Episode 113: Paul Proclaims the Resurrection

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. Amen.

Glory be to our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and

the sanctifying Holy Spirit who has blessed US one more time

with this blessing to come together and discuss and examine

the Holy Scriptures according to the teachings of the Scriptures

themselves, the teachings of the Holy Church Fathers and the

framework and the life of the Church.

Acts chapter 13. We left off at verse 33 last

Acts 13 · chapter mention

week. A brief recap.

Saint Paul continues to, you know, present his discourse, his

first sermon. Not his first speech because we

read that he speaks, he's been speaking previously, but his

first discourse, his first sermon concerning the fulfilment

of the prophecies and the promises of God only through

Jesus Christ. Remember this, please, beloved,

only through Jesus Christ. It doesn't it shouldn't concern

us what one person says 11 office says no, no, no, it

doesn't. It doesn't concern, it should

not concern us, although we get a little bit uptight, but it

shouldn't concern us. What one person says that

according to the, the promises and the, you know, the

fulfillment, the promises and the, and the, the prophecies of

God that they may have also been fulfilled.

No, no, no, they've only been fulfilled in Jesus Christ our

Lord. Hence, hence, the only way to

God, the only way to the Kingdom of God is through Jesus Christ,

our Lord, our Savior, our King, our life giver, and the forgiver

of our sins. Regardless of what a Pope's

speaks, what a patriarch speaks, what a Bishop things, what a

priest or a preacher or a philosopher or a theologian, No,

no, no. It's only through Jesus Christ

because Saint Paul is emphasizing this, Beloved, if we

take a lot of pride and we praise God for his apostles like

Saint Paul, and we're continually preaching and, and,

you know, teaching and, and, and trying to explain the writings

of Saint Paul, then why do we err when it comes to what Saint

Paul is really teaching us? He's talking to the leaders of

the synagogue. He's talking to the Jews.

He's talking to those who had the Mosaic law, They had the

law. He's he's addressing them.

He's telling them, listen, not through Moses, not through

David, not through the prophets, not through anyone.

The promises of God were fulfilled to our forefathers.

Well, the promises of God made to our forefathers, the Jews was

fulfilled in us, his children and they were all through who

who say it, say it. Now I'm not going to hear it,

but I want you to say it and, and I, I encourage you in the

name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit to

say this only through Jesus Christ period, period,

regardless of what anyone says and preaches and teaches and

he's discourses to the leaders of the synagogue.

What he did again, he starts from Egypt and goes into the

wilderness. He goes into what how God

destroyed the nations and gave the land of inhabitants to them,

gave the Dame judges, gave them kings and he led them by the

pillar of fire and the the cloud and he provided food,

nourishment and he he made them strong and vibrant and they

were, you know, they were conquering all the enemies.

And then he goes on to say, now this God of our forefront,

others who promised and prophesied all this, raised this

Jesus Christ. You know, he speaks about Jesus

Christ. He speaks about how John the

Baptist came and gave a testimony all about Jesus

Christ. He quotes the Psalms, which is

the older tape, David, the first David, meaning that the Psalms

were all portraying and pointing the finger to the second David.

Just right. Just like there is the first

Adam, there is the last Adam, not a second Adam, last Adam,

that is Jesus Christ. There was the first Moses, there

is the last Moses, Jesus Christ, there is the first David, there

is the last David, and that is Jesus Christ.

And this Jesus Christ was risen from the dead, but through your

ignorance and your stubbornness and your stiff neckedness and

your pride and some of your evil motives, you crucified the

Christ, not even knowing that this was also prophesied and

told by the Father to the to their fathers.

He was risen by God according to the Psalms.

We have declared that through this David declares the Old

Testament the scriptures. Back then when they refer to

scriptures, always keep in mind when we read Christ referring to

scriptures, there was no Bible at that moment.

The scriptures he refers to are the sacred scriptures of the Old

Testament. The first five books of Moses,

the Pentateuch or the the Torah or the Septuagint, they're

called as well. And that he, God also declared

that this Jesus Christ is his Son is the one that is begotten

of him. This is all Paul.

