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1. NEVER YOU GRIEVE THE HOLY
SPIRIT
First Bible Lesson: Ephesians 4:30
"And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption."
Second Bible Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21
"Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
Golden Text: Galatians 5:25-26
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another, envying one another".
1982 The Year Of Peace And Joy
All those who are weak in spirit resulting from sickness, or poverty and wretchedness,
or sinfulness, or temptations, or tribulations, and afflictions, or any other
encumbrances should look steadfastly on me, and all their problems are solved. I do not
speak in the future that their problems will be solved but that all of them are being
solved at this instant. All spirits, which do not give glory to God, have been expelled
from your bodies. This warfare is not that of the flesh and blood. It is not a carnal
warfare but spiritual. The spirits of sickness, poverty and wretchedness which caused
you not to be rich in 1981, the spirit of fornication which had prevented you from
serving God, the spirit of pride, vain glory, pomposity and arrogance, the spirit of death
which has dominated the whole world, the spirit of hatred and malice, have all been
expelled from your bodies and minds. 1982, therefore has brought to you peace,
prosperity, joy, truth, love and all other virtues of God.
I have a firm belief that reading through the three texts, the words contained therein
will be firmly established in your minds and will form a guiding principle to your life
throughout 1982. From January to December, you will keep on reading these passages.

2. As long as there is life in you in season and out of season, every year, every month,
every week, everyday, every hour, minute and second you should focus your attention
on these passages and make them your watchwords.
Cause Of Trouble In the World
Have you not heard what is being read unto you, that you should not grieve the Holy
Spirit? Our Lord Jesus Christ had already released this to the whole world. A great many
people think that it is the curses and abuses pronounced on them by their mothers,
which have contributed to their poverty, bad luck and other problems. This cannot be
true. Your trouble is that you have grieved the Holy Spirit. It does seem to me, and it is
true, that God had set aside 1982 as a year of redemption for every soul. This is so
because since the first day of this year up till today, the revelations of the Father, the
messages of the Father, the teachings of the Father and the work done by the Father
are not only marvelous but surprising even to me. This is indicative of the fact that God
loves us more than we love ourselves. Each and every one of us should rid himself of the
work of darkness and move towards the light. If the Father had not loved us, He would
not have removed us from the work of darkness. He had built a strong fence to enclose
us in the Kingdom of God. Therefore, the gospel of today is an iron fence, which the
Father has erected around you for your maximum security. No evil spirit will ever come
around you and this iron fence will ward off all evils and encumbrances from you. Our
Lord Jesus Christ has said whosoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit shall not be
forgiven in this generation and in the generation to come. (Matt 12:32). What particular
lesson have you drawn from this statement? Whoever blasphemes against the Holy
Spirit shall never be forgiven from generation to generation. We should ponder a while
over this concept of the Holy Spirit. If you offend against your fellow human being, you
will be forgiven but if you offend against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness for
your generation after generation. Till today the whole world does not understand this
statement and even you, who profess to be in this Kingdom, have no regard for this
important statement.
It Is Better To Obey God Than Man
Upon all your complaints, have you searched yourself to find out if you did not grieve
the Holy Spirit in 1981? What about the generality of the whole world, have they ever
stopped for a moment to search themselves whether or not they have grieved the Holy
Spirit? When the kings and rulers of the world called Peter and John and commanded
them not to speak at all, nor teach in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, what was the
reaction of the Apostles? Before these kings and rulers, they asked them to consider for
themselves, "whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto man more than
unto God, judge it yourself. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and

3. heard." (Acts 4:19-20) To grieve the Holy Spirit is to disobey the voice of God. You
grieve the Holy Spirit when you disobey the instructions of God, that explains the
reason why the wrath of God had been visited upon the sons of men on earth. If
someone complains that you do not exchange greetings with him or that when he
greets, you do not answer properly, do not argue with him but apologize to him and tell
him not to be angry. You may be fasting, during which you visit somebody who, on
seeing you, invites you to dine with him and you tell him you cannot eat because you
are fasting. If he insists and tells you if you do not eat you do not love him, apologize to
him and tell him not to be annoyed. Sometimes, you may be invited to participate in a
certain tradition concerning your village or family. Even though they know that such an
action contradicts your belief they will still insist and will tell you if you do not
participate, you will not be a true son of the family or village and that you are not
dynamic and progressive. In spite of their pressure, you should not succumb, if you do,
you will grieve the Holy Spirit. If you walk according to the dictates of the flesh, you
have grieved the Holy Spirit. Whosoever wants to live according to the promptings of
the flesh grieves the Holy Spirit because he is not prepared to listen to the instructions
of God. Now it is the Holy Spirit who is ruling in heaven and on earth, He rules
everywhere because He is the Government in power, He is the Father, He is the Lord,
He is the Ruler of everything. It is therefore, incumbent, upon us to obey His voice and
comply with His instructions.
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice (1 Sam 15:22)
To obey the voice of a man and comply with his instruction is in effect respecting and
honoring a man, loving a man, trusting a man; and this in turn is worshipping man.
If you are prepared to put into practice all the words: teachings exhortations,
admonitions of the Almighty God then you are blessed with eternal life. You have to
lend your ears to His words and His instructions, doing only such things, as He likes and
abstaining from such things as He forbids. And once you comply with His instructions,
you have no problems and difficulties. Take for instance, you have a boyfriend or a
girlfriend, certainly most of you have. You are aware of the instruction of God that you
should not fornicate. You have complied with that instruction by refraining from
fornication but because you are so compassionate and sympathetic with your girl or
boyfriend who always desires carnal intimacy, you succumb and fornicate; not because
it is your pleasure to contravene the commandment of God but because you wish to
please your girl or boy-friend or that by your failure to be intimate with her or him, you
will lose her or him to another person. You should note that while you are trying to
please her, you have seriously grieved the Holy Spirit. Here lies the source of your
problems.
When You Please Man You Displease God

