The Book Of Luke Chapter 6

In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our beloved fathers, deacons, nuns, and faithful, both who are present here in this Holy Church, and everyone who is watching us through live streaming, we pray in the name of the Most High God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one in nature and one in essence. In Jesus Christ, his beloved Son, who is our Lord and Savior, that you are always in good health and in good spirit, Amen.

We thank the Lord always, my beloveds. We thank the Lord always. The Gospel, the today's liturgical service, is taken from the Gospel according to St. Luke, chapter 6, and verses 12 to 46 inclusive.

It is Luke, chapter 6, and verses 12 to 46 inclusive. We won't have the time to go through all these verses. They are all nothing but precious stones, gems, and absolute precious pearls.

But we'll pick a small section out of these entire verses and see what the Holy Spirit is trying to reveal to us in this blessed moment. The Holy Gospel begins with the Lord Jesus spending all night in prayer. And then when the day came, he came and called his disciples to himself.

And out of those disciples he chose 12, whom he called also apostles. Now, apostles literally means messengers. In our language, Syriac, Aramaic, we call them shlicheh or shlicho, which means sent forth by someone else.

Angelos, a messenger. So the Lord chose 12 whom he sent to the four corners of the world to bring the good news to the entire world, to the entire human race without any differentiation. But today I would like to share with you the following.

And the Lord says that he chose those 12, and then he begins to put the names in this particular specific order, in this particular chronological order. He begins, and the names are first, Simon, whom he called later or named later Peter. So the first one is Simon, who was called or named by the Lord later as Peter.

Second, Andrew, the brother of Simon. Third, James. Fourth, John.

And I'll stop at these four names. He chose apostles who are also his disciples. The disciples whom he chose to send forth to the whole world.

The first four names of these 12 apostles are Simon, who is Peter, Andrew, his brother, James, and John. These are the first four names and the other 12. Why these names first? We have a little angel that is not very, very happy.

Maybe I'm shouting. So this little angel is going, Isn't that cute? I know, I know, my darling, I know. Why these four names? Why do people, why do some people end up doing evil? Why do some people choose to walk in darkness? Why do some people end up doing things that are destructive? Why do they choose to be that? Why do they walk in that particular path? It's all to do with the first name of the apostles, Simon.

When they do exactly the opposite of the meaning of the name Simon. Now Simon in the Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac text is Shimon. That's the proper pronunciation of the name Shimon.

It is a compounded word that means literally, To him you shall listen. Shimon comes from the word to he. Listen to him.

Shimon, listen to him. Who should we all listen to? Christ the King. He is the only one that we need to have our ears opened to.

And allow his voice, his word to enter this he, In order to create something that was not existing prior to that called faith. That's where St. Paul says, Faith cometh through the hearing of the human being. Faith cometh through hearing.

So the first name that is the correct start to being a disciple and an apostle of Christ, You need to listen to him. You need to be Simon. When a human being chooses not to listen to God, When a human being chooses to reject the voice and the word of God, What happens to that human being? The following, and it will happen and there is no escape from it.

He will be vanity of all vanities. Human being that rejects the voice of the Lord, That rejects the calling of the Lord ends up being vanity of all vanities. Empty of all emptiness.

Vanity of all vanities, we find it in the book of Ecclesiastes to King Solomon. And in fact, Solomon the King begins the book of Ecclesiastes, Vanity is of all vanities, everything that is under the sun is vanity of all vanities. Everything under the sun is vanity of all vanities.

Now, what is a vanity? The body. And what do I mean by the body is the vanity. When we reject the voice of God, When we reject the calling of Christ, who is God revealed in the flesh, What is left when we walk away from God, there is me.

It is either God or it is me. However, when it is me, There is another power that will rule over me called Satan. There is another power that will rule over me called Satan.

Now, what did the Lord Jesus say about Satan? The father of all lies. The father of all lies. And what is the voice and the word of Christ? The truth.

Christ himself says in John 14 6, I am the way, the truth and the life. So when you receive the voice and the word of Christ, you're receiving the truth. When you reject the truth, there is nothing else left to you except the lie.

There is nothing in between. It is either the truth, light, or it is a lie, darkness. It is either the truth, life, or the lie, death.

It is either the truth, Christ, or the lie, Satan. Now, what does Satan rule over? The world. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what kind of a world it is.

