Mar Mari Emmanuel teaches that despite the apparent silence of God amid increasing evil, believers are stronger than they think because Christ patiently endures for the sake of His bride, the Church, and will come at the perfect time to reveal His power and love.
In this devotional sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel explores the mystery of God's apparent silence amid the rise of evil, explaining that God's patience is rooted in His love for the Church, His bride. He encourages believers to hold fast to faith, emphasizing that true knowledge of Jesus Christ comes through personal encounter rather than education. The sermon calls listeners to prepare for the end of the time of grace and to focus on Christ above all worldly distractions.
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How come God is keeping silent and allowing evil to increase so quickly and so fast? Why isn't he interfering and stopping it? It's a mystery. You know why? One reason God is not interfering so fast because of his beloved bride, the church. I'll give you a simple analogy.
Imagine there is this king in this particular country and in that particular country where he reigns over as a king, has a person that he loves. He's got a bride, he's got a girl that he loves and adores the most and he's betrothed to this girl and he wants to marry her later on. This girl is living in that very country where he resides there as a king.
The people of that country are evildoers. They're doing everything that is offensive to the king and against his sovereign authority. If it was up to him, he would have wiped that country from the face of this earth because of the evilness of those people in that country.
The only thing that is stopping him from wiping that country is his sweetheart. For as long as she is living in that country, he can't burn it because if he burns it, he's going to kill the love of his life. He's waiting for the day he takes her home and the day that comes he takes her home, you can kiss goodbye this world.
This king is Christ. The bride is the church and the church is living in this world. He put it in this world and he was betrothed to the church while she's in this world but the people of the world are doing everything evil in the sight of this king and he's so angry and he's about to strike this world and wipe it from existence but the only thing that is not interfering so quickly where we started questioning God, where are you? Because he's saying the only reason I'm so patient with this evil world because I have the love of my life still in the world.
I cannot strike it because how can I strike it and kill the one I died for? Didn't I die for the church on the cross? I am waiting for the day to take my bride home. Believe you me, when that day comes the world will know how awesome Jesus Christ of Nazareth is. Your Satan whom you have made your God will be shivering and trembling just because I blinked my eye.
He will be running away like a mouse when he faces the lion of Judah. He will become a mouse. Today he is revealing himself as the roaring lion.
Look at Satan powerful. Where is your Jesus? So weak. You guys who claim that you believe in the true God, look how weak you are.
We're doing whatever we want to do and bring your way and we are making fun of you guys. You can't do nothing. You see your God is weak compared to our God.
So we'll put poison in your food. We'll put poison in your life. We'll destroy your way of thinking.
We will make sure that we'll take you away from your true God and we are gonna enslave you to our new way of life. The new norm. A shwobby boy.
There will never be a new norm because there will always be this true divine God who art in heaven. So wake up before it's too late and the likes of you before it's too late. Jesus our Lord is the truth.
I don't want to preach. I want to talk to you. Honestly I don't want to preach.
I want to talk to you. Don't ever let anyone brainwash you and say there is no God. Young men and women.
I beg of you those who are listening through live streaming and watching us through live streaming and all of you who are present in this holy church. If there is anyone at uni studying at uni or even high school where this so-called professor comes along and gives a lecture and speaks ignorantly and so foolishly and tries to brainwash all these young men and women at uni levels through his or her profession being boastful about their PhD in their scientific field whatever it may be and to come and try to convince you with their education and with their PhDs and say to you there is no God. Don't ever listen to such nonsense.
They have been planted deliberately in the educational system. It has been infiltrated by evil deeds and doers to brainwash people away from the true divine God because Satan I can assure you Satan knows very well who Jesus Christ of Nazareth is. He knows very well.
He knows very well because he came to this realization. One crushed his head and put him to shame forever on Calvary on the cross on Calvary. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth and he reigns and lives forever.
So Satan is trying frantically to break Jesus heart by taking his children away from him. Jesus is the truth. There is God and this God is one and this one God his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
He came on earth over 2,000 years ago in the land of Israel and born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth of Galilee. He did wonders, miracles, signs throughout his ministerial life on earth which lasted three and four months. He was crucified buried and rose from the dead to say I am your creator.
I live and whoever has me as Lord and Savior will live in me forever as well. This is the truth. I don't care how educated you are.
I don't care whatever expertise you have and you've gained throughout your life. Jesus is the only one and if any human being that is thinking in an evil way doing evil things if they think they are getting away with it they are mistaken. Christ is being patient and long-suffering because he has a bride on earth.
The day the church of Christ in the new testament the time of grace and this is what we spoke about the mystery of God was the time of grace will be finished at the sounding of the seventh trumpet which is the great tribulation. So when the time of grace is shut there will be no longer the church that you guys come to anymore. You will still come and ask the Lord for help once the time of grace is finished.
