Mar Mari Emmanuel emphasizes that true victory and eternal life come from embracing God as Father through Jesus Christ, living in divine love, and representing Christ's truth and light in a dark world.
In this devotional sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel calls believers to transcend worldly concerns and embrace God as their Father through Jesus Christ. He highlights the transformative power of divine love, the importance of representing Christ's truth and light in a dark world, and the assurance of victory and eternal life through faith. The sermon also explores God's work in believers' lives through comfort, discipline, and worship, encouraging steadfastness in spiritual battles.
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But when you meet the Lord Jesus on the other side, then what is happening in the world is a laughable matter. All the superpowers that come and flex their elbows and show their muscles to the Lord, he can blow them away just with a blink of an eye. And he will.
And he will. And he will. We need to change our life.
Stop just thinking materialism. Think spirituality. Stop looking at the mud and the filth of this world.
Climb up to the mountain. Because the mountain is the highest place in this globe, in this world. When you go to the top of the mountain, what do you see after the mountain? Heaven.
The sky. When you look at the sky on a clear day, there is purity. There is holiness.
There is sincerity. There is dignity. It's high.
It's elevated. It is exalted. At the foot of the mountain, there is slavery and bondage.
Do not be a slave to whatever the world offers. Step on it and climb up. Climb up, my beloved.
And I saw 144,000 having his father's. Whose father? Jesus Christ, the Lamb. They were having the father of the Lamb's name on their forehead.
Now, the forehead here, my beloved, is not a literal sense. You see, the book of Revelation is speaking in a symbolic, prophetic way. So the forehead means the name of the Lamb of God's father.
His name was engraved on their foreheads, meaning on their thoughts. So what is the name of the father of the Lamb of God? His name is love. Love.
That is the name. It's love. So many people believe in God.
But God alone is just God. You will never, you will never, you will never fathom, comprehend the depth of this particular point until God becomes your dad. Until God becomes your dad.
How did God become my dad? Through his beloved son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The only begotten son of his father came through him. He gave me that opportunity to be the son of God and God becomes my dad.
When God becomes dad, then and then only I'll begin to understand what true divine love is all about. True divine love. I'll start living this love.
I'll start living this love. My beloveds, love is one of the absolutes in life. An absolute is something that has no beginning, no end.
If I ask any one of us, can you define love for me? Everyone will define it differently because I'm using my own head. So to some, to one is, love is that I was remembered on my birthday and my sweetheart bought me a Chanel or a Versace or a Louis Vuitton. Very, very good.
To some, I was sick and they came and visited me. He got me the bear with a big heart and a rose in a cylinder on Valentine's Day. That is love.
But is this love in its totality, in its perfection? No. It takes the infinite God to define the absolute, which is love. It takes the infinite God.
So they had the name of the father, which is love written on their foreheads, meaning those who choose Jesus Christ to be their Lord and Savior, the way they think internally, wholeheartedly is God is love. God loves me and I am living to love him back. That's all you'll be thinking of.
How God loves me and how I need to give a return of that love back to him, the one who sent his only son to die for me, the sinner. How can I give that love back? How can you give it when you testify for him in this world? You know, in the Gospel of John, according to John, the Lord Jesus says something as always so deep and profound. He says, just like I am in you, meaning you, those who believe in him, just like I am in you, you are, I want you to be in me as well.
So what does it mean he is in us and we are in him? We in him means, where is Jesus now? Sitting at the right hand of his father. What is he doing? He is representing everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and take him as Lord and Savior. Those who want and choose to follow him and wholeheartedly live for him.
What is the Lord doing now? We are in him, meaning he is representing us before God the father. How is he representing us? Perfect, without a blemish, without a stain, without any sin. Yet are we perfect? Far from it.
We are all sinners and I am the greatest of them all. But you see, when Jesus represents us built on that love, he represents us all the imperfect as perfect children of God, because he is our advocate. Now the Lord says, just like I am representing you before my dad who art in heaven, I expect you to represent me before the world.
How are we representing before the world? By lying, by killing, by stealing, by using foul language. This is not the Lord. The Lord is holy.
The Lord is the light of the world. The Lord is the truth. How are we representing the Lord? By walking in dark alleys.
This is not a true representation of the Lord. We need to reflect him in our life before the world. The world is living in darkness.
The world is living in the bosom of someone who is the father of all lies called Satan. That's why the world gives you nothing but lies. Just like good old Winston Churchill, who happened to be the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, and he said his powerful statement.
