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In the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.
We thank our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ always and forever more
for his infinite love, mercy, and ever
lo ever everlasting kindness and
compassion allowing us to be in his holy
church present in his holy presence,
celebrating this holy mass service, the
true body and the true blood of Christ
for the remission of the sins of those
who believe in him.
Our beloved fathers, deacons, nuns, and
faithfuls, those who are with us in this
holy church, and those who are watching
us through live streaming. May the
Almighty God revealed in the flesh,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, bless you,
guide you, protect you, and deliver you
from the snares of the enemy, whether it
be visible or invisible. Amen.
The gospel of today is from St.
According to St. Matthew chap 20:es
1-16.
It is Matthew 20:es 1-6 inclusive.
The last week or two
we were reading also we had the readings
from the gospel according to St. Matthew
and it was more so of chapter 18 where
the Lord Jesus was saying unless you go
back and become a little child you
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven
and we said when you look at chapter 17
of Matthew you'll see the Lord Jesus
establishing his kingdom on earth.
So 17 is the Lord establishing his
kingdom. Chapter 19, the Lord is
choosing people for his kingdom. And
chapter 18, the way of his kingdom.
So wherever there is a kingdom, a place,
you need people for that kingdom. And
those people need to know how to walk
live in that kingdom. And the way of the
kingdom of Christ on earth is going back
and becoming a little child i.e.
innocence.
Be innocent as a dove.
Innocence.
Now since the Lord established his
kingdom in Matthew 17 in 18 he showed
the way to his kingdom. In 19 he chose
people to his kingdom. Obviously and
chronologically
20 is talking about working in his
kingdom. When you bring people to the
kingdom then the next thing is required
or asked of them to do is to work for
the kingdom. So in this chapter the Lord
gave this parable.
He said, "There was
this land owner
who went out early in the morning
seeking people to work in his vineyard."
And he saw some people standing idle and
he asked them, "Why are you standing
idle in the 21st terminology
unemployed?"
Now you can laugh.
Unemployed. Why are you standing idle?
They said, well, nobody is really
employing us.
He said, okay, go and work in my
vineyard and I will give you a dinari as
a wage for the day. And by the way, at
the time of the Lord Jesus, the dinary
was the wage of a day labor.
The dinari was a wage for that day
labor. So he went out early morning. He
saw people standing idle. He sent them
to his vineyard and he made a deal with
them that I will pay you a dinari for
that day. They agreed. They went. So
this land owner went out again at the
third hour and saw exactly the same
again people standing idle. He sent them
to the vineyard. Yet he did not make any
deal as far as money is concerned. He
didn't mention money. He just said would
you work? They said yes. and they went
to work. And then the land owner goes
out on the 6th and the 9inth hour and
does the same thing, sending more people
to work in his vineyard. And then he
goes out on the 11th hour and does so.
At the end of the day, he calls the
stewards and he said, "Pay them their
wage starting from the last to the
first. When the last one came who worked
at 11th hour and by the way these hours
are the prayer hours of our beloved Jews
till this very day.
These hours are the prayer hours of our
beloved Jews till this very day. Early
morning 6 a.m.
Third hour 900 a.m. 6th hour 12 noon
um 12th hour 9th hour sorry 300 p.m. and
the 11th hour 5:00 p.m. Early morning
6:00 a.m. 3rd hour 9:00 a.m. 6th hour
12:00 noon 9inth hour 3:00 p.m. 11th
hour 5:00 p.m. The day begins at 6:00
a.m. ends at 6:00 p.m.
So those who worked at the 11th hour
i.e. 5:00 p.m. they only worked for 1
hour and 1 hour only.
They got paid a dinari. A dollar.
A good old dollar. They got paid a
dinari. Those who worked early morning
6:00 a.m.
How many hours shift they did? 12.
That's a long day. From 6:00 a.m. till
6:00 p.m. When they saw those who
received the dinari for one hour only,
they said, "We hit the jackpot.
We're going home rich today, brother.
And we're going to put the br p brrawns
on the barbie.
When they came to got to get paid, they
received a dinari. Oh, ouch.
They said, "Hang on, land owner. This is
not fair.
How come those who worked only one hour,
they received the same as us? Yet us, we
worked all day long and we carried the
heat of the day, 12-hour shift, and we
received the same. He said, "Didn't I
make a deal with you and said, I'll pay
you a dinari and you agreed?" I said,
"Yes."
He said, "Okay, well, that's what's your
problem then?"
I'm fair. Looks like you're not.
