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Did you Know Jesus Circumcised on the 8th Day?
Mar Mari Emmanuel
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Mar Mari Emmanuel

Did you Know Jesus Circumcised on the 8th Day?

Mar Mari Emmanuel explains how Jesus' circumcision on the eighth day reveals profound truths about God's eternal plan, the nature of sin, and the importance of living in obedience to God's will rather than our own 'I am.'
In this expository sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the profound spiritual truths revealed through Jesus' circumcision on the eighth day. He explains the origin of sin as the birth of the self-centered 'I am' in humanity and contrasts this with Jesus' unique sinless nature. The sermon challenges believers to live in obedience to God's will, rejecting the false autonomy that leads to spiritual death. Through biblical insights and practical illustrations, the speaker calls Christians to recognize the battle between God's authority and Satan's deception.

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Satan has jurisdiction over sinners. Anyone who commits a sin, Satan can go and give you a hard time. We take the manual and we throw it away.

When we take the manual which is the mind of the manufacturer, what is left for us to do with the TV? Experiment with it. Oh, let me see what this button does. Oh, I just deleted all the programming.

Let me see what this one does. Let me see what this one does. Let me see what this one does.

I'm experimenting. God is the manufacturer. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God.

Amen. Today's gospel for this liturgical service, our church fathers have chosen a portion from the gospel according to Saint Luke and chapter 2 verses 21 to the end of the chapter which is verse 52. So it is Luke chapter 2 verses 21 to 52, the end of the chapter.

This talks about the Lord Jesus being taken up to the temple for the circumcision when the eight days were completed. And he was called Jesus which was the name given by the angel to the Holy Mother prior to him being conceived in the womb. Verse 21 begins with these words.

When the eight days were completed, the Lord was taken up to the temple to be circumcised and he was called, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel, Archangel Gabriel, to the Holy Mother prior to the Lord being conceived in the womb. We learn something very profound. The name Jesus was given by the angel to the Holy Mother.

Now this angel stands in the presence of the Almighty God, meaning when the angel gave that name to the Holy Mother, that means that it was God who told the angel to mention this name. So in other words, the name Jesus was chosen and given by God himself through the angel to the Holy Mother. And since the name came from God, therefore this name was with God before the creations of the world.

Because everything with God is eternal. So this name didn't just come up when the time came for Jesus to be born. Because with God, everything is in his mind prior to making or doing anything.

Everything he knows. So this name was chosen by God before the very creations of the world, before anything from the very, very beginning when God was alone. That means when God came in Genesis 1 26 and says, let us go down and make man in our image according to our likeness, being the former Adam, God's intention was for the former Adam, who is all of us, God's intention was for the human race to be at the same standard as Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

So when God came to create the human being, he wanted this human being standard to be like Jesus. He wanted all of us to be like Jesus. So he created Adam and he placed him in the garden of Eden.

And you may have heard what I'm about to say before. It's okay to hear it again. Because sometimes a repetition of a thing is an emphasis on something extremely vital.

So when he created Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden, he said to Adam one thing, do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For as long as Adam was obedient to God, he was in God's presence. And for as long as Adam was obedient to God, Adam did not know himself.

He knew himself through God. In other words, prior to the transgression, Adam's I am was God. When Adam broke God's word and ate from the forbidden tree, the I am was born in Adam.

The word me. The moment me was born in me, all hell broke loose. The ultimate cause for every sin, the ultimate cause for every trouble, the ultimate cause for every destruction, the ultimate cause for every division, the ultimate cause for the ultimate death is the word me.

I am the ultimate enemy to my own self. You see, before the transgression, Adam did not have the I am in him. And to prove this, he was fully naked, yet he was not embarrassed.

The moment he broke God's word, the I am was born in him. He became his own I am, not God being his I am. He became his own I am.

The first thing he noticed, he was naked, became embarrassed and hid himself behind a fig tree. And by the way, Adam didn't eat from an apple tree. So don't worry about the symbol of the iPhone.

It is non-biblical. They got it wrong, those guys. So they should refund you for putting the wrong symbol on the phone.

They call it Adam's apple. What apple? The tree was not a citrus tree. It was no fruits.

The Holy Bible is very, very clear. The tree was called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, period. Why are you making it a fruit tree? It's not.

