Ep. 152: Holy Week recap

In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting

mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of.

The world. And the life of all Give us

wisdom by your law, and enlighten our impulses by your

knowledge. Sanctify our souls by your

truth, and grant that we may be obedient to your words and may

fulfil your commandments at every hour.

O you. Who enlightens the rational with

the knowledge of Your greatness? Do enlight, O my Lord, our

thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and divine

Scriptures at all times, O Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy

Spirit. Forever.

risen indeed, He is risen. Resurrection, life and renewal

be upon you. My beloved brothers and sisters

in Christ, I pray that you celebrated a blessed and joyous

feast of the Resurrection of our Lord with your families, friends

and beloved ones, and that the blessing of the resurrection be

best out upon you and your families.

And for those who have lost loved ones in the past year or

so, this is the day where you take heart.

You become more confident, you lift up your heads and you stop

the weeping and the grumbling and the doubt and the sadness

and the hopelessness, and you proclaim that Christ is risen.

My beloved will rise and be resurrected.

I pray that you had an amazing time and that you attended the

services at the church. You partook in the all

sanctifying body and blood of our Lord and our Savior Jesus

Christ. What I want to do on this

episode is, you know, go through a recap of the Holy Week and you

know, and see what what happened, what we did during

these days that we gathered in the churches for various

services. We began with the Friday of the

40th, which is the Friday of the 40th day of the Lent.

Friday of the 40th is when the 40 days have concluded and then

we also commemorated on the same day the resurrection or the

rising from the dead of Lazarus by Christ our Lord, praise be to

His name. And we had the Eucharistic

service. Then we gathered on Palm Sunday

or the Sunday of the Hosannas, and we celebrated that in a very

joyous manner and with chantings and and processionals.

Then we gathered one more time on the Thursday of the Passover

or Thursday of Pasca Pasca. And we also partook in the

Mystical Supper, not the Last Supper, but the Mystical Supper

that Christ instituted on the Thursday of Pasca or Passover.

Pasca we one more time gathered on Friday of the Passion of our

Lord. And we carried the cross, and we

covered the crosses with black cloth, and we commemorated the

Passion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ again with a

processional. Thursday of the Light was all

silent, but there are services. And then we gathered on Sunday,

you know. Our service of.

The Thursday of the light, beginning with the vigil in the

evening, extended into the Sunday of the resurrection.

So let's go back and have a look at these individually.

Friday of the 40th for 40 days, but we extended, obviously we

fast for 49 days so that our Lent, our far lentil period, or

our fast concludes on the Sunday of the resurrection.

But during those 40 days we we commemorated or we reminded that

we strived to join in the fast of our Lord.

Everything the Lord, the Lord did we do.

We have a part in his baptism, his prayer, his death, his

resurrection, his fasting, his love, his peace, his charity.

We must all have a physical relationship and participation

in. So we strive to during those 40

days. We strive.

We tried our best to join in the fast of our Lord and we spoke, I

think there was 5 episodes on Lent.

We we strive to humble ourselves.

We strived to bend our necks like a bow in shame because of

our sins and trespassers, and we laid down on sackcloth again and

ashes, metaphorically speaking, meaning that in sorrow, in

mourning over our sins, we didn't dance, we didn't drink

alcohol, we didn't hang out. We will more to ourselves

according to Isaiah chapter 58, as the Lord commands the fasting

Isaiah 58 · chapter mention

to be on the 40th and for the 40th day, we strive to release

the bonds of evil again. Isaiah 58 cut off the burdens of

deceit, release the oppressed to liberty, and cut off all

burdens, all the burdens of the world of our sins, our our

foolishness, our stupidity, our stiff neckedness.

We strive. We tried our best to put those

all the way. We strive to break our bread

with the hungry by feeding the homeless and the hungry and

maybe even sheltered the the strangers.

Put them up in a hotel or a motel.

We strive to strive to cover the naked, those who are homeless,

with war, with torn clothes and shaggy clothes.

We tried to maybe some of them even in in nakedness.

We tried our best to find them and to clothe them.

We tried not to turn away or neglect the son of our body that

is fellow mankind. Isaiah chapter 55.

Isaiah 55 · chapter mention

We tried to do that while abstaining from the meat factor.

We've spoken about that As for Lazarus has been commemorating

the resurrection of the Lazarus. We became witnesses to his

resurrection after being dead and decayed, putrefied for four

days, and this as evidence and preparing us for the

resurrection on the third day of our Lord.

He who resurrected Lazarus after being dead for four days, His

divinity, which was with him in the grave, His divinity

resurrected him on the third day.

So there's no questions. There's no doubt.

If we doubt, how can someone be resurrected on the third?