And this is where the Lord also elaborates later on throughout this gospel and he says, The tree is known by its fruits, for they do not pluck good fruits out of a bad tree. Neither a bad tree can give good fruits. If the tree is bad, the fruits are bad.

And if the tree is good, the fruits definitely are good. When you look at the fruits of the world, it tells you as the daylight, clear as the daylight, the fruits are evil. Therefore, you can tell who is in charge of this world, definitely the evil one, the old snake, the serpent, Satan himself.

Satan is the father of all lies. When we walk away from the truth, who is Christ, our Lord and God, we are left nothing but with the lie. What is a lie? A lie is a story based on nothing.

What is a lie? Is a story with no foundation to it. What is that story that has no foundation? A dream. Now please, don't take it into, but Bishop, we see dreams and sometimes they are from the Lord.

I'm not talking about that. I'll explain what I mean. Sometimes in the dream, we may see ourselves a king or a queen or someone rich, someone famous in that dream.

And while I am in that dream, I'm not realizing it's a dream. For me, this is it. This is the reality.

Now, this is what you call life, brother. So in that dream, I'm a king. I believe I'm the king.

And as the king, I'm saying to myself, I can do anything and everything and no one can stop me. I rule, I conquer, I own everything. And the moment my mom comes and taps me on the shoulder and says, get up, let's go to church, you wake up.

You ain't a king, baby. So what is a lie? Is a dream at the awakening. Is a dream at the awakening.

I thought I was the king. I believed I was the king and I believe that I can do anything and everything. But the moment I woke up, everything I thought of was one big lie.

When we walk away from God and we do things our way, not God's way. The body becomes the vanity. And when you chase after the body, you will become the vanity of all vanities.

Because if everything you think of and everything you try to do is to please the flesh, to please materialism, to please worldly pleasures, then you are chasing the vanity. And if you chase the vanity, you'll end up the vanity of all vanities. Because where will the body end up in? A pit, grave.

And are you going to take anything with you to the grave? Absolutely nothing except your deeds, whether they are good or bad. So when I chase the world and its pleasures, and all I care about is materialistic things, flesh, earthly things, I am chasing a vanity. I become the vanity of all vanities.

I build houses. I have millions and billions of dollars in the bank account. And I have everything at my fingertip.

But the moment the spirit leaves the body is the moment when they tap me on the shoulder and said, The moment the spirit leaves the body, I wake up from this world, from this reality, which is nothing but a dream. I'm chasing a mirage in the desert, thinking it's water. Wake up and stop chasing vanity.

The mirage will never be water. Because it isn't. It's just a wishful thinking.

Stop dreaming. Live the truth with Christ Jesus. When the spirit leaves the body, I wake up from this realm.

And everything I had thought of, and everything I had planned for, and everything I have built, and everything I have conquered, and everything I have managed, and everything I have achieved, becomes nothing but one big lie. Gone. As if it never existed.

Why do people chase the world and reject God? Because they don't wish to be Simon. To Him, meaning Christ, to Him you shall listen. They said, No, I will not listen to God.

I'll do it my way. When I did it my way, Satan ruled over me. And when Satan ruled, he gave me nothing but lies.

And when I chased the lies, I ended up in the grave with absolutely one big lie. It was just a dream. It was just a dream.

But the Lord, the Lord says, If you accept to be Simon, meaning you listen to me, I will make sure when you listen to my word, when you adhere to my word, when you follow my word, I'll make sure you are Peter. Because when you accept my word, my word will change you from Simon to Peter. Simon, the temporal.

Peter, eternal. Simon, earthly. Peter, heavenly.

Simon, flesh, physical. Peter, spiritual. Simon, mortal.

Peter, immortal. Simon, from below. Peter, from above.

Simon, from earthly parents. Peter, born of his heavenly father. Forever.

Simon, if he remains on earth, he will be nothing but a passing by shadow. And it's a dream. But when you are turned into Peter, you are lit in the truth.

There is no more lies. There is no more dreams. You're living it.

You're living it. I'll make sure my word makes you Peter. If you accept Simon, you listen to me.

I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. When you become Peter, built on the rock, unshakable, unbreakable, I'll take you to the next step and I'll make you Andrew. And today, those who are named these names, and if you never knew what your name meant, maybe you'll get a chance to know what your name means today.

I'll make you Andrew. Andrew means the serious one. The serious one.

