GOD USES THE HUMBLE. First Bible Lesson: Romans Chapter 9 verse 25 "As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." Second Bible Lesson: 1st Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 28 "And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, y ea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are." Golden Text: 1st Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 7 "For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" Brethren, that is the theme of our revelation tonight. If we listened attentivel y to what was read to us, we would realize, it is wrong for one to be boastful o f oneself. It is a pathetic situation, man has not been given this wisdom. If we were to understand, man is nothing and that it is only God who has the choice t o use man as He likes, then nobody would have cultivated the habit of being prou d and pompous. For instance, God has not called you, because you are good, or wo rthy, but He has called you according to His loving kindness. No person should either be sad or glad because of his position. Wherever you fin d yourself, that is exactly where God has chosen to place you. He has not placed you there because you are so bad, neither has He placed you in a given position because you are good. He places you according to His loving kindness. Whatever He wishes you should be is what you certainly will be; and what He does not wish you become, you will never become. For being the potter, He has power over the clay of the same lump; to make a vessel unto honor and another lump to make a vessel unto dishonor, and you have no questions to ask! I have not seen any reason why man should ask God any questions. I have not seen any reason why any person should boast. Neither do I have any reason to justify why man should be sad or sorrowful, because it is Nature which creates you, you do not create yourself. If He wishes to elevate you today, He will exalt you. If He wishes to abase any person tomorrow, He will bring him down. Whatever He wishes you to be, you will become what He wants you to be. Why then should people boast? Why should people complain God does not love them? Who do you consider to be those whom God loves most, and who do you consider is hated most by God? God does not love anybody more than others, neither does He h ate any person more than others. He only submits to His will. Whatever we refer to as an evil thing is not known by God as evil. Whatever we r efer to as a good thing is equally not known by God as good. The only thing is t hat God does His own will. Let us therefore not decide whether something is good or bad. Do not ask questions on why God should do something to one person, but has not done it to another. Do not say, it was for some other causes that made a certain thing happen. Whatever happens to you should not be attributed to anyth ing; everything happens as God wills. It is not as you wish, neither is it as man wishes, but all are according to the will of God. We are lumps of clay, and He is the potter. Do not ponder over wha tever you see in the world, but do accept situations as they come. Do not even s eek to know the causes of anything. The reason is that the more we look, the les s we see. This is the cancer afflicting people in the world today. PEOPLE DO NOT REALISE NO ONE CAN KNOW THE MIND OF GOD. REMEMBER, MAN PROPOSES AND GOD DISPOSE S. You have heard the text, it says and it shall come to pass that those who were n ot my people, will be called my people. This is the one thing that has shocked t he inhabitants of the world, who would ask why a certain person should become wh at he is; or why a certain person does not become what we think he should be. Ha s not the potter power over the clay of the same lump, to make one vessel noble? You should then realize, it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs the rac e. We should rest content with whatever position we find ourselves. I have not s een any reason why any person should be fastidious, or frown or do anything at a ll that may tend to question God's wisdom, for all the things that happen in the world, there is none that concerns man. We have no hands in whatever takes plac e in the world. We have no right in these things and till tomorrow, we shall not have any right in them. It is only the king who knows the secret of His kingdom. This is the ti me God has opened everybody's eyes, so everyone is satisfied with the position G od has placed him. You should not determine a certain man will perish, or that t he other man will be saved. Do not argue, what happens to a certain person is th e result of his evil deeds, or, whatever good thing that happens to another pers on is attributable to his goodness. This is erroneous. We are vessels of God. He knows whatever purpose He wants to use us for. We should not concern ourselves with the affairs of God. All such co ncerns would result in disturbing the mind. Sometimes you may erroneously claim, God hates a certain group of persons, but I want you to remember God does not h ate any person. God does not love anyone more than others. He loves Himself and honors Himself