Mar Mari Emmanuel teaches that Jesus Christ, the eternal Word, is fully God who reveals divine love, freedom, and choice to humanity, emphasizing the unique Christian understanding of God's nature and the power of love.
In 'The Enternal Word,' Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the profound truths of the Gospel of John, emphasizing Jesus Christ's divine nature as the eternal Word of God. He unpacks the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and highlights love as the foundation of life and faith. Through this sermon, listeners are encouraged to embrace love freely, understand God's nature, and reject worldly philosophies that deny the Creator. Mar Mari Emmanuel's teaching invites believers to deepen their relationship with God through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our beloved Fathers, Deacons, Nuns, Congregations, Faithfuls, those who are with us in this Holy Church, St. Shimon Bar Sabbai and St. Mary's, and those who are watching us through live streaming, may the Almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all, guide you, protect you, deliver you from the snares of the enemy, whether it be visible or invisible, in His holy and mighty name, Amen. And the reading for today is according to St. John, and more specifically, John chapter 1, verses 1 to 28, inclusive.
So it's the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1 to 28, inclusive. We won't have the time to go through the 28 verses of today's Gospel, that's for sure, unless you want to spend the next 6 months just sitting in the church. But we will say this by the grace of our Lord, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, and the love of God the Father.
The Gospel of John is extremely unique, and very special, and totally different to the other three Gospel writers, which are referred to as the Synoptic Gospels, being Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Synoptic Gospels means they share similar narratives. But the Gospel of John stands uniquely different to the rest for one simple fact.
John the Beloved, one of the 12 Apostles, introduces the Lord Jesus to the entire world as God. Introduces the Lord Jesus to the entire world as God. And if anybody denies the deity of Christ, and call themselves Christians, they need not to read the Gospel of John.
They have to take it out of the Bible which they read. So the Gospel of John clearly states that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is God, fully God. He begins his Gospel with these words, In the beginning was the Word, in Greek, Logos.
In Syriac, Aramaic, Miltha. In the beginning was the Word, the Logos. And the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.
So the very first verse, John the Beloved is saying, The one I lived with, the one I witnessed to over three years, I walked with him, I touched him, I saw him, I heard him, I watched him doing all wonders and miracles. He raised the dead, cast out demons, he healed the sick, opened the blind man's eyes. He did everything under the sun.
And actually, I wrote to you later on in my Gospel and said, If we were to write everything Jesus Christ had done, I don't believe the whole books of the entire world would be enough to write all the miracles and wonders Christ had done on earth. He begins by saying, Christ is God. In the beginning was the Logos.
Logos, or Miltha, in Aramaic Syriac, means intellect. So when you hear the word, or when you see the word written, it's not the word you think of. It's the intellect, the brain.
So we can read verse 1 of John 1 the following way. In the beginning was the brain, to make it simple English. In the beginning was the brain, and the brain was with God, and the brain was God.
Because there was never a time that God existed without a brain. He always existed with a brain. This brain is Christ Jesus, the Son of God, or the second person in the Holy Trinity, the Son.
The second person in the Holy Trinity, the Son. John the Beloved says, the Son, the Logos, was incarnate. He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man in this world.
This Logos incarnate, the whole world, I want you to hear this. This is God. It's not difficult, but it is impossible for the human intellect to fathom this.
That somebody, imagine this with me. You hear your neighbor having a child, and they had a baby boy. And then this baby boy grew up to 30 years of being next door to you as a neighbor.
Knocks at your door one day after 30 years and say, Hello, I'm God. You say, Oh, please, welcome. Would you care for a British tea? Definitely, definitely, there is someone that has created everything and everyone.
And with all love and respect, and I don't know how I can put it in any other way, but for that faculty in the educational department, where they come and teach nonsense, and brainwash youngsters, and take them away from God, whether at high school and more so at university levels, they bring all these atheist tutors, professors, scientists, and come and talk absolute childish, nonsensical things. But they come and say, the big bang created everything. I really want to go to one of these universities one of these days and sit at the back.