Once the door of grace is shut you can say Jesus help me till kingdom comes. He will not hear you anymore. Heaven will go silent forever on those so-called Christians that are left after the time of grace is over because whoever stays after the time of grace is over so-called Christian they will be Christian by name nothing to do with the deed nothing to do with Christ.
They were Christians only by appearance. They never seek Christ. They never were interested in Christ.
They never tried to discover Christ in their life. That's why they will go through the great tribulation but those who are seeking him they will be sealed through this time of preparation which is chapter 10 of revelation and 11 from 1 to 14. God will protect those who are looking for him seeking him and are thirsty for him.
You will be sealed before the tribulation comes but the Lord is patient because of the church. Believe you me the time when the time ticks where the time of grace ends meaning Christ will not hear those who are called Christians by name just watch and see what the do to these so-called geniuses of the 21st century. They will not know what hit them.
They will not know what hit them. They will not know what hit them. All of us we ask this God where are you? How come you're not coming to my rescue? What are you waiting for? Can't you see I'm suffering? Can't you see I'm struggling? Can't you see my heavy burdens? Can't you see people have gone against me? Everything is going wrong in my life.
Can't you see the doors are being shut in my face? Can't you hear my cries? My pleadings? Can't you see the tears gushing down from my eyes? What are you waiting for Lord? Are you waiting for me to go to the pit? Is that it? Are you gonna come when I die? Didn't you say ask and you shall be given? Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will open. I'm begging you where are you? No.
The Lord will come at the time where he will make sure you will find him. Even if it means you continue a little longer drinking the poison of this world of satan. But he will come at a time.
Trust in the Lord my beloved. He will come at a time when he comes at that perfect time. Then you will realize then and then only that Christ exists.
Let me tell you one thing. You can read the holy bible for as long as you want and you can become very educated in the holy bible. Please listen.
You can be very educated. You can read it. You can contemplate on it.
You can swim in it. That doesn't mean that you know the Lord. Doesn't mean at all.
You see to discover Christ literally. I'm talking literally. You see I'm gonna show you.
We all suffer. We all suffer from this. We all struggle.
Mighty saints struggled with this. Who am I? We all say yes of course I believe in the Lord. Of course I love Jesus Christ.
What are you talking about? Don't ask me this again. Yes I love him and I'm willing to die for him. And the Lord asks you of one little tiny thing.
You just lose it. He'll come and you'll push him away without even realizing or even realizing. Do you know when you will have a real life with Christ? I'm talking about a real encounter with Christ.
The real encounter with Christ all the knowledge you gained about the holy bible. You could have gone to uni and studied theology and you received your doctorate in theology and now you are a theologian and you are a professor in theology and you preach and you you teach at university levels. You teach theology.
You become one of the greatest teachers of biblical insights in the world. But you are a total stranger to Jesus Christ still yet. Even if you're a pope, even if you're a cardinal, even if you're a bishop, even if you're a priest, no matter who you are and what you are you will never you will never get to know Jesus Christ in the truth until you let him teach you.
I just wonder was Simon Peter did Simon receive any doctorate in theology? Which university did these fishermen go to? Which schools? What is their qualifications? This guy used to throw the net in the sea to catch some fish. Had no idea. But look at the way he writes when you read Saint Peter's words in first and second Peter.
Look at Saint John, a great theologian. No university. There is no knowledge on the face of this world that can teach you what it is like to hug Jesus Christ.
No one. When you hug him, no one can explain this moment. No one.
You won't understand it either when you get hugged by the Lord. So what you need to do, my advice, just embrace it and thank the Lord. Don't try to find out what is this all about.
Just enjoy the moment when you're embraced by the Lord. But you see this discovery of the Lord Jesus, my dear daughter, has to come when we go through some dark tunnels in our life. When we are questioning there is so much wrong going in my life.
There is so much evil happening in the world. My friends have left me. My family misunderstand me.
The closest people have deserted me. I tried to do this and I failed. I went in the exam and I came out, failed.
I wanted to get married and I failed. I tried a job and I failed. And everything is going wrong.
And I'm asking God for an answer. Come to my rescue. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Heaven is quiet.
But don't ever think Jesus has walked away from you. Don't. He is the closest ever to you.
He is the closest. But He will come. Oh yes, He will come.
He will definitely come. But at a time He chooses, not you. But when He comes at that time, rest assured, the time that He chooses for you to discover Him will be the worst time in your life.
Will be the hardest time in your life. Will be the most troublesome times in your life when you are absolutely alone. That's when Jesus is going to show up.
And at that moment, when you come to this truth, to this realization, there is no one in existence that will come and say, there is no God. You will laugh. You will laugh at such people and such statements.
Because it's stupid. It is stupido. Jesus is the real deal.
Six foot one, brown, crispy hair with a split in the middle, all the way down to the shoulders. Tan, long face, Mediterranean looks. It is slightly tanned with gorgeous eyes.
I don't know, hazelnut greenish. I don't know, they're gorgeous. Israel, Satan knows this.