and thinks about Himself because He is all in all. There is nothi ng that worries God, therefore nothing should bother anyone. Whatever comes your way, give thanks to God. Let not your heart be troubled for whatever you may se e from day to day. Whatever happens is in accordance with the will of the Almigh ty God. And so brethren, I do not wish to overload you, the first bible lesson w ill be read: First Bible Lesson: Romans Chapter 9 verse 25 "As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." Brethren, have you listened to what has been read to you? That explains why Nath anael asked Philip, "Can any good thing come from Nazareth? Philip told him, com e and see." (John Chapter 1 verse 46). Till today, most people do continue to as k the same question: why should that evil man have good things coming his way? O r why an abominable man should live that long. Know this, God does His things as He likes, and in accordance with His will. If He does anything such is meant to reveal His glory, therefore do not be sad and do not be joyous. It is what He h ad planned to do aforetime. Hence, whatever happens, give thanks to Him. At times you may think, a particular person is suffering from his past sins, and at other times, you may feel, a person is forgotten by God. If you say, a perso n has been forgotten by God, then why does he say, "And it shall come to pass, t hat in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God." (Romans Chapter 9 verse 26). Sometimes it may suddenly occur to you, your family has no future and you feel t he more disturbed when you look at another family progressing, I am telling you, you should not be bothered, for as it is written in Hosea, "I will call them my people which were not my people, and her beloved which were not my beloved." This is an indication, God has not forgotten His people, therefore do not ever t hink there is any situation in which you find yourself, God is not aware of. In like manner do not ever think, there is anything impossible with God. Even if He digs the ground and puts you in there, He is the person keeping you there; at t he fullness of time, He will bring you out from the heart of the earth. Very man y people argue, God has forgotten about them, and unfortunately, this thought ma y even lead them to resort to suicide. Remember, you may be the one He spoke abo ut that at the fullness of time, those who were not His people, He would call th em His beloved. If you are in a lovely estate, be reminded, He has a reason for keeping you ther e. The expression, "and it shall come to pass," relates to those who are despise d, those who are not regarded by others, and those who do not exist at all in th e world; for it will come to pass that those who were not my people will be call ed my people and in the same token, those who were despised, those who were not regarded as anything and those who do not exist at all, will be called "The Belo ved Children of God." The commotion which sets in is, when He goes to salvage such a person from that state, people would begin to question why such a person should be lifted up. Som e would attribute it to juju, some attribute it to charms, others to apparition, or mermaid, while some may argue, such is not an act of God or if it were an ac t of God, such an evil person would not be so favored. Forget about such postula tes, because God had destined him to be so lifted up. If Our Lord Jesus Christ w ere to be the Son of Herod, or any of the councilors, or lords, they would not h ave had the boldness to ask who He was. What baffled the Jews the more was He wa s the Son of a mere carpenter and a lowly placed virgin, and so they argued, if He came from God why should He be born into such a common house. The scriptures had advised, "we should not prejudge, until the Lord comes. For I know nothing b y myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord." (1 st Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 4). You should then not even argue, something has happened to you, because of the ill doing of your father, or because you are an evildoer, or because of one reason or the other. God has destined, such a thing should happen to you. All what is happening in the world can be likened to some body moulding a figure with the clay, or carving with a piece of wood. If you carve the image of a human being on wood, or mould it on the clay, puttin g the ears, eyes, mouth, legs and hands on it, it will remain at the place you k ept it because it can neither walk nor see, nor talk, because it is a dummy. If you keep a wooden or clay doll on the table, and after some time you find it pla ced elsewhere it could not have moved on its own accord, you have caused it to m ove to the new position. As you keep the flowers here according to your arrangem ents, you can also pluck any type of natural flowers and keep them somewhere els e and if you do not wish, they be here tomorrow, you can remove them from here a nd place them somewhere else. So it is with what goes on in the world. You have the right to throw away all th e flowers into the bush without regarding it as wishful