Why Christ Didn't Disrespect the Virgin Mary - Bishop Mar Mari

0:00 The Holy Mother's life is one of the clearest biblical pictures on how a human being should surrender fully to God's will and God's grace. She is this perfect picture that reveals to us how a human being should truly surrender to God's will and God's grace. The Holy Mother reveals it in absolute clarity the way she lived all her life for the Almighty God. In our Holy Church and in all apostolic churches worldwide, But in our Holy Church tradition, we do not contemplate on the Holy Mother apart from Christ. But rather, we contemplate on her being one with Christ because simply her entire life points toward Christ.

1:06 She lived for her son. Everything she did and everything she said, whether it was small or big, she did it To glorify her beloved son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That's why our church tradition teaches us that we contemplate on the Holy Mother, one with Christ, never separated from Christ. When the Archangel Gabriel came to the Holy Mother, he announced something that was beyond human understanding.

1:40 He said to her in Luke 1.35, The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the highest will overshadow you. Now these words are heavenly, are divine. They came straight from the mouth of God through the angel, the archangel Gabriel. So they were absolutely divine words coming from the true divine living God. These words are beyond human intellect. Beyond. Beyond. they cannot be comprehended by the human intellect. But the Holy Mother, even though she did not understand fully what the Archangel Gabriel was saying to her, yet her response was in Luke 1.38, Behold the maidservant of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word. Let it be to me according to your word.

2:46 Even though I don't understand what you just said Archangel Gabriel. But I will not question. I will not doubt. I will not ask. I will not say anything. But I'll say one thing. Let it be done unto me according to the very words which you just said to me. Because I surrendered my life for God. And whatever he says, I will never ask. I'll never question. I'll just say, let it be done to me according to your word, O Lord. And this is the central contemplation of the entire life of our Holy Mother. This very verse, Luke 138.

3:35 Behold the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be done to me according to your word. This verse is the central contemplation of the entire Mother Mary's life on earth. The Holy Mother never said, I will obey when I understand. I will follow when I get it in my head. She never said none of that. Because what she was saying, to the angel and to all of us to teach us this profound lesson. She's saying, I belong to God and it is enough for me for His will to be done in my life. I belong to God and it is more than enough for me for His will to be done in my life. This kind of a faith is the pure in its form. It is the pure faith in its form, my beloved. The church, therefore, sees the Holy Mother not merely as a woman who

4:45 received a miraculous privilege, but as the obedient servant in whom humanity responds properly to God. In other words, the Holy Mother illustrates how a true servant of God should be because the way she responded to the will of God, the way she reacted to the will of God, this is what God is seeking in every single one of us.

5:16 Don't question, don't doubt, do not be afraid. Just surrender and then see what God will do for you at the end. There are so many ways we approach the Holy Bible when we want to have a commentary on it. Example, we can approach the Holy Bible in a spiritual sense. We can approach it in a biblical sense. We can approach it in a literal sense. We can approach it in a contemplative sense. We can approach it in a theological sense. We can approach it in a typological sense.

5:54 In typology, the Holy Mother is everywhere in the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Because some people say there is not much mentioned about the Holy Mother. Even in the New Testament when we come, only a few things here and there, not much mentioned about Mary. But when you come in the typological explanation, she is in every place in the entire Bible from Genesis, Old Testament to Revelation, the end of the New Testament. She is everywhere. So now when we approach in a typological way, well, just like there was the former Adam and there is the latter Adam, as St. Paul writes in his epistle to the Ephesians, he speaks in a typological way. He says there is the former Adam and the latter Adam. The

6:48 latter Adam meaning Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Just like there is former Adam and latter Adam, well, guess what? There is the former Eve and the new Eve, Mother Mary. That is typology. Well, let's look at our mother Eve. Our mother Eve listened to the serpent and disobeyed God. The new Eve, our holy mother Mary, she listened to the angel and obeyed God. The former listened to the serpent, disobeyed God. The New Eve, Mary, our Holy Mother, listened to the angel and obeyed God. Through Eve came the ancient tragedy of disobedience. And through the New Eve, the Holy Mother, came Jesus Christ to heal the fallen humanity.

7:46 One of our church fathers, St. Ephraim the Great, 4th century saint of our church, He says, through a woman death entered while through Mary came the one who overcame death. The Holy Mother's greatness comes entirely from the greatness of the one whom she carried in her womb. The Holy Mother's greatness comes entirely from the one whom she carried in her womb, my beloved. Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Mary lived fully for Christ. Therefore, the greatness of Christ was bestowed upon her as well. I want to share in few points certain aspects of our Holy Mother's life. How she lived on earth. In few points. Number one. The Holy Mother teaches us that holiness begins here. With surrender.

8:54 The Holy Mother teaches us that holiness begins with surrender. When the Holy Mother said, Behold the maidservant of the Lord. When she said, I am the maidservant of the Lord, the archangel Gabriel said, God has chosen you to be his dwelling place. God is going to dwell in you and become a man. She could have been full of, you know, self-glory. Oh, wow. God chooses me. I'm going to be his mom. That is beautiful. unheard of. Imagine the glory she could have, you know, accredited to herself.