4. Sometimes you have observed what the big members of your family are doing to the
utter displeasure of God, things which do not give glory to God and which disobey the
commandments of God. Your family members all plead with you that they are aware
that God does not like the things they do, but for the preservation of the family name
and its upliftment and also to take away their reproach, you should join hands with
them in what they do. In spite of the fact that you know that such things are evil and
abominable before God, yet because you seek to please them, you participate with
them. By your action you have grieved the Holy Spirit. Sometimes also, you really know
that there is in existence nothing like witch-craft, mermaid, phantom, charm, or
talisman but members of your family invite you and tell you, they are aware that you do
not believe in these things but they would like to find out certain things affecting the
family by consulting oracles, necromancers and soothsayers. They tell you even though
you do not believe; they who believe will consult the oracle but that you should provide
the funds. You then dip your hands into your pocket and give them money; you have
grieved the Holy Spirit and have set your house ablaze. You are true witnesses to the
fact that most of the things you do, and most of the vices you commit do not derive
from your desire or pleasure but because you want to please human beings. The result
will be that you will grieve the Holy Spirit because you have not listened to the
instructions of God.
Similarly, you know too well the instruction of God, which states that you should
neither drink nor give drinks to any person. You do not drink at all but because of your
several commitments associated with your work, or with the contracts, which are to be
awarded to you, or because many important personalities visit your house always and
you rather feel that there is the need to always keep drinks nearby for the visitors. You
then console yourself when you say God knows that it is not your pleasure to give drinks
to people but for the very reason of keeping up your standard and since such action
places you in good light before people you give drinks to them in utter contravention of
the commandment of God. Once you do this, you have fallen short of the glory of God.
The Father knows that about 99% of the actions you take are not taken by you per se,
but they are taken in order to please others around us. Here lies our trouble. You have
been advised to go on ministry work everywhere, to be kind and generous and
benevolent to distribute to the necessities of the poor and needy. Because your wife
has questioned you about a certain girl to whom you have been kind and generous you
feel you should not displease your wife for fear of any palaver and so you refuse to do
that which you ought to do. What is it that you have done? Note that you have grieved
the Holy Spirit. In the same token, women who are prepared to serve God, with the
present dearth of gospel workers and practitioners, will be hindered from doing their
work if perchance the relations of their husbands complain that they are very free with
men. For fear of not losing husbands, they will withdraw from the service of God. To do
this is to grieve the Holy Spirit. You only wear the soutane when you come here on
Sunday. You find it difficult to put it on and walk about in the streets for fear that
people will look down on you and speak evil of you; and so since you want to please
them you refuse to put on your soutane. Notice that your action tantamount to grieving

5. the Holy Spirit. You are a respecter of human beings.
Sometimes the Father directs you to go and preach to someone but you feel that the
person hates and persecutes Brotherhood and if you go he will disgrace you. You
therefore, decide not to go thereby disobeying God. Your failure to preach to the fellow
means that you have grieved the Holy Spirit. Sometimes you are given a vision to go
and make peace with the person you had quarreled with, but you feel that you cannot
reconcile with someone who has insulted your person by being carnally intimate with
your wife, that instead of reconciling with him, you prefer to go into hellfire, and that
you cannot honor that vision. By your refusal to reconcile with him you grieve the Holy
Spirit and also kick against the pricks.
Whosoever wants to do something to the pleasure and recognition of many people
must of necessity, displease God and grieve the Holy Spirit. Sometimes you come
across someone, may be a Brotherhood member, or your wife or your brother or your
son, who does not do something, which gives glory to God. You have heard the still
small voice bidding you to speak to her to refrain from such acts but you feel that if you
do, it will spark trouble with your wife and you say instead of being stone by your
children, you refuse to speak to them. By so doing, you grieve the Holy Spirit.
Always Listen To The Spirit
We are under the rule of the Holy Spirit. He is the Redeemer, He is the King and the
Lord and He is the Father, He rules in Heaven and on earth and in all the four corners of
the world. It is, therefore, incumbent upon each and every one of us to listen to the
voice of the Spirit and obey the instructions of God, failure of which is disobedience.
You have been instructed not to keep a mourning house, not to weep and wail, not to
perform any traditional rite and that when somebody dies, you should bury him in
accordance with the teaching of this New Kingdom of God. But what obtains here is
that when someone dies, you keep mourning houses for a long period, you perform
many traditional rites, you give drinks and money to people and you indulge in many
other irreligious actions consoling yourself that you are giving to Caesar what belongs
to Caesar. By this singular act, you do not only set your house on fire but also grieve the
Holy Spirit. When Our Lord Jesus Christ washed the twelve disciples' feet, (John 13:5-
10), it was to symbolize their transfer from the earth to heaven, separated from the
world unto the holy and sanctified work of God. They had no more connections with
things mundane. What did Our Lord Jesus Christ say when someone informed Him that
His mother and His brethren were standing outside desiring to speak with Him, while
He was talking to His disciples? He asked him: Who is my mother and who are my
brethren? Then He stretched forth His hands toward His disciples and said, behold my
mother and my brethren, for whosoever shall do the will of My Father who is in heaven
the same is my brother, and sister and mother. (Matt 12:46-50). But, so long as you
abandon your brothers and sisters here with you and associate yourself with your

