If You Don't Forgive, God Won't Forgive You

What the Lord will say is not enough to guide the house, it will not save you.

There is a folly that cannot save you, neither will God, who art in heaven, will forgive you. If this night were your last, would you be ready? In this official page, you can come up with all the excuses.

In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the.

Holy Spirit, one God, Amen.

Our beloved fathers, deacons, nuns, faithfuls, both in this holy church.

And everyone who is watching us through.

Our streaming, may the Almighty God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, one in nature, one in essence.

Bless you, guide you, protect you.

And deliver you from the snares of the precipice.

Whether it be visible or invisible, in Jesus' mighty and holy name we pray. Amen.

Our church fathers have selected the reading from the Holy Gospel according to St.

Luke.

And chapter 6 verses 12 to 46 inclusive. So it is. to tell heaven that your heart is open and listening.

Do it as a seal upon your attention, because the demonic principalities of this age want nothing more than to distract your mind for the.

Next ten seconds until you scroll away into eternal perdition.

Listen to your father.

The gate that leads to life is narrow.

Compressed, and few there be that find it. You won't have the time to go.

Through all the verses. But how do we obtain mercy? How do we obtain mercy?

The gospel begins with chapter 12 with these words. Tomorrow they will abandon their secret sin. Now it came to pass in those days that he went out, meaning the Lord Jesus, that he went out to the mountain to pray and continued.

All night to pray to God.

And when it was day, he called his disciples to himself and from them he chose twelve whom he also named apostles. The Lord Jesus chose 12 apostles after spending all night.

Praying to God.

That just teaches us one thing very profound. If the Lord Jesus himself prayed before doing anything, then how much more we need to do the same.

If the Lord Jesus himself prayed before doing.

Anything, how much more do we need to pray before we take any step forward? All night long he prayed and when it was day, he came.

And chose from his disciples 12 apostles.

Whom he also called, it shows 12, whom he also called apostles. Now how do we obtain mercy? I'll give you the first four names. According to Saint Luke, the way he has put the names chronologically, I'll give you the first four names to understand why they are in this specific order. And it says, he chose and named them.

First, Simon. but I will focus on the first four.

Simon, who was called later Peter by the Lord, then Andrew his brother, James and John.

The word Simon, these.

Are all by the way Aramaic Hebrew names. Simon in Aramaic we would pronounce it Shimon.

Shimon.

Now the word Shimon In Aramaic literally.

Means, to him you shall listen. You listen to him. To whom shall we listen?

To Christ. To Christ the King. When you listen to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, what will happen?

You will be Peter.

The rock.

When you listen to Jesus Christ, and when I say listen, I mean when you are obedient. When you adhere to his commandments. When you follow the Lord Jesus from Simon, by listening to him, you'll end up being made the.

Rock by Christ himself.

Peter.

When you've listened to him and you have been embedded in him as Peter, what will happen?

The next name will follow.

Naturally, Andrew, meaning the serious one. The name Andrew means the serious one. You see, if you listen to the Lord and you are not serious about what you just heard, then all of you.

Have heard correctly. Gone into vain. Gone in vain.

When you listen, you need to follow up through with it. You cannot just listen and stop there. Because all that time that you've been listening is gone to waste.

So you listen to the Lord.

Accept what you've listened and then be serious about what you've listened.

When you are serious, Andrew, naturally.

The third name will follow. Jacob or James.

Now, James In Aramaic is Ya'aqob. Kind of hard.

A little bit somewhat difficult to pronounce by a non-Aramaic speaking person.

Ya'aqob.

We say it Ya'aqob.

Say it easy way.

Ya'aqob.

But it is Ya'aqob. Now the name Ya'aqob or James literally means when you walk....

On the footsteps of someone else. When you follow in the footsteps of someone else. Who shall we walk in the footsteps of? There is only one that we should follow in his footsteps. King David says it beautifully in Psalm 23.

The Lord is my shepherd.