9:32 Imagine that self-pride that would have engulfed her. But rather, when the archangel said, you will be the mother and the bearer of God in your womb, she came back and said to the archangel, behold, I am the maidservant of the Lord. The Lord chose me to be his mom. But in return, I'll say to the Lord, I am your maidservant. exceed that level when it comes to the Lord I will never elevate myself beyond a maid servant you know when a servant looks at their master how far can the servant look up to that master They cannot pass the hand. If the servant looks straight in the face of the master, that servant would have been beheaded back then. So when the servant speaks to his master, he will lift his head up as far as the

10:34 hand of the master is concerned. He can't go any further. It is out of bounds for the servant. She said, I am the maidservant, meaning I am kissing your hand, Lord. I can't pass that level. I can't look into your face. I'm not worthy. Yet the Lord made her worthy. Look at the Holy Mother. How incredible she is. Incredible she is, my beloved. I am the maidservant of the Lord. After she said this, immediately straight after that, the Holy Mother herself in Luke 1.48, she says again, For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed. On one hand, she said, I am the maidservant of the Lord. And straight after she said, all generations will call me blessed. What is she trying to tell to us? She's saying this. I

11:33 humbled myself before the Lord and the Lord honored me. All generations will call me blessed. And today we are living in the 21st century and we are still venerating the Holy Mother, honoring the Holy Mother and saying, Oh, blessed Holy Mom, pray for all of us. Why? Because she prophesied by the will of God and the grace of God. That I will give you an honor no one has ever reached in the entire human race. No one.

12:10 And no one will ever reach. You are just unique. Just like her son is unique, so is the mother. Her son is the only person that is born of an earthly mother, no earthly father. Because his father is the one who art in heaven. So Jesus Christ is the only one born into this realm with an earthly mother only. In the same likeness, the Holy Mother is the only woman out of all women who is virgin and mother at the same time. It is unheard of for a virgin to be a mother and still maintain her virginity. The only one who remained virgin before and after the holy mother extremely unique extremely special none like her none will ever be like her so my beloved she's saying the person who seeks humility god honors that

13:16 person and this one echoes what christ taught us always and said whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. Matthew 23, 12. Whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. The Holy Mother humbled herself before God. God exalted her beyond and above. Not only the saints, but even the entire angelic orders in heaven.

13:43 On earth, she was the maidservant of Christ. In heaven, she is the queen sitting at the right hand of the King of Kings, Christ, our Lord and Savior. Our veneration of the Holy Mother should never become admiration without imitation. When we venerate the holy mom, we should not just admire her, we need to also imitate her. What's the point of praising the holy mom but not imitating what our mom lived, how she lived and how she taught us to live? We need to imitate the holy mother as well. It is easy to praise the holy mother But it is very hard to imitate the words which he said to the angel. Let it be done unto me according to your word. So hard to let go of our own selves. So hard. See, my beloved, when

14:51 God's will is comfortable in our life, we accept it very easily. But what about when God's will Interrupts our plans. I planned to marry Rachel and God said no you're going to marry Elizabeth. Are you going to listen to God? Are you going to obey his will? Or are you going to insist on your own will to be done and insist even to God? You'll say, no, God, I'm not happy with Elizabeth. I want Rachel. I'm going to marry Rachel. But God says, no, Rachel is not the right match for you. It is Elizabeth. Trust my decisions as God. I know much better than you. so when his will is easy we accept it but when it is against our will we fight it a million times we don't give in that easily we try to find every excuse under the sun just to say to god

15:52 please let it be done my way not your way isn't it true or not come on you agree you agree or not come on come on be honest with yourself um And also, what about when God's will, meaning when we are obedient to Him, what about when it costs us something very, very expensive? Are we going to still do the will of God? Even when it's costing us a lot? It's a question we need to answer. See, my beloved, the Holy Mother, this very tiny word, yes, that word, that the Holy Mother said, let it be done to me according to your word, Archangel, which is the word of God. Initially, the Holy Mother's word, this word, yes, could have brought her misunderstanding, humiliation, rejection, and it did.

16:54 The moment she accepted that divine will to be done in her life, she never had rest in her life. Never. Till the day she left this world, she lived in a lot of pain, sorrows, tears, agonies. The Holy Mother put, she put God's will above her reputation, above her personal life, above her personal plans, above her own security and safety.

17:29 She put God's will above her entire self. That's why the Holy Mother's obedience is extremely powerful. And this is why the Holy Mother's intercession on our behalf to her beloved son is as extremely powerful also. Her obedience to God is so powerful, so as her influence on her son, so powerful. Because when you are obedient to him, whatever you ask of him, it shall be done. It shall be done. That's why when the Holy Mother intercedes for someone like me, it's not like any other saint's intercession.

18:13 She's much more powerful than all the saints put together. Because her obedience to God was beyond. All saints, obedience. She's just an incredible figure. Now, I just want to bring your attention to something very profound. In Christianity, Christ, who is God, revealed in the flesh, honored the woman more than anyone else. The Holy Mother surpasses all. Honored the woman more than anyone else. My beloved daughters, women, you have a huge responsibility on your hands. I believe if the woman has the fear of the Lord in her heart, she can turn hell into heaven. She is the one who changes the house into a home. She is the one that multiplies and gives in return a hundredfold and a thousandfold moreover. That's why the Holy Bible,

19:26 when it talks about wisdom, it refers to wisdom as her, not he. The Holy Bible says, the book of Proverbs, which is the book of wisdom, King Solomon, he says, wisdom built her house. You see, the woman is multitasked. The man can only do one thing at a time. So my beloved woman, you have a huge responsibility on your hands. Look after your men because without you, they are extremely fragile. They can't last. The Holy Mother's obedience is extremely powerful. That's why her intercession is as powerful as her obedience. Second point, the Holy Mother carried Christ first in faith, then in her womb. She carried Christ first in her heart, then in her womb. Before Christ was visibly formed in her womb, His word was received

20:27 in her heart. The Archangel Gabriel spoke, the Holy Mother believed. Jesus was not conceived as yet. Archangel said, you know, you are chosen. She said, I believe, let it be done to me according to your word. She received Christ, the Logos, who is the word. She received this word, the word, in her heart first, before the womb. Angel Gabriel spoke, the Holy Mother believed. Upon the belief of the Holy Mother, God became man. If the Holy Mother had rejected Archangel Gabriel's saying, God would have waited for another woman, another virgin. He wouldn't have become man. Look at the faith of this woman. Saved trillions of people.

