Mar Mari Emmanuel teaches that true faith requires honest humility and repentance, removing the 'stone of sin' to experience God's resurrection power and freedom from Satan's control.
In this powerful sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the nature of faith, repentance, and spiritual resurrection through the story of Lazarus. He emphasizes the importance of honest self-examination and submission to God, illustrating how true faith moves God and breaks the chains of sin and Satan's control. Listeners are challenged to remove the 'stone of sin' in their lives to experience God's transformative power and freedom.
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Everything is the Lord, everything is the Lord and whatever happens remember we live for Him, we die for Him. Nothing else matters outside of Him because outside of Him is nothing but temporal and everything that is temporal is a dream and every dream is a story based on a lie. Because the moment you wake up from the dream you are no longer that person that you saw yourself in the dream.
Maybe in the dream you saw yourself a king or a queen but it's only a dream. The moment I woke up I looked at myself and I'm still cleaning Fairfield, Nita City. Christ is the truth, never changes.
Reality is a dream that changes at the awakening, that changes at the awakening. So I need to live for the Lord Jesus my beloved. So we see Martha's faith diminishes in verse 39.
Lord by this time there is a stench for he has been dead four days. Then the Lord reminds her of all this in verse 40. Again I'm making an emphasis on this.
Did I not say to you if you would believe you would see the glory of God I wish our faith was unshakable because the unshakable faith will make you see the glory of God. The unshakable faith will make you see the glory of God. A person whom I know very well for many many years had an issue with his heart.
He asked me to come and be in that video call with a very well renowned surgeon here in Sydney. He's a professor and and a famous one. He is a heart surgeon, very famous.
I don't want to mention the name maybe he doesn't like it but I saw him and when I see him next time I'll remember his face. I was in that video call. There was a screen I went to the hospital, Campbelltown Hospital.
Those who are from Sydney they know where Campbelltown is. The good old Campbelltown brother. So I went in there and then we introduced ourselves and the surgeon said your surgery is complex and I am bit hesitant to go ahead with the surgery because we may lose you.
We may lose you in that operating theater. He said no I still want to do it please because I'm suffering. After a little while going forth and back and talking and discussing he decided to do the operation.
We said okay thank you Lord let it be your will. Within a very short time what I mean that short time was like days maybe a week more less I don't know. The surgeon is here, he's in Sydney.
The surgeon calls the patient whom I know for maybe 30 years. He says I don't know what to tell you but something has happened. What is it? He said we're not doing the surgery anymore.
Why? The patient thought he changed his mind. He said no. He said your heart is fine.
In my entire professional service and as a professor, top surgeon in Australia he said it is the first case ever in my entire medical life. You have two new veins created. Created.
The surgeon is here. I hope he's listening. He said you have two new veins created and they are allowing the blood to flow quiet beautifully.
And then the patient said oh the surgeon I don't know if he's Christian, he's an atheist, none of my business. He said look I don't know how. I have no medical answer to this because I've never come across anything like that.
He said but maybe. Maybe he said this out of fear. Maybe he said it for whatever reason I'll leave that with him.
He said but maybe your heart created those veins. You know when someone so educated speaks with ignorance it's like these scientists they can see the complexity of the universe. They can see the complexity of the human being.
They can see the complexity of life in its essence and they come up with this genius idea. Something exploded over 13 billion years ago. I just wonder was it you there, your uncle, your grandpa or that ape gorilla that was there awaiting for the explosion to happen.
Look wake up and smell the truth. For the truth is Jesus Christ the creator of all. The heart created the veins.
Who are you kidding professor? He said but I don't know. The patient said doctor with all love and respect to you I know his name is Jesus Christ. He made the veins for me.
That was an uppercut. Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Didn't I say to you master that if you would believe you will see the glory of God.
But I want you to believe without doubt, without suspicion, without weakness, without hesitation. I want you to be confident when you believe in me. Now whether I take you to me or keep you here you better have faith.