But he's laughing at the people of the world, why they walked away from the Lord. And I don't know, I want to go home after this one. Every young man and woman, how old are you, my beautiful son? And my beautiful daughter, how old are you? 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, you're 30, you're 32, you just graduated from uni, you just finished high school.
Whatever age bracket, I'm talking about the young boys and girls. Because your time is very difficult. Looks like the Lord Jesus is wanting me to speak about this because I prepared something else.
I don't know what's happening. It's the Holy Spirit. Believe me, I prepared and I was trying frantically to organize everything to come to this.
I'm not going to talk about nothing now. Listen, my sons, my daughters, listen up. The world is swimming in evilness.
The lies are now so cheap, you can get them from a dollar shop, not a two dollar shop, a dollar shop. Lies are there for you to grab in every corner you turn, in every alley you walk, in every direction you face. Lies are everywhere.
Lies are everywhere. I beg of you, I beg of you, I beg of you, remind yourselves, you belong to Christ. Not to your friends, not to having fun, not to going out and imitating other people of this world.
I beg you, my daughter, I love you to death, but Jesus loves you the most. You are beautiful as you are. You don't need to change nothing in you.
Only one thing you need to change, your heart. Give your heart to Christ. This is the only place you need to focus on.
Don't look at your facial looks. You're beautiful. I don't care, you're fat, you're thin, you're tall, you're short, you've got big ears, small ears, big nose, small nose.
Who cares? Who cares? Let people make fun of me. Let people talk behind my back and say, he is this and she is that. Who gives one penny? As long as Jesus says, you're my daughter and you're my son.
That's what matters. Focus on Christ, not on people, because the people of the 21st century have definitely lost applause. They are not interested in God.
And when I say God, I mean Jesus Christ of Nazareth, because you need to specify. There is only one God, and definitely Krishna is not, definitely Buddha is not, definitely Islam is not, definitely all of them are not. There is only one.
And it's not the Christians, it is the Christ. This is God. Christians can be bad people sometimes and do not reflect Jesus Christ, the real Jesus in their life, but Christ never changes.
We're weak, He's not. We're sinners, He's holy of holies. We can be dark, but He is the light of the world.
We lie, He is the truth, never changing. This is Christ. And He is the God who created everyone and everything visible and invisible.
He was revealed in the flesh, was crucified, died in the flesh on the cross, was buried, and rose from the dead on the third day, went up and sat at the right hand of the Father. This is the love of my life. So professors, with all love and respect, get a life, sons and daughters.
Turn your room into a church, not a place where you hang some Hollywood celebrities on the walls of your rooms. Burn them. I'm not talking about the people, I'm talking about those nonsense pictures.
We need to pray for everyone, you need to love everyone, and you need to ask the Lord to touch the hearts of everyone. If you have M&M on the wall of your room, I thought it was chocolate. Turned out to be a wrapper.
Yeah, well M&M's, aren't they chocolate? I mean with all love and respect to M&M the person, I don't mean anything wrong. But hey, why are you putting a wrapper's picture on there? Put a saint, put the Holy Mother, put Christ. You need to purify your thoughts until when are we going to live in very defiled thinking.
You see, when people say, why are you putting icons in the church? By the way, one of the things that icons do, they keep you within the circle of the church, because we tend to wander, even when we're sitting in the church, we tend to wander around and go to Bondi Beach while we are listening to the bishop. But when you wander, you look around and you see the Holy Mother, oh, you come back, you hit on the brakes, and you turn around, you see that one of the saints, you come back. Imagine, you've got a picture of the Lord, the Holy Mother, one of the so many millions and countless saints that the Lord has now in paradise.
He said they are like the stars of heaven. Can you count the stars? Good luck, you can never count the stars. These are the saints of Christ in heaven.
Imagine you have one of these pictures hanging on the wall in your home, and you get up one day, you're angry, and you want to rip someone's head off, and you're about to say something that is not nice, and you're just about to say it, and you turn and Jesus picture in your face. Oh, you, sorry Lord, turn your homes into a church, turn your homes into a church, turn your homes into a church. My son, when are you going to learn to bend those knees and let them touch the ground and worship of your Christ, the King? When? How come you bend them for the world, for evil things, for ugly things, for foolish things, for dirty and filthy things? You're bending those knees, but you don't want to bend them for the holy of holies, the God who created you, who loved you the most, and died for you, and rose from the dead for you.
You don't want to bend those knees, but you're bending them for drugs, alcohol, gambling, women, men, evil, evil, evil. Purify this temple. Purify.
Yes, almost 8 o'clock. I don't know. I want to read this passage.
This is Saint Paul to the Romans. Saint Paul's epistle to the Romans chapter 12. This is not our topic, so don't look at the screens.
Look at Saint Paul. By the way, I love this man. I should say this saint, this holy man of God.
He's my sweetheart. Sorry, Saint Peter, no hard feelings, yeah, but I love Saint Paul. I love you too.
