Jesus Heals A Demon Possessed Boy

In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, amen. May the Almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth be with you, guide you, and protect you all the days of your life. May the Lord be glorified in his children.

May the Lord be praised and worshipped and thanked always, in good times and in bad times, in sickness and in health, in poorness and in richness, for the Lord is the heavenly groom and he has chosen his bride from this world, which is the church, and the church is, he has betrothed to himself and made the church his body and he is the head of this body. May this bond, may this unity, be always intact and forevermore, amen. We pray this body increases in number and the entire world becomes the bride of Christ.

Amen. The gospel, which our beloved Father Daniel read, to all of us, is according to Saint Matthew chapter 17, and precisely verses 14 to 27, which is the end of the chapter. So it's Matthew 17, 14, till the end of the chapter, which is, I believe, verse 27.

The Lord Jesus healed an epileptic man. This father came running to the Lord Jesus and he said, my son is epileptic. I brought him to your disciples and they couldn't heal him.

So the Lord said, oh generation of little faith, until when am I going to remain with you and receive you? Bring your son here. Then the Lord rebukes that demon that was inside that person, that man, and the demon was cast out on the spot and received, that man received full healing. The disciples afterwards approached the Lord and asked him, they said, how come we were not able to heal this epileptic man? How come we were not able to cast that demon out of him? He said, because if you had faith as the size of that little mustard seed, you would have ordered, you would have told this mountain to move from here and go over there and the mountain would have listened to you.

So looks like our faith has not even reached the size of that little tiny mustard seed. But we need to understand how the Holy Bible is structured. Whenever we read anywhere in the Holy Bible, we need to understand how it is structured.

See, Matthew chapter 17, 18, and 19, what are they talking about? You see in chapter 17, the beginning of it, the Lord Jesus takes three of his 12 disciples, apostles, and he takes them up with him to Mount Tabor, which we refer to as the Mount of Transfiguration. This is one of the feasts, the seven feasts in the Holy Apostolic Universal Church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Feast of Transfiguration. He takes Simon Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, James and John.

He takes them up and he transfigures. He shines brighter than the sun and he becomes white, whiter than snow. And as they were coming down from the mountain, the Lord said to those three disciples, do not reveal what you just saw at the top of the mountain.

And as they were coming down, the Gospel of today begins. There was an epileptic man, demented man, and the Lord casts that demon out of that man. Chapter 17 talks about the Lord Jesus establishing his kingdom.

Chapter 19 talks about the Lord Jesus choosing people for his kingdom. And chapter 18 talks about the way of the kingdom. Chapter 17, establishing the kingdom.

Chapter 19, choosing people for the kingdom. And chapter 18, the way of the kingdom. And chapter 18 begins by, unless you go back and become little children, you cannot remain in this kingdom.

So how is one to remain in the kingdom of God? You need to become like that little child. A little child with innocence, not ignorance. I want you to be wise as a serpent, but innocent as a dove, innocent as a child.

Since the Lord in chapter 17 is establishing his kingdom, what does he need to do first? With us, he needs to cast the kingdom of Satan out of us. You see, this kingdom is coming from heaven. And this kingdom is directed at every single human being, at humanity.

So this kingdom is coming from heaven, seeking, hoping to find a place in the hearts of men. But the problem, there is another kingdom that is already conquering this man. And that kingdom is the kingdom of the world ruled by Satan.

Ever since our father Adam, the first creation, ever since our father Adam failed God, Satan ruled over Adam and all of his descendants. So the kingdom of the world was dwelling in the human race. And when the kingdom of the world is dwelling in the human race, guess what? The one who is ruling over every single human being is Satan.

This is why this man was demented. There was a foul spirit living in this man. Since Satan rules, what are you going to expect to find in that human? Foul spirits.

For the kingdom of heaven coming down from heaven to find a place in my heart, and in your heart, and in everyone's heart, the Lord has to cleanse this house. He needs to wipe out that kingdom of the world, Satan's rulership. He needs to cast it out in order for the kingdom of heaven to have that opportunity to dwell in that human being.

