Jesus Said Come to Me and Drink

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. We thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for ever and ever and evermore and for eternities to come, for his infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite grace, infinite faithfulness and loyalty to the will of his heavenly Father, to God the Father, and for being Jesus Christ and no one else but himself. We are indebted to the Lord for being himself, for in this person everlasting life is only found and made possible, for in this person there is no salvation, no redemption, but in this person he is the way, the truth, and the life.

He is God revealed in the flesh, the creator of everyone and everything visible and invisible. Jesus Christ reigns forever. Jesus Christ rules forever.

Jesus Christ is God and King forever. Amen. Amen.

In today's liturgical service, our church fathers have chosen the reading of the gospel for today from the gospel according to Saint John, and they've taken one part from chapter seven and another part from chapter eight according to Saint John's gospel. In chapter seven verses 37 to 53, which is the end of the chapter, and from chapter eight verses 12 to 20 inclusive. So John 7, 37 to 53, and John chapter 8 verses 12 to 20.

To understand what the Lord is saying in today's gospel, we need to understand the structure of the gospel of according to Saint John in its entirety. When we come to the gospel according to Saint John, we will find that there are seven signs, and these seven signs, they are the seven sacraments of the true church of Christ. Sacrament is two words.

It is sacred, meaning holy, and it is secret, meaning invisible to the naked eye. Sacrament is sacred and secret. And sacrament example, holy baptism is one of the sacraments.

Priesthood rank, one of the sacrament. The body and the blood of Christ, one of the sacraments. The absolution, forgiveness of sins, and so on.

Now when we come to the gospel according to Saint John, there are seven signs, seven sacraments of the true church of Christ. Chapter one, chapter two, and chapter three of John talks about the sacrament of baptism. Baptism is two steps or two stages.

There is water and there is oil, holy oil, anointing oil. So there is water and there is holy oil. When we baptize the child or the baby or the adult, depending when they come to Christ, baptism is for all.

There is no age bracket, no age limit. The baby can be baptized and someone who comes today at the age of 100 will be baptized just like that baby, because it's to do with birth. And when it comes to birth, age understanding is irrelevant.

You don't need for that baby who is in his mother's womb to be educated in order to be born. Education has got nothing to do with being born. You just get born and after you're born you start learning.

So now chapter one, two, and three, holy baptism. Chapter four is the second stage of the holy baptism. So one, two, and three is water and then chapter four is the anointing.

Anointing is the anointing with the holy oil. The anointing with the holy oil is you are being confirmed, you are being reinstated in that path for you not to leave it anymore. And what happened in chapter four? The Lord Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well.

Well the well is water, the well is the baptismal font. The baptismal font and the Lord Jesus was there. And who was at the baptismal font in John chapter four? Christ.

And that's where the name comes for anointing because Christ in Hebrew Aramaic is the anointed one. Mashiho or Mashiha, the anointed one. So Christ meets the Samaritan woman at the well.

That is the second stage of baptism, to be anointed, to be confirmed in that way. See when a child, when a baby is born in a family, after they are born, the parents start teaching that baby on how to be living in a way that they belong to this family. There are certain ways, there are certain rules, there are certain behavioral patterns only permissible in this family.

That baby must be taught on how to live as part of the family and to live for the family. Now the way to live is the anointing. But to be born is water, but after birth how to live as a member of the family is the holy oil anointing.

So chapter one, two, and three is to be born. Chapter four, to be confirmed. Chapter six, I am the living bread that descended from heaven to all the females in the church.

And those who are watching us, you're my daughters. When that female gets married and then now she has a baby conceived in her womb, for as long as the baby is in the mother's womb, the mother has no food. The moment the baby is born, that's when she starts getting the food to feed the baby.

In other words, when the baby is born, that baby immediately is in need of food for the well-being, for the nourishment of that baby. Just like there is earthly parents, so as there is also heavenly spiritual parents. You see, this marriage is spiritual, but because it is invisible to the tangible realm, to the physical realm, God revealed that spiritual marriage through the physical marriage between a man and a woman.

