Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – You Cannot Overcome Satan Without God’s Help

0:00 Let us come and take the first point, which is the filling of the spirit. And Jesus was filled by the spirit, and then he was led by the spirit. So we'll go at number one point Number one, filling of the Holy Spirit or being filled by the spirit. Question, what is the filling of the spirit. Please, just you know, be patient with me. It will get very clear towards the end. After ten hours, Okay, I'll promise you after ten hours, what is the filling of the Holy Spirit.

0:37 It's a question. Filling of the spirit is for the building of the human being. Filling of the Holy Spirit is to do with building the human being. There is a very beautiful verse, Saint Louis, Saint Paul, abag your pardon, Saint Paul. He writes it with absolute clarity in First Corinthians twelve thirteen. Saint Paul in First Corinthians twelve thirteen says it beautifully in absolute clarity with what Saint Luke is talking about here. In chapter four he says, First Corinthians twelve thirteen. For by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves, are free, and have all been made to drink into one spirit. Wow. For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves

1:43 are free, have all been made and have all been made to drink into one spirit. Therefore, filling of the spirit is baptism of the spirit. Baptism of the spirit. There are some beloved Christians, and I'll call them beloved. I love them. There are some beloved Christians who do not understand what is really the baptism of the spirit.

2:22 Baptism of the Spirit is the birth of the church. Baptism of the Spirit is the birth of the Church. My beloved, I'll ask you this question. Please be with me. I don't want to lose you. I ask you this question. Now, this question is in the general sense. Don't tell me specific areas now, it's just in general sense. When the baby is born, when a baby is born, is the baby born missing an arm or a leg? Or is the baby born complete? Isn't it? When the baby is born is born complete with all the members that make up the body? True? Absolutely? But what happens now this baby there is born complete? What does this baby need?

3:17 It needs to grow and develop, That's what it needs. It doesn't need an arm, it doesn't need an eye, it does not need a nose, nothing, no leg, no nothing, because it was born complete perfect. So but what it needs one thing, it needs to grow true. Like therefore, my beloved, when the Church was born on Pentecost, and that's when the Church of Christ and the New Testament was born on the fiftieth day, which fiftieth in Greek means Pentecost. Pentecost means fiftieth. So when the Church was born on Pentecost or on the fiftieth day, the Church was not born incomplete. It was born complete, like the baby is born complete. Trust me, it's going to get clear as we go. Now, Why so that none of us think for a moment that when we are baptized today,

4:17 after two thousand and twenty sixty is gone by, So that when somebody is baptized today they don't fall into this mistake and think that Now the Lord Jesus, let's say this person was baptized. The Lord made him the hand, and the other one was baptized. He made him the leg, and the other one was baptized. He made him the nose, the eye, and the rest of the members, and the Lord as if he started gluing all these members together to make up the body. Now, no, the body was born complete with all the members on Pentecost fiftieth day. Okay, so now, my beloved the church is complete from the moment she was born on Pentecost. But when the baby is born, what do we do? We make the baby grow, isn't it? And how do we develop that baby and

5:31 make it grow by feeding the baby? So as the church needs to be fed in order to grow. The church does not miss any hands, legs, or members, but it needs one thing. It needs to grow from a baby to a mature figure. So now see, my beloved, SA will come and say, we'll ask this question, and they don't even understand what they're asking. They will come and ask you, have you received the baptism of the Spirit?

6:08 Have you been baptized by the Holy Spirit? What do you mean being baptized by the Holy Spirit? See, if somebody comes and asks you, have you received the baptism of the Spirit or have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit? You say yes. And if they ask you when, say when the Holy Spirit descended as tongues of fire on one hundred and twenty people in the upper room on that day, I received the baptism of the Spirit.

6:35 Because the baptism of the Spirit is the filling of the Spirit, which is the birth of the Church. So there is no such thing as are you baptized with water or are you baptized with the Holy Spirit? Are you on fire? Relax, baptism of the water, you receive the Holy Spirit, and you should be on fire after thereafter.

6:57 So there is no such thing as baptisms of water one thing, and baptism of the spirit another. Another sort of concept. No, baptism of the spirit is the birth of the Church. When was the Church born on Pentecost the fiftieth day? And when were we all born on the day the Church was born? Because just like the baby is born with all complete body, so was the Church born with complete body on Penticost. I'll come to it more and more. I could see you're still saying, where is the bishop trying to lead us to? Now?

7:36 Might be loved? The Holy Spirit does not give birth to the Church every day, because birth is only once. You don't get born every day, do you? You only get born once, and that's it. After you get born, you need to grow. That's all you need. You don't need to be born again and again and again and again and born again is not it. Birth is only once now. Later on in the near future will do topics about the sacraments of the Church. So I understand.