Don't get me wrong, brother, my older brother, but I love Saint Paul. I love them all anyway. It doesn't matter.
So they're all equal, all the same. Romans 12 verse 1. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. My goodness, if you truly focus on this holy saint, the way he is putting these words so eloquently.
Yes, it is the Holy Spirit. It is the grace of God that has been inspired through and revealed to Saint Paul, but still, still, this man gave his life to Jesus Christ, and look how awesome God Jesus is using him. Do you see the way he is writing so eloquently, so beautifully? It is like an orchestra, a symphony orchestra playing a classical piece.
It's a beautiful music. The way Saint Paul is talking here, amazing. I have to read it again to you.
It is verses 1 and 2. Romans 12 verses 1 and 2. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, beseech you. He's begging us. He is begging us, and he's calling us brothers.
He's calling us brothers. Saint Paul had a little like, I don't know, a blister or something on his feet, on his foot. It used to get infected and then would burst.
The smell that used to come out of that infected blister, you'll run away. It was so stinky, like going to the tip. It was very bad.
He used to get embarrassed. He used to get embarrassed. That's why sometimes he would avoid people because of the stink that was coming out of his body.
He begged the Lord Jesus so many times, Lord, please, I'm your servant. I am your true servant. Can't you see? Can you please heal me? You are the healer.
Take away this blister, this stinking smell. I'm ashamed to walk in the midst of people. The Lord says, my mercy is enough for you.
I'll keep the blister. It's a mystery, isn't it? That's what we talked about. But why, Lord? Are you happy for an odor coming out of me? A smell that makes people flee from me? Are you happy? The Lord says, yes, I'm extremely happy, my servant Paul.
Okay, so get on with your life. I'll give you my mercy. It's enough for you, but I'll keep it.
You know what happened? He would take his handkerchief and wipe it on that blister. And the handkerchief would have that stinking smell on it. They used to put it on demented people, healed on the spot.
On crippled people, healed on the spot. On sick people, healed on the spot with that stinking handkerchief. And some people say, why do you take a relic of a saint and you say this is for your healing? It's only Jesus.
Excuse me? Have you read the Bible? Well, we know it's only Jesus, but Jesus is glorified through his saints, isn't it? I beg you, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice. I beg you, my dear brothers, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice. If we come, linguistically speaking, there is something wrong in this sentence, in this verse.
Saint Paul, I'll ask you this question. You're saying to me, you're begging me to present my body as a living sacrifice. Sorry, I'm just very, very simple up there.
So can you please bear with me? I want to ask you this question. You're saying I need to present my body as a living sacrifice? He says, yes. I said, but hang on, isn't it a sacrifice, something that is dead? What is a sacrifice? In the Old Testament, they used to bring these animals and slaying them, offering them as a sacrifice to the Almighty God, the God of the Israelite nation, for the remission of their sins.
So when you offer a sacrifice, that means you've killed that animal, and when you slain it, it is dead. But you're saying, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. Well, a sacrifice is something that is dead, but living is totally opposite to being dead.
So which one is it? He says both at the same time. Elaborate, St. Paul. How? He says, yes, read, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.
Holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Holy, acceptable to God. Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.
St. Paul is saying to all of us, I want you to be dead to the world, living for Christ. I want you to be dead to everything that has to do with the world, and I want you to be all alive when it comes to Jesus Christ. Let your ears be shut to what the world say, but all your ears open to what Christ says to you.
Be dead to people that take you to the wrong places for the wrong reasons. Be dead to those so-called friends that say, come on, get in the car, and we're going to go downtown, and we'll have the best time of our lives. We'll do everything wrong under the sun, because it is called freedom.
So, disobey God, offend God, offend this body, this mind, this soul, this spirit, just to please your lusts and your pleasures. Who cares about everything else? St. Paul is saying, kill your body in order to live in the spirit. Next time your friend calls you and says, let's go to the club, say no, I'm going to the church, and if you want to come, by all means, I'll come and pick you up.
I will not go to the club anymore. I do not belong to Satan, I belong to the one who purchased me with his precious blood, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.
Sacrifice dead, be dead to the world, to the people of this world, and be living to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the source of life, and the resurrected Messiah who lives forever. Acceptable to God, what is it? Your reasonable service. Reasonable service, reason is to do with the mind.
So, here the translation is not accurate 100%. Your intellectual service, that's what reasonable is, because reasonable comes from the word reason, and reasoning is to do with the mind. So, St. Paul is saying, you need to worship God with your mind.
How do I worship God with my mind? What is worship? Worship is when I am obedient and submissive to the commandment of God. Every time I do the will of God, I am submissive to the commandment of God, I am worshiping God. I'll give you an example.
In the 10 commandments which the Lord God gave to Moses, one of them he says, do not kill or do not steal. I saw glasses and I liked them, but the glasses are not mine, but I was tempted, so I stretched my hand, my arm, my hand to grab the glasses that are not mine, and before I grabbed them, there was a voice inside of me said to me, do not take them, they are not yours. If I pulled my hand back, what did I do? I fulfilled God's commandment, I worshiped God.
