Did God Change? Part 2 - The Mystery of the Law, Grace & Sonship (Matthew 5)

Okay, so today we're going to continue our topic from last Friday and the topic of last Friday we started was, is the God of the Old Testament different to the God of the New Testament? And we read from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew chapter 5 verses 17 to 19. Is the God of the Old Testament different to the God of the New Testament? But last week, just in a nutshell, we spoke about the measures or the managements God established and gave to the human race. God's intention before creating Adam, the human race, his intention was when I create this man in my image according to my likeness, I want to be the ruler over his life.

So God's intention was to rule over the human race. So but when Adam decided to do it otherwise, then God had already prepared measures or managements that will rule over the human race. And we said last week, we said that the first measurement was innocence and that was in the garden of Eden.

But that was broken when Adam ate from the forbidden tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So when Adam broke God's word, innocence was broken. Innocence could not save the human race.

So then God came with another measure, with another disciplinary action, with another management, and that was the conscience. So God said, okay, I'm going to leave you to your conscience and let me see how much your conscience is going to be able to save you and to look after you. And what happened? Cain got up and killed his brother, biological, physical brother Abel.

Why he killed his brother Abel? Because he shut his conscience, he killed his conscience. And anytime any human being that shuts their own conscience, they will do nothing but evil. The moment the conscience is dead, every evil deed will come out of that human being.

Don't ever be shocked. And when you look in the world and what is happening in the world, that just tells us all what kind of a conscience the world has. Zero, zero conscience.

That's why the world always was killing each other. So the conscience went and then the conscience, we said innocence was at the time in the garden, as long as Adam was in the garden, innocence was gone, he got kicked out of the garden, then the conscience came. The conscience came from the time of Adam was kicked until the time of our father Noah, the great flood.

That period, which was a period of about 2,000 years, what ruled the human race was their conscience. So it went from bad to worse to worst. And then after the great flood, the moment our father Noah came out in his family, out of the ark, from the coming out of the ark, came the third measure, which was the governments, the ruler and the ruled.

So God gave us to the innocence, didn't work. Then he gave us the conscience, didn't work. Then he said, okay, I'm going to let people rule over people.

Human beings rule over human beings. And governments, we said they failed. I don't want to repeat what I said last week, but governments failed because instead of the government serving the people, the people started serving the government, as we see nowadays.

Today, we'll look at the other measures. Now we're going to come to the fourth measure. Now the fourth measure was the measure of fatherhood and sonship.

Fatherhood and sonship. Fatherhood, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job. These four were referred to as the patriarchs.

They are the fathers of the Israelite nation. So God handed the people to the fatherhood in the hope that these fathers or these patriarchs will look after the nation. But what happened to these fathers? They all failed God and failed the nation.

Abraham, our father, lied and said to Pharaoh that his wife, Sarah, was only his sister. Abraham lied before Pharaoh, the king, and he said, Sarah is my sister. Yet she was his wife.

Why? Because he was fearing for his life. Pharaoh liked Sarah and he wanted to take her as a wife to himself. So Abraham said, if I tell him she is my wife, he will definitely kill me and will take her from me.

So the best thing is a lie and I'll say she's my sister. Abraham failed. His son, Isaac, did exactly the same thing his father did because children learn from their parents.

So Isaac also said about his wife, Rebekah, that she was his sister. Whatever dad did, the son did also. Instead of the fathers teaching their children to keep God's commandments, the children learned from their fathers to break God's commandments.

To break them. And this is the case till this very day, our time and age. How many times do parents teach the wrong things to their children? One of the classical wrong things that parents do, they have a child, a four-year-old, five-year-old, and somebody knocks at the door.

The child goes to open the door because they love it, you know, they want to feel important. So the child will run to open the door. The child knows that dad is at home and he opens the door and somebody outside says, is your dad home? He looks at dad and dad says, I'll kill you if you tell him dad is home.

Say dad is not home. But the child says, I can see dad home but he's saying to me, tell them he's not home. So then the child goes back and says, dad is not here.

Now at that time his intellect was not mature enough to fathom that dad was teaching him to lie. So as that child grew older, he returned the favor to dad. So one day the son who was 16, 17 comes back home and dad asks him, have you been to the school? And the son will say, I just came back from the school and that was a lie.

