Brethren, that is the theme of our revelation. I would wish that you pay great attention to this sermon; especially those of you who fear men instead of God those of you who behave in such a manner as if others are not existing, those of you who constitute yourselves into stumbling blocks unto others, those of you who oppress others because they have got nobody to revenge or fight for them; those of you who regard yourselves as parents and your children as your bonafide property, that you can do to them whatever you like, and if possible kill them, without being questioned; and those who do certain things and feel they are not seen by others.

Our Lord Jesus Christ has advised in the scriptures that nobody should revenge. That He was the only avenger: “ Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay;" said the Lord. For everything that we do from this day, God will not fail to avenge us.

If you deceive somebody and collect something from him under false pretenses, God will surely avenge you. If you steal somebody's property feeling that nobody has seen you, remember God will repay you. If because of the fact that a fellow brother has no money, you use your own money, to entice his wife, God definitely will avenge you, if you forcefully take from an orphan his father's land because you think he neither has anybody to speak on his behalf, nor has he any power to do anything, do not forget that God will avenge you.

Since the child is a minor and unable to hold the kingship position of the father, and you as a slave acting as the regent, claim everything for yourself, ultimately driving the child away from the father's house; God will not fail to repay you. Whatever you are - a President, Governor, a millionaire, a doctor, an engineer, a priest, or what have you, remember that whatever you have at the back of your mind, and whatever you do, God will not fail to avenge you.

Brethren, this knowledge has eluded the whole world. If you were to understand the efficacy of what I am telling you, I do not think you would behave otherwise.

If you murder, God will surely avenge you. God will equally avenge you, if you steal one's property. He will also avenge if you curse or abuse anybody. No matter how small or minute the offence you commit, God will not fail to pay you back. It is said that no matter the circumstances, a sinner can never escape punishment. That is why it is preached to you to do everything within your power to refrain from sins.

Because you do not believe in God and have no faith in Him, you think when you are overpowered, God is not going to avenge? You lament and cry when your property is forcefully taken away from you, and you claim that you have nobody. I am assuring you that you have a million persons if GOD is with you. Ignorance of the knowledge of God is a very bad sickness.

Many people have fallen from the path of rectitude because of their unbelief. It appears you have forgotten that God has promised to bring all your deeds to light on the day of reckoning. Regrets (had I known) have never come in the forefront but at last. This is why this opportunity is being utilised to explain to you to expect God's vengeance in whatever you do.

No matter the type of evil a church denomination commits, God shall not fail to repay them. Whatever act a village head commits, he shall be repaid. Equally, whatever sins the Government commits, with the same magnitude, it shall be repaid. God is also ready to repay the mother whatever she does to the children. The father, who claims the wife he bought with his money and the children are his property so he can do whatever he preferred, with them, should not forget the vengeance of God.

It is because of people's short sightedness that is why things appear to them the way they do. When you turn your eyes this way or that, you think that the other person has no relation, that there is nobody to follow up his case, you decide to kill the fellow.

If you see a small child unwittingly drop One Naira or Ten Kobo, and you take the money from him although the child has ignorantly gone away, God will not fail to avenge. If you cheat somebody by buying something worth Fifteen Naira and out of the twenty naira note that you have been given, the trader ignorantly, and out of illiteracy, gives you twenty naira as change for what you bought thinking that he gave you N5.00 note and you receive it thanking God that you have much money in return; do not forget that God will avenge.

If you deceitfully declare to a trader that of the hundred articles that you have counted, there are but fifty only and for that reason, you pay for fifty articles; do not rejoice and clap your hands for succeeding in the deal, for God will not fail to pay you back squarely. Anybody who happens to offer his or her child for the purpose of selling him or her, because you contend the child is your bona-fide property; you should not forget that God will not fail to avenge.

Man has since forgotten that there is the creator of the universe, that is why he lives an abominable life and because of this attitude, sicknesses, war, starvation, pestilence and death have to be experienced by man. If you were to fear God in the same degree or vein you fear your fellow man, there would be no trouble in the world. But incidentally in your own thinking, when you look left and right, front , and back, having found nobody, you feel safe to commit any criminal act. Do not forget that God who sees everything will pay you back for whatever evil you have done.

If all the thieves had known that they will never be left scot-free, they would by now have stopped indulging in the trade they do. Anyway, any sin committed, whether through words of mouth, or through thoughts or deeds, always remember that God will repay you.

