Brethren, can you notice that the marriage feast is now ready? Have you heard the words spoken by Our Lord Jesus Christ? The inhabitants of the world have known that the marriage feast is now ready, but where are they to partake of the feast? It has been prophesied, it has been given as vision, it has been carried on the air through the Radio, it has been televised, it has been sent out to all parts of the world as a circular letter. It has been published in the news of the newspaper intimating the whole world that the marriage feast is quite ready that people should come and partake of it. Who has heeded these various ways of advertisement. Where are they? Can you see how the house is empty?

You have only heard it as a story or read it from a book but a certain king who made a great feast, and then sent for those who were invited to report because the marriage feast is ready.

This is that feast. The first person who was invited, complained that he had bought 10 yoke of oxen and that he was going to prove them. He prayed that he should be excused. Another complained that he had bought a piece of land and that it was necessary that he should go to see the land. The third complained that he has newly married and that he was going to enjoy his honeymoon, and he should be excused, but God should bless them. (Matt 22:2-5 /Luke 14:16-20). Observe what is happening, look at the Hall, look at the marriage feast which has since been ready, who will eat the food?

If you do not eat this food to your satisfaction, how will you have

eternal life? Is it not the same statement made by our Lord Jesus Christ? Whosoever does not eat of my flesh and drink of my blood cannot have eternal life. (John 6:54). Do the people of the world understand that if they do not listen to these words and put them into practise, they will not have eternal life? You look for peace and joy and life as well as other things but you have bluntly refused and rejected the words of God. You want children, eternal life, money, and glory, but you all reject the word of God. Have you not heard the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ that those who seek to save their lives will lose them but those who lose their lives for My sake and the Gospel will save them. (Mark 8:35). Brethren, you will appreciate that but for the merciful kindness of God, the world would have been in a very pathetic situation.

If there were an announcement that money would be shared to people, and people should come for their share, the whole of this area would be so congested because of the number of people who would come for the money. If people were invited to come and know the way and means of paying their arrears of salaries, all civil servants and public servants who are being owed salaries and wages would have swarmed this area in order to collect money. If it were broadcast that people should come and listen to a device which has been formulated so that they would not be sick again, many people including the sick ones would turn up in large numbers that the whole of this city would not be able to accommodate people. If it is announced that people should come and hear what should be done to accumulate food for everybody so that there will be enough food for all and to set the impending famine at bay this area would not have been large enough to contain the number of people who would attend. I have one pertinent question to ask, whether the one who is in our midst is not by far greater than all these things.

The word of God which is delivered to you everyday has surpassed all those things. It is the only instrument of overcoming the whole world. Whatever you need derive it from the word of God. If you were to listen attentively to the first lesson, let no corrupt communications proceed out of your mouth, you would have re-arranged your thinking. As I have already told you, it is true that all the words of life you receive everyday are for your own benefit. That is why it is said: "let the words of the Christ dwell richly in your heart." (Col 3:16). That is to say the words of God should dwell richly in us. Because if we receive fully and whole-heartedly, these words, this will form the treasury from which we will always lay hands on any words we want to speak to people and obtain everlasting life. It is said that when the word of God dwells in our hearts we shall live (1 Pet 1:23). The word of God overcomes death, sickness, poverty. The word of God is wealth and the eternal life you quest for. It is both the spiritual and the carnal food. It is what Our Lord Jesus Christ told the Samaritan woman that he had a type of water which if any person drinks of it, he will never be thirsty again. (John 4:14). So brethren, the word of God is far more delicious than food. That is why astute musicians compose a song which say "There is something more than gold." That is to say, that the word of God is more than gold. That song is prophecy 'there is something more precious than gold', presupposes that there is something which is more precious than gold, than silver, than diamonds, more precious than man or any other phenomenon. What is it that is more precious than all these things? It is the WORD OF GOD.

If we were to allow the word of God to dwell richly in our heart and we begin to impart these inspiring words, which are food, clothes and other things, to others they would begin to bear fruits and we would not have problems. Observe that the word of God dwelt richly in our Lord Jesus Christ that was why he said let a certain thing happen, and it happened; and said again a certain thing should take place and it was so done.

