Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – God Is Nearer Than Ever When You Feel Broken

0:01 But as Christians we need to focus on ourselves not on non-Christians. Because as Christians I need to ask myself this question. Where am I in relation to Christ? Am I close? Am I far? Do I love him? Do I pretend to love him? Am I really invoking his holy name in vanity? Or am I saying it with truthfulness?

0:30 So if we were to judge Anyone, we need to judge our own selves as Christians. For the Lord is the way. Not a way, but the way. There is no other way. This is the truth. This is the truth. But let me share this with you, my beloveds. Since it was a very sunny day today, looks like some of us could not believe it, huh? It's been raining for the last couple of weeks. It's been a miserable Sydney weather. You know, raining and kind of cold. Today was sunny, stunning, and happens to be Sunday. So, Bondi Beach, here we come. Yes, and the phone rings. In whichever way we walk in, There is knowledge. You cannot take any way without getting to knowing things. There is no way in walking in a way without obtaining knowledge, without

1:53 knowing it beforehand, or acquiring it while you are walking in that way. So in every way there is knowledge. Now the Lord is saying to all of us, to every single human being, what are you choosing for yourself? In what way are you choosing to walk? And walking here is not literally walking on foot. No. No. Walking here means, how are you thinking? How are you thinking?

2:39 In what way are you perceiving things? Are you understanding things? Are you comprehending things? Which is the way are you thinking of? How are you thinking? How are you living? You see, since there is this way that leads to truth, Therefore, there is a way that leads to lies. Since there is the way that leads to truth, and since it's to do with truth, there is only one way, it cannot be more than one way, reason being that truth is to do with the divine. Us gathered here in this holy church, as human beings, this is called reality.

3:32 not truth. Why? Because reality, what is reality? Everything that is under the time. And truth is everything that is above the time. Everything that is under the time is called reality. And everything that is above the time is called truth. Therefore reality changes, truth never changes. You see, what causes anyone or anything to change is time. If it wasn't for time, neither me nor you would have changed, nor anything would have changed. Time changes everything. With time, I was born as a baby, but with time I grew older, and I grew older. With time, I became an adult, and then a grown-up, and then my bead turned into Santa Claus. I'm no longer the baby. Time changed me. So the Lord is saying, since this way

4:33 leads to the truth, it has to be the only way because there is only one God. Now the question is here, if the truth is to do with everything above the time, then who is above the time? The creator of time. Who is the creator of time? God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God. Since there is only one God who is the truth, then the way to this God is only one way. When they say all roads lead to Rome, not all religions lead to God. It doesn't work. Because God will never ever change His mind Will never ever say one thing here. And totally opposite to that over here. And say this way and this way.

5:36 All of us worship the same God. Impossible. Because there is contradictions in these books. One of them only must be God's word. And everyone else outside of God's circle. Now Christ has come to say I am God. The way, the truth, the life. Meaning, I am the only true divine God revealed in the flesh. Since I am the true divine God revealed in the flesh, therefore I am the only way, I am the only truth, and I am the only life because there is only one God and that God, and I am that God. I am that God. Now to walk in His way requires knowledge.

6:38 And the Lord is saying there is another way but that way leads to lies. Now since the truth leads to life the lie would lead to death. Opposite. There is the way And there is a way. There is the truth. And there is a lie. There is the life. And there is death. The Lord is inviting every human being. He's God. He loves everyone because He is the creator of everyone. Very simple. Yet complex. Because human beings, majority of times are stubborn. Don't wish to listen. Now my beloved, there is a way that leads to lies. And those lies, they will eventually lead you to death. Now the question comes here. What is a lie? What is a lie?

7:52 A lie is a story with no foundation. A lie is a story with no foundation. What is that story that has no foundation? A dream. Now I'm talking in the general sense, not in a specific sense you may say, but God talks to people through dreams as well. That's true. But I'm talking in the general sense. A dream in the general sense is a story with no foundation. What do I mean by that? I got sleep and I'm in a dream I'm seeing a dream, and in that dream, I'm a king. I'm a rich man. I'm a famous person.

8:43 I'm Donald Trump. It's true, it's true. In that dream, I'm seeing myself as a king. Now... when we see a dream, while we are seeing the dream, we don't ever say, this is just a dream. No, we believe it to be the truth. I am really a king. I am believing that I'm a king. I am living it that I'm a king. I'm a king, that's it.

