10 Questions Christians Are Afraid to Ask (Answered)

Are we ready? Thank God for that. What a great start. If satan is a fallen angel, if satan is a fallen angel, does that mean angels have the capacity to sin? Yes, they had, but no longer.

But they did have the capacity to make a mistake. That's why one of these angels is now called satan. He was an angel and in fact he was what he was the most beautiful angel ever and he was from the highest angelic rank called the cherubims.

Cherubims in heaven are equivalent to patriarch or pope on earth. The highest rank in the church is the pope or the patriarch. The same meaning as the cherubim in the angelic order, the highest rank.

He was full of eyes, meaning full of knowledge, extremely knowledgeable, extremely beautiful, extremely perfect, but one thing he lacked, humility. Pride engulfed him and pride destroyed him forever. If there is one thing you need to pray and ask the Lord Jesus to grant you is humility and to preserve you, protect you from pride.

The most dangerous mistake ever anyone could make, including angels. So pride engulfed him. Now why angels were able to decide? Because God created everyone based on love, including heaven, the angelic or the angels of heaven.

Since God is love, everything he created was based on love and because it is the true divine love that created the heaven angels and the earth humans, therefore with love there must be something called freedom. It is indispensable, it is inseparable freedom to love. You cannot separate freedom from love because the moment you take freedom out, you can never live this love, you can never share this love.

It is the freedom that allows you to live it, to live the love and to share the love. Without freedom love cannot exist. So God is love and with love freedom and with freedom there has to be choices.

Otherwise how are you going to say that you are free if you do not have the choice to decide on? If God had created me on the basis of love and gave me the freedom and then said to me you have only one way to walk in, only one path, I'm no longer free. I have been forced to walk in a way that was chosen for me, not chosen by me. So therefore there is love, there has to be freedom, with freedom choices, with choices the will.

The will, one of the most powerful tools God ever gave the human race. The will that allows you to say yes and allows you to say no, including God. You can stop God from entering your life.

So when God created the angels, he created them on the basis of love, he gave them the freedom to choose. But since angels were created in a realm that has no time in it, time is absent, it is called eternal realm. Since they were created in the eternal realm, eternal realm has no time, therefore whatever those beings decide to choose, that choice will be made once and once only forever.

What makes humans able to come back and say sorry Lord, I made a mistake, it's time. If it wasn't for time, we wouldn't have been able to come back and ask for forgiveness. That's why God out of his infinite mercy and grace, when he came to create the human being, he created the human being out of the eternal realm.

And what brings us out of the eternal realm is one thing and one thing only, it is called time. Time is a distraction to eternity. The moment the spirit leaves the body, the spirit is no longer governed by time, it enters eternity, that's it, too late, no comeback.

So that's why angel, this angel, when he decided to be like God, pride engulfed him and he said, God you are sovereign authority, I want to be like you, pride. So since pride engulfed him, that decision was made once and forever because angels were created in an eternal realm where time does not exist. That's why their choice was only once, there is not another second for me to come back, there is not another minute, another hour, another day, maybe I made a mistake today, I'll come back tomorrow and I say sorry.

In the eternal realm, there is no tomorrow, it is one continuous present tense forever. That's why the angel cannot come back and say sorry, otherwise God would have forgiven him. You see how much God loves the human race.

He gave us time out of grace because God knew we will make mistakes and that's why he gave us the time, to give us the time to come back and say sorry. So the angels fell once and once forever, he can't go back and this is why Satan is furious against any human who invokes the name Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He's furious because he says, I can't go back to heaven and you want to take my place, I won't let that happen.

If I don't make it to heaven, nobody makes it. Because a boastful person or a prideful spirit is selfish because pride leads to selfishness. When you have self-pride, you will only love yourself, no one else.

And when you love yourself, it's a fake love. It's a fake love because love has to come from God. There is only one source to love and that is God.

Anyone who tries to create love outside of God's circle, they're wasting their life and their time and their energy. That's why Satan is selfish because of pride. He hates every human being to the core and he tries very hard to cause division amongst this beautiful family.

He tries to cause division. Humility is the key to success. Ask the Lord for humility.

You will live happily ever after, trust me. Why is bread used to symbolize the body of Christ and wine for the blood of Christ? This will be a topic that will take about three, four, five lectures. Thank you.

That was quick. God willing, we will do a topic in depth and in detail, biblical references left, right, and center as to why the Lord chose the bread to be his body and the wine to be his blood. And then we'll go into why is it the true body and the true blood, not symbolic, true body and true blood.

Biblically, this good looking bishop will prove it to you biblically. God willing. Are dinosaurs real? Biblically speaking? Yes, they were real, but they became extinct.

Until now, archaeologists, you know, they discover these fossils and sometimes all these skeletons. And you could see that there were like some massive creatures once upon a time on this planet. So dinosaurs, yes.

