True Freedom Is With Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians 13 8, love never fails. Wow. Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13 8 and John 3 16, same. One. Because that love is God the Father that he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

And since Christ gave us his love and since the Holy Mother loved her Son with all her heart, love never dies. Don't ever say saints are dead. Because those who have the love of God in their hearts will live forever.

Because love never dies. Love endures forever. Love is the only thing that will ever last forever.

Therefore who are the dead? Us on earth. And who are the living saints in heaven? I'll say only this, no one can tell this good old bishop there are no saints. Because I know, I know there are and plenty of them.

When I came out of the hospital, I spent about three, three and a half days in hospital. I came out, it was a day after coming out of hospital, something like that. I was laying in bed, I was not asleep.

I just happened to close my eyes but I was fully alert. I was fully alert. The first person ever came to visit me was my earthly mother, in real.

Yeah? Why would I make it up? What will I gain out of it? Nothing. But this is God speaking to every single one of you. This is the voice of the Lord Jesus crying out in the wilderness of this world.

Prepare the way for the Messiah is coming back once again. John the Baptist prepared the way for the first coming and the Lord will make sure he will have the voice of that of John the Baptist in his second coming. Wake up people.

The world is being punished by the Almighty God. Why? Because humanity have denied him, walked away from him and even the Christian world, Christendom, they are acting like little children in the street. Acting like little children and everybody claiming to know the truth, to have the truth and to speak the truth.

Shameful, shameful act, shameful behavior of little kids, church leaders acting ignorantly. Ignorant. The first person ever to come and see me in reality.

I wasn't sleeping. It was my earthly mom. Her baptismal name is Mina with an M not with an N. And later on she found out that Mina is a saint in Egypt of our beloved Coptic Church.

Saint Mina, they call him Saint Mina the miraculous because there is not one day till now that goes by in Egypt if Saint Mina has not done or shown a miracle to somebody there or all over the world. And I can testify, saints are living. Please relax.

We're still kids. We need to grow up. We're still kids.

Believe me. All of us. So her baptismal name was Mina.

Happened to be Saint Mina. He must have chosen her because Saint Mina was in the third century and he was martyred by the Roman Emperor. They said to him, deny your Christ.

He said, I will never. We're gonna kill you. He said, please do me a favor and he was beheaded in the third century.

He talks now in real. She came, my earthly mom. Ever since she left this world, I know what she is.

I don't believe only, I know. Yes? I don't believe only. You see, see faith leads you to knowledge and when you get to know it's much more stronger, much more powerful.

Because when you know, you're certain. You see, when you know, you see. Because unless you see, you'll never know.

Do you understand what I'm saying? How can you know a person if you have not seen that person? Do you get it? Faith gets you to the person but then when you stay with the person, you get to know him, not having faith in him. You get to know him, please. What are you gonna tell me that when you live with someone at home for 10, 20, 30, 50 years, are you gonna tell me I still believe in that? I know the person because I live with him.

I see him. I see him. Ever since my earthly mother left, she never came and spoke to me and I begged her.

I said, and until now I haven't in a way mourned her departure. I haven't. Till now.

I'm numb. But I know where she is. Maybe that's why I'm kind of quiet.

Because you see, when you know, why would you cry? If I cry, I cry for myself. I'm the dead. She's the living one.

I'm the dead. Because I'm still living in this weak body that makes me fall. She came only once, a few months ago.

She didn't say a word. She just was laying in my bed. She was laying in my bed and got up and walked.

I never said a word. I said, what kind of visit is that mom? You know? Do you want me to cook your rizzo smoka? I don't even know how to cook your rizzo smoka. Rizzo smoka is red rice.

That's a very popular meal for the Assyrian community. And God, the Assyrians, baby. The second time ever, and this time she spoke, was after coming out of the hospital.

I was in enormous pain. In enormous pain. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, you name it.

And I was lying in bed. I couldn't sleep. I just closed my eyes.

And then suddenly, I see this a piece before my eyes. And then the whole face. I got startled when I saw it.

It was so close, it really startled me. And it was my earthly mom. The way she left this world of an old age.

She glued her face on my face. She glued it. And I guess, I'm not guessing, but I believe the reason why she shown this gesture, just to say to me, because sometimes there are certain gestures are much more powerful than a million words put together.

Words cannot express, but certain gestures, they can express the depth of love. She was telling me the reason why I glued my face on you, just to say, I love you my son. And I'm praying for you.

She was the first one. And then, a couple of meters, she walks away with immense joy. She was jumping out of joy.

She was so happy, so joyous. And waving at me like that, when you want someone to come in an extreme hurry. Come, come, come, come.

She's saying to me, come, come, come, come. I want to take you. The Holy Mother is waiting to see you.