That father said to the Lord, my son is being tormented. Sometimes he is cast into the fire and sometimes into the water. So, my beloved, when the enemy rules over a human being's life, when the enemy becomes in control of a human being, that human being will be cast into fire and into water.

When you look at these two elements, fire and water are against one another. Neither fire likes water, nor water likes fire. The last thing fire wants is to drop some water on it.

Meaning contradiction. Opposite fire, water. When a human is distant from the true divine God, their life will be a contradictive one, i.e. never find rest.

That human will never experience peace. That human will never experience rest. That human will never know what tranquility is, because their life is chaotic.

Their life is contradictive. Their life, one day this way, the other totally opposite to it. Never resting, never finding one's self.

Because this is what Satan does to a human. Keeps you struggling. Keeps you in a very chaotic way of living.

Now rest. Rest. I thought when I have millions in the account, I'll find my peace and rest.

And I had the millions, the more the millions increased, the more my troubles increased. I thought when I get married, I will settle. I don't mean anything here, okay? So no, this is non-political argument.

I thought when I get married, I will settle. I got married, there is no settling. Unless you get paid with your compensation, then you get your settling.

I thought when I become a bishop, when I become the Pope, when I become a priest, I thought when I find a job, I thought when I buy a house, I thought when I buy a car, I thought, and I thought, and I thought, and I thought, and it was all just thinking. And the more I chased my dreams, my wishes outside of God, the more I was in trouble. No rest, no peace.

Pulling my hair out. When the Lord rose from the dead, all glory to his holy name. When those disciples sitting in that upper room and locking the doors and the windows, out of fear.

The Lord enters through locked doors and windows. What does the Lord say to them? The very first word ever uttered out of his holy mouth after resurrection. Peace be with you.

My peace I give to you. Not like the world gives. My peace I give, no one can take away from you.

Do you want to experience true peace from within? Find Christ, you will find your peace. The world is trying frantically to doing things in order to achieve peace. And the more they try frantically, the more there is no peace.

Because they're trying to find and establish peace outside of the king of peace. God revealed in the flesh, his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Hallelujah.

They sign millions of peace treaties and there is no peace. By the way, pray for the Israelis and the Palestinians. And I will say our beloved Israelis and Palestinians.

Yes, our beloved. We pray for them. What are you fighting for? With all love and respect, I'll say this to our beloved Jews and Palestinians.

With all love and respect. Your problem is one thing. One of you says, Ishmael was offered on Mount Moriah.

And the other side says, till this very day, it was Isaac and Isaac only being offered on Mount Moriah by our father Abraham. One says Abraham offered Isaac. The other one says Abraham offered Ishmael.

But until the day that comes, both of you accept, acknowledge, confess and profess that it was Jesus Christ, the son of the living God who was offered on Mount Moriah. There will never be peace. Never.

For it is only when God is ruling over our lives. Then and then only we shall live in that peace. Because peace is made possible by Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

No other human being. Period. Period.

Only God made peace possible by giving his beloved son as the sacrificial lamb of God for the salvation and the redemption of the entire world. Until we accept Jesus Christ of Nazareth, there is and will never be peace. Because until the day that comes, we receive the beloved son, the only begotten of his father in the flesh.

Until we receive him, we will be chasing this world. And who is the ruler of this world? Satan. What peace? Satan gives you peace? Are you serious? We're fighting over land.

This is my land. The other one says, no, it is my land. I was here before you.

The other one says, but no, my God gave it to me after you. And we keep on fighting on the earthly Jerusalem. But the earthly Jerusalem is only temporary.

Until you inherit the heavenly Jerusalem, there is no peace. You chase this world, you're asking for trouble. You chase materialism, you're asking for trouble.

Because the more you chase this world, the more Satan will devour you. That's why there is no peace. When the church tries to imitate the world, there is no peace.