But let me tell you one thing. For the first 2000 years, from Adam to the flood of our father Noah, everything was vegetarian, including if there was dinosaurs in that period, they would have been vegetarian, not meat eaters, you know. So and those massive giant dinosaurs, they would have been also a very, very sort of domesticated and they were like pets.

Not all of them were vicious. Some of them were like pets. So imagine like holding a dinosaur that is a skyscraper and you've got a rope around its neck and walking in Fairfield.

Isn't that wonderful? Or take it into, you know, a Westfield shopping center. A warm fit and no car park and no car, nothing. Amazing.

So yeah, they were dinosaurs, but they became extinct at some stage. Does each of us possess a gift of the Holy Spirit? The answer in a nutshell, yes. How do we know if we do have or have not? Ask and it shall be given unto you.

If you haven't discovered it yet, ask the Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit, by the love of God, the father and the Lord will reveal what kind of a gift he has given you. Or maybe gifts, not just one. Now the Holy Spirit does two things in a human being.

There are the gifts or the fruits of the Holy Spirit and there are the graces of the Holy Spirit. Graces and fruits. Graces, preaching like the bishop is preaching to you.

That is a grace of the Holy Spirit. Yes. Healing somebody, you pray on someone and they get healed.

That is a grace. Prophesying, that is a grace. The fruit, the first fruit in the Holy Spirit is love.

Now the graces of the Holy Spirit do not save the person who is carrying them, but they save the person who is listening to them and accepting them. So when I'm standing here and I'm preaching to you, when you hear the word of the Lord Jesus through this useless vessel, when you hear the word and you accept the word, believe in it and you take it and put it in the core of your heart and live by it, this will save you. But the preaching will not save me, will save you if you believe in what you have just heard.

It doesn't save me. So the grace saves that listener, not the one who carries it. But the fruits saves the one who carries it, not the one who listens to it, the other way around.

So the first fruit is love. Now the fruit saves the one who carries it. When you come and show love and people give it back to you, the opposite, blessed are you for you've done your job.

Don't ever get angry, don't ever retaliate, don't ever revenge for yourself. Let God do it his way and his way is always good. So show love, why? Because the fruit of the spirit saves the one who carries it, not the one who receives it.

So when you show love, you've done your role, whatever happens thereafter, none of your business. Bless them if they tell you off and if they harm you and if they hurt you, bless them in the name of the Lord and walk away happily ever after. I thank you Lord Jesus.

And you can say to them in Arabic, Habib Albi, I will make you tabbouleh and baba ghanoush and if you're Italian, the best Italiano pizza. And if you're French, oh la la, I'll bring you, you know, the best croissant from Paris. Relax, don't be upset.

Thank the Lord, be happy. Are white lies justified? No. In Christianity, my beloved, we do not have a white lie or a black lie, we have just a lie.

You're either speaking a lie or the truth, there is nothing in between. So a white lie just to justify the situation, no, no, no, say it as it is. There's this Aussie comedian, his name is, oh my goodness, I'm getting old, something barren, Karl Barron, thank, oh you know, I thought you watched my videos guys, thank you very much.

Well, Karl Barron, I just promoted your brother, so g'day mate, how you going, all right, let's go. All right, so Karl Barron, a typical Aussie from Queensland, he said, one day I went to this concert, it was one of these country singers, and every time he came to sing this country song, he would say this, I'm going to play this song, and it goes a little something like this. Every time before he plays, and it goes a little something like this.

He said, I was going to get up and say to him, listen mate, what do you mean a little something like this? Haven't you, haven't you like sort of nailed the song as yet? How many times have you played it? Haven't you memorized it and nailed it? You should say, and I'm going to play it exactly like this. What is this a little something like this? It is either exactly like this, or it's nothing. It's either the truth, or it's a lie.

Yes, a little something like this doesn't work, exactly like this. That's the way you play it. Okay, so we thank Karl Barron for giving us this insight, so we can implement it in a biblical way.

It's very funny, Karl Barron, it's very funny. Yes, good on you, mate. Go Aussie Aussie, baby.

Why must I do confession if I can just repent to God? Sometimes repenting before someone you don't see with your naked eye is a lot easier than repenting before someone you see with your own eyes. You know, it's very awkward. You know, sit in front of somebody, and you just tell them what you've done.

It's very difficult, you know, but to God, I don't see him physically, so it's a lot easier. Lord, please forgive me, and I got away with it. But when I sit in front of someone, and I confess, I started, I start sweating it out.

You know, it's very awkward, embarrassing, you name it. So I become much more focused when I do that in front of a person that I see with my own eyes. And the Lord Jesus says, He gave the authority to the priesthood rank, which we will be also addressing the priesthood in the biblical sense, and we will prove it to you biblically that there are priests chosen by the Lord Himself.

Not all are priests. There are some chosen for a specific task that they have to fulfill for His beloved church. And the Lord says, You call a priest to pray on you, to anoint you for the forgiveness of sins.

The epistle of James. Read it, my beloved. And the Lord in John 20, 23, when after resurrection, He called the 11 disciples, the apostles, and He breathed into them.