damage. You have the rig ht to go into the bush to collect any type of flowers and replace those you have thrown away, and no person questions. Not that the natural flowers you now keep are better than the artificial ones you have thrown away. The reason is what yo u have decided to do, was an exercise of your free will. This explains why you find a man who builds a twelve storey building, but prefer s to live in a thatched and wattled-walled house. It is also the reason why a ma n, born into an urban area goes to live in the jungle. This is also why a money magnate builds a house or buys a motor car according to his desire, at any point in time. So, all we see in the world is the work of nature, and our creator. I am giving you this sermon so, you do not bother yourself unnecessarily about wha t goes on in the world today. From the start, man has never been anything before God, but God alone is all and in all. If he wants to exalt Himself, He will do it and if He wants to abase Hi mself, He can do it. It is therefore not your bother nor any person's bother. Use this gospel to console yourself so, you may not continue to quake and shiver and feel, you have reached your end of the road, for you do not know why God ha s exalted you, neither are you aware why He has abased you, but He knows the rea son. When you do not know, why then do you boast of anything? This is why you ma y reward a person as a man of substance today and he feels so elated, but tomorr ow he becomes a nobody. This is why God says even for this same purpose have I r aised up Pharaoh that I may show my power in him, and that my name might be decl ared throughout the earth. So He raises us up in order to manifest His glory, an d in the same token, He brings us down so as to manifest His glory. It is on thi s premise it is said, everything works together for good for those who love the Lord. (Romans Chapter 8 verse 28). If your exaltation is profitable unto God, and your abasement is also profitable unto God, what then is the evil in any of the two actions? Since we are blind, it is the figment of the imagination to say, a certain thing is good and the oth er is bad. If we were to believe, God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient , then we would not have been bothered, because He is everywhere, being all powe rful, and being all knowledgeable: only His Glory reigns. I do not think, there has ever been any other glory apart from His own glory. Any glory which He has b estowed on any person is His, the love He has invested in any person is His love . This is why it is not usual that He selects the highly esteemed things to mani fest His glory and will. If you did not understand the mechanics of the world, you should place a ladder against a wall and on the opposite side of the wall place a similar ladder. You then begin to climb the ladder, placing your foot alternately on the various run gs of the ladder, until you get to the top of the wall. From the top of the wall , you again begin to climb down through the opposite ladder, until you descend t o the ground level from which you started to climb. You see, none of us is in ex istance and we are nothing in the world. Only God exists and He is the 'I am tha t I am.' He merely keeps us as His own instruments to manifest His Glory on eart h. This is why He chooses the base things of the world to put to nought the migh ty things in the world. Asking any questions does not bear any good fruits, for He can use anything, no matter how base, to magnify His glory, because He alone can bring into existence anything that does not exist. What is said, "It will come to pass, those who we re not my people will be called the children of God, He will cause them to be th e Children of God. It will come to pass also, whoever was deemed to be hated by God, He will lift him up and declare this is my beloved Son, hear ye Him." Up till today, those who returned from Israel have testified, the Jews do not be lieve in Our Lord Jesus Christ; they argue, the Christ has not yet come. If you tell them to believe in His name, they refuse, maintaining He has not yet come, and they are still waiting for Him. The name of Our Lord Jesus Christ is on the lips of every person, all over the w orld, but the Israelites are still waiting for Him. Is it not a wonderful thing? The Bible was written and translated into various languages and dialects, and m any people have known, and continue to know about Our Lord Jesus Christ, but the Israelites continue to confess, they do not know Him. Since it is God's own ple asure to bring into existence anything which does not exist, do you know, no per son should therefore ask any questions? Those of you who are highly placed shoul d weep and lament, because you cannot determine to what place you shall be downg raded. Those who are in lowly places should rather rejoyce and shout for joy, fo r they do not know where God will elevate them to. This is why the general Epist le of James advises, "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalte d." (James Chapter 1 verse 9). It also says, "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and