The Love of God and the Crucifixion of Christ

We thank the Lord Jesus and we pray that we always surrender to his will, to his divine will, because he is the only one that knows what is good for us. We need to trust the Lord Jesus in every way and in every step along the way, because he is simply God revealed in the flesh, the creator of everyone and everything visible and invisible, both tangible and spiritual realms. There is no one that knows you more than you, except Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He knows what is good for you and the good thing about Jesus Christ of Nazareth, he is all love for you. You can never fee the one who died for you. Don't ever think after the Lord giving up his life for you on the cross on Calvary, he's going to come back now and hurt you.

Impossible. The one who died for you will never hurt you. He hurt himself in order to deliver you and redeem you forever.

Trust in Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. Come on, where is the amen? I like that.

All right, today we are continuing our journey in the topic of trilogy of teas. And today is the fourth week and the last one for this particular topic trilogy of teas. So we pray today we'll be finalizing it and let's see what the Holy Spirit is revealing to us this very moment, my beloved.

Last week we said teas of the Lord Jesus at the tomb took us out of corruption, saved and delivered us from death and set us free from the shackles and the chains of satan. Teas of the Lord Jesus at the city of your soul or your heart brought us back to the Lord again. You see, after we received resurrection, the first one we were all dead because the wages of sin is death.

So because we are all sinners and the wages of sin is death, that sin through death put me into the grave. The Lord came and wept at the grave at the tomb of Lazarus. By weeping there, he gave me resurrection.

After receiving resurrection, I sinned again. I went back to my old ways again after Christ giving me that resurrection. So the next teas, he wept at the city and that city is your heart, your soul, Jerusalem.

And the reason why he wept there, so that he would bring me back again to him after receiving resurrection. And we said, let us come to the Lord Jesus the easy way, lest he uses the hard way and he will. Since he has purchased you with his own precious blood, he made a promise that I will bring you home.

I'll bring you home. Whether you like it or not, he will try with you till the very last drop of your blood, till the very last breath of your life. He will try with you, never leave you.

So Christ will use any and every way to bring you back to him. So let us come to him the easy way, otherwise he will use the hard way to bring us back and he will. Tears of the Lord Jesus, number three, is today's topic.

And the tears of the Lord Jesus, the third tears, he wept in the garden. He wept in the garden. We find this in Luke 22, 39.

Luke chapter 22 and verse 39. What is the meaning of the garden here? Paradise. You see, when you read it in the original text, Hebrew or even Aramaic, same Semitic language, same family, garden in Hebrew, Aramaic means literally paradise.

And what is paradise? A beautiful place full of flowers, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So the meaning of the garden here is paradise. You see, Adam and Eve, after the Lord God made them tunics of skin, he sent them out of the garden.

He kicked them out of the garden after covering their nakedness with tunics of skin. And we find that in Genesis 3, 21. So Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden.

Adam's role in the garden was two things. Adam's role in the garden was two things. One, to tend the garden and number two, to keep it.

Genesis 2, 15. Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. Genesis 2, 15.

That was what was expected of Adam to do after God had created him and placed him in the garden of Eden. He was to tend the garden, meaning cultivate it, cultivate it, and to keep it, meaning to guard it and protect it. So one, to work the garden, cultivate it, and number two, to protect and guard that garden.

That was the role of Adam in the garden. Now Adam did not do none of the above. Neither he tended nor he kept the garden, thus becoming a failed gardener.

He became a failed gardener. Then the true gardener came. The true gardener came and entered the garden first.

Entered the garden first. Now the garden which the Lord Jesus entered is called Gethsemane. Gethsemane.

Now in the original language, which is Hebrew, is Gatshmanim. Gatshmanim. That is the proper pronunciation of the word Gethsemane.

Gatshmanim. Two words in one. Gatshmanim.

And Gatshmanim in Hebrew literally means oil press. Oil press. Where they would put olives, press them to get oil, olive oil out of those olives.

That oil press is called Gatshmanim. The name of the garden was oil press. Gatshmanim.

Gatshmanim. The Lord Jesus who is the true gardener entered the oil press alone. Why? Because in Isaiah 63 3 it says, I have trodden the wine press alone.

There is a prophecy about the Lord Jesus in Isaiah chapter 63 verse 3. And Isaiah wrote his book about 750 BC before Christ. Around 750 BC. The Lord Jesus is speaking through Isaiah.