So, how do you worship God? When you do what he says. When you don't do what he says, you're not worshiping him. When you are disobedient to him, there is no worship, and if there is no worship, you are not under his protection.
Therefore, once you are not under Christ's protection, Satan will take over. Don't ever say, I can handle it. Mom, dad, don't worry, I know what I'm doing, trust me.
I'm just gonna go out with my friends, I won't touch alcohol, I'll drink 7-Up, orange juice, apple juice, and before you know it, you are a master of all drinks. I'll go to the club, but I won't touch the pokies, trust me, and before you know it, all your wages are being burned in Star City Casino. I'm not gonna talk to this person, and I'm not gonna go with this person, and before you know it, you're going with this and that and everyone.
Old MacDonald had a farm. One day, this girl came running, crying her eyes out. What's wrong, my daughter? Father, father.
Yes, my darling, what's wrong? My boyfriend left me. Oh, how old are you, my darling? 16, father. I said, how long have you known this Romeo? She said, four years, father.
I'm not that genius at maths. 16 minus 4, 12. Now, that is a baby.
My daughter, don't fall into no sweet talkings of no man. Bring him to me, I'll break his head. I'll break his head.
Oh, hello. I've never known a gazelle can be this beautiful, a girl. Your mother is a gazelle.
Go to your mother. So-called friends, they come and they paint it so beautifully before us. It's very tempting.
Come on, bro. We're gonna have fun today, brother. We're going out.
Wait, don't worry. Trust me, you're gonna have. Yes, and until the next day.
How do you worship God? When you do what he says. Now, and then he continues in verse 2, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed. Conformed, don't be like the world.
The people of the world lie, don't lie. The people of the world steal, don't steal. The people of the world kill, don't kill.
The people of the world love darkness, don't walk and embrace darkness. The people of the world, they do wrong things, don't do wrong things. Do not be conformed.
Do not imitate the world. And the younger generations, the men and the women, the boys and the girls, especially you guys are so influenced by brands and celebrities. Oh my goodness.
Beyonce and I don't know, I don't know all the names. I'm too old for this nonsense. One Hollywood singer and one Hollywood celebrity comes out and everybody goes, whoa, relax.
This is a piece of a human being, a sinner full of wrong things, evil things. What are you crazy about? Go crazy about Jesus, not this human being that is lost in this world. Millions and millions love Michael Jackson.
Where is he? Where are they? They all began in the church, in the choir, singing, praising the Lord. Look where they ended up. This is what happens when you lose track of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Can't you see? Can't you think for a moment? Aren't they a living example right before your very eyes? And these people lived in your time. This is not a mythical story. This is real.
These people lived and you saw them on TV and you've probably gone to their concert. Where are they? Even though I pray for all of them. But where are they? Where are they? Don't think I'm talking about them.
I love them. I'm praying for them, for the Lord to forgive them and accept them in his kingdom. But where are they? Look how they started and look how they ended up.
So what difference are you to them for you to think you can get away with it by doing the wrong things? What makes you think that you can get away with it? No one can because God will make sure no one can. But this God loves you and died for you and he wants you to him. He wants you to him.
He wants you to him. He wants you to him and he will do everything to make sure you come back to him. He will leave you no excuse at the end for you to go at him and say it's your fault.
You should have helped me here. You should have done this for me. He will leave you with no excuse because he will reveal it right before your very eyes at the end.
Your life's journey will be played as a movie before your eyes. The Lord will show you millions and millions and upon millions of times he has been there calling you, begging you, knocking at your door, pleading, crying, screaming for you. You ignored him.
He will show you. He will show you. Come back.
Come back to the Lord. Do not be conformed but rather transformed. Transformation not confirmation.
Not conformity. Now how do I be transformed not conformed? He said by the renewing of your mind. By the renewing of your mind.
Now the word renew is a compounded word two-in-one r-e pretext and the word new. So re and then new put together renew. Now re means to go back, rewind to go back but the word new is not something new.
Why? Because everything is of old. There is nothing new. We as humans when we discovered something we called it this is new but this is new to us only.
What we've discovered is always been there from ancient times to God. Everything is of old. Nothing is new but for us it is not for God.
So the word new here where Saint Paul is saying by the renewing of your mind by going back to the new. The new here means origin. Renew.
Go back to your origin. How do I and you be transformed and not conformed? How do we change our way of thinking? Saint Paul says the only way for you to be able to change your way of thinking go back to your origin. Renew.
What is our origin? God in the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth. Satan is trying so frantically to stop you getting to God.
Please open your eyes. Ask the Lord to open your eyes. See this is exactly what is happening.
Oh my goodness. At home the system, the system which governments have put together it is a anti-family system. Anti-family.
A little kid goes to kindergarten. They get brainwashed. If mom and dad say this or that, call triple zero.