Remember that upon the love God had for David, it did not exempt him from receiving punishments commensurate to his deeds. Abraham also, though loved by God, did not fail to suffer with his children. God loved Adam and Eve greatly, so great also was their punishment when they sinned against God. Why do you, then erroneously think that God does not exist?

The poor are suffering today. So also is the rich. The same way a slave is suffering, is an aborigine suffering too. Men and women, the world over, are suffering all from their sins: for neglecting God and thinking that they are existing just independently. If because of the bride price you have paid on your wife, you feel she could be treated like a slave and be kicked up and down, do no forget that God will avenge. That is why it is said wisdom begins with the fear of God.

Whoever has the fear of God knowing fully well that God will not fail to repay for whatever he or she does, will never commit any sin, I am declaring this from the high Heaven that as many souls and angels that listen and adhere to this sermon, shall refrain from acts of sin. God's long patience should not be mistaken for forgetfulness or slack in fulfilling His promises, but should be taken for a chance for repentance that we may not perish.

From day to day, he calls all the world, families, human beings, angels and the entire dwellers of the cosmos and dishes out instructions to them. Those who believe in GOD and also acknowledge the fact that he would not hesitate to reward anyone, negatively or positively, depending on one's act, need not do much bible reading because the awareness alone is sufficient.

Why I always tell you that I will not relent in preaching the name of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST any time of the day, or month or year is because he is the originator and arbiter of the word GOD. There is no lesson you can from any other person apart from OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. This is because he is the only one who overcame and conquered death and hades. He defeated satan and collected the key from him.

When he was reviled he did not revenge, and when he was suffering. He did not curse anyone. knowing too well that GOD will surely avenge those who spat on him, those who slapped, persecuted, abused, kicked and did him whatever they pleased, he submitted all judgment unto the righteous judge.

And so brethren, from the moment you acquire this wisdom you will have peace because no matter what the people of the world would do to you, you will be silent realising that God shall never fail to avenge. You lament when you are beaten up that if you had somebody (relation) behind you, the person would have retaliated. But I am telling you today that you have a million persons and even more.

The meaning of one of our Spiritual choruses which says: I have a- Father, Almighty Father .....; is very efficacious. Each of us has got a father greater than all fathers; but we do not seem to understand when we sing this song. He is my own father, he is your own, father and the father of all, including the animals, fishes, birds, ants, sand and all things created and uncreated.

No person can afford to refrain from sin of any form if such a person does not first of all believe that there is in existence a supreme being who will not fail to repay each one for any sins committed. No person can do any good thing except he or she knows that GOD exists, who also shall reward everyone accordingly. that is why OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST did say that you will know the truth and same shall set you free. What is this Truth? Truth is made of JEHOVAH GOD and his CHRIST.

Pilate himself as a governor did not know who and what the Truth was. If Pilate did not know the Truth, who among you here knows it? Truth means Jehovah GOD. That is why whatever sin you commit will not go unpunished and whatever good, you do, God will definitely reward you.

God has said that He will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their children even unto the third and fourth generations that hate Him showing mercy upon the generation that loved Him and kept His commandment. God promised to abide with them. For everyone of us here, there is a place we come from and so whatever trails behind us, follows the type of job we did. You may have forgotten many of the sins you committed, but God does not easily forget.

Equally you must have done some good things and have forgotten about them; but God will not fail to compliment you as He is not so forgetful. If you believe fervently in the Almighty God, the Avenger of all evils done, you need not call a witness to see The good things you do; because you are rewarded according to your deeds. ln the same manner, if you were to believe in God and that He will repay you for whatever sin you engage in, you will look at your or front and back before committing any evil. We gain nothing apart from knowing God and also realising that He is the only avenger.

God gives you life and all the good things of this world but the question is, do you know Him? It is said in the Scriptures that those who even profess to know God deny him by their deeds and actions: They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. You deny God by living a very abominable life: fornicating, stealing, committing murder, adultery, idolatry, bearing false witness, and soothsaying.

Brethren, as we do not intend to over-load you, the first lesson will be read.

1st Lesson: EPHESIANS 6:9
""And, ye Masters, do the same thing unto them, forbearing threatening; knowing that your Master also is in Heaven, neither is there respect of persons with Him."

