The Sermon - Miracles, Signs and Wonders
THE SERMON LIKE THE LORD’S
No greater sermon than the Lord’s!
A message from Uju a servant of Christ Jesus by the grace of God through Christ Jesus, according to the word in the scripture,
2. To the WORLD; glory and honor be unto LORD God Almighty and Christ Jesus our Lord savior forever and ever. Amen.
3. According to Amos 7.14-15:
“Then Amos answered Amaziah, I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, “Go prophesy to my people Israel.”
4. So am I, Uju, a worker of art by trade; the word of God, the Spirit of God, in the name of Christ Jesus appeared to me in a flame of fire from the scripture; and I immediately prophesied saying, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand” to people of the world.
5. I am no pastor, evangelist, prophet nor an apostle, but by the grace and mercy of God the father of Christ Jesus, I am writing this message to the WORLD according to the scripture.
Miracles, Signs and Wonders
BENEFITS AND CONSEQUENCES
1. From the beginning God has manifested himself in the lives of his called and chosen ones – the prophets, and to the lives of his people besides the prophets to this day.
2. God has never hidden his presence to his people above and beyond his creation which is a clear evidence of his everlasting existence.
3. God’s creation: the skies, firmaments, stars, lands, seas, winds, mountains, trees of the forest, animals, spirit beings, human beings……etc., all point to his eternal nature such that no one can denial his existence.
4. God is spirit, and these physical things are evidences of his spiritual nature justifying his omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent being.
5. Besides his physical creation perceived with our physical senses as human beings, God manifestation of his spiritual being to man is as miracles, signs and wonders – spiritual properties of eternal being. The presence of God to man is a marvel, because it defies the natural order of physical creation.
6. Consequently, man must be in an elevated state or in spirit to behold the presence of God to him being in a physical state. No physical state of man can host the presence of God: God is spirit, and thus appears in spiritual state to the physical.
7. The physical hosting of the presence of God must be in also in a spiritual state. This is the reason all men hosting the presence of God must be in spirit, and more or less become spirit themselves to witness the presence of God or receive his revelation.
8. One remarkable spiritual state of man in hosting the revelation of Christ Jesus is Apostle John in the event of the Revelation as in the scripture. John like other men of spirit was in the spirit to see the Lord.
9. This spiritual state of physical men or mortal being is experienced by all the prophets of God in hosting his presence. Men not in the spirit who probably might be together with these men experiencing the spiritual presence of God don’t see anything; they may hear wonderous changes as to the strange behavior of the one hosting the spiritual presence of God.
10. If you go through the bible, from Genesis to Revelation, all the people that witnessed the spiritual presence of God were all in the spirit; they were in an elevated state. God is a spirit, and thus appears in a marvelous way to man and physical nature. Even the physical nature is impacted miraculously by his spiritual presence. The physical nature most times changes automatically to the presence of God.
11. God will put you in the spirit first to host him. It is not your will to host God. No!
12. You cannot command God to appear to you. Never! You are mere mortal; and never know the ways of God or can fathom his mind or can take decision for him.
13. God’s presence to man is at his divine mercy. It takes his divine purpose to interpose in your life. The interposition of God in a man’s life is for a divine determination, going by his divine choice to use you for a divine course of life. Therefore, you must be chosen and called, even before the foundation of the world, suggesting that it is not your own making; not by the works of the law, or by the righteousness of man or by your power or will, but rather by his mercy.
14. No man is holy before God; for your righteousness is like a filthy rag to him. His choice to use you for a divine purpose is therefore by his divine discretion; not because you are serving at his altar as a minister. No! After all most people God used for a divine course never had anything to do with the service at the altar.
15. Thus, God watches the heart of man before he delegates a divine duty to him, regardless of human religion, descent and distinction.
16. So, all these so-called ministers of Christian religion parading themselves that God spoke, revealed, appeared, sent them are blatant liars; they are all deceits. If God appears to you, you may not have the mouth to speak thus, unless by his command, for the intent and purpose is divine, and at his delegation and directives, and not yours.