8:11 I'll bring your biblical references. I'm not talking out of my own thinking. I'm talking out of the Gospels, the Holy Bible, and the Church fathers, which are so vital Church fathers. The only strike of them ever now might be love it. The Holy Spirit does not give birth to the Church every single day. As soon as you believed in the Lord, you become a member in the mystical body of Christ, which is the Church. The Church is the body of Christ. As soon as you believe in the Lord, you become a member in that mystical body, or in that Church. And as long as you are in the faith, therefore you have been baptized into one body.

9:01 Saint Paul says it one Corinthians twelve thirteen. As long as you're in the faith, you've been baptized into one body. You have joined the body of Christ. In other words, and at the same time, you have become a member in the one body. So as long as you are in the faith, you have joined the body of Christ and the body of Christ. Saint Paul says, the Church is the body of Christ. So the moment you're in the faith, you've joined the body of Christ. And at the same time, when you join the body, how did you join the body? You join the body as one of the members of the body. This body has many members.

9:52 One is a fingernail, the other one is a finger. The other one is the hand, The other one is the leg. The eye knows, the ease, the mouth, the lips, the tongue, the heart, the kidneys, the lungs, the b the veins, the blood. All of these members come together make up the body. So we became we joined the body, and we became members and the body of Christ. Now what does that mean? I'll make it more simple. I'll go to the doctor. I say, gray, Doc, right Doc, And then he says gray Bishop. And then the doctor holds my hand and he says, by the way, Bishop, this hand of yours was born before your leg. Would that work? Can the doctor say that this hand was born before the leg? Of course not why Because when

11:00 I was born, the hand, the leg, and all the other members were born together at the same time because the baby was born complete. So all these members were born together as one body at the same time. And when the body started growing, when the body started developing, guess what, all the members grew together and developed together at the same time. So there is no one before the other, no one before the other. Now, what does this mean. There's a lot of questions today, and the word what will be will be mentioned a lot today.

11:48 What does that mean that all of us grew together? This means, might be loved that when Simon Peter entered in the body of guess what, you also entered with Simon Peter at the same time. Not today, You entered with him at the same time, even though you came two thousand and twenty six years later. The day Simon Peter entered the body of Christ, you entered with him at the same time. Not now. Back then, when was the church born Pentagost That's when you were born. Now you may say, how well, I'll say to you, this is the work of God. This is the work of the divine, and the work of the divine is what mystical, mysterious, it's a mystery. How does that work? I don't know, but God knows. You can't fathom it. God can. You

13:09 can't do it, God can, God can. Don't ever say no, that's impossible, because the moment you say it's impossible, when it's to do with God, you have stripped away from him the title almighty. Now please bear with me. It's going to get harder, I mean easier. And this is what we call filling of the spirit or the filling of the spirit. Now how do we receive the filling of the spirit. We said earlier that when the baby is born, what do we need to do with the baby?

13:53 Feed it in order to grow and develop? Well, so as the church, so as the church. And that's where Saint Paul again in One Corinthians twelve thirteen, he says, all being made to drink into one spirit. So all of us drank from the same spirit. Because when the baby is fed, is fed from one mama. Are you gonna have many moms? Can be? Only one can feed the baby? You with me? So we all drank from one spirit. We were all baptized into one body. Now stay with me. So now what does that mean? See I told you the word what will be mentioned a lot?

14:52 So What does that mean? What does it mean to drink into one spirit? I Saint Paul puts it, to drink into one spirit, one spirit. I'll put it to you in this way so we can try and make it as easy and as simple as possible for us to all understand. Like, these words are really big, you know, theologically speaking, they're very big. But I'm telling you a story.

15:21 I'm not giving you a lecture. So now what does it mean that we all drank into one spirit, one spirit? What is one spirit? Let's take the example of electricity. I'll ask you this, does electricity differ? Is there different kinds of electricity? Or is electricity just one? It's electricity, isn't it? Yes? Or no? Please be with me, uh and please tell me yes? Yes? Are you sure? Thank God for that. So electricity is one. There is no types of electricity, no different kinds. Electricity is electricity. You grabbed the cable. You're in the trouble brother. So now, however, however, when electricity enters a fan, electricity gives us air. When the electricity enters a fridge, electricity gives us ice. When

16:21 the electricity enters a motor, electricity gives us movement question, is the electricity that entered the fan different to the fridge, different to the motor? No, it is all one electricity, saying it is only one electricity. But when it entered the fan, it gave us air. When it entered the fridge, it gave us ice. When it entered the motor, it gave us movement. So now what am I trying to say here? Or what is the Holy Bible trying to teach us here? You see, when that electricity entered the motor, it gave us movement. The more I started moving now.

17:14 But according to the motor's capacity to accept electrical input, this determines the extent of its operational performance. I'll put it in simple terms. How much the motor allows electricity to enter it that much, it can work, no more or less. If the motor allowed electricity to enter it for one minute, the motor will work for one minute and it will stop whether it likes it or not.