What God says don't change. Now when he ate from that tree, Adam became his own I am. This I am is in me at the moment of conception, in the mother's womb.

So if somebody says a child is without sin, St. Augustine, a fourth century saint, says that child or that baby is not that is sin free, but because his biological members are not mature enough for him or her to commit sin. If the members of that body were mature enough, they would have committed sin. But because they are not mature as yet, that's why that baby is not committing sin.

Otherwise, sin is embedded in that baby at the time of conception in that mother's womb. And this is where King David mentions it very clearly in Psalm 50, and I was conceived in my mother's womb with inequities. And the word inequities is a direct sin against God.

And what is the direct sin against God? The ultimate direct sin against God is the word me. That's the ultimate sin against the Almighty God. When any one of us comes and says, I will live my way, I will do it my way, I will walk my way, I will talk my way, this is the ultimate inequity against God Himself.

Because there is only one I am, and that is God. So when people say, when did Jesus say, I am God? When he said, I am. Before Abraham was, I am.

I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the Good Shepherd. All of this are titles only relevant to God.

See the problem, when we claim the word I am to our own selves, we are literally saying to God, we either say there is no God because I'm God, these are the wonderful beloved atheists, or they will say there is God and I am another God. God meaning, I do things the way I choose, the way it pleases me. Whether God is happy with it or not, it's beside the point.

I do it my way. And so many people in the 21st century, they do it their way. So they become their own God.

However, this I am of mine as a human being is the false God. To claim the word I am, you need to be able to do one thing, never change. Can you never change? No.

Simple thing. Years back, I was a baby. Now I'm Santa Claus.

Tomorrow, God knows, I'll have a lot of wrinkles if the Lord keeps me. Whatever he wants, if it was up to me, I say Lord take me but let it be your will not mine. But I've changed, physically I've changed.

We change all the time. We say one thing, we do totally opposite to it. We think of one thing and we say something else.

We decide on one thing and then we change our mind because we are ever changing. Since we change and we have no control over that by the way, whether we like it or not, we will age. Whether we like it or not, we will change.

Since we do not control that, we cannot stop it. Therefore, we cannot claim the word I am, period. We do not qualify.

So when we do it our way, we become illegal in the sight of God. Illegal citizens of heaven. Well as Christians, you've got the citizenship of heaven now while you are on earth.

So if you are going as a Christian to live as the world, then you are breaching the law of heaven. Because in heaven, there is only one I am and that is God. So when you do it your way, you're saying to God, I'm God as well.

It's impossible. When Adam, you see this word I am, I've said it before, it is embedded in that baby while in the mother's womb. The first baby comes, the most spoiled.

Second one comes, the first one wants to strangle the second one. Why the moment the first one sees there is another sibling and the sibling is taking mom away from me, the sibling is taking my room away from me, my bed, my toy, my everything, I'm going to get rid of them. Because this is my mom, how dare you sit in her lap.

This is my room, this is my bed, this is my doll, this is my toy, none of your business. A true story. This priest was called by a mother.

She tried everything under the sun to make her second child go to school. She would take him to school and before she is out of the school's premises, he is turning the whole world upside down, crying, running to mom. She tried for weeks on end, he would not stay not one single minute in that school.

She was forced to take him back home. So she called the priest, father come to my rescue, my child does not wish to go to school. So the father goes and sits at home and then he observes that child.

The child is playing with his toys and then it clicks. Afterward he goes to the mother, he says what you need to do is this, buy a big box and make sure there is a room for a padlock to go on that box. And then when your child is working, it's playing with those toys, put all the toys in that box and lock it in front of him.

And then take that key and put a rope around it and put the key around his neck, so he would take the key with him to school. She did that, she got the box, put all the toys in it, locked it before her child and put the key around his neck and off we go to school. He did not come back from school knowing the toys are safe, my other brother will not touch them.

Wow, it's embedded, me, me, me, me, me. Now when Adam had the I am born in him, two things it gave him. And all of us by the way, we all struggle with this.

What are the two things? Two things became vividly clear in me, there is the yes and there is the no. There is the yes and there is the no. I can say yes to people, I can say no to people, I can say yes to God and I can say no to God because of the I am that was born in me.

