The Birth of Christ Explained

Well, a very good evening to everyone. How are we? How are we? How are we? That's the way. Excellent.

I pray that all of you who are in this beloved church of ours and everyone who is watching us through live streaming, that you're always close to the Lord Jesus for there is no other way but him. There is no other truth but him and there is no other life but him. He said it very clearly in John 14 six, I am the way, the truth and the life period.

So we thank the Lord. Amen. My beloveds.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. We are getting closer and closer to Christmas than activity festive season. And um, next Friday will be our last Friday for this year until we see you in the new year.

God willing. So next Friday is the last one. Please come.

And if you don't come, I'm going to cry all 2025. Tell the end of it. So Maranitha, that's an Aramaic.

That's the Aramaic language. Maranitha means our Lord has come. Maranitha.

Maran means our Lord. Itha has come. And there was Arabic and there was French.

Oh la la. Impossible. Uh, mon ami, mon chéri, you know, all right, let's, let's coming to our topic for this evening.

Well, today we'll be at looking at the birth of Christ and the four gospels, the birth of Christ and the four gospels. The four gospels are good news to one gospel. So the four are really one and they speak about the one and only Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The word gospel is derived from the Greek word Evangelion, which means good news or happy news. Good news. Evangelion.

Each gospel looks at the Lord Jesus from a different profile of the Lord. You know, when you look at any human being, there are four sides to that human being. There is the, there's the face, there is the back, there is the right side and there is the left side.

Before you pass any judgment on that person, you need to look at four pictures and four profiles of that person to really realize this person and see the clarity of this person before you talk about them. So the four gospel writers looked at the Lord Jesus and each one looked at the Lord from a different profile and wrote and documented it accordingly. So we have, we have the gospel.

According to St. Matthew, he introduces Christ as the son of man. The gospel according to St. Mark introduces Christ as the king and the gospel according to St. Luke introduces Christ as the servant and the gospel according to St. John introduces Christ as God and no one else as God. When you put the four gospels next to each other, you will see you will find that there is a difference between each picture and you just wonder why is there a difference between each picture yet they all speak about the same person.

St. Matthew introduces Christ as the perfect man and that is the first gospel. The first gospel is St. Matthew who introduces the Lord as the perfect man and the last gospel, which is John introduces the Lord as the perfect God. And then the second gospel, which is Mark introduces the Lord as the highest rank in humanity, which is the king.

And then the third gospel writer, Luke introduces Christ as the lowest rank in humanity, which is the servant. So when you put the four pictures together, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Matthew, humanity, John, divinity, Mark, King, Luke, servant, divinity in John was revealed in the end of times in humanity, Matthew and came to this world to be the king over your life in Mark. And this king is to serve you, not you serving him in Luke.

So when we put them all together, we see they are introducing the Lord Jesus as perfect God. Perfect man who came in the end of times divinity revealed in humanity became to this world to be king over your life and to serve you, not you serving him. When we read in the book of revelation, chapter four, verse seven, John, the beloved gives us the symbols to each gospel writer.

So in revelation for seven, it says that there are four living creatures and then St. John goes and says the first living creature was like a lion. Lion is the symbol of the gospel of St. Mark. And then the second living creature was like a calf.

That is the gospel of St. Luke. And then the third living creature had a face like a man. That is the gospel of St. Matthew.

And the fourth living creature was like a flying Eagle. That is the gospel of St. John. So St. Matthew, the face of a man, St. Mark, a lion, St. Luke, the calf or the ox and St. John, the flying Eagle.

These are the symbols. You find them in revelation for seven and also in the old Testament. Ezekiel chapter one, verse 10 is equal.

Chapter one, verse 10. Now the four gospels introduced for us the perfect God incarnate, the servant King, the perfect God incarnate, the servant King, the perfect God John incarnate Matthew, the perfect servant Luke King Mark. When we understand the structure of each gospel, we will understand the birth of Christ in all of these gospels.

Each gospel introduces the birth of Christ in a different way. When you read it without knowing the basis to each gospel, you'll say there is discrepancies. It is the word of God.

It is perfect. Cannot have any discrepancies. So now, so let us enter into the four gospels from this point and see the birth of Christ in each one of them.

Matthew introduces Christ as the perfect man, son of man. Mark introduces Christ as the King. Luke introduces Christ as the perfect servant.

John introduces Christ as the perfect God. So we come to the gospel according to St. Matthew and see the birth of Christ and the gospel according to St. Matthew, the son of man, the perfect man. God came down to the level of the human race in order to take them to heaven.

Take them up to heaven. The gospel of Matthew entered the nativity through the Medjai's who came from Persia, current Iran, Chattar-e-Baba, Alhamdulillah. So current Iran, they came all the way from Persia, the Middle East.

From the East they came. The Medjai's were kings from Persia, Iran. They had a prophet who was the prophet of the Old Testament called Bil'am.

Now Bil'am was a prophet for a group of people who they still exist till this very day, but they are an extremely minority, minority, minority of people called the Zoroastrians. Zoroastrians are the native people of Persia, the native people of Persia. So the prophet Bil'am prophesied to them and said that when you see the star appearing in the East, no, today the king of the Jews is born, the king of the Jews is born.

And where did Bil'am say this? In the book of Numbers chapter 24 verse 17. This is the prophecy of Bil'am in the book of Numbers chapter 24 verse 17. He says, I see him, but not now I behold him, but not near a star shall come out of Jacob.

A star shall come out of Jacob and God sent the Medjai's a star like Bil'am prophesied. He sent them a star and they came from the East and when they came, they said those Medjai's, where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship him. Matthew two verse two, Matthew chapter two, verse two, where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and we have come to worship him.

Medjai's came to King Herod first. Why? Because they thought that Christ would be born in the king's palace since Christ is the king. It is only normal for the king to be born in the king's palace.

