Mar Mari Emmanuel passionately urges believers to live a life fully devoted to Jesus Christ, rejecting worldly temptations and sin, and embracing the transformative power of God's love and protection.
In this heartfelt devotional sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel calls believers to a deep, personal commitment to Jesus Christ, urging them to reject worldly distractions and sin. Through powerful testimonies and biblical truths, he emphasizes God's protective love and the importance of living a life pleasing to God in secret. Listeners are encouraged to open their hearts to Jesus, allowing Him to transform their lives and walk in the light of His presence.
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Don't ever be a slave to no materialism. Don't ever be a slave to no human being. Don't ever be a slave to anything of this world.
You belong to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Don't ever lose track of this. Don't ever fight over money.
Don't ever fight over material. Don't ever fight over fame, over position, over prestigious life. Don't ever fight for over recognition.
I don't want them to applaud me. I don't want them to recognize me. I don't want them to reward me.
I want the Lord. I don't want anyone else. And whatever you do, you do in secret and let your heavenly father who sees in secret reward you in the open.
Don't ever let the trumpet blow before you for you to get recognition from this person and that person and say well done and let's clap for this guy. Don't ever allow that. Run away.
Do things in hiding, in secret. Do it for your Lord Jesus between you and him, between him and you only. I'm doing it for you Lord.
I'm doing it for you. I will never talk of what the Lord is doing in my life and through me to no one but him. I will never talk.
Never. Inhale the Lord. Breathe him in.
Let him be in every fiber of your entire being. Live the Lord. Live the Lord.
The Lord is life. The Lord is not a duty. The Lord is not a task.
The Lord is not a song. The Lord is not a sermon. The Lord is not a book only to read.
The Lord is life. You need to live him and life is everywhere. In the church is life.
In the street is life. In the room is life. At work is life.
With friends at a cafe is life. So wherever you go remember life is with you. Christ who is your life is with you.
Don't ever lose track. So wherever you go remember that life is with you. Don't take that life into a dark place.
You are upsetting that life. You are offending that life. Don't ever take life into a poisonous place.
Don't ever take life into darkness. Life has to be in the light where it belongs. You need to walk in the light my dear friend, my dear son, my dear daughter.
You need to walk in the light. I am the alpha and the omega. I am your source of wisdom.
I am the beginning and the end. I am your beginning and your end. I'm your life.
You began from me. You need to end up with me. I will be his God and he shall be my son.
I'll be his God. You'll protect him. Can anyone protect you more than God? Impossible.
Tell you a true story and I'll leave you with it. So please don't go home. Please come back.
This woman was living in a Muslim country. I will not mention the name not for any reason but I don't want to mention the name. It's a true story.
She was living in this Muslim country to Christ. She was a very well-known lady even at a government level. Very well known.
So the moment they find out she became a Christian, she's finished. According to their faith, she's finished. Her daughter became a Christian as well.
Followed mom. The Lord Jesus appealed to her in real, not a dream in real. He said, you're my daughter.
You belong to me. I chose you. I'm calling you to me.
You belong to me. You don't belong to anyone else and I will protect you. Nothing will touch you.
No one will ever touch you. She's telling the story herself. Her photo was circulated in every checkpoint, airports and they put army police in every place on border lines everywhere.
You find her, you grab her, that's it. She's finished. She said, I was sitting in a taxi with my daughter.
I was sitting at the front passenger seat. My daughter was sitting at the back. We were driving and all of a sudden we came to a full halt.
There was a checkpoint. There was an army there and I said, Lord, that's it. This is my last day.
I'm dead. They got me. She said, as they were checking every car and as we approached that checkpoint, I saw that soldier with this machine gun looking on a photo in his hand and obviously it is my photo.
So he's looking and he's checking the car. He's checking everyone and then letting him pass. She said, the taxi stopped.
That soldier was on my side. He ordered the taxi driver to pull the window down. She said, and I'm praying in my heart all the way.
Yes, I am afraid. That's it. I'm dying.
Lord, forgive me for my sins. Forgive me. Please accept me into your kingdom.
You're my Lord. You're my savior. I chose you from the bottom of my heart.
I trust in you. You're my God. They killed me today.
Lord, I believe you're going to take me to you. She said, he stuck his head inside the vehicle and he looked, he turned his head toward me. He was this far from my face and saw nobody.
His eyes were like almost in my eyes, glued on my face. And then he said to the taxi driver, it's all right, you can go. She said, the Lord blinded him.
He didn't see me because the Lord promised, I will not let anyone touch you. She still lives. She left the country.
She lived for the Lord. I say this to my beloved Christians, whoever you are and wherever you are. Don't just be proud that you're a Christian, but be more so proud that Jesus Christ is your heavenly father.
You are his son. What's the point? You're a Christian and a total stranger from the Lord Jesus. Your Christian means nothing.
My beloved son, as a teenager in your twenties, in your thirties, in your forties, my daughter, teenager in your twenties, in your thirties, in your forties, in the prime of your youthhood. Don't ever let Satan tempt you. Don't ever let Satan take you away from the Lord Jesus.
My daughter, you better watch how you dress. You better watch how you live. You better watch how you walk.