The man represents Christ and the woman represents the church. So just like there is an earthly father, there is the heavenly father, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And just like there is an earthly mother, there is the spiritual mother called the church.

And just like the man and the woman, when they get together, they bring forth children, so as Christ, when he united his beloved bride, the church to himself gave birth to spiritual children, just like they are spiritual. Earthly parents give birth to earthly children. They are temporal, so as their children.

Their food is temporal, everything about them is temporal. But the spiritual parents give birth to spiritual children. And just like the woman has a womb, so as the church has a womb called the baptismal font.

She gives birth to that spiritual child through her spiritual womb called the baptismal font. And because they are spiritual, their children are spiritual, meaning they are eternal, so as their children. This birth is from above, given by God, the birth that never ends, nor ceases, nor dies.

So the Lord Jesus in John 1, 2, and 3 gave us baptism, water. In John chapter 4, anointing, how to live in this family. And this family now belongs to God.

The church is the family of God. You need, after you are born in this family, you need to know how this family functions in order for you to live accordingly. Now once the baby is born, needs food.

So as the spiritual baby, when they're born, immediately they need food. The spiritual food for the spiritual birth is the body and the blood of Christ. After baptism, I am the living bread.

You need the food. See when we baptize infants, babies, I give them the holy communion straight away. This is in the orthodox faith.

This is in the orthodox faith only. Yeah, so you don't get confused. You don't need to learn what you're receiving.

When the baby is born, do they learn before they drink that milk? They're hungry, they're crying. So when the baby is born through the spiritual mother, needs food straight away. That food is the body and the blood of Christ.

That's why the sacrament of the body and blood, and the sacrament of baptism go hand in hand. Because these are the very first two sacraments Christ gave at the same time while hanging on the cross. When he was pierced by that centurion spear, blood and water came out.

Blood for the body and the blood, and water for the baptism. So he gave us from his side, the very first two sacraments together, the body and the blood, and baptism. That's why it is preferable when we baptize, whether children or adults, we have to celebrate the holy mass.

Why? Because when they are born from the baptismal font, they need to be fed immediately. That's why the body and the blood mass must be done in order to do baptism. However, when there is no opportunity, or it's an emergency, and we must baptize that baby or that adult for whatever reason it is, and we're not able to celebrate the holy mass service, then we can do the baptism separately, because it's a sacrament.

Sacrament means it can stand on its own without relying on any other sacrament to back it up. It's a long story. Trust what I'm saying.

The beer didn't go white, just like that, everything is. Straight away after baptism, chapter six, I am the living bread. You need food, you're born, you're hungry, you're crying, I've given you my spiritual food, body and blood.

Today's gospel is seven and eight. Look at the church fathers, stunning, amazing, and look at the holy bible, how it is structured. Just, just the structure of the holy bible, the order, the chronological order of the holy bible, it proves beyond any reasonable doubt that God truly exists, because it is impossible for any human, or even angels, to put such a book together unless it is God himself.

It cannot exist in this perfection, and in this perfect order, if it's not God behind this book. Impossible. The more you dive deep, the more you realize there must be God.

The more you dive deep into the holy bible, the depths of it, you have to say there is God. There's no other way. Now chapter seven and eight, chapter seven today starts with verse 37, and it was the last day of the great feast.

Which feast was it? The feast of tabernacle. Now the reason why I gave you all this introduction, so you can understand what today's gospel is all about. I can't just jump into it.

So it was the last day of the great feast, and that great feast is the feast of tabernacle, because it tells us in the beginning of chapter seven. Now the feast of tabernacle, you need to understand the history behind it. The Israelite people, all their life they lived in black tents, but when the feast of tabernacle came, for the first time in the year, they pitched white tents outside of the city.