I just want to see these lecturers when they come and talk so childishly and foolishly. They're educated, but at the end of their educational life, they ended up talking as ignorant. And absolute ignorance.
To claim that a big bang created everything and everyone so perfectly and so complex. I always give you this example. You know, you speak to an intellectual human being, and you say to them, the Oxford dictionary came together in this perfection and complexity because something exploded in the printing press.
They will laugh at you. It's a laughable matter. So you cannot accept that the Oxford dictionary came together in this perfection and complexity because something exploded in the printing press, yet your genius brain accepts the fact that something exploded and created the universe and everything in it and outside of it.
Where is the logic? You can't accept the fact that a dictionary exists without a brain, yet you accept this complex universe to exist without a brain behind it. Hello? You came from an ape, go to Taronga Zoo, and the next chimpanzee you see, you throw him a banana and say, good-bye, uncle. Ignorant people, but deliberately, deliberately put together to brainwash youngsters.
My son, my daughter, you go to university, you're studying to be something big in society, let me advise you with love, with love, with love and humility. Let me advise you. You are still young.
My son, your bead hasn't gone white like Bishop Murray. I'm a ready, walking Santa. Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas.
My son, your bead hasn't gone white like Bishop Murray's. My daughter, you are not as old as Bishop Murray. You have not gone through the experiences Bishop Murray has gone through.
What do you know about the other life, spiritual life? Just because some person stands and says, I have PhD in philosophy, I have PhD in biology, I have PhD in whatever scientific field it is, just because they have PhD, you think they know everything? They are a piece of dust, a minute piece of dust. Poor thing, they know nothing. When it comes to God, they know absolutely nothing.
So, this complex universe and this complex human being, where did we come from? Our DNA, your DNA and my DNA is made out of 3.1 billion bits of information. Every single human being's DNA is made out of 3.1 billion bits of information. If I were to translate those 3.1 billion bits of information into words and put it on an A4 sized paper with 500 words per page, it would take me 600,000 pages to write your DNA, my dear friend.
You put all the world's encyclopedias together, Britannica and the likes, you put them all together, they will get nowhere near your DNA with the information placed in it. You're telling me an explosion over 13 billion years ago did this? Let me ask you, were you there 13 billion years ago or was it your uncle the chimpanzee? Which one? Which one? For God's sake, which one? My son, my daughter, you go into university and you study to become something or someone big, don't ever, don't ever let anyone brainwash you away from God, don't ever. I don't care with love and respect who that person is, I don't care.
If they get a visit from a foul spirit, they will believe there is God. You know, I'm going to force Satan to go and pay a visit to these so-called professors. I'll force Satan in Jesus' mighty name to go and say boo to them.
And let me see if they're not going to change their mind instantaneously. The next life has got absolutely nothing to do with this life. Totally different, totally different.
Extremely elevated, extremely intelligent, spiritual life beyond comprehension. The creator of all that is the one and only, the love of my life, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This is the truth.
The creator of all that, his name is Jesus. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jesus Christ is God, revealed in the flesh.
There are a couple of things going through my head now. I don't know which one to talk about, because each one will take ten hours. I'm kidding, not.
As Christians, we believe that God is triumphant. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, one in nature, one in essence. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
Now, some might think, I don't know if you're thinking this way, hopefully not, but if you think that God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, that means the Father is 33.33 of God, and the Son is 33.33 of God, and the Holy Spirit is 33.33 of God, and put it together, 100%. No. God the Father is 100% God.
The Son, 100% God. The Holy Spirit, 100% God. All of them are God.
All one in nature and in essence. But let me tell you one thing. The Word, why did John the Beloved introduce Jesus Christ as the Word Logos? Why? Because just like God is Trinity, so as the Word operates in three ways, no more, no less.
Number one, the Word reveals the speaker. Two, the Word establishes relationship. Three, the Word commands, gives an order.
No more, no less. The Word operates in three ways, and three ways only. Reveals the speaker, establishes relationship, and gives an order.
If I were to stand here before you and say absolutely nothing for hours and days and months and years, you will never, you will never know what's in my mind, what's in my heart. The moment I speak, I'm revealed. The Word revealed to you what was going through my head and what was going through my heart.
