Question And Answer | 2024

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. I pray that everyone who is with us in this holy church, and everyone who is watching us through live streaming, that you're always in good health and in good spirit, in Jesus' mighty name, Amen. If I could ask everyone to stand for the Lord's prayer, please.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgave our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.

Amen. What a powerful name, the name of Jesus. There is no other name more powerful than the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Wonderful. So we thought we'd do a Q&A, just to, being the last one for this year. And we pray that 2025 is a blessed year, a new start, a new year.

And I pray the Lord Jesus fills it with beautiful things to happen in 2025. I pray a lot of good changes happen in the world, in the church, everywhere, in the hearts of people. I pray that people come closer to the Lord Jesus more and more than ever before.

May the entire world come to Christ, because he is the only way, he is the only truth, and he is the only life. Amen? Can't hear you. Come on, be strong.

Shout to the Lord. Yes. You know, when you talk about the Lord Jesus, he can't just be lethargic.

Yeah, I love him. What do you mean, yeah, I love him? So of course, I love him. Rah.

You have to roar like a lion when you talk about the Lord, because he is from the tribe of Judah, the lion. Radio. Let's see.

Oh my goodness. Inshallah, mashallah. Ah, we have some.

Let's see, what is this? Will our Lord Jesus still forgive me if I do the same wrong things over and over again? He will forgive, but as long as you mean it. But ask the Lord Jesus to help you so you don't do it over and over and over and over again. It's not good to do that, but ask the Lord to give you the strength to overcome this obstacle or this chain that is chaining you up and not letting you be free.

Ask the Lord for it, but never give up. So he will forgive you, never give up, but you need to mean it from the heart. My goodness, what is this? I get tempted by Satan every time and makes me lust while I know it's bad.

So my question, how can I stop him? We need the Lord Jesus to stop him, otherwise we cannot. Satan outside of the Lord Jesus is very powerful. If any human being thinks they can overcome Satan with their own intellect, with their own power, with their own strength, they're mistaken.

He will devour anyone, no matter how smart, intelligent, strong, powerful. You have no idea how strong he is. He will devour anyone that is outside of the Lord Jesus.

He can deceive, he's a very cunning thing. He is very poisonous, very deceptive, very powerful and very knowledgeable to add to that. By the way, if you think you're 30 years of age, 50, 100, you're talking about someone who is thousands of years old.

The Holy Bible calls it the old serpent, the old. When the Holy Bible mentions the word old, that is old, all right? So with his knowledge, he carries thousands of years of knowledge. How can you fight someone that knowledgeable? And also to top it up, how can you fight someone that is spirit? You're physical and he is spirit.

He sees you, you cannot see him. How can you fight? Very bad, very dangerous. The only way to overcome Satan is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, period.

There is no other way. So we need the Lord, my dear, to overcome him. Love you Marmari, hope you have been good.

That was a very easy question. I love you more and I thank the Lord. The Lord Jesus is the good God.

So we have to be good because we serve and we worship the good God. And I pray that you have been good as well, my beloved. Thank you so much.

As long as you're good, I'm good. I love you. Why do some people have easier life than others? I guess this question has an element of assumption.

We assume that others have an easier life than us because our judgment is not 100% accurate. We look externally and we make a judgment accordingly. You don't know, my dear friend, you may see someone externally happy, healthy, going, coming, jumping, dancing.

But when you go and sit in that quiet moment with them, you may find out that they are the most miserable, sad people you could ever come across. So we cannot make a judgment based on that external look because that is not the full judgment. Look, I believe everybody goes through struggles.

Every human being goes through challenges in life. Every human being has some sort of a dilemma in their life. Somebody might be healthy, but struggling in a different way.

Someone has everything, but they don't have the health. Somebody has got relational issues, social issues, family issues, marital issues, business issues, you name it. But everybody's got something.

And even those who are rich and wealthy and living in a mansion, I can assure you they have a lot of issues. I can assure you this. So we have to just look at ourselves and thank the Lord Jesus and ask Him to help us and guide us through whatever struggles we go through.

And may the Lord use that struggle for His glory. Amen. Very good.

How do I know if she is a woman sent from God? Look, obviously we need to pray when we come to enter such a relationship, you know, marital relationship. Yeah, we need to pray about it. Um, but obviously praying about it is not, we don't just stop there.

Don't just sit and on the hope that God is going to prepare everything and just hand it over to you. It's not going to work that way. Sometimes, very rarely, it may work.

But God doesn't operate this way, my beloved. If I may, may the Lord allow me to say this on His behalf or for Him. But I believe He will agree and He is happy for me to say this.

Look, with marriage, yes, you need to pray. You need to ask the Lord for His blessings 100%. This is foundational.

Then when you meet a person that you are interested in, you need to give it some time. Go out within reason, within limits, within boundaries. Go out and the first thing, if it's a serious relationship, the first thing you ask one another, do you love the Lord Jesus? That is the first thing you ask.

If they say no, you're in the wrong place with the wrong person. The Lord has to be the foundation to this new beginning. Without the foundation, how are you going to build the house? What kind of a life are you going to have afterwards if both parties do not agree on the one who made this moment possible? Marriage comes from God and this God is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

So the first question we need to ask, do you love the Lord? You don't mind if we go together to church? You're not going to say to me, I'm not coming or you're not going to church or you're going too much. I don't like that. You need to stay at home.

No, both have to run to the Lord. Both have to run to the Lord. And then obviously, when you go out and you talk and you exchange ideas and thoughts, both intellectual beings, then you will ascertain whether, yes, there are some common grounds we can work with or no, we think differently.

So you'll find out. I always say this, in such relationships, give it three months to determine whether you continue or walk away. Three months.

Not after three years, come, Marmari, please, I'm in trouble. Three years, too long. Three months.

Because in three months, you'll have a very good idea if you can relate to one another. You'll have a good idea. OK, on a social level, on beliefs, on so many different levels, you'll find out.

