How Christians Should Live in Unity

We claim to be Christians, we claim to be faithful, but are we? We claim that we follow the Lord, but are we? Do not be afraid. God is in control. Remember, God is in control, no one else.

We thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ always and forevermore, my beloved, for His infinite love, mercy and compassion, for always being there where we fail Him, yet He is always faithful. When we forget Him, yet He never forgets. When we desert Him, yet He is always there seeking us.

In good times and in bad times, in sickness and in health, in richness and in poorness, Christ is always there. Today, we're going to be talking about how Christians should be living, how they should live. We're going to read from the book of Psalms, Psalm 133 and verses 1 to 3, which is the entire Psalm.

It is Psalm number 133 and verses 1 to 3. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious oil upon the head running down on the bead, the bead of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon descending upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

Amen. And all glory be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm number 133, verses 1 to 3. We're going to give it a title and the title is The Holy Spirit Delights Us. The Holy Spirit delights us. The Holy Spirit, my beloved, works in the past and the present and in the future.

In the past, the Holy Spirit reveals to us. In the present, the Holy Spirit delights us, which is our topic today. And in the future, the Holy Spirit glorifies us.

So in the past, He reveals to us. In the present, He delights us. And in the future, He glorifies us.

In the past, my beloved, i.e. the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit descended upon those people of the Old Testament, however, never dwelt in them. He just descended upon them, but never dwelt in them. And also, He did not dwell upon all of the Israelite nations, but rather descended upon three types of groups within the Israelite nation.

Three types of groups. He only descended upon them, never dwelt in them. The first group, the priests.

The second group, the kings. The third group, the prophets. These are the three types of groups the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament descended upon for a short time.

And when the task was complete, the Holy Spirit went and left them. Upon the priests, my beloved, the Lord ordered Moses to anoint Aaron to the priesthood, to be the high priest, and his sons to be priests. For Aaron's sons to be priests, and him being the high priest.

To the kings, Samuel anointed Saul king, and also David to be king. Samuel anointed the kings. King Saul and King David were anointed by the Holy Spirit through Samuel the prophet.

Prophets, the Lord said to Elijah to anoint Elisha, his disciple, as a prophet to replace Elijah. Even prophets were anointed by the Holy Spirit to be prophets. Elijah was ordered by God to anoint Elisha, his disciple, to be a prophet replacing Elijah.

Two of these groups were shepherds, being the priests and the kings. Priests, religious shepherds, and kings, civil shepherds. But the prophets, they are never shepherds.

They are messengers, my beloved. That's all the prophet is. He's a messenger.

He's not a shepherd. The shepherd is the priest for the religious sector and the king for the civil sector. The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament used to descend upon them and fill them.

However, in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit descends upon the entire church. The Holy Spirit descends upon the entire church, upon the entire Christians, christened them, upon every member, upon every member in the body of Christ. And not only descend upon the entire church, but dwells in us and fills us all.

Dwells in us and fills us all. You see, filling of the Holy Spirit is the same in both Old and New Testament. So in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would descend on certain people and would fill them.

But that filling is exactly done the same way in the New Testament. We are being filled. However, the Old Testament, the dwelling, dwelt in them forever.

Descending means the Holy Spirit comes and then leaves after the job is done. But dwelling means the Holy Spirit comes and never leaves, remains in us forever. Dwelling, the Holy Spirit comes and never leaves, never leaves.

We said earlier, the Holy Spirit in the past, he reveals to us. What did he reveal to us? He revealed that human nature is sinful and fallen. That's what the Holy Spirit has done.

He revealed to us in the past that the human nature is sinful and fallen. And when I say human nature, I mean every single human being on the face of this planet from Adam till the last one that comes to the face of this earth. All are sinful and have fallen from the grace of God or the glory of God.

He revealed also the commandment. And what is the commandment of God? What is right and what is wrong? The Holy Spirit revealed this to us, what is right and what is wrong. Then the Holy Spirit revealed to us the medicine that will lead us to the Messiah.

So he revealed that the human nature is sinful and fallen. He revealed the commandment, what is right and what is wrong. And then he revealed the medicine that will lead us to the Messiah, i.e., our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And this medicine is the present. What did we say the Holy Spirit? He works in three ways, past, present, and future. In the past, he reveals.

In the present, he delights. In the future, he glorifies. He delights us with the medicine of Christ in our present time.