We must follow in the footsteps of the good shepherd who is Jesus Christ.

From Simon, you need.

To be Andrew, you need to take every word you've heard seriously.

Seriously.

Christ, you don't play with. You must be serious. And when you are serious, with.

The Lord, Then James comes.

You must walk in his footsteps.

You must follow him.

It takes seriousness to follow Christ. You cannot be slack. You cannot be lazy.

You cannot be lethargic and expect Christ to remain with you. See, the problem is Christ is the light of the world. The light moves, never stops. If you stop, don't say, why did Christ leave me? You stop, Christ continues walking.

And if you do not continue following, you will end up in darkness.

Because the moment the light is absent, darkness is present.

The economy is stabilizing.

Look. So you need to follow in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus. When you follow in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus, James, you'll end up reaching your destiny, John. Now the word John in Aramaic is Yohannan. It is a compounded word in the Aramaic alphabet. with the letter Yod. which is an equivalent of pronunciation English as E. Now Yod in Aramaic is abbreviation of Yahweh, which is God.

Yahuwah begins with the same letter as the name Yohanan. So Yod for Yahuwah, the letter E for Yahweh, and then Hanan is compassion. So the name John means Yahweh the compassionate or God the compassionate. So now when you are Simon listening to the voice of Christ and you receive that voice into your heart, then you'll become embedded in him, Peter. When you are embedded in the word of the Lord, you must be Andrew serious about the word of the Lord. Don't ever take his word lightly.

And when you're serious, then you have to be James. Follow in his footsteps in order to reach God. day rose triumphantly from the dead by the glory of the father destroying death by death satan possesses no original creative power he can only imitate pervert and mock the holy mysteries of god the antichrist will experience a catastrophic event how can a person perhaps an assassination attempt.

Or more so a follower of the lord jesus.

A christian person through the occult how can they be merciful he will be restored The sign of mercy is forgiveness.

The sign of mercy is forgiveness.

How can you forgive?

My beloveds, The.

Lord Jesus will negotiate with you on a lot of things. He will sit down and argue with you, discuss with you, share and care, give and take with you on a lot of things.

However, on one thing He will not negotiate.

When it comes to mercy, it is a non-negotiable area here with Christ. The Lord will say to everyone who accepted following Him, who accepted to be a follower of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, He will demand.

This from you. Forgiveness. Mercy.

The Lord will say, if you do not forgive someone who has hurt you, neither will God who art in heaven will forgive your mistakes. in this an unnegotiable area you can come up with all the excuses you can come up with all the conditions of the situations and the likes of it but the lord will come back and say have you forgiven those who have hurt you because my child how many times do you for hurt me.

How many times do you hurt me?

A day.

And how many times do I forgive you when you seek my forgiveness?

Always. I do.

Because the moment of the day, the moment that comes, I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Do not forgive you. Rest assured, you're dead.

You're dead.

You can go and come and drive and dance and sing and jump and whatever you want.

To do, you're dead.

This biological life It's not the real life.

The real life is when Christ is.

Pleased with you.

Not anyone else.

My beloved son and daughter. My beloved child of the Almighty God. Whatever you do, don't ever do it to please people.

You better please the Lord. Please the Lord.

Not people.

People will come and go. People will love you today, tomorrow, they'll deny you. The very people whom welcomed Christ on Palm Sunday, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. The very people who cheered on Sunday, crucify him, crucify him, they said on Friday.

That is the nature of people. human, fallen, corrupt nature.

So if you are chasing people to please, you've lost already.

What a waste of life.

What a waste of time.

What a waste of space and energy.

You need to please the Lord.

How do you please the Lord? Be merciful.

Like your heavenly father was merciful. The Lord said. Why?

When it came to mercy, the Lord referred mercy to his father.

Because mercy only came through love. The image of the beast and the architecture of absolute control. John 3.16 And so God loved the whole world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. The center of the entire Holy Bible both Old and New Testament. And so God loved the whole world that He gave His only begotten Son.