After three months, if you see there is a lot of common grounds, yes, I'll give it another three months. You need from the moment you meet the person till the big wedding day, not more than a year and a half. After that, when it passes to ease, you're asking for trouble if it hasn't been settled.

If you are still boyfriend, girlfriend, after four years, the problems, because everyone will enter and will start giving you their advices and their ideas and their thoughts. Especially the Middle Eastern. You really want to marry him? Shame on you.

What? Marry him. Look at his nose. Look at his ears.

Too big. So you need to settle the matter in one year and a half. More than that, you'll ask for trouble.

Why did the Lord Jesus tell the two blind men not to tell anyone? Or the blind men not to tell anyone? The reason why he didn't want them to tell anyone, because he didn't want to be revealed. From that early stage. And also because he didn't want to be taken as if like he is trying to be a show off.

Because he knows his father, when the time comes, he will make sure the whole world will bow before him. So it was to keep it quiet, his ministry, because it was at the early stage. So he didn't want a lot of people to know because he knew it was going to cause a lot of uprising and a lot of jealousy and envy and frictions.

And he wanted the ministry not to be hindered in any way, form or shape. That's why he said, be quiet. And also as a form of humility is not being a show off.

Why does the Old Testament say no gay and no eating certain foods? But now we can eat whatever, but still no gay. Because my dear, gay is not food. Gay is not a meal.

So you can change your meals, but you can't change your way of living. Or you can by the grace of the Lord. We need to understand when the Holy Bible, especially in the book of Leviticus, which is the Old Testament, when it talks about certain animals we can eat and certain animals we cannot eat in the spiritual sense, the Lord God was sending a profound message on what kind of a relationship we should have with people and which kind of a relationship we should walk away from.

So when he was talking about certain animals with the hoof not being split, divided in half, he's not talking about the pig in the literal sense that you don't eat it. But he's talking about the relationship between the human race, the whole being split. There are two main components that make up the human being, the body and the spirit.

These are the two main components, the body and the spirit. And the one that connects the two together is the soul, S-O-U-L. When the foot of that animal, the hoof is one piece, not split.

It says if it's one piece, don't eat it. Meaning when you enter a relationship with someone, when he sits with a believer, he is the greatest believers you could come across with. When he sits with absolute worldly people, he is a professor in both areas at the same time.

So he'll come to the church and he'll preach and he'll be a magnificent Christian. And he'll go to the club and he'll be the master of that club as well. Such person do not have any relationship with, do not befriend that person because he's neither with the Lord nor with the world.

He is with both. He's trying to unite both together at the same time. He wants to have both sides of the story.

He doesn't want to lose the Lord. And at the same time, he doesn't want to lose the world. Such people don't mix with because this is where the hoof is one piece.

You can't tell if they are spiritual or they are physical, worldly. You cannot tell. But if someone is spiritual split, if it's spiritual, you can tell.

Befriend them so they can take you to the Lord Jesus. But if they are totally worldly and worldly only, you can also tell that. Avoid them lest they drag you into the world and take you away from Christ.

But someone that is both Christ and the world, you can't be a friend with them because you'll end up being neither a Christian nor a worldly person. Something odd. So that's when it talks about certain animals not to eat.

It's not about eating more than having such relationships. But being a gay, that is a condition, unfortunately. And the Holy Bible is very clear on such lifestyle.

Very clear. Because God created the human race as male and female, period. There is nothing in between.

God created the man and a woman, male and female. God is very clear. So what God has created is male and female.

So when we are not in this natural realm and outside that natural realm, then it's something that is not fitting. It's kind of odd. We need to pray for people who are in this kind of a lifestyle, in this condition.

We need to pray for them. But to accept them as Christians, it's impossible. Impossible.

The church will never... When a church accepts such lifestyle and put that flag on the church building, do not go to that church. Don't ever enter that church. Because they are sons of the snake.

They have denied the Lord Jesus. How dare they talk about Christ? How dare they? When the Lord Jesus says something, there is no authority in existence that can override what the Lord says, period. There is no authority in existence, whether in heaven, on earth, or below earth.

There is no authority, no power that can override what Christ has already said. But we pray for them. We love them.

And we ask the Lord to change them. But to accept them as Christians, for the church to accept such a lifestyle, then the church has veered off the road. And it's following a false Christ, not the true Christ.

Can you explain the significance of the temple throughout the Bible? Well, in a nutshell, my beloved, and God bless you too, and more. The temple of the Old Testament was symbolic for the true temple of God, which is Christ. So that temple of King Solomon, and even in the wilderness of Sinai, the desert Sinai, that tabernacle, that tent, all of that was symbolically illustrating the true temple who was going to come in the end times called Christ.

So the true temple is the Lord Jesus. And this is why when the Lord Jesus came, when he was talking to the Samaritan women in the gospel, according to St. John chapter 4, he entered a conversation, a dialect with her. And then she said, our father said, we need to worship here in Samaria.

But you Jew people say you need to worship God on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. So which one is it? The Lord replied to that woman and said, he said, the hour is coming and it has come now. He's talking about himself.

The hour is coming and it has already come now. Neither here nor in Jerusalem you will worship God because God is spirit and you need to worship him in spirit and in the truth. He was referring himself to himself when he said, the hour is coming and it is here now.

I am Jesus Christ. I am the true temple of God. When I come, you need to worship God through me.

And without me, there is no worship of God because I'm the only way to God. And I'm the only way your prayers are heard by God. And if any Christian leader, no matter how big or small they are, if they say to you that there is other ways to God outside of Jesus Christ, then they are the sons of the snake as well.

Don't listen to them. There is only one way to God and there is only one truth and one life and that is Christ Jesus, the king of all kings and the Lord of all Lords. There is no other way except the Lord Jesus.

Amen. How can I pray for a more pure and loving heart? Ask the Lord and never stop asking the Lord. It may take you a month.

It may take you a year. It may take you 10 years. It may take you a lifetime.

But the only way for a pure heart and a loving heart is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He needs to give you this. Otherwise it is impossible.