Is your eye evil? Because your eye is
evil and I am good.
Why you judging? Why you arguing?
Why are you unhappy?
I agreed with you for a dinari.
Aren't I the rightful owner of my
vineyard?
And I have the full right to do as I
please with the first one. Same way with
the last one.
Why are you complaining?
>> [sighs]
>> Don't we complain?
Some might come and say to the Lord.
I've been working for you. By the way,
that land owner is the Lord Jesus. That
vineyard is the church. The vineyard is
the church.
those who were standing idle unemployed
every single human being standing idle
i.e. living in sin. Sin bankrupted
everyone. Sin made everyone unemployed,
unable to work and find a good, decent
job.
As sinners, all of us were outside the
circle of God.
God came looking for sinners
and he sent them to his church, the
vineyard, and said, "I will pay you if
you work there."
So someone will come after being chosen
by the Lord, after being
revived by the Lord, after being saved
by the Lord and taken back from the
world into the kingdom of heaven, from
the world into the church. And after
working in the church for so many years
for the Lord
and the Lord chooses more people for his
house, for his church,
one has been working 20, 30 years for
the Lord. And someone walks through the
front door today, the Lord pays the one
who just walked through the door the
same wage as the one who has been
working 30 years.
The one whose work in 30 years winges
and complains and says, "Lord, this is
not fair. All my life, I worked for you
in your church. And this person just
walked in today and he's being rewarded
the same way as me. He's got the same
position, the same place, the same
respect. This is not right. I should be
respected more. I should be paid more. I
should be rewarded more. I've done it
all my life. This guy just came from the
streets of King's Cross into your
church. Not right. Not fair, Lord Jesus.
The Lord will say,
"I'm the rightful owner of the church.
I do as I please, and I pay as I please.
I reward as I please. What's it to you?"
Let me ask you, if it wasn't for me, I
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you who are
complaining now and saying, "I've served
you 30 years in your holy church. If it
wasn't for me, where would you have been
all these 30 years? You would have been
in hell.
Who made you the son of God? Who made
you that servant of the Lord? Who
allowed you to enter the holy presence
and the holy church of the Lord? Wasn't
it your Lord who purchased you with his
own precious blood? Remember,
where would you have been without the
Lord's mercy?
Where would you have been?
You would have still be standing idle in
the streets of this world, enslaved to
Satan,
enslaved to the temptations of the
world, offered to you by Satan.
Just like I showed mercy upon you,
I wish to show the same mercy upon this
man who just walked in today through my
front door.
Why
are you not happy?
So, has it been all about you all these
years serving in the house of the Lord?
But it's nothing about you. It's all
about me. I, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
>> [sighs]
>> When we come to the Lord Jesus,
we need to come for him and him only.
Not for the bishop,
not for the priest,
not for any occasion, not for your
father, your mother, your brother, your
sister, your husband, your wife, your
cousin, your niece, your friend, not for
the one sitting next to you, not for
anyone. You need to come to the house of
the Lord, for the Lord of the house, who
is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Our focus,
our intention, our heart, our mind, our
soul, our entire being needs to come
seeking the Lord and the Lord only, no
one else and nothing else.
When I am serving in the house of the
Lord for the last 30 40 years
and someone comes by the grace of the
Lord, by the blood of the lamb of God
who carries away the sins of the world,
when someone walks in through that front
door and is greeted, honored, respected
the same way as this bishop, this
bishop, if he is serving the Lord truly,
he needs to be extremely and overwhelmed
with joy and happiness. for this lost
soul who has been just found by the good
shepherd.
We need to be happy for our brethren,
for our brothers and sisters in Christ,
those who were distant and today they
are brought back close to Christ. You
need to rejoice if you truly are serving
the Lord, not your own interests in the
house of the Lord.
You should rejoice
and in fact you should get up and
welcome and greet that person who just
walked in today and say come up all the
way and take my place for my place is
yours for everything belongs to the
Lord. It's not about me. It's not about
you. It's about Christ the King. All
glory to his holy name. all glory.
But when we come to the house of the
Lord and serve in the house of the Lord
for our own interests, obviously will be
offended when someone just comes the
other day and is greeted and rewarded
the same as me who has been serving and
sweating it out for the last 40 years.
If I'm serving myself, of course, I'll
be offended.
But if I'm serving the Lord,
then the focus is Christ. I'll be happy
for my heavenly father that one of your
children who was lost is now found. One
of your children who was dead is now
alive.