h owl for your miseries that shall come upon you." (James Chapter 5 verse 1). So brethren, unless you have the spiritual ears, you will not hear this Gospel. Let us search the scriptures whether we have eternal life. The Bible is called t he Ark of the Covenant. Brethren, I do not wish to take you further than this, t he Second lesson will now be read. Second Bible Lesson: 1st Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 28 "And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, y ea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are." Brethren, have you heard the will of God? Do you think, when God elevates you to the highest position, He will ever take you higher than the one you find yourse lf? If a king wants his son to be king as well, where is he going to rule, what about the other subjects of the king, are they not capable of being kings? If th e Son of a king is made a king, it is not new, nor is it a thing of wonderment, nor does it manifest the glory of God on earth. It is the same thing like one be ing born into a ruling family, and since the father was a ruler, it follows the child will also be a ruler in his own time. Such enthronement therefore is no su rprise to any person. But when one is nothing, not easily recognised by people, but is lifted suddenly by God unto the throne, it is a thing of wonder, and it is what gives glory to God. This is why God has said, "It will come to pass that He will choose the bas e things of this world, something which is despised, something which does not ex ist, (From now on watch the trend of events in the world), to use in bringing gl ory to His name." We have a Spiritual Chorus which consoles the afflicted, they should neither weep nor lament for the Saviour is not still on the way, but He i s already in our midst. The calibre of men whom God will elect to rule this world with Him will spell gr eat wonderment to the people of the world. We have already started to see. It is though, those who attempt to work for peaceful co-existance in the world, shoul d be highly educated, should grow beards down to their knees, should become prof essors and gather many prominent people to themselves, but have they been able t o execute such plans? But those who are nothing are rather selected by God to re store peace and stability to the world; but the people of the world would object to the selection of such calibre of persons to rule the world. Think of Pharaoh, upon all his glory and highly esteemed position, God rather ha d to choose Joseph to manifest His glory. Remember also King Nebuchardnezzar, wi th all his glory and radiance, yet did God not choose a simple Daniel to manifes t His glory? Do not be flabbergasted by the trend of events in the world because God has always appointed the base things of the world, things which are despise d, to put to nought the mighty things of the world. If we were to read the Holy Scriptures between the lines, we would have cried and lamented. When you go back home read James Chapter 1 verses 9 to 11, to appreciate why it is said, let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted. "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But the rich, in t hat he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For t he sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and t he flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways." (James Chapter 1 verses 9 to 11). Where will you down grade a person who is already in a lowly position to? To wha t position will you elevate any person who is already lifted high? If you were w ise, you would observe the stages of a growing child, who is born into the world , and then begins to grow according to a definite stage of development, and you cannot stop him from growing. When he grows to his predestined height, he will s top his growth, and will thereafter begin to grow down. Are you not surprised at the cycle of life, somebody who had once been seeing would no longer see again because he has lost his sense of sight. A person who has been hearing has now lo st his sense of hearing, a person who has been walking cannot walk again. As you are growing up, at the end of your upward growth, you also have to grow downwar d gradually. It is only Our Lord Jesus Christ who understands this, and that was why He said, "I go back to the Father, because I came from the Father." (John Chapter 16 ver se 28). Do you know, when somebody is born, he comes from God and when somebody begins to grow he grows up to God? Some times people believe blindly a certain m an comes from the hades or from the mermaid, this is erroneous, every person com es from God and we all go back to God. When you say a person dies, nobody dies, what happens is, he goes back to God. B elieve fervently, everything comes from God and everything returns to God. Whate ver you see came from God and will not go to any other place but to God. That wa s why Paul said, "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, a nd to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." (Philippians Chapter 1 verses 23 and 24). As you are here, you