17:50 But if another motor allows electricity to enter it for an hour, that motor will run for an hour, for a day, for ten days for here. Depending on how much the motor allows electricity to enter it that much, it will perform However, the motor, regardless how long it runs, it will always be a motor. I don't know if you're getting the drift so it can run till Kingdom come, but it will never be anything else but a motor.

18:42 Meaning so what does that mean? I'll put it this way. I went to Harvey Normen and I bought the most expensive and the best fridge ever. The best and most expensive fridge I bought from Harvey Norman. I brought the fridge home and I wanted to cook red rice on it. The fridge did not do what I wanted the fridge to do. I get so angry because I paid a lot of money for it. I took it back to Harvey Norman and I said to them, take this fridge.

19:27 It is good for nothing. You have deceived me because the fridge could not cook red rice for me. Well, my dear consumer, the fridge can never cook red rice because the manufacturer, when he came and manufactured the fridge, he did it in a way to act as a fridge to cool things for you and to give you ice.

19:56 Cannot cook because the manufactured never made it to cook. He made it to cool things and freeze things. Then are you with me right now? Everyone or anyone who tries to be another one very wrong. Anyone who tries to imitate to be someone else. This will never happen. Why because the manufacturer God, when he created you, he created you to be you, not anyone else. That's why the Holly Bible says, and that's why it says it this way. Do not be envious of your neighbor. Do not be jealous of no one, because you are not them.

21:12 They are not you, and they will never be you. Neither you will be them. Because the mota, no matter how long it runs, will always be a motor. The fridge will always be the fridge. The fan will always be the fan. But the electricity, which is the Holy Spirit, enters the fan, the fan will gives air. The fridge can't be jealous of the fan and say why can't I give air like the fan? Habibie, You're not a fan, You're a fridge. Are you with me? Now? This is all about the filling of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus returned and he was filled by the Holy by the spirit. Man, man, man, man, Wow, the hollybubble is just incredible. Man, It's just incredible. Incredible, all right. Now, So instead of trying frantically to be

22:13 someone else, you can never be. So if you've got a big nose, don't be envious of someone with a little nose, thank God, because their nose is a four cylinder car. Your nose is the gold holding the eight under the bonnet. Eight ladies. Mate, when you breathe, you'll breathe much more air than the four cylinder. What is the problem with the big nose? Be happy and get on with your life. Stop going to istanbul and chopping it down. It ain't gonna work, thank god. You love.

22:52 That means you're getting the drift now. Very good, very good, all right, So what do you need to do? Go to the Lord and say to him, Oh Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you our potter. I am the clay, and you are the potter, and all we are the work of your hand. We are nothing but the work of your hand. Who says this Isaiah sixty four eight Isaiah sixty four eight, Go to the Lord and say, oh Lord, you are our father.

23:29 We are the clay, and you are the potter, our potter, and we are all the work of your hand. The potter chooses what to make out of the clay. The clay can never say to the potter, why you made me this way or that way? Not up to you to question the potter. The potter has full authority, full right to make whatever shape out of you. So the Potter decided to make you a fan, and he decided someone else to make them a fridge, and he decided for someone else to be a motor. Stop being jealous, Stop trying to imitate the motor. Be happy being a fan, all right now, So what do you need to say?

24:27 Then you go to the Lord and say this. I do not wish to be Peter or Matthew or Thomas. I don't want to be none of them. But I wish Lord to be the one I erased in order to leave you. I don't want to be Peter. I don't want to be Thomas. I don't want to be Andrew. I don't want to be none of the Apostles. I don't want to be none of the church fathers, because you made them different to me. But I came to you Lord to say I want to be the one who denied himself and erased himself to live you. I want to be that person I live, but no longer me, but Christ who lives in me. I want to be this person, not anyone else. I want to live for You, Lord, not be Peter. I want to be You because I gain nothing for being Peter, but I gain everything for

25:41 being Christ. Like stop focusing on you, on people around you, start focusing on the Creator, the manufacturer, the potter. Say Lord, mold this claim and make it like Jesus Christ. The moment we do this, you will see the Lord Jesus working in every member to serve the entire body. You will see the Lord Jesus working in every member to serve this entire body. If all were the eye, where we would put the ear? And if all were the ear, where would we put the nose? See, these are members in this body. We are what when we received baptism, we entered into the body of Christ, and we became members in this body. So Christ, that Creator, the manufacture.

27:02 When we were baptized in His Holy name and the name of the Father of the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God in nature, one God in essence. God chose for one to be the nose, for the other to be the ear, for the other to be the eye, the fingernail, the nail, that everything. Why because not all the body is just the eye, Not all the body is just the ear. The eye, the ear, the nose, the mouth, the lips, the hands, the legs, the heart, the kidneys, all of them put together make up the body.