This was the dilemma and the problem of
the older brother. When we read that
parable in Luke 15, the prodigal son,
when you read that parable in Luke 15
about that prodigal son who took his
portion from his dad and said, "Dad, I
don't want to live in your mansion
anymore." You know what? You're
suffocating me, Dad. I want to live
freely. I want to seek my own freedom. I
want to be my own boss. I go whenever,
however, with whomver. I don't want you,
Dad, to dictate to me how I should live
because this is Australia, Dad. It is
not somewhere in a village in the Middle
East. You don't dictate. This is
Australia, brother. Wake up to yourself.
I live how I please to live. So daddy,
enough of your dictatorship. I want to
be free. So he went off on his journey
seeking freedom.
Like so many millions of people seek
freedom their way. Where did they end
up? Enslaved to Satan. He ended up
working in a pig's field, i.e. in the
depths of sin and filth of this world.
Filth.
When we go out and do it our way, we do
everything wrong under the sun.
Everything
from drugs to alcoholism to gambalism to
women and the likes of it.
We do everything wrong under the sun.
Why? Because the moment we choose to do
it our way outside of God's way,
we destroy everything beautiful God gave
us.
When that younger brother
came back,
the older brother was working in the
field. Now listen to this.
When you read this parable,
the sin of the older brother was much
much greater than the younger brother.
But when you read it at a surface level,
you'll say, "Look at the older brother,
how wise,
how beautiful, loving, respecting dad so
much." But the younger one, naughty, he
just took off and didn't care about
that. No. The sin of the older one who
remained in the house of his dad was
much much greater than the one who left
dad and broke dad's word.
When the older brother came back from
the field
from a distance he heard there's a lot
of singing and dancing and shouting.
There is a joyous occasion at daddy's
house. So he calls one of the servants.
What's going on at my dad's house? He
said, "Didn't you know your younger
brother came back?"
What?
Yes. And your father,
he slained
a big fat oxen
or a calf. He slained a big fat calf
because he received your brother intact
in one piece. And he called the whole
city to come and rejoice with him
because his son was lost and now he's
found. His son was dead and now he is
alive once again. The older brother
refused to enter and be glad sharing the
happiness and the joy of his father.
The father went out begging his older
son, "My son, please come in."
You know what he said to his dad, the
older brother. Wow.
He said, "This son of yours
just shows how selfish the older brother
was. Just shows the way he speaks how
selfish he was. This son of yours, he
didn't say my brother. This is not my
brother. This is your son.
I have disowned him, Mr. Daddy. So if
you want to own him, he is yours, but he
is not me mine. As far as brotherhood is
concerned, I don't know this man. Your
son, not my brother.
Your son, he did everything evil under
the sun.
He damaged your reputation, your image
before the whole world. And then he goes
and does everything evil. After doing
all that evil all these years, comes
back and you welcome him like a royal
welcoming. Yet I
have been serving you all my life at
home. You didn't even give me a goat
to have fun with my friends.
Wow.
You didn't give me a goat
to have fun with my friends.
Do you know what a goat is?
Sin.
The Lord Jesus in Matthew 24 says, "When
I come back, the son of man, when he
comes back again, he will put the sheep
at his right hand and the goats at his
left hand." Left hand go into hell, sin,
darkness. Sheep, right hand, light,
holiness, eternal life. He said, "You
didn't even give me a goat to have fun
with my friends."
You know why that older brother didn't
even care to go searching for his
younger brother? And when his younger
brother came back, he never was happy
seeing his brother back. You know why?
Because as long as his younger brother
as out of the picture, the older brother
is getting all the credit from people.
You are the good boy. Your younger
brother is nothing but a fool. But look
at you how smart you are. Your younger
brother had no respect for your dad. But
look how you how respectful you are. He
was getting benefits, credits left,
right, and center. This man was walking
with a head like a balloon.
And as long as his younger brother is
out of the picture, he is the Mr.
perfect, the saint of all saints and the
faithful of all faithfuls and the role
model of what a son is supposed to be.
Loving, respecting, honoring his dad.
Yet, my beloved all his life on earth,
living in his father's house, he did it
only for his own personal benefit. He
never served his dad, but he served in
his dad's house for him to get all the
credit from people.
Wow.
Wow.
Why did you pay the last hour
the same as the one who worked 12 hours?
Oh, so you worked 12 hours not for the
Lord. You did it for yourself.
Therefore, all the hard work you've
done, you have no reward from me. I will
pay you not.
I will pay you not.
And this is the
five unwise virgins.
In Matthew 25,
it says the kingdom of heaven is like
the 10 virgins. Five wise, five unwise.
