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Is Judas in Hell? (And Other Hard Biblical Questions)
Mar Mari Emmanuel
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Mar Mari Emmanuel

Is Judas in Hell? (And Other Hard Biblical Questions)

Mar Mari Emmanuel explains that Judas Iscariot's tragic end and the nature of divine love reveal profound truths about forgiveness, God's sovereignty, and the multifaceted gospel of Jesus Christ.
In this teaching sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel addresses challenging biblical questions, focusing on the fate of Judas Iscariot, the nature of divine love, and the purpose of the four gospels. He explains how Judas's tragic choice contrasts with the forgiveness extended to others and emphasizes the church's call to self-denying love modeled after Christ. The sermon also explores God's sovereign wisdom in choosing Israel and the comprehensive portrayal of Jesus through the four gospel writers.

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First question, had this debate with a mate, and the debate is, is Judas Iscariot in hell? Unfortunately, yes. And the reason being, he killed himself. He took a life that was not his, but God's.

And if he had waited, Judas Iscariot would have been forgiven by the Lord, just like he forgave Simon Peter and all of us. In fact, when you come to it, Simon Peter's mistake was greater than Judas Iscariot's. Was greater.

Because Simon Peter was the one who said in Matthew chapter 16 that Jesus Christ is the living, you are Christ the son of the living God. So Simon Peter acknowledged Jesus Christ as God revealed in the flesh. And then Simon Peter stood before a woman, not a Roman soldier or someone of great influence, a woman, a weak woman, and he swore, he made an oath, I do not know this man.

So Simon Peter denied the Lord Jesus, both in his divinity and humanity, but the Lord forgave him. Judas went to the priests and said to them, this is the Messiah. Judas Iscariot believed that Jesus was God revealed in the flesh.

He said, this is the Messiah capturing. Judas never denied the Lord. But Judas problem was one thing.

He was looking for an earthly kingdom. Anyway, so I don't want to keep it for too long. So yeah, unfortunately, Judas went and hanged himself.

He killed himself. And that is a very grieve sin. You cannot take a life that is not yours.

And it's Adam and Eve. Oh, no, no. Adam and Eve are in paradise.

Thank God for that. And thank God for that for, for me is for one reason. When I see them, I'll say, what have you done to us? No, no, Adam and Eve are our parents and they are in paradise, but unfortunately, Judas did not make it.

Difference between how the world defines love and the church call to love. What is the difference? Well, there is no comparison because there is no love in the world to compare what the church is talking about. In the world, there is no love.

And if anybody says there is love in the world, then they are mistaken. It is a selfish love and a selfish love is no love at all. And since the Lord Jesus says that the world has been placed in the bosom of Satan, then where will the world get the love from? The source of the world is Satan and Satan has no love in him 100%.

So therefore there is no love. That's why they meet and greet and smile and take photos together, but there is no love. But the love the church calls us to is Christ's.

It is divine love. It is the true love where you deny yourself for the one you love. You deny yourself for the one you love.

And you see that in marriage when there is that marital vows given to the couple. Will you take her in good times and bad times, in sickness and in health, in richness and in poorness? Yes. Will you take him the same way? And they all say yes, but do we understand what we're saying? When we say yes, we're saying from this moment onward, the Lord Jesus and the priest who is marrying us before the holy altar, I'm saying I no longer live for myself, but I live for the one whom I am marrying.

That is the church call to love. Christ to his beloved church is the groom and Christ to the world is God. But to the church is the groom.

He came to betroth us and make us his bride. So there is a matrimonial bond. However, this is holy, not earthly thinking, please.

Earthly thinking is full of mud and dirt and filth. No, no, this is divine, divine, divine, holy, pure matrimonial bond in holiness and in purity. Why God made four gospels and not just one? In fact, the gospel is one and this one is divided into four riverheads.

So there are no gospels. It is one gospel with four branches. Just like we read in Genesis chapter two, where we see that river flowing from the east of the garden and then it separates, divides into four riverlets or four riverheads.

That river is Christ and those four riverheads is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The gospel is one, but with four directions or four profiles. And why four? Because every human being has four profiles to themselves.