This is all included in Paul's discourse and preaching to the

leaders of the synagogue. And he was also raised by God.

And we spoke about that Jesus said, I will raise and we know

that Jesus is God. Yes, we ascertained according to

the Church Fathers, again, Jesus in his divinity by nature,

divine by nature, resurrected his human nature.

His divine nature resurrected the human nature.

Let's continue verses 34 to 35. And God, He continues.

And God raised him from the dead, no more to return to

corruption. Was Jesus going to return to

corruption? Let's not jump the gun.

Let's not shoot from the hip and God raised him from the dead no

more to return to corruption as he said, I will give you the

sure mercies of David. It's a prophecy, I think I

believe it's Psalm chapter 16 verse 10.

Psalms 16:10

And again he said in another place, You shall not suffer your

holy One to see corruption. Actually, I'm sorry, that is

Psalm chapter 16, verse 10. But I will give you the sure

Psalms 16:10

mercies of David is Isaiah chapter 55, verse 3.

Isaiah 55:3

These are quotation references, verse 35.

And again he said in another place, you shall not suffer your

Holy One to see corruption. This is David speaking.

Now before we go on to verse 36, what is he talking about?

That God raising Jesus from the dead, raising his Son from the

dead, that he should no more see corruption?

Is he talking about Jesus Christ?

How can that blessed, pure, perfect, holy, complete body,

sinless body, perfect man, perfect God, sinless body go

through corruption? No, Jesus's body was not

corrupted. The rabbit.

No, no, no. He was put in the tomb, but his

body did not see corruption. So who is he talking about?

He's talking about humanity through Jesus Christ.

You see the tomb from which he was risen incorruptly as the

Lord or as the last David of incorruptibly, incorruptly

incorruptibility. We also by rising from our

tombs, from our graves and rising from the temporal

corruption, our bodies do corrupt.

They see corruption, they are corrupted after they are put

into the grave, the body is corrupted, the body decays,

returns to dirt. So just as Jesus did not go

through corruption and the Lord of incorruptibility, so to we

when we raised from the tombs or the graves and the temporal

corruption by that anticipation of the resurrection which is

being promised to Jesus by to us through by Jesus Christ.

We then, according to One Thessalonians chapter 4 verse

17, we then will run toward heaven and to the clouds in

which he returns in his divine glory.

When he returns and we have been resurrected from that temporal

corruption, we will greet him in the clouds when he returns in

his divine glory. And now so that we can confirm

and, and, and back this statement up or this

understanding and so that we think not that it is David he is

referring to here, he continues to say in verse 36 for David,

after he had served his own generation according to the will

of God, died. David died.

Yes, Jesus submitted himself to death, although we do say he

died by submitting himself to death, not that death took him

and had a hold of him. No, no, no, submitted himself to

death, but according to the will of God, David died.

Though he was a great man than his father's, a greater man than

his father's, yet he saw corruption.

He was a greater man. He was called after the heart of

God himself. Now some people argue and frown

upon David and cannot fathom and accept.

Who are we to accept in any case, cannot accept how a Sinner

who caused the death of a woman just so he can take her and have

a child with her after he was tempted to fulfil his evil

desires? How can he be called after the

heart of God? Well, before we point that

finger, look at the three fingers pointing back at us.

What is David claiming? I think in Psalm 4 or Psalm 5I

wet my pillow, my mattress for my tears.

Because of his sin. He mourned to the point that he

his, his, his sheets, his pillows, his mattress were

constantly made wet by his tears of mourning.

When was the last time you laid your head to on the pillow to

rest and you mourned about your sins for the day?

No, sometimes we sleep very conscience free, you know,

guiltless conscience. We sleep and you know we think

about what we did wrong. Well, I just prayed and God will

forgive me. Well, David prayed, besieged and

begged the Lord, but then he did it by remorse and tears.

And sometimes it needs that, beloved, sometimes not.

