August 9, 2025 • 25 mins
Why you MUST Rest every week - Mar Mari Emmanuel
Join Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel as he shares the life-changing teachings of Jesus Christ, guiding you to a deeper understanding of God's boundless LOVE and grace. Strengthen your faith through powerful biblical insights and spiritual wisdom.
May God Bless You All! Amen! 💖
Join Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel as he shares the life-changing teachings of Jesus Christ, guiding you to a deeper understanding of God's boundless LOVE and grace. Strengthen your faith through powerful biblical insights and spiritual wisdom.
May God Bless You All! Amen! 💖
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When somebody builds a house, it may take them a
year to finish and complete the building.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And when the day.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Comes, they have the keys of their house and they say,
thank God, finally I can rest now the house is built,
not realizing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Their hard work is just about to begin.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yes, it may have taken you a year to build it,
but it will take you a lifetime to preserve it
and look after it. Building the house is not an
issue compared to looking after the house. One year to
build a lifetime to maintain. So when God created everything
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and three days and the other three days filled from
what he created, so let's say six days. So when
God created everything in six days, but it took eternity
to look after.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What he created.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So when does God rest? And does rest mean that
God stops working? No, I beloved, what is rest? We
do that when we got to work or school. A
time come when there is lunch time. You see, maybe
we start at eight thirty in the morning and we
go at twelve or one o'clock for lunch. From eight
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thirty till lunchtime comes, we were doing a specific task.
When lunch time came, I stopped doing what I was
doing prior to it, and I began to do something else.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
There is no rest.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You're always working, but it's a different type of work.
Changing work is called a break or a rest.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But are you stopping working? No, you're working all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I was doing that task at work, and when lunchtime came,
I had to go and get their lunch box out
and eat and drink, and then pack it up and
then put it. I continued working. I don't stop. Then,
how much more God, the Lord Jesus, says my father,
till today, he is working?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So am I.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
If God stops working, everything ceases. He's the reason for existence.
Here's the reason for life. He's the reason for everything.
If he stops, everything stops. So what is rest? And
how does God rest? To cut it short, God is
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the father, And as the father parents, I'm asking you now,
as mom and dad's moms and dad's parents. All your
life you work hard raising the children, You sacrifice. None
stop raising the children. When do you really rest? Is
it when you retire? Is it when you go on
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a holiday. Is it when you get take a break
and have a cup of tea in the afternoon?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The only time for true parents, those who have sacrificed
their life for their children. The only time they will
rest when they see their children in good health and
in good spirit in their presence.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's the only time when parents rest.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
When I see my son walking through the front door
and say great Dad. When I see my daughter walking
through the front door and say, Hi, Mom, how are you.
I came to see you. I came to check on you,
and I came to spend some time with you. When
parents see their children in their presence, this is the
only time they.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Are truly resting.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
God is the ultimate Father and the only true Father,
the everlasting Father.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So when does this heavenly.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Father rest When he's his children wholesome in his holy presence?
And when was this mate possible for his children to
be wholesome and is in his holy presence?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
When his beloved son rose from the dead. That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
When his beloved son, our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ,
rose from the dead, that's when God rested. Why Because
Jesus Christ, his beloved son, paid the price of sin
once and for all when he rose from the dead.
He shed his blood on the cross on Calvary on Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But that price was paid.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Once for all when he rose from the dead. The
resurrection of the Messiah is when the Father is resting.
So what is that truth? Shabbath? What is the true Saturday?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Christ? Not a day?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Shabbath is not a day. Shabbath is a person called
Jesus Christ of Nazareth. In Christ the Father rested because
he said it. When his beloved son went to the
Jordan River to be baptized from John the Baptist, the
voice from Heaven was heard saying, this is my beloved son,
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in whom I am well pleased, well pleased, in whom
I rest. Why because he is the only one that
I was able to rest in because he is the
only one that never ever broke my word.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He never sinned, he never sinned, he never sinned.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So God the Father will only rest when we stop sinning,
when we are sin free.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It is the blood of the Lamb of.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth that washed away the sins
of those who accepted him as Lord and Savior. That's
when God the Father rested. Shabbath is Christ, not a day.
