Mar Mari Emmanuel warns that evil spreads rapidly through pride and deception, urging believers to choose humility and Christ's light to overcome Satan's influence.
In 'Evil Is Spreading Fast,' Mar Mari Emmanuel delivers a powerful message about the pervasive nature of evil and the spiritual battle between light and darkness. He highlights the dangers of pride and deception, urging believers to embrace humility, confession, and prayer as the pathway to overcoming Satan's influence. Through biblical insights and practical exhortations, the speaker calls Christians to choose Christ’s light and live a life marked by wisdom and spiritual victory.
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All this evil in the world, who is behind it? Satan. Why people ended up doing evil deeds? Because they allowed Satan to infiltrate their life and conquer completely their life. In other words, they worship Satan.
Look at the people of the world, how foolish they are in doing all this evil. The question is, for what? Just to get some sort of a pleasure out of it? Some sort of an enjoyment out of it? Some sort of a fulfillment that is sick in the head? Do you see all the evil thoughts that is coming out of the people of the world? Trying to infiltrate this little innocent child and try to change this child from the way God has created this child. How much more evil can it be than this? And for them, it's just a game.
For them, it's just fun because they don't know what else to do. They are bored. Tried everything under the sun.
Another thing, when a person becomes worldly only, they will never ever, never ever be content. They will never ever be content because the world, once you chase it, there is never contentment. You may say, once I have a million dollars in the account, I'll be content and happy.
You'll have it, but it's not enough because you'll still compare and look at others having 10 million in their account. Then you want to have 10 and 20 and it will be a never-ending story until that person ends up in that pit called the grave and taking absolutely nothing with them. Satan infiltrates and puts that evil thought in the heart of men that are distant from God.
Because in this world, there is two powers that wish to control humanity. One is light and one is darkness. It is either the light Christ, our Lord and Savior, or it is darkness, Satan, the foolish one.
It is up to us to choose either the light or darkness. We can't have both worlds at the same time. It is either the light or darkness and the choice is ours.
We decide to choose which path to walk in and which side to be in. When we choose darkness, Satan is in control. Some people who are deceived by Satan think that when they do it their way, they are free.
They think they are doing it. No, the moment you say no to the Lord Jesus, Satan is in control of your entire life. No one, no human beings, please pay attention.
No human being was ever created to be free on their own. Never existed, never will. God created this human being for God to control his life or her life.
This was the intention of God from the very very beginning. God created us so that he can be in charge of our lives and God is But if we choose not to be controlled by God, thinking that I can do whatever I want, I'm free. The moment you walk away from the Lord, Satan is in control.
He will deceive you in saying, look at you, you're free. Satan at the beginning, he will never ever reveal himself to that person. Never.
Because Satan, the last thing he wants to do is to reveal himself to humanity fully. Who does he reveal himself to? To those who have gone the distance and done every evil thing under the sun and are totally cut off from the Lord Jesus and they worship Satan to those he reveals himself and gives them certain ideas and thoughts which ends up with being a fool. It is either God, the Lord Jesus, controlling you or Satan.
I can never live for myself. Clean your heart to see the light. If we don't clean our hearts, darkness will infiltrate and conquer.
Evil thoughts end up being put into action. And this is what we see. Evil thoughts.
So let's now introduce another evil thought where we manipulate the human gender. So we take this evil thought and we plant it into the people's minds. And let's start with the little kids.
So of this little innocent baby, child, they said to that child, if you feel, only just a feel, when a feeling hits you, it's enough for you to decide what you want to be. Just a feeling. Wow.
So you wake up as a man and you feel you're not a man. Then you have the right to be something else. You wake up as a woman and you feel you're no longer a woman.
You can be whatever you want to be because this is how you feel. You are right. You have the right now to go and chase and pursue your feelings.
Why don't we apply this feeling to everything else in that human life? How about you are a 20 year old girl. You wake up and you feel you are 120. Then you're 120.
I'm going to have to bury you because you're dead. Can that be? Why is the feel only about the gender, not anything else? I feel I'm black even if I'm white and I feel I'm white even if I'm black. I feel I'm tall even if I'm short.