Number one, the Word reveals the speaker. Two, the Word establishes relationship. And to any relationship, any kind of relationship, the name is the number one thing to that relationship.
A guy, John O is walking, and he sees this gazelle passing by. And his heart goes bum-bum, and his brain goes num-num. So he walks up to that girl, and he says, Hey girl, what's happening? And he will come to her and say, Hi, my name is John, what's your name? The name is the very beginning to that relationship.
Why the name is the number one thing to that relationship? Because the name is who you are, your identity. So the Lord Jesus, He is the Word, the Logos. He became human like us.
Now this Word is God Himself. So the Word reveals the speaker. God is never seen.
God is never understood. We can never get to Him. We can never fathom Him.
We can never understand Him. We can never hold Him, grasp Him. So this Logos came down to us, became a human like us, so we can relate to human beings like us.
When He spoke, God spoke, the Word reveals the speaker. When Jesus Christ spoke, God became revealed to the entire human race. The invisible became visible, the untangible became tangible right before our own eyes.
So He spoke and He said, I am love. I am love. I am love.
I understood then that God is love, created us all on the basis of love, and when we broke His Word, saved us all on the basis of this very love, which created us in the very, very beginning. Everything is to do with love. And this is why love is the supreme ethic.
Love precedes life and everything that comes with life thereafter. You go to all the religions of the world with all love and respect, they will tell you life comes first, then love. But in Christianity only, the only place in Christianity where it says love precedes life.
Why? And so true. Love precedes life, because if life preceded love, then what would I have done with a life that had no love in it? It would have been an absolute hell. What makes life life is love.
Without love there is no life. So what is hell? A place where love is absent. Can we taste hell while on earth? Yes.
When we live a life that has no love in it, we are living hell. So do you want to get a glimpse of hell and what hell is all about? Live a life on earth where there is no love in it, you are absolutely tasting hell right before your very eyes. And wherever there is no love, you can't last.
It's suffocating. It's killing. It's destructive.
It's unbearable. And you see this love is that uniform that fits every color, every human race, every human being. Every human being needs love.
Everyone, the atheist, the Buddhist, the Muslim, the Hindus, every human being, white, yellow, red, whatever color, black, all are in need of this love. Everybody wants to be loved. Everyone.
God is love. And with this love gave us life. See the gospel of John is so deep.
It's so deep. I'm just talking as an introduction. I won't even be talking about the gospel.
Now, the Logos is the son, the second person in the Holy Trinity. The Logos is God himself. According to John the Beloved.
And so true. Now this God came, said, I am love. I created you on the basis of love.
And when you walked away from me, I died for you on the basis of love to bring you back to me. You know why? Because love is the most powerful thing in existence. And at the same time, it's the weakest thing in existence.
Those who love genuinely are the ones who suffer the most. True. Oh Father, I loved him with all my heart.
He dumped me. If you don't love, don't need to worry about being hurt. The moment you start loving, all hell breaks loose.
I can't sleep anymore. I can't eat anymore. I haven't heard from him.
One hour he didn't message me. It's been an hour. A whole agonizing life sentencing hour.
After you marry him, you cannot stand him for an hour. I don't know. Marriage changes everything.
Anyway. Everything. Anyway.
Love. Love is the supreme ethic. And wherever there is true love, there is freedom.
Freedom is indispensable to love. You cannot separate freedom from love. Since there is genuine love, there must be freedom.
Why? Because without freedom, you cannot live this love. You cannot taste this love. And you cannot share this authority to do so.
Without freedom, you cannot express your love. You cannot share your love. You cannot taste your love.
And you cannot love. So wherever there is love, true love, there is freedom. Since there is freedom, there has to be choices.
Otherwise, how can you say you are free without having a choice to make? And since there is choices, there is the will, which is one of the most powerful tools God gave humanity. The will to decide to say yes or to say no. To do or not to do.
That's the will. So love, freedom, choices, the will. Therefore, love is a choice, not mandatory.
I choose to love. I am not forced to love. And that goes also with God.