And in a distance, in the distance, I see the Holy Mother. So awesome. So glorious.

Absolute Queen. Queen. Queen.

We went to the Holy Land after two weeks of the incident. I was in enormous pain. That on its own was a miracle, to travel on the other side of the globe, with a wound in my face, two stabs in the neck, one very deep, and four blows to the back of the head, where the knife never opened, otherwise that would have been fatal.

But the knife closed on the hand of that young man, which I love very much. He's my son. I love him.

The Lord knows I love him. I love him. And if I can adopt him, I will, as a son.

Sitting in the plane with all the pressure, getting up early in the morning and traveling for hours on end, crossing the country from one side to the other. I mean, I pray the group had a very blessed and happy time. I pray for that.

And I thank God, I believe all of them are back. Thank God for your safe return home. But nobody understood how much pain I was in, except the Lord, the Holy Mother, and my earthly mother.

My mom said to me, I want to take you to the Holy Mother. She's waiting to see you. We went to this place called Ankaram.

I pray if you haven't been to Israel, I pray you go. It's a journey of a lifetime. You should.

And maybe you should come with this good old looking bishop. So we went to this place called Ankaram. This place happened to be the place of the parents of John the Baptist.

At the foot of the mountain, his father Zechariah, the priest, had a house. And at the top of the mountain, he had another house. So in summer, they would go up the mountain because it's cooler.

And in winter, they would come down at the foot of the mountain because it was warmer. Now there are churches now built where those houses happened to be, or used to be. The church at the top of the mountain is called the Church of the Visitation, where the Holy Mother visited her auntie Elizabeth and greeted her and said, where is it for me for the mother of my Lord to come and say hello to me? So the Holy Mother visited her auntie when the Archangel Gabriel said, even your auntie who was barren, medically speaking, impossible to conceive, she has conceived and it is her sixth month.

So the Holy Mother goes to the top of that mountain and enters the house of Zechariah and Elizabeth, her auntie, and greets them. And she remains in that house on top of the mountain for the remaining three months. And when the time was for her auntie Elizabeth to give birth, the Holy Mother goes back to Nazareth, Galilee.

So I went with the group to the Church of the Visitation. It's a very small church. I walked in there.

I was not in this world. I was up absolutely in pain. In every way, form, and shape you could think of.

There is one small section, the Holy Altar, and the other section is a cave. And inside that cave there is a small little well. The Holy Mother used to draw water from that well.

But at the moment it's no longer used. It's the cave and there is no lights inside. Slightly dark.

The group came. I stood in front of that cave. I closed my eyes.

I was that hurt, even words, thoughts would not come out of me. I was just empty, numb. And I closed my eyes and I think the group were waiting for me to start a prayer or something.

But I was not there. So I closed my eyes and I'm facing the cave. All of a sudden I see the Holy Mother in the cave and there was as if there was a table, circle, and I knew even though I didn't see them but I knew there was other figures there, other saints.

The Holy Mother had her back to me. She turns her head with a smile and then she said, we, not I, we, because there were other saints but above all her son. She will never say me or I. It's we because my son and I are always together and the whole saints.

She turns and then she says, we are preparing an eye for you in three days time. When my earthly mother came and said, hurry up, come, come. I want to take you.

The Holy Mother is waiting to see you. I thought she was going to take me from this world. In a way I was happy.

But then I understood what my earthly mother was saying. The Holy Mother is waiting because it's been approved by her son for me to have the eye back. The eye is gone by the way.

But the Lord, but the Lord, but the Lord, but the Lord is the living God. His mom is awesome and his saints children are awesome as well. I don't know how the eye will come back but the Lord knows how.

The Lord Jesus said, what is impossible to man is possible to God. All I want to say, whatever you are going through and whatever you have been through and whatever you will go through, trust Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Entrust him with everything, with all of you.

It's not easy. It's very hard. It's impossible.

Say, Lord I can't do it but you can. So please come and take me to you. May the praise of our Holy Mother Mary and Saint Ade, the Apostle, be with all of us, with the whole church, with the whole faithful.

May we be faithful to the Lord Jesus for he is the only way, he is the only truth and he is the only life. May the love of God the Father engulf us inwardly and outwardly. May the power of the Holy Spirit, the source of life and wisdom, guide us to the truth who is the beloved Son of the Almighty God the Father who was sacrificed on Calvary on the cross to save and redeem and purchase the whole world with his precious blood.

May the Holy Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, one in essence and one in nature, be with you, guide you, protect you, deliver you from the snares of the enemy and I pray for God the Father to touch your hearts to see the Son through the Holy Spirit. The Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is the reason for the season. Christmas and Sunday resurrection should be every day happening in your life.