There is the front, there is the back, there is the right side and there is the left side. When you want to make a judgment about any human being, you need to look at the four cornices before you make a judgment. Because if you look from the front and make a judgment, your judgment will fall short because you did not see the fullness of this person.

You only saw one side to this person. Therefore, your judgment will be unfairly judged. So when they looked at the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus has four profiles.

Matthew looked at the Lord Jesus and said, I see the Messiah as the Son of Man. John looked at the Lord Jesus from another profile and he says to the whole world, I see he is God himself. Mark looked at another profile of the Lord and he spoke to the Romans and he says, I see him as the King.

And then Luke looked at the other profile and spoke to the Greeks, the philosophers, the wise people and he says, I see the servant. Matthew spoke to the Jewish Israelites, the Son of Man. John spoke to the whole world as God.

Mark spoke to the Romans as the King and Luke spoke to the Greeks as the servant. When you put the four profiles together, you see the perfect picture of Christ being portrayed here. Divinity in John was revealed in humanity.

Matthew came to this world to be king over your life in Mark, to serve you and not to be served by you in Luke. This is the Christ we love, we adore, we worship, we praise always. Divinity in John revealed in humanity and Matthew came to this world to be king over your life in Mark, to serve you in Luke and not to be served by you.

The only king that came to serve is Christ the King. All the kings of the world expect others to serve them except Jesus Christ, the true king of all kings. He came to serve us, never expected us to serve him.

This is why there is four profiles and four gospel writers to one true gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen. Very good.

I want to dance with this body. Yeah, yeah. I'm changing the lyrics of Whitney Houston because my beloved Whitney, I don't know, I love this girl for some reason.

I just love this girl. I don't know why I always pray for her that for the Lord to have mercy on her soul. She says, I want to dance with somebody.

Now the word somebody is very dangerous because this somebody could be Satan. Why do you need to specify who you're dancing with? You better dance with this body. So my beloved Whitney Houston, I'm rewriting the lyrics.

It's not a copyright. Please don't sue me for it. So I want to dance with this body.

Yeah, yeah. I want to make him king over my body. Yeah, yeah.

All right. I've got a lovely voice. I know that.

Why did God choose the Israelites nation? Because they were the most stubborn people on the face of this earth. Why didn't he choose another nation to follow God? I cannot say to the builder, why did you build the house this way? So the house cannot complain to the builder and say, you should have made me square, not rectangular. You should have made it a parapet, you know, roof, not a pitched roof.

Hey, the builder has the full right to build the house the way they wish to build it. The house cannot tell the builder what to do. The creation cannot tell the creator how to function, who to choose and who not to choose and how to go about his own affairs.

God is the sovereign God. God is the infinite God, infinite in his wisdom, infinite in his knowledge, infinite in his presence, infinite in everything. He is the only one that can define anything and everything because he is the only one who is perfect.

Now speaking of perfect, God is perfect. Have you thought about the word perfect? What does it mean when we say God is perfect? In a nutshell, the reason why God is perfect and he is alone perfect and no one else because he is the only being that brought himself into existence by himself, not an external force. All of us were created by someone else.

I was created by my father and mother. There was an external force that brought me into existence. Since I did not create myself by myself, I can never claim the title perfect for me, for myself.

But God brought himself into existence internally by himself, not externally. That is why he is perfect. So we better trust this perfect God on how he does his business with his creation.

Why did he choose the Israelites? I do not know. Let me make a phone call and the numbers you dial is L-O-V-E, otherwise we will not get a connection to heaven because heaven's language is love. It is not gibberish by the way, it is love.

So it is L-O-V-E and you speak to the Lord Jesus. Why did he choose the Israelites? Tell them my son because they are very stubborn. Okay, thank you.

You see, we speak the same language. Since the entire human race lived in sin, then whoever God chooses, does it really matter? Since we are all sinners, whichever God chooses, then well, is that going to make any difference? No. But obviously he had his own ways.

And do not forget when you go back to the genealogy, when you read in the book of Genesis, the Israelite people came from my nation. God, the Assyrians, baby. They said it, not me.

When they were arguing with the Lord Jesus, they said, we are the children of Abraham. Oh, really? Well, Abraham came from Shem. Shem, the son of Noah.