The seven days and seven nights, the feast would go on, but in the feast of tabernacle, they lived in a white tent, no longer black, white. That white tent, I'm cutting it very short, that white tent symbolizes Christ himself. The feast of tabernacle, Old Testament, is equivalent to the feast of transfiguration, New Testament.

What is transfiguration feast? The Lord Jesus in the New Testament, He takes three of His twelve disciples, Simon Peter, James and John, sons of Zebedee. He takes three of them, and He takes them to the top of Mount Tabor. Now Mount Tabor is in the north of Israel.

One day you go, you will find Mount Tabor there, and there is a church built by the Franciscans back in the 1800s, and it's called the Church of Transfiguration, because that's where the Lord transfigured. The Lord, when He took them up to the mountain, He changed. His clothes became whiter than snow.

His face shined brighter than the sun. Simon Peter said, it is amazing for us to be here and watch such a brilliant, brilliant vision, and then there was Moses and Elijah that came and spoke. So Simon said, we need to make three tabernacles, three tents, one for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

Then a cloud, a white cloud came and covered them all, and the voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son. Simon Peter, what are you talking about? This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. When the cloud went, the disciples saw Jesus only, meaning my son Jesus Christ is the tent that covers everyone who believes and follows Him.

He is the covering. Don't you dare cover my son, for my son covers you, and nobody covers him. He is the tent, and you need to go inside that tent and hide and be covered fully by Him.

Now why do I need to put on the Christ? Because I need the Holy Spirit. You see, God is triune, and if He's not triune, go home. You're not a Christian, period.

I don't care if you're a saint, you're not a Christian, and I will never listen to you. He's either triune, or there is no other God but the triune God. Don't let anyone deceive you, no matter what.

God the Father is love. God the Son is all sacrifice. God the Holy Spirit is the source of wisdom.

God the Father is love, and on the basis of love He created us. When we broke His word, the Son came to save us through what He's done on the cross, on Calvary. But now for God to dwell in us, we are not clean.

We've got a lot of errors in us. We are full of mistakes. We're full of sin.

We're full of wrongdoings, and for God to dwell in us in His Spirit, He needs to find a pure house like Him, a clean house like Him, a holy house like Him. The only house God found on the face of this earth is Christ, and that's why Saint Paul says in Galatians 3 27, he says, you who have been baptized into Christ, you have put on the Christ. Putting on, He is the tent that came and covered me from head to toe.

I am inside of Him. When I put on the temple of God, who is Christ, pure like Him, then and then only the Spirit of God can dwell in this house, because now the house is as clean and pure as God. So when I put on the Christ, and that was chapter 7, the last day of the great feast of Tabernacle.

If anyone, the Lord says, is thirsty, let him come and drink from Me. For whoever believes in Me, as the scripture said, rivers of living waters shall gush out of their heart. And the scripture continues and says, the Lord, when He said, living of living waters will come out of your heart, He was referring to the Holy Spirit.

So now when I put on the Christ through baptism, then the house is clean. The Spirit of God now can dwell in this clean house. When the Spirit of God dwells in here, chapter 8, verse 12, the Lord Jesus says, I am the light of the world.

When the Lord enters the temple in chapter 8, the following day, they bring to Him a woman who was caught in the very act. The very act means, she was pregnant out of wedlock. That's what it means in the very act.

She was pregnant out of wedlock. So and the law says, such a woman must be stoned to death. That law.

So they came to the Lord Jesus in the temple, brought the woman and placed that woman before Him and they said, what do you say Rabbi? Doesn't the law say she needs to be stoned to death? The Lord Jesus puts His head down and with His finger, He writes on the on the ground and He points to the oldest person in that group who was about to stone this woman and He says, to you, I'm just going to tell you what kind of sins you've committed just today. I'm not going to go back 80 years of your life because you will definitely bury yourself alive out of embarrassment. So I'm going to embarrass you.

You forced me. You left me no choice. I'm going to embarrass you just today from sunrise till now.

