Songs Of Songs Chapter 1

In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. We thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for his infinite love, mercy, and kindness, allowing us to be in his holy church, in his holy presence, sharing his word, which is the only truth in existence, for he is the way, the truth, and the life, God revealed in the flesh, the one and only Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the beloved Son of God and God himself. I pray, those who are 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. Okay, this evening we're continuing our journey in the book of the Song of Solomon, and today we'll be reading, we're still in chapter one, but we'll be taking two verses by the grace of the Lord, and they are verses nine and ten.

So it is Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon, chapter one, verses nine to ten. I have compared you, my love, to my filly among Pharaoh's chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains of gold, and all glory be to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, forever and ever.

Amen. Well, last week we spoke about verse seven and eight, and we said that the bride was looking for her heavenly groom, and she said, tell me whom I love, where you feed your flock, where you make at rest at noon, for why should I be one who veils herself by the flocks of your companions? And then the reply came from the heavenly groom while she was in search of him at midday. The reply came from the Lord Jesus and said in verse eight, if you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the footsteps of the flock and feed your little goats beside the shepherd's tents.

And we said that the Lord saw so uniquely, he replies, where she is seeking him as the good shepherd, the good shepherd comes back and says, go on the footsteps of the sheep rather than the shepherd. And this is where we see the intercession of saints, so a vital and pivotal point in our Christian life. She is seeking the shepherd, but the shepherd says, it's okay, go to my sheep, they will lead you to the shepherd tents.

And when you come to the shepherd's tent, then bring out your goats. And we spoke in depth about this. Now, today we see another sort of approach from the Lord Jesus being the heavenly groom to his beloved bride, i.e. the church, and that is all baptized souls in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God, amen.

This entire Christian world is the church or the bride of Christ. In verse nine, the Lord is saying, so it's continuing, after you go on the footsteps of the sheep of the flock, after you go on the footsteps of the sheep of the flock, and when you come to the shepherd's tent, we said it's the church, he said to her, bring out your goats, and the goats are your sins. Bring out your goats, meaning confess your sins when you come to church, because in the church there is the holy altar, and on the holy altar is the body of Christ, or the body and the blood of Christ and the truth.

So when you come before receiving the body and the blood of Christ, you need to bring out your goats, i.e. confess your sins, and this was the reason why you couldn't find me when you were searching for me in your most difficult time of your life, and that was midday noon, where the sun is the strongest and the harsh, harshest ever. So when we are fallen so deep and far in our sins, we seek the Lord and there is not a whisper of him, reason being, the Lord says, since you are living in sin, I cannot be with you until you confess your sins and receive me in the true body and the blood, which is served on the holy altar in the shepherd's tent, which is the church of the Lord Jesus. He is the shepherd and the tent is the church.

So now after I came, confessed my sins, I received the body and the blood of Christ for the remission of those sins. I've been cleansed, I've been purified. The Lord comes in verse 9 and says the following.

He's saying it to the bride, to every single one of us. I have compared you, my love, to my filly among Pharaoh's chariots. Wow.

I have compared you, my love, to my filly among Pharaoh's chariots. What is a filly? Another word, horse. Now here is another proof that this book is not talking about earthly love between a man and a woman.

Definitely not. And verse 9 proves it also, that it is not, as some people may think, that this book is talking about a love between a man and a woman. It is inappropriate to be part of the Holy Bible.

Well, verse 9 proves it, it is not so. Why? Because I'll ask every man, would you ever go to your sweetheart, your wife, your fiancee, the girl you're about to be married to, will you ever say to her, my darling, you're so beautiful, you look like a horse. I think this will be the last statement ever for you to proclaim, because after that, the burial ceremony would have already started before finishing the sentence.

You would never ever say to your sweetheart girl, you're as beautiful as a horse. I think the the common reply from her would be, you look like a Adi Fadali donkey. So you can see that this is not any earthly love, because a man would not call his beloved wife a horse.

Well, but the Lord comes and says, I have compared you, my love, to my filly among Pharaoh's chariots. You, my love, and look how sweetly the Lord is talking to every single one of us. He's calling us his love.

Now, this is the ultimate way of talk when it comes to absolute perfect divine love, where there is no blemish in it, there is no hypocrisy in it, it is absolute truthfulness from the heart to the heart. He's calling you his love. Every one of you, the Lord says, you're my love.

I love you more than myself. And I have compared you to that horse and the chariots, plural with an s, and the chariots of Pharaoh. What is the Lord talking about here? I have compared you, my love, to my filly, to my horse among Pharaoh's chariots.

This is the life of sanctification. The Lord is calling us to be living in a life of sanctity, sanctification. Pharaoh here represents the king, the chariot where the king sits in.

And that chariot is tied to horses that pull that chariot. In other words, the Lord is saying, you are like that horse attached to the chariot where the king is in it. Meaning, wherever there is the king, there is the chariot.

And wherever there is the chariot, there is the horse, i.e. I love you so much. I want you to be with me wherever I am, attached to me like a horse being attached to the chariot. This is the life of sanctity.

You see, when you love someone the most, you want them to be with you 24-7. You want them to be with you wherever you go and wherever you may be. You do not wish to be separated from them, nor that they separated from you.

Because when the love is so powerfully strong, it is impossible for that heart to be divided and separated. So, the Lord says, you are my love. And since you're my love, you are the only one that I look at.