If evil communications do not proceed out of your mouths, you can simply tell somebody from now on: "you are healthy, from now on you will swim in wealth, you are at this moment cleansed, you have food from now on", in fact all these will be duly manifested. If we receive these words of God whole-heartedly and dwell in them, keep them, not allowing evil communications to proceed out of our mouths, it means that we would not see what is evil and the whole world will be in peace. You can give money to somebody, that will not take away his exasperation. You can give money to someone but that cannot take away his doubts. Your money cannot cure his infirmities. To give money to somebody does not also give him joy and happiness. You can give a woman to an ardent murderer, that gift will not induce him not to murder again. It is only the word of God which can cast away fear, take death away, take away the act of murder and all other acts of vices. It will banish darkness from the whole world.

If you do not allow evil communications to proceed out of your mouth, but that the only words which proceed out of your mouth are the words of God, the prayer you offer will minister grace to hearers, the songs you sing will also minister grace to all hearers and these alone will maintain peace and tranquility in the whole world. "In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God." (John 1:1). What type of word was with God? It was the word of God. Everything emanated from the word of God and without it, there was nothing that was made. Every good thing comes from him and every evil thing comes from him. If God did not curse the serpent saying "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field, upon your belly shall you walk and dust you shall eat all the days of your life," (Gen 3:14) it would not have happened to the serpent. Again if God had not told Eve that she will remain in perpetual control under the man and that he will greatly multiply her sorrow and her conception, in sorrow she would bring forth children, it would not have been so. If he had not told the man that since he came from the sand, that sand will return to sand, dust to dust and earth to earth, there would have been no death. If he had not told Adam that he would suffer untold difficulties before he could eke out a living, the soil was cursed because of him, in sorrow he would eat of it all the days of his life (Gen 3:17), in the sweat of his face shall he eat bread till he returns unto the ground, man would not have suffered. Can you see the efficacy of the word?

On the other hand, have you heard what God has said? He has told man "go and be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth." (Gen 1:28). Do you not realize the fulfillment of that statement? Only two persons first settled and through the words of God they have multiplied, the population of the world has hit the explosion mark. Therefore, no matter what you do, since that pronouncement has not been withdrawn, there will still continue to be maintained the multiplicity of people in the world.

What has saved man is the statement He has made that man should have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the birds of the air and over the cattle. (Gen 1:28). This again is being manifested. No matter how stupid a man is, he rules over all animals. When a lion sees you it will run away, if an elephant sees you, she will run away to hide and so will the hippopotamus and crocodile. Good and evil derive from the word. Death and life emanate from the word. Wealth and poverty derive from the word. Warfare and peace emanate from the word; glory and disgrace emanate from the word also. Eternal life and death also emanate from the word. Within your body is found evil words and also good utterances. "Woe unto you" spells evil not only on you but also on the world. "Blessed be thou" spells blessedness not only on your person but also on others and the entire world. All the good things in the world emanate from good utterances. Similarly all the evil things we see in the world emanate from the evil utterances from your mouth. If the few people hearing this gospel believe in it and begin to utter good words, it will not be up to two weeks before the tables will be turned, and the position of things will be re-ordered.

A local adage has it that thoughts are swifter than the legs, and that the legs move according to plan, but the word travels swifter than thoughts. Even as the gospel is being delivered now the words have gone very far. Since the declaration is made from high heaven, these words have reached water, the Hades, the hills and all over the world, the air, dry land, the sun, moon, stars and the planets. The word is both the father and the mother. It is the son, it is Satan, it is God.

Do you not remember that our Lord Jesus Christ spoke and raised the dead, the blind saw, the lame walked. At another instance he spoke the word and the fig tree withered away and died instantaneously. (Matt 21:19). He had said to the fig tree: "from today no man will eat of your fruits." But if instead of that, He had said: from that moment it would bear fruit, the fig tree would have continued to bear fruit.

After Adam and Eve had eaten of the forbidden fruits, if God had blessed them that they would not die, instead of cursing them, they would have had no problems. They would have been prosperous, and man would not have had any problems. Our only saving grace is that God created the first day and said that everything was good. He made the next day and blessed it and saw that it was good. (Gen 1:10). He made another day and also blessed it instead of cursing it. He also saw that it was good. (Gen 1:31). Can you not see how the world is full of the blessedness of God? Without this word of blessedness, the world would have perished.

