Mar Mari Emmanuel calls the church to genuine repentance and warns against false leadership that replaces Christ as the true head, urging believers to return to humble, Christ-centered faith.
In this prophetic sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel passionately urges the church to repent and return to a Christ-centered faith. He exposes the dangers of false leadership that elevates itself above Jesus, the true head of the church. Using the example of Simon Peter's denial and restoration, the speaker calls for humility, genuine love, and faithful stewardship among believers. This message is a wake-up call for the church to reject spiritual complacency and embrace the transformative power of Jesus Christ.
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And Jesus, the love of everyone. Jesus is my love. Jesus is my adoration.
Jesus is my worship. Jesus is my sweetheart. Jesus is my eyesight.
Jesus is the crown of glory over my head. Jesus is my strength. Jesus is my shelter refuge.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Jesus is the first and the last.
Jesus is the beginning and the end. Jesus is the good shepherd and there is no one good but him, for God is good. And Jesus is the life and the resurrection.
Jesus is my home, my love, my dad, my mom, my brother, my sister, my kingdom, my everything. With him, I need nothing. In him, I have everything.
And let this be heard, he who has an ear to hear, let him hear. For I fear nothing and fear no one. The church in the end of time, it is laodikia, we are living in the end of times.
And what we are seeing around us on a global level, it is nothing short but evil in its core. Jesus sees you all. I say to all of you, repent before it is too late.
A day is coming, every human being on the face of this planet, regardless your race, regardless your color, regardless your ethnicity, regardless of your religious background, every human being, a day will come, you will have to face your creator and give an account to everything you've done and said and what have you done for him when he calls you and say, give me an account of what I've given to you. I've made you a steward and I've given you my property, my possession. And I said, look after it, what have you done with what I have entrusted you with? Where is it? What are we going to say? I just wonder what are we going to say.
There is one true divine God that has created everything that is visible and invisible and this God for me is no one but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory and worship and hallelujah to his holy name. The sound of the wolf, it freezes in its place and becomes like a statue out of fear.
The sheep, the moment hears the sound of the wolf, becomes a statue out of fear. Tells the wolf, come and eat me and devour me. Can't move anymore.
A sheep without the shepherd is lost and dead. But the Lord Jesus said it, my beloved, when the multitudes gathered around him and he was preaching to them for three days and after three days he realized they were hungry and he said to his disciples, you know, and he said, I need to release them because they are hungry. But the reason why I came and preached to you for three days non-stop, because I showed compassion toward you, my sheep, since I put shepherds to shepherd you, but those shepherds turned out to be hirelings.
They were there for wages, they were not there for my sheep since I put shepherds, but they came to be false shepherds. Then I, Jesus Christ, the good shepherd came and looked after you, myself. Today exactly it is happening in our time and age.
The very shepherds which the Lord Jesus has placed in his church have falsified the truth and have drifted away from the truth because they said now we are rich, we became wealthy and we are not in need of no one including God. We are God on earth and that is why the sheep are hungry and lost. There is only one that is the head of the church, Jesus Christ.
All of us are hopeless servants. It is out of the mercy, out of the love and the compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ that he placed someone like me and called me a shepherd. But this shepherd, when Jesus put me here, that does not mean I can do whatever I want.
No, I can only do what my Jesus tells me to do. The moment I walk away from the Lord, I have destroyed the flock and I have brought turmoil and division and chaos into the church of Christ. We are all followers.
Christianity is about followers, not leadership. There is only one leader, Jesus, and all of us from the highest rank to the lowest are nothing but followers of the only good shepherd who is the head and the only head of the church. My beloved, that love, that divine love which we were supposed to give it back to God the Father, we gave it and we made people to give it to us as leaders.
Don't worry my dear friend, the Lord Jesus gave me the keys and he said, whatever you loosen on earth is loosened in heaven and whatever you tie on earth, it is loosened, it is tied in heaven. Excuse me, but based on what the Lord Jesus said it, based on him, on his word, which is the truth, the Holy Bible, any shepherd that loses and ties things outside the word of Christ is a false leader. He is not telling you the truth, he is lying to you.
When did the Lord Jesus give the keys to Simon Peter? We need to read the Holy Bible my beloved. When the Lord Jesus was with the twelve apostles in the last supper, the Passover, where the Lord got up in that night and he said, this bread is truly my body and this wine is truly my blood and he said to them, it is written about me that the shepherd shall be striked and the sheep will be scattered. It is written about me, the Lord is referring to the Old Testament, he is referring to the prophecies of the Old Testament and what is the prophecy? It is the word of God.
God cannot lie my beloved. So the Lord said, it is written about me, it is prophesied, it is the word of God that is written in the Old Testament that I, the shepherd, the good shepherd shall be striked, I'll be crucified and you sheep, you my apostles, you'll be scattered out of fear. Simon got up and said, Lord, if all of these, meaning his brothers, the other apostles, if all of them deny you, I will not deny you.
