The Sermon
The Church Vs The Churches
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 CHRISTENDOM; 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 Christendom according to the scripture.
THE CHURCH Vs THE CHURCHES
The Lord Vs Babylon the great!
1. The name church was used by the early disciples of the Lord by revelation of the Holy Spirit referring to the body of Christ Jesus – the bride, the true sons and daughters of the Lord by faith.
2. By revelation of the Lord, the church is not a physical building but persons or a people of genuine faith in the Lord. They could be in your home or house as written by the scripture in 1Cor.16:19,
“The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.”
3. The scripture reaffirmed in Col.2:18, that the church is the body of Christ: “He is the head of the body, the church;”
4. The same is said in Col.2:25, “His body, that is, the church,”
5. The scripture went further to testify the membership oneness of the body of Christ in 1Cor. 12:12-13,
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”
6. The testimony of the Spirit is sure, that the one true church is the body of Christ from the beginning in creation.
7. Remember the scripture says that all things were created for and through him in Col 1.15-20:
“He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities – all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.”
The Body of Christ from creation
THE CHURCH
8. All things were created for and through him by the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. But not all things hold together in him to form part of him, mainly the body – the true church.
9. The body of the Lord – the true church has been before foundation of the world – from creation; for it was predestined to be so according to the scripture in Eph.1:4,
“Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.”
10. In the same vein, the scripture reinstates the formation of the church of God in Christ from creation in Rm.8:29-30,
“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.”
11. It is so glaring that God had chosen the church – the body of the Lord from the beginning, allowing thus to manifest itself to the world as the day goes by.
12. God therefore bears them witness with the Holy Spirit in unity and divine peace destined to eternal life not by works of the law or by righteousness of man or the will of the flesh or by power of man, but by his Holy Spirit through Christ Jesus.
13. Then, the Lord knows his own from creation; and his own know him, just like the sheep know the shepherd, and the shepherd knows his sheep as written in John10:27-28,
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them eternal, and they shall never perish, and no shall snatch them out of my hand.”
14. The sheep is the church, the shepherd is the Lord; they know each other, and they are inseparable.
15. Thus, the church is traceable of old to today to people of unshakeable faith in the Lord from Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to David to the Lord; from the Lord to the Apostles to early disciples to the present sons and daughters of true faith in the Lord from the four winds of the earth.
The unity of the body of the Lord
FELLOWSHIP IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
16. The analogy of the unity of the body – the church of God in Christ is drawn citing our human body as a perfect example.
17. The parts of human body work perfectly well with one another to perform even the simplest task. And one parts feels the absence of another in carrying functions no matter how small it might be.
18. In the same formation of the church of the Lord, all members of the body work perfectly well to synchronize a common spiritual task since they are led by the Spirit of the Lord according to scripture in 1Cor.12:27-30,
“Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all interpret? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?”
19. From the above testimony of the scripture, these are various gifts given by the Holy Spirit to individual members of the body – the church of the Lord, to perfect the holy service of the church in bringing salvation to all and sundry.
20. So, there is a perfect division of divine labor without malice and envy; without dissension and acrimony, but in unity of faith by fellowship in the Holy Spirit irrespective of time and space; tribes and tongues; race and culture; and differing human distinctions as to social and economic status.
21. The unity of the body – the church of the Lord is enshrined in the fellowship with the true children of Lord and the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit as revealed in 1John1:3,
“That which we have seen and heard we proclaim to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.”
22. The scripture goes to remark again the true fellowship in the body of the Lord in 1John1:7,
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
23. This points out unmistakably, wherever you are in as much as you walk in the light, you have fellowship with one another who are also in the light.
24. The divine unity of the church of the Lord is by the Holy Spirit of God through Christ to all who walk in the light irrespective of time and space and varying human dissimilarities.
25. These children of light by Holy Spirit is spread to the four corners of the earth, and will be gathered at end of age as prophesied by Isaiah in Is.11:12,
“He will raise an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
26. Isaiah continued to prophesy to the end of time, saying in Is.43:6-7,
“I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
27. In the same situation the Lord prophesied in Mark13:27,
“And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.”
28. It is obvious that the church of the Lord, is not in any particular location – nation, tribe, race or organization, such that as they are spread over the surface of the earth, will eventually be gathered by the holy angels of the Lord at the end of time to heaven.
29. These various locations where the elect will be gathered from will be lest of all locations to the bewilderment of many.