A day can't make God rest. For God's sake, he
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created the day and the Lord.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Jesus said it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He said, it was not the son of Man that
was made for Shabbath. It was Shabbab made for the
son of men. Because Shabbab, the Lord was trying to
explain to the Old Testament people, Shabbath is not a day.
My beloved God rested on Shabbath. He rested in his
beloved son. Shabbath is his beloved son, in whom I
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am well pleased. So those who say we were ship
of the Lord on a Saturday, they took it in
the literal sense, that is and the literal sense. What
does the holly bubble say? The letter kills the spirit
gives life. Don't take it literally, take it spiritually. Dive
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deep into the word of the Lord. Don't stay at
the shallow surface. Don't just look at it from the
surface level.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You need to dig deep.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
If you are cruising in the Pacific Ocean and you
remain at that surface level, all you're gonna get is
salty water. If you want precious stones and pearls, you
better dive deep. My dear friend, you can't remain at
the surface level of the Pacific Ocean and expect to
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find pearls and precious stones at the surface level. It
is only water. You can't do anything with it. You
swim with it, it will eat your skin alive. You
drink it, you will be thirsty and you will die.
You wanna be rich, Rather, you'd better dived where you
will find the treasures and the depth of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So Shabbath is Christ. Shabbath is Christ.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Now Saint Luke put these two points together.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Saturday. And don't look for the best place when you're invited.
Don't go and sit right of the front. Don't look
for the best place. Why because my beloved the Lord's saying,
the one who invited you, he might come to you
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and say, sorry, my dear friend, this spot is not
for you. It is for someone else whom I invited also,
But he is more honorable than you. You need to
vacate that seat to the one I allocated to.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Sorry, you need to move out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You'll get up put to shame in front of everyone,
and you will go and sit right the back. The
Lord says, when you're invited, sit at the back, at
the lowest place. Don't sit at the best place, at
the lowest place. Let the one who invited you come
and say, my dear friend, what are you doing here
at the back?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
This is not for you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Get up and move up, and then you'll get up,
and you will have glory before all the invitees and
that place, because he who exalts himself shall be humbled,
but he who humbles himself shall be exalted. Since Shabbath
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is Christ, the person of Christ, in whom the Father rested,
in whom salvation and redemption were made possible by the
precious blood that He shed on Calvary on the cross.
He made his heavenly Father to rest because we were
cleansed from our sins, and it is only when we
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are sin free we are able to enter the presence
of our heavenly Father. Why because it takes holiness to
enter in the presence of the Holy of holies, and
holiness was made possible by his beloved son. When you
receive him as Lord and Savior, can I have an
amen to that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Please?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So, Saint Luca is saying to all of us, when
you make Jesus your Shabbath, when you make the Lord
your resting place, when you please the heavenly Father in
accepting his beloved son as your lord, and savior. When
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Jesus is the center of your attention, when Jesus is
the core of your heart, when Jesus is the crown
of your glory, when Jesus is your life, when Jesus
is everything to you. Next time, when you go, having
Jesus the number one in your life, you will not
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look for the best place. You will sit anywhere, because
it will not matter any more where you sit. You
know why, because it is not the place that makes Christ,
who is in you, number one. It is Christ, who
dwells in your heart, makes the place number one. And
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this is the very reason why the Lord Jesus chose
to be born in a manger. Oh hallelujah, That's why
he was born in a manger. Could Christ have been
born in Caiapha's house, of course, is God, for God's
sake he Could he have been born in a king's palace, yes,
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in a rich man's house. Yes, he could have chosen
any place to be born. But he chose not a house,
not a hut, but a manger where animals live, the
lowest place as far as humanity is concerned, animals. He
chose a place where animals live. And since he was
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born there. He made the place number one Bethlehem, the
Nativity Church. For those who have been to the Holy
Land and to Bethlehem more so we visit the most
holiest second church ever in existence, the Nativity. And then
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there is the Sepulcher Church, the Resurrection Church in Jerusalem.
But there is one in Bethlehem called the Nativity. Where
the Lord was that place might beloved, belonged to animals.
It was a manger might beloved. But today the whole
world God to leak the dust of that very manger.