So that's why they came to King Herod thinking that Christ was born in King Herod's palace. But then they realized he wasn't there. So King Herod made some inquiries and from those teachers and those people who are aware of the prophecies of the old Testament, they said, well, when the Messiah comes, he would normally be born in Bethlehem.

So King Herod sends the Medjai's to Bethlehem to go and search for that, for the child and to come back and let him know. So he would go and worship him. But definitely that was not King Herod's intention.

He wanted to kill this child. So off they went the Medjai's when they left Persia, Iran, the star was leading them all the way to Israel and they came to King Herod's palace. The star was there.

When they left the King Herod's palace to go to Bethlehem, the star appeared again and led them to where the child was. So this was not any ordinary star, my beloved stars don't just appear and disappear and go here and go there and go everywhere. No such thing.

This star is the star of Christ. It was an angel sent by God appeared to the Medjai's a star to lead them to the baby Jesus. So now when they left the palace, the star appeared and led them to the Lord Jesus.

My beloved, they came to the house, not the manger. The Medjai's came to the house, not the manger. And they found the child, not the baby.

They found the child with his mother, Mary. After seeing the child, they left. When they left, after seeing the child, the Holy Bible says in Matthew two 12, then being divinely warned in a dream.

Wow. What happened prior to seeing the child? The star was leading their way all the way from Iran, Persia, all the way to Israel, all the way to Bethlehem, all the way to the baby, the child in the house, the star was leading. The moment they had an encounter with the child, once they left after that, no more star.

The Holy Bible says then being divinely warned in a dream. Now the question, why not the star warning them? Why divinely being warned? See, my beloved, God initially deals with every single one of us through the flesh. The first time you come to him, he will deal with you with the flesh.

Because God led the Medjai's to the child, the human side, they he led them to see the human side of Christ. In order through the flesh, he would lead them to the divine side of Christ. You see, initially, God can't deal with us in the spirit because we're physical.

If he speaks the language of the spirit, if he speaks the language of heaven, none of us would understand anything at all. So he begins talking with us in the language of this earth, of this world and the language of the flesh. So he showed them the star.

What is the star? Material. The star led the Medjai's to who? The child, the human side of Christ, the flesh. In order through the flesh, God would lead them eventually to have an encounter with the divine, with God, with the creator, not the creation.

But God used the creation to lead us to the creator. I hope you're with me. You see, once those Medjai's worshipped the child, God dealt with the Medjai's through divine warning.

No longer stars anymore. So when you come to Christ, the initial encounter will be the flesh. He will talk to you in a way you can relate to to get your attention and to bring you on board once you become baptized.

Once you are born again through the sacrament of the holy baptism, God will start raising you in faith and the spiritual sense in order to live divinely, heavenly, spiritually. No longer earthly, materialistically, physically, no more. He is here to change you from earth to heaven.

To change you, my beloved. No more star. Now we continue in Matthew 2, 12, then being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod because Herod had a very evil intention.

He wanted to kill the child. So being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own land or country and another way. Another way they departed in another way.

My beloved, we need to leave the worldly stars and depart in a different way. Put behind you every worldly focus. That's what the Lord is saying.

Every time we come and celebrate the nativity of Christ, Christ is saying, put behind you all worldly focus. Stop looking at stars. Stop looking at being famous.

Why do you want to be this? Why do you want to be that? Why are you chasing the world? Why are you focused on worldly matters? Put it behind you and go a different way. Don't go back where you came from, go back in a different way. You need to change your way of thinking, your way of walking, your way of living, your way of behaving.

You need to change. My beloved, we came to celebrate the birth of Christ. We came to celebrate Christ being born in our hearts, not in gifts exchanged with one another.

Oh, I need to go to my cousin and I need to give him a box of chocolate. I need to go and buy some flowers. I need to.

We are coming together to celebrate Christ being born in our hearts. My beloved inwardly, not outwardly. The focus needs to be on the inside, not the outside.

When you focus inside, then go outside. Don't do it outside only and leave Christ in a manger by himself. Don't do that.

You see, my beloved, when you see Christ, do not stop at the perfect man, but rather continue to get to the perfect God. So the star led you to the perfect man, but don't stop there and say that's enough. No, I need to go deep down in that perfect man to reach the perfect God that is in this perfect man, except Christ in your heart.

That's the first step you need to do. And the gospel, according to St. Matthew, is inviting us to accepting Christ in our hearts. That is the internal.

And what is the internal? The invisible. And what is the invisible? God, the divine, not the perfect man. The perfect man is visible, but the perfect God is invisible.

But let me tell you one thing. The perfect man came to take you to the perfect God. Now, the gospel, according to St. Matthew, expresses or describes the perfect man in three characteristics or in three attributes.

Number one, gold, number two, frankincense, and number three, myrrh. When the medias came from Persia, Iran, they brought gifts with them to give to this newborn baby, this child, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. They brought with them gold, frankincense and myrrh.

And they bowed and worshipped before this child. So St. Matthew says the medias came and gave Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh. But when we go to Isaiah chapter 60, verse six, Isaiah is saying a different story.

Now, Isaiah's prophecy was written around 750 BC before Christ, 750 years before the birth of Christ. Now, Isaiah 66, he says the multitude of camels shall cover your land, the dromedaries of Midian and Ifa. All those from Sheba shall come.

They shall bring gold and incense. Incense is frankincense. They shall bring gold and incense and they shall proclaim the praises of the Lord.

By the way, the word dromedaries, if you don't know what it is, it is it is a name referred to Arabian camels with one hump. Camels normally have two humps, but dromedaries have only one hump. They're either African or Arabian camels with one hump.

They're not called camels. They're called dromedaries. Just for your information.