I feel I'm skinny even if I'm fat and with all love and respect. But I'm just saying because this is, do you see the language of the evil thought is foolishness. Because that's where you end up with an evil thought being a fool.
You speak foolishness. You act like a fool and this is the world. It takes evilness to lead to foolishness and it takes humility to lead to wisdom.
It takes evilness to lead to foolishness but it takes humility to lead to wisdom. The opposite. And the beginning, the beginning to the road to humility is the day when you and I, I and you, we begin to see our hearts the way God sees it, not anyone else.
The beginning of the road to humility is the day when all of us begin to see our hearts the way God sees it. I question myself, all of us we need to question ourselves. If God looks at my heart this very moment, how will God see my heart? If you figure this one out, then you are in the right path to becoming a humble person before your Lord.
And the question is, if God looks at all of us hearts, how will he see it? A lot of errors, lot of darkness, spider webs everywhere. There is envy, there is jealousy, there is pride, there is bigotry, there is adultery, there is lust, lustfulness, there is evilness, there is everything that is bad and evil. This is why my advice to every Christian and every human being, don't ever say, I have a good heart, you're lying.
If any human being, more so Christians, who believe in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, any Christian that declares this statement, I have a good heart, you're saying literally to Jesus Christ, you are lying Jesus, I'm right, you're wrong. This in its own is the grievest sin you could ever do. When the Lord says, out of the man's heart comes all evil thoughts, well God is always right and let every human being be a liar.
For God never lies, for God not only speaks the truth, for he is the truth. He is the truth. So, when I say to the Lord, I have a good heart of lied, pride will engulf me, evil thoughts will infiltrate me and I will end up being a fool before the source of wisdom who is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
All glory to his holy and mighty name. So what do I need to do to avoid these evil thoughts, to avoid Satan controlling my life? I need to come and say to the Lord Jesus, I am the greatest sinners ever to exist. I am the greatest sinners ever to exist.
Lord, I'm coming to you with a heart full of darkness, with a heart full of evil thoughts, with a heart full of pride, false glory, with a heart that has broken your heart, with a heart that has sold you with 30 pieces of silver, a heart that has exchanged you with the filth of the world. I gave up on the Lord for a lustful moment in the streets of the city. I gave up on the Lord for a small bag of white powder.
I gave up on the Lord for this and that and everything else in this filthy stinking world. I gave up on the Lord. Today I'm coming saying, Lord have mercy on me, I the sinner.
Have mercy on me for I have sinned before you and heaven. Not worthy to be called your son anymore. I'm not worthy.
Make me one of those workers in your citadel of sin, Lord. When you come, confess your sin. Confess that you are a sinner.
You have broken the law of God. You have broken the heart of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When we confess our sins, this is the beginning of the road to humility and blessed are you when you make yourself humble before your Lord, for he will exalt you in the end.
He will elevate you in the end. It takes humility to overcome Satan. Nothing else.
You want to overcome Satan, be humble. This is the beginning of your journey with the Lord. When anyone comes and says, Lord I want to be with you.
Maybe you were baptized when you were a baby and you've grown up and you veered off the road as a you veered off the road and you went away astray in this world for ease. And after all these many years you're coming back, you want to re-establish, you want to renew this relationship with the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus will remind you the very first thing I Jesus Christ of Nazareth will ask of anyone who comes to me and says, Lord you are my King, you're my Savior, you're my everything.
The Lord will say, you need to be humble. That's the beginning of the road. And what is humility? Death.
What is death biblically speaking? Self-denial. Self-denial. What is that? The holy cross.
The Lord will give you his cross. This is the beginning of the journey. Cross is death.
Death is self-denial. I no longer live for myself. I no longer live for what I wish to do and wish to have.
It is what the Lord wishes for me to have and do, not I. This is the beginning of the journey with the Lord Jesus. It is death, ends up in life. The world gives you at the end eternal death.
You chase the world, you live to die. You chase the Lord, you die to live. Where did this evil thought come from? Pride.