And our present time is the time when the church was born in the New Testament from Pentecost till the day the Lord comes and takes his church, his beloved bride, wholesome without a stain, without a blemish, and brings her into the Father's house from Pentecost till the second coming. That is the present time. And here we ask, why lead us to the Messiah? Why? The answer is, is this, so that Satan is left with no excuse, with no excuse.

You see, if God had made salvation possible without saying anything, without doing anything, Satan would have come and said to God, you are the creator and I am the creation. You are infinite and I am finite. It's not a fair outcome.

Of course you can win against me because you created me. So Satan would have had a case in court against God. If he had completed and accomplished salvation without saying or doing anything, Satan would have said, it's not a fair battle for the creator to go against his own creation.

Obviously we know who the winner is going to be, the creator. So God, you're not fair. But God said, but Satan in a way, he said to God, if he had told me the plan, at least I would have had a chance to ruin it.

If he had told me the plan of salvation, at least he would have given me the opportunity to ruin it, to stop it. Well God replied and said, I'm not going to tell you the plan, I'm going to reveal the plan to the weak human being. I'm going to reveal it to the weak one.

I will reveal the plan of salvation to someone who is weaker than you, lesser than you. And let me see if you are still going to be able to stop it through the weaker human being than you, being Satan's spirit, much more powerful than the flesh. So God revealed it to the human side, the weak side.

And then God said to Satan, you thought you were the wise one, Satan, and you thought you could do anything and everything, you could get away with it. But you did not realize, Satan, that you carried out my plan without even knowing it. I made you carry out my plan without even knowing it.

You carried out for me to be sold with 30 pieces of silver. You thought that when you get into the head of Judas Iscariot, you're going to stop the plan of God, not realizing that this was prophetic. You fulfilled my plan.

Yet my plan was fulfilled through the weak human, not the spirit, which is too much stronger. So through weakness, I overcame your wisdom, Satan. Through ignorance, I overcame your wisdom, Satan.

And then you carried out my plan by crucifying me. You did not realize, you thought by crucifying me, that's it, you got away with it and you got rid of me, not realizing when I was crucified, it was the end of you, Satan, and your kingdom. You carried out every necessary step to crush.

You carried out everything necessary to crush your head on Calvary, the cross. Satan did everything to get Jesus crucified, not realizing by crucifying the Lord, his head was going to be crushed. So where is your wisdom, Satan? Looks like your wisdom compared to the plan of God is ignorance, foolishness.

Whatever Satan plans, whatever Satan has done and is doing and will do, God is eternity ahead of him, eternities ahead of him. Do not be afraid. God is in control.

Remember, God is in control, no one else. But we need to live for this God. We need to walk and follow this God.

We need to worship this God. We need to love this God. And we need to live in harmony and unity with this God.

And in the future, the Holy Spirit will glorify us. What does this mean, he will glorify us? It means one thing only, in the present, where is the Holy Spirit dwelling? In the present, where is the Holy Spirit dwelling? Who can tell me? He's dwelling, what did we say? He descended upon the entire church and he dwells in every single baptized soul in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. So at present, where is the Holy Spirit dwelling? He's dwelling in us.

In the future, he will glorify us. Dwelling in us means he is inside of us and we are outside. If he's dwelling in, then we are out, correct? If he's dwelling in, then we are out.

Well, but on the second coming of the Messiah, to take his church, his bride, a change will take place. In the present time, the Holy Spirit is dwelling in us, therefore we are on the outside. But on the second return of the Lord Jesus, to when he takes his bride to the Father's house, something will change.

What will change? We will be in the Holy Spirit and he will be outside of us. Now where do we find this? In mentioned this in Revelation 4-2, he says, immediately I was in the Spirit. Oh, immediately I was in the Spirit.

Now in the present time, the Holy Spirit is in us, but immediately I was in the Spirit. Why I was in the Spirit? Because in order to be taken up, because what happened in Revelation chapter 4, the Lord Jesus calls John the Beloved to come up to show him things that will take place in the future and to be documented by John the Beloved. Now to go up into heaven, this time I need to be in the Spirit, not the other way around.

In the Spirit and he is outside of me, meaning he is carrying me now and taking me up to heaven. I'm in him now. In the end, we will dwell in him to carry us to Christ, to be in the Father's house forever.

In the end, we will be in him to carry us to Christ, to be in the Father's house with the Heavenly Groom, Jesus Christ, forever. And the book of Revelation towards the very end, chapter 22, the book of Revelation says the following, and the Spirit, meaning the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit and the Bride, the Bride is the church, the faithful ones, not all Christians, but the faithful Christians. So it says in the end, and the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and the Bride, the faithful Christians say, come, come to Jesus, come and let him who hears says, come, hurry up Lord, the Holy Spirit and me, both of us are calling out to you, please come quickly because I do not wish to remain any longer in this filthy, ugly, evil, sinful, sick, corrupt, morally world.