People always ask why the Leader does not go out, or go from place to place? He is always stationary. What else is He going to do? What type of work does the leg do? Where can the leg go to? People say, they want to go out in order to look for money. How do you look for money? From where can you take it? Is it found in water or in the air or on dry land? When you say you want to look for wisdom, from where can you acquire wisdom? You want to acquire power. From where can you acquire power? I want you to listen carefully to the gospel of today, because it contains the real, deep and recondite wisdom of God, which if you imbibe it today, you are saved, and redeemed. When I look at you, I am filled with pity for you on how you misuse yourselves whereas the flesh avails nothing, it is only the Spirit that quickens.

What is this Spirit? It is the word of God. What else do you want? Do you want peace? Then say: "let there be peace in the whole world," and there will be peace. Do you want wealth and prosperity? Then say: "let there flow wealth and prosperity like honey throughout the whole world." It will surely flow. Do you want power? Simply say: "I have bestowed power on all of you," and within a jiffy, power will be bestowed upon all of them. You wish that there should be no death, simply say you have taken death away, and that you have given them eternal life, and they will be duly bestowed with eternal life. The moment you utter good words, then they start to operate, you can even go to lie down to sleep.

Who is he who can cause to exist that which did not exist, and to cause to disappear that which had existed from time immemorial? Who is that? Is it not the word? Re-examine the first lesson read to you: Let no corrupt communications proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Because by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned. Evil communications spell evil things into the world, good communications shower good things into the world.

It does not serve any useful purpose to go to Lagos or London. Remain where you are because there is London and Lagos and New York and New Delhi and Accra, and Monrovia, and Freetown and Yaunde. Where you are is also heaven, it is hell, it is every place; but only speak the word and everything is manifested.

Why are you eluded by this knowledge? In the beginning there was nothing in existence but the Father employed the word and everything was created. At this end of time the Father has also used the word to bless every creation because this is the era of the word. That is why you are enjoined everyday that no corrupt communications should proceed out of your mouth. Are your eyes not clear now? If you no longer utter evil words but only good and seasoned words, only good things will he manifested. Life is under the word. Death, man and everything in heaven and on earth are under the control of the word. The word is God. It is the Christ. It is also the Spirit. The word is the Father, it is the Son and it is the Holy Spirit. Light derives from the Son and it is the Holy Spirit. Light derives from the word, rain emanates from the word, land emanates from the word, life and all other things have their origin from the word of God. Minus the word there is nothing made that was made.

You are asking how you will refrain from sin. There is no other way. But from today immediately you speak the word that from today you will not commit any sin and that there is nothing sinful, only good things will rule your years and everywhere. In fact the impact of your words will vibrate in you and will shake off all vestiges of sin from you. From now on speak only good words. Even if you utter but one word, do not speak much; and once it falls on the ground,(Matt 21:44) it will break mighty stones, and when it rises it accomplishes its will, and all your utterances will all be manifested. Notice that the efficacy of the word is reserved for you. It has eluded the whites. It has eluded the blacks and the inhabitants of the whole world; otherwise no person would have uttered evil words.

That is why the Scriptures say, in many things we offend all, if any man offends not in word, the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body. (James 3:2). If you have discovered any loophole in your ways or your behavior, that loophole was responsible for your evil communications. You have to bridge that gap so that you may not have the slip of the tongue again. Pray that God should give you the ability to love every man. Even though you forget about it, the pronouncement will be manifested. Do you know that from your childhood, and for generations upon generations, all you uttered came into manifestation and even now all of your communications are being made manifest because by your words you are justified and by your words you are condemned. These words which proceed out of your mouth will be fulfilled whether you plead or not, fast or pray, they will be manifested.

When you request the Father to make it possible for you to love every person you begin to show the expression of love on every person; and people are coming to you. But suddenly you change your mind and argue that it is getting out of hand and you would not want to continue with the situation. When you say you would not want to love every person but only some, you have forgotten, and this later pronouncement will supersede the first. It will take a very brief turn when you will not be able to love every person.

Instead of uttering one evil sentence, let us keep mute for one year. Any word that proceeds out of your mouth should be seasoned with salt such that it is good to the use of edifying and will minister grace unto hearers. That is why the Scriptures have warned that every person should be swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrath. (James 1:19). What will protect us is that if we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger, no evil communications will proceed out of your mouth. If from now, we do not allow evil communications to proceed out of our mouth, but only good utterances, we are then perfect, and the world will also be perfect.