So now Isaiah 66 says when they come, they will bring gold and incense. Frankincense. Isaiah does not mention myrrh, but Matthew mentions gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Now, why? You see here, Isaiah is talking about the second coming of Christ. That's why he's mentioning gold and frankincense or incense, but did not mention myrrh. Now, let's come to the gold, frankincense and myrrh and see what they represent or what they symbolize.

See, gold. It's for the king. Frankincense or incense is for the priest.

Myrrh is for death. So Matthew, when he says the Magi came and they brought gold, frankincense and myrrh, they're saying that these Magi came acknowledging that this child is the king, is the priest and this child who is the king, gold, who is the priest, frankincense, incense, but he's also myrrh and myrrh is very bitter. He will taste the bitterness of death.

But Isaiah is talking about the second coming. He only mentioned gold and incense, frankincense, meaning in the second coming, Christ will never die. He only died once.

He will never die again. That's why Isaiah never mentioned myrrh. Now, Christ in his first coming, he is the king, the priest who's going to die.

However, in his second coming, he is the king and the priest forever. There is no more death. There is no more myrrh to be mentioned.

Matthew points to the first coming of the Lord, which is weakness. Isaiah points to the second coming of the Lord, which is strength. The first coming is the first kingdom, which is the kingdom of patience.

But the second coming is the second kingdom, which is the kingdom of glory. You find that in the book of Revelation, chapter one, verse nine. I don't have the time to go through every detail.

Now, this is what the gospel, according to St. Matthew, introduces to us, the perfect man. Come to the perfect man in order to reach the perfect God through the perfect man. Come and welcome Christ's birth in your heart.

In your heart. Now, when we go to the gospel, according to St. Mark. Now, what did we say Mark introduces the Lord as? Who can tell me? The king.

Come on, guys, you can do better than this. He's introducing the Lord as the king. Now, let's see the birth of Christ in the gospel.

According to St. Mark, the king. Well, since Mark introduces the Lord as the king. Well, when does the king get introduced? At the age of maturity only.

And what is the age of maturity according to God's law? 30. 30. Are we listening? The king cannot be introduced unless he reaches the age of maturity.

According to God's law, that age must be 30. In the Western world nowadays, the age of maturity is 21. You know, and they throw in a very humongous party because it's my 21st birthday.

Why the Western Wall 21? Because, again, it's biblical whether they acknowledge it or not, realize it or not. It is biblical. 21 is seven times three.

Number seven biblically is perfection and number three biblically is perfection. Seven times three. Perfection times perfection equals perfection.

Twenty one. But the age of maturity, biblically speaking, the law of God is the age of 30. This is why my beloved.

The gospel, according to St. Mark, did not enter the nativity or the birth of Christ because he's introducing him as the king and the king is born at the age of 30 only. So don't say Jesus was adult when he was baptized. We should do the same.

You are mistaken, my son, my daughter. Read the Holy Bible. Understand it for the Lord's sake.

Then talk. Baptism has got nothing to do with age, by the way. Does a baby in the mother's womb need to go to study and graduate from university to understand how to be born? No, you just get born.

You don't need to know. Birth has got nothing to do with knowledge. You just get born, isn't it? It's not our topic, but one day it will be in the new year.

We will talk about the sacraments. We need to understand. We need to know.

We need to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth. So now, well, since Mark is introducing the Lord as the king, he needs to introduce him at the age of 30, there is no two ways about it, because that's the only way the king is introduced when he is mature at the age of 30. Therefore, the gospel of Mark has nothing to do with the nativity.

There's no birth. Straight, he goes straight to the baptism. And you find that he goes straight to baptism.

Now, why? Now, baptism has got to do with anointing. Anointing. The baby or an adult, when we baptize them, we anoint them with the holy oil.

Anointing. Baptism has got to do with anointing. Now, now, why anointing? By the way, by the way, the word Messiah or Moshiach or Moshiach or Christ.

Now, the word Christ is a Christian version of the Hebrew Moshiach or Moshiach or Moshiach or Aramaic Syriac. Now, Moshiach or Moshiach means the anointed one. So Christ is the anointed one.

That's his name. Christ means the anointed one. Al-Mamsouh in Arabic, Al-Mamsouh, Al-Masih, Al-Mamsouh, Al-Masih means the anointed one.

So now why anointing? Because Jesus in the flesh is the son of David. Now, David was a king and until now the most famous and revered king out of all of the Israelites king is King David till this day. And it is the star of David on the flag of Israel till this very day.

He is the most honored, respected and revered till this day is King David. Now, Jesus, the man, the perfect man is the son of David. He is the from the house of David, from the lineage of David.

Now, how many times was David anointed as king? Three times, three times, my beloved. The first one, when Samuel went to the house of Jesse. Jesse is David's father.

When Samuel was sent by God to go to the house of Jesse, Samuel entered and poured the cup of oil on David and anointed him as king. The first time in the house of his father, Jesse. Second time he was anointed as king after the death of King Saul.

And he was anointed as king on one tribe of Israel, which is the tribe of Judah in a place called Hebron, Hebron. He was anointed as king the second time over the tribe of Judah only. And he reigned as king over that one tribe for seven years.

Then the third time he was anointed as king again over the entire twelve tribes of Israel, all of Israel, and he reigned over them for thirty three years. Now, if you put together the entire period of King David being king was 40 years. However, him being king over the entire Israelite nation was only 33 years, which is the time Christ spent on earth.

Thirty three years. He's the son of David, he followed as David did. And as David was, David had three anointings in his father's house when he became king over the tribe of Judah, second time and third time when he became king over the entire twelve tribes of Israel.

So David has three anointings. So as Christ has three anointings. First one, eternal anointing.

