Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – If You’re Tired and Weary, This Message Is for You

0:00 This evening, we are going to take this topic, which actually I did in Assyrian, and I thought I'd share it with you in English. It is the dove according to David's thought. The dove according to David's thought. David, he has King David. The dove according to David's thought. We'll be talking about Jonah. Who's heard of Jonah? Jonah was a prophet of the Old Testament. He was sent by the Almighty God to a city called Nineveh in Iraq, where I come from. Where I come from. Mesopotamia. Go, the good old Mesopotamia. The cradle of civilization, my beloveds.

0:48 The cradle of civilization. The cradle of civilization. So we're gonna be talking about Jonah and then we're gonna look at King David's and his way of thinking in relation to the dove. Now the word Jonah derives from a Hebrew descent and the word means dove. So Yonan in Assyrian or Aramaic or Hebrew, Yonan means dove. So Jonah, his name means the dove. He was the son of Amittai.

1:32 The son of Amittai in Aramaic, the son of Mattai. Mattai in English is equivalent to Matthew. So Amittai means faithfulness. Mattai means the gift of God. So Amittai means faithfulness. Mattai or Matthew means the gift of God. So Jonah, the dove, the son of Amitei or Matei, the son of faithfulness or the son of the gift of God.

2:12 Whether it's faithfulness or the gift of God, the dove was given to us to be faithful to Jesus Christ and was given to us as the gift of God to bring us closer and closer to Christ and through Christ we see the Father alive. our heavenly daddy. So, Jonah, son of Amittai or Mattai, the dove, son of faithfulness or gift of God. Now, King David mentions the word dove twice in his Psalms. King David mentions the word dove twice in his Psalms. The first time he mentions it in Psalm 55 verses 6 to 7. We will read it. Psalm 55 verses 6 to 7 says the following.

3:15 So I said, who is saying this? David. So I said, oh that I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off and remain in the wilderness. That is the first time King David mentions the word dove in his Psalms 55 verses 6 to 7. What happened? Where did this Psalm 55 come from? And at what stage in David's life David wrote this psalm? King David was fleeing from the sword of King Saul. King Saul also was appointed as the first king ever to the Israelite nation by the Almighty God Himself. But King Saul turned out to be a very nasty, a very harsh, harsh king to his nation. So when David came into the picture, Saul became jealous. And he said, I will kill David.

4:21 He will never, never see the throne of this kingship. So he chased David in the desert and the wilderness from a mountain to the other, from one cave to another. David and his people entered this cave and it was very deep and extremely, extremely dark. King Saul came with his army, with his soldiers and the head or the general of the army His name was Abner. His name was Abner. So they came and they closed the entrance to this cave. King Saul wanted to enter the cave and kill David and all those people who were with him.

5:16 But Abner, the general of Saul's army said, no, my beloved king, do not enter the cave because it is so dark, we don't know exactly where they are hiding. It is a lot easier for them to kill us than rather us killing them. What we will do, my beloved king, we will block the entrance of this cave and we will starve them to death. They're gonna get hungry, they're gonna get thirsty, eventually they will surrender. And then we will kill them quite easily without one soldier being lost.

5:57 So they waited at the entrance of the cave. King David looked at himself, looked at his life, and looked at the surrounding circumstances that he was in, and he had no place to look to except heaven, God. You know, when we face death, when we face hardships, when we face dark moments in our lives, so many caves we've gone through throughout our life's journey on earth. And when we go through those dark moments and dark caves, who do we look for? Who do we search for? The ultimate power, the sovereign authority, the one and only God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. When we are comfortable, we look to everyone except God.

7:13 Why? Because I'm happy. I am not in need of God. But when I face something beyond and above my control, my reach, and beyond and above everyone else's control and reach, what other choice do I have? What other alternative do I have but seek the mercy of God? So he cried out to God. He said, God, you're the only one who can take me out of this dark cave. out of this death and misery. So he wrote Psalm 55 in the cave while he is facing death and the unknown is still to be seen. So I said, David is saying, Oh, that I had wings like a dove. I wish at this very moment I had wings like a dove. What would you do with those wings, my dear King David?

8:31 I would fly away and be at rest. Now, please focus on the word rest. I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off. wander far off. In other words, I would run away. I would escape and remain in the wilderness. King David is saying, I'm in this cave and I'm in the midst of this trap. The cave became a trap and it's going to kill me and there is no escape. God, I'm crying out to you. I wish this moment You gave me a pair of wings of the dove. I would run away and rest. Where do you want to rest, David?

