Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – Why Fight So Hard for a World We Cannot Take With Us?

0:00 So she called out to him and said, oh, if you're the gardener, did you really take the body of my master. If you've taken the body of my master, please tell me where you placed him. I want to go and take him away. And then the Lord Jesus replies to her with the word Mariam, which Mary and the original language is Mariam, so he calls her by her name Mariam. When Mary Magdalene hears this particular tone, she recognized the tone being of Jesus Christ of Natreth.

0:40 She saw him, did not know him. She knew him by his voice, not by his person. When she heard that tone, she said, I am used to this tone for over three years. I know how Jesus used to call me Mariam. There is a specific tone to his voice nobody can imitate. So when she heard that tone, she was one hundred percent certain it is the Lord.

1:14 So she calls him in Hebrew Rabuli, not rabuni. Rabuli. In Hebrew, Rabuli means literally the teacher of all teachers. You are not just a teacher. You are the teacher to everyone who claims to be a teacher. You are the teacher of all. She comes to touch his feet, It says, don't touch me now. I When we go to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, according to Saint Matthew, we see that Saint Matthew records that Mary Magdalene and the other women who were with her, they literally touched the body of Christ, and they kissed his feet. And the Lord Jesus said to them, go and tell my brothers that I'm ascending to my father and your father, my God and your God. This is in Matthew. So he told Mary Magdalen to go and tell the disciples

2:12 that I am risen. Look, I allowed you to touch me and to kiss my feet. I am real. This is not an imagination. So she believed that he has risen on her way to the disciples. As she's walking to them, halfway, the enemy Satan whispers in her ears and put doubt, suspicion, and put doubt suspicion. Be careful, don't fall asleep, stay awake, she said. But he see Satan.

2:55 When he puts like suspicion or doubt in someone's head, Satan will have ever revealed that it is him. He will do it in a very sneaky way to make you believe that this is your own thinking nothing of him, Satan, sneaky little, sneaky, little, little little sneaky one. So she stopped and she started thinking, are you out of your mind? Mary?

3:24 Do you really believe a person, a human being dying and then ray rising from the dead. Wake up to yourself. This was just your imagination you thought you saw Jesus, it is impossible for someone who dies in the flesh and then rises from the dead. Wake up. You're gonna go and tell the disciples that he has risen, and then you will be put to shame because this is nothing but one fake imagination. So the best thing, Mary, what you need to do is before you embarrass yourself, before the disciples and the world, go back and double check make sure that he is truly risen. I have to double check that he is risen. She turns around before getting to the apostles and goes back to the garden to make sure that her doubts are not misleading her. Now, John,

4:21 that beloved, picks up the return of Mary. So when she comes back doubting, she comes back with no faith. You see what kills faith is suspicion. The moment you start suspecting. The moment you start doubting the promise of the Lord, you are destroying your faith. And the moment you destroy your faith, even if you see the Lord standing right before you, you will never be able to recognize him, because the only way for us to recognize the Lord Jesus is through faith. So when she was suspicious of his resurrection, she doubted his resurrection. On the way back, she came back with no faith. When she came back with no faith, she saw him but unable to recognize him. The only way she recognized him was

5:19 through the voice, because Saint Paul says that faith cometh through hearing, not through seeing through hearing. So when she saw him, since she had no faith, she did not recognize him. But the moment she heard his voice, the faith came back, and then she was able to say, Teacher of all teachers, the faith came back. When she heard his voice, she came to touch him the second time.

5:54 He said, no, no, no, no no. Since you doubted my resurrection the first time, and you did not do as I told you to do. You did not go to the apostles and tell them that I am risen. You came back to double check that I'm truly risen. Then I will never let you touch me. If you come with no faith, you cannot touch me anymore. So now, in order to be able to come back and bow before me and kiss my feet, I wanted to go back now, But this time, make sure Satan doesn't whisper in your ear again and stop you halfway. Go all the way and tell the disciples that I am risen.

6:38 The second time, she goes and tells the disciple that I've seen the Messiah. He has truly risen. Then today's gospel begins. Peace be with you now the Lord Jesus. The first thing he gave those disciples who are hiding out of fear or peace? Why because they lost it. They had no peace anymore. They lost it. He is reinstating peace within them once again. Now when do we lose peace? And this piece is internal, not external. The world speak of peace. You know, when the world speaks of peace, it's a very ugly, childish picture. They speak of peace, but no one likes no one else. They say we are friends, but they know, they know, they know very well they're not friends. They know very well they're not friends. They speak of peace, and we're neighbors,

