A DISOBEDIENT CHILD IS WORTHY OF DEATH.

FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW Chapter 19 verse 19

"Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
."
SECOND BIBLE LESSON: LUKE Chapter 2 verse 51
"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: bu
t his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW Chapter 15 verse 4
"For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth f
ather or mother, let him die the death."
Brethren, that is our revelation this morning. Everybody should listen attentive
ly, most especially children. Last Sunday, you were given a sermon concerning pa
rents. You realized what actually causes problems for parents. Today, you are go
ing to learn what causes trouble for you children. The three lessons will tell y
ou what I have for you today.
There are complaints children die, or, they are not prosperous, or, they are sic
k and poor. It is because of what you will hear this morning. This will show you
, any person who rejects Our Lord Jesus Christ and refuses to abide by His instr
uctions has no life. All the sufferings of children, death, sickness, wretchedne
ss, ill-luck, arise not from parents but from the children themselves.
Many children complain, their parents do not maintain them, educate them, feed a
nd clothe them. They should not blame their parents but they should blame themse
lves for their failure to abide by the words of Christ, which says, children sho
uld obey their parents. The injunction to honor parents is not a man-made law or
regulation made by parents, but the law of God. From the lesson, you will notic
e God says honor your father and mother. It does not say Moses says, BUT GOD SAY
S. The law states, any person who does not honor his father and his mother shoul
d die. Have children kept this injunction and lived according to the instruction
?
That is the problem affecting the whole world. The number of years you spend in
a university learning cannot save you; your position in life cannot save you eit
her. You may be rich or poor, sick or healthy, you may be a stranger, none of th
ese will help you. The only salvation is for a child to honor his father and mot
her. No matter how great or small you may be, if you do not honor your parents,
you should pray fervently for yourself. The first duty small children should per
form is to honor their parents. What does it mean to honor your parents? It is t
o obey them and abide by their instructions and pieces of advice. As a child, yo
u have to do whatever your father tells you to do. You have no right to add or s
ubtract.
You can remember the story of Abraham and his son Isaac. God directed Abraham to
give Isaac as a sacrifice. God instructed Abraham to go to a place he named and
to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. The journey to the place of sacrifice took three
days and three nights. Abraham instructed his son Isaac to gather materials for
the sacrifice, and he travelled with him. Isaac obeyed his father and he did no
t ask him where they were going to. He followed his father to where the sacrific
e was to take place. After the alter had been set up, Isaac asked his father whe
re the sacrificial lamb was after Isaac had set the alter and ignited the sacrif
icial flame. Abraham answered: "God Himself will provide the sacrificial lamb."
Abraham then pounced on Isaac, held him by the neck, with the intent of cutting
off his head. Isaac on his part, did not resist. It was because of this obedienc
e, God provided Abraham with a sacrificial lamb. When the angel of God called un
to him out of heaven: "Abraham, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
anything unto him, for now I know, thou feareth God seeing thou has not withhel
d thy son, thy only son from me."
I have never heard of any child who disobeyed his parents and was blessed by God
or by his parents. There is no excuse or exemption from this law; if in the pas
t you were disobedient to your parents, you have to take stock of your life and
make amends by honoring and obeying your parents, and accepting their instructio
ns implicitly. No child has any right to do what he likes because if you do what
you like, you have disobeyed your parents, and you are worthy of death. Two coc
ks cannot crow on the same roof.
From the beginning of the world, this law was in existence: children should be o
bedient to their parents. If you fail to abide by your father's instructions, ev
en if you are angry with him, you are worthy of death. Children are tools for th
eir parents and for the services of God, whether they gain or lose. Your duty as
a child is to obey your parents, and submit to them. It is because of the disob
edience of children many parents suffer, thereby inflicting double suffering on
their parents. Parents are not mad, they are only offended by the insubordinatio
n of their children, their anger is therefore not from them but from God.
Reuben, the first son of Jacob became intimate with his father's wife, and so he
defiled his father's bed. Is that what a child should do to his father? For tha
t reason Jacob cursed him that he would never prosper. Why was he cursed? It was
because he did not honor his parents. If he had honored his father, he would no
t have been cursed. Jacob again cursed Simeon and Levite for their disobedience
to him. This was so because Jacob had made peace with the man who committed forn
ication with his daughter and he had pardoned him. But Simeon and Levite went be
hind and surreptitiously killed the man involved. For that reason, Jacob cursed
them, the sword will never depart from their houses. He vowed saying, "my soul w
ill have nothing to do with these persons because they have disobeyed me."