He was not at school at all. And then later on dad finds out that his son lied to him and he'll come angry at his son, how dare you lie to me? Then the son will say, dad, thanks to you, you taught me how to lie. Remember when I was a four-year-old? So I'm just returning the favor.

How many times parents fail their children? So the fatherhood and the sonship didn't work. And look at this, Abraham lied, Sarah is not my wife, she's my sister. Isaac did the same thing, Rebecca is not my wife, she's my sister.

Jacob, the grandson, the son of Isaac, the grandson of Abraham, look at this, Jacob lied to his father and stole the firstborn blessing of Esau. Jacob lied to his father and said, I'm Esau, yet he was Jacob, just to steal the blessing of the firstborn. And what happens, my beloved? Then Jacob's children lied to their father and said, we found the shirt of Joseph, your son, looks like he's been devoured by vicious animals, your son is dead.

They lied. And from the moment Jacob heard that Joseph is dead, he never stopped crying until he went blind. Jacob lied to his father Isaac, who was blind at the time, and his children lied to him till he became blind.

Jacob, what goes around comes around. Also when Jacob met Esau, look at the, look at the patriarchs, they should be looking after the nation, look what they're doing, disaster. Also when Jacob met Esau, you know what Esau said to Jacob? He said, brother, how about we start a new page, forget about whatever has happened till this moment, you know, I forgive you and we need to move on, we're brothers.

And then Jacob said, absolutely dear brother, there is nothing greater than love, amazing. Of course we start a new page. And then Esau said to Jacob, let's go together, all of us together as one family, since we are brothers, we are one family.

How about we move and we go to Bethel, let's go up to Jerusalem. And then Jacob says to Esau, look, I have a lot of flock with me, I'll be walking much slower than you, how about you go before me, I'll catch up with you in a week's time. And Esau says, not a problem brother.

So Esau who goes, after a week Jacob is not moving, his children come to Jacob, dad, are we going to meet with uncle Esau again? He said to them, are you kidding me? I could not believe for him just to leave so that I don't see his face ever again. Oh, so you just made up a story and you lied to your brother. So what did Jacob do? He said to his children, we are going to dwell in this place called Shechem in Hebrew or Aramaic, Shechem or Shechem.

Shechem is the Gaza Strip, the bombed Gaza Strip. That is Shechem of the Old Testament where our beloved Palestinians lived there for quite a very long time. So he went and dwelt in Shechem, Shechem, Neblus, the Gaza Strip.

What happened? His daughter Dina was raped by Shechem, the Hivite prince, she was raped by him. His two sons Simon and Levi came to their dad Jacob and they said, dad, this guy, if he does not receive circumcision, that was the baptism of the Old Testament. Meaning if this guy does not convert to Judaism and follow our faith, we will kill him.

So they went and they said, since you did this act, evil act towards our sister, you either convert and become like us and follow our faith as the Israelite nation or we will kill you. So he converted. While he is recovering from his conversion, Simon and Levi, they go and kill the entire people of Shechem.

They kill them all. The sons lied to their father just like he lied to his brother. They said, if he converts, that's fine, he can marry our sister, no problem.

They lied because the father lied. Jacob said, why did you do that? You said, if he converts, you're gonna let it go. He's gonna marry your sisters, your sister and that's it.

Why? They said, well, we learned from you dad. You said, I'm gonna go and and and and and catch up with my brother Esau after a week. When we asked you, you said, no, I was just fabricating it.

Well, we just returned the favor, dad. We fabricated the story as well. It's very, very sensitive area here on how we should deal and treat one another.

Very sensitive. Now, Jacob felt ashamed. His sons murderers.

He had no choice but to leave Shechem and finally he goes up to Bethel where Esau said to him from the very start, come, let's go now, brother. So finally he goes up to Bethel. Oh, by the way, when he goes to to Shechem, I forgot to mention this.

When he when he arrived at Shechem, he built a house for himself, and his family. Building a house meaning he settled down. That meant I am now a citizen of this city.

But when he left that city and went to Bethel, when he arrived there, he pitched a tent. He didn't build a house. When he came to Shechem and build a house, God appeared to him, appeared to Jacob.