6. relations who are thieves, fornicators, prostitutes, liars and abominable men, it
amounts to borrowing from Peter to pay to Paul. You desert your brothers who are
practicing the gospel of God, you do not help when they are in want but give out all you
have to the worldly people. You have grieved the Holy Spirit.
Come Out From Among Evil Doers And Be Separated
What did St. Paul say? He said if any person who calls himself a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater or an extortion, let it not be once named among you.
(Ephesians 5:3). Do not keep company with somebody who professes to be
Brotherhood but you know that he is a rogue, a fornicator, a prostitute, he indulges in
charms and concoctions, he drinks and is walking in an abominable way, but you attach
yourself to him and when he dupes or deceives you complain that it is for the sake of
Brotherhood that you are duped. Are you sure he has duped you because of
Brotherhood? From your actions, it appears to me that you want to tempt God because
you know too well that a particular person is a thief or a swindler but you transact
business with him. Many people advise you against it but you say since he is a
Brotherhood and God knows him, nothing will happen to you; and God will not allow
anything to happen to you. Does the Father advise you to steal or does He advise you to
swindle or dupe any person? When such a brother makes away with your belongings
you complain that it is Brotherhood that is killing you that the Father says we should
love every person that every person should unite. When you make such a statement,
are you justified?
Do Not Sue At Law Court. Resort To The Spiritual Council of Churches
You will observe that the cause of most of our sufferings is the reason that we have
grieved the Holy Spirit. All your important matters and issues are discussed with the
worldly people who do not believe in God. They are rogues, liars, harlots, murders,
necromancers and soothsayers, and those who commit all acts of sin. What benefit, do
you think you will derive from them? If your wife offends against you, you report her to
unbelievers, if your husband offends against you, you report him to unbelievers. Is that
the proper place you should report her or him? And is it what you are taught to do? And
the Scripture asks: Do you not know that you will judge the world and the angels? (1
Corinthians 6:3). And if the world shall judge the smallest matters, why can't you
resolve the small misunderstandings amongst yourselves and why should you report
yourself to unbelievers? You approach somebody with your friend and then introduce
your friend to him but complain that you brought drinks and he refused to drink and
that you have brought him for settlement, because the purported judge is a drunkard.
Like you, he will condemn the friend that his action is anti-social and for that reason he
has been fined six bottles of drinks.
It may happen on a fasting day that a sister has decided to kill the flesh, mortify the

7. body and keep herself holy but the husband will tell her she cannot behave in that way
in his house because the Holy Father has never said so and that he would report her to
her parents for her misbehavior. If you want to report her to somebody why not to the
Holy Father? The answer is that if you report your sister to the Father for that particular
matter you will be condemned. Because you are carnal you always wish to go to carnal
persons so that they may pervert the judgment. Upon your forced justification do you
not set fire into your house and at the same time grieve the Holy Spirit? Why do you
always go to court and other worldly centers of settlement to make your complaints?
You have grieved the Holy Spirit. The Spiritual Council of Churches has been
established by the Father for settlement of all types of disputes but you prefer the law
courts. This you do because here settlement is based on the truth but what you do has
no iota of truth. Note that craftiness is not wisdom and it causes you to lose what you
already have. Very many of you remain in Brotherhood for 10 to 20 years which period
cannot afford you any good because you are cunning. You are not prepared to comply
with His instructions, but when you are sick or when you have a case in the court you go
into the Bethel to receive prayers. You have never considered it necessary to plunge
yourself headlong into the service of God.
Do Not Sow The Seeds Of Division
You are advised not to drink, not to fornicate, not to be exasperated, not to hate any
person, not to tell lies or bear malice against any person but the actual situation is that
you still live with these vices. Has anyone who is pompous and arrogant not grieved the
Holy Spirit? Has any person with a divisive tendency not grieved the Holy Spirit? Any
person who commits any act of sin has grieved the Holy Spirit. Today we have been told
that we should not grieve the Holy Spirit because He is the Ruler of the entire universe.
He is the Protector. He is the Counselor and the Doer of everything. Compare this with
a situation in the world where you are appointed to lead a group of people who are
expected to take orders from you, but they always disobey you. When you tell them to
stand up they sit down, and when you ask them to sit down they rather stand up. How
will you feel being at the lead? The scriptures advise that you should obey them that
have rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls as they who
must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief. (Hebrews 13:17) The
Holy Spirit has come to redeem us from the wrath of God, which is to come.
But if you do not comply with His instructions and practice His words, you will surely
grieve Him. The Holy Spirit does everything for us. He instructs that you should not
quarrel but you are quarreling, He instructs that you should not tell lies but you are
indulging in falsehood, or any other vice; consoling yourself that the Father is working.
Has He ever instructed you to tell lies? You are instructed not to find fault with others,
and that you should love every person as He has advised us. Your duty therefore, is to
love one another. He is the Doer of everything. If we do not drink and do not give drinks
to people, nor fornicate, nor indulge in concoction, nor tell lies, nor get exasperated,