9:22 I want to rest. In where? In the wilderness. You want to rest in the wilderness? Well done, my dear David. Well done. Um... Jonah, whose name means dove, ran away. And David wants to have wings of a dove to run away. So Jonah, the dove, the runaway dove, and David. seeking the wings of a dove to run away. Both they want to run away. And where are they both running away? They are running away to find rest for themselves.

10:12 And where is this rest? The wilderness. Jonah ran away to Tarshish, Spain. In our time and age. He ran away to Tarshish. And David wants to run away to the wilderness to find rest. My goodness. Aren't we all David here? Don't we all wish to run away when we face an obstacle? When we encounter some hardships? I'm sitting at home and my wife or my husband gave me a hard time. You say, God, please find me a solution. I want to run away from this home.

11:02 It is like hell. Where do I go when I leave home running away from it? I go to the wilderness. What is the wilderness? The world. So club, here we come. Stassery casino, here we come. The white bag, sniff away, here we come. Gambling, alcoholism, friends, dark alleys, sitting all night long because I'm running away. This home is that dark cave that I find myself trapped in. There is no escape from it and I'm asking God to rescue me and I want to find my rest because my rest is in the wilderness. In other words, I'm crying out to God to come to my rescue to run away from God. Wow. Wow. How intelligent and smart are we?

12:07 So I realized no one can save me but God. So God, please come to my rescue so I can run away from you once again. But you know what? That trap, was permitted by God in the first place because He wants to teach you a lesson. So what is your trap, my beloved? Is it home? Is it an addiction? Is it pride? Is it envy, jealousy? Is it hatred? Is it revenge? Is it stars? Thrones, places, what is your trap? We all want to run away.

13:03 We have this thought that if I go out, I'll forget about my problems. So guys, what are you doing? Nothing, the usual, nothing. I just wonder if somebody can come and explain to me what nothing means. So, I've got a problem at work. I'm gonna go out with my friends to the club and we're gonna have few drinks and we're gonna have a good time. I don't wanna come back home. I want to forget about my problems at work, so I'm going to the club and I'll flex the elbow few times to make me forget about the issues at work. I've got a problem with family.

13:55 So I'm going to go out and I'm going to have fun with me mates. And same thing with the girls. My mom doesn't let me be free, so I'm going to run away. My dad doesn't let me be free, I'm going to run away. I thought when I leave home and get married, I'll be free. I didn't realize I came out of one trap, fell into a bigger one.

14:21 Just kidding, you laugh, come on. You see, it's the thought and it's only a thought that make us believe that when we run away, we will find our rest. That is an absolute vanity. It is absolutely like a mirage in the desert. Stop running after the mirage. It's not water. Come back to reality. Stop fantasizing and thinking and assuming things. Face reality. Stop dreaming. And stop running away.

15:06 The wilderness, the desert, resembles the world in four things at least. I'll mention them to you. The wilderness, the desert, resembles the world in four things. Number one. The wilderness or the desert is barren. You know, when you're in the desert, there is nothing. There is nothing to look forward to. There is nothing to hope for. And there is nothing for you to remain there. When you are in the desert, you cannot wait to come out of it.

15:40 Because you say to yourself, this is not home. This is not my place. I don't belong here. I have another place where I find myself in it. The world is the desert. Why are you holding on to it? Why are you fighting over it? Why are you clinging onto it? It is a desert. Please run away from the desert. Don't run to the desert, run away from it.

16:14 The longer you stay in the desert, the closer you are to being killed. Would you build a mansion in the desert? Yet you know what? You can have it for free. But you're still not going to take it. Because it's not home. Why are you holding on to this world which is the desert? Why? Your home is this gorgeous man called Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Don't ask the Lord to give you wings of a dove to run away from Him, thinking you're going to find your rest in the world, which is a desert. Don't ever do that. Run to Christ. Don't run away from Him.

17:10 The desert is barren. The world is dry dead. The world, if you try to chase it, if you try to gain it, the world will give you one thing, death. Because that's what the desert will give you if you hold on to it. The world will give you death, nothing else. Number two, the desert, the sun in the desert is very harsh. And it can be fatal. It can burn you to a degree where it can kill you.