What kind of sins you've committed? And the Lord wrote it and said it in front of Him in His face and the next one and the next one. He told them all their sins just for that day. Everyone threw the stone being put to shame by the Lord and walked away not stoning the woman and then the Lord turns to the woman.

He says, where are those who were stoning you? Can you see them? She looks. She says, no Lord, I don't see them anymore. He says, neither do I see your sins.

Go in peace and sin no more. Chapter one, two and three, baptism, water. Chapter four, anointing of the holy oil.

Chapter six, the body and the blood. Seven and eight and nine, absolution, forgiveness of sin. The woman was brought.

The Lord says to her, I forgive your sins and then the Lord says, I am the light of the world. In chapter eight, when you go to Genesis chapter one, the days of creation and the very beginning was darkness and God said, let there be light and then light came and God separated the light from darkness. He called the light day and darkness night.

Please pay attention. He separated the light from darkness and he called the light day and darkness night. The Lord Jesus while hanging on the cross, while hanging on the cross said seven statements, seven statements, seven statements, seven days.

In Genesis one and two, God created everything in six days. Well, it was three days and then in the first three days he created everything and in the next three days he filled what he created. So let's say it's all six days but on the seventh day God rested.

So there is seven days in Genesis. The Lord on the cross said seven statements. Each statement goes hand in hand with each day of the days of creation.

Statement one goes hand in hand with day one. Statement two goes hand in hand with day two and so on and so on till the last day being Shabbat, Saturday where God rests. Day one, God created the light and separated the light from darkness.

What was the first statement the Lord Jesus said while on the cross hanging? Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. I don't know if you've paid attention to what what the Lord said and what I just reminded you what the Lord said.

Father forgive them for they do not know. Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge is the key word here that determines you either end up in the light or you end up in darkness. And what did the Lord Jesus say about the light? It is the life of mankind.

So if the light is the life of mankind then definitely darkness is the death of mankind. But you see father I'm asking you to forgive them because they do not know when God the Father forgave those who accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. What happened here? The forgiveness of the Father through his son to all of us took us out of darkness into the light.

If light is life then light is holiness and if darkness is death then darkness is sin for the wages of sin is death. Are you with me so far? When we come to John 1 who is Christ? The Logos incarnate. He is the Son of God who is God the Logos incarnate.

In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Now Jesus Christ or the Son of God is the word in Greek Logos. Logos in Greek means intellect in English.

It's not just any word. In other words the Son of God is the brain. And God was never in existence without a brain.

His existence and the brain and his life were together at the same time. All began together. Because if you are existent without a brain what's the use? And if you've got a brain and no existence what's the use? And if you've got existence and a brain and no life then what's the use? And a life without a brain what's the use? You become a vegetable.

So what is he the word? You know when when you write words together they become a sentence. Sentences together a paragraph. Paragraphs together a chapter.

Chapters what do you call it later on when you write something? What do you call it? Come on I want to hear it. Book. Thank you.

Jesus Christ is the word. This word is written in a book called the Holy Bible. When you read the Holy Bible you are reading the mind of God.

When you read a book what do you gain? Knowledge. Father forgive them because they do not know. The Lord Jesus is saying there is only one knowledge and one only that will take you to light and that is life.

And that knowledge is the knowledge of God. When you come to know God the true living God not any God. The true living God when you come to know him it is then and then only you are taken out of the darkness of the world and into the light of God.

The darkness of the world is death and the light of Christ is life. How do people gain death when they come to know the world? And how do people gain life when they come to know God in Christ Jesus? Are you with me? So now when you read the word of God the only one who can explain the word of God is God. What do I mean by this? The only one who can speak on your behalf is you.

Is there anyone that knows you more than you? No. Even if it's mom, even if it's dad, your wife, your husband, your brother, your sister. They can never fully know you because no matter how close they are to you there are certain things in the depth of your heart and in your mind and in your soul.