8:03 but they're not. Why Because peace comes from one source, only God. And this God I'm saying before the whole world is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is no other God but him. You can believe it, you can reject it, you can accept it, refuse it. It changes not the truth. The truth will always be the truth. Christ is God revealed in the flesh. And don't ever think you'll find another God outside of him. That's the truth. But it's up to you, and whatever you choose, then you are responsible for your choice. I'm just a messenger, but I have decided on which God to believe in, and which God to follow, and which God to profess, confess, and acknowledge Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to his Holy

9:10 and mighty name. You see, when do we lose peace when we lose faith? And when do we lose faith when we have doubts. Suspicion is the number one enemy to faith, And the moment faith is killed by suspicion, faith makes you lose peace. Why because peace is not a word. Peace is a person called Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

9:45 He is that peace. So peace is not a word you write, you read, you invoke. Peace is a person that you believe in and you are attached to. Now, since Christ, WHI is the Peace, the only way to be attached to him is through faith. There is no other way. When you believe in him, you are connected and united to him. The moment you're connected to him, Peace comes from within, since you have believed in the Messiah.

10:25 So when the Lord enters that upper room, the first word he says to them, peace be with you. Why because the Lord was literally saying to them, Since I said peace be with you, means you've lost that peace. Why you lost that peace because you lost that faith in me? Why did you lose that faith in me? Because you all were doubting my resurrection. And since you doubt it, you lost the faith. You lost the connection with Christ. Therefore, where else are you going to get that peace from? The Only source to peace is Jesus Christ, not a treaty signed, not some points put on a piece of paper and we exchange emails. The Church has been trying to unite for centuries on end, yet with no prevail. Why because they are not true to Jesus

11:30 Christ of Nazareth. Some leaders are, but some are not. That's why peace is not being made possible within the church community. Some leaders seek the Lord, but some leaders seek their own glories. Some leaders seek the humility of the Lord Jesus, but some leaders seek the throne the glory of this world. And since Jesus Christ is God, he can never be deceived. You can never lie to him, you can never falsify things, you can never betray him.

12:13 The Lord knows you more than you and me put together. The only time the Lord will make peace possible is when we are honest with ourselves, true to ourselves. When was this peace made possible? On the first day of the week, Sunday, now the very day which the Lord draws from the dead. When he appeared to the disciples, one was missing Thomas, the gorgeous Thomas. So afterwards the disciples saw Thomas, and they said, the Lord has risen.

13:10 They said, no, no such thing. He said, unless I see with my own eyes and I touch with my own hands, I will never believe. So the Lord comes back again into the same upper room. Guess what the following Sunday, not any other day. He rose on Sunday and showed himself to the Apostles, Thomas wasn't there then when he came back to show himself to Thomas, the Lord waited till the following Sunday. Now, why couldn't you Lord go back just the following day, Monday? How about Tuesday?

13:48 How about Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Shabbath? No, the following Sunday. Why Sunday is the first day and Sunday is the eighth day? Number eight. From Sunday to Sunday is eight days. Now, the Lord Jesus rose on Sunday and revealed himself to the apostles and then to Thomas again on Sunday to say, my peace you will only be able to receive when you allow me to bring you into the eighth day, not any other day. This world runs by seven, seven days of the week. This world is governed by number seven.

14:39 Then number eight is outside seven, meaning number eight is the day that is eternity, outside of temporal realm. It's the eternal realm. The Lord is saying, you will never find peace. You will never be able to have peace for as long as you chase this world. The only time you will receive true peace from within, where everything around you is burning but inside of you is a calm oasis. The only time you'll be able to do that is when you let your Master Jesus Christ of Nazareth to bring you out of the seven days into the eighth day eternal realm. What is the seventh day realm physical? What is the eighth day realm spiritual? What is the seven day realm temporal? What is the eighth day realm eternal? What is the seventh day realm tangible? Material?

15:49 What is the eighth day realm heavenly, divine, spiritual, spiritual? Forever? The Lord says, if you chase the world, there will never be peace. The people of the world will never understand what peace is all about. Yes they are able to spell it, Yes they are able to write it. Yes they are able to send it across the continent to the other continent. But they will never be able to live it because they were never able to comprehend it.

16:37 Why because the world rejected the peace Christ, Jesus, the King of Peace, the person who is peace itself. They rejected him. So they try and frantically to make peace. And the more they try frantically to make peace, they make wars, killing one another. Why because every nation, every race, every color says, it's my way, incredible, my beloved. When we lose our peace, we lose our sense of direction.