Second one, temporal anointing. Now the eternal anointing, we find this in the Gospel according to St. John, but the temporal anointing, we find it in the Gospel of St. Mark, my beloved, and that is to do with the baptism. Now, the Gospel of Mark introduces Christ emerging from the waters, and we find this in Mark one, verse eight.

John the Baptist is saying in Mark one, verse eight, I indeed baptized you with water, but he meaning Christ, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the anointing one. When the Lord Jesus went to the River Jordan.

The voice from heaven said, this is my beloved son, that was God the father and who was the son, Christ himself, and where was the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus as the dove. The Holy Spirit descended, meant anointed Jesus Christ at the River Jordan as king and priest forever at the age of 30. At the age of 30.

Now. The Gospel of Mark introduced to us the anointed king. For this reason, he cannot talk about his childhood.

Since the birth of Christ in the Gospel of Mark is the birth of the king, then he has to be at the age of 30, not less. That's why you don't see the birth of a baby in the Gospel of Mark, because it's the birth of the king. Matthew gives us the birth of that baby.

He is the son of man. But Mark gives us the birth of the king at the age of 30. Are you with me? That's why Matthew, when he spoke about the birth of the son of man.

He spoke about his star, because the Medjugorje came and said we saw his Jesus star in the east and we came to worship him. But there is no star, there is no birth in the Gospel of Mark because it is the birth of the king and the king cannot be introduced until he is 30 years of age. He was introduced at the River Jordan baptism.

That's why Mark goes straight to baptism. Nothing else. Now, we come to St. Luke, the third gospel writer, St. Luke introduces Christ to us as the servant.

And the servant in the Gospel of Luke is symbolized by the calf, which is one of the four living creatures in Revelation 4.7. The calf is the symbol of the Gospel of St. Luke, and the calf symbolizes the servant. Why? The calf or the cow or the ox, whichever way you want to look at it, what happens? This animal, all its life, it serves others. It digs the ground, it crushes the grains of wheat.

All its life it works, works, serving, serving, serving, serving. And at the end of its service life, it gets slain and eaten. Christ, all his life served.

And at the end of his ministry, he was slain on the cross and we received him in the true body and the true blood. We ate him and we drake him. In this sense, he is the calf that works and serve all its life and then it gets slain and eaten.

So as Christ, that's what happened to him exactly. So the Gospel of Luke is the calf, the servant. Hence, since he is introducing Christ as the servant, he had no other choice, St. Luke, but to present the Lord to us in a manger.

There was no other way. He's talking about the servant, he's talking about the calf. So he introduced the birth of the Messiah in a manger.

And in Luke two, chapter two, verse seven, what does he say? Because there was no room for them in the inn. There was no room for our father, Joseph, and our holy mother, Mary. There was no room for them in the inn.

They remained in a manger and the outcourt of the inn. Now, what is this inn? The tradition of the church says that this inn used to be once upon a time the house of Jesse, the father of David. You know, with every every place, as time goes by, buildings change.

The old one gets knocked down and rebuild and sometimes totally different buildings. Looks like the house of Jesse got knocked down as time went by. And at the time of our father, Joseph and Holy Mother Mary, that exact location of Jesse's house was the inn where Joseph and Mary entered.

And Jesus was born in a manger outside of this inn in the court out of court. Now, why is that? Why is that? Since Christ is coming to sit on the throne of David, therefore, he had to start from where David began in the house of his father, where David was born. The Lord had to start from the same place where David started his father's house.

Now, why did Augustus Caesar issue a decree? Why did he do that? Because there is a prophecy in Psalm 87, verse six, that says the Lord will record when he registers the people's. This one was born there. So now, why did Augustus Caesar issue a decree? Because King David in Psalm 87, verse six says, the Lord will record when he registers the people's.

This one, this one is Jesus was born there. The Lord will record, meaning the Lord will enter the senses which Augustus Caesar decreed to be. So when that decree came to Israel, went all the way to Nazareth, and then the decree says that everyone needs to go back to their lineage, to their to their city, and the Holy Mother and our father, Joseph, both of them were from the lineage of David.

And David is from the city of Bethlehem. So they had to go back to their lineage, to their hometown, to their city, which is Bethlehem. For Jesus Christ to be born in Bethlehem.

And when they arrived there, the senses, they were entered into the senses and the Lord was counted, recorded among the people. And the records we have, there is a name, Jesus, and the senses of Augustus Caesar. So there was a figure called Jesus that was born.

Physical material we have that proves Jesus was born. Christ, who is king in his nature when he was born into this world. Had nowhere.

To place his head on. Christ, who is king in his nature and king means he owns everything, but in this world he had nowhere to place his head on. He had no place at all on the face of this earth.

And he said it, he said, the birds of the sky have a nest to settle in and the foxes have homes. But the son of man, referring to himself, has no place to lay his head on. So what is that telling me and you, my beloved, if Christ, who is the rightful owner of this world and the next, had no place on this earth, if you are a follower of Christ, don't ever chase the world because your master definitely did not.

Definitely did not. And the truth of the matter is, at the end, whatever we gain in this world, death will take it away from us, whether we like it or not. Whether we like it or not.

Yes, live comfortably. Live successfully, but don't be a slave to no worldly materialistic things. Don't ever be a slave.

Don't ever use it for the well-being of you and your family, for the well-being of those who are in need. But don't be greedy. It's not yours.

Never was, never will be. Now, in Luke chapter two, verse seven, talks about our holy mother, Mary, and says, look at this. And she brought forth her firstborn son.

And she brought forth her firstborn son. And St. Paul, in his epistle to the Hebrews, chapter one, verse six says, but when he again brings the firstborn into the world, he says, let all the angels of God worship him. So who is born here? God, because worship is accredited to and ascribed to God and God alone.

So for those people who say that Jesus Christ is not God, well, Hebrew one six says that when the firstborn is brought again into this world, he will say, meaning God will say, let all the angels of God worship the one who is born into this world, the one who was placed in that manger. The angels of heaven worshipped him because he is their creator. He is God revealed in the flesh and placed in the manger.