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It became number one. It is Christ who makes the
place number one. If you have Christ truly embedded in
your heart and in your entire being, why do you
want to search for a place? Is in Christ the
number one? Wherever He goes, sit wherever. Why are you
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trying to sit at the front? Why are you trying
to find the high places? Why are you trying to
prove that you're someone special? Why you see, if you try,
might be loved to make yourself known by force, if
you want to buy your way into that, you're gonna
look very ugly because it's fake. Be genuine, be honest,
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be truthful. Lord, I have you in my heart. You
are the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
You're sitting on the back of this donkey called marry.
No matter where I go, and no matter what I do,
and no matter what I achieve, I'm nothing but a
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vessel carrying the King of Kings. You see, the people
who went out and shouted Hosanna to the one who
comes in the name of the Lord, Hosannah to the
son of David. They were not saying that to the donkey.
They were saying it to the King of Kings, who
were sitting on the back of that donkey. So when
we are glorified, it is not us. It is Christ
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who made us glorified. Don't ever steal that glory from him.
So when they say you're a saint, thank you Lord,
the Holy of Holies, you made me saint. When they
say you're faithful, thank you Lord, you are the faithful one.
When they say you're good, say Lord, you are the
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only one who is good, because only God is good.
I thank the good God who chose a wretched like me,
and a lost soul like me, and a dead soul
like me. I thank you Lord for choosing someone unworthy
neither of your love, nor of your mercy compassion, and
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let alone the precious blood that you shed on the
cross for someone who is a sinner, and the greater
sinners of.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All called Mary. Thank you Lord. All glory is yours.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So when you walk and when you're invited to a place,
knowing that Christ is everything for you, you will sit wherever.
You'll never seek no personal glory, because you've realized through
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the good teacher Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that all glory
belongs to him. This is the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. So who cares if they
applaud you or not? Who cares? If they give you
a medal or not?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Who cares? If they acknowledge you or not? Who cares?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I went and I did, and I did, and nobody
cared about me.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Man? Just get a life and move on. You didn't
do it. It was Christ who did it all. If you
think you're a good preacher, it is the Lord who
is preaching through you through his Holy Spirit. And if
you think you're a good healer, it is the Lord who.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Is the only healer.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And if you think if you're a good voice, it
is the Lord who has the good voice. If you
think you've build a church for the Lord, if the
Lord doesn't build the house, the labor is labor in vain.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It's the Lord who builds the house. It is the
Lord who protects that house. Everything is the Lord.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
This throne, the holy altar, the staff, the cross, the outfit,
it's all the Lords.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
If he wants to take it from me, he'll leave
me naked. I'm nothing. It's him. And this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Is the way every Christian needs to live, not only think,
but live. Nothing good comes out of us. Everything comes
from the Good God. So we need to honor the
Lord for being the true Shabbath. So it's not about Saturday.
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Might be loved it, Please, I beg you don't be literal.
When did the Lord Jesus rise from the dead Sunday?
Then Sunday is the spiritual Shabbath. That's why we worship
the Lord on Sunday. That's when he rose from the day.
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Because it's not about the day. It's about the one
who rose from the dead, the Lord. The first thing
he will try to teach anyone and everyone is humility,
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and he will ask everyone who chooses to follow him.
The Lord will say, be humble. Pride will never work
with the Lord Jesus, never, never, because pride will bring
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so many other ugly things along with it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You don't want to go there. You don't want to
go there.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know why Satan is jealous because he has pride
in him. Do you know why Satan is envious because
he has pride in him? Do you know why Satan
is selfish because he has pride in him?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Very dangerous, selfish, jealous.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Envious, very dangerous, humble, loving, caring, sharing. So next time
I'm sitting and somebody comes and there is no spot,
I'll get up and say, my dear friend, this is
for you now. But you were sitting here beforehand. No, no,
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trust me, this place is for you. It was meant
to be for you. The reason why I sat there
because I reserved the spot till you came. Let me
ask you this and I'll stop. Have you ever heard
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anyone sitting on the ground on the floor and falling?
Somebody sitting on the ground of the floor falling.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No one who falls.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
The one who wants to jump, the one who wants
to climb very quickly. There's a staircase. He doesn't want
to take it step by step. He wants to jump two, three,
four steps at a time. My dear friend, you're gonna
fall and you're gonna hurt yourself. But if you sit
on the ground, you're not gonna fall. It's very safe.