The moment the day I say yes to God, I live. The day I say no to God, I die. It's a spiritual death, not a biological one.

Biological one, everybody has to die. But the spiritual death is the ultimate death, the eternal death, which is the separation of the spirit from the Almighty God. The day I say no to God, I am dead spiritually, i.e. separated from the Creator.

But the day I say yes, I am alive, living in his holy presence. Now Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory to his holy and mighty name. What I'm about to say, this is for every human being.

This is for every human being. It doesn't matter whether you are a Christian or not, the I am is embedded in you. Whether you are a Christian or not, every single human being was born with his own and her own I am in that mother's womb.

That's what we've inherited from the former Adam. So now, the Lord Jesus came to be born into this world. He was born from an earthly mother without an earthly father.

He was born from an earthly mother with no earthly father. Now Jesus, the man, is the only human being in the history of mankind ever to be born from an earthly mother without an earthly father. No one was born with only one parent and no one will ever be born from one parent except Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Reason being, the I am, which is all the headaches and the troubles that comes from it, is embedded in the seed and the seed is in the man, not in the woman. The one who carries the seed is the man, not the woman. And to prove this, when Eve ate from the forbidden tree first, God didn't say anything, God didn't do anything, as if nothing happened.

But the moment Adam, the man, ate from the tree, God came, Adam, why have you done this? And he kicked him and his wife out of the garden. So the sin or the original sin, the word I am, is embedded in the seed of the man. Jesus was born of a woman, therefore Jesus was not born of a human seed.

He was born and took upon himself the human nature, not the human seed. So Jesus, the man, was born without the original sin, I am. Now my I am created in me two things, yes and no.

And I can apply them both, even with God. Now the Lord Jesus, as the man, as a human being, when it came to God, because he was born without the original sin, the I am, so whose I am was in Jesus? God. God was the I am of Jesus.

Now what did this create in Jesus? Two things, just like us. One is called yes, the other one called amen. Jesus has no no in him.

He has the yes and the amen. So when it comes to God, God says to him, walk, yes dad, stop, amen to that. Perform a miracle, yes dad, don't perform anything, amen to that.

Come, yes dad, go, amen to that. When a human being, listen to this, when a human being is able to be yes and amen to God, that human can never die and will never die. You see, death came because we broke God's Word.

Do you have time? The enemy, the enemy, Satan, is very cunning and very sneaky, very smart in a very evil way. The only thing the enemy wants you to do is break God's Word. That's what he wants you to do, because in breaking God's Word, he's got you.

You're dead and the wages of sin is death and how did death enter the human race? Sin and what is sin? Breaking God's Word. So when we break God's Word, sin enters and when sin enters, death controls us. Satan has jurisdiction over sinners.

Anyone who commits a sin, Satan can go and give you a hard time, but let me put it this way to you. A time will come, not very far away, the Lord will force Satan to surface up. Well, actually we're getting the taste of it in a much clearer way now, but a time will come it will be just open, no problem.

Now it's kind of yes and no and some people don't want to get it, but look at it now. The world is now serving Satan in the open, serving Satan in the open. It's so clear for those who belong to Christ, so clear.

Satan never wishes to reveal himself to no human being, except those who literally worship him. By the way, I don't want to tell you, you see the contract certain people that made with Satan, it is done by blood. It's got to be blood.

This is why to undo the contract of Satan and people, Jesus gave his own blood to deliver you, because the blood of the Lamb of God burns Satan, burns Satan, burns him. Those who gave that contract and they know themselves very well, with blood they are fully controlled by Satan. They can never do nothing but evil and if they even try to do something good, it will never happen unless Christ through his grace and mercy touches their heart and delivers them, because they've gone too far and too deep with Satan and let me tell you this my son and daughter and I am begging you, do not play with Satan.

It is not a game. You can't play with him. He is too smart for you, too powerful for you and he is too ancient for you.

He is much wiser and older than you. How old are you son? 20, 18, 25, 35, 40, a hundred. He is thousands of years old.

You can't win with someone much older than you. So when you say to yourself my child, I want to have fun, you better know exactly what is the definition of fun. If fun to you is you go out whenever you wish, you do as you please, you mix with people as you choose and you say things as you wish and you dress up the way you want and walk the way you want and live the way you want, rest assured Satan has full control over you without you knowing it and I'll tell you why.

