Mar Mari Emmanuel teaches that true wealth lies not in material abundance but in a humble relationship with God, warning against greed and the folly of prioritizing earthly riches over the soul.
In this profound sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the parable of the rich fool from Luke 12, emphasizing the dangers of greed and the folly of placing trust in material wealth. He calls believers to recognize their true identity in God, to live humbly, and to share generously. With heartfelt teaching and personal testimony, the speaker urges the congregation to seek spiritual richness and unity in Christ above all else.
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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, Monks, Nuns, and our beautiful and beloved congregation, those who are present in this Holy Church, may the Almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you, guide you, protect you, and deliver you from the snares of the enemy, whether it be visible or invisible, Amen. The Gospel of today is according to St. Luke, chapter 12, verses 16 to 34 inclusive.
It is Luke, chapter 12, verses 14 to 16 to 34 inclusive. The Lord is sending a very profound message as always. And this profound message is a reminder of who truly we are as human beings outside the circle of God.
This profound message is about humans and their truthful status outside the presence of God in their life. He starts by giving this message about a rich man, where his land gave him an abundance of crops, produce. And then that night, that rich man sat down between him and himself, between himself.
He started thinking like every human being thinks. And he said, Saul, the land has given you produce abundantly. What shall I do? The barns are not big enough to cater for the produce that happened this year.
This is what I will do. I will start extending them, making them bigger so they can cater for the entire produce. And then I'll gather them all, put them in those barns.
And then I'll say to myself, sit back and relax and enjoy this flight. This is your captain speaking. Sit back, relax, enjoy.
You have plenty of blessings that will last you a lifetime. And then the Lord says, in that very night, God spoke to that person and called him a fool. You have thought of all this to do, but one thing you did not heed to tonight.
Your soul or your spirit will be taken away from you. What are you going to do with all of these plans that you have considered in a very genius slash foolish way? Greed, the human dilemma. When you look around you, especially in our time and age, this has happened along the human race, along the human history.
But let us come to our time and age. When you look around you, what has been happening and what is happening in the world, it is nothing short of human greed. Nothing short of human greed.
Nothing else. You see, greed makes a human blind. So blind, he forgets that he is a human being.
He forgets his humanity. The issue of our time and age, certain people do not wish to deal with the masses, with the human race, at a humane and human level. Because they think they are in some sense, in some foolish sense, they are beyond everyone else.
As if they are a god in the midst of human beings. And as a god, they gave themselves the right to conquer, to rule, to dictate and to tell people how they should live. And even to the extent of not live anymore.
What does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and at the end loses himself? This is the question that every human being needs to answer for themselves. What does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and at the end loses himself? What are you going to give in the place of that soul which you have just lost? Absolutely nothing. This question, the Lord gave to us in order for us to start seeking the answer to this question.
Finding the answer to this question. Striving to reaching an answer to this foundational question. And the Lord is saying to all of us and every human being.
There is not a day that passes you by unless you have asked one or several questions throughout that day. There is not a day that passes by unless we ask a question or more. And the reason why we ask, because through the question our intention is to find an answer to get to where we are hoping to get to.
The Lord is saying, this question is the question to every other question that could ever come your way. If you are able to answer this question only, you would end up answering every other question you could ever dream or think of coming your way. What does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and at the end loses himself? Can you answer this question? The Lord is asking.
This rich man, he was in search of gaining the whole world. But that's an absolute foolishness in its call. An absolute foolishness in its call.
The problem is everyone knows when they reach a level of understanding. Every human being knows, this is not just Christians, this is humanity. Every human being knows when they begin to understand, comprehend what is happening around them, they all know they will die one day.
Yet knowing this fact and the irony of this all, this fact which no human can ever do anything about it. We cannot stop death, no matter what we do. Obviously there are some people who are as fools as this rich man in the gospel of today.
Think they can live forever on earth. They can be God on earth. What came from God, no one can change, no one can stop, no one can remove.