Either way I want you to be confident. Don't you want to come to me? Why are you afraid of leaving this world? Oh so you love this world more than me? You don't want to leave it? I love you Lord. Whatever, however, whenever.
All good. All good. You want to keep me? Let it be your will.
You want to take me? Let it be your will. I suffer? Let it be your will. You can make me comfortable? Let it be your will.
But whatever you do Lord. One thing I'll beg you never to do. Don't ever let me walk away from you.
Because I will. I'm weak. I'm a sinner.
I'm blind. I'm dumb. I'm foolish in every way.
But Lord you're the Savior. You're the Redeemer. Whatever happens from my side, please you are the faithful one.
You are the loyal one. I'm not. Hold on to me.
Have mercy on me. Be patient with me. I know I am nothing but a pain to you.
But please just be tolerant with me Lord. Because at the end I want to be with you. I don't know how, but you can.
I trust in you Lord. I believe in you. Amen.
Now here we discover something and that is being engaged with God in a discussion or in an argument more so, does not produce any positive outcome from God's side. When you engage with the Lord Jesus in an argumentative approach, you're not gonna get the Lord's attention. He's not interested now.
You're arguing with him. He wants you to have faith and say Amen Lord. That's it and leave it and move.
It is done already. I'm not gonna sit and think. Did he hear me? Is he gonna listen to me? Is he gonna answer me back? Is he gonna give me my wish granted? Not.
Stop it. This is totally against faith. So when you argue with the Lord, God won't do much at all.
But tears and submission on the other hand, we see how much this impact has on the Lord. Tears and submission. We see how much it impacts the Lord Jesus.
Now we come now to Mary. See Martha, when she went where the Lord was, she met him. But look what the Holy Bible says about Mary.
In verse 32, when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet. Not met him. She fell down at his feet.
The moment she saw him, she fell down at his feet. Martha met him. Mary worshipped him.
The moment she saw him. Humongous difference. And Mary said the exact words which Martha said to the Lord.
And those words are, if you were here, my brother wouldn't have died. The very exact words that Martha said, Mary also said. But the difference was, Martha met the Lord.
Mary worshipped him when she saw him. Now, if you were here Lord, my brother wouldn't have died. That is a statement said based on absolute weakness.
Because Martha and Mary, both of you are acknowledging that he is the Lord. And the Lord means he is God. Now does God need to come where your brother is for your brother not to die? Can't God raise your brother wherever God is? Why does he need to come where your brother is? You see, a contradictive statement when it comes to faith.
So that statement is said by someone who is weak. Someone who's weak. God doesn't need to come where your brother is for your brother to remain alive.
God can keep him alive wherever God is. Amen. But you see my beloveds, we see the weakness is in both Martha and Mary but with a difference.
Martha's weakness was based on argumentative engagement. But Mary's weakness was based on worship. So now, as believers in the Lord Jesus, so many Christians come to the Lord and ask the Lord for things.
Some Christians get what they ask for, some don't. Why? Because those who come and receive nothing, they come on the basis of arguing with the Lord. Why aren't you doing this? When are you gonna give me this? I've been begging you for so many years and you've done absolutely nothing.
I've had enough Lord. If you don't give me my wish, I will not talk to you ever again. The Lord says then bash your head against the wall and move on because this kind of a nonsense has no place in me here.
But when you come and say Lord, I can't do it anymore. But you can. I don't know what to do anymore.
But you know Lord, I'm dead but you raised the dead. Lord, I'm lost. You are the Good Shepherd who found the lost sheep and brought it back to the fold.
Lord, I'm hungry. You are the living bread. Lord, I'm thirsty.
You are the living waters. Lord, I am finished. You are the beginning and the end.
Nothing is lost. When you come with the weakness but acknowledging the infinity of God, God will move mountains for you. Rest assured my beloved.
But you see when you come with a broken heart, with humility, yet you're weak. All of us are weak. But when you come with humility, not self-pride, not arguing, but submitting to God.