You are the only one that I think of. You are the only one that I wish to be with. Therefore, my love, I have compared you like that horse that is attached and connected to that chariot, so that wherever the chariot goes, the king is there in that chariot.

And whenever that king goes, the horse never leaves sight of the king, nor that chariot. I want you to be with me always without fail. Because I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I am with you always without fail.

I want you to be with me the same way I am with you. When you sleep, I don't leave you out of my sight. And when you go out, I go out with you.

And when you come back, I come back with you. When you talk, I talk with you. And when you're silent, I am silent inside of you.

Wherever you are, I'm with you. I want you to be the same with me. Because my beloveds, since it's a matrimonial bond between the heavenly groom and the bride, i.e. the church, then there is no separation.

The two are one. Isn't that what God said? What God has united, let no man separate. The two are no longer two, but one.

The man is the head and the woman is the body. When the body goes, the head is with it. And when the head goes, the body is with it.

You don't leave the body behind and the head goes on its own and vice versa. When the body goes on its own, the head is always with it. Whether physically is or not, the body and the head are always connected, cannot be separated.

The moment you separate the head from the body, there is death. What is divorce? Death and the sight of God. Death.

Now, I want you to be like that horse connected to the chariot. Because the chariot is the place where the king sits. And wherever I go, I want you to be that horse connected to me.

The life of sanctity. Let me read this verse. It's not on the screen, but let me share this verse with you.

And to somewhat degree, it's a glimpse of theology. So if somebody has wondered, what is theology all about? Well, I'll give you a taste of it in this verse. We see this verse in first Peter.

First Peter chapter 1 verse 2. It's not on the screen. So it's the first epistle of Saint Peter chapter 1 and verse 2. This is a fisherman talking. I don't think a fisherman would talk in this kind of a theological way.

But look how the Holy Spirit is dealing with this fisherman. He says, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctification of the Spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Would a fisherman talk as such? Did you understand what he said, Saint Peter? I'll read it again.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in sanctification of the Spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Wow. Powerful words.

Powerful words. In the sanctification of the Spirit for obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. My goodness.

So how are we sanctified? He says, Saint Peter, sanctification of the Spirit. And what is the outcome of this sanctification of the Spirit? For obedience. And what else? And of the blood of Jesus Christ.

The sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. In this we come to this understanding, theologically speaking. What sanctifies us is the Holy Spirit.

What purifies us is the blood of Christ. So the blood of Christ does not sanctify a person. It is the Holy Spirit that sanctifies you.

But what purifies you is the blood of Christ. Now, why it is so foundational for the blood of Christ? Because without the blood, there is no purification. And without purification, there is no indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us.

Because the Holy Spirit is God. And God will not dwell in a house that is filthy, that is living in sin, that is dirty. God is holy and he needs to dwell in a holy place.

For that place to be pure, it took the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, to purify us in order for the Holy Spirit to dwell in us, thus sanctifying us for obedience. And if I see Saint Peter and not physically, I'll hug him and I'll kiss his feet for what he just quoted here. Amazing.

Fisherman. Wow. Now, why do we need sanctification? Because we must be obedient to the Lord Jesus.

Why do we need to be obedient? If we are not, then we cannot be that horse connected to the chariot. It takes obedience to be with the Lord always. When we are disobedient, we are not with him.

We have detached ourselves from the kings or pharaohs chariot. But it takes obedience to be with the Lord always. And it takes the Holy Spirit to sanctify us in order to be able to be obedient.

And it takes the blood of Christ to purify us for the Holy Spirit to be able to dwell in us, to sanctify us for obedience. Now, I'll give you an example. This cup, we put the blood of Christ in it.

What does sanctification do to a person? Sanctification does not, see this is theology. Sanctification does not change the nature of the person, but it specifies the nature of the person. Sanctification does not change the nature of the person, but rather specifies the nature of the person.

And I'll elaborate on this with this example. This is a cup. Now, this cup, we buy it from a specific place.

I, as a bishop, can buy it from that place. And you, my beloveds, as laity, you have no rank in the church, you can also go to that place and buy it as well. No one can stop you.

So I can buy it, you can buy it. Same cup, you'll take it home. When you take it home after paying for it, it is yours.

Whatever you do with it, you are absolutely free. Since you paid for it, it's your property. You can do anything with it.

So when you take it home, you can pour water in it, you can pour Coca-Cola in it, you can pour 7-Up, apple juice, orange juice, and I hope nothing else outside that circle. Otherwise, I will kill you. So you can do whatever with the cup.

But look at this now. When we acquire this cup, and this cup comes to the church, and comes to someone like me, good looking, okay? When it comes to someone like me, what do we do with this cup? We pray on it, anoint this cup. When we anoint this cup with prayers, the cup became sanctified.

Because we prayed by the power of the Holy Spirit for sanctification. So when we prayed on this cup, this cup became sanctified. Sanctification does not change the nature of the thing, but it specifies the nature of that thing.

When we prayed on this cup, did the color of the cup change? No. Did the shape of the cup change? No. But what has changed now after praying on it? The work, the specificity of the cup has changed.

Now this cup, after being prayed on, it cannot leave the church anymore. It cannot go anywhere else outside the church, and it cannot be used for anything except the blood of the Lamb of God, period. You see, sanctification specified the nature of the thing.