Only God can. Who gave the command for death to come and conquer the human race? God. Adam, the day you eat from the forbidden tree, surely you shall die.
The day you eat from the forbidden tree, surely you shall die. 100% you will die. That tree is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is me and every human being. This is the tree, it's not apple as in your iPhone. That was a good try by the secret society, but foolish.
Some question which tree did Adam eat from? Was it apple? Yeah, apple, look. Okay, was it green apple, yellow apple, red in between? It was apple. The others will come and say, no, no, it was fig.
Well, how about orange? The tree, the Holy Bible says very clearly about it. It is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Holy Bible does not mention it is a fruit tree or any other tree.
The tree is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So why are you saying apple, fig, this, that? It's not. It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Who is that tree? Me, you, every human being. There is another tree, or there was another tree in the garden of Eden, in the heart of the garden of Eden, the center, called the tree of life. Christ is that tree.
So is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil a literal tree? Yes, it's you and me. God is saying to every human being, regardless of your color, of your race, of your religious background, this is to do with humanity. He is saying, the day that comes, you do things your way, outside of God, your end is 100% death.
It is death. Your beginning will be good, but rest assured your end will be evil. Whatever knowledge you gained outside of the knowledge of God, the true divine God, that knowledge will give you goodness at the beginning, but definitely evilness at the end.
You will live to die. And in this, neither you nor anyone in heaven, on earth, or beneath it, will ever be able to change this, because when God speaks, it is done. No one can do anything about it.
And if you are in breach of what God's commandment is, what God's law is, you will suffer the consequences, no matter who you are, where you are, and what you are, God will come to you. You cannot escape, you can run, but you can never hide from the judgment of God. Never.
Never. So all those foolish people like this rich man, who think by their wisdom, by their achievements, by their wealth, by their power, by their positions, they can do whatever, they can conquer, they can enslave people, they don't know what is awaiting them from the almighty God who art in heaven. They have no idea.
Because their disappearance will be in a blink of an eye. Never to come back again. When the Lord blesses you with crops, when the Lord gives you a gift, the Lord did not intended that gift to be for you only.
He meant for you to share it with everyone in your circle. The land who created that, God. The crops who created that, God.
Who allowed the land to give produce, God. Who chose for you to have an abundance of produce, God. God did that based on one thing, love.
He loves every human being equally. But humanity's love toward God, definitely not equal. Some love Him a little, some love Him a lot, some love Him not.
They don't believe in His existence. So when God gave that produce, He meant for that rich man, number one, to thank God. Number two, to share God's gift and blessings with those who are in need.
Not being greedy. I'm going to collect, I'm going to collect, I'm going to collect. Thinking only of himself.
Greed is selfishness, egocentric being. All I care about me. I don't care if my brother is starving.
I don't care if my neighbor is in need. I don't care, I don't think of no one but me. And since I think of only myself, I will do everything in my power to make sure I am the only one ever to exist and ever to be seen.
I will be the center of attention. I'll make sure everybody begs for my help. Everybody looks up to me.
Sick mentality. Sick. A delusion.
Non-existent. When someone, when a human being thinks they are something special, this is foolishness. And the picture is very ugly.
Because they force it to be something special. But don't force it, let it come natural. Why are you forcing it? So stop playing with your hair.
Just let it flow naturally. Let the wind blow your hair. And stop showing your diamond ring.
And stop showing your tattoos, my dear friend. And your muscles. They wear very tight shirts to show off all the contours.
And they walk like this. What's up, bro? Alright, what's up? It's a very funny story. We all die.
Yet we fight for materialistic things. We fight over materialistic things. Amazing.
Couldn't be any more funnier than this. This is why the Lord Jesus, after giving this message about this rich man, He says, look at the bird of the sky. Amazing how the Lord talks.
He says, look at the bird of the sky. Never plants, never harvests. But your Heavenly Father feeds that bird.
In a normal dialect, If you're pointing at anything or at something, Then you would talk about that thing at a face value. Meaning, if I say to you, look at that bird, As a normal human being, limited capacity, I will say, it's a natural, normal human conversation. Allah says, look at that bird.