27:41 So when God chose for you to be the nose in this body, don't ever be jealous, because your brother is the eye and the body. Thank God for whatever He's given you. And even if you try to be the eye, you'll never be able to because what God created, no one can change, no one. So you can call yourself John and then Joanne. Ain't gonna work. Ain't gonna work.

28:24 You're trying to change something that is unchangeable, unchangeable, and not only that, you can't be someone else. Don't be jealous of no one. Imitate no one, but imitate your Lord. Now, my beloved, therefore might be loved. The feeling of the spirit is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. So when somebody says, have you received the baptism of the Spirit. Yeah, when on fiftieth day, mate, you must have been asleep on Pentecost or received the baptism of the spirit. What are you talking about? With all loving respect? Now, when did the baptism of the Holy Spirit happen on Pentecost?

29:33 And you might be loved through faith entered in the feeling of the spirit from that time of Pentecost, the birth of the church, not now when you're baptized. Now, it was back then all of us were baptized onto one body. We drank from one spirit. Let me ask you this might be loved. The body is made out of all these different members. Like we said, one is the nose, one is the eye, the e, the face, the cheeks, the forehead, the foot, the toe. When when you have a cut on your finger, does the eye say I don't care, it's not me, Thank God? Huh do you say? Uh? You know what? Anyway, I didn't like that this finger got on my nerves, and I'm so happy that it got cut. I'm gonna throw in a party. As an eye. I'm gonna say hallelujah. The

30:57 finger that I could not stand. It's cut and bleeding. Do you do that or do you run to the doctor. Please stitch it up for me? Because the whole body is morning. The whole body is in pain. The whole body is saddened equally equally. And when somebody comes and says, oh, you look beautiful, does the face say thanks? It's only me okay, legs shut up. If it wasn't for the legs that are carrying you face, nobody would have cared about you, because nobody would have seen you unless those legs took you there. So now which one is more important?

31:55 The eyes, the face, the legs. No, they are all equally important as important. Why because if any member ceases to function, the whole body will collapse. If any member ceases to function, the whole body will collapse. And guess what, who came first? All of them came together at the same time when the baby was born. The baby was born complete with all the members in this body. So no one is better than the other one, no one is superior to the other. All of us came together at the same time, and all of us put together, the body is beautiful, is perfect. A piece of information along the way. The most pure member and the human body is the face, and the most impure member in the entire body is the nose. But we spend much

33:16 more time looking after the nose than the face. I know, some of my daughters, they spend a lot of hours looking in the mirror to put the foundation in, the mascara, the piscar and all the rest. That's all right, that's okay. But no matter how much time you spend, you know, putting all this makeup on your face, but the nose, you are dealing with it twenty four to seven, and especially when you're around people, you want to make sure there is nothing around the nose area. It's a clear passage.

33:51 So all the time, and you don't even realize it. It comes naturally straight away, there is a there is a you know, handkerchief, or there is you know, a tissue. You straight away with the nose in front of people at home all the time, you spending time the most cleaning the nose. Then the purest and the cleanest member of the body the face. Now, let's put it in the biblical perspective. Saint Paul is saying, if there is someone in you who is a member in the body, we're all members. But if there is a member in you, there is the face. That means that member is the most faithful, is the closest to the Lord. He is on fire for the Lord Jesus. And there is another member who is like the nose bixinner, slipping, sliding all

34:50 the time, drifting away from the Lord, denying the Lord Jesus, doing everything wrong under the sun and before the Lord Jesus. He says, but if you are truly followers of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, then you need to spend time with the greatest sinner amongst you, more than with the greatest saint in the midst of you. But what do we do as Christians when somebody makes a mistake? We stop them and we start writing on social media platforms. Did you know what so and so did? We blow the trumpet before the whole world and tell the whole world what this poor member in the body of Christ who is supposed to be my brother in Christ. I have told the whole world about what they've done wrong. Yet I should have paid attention the most to the weakest

35:53 member than rather to the strongest member, isn't it, My beloved love never fails One Corinthians, thirteen eight. I've set this story true story, and I'll say it again. There was this saint in the third century called Saint Marcurios of Egypt. Saint Macarios might beloved. He was held extremely highly by his students, the monks. To them, he was the saint of the century. So one day Saint Macarios, who was the abbot to this monastery, to this group of monks, he was the head of these monks. Saint Maccarios decided to go one day and pray with his brother monk in his cell. So Saint Macurios went opened the door to enter the cell of the monk to pray with him. He found the monk with the men in the cell in the monastery. Straight away there was

37:06 a big box in that cell. Straight away, Saint Macarios took this monk and the woman and put him in that box, closed it, put a little cloth on it. He sits on that box, closes his eyes and tilts his aays down as if he is in a very deep contemplative prayer with the Lord Jesus. Because he knew that other monks would have noticed him going to that cell, they would have followed him to receive his blessings. And shortly thereafter the other monks arrived, opened the door to enter and pray, and they see their teacher, their master, their abbit, spiritual father, closed eyes had tilted in total silence.