Yes there is a historical event but the spiritual event, the Lord has to be born in you every day and the Lord has to be raised in you every single day. It is not only a time in history we wait for to celebrate, it is a spiritual celebration every single day the Lord must be born in you and must rise in you and you rise in him. So my beloved Christianity is not a book we read, it's not a hymn we sing, it's not a story we tell.

Christianity is one person called Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom we need to live, to live and you see that's where love comes into play because the only way for life to be made possible is through love. With all love and respect because definitely was never my intention to offend anybody, never has been, never will be. I love everyone but when you ask all the religions of the world with all love and respect they will tell you life precedes everything.

When you come to Christianity, Christianity tells you that love precedes life and everything and so true because what would I have done with a life that had no love in it, it would have been an absolute hell. What makes life, life is love and this is why the Holy Bible tells us about God the following. When it talks about God in relation to love and life it says the following, God is the life giver but God is love not love giver, he is love and this is why love is the supreme ethic.

He is love itself. Without love there is no life, there is nothing. So many people tried to gain the world and some did, like today some people they think they have the wealth of the world and they control whatever they wish but you go to them you see them the most miserable failures ever.

Empty, void, they don't know what to do. They try everything under the Sun and the more they try the more they empty because it takes God to fill you within. This is the last thing I'll say, when we close our eyes what do we see? Space, empty space.

Can you put a boundary to that empty space when you close your eyes? No. See God did that on purpose. We are a minute piece of dust, a little minute tiny piece of dust but when we close our eyes all we see endless space.

God is saying every time you close your eyes and you see that endless space remember the only one who can fill that endless infinite space is the infinite God and until that space is filled you will never be happy, you will never be content, you will never find peace because peace, contentment, happiness, joy comes within not without. So the more you chase the world the more emptier you become, the more disorientated you become, the more lost, confused, chaotic you become and the more you look from within and ask the infinite God to fill this infinite space in you, you'll never understand what peace and joy is all about. I have to say this, please forgive me, will you? It takes hell to appreciate heaven.

We will never ever understand who Jesus Christ of Nazareth truly is until we are left alone. The last six weeks has taught me things, 53 years of my life failed to teach me. Even though you are surrounded by people and those people love you, even though you are surrounded by people but when the Lord teaches you this lesson and makes you know it, not just say it but live it.

Even though you're surrounded by people but you come to this true realization for the first time ever that no matter how many people surround you, they are all, with love and respect I'm saying, they are all hopeless and useless, they cannot do anything for you. They will come frantically, they're trying their hardest, I know they love me, I know, I know, I know beyond any doubt I know but what can they do? Hopeless, useless, it's okay, please smile, please be happy, please do this, don't do that, come on, cheer up, be strong, be this because that's all we can do but when God shows up, when Jesus Christ of Nazareth shows up without talking, it's all heaven even when I'm living in hell. A prisoner is not the one put behind bars, the true prisoner is the one who lost Christ.

True freedom is when Christ is in my heart even when I am behind bars. Ask Jesus Christ of Nazareth to show you the way. My son, my son and my daughter, don't follow what the world is doing, don't imitate the world, don't look out there and see what they do and you try and do the same, don't.

You don't belong to the world, you belong to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You are beautiful as you are, you don't need to change nothing in you and you need to be happy with what you have. Don't ever compare yourself with others, you're not them, they are not you.

God created you with your own unique identity, no one has it, no one will ever have it. That identity is given to you by God, no one can take it away from you except you. The way you are, come to the Lord, don't change nothing and the last thing, don't act before the Lord because that will really upset him.

Don't act as you are, full of sins as you are, full of weaknesses as you are, full of mishaps as you are, full of filth as you are because you are talking here about someone who has created you and knows you more than you. You cannot lie, you cannot hide, you cannot falsify, you cannot bribe. The only time we can bribe Jesus Christ of Nazareth is when we shed those tears of remorse and saying to him, sorry Lord, forgive me.

This is the only time the Lord will accept it as bribery because you see the lips and the tongue can lie but the tears never lie, tears never lie, tears never lie because they come from the heart and the heart is that love and Jesus Christ is the God of the heart because he is love and he speaks the language of love. Love one another, forgive one another. If you're married, tough luck.

If you're single, don't ever think about getting married. I'm just kidding, not. You see this is what we try.

The single dies to get married and the married dies to get divorced and the doctor says what have I done to myself? I'm naughty and the bishop says I don't need this. No one is happy. You know why? Because I'm still seeking things my way.

That's why I'm never happy. Let God do it his way in you, then you'll be happy. You know I used to ask the Lord Jesus always take me.

I don't want this life. Now I'm asking him to give me the eye back. I will never complain.

I'll say let it be your will even if I'm going through hell and all my life has been nothing but a walking through the valley of the shadow of death. Saints are the living and we are the dead. Remember this.

I could tell you a lot of stories