I don't want to live in it anymore. Take me to the Father's house, Lord. Then I'll be dwelling in the Spirit.

Now let us come to the present time, which is our topic. What does the Holy Spirit do? And by the way, that last thing I mentioned, the Spirit and the Bride says, come, you find it in Revelation 22, verse 17, which is the last chapter and verse 17. Now let us come to the present.

What does the Holy Spirit do? Delights us in the present, reveals to us in the past, delights us in the present, glorifies us in the future, the second return of Christ. Let us come now and see this delight. What kind of a delight is it? This delight, to understand it, is Psalm 133.

To understand this delight, it is Psalm 133. Psalm number 133 is part of what we call the Psalms of Ascensions. Do you have time? The Psalms of Ascensions are 15, 15 Psalms.

Psalm 133 is the second last, meaning the last Psalm is number 134. There are 15 Psalms, so count from 134 backwards 15, you'll know where it starts. So wherever it starts and it ends at number 134, 15 Psalms, these are called or referred to as the Psalms of Ascensions.

So number 133 is the second last of the Psalms of Ascensions. These Psalms of Ascensions, the Israelite nation used to recite them as they were going up to the temple which was built on Mount Moriah, at the top of Mount Moriah. So Psalms of Ascensions, they were recited by the Israelite in order to get them ready and prepared to meet with God in the temple.

So it was, and it was steps, there were 15 steps. The last step would get you into the doorstep or into the threshold of the temple. Psalm 133 is just one step before getting into the temple.

What does Psalm 133 verse 1 say? And today we'll be talking about verse 1 only. We may continue it another time, the second part of it. Today is going to be part 1. Psalm 133 verse 1, it says, behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. The Holy Spirit wants us, he wants to delight us in this present time. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

What is the difference between good and pleasant? See, when you read the Holy Bible, you need to stop at every word. That's why we don't have the time, most of the time, to go through it all. So what is the difference between good and pleasant? Who can tell me? Anyone? No, it's all right.

I think it won't be that straightforward. I don't mean anything, but yeah, anyway. All good, all good.

The difference between good and pleasant. Good is from the inside. Pleasant is from the outside.

Good is from the inside. Pleasant is from the outside. Now therefore, since good is to do with the inside, then good is to do with God.

Because everything that is internal is to do with God, and everything that is external, that comes later on. But the initiation of everything external is internal. It begins internally, then it goes out to the surface externally, not the other way around.

Everything begins with God. So good is to do with the internal, and the eternal is God. And God is good.

The Holy Bible tells us God is good. One day you may have heard this say, you know, being said from this good old looking bishop. They should write this in their in their articles.

They should have said the good looking bishop, you know. My dear friend, please next time just put the good looking bishop. Now, one day I was driving, and then this thought hit me.

Why did the Lord Jesus refer to him as good? I am the good shepherd. John chapter 10, I am the good shepherd. Why did the Lord Jesus say about himself good? Why did he say I'm the best? Why good? So I was driving, and this thought just came to my head.

I came to a roundabout, so I stopped. It was two lanes coming to this big roundabout. I stopped here, and then a car pulls over next to me, and it passes me by where the back window of it is visible to my naked eye.

Then some voice inside of me says, turn to your left. When I turned to the left, my eyes fell on the back window of that car, and there was a writing on the back window of the car, the answer to my question. God deals with us as if we are babies in kindergarten level.

No matter how wise you are, my child, my son, my daughter, no matter how old you are, how smart you are, how intelligent, all of this put next to God is nothing. Nothing comes anywhere near his wisdom and his intelligence. So he gave me the answer on the back of that window.

There was a writing, and then I said, oh my goodness, wow, simple kindergarten level answer, but so profound, so deep. Do you know why? The answer on the back of that window was, you just asked me why do you call or refer yourself as good? Because my son, my baby, my child, if I were to say I am the best, then I will start comparing myself with someone else. If I am the best, then there is someone better, there is someone good, and there is someone better, and there is someone the best of all.

But since I'm God, and God is only one, and there is no other God but him, there is no need to compare because there is nothing nor anyone else to compare God with, therefore I'm good. And good is not a comparison. Better you start comparing, best you start comparing.

Good is just single, that's it. It's only one, and there is no other one. This one God is good.

