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Eyes On Christ
Mar Mari Emmanuel
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Mar Mari Emmanuel

Eyes On Christ

Mar Mari Emmanuel exhorts believers to keep their eyes on Christ, rejecting worldly pursuits and divisions, and to faithfully follow Jesus with humility, obedience, and perseverance.
In this devotional sermon titled 'Eyes On Christ,' Mar Mari Emmanuel calls believers to reject worldly distractions and divisions, urging them to embrace humility, obedience, and steadfast faith in Jesus Christ. He contrasts the fleeting nature of earthly possessions and power with the eternal kingdom of God. Through vivid illustrations and biblical truths, the speaker encourages listeners to persevere in their walk with Christ, keeping their focus on Him as the source of true life and unity.

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Away with you Satan in Jesus mighty name. Be gone Satan. How dare you trying to get me to go against my own family.

My child if you're listening open your ears and your heart. Do not be stubborn. When someone like me comes and says to you do this just do it for the Lord's sake.

Don't argue. Don't argue. Satan argues.

The Lord never argues. Oh Satan never says okay. He always argues.

The Lord Jesus easygoing. Yeah no problem. Okay my child.

Do you believe I can heal you? Yes Lord. Okay no problem. We don't want you to get out of our town.

Yeah no problem. I'm going. No worries.

He never fought. He never argued. Because the Lord is not stubborn.

Because he's not disobedient. He's obedient to his father. An obedient person is an easygoing person.

You'll love him. The third character of the sea. In the sea the big eats the little or the small.

The strong devours the weak. A big fish eats the small fish. And the shark eats that big fish.

And the killer whale comes and kills the shark. And something else will come and kill the killer whale. It's a chain reaction.

It is one vicious jungle in the sea. Everybody eats everybody. And this is the world eating one another.

Killing one another. Destroying one another. Your strong steps you step on the weak one.

Control you dictate to the weak one what to do and how to live and where to go and where to come. This is the world. The Lord Jesus says if you are first be the least of all.

And if you are the leader you be the servant of all. Do not be like the world. Don't chase fame.

Don't chase position. Don't chase leadership roles. Remain a nothing.

And let the one who is everything make you everything in him. Don't chase to prove that you are smarter than this. Who cares? Who cares whether people know that you're smart or not.

Whether you are better than this person or not. Prove nothing to people. Prove it to God.

And one thing you need to prove to God. When you come to the Lord Jesus who is God revealed in the flesh. You better say this.

Lord I am the greatest sinner ever in existence. Have mercy on me Lord. That's all you do.

Because that's the truth. I'm nothing but a sinner. What good am I? Good for nothing.

Well what did I give the Lord Jesus? The crown of thorns. It was me you and everyone. We gave him the crown of thorns.

And what did he give us? The crown of glory. Eternal life. We gave him death.

He gave us life. We gave him slavery. He gave us freedom.

We gave him sin. He gave us holiness and purity. We gave him darkness.

He gave us light. We gave him death. He gave us life.

The third character of the sea. The big devours the little one. And the world is exactly like the sea.

The strong devours the weak. You know it's very funny. I'm not saying you don't have a land.

You don't have a country. Now don't get me wrong. But you know when people fight over it and it gets to a point where they kill one another because of that piece of land.

But the reality of it all that piece of land is not a country. It's not anything but a graveyard. What does the land do to the human race? Buries them all.

So we're fighting over the grave. That's my grave. Oh that's what they're saying literally.

But of course they're gonna say that. Oh this is my country. This is my land.

This is my territory. This is my property. Well you're fighting over that block of land that will bury you.

The world at the end is one big graveyard. You're fighting whose grave it is? Well what a genius you are aren't you? Geniuses. See if we were smart enough to live for God.

God would have taught us on how to live in this world. We will be in control of everything. You see when you trust God and when you believe in him.

Even if someone comes and takes away your land. If God has not permitted it. He will give it back to you his way.

He will never fail you. You know when they crucified the Lord Jesus. You see to Caiaphas, the high priest and all the priests and the Pharisees, the scribes and all those people who went against the Lord Jesus.

When they crucified him they said thank God finally we have got rid of him. And they even said thank God. Not realizing the way that the one they crucified is God himself.

Thank God he's finished. They didn't know that it was just the beginning of Jesus Christ that will never finish. The moment they crucified him it was the day Jesus Christ started working and living.