Satan to people who are still babies, he will never tell them that it is him. He will never and he will never reveal himself in no measures. You know why? Because he is so ugly, he is so filthy, he is so stinking, the moment he reveals himself nobody will follow him, nobody.

I'll give you an example, if you go and tell a thief you're a thief they'll get very offended but I'm just stating the fact, the truth. Don't you steal? Yes. But how dare you tell me I'm a thief? Yes I steal but don't tell me I'm a thief in my face, you're offending me.

It's like now the world they bring all these evil laws and when you tell them they are evil laws they get offended because anyone who does wrong the last thing they want to know somebody telling them this is wrong, they can't stand it. So Satan knows that if you know him you will never choose to follow him. That's why he will come with this.

He will whisper in your ear without you realizing the whisper comes from him. You're all all you know this is you and you are the boss of your own life, you are it and no one can tell you otherwise. It's a free country brother so you can go whenever however and we can dress up, you can eat, dance, jump, you can go wherever.

This is a free country and listen I'll do it my way and nobody can stop me. It is Satan doing it not you. Please I beg you.

It's never you, it's Satan. 100%. So he'll come and whisper without you realizing it's him you are believing this is all you're doing and he'll say hey bro you're still young brother why do you want to go and listen to that good old-looking bishop he preaches for hours on end even I Satan get fed up because he burns me when he preaches.

So don't go to the church. Come on bro church is for the pensioners. Church is for the retired.

Church is when I get old when I'm a grandpa and I'm a grandma and I need to get my teeth fixed in Istanbul because it's cheaper than Sydney. That's when I go to church. So now it's the time to live and have fun otherwise when will I be able to dance with somebody and drink with somebody and hug somebody and love somebody when I'm old it's too late I have to do it while I'm young and it is absolutely okay.

Why? Because the world which is the majority says to you it's okay because the world is ruled by Satan but when someone like me comes and says to you it is a voice in the midst of millions of voices. So who are you gonna listen to? The majority not the minority. So you're gonna go with the flow bro.

Yo what's up bro? Let me subscribe. What's up? Get down. So you're gonna go with the flow.

So Satan will use the world to tempt you to lure you in and along with it all it is absolutely okay. You're not doing anything wrong. You are free and you need to enjoy life while you can.

What's wrong with that? I work six days a week. I'm extremely exhausted. I have one day off.

I need to go to the club to the pub. What am I doing? I'm just having a small drink. I'm sitting there.

I'm just relaxing. Why can't you relax when you read the Holy Bible instead? Why don't you relax in the church instead of the club? Why don't you come and drink the blood of Christ instead of the wine and the drunkenness of this world? Think my child. But he uses the world to tempt people to take him away from God and Satan knows this.

When a time comes in he knows that he's got you now. He will let go of you and good luck. You will fall so far, so deep and so hard.

I just pray you'll be able to come back from it. Some people so sadly said did not come back from it. So sadly said because he let go of them after taking him too far into the Pacific Ocean where they can't even swim in a meter deep waters.

He took him in the hundred meter deep waters and then he let go of them. How are you gonna come back because the tide is against you now. The current is against you.

You'll get so tired you won't be able to come back to the shows. Don't trial it out. Don't experiment with your life.

It's not a joke. I've said this long time ago. I'll mention it again.

You know when you buy a product, it comes in nice package. When you open the package right at the top there is a little booklet called manual. Us being geniuses, I'm too smart.

I don't need the manual. We take it and we throw it away. Now what is the manual? It derives from the Latin word menu.

It's a compounded word manual. Menu is abbreviated for the word manufacturer. It's an abbreviation of the word manufacturer.

So it became menu and the word ALL in Latin means mind. So manual means the mind of the manufacturer. So the one who created that TV set is the manufacturer.

Now this TV set was in his mind before creating it, before making it. Therefore since it was in his mind he knows exactly how it functions, how it operates. He knows it exactly because he is the creator of that TV set.

So what he does when he created this TV set, he sent it to you and he sent his mind with the TV for you to read the manufacturer's mind in order to know how everything functions in that TV set. When you take away that manual, oh the manufacturer says if you follow the manual I'll give you a guarantee and a warranty. What is the guarantee? That if you follow the manual from A to Z, I guarantee you it will do everything the manual says.