There is no young person who wants God's blessing but disobeys parents. You have
to obey your father implicitly, even if he tells you to put your hand into the
fire, you have to obey him. Whatever your father commands you to do, do it so yo
u will receive blessing from God. Now you want your father to bless you, have yo
u obeyed his instructions? No matter how you have been loved by your parents, un
less you are obedient to them, they cannot bestow any blessings on you. Today it
is a common saying by the children, they are not under anyone, and they are of
age, since they are twenty-one. Brethren, this is the cause of trouble in the wo
rld today. Nowadays, no child obeys his parents. You should realize, until you o
bey your parents, you cannot obey God. All disobedient children abide in death,
in wretchedness, and destruction. If you do not honor your parents, it does not
matter whether you wail, fast or pray, you cannot be saved. All children who jok
e with their parents do not love their lives.
WRITE UP AND SPREAD THIS GOSPEL ALL OVER THE WORLD, TELLING THEM THE CAUSE OF TR
OUBLES, SICKNESS, AND DEATH, POVERTY, AND ILL-LUCK IS THE RESULT OF THE DISOBEDI
ENCE OF CHILDREN TO THEIR PARENTS. You complain, you are worried by mermaid, gho
st, witchcraft, these things are not in existence. Your trouble is, you do not o
bey your parents. You do not want to submit to them. An adage says, the water ya
m is never greater than the knife. Have you ever seen a servant greater than the
master? No matter what you are in the world, your parents are greater than you
before God. Have you ever heard, it is the least who should bless the great, or
it is the great who should bless the least? All you do to your father is what re
flects on you. If you incur the displeasure of your parents, you cannot receive
any blessing from them. If you come across any person so blessed, such a person
is known to have been very obedient to his parents, and for that reason they ble
ssed him. Now, when you are attending church service, your children will go to p
lay football, visit cinema houses, hotel or disco theater.
The most prevalent complaint of parents for the suffering of their children is s
aid to be witchcraft. This is not true. The children suffer because they do not
obey their parents. Conduct investigation to find out how many disobedient child
ren receive blessing from God. If you want God's blessing, you should not fail t
o honor your parents and walk according to their instructions. Many people say,
they fear God but they do not fear anybody else. This is a very wrong assumption
. You have to obey your parents whether they are poor or incapacitated.
Any person who obeys his parents cannot ask them any questions. Who are you to a
sk your father any questions when he instructs you to do anything? If you should
do that, then of course, you must die. Who are you to murmur against your fathe
r for giving you instructions? Who are you to be annoyed against your father for
advising you? If you should ask any questions, you are inviting death. Whatever
your parents ask you to do, you should obey them implicitly, in order to receiv
e God's blessings.
You complain, your children do not obey you, did you obey your parents? When you
complain, your children do not look after you or carry out your instructions, d
id you obey your parents and carry out their instructions? Did you receive their
blessings? Brethren, have you realized why the whole world is cursed? It is bec
ause of the disobedience of the children. The whole land is accursed. Do not beg
in to say no matter how disobedient my children are, provided they live for me,
I am happy. God does not accept such a plea. Prayer and fasting cannot set it as
ide. A child who is disobedient to his parents cannot be submissive to his teach
er, a disobedient child can never be submissive to the church nor to the governm
ent. Notice a disobedient child is not only a nuisance but, he is also useless.
That is why, you find that the whole world is filled with prostitutes, vagabonds
, bastards, and all other undesirable people.
You complain, you suffer, you have to suffer, because you disobey your parents.
If you want blessings from your father, you have to obey him, whether he is righ
t or wrong, wherever he may be, so in the end you will be blessed by God. Brethr
en, I make this revelation to you with tears in my eyes because the whole world
has gone astray from the path of rectitude, and this is leading to destruction.
The disobedience of the children disturbs the parents' mind. Who says, when he h
as a child and the child is not obedient to him, such a parent will be happy and
peaceful? Which child says, if he disobeys his parents he can have peace? Till
doomsday, such a child can never have peace. Money is nothing. Children are of n
o value, what is important is blessing and everlasting life. Your father advises
you but you reject his advice, in the course of time, when you begin to suffer,
then you seek help from necromancers. Any child who does anything without the a
pproval of his parents has not only abused his parents, but he has also incurred
upon himself the anger of God. You complain, wherever you go to, you meet with
no success, search yourself, if you have not disobeyed your parents.
FIRST BIBLE LESSON: MATTHEW Chapter 19 verse 19
"Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
."
Brethren, have you heard that: the law, which says, honor your father and your m
other, was not given by man but by God your creator. It is also your duty to you
r father and to your mother.
Remember the first son of Noah, who was cursed by the father for laughing at the
father's nakedness after Noah got drunk and stripped himself naked. The second
son, upon seeing his father naked, covered him up and carried him to a place of
rest, and when the incident was reported to Noah, he cursed the first son.