It is only you know and God who art in heaven. No one else knows you fully except God and you. And since they do not know you fully if anybody attempts to speak on your behalf they will misjudge you and misrepresent you.

Therefore the only one who qualifies to speak about you is you. Now when it comes to God there is only one true living God and there is no one but him. Then who qualifies to speak about this one unique being that is infinite no beginning no end? The only one who qualifies to speak about him is him.

That's why when the word came and became man and spoke that word is God. Therefore no matter how many times we hear it, no matter how many times we read it, no matter how many times we listen to it, we will never understand it because it is the word that came from God who is infinite and we are finite. We will never ever understand it or know it.

The only way we came to know the word when God dwelled in us and revealed what is hidden in this word. You see the Lord Jesus while he was on earth in the flesh said to his 12 apostles, it is not good for you for me to remain with you. Why? Because as long as I remain with you on earth I am Emmanuel, God with you.

But when I go I will dwell in you in my spirit then I'll become God in you not with you. And as long as I am with you you'll never know me. The only time you will know me when I dwell in you not be with you.

So the Holy Spirit had to dwell which is God. The Holy Spirit is God but he had to dwell in us but the spirit cannot dwell in a dirty house. That's why we had to put on the temple of God who is Christ and the only way to put on the temple of God is through the sacrament of holy baptism.

So when the Holy Spirit dwelled in me rivers of living waters will gush from the heart. Of course because what are the rivers of living waters? His word. When is his word becomes rivers of living waters? When I and you get to know the word.

Not just read it but when I fathom it, when I understand it and that was only made possible through the Holy Spirit. Why some people ended up being serial killers, drug dealers, thieves, murderers, whatever. I don't know.

Why? Because they gained knowledge. You see what you come to know is what you come to become. What you know is what you will do because you cannot do anything but what you know.

So if you gained knowledge and you came to this understanding then that's what you're going to become. If you chase the world you are gaining the knowledge of the snake, the old serpent, Satan. Worldly music, Satan.

So many people started in the church as choir members. Far from this choir members. I love them.

So many people started in the church singing for the Lord. They ended up singing for Satan. And where and how did they end up? Very ugly.

Yet they were celebrities. They were so famous. People idolized them.

What's he crazy? I know a good, I got it. What is this? Sick. Sick.

Evil. You see this knowledge led billions of people to perdition. Absolute emptiness.

Absolute worldly knowledge that will lead you to darkness. But when you come to know God and understand what he wants from you, you will always walk in the light and the light is your life. But one last thing.

When you come to know a person, it will lead you to one place only. Love. So many people are married now.

I feel good for you. I wish you all the best. Thank you very much.

So many people are married now. I ask my son, my daughter, how did he end up marrying this person? They'll say, well, I came to know them first. And as we started talking, we came to know each other more and more and more.

And the more I came to know the person, I fell in love with this person. So when I loved him, I decided to give my life to him. And that's why I accepted to marry this person.

So what happened? First encounter. I never knew this person prior. I never knew them.

Therefore, I can never claim that I loved them prior to knowing them. You see, what leads to love is knowledge. Without knowledge, there is no love.

Because you cannot love someone you do not know. You can only love the one who you came to know. That is why the Son of God is the Word.

And the Word in its nature must be known. There is no other way about it. What do you do with the Word? You come to know it.

You study it. You read it in order to know it. Why? Because once you know it, it will lead you to love.

It will lead you to love. And the moment leads you to love, love will give you life. That life is the light of the world.

The Lord Jesus says, I am the light of the world. What did the light of the world do? Took us out of darkness. Because what does the light do? Decimate darkness.

When the sun rises, there is no darkness anymore. So what decimated the false knowledge? The true knowledge. I am the truth, says the Lord.

So when he came to know the Word, the Logos, immediately that knowledge or knowing the Word led you to love. That love immediately gave you life. You know, this is very theological, yeah? So I'm going to try to switch it a little bit because I could see you guys all thinking very hard.