Do you see that bird? How beautiful the bird is. Look at the colors. Look at this rosella, man.
The green and the gold and the orange and the purple. Amazing. Look at this bird.
It's all black. It's big. It's small.
It's cute. It's ugly. But there's nothing ugly.
But this is the way we would talk. When you point at something, You would talk what you see. Why? Because you are a human.
This is your ultimate capacity to reach. You can only talk about what you see. But look at Jesus Christ, Who is God revealed in the flesh.
He says, look at the bird and see beyond what you see. Never plants, never harvests. Look at the bird with the eye of faith.
Not the naked eye. When you look at things, look beyond. Don't stop there at surface level.
Dive deep. Because there are treasures when you dive deep. And this is our problem.
We look at a person, we judge them externally. But God judges internally. Not externally.
A person makes one mistake, We wipe them from existence. Well, they have still some good values in them. Don't just abolish everything.
Just because of one mistake. Someone was nice to you for many years. Once came, they did something that upset you.
Don't forget those many years that he was nice to you. And say, you are a bad person. And when we judge, we judge.
We generalize things. I need to be specific. I disagree with you on this point.
But I want you to know, I still love you and respect you. The Lord says, look at the bird. And look beyond.
Speaking of birds. Have you ever seen a bird? That when it finds food somewhere. Goes there, eats.
And then grabs a bag from Woolies. And start putting in the bag all the leftovers. Because the bird is going to say, Well, who guarantees I'm going to find food tomorrow.
So how about, let's collect bro. Let's save up brother. We need to save up for the bad times.
Excuse me. Like father Isaac this morning said, All the time is bad times. The times of this world are all bad.
What? Do you think there is good times in the world? They are all bad times. So, have you ever seen a bird eating and then say, Okay, I need to collect like this rich man. I need to make the barns bigger.
I need to save up. Because I don't know if tomorrow I'll find food. I don't know if tomorrow I'll last in this job.
Who says I'm going to be able to survive tomorrow. Interest rates are going up. Electricity bills, everything is going up.
Food, everything. Petrol, cars, clothes. Man, I can't survive.
You know what? I need to start thinking about myself and myself only. I start to becoming selfish, greedy. Not realizing there is God who art in heaven.
Who has created everything that is visible and invisible. And before he made you and me. In the heart of the land he put gold.
And in the heart of the oceans he put pearls and precious stones. Do you think this God can't feed you in the midst of crisis? You are a fool if you think this way. You're a fool.
Do not be rich with materialistic things. Be rich in God. Jesus.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. What am I going to do with this verse? Psalm 23.
What am I going to do with it? Pope Cyril VI. My sweetheart. I had his picture on the altar.
I took it temporarily. I'm going to put it back. It doesn't worry me if people misunderstand what I say and what I do.
As long as the Lord knows. It matters not what people know and perceive. And I'm upset that I've removed that picture.
And I'm confessing. Because some people might think. If I put the picture of Pope Cyril here.
I've made him my patriarch. No. He is my sweetheart.
This relationship. I will let no one to come in between. Because you did not bring me to this world.
You did not look after me when I was left alone in the wilderness. The Lord. The Holy Mother.
And Pope Cyril came. So, you talk what you know. And let me talk what I have lived and I know.
In fact. Because I won't sleep tonight. By the way, he is Coptic.
Oh. He is Oriental Orthodox. Oh.
Now, Bishop. You're Assyrian. And the church you come from, the Coptics don't recognize the church.
Oh. Mate. You can't have a. Get a life.
Huh? Get a life. This Oriental Orthodox Patriarch. But to me he is not a Patriarch.
He is a Saint. He is the Son of God. He is the love of my life.
After Jesus Christ and the Holy Mother. I will never deny who I am. Where I come from.
And the church I belong to. I will never deny that if the entire world says otherwise. Pope Cyril is a personal relationship.
