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Do Not Be Led Astray
Mar Mari Emmanuel
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Mar Mari Emmanuel

Do Not Be Led Astray

Mar Mari Emmanuel passionately warns believers to reject the world's evil influences and cling closely to Jesus Christ as the only true source of salvation and eternal life.
In this powerful sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel addresses the moral decay and spiritual blindness of the 21st century, urging believers to reject worldly influences and cling closely to Jesus Christ. He emphasizes the importance of a personal relationship with Christ as the only true source of salvation and eternal life. Through vivid illustrations and heartfelt appeals, the speaker calls the church to steadfast discipleship and genuine love rooted in the divine bond with Jesus. This message challenges listeners to live as the body united with Christ, resisting the temptations of the world.

Full Transcript

The world is blind. What you hear, what you see, what you encounter around you, it is absolutely insane evilness in its core. It is where the where the Lord God says in Isaiah, you have called light darkness and darkness the light.

Today the world is calling the light darkness and the darkness light. They are rejecting Christ and embracing Satan. Everything that is offensive to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the world is running so fast to implementing those evil laws.

What we need to do, what we need to do, we need to be close to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I pray and I beg the Lord Jesus to touch every heart and bring it closer to him more than ever before. If there is a time that we need to be close to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I can assure you the 21st century is the time of all times.

Because all the centuries that have gone by, put together all of them, they come nowhere near the evilness being done in the 21st century. Nowhere near. When the Lord Jesus spoke about the time of Noah and the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, well what was happening at the time of Noah? At the time of Noah he said they were marrying, divorcing, remarrying, divorcing, remarrying, divorcing.

Marriage was like a trade at the time of Noah. It was so easy as if you were buying some vegetables or some fruits. The 21st century, Noah's time, Sodom, Gomorrah's time, put together.

It is all happening in the 21st century. It is very evil. Therefore my beloveds, our only, our only way to salvation is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

I beg every young man and every young woman, my beloved sons and daughters, you are here in the church and you are watching us through live streaming. I beg of you, if you are a teenager, if you are in your 20s, in your 30s, in your 40s, in your 50s, but more so, more so, teenagers to the age of maybe 30, 40. I beg you, I beg you, do not, do not, do not let anyone of the world to influence you and take you away from your beloved Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Step on Satan in the name of the Lord. Then step on the lusts and the pleasures of this world and say, I willingly choose to reject you world. I willingly choose to reject you Satan and I willingly choose to embrace my heavenly groom who came to make me lovely as the tents of Solomon because the world turned me into the tent of Kedah pitch black like the night.

I choose the Lord Jesus. If you are going out with so-called friends and having fun defined in the worldly realm, walk away from those friends because they are not your friends. A true friend in a simple nutshell definition is the one who builds you up, not destroys you.

A friend that takes you to the club and refuses to take you to the church is not a friend. He is destroying your future. He is destroying you from head to toe.

You need a friend that will say to you, give me your hand because I'm taking you with me to the Lord Jesus. Now that's what you call a friend. Ask the Lord, Lord, give me the time.

I want to spend it with you more than ever before. I have wasted enough time in this filthy world, in this ugly dark world. I don't want it anymore Lord.

I want to be the child of the light, no longer the slave of darkness. I want to come out of this exile. I don't wish to live in this tent.

It has been too long and too far. I am suffocating. The body has dragged me in the streets of this world, in the filth of this world.

The body took me to clubs and pubs, gambling, alcoholism, drugs, men, women and you name it. Enough, enough, enough, enough. No more body.

You will not take what you wish for. You will not get away with it anymore body because today I am stepping on you and I'm making you follow the spirit. No longer the spirit follows you.

If you gain the whole world but at the end you lose yourself. What are you going to give in the place of that lost self? You cannot too late. You can gain the world but you will never be able to have inner peace.

You will never be able to find yourself. You will always be that empty, that vacuum inside of you where you just wonder who you are and what you are and where you are lost because the one who gives you clarity of vision, who gives you that insight to the right path is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Once he cleans you from that sin and bring you out of that tent of qadar, sets you free, he will give you that eternal realm where you will live in the light forever.

No more crying, no more sinning, no more falling, no more struggling, no more aging. There the smile will never leave your face and the joy will never leave your heart. But the Lord after 2024 years, he is still 33 and he will always be 33.

This youthhood, this brilliant perfect man, perfect God that walked on the face of this earth, that perfect man and that perfect God will always be the same in the next life for eternities. He will never age, he will never change. The same Jesus but this time we will see him in his glory, in his glory.

But the same perfect man 33 years of age. I can assure you this is the truth. There is no God but Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

There is no way but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no truth but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no life but Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He's got nothing to do with Christians. He has got to do with your heart. When you give him your heart it is then and then only you have a matrimonial bond with the Lord.

You could have been born in a Christian family and raised in a Christian family but you never gave your heart to the Lord Jesus. You gained nothing. Maybe your father was a saint but I will end up as a sinner because it is not what my father has done.

It is what the Lord has done. When I accept him he will turn me from a sinner into a saint. And don't say I cannot do it because it's not what you do, it's what Christ has done for you.