I do not believe that if parents, their children and even those of us here have read this portion of the bible would have committed any act of sin Man is a respecter of persons, but God is not. The government, chiefs, emperors and kings are respecters of persons, but God is not a respecter of anybody, even the angels themselves are also guilty of this same offence. God is a respecter of nothing because He caused the creation of everything that exists.

The advice handed down to us is that it could be easy for man to conquer man, but not God. No matter how rich you may be, know that God is not a respecter of persons. No matter your chains of degrees and the magnitude of your glory, know that God is a respecter of nobody. Whatever the position you occupy and your status, know what you do, what you say and what you think. Your mothers, fathers, mistresses and masters should know what they say, what they do and what they think about those who are kept under their care, because God is no respecter of anybody.

We fall and suffer because we fail to believe that God is in existence. If you happen to witness the way most parents handle their children, you will hardly believe they begot them. In the same manner, if you see how some children treat their parents, you will never believe that they were brought into the world by them. Moreover, if you see the way some husbands behave with their wives, you will hardly believe they are the ones that have been joined together. Equally, you will swear never to be born a male, if you watch how some women ill-treat and lord over their husbands and have no regard for their maids whatsoever.

Why do some women behave this way? It may be that the wife is richer than the husband and because of that, they have no regard for the man. Some children do come up and maintain their parents and for that reason, they think the parents deserve no honour. Because of their big positions, some fathers feel they can do anything they wish, fearing nobody or anything whatsoever.

We all have to know from today that my father, your father and our father is in heaven. The churches should reason together and advise themselves. The rulers of this earth should reason together and advise themselves, knowing fully well that our father is in heaven. The governments should also advise themselves and come to the knowledge that their father and ours, who is a respecter of nobody, is in heaven

Firms corporations and companies, should equally advise themselves because their father and our father is in heaven and he is a respecter of no person. Do not boast of your position as a bank manager or a director of a financial institution, forgetting that your father and mine too is in heaven and that he respects no person

Whatever your position, whether as a director of an industrial organisation, the only cock to crow - the monarch of all surveys, know that the respecter of no person, is in heaven. We would know exactly, what to do if we ponder over this issue.

Have you heard what the Scripture says? One of our brothers was given a vision to go on ministry work, but he refused. His prize for refusal was hernia. He struggled the best he could but to no avail. He attended hospital for surgical operation, but on getting to the theatre, there was no more hernia. But by the time he got back home, the hernia reemerged. It was then that he was reminded of a vision he was given to go on ministry which he refused; that should he go on the ministry work, he would see the manifestation of the glory of God. On his way to the ministry work, he branched into a bush path to ease himself. By the time he finished easing himself, the hernia disappeared till today.

There are many people you should take as an example and learn a lesson from. These people are Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and the rest of the people who thought they owed their existence on nothing or nobody. Look at Goliath; because of his stature and the iron garment he used in protecting himself with, he felt that in the whole of Israel, there was nobody to stand before him and that he can mow them down at will.

Remember also the king of Assyria who boasted before Hezekiah the war he waged against the Israelites. That he had not only caused all the surroundings of Israel to be devastated, but was also going to destroy Israel completely. That Hezekiah should not be deceived by his God. The Scriptures have said that if we were to search ourselves, God would not have judged us.

Many people consoled themselves that God is not swift in His judgment. This is false. He does not waste even a minute in passing judgment on sin you have committed. Some people will say but, for God's preservation, I would deal with you very drastically: I fear nobody after all! If you claim that you fear nobody, what about God? If you say that you do not take cognisance of any human being, or any angel, fish or animal; any created or uncreated thing, what about that Man - the Monarch of all surveys? Within a twinkle of an eye, He can crush you to nothing.

Somebody comes to your house for one request or the other - handing his wife to you in exchange for, be it food or money. If you delightfully accept the offer and go to the extent of doing anything with the person's wife; have you forgotten about the Almighty Man - the one who is always looking at you?

No matter the amount of money or measure of wealth offered you by somebody to commit any sinful act, do not forget that the almighty being, a respecter of nobody, is there looking at you. That is why you have been advised not to cheat any person or profiteer. If somebody bought something from you worth say a thousand naira and mistakenly gives you two thousand naira, call the person's attention immediately and return that over-payment.