When you come this way, the first thing will happen to you. Tears will start flowing down your face. Tears.
Why? Because now you're speaking the language of the heart, not the lips, the heart. That's where tears come from. From the heart.
When you speak the language of love, you will cry about the one you love. When they are distant from you, when you are longing for them, you will cry. When you miss them, you will cry.
And this is where the Lord Jesus, we find that he is reacting to Mary in a completely different way than to Martha. In verse 33, this is all chapter 11 of John the Gospel Writer. In verse 33, look what verse 33 says.
When Jesus saw her, meaning Mary, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, the moment the Lord Jesus saw those tears, in the beginning of our topic last week, the Lord said, turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Song of Solomon chapter 6 verse 5. The moment the Lord saw the tears on Mary's face, and those Jews were with her, he says, turn away those eyes. I can't handle my children crying.
It breaks me to smithereens. I have to do something about it. When I see my son, and I see my daughter crying, I will not be silent anymore.
I will do the impossible for my children. Because the only thing that overcomes God are your tears. Why? Because tears never lie.
But the tongue always twists things and lies. Tears never lie. And God loves a human to be honest with themselves, before they are honest with God.
Be honest with yourself, and know what you are saying and what you're asking for, before you come to me and ask me for it. Be honest with yourself. Be honest.
Now, in verse 33, when the Lord Jesus saw those tears, he says, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled. It really shook him. It really hurt him badly.
He says, I gotta do something about this. And in verse 34, the Lord Jesus says, where have you laid him? In verse 35, it says, two words only, Jesus wept, cried, broke him. You win.
He has done what you asked for. He cried. Now, the question is, Lord, why? Why are you crying? Aren't you the one who is going to raise Lazarus from the dead? You should be happy.
You should be joyful, because you're gonna raise him. And you're able to raise him. You're capable.
You're God. So why are you crying? The Lord says, no, I'm not crying for Lazarus, but I'm crying for the entire human race. Not Lazarus.
I'm crying for the entire human race. But how, Lord, are you crying for the entire human race? You're at the tomb of Lazarus. Because when the Lord Jesus came to the tomb, how many days had gone by since Lazarus was dead? Four days.
The Lord Jesus deliberately waited till the fourth day. Now why? Why after four days he comes? You see, Lazarus here, my beloved, represents the entire human race. Sorry, I'll stop for a sec.
Is it cold? No? Yes? No? Okay, I'll continue. But if you think it's cold, just put your hand up, and I'll just ignore it. So now, why did the Lord Jesus come after four days? See, when we read in the Scriptures, when we study the Scriptures, we will find that from Adam to Abraham, it was a 2,000 year period.
And from Abraham to the Lord Jesus, another 2,000 years. In other words, from Adam to the coming of Christ the Messiah, 4,000 years had gone by. And when we read the epistle of St. Peter, 2 Peter 3.8, St. Peter says, and with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
4,000 years, a day is like a thousand, and a thousand years is like a day to the Lord Jesus. Then 4,000 years is four days. Jesus coming to the tomb of Lazarus after four days, meaning I wept for the entire human race from Adam till the last one who comes.
And the word of Martha, which she said to the Lord Jesus in verse 39, Lord, by this time there is a stench for he has been dead for days. She said it not for her brother, but for the entire human race. Because my beloved, everyone sinned.
And through sin, death entered. And death got us into the grave. And we rotted in the grave.
The Lord Jesus wept for the death which entered through sin, and brought stench to the human being, and destroyed the image of God in which man was created. Christ cried for that image which God had created you with. He said, you sinned, death entered, and death distorted that image.
I'm crying for that beautiful human that walked away from me. The Lord Jesus says, take away the stone. A very strange request from the Lord Jesus.
Take away the stone. But Lord, you said to us in Matthew 17 20. In Matthew 17 20, you said to us the following.