THE CHURCHES
THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN
1. If you are not worshipping God through Christ Jesus, then you are worshipping Satan; for you cannot serve two masters at the same time says the Lord in Matt 6:24,
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
2. In the same vein you cannot be devoted to the synagogue of Satan – the churches of Christian religion, and at the time belong to the body of Christ -the true church of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. No, is not possible, for is a pure deceit; you are then a beast.
3. The life of the body of the Lord dates before the foundation of the world, says the scripture; so also, the history of the synagogue of Satan after his rebellion against God.
4. The rebellion of Satan against God with his cohort created the synagogue of Satan, which subtly compiled mankind to worship him.
5. Satan is behind all manner of religious evil worships within and outside Christendom. But, his primary attack is centered on Christian religion for the sake of spiting the Lord.
6. Satan from the beginning has declared and waged wars against the children of God – from the spirit beings in heaven and human beings on earth of God’s own.
7. He became the antichrist as a result, in a bid to deceive many to eternal destruction, knowing fully well that his portion is in the pit of hell fire.
8. Satan as the antichrist, meaning another Christ or Christ’s disguise or appearing deceitfully as angel of light led many in droves to eternal damnation, more especially the Christian religion worshippers.
9. Satan as the greatest liar, destroyer, murderer and adversary of mankind, led a host of demons to wage war on man, primarily the children of God.
10. Satan in a bid to strengthen his destructive grip on man went ahead to form churches in imitation of the church of God – the body of Christ. The churches formed by Satan, constitute principally the churches of Christian religion, called the synagogue of Satan by the Lord.
11. The churches of Christian religion formed by Satan are the imitation of the church of God – the body of Christ.
12. This synagogue of Satan – Christian religious churches, transformed to an awful city, called Babylon the great, according to the scripture in Rev.18:1-24.
The fruits of the synagogue of Satan!
13. The scripture says by their fruits we shall know them in Matt.7:20,
“Thus, you will them by their fruits.”
14. Christian religion is an offshoot of the Pharisees, scribes and Sadducees, the religious groups in the days of the Lord on earth.
15. Christian religion is not the branch of the true vine of the Lord; no, they are not. Christian religion is not part and parcel of the apostles and early disciples of the Lord.
16. Christian religion claims of apostolic succession is a pure lie; a lie from the pit of hell. Christian religion is Babylon the great, as revealed in Rev.18:1-24.
17. The fruits of this synagogue of Satan are revealed by Christ Jesus in MATTHEW CHAPTER 23! They are just like their fathers – the Pharisees, scribes and Sadducees, the religious groups in the days of the Lord on earth. And even worse than their fathers.
18. Christian religious movement is the worst in creation, by mixing the old covenant and the new covenant together to form an awful hybrid called the beast. In the history of mankind such has never taken place. This is reason why the Lord is warning everyone to flee from them in Rev.18:4,
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;”
19. Some notable hybrid fruits of the synagogue of Satan are:
- Collection of tithe offering in the name of Jesus Christ – a grievous sin! Tithe offering was of the old covenant for the Levites in the law of Moses for services rendered at the altar; it ended on the commencement of the new covenant by the Lord, wherein those that serve at the altar of Christ Jesus shall live by free gifts, willfully given to them by the adherents. This gift offering is called offering for the saints -2Cor.9:1. Therefore any so-called minister of Christian religion who collects tithe offering is a false minister.
- Speaking in tongues without interpretation – terrible deceit!
The desire for the manifestation of Holy Spirit has driven so-called ministers of the Lord of Christian religion to fake tongue speaking in a bid to be regarded as men of God. Liars! For he who speaks in tongues, should have the ability to interpret it or be interpreted by another of even dare not speak, as stated by the scripture in 1Cor.14:1-33 with particular reference to verse 28, “But if there is no to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.” This is a common label of fake and false men and women of the Lord. Please flee from them.
- Hebrews10:25 – deceitful translation!
“Not neglecting to meet together, as the habit of some,”; This advice has wrongly been translated by Christian religion as a ploy to commit their captives and prospective ones to synagogue of Satan. This quotation is used by Christian religion to brand church-going, as a means to salvation, by gathering those who fall for the trap to build a synagogue of Satan called church. This is against the true meaning of the passage by the early disciples of the Lord who were advised to share together in their places in one accord the gospel of the Lord. This is another identity of fake and false Christian religious quotation. Beware of them!