8. nor hate and persecute others, it means that we are walking according to the directive
of the Spirit. Let us have our first lesson.
First Bible Lesson: Ephesians 4:30
"And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption."
Drugs Defile The Body
A great many of you were full of the Holy Spirit. But since the day you took bed in the
hospital and certain drugs were injected into your body (to the utter defilement of your
body), are you still feeling the power of the Holy Spirit? Everything in your body is at a
stand still. From day to day you go to the hospital for surgical operation, or for "D & C"
or for X-Ray or for medical check-up, do you not grieve the Holy Spirit by your action?
Right now you bank your hope in the hospital, you run to the hospital at the sign of the
slightest ailment. Your action is grievous to the Holy Spirit. Our Lord Jesus Christ
unequivocally said: "these signs will follow them who believe. In my name they will cast
out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents and if they
drink any deadly thing it will not hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick and they will
recover." (Mark 16:17-18). Brethren, where is your port of call, your dwelling place now?
Have you ever stopped for a moment to ask yourself why the signs have not followed
you and why you visit the hospital? It is simply that you have grieved the Holy Spirit. At
present your entire hope is in the holy oil, and vision, and X-Ray, and extraction of
charms from the body because you complain you have pains all over your body. But you
have never cared to ask what is happening. The reason for your pains is that you have
grieved the Holy Spirit. An adage says what is delicious in the mouth of a sick person,
that he will eat till he dies. Whosever commits sin is a slave to sin.
The Wages Of Sin Is Death (Rom 6:23)
God instructs that you should not be exasperated because anger will cause you
suffering. He instructs that you should not bear grudge against any person because you
will be visited with tribulation and affliction. You have been advised not to take any
type of drugs, nor to snuff or smoke because these drugs defile the body and so cause
untold suffering to the body unknown to you. When you indulge in these vices, sickness
and suffering visit you and these in turn induce you to visit the hospital for a medical
check-up. Additionally, you visit the necromancer and soothsayer because you feel God
helps those who help themselves and that your ailment is not such that can be cured by
prayers. It is true; your kind of sickness is no longer subject of cure by prayers.
Anger Rests In The Bosom Of Fools (Eccl 7:9).

9. The Scripture says if we would search ourselves, God would not judge us but when we
are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the
world. (1 Corinthians 11:31-32) When you are angry, do you not know the punishment,
which is commensurate with your anger? What has the Scripture told you? It says:
"whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the
judgment, and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the
Sanhedrin: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." (Matt
5:22). If you are going to the altar with your gift and on your way, you suddenly
remember that you have offended against your brother, or you grudge against him for
the offense he committed against you, leave the gift at the altar and go back to become
reconciled first with your brother before you go back to offer your gift. Whenever you
are exasperated with someone, you have grieved the Holy Spirit. When you pronounce
woe onto somebody, or call him Raca, do you not grieve the Holy Spirit? Now that you
find yourself in a situation where you quarrel with many persons, you are at
loggerheads with everybody. You are always at daggers drawn with members of your
family and you have been advised to go and be reconciled with them, but you reject the
advice and say only God will reconcile you, that the offense they have committed
against you is very grievous and that you cannot become reconciled to them but that
you will continue to worship the real God. Is it not a sad situation to find somebody who
calls himself a brother who bears malice against another brother even in this Kingdom
of God, you refuse to exchange words with him, you do not even greet him or respond
to his greetings.
It is not uncommon to find two brothers passing themselves without exchanging
greetings. They just pass by silently looking each to the other person's face.
God Will Judge The Abominable
When you speak disdainfully against your brother to the extend of assassinating his
character, have you not grieved the Holy Spirit? The advice that you should not keep
company with them does not imply that you should be irritated with him or abuse or
insult him, or hate him. Leave him alone to his own ways. Neither does it imply that you
should not be kind and benevolent to him or love him but it says do not keep company
with them, have no association or connection with them. It is said that every brother
who walks disorderly and not after the tradition of the Kingdom, after advising him
twice, and he persists, withdraw from such a brother. Do not hate him, do not abuse
and curse him, do not beat him, that he may be ashamed and find some useful thing to
occupy him. But for all those who walk in an abominable way God will judge them. Why
do you seek to advise a rogue not to steal again? He will slap you and drive you away.
The only safe way for you is to leave him to himself for God will surely judge him. If you
place a fornicator in a position of responsibility, do you not consider that he will
perpetrate all sorts of evils? If you want to advise him to refrain from fornication he will
quarrel with you, and ask you if you are not a fornicator. He will cause commotion. The

10. Word of God says: "if any man is overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, should
restore such a person in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself also, lest you also
be tempted." (Gal 6:1). This is like trying to catch a mentally deranged fellow by the use
of force with incriminating weapon, machetes, guns, staves in order to compel him to
submission. He will also make use of the weapons at his disposal to fight and tear you
to pieces. But should you use love, meekness and kind words, you will be able to win
him easily. You do not realize that, while in his attempt to fight you, you apply your
own weapon on him, he may be wounded and a criminal case will be preferred against
you.
What You Speak Should Minister Grace To Hearers
You will remember that when Peter cut off the ear of the servant of the High Priest, Our
Lord Jesus Christ ordered him to put his sword into its place; for whosoever takes up
the sword must die by the sword. He then bent down and took the part of the ear,
which was cut off and put it in its place.
(Matt 26:51-52/Luke 22:51). Can this not serve as an example for you to follow? And
God has advised that when you have any business with the people of the world, you
should be very careful in handling them, and your conversation with them should be
with grace seasoned with salt that you may know how you should answer every person
otherwise, they howl at you and tear you into pieces. What is referred to, as the flesh is
a situation in which you go to somebody who offends against you, and tell him you are
no respecter of persons; and that you do not fear any person and that you understand
that he is a thief. You have disgraced him and until he dies he will never forget that
disgrace. What you speak to him is not the Word of God. He can sue you before the
Court for defamation of character. You should always speak to an evildoer in parables,
if you speak positively to him, he will immediately rise up and fight you and God will not
support you in your action. This is so because thieves and other criminals are always
watching and ready to react against whatever you do to them. He is always well blasted
with his weapons to fight. If you look at him he will ask you why you are looking at him,
whether it is because people regard him as a thief. You are aware that from the
beginning Satan has never done any good thing. He has been an evildoer, a criminal
from his birth and he has no ability to do what is good.
Resist Not An Evil Doer (Matt 5:39)
The only weapon, which you can employ to live comfortably with Satan, is love. When
you abandon love you have not only failed but have grieved the Holy Spirit. If a
fornicator goes to live with somebody who does not find such a place very conducive to
his practice, even if you cook delicious dishes for him everyday, give him clothes, and
money, he will not be happy to stay under such an atmosphere where he has no
opportunity to fornicate, he will run away from the place. When a quarrelsome person