The five unwise came knocking at the
door. They said to the Lord, "In your
name we preached. In your name we did
all wonders and miracles." The Lord
said, "Away with you, all evildoers. I
do not know who you are." Why does the
Lord say, "I do not know you." Does the
Lord not know everyone? Of course, he
knows every heart, every person more
than that person's self.
He knows everyone. But who does the Lord
not recognize? He does not recognize
those who served in his holy church yet
served for one reason, to gain people's
attention and people benefits. getting
the credit, stealing it away from the
owner and the rightful owner. Those
servants, the Lord says, you are
evildoers. I don't know you because you
stole the glory from the glory of all
glories, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
But if we are truly serving the Lord,
then whoever walks in through the front
door,
even if I know, even if I know of for
sure this person just came from the
brothel, open your ears and eyes, my
beloved.
As a bishop, even if I know that person
just came from the brothel and walk
through the front door of the church, I
will bow and kiss their feet
and then I'll shred them to pieces.
Yes.
If you ever if you ever want to gain
someone's life, once you want to save
someone's soul, you must first show them
love, then shred them.
The Lord
who is the only
being that has the right to judge. Yet
he never judged us the sinners. He
showed mercy. Yet he's the only one who
is who has full right to judge. He never
did.
What did the Lord do to that Samaritan
woman at the well?
John chapter 4,
she came to draw water.
She married five times.
And the sixth one, she said enough. I'm
not going to marry again. I'm
embarrassed.
She couldn't even face people. That's
why she went during the day at the
hottest time of the day in summer at
12:00 noon because at that hour it's so
hot. Everyone is at home. She was
avoiding people out of embarrassment
because she's been married five times,
divorced five times. She can't face
people anymore. She went at 12:00 noon
at the hottest time of the summer day in
order to be her alone. To her shocking
surprise, she meets not just a person, a
man.
She's had enough of men.
She is the most expert when it comes to
men.
She's qual she's a professor. She's got
PhD in manhood.
She comes and she sees another man. She
said, "Oh, Habib Ali, where did you come
from? Lebanon
from the mountain area?"
And then
the Lord
engages with her in a conversation.
Woman,
give me water to drink.
She said, "Hang on.
By the looks of you, you're a Jew. I'm a
Samaritan woman.
We're not friends. Just like the
Israelis and the Palestinians,
we pray they become friends. Amen.
Don't fight. I I give a piece of advice
for the Israelis and the Palestinians
with all love and respect. I'll take the
land. Don't fight.
>> No. What
you know the word Hamas in Arabic, it
means like um Hamas eagerness. That's
what it means. Hamas. I'm eager. I'm I'm
a roaring lion.
No, habibi. I am I am lamas. I am
hassfas.
I'll take the land. Stop fighting. No
problem. and I'll build the church on
Mount Mariah.
And I'll call it the good shepherd.
The land belongs to Emmanuel.
That is the prophecy. This is the
prophetic word. Read the holy
scriptures. The land belongs to
Emmanuel.
And Isaiah said, "You will have
Emmanuel. This virgin will give birth.
Emmanuel came over 2,000 years.
He is the rightful owner of that land.
No one else.
No Jews, no Muslims, no one. It belongs
to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is the
rightful owner. Stop fighting.
The moment you receive the son,
you have the land here and there at the
same time. He is the rightful owner of
both worlds. My beloveds, just receive
the son. Work smart, don't work hard.
You've been trying to conquer the land
for centuries, killing millions of
people every single century. And yet, it
is not yours yet. Because the truth is
never was, never will. The land will be
your grave and mine at the end. This is
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth. So help you Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, Emmanuel, who is God in the
flesh. Amen.
>> So when you have Emmanuel, you've got
every land. You've got heaven. You've
got everything. I go with Emmanuel to
hell. I step on Satan and I come out. I
am free because when I have the son, I
have the authority to step on the snake
and on the scorpion. And even if I drink
the poison of the snake, nothing harms
me. Nothing.
My goodness. I pray every human being
has an encounter with Emmanuel. God is
with us.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
So the Lord meets this woman
and he says, "Give me water to drink."
She said, "You're a Jew. I'm a
Samaritan. We don't like each other. Why
are you talking to me?" He said, "If you
knew who is talking to you, you would
have asked him for water and he would
have given you the living water where
you thirst no longer." She said, "Hang
on. This well belongs to our father
Jacob. He drank from it his family and
his flock.
