Stay Faithful To Christ

Satan will take you to every place that is poisonous, my beloved. My son, where are you going? Where are you going, my son? My daughter, what are you doing with your life? My child, what are you doing? Tell me. Have you been deceived by the world? Have you been deceived by Satan, the snake, the poisonous snake? Have you been deceived? Stop it.

And next time you want to say the word fun, you better know how to define it. Otherwise, don't invoke it. If you do not know what fun truly means, don't ever try to taste it, to live it, to finding out what it means.

Don't ever try it because the stakes are very high. But there is a problem. Even though the light dwells in us, the light of Christ dwells in us through the holy baptism, but darkness is still there.

Darkness is still there. Darkness is still there for two reasons. One reason is the world.

The other reason is the Christian soul. One reason the darkness is still there because of the world. The other reason is the Christian soul, him and or herself.

The reason why darkness is still there because the world till this very day do not wish to accept Jesus Christ as the only way. That's why the world is still living in darkness. And the other reason why this darkness is still in a Christian being because in me there is still the old Adam hasn't died fully.

The very old Adam that I was born from. That old Adam which is the word me. I am the word me.

You've heard the bishop mention this word a lot of times. The word me is the reason for every trouble in my life. If it wasn't for me, I wouldn't have lied.

If it wasn't for me, I wouldn't have killed. If it wasn't for me, I wouldn't have been boastful, self-pride. If it wasn't for me, there wouldn't have been envy, jealousy, bigotry, hatred, division, destruction.

All this is proudly sponsored by me. Not only sponsored but done by me. So the old me is still there.

When you read the Holy Bible, you will never see a verse says about me, the old person, about this body. You will never find a verse says, I train my body or I fix my body. What do you find in the Holy Bible when it comes to this flesh, the human flesh or the flesh, the worldly person, the earthly person, the flesh? What does it say? I discipline my body and bring it into subjection.

I discipline my body and bring it into subjection. First Corinthians 9.27. Saint Paul says, he says, when it comes to the human flesh, when it comes to the earthly human being, I discipline it and I bring it into subjection. Bring it into subjection is exactly like the phrase that goes as the following, bringing to heel.

Have you heard this phrase, bringing to heel? Bringing to heel is used like for horses. Bringing to heel means bringing that soul to absolute obedience. So Saint Paul talks about the flesh and says, I discipline the flesh and bring it into absolute obedience, obedience to God, not anyone else.

The moment the flesh is loose, the moment the flesh is let out of the cage, oh, the flesh will drag you in the streets of King's Cross. The flesh will drag you to Star City Casino, Las Vegas, men and women, drugs, alcohol, gambling, you name it. That is the deed of the flesh, my beloveds.

And why Christians are still being worldly, because they've allowed the old me to surface up and hid the new me, who is Christ, the light. When I pushed Christ away from me as a Christian, the moment I pushed the light, I ended up in the darkness. I became worldly.

Oh, when you receive the Lord, and I say truly, when you truly receive the Lord, when you truly open your heart to the Lord, when you truly give yourself entirely to the Lord, next time you go to the club, you will hate it. Next time you look at drugs, you will hate them. Next time you look at gambling, you know, and alcoholism, men, women, filth, you will hate all of that.

The moment you truly embrace Christ, truly embrace Christ, you will hate every foul language, every foul word, you will hate every evil deed. But you see, when it is done in Christ, you will hate everything that is against Him in truthfulness with love. Not you retaliate and go and chop heads.

No, Christ does not order us to kill people. Christ orders us to kill everything that takes you away from Him. But love people, pray for them, but hate the evil deeds of people.

God loves the human, hates the sinful deed of that human. God hates sin, but loves the human. You need to differentiate between the two.

I need to discipline the flesh and bring it into subjection, absolute obedience to the Word of God. Why? Because I'm a Christian. What does that mean? I no longer belong to the world.

What does that mean? I no longer belong to darkness. What does that mean? I no longer belong to the lies of this world. I belong to the light of Christ.

I belong to the truth. I belong to eternal life. You cannot find a source of water that gives sweet and sour water.

It's either sweet or sour, but the two together, impossible. You cannot have light and darkness embracing one another. It's impossible.

It is either light or darkness. It is either day or night. It is either the Lord or Satan.

It is either life or death. It is either the truth or the lie, but the two together, you can't. There is a saying in Arabic.

Who speaks Arabic here? Show of hands. Arabic. There is a saying in here, and so sadly so, it is also mentioned by certain, some Christian people, but the saying is totally wrong.

What the saying says in Arabic, Arabic. One hour for your Lord, and one hour for your heart. Meaning, one hour in the church, and one hour in the club.

One hour praising, and one hour swearing. One hour telling the truth, and one hour lying. One hour, red belt in karate.

Now the other one, you just went over your heads, because I said it in the typical Iraqi accent. You can't have one hour in the church, and the next in the club. You can't be the son of the light, the next the son of darkness.

You cannot. Please, it's either the Lord fully, or the Lord won't accept 50-50. The Lord is not bargaining here.

We're not buying and selling. This is to do with your salvation. We cannot take this matter lightly.

Don't say, I'll go and have fun, and tomorrow I'll repent. There is no guarantee tomorrow, you will reach. So many people slept, never woke up.

If you hear my voice, the Lord says, do not harden your hearts. Get up now, and open the door. Don't leave it to tomorrow, because you cannot guarantee tomorrow.