I have trodden the wine press alone. Now in this press they used to press two things. One, olives.

Two, grapes. So I have trodden the wine press in Isaiah 63 3, which is also the oil press. Gatshmanim.

Gatshmanim. The moment the Lord Jesus entered the garden, what does the Holy Bible say? Look at this. Now please pay attention.

It's an interesting topic. The moment the Lord Jesus enters the garden, the Holy Bible says the following. Luke 22 41.

And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw. Luke 22 41. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw.

Now why didn't the Holy Bible say he was withdrawn from them about a half a mile or quarter of a mile? Why a stone's throw? What does that mean? He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw. Why about a stone's throw? Why? Gethsemane, which is in Hebrew Gatshmanim. The word Gat, the word Gat is a place where Goliath the giant came from.

The word Gat is a place where Goliath the giant came from. Now, the question is, this Goliath the giant, how did David defeat him? Who can tell me? How did David defeat him? He defeated Goliath with what? With a stone. He defeated him with a stone.

He defeated him with a stone. So when Luke 22 41 mentions, and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, the Lord Jesus is literally saying here to all of us, did you know that the stone, the stone that killed Goliath the giant, that stone is me. I am that stone, which David used to kill Goliath.

I am that stone. You are the stone Lord Jesus. He says, yes, I am.

In the very place of the stone's throw, there stood Jesus Christ in the garden of Gatshmanim. In the very place where that stone was thrown at Goliath, Christ stood because that stone symbolized the Lord Jesus in the end of times. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

Psalm 118 verse 22. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Psalm 118 verse 22.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Let me tell you a bit of a history about this rejected stone. Who are the builders here? King David is prophesying in Psalm 118 verse 22.

Who are the builders? The priest, the Israelite priest and the high priest. The priesthood represents the Israelite priesthood. These are the builders.

And which stone did they reject? They rejected Jesus Christ, the chief cornerstone. What happened with this chief cornerstone? When they came to build in the good olden days, they would select the stone to make sure that it is perfect for building. It is ripe.

It is right to be used for buildings. The moment they saw a stone that is a little bit crooked, they would throw it aside. It is rejected by the builders.

What did the priest and the high priest say about the Lord Jesus? He is a blasphemer. He breaks the Sabbath. He does not honor the Sabbath.

He claims to be God. He is rejected. This man is a crooked man.

This man is a deceiver. They saw him as a stone not ready to be built. It is crooked.

They rejected this stone. But this stone which they rejected became the chief cornerstone. What is the chief cornerstone? When the two walls are built, when they come to meet, that stone which they rejected became the cornerstone to tie the two walls together, to tie the two walls together.

So what is this chief cornerstone? It is Sunday resurrection. The one whom they rejected rose from the dead on Sunday. The one whom they crucified, the one whom they yelled and shouted and said, crucify him, crucify him, the one who was rejected and was crucified rose from the dead on Sunday resurrection.

Sunday resurrection, the Lord Jesus became the chief cornerstone to two walls. One wall called the Israelite nation and the other wall called the nations of the world. The Israelite nation, old testament church, one wall.

The nations, the new testament church, the Christians are another wall. Christ is the good shepherd to two branches of his beloved church. One branch, the old testament and another branch, the new testament.

And he became the chief cornerstone where he united the two walls, i.e. the two churches, the old and the new, when he rose from the dead. By his resurrection, he became the chief cornerstone and united the two walls and made them one. And this is where john the beloved sees this in revelation chapter four.

He says, I saw the throne of the lamb of God seated on that throne and around the throne, 24 elders, 12 old testament church and 12 new testament church because the old testament church is made out of the 12 tribes of Israel who happens to be Jacob, the son of Isaac, the grandson of Abraham. Jacob had 12 sons and those 12 sons became the 12 tribes of Israel, i.e. the church of Christ of the old testament. And it's the same God when he came to the new testament, he chose 12 of the new testament, the 12 apostles, just like he chose 12 tribes to make his church in the old testament, he chose also 12 apostles to make his church in the new testament.

And he became the chief cornerstone where the two became one sitting 24 elders united in Christ, the chief cornerstone. Amen. And this is what we celebrate as a church.

And we say, this is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118, verse 24, Psalm 118, verse 24 and verse 22, the stone which the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone.

But in two more verses, verse 24, this is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Which is this day? It is Sunday resurrection.