I'm not saying that there isn't domestic violence at homes but this should not be forced on every level. Not every parent is an evildoer. There are some great mom and dads that want to teach great values and instill them in their children but the educational system is destroying it all.
The family is being attacked. This is the number one thing satan attacks because the number one thing satan attacked was from the day of garden of eden. What did satan attack in the garden of eden? Family.
Adam and Eve, husband and wife, where they are going to make a family. He attacked them because satan knows the day he destroys a family he's destroyed society. He's making parents to go against children, children that go against parents for that family to be destroyed and divided then as they say divide and conquer.
Divide and conquer. Renew your mind. Go back to your origin.
To go back to your origin, your origin is God. In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Not Big Bang created apes and out of the gorillas came the human race.
I'll throw them a banana next time. What a joke. An atheist creating this theory.
An atheist, darwin. An atheist, a member of the round table. Probably some of you don't know what the round table is.
An absolute evil, satan worshiped, created this so-called theory, evolution and now lies are being taught high schools and university levels and sometimes the church is going with it. What a shame. What a shame.
You believe in an atheist? Go back to your origin God. Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Sometimes I want to break this phone.
Everything, everything starts with a thought. I'll leave you with this, okay. Everything starts with a thought or actually I'll take you back.
Starts with an idea. Everything. When the idea matures and ripens, the idea turns into a thought.
When the thought matures and ripens, turns into a word. When the word matures and ripens, turns into an ideology. Ideology is a belief system.
ISIS is an ideology. Terrorism is an ideology. When an ideology ripens and matures, turns into a philosophy.
When philosophy ripes and matures, turns into a way of living. So the way I live now, it all began with an idea. The chair you sit on was an idea in someone's head.
That idea turned into a thought, into a word. When it turned into a word, the idea, the thought became tangible, was put on paper. Because what do you do with the word? You write it on paper.
It becomes visible. The invisible became visible. It was put on paper and then that paper was transformed into a way of living.
The chair came into existence. But this chair was an idea in someone's head. Everything else began with an idea.
If you follow through with it, you'll end up living that idea. When someone is addicted to something, that addiction was the result of an idea. I thought of winning the jackpot and then it matured, became a word.
I said to the family, bye-bye. Before, at the beginning, it was silent. Now it's verbal.
See you later. And I drove and I went and I won the best jackpot. My pockets were emptied and I came out of there and I sounded like the Thomas Tang.
Steam coming out of me. Lost everything. To get rid of that addiction, you need to get rid of the idea where it all began.
By the way, if there is one thing in life you cannot kill, it's an idea. Idea cannot be killed. But what can you do with it? The only way and the only thing you can do to an idea is replace it with another idea.
That's the only way. To fight an idea, to fight a thought that is haunting you, stop fighting. You're wasting your breath.
You're wasting your time. You're wasting your energy. I'm a psychologist now, okay? Some people focus on the thoughts that are haunting them.
You're wasting your breath because you are trying to kill something that cannot be killed. But how can you get rid of that thought that is haunting you? Replace it with another thought. This is what St. Paul is saying.
Do not be conformed but transformed. How do I get transformed? How do I change from a worldly human to a spiritual human? How can I change to come out of the club and into the church? He said, renew your mind. Change your mind by going back to your origin.
Your origin is God and God gave you his word. His word is his idea that changed into a thought, into a word that was written in the flesh of Jesus and came and be a God revealed in the human and the human form. When he spoke, this is the idea of God to humanity.
God wanted every human to have the mind of God through Jesus Christ. Read the Holy Bible. Feed on the Holy Bible.
Every day you are getting the idea of God in your head. When you get the idea of God in your head, guess what? The other ideas gradually are going to disappear because an idea can only be replaced by another one. You're feeling down? Read the word of God.
It will lift you up. You're being haunted by evil thoughts? Bring the word of God which is holy and pure. It will vanish.
It will make sure that every evil thought will perish and vanish. It will decimate it all. And as you continue reading the word of God, guess what? Before you know it, you'll start talking like God.
Before, every second word was a foul word. Now, every word is pure and it doesn't take an effort now. Before, I used to really make an effort to behave.
Now, I don't need to think about it because my head, I just filled it with all the thoughts of God. So, I don't need to think what's going to come out because what's going to come out is pure because it is filled with God's thoughts. So, next time your language will be like Jesus.
Get busy with the word of God. Don't just park the holy Bible somewhere on a shelf or somewhere in a drawer. Don't park it there.
Grab it. Read it. And definitely, I'll leave you with this.
Like someone said, he put it so nicely. He said, look, if your Bible is intact, you are worn out. And if your Bible is worn out, you're intact.
So, which one do you want to be falling apart? You or the Bible? I'm talking about the book. As the holy Bible is the book. If your holy Bible, if the book is falling apart, rest assured, you are solid.
But if your Bible is shining and you are boasting about it, look at my Bible, how I keep it nice and clean and shining. Well done. Well, you're not shining then.