You see, when you accept Christ into your life, when you allow his word to come in, shape you, mold you, and change you, He will make you Peter, strong, unshakable, unbreakable. Thereafter, you will be serious in everything you think of, you will be serious in everything you say, and definitely in everything you do. Because whatever you're going to think of, and whatever you're going to say and do, it is the Lord who is doing through you.

And the Lord is not known to joke. He takes everything seriously. Nothing is a joke.

Nothing is just, I felt like saying it. You will be serious, i.e. responsible, responsible for the very spirit which God put in this flesh. Why are you trading with this precious pearl? You cannot afford to lose your spirit, because once it's gone, there is no one that can bring it back except God.

I will be serious in every thought, in every word, and in every deed, action. I am serious. I'm following you, Lord, till the very end.

And I'm dead serious about it. Christianity is not a holiday. Christianity is not a comfort zone.

Christianity is not my way. Christianity is nothing to do with me. It's got to do with God, who is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

All glory and honor and worship to His holy and mighty name. Period. There is no other God but Him.

This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you Jesus Christ of Nazareth, for He is God revealed in the flesh. And if you stand in the court of God and make an oath, and this is the oath, you swear you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Well, that truth is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, my dear judge.

Because theologically speaking, the truth is above time. Reality is under the time. That's why reality changes, truth never changes.

What makes us change is time. Because since we are under the mercy of time, when I talk about myself, I say yesterday I was, today I am, tomorrow I will be. Yesterday I was a little baby, today I'm a grown up, tomorrow I'm an old man.

Time is the only reason for change. But the moment you are above the time, you never change. Because there is no time to change you.

And this is why when the Holy Bible talks about Jesus Christ of Nazareth, sweetheart of all sweethearts, it says yesterday not was, he is. Present tense, not past tense. Jesus yesterday is, today is, and forever.

Same, same Jesus. Why? Because he is above the time. He is the creator of time.

He changes the time, nothing changes him. Moses, if my people at the foot of the mountain are asking what is my name, you better tell them I am that I am. The ever continuous present tense.

I am, continuous present tense, never ceasing. For with me there is no time. I am above and beyond time because I created it.

And that's the truth. When I make you Andrew, you become serious. You don't take things lightly.

You don't take things for granted. You think of everything and give its value. Purpose.

Not just value, but purpose before value. Then, when you are serious, I'll make you James. James is a Hebrew, Aramaic name.

Ya'aqob. That's the proper pronunciation. Ya'aqob.

Ya'aqob literally means following in the footprints of someone else. Following in the footsteps of someone else. When you come to me, the Lord says, When you come and allow me to make you Simon, you listen to me.

Then when you listen to me, I'll make you the unbreakable, unshakable Peter. When I make you Peter, then you'll become serious Andrew. When you are serious about everything, you will follow your Lord Jesus in his footsteps, James.

I follow no one but the Lord. My sheep hear my voice and follow me, James. Follow me.

Following in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd. So my ear becomes trained in recognizing the voice of the Messiah no one else's. Satan will come and whisper, I'll know it.

The world will come and whisper, I'll recognize it. But when my sweetheart speaks, I will say, this is the Lord, definitely no one else. I only follow the love of my life.

He is my shepherd, I am his sheep. And when the shepherd calls me, I hear nor recognize any other strange voices except my Jesus Christ. Then I will follow in his footsteps, James.

And when we follow in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus, it will lead us eventually to John. Wow. John.

Again, it comes from the word Yohanan. The name Yohanan or Yohanan. These are Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac names.

Yohanan is a compounded word, two in one. The first letter is Yot, which is written in English as the letter Y for Yahweh. So Yohanan, the first letter is given to God, Yahweh.

And Hnan or Hnan means compassion, mercy. So when I listen to the Lord, he'll make me Peter. When I'm Peter, I'll take everything serious.

Andrew, when I'm serious, I'll become James. Follow in the footsteps of my good shepherd. When I follow in his footsteps, he will bring me to his love, compassion, mercy.

He will embrace me with his mercy. He will engulf me with his mercy. He will submerge me in his compassion.

Yohanan. When I enter the compassion of God, Yahweh, the compassionate. It is then, it is then and then only I begin to taste the love of my heavenly father.

When you taste the love of your heavenly father, it is then only you're able to forgive those who persecute you. Because that's part of the gospel. It takes God to grant you this precious priceless gift to love your enemy, pray for those who curse you, and forgive those who persecute you.