17:53 We become very disorientated, confused, chaotic, you name it. We need Christ in our lives, we need Christ in our homes, we need Christ in our hearts. Otherwise there is no peace. Why we argue while we fight at home, at work in the church. Just because I come to church, that doesn't mean I have Christ in my heart. Fully, Yet, Christians love the Lord, but each one at a different level, each one in a different way. And sometimes as Christians, we love him our way, not his way. We seek him our way, not his way. That's why when something happens we become agitated, angry, we try to read Tally eight.

19:02 But if we do it His way, even when things are going against our wishes, we will never lose our peace. But since I came to church and the name of the Lord for my own benefits, well, since my own dignity is being scarred a bit, no I'll lose it. I will let anyone do that. But if I'm coming seeking the Lord's dignity, then I need to understand one thing.

19:34 The Lord's dignity goes in two ways, one on Good Friday and the other one on Sunday resurrection. If you are seeking the Lord's dignity for Sunday Resurrection only, you will never be able to get to him. If you do not accept Good Friday, you will never enjoy the glory of Sunday. If we do not accept humility Friday, we will never enjoy glory Sunday resurrection. The Lord's dignity was dragged in the streets of Jerusalem on Good Friday.

20:10 The Lord's dignity was humiliated, was sped on, was punched, kicked, ridiculed, was nailed on the cross, fully naked. People made fun of him, but he kept his peace. Why because everything he did was not for his own benefit. It was to glorify his dad. He never lived for himself. And this is the call Christ is calling all of the human race. Stop living for yourself, because the day you chase the world your way, you want to live your way.

20:46 You just want to focus on yourself, become a selfish, ego centric person. You can never find the Messiah this way because your love will be selfish, not selfless. So when you come you need to let go of your own dignity and live in Christ's dignity, not yours. So when you live in christ dignity, will you accept humility like he accepted on Good Friday? If you will accept that humility being rejected, persecuted, deposed, kicked, punched, sped on.

21:30 If you accept this face sake, then blessed are you for the glory awaits you tomorrow. And when the Lord gives that glory, no one can give it. No one can take it, no matter what, because the Lord is God, and what God does, no one can stop. At home, I want to speak in a simple term, now, my son, when mom says to you, don't do this. Listen. Why do you listen to your friends and not to your parents.

22:21 Do you think your friends are much smarter than your parents? Do you think your friends more no, more than your parents? That is an absolute, non existent It's just a fantasy that doesn't exist. Of course, your friends will tell you what you want to hear, because they are in the same boat as you are. It's like someone alcoholic went to another alcoholic seeking advice whether to give up on alcoholism or not. So he went to his alcoholic friend.

22:50 He said, friend I want to seek your advice. What is it, he said, Is it okay to leave alcohol or not? He said, no, It's the best thing you could ever do. You're asking the wrong person. You want to seek the right advice, Seek it from someone who is much older than you, and not only older than you, but the one who loves you the most. My son, my daughter. No one loves you on the face of this earth, after God, more than your parents. Don't ever let anyone deceive you, even if it's the government. Don't let them deceive you. Yes, respect, honor your father and mother.

23:33 The law of God surpasses every earthly law. Respect honor your father and mother so that God blesses you abundantly and gives you a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life. That is the law that you need to be obedient to. Don't ever lose that peace, don't ever lose your Christ. Love the Lord, trust in the Lord. And when you see yourself weak, extremely fragile, about to fear off, cry out to him say, Lord, I can't carry the heavy Lord anymore. I am heavy burdened. I'm struggling. Lord. The temptations are very fearsful, the trials are beyond my capacity.

24:46 I'm really struggling. Lord, help me. I beg you show me the way. He will never leave you, that's for sure. If you call him from the heart, and you are honest and genuine, calling him from the heart before you finish your prayer, your request, your supplication, before you finish it, the Lord is already fixed it for you. The Lord is the god of hearts, not lips. Because this lip service, we can twist the tongue whichever way we wish. The lips lie, but the heart never lies, and the heart is internal. The Lord has given us a peace that is internal, not external. He wants to give us a peace that lasts forever. And the Lord says, the only time you're at peace when you follow me, not you, not the world, definitely not say it. If the people

25:59 of the world believed in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I can assure you they wouldn't have been a war in Iran, nor any other country nor any other country. There will never ever be anyone like Jesus Christ. Impossible, impossible. The way this man lived, the way this man walked, the way this man talked, no one comes anywhere near him.