Jacob asked God, what is your name? God replied and said, why are you asking for my name? God did not give him his name, did not reveal his name to Jacob. When Jacob left Shechem and went to Bethel, he pitched a tent, not a house. And a tent, what does that mean? A tent is for those who say we are total strangers.

We pitch it here, tomorrow we pack it up, we go elsewhere, and we pitch it again, and we pack it up, because the entire land is not ours. We are total strangers. But when you build the house, you're putting strong foundations into the ground.

You're saying I belong to this ground, yet you don't. The earth is not yours. The world is not yours.

So when he pitched the tent, God immediately came and spoke to Jacob again. And without Jacob saying anything, the moment God revealed himself to Jacob in Bethel, he says to him, I am God the Almighty. God is saying to Jacob and to all of us, when you are in the wrong, even if you ask for my name, I will never reveal my name to you.

But the day you stop being in the wrong and coming and living in the right, you do not need to ask for my name. I will reveal my name without you asking for it. But don't ever think I'll reveal my name when you are living wrongly, when you are walking wrongly, when you are behaving wrongly.

I'll never reveal my name. But the moment you fix yourself and come back to me and repent and say, God, I'm sorry. Forgive me for my sins.

I want to be right with you. I don't want to wrong you anymore, Lord. You don't need to ask him, who are you? Where are you? Show me yourself.

He'll do it without a word uttered from you. He'll do it himself. My beloved, in this picture here, thus far, we see in innocence, humanity failed.

In conscience, humanity failed. In governments, humanity failed. And in fatherhood, humanity all failed.

In all these four, all humanity failed. We come now to the fifth measure, the law, the time of Moses. Let's look at the law.

You see, the fifth measure is the law, the Old Testament. Here we answer those who think and ask this question. Why is the God of the Old Testament so difficult and bloody? Here we're going to answer this question.

Now, before we answer the question, I want to ask a question. It's always good and healthy to ask a question. The question is, why did God write the law, the Old Testament? Why did he do it in the first place? You see, God wrote the law through his prophets in order to reveal who the human being really is.

I'll say it again. The reason why God wrote the law of the Old Testament in order to reveal that who the human being really is. Now, another question.

Why did he write the New Testament? In order to reveal who God really is. He wrote the Old Testament to reveal who the human being really is. And he wrote the New Testament to reveal who God truly is.

So now, we come between the law and grace. The law is the fifth measure. Grace is the sixth measure.

John the Beloved spoke about them in his gospel chapter one. In chapter one, and I believe verse 17, he says, For the law was given through Moses. This is the fifth measure.

But grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. This is the sixth measure. For the law was given by Moses.

So what did Moses do? He just gave the law that was given to him by God. But what about grace? Grace was made by Jesus Christ, not given by Jesus. But Jesus made grace impossible.

So there is a humongous difference between Jesus. If some people think he is just a prophet, then Moses is the prophet. There is no comparison.

That's why Jesus is God revealed in the flesh. For the law was given by Moses, fifth measure. But grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

This is the sixth measure. My beloved, the human being was controlled by Satan ever since Adam transgressed against God in the Garden of Eden. Satan controlled the entire human race, all humanity, without any differentiation or distinction.

Therefore, God wanted through the law of the Old Testament, God wanted through the law to lift up this human being from the satanic level to the human level only. So the law of the Old Testament, God gave it to the Israelite nation and in the hope through them to the entire world so that God would lift that human being from the satanic level, which is now controlled by Satan, from that satanic level to the human level only. Thus, the laws which God gave in the Old Testament to the Israelite nation were at the human level.

God could not have given humanity anything beyond their capacity. So God gave them laws that were relevant to the human capability. Anything beyond the human capacity, God did not give.

God did not give. Now what is the human level? It's a question. What is the human level? The human is taken from the soil.

So the human level is the level of the soil. What is the level of the soil? The law of physics. What is the law of physics? For every action, there is a reaction.

Equal in force, opposite in direction. For every action, there is a reaction. Meaning the law of the Old Testament that was given by God to Israelite nation says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

That was the law of the Old Testament. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. What does that literally mean? It means if you plug my eye, I'll plug your eye.

And if you plug my tooth, I will come and plug your tooth. In other words, love the one who loves you and hate the one who hates you. This is what humanity is capable of at its best.