37:53 They said to each other, we cannot disturb our teacher. Come on, let's go back to our own cells. He is in deep prayer with the Lord. They go to their cells. Saint Macarios picks himself up. He is in charge of the monastery, meaning he had the right to barbecue this monk, to shred this monk. He picks himself up, walks out of the cell, going to his own cell with absolutely nothing uttered from his blessed mouth. While he was walking to the cell, the Lord Jesus spoke to him from heaven. He said, blessed are you Macurios, for you have hid the sin of your brother. I will not remember your sins on judgment day. Ah, I beloved.

38:52 As Christians, we should not be fighting against one another, destroying one another in public behind closed doors, yes, but not before the whole world. And as a church family. We're all members in the body. So if one of us is the nose, be happy, and if the other one is the eye and it's beautiful, I be happy.

39:26 But don't say, look at me on the eye, look at you the nose, ha ha, And you start ridiculing your brother because the Lord will be upset, will be upset. You cannot. None of us are better than the other. None of us came before the other. All of us were born together, and all of us grew together. When the body grows, all members grow together. And when the body is born, all members are born together. And all members are not the same, but members together make a perfect body. Now we come to the second point. By the way is their heart? That's all right? Do I have time? Yes? So, okay, I'll be very quick another ten hours. The second point leading of the Holy Spirit.

40:25 This was all about filling in the Holy Spirit, the felling of the Holy Spirit. Sorry, the filling of the Holy Spirit is when is the is the is the baptism of the Spirit, which is the birth of the Church. We are all members and the body of Christ, and all of us are the same. We need each other. Stop fighting, embrace one another. Because one member goes, the whole body collapses. Forget it, forget it, my child. The second point leading of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus was led by the spirit of the Spirit. After the Lord Jesus came out of the river Jordan. Now the word Jordan means death. The word Jordan literally means death. After the Lord Jesus had come out of the River Jordan, and he was And baptism is is death. Baptism is death,

41:22 burial and resurrection. So baptism is death, burial and resurrection. And all of us came out of the Holy Baptism. So when we were baptized, what happened. We died with the Lord. We were buried with the Lord, and we rose in him. That's baptism. Every soul that is baptized was died with the Lord, got buried with the Lord, and then rose in the Lord. So now all of us came out of the Holy baptism, just like the Lord.

41:54 Jesus came out of the River Jordan. He was baptized in the River Jordan. So what is required of us when we come out of the holy baptism, Well, one thing is required to be led by the spirit. Jesus came out of the River Jordan and was led by the spirit. Now where was he led? He was led into the wilderness to do what to be tempted by the devil m look for one to two and was led by the spirit into the wilderness. Being tempted by the devil. So what happens when you come out of the holy baptism, You'll be tempted by the devil. Some people think, when I receive Jesus Christ, he's going to make me a king. He's going to make me a queen.

42:50 All my problems will disappear. I'll live happily. Ever after, my illness will go, my poorness will turn into richness, my weakness into strength. I'll live. I kick king. When they come and receive Jesus Christ and the Holy baptism. After the holy baptism, all hell breaks loose on top of their heads, and they say, why, Well, whatever happened to the Lord Jesus will happen to whoever follows in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus. So the Lord was baptizing the River Jordan. He came out, being led by the spirit, into the wilderness. The moment he came out of the baptism of the River Jordan, say it and attacked him. The devil tempted him. We will go through the same thing. After the baptism, we get tempted by

43:40 the devil. The wilderness is your life on earth. That is the wilderness. The wilderness is the world. Now, who hasn't beens, who hasn't been tempted by the devil? Here I believe all of us in one way of former shade, all of us have been tempted. Who hasn't been persecuted by the world which has been placed in the bosom of Satan? We all get persecuted by the world. If you are following the Lord, if you're carrying the Lord, the world will hate you, will despise you, will ridicule you, or persecute you. What they've done to your master, they will do to you as the student. No one is greater than the Master. You follow the Lord. Whatever happened to him will happen to you, My child. It's only normal,

44:32 isn't it. Am I scaring you? Don't change your mind and walk away from the Lord? I kill you. So when we receive that holy the sacrament of the Holy Baptism, which is the second birth, born again, you'll be tempted by the devil. Now for this very reason. Since we will be tempted by the devil the moment we come out of the Holy Baptism, then what do we need?

45:02 We need to be led by the spirit, because I can't win with the devil. So I need to be led by the Holy Spirit. Look how the Lord he was filled, then he was laid. Well, if you're not born and you grow, you can't go out and to go out. You can't go out on your own. You need to be led by the spirit. Why, because there's somebody out there waiting to tempt you. You can't win with him on your own. You need the helper, the confedra.