That God did. It is requiring the tear drops

from the eyes. No, no, no, when we cry, we are

so emotionally moved and saddened and hurt by whatever it

is, and in particular by our sins.

When you cry and weep over your sins, blessed those who mourn

not those who mourn over their grandmother and their

grandfather and those who pass away.

No, no, no. We mourn, yes, but blessed are

they who mourn over their sins and transgressions.

They will be comforted, they will rejoice with Christ when he

wipes away that tear and says, I know, I saw that you were so

remorseful and I did forgive you.

Come, I will still grant you that eternal Kingdom.

So David's body saw corruptibility.

So he's not talking about David. He's talk.

He's not talking about Jesus Christ.

He's referring to humanity, beloved, without, without only

Jesus. Without Jesus Christ, we would

have died and gone back to corruption and we would have

corrupt, been corrupt forever, eternal corruption.

But Christ, praise be to his name and only Christ, only

Christ. No one can claim this, beloved.

No one can dare to even think about claiming that through his

death humanity received incorruptibility.

No, no, no, because all the leaders of the other faiths,

Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna and whoever who you know, all the

leaders of those faith have died, have been buried, have

been corrupted. They are corrupted.

Their body has seen corruption. However, when those who die and

are put to rest in the hope of resurrection through Jesus

Christ, no one else through Jesus Christ, they will only

suffer that temporal corruption. You know, we say our beloved has

passed on from these temporal life to eternal life.

So we pass on. When we die, we Passover from

temporality to eternity. But when we are put into the

grave, we suffer and we we experience corruption, but only

a temporal corruption. We go from a temporal corruption

to eternal incorruptibility through Jesus Christ because he,

that's why he took on our flesh and that's what he did on the

cross when he was ministering during his sermons and in the

grave and, and his resurrection and his ascension.

He did everything for you and I. He did not need it.

He was not in need of all of these, beloved.

He was glorified in heaven and legions and 10 thousands upon 10

thousands of angels were crying. Holy, holy, holy are you, Isaiah

6 versus 2 and three, holy are you?

He didn't need you and I. He didn't need this.

It wasn't because has the you know what I'm saying.

This Lord, Lord, cleanse me only for our understanding, only that

the the stubborn, the foolishness, the ignorance that

we have that we let go of regardless of who we are.

He didn't sin and then he, oh, he, he committed a a

transgression and he had to come and die so that he would be

forgiven. No, no, He took flesh for you

and I on our behalf. He took flesh to die.

He took flesh to be ridiculed. He took on our humanity to be

persecuted, to be ridiculed, to be pierced, to be spat at, to be

king hit, to be crucified, to allow himself to go to death, to

be buried and to be resurrected and to ascend one more time in

our humanity. He took on our humanity,

beloved. So the incorruptibility that you

and I are going to experience after the resurrection is only

thanks be to Christ our Lord, because He did not.

He did not see corruption. He was perfect, but that he was

resurrected, we too, although we are, we will taste

corruptibility, but we will be resurrected one more time.

Verse 38. Listen to this beloved now this

is Saint Paul, this is Saint Paul talking to the leaders of

the synagogue. This is in the Holy Scriptures.

These are the sacred Scriptures. We kiss.

Although today every other book is being kissed, I will not kiss

any other book except a book that contains sacred scriptures

inspired by the Holy Spirit and canonized by the Church, because

it is the Church that declares a scripture sacred, because Christ

gave that authority to the Church.

Don't bring me any other books to kiss.

I will not kiss them. I will not kiss them.

I may read them to see the ridiculousness and the the flaws

and the evil in them, but I will never kiss them.

This is in the scriptures Saint Paul writes.

It's Saint Paul speaks again. Preachers preach it, Saint Paul

preach it. Praise be to your Lorde name.

Be it known to you therefore, brethren, that through this very

one who that is Jesus Christ is preached to you the forgiveness

of sins through this. Now we can take it two ways.

Jesus preached the forgiveness of sins, but he doesn't say by

this very 1. The forgiveness of sins will

preