The Salt and the Light

Well, I will talk a little bit about the topic for today, but we won't be able to finish it all, but we'll address a few points in it. Today's topic, my beloved, is the salt and the light. The salt and the light.

The Lord Jesus in the gospel according to Saint Matthew, chapter 5, verses 13 and 14, says, you are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world. You are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world. The Lord Jesus came with two analogies, one from above and one from below.

Salt of the earth from below and light of the world from above. A true believer resembles the salt in six points. A true believer resembles the salt in six points.

Number one, salt comes out of the water and the believer comes out of the water, the holy baptism. Number two, the salt comes out of the water white. So as the believer comes out of the water dressed in white, a new creation.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. All things have passed by. Behold, all things have become new.

Second Corinthians 517. Number three, salt gives flavor to what has no flavor or taste. In Job, chapter 6, verse 6, says, can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Job 6, 6. And without the believer, life has no taste, no flavor.

The believer gives flavor to what has no taste. Number four, salt is very cheap and the believer is very cheap in the eyes of the world. The greatest born of a woman was beheaded by one dance of a young lady.

John the Baptist was beheaded because one young lady decided to dance in the birthday party of King Herod. The believers are very cheap in the eyes of the world. The salt is very cheap, my beloved.

However, in John 15, verses 18 to 19, says, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. This is the Lord speaking. If you were of the world, the world would love its own.

Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. When the church unites with the world, remember it's a den of thieves. Christ is not in it.

They cannot work for the Lord Jesus and unite with the world because what are they going to say to John 15, 18 to 19, where the Lord himself is saying, the world hates you because the world hated me, I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, way, way before you. So when the church is united with the world in the name of love, they're saying to the Lord Jesus, you haven't spoken the truth. Those sons of the snake are saying to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you have not spoken the truth.

Salt, even though the salt is very cheap, but it is very important. Number five, why is it important? Number five, salt preserves things from corruption. It's cheap, but it preserves.

And the believer preserves others from corruption. Where do we find this? In the old Testament, where God, the Lord God went to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, L G B T Q R S T U V Y Z. When the Lord went to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, he went to Abraham and he said, um, how can I do such a thing without informing my friend, Abraham? So he went to Abraham and he said, Abraham, this is what I'm about to do. Abraham said, please, if you can find 50 people in Sodom and Gomorrah, please prolong your punishment.

He said, if I find 50, I won't punish them. But he couldn't. He said, if I find 40, I won't punish them.

If I find 30, 20, 10, he found one Lord and his family for the sake of one. He prolonged his punishment upon Sodom and Gomorrah. The salt is cheap, but it preserves and protects the believer, protects others, even though they are non-believers.

For the sake of the believer, God is patient with the non-believers and God is patient with the entire world for the sake of the believers who are still in this world. Number six, salt, if becomes corrupt, gets hardened like a rock. You cannot break it.

When the salt becomes corrupt, it becomes like a rock, it becomes hardened, you cannot break it. Salt's corruptibility means that the salt becomes like a rock, my beloved. No matter how hard you try to dissolve it, with no prevail.

The moment it goes hard, it is good for nothing. In other words, the corrupt salt is the human being who searches for one's self, i.e., a selfish Christian is a corrupt salt. A selfish Christian is a corrupt salt, good for nothing.

Dissolve, my beloved, don't be a rock. Dissolve in order for others to taste Christ through you. You know, when you cook some food, then you put the right measure of salt in that food.

When you put that salt in that food, do you see the salt any longer? No. What happens to the salt? It dissolves and it becomes part of that food. It dissolves into that food.

You don't see the salt anymore, but when you come and taste that food, you say, wow, this food is really tasty. Yum, yum, yum, I'm gonna dig into it and eat as much as I can. Why all of a sudden the food is so tasty? It was the salt that dissolved in that food.

You eat any beautiful food without salt, no taste. Nothing is nice. You bring the best chef and you don't put any salt in that food.