21:25 From her time till now, how many trillions have come and gone? Heaven is going to be full of saints. The Holy Mother was the reason for all of them being in heaven. Her faithfulness to God's will saved me and you because she gave us Christ the Savior. Are you with me? So I don't want you to misunderstand what I'm saying. Christ is the only one who forgives sins.

21:54 Christ is the only one who is the Savior and the Redeemer. But it was the faith of this woman Little girl around 14, 15 years of age only. When the archangel Gabriel appeared to her, she was extremely young. A little child, yet so awesome in her love for God. So awesome in her faithfulness to God. So awesome in her obedience to God. So awesome in her humility to God.

22:21 She was a unique, amazing, incredible young girl. She accepted the will of God personally. in her life, yet not knowing what the outcome of that will be. And she suffered immensely. She went through hell. to raise her son till the age of 30. And at the age of 33, she went through even a greater hell, seeing her son shredded to pieces on the cross, bleeding to death and unable to do anything. Yet she stood firm. She was never shaken. She was never broken. She never whinged, complained and spoke anything against God. Yet she kept her silence and absolutely knowing that God has got it all under control.

23:13 This is the mother that deserves to be the true mother. So faithful, so honorable in everything she did. So it was the faith of the Holy Mother and the belief by accepting the word given to her by the Archangel Gabriel. Then The second person was conceived in her womb. God became man through the faith of this young girl. This gives us an important spiritual principle and that is Christ must first be received in our hearts before anything else.

23:58 If Christ does not dwell in our hearts, there is no faith. There is no belief. We need to accept him in our heart. We need to welcome him in our heart. We need to make our heart that manger. That welcomed Christ to be born in it. Let your heart be that manger. To welcoming the word. Be incarnate and be revealed and transfigured in your life. The creator...

24:30 Look at the Creator, look at God, how awesome He is in His humility and in His love for His creation. The Creator became contained within His creation. The one who created Mary was conceived in her womb. Incredible. Incredible what kind of a God is this? How humble is He? How loving is He beyond any intellectual capacity and understanding?

24:58 The Creator became contained within His own creation. The one who fashioned the Holy Mother in her mother's womb, Mother Anne. Who was the mother of our mother Mary. The one who created and fashioned Mary. In her mother's womb. Dwelled in mother Mary's womb. Incredible. The infinite became an infant.

25:26 The infinite became an infant. The ancient of days. As the prophet of the Old Testament Ezekiel speak of. The ancient of days entered our time. To speak truthfully about the Holy Mother is to confess truthfully who Christ is. To speak truthfully about the Holy Mother, we need to speak truthfully about Christ and who Christ truly is. Point number three, Mary points us away from herself and toward Christ.

26:09 You go and ask the Holy Mother's help, she will always take you to her son. She will never take you to herself. She never did that on earth. She never does that while she's in heaven. Never. You ask her help, she will come to your rescue by taking you to her son. 100% every time, all the time without fail. While on earth, she never did anything for herself.

26:36 She never said to people, come and get to know me. She never did that. When people approached her, she said, okay, I'll take you to my son. Come and know my son. Come and get to know my son. Because this is what I did on earth. I lived around 50, between 48 and 52 years of age. Around the 50 mark she lived. Her life was about 50 years, 52. All her life on earth, she said, I live to get to know my son. And anyone who approaches me, I will teach you everything my son taught me. Everything I learned about my son, I will teach you about my son. Come, grab my hand. I'm your mom. I'll take you to my beloved son because he is God. He's the one who can save you, who can forgive you, who can redeem you. The Holy Mother points us away from herself.

27:29 And toward her beloved son. And we see this in the wedding of Cana of Galilee. Please pay attention to this. In Cana of Galilee. Which is in John chapter 2. The Holy Mother was there. The Holy Bible says. Jesus and his disciples were invited. But the Holy Mother was already there. She wasn't invited. The word invited was not used for the Holy Mother. Anyway. They run out of wine.

27:59 Let me tell you something that is absolutely customary in the Middle Eastern culture. Now, Israel, Palestine is the Middle East, part of the Middle East. So in the Middle Eastern culture, back in the olden days, especially, and when I say olden days, like, for example, my country, Iraq, if I go back 100 years, not 1,000, 2,000 years, 100 years.

28:21 I miss my country Iraq, man. I have to go and see my country Iraq. Anyway, so in those good old days, whenever there was a wedding in a village, in a town, the wedding would go for seven days, seven nights on end. It's not like now, you come and stand before the holy altar and the priest, come on, hurry up, father. Yes, I do, I do, I do, I do. Sit in the limousine, go to the airport and fly to Hawaii. No, baby. It was seven days, seven nights. The bride is sitting in her own parents' house, not seeing the groom which she married seven days ago, until the seven days are over. Then the veil is revealed.

29:03 And the veil is not like now, transparency through. It was a blanket. So you had to cross your fingers while lifting the veil to see if you've married Mariah Carey or someone else. And if it was someone else, then you'll say, Lord, have mercy. Then you have to take her to Istanbul to have a bit of a change in the looks. Anyway, so I'm trying to cheer you up, man. You're too quiet. In the wedding of Cana, it was the Holy Mother who realized they ran out of wine. None of the disciples, none of the 12 apostles understood anything to ask the Lord Jesus. It was the mother. So she comes to the Lord. I'm going to dwell on this a little bit. She comes to the Lord Jesus and She says, they ran out of wine.