Now, where did this firstborn enter? He entered in the midst of animals, manger. That's what St. Luke tells us. The calf on one hand, on one side and the donkey on the other.

And Jesus, the baby in the middle of these animals. Why? Because Isaiah, chapter one, verse three says, the donkey prophesies and says. The ox, which is the calf, the ox knows its owner and the donkey, its master's crib, but Israel does not know.

My people do not consider Isaiah prophesied that when the Messiah comes, he will be placed between a calf and a donkey. And it was so. In Luke two, seven after seven hundred and fifty years, the prophecy came alive.

How accurate is the Holy Bible? How accurate, my beloved Magis came all the way from Iran. It took them one and a half year journey to get from Iran to where the Lord was found in the house. Just to see the child and worship him, total strangers, pagan worshipers, idol worshipers.

They came one and a half year journey to meet the child and bow before him and worship him as Lord and God. And Jesus Christ is born in the midst of his own people, Israel. And they said, crucify him, crucify him.

We don't want him to be king over us. We want Augustus Caesar, who enslaved us. We want him to be king.

We don't want this person called the king of the Jews. Strangers worshiped him and family members crucified him. Isn't it the case, you know, strangers respect you and your own people disrespect you? My goodness, it's the case till this very day.

You give your life for your people and then they say, you're no good. And total strangers whom you've done nothing for, they come and say, you're the best. Incredible, incredible, my beloved.

When the angel appeared to the shepherds and brought them good tidings of great joy, he said to them, you will find a babe. But when the Magis came, they found a child because they were because it took a year and a half. They didn't come to the manger.

They went to the house after a year and a half. When they saw that Jesus, he was one year and a half old. So it wasn't a baby anymore.

It was a child. But the shepherds were very close by when the angel appeared and said, today is born to you, Jesus, the Savior. He go and see him.

You will find this babe, you know, wrapped in and in this in this cloth and placed in a manger. So they ran because they were close by. They saw the baby, the shepherds saw the baby.

But the Magis saw the child because they came after a year and a half. Now, who are these shepherds? Where the angels appeared and said. Glory to God in the highest.

The shepherds were the the shepherds of the temple or the temple's shepherd. Now, what is the role of these shepherds of the temple? They are hired by the priests and the high priest of the temple. So they would hire these shepherds to look after the sheep that belong to that temple.

Why? Because if somebody came, especially to the Passover feast, to the Passover feast, which is the most popular feast out of the seven feasts of the Old Testament, when they came to offer their sacrifices on the altar, they would go and buy a sheep from outside. Now, let's say outside market, the sheep is worth ten dollars. But if you buy the sheep from the temple, it is worth one hundred dollars.

Why? Because the high priest, who is equivalent to the patriarch or the pope, the high priest has blessed the sheep. Money, money, money. You see, if you buy this item from the church, it's more expensive than you buying it from a shop in Westfield Shopping Center.

Why? Because the Westfield Shopping Center is not prayed on, but this one, the bishop is prayed on it, so you need to pay for it. Buying and selling. The Lord is angry.

It's angry. So they these priests, they wanted to make business out of God's house, so they hired shepherds and they said, go and look after sheep, select those who are clean, without a blemish, without a spot. So you bring them into the temple to sell them ten times more over the ones from outside.

Now, if that faithful person came with a sheep from an outside market, the priest in the temple would find a million zillion errors in that sheep. Just to say to them, you cannot offer it as a sacrifice. They have no other choice but to buy the hundred dollar sheep from the temple.

And the priest and the high priest become rich on God's account. So these shepherds were the temple shepherds. What were they doing at night? Separating the sheep, which ones are the clean ones, which ones are the not so clean.

So the clean ones we take to the temple while they were separating, separating them. The angel appeared and said, you don't need to separate sheep anymore because the true lamb of God who carries away the sins of the world is just born now. Go and see him in Bethlehem.

He is placed in a manger. The true sheep is born. No more sheeps are required.

The true sheep has come. Now, the shepherds found the babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and laying in a manger. What is in a manger? Something called hay, chaff.

According to New King James Version, Book of Psalms, Psalms number one, chaff or hay. Now, hay symbolizes the wicked, the sinners. Hay symbolizes the sinners.

Now, in Matthew 3, 12, it talks about the Lord Jesus. It says his winnowing fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But he will burn up the chaff or the hay.

He will burn up the hay with unquenchable fire. When Jesus was born, he was placed on hay and hay symbolizes the sinners. Lord, who did you lean on on your birth? He'll say on the hay, but the hay are the sinners.

Lord, he says, yes, I am the true wheat. I am the true grain of wheat. I am the true bread that came down from heaven.

And out of wheat you make bread. I am the true wheat. I came to place myself on all of us, the hay, the sinners, in order to change the hay into wheat and then gather it into his barn.

And the barn is his kingdom, his father's house. He came. And he said.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, Luke five thirty two. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. I came for the hay, not the wheat.

But all of you are hay and I came to change the hay into wheat. I am the true wheat was placed on the hay to change the hay into wheat from earthly to heavenly, from sinners to holy men of God. This is the servant who came for the sinners, according to Saint Luke.

Now, but the eternal anointing, we find it in the gospel, according to Saint John. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. That is the eternal birth.

Who is the word? The son of God. The word was with God and the word was God. God and the word was God himself.

But this word is the son of God. So now what is this Trinity father, son, Holy Spirit? What is this all about? What does it mean? I'll ask you this question so you don't fall asleep and trust me, I'm coming to an end, OK, so don't don't wonder. What does father, son, Holy Spirit mean? I'll ask you this question.

