Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – What Happens When You Distance From God?

0:00 When we walk away from God and we do things our way, not God's way, the body becomes the vanity. And when you chase after the body, you will become the vanity of all vanities. Because if everything you think of and everything you try to do is to please the flesh, to please materialism, to please worldly pleasures, then you are chasing the vanity. And if you chase the vanity, you'll end up the vanity of all vanities. Because where will the body end up in? A pit. Brave. And are you going to take anything with you to the grave?

0:42 Absolutely nothing except your deeds, whether they are good or bad. So when I chase the world and its pleasures, and all I care about is materialistic things, flesh, earthly things, I am chasing a vanity. I become the vanity of all vanities. I build houses. I have millions and billions of dollars in the bank account. And I have everything at my fingertip. But the moment the spirit leaves the body is the moment when they tapped me on the shoulder and said, wake up. The moment the spirit leaves the body, I wake up from this world, from this reality, which is nothing but a dream. I'm chasing a mirage in the desert, thinking it's water. Wake up and stop chasing vanity. The mirage will never be water. Because it isn't.

1:42 It's just a wishful thinking. Stop dreaming. Live the truth. With Christ Jesus. When the spirit leaves the body, I wake up from this realm and everything I had thought of And everything I had planned for. And everything I have built. And everything I have conquered. And everything I have managed. And everything I have achieved. Becomes nothing but one big lie. Gone. As if it never existed. Why do people chase the world and reject God? Because they don't wish to be Simon. To him. Meaning Christ, to him you shall listen. They said, no, I will not listen to God. I'll do it my way. When I did it my way, Satan ruled over me. And when Satan ruled, he gave me nothing but lies. And when I chased the lies, I ended up in the grave

2:51 with absolutely one big lie. It was just a dream. Why do some people choose to walk in darkness? Why do some people end up doing things that are destructive? Why do they choose to be that? Why do they walk in that particular path? It's all to do with the first name of the apostles. Simon. When they do exactly the opposite thing. Of the meaning of the name Simon.

3:31 Now Simon. In the Hebrew Aramaic Syriac text. Is Shimon. That's the proper pronunciation of the name. Shimon. It is a compounded word. That means literally. To him you shall listen. Shimon. Comes from the word to he. Listen to him. Listen to him. Who should we all listen to? Christ the King. He is the only one that we need to have our ears opened to and allow his voice, his word to enter this E in order to create something that was not existing prior to that called faith. And that's where St. Paul says, faith cometh through the hearing of the human being. Faith cometh through hearing. So the first name that is the correct start to being a disciple and an apostle of Christ, you need to listen to him.

4:53 You need to be Simon. When a human being chooses not to listen to God, when a human being chooses to reject the voice and the word of God, What happens to that human being? The following. And it will happen and there is no escape from it. He will be vanity of all vanities. A human being that rejects the voice of the Lord, that rejects the calling of the Lord ends up being vanity of all vanities. Empty of all emptiness. Emptiness. Vanity of all vanities, we find it in the book of Ecclesiastes to King Solomon. And in fact, Solomon the king begins the book of Ecclesiastes, vanity is of all vanities, everything that is under the sun is vanity of all vanities. Everything under the sun is vanity of all vanities. Now, what is a vanity?

6:07 The body. And what do I mean by the body? It's the vanity. When we reject the voice of God, when we reject the calling of Christ, who is God revealed in the flesh, what is left when we walk away from God? There is me. It is either God or it is me. However, when it is me, there is another power that will rule over me called Satan.

6:45 There is another power that will rule over me called Satan. Now, what did the Lord Jesus say about Satan? The father of all lies. The father of all lies. And what is the voice and the word of Christ? The truth. Christ himself says in John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth, and the life. So when you receive the voice and the word of Christ, you're receiving the truth.

7:18 When you reject the truth, there is nothing else left for you except the lie. There is nothing in between. It is either the truth, light, or it is a lie, darkness. It is either the truth, life, or the lie, death. It is either the truth, Christ, or the lie, Satan. Now what does Satan rule over? The world. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what kind of a world it is. And this is where the Lord also elaborates later on throughout this gospel. And he says, the tree is known by its fruits. For they do not pluck good fruits out of a bad tree. Neither a bad tree can give good fruits. If the tree is bad, the fruits are bad. And if the tree is good, the fruits definitely are good. When you look at the

8:15 fruits of the world, it tells you as the daylight, clear as the daylight, the fruits are evil. Therefore, you can tell who is in charge of this world. Definitely the evil one, the old snake, the serpent, Satan himself. Satan is the father of all lies. When we walk away from the truth, who is Christ, our Lord and God, we left nothing but with the lie. What is a lie?

8:46 A lie is a story based on nothing. What is a lie? A lie is a story with no foundation to it. What is that story that has no foundation? A dream. Now please, don't take it into, but Bishop, we see dreams and sometimes they are from the Lord. I'm not talking about that. I'll explain what I mean. Sometimes in the dream, we may see ourselves a king or a queen or someone rich, someone famous in that dream.

9:27 And while I am in that dream, I'm not realizing it's a dream. For me, this is it. This is the reality. Now, this is what you call life. Brother. Brother. So in that dream, I'm a king. I believe I'm the king. And as the king, I'm saying to myself, I can do anything and everything and no one can stop me. I rule, I conquer, I own everything. And the moment my mom comes and taps me on the shoulder and says, get up, let's go to church. You wake up. up you ain't a king baby so what is a lie is a dream of the awakening It's a dream at the awakening. I thought I was the king.

10:12 I believed I was the king. And I believed that I can do anything and everything. But the moment I woke up, everything I thought of was one big lie.