30:03 They don't have wine. It is the most bizarre, weird dialect between the son and the mother, the mother and the son. There is no connection between that dialect when you look at it and I'll elaborate on it. But it is so deep. It is so profound. It is so connected. Us, little babies and spiritualities we missed the mark so the Holy Mother realizes they have no wine now that means they've been drinking wine for seven days if you drink wine for seven hours I think you'll be extremely drunk so imagine seven days after you're not only drunk you're swimming in an ocean of wine she comes to the Lord as she says They've run out of wine. Her son, the Lord Jesus, looks at her, at his mom, and he says, what's it to you

31:10 and me, women? My hour hasn't come yet. Now, but look at the Holy Mother. You need to read between the lines sometimes when you read the Holy Bibles. When the Holy Mother realized they don't have wine, normally, as a normal human being, somebody who is normal when I say as far as spirituality and faith in God is just, you know, like everybody else, normal. She would have gone to the MC. Back then, the MC of the wedding was the father of the groom. That was the MC, so it was the father. Meaning he is the owner of the wedding. So when they run out of wine, you would go to the one who put this wedding together in the first place. True or not? But the Holy Mother, realizing they run out of wine, she didn't

32:03 go to the MC. She didn't go to the groom's father, the owner of the wedding. She went to her son. Why? Because she knows already whenever you are in trouble, only God who is Christ Jesus can help you. No one else. Look at the faith. Unbreakable, unshakable. Amazing woman. Amazing. If the righteous lives forever, then Mary is the mother of all righteous people. If the righteous lives forever, then she lives forever and ever more than ever. How can you say Mary is dead? Now she goes to her son because she knows, she believes her son is God. And the only one who can help you is God, who is my son. She goes straight to him. They don't have wine. Look at her son. The reply's got nothing to do with the question. What's it to you and me, woman?

33:06 My hour hasn't come yet. Now, if the holy mother was not that deep in her faith, in her love for her son, she would have said, Sorry son, can you explain what do you mean? All I said is they don't have wine. Why are you answering me this way? What's it to you and me women? My hour hasn't come yet? What has this got to do with running out of wine? What hour? She never questioned her son.

33:40 You know why? She never questioned her son from the first moment the archangel Gabriel appeared to her And said you are chosen by God. God is going to dwell in your womb. She said let it be done to me according to your word. She never questioned him from the very beginning. Never questioned him her entire life. And at the very end of her life. And until this moment.

34:04 And for eternity to come. She will never question him. So instead of saying, Lord, what do you mean your hour hasn't come yet? And what has that got to do with my request? They've run out of wine. Can you please explain? No. Instead, what did she do? She turned to the 12 apostles. And she said to them, whatever your master says to you, you do. Exact words what she said to the archangel Gabriel. Let it be done to me according to your word. She said the same words to the disciples trying to teach us. Just like I, Mary, said to God, I want you all to say the same way I said to God. Follow your mother. Learn from your mother and do as your mother did on earth. Let it be according to your word, not mine. Let your will be done, not my will,

35:04 O Lord. So she turns to the 12 apostles. She says, whatever your master tells you to do, you do. And the apostles listened to the mother. She is the mother of the apostles. She is the mother of the saints. She is the mother of the church. She is our mother by the will of God. They fill six jars all the way to the top with water. The Lord Jesus changes the water into wine. And he says, go and call the MC, the groom's father. So the groom's father comes swinging, drunk, seven days, you know, drinking. So he comes and he drinks from the wine which Christ made by changing the water into it. So when he drinks from that wine, he says the following to the Lord Jesus. He says, us, we put first the good

36:05 quality wine before the invitees. And once they are drunk, we put the cheap stuff wine afterwards. Because after you're drunk, you won't know what you're drinking. If we're going to put for seven days and seven nights quality wine, I don't think the Federal Reserve Bank will be enough to cater for our wedding. Therefore, we can't afford quality wine.

36:29 It's expensive. We'll put first the quality wine while they are sober. Once they drink it and they become drunk, we put a $ 2 shop wine. You know, we got it from the $ 2 shop. I do for you. $ 2 shop. He said, but you... To the Lord. He said, but you have kept the good quality wine till the end. I ask you a question. Someone who is drunk seven days on end drinking wine. And then he drinks wine again.

37:02 Would he become sober or more drunk? Would he become sober or more drunk? He would be more drunk. How did this man realize that this is a quality wine only in one way? He became sober when he drank it. Now, which wine makes you sober? Only one wine. Take, drink, this is my blood. This wine only. The heavenly wine makes us sober. Just like that earthly wine, when we drink it, it makes us drunk and we don't realize our right hand from our left hand. So as sin makes us drunk spiritually where we miss the mark and we lose track of Christ altogether. It is that sin that makes us drunk, my beloved. Christ went to that caner of Galilee to give his blood so that we drink it. And by that blood, which he shed later

38:08 on on the cross Calvary, that blood washes away our sins. Then once we are sin free, we are sober, we are now realizing Jesus. Where the truth is and where the lie is. Where the light is and where darkness is. Where life is and where death is. Where Christ is and where Satan is. It was the blood that the Lord changed from water into wine. It was his blood.

38:37 So Cana of Galilee, John chapter 2 is Golgotha Calvary, John chapter 19. It's the same event. But the Lord revealed Calvary before its time in the wedding of Cana of Galilee. This is why the Lord said to Holy Mother, it is not my hour yet. Which hour? The hour of the cross. The hour of the cross. That hour hasn't come yet women. But because you asked for it.

39:09 I can't say no to you. Because you've been obedient to my father. Then I will do as you wish. I'll reveal my divinity before it's time. Before the time has come. Before the hour of the cross has come. I will reveal my divinity. Because you interceded Mary. Now. for the Lord to change water into wine, only God can do this. That's why the Lord revealed his divinity in the wedding of Cana of Galilee. There is something, there is a substance present in wine, absent in water, carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is present in wine, absent in water.

39:53 Now who can create out of nothing everything? Only God. Who can create out of there is absolutely nothing into something? Only God can. What do we do? We are creative beings. He is the only creator. We're creatives, meaning... If I make a wooden table, I was only able to make that wooden table because there is trees. I did not create the trees, God did. But where did the trees come from? Nothing. Who is Jesus? The seed of the woman.