17:51 And this world's sun, S-U-N, is very fatal. Oh, it can burn you in so many ways, my darling. One of the suns that can burn you is downtown, brother. The other sun that can burn you, the sabufa khabibi in the backseat going, wah, wah, doof, doof. And the other sun that can burn you, I'm gonna go and put the steroids and push some iron, brother, and I'm gonna make muscles because I want to get some girl's attention, bro.

18:25 What's up? And I'm gonna be the man around the block, bro. Anybody talks, I'll chop their head. There's so many suns that can burn. This is the world. This is the world, my beloved. The desert make you lose your sense of direction. Because when you're in the desert, everywhere it looks the same. All the ways, they look the same, they look alike.

19:04 You don't know which way to take. Is this the way out? Or is this the right way? They all look the same. So where do I go from here? I've lost my sense of direction. It is the world that makes you lose your sense of direction where you begin to lose God. And you don't know the way to God. Because the world is so deceptive, it's so tempting, God is missing. In your life. The world make you lose.

19:37 Your sense of direction. I am so preoccupied. With so many things in the world. Except God. And by the way. When you read. the Holy Bible, God never, never, ever approved of no man to build a city. Nimrod was the first man ever to build a city. And the name Nimrod means the rebellious one. It is the one who rebels against God. He built a city. And in the city, people were lost. Man, you know, corona was good in a way. For the first time ever, the city was empty. Dal and Habba was empty. The streets were empty. The clubs were empty. Go now. It is suffocating.

20:45 People queue for hours just to enter a claustrophobic club with the subwoofer piercing through your drum E's. E-drums. Sorry. You see? The world confuses people, you see? It burst your eardrums. It is so toxic. So toxic. The world make you lose track of the truth. Young men and women line up. They pay big money to poison their lives.

21:34 to poison their minds, to poison their thoughts, to poison their bodies, to poison their souls and spirit. They pay money to be poisoned by the enemy. Christ gives you life for free. We don't want to come. Yet Christ invites you to the light, not to the darkness. The world make you lose track of where you're heading. And number four, the desert is full of vicious and savage animals.

22:12 And the world is full of vicious and savage people that are waiting to devour your life. Oh my goodness. Look at the people of the world, what they are doing in the world. But to Christ, they are nothing but childish people. To Christ, they are nothing but ignorant people and idiot people. Their behavior is idiotic, yet they think they are smart because the enemy, the day he lost the presence of God, he lost the innocence, the purity, and the faithfulness. So when you are left with wisdom only, you become evil. And everything that is done in the world is nothing short of evil. Everything. The big corporations, the secret societies, and the World Economic Forum, globalists. Empty.

23:27 No brain here. Empty. Because whoever chases the world will end up with nothing. So no matter how smart you are, come and tell me what kind of a smartness is this chasing a vanity? My dear friend, Klaus Schwab, if you are a German, where is Hitler? who tried to conquer the world and wipe the Jewish people. Where is Hitler?

24:03 Jewish people are still living. You know why? Because it is only God can take away what he has put on earth. No one will ever have that authority. No one. Where are the great empires? Where are they? But the world is full of vicious people like the desert full of vicious animals. Today they befriend you, tomorrow they stab you.

24:40 Today they acknowledge you, tomorrow they deny you. Today they buy you, tomorrow they sell you. This is the world. Come on bro, you wanna join us? Come. Where did you say you go? To the church? Are you stupid? Or stupid? You go to church, you're still young. What's got into your head? Enjoy life, brother. Church is for the pensioners, not for the young people. When we get 70, 80, 90, yeah, we'll go because it is time to be buried. So let's go to church so they bury us and we repent to God and we say, sorry God, for the past 80 years we've been having fun. Whatever is left, we're going to come and say sorry and we're going to just... Be welcomed. No such thing. You cannot guarantee your life. Maybe I'm talking to you now. Tomorrow I

25:43 won't be. There is no guarantee. Death does not differentiate between the age brackets. When time comes, time has come. Death will come and take this spirit out of this soul, out of this body. Don't be deceived, my beloved. If they offer you The world's money, if they offer you the world's glories, if they offer you the fame, the prestigious life, the mansion overlooking the Darling Harbor, don't sell your Jesus. Don't. If they offer you all the powder in the world, don't sell your Christ. Jonah, whose name means dove, he ran away to a city called Tarshish.

26:46 You find that in the book of Jonah, chapter one, verse three. He runs away from God. God said, go to Nineveh, Iraq. He runs away the opposite direction to Spain, Tarshish. Now the word Tarshish means barrel stone, means barrel stone. Barrel stone is what the diamond is made of, from. Barrel stone where diamonds are made from this barrel stone.