4.Fake miracles, signs and wonders – a great delusion!
“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 recover.” This is sure of true disciples of the Lord irrespective of religious inclination. But the fake is very prevalent among Christian religion, knowing fully well people will definitely fall for it, in promoting their ante. It is most common as an identity of the so-called ministers of Christian religion to fake miracles, signs and wonders to bamboozle their captives and the entire world. Hypocrites! Please, don’t give in!
5. Mammon as manifestation of righteousness!
If you are not rich and famous in religious engagements, you are not a true man of God. This the global trend and believe of the society. Wealth and fame are the main identity of the so-called ministers of Christian religion as a manifestation of their genuine worship of the Lord. Pure lie! Because of their desire to become rich and famous have dived into devilish activities, principally through multiple tithe offerings and severance offerings and diverse means of raising ill-gotten money. These wicked souls, have mega-churches, mega-business establishments, private jets, superb mansions as homes, exotic cars, apparels and trappings of gold, silver and precious pearls and gems. They are religious superstars; living larger than life! Sorry, they are living-dead! Don’t be carried away!
6. Babylonian Singers – idle praise-worship singers!
It is a common practice in Christian religion to have and hire these Babylonian singers – idle praise-worship singers. All the mega-churches have them inhouse, and sometimes hire them for entertainment of their captives to promote their ante. These idle praise-worship singers in their own respect are too mega-stars in religious activities – singing to the glory of their father, Satan the Devil. Don’t listen to their songs.
7. Fake spiritual personality – Hypocrites!
Some of the so-called ministers of Christian religion came out in flying colors in worldly knowledge – being holders of academic degrees in various religious and secular academic disciplines. They use same to push and promote their religious agendas, and sometimes to intimidate their captives. Surprisingly the things of God are revealed and taught solely by the Holy Spirit of God to them that by grace possess the Spirit irrespective of persona as written in 1Cor.2:13,
“And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.”
Because these so-called minsters of Christian religion by human wisdom do not possess the Spirit, they go ahead to fake a spiritual personality, therefore dispensing harmful spiritual knowledge, being unspiritual men, as stated in 1Cor.2:14,
“The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
8. Worship of angels – Hypocrites!
Going by assumed religious heights, these so-called ministers of Christian religion command undue lordship from their captives and the general public, taking their stand as paragons of righteousness in return for a holy worship. They presumed lordship is liken to worship of angels, while being human. They love Moses’s seat, and like to be called rabbi: GOs, bishops, senior pastors, pastors, prophets, prophetesses, evangelists………etc.; making preying of their captives by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirit of the universe, and not according to Christ – Col.2:8. They go ahead to insist on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking stand on visions, puffed up without reason by their sensuous minds, and not holding fast to Christ – Col.2:18. In contrast to this shameful arrogance, the angel of The Lord, urged Apostle John not to worship him, instead he should worship God as revealed in Rev.22:8-9,
“I John am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me; but he said to me, ‘You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
It is a common occurrence in Christian religion to differentiate the priests from the laity and discriminate and lord it over them. Even in their structural designs of their churches such is obvious – setting of the priest and his inner circle and the commoners clearly separated – a clear partiality warned against in James2:1,
“My brethren, show no partiality as you hold the faith of our Lord Jesus, the Lord of glory.”
9. Observation of days, and months, and seasons, and years!
Christian religion recreated the practice of observation of days, and months, and seasons, and years to suit their selfish ambition, not anchored on any particular covenant as to law, statutes and ordinance like the people of Israel of the old. Their act is a hybrid product of the Old and New Covenants – an awful beast! Consequently, the awful beast created by Christian religion in observation of days, and months, and seasons, and years, notable among them are:
- Sunday worship – a form of sabbath
- Christmas
- Easter
- Celebration of birthdays
All these celebrative practices have no anchor on the new life in Christ Jesus. Is a very disappointment to Lord as revealed in Gal.4:10, “You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.” They shamefully mark and celebrate birthdays on the presumed altar of the Lord, trading their achievements as mere mortals in the name of a successful minister.