40:31 This is why when the Lord referred to her as woman in Cana of Galilee and on Golgotha, he was honoring her beyond honors because she is the woman of Genesis 3.15. You with me? Now when we refer to the Holy Mother nowadays as the mother of God, All the apostolic churches, they refer to the Holy Mother as the mother of God. What does that mean, mother of God?

41:02 Is she the mother of the divine God? No. Because who was born of her? If we're going to say only God, that's not true. Only human, that's not true. It was God united to that human side in the person of Christ. It was the divine uniting himself to the humanity, becoming man. God became man. The Holy Mother gave birth to the one who became man. The Logos incarnate.

41:35 The Word, the Son of God who dwelt in her womb, took upon himself the human nature and became man. She gave birth to this person. This person is Christ who is the unity between divinity and humanity. So when we say the mother of God, I'll ask you, which God are you referring to? They'll say Christ. And if I say she's the mother of Christ, well, which Christ are you referring to? I'll say God, who became man. It's a big controversy for a long time, but sad, very sad.

42:14 So is it wrong to say Mary, the mother of God? No. Is it wrong to say Mary, mother of Christ? No. Both are correct. Both are correct. Imagine this with me, my beloved. This woman has a son. The son's name is John and John is a doctor. If I say this woman is Elizabeth. Elizabeth has a son. His name is John and John her son is a doctor. If I say Elizabeth is the mother of John, is she the mother of John only or is she the mother of doctor also? John is doctor. So when I say she is the mother of John, so what does that make her? The mother of the doctor as well, isn't it?

42:59 If I say she is the mother of the doctor, she is also the mother of John because John is doctor as well at the same time. So Mary, mother of God, Christ Mary mother of Christ God revealed in the flesh but the reason why he called her woman it was out of respect not disrespect she is the woman of Genesis 3 15 and because he revealed his divinity because his blood is for the forgiveness of sins and only God can forgive sins therefore as God the divine cannot have a mother therefore she is the woman of Genesis 3 15 who gave birth to to the logos incarnate. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, as John the Beloved mentions in his gospel. The Holy Mother, she points us all to her Son, not to herself.

43:53 She went to him, said, they've run out of wine, but the moment he said, it's not my hour, she turned to the disciples and said, do as he says. I've done my part now. I interceded. Now I'm going to take you to my son. You need to go to him, not to me. He's the one who's going to change the water into wine. The moment when he said, my hour hasn't come, she knew he's going to do something now. That's why she turned to the disciples. She said, my son is going to do a miracle. You want to see God's miracle in your life? Ask the Holy Mother for guidance. One of the ways to see God working in your life, seek the Holy Mother's help. Seek the Holy Mother's help. One of the biggest ways of seeing a miracle in your life. The Holy Mother will

44:49 definitely take you to her son. Will definitely show you the way. Will definitely teach you on how to live for Christ, for her beloved son. She will never take the credit. Never. She never done it, never will. Try it. I've tried it all my life. She never failed me. So no one can come and say, now the Holy Mother can't hear you. She's gone now a long time ago.

45:22 No such thing. If there's anybody dead, we are dead. They are living up there. We are the ones who are dead on earth. They are the living ones, not us. So when you seek the Holy Mother's intercession, she will take you to her beloved son. She is incredible. One last thing. The Holy Mother teaches us to have a silent faith. To have a silent faith. Twice, Scripture says the following about the Holy Mother. We find the first one in Luke 2.19. Luke 2.19 says, Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And again, in Luke 2.51, His mother kept all these things in her heart. A silent faithful. Living in the heart, not on the lips. The heart, my beloved. The Holy Mother

46:41 was surrounded with a lot of mysteries and miracles that surpass human intellect. She saw angels in her life. There was prophecies being fulfilled right before her eyes. Shepherds came. Said we saw the angels of heaven saying glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and we came to tell you what we saw She saw all that she lived all that she saw the wise men coming all the way from Persia Iran and bowed and worshiped her beloved son who was about a year and a half old a Baby one and a half year old they bowed in worship before her son. She lived all that She went into Egypt and Running away from the sword of Herod the king. And she saw Christ growing before her very eyes. My goodness. I can imagine

47:35 this with me for a moment. Just contemplate on this. The Holy Mother realizes this baby in him is God. God meaning is her creator, creator of everything, heaven, earth, visible, invisible, the spiritual, the tangible realms. This is the creator, but he is my baby. He is my child. I gave birth to this human being, but this human being is not just perfect man. He is also perfect God at the same time, but he's my son. So when he was a baby, he cried, I ran. I fed him.

48:11 I washed him. I changed him. I clothed him. I put him to sleep. And I spoke to him about the love of God. I took him to the temple. I showed him the way to the house of the Lord. I shared everything with him. And when the time came, they wanted to kill him. I ran away all the way from Israel to Egypt. I lived there three and a half years in Egypt. And I saw endless miracles my son performing before my very eyes. And then after three and a half years, I came back. I raised him till he was 30. And sometimes I would go whenever he went to preach. Sometimes I would go and listen to him. And then when he was 33, they said to me, your son is being dragged in the streets of Jerusalem. His body is being shredded. He's bleeding

49:09 from head to toe. They're going to kill him. I ran. What kind of a... What was going through her head? through her mind through her heart through her entire soul when she saw her son shredded to pieces nailed fully naked on the cross she remained silent never said I will revenge Disciples, come and kill those who are trying to kill my son. Read the Holy Bible, the New Testament.

49:47 Nowhere in the New Testament Scripture that the Holy Mother said anything. She stood at his feet on Golgotha in total silence, trusting God. And I can only imagine that it was like a movie being replayed again all over from the first moment the archangel Gabriel appeared to her And she said, let it be to me according to your word. I trust in God's will from that moment till the very end. I trust in God's will. My heart is pierced, my son, for you. But I trust what you're doing is only good. Nothing but good. She saw her son being rejected. She saw her son being crucified.