26:36 With all love and respect. And I've said it before and I'll say it again. All the religious figures of the world, no matter what they tried to do for the human race, the ultimate, the ultimate they could have achieved, was to make a bad person and change him into a good person. Maybe they came with some values, some principles, you know, morals, ethics of life, and they taught people all these morals and ethics, and the ultimate they could have achieved they couldn't do anymore. The ultimate they would have achieved was to change a bad person into a good person. That's the ultimate. But the Lord Jesus did not come to change a bad person and to a good person. He came to change a dead person into

27:31 a living one. In this there is no comparison. Read the history and its entirety if you can, and all the people that came on the face of this planet, whether religious figures, philosophical figures, politicians, you name it, famous people of influences, who did a lot of changes in the world. Read it. No one, no one, no one, no one ever dared to say, if you believe in me, even if you die, you will live. Only one did it.

28:08 You know why Jesus was able to say, if you believe in me, even if you die, you will live. But if you eat my body and drink my blood, you will live in me forever. You know why, because he is able to give you life. The others that did not say it because they realize they are mortal beings. What they don't have they can never give. Since realizing they are as dead as all of us, then naturally they wouldn't dare to say, if you follow me, I'll give you life. But life, where are you gonna get that?

28:42 Life from? Star City Casino or King's Cross or Las Vegas? Where are you gonna get from? Because they realize they are normal human being mortals. But for Jesus to say, if you believe in me, I'll give you eternal life, because he had eternal life in him and he was able to do that, He's the only human being that ever said that, and they ever claimed that and never fulfill that. There was a figure that came to this world called Jesus. He was crucified one hundred percent, He died in the flesh one hundred percent, he was buried one hundred percent. But on the third day, as he promised, and the scriptures taught and said that he will rise from the dead, and he did, and the disciples witnessed that.

29:39 That's why the Lord Jesus had to reinstate Thomas in the faith again. Because the twelve Apostles, or I should say the eleven and then the twelve Matthias replaced judas his carriat because that guy, poor thing, hanged himself. So since they became the twelve Apostles, the twelve Apostles, we do not refer to them as believers. We refer to them as eyewitnesses. We are the believers. We can't claim to be eyewitnesses because we did not live with Jesus.

30:11 We did not walk with him, We did not live and listened every single day for over three years. The twelve Apostles are eyewitnesses and all of us are believers. So for an eye witness to have lived with the Lord and seeing the miracles the Lord performing, and then seeing the Lord being crucified, then being buried, and then not seeing him after that, what kind of message is he going to deliver? Imagine Thomas going to India, which he went to India and he was martyred in India.

30:45 Either way, he was killed or I beloved people of Indians. But look at him. Now, there are some solid Christians in India. I pray all of India converse to Christ, and the world converse to Christ. So when he went to India, imagine, Saint Thomas goes to India, Welcome, welcome, welcome, And then he says, I'm a disciple of someone called Jesus of Nadred. He lived in Israel, okay, very good.

31:09 And then I saw him doing wonder's a miracle for three years and a bit, very very good. And then he was crucified, not very good. And then he was buried, not so good. And then that's it. He died and I never saw him again. No one would believe. You See, the only reason why Christianity is so true is because the owner rose from the dead. And then Thomas said he died. And then when he rose from the dead, I saw him. I touched him. I put my hand in his wound in his side, and the thing in his hand, and I saw that. Not believed. I saw that.

31:51 I saw that with my own eyes, with my own hand. I touched him because I am an eyewitness, and for an eye witness to send that good news to the world. Must have seen Christ risen, otherwise there is no message to send. Everything dies with the one whoever rose from the dead. But the reason why Christianity is alive and living always because the owners there is a Messiah, and that's the good news. Jesus died and rose from the dead.

32:22 We are the eye witnesses to that, and we are coming to proclaim the good news to the whole world. Christ rose from the dead. That's why, since he rose from the dead, everything he said and everything he did is true, because nobody dies and rises unless he is the creator. So the resurrection of the Lord stamp seals his ministry is one hundred percent true. Like somebody put it this way, he said, imagine you're going. You're walking, and at the end of that road, you come to a cross a tea section like there's right and there is left, And then you don't know which way to take, whether to take right or left. And you see two persons at the end of that road and that tea section.

33:25 One of them is dead and one of them is alive. Which one would you ask for direction? Would you ask the dead please tell me which way do I take right or left? Of course, you're going to ask the one who's alive. That's the difference between Christ and any other figure. Christ is the living one. That's why I'll ask him. I can't ask a de person like me for direction, is as dead as me, as blind as me.

33:50 But I need to ask the living one, the one who sees peace be with you. The Lord is present now and he's saying it now to you, Peace be with you. Have you lost your peace because you're going through some hardships? Have you lost your peace because you're going through some doubts? Have you lost your peace because you've been asking something and Christ hasn't given it to you yet, and you started doubting. Maybe he has forgotten about me. Maybe he was walked away from me. Maybe maybe I need to wake up to myself and stop praying, stop going to church, stop asking Jesus because he's not answering me. And now you lost your faith, and all of a sudden, inside of you is a battlefield. No more peace. Come back, my son, come back, my daughter.