When the Holy Spirit dwelt in us through the holy baptism, what did it do? Sanctified us, but of course the Holy Spirit will start sanctifying us as we allow the Holy Spirit to do so, to work in us more and more and more. The more the Holy Spirit sanctify us, the more the power of God is revealed in us. And the world will see that we are being used as that vessel for the glory of God, nothing else, no one else.

After sanctification, my only role is to serve the Lord and no one else. As a Christian, do we do that? No, not always, sometimes. Even when we come and serve the Lord in his holy house, the church, sometimes we do it for our own benefits, our own credits, we don't do it for the Lord.

You see, I come and serve the Lord in the church so that I can be recognized by people and applaud me when I do something and say, look at you, well done, you're a wonderful servant of the Lord. So I do it for reward. I do it for recognition.

I am not still fully sanctified for the Lord because when I'm fully sanctified, everything I say and everything I do, it must be for the glory of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone, no one else. I'm not here for me. I'm not here for you.

I am here for the Lord because I am a sanctified vessel used for God purpose only, no longer me, but it is you, my Lord, who dwell in me. May your name be glorified, your hopeless and useless servant. As Christians, we are like this cup.

This cup cannot leave the church anymore, cannot be used for anything else anymore, but the blood of the Lamb of God. As Christians, what we do with this cup, your body, your spirit, your soul, what do you do with it? Do you go out and have fun like the world does? You are a sanctified cup for the Lord's use only, not for Satan. Are you with me now? My love, I have likened you onto that horse attached to the chariots of Pharaoh.

I want you to be attached to me, I the king of all kings, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, so that wherever I may be, you be with me also because you're my love. You belong to Christ, not to Satan. You belong to the church, not to the club.

You belong to the light, not to darkness. You are a sanctified vessel for the use of Jesus Christ only. If we are still fighting over materialistic things, this vessel is being used for outside of Christ.

If we are still searching for worldly things, if we are chasing worldly pleasures, we are abusing this cup which has been sanctified by the Holy Spirit. If we are seeking our own glories, not Christ's, then we have abused this cup once again. If we choose darkness over the light, we are abusing this cup.

We've allowed this cup to be used for something else outside of the blood of the Lamb of God. I have compared you, my love, to my filly, horse, among Pharaoh's chariots, plural. So how many chariots did Pharaoh have? When you read history, you'll find out the following.

He had three different chariots, Pharaoh. One used for war, two used for victory after war, and three, one used for going out on a picnic, hunting, and enjoying the day. He had three kinds of chariots, and they were different from one to the other.

When the people of Egypt saw Pharaoh sitting in a specific chariot, they knew, oh, he's about to start a war. When they saw him in another chariot, oh, thank God he has won the war. And when they saw him going in a different chariot, they said, well, he must be having a good day.

His wife hasn't bombarded him. He's got a cool day. He's out for a picnic day.

Let's go and hunt and enjoy the sunny day. The Lord is saying, I want you to be with me when I am at war. I want you to be with me when I am at peace, and I want you to be with me when I am happy.

All the time. Marriage. Will you take him in good times and bad times? Yeah, father.

In sickness and in health? Of course, father. In richness and in poverty? Yeah, yeah, father, hurry up, father. Poor guy gets sick.

That's it. Fair enough. I'm divorcing you.

You're good for nothing. You lost your wealth. You're poor now.

You're getting centaling payments. I can't stay with you anymore. You don't buy me the things you used to buy me.

Wow. So has love been hanging there according to what you feel like and what you're looking for? No. When it is genuine love, you will have loved the person, not what they have.

So you will love them whether they are rich or poor. You will love them whether they are sick or healthy. You will love them in every way, good or bad.

You will love them because love is supposed to be for the person himself or herself, not for what they have or what they do. On Monday, Bible preach, which is in Assyrian. A question came to me personally and I'm saying it with absolute humility.

All glory to the name of the Lord Jesus, always and forevermore. And the question was, bishop, what has changed in your life after the incident? Or what has the incident changed in your life? And my answer was straight away, the only thing that this incident changed is my love for the Lord Jesus. Because if I had loved him prior to the incident once, after the incident, I love him a trillion and ones and forevermore.

I love him more now. Because it is in good times and bad times. Lord, when you are hanging on the cross, I loved you.

And when you rose from the dead, I loved you. And I will love you always, Lord. When you give me the cross, I love you.

And when you give me your glory, I love you. Because I don't care about the suffering, neither the glories. I care about you.

What matters is you. I don't care to go to heaven or hell. I want to be with you, Lord.

So if I am with you and you take me to hell, so be it. Because the place matters not. What matters is the owner of the place.

I love you for you. Whether you do something or not, it's totally beside the point. I thank you for being you, Jesus.

I love you So with two eyes, one eye, who cares? As long as Jesus is happy, then that's what matters. That's okay. It's okay.

No, no, it's okay. We, all of us need to be like that. All of us.

We are dealing with Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God revealed in the flesh. God.

I have compared you, my love, to my filly among Pharaoh's chariots. When I'm at war, I want you to be with me. When I'm at peace, I want you to be with me.

And when I'm having a good day, I want you to also be with me. In all occasions, I want you to be attached. And the only way you're going to be attached to me, my love, is when the Holy Spirit sanctifies you for obedience.