If you have faith, he's talking to us, if you have faith as a mustard seed, a very minute piece of seed. If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here and go over there, it shall happen. It will move.
So now Lord, you're asking us to move mountains with a faith of a mustard seed. And aren't you able to move a stone with the word? You're God. You're a mustard seed faith, you can move a mountain, but you're God and you're asking us to move the stone.
Can't you move the stone Lord? He says, of course I can, but I will not. You need to move the stone. My job is to raise the dead.
My job is to make resurrection possible. But you need to move the stone. See the Lord here saying resurrection will not happen until we remove the stone of our sin.
That stone placed on the tomb of Lazarus represent our sin. A stone here is heavy and sin weighs heavily on us. When we live in a sinful way, it really puts a lot of load on us and it get us to a stage where we fall and we can't carry on anymore.
So the Lord says, resurrection will not happen until you move, remove the stone of your sin. And what? And inhale the very stench of your sin and hate your wrongdoings. I will not raise you from the dead until you remove the stone of your sin and smell your own stinking smell of sin and then begin to hating that sin that made you rot in the grave.
Until that moment, I will not raise you. See the prodigal son, Luke 15, he left his father's house, mansion. He lived like a king.
He didn't want it. He wants to be free, Mr. Genius. So he goes to a far away, far off country and he lives in a bad way.
Then he realizes one day he said, I've had enough smelling the stench of the pig's field. He started longing for the bread in his father's house. He said, I've had enough of this stinking life.
See, I've been taking drugs for too long. I've been gambling for too long. I've been an alcoholic for too long.
And by the way, once I was talking like that, they thought I was a drug addict. I'm just talking in general. I never took drugs.
I never took, please relax. But you live this kind of a life. And one day you wake, woke up and said enough is enough.
Until when am I going to live in this filth? Until when am I going to remain swimming in this sinful life? I hate myself. I hate sin. I hate the smell of sin, which is filth, stinking filth.
Enough is enough. I'm going to make a change once and for all. When you say that wholeheartedly, the Lord will raise you from the dead, will change you.
But until you are honest, truthful to yourself, nothing will change. You can come and beat your chest and say, Lord, have mercy on me. Come on, Bishop, hurry up.
I want to go to Mondai Beach after this. You're not going to change, brother. You need to be honest.
The day you hate sin is the day of your resurrection by the Lord Jesus. The day you hate sin, it is the day that you will offer a genuine, true repentance. It is the day that you will offer a genuine, true repentance.
Christ is waiting to raise you. But you can come and say, yeah, I'm a sinner. But you know what, man, I still love going to Las Vegas.
I still love going, you know, to the pub with me mates. I still love, you know, the white powder. I still love this.
I crave for this and I miss this. You haven't hated sin yet. You need to be honest for a change to happen.
You need to be honest. The day you're honest, Christ has changed you. You don't need to go to him.
He came where Lazarus was. He came. Nobody needs to tell the Lord he is God.
He knows you and everything more than you and everything. But the Lord is the truth. He loves somebody speaking the truth.
And what is the truth about humanity? We're all sinners. We are. We all failed God.
We need to be honest with it. Stop trying to make it look good. Say I'm ugly because you speak in the truth.
If you're going to say Lord, you know, I'm not bad. What is not bad? That's either bad or good. What is not bad? See, it doesn't make sense.
What do you mean you're not bad? You're either bad or good. Don't paint it. Not going to work with the Lord.
If you're going to say good, if you're going to say you're good, the Lord says, I came for the bad. Sorry, I'm not going to choose you. But if you say Lord, I'm bad.
And I need the good God to heal me and raise me from the dead. You've got the Lord. Amen.
Now, for this, we must take away the stone. When we get close to removing the stone, we will smell our own stench. The moment we smell our filth, we're going to make a stand, a genuine stand.
We'll take a stand. We'll hide our foolishnesses and we'll hide sin. And the moment we begin to hide sin, it is the moment we offer a genuine repentance.