You say, what kind of a chef are you? You're a failure. But a little tiny drop of salt, bellissimo, la deliciosa, italiano pizza. It is the salt that gives taste to that food.

And you say, it's amazing, what a great meal I had. But it takes the salt to dissolve and to absolutely perish, not to be seen at all. Christ says, I want you to be the salt of the earth.

Why? Because I want people, when they come to you, I want them to taste Christ through you, not you. When you dissolve, you are allowing people to taste Christ that dwells in you. And blessed is the soul that Christ is glorified through it.

Blessed is that soul that glorifies Christ. Salt dissolves means Christian must live a life of humility and self-denial. I no longer live for myself, but I live for Christ who dwells in me.

I no longer do things for my own glories. I do it all for the glory of the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Be the salt where you are not seen, but Christ seen and tasted through you.

Don't do something and in the anticipation that you get rewarded for it, applauded for it, acknowledged for it. Do it and let Christ reward you. Don't let people reward you because if you wait for people to reward you, you have received your reward from people.

You got no reward from God. But you need to do it where God rewards you, my beloved, not people. God, God rewards you.

The six points again. Number one, salt comes out of the water. The believer comes out of the water of baptism.

Number two, salt, salt comes out of the water white and the believer comes out of the baptismal font dressed in white. The righteousness, the dress of the kingdom of God, the righteousness. Number three, my beloved, salt gives flavor to what has no taste.

And so as the believer gives flavor to this tasteless world, to this faithless world. Number four, salt is very cheap. And so as the believer in the eyes of the world, when you speak as a Christian in the world, they mock you, they ridicule you, they persecute you, and they laugh at you.

You are cheap, but they have no idea. Without this salt, they have no taste. Poor things.

Without Christians, real Christians, true believers in Christ, the world is tasteless. Might as well throw it in the tip. Throw it in the tip.

What is the world? Sick. Oh, I went on holidays. And I had a party.

And we went to this... Do you call this fun? Do you call this life? Do you call this like I'm living now? This is... What is this? That's a joke. Where is the caliber of the human being? What are the morals? What are the values? What are the principles? What are the boundaries? What are the limits? What is the dignity? What is the identity of the human? It is Christ who gives you the taste of the true human being. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

The Western world has succeeded extremely well in giving value to everything. But the Western world has failed miserably in giving purpose to everything. The Western world succeeded tremendously in giving value to everything.

But it has failed miserably in giving purpose to everything. What is value in relation to the human being? Human rights. The Western world talks about human rights, human rights, human rights.

The United Nations is all about human rights. But there are no human rights. Because the moment you only focus on the value and ignore the purpose of the human, you are abusing the human being and the human rights with him.

Until you know what the purpose of the human, you can never give him value. Unless you know what the purpose of a thing is, you can never give that thing value. If you did not know why the car was made, you can't put a price tag on it.

But what the Western world did, spoke about human rights and ignored the purpose of the human. And what is the purpose of the human? Instead of human rights, the right to be a human. What is the right to be a human? Nobody talks about that.

They all talk about human rights. Nobody talks. What is the right to be a human? That is the purpose.

And the only way to find out what the right to be a human is, is to go back to the human origin. And what is the human origin? Genesis 1.1 In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Unless and until you go back to God, you will never give the human their purpose.

That's why human rights has abused the human. Today, some people call themselves a cat and a dog. Under the banner of human rights, you cannot be more sick than this.

Western world, you cannot be more sick than this. So is this the human rights you are chasing? Is this democracy? Is this freedom? You become a cat and a dog? Then let's put a leash on you. And I'll take you for a walk and throw you one of those biscuits.

What has become of the human race? You see, the moment we take God out of the equation, there is no value. There is no purpose. There is no taste.

There is nothing. Everything is lost. Everything is lost.

The salt is very cheap. But the salt is very important. Salt preserves things from corruption.