But what has pleased me, and why I thank God, is that the word is a two-edged sword. (Heb 4:12). He can do something and can also stop that very thing. He can cause anything that is not in existence to exist and can also cause that which is in existence to disappear. That is to say, if from now on you begin to reverse the order of your words, instead of cursing and abusing, you rather pray that God should make you love every person, the words will begin to be manifested because both love and blessing will be showered on the inhabitants of the world. The vibration of your newly ordered objective will create an impressive import and all men will begin to see good days.

Neither the hands nor the legs nor the eyes can do anything, it is only the word which is responsible for everything in heaven and on earth. That is the method adopted by Our Lord Jesus Christ to train you to become masters of your own self so that you can control your tongue by only uttering good words and practising what you speak. The moment you know how to manipulate the word, it is possible for you to lie on your bed and say certain things to be done, and they are done accordingly. If you offer a similar prayer offered by David that God should wage war against those who fight against you, it means you have perished. Warfare will set in because the word is a boomerang, when it goes forward, it then comes back to strike the sender. Brethren I do not want to overload you, the first lesson will now be read.

"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."

Can you see the reason that such a statement is made? If you utter evil words, they will work evil also, for it is said by your words you are justified, the good words you utter will be beneficial to all, and your evil utterances also will work evil on all. When you say that you hate that man, and you pray that God should kill him and the citizens residing along the street should be impoverished and killed, what is it that you have done? The vibration of your pronouncements has started. Will it ever exclude you, or exempt you? Since it is a boomerang, the wretchedness will begin with you. When you pray that God should kill thieves and necromancers, they all have heard your prayer. Will they allow you to pass along the street? Since you want them to die they will conspire and kill you first. Can you tell me that even as we are here that you can preach against all fornicators and that all fornicators will be wretched and die and you feel that when you dismount the altar, they can give you water to drink? Why do you not reverse the order of your prayer that God should bless them and change them and take away the sex instinct from them? That God should remove that spirit of fornication from them and make every person to live peaceably with all men, and that all should know and worship God. Why do you not reason with them and show them that it spells doom on any person who persists in fornication and that people should abstain from fornication because it is not a good habit, and that if they refrain from fornication, they will be blessed by God and that they will be wealthy?

Right from this moment, the wordings of the song you sing should minister grace to hearers, and change them, give them peace, faith, joy and wealth. The prayers you offer should be such that, they minister grace to the hearers and such that the sick, the afflicted, the poor, the evil one who hears you, obtain peace, and the 'Amen' they respond during your prayers will take away all their problems and difficulties. The testimonies you give, should be such that will bring in growth, progress, peace, joy, happiness and faith to the hearers so that they grow in knowledge and wisdom of God. The words you preach, should minister grace, such that the words will permeate the flesh, the bones, the blood stream, the joints and marrow of a thief who hears, and completely change him. The fornicators, the necromancers, the poor and all others who hear, even those who confess that God does not exist, when they hear, the word will begin to work on them and change them, and surely they will begin to walk circumspectly.

If you have been contemplating that there is any other thing that can save man apart from good utterances, apart from the words of God, I will tell you that there is no other thing. The Scriptures have it that good utterances take away quarrelling but evil utterances inflame it. When you read the first verse of the fifteenth chapter of the Proverbs, you will see that "A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." (Prov 15:1) There is a way you can speak to somebody, if you make good choice of words seasoned with salt, sweet flattery words, even if he has already resolved to cause confusion and kill you by taking up the sword, or gun or any other fighting implements, he will be so disillusioned and benumbed that he will feel as if cold water has been poured on him and he will regain his consciousness and embrace you and ask for food. But evil utterances do more harm than good. Evil words like, "what can you do to me? Why not go to court? A stupid person, I have no time to bandy words with you." All of these will incite the person you are talking to, to take up arms against you, and fighting will ensue. Somebody else who listens to such utterances will not only incite but also sponsor, the person you talk to, with money to take action against you. And you have plunged yourself into a big trouble and that is why the Scriptures warn that you should not let evil communications proceed out of your mouth. I am now in high heaven pleading with you and all the inhabitants of the world that no corrupt communication should proceed out of your mouth.