Where is your water? You don't even have
a glass or a jar in your hand. Where you
going to get this living water? And then
the Lord hits the sensitive cord of this
woman by saying to her, "Go and call
your hubhub.
Go and call your husband."
She said, "I don't have a husband.
That's all she said. The Lord said,
"Yes, because you had five husbands
before and the one who is with you in
the 21st centuries terminology, your
boyfriend."
And all of this you said correctly. She
didn't say all of that. She only said,
"I don't have a husband." The Lord
elaborated and said five you had before
and the one who is with you is not your
husband. And then the Lord goes back and
gives all this credit to the woman and
says you have said all of it correctly.
She didn't. But look at the Lord's way
of respecting this woman.
For the first time ever in her life, she
is respected by a man.
She was never before. That's why she
married and divorced. She wasn't living
in sin because she divorced. No, her
problem was one thing. This woman, when
you look and read between the lines,
what was her problem? She was looking
for that perfect man.
So she thought Romeo is the perfect man
and she is Juliet.
So she threw that stone
at Romeo. Romeo. Romeo. Mhm.
Turned out to be a I don't know a dump.
She dumped him. She dumped the first
Romeo. She thought she he was the
perfect man. She went and married
another one. Seeking perfection in man.
She realized after the fifth one, there
is no perfect man. Till she met the
perfect man at the well in Shaim in
Nablas in Gaza Strip where around 3
million Palestinians today are held
hostage in an open prison.
When she met this man,
she said, "I've never heard any man
talking this way to me ever before."
John 4:9,
you're a Jew. John 4:1 19, you must be a
prophet. John 4:9,
you are the Messiah, i.e. God.
The Lord didn't raise the dead. The Lord
didn't do wonders and miracles. All the
Lord did spoke with respect.
Made this woman confess from a Jew to a
prophet to God. and made this woman go
and call all of Samaria and brought all
of the city to the Lord where they
embraced him, accepted him and the whole
city was saved by a sinner, the best
customer of Satan. What this woman done,
St. Peter couldn't do.
Wow.
Wow.
The one who is the rightful owner to
judge. Never judge this sinner. Then who
are we to judge someone walking through
the front door and say, "What are you
doing? You belong to the streets."
Don't ever do that.
For those who are here and those who are
listening,
an advice from your spiritual father,
if you are living in sin this very
moment, my son, my daughter, if you are
thinking for a moment it is too late for
you to come back and fix your life. If
you think you've gone too deep, too far
where there is no come back. If you
think God has forgotten you, God has
forsaken you. If you think the Lord
Jesus doesn't care or give one penny
about you, if you see that it is too
late for you to fix you
this very moment, the Lord is waiting to
save you.
Just say, "Lord,
forgive me.
Lord, forgive me.
I've been standing idle for too long.
I've been serving Satan for too long.
I've been living in this
world for too long. Today
I say, Lord, I've had enough.
I'm coming back, Lord.
No more pleasing Satan.
Today, I'm coming asking you and begging
you, Lord. Allow me to please you.
for a change.
Allow me, Lord.
[snorts]
[sighs]
The early morning,
the land owner Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
All glory to his holy name. That early
morning represents Adam.
The third hour which is early morning is
6:00 a.m. The early morning represents
our father Adam. The third hour which is
9:00 a.m. represents our father Noah.
The
sixth hour which is 12 noon represents
our father Abraham.
The 9inth hour which is 300 p.m.
represents
the great prophet Moses. And the 11th
hour, 5:00 p.m. One hour left for the
day to finish
represents the Lord Jesus. The Lord came
in the end of times. Read Galatians 4:1.
The last hour is the end of times where
the beloved son of God was born of the
Virgin of all virgins, our holy mother
Mary.
And one other thing,
early morning on its own, 3rd hour, 9:00
a.m. on its own. But when it came to the
sixth hour and the 9th hour, the Holy
Bible puts them together. And he went
out on the 6th and the 9th. He put these
two hours together. So the 6th is 12:00
noon.
The 9th is 3 p.m. 12:00 noon and 3 p.m.
puts them together. Why? Because at
12:00 noon, the Lord Jesus was cru
crucified. At 300 p.m. he died in the
flesh on the cross.
These two hours are together.
You see what made every one of us being
unemployed idle into working in the
house of the Lord, being slaves and
changed into the sons of God. It was
those two hours, the 6th and the 9th,
12:00 p.m. and 300 p.m. It is the blood
of the lamb of God who was shed on
Calvary on the cross by being crucified
and dying on the cross made us today
sons working in the house of our
heavenly father. It was the son of God
who done it at 6 and the 9th hour, 12
p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
by being crucified and dying in the
flesh
changed us all and allowed us to work.