Guess what? Assyrians are from Shem. So Abraham is Assyrian. So the Israelites, if they go back to the genealogy of Shem, they are Assyrians.

They are not Jewish. So Jesus Christ is Assyrian if you take him back to Noah. Just kidding.

No, no, I am serious, but I am just kidding that, you know, on the other side. I am not kidding about that yet. The Lord is Assyrian when you take him back to all the way to Noah.

He came from, he is the descendants of Shem through his humanity. He is from the descendants of Shem and Assyrians are from Shem. So Abraham is Assyrian.

He came from Iraq, Mesopotamia. He came from Iraq. So yeah.

So if the Israelites were stubborn, then the Assyrians are stubborn. How can one navigate end of life care and funerals for parents that are not Christians? Do they follow their parents will or what the church teaches? Well, I mean, if the parents were not Christians, then they cannot be sort of, I don't want to say buried, but the funeral ceremony cannot be done in a Christian way. It cannot.

If you have not received the holy baptism, there is no praise for you. As a Christian, you have to be baptized in order to be put into that place and in that resting place. As a Christian, you have to be baptized.

So if you're not baptized, then you cannot, we cannot do any Christian ceremonies. So whatever the parents' belief or religion, they'll have to follow that. Unfortunately.

What was your favorite experience from this pilgrimage? My favorite experience, I saw everybody happy. That was my favorite experience. It's always my heart's desire and my wish to see people around me, you know, happy.

Is the air con on? Is it? I think I still have the Middle East temperature inside of me yet because I don't know, just, but the jet lags really killed me for over a week. Oh my goodness, I'm getting old. When coming into the faith already married, how do we refine our relationship into a holy one? So you were not a Christian when you were married, and now you've come and received the Lord Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and you are already married.

Well, once you receive the Lord Jesus, then how do you refine your relationship? You need to follow now the teachings of the Lord Jesus. Now you are married into Christ, and on the rock, you are placed now, you're built on the rock, then you have to follow what the Lord Jesus says about marriage, Christian marriage, not any other marriage, but Christian marriage. In Christian marriage, I'll say this, and by the way, God willing, in the very, very near future, we will do a series of talks on relationships.

I've been meaning to do this for quite some time, but by the grace of the Lord, we will get to the bottom of it, and we will do this relationship in Christ. We're going to call it relationship in Christ, and then we'll see how we will travel with it. But one thing, in the Christian marriage, two things must be present, and in these two things, there is equality between the men and the women.

Equality between the men and the women is not in duties and obligations. If we are equal in duties and obligations, we will ruin society, but we are equal in two things, love and respect. Love and respect.

In love and respect, the man and the woman are equal. In what way? Love is to be given to the woman by the man, and respect is to be given by the woman to the man. One thing the man cannot stand it, when he is disrespected by his wife.

This is God's creation. I'm just conveying the message, and one thing the woman can't stand it, in when she is not loved by her man. So when you hear love and respect, you have to understand love has to be given to the woman, and respect must be given to the man.

When respect is missing, love will be missing, and the moment love is missing, life is gone. So now we need to follow what the Lord says. We need to learn Christ's way now.

So as Christ's way, you live for her, and she lives for you. That's Christ's way. End of story.

In a nutshell, what Bible is the right one to read? Pick and choose, my dear friend. What Bible is the right one to read? Look, translations are, you know, there are so many different translations, but the most common one that is, I think, it is used by people is the New King James Version. There is the Orthodox Bible, that's another good version of the Bibles that you read, the Orthodox Bible, even though it's taken from the New King James Translation.

However, it is done by great theologians and scholars, and it has footnotes at the bottom of it where it gives you a brief explanation of every single passage there, and plus it has the Deuterocanonical books, the second canonical books that are missing in the New King James. You'll find them in the Orthodox and even in the Catholic Bible as well, the other canonical books like Maccabees 1 and 2 and Tobit 1 and 2 and all them, the rest. So yeah, New King James, the Orthodox Bible, they're all good versions to read.

What is the best way to be patient? I'll give you an idea of what is the best way to be patient. I'll give you four points. Here we go.

What is the best way to be patient? Number one, shift your focus to God's character. Shift your focus to God's character. What do I mean by that? When you shift your focus to God's character, you will realize God is sovereign, God is faithful, God is loyal, God is known to deliver what he promises.