And if it wasn't for the faithfuls in this world, God would have wiped it a long time ago. But the frightening thing about the salt, the Lord says, you are the salt of the earth. He is referring to his believers.

He is referring to his followers, those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, as their God, as their King, as their everything. He's saying to those believers, to those followers, you are the salt of the earth. But if the salt hardens, becomes corrupt, it gets thrown out and gets trampled underfoot.

Because once the salt goes hard, you cannot bring it back to its original nature anymore. It is good for nothing. You need to throw it away.

You won't be able to break it. You won't be able to bring it back to its original form. It's good for nothing.

It will never dissolve again, ever again. A Christian that goes corrupt, is a Christian that seeks their own glories in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Using the name of Christ for their own personal benefits, using the throne as church leaders for their own glories.

They are corrupt salt, good for nothing. In the eyes of who? In the eyes of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, no one else. Very scary, very scary.

But when the Lord said, you are the salt of the earth, He meant clergy and you, all of us Christians, all of us. We need to always dissolve like that beautiful salt in order for the world to taste Christ through all of you, my beloved. Let the world taste Christ through you.

And the only way they're gonna taste Christ through you is when you live for Him, no longer for yourself. You live a life of humility and self-denial in order for Christ to be seen. Don't ever show yourself to the world.

Don't ever wait for people to applaud you and put a medal of honor on you. Say, whatever I've done, I am a hopeless, useless servant. All glory to the one and only Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Amen, my beloveds? Come on, wake up and be with me. Come on, you are the light of the world. I'm gonna finish the topic.

I'm gonna fly through it like a Formula One car. You are the light of the world. In Matthew 5, 14, the Lord Jesus is saying, a city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. What does this mean? The church is the city of God. This city which the Lord is referring to in Matthew 5, 14 is His beloved bride, the church is the city.

The church is the city of God, meaning, enlighten the world, O church. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. The church is meant to be the light of the world.

Make the world see the light of Christ, O church. Don't imitate the world, my beloved church. Be the light to this dark world.

The world is darkness. If you imitate the world, you are taking Christ into the darkness of the world. But Christ said, I came to be the light to this dark world.

And that's why when I went up to heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father, I established my church on earth. I put leaders in the church and I brought faithfuls into this church for all of you to be the light and continue my light into this dark world. Now I am dwelling in you.

When I came, my name was Emmanuel, God with you. But after giving you baptism, now God is in you, not only with you. God is in you.

And now you need to take this God who is the light of the world into this world. Continue the legacy of Christ. Continue the mission of Christ.

Continue the good news of Christ. Continue, church. Don't imitate the world.

The church today is getting together and saying all roads lead to Rome. All religions worship the same God, each in their own way. So unique, so beautiful, so colorful.

But they all end up worshiping the same God. We need to get together and find the common cause so we can unite and make it one world religion. Because one world order needs a one world religion.

Shame on such church leaders for they have sold their master. They have sold their master. Christ is the only light of the world and the only way, the truth and the life.

There is no one else. No one comes to the Father except through me, says the Lord Jesus. Sorry, I relaxed.

I feel like one of those American preachers. Jeremiah 2.5. Now they're gonna say, it looks like this bishop is a Protestant now. But on a serious note, the church, the Lord says, you need to be the light of the world.

How are you gonna be the light of the world if you imitate the world and unite with the world? How? The world is darkness. The world is placed in the bosom of Satan, the father of all lies. If you are uniting with the world, then you are sharing the world with its lies.

But the church has the owner, the rightful owner, his name is Christ the King who is the truth. How are you gonna unite with the world and still maintain the truth when you are dwelling with the lie, church leaders? Woe unto us, church leaders, if we do not repent. It doesn't matter what your rank is.

When you stand before the Almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth, my dear friend, let me tell you this, you had over a billion followers, you had over two billion followers, means nothing. There, no one comes to your rescue except the one who died and rose from the dead for you. And if you upset him, offend him, and you go against him, who's gonna come to your rescue? No one.