It takes God only. No one else. How can I love someone that is my enemy? How can I forgive someone that has hurt me so much? How can I pray for those who have cursed me all my life? What are you talking about? The Lord will say, it is not you who can do it.

It is I, God, who does it in you. If you allow me to make you Simon first. Listen to me.

And this is what I was saying at the very beginning. Why do some people choose to do evil? It all starts with hearing. Some people allow themselves to hear certain words that come through their ears.

And those words start, once you allow them to come in and dwell in you, they will automatically start molding your way of thinking, your intellectual capacity. When the word is heard and you allow it to come, it will start shaping your way of thinking. When you start thinking of that word, eventually you will do by that word.

Probably I've heard us say this before. Everything begins with an idea. Everything.

By the way, an idea cannot be killed. If you try to kill an idea, you're wasting your breath, your energy, your time, your life. You will never be able to kill it.

An idea can only be overcome with a different idea. Replace that idea with another idea. That's all you can do to it.

Replace it. You cannot kill it. You cannot kill it.

When some people go, when the idea matures and ripes, it becomes a thought. When the thought matures and ripes, it becomes a word. When the word matures and ripes, it becomes an ideology.

When the ideology matures and ripes, it becomes a philosophy. When philosophy matures and ripes, it becomes the way of living. In simple terms, what idea you had in your head from the very start determined who you are now.

Determined who you are now. So to come and make it simple, we speak in the slang language, g'day mate. You say, yo bro, what's up? So yo bro, what's up? I'll tell you what's up.

You mix, you mix with the wrong crowd. You go in the wrong path. You do the wrong things.

Don't ever expect to be in the light. Don't ever expect to be successful. Don't ever expect to be wise because what you allowed yourself to listen to, what you allowed yourself to infiltrate your ear and your intellect made you, formed you and shaped you to be who you are.

Every every human being born of their parents as a baby are angels. No one was born to be a serial killer. No one was born to be a drug addict.

No one was born to be a gambler. No one was born to be a murderer. No one, no one, everyone was an angel.

Why did this little angel become whatever whatever? Because as they grew older, they allowed things to enter their hearing and those words shaped them, mold them and made them who they are now. But the Lord says, if you chase the world, the world will give you also, the word will give you also that voice but the world will give you the voice of Satan, the father of all lies. That's the world.

Satan will talk. Look at the world. They lie to each other, they spy on each other, they invade each other, they destroy each other, kill each other.

They came with the so-called coronavirus, a lie. Who was the inventor of coronavirus this idea? Satan. Satan.

The so-called vaccine. Even, I don't, forget it. Oh what a feeling Corona.

Throughout the so-called plan-demic, I never put on a mask and some people said, Bishop, you need to remove the cup of the blood of the Lamb of God because when everybody drinks from the same same cup, what if someone's got the coronavirus? The virus, according to the health minister of the time, said it is dangerous, it could kill you, kill your family. I never removed the cup and I said to people who came to church, if you do not drink from the cup of the Lord, I will throw you out. Don't ever come here.

You came to the wrong place for the wrong reason. I'll throw you out. People were coughing in my face.

I visited people, thank God. I went everywhere throughout those two and whatever years it was, I never got sick. Once the pandemic was gone, I got the flu.

The normal flu. I didn't even take no ivermectin, no whatever it was at the same time, which was a much safer approach anyway. But you look at the world, the world cannot do but one thing, lie.

Why? Because the one who rules over the world is the father of all lies, Satan. So don't be shocked. Don't say, why are they doing this? Why are they killing each other? It is normal for Satan to kill.

It is normal for Satan to lie, falsify and twist things. And this is where Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, said his powerful statement. He said the most powerful weapon in the world is the truth.

And this is why it is quite often being surrounded by a bodyguard of lies, of lies. The world surrounds the truth, tries anyway, tries to surround the truth with a bodyguard of lies. But at the end, the truth always prevails.

Because the truth is the son, S-U-N, who is the S-O-N of the, of his Heavenly Father. And when the S-U-N shines, no one hides the truth. No one can.

Because the lie is darkness and that, and the sun decimates darkness, decimates it. So every plot, every evil agenda done behind closed doors, underground, the sun will decimate it all. And speaking of this, I pray for President Trump.

I pray for him from the bottom of my heart. Mr. President, I pray that you're always healthy. May I be sick and you're healthy.

