Mar Mari Emmanuel teaches that true peace comes from surrendering our will to God's will, following Christ's example, and guarding our conscience through faith rather than feelings.
In this powerful teaching, Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the vital role of the human will in the Christian walk, emphasizing the need to surrender our will to God's will to experience true peace. Drawing from Scripture and practical insight, he explains how the soul's components interact and how faith must govern our lives over fleeting emotions. He warns against the spiritual dangers of modern technology and calls believers to cleanse their inner being through the Word of God. This sermon challenges listeners to follow Christ's example and let the peace of Christ rule in their hearts.
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100 million miles a second, so you don't need to wait for the screen to change, instantaneously you press the button, bang, works, functions. When you're with the Lord, you're on the go. When you're away from the Lord, you're slow.
In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our beloved fathers, deacons, nuns, and our beloved congregation, those who are present in this holy church and those who are watching us through live streaming, we thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ forever and evermore for allowing us to be in his holy presence, in his holy church. We need to understand one thing, that everything good comes from the good God.
And wherever we are and whenever we come to the church, remember the Lord is still allowing it. Everything that happens, happens for a reason. Every time you're able to come to church, remember the Lord still loves you.
Every time you're able to make it to his holy house, remember the Lord is allowing it to happen. He is permitting it. So what do we need to do? We need to thank him because we are indebted to him always.
We are indebted to him always, my beloveds. In the gospel of today, from the gospel of St. Matthew chapter 7 verses 15 to 27 or 28, depending on the translation, Matthew 7, 15 to 27, the Lord Jesus said some wonderful and very, very deep things that we need to learn from and ask him through his grace to be able to live him and have him in our hearts and in the core of our soul. When the Lord Jesus said, it is not he who says, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is he who does the will of my father.
Many will come in the end and they will say, Lord, in your name we prophesied, in your name we did wonders, in your name we healed and in your name we preached. But I will say to them, I don't know who you are or evildoers, away with you. For you have, we have invoked my name with words only, but your will was not given to my father.
You did not do the will of my father, but you only said, Lord, Lord. But words alone are not enough. They are good, but they are not good enough unless they are followed with actions.
Words alone are not enough unless they are followed with actions, my beloveds. It is not who says, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is he who does the will of my father, the will of my father. When the disciples came and asked the Lord Jesus to teach them a prayer, how to pray, the Lord said, every time you pray, you say, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Your will be done. He said, every time you pray, ask your heavenly daddy for his will to be done in your life as it is done in the angelic orders, which is heaven. Now why that the father's will must be done? Because we have our own will that is used freely outside the will of God.
And this is what John Calvin missed out on. Calvinism claims that everything is predetermined, predestined, no such thing. This is non-biblical at all.
So we're asking for the father's will to be done in our life. Why? Because God gave us our own wills, our human wills. It is one of the most powerful tools ever to exist in our life.
We have a will that we can even stop God from entering our life. It is that powerful, it is scary. We have a will, we can even stop God from entering and interfering with our life.
The human being, according to St. Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5.23 It says that the human being is made out of body, soul, and spirit. We're made out of body, soul, and spirit. You know when you go to sleep, you see dreams, you see visions, you see people that you haven't seen for ages.
You see even people who have departed from this world. How are you able to see them unless you had a spirit in you? The body alone is dead without the spirit. So every time you see a dream, this is the work of the spirit.
But in the will, in the soul, S-O-U-L of the human being, the soul is made out of five components. There is the conscience mind, there is the subconscious mind, there is the will, there is the thought, and there is the feelings and emotions. Feelings and emotions.
The human soul consists of five things. Conscience, subconscious, will, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. That is in the soul.
So when you have a feeling, when you have an emotion, when your heart moves towards someone, remember this is your soul. It is not the work of the spirit, it is not the work of the body. It is the soul.
But in the soul, there is also the will. The conscience mind is your rational mind that you use on a day-to-day basis. You need this rational mind to navigate through your life's journey on earth.
What shall I do tomorrow? What do I need to do today? What do I need to do for the future? How can I treat my wife in a way that she can be nice to me for the rest of my life? This is your rational mind. It is the alert mind, the conscience. The subconscious is the sleepy one.
The subconscious is your hard drive. The conscience is the soft way. What you see on the screen, what you read, what you type, this is your conscience.
The subconscious is the hard drive where you store everything in it. So what goes into the subconscious? Everything I've learned, everything I've seen, heard, done throughout my life's journey till this very moment. Everything is stored in the hard drive, the subconscious.
