Mar Mari Emmanuel – The Day You Stop Living in Fear Is the Day You Start Living in Victory

0:00 Answer the Lord anymore. They didn't understand that Christ who was addressing them is perfect God and perfect man united in the person of Christ. As the son of man he is the son of David from the lineage of David from the tribe of Judah from the house of David as the son of man. But as God he is the Lord and the creator of David. And then The Lord Jesus goes on in chapter 23, verses 8, 9, and 10. In 23, verse 1, it says, And the word and is a divider between multitudes and the disciples.

0:48 So he was speaking to the multitudes and the disciples, meaning there are certain words the Lord spoke in the Holy Bible were not meant for everyone. They were only meant for the disciples. And we'll just find out. And then in 23 continues verse eight, nine and 10. In verse eight, the Lord Jesus says, do not be called rabbi, for one is your teacher, the Christ. And then in verse 9, do not call anyone on earth father, for your father is one who is in heaven. And then in verse 10 he says, do not call for yourself a master, for one is your master, the Christ. So now, if the Lord is addressing everyone and saying to everyone, do not call for yourself a father on earth, for your father is one who art in heaven, then it's

1:45 a problem. What I'm going to do with the Ten Commandments, which the same Lord, by the way, gave it to Moses, where he says, honor your father and your mother. And since it's his word, it is eternal, never changes. Nothing overrides the other. God never contradicts himself. God is demanding on one hand to honor your father. And here he's saying, do not call anyone on earth father, for your father is in heaven. If this was meant for everyone, we are in deep trouble. So guys, congratulations. Go home and deny your father and deny your mother. And then you'll have to answer to God. Woe unto you if you are dishonor your father and mother. So what are these words?

2:35 Who were they meant for? The disciples only. Not everyone. Why? Because the disciples are heads of the church. They are leaders of the church. They are patriarchs. They are popes. The head of the church on earth. As head of the church on earth, you should never call yourself a teacher on earth because your teacher is Christ. And you should never call for yourself a father on earth because your father is God who art in heaven. And you should never call for yourself a master on earth because your master is Christ. Why? Why? Since you are the highest rank in the church, you are the head of the church on earth. If you are going to have a teacher, a master, a father outside of Christ, you've destroyed yourselves and the entire flock with it. Because since

3:30 you are the head of the church, you only take orders from Christ, no other human beings. So this is not for everyone to say, why are you calling the priest father? No. Please, you need to understand the Holy Bible. In fact, St. Paul says, I have given birth to you through baptism. You are my children. St. Paul is saying, I'm your dad, spiritually. So are you going to say to St. Paul, hey, you're making a mistake? Who inspired St.

4:01 Paul to write this way? The Holy Spirit, who is God. So you're telling God did not know what he was saying? So these words, do not call for yourself a father. It was for the church leaders, not for everyone. Please respect your biological parents, respect your spiritual fathers, and then above all, respect your heavenly father who art in heaven.

4:22 But as popes, as patriarchs, you have no father but Christ, you have no teacher but Christ, and you have no master but Christ. Because if you take your orders from any other human being outside of Christ, You've ruined yourself and ruined the church of Christ. But now for the next 9 hours and 50 minutes. In Matthew 23 verses 16 to 22. The Lord Jesus is mentioning three things.

4:56 And he's saying woe to the scribes and the Pharisees hypocrites. Woe to the Pharisees and the scribes hypocrites. Now Pharisees. are the ones who check everything under the microscope of the law. They are so literal, it is suffocating. They are so literal, it is absolutely unbearable. And the scribes are the law writers even worse. Too fanatics, too religious.

5:32 So he says to them, you are blind leaders. Woe unto the Pharisees and the scribes, hypocrites. Why? Because you teach. You are the people of the law. You are the law writers. You should know better. You should have known better. But you're teaching the wrong thing to the flock. What is it? Three things. It says, you say, whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever swears by the gold that is in the temple, nothing. is obligated to perform it. In other words, he is held liable if he swears by the gold that is in the temple.