On this day where Christ rose from the dead, on this day, we shall rejoice because the Lord has made this day possible. He rose from the dead and by rising, he united his church in him, by him and through him. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw.

You are the stone Lord. Now, how are you going to defeat the enemy Satan? The holy Bible says how the Lord was going to defeat Satan. Pay attention.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Luke 22, 44.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Medically speaking, it is proven that your sweat can turn into driplets of blood when you are exposed to beyond extreme stress.

Beyond, and I mean beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond stress. Something that is unbearable, something that is unimaginable, something that is unfathomable. When a human being is exposed to beyond immense stress, little veins burst and blood comes out of your head.

And instead of drops of sweat, water, it is blood. Christ was under, enormous, beyond imagination stress. All those veins exploded inside of his head and literally drops of blood came out and fell on the ground.

Where did this happen? The moment he was withdrawn from them, a stone's throw, he started praying earnestly. He started praying earnestly. Then his sweat became like great drops of blood.

As if he was being pressed here. He entered Gethsemane, Geth Shemenim, oil press. Christ is being pressed, is being squashed from the sins of the wall that he carried on himself.

He carried all of our sins. He got squashed. Instead of us, he became the victim.

Now, one may ask and say, the Lord Jesus did not cry in the garden of Gethsemane. There is nowhere in the four gospel writers, there's nowhere they've mentioned that Christ cried in the garden of Gethsemane. And that's true.

So when you read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, they never mentioned that Jesus wept or cried in the garden of Gethsemane. So where did we get this, that Jesus cried or wept in the garden of Gethsemane? Saint Paul mentions that in his epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 5, verse 7. Hebrews 5, 7. Look what Saint Paul writes in Hebrews 5, 7. Who in the days of his flesh, he's referring to the Lord Jesus, who in the days of his flesh, meaning while he was still on earth alive, while he was still in the flesh. What happened? When he had offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tease.

So Saint Paul says to all of us that Christ did cry in the garden of Gethsemane or Geth Shemenim. With vehement cries and tease to him who was able to save him. Who was able to save him? God the Father.

So Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, as he was withdrawn from the disciples, a stone's throw, he knelt down and offered prayers and supplications. He begged, in other words, his heavenly Father to do one thing for him. To save him from death and was hurt because of his godly fear.

Jesus begged the Father, save me from death. Now one would ask, but hang on, didn't the Lord Jesus come to die? Yes, of course. But which death is the Lord begging his heavenly Father to save him from? Well, we'll find out my beloved.

What was the Lord Jesus doing in the garden of Gethsemane? You see the Lord, he knew he was going to die, i.e. being crucified prior to the actual hour. He knew beforehand he was going to die. And this is why he begged his Father to save him from death, i.e. prolong his life in the flesh until the time comes and Jesus says the word, it is finished.

He says, Father, save me from death until I'm able to say it is finished. The Lord's health had deteriorated a lot. Possibly he could have died prior to driving the nails into his body.

He could have died in the flesh quite easily. You see the Lord was, he was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin, Hebrews 4.15. He was in all points tempted as every single human being, except he was without sin, meaning if he doesn't eat, he'll be hungry. If he doesn't drink, he'll be thirsty.

If somebody smacks him, he will feel the pain. If somebody says a nasty word, he will be hurt. Everything he shared with us except sin.

But in the flesh, he was like every single other human being, i.e. weak like every human being. The flesh is weak like every human being. And this is why the Lord Jesus prayed and begged his Heavenly Father in the Garden of Gethsemane to prolong his physical life until he is able to say it is finished.

The Lord was worried that he will die before saying this statement. And where do you find this statement? In John 19.33. The Lord Jesus while hanging on the cross said seven statements and the seven statements go hand in hand with the seven days of creation, Genesis 1 and 2. They go hand in hand. Statement one, day one.

Statement two, day two. And so on until all seven. One of those seven statements, the Lord says it is finished.

In John 19.30. Sorry, not John 19.30, not 33. John 19.30. It is finished. He begged his Father, keep me alive in the flesh until I'm able to say it is finished.

Now, it is finished in Greek. In Greek, they've used this word in the New Testament, Greek language. And please excuse my Greek pronunciation of words.

I don't speak Greek. So if I mispronounce it, my sincere apologies to all those who are Greek of Greek origin. In Greek, it is finished.

They used in the New Testament this word, Teteleste. Teteleste. Teteleste in Greek, it is not what it is written in English, it is finished.