So now, what happened at the tomb? Two things, my beloved, happened at the tomb of Lazarus. Number one, death came out of Lazarus and entered Christ. And life, number two, life came out of Christ and entered Lazarus.
I'll say it again. Death, number one, death came out of Lazarus and entered Christ. Number two, life came out of Christ and entered Lazarus.
The Lord Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus took what was ours and gave us what was his. What was ours? Death. And what was his? Eternal life.
He took our death and gave us his life. He took our filth and gave us his holiness. And the Holy Bible says this, and I'll finish it off on this.
The Holy Bible says the following about Lazarus. The Bible doesn't mention that Lazarus came out of the tomb. It says the dead one came out of the tomb, not Lazarus.
Yet he is Lazarus. But it didn't mention Lazarus came out. The dead.
Look at this. And he who had died came out. He who had died is Lazarus.
But the Holy Bible didn't say Lazarus. It says he who had died came out. But the Lord, when he stood before the tomb, he said, Lazarus, come forth.
He called him by his name. But the Bible says the one who had died came out. Why here the Holy Spirit says the one who had died came out? Because my beloved.
For the first time ever in Lazarus' entire life and the moment him being in the grave, for the first time ever, the one who called him to come out, heard the voice of the living one. I am absolutely sure when they put Lazarus in that grave, at least his sisters, Martha and Mary, both cried heavily. And they shouted and yelled and screamed and begged, Lazarus, please come out.
Lazarus, you are not just a brother. You are our father. You are the backbone of this family.
What are we going to do without you? Two females without a man in their life. You left us orphans. Without you we are shattered, destroyed.
Lazarus, please come out. They begged him. The people of the town begged Lazarus, come out, come out.
Lazarus did not come out. Why? Because all he was hearing was the voices of dead people like him. For the first time ever, somebody rocks up at the tomb.
His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth and says to him, Lazarus, come forth. He says, whoa, hallelujah. For the first time I hear the voice of the living one.
And when the dead hears the voice of the living one, they shall rise. Amen. A dead cannot raise another dead like him, but the living one, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, can raise the dead.
A blind man cannot lead another blind man unless they fall into the ditch, but the one who says I am the light of the world will show you the way where you never fall again. Man, I'm breaking world records here. It's not even 730, it's 729 on the dot.
Now for the next two hours, my beloveds, see the Lord Jesus is not a story to tell. It's not a song to be sang. It's not a sermon to be given.
It's not a preach. It's not a book I just read. The Lord Jesus is life.
I need to live. Do you ever go to school to learn about life? Is there a book called learning about life, a topic, a subject taught at primary, high school, university? There's no such thing. Why? Because life, you don't learn it, you just live it.
Who taught that baby who's just born now how to live, how to breathe? Who told him? Who taught him? No one. God. Because God is the source of life.
And God says, you need to live me. And how do we live as human beings in the physical form? Breathing. We inhale and exhale.
Do we think before we inhale? Do we count how many times we've inhaled? No, we don't pay attention. We don't. It comes naturally.
Because this is how life must be approached naturally. You don't think about it. You don't plan for it.
You don't study about it. You just live it. Christ says, don't think twice to come to me.
Don't plan to come to me. Just come because I'm your life. I'm already there because this breath you take is me.
That breath is me, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So don't ever say, Lord, where are you? Lord, why have you forsaken me? Lord, why are you so distant from me? He says, I am the closest ever. I am that breath of life that you live on.
That breath is me. I can't get any closer than that. You breathe me every moment without even thinking.
And this is the way I want you to live for me. Naturally. Naturally means you don't need to think, oh, I don't want to miss Sunday to go to church.
And then, oh, I forgot when Sunday came. How can you forget? The liturgy. Oh, you say, oh, no, please.
That's four hours. I'm going to miss out on lunch in a restaurant. And it's a sunny day on top of that.
