Mar Mari Emmanuel passionately proclaims that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation and calls everyone to return to Him with repentance and faith.
In this powerful evangelistic sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel emphasizes the absolute reality and uniqueness of Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation. He passionately calls listeners to repent and return to Jesus, highlighting God's boundless mercy and the precious gift of time given to humanity for repentance. Through heartfelt stories and biblical truths, the speaker encourages believers and seekers alike to embrace faith and experience the transformative power of Christ's forgiveness.
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The Lord Jesus is real. I have lived for this, I will die for this. There is no God but him, period.
There is no way but him, period. There is no other one in whom salvation and redemption were made possible but him. No one.
There is only one God, the creator of everyone and everything. This God was revealed in the flesh over 2,000 years and his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He was crucified in the days of Pontius Pilate.
He was buried. He died on the cross in the flesh. The divine never dies, the human dies.
In his humanity died on the cross. He was put into the tomb for the three days after the third day he rose from the dead. He went up to heaven, ascended and sat in glory at the right hand of his heavenly father.
He will come back again to judge the dead and the living for he is God and God is the only judge and for Jesus Christ to judge everyone, he needs to be God. No one can judge except God. Judgment is for God alone, not for a prophet, not for a good man, not for a holy person.
Only God can judge because for judgment to be fair for judgment to be lawful, that being must know everything and everyone. If you do not know everything, your judgment is not fair. You will miss something along the line and your judgment will fall short from being perfect.
Only God knows you perfectly. Only God knows everything perfectly. That's why he is the only being that fits the criteria of being the true judge.
Christ will judge everyone i.e. he's God. He's God. But this God until the second coming, he's all mercy, he's all compassion, he's all caring, he's all tolerating, he's all forgiving.
He is waiting for you to come back and say, Lord I'm sorry. It does not matter what you have done till this very moment. Do not dwell on the past.
Do not say my sins are immense, my wrongdoings are beyond repair, I've gone too far, I've gone too deep, there is no way for me to come back again to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Nothing, nothing, nothing stands in the way of the Lord for him not to be able to forgive, to cleanse, to wipe and bring you to perfection once again. Nothing stands in his way, nothing.
One drop of his precious blood can wipe the sins of the entire world from Adam the former till the last human being that comes to the face of this earth. One drop of his precious blood, more than enough to cleanse the entire world's sins and wrongdoings. You need the Lord Jesus, my beloved.
Don't ever walk away from the Lord Jesus. Don't ever be tempted by this or that. Don't ever listen to so-called friends that will take you to the wrong places, for the wrong reasons, for the sake of a moment of pleasure in this temporal empty world.
Don't. Come to Christ. Give your life to Jesus Christ, the only way that will lead you to the truth and the truth shall give you eternal life.
Come to him, my beloved. Every time we celebrate the Holy Mass and especially on Sunday, but the Mass is a daily service. It's not once a week, it's every day because the day is your life and Christ is offering salvation and redemption every moment of your life.
So every time you come to the Holy Mass service and receive Christ in the true body and the true blood, amethyst will be your portion in the end. But you got to do it with faith, rainbow, victory. With the blood, there is victory.
With the blood, there is eternal life and eternal life is the kingdom of God and I'll leave you with this. Do you know why God created us in a realm that is governed by time? I'll tell you why. Someone may ask and some people have asked me this, Bishop, isn't God merciful towards all his creations? Of course, yes.
Then how come God didn't forgive Satan when he made a mistake? I mean, Satan could have come back and asked for forgiveness and God would have forgiven him. He would have. However, the mistake was made or done in a realm that time does not exist.
Angels live in the eternal realm. In the eternal realm, there is no time. Meaning, when you make your decision in the eternal realm, you can only make it once and once forever.
And when you make that mistake, you can only make it once and once forever. Why you cannot come back and ask for forgiveness? Because there is no time for you to come back. Are you with me? So God, out of his love and mercy for the human race, he said, I will not create them and place them in the eternal realm, lest they make a mistake and they'll be gone forever.
This is my child. I'm creating someone to be my son. Therefore, out of the love of the father to the son, he said, I'll create you in a realm where I make time possible.
Time governs that realm. So what is time? A distraction to eternity. Time is a distraction to eternity.
He took us out of the eternal by time and time only. Otherwise, how do you come out of the eternal? There's no other way except through time. Do you see how time now is so precious? It's so priceless.
Don't waste the time on empty things. The time is made out of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. The Lord is saying, in this second, you made a mistake.
You have another second coming. That second coming, that next second that is coming, is a new start, is a new life for you. Meaning, the mistake you made in that second, in the next one, you have the chance to correct it.
You made a mistake today. You have tomorrow coming. Correct the mistake tomorrow for what you've done today.
If you couldn't this week, next week. If you couldn't this month, next month, this year, next year. But one thing, my child, don't be displaced and lethargic and say, it's okay, I'll do it whenever.
Because whenever may never ever come. So when you are awakened from within, that's what we call the graces of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit visits you.
They are the visitations of graces. When you are touched by the Holy Spirit, all of a sudden you wake up and there is eagerness. I need to go to church.