Let me put it this way. Prior to meeting your Rosella, let me speak our language now. Prior to meeting your Rosella, you were single, sitting at home with mom and dad, and sick and tired of this life.

And you know, mom says, come on, son. Oh, please leave me alone, mom. Come on, son, let's go.

Oh, please leave me alone, dad. I don't feel like going out. I don't feel like doing anything.

What's wrong? Nothing. Just leave me alone, please. Get out of my room.

Shut the door, please, on your head. And don't come here again until I text you. And then this young man finds his Rosella.

One day he was out with his mates. Well done, guys. Me mates, mate.

So he was out with his mates and his eyes fell on this gazelle and something happened. The day he fell in love, I'm talking about love, the day he fell in love, he never stopped smiling, rejoicing. The day we fall out of love, it is hell.

But the day we are in love, it is heaven. Hell is death. Heaven is life.

Hell is darkness. Heaven is light. Hell is loveless.

Heaven is all love. Now, Christ's role was to get us to love. Now, who is love? The Father.

God the Father is love. Because John 3 16 says, and so God loved the whole world. So who loves the whole world? God.

And who loves his own? The groom. The groom loves the church. And God loves the world.

But guess what? The groom is God himself. So he loves the world, but he also loves his own church. So God as the groom loves the church.

God as God loves the entire world. And that's why Christ came for the whole world. He didn't come just for one particular nation.

So don't ever be proud that you are the chosen people of God. Everybody's chosen. There's nothing special about you, my dear friend.

The whole world is chosen. God loves everyone. So relax.

So the Son came to lead us to the Father. And he said it. He said it.

No one comes to the Father but me. Through me. He said it to them.

He who sees me, sees the Father. No one gets to the Father except through me. Why? Except through him.

Because he is the Word. And what does the Word give you? Knowledge. And without knowledge, there is no love.

Without love, there is no Father. There is no God. There is no life.

Forget it. So Christ is the knowledge that takes you out of darkness into light. This is called the forgiveness of sins.

Absolution. Now I'm gonna give you this explosion and then I go. Read in John chapter 20 verse 23.

If my memory serves me right, I'm getting old. Please forgive me. But read in John 20 23.

This is the Lord after his resurrection. After his resurrection. Please pay attention.

The Lord calls his 11 apostles because Judas Iscariot already hanged himself. And Matthias had not been chosen as yet in this particular moment. So the Lord calls his 11 apostles.

He takes them with him to the Mount of Olives and from the top of that mountain, he ascends into heaven. But prior, prior to his ascension, John 20 23 says, and he blew into them and he says, he breathed into them and he said, receive the Holy Spirit. If you tie people's sins, they will be tied in heaven.

And if you loosen their sins, they will be loosened in heaven. The Lord gave the authority of forgiving sins and tying sins to the priesthood rank, which he is the high priest. When you read in Hebrews chapter eight and so many other places, Christ is the high priest.

He chose certain people to be priests and he gave the authority to the priesthood rank to forgive sins and to tie sins. And when somebody says, I don't need a priest, I can go straight to Jesus to be forgiven. According to Jesus Christ himself, it is not biblical, my dear friend.

Jesus never said, come to me directly and ignore my apostles, ignore my priest. And who are the apostles? Priests. All of them were priests.

I ask someone who is a Christian but has no rank, laity, no rank. He's a believer in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior and everything and he's full of the Holy Spirit.

I'll ask him, can you say in Jesus mighty name, your sins are forgiven? He'll say, no. How come I can? And you cannot. Because you see, you don't have the priesthood rank.

Saint Paul says, nobody can ever say to God, Father, except through the Holy Spirit. Any human being that does not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them, they will never ever say to God, Father. They'll say, this is a blasphemy.

I was going to use another word. That's a blasphemy. Why? Because they don't have the Holy Spirit in them.

And if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you can never say to God, Daddy. How come we are also human like everyone else? Nothing special about us. How come we can say it so easily and with a huge smile, Dad, Dad, Dad, I love you.