Because the critiques we're doubting, we come back and reply

and say, well, the same person that you're doubting resurrected

a dead corpse after four days. And during this time, we

resurrected our dead physical state as well, with Jesus Christ

hand in hand with our fasting and praying, scripture reading,

attending church on Palm Sunday, Sunday of the hosannas.

On this day, we too accepted Jesus as our King of Kings and

Lord of Lords. We proclaimed, we confirmed, and

we confirmed that He is the promised Messiah.

We sent him off to a battle, as the kings would go off to a

battle chanting Hosanna. That means salvation, save we

saw him off to go and conquer death once and for all.

Death putting to shame Satan and nullifying the power of sin.

This is on the Sunday of the Hosanna's salvation.

We too did the same, beloved, in Christ, just as the infants and

the sucklings in Jerusalem on the first day of the Pascha,

Passover and the Mystical Supper we began.

We became witnesses to the truth, beloved, that Jesus is

the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world as

proclaimed by John the Baptist in John 129.

We became witnesses to this one more time.

We replenished one of the sacraments of the Assyrian

Church of the East and it's only found in the Assyrian Church of

the East. Now other churches may still

have something that is similar, but in place of the Holy Leaven

being a sacrament, it may have been substituted by another

sacrament. But within the Assyrian Church

of the East, the Holy Leaven, the Malika, the king, is a

sacrament. We replenish that because it was

instituted on the Sunday, Thursday of Pasca.

As for the Mystical Supper, not the Last Supper, correct, people

who call it the Last Supper. It cannot be the Last Supper,

beloved, and I you know it. It astonishes me when we see

some clergy, priests from various churches, various

Apostolic churches, celebrating the Mystical Supper, taking

bread, breaking, and yet calling it the Last Supper.

Why are you doing celebrating? It was the last one.

It's done, it's finished. No, it's not.

It was a mystical supper. Mystical meaning there is a work

of the Holy Spirit. There is an outward expression

of an inward act of God, if we may say in this sacrament at the

Mystical supper instituted by Jesus Christ, we not only became

witnesses, but also partakers in the presentation and declaration

of Jesus being the Lamb of God, of the New covenant.

The Lamb of the New Covenant and offered his own body in a form

of a bread. We learned, we became witnesses

that he truly is the bread that came down from heaven in place

of the man. Now let's go back when Abraham

took his son Isaac to the mountain to offer him as a

sacrifice according to God's commandment, there was a lamb

that was stuck in the tree, and that lamb prefigured the Lord

and Savior Jesus Christ. We witnessed and we confirmed

and we praised him and called him and accepted him as truly

the Lamb of God, the Lamb. So that lamb was prefigured, was

a shadow and was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Manna was a prefiguring or a shadow of the bread.

That Jesus is, not, was, is, and forever will be on Thursday of

pasta and the Mystical Supper. During the Mystical Supper we

learned that we must, must, must partake in the actual physical

consumption eating of this bread.

Not just believe, not just praise and sing hallelujahs.

No, no, no, to physically consume this bread and not just

once a year can eat, break bread and drink a glass of wine and

proclaim that we have commemorated the last.

Well, maybe that is the last of it because the, the, the, the

service is not a sacrament, but we call it the mystical, the

Assyrian Church of these and the Apostolic churches know it as

the mystical summer because it is still in communion with what

Jesus did on that Thursday. We must consume this bread,

being indeed, indeed, indeed communion joined united with his

body in the Kingdom of heaven. 1 Corinthians 10/16 I'm giving you

evidence. I'm giving you scripture

evidences and scripture references, not just sitting

here and talking my thoughts and, and you know, complaining

about what this person said and what that person said and not

giving you an alternative. No, no, no, no one.

Corinthians 10/16 If we wish to remain in Him and He in US, we

must partake, physically consume the body in the form of bread,

which is the real presence of Jesus Christ according to one

Corinthians 1016. If you wish to remain in Him and

He in US, possessing life in our souls.

John 656 He who eats my body and drinks my blood remains in me,

remains abides in me. John 656 Not Jennard, his own

thoughts. No, no, no.

John 653 If you do not eat the body of the Son of Man and drink

his blood, you have no life in yourself.

This we were witness to on the Mystical Supper on Thursday of

the Pasca Pasca. It's still not over yet.

We imaged the humility of Christ our Lord by washing the feed as

He commanded his disciple John 1314.

But then He's disciples then by the authority vested in them,

given to them by Christ, then commanded that we too must wash

each others feet. That means be ready to serve.

We became witnesses to our Lord, surrendering himself guiltlessly

on Thursday of Passover. Pasca surrendering himself not

captured. Yes, they laid hands on him, but

He surrendered Himself guiltlessly, sinlessly to his

capturers because his time had come.

He gave himself up. They didn't capture Jesus

Christ. We say it, we, we sing it.

They captured our Lord Christ. We, we, we sing it.