This personal relationship. I let no one to interfere with. No one.
So I love you Pope Cyril. Not because you're a Pope. Because you are the true servant of Christ.
And whoever is a true servant of Christ. One thing we can only do. We bow in veneration and respect.
Before these mighty figures and pillars. And the church of the Lord. When it comes to Christ.
It's no longer what backgrounds you come from. It's to do with being with God. Who is above all nationalities.
All races. All colors. And all names.
That people have put on the body of Christ. Which is the church. So yes, I am a Syrian.
And I belong to the church of the east. And I am very proud to belong to the church of the east. This no one takes away from me.
No one. But Cyril VI is my sweetheart. Forever.
So he will remain on the altar. As my saint. Nothing to do with anything else.
So people that are watching. That are listening. Don't twist.
Because you will answer to the Lord Jesus. Don't twist things. I want you to pray for me.
I'm asking you to pray for me. Because I need your prayers. To see what the Lord wants from this piece of rank.
Just going through some small journey. At this present moment. Pray for the Lord's will to be done in this small journey.
And I'm not talking about going to Turkey, Lebanon or Syria. Not that journey. It's a spiritual journey.
So I need you to pray. To see what the Lord's will is going to be for this useless, hopeless piece of rank. Because I, at the end, let the whole world say this is good for you to do.
I want the Lord to say this is good for you. I want you to do this. My little servant.
So it's just a journey at the moment. I can't say anything. Not that I'm afraid of anything.
But I just don't want to say it. Because it's not the right time for it. That's all.
So I'm asking you to pray. To see what the Lord's will is. What the Lord wants from this piece of rank to do next.
So pray for me please. Peace. Unity.
Unity is always beautiful. And this is what the Lord wants. The Lord wants his church to be united.
The Lord wants his church to be one in him. And for him. The Lord wants all church leaders to be one.
One heart. One tongue. One language.
Not gibberish. But the language of love. The language of love.
Pray my beloveds. For all church leaders to come to speak in this language of love. To be true brothers in Christ.
For Christ. For the glory of his holy name. Pray my beloveds.
There is nothing more beautiful than unity. There is nothing more beautiful than brothers living together in the love of Christ. Nothing more beautiful than this.
So I love Pope Sirach. The Habibi. When I say be.
My beloveds. Don't come to the Lord and say I'm rich. Don't come to the Lord and say I'm this.
Don't come to the Lord and say I'm Catholic. Don't come to the Lord and say I'm Orthodox. Come to the Lord and say I'm a sinner.
I come with a contrite heart. With a broken heart. I'm coming full of sin.
Full of errors. Full of mistakes. I'm coming bowing my head before your holy feet.
Your sandals. Begging you for mercy. Begging you for forgiveness.
Lord I am nothing. That's why I came to you. Because you are the one who is everything.
In you I am everything. In you I need not anymore. Because you suffice Lord.
You give me everything I lack. In you I am complete. In you I am perfect.
In you I am beautiful. In you I am sinless. I am the son of God.
Because the son of God made me that son of God. The son of God. I'm coming to you Lord.
The birds surpass us with their faith and trust in God. The birds surpass humanity with their trust in their creator. The bird never gathers and collects and saves for tomorrow.
You see the bird eats. The tummy is full. Flies away.
Leaves everything else. Because the bird says just like God fed me today. Definitely he will feed me again tomorrow.
The God who was with me today. He will be with me tomorrow. He will never ever lose track of me.
He promised I am with you all the days of your life. And until the end of all ages. I will not leave you orphans.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not wander. He leads me to green pastures and still waters.
And by the way. The sheep can only drink from still waters. If the stream is a running water.
Sheep runs away. Gets afraid. The sheep is very fragile.
Gets frightened from the sound of the water. Runs away. The sheep cannot drink from flowing waters.
He can only drink when the waters are still. That's why the psalmist says. He leads me to green pastures and still waters.
Since the Lord is God. He knows what I am capable of. And capable of not.
He knows a little thing will break me. He comes. Approaches me with absolute care.