May I be weak and you're strong. May I be fallen and you're standing. I pray every plot that is done against you shall not prevail and be put to shame.

And I pray that you are in that White House whether they like it or not. I pray for them. I pray for them.

Thank God it was a scratch. But they tried to kill him. I had a feeling that this was gonna happen.

It wasn't a feeling, it was more so of a, yeah. But I probably would have mentioned it because of what happened to me as well. It sort of, yeah, was left.

But I knew. But I knew they will not succeed. I knew they will not succeed.

I pray that you remain strong, Mr. President. It's incredible. It's incredible.

It's incredible how the human race in general has become so blind. Incredible. What has become of this human being? I don't know.

2,000 years till the year 2000, everything was sort of okay. 2000 came to 2020. Those 20 years surpassed the 2,000 years prior.

But from 2020 to 22, those two years surpassed the 20 and the 2,000 years put together. We see a drastic change in human thinking and a sudden change and a very quick one. When things change quickly, dangerous.

When decisions are made irrationally, dangerous. When people run, not walk, dangerous. When people climb, not sit on the ground, dangerous.

Listen to the voice of the Lord. Listen to His Word. No one else.

Because there is no other place that you will receive truth except Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no other place. Some may accept, some may reject, some may ridicule, some may whatever.

But this is the truth. The truth never changes and the truth will always be the truth. If you don't believe in it today, if you don't want to accept it today, tomorrow you will come to this realization that Jesus Christ is the only true God and there is no one else but Him.

He's the only one. There is no one else because there isn't. He took me up.

I only saw Him. I didn't see anyone else. I was meaning well.

I was talking out of love. I was not attacking. I was not judging.

I was just simply stating the truth that was revealed by the truth himself. And I'm going to show you hell is unbearable. Satan is unbearable.

He has hatred for the human race you can never fathom. You can never fathom. It will blow any mind away when you come and see the amount of hatred he has for every single one but more so for those who carry the light of the world, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He hates you with a passion. He hates you with a passion. But you know it is the Lord who's always triumphant.

He's always victorious. He is known to save. He's known to deliver every promise he made.

He's known. I'll leave you with this. Elias, what was that joke that I heard the other day from this young boy? What do you call, ah yeah, what do you call a happy bee? Habibi.

A happy bee. Habibi. Habibi.

Sometimes the Habibi stings. Before it gives you honey, yeah you Oh Habibi, you hurt me. Smack across Habibi's face.

Yep. Just want to make you laugh just in case you're falling asleep on me. In Luke 6 29 the Lord says if somebody tries to smack you on one side of the cheek give him the other.

Now he's addressing his own people, the Jewish people, our beloved Jews, the Israelite nation. Now at the time of the Lord Jesus, the Israelite nation was under the rulership of the Roman Empire. So when any Roman citizen wishes to humiliate a Jew, he would never treat that Jew as a man like himself.

Because that Roman person said I am the master and you are the slave. So when the master comes to deal with the slave, he deals with the slave in a very humiliating way. So when a man, the master, faces another man as the slave, when he comes to smack the slave, he never smacks him this way.

Because this is a smack from a man to a man. So how does a master smack the slave? This way, not this way. So you smack someone from the inside of your palm when you're facing a man like you.

But when you're facing a slave, you smack it from the back of your palm. Because this kind of a smack is humiliating to that person. So when the Roman person comes to smack a Jew, he always tries to smack him this way, to say to me you're nothing.

I can do whatever to you and you can't even do anything about it. The Lord says and somebody tries to smack you on the cheek, give him the other. Two interpretation and I'll leave you with it.

One is literal, the other spiritual. The literal one, to be able to smack someone from the back of the palm this way, where would I smack him? On which cheek? The right one. True? The right one.

So he says when he tries to smack you this way, he can only smack you on the right cheek. He says give him the other cheek, the left one. When you give him the left one, you leave him no choice but to smack you like a man.

Yes? So the Lord says when you're speaking the truth, stand firm and don't be a slave to the lie. You speak boldly but with love. Love your enemies, the Gospels today says.

I'm not fighting, I'm not attacking, but I love you and since I love you, I have to tell you the truth and if I don't tell you the truth, I never love you and I can never love you. Isn't it? Why do parents punish or discipline, better word, why do parents discipline their children? Because of love. So when the parents are harsh to their children in the eyes of the children, they are doing it based on love.