You better watch how you behave. You better watch who you have as your friends. You better watch where you go and where you come from.
You better watch everything you do because the price that was paid for you, no one can afford. It is the blood of the lamb of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This blood, no one can afford to buy or sell.
This blood is so precious. It is priceless. You cannot put a price tag to it.
You belong to Jesus. You are beautiful in the eyes of the Lord. You don't need to be beautiful in the eyes of Satan, the world.
You don't. Don't ever let anyone come and tempt you and say, you better do this to look nicer. You better do this to look more beautiful.
Who are you attracting? People to you? Those people can be vicious wolves, my beloved daughter, vicious wolves. If you want to attract, you need to attract Jesus Christ to you only. My son, where are you going? Where are you going, my son? I beg you.
I kiss your feet, my son. Where are you going? Downtown? A room in a hotel somewhere? What are you taking, my son? Who are you with, my son? Who are you mixing with? Why are you doing this, my son? Worth it, my son, to lose eternity for a poison. Yes, it was tempting.
We drank and we smoked and we mixed and we did. And then I woke up empty. I woke up feeling nothing, lost, disorientated, gone.
I don't even know myself anymore. I don't recognize myself. I look in the mirror.
I hate this person that I became, that I've become, because this is not me. And I'm saying, I won't do it again. And I keep on doing it.
I said, I won't go again. And I kept on going. I said, I won't say this again.
And I kept on saying it. Stop it, my son. Step on Satan.
Step on Satan. And this time say, no to your so-called friends. I belong to the Lord Jesus.
If I'm gonna go, I'll go to the church, no more clubs, no more pubs, no more streets and dark alleys. I'll go to the church. And if you are my true friend, you better come with me.
And if you don't, then you're not my friend. I have disowned you from this moment onwards. Disowned you.
Because if you were truly my friend, you would have built me up, not destroy me. Enough. Enough, my beloved child.
Enough. The time is ticking. And we are running out.
We're running out in either way. This life can be taken away any second. No guarantees.
Then it's too late. And this wall can be destroyed overnight. Look what happened to Syria.
In a blink of an eye, everything changed. The president that ruled the country for centuries, his father before him, and the son who took over, succeeded him, gone. In a blink of an eye, who would think? Because it's a lesson learned.
Where were the leaders before them? Where were the emperors before them? Where were the empires before them? Gone. We can go just like that, my beloved. There is no guarantee.
Therefore, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart. I am standing at the door and knocking. He who hears my voice and opens the door, I will enter and dine, I with him and he with me.
I will enter and dine. I'm standing at the door outside. Do you know what that means? The Lord standing at the door means he's been kicked out of the house.
The house is his, and we've kicked him out, and we took his place. Which house is his? The church. The church leaders kicked Jesus Christ out and took his throne for their own selfish glories.
Oh, they will be barbecued if they don't repent. Barbecued. People can clap for you now.
People can bow before you now. But in the next life, nobody can do you nothing, my dear friend. It is your deeds before the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the only true judge.
I'm standing outside because you kicked me out of my own house, but I'm still not giving up because I love you. Even when you kicked me out, I'm still knocking, begging you to open the door. And if you open the door, I will enter.
I won't say, why did you kick me out? I will never rebuke you. I will never say anything except I'll say, thank you, because I love you. And when you love, you can never hurt except yourself.
When it comes to hurting, you will hurt yourself if you truly love. And this is what the Lord did. Hurt himself because he loves us more than himself.
But if you open the door, I'll enter. I will dine. Dine means night time.
I will enter your dark moment because you walked away. You lived in sin and sin is darkness. I will enter your darkness.
I will eat from your plate and you will eat from my plate. I will swap you. I'll dine with you and you will dine with me.
Look at the Lord. He will come into my sin. He will come into my dark moment.
He will come into my filth and he will take my plate full of filth, full of envy, jealousy, hatred, bigotry, every evil thing in my heart. He'll take all that plate full of filth and he will give me his plate full of love, mercy, kindness, brightness, holiness, everything beautiful. He'll take everything ugly from me and he'll give me everything beautiful from him.
Sermon Outline
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I
- Reject slavery to materialism and worldly recognition
- Live for Jesus alone in secret and humility
- Embrace Christ as the source of life everywhere
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II
- Avoid darkness and sin; walk in the light
- God’s protection is unmatched and constant
- Testimony of God’s miraculous protection in persecution
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III
- Guard your behavior, friendships, and environment
- Resist temptation and the lure of worldly pleasures
- Recognize the priceless blood of Jesus Christ
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IV
- Jesus stands at the door knocking, seeking entry
- Open your heart to Jesus to receive transformation
- Exchange your sin and darkness for God’s love and holiness
Key Quotes
“Don't ever be a slave to no materialism. Don't ever be a slave to no human being. Don't ever be a slave to anything of this world.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Do things in hiding, in secret. Do it for your Lord Jesus between you and him, between him and you only.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“I am standing at the door and knocking. He who hears my voice and opens the door, I will enter and dine, I with him and he with me.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Commit to living for Jesus in secret without seeking human recognition.
- Guard your heart and actions by avoiding environments and friendships that lead to sin.
- Open your heart to Jesus daily, inviting Him to transform your darkness into light.