27:19 How is diamond formed? Diamond comes from carbon. When carbon is exposed to extreme pressures, pressure, extreme pressure, that compression turns that carbon into a diamond. This diamond comes from this carbon that comes from this beryl stone, and beryl stone is the meaning of the name Tarshish. So Tarshish is diamond that has been formed out of extreme pressure.

27:53 So what can I call Tarshish? The harsh, the cruel city. The harsh, the cruel city. It is the city that I am pressed so harshly in it. So what is Tarshish? The world. What is the desert? The world. King David seeking from God a pair of dove's wings to run away to the world to have rest and Jonah, whose name is the dove, is also running away from God to find his rest in Tarshish, the cruel city which resembles the world. They're both fleeing away. While David is contemplating on this thought, I wish I had a pair of wings of a dove, I would have flown away to find my rest in this wilderness. Some news came to King Saul and said that Palestinians have attacked your country from the southern border. you better take your army

29:08 and go back to your country and protect it from the Palestinians. So he grabs his entire army and flees from there back to his country and to protect it from the sword of the Palestinians. In a blink of an eye, David is free. No more enemy, no more death. no more imprisonment, no more being trapped, no more darkness, I can walk out of the cave, out of the darkness into the light, out of death into life, out of slavery into freedom. In a blink of an eye, when you pray to God, God comes to your rescue and set you free from whatever trouble you are going through.

30:01 Sorry guys, are you cold? No? Okay. So, David is set free. Saul takes his army, goes back home to protect it from the Palestinians. By the way, See what happens when people chase the world. Till this day, Israel and Palestine are fighting. Do you know when this was happening? A thousand years before the birth of Christ. So, three thousand years later, they're still fighting. That's amazing, huh? Don't people get tired? Like I fought with you once, twice, 10 times, 100 times. You give up. What's wrong? Relax.

31:14 What are you fighting for? Oh, to gain land. To gain a country. To gain a property. To gain a position. To gain authority. What are you fighting for? At home, what are you fighting for? No, no, I'm right, you're wrong. I will prove my husband is wrong and I'm right. And I will not rest until I make sure he realizes his mistake. Okay, you've made him realize his mistake.

31:49 What have you gained, my darling, my dear daughter? What have you gained? If you prove your husband wrong, guess what? You're wrong. You cannot win by fighting. You can only win with love. With love. Whoever fights is a loser. Whoever loves is the winner. You wanna prove your husband wrong, do it with love. You want to prove your brother, your sister, your mother, your friend, whoever they are wrong, do it with love. Because when you do it with love, you will do it with respect. You can't win with force.

32:44 You can only win when you gain people's trust. And people's trust cannot, please, people's trust cannot be one with force. It is only one with love. You need to let them trust you. And the only way they're going to trust you when they are freely choosing to trust you, not forcefully. Because if they do it forcefully, they will be waiting for the moment to attack you and wipe you out. You need to do it with love. But 3,000 years later, they're still fighting. They are fighting for the wrong land. See, they are fighting to have a piece of this world. This world is a vicious jungle. The fighting never ends in it. The day every human being fights for this land called Jesus Christ of Nazareth, there

33:47 is no more war, There is no more famine. There is no more hardships. There is no more slavery. There is no more killing. Everything comes into peace and tranquility when you gain this land called Jesus Christ of Nazareth. My goodness. My goodness. People wake up. My dear people wake up. All these people that I want to bring in this new technology, AI, artificial intelligence. These people that want to put a chip in people's brains and make them half human, half robots. Grow up. Wake up. What are you doing? Please, for God's sake and for your own salvation's sake, wake up. What are you doing? You are playing with fire. You are acting as little children in a grown-up body. It's very childish what you're doing.

34:58 We need to reduce the world's population. Shut up! Who do you think you are? You will die, my dear friend. You look after yourself and your family with God's grace. Don't worry about other people. That's not your job. You're trespassing. And I can't help it, you know, like I just can't. When you look around the leaders of the world, I don't know what's wrong, you know, like they are acting very, very childish. There is no more real men. Very childish.