It's about the Lord. It's not about you
and me or how long we've been serving
him. If it wasn't for him, there was no
there was no house. There was no
service. There was no
There was nothing.
It was the Lord.
It was the Lord, my beloved.
12:00 noon and 3 p.m.
Why 12:00 noon represents Abraham?
What did Abraham do? He took his son
Isaac. Oops.
Yeah, sorry. It wasn't Ishmael. Okay, it
was Isaac. He took his son Isaac
on Mount Mariah to slain him and offer
him to God.
Abraham here represents God the Father.
Isaac represents symbolically God the
son.
So the father took his son, his only
beloved son. Just like God the father
has only one beloved son. Abraham took
his only beloved son born by the power
of the holy spirit not of the flesh but
of the spirit Isaac the promised son.
Just like that father took his only son
to be offered on Mount Mariah. Yet God
saved him from that knife going down and
slaying his only son by showing him a
ram tied to that tree. And that ram tied
to the tree is Jesus Christ tied to the
cross, the tree.
But this time the knife didn't stop when
God the Father offered his only begotten
son on Calvary on the cross. This time
the knife went all the way and slain the
son.
That is Abraham. 12:00 noon the son is
slain, crucified.
And 300 p.m. is Moses. Why? Because
Moses represents the law.
And Jesus by dying on the cross, the
Lord paid the price of the law i.e.
justice.
When the former Adam broke the law, the
law said you must die. Adam, the latter
Adam, Jesus Christ, died at 3 p.m.
fulfilled the law, the justice of God
represented in Moses.
And he came at the last hour.
[sighs]
The Christians are the last hour.
We are the end times.
We are the ones who worked that hour
and we got paid the same way those who
worked from 6:00 a.m. till 12 6:00 p.m.
We worked for an hour. We got rewarded
the same.
Thank the Lord always, my beloved.
Believe you me,
when we have the chance, the opportunity
to come to church,
remember this is the mercy of the Lord
still present in your life.
A time will come there will be no longer
church opened.
Remember this,
a time is coming. And when I say it's
coming, that means it will come. It's
not if, it's when.
It's not if, it's when.
When the time comes, you I will be
crying and dying to go to church. No
more that privilege available
today. It is so easy to come. We tasted
a glimpse of what is about to come in
2020 through the so-called pandemic. The
biggest lie of the 21st century.
We tasted it. The doors of the churches
got shut.
The Lord pre-warned us. Pre-warned us.
Satan cannot shut the door of the
church. The Freemasons and the secret
societies cannot shut the doors of the
church. The only one who can shut it is
Christ. The rightful owner, the land
owner, the vineyard owner, the church
owner. He is the only one that can shut
it.
The Lord allowed Satan through certain
people who worship Satan. He allowed
them to shut the door.
But the Lord allowed
to give a glimpse to the Christian
world, Christendom.
My beloved children whom I have
purchased with my precious blood.
Don't ever walk away from me.
Don't ever walk away from me. Don't ever
walk away from me. Don't come and tell
me you are a Catholic. Don't come and
tell me you are an Orthodox. Don't come
and tell me you are this and that. You
need to come and say, "Lord, I belong to
you. I belong to Jesus Christ of
Nazareth." What does it benefit you
being a Catholic and distant from the
Lord? What does it benefit you being
Orthodox and distant from the Lord? What
does it benefit a man if he gains the
whole world and loses himself at the
end?
If we do not have a personal personal
intimate relationship with the Lord,
nothing saves me.
It's the blood of the lamb of God that
does.
While we are privileged
to come and go whenever we please take
the most of it while we can because a
time is coming we will no longer have
this privilege. There won't be churches
anymore.
Believe you me.
And it is the Lord's plan. No one else.
Love the Lord.
I know I talk too much.
Tough luck.
Love the Lord.
Be honest with the Lord.
Never act before the Lord. Be you.
Don't ever come putting a different mask
on that is not you.
Come as you are. Do not act. Do not fake
who you are and what you are because the
Lord knows you more than you.
Come as you are. Full of sin, full of
errors, full of mistakes, full of filth.
Come as you are and say, "Lord, I'm a
sinner. I'm the greatest sinner of all.
I need you to cleanse me, Lord. I need
you to change me, Lord. I need you to
bring me to you, Lord. I am lost. Bring
me back. I'm dead. Revive me and bring
me back to life, Lord.