Because sanctity allows you to be obedient. Without the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, there is no obedience. And without the sprinkling of the blood of the Lamb of God, there is no purity for the Holy Spirit to dwell in a clean house.

The Holy Spirit dwelt in me to sanctify me in order to be obedient to Jesus Christ, thus being like a horse attached to the chariot of the King. Wow. And this is the words of a fisherman.

Amazing. Amazing how the Lord changes the work of a man. From a fisherman catching fish, He started catching people for the Lord Jesus.

Wow. Incredible is the Lord. Incredible the way He operates.

Amazing. I have compared you, my love, to my filly horse among Pharaoh's chariots. And then verse 10, look at this.

Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains of gold. Wow. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains of gold.

Cheeks. How many tons of foundation do we put on our cheeks? Your cheeks are what? Are lovely with ornaments. See, in English, the translation is not that hundred percent.

When you go to the Arabic translation, there is a word used in Arabic called sumut. The word sumut literally means unleavened bread. Unleavened bread.

So the Lord Jesus is saying to His bride, your cheeks are like the unleavened bread and your neck is beautified with chains of gold. Your cheeks are like that unleavened bread. Unleavened bread.

I'll read you this verse which is Matthew 16, 6. And see what the Lord is saying here. Then Jesus said to them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And Jesus said to them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

When the Lord said this to His twelve disciples, they said, oh, we forgot to take bread with us. He said, you can't be this illiterate. I'm not talking about leaven that they put in a bread.

No, I'm talking about the false teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. This is the leaven I'm talking about. The false teachings.

Beware and take heed of the false teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Now leaven refers to false teachings. What is false teachings? Sin.

Because if you teach the wrong thing, you are in breach of the word of God. When you break the word of God, this is called sin. So the Lord is saying to the bride, your cheeks are like the unleavened bread.

That means your cheeks are like that bread without the yeast, without sin. And your neck has chains of gold around it. The cheek is an external member of the body that can be seen.

But the neck is hidden, my beloved. Unless you go out with a singlet on a hot day, but don't go out with a singlet. Cover yourself when you go out, even if it's hot.

The neck normally is hidden, but what is visible to the eye is the cheek. So what does the neck and the cheek represent in the biblical terminology? Well, the neck represents faith and the cheek represents deed. Saint James, the disciple of the Lord, he said, faith without deed is dead and deeds without faith are also dead.

So the Lord is saying to the bride, your cheeks are like that unleavened bread, but your neck has chains of gold in it. What connects the body to the head? The neck. Now according to Saint Paul, Ephesians 5, the church is the body of Christ and Christ is the head.

Now if Christ is the head and the church is the body, then what connects the church to Christ who is the head? The neck. So what does the neck represent? Faith, because what connects us to the Lord Jesus is faith. If you do not believe in him, you cannot be connected to him.

What connects you to him is faith. But look at this, the weakest member in the entire body is the neck. When the neck is broken, it can be fatal, my beloved.

When the neck is broken, it can be fatal. The Lord connects himself to us, the church, through the weakest member of the body, the neck. We are connected to the Lord through our weakness, not our strength.

Through our weakness, not our strength. I'll give you more clarity to this. If any Christian comes and says, you know, I can do this, I can build this, I can manage this, nobody can teach me what to do.

I am Mr. Know-it-all. The Lord is going to say, well, when since you are Mr. Know-it-all, you don't need God either. I can't interfere with your life.

I can't come in because you don't need nobody. You can do it on your own. So when you show that you are strong, the Lord Jesus will say, I can't work through with your strength.

I can only work through your weakness, not through your strength. If you're strong, well, manage it yourself. But if you come and say, if you come and say, Lord, without you, I'm blind.

Without you, I'm lost. Without you, I'm dead. Without you, I cannot do anything.

Then the Lord is going to say, now you're talking because the only time I will come and enter your life and manage your life when you confess the truth before the one who is the fullness of the truth. And it is so true that we cannot do anything without God if we truly sit and think about it. Do you know, do you want to know one foundational example why we cannot do it without him? How are we able to go and come? How are we able to prepare and plan things? How are we able to build? How are we able to achieve? How are we able to build an empire? It is only made possible when we are living.

Once we're dead, can a dead person do anything? Impossible. Now what keeps you living? This breath that you inhale and then exhale every single moment for years on end, yet you don't even pay attention to it. If I ask every single one of us, how many times did you inhale and exhale in one day of 24 hours? You will not know because you don't think about it.

It comes so naturally, you don't even realize it is there. This breath of life, the Lord says, it is me. I can stop it.

I can take it away. I can just turn the switch off. Now when I turn the switch off, let me see, Mr. Genius, Mr. Strongman, Superman, let me see what are you going to do when I stop that breath.

Yet so sweet and so cute and so calm. We don't think about it. This is the Lord every single moment.

You see, isn't the Lord saying the truth when he said in John 15 5, without me, you cannot do anything. So true because I am the breath of life. You take that breath, you can do things without that breath.

No matter how strong you are, how wise, smart you are and wealthy, everything ceases. So now when you come to your Jesus, are you going to speak that honest truth or are you going to falsify it? When you come to the Lord and say, Lord, you know what? I did this, but I need some help here, please, if you don't mind. The Lord is going to say, what? You did this? So you did this on your own without me? Wow.

So you need my help in this area, not in this area? Sorry, can't do. It is either all or nothing. This is love, baby.