50:35 She saw all of these. Yet she never demanded any explanation from God. It's not mentioned at all. She never said, God, why? Why are you doing this to me? Why are you doing this to my son? Why? Why are you hurting me, God, as we say? As we whinge and complain when things go really harsh on us, we complain where is God?

51:07 Why isn't He doing something about it? The Holy Mother, her only son whom she raised with immense sacrifices. The whole world wanted to kill Him. She protected Him from the whole world and at the end she sees Him dying in front of her eyes yet Not saying not even one word, one complaint, nothing. What kind of a faith do you have Holy Mother? Incredible, incredible. As mothers, if you only hear your son is in a little bit of a trouble, you lose it. You go crazy.

51:56 You run in the street like crazy. My son, my daughter. Oh, no way. I will not let anybody touch my son. Anybody touches him, I'll kill him. Isn't it? When your baby has got a 39... Temperature, 40. You run like crazy. You don't care if it's 1 o'clock in the morning, 2 o'clock. You wake your husband whether he likes it or not. And you better take us right now in pajamas, whatever.

52:23 Right now, I don't care. You'll run like crazy. It is the only time you never put up makeup and make yourself look beautiful. It's when your baby is in pain. You go as you are natural. Hmm. Because you don't care about your looks. Because the love that you have for your baby surpasses you. Surpasses you. Then how much more the Holy Mother for her only baby who is a gift from heaven. Not just any baby. This is God becoming man. And he's being shredded. She didn't even say, But my son, your God, you can wipe all these persecutors.

53:11 You can wipe him from existence. No. She stood firm, total silence. Faith in silence gets you out of trouble when you are in a lot of suffering and a lot of pain. When you go through hardships in life, go quiet. Go quiet. When things are going wrong in your life, go in absolute silence and sit at the feet of the Lord and speak to Him in silence.

53:49 Don't scream behind closed doors. Don't. Even when you are alone in the house. You are alone in the room. But you have a lot of heavy burdens. It's going to break you now. You're going to be drowned forever. Sit in silence at his feet. And speak to him in silence. Like the Holy Mother. And see what the Lord is going to do. On Good Friday. Her heart was peace. Like that old man Simon Simeon. In the temple.

54:24 When he received the baby. Jesus. He said. Your heart will be pieced. He was talking about the crucifixion. Your heart will be pieced. And her heart was pieced on Golgotha. But on Sunday resurrection. The Lord healed her heart. Mom. I love you. You know. You remained faithful mom. And that's what I love about you mother. That is why.

54:53 When people came and said to the Lord, your mother is waiting outside to see you. He said, who is my mother? He turned to the disciples. He said, he who does the will of my father is my mother. Meaning, he was not disrespecting his mom. He was not denying his mom. Because simply, Christ can never deny his mom.

55:15 You know why? Because one of the ten commandments, which he himself gave to Moses in the Old Testament. It's the same God. He said, honor your father and mother so that I may bless you and give you a long life. The very God who gave this commandment to Moses, he cannot break it in the end of times because he had a mother in the end of times. And this mother must be honored because that is the law of God. Therefore, Jesus can never disrespect the holy mom because she is his mom. Honor your mom so that I can bless you and give you a long life.

55:53 So that's why my beloved, when he said to that person, who is my mom? It is the one who does the will of my father. Meaning, my mother, I love her and honor her not because she is my mother only, but because she did the will of my father. That is why her honor is forever. And he whoever does the will of my father, I will love them the way I love my mom. Another woman came, she said, blessed are the breasts that fed you and the womb that carried you. He said to her, but more so, he didn't deny that one, Lord. No, no, no. He said, but more so, I say to you, woman, blessed is the one who does the will of my father. You were referring to my mom when you said, blessed the womb that carried you and the breasts that fed you.

56:44 You're referring to my mom, I know. Definitely she is blessed because she carried me and she breastfed me. But you know what? My mom is much more blessed because she did the will of my father. Imagine if my mother is blessed because she carried me in her womb. The moment she gives birth, that blessing is gone. The moment she stops breastfeeding me, that blessing is gone. But my mother's blessing is forever because she did the will of my father. That is why, mother, You will always be my mom. I will always honor you. I will always respect you. I will always love you and adore you.

57:21 And I will always do when you ask me for things, mother. Because you did the will of my dad, I will do what you ask me to do. The Lord Jesus, as God, not a baby, he saw how much Mary suffered. He never forgets when we suffer for the sake of the Lord. So if we are going through some pains now and we're struggling with them, just hang in there.

57:50 Give it back to the Lord Jesus. And I say, Lord, forgive me and accept this suffering. I pray that you use this suffering for your glory and see what the Lord is going to do for you. The Holy Mother, all her life on earth, was full of pain, suffering, sacrificing. Many, many nights with no sleep. Many, many nights with a lot of tears. Many, many nights of suffering and agonies.

58:25 The Holy Mother, she lived very humble. She lived very hidden in her life. But look at her now. From a maidservant to a queen. She's the queen now. She is known by all Christians worldwide. 21 centuries later, over 20 centuries later, churches are put in her name. Praises are being ascribed to her holy name. Millions and billions of Christians go and ask for her intercession, besiege her and beg her. To intercede to her beloved son. Till this very day. Her name. endures and lives forever because she did the will of the heavenly father ask for her help you know after this incident that this bishop had you probably heard me say this before I want to say it again. Four months. Absolute hell. The second

59:38 in those four months felt like eternity. So you can just only imagine what kind of hell it was. If the second was eternity, then what about the minutes and the hours and the days and the weeks and the months? But throughout those four months, the first one ever That came to me. As I left Liverpool Hospital. They could not wait to release me. I could not wait. I was not supposed to be released. Two days I remained there.