There's only one that comes to your rescue in the next life. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You need to make him your barrister, your QC, your everything.

Otherwise, in the courtroom there, facing God, the father who is the judge, what are you gonna say when God the father says, give an account to what you've done on earth? If Jesus is not your representation, you are in deep trouble. He needs to be your representative in the next life. Otherwise, we are all doomed to eternal condemnation, eternal death, my beloveds.

It's only Christ who saves. It's only Christ. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

My beloveds, the church is supposed to be the light to this dark world. Let's assume this for a moment. If you enter a church and you find it dark, would you blame the walls or the pillars in the church? Or would you blame the light? Which one would you blame? The walls? Why is the church dark? Oh, I'm gonna blame the walls.

Or I'm gonna blame the pillars that are in the church. No, you're gonna blame the lights, aren't you? Come on, say something. You blame the lights, yeah? I'm not testing you here.

Relax, you know. Then the Lord says to all of us what? You are the light of the world. So when you walk into a church and you find it dark, you blame the faithful in that church, not the building.

You blame the people. They are the reason for the church to be dark. They are the reason.

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. On a hill means it's a heavenly church. It's elevated.

Hill is high. It's not on the ground. It is high up.

That means the church has to be heavenly. The church has to be elevated. The church cannot come down to the level of the ground of this world because this earth is condemned.

Adam, because you have broken my word, the earth is condemned. It will bring forth for you thorns and braise. Two kinds of sins, my beloved.

No human being could ever escape these two sins. Thorns and braise. Sins come in two forms.

One, a thought. Next, a deed. When you live the earth, you are living condemnation.

You are living the thorns and the braise. You are living in sin. Sinning with thinking.

Sinning with doing. That's the world. It's an absolutely filthy place when you chase the world.

But the church is elevated and needs to live heaven. I've been talking for the last three, four weeks non-stop. The throat is gone, but it's good.

It is good. One of the church fathers said, we all know that this body will perish. Let it perish for a good deed.

We all know that this body will perish. We pray that it perishes for a good deed, not an evil one. It is going to perish.

It is going to perish. There is not two ways about it. Choose for this body to perish for doing good things, not bad things.

Amen. So my beloved, the church has to be heavenly because the honor came from heaven. The honor is the light of the world.

It has to be the light for this dark world. It can't imitate the world. It can't unite with the world.

It can't be one with the world. It's impossible. I mean, what is happening in our time and age? It is absolutely mind-boggling.

I don't know what has happened to church leaders. Have they lost the plot? I just wonder. Have they? Where is Christ being proclaimed? Where is Christ being preached? Where is it? Standing next to a woman priestess with colors around her neck, evil colors around her neck, and you stand next to her and you pray.

You are an apostolic leader from an apostolic church. Where are you standing? Who are you standing with? Look, I don't know what's going on, but it's the end of times. Yes, the Lord says it.

He said it a long time ago. A time will come my church will be Laodicea, not Ephesus. Laodicea means the rebellious church.

The rebellious church. The church where has denied her heavenly crew. And we are witnessing this in the end of times.

A woman being a priest with evil colors around her neck, so proud of it. Man, she better not stand in my way. How can you pray with somebody saying, I'm a Christian, but in an evil way? How can you pray with them? I will never, ever acknowledge that place as a church, never.

It is not a church. It is a den of thieves. And I will never acknowledge this person.

I'm not talking about the person. And I pray for that person, but I will never acknowledge that person as someone who is like a priest and stands to pray. Get out of my face.

It's very, very bad. Very sick. The church has to be the light of the world.

My goodness. Where is the truth here being spoken? Where is the truth here being proclaimed? With boldness. What is this hypocrisy? In the name of love, embrace everyone.

In the name of love, accept everyone. It's a welcoming church. Oh, I'll let everybody come.