Pride is to do with the spirit. Lust is to do with the flesh. Greed is to do with the soul.
When someone asks you for money and you take the smallest note out of your pocket, don't be greedy. Break your soul, S-O-U-L. Smack your soul and say, I'm giving the hundred dollar note, not the five.
Sometimes when they take their plate around, you know, during the mass. Thank God we don't do that here because I don't want the holy mass to be interrupted by a plate going around. You've got a box outside, it's up to you.
You don't want to put, it's between you and the Lord. Nothing to do with me. But anyway, when they take the plate around, they look, they see somebody putting a hundred dollar note, they say, oh, that's very generous.
And then it becomes like an exchange place. 50, 20, 25. What attacks the spirit is pride.
And this is why this angel, who was the highest level in the angelic orders, Lucifer, what made him fall from the highest place to the lowest place, from the most beautiful to the ugliest of all, was pride. See, because he is spirit and spirit only. So what attacks the spirit is pride.
And what the medication for this pride is humility. And with pride comes evil thoughts. So what made Satan, having filled with evil thoughts, was the pride which attacked him in the very beginning.
And he wants to put that in every human being's heart. Because he knows the moment he makes a human boastful, he's got him. He knows because he's tasted what failure was.
He's tasted what a fall is. He knew exactly how to make a human fall. I'll put that pride in them and that will kill them naturally.
So how I can overcome this pride which attacks the spirit? Humility. And what is the way to humility? Prayer. Prayer, my beloved, prayer.
You need to pray. Prayer brings your spirit down to earth. Prayer, my beloved, brings the spirit down to earth.
Have you prayed lately? Is your prayer life running on an empty tank? Do you need to refill the tank again? When do you pray? How do you pray? The more you pray, the more your spirit is humble, the more you are close to the Lord Jesus. And the closer you are to the Lord Jesus, what is the Lord going to give you? A pure thought. A holy one.
Next time you look at the people who have hurt you, you'll bless them. You look at the people who have stabbed you in the back, you will pray for them. You look at the people who have gone against you and you will embrace them.
You will never be angry. You will never retaliate. You will never take revenge.
You will say, Lord, just like the way you touched my heart and woken me up, I beg you, Lord, touch their hearts and wake them up because it takes God to fill that empty void inside of you. Remember, when you're distant from the Lord, you close your eyes, you see nothing but emptiness. When the Lord brings you closer and closer to him through his grace, the next time you close your eyes, you won't see emptiness, you'll see heaven.
You'll see heaven. Close your eyes and contemplate on the Lord. You'll see him stretching his arm toward you and saying to you, do not worry, I am with you.
I've given you my wounds to heal you. I've given you my cross to elevate you because in my cross there is humility and with humility exaltation. And in my wounds, there is purification, there is healing.
Sermon Outline
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- Evil originates from Satan's infiltration into human hearts
- Worldly pursuits lead to discontent and spiritual emptiness
- Humans must choose between the light of Christ or the darkness of Satan
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- The deception of evil thoughts and their impact on innocence
- The folly of following feelings over God's design
- The contrast between foolishness from evil and wisdom from humility
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- Confession and humility as the path to overcoming evil
- The role of self-denial and the cross in spiritual transformation
- Pride as the root of evil and humility as its cure
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- Prayer as the means to cultivate humility and resist pride
- Living a life of blessing, forgiveness, and reliance on Christ
- The promise of healing and exaltation through Christ’s wounds and cross
Key Quotes
“It takes evilness to lead to foolishness but it takes humility to lead to wisdom.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“When we confess our sins, this is the beginning of the road to humility and blessed are you when you make yourself humble before your Lord, for he will exalt you in the end.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“You chase the world, you live to die. You chase the Lord, you die to live.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Regularly examine your heart with humility to recognize areas influenced by evil thoughts.
- Commit to daily prayer to cultivate humility and resist pride in your spiritual walk.
- Choose to follow Christ’s light by confessing sins and denying self rather than pursuing worldly desires.