So as far as the human capacity is concerned, humans in the natural realm, we can only love those who love us and we can only hate those who hate us. We can never love those who hate us. That is the natural law.

That is the law of the Old Testament. God elevated the human race of the Old Testament from the level of Satan. What is the level of Satan? Hate everyone regardless.

Punch them without any reason. Chop them for no reason because I just feel like it. Tough luck.

That's Satan. Humanity better than Satan. I'm not gonna punch you until you punch me first.

If you punch me once, I'll punch you once. You punch me twice, I'll punch you twice. You punch me three times, I'll punch you three times.

You plug my eye, I plug your eye. You plug my tooth, I won't take you to Istanbul to reinstate the tooth. So God wanted to take the human race from the Old Testament, of the Old Testament, from the satanic level to the human level.

That's why he gave them laws relevant to the human capacity. He never gave them anything beyond their reach because the flesh is weak. That's all it can do.

You can't ask a human, a person from this world, forgive your enemies. They'll say, yeah you're crazy man. I'm gonna go and kill them all.

That's the talk of the world and that's the talk of the law of the Old Testament. God could not have asked any more than this from the Israelite nation. Therefore when God said to the Israelites, wipe the pagans from the land.

You know people say when we read the Old Testament, this God of you guys Christians you believe in, this God says go and kill so and so. Chop them, chop them, chop them. So how come this God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New Testament? When we come to the New Testament, this God is totally different and utterly different.

This God says if somebody you know strikes you on your cheek to give him the other one. If somebody takes you by force a mile, go two miles, love your enemy, pray for those who persecute you. Totally different Gods.

You Christians, you don't know what you're doing. No Habibi. Come I teach you.

Come I teach you. So when God said to the Israelite, wipe the pagans from the land. Now why God said to the Israelite, go and wipe the pagans from the land? Because in Isaiah chapter 8 verse 8, look what Isaiah is saying in 8 verse 8. He will pass through Judah.

He will overflow and pass over. He will reach up to the neck and the stretching out of his wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel. So whose land is it? It is the land of Immanuel.

So Israel is not the land of the Israelis nor the Palestinians. It is the land of Immanuel. And who is Immanuel? When we come to the New Testament, Immanuel is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

That is his land. Very controversial thing to say in our time and age. But I'm just good looking.

So the land is Immanuel. And what does the word Immanuel mean? God with us. For he shall be called Immanuel.

Also Isaiah prophesied. And who was called Immanuel? Jesus of Nazareth. All glory to his holy and mighty name.

So the land belongs to Immanuel, Isaiah 8 8. And for those who believe in the Torah, they better believe in the prophecies of the Old Testament prophecies. They need to believe the land belongs to Immanuel. No one else.

Now, God was never bloody. All it was, the land was his. And he gave it to the Israelites.

He chose to give his land to the Israelites. And God is free when he chooses to do things in certain ways. God has the right and no one can say no to God.

So he said, this is my land and I'm giving it to the Israelites. And for as long as so I don't want anyone to misunderstand here for us. And God is saying for as long as the Israelites worship me, God said to them, go and wipe the pagans from the land.

But the day the Israelites disobey me, I will send the Assyrians and the Babylonians and they will wipe the Israelites. God, our God is very fair and very just. And so when he gave the land to the Israelites, he didn't give it just so they can do whatever they wish.

They need to obey him. And if they don't, he will bring other nations to discipline them. But as long as they are obeying him, he gave them the right to go and wipe the pagans.

Why? Because pagans cannot exist in a land that belongs to the true living God. And for them to dwell in the land that belongs to Emmanuel and they worship false gods, God will never accept it. You see, God is saying, you walk right, you will be all right.

You walk right, you will always be all right. This is the law. You break the law, you don't expect to be all right.

And for this reason, God says in the Old Testament, if you fulfill the law, I will bless your produce. I will bless your children. I will bless your home.

I will bless your health. I will bless your possessions and I will keep your enemies away from you. But if you break the law, the opposite will happen to you.

The opposite will happen to you. In Isaiah chapter 1 verses 19 to 20, it says the following. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. So you follow my rules, God says, you will be good. But you disobey my rules, the sword will devour you.

