The Creative Power of God’s Word: A Message That Can Transform Your Life - Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel

0:00 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last.

0:07 Wow.

0:09 In the heart of our troublesome time, in the heart of us giving up on life itself, in the heart of saying it is finished, it is over, it is destroyed, it is useless case, it is shut down. In my face, I cannot walk any further. The moment that comes when you and I, I and you, begin to give up on life, we hear a loud voice behind us as of a trumpet. And my beloved, a trumpet. Is blown to give a warning. A trumpet is blown to make people awake and alert. Those who have gone astray. Those who have gone to sleep. Those who have said it is over. Those who have said there is no use.

1:03 The doctor said you're going to die tomorrow. The whole world is saying it's the end. The government is locking us down and not letting us leave our homes. The day that you say and the moment that you say it is finished, Jesus says, my voice will be made known to you like a trumpet. I will shout from heaven and I will shake the ground beneath you to wake you up and remind you, I am the.

1:36 Alpha and the Omega. I am the first and the last.

1:42 Don't let this difficult situation make you lose faith in Jesus. Don't let this dark tunnel make you forget that he is the son of righteousness, S-U-N, and the light of the world. Don't let no situation make you forget that Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last.

2:10 And we said.

2:12 Alpha and omega are letters, alphabetical letters. And the word is made out of letters. Jesus Christ is the logos. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.

2:29 So when Jesus says.

2:30 I am the alpha and the omega, I am the word, I am the logos, which is God. And I am the first and the last. I am the creator. In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.

2:52 The first and the last is the creator.

2:55 I am the creator with the word created everything. I am the creator, the first and the last. And with the Alpha and the Omega, created everything. So John the Beloved and every one of us of the 21st century, Christians. Jesus Christ is always the I am. He is always the continuous present tense. He is yesterday. He is today.

3:28 And he is tomorrow. It is only Jesus that yesterday to him is present. The present is present. And the future is present. Because he is the creator of time. And he is the creator of everything and everyone. I beg you, rejoice in these difficult times. Be glad and of a good cheer when it is going rough. Because our joy is Jesus Christ, not the people, not the situation, not the country we live in, not the position.

4:07 We are in.

4:08 It is the Lord who is my joy and my happiness.

4:14 Be glad, my beloved. Be glad.

4:18 The Lord is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. He is much greater than any tribulation, my beloved. So do not be disheartened, but be of strong will and leave everything to the Lord.

4:37 Put everything in the palm of his hands.

4:40 The hands that molded us and shaped us and formed us.

4:47 I am the Alpha and the Omega. The first and the last. And then the Lord says to him.

4:53 And what you see write in a book and send it to the seven churches. Which are in Asia.

5:01 And we said.

5:03 Asia symbolically represents the world, the entire world.

5:07 That's what we said previously.

5:09 And Asia, we said, it actually refers to affliction, tribulation, hardships, oppression.

5:19 That's what Asia means here.

5:22 And we said that the Lord put His church, established His church in this entire world where it will be oppressed and suppressed and it will be afflicted and there will be great tribulations coming against the church. But He said to John the Beloved, And through John to all of us, he's saying, do not be disheartened and discouraged.

5:48 For I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. I am the creator who creates everything.

5:56 With one word. And my voice is like a trumpet.

6:00 With a trumpet, everyone gets warned and everybody gets alerted. When I speak, things move and things come about. Because genuine love is missing. If we were to define God, Yet God is so immense, so awesome, so beyond any comprehension, any intellectual capacity. But in our human limited intellectual capacity, if we were to define God, how would we define God?

6:42 I would say in a nutshell, in a very simple intellectual human being capacity, I'll say God is love and humility.

6:53 These are the two.

6:54 Pillars that define God.

6:57 Then God is the holy one. God is the light of the world.

7:01 God is the alpha and the omega, the first and the last. God is the good shepherd. Before all of these, he is love and humility. Love, knowledge, humility, wisdom. What relates to love is knowledge and what relates to humility is wisdom. It is impossible for anyone of us to gain wisdom from God unless we humble ourselves before him.

7:31 And it is impossible for anyone of us to love God unless we get to know him. But the problem is, in order to get to know God, I need humility. Because it is only through humility I get closer to God. Or God gets closer to me. Then He brings me closer to Him. Without humility, there is no knowledge of God.