The children misunderstand the parents most of the time and they think the parents are their enemies. No my child, the parents are the love of your life. They love you, they adore you, they gave their life for you.

How could you ever think they can come back and hurt you? They hurt themselves for your own well-being. So where the Lord says when you speak the truth, stand firm and don't let that lie to shut you up. They want to smack you this way, give them the other cheek and say, you're a man, I'm a man, you better talk to me as a man.

If you don't respect me, don't expect me to respect you and if you're gonna lie, I won't give in to that. I will still speak the truth even if it hurts. But the spiritual meaning, every single one of us has two cheeks, spiritually speaking.

One cheek external and the other cheek internal. We get smacked not in the literal sense but in the emotional sense. Somebody said to me some nasty words that really hurt very badly.

So they told me off in other words. I got so hurt, I got so offended by that but you know what, since I have the love of God Jesus Christ in my heart, instead of retaliating, instead of revenging, I went and I smacked myself from within and I said to the Lord, Lord whatever was said to me by that person, I deserve it because I'm a sinner and since I'm a sinner, I am worthy of being told off. This is my payment for breaking your heart Lord.

Instead of judging, I judged myself, not the other person that hurt me with nasty words. You should try it. It's healthy view my child.

So next time somebody tells you off, say Hallelujah. Do it the Lebanese way. With the dab king.

When somebody speaks to you in a very offensive way, try it. Believe me, it's healthy. You'll feel so good afterwards.

Go to the Lord and say, Lord I thank you. This guy just chopped me with his tongue. Thank you Lord Jesus.

I got my payment. This normal citizen of the Israelite nation swore at King David. He used foul language at the king of his nation and until this very day King David is venerated highly and above every other king that came in the history of the Israelite nation.

In fact even the Star of David is on their flag. White with a blue star. What that is, what that star is, Star of David which Samuel saw with the eye of the Spirit.

That star appearing on the forehead of David when he came into the house to anoint him as king to the Israelite nation ordered by God himself. That star is the Star of David. Till now it is their identity as the flag of Israel.

This man, a civilian, swore at the king. Now the army general was standing next to the king. He said, Lord allow me to behead this man.

How dare he speak so offensively to my king and my Lord. You know what King David said to that general? He said, be quiet. This was the voice of God for me because I have sinned against him.

Today I am receiving my payment. I'm worthy of these swear words. I'm worthy of these smacks.

I'm worthy of these knives because I offended God. I must be offended. King David smacked himself internally, did not retaliate yet he could have.

He's the king but he didn't. Now God looks at this kind of a heart and when you judge yourself the Lord says I will not judge you. Since you judged yourself I won't judge you but if you don't I will.

I came the Lord said to the Pharisees I came for you to have sight to see but since you say I wish you were blind because if you had said we are blind you wouldn't have have any sins against you but since you say we see then your sins remain on you because I came not for those who see but I came for those who are blind to give them the eyesight from heaven. Listen to the Word of God. Listen to the voice of God.

I know it's hot. It's my presence you know. I'm just naturally and as this beautiful Indian lady she wrote a thing natural or something and then she pronounced it nature.

So I am in the Indian way I am nature hot. I am naturally hot. So my beloveds, you want to change? You want to walk away from the world? You want to become a better person? You cannot kill the idea.

You cannot kill what has entered you all these teenage years. All these long years that you've been allowing the world to infiltrate you and mold you and shape you and make you like the world. Now to overcome this stop fighting those thoughts.

Those thoughts that are haunting you. Stop fighting those negative thoughts because you will not be able to kill them. All you need to do listen to St. Paul's advice.

He says my beloveds do not be conformed to the world but rather transformed by the renewal of your mind. Do not be conformed to the world. Don't be like the world but be transformed.

How can I be transformed? He said renew your mind. What is renew? Two words in one. Prefix RE to go back.

New means origin. Go back to your origin if you wish to change your way of thinking. If you wish to change from an earthly to heavenly, from materialistic to spiritual, change your way of thinking.

Since the world gave you its thought, allow Christ to give you his thought because through the thought of Christ you will get rid of every evil thought entered you all your life. Read the Holy Bible. Read the Holy Bible.

Read the Holy Bible. Every single day read the Word of God which is his idea from the very beginning which became a thought which became the Word and the Word became flesh. And that flesh and that Word that became flesh lived amongst us.