This is matrimonial bond, baby. You don't pick and choose. Honey, I love you when you're nice to me, but I won't be loving you when you are not so nice to me.

No, baby. When you love me, you love me with everything I carry with me. I am good looking, not good looking.

I have a big nose, big ears like an elephant. Tough luck. It is tough luck for you.

You have to love me the way I am. And when you come to me, if you do not confess the truth, the truth will not intrude, interfere and enter your life. So if you're able to do certain things and you're not able to do other things, then you come to my rescue.

I cannot help you. You must say, Lord, I am dead without you. Period.

I'm hopeless. I am paralytic. I cannot do anything.

Lord, tell me what shall I do? What shall I say? Where shall I go? You show me the way, Lord. Because I'm confessing, Lord, I'm nothing without you. Now, this is the right way to connect yourself to Christ because what connects the body to the head is the neck and the neck is weakness.

The Lord will only work through your weakness. He will never interfere with your strength. Never.

This is the way the Lord operates. Now, you want to accept this? Reject it? It's your choice. You want to believe in this? You want to not believe in it? It is your choice.

But this is the truth. You will find out later, I hope not the hard way. I hope not the hard way.

But this is the Lord. Because He is everything. He is.

When we make it to heaven, we will fully understand that He's been everything all along. Everything is Him. Nothing happens without Him.

He is fully in charge of everyone and everything, including Satan. I'm talking spiritual beings, physical beings, everything. He's fully in charge.

Satan cannot do anything without the Lord's permission. Unless the Lord approves it, he cannot, he cannot do anything. The wisdom of God is infinite.

Can never fully fathom this. But let me tell you, humble yourself and say, Lord, I'm the greatest sinner of all. I'm useless.

I'm hopeless. I'm absolutely empty. I'm blind.

I'm dumb. You take care and you take over of your vessel, of your possession, which you have purchased with your own precious blood. I belong to you now.

Use me as you please and do with me as you please, my Lord. When you let the Lord work in you, oh my, my, my, my goodness what the Lord can do. He will take this piece of dust, minute piece of dust, and He will give you horizons and He will give you heavens no intellect can ever think of, dream of, and wish for.

He will take you beyond your intellectual capacity and He will definitely take you beyond your physical capacity in every form, way, or shape. The Lord is God. What He can do, there is no limit to it.

No limit. When I was a little kid, we used to play with those little marbles out in the street. We used to buy a bunch of them and we'd go and play with them.

Who would ever think that that little kid, one day he's going to be a bishop and one day, as people say, I don't know, there are so many people that listen to you bishop. I would never ever have thought of that. Man, all I knew as I was playing with those kids in the street with those little marbles, that's all I knew.

How the Lord molds you, shapes you, and makes you, navigates this life's journey, it is nothing short of a miracle. Nothing short of a miracle. Your cheeks are lovely with the unleavened bread, not ornaments, with the unleavened bread, meaning your deeds are sinless and your neck is filled with chains of gold.

Now, what is the story of chains of gold? Let me share with you another verse. This is in the book of Daniel. Look at Daniel says in 529.

Daniel chapter 5 and verse 29. Look at this. Then Belshazzar gave the command and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain, one, a chain of gold around his neck and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Wow. So Belshazzar who took over from Nebuchadnezzar and he made Daniel the prophet a Jew in the Babylonian empire in Iraq. All the Chaldeans and the Assyrians.

Aloha. So he made him the third ruler in his kingdom by putting one chain around his neck. So what is this chain all about? Rank, authority.

So in the kingdom of Belshazzar, when he put a chain, one chain of gold around someone's neck, that person became a minister. When he put two chains of gold around a person's neck, that person became prime minister. When he put three chains of gold, he is the king.

Three chains of gold. He's the king. Your, your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains, plural chains of gold.

Now, when you are, when you're familiar with the Arabic language, plural begins with the number three and above. In the Arabic language, plural begins with the number three and above. One is singular, two is duetto, but three is pluralistic.

So when he put chains around her neck, what is the chain? One chain, minister, two chains, prime minister, three chains, king. So the neck represents faith. When there is faith, three chains around your neck, that means, and that is gold.

What is gold? Divine nature. He's saying your faith is of a royal descent and your deeds are sinless. Since I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, have come and purchased you with my own precious blood, with my blood, I cleansed you with all of your, from all of your sins.

I made you pure. I made you clean in order for the Holy Spirit to dwell in you, to sanctify you for obedience. Since I cleansed you from your sins with my blood, your cheeks, i.e. deeds, became sinless and I put three chains of gold.

I made you of a royal descent. You descend from the royal family, my beloved, because your heavenly father is the king of all kings. You are all kings and queens in heaven.

And look at us. God made us heirs to his kingdom, to his throne, and we're fighting over a parcel of land, over a house, over a car, over a Chanel, over a bag, a brand. Don't come into my room.

How dare you come into my room? This is my room. Sis, bro, that's my room. Poor dad works so hard to build a house and the son says, this is my room.

Get out of my room, dad. Amazing. If the dad wants to be a bit harsh, he will reply to his son.

Son, whose house is this? Who gave you this house? Who built this house for you? Your dad? Well, isn't that room which you claim to be yours part of the house that belongs to your dad? Therefore, this room is not yours, my son. It is mine. But since I am a loving dad, I let you to remain in this room.