10. No more preaching of salvation in Babylon
The essence of the coming of the Lord is principally for the salvation of mankind. The works of the Lord on earth were for eternal life – the gospel of salvation. The primary divine purpose of the creation of man from dust by God through Christ by the Spirit is for eternal life through obedience of the word of God. All the efforts put forth by God to achieve this divine purpose failed, until the Son, Christ Jesus came to the rescue through death and resurrection where he defeated sin and death and delivered man to salvation. He therefore urged his disciples to follow suit by giving them by grace the power to do so, by preaching and spreading the gospel of salvation to the ends of the earth before his second coming. But today, Christian religion has chosen an opposite part to this commission. Instead of preaching against sin and death, the chose to preaching for breakthrough of earthly things, by means of give and take. The voice of salvation is consequently muffled, well above the spread of worldly breakthroughs. The main drive to church-going is to gain advantage over the power to earn material things wherein the so-called ministers of Christian religion exhibit that as manifestations of worship of God. No more seeking first the kingdom of God and its righteousness. The global trend today in Christian religion is the preaching and display of mammon, instead of salvation. The pretension is such that the façades wear the cloak of salvation while the inside are filthy deadly hearts, the reason why the Lord called them white sepulcher and sheep in wolves’ clothing.
11. Dissensions – belligerent denominations!
Yes, there were obvious divisions in the congregation of the early disciples of the Lord, primarily due to lack of proper understanding of the source of salvation. They erroneously believed the preacher by which the hear the gospel of the Lord was the source of salvation, and as a result claimed to belong to him, pitting one against another resulting to divisions. This anomaly was immediately frown at by Apostle Paul, and quickly addressed the matter with urgent spiritual attention -1Cor.1:10-17; 1Cor.3:1-9 Today in Christian religion, there is a morbid division by beliefs, giving rise to belligerent denominations the first of its kind in creation. People and families as a result found, build and own churches – synagogues of Satan by way of being different and on their own lording it over their captives – what an abomination! Everyone and religious groups are divided along personal beliefs in a bid to weld religious power and in antagonism to one another. The global understanding in Christian religion to become religiously famous and rich is to create your own church, faith and denomination regardless of the Lord. Presently, in Christian religion there are uncountable number of denominations and churches – mega ones and mushroom ones; everyone fighting and scrambling to share the religious windfall. The heat is on, but the end is eternal destruction.
Who cares, but the Lord!
JUST AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
1. From every indication no one seems to care about the ugly prevailing situation in the world today, concerning religious activities.
2. Every word of the Lord fell on deaf ears, like it never exits.
3. Yes, to your tents O Israel!
4. But, the Lord cares!
5. Yes, the Lord cares, and his own know that; and are earnestly waiting for his second coming.
6. Just as in the days of Noah so, shall it be today, on the sons and daughters of perdition.
7. According to the scripture in Matt.24:37-39, the Lord warned, “As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man.”
8. Remark these words by the Lord:
- Eating and drinking
- Marrying and giving in marriage
9. Going by these words of the Lord, there are marked licentiousness, generally among men, and more especially among Christian religious churches the herald of wide profligacy. Therefore, their lifestyles are built on religious merriments of no comparison. The love of the world inherent in the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of heart is the order of the day in Christian religious churches, until sudden doom befalls them.
10. Christian religious churches – synagogues of Satan, have turned their gatherings into house of trade and sensuous celebrations of worldly living, and not the house of prayer as ought to be. They use the same to host unwholesome meetings of fleeting sinful pleasures regardless of the Lord.
11. The same sinful activities marred the days of Noah, when series of warnings were sounded out to men of his days, but they failed to heed. Now, the same warning is sounding louder than in the days of Noah, because we have today various and numerous channels of dispensing the gospel of salvation to all and sundry.
- Noah’s ark
12. Noah’s ark is being built again; and the children of the Lord are entering into it without public notice! It is a now, a spiritual ark. Once the expected number of the children enters, doom will suddenly befall the sons and daughters of perdition!
13. Just check the number of people saved in the days of Noah; only but eight – Noah and his family: Noah and the wife, the three sons and their wives! Of all the population of people on earth then, only eight were saved by the Lord.
14. And Lord said thus, as in the days of Noah so shall it be today. Of the numerous number of people on earth today, only but a few will be saved! For the Lord said that the way is narrow and difficult that leads to salvation, and only but a few found it.
15. At the end of time, the Lord will say to them, ‘I never knew you.’ I never knew you, would be mainly to the so-called ministers of Christian religion: the so-called miracle, signs and wonders workers.
16. It is my earnest desire that all should be saved. May the good Lord have mercy upon all. Amen.