Him and his dog and everything else with it. What is this? Where is Christ? Church leaders. Where is he? A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

The church has to be heavenly, has to speak heavenly, has to live heavily, has to reflect heaven on earth on the hope that earth changes and becomes heaven. Not the other way around. A church that lives Christ becomes the light of the world, draws many, many people to her from the world.

A church that lives Christ brings people to the Lord Jesus. Matthew 5 16. The Lord Jesus says to all of us, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven.

This is the word of the Lord Jesus. No one else. I'll read it again to the church leaders and to every Christian worldwide.

Matthew 5 16. Let your light, your light so shine before men, men meaning the world, that they may see your good deeds. What are good deeds? Who is good? God.

So that they may see God working in you. So that they may see your good works and glorify not you, but your father who art in heaven. You are the light of the world.

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand and it gives light to all who are in the house. Question is, the street light, where do they place the light? On the ground or on the pole? I ask you. It's a simple question.

Where do they place the light? On the ground or on the pole? On the pole. Well, guess what? We are the pole. Christ is the light.

Don't ever drag Christ on the ground. Are you with me? Don't ever bring Christ to the ground. Christ is up, not on the ground.

He is the light. We are the pole carrying the light. When the light of Christ is in you, you enlighten the people walking in the streets.

When the light of Christ is in you, you enlighten the people that walk in the streets of this world. Now, however, if the light of Christ is extinguished within you, what will happen? People will collide with you. Imagine there is a pole but there is no light on it and it's extremely dark.

People will come straight into that pole and they will collide with that pole. You're going to cause a lot of damage. You see, the people will collide with you, but the thing is, you are the reason for their collision.

You cause them damage. So when they collide into the pole, what will they say? They're not going to say, Oh, it was my fault that I collided with this pole. They're going to say, The pole is in a dark place.

I didn't see it. I collided with it. The pole damaged me.

The pole harmed me. When the light of Christ is extinguished from within us, we start damaging people's lives. But when the light of Christ is shining through us, we become that safe haven where those people who live in darkness see the light.

And whoever lives in darkness and sees the light runs to the light because no one wishes to live in darkness. So when they see the light of Christ in you, they'll run to that light and they will glorify your Heavenly Father. And blessed are you when God is glorified through you, my beloved.

Don't let the light of Christ be extinguished from within you. Keep it shining. And the only way you're going to keep that light shining is when you become like the salt.

You dissolve. Live for Him, not for you. The day you live for yourself, the light of Christ is gone.

See, that's why the Lord brought salt and light. You may say, but the salt is from earth and the light is from heaven. How come they are together? Yeah, they are one.

They complement one another and they fulfill and complete one another. Because unless you dissolve like a salt, the light of Christ will never remain in you. The moment you live for yourself, Christ will walk away.

Because those who seek their own glories, Christ can't live in there. Christ wants humility. Our God is a humble God.

Amen? Come on. Now, Matthew 6.23, look at the Lord. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness then? If your light becomes darkness, then how much your darkness is going to be? Don't let the light of Christ be extinguished from you, my beloved.

You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do they light a lamp and put it under the basket. Now, the city is the church.

The hill, meaning that church needs to be heavenly because her groom, her owner is heavenly. It needs to speak the language of heaven. It needs to reflect the lifestyle of heaven.

Can't be earthly. The church cannot live earthly. It needs to always live heavenly on earth.

The church must live heaven on earth. So now, nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket. What is under a basket means here? And to sum it up, no time to elaborate more into depth.

The basket here, under the basket means the focus on the prophets. Oh my, my. When the church focuses on being profitable materialistically, that is putting the lamp stand under the basket, the focus becomes on material profitability.

That extinguishes the light of Christ from that church. When the church becomes materialistic, when the church focuses on bricks and mortar and ignores the human being who is the true church of Christ, there is no light of Christ in that church anymore. Christ did not die on the cross for us to build for him churches out of brick and mortar.

Christ died on the cross so that we bring people to him who are his beloved church. People, not brick and mortar. Today, my beloved, the church is being measured in accordance to a success or failure in relation to how much material that church has.