He became the way of living, the new standard of the human race, a new standard. Live Christ-like when you have the thought of Christ and finally definitely. We're made out of three components.

First Thessalonians 5.23. Body, soul, and spirit. Listen very carefully. Body, soul, and spirit.

When we sin, the three are dead. When we sin, the three are dead. Because the three make the human being one.

So when that human being makes a mistake, the body dies, the soul dies, and the spirit dies. Spirit and the wages of sin is death. This applies.

It's the Word of God that is forever. When I come to the church as a sinner, my body is dead. The Lord says take my body, the living one.

I, Christ, my body lives forever. So when you take my body that is the living one, it's for your dead body to resurrect your body. And you say your soul is dead.

The Lord says take my blood because the soul dwells in the blood. Take my blood which is the life-giving. The body is the living one but the blood is the life-giving one.

Take my blood for your soul that is dead. Through my blood your soul is resurrected and revived. Now I've received the body.

I've received the soul through the blood of Christ. What is left? The gospel is read. The Holy Gospel is read to you.

See there are three things in the in the liturgy service. Body, blood, and the Holy Gospel. What is the Holy Gospel? The Word of God.

What is the word? Spirit. When you receive my word it is to revive your spirit that is died in sin. Be Simon.

Listen to him, to his word. In order to be Peter eternal. In order to be Andrew the serious one.

In order to be Jacob the follower not the leader. If the Pope leads the church is ruined. The Pope is not a leader, is a follower of Christ.

From the Pope till the reader. The very first initial rank in the church. From the highest rank to the lowest rank.

All of us are followers. We are sheep. We are not the shepherd.

Even though the Good Shepherd came to someone like me, a piece of brick, and said through my love, and mercy, and grace, and my my sacrifice on the cross, I am making you a shepherd in my church. The shepherd should never forget it is the grace of God that made me the shepherd. But the head of the church will always be Christ.

And the head is one not many. How many heads do you have on your body? One. The church is the body and Christ is the head.

So even if the Pope is the head, it is the grace that made him as the head. But let not that Pope forget he is a steward not an owner. I wish I had more time.

Read Luke 15 and 16. You'll understand what I'm saying. Read Luke 15 and 16.

So when any church leader says I am the leader of the church, I hold the keys and I can open whenever, I can close however, you are the son of a snake. The Lord said it to those priests and high priests in the temple. He said you are the sons of the snake.

Why? Because you do in it your way not God's. You're buying and selling. You're falsifying the truth.

When did the Lord give the keys to Simon Peter? After resurrection, not before. Please, when does the leader fall? When he puts himself before the Lord. When is that church leader successful? When he puts the Lord before himself.

At the last supper, the Lord spoke to all the disciples equally. He said it is written about me that the shepherd will be striked and the sheep will run away and leave him alone. Simon got up and he said I will not leave you.

I will be with you till death. The Lord kept on warning Simon, listen to what I'm saying Simon. It is written, meaning it's prophecy, meaning it's the Word of God, meaning God never lies.

Don't ever try to make God as a liar. He said I will never leave you. He said but God says you will.

It is written. He kept on insisting I am with you till death. Then the Lord said before the rooster crows tonight you will deny me three times and well done Simon.

He denied him not before a Roman soldier, before a woman. He swore, he made an oath, I do not know this man. Yet in Matthew 16 18 16 16 you are Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God.

Simon denied his humanity and divinity. Simon's mistake was greater than Judas Iscariot. What did Simon say at the Last Supper? I will never deny you Lord.

He denied him three times in front of a woman. After the Lord rose from the dead the first person he calls himself was Simon. Simon the champion come here.

Simon son of Jonah, do you love me? Simon said Lord I learned my lesson but the hard way. Look at Simon now. He said Lord you know that I love you.

In the Last Supper I Simon will not deny you Lord. He put himself before the Lord in the Last Supper. He had to fall.

He learned his lesson very harsh way but he learned it. Well done Simon. When the Lord rose he calls him.

He said do you love me? Simon that's what you've done in the Last Supper. I'm asking you the same way. Do you love me? Lord you know I love you.

I learned the lesson Lord. You need to be first because you are the leader. I am the follower even if I am Peter.

Peter cannot be the leader. He needs to be the follower otherwise he will destroy the church because it is not Peter who overcame Satan. It was Christ on the cross and this is for every church leader regardless whether you're a bishop, cardinal or a Pope.