Let the book be worn out because then you're intact. Seek God. Do not listen to the world.
Seek God. Be strong. Trust in the Lord.
Whatever has been happening and is happening in your life, the Lord sees everything. The Lord is aware of everything. The Lord is in control of everything.
Trust Him. Be happy. Be strong.
Don't give in. Don't give up to whatever temptations are coming. And even if you fall, say, no matter how many times I fall, the Lord will put me back on my feet.
The Lord will put me back on my feet. Can I leave you with this? I promise you. Last one.
Last one. You know when Saint Paul says, we are the church and the church is the body of Christ and Christ is the head. Imagine when you're feeling down, when you're at your lowest moment, you're drowning, You've hit rock-bottom.
There is no way out of this situation. It's miserable. Satan will come exactly at this time when you are really losing hope and losing everything.
He will come at this time and he'll put every negative thing in your head. Look at you, where is Jesus? But he doesn't tell you it's him. By the way, these kind of thoughts, Satan is an expert.
When you hear a voice in your head saying Jesus doesn't love you anymore, look what he's doing to you, look what's happening, look you've been begging him, you've been going to church and praying and doing and look he is playing with you. He's deserted you. He's let you down.
He has failed you. This is Satan 100%. I know, trust me, the beard is white, right? I know, it's Satan.
You know what you say? You say to Satan and another advice, don't engage yourself in a conversation with Satan a lot. Don't. Don't give him this opportunity.
Don't. He talks to you, you talk to the Lord. Don't talk back to him because he'll grab you.
I've tried it. You talk, he talks to you, you talk to the Lord. He comes and says then and then and then say Lord I love you.
Smack him. When you ignore Satan, he boils up, he hates it. So get on his, on his nerves, yeah? Why you want to try to get on my nerves? Man, I'm a weak instrument.
What do you want from me? I'm the greatest sinners of all. I'm nothing. So if you've got a problem, talk to my master.
Bring the Lord. Don't be Mr. Superman and say, hey Satan, come here, I'm gonna show you who is the man here. No, no.
He'll, he'll make you a football and he'll shoot you everywhere. Believe me. Grab the Lord and say Lord, you talk to him and then the Lord will go, boo, boo.
Yeah, I had a visit the other day. Why would I come and yell and lose my voice if Jesus was not real? Why would I waste my time in your time? Do you think this is just a like a duty, an obligation? No. The church is not a duty.
This kind of gathering is not a duty. It's not an obligation. This is life.
I'm here because Christ is my life. Otherwise no one will see me. I don't give one penny about this or that.
This clothes and that chair is beautiful because of Jesus. Otherwise without Jesus, just a chair. Who gives one penny about the chair? Otherwise this is just clothes.
Anyone can make them and very cheap. You go to Cabramatta, very cheap. But what makes these beautiful and precious is this gorgeous man called Jesus of Nazareth.
That's why I'm wearing him wherever I go. Hello baby. What's up Lord Jesus? Come on here baby.
I love you. Thank you for the red belt in Lord Jesus. It's the Lord.
It's the Lord. When you're drowning and when your entire body is submerged underwater and Satan comes and makes fun of you and me and says, look at you. You're dead.
You're finished. Say no. As long as the head is above water, I'm alive.
Let the whole body be underwater submerged. I'm not dead. I haven't drowned.
The head is above water. I can breathe because I can receive oxygen through the head, not the body. That's the source of my life.
The head. This is where I receive my breath of life. Well guess what Satan? The head of this body is Christ.
The church, us, is the body of Christ. Christ is the head. When your head is Christ, where is this head? Went up to heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father and the Holy of Holies, the ultimate sovereign authority, the Son of God, the Son of Man equal to God.
This is my head. He is in the heaven of all heavens. Satan, can you bring the head of Christ underwater? If you can, then I'm dead.
But if you can't, I'm gonna step on you in the name of the one who is my head, Christ the King. For as long as he lives, I live. Let the body be persecuted.
Let the body go through troublesome times. Let the body suffer. But the head is Christ.
This is my source where I receive the breath of life. I'm not dead, so away with you Satan. Christ is my oxygen, is my life.
My head is in the heaven of all heavens. You can't go any higher than this. You can't be any more glorious than this.
This is where Christ has taken us, my beloved. Love the Lord and enjoy the moment with the Lord. Read the Holy Bible.
Make your homes churches or a church. Please, I beg you. If there is any silly photos of people and this and that, rip them apart.
Shred them, throw them away. Put icons. Clean the environment.
Clean the atmosphere. Clean the house. Put a place where you kneel.
Kneel. Let your knees hit the ground and worship Jesus Christ of Nazareth and see what the Lord is gonna do for you. God bless you always.
Looks like we're gonna have to do this topic next Friday. Honestly, until now I don't know what happened. But I can feel, I can feel there is a few people here that are really, really struggling.