You are aware that John the Baptist bears eloquent testimony about Our Lord Jesus Christ that he who is before me and who will come will baptize with fire and the Holy Spirit. (Matt 3:11). What do you mean by this? He spoke, and some disciples followed Him,(Matt 4:18-22). Is that not the spirit? When he spoke again, a great deal of them withdrew. (John 6:65-67). Is that not fire? He spoke and the fig tree withered and died,(Matt 21:19). Is that not fire? He spoke again and raised the dead. (Mark 5:41). Is that not the Spirit? A local adage has it that good words are in the mouth of a parrot but evil words are allowed to proceed first. I am now pleading with the inhabitants of the world that they should let no corrupt utterances proceed out of their mouths. Such evil utterances should be put in the confines of a room as this is not the era of evil utterances. But let good communications now proceed and do the work because this is the fullness of time.

All your problems are attributable to evil words that proceed out of your mouth. By a local adage, you are aware that the mouth of a monkey kills the monkey. All of you speak adversely against yourself. You complain that your family does not love you, your father does not love you, the students do not like you. All these are due to evil words proceeding out of your mouth. No good utterances ever proceed from your mouth.

If you watch how you always speak, it will appear that you have never listened to the words of God. Sometimes you say if somebody does a certain thing to you, you will set God aside and deal with him drastically and also speak to him in the language he understands. You will boast that since people always know you, you are going to set the place ablaze, if somebody appeals to you, you say, you are going to kill him. When you speak in this way, where is the word of love, word of peace, word of joy, the word that is capable of ministering grace to people. A woman in the house rises up and shouts calling on witchcraft, juju, mermaid and apparition and alleging that people are killing her, that the husband's family will be poor, and the husband will reply on the other side at the top of his voice cursing the wife's family. The children come out and join the chorus started by the parents. Is that sort of affair not what sparks trouble? All the words you have spoken will move forward and return to be manifested. All the evil utterances you plant will germinate and grow and bear fruits.

Do you think when you challenge somebody that you will harm him, that he will forget it and go to sleep, even if you do not harm him. He will not rest until he has seriously harmed you. Do you think that the person you call a poor man, and that he will never prosper till he dies, that you are better off than he is, that he is worth nothing, will take it kindly and go to sleep? You are true witnesses to all that transpire in this New Kingdom of God. There is no evil communication which is uttered from January first to December 31st every year. It is what I have, and know and bring to you, because I use good utterances to deal with the world. It is the good word that is used to change you. Not evil communication, but sweet words seasoned with salt such that they could minister grace to hearers.

All churches are one. All the inhabitants of the world are but one. All exist in love, and God dwells in us and His grace is sufficient unto all. God blesses all and changes all evildoers because at this end of time, He has come to put everything in order. Since He created everything with the word, He has also come to use the word in arranging everything in its ship shape order according to his divine plan. There is nothing evil.

When you read the Revelation of John the Divine, you will discover that the same tree of life that caused Adam to be expelled, is found on either side of the river in the midst of the street of it, which bore twelve manners of fruits and yielded her fruits every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of nations. (Rev 22:2). That same tree of life which Adam by transgression fell, has been given to all inhabitants of the world. It is said, death and Hades are thrown into fire. (Rev 20:14). The first heaven and first earth have passed away and there was no more sea. The Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. The tabernacle of God is with men and He shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God Himself shall be with them and be their God. (Rev 21:1-3). Have you heard how the story is invigorating and inspiring because the old story has now passed away but now we are in a new world of blessedness.

You who argue that whether you do good or bad, you will die, have you never read the portion which says that there will be no more death. Do you read Revelation 21? The same passage tells us that God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away and everything is made new. (Rev 21:4-5).

It is said and they shall see His face and there shall be no night there, because the leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:2). This means that there will be no sickness, there will be no problem. That tree of life which Adam and Eve by transgression ate and fell is now being eaten for eternal life. That tree of life, is it not the word of life? Is it not the eternal life given to you? Can you observe that all of you are swimming the ocean of health, your faces shining? Assemble all the Gospels preached in this Kingdom from day to day. Examine all. Browse through. See if you will come across any evil communication, any words of curse, any deceitful words. They are all words of inspiration. When you read one you will repent, and you will be converted. When you read any of the published gospels, your heart will be filled with joy. If you were a thief and you read them, and you discover that you are referred to as a child of God, you will fall on the ground thanking God, for the Father is doing the work. The second lesson will now be read.

Brethren, have you heard what is read to you? If we let the words of grace, words of love and words of faith dwell richly in our heart and we teach others, sing and dance in all ways possible, we would not have problems.