And see what the Lord will do for you.
See what the Lord will do for you.
The Lord is faithful.
Oh, yes, he is.
The Lord is faithful.
When you think it's too late, that's
when the Lord shows up.
When you think nothing can fix it, then
that's when the Lord fixes everything.
When you think you are forgotten, that's
when the Lord puts you in the core of
his heart.
Just trust him.
So, um, next time your friends call you
and say, "What are you doing, bro?"
Don't say nothing.
There's no such thing as nothing. You
must be doing something.
And if they say, "You want to go
downtown?" Say, "No, bro. Why?" Say,
"Because I'm going uptown."
What do you mean uptown? I'm going to
the church. What church? Oh, the church
where the best looking bishop is in.
The one who has red belt in karate
and the one who goes
alo.
We're going to see the best looking
bishop.
Get down brother. Let me some skin bro.
I think I've told you this before. I'll
say it again. One day I was preaching
because I talk a lot. You see, I love
it. So anyway, I was preaching and then
maybe 10 minutes into the preach, this
lady is sitting and all of a sudden I
hear her [snorts]
and throughout the hour and a half all
I'm hearing is Beethovven Bach.
The orchestra was playing best.
After the preach they tap her, wake her
up. The lady walks up to me and she
said, "Bishop, this was the best lecture
you ever gave."
I'm not kidding. Huh? I'm not kidding.
I said, "In your dream, baby."
[laughter]
That was just in case if there was
somebody asleep. Hopefully, he's awake
now. God bless you. May the Lord Jesus
be with you always, always, always. Show
mercy to one another. Love one another.
Pray for one another. And come to the
Lord for the Lord, for his person, for
himself. Don't ask him to give you
nothing. Don't ever come to the Lord
with a with a with a shopping list.
Don't come and say, "Lord, I want to
marry Rachel. I want to buy a Ferrari. I
want to have a house. I want to have a
successful business." Forget it.
Say, "Lord, I'm coming for you. You can
step on me. Break me. Make me. Do
whatever you wish to me as long as I am
with you. Lord, I'm coming seeking no
one but you. Be like that Canonite
women. When he said that when the Lord
said to his disciples, it is not good to
take the bread of the children of the
sons and throw it to the dogs and give
it to the dogs. She said, "Yes, Lord.
And the dogs also eat from the crumbs
that fall from the tables of their
masters and live by those crumbs. Lord,
I don't mind being that dog as long as
this dog is tied to you.
I'd rather be that dog and not be a king
and tied to Satan. Let me be that dog
and tied to the King of all kings.
I'm honored to be that dog, Lord. As
long as this dog stays with you, I'm
honored. Thank you, Lord, for allowing
me to be this dog.
This is the way you approach the Lord.
This is the way you come to the church.
This is the way you give your heart to
the Lord for him and him only. Even if
he takes you to hell,
kiss his feet.
Because with the Lord, hell is heaven.
With the Lord, hell is heaven. Without
the Lord, heaven is hell.
With the Lord, hell is heaven. Without
the Lord, heaven is hell. It's not about
the place, it's about the owner of the
place.
It matters not where the Lord takes me,
but what matters is the Lord is with me.
and I with him that's what matters
and
what position what I am first what I've
served you 40 years who gives one penny
it's about Jesus Christ of Nazareth
therefore I don't care if I sit on a
throne or I sit at the gutter if I am
respected or if I am defiled and and
dishonored it matters not they love me
or hate me, exalt me, or bring me down
on my head. Matters not, my dear friend.
When you have the Lord, you have nothing
to lose. You worry nothing. You fear
nothing. You don't care about nothing.
When you have the Lord, you have
everything.
When you have the Lord, you have
everything.
All good.
Bishop. No. Bishop. Some people say he
is deposed from the church. Don't listen
to him. Who cares?
What deposed?
You can't depose me from my sweetheart
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Habib Albe.
You cannot.
The one who chose me, the one who gave
me his rank, the one who appointed me.
You cannot by couple of words on a piece
of paper. You say whatever you think you
can touch, not even a glimpse of me, my
dear friend.
What the Lord has done for me, neither
you nor those who are above you can ever
do anywhere near what the Lord has done
for me. I've got the Lord, my dear
friend. I pray you do so as well.
Not worried about church
deposing me or not. I'm worried about
one thing.
Does the Lord say this is my son or not?
That's what worries me.
Doesn't matter what people think. It's
what the Lord
thinks of me.
Seek the Lord. Let's bow our heads.
Ask the Lord as we recite this prayer of
absolution.
