The Story Of Nicodemus

And the family tree of Nicodemus, pure blood. This pure blood, this man of integrity, this man of highly educated person, being. How many times do we get born? Once only, not every day.

I cannot say it. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. One God, Amen.

Our beloved fathers, deacons, nuns, our beloved congregation, those who are here present in this holy church of St. Shimon Barsabbaia and St. Mary, and those who are watching us through live streaming, may the Lord Jesus always bless you, guide you, and protect you. May the Lord Jesus shine upon you with his divine light, and may he encircle you with his divine love, to realize where the truth is, to realize where the way and the eternal life are. Jesus lives forever, and who has Jesus Christ shall live forever as well.

You know, it is an absolutely vanity of all vanities, this world. It is an absolute empty of all emptiness, this world. When we think about it for a moment, when we really sit and contemplate on what we are doing, where we are heading, what we are trying to achieve and accomplish, it is absolute vanity.

The one who was the wisest man on earth, where the almighty God himself granted him this wisdom, being King Solomon. He wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. The book of Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon at the end of his age on earth.

At the end of his life on earth, I should say. He lived a very long, full life. It is a man of great wisdom.

It is a man of great authority. It is a man of great wealth and great health. It is a man that has it all, as so many people say nowadays.

He's got it. While King Solomon had it all, where no one else was ever close to have what King Solomon had. Not even Elon Musk gets anywhere near King Solomon.

He's an ignorant person compared to King Solomon, the wise man. At the end of his life, having achieved the unachievable, having reached the unreachable, having seen the unseeable, having done what was not able to be done. At the end, he stood and wrote the book of Ecclesiastes.

And he began the book by saying, Everything under the sun is vanity of all vanities. Everything is empty. What does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and at the end loses himself? We are living at a time and age.

Humanity in general has lost the plot. Humanity in general is disorientated. Humanity in general is morally corrupt.

Humanity in general lost God. Do not be shocked to hear or see certain people doing such evilness, yet no regrets. Do not be shocked for a person that has no life in them, they are capable of anything and everything of evil origin.

It is God who beautifies the soul and the heart. It is God who enlightens the eye. It is God who gives reason, gives moral values to things.

It is God who gives the purpose to everything. The gospel of today, from the gospel of Saint John chapter 3, verses 1 to 22, John 3, 1 to 22, or 1 to 21 depending on the translation. John 3, the Lord Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus.

You may have heard this before, but this is the gospel of today. Nicodemus, by the way, the word Nicodemus is a compounded word, Nicodemus. Dem in Hebrew or Syriac means blood.

Nico means pure. So Nicodemus, pure blood. Pure blood meaning he is an Israelite of an Israelite descent.

He is an absolute Jew to the brim, to the core. He's a Jew. His blood is pure.

It's not stained by other nations. He has preserved the genealogy and the family tree of Nicodemus. Pure blood.

This pure blood, this man of integrity, this man of highly educated person, being a leader of a synagogue and also a member of the Sanhedrin. Now the word Sanhedrin means 70th. The 70 elders of the Israelite nation.

The Congress of Israel. The equivalent of Congress. Parliament.

So he was a member of the Congress. 70 elders and a leader of a synagogue, a place of worship for the Jewish people. Now to be a synagogue leader, to be a member in the Sanhedrin, the 70 elders, he had to be a very well informed and embedded into the Jewish faith, into Judaism.

He was very well informed of the Old Testament because that was the Bible present at their time. The New Testament had not been written yet. So he was very well aware of what the law of God says.

Now he comes to Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit inspires John the Beloved to write it in this way. He came to Jesus at night. By night.

He came to Jesus by night. And actually the word by night is mentioned three times for every time Nicodemus is mentioned, the word by night follows his name. The Holy Spirit is saying to all of us, you want to come to Christ, you better not come by night, you better come by day.

Night is not literally meaning by night, but he came in hiding. He came in disguise. Why? Because of the position he held, because of the integrity he held within the Israelite nation, he found it extremely difficult for himself to acknowledge Jesus as the one who comes from God the Almighty.

He was thinking of his own reputation. So he said, I believe this man came from God, but I cannot go to him in the open, lest people judge me and humiliate me. I don't want to lose my integrity.