So when the church has a lot of churches, a lot of buildings, I mean, and then properties, and then there is a lot of wealth, there is a lot of money, they say, look at this church. Man, this church is really successful. It is really prosperous.

It is really healthy and wealthy. But never says, how many faithfuls are there in this church? How many people that come to this church are God-fearing people? How many do they pray from the heart, not from the lip? The church is measured, if it's successful or not, by how many faithful the church has, not how many properties and how much money it has in the bank. Poor church.

Poor church. I want to read this and finish it off. It is in the book of Revelation.

Let me see if I can. You'll have to bear with me. I'm very old.

I'm getting very old. I will have to read this. Now, this is to the angel of the church of Laodiceans, which is the rebellious church.

And verse 17, it is Revelation 3, chapter 3 and verse 17. Look what the Lord is saying to this church leader. He's saying, because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy and have need of nothing and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked.

I'll read again. This is to the rebellious church of the 21st century, by the way. Laodicea is the church of the 21st century, our time.

That's why there are weird things happening in the church of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So what is the church of the 21st century saying to the master and the king of all kings? It's saying, I am rich, have become wealthy and have no need of nothing, no need of nothing, meaning I don't even need you. Because if I don't need anything, why would I need Jesus? The only time I'm going to need Jesus when I'm in need of something.

True or not? So when the church is saying to the Lord, I am rich and have become wealthy and I am in need of nothing, meaning I don't need you, Jesus. We are in charge. We do things our way as they are doing it now.

But look at the reply of the Lord Jesus. My goodness, the Lord slams the church of the 21st century with five powerful words, so frightening. And the Lord replies and says, and do not know, you do not know that you are one, wretched.

Number two, miserable. Number three, poor. What did he say? I am rich and I have become wealthy.

But the Lord says you are poor. And number four, very hard, blind, blind, blind, blind. And another scary word, naked.

Five things, wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked. They apply quite perfectly in our time and age, my beloved. Applies perfectly.

Under a basket, the church became materialistic, worldly, chasing profitable, materialistic things. You are the light of the world. You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

Second Corinthians 3.2, St. Paul says, I'll look at St. Paul. You are our epistle. You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men, by all men, by the entire world.

You are the epistle read by the entire world. What is St. Paul trying to say? And I'll leave you with it. Thanks, Elias.

And I'll leave you with it. He's saying the world doesn't know what love is. The world doesn't know what mercy is.

The world doesn't know what kindness is. The Lord doesn't know what humility is. The Lord doesn't know what forgiveness is.

But when? Why? Because why doesn't it know it? Because the world has denied your Christ, St. Paul is saying. The world has denied your Christ. They haven't read his word.

They haven't believed in his person. They don't know all these things. They are not interested in reading the Holy Bible.

So don't preach live Christ in order to be you, the epistle read and known by the world. So when you show love, the world will look at you through your actions, through your deeds. When they see there is an action based on love, when they see love emanating through you, they're going to say, this guy is a Christian and he is a loving person.

Looks like his Christ is love. When they see a Christian humble, they're going to say looks like his Christ is humility. He has been taught very well.

When they see a Christian kind, they're going to say your Christ is kind. When they're going to see a Christian peacemaker, they're going to say, well, your God is a peacemaker. They will begin loving your Christ through your actions without reading the Bible, without knowing what the Bible is all about.

You become the Bible read by all people through your actions. You are the light of the world. God bless you, my beloved.

Be the salt, be the light. Live Christ, live for him. Don't live for yourself, my beloved son, my beloved daughter.

Don't say, I'll do whatever I want. Don't say, I live in a free country. Don't say, this is the 21st century.

We are living in absolute freedom. I can go wherever. I can go however.

I can go whenever. I can go with whomever. It is non-existent.

Stop living the lie. You need to live the truth. Come back to Jesus Christ of Nazareth and let the teacher to teach you how to live truthfully.