There is war, there is envy, there is jealousy, there is division. There is no peace. Imagine this with me.

If the church leaders were truly all for Christ, you know what would have happened? They would have fought with one another, but in this way. You see now, they're fighting whose throne is the greatest. It's mine.

No, it's mine. It's mine. No, it's mine.

It's my way. I'm right. You're wrong.

You're wrong. You're right. They would have fought when they had received Christ.

One brother would come and say, this throne I'm sitting on, but I'm giving it to you, brother. The other one said, no, no, no, no. It's your throne.

No, please take it. It's yours, my brother. The other one said, no, please.

It's your throne, my brother. Everybody would have fought with everybody in giving their own throne to their beloved brother. There is peace.

And then since no one accepted to sit on the throne, then all brothers would have sat on the floor. Hallelujah. When everybody sits on the floor, peace.

The church is united. Because when everybody sits on the floor, one brother will come and say, what's bothering you, my dear friend? Did I say something that really upset you? Did I naughty boy? Okay, brother. Come on, let's fix it.

When the Lord dwells in us through his kingdom, which he brought from heaven, there is peace. There is peace. So which is the demon at home? Get rid of it.

Say, Lord, please come and cast this demon out. Husband and wife keep on arguing, fighting. What are you fighting? What's the problem? Yeah, well, I told him to take me out and he failed.

I told him for the millionth time, I want a four wheel drive Toyota. And he got me a little tiny Corolla. But I want a four wheel drive because I want to feel in control.

When I drive, I'm up high there. Corolla is on the floor. And I've been telling him for the last 500 days of being married to him, get me a diamond ring.

He said, darling, all I can afford is a ring from a $2 shop. So do you love me for the ring or do you love me for me? So if I stop buying for you, your love stops for me. Then we are still living in the material realm.

Satan is controlling. No wonder there is issues at home. But imagine when the whole family is content with what God has given them.

My goodness, when the family is content with what God has chosen to give them, it is heaven on earth, heaven, heaven on earth. There is no power that can ever come and divide this family. Because when the family is built on the rock, who is Christ Jesus, all glory to his holy name, who can shake you, who can break you? No one.

If God is with me, then who is against me? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. But you see, when I am in denial of the Lord's sovereign authority over me, control over me, then I'm trying to do it my way.

There will be another evil force that will come and devour me, control me and guide me and lead me. Enslave me, more accurate, enslave me. That's why you see people, they have so much, yet never happy.

They have so much, yet never happy. What's wrong with you? I don't know. Leave me alone.

Why? Because it's fire and water. One day I'm burning, the other I'm drowning. Because I am not resting.

I haven't reached the shores of peace. My little boat is still being punched, kicked left, right and center by the waves of the ocean. And the ocean is the world.

The ocean is the temptations of the world. Because I'm being tempted every single day to have this, to get this, to reach there, to get over there. When are you going to rest? Never.

Because the more I chase my own ambitions outside of God's guidance, there is never going to be neither peace nor contentment nor rest. Nothing. But when you thank the Lord for what you have, the Lord will bless you more.

The Lord will bless you more. Before the Lord gives us anything, He needs to trust us with it. He needs to trust us with it.

Am I ready to receive this gift? Out of love, the Lord is not going to give me something that will turn around and be my stumbling stone, even though it's a gift from the Lord. When I'm not ready for it, He won't give it out of love. He wants to.

He's dying to give it. I mean, far from Him. I don't want Him to die.

He's the living Messiah. But He wants to give it because He's Daddy. He wants to give His child.

But He sees His child. If I give Him this precious gift now, it's going to drown Him. It's going to destroy Him.

So I need to be ready to receive that gift. I'll leave you with this. This time I'll be short.

Yeah, in your dreams. You were so glad you said, thank God, but it didn't last, did it? I just ruined it. I'm just kidding.