You can choose to love God, and you can choose to do otherwise. And God will not stop you. Because He cannot.
Why He cannot? Because He put it in you. He gave you this privilege. He will not go against what He has done.
Because God is perfect, being holy. He cannot contradict Himself. A holy per being, meaning He is of good character.
What is inside of Him is outside of Him. There is no contradiction within God. The way He thinks, the way He talks, the way He does.
The way He thinks, the way He talks, the way He does things. You see, us, we are not holy. Why? Because sometimes, I was going to say a lot of times.
Sometimes, what we think of is not what we say. Inside of me, I can't stand you. But in front of you, oh, I love you so much, what a liar.
We're not holy. But God is. When God comes and He doesn't like you, He'll say, I don't like you.
You're getting on my nerves. God is like this, inside and out, open. He's the light.
Nothing is hidden. So now, love is a choice. I choose to love.
And I choose not to love. It's a choice. That's why when a couple comes, standing before the holy altar and the priest, the priest will ask the couple, Are you willing to take her? Are you sure? Mmm.
Yeah. Yeah, Father. Daughter, are you sure you want to take this? He's not that good looking.
Where did you get him from? Are you willing? Are you willing? Yeah. Are you sure? Father, the plane is waiting. We have to go to Hawaii.
Please hurry up. Easier said than done. Will you take her in good times and bad times? Yes.
In sickness and in health? Yes. In richness and in poorness? Yes. And the moment he is on Centrelink, I divorce you.
Love is a choice. Why is Christianity so unique? Why is it so different? Because of love. Every religion in the world, and I'm talking with love, right? No hard feelings.
But that's the truth. Every religion out there in the world, they will say to you, If you want to end up being in a good place, you must do this and this and this and this. If you don't do them, you're going to end up somewhere in a very bad, ugly place.
So you have to do, in order to achieve some good place for yourself. In laws, there is no love. The law doesn't love.
The law just applies the law. Have you ever, I can imagine, I go to court, and I'm facing the judge, and I'm found guilty. And then in court, I beg the judge, Please, judge, I love you, man.
Please have mercy on me. You know, like, just let it go. The judge is going to say, Listen, mate, whether I love you or not, that's beside the point.
I'm here to pass the judgment on you. It's a law. We found you guilty, you broke the law, the law will break you.
Take him. There is no love. So that's why, when you come to a religion, it is a set of rules, guidelines, laws, and regulation.
You have to do this, you have to do this, and you have to do this, and you have to do this, in order to end up in a good place. If you don't do them, you're doomed forever. Well, when it comes to law, there is no love, because love cannot exist in law.
It can only exist in a human being. I don't love law. I love the one who wrote the law.
That judge, who spoke about law in court, came home, and at home, he's dead. It's the same judge, same person. But at home, he doesn't pass laws.
He embraces the family with love. Even though his children break the law. But he doesn't punish them.
He disciplines them. So, my beloveds, Christianity is not a religion in the sense of a religion. Christianity is a belief in a person called Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
And this Jesus Christ of Nazareth is a person. And I can only fall in love with a person, not with law. So that's why God became man.
So we can have the opportunity to love Him, as a human being. To love Him. Therefore, every time you come to read the Holy Bible, every time you come to fast, every time you come to go to the church, every time you come to stand to pray, remember, going to church, reading the Holy Bible, fasting, praying, all of them are the result of your love for Christ.
If it's not built on this, then everything you do has no reward in heaven, only on earth. The Lord Jesus measures the amount of love in everything we do for Him. When I came to church, how much love did I have for the Lord while coming to the church? He's not going to say to you, oh, you drove 10 hours to get to the church.
No, He's going to say, in those 10 hours, there was this much love for me. When you prayed, you may have prayed one minute, and someone else prayed one hour, but the Lord will reward the one who prayed one minute much more than the one who prayed one hour. Because the love in that one minute was much greater than the love in that entire hour.
It is not about quantity, it is about quality. Quality. And Saint Paul puts it so beautifully in 1 Corinthians 13, the chapter of love.