So when you shift your focus to God's character and realize that he is in charge, then be patient, my dear friend. Why are you so anxious about things? What do you want him to be done right now? Number two, pray for the Holy Spirit's help in order to be patient. The Holy Spirit will guide you, will guide you, will guard you, and also he will teach you on how to live Christ-like on earth.

Christ was very patient. He never did anything unless God, the Father, commanded him to do. Number three, reflect on God's patience with you.

You want to be patient? See how many times God has been patient with you. How many times have we broken God's word? How many times have we gone against God? How many times have we done things that were offensive to him, yet he is still showing mercy towards us? Well, you want God to be patient with you? You better be patient with others who have gone against you. Number four, embrace trials as opportunities to grow.

Embrace trials as opportunities to grow. That will help you to be patient. One, shift your focus to God's character.

Two, pray for the Holy Spirit's help. Three, reflect on God's patience with you. And four, embrace trials as opportunities to grow.

These four points will help you to be more patient, my beloved. So tell me, are you patient now? Do you want me to continue or shall I stop? Continue? Are you sure? Why did John the Baptist send two of his disciples when he was in prison to Jesus Christ to ask him if he was the one? Why did John doubt Jesus Christ? Look, there are two explanations to this. John the Baptist was thrown into prison and then he came to, two of his disciples came to see him in prison.

He said, go and ask him, are you the one? Ask Jesus, are you the Messiah or do we wait for someone else? Now, one explanation is, John the Baptist knew that this is the Messiah, but he wanted these two disciples to follow Jesus, no more him. So he sent them for their own sake to go and find out for themselves. He did not want to explain to them.

He wanted them to find out firsthand for themselves. That's why he sent them. On the other hand, at a human level, even if you are a prophet, somebody sent by God, at a human level, John the Baptist is a human being like us.

Imagine this, knowing Jesus, being related to him, he grew up as a human being like all of us. And then Jesus at the age of 30 comes and he says to John, by the way, cuz I'm God. Oh, really? Let's put the prawns on the barbie, will we? Shall we? So it's an absolute shock of a statement to say, hang on a second, what do you mean God? Come on, you're my cousin.

What do you mean God? Yeah, I'm God. So when John was sent to the river Jordan to baptize, the baptism of repentance, God said to him, the one who comes, the chosen one, the Messiah, you will see heaven open and the dove descending and resting on him. And you will hear this voice saying, this is my beloved son.

So there was a sign given by God to John prior to him having an encounter with Jesus at the river Jordan. So when the Lord Jesus came at the river Jordan, he says, oh, well, he comes my cousin. And all of a sudden he sees heaven open, the dove descending and the voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

To him you shall listen. It was a shock. Can my cousin be God? Too much for this brain to fathom.

So you know what? Can you just go and ask him if he is the Messiah? I want to know. But I've heard the miracles he has done and only God can do them. But I still want that little extra proof just to stamp seal at once and for all.

So I don't have any more doubts. So are you the Messiah? The Lord Jesus says to them, go and tell John the blind see. The psalmist King David says, God opens the eyes of the blind.

The miracles the Lord Jesus performed only God can do. Opening the blind man's eyes, born blind in John chapter nine, where he spits on the ground and makes mud and applies it on his eyes and says, go and wash in that pond Shiloha in the proper pronunciation. Shiloha means the messenger one, the sent one.

So that pond of water was symbolic for Jesus Christ. It's a long story. See, when you go to the original language, you'll understand many treasures hidden in the passage.

So now, so the Lord Jesus spits on the ground and makes blood and out of mud he makes eyes. Who creates? Only God. Even our beloved Muslims, and I call them beloved.

I mean it. I love them. Even our beloved Muslims, they say in Arabic, He created out of mud clay a bird and blew into that bird the breath of life and the bird became alive.

What prophet can create out of clay bird and make that bird alive? Isn't God the creator? Yeah. So the miracles the Lord Jesus performed, only God can. So that's why it's very hard for the human intellect to fathom this, that my, my relative is God.

You know, it's like you growing up in a neighborhood and your next door neighbor, you've found out that they had a baby boy. So you went and congratulate them on this newborn baby. Oh, well done.