45:39 You need the Holy Spirit. Now, please pay attention. I won't be that one we need. We are in need of the leading of the spirit. Now why are we in need of the leading of the spirit. Why because who ever entered a war must comprehend the following. Whoever enters a war must comprehend the following. When a nation decides to enter a war, that nation needs to ask itself for questions, which are referred to as war tactics.

46:21 Four questions the nation has to ask itself before it enters the war. Number one, who is the enemy? Number two? What are his weapons? Number three? What is his experience? Number four? What is the ground on which the battle will be fought? I'll say it again. Number one, who is the enemy? Number two? What are his weapons. Number three, what is his experience? Number four the ground on which the battle will be fought. These four questions are called war tech. Now, if I saw myself as superior to the enemy, I'll go for it. Brother, I'll enter the war and I'll chop him. If I see myself as superior to the enemy. However, if I saw myself as inferior, then I will do either of one or two things.

47:25 Number one, I'll either surrender and make peace with the enemy, or I will seek another power to help me, and that power must be much greater than my enemy. Now, let us come to the four questions and put ourselves in those four questions against our enemy. Compare ourselves with the enemy. Who is the enemy? The devil? Okay, the devil was created. He was an angel before spirit. So I was created at a fire. We are created at a dust. The enemy is superior fire dust, not comparison.

48:11 Number two, w are his weapons? The Devil's weapon is wisdom. Very wise, he was from the angelic order called the Cherubims. And when you read in the Holy Bible the Cherubims, the Holly Bible says about them that they were full of eyes inwardly and outwardly. And the word I biblically speaking, means knowledge. Every time you see the word I mentioned in the Holy Bible, take the word I and put the word knowledge. So this devil, who was an angel from the Cherubims, which was the highest rank in the angelic orders, the Cherabims, he was full of eyes, meaning he was full of knowledge, extremely wise. His weapon is wisdom.

49:00 What is my weapon? Ignorance and simplicity. The enemy is superior Number three. What is his experience biblically speaking, without going into details, six thousand years of experience. He fought against our father Adam. He fought against all the fathers of the Old Testament. He fought against every human being that came to the face of this earth till the day I was born. He won over all of them, well except one. But I'm talking about the devil and normal humans, not Jesus Christ, the perfect Man. Okay, he won against all of them. His experience is over six thousand years. What is my experience? My experience is according to my age. I'm ten year old, I have ten years experience. I'm fifty year old. I have fifty years experience.

49:53 I'm nine hundred and sixty nine years old. I have nine hundred and sixty nine years of experience, nowhere near six thousand. He will swallow me before I blink my eyes. Therefore, my son, my daughter fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years of age, twenty one, twenty five, thirty, forty years of age, fifty years of age, My son, my daughter, don't ever make the biggest mistake of your life and say to someone older than you, wiser than you, leave me alone. I know what I'm doing. I can handle it.

50:36 You cannot say it, and will devour you before you blink your eyes. That's what the teenagers do. Mom, Dad, none of your business. Leave me alone. It's a free country. I'll do as I wish. They go out, they destroy their life because who is out the devil? Who where is out that desert the wilderness of this world and the temptations of this world. I when I dance with somebody, yeah yeah, when I feel the hit with some what heat I've been barbecued with? This heat can't take the devil lightly, cannot afford it. Too smart for you, too powerful for you, too wise for you. When you walk alone without being led by the spirit. He'll play football with you. He'll make you that football, and he'll shoot you everywhere. Trust me, you can't win. Now, what is

51:52 this experience? Six thousand is? My experience is nothing compared to his. The ground which the battle will be fought on, they always say, my beloved, those who are on an elevated grounds are in control to those who are in the low grounds, because the ones who are above can see those who are below, but those who are below cannot see those who are above. The devil sees us, we can't see him. He is superior in all four questions.

52:29 It's a lose lose situation. If we enter the war with Satan, we've lost. So now what do we do? Either one of two things. When you are inferior to your enemy. You either surrender, which is out of the question. You are a child of God, You've been baptized into Christ, you have put on the Christ. How could you, as a Christian surrender to Satan. That is an absolute ultimate defeat to you as a Christian. So therefore the first option is out of the question. You can never surrender to Satan. Then you're only left with one and one option only call upon another power that is much greater than your enemy, the devil. That power is the Holy Spirit.

53:28 And he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. If Jesus had gone without the Holy Spirit would have been a problem. He's given us the perfect example of how a human should live their life on earth without the leading of the Holy Spirit. We're all dead, devoured by Satan. So now, and he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness being tempted by the devil, and every one of us after receiving the second birth baptism, we will be tempted by the devil. That's why we need to call upon another power much stronger than the devil, the Holy Spirit.

