Mar Mari Emmanuel emphasizes that seeing the face of God requires detachment from earthly desires and living a holy life, revealing the profound glory and reality of Jesus Christ.
In this devotional sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel invites believers to detach from worldly distractions and embrace holiness to truly see the face of God. Through the powerful testimony of Timav Irini and vivid descriptions of heaven, he reveals the profound reality of Jesus Christ's glory and the eternal life that awaits the faithful. Listeners are encouraged to live with eternal perspective and prepare their hearts for the divine encounter.
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When will we see the face of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth? The day we become not earthly. What does that mean? When we let go of the pleasures and the treasures of this world. Stop chasing this materialistic world.
We are too busy for the Lord. The Lord is calling me to Him. I'm busy with my dad, with my mom, with my wife, with my husband, with my brother, with my sister.
Old McDonald's had a farm. He there and everywhere I'm running. He there and everywhere I'm running.
I am holding on to materialistic things. I'm trying to build wealth for myself, to build fame and name and prestigious life for myself. I don't have the time to see the face of God because it takes holiness to see it.
It takes not earthly being to see the heavenly being. When we detach from everything that is of this realm, heaven reveals itself to us. It's either heaven or earth.
You chase earth, you cannot see heaven. You let go of earth, heaven has come down to reveal itself to you. And who is in heaven? The face of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
But in heaven, we will see the Lord Jesus all the time. No more begging to see Him. No more begging to hear Him.
No more begging to be with Him. I'll be there all the time, non-stop for eternities. Jesus is me and I am Him.
We become one. I'll see Him face to face. What a glorious moment.
Let me tell you this, my beloved. The day you see the face of Christ, you'll be blown away forever. This stops.
Your intellect seizes. He's beyond every intellectual capacity. His beauty, His awesomeness, His holiness.
He's just incredible. He's just incredible. Just incredible.
Timav Irini was a mother superior for this convent in Egypt. Now she's in heaven. She's in paradise.
100%. She's a mighty saint. While she was on earth, she was telling the story herself, by the way.
And I believe and I trust every word she says. I trusted blindly because I know what kind of a person she is. Not fully, but I know a fair bit.
And I know she's a mighty saint. She is in the heart of paradise. She said, one day I was in my cell.
She was the mother superior of this convent in Egypt. And the convent is still there. There's plenty of nuns that still live in that convent.
So she was in her cell praying. The angel of God appeased while she was praying in her cell. And then he says to her, my Lord Jesus Christ sent me.
He said, go and call my daughter. I miss her. True story.
So we need to wake up. See when we leave material realm, heaven becomes vividly clear. Stop living for this world.
Stop chasing after the pig's field, the filth of the world, the temptations of the world. Live holy. You will see the face of God on earth before you make it to heaven.
So she said, the angel appeared and said to me, the Lord sent me. And he says, I miss my daughter. Call her.
Bring her to me. She said, I'm in the flesh. I'm not dead.
He says to her, do you know who Jesus Christ of Nazareth is? Have you any idea? Listen, I am here to fulfill the order of my Lord and my God. He said, bring her. I'll bring her.
She said, he grabs my hand. In a blink of an eye, I was facing a humongous citadel. The big door opens.
She said, I'm standing. I know I'm in my physical form as well. So is Saint Paul, by the way, because he says, whether in the body or outside of the body.
Yeah, no, no, he was in the body. He was taken up there in the body. Yes, Saint Paul.
But so is his daughter, Timav Irini. She said, I'm standing and I'm feeling everything around me. And I'm in a shock.
I'm saying like, I'm not dead. What am I doing here? But I can't deny what I'm seeing. What I'm seeing is glorious, magnificent.
It blew my mind away. But I'm still living it. And then when the door opens, there was a long aisle.
And at the end of the aisle, there is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords sitting on his throne. Oh, my Lord. Oh, my goodness.
She said, from the awesomeness of his appearance, I fell as if I were dead to the ground, to the floor. Just like John the Beloved in the book of Revelation. He says, when I saw him in his glory, I fell as if I were dead.
The angel came and said, don't be afraid. He will make you live the Holy Bible, the Lord. Because you know what? His word is truth.
And what is written is the truth. And he will make you live the truth if you give up things for his sake. Because at the end, the world is not yours.
It's not ours. We need to leave it, whether we like it or not. So she said, I fell on my face and I started crawling because he called me.
He says, daughter, come. I called you. Do not be afraid.