No more deception, no more lies, no more hidden agendas, no more twisted ways, no more darkness, no more poison, no more death. I want to be in the light. I want to live.

I want to be free. I don't want to be in prison anymore. I don't want to walk and be frightened and look behind me all the time to see who's following me.

I want to be at peace. I want to be set free. The only way is, be the salt, dissolve.

Don't live for yourself, live for Christ. Let Christ be glorified through you. Let the world taste Christ through you.

Deny yourself. Hey bishop, the whole world listens to you. All glory to the Lord.

Hey bishop, you've changed my life. No, it is the Lord, my son, not me. Wake up.

I'm a sinner and a greater sinner than you and all of you. If there is anyone who is a sinner, it's me. It is not me, my beloved.

Open your eyes, your heart, your mind, your soul, your entire being and see that it is the Lord speaking and reaching out to you through this useless, hopeless servant of His, chosen by His grace, appointed by His mercy. It is the Lord and it's the Lord only. There is no one else.

That's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, for He is God revealed in the flesh. Amen.

Live, ye Christ, for the light of the world to dwell in you and shine through you to this dark world. And those who live in darkness, they see the light of Christ in you. They'll run to it and they'll glorify our Heavenly Father.

And what goes around comes around. When you are the reason for the glory of God, God will glorify you in the end. And in the end, when He calls you into His kingdom, look at the revelation.

My goodness. I have to say this, Elias. I'll leave you with this.

I'll have to say it. My goodness. It is incredible.

It is amazing how the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth is so humble yet so exalted. While on earth, in John chapter 13, He bowed and washed the feet of His disciples. And then He said to them, Who am I to you? They said, You are our Lord, meaning God.

He said, And so truly you said. But look at this Lord. What has He done? He washed your own feet.

Then how much more you should do for one another? If God went down, stooped down to your feet and watched them, how much more you humans should do for one another? But on earth, washing our feet, maybe. Because I saw Him as a human. Like any other human, there was not much of a great deal of a difference.

But in heaven, you're not going to see a normal human. You're going to see Him in His glorified form. When John the Beloved, while he was on earth with the Lord, he used to put his head on the Lord's breast, chest, and he would hear the heartbeat of the Lord.

He used to put his head on his chest and fear nothing. But the same John saw the same Jesus in His glory. He said, I fell on the ground as if I were dead.

I was so frightened from the awesomeness of the glorified Christ. In His glory, in His awesome form, He says, When you come into my kingdom, my children, I will get up from my throne and come forth to welcome you. You know, when you get up and to welcome someone, you bow a little bit to welcome them.

Hello, please come on in. But Lord, you are in your glory. You are the King of all kings and Lord of all lords.

He says, But you're my children. I'll do the same in my glory. When you come into my kingdom, I'll get up from my throne in my glory and I will bow and walk toward you to welcome you.

And I'll say, Sit on my throne. I get up, you sit. But John fell as if he were dead when he saw you in your glory.

He said, But I will make you sit on my throne because you're my children. Isn't this God worthy of our love, of our denial for His sake, of our humility so He may be exalted and glorified? We need to live for the Lord Jesus and we need to do all the good deeds by His grace for the world to get to know the Lord Jesus. Yesterday, I had an interview.

It was an Assyrian, my beloved Ninos Thoma. I love him and I've known this wonderful man over 30 years ago. He's been after me for an interview.

I went yesterday. He said, What happened to you, bishop? The person who attacked you, did you forgive that person? I said, Yes. He said, Really? I said, Yes.

He said, But how? I said, Well, it's the Lord. It's the Lord. You are a written epistle in our hearts, known and read by all men.

When will the world get to know Jesus? When you reflect Him, the light of the world through you, He gets reflected to the world. When you're able to forgive those who have hurt you, those who have persecuted you, you are reflecting Christ, the light of Christ to the world. Anyway, I talk a lot.

Please come back. I finished. Let us stand for the finale prayer, please.

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. Oh, 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.