Now why am I saying all this introduction? Because I want to get to the will. It is not he who says, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is he who does the will of my father. So the subconscious is your hard drive, your storage.
Your storage room. Thoughts and feelings and emotions. You cannot follow the Lord Jesus with feelings and emotions.
You need to follow the Lord Jesus with faith, not feelings and emotions. Because feelings and emotions are seasonal. One day it is summer, another day it is winter, the next spring, the next autumn.
Which one is it going to be to be with Christ? When you are hot like summer, you love the Lord. What if the next day you turn into winter, cold, miserable, feeling nothing, sensing nothing, hearing nothing from the Lord? Are you going to still continue or walk away from him? Feelings and emotions get you nowhere. You will lose track of your Messiah.
You walk with faith, not feelings or emotions. The thought, there is something in this realm that cannot be killed. There is something in this realm that cannot be killed.
It is called the idea. Idea cannot be killed. You cannot fight an idea.
You cannot kill an idea. But you can only do one thing to it. You can swap it with another idea.
This is the only way to get rid of the original idea. Replace it with another one. When the idea matures and ripens, turns into a thought.
When the thought matures and ripens, turns into a word. When the word matures and ripens, turns into an ideology. When the ideology matures and ripens, turns into a philosophy.
When philosophy matures and ripens, turns into a way of living. How am I behaving now? How am I acting now? How do I talk? How do I walk? It all began with an idea. The chair you are sitting on, it was an idea in someone's head.
That idea was turned into a thought, a word, action, put into place. The chair came to existence. The soul consists of five things.
Conscience, subconscience, conscience software, subconscience hard drive, storage room. The will, thought, and feelings and emotions. The gateway to the conscience is the will.
The gateway to the conscience is the will. I'm trying to make it simple, as simple as possible. But please bear with me.
The gateway to the conscience is the will. We have control over the conscience. We do not have control over the subconscience.
Every time. Now, this is going to be very interesting. Every time, every time you sit on YouTube and watch something, on Facebook and listen to something, watch a movie on all these satellite dishes with 2000 channels, we don't even have the time in a day to flick through every single channel to find out what is it all about.
Every time you expose yourself to technology, you are allowing it to come and shape and form your subconscience mind. TV screens, mobile screens, whichever screen it is, it works as a hypnotic thing to the subconscience mind. It is a process of hypnosis.
There is waves that come out of these technologies that override the conscience and goes directly into the subconscience mind. When it goes into the subconscience mind, because it is the sleepy one, you do not have control over it. Why? Because you do not feel it, you do not see it.
It is not there, it is asleep. All you can relate to is your rational conscience mind. So when you sit for hours on end watching TV, YouTube, whatever channel it is, you, your subconscience is being hypnotized.
Hollywood, Illuminati, why do you think they infiltrated the entertainment sector? Because entertainment is one of the most powerful tools to hypnotize the human subconscience. They are evil, evil to the core. Evil, evil my beloved.
So what do we do? The Lord said, it is not he who says Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is he who does the will of my father. Will. The will is the guard that safeguards the conscience mind.
The rational, the awake, the soft way. It is like a security guard. If anybody worked as a security guard, well the security guard of the software, the rational, the conscience is the will.
Now the will is in the soul. Let us make it more simplistic. Let us assume for a moment, the soul is a beautiful girl, she is still single.
Now there are two guys that are coming to ask for her hand. One guy, his name is the spirit, and the other guy, his name is the body. She can't be for both.
She can only choose one or the other. Both at the same time, it doesn't work brother. When the will is weak, when the will is weak, the soul will accept the body as her partner in crime.
But when the will is strong, the soul will choose the spirit as her partner in life. That's why the Lord Jesus, when he taught us the Lord's Prayer, he focused on the will. He says, my children, your will is weak.
Why is it weak? Because something happened a long time ago, and that thing that happened a long time ago, allowed a bug to come in, into the hard drive. A virus. This virus called sin.
We broke God's commandment. We broke God's word. By breaking God's word, this virus entered our hard drive, and crashed the entire software, and the whole computer with it.
We're starting talking mumbo-jumbo. They all have bugs in their hard drives. Unfortunately.
We need to send a technician. This technician, his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Put a firewall protection.
Clean the entire hard drive, from its roots. And put a new hard drive, with a hundred million miles a second. So you don't need to wait for the screen to change.
Instantaneously, you press the button. Bang! Works. Functions.
When you're with the Lord, you're on the go. When you're away from the Lord, you're slow. That's why the Lord says, give me your will, and let my will be done in you.