But he, he gave himself up to be captured.

We witnessed the hatred and resentment towards Christ by his

enemies. This we witness at a greater

scale, beloved today, oh, how the world hates Jesus Christ,

how the secular world hates Jesus Christ.

And you know what, How the spiritual world world and

christen them to those who claim that they love Jesus Christ,

those who claim that they are Christians, yet they hate him by

their words, deeds and actions. Calling black, white, white,

black, calling good, evil and evil good.

And I'm not going to get into that.

I've done it. I've done many times.

We witnessed the rebuking of Simon by Christ, Simon, Simon,

relax, don't say no to me. And as I said in the English

segment, if a person or family or community or a society or a

call from I'm not sure who's calling.

Steven, I told you, don't touch. I I know how to let's keep

going. It's OK if a person, a family, a

community, a society, a nation, a church says no to Jesus, that

person, that family, that community, that society, that

nation, that church will be destructed, will be rebuked.

Because when Jesus said one of you will you, they, one of you

will deliver me, betray me and you will all fleet, No Lord, not

me. Don't ever say no to Jesus

Christ, never. Because if you do, you will be

rebuked and you will be proven wrong.

You will, you will have eggs on your faces, but the Lord will be

always ready to receive you back one more time to reinstate you

when you repent. We witness the abandonment of

His disciple by His disciples. We witnessed the gracious

compassion. This is all the first day of

Passover. We witnessed the gracious

compassion of our Lord to His capturers.

Malchus, the high priest servant whose ear Simon took off with

the sword. Jesus healed it and again said

to Simon, Simon, Simon, oh Simon, you, you shoot from the

hip. You, you know, you're quick to

react. Do you not know that if I ask my

Father, you know, and you know I'm going to dare to extend.

Didn't even need to ask his father for angels didn't need

the Angel to come and defend him.

He could've, he could've, he could've blown them to misery,

blown them away, but he didn't for this I have come Simon.

So don't we learnt all these we gave witnesses.

So when when you're hated and again, going back to what I

said, the world hates Jesus. We shouldn't be surprised.

We shouldn't have to go out there and hold placards.

And you know, no, we don't do that.

We just pray for these people because they're doing nothing

for the the you know, they're only hurting themselves.

Beloved, those who oppose Jesus Christ are only hurting

themselves. Christ is not moved.

Christ is still asleep in that boat where the boat is rocked by

the ocean and the and the storm. Christ is still in peace and

calm, sitting on the right hand of righteousness and reigning

from heaven on earth. Our Lord is a awesome God who

reigns from heaven on earth. Right, we sing, and yet He is

always ready to receive those who hate and resent Him.

We just need to pray for them. We witness betrayal, bamboozle,

bogus broken promises by His disciples and Simon encountered

by Jesus Christ. We witness the foolishness, the

carelessness, the stupidity extended from hatred and

jealousy and pride by the Jewish people who said, and to date, to

date until this very moment, this is binding His blood be

upon us and our children, beloved.

And no Pope, no patriarch, no Bishop, no church can remove

that. Unless Christ himself and you

know Saint Paul writes it so beautifully that if they stop

from their non believe they accept Jesus Christ as their

Lord and their Saviour and ask for forgiveness and proclaim

that they have sinned on in heaven and earth before him.

Yes, they will be one more time grafted, but they will be

received, and that curse that they put upon themselves, that

will be removed. Then we come on Friday of the

passion of our Lord. We carried His cross and we

wept, not so much for Him, but for ourselves, beloved, our

stiff neckedness, our selfishness, our pride, our

disobedience, our evil immorality, our abomination for

which Christ was crucified. For as I always say, we shed

some crocodile tears. And on this day we witness

Caiaphas counselling and being heard, Hannah accusing and the

scribes were so excited. Oh yes, yes, yes, we're going to

put this man to death. It took us three years, but

we're doing it now. Pilot sitting on his throne and

our Lord clinging to the column. Andrew fleeing.

John is missing. We witnessed Thomas hiding,

Jacob astonished, and the full disciples, all the disciples

away in every side. Simon still stayed from far off,

but he's going to drop the ball again, as Christ has said.

We ourselves departed those who take Friday of the Passion

seriously and not make it a selfie opportunity and standing

in the cross of our Lord with a duck lips and crossed legs and

to pose to show that hey, I went to church, it's Good Friday.

But look at me, this is my glamour.

I despise, despise. And you know, if you don't want

to listen to these programs, God bless you.

I'll pray that the Lord will deliver you from Satan.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm telling you, I'm speaking

the truth, beloved. We see it.

You see it. You complain to me.

It's it's the Friday of the passion.

There should be no make up. There should be sackcloth.

We'll commemorate Jesus died for our sins.

