PREACH AND PRACTISE :
Preaching alone cannot change any person but practical demonstration of what one preaches can change people. If you were a member of a secret society, you would indulge in the preparations of concoction, fornication, drunkenness, but when you come to the truth, you refrained from all the vices and then go about testifying to the people that you were a member of several secret societies. But now having seen the truth, you have denounced your membership of the societies, which you were an arch fornicator and womaniser, but now you have refrained from drinking and preparations of concoction. All those who listen to you who had been your friends would be convinced and you would have followers. Others who looked at you as a wayward child would be happy to see you reform, they would also follow you to The Father. If the women who were in love with you come to your house, and you politely tell them that you have now become a Brotherhood, and you have refrained from fornication and warn them not to come to your house again; they would be so bamboozled that they will decide to follow you to your place of worship.
I see that you people are doing what the Jehovah Witnesses are doing. They give testimony about the miracles wrought by Our Lord Jesus Christ. You also give the same testimony but you have nothing to boast of. Those who testify in this way are false witnesses because they did not actually see when Our Lord Jesus Christ wrought those miracles.
We should boast in our own work and not in the work of Paul, Peter, John or Our Lord Jesus Christ. What is your boast? Have you refrained from fornication, idolatry, and all acts of sin? If you refrain from these vices, you have something to boast about.
I AM AGAIN DECLARING FROM HIGH HEAVENS THAT SINCE 14TH FEBRUARY 1942, I THREW A CHALLENGE TO THE WHOLE WORLD IF ANY PERSON WOULD SUCCEED TO `MAKE ME ANGRY.’ THIS IS MY WORK I CAN BOAST OF IT.
What is your boast? You are advised not to steal, fornicate, tell lies, drink, and kill, but have you complied? I have gained total abstinence from all these vices. This is My boast. What you do and what you cannot do, I cannot boast for you. St. Paul said, “And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we are incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” (1Corinthians 9: 25-27). He also advised Timothy when he said I have fought a good fight; I have kept the faith. Henceforth, there is laid for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love His appearing.
What is the use of being a Christ Student but still fornicate? You profess to be a pastor, you fornicate and steal and tell lies. Those who do not practise the gospel of God have nothing to boast of. Each of us should boast in our work not in the work of others.
Leader Olumba Olumba Obu, Everlasting Gospel Vol.1 Chapter 42 Vs 115 – 128