34:42 Christ is the true living Messiah. Trust in him when you ask him for something, Go and sleep at peace, knowing, believing that your prayer has already been answered but you better trust Christ to give it his way, not your way. Don't ask for something from the Lord and expect him to give it to you your way. God will never do it your way. Get it through your head. God is, God will always be. God will not be like you a minute intellectual capacity. Leave it to the one who knows everything, and who knows how to do it, when to do it, and the way to do it. Leave it.

35:39 I wanted to be a priest in two thousand and three. I was dying for it. I couldn't believe it. I tried everything under the sun just to be a priest. I was forcing it. And you know what, I put it under the banner that I love you Lord. You see how many times we do that. Hey, we're acting. We're faking it. Warm up, we're acting just in the name of the Lord. Lord. I love you. I just want to be a priest for you. No, I love you.

36:09 I want to be a priest because I have my own ideas that are on to implement, and I'm thinking when I be a priest, I'll be able to do it. I was doing it for myself, not for the Lord. The Lord Jesus said, Okay, you want to be a priest, not a problem. Two days left for my ordination, I got kicked out of the church by the highest strength in the church. The Lord said, well, I've answered you.

36:32 Don't you like the way I treat you, the way I deal with it? You were dying to be a priest. I made the highest strength to depose you from the church. Two days left for the ordination. I was shattered, gone with the wind, the biggest shock in my entire life. Six years later, the very people who deposed me ordained me a priest, and two years later they ordained me a bishop. And then I got kicked out. Do you see me, I've lost it. I even lost the eye, and I haven't lost it yet. Do you see what the Lord did to the spece of wreck. The Lord wants to teach you one thing. Whatever I give you, don't you ever focus on the gift and forget the one who gave you that gift. I gave you healing.

37:39 I gave you the gift of preaching, and I gave you the gift of singing. Don't ever lose track who gave it to you. Don't let that gift make you forget that it is Christ. And Christ only you and me. Without Him, we are absolutely nothing. Don't ever lose that peace Christ gives trust in the Lord. Amen. Let's bow our heads and the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.

38:24 Our good garden full of mercy, Our good garden, full of mercy, whose grace and mercy is poured upon all poor. 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 and 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.

39:02 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 bless you, guide you, protect you, fill your life with joy and happiness. Love the Lord, my beloved is. Don't worry about the world too much. Leave the dead to bury their dead.

39:27 Don't waste your time on the world. Don't waste too much time on people, what they think and what they say, and where they go and what they do. Focus on you and on your sweetheart Jesus. Doesn't matter what people think of you, doesn't matter what they say about you. You focus on the Lord and focus on your own weaknesses.

39:53 Stop pointing the finger at others. Look at your own self, look at your own self. Love the Lord, Love the Lord. I just want to say like to pass our sincerest and warmest of congratulations to our beloved brother in Christ, his eminence Emil Norna, who happens to be at the present time the Bishop or the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He has been in the last few days selected and chosen to be the head or the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church of Iraq and the entire world.

40:43 So we would like to wish our beloved brother, his Eminence and very soon his Holiness amil Nona, and he will go by the name of Paul the Third. Paul the Third. We pray that Saint Paul is with him always, and by the prayers and the intercession of Saint Paul, this mighty warrior of the Lord Jesus, that our beloved you patriarch, will be always close to Christ, faithful to the Lord, and faithful to the flock of the Lord Jesus.

41:17 We wish him all the very best, and may the Lord use him for his glory, and may the Lord grant him that wisdom to discern what is the will of the Lord in his life as the as the shepherd to the Church, to the flock of Christ. And may he be a wonderful example to all of us might beloved. So from the bottom of my heart, I say, my beloved brother in Christ, Milna, we are extremely happy for you, and we pray and we wish you all the very best. And we beg you with absolute humility to pray for us and remember us every time you are in prayer. We need your prayer, Sayidna, your Eminence, and we wish you all the very best. So very soon he will be going back to Iraq, Mesopotamia, where he comes from and originally he's been here for over

42:14 a decade, but he's going back to Iraq because that's where the seed is in Iraq. So we wish him all the very best and the sincerest and warmest congratulations to his eminence, saidna A Milnora, for this priceless gift the Lord has given him to be the head and the patriarch of the Church and to the entire ecclesiastical order of the Chaldean Catholic Church and the entire faithful Chaldean beloved of ours worldwide. Warmest and sincerest congratulations for your new elected Patriarch, saydna amil Nona.