And I'll give you a warranty if you follow the manual and anything breaks in it, I will give you a warranty a new replacement of that old TV. We take the manual and we throw it away. When we take the manual which is the mind of the manufacturer, what is left for us to do with the TV? Experiment with it.

Oh let me see what this button does. Oh I just deleted all the programming. Let me see what this one does.

Let me see what this one does. Let me see what this one does. I'm experimenting.

God is the manufacturer. He created a product called the human being. And when he created this human being, he sent him on this earth with the manual with that product called the human being.

That manual of God is called the Holy Bible. The Holy Bible is the mind of the manufacturer. So God says to you, to me, to all of us, if you follow my manual I will give you a guarantee.

And I will give you a warranty. I'll give you a guarantee. Whatever my word says, if you follow it, you will do.

But if anything breaks down by following my manual, I warranty you a brand new replacement. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Do not experiment with a life that was never yours, never will be.

It only belongs to God. Listen to the manufacturer's book, the manual, to guarantee you live happily thereafter. And if anything breaks down along, you have a new replacement, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

When the eight days were completed, why eight? I don't want to bother you too much, but in the Old Testament, the woman was only able to go to the temple after 40 days of giving birth. If she gave birth to a boy, she needs to wait 40 days before she goes to the temple. And if she gave birth to a girl, she needed to wait 80 days, double.

Girls are troublemakers. Just kidding, just kidding. But after 80 days were completed, the Lord was taken to the temple to be circumcised.

Number eight is the eternal life, symbolizes the eternal life. This realm is the temporal realm. This realm is driven by number seven.

There's seven days in a week, there's no eight days. That's the maximum. So that the number this realm goes by is seven.

Number seven, biblically speaking, is a number that is complete, perfect, complete. So this realm goes by number seven. Then what is number eight? Is outside of this realm.

What is outside of this realm? Eternity. When you read in the book of Genesis chapter 1, when it talks about the days of creation. Now don't forget the Old Testament's original text is Hebrew.

Now Hebrew, Aramaic, which I speak Aramaic, the Lord's, the Lord Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic. So when I, when you speak Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, these are called Semitic languages. They are one family.

But when you come to Hebrew and Aramaic, it's just one, one. The alphabets are the same, pronunciation is different a little bit, but if I want to really learn Hebrew, I can learn it just like that, because I speak Aramaic. So when you go to the original text, which is Hebrew, the first day is called Ched Shabbat.

That's in Aramaic pronunciation. Ched Shabbat. Shabbat means week.

Ched means one. So Ched Shabbat, which is Sunday, by the way, in English, it is Sunday. Ched Shabbat, which is Sunday, in, if you want to literally transliterate that, it should, you should say the first day of the week instead of Sunday.

Oh, that's a long time. The first day of the week. That's how we pronounce it in our language.

Ched Shabbat, the first day of the week. Ched Shabbat, the second day of the week. Ched Shabbat, the third day of the week, and so on and so on and so on.

So the first day of the week is Sunday, and the eighth day is Sunday. From Sunday to Sunday is eight days. But when did God rest? Shabbat, Saturday.

Shabbat or Shabbat. Now, the days of creation are only seven, because the eighth doesn't belong in this realm, belongs in the next one, eternity. This is why the Lord Jesus rose on Sunday, not Saturday.

The beginning of the week is Sunday, and the eighth day is Sunday. So when the Lord rose from the dead, he rose on Sunday to bring us into the eighth day, which is eternal realm. And number eight, put it on its side, it is the symbol of infinity.

The symbol of infinity is eight sleeping on its side. Two circles within each other. When you go inside those circles, you will never ever come out of them, ever, ever, ever, ever.

And the earth is not flat. So please put your minds to rest, scientists, because God who created the earth, he created everything circle round, because the circle round is the symbol of infinity. What God creates goes for an extremely long time.

Everything revolves. Have you noticed? The earth revolves around itself and around the sun. 24 hours around itself and 365 days around the sun.

Everything is in a circle. Why? Because God is infinite. He created everything in the symbol of infinity, circle round.