And when you look at the Israelite nation in their entire history, every time they worshiped Yahweh, the true living God, they conquered the lands and they conquered their enemies. But the day they came and disobeyed the true living God, the Assyrian people came and smashed the daylight out of them. And this is a lesson for all of us.

We are the Israelites in a way of the New Testament. We obey the Lord Jesus, we will live happily ever after. We disobey the Lord Jesus, all hell will break will break loose on us and against us.

It's the same God, for God's sake, it's the same God. Now, so our beloved and worshiped God is not bloody at all, is not a harsh God, quite the contrary. Our God treats the human being according to their level, exactly the same way parents treat their children according to their level.

Would you treat your child when they were one year old, the same way they are now 18? Of course not. When they were one, you treated them according to their level. And when they were 18, you treated them according to their level and so on.

So the older you grow, the treatment will change depending on the level you are at. That's how God treats us. So the level of the Old Testament was the level of humanity.

For every action, there is a reaction. I'm not asking too much. I'm asking what you are capable of and what you're capable of as a human being outside of God.

Love the one who loves you and hate the one who hates you. That's all you can do. But when grace came, it's a different level.

Therefore, the treatment of God is now different to all of us who are living in the time of grace, the New Testament church, which we will come to it next week. But what happened with this law, the fifth measure? Failed. Could not save the Israelite nation.

All those who left Egypt, they all died in the wilderness. Their descendant entered the promised land with Joshua. Now the law failed.

But the failure of the law, according to whose testimony? Like who testified that the law failed? Well, the law failed according to the testimony of the law itself. The law said that the law failed. Now, my beloved, let me put it this way so you can understand what the law really is and how far it goes.

When we go to the doctor for a checkup and then the doctor writes a referral to go and see a radiologist for a scan, whether it's an x-ray, CT scan, MRI, far from all of you, right? So we go and take those scans and those tests according to that referral. Now, when we took those results, the x-rays, the scans, the blood test, when we took those results, did those scans heal our illness? They didn't, did they? But the question is then, why did you do it if they don't heal you? Why did you go? Naughty doctor, why did you send me to do some tests and the tests are good for nothing? They didn't heal me, the pain is still there. So the question is, why did you listen and go and do those tests? Oh, because the tests were the only way to reveal where my problem is and what my problem is.

When I took those scans, those x-rays, those blood tests, now the doctor says, this is where your problem is and that's why you're having this pain and that pain. But the x-rays did not heal me. They only revealed my problem, my illness.

The x-ray machine is the law exactly, or I should say the law is exactly that x-ray machine. The law came to reveal our problem, but not to heal our problem. Because the x-rays do not heal your problem, they only reveal where your problem is.

So why did the law come? The law came to prove to us, as that x-ray machine proved, that we are all sinners. The problem of your weakness, your sickness, your stubbornness, your foolishness, was that transgression. By breaking the law of God, that's where you started aching, breaking, and dying.

If you hadn't broken God's word, none of this would have happened to you. So the law came as that x-ray machine and revealed my problem, but that's as far as the law can go. It can't heal.

So I took the x-rays and he said, oh you've got a lump Bishop, so what do I do now? I put the x-ray on the lump. Come on x-ray, heal me please. Come on x-ray, heal me please.

The x-ray will say nothing. The x-ray will say one thing, you've got a problem, you've got a lump. So how do I heal this? You need to take the x-ray back to the doctor, and the doctor will prescribe you the medications for your illness.

The law is the x-ray machine, Christ is the doctor, and it is with Christ, medication is readily available. But who referred me to the x-ray machine? Christ. Why? Because I need to know what my problem is.

I need to go back to the law for the law to tell me where I went wrong, and when I realize where I went wrong, I'll go back to the doctor and I'll say, doctor please heal me. That's when we come back. You see, if we do not admit that we are sinners, if we do not confess our wrongdoings, the doctor cannot heal me.

And without the x-ray machine, I will never know what my problem is. I don't know why I'm in pain, but the x-ray machine revealed the source to my pain. So the law revealed the source to my problem, but until I acknowledge it, until I confess it, until I take that result to the doctor who is Jesus Christ, and then bow before his feet, holy feet, and beg him for mercy, for forgiveness, and beg him for healing, the doctor cannot heal someone that does not wish to go and see the doctor.

