Mar Mari Emmanuel explains how humanity's failure through Adam necessitated Jesus Christ's incarnation to restore sonship with God the Father.
In this expository sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the divine plan behind humanity's creation and failure through Adam, emphasizing the necessity of Jesus Christ's incarnation to restore the lost sonship with God the Father. He explains the perfection required by God and how Jesus uniquely fulfills this standard. The sermon also highlights the theological significance of the Holy Trinity's roles and calls believers to embrace their identity as God's children through faith in Christ.
Full Transcript
For every project, for every plan, there is three parties involved. One, the owner of the project, two, the financier of the project, three, the engineer of the project, who's going to manage all of this. So, the owner of this project is God the Father, the financier of this project is God the Son, and the engineer of this entire project is God the Holy Spirit.
God the Holy Spirit. God the Father is the project owner. As the project owner, He has certain demands from the people who are going to be His children.
There are certain criteria's, demands from the project owner, God the Father, for the people in order to be His own children. He demands certain things from them to be able to do and achieve. Now, this project is to have sons.
Where do we see this? In Luke chapter 3 verse 38. It's not on the screen. In Luke chapter 3 verse 38.
I don't put it on the screen so you continue looking at this good-looking bishop, right? Just kidding. Not. Okay.
So, in Luke 3 38, when you read the genealogy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the very last verse of Luke 3, which is 38, and it says, and Adam, the son of God. So, what was the intention of the Almighty God by creating Adam? His intention was for Adam to be His own son. His own son.
God created Adam to be His son. Since Adam broke God's Word, God came back with this plan in order to restore Adam back to that sonship which he lost in the Garden of Eden. But to restore this sonship, it required certain demands from God the Father who is the project owner.
Now, all of us, the entire human race, this has got nothing to do with Christendom. This has got nothing to do with the Christian world only. It's got to do with every single human being that ever came, that ever exists, and that will ever come on the face of this planet.
It's got to do with all humanity. The entire human race failed God in every aspect. Now, the criterias, the demands of God the Father, the project owner, no one was able to achieve in order to be His own son.
Nobody. All human race failed. For this reason, the Son of God had to come Himself because there was no human being that was able to please God and fulfill the demands and the requests of God the Father.
That's why the Son had to come. So if anyone, any Christian says, why did the Son, why did He come and become a human? Because God wanted a son for Himself, many sons. So all those sons who were in Adam failed Him.
That's why He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the second person in the Holy Trinity, which the Gospel of Saint John refers to as the Logos. In the beginning was the Word, John 1.1. Word in Greek, Logos. Logos literally means intellect.
In the beginning was the brain, in other simple term. In the beginning was the brain, and the brain was with God, and the brain was God. Why was God? Because God never existed without a brain.
So Him and the brain were together at the same time from this beginning that has no beginning. So the Son is God, all God, the Father, all God, the Holy Spirit, all God. Yes? So the Son of God is God Himself.
So the Son had to come. Since we were created to be sons to the Almighty God, as sons we failed our Heavenly Father. When we veered off the road, the Son of God had to come to bring us back once again, to be sons of God.
Now to be sons, that meant to be perfect as our Heavenly Father. To be sons, that meant we had to be perfect. And the number that reflects perfection in the biblical language is 100.
So whenever you see the number 100 in the Holy Bible, it is referring to perfection. One day we'll do, I've been meaning to do this for a long time coming, the numbers in the Holy Bible, what they mean. They're not just there for, you know, out of fluke.
No, no, no, no. Everything is there for a reason. Because the author of this Holy Book is God Himself, the Holy Spirit, God Himself, the source of wisdom, the source of wisdom.
So the number that reflects perfection is 100. In Matthew 5.48, there'll be a lot of Bible references today, so please bear with me. They are not on the screen, so you can look at this good-looking bishop.
In Matthew 5.48, the Lord Jesus is talking here. He says, Therefore, you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. So in order to enter God's presence, we need to be as perfect as He is.
Is there any human being that can put their hand up and say, I am as perfect as God? Impossible. No one. I don't care what your religion is, whether you have one or you don't have one.
No one is perfect. No one. All of us have our own shortfalls and mishaps.
But the Lord in Matthew 5.48 says, Therefore, you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Oh, when can I be as perfect as my heavenly Father? To enter God's kingdom, in other words, you need to get in your exam a hundred out of a hundred. In the world, you go through an exam and you get 95, 98.
You can choose any university. They will take you on board. You get 50, pass.