But rather, in the literal transliteration of the word Teteleste, it says paid in full. So in the Greek language, it should say in English, paid in full. Teteleste.

And that's what the Lord said. This is why in the garden of Gethsemane, Gethsemane, he begged his Father, leave me alive in the flesh because I'm about to die. I can't handle it.

Remember, he was shredded to pieces. He lost all of his blood. So he was begging the Father before the event takes place, before the scourging, before the nails, before the cross, before everything.

Father, I can see what's going to happen to me. I know what kind of a pain I'll go through. I'm begging you, Dad, just let me be until I say it is paid in full.

So he asked his dad to keep him until he says, Teteleste, it's finished or paid in full. And then give up his spirit. Exactly after mentioning this, the Lord says in your hands, my dad, I commit my spirit.

And then he dies in the flesh. Wow. Because he wanted to complete salvation.

He didn't want to leave nothing unless it was all perfectly done and completed. However, when we look at the Lord's sorrows, the way he endued all those pains, agonies and sorrows, he should have been dead prior to completing that salvation. He should have been dead.

No human could have handled such immense chastisement. No one. See, people usually, when they think of the Lord Jesus, they say, well, he is the Son of God and the Son of God is powerful.

He can do anything and everything. And so truly said, however, we need to understand there is the other side to the Lord Jesus, which is the human side. That human side is as weak as every single human being.

The flesh is weak, my beloved. You expose it to all that scourging. His body was shredded to pieces while he was carrying the cross.

Bits of his flesh were falling from his body because you have no idea how ruthless those Roman soldiers were toward the Lord. How ruthless. If you read history, you've seen the Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson.

That one, I will say it's 90% accurate. The Lord went through even worse than what the Passion of the Christ really shows. He went much worse.

Bits from his flesh were falling while he was walking to Golgotha. Let us come and contemplate for a moment on how the Lord Jesus felt while knowing all the sorrows and the agonies which he was going to enter and endure. In the garden of Gethsemanim, when he begged his heavenly dad, when he cried out to his father, he was seeing everything before his eyes, what will happen to him in a few hours time.

He was seeing it all. So let us contemplate on those last couple of days before the cross from when his day. The Lord was absolutely sleepless.

Why? Because the Lord realized that Judas Iscariot had sold him for 30 pieces of silver. The deal has been made. Jesus will be killed.

So from Wednesday, he was sleepless. Then Thursday, he stayed up with them. You know, the last supper, he stayed up with them.

He didn't sleep from Wednesday till Thursday. And then when they finished from that supper, did you know what time they normally get up and leave? After midnight. So when they got to the garden of Gethsemane or Gethsemane, it would have been around 1 a.m. So Thursday going on to Friday 1 a.m. So from Wednesday, no rest.

Thursday, he stayed all day and all night up till 1 a.m. 1 a.m., they went to the garden of Gethsemane, Gethsemane. Then he was arrested in that garden and he was taken to Anna's house. Anna's house was the high priest prior to Caiaphas.

But at the time of the Lord Jesus, it was Caiaphas, the high priest. I want you to know this fact about the history of the Israelite nation and the priesthood in the Old Testament. The high priest could only remain as a high priest for four years.

You know, it's like the presidents or prime ministers, they only last for four years and then they have to be voted. However, the high priest at the time had a term of four years and four years only. The moment his four years were finished, he had to step down.

No more chance to be a high priest. So Anna's was a very cruel high priest, very cruel. Realizing his time is up, he made Caiaphas marry his daughter.

So Anna's was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest who was at the time of the Lord Jesus. Why? Because Anna's wanted to remain in control because he gave his daughter to Caiaphas. Whatever he says, he can't say no to Anna's, otherwise he will say to his daughter, give him hell.

And being a high priest for his wife to control him, that is an absolute embarrassment before the entire Israelite nation. He is the high priest for God's sake, his wife. So whatever Anna's said, Caiaphas did.

This is why when the Lord was captured in the garden of Gethsemane, he was taken to Anna's house, not Caiaphas. Yet Caiaphas was the high priest, not Anna's. Anna's was retired, but he was in charge by the looks of it.

And then from Anna's house to Caiaphas house, and from Caiaphas house to the Sanhedrin council, and from the Sanhedrin council to Pilate, and from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod to Pilate, and from Pilate he was sentenced to be crucified. From Wednesday till Friday morning, from one place to the other, from one place to the other, no rest, no sleep. And don't forget, the sweat turned into blood, immense, beyond immense stress.