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This is why when you read Another's Place in the
Holy Gospel, you see a paralyzed man. Four men came
and grabbed his bed, one from each corner of the bed.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They carried him to take him to the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And when they came, the Lord was in this house,
and the house was fooled.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Full of people.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
They could not enter the house because there was no
space to enter.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
They didn't give up.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They said, we need to find a way to bring
this man before the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So they looked up to the roof. When they looked
up to the roof, they.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Climbed up with that paralyzed man, and they made an
opening in the roof of the house. And they looked
and they saw the Lord Jesus sitting on the ground
on the floor. So they lowered him before the feet
of the Lord Jesus. The Lord looked at the faith
of those people and said to that paralytic get up
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and take your bed and go home. That paralyzed man
is every single human being. He represents humanity in its entirety.
Because sin made us paralyzed. And all people are sinners.
We all sin and fall in short of the glory
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of God. That sin made me a paralytic. But four
men came and grabbed my bed to take me to Christ.
And who are those four men? Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
John the four gospel writers. Because all of them they
lead you to Christ. When you eat those gospels, they
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lead you to Christ. So they brought me to Christ.
The Christ wasn't the house, but the house was full
of people. Who were those people saints? If, of course,
I will not find a place for me because I'm
a sinner. There is no place for a sinner amongst saints,
because this is.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The company of Christ.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He is accompanied by saints, and I'm a sinner. But
the four Gospel writers never gave up. They said, we
will find a place. They said, look up to the roof.
When you look at the roof of the house, what
do you see beyond the roof heaven? Four gospel writers,
they said, lift up your eyes, stop looking at earth.
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What made you paralyzed, was looking at the earth and
chasing after this dirty, filthy earth, the treasures and the
pleasures of the world. Stop your eyes to heaven. Change
your way of thinking, change your behavior, change your attitude,
change your heart, change your mind, change your soul, change
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your entire being. Look up once for a change in
your life. Stop looking at the filt of this world.
Look up to the purity of heaven, because that's where
God is. Because every time you pray, you say, our Father,
who art in heaven. So the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John took me up all the way to heaven
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and the hope of finding God and the highest placed
ever in the heaven of all heavens. And to my
shocking surprise, this exalted, high, elevated God. When I went
to heaven, I was not able to find him. But
when I look down onto the ground, I saw him
sitting so humbly on that ground. Humility makes the dead
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rise paralyzed, walk the blind sea. Humility does wonder. Don't
look for the place, look for the owner of the place.
When somebody builds a house, it may take them a
year to finish and complete the building.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And when the day.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Comes, they have the keys of their house and they say,
thank God, finally I can rest now the house is built,
not realizing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Their hard work is just about to begin.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yes, it may have taken you a year to build it,
but it will take you a lifetime to preserve it
and look after it. Building the house is not an
issue compared to looking after the house. One year to
build a lifetime to maintain. So when God created everything
(00:47):
and three days and the other three days filled from
what he created, so let's say six days. So when
God created everything in six days, but it took eternity
to look after.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What he created.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So when does God rest? And does rest mean that
God stops working? No, I beloved, what is rest? We
do that when we got to work or school. A
time come when there is lunch time. You see, maybe
we start at eight thirty in the morning and we
go at twelve or one o'clock for lunch. From eight
(01:26):
thirty till lunchtime comes, we were doing a specific task.
When lunch time came, I stopped doing what I was
doing prior to it, and I began to do something else.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
There is no rest.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You're always working, but it's a different type of work.
Changing work is called a break or a rest.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But are you stopping working? No, you're working all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I was doing that task at work, and when lunchtime came,
I had to go and get their lunch box out
and eat and drink, and then pack it up and
then put it. I continued working. I don't stop. Then,
how much more God, the Lord Jesus, says my father,
till today, he is working?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So am I.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
If God stops working, everything ceases. He's the reason for existence.
Here's the reason for life. He's the reason for everything.
If he stops, everything stops. So what is rest? And
how does God rest? To cut it short, God is
(02:35):
the father, And as the father parents, I'm asking you now,
as mom and dad's moms and dad's parents. All your
life you work hard raising the children, You sacrifice. None
stop raising the children. When do you really rest? Is
it when you retire? Is it when you go on
(02:58):
a holiday. Is it when you get take a break
and have a cup of tea in the afternoon?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The only time for true parents, those who have sacrificed
their life for their children. The only time they will
rest when they see their children in good health and
in good spirit in their presence.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's the only time when parents rest.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
When I see my son walking through the front door
and say great Dad. When I see my daughter walking
through the front door and say, Hi, Mom, how are you.