Dad, please, I need you. Dad, Dad. Why? Because the Lord said it to Saint Paul, unless the Holy Spirit is dwelling in you, you can never say to God, Daddy.

That's why we're able to say to God, Daddy, because the Holy Spirit is in us. It is not in those who rejected Christ. That's why they can never say it.

It's not our doing, it's God's doing. Same thing, if you don't have the priesthood rank, you can't say your sins are forgiven. Because you don't have the priesthood, nor everybody's a priest in the specified sense.

And by the way, priesthood rank is one of the seven sacraments. The priesthood rank fulfills all the other sacraments. Without the priesthood, there is no baptism.

Without the priesthood, there is no body and blood. Without the priesthood, there is no absolution, forgiveness of sins, because the Lord gave it to the priests, the apostles, and said, you tie those, you hold on to those sins of people, I'll hold on to them in heaven. I won't forgive them.

Well, how come you are the authority, you are the sovereign authority Lord? What do you mean if Simon Peter says to someone, I don't forgive you, you're not going to forgive me? He says, yes. If Simon Peter does it in through me, by me, based on my word, whatever he says, I'm saying, because I passed my authority to my apostles. What they tie on earth will be tied in heaven, and what they loosen on earth will be loosened in heaven.

The way I was on earth, the way they will be like me, if they follow me the way I followed my father. So you need a priest, you need to go to a priest and say, Father, please, I've got problems, and I need your prayers. Chapter one, two, and three, and four, holy baptism, water and holy oil anointing.

Chapter six, the body and the blood, because once the baby is born, needs food. And then seven and eight, and nine, is forgiveness of sin. Why? Because when you go to chapter nine, the Lord Jesus makes out of mud, brand new eyes for the blind who was born blind.

Ah, so the one who was born blind, it's got to do with knowledge, because the eye, biblically speaking, represents knowledge. So there is one knowledge that leads you to blindness, and there is another knowledge that leads you to seeing. The knowledge that leads you to blindness, when you do it your way, not God's way.

And the knowledge that leads you to absolutely clarity, vision, and absolutely brightness and light, is when you do it God's way, not your way. When you're born blind, means humanity decided to live their way, not God's. All of them became blind, but the moment they came back, and got to know the logos, their eyes were open.

And once your eyes are open, you will see the light, no more darkness. My son, my daughter, don't ever imitate the world, don't ever chase the world, don't ever live for the world, don't ever fall for the trap of the world, because behind this world is Satan. You need to come back to the truth, to Christ, be close to the Lord, be close to his holy church, be close to the sacraments, foundational, foundational.

Sacraments are like medication given by the doctor. I can take all the x-rays in the world, and I can hug them, and put them under my pillow, and sleep on them. The x-rays will never heal me, until I take those x-rays back to the doctor, so that he can prescribe the right medication for the healing of my problem, my illness.

That doctor is Christ, and he's got seven medications called the seven sacraments, which are the seven signs, which are the gospel according to Saint John. I was born with earthly parents, going to the grave. Christ gave me heavenly birth from above, to take me to eternal life, no more death.

I was living in sin. The Lord Jesus gave me his body and blood to forgive me. I was living in darkness, because I gained the wrong knowledge.

He came and gave me his knowledge, which is the truth, to take me from sin, out of sin, into the light. That is called the forgiveness of sin. And then the gospel continues, till the last sacrament.

Just the way the holy bible is structured, only God can do this. There is no one that's smart, neither in angels, nor in humanity, that can come up with such a book. It is something beyond any measures.

Christ is incredible, six foot one, and for those who say Jesus was a good rabbi, or a good prophet, I say to them with love and respect, Jesus Christ is God. He is way beyond a rabbi, even though he was a rabbi on earth, but don't stop there, because you're speaking now in an ignorant way, and if you say he's just a prophet, you are not speaking the truth. But Jesus Christ is God, God revealed in the flesh.