What has righteousness said? It says, the word is nigh thee, even in your mouth, and in your heart, that is, the word of faith which we preach. Say not in your heart, who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Christ down from above, or who shall descend into the deep, that is to bring up Christ again from the dead. And righteousness says, the word is nigh you even in your mouth, and in your heart, that is the word of faith. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God had raised Him from the dead you will be saved. (Rom 10:6-9).

Why not always come here to listen to these words of grace, peace, redemption, salvation, the word of God, the everlasting word. When you listen and hear, you have peace and life. Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves, servants to obey? His servants you are to whom you obey whether of sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness? There is no other way of salvation apart from your coming here everyday to listen to and assimilate the word of God. No matter your disposition in life whether you are a murderer, a fornicator, a thief or how sinful you may be, even if you go about with human heads as a cannibal just come in, sit down and listen to the word of God. Do not think about any other thing because, the moment you hear, the words begin to work. The word will divest you of all your sinful acts, will cleanse you and remold you, fashioning you into the Lord's glorious body.

It is said, when the word of God falls on the ground it breaks mighty stones. When it falls on the ground of your heart it will shake the very foundation of the walls of your heart and all shaky thoughts will be scattered. It will permeate the bones, the blood stream, the flesh, the joint and the marrow, the heart and the body and will change and overturn you. Whatever you profess to be, just come and remain with me for one day and when I impart only one gospel to you, see if you will not be converted. Whatever is your station in life, collect one of the pamphlets containing the gospel and read the contents, then you can sleep, and the words you have read will commence a very good work.

In order that good communications may proceed out of your mouth, you should let the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ dwell richly in you, always spending time to listen to the gospel, what you have received are completely planted in you, there will proceed out of your mouth, only good words seasoned with salt.

You have heard the injunction of Our Lord Jesus Christ that you should teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing with grace in your hearts to God. (Col 3:16). Psalm is the word of God, hymn is the word of God and the spiritual song is also the word of God. These are always required, when you have them you have everything. Consider yourselves here, a great many of you, it is the melodious songs and music that has driven into you the inspiration and your life is thus preserved. This fact can be confirmed by the Christ Students' Choirmaster-general that when a melodious song is tuned, his fellow Christ students will so be inspired that they will be off their heads and it would appear they are quite in another world. Even the interpreter was a choirmaster in those dark days. Even today when he sings the bass you will not fail to wink your eye, move your lips and nod your head in admiration. That is why the Scriptures direct that you should teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Sing the spiritual songs given to you which are now being tuned in your ears, the psalms and hymns from your hymn book, do not sing Obon or Ekpo or folklores or cultural and traditional songs.

Do no other thing except singing the praise of God, because the psalms are words of God, the hymn book is a compilation of the words of God from Genesis to the Revelation, and God's given spiritual songs. The word of God should always proceed out of your mouth, do not talk about any other thing except the Word of God, the word of Love, word of mercy, word of truth, word of humility, word of faith, word of hope, and word of peace. If we sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs always, then evil communications will not proceed out of our mouths and will shower glory and minister grace onto the hearers.

The moment you deviate from singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs but sing folklore, cultural and traditional songs trouble and confusions will set in. Because all folklore are mere insinuations and self praises which will be at cross purposes with the neighboring village, how you have been enslaving them and exacting dues from them. If the citizens of the neighboring village hear such a song, war will ensue.

What caused the war between David and Saul was that the women were singing in praise of David that Saul killed 1000 men but David killed 10,000 men. (1 Sam 18:7). When Saul listened to the song, he started thinking whether David will usurp his position as the rightful king, and so the war between them started. If you attend native plays, folklore, traditional songs, you will notice that the songs are delivered in praise of people, sometimes they ridicule, praise, rebuke, disgrace, exalt, abase, exhort, abuse or curse. When evil spirits listen to such songs they will go there and confusion, as it were, will set in. When you sing hymns and psalms and spiritual songs, the angels will listen as well as the heavenly host and so will usher in peace, grace and joy to the whole world, in addition to doing this assignment, these songs change us on to God. I will begin to assess and reassess all the songs composed in Brotherhood. Any of the songs which does not minister grace and redemption to hearers, will be expunged from the hymn book.