The doctor cannot heal someone that refuses to see the doctor. You need to go willingly, you need to go freely to the doctor, and beg the doctor to heal you. That's the only time you are giving permission lawfully to the doctor to prescribe you medications for your illness, and the medication Christ the King, the true doctor, gave us are the seven sacraments of the church.

Medication to our illnesses or illness. Illness is me. Illness is the result of me, which we'll talk next week.

Now the law, the x-ray machine, revealed three things in me. Number one, there is sin in me. That's what the law revealed, that there is sin in me.

Number two, the law revealed that all humans are corrupt. And number three, the law revealed that the healing is coming through the Messiah. So the law revealed that I'm a sinner.

The law revealed that I am corruptible, but also did not leave me at losing hope. It gave me hope as well. The law said, even though you're a sinner, even though you are corrupt, even though you are dying, but there is good news coming in the near future.

The medication is coming through the doctor of all doctors, the Messiah, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is the only doctor that can heal your illness. So now I ask you this, if anybody says that the God of the Old Testament was a killer, a blood, he was shedding blood left, right, and center.

No, my beloved God of the Old Testament said, since humanity rejected me to be their own king ruling over their life. Okay, I left them to their innocence. It failed them.

I left them to their conscience. It failed them. I left them to the governments.

They failed them. I left them to the fathers, the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and job. They all failed humanity.

And then I gave them the law and the hope to elevate them from the satanic level, which they were adhering to him in the garden of Eden and the garden of Eden. Humanity listened to Satan rejected God. So you fell under the control of Satan.

In the fifth measure, the law, I gave it in the hope that I at least take you out of the satanic level and bring you back to the human level at least. But even in that you failed, you broke all my laws. I gave you 10 commandments.

You broke them all. Do not steal, you stole. Do not kill, you killed.

Do not lie, you lied. Do not commit adultery, you did. You broke all my laws.

Honor your father and mother, you failed. Do not worship any other God but me, you failed. You failed 10 commandments, 10 you couldn't handle.

How can you handle the fullness of the law of God? How can you handle it? If 10 you failed in all of them, how are you going to handle more laws? So the law failed, but I had no choice but to give you the law. Why? That's my x-ray machine. I'm the radiologist now.

So I took x-ray for all of you, the entire human race. And the result said all humans are sinners, all humans are corrupt, but the salvation is coming through the Messiah. So when the x-ray machine gave that result, so the patient said, how does it look doctor? The doctor looked at the x-rays, he put them in that kind of a lighting box.

And the doctor looked and he said to the patient, doesn't look very good. You're in deep trouble brother. Doesn't look very good.

Romans chapter 3 verses 12 and 23, look at St. Paul what he says about the x-ray result. Romans 3, 12 and 23, verse 12. They have all turned aside.

They have together become unprofitable. There is none who does good. No, not one.

That was the result. Thank you doctor. All of you, you've turned away from God.

None of you are profitable. There is not one who does good, not even one single one. Verse 23, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

That was the result of the x-ray machine. For all have sinned and have fall short of the glory of God. There is not one that does good, not single one.

The Lord Jesus comes in John chapter 10 and says, I am the good shepherd. Wow. The Lord Jesus says, all humanity failed to be good.

I'm the only one who is good. And the word good can only apply to God because there is no one good but God. And Jesus says, I am the good, not a, the good shepherd, meaning he's literally saying, I am God revealed in the flesh.

Now, please pay attention. See when, when, when the Lord Jesus appealed to the, to the disciples after resurrection, Thomas wasn't there. Thomas was one of the 12 apostles.

He was not there the first time. So the other disciples, when Thomas came, the Lord Jesus had already, he was gone. So they said, the Messiah is, he's risen.

Our Lord is risen. We saw him. He just walked in through closed doors and windows and we saw him.

Definitely he is the living Messiah. As he promised, as he said to us, I will rise. He did it.

He is true to his word. He is truly the Messiah. Thomas said, I will not believe until I see, until I touch.

The Lord Jesus did not wish to leave Thomas in his doubt, in his suspicion. The Lord comes again at another time and reveals himself again in that upper room when Thomas was present. And then he calls Thomas.

He said, Thomas, come here, touch me, put your finger in my wound and touch me and see it is I, no one else. I don't want you to be a non-believer. I want you to believe because you are one of my 12 eyewitnesses.