The body was already gone. The scourging hasn't taken place yet. He was already gone before the scourging.

And then at Pilate's, he was sentenced finally to be crucified. At 9 a.m., they made him carry the cross and walk. And when he was nailed on the cross, it was 12 noon.

For three hours, every blood in his body was gone, because the scourging took place. After scourging, they made him carry the cross. They shredded the body, if I tell you what they did.

They shredded the body. Psalm 129, King David explains the scourging a thousand years before it took place. When you read Psalm 129, it is written in a prophetic way, but it is about the scourging.

You know what, I'm going to read it. Look, this is the last chapter of Trilogy of Tears, so you better hang in there. All right, look at Psalm 129.

Look at Psalm 129. I didn't plan to say anything about it, but it looks like the Lord wants me. Psalm 129, I read it all.

Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth. Psalm 129 is a prophecy about the crucifixion or the scourging of the Lord Jesus. And it was written a thousand years prior to his coming.

Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth. Let Israel now say, many a time they have afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. Verse three, the flowers plowed on my back.

You know in the good olden days when they used to unearth, like turn the soil from beneath and bring it up because that soil needs to be unturned. Why? To receive more oxygen and to be more fertile to plant the seeds. How would they plow that earth? They would bring either a cow, one of these animals, and there's two ropes tied to that cow.

And those two ropes come to a piece of wood, and at the end of that piece of wood there is a big sharp knife. And there is a platform. The plower stands on that platform to dig that knife deep into the ground and then says to the cow, move to plow the earth.

The Lord is saying, the flowers plowed on my back. That whip, when you read history, actually that Romans whip is still in the museum, displayed in museums. The whip is made out of the strings are made out of like the horse's strings, like the tail of the horse.

They're very sharp, those strings very sharp. At the end of those strings they put either a metal ball and in some a hook, sharp hooks, exactly like the flowers plowed on my back. Then they would order that soldier, Roman soldier, who would be about 110-120 kilos, all muscle, extremely healthy young man.

They would say to him, you are ordered to whip this person. He would go back at least 20 meters and would come running and then jump with all of his might, with all of his power and then slam that whip with those metal balls and the hook on the back of that person. And obviously the hook is going to go deep in the flesh.

Then he would pull it with all of his strength. The flesh is shredded. They whipped the Lord on his back and on his chest.

Sorry, but I have, I don't know, I had to say it. Anyway, so then they put the cross on him 9 a.m. 12 noon, after three hours, the blood is gushing down because the body is shredded. The blood is gushing down.

At 12 noon he is nailed on the cross. 3 p.m. he gives the last breath and dies in the flesh. That's why he begged his dad in the Garden of Gethsemane, just keep the body alive until I say, Teteleste, it is paid in full.

Because I could see the body is not going to last. But what does the Holy Bible say? He was heard because of his godly fear. He was heard.

The Father granted Jesus, the perfect man, his wish. His cry was heard and his request was granted, not because he is the son of God, nor he is the son of man, but because of his godly fear. Now, St. Paul continues in Hebrews 5, 8 and explains what does this word mean, godly fear.

Why did God the Father hear the cry and the prayer of Jesus, not because he is the son of God, no, no, no, not because he is the son of man, no, but because of his godly fear. What does the word godly fear mean? St. Paul explains what it means in Hebrews 5, 8, the verse after 7. In 5, 8, St. Paul says what godly fear really means. It says, verse 8, though he was a son, meaning the son of God, though he was a son, son of God, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

What is godly fear? Obedience. Why was his prayer granted by his heavenly Father? Because he was obedient, not because he was the son of God, nor the son of man, but because he was obedient. That's why his prayer was granted.

This is a lesson to all of us. You want God to hear you, you need to be obedient to him. My daughter, my son, when you are disobedient to your parents, don't ever expect them to do things your way.

Anybody home, when the mom comes and says to you, daughter, come let's go, you say no. Come let's cook, you say no. Come let's clean, you say no.

You always say no to mom. Why are you expecting mom to do what you wish? You want mom to hear your request, to grant your request? You better be obedient to your mom and to your dad in order for the parents to respect what you're asking for. How much more God, the perfect father, the perfect parents, how is he going to listen to us if we are disobedient to him? We need to be obedient in order for God to hear our prayers and grant them and grant them.