6:11 But if you swear by the temple, it's okay. No hard feelings. But if you swear by the gold that is in the temple, you are held liable. Temple, one. Second, if you teach, you hypocrites, scribes and Pharisees, you say, if anybody swears by the altar, It is nothing. But whoever swears by the offering that is placed upon the altar is held liable. You hypocrites, which one is greater?

6:44 The altar or the gift? Isn't it the altar that sanctifies the offering? Isn't it the temples that sanctifies the gold? Let me tell you this. You who swears by the temple offering, swears by it and whoever dwells in it who is God. And he who swears by the altar, he is held liable because the altar is the one that sanctifies the offering. And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and who sits in it or on it. Three things in Matthew 23 from verses 16 to 22. Temple, altar, heavens. Even though the next thing I want to say is not part of today's gospel, but it is within chapter 22 and 23.

7:42 But it's relatable to understand why is the Lord talking about the temple, the altar and heaven. Now in Matthew 22, 37, today's gospel is Matthew 22, 41 to 46. But I'll take you back. to Matthew 22, same chapter, but verse 37. One of the Pharisees, again, the legends. One of the Pharisees gets up and asks the Lord, which is the great commandment in the law? The Lord Jesus replies and says, the greatest commandment of all is for you to love the Lord your God with all of your heart and all of your soul and all of your mind. Again, three.

8:32 Love God, the Lord your God, with all of your heart, with all of your soul, and with all of your mind. Three. And if you swear by the temple, by the altar, by heaven. Three. And then I'll take you just outside the borderline of chapter 23, verse 23, instead of verse 22, today's gospel. I'll take you further one more step. Matthew 23, verse 23. The Lord says to them, You have neglected the weightier matters of the law. And what are the weightier, the heavier matters of the law? What are the most important things in the law which you have totally ignored? Justice, mercy, and faith. Pretty close. Justice, mercy, faith. Again, three. Three.

9:32 Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, and mind. Temple, altar, and what is the other one? Heaven, well done. And then you have neglected the weightier things of the law, justice, mercy, faith. Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, Love the Lord your God with all of your soul. The soul has got to do with the temple. And the temple has got to do with justice. And then love the Lord your God with all of your mind.

10:34 The mind has got to do with heaven and heaven has got to do with faith. Love the Lord your God with all of your heart. It's got to do with the altar and the altar has got to do with mercy. Loving the Lord your God with all of your soul has got to do with the temple. And the temple has got to do with justice. And love the Lord your God with all of your mind has got to do with heaven. And heaven has got to do with faith. Let's dig deep into it. Let's come to the loving the Lord God with all of your soul.

11:18 which has got to do with the temple, which has got to do with justice. Now, St. Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5.23, the human being is made out of body, soul, and spirit. Now, when you look at the temple, the building, what do you see? You see the external structure first. When you look at a human being, the first thing you see is the body. You can't see the soul, you can't see the spirit. They are internal, hidden. But what is visible to the naked eye is the external thing which is the temple, the actual building. Now why is the building external? It's got to do with the soul and it's got to do with justice. Now let's come to the soul. What is the soul's weakness? What is the soul's weakness? Greed. What is the soul's weakness? Greed.

12:17 And what has this got to do with justice? The Lord is saying, when you're coming to me, I want you to make your own justice. I want you to judge yourselves because if you do not judge yourselves, I the Lord will judge you. If you do not judge yourselves, I the Lord will judge you. And what is the justice that we need to judge ourselves with? The Lord is saying, everything you see externally is never yours, never will be. Everything you see externally is never yours, never will be. What is this external? The actual building. What is external? The actual body, the physical body. Being, that is the external visible to the eye. In other words, if you chase the world, which is the tangible, the physical realm, which is the flesh, if you chase that

13:24 and nothing but the world, at the end you will die. And when you die, you've taken nothing with you. This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. You better judge yourself before God judges you. Don't chase the world because everything you gain in the world, the grave will take it away from you. Do not be greedy.