The Lord, you know, in a nice way said, Simon, you're talking too big of a word, it is bigger than you, you can't handle what you're saying my dear Simon, relax, take it easy brother, yo bro, take it easy. Simon didn't get it, he continued on and he said, even I am with you till death, the death of the cross, I am with you. Wow, he gave Jesus our Lord no choice but to say to him, Simon, you've pushed your luck my dear friend, I'm telling you tonight before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times and Simon did.
When the Lord rose from the dead, he called Simon Peter, he said, Simon son of Jonah, come here, I'm wondering what was Simon thinking, he said, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me? Simon got the shock of his life, he was thinking that now since Jesus is calling me to him, he is gonna wipe the floor with me, he's gonna chop me to smithereens, he's gonna put me to shame in front of everyone because he's gonna remind me what I said a couple of days ago at the last supper, I promised Jesus that I'm with you till death and I failed, I denied him not before a Roman soldier, I denied him before a woman and I denied his divinity and humanity and I swore I do not know this man, yet in Matthew 16, he said, you are Jesus Christ, son of the living God. He acknowledged in Matthew 16, Jesus Christ, both his divinity and humanity and before a woman, he denied his divinity and humanity. Where is your promise? So when Simon heard from the Lord Jesus saying to him, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me? He was shocked, totally unexpected, he said, Lord, I thought you were gonna put me to shame, I thought you were gonna judge me, I thought you were gonna chop me.
Do I love you? Lord, you know that I love you. The Lord repeated it three times and three times Simon said, Lord, you know that I love you. In the last supper, my beloved, Simon said, I am with you, Lord.
In the last supper, Simon put himself before the Lord and anyone, any church leader and any government and any human being that put themselves before God, they have to fall and must fall because no one comes before God, no one, no one has, no one will ever be able to and anyone who tries to be before God, that being must fall. Satan was an angel in heaven, he tried to put himself before God, he failed and fell from the highest level to the lowest level, from a beautiful angel to an ugly, foul spirit. So Simon in the last supper said, I, then Jesus and when anyone put themselves before the Lord, they must be put to shame and fall.
Simon learned the lesson after resurrection, Simon come here, do you love me? Simon said, hang on, in the last supper I said, I am with you, I was afraid, and denied you before a woman and not a Roman soldier, I learned my lesson, Lord, Lord, you know that I love you. The cycle was reversed, now it is you first, I learned my lesson, Lord, but I learned it the hard way, but it doesn't matter, as long as I've learned it, it is okay, Lord, you know that I love you. Then Jesus gave the keys to Simon because a shepherd, a leader in the church that put himself before Jesus Christ must fall and destroys the sheep, but a true shepherd is the one who puts Christ first than him, because I only get my strength, I only get my wisdom, I only get my energy, I only get my food, I only get my life and my glory and everything from Jesus Christ of Nazareth, no one else.
So the leader of Laodicea, you're saying that you are rich and you have become wealthy and you are in need of no one, so you are not in need of God, Jesus Christ, and you want to lead the flock of Christ, and you want to lead the church of Christ without Christ, have you become the head? Have you lost your mind? Can anyone remove Jesus from his position? Can anyone take Jesus Christ's place? There is only one head to the body, the church is the body of Christ, as Saint Paul tells us in Ephesians 5, and Christ is the head of the church, but we've become the head. Come to me, what's your problem? Go and pay this much and I'll give you whatever you want, because I've got the keys, whatever I tie, it's tied in heaven, and whatever is loosened is loosened in heaven, we are buying and selling in the house of Lord, we have snatched the love of God the Father and given it to ourselves as leaders in the church, shame on us.
Sermon Outline
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- Jesus as the ultimate shepherd and source of all strength
- The church in the end times resembles Laodicea's lukewarm state
- Call for repentance before judgment comes
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- The failure of false shepherds who prioritize wealth over truth
- The danger of leaders who replace Christ as head of the church
- The role of true shepherds as humble servants following Jesus' commands
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- The story of Simon Peter's denial and restoration as a lesson in humility
- Jesus' authority given only to those who love and follow Him
- Warning against pride and self-exaltation in church leadership
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- The church must recognize Jesus as the only head
- Condemnation of buying and selling within the church
- Urgent appeal to restore the love of God and true worship
Key Quotes
“Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Jesus is the first and the last.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“A sheep without the shepherd is lost and dead.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“There is only one leader, Jesus, and all of us from the highest rank to the lowest are nothing but followers of the only good shepherd who is the head and the only head of the church.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Examine your heart and repent from any spiritual complacency or pride.
- Recognize Jesus Christ as the only true head of the church and submit to His authority.
- Leaders should serve humbly and faithfully, following Christ's example and commands.
