Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – If You Keep Doing This, You May Never Be Able to Live With God

0:00 Don't ever think for a moment that you are better than the rest.

0:08 You deserve a special treat.

0:10 No, hide yourself, don't ever seek glory your way. If you want glory, deny yourself, be humbled. And then the Lord turns to the one who invited him, and he said, when you invite people to a banquet, to dinner, to supper, don't invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, the rich people, because they will invite you back. And you have received your reward from them. It's equal. Now you invited them, they invited you back. It's even you receive the reward from the people. You have no reward from God. But I say to you, invite the poor, invite the name, invite them lame, invite the blind, and blessed are you for they have For they cannot pay you back. For your reward will be given unto you on the resurrection

1:12 of the just. So, in other words, your reward will be given unto you by God himself. When you do something, don't do it on the expectation of a comeback. Do it to those who cannot pay you back. Don't do it to those whom you know for sure that they will pay you back, because if they pay you back, you got your reward from people, not from God. But blessed are you If you help someone that cannot help you back, God will help you. In other words, the Lord is saying, if you are seeking your own glory, you can never be with God. You can never live for God, you can never serve God, you can never live with God. If you are seeking your own glory.

2:09 But if you are seeking the Lord Jesus, then you are seeking him to be glorified through you. As Christians, Christ lives in us in his Holy Spirit.

2:32 Christ dwells in us.

2:34 You see, when the Lord was born, his name was called Emmanuel, God with us. But after receiving the baptism, the very God who is with.

2:45 Us now he is in us.

2:48 So as Christian baptized in the name of the try on Holy worship, God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, the Christ now is dwelling within us. So now when you are going anywhere, when you are invited anywhere, where you ever, wherever you go, remember it is not you going. It is Christ who dwells in you, going with you and through you and by you. So it is not you going, it is Christ going. If you are truly a follower of Christ, then you need to acknowledge this truth.

3:26 It is not you. It is Christ who is in you making you go. Come, sit, get up, sleep, wake up.

3:36 It is Christ. Without him, we are nothing.

3:42 So when you're invited to a place, remember it is not you going, because Christ is in you.

3:48 If you're a Christian, if you're a true Christian. Amen.

3:53 So now my question to all of us, does the place make Christ number one? Or as Christ make the place number one? Christ makes the place number one? And this is exactly why the Lord Jesus, when he came to be born, he chose a manger where animals live. He was more than capable to be born in the king's palace. He was more than capable to be born in Caiapha's high priest house. He was more than capable to be born in a very rich family house. But the Lord chose to be born not in a house, not in a granny flat, not in a little hut.

4:41 He was born in a place where animals live, not humans. To what law level God went down to choose a place for his birth to take place a manger? You know why because the Lord's says it is I who make the place number one.

5:04 So I will be born in a.

5:06 Manger in Bethlehem, and I'll make the manger number one in the world. The whole world will come to this manger and.

5:16 Leck the dust of that manger.

5:21 They will bow before that manger. The whole world will come and worship me in that manger called the Nativity Church in Bethlehem today, that was the manger. It is Christ who makes the place number one. So if you are focused, if you are fixated on Jesus Christ of Nazareth, then wherever you go you are reminding yourself. I'm in the presence of the Lord. They didn't invite me, They invited the Lord. If you are, If you are, you see when when you love someone, like when you love someone deep, deep, from the bottom of the heart, from the core of your being. When you love that someone, that someone becomes your your breath, becomes your everything.

6:15 Like you wake up.

6:17 He is the number one, and your and your before you and your mind and your heart.

6:21 You you turn around, you see his face. You wait for the message to come from there.

6:27 He takes your whole heart, your whole.

6:30 Mind, your entire being.

6:32 Wherever you go whomver you are with you may be surrounded by one hundred a thousand people, But the only one who's taken control of this is your sweetheart. When Jesus becomes your sweetheart, the love of your life, wherever you are, you don't see nobody but Him. Because when I'm sitting with my Juliet, I don't care if there is a million gazelle.

6:58 Sitting there, yet is my gazelle. No one takes her place.

7:03 And when I'm sitting with my Romeo, it's the only one. Baby, I don't care a million men come along. I only see my Romeo. Is Jesus your Romeo. When Christ is the love of your life, then you are fixated on you. You breathe him, you eat him, you drink him, you live him, you walk, you dance with him, no one else.

7:33 So Christ is God revealed in the flesh. He dwells in me, in his spirit, Holy Spirit. So when I get invited, it is Christ invited, not me, Because.

7:45 I live for Him.

7:46 I no longer live but Christ, who lives in me. I'm no longer for myself. I belong totally for Him. So when I'm invited, I'm saying to myself. They didn't invite me. They invited my sweetheart. Because me is and him is me. I am no longer in existence. He is my existence, my everything. So who do they invite?

8:10 The Lord Jesus? So when I go and I believe and trust and know, acknowledge and live this truth that it is Jesus invited, I'll sit anywhere. I don't care about honorable places. I don't care about high places. I don't care to be acknowledged, to be given a special seat. No, I'll sit in the stry. That place becomes number one wherever I sit, since it's the Lord. Wherever the Lord sits, that place becomes number one. So don't search for high places.

8:51 It is not the place that makes the Christ who's in you number one. It is the Christ who's in you not only makes that place, but makes you number one. So when you hide from false glory, jesus glory shines through you. And when the Lord's glory shines through you, no one can hide it, even if the whole world tries to do so. Because Jesus Christ is the sun s u end of the world. And when the sun shines, can anyone you know seal it? Closet, put a blanket over it. No, when the sun shines, it lights up the whole world.