We are very happy for you. And then the baby grew and you saw all these 30 years, this baby was growing right before your very eyes. And the age of 30, he comes and knocks at your door.

He says, hello neighbor. I'm God. How would you react to that? You see, it's very hard to fathom.

The Lord Jesus understands this. Since he is God, he knows we can't handle certain things. That's why he is patient with us.

So the Lord was not upset by John when he sent the disciples. He said, quite the contrary. I'm glad that he sent.

Tell him the miracles I'm doing. He needs to know only God can do. So am I the Messiah? I'll leave the miracles say if I am or not.

There you go. Amen. Now, and, and, and just asked me to ask, why is Jesus coming to me in dreams and visions only through the bad times? Well, well, he should be very, very blessed, very grateful that the Lord Jesus is visiting you and in dreams and visions, especially in bad times.

Well, it's just like that. Um, um, that sort of little story goes, it's actually, it's, it's said in, and it's two different maybe, or three different versions, but I'll say one of them. It was two friends, best friends walking on the beach in this Island.

And they were the only two on that Island. And they were walking next to each other and they were sort of, you know, keeping each other's company. And they, to somewhat degree, they were both comfortable and they were talking to each other.

And then one day, one of, one of, one of them, uh, one of them was taken away while they were walking. One disappeared. The other one panicked.

He said, I'm the only one on this Island. My friend is gone and I'm left alone. It's kind of frightening feeling.

So he asked God, please God help me. I'm alone. I'm alone.

I'm alone. And then God speaks to him in a very soft tone and says, my dear friend, when you were walking with your friend along the way, I was walking with you, but the day your friend went missing and you were left behind those footprints on the, on the sand were not yours. They were mine because I was carrying you on my shoulder.

So when you are in, in dark moments, when you are going through some troublesome times, when you are feeling so alone, so rejected, so miserable, a failure, remember Christ is not just with you. He is in you and he is carrying you. So why is the Lord coming to me in visions and dreams in bad times? Well, the Lord says, you will find me through the narrow door, not the wide gate.

The narrow door is the way of the Lord. The wide gate is the way of the world. You want to find Satan walk through the wide gate.

You want to find Christ walk through the narrow door. How do I build a good relationship with the Theotokos? Theotokos is a Greek word. Theos means God.

Tokos, bearer. In other words, the Holy Mother Mary. How do I build a relationship with the Holy Mother? Love her son, love her son.

You're building a relationship with the mom. See the son and the mom are inseparable. They are never separated.

By the way, this has got nothing to do with whether you are Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant. With all love and respect. Yes? The Holy Mother has got nothing to do with you being Catholic, with you being Orthodox, or with you being Protestant, accepting her or not accepting her, honoring her, venerating her or not.

It's beside the point. The Holy Mother will always be the Holy Mother to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And she will always be honored by her beloved son, who is God, revealed in the flesh.

Yes, she bore God in her womb. So she is Theotokos. And Jesus Christ will never forget mom.

Will never forget her. He will always honor her forever and ever and ever, never ending. Let me tell you one thing, my beloved.

The Lord Jesus was sitting in this house and this person came and said, your mother and your brothers are waiting for you outside. And by the way, Jesus never had biological brothers. Please get it out of your head.

I beg you. You are offending the Lord and his Holy Mother. The Holy Mother is virgin forever.

She is the only woman that is mother and virgin at the same time forever. So please don't upset the Lord. Don't offend his mom.

So they said, your mom and your brothers are waiting for you outside. He said, who is my mom? Who's my brothers? You turn to the disciples. He says, he who does the will of my father is my mom, my brother, my what the Lord was saying, what the Lord was saying.

And again, another place, what the Lord was saying that my mom is not my mom because she gave birth to me. No, but my mom is my truly my mom because she did the will of the father. She did the will of my father.

That's why I love this woman. Not because she is my mom only, but because she did the will of my father. So who is my mother? He who does the will of my father.

In other words, the Lord is saying, if you do the will of my father, I will love you the way I love my mom. That's what he meant to say. If you do the will of my father, I will love you the way I love my mom because my mom is adored by me because she was faithful to my father's will.