So Psalm 133 verse 1 says, behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. But you see, the psalmist is writing by the power of the Holy Spirit, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So who is the author of the psalmist? God, the Holy Spirit.

So the Holy Spirit is saying, the only time you're gonna delight in me, when you live in the good God. When you start dealing and start getting to know this good God, what will happen? You will start going to see the inside of God. You see, when you first meet a person for the first time in your life, you don't know anything what's inside of them.

What you saw is externally. But as time went by, you started talking to them, you started going out with them, you started dealing with them, engaging with them. As time went by, you began to know what's the inside of them, isn't it? It is the same way with God.

At the beginning, I'm a total stranger. I don't know who Jesus Christ is. He's an absolutely total stranger to me.

Nothing makes sense. Well, it is only normal for you not to know who this person whom you just met. Give it time to get to know the inside of this person.

So as I spend more and more and more time with God, I started going inside of Him to get to know Him. When I started going to seeing God on the inside, I came to this conclusion that God is good. When God created everything, He called those days good.

Because those days of creation came from the good God. So they have to be good. What comes out of good? Good.

What comes out of evil? Evil. So now, when I came to know God, I came to know that He's good. Good means He's the only one.

There's no one else but Him. There is a type of good that is not good. There is a type of good that is not good.

Please pay attention. I'm trying to make it as simple as possible. I'll give you an example biblically.

King David, one day he woke up and then he calls his prophet Nathan. He says, come here Nathan. I've got this idea in my head and I'm asking you, since you are the prophet of God and God talks to you, then I am seeking your counsel, your advice.

What is it, Lord? He said, I woke up this morning and I said, how come I, David, live in a mansion and God lives in a tent? It is not right. It is not fair. It is shameful of me, David, for me to live in an absolute mansion and God the Almighty, His house is one ugly tent.

It's not right, Nathan the prophet. You know what? I will build a house for God. Now, isn't this a good idea? Of course.

Nathan the prophet straight away said, may the king live forever. What a brilliant idea. What a good heart you have, David, the king.

And Nathan goes home. That night, God comes to Nathan. He says, when you said to David for him to build the house for me, did you ask me first, I, God, before giving that kind of an answer to David or not? He said, what do you mean, God? His intention is good.

He said, no, this night you will not sleep. Right now you'll get up and you will go and tell this David of yours, tell him this is from God to David. Remember, David, where you were before.

I have taken you from the midst of the cattle, from the sheep and the goats and all the cattle. And I made you a king on the Israelite nation. You will not build a house for me.

Remember where I got you from. Don't cross the line again. Otherwise, I'll take you back where I got you from.

I'll make you a shepherd for your sheep, for your animals. Apparently, David, when he said it is not right for me to dwell in a mansion and God dwells in a tent, he said it with pride. Because God, the good God, sees the heart of men.

And when he realized he said it with pride, i.e. self-pride, it's not good anymore, even though the idea was good. But because it was based on pride, it is rejected by God. Wow.

Therefore, good is doing and fulfilling all of God's law. What is good? Doing and fulfilling all of God's law. Is there any human being that has fulfilled and done whatever God said? Any human being fulfilled all of God's law? No, except one.

Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth. So what is good? It's doing and fulfilling all of God's law.

Good is doing God's word, not your own thoughts, even though it's good. But if it comes from you, not from God, it's rejected by God. Good is doing God's will, not your will.

Even though what you want to do is of a good intention, but if it's not God's will, don't do it. It will be rejected. You know, sometimes we have to mention these things just to give us an indication, even though it may be very minute, but an indication as to where we are in relations to Christ.

We claim to be Christians, we claim to be faithful, but are we? We claim that we follow the Lord, but are we? Now let's come to the word pleasant. Pleasant, what happens? You see, once you enter into the depth of God, you will find him pleasant on the outside. Until you discover the goodness of God, you will never see him as a pleasant God.

You'll see him as your enemy, someone who is hurting you, someone who is doing things against you, someone who is closing the door in your path. You love to do this and God is stopping you. God, I love you.

I'm good to you. Why aren't you the same? Because we're defining good our way, not God's way. When you go into the depth of God and see the goodness of God, then you'll understand how pleasant he is externally.

And externally means the way he deals with you. He's very pleasant. But you see, I misunderstand him because I misunderstood what good is all about.

Are you with me so far? You see, I'll take you back to the Old Testament. If you had gone out into the Sinai desert when the Israelites left Egypt, Pharaoh, if you had gone into the Sinai desert, you would have seen the entire Israelite nation living in white tents, all white, beautiful whites, stunning, breathtaking. Except by one.