13 verses, all about love. When you come to the Lord, come with your heart. Come with your heart.
It's a relationship. It's love. It's not a duty.
It's not an obligation. It's a choice I made because it's based on love. And love is a choice.
It's not forced upon me. I choose to come to church because I love the Lord. So why do we come to the church? Because we love the Lord.
Why did we listen to the bishop talking for 10 hours? Because we love the Lord. If it wasn't for the Lord, we would have just walked off. It's the Lord.
It's the Lord. This love gives you then life. This love gives you then life.
Can I have the Holy Bible for a second please? I just want to read you this particular verse. It's from the Gospel of today. Verse 4 In Him He's talking about the Lord Jesus John the Beloved.
It's the Gospel of today. In Him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.
I'll read it again. In Him meaning the Lord Jesus was life L-I-F-E Life and the life was the light L-I-G-H-T The light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Now Biblically speaking Biblically speaking The word light means knowledge. The word light L-I-G-H-T means knowledge. And knowledge leads you to love.
What leads to love is knowledge. And to acquire knowledge you need to be in the light. And in order to be in the light you need to be in the life.
And in order to be in the life you need to be in the love of Christ. Because in Him was the life and the life was the light of men. And the light shined forth in darkness and darkness never understood it.
What is darkness? The world. Why is the world darkness? Because the ruler of the world is Satan. So if light is knowledge guess what? Darkness is also another form of knowledge.
The Big Bang Theory evolution darkness what the world does bombards you with knowledge. There is an explosion of knowledge on social media platforms everywhere every angle every corner wherever you turn there is knowledge but not every knowledge is light. Because there is only one source where this knowledge is light it has to come from Jesus Christ.
That is the only source. Outside of Jesus Christ there is only darkness. And the life is the light of men.
So if life is the light of men then darkness is the death of men. Yes? Then darkness is the death. So now what leads you to life? Knowledge.
And what leads you to death? Also knowledge. Don't forget what did our father Adam eat from in order to end up being dead? The tree of knowledge. It was the tree of knowledge.
The knowledge of good and evil. But it was a tree of knowledge. See, this is the secret word.
God pre-warned Adam out of love he said my son be careful what kind of a knowledge you obtain and chase and follow. Be careful because not every knowledge will lead you to life to the light. There is knowledge that will lead you to darkness, death.
And so many people have gained knowledge that led them to darkness and when they lived in darkness they were not able to understand comprehend the light. What gives me life is love. And what leads me to love is knowledge.
Let me break it down. I cannot claim you may have heard this a hundred times. Hear it one more time.
I cannot claim to love someone I don't know. I can only love the person I came to know. True or not? If I don't know someone how can I claim that I love someone I never knew? I can only love the person I know.
So now when I came why did John the Beloved introduce Jesus Christ to the entire world as God but as the word? Why? Because the word gives you the knowledge. It is the word that gives you the knowledge. So why did the son come? Because he is the knowledge that will lead you to love.
Because when you come to know a person by knowing them you begin loving them. When you begin knowing the person you then begin to love them. The first time you met Elizabeth or Rachel or Rosanna or Joanna the first time you met her you don't know her.
So you went up to her introduce yourself and I am Jono. Hello Rosanna this is Jono the one and only. You began to know each other.
That's the first thing that happens but what pushed you toward her was love but love is the reason for you walking up to her but it's still hidden until you know her you won't be able to love her. But love was the reason. Otherwise what are you doing talking to this girl if it didn't tick in your heart an earthquake.
So you went up to her and you introduced yourself and you started talking. After one week after one month you got to know each other. The more you got to know each other the more you started loving the person.
You started loving the person. When you love the person what happened? You gave yourself to each other in a matrimonial bond. When you gave yourself to each other in a matrimonial bond what ended up being out of that marital bond? Life came out a newborn baby.
Life. Love gives life. What leads to that love is knowledge.
Jesus Christ is that knowledge that will lead you to true love. And when you receive that true love that true love will give you life. That life will be your light.
You'll walk in the light everything is vividly clear. Everything is vividly clear. So when people of the world come to deceive you, you will know it.