17. If you speak or act when is not from God, must definitely not come to pass, and often times leads to destruction.
18. It takes a lot from God on you to be called and chosen and be sent on a divine mission, or his presence appearing to you at any given time and season. Just as is written in Col. 2:8,
“See to it no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.”
“Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grow with a growth that is from God.” Col.2:18-19.
19. It is certain so many so-called men of God of Christian religion speak and act on their own selfishness; empty deceit, puffed up by their deprived minds and vain visions, which come from Satan, their father.
20. If God works with them, the humility they will express will be noteworthy; and not the pomposity and grandiosity they display because is not from God, rather from their father, Satan the Devil.
21. God’s presence in your life will obviously humble you, because you have seen it all.
22. Deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as children of light. Their end will correspond to their evil deeds.
Miracles, Signs and Wonders
GIVER, MEDIUM AND RECEIVER
1. Every miracle, sign, and wonder have a source. It obviously comes from somewhere. Some are fake, while some are real.
2. The source is the giver.
3. The medium is the passage or the conductor.
4. The receiver is one upon which is delivered.
5. The sources of miracles, signs, and wonders could be God, Satan, or man himself.
6. The medium or conductor could be man or other physical nature – animals, trees, mountains, skies, winds, seas………etc. Miracles, signs, and wonders could be administered not necessarily by man but by the physical nature of creation, just like the burning bush to Moses; the donkey speaking to Balaam; God answering by fire to prophet Elijah.
7. Therefore, miracles, signs, and wonders are not consequent upon the medium or the conductor, unless the source is by himself, which means absolute deceit.
8. The receivers of miracles, signs, and wonders are not limited to man. Other physical nature – animals, trees, mountains, skies, winds, seas…………. etc., can be impacted by it. The fig tree cursed by the Lord took an immediate effect on it, the same when the Lord rebuked the storm, and when also the Lord walked on the sea without sinking. Miracles, signs, and wonders, more especially the ones that come from God, affect every of his creation, positively or negatively. They have benefits and as well as consequences on both the conductors and the receivers. Recall the event of the sons of Sceva in Acts.9:11-20.
9. Remember that miracles, signs, and wonders are not the features of righteousness or holiness of man unto salvation. No, it is not! You can perform all the miracles, signs, and wonders and still go to hell fire. Because miracles, signs, and wonders must cease, and sometimes imperfect, and hence destructive. They do not reflect the righteousness of man or his love of God and mankind. They are just mere gifts if they come from God, which can be abused.
10. The love of God and man through faith in Christ Jesus is the only thing that will justify you by grace before the Lord. This is as testified by the Holy Spirit in 1Cor.13:1-3,
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
11. Consequently, the scripture says in 1Cor.13:13,
“So, faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
12. So, what is love? According to the scripture in 1Cor.13:4-11
“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For knowledge is imperfect, and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.”
Miracles, Signs and Wonders
FROM GOD
13. From the beginning God has out of love manifested himself to his creation, signifying his presence in their lives. This manifestation comes in miracles, signs, and wonders, and in marvelous forms surpassing the natural order of physical creation.
14. God cannot hide his presence to his creation, and therefore appears to them in awe-inspiring formations.
15. God is spirit, and thus appears in spiritual forms to his creation. Consequently, you must be in spirit for God to host his presence to you.
16. No man living can see God physically without dying; therefore, God must first put you in spirit to witness his presence to you. Moses appealed to see God physically, but it wasn’t possible, which could have led to his death. God, in his infinite mercy, covered him and passed by him to see His shadow; for no man living would see God physically.
17. From the beginning, God has used appointed men and women to carry out his holy activities to the world, and as such appears sometimes to them lifting them up in a spiritual state to host his presence to them.
18. Such spiritual appearances to them are in a spiritual manner signifying miracles, signs, and wonders, and divine dreams and visions.