1:00:12 And I got released. My head was a balloon. The pain was unbearable. 24-7 non-stop. Non-stop. 24-7. Unbearable pain. I was sitting because out of the pain, because of the pain, there was no way I could sleep. I could not sleep. So I was sitting in bed. The first person ever that came to me was my earthly mom taking me to my heavenly mom. Mother Mary. Mother Mary sent my earthly mom to me. Real, real, yes? Not a dream. No, no, no, no.

1:00:54 She appeared real. And she said, the Holy Mother is waiting for you. Let's go. I saw her sitting. Queen. Real. She was with me throughout all four months. She sent saints to me. Saints that I knew. Saints I never knew they existed. In the four months. She sent them. By the will of her son who is God. And I knew that after the four months on her feast, which is today, by the way, exactly the same day, 28th of August, 28th of August, 2024, I knew that on this day, the Holy Mother is going to come to my rescue and get me out of hell. I was walking through this aisle. I reached halfway through the aisle.

1:01:54 Something just came out of me, boom, disappeared. Something was uplifted. Gone. Came out. As that thing came out, and I was walking to go up to the holy altar to start celebrating the holy mass for her feast. That day was a, I believe it was a Sunday. So halfway through, something came out of me. From that moment till now, that hell never came back. Never came back. So you can say whatever you want to say, my dear friend. Let me tell you. The Holy Mother lives forever, my dear friend.

1:02:33 The Holy Mother is the mother of our Lord, our God, our Savior, our Redeemer. If God honored her, who are we not to honor her? Who are we? Who are we to say otherwise? I am saying it out of love and respect and humility. Trust me, my son. Trust me, my daughter. Trust me, my friend. I'm saying it out of love and humility. We need and we must honor the Queen of Heaven because the Lord who is God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, himself honored her. I cannot say otherwise to what God has said and did and willed.

1:03:16 So if we truly love the Lord Jesus, we must love and honor his mom. who is our mom as well, by his will. When he was on the cross, the Lord, he turned to John the beloved and he said, behold your mother. So it is Christ who is God, God speaking. God, through his will, he said to John the beloved, just like Mary is my mom, today I am making her your mom as well. And then John comes in the book of Revelation 1 verse 9. Chapter 1 verse 9 he says, I John your brother. Well if John according to the will of Christ who is God is now mother Mary's son. And now John says to us you are my brothers. Then what does that make us to the holy mother? Her sons as well. So Mary became our mom from that moment onward. And who willed it?

1:04:20 Who wanted it to be this way? Christ was God. Then the commandment stands. Honor your mother. So Mary is our mom. If I don't honor her, I'm breaking God's commandment. And when I break it, what does that mean? Sin. And what is the wage of sin? Death. I need to be careful. Honor your mom. Honor your mom. But I'm telling you, like the Holy Mother came. She's not only heard me, she came. You can't say they are dead.

1:04:57 Please get it out of your head. If anybody's dead, it's us on earth because we make mistakes. We sin and the wages of sin is death. We are the one who are dead. The ones who are in heaven are the living ones because they can't sin anymore. And last thing I'll say, I'll challenge you on this one. Read the entire New Testament and find me anywhere that the Holy Spirit inspired Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and said that Mary made a mistake. Show me. I challenge you with love. Show me. You'll never find it. Never find that the Holy Spirit said that Mary made a mistake.

1:05:39 What do you think the Holy Spirit is afraid of Mary? The Holy Spirit is God. Why the Holy Spirit said Simon Peter made a mistake. Judas Iscariot made a mistake. Philip made a mistake. All of them made a mistake. Why didn't he say about Mary? Because she didn't. She is this pure. Special. Special vessel. Chosen by the Almighty God.

1:06:04 But she suffered beyond measures. Beyond. To give us the Savior and the Redeemer. Don't forget. If anything, we are indebted to the Holy Mother. We're indebted to her. Anyway, my beloved. May the praise of the Holy Mother be with you all. May the praise of the Holy Mother guide you and lead you to her beloved son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. the only true living God revealed in the flesh, the creator of all, visible and invisible, the savior, the redeemer, the only one who forgives sins and gives eternal life. May the praise of the Holy Mother lead us to her beloved son, the only way, the truth, and the life. May the praise of the Holy Mother unite the Holy Apostolic Universal Church.

1:07:05 It is only one church. There is no churches. These are man-made. Christ has only one bride because the church is his body and Christ has only one true mystical body. Does not have bodies, only one. So for Christ's sake, don't ever say churches. It is one holy apostolic universal church which is the body of Christ according to St.

1:07:33 Paul Ephesians chapter 5. Unite his church by the prayers of the Holy Mother. May the prayers of the Holy Mother besiege her beloved son to bring his peace and tranquility in this turmoiled world, in this dark, ugly, evil world that we are living in, the end of times, the 21st century. We pray for peace, for unity in the church and in the world. I pray, my beloved, for peace Wars to cease. No more bloodshed. I pray for the Middle East. I pray for our beloved the Jewish people. I pray for our beloved the Palestinian people.

1:08:16 I pray for our beloved all those who live in Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Egypt, in Jordan, in the entire Middle East. I pray, my beloved, for peace and tranquility of Christ, the King of all kings, and the Lord of all lords be bestowed in every heart, in every country, in every nation, in every home, in every family.

1:08:39 in every corner of this world. I pray for the Lord to humble the church leaders, which I'm one of them, but the smallest, the tiniest of all and the least of all. To humble us all as church leaders, to realize there is only one truth and that is Christ. no church holds the entire truth because the church is the body it is not the head it is the head who holds the entire truth for the head is Christ and Christ said I am the truth he didn't say the church is the truth He said, I am the truth. And out of His grace, gave the body, which is the church, drops of that truth. No church holds the entire truth. For God is infinite. No one can contain the infinite God in the finite creation. So as the church, we do not hold the entire truth.