He said, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you hold a person's sin on earth, it will be held in heaven. And if you forgive that sin, it will be forgiven in heaven.

Those apostles were priests, my beloved, but not all Israel was were priests, not the Lord chose certain people to be priests. We will do it. We'll need about maybe 10 lectures about that.

There will be some biblical teaching in the very near future. We have to be equipped. We have to know the truth.

No hard feeling, nothing personal here. Is it true that our soulmate is written on our forehead before we are even born? Also, what happens if we have rejected the guy and it turns out to be our soulmate? Will God make another way? It's all right. It's a legit question.

It's a very reasonable question. And whoever's written this question must be very concerned about the soulmate. Okay, put it this way.

Majority of humanity, I'm talking about humanity here, not Christians only, humanity. Majority of the human race, God intended for them to be married. Majority.

Okay, if I say 95% are to get married, 5% are to remain single, just for the argument's sake. But the majority, God's intention was for them to get married. That's why most of the humans on the face of this earth, they do get married.

There is only a little minority where God chose them to be for him. Now this, I come to the Christian faith and I'll say this, some are chosen to be monks, some are chosen to be nuns, not to get married. This is from God.

No human being can choose to live a way God did not choose it for them. No one can. And if they try it, they will suffer immensely and they'll give up at the end.

They will give up. If someone wants to be a monk, and it's not intended for that person to be a monk, God did not choose it, but they are forcing it, they will not last. One year, two years, ten years, they will leave.

They will leave, one million percent. Because this path we need to remember, it is God's path. We cannot fathom it with our human, minute, intellectual capacity.

We can never understand the depth and the wisdom of God with our intellectual level. That's why unless it's given to you by God, you can never live it, you can never do it. This bishop, it was given to him by God.

That's why he became a bishop. Otherwise, I can't. I would have run away a long time ago, especially after the stabbing.

No, no, I'm serious. But a human being can't handle a little situation. We lose it.

How are we going to handle God's way? Impossible. It's not difficult, it's impossible without God's grace and mercy carrying you. So let me put it this, to answer this question thoroughly.

God chose a soulmate for those whom he intended for them to get married. There is definitely a soulmate. Why? Because who chose for Adam a soulmate? God.

So who chooses your partner? God. Adam wouldn't have known. Even if he had seen Eve, he would have said, oh, I thought I was alone.

But when God said, put him into under a local or general anesthetic and took one rib and made out of that rib a woman, and then he called her to Adam and he said, okay, see, what do you think, Adam? So I'll put it this way. God chooses your partner in marriage for those whom he intends for them to get married. Yes, you do have a partner chosen by God.

However, even the partner chosen by God for you, God will never force you to marry that partner. So that partner will come your way. And if you are not close enough to God, you will miss your partner.

Is it possible? Yes. Yes, you will miss your partner. Because God will never force the chosen partner by him for you.

He will not force you to marry. He will not. But what will he do? He will give you indications, this is the person for you.

However, if you are stubborn, if you are distant from God, you could very easily miss that partner chosen by God for you. You can very easily miss it. Therefore, my beloved, what we need to do, since we, maybe we are at different levels in our relationship with Christ, then the safest way, the safest way is, number one, you must pray and ask the Lord Jesus for guidance.

You must. You need to pray. Secondly, after you pray, you need to use your head.

Okay? You need to use your head. If you are not sure you found somebody and something happened inside of you that you can't explain, and you're not sure if this is the right person for me or not, you run to the Lord. Say, Lord, please help me.

Is this the one for me or not? Am I choosing the right person for me or not? So you need to pray about it. You need to ask a priest. You need to ask, you know, a spiritual father, am I doing the right thing? Then, if you're not sure, no hard feelings.

Go out with the person. Go out one week. Come back and report to your spiritual father.

Report. You went out and you said you had your coffee, you had your dinner, you had your lunch, whatever it is. Okay, what was the conversation about? How did you engage? What did you talk about? What kind of topics that came up, that surfaced up between the two of you? Okay, did you have things in common or not? Now, my advice, even though this is not about marriage, but my advice to you, we will talk about marriage as well.

It's kind of a scary topic because those who are married, I'm afraid if I tell them what marriage is all about, after that they will just, definitely they will hang me. They will hang me. The first thing, especially you, my daughter, open your ears, my daughter, if you're still single.

If you're married, tough luck. Too late, baby. Just kidding.

Daughter, the first thing when you go out with this man who's interested in you, when you sit and talk to him, the first question you must ask him, do you love the Lord Jesus? Only makes sense because that's what marriage is all about. It's based and built on Christ. Now, I'm talking as a Christian, yes? I'm talking as a Christian now.

So, you need to ask one another, do you love the Lord? When I go to church, are you going to stop me or are you going to come with me? Or even better, are you going to take me with you to church? That's honeymoon. What honeymoon? Hawaii is not going to save you. Alishanze Lezay is not going to save you.