And 2026 years later this good old looking bishop preaches in the name of Jesus Christ. Do I give any penny about Caiaphas the high priest? No. Do I give any penny about those priests the Pharisees and the scribes who went against the Lord Jesus? Not one little tiny bit.

But I am preaching about the Savior and the Redeemer. The true living God who was revealed in the flesh, crucified, buried and rose from the dead on the third day. Went up to heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father and he will come back again to judge the dead and the living.

This is the one I preach for and I live for. This is the one my beloved. The Lord lives forever.

They thought they got rid of him. They didn't realize his journey just began to the never-ending eternal life. My beloveds, in this world the big, the strong kills the weak.

A brother killing a brother. Family members going against each other. Parents worked so hard.

They established the house. They established some wealth and then they moved on. They passed away and while they were working so hard they used to say to themselves, we need to work hard so we can provide for our children.

We want our children to live happy. We want our children to be healthy and prosperous. They worked extremely hard and they left all that wealth to the children.

For the children to do one thing, take each other to court and fight over material thing that is never theirs. They just farewell the parents knowing the parents took nothing. Who says to you child, you will take something with you.

If your parents took nothing, do you think you can? So they ended up in court. They fought, became enemies. Each went their own way.

Never spoke to each other ever again. Parents, you want to build wealth and leave that wealth behind you where it never ceases? Put the fear of the Lord Jesus in your children's hearts. Put the fear of the Lord Jesus in your children's hearts.

And when I say fear, I'm talking about love. Teach your children how to love Christ. That is the wealth that will never perish and they will never take each other to court.

Over it. Never. Never.

Amazing my beloved, the 21st century is walking in the way of Cain who killed his brother Abel. That is the 21st century. The fourth character of the sea.

The sea divides the land and caused for seven continents to be in existence. If it wasn't for the seas, the land would have been one beautiful unit. I could have gone anywhere without crossing waters.

I could have gone anywhere. But look what happened when the water came, separated the land. Oh, so the sea divides and the world divides.

What is in the world? Division. Two things divide in the world. If it's not death, it's sleep.

You know when death comes, separates us from our loved ones. And when I go to sleep, sleep separates me from my loved one. Even if I'm sleeping in the same bed, but when I go to sleep, we are separated.

This is the world. In the next life, there is no sleep. In the next life, there is no death.

Therefore, in the next life, there will never be separation. Never. But you see, St. John comes, St. John the Beloved, comes here to comfort us and says in Revelation 21.1. Look at this.

Revelation 21.1. St. John is saying, now I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And then he continues and says, also there was no more sea.

There was no more sea. What does he mean there was no more sea? There was no more water to divide land from another land. In the next life, sea will not exist anymore.

Because in the next life, there is one kingdom and one kingdom only, inseparable. Why? Because it is ruled by the King of Peace, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It is one unit.

There is no separation. There is no sea to separate the land and heaven. So many things separates us from one another in this world.

So many things. We fight over materialistic worldly matters. They were never yours.

They will never be yours. Don't fight over them, my child. Do not fight over them, I beg you.

You see, in the next life, there is no more salty waters. There is no more being thirsty in the next life. There is no more whirlpools.

There is no more disappearance. There is no more the big eating the little ones. No more killing.

And there is no more division, no more death that divides and separates. But rather, joy, happiness, unity, purity, and life eternal. That is the kingdom of God which Christ came to offer everyone who is willing to accept this offer.

He's given you His kingdom. But above all, He's given you Himself. The ultimate gift.

He's given you Himself. Upon the seas, He founded it. Now, since we realize the world is nothing but one big vicious jungle, do you really still want to live for this world and chase this world? Please say no.

Do not follow the world. Chase the world. Do not live for this world.

Do not let the world control you. Do not let this world be your only thing. Do not let it be your entire life.

I beg of you, when you have money, thank God. And when you don't, thank God no matter how hard it is. Do not look at your next-door neighbor and start comparing.

Why do they drive a Mercedes Benz and I'm driving an old car? Why are they living in a mansion and I'm a little hut? You are not them. They are not you. You belong to the Lord.

Your wealth, your kingdom, your property, your possession is Christ. No one else. Because that's the truth.

You chase the world, the world will give you the grave. You chase Christ. Christ will give you resurrection out of that grave.

Resurrection. Eternal life. He is six foot one.