Man, what am I doing here? When you are with your sweetheart, the last thing you will ever do is look at the time. My son, when you're sitting with your Juliet, when you're sitting with your Juliet, do you sit with your love and keep on huffing and puffing and say, come on, hurry up, let's go. I've had enough of man.
Time is not moving quickly. You don't look. You take that watch off and you put it in your pocket because you don't want to look at the time.
You don't want the time to take you away from your Juliet because the last thing you want to do is miss out on Juliet. When you are with Juliet, this is all you know and all you want. The Lord says, treat me exactly like that.
When you are in my presence, time seizes because wherever there is love, there is no time. Wherever there is love, there is no time. Why are you looking at the time? To walk away from your love? What kind of love is that? That's fake.
So, Father, how often shall I go to church? What kind of question is that? You don't go to church. You are the church and Christ is dwelling in you in his Holy Spirit. Wherever you go, you are the church.
This building out of bricks and mortar is just a physical representation of the spiritual church. Your heart is the church. The Lord is saying, I don't want you to come and tick the list if you've been to this brick and mortar church.
I want you to have no time when it comes to me because I want your heart to dwell in it forever. Father, you are my church. What church are you talking about? Shall I read the Holy Bible? Is one chapter a day enough, Father? No.
Receive the thought of Christ so that the moment you wake up, you think of him. The moment you look at the world, you think of him. The moment you look at people, you think of him.
The moment you look everywhere, you think of him. That's where God said to Moses when Moses asked him on that Mount Sinai. He says, your people are waiting at the foot of the mountain.
When I go back to your people, they'll ask me, what was the name of this God that spoke to you? What shall I say your name is? God says, go and tell them, I am that I am. What God was saying to Moses is this. Tell them, I am that I am.
Meaning, when you look at the bird, I am that bird. When you look at the tree, I am that tree. When you look at the land, I am the land.
I am the sea. I am the star. I am the moon.
I am the sun. I am the galaxies. I am in all and all are in me.
I am. And when you look at yourself, I am you. And you are me.
Why are you searching? What are you looking for? I'm already you. And you are already me. Do you believe this? Because if you do, you will see the glory of God.
Live the Lord. Focus on the Lord. Holy forever.
He is it. There's nothing else but Him. I don't want to know any other God.
I'm not interested in any other God. And I will never ever search for any other God. Because the moment Christ found me, I found myself and I found home.
He is my home. He is my shelter. He is my refuge.
He is my creator. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. He is the light of the world.
He is the life and the resurrection. He is the good shepherd that leads me to green pastures and still waters. He is the one who called me out of the grave and said, Lazarus, come forth.
He is the one that no matter what happens, it is never too late because with God, He is the God of the impossible. Yet Lazarus rotted in the grave for days, 100% dead. But God, with one word, raised this rotted body and brought it back to life once again.
This is the Messiah, the one who created those veins, not the heart, Mr. Professor. It is Jesus Christ of Nazareth who makes the impossible possible. He is the source of life.
He is life itself. But the Lord above all, He is love. Love Him.
Love Him, my beloved. Amen. Now you have faith in the Lord.
Relax man, forget it. Relax, be happy, laugh, joke, just like the bishop. But let your faith be between you and the Lord in the heart, in the chamber of the heart where intimacy is.
This is private. No one's business. And anyway, the Lord is joy, happiness, freedom, dignity, identity, the Son of God.
Why should I be grumpy? Laugh and joke and go to Macca's and get the fish burger and the chocolate sundae and with it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or whatever. It's all good. Relax brother.
It's not the end of the world. And even if it is, who cares? Christ is always in control. They can kill the flesh, but they can't kill the spirit.
Entrust Him, entrust the Lord with your spirit. When somebody have faith in the Lord, even if they kill him like Charlie, what do you think? He's dead. If he made Jesus as Lord and Savior, that soul never dies.
A bullet is nothing but the sad part of it all for humanity to reach such a low level of dignity. Animals wouldn't do that. So in this kind of an act, animals are superior to those people when it comes to morals.