9:17 And as a king, I'm saying to myself, I can do whatever, whenever, however, with whomever. I have the authority. I have the wealth. I have the power. I have the rank, the position. I have it all. I can do anything and everything. I came to this belief. I came to this knowledge, to this understanding. This is the way of my life. I am a king and I'm living it. I am walking in this way and no one can stop me until... mom taps me on the shoulder and says, get up, it's time to go to church.

9:52 The moment she taps me on the shoulder and I wake up, I haven't even finished high school. let alone to be a king. The entire realization and the entire reality was one big lie. A lie is a story with no foundation. It's just a dream. I think I am who I am. But when I woke up, I wasn't who I thought I was. Now, which way leads you to this kind of a dream that has no foundation, which is a lie? When you choose to do it your way, not God's way. And my way is everything that I want to have, I want to be, everything is to do with me, how I feel, how I come to know things, how I come to do things, and I expect everyone around me to respect that, appreciate that, and accept that in their life. It is either my

11:17 way or the highway. Now this way, the Lord says, will lead you to a lie, which is a dream with no foundation. It's a lie. And what did King David say about the dream, about the human life? What did King David say about the human life? He said, the human life is like a dream at the awakening. What is a dream at the awakening? In other words, King David says, what you came to know, to believe in, is only a dream. The moment that the time comes you wake up, all that that you have thought of and believed in was one big lie. And when will my life be like a dream at the awakening? When the spirit leaves the body, I wake up from all of this reality. I thought I was going to do whatever I wish and get away with it. I thought

12:10 I was going to live here forever. Therefore, I'll break, I'll kill, I'll destroy, I'll do whatever. I am free and I'll do anything and everything and nobody can stop me. But when the spirit left the body, all that was one big lie. And where does the lie lead? To death. Spirit left the body. to the pit, to the grave. Death.

12:42 The Lord says, I am the way that leads to the truth. And the truth will give you life. My son, my daughter, Look at the world. Take a break and look at the world, how it's been behaving till this very moment. In the general sense, everything to do with the world is one big lie. One big lie. Even elections are one big lie. The world is based on a lie. Why? Because the Lord Jesus who is the truth.

13:49 Now the truth meaning he can never lie. Whatever he says and whatever he does, he is truthful. He cannot, naturally he cannot lie. He is just a natural in telling the truth, in living the truth and in sharing the truth. He is just a natural. The Lord Jesus says that the prince of this world is the father of all lies. Satan. Now somebody might come and say, well, I don't believe there is Satan. I don't believe there is God. I don't believe in nothing. Mother Nature made me. Now, this person came to believe in the biggest lie ever.

14:37 Mother Nature made me. I was at a place and I regretted not saying anything because that person was fortunate enough for me not to be in the mood. You know when I'm in the mood? I'm kind of unstoppable. So I wasn't in the mood. A very educated person. And then he says, I don't believe in God. In front of this unstoppable person. I don't know how he got away with me not saying anything to him. Unbelievable.

15:19 I hope he's listening. Satan is the father of all lies. The truth says, who is Christ? The King. So when the Lord Jesus says there is Satan, better believe it and when the Lord Jesus says he is the father of all lies you better believe it and if you're gonna follow Satan you are walking in a way that will lead you to lies which will give you death destroys you strips you of everything God had formed you molded you and made you to be he will strip you of all of that he will strip you from your identity from your dignity from everything that makes a human a human And what is the lie of the Western world? Human rights. Human rights is the Western world lie.

16:29 Because human rights is value. But there is something that is foundational to the human, which is the purpose, not the value. If we don't know what the purpose of a thing is, we can never give it value. Unless I know what is this thing made for? What is the functionality of this thing? What was the reason this thing was initially created? Why was it made? Why was it brought into existence? If I don't know the purpose, I can never give it value. Without purpose, there is no value. And if we come ignore purpose and focus on the value, we will 100% abuse that thing. And it is exactly what is happening in the human race of the 21st century. They are focusing on the value of the human and denying totally the purpose of the human. Therefore,

17:27 the human being is being abused. Where some end up calling themselves a cat or a dog or whatever. Abuse. Abuse. The purpose, my beloved. So if the value is human rights, the purpose is the right to be a human. What is the right to be a human? Not human rights. The right to be a human. What is the way for me and you to be a true human? Now let's come back to simple English. My son, when your friend calls you and says, what are you doing? Don't ever say nothing. Doesn't exist. And when he says to you, let's go downtown, brother. Don't sit in the car and go for it and run to it. Because all that out there is like a dream at the awakening. All that out there is a lie. All that out there is just deception. You need to face the truth. You