I miss the church. I miss hearing the Word of God. I've been too distant.
I don't know what happened to me. I lost my mind. I was totally lost.
Now, what am I doing with my life? I've gone too far. I need the Lord Jesus. This is the Lord touching you with his mercy.
Get up. Don't let the next second to come. In that moment, get up and run to Christ and say, Lord, I'm coming to you in this moment, asking you to forgive me all of my sins that I've done in the past 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 100 years, whatever.
Forgive me, Lord. Time is priceless. Let us not waste it on vanity, on empty things.
Schedule your time. Prioritize things within that time, which is a gift so priceless given to you from God. I'll have to leave you with this.
True story. True story. Not any story.
True story. This priest was visiting a hospital. They asked him to visit this patient.
So he entered the hospital, going to that ward, to that room, to visit that patient. As he was going, two nurses, females, one Christian, one not. And I'll leave that as not.
One Christian, one not. They saw the priest dressed up in his outfit. That's why we need to dress up in our normal priesthood outfit to be recognized.
Don't come with a short, with a trousers, with a suit and with a tie. How would I know you're a priest? Anyway, so they saw him dressed up in black. They ran towards the priest.
They said, Father, please, please, we beg you. There is somebody on the bed of death. Any minute he will depart.
Please just come and give him the prayer of absolution, forgiveness of sins. So he shifted his direction. He said, well, the other one is not that urgent.
Looks like this one is more urgent. So he went towards a person whom he has never met before. He has no idea.
Then the nurses led him to that patient. He walks in. The priest is telling the story himself.
He says, I saw a skeleton lying in that bed, barely breathing on his last breath. I came and I sat next to him. He was so weak, so fragile.
I said to him, say a prayer, my son, so I can pray on you and anoint you with the with the holy oil. He said, Father, I don't know how to pray. He said, What do you mean you don't know how to pray? He said, Father, because when I was a little kid, six, seven year old, I, my parents used to take me to church.
I used to pray the Lord's prayer, our father who art in heaven, but it's been decades. I've never prayed it. I've forgotten it.
He said, Okay, my son, just say anything to the Lord Jesus. Whatever comes to mind, just speak to him. Tell him whatever you wish to tell him.
He said, Father, neither this I can do. He said, Why, my son? He said, Because it's been so long since I have spoken to him. I don't know how to talk to him.
And isn't it true? We don't know how to talk to people when we haven't met them for 40, 50, 60, 70 years. What shall I say? He said, Father, I don't know. The priest says, I don't know what to tell him.
Say the Lord's prayer. I don't know. Speak anything from the heart.
I don't know. Jesus is a stranger to me. I can't speak to strangers.
He said, Okay, repeat after me. Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, I come to you, I come to you with the precious blood, with the precious blood of your beloved son, of your beloved son, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, my Lord and Savior, please accept me. Please accept me.
He said, I repeated it 10 times. He repeated it after me 10 times. And I said to him, now that you've picked up the rhythm, continue with this prayer.
I need to go. The priest gets up and leaves the room. A month later, he happens to go to the same hospital, visiting another patient.
May God bless and give full health to every sick person in every hospital. I pray for them from the bottom of my heart. He said, I went to the same hospital a month later.
I walked in to go to see the patient. The same nuns recognized me a month ago. They came running to me.
They said, Father, aren't you the one that we spoke to a month ago and we took you to that patient? He said, Yes, it is me. They said, Father, you have no idea what happened after you left the hospital. Half an hour later, he passed away.
We saw a white dove flying out of his room and incense, magnificent, fragrant incense filled the room and the entire ward and the entire hospital. Just by saying those words on his deathbed, he didn't know how to pray. He didn't know how to talk.
He just repeated after the priest. It looks like he meant it. This is Jesus.
How can you not love him? How can you not? How can you resist him? How can you say, No, I don't want you. How can you walk away from him? How can you choose Satan over him? How can you?
Sermon Outline
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I. The Reality and Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
- Jesus is the one true God revealed in the flesh
- His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension confirm His divinity
- Only Jesus can judge the living and the dead
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II. The Mercy and Forgiveness of God
- God's mercy is abundant and available to all
- No sin is too great to be forgiven by Jesus
- The precious blood of Christ cleanses all sins
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III. The Gift of Time and the Call to Repentance
- God created humans in time to allow for repentance
- Every moment is an opportunity to turn back to God
- Do not delay repentance or be complacent
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IV. The Power of Prayer and Returning to Christ
- Even those unfamiliar with prayer can be restored
- Faith and sincere prayer bring peace and salvation
- Christ’s love is irresistible and calls for a response
Key Quotes
“There is no God but him, period.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Nothing stands in the way of the Lord for him not to be able to forgive, to cleanse, to wipe and bring you to perfection once again.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Time is priceless. Let us not waste it on vanity, on empty things.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Do not delay in turning to Jesus; every moment is an opportunity for repentance and renewal.
- Trust in the power of Jesus' blood to cleanse all your sins, no matter your past.
- Cultivate a habit of prayer, even simple heartfelt words, to deepen your relationship with God.