If you don't put Christ before you, you will lose yourself and the flock with you. The day you put Christ as the sole only leader and you be the follower and lead the flock to Christ then you are a successful leader. Now you're talking.

Lord you know. When he said Lord you know that I love you. He said now you've learned your lesson.

Take the keys now. I can trust you with the keys because you put me first. If you don't put me first there is no keys.

They won't even open a can of sardine. Can't open nothing. Listen to the Lord.

Follow his voice. Follow his footsteps and be embraced by John Yahweh the Compassionate. When he embraces you with his love, when he showers you with his love, when he submerge you in his love, you will love everyone including your enemies because it is God working in you, no longer you.

And there is no time. Let's bow our heads. Let's ask the Lord now to forgive us our sins, our mistakes, our foolishness.

Make us worthy to come and receive him in the true body and the true blood. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our good God and full of mercy, our good God and full of mercy, whose grace and mercy is poured upon all.

Pour my Lord the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance. Renew in them your Holy Spirit by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation. Purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace and instill the walks of their behavior in the paths of righteousness.

Please them along with the Saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith in the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries. Empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will to confess worship and praise your Holy Name, the Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever, Amen. May the Lord Jesus forgive us our sins, bless us, make us worthy to come and receive him in the true body and the true blood of Christ, the one who gives life and eternal one.

May the Lord Jesus accept all the departed souls into his kingdom through his grace, mercy and the blood which he shed on Calvary to save and redeem everyone who believes in him. And this is and so God loved the whole world that he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. The heart and the core of the Holy Bible, John 3 16.

We live, we grow older and all we endure is nothing but pains and sufferings. Maybe out of the 24 hours in the day I'll say 23 hours is our pains and sufferings, one hour of relief and then we go back to our pains and sufferings once again for another 23 hours. Don't you wish to come as an angel pure and then go back as an angel into the bosom of your Heavenly Father? Man if I had the chance.

Did you know I'll give you a bit of secret about me. I was signed off by the best doctors in Iraq and the best hospital in Iraq. I was three years old, they said clinically, medically to my mom your child is dead.

I died in the operating theater at the age of three. They gave me general anesthetic and I was poisoned. The blood became poison and the poison traveled everywhere in my entire body.

The whole body became pitch black. Medically they went to my mom and they said your son is out of our hands as doctors. He is dead.

Now in the Middle East they still invoke the name of God in whichever way they believe but at least the name of God is invoked with pride, not like the West. You speak of God, they want to kick you, they want to ridicule you and they want to cast you out. What a shameful way of living.

The doctors whether they were Christians or not, they said and they were not Christians those doctors. They came to my mom and they said only God can bring your son back. We're telling you he's out of our hands.

Only God can bring him back but we'll keep him on the machines till 7 a.m. This was around midnight. We'll keep him because we know what the heart of a mother is. For your sake we'll keep your son till 7 a.m. on the machines.

If he does not recover but we're telling you if miraculously recovers we do not know what the extent of the damage that happened to every part of his body especially the brain. He could be a vegetable. We can't tell you.

That is if miraculously he recovers that record is still in the hospital. My mom all night till 7 a.m. praying begging the Lord and the Holy Mother. 7 a.m. came.

My mom was telling me after many years she said I was so afraid to enter the room lest I find you dead. I walked in shaking from head to toe and I looked I saw you sitting in that bed saying to me mama I'm hungry. Not only this piece of wreck came back to life he came back with no damage.

I believe the same God who brought me back to life will bring back the eye with no damage. Trust in the Lord even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil. What problem my dear friend you have? There is no problem.

When God became man there is no problem. I can go to him and I can befriend him. I can hug him.

I can kiss him and I can pinch him as a baby. Now that must have gone some way and it's theologically sound. What is theology? Love.

Have we forgotten that theology is all about God's love? Well his love made him a baby therefore it gave me the right to carry him as a baby. Didn't the Holy Mother carry him as a baby? She must have pinched him. She must have kissed him.

She must have played with him. That's theology. That is in fact the depth and the core of theology.

True love. God became a baby to the one whom he created with his own hands. Mary.

God is the creator. Became her baby. Wow.

Wow. Look what love does. So wake up and if you want to talk about theology without understanding the concept of love you know nothing even if you have all the knowledge.

You are ignorant. God bless you all. Love you.