19. God, in miracles, signs, and wonders, bears witness to his sent faithful servants in situations that are of utmost spiritual importance. Notable in this respect were Moses Vs Pharaoh, Prophet Elijah and the prophets of Baal in the reign of King Ahab, Apostles Peter and John and the lame man at the gate of the temple………etc.
20. In terms of dreams and visions, God has appeared to many of his designated messengers pointing to such men like Joseph, Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Joseph the husband of Mary the mother of the Lord, Apostle John in the Revelation……etc.
21. In such spiritual manifestations to these holy men and women, God most times gives them signs ahead validating and authenticating that he is behind it and must surely come to pass.
22. The Spirit of God is actively involved in these spiritual manifestations through Christ Jesus, both in the old and the new dispensations.
23. It is the absolute will of God to bear witness to his sent faithful servants, and not by their will. Sometimes these holy servants of God are never prepared to host his presence, but eventually oblige by the merciful assistance of God.
24. God’s manifestations in miracles, signs, and wonders and dreams and visions have a lot of implications. His message must fulfill the divine purpose in constructive and destructive manners. That is why it comes at an appointed divine time and for a divine purpose.
25. The essence of all these divine manifestations of God is not to show how powerful the sent servant is, rather to show the mercy and love of God in the time of divine needs. Therefore, it is not consequent upon the sent servant but upon God’s mercy through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.
26. Remember that in the present dispensation, the Lord brought the understanding that miracles, signs, and wonders as the manifestation of the Holy Spirit bearing witness to faithful disciples of Christ Jesus do not translate to the salvation of the disciples in use. It is never a guarantee of eternal life to the conductor (the disciple), but a mere spiritual gift.
27. As a spiritual gift by the Holy Spirit to the appointed servant of the Lord, abuse of it such as pride, peddling, deceit, and other unholy use of the gift is not acceptable to the Lord. The abuse of the gift would rather lead to destruction than deliverance.
The implication of God’s miracles, signs and wonders
BENEFITS AND CONSEQUENCES
28. God’s miracles, signs, and wonders are borne out of his divine mercy and love to mankind.
29. God created the heavens and the earth and all the things thereof for his glory. He is dutifully and divinely involved in their affairs by his own loving and merciful will, more especially mankind. The scripture says in John 3:16,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
30. God wants to manage the affairs of his creation, more especially man. On assumption man didn’t fall, God would have equally involved himself in the activities of man leading him to eternal life. The fall of man brought so much loving mercy of God to man, out of divine compassion.
31. The fall of man caused a shortfall of God’s glory to man. God in every power and might want to relate with man in a compassionate bid to restore the lost glory of man. And this came by miracles, signs, and wonders – a loving manifestation of his divine presence to man.
32. There are a lot of benefits associated with God’s manifestation to man in miracles, signs, and wonders, dreams, and visions, in as much as there are consequences.
33. God has made the blind see; the deaf hear; the lame walk; the dead rise and live; the barren bear children…………………. etc., as some of the merciful benefits of his divine manifestations in the life of man. In relation to the loving kindness of God through the Lord, the scripture noted in Mark16:17-18,
“And these signs will accompany those who believe in my name: they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
34. For no power and will of man all these glories of God are bestowed upon man for mere believing in the Son. What a merciful and loving heavenly Father.
35. But the greatest miracles, signs, and wonders as a loving kindness of God to man is the gift of true repentance unto salvation through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.
36. Yes! True repentance unto salvation is the main divine purpose of God’s merciful manifestation to man. It shows the genuine love of God to man. Miracles, signs, and wonders shall all cease, but the love of God is eternal.
37. In the mix of miracles, signs, and wonders you fail to gain salvation, you are doomed forever. For this reason, the scripture says in Luke 10:20,
“Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
38. By implication, you can perform or have all the gifts of miracles, signs, and wonders and still fail to gain salvation. Wow!