He said, I thought the atomic bomb was the most powerful weapon in the world. It is not. The most powerful weapon in the world is the truth and that is why it is quite often being surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
The truth is the most powerful weapon in the world. That's why it is quite often being surrounded by a bodyguard of lies, lies, lies, lies. And this is what you see and this is what you get from the world.
The mainstream media, liars, politicians, far from Kirk Kelly, liars, leaders, leaders standing and speaking lies through their very teeth. Because where do they get this from? Their master, Satan. But when you have Christ in your heart, Christ is the teacher, not a teacher, the only teacher.
What will Christ teach you? Truth. For he is light and when you are in the light, everything is vividly clear. Everything becomes extremely clear.
This is the Lord. All he knows is to speak the truth. That's why the world hates the truth.
That's why the world hates the light. That's why the world hates love. See, some people think that love is weak.
In fact, love is the most powerful thing ever to exist. Love moves mountains. What is the definition of a true man? The definition of a true man is not the one that says, I can knock this wall down.
I can break the teeth that are in your mouth. No, a true man is the one who is able to give his life for the one he loves. That is a true man.
Sacrifice. It takes sacrifice to make men. So a man is not defined by his physical powers, but by the powers of his sacrifices.
And it takes love for you to sacrifice because it is impossible to give your life for someone unless you love that someone more than yourself. That's why we see love more so vividly clear and so strong in parenthood. Parents give their life for their children.
Do they think for a moment when they have that baby, do they ever think for a moment, why am I working so hard to provide for my baby? Why am I having endless and sleepless nights for the sake of the well-being of my baby? Why is it when the baby cries, I run like crazy to my baby? When they have a high temperature, I go to the doctor and I don't look at the time, whether it be early morning or any time of the day, because all I care about, this baby is my life. He is me. Do you ever think for a moment, parents, that who says with all the love I'm showing my baby, with all the sacrifices I'm giving my baby, who says this baby, once they grow older and become mature, who says they will respect what I've done for them? They never think.
Why? Because love, all it thinks is I have to give because this baby is more precious than my own life to me. This is absent in this world. What does the world do? I will do anything and everything in my power, even if it means I kill my own brother for me to be seen in the picture, then I'll do it.
The world takes, Christ gives. The world kills, Christ revives. Christ revives.
And the name of his father was written on their foreheads. That name is L-O-V-E, capital letters. L for Lord, L for light, L for life, L for liberty.
The Lord Jesus, who is the capital L, came to give us liberty, to give us the light, to give us life eternal. And then after he done what he did on the cross, he came back and he said, now you have the second letter O, you have an obligation to take my love with you. And wherever you go, carry this love.
Fear not for the one who is in you, much greater than the one who is in the world, because I crush Satan. And whoever makes Satan their God, then let them know that their God is under the foot of your God. And his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
You have an obligation to take this love, which is life, which is liberty, which is light, which is the Lord himself. Take it to the world and engage in this battle based on love, not hatred, based on love and true genuine love who came down from heaven. Take this love and engage in this battle to take the love to a place that lacks love altogether.
They will fight against you, but remember, when you have Christ with you, the end result is already predetermined before you even begin the battle. And that end result is V for victory. And unless you are victorious, you can never be rewarded.
And unless you engage in a battle, you can never find out if you were ever victorious. And unless you have the Lord with you, don't ever engage in no battle. Because without the Lord, you will definitely fail.
But when the Lord is with you, then go and engage in that battle of love, because the end result is victory. And when you are victorious, the final reward will come with the capital E, Eternity. This is your home.
This is the kingdom of your father, which was made for you before the creations of the world inherit the kingdom of your father, which is eternal life. E, Eternity, L, Life. I am the beginning and the end.
I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the first and the last. My name is love.
And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters. Is it still hot? Yeah? Can we make it a little bit cooler, if we can? I know it's my presence, because I'm normally hot. But they named Sizzler after me, but it went bankrupt, because it was not as hot as this good looking bishop, brother.
So, yes. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters. The Lord Jesus God works through us all in three ways.
Sum it up very quickly. Works with us in our life in three ways. And I heard a voice from heaven.
The first way, like the voice of many waters. Many waters is the first way. Second way, and like the voice of loud thunder, the third way.
And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. God works through those who choose him to be their Lord and Savior in three ways. He works with you through the way of many waters.
He works with you through a loud thunder. He works with you through playing of the harp. Let's come to each one.
A voice like many waters. In Revelation 1.15, John the Beloved says in the book of Revelation chapter 1 verse 15. He says, and his voice as the sound of many waters.