Keep on asking. Keep on knocking. Sooner or later, the Lord will hear your prayer and will answer your prayer, my beloved.

Let me say this to you as a word of encouragement. Quite often we look at ourselves and we think that we are going backwards instead of forward in our faith, in our love for the Lord Jesus. Because we see ourselves struggling all the time, you know, falling and getting up and falling and getting up and falling.

And we say, I'm going. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not getting anywhere.

But let me tell you this. While we are in that turmoil, while we are in that cyclone, while we are in that dark tunnel, don't ever make any permanent decision on a temporal situation. Everything in life is temporal.

And everything, since it's temporal, everything changes. Therefore, don't make a permanent decision on a temporal situation. Remember this.

So when you are going through some hardships, this is not the end. There. So don't make a decision and say that's it.

No, because there's always the light at the end of that tunnel. But I'll say this. The Lord Jesus resembled himself to that grain of wheat.

When you look at the grain, as long as it's outside, it's not buried underground. There is no form of life in it. Because the sign of life is movement.

The sign of life is movement. When you look at the grain of wheat, it's absolutely dead. When does it become alive? When you bury it.

Now, if somebody says, I believe in God when I use my head only. Logic. You need to prove it to me.

You need to prove it to me that God exists. Well, my dear friend, how come when I bury that grain of wheat, then it becomes alive? But isn't it when you bury things, they are normally dead? How come when you bury them, they become alive? You use your head. Well, this is against every logic.

Then why do you believe by burying the grain of wheat? Then and then only life is made possible. That's one. So we bury the grain of wheat and we cover it with soil.

Becomes alive. It shoots the roots. There is a time frame for the roots to grow to maturity.

The moment the roots grow to maturity, the stump starts shooting upward. And the stump has a time to reach maturity. The moment it reaches maturity, it stops.

And then the flower starts growing. Until it reached maturity and is ripe, it will have 40 grains of wheat in its head. One was buried, 40 were given.

You see, when the roots, when the grain of wheat was buried. And then the roots started coming out of it. You see, the roots, the stump and the 40 grains of wheat were hidden in this one grain.

As long as the grain was on its own, it never realized I have all these components in me. When it got buried for the first time in its life, something came out of it called the roots. When the roots started growing, it was very uncomfortable for the grain of wheat to experience this something new happening in my life for the first time.

It took a little while to get used to the roots. As it got used to the roots, the stump started coming out. It says, oh, my goodness, I thought I was progressing.

Now I'm going backwards. What's happening in my life? What is this stump coming from? Why? Why? Why? I was okay with the roots. I was comfortable with that.

I got used to that life. I got settled with that life. All of a sudden, everything is falling apart.

Something new has started in me. I have no idea what it is. I got used to the stump growing before getting comfortable with it.

Stopped. The flower came and then another turmoil situation. But it didn't realize.

The grain thought it was going backwards in faith, but didn't realize it reached maturity and gave 40 grains of wheat. That's why you need to trust in the Lord Jesus. No matter what changes are happening in you, the Lord will always progress in you.

Human nature is not comfortable with change. Everybody is happy in their own circle. Oh, I don't want to move.

Oh, I don't want to do this. I'm happy with the way I am. I'm comfortable where I am.

Any changes, we become uncomfortable. Why? Because the change is something obscure, unknown to me. And anything that is unknown to me, I become anxious.

I get worried and get anxiety and go and hit the pill down the gurgler to calm down the nerves. But no, those changes, while they were happening, I thought I was going backward. But he who waits till the end shall live.

When you trust in the Lord with all the changes and the uncomfortable things that are happening in your life, be assured the Lord who began the road with you will not leave you halfway. He will make sure you end up ending the race victorious. He'll make sure.

So while you're uncomfortable because of the changes, trust in the Lord. He's progressing in you. Okay.

Amen. All right. So don't, in other words, do not judge the situation using your head.

Let God lead you because he knows what he's doing and he knows what is good for you. He will never bring anything but good. Even if it means the surgeon's knife cutting you in half.

It is good for you. You got to trust the Lord. He is the doctor and he is the good shepherd and he is the only healer.

Let him navigate your steps in this life because he knows how to get you home at the end. Trust in him. Amen.

There we go. Bit of a controversy here. Why is his grace celebrating Christmas separately from the rest of the Christian Orthodox Church? Well, if you're not aware, my beloved, if some of you, Christianity is three groups.

You got our beloved Catholics, Orthodox, both Eastern and Oriental, and you have the Protestant branch as well. Up until the Nicene Creed in 325 AD with 318 church fathers, this was what we call the universal senate. So all Christians were engaged in the senate of Nicaea that happened in 325 AD.

318 church fathers agreed to write what we call the Nicene Creed. We believe in one God, Almighty, the Father, creator of all that is visible and invisible. We recite the Nicene Creed on every celebration of the liturgical service, Holy Mass service.

Up until that time, Christians worldwide were celebrating Christmas or the birth of the Messiah, the nativity on the 6th of January. On the 6th of January. Now, what was the 6th of January? And now when we go back to 325 AD, that meant all Christianity followed the Julian old calendar, not the Gregorian.

You see, the new calendar which the world follows came about in the 11th century. In the 11th century by Pope Gregory of Rome. He put together a committee and he said, the Julian old calendar is not 100% accurate.

Let's revisit the stars and the rotation and everything. So they came up with 13 day difference. That's why there is 13 days different between the old Julian calendar to the new Gregorian calendar.

So back then, all Christianity were following the old Julian calendar. So 6th of January was the feast of Epiphany, the baptism of the Lord Jesus in the River Jordan. They took it as the birth.

Why? Because baptism is born again. If you're not aware. Yes, baptism is born again.

This is biblical to the core from day one. The Lord Jesus gave it to the disciples and he said to them, when you are baptized, you are born again. So it's the sacrament in the church from day one.

Now, so when they followed all Christians, they said, well, we are born again. We are born anew when we're baptized. Not when we are born from our earthly parents, but rather from our heavenly father who art in heaven.