Carefulness and comfort. Come my child. I'll give you what is good for you.
This is why you will never find a bird having high cholesterol. High blood pressure. Blockages in the valves of the heart.
And requiring a heart surgery. Never. Because the bird is free.
No worries. We worry so much. Before we take the first step.
We drop dead. Oh what am I going to do? What am I going to say? How am I going to prepare? What if I apply for the job and I don't get the job? What's going to happen to me? What if I go and approach this girl and say. I'm really interested in you.
And she tells me off. What am I going to do? I'll kill myself. I'll bury myself.
That's so embarrassing. Duh. What if I start this business and I fail? How am I going to face my mates? What am I going to say to my cousins? To my brothers, my sisters, my mom and my dad.
Who's been nagging me. Get a job, get a job, get a job. I'm afraid.
Father what shall I do? Shall I go? Shall I not? Shall I apply? Shall I not? Shall I ask this girl for her hand? Or not? You're marrying her. Why are you asking me? Get lost. Be a man.
Not LGBTQR. But be a man. What a sick world honestly.
It's that sick. It's funny. Funny.
someone comes out feeling he is someone that is not fool the birds and I'll leave you with this learn from the birds learn from the birds maybe one day when you go and find and see a bird just sit in silence and watch what they do they're always moving jumping to to to to to to be like that to to to when your eyes fall on Juliet and you are Romeo just remain to to to don't be to to to at the engagement and after marriage be a crow remain before and after a duty she will love you happily ever after duty at the beginning yes honey yes habibi yes darling please sit down I'll make the taboo leaf for you I'll make the Baba Ganesh for you after marriage she says honey what what do you want leave me alone I'm on my PlayStation might you be this long what PlayStation be rich in the Lord I'll leave you with this when you when you read the Holy Bible there is definitely four heavens that are vividly clear the Holy Bible speaks of the first heaven the second heaven the third heaven and the fourth heaven the first heaven is inside the firmament where birds and planes fly that is the first heaven the second heaven is where the galaxies and the stars are the third heaven is paradise where the Saints and the mother of all Saints our Holy Mother Mary the Virgin of all virgins the mother of our Lord our God our Savior our Redeemer my sweetheart who comes before pop zero my sweetheart and then the fourth heaven is the heaven with Lord Jesus is saying and telling Nathaniel or Nathanael when he came approaching the Lord Jesus the Lord Jesus said at the end no one went up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven the Son of Man who is in heaven and this heaven the Lord spoke in a singular format not pluralistic singularity meaning this heaven is the heaven of all heavens and this heaven of all heavens the Lord said no one went up to it except the one who came down from it the Son of Man meaning himself Jesus Christ of Nazareth the Son of Man who is in heaven let's come to the first heaven birds you want to be rich in God you want to end up being rich in God follow these four heavens the first seven birds what do they teach you the birds learn how to trust God in everything in every aspect of your life leave everything in the hands of the Most High God for he knows what is good for you he will never forsake you he will never disappoint you he will never leave you behind trust in the Lord learn from the birds because birds teach you how to learn in trusting God don't save up leave it to the Lord don't be selfish the Lord gives you wealth share it don't be afraid don't be afraid don't be afraid when you learn trusting God when you begin not only learn but when you begin living how to trust God living this trust not just speaking about it not just boasting about it living this trust when you begin to trust in God in every step you make God will take you and elevate you to the second heaven he will make you a star in his heaven he will give you glory stars glory St. Paul says that in his epistle to the Corinthians there there is one star greater than the other star in glory what is the star here Saint from a weak human being from a piece of dust full of mistakes full of errors full of darkness into a star in heaven elevated so exalted so glorified so glorious in the heaven of your Messiah when he takes you to that glory when he gives you his glory he will take you to the third heaven paradise because only Saints enter paradise not sinners when you enter this paradise being a saint there by the blood of the Lamb of God whom you have trusted all your life on earth when you enter paradise there is only one thing you will do for the remainder of your stay in paradise is to thank the Lord always when someone has been good to you all your life yet you were nasty to him when someone never denied you yet you've denied him a million zillion times on your in your life on earth when someone never walked away from you yet you've walked away from him a lot of times when someone has purchased you with his