And this one was in the midst of those entire tents. That one belonged to God. It was pitch black, the ugliest of all.

The ugliest tent, the unwanted tent was the house of God dwelling in the midst of his people. All the Israelites dwelt in white, beautiful tents, except God dwelt in a very ugly black tent. But when you enter this tent, you see that black tent, when you looked at it from outside, definitely not pleasant.

Definitely not pleasant. That tent is the dwelling of God in the midst of his nation. So the outside looks of the tent is not pleasant.

But when you entered inside the tent, you will find him fairer than the sons of men, Psalm 45.2. He is the most beautiful out of the entire human race. That tent represents Christ. From outside, not pleasant.

But you enter the tent, what you will find inside gold, linen, precious stones, the, the, the, the, the, the altar, the incense, the fragrances, the amazing colors, the amazing beauty inside. From outside, ugly as from inside, fairer than all humanity. The most beautiful, the most handsome, the most pleasant Christ ever to exist in the face of this planet.

So before judging the outside, go inside, see God internally, see him and find him being the good God in order to realize that he is present, pleasant from outside, even though he may not look at Psalm 133.1. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Now, please pay attention. The only condition and the only reason for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit in us was for us to dwell together in unity.

I'll say it again. The only condition and the only reason for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit in us was for us to live together in unity. How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

This is why the Holy Spirit dwelt in us to make dwelling together in unity possible for all of us. Now we go to the book of Acts chapter 2 and verse 1. It's not on the screen. I'll, um, I'll read it out.

So book of Acts chapter 2 and verse 1. It says, when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. One accord means they were all in one soul.

In one soul. One accord. They were all thinking, talking, acting, behaving the same way as if they were one soul, one being, one person.

My beloved, the human soul is like the fingerprint. There is about eight billion people that live on the face of this earth planet as we speak. Eight billion.

Not one fingerprint is 100 percent identical to the next. Each one out of the eight billion, each one has a unique fingerprint. The soul is exactly like this fingerprint.

Each human soul is totally different to the other. No one is 100 percent identical to the other person. Each one is uniquely designed by God.

If we say there is about 300 people in the church, that means there is 300. Come on. We say there is 300 people in the church.

So how many souls there is? 300 souls because each soul is unique, different to the other. So there is 300 souls. Yes, correct? Okay.

And every soul is different to the other. However, imagine this. We say there is one million people in the church at the same time.

And every single one of them, as they are, as they come to enter the church, they say, each one, as they come to enter the church, they say, not I, but Christ who lives in me. And the next comes, not I, but Christ who lives in me. And the next comes, not I, but Christ who lives in me.

And the entire million faithfuls, all of them come and say the same thing. Not I, but Christ who lives in me. Now I'll ask you, how many people are in the church? One, not million.

Because the whole million said, not I, but Christ, and Christ is one. So the entire million became one. How good and how pleasant for brethren to dwell in together in unity.

When will all these brethren, when will all these Christians dwell together in unity? When all of them say, not I, but Christ who lives in me, then we enter the church with the soul of Christ only. Then all of us got together in the book of Acts chapter 2 verse 1. All of us got together in one accord in one place. You see, what happened in Babylon? In Babel, you know, Mesopotamia, that's the country where I come from.

I was born in Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, Mesopotamia. Babel is another city. What happened there? They came to build a tower.

They all spoke the same language. All of them understood each other because it was one language, one accord, one place. When they came to build the tower, God was not happy with that tower because it was against him.

It's not our topic. One day we'll talk about it. So what did God do? He said, let's go down and the word Babel in Hebrew Aramaic is disorder, disorientation, chaos, chaos, bulbala.

It derives from the word bulbala. Bulbala means chaos, disorientation, disorder. So God changed the language into languages.

So this guy used to speak Assyrian. The other guy now is speaking in Chinese. The other one is speaking in Arabic.

The other one is speaking in Portuguese and in Hindu. I don't know, in Indian languages. What happened? Each became a different soul.

Did they remain in the same place? No, they got scattered. Division happened. You see, when we come, all of us aiming for Christ, then we are one.

But if we come aiming for ourselves, then we're not one. Why problems happen at home? Because Christian couple who got married based on Christ started living their way, not Christ's way. You see, if the husband and the wife, both of them, live for Christ, there will never be problems.

There will never be problems. And even if there were, Christ will fix them because now we made him the head of the household. He'll fix it.

But if the husband lives for himself and the wife lives for herself, then where is Christ in the midst of all this? The house will collapse 100%. 100%. Same thing with the church.