So they took baptism as birth. They celebrated the birth of the Messiah on his Epiphany day, the baptism at the River Jordan, 6th of January. When the Nicaean Creed was held, when the Senate of Nicaea, sorry, when the Senate of Nicaea was held in 325 AD, the church fathers agreed that there was in history, there was a day the Lord Jesus was born and there was a totally separate day for the Lord Jesus to have been baptized at the River Jordan.

Two different events. So the baptism cannot be his birthday. Cannot be.

Two separate events in history. So they said, no, we need to change and have his birth separate to his baptism at the River Jordan. Except one group, our beloved, the Armenian Orthodox Church.

When you go to our beloved Armenian Orthodox, and I say it with all love and respect, and I love the Armenian Orthodox Church. It's very deep, very rich in spirituality, in Christianity, in history. Absolutely amazing.

In fact, my earthly mom was half Armenian, half Assyrian. So when you go to the Armenian Orthodox Church, they will celebrate Christmas on the 6th of January. Till today.

They never changed. All other Christians said no. So we'll celebrate it on the old Julian calendar, 7th of January equivalent to 25th of December new calendar.

So when our beloved Oriental churches and some Eastern churches still celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. 7th of January new calendar equates to 25th of December old calendar. There is a 13 day difference.

You with me? But you see, since the world follows the new calendar, the church has to follow that as well. So in order to celebrate Christmas Julian old calendar 25th of December, we need to celebrate Christmas according to the new calendar on the 7th of January, which is 25th of December old calendar. So at the end of the day, everybody's celebrating 25th of December.

But the calendar is just different. That's all. Some use Gregorian new calendar, some use Julian old calendar.

But the dates still 25th of December. If you know what I'm saying. Except our beloved Armenians, they celebrated on the 6th, which is the epiphany, the baptism of the Lord Jesus.

Now the question here, I had to say this, otherwise some of you might not follow what the question says. Why isn't His grace following Christmas with the Christian Orthodox Church? The question is, why aren't you celebrating Christmas on the 7th of January instead of 25th of December new calendar? Look, this is my foundation. And this is all of us foundation, the old calendar, that's where it all began.

Every Christian celebrated Christmas and Sunday resurrection old calendar till the 11th century. So for 11 centuries, all Christianity, Christendom, celebrated Christmas, Sunday resurrection, old calendar. Never new calendar.

But since the 11th century, the new calendar came about and the split happened. But I would love to go one day back to the 7th of January because this is my roots, my foundation, my heritage, my church fathers heritage. And I'm proud to go back to my church fathers.

We should all be proud. But let me say this, we don't know exactly when the Lord was born. Some will say December, some will say April.

For me, it's December. Now whether it's new calendar, old calendar, but I'm talking about December. For me, it's December.

So old calendar is in January, which is 25th of December, old calendar. For me, it's December. But some will say it's in April because the shepherds were minding the sheep and they couldn't be outside in December being in Bethlehem because it's extremely cold in December.

It's winter. So they cannot be out. So more than likely it was springtime.

April sounds more accurate because would have been a much more friendlier weather for them to be out all night watching over the flock, the sheep. And those sheep, they looked after, they were meant to be slain later on in the temple. They were minded for the temple.

So they were not just any shepherds. They were shepherding the sheep that will be slain and offered as a sacrifice in the temple of God, of the Old Testament Israelite nation. So they say it's in April because the Passover, it's a long story, you know, I don't want to bombard you with it.

Oh my goodness. The Passover lamb used to be chosen on the first of Nisan. Now the month of Nisan in Hebrew or even Aramaic Syriac means April.

Now April is where everything blossoms, everything flourishes. April represents life, the beginning of life. Flowers blossom, everything comes alive in April.

So they used to choose the lamb of the Passover lamb. Now who is the Passover lamb? Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, it was only symbolic, it was an animal.

So they used to choose the Passover lamb on the first of Nisan and hold it, sorry, on the fourth of Nisan and hold it for 10 days. And on the 14th of Nisan would be slain and offered as a sacrifice for the remission of sins of the entire Israelite nation. Now that Passover lamb was symbolically representing the true lamb of God who carries away the sins of the world, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

So could the Lord have been born in April? Could the Lord have been born in December? I'll say this to the entire Christian world with absolute love and humility. It's been centuries since some of us celebrated Christmas new calendar. And it's been centuries some of us have celebrated Christmas old calendar.

It's so hard for the human nature to change either way. How about we make this beautiful deal in the love of Christ? The Western branch, our beloved Catholics and all the Christians who celebrate Christmas, the new calendar, 25th of December, celebrate along with the Orthodox who still celebrated on the 7th of January and the 6th of January. So, okay, all the Orthodox come and celebrate Christmas with your beloved Christians who celebrated according to the new calendar, 25th of December, the month that we are in.

How about all Christians celebrate Christmas this month? And how about all Christians celebrate Sunday resurrection, old calendar? You know why? Because historically speaking, and I'm sorry to say this, but I have to say this. Historically speaking, the new calendar, Sunday resurrection is not accurate. The old calendar is.

And this is why the holy fire appease according to the old calendar, not the new calendar. The holy fire in the sepulcher church in the tomb of the Lord. Because historically, you cannot celebrate the Passover.

You cannot celebrate the Passover neither before the Jewish Passover, nor alongside at the same time with the Jewish people. It cannot happen. Why? Because the last supper when the Lord was present with his disciples, the 12 apostles in that upper room, he fulfilled two covenants.

It wasn't dinner. He wasn't having dinner. Please get this right.

It was a liturgical service. The Lord offered his body and blood. It was the first ever holy mass celebrated by the Lord Jesus along with his 12 apostles ever in history.

He fulfilled two covenants, the Old Testament covenant and the New Testament covenant. The Old Testament covenant had cups of wine and bitter herbs. The New Testament covenant, he got up and said, and he broke the bread and said, take, this is my body.