I came to see you. I came to check on you,
and I came to spend some time with you. When
parents see their children in their presence, this is the
only time they.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Are truly resting.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
God is the ultimate Father and the only true Father,
the everlasting Father.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So when does this heavenly.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Father rest When he's his children wholesome in his holy presence?
And when was this mate possible for his children to
be wholesome and is in his holy presence?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
When his beloved son rose from the dead. That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
When his beloved son, our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ,
rose from the dead, that's when God rested. Why Because
Jesus Christ, his beloved son, paid the price of sin
once and for all when he rose from the dead.
He shed his blood on the cross on Calvary on Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But that price was paid.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Once for all when he rose from the dead. The
resurrection of the Messiah is when the Father is resting.
So what is that truth? Shabbath? What is the true Saturday?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Christ? Not a day?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Shabbath is not a day. Shabbath is a person called
Jesus Christ of Nazareth. In Christ the Father rested because
he said it. When his beloved son went to the
Jordan River to be baptized from John the Baptist, the
voice from Heaven was heard saying, this is my beloved son,
(05:29):
in whom I am well pleased, well pleased, in whom
I rest. Why because he is the only one that
I was able to rest in because he is the
only one that never ever broke my word.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He never sinned, he never sinned, he never sinned.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So God the Father will only rest when we stop sinning,
when we are sin free.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It is the blood of the Lamb of.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth that washed away the sins
of those who accepted him as Lord and Savior. That's
when God the Father rested. Shabbath is Christ, not a day.
A day can't make God rest. For God's sake, he
(06:28):
created the day and the Lord.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Jesus said it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He said, it was not the son of Man that
was made for Shabbath. It was Shabbab made for the
son of men. Because Shabbab, the Lord was trying to
explain to the Old Testament people, Shabbath is not a day.
My beloved God rested on Shabbath. He rested in his
beloved son. Shabbath is his beloved son, in whom I
(06:55):
am well pleased. So those who say we were ship
of the Lord on a Saturday, they took it in
the literal sense, that is and the literal sense. What
does the holly bubble say? The letter kills the spirit
gives life. Don't take it literally, take it spiritually. Dive
(07:15):
deep into the word of the Lord. Don't stay at
the shallow surface. Don't just look at it from the
surface level.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You need to dig deep.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
If you are cruising in the Pacific Ocean and you
remain at that surface level, all you're gonna get is
salty water. If you want precious stones and pearls, you
better dive deep. My dear friend, you can't remain at
the surface level of the Pacific Ocean and expect to
(07:46):
find pearls and precious stones at the surface level. It
is only water. You can't do anything with it. You
swim with it, it will eat your skin alive. You
drink it, you will be thirsty and you will die.
You wanna be rich, Rather, you'd better dived where you
will find the treasures and the depth of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So Shabbath is Christ. Shabbath is Christ.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Now Saint Luke put these two points together.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Saturday. And don't look for the best place when you're invited.
Don't go and sit right of the front. Don't look
for the best place. Why because my beloved the Lord's saying,
the one who invited you, he might come to you
(08:50):
and say, sorry, my dear friend, this spot is not
for you. It is for someone else whom I invited also,
But he is more honorable than you. You need to
vacate that seat to the one I allocated to.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Sorry, you need to move out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You'll get up put to shame in front of everyone,
and you will go and sit right the back. The
Lord says, when you're invited, sit at the back, at
the lowest place. Don't sit at the best place, at
the lowest place. Let the one who invited you come
and say, my dear friend, what are you doing here
at the back?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
This is not for you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Get up and move up, and then you'll get up,
and you will have glory before all the invitees and
that place, because he who exalts himself shall be humbled,
but he who humbles himself shall be exalted. Since Shabbath
(09:52):
is Christ, the person of Christ, in whom the Father rested,
in whom salvation and redemption were made possible by the
precious blood that He shed on Calvary on the cross.