I don't want to lose my self-esteem, my image, my name, that I have protected and made and preserved for so many years. So, I don't want to lose both sides. I want to still be the good old Nicodemus, the pure blood in the eyes of the Israelite nation, but I also want to be a good boy before this great teacher called Jesus of Nazareth.

You know what? You can't play two games. You can't be on both sides at the same time. You are either with Christ or with Satan.

You are either in the light or in the darkness. You are either in the church or in the club. You are either praising or swearing.

You cannot have both lives. Doesn't work. Never mix.

If you want to come to Jesus, you come wholeheartedly. Not one foot with Christ and the other with the world. Doesn't work.

You cannot swing in between. Then the Lord Jesus said to him, He said, Nicodemus, you're a pure blood, eh? Unless one is born again, cannot see the kingdom of God. Unless one is born again, cannot see the kingdom of God.

He said, born again. I'm an old man. My bead looks like Santa Claus.

I'm an old man. How can I be born again? Can I go back to my mother's womb and be born again? Can't be. What are you talking about? Great teacher.

He said, Nicodemus, truly I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the spirit, cannot enter the kingdom of God. Unless one is born of water and the spirit, cannot enter the kingdom of God. And then the Lord said, We know what we talk about.

You don't. For I know where I come from. Yet you don't know where I come from.

For what I say to you, you don't want to believe. For the earthly things that I say to you, you don't want to believe in it. How can you believe in the heavenly things if I reveal them to you? If the earthly things you are finding it so hard to believe in.

How can you believe in heavenly things? And then the Lord goes and continues. For God sent his son, not to judge the world, but to save it. For he who has the son, will not be judged.

But he who rejects the son, is judged long time ago. For he who has the son, is not judged. But he who rejects the son, is judged long time ago.

For this is the judgment. The light came to the world, and the world chose darkness over the light. For their deeds were of evil origin.

They did not wish to come to the light, lest their evil deeds be revealed. That's why they chose to be in darkness, to hide away their evil deeds. That's why they will be judged.

For the light came to this dark world, but the people chose darkness over the light. It is exactly what is happening in our time and age. People chose darkness over the light.

Period. And who came to Christ at night? One of the Synhedrin members? A synagogue leader? An equivalent in Christianity? A cardinal? A bishop? A pope? That's Nicodemus. Big caliber, eh? And aren't we coming to Christ at night, as church leaders? So sad.

So sad. Unless one is born again, cannot enter the kingdom of God. This born again, with all love and respect.

I'm not judging. I'm just stating truths. Biblical truths.

This born again, is mentioned only once in the entire New Testament. And that is in the Gospel of John chapter 3. Some people, with all love and respect. Some people took this born again and made it a belief.

And made a group based on this belief. And called themselves born again. Without realizing that the Holy Bible was explained and enlightened to us 2,000 years ago.

It is not a new teaching. It is not a new revelation. Not at all.

It is 2,000 years old. Yet, they made it something new. And took it as born again is, when you as an adult, come to Christ.

And you want to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior over your life. Then when you call Jesus into your life, then you are born again. So who can do this? An adult only.

But that is absolutely non-biblical. Non-biblical from every angle you look at it. Because when we look at the Gospel of Saint John, we see the depth of theology.

And how it is structured, it is absolute magnificent. It blows your mind away. To come so easily and state that this particular verse that the Lord spoke to Nicodemus.

You take that verse out of context and you build a new faith on this verse taken out of context. Because it is extremely dangerous action to take and to make. When someone calls Jesus Christ to come into their life, the Holy Bible calls this renewal of relationship.

You see, you need to renew your relationship with the Lord every single day. Every single day you say, Lord come into my heart. Lord, you be the king over my life.

Lord, you lead my way. Lord, you guide me. Lord, you be my shepherd that takes me to green pastures and still waters.

Lord, Lord, Lord, come be with me, in me, and through me, and by me. And take me to your kingdom Lord. This you do every single day, you must.

Why? Because you are in a relationship with the Lord and when you enter a relationship with someone, you need to speak to that someone every single day. It's renewal of relationship. Speaking of relationship, a piece of advice for husbands and wives.