13:53 The soul is very weak when it faces greed. Struggles with it. Why are we fighting? Because of greed. Why are we dividing? Because of greed. Why are we killing? Because of greed. Look at the world, the world is engulfed with greed, and greed leads you to blindness, and the physical side of the being is blind. You see, the body is like the moon. The moon without the sun reflecting its beam on it, it will never shine.

14:28 The moon is dark. You chase darkness, you'll end up dark. And what is darkness? Death. And what is death? The grave. A grave. Why are we greedy? Why are you so afraid to give, to help, to be a charitable person? Why are you always taking, not giving? What are you going to take with you? Nothing. It's just one big lie.

15:01 It's a fantasy. It's a delusion. Someone will say, I'm working hard to save up money and build an empire for myself because I want to leave all this wealth for my children. Fair enough. But you know when it becomes an absolute disastrous thing to do? When you build all this wealth, and you've worked very hard, I'm not saying you did not, you've worked very hard, but you've done it all outside of God. You did it all by yourself, for yourself, your own ways, away from God.

15:36 What you've just built became an absolute disastrous thing for you and your children. What was it disastrous for you? You've worked all your life so hard. every single day, seven days a week, for many, many, many years. And before you came to know it, you got so old, you're not enjoying life anymore. And you missed out on the children. They were growing and you did not even enjoy that moment. You were too busy building an empire for yourself. You didn't enjoy the family, the wife, the children.

16:06 You were a stranger. And at the end, before coming to retire, enjoy it. Death took it away from you. And then the entire empire was left for the kids For the siblings and the siblings took one another to court trying to take whatever they can for themselves. They became enemies. You see what greed does? Destroys family. And when the family is destroyed, life is non-existent anymore. Life is non-existent. When it comes to the temple, which is the external structure, which is the visible structure, and everything that is visible is tangible, and everything that is tangible is temporal. Do not chase the temporal, because at the end, it's not yours. Love God with all of your heart.

17:08 It's got to do with the altar now. And the altar's got to do with mercy. What love did, sent Christ to be the mercy of God. Christ hanging on the cross, that is the mercy of God to the entire human race. And Christ hanging on the cross, what is that? The altar. The altar is the cross. That's what the altar represents. That's why we have an altar erected in this building. The moment you remove the altar, this becomes a building. When you put an altar, it's called a church. A church without an altar is just a building. I can't call it a church. Because Christians without cross are not Christians. Christianity without the cross, kiss it goodbye. Because it is the cross that saved us.

18:13 It is the cross that redeemed us. It is the cross that delivered us. It is the cross that gave us eternal life, which is the kingdom of God. But what happened? How did this altar, which is the cross, how did it come about? Love sent Christ. And so God loved, see love, loved the whole world. that he sent his only begotten son, so that whoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. When the son was sent through love, he came and died on the cross. That is the mercy of God. The Lord says, when you come and say, I am coming to seek you, Lord.

19:02 I am coming to find you, Lord. You better make that judgment that you cannot be with the Lord and the world at the same time. It is either with Christ or with Satan. It is either with the light or the darkness. It is either with the truth or the lie. It is either with the eternal life or eternal death. Can't be both. You cannot hold on to both of them. So if you want to chase the world, materialistic world you cannot be in the spirit you cannot be you become physical worldly human being it is impossible to follow christ so make this judgment that if i chase the world outside of christ at the end i am dead and it is one big lie what have i gained Absolutely nothing. But when you have the Lord and you build a house and say, Lord, you are

19:54 my house. You are the head of this household. You are the foundation to this house. The house is yours and I'm a servant in your own house. Then that house is blessed here and in heaven. But if you gain it outside of him, Then you better make this judgment. Whatever is tangible is temporal. And whatever is temporal. Never was yours. Never will be. Stop chasing the mirage. And when you come to me. You better come to me with your heart. Let me say this. I can be serving in the house of the Lord. For 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years. Whatever God gives me. Time on earth. And in my entire 50, 60 years of service in the house of the Lord, I worked very hard. I sacrificed my time. I sacrificed my energy. I sacrificed my comfort.