Say, "Lord, forgive me for my sins. Make
me worthy to come forth and receive you
in the true body and blood of Christ the
King. Amen. Our good God and full of
mercy. our good God and full of mercy
whose grace and mercy is poured upon
all. Pour my Lord the compassion of the
delightfulness of your love upon your
servants and again transform them in the
hope of renewal to the life of
repentance. Renew in them your holy
spirit by whom they are sealed for the
day of salvation. Purify them by your
compassion from all flesh and spiritual
blemishes and assure the hope of their
faith by the aid of your grace and
instill the walks of their behavior in
the paths of righteousness. Please them
along with the saints in your kingdom by
the assurance of the hope of their faith
in the adoption as your children and in
the joy of your absolving mysteries.
Empower them by the aid of your mercies
to observe your commandments and fulfill
your will to confess, worship, and
praise your holy name, the Lord of all,
Father and Son, and Holy Spirit forever.
Amen.
Today, according to the church calendar,
we had the feast of St. Elijah and also
St. John and St. Michael. Um, these are
all saints in the early centuries. And
may their prayers be with you all and
guide you and lead you to the one and
only Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the only
savior and the redeemer of the world.
But may the prayers of these saints lead
you to the savior and the redeemer of
the world.
Um, pray for us. We're going to
Melbourne. Um we'll be um having two
sessions of Bible preach. Wednesday the
1st of November, this Wednesday coming
uh will be um in Assyrian at 700 p.m.
And then on Thursday the 2nd of November
again at 7 p.m. will be in English. So
this Wednesday, the 1st of November will
be in Assyrian. And then Thursday, the
following day, 2nd of November in
English. Both days will be at 700 p.m.
The venue is Hume Reception and the
address is 315 Uniting Lane Bullah B
Ula. I hope I'm pronouncing it
correctly. So it's number 315 Uniting
Lane Bullah Victoria and the venue is
Yume Reception. This Wednesday and
Thursday at 7 p.m. we'll be having Bible
preach in Melbourne. Hello to our
beloved people in Melbourne. Well, the
last time was um overwhelming.
I hope it's the same. And if you don't
come, I'll be brokenhearted. And then
I'll be disappointed. And then I won't
be able to eat dinner nor breakfast. And
then I'll come back very, very upset.
And then I'll say to the people of
Sydney, I'm leaving you. I'm going back
to Melbourne.
Very good.
Um so please pray for us for the Lord's
name to be always glorified in
everything we do.
Um Divine Heart Sunday school uh
parents, you have your children enrolled
in our Divine Heart Sunday school. There
will be a holy mass service celebrated
for our beloved Divine Heart Sunday
school students, angels. It will be on
Saturday the 11th of November at 6:00
p.m. sharp. Saturday the 11th of
November at 6:00 p.m. sharp. Parents,
please do come and bring your beloved
children with you. This holy mass
service is celebrated for your children
and yourselves as well. Parents, it's
Saturday the 11th of November at 6:00
p.m. sharp. If you'd like to enroll your
children in the Divine Heart Sunday
school, you can see our beloved father
Daniel who is the chaplain of the school
uh or see sister Mary uh our beloved nun
who is the uh principal of the school.
Both father Daniel and sister Mary are
present with us this evening.
The sponsorship of um children and
families overseas is going absolutely
magnificent. Um people are registering
for this. We've almost reached now about
500 about 400 and something close to 500
people registering for this uh
sponsorship of a child uh or a family uh
from over 20 different countries
worldwide. Um and we keep on asking for
more to enroll this flyer. Please share
it with everyone you know and ask them
to sponsor a child or a family. Whatever
amount it is a dollar, 10, five, 100,
whatever it is, whatever you can afford
as long as it's coming from the heart.
But this dollar makes a huge difference
in someone's life somewhere in this
globe, a little child or a family.
Recently, we've been to Turkey, Lebanon,
and Syria. We've witnessed this with our
own very eyes. People are truly truly
truly struggling beyond measures as we
speak. Struggling beyond measures as we
speak. That dollar can make a huge
difference in a child's life or a
family's life. I can assure you this.
So, please
share this
flyer
and encourage people to join and let's
put our hands together in the hands of
the Lord and put a smile on the Lord's
face by reaching out to someone who is
truly struggling and give him a helping
hand. We will be making the Lord smile
all the way from heaven to earth. Amen.
God bless you. And now uh for the next
10 hours, I'll be doing the Bible
preach.
I love you, but the Lord Jesus loves you
the most. God bless.
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