Until we become in one accord and one place, the church will remain divided. If the bishop's aim is not Christ, the church is divided. If the flock's aim is not Christ, the church is divided.

But when the bishop and the flock get together in one accord, in one soul, in one place, the church is united in the one who is the prince of unity, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory to his holy and mighty name. When we come for Christ, the church is intact. But when we come for our own benefits, the church is in ruin.

See, look at Saint Paul in Galatians 2.20. This he says, not I, but Christ who lives in me. You find that in Galatians 2.20. Also, my beloveds, when we come focused on Christ, this is when the Holy Spirit is dwelling in us. The Holy Spirit will not do anything outside of Christ because Christ is the king and the Holy Spirit who is dwelling in us is the ambassador to the king.

And the ambassador will only say what the king dictates that ambassador to say. So the Holy Spirit will never, ever go outside of Christ. Whatever Jesus says, the Holy Spirit speaks.

So when the faithfuls are coming, not for Christ, the Holy Spirit can't do much in us. Are you with me? Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Our beloved church always teaches us this, that we need to live in unity.

I'll give you an example. During the Holy Mass service, and I'm talking about this church, every church has their own sort of liturgical order, which is all beautiful, by the way. But I'm just talking about this church since I belong to this church, then that's my jurisdiction.

I can't speak about other churches. In this particular church, but I believe it is also in the liturgical service of other apostolic churches, being Catholic and Orthodox alike and the same. Now, in our Holy Mass service, during the Holy Mass service, after the first, I don't know for those who come to the Holy Mass service, you know when the priest for the first time guest says, bless all my Lord, bless all my Lord, bless all my Lord, for those who come.

Yeah. And if you don't come, you can watch it on YouTube. It's there.

You'll see it. So after saying this, the priest, the priest says after this, what we call a canon, he lifts up his hands and he says a canon and he says, and we lift up to you, praise. We lift up to you, praise, honor, thanksgiving and worship now and at all times and forever and ever.

The priest is saying, we lift up to you, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We lift up to you, honor, praise, honor, thanksgiving and worship now and at all times and forever and ever. And then after this canon, the priest turns around and faces the faithful and he says, peace be with you.

And then the deacon, not all, all faithful. This is the whole church needs to respond here. Not just the deacons, everyone, everyone says with you and with your spirit.

So the priest says, peace be with you. The faithful, the faithful reply to the priest and say with you and with your spirit, peace, it's got to do with unity. Yeah.

There is no peace if there is no unity and unity without peace. What kind of unity is that? So peace be with you. The deacon says to understand that you are all united.

How good and how pleasant brethren to dwell together in unity. So peace be with you. You respond to the priest and say with you and with your spirit, the same unity you are giving to us, we also seek it for you.

And who is our unity? Christ. What did we say? If a million people enter the church and everybody says, not I, but Christ who lives in me. So now we are all united.

So peace be with you. Who is peace? Christ. Then the deacon, I want you to really pay attention now.

Then the deacon, this is in this church. Yeah. So don't say the bishop is, um, this is the order of the liturgy in this church.

Then the deacon says this to all of you. Give peace to each other in the love of Christ. Give peace to each other in the love of Christ.

Give peace to each other in the love of Christ. I'll have to explain the holy mass liturgy to all of you. It's stunning.

It is all biblical. Tradition based on the holy Bible, not human beings. Please remember this.

Don't mistake, don't take that word tradition and misinterpret it. Give peace to each other in the love of Christ. Let me tell you how you should give peace.

Some churches, they kiss each other on either, on both sides of the cheeks. In this church, no. This is the way you give peace.

The right hand, the big thumb on top of the left hand thumb. The right hand thumb on top of the left hand thumb in the sign of the cross. Now, prior to this, this is one hand and this is another.

Yeah. There are two hands. The right hand is not the left and the left is not the right hand.

But when I came to give peace to my brethren, I put the two hands together and made them one. What made the two one? The cross. The blood of the lamb of God that was shed on the cross on Calvary.

So the right thumb on the top of the left thumb. Now the two hands are now one. Now when I go, when I go to give peace to my brother and sister in the church, I have my hands open.

I need to, I need another, Michael come please. I have to put you on the spot. Please put your hands together for Michael.

So now I come to give peace to my brother in Christ, Michael. My hands are open. The sign of the cross is still there.

Now what he's going to do, he's going to lift up your hand a little bit up so they can see it. My hand, the right hand is going to go between his two hands and we're going to cling together. We become one.