54:24 And this is called the leading of the Spirit. Because in First John four four, the epistle of Saint John the Beloved, First John four four says, because he who is in you, who is in us, the Holy Spirit. How did we receive the Holy Spirit in us through the sacrament of the Holy Baptism Galatians three twenty seven.

54:46 Saint Paul says, you who have been baptized into Christ have put on the Christ. And Christ is the temple of God. When we put the Temple of God on us. The spirit of God will dwell in this temple because the temple is pure as God. We're not, but the Temple of Christ is. And the Spirit of God can never dwell in a house that is filthy. It has to dwell in a house that is holy, pure as God.

55:21 That's the Temple of Christ. You who have been baptized into Christ have put on the Christ and the moment we received Christ in the holy baptism, the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, dwells in us. And that's where John in his epistle the first chapter four, verse four, he says, because he who is in you, meaning the Holy Spirit, is greater than he who is in the world, who is in the world the devil Satan, and who is in you the Holy Spirit God. So I need to call on the second option. The Holy Spirit much powerful, much more powerful than the devil. So now, earlier I compared myself with Satan in relation to those four questions, the tactics of all. Now let's compare the devil with the Holy Spirit in relation to these four questions. Question

56:11 number one, the devil is created from fire. The Holy Spirit is the creator the devil that is a creation, but the Holy Spirit is the creator. The Holy Spirit is superior. Second one, the devil has wisdom, his wisdom compared to the Holy spirit wisdom. Satan's wisdom is absolutely ignorance. Holy Spirit is superior. Third question. The devil's experience is six thousand years. The Holy Spirit's experience is infinite, no beginning, no end to his experience. Holy Spirit superior. Fourth question, the grounds upon which the battle will be fought. Well, those who are above can see those who are below, but those who are below cannot see those who are above.

57:02 We can't see, Saytan, the devil, but the devil sees us. The Holy Spirit sees the devil, but the devil cannot see the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is superior. The Holy Spirit wins. Holy Spirit lead my steps and the wilderness of this world. Lest I be tempted by the devil and be crushed. But when you lead my life, I will crush the devil through you. Lord, Amen, Amen, be equipped before you leave home. Be equipped. How do you become equipped? By being close to the Lord, By invoking his name all the time, by saying, Lord, I love you, Lord, I want to be with you. By coming to Church, by receiving his body and blood and the truth, by reading the Holy Bible, by praying, by fasting, by doing charitable deeds, by being kind, nice, hum bull, meek,

58:04 equipped put on the full armor of God. Otherwise you're entering a war. You can't win it unless you are ready for it. And the only time we're ready is when we are led by the spirit. Amen. All right, very good, very goobra, very good. All right. Now, this is why, my beloved, when we do something wrong, when we do something wrong, that wrong thing we've done, grieves and quenches the spirit that dwells in us, grieves and quenches the spirit that dwells in us. The moment we grieve, the spirit Satan starts hurting us. That's why when you do something wrong, we need to come, run straight away quickly to the Lord and say Lord, please forgive me, before Saytan takes over you. Because the moment you do

59:09 something wrong, you have disconnected yourself from the Lord. You're left and the open of this desert. Before the roaring lion, Saytanim, before the vicious wolf, Saytan, it's gonna come and devour this little lamb. The lamb needs the Good Shepherd. So when you make a mistake, don't run away from the Lord.

59:36 Run to the Lord as fast and quick as possible. Otherwise, say itting now says I got you. Confession of sins foundation, foundation foundation. When you confess your sin, that is your comeback to the Lord. That is your comeback. But when you say I didn't do anything wrong, Satan has devoured you. Even if you're a saint, He's devoured you. So what do we need to do? Oh, my goodness, we must hold on to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God.

1:00:51 We need to go back to him, seeking him in leadership and in advice. We seek the Holy Spirit in leadership and in counseling. Holy Spirit, source of life and wisdom. Tell me what shall I do? Teach me what to do. I'm praying seeking your guidance. I'm praying seeking your leadership. Please, Holy Spirit, don't let me go out on my own.

1:01:24 You lead the way, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, lead me to the Good Shepherd. Holy Spirit opened my eyes on the Son of God, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, teach me what the Lord Jesus said and did. I want to learn. I want to get to know the Lord. But I can't get to know Jesus Christ of Nadzreth only through you, Holy Spirit. You are the teacher that teaches the subject, and the subject is Christ, the King. Teach me everything about the Lord, because the Lord promised that when I receive you through him, the Lord Jesus from the Father, that when you dwell in me, you will take everything from the Lord and reveal to me.

1:02:17 Reveal what the Lord says, what the Lord teaches, what the Lord wants from me. Teach me and lead me so that I'm always following in the footsteps of the good Shepherd, because the good Shepherd will lead me to green pastures in the waters. Plenty of food, and plenty of drinks. Not alcohol, not saving up, not coca cola, not orange juice, not apple juice, not any other drink.