But before that, whose voice was the sound of many waters? Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. So, many waters is the Logos, who is the Son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. His voice is the sound of many waters.
But before that he said, and I saw his feet like fine brass being put through an inferno. His feet, John the Beloved saw them in the heart of fire. But he said his feet were made of fine brass, copper, and other translations.
When you expose copper to fire, it becomes stronger. If you expose silver, gold, which are more precious, they melt. They become liquid.
But guess what? Copper, when you expose it to fire, becomes as hard as the rock. Good luck breaking it. So, that fire is our sin.
Our sins is like that fire. Just like the fire burns, our sins have been burning us for so long. The Lord Jesus came to take our sins upon himself.
That's why he stood in the midst and the heart of our sins. But his feet are like copper. So, he came with his holy fire, the fire of the Holy Spirit.
So, when he entered our fire sins with his holy fire, he burned our fire. He took away the sins of the world. So, when he took away my sins, what did he do? He said his voice was like as many waters.
See, when somebody gets burned, what do you do? You put cold water on that burn to cool you down now and make you feel comfortable. After my sin is forgiven, I need to be comforted. What is that comfort? I need to be proven to me that I am still his son.
You see, when I sinned, I lost that sonship. So, when he came and forgave my sins, I'm still not sure I'm still his son. Maybe he doesn't love me anymore.
Maybe I am no longer that son that he loved once upon a time. The Lord will come back with his voice, that cooling soothing water. He will come and say, you were my son, you are my son and will always be my son.
So, the moment I took you out of the fire of your sins, I reinstated in you that confidence. You have never lost that position. You're still my beloved son whom I love the most.
So, what is the sound of many waters? Jesus Christ, who is the word of God, Logos, as the sound of many waters, he is your friend. He walks along with you. He comforts you.
He taps on your shoulder and he says, I still love you. You're still my child. So, this is a friendship walking together.
But the voice of a thunder, it is the same word. But that thunder, my beloved, this time comes from above, from heaven. And it comes through what? The thunder, my beloved, it is an accumulation of electric charges in the atmosphere.
When that accumulates and then when the clouds come and hit one another, an explosion happens in heaven. Now, what is this cloud made out of? Water. There is water below and there is water above.
The cloud is also water. But how did this water get up? The sun striked the ocean. From the heat, the water of the ocean started evaporating.
When the water turned into vapor, vapor is lighter water than liquid water. So, the vapor started going up. As it went up, the air is much cooler up there.
When the air hits this vapor, that vapor that got struck by that cold air, it turned into a cloud full of water. It's still water. But his voice is like many waters below.
Below, he is your friend. He is walking with you. He is washing away your sins.
He is comforting you. But as long as you are following him, he will always comfort you as many waters. But the day that comes, you break his word and you start doing things against him.
Those many waters will turn into a thunder, a cloud above full of waters. What is a cloud above? His very word, the same word that befriended you, it's going to rebuke you, discipline you and break you. The Lord says, you accept my word, I'll set you free.
You reject my word, I'll break you in order to make you. Therefore, my beloved, when the Lord is good with you, never leave him. And when the Lord is disciplining you and breaking you, never leave him.
Both ways remain with him, because the one who is your friend and the one who is a thunder to you, breaking you, is the one who died for you. You will never find anyone that loves you more than Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Sermon Outline
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I. The Supremacy of God Over the World
- Worldly powers are insignificant before God
- Call to shift focus from materialism to spirituality
- The mountain as a symbol of spiritual elevation
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II. The Name of the Father: Love
- Symbolism of the 144,000 with God's name on their foreheads
- God as the definition of absolute love
- Becoming children of God through Jesus Christ
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III. Representing Christ in the World
- Jesus as our advocate and perfect representative before God
- The call to live truthfully and reflect Christ's holiness
- The world’s hatred of truth and light
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IV. God’s Work Through Us: Many Waters, Thunder, and Harp
- Jesus’ voice like many waters symbolizes comfort and friendship
- Thunder represents divine discipline and correction
- The importance of remaining faithful through comfort and trials
Key Quotes
“When God becomes dad, then and then only I'll begin to understand what true divine love is all about.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The world takes, Christ gives. The world kills, Christ revives.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Fear not for the one who is in you, much greater than the one who is in the world, because I crush Satan.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Shift your focus from materialism to cultivating a deep spiritual relationship with God.
- Live as a true representative of Christ by reflecting His love, truth, and holiness in daily life.
- Embrace both God's comfort and discipline as essential parts of your spiritual growth and perseverance.