You will be shish kebab after honeymoon if you don't wake up to yourself. So, you need to ask these foundational questions. Do you love the Lord? If the two parties agrees on Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory to his holy and mighty name, then the foundation is laid.

You can build the house now. You cannot build the house without a foundation. You must lay the foundation and the foundation in marriage must be Christ, no one else, period.

Otherwise, you will encounter enormous trouble later on. If Christ is not the center of attention, you will base your attention on materialistic things. You will fight over materialism and you've lost the plot and missed the mark.

Marriage is in ruin, is in turmoil, and unfortunately and with sadness, I say this, so many marriages end up in divorces. God hates divorce and I can use the word hate. God hates divorce because God instituted marriage, not divorce.

Divorce is killing marriage, is murderous. I don't want to talk too much because it's a very sensitive area. So even if you've missed your soulmate, my beloved soul, don't worry.

God has his own ways of finding you someone that you will be happy with, but you need to be close to God. You need to be close to the Lord Jesus. You need to pray and ask.

You can't expect things to happen and you are totally distant and you are, you have forgotten about your Lord and you walked in the wrong path and you expect God to do it all for you. It's not fair. So if you love God and you want him to do things for you his way, you need to love him.

You need to give that love back to him. The love that he's given you on the cross, he's revealed it, he's illustrated that divine love fully on the cross when he died for you and rose from the dead for you and for all of us. So you need to be close to the Lord, ask him, pray and say, Lord, is this the right person for me or not? And you need a spiritual father to go back to.

So when you go out with this person one week, two weeks, report back to your spiritual father. Please, a piece of advice, don't go too much to your family members. And please, please, please do not make this mistake and go to your friends and seek their advice.

They are on the same level as you are. They're in the same boat. What are you going to say? What do you think, mate? Is she the right one? Yeah, mate, she's good looking.

You only live once, bro. Go for it, mate. If I were you, I would have married her tomorrow.

Lies. By the way, marriage is not fun. Marriage is not fun.

And you discover this after honeymoon. It's no longer honey. It's no longer honey, especially if you have a nagging wife.

Lord have mercy. The moment you walk through the front door, she's got a shopping list kind of a, you know, a list for you. You, you, you, you, woman, you didn't give me a chance to say hello.

Can you leave it for now? No. I bet you you were talking to your mother. Talk to her.

Yeah, go to your mom. Talk to her. She's ruined you.

The Lord Jesus must be the foundation. Must be the foundation. But if you've missed on your soulmate, don't worry, my darling, I will find you another soulmate.

Don't worry. The Lord is good if you ask for his help from the heart. The Lord is good.

The Lord is good. And by the way, so many marriages that started very troubled and ended up later on being quite beautiful. And some marriages started beautiful and ended up not so beautiful.

The success to a healthy marriage is the Lord Jesus. Trust me. Trust the Lord.

Not trust me. Trust the Lord. I've told you this story probably a few times.

It's a true story. This couple came to see me. They made an appointment and they came to see me.

So I wasn't sure what it was about. So I greeted them as I walked to welcome them into the office that straight away they said, Bishop, we are here for a divorce. I said the Arabic way.

Very good. I said, please come on in. You came to the right place.

You want to get a divorce? Not a problem. So I said them and I'm on the other side of the desk. And I said, who wants to start first? I think the husband started first.

He said a few things, quite a lengthy few things. And then she said a few lengthy things. Anyway, two and a half hours I was listening.

I did not make a whisper. Two and a half hours just listening. And then they went quiet.

I said, are you finished? They said, yes. I said, you sure daughter? You don't have anything in the drawer, in the cupboard, somewhere in a corner. Check your shopping list.

Maybe you forgot something. No, no. I've emptied all what I needed to say.

What about you son? You sure? A hundred percent. Can I talk? They said yes. I said, look, two and a half hours I've been listening to you.

I'm sorry. Don't get me wrong. All I heard was nothing but noise pollution.

I said, you bombarded me with two and a half hours worth of talking. If I counted the number of words and the letters you've invoked, I wouldn't have been able to count them. There were plenty.

I said, but unfortunately in those two and a half hours of listening and paying attention to what you were saying, I was hoping to hear one thing and I was hoping sort of desperately for it. But sadly said, I did not hear it neither from you daughter nor from your son. And it was the word, the name Jesus.

You never mentioned the name of the Lord. I said, daughter, I'm looking at your face. You don't go very often to church, don't you? She said, yeah, father, I go maybe every once every three, four months.

I said, yeah, I can read it. It's on your face. I looked at him.

I said, you don't go to church at all. He said, father, I don't remember when the last time I went to church. I said, yeah, you don't need to tell me.

I'm not saying for you to answer back. I'm just telling you what you are. I said, that's your problem.

When we are not preoccupied with Christ, we will be preoccupied with Satan. These are the only two powers on earth. Either light, Christ, either darkness, Satan.

If you are not with Christ, you're with Satan. There is no one can say I can be alone and I do whatever I want. This never exists.