7:56 And without knowledge, there is no love. And without humility, there is no wisdom. You see, I can gain love through knowledge, but I need wisdom in order to protect it, to preserve it, and to increase it and multiply it and enlighten it more and more. Wisdom protects and preserves and multiplies love. Without wisdom, I'll lose the love that I gained through knowledge. In the church of the Lord Jesus of the 21st century, Laodicea, There is everything available except two things. True divine love and true humility are absolutely missing. That's why the church is veering off the road of the Lord Jesus. True love is missing. Oh yeah, I love you.

8:54 So easily said than done.

8:57 It is so easy to say things, but so hard to do them and fulfill them. The Lord Jesus is the God of hearts, not the God of tongues and lips. Love and humility are missing. No wonder the church is veering.

9:18 Off the road.

9:22 Philadelphia, brotherly love, Laodicea, Walking away from Jesus Christ. And the Lord said it. When the son of man comes again the second time, will he find faith on earth?

9:38 He won't.

9:38 That's why he's going to come back. So when the Lord comes back, that means there is no faith.

9:45 There is no faith.

9:49 Then I turned, verse 12. Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the seven lampstands, one like the Son of Man, clothed with one like the Son of Man. And he turned to see the voice, and he sees seven golden lampstands.

10:12 And in the middle, in the.

10:13 Midst of these seven golden lampstands, he sees one like the Son of Man. The son of man is Jesus Christ himself. Divinity revealed in humanity. This is the son of man. He sees him in the midst of those seven golden lampstands. The seven lampstands are the seven churches.

10:38 Golden, why?

10:40 Because the church of Christ is his body. The body of Christ is gold. What does that mean? Meaning his body is incorruptible. His body cannot decay. His body cannot see and taste anything. And go through death. Gold never changes. Never rusts. Never fades away. Gold always remain gold. The body of Christ is gold. That's why he saw seven golden lampstands. And those lampstands are the churches. And they are the light.

11:23 He said....

11:25 You cannot hide a city built on a mountain. My church is.

11:31 The light of the world.

11:34 It is a lampstand, shines through this dark world. But this lampstand is gold because the church is my body.

11:42 The body of Christ is gold.

11:45 Incorruptible, cannot decay, cannot die, cannot wither away. Gold will always remain gold and the body of Christ never changes.

11:56 Gold never changes.

11:59 And this one, like the son of man, he was clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. He was clothed down to the feet from neck to To the feet he was clothed, and around the chest there was a golden band, a belt, a golden belt.

12:27 His head and hair.

12:29 Were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire. My goodness, John the Beloved, in what way are you describing Jesus? This is not the same Jesus you saw on earth. You saw him so humble, so weak, so silent, so quiet, so down to earth. What is this eyes of fire? Jesus Christ, the latter Adam, came to clothe our nakedness, to cover our nakedness with the dress, with the garment of righteousness.

13:10 Righteousness.

13:13 He covered our nakedness sin with the garment of righteousness. He covered our nakedness death with the garment of righteousness eternal life. He came to cover our nakedness to wash us clean and give us eternal life garment white all the way.

13:39 From the neck to the toes.

13:43 And girded around the chest with a golden band or a belt. My beloveds, when we wear a belt, don't we put the belt around our waist? That is the normal thing every one of us does. The belt is used around the waist, not around the chest. But why is John the Beloved saying that this belt was around the chest of the Lord Jesus? To tell us, my beloved, and I said the belt around the chest reveals death.

14:14 Christ's protection in his action. Based on love and his deeds. Based on love.

14:20 The chest.

14:21 One side, the Old Testament. The other side of the chest, the New Testament. The chest represents the Word of God, the Holy Bible. Both testaments, Old and New.

14:35 Is the chest. And it is gold. Why?

14:38 Because the Word of God is induced forever. It is the never-changing Word. Like we said, gold never changes. So as the word of God is that goal that never changes forever. So the belt was put around the chest. One side Old Testament, the other New Testament. The word of God is gold and the belt you put it on when you are getting ready.

15:09 To go to work. You tie your belt.

15:13 Tying the belt represents I'm ready for work. Jesus came. Clothed us with his garment. White righteousness. The dress of the wedding of.

15:31 The king.

15:31 It is the dress of the kingdom.

15:35 The father's house. No blemish, no stain. He came to us.

15:40 Wash us clean and clothe our nakedness with his own garment, with his own righteousness. And he said, I did this. And I gave a promise. I came and I tied my belt. And my belt is my word. And my word is my name. And my name is my honor. Is my identity. And my name is my glory. And I will not give my glory.

16:09 To no one else.

16:10 And I made a promise that I have come to save you.