And he took the cup and he said, drink, this is my blood. The New Covenant is to do with the body and the blood. The Old Testament covenant is to do with that lamb being slain, the Passover lamb, which Moses slain for the Israelite nation to pass over from Egypt to the promised land, from darkness to the light, from death to life, from slaves to the sons of God.

This is the Passover. God, the Lord Jesus, came to pass us over from death to eternal life, from being in bondage to freedom, from slaves to Satan, Pharaoh, to the sons of God, who are in heaven, our heavenly father. So he fulfilled them.

He fulfilled the Old Testament covenant first in the last supper. Then he got up. You read the Holy Bible, please.

Then he got up and fulfilled the New Testament covenant. Therefore, the Passover of the New Testament church cannot be hand in hand with the Old Testament church covenant. The Passover, the Jews, our beloved Jews celebrate, cannot be hand in hand with the Christian Passover.

Impossible. Therefore, historically speaking, the old Julian calendar, Sunday resurrection, is more accurate than the new Gregorian calendar. So my beloved Christians, celebrate Christmas together.

New calendar. Celebrate Sunday resurrection together. Old calendar.

Bob's your uncle. Everybody's happy. The Lord is happy.

Thank you. Let's put the bronze on the bobby and let's call it a day, brother. G'day, mate.

You know, like we need, we need to be more flexible. No, I'm not changing. Wait a minute.

Just relax. The Lord will be happy. The Lord will be happy.

And that's what matters. Who cares about me as a bishop? Who cares? The Lord has to be happy. The Lord.

Amen. I pray the Lord makes it happen in 2025. Touches the hearts of all the church leaders and bring them into unity.

And by the way, it's only a calendar for God's sake. We're not entering any theological debates, any canonical debates. It's only calendar for God's sake.

Can't you do? If we cannot do the easiest of the easiest things, when are we going to unite on our indifferences as far as theology is concerned? That's why we haven't united. That's in Syria. And in Syria, they call it means stubborn head.

Stubborn head. Why did the, why did three angels visit Abraham? And why did God consult Abraham before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah? LGBT. Why did three angels? Because they're the testimony of two or three stands.

The Lord always had with him two or three eyewitnesses to prove that because it's not just my word, because if I say it, who's going to believe me? But if there is eyewitnesses that can confirm what I'm saying, then it stands even in the court of law. It stands. Do you have any witnesses? The judge will say.

So that's why he brought two. Now, why did he consult Abraham? Because he said, Abraham is my friend. And how can I go and destroy Sodom and Gomorrah without letting my friend know? Now, here comes the intercession of saints.

If Abraham as a friend, God will not do anything unless he tell him. How much more he will not do anything unless he tells his son, not his friend. And the son is much more powerful than a friend and much closer to you than a friend.

So the saints of the New Testament are the sons. The Old Testaments are friends. He did not do anything without consulting the friend.

Do you think he will do anything without consulting his sons of the New Testament, saints? So there you go. Intercession of saints, very powerful. Very powerful.

Are you tired? Are you sure? Because I saw some people leaving. Did I upset anyone? I hope not. I hope not.

Please, if anybody leaves, stop them at the door. Okay, let me see. Any more questions? Any more questions? Any more? Oh, mashallah, inshallah.

There are more questions here. I told you, you're not going anywhere tonight. I don't know if I should say this a lot.

It's not a question, it's a request. But somebody's requesting for a prayer. And it breaks my heart.

They say that we feel dead walking. I pray that is never the case, my beloved. May the Lord Jesus revive you.

May the Lord Jesus renew you. May the Lord Jesus refresh you. And whatever you're going through, I pray the Lord Jesus gives it to me and sets you free.

I love you, my child. Be strong. The Lord is always faithful.

And I ask the Lord to take away whatever issues you have given to me. May the Lord strike me and set you free, my beloved daughter. When you say or talk about leaving this world, you break my heart.

If I had a chance to take my eye and give it to you, I will. You're my favorite person who taught me what love is. May my prayers be with you always.

I love you. I love you more. And may the Lord keep your eyes healthy and wealthy.

May the Lord Jesus fill your eyes with His love and for you to discern what is His will in your life. And far from you, my beloved, if the Lord is willing to take this other eye and give it to you, and then I will give it to you as well, my beloved. God bless you.

How come in the Lord's prayer we say, your kingdom come, your will be done, instead of thy kingdom come, thy will be done. If this is because of old English, then isn't our Father who art in heaven old English too? Absolutely right. You got me, baby.

We start with, I just noticed actually, thank you so much for the question. Let me go back. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.

You're right. We should change this. Our Father.

But you know, to say who is in heaven, it's kind of, I don't like it. So that's why we use art. It's kind of more artistic to articulate this.

So now you're right. Look, old English, new English, it doesn't really matter as long as we say the Lord's prayer. It is the meaning behind it, not the language.

Because if we speak of language, then the original language the Lord taught this prayer to His disciples was in Aramaic, which the language I speak. And all our church services are in the Aramaic language. So He taught it in Abon Bashmayo, Nisgadash, Mah, Teheteh, Melkutah.

He taught in that language. And the Aramaic language, at the time of the Lord, was the slang, the informal language, was the slang language. So the Lord would have spoken two languages for sure, Hebrew and Aramaic.

Why? Because every time He would enter a synagogue on a Sabbath, He had to speak Hebrew. Aramaic was not allowed in synagogues or in any government official bodies. In government official bodies and synagogues, the formal language was used, which was Hebrew.

And the slang language, the informal, Aramaic was used at home, in the street, at the shops, on a day-to-day kind of a dialect. So the Lord taught the prayer in the slang language, deliberately. So if we were to transliterate the prayer from Aramaic to English, it would have to say the following, Our Daddy who art in heaven, not Father.

Our Daddy. Why? Because, I'll ask you, How do you speak to your earthly father? Formally or informally? Do you ever get up in the morning and you say, Good morning, Mr. Smith. How are you today? I pray you had a good night's sleep.