So the right hand of mine goes between his two hands. My left hand on top of his right hand and his left hand on top of my right hand. Now we're one.

We're one. We become one hand. How good and how pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Thanks Michael. God bless. This sign of peace where it is reminding all of us who are present in the house of the Lord, in his holy church, in his holy presence, it is reminding us that we are all one.

There is no stranger. There is no one different. There is no one second class citizen.

We are all equal, all one, number one in the sight of Christ before we come and start fulfilling the sacrament of the body and the blood. The Lord is saying, how can you receive me in the true body and the true blood and you are not greeting your brother? You are not saying hello to your sister. You are talking bad behind your brother and sister.

How can you receive me? And you are in quarrel with your brother and sister, yet you must be in unity with your brother. How can you receive me? We need to really check ourselves thoroughly. And I am begging all of us here.

This is not a joke. This is not something you take lightly. This is Christ crucified.

He shed his blood for you and me. You don't take that lightly. If you haven't forgiven someone, you better do.

Otherwise, don't receive the body and the blood of Christ because you're receiving judgment upon yourself, not salvation. Instead of being saved, you are condemned under judgment. In the near future, we'll be talking about the holy Eucharist and some of the sacraments of the church, biblically, to understand.

We're going to talk also about relationship in Christ, which can lead to marriage. Very vital, my son and daughter, to know how to enter these kind of relationships. Very vital.

If we are here present in the church, yet we are in disagreement and argument and friction, quarreling, then Ephesians 4.30 applies to all of us. Ephesians 4.30, St. Paul says, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. You see, if I come to church and I am in disagreement and I'm arguing and I'm against my brother and I'm against my sister, but we come to the church and we receive the body and the blood of Christ, the Lord says, St. Paul says, rather, sorry, St. Paul says in Ephesians 4.30, do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit is sad while dwelling in you because he sees there is no love of Christ. Give peace to each other in what? In the love, in the love, in the love, in the love of Christ. Now, if we are against each other, where is the love? How can you give that peace and how can you receive this peace if there is no love and unity in your heart toward your brother? What happens? The Holy Spirit of God is grieved within us, saddened, saddened.

My beloved St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 3.16, do you not know that you are the temple and he uses the word temple as singular because there is only one temple because that temple is Christ. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Do you not know that you are the temple of God? Galatians 3.27, St. Paul again says, you who have been baptized into Christ have put on the Christ through the sacrament of baptism. We put on the temple of God which is Christ and then the Spirit of God dwells in this temple which we put on.

We became Christians when we received Christ. When you receive Christ, all Christians are your brethren. The only enemy to you is Satan, not people, not people.

That's why I call the journalist mate, friend, because I'm not sure if he's a Christian or not. If he's a Christian, then he's a brother. But brother, you can't do this to your brother.

But if you're not a Christian, then you're my friend. You're not my enemy. My enemy is Satan who is using you.

I will always pray for you. I'll always love you no matter what you say about me because of this good God. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Amen. Amen. We love everyone.

Love everyone. And we are that temple of God. And also we are the members in this temple.

We need to remember this. Romans 12, 4 to 5. Look at St. Paul. I love St. Paul.

The St. Paul, man, that's like he's just a special saint. Special. Romans 12, 4 to 5. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we being many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

And you find this also in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verses 12 to 27. What St. Paul is basically saying, we are members in this body. Look at this human body.

How many bodies is there? There's only one. But how many members in this body? There's plenty. An example, fingernail is a member.

A finger is a member. The heart is a member. The lungs, a member.

Kidneys, member. Blood, member. Veins, member.

Legs, feet, head, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, all are members. Are all the members the same? No. Are all the members against each other? The moment any member in this body goes against the others, the body collapses.

Imagine if the legs say, I'm not going to walk anymore. Imagine if the ear says, I'm not going to hear anymore. Imagine if the eye says, I'm not going to see anymore.

Imagine if the nose says, I'm not going to smell anymore. Imagine the mouth says, I'm not going to eat anymore. What are you going to do? Do you realize even though the members are all different but they are living as brethren together in unity.

For the body to function thoroughly, properly, healthy, all members must unite and live together. And no one member is better than the other because St. Paul read that in 1st Corinthians chapter 12, read it today, tonight and see he goes on and says if the eye says I don't need the ear, what will the eye do without hearing? No matter how beautiful the eye is, you've gone and done some lasers and you made it greenish, bluish, I don't care whatever color you gave it, but without the E, people will start calling you. The eye can't hear, the ear hears.