Not not selfies. And as I, as I, as I described

those selfies. No, no, no, we go away, departed

to our homes, dismayed, disarrayed, disappointed,

dumbfounded, dreadful, doubtful. Yes, Christ is risen, Amen,

praise to his name. But because of our sins, that's

why we feel that remorse. He is in heaven.

We chanted awake, O Son of blessings, sons of blessings,

Sham and Japheth, who are filled with modesty and covered the

nakedness of their father while he lay asleep in his slumber.

Now listen, listen, I've mentioned many times that the

Father's right that Christ was naked on the on the cross.

Listen to what we say. Lo, the splendid moon and light

is clothed with sorrowful darkness, that they may not see

their Lord. This our Lord was crucified

disgracefully, but in His humanity, His divinity being

with Him, not even at the blink of the eye did His divinity

depart from Him. No, but all of the misery and

the sorrow and the pain and the suffering were experienced in

His humanity as His Holiness was proclaiming in His Easter

epistle. Then came Saturday of light, all

quiet at the Western Front, right?

But the Lord was not quiet. He was in Shoal, not hell.

Jesus didn't go to hell. When you hear someone give you a

testimony that Jesus took me to hell and then took me to heaven,

well, no one has seen heaven. So then Saint Paul's words that

no one has seen or heard an Alpha because Jesus took you to

heaven and you're selling your books for a million.

You've made millions of dollars. You know what?

Do away with these false prophets.

Do away with them. Jesus didn't go to hell.

You know why? Why do you think Jesus didn't go

to hell? I'll give you 5 seconds 54321

Why? Because Matthew 2541 Hell is

prepared for the devil and for his angels, not for Jesus.

Leslie, he went to show which is the grave, let's say in death.

And as His Holiness writes in his epistle, he descended into

Shoal, wherein he proclaimed life to the souls who were

captured in darkness of the grave and awaiting the arrival

of the Savior of all creation. According His Holiness is

quoting one Peter 319, not hell. Then came the day.

Not D-Day. The day, the day that there has

never been, is never happening and will never be.

The day when Caiphus was shame, ashamed, Hannah was put to

shame, Judas was strangled, money was rejected.

The 30 pieces of silver, the scribes not speaking,

dumbfounded Stump quiet, steep, the head of the synagogue,

synagogues covering their faces in shame.

What happened? The Levites blaming each other,

Pilot wondering, the agitators. And this is from the

proclamation we present during before the service at Easter.

Easter Eve. The agitators and soldiers

nowhere to be found. And the assembly of the wolves.

No more crying ow, scattered with their tails between their

feet. The shepherd speaking with the

sheep and the flock spelling he's scent and becoming warm.

We heard his voice. Where did he hear his voice the

first time when he said Mary? Mary, his mother exalts, is

victorious. Shalom.

Shalom is joyous Magdalene carrying the gospel of peace.

He is resurrected, He is risen. I saw him, the disciples raising

their heads one more time. What?

Raising their heads because it was hung in shame and doubt.

The apostles coming out of hiding.

Simon and John running to the sepulchre.

Matthew and Bartholomew exalting in their joy, high fiving fist

pumping each other. Andrew and Jacob forgetting

their afflictions. Thomas confessing my listen,

listen, stop, stop everything. Listen to this.

Listen. Thomas confessing my Lord and my

God, our Jehovah's Witness friends, William Smith I don't

know who what his name is. Smith was it Billy Smith,

William Smith Heresy, heresy, my Lord and my God.

And Jesus one more time accepted it and he returned his reply and

said, now that you see me, you believe that I am your Lord,

that I am your God. Jesus is God, everyone wherever

you are, cry out. Praise be to his name.

Jesus is resurrected, praise be to his name.

Pilot praising sigh of religion. So he's resurrected.

I didn't want to crucify him, but these people are stiff neck

as they are today. The way of the sepulchre

resounding and that of Golgotha being deserted tumbleweeds

because the tomb is empty. Weeping, crossing over to the

left. That is evil, but consolation

rising from the right, righteousness receiving

consolation, hope, the door of the sepulchre becoming the bed

chamber, the bridal Chamber of the one that is killed.

We all looked death in the face and said this is on Sunday.

Oh death, where is your sting? Oh sure, where is your victory

on this day? Beloved, we proclaim Christ is

risen. Indeed, He is risen on this day.

We promise that having fasted, having witnessed all these

events in the life of Jesus Christ, that last week of his

life, we promise and we pray that Lord help us to remain in

this victory, in this holiness. And you know what's going to

happen, and it's probably already happening that we have

one more time returned to our sins just as a dog returns to

his vomit. But this gracious, resurrected,

risen Lord is always ready to one more time reinstate, one

more time on the day of the resurrection we all proclaimed

Christ is risen. Indeed, He is risen.

Praise and glory be to his name, now and at all times and

forever. Amen.

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