Because when the light shines darkness disappears everything becomes apparent. Clear. So the plandemic was darkness.
There was no plan there was a plandemic but there was no pandemic because there was deception. That's one hundred percent. I don't care what they say.
With all love and respect. But it was a lie. And look at the world.
Everyone is lying to everyone else. Why? Because they all live in darkness. This is all they know.
You see their teacher now is Satan. When they chose to live in darkness the one who ruled over them Satan. Satan.
What did the Lord Jesus say about Satan? The father of all lies. But what is a lie? Also knowledge. However this kind of knowledge is fake.
I'll leave you with this. What is fake? A dream. Now please when I talk or when we talk please don't just build everything on what we say.
So when Jesus came in a dream to me was that fake? Please don't. I'm talking in a general sense. Okay.
It's a case by case. Not every dream is fake. But a lot of dreams are fake.
But not every dream is fake. Yes. So when I say dream is fake I'm talking about a specific point here.
So many times we get misunderstood. That's human nature. Anyway.
But what is what is fake? A dream. Why the dream being fake? What is fake? A story knowledge built on false foundation. A story which is knowledge built on false foundation.
Let me elaborate. Let's say I am in a dream and in that dream I am a king. Now while I'm dreaming to me it's not a dream that's reality.
You don't dream and you say oh no it's only a dream I'm going to wake up from it. You don't say that. You think this is real.
This is the real deal. Wow. I'm a king in the dream.
So I became I came um I acknowledge that I'm a I'm a king that's it. So in that dream for me it's real. I'm king.
I believed it. I lived it. Wow.
So I rule. Hey you bring me coffee. Hey you go and knock that guy's head off.
I'm a king. I rule. And then my mum my good my good old mum came and tapped me on the shoulder.
Wake up. Wake up. And I wake up and I'm startled and I face reality I'm a queen and not a king.
All that knowledge all that dream was built on fake foundation. This is our life on earth. Dream built on fake foundation.
If we chase this world and this world only then we are building everything on one big lie. What is the lie? I worked hard all my life. I did not have time for the Lord Jesus.
I'm a Christian. I was born in a Christian family. I was baptized.
I was raised as a Christian. I believe Jesus Christ is my Lord and my Saviour. But then when I grew older I started working but there is nothing wrong with work.
Yes, absolutely true my son and my daughter. Nothing wrong with work. So I started working in order to achieve something in the future.
I want to build a future for myself especially after I got married for my wife and my children for my family. So I worked 7 days a week 14 hour shift. I had no time for Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
The father came the bishop came and said my son I haven't seen you in church for a long time. I'm so sorry father. I wish I wish I wish I had the time to come.
Believe me father I'm so busy. You know how it is. Life and its responsibilities.
I've got a family to look after. So I'm working father but the moment I have the time I will come and you will see me in the church. The day never came but one day came for sure and no escape from it.
The day came where the spirit left the body and I was put in that casket and everything that I was living thinking is real was nothing but a dream when the spirit left the body. A dream. All gone.
The mansion the cars the gold the pearls the diamonds the money in the bank account gone with the wind just like that the moment the spirit left the body. So what was all this knowledge I gained? Fake. Because I did it outside of God.
I forgot the one who came and became man. God revealed in the flesh the one who suffered for me the one who died for me the one who was buried for me and the one who resurrected for me is the rightful owner of everything and everyone. I forgot that all that running doing that business I forgot God who gave me that life? God.
Without this breath going in and out there is no life. Who is the source of this life? God. God.
Who gave me this family? God. Who gave me this health? God. Who gave me the strength? God.
Who gave me the wisdom? God. Who gave me the eyesight? God. Who gave me the legs the hands the brain the eyes the ease to work to think to build to make to protect God.
I forgot. I forgot that I needed to go back to the one who is everything is the one who created everything and everyone I forgot to go back to him and asked him what would you like of me to do for you Lord? I forgot. Do you want me to go into that business? Maybe not.
God. Because in this realm everything is a dream because one day I will have to wake up from it. Spirit leaving the body is when I wake up.