The disciples came and said, why we were not able to cast this demon? He said, because this kind, I said, if you had a faith the size of a mustard seed, you know, a mustard seed is extremely tiny, little tiny seed, very small. We're in trouble, man. If I don't even have this kind of faith, when am I going to be a Christian? If I don't have the faith of a mustard seed.

And do you know who the Lord was actually addressing? Simon, Peter, Philip, Andrew, Thomas, Bartholomew, the pillars, the pillars of the church. He said, because you didn't have faith as a little tiny mustard seed. If Simon's faith was not the size of a mustard seed, where am I going to go, man? Then I'll have nothing.

Now the word man, that's a new elaboration of the 21st century. I don't think the Lord would have said, hey, bro, what's up? But imagine if the Lord had come now. You know, if the Lord would have come now out of love for him to come as a black American, because they're very cute when they talk.

Yo, what's up, brother? That would have been very cute. Hey, truly, truly, I said to you, bro, what's up? I love the black American. They've beautiful people.

You know, they have a lot of them have strong faith, stunning faith, stunning. The Lord has said, if you had the faith of a little tiny mustard seed, you would have said to this mountain, the mountain, the Lord here is referring to Satan. Satan is the mountain.

Can you move a mountain? Impossible. If you have faith as tiny as a mustard seed, what is impossible will be possible when you speak. With little tiny faith of a mustard seed, you'll tell the mountain, Satan, be plugged and move over there.

He will listen to you because when you speak with faith, even though it's as little as the mustard seed, it is the Lord speaking through you. When he hears the voice of the Lord, he will have to salute that voice. He will do as you say.

But if you don't have it, you will do as he says. And then he said, but this kind of a demon. Oh, there is kinds, different levels.

One is a little tiny soldier. The other one is a colonel. He said, this kind of a demon can only be cast out by prayers and fasting.

And I'll leave you with this. Pray by fasting and pray. Fasting and pray.

You can only cause this kind of a demon with fasting and with prayers. Fasting for the body, prayer for the spirit. Fasting for the body, prayer for the spirit, fasting humbles the body.

Prayer humbles the spirit. Fasting breaks the body, humbles it. And prayer breaks the spirit, humbles the spirit.

This is why prayer is always a struggle. If somebody says to you yeah I pray all the time and it's nice and easy. Some have reached this level but it takes a great deal of an effort.

It's not one of those I just spoke to Jesus and he came down he spoke to me. No. Where do you think you're sitting? But the Lord has nothing else to do but for you to say please come, please go, please come, please go.

That's childish behavior. Very childish. Prayer humbles the spirit.

That's why prayer is a struggle. You must have experienced this. You know every time we come to pray prior to that I'm just dumb.

I know nothing, I remember nothing, just quiet. The moment I start praying I'll remember every single detail six, seven, one thousand years ago. And the moment I start praying all of a sudden oh I forgot to call so-and-so it's their birthday.

Oh the food is on the stove, it's on fire, it's gonna burn. Oh I forgot the clothes in the washing machine. Oh I forgot to cook.

Oh I forgot to buy. Oh I forgot. How come he didn't remember all these things prior to pray? And when you come to pray you'll start wondering.

You're in the church all of a sudden you're in Bondi Beach. What is this? Get out of my mind, my head, Bondi Beach. The bitch is mistaken.

Now you'll see the beach. That's it. You're stuck with the beach.

Or Westfield Shopping Center and Versace or Chanel is right before your eyes. And then oh it's just look I look through the window and it's a sunny day. What a shame.

Look what I'm sitting in the church boring. You pray, you're everywhere. You stop praying, you're focused.

You know why? Because that enemy, that naughty naughty enemy, he doesn't want you to focus when you pray. Why? Because prayer humbles the spirit. Guess what? He doesn't want you to be humble.

And every time you want to fast, so many people have, not so many, a few people, few people approach me all the time when the Great Lent comes, before the Great Lent comes. They want to secure and make sure they're safe and sound. Father you know what? I promise you Father, I promise you.