And those who are still single, please remain as so. Ask those who are married, they will tell you. I just wanted to cheer you up a little bit and wake you up if you're falling asleep.

I kill you, my name is Ahmed, Allahu Akbar. You need to laugh sometimes, you know, take it easy. Yes, I like that.

Somebody just slapped there. That's good. So now, poor Ahmed, we need to pray for Ahmed.

One day I went to this place and I was wearing this bishop outfit with this cross hanging around my neck here. And somebody looked at me and said, are you a Muslim? That just shows you how well informed that person was as far as Christianity is concerned. So where was I? Relationship, yes.

Oh, very good. So husband and wife, this morning you woke up. You say to your wife, the husband has to start it, otherwise you're in trouble.

The husband has to start and say, good morning, Habibi. Good morning, my darling. The next day, don't repeat the same thing, otherwise you'll get a slap from the prime minister of your home.

So the next day you wake up, you say, good morning, my Rosella. The day after, good morning, my sunshine. The day after, good morning, my surface paradise.

Good morning, my Hawaii. Good morning, my darling. Otherwise, you will live in hell for the rest of your life.

That is called renewal of relationship. Renewal means you do not say the same thing over and over and again. You do not do the same thing over and over again, because the moment repetition takes place in a relationship, it goes into routine lifestyle.

Routine kills love. Routine kills love. Everything goes cold.

Good morning. That's it. Go on.

Like, you know when you first meet a girl and you're engaged to her, oh la la, it's the Rosella stage. You go to pick her up from her parents' house. It's a surprise, by the way.

So you go. You are well-dressed in a suit with Versace and all the beautiful fragrances on you, you know, and the perfumes. And you've got a rose hiding behind your back with a beautiful knock at the door.

The future father-in-law opens the door. Yes, my son, what can I do for you? Uncle, please don't say I'm surprising your daughter, Rachel. I'm taking her out.

So she comes. Let's go, honey. Where? Don't worry.

It's a surprise. You come and then you open her door. And then she enters the car.

You slam it like a Rolls Royce automatic shot. Click. So softly.

You go around. You get in the car and then you give her the rose. And here we go, baby.

After a few years of marriage. Hey, Joel. You coming or what? And then she comes out.

You drive off. After five minutes, your phone calls while you're driving. You look.

It's your wife. You left her behind. You need to renew the relationship.

You need to renew the relationship. When you call Jesus into your life, that is a renewal of relationship. But when the Lord is speaking about born, birth.

How many times do we get born? Once only. Not every day. I cannot say to Jesus, come into my heart, come into my life every day.

And I call it born again. Birth is only done once and once alone. Once only.

You cannot be born more than one time. That's why the Lord is speaking about the holy baptism as one of the seven sacraments of the church. As the church fathers gave this teaching revealed to them by the Holy Spirit.

As per Christ's promise. Who is God? Christ is God revealed in the flesh. Jesus our Lord said, I will send you the helper.

Holy Spirit from my father in my name. He will dwell in you. He will teach you.

He will remind you everything I said and I done. So the Holy Spirit will only speak what Jesus spoke. And this was a promise made by the Lord Jesus to his church.

And since he is God, he can never ever break his promise. So if the Holy Spirit had not revealed the truth to a 2000 year history of church fathers. And all of a sudden in the end of times in the heart of evilness.

Somebody comes along and says the apostolic church has lost the truth. I have been revealed the truth by the Holy Spirit. Now come I'll tell you what the Bible says.

You are lying. You have been misled by the spirit of lies. Satan.

For Jesus Christ will always be the truth. And the teller of truth. And let everyone be a liar.

Nicodemus unless one is born. And somebody came and asked me about this. I said I'll answer you with a question.

Can you please explain to me. And can you please tell me what does the word one mean. When the Lord Jesus said unless one is born of water and the spirit.

Who is this one? For the Lord Jesus did not specify any age bracket. He did not say unless you are 14 years of age and above. You cannot be born again.

He said unless one is born of water and the spirit. Cannot enter the kingdom of God. Who is this one? This one my beloved can be anyone and everyone.