Otherwise, lawfully, I can kick you out, not just the room, but the entire house that belongs to your dad, not to you. Naughty boy. Since I cleansed you with my precious blood, your cheeks, the deeds became unleavened, no sin.

And your neck, your faith became heavenly, royal descent faith. So your faith is heavenly. You are connected to the king of all kings who went up and sat at the right hand of his father in the heaven of all heavens.

If you are connected to Christ who is sitting now in the heaven of all heavens, why are you walking in the dark alleys of the city of Sydney? Why are you going with so-called friends to the wrong places for the wrong reasons? Why are you looking at things wrongly? Why are you speaking ungodly? Why? Why? Where is your faith? Where is your connection to the Lord Jesus? Where is the Lord saying to you, I have likened you onto a horse attached to the chariot of Pharaoh for the chariot of the king. You belong to me, my child. You don't belong to nobody else.

You belong to me. You don't belong to nobody else. So-called friends took you away from me.

So-called businesses took you away from me. So-called situations took you away from me. What happened? Have you forgotten who purchased you with his own life on the cross? Have you forgotten? Has the world made you forget? Has the pleasures and the treasures of the world made you lose track of whom property you are? What happened? The 21st century is full of lustful things, freedom, technology, knowledge.

Everything has exploded in the 21st century. People are boasting about their knowledge, about their achievements, about their empires. Look what I've done.

I've built this empire. I'm a professor. I'm a scientist.

But you're an ignorant by denying the existing of God. You're an ignorant scientist. You're an ignorant professor.

All of that education led you to ignorance at the end. What have you done? What have you achieved? Nothing. Nothing.

It's amazing. It's not amazing. It's foolish for someone so educated to come and say there is no God.

What a foolish statement. What a foolish statement. Like this scientist who happened to be a Christian.

I think he was a Christian. But at least he spoke the truth. He said, I'll give you one aspect of the universe.

One little aspect of the universe and I'll show you scientifically, I'll show you how this universe came into existence. He said, okay, there was a big bang at some stage over 13.5 billion years ago. I just wonder, was it his uncle present there? Grandpa? Which of the family was present in 13.5 billion years ago? No one.

Okay. But let's assume there was a bang explosion 13.5 billion years ago. This scientist is saying, we're not going to talk about who caused the explosion because till now science still working out what caused it.

They'll have to come back to in the beginning God caused the big bang. There is no other explanation. Anyway, but let's forget about that.

The explosion happened. The scientist says, when the explosion happened, there was an enormous heat that came out of this explosion. When a bomb explodes, there's enormous heat.

This explosion is enormous beyond measures. So an immense heat came out. When that heat came out, every substance in heat would have expanded.

And then it took so many years, maybe millions of years for that heated substance to cool down. And then when it started cooling down, when the substance starts cooling down, it contracts. In heat it expands and in coldness and in cooling down it contracts.

He said, I'll give you the mathematical formula for the expansion and the contraction of the substance in order for life to be able to exist in this universe. He says, who told that substance how fast or how slow should it expand and how fast and how slow should it contract? Who controlled the expansion speed and the contraction speed? He said, I'll give you an example on how accurate the speed had to be for life to exist. He said, if a nanosecond, a nanosecond, the expansion was faster or slower, life wouldn't have been able to exist.

And if a nanosecond, the contraction was faster or slower, life wouldn't have existed. A nanosecond. Let me please elaborate what a nanosecond is.

Light travels at 300,000 kilometers a second. Life, light travels at 300,000 kilometers a second. What is a nanosecond? You take a strand of hair, pull one out of your head, that strand of hair, the light travels through that strand of hair, that is a nanosecond.

How fast would the light travel through that little strand of hair? You won't even capture it. That is a nanosecond. He said, it had to be controlled beyond the for life to exist.

And the only explanation to that control is God, who transcends time, matter, and space. He had to be non-tangible, he had to be wise, and he had to be infinite. This God is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

And can please just be with me for a moment, contemplate on this. This God comes and says to a minute piece of dust, Hubble telescope was sent to Jupiter, just to see if life was able to exist there. Because from Earth, through those telescopes, they realized there is a firmament to that Jupiter.

They said, maybe there is life. So they send this telescope into space. It took four years to get to Jupiter close enough to capture some photos much more clear.

The telescope took some pictures of Jupiter after four years, send it back to Earth. Since the distance is enormous, it took four hours or five hours for the pictures to arrive to Earth. When the pictures came, they said, wow, it's impossible for life to exist.

Because the firmament, the atmosphere there is all about cyclones. The wind blowing to almost six, 700 kilometers an hour non-stop cyclonic atmosphere. Life cannot exist there.

They said, well, it took four years for this telescope to get there. We're going to bring it back without taking a picture of our beautiful Mother Earth from there. How about we turn the telescope around and take a snapshot of our beautiful planet.

So they took a picture and send it back to Earth. Four hours later it arrived. They opened it.

They saw specks in the millions, in the millions specks of dust, in the millions in that picture. One of the specks was Mother Earth. They start taking one by one, taking it out, comparing, measuring.

He there everywhere said, that's not Earth, that's not Earth, that's not Earth. And then after I don't know how many days, the scientist came and he said, accidentally we removed Earth. We didn't realize that speck was Earth.