If I don't have coffee at 10 a.m. all day, I've got a migraine. Would the Lord accept this? I don't think so. He's merciful.

Father I promise you, one cigarette I have to have between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. If I don't have the cigarette, I can't focus. He want me to collapse and cut my hand in the chain. What do you say Father? One cigarette.

You come to fast, oh I've got a headache, my back, my tummy, it's painful man. I can't do it. I'm shaking.

I'm going round and round and round. Everything is revolving around me. I'm gonna faint.

And then I see the stake. Someone will come and say, who said the Lord said don't eat meat? Man you can eat, fasting is not that. Just don't talk about people.

But you forgot, you're stuck with this body that has been dragging you in the streets of Fairfield. This body needs to be disciplined. You can't just feed it steak and then the body feeds you to Satan.

You can't. You gotta feed it sometimes vegetables, it's good. I don't know where people, when they talk, they don't think too far and too deep.

Because they don't want to give up on the food so the Lord said it's okay. Like someone came, he said Father, I have to have a little glass of wine. Even the Lord drank wine in Cana of Galilee.

Isn't it true Father? Didn't he change the water into wine? You see, the Lord is not against it. He likes wine. And then when I tell him the agonizing truth, oh I wish I had never came to you and asked you.

Then my conscience would have been nice. But now that you've told me the truth, now I can't do it. When you fast, ask the Lord to help you.

You see, fasting humbles the body, prayer humbles the spirit. Why? Because the only way to overcome Satan is humility. A true humble person, now please pay attention, this is apostolic teaching, not 21st century teachings.

A true humble person is the one who says, I'm a sinner or a saint. And in the name of Jesus made me a saint, I'm a saint. Oh yeah? Really? You're a saint? Well done.

What are you doing in Star City Casino? A true humble person is the one who has a private life with the Lord. A true humble person is the one when he talks compared to the time he's quiet. The talking percentage is extremely minute compared to the silent percentage.

A true humble person is the one who says to himself or herself, is the one who says to themselves, true humility is when I see my heart the way God sees it. This is the beginning of the road to humility. When I begin to see my heart the way God sees it, I ask myself this question, if God looked at my heart this very moment, how would God see my heart? Full of filth.

Spider webs everywhere. Hatred, pride, envy, jealousy, a lot of things. When I see my heart the way God sees it, this is the road to humility.

It's not yet humility. Do you see how deep humility is? How profound humility is? How awesome humility is? How difficult to be humble truly is? The way, the reason why the Lord Jesus as the human, the perfect man, the reason why he did everything according to God's will, because the human Jesus was humble. Humility is the key to success and power because when we humble ourselves before God, then God is ruling over our life.

Whatever we say we do, God is doing it in us, through us, with us, and by us. And when God does things through us, then we say to darkness, be light, and it will be. And we say to this dead person to be alive, and he will be or she will be.

Because when God speaks, things change. Things change, but they change to the better, not to the worse, to the better. Satan, if he has so many things, one thing definitely he does not have, humility.

Satan cannot be humble, and what burns Satan is humility. I can be the smartest person in the world, he will devour me before I blink my eyes, but I can be the illiterate of all illiterates of the world, yet humble, I will burn Satan. With all of his wisdom, with all of his knowledge, with my humility, and my illiteracy, I will burn Satan.

Because what overcomes Satan is humility. This is why he doesn't want you to be in the presence of the Lord, which is prayer. He doesn't want you to be attached to the earth, who is Christ, which is fasting.

He doesn't want you to inherit the earth, Christ Jesus, fasting. He doesn't want you to enter the presence of God, prayer. Because when you get to the ground, when you sit on the floor, what does that mean? Humility.

And when you enter in the presence of the Lord, the Spirit bows before the Creator. I'll definitely leave you with this, I'm so sorry, but I'm tempted to say this. You know, we read in the Holy Gospel, there was this paralytic man, who was carried in his bed, he was carried by four men, each holding one corner of that bed.