1:09:38 So when this church comes and says, this is the only true way, sorry. Sorry. We need to humble ourselves. The problem why division happened in the church because two things started diminishing in the church. One is true love. The other one is true humility. That's what caused division in the church. More than anything else. True love started diminishing and true humility started diminishing. Where is the humbleness in us as church leaders? Where is it? We started fighting over thrones. My throne is greater than yours. Where is Christ in the midst of all this? So we need to ask the Holy Mother to intercede to her beloved son. To bestow his unity and tranquility in the church.

1:10:30 Unite us all. Catholics, Orthodox, Protestant. Unite us all. Unite us all. May the prayers of the Holy Mother reach out to everyone who is in prison and to be set free not from only physical chains but from spiritual chains. May the prayers of the Holy Mother reach out to everyone who is sick not only in hospitals but spiritually as well. May the prayers of the Holy Mother reach out to everyone who is hungry and thirsty not only physically but also spiritually. May the Holy Mother reach out to everyone who is naked not only physically but also spiritually.

1:11:13 May the Holy Mother's prayers reach out to everyone who is a stranger, not only physically but also spiritually. We may live in a country where we have nobody there and we become strangers, but what kills the most is when we are strangers to our beloved Son Christ, the King. May the prayers of the Holy Mother bring us home and our home is the Lord Jesus. May the Holy Mother bless you all. Grant you your wishes and show you the way who is her beloved son. She's incredible.

1:11:57 She's beautiful. She's amazing. She's very holy. She's very humble. She's very powerful. She's very beautiful. She's amazing. Mom, we love you. I'm kissing your feet, Mom. One of the most difficult days in my entire life was today. One of the most difficult days. When you see the bishop laughing and joking, don't think he doesn't carry heavy burdens.

1:12:35 And you don't want him, trust me. I wouldn't give him to anybody. I'm saying it out of humility because you won't be able to carry them. But let me tell you this. It is the Lord who is amazing. The Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus never changes because he's God. The Lord Jesus never fails. The Lord Jesus is always faithful.

1:13:13 And He's always loyal. And He's always there. And the Lord Jesus, sometimes He'll come Himself. Sometimes He'll send His mom. Sometimes He'll send one of His saints. Sometimes he'll send one of his angels. But whoever he sends, it is him present there. When the mother comes, the son is there. When the saint comes, the son is there. When the Lord is there. When the angel comes, also the Lord is there. Because without the Lord, nothing happens. Nothing. So we have to thank the Lord for his mom, for his saints, for his angels. for His infinite love. One of the most difficult days today in my life. But you know, when you ask the Holy Mother, Mom, please tell your son to do something. Well, I made it today.

1:14:20 I wasn't going to come. I'm confessing. I couldn't come. The enemy was stopping me. But when the Holy Mother intercedes, the son hears and listens, and he does. When people say, don't go to the bishop because he is wrong, he's a heretic, he's deposed, Don't listen to this kind of a nonsense. It's the enemy talking. Be careful. Whether you come or not, you're not going to do me anything.

1:15:12 What the Lord has done for me, it's already done. You can't add to it. Or you can't decrease it either. Maybe you can add, but you can't decrease. But let me tell you one thing. I'm saying it for your own sake. Because maybe I'm here today, tomorrow I'm not. But this I'll say. A time will come when I'm not going to be here. You will realize who sent me.

1:15:46 You'll realize then. If you have your doubts now, and if you think you are the protector of the faith, my dear friend, because you come from this church or that church, When I go, you'll understand who sent this bishop. If we cannot say a nice word, don't ever say a nasty one. Because you'll have to answer for it.

1:16:20 And follow your heart. Don't follow the whispers of the enemy that whispered in the ears of Eve. Our mother. Follow your heart. Follow your heart. Follow your heart. Our God speaks the language of the heart. So when you open your heart to him and you hear his voice and if that voice is speaking to your heart then rest assured it's from the Lord. It's not from this bishop.

1:16:53 It's from the Lord. Love the Lord Jesus, my beloved. Love the Holy Mother, I beg you. If you've never asked for her help, for her help till this moment, ask tonight. Ask now. Say, I'm not used to talking to you, Mary. I'm used to talking to Jesus, my Savior. Jeremiah 2.5, hallelujah. But I'm not used to talking to you, Mary.

1:17:26 So I'm going to come not knowing what to do because it's kind of uncomfortable, weird. But this bishop said, ask for her help. So I'm coming. Mary, Holy Mother, I need your help. Can you come to my help, please? To my rescue? Can you ask your son to do something for me? Get me out of my troubles. my mischief, my struggles. Ask. Talk to her. She's your mom. Just like you talk to your earthly mom, go and talk to your heavenly mom. That's how I talk to her. Mom, I love you. I miss you. Mom, I'm upset. Mom, I need this. Mom, I need that. Mom. She's my mom.

1:18:20 Talk to your mom. And when you mean it, she's there for you. 100%. Let the enemy dishearten you. And don't let the enemy plant any seed of suspicion. Don't. When you're coming here, you're coming here to hear the voice of Christ. It is not the bishop. You are hearing the voice of Christ. The Lord Jesus decided for this to happen before he put me in my mother's womb.

1:18:58 It is the Lord, no one else. It is the Lord. So don't ever let no one put any doubt in you. Follow the heart. Follow the voice of your Lord. Amen. Let's stand for the finale prayer now. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

1:19:28 Whether it's hatred, let me so love. Whether it's injury, pardon. Whether it's doubt, faith. Whether it's despair, hope. Whether it's darkness, light. Whether it's sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.

1:19:53 It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. Amen. May the Lord Jesus bless you, guide you, and protect you all the days of your life, now and forevermore. Amen. Go in peace. The peace of Christ be with you always, my beloved. God bless.