Since this God has the Son, then He is the Father.

So who loves the world?

God the Father.

And since God the Father is love, what did God the Father who.

Is love do?

This love sent Christ. his beloved son, to.

Be the mercy of God to the entire world. Jesus Christ hanging on the cross is the mercy of God for all.

Humanity, for all humanity, for all humanity.

It was the love of.

That sent the mercy.

Which is Christ crucified.

Mercy.

Is a gift. Given.

From God to someone like me.

Unworthy of.

Mercy is a gift given to someone who is not worthy of that gift. That's why the Lord says, what benefit are you gaining? What kind of a credit are you gaining if you love the one who loves you? Even sinners love the ones whom they love.

Back.

So what difference are you making? If the world loves the ones who love them, what difference are you to the world?

But here where.

The difference is, all of the difference is when I say to you, my child, love your enemy.

This the world can never do.

This the world can never achieve.

You go and speak to a worldly person and you say to that worldly person, love the one who has hurt you, they will ridicule you and make fun of you and say you are a lunatic and a foolish one and a weak one.

How could you.

Forgive someone who has hurt you?

This is foolish.

But to the one who has the Lord Jesus, this is the wisdom of God. It takes a great deal of foolishness to pay back the sin. But it takes God's wisdom.

To pay back the indifference.

You love me. I love you back.

You invite me to your house. I invite you back to my house.

Big deal. But you hate me.

But I love you. This no one can do unless God's mercy is in their heart. This no one can do unless God's mercy.

God's mercy is.

In their heart.

This no one can do unless God's mercy is in their heart. When will you.

Reach the mercy of God when you love him? When you have his love.

When you have his love.

When will you be able to love him? When you listen to him, Simon. And when you accept what.

You've heard to be embedded in him, Peter.

Then you need to be serious about what you've just heard.

Andrew, then you.

Need to follow through with what you've heard.

Walk in the footsteps of the good shepherd, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

James, in order to reach John, God, the compassionate.

In order to gain his love.

You need to listen.

You need to accept what you've heard.

You need to be serious about what you've heard and accepted, and you need to follow through what you've just heard, accepted, and became serious about in order.

To reach the one who loves you. Let me assure you this. If you do not teach your children.

To love the Word of God, the algorithm will be to teach them to love destruction.

I'll tell you what it is like.

Preaching is an appetizer. It opens your appetite to prepare you for the main meal.

That's what preaching is. You know when you go into a fancy restaurant. When you go to a fancy restaurant.

They'll have all these salads baba ganoush you know tabbouleh they'll have all these beautiful appetizers so you go and snack you know bit of a bite on this one and on this one and on this one yum yum yum yum yum yum yum but that's not the main meal these are there to open your appetite because the main meal is being ordered it's coming soon Preaching is an appetizer. It is helping you to have your appetite opened up to receiving the main meal. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Come and eat me. Come and drink me. I am the living bread who descended from heaven.

He who eats me shall live in me forever.

I can talk to you about the body and the blood till kingdom comes.

But until you truly take it, by in faith, receive it in faith, then live this Christ. You'll never understand the meaning. No matter how much I preach. You need to experience the Lord for yourself. But the preacher prepares you for the one who is coming. Let me tell you this. When Christ dwells in your heart, a little tiny drop of his love puts in your heart.

It is more than enough.

To keep you going for eternities to come. When Christ dwells in your heart and a little tiny drop from His divine love is placed in your heart, it is more than enough to keep you for eternities to come.

When Christ touches your heart.

Changes your heart, I can assure you, I can assure you, I can assure.

You, everything and anything matters not to me.

You will love those who love you and you will love those.

Who hate you. You will forgive those who have hurt you. you will go that extra mile.

You will not ever be shaken by what people do as adversaries to you. Because when Christ has your heart, you will never seek anything else ever again. Because in Christ, Everything is found.

He is the utopian wall.

He is the one whom you need. He is the one.