Mr. Smith, may I ask you a question? What kind of life is that at home? That's worse than a life, you know, sentence in prison. You'll get up in the morning, Ah, good day, Dad. You go on, Dad.

High five, Dad. A pinch on the cheeks. Dad, give me 50 bucks.

Why? None of your business, Dad. Just give me the 50 bucks. You talk informally.

Why? Because it's your Dad. Hi, Daddy. Love you, Dad.

See you, Dad. That's how you talk to Daddy. But with respect, because he's still Dad.

With honor, he's still Dad. But no formalities with Dad. He's my Dad, for God's sake.

I love him. If I don't be free with Dad, then who else? If I don't speak my mind out, then who else? If it's not my Dad, then who else? I feel comfortable when I'm with my Dad. The Lord says, I came to make God your Dad.

Father is formal. Daddy, informal. The Lord says, every time you go to God, since he became your Dad through me, the Son of God, speak informally.

So how do you speak informally? Be yourself. Don't stand and write a speech with big eloquent words. No, be yourself.

Dad, I just stuffed up today. I did a few mistakes. So I came to your Dad just to say, I'm really sorry, Dad.

You know, I shouldn't have done it. But I know you love me, Dad. And I trust that you will forgive me.

So I'm coming to say sorry, Dad. Please forgive me. And while we're at it, Dad, can I have 50 bucks? Because after Christmas, I want to go Big Mac, drive-through.

Did I tell you this? One day, that was a long time ago. Yeah, guys, relax. I went to McDonald's drive-through.

They had two lanes instead of one. So I came to that speaker thing. And all I heard, can I help you? So I done the order.

After I finished, I heard them saying, can I help you? Apparently, it was the other speaker on the other lane. I looked around. Thank God there was nobody there.

I said, yeah, that's okay. I'll do the order again. So I was talking to myself.

It was the speaker on the other lane saying, can I help you? It wasn't for me. It was for the other car. This is not a question, but I want to thank you, Bishop, for bringing me back to God and my faith.

God bless you. God bless you. It is the Lord Jesus, my beloved.

But for some piece of wreck like me, when I hear some beautiful words like that, it's so fulfilling. It's so encouraging for me to continue in the Lord's path, because it gives me that courage that I thank the Lord Jesus, you know, for beautiful souls. The Lord is good.

Love Him with all your heart, as much as you can. Love Him with all yourself, as much as you can. Give Him everything.

Don't ever hold on to anything that belongs to you. Give Him everything. Don't be afraid to give Him everything.

Don't be afraid. Give Him everything. Love the Lord.

He is worthy of every drop of love we offer Him. He is worthy of every breath of love we offer Him. He is worthy.

Oh, the Lord Jesus is amazing. The Lord is amazing. If you were the prime minister, please vote for me.

Our party is called the little battlers party. Okay, the little Aussie battlers. So because we put the prawns on the barbie always.

I may not look it, but don't judge the book by its cover. From within I'm an Aussie, fair income down under blue. Is that blue or fair income blue down under? I forgot.

True blue. I was thinking of a paint. I lost it.

True blue Aussie, baby. I'm just joking. I am an Aussie and I'm a proud one too.

On a serious note, I love this country. I'll always pray for this country. Even though I was not born in this country, but I am an Aussie.

I'll never lose track of my origin. I am a Syrian. I was born in Iraq, Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, where all it began.

Babylon and the Tower of Babylon and the cradle of civilization. It all began. I'll never lose track of that.

I'm proud to be a Syrian. I'm proud to be from Iraq. But I'm also proud to be an Aussie.

This is a blessed country. And that's why sometimes when we see things are done wrong, we just cry out out of love for our country, out of hurt for our country. We don't want to see Australia to reach such a level.

We want it to be always glorious, always triumphant. That's why I pray Australia comes back to the Lord Jesus. I pray for that.

Every parliamentarian mentions the name of the Lord and prays and asks God for directions. Every parliamentarian. It doesn't matter you're a prime minister or you are just a minister or a premier or you're holding any position in government.

Without God, we are all nothing, my dear friend. So if I speak about government sometimes, it's out of love, out of hurt. But the essence of it is all love.

If the Lord says, I want you to die for Albanese, I will. But I don't want Mr. Albanese to do wrong things. Because I love this country and I love the people of this country and I pray that everything is good.

That's why I'll be the prime. What will you do? If you were a prime minister for a day, what would you change? Everything. As I said, the first thing I'll sack everyone in my cabinet.

I'll bring all the good old people with the tattoos from Lakemba, Campbelltown, Punchbowl. Come on, baby, with the earrings and the big tattoos, big muscles. I'll make you the interior minister, the exterior minister.

Go and punch people and fix everything. Beautiful. Oh my goodness.

Now, honestly, honestly, we need people both in the church and in the secular world that would have, you know, that would cherish certain morals and values and ethics of life. Don't lose track of your humanity. Don't lose track of your human identity.

You're a human. I'm a human. Let's act like one.

Don't let the throne change you, my dear friend. Don't be weak. Don't be a coward.

Stand. This nation and a lot of European nations and the Western world in general desperately are in need of family values. We desperately need it.

There's not much talk about family bond. And family value. We need that family value to come back.

And so many other values. What do I do when I feel spiritually dry? I love our Lord Jesus Christ and he saved my life. But sometimes I feel distant and I cannot live without his presence.

I totally understand where you're coming from. But let me tell you a little secret about the Lord Jesus. Don't tell him, okay? This is between us.

In the beginning of your journey with the Lord Jesus, he will come very strong. And he will tell you that I'm here. He will prove it to you that he is here.

And he will show it to you so many ways. This is in the beginning of the journey. You'll feel his presence wherever you go.

You are really hot for him. You are so close to him. You pray.

You feel every word that is uttered from your mouth. Every heartbeat, it is all for him. You feel on top of the world, in control.

You don't want anything else. But unfortunately, this will not last for too long. After this honeymoon, you see like it's marriage, yeah? When you first get married, it's all honey.