In this world I'm a president of the United States of America. When the spirit leaves the body I'm a poor little human being begging for God's mercy when I face him. What president? What Freemason? What elite? What Bill Gates? What George Soros? What else out there? Listen.
I pray for everyone. I love everyone. But the truth will always be the truth.
We will die no matter how long you try to live. The spirit will leave the body. Why? Because the spirit or the breath of life is the order from God.
What God has given no one can take away. No one, no one, no one. And God breathed into the nostrils of Adam the breath of life and Adam became a living being.
This is the order from God. Only God can take that breath away from Adam. This is why no matter how advanced science will be no matter they will never ever be able to create life.
Big Bang They create a cell but it's dead. In order to put life in it they get a cell from a living being. They can't create life.
They are a piece of dust. So what they have invented these geniuses listening to Satan another lost genius they have invented this AI Artificial Intelligence AI AI Sounds like Aussie AI AI So AI became AI AI The geniuses coming up with AI So what is AI? Artificial That's all this poor little human being can come up with. Artificial You cannot come up with the natural intelligence because the natural intelligence comes from one source His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
So they will make you a dummy and that dummy can be your partner. Walk like an Egyptian. Or they'll put these special glasses here and make you live virtual life Artificial Someone in America puts the goggles on and you are in Australia put the goggles on all of a sudden you are sitting on the same couch.
Oh hi How are you? I'm good How are you? It's one sick world. Let me tell you one thing If you are living in a neighborhood go and say hello to your neighbor. Give him a box of chocolate Show him love.
Don't worry about viruses. What viruses? Show him love. The Lord wants you to love him.
Love him. Don't worry about what you are going to do later. Don't worry about what will happen later.
Don't worry about what is coming your way later because the Lord is aware of everything before it happens later. All you need to worry about now this moment is one thing Focus on loving the Lord. Say Lord you are the word, knowledge.
I'm coming today to get to know you. I want to know you because when I know you that knowledge will lead me to loving you. I want to love you but before I love you I have to know you because I cannot know you as a stranger I need to know you as my only friend.
As my only holy companion. And in order to love you I need to know you. Today I'm coming to your holy house I want to learn to get to know you.
Teach me Lord on how to know you. Show me the way to knowing you. When you begin this personal intimate relationship with Jesus Christ getting to know this perfect God perfect man at the same time the more you get to know him the more you will love him the more you love him he will give you life but this life no one can take away from you it's eternal.
And this life is your light. True knowledge is light false knowledge is darkness true light is life therefore darkness is death. And why did darkness not comprehend light? Because when you're living a lie how can you accept the truth? The world never accepted Jesus Christ why? Because he is the truth and the world is a lie it's placed in the bosom of Satan the father of all lies.
And don't be shocked when the world go against you and persecute you why? Because this is all it knows it hates truth it hates the light darkness hates light. The moment you speak about Jesus Christ all hell breaks loose. You talk about Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna nothing happens.
You speak about Jesus everybody hates you. Why? We're sitting here peaceful they're trying to take our religious freedom so we don't talk about anything that offends a human being. But people go and chop heads and blow people up into smithereens nobody talks.
When the world embraces Jesus Christ no one will fight over a piece of land no one I can assure you this no one because when you receive Christ you will know it is not your piece of land anyway. The land the world is fighting over the land the world is fighting for the only truth about that land it is their graveyard. The land is the graveyard of humanity at the end.
What are you fighting for? The Lord came to give us freedom because wherever there is life there is freedom. Slavery is no life. The son is living because the son is free.
Jesus came to make us the sons of God meaning free in order to live. When you are free by the Lord Jesus nothing enslaves you. What property? What land? What throne? Church leaders fight over thrones because why? Because they haven't been set free as yet by Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
That's why they are fighting over the throne. This is mine not yours. How dare you take it away from me? How dare you challenge me? When Jesus has engulfed your heart this throne does not chain me up.
If my brother comes and fights over this throne I will give it freely with a big smile on my face because it matters not anymore for me whether I sit on the floor on the throne on the floor or at the gutter or in hell. It matters not. When Jesus is with me then anywhere everywhere is the same because the place matters not.