If somebody happened to buy something in your store, but forgets it there and goes away, do not touch it or make use of it because it is not yours. What you rather have to do would be to take it to the owner because if you hide it, the Almighty will surely avenge. If there is any family that has been desolate, all the people are completely gone except a very small child and their large piece of land, and other property, do not confiscate any of the belongings kept in your care, if you are a trustee, because God is looking at you and he shall avenge.

"But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

Imagine how unpleasant it was for one to have felled down a tree; under specific instruction, he built an Ark but people so inhumanly converted the Ark into a toilet. Incidentally, the Ark became a Healing Home for all sorts of infirmities. It was on an occasion when a leper went into the Ark to ease himself like all other people but he slipped. On getting up, he realised he was cleansed of his leprosy.

The news spread far and wide all over the land. The afflicted around trooped into the Ark, each of them feigning to have fallen down and at each instance, the afflicted returned completely healed. Can you see why people are of the opinion that God does not exist? People went into the Ark that God commanded Noah to build and soiled it instead of His being annoyed with them, he cured them of their infirmities, and allowed them to go free. Today the same thing does happen. People will persecute, revile you and ask you thereafter to invite your God, should He exist, that he might do whatsoever he feels.

Brethren, one thing should not be forgotten and that is - God will not fail to avenge. As Noah did not revenge when he was persecuted but left everything into the hands of GOD; so also must the children of GOD learn to do in this generation. Allow GOD to avenge because vengeance is his. What is pleasing to GOD is to do that which he asks you to do and to refrain from that which he advises you to do, for vengeance is his.

When the time was near, God instructed Noah to gather into the Ark assorted types of creatures of God in pairs as well as his own household, because there was going to be a heavy down pour. At that time, as it is also now, there existed scientists, astronomers, astrologers, soothsayers, necromancers, and all sorts of people. The question is, did these foresee or foretell the impending doom?

They prayed to God to reveal if what transpired was worth reckoning with. But, did God pay heed to that sort of prayers? Even if God had spoken to them, would they have heard what he said?

There was a time in Great Britain when there were only minors; no person grew to the age of becoming the King of England. That notwithstanding, the kingship was not tampered with except that a regent was appointed until the minors grew of age to take over. In Africa the story is different.

People who do not even belong to a royal family buy their way there for selfish aims, throwing away the rightful people. The People of England have gone very far. If it were to be in this country, Queen Elizabeth would not regarded. People would have used money to throw her away and terminate her rulership. But in England, you can never dare joke with that institution - the monarchy.

Man should fear God for he hardly can predict what course of action God would take next against you. Now that you are consoling yourselves that it is Satan who induces you to sin, that God will not destroy you, are you as handsome as those who were destroyed in the days of Noah?

At Noah's time, people bought and sold, married and gave in marriage; there were lawyers, professors, millionaires, farmers, inventors who laughed at Noah and paid no attention to his preachings. The way you are treated by the worldly people today was how Noah was treated too. He was thought to be a drunkard, a mad man, a nonentity and many more names were given to him. Noah was persecuted. To further strengthen their contempt was when Noah acted on the instruction of God by building an Ark at the time and place there was no flood or river.

God knows how to save those who fear Him out of temptation and to retain others who disobey Him unto perpetual punishment. God knows how to help those who hearken to his instructions; those who do not revenge, those who do not steal or commit any vice, but they give up taking revenge against every offence knowing that God is the only righteous Judge.

If GOD has blessed you abundantly, do not refuse to give same to others who have not, whether they are thankful or not, even if they abuse you, if they greet you or not or put up an absurd type of attitude. If you refuse to supply them with their needs, as much as you are bestowed with, GOD shall judge you.

Whether your child, clan, father or mother, husband or wife, government, church denomination, or friend or any relation of yours obey you or not, continue to assist the person concerned, in whichever way made possible by God.

While He was arraigned before Pilate, somebody slapped Him and asked Him to say who was that that slapped Him. Some others spat on Him and also asked Him to identify who did that to Him. Upon all they did to our Lord Jesus Christ, He did not say anything, but rather committed everything into the hands of the righteous Judge the kind and loving Father who will not fail to avenge.

He knew too well that it lay in the ability of the Father to avenge and so He handed judgment to Him. This explains why when Peter cut off the ears of the high Priest servant, our Lord Jesus Christ put back the ear and warned Peter to return the sword into its sheath, for who ever goes by the sword shall surely die by the sword. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew there was a righteous Judge who could judge better.

