Mar Mari Emmanuel teaches that choosing to live by Christ's scale of love and grace leads to eternal life, unlike the scales of Satan or humanity which lead to destruction or death.
In this powerful sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel challenges believers to examine the spiritual scale on which they stand—whether it be Satan's, humanity's, or Christ's. He explains the consequences of each choice and calls listeners to embrace the scale of Christ, which offers eternal life through love and grace. With practical illustrations and heartfelt exhortations, Mar Mari Emmanuel encourages a deep focus on spiritual growth and reliance on God's rewards rather than worldly approval.
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My beloveds, today's message, the Lord is saying to all of us, there are three kinds of scales in this realm. While we are living in the flesh, in this world, in this temporal world, there are three kinds of scales placed before us. And it is up to us to choose which scale we choose for ourselves to be in and weighed in.
The first scale is the scale of Satan. The second scale is the scale of humanity. The third scale is the scale of Christ, the King.
The scale of Satan is one thing, hatred. The scale of Satan is division. The scale of Satan is destruction.
The scale of Satan is killing. The scale of Satan is bloodshed. The Lord Jesus, when he spoke about Satan, he said, he is the father of all lies.
He is the one who killed the human race from day one. He was the reason for Adam and Eve to be cast out from the Garden of Eden, i.e., from the presence of the Lord God. If you wish to be placed in that scale, if you wish to choose that scale for yourself, then your end is evil, total destruction, eternal condemnation, and eternal death.
And there is the scale of humanity, the entire human race, the physical realm, the law of physics, and that is the law of the Old Testament. And until this very day, our beloved the Jews and the Muslims follow this law. And what is this law? An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
In the law of physics, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force, opposite in direction. In the biblical terminology, love the one who loves you and hate the one who hates you. This is the law of the Old Testament, and this is the law of the natural realm.
This is the law of physics. This is the law of a human being that is living in the natural realm in a physical way. Physically speaking, naturally speaking, we are only capable of loving the ones who love us and hating the ones who hate us.
This is only normal to be expected. And this is the ultimate any human being, I'm not talking about Christians, any human being that is capable of the ultimate they can do in the naturalistic realm, in the physical human nature realm, they can only achieve loving the ones they love them and hating the ones they hate them. They can't do any more than that.
If we follow Satan's scale, we'll end up in absolute destruction and eternal death. If we follow the humanity scale or the Old Testament law, which is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, where will this lead us to? We will be paid by people, not by God. So when I love the one who loves me, I've been rewarded by those people.
And if I hate the ones who hate me, I am also paid back by those people. I have been rewarded by human beings. There is no reward left for me to be paid by God to me, because I'm already paid.
Because I chose the scale where my payment is received from people, not from God. Because I loved the ones who loved me, and I hated the ones who hated me. This kind of a reward will remain in this realm only.
It will not go outside of this realm. And it will end up, since it belongs to this realm, the end result of this kind of a reward will be the grave. Because every human being at the end must die.
No matter how much it is prolonged, but at the end we have to leave. So, whatever I've achieved in this world, in the natural way, the end, death will take everything away from me. Therefore, I came to this world empty-handed, I will leave it empty-handed.
If you place yourself in the humanity scale or the Old Testament law, you will leave this world the same exact way you entered it. You came with nothing, you live with nothing, see you later, alligator. Achieved nothing.
So all the hard work, and I'm not saying people, they always steal to be successful. No, some people have worked extremely hard to gain that success. They have put every effort under the sun to be successful, but unfortunately they chose the scale of the natural realm which gave them the grave, nothing.
You take nothing with you, what a shame. But the Lord says there is another scale that is the scale of Christ. If you place yourself in this scale, your reward will never be from no human being, only from God.
Your reward will never be from any human being, it will be only from God. And this reward is eternal life, you will never die. The only way I can say this house is mine if I never die.
If I claim that this house is mine and I am a walking corpse, I am a dead walking being, then I am lying when I say the house is mine. Since I am dead, the house can never be mine, can never. One day the Lord Jesus was walking.
Two brothers, biological brothers, came to the Lord Jesus arguing with one another and then they said to the Lord, can you please judge between us? Because my brother does not wish to give me this piece of land. This block of land is mine and my brother says no, it is mine, it is not yours. And we've been arguing whose it is, this piece of block.
So since we're not listening to each other, can you please judge between us? And the Lord replied and said, who made me a judge? Between you two. So sad, my beloved children, so sad, fighting over a piece of land, fighting over materialism, fighting over things that are of this physical realm, not realizing. I just wonder, have you given it a deep thought, dear brothers? If you had thought about it really from the bottom of your heart, if you thought about it fairly and squarely, you wouldn't have come to me asking me to judge between the two of you because you would have come to this truth, to this reality, to this realization that this piece of land is neither this brother's nor the other.