Though he was a son, son of God, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. Now a question, was Christ not obedient? Because you're saying, yet he was a son, son of God, he learned obedience. Does that mean he was not obedient? Of course not, he was obedient.

But what does that mean? He was, he learned obedience. He learned obedience. You see, some criticize the gospel and say, how is it that Christ is the son of God and yet he learned obedience? We get attacked on this.

How is it Christ, you Christians claim that Christ is the son of God, but here it says in Hebrew 5.8, he learned obedience. So there is contradiction. On one hand he's the son of God, he should be always obedient, but he's saying here, he learned obedience.

So which one is it? No, no, no, he is the son of God and he learned obedience and it's so absolutely beautifully said. I'll explain to you. Let's look at an example, Jonah the prophet.

Jonah the prophet, God came to him and said, I want you to go to Nineveh, Iraq. He went to Tarshish, Spain, opposite direction. He was disobedient to God.

God put him through tribulations, hardships, the whale swallowed him. He remained three days in the belly of that whale, in the depths of that sea, absolute darkness alone. Nobody can hear him.

Nobody can come to his rescue. He realized his mistake for being disobedient, begged God for mercy. Just get me out of here.

I'll do whatever you say. Jonah learned how to be obedient after going through tribulations, but Christ learned obedience. How? Prior to his incarnation, he commanded others and they obeyed him.

After incarnation, he was commanded and he obeyed. Prior to his incarnation, he is God and God gives orders and everybody obeys those orders. After this God put on the flesh, he was commanded by God the father to do things and he obeyed.

He had to learn how to be obedient once he put the flesh on. He was never used to be given orders prior to the flesh being put on because he's God. No one orders God.

God orders everyone and everyone listens, but this God became man. When he became man, he became lesser and there is another authority above him. That's why he had to learn to be obedient.

The one who commanded is now being commanded. Amazing. I hope you got what I said.

Now you see the picture in the garden of Gethsemane is absolutely beautiful. The Lord Jesus laid the foundation that he will enter the cross press. He got pressed on the cross.

That olive became crushed. That grape became crushed on the cross. He trodden the wine press alone.

Isaiah 63 3. He got crushed on the cross. He got crushed on the cross, my beloved. He is the stone which David striked Goliath and Christ is the true stone which will strike Satan.

Which will strike Satan and achieve victory to bring us back to the garden, i.e. paradise once again. For this reason, on resurrection day, when the Lord rose from the dead, he was in the garden of Gethsemane. Mary Magdalene comes looking for the Lord.

Where's the master? She sees someone there. She calls him gardener. That was she wrong? No, Mary Magdalene was not wrong when she called Jesus gardener because he is the true gardener.

You see, my beloved, the first gardener lost everything that is Adam, but the second gardener brought back everything that was lost. So when she called him gardener, she was absolutely correct. He is the true gardener.

4. Adam got kicked out of a garden paradise for failing being a good gardener. Jesus entered the garden paradise and accomplished God's will and word to the fullest and became the true gardener. Gardener, tell me, where have they taken him? And he turns and says, Mary, the tone, she recognized him by his voice, not by seeing him, but by hearing him.

And this is how we recognize the Lord first. You can't see him unless you hear him first and recognize his voice because Christ is the logos, the word, the word in its nature can only be heard first. And then when you hear it, believe it accepted, then the word will reveal himself to you.

You cannot find him. He will find you. But your job is when you hear his voice, do not shut the door in his face.

Believe in that voice, believe in the word you heard. And when you believe in what you've heard, Christ will reveal himself to you. When he said, Mariam, the tone, the voice of Christ, she recognized him and said, the teacher of all teachers.

Well, you just saw me, Mary. Why didn't you recognize me? Because I was faithless and faith cometh through hearing. That faith was restored to Mary when she heard the voice of the logos, Mariam.

The moment she heard the voice, believed in that voice, faith came back. She recognized him. And when you recognize him, that means Christ has revealed himself to you.

The second gardener brought us back. All brought back all that was lost. The gardener brought us all back to the garden again.

Tears of the garden opened to us paradise. The Lord Jesus, while hanging on the cross, said to the thief at his right, truly, I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. The true gardener brought us back to the garden paradise.

Well, truly, I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. Luke 23, 43. Here we recap on what we've said in the last four weeks.