are with the Father, and when you depart, you will go to no other place but to the Father. It is foolish to complain, somebody is dead and it is equally foolish to testify somebody is born. God who created all of us use d the base things, things despised at and things which do not exist, just to bri ng to nought, those things that are mighty. Sometimes when somebody returns to h is creator, you begin to cry and complain, because he is dead, and there will be nobody to fill his position in the family. By this, you have forgotten, he may have left a small boy behind, his heir, to fulfill what he says, "And it shall c ome to pass that He will use the base things of this world to put to nought thin gs which are mighty." Sometimes there may be something in the family or community which when the grown -ups do would not give glory to God, but after their demise, their small sons ge t it done and the name of God is magnified. Remember therefore David wanted to b uild a Temple, but God objected to his plan, keeping it for his son. It was not because he was a murderer, but because God wanted to use the work of his son to manifest His Glory. It has always been the intention of God to use things which are base to despise, and put to nought things which are mighty. I am in sympathy with those who are proud, pompous and arrogant. It is written i n the Scriptures, God resists the proud, but exalts the humble. (James Chapter 4 verse 6). It is therefore advisable, you should not be proud, pompous, arrogant , or foul mouthy, because you can hardly know the will of God. It is the will of God to use base things, to select things despised, to magnify His glory. Rememb er, if you hold yourself in a very high esteem, God cannot select you to fulfill His will. He says I am a jealous God. He will exalt you, and thereafter will br ing you down so another person from a lowly position will replace you. The reaso n is to ensure, you are not unnecessarily proud. It is the height of foolishness for any person to say he is indispensable. As a point of information, God had a lready executed His plan and accomplished His will. He has already selected the instruments of His rule and kept them in order. His will is to use the base thin gs of this world, to put to nought the things which are mighty. If we were to re gard ourselves as fools; by now, God would have used us effectively, for it is H is will to use foolishness to nullify wisdom. But when one begins to show one's pomposity and arrogance, professing that one is wise, that one is powerful, or t hat one is indispensable, then God will use a very lowly placed person to bring one to nought. BRETHREN THERE IS NO PERSON WHO KNOWS THE WILL OF GOD. HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PAS S AWAY BUT THE WILL OF GOD WILL NEVER PASS AWAY. You have heard the story of how Pharaoh persecuted the Israelites. You have also heard of how Herod persecuted Our Lord Jesus Christ. Inspite of that, Our Lord Jesus Christ was still existing and the work of God is still progressing. When y ou observe carefully, you will begin to ask why the learned men, the fortunate a nd highly placed and the millionaires are unable to practise the Word of God. Th e Word of God will be better with millionaires and highly placed persons, kings, emperors and the traditional rulers, but God does not make it that way. He has gone to elect the poor, the needy and those who do not exist at all, to disgrace the high calibre of men in the world. Go and ponder over this Gospel, you who would want to become president or feel, a president is the be-all and end-all. You who feel, being a governor or prime m inister is the end-all, read this. God uses the base things to bring to nought t hings highly esteemed among men. A great many of us indulge in politics, hoping once we are there we will do many things for our families. God knows our individ ual thoughts. He knows all our thoughts are for nought. He knows why the world h as rejected Him. The people of the world seek after self-glorification. This is why He has said, he will use the base things of the world to bring to no ught things highly regarded. That is why, He says, all those, who seek to save t heir lives will lose them. But those who lose their lives for His sake and for t he sake of the gospel, will be saved. (Mark Chapter 8 verse 35). Except Jehovah God builds a house, he labours in vain that builds it. Except Jeh ovah God watches over the city, the watchman labours in vain. (Psalm 127 verse 1 ). Why then do you disturb about the things of this world? Why do you boast as i f you created all you have? If you had received these things, without knowing th e source from where they came, why then do you boast about them? Do you know how you came into this world? Do you know where you are now? Do you know where you are going to? Do you know what is on the other side of the world? Do you know wh at is on the other side of the world from whence you came? Why should you boast? Do you not see how man is so vulnerable? Do you see, the will of man is at vari ance with the will of God? Man thinks differently from what God