Who fills and fulfills every lack you have and every shortfall you have.

I'll ask you this. Why do people search? Why do they search for things?

If you think about it, my beloved, a person will never search for something they never had before.

Think about it.

You will never search for something you never had before.

Why?

Because what you never had, you never had.

You won't know.

How to search for something you never had.

You can only search for what you had and at some stage you've lost.

And now you're searching for it.

The only way we search is when we've lost something long time ago.

See the world searches for.

For peace. The world searches for stability. The world searches for life. The world searches for the utopian world.

And the more they search, the more they ruin it.

Why?

Because they are searching in the wrong place for the wrong reason.

They're searching... For everything. Except God.

Bunch of fools. Playing in the street.

No wonder the world is in ruin. Because it's run by ignorant people. Who is an ignorant person? The one who deep down knows there is God yet chooses to deny his existence. That is an ignorant person.

When you.

Are searching for what you've lost.

The moment you find that thing. You will stop searching.

When you find Christ.

I can assure you.

You will stop searching.

And when you stop searching. And everything else thereafter. That does not. What people say about me. Whether it's good or bad, all cool. It's cool, brother.

It's all good. Listen, my dear friend. Neither you nor I came.

To this world so that we love one another.

We were brought here so we can love God and then through God love one another. The moment God is taken out of the equation, everything collapses.

Everything collapses.

We need God.

In our hearts in order to be able to live.

The day you are able to forgive is the day you are able to live.

Because it takes God's forgiveness toward you in order for you to be alive. If God does not forgive us, we are all dead. We are all dead. So when you forgive someone who has hurt you, you are not doing them a favor, you're doing yourself a favor. Because when you forgive others, God will forgive you.

Blessed are you when Christ....

Says.

Go in peace. I forgive you.

My beloveds. Christianity is not a.

Song I sing. It's not a duty I fulfill. It's not a preach I give or sermon. Christianity is life. It has to be lived.

Christ is your life. You need to live this, Christ. But he.

Is life has to be lived Christ is your life you need to live this Christ but you see sometimes when we hear the word we don't take it this is for me this is for my next door neighbor no no it's meant for you don't look at your next door neighbor The Lord Jesus did not bleed upon the wood of Golgotha so that we could negotiate with the prince of this world. He died to crush the serpent beneath his feet. And now I bring you to the third most solemn earth-shaking warning that God has commanded me to deliver to you. Hear me, my beloved. The only time you will be able to truly forgive someone.

Is when you humble yourself before the Lord Jesus.

A person that has self-pride. Can never forgive.

Can never.

And for humility.

To be made possible in our lives, in our hearts, we must be Simon first.

We need to listen to the Lord.

We need to be embedded in the Lord, Peter. We need to be serious about the Lord, Andrew. We need to follow the Lord, James. We need to be embraced by the Lord, John. Yahweh the compassion.

If there is no listening, if there is no obedience, there is no humility. When are we going to listen to the Lord Jesus? This is a question every single one of us needs to ask themselves.

The world will see his praises. The news channels will bow before his genius. The kings of the earth will surrender their sovereignty to him with tears of gratitude. They will say who is like the beast? Who can make war against him? He will speak words of kindness. He will resolve disputes. And if it's not my way I will never accept it. But remember the Lord's way is not your way. It will always He will step into the temple of God. Because if the Lord's way is going to be your way, then he is no longer God.

So the Lord's way will always be totally different to your way. So when are you going to come and walk in the Lord's way? The only time you're able to walk in his way, when you humble yourself before the Lord. Do not look for salvation from the systems of the earth.

And when will the wife be humbled?

When will the wife be humbled?

When she listens to her husband.

And when will the husband be humbled when he listens to his Jesus?

Not to his wife. Because Adam listened to his wife and lost everything.

The man's humility when he bows his head before the Lord You did not stumble upon this message by chance. You see, for the man to say, I want my wife to listen to me, he needs to have the fear.

Of the Lord.