He made his heavenly Father to rest because we were
cleansed from our sins, and it is only when we
(10:16):
are sin free we are able to enter the presence
of our heavenly Father. Why because it takes holiness to
enter in the presence of the Holy of holies, and
holiness was made possible by his beloved son. When you
receive him as Lord and Savior, can I have an
amen to that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Please?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So, Saint Luca is saying to all of us, when
you make Jesus your Shabbath, when you make the Lord
your resting place, when you please the heavenly Father in
accepting his beloved son as your lord, and savior. When
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Jesus is the center of your attention, when Jesus is
the core of your heart, when Jesus is the crown
of your glory, when Jesus is your life, when Jesus
is everything to you. Next time, when you go, having
Jesus the number one in your life, you will not
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look for the best place. You will sit anywhere, because
it will not matter any more where you sit. You
know why, because it is not the place that makes Christ,
who is in you, number one. It is Christ, who
dwells in your heart, makes the place number one. And
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this is the very reason why the Lord Jesus chose
to be born in a manger. Oh hallelujah, That's why
he was born in a manger. Could Christ have been
born in Caiapha's house, of course, is God, for God's
sake he Could he have been born in a king's palace, yes,
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in a rich man's house. Yes, he could have chosen
any place to be born. But he chose not a house,
not a hut, but a manger where animals live, the
lowest place as far as humanity is concerned, animals. He
chose a place where animals live. And since he was
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born there. He made the place number one Bethlehem, the
Nativity Church. For those who have been to the Holy
Land and to Bethlehem more so we visit the most
holiest second church ever in existence, the Nativity. And then
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there is the Sepulcher Church, the Resurrection Church in Jerusalem.
But there is one in Bethlehem called the Nativity. Where
the Lord was that place might beloved, belonged to animals.
It was a manger might beloved. But today the whole
world God to leak the dust of that very manger.
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It became number one. It is Christ who makes the
place number one. If you have Christ truly embedded in
your heart and in your entire being, why do you
want to search for a place? Is in Christ the
number one? Wherever He goes, sit wherever. Why are you
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trying to sit at the front? Why are you trying
to find the high places? Why are you trying to
prove that you're someone special? Why you see, if you try,
might be loved to make yourself known by force, if
you want to buy your way into that, you're gonna
look very ugly because it's fake. Be genuine, be honest,
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be truthful. Lord, I have you in my heart. You
are the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
You're sitting on the back of this donkey called marry.
No matter where I go, and no matter what I do,
and no matter what I achieve, I'm nothing but a
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vessel carrying the King of Kings. You see, the people
who went out and shouted Hosanna to the one who
comes in the name of the Lord, Hosannah to the
son of David. They were not saying that to the donkey.
They were saying it to the King of Kings, who
were sitting on the back of that donkey. So when
we are glorified, it is not us. It is Christ
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who made us glorified. Don't ever steal that glory from him.
So when they say you're a saint, thank you Lord,
the Holy of Holies, you made me saint. When they
say you're faithful, thank you Lord, you are the faithful one.
When they say you're good, say Lord, you are the
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only one who is good, because only God is good.
I thank the good God who chose a wretched like me,
and a lost soul like me, and a dead soul
like me. I thank you Lord for choosing someone unworthy
neither of your love, nor of your mercy compassion, and
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let alone the precious blood that you shed on the
cross for someone who is a sinner, and the greater
sinners of.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All called Mary. Thank you Lord. All glory is yours.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So when you walk and when you're invited to a place,
knowing that Christ is everything for you, you will sit wherever.
You'll never seek no personal glory, because you've realized through
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the good teacher Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that all glory
belongs to him. This is the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. So who cares if they
applaud you or not? Who cares? If they give you
a medal or not?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Who cares? If they acknowledge you or not? Who cares?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I went and I did, and I did, and nobody
cared about me.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Man? Just get a life and move on. You didn't
do it. It was Christ who did it all. If you
think you're a good preacher, it is the Lord who
is preaching through you through his Holy Spirit. And if
you think you're a good healer, it is the Lord who.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Is the only healer.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And if you think if you're a good voice, it
is the Lord who has the good voice. If you
think you've build a church for the Lord, if the
Lord doesn't build the house, the labor is labor in vain.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It's the Lord who builds the house. It is the
Lord who protects that house. Everything is the Lord.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
This throne, the holy altar, the staff, the cross, the outfit,
it's all the Lords.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
If he wants to take it from me, he'll leave
me naked. I'm nothing. It's him. And this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Is the way every Christian needs to live, not only think,
but live. Nothing good comes out of us. Everything comes
from the Good God. So we need to honor the
Lord for being the true Shabbath. So it's not about Saturday.