My Father's will, let it be done in you. See, the Lord Jesus, as the human Jesus, the perfect man, the son of man, not the son of God. Son of God is God.
But the son of man, he was like us, except with one thing. He was not born of the original sin. He had no original sin in him, that's why he's perfect.
But as a human being, he was made out of body, soul, and spirit. He had a human spirit, he had a human conscience, human subconscious, human conscience, human will, human thought, human feelings and emotions, exactly like us. No difference.
Every time the Lord got tempted, he was put to the test, to test his will as a human. Whether he's going to give it to his father, or give it to himself, and do things his way, not his daddy. In every single moment, Jesus succeeded by giving his will freely.
He chose to give his will to his heavenly father. He chose willingly, that my will, I will give to my dad, so that my dad's will is done in me, as it is done in his angels, who are in heaven. And this was the secret, of the power of Christ, giving his will to his heavenly father.
When somebody calls you, and says, let's go out, when somebody says to you, let's watch this, when somebody says to you, you are free, you can do whatever you want, you're a beautiful girl, you are a young girl, in this country, freedom, not... Did you get that one? You are in this country, you can do whatever you want, you have the right to do whatever, except vaccination, it's imposed on you. Whatever you want to do, you can. So, do as you please.
What are you waiting on? What are you waiting for? You want to go out, go. You want to dress up in whichever way you want to, do it. Talk, whichever way.
You are free. You are free. You have the right, and you have the will, to choose for yourself, don't listen to no one, including God.
So many people do it. So many people do it. That's why the world, is in a humongous mess.
It will only take God to fix it, by the way. Seeking freedom your way, fighting for your freedom your way, will get you nowhere. You are wasting your breath, you are wasting your time.
Satan is much more powerful than you. You need to seek freedom, Christ's way, not your way. Because that freedom, that was done your way, it was that very freedom, that got you into this mess.
The reason why we are in a mess, because we seek our own freedoms, from day one. That's why we are living in filth. If we had seek the freedom of God, we wouldn't have been in this turmoil now.
No Scott Morrison, no leader on the face of this planet, could have done anything, unless Christ allowed them to do it. I feel sorry for people, honestly. How lost we are.
We want freedom. The moment you have your freedom, you go back to your old self, and the streets. Do you think God is going to allow it again, to have your freedom? No, sorry.
That day is gone. The Lord will not allow people, to have freedom their way anymore. This is from the Lord, not secret societies.
Look, people are just a piece of dust. God is the creator of everything. Do you think people can do, whatever they want, unless God permits it? My goodness.
But as Christians, you're supposed to be in the light, not in the darkness. You're supposed to give your will, to your heavenly father, like Jesus did. You came to church, because you chose to come.
Nobody forced you. You came to church, because you chose to. What made you choose? It was the will.
You willed it to come today. You said, I'm going to go, and see, is Marmari going to speak, less than what he normally speaks? Or is he just going to go, with no ending, to his speech? The subconscious, gets exposed to wrong things, begins to influence the will. The subconscious, gets exposed to wrong things, begins to influence the will.
Whatever you expose yourself to, eventually you will do. Whatever you listen to, you will repeat. Whatever you see, you will implement in your life.
You mix with the wrong crowd, you will do the wrong things, eventually. You expose yourself to foul language, one day you will be the master of foul language. You expose yourself to clubs, and dark alleys, one day you'll turn up like them.
Whatever you expose yourself to, your subconscious is being shaped, formed. And then the subconscious, will tell the conscience what to do, and you have no control over it, unfortunately. You have no control over it.
So what do we need to do? We need, to clean the hard drive. We need, to take all the viruses and the bugs, from this hard drive. And the only way, to clean this hard drive, is the word of God, the Holy Bible.
It's the word of God. By the way, are you cold? Is the aircon cold? No? Good. It is the word of God.
The choir when they sing, you try it, you praise the Lord, it's a different feeling. It makes you fly high, when you really focus on what you're saying. Because these lyrics, these words, that are praising the almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth, it purifies, cleanses your hard drive.
Because, imagination, imagination, gives you, that, infinite, spectrum, that, gives you that boundless, territory, where you go, and start flying high, and you swim in this endless ocean, of heavenly and divine treasures. When you invoke Jesus, when you speak of Jesus, when you are with the Lord, when you are thinking of the Lord, when you are speaking of the Lord, when you are singing about the Lord, when you are walking in the Lord's path, this will give you, a clean and clear picture, and purifies the subconscious. When the subconscious is cleansed, the will becomes of God's.