Our second lesson will now be read. Listen attentively. Our Lord Jesus Christ had no companion. He said that anyone who refuses to walk according to his guidance, follow His steps, has perished. Mark you, He did not say: Shall perish.

2nd lesson: 1 PETER 2:23.
" Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffer red, he threatened not: but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously."

Who is that person rightly referred to as the Righteous Judge? He is Jehovah - God and His Christ. That is why I always advise you not to follow any other person, not even Abraham. Moses, David, and Elijah because if you do, you will perish.

All the punishments besetting us emanate from man. The salvation we now have comes from our Lord Jesus Christ. When Abraham heard that his nephew was caught by soldiers and his household taken away, he did not take it kindly. As a very good fighter, Abraham took about 400 soldiers with him to the city, massacred them and got Lot and his household released.

On his way back, Abraham met Melchizedek and offered him a tenth of the spoils he had from Chedorlaomer after he had been blessed by Melchizedek. Have you not heard of the sufferings of the off-springs of Abraham?

The case of our Lord Jesus Christ was different. The Scriptures has made us to understand that He told Peter, that his Father had the power to send to Him twelve legions of angels to destroy His enemies. If this was done, how would the scripture be fulfilled? OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST knew that his father and the father of all creations was in heaven, the righteous judge who is a respecter of no person.

Whatever privilege is given to you by God, convert it not into selfishness, because God, the Giver, is not a respecter of any person. If our Lord Jesus Christ had wanted to ruin the privilege granted Him, He would have prayed to the Father to send down legions of angels to wage war against His enemies. What would have been His profit if He had done that? Nothing. Salvation would have eluded the entire world.

Do not compare our Lord Jesus Christ with Elisha who cursed his servant for having gone contrary to his wish. Elisha made Naaman, the leper, clean and refused any reward from the man. His servant secretly went back to Naaman and collected back the offer under the pretext of being sent by his master, and in annoyance, Eliseus (St. James Version) cursed his servant and he became a leper; as a result of disobedience.

This proves beyond every reasonable doubt that the gospel of retaliation cannot be compared with the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ which is based on salvation being forgiveness, but for our Lord Jesus Christ, the rest of the people were of no help to God for they all fail short of the expectation by not doing what pleased Him.

This is why from January to December of each year, I do not preach about any other person apart from OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. He was the only person who pleased GOD, the only cock to crow, for which reason, GOD declared him his beloved son which he is well pleased, advising that all should hear him.

David prayed to God to wage war against his enemies and to punish those who hated him. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not pray the same. He prayed God to forgive His enemies for they knew not what they did. He had the power to utter a single word and get the whole world destroyed, but He refused to put that power into use. All the powers in heaven and on earth were in His hands.

The first man Adam who also became CHRIST, THE LORD JESUS, was given the full power to name and to control all the creatures of GOD. When he faltered by disobeying god he did not escape the wrath of GOD.

To which angel has God ever told the world that He had begotten him as a Son? God created Adam and called him His Son and handed everything on earth into his care. The same Adam did God warn to eat of every fruit in the garden except the forbidden fruit for any day he ate of it, he shall die.

This is what is incomprehensible to man. When God trusts certain things into your hands, you regard them as your bona-fide property but forget the Giver, He will watch you silently by then, only to descend His wrath on you.

The fall of the first Adam was caused by a woman. That was why the second Adam - being OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, did not want to get attached to a woman, because he had learnt a hard lesson. But in your own case, it is different you would not mind repeating the same mistake that caused the downfall of your parents and their predecessors.

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST came to perfect and to redeem his previous actions and image. He had learnt a lesson from the past experience. That was why, when OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST was advised by the mother during the marriage feast to help in whatever he would be requested of; he in turn asked the mother what had he to do with her.

Brethren, to be forewarned is to be forearmed. We should learn from the mistakes of others in the past taking every precautionery measure before any action, Our Lord Jesus Christ was cursed, blasphemed against, and finally, He was nailed to the cross. What have these people gained from their acts? Pilate Himself who pronounced the death sentence of our Lord Jesus Christ was beheaded by Caesar.