Please put it in your head, mind, heart, soul, your entire being. No human being, I mean human beings, not just Christians, no human being was ever created to be free their way. You are either controlled by God or by Satan.

If you are not close to the Lord Jesus, definitely Satan is ruling. The reason why the world is always in turmoil, is always in turmoil. The world has always been bloody.

Wars, destruction, till this day, from day one till now, the world has always been in trouble. Why? Because the world rejected God. If you don't accept love, where are you going to get it from? If you don't accept humility, where are you going to get it from? If you don't accept kindness, mercy, forgiveness, where else are you going to get it from? It is God and God alone.

And if anyone, no matter how educated they are, if anyone says there is no God, this is a foolish statement ever invoked. A scientist can't tell me there is no God. Cannot.

What God has shown me, my dear friend, I pray for you to be awakened by this God who awakened me and awakened billions of people. The Lord Jesus is one. You'll never find anyone like him.

Till the day I go to the grave, Christ is my God, is my King, my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, my love, my everything. Build your life on the Lord Jesus. You will live happy.

So my daughter, when this guy comes and says, oh you're beautiful, I've never seen anyone more beautiful like you, say to him, shut up. Go and see Bishop Murray, he's got a CT scan, he's going to scan you and he's going to write a report and he will give it to me. If you are okay, then I'll marry you.

If you're not okay, I'll kick you. How can I expect to be forgiven and loved by those around me and by God when I keep repeating the same sin? Yeah, I know. All I say, my beloved child, pray fervently to the Lord Jesus to give you the wisdom to discern your mistakes and to give you the courage to do something about it.

Because if you are being loved always by people and by God and you keep on hurting God and hurting people, then a time will come that door will be shut. Then what are you going to do? God is merciful, but let us not forget God is just. God is justice.

He's not just mercy, he's justice. So when he is being patient, that doesn't mean he has forgotten about his justice. Never ever.

He's just merciful because he loves you and he doesn't want you to be hurt forever. That's why he prolongs his judgment and he tolerates you, but there will come a time God will break you 100%. 100%.

He will break you. See, my beloved, love is the most powerful thing ever in existence. And at the same time, love is the weakest thing ever in existence.

It is the most powerful and the weakest at the same time. Why? Because when you truly love someone, when you love someone from the bottom of your heart, you become so weak before them. You become so weak, they will take you for a ride and you'll go with it.

They think you're ignorant. They think you're foolish. They think they are getting away with it.

No, I love you. That's why I'm tolerating you. I'm not a fool to take me for a ride, but I love you.

That's why I am patient. But let me tell you, love can be very powerful. And if the day comes and I say enough, enough, nothing will change that.

Nothing. We should never ever take the Lord's love for granted. Just because he loves me, I'll do whatever.

And this is where some people fall into this trap. Once saved, always saved. No such thing.

No such thing. Once saved, always saved. You will be saved when you hold on to the Lord till the last breath on earth.

Then you'll be saved. Where is Demas, the one who was accompanying St. Paul in the ministry? St. Paul said, the current of the world took Demas never to be seen again. So where is it once saved, always saved? The saved got lost because he walked away from the Lord.

Why? Because God is love. He created you on the basis of love. With love, there is freedom.

With freedom, choices. With choices, the will. God will never take away the will from you.

He will always come and say, do you love me? He will ask. He will never impose himself. Read the New Testament.

The Lord Jesus always began his talking with a question. Do you believe I can heal you? Do you believe in me? Why is he asking? Because he is respecting your freedom of choice. He wants you freely to say, yes, Lord, I believe in you.

Because you are his son, not a slave. And a father doesn't speak to his son like a master to a slave. The father engages in a conversation and asks the son for his opinion as well.

That's what love is, isn't it? Can a Christian be cremated? Not in the natural way, but if that is the only way available and there is no other options, then what do you do? But if there is an option where you put him into the grave, then you should not cremate a Christian because that's not a way of a Christian being put into that mother earth. So cremation is not a Christian way, no, if you're asking. But if a time comes, you're living in a country where they don't have any other option but cremation, then what do you do? With the Lord Jesus, it really doesn't matter if you, if that body gets burned or drowns in the ocean or just sleeps and dies.

The Lord Jesus will call you in the end, no matter where you are and who you are. But if you have the option of being, you know, dust to dust and ashes to ashes, then you do it this way. That is the proper way and the right way of doing it.

Cremation is not a Christian practice, put it this way. What does it mean to be chosen? It means that you are loved. If you were not loved, you wouldn't have been chosen.

And because God loves you, that's why he chose you. How do you choose a person in marriage? Because of love. I came to know them, then I came to love them, and when I loved them, I said, this is the person I'm marrying, no one else.

I choose you to be my soulmate in marriage. How to not only accept suffering but to take joy in it and be glad in it? It takes St. Paul to get to this level. So how to not only accept suffering, but to take joy when you suffer and be glad in it.