11. comes to your house with all his tactics to induce you to quarrel, and if you do not
quarrel with him, he will pack his things and run away, and will refer to all members of
your house as evil persons. This explains why Our Lord Jesus Christ advises that we
should not resist an evildoer. Whenever you resist an evildoer, you grieve the Holy Spirit
because you have not complied with the instructions of God. We should listen to the
voice of the Spirit and walk according to the instructions of Our Lord Jesus Christ as
enumerated in the Holy Scriptures from Genesis to Revelations of John the Divine, so
that it be well with us. This is why, whenever you come to see the Father, He looks at
you and X-Rays you from head to toe. Then knowing exactly what is in you, He asks you
to open to several portions of the Bible.
Sin No More Lest Worst Things Happen To you
When you come home, I will not say you are a thief, or a fornicator, or a liar, but when
you read through the passages you will contemplate within your heart how I manage to
know what you do. As you read the passages you will actually know that the words are
for you but I do not call you a thief or prostitute. Is it not the same thing, which
happened when the Jews summoned the woman taken in adultery before Our Lord
Jesus Christ to tempt Him? On arrival they told Our Lord Jesus Christ that Moses has
provided in his laws that a woman such as the one they took to him, who commits
adultery should be stoned, and they asked Our Lord's opinion about that provision. If
Our Lord Jesus Christ had ordered that she should be discharged, He could have been
killed at the instant because He would have been accused of contravening the Law of
Moses. Conversely, if He had advised that she should be killed according to the Mosaic
Law, it would have generated into the talk of the town, the order of the day. They
would have implied that it was Our Lord Jesus who advised that the woman be killed. If
He had said that, He would have committed a very grievous sin even though He had to
be crucified on the cross, His Blood would not have availed anything. For God says you
should not kill (Ex 20:13), and as a Son of God if you order the killing of any person, you
would grieve the Holy Spirit. What did Our Lord Jesus Christ do at that instance? He
stooped down and started writing the names of the people, who accused the woman,
on the ground. Beside each of the names He indicated the sins they have all committed.
He did not mention any person's name. When they continued to ask Him, He lifted up
his head and told them, He who is without sin among you, let him first take a stone and
cast at the woman. When they heard that, and as they looked at their names and the
crimes they had committed, they were convicted by their own consciences and so went
out one by one beginning from the eldest to the least. (John 8:4-9) Throughout the
whole episode, Our Lord Jesus Christ did not make mention of any person. Our second
lesson will now be read.
Second Bible Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21
"Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things: hold fast that which is good."

12. Your Speech Should Be With Grace Seasoned With Salt
Brethren, have you heard what is read unto you? Any person who believes in God and
has implicit faith in Him is quite free to speak to Him at anytime on any subject, but any
person who neither believes in God nor trusts in Him is not free to speak to Him.
Whosoever does not believe in God is not only dangerous but dubious and suspicious.
He will always watch, observe and listen to you. He will also look at your countenance
and give interpretation to any expression of your face. If you cough, he will interpret it
to mean your cajoling him. If you laugh, he will complain that you laugh at him.
Whatever you do will be misinterpreted by him. From the day you openly told him to go
away with his foolishness, he will not forget it till he dies. He will not forgive you. Do
what you may to him, he will neither forget about your statement nor appreciate what
you have done to him. Now that you complain that you have not offended against him,
but he hates you, can you remember when you addressed him as a foolish person? This
statement has driven cold blood into his vein; and so do what you may to him, buy a
car, build a house, buy an airplane or steamer for him; he will not forget your
statement. You have been advised to abstain from all appearance of evil from calling
any person Raca, to speaking disdainfully against any person. If you see somebody
drinking wine and you advise him before others that he should not drink again, he will
be so enraged that he will begin to abuse you whether your father or your mother does
not drink and whether he is the only person who drinks. He will regard your statement
as a disgrace to him.
Always Approach People With Love and Humility
When, in your pomposity and arrogance, you approach somebody and tell him you are
fearless of any person, when he does anything you tell him to his face, do you think that
by so doing you are serving God? You are not; but you are causing confusion and
trouble. God has Advised that you should employ love in dealing with people and that
you should love every person. Has He advised you to disgrace any person, or to curse
and abuse him, or to beat him up or to bear malice against him? He says you should
love him. What else can you do? It is only the Father who can change and reform a man.
You lack that ability, but you have to love every person. If a person who is a thief lives in
your house, when he steals do not judge, do not complain but be good and truthful to
him. God knows that he is a thief; you know he is a thief and he himself knows that he is
a thief. Just leave him alone. God will change him in due season but be kindly
affectionate to him. The only precaution is that you have to be mindful of sinful men,
take caution in what you do and say to a flippant person, to a thief, and to a fornicator.
Know what to say to a prostitute.
Be very cautious with any human being. Not long ago somebody came into the Bible