Another woman came and said, blessed are, blessed is the breast that fed you and the womb that carried you. But the Lord said, but blessed more so the one who does the will of my father. If you are referring to my mom, as the blessed one, because she bore me in her womb and she breastfed me.

Well, guess what? This blessing would have been only temporary and short-lived because the moment she gave birth to me, the blessing is gone. And the moment she cut me off from breastfeeding me, also that blessing is gone. But my mom is blessed forever because she did more so the will of my father.

So how do you build a relationship with the holy mom? Talk to her. Say, this is the first time I don't know how to address you. I don't know what to say, how to say it, where to say it, when to say it, but please pardon my ignorance, pardon my whatever.

I need you. Holy mother, I need you. Can you please come? I need your help.

That's it. I'll leave it. But you better say it with honesty and with respect because I can tell you a lot of things about the holy mother, a lot of things.

It's impossible, you know, like it really saddens me to the core of my being when people are disrespectful to the holy mother. It saddens me how much more the lord, how much more, oh my goodness, how much more the lord is sad when people disrespect his mom. And beside, why do you want to lose on one of the greatest ever intercessor for you before the throne of God who happens to be her son? Why do you want to lose on that? What a humongous blessing, asking the holy mom to pray for you and intercede for you to her beloved son.

Do you know how influential she is? There are things saints cannot do. The holy mother does with ease. There are things saints struggle with.

The holy mother doesn't with ease. The lord Jesus gave her privileges and blessings beyond our imagination. Why? Not only because she bore him in her womb and breastfed him and looked after him and raised him till the age of 30, but she was faithful and loyal to God's will.

The holy mother would have taught the lord Jesus also things about God. Isn't that the role of the mother? To teach her children the fear of the lord. Amazing.

I always, you know, refer to John chapter 2. Sorry if I've taken too much of your time, even though I'm not sorry really. John chapter 2, you know, the wedding of Cana of Galilee. Who interceded for the lord to change the water into wine? The holy mother.

Where were the 12 disciples? They were all there. How come none of them said anything? Because the holy mother was different. The holy mother had a different vision, different insight.

She was very close to her son. And when you look at the conversation, the dialect between the mom and the son, it does not make sense in a logical way. Doesn't make sense.

Look at this. The holy mother realizes they run out of wine. She goes to her beloved son.

She doesn't go to anyone else but her son. When you read the holy bible, you better read between the lines, my beloved. You'll understand a lot of things that are hidden.

Why, if they had run out of wine, what has Jesus got to do with running out of wine? Why would the holy mother go to the lord? She should have gone to the emcee, the wedding ceremony, matrimonials. The emcee of the time used to be the father of the groom. She should have gone to him because it's his wedding.

It's his son's wedding. She should have gone to him and said, they run out of wine, you better get some. It's an embarrassment.

But she goes to her son. That's one question needs answering. Why her son? And look at this.

She goes to the lord and she says, they run out of wine. And her beloved son, our sweetheart man, the love of my life, Jesus Christ. He turns to his mom and he says, woman, what has this got to do with me? My hour hasn't come yet.

What kind of an answer is this? Like if the holy mother was talking normal human level kind of a language, she would have asked and said, sorry, what do you mean my hour hasn't come? All I'm saying, they run out of wine. What hour? And what does it got to do with wine? She did not question her son. And by the way, the lord Jesus calls Mary woman twice in the entire new testament.

One at the wedding of Cana and the next time was Golgotha. Because Golgotha and Cana are the same event. However, Cana revealed Golgotha prior to the time, prior to the hour.

Woman, what does this got to do with me? My hour hasn't come. Well, which hour are you talking about Lord Jesus? The hour of my crucifixion. I came for this hour.

I was born for this hour. I came for the hour to embrace the cross, to save and redeem the entire world. Well, I asked you my son, they run out of wine.

What is this hour of yours? The mother never questioned it. And the lord referred to her as woman at Cana and at Golgotha. Why? Because my beloved, a fact for all of us, it is impossible for water to change into wine, naturally impossible.

It can only be done supernaturally beyond the natural realm. And beyond the natural realm, you are entering the divine realm. So for water to change into wine, only God can do this.