The Father has written you several letters, even if you have received one, I would love that you review such a letter and re-examine the contents because most of you put such letters under your pillows. But you have written that you are being bewitched by wizards, and juju, and apparition, and mermaid, how people hate you, as you are becoming poorer and poorer everyday. But a single reply sent by the Father is more than a soothing balm, just look at it, you will be satisfied as if cold water were poured on your head and you will not fail to kneel down to thank God with broad smiles. People carry it in their pockets others in the pigeon hole of their cars because of its significance. The golden text will now be read. Can you hear the Wedding Feast prepared for you which the world has rejected. But for the fact that God is wiser than man to have kept this Tape Recorder and cassette to record the Father's gospel which will be transcribed, typed and duplicated before they are circulated to all parts of the world; so that even if you are in your house, it will be disseminated to you and the inhabitants of the entire world. Wherever you are, you are receiving this gospel and you are also partaking in the feast.

Can you see why it is advised that you should not let evil communication proceed out of your mouth? If you speak evil, evil will befall you. It means you are an evildoer, a murderer, a thief, Satan and a trouble maker, and trouble will beset you. Conversely, if you speak what is good, it means you are god, the son of God and the Holy Spirit, a child of peace, a child of love, an honest person who brings about peace in the whole world. You are, therefore, justified. All those who listen to your words will obtain peace and life. There is no other thing which will have us justified, and as long as we do not allow evil communications to proceed from our mouth we stand justified.

What are the fruits of the Tree? They are the words which proceed out of your mouths. You have heard of the parable of the tares where somebody sowed good seeds in his field and at night while men slept the evil one went and sowed bad seeds, seeds of tares. (Matt 13:25). Who sows good seeds? He it is who speaks good words. Who sows bad seeds? It is he who utters evil words; woe unto you, the word about witchcraft, mermaid, apparition and such words as, "God will punish him." These are the type of words which work trouble in the world. Notice why we should not speak evil words because all the evil words we speak will react on us. That is why we have to speak good words because these good words bring peace, goodness and prosperity to us, not to us only but also to fishes in water, animals in the field, birds in the air and to all the creations of God, and we shall forever remain in perfect peace. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ has passed through the mouth of Paul to say, "if you bestow all your goods to feed the poor and give your body to be burnt but you allow evil communication to proceed out of your mouth, it will not profit you anything." (1 Cor 13:3).

Salvation which the world looks for cannot be got from any other thing; but it emanates from the good utterances we make, word of love, word of peace, word of truth, word of mercy, word of faith and word of happiness. What will bring about peace in the governments of the world? What will bring about prosperity in the governments and the entire world apart from the word of peace, truth, mercy, grace, belief which is preached? What will usher in joy into the world? For both young and old, it is this same word of love, truth, faith, righteousness, humility and good words of God. If you see somebody approaching you weeping and crying, and you order him to wipe away his tears for God had blessed him, he will ask you how God has blessed him whereas his child is dead. Tell him to forget it, that he was very lucky and that God has blessed him, and that he should observe how his face was shining as if he were anointed with new oil. Ask him if he knows the grace God has been kept in store for him. He will wipe his tears and cheer up.

Do you remember that man who went to our Lord Jesus Christ and told him to bid his brother to divide the father's inheritance with him. (Luke 12:13) What did Our Lord Jesus Christ tell him? He preached to him the words of God saying: "man, who made me a judge and a divider over you?" And warned him to beware of all manner of covetousness because a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the wealth he possesses. It was there and then that he gave the parable of the rich fool. The man who boasted of his wealth and what happened to him that night. (Luke 12:20). After giving the parable the man who wanted the share of his father's inheritance died. God said this night will your life be extracted from you, to whom will the wealth belong?

With what can you bring about peace in the world? It is with the word of God. Who is the word of God? He is our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only model the whole world should emulate because God has set him as a model for others to learn from. He is both the beginning and the end of the word of God. What has happened to you which did not happen to our Lord Jesus Christ? He says if the world hates you, it first hated me before it hated you. (John 15:18). If you are called a mad man then refer to the passage which addressed Our Lord Jesus Christ as a mad man (John 10:20). Are you different from him? Even the Christ was called a demented fellow and you will at once cheer up and become well again. If you are called 'Ekpinon' he was first called Beelzebub, and so whatever name you are given, you should take consolation in the fact that Our Lord Jesus Christ was first called names. Notice the word of God.

