritual overdraft. Some people have re-incarnated three times yet they continue to pay off their indebtedness. If you fail to pay your debts, nothing will be of avail to you. Do you think that this is the only plane of manifest? You think you are faster than the other man but you can never be faster than God. Even if somebody sells something which is N20.00 for N50.00 the surplus is not for him. If you buy something for N50.00 and sell it for N100.00 you should not use that difference in toto. You have to give part back to Him.
What is called righteousness is that thankful heart. He gives you a house, a woman, money and many other things freely and why can't you give him something in reciprocation - so that an equilibrium is reached. What has made the indigenes of the Cross River State, Akwa Ibom State and all other people poor is that they have not known this. When they see that you have money, everyone of them will beg you for some till you become bankrupt and when you become poor, no one comes to your aid. You profess to know God. Have you known that you are to labour with your hands to find what to eat? If ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? (Luke 16:12). You will remain a failure.
This is the reason why our Lord Jesus Christ said, "and now, O Father glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." (John 17:5). Do anything at all that you can lay your hands on and God will bless you. If I should tell you what you lose by taking N20.00 from somebody you will be surprised, for, you lose not less than N1000.00 from your spiritual accounts. In the same way, if you give something to somebody you are at the receiving end. In fact, if you give out N10.00 you receive not less than N1000.00 in your accounts. Apart from Our Lord Jesus Christ, who on earth knew this? You argue that you cannot be a servant to any other person. You ask what another person has given you. Why can't you give something out to somebody too? All those that enter through other gates apart from the main one are all thieves.
I have worked very hard and I still continue to work. I do not eat anybody's food for nought. This is because, in the Kingdom of God that principle does not exist. What you use your hands on, same do you eat from. Why the other person describes you as an abominable fellow is that he always gives you something, and you are not able to do anything for him in return. Before the face of God, if somebody gives you honour you should reciprocate. If you fail to reciprocate and it is brought before Him, you will be condemned because he honoured you but you failed to honour him. Brethren, I do not want to be tedious unto you; so listen to the golden text. You who are looking for somebody to help you but can't do anything for him.
Golden Text: Luke 16:12
"And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own."
Have you heard it? Can you realize that you are born as a little child; and as a child you have to serve somebody so that as you grow somebody also serves you? When the disciples asked that our Lord Jesus Christ should strengthen their faith, the Lord said, "If ye had faith as a grain of a mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the sea, and it should obey you". (Luke 17:6).
You come to Brotherhood to ask for aeroplane, car, children and other worldly things. What have you done to qualify you for them? Don't you know you take them free of charge? Our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Leader, what does he possess? From the time he was born he suffered and still continues suffering. What has he enjoyed for all that? That is why Peter asked our Lord Jesus Christ, "--Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?" And Jesus answered saying, "Verily, verily I say unto you that ye shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Matt 19:28). "And everyone that hath forsaken houses or brethren, or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life." (Matt 19:29).
Now about 99 percent of the inhabitants of this earth want to pass through windows into the house. Like the launching we did here yesterday to buy a bus to convey people from Biakpan. All of you who did not contribute anything; from where do you think we can have the bus? If now we have it, it is the result of our own sweat. Therefore you realize that if you don't say what you are, nobody will take cognisance of you. If you don't labour with your hands you cannot have your daily bread. You should not be chargeable to anybody. Among the gospels, the easiest one to practise is that of today. It is the only path unto salvation. This is because out of all the struggles of your own, those you do with your hands are your bona fide property, and God rewards you in abundance for them. This instruction, you should know, is not that of man. It is a laid down principle in this Kingdom. In all situations, we must labour with our hands unto ourselves, unto God and unto others or we lose.
Put differently, it can also be called "thankful heart." One person out of the ten that were healed by Our Lord Jesus Christ came back to thank him for the miracle He performed to show that he had a thankful heart. (Luke 17:13-18). This is to all Brotherhood members worldwide - labour with your hands. Do not beg and do not be chargeable to somebody else. Do any small work, even if you sweep, you can have what to eat.
I have told you several times that we have employment opportunities, food, wealth and everything you are looking for here. As poor people are easy to identify, so also employment opportunities are abundant in this Kingdom. Even as we are talking, if you go out, take water and wash the cars outside, that is if you want to abide by this teaching that you should labour with your hands and not be chargeable to anybody, the owners of the cars will be very delighted to give you something. As you come here if you help any sick person you see, and help strangers by taking their bags and leading them to the guest house or by giving them seats to sit on, they will also be happy to give you something to eat. Why can't you perform all these things? What your child, father, mother, grandchild and others give you do not help you. If you don't use your hands and labour, all will be of nullity to you.
Now people argue why the Father does not give way for others to preach. Pastor B.J. Etuk testified that all that the Father is doing, same are being done in Etinan bethel and I say, you wait. What I am doing, the same shall all the inhabitants of the world do. It is astonishing that I have never been taught. I went to farm and used my hands to do all things. If you give something to me and I know I can't do anything to reciprocate I shall not take it. If I know you have 50 kobo and you give me N1.00, I will not take it to owe the difference of 50k. For it is said that a word is enough for the wise. You pray God should give somebody to do good to you. Do you know that you have handed all your wealth over to him? What is the significance of the scriptural statement. Owe no man anything but love. (Rom 13:8). This means that if somebody does something to you, you should reciprocate, i.e., you should also do something in return for that. Our Lord Jesus Christ has said that when he shall come he will lead you to the accurate knowledge of truth. (John 16:13). Have you seen this accurate wisdom. Why somebody becomes so rich that you become petrified is because he has done something for you. He has given you all the good things of life and is expecting you to pay back otherwise you are still hanging on his apron strings.
I do not want to give any gospel of why people are in penury. Why civil servants are poor is that they rely on their pay which is rather meager. They ask why the accounts of their employers are credited and wonder why they are poor because they say that they are the servants that minister unto them. That is why the ideal situation is to be independent. The moment you start your own business independently, you will become very rich. Have you ever seen a Civil Servant who is a millionaire? Even if he is, he embezzles and the punishment awaits him.
Brethren, I do not want to be tedious with you. It is said that one stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. Let those who have ears, hear; and may God bless His Holy Words. Amen.
REFERENCE:- Everlasting Gospel Delivered By The Holy Father, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu on Friday, 3rd Sept,1988.
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