Who created the universe? I want to hear who created the universe. You're sure under a cent? No, no. Who created the universe? Who created the universe? Elohim, that's correct.

That's the name. But in English it is they put God. But when you say God, you're saying father, son, Holy Spirit.

Yes, Jesus Christ is the son of God who is God. But he is not just the only one, because God is father, son, Holy Spirit. The father is all God.

The son is all God. The Holy Spirit is all God. But all of them are one God.

It's like the sun, the S.U.N. that rises every day. The sun is three things. It's circle, it's light and it's heat.

Do you call it three sons or one son? It's one son. If you take the circle out, it's no longer the sun. If you take the light out, it's no longer the sun.

If you take the heat out, it's no longer the sun. But the sun is not just one. It is one in three and three in one.

The circle is not the light, the light is not the heat. So the father is not the son, the son is not the Holy Spirit, but three are one son, one God. So now who created the universe? Come on, why are you afraid? God, exactly.

Now, another question, does God lack anything in order for him to go and create it? Does God lack anything in order for him to be obliged, obliged or obligated to create? No, God is sufficient, correct? OK. Now, therefore, since God created love in this world, what does that tell you? God is. God is love.

Now, I ask you, is there love? Here on Earth? No, no, no. Oh, I don't know why I'm putting myself in this kind of situation. OK, my children, is there love on Earth? Thank God.

Parents, mom and dad, do you love your children? Thank God. So there is love, correct? Now, since God lacks nothing, since God lacks nothing, and since there is love in this world, therefore, that is telling me one thing. God is love since he is the creator of this world and everything else.

And since there is love in this world, that means God is love. Otherwise, if God did not have love in him, how would he create love in this world? Where would he get that love from? How would he bring it into existence if it wasn't from him? Since he is the only creator. Are you with me? Since he's the only creator.

And because there is love in this world, that means God is love now. So since God is love, he has to create love. Since there is justice, then God is just.

Since there is mercy, then God is mercy. Since there is fatherhood, then God is the father. Nothing came out of thin air.

I don't know, are you with me? Nothing came out of thin air. Since God is the only creator and whatever is being created came from the creator. Since it came from the creator, then this creator must be that thing.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be that thing on Earth because he created it. So since there is fatherhood on Earth, that means God is the father. Since there is sonhood on Earth, that means God is the son.

Since there is friendship on Earth, that means God is the friend. Otherwise, where did all of these things come from? Cannot come out of thin air, came from the source, the creator. So since the creator is God, then whatever he is, he placed in his creation.

So when somebody comes and says, you can't say God is the father, then how can you call yourself a father? Where did this fatherhood come from? Out of thin air? Wasn't God who created you? He'll say yes. If he believes in God, he will say yes. Not a Christian, but believing in God.

He'll say, yes, God has created me. But God created you to be a father. And you're just saying you can't call God father.

Then where did you get this father from? Since God is the creator, then God must be the father or the fatherhood must be in him in order to give it. He can't give you something he doesn't have. You with me? And since there is a sun on Earth, then God is the sun.

And since there is friendship on Earth, then God is the friend. And who is our friend? The Holy Spirit. Look at St. Paul in 2nd Corinthians 13, 14.

He says, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Communion, friendship. Communion is two words in one community in unity.

So community in unity, it's been abbreviated and became communion. But the actual literal wording of it is community in unity. Community in unity became communion.

What we call the body and the blood, but the holy communion, because the whole community comes in unity and the body and the blood of Christ are the is the community the same. Are the people in the community the same? No, but when they come to Christ, they all become union, one united with Christ. So the body and the blood brings the community into unity.

And since we receive the body and the blood of Christ, all of us become Christ, one in him, one in him. So now the Holy Spirit is our friend. And here the birth, the perfect birth takes place.

Please, I'll stamp seal it with this. The perfect birth takes place. God is the father.

He gave us the fatherhood. God is the son. He gave us the sonhood.

God is the friend. He gave us the Holy Spirit. And God is love.

And this love was found in Christ and his beloved church. The bond of matrimony, where in marriage the two become one, the two are no longer two, but they are one. And what God has united, let no man separate.

God hates divorces. God hates divorces. God created us to have a family and family can never exist without marriage.

That's why he did not create us so that we marry one another for later on to divorce, because divorce is the end of the family. And marriage is the beginning and the continuity of that family. Yes.

The moment there is a divorce, you can't call it family anymore. Finito. Divorce is like death, but without burial.

You know how hard it is? You know, when somebody dies, it's not our topic. But when somebody dies, we go and bury them and it becomes easier later on. Once we put them where they belong, where all of us belong, from earth to earth, from ashes to ashes, dust to dust and ashes to ashes.

When we go back to that mother earth again, then that's it. It's damn sealed. That's where I came from.

That's what I'm going to go back to. It's sealed. It's damn sealed.

The case is settled. But divorce is death. But there is no burial.

Why? Because wherever you go, you'll remember you used to walk together. We sat here together. We ate here together.

We laughed here together. We watched a movie together. And then all of a sudden you go somewhere and the other partner is there as well and you see them.

It's death, but it's not buried. That's why it's painful. But here is the perfect birth.

Why Christ was born? Because the son of God came so that through this son, we have the father. And through the father, we have that that union with him as friendship by the power of the Holy Spirit becomes the friendship. And the son became the heavenly groom.

And he said to his beloved church, you are my bride and I am your groom. That is the love of God to humanity. Because it is only in one place where the two become one, and that is in marriage.

Nowhere else. Father and son, two separate bodies. Mother and daughter, two separate bodies.

Brother and sister, two separate bodies. Cousins, separate bodies. The only place where the two bodies become one.

Is in marriage. The wife, the body, the husband, the head, and St. Paul puts it so beautifully, just like the man is the head of the woman. So as Christ, the head of the church.