To pull your soul out of the snare of the fowler. He saw you sitting in the darkness.

When the husband has the fear of the Lord and the wife is disobedient to him, she ruins things.

You see, Jesus Christ is the man. The church is the woman. Jesus Christ Does not listen to the church. He listens to his father. He's the man.

Jesus Christ as the man.

His humility is. He's obedient to his father. And when the wife the church. Is not obedient to her husband the man Jesus Christ.

The church is in ruin.

Is in turmoil.

Every handwriting of requirements that was against you.

As the church, we need.

To be obedient to this man.

The heavenly groom. In order to gain God's favor. In order to be loved by God the Father.

We must listen to Jesus Christ. The man. And when God's love is embedded in us. We've received the mercy of God.

Jesus.

Becomes our mercy.

When Jesus is my mercy. Oh it's very easy to forgive.

Very easy.

Bishop. How could you forgive the guy who stabbed you?

Wrong statement. I as a human being. I cannot forgive. It is the Lord who is in this piece of wreck. That I allowed you to forgive.

When you let the Lord in. He will do.

I break every generational curse. And through him everything is easy. Everything. Trust in what I'm saying. Just let Jesus Christ in your heart. Let him in.

Every night terror that visits your bed, every voice of suicide that whispers to you in the silence of the night, be silenced forever by the authority of Yeshua the King.

I've been fighting, I've been.

Arguing, I've been stubborn about a lot of things, but today.

Lord, I come to a full halt. I speak no longer, I do no longer. I am no longer. You are.

I'm opening my heart to you. I'm asking you, Lord, take this heart wholeheartedly. I am letting you in. I am letting of myself go.

I hold on to nothing. I... Reserve nothing. I'm letting it all go in your capable hands.

Lord, take over. You are in charge. I'm giving you my will. I am giving you my heart. I'm giving you all of me. Lord, from this moment onwards, you do as you wish. But remember, when you leave it in the Lord's capable hands, the Lord will do one thing and one thing only. He will do one thing that is to save you, to redeem you, and to bring you into eternal life where there is no death anymore, no darkness anymore. no sin anymore, no aging anymore, no crying anymore, nothing ugly, bad, miserable, sinful anymore. The Lord will bring you into holiness, purity, perfection, light, eternal life, glory and glory. When you let Him in, So whatever it takes to bring you home, He will do it.

And the first thing the Lord will do, He will break you. There is no other way. The first thing, because I'm coming to him with a corrupt human nature. I'm coming to him with a heart full of spider webs. I'm coming to him carrying the luggages of the past, the lust, the envy, the jealousy, the self-pride, the stubbornness, all the ugly things, the world embedded in me. The only way for me to let go of all the past, God must break me. that's the first thing he will do and until we are broken they will never be humble and unless we are humble we will never.

Reach God and until I reach God there will never be love in me and until there is no love in me there will never be mercy in me.

Since the world is heartless, loveless, therefore.

In the world there is no mercy.

They are merciless.

The moment a person collapses, the gate that leads to life is narrow, compressed, and few there be that find it.

Broad is the highway that leads.

To destruction, paved with the false promises of human progress.

This woman was caught in the act.

You know when the Bible says caught in the act, you know what that means?

She was pregnant out of wedlock. That's what it means caught in the act.

She was pregnant out of wedlock, not married. So they brought this pregnant woman out of wedlock to the Lord Jesus and they said, what does the law say about such a person?

Doesn't the law.

Say you must stone this person to death?

And the law says it by the way.

The Old Testament law says it.

What does the Lord Jesus do?

The mercy of God is speaking now.

Look at this.

Stunning. Amazing.

This is a life changer.

Mercy changes life.

Changes hearts. The Lord Jesus, He is the law of God, by the way. He is the law, goes the word. He is the law. He is the fullness of the law. So He can't break the law. For He is the law.

Walked up the steps of the sanctuary. He looks at the people. With stones in their hand. Ready to stone this woman.

He writes.