So what did Thomas say after touching the body of the Lord and realizing this is true? He bows and he says to the Lord, you're my God and my Lord. You're God and Lord. Now the word and is a, is a, is a, is a divider.

There is God and Lord. When Adam broke God's word and saw himself, he realized he's naked. Him and his beloved wife, Eve, they hid behind the tree.

The Lord, who came searching for Adam? The holy Bible says, the Lord God. When the holy mother went to greet Elizabeth, what did Elizabeth say? How blessed am I for the mother of my Lord to come all the way to greet me. So Elizabeth says, the mother of my Lord, Thomas says, my God and my Lord.

And the Lord God was walking in the garden saying, Adam, where are you? Why are you hiding? Now Thomas said, God, my God and my Lord. Now if I ask anyone, can you ever see God? No. Can you ever see your God? No.

Can you see your Lord? Yes. So Lord, I can see, but God, I cannot see. Now Lord in Aramaic is the word Maria or Mario, Mario, Mario or Maria.

Now Maria or Mario in Aramaic means Lord, but the word Maria in Aramaic also derives from the word Maria. Now the word Maria is to do with shepherdhood. So when you say the Lord in Psalm 23, look at King David, the Lord is my shepherd.

He didn't say God is my shepherd. Because you do not see God, but do you see the Lord? Yes, because the Lord is the shepherd. Are you with me? So now you are my God and my Lord, my God whom I do not see, but through the Lord who is my shepherd, I see him and through him I saw God.

You with me now? So the word Christ is the Lord God. So when we come to receive the body and the blood, whose body and the blood and blood we receive, it is neither the body and the blood of God because it's not biblical and it is nor the body and the blood of Jesus because this is also non-biblical. But we receive the body and the blood of Christ.

Now Christ is the shepherd whom I saw with my naked eye and when I saw the shepherd who is the Maria, Maria, the Lord, through the Lord, I saw the hidden God in him. He led me. Philip, truly I say to all of you, he who sees me, sees the Father.

He who sees me. Philip, who did you see? I saw the shepherd. I saw my Lord.

But when you saw your Lord, your Lord took you that was hidden inside of him. So don't ever think the word Christ is not good enough. Please don't ever think.

It is absolutely biblical. Why don't all the apostolic churches say the body of God and the blood of God or the body of Jesus and the blood of Jesus? They can't say it. They're stuck.

They can only say the body and the blood of Christ. You see, I don't want to go more into it because I know people will misunderstand. I just pray for unity.

That's what I'm trying to say. I just pray for unity. God is Christ.

Christ is God revealed in the flesh. And when did God put on the flesh? From the moment of conception. Hear this, oh Israel, the New Testament.

If anyone, if anyone comes and says to you that certain Christians claim that Jesus Christ was God at the age of 30 only, that is nonsense. And if my church believes that Jesus Christ only became God when he was 30 years of age, or God was revealed in that human form at the age of 30, not at the moment of conception in the womb of the virgin of all virgins forever, the crown of our glory, our holy mother Mary. If anyone says, if my church says that Jesus Christ was only God at the age of 30 in the and man at the same time from the moment the archangel Gabriel greeted the queen of heaven, the crown of our glory, mother Mary.

From the moment he said, blessed are you full of grace, because the power of the almighty will overshadow you and the one whom you're going to bear in your womb is the holy one, the son of the most high. From that moment, the second person of the trinity, the holy trinity, the triune God, the second person, the logos, the word, Jesus, the word, the son of God, the second person came. The moment he dwelt in the womb of the holy mother, from that moment he was united to that human form forever, never, never, not even a split moment, not even a picosecond.

You know what a picosecond is? A picosecond is the speed of light passing through a strand of hair. Now light travels at 300,000 kilometers a second, 300,000 kilometers a second the light travels. Imagine 300,000 kilometers a second speed passing through a strand of hair, that's called a picosecond.