16:13 And I have come to redeem you.

16:15 And I have come to tell you that I am with you. all the days of your life and.

16:20 Until the end of all ages.

16:23 I have built my church on the rock, unshakable, unbreakable.

16:28 Neither hell will prevail.

16:30 Against it, nor any storm, any wind, any cyclones, any rains, any floods. Nothing will shake my church, for I have built my church with my own.

16:42 Precious blood on the cross, on Calvary. Do not be afraid, my children.

16:49 No one touches the church that Jesus had built with his own blood.

16:55 No one. No one. i.e.

17:00 The sins, the inequities, the wrongdoings, the foolishnesses, and the shortfalls of my fallen human nature.

17:09 These are the hills, the difficulties of my life.

17:13 I sinned, I went and repented, and I sinned again, and I went and repented, and I sinned again. This is the sandy ground of the hill. You climb and you fall, you climb and you fall. But she is saying, do not give up When Jesus is your groom, my beloved soul, do not give up. For his voice, not himself, but his voice is coming from a distance, leaping over the mountains, jumping over the hills. The hills are the difficulties, sins.

17:45 The mountain is the impossible.

17:48 Of your life.

17:50 Hills, difficulties of your life. Mountain, the impossible. You climb the mountain much easier than a hill. But a time will come when you face a huge bulldoze and the road comes to an end. You cannot go any further. That is the impossible. So what is the impossible of the human race in its entirety? Death. For no one died and rose from the dead on their own accord by themselves. Only one did it, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

18:23 He placed it and he took it again. He died and he rose from the dead by himself. Mountains is the impossible of my life. Death, when I die, I cannot live again. Jesus died and rose from the dead. Hills, difficulties, my sins. She's saying his voice is leaping over the mountains, jumping over the hills.

18:54 This is an encouragement to all of us.

18:57 The voice I heard, his voice was like the sound of many waters. So soothing, so comforting, so delivering, so redemptive his voice is. The difficulties of my life and your life which are the sins. And the impossible of my life and your life which is death. Both death and sins are under the foot of Jesus Christ. For his voice was jumping over the mountain death. Was leaping over the mountain and jumping over the hills sins.

19:34 Everything is under the foot of Christ.

19:37 Everything my beloveds. Is under his feet. Trust in the Lord. And trust when he whispers in your ear. for his voice saves delivers redeems and soothes every pain and sorrow on Good Friday on The Lord Jesus wiped all the hills.

20:12 Of your life, all the sins of your life.

20:15 And on Sunday resurrection, he wiped the mountain of your life, death. And through his death, burial and resurrection, he trampled death under his feet and rose triumphantly forever. He who has Christ has eternal life. An eternal life where no sin ever is.

20:40 In existence. Holiness. Only. Is there. That is the voice. Of the Alpha and the Omega. The first and the last. For all of us. My beloved. Enjoy. Your stay at home. And enjoy. The.

21:05 The family that you are in. The family that you have. The family that God has given you. Enjoy it with the Lord.

21:17 I urge you.

21:19 Those who are watching us and hearing us. Read the Holy Bible to your family. Bring all your family members while you're at home. Bring the Holy Bible and make them sit around you and read the word of Jesus Christ, which is the sound of many waters. So soothing, so comforting, so delivering, so promising, so strengthening, so comforting. Utilize this time.

21:51 Be wise and spend this moment. with the Creator, the Savior, and the Redeemer of the world, the one and only, the sweetheart of all sweethearts, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to His holy, precious, adorable, worshipped name, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

22:13 Amazing, stunning, breathtaking. I love you, Jesus. I love you.

22:21 And I adore you, Lord. I worship you. And I praise your holy name. I thank you all my life and for eternities to come. For eternities are never enough. Enough time to thank what you have done for me and everyone. It is never enough to thank you, Lord. But I will still thank you. And I will still praise you. For I am indebted forever for you, my Lord.

22:48 For what you've done, no one can pay you back. All I can say as a sinner, thank you, Jesus. for your love, for your sacrifice, for your loyalty, for your honesty, for your presence, for your holiness, for your beauty, for your enlightenment, for your voice that is the sound of many waters, so soothing, so comforting. Jesus, we love you, we worship you, we adore you, now and forever and ever and evermore.

23:25 Amen. Until then, may the Lord.

23:27 Always be with you, guide you, protect you, and deliver you from every evil tribulation, whether it be visible or invisible. In the name of the Almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our Lord, our God.

23:41 Amen.