18:55 need to face God. You need to come back to God. My daughter, don't focus on your external beauty and forget about your internal beauty. You may be the most beautiful girl in the world externally, but my question to you, my daughter, which you need to answer, when God looks at your heart, will He see it, the most beautiful heart in the world? How will God see your heart if He looked at it now? And by the way, God will never look at your external beauty. He will never focus on that external beauty. God looks from within, not from without. But the world focuses externally. And everything that is external is temporal. And everything that is temporal is a dream at the awakening. What never lasts is

19:42 a lie. Everything that lasts forever is the truth. Therefore, the only one who lasts forever is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. that is why he is the only truth and he's the only way to this truth and this truth the only truth is the only way to give you the life Everyone that comes and laughs into your face. Everyone that comes and says, let's do this and let's do that.

20:07 It's the 21st century. It's the Western world. And labor just won the elections. Let's go and have fun. All one big lie. One big lie. Until we find peace. Christ in our life. We are still living in a lie. Don't just focus on material things. Don't just focus on physical things. Don't just focus on the world. I beg you.

20:47 I beg you. I beg you. Look inside and focus on your spirit. Just like you look after your body, you need to look after your spirit. You feed your body. You dress your body. You shape your body. You mold your body. You go into dietary things to make it look beautiful. Well, you need to pay attention and time on your spirit. Your spirit needs to be fed. Your spirit needs to be dressed. Your spirit needs to be well looked after. And the spirit says, the only time I am fulfilled is when you take me to my Savior, to my Redeemer, to my Creator, to my Jesus Christ of Nazareth. That's when I am fulfilled. Because with Christ, there is no more lies. There is only the truth.

21:44 No more lies. The Lord will never ever come to bluff you, to deceive you, to mislead you. Never. Never. He was very clear. Why? Because he is the truth. And what is this truth? The Lord said it, and the truth shall set you free. Did you know the only time any and every human being can claim that they are living is when that human being is free?

22:21 Because unless you're free, you can't say I am living. A slave is not living even though he's breathing. But breathing alone, my beloved, is not defined as life. Life is when you are set free from your own sins, from your own inequities, from your own chains, from your own weaknesses. This is freedom, not breathing. So many people breathe.

22:50 and live, yet they are slaves to so many habits and weaknesses. And as long as we are chained up, we're not free. And if we're not free, we can't claim that we are living. The world will give you only handcuffs and chains. Handcuffs and chains. Christ sets you free. I can now truly breathe. I've been breathing all these many long years. But I was a slave. But when the Lord set me free. Now I understood what a true breath is all about. Because this time, I didn't breathe that air, that oxygen. I breathed Christ, the source of life. When I breathe Christ in, I say, I'm free.

24:18 Now I'm alive. I'm alive. Now I want to go and hug the whole world. I want to say to the whole world, the Lord Jesus loves you. Now I can go and say to those who have hurt me all my life, I forgive you my son. I forgive you my brother. I forgive you my sister. I forgive you my dad. I forgive you my mom. I am able to say I forgive. I am able to move on because God, Christ set me free. And this gave me the purpose of the human. Why God created me in the first place. People ask, why did God create us?

25:07 Very simple. To be His son. In a nutshell. He wants you to be His son. What does it mean to be a son? Free. Slave? Not free. Free. That's why the son lives. The slave doesn't. God will tolerate a lot of things. But one thing he will punish and will never tolerate. When a human being enslaves another human being. Oh, watch out. If that person doesn't repent, God will wipe that person. He will punish that person severely and harshly. And I'll leave you with this. And Elias is not here. When you read in the book of Genesis, chapter 1, about the days of creation, God called day one good. Sunday. Sunday. Day three, he called it good twice. You know why? Because when you read, and I encourage you to go and read. If you

26:30 haven't read, the Holy Bible, start reading. And if you are reading, continue reading. Don't stop. When you go to day two, God said nothing about day two. Nothing. So he compensated it on day three. Instead of saying good once, he said it. I feel like one of those American preachers, but not prosperity because they're all lies. When you got to day two, God said nothing. You know why? Because if you go into the biblical terminology into a spiritual way, you will see those days are not just talking about days, but more so of God's management to the human life.

27:12 What was in day two? What happened in day two? In day two, God created the firmament and he says there was water above the firmament and below it. Below it are the oceans. There was water above and there was water below. Now, if we take it in the spiritual sense as a salvific message from God to the human race, what is water above? Master. What is water below? Slave.