But with God, you get in your exam with God, 99.999999999999. God says, you got zero. Yep, when God gives you the paper, after he marks it, He'll put a big round circle. Zero.
Because it's either a hundred or nothing. God does not accept 99.99999999. nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine. Because ninety nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine is not a perfect number.
What is the perfect number? A hundred out of a hundred. Unless you get a hundred, you're going somewhere dark and ugly. Who's gonna get a hundred? No one.
Oh except one. The one we're about to celebrate his birth. Habib Albi.
He must be Lebanese. My sweetheart, me mate. He must be Aussie.
Shanghai. He must be Chinese. He's all colors.
He's all races. He is all nations. He's all tongues.
He's all in all and all in him and he is in all. The I am. The one and only.
There's only one. There's only one my beloved. Now to enter God's kingdom you need a hundred out of a hundred.
All of us failed but God loves us. That's why he created us in the first place to be his sons and Adam was the son of God. Luke 3 38.
Now when you read in the epistle of St. Paul to the Romans chapter 3 verses 12 and 23. Verses 12 and 23 it says they have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable.
There is none who does good. No not one. In the entire human race there is not one that does good.
Everybody became unprofitable. What is unprofitable in other words? Bankrupt. Bankrupt.
Zilch. Zero. Everyone.
We failed and God says you need to get a hundred. We got a zero. Some people will say I don't go to church father because I have a good heart.
Excusez-moi. Have you have you read what God has said? You don't have a good heart my dear friend. So don't pretend to having one.
You are lying through your teeth and please pardon my French not. God never lies. God always tells the truth.
So all of us are liars. God is the truth. So when God says everyone failed then neither me nor you my dear friend will have a good heart.
The only one who has the good heart is the good God and his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Period. Period.
Period my beloved. And what is going to church got to do with a good heart or an ugly heart? Come on man. If you love the Lord don't you want to go and say hello to him? Anybody home? Why do you run to see your fiance? When she messages you, you jump like crazy crazy.
You just came back tired from work. Formula one you become. And you sit there and the last thing you want to look is at your watch because you don't want the time to take you away from the love of your life.
Rachel or Elizabeth I don't know or Madalena. Macarena Macarena Macarena. If you love the Lord he has his own holy house, the church.
You need to go and say hello to him, knock at the door of his own house. Not sit at home and say I've got a good heart. And become a judgmental person and say the people that go to church are all naughty boys and girls.
Oh well you're a saint looks like it. The Holy Bible says no one has a good heart. No human being.
No one. Period. Now all become unprofitable, bankrupt.
What does it mean we became bankrupt? Biblically speaking we lost God's glory. When any human being loses God's glory that human being is unprofitable i.e. bankrupt. When you lose God's glory you are unprofitable.
In the end of times he came, the son. The SON. The only begotten, the beloved of his father.
The SON came according to Galatians chapter 4 verses 4 to 5. Look at St. Paul. Galatians 4, 4 to 5. But when the fullness of the time, the Lord sent forth his son, the son of God, the Logos came. God sent forth his son born of a woman, the love of my life, Mary, the Virgin of all virgins, the Holy Mother, my sweetheart, my Holy Mother.
Born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons. So that we may receive the adoption as sons. This is why the son had to come in order to adopt us as sons once again to his heavenly father.
That's why the son had to come. Now the Son of God came into the womb of the Virgin, of all virgins, our Holy Mother Mary. Took on the human nature and became man.
This is all theology. Took on the human nature.
Sermon Outline
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- God the Father as project owner, Son as financier, Holy Spirit as engineer
- Creation of Adam intended as sonship with God
- Humanity's failure to meet God's demands
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- Necessity of the Son's incarnation to restore sonship
- Jesus Christ as the perfect Son fulfilling God's criteria
- Biblical meaning of perfection and the number 100
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- Humanity's universal failure and spiritual bankruptcy
- The importance of church and relationship with God
- God's truth versus human self-righteousness
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IV
- The incarnation of Jesus born of the Virgin Mary
- Purpose of redemption and adoption as sons
- The theological significance of Jesus taking human nature
Key Quotes
“God the Father is the project owner. As the project owner, He has certain demands from the people who are going to be His children.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“To be sons, that meant to be perfect as our Heavenly Father. To be sons, that meant we had to be perfect.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“All of us are liars. God is the truth. So when God says everyone failed then neither me nor you my dear friend will have a good heart.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Recognize that all humans have failed to meet God's perfect standards and need Jesus for restoration.
- Embrace your identity as a son or daughter of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
- Commit to regular fellowship and worship in the church as a way to nurture your relationship with God.