20:48 I sacrificed a lot to be serving in the house of the Lord. But in that entire 50 years of serving in the house of the Lord, there was not one moment I served the Lord of the house. Say that again. It is very easy. That we serve and we serve very hard and very diligent. And we sacrifice. I'm not saying we cheat. No, we worked extremely hard.

21:15 But we worked and served in the house of the Lord. But in that entire long service, we never served the Lord of the house. We only served the house of the Lord. It is all done in vain. Why? Because until we come and serve the Lord of the house... All of that other service was done with no love in it. And any service you offer to Christ without love, there is no reward. God will say, you have nothing here with me. So my beloved, when you come to Christ and to his holy church, you better love one another.

21:58 Otherwise your coming was in vain. And when you serve in the house of the Lord, without any love for Him, then all of that service, even if it was done with a great deal of sacrifice, then it means nothing to the Lord Jesus. All the work done for Him with no love has no payment from Christ. You need to do it for the Lord, no one else. When you come to this church, And you see this good-looking bishop.

22:36 I always like to rub this one in. And you see this good-looking bishop. If your love stops at this bishop, then I have failed the Lord and all of you. But if your love continues through this bishop to Christ, then I have succeeded in the task given to me by the Lord. Because my only role was to make you loving the Lord through this vessel chosen by God.

23:03 But if you end up loving me, not the Lord, I am the greatest failure of all. And this goes to every church leader. The only thing the Lord allowed us to be leaders in the church is to teach the flock on how to love Christ, not us. Let me ask you this. When we went to school, in school there is the subject and there is the teacher.

23:33 When the teacher comes to teach you the subject, does the teacher speak about themselves or about the subject? You may go to school 10, 20 years, maybe more. I don't know. Maybe you failed a couple of times and you repeated them. So you've gone for so many years through the educational system. And you may leave university not knowing anything about the teacher because it is only natural.

23:58 You are not in high school, in primary school, in college, in university for the teacher. You are there for the subject because you want to graduate and become whatever you wish to become. So it's got nothing to do with the teacher, it's got to do with the subject. The subject is Christ. I'm here to teach you about the subject.

24:13 That's all. It's not about me. It's about Him. Are you here for Christ? For His love? Or are you here for someone else's? A successful leader is the one who makes the flock loving the Lord. Because it's him. He is the reason for the season. So love has got to do with the altar and the altar has got to do with mercy. The Lord Jesus while hanging on the cross said seven profound statements while he was hanging on the cross. The very first statement ever uttered by his holy mouth was, Father, forgive them for they do not know what they're doing. What is mercy? The sign of mercy is forgiveness. The Lord is saying, it is the love that sent the mercy of God which is Christ hanging on the cross. And what is Christ

25:22 hanging on the cross doing? Forgiving us our sins. And forgiveness can only be given to the one who has a pain in your life. Not someone who is good to you. You can't Be nice to someone who was nice to you and you say, I'm merciful. The only time you're found merciful when you are nice to someone who was nothing but a pain in your neck all your life. And you still showed mercy. You still forgave that person. When you forgave that person, that is the mercy of God. Christ is embedded in your heart. And how did this mercy come about? The love sent this mercy who is the Father. all love, sent his son to be the mercy to the entire world. And what is mercy? Cross. And what is cross? Death. What is death? Self-denial.

26:17 And what is self-denial? Humility. If you do not come serving the Lord with love and humility, you have no reward from the Lord. You've received your reward from people around you. The Lord says, you've got nothing And if the Lord doesn't pay you, we all end up in hell. And love the Lord your God with all of your mind.