If this Earth is a speck, then how much are we of a speck of that speck? And look at this little tiny speck called the human, comes and says to God, you cannot stop me, I'll do whatever I want. What a joke. So the little elites, they're saying we control the globe.

Well my dear friend, you are a speck in a little speck. Gone with the wind baby. What control? Are you kidding yourself? That you are a laughable matter for you to think, being the speck of all specks, that you can control and be God.

Unbelievable. To what, to what level ignorance can reach? To what level? That's dumb. A piece of speck says, I'll live forever, I'll do whatever.

Oh my goodness. A piece of advice, my dear speck, let's put the prawns on the barbie mate. Aye, and we call it a dive.

Enjoy it brother, enjoy it friend. If you want to buy a fish burger and a chocolate sundae, go for it because there is no guarantee you're going to have it tomorrow because you're a speck. If you want to say hello to somebody that you haven't spoken to for a long time, go and amend because I can't guarantee tomorrow because I'm a speck.

The Lord Jesus, before even blowing out of his mouth like a baby blowing a candle, I will be blown away just by that candle being blown away. So there is no guarantee. What are you trying to achieve? What are you trying to be? Who do you think you are? The truth is we are nothing but a piece of speck.

But look at this enormous, gigantic, mighty, exalted, holy of holies, this God who created everything with his word. He comes and says, I love you. You are my bride.

I want you to be with me. He's talking to a speck, this infinite God. Now, how much more will God reveal his love for the human race? How much more? How much more? He has lowered himself beyond measures.

He has humbled himself beyond measures and he has shredded himself on the cross beyond measures. To me and you, a piece of speck. But to him, we are everything that he ever wished for.

Wow. Love is the supreme ethic. Love is the reason for life to exist and everything life offers.

The reason for all of that is this love. His name is Jesus Christ. Amen.

I have compared you my love to my filly, a horse among Pharaoh's chariots. Please be with me wherever I am. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments.

Your deeds are sinless because my blood cleansed you right out. And your neck with chains of gold. I have made you a king in my kingdom.

You descend from the royal family. Your faith is heavenly. Your faith is divine.

Your faith is from the royal family. That's where you belong, to the heaven of all heavens. What star city casino? What Las Vegas? What clubbing? What sabufa habibi in the backseat? What a dove dove? Hmm.

This is the Middle East in Wayne. Hmm. What? Come to the Lord.

Love the Lord. Live for the Lord. Be with the Lord.

My son, your friend calls you and says, what are you doing? Don't ever say nothing because that doesn't exist. You must be doing something. If you're not, at least you're thinking of something.

So you are doing something. So if he calls and says, what are you doing? Don't say nothing. And if he says, okay, we're going out.

Don't say yes, I'm coming. All right, my friend, please specify where we're going. Oh, we're going downtown.

No, don't have the time, my dear friend. Why? Because I made this promise that I will spend the time with my sweetheart, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Sorry, my dear friend, I don't have the time for you.

See you later. But before I go, my advice to you, my dear friend, come with me to the Lord Jesus. No more Satan.

Step on Satan. He deserves it. He deserves it.

So no more downtown. We're going uptown, bro. No more clubbing.

We're going to the church, brother. No more tequila. I'm drinking the blood of the Lamb of God that cleanses me right out and makes me sober because sin has made me drunk.

I don't realize my right hand from my left anymore. I'm like a drunken person. But I'm coming to the Lord to make me sober once again by his precious blood, which he shed on Calvary on the cross.

I want to be for the Lord. I am no longer for that darkness of the world. I step on it because Jesus Christ is my portion, my good portion.

So, my friend, are you coming or not? But I pray that you do because if you don't, there is one person that is irreplaceable, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Whatever you lose, lose, but don't ever lose Jesus because the moment you lose him, nothing can replace him. My mom left me.

My earthly mom left me. My earthly dad left me a long time ago, but my heavenly dad never left me. Never.

Never. Love the Lord Jesus, my beloved. Say, tie me onto you, Lord.

Don't let go of me, no matter what. So, my last word to you, my friend, if you don't come, I'm going without you. But it is sad to go without you.

So, please come and let us go together. Jesus is waiting for us with arms stretched wide open on the cross on Calvary. Let's go, my dear friend.

I mean, these words, when you read them, would you ever think they're going to be like this? Yeah. I have compared you, my love, to my horse among Pharaoh's chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains of gold.

May the Lord Jesus have mercy on all of us. May the Lord Jesus show us the way for ease, the way, the truth, and the life. May the Lord Jesus enlighten our hearts, our souls, our entire spirit, our entire being.

May the Lord Jesus hold our hand and guide us to the truth, and the truth shall set us free. May the Lord Jesus lead us to his heavenly Father, for when we get there, we are embraced by the true divine love for eternities to come. Let me tell you, my dear friend, heaven is much more real than this realm.

If you think this is reality, heaven is the truth. And if you think this reality exists, then heaven is the reason for the existence of this reality. Heaven is beautiful.

Heaven is totally different. I won't say there are similarities. It is totally different to this earth.

Heaven, everything is much more elevated. It is much more exalted. It is much more holy.

Heaven is the language of love only. Heaven, where God is, every time, all the time, would that fail? And when you see the awesome Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and this was the message we were trying to send all along, the Lord took me to heaven. I didn't see anyone but Jesus.

If I had seen any other prophet, any other human being that says, come, I take you to heaven, I would have said it, but I didn't. I only saw the Lord, because he is the only way. This is the truth, and it's got nothing to do with being a Christian or not.