So when the Lord rose on Sunday, the eighth day, to bring us into the eternal realm. Now circumcision of the Old Testament equates to baptism of the New Testament. So on the eighth day, his name was called Jesus and recorded when he was circumcised.

Old Testament equivalent to baptism, New Testament. So when you are baptized, it is the day you enter eternal life. On the day you are baptized, that is the eighth day.

Baptism is the eighth day. Eternal life you enter. Please stay there.

When you grow older, don't leave that eternal life and go back to the filth of this world. Please don't. I don't want to pass and breach my time.

Already spoken too long. We need to pray. Seriously, we need to pray.

We need to pray for Christ to always rule and conquer. You know why Enoch, the Holy Bible never mentions he died? Because when you read it in the book of Genesis, you have to be very careful when you read. Focus.

It says, and Enoch was walking with God. That's a secret. Key there.

Enoch was walking with God. God walks with everyone. But the question is, does everyone walk with God? No.

You see, when God walks with you, you can still die. But if you choose to walk with him, you will live forever. So don't tell me that God is with me.

You better say, are you with God? Now that's what matters now. God automatically is with you. You don't need to ask for it.

You don't need to seek it. You don't need to find out. It's already a given.

But the question is to be answered, are you with God or not? And as long as you're not with God, even if he's with you, you will still die. You need to be with him. The day the people of the world find Jesus Christ of Nazareth, heaven is on earth.

There will be no more evil laws. There will be no more bloodsheds. There will be no more envy, jealousy, hatred, bigotry, self-pride, none of this nonsense.

The moment we find the true Messiah, everything will fall into place and this product called the human body, the human being will function in accordance with the manual. Have you read the holy bible? If not, start tonight. I encourage you.

I urge you my son, my daughter. It's never too late. It's never too late until the fat lady sings.

But I just wonder if the hate speech is going to be passed and I pray never ever, never cease the daylight. Is that going to be called a hate speech because I just gave a joke? What kind of a sick world are we facing nowadays? God gave the freedom of religion and speech to the human being. No authority on earth can ever take this away and if it tries to, they're playing with fire.

God will answer them, not me. God will. So we need to be mature.

We need to be adults, not childish human being. We need to be adults. So my son, start reading the holy bible.

Daughter, start reading the holy bible. My son, my daughter, make time for the Lord Jesus just like you did today. God bless you.

This is incredible. You have no idea how happy the Lord is. You could have been elsewhere very easily.

You could have chosen. You could have said no to God and yes to yourself and yes to other people and you could have gone out elsewhere but you chose to come here. God bless you forever for what you have done.

The Lord will never ever forget this moment even when we do and he will remind you. He will say to you, my son, my daughter, you know why you're with me in heaven now? Because I remember when you came to my church while that old bishop was preaching but too long and I kept on telling him, shorten it a bit but he is a stubborn Assyrian bishop and but he loves it. That's why I let him loose a little bit until I smack him.

He will never forget. Love the Lord. Be in his holy presence.

Next time somebody calls you and says let's go clubbing, let's go downtown, man, just leave it alone. What Star City Casino? What Las Vegas? What Hollywood? None of this nonsense, man. Get rid of it.

Trust me. What's this? What a joke. What's this? Can you act like a human being? What's this? As if you've been electrocuted and just walk normal.

You know when the people of the world when they sing, they sing about the stars and the moon, night. They never sing about the sun because that's what the world is, darkness. Why don't they sing about the light? Because you need Christ in your heart to sing about the sun.

I am the son of righteousness and healings in its wings. I am the light of the world and when the sun shines, you ain't going to see no moon, neither stars because the light of Christ covers all. So you better sing about the Lord.

So next time when you want to dance with somebody, you better make that somebody this body. You need to know who you're dancing with, lest you end up being dancing with Satan. Dance with the Lord, baby.

He's good looking, bro. Yo, wassup? And he's still single and available after 2025 years and he's still searching for this beautiful soul to make her his precious bride in holiness, purity, none of this filth of this world. When you talk about Christ, elevate yourself from the mud and the filth of this world.

Stop thinking worldly when you talk about Christ because Christ is heavenly and you need to talk heaven, not earth, heaven. So yes, I am the bride of Christ in holiness, in purity, in brilliance, excellence. Love the Lord.