39. Remember that miracles, signs, and wonders are not the features of righteousness or holiness of man unto salvation. No, it is not! You can perform all the miracles, signs, and wonders and still go to hell fire. Because miracles, signs, and wonders must cease, and sometimes imperfect, and hence destructive. They do not reflect the righteousness of man or his love of God and mankind. They are just mere gifts if they come from God, which can be abused.
40. The love of God and man through faith in Christ Jesus is the only thing that will justify you by grace before the Lord. This is as testified by the Holy Spirit in 1Cor.13:1-3,
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
41. Consequently, the scripture says in 1Cor.13:13,
“So, faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
42. So, what is love? According to the scripture in 1Cor.13:4-11
“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For knowledge is imperfect, and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.”
43. This is a key consequence of a performer of miracles, signs, and wonders without the genuine love of God and mankind. And this is common among Christian religion ministers whose primary concern is miracles, signs, and wonders.
44. How about those who clamor for these miracles, signs, and wonders without knowing the consequences?
45. God’s manifestations in miracles, signs, and wonders are by the Holy Spirit through Christ Jesus to man. Therefore, it takes the Holy Spirit of God through Christ Jesus to perform and receive miracles, signs, and wonders.
46. Thus, it is a very serious intercession by the Holy Spirit to receive the mercy of God in the form of miracles, signs, and wonders. As a result, the recipient of the miracles, signs, and wonders is hosting the Holy Spirit of God through Jesus Christ.
47. When you truly receive the mercy of the Lord in miracles and signs and wonders – pointing to divine healing or deliverance – you have inevitably become a host of the Spirit of God through Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit of God then dwells in you.
48. So, in that state, you have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in you. If you had sinned, you sin no more! Even when your healing or deliverance was not some direct consequence of committing sin, the hosting of the Holy Spirit by the act of healing or deliverance would not any longer tolerate any willful sinful acts.
49. By the very act of the miracles, signs, and wonders on you, God has given you the free gift of repentance unto salvation. You have, by divine impact, been born anew, by water and the Spirit.
50. You go ahead and sin no more. This very act took place between Christ, the Pharisees, and the woman that committed adultery as written in John 8:2-11 wherein the Lord commanded the woman saying,
“Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.”
51. The implication of God’s mercy is dear in miracles, signs, and wonders that you do not mess up with it. For it would be better you did not receive it than to receive it and mess up with it by continuing to live in sin with it.
52. When you receive divine healing or deliverance by God, you have at that instant become a new creation of the Lord by the visitation of the Holy Spirit to you; then you continue in your sins, the warning of its consequences is as written in Heb.6:4-6,
“For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and him up to contempt.”
53. By divine healing and deliverance, you have tasted the goodness of the word of God, that is the Spirit of God, and power of the age to come; you have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, who performed the healing or deliverance on you.
54. The cost of living in sin again after the divine deliverance is hell fire. You last state in sin would be worse than your former state before the divine healing and deliverance, such that you would not have received the healing at all. This is testified by the Lord in Matt.12:43-45.
“When the unclean spirit has gone out or a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits eviller than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So, shall it be also with this evil generation.”
55. It is God’s willing mercy to perform miracles, signs and wonders on man, but the ability of man to sustain it matters most.
56. Therefore, those ministers of Christian religion who are after performing miracles, signs and wonders, should be aware of its implications, onto themselves and onto those who clamor for it.
57. Some people are physically challenged and as such seek the Lord’s mercy for repentance unto salvation in a bid to live a holy life in their inability. Their state of inability is the design of God to His glory in a divine bid to give them eternal life. Maybe if they were not physically challenged it would have been a passport to hell fire.
58. For this reason, not, all will be healed of their challenges, such that it offers them God’s mercy and repentance unto salvation. The blind remains blind unto eternal life; the cripple remain cripple unto eternal life; the dumb remain dumb unto eternal life………………. etc.