precious blood yet you sold him with the filth of the pig's field this world you sold Christ for one small temptation in this sick filthy dirty ugly world yet he purchased you with the most precious price ever to be given his own life on the cross given to you yet I'm a sin when someone is this perfect this holy this mighty still loves you yet you are in denial of his love what you gonna say or do to pay him back absolutely nothing because what he has done for you it is beyond anyone and every human beings reach to pay back what Christ has done and given us on Calvary on the cross there is only one thing remaining in you to do for him thank you Lord thank you Lord I don't know what to say I've denied I've walked away from you I sold you with thirty pieces of silver I went to the club I went to the pub I gambled I drank I took drugs I've been with boys and girls millions of times I've done everything evil under the Sun but you were never ever in your life not even a blink of an eye you ever walked away embarrassed me or judged me you were always there stretching your arms on that cross saying my son just come back I love you thank you Lord I'm speechless I'm dumbfounded I don't know what else to say I can't pay you back no matter what I do so thank you in paradise all you gonna be able to do is praise the Lord for everything he has done for you but above all for Christ being Christ you'll praise him for his person the never-changing person the awesome person the mighty person stunning breathtaking person I praise you Lord thank you when you begin to praising the Lord always thanking the Lord always he will take you to the last heaven which is the heaven of all heavens and he will say sit at the right hand of the father for today I have made you equal to God you are the son of God now and you are the heir to the throne the heaven is written in your name the title deed of heaven is yours everything is yours all this glory begins with how to learn to trusting the Lord be a bird to choose you five ants rented a place with another five ants would they be considered tenants did you get that one tenants like 10 and you know why it's fun laugh because it's so like and I see and we say pasta there is no salt in it you need to put some salt in love the Lord love the Lord be rich in the Lord when you see someone hungry and you can help help them when you see someone naked and you can clothe them clothe them don't say if I use this money on clothing what am I gonna eat tomorrow the Lord has given you himself the rightful owner of everything visible and invisible do you think the Lord is not going to feed you the reason why I love pop Cyril the sixth because this holy man lived on earth like that bird trusting the Lord in every step he made and in every thought he thought of he trusted the Lord this is an example of all of us to learn from this has got nothing to do of being a Coptic Oriental Orthodox it's got to do with a man of wisdom with a man of courage with a man that has the Lord engulfed in his entire being in every fiber of his being he died for the Lord Jesus and you want me not to love him and I don't give one penny what people say is my role model where I go and learn from nothing to do with being Orthodox please I beg you I beg you find the Lord the Lord Jesus is neither Orthodox or Catholic definitely not Protestant the Lord Jesus is God the Lord Jesus is God don't ever put these names on the Lord the Lord's got nothing to do with these names the Lord is God come to the truth and the truth is Orthodoxy just kidding I thought I'd drop that one in just to stare you up a bit off what do you mean Bishop I'm a Catholic now am I out of the equation no no I love you I'm just kidding and when you have Marshavel and Marna Amtel Al-Hardini and Addis Rafqa man stick to them I love Saint Rafqa she's my sweetheart one day I wanted to go to Lebanon been trying to go to Lebanon the door is not opening I begged and I asked and this and that's not open so I rang Marshavel I said Habib Albi where are you I said hey what's going on Marshavel if you don't take me to Lebanon I will not make it a bully anymore he took me twice in a couple of months twice I said oh stop stop please enough I can't keep on going man the trip is too long it's too tiring he said okay you asked for it you're gonna cop it now I want to share with you a true story just to give you a glimpse of how Saints think behave and speak with one another and I'll definitely leave you with this I spoke to her too long one day this piece of wreck was sitting at home I was so down so down so down beyond words unbearable pain in the soul unbearable I looked through the window it was late afternoon no sorry just past lunchtime I can't maybe would have been one o'clock something like that 12 o'clock maybe around lunchtime I looked through the window and this voice so clear so powerful said get up and go to st. Charbel's Church at punchbowl my sweetheart earthly mother was with me at the time and God rest her soul in peace get up now and go to Marshavel's Church at punchbowl the voice was so powerful I couldn't resist it I said mom let's go where we going I said we're going to Marshavel Church this is a true