35:58 As if they've sold themselves all and to be puppets. There is no more that element of what makes a human, human. I've said this before and I'll say it. Sorry, are you in a rush? No, good. The Western world, and when I say the Western world, I mean Australia, I mean Europe, I mean Canada, I mean America. the Western world, they have succeeded brilliantly. They have succeeded brilliantly in giving value to everything, but they have failed miserably in giving purpose to everything. I'll say it again. The Western world has succeeded brilliantly Giving value to everything but they have failed miserably and giving purpose to everything you see but the problem is the problem is Until you find what the purpose of the thing is you can never give

37:13 it value You can never give it value So what is the value that they have succeeded with? human rights That is the Western world motto. Human rights, democracy, United Nations, the biggest lie ever. Biggest lie ever. Democracy, human rights, human rights, human rights. Do you ever hear anyone on the world's platform speaking about God's rights? They will stone that person to death. So what is human rights? Value.

37:59 So they are talking about human rights. What is the purpose of a human? The right to be a human, not human rights. Nobody speaks about what is the right to be a human. Stop talking about human rights for God's sake. Stop talking about value. Focus on purpose. Speak about what is the right to be a human. Because the day you find out what is the right to be a human, that day you will know the value of that human. You will know how to give human rights when you know what is the right to be a human. Human rights value, nowadays, it got us into poverty.

38:51 Not being able to refer to a human's gender, whether they are male or female, refer to it as it. So do you want me to treat you as it? I will. Next time you speak, I'll step on you like a cockroach. Would you like that? Don't be offended. Don't be discriminated against because this is what you asked for.

39:16 This is what you're going to get, my dear. Next time you speak, I'll ignore you because I'm not talking to a human, I'm talking to an it. And if I'm talking to an it, I refuse to speak to an it. I want to speak to a human, not an it. I want to speak to a gender. Are you a male or a female? How do I address you?

39:37 In between, I don't know what to call you. You came out of the equation of what human is, the right to be a human. You're out of that equation. I can't enter a conversation with you anymore. I'm not judging, but this is the truth. Where did we all come from? Male and female, Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

40:06 You see, but that's what happens when you focus on human rights value. It gets you into a lot of mischief. It gets you into a lot of trouble, total desolation, total destruction. God, in the beginning God, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Wow, not a big bang. Darwin theory, an atheist. An atheist is coming to tell me how I should believe and how I should live. You get out of my way. I'll come to you and say there is God. You want to come with me to God?

40:55 More than welcome. You don't. Out of my way. Don't dictate to me how I should live. How dare you? How dare you? The world has lost the plot. Elon Musk. And the likes. Wake up. And you world leaders wake up. and the church leaders as well. With all love and respect to that holy rank, but you need to wake up as well. You need to wake up because the Lord is back. He is on his way and he's back on his way to fix the world once and for all and the church. And the church. Oh, if Satan thinks he can do whatever he wants, my goodness, Satan is nothing when Jesus Christ comes back to fix things.

41:57 Satan is nothing. Everything is nothing when Jesus comes. Well, David cried out to God in the midst of his troublesome times. In the midst of his darkest moment of his entire life, he cried out to God. And this is what we do. When we get into trouble, we only remember God then. And you know what? When we pray to God then, our prayer is totally different to the way it was before. Before it was just, you know, scathing the surface. But now we mean every word we say because I'm in trouble. When I was three, I still went to church. But me going to church was like going on a date or going on a good luncheon.

42:55 You know, I'll just go in there and sit, yeah, and yawn throughout of it. And yeah, I make the sign of the cross. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Okay, thank you. Thank you. I've done my duty. And one day I got sick. I came to Christ, but this time, man, I'm totally different. Lord, with tears gushing down my face, Lord, have mercy on me. I'm dying. The doctors are saying, there is not much time left for you to live. Lord, you are the only one who can heal me. You are my savior. Where were you, my dear friend, when you were healthy? He is the same Lord that died for you and rose from the dead for you. Where were you when you were running around building palaces bashing, kicking, punching, drinking, dancing,

43:47 going on holidays. Where was Christ then? Where was Christ then? But you see, this is the human nature. The day we see we are hopeless, God is the one who comes number one in our life. Make God number one in your life always. Always. Good times, bad times, sickness, health, richness, poorness, in the light, in the darkness, outside, in the cave, make God number one always. So when David was free, I'll leave you with this. Did I really say that?

44:33 When David was free, He wrote another Psalm 68, where in Psalm 68 the dove is mentioned again. So when he was in the darkness, trapped in the cave, he wrote Psalm 55 and he said, I wish I had the wings of a dove to fly away and run away, escape from this troublesome time and find my rest in the wilderness. Well done. I went to the casino because my wife got on my nerves. So I burned all the money in retaliation. You burned yourself, my dear, not your wife. Why go to the casino? Go to the Lord Jesus and say, Lord, can you break her? Because when you break, you make. So please break her and make her an angel. And I will call her angel.