13. Class with all sorts of charms around his neck; he carried other charms, concoctions,
talisman and ring. Since I have no regard for such use-less things, (I do not even know or
recognize them), I did not comment on it, but continued to impart the lesson and the
man was sitting in there. However, since then he has not put up any other appearance
in the Bible Class. If he was beaten up and driven out of the House of God, he would
have gone away to make adverse reports against Brotherhood, he would have even
alleged that his money was taken away from him, what defense would you have made?
You would not have been able to exonerate yourself from the charges.
Abstain From An Appearance of Evil
You are aware that sins have multiplied and that evildoers have doubled the number of
the righteous ones, and so whenever anything is alleged against you, the evil ones will
always rise up and stamp their feet on the ground in affirmation of their allegation and
will even mob you and condemn you while you try to defend yourself. Is it the thing of
God to implicate yourself amongst the evildoers? Have you ever seen a godly person
taken for judgment before the worldly men? Who is justified? He will never be justified
till doomsday. But, no matter what the evil men do since they are judged by persons of
the same plumage, they will always be justified. You are warned to abstain from all
appearances of evil. You know that a person is a necromancer, a drunkard, an evildoer
and you invite him to a divine function or celebration. What is he coming to do there? Is
he coming to cause confusion and commotion, if such happens who is to blame? When
you are invited by unbelievers to their function, because they are prostitutes, thieves,
fornicators, snuffers, drunkards, abominable men, and necromancers, do you actually
know where they will take you to? God really knows what happens when a man of God
comes in contact with unbelievers. That was why he advised Solomon not to fall in love
with the woman from the province of the strange country. (1 Kings 11:1-2). God knows
what would happen between her and Solomon but Solomon did not know it. It was
because he grieved the Holy Spirit and the Almighty God, that his kingdom fell. He
erected a building for God quite alright but he not only erected a temple where
mermaid or fetish was worshipped, but also knelt down to worship the fetish. Do you
think God was pleased with his actions?
We Ought To Please God Rather Than Man (Acts 4:19)
You may have a function to which you invite unbelievers and the children of God, and
because you want to please the worldly people, you buy drinks, cigarettes, snuff and
encourage the pouring of libation and the observance of certain traditional rites. When
they come, you keep them in one part of your compound. It is your intention to give to
each group what they like so that you maintain your position as a gentleman. Have you
not grieved the Holy Spirit by your action? This is exactly what goes on in Brotherhood.
When you want to bless your marriage, you extend invitation to men of various stations
in life. After the divine and solemn blessing by the Father, you arrange reception for the

14. various sets of persons. You take the worldly men to a hotel and entertain them with
drinks and disco dances. Is it what you are taught in this kingdom? Who has imparted
such a lesson to you? You are, by your actions, blame-worthy even by outsiders, and
you have also grieved the Holy Spirit. Conversely, if you invite them but do not give
them drinks, or cigarettes or snuff, they will think you are a mentally deranged fellow.
Of a truth it is good for one to please God.
You should not have invited them at all. Whatever you have to celebrate, you should
not invite them but only the children of God. Whether at funerals or at other functions
and celebrations, are the children of God not capable of containing the situations? Is
there any portion of the Scriptures which lends support to your having association with
the worldly persons? The various passages which advise against your having association
with the worldly men are at my fingertips. You have left the world. You should not
associate with them. Separate yourself from them, but you should not hate them.
When in the previous advent, Our Lord Jesus Christ came in the flesh, have you read
somewhere that He had connections with the people of the world? The Bible has borne
eloquent testimony to the fact that He did not commit Himself unto any person
because He knew all men. To fail to commit yourself to or to have connection with any
person has nothing to do with love, truth, humility. What happens is that when you
commit yourself and separate yourself unto God, you will be capable of serving Him
properly, and God will be pleased with your actions.
Commit Yourself To God Not To Man
All that you read from Genesis to Malachi are prophecies. You should not despise these
words of God, and prophesying.
Do not disregard any of the prophecies. All are the words of God. They were written by
the inspiration of God; and whatsoever is inspired of God is prophecy. That was why,
when Our Lord Jesus read these Books, the Laws and the Prophets He said, "Today
these prophecies will be fulfilled in your ears." (Luke 4:21) He did not therefore despise
the prophesying. He complied strictly with the instructions contained in the Books, and
did everything accordingly in obedience to the Words of God. If somebody misleads
you to believing that Our Lord Jesus Christ committed Himself to the worldly people,
you should quote a passage of the Scriptures, which lends support to that statement.
When people claim that Our Lord Jesus Christ is a friend to sinners, you will also quote
your authority. Because He was never exasperated. He never stole, and never
committed fornication, nor did He abuse any person nor judge any person. Any person
who commits sin is an evildoer. Even among the twelve disciples, only three of them
were admitted into His inner circle. Even then He did not rely much on them. Whatever
happened to Him, He did not confide in any of them. He did not trust any of them, nor
did He commit Himself to any of them apart from the Father alone. Remember an

15. instance, when Our Lord Jesus Christ told the disciples how He would go to Jerusalem
and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be
raised again the third day. And Peter rebuked Him saying, "Far be it from you Lord, this
will not happen to you". But He turned and said to him, "Get you behind Me, Satan, you
are an offense to me, for you think not of Spiritual things but of the flesh". (Matt 16:23).
If Our Lord Jesus Christ had relied and accepted the advice by Peter, He would not have
been able to fulfill the purpose for which He came into the world. Search all passages of
the Scriptures, you will discover that Our Lord Jesus Christ did not commit Himself to
any person neither did He trust any man apart from the Almighty God. Love all men but
do not trust any man. To trust in a man is to obey and comply with the instruction of
man. Our Golden text will now be read.
Golden Text: Galatians 5:25-26
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another, envying one another."
Walk In The Spirit And You Will Not Satisfy Carnal Lusts
Brethren, do you hear what is read unto you? It is said, if we profess to live in the Spirit,
we should walk in the Spirit. If we profess to be the children of God, we should practice
His Words, doing only those things, which He commands us to do and abstaining from
these things, which he forbids us to do. You should not be proud, pompous and
arrogant. You should not be envious and jealous; you should not be exasperated
against anyone. If you are irritated against anyone, is that an indication of walking in
the Spirit? If you are proud and arrogant, can you profess you walk in the Spirit? If there
are envying, quarreling, petty jealousies and disputes, is the Spirit of God present in
such an atmosphere? As I have already told you, the Spirit is life. It is peace, it is truth,
and such traits have no tendency to pride and arrogance, or to exasperation or to envy.
If you discover that you have lost ten naira after the departure of your visitor, you either
send a messenger or approach him yourself and ask him if he had seen a ten naira when
he came to your house. Will that action indicate that you are walking in the Spirit? If a
man is in a state of financial difficulty and he approaches you for assistance for a small
sum of money, but you tell him that you are sorry that you have no money nearby even
though you have thousands in your house, can you walk in the Spirit?
Love Your Enemies
Sometimes you complain that you are not aware of any offense you have committed
against somebody who hates you bitterly. Can you deny offending against me? When