In that picosecond there was not a that the divinity ever left humanity, impossible, from conception on the cross, in the grave, and forevermore in glory at the right hand of his father seated, and forevermore he will always be God united to the human form, to the human body, that is Christ the king. Divinity united in humanity, in the person of Christ, and that's why it has to be the body and the blood of Christ, and that's a topic on its own. Innocence failed, conscience failed, governments failed, patriarchs, fathers failed, the law failed even though revealed our problem, but that's as far as the law can go, that's as far as the x-rays can go, they can only reveal your problem but they can never heal the problem until you take them to the doctor, which is the sixth measure, the grace.

We'll continue that next week. Now that is why it's not that there are two different gods but one God is revealing your problem and the same God came in the end of times through grace. When you go to the doctor and show the doctor your results and the doctor looks at the results, oh you've got a problem here, you've got a problem here, does the doctor get up and kill you or heal you? So what are you going to expect from the New Testament God who is the same God of the Old Testament, but the Old Testament there was the law, x-ray, God is saying well since you didn't want me to rule over you, well then cop it.

You see because you didn't want me to rule over you, I was saving you all these headaches and heartaches. Are you with me now? If you had allowed God to be the only sovereign authority over you, you wouldn't have been ever sick, you wouldn't have been in problems and troubles and mischiefs and sin but you chose to do it your way. Well your way went from bad to worse to uglier, uglier and uglier and uglier, but since I am the same God who is all love, I came in the end of times to say I'm receiving the x-ray now, I'm coming with that medication, my body and blood, I'm sacrificing myself on the cross and I'm coming to wipe away your sins in order to give you true healing forever.

And that is grace, the sixth measure. Next week inshallah, mashallah, alhamdulillah. So everything about Jesus Christ is beautiful, just breathtaking.

Love the Lord, I beg you, love the Lord and trust in him no matter what. Don't let little things here and there make you lose your peace and your connection with Christ. Don't.

Love the Lord, focus always on him. Issues, problems, there's always going to be for as long as we live in the flesh, there's always going to be issues and problems, misunderstandings, but the focus is neither on me nor on you, it is on the Lord. The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want because he provides everything for me. He is my God and my Lord and Mary is the mother of my Lord. And till the day I go to the grave, I'll always say this to all of us, to all of us, you want to go to heaven, you want to make it, hold on to two special persons.

One is the Lord Jesus, the other one is the Holy Mother. You hold on to these two, you've got no problem. Heaven is guaranteed, but you need to hold on to them, yeah.

You see, something so, so unique about the Holy Mother, and Asir and I say, I eat her heart. I'm not talking about theology here, okay, I'm just talking about love. Please bear me, bear me the bear me the discussion or the argument.

You know, when we fail to follow the Lord always, go to the Holy Mother and say, mom, like, I'm struggling, I'm struggling, I can't keep pace with your son, he's too good, he is too perfect for me, so mom, please hold on to me, I don't, I don't want to lose your son, and you are brilliant at this. When it comes to your son, no one can find the way to the heart of your son more than you. You surpass all the saints put together, you surpass all the angels put together, so mom, I beg you, you, you're one of us.

Your son is very special, but you're one of us. You had an earthly father and mother, your son only has an earthly mother, doesn't have an earthly father, for his father is God who art in heaven, so your son is special, but you're one of us. You had earthly parents, mom and dad, like us, but my goodness, you're so precious, you're so holy, like as far as the human race is concerned, you are the perfect one out of the entire human race, so in that sense, you are the most precious pearl gem in the crown of your beloved son who is the king of all kings and the Lord of all lords, so mom, whenever I fail to follow in the footsteps of your beloved son, can you take me like a baby, you know, look after me, and say, it's all right my son, that's okay, you made a poo-poo, no problem, you committed a sin, oh you stink my son, but it's okay, mama's here, mama is gonna take you to her son, mama's gonna take care of you, and she's gonna take you to her only beloved son, the only way, the only truth, and the only life, and my son, my little son, my son will fix your poo-poo.

When we make mistakes, don't ever run away from God, run to God, and if you can't run to mom, she'll take you to God who is her son, I don't have an issue, Mary being the mother of God, or the mother of Christ, all beautiful, no issue whatsoever, hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed are you amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, holy Mary, mother of God, mother of Christ, pray for us, I the sinner, now and at our, come on, help me, and at the hour of our death, we need to take it easy, and if it ain't easy, don't take it, love one another. And now, let us stand for the finale prayer. 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 sow 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, oh 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, guard 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.