And there is no one on the face of this planet, no one in existence, stronger than Jesus Christ. But the problem is, because you gained the wrong knowledge, you misunderstood him. Instead of embracing him, you crucified him.

Just because you misunderstood him, that's your problem, it is not the Lord's, it is your problem. So when you talk, the Lord has a witness to answer you back. No man on earth, no elites, no superpowers can get anywhere near the power of Christ.

If he wants to wipe everyone, he'll wipe them before you blink your eyes, my dear friend. But Christ came to give us life, not to kill us. But a time will come, where he'll come back, no more the lamb, no more the merciful God, but he will come that just judging God.

He will come as the roaring lion, that is a prophecy, my dear friend, read it. There is a prophecy that he is also the roaring lion, but he came the first time as the lamb of God, who carries away the sins of the world. That's why you saw him thinking that he was weak.

No, because love can be the ultimate weakness when you love someone. I feel sorry for those who love, because they get ruined. Prior to loving, you were so handsome, your hair was beautiful.

After loving, you lost all your hair, you had wrinkles on your face, you look, you look, you know, like a street beggar. Before you were in a suit, now you're in pajamas, because love kills, love kills. But love is at the same time, the ultimate power, the weakest and the strongest, the weakest when I love you, but the strongest, because out of the grave, I brought life, and out of darkness, I brought light, and out of death, I brought, and out of the out of the death, I gave resurrection and eternal life.

It is the love that does the impossible. So the first coming of the Messiah, if you think he was weak, because he came with mercy, but the next time when he comes again, he will come with fire devouring before him. He will come as the judge, and then let me see if you can say he is weak.

The whole world will flee like a little mouse before the second coming of the Messiah. John the Beloved said, when I saw him in heaven, I fell on the ground as if I were dead. Oh John, on earth, when he, when the Lord was on earth, you need to put, you used to put your head on his chest and and hear his heartbeats.

What happened? You embraced him, you hugged him, you you slept on his chest, now you fell on the ground as if you were dead. Yeah, he said because I've never seen him in his glory. On earth, I saw him like a human being, like me.

I was able to approach him easily, but now the real Christ I see, I can't withstand his awesomeness. I cannot. So I'll speak with respect to you, my dear friend, because Jesus at the end, in humanity was a Jew, but don't cross the line.

He's not just a rabbi, he's not just a prophet, he's God. We need to love the Lord. We need to be close to him.

If the world embraced the Lord today, I can assure the whole world, there will be no more fighting, no more killing, no more. If Christians truly embrace the Lord, there would be no more division, no more going against each other. Just because I'm a Christian, that doesn't make me a true follower of Christ.

I'm a Christian by name, but not by deed. Christ wants people to live for him, not just to talk about him. He wants us to live, live for him.

That's the whole difference, because when you know the person, you'll love him, and when you love him, you will live with him. And not only with him, you will live for him. A successful marriage is when both parties live for one another, not with one another.

If we live with one another as husband and wife, we will fight every day, but if we live for one another, we will never fight, we will never argue, because I live for you, you live for me. Everything is heaven, is heaven. But when I live with you, I can live with you for me, not for you.

Then it's World War III. The world, when it finds the true Messiah, the true Christ, they will come to the light. No more evil.

Satan will be put to shame forever. Poor Satan will be, will be homeless, and there's no center link, so he will be homeless. But the world gave a position for Satan.

Sad, sad. Yet Satan gives nothing but poison. He's a snake.

And the world is loving the snake. Come to the antidote, and take the blood of the Lamb of God, to stop that snake from poisoning you. Let's bow our heads.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, 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, and 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.

May the Lord Jesus forgive us, bless us, guide us, protect us, and bring us close to him. Love the Lord, be close to his word, read the Holy Bible, be close to the church. I beg you, I beseech you, my beloveds.

There is no other way but him. God bless you. May the Lord Jesus be with you always, my beloveds, and I thank the Lord for all of you.

God bless you.