This one can be a one month old baby. And a hundred year old man. They are all one.

This one. And since it's to do with birth. Everybody gets born.

The young and the old. Everyone gets born. The light came to the world.

And the world chose darkness over the light. The light. Meaning himself Jesus Christ.

The light. The truth. Darkness.

The lie. People chose the lie. Darkness over the truth.

Light. Look at you. Look at the world today.

Leaders of nations are speaking lies. They are lying. They are lying through their teeth.

Prime ministers. Presidents. Kings.

Lying. And I don't know. I don't know how dead or alive is their conscience.

You know when they go and put their head on their pillow? Every one of us. When we put our head on the pillow. We start thinking.

Because it's a moment of silence. Before we go to sleep. Thoughts gush into our head.

And feelings and emotions go through our hearts and inner soul. I wonder these leaders. When they put their head on the pillow before sleeping.

Is their conscience really giving them a hard time? Or is it absolutely dead? No feelings at all. For they definitely know they are lying. They definitely know.

For the light came to the world. And people chose darkness over the light. That's all it is.

They don't have God. And this God is Jesus Christ. They don't have him in their hearts.

Someone might come. I'll leave you with this. Someone might come and say.

But not every government leader is a Christian. So there are some non-Christian people who are good people. Yes.

Good people on one condition. I will agree with you. When they do not follow their religion.

Or their ideologies. When they follow the conscience. They are good.

You know why? Because this one infinite being. The true divine God. The creator of everything that is visible and invisible.

The creator of all mankind. The human race. Has put his voice in every human being.

Called the conscience. The conscience is the voice of God to every human being. Whether they are Christians or not.

If you are a Christian. Then that conscience has been purified. By the blood of the Lamb of God.

That was shed on Calvary. Christ shedding his blood on the cross. Cleansed your conscience.

Because the purer. The cleaner the conscience is. The more obedient you are to God.

And those who are non-Christians. Do not accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. If they do not follow their religion.

They will follow their conscience. It's either their book. Or their conscience.

If they don't follow their book. They are safe. They are safe.

But if they follow their book. They have gone into darkness. But if they follow their conscience.

They will hear the voice of God speaking to them. Who is this God? Jesus Christ of Nazareth. What did Jesus say to the church? I love you.

What is he going to say to every human being. That follows their conscience. They will hear the voice of God saying to them.

I love you. Love one another. Respect one another.

So if a government leader. Is not Christian. Does not follow.

Neither a book. Nor their own thoughts and ideologies. If they follow their conscience.

And have an open conscience. They will have good morals and values. But nowadays.

So many government leaders. Have killed their conscience. Or they have given it a local anesthetic.

And that local anesthetic is called. Honey, honey, honey. Make me money.

In this big wide world. Money, money, money. Is the local anesthetic to your own conscience.

My dear friend. Money made you deny your brother. Money made you deny your sister.

Money made you deny your own people. You became a dictator instead of a helper. Money.

And with money power. And with power pride. And with pride hell.

Hell, darkness. Nicodemus. Don't ever come to Jesus at night.

Come in the light. For the one you go to is the son of righteousness. S-O-S-U-N.

He is the S-O-N and the S-U-N. He is the S-U-N of righteousness. He is the light of the world.

You cannot come to Jesus Christ by night. For he is the light of the world. When you come to him you better come as you are.

And do not worry what people might say about you. Let the whole world ridicule me. Let the whole world shred me to pieces.

Let the whole world degrade me. And humiliate me. Let the whole world reject me.

For I don't need the world when I have Jesus as my heavenly father. And to the church leaders. Until when are you going to be cowards? Until when? By the way, cowards will never enter the kingdom of God.

For Christ is the hero of all heroes. He is the tribe, the lion that came from the tribe of Judah. He is a lion.

He is the roaring lion in the wilderness of this world. Jesus will never allow cowards to come into his kingdom. He wants real men.

That fight for the truth. Stand for the truth. And be firm in their principles, values, morals of their Christian faith.

I'm not angry. This is called being zealous for the house of my father. I need to be zealous for his house.

This is not anger. This is holiness for my daddy. Jesus will always be the light of this world.