They carried him to bring him to the Lord Jesus. He was in this house, they came to the house, and they found out the house was packed with people, there was no room to enter the house. They didn't give up, they said, no, no, this man, we must bring him before the Lord, he needs to be healed by the Lord.

The house is packed, there is no room for us to enter, we're not going to give up. So they looked around, and then they looked up to the rooftop. They said, that's it, we found the solution.

They went up to the roof, they made an opening in that roof, and they lowered that man to where the Lord was sitting, the Lord was sitting on the ground. That paralytic man is humanity, all of us, Adam and his descendants. Every single human is that paralyzed man, because sin paralyzed us all, and there is no one human that says, I never sinned, neither with thought, nor with action.

Every human born of an earthly father and mother is a sinner. Every human, except Jesus, is the only one who has only earthly mother, no earthly father. Stunning.

Everyone is a sinner. Sin has paralyzed me, unable to move, unable to do anything, anything good. These four men who carried me to the Lord Jesus are the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, because Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are directing me, are leading me, are taking me to the Lord every time I read them.

So Matthew, Mark, Luke and John came and carried me and said, we've got a solution for you, paralyzed man. We're going to take you to the one who is the healer of all healers, and who the one who heals freely, will take you to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our Lord, our Master. When they took me to the Lord, He was in the house, the house was packed with people.

Who are those people who are in the presence of the Lord? Saints. Of course there will be no room for me because I'm a sinner. Sinners can't mix with saints, because sin is darkness, holiness is light.

Is there any connection between light and darkness? Never. It's either light or darkness. Since I am a sinner, I have no room in the midst of the saints.

I need to be cleansed from my sins. They didn't give up, they took me, they lifted my eyes to the rooftop. When you look at any house's roof, what do you see beyond the roof? Heaven.

The reason why I was always fallen into sin and being paralyzed, because my eyes were focused on the filthy and this cursed ground. The pleasures and the treasures of the world. I was focused on it, and the more I was focused, the more I remained paralyzed.

The Gospels came and said, change your way of thinking, lift your eyes to heaven for a change. Stop focusing on earth. The earth is cursed and it's going to burn at the end.

Lift up your eyes, stop being earthly, stop being physical, stop being materialistic, for a change, become spiritual, heavenly person. I lifted up my eyes to heaven, they said to me, it is where God dwells in the heaven of all heavens. The exalted, elevated, high God.

They took me to heaven and I searched heaven everywhere for God, and to my shocking surprise, the exalted, elevated, high God, I found him sitting on the ground, so humble. This, when I saw this high, exalted God, so humble, this broke me, this shamed me, this embarrassed me. I was unable to say anything but to go down and put my head at his feet and say, Jesus, Lord, Jesus Christ, son of David, have mercy on me, I the sinner.

The Lord looked and he said to him, get up and take your bed home. Before you came to me, the bed was carrying you. After you had an encounter with me, thanks to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, who wrote about me, now you are able by the grace of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, this time you carry the bed and take it home.

No more the bed carrying you, you carry the bed. When the sun sets you free, you better believe that you are free. Humility.

Humility, my beloved. Let's bow our heads. Let's ask the Lord to make us humble.

Truly, let's ask the Lord to allow us to live humility, not just talk about it. Lord, make me humble before you. Let me be in your holy presence.

Keep me there and allow me to remain there, Lord. For there is no other life but you. There is no other way but you.

There is no other truth but you. There is no other freedom but you, Lord. Amen.

Our good God and full of mercy, our good God and full of mercy, whose grace and mercy is poured upon all, pour my Lord the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance. Renew in them your Holy Spirit by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation. Purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace and instill the walks of their behavior in the paths of righteousness.

Please them along with the Saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith in the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries. Empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will to confess, worship and praise your Holy Name, the Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

The Lord Jesus, forgive us our sins and bless us, enable us to come and make us worthy to receive him in the true body and blood of Christ. Amen.