OGUDU, LAGOS — MANY NIGERIANS have chosen beautifully spoken English over the truth about the word of God—millions of Nigerians are lured by fluency in the language with focus on the material acquisition of the church which they use to describe how big the pastor of the church is, ignoring the need to seek out through prayers who the pastor is and whether or not this is a church built by God. The church of God which is supposed to be one as the body of Christ, is today promoting the embers of disunity and thanks in large part to the doctrines which is unfortunately maintained as the focus instead of the word of God. Doctrine is dividing the body of Christ and, as a result, promoting ungodliness, which is trampling on the fundamental desire to be Godly. People are gloriously fooling themselves in their ungodliness, going to churches that suit their lifestyle rather than the church that preaches the need to be broken by the word of God, let alone know God—ungodliness reigns supreme in Nigeria today because the church that is supposed to hold fast to the truth has subdued it with their diverse doctrines.

The Word of Godfrey Times was at the El-Shaddai Salvation Family Ministries when the lead pastor, Apostle Benson Enakhena, informed the congregation, “In anything you pursue on earth, if you are not chasing heaven as your primary aim, you are a fool.”

During his sermon on ‘Godliness,’ the fiery servant of God said this, portraying it as the passport to heaven.

But what really is Godliness? What is the first qualification for a Godly man? Answers to these and more can be found in the message below.

Godliness is the quality or practice of conforming to the law and wishes of God. Being able to fast and pray, or having the voice to worship and praise God, quote all the verses in the Bible, is it why you look at a man and say wow, he is Godly? A Godly person is someone who is deeply in a relationship with God. Is obedient to the word of God. A Godly man is a man that fears God. That obeys God. A man that puts himself in a position of God before taking any decision. How do you put yourself in the position of God? When a man hurts you, before you react, you say if it were God how will He have handled this?

What you must know is your tithes and offerings alone will not take you to heaven. Being a pastor mounting the pulpit will not open the door of heaven for you. Being a choir master or mistress, head of prayer warrior, being a prophet or prophetess seeing from Genesis to Revelation is not a key that you are there in heaven.

The first criteria of a Godly man is to be contented with whatever God gives to you. A man that is fighting to gain everything in the whole world is like a man going to the market carrying stove, pot, water and all the ingredients to cook food. If you find such a man in the market what will you call him? A mad man. You will ask him, are you not going back home in the evening? That is a man that is storing everything on earth. We are fighting here and there we want to make everything. You build one, you want to build two, three, four…you want to have five children…you are saying God I have a female I need a male. I have a male I need a female. Ask yourself, 90 percent of the things you are requesting, which one of them will take you to heaven. You have to be Godly to make heaven… there’s no other way. Because heaven is meant for saints. Let no man deceive you. Your money will not take you to heaven. Your wealth will not take you to heaven. The title given to you on earth, be you Pope, be you Bishop, an Apostle or a Reverend, a trillionaire, they are just titles and not a ticket to heaven. Your ticket to heaven is Godliness.

1 Timothy 4:8. Empty you came, empty you shall go back. Whether they use 2 billion cars or a diamond as a coffin to bury you, everything will rotten. In fact the deceased body will be in trouble. Do you know why? Gold diggers are there, they will dig it out, throw the carcass away and go with the diamond. Burying a man with such a thing you are even putting the body in trouble. When you came to this world you were naked but today you say the cloth I am putting on does not befit my body…that body that will rot away. The car I am driving does not befit my status. What is your status or what status do you have? This phone I am using, am more than this level. Are you more than the level of hell fire? Are you beyond the environs of hell fire? Or do you surpass the woes of death? And when the death comes, where is your home? After death there’s a home. Either hell fire or heaven. “In anything you pursue on earth, if you are not pursuing heaven as your primary goal, you are a fool.”

Somebody told me that Pastor I will never pay tithe. I said your tithe will not make God to grow. Tithing is meant for bone chewers and not for milk drinkers like you.

If God can raise up sand to be like him, why do you think God cannot raise up stone to be better than you.

People are busy buying burial grounds for N25m but totally ignoring their salvation that is free. If you go to a man that has bought his own grave for N25m, you will find that he has never empowered one person before. The brother’s children are walking on the streets carrying file looking for a job of 30,000 naira. Then you say you will make heaven. As we are here now how many of us can say yes if rapture takes place I am going to heaven? If you die now even that phone you are holding in the church thinking you can’t do without it, your wife will take over. Or your brother will tell your wife give me that phone. They will begin to fight over that phone—that you cannot switch off and listen to God. Your car key becomes another man’s own. Why are we killing ourselves on things that will not take us to heaven?

I told someone that I am not giving my 1/10 to God because I want Him to bless me. It is because I want to make Heaven. I don’t want anything that will hang on my way.

A Godly man does not hold grudges!! Neither is he sentimental. No, I can’t bless him, he is a Hausa man from the North—in every tribe of the world, there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly, there’s no perfect tribe in the whole world. When I was in Kano, a Hausa man saved my life severally. But now I know that God knows how to save Godly people unknown to them.

What are you doing at the moment that will make God to go out of his way to bless you? There are things God saw in Job that He told Satan, have you seen my Son Job?

To be Godly is to be contented. 1 Timothy 6:6-7.

There’s a constitution to heaven, Jesus Christ has released it to us. Are we living by that constitution? Are we obeying that constitution? If you see the crowd gathered today in the church, 90 percent of them are looking for solution not salvation. What happened to salvation? If you have no relationship with God you cannot make it to heaven. Let no man lie to you. No man is comfortable with a stranger in his house. (No matter how powerful you are. In fact the more powerful you are the more suspicious you become) study the word. Know God. Have a relationship with God not with your pastor or your prayer partner who is nothing but a mortal being. He can be the one behind your problem. He can deceive you, sell you out to the enemies. But God will never sell you out.

God did not tell Satan not to touch Job, He said but thou shall not touch his soul. How have you been interested on where your soul is going to? Have you been bothering yourself over it? There’s a life after death, let no man deceive you.

Reflect the image of Jesus wherever you are, that is what makes you a Godly man. To be a Godly man is to be mindful of the Spirit. Jude 1:22-23

Don’t be a professor of Bible without impartation.

Anything you receive from God is not for you, is for others. The reason for planting a seed is not for itself because it is going to die and germinate and bear fruit for others to benefit. God made me a pastor is not for myself.

When God’s gift becomes everything to you, then your gift is questionable.

When you are godly you are outstanding because you have compassion for people. You show mercy always.

All these have said seem heavy but with God all things are possible.

A Godly man is a giver who gives to somebody that have nothing to offer in return. And some give to you to close your mouth or to use you. Many pastors cannot speak the truth today because they have eaten the forbidden fruit from people. You can’t bribe me.

A Godly man forgives easily. What is to forgive easily? Nothing brings back that anger or triggers it. Erase it, don’t edit or throw it in a recycle bin. A Godly man is a kind-hearted man that is ready to share. He is a solution provider. You cannot be in the spirit and you run away from trouble. Keep quiet and listen to God, He is saying something.

A Godly man is a bridge builder. A Godly man is focused.

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