Why? For one simple truth. There is a substance that is present in wine, absent in water, carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is present in wine, absent in water.

Now, to create something out of nothing, only God can do. No human can, no prophet can. God will not give his glory to no human being, even if that human is a prophet.

So for the water to change into wine, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory to his holy and mighty name, created out of something. Carbon dioxide present in wine, absent in water. So when the lord changed the water into wine, he revealed his divinity.

When he revealed his divinity as the divine, he cannot have a mother. If she is the mother of the divine, that means she created him, she is before him, impossible. But on the other hand, and I could talk about the holy Imam, you're in deep trouble now.

On the other hand, why did he call her a woman? Because my beloved, this is what the whole story is all about. Genesis 3.15, the seed of the woman shall crush the head of the serpent. Genesis 3.15, the seed of the woman shall crush the head of the serpent.

Who is the seed of the women out of the entire human race? Jesus my beloved, because Jesus is the only human being that is born of an earthly mother, no earthly father, for his father is the one who art in heaven, God. He is the only human that has only earthly mom. That's why he is the only one out of the entire human race is the seed of the woman.

And this seed of the woman is the only one that will crush the head of the serpent. And who is the serpent? Satan. When did the Lord Jesus crush the head of the serpent? On the cross my hour.

On Calvary, on the cross, he crushed the head of the serpent by shedding his blood. Therefore, the wedding of Cana, where the Lord changes the water into wine, that wine is his blood that will be shed three years and six months after the sign of Cana on Golgotha. It wasn't wine, it was his blood.

And to prove it, when they brought the emcee, by the way, if you're not aware of them, at least in cultures and customs, weddings used to go for seven days and seven nights. So to run out of wine after seven days and seven nights, people were not only drunk, but they were swimming in wine. So they were drunk beyond repair.

The emcee came, he drank the wine which the Lord changed from water. And he says to the Lord, we put the good quality wine first before the emcees. And once they are drunk, we put the two dollar cheap wine from the two dollar shop.

Why? Because if we keep on putting the good quality wine all the time, we'll be bankrupt at seven days. Wine is expensive when it's quality. We can't afford to put quality wine for seven days and seven nights.

So we put the good stuff first, lest we be embarrassed before the people whom we invited to the wedding. Once they're drunk, they won't even know what they're drinking. Give them anything, mate.

But you, to the Lord, but you, you have kept the good quality wine till the end. Question, a drunk person to the brim drinks wine and realizes this wine is quality. The only way for him to realize this wine was quality for him to have become sober.

Now, logically speaking, can a drunk person drink more wine and be sober? Impossible. But this man who was drunk, drank the wine of Christ and became sober. Therefore, when you read in the Gospel of John, which is the depth of theology, my beloved, that drunkenness is the sin of the human race.

It is the sin that made humanity drunk, not realizing their right hand from their left, not knowing their sense of direction. When a person gets drunk, they lose track of everything. So as sin makes you lose track of everything.

It's just like that wine that gets you drunk physically. Sin gets you drunk spiritually. And how did we become sober? The wine of Christ, his blood that washed away the sins of the world made me sober.

Once again, I called her a woman for two things. Since this wine is my blood and my blood was gushed for the forgiveness of sins. And since sin cannot be forgiven, except by God, as God, he cannot have a mother.

Please understand as God, the Logos incarnate, yes. Theotokos, God's bearer, yes. But as the divine only, he cannot have a mother because if he's going to have a mother, that means she is before him.

She made him. God is the creator of Mary. In his divinity is the creator.

So as God, forgiver of sins, I call her a woman. But I called her a woman to fulfill Genesis 3.15. I am the seed of the woman who is coming to crush the head of the serpent. All of you failed.

I win. Love the mother because she loves you beyond your imagination. One day this python came to attack me.

It's a vision, yeah. Two saints, which I came to know, well, I won't mention their names. They came, they started fighting with this python to save me from him, from it.

It's trying to bite me. So they struggled with this python. It's a vision, yeah.

But that python is Satan. So they're struggling, they're struggling, they're struggling, they're struggling. And then the Holy Mother comes flying.

As he was trying to bite me. Massive mouth. The Holy Mother puts her, this finger, she puts it in his mouth and he he clutches on that finger.