It's got to do with the truth. The truth is Jesus Christ is God, revealed in the flesh, and he is the only one that can take you to heaven. He is the way to heaven.

He is the truth of heaven, and he is the life of that heaven. He is heaven itself. There is no one else.

You can believe it. You can reject it. Absolutely fine.

You have the right. You're free, my dear friend. I'm not the judge.

The Lord Jesus is, but sooner or later, every human being will come to this realization. And by the way, the Lord Jesus has got nothing to do with being a Christian or not. He wants your heart.

So what? You're a Christian, and you haven't given your heart to the Lord. It means nothing. You need to build a relationship with the Lord Jesus.

You need to be close to him. You need to get to know him. A one-on-one relationship.

Don't boast about being a Christian and say, I'm Catholic, I'm Orthodox, I'm this, I'm that. So what? With all love and respect. So what? Have you had an encounter with the Lord? Have you truly come into a personal relationship with the Lord? Have you given your heart to the Lord Jesus? Have you been genuine and honest about yourself and before the Lord Jesus? Have you confessed your sins? Have you said, Lord, I have transgressed against you.

I've done this and this and this, and I'm sorry, Lord, for offending you and breaking your heart. Have you genuinely come to the Lord? Have you? This is the question we need to answer, my beloved. Don't say, I am Catholic.

Don't say, I'm Orthodox. Gets you nowhere. You need to give your heart to Jesus Christ of Nazareth in order to change you from a sinner to saint, but above all, to change you from a dead person to a living one.

Because without life, there is no sanctity. Love the Lord. Oh, what a feeling.

Corona. No, we don't want corona. As families, please.

Please, I beg you. Seek the Lord as a family. Mom and Dad, sons and daughters, as a family.

Bring the Lord Jesus into your life. Say, Lord, this house we live in is yours, not ours. It's not ours.

It's yours. Everything is yours, Lord. So, please, dwell in the midst of this family.

We are making you the head of this family because you are, but we are acknowledging this truth. Lord Jesus, you look after us. You protect us, deliver us from every, every tribulation.

Lord Jesus, you guide us. You lead us. You are the shepherd who leads the flock to green pastures and still waters.

Lord Jesus, whenever I veer off, bring me back. Whenever I do something wrong, correct me, my Lord. And when I do something wrong, please have mercy on me, Lord, and be patient with me.

I know I'm stubborn. I know I am hardheaded. I know I have a lot of shortfalls and weaknesses, but please, just be patient with me, Lord.

I'm trying. Help me, Lord. Help me, Lord.

Be close to the Lord. Amen? That's the way. So, if your friend calls you and says, let's go downtown, what are you going to say? No, I'm going uptown.

And if he puts some music that says, what's this, man? What is this? I know I'm good. I got it. What is this? What is this? Put songs that praise the Lord.

Enough of this so-called Hollywood. Poison. Enough.

Who gives one penny about the celebrities that come out of Hollywood? There's only one celebrity. His name is Jesus Christ, that came out of heaven, of all heavens. Seek him.

Try and imitate him. Make him your role model, your idol, and make him your God. For he is, for he is God.

And this God was revealed in the flesh. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Man, I die for this man.

I love this man. I adore this man. Nothing else matters.

Trust me. Whether I have a church or not, whether I'm accepted in the church or not, means absolutely nothing. Some people say, oh, he doesn't have a church.

Well, I do. He doesn't have a hierarchy. I do.

When will that day, when will that day come when you truly, truly have a true encounter with Jesus Christ of Nazareth? When? Do you think these clothes that we wear bring you to the Lord? Do you think you put a cross around your neck, bring you to the Lord? Do you think you sit on that throne, brings you to the Lord? You're mistaken. What brings you to the Lord is your heart given to him and your head bowed before his sandals. That's what brings you to the Lord.

Even if you are the Pope, the Cardinal, the Bishop, head bowed at the sandals of the Lord and the heart given in the hand of the Lord. That's what brings you to the Lord. Oh, I love the Lord, my beloveds.

I love the Lord. Okay. One, one day this Iraqi guy, you know, Middle Eastern people, they have a problem with the letter B for Bob and the P for Peter.

You've heard me say this before. I'll say it again. I don't want to, I don't want you to go.

That's why I'm trying to come up with something. So anyway, um, so when, when it comes to the letter B for Bob, they pronounce it P for Peter. They're able to do that, but they will not say B they'll call it P. And then when it comes to P for Peter, they pronounce it as B for Bob.

Incredible. The brain is somehow connected this way. So anyway, this Middle Eastern guy was driving around Fairfield, you know, it's kind of very busy and it's very hard to find parking.

So he's driving around and around and around in the hope that he finds a vacant spot. So anyway, he saw a spot. He wasn't sure if he can park there or not.

There was a few couple of guys standing there chatting, talking. So he put the window down. He says, excuse me.

This is Iraqi. Excuse me. They said, yes.

Can I bark here? They said, mate, you can bark as long as you wish. He was misunderstood. Poor thing.

Can I bark here? He said, no, go for it. Yes, yes. Oh, we can laugh.

We can laugh. I love you, but Jesus loves you the most. Let us stand for the finale prayer.

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. O Divine Master, grant that I may not sow 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, my beloved. God bless.