45:45 And I will go to birth, death, and marriages, and I will register her name there as angel. I'll tell you her little joke. This husband, he used to call his wife, my life. My life, good morning. My life, how are you? My life, where are you? My life, are you coming? My life, are we going? My life was her name. One night they were asleep, both deep sleep.

46:21 An angel appears, the angel of God appears in their room. The husband, while in his deep sleep, he senses there is something happening in the surroundings. So he wakes up startled. To his shocking surprise, he confronts the angel of God. And he is absolutely frightened to the bone. And he said, Lord have mercy, what's going on? What do you want angel from me? He said, I came to take your life.

46:52 He said, here she is. So wives, next time your husband calls you my life, don't accept it. So when David came out of the trouble, he wrote Psalm 68. And he mentions the dove, but this time the dove is different. Look at this, Psalm 68 verse 13. He says, though you lie down among the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold. Totally different dove. When I was in trouble, I wish I had wings like a dove.

47:42 I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off and remain in the wilderness. There is no mention of silver. There is no mention of gold. There is no mentioning of nothing else. I just want the wings and away we go. Now that I am delivered from my troublesome time by the Almighty God, I'm going to write Psalm 68 and I'm going to mention the dove, but this dove is the one that set me free. I'm going to say, though you lie down among the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold.

48:22 That we will uncover next Friday, God willing. I want to say this. Though you lie down among the sheepfolds. What is the sheepfolds? The church. That is the sheepfold. The church. The Lord is saying to David and to all of us. When you find yourself in trouble and you cry out to me, I'll come to your rescue.

49:00 But when I come to your rescue, I'm going to give you a different dove totally. I'm going to give you the dove of the Holy Spirit. The dove here is the Holy Spirit in Psalm 68. The dove in Psalm 55 is the dove that I have imagined with my own way of thinking. But the dove in 68 is... is what God wants for me. and has prepared for me the Holy Spirit, the dove. Jesus Christ at the age of 30 goes to the River Jordan to be baptized by John the Baptist and the heaven opens and the dove descend on him and the dove was the Holy Spirit descending on Christ, the Holy Spirit. The Lord is saying, as long as you live in this world, You are in the desert. And in the desert, there is no comfort. It is dry dead. There is no water.

50:01 There is no food. There is no shelter. There is only animals that are awaiting to devour you any moment. But that's why I, the Good Shepherd, came to this world, i.e. the desert, to give you rest. Not rest in the world, but to give you rest in me. In this world, my rest for you is the sheepfolds, the church. I put the church in this wilderness, the world, so that every time the son of this world, the son of trials, which is the enemy, Satan is the S-U-N that keeps trying to burn us with sin, with doing the wrong things, with doing the things that will offend the Lord Jesus.

50:53 This is the son of the wilderness that is trying to burn us and kill us. The temptations of the world, the sinful nature and the sinful lifestyle that is dragging us away from Christ and burning us into eternal death. Christ says, I'm going to give you rest in this wilderness. I've built my church on the rock. Every time Satan hurts you, run to me. Every time Satan poison you, run and receive the antidote, the body and the blood of Christ that is offered for everyone who wishes to have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. This is the antidote against the venom of the snake. Every time you are hurt by the world, come, let me heal you.

51:51 My church is your resting place in this wilderness. And I'll elaborate on this for the next 10 hours to come. Are you still awake? Good. The Lord Jesus gave a parable. He gave many parables, but one of it He said, a certain man was coming down from Jerusalem, going to Jericho. And then robbers approached this man who was coming down from Jerusalem to Jericho. These robbers stripped him naked, they bashed him up, and they made him bleed, and they threw him on the side of the road between living and dead. between dead and living and walked off. This Samaritan man, this stranger came, he showed compassion and mercy towards this man who was thrown on the side of the road, dying. He poured wine and oil on his wounds.

52:49 He bandaged his wounds. He put him on his mule and took this man to the inn, the hotel. In this parable, the hotel is the church, the resting place in this world offered to you by Christ to protect you from the vicious wilderness desert of this world. The Good Samaritan is Christ himself. He took that wounded man to the hotel. Now Christ is God revealed in the flesh.