The two become one in matrimonial bond. And this is the love of God to the entire human race. God created you in the first place to make you one with him.

Genesis 126. God says, let us go down and make man in our image. According to our likeness, we want to make man like us.

What is like us? We become one, united. And this unity can only be found in marriage, my beloved. This is why marriage is sacred.

Sacred. It's not a joke. It's not a bargain.

It's not a transaction, please. It's not just a contract. This is why God burned to the ground Sodom and Gomorrah.

I have to say this. The reason why God burned Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground, because it was same sex marriage happening there. And this is an absolute offense to the Almighty God, because God created male and female for this matrimonial bond, not male and male or female and female.

For God's sake, the country that approves such a law will go downhill very quickly because God will take his hand away from that country. It will be destroyed like Australia and so many countries. Look at Europe.

Look at Canada. Look at America. It became a laughable matter, a laughable matter.

I'm not judging. I'm just stating the truth for the truth sake. It was Christ the King.

Adam and Steve cannot establish a family. It is only Adam and Eve. Why? Because this is the natural law and the divine law together.

Naturally, it is only natural for a male and female to produce. It is very unnatural. I don't want to go any further, man.

I really want to. I'll say this. There is only one entry to the person and there is only one exit.

Don't use the wrong exit. Wake up to yourself. If you drive against the traffic, you're going to be fined.

So if you're using the exit as the entry, you'll be fined and you'll be fined very heavily. You will cause a lot of damage physically. You will cause a lot of damage emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

You're gone. And children don't come out of thin air. They come from God.

If I ask anyone, is race sacred? Anyone, an atheist, any human being. Is race sacred? I'll say yes. I'll say, well, OK, how come you are making the race sacred, but you are desacralizing marriage, which is the foundation to the race.

Without marriage, there is no race. So you're saying the race is sacred, but you are desacralizing marriage. And you're saying when you're speaking the truth now, you are discriminating, you are judging, you are offensive now.

Well, you would answer me this question. If race is sacred to you, then why isn't marriage the same? Since marriage is the foundation to this race. You know what? I say this with sadness in my heart, with pains in my heart.

Marriage is holy. When we come to understand it, my son, my daughter, don't abuse that matrimonial bond, it is holy. It is God given.

It is a gift that only through marriage you become co-creator with God. The only place where you create is in marriage. Nowhere else.

In every other area you are creative, but in marriage you are creator with God. God created the human. You create the human as husband and wife, just like God.

Look how awesome, how holy, how precious, how priceless, how elevated, how honored it is in the sight of God. God says, I want you to be one in me, just like I am the creator. I want you to create.

I want you to create children for me because I wish for my kingdom to expand and flourish. Husband and wife, when you become parents, father and mother, you need to raise the children in the love of Christ. Give your children back to the Lord, because at the end we belong to him.

But since he created us out of love and freedom, he wants us to choose freely, to choose him, to be our portion in the end. So this is the perfect birth. The son of God came down, was born in that manger so that he can give us the father, so that God becomes our father, because without father, there is no God.

Because God is a stranger. Can you see him? Can you know him? Can you get to him? No. But do you know your father? Of course, father is no longer a stranger, but God is a total stranger.

I don't know him. So those who claim that they worship God, I just wonder how. Through a prophet, what is a prophet? Sending a message, a message won't be even a drop in the divine ocean.

Won't be a drop. The prophet can't tell you who God is, can only tell you what God told him to tell you. But that is not telling you and me who God is.

The only one who can explain God is God. That's why God became man, because he's the only infinite being and the only infinite being can speak on his behalf. There is no other infinite being to speak about him.

That's why he became man, to explain himself to us so that we can enter a relationship with someone we came to know and to love. A stranger never is known, can never be loved because you cannot love someone you do not know. The only way you can love is when you come to know the person and through knowledge led you to not loving the person.

A stranger is unknown, can't be loved. So God became man, so he's no longer a stranger. So when the son came, so through the son that God becomes my father.

And that relationship is based on friendship. The Holy Spirit is the bond. And then Christ, who is perfect God and perfect man.

He said, I am the heavenly groom and every soul that is baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit is my bride. And in matrimonial bond, the love of God was illustrated, revealed, expressed, defined fully. The two became one.

That's why Christ was born. I beg all of us. Don't let spiritual things be used in a physical way.

Do not the birth of the Messiah is not about going on a party, going on holidays, exchanging gifts. Yes, I understand. It's a festive season.

It's a joyous occasion. I totally understand this. And it is beautiful to go and visit families and cousins and relatives, maybe in Australia and abroad.

It's beautiful. Send presents, exchange between one another. It's beautiful.

However, however, however, when you go and visit one another, when you exchange those gifts, you say, Merry Christmas. Whose birthday is it? Yours or your cousins? No, it's the Lord's, my beloved. So when you get together, the conversation should be about the birthday man.

Not us. So we're going to have a party and drink and get drunk because it's Christmas. We're going to have a party because it's Christmas and we're going to dance and we're going to yell and shout and dress indecently because it's Christmas.

That is not the way you receive Christ in your heart. It's not. It's not.

Focus on the Lord Jesus, I beg of you. Does the Lord Jesus swear? Don't swear then. Does the Lord Jesus drink alcohol? Then don't.

Does the Lord Jesus take drugs? Then don't. Does the Lord Jesus speak vanity? Then don't. When people came to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, they saw him as a human being.

They spoke to him person to a person. But what did the Lord converse with them? Everything he said it was about his father. He brought them to God, not the other way around.

Don't let people take you away from Christ into the world. You need to change the world for Christ, for Christ's sake. So if you're engaged in a conversation and it's absolutely worldly, vanity of all vanities, nonsensical, what are you doing there? You either tell him this is not the way we behave as Christians.

This is not the way we should talk as Christians. We belong to the Lord. We belong to the Lord.