(18:06):
Might be loved it, Please, I beg you don't be literal.
When did the Lord Jesus rise from the dead Sunday?
Then Sunday is the spiritual Shabbath. That's why we worship
the Lord on Sunday. That's when he rose from the day.
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Because it's not about the day. It's about the one
who rose from the dead, the Lord. The first thing
he will try to teach anyone and everyone is humility,
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and he will ask everyone who chooses to follow him.
The Lord will say, be humble. Pride will never work
with the Lord Jesus, never, never, because pride will bring
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so many other ugly things along with it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You don't want to go there. You don't want to
go there.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know why Satan is jealous because he has pride
in him. Do you know why Satan is envious because
he has pride in him? Do you know why Satan
is selfish because he has pride in him?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Very dangerous, selfish, jealous.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Envious, very dangerous, humble, loving, caring, sharing. So next time
I'm sitting and somebody comes and there is no spot,
I'll get up and say, my dear friend, this is
for you now. But you were sitting here beforehand. No, no,
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trust me, this place is for you. It was meant
to be for you. The reason why I sat there
because I reserved the spot till you came. Let me
ask you this and I'll stop. Have you ever heard
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anyone sitting on the ground on the floor and falling?
Somebody sitting on the ground of the floor falling.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No one who falls.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
The one who wants to jump, the one who wants
to climb very quickly. There's a staircase. He doesn't want
to take it step by step. He wants to jump two, three,
four steps at a time. My dear friend, you're gonna
fall and you're gonna hurt yourself. But if you sit
on the ground, you're not gonna fall. It's very safe.
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This is why when you read Another's Place in the
Holy Gospel, you see a paralyzed man. Four men came
and grabbed his bed, one from each corner of the bed.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They carried him to take him to the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
And when they came, the Lord was in this house,
and the house was fooled.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Full of people.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
They could not enter the house because there was no
space to enter.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
They didn't give up.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They said, we need to find a way to bring
this man before the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So they looked up to the roof. When they looked
up to the roof, they.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Climbed up with that paralyzed man, and they made an
opening in the roof of the house. And they looked
and they saw the Lord Jesus sitting on the ground
on the floor. So they lowered him before the feet
of the Lord Jesus. The Lord looked at the faith
of those people and said to that paralytic get up
(22:22):
and take your bed and go home. That paralyzed man
is every single human being. He represents humanity in its entirety.
Because sin made us paralyzed. And all people are sinners.
We all sin and fall in short of the glory
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of God. That sin made me a paralytic. But four
men came and grabbed my bed to take me to Christ.
And who are those four men? Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
John the four gospel writers. Because all of them they
lead you to Christ. When you eat those gospels, they
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lead you to Christ. So they brought me to Christ.
The Christ wasn't the house, but the house was full
of people. Who were those people saints? If, of course,
I will not find a place for me because I'm
a sinner. There is no place for a sinner amongst saints,
because this is.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The company of Christ.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He is accompanied by saints, and I'm a sinner. But
the four Gospel writers never gave up. They said, we
will find a place. They said, look up to the roof.
When you look at the roof of the house, what
do you see beyond the roof heaven? Four gospel writers,
they said, lift up your eyes, stop looking at earth.
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What made you paralyzed, was looking at the earth and
chasing after this dirty, filthy earth, the treasures and the
pleasures of the world. Stop your eyes to heaven. Change
your way of thinking, change your behavior, change your attitude,
change your heart, change your mind, change your soul, change
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your entire being. Look up once for a change in
your life. Stop looking at the filt of this world.
Look up to the purity of heaven, because that's where
God is. Because every time you pray, you say, our Father,
who art in heaven. So the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John took me up all the way to heaven
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and the hope of finding God and the highest placed
ever in the heaven of all heavens. And to my
shocking surprise, this exalted, high, elevated God. When I went
to heaven, I was not able to find him. But
when I look down onto the ground, I saw him
sitting so humbly on that ground. Humility makes the dead
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rise paralyzed, walk the blind sea. Humility does wonder. Don't
look for the place, look for the owner of the place.
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