And looks like the Lord is talking to you. He wants you to hear this. I came prepared for something else.
The Lord is good. He loves us all. And He cares about us all.
So whatever you were thinking of, I pray the Lord has answered you. Love the Lord, my beloved. And next time you want to go downtown, please take me with you.
I'll come. You wanna go clubbing? Let's go. Yeah.
I'll come. I'll go to one of those clubbing places. What do you get out of this nonsense? They're all squashed and they're yelling on the top of their voices because the big subwoofer.
No one hears no one. They're all gone deaf. The eardrums are blasted.
The vocal cords are gone. Why? Come here, Habibi. That is a noise pollution.
Anyway, gotta finish it off. Today it was the feast of our beloved Saint, Saint Shimon Bar Sabai. See that icon there towards the very end one? That is our saint.
He is the saint, the patron saint of this church. May his prayers, his blessings be in your life and surround you always, my beloved. Very quickly, Saint Shimon Bar Sabai, he became martyred for the name of Jesus Christ in 344 AD.
He was the patriarch of the Church of the East, where I come from. He became the head of the church and then in the East, it was under the rulership of the Persian Empire. And this emperor came, Shapur II, or they used to call him Shapur the Great.
He was the emperor of the Persian Empire from the day he was born till the day he died. He was born in 309 AD and died in 379 AD. 70s.
The first emperor, I would believe, that became an emperor from birth. And he was very young and as he grew older, his enemy was in the West, the Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, the son of Queen Helena. Queen Helena was the beautiful queen that found the cross of the Lord Jesus in Jerusalem.
She found it. Her son became the emperor in the West and in his reign, he made the Christian faith the dominant, you know, faith in his entire empire. It became Christian for the first time in its history.
And then in the East, this Emperor Shapur II was a bit of an evil guy. He hated the Christians for so many reasons and they got on his nerves. So he came to St. Shimon Bar Sabbai, the Patriarch of the Church of the East, and he said to him, you need to tell your followers to pay taxes to me double, because I need the money for war.
And then the Patriarch said, I am appointed by the Lord Jesus to look after the flock, not to strain them and suffocate them. I can't do that, dear Emperor. He said, I am in charge.
You better listen to what I'm saying, otherwise you'll get into trouble. So they went forth and back, forth and back, forth and back, and forth and back. And he said, come and worship my God the Son, S-U-N, and then I'll forgive you and I'll let you go as long as you deny your God and you worship my God.
He said to him, Emperor, with all love and respect, when my God was nailed on the cross, your son became pitch black. The sun was ashamed to shine when the Son of Righteousness and the light of the world was nailed on the cross. So I will never deny the truth, S-U-N.
He said, I'll kill you. He said, please do. And he encouraged his followers, don't ever deny Jesus, even if they threaten you with, by beheading you.
Anyway, he was captured, the head of the church, he was captured along with five bishops and 97 priests and deacons, thrown in prison, and on Good Friday, the Good Friday of our Lord Jesus, on Good Friday, 344 AD, they were all beheaded and they stayed firm in their faith. Now that's what I call a patriarch. Not these guys, opening churches for vaccination hubs.
When are you gonna stand up for your Lord? He was a warrior, and he's still a warrior. And for me, he is my patriarch. I'm proud of such saints.
They faced death, never backed off. They confessed and professed Jesus Christ to be their Lord and God, period. May his blessings and his prayers be with you all, my beloveds.
Let's stand for the finale prayer. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, amen. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. Amen. May the Lord Jesus bless you, guide you, and protect you all the days of your life, now and forevermore.
Amen. Go in peace, my beloved. God bless.
Sermon Outline
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- God's silence amid growing evil is due to His love for the Church.
- Christ is the King patiently waiting to take His bride home.
- The world’s evil will be judged when the Church is taken.
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- Satan appears powerful but will be defeated by Christ.
- Believers must not be swayed by worldly lies or false teachings.
- Faith in Jesus Christ is the only true hope.
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- True knowledge of Christ comes through personal encounter, not education.
- Suffering and hardship lead to deeper discovery of Jesus.
- The time of grace will end, and believers must be prepared.
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- Believers should focus on Christ, not worldly appearances or approval.
- Homes should be places of worship and spiritual focus.
- Surrender fully to Christ and reject worldly temptations.
Key Quotes
“The only thing that is stopping him from wiping that country is his sweetheart. For as long as she is living in that country, he can't burn it because if he burns it, he's going to kill the love of his life.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“You can be very educated. You can read it. You can contemplate on it. You can swim in it. That doesn't mean that you know the Lord.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“The time that He chooses for you to discover Him will be the worst time in your life. Will be the hardest time in your life. Will be the most troublesome times in your life when you are absolutely alone.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
Application Points
- Trust in God's perfect timing even when He seems silent in your struggles.
- Seek a personal relationship with Jesus beyond intellectual knowledge.
- Purify your heart and home by focusing on Christ and rejecting worldly influences.