For the Lord's sake, I'm saying it again. I said I wasn't going to talk about it but I am being forced to say it. He is six foot one.

He is the truth. He exists. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He came from the tribe of Judah. One of the sons of Jacob who was called Israel. The son of Isaac.

The grandson of Abraham. Jesus Christ is and will always be the true living God, creator of everyone and everything, visible and invisible, tangible and spiritual. He is your creator.

He is your savior. He is your redeemer. He came in the flesh.

He was conceived in the womb of the Virgin of all virgins, the mother of all mothers, the one and only, the love of my life, the pride of my life, the glory of my life, the beauty of my life. Her name is Miriam. Miriam, Mary.

He was conceived in her womb. He took upon himself the human nature and became man like us, lived on the face of this earth 33 years and a half. And at the end of those 33 years and a half, he was crucified.

Enough of this nonsense. He was. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess this truth whether they like it or not in the end.

Don't let the end come before you have received Jesus as Lord and Savior because there is no guarantee you'll make it at the end. There's no guarantee. Jesus Christ got nothing to do with Christians.

He's God for God's sake. He's God. What does it benefit for a person to be a Christian yet does not follow Christ? It means nothing.

You'll end up going to hell. You will die even if you're a Christian. There is no such thing as once saved always saved.

You better live for it and you better work for it and you better be believe it and hanging on to Christ every single moment till the day the Lord calls of the day. You better be there for Christ. Don't think you're saved.

That's it. You can do whatever you wish and get away. No, no, no, no, no.

You better be truthful and faithful to the Lord Jesus till the end. Till the end. Where is Demas? The companion of St. Paul.

He was. He believed in Jesus. He received him as Lord and Savior.

He was filled by the Holy Spirit. Yes, yet St. Paul says Demas was taken away by the current of the world. Meaning he changed the world.

Looks like he had a business opportunity and said you know what it's better to go and make some money than being bashed, kicked, punched, ridiculed every single day for the sake of this Jesus. Enough of this nonsense. I'm going back to the world.

I'm though he was a believer in the Lord but he perished because he didn't hang in there and that's why St. Paul says so many begin with the spirit ends up with the flesh. Meaning they begin spiritually having faith in the Lord, believing in the Lord, coming to church, reading the Bible. They're very hot for the Lord Jesus and after a few years of trials and tribulations they start you know on very shaky ground and they start veering off and ending up being worldly once again living in the flesh, for the flesh.

Sermon Outline

  1. I
    • Reject Satan's arguments and be obedient like Jesus
    • The world is a vicious place where the strong devour the weak
    • Christ calls us to humility and servanthood, not worldly power
  2. II
    • Earthly possessions and divisions lead to destruction and death
    • True wealth is the fear of the Lord and love for Christ
    • The world is temporary; eternal life is found only in Jesus
  3. III
    • The sea symbolizes division and separation in this life
    • In the new heaven and earth, there will be no more division or death
    • Jesus Christ is the eternal King who unites all in His kingdom
  4. IV
    • Believers must persevere in faith and not be swayed by worldly temptations
    • Being a Christian means following Christ faithfully until the end
    • Warnings against complacency and falling away like Demas

Key Quotes

“The Lord Jesus easygoing. Yeah no problem. Okay my child.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“You chase the world, the world will give you the grave. You chase Christ. Christ will give you resurrection out of that grave.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Don't let the end come before you have received Jesus as Lord and Savior because there is no guarantee you'll make it at the end.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel

Application Points

  • Reject worldly arguments and choose obedience to Christ in daily life.
  • Focus on cultivating love for Jesus rather than pursuing material wealth or status.
  • Remain faithful and persevere in your Christian walk until the end.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does it mean to keep your eyes on Christ?
It means focusing on Jesus as the source of true life and not being distracted by worldly desires or divisions.
Why does the speaker emphasize humility and servanthood?
Because Jesus taught that true greatness comes from serving others, contrasting with the world's pursuit of power and status.
What is the significance of the sea in the sermon?
The sea symbolizes division and separation in this world, which will be removed in the new heaven and earth.
Is salvation guaranteed once you become a Christian?
The speaker warns that salvation requires ongoing faithfulness and perseverance, not just a one-time decision.
How should believers view earthly possessions?
Believers should see possessions as temporary and focus on cultivating the fear of the Lord and love for Christ as lasting wealth.

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