Becomes of God's. My beloved, ask the Lord, for His will, to be done in your life, not your own will. Lord, I've done it my way for so long, what have I achieved? I've done it my way all these many years, where did I end up being? I ended up being in the pig's field, in the far off country, away from my Heavenly Father.
Give your will to God, and let God's will be done in you. Give your will to God, and let God's will be done in you. Husband and wife, you want to live happy together, let God's will be done, not yours.
Let God's will be done, not yours. Family, you want to stay together, let God's will be done, not yours. Church, you want to remain strong, let God's will be done, not yours.
Let God's will. And what does God want? What is His will? He said, my will is, for you to remain my son forever. That's all I want.
I want you to be my child. I want you to be my child. I'll leave you with this.
The 21st century, is the most stubborn century ever to exist. Until now, all the centuries that have gone by, none are like the 21st century, being so stubborn. We surpass every other century, that has gone by.
It's unbelievable, this me, me, me, me, me, me, me. It's unbelievable, it's so powerful, in this time and age. Everyone wants their way.
My way, me, I don't care, whatever. Go and tell it someone else. I'm right, you're wrong, and until you come and say sorry to me, I will never forgive you, yet I'm your wife, and I'm your husband, I'm your dad, and I'm your mom, I'm your brother, I'm your sister, I'm your church father.
You have to come and ask for forgiveness, otherwise I will never forgive you. Relax. We need to relax.
We need to take it easy. Husband and wives, No one is perfect except Jesus of Nazareth. All glory to his holy name.
The husband will say something wrong. It's not the end of the world. The wife will say something wrong.
It is not the end of the world. Where is the will of God in your life? Is it about you? No, it's about God in this family. Because God is the founder and the establisher of this family.
Without God, there wouldn't have been a family. The family belongs to him, not to you. And the 21st century is the most powerful century that is working frantically to destroy family.
Destroy family. Purify that thought. Purify your subconscious.
Purify your conscience. And purify your feelings and emotions by exposing yourself to the word of God. Read the holy bible every day.
Come to church on Sundays like you do. Receive the holy communion. Come to bible preachings.
Do some good deeds in your life. In Jesus mighty name, do good deeds. All these things put together.
Plus, find friends that will take you to Christ, not to the club. Find friends that will take you to the Lord Jesus, not to Satan. Please, I beg you, we need to redefine what friendship is all about.
A friend is a person that builds you up, not destroys you. A friend is the one that takes you where the light is, not darkness. A friend is the one that shows you the way to the Lord Jesus, not to Satan.
Lord, I give you my will, let your will be done in me. I'm weak, I can't do it. I get so easily deceived.
I trip, I fall, I slide away. But Lord, please, I beg of you, I'm giving you my will. Let it be your will from this moment onwards, my Lord.
Take away my stubbornness. Take away my way. Take it all.
Take me away. Replace me with you. From now on, it is you, Lord, who is me.
I'll have to leave you with this. It's so beautiful when you deal with someone so easygoing. Oh, it's heaven on earth.
You say to someone, come here. No problem. Don't talk.
No problem. Go over there. No worries.
Wow. You come to someone, don't talk. Go to church.
No. Be quiet. Why are we stubborn? What are we trying to prove? That I'm right? Think about it.
Why are we so stubborn? To prove what? That I'm Mr. Perfect? Give your will to the Lord Jesus. Give your will to the Lord Jesus. Let him work freely in you.
Let him work freely in you. Stop this. The husband is coming back from work.
He has no idea what's awaiting for him at home. Honey, I'm home. She's been thinking about it.
From last night till the following evening, what will I do to him the moment he walks through the front door? I'll shred him to pieces. And the brain is going hundred zillion miles an hour. He walks in.
She grabs him. Hello, Habibi. Come and sit here.
You said this. You did this. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you.
You have all the energy to do this. And you don't have an energy to say, I love you? Why? Why is it so hard to say something nice, yet so easy to say a million nasty things? Why is it so hard to heal a wound, yet it is so easy to cut open a fresh wound? Why is it so hard to grab the hand of the fallen person, yet so easy to make people fall and hurt themselves? Why? Because it's about me. It's about me.
Say, Lord, I'm your donkey. This is who I am. It's funny, but it's not.
This is the truth. Do you know what the donkey resembles? The cross, my beloved. Some people think that donkey is an idiot.
Out of the animals, he's the most stupid. No, the donkey is extremely smart. By the way, if you give an alternate for people to choose between a horse and a donkey, they will choose the horse anytime.
But guess what? When the Lord Jesus, God himself, when he came to enter Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, what we call Palm Sunday, he sat on a mule, on a donkey. It was a mule, to be more precise. But it's that kind of a family.