26:47 The mind has got to do with heaven and heaven has got to do with faith. St. Paul says, faith cometh through hearing. And when you hear the word, the mind begins thinking. When you hear the voice or the word of God, Christ, when you hear that word, it comes with the E. When you hear it and accept it, what did you do here? You believed in it. And what is believing in the word? Faith. And now why is faith has got to do with heaven? Because the word came from heaven. The logos is the son of God who is God who art in heaven. So this word came from heaven down to earth. Why? On the hope of changing earth into heaven. You know, when the king, when a king wants to expand his kingdom, what does he do? He goes to another country and colonized that country.

28:07 You see, Great Britain colonized Australia. The rightful owners of Australia are our beloved, the Aborigines. They are the natives, whether we like it or not. They are the natives. They are the rightful owners of this country. Period. But when Great Britain came And to him, he was blind. When the Lord sent him to go unwashed, to regain his eyesight, when his eyesight was given back to him, he had not seen the Lord as yet. Because the Lord Jesus was gone by then. So he never knew who this man or what this man looks like. He only heard his voice. So when the Lord Jesus comes and finds him, he says, do you believe in the Son of God? He says, who is he for me to believe? In Lord. He said the one who opened

29:05 your eyes. Is the one who is talking to you right now. He bows in worship. And he says I believe Lord. This man who was blind all his life. From birth. Till the moment the Lord opens his eyes. He's never seen. For the first time he is seeing. And for the first time he sees. Jesus Christ. And says. You're my Lord. You're my God. Immediately after that is the gospel of today. The Lord Jesus says, for the judgment of this world I have come And what is the judgment Lord? He says for those who do not see to see and for those who see not to see I Came for the judgment of this world for those who do not see To see and for those who see not to see and then chapter 10 the Lord speaks about, I am the good shepherd. I am

30:09 the good shepherd. My sheep hear my voice and follow me. They do not follow after the voice of a stranger, but they follow the voice of the good shepherd. And I am the good shepherd who lays his life down for his sheep. I'll try to be as quick as possible. Please give me 10 hours. When the Lord Jesus met that blind man from birth, yes, physically he was blind, but the Lord took this situation to send a message that is to do with the spiritual realm not the physical.

31:09 So using this blind man physically, he was trying to say that all of the entire human race is blind spiritually. And what is the spiritual blindness? Separation from God. When any human being is totally separated from God, that person, even though they are able to see physically, but spiritually they are 100% blind. And what is blindness? Darkness. And what is darkness, biblically speaking? Death. Death. So what the Lord is saying, when a person is spiritually blind, that person is spiritually dead. And this spiritual blindness comes when the spirit of that human being is separated from God.

32:10 So death is not when everything comes to a full halt, a full end, no. Even though some people will spiritually be dead, but they're still alive. They're not dead, dead. But the separation from God leads to spiritual death, which is absolute blindness. Now, what the Lord is saying, how did people end up being spiritually blind? How did people end up being spiritually separated from God? Only through one way, and one way only. Knowledge. Knowledge. Knowledge. Every single human being, when they were born, they were little angels. No one was ever born to be a serial killer. No one was ever born to be a murderer. No one was ever born to be a child molester. This little baby born into this world was like a little angel. How

33:29 did this angel turn into someone so violent, so vicious? Knowledge. What they gained throughout their life journey, what they learned, what they came to know, got them to who they became eventually. What you know, is what you will do and what you will become. You cannot be someone or you cannot reach somewhere where you do not know. The only thing we are able to do is what we know is all we can say, all we can do.

34:12 Anything that we never came to know, we can never say it, we can never claim it, we can never live it. You can only live what you know. So there is two kinds of knowledge. Because there is, on the face of this earth, after the coming of the Messiah, after the coming of the Lord Jesus, there is two kingdoms on the face of this world, this earth. Two kingdoms.

34:47 One kingdom is the kingdom of the world, and the other kingdom is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of the world is ruled by satan. And the kingdom of heaven is ruled by Jesus Christ, the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. Now this kingdom of the world requires knowledge. And the kingdom of heaven also requires knowledge. In John chapter 8, verse 41, The Lord was talking to the Pharisees and they were arguing with him. They said, we are the children of Abraham.