16. the other day the person asked for a help of ten naira but you told him you have no
money though you are counting in thousands, and your fleet of cars are around and
tomorrow you would undertake a project costing so many thousands of naira, yet you
try to defend yourself as a brother. Compare that with a situation in which someone is
in financial difficulty and you do not even give him the opportunity to ask for help but
you give him some money to help himself and tell him to pay back only when he can
afford it, but he forgets about the whole transaction. Anytime you see him, you ask
him: "brother how are things?" He will pay deaf ears to your question and will go his
own way. Why then should you send messages to him that you are exhausted of your
patience and that if he fails to defray that debt you will have no alternative than
summoning him at a place where he would not be comfortable, by such an action, are
you walking in the Spirit?
Furthermore, if you resort to threatening him, whenever you see him you curse him
that God should punish him for not refunding your money, you also report him to every
person you come across that he has not defrayed his debt can you claim to be walking
in the Spirit? If you profess to live in the Spirit, why do you not walk in the Spirit? Most
of you are sometimes kind and benevolent to a person; you accommodate him in your
house and maintain him. But after sometime, because of annoyance, you become
angry with him and abuse him and even drive him out of your house. I ask you when you
do this, are you walking in the Spirit? Judas Iscariot was gallivanting and loitering about
in the streets when Our Lord Jesus Christ picked him as one of His disciples. However,
he went into the midst of the disciples, and fortunately or unfortunately, he was
appointed a treasurer. Do not forget the passages of the Bible when Our Lord Jesus
Christ says all those sent to Me by the Father will follow Me and all those who follow
Me, I shall in no wise cast out. (John 6:37) Who has taught you to evict somebody,
whether he is a rogue, a swindler, and extortioner, a robber and an ardent evildoer?
Was Judas driven away by Our Lord Jesus Christ?
Even that night during the Last Supper Our Lord Jesus Christ openly told his disciples
one of you will surely betray Me. Does it mean that He did not know who would betray
Him or was He feeling shy to mention the name of Judas? He knew him yet He did not
mention his name but rather declared that one of them would betray Him. And so the
disciples, one after the other asked Our Lord Jesus Christ saying, "Lord is it I?" (Matt
26:22). He answered in the negative but when Judas Iscariot asked the same question,
He said, "yes you are the person". Do you know the reaction of Judas at that point in
time? Realizing that, Our Lord Jesus Christ was aware of his plot to betray Him to the
Jews he immediately withdrew the action. God can make and unmake. If Judas Iscariot
had not betrayed Our Lord Jesus Christ, what would have saved us? Would Our Lord
Jesus Christ have been the One? And would the Word of God have been fulfilled? What
did Our Lord Jesus Christ do thereafter? He dipped a piece in the cup and gave to him
and as soon as he took and ate the bread the action of withdrawing his betrayal of Our
Lord Jesus Christ disappeared from his mind. That was why Our Lord Jesus Christ told
him saying, "Judas whatever you have to do, do it quickly". When Judas was told to put

17. his plan into action quickly, the disciples thought He meant that Judas should go and
buy food quickly. But Our Lord Jesus Christ knew that he would betray Him. If Judas
Iscariot had withdrawn from carrying out his plot of betraying Him, Our Lord Jesus
Christ would not have fulfilled His assignment of shedding the Blood and the Word of
God, which says, whoever eats your food will kick against you.
All would have been made void, and He would not have been the Christ. The ways of
God are deep and mysterious.
Forgive Others And God Will Forgive You
Sometimes a thief may come into your house, and you know him from the expression
of his face to be a thief, a swindler, a murderer but you allow him to remain in your
house. You have to eat with him and bear with him; otherwise, you are not walking in
the Spirit. God knows each and everyone of us, whatever you may be, a thief, a
fornicator, a prostitute, a liar, God knows you all. But sometimes in your ignorance you
say God is stupid for allowing certain things to happen because if He were wise such a
thing would not have occurred. Rather you are foolish and not God. If we profess to live
in the Spirit, we should use the power of God to walk in the Spirit. We should be slow to
speak, slow to wrath (James 1:19), and we should surrender everything to God but
continue to practice loving one another. Do you consider that when you nurse evil
thoughts that God does not know or that when you commit any vice, He has not seen
you? Even after committing any evil He is still kind to you. He does to you even those
things you never expected God would do for you. And then in your ignorance you
contemplate within your mind that if God had known what vices you have committed
He would not have bestowed such blessings unto you. He knows, but He has no
association with anything sinful, but it is His duty to bestow His blessings upon his own
children. He loves you. We hate God more than we hate ourselves. We have insulted
Him more than our fellow human being. We have used him in the most disrespectful
way and we have not stopped at committing any evil against God. Upon all your
discourtesies to Him, your actions against God and the sacrilege you commit, has He
ever told you to stop talking to Him? Has he ever reacted against your misuse of Him?
Even where you do not take cognizance of His existence, He does not react because He
is in the Spirit. He has instructed you not to steal, not to tell lies, not to indulge in
charms and concoctions and other evils. To which of these have you complied, and
from which of them have you refrained?
Do Not Impute Sin On Anyone
And yet He still gives you food, money, children, and answers your prayers speedily.
This explains why you refer to Him as sumptuous Jehovah.