That curse passed on from one generation to another, of the descendants of Noah'
s first son. Sodom and Gomorrah: the direct descendants of the first son of Noah
were the inhabitants of the two cursed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which in t
he end was consumed with fire. You say you do not joke with God, but you joke wi
th your parents. But for your father, would you have known your mother and but f
or your mother, would you have known the world?
The anger of God is upon the children of disobedience. Who are you to argue with
your father, and who are you to do something without the approval of your fathe
r? You are advised by your father and that advise you reject outright. The troub
le in the world stems from the children's disobedience. If you do not honor your
father and your mother, there is no luck for you. No person should joke with hi
s parents' advice, whether that advice was given in their presence or absence. S
ince God has vowed by His name He will never regret. Remember the incident in wh
ich Abraham went with some people to the land of his birth to get a wife for his
son Isaac. Isaac did not know about the arrangement and when he got to know, he
did not object to the proposal. When his wife was brought to him, he accepted w
ithout question. It was because Jacob obeyed his mother, he was blessed. When Es
au wanted to kill him, the mother advised Jacob to run to her country and Jacob
obeyed without argument.
We always profess to obey God, when in actuality we disobey our parents. There a
re many incidents in the Bible, enough incidents to serve as deterrents to any o
ne who is still disobedient to his father and mother, because all disobedient ch
ildren are worthy of death. If we were to be obedient to our Fathers and mothers
, the world would have been better than what we see today. Has Our Lord Jesus Ch
rist not taught us a lesson on obedience?
The first duty of a child is to obey his father and mother. He was the Son of ma
n, Son of God and God Himself. In spite of this, He did not do anything to disgr
ace His earthly parents; just to show you, this is the first commandment with a
promise. Remember when He followed His parents to the feast of Passover in Jerus
alem, when He was twelve years old. He was in the temple, arguing with lawyers,
when His parents went away without His notice. For three days, His parents did n
ot see Him and so they went back to Jerusalem to look for Him. When they met him
engaged in hot argument with the lawyers, they asked Him why He did not go back
with them and He told them: "Must I not do the work of my father?"
Since He knew the first commandment was that children should honor their parents
, He did not argue with them, He withdrew from the temple and followed His paren
ts home. Have you read anywhere Our Lord Jesus Christ was disobedient to his par
ents? If you can substantiate, I shall also quote many more passages to prove to
you, Our Lord Jesus Christ was very obedient to his parents. When the second le
sson is read, it will prove to you beyond every reasonable doubt, Our Lord Jesus
Christ whom you say you know so well, never rebelled against His parents.
SECOND BIBLE LESSON: LUKE Chapter 2 verse 51
"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: bu
t his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."
Have you heard that brethren? Our Lord Jesus Christ submitted to His earthly par
ents, whereas He had God as His Father in heaven. That Father in heaven had give
n a law: Honor your mother and father; and it was for this reason, he submitted
to His parents in order to obey the instructions of the Father who is in heaven.
Of all the men born of women, in the whole world, who is greater than Our Lord
Jesus Christ? Apart from Our Lord Jesus Christ, which other person, in the whole
world has been so blessed? Was Our Lord Jesus Christ blessed because He disobey
ed His parents or because He obeyed them and submitted to their will? Have you b
een told, when He was questioned by His parents He retorted? He did not argue or
question their authority, but he quietly followed them when they called His att
ention to the fact, they were worried because he was missing. The first and the
most important duty you have to perform is to obey your father and mother. Do no
t disobey them for reasons of poverty or deficiency in education. Obey them and
carry out their instructions. The first request of parents to God is children. I
t is not true, children are bewitched by their parents who requested for them. R
ather it is the disobedience of children which brings them problems. The usefuln
ess of the children consists in their obedience. It is the disobedience of child
ren that has caused the parents not to enjoy their children as they should.
Parents suffer because of the insubordination of their children. The result is t
hat the punishments of the children are placed on the parents and those of the p
arents are placed on the children. Notice, when Christ went to the wedding feast
at Canaan, He extended his obedience to the mother there. When the people ran s
hort of wine, the mother approached Christ, knowing fully well what He is capabl
e of doing, and told Him they had run out of wine. Our Lord Jesus Christ told th
e mother: "Woman what have I to do with you, my time is not yet up." Indeed His
time was not yet up to wrought that miracle, yet because he wanted to obey the l
aw which says, honor your mother and your father, He had to do it. She instructe
d the people to do whatsoever He would direct them to do. Since it was not yet H
is time, He did it and no person took cognizance of the miracle. He only did it
in obedience to His mother. However, today children reject the advice of their p
arents with the excuse, they are directed by the Holy Spirit. If they were direc
ted by the Holy Spirit, and God dwells in them, they would not have disobeyed th
eir parents, because the same spirit which directs them, also directs children s
hould obey their parents.