The Lord Jesus' first teas. The first teas were wept at the Lazarus, were wept at the tomb of Lazarus. Those teas, what did they do? Death was defeated, brought Lazarus out of the tomb and broke the sting of death.

Death was defeated, brought Lazarus out of the tomb and broke the sting of death. The first teas dealt with death and gave us resurrection. The second teas of the Lord, restored peace to the city of your heart, Jerusalem.

Restored peace. Why peace had to be restored? Because the moment we sin, the first thing we lose is our peace. Have we noticed when we do something wrong, you feel empty, you feel void, you feel confused, you feel lost, disorientated.

You don't know what you're doing. You don't know who you are. You don't know where you are.

You don't know where to start or where to end. It is an absolute mess. Why? Because peace is lost through sin and that peace Christ came to bestow in your heart.

That's Jerusalem, the city of peace. So the second teas of the Lord were to bring that peace once again to our hearts and live in harmony with the Lord. No more enemies.

We are in peace now. No more fighting you Lord. No more arguing with you Lord.

No more being disobedient to you Lord. When the Lord called me to the church, I went to the club. I was fighting him.

I was going against him. The Lord says pray and I didn't. The Lord says fast and I didn't.

The Lord says come to the light and I went to darkness. The Lord says come to the church and went to the club. The Lord says come to me, I Jesus Christ and I chose Satan not Christ.

We were in a battle. We were fighting one another until he cried and wept over the heart that was conquered by sin and lost its peace. The teas of Christ reinstated that peace.

The moment that peace entered my heart, I said what have I done? Why did I do all that? I was so blind. I was so lost yet I thought I was doing everything right. Until Christ wakes you up, he'll never realize what you're doing.

Do not be shocked for the world to act so evil, yet they think they're doing good. Do not be shocked because they're blind. There is no peace in the world because the one who rules the world is Satan.

Satan has no peace in him. Where are you going to get peace if there is no source for that peace? The only source of peace is Jesus Christ of Nazareth who is God and the only true living God my beloveds. That's where peace comes from.

It doesn't come from a prophet. It doesn't come from a holy man. It doesn't come from a good teacher.

It doesn't come from no humans. It comes from God, the true divine living God, the creator of all. And this true living God was revealed in the flesh over 2,000 years ago.

He was crucified in the times of Pontius Pilate. He was buried in the flesh but he rose from the dead and his tomb is empty. The sepulcher church cries out every year and every day.

Until when world are you going to be blind? Until when are you going to choose to remain in this blindness, spiritual blindness? Until when? Look at the world and see how it's behaving. Absolute foolishness, absolute evilness to the core. They can't stand the truth.

They can't stand the light. Yet the light is so clear and the truth is so powerful. The world is sick and there is only one healer that can heal this sick world.

His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to his holy and mighty name, the crown of our glory. Jesus lives forever.

Don't ever sell your Lord. Don't ever walk away from your Lord. And by the way, Jesus Christ is not a Christian.

Jesus Christ is not Catholic, is not Orthodox, is not Protestant. Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh. He wants you.

Don't go and say, Lord, I'm this and I'm that. He says, hang on, I created you. Are you going to tell me who you are? I made you.

But when I made you, I wanted one thing from you. I want your heart. Proverbs 23, 26.

My son, give me your heart. Give me Jerusalem and I'll turn it into a city of peace. When everything outside is in turmoil, everything is lit up in fire, but inside there is calmness and tranquility, serenity.

Because when the king of peace dwells in this heart, everything is cool, brother. What problem? Oh, the doctor said you're going to die in one week. Hallelujah.

The death became that vehicle that's going to fly me to my beloved and I'm going to see him face to face, no more in a maze, no more in a mirror, no more. I'll see him face to face every single moment. Now I am begging to see him for a split second and I'm not even getting it, not even in a dream, not even in any sign, so hard.

But there and then I will see him every moment before me, fully revealed. So hallelujah to death. What are you afraid of? If I live, I live for the Lord.

And if I die, I die for the Lord. If I live and die, I am all for the Lord. I am all.

Fear nothing. And when you go home, I'll give you this verse, read it all. Joshua, Old Testament, the book of Joshua chapter one verse nine.

Take this is from the Lord to all of you. Read it tonight. Joshua one nine and say, Lord, this is your voice for me.

Fear nothing. Only fear the Lord. The second tease restored peace to this city, the heart.