Now to get to this level when you are suffering and you are joyous and happy, thanking God for the pains, thanking God for the rejections, thanking God for being deposed from the church, thanking God for being kicked, punched, ridiculed, humiliated, to be happy and joyous, you're a saint, brother. You're a saint. Life is a school that teaches you so many lessons.

We must learn. Life is a school. You must learn.

No one was born to be this or that. They needed to work hard for it. They need to work hard.

Even if that person was chosen to be a doctor, but they suffered immensely till they became a doctor, till they became an engineer, a pope, a builder, whatever in life it is. It takes a lot of sacrifices. We need to learn, my beloveds.

We need to learn. So when you reach a level where you are happy and glad and joyous because you're suffering for the sake of the Lord, then you've made it home, I guess. You've made it home.

It takes a great deal of an effort, my beloveds, a great deal of accepting God's disciplines for you. Let me talk a little bit about this and I'll leave you with it. My beloveds, if God does not touch someone's heart, that person will never be able to understand.

No matter how educated they are, no matter how smart, no matter who they are and what they are, if God does not touch that human heart, that person will never be able to be awakened. It is impossible, not difficult, impossible. Listen, my beloveds, ever since the human race transgressed against God, when we broke His word in the Garden of Eden, biblically speaking, which is the only way, in the Garden of Eden, ever since our father Adam, which is all of us are Adam, we are the same, ever since we broke God's word, the human nature became corrupt.

The human nature became corrupt. What is corrupt? Meaning it died, meaning it lost the image which God created it with. That very image where God says in Genesis 126, let us go down and make man in our image according to our likeness.

That very image which God created us with, that image became distorted, deformed. Ever since that image became distorted, deformed, we became imbalanced. We started calling good evil and evil good.

Sorry my beloveds, especially those who are watching us through live streaming, we had some technical difficulties. This is your captain speaking. You are on flight 111, Jesus Air.

We just had some technical difficulties, but since the captain is the Lord Jesus, then the solution is always there. All right, so coming back, ever since this human, ever since my beloveds, yes good, ever since this image became deformed, distorted, we became imbalanced. We started calling good evil and evil good.

We became the definers of everything in life. We started defining what is the right way for me and what is not, who is the right person for me and who is not, what shall I do and what shall I not do. We became the definers of it.

In other words, we became our own gods. We became our own god, but this god is false. This god is non-existent.

We tried to establish and bring a god that never existed, never will. So we started taking things into our own hands and we started ruining everything God created good. So now what happens, my beloveds, since we became imbalanced, we became rebellious, disobedient.

We are not listening anymore to God. We are, we've given him a deaf ear because I don't want to do it any other way but my way. It is either my way or the highway.

Since we chose to do it this way, we started destroying everything good God made and gave to all of us, including our own selves. We destroyed ourselves by ourselves because of our disobedience. Now God wants to bring us back.

He wants to bring that image back. He wants to bring that likeness back. He wants to bring God's way back which got lost, rejected.

Now that's why Christ came. Christ came so he can bring that image back, but there is one thing which we must pay attention to and please I beg you. When we received Christ, that old person is still in us, not dead yet.

He's been sentenced to death but the sentencing has not been fulfilled. You know like going to court and the judge says with all the evidences in front of me, before me now, I hereby sentence to death by hanging or by lethal injection. Do they hang the person in the courtroom? No.

He goes to prison and sometimes they wait a year, two years, maybe more till the sentence is passed or is fulfilled. So the sentencing of the old me, the troublemaker, was given by God. You must die if you break my word.

He broke God's word. The sentence was passed but the fulfillment of the sentence is when the spirit leaves the body. So now on earth when we receive Jesus Christ through the sacrament of the holy baptism, we receive the new Adam, the one who is obedient to God, the one who makes God pleased and happy.

But in me there is also the former Adam, the troublemaker, the stubborn, the disobedient, both of them are still in me. But when will the former Adam die in me? When the spirit leaves the body. So while I'm on earth after baptism, I have the former and the latter Adam in me.

Every time the latter Adam surfaces up, I'm doing well. But every time the former Adam surfaces up, I'm in Star City Casino, I'm in the streets, I'm taking drugs, I'm doing alcohol, I'm taking alcohol, I'm gambling, I'm going with this person and that person and hundreds more. I'm doing everything wrong because this is the former Adam, troublemaker.

And then I wake up by the grace of the Lord and I come back and I say, sorry Lord, forgive me for being foolish, for being stubborn, for being boastful, for being you know ignorant, arrogant, whatever. I'm sorry Lord and the Lord forgives me. Then the latter Adam surfaces up and I start coming to church.

I start reading the Holy Bible. I start praying. I start being nice.

I start being obedient, listening, being patient, being humble. I start doing that and then the former Adam surfaces up and then I go to my old, ugly, horrible ways again. The Lord has no choice but one thing to do, discipline me.

How will the Lord discipline me? The first thing the Lord does, He breaks that person. That's the first thing He does. He breaks that person and every single one of us, we get broken in our unique ways.