It's Christmas, my beloved. At the end of the day and Sunday resurrection should be happening in your life, in your heart, every single day of your life on Earth. Every day, the Lord must be born in you, must be raised in you every day.

Yes, there is a historical date where the Lord was born and the Lord was crucified, buried and rose. Yes, there is. And we need to honor that date.

But the spiritual meaning, the biblical, the depth of the Holy Bible meaning is Christ must be born in you every day and rise in you every single day. Every day is Christmas and Sunday resurrection. That is the true way of a Christian should live.

True way. Let Christ find a place in your heart. The holy mother came with our father, Joseph, the just seeking a place because it was time for her to give birth.

They knocked at so many doors. All of them came up with excuses. Sorry, I have people that have come over.

I have visitors. I'm too busy. I'm working.

I need to finish. I'm not ready. I'm not ready.

Don't find excuses. The Lord is knocking at your door. He wants to be born in you.

He wants to find a place in you because the world don't want him. The world stands against him. The world is is placed in the bosom of Satan and Satan hates Jesus.

Constant Jesus, because Jesus is the only man that crushed his head. On Calvary. So the Lord is seeking a place to come in.

Don't find excuses, say I'm too busy. When the bishop says come to church, don't say father, I wish, but I'm so busy with my work. I'm so busy with my assignments.

I'm so busy with my people. I'm so you know what? This month is all I have to visit. I have to go.

There's birthdays. There is christening. There is this.

There's what are you doing? Make time for the Lord. Jesus don't ever put the Lord last. He is first.

He is naturally number one and he will not accept anything but number one. You must make him number one for he is put in first. So when people come on a time where you were about to leave the house to come to church and they knock at the door, say, sorry, I'm busy.

I've got a date with my love. And his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I don't have the time for you because I don't have time for you now.

You'll have to come another time. Everything stops for the Lord. He comes first.

He who is ashamed of me before men, I will be ashamed of him before the angels of heaven before my father. Put Christ always first and make this moment of the nativity for the glory of the one who was born for you and me. Who came for all of us.

Make it for him because it is. And maybe if you're buying a present, if we bought a present before, it could be a box of chocolate, some flowers or maybe a Versace or a Chanel. Those nice brands.

Maybe this time, instead of buying these worldly presents, give them a nice icon of the nativity. Send them a nice preach of this good looking bishop. You know, give him something spiritual.

Give him something that is everlasting. Stop sharing and exchanging worldly gifts. Share with one another the heavenly gift His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

There is nothing more beautiful when when all people in different colors and different backgrounds and different languages come and worship the Lord in one accord, nothing more magnificent than this. I cannot stand when the church only is made out of one nation and one language. It has to be all nations and all languages, because this is the true Church of Christ of the New Testament.

The Old Testament was only limited to the Israelite nation. But the New Testament is the entire world. And it is beautiful when we glorify Christ, when we praise him and worship him in English and in Arabic and in Chinese and in all languages of the world.

I don't know. There is thousands of languages and dialects. I pray that the entire world worships the Lord, the entire world.

There is no one else but him. He's the only way to heaven. This is the truth.

This has got nothing to do with the bishop, with this Christian bishop. Nothing to do. This has got nothing to do with this Christian Orthodox bishop.

Nothing. It's got nothing to do with the Christian Catholics. It's got nothing to do with any Christian.

It's got to do with the truth. The truth, Christ is this truth and Christ is God revealed in the flesh. It's got to do with this God who visited us in the end of times.

It's got to do with him. There is only one God and there is only one way and there is only one heaven and there is only one eternal life. Christ is it.

Can't get to it without the Lord Jesus. Amen, my beloved. I pray in this festive season for peace and tranquility be bestowed in the Middle East between our beloved, the Jewish people and the Palestinians.

We pray no more bloodshed, no more fighting, no more destruction, no more hearts being broken and blood being shed. No more. What for? For a piece of land that is never mine, never will be.

The land is a graveyard at the end. It will swallow the entire human race like it did with those who preceded us. Fighting for what? I pray all of the Middle East to be in peace.

I pray for Lebanon. I pray for Egypt. I pray for Iraq.

I pray for Syria. I pray for the entire Middle East region, for the Gulf, for the Emiratis. I pray for the Saudis.

I pray for all for the Bahrainis. I pray for all of them. Anyway, I come from the Middle East.

It's in my blood. I pray for Iran, Persia. We spoke about and mentioned today.

And Iran is a stunning country. It's so precious. The culture, the history goes thousands of years back, full of history and culture.

Stunning. But we pray for a change of mind and a change of heart. Enough of this foolishness, enough of this hatred, enough of this division and fighting for what? But I love everyone.

I pray for everyone. I pray for the unity of the church. I pray the Catholics and the Orthodox and all of the Protestants.

They come and be united into Christ. Come back to the truth and be humble enough for Christ to unite us once again back to him. Enough saying, I'm right and you're wrong.

Let Christ deal with it. Let us bow our heads and pray wholeheartedly from the heart. We need to pray, my beloved.

But above all, Christ is God revealed in the flesh. He's my Lord, he's my savior, my redeemer, my God, my everything. This I live for, this I die for.

That will never change. Christ is the only true living God that was revealed in the flesh. He was crucified, he was buried, but he rose from the dead and went up to heaven and sat at the right hand of the father and he will come again in the end of times to judge the dead and the living.

He is your life, your savior, your everything. Hold on to Christ. Don't ever lose track of him.

Very quickly, my beloved, next Friday is last Friday. Please come make that I 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. Whether it's hatred, let me sow love.

Whether it's injury, pardon. Whether it's doubt, faith. Whether it's despair, hope.

Whether it's darkness, light. Whether it's sadness, joy or 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, who is the only way, the truth and the life, 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.