lesson the Lord teaches pay attention we went we drove to the st. Charbel's Church at punchbowl to my shocking to our shocking surprise the church was closed I've never seen that church closed that time was closed the gates to the church were closed I don't know what what was happening I got so upset I said this is the enemy playing tricks with my head I thought it was the voice of the Lord or someone is talking but he tricked me the church is closed the Lord wouldn't do that the Saints wouldn't do that I was upset for the first time ever and I used to go there a lot for the first time ever you know that there's a street that climbs up you go up where the school is you go up yeah for those who are familiar with the area yeah so for the first time I've always been to St. Charbel's Church but I've always entered through the front like the car park the main car park always entered through there and left through there never came through the side street and and and drove up all the way this time something in me said just drive up I drive up all the way I should have just made a u-turn in front of the church since it was closed make a u-turn and go back no something pushed me to drive all the way up I drove all the way up for the first time ever I encounter a Coptic Church at the top of that little hill oh I looked the front gate opened I said oh all right Marshal Bill what's going on so I said mom I'm gonna park let's go down it's a church no difference this church that church no difference so we came down we walk into the church the church is empty but the smell of the incense was still there it looks like they they finished their Holy Mass service but it was empty we came inside to say a prayer I see a full urban body of Christ placed at the altar area in a way you would never ever place that urban in that way there was just a wooden like fence at the altar area that urban was placed on there no priest no deacon no one no one I said mom what is this said yeah we had we didn't have Holy Communion for a long time I was going through some rough seas I was afraid to go and grab it I said um I can't I don't have that authority while we were thinking shall we take it shall we not because I was dying to get some a young man walks in he was just packing up he happened to be a deacon I asked him I said excuse me said yes I said that urban over there can I have a piece of it he said what are you talking about I said the urban over there he turns he says what is this doing here he said the priest I was in the service with the priest everything was taken away everything was taken away who brought this here said he got scared he said so looks like was meant to be for you you can have it definitely not from the priest not from the Holy Mass service I was there he made sure everything was backed up and secondly we don't leave the urban like that you know what the Lord taught me my shareable is Catholic yeah and the eyes of the world the other saint is Coptic Orthodox st.
Sherbill took me to his church to take me to the Coptic Church to tell me there is no difference between us in heaven the difference is on earth not in heaven this is the Lord st. shell Sherbill closed the door to take me to a Orthodox Church said next time don't call me Catholic I belong to Christ like the other saints who to the world is Orthodox also belongs to Christ there we are the children of God there's no Catholic no Orthodox there are saints in Jesus mighty name amen let's bow our heads in the name of the father and 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 for 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 and 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
Sermon Outline
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I
- Introduction to the parable of the rich fool in Luke 12
- The rich man’s abundance and his plans to store wealth
- God’s condemnation of the rich man as a fool
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- The human dilemma of greed and selfishness
- The inevitability of death and the futility of earthly riches
- The significance of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
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III
- God’s provision and the call to share blessings
- The contrast between materialism and spiritual richness
- The example of birds trusting God for provision
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IV
- The importance of unity and love among believers
- Personal humility and repentance before God
- The call to seek God’s will in all things
Key Quotes
“What does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and at the end loses himself?” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Greed makes a human blind. So blind, he forgets that he is a human being.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Do not be rich with materialistic things. Be rich in God.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Examine your heart to ensure your trust is in God rather than material possessions.
- Practice generosity by sharing your blessings with those in need around you.
- Cultivate humility and seek unity within the body of Christ through love and forgiveness.