When Augustus Caesar heard about the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, he summoned Pilate and asked him why our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. It was Pilate's turn to pay dearly for his action as decided by Caesar. Although he initially posed problems to the soldiers because of the garment of our Lord Jesus Christ that he put on as a vest; but at last, he was overpowered and was killed as the vest was removed.

Remember that when Pilate handed over our Lord Jesus Christ to the people to crucify, he washed his hands and declared his innocence. But, did that help him? Our Lord Jesus Christ only declared that the sins of the persons who betrayed him to Pilate were greater.

All the happenings around our Lord Jesus Christ was caused by Christ Himself. At one time, He told His disciples that he would go to Jerusalem and that he would be-tortured there and He would also be arrested by the Elders, the chief Priests and the Scribes. He concluded that He would be killed but that He shall rise on the third day. These words could not have failed to be fulfilled.

On whose behalf did all these things happen? They all happened for you and for me. If our Lord Jesus Christ did not shed His precious Blood, there would be no remission of sins. Despite the fact that our Lord Jesus Christ died on our behalf, you and I have failed to walk according to His instructions.

He advised us not to revile when reviled; not to curse when persecuted; not to revenge when offended; not to hate when hated; that we should not revenge but to submit everything unto the Righteous Judge for vengeance.

Even if thieves break into your house and make away with your property, do not proclaim woe unto them, do not curse them or get annoyed with them but, leave everything unto the righteous Judge. If somebody accuses you falsely or does you any harm, you have to leave everything unto the Righteous Judge, who is a respecter of nobody.

If somebody collects your property and refuses to give it back to you when you require of it, do not quarrel with him or frown your face. Know one thing, and that is, the almighty God shall not fail to avenge. Note that though two sparrows are sold for a farthing; none of them will fall to the ground without our Father's will.

Before any thief breaks into your house, the Father knows about it and it is for your own good. Before one tells lies against you or bear false witness against you, or does you any evil; God had known about it and it is for your own good. If anybody collects any of your belongings and fails to return it, the Father knows about it, and He does know that, that property will not be returned to you. It is for your own good.

Whoever attends a school and would not want to write any examination? In the various institutions of learning your terminal or sessional examinations are for the purpose of assessement, without which, there would be no promotion into a new or higher class. It is said: Blessed is the man who endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

If things do not happen in the manner they do, very many people would have declared to be the children of God. The little things you loose sight of are used in knowing those who are the real children of God. The Scriptures has also said that if you stand firmly by God, you will always conquer.

Let us always stand by God knowing fully well that He is a Righteous Judge, believe fervently, that He shall not fail to avenge your offenders. You will be rewarded accordingly for all the good things you do. Alternatively, you will be repaid for all the evils that you do. All the punishments and sufferings besetting us are the wages of our evil deeds or practices. Equally, all the things and fortunes that come our ways are the result of our good deeds.

Our Golden text will now be read; listen very attentively - those of you who continue to warn people to desist from speaking disdainfully to you, or assassinate your character and constitute themselves into stumbling blocks unto you. No matter what you do, all these temptations must be there.

GOLDEN TEXT - ROMANS 12:19.
" Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath; for, it is written Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."

Why do you call yourselves the disciples of retaliation? Of what use was that type of gospel to Moses who advocated and preached it? Brethren from now onward, do not revenge whatever evil is done to you.

Whatever the offence committed against you, submit it unto God because He has so promised to avenge. Do good to those who disgrace you; do not be fastidious, do not quarrel with them, do not frown refuse not to do that which you ought to have done.

This knowledge has eluded the whole world because they do not believe that God is in existence. if you had believed that God is existing and that He has the sole, right to avenge of any evil done to you, you would not have any problems. That marks the difference between our Lord Jesus Christ and the entire world. That is also the Truth which has been said shall set you free if you know Him.

If God does not permit, no one can give you a knock on the head. Equally if God does not permit, nobody can curse you, disgrace you or snatch away your property. Whatever God does not permit cannot come to pass. Anything happens to confirm whether or not you are child of God. You call these things temptation but in the Spiritual language, it is called examination.

If you intend to advance in your education and get into newer and higher classes, you have to be taking examinations regularly. If you only take delight in studying without writing examinations, how will the teacher assess you to know whether you have a grasp of the lessons he imparts to you?