If you don't hear their calling, no matter how beautiful the eye, you are in deep trouble. So don't say to your ear you're my enemy. In other words, don't ever say to any Christian person you're my enemy because you are disfiguring the body and making it dysfunctional.

Do you see the grievest thing of all this? There should never be any quarrel between the members and the body of Christ. And since God created you to be the eye and created someone else to be the ear, why is the eye jealous of the ear? And why is the eye keep on fighting against the ear to say don't take my spot, why are you doing it not me? Listen, you are the eye, the ear will never be the eye and the eye will never be the E. Stop fighting over things that were never yours. But you see the enemy comes in and plants the tear of jealousy and he keeps on going to the eye and says watch out for the ear is trying to take your place.

But hang on, the ear is the ear, it's never gonna be the eye. What am I worried about? What God has gifted you with my son has not gifted another child but what God has gifted that son has not gifted you. Stop fighting because even if you fight neither you will be able to take what God has given them nor will they be able to take what God has given you.

What God gives, God is the one who takes. There is no need to fight, there is no need to be jealous, there is no need to be envious, there is no need to be to say oh I wanted to be as beautiful as that girl so I'm gonna go to Istanbul and have a facelift. My daughter, you are beautiful as you are the way God made you.

Do not change what God has already given you because you are you, you are never that person. Don't ever try to be someone else that God never intended for you to be and if you try to do that you will end up in absolute self-destruction, absolute self-destruction. Thank God for the looks you have and see how God is gonna bless you more and more and more and he's gonna give you the most handsome man in the world and the most beautiful girl will marry the ugliest man in the world.

When you are content, when you are happy with what you have, God will take you to horizons you would never ever have been able to dream of. Trust me of what I'm saying, trust me. Thank God for who you are and for what you are but above all thank God that he made me one in him through Christ Jesus our Lord and God.

So next time you come to church and attend the Holy Mass service, not only the Holy Mass but more so the Holy Mass, say Lord help me to have in my heart nothing but love for everyone. Lord help me to have in my thoughts nothing but all goodness for everyone. Lord help me so that when I enter the church I see everyone as me in you Christ my Lord.

I want to see us all as one. When I look at my brother, my sister, I see you Lord and I pray that all of us when we look at each other we see Christ. Mother Teresa when she left the convent and went into the streets of Calcutta, hello, let me tell you, when she went into the streets of Calcutta and my love and prayers to the people of India, I love you, I love you, I love you.

When she went into the streets of Calcutta and she started looking after those lepers, contagious, cleaning them, washing them, changing them, feeding them every single day for years, this journalist came, it was a good journalist. I'm actually inviting my beloved friend journalist to come and write some good things about our charity and the beautiful deeds that charity has been doing for the community and abroad for all these many years. Why don't you write the good side? Because there is only good side.

There is only good side. Why don't you write that my dear friend? She went into the streets of Calcutta, this journalist approached her, he said mother, what are you doing? She says what? I'm looking after this leper. He said mother, why are you doing this? She said my son, I'll tell you this, if I give you 1 million dollars and I ask you to look after this leper for one hour, you will not do it, you'll be afraid to touch him.

For a million dollars for one hour only. Yet us, we do this day in and day out for years voluntarily for free and we never complain. And you're still asking me why? Don't you know why? He said mother, if I knew I wouldn't have asked.

She said my son, haven't you heard what the Lord Jesus said? I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was naked and you clothed me.

I was a stranger and you held my hand. I was in prison and you visited me. My son, don't you understand I'm not serving this man, I'm serving my Christ who is in this man.

Because my Holy Bible teaches me that God created us in his image, so this leper is the image of God and this God is my Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Isn't my Lord worthy of my service for free? And he still asked me. Now when you see Christians as Christ, you'll love them.

But when you see yourself and people like you, you'll hate them. Because me and all of us are full of sin, full of mistakes, full of errors, full of ugliness. But we all need to go inside this God to see that he's good.

And when we discover that he's good, we'll see him pleasant on the outside. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Amen.

We shall continue this topic hopefully next week. And we'll address the other two verses, God willing, next week if the Lord permits. Let's stand for the finale prayer.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Whether it's hatred, let me sow love. Whether it's injury, pardon. Whether it's doubt, faith.

Whether it's despair, hope. Whether it's darkness, light. Whether it's sadness, joy.

Oh divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. Amen. May the Lord Jesus bless you, guide you and protect you all the days of your life now and forevermore.

Amen. Go in peace. The peace of Christ be with you always, my beloved.

God bless.