When was peace restored? When the Lord visited us and we responded to that visit. When we acknowledge that visit, when we accepted that visit, the Lord visits you every single day. But how busy are you for him? You've missed the knock.

You've missed the voice. You've missed the calling because we are too busy for the Lord Jesus. Don't let the moment of visitation pass you by.

Accept it. Hear his voice and run and open the door. When you open the door, peace will be restored in this heart.

Then the third tease of the Lord Jesus opened to us paradise and he brought us in the garden, the garden where Adam and Eve were kicked out of. The true gardener came into the garden of and he was pressed there on the cross and brought Adam and Eve and all of his children who believed in the true gardener, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brought them all back to the garden where they were kicked out of in the very beginning. Oh gardener, tell me where have they taken my master's body? Miriam, what are you looking for? I am the true gardener.

I am Christ the King. Therefore my beloved, with the Lord's tease, let us hold them in the palm of our hands and approach God the Father and say, Father, Heavenly Father, with the tease of your beloved Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we come to you seeking your love, seeking you and the kingdom to be our home. Let us in, Father.

These are the tease of your Son. He cried at the tomb of my death and gave me resurrection. He cried at the city that lost peace and brought me back into that peace once again.

He cried in the garden of Gath Shemenim. Your Son was squashed there and gave me paradise. With these tease, I am coming to you, Heavenly Father.

Let me in. I want to be with you and live with you forever in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

With this, we conclude our journey in the trilogy of tease. It took four weeks, thank the Lord, and I pray we've learned something. And not only learned, I pray after we've learned, we applied it into our life, daily life.

It's extremely vital, extremely vital, my beloveds. I'll leave you with this. We need to work hard to get to know Christ and then beg Him to help you to apply it to your daily life.

Apply Christ to your daily life. A piece of advice. Choose one word, whether it's love, kindness, forgiveness, humility.

Choose one word and say, Lord, tomorrow. For example, you choose love, right? And you say, Lord, tomorrow, please, when you wake me up, I want all that day to be a loving person. Teach me how to love people the way you want me to love, not the way I want, no, no, no, you.

So, Lord, I'm giving you my will. I'm giving you everything. You are free.

You can do whatever you want. And I'm asking you, tomorrow, let me live love your way, not my way. You're gonna get all the nasty people your way.

You're gonna get all the ugly people your way. You're gonna get people that will get on your nervous. And they will drill and drill and drill to get you angry.

And you're saying, Lord, I'm running out of patience. I want to knock their block off. But I asked you yesterday, let me love them.

So, Habibi, I love you. Learn, learn. You're laughing now, but it's a lesson.

How can I love where there is no love? How can I make peace where there is no peace? How can I relate where there is no one that can relate to me? Learn. With God, you need to learn one thing. God works in the impossible, not the possible.

God will never do anything unless it's impossible. When it's possible, He lets you do it. When it's impossible, He will never ask you to do it because He knows you cannot.

He doesn't. So when the Lord says, love your enemy, He knows you can't. What the Lord is saying, please allow me to dwell in you, to teach you through me how to love your enemy.

Because this is only God's way, not your way. Amen. Choose a word.

Ask the Lord to help you to live that word tomorrow. Okay, I'm going to search in the Holy Bible to see if there is a word that I can find somewhere else. I'm just kidding.

Okay, relax. I remember this guy, he came to me one day, he said, Father, I prayed and asked the Lord on that night to never be angry all tomorrow. He said, do you know how many times I caught the bus to work every single day for ease? It was extremely peaceful.

That morning when I asked the Lord, please don't let me be angry no matter what happens. He said, it began when I got on the bus. The moment I sat on the bus, somebody got up, a passenger, I don't know, and he started going off at me, swearing, yelling, and everybody's looking, and I'm holding my temperature.

I'm trying to be calm because every time I want to get up and belch in one, I'm remembering that I said, God, keep me calm. He said, barely made it out of the bus. I said, thank you, Lord.

I didn't lose it. Pass. He said, I went to work.

I said, good morning. They said, shut up. Yeah, honestly, it's true.

It's a true story. He said, everyone at work was a vicious wolf. I said, Lord, I'm not going to ask you anymore.

I'm just kidding. We need to be real warriors. Amen.

Power is in when you manage life, not when you break things. That's power. That's wisdom.

Let's stand for the finale prayer. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not 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 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.