The mule comes from a female donkey and a male horse. The mule comes from a female donkey and a mule horse. That's why the mule has no gender.
The mule is neither male nor female. That's why the mule do not breed, cannot breed. But when the Lord sat on that mule, he says, when the horse walks, the head is held up high.
You watch the horse when it moves. The moment the horse moves, the head is stuck to the sky. But the donkey cannot walk unless the head goes to the ground.
Then the donkey will walk. Who is smart? Donkey, not the horse. The horse is a show of self-exaltation, false glory.
What are you, you know, praising yourself for? You're nothing. Humble yourself and be like a donkey. Unless the head is tilted to the ground, the donkey does not walk.
Now this is wisdom. Now this is wisdom. So Lord, I'm your donkey.
When I walk, I want my head to go to the ground. I want to walk and my head down to the earth. I don't want to take no glory because all glory belongs to you.
Nothing is of mine, nothing. Give your will to the Lord Jesus and let his will be done in you as it is done in his angels, my beloved. So I ask you to ask the Lord so that he strengthens your will and none of you goes nowhere tonight except home.
No clubs, no pubs. I will kill you. My name is Ahmed.
I will kill you. Don't go nowhere where Jesus disapproves of. Do not, my beloved.
Do not. Come to Christ. Let's bow our heads and seek the Lord's mercy.
Seek the Lord's forgiveness. While we are reciting these words of absolution, in your hearts, repent whatever sins you've done. Repent them.
Ask the Lord to forgive you on whatever sins you may have. 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 and 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. May the Lord Jesus bless you.
May the Lord Jesus guide you and protect you. May the Lord Jesus be with you always, my beloved. I am so proud of you that you are making it to church on Sunday.
I'm so proud of you when you are making it to church on Fridays. And I'm so proud of you for those who are in the Bible course to make it on Tuesdays fortnightly. This will go an extremely long way for you, my beloved.
This will go extremely a long way for you, my beloved. It will go a very long way. Believe me, believe me.
One day, I don't want to keep you, I want to keep you, but I don't want to keep you. But I want to keep you for as long as I can. I know you're tired and I'm extremely happy.
One day, you'll make it to the Lord's kingdom. And He'll say to you, my child, do you know why you are here? You'll say, yeah, Lord, it's your grace. It's your blood that brought me here.
He will say, yes, very true. But also, you know why you are here. Because you came to my house on this day.
You gave me your time. You spent that hour with me, not with no one else. This I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, never forget.
You do, I never forget. I remember this day. When this pain in the neck bishop keeps on talking.
I remember this day you were in my house. I remember. And I said to the angel, recorded.
Recorded. Recorded. In his book and in her book.
Recorded. Because of this moment, I delivered you from so many troubles. I delivered you from so many traps the enemy was preparing to make you fall.
If the Lord opened our eyes right now. And showed us what this moment is doing for us. I can assure you, you'll give up on everything and sleep in the church every single day.
And how much more the body and the blood of Christ. If you know what this can do for you. Oh my, my.
You will be here every single day. If you know what the body and the blood of Christ. Do to you.
And for you. You will give up on everything. I want to see you more often.
Bring your friends. Bring your family members. Bring your cousins.
Bring people that you know in your life. Invite them with you. Next time if you're coming alone, don't.
Bring someone along with you. Invite people. To come and be in the presence of the Lord Jesus.
There is nothing more fulfilling than the presence of the Lord. Nothing my beloved. Maybe you'll have a kingdom on earth.
Maybe you'll have wealth on earth.
Sermon Outline
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- Introduction to the power of will and God's sovereignty
- The importance of doing God's will, not just speaking His name
- Jesus' teaching on prayer focusing on God's will
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- Understanding the human being as body, soul, and spirit
- Components of the soul: conscience, subconscious, will, thoughts, feelings
- The will as the gateway to the conscience
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- The dangers of a weak will and influence of the subconscious
- The role of technology and media in shaping the subconscious
- Need to cleanse the subconscious through the Word of God
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- Jesus as the perfect example of surrendering will to the Father
- Practical call to give our will to God for peace and freedom
- The 21st century's stubbornness and the need for God's will
Key Quotes
“It is not he who says, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is he who does the will of my father.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The will is the guard that safeguards the conscience mind.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Give your will to God, and let God's will be done in you.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Surrender your personal will daily to God's will to experience His peace.
- Guard your mind and heart by limiting exposure to harmful media and influences.
- Immerse yourself regularly in Scripture and worship to cleanse and renew your subconscious.