Come, my daughter. She said, I kept on crawling all the way till I got close to his feet. He was slightly elevated, sitting on the throne majestically, but his feet slightly elevated.
I got so close to the feet, I see where the wounds of the nails are still pieced in his feet, in his glorious, in his glorified body. Because that's the only difference that's going to be between him and us. He will give us the glorified body, but all of us will not have the wounds except him.
Because those wounds will also remain in the glorified body forever to remind us all every time we look at the Lord Jesus and see the places of the wounds, reminds us the wounds were the very reason for us being in his kingdom. So that will be the reminder forever. The reminder forever.
So I looked at his feet, then there is the place of the wounds. She said, he puts his hand under my chin and he lifts my head up because he knows I'm so afraid. He lifts my head and I am head to head, my eyes and his eyes are this close.
I'm looking straight into his face, the face of God. And he said, my daughter, do you know why I brought you here? I miss you, but I also brought you here because I'm going to show you a few things because I want you to go back and tell my children, why have they forgotten about me? I am not a myth. I am the truth.
I do exist and I am God revealed in the flesh. I'm your savior. I'm your redeemer.
I'm your Lord. I'm your God. I came to show you who I am, to remind you and everyone.
I want you to go back and tell them I am not a myth. I am real. And she says, he showed me heaven and showed me hell.
Some things she spoke of, some things the Lord said to her, do not talk about. And then after all that, the angel took me back to my cell again. They will see the face, his face and his name shall be on their foreheads, his name on their foreheads.
We read before in the book of revelation about the enemy, Satan 666. And it says, and he, and this 666, which is the name of the, of the antichrist was written on their foreheads. Satan writes his name on certain people's foreheads and God writes his name on those who accept him and believe in him till the end on their foreheads as well.
And what does the forehead represent? This is your brain area, your intellect, where your thoughts are. The Lord says, those people whose thoughts are for Satan will not be in my kingdom, but those people whose thoughts are with me, they will be with me in the end, because this is what I came for. And I said it father, just like where I am, I want them to be with me as well.
I've written my name on your foreheads to make sure you get to me at the end. Verse five, there shall be no night. There shall be no night there.
They need no lamp nor light of the sun for the Lord God gives them light and they shall reign forever and ever and they shall reign forever and ever. Who are the ones that are going to reign forever and ever? The servants. Who are the servants? The sons.
So you see the servants are the sons, because the sons are the only ones who will reign. A servant cannot reign with his master, only the son can reign with his father. Yes, but there shall be no night there.
They need no lamp nor light of the sun. In heaven there is no day, there is no night, neither day nor night, because the day requires the sun and the night requires the moon. In heaven there is no s-u-n and there is no moon, therefore there is no day, there is no night.
Why? Because the Lord God gives them light. Who is the Lord God? Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So who is the light of heaven? The s-o-n, the son of God.
There is only going to be the s-o-n who is the light of the next life. There is no day, there is no night, there is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the light of heaven. And we will reign with him forever and ever.
My goodness, when there is no day, no night, there is no aging. You don't grow older anymore. How do we grow older? Because of the day and the night.
The moment they cease, there is no aging anymore. Everybody will rise at the age of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 33. That's the perfect age.
According to the law of God, 30 is maturity. See the Lord is 33. Why? 30 is maturity and 3 is divinity.
Father, Son, Holy Spirit. That's why the Lord showed, that's why the Lord started his ministry at the age of 30 and over, not prior.
Sermon Outline
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I. The Call to Detachment
- Let go of materialistic pursuits
- Stop chasing earthly pleasures
- Busy lives hinder seeing God
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II. The Vision of Heaven
- Experience of Timav Irini
- Encounter with the King of Kings
- The reality of glorified bodies
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III. The Significance of Seeing God
- Holiness required to see God
- The eternal reign with Christ
- The name of God on believers' foreheads
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IV. The Eternal Light and Life
- No night or aging in heaven
- Jesus as the light of heaven
- The perfect age of resurrection
Key Quotes
“When we detach from everything that is of this realm, heaven reveals itself to us.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The wounds of the nails will remain in His glorified body forever to remind us of the reason for our salvation.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“There shall be no night there... for the Lord God gives them light and they shall reign forever and ever.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Prioritize spiritual pursuits over materialistic desires to experience God's presence.
- Cultivate holiness in daily life as a preparation to see and dwell with God.
- Remember the eternal reality of heaven to strengthen faith and hope amid earthly challenges.