It is nothing but a grave for both of you because the very land which you are chasing to gain will be the very land that will swallow both of you in that grave. What are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? It is all vanity of all vanities. Chasing the mirage, thinking it is water, stop it.
There is no water. You better chase the real, the true water. I am the living water that if you drink me, you'll never thirst again.
You drink from this well, you will thirst over and over and over again because this well, you dig the water from below, but my well, the water doesn't come from below, it comes from above. You place yourself in my scale, I, Christ the King. You have eternal life, you will never die, and the one who never dies is the only one who can claim possession.
But there is a condition to this scale in order to qualify to be in it. What is the condition, Lord? My scale never says, love the ones who love you and hate the ones who hate you. My scale, I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, says, love the ones who hate you.
Love your enemy. Be good to those who are bad to you. Lend to those who can never pay you back because don't wait for them to pay you back.
Your reward is from your heavenly Father, not from humanity. Therefore, when you place yourself truly in my scale, whatever people do unto you is totally beside the point. Whether people are good to you or bad to you, beside the point.
Whether people love you or hate you, beside the point. Whether people are nice or nasty to you, beside the point. Because once you placed yourself in my scale, what influences you and what moves you and motivates you is God, not people.
You are only influenced by what God does toward you, not what people do unto you. And this is the way to gain eternal life. Yes, we worry too much about what we eat, what we drink, and what we dress, and where we go, and where we come from.
But we never worry too much about where I am in relation to Christ. With love and humility, I say this to every father and mother whom I love and respect for one reason, because God loves you and respects you as parents. Amazing how God is.
When He gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, He did not say, respect the Pope for me to bless you and give you a long life. He did not say, respect the Patriarch so that I can bless you and give you a long life. He did not say, respect the Bishop so I can bless you and give you a long life.
He said, respect your father and mother, because it is not out of Popes good parents come, but out of good parents, good leaders of the Church come. So the foundation to that successful Pope are the parents. To that Bishop are the parents.
To that Church leader are the parents. They are the roots, they are the foundation to those good, loyal leaders. Parents.
But I say this with love and humility to every mom and every dad. God bless you all. And especially the mother, because she is the more sensitive side.
Sorry dad. See, mothers are driven by feelings and emotions. Dads are driven by logic.
One plus one, dad will say equals two. But one plus one, mom will say equals four, because this is how I feel about it. And if you keep on arguing, you are arguing a lost case, my dear son.
Just give in so you can have a heavenly life on earth, otherwise you will end up in hell. If you continue arguing. So every time the mother switches into that mode of argumentative approach, say, honey, you are always right, please.
I am innocent. But I say, mom, my dear mother, if you put your baby or your son, your daughter to sleep, and when you put them to sleep, after that, you've realized you forgot to feed them. You will run and wake them up and say, sorry mama, I forgot to feed you my honey.
How could I put you to sleep hungry? I have to wake you up to feed you, then put you to sleep. But dear mother, would you do the same if you put your child to sleep, forgetting to giving them the spiritual food, the word of the Lord Jesus? Would you run to your child and say, wake up, I forgot to read the Bible to you before putting you to sleep. Wake up, my son, my daughter, you need to hear the word of the Lord before you go to sleep.
You won't do that. How focused are we on the Lord? That's what it all comes down to. You see, the Lord Jesus is not about giving him service.
Please, we need to grow up in our spiritual life. It's not about I come and give a sermon for 10 hours. It's not about I come and I sing a song for 10 hours.
It's not about I come to the church every single day, attending church services every single day throughout the year. It's not about that. It is about how focused are you on the Lord.
Because my beloved, I'll tell you this, you may go all your life to church, but someone will come with one second, he'll get the heaven of all heaven's attention. Yet you've been trying all your life and you haven't even got there yet. Because the Lord seeks the ones who are focused and fixated on him.
Sermon Outline
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- Introduction of three spiritual scales: Satan, humanity, and Christ
- Consequences of choosing Satan's scale: hatred and destruction
- Explanation of humanity's scale based on natural law and Old Testament
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- Limitations of humanity's scale and its temporal rewards
- The inevitability of death and the futility of worldly gains
- Contrast with Christ's scale offering eternal rewards
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III
- Christ's scale demands loving enemies and unconditional love
- Rewards come from God, not from human approval
- The importance of focusing on spiritual life over material concerns
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IV
- The role of parents as foundation for spiritual leadership
- The need for spiritual nourishment like physical care
- Encouragement to fixate on Christ for eternal life
Key Quotes
“If you place yourself in the humanity scale or the Old Testament law, you will leave this world the same exact way you entered it.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“My scale, I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, says, love the ones who hate you.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“You are only influenced by what God does toward you, not what people do unto you.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Choose to live by Christ's scale by loving even those who hate you.
- Focus on your relationship with God rather than seeking approval from people.
- Provide spiritual nourishment to your family as diligently as physical care.