18. Do you really know what is referred to as very good? If you have a wife and she is
contracting illegal carnal intimacy with another man and you do not even budge, you
pretend as if you do not know anything about it, your wife will refer to you as a very
good man because despite what she has been committing against you, you still give her
money for clothes, food, etc. Indeed, you are a very good man. Similarly, if you have a
wife but you are always running after women outside your matrimonial home, or take
home other women and commit adultery with them, and in spite of your waywardness,
she does not complain or quarrel with you or cause trouble in the house, but continues
to prepare your food and keep the house, you conclude that she is a very good woman
and that you have never seen her like and, for that, she is your mother.
What the worldly people refer to as good man, and those regarded by God as good, are
those persons who always endure all situations in their lives, those who endure evil
doings. No matter what you do, he does not bother himself; he will not even ask
questions for offenses committed against him and people will conclude that such
persons are very good. That is why Our Lord Jesus Christ told Simon a parable that a
certain creditor had two debtors, one owed him fifty naira and the other ten naira and
when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both and so asked which of the
two debtors would love him most? And he answered and said, I suppose he to whom he
forgave most, and Our Lord Jesus Christ told him you have rightly judged. (Luke 7:40-
43) Do you realize that any person, who does not impute sins on you in spite of the fact
that you have committed all sorts of vices and he imputes no sin, is the one who loves
you most and he it is that you will regard as good. This is the characteristic feature of
Our Lord Jesus Christ which endeared him to people and induced them to seek after
Him since He never bothered about what sins they committed.
Fervent Love Casts Away Fear
Let Me tell you that no matter what you do for your wife, buy a car or a ship for her,
build a stone building for her and do all other material things for her but any day you
rebuke or admonish her for committing any vice, she will be very infuriated with you
and will pass you for a very bad man who does not want her to be at peace. In the same
token a man may do what he likes in the house but any day the wife tells him she does
not like his going out at odd hours, he will be exasperated with her and will warn her to
stop her insolence.
The implication of the injunction that we should love one another as God loves us is to
forgive one another, without reckoning any sin for any person and to endure all
evildoers. You may quarter somebody in your house free of charge, feed him, buy a car
for him and look after him but if you rebuke him for going out often, he will be very
cross and will plan his exit, and one day you will be surprised to come back and will not
find him in the house. He will pack away from your house in spite of your generosity but
because you have rebuked him, he has to go away. Our Lord Jesus Christ has enjoined

19. that we should forgive one another as He has forgiven us. Why have you not accepted
this injunction? Because this is the only factor that can unite us, that is, if we no longer
impute sins on people. I do not impute on you and you do not impute on me; we
continue to love each other, that is the order in this new world. Do you consider that
God does not see a thief when he goes to steal? Sometimes he goes to steal and his ear
is chopped off. When he goes back, he will not think again of going to steal. Even if you
advise him to go and steal he will tell you that roguery is not a good occupation because
he is fully aware of the repercussion of stealing. Do you feel that a person who does not
fear God can fear a human being?
No Suspension From The Kingdom Of God
I want to tell you that whosoever is an evil doer is neither afraid of the government nor
police, nor the president, nor the governor, he does not even fear God. Leave such a
person in the hands of God; only God can change such a person. If you go to reprimand
him, it means you have voluntarily given up yourself to him and he can deal with you, as
he likes. That is why we have been advised not to be proud, pompous and arrogant, not
to grieve one another, not be jealous of each other. Leave such a person to his own
way, and practice what God has enjoined you to do, i.e. love one another. Do not be
exasperated with any man neither should you commit any offense against any person.
Are you not surprised that no person is suspended from Brotherhood of the Cross and
Star, none is excommunicated or disfellow shipped? None is reprimanded yet there is
no problem, only the Father reforms. The order is that we should love one another, and
do not impute sin on any person, this is the greatest of all the commandments. A
spiritual chorus says, clear the forest and God will set the fire. Why not clear the bush
and allow God to set the fire? Go and practice what God has advised, that we should
love one another, we should not impute sin on any person, and that we resist not the
evildoer. We should not tell lies and get annoyed if God will not do whatever is
remaining.
Even though you build a house and buy a car for someone but as long as you continue
to pronounce woe on him and disgrace him and grow exasperated with him, it means
you have no love. If you give one thousand naira to somebody gratis but you report him
to every person you see to an extent of his being sued before the law courts where he is
fined one thousand naira, what good have you done for him? If somebody offends you
and you do not backbite against him nor report him to others and become exasperated,
you have retained his good name and it means that you love him and stand well before
God. From that day Our Lord Jesus Christ shed His precious blood when He said: "it is
finished," (John 19:30), it symbolizes that God imputes no sin on any person. He
forgives us. In the same token we should no longer impute sins on people. That was
why when Peter asked Him how many times will my brother offend against me and I
forgive him? Is it seven times? Our Lord Jesus Christ told him, "not seven times but
seventy times seven times." (Matt 18:22). This means that you should not impute sins

20. on any person. That is the commandment of this New Kingdom of God; you have to
love one another always. That is the basis of the freedom and the liberty you find in this
Kingdom. If any person pronounces woe on you or calls you various names, no person
listens to him, no person is angry about it. Instead he will be loved and ministered unto.
But this is not an indication that a man will not reap what he sows. If you do good you
receive good reward. But if you do bad you receive bad reward also. We should,
therefore, surrender everything into the hands of the Father; but rather practice His
Words and comply with His commandment. Brethren, I do not intend to be tedious
unto you, one stroke of the cane is sufficient for the wise, let those who have ears hear.
May God bless His Words. Amen!