thinks. This is why the Scriptures say, "Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but Go d knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abominatio n in the sight of God." (Luke Chapter 16 verse 15). WHEN YOU CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH GORGEOUS APPARELS, AND YOU START CALLING YOURSELF A KING OR SON OF THE SOIL, REMEMBER GOD LOOKS AT THE INNERMOST PARTS OF YOUR HEA RTS, THAT IS WHY HE HAS CHOSEN THE BASE AND DESPISED TO DISGRACE YOU. Did this not manifest itself between David and Goliath? But you have not learnt from such lessons. Did it not occur between David and Saul? At that time God had to choose the base things to disgrace the highly esteemed. Never say again God is not in existence. Do not ever say, God cannot do this or that. You may ask wh y God allowed Our Lord Jesus Christ to be arrested and killed. Let me explain, H e wanted to fool the wise of the world. If He did not allow them to arrest and kill Our Lord Jesus Christ, how then woul d His glory have been manifested in the world? He used Him to reveal His glory. Since He was killed and later resurrected, there had been a great deal of commot ion in the world. When all hopes are gone, the saviour appears. This is why when the people went to Our Lord Jesus Christ and told Him Lazarus, His friend is si ck and is almost dead, He replied and said unto them, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby ." (John Chapter 11 verse 4). In like manner all the things we witness do not manifest in the way we should th ink of. Apart from this way, it will be impossible for us to enter into this kin gdom. All the happenings in the world are various ways through which God reveals His glory on earth. Do not sit down to make plans or arrangements, proposing to do this or that, because at the end, the will of God will have to prevail. Do n ot bother yourself about anything. Do not count yourself as having anything, bec ause we are all the instruments for His work. He can cause Himself to exist and can cause Himself not to exist. What you have to go home with, is, whatever posi tion you find yourself, do not grumble, do not be pompous, do not be arrogant. Do not ever think, a man has been so elevated in life and wonder what will ever bring him down. Before He elevated him, He had already provided a lowly person w hom He will use in disgracing the elevated one. You should continue to humble yo urself even when God raises you up, for this is why He says, that except we beco me like a small child, we cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The central prob lem of the entire world is, once God has elevated somebody, no other person shou ld be allowed to pass along the street. Brethren, I do not want to be tedious un to you, the Golden Text will now be read. Golden Text: 1st Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 7 "For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" Brethren, you see up till now, man has not got this knowledge. This is why if Go d gives you money, you would not allow others to pass along the streets. Today i f God gives you the chieftaincy of the world, you will not allow people their fr eedom any longer. If God gives you good health, you will fight anybody along the streets. Today God has given you children, and you would not allow the barren t o breathe. You have forgotten so easily hitherto, you had no child, no money and you were not known, but God gave you these things as He had promised to elevate the base things. He had lifted you up, so why are you proud? In the past, you rarely had a mat to sleep on. You were sleeping on the bare flo or. You had no shoes, and took tea once a week, but life was still going on. Aft er a while, and according to the will of God, you and your children are driving cars, you are looking for storey buildings. Why are you without wisdom? Right no w, there is nobody who has money and would still want to serve God. He would be parading himself as a money magnate, a responsible and respected person, he woul d question why he should disgrace himself in such a manner, by taking off his sh oes and sitting with children. Brethren, see what was read to you: what has thou that thou didst not receive it, and why doest thou glory as if thou hadst not r eceived it? Have you not heard the Word of God which says, God has chosen the base things of the world and things which are despised, to bring to nought those things though t to be great. Pharaoh was so proud, where is he today? Nebuchardnezzar was so p roud and arrogant, where is he today? Herod was so proud and pompous, where is h e today. The Roman empire was go great and powerful, where is it today? The Brit ish empire, Greece and many others were so proud and arrogant, where are they to day? Look even here in Nigeria, when somebody is at the top, he does not care ab out those below him. If another person is elevated to that position, he will sta rt behaving like his predecessor. God says He will resist the proud and give gra ce to the humble. God wants to use things which are not, things which are despis ed, to disgrace the highly esteemed things