53:25 He could have taken that man back to his heaven again. He said, no, you still need to spend time on earth before I call you back home. Until then, your home on earth is the hotel, my church. Now, why did the Lord Jesus resemble his church with a hotel? Mm-hmm He is saying Who actually Goes into a hotel It is the one who travels to a country and in that country. He has no one he knows nobody There is no one neither from from close or from far He is an absolute stranger in that country. No friends.

54:14 No relatives. No family members. No Absolutely nobody. That person, when they see themselves totally strangers to that country, they will say, my only place in this country is the hotel. The Lord is saying to every one of us, do you see yourself totally strangers to this world? Or are you holding on to this world? Do you see yourself belonging to this world? Do you see yourself having family, people that you know in this world? Because if you do, then this world is your home. But guess what? This world is not... But when you come to your senses and to yourself and say, I am a total stranger to this world. I have nothing to do with this world.

55:08 I don't want its pleasures. I don't want its treasures. I don't want nothing to do with this world. The Lord will say, now that you called yourself a total stranger to this world, then my church, the sheepfold, is your home, is your resting place. But when you come to the hotel, now, just like there was a time to check in, you know very well a time will come to check out. You're not gonna stay in the hotel forever, my dear friend. Just like there was a time to check in, there will come a time and there is no escape from it and you cannot do anything about it. A time will come, you will check out the way, the same way you checked in. There was a time you and I were born into this world and a time will come, we will check out

56:11 from this world. I have to leave. I'm not here forever. When I checked in into the hotel, is the hotel mine? No. The bed I slept on, was it mine? No. The towel that I wiped my face with, was it mine? No. Nothing was mine. The hotel and everything in it was the owner's. Who is the owner of this church? Christ.

56:46 Is the Pope the owner? No. Is the bishop the owner? No. Is any clergyman the owner of the church? No. Who is the owner? Christ. Out of his mercy and grace, brought me out of the world to give me rest in his hotel, the church. He bandaged me out there. with oil and wine. It's not our topic. And he brought me into his church and he said to the person in that hotel, look after this man. He placed someone useless like me looking after the hotel. So when you came, the Lord said to this wretched man, he said, spend these two denarii's On these people. He gave the owner of the hotel two denarii. What are the two denarii?

57:43 The Holy Bible, Old and New Testament are the two denarii. It's not our topic. He said to me, all I want from you, when I bring my children to my resting place, the church, I expect from you, Bishop Marie, to spend every penny, every dollar on my children. Explain the Holy Bible to them as you've received it from me.

58:10 Don't change nothing in it. Do not bring false teachings. Do not bring new teachings. Give them apostolic teachings. foundational teachings. Two denarii. But even me, these clothes, they belong to Christ. The cross is the Lord's. The crown is the Lord's. The staff is the Lord's. He is the Good Shepherd.

58:43 I'm not. I'm a sheep. I'm a follower. I'm not a leader. The day I leave, I will ruin the church. I need to follow Christ to give you nourishment, pure nourishment. Everything is the Lord's. I am a steward. I look after his possessions until the day he calls me back. He checked me in and the day is going to come he will check me out. nothing is mine all glory to his holy name when you are afflicted when you are bashed when you are persecuted when you are rejected When you are degraded by this world, run to the resting place in this world, the church. Run to Christ.

59:39 Don't ever run away from Him. Run to Him. Because that's your only place where you will be able to rest. Leave the world to Satan. Leave the world to Satan. See Christ, my beloved. See Christ. I want to dance with somebody. Yeah, yeah. I want to feel the heat with somebody. Yeah, yeah. Turn the aircon on, please. Sometimes they say, Bishop, it's very hot in here. I say, well, it's my presence. What do you expect? I'm just hot.

1:00:35 They named Sizzler after me. It went bankrupt. My beloveds, nothing in this world is worth it for you and I to have a fight and an argument over. Nothing in this world. There is so many resources, so many blessings from the Almighty God that He placed in this world that it will be enough, not just for 8 billion people, for 80 times 8 billion people Mr. Bill Gates and the likes of you. Listen, mate, if you think you can laugh at some people and tell them nonsense, you can't say the same to the child of Christ.

1:01:47 Do you understand? Because I know who you are and what you are. And those who are behind you, We need to come back to this man. Let the whole world hear this and know this. There is only one God. Only one Creator. Only one true divine God that has created everything and everyone that is visible and invisible. The tangible and the spiritual realms are the creation of this almighty God. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Do you want me to spell it for you? Jesus. Or some people are very kind of narrow minded with this. Yeshua. Yeshua.