The Lord is God, therefore He knows what breaks you and what makes you. So if what breaks you is pride, like if pride is taken away from you, is that going to break you? He will take that pride away from you. He will break you.

If money is your God, He will take that money away from you. He will break you. If anger, if not being able to forgive others, oh He will break you.

He will break. Now when we get broken, some of us, we retaliate back at God. It's all your fault.

Look what you're doing to me. I'm not going to believe in you anymore. I'm not going to follow you anymore.

I'm not going to pray to you anymore. I came to you and look what you've done to me. But some, when they get broken, they wake up.

Because let me tell you this, the only time me and you, you and me, will ever truly wake up to ourselves, is when God breaks us and we accept His breaking of us, when we accept it. So one day I was up there, all of a sudden I've been kicked out. Nobody gives one penny about me.

What will I do? Am I going to retaliate against God or am I going to thank Him for it? Before people would listen to you, always. Now they don't. Before you used to get away with it, but now you don't.

What are you going to do when God is breaking you? Do you know you're going to go against Him? You can't. Trust me, I'm talking with exuberance. I'm not just, I'm not talking just because I'm a Christian, just because I'm wearing this outfit.

No, the outfit is not going to change you. It is the heart given to Christ, that Christ changes that heart. That's what's going to change you.

It's not the outfit. It's not the rank. It's not the position.

It's not the place. It's not the money. It's not the wealth.

It's not the fame. It is the Lord. But the Lord will not accept it from you until you surrender.

Until you say, Lord, I have sinned against you. I'm not worthy to be called your son anymore. Make me one of your servants in your own house.

I'm not worthy to be your son. When you wake up truly to yourself, realizing what you've done to your Jesus, it is then you'll understand how to live. Trust me.

And I pray, I pray from the bottom of my heart for the Lord to touch all of our hearts, to make us realize things the way he does. Amazing. Wow.

This, no PhD will give you. This, no Oxford University, no Notre Dame University, no universities in the world will ever give you this. This only God gives to those who are willing to humble themselves before him.

I am a nothing when it comes to Christ's love for all of us. He will wipe me from existence. Then do you want the Lord Jesus to be quick in action, smacking this one and smacking that one? Let me tell you, my son and my daughter, if you want the Lord to punish someone that has hurt you quickly, then he will have to punish you even quicker.

Because the one who has hurt you, you want God to punish him quickly, but you forgot how many times you've hurt God. So if you want God to be quick, he will be quick in everything. He will be quick in judging you.

He will be quick in humiliating you. He will be quick in making you naked before the whole world. Do you want that? No.

Well, then if you don't want that for yourself, don't ask it for others. The Lord is beautiful. But one thing I've learned about the Lord Jesus, I've learned a few things.

But he's a never-ending. The Lord Jesus never jokes, never jokes. You know like the jokes that we say, ha ha ha.

No, no, he's not like that at all. He is always serious, but with a sense of humor. I'll give you an idea of his sense of humor.

One day the Lord showed this piece of rake a vision. Yes, I was climbing this piece of rake, not I. This piece of rake was climbing a kind of a hill, a mountain, oh maybe a hill. Anyway, it was a hill.

So I was climbing it, but I was struggling. I was struggling. It was like almost impossible.

I was saying like, I can't get to the top, impossible. Like I'm, I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna die. Enormous struggle.

So I climbed it and I, eventually I made it to the top. At the top, level ground. I don't know, maybe it was heaven.

I couldn't see a ground, but it was level. And I see the Lord Jesus sitting, dressed up all in white. A white table before him and a white cupboard behind him.

Everything was white, everything. And he was sitting so majestically. Like when you see the Lord Jesus there, you will fall on the ground.

John the beloved says it in the revelation, it's not me, huh? He said, when I saw him, I fell on the ground as if I were dead. Exactly that's what's going to happen to all of you when you see him in his majestic way. Wow, amazing the Lord.

Incredible. Like the world is sick. They think they are running the show.

It is the Lord. It is the Lord. So I walked up to him.

He's dressed up in white, white table, white cupboard behind him, everything white. He said, finally you made it. He said other things, but I'm not going to mention.

Finally you made it. So he gets up. In his hand there was a shirt, a white one.

So he gets up and he puts it on me and I wear it. Just like that. He just puts it and gets on me and I wear it.

And it was perfectly tight on me, like a perfect tight shirt. He said, this is for you. I looked at it.

I said, Lord, you know, like this is all right, but do you have something a little bit extra large? You see, when I was in my youth, at you know age, when I was a young boy, I was extremely skinny, extremely skinny. I used to ask my earthly mom, God bless her, mom, when you buy me shirts, please make them extra, extra large so I look kind of a chubby. Because I don't want to wear tight shirts because I was just skin on bone, you know, like skeleton.

So I just want to feel that I'm a bit chubby. Please mom, buy me extra large. So I got used to shirts, everything to be extra, extra large.