59. For some been delivered have gone to sin being healthy and leads them to eternal destruction. The scripture stated that it would be better to be physically challenged and go to heaven rather than with whole body well and healthy and go to hell fire. Mark9:43-48
Fake miracles, signs and wonders!
Miracles, signs and wonders are among God’s merciful manifestations in the life of his creation regardless of one’s sins.
1. Moses encounter with the burning bush was a miracle by God to manifest his divine presence to him. The sign of Jonah was a miracle and an excellent prophetic death and resurrection of the Lord to free mankind from the bondage of sin and the dominion of death.
2. The healings conducted by many prophets of old of God, and the disciples of Christ Jesus and Christ himself point to God’s presence in the life of his people, honoring their spiritual lives.
3. However, performing of miracles, signs and wonders does not guarantee salvation to the performer or the recipient. You can be one – either a conductor or recipient and still go to hell. The conductor of miracles, signs and wonders is even judged with a stricter measure.
4. God’s miracles, signs and wonders are not upon the power of anyone or authored by one order than God himself.
5. Because miracles, signs and wonders are spiritual manifestation validating the spiritual standing of the conductor upon the recipient, many go for it for self-spiritual aggrandizement. Therefore, the quest to hold the power of it has driven many astray to seek the powers elsewhere order than from God, and this, thus leads to the performance of fake miracles, signs and wonders.
6. Satan is certainly behind the performance of fake miracles, signs and wonders. Satan possesses the power to conduct miracles, signs and wonders through his cohorts mainly the false prophet according to the scripture in Rev.19:20,
“And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in his presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with Sulphur.”
7. You see that every working of fake miracles, signs and wonders is by the activity of Satan, in the sons of perdition.
8. The Lord reaffirmed the working of fake miracles, signs and wonders by false Christs and false prophets in Matt. 24:24 saying,
“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elects.”
9. The same working of fake miracles, signs and wonders are performed by the beast as written in Rev.13:13,
“It worked great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;”
10. These fake miracles, signs and wonders are the manifestations of the disguised angel of light – Satan. And these deceitful miracles, signs and wonders are by the activity of Satan through the beast and the false prophet.
Who are the beast and the false prophet?
11. The beast is the false religion – Christian religion today! It is upon this beast, Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth’s abominations is seated. This beast also represents the waters that the harlot is seated upon – peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues held captive by Babylon the great – Christian religion.
12. Remember, the scripture stated in Rev.13:6 that this evil woman – Babylon the great was drunk with blood of the slain elects of the Lord,
“And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.”
13. Is Christian religion not behind the killings of God’s elect through Christ Jesus? Is Christian religion not drunk with their blood? Is Christian religion not seating upon peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues? Is Christian religion stock in trade not slaves, that is human souls?
14. Tell me in what religion are miracles, signs and wonders have become the order of worship? The answer is Christian religion! Through these pretentious lies, fake miracles, signs and wonders and deceitful breakthroughs Christian religion has led multitudes to eternal destruction.
15. This wicked religion and their fake minister are everywhere – on billboards, televisions, social media, flyers, pictures, movies, entertainment industry, schools, governments………. etc.
16. They erect mind-blowing temples, called churches to cow their captives into believing are the manifestations of their righteousness. Hypocrites!
17. They acquire and fly private jets, drive exotic cars and live in luxury mansions from the proceeds of mammon gotten through seductive donations, tithes and offerings and illicit business establishments. Wicked souls!
18. These fake and false ministers of Christian religion – prosperity preachers and fake miracles, signs and wonders conductors, connive with their families – wife and children in a succession plan to inherit the unholy wealth, leaving the members and the public who contributed to it in limbo! Evil men!
19. They can deceive men, and not God. Their judgment is not laying idle in the hand of the Lord. Their end will correspond to their means.
20. The Lord is therefore warning you to flee from them, for they have fallen as written in Rev.18:2,
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird;”
Please I sincerely urge everyone to heed the warnings of the Lord to flee from Christian religion – Babylon the great in the name of Christ Jesus. Amen!