1:02:41 That's okay. Don't call him Jesus. He's Yeshua. Yeah, but Yeshua is in Hebrew. Jesus derives from the Greek. Jesus. So what? So what? Relax. His name is Jesus. Yeshua. Yeshua. This God. This is God. This God never goes to sleep, never forgets, And this God is always in control. So you can do cloud seeding. You can speak about climate change till kingdom comes. You're going down to the pit.

1:03:27 You're going to die, brother. So stop acting as if you're God because you're not. You're a piece of dust and God will call that spirit back home And that dust is going to go to Mother Earth where it came from. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Bye bye. We need to grow up. And we need to be human. The right to be a human. All your billions that you rich people are spending on nonsense, go and feed the people in Africa. Go and feed the people in the Middle East. Go and feed the people that are starving throughout the world in the Philippines. There's plenty of them everywhere. What have you done in Lebanon? What have you done in Syria? What have you done in all these countries around the world? Enough! Sick mentality enough. Chasing

1:04:28 the world is ignorance. You don't want to listen? Christ is coming for you. Where do you think you can run away? Like Jonah tried to run away from God, going to Tarshish. Excuse me? You can run, but you can't hide. Wouldn't it be absolutely beautiful? You know, All the rich people think about the hungry, the starving, the homeless.

1:05:06 Go and build some housing and put those who are without a house in a house. You're not taking nothing with you when you go to the grave. The grave, the casket, has no pockets, has no windows, has nothing, and no banks. The World Bank. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Oh my goodness, what a sick world. This sick world has no solution but for the healer of all healers to come. We need to pray for the one and only, the one and only, the healer of all healers. the one who heals for free, the one who is truly the healer of the body, the healer of the soul, the healer of the spirit, is the one that can heal you while you are on earth and is the one who can heal you while you are in the grave.

1:06:07 It is the one who stood before the grave of Lazarus and says, Lazarus, come forth. This healer is the only one that can heal this sick world. The healer is the Lord Jesus. All glory to his holy name. Pray, my beloveds, pray for the Lord Jesus to hasten His coming back to us again. Ask the Lord, Lord, come, show the whole world that you are the one and only.

1:06:35 You are the true divine God, the creator of everyone and everything. The entire human race is created by Jesus Christ. Whether you are a Muslim, or a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or a Krishna, or a Shinto, that's Japanese, Whatever religion or you are an atheist, everyone was created by Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I'm not judging. I'm just telling you what I know, not just believe. There's a difference. I believe and I know. Jesus is the only one. You can ask for Buddha. He's not going to come. You ain't going to see him there. Coming to your rescue.

1:07:22 Neither here nor there. You can ask for Muhammad. He was not going to come neither here nor there. You can ask for any other gods. There will not be one waiting for you except this man. His name is Jesus of Nazareth. This one. Because he is the one and only. The creator of everyone and everything. And he is all love. And he is all mercy. And he is justice. If we do not repent, He will judge us.

1:07:57 But if we repent, He will save us and redeem us. It's up to us. I pray from the bottom of my heart for the whole world to come to this real encounter with the Lord Jesus. To truly find the true God. To truly find the way and the truth and the life. I pray. I pray for the Christian world to unite, for the whole church to be one.

1:08:35 No more names, no more divisions, no more I'm right, you're wrong. Come back to the truth. Let the truth, Christ, unite us all. But in order to unite us, we need to humble ourselves and acknowledge and confess our sins. before him. We need to say we have sinned against you and heaven. We are not worthy to be called your children. Make me a hireling in your household, in your palace. Then you will see God coming to you as the merciful father, embracing you, clothing you, giving you authority, giving you new life and you, way of living and bringing you back as the son to the Almighty God, not as a slave. We need to come back to the Lord. Lord, unite your church. I beg you. Unite your church, Lord, and bring this turmoil world into a

1:09:38 tranquil one. And those who do not wish to repent You know them because you're God. Plug them, Lord. Because you know they're not going to repent till the end. They will not plug them. Put servants that will give you fruits in its time. There is not enough time to waste anymore. You're either with the Lord or you're not. Lord, fix it once and for all. I beg you, Lord.

1:10:18 Fix it once and for all. Don't seek your own wings. Seek the Lord's wings. Your own wings will make you fly to the desert where you think you're going to find your rest. There is poison. Let the Lord give you the wings of the Holy Spirit to bring you into his sheepfolds, into the church.