Therefore brethren, it is never too late to make amends. We should repent and re
trace our steps to where we had fallen. If we had been in the habit of disobeyin
g our parents, we should turn a new leaf, and begin to obey their instructions n
o matter what their status is in life.
Brethren, see the source of trouble in the world. The same factor is responsible
for trouble and confusion in the government, in the company, in your village, o
r town or city, as well as in your family and within your immediate household.
The resultant effect is, we cannot have children of promise, and that is why we
cannot have Children of God. Any child who does not honor his father and his mot
her is not a Child of God, because this promise was not only for Abraham but for
all his children. EACH AND EVERYONE OF us SHOULD BE REPENTANT OF OUR DISOBEDIEN
CE TO OUR PARENTS. GOD HAS NEVER DISGRACED HIMSELF AND TILL ETERNITY, HIS LAWS A
RE EVERLASTING INSTRUCTIONS.
I only read this lesson from a book for you because you are doubting Thomases, b
ut I started, even before the age of five, to be acquainted with this law, that
a child should honor his parents. It is the first commandment. No child has any
right to disobey, to disgrace or to question his father. If you do it, you will
have to be punished. Even if he is a criminal, a drunkard, a rogue, you have to
love, respect, support and co-operate with him for a purpose. That is for you to
love and obey him. He did not say we should quarrel and fight with him. He has
the right to beat you up or to discipline you as he likes whenever you default.
Parents of obedient children are very proud people. When children are obedient t
here is happiness in the family between the parents and children. There is peace
and there is love, whether they eat or not. Nowadays, you hardly can find a fam
ily with happiness. Every family groans because no child is prepared to obey his
parents. Education does not cure this sickness, wealth cannot do it either. For
the world to be good, you have to spread this gospel to all the nooks and crann
ies of the world. Send it especially to those who claim to be learned and tell t
hem, as long as they continue to disobey their parents, there will continue to b
e calamities in the world.
GOLDEN TEXT: MATTHEW Chapter 15 verse 4
"For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth f
ather or mother, let him die the death."
Brethren, do you understand the lesson? That is the source of your problem and t
rouble. A curse from any parent on his child or children is the beginning of pun
ishment. Disgrace from the parents is enough punishment to the children; the gro
aning in pain of children is also a punishment. Tell the world, God has instruct
ed all of mankind to honor their fathers and their mothers. If you do not honor
your parents, you will not fail to die. After insulting your parents, if death c
omes to you, you should not run away from it. Upon the number of hospitals, and
the doctors, consultants and nurses working in them; upon all the prayer houses;
and upon all the high strides in medical sciences to prevent death, it still co
mes because we have rejected one of our primary duties, that of obeying our pare
nts, for that reason the wrath of God is upon the children of disobedience.
We always pray to God to give us children, when they come they do not give us th
e least respect; they jump on our heads, do things which are disgraceful to us.
What is the use of having children? Before a child is bad outside the home, he w
as already a bad child in the house. Hence the adage which says, charity begins
at home. Respect, obedience, humility, love, self control, each of these virtues
begins at home. Whatever you are in your family, you will exhibit it outside. A
child who steals, fornicates or fights, has disobeyed his parents, and so he is
worthy of death.
There is nothing as precious as a child. You request God for him, take time to n
urture him, give him the necessary education and give him living pieces of advic
e in order to bring him up as an upright and great child. If this child does not
live up to the expectation of the father, he must die.
Most people suffer because of their children's recalcitrance. I have told you th
e story of Eli who suffered because of his children's disobedience. Perhaps if I
were to mention all those, who suffered because of their children's waywardness
, you would be convinced, God does not spare disobedient children. Job suffered
also because of the insubordination of his children. They did not obey their fat
her, and neither did they abide by his instructions, and they equally rejected t
he Word of God. It was because of this, they suffered and the father also suffer
ed. God handed over Job and all he had to Satan, to do unto them as he liked. Si
nce his children were wayward, he had to suffer from the hands of Satan.
You pray God should help your children because of you; why did God not use the o
bedience of Job to save his children? Now you instruct your children not to indu
lge in any vices, but they do not heed your advice. When they begin to suffer, y
ou go on ministry work, fast, and make a feast to help your children live; if at
the end of your struggles they still die, it is a loss to you. Any person who e
ncourages or abets the commission of any sin, is an accomplice, he must therefor
e suffer as a sinner.