But what is our part to do is to love him. When you love him you give your heart to him. You make him your heavenly groom where he comes and makes his bride one with him, united forever.

He becomes the head and you become the body. Wherever the head is the body is and wherever the body is the head is. They are inseparable, cannot be separated ever.

So when you walk alone as the body, the church, when you are walking by yourself remember the head is with you, Christ is with you wherever you go. So don't say I'm going by myself nobody's watching. The head is with you.

So when you went in that dark alley you thought nobody was watching. Well the head is with you. When you're in the church the head is there.

When you're in the car park the head is there. When you're in the street the head is there. When you're at home, wherever you are, at work, the head is with you.

There is no comparison when it comes to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He stands alone because he's the only one who is God revealed in the flesh. You cannot compare anyone nor anything with God.

God is the only supreme authority, the only uncreated being who has created everything visible and invisible. Jesus Christ is our savior, our redeemer, our heavenly groom. Love the Lord.

Say Lord I want the honeymoon period to remain forever. I don't want it to only stay for a short while. I'll come to you when I'm good and I'll walk away from you when I am not so good.

No it is a matrimonial bond in good times and in bad times, in richness and in poorness, in sickness and in health. We stick together, we make it together, we hold on to one another. I carry the cross and you carry the cross for me and I'll carry it for you Lord Jesus.

You suffer and I will suffer for you because when the love is genuine, when the love is wholeheartedly, when the love is of divine origin, we will be together in good and bad times because my love is not dependent on the situation, my love is dependent on the person of Jesus Christ. I love you for you. Not for what you do for me and this is the way we should love one another as husband and wives.

Dora, don't love your husband because he buys you a Ferrari and don't say I don't love you because you don't buy me a diamond ring. If your love for one another is dependent on materialistic things then it's not a genuine love. You love him for him and you love her for her even if you are a pain in the neck.

Tough luck. When you said yes I do, you just ruined yourself for the rest of your life. I am dark but lovely oh daughters of Jerusalem like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

I am dark in the flesh but the one who came to be to betroth me to him through his precious blood, he made me whiter than snow. He turned me from the tent of Kedar black into the tent of Solomon made out of silver and gold strings. Absolutely magnificent from very poor to very rich, from low to high, from black to white, from darkness to the light, from the grave to heaven of all heavens, from the slave of Satan to the son of God.

Lord for this no matter what I say, no matter what I do, I am indebted to you for eternities to come. If I bring the whole world to you I have done nothing compared to what you have done for me Lord Jesus. And I love this man.

I adore this man. I worship this man because in this man who is perfect, the perfect God also dwells. But the love he has shown me, he has showed me, the love he has embraced me with, I don't give one penny about anything.

That's why it is so easy to forgive. It is so easy to let go. It is so easy to say to the one who hurt you, I love you and you're my son.

You know why? Because the reason behind all this is one called Jesus Christ of Nazareth. If he is not the truth, why would I be wasting your time and my time? And why would I go through hell if he is not the truth? Well if I'm a lunatic, millions of church fathers, what are they all lunatics? Who were shredded for the sake of the Lord, persecuted for the sake of the Lord, are they all lunatics? Come on, come on.

Sermon Outline

  1. I
    • The world is blind and embraces evil
    • Isaiah's prophecy about calling light darkness
    • The 21st century's unparalleled moral decay
  2. II
    • The necessity of closeness to Jesus Christ
    • Rejecting worldly influences and friendships
    • Choosing Jesus over worldly pleasures
  3. III
    • The nature of true salvation and transformation
    • The matrimonial bond between Christ and believers
    • Living as the body united with Christ the head
  4. IV
    • The eternal youth and unchanging nature of Jesus
    • Genuine love rooted in Christ, not materialism
    • The call to steadfast faith through all circumstances

Key Quotes

“If you gain the whole world but at the end you lose yourself, what are you going to give in the place of that lost self?” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“A true friend in a simple nutshell definition is the one who builds you up, not destroys you.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“There is no God but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no way but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no truth but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no life but Jesus Christ of Nazareth.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel

Application Points

  • Reject worldly influences and friendships that lead away from Christ.
  • Cultivate a personal, heartfelt relationship with Jesus as your heavenly groom.
  • Live daily in awareness that Christ, the head, is always with you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does the speaker emphasize rejecting the world?
Because the world is described as embracing evil and leading believers away from Jesus, making it essential to reject its influences to remain faithful.
What does it mean to have a matrimonial bond with Jesus Christ?
It signifies a deep, personal, and unbreakable relationship where Jesus is the heavenly groom and the believer is His bride, united forever in love.
How can believers resist worldly temptations according to the sermon?
By stepping on Satan in the name of the Lord, rejecting lusts and pleasures, and choosing to follow the Spirit rather than the desires of the body.
What is the significance of Jesus always being 33 years old?
It symbolizes His eternal, unchanging youth and perfection as the God-man who walked the earth and will remain the same forever in glory.
Is being born into a Christian family enough for salvation?
No, salvation requires personally giving your heart to Jesus Christ, not merely being raised in a Christian environment.

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