After honey finishes, give me money. So it's all honey. And the Lord, after a little while, will make you feel you've lost him.

This is a given. You cannot escape this. This beard did not go white for no reason.

Ask the experienced. Don't ask the educated. Ask the experienced.

Experience is much more powerful than being an educated person. When you live a thing, it's totally different when you study a thing. Living it is much more powerful.

Well, so the Lord will make you feel. He hasn't left you. He's the closest ever to you, always.

So he'll make you feel you've lost him. So you'll go dry. You'll go crazy.

You'll go empty. You come to church. You feel you don't belong there.

You pray. You yawn. You say words.

And you're suffocated. You just want to run away. You just want to go.

And it's kind of miserable. Absolute miserable. Where are you, Lord? What happened to the good old days? What happened to them? You pray.

You ask. You knock. You scream.

You yell. You shout. Nothing.

Dead dry. Now this is for your growth. Hold on.

He'll make a man out of you, even if you're a woman. And it's nothing to do with LGBT. He'll make a man out of you.

Just hold on to it. He'll make a man out of you. Looks like I've spoken for too long.

You're getting tired. I need to stop there. So when you feel dry, when you feel empty, when you feel miserable, you don't see the Lord.

You don't hear the Lord. You don't feel the Lord. This is the time to go full steam ahead.

If there is any time for you to love him more, now is the time. When you have totally missed him, now is the time to love him. Now is the time to run for him and say to him, Lord, even though I'm about to give up on you, but I know you'll never give up on me.

So therefore, Lord, I want you to know I love you. Even if I'm walking through hell, I love you, Lord. Just say, I love you.

And keep on walking. Trust what I'm saying. You'll see what the Lord will do.

100% the Lord will prove to you he exists and he's always close to you. Always. He never left you.

Never, never, never. He can't. He made a promise.

He cannot leave you. He made a promise. To his dad and to himself.

He cannot leave you. Amen? So love the Lord Jesus. I think I'm so sorry if your questions were not answered.

I have to read this. This is from my beloved little angel Sharbel. And he says, Do you love me? Do you? Do you? There is this old song that was sang in English with an Eastern kind of melody.

You know, if you are aware about in music, when you look at a piano, you'll see white keys and black keys. Now the white is one tone. The black is half tone.

So one half, one half. It's like that. So that's the normal music to the E. Eastern style is between the black and the white.

It's called quarter tone. So the half tone will sound, the quarter tone. So when you sing English in a, it sounds kind of weird.

Sounds kind of odd. Because it's quarter tone. And there is no such quarter tone in the English, you know, music or in the scales.

Because that's called a scale. So there is tone and half. So the quarter tone becomes kind of odd.

And a true story, I'll leave you with this. There was some sort of a festival happening and multicultural. So different denominations, people from all walks of life came dancing, playing music, singing, and you name it.

Anyway, there was an Assyrian band just about to come. An Aussie band finished. They came off the stage.

The Assyrian band got onto the stage. Now, the keyboard player was just, you know, checking his keyboard and adjusting a few things before they started. So he put it on quarter tone.

So he was just playing something. The Aussie keyboard player listened and he said, hey, mate, there's something wrong with your keyboard. Well, I think it's had its time.

It's finished. He said, now, mate, this is quarter tone, baby. So when you sing, do you love me? Do you? Do you? That's not English.

That's Middle Eastern in English. No, so it sounds very, very odd. Like a Chinese speaking Assyrian.

There is this guy that sells veggies in Fairfield, I think in Smart Street or somewhere. He's fully Chinese. A very long time ago, I walked into that shop.

I'm talking about decades ago. I said, hello. How are you? He said, Basim at Ad-Dakhid.

He spoke in Assyrian. I said, man, Chinese speaking Assyrian. That's quarter tone, you know.

But he spoke, he pronounced it even beautiful. That was a quarter tone laughter. Now she's going to laugh more.

That sounds like that bird that comes out of that clock. There you go. Well, it's a it's a festive season.

It's a joyous season. We need to laugh. Amen.

God bless you all. Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year 2025. I pray the Lord Jesus bless you.

Bless your families. Bless your loved ones. Grant you your wishes.

And whatever you were not able to achieve in this year, may the Lord help you to achieve it in the New Year of 25. I pray for peace in the entire world. I pray for unity and peace in the church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Holy Apostolic Universal Church.

I pray for unity in the church. I pray for peace in the entire world. I pray for the Middle East.

I pray for Syria, our beloved country, Syria. I pray for our beloved country, Lebanon. I pray for our beloved country, Iraq.

I pray for our beloved country, Egypt. I pray for every country, even though Egypt is not part of the Middle East. But I pray that all Christians worldwide are safe and sound ever close to the Lord Jesus.

I pray for every soul that is distant from the Lord to come back and be found in 2025. I pray for every soul that is close to the Lord to remain even closer to him in the new coming year and forever and eternities to come. I pray for unity in every broken family.

I pray for the King of Peace to bestow his peace in every heart, in every home, in every nation, in every country, in every corner, in every soul. I pray the Lord Jesus is more triumphant and glorified in this coming new year. I pray the whole world is converted and comes back to the only way, the only truth and the only life, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our Lord, our God, our Savior, our Redeemer, our Heavenly Father, our Heavenly companion, friend, our everything.

I pray that the Lord is always triumphant in you, my beloved. I pray that the Lord is always glorified in you, my beloved. I pray for every country.

I pray for America. I pray that Mr. Donald Trump, the re-elected president, that he works for the Lord Jesus because the time is very near. Nothing saves a person.

Nothing saves a country. Nothing saves a nation unless Jesus Christ is called upon to come to our rescue, to our salvation. So, Mr. President, hold on to the Lord Jesus and no matter how many difficulties you encounter, don't ever lose track of the Lord because people cannot do nothing for you.

Neither yourself can do anything for yourself unless Jesus Christ is the crown of glory of our souls. We need the Lord. So hold on to the Lord.