27:42 I don't have the time to explain the days of creation. But you see, God let the human race to manage their life because they rejected God. Adam said, I'm not listening to you. I'm going to eat from the forbidden tree. So God left him to his own way of thinking. Cain killed Abel. And then day two is about a human being enslaving his brother human being. In America, for a very long time, the white Americans enslaved the black African-Americans You have no right to enslave any human being Just because his color happens to be black. How dare you you treat them as a second-class citizen? Who do you think you are? That black human being is exactly has the same human identity human nature he is exactly

28:49 created by the very God who created you as a white skin and Who do you think you are to say you are a second class citizen. I'm going to use you as a slave for me. How dare you? How dare you? Water above master. Water below slave. God says the day that comes a human being enslaves another human being that day I wipe from my book. I will say nothing about it. As if it never exists.

29:31 Never exists. The Lord came to give us the truth. Because he said the truth. Shall set you free. Satan came to give you lies. And if you follow Satan. He will enslave that person. Forever. Forever. My son. Stop going to the club. I'll be very blunt. Come to the church. My daughter. My daughter. Stop chasing the world.

30:03 Chase after the Lord Jesus. My beloved children, you do not belong to the world. Stop imitating them. Stop saying, oh look at that person how they dress up. Oh look at that person how they live. Look at this person how they drive. Look at this person how are everything they have within their reach. I want to be like them. No, you don't want to be like nobody.

30:23 You want to be like Christ. That's what you need to do. You are not here to imitate anyone. But Christ, you need to reflect the brightness, the light of Christ in your life for this dark, ugly world that is placed in the bosom of Satan, the father of all lies. I need to bring the truth to a place where there is no truth. Well, no wonder they get on their nerves and they hate you for it. The moment you speak the truth, they hate you. Because Satan is in control and Satan... hates Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He doesn't care about anyone else, but he can't stand Jesus.

31:02 You know why? Because the only human being in a human form that put Satan to shame and crushed his head on the cross, on Calvary, is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He cannot stand this name. Well, I'll be saying it until kingdom comes. Okay? So eat that hot pepper from Calcutta for as long as you want, brother. Now you're not my brother. Get lost. Get lost. I imagine if the Lord spoke in that kind of an accent, incredible, very cute. Truly, truly, I say to you. The Lord came to give us freedom. Stop going to a place where it's based on lies. Stop. Come to the Lord.

32:03 The Lord will never lie to you. He said to his disciples, you follow me? The world will hate you. The world will persecute you. He never said, unite with the world. When did the Lord Jesus say to the church, unite with the world? Never. He said, I am the light. The world is darkness. Can light and darkness live together? Impossible.

32:20 It's either light or darkness. One of these fancy dinners behind the scenes and sitting with the With worldly figures. Church leaders. Wow. Church leaders sitting with worldly figures. Honey, honey, honey, make me money in this big wide world. Honey, honey, honey, make me money in this dark ugly world. And I won't take that money with me to their grave. Where are you going to go? Church leaders. I'm saying it with love and humility. Pope Francis, did he take anything with him? No. The same casket is going to be for a cleaner and for a street beggar. Same casket, same pit, same hole, same dirt. Wow. Wow. But the Lord says if you follow me and if you walk in my way which is the only way I guarantee you,

33:33 the grave is empty. That is the truth. The grave is death. The grave is a lie. The grave is a dream at the awakening. It's a story based on lie. But I am the truth. I am a story. I am the story based on foundation. Tangible foundation. I'll prove to you that I exist if you walk in my way. Because no one can teach you that God exists alone.

34:01 Only God can do that. But unless you walk with your heart, you mean it. When you follow me from the heart, I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, will guarantee that I prove that I exist. I'll put you in situations to make sure that you come to this truth that Jesus truly exists. Truly exists. Ah, when I was going through hell after the incident. You know, we're weak, sometimes we forget. Because of the heavy burden sometimes and the struggles of life, we forget, oh, where are you, Lord? No, no, the Lord is with me every split second. He has never lost sight of me. He's always with me in every breath I make and in every step I take, He's with me. But my weakness tells me He's distant, He's gone, He's forgotten, He never forgets. Oh, when I

34:55 was in that hell and I was literally in hell for four literal months, It was the Lord. He sent me his mom. He sent me his sons, his children, the saints. Saints whom I never knew they existed. I never knew they came. Literally. Not in a dream. Not in a sleep. Literally. Literally. And then somebody comes and says, where is God? Excuse me? You cannot expect for God to reveal Himself to you, yet you are choosing Satan over Him. You cannot expect God to come and give you His glory for you to choose the world than the kingdom of heaven. You cannot expect Christ to come and work for you. You better follow Him and serve Him from the heart. And let me see if Christ is not going to reveal Himself or not. You better

35:45 be true to yourself. Because you're dealing with the truth. You're dealing with the truth. There was no power, no human being that could have saved me from that hell of four months. No one. Let alone the incident itself. I should have been dead. But when the Lord wants to save, from the mouth of the lion, he will pull me out alive. without a stain, without a blemish.