35:35 We are the descendant of Abraham. We are his children. He said, well, if you were Abraham's children, you would have done what Abraham did. Abraham believed in God. You are not doing what your Abraham father is doing. They said, no, we have one father and that father is God. We have one father and that father is God. The Lord Jesus says, if you loved God, you would have also loved me. Because I came from him. I speak not of my own accord, but I speak of what the father tells me to say. And then the Lord says, your father is the devil. Because you are doing what your father is good at. What he does. What does the devil do? The Lord Jesus said, he is the murderer or the killer of mankind from the very beginning.

36:47 And he is a liar and the father of all lies. He is the murderer and the liar. He said, that's what you do. Because I came speaking the truth and you do not wish to listen to the truth because you're doing the deed of your father, the devil. Because the devil was the murderer from the start and the liar and the father of all lies. But notice here, the Lord Jesus said to them, you belong to your father, the devil. He didn't say Satan, he said devil. You see, Satan has also names. And each name has a meaning.

37:29 And when you see that name used in that particular verse, or in that particular passage, there is a reason why this name was used. The Lord Jesus, when He said, Your father, He didn't say, Your father is Satan, but He said, Your father is the devil. Satan and devil, they're all one, the same. But He used the name devil, not Satan. Why? Because the word devil, in our language, Ahl Qarsa, Aakhil Qarsa. Aakhil Qarsa in Arabic, those who speak Arabic, Iblis. Iblis. So Aakhil Qarsa, Iblis, devil. What does that mean? Stubborn. You are the children of your stubborn father. Devil means stubborn. Now please pay attention There are two kingdoms. One is the kingdom of the world, ruled by Satan, the devil, stubborn. And the other one

38:37 is the kingdom of heaven, ruled by the king of all kings and the Lord of all lords, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now I ask this, when can a person be stubborn? Or in other words, put it a different way, what leads the person to being stubborn? What is the cause of our stubbornness? If you tell me, I'll buy you chocolate after Sunday resurrection. What leads a person to stubbornness is self-pride. Pride. Pride leads the person to stubbornness.

39:20 You know why? Because when someone has self-pride, they will never be able to humble themselves and listen to someone else's advice. They will only do what's in their head because that's what they're capable of doing. That self-pride does not allow them to accept someone else's advice. It is either my way or the highway. The reason why Satan became the devil because what engulfed that angel was pride initially in heaven. That pride led him to being the devil stubborn. When a person ends up being stubborn, will end up doing two things. Kill and lie. Stubbornness lead to killing and leads to lying. A stubborn person will end up killing a soul. Why? Because when we are not able to lower ourselves and accept criticism, accept a

40:42 constructive criticism, accept a good advice, by not listening to that good advice, it will lead us to committing murder. If we don't end up killing someone else, definitely we will kill our own self. When children at home do not adhere to their parents advice, do not adhere to their parents warnings, do not adhere to what is right, do not adhere to what is good for them, and they become stubborn and insist on doing it their way, not the parents' way, they end up destroying their life and those who are around them. 100%. And a stubborn person will also end up lying. Now, because I don't have the time, Why the stubborn person ends up lying?

41:49 Because you see, my beloved, a stubborn person will do it only their way, not even God's, no one else's. Not only at a human level, but even at the divine level, they will not adhere neither to God nor to anyone else within their own circle. They will do what's in their head and in their head only. What they will do, they'll end up chasing the world. Why?

42:13 Because they are following what Satan is all about. Because you see, when you do it your way, you're following the world's system. And when you're following the world's system, there is somebody ruling, you are no longer free. Satan is ruling. So you will do, like the Lord Jesus says to them, you will do what your father has done from the start. He killed and he lied. So when you do it your way, you'll end up living for this world, Only. When you live for this world, you'll say, I worked extremely hard and I achieved this and I achieved that. and I became famous and I became a celebrity and I became rich and I created an empire out of my hard yakka, my sweat. Yes, you worked hard, my son, my daughter. Yes, I'm not

43:09 denying that. You've achieved, you strived endlessly. You never gave up day and night, running, running, running to achieving what you've achieved. But at the end, Where did this all get you when you chased the world? It got you to one place at the end called the grave. And when I went into that grave, all of that achievement was nothing but one big lie. Did I take it with me? No. It was a lie. And I ended up killing myself And received nothing. Why all this? Because that person chose to gain the knowledge of the world.