You always complain, people do not live long when they do not submit to their pa
rents. They insult, abuse, disgrace, and hurt their parents and such children mu
st not fail to die. All of you are parents, if there is any person who says his
children are obedient to him, he should confirm. The fact, God says love your ch
ildren, and you pray for them, and you act accordingly, does not mean, when they
disobey you, they should not suffer and die. Afterwards Our Lord Jesus Christ,
when on the cross prayed to God to forgive the people because they did not know
what they were doing. Has his prayers prevented the Jews from suffering until to
day? Many people say they do not know what to do to receive the blessing of God:
well, obey your father and mother, and God will bless you.
The Roman Catholic Mission when they pray, they call on the Virgin Mary to pray
for them. This they do, not because they cannot pray; but because, they believe
since they show respect to the Holy Mother of Jesus, she will in turn put their
supplication before God through the Son. They always have at the back of their m
inds the incident at Canaan and they know, since Our Lord Jesus Christ obeyed hi
s mother, and performed the miracle even when His time was not yet up, and so th
ey believe, whatever request they place before the Son through the mother will b
e granted. And so it is not morally safe to condemn the action of any person wit
hout first investigating it. It would be like the six blind men, who went to lea
rn about an elephant, and at the end they all had six different notions of what
the elephant looks like. WHENEVER YOU FIND PEOPLE WHOSE LIFE GO SMOOTHLY, AFTER
INVESTIGATION, YOU WILL FIND, THEY WERE NEVER DISOBEDIENT TO THEIR PARENTS.
Do not do anything that will bring disrespect to your parents. There is an adage
which says, a child dances to unearth the debt of his father. If you misbehave,
people will normally make reference to your family: "leave him alone, he is beh
aving like his father, he cannot behave better." When you find a person who find
s it difficult to progress in life, if you investigate, it will be revealed, he
did not obey his parents.
The church has contributed in no small way to the disobedience of children to th
eir parents. This is so because the church urges it members to give to God what
is due to God, and to the parents what they are worth. God has never told you to
disobey your parents. Hitherto you have disobeyed your parents through ignoranc
e. You call them witches, wizards and you allege, they want to kill your childre
n. How do they want to kill your children, when they had suffered so much in bri
nging you up? It is indeed your disobedience to parents that has brought upon yo
u the wrath of God.
You respect and obey millionaires, professors, presidents, governors, but you di
sobey your parents who brought you into this world; and you think, you will not
die. It is evident that all the respect you pay to people are mere flattery, bec
ause if you were to be serious, the first person you would have respected would
have been your parents. This instruction is however not for everybody because th
ere are certain people who never disobeyed their parents, they are born so, and
the spirit of obedience is inborn in them.
Any person who does not obey his parents cannot obey God. If you come across any
person who says, "even my parents do not do that to me, and they cannot speak t
o me anyhow," you should be very careful with such a person. If he offends you a
nd you go to report to the parents, they will also tell you, we cannot speak to
him because he appears to be greater than us.
It is a common experience to find a boy taking a girl from the street as a wife
without the consent of the parents. If the parents object to his choice there is
trouble. He will disown the mother and father, where as in the past it was the
duty of parents to look for wives for their children. But now it is the girl who
brings a boy to introduce to her father as her husband. If there is any objecti
on from the parents, she tells them they should accept her friend because nothin
g would prevent her from marrying a person of her choice. The boy behaves very m
uch in the same way. If however in the end trouble erupts and the husband and wi
fe do not get along, wizards and mermaid would be blamed for the discord. Most o
f the sufferings of parents result from their children's recalcitrance. Sometime
s you do not drink, but your son steals a bottle of whisky and for that disgrace
to you and your family you collapse and die.
Disobedience of children is the order of the day in every family, but that does
not prevent God from doing His work. Can you say, any child who does not allow t
he mother to rest can also rest?
Any child who does not obey his parents is already judged and he must not fail t
o die the prescribed death. There are many cases nowadays of children taking up
matchets against their parents, for the allegation, their parents want to kill t
hem. The Bible says: "AND WITH ALL DECEIT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THEM THAT PERISH
BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED AND FOR
THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSIONS THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE."
Your mother has not done anything to you; your problem is yourself. You claim t
o be educated, a rich man, for that reason you suffer and die. Confusion is noti
ced everywhere, in the universities, in colleges of education, secondary schools
, even in elementary schools because of the disrespect of children to adults. Ho
w then can they have life?
One stroke of the cane is sufficient to the wise. Those who have ears, let them
hear. May God bless His Holy words. Amen.
THANK YOU HOLY FATHER.