I felt the Holy Mother's pain a bit. It was a bit painful. And he grabbed the finger and the Holy Mother lifted that python up like that.

And then released the finger with the same finger, detached the head from the body. And then she said to the two saints, now you can take this python away. I will put my life on the line for this.

When you make it to paradise by the grace of the Lord Jesus, who is the only Savior, the only Redeemer, by the way, yes? Don't confuse it. The Holy Mother is not Jesus Christ, okay? It is the blood of the Lamb of God. And medically speaking, the blood of the mother does cannot mix with the blood of the of the child because that is fatal.

So Jesus' blood is unique. Because it is said to forgive sins. No other blood can mix with this blood.

Not even the mother's. So let me be very clear on this. Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh, the only one who forgives.

But this God chose for himself to have a mother. Who am I to say otherwise? Isn't it kind of rude when Jesus Christ, who is God, says to Mary, you're my mom, and then I come and disrespect what Jesus claims. And then I go back and I say, Jesus, I love you.

What kind of a love is this? I can assure you when you make it to paradise, when you get that chance to see the Holy Mother, a glimpse of her, in her, the queen, the queen sitting in majesty. My goodness, you will fall at her feet, shaking like that. She's awesome.

She is awesome. She's my mom, by the will of Christ, who is God. John, behold your mother at the foot of the cross.

John, behold your mother. So whom gave John to be his mom? The Lord. Who gave Mary to John to be his mom? The Lord, God.

And then John in Revelation 1.9 says, I, John, the servant of Jesus Christ, and your brother. Oh, so now John, you're my brother. Yes.

Well, Mary is your mom by the will of Christ, who is God revealed in the flesh. Yes. So since Mary is your mom and you are now my brother, then Mary is my mom by the will of God.

And then the commandment says, honor your father and mother so that I may bless you and give you a long life. If you honor Mary, you are fulfilling the commandment of God. Amen.

I think I've gone too far. That's it. We, we ended with the Holy Mother there afterwards.

That's it. Let's stand for the finale prayer, please. 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. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light. Where there is 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.

Sermon Outline

  1. I. The Fate of Judas Iscariot
    • Judas believed Jesus was the Messiah but sought an earthly kingdom
    • His suicide is a grievous sin preventing forgiveness
    • Contrast with Simon Peter’s denial and forgiveness
  2. II. The Nature of Divine Love vs. Worldly Love
    • Worldly love is selfish and lacks true love
    • Church calls for self-denying, Christ-like love
    • Marriage as a model of divine love and mutual commitment
  3. III. Understanding the Four Gospels
    • One gospel with four profiles: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
    • Each gospel reveals a different aspect of Christ’s identity
    • Together they present the full picture of Jesus Christ
  4. IV. Trusting God’s Sovereignty and Perfect Wisdom
    • God’s choice of Israel is sovereign and purposeful
    • God is perfect as the self-existent Creator
    • Believers must trust God’s ways despite human questions

Key Quotes

“If he had waited, Judas Iscariot would have been forgiven by the Lord, just like he forgave Simon Peter and all of us.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The love the church calls us to is Christ's. It is divine love. It is the true love where you deny yourself for the one you love.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The gospel is one, but with four directions or four profiles.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel

Application Points

  • Trust in God's perfect wisdom even when His choices seem difficult to understand.
  • Practice Christ-like, self-denying love in your relationships, especially in marriage.
  • Develop patience by focusing on God's character and embracing life's trials as growth opportunities.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Judas Iscariot in hell?
According to the speaker, Judas is in hell because he took his own life, which is a grievous sin, and did not wait for God's forgiveness.
Why did God choose the Israelites?
God chose the Israelites sovereignly, despite their stubbornness, and His reasons are beyond human understanding.
What is the difference between worldly love and the church's call to love?
Worldly love is selfish and lacks true love, whereas the church calls for divine, self-denying love modeled after Christ.
Why are there four gospels instead of one?
The four gospels represent different profiles of Jesus Christ, providing a complete and multifaceted picture of His identity.
How can one be patient according to the sermon?
Be patient by focusing on God's character, praying for the Holy Spirit's help, reflecting on God's patience with you, and embracing trials as growth opportunities.

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