44:09 When I gained the knowledge of the world. I walked in the steps of the devil stubborn. the other hand i need to cut it short on the other hand the lord jesus there is the kingdom of heaven established by christ on calvary on the cross now satan satan's foundation is pride when you come to christ he says my kingdom has a foundation called humility opposite to pride one is boastful the other one is living in self-denial.

44:58 One is showing off, the other one is trying to hide not to be seen by nobody except by God. One is trying to prove themselves, the other one is trying to glorify God by denying themselves. The Lord Jesus says, when you come into my kingdom, the foundation to it is humility. Because humility, just like pride, Led you to stubbornness.

45:26 Humility will lead you. To absolute. Self-denial. Totally not stubborn. I won't fight anymore. I won't. Say it's either this or nothing. Anymore. Why do we have. Arguments at home. Because somebody decides to be stubborn. If both husband and wife are focused on Christ, there will be no problem. But if either party is focused on themselves, not on Christ, Satan comes into play. But when we are focused on Christ, both of us are living for him, no longer for us.

46:23 You see, in marriage, the Lord Jesus is showing you from the start. Will you take her in good times and bad times, in sickness and in richness, poorness and in richness, whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Will you take him? Yes. The vows, the vows are not for you. The vow is for you to live for her and for you, my daughter, to live for him. If you, my son, live for your wife, And if you, my daughter, live for your husband, Christ is your foundation. But if anyone of you decides to live for themselves and says, no, I'm not doing it, it's either my way or it is the highway, then Christ is no longer your foundation.

47:09 Satan has been invited into that house. That house will end up, if we do not come back from our stubbornness, the house will fall. The church, my beloveds, It's the house of the Lord. But what did the Lord Jesus say? He says, the gates of Hades cannot prevail against the church. But when, gates of Hades means Satan. Satan, no matter how hard he tries to attack the church, he can never overcome the church because the church is built on the rock who is Christ Jesus. And what did Christ do to Satan? Crushed his head on Calvary, on the cross.

47:48 So when it comes to the Lord Jesus, Satan is defeated, is dead. But when does the church fall? The Lord Jesus said, when the church is divided from within. When we become stubborn as Christians, the family of the Lord, when they become stubborn, they ruin the church. Why was the church divided? The number one reason, the number one reason was sin. This is my throne, no one else's.

48:29 If we all church leaders, if we sit on the floor and forget about the throne, there is no problem. But the moment you sit on the throne, oh, you feel someone very special. They're kissing my hand, brother. They're saying your holiness, your eminence, your grace. Whoa, big names, big titles. I've got a big head like a balloon.

48:49 So now I see myself above and beyond everyone else. I forgot that I was in the pig's field. If it wasn't for the blood of the Lamb of God, I would have been till now swimming in the filth of this world. I forgot. Humility is the key to success. Humility is the way of the cross. Humility is Christ on earth. Humility is the kingdom of heaven on earth.

49:27 When you walk in humility, you are no longer stubborn. Well, if you're not stubborn, then you're not going to kill. You're not going to lie. So what are you going to do? Instead of killing, you're going to give life. And instead of lying, you're going to speak the truth. The Lord Jesus says, I am the truth. So when you walk in humility, all you're going to be saying is what Christ said. And what Christ said is truth and life. But I'll leave you with this. Why was it the son of God that put on the flesh and became man? Why wasn't it the father? Why wasn't it the Holy Spirit that was incarnate? Why the Son?