The honor of the place that's what matters. Whether I'm a bishop accept it or reject it who cares? As long as the Lord Jesus accepts me I don't want the church approval. When the Lord sets you free you have no fear anymore because you've got nothing to lose.
I have a life and that is Christ and death is a gain because death became the vehicle to take me to the love of my life where I'm going to see him face to face. No more in a mirror no more through a maze I'll see him face to face no more I think, I assume no, face to face. No more doubts no more questions no more thinking no more ifs, buts, where, when, how no, face to face.
Death took me to him, hallelujah. But when I have the throne no, I won't talk because I'm afraid of losing it. I'm going to offend the authorities they're going to depose me they're going to sack me they're going to strip me of my rank what am I going to do? I'll starve, I can't survive it's too hard, too dangerous this is a comfortable chair who cares about Jesus? I'll say whatever they want me to say I won't give a sermon for an hour I'll make it five minutes because the authorities will come don't trouble people, they are already tired what are you preaching for an hour? let them go home oh, Satan is waiting out here for you I'm not afraid my sermon is one hour minimum you like it? you don't like it? thank you very much with tabbouleh and baba ghanoush and hummus my beloveds love the Lord and let Him deal with everything you have or you lack let Him this is the logos that was incarnate He is love and when you're sitting with the love of your life the only thing you will never do is to look at the watch because you don't want the time to take you away from your sweetheart true or not you've taken your fiance out for coffee what are you going to sit there and every five minutes look at the watch come on waiter come on man I can't stand it I'm sitting with my sweetheart I'm suffocating, I want to go home when you do that, you'll never do that you won't even take a watch with you then why are you sitting in the church and going yalla father, yalla please hurry up, yalla yalla I'll make you ifu, bifu, mifu until you suffocate, yalla when you're with the Lord, don't look at the time you're with your sweetheart time does not exist when love is in existence true I'm with the one I love He's my babe I love Him to death Jesus is my love my love my love I don't fear Him I fear for Him I'm not afraid of Him I love Him I know He can wipe me out but I'll fix Him up later because I know He loves me and through His grace, I know I love Him this is how He said it to Simon Simon son of Jonah, do you love me? Lord, you know that I love you wow see, put the Lord number one and put yourself last why did Simon fall at the last supper? and denied the Lord? because he put himself first then the Lord he said, if all of them deny you, I will not deny you when love is missing, you'll fall when love is powerful and strong, nothing breaks you you see, after resurrection, he called the very Simon he called him to him he said, come here, do you love me? he wanted to see if he had learned his lesson and woken up to himself he said, I learned it Lord but the hard way, and I learned it and the last supper, I put myself before you I said, if all of them deny you I, Simon, will not deny you, Jesus but I've learned it because I denied you three times before the rustic row but now, you're asking me Lord, do you love me? oh, I learned my lesson Lord you know that I love you now I'm Peter no more Simon the weak, Peter the strong because I'm living in the love of Christ
Sermon Outline
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I. Introduction to the Gospel of John
- John's unique presentation of Jesus as God
- The Logos as the eternal Word and intellect
- The incarnation of the Word
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II. The Nature of God and the Trinity
- God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each fully God
- The Word reveals the speaker, establishes relationship, and commands
- God's holiness and consistency in character
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III. The Supremacy of Love
- God is love and love precedes life
- Love requires freedom and choice
- Love as the supreme ethic and its implications
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IV. Practical Implications of Love and Faith
- Choosing to love God and others freely
- Rejecting worldly philosophies that deny God
- Understanding love's power and vulnerability
Key Quotes
“John the Beloved introduces the Lord Jesus to the entire world as God.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“God is love, created us all on the basis of love, and when we broke His Word, saved us all on the basis of this very love.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Love is a choice, not mandatory. I choose to love. I am not forced to love.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Choose to love God and others freely as an expression of genuine faith.
- Recognize the divine nature of Jesus Christ as the eternal Word to deepen your relationship with God.
- Reject secular philosophies that contradict the truth of God's creation and sovereignty.