of the world. This is why you are tau ght humility that you should count everything as a loss. If God raises you to a high position, always remember, you were on the ground, a lways imagine yourself on the ground. Remember, you were poor, remember, you wer e blind, remember, you were nothing, but God out of His merciful kindness, lifte d you up to a high position, so, you begin to cater for the welfare of those und er you. When He will elevate another person to the same position, he would also look after your welfare. This arrangement works in turns. When it is your time, you cater for the welfare of others, and a time comes when others will cater for your welfare, and at another time another person will cater for you all. It is quite clear, no condition is permanent, for you were born into this world empty; without wisdom or money. After some time you become wise and you acquire some money. At other times, hatred set in, sickness sets in, you become poor and weak. God creates every person and causes them to go round the circle of life. There is no difference between the Greeks and the Jews. Do not even create such division or discrimination, do not sow such seeds of discord, throw away such di fferences. Gather every person together because every person is one, Our Lord Je sus Christ is all and in all. After God has elevated somebody, he will turn round to say, it is because of his wisdom or educational attainments or through his own design, making, ability, o r plan, he has attained the position. When things will turn the other way round, what reason will he give? I am telling you individually, it is neither the resu lt of your power of planning, nor your effort that you have been so elevated. It is God who has elevated you up to such a place according to His will, to fulfil l His promise of using things that are despised, to disgrace things that are hig hly esteemed. God gave you all the children, he has given you life, wisdom, and glory, therefore, there is nothing that is yours. We have to humble ourselves an d become lowly before the Almighty God, giving Him His Glory. I do disagree with anybody who creates class distinctions. There is nobody great er than the other. Be you a learned professor, a governor, a president, a millio naire, or whatever you may be, do not discriminate for there is no stratificatio n; no one person is better or greater than the other. There is no difference between the black and the white; there is no difference b etween a man and a woman. All of us are equal. If you have been having the mind the white man is more intelligent, discard such ideas. God creates every person in the same way. When you say somebody comes from a royal family, what then do you understand by the expression "Royal Family?" When you say somebody is from a poor family, what do you mean by the expression "Poor Family?" Do you want to tell me members of the royal family never get sick? Or members of a Royal family are never disgrace d? Do members of a royal family live on earth forever? Do members of a royal fam ily not get exasperated, or begrudge somebody, or tell lies? Or are they never b eset with problems and difficulties? Are members of a royal family not born of women? Does this not show, no one pers on is different from the other. If your pomposity is based on the fact, you are wealthy, or you own a costly car, or you are a white man, you should know, TO HU MBLE ONESELF TO THE GROUND IS TO LIFT ONESELF UP. Do you know how you came into the world? Do you know how you have been able to live up till today? Do you know how you became a governor? Do you know how you became a prime minister? Do you know how to talk and convince so many people? There is nothing, we have done, an d there is nothing, we know. The best thing is for us to keep quiet and observe how God is doing His things in the world. The greatest mistake one makes is to r egard oneself as greater or better than others. You may be greater than the othe r because God has lifted you up today. What about the promise made to the lowly placed by God that at the fullness of time, He will use the base things to disgr ace the highly esteemed. When they are lifted up what will you do? This is the promise of God and in all things always, it is the will of God that prevails. Tell the rich and highly placed, the wise and the pompous, those who f eel, they alone exist, God says He chooses the base things, things that are desp ised, to reveal His glory. He does not use a highly placed thing to disgrace the highly placed, but the base things to disgrace the highly esteemed. You who are swollen headed because of your children, you become rude and arrogan t, you use your money to oppress others, have you heard what God has promised? H e says He will choose the base things of this world to disgrace the highly place d. The Word of God says the barren will be a mother of children and the mother o f children will become barren. Brethren I do not want to be tedious unto you, one stroke of the cane is suffici ent to the wise, those who have ears to hear, let them hear. May God bless His H oly Words. THANK YOU FATHER.