So when the Lord Jesus put that shirt on me, it was fit tight. I said, Lord, like do you have something a little bit more baggy? He said, just wait a second. He goes to the cupboard, opens the cupboard.

I see one shirt only hanging in that cupboard. He takes it, he shows me the color it had on it, XL, extra large. That kind of a sense of humor he has.

He knew I was going to ask for a baggy shirt. He had one in mind for me. But the one that was extra large, he said, take it.

He didn't put it on. He said, you wear it. What a father, what the father.

Son, I gave you my one, but because you like extra large, I'll give you your one as well. This Jesus that loves you more than you could ever imagine will never do anything to hurt you, but to save you. But sometimes to save you, it hurts along the way.

I pray, I pray the Lord get you to a level or to this level where you just see people all the same. Those who love you and those who hate you, you see them the same. That's the Lord.

You know why? Because the day you see people the same, those who love you and those who hate you, you are no longer seeing people, you're seeing God. You see, why do we, why do we get happy when people say nice things about us? Because we don't see God, we see people and we expect it from people, not from God. And why do we get angry and upset when people tell me off? Because I'm waiting for people to pay me, to reward me.

But the day that I don't get neither moved by love nor by hatred, that day you are loving God and God only. You see God in everyone. Mother Teresa left the convent out in the streets of Calcutta.

A Christian female, a nun, not married, a nun devoted to the Lord Jesus, walked in the streets of Calcutta in the heart of Hinduism and the Sikh and the likes. People would have devoured her, they would have shredded her. But in the streets of Calcutta, the Lord says, I will show you my glory.

He said, start with this leper, look after him. When she started looking after that leper, washing him, changing him, feeding him, clothing him, touching him, they're lepers. For years on end, she did that.

The Indian people looked at this stranger, not a Hindu, a Christian, she's an enemy. They are saying she is looking after their own people, yet their own people are not looking after their own people. The stranger is looking after a Hindu, an Indian leper person.

They said, mother you are God sent to us. She said, no, I'll take you to the real God, to the true God. His name is Jesus Christ.

When this journalist came asking Mother Teresa, why are you looking after this leper? She said, my son, if I say to you, I'll give you a million dollars to look after this leper for an hour, you will not do it. True? He said, yes, I won't do it. I will never touch this leper, for a million dollars.

She said, but yet us, we serve this leper for years on end, voluntarily, for free, and you don't know why? He said, no mother, that's why I asked. She said, my son, haven't you heard what the Lord Jesus says? When you do to the least of my brethren, you do it unto me. I am serving my Lord, my master, who is in this person.

This person is created in the image of my Lord, my God. Isn't my Jesus worthy of my service? For what he has done for me, no matter what I do for him, I can never pay him back. The least I could do is serve him in this leper, because God is in this leper, and my God, Jesus Christ, is worthy of my service, my son.

Love the Lord. Let the Lord teach you how to live for him truly. When they asked me, why did you forgive the person who stabbed you? I said, it's not me.

Stop focusing on me. I am a piece of wreck. I'm nothing but the weakest of the weakest of the weakest human beings.

I can never forgive someone who took my eye, and the other one is so weak, I can barely see. Until when are you going to focus on this piece of dust? Focus on Christ who dwells in this piece of dust. It's the Lord who gave me this ability to forgive.

Otherwise, it's impossible. It's impossible. And if I see him, I will kiss the very hand that stabbed me.

I called him my son, till the day I go to the grave. He is my son. I got nothing in my heart but love for him.

Get a life, man. Relax. Why are you against me? What do you want? You want the throne? My brother, I didn't choose this as the Lord.

My brother, I never dreamed of the Lord is going to send his word through this piece of wreck to the whole world. My brother, you want to fight? Go on. You're fighting against the Lord.

You can't. If you're fighting against me, I'm telling you, you don't need to fight. You'll win.

I'm weak. I'm nothing. I'll surrender straight away.

But if the Lord is choosing this for me, he can't fight because the Lord will answer you, not me. He can't. And that's what the high priest said it.

When the Sanhedrin got together and said, we must get rid of these disciples of Jesus. He said, hey, listen, if these men are making up the story, let time deal with them. With time, they will vanish because what starts as a lie will end as a lie.

But if these men are speaking the truth that they are chosen by the Almighty God to preach the good news, the gospel to the world, neither me nor any of you can stand in their way. For when God is with them, who can be against them? When are we going to see Christ? Not people anymore. That takes a lot of breaking.

It's that seeing Jesus. So if you love me or you hate me, I will get you the best hot pepper from Kolkata, where you will go like Thomas Tank. Love everyone.

Pray for everyone. Forgive. Be patient.

Be humble. Be faithful to the Lord Jesus. Amen.

God bless you. Let us stand for the finale. Pray, please.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me so love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. Amen. May the Lord Jesus bless you, guide you, and protect you all the days of your life now and forevermore.

Amen. Go in peace. The peace of Christ be with you always, my beloved.

God bless.