1:02:58 The water of life, the water of life. And let me leave you this. The Holy Spirit will not work in you until you ask him. When you ask him, this is called leading of the Holy Spirit. And lastly, the Holy Spirit will not be interested in anything you ask him that is not interested to Jesus Christ, meaning the Holy Spirit will only do things you ask him that will glorify Jesus Christ. He will do those things.

1:03:49 If you ask him for something that is not going to glorify Jesus Christ, he won't do it, you know I Because the role of the Holy Spirit is to represent the case in us on earth, throw us on earth. He is the ambassador to the king. Who is the king, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. So the Holy Spirit only says what Jesus says, only does what Jesus does.

1:04:19 So the Holy Spirit opens your eyes to the Son and teaches you who the Son is, what the Son has said, what the Son had done. Why Because unless you get to know the Son, you will never know the Father. And this is the eternal life that they may know you, God alone, and Jesus Christ, whom you have said you and again, eternal life. That's John seventeen three for your reference, John seventeen three. And this is the eternal life. Jesus Christ is talking here, not John the Beloved. And this is the eternal love that they may know you God alone and and Jesus Christ, to me have sained. So the question to every human being, not just Christians, every human being, do you want to live?

1:05:14 Everyone will say yes, do you wanna live forever, never die. Of course I wanna live forever, never die. You want to gain eternal life, you need to know God, and you need to know Jesus Christ. Now, to know God, the only way to know God is Jesus Christ. No other way, forget it. No Isaiah, no Jeremiah, no Malachi, no none of them, No Daniel, none of the no Ezekiel, none of the prophets. They will not tell you who God is. They get a message which is not even a drop in the divine ocean of the Trinitarian God.

1:05:55 But it is the Son who revealed fully God to us, who is in the bosom of his Father. He told us everything. So to know God the Father, the only way to that is the Son, Jesus Christ. And the only way to know Jesus Christ is the Holy Spirit. That's another topic. To know Jesus Christ, you need the Holy Spirit. And to know God the Father, you need Jesus Christ. See, the Holy Trinity is one together. Without the Holy Spirit, you'll never know the Son. Without the Son, you'll never know the Father. But to gain life, you need to know God the Father and his son Jesus Christ.

1:06:44 But this is where Christianity is so different to every everything in this in this existence, in this world. When you get to know a person before you live, you love. When you know a person you don't live. When you know a person, you fall in love with them Esna. Prior to knowing the person, you can't claim that you love them because you cannot love someone you do not know.

1:07:19 You can only love the person that you came to know first. So what leads to love is knowledge. So to know God, the Father and Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit is to love. Because when I came to know the Lord Jesus through the Holy Spirit, I fell in love with the Lord Jesus. When I fell in love with him, he took me to knowing the Father.

1:07:43 Then I came to know the Father through the Son. I loved the Father through the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. When I loved that day, I lived forever. The moment love see is life seeses. There is no life unless there is love. But there is no love unless there is knowledge. And there is no knowledge unless the Holy Spirit opens your eyes to the Son who is the subject and the book of the Father being filled by the Holy Spirit, being led by the Holy Spirit, being filled. We're all born together. We are members in one body, and no one member is better than the other one. So please, as Christians, get on with your life. Love one another. Don't go against each other. Don't stab your brother or sister in the back.

1:08:45 As Christians, that is a shame, that is an embarrassment, that is a sin, that is not nice. The Lord is upset. We must love one another because all of us are members, and not one member is identical to the other. So don't imitate no other member in this body. If you are the nose, well, God chose you to be the nose because he has his reasons. You better trust in the Creator. He knows what he's doing. Don't be jealous of the ear or the eye. Thank the Lord for the nose, because if it wasn't for you the nose, the body would have suffocated and died. You can be saved by the weakest and the dirtiest member of the body if you focus on the Lord, not on the nose. Don't ever judge lest you be judged.

1:09:49 Don't ever say I know this person. You know what this person has done in their life? How could they come to church? And they have no shame? They should be in the street, not in the church. What are they doing here? How dare you? My child? Don't ever judge. If one of God's childrens comes out of the brothel and walks into the church, I will kiss their feet.

1:10:26 That person is purchased by the blood of the Lamb of God. You don't know what happened to their life for them to end up in that place. Be merciful, be kind, be loving, be caring, be sharing. Because my son was dead and now he is alive. My son was lost and now he's found. The other son didn't want to come and marry with his father, for you know, embracing his life. Son back. The older brother didn't want to come enjoy the father's joy. Don't do that. Rejoice with your heavenly Father when one lost soul comes back.

1:11:11 Don't ever be a stumbling stone for nobody. Don't Christians love one another, pray for one another. Extend the helping hand. Not a hand with a knife, not a hand with a sword, not a hand with judgment, but a hand with mercy, with mercy, with mercy. God bless you.