Abraham wrote his examination and passed. You may wish to know the type of examination that he took. He was childless at the age of 75 years, but by then God asked him to desert his home to inhabit an unknown area. Imagine a man at 75 years of age, with no child, and he is asked to evacuate his land of inheritance to become an alien somewhere! Was that not a very difficult examination?

The Kingdom of God is not entered through wealth but through faith, and that is all. Abraham was aged and had no child. Despite these, he moved from one place to another in compliance with the directives of God. Today the case with you is different. If your wife fails to conceive within the first or second months of your marriage, you will send her packing in order to marry another woman.

At the end, Abraham was given a chance to try his hands on his house-maid to determine who actually was the cause of their fruitlessness. Abraham succeeded and had a child from his maid Haggar.

Thereafter, another examination came up. At that time, Sarah was asked to send away the slave girl and her child Ishmael because the child had no share in the house of Abraham. Mark you, that was the only child of Abraham by then, but according to the instruction of God, Sarah sent the maid and the child packing.

When Abraham returned, he found Ishmael and his mother outside weeping. If you were Abraham, would you not have dealt seriously with Sarah? Abraham as a man, wanted to react to that effect, but God advised, him because Sarah only acted on His own instruction. God is worth fearing.

This makes it necessary for everybody to have the Spirit of God. The type of spirit possessed by Abraham was rare among the people of those days; it was only bestowed to him who was ready and willing to go according to the dictates of the Holy Spirit. THAT HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD HIMSELF. The same Holy Spirit did David at one time pray that it should not be taken from him.

Abraham brought Ishmael and his mother back and blessed them before they departed finally. Thereby, Ishmael became prosperous, and from Ishmael’ lineage sprang the Muslim world. lt was for this reason that Muslims claim the Christians worship the junior son of Abraham our father; for they judge according to the flesh.

No doubt, according to the flesh, they are right to call Ishamel the first son of our father Abraham, but by divinity, the honour and birth-rite is given to the second son of Abraham by promise. As though that was not enough, another examination followed after a while. But, before then, the barren Sarah conceived and bore a male child called Isaac - a child of hope and a child of promise given to Abraham by God. The only son of promise was demanded of God to be sacrificed for Him.

No doubt, according to the flesh, they are right to call Ishamel the first son of our father Abraham, but by divinity, the honour and birth-rite is given to the second son of Abraham by promise. As though that was not enough, another examination followed after a while. But, before then, the barren Sarah conceived and bore a male child called Isaac - a child of hope and a child of promise given to Abraham by God. The only son of promise was demanded of God to be sacrificed for Him.

This involved Abraham's three days and three nights journey to the place of sacrifice. The purpose was to put Abraham to a test to see if he would change his mind while on the journey, but Abraham was patient and steadfast.

When Abraham with his son finally arrived at the mountain, and every preparation for the sacrifice was ready, Isaac asked his father of the sacrificial lamb. Little did he know that it was his father's intention to make him the sacrificial lamb. As a reply to Isaac's question, Abraham according to one of our spiritual songs, told him that God would provide the sacrificial lamb for Himself.

But when Abraham prepared his offspring in the manner fit and was about to sacritice him, he heard a voice that dissuaded him from the act. The voice further told Abraham to turn to his right hand side of the bush where the sacrificial lamb was.

It was because Abraham passed all these examinations that he was called a friend of God. Who else on earth could pass these examinations?

Yet another examination came up when Abraham went to buy corn in Egypt, in the company of his beautiful wife Sarah. While on his journey, the Holy Spirit instructed him not to own up as Sarah's husband but as a brother, should he be encountered. Abraham was Sarah's half-brother by birth. Abraham passed the same instruction to his wife, Sarah, that if she was asked of her relationship with him, she should reply that he was her brother.

And I ask, which married sister of today would accept such an abrupt instruction without advocating for a desolution of the marriage there and then, out of suspicion?

God sees far and near, and thus He is ever right in His judgment. Whenever He gives any instruction, he knows the reason for such an instruction and it is for your benefit. As a matter of fact, immediately Abraham and his wife arrived at Egypt, king Pharaoh who was at his porch, was captivated by Sarah's beauty and he sent his soldiers to bring them to him.

Arriving before the king, Abraham was asked who Sarah was and the reply Abraham gave was that she was his sister. When Sarah was interviewed, she replied that Abraham was her brother. You will thereby realise that Abraham was examined in all spheres of life, even unto his wife. You here would rather die than live to see your wife being tampered with.