A great many people always ask why a man of God should die, and why he should be imprisoned, and why he should be sick. If he is not sick, if he does not go to prison, if he does not die, what will you preach to induce people to believe in God? Whatever you preach, you preach yourself. These are man's frailties and if you do not pass through these things what will you preach when somebody dies? If thieves have never stolen your property, what will you preach when you have reports that thieves have stolen another person's property. If you want to preach, they will tell you to shut up, whether you have ever lost your property.

Can you observe that all that took place in the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Job have formed the foundation stone for the children of God? Such events are used in adorning us. Now, whenever something happens to somebody, you tell him do you not remember the stories of Job? When you preach the story of Job to him even if five of his relations die, he will cheer up and ask for food. When you pray that God should take away death, sickness and temptation, when He takes these away, what are you going to preach. I thank God because we have started from the zero.

Remember when the children of God went to see God, Satan also went to see him. God said unto Satan what do you want? Satan told God you are my father and I come to see you as other children of yours have come. God asked him whence comest you? He said from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it. God told him, have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil? Satan answered, what a wonderful story? Does Job fear God for nought? Notice why I thank God that we start with a zero, because when you begin from the bottom you meet no other hurdle to scale through. The situation with Job was that he had already been elevated.

Satan told God, have you not made an hedge about him, and about is house, and about all that he had on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth your hand now and touch all that he had and he will curse you to your face and deny you. Can you see from whence temptation besets man? Can you consider the position of God? The word of God says, "let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth." God at that instant stretched forth his hands and said to Satan; "behold all that he had is in your power, but do not tamper with his life." Can you observe how Satan has tempted God? God had preserved the life of Job with Himself. See why you are advised not to allow evil communications to proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers. (Eph 4:29). God had surrendered all the property of Job to Satan but decreed that nothing should harm his life. Nothing affected his life. What said Job? No evil words came out of his mouth.

When all these things happened to Job, he knelt down and prayed to God, "Naked did I come into the world and naked will I return. I did not bring anything into the world neither will I depart with anything." (Job 1:21). He thanked the Father, "you gave and took away." His wife pressured him to deny his God but he replied that God has never made a mistake and instead of cursing his God he would rather curse the month his mother conceived him and the day he was born. Has the sterling example of Job not become a good foundation for us? Is the Christ not the Job? He had ten children, three female and seven male but they were not obedient and submissive to their father. Are you not surprised? At his old age, God gave him 10 prominent children; gave him wealth and prosperity a hundred fold. God wanted to use the incident to manifest his own glory.

Faith does not consist in God giving you motor car or a ship or any other thing. There are other works of faith greater than the possession of mundane things. If somebody has five children, and one of them dies, there is a gospel fitting for that occasion. (Man Is Spirit and Cannot Die; Mystery of Propagation; Mystery of Death). If fire breaks into somebody's house and consumes all his property but no person is burnt, there is also a fitting gospel you can preach. (Before God Nothing Is Evil; Temptation Is A Necessary Divine Factor). Do not let evil communications proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister peace, faith and grace unto the hearers. (Eph 4:29).

A great many of you profess to preach the word of God. What do you preach? You do not know the problems and difficulties of people, you do not understand what happens and you are blind not seeing the way but you argue you are going to preach. The word of God is not in your heart, you do not listen to the word of God, you have not assimilated and you have not believed in the words of God. What then are you going to preach?

If you come across somebody who complains to you that he has pains in the eye, he has not slept since the past night, you will attribute the cause to witchcraft, that you had suffered from that sort of pain, that prayer will not heal it but that there is a certain man somewhere, who can cure it. Is it not what you preach?

After giving vision, you pray and do all you have been doing, and it is not effective, and you complain that there is something diabolical about it, and that you should find your own way because you have never failed after giving prayer and anointing with oil. You will attribute the cause to witchcraft. Is that not the gospel you preach to people?

The first gospel is blessed. The last gospel is blessed. Do not allow this word to depart from you. Always say, "it is well," and all will be well with you.

Remember those two thieves on the cross with our Lord Jesus Christ, remember me when you will go into your paradise and Our Lord Jesus Christ told him "today thou shalt be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43). So brethren, I do not intend to be tedious unto you, one stroke of the cane is sufficient unto the wise. Those who have ears let them hear. May God bless His Holy Words. Amen.

REFERENCE: Everlasting Gospel Delivered by The Sole Spiritual Head Of The Universe,

Leader Olumba Olumba Obu on:- "THE WORD JUSTIFIES AND ALSO CONDEMNS" From: THE REVELATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Pages: 1-32.