He who has Christ cannot be bought with money. I'll step on it. I'll burn it.

And I'll burn Satan with it. You can give me millions. And you can give me billions.

I'll put it under my foot. Jesus is irreplaceable. Once he's gone, no one can take his place.

No one can afford to lose Christ. No one. This is my advice.

Don't ever. Whatever you do, don't ever lose Jesus. For the day you lose him, we are all dead.

We're dead. He's a good looking man. Now you ask yourself this question.

Why is this old man screaming and yelling and shouting like that? What benefits am I gaining out of this? Am I just making it up? Am I just sort of just coming up with a story? Why would I go through this and be judged so badly by so many people by the way? I'm already judged. I'm hated by some people. Why would I want to do that? Is there any human being that rejoices when they are living a difficult life? A life of rejection? A life of persecution? Is there any joy in it? No.

But there must be a reason that is much greater than any persecution, any rejection. There must be a reason behind this. Otherwise, what kind of a foolishness is this? I am wasting my breath.

Wasting my time and your time. But I'm not. Because the one I'm shouting for is the living Messiah.

The true God. The creator of everything that is visible and invisible. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He is the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. The first and the last.

He is who he is. Yesterday he is. Today he is.

And forevermore to come he is the never-changing God. The one who said to Moses, Go and tell your people, My name is the I am. The I am.

How can you afford to lose this I am for the filth of the pig's field? Wake up, prodigal son. Wake up. There is one God only.

And his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to his holy name. There is no other God and there is no other way to God but him.

He who has the son will not be judged. But he who refused or rejects the son is judged long time ago. For I am the son of God.

If you believe in me, you have a life. If you don't, you have condemned yourself by yourself. There is no other one.

So if somebody else comes and says, I don't believe in Jesus but I believe in God. You are lying. You are lying.

There is only one God. Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Love you, man.

Man, he tastes sweeter than honey. He is stunning. He is breathtaking.

He will blow your mind away. You have a glimpse of him. For a split second.

If you see, just the shadow of his will blow your mind away. Imagine what would happen to you and I when we see him face to face. Hug him.

Kiss him. Embrace him. My, my goodness.

What Freemason? What Weiser? What Moderna? What Extrasenica? What Novavax? What money? What drugs? What alcoholism? What filth? What child trafficking? You are living in filth. My beloved people, wake up. Satan has blinded you.

Satan has blinded you. Don't ever come to God in the darkness. Where is my father, earthly father? By the way, my earthly father passed away 36 years ago.

I left him in a foreign country. We were about to migrate to Australia three weeks before our flight. He died in a foreign country.

We buried him there. Life is empty. Who's going to live here forever? No one.

Use your wealth to feed the homeless people. Use your wealth to feed the hungry starving people in Africa. Use your wealth to put a cloth on a naked child.

Do good deeds. Away with this madness of trying to build a space station somewhere. Because it's not enough to live here, I want to explore the universe.

Enough. People do good. Think of your human brother.

Think of humanity. Stop being selfish, egocentric. Lastly, people are going fighting for their freedoms.

Going on rallies and riots fighting for their freedoms. My only concern for this, my only concern for this, I just pray you are not fighting for the very freedom that got you into this mess. I just pray you are not fighting for the very freedom that got you into this mess.

Which freedom are you chasing? Is it the freedom so you can do whatever you want, go wherever you want, sing whichever way you want to sing, drink, dance, go out naked, call yourself a male even if you're a female, do whatever you want. Is that the freedom you're after? Because if you are fighting for this freedom, well guess what my dear friend, this freedom that you had before got you into this slavery. You need to fight for a different freedom.

Freedom of truly being free. You need to fight for God's rights, no more human rights. God's rights.

God's rights. 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. Pour my Lord the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants, and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance. Renew in them your Holy Spirit, by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation.

Purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes, and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace, and instill the walks of their behavior in the paths of righteousness. Please them along with the saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith in the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries. Empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will, to confess, worship, and praise your Holy Name, the Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever, Amen.

God bless you, I love you, I love you, and I love you. Maybe you'll have a kingdom on earth. Maybe you'll have wealth on earth.