Did our Lord Jesus Christ not say that whosoever does not denounce his father, mother, brothers and sisters and even his own life is not fit to be His disciple? Abraham successfully scaled through all these examinations.

Pharaoh did not waste time than bid the bride price on behalf of Sarah; and according to their custom, so many gifts were given to Abraham besides an apartment well furnished was allocated to him.

Who among you would easily hand over your wife to another man for anything whatsoever, but with Abraham it was different, for he did not fume. He quietly went to the room allocated to him and slept in the name of an in-law. The same night, the Almighty God, the avenger and respecter of nobody, through an angel, went to Pharoah and warned him that he dared not touch Sarah because she was Abraham's wife. The angel further warned that if he touches Abraham's wife, he with his kingdom will be ruined.

That is why you are advised not to resist an evildoer. Whatever is done to you, keep calm and watch God's reaction. On the receipt of the warning, Pharoah feverishly went to Abraham and asked him why he could afford to do such evil. It was by then that Abraham confessed that Sarah was his wife.

King Pharaoh begged Abraham to plead with his God for forgiveness. Besides, Pharaoh gave Abraham all sorts of material things for atonement. Abraham retorted that if he had told him the truth, he could have been killed for the sake of a woman. To fulfil the promise of the Father that vengeance is His, did He not avenge for Abraham? Pharaoh would have thought and capitalized on the fact that Abraham had no person to intervene for him if God had not avenged. The same situation awaits all of us only if we are prepared to assimilate this sermon and adhere to it strictly. Leave vengeance to God for He shall not fail to repay for every evil done against you.

If Satan fights against satan, his kingdom cannot stand. Nobody can sufficiently revenge any evil done him or her. No matter what offence one has committed against you, leave vengeance unto God. It would be better to be taken to court than to be handed over to God for vengeance.

If you offend somebody and the person goes away saying nothing, go and plead with the person for forgiveness. If you believe from today that GOD is in existence and that whatever is done to you, he will not fail to avenge and pay you back equally when you do evil to another person, you shall cease to commit sins.

Many incidents have been enumerated to you in the Scriptures. Have you not seen incidents even more than these? Upon all the allegations, wild rumours and all other thingsthat people have levied on us, has anybody behaved other wise, or is there any expression of annoyance ?

Have you ever seen a person who does not bother to go to court or issue a press statement to redeem his battered reputation, rather he watches silently over every allegations? If we had gone the carnal way, by now, millions of cases would have been filed in the various courts.

Apart from the financial involvement of this venture, where would we have the time to serve God? If it were to be taken as a matter of warfare, where you kill and you are killed, what is the benefit? But, now that you have possessed that great mirror, the monarch of all the surveys, who does not fail in His promises, do you not see the state of the world today ?

I do not think there is any longer doubting Thomases who would fail to believe that God is in existence and that he is prepared to avenge any evil men do commit. Do you not remember the words pronounced by the Israelites that they have accepted the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ to be on them and their children? Have these words not fulfiled in them? All their untold sufferings even till date originated from these words.

When the Israelites successfully killed our Lord Jesus Christ and his disciples and the Apostles, after the elapse of seventy (70) years, the whole Nation of Israel was annihilated completely leaving only 90,000 persons. This remnant of 90,000 people who were left had to be scattered unto all the corners of the world for fear of conspiracy against the Government. Was that not the handiwork of God? It was only after the second world war that the committee of nations gathered and decided to send the refugees of remnants of Israelites to their country. Most of the inhabitants of the present Israel are refugees. In spite of all these situations, things are not still normal. There is war in their midst and around them every time.

All these sufferings are coming upon them because of their evil utterances and deeds. When you tend to console yourselves today that even the Israelites did persecute our Lord Jesus Christ and they still exist, remember that all these sufferings are coming upon them because of their evil utterances and deeds. Man has continued to be ignorant. Upon all that has happened to the Israelites people today still have a cause to say that after all, the Israelites did even more serious things and they are still existing.

Do not forget the words of the Scripture that whoever offends against the son of man shall be forgiven but whosoever blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven whether in this generation or in the generations to come.

Brethren, I do not want to be tedious with you. A stroke of the cane is sufficient for the wise. Those who have ears let them hear, may God bless His Holy words. Amen!

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