36:22 When He wants to save, come to church always. Come to Christ always. Don't say, I'm tired. Don't say, I don't feel like it. Don't say, I'm angry. Don't say, I don't have the money to pay the bills. I'm too stressed. Come to the Lord so He can fix everything for you. The Lord never lies. He is the truth.

36:50 He said to the disciples, You left your job, Simon. You're a fisherman. All of you. You were working before. You left everything and followed me. You became unemployed. You did nothing. You just followed me. All these three and a half years following me. Have you ever slept one night in need of anything? They said, no. He said, well now, sell your clothes and grab the sword. But the sword that heals the wound, not chops heads. The sword is my word. My word. My word. My word that is love. That is the sword you carry. Because you can never change a human's heart unless you give them my love, Jesus says. It takes divine love to change a human. And my beloved, let me tell you, the Lord Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after four

37:37 days rotted in the grave. He raised him from the dead. And to people, this is the ultimate miracle. They said, wow. They bowed before the Lord and they said, you definitely are God. Impossible for someone rotted in the grave for four days and being raised with one word, you're God. They bowed. But that Lazarus whom the Lord raised, he died in Cyprus. Raising the dead is not the ultimate miracle.

38:10 What is the ultimate miracle? Changing a person's heart. Because when you change the person's heart, that person will never ever die again. And it takes God's love to change a human's heart. The truth shall set you free. Focus on the Lord. You won't have any problems. And even if you have them, you'll laugh at them. Before, I used to cry. I used to get angry and bash things and break things. Frustrated, angry at this and angry at that and everyone. Old MacDonald had a fight. But now, I'm surrounded by problems and issues and struggles. People hate me.

39:03 People talk bad about me. People want to kill me. People want to depose me. People want to do this. And I'm I'm dancing with this body. Whitney Houston, I'm dancing with this body, not somebody. I'm dancing with this body. When you dance with the Lord in purity, when you love the Lord when you are with the Lord nothing matters all good even when I'm in hell let's bow our heads This moment I'm asking you to forgive all my sins, whether I know them or not. Lord, please forgive me. Lord, please wash me clean with your precious blood, which I'm about to receive. Lord, bring me back to you.

40:19 I choose to be with you, Lord. Please help me. I'm weak. 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.

40:42 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.

41:21 Can I say where you're from? Can I say? Will you allow me? We have a beautiful mother and a beautiful son with her. They come all the way from Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Please put your hands together. And in the sort of, in those Gulf region, the way when they speak in Arabic, like, you know, the Bedouins and the tribes. Very good. So a very warm welcome all the way from Abu Dhabi to Sydney. Yes, beautiful regions, beautiful places, my beloveds. Culture very different to the West, but there is also a lot of warmth in it. family-orientated. That's what I love about the East. Unfortunately, the Western world lost track of the family value, family bond.

42:33 We really need to focus on the family. Not sure how labor is going to do that, but... Man, I should have put my name for the prime ministerial position. I would have said, I'm the new prime minister. And I'm sacking all of their guys. I'm bringing the real guys from Lakemba and Patbal and Bankstown. Yes. We pray the Lord has mercy on Australia. The Lord touches the hearts of people who are in governmental positions. And if those people do not wish to repent... I'm asking the Lord this moment. Plug them from their roots. Because he's God.

43:26 He knows who is willing to repent. And who is not. Who is stubborn. Does not wish to open their heart. For the voice of Christ. And who is willing. All I'm asking. And I'm begging my Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ. We need a change. And we need that change desperately. But more so. More so. a thousand times more in the church. We need the change. We need church leaders that will love the Lord, serve the Lord from the heart, not from the lips. We need church leaders that will shepherd the flock for the glory of Christ, not for their own glories. We need church leaders that will say we are not for sale to the world. We are not for sale Because we've been purchased by the blood of the Lamb of God. No one can afford us anymore.

44:28 No grants. No nothing. No election promises. So sad. I'm very sad. They give me the money of the entire world. I'll step on it. I'm not for sale.