50:14 Because my beloved, everything that God created, He created with His Word. And the Son is the Logos, the Word. So through the Son, everything was created. So when we were created by that Word, the moment we broke the Word, the Word had to come to save us and redeem us once again. Now, if I give a simple definition of what a human being is, a human being is a word. You take the word out of the human being, what are you going to do with him? When somebody loses their speech, loses their ability of intellectual capacity, they become like a vegetable. No matter how sweet, how close, how dear to your heart are, but you will not able to continue talking, living, walking with them because they became a vegetable. You can't anymore. It is the word

51:14 that gives you honor. It is the word that gives you dignity. It is the word that gives you humanity. It is the word that gives you identity. It is the word. Without the word, we're nothing. But the word that we're able to say made us something special. That word is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It's Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now, the sun, the logos, the word came, became man. Why?

51:49 Because the word gives you something that nothing else can give you but the word. What does the word give you? Knowledge. What does the word give you? Knowledge. What did we say? How this person ended up being a serial killer? Because they gained certain knowledge. So when this word who is Christ, when he came, he said, I am the word. If you, when you hear my voice and believe in this voice, accept this word, when you accept it and believe in it, you will be connected to me. When we are connected to Christ based on faith, Since He is the Word, what are we gaining out of connecting to the Word? Knowledge.

52:42 That's what the Word does, gives you knowledge. Now why? Because knowledge, my beloved, is the decider whether you live or die. It is the decider whether you end up in the light or in darkness. It is the decider whether you end up with Christ or with Satan. It is the decider whether you live or you perish. Knowledge.

53:11 So Christ says there is only one knowledge. There is only one knowledge that gives you sight. That gives you light. It's me. I am that knowledge only. Anything outside of Christ leads you to death. Blindness. Spiritual blindness. So the Lord says, I came to give you myself as the word, to give you the knowledge of God. Now, what was the role of the Lord Jesus on earth to glorify his father? He says, it is not who he says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but it is he who does the will of my father who art in heaven. I did not come to do my will, but the will of my dad. I came to glorify him, not me. If you love me, you better love my dad. But, and he said it to them, if God was your father, you would have

54:23 loved me also. Why? Because the father is love, the son is knowledge. And I came to take you to my father, because my father is love. Now, I ask you this, what is the only way to love? Knowledge. There is, if you think about it, there is no other way to love but knowledge. I'll ask you, can you ever claim to love someone you never knew? Can you say, I love somebody I never know, I never knew? No.

55:02 You can only claim to love someone whom you came to know initially. You see, you can't just come for the first time, meet somebody for the first time and say, I love you. I die for you. What a joke. You can't. First time is you get to know them. And the more you get to know them, the more you start loving them. Because what leads to love is knowledge.

55:26 So now, God the Father is love. But God the Son is the intellect, the knowledge of this Father. So now He came to give us the knowledge because it is only through knowledge we can be led to loving. When I come to know the person, then I can claim I love them now. Without knowledge there is no love. So Christ says, I am the way to the Father. Why?

55:56 Because my father is love and the only way to love is through the logos, knowledge. The word gives you knowledge. So when we came to know Christ, we came to know God. And when I came to know God, I started loving him. Because it is only love that can give you life. And what is life? I've regained my eyesight.

56:26 I can see. Only the living see. The dead can't see. Like the blind man. There are so many people living physically, but they are dead spiritually. They can't see. Don't be shocked when they do evil things, yet they think they're doing something magnificent. Because spiritual blindness gets you to a level where you do not recognize your right hand from your left hand anymore. You will call good evil and evil good. And you'll say, I am the smartest man on earth. Because spiritual blindness can't get any worse than this.

57:02 Can't get any worse. So to regain your sight, to be in the light seeing, you need to be alive. But the only thing that gives you life is love. But the only thing that leads you to love is knowledge. That's why Jesus Christ came to give you the knowledge that will lead you to love. Because the love then will give you your eyesight. You will live. You're in the light now. If you stick to worldly knowledge, you'll end up being stubborn. And stubbornness will lead you to killing and lying. You know, one day, I mentioned this this morning at the morning Holy Mass service, and I'll mention it again here. This man, who was a thief, went to a...