On that ground with his finger. Starting with the oldest. Man. To the youngest one. He said. I'm not going to embarrass you too much.

My dear friend. But I will tell you your sins. From this morning you woke up till this very moment. I'll tell you what mistakes you've made. He write them all down. And he told them what you did just today. I'm not going to go back 80 years.

Just today.

So he throws the stone and the other one and all of them threw the stone because they were put to shame by the Lord Jesus. A sinner coming to stone another sinner like them.

This is what we do.

And after all of them.

Threw the stones and walked away, the Lord turns to this woman who should have been stoned by the Lord.

She should have been stoned to death. He says to her, do you see those who wanted to stone you?

Anyone? She turns back.

She says, Lord, I see them no more. He says, daughter, God in peace. neither do I see your sins. Go in peace and sin no more.

That is mercy.

The greatest gift ever any human can ask for in their entire life.

There is only one gift.

The greatest of all is when you are found guilty.

And the judge comes and says, Go in peace. I will not judge you. You know why? Because I took your judgment upon myself.

That is the reason.

It's sad when Christians do not show the act of mercy. And when a Hindu does.

Gandhi.

A Hindu.

This woman.

An elderly woman came to him. She said. Father.

I don't know what to do.

She had a problem. She told him the problem. And then Gandhi looked at her and he said, My daughter, you need to fast.

And pray.

She said, Father, I'm very old. I can't fast. I'm a skeleton.

No more energy in me to fast. They lied to you.

What Daniel and John saw was the absolute consolidation of planetary power into the hands of a single administrative apparatus. Look at the world around you today. The geopolitical architecture of every nation is being quietly surrendered to centralized bodies that answer to no electorate and.

Fear no God.

The governments are not always beautiful.

So he looked at the Lord Jesus on the cross. It was an icon in front of him.

This guy is a Hindu. He says to them, give me the Christ and take away the Christians.

Give me the Christ and take away the Christians.

If it was the Lord Jesus, he wouldn't have enslaved us like you have.

Because I see Jesus Christ.

As the merciful one.

A Hindu puts many Christians to shame. Seek God's mercy.

Be humble.

Love Him.

Humility gives you obedience.

Love gives you mercy.

And the moment you're humble, you're with Allah. When you're with Him, you'll start loving Him.

When you love Him, He'll fill you with His mercy. The moment you are filled with His mercy, there is justice. He will not carry a pitchfork. He will not wear horns.

He will appear as the ultimate peacemaker, the supreme statesman, a humanitarian of unmatched brilliance. He will sign a covenant that will permit the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem and the resumption of sacrifices.

I look sometimes back when I used to preach when I was young. I laugh at myself.

When I was young, a lot of things hurt me and upset me. I see our young people here in Sydney, in Melbourne, in London, in Los Angeles. I was dying just to be a priest and I wanted to be in the church and I wanted to be a priest. I couldn't care about anything else but being a priest. But now, I'm not just a priest, I'm a bishop.

their arms cut with razor blades, their minds shattered by anxiety, addicted to pills and digital filth. They look at me and they ask, Abuna, why is there no peace inside my chest?

Why does everything feel hollow? I tell them, you are starving.

Because you are feeding on the husks of a dying empire. Modern comfortable religion has told you that Jesus is a life coach who wants you to have a prosperous bank account and a comfortable suburban lifestyle.

Whether you are accepted.

By the church.

Rejected by the church leaders. Whether the church leaders acknowledge you. Not acknowledge you.

Totally beside the point. Because what matters is the life. This no one can ever further. Until you fall in love with the Lord.

You'll never fathom, my dear friend. Your PhD ain't going to do you no good, brother. You can say, I have a doctorate in theology.

Have you fallen in love with the Lord Jesus? You need the Lord. Let's bow our heads.

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. 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.

May the Lord have mercy on all of us, forgive us and make us worthy to come forth.

If You Don't Forgive, God Won't Forgive You — Bishop Mar Mari

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