Amen. And say, Lord, make me like you where I say to you, yes, Lord. Amen, Lord.

No more, no Lord. Amen. Let's bow our heads.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our good God and full of mercy, our good God and full of mercy, whose grace and mercy is poured upon all, pour my Lord the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance. Renew in them your Holy Spirit by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation.

Purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace and instill the walks of their behavior and the paths of righteousness. Please them along with the saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith in the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries. Empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will to confess, worship, and praise your Holy Name, the Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever.

Amen. Hallelujah. The Lord Jesus lives forever.

Love the Lord. Be happy. Smile no matter what problems you've got.

You don't have them as many as this bishop has. Trust me. But the Lord allows me to smile.

Sometimes I'm that heavy burdened. It's not funny anymore. But the Lord keeps me smiling.

Amen. So don't worry. You've got a problem with your wife? It's all right.

I'll find you another one. I'm just kidding. I just want to make you laugh, okay? You've got a problem at home? Pray about it and keep your silence.

Let God talk. You've got a problem at work, family, friends, your own problems. You have struggles from within.

You have certain habits. You're trying to be free from them, but still dragging you down, still chained by them. Be patient.

Pray in silence. When you are alone, between you and the Lord, scream. Beg Him to set you free.

He's already answered. Beg Him. And have that confidence.

Have that trust. Have that faith built on the rock. Unbreakable.

Unshakable. The rock is Christ Himself. That your prayers is answered, but just wait for the perfect time.

Don't ever lose hope. Even if it's delayed, it is in your mind that it is delayed, but with Christ it is in perfect timing. Because when He gives so perfectly, He does it so eloquently.

Trust in the Lord. I love you. I love you.

And I love you. I'm not happy when it comes to an end, but you are extremely excited that it's coming to an end. They're saying, thank God, Bishop.

My back is aching. I've got a migraine, but I love you. But remember, Jesus loves you the most.

Amen. I was thinking of a joke, but I forgot.

Sermon Outline

  1. I. The Significance of Jesus' Circumcision
    • Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day as per Jewish law
    • The name Jesus was given by God through the angel Gabriel before conception
    • This name reflects God's eternal plan and intention for humanity
  2. II. The Origin and Impact of Sin
    • Sin entered humanity through Adam's disobedience and the birth of the 'I am' self
    • The 'I am' represents self-centeredness and rebellion against God
    • Sin leads to spiritual death and separation from God
  3. III. Jesus' Unique Birth and Sinlessness
    • Jesus was born of a woman but without a human father, thus without original sin
    • God was the 'I am' in Jesus, making Him fully obedient and sinless
    • Jesus' obedience is characterized by 'yes' and 'amen' to God's will
  4. IV. The Battle Between Obedience and Rebellion
    • Satan has jurisdiction over sinners who break God's Word
    • Living 'your way' is rebellion and makes one an illegal citizen of heaven
    • Believers are called to live in obedience and reject the false 'I am'

Key Quotes

“The moment he broke God's word and ate from the forbidden tree, the I am was born in him.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“When you do it your way, you're saying to God, I'm God as well. It's impossible.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Satan to people who are still babies, he will never tell them that it is him. He will never and he will never reveal himself in no measures.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel

Application Points

  • Recognize the danger of living according to your own will instead of God's will.
  • Embrace Jesus as the true 'I am' and live in obedience to His Word.
  • Resist Satan's subtle deceptions by grounding your life in Scripture and prayer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why was Jesus circumcised on the eighth day?
Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day according to Jewish law, signifying His full participation in humanity and God's covenant.
What does the 'I am' represent in this sermon?
The 'I am' represents self-centeredness and rebellion against God, which entered humanity through Adam's disobedience.
How was Jesus different from other humans regarding sin?
Jesus was born of a woman without a human father, thus without original sin, and His 'I am' was God Himself, making Him fully obedient.
What is the consequence of living 'your way' according to the sermon?
Living 'your way' is rebellion against God, making one an illegal citizen of heaven and subject to Satan's jurisdiction.
How can believers overcome the power of sin and Satan?
Believers overcome sin and Satan by living in obedience to God's Word, saying 'yes' and 'amen' to His will, and relying on the blood of Jesus for deliverance.

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