I've seen an actual video of a lion saving a little gazelle and taking that little gazelle to mom. Chose not to eat it, a lion. And look at us people, acting below the level of animals.
You know the tree from its fruits, the Lord Jesus says. The Lord never allowed anyone to kill anyone. The Lord came to give life for those who were dead and rotted in the grave.
This is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You want to learn morals, values, ethics, and human identity? Seek Christ and His kingdom, and He will show you the way. Annalise, that was beautiful.
And I will always love you. That was a Middle Eastern style Whitney Houston. This is the Whitney Houston of the East.
And I will always love you. That was the Lebanese Habib Albi way. After you eat baba ghanoush and tabbouleh, you're going to say, and I will always love you.
There you go. See, you need to laugh as well. There you go.
Wonderful. When we were in Lebanon a couple of years back, this is what I love about the Middle East in general. It's alive.
Like here, they live like chicken. 5pm, all closed. Shut down.
Come on man. Put more parks, put more gardens, put some lights, and let families go out and sit in a garden. You want to go out? Where do you go? Either shopping, Westfield, Taramata, or it's a club or a pub.
Give a place for families. Man, it was 1am, we were eating falafel. 1am in Beirut, Habib Albi.
1am, I saw young men and women dressed up as if they were going for Miss Universe. You know, like it was a dress show. Maybe it took them 4 hours to be ready to come to a little falafel shop in a very humble place.
1am, life begins. Stunning, man. You ain't going to find nobody depressed.
Like in Lebanon, with all the difficulties that are happening. And so many Middle Eastern countries. With all the hard works, with all the hardships.
You know, not enough jobs, not enough money, not enough this. But no one is depressed. Here, they've got everything.
What's wrong with you? I don't know. Why are you like this? I don't know. I'm sad, I'm upset.
I need some depression tablets. Go to Lebanon, come back, no depression. You know, you walk through the airport in Beirut, everybody is yelling, you can't be depressed.
That's, next please. Over there. Stunning, stunning, man.
I couldn't sleep one night, 3am. The streets was like 3 afternoon, busy. Nobody sleeps.
Amazing. You can't be depressed. You know why depression hits people? Because the Western world focuses on individualism, not family.
God said to Adam, it is not good for you, Adam, to be alone. The Western world wants you to be alone. Because they know, that evil agenda they know.
The moment they make you alone, they've got you. And they put you on tablets. You're finished with the big pharma.
Sick mentality. Go to Lebanon. You don't need the big pharma.
You just need a big heart and big ears to receive them. Stunning, stunning. When I be the next Prime Minister, thank you very much.
I'll make it like a Middle Eastern. And we bring the Italians, the Italians, beautiful man. We bring the Greeks, you bring all the Middle Eastern people.
Stunning man. That's the life.
Sermon Outline
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I. The Nature of Faith
- Faith must be unshakable to see God's glory
- Argumentative faith hinders God's work
- Faith expressed through worship and humility moves God
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II. The Impact of Tears and Submission
- Tears are the language of the heart and never lie
- God is moved by genuine brokenness and submission
- Jesus wept for humanity's sin and separation from God
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III. Removing the Stone of Sin
- Sin is the heavy stone that prevents resurrection
- Honest repentance requires hating sin and its effects
- Resurrection and transformation come after removing sin
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IV. The Call to Honest Self-Examination
- Be truthful about your sinfulness before God
- Avoid self-deception and pride in spiritual matters
- Only genuine repentance leads to God's life-changing power
Key Quotes
“The unshakable faith will make you see the glory of God.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The only thing that overcomes God are your tears. Because tears never lie.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Resurrection will not happen until you remove the stone of your sin and smell your own stinking smell of sin and then begin to hate that sin.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Approach God with humility and honest repentance to experience His transformative power.
- Avoid arguing with God and instead trust confidently in His will and timing.
- Recognize and hate sin in your life as the first step toward spiritual resurrection and freedom.