I pray for Canada. I pray for Europe. I pray for Africa, for Asia, for the entire world.

May the Lord bestow His love and peace in every heart. Love everyone, Christians and non-Christians alike. Pray for everyone, but as a Christian, don't ever be ashamed of your Lord Jesus before the whole world lest He be ashamed before His heavenly Father and the angels of heaven.

Then it is a problem that has no cure. Be proud of your Lord Jesus. And with a loud voice, say, I'm a proud Christian.

I belong to my Jesus and Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh. I'll say it with love. I'll say it with humility, but with boldness.

With boldness, my beloved. I pray also for our beloved Jewish people and our beloved Palestinians. I pray that they find peace and live as neighbors, loving and respecting one another.

When I see bloodshed, when I see little children crying for losing their parents and vice versa, parents losing their children, nothing is worth it in this world to reach such a low level of hurting people, killing people, destroying people. Nothing is worth it. I pray we come to our senses and we put our hands together and say, we are friends, we are neighbors.

We need to respect and honor each other. Your faith is different to mine. My faith is different to yours.

But in humanity, we are all equal. In humanity, we are all equal, at least at that level of humanity. We need to respect each other and love one another.

But whatever your faith is, keep it to yourself. And you can preach it and be free about it, because there should always be a freedom of speech and a freedom of religion. Just like a Buddhist is proud to be a Buddhist, just like a Hindu, a Muslim, and also an atheist.

As a Christian, I need to be able to preach it with absolute freedom and absolute confidence. And I can assure you, Jesus Christ is the only true living God. He will never find anyone else, because there isn't.

It's only Him. Amen. All right.

So all the best. I'm going to miss you, man. I don't want you to go.

I'm going to miss you very much. You know, you are my reason for that oxygen to come back to me. What am I going to do now for three weeks? Man, I'm struggling already.

It's a three-week break. On the fourth one, we'll come back, which is 17th of January. I pray the 17th of January just runs and comes back quickly so I can come back to my beautiful children, my beautiful souls, my beautiful family, and be with you again and see the big smile.

The moment you leave, I'm grumpy. I'm sad. I'm brokenhearted.

You have no idea how much I love you. You have no idea. Can I talk about love? No.

You have to go home. Now, I truly love you. I thank the Lord for all of you and all of you who are watching as well.

And all of you have sent emails and messages. We get them, but I don't have the time to answer them all. I thank you so much for your prayers.

I thank you so much for your encouragements. I thank you so much for attending online or in person here at the church. And some of us come from far away, driving maybe over an hour.

But regardless, whether you live close or distant from the church, thank you so much for coming all this time. I pray that we continue serving the Lord together. I pray that we worship the Lord together.

I pray that we honor the Lord together. I pray we share the Lord. I share His love and His kindness and His mercy and His beauty together, my beloved.

Jesus Christ is just breathtaking. Jesus Christ is just mind-blowing. Jesus Christ is just Jesus Christ.

He's the only one. So special. So unique in every way, form, and shape.

He's just incredible. Man, I get upset with Him. I get tired with Him.

I get angry with Him. But I can't but not love Him, no matter what. I was saying to one beloved person today, a non-Christian.

I said, when we spoke and we were misunderstood, where they thought I was attacking, you know, other faith and other religions. No, no, no. Far from it.

I was just stating a fact that the Lord allowed me to live. He allowed me to live it. Look, I can't make this up.

Please, I beg you. I cannot make it up. I cannot gain anything out of it because the Lord will strike me if I'm lying.

I'm not that smart to make such thing up. Maybe a smart person will be able to make it up. But I'm dumb.

I'm not smart. Look, the Lord took me to heaven. I couldn't find anyone but Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

In fact, He was at the gate of heaven. Now I can describe you what heaven is like. All I can say with this earthly language that is so limited when it comes to explaining how heaven is like, or what heaven is like, the language is very weak.

It falls extremely, extremely beyond short to give it its real fullness of what heaven is all about. The beauty, the glory, the honor, the magnificence of it. It's just breathtaking.

Breathtaking. Look, He took me to heaven. I'm not lying.

I couldn't find anyone but Jesus. He was at the gate and then He disappeared. And He let me walk through.

And He said, you are walking through the heavenly Jerusalem. Why He disappeared? Because I realized afterwards that He is the gate of heaven. He is the way.

And there is no other way. You cannot enter heaven without me. That's why I showed you myself and then I showed you that gate because I am the gate.

Without me, you cannot enter. It is by me, through me, you enter. I get you to the gate and I become the gate.

For your entrance to heaven. There is no one else. It's only Jesus.

Believe me, I'm saying it with love, with love and humility. With love and humility. When you find, when you meet Jesus face to face, the Lord Jesus, then you'll realize there is no other God but Him.

You realize this. He's the only one. And this has got nothing to do with being a Christian, please.

God is God. Whether you're a Christian or not, who cares? God is always God. What do you think? You're a Christian.

Now He's God. No, He is God. That's why you're a Christian.

He made you to be. But God is love. He loves all of His children and He wants them to come to the truth.

There is only one God. There is only one way. When I went to heaven, I only found Jesus Christ.

For this, I'll never stop shouting. Till the day my God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, calls me home. I'll never stop shouting.

He gave me this. He gave me this. It's not me.

So many times, I don't want this. You guys don't know me. I never wanted this.

It was the Lord who chose this for me. And He put in my heart to love you. He put it in my heart, the Lord.

I'm nothing. Oh, I adore you all. I not only love you, I adore you.

I'm willing to die a million times for every single one of you. For you to be safe and sound and close to the Lord Jesus. I pray that you're always close to the Lord.

The Lord is good. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. One God.

Amen. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

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

Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Oh, divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console.

To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. Amen.

May the Lord Jesus bless you, guide you and protect you all the days of your life. Now and forevermore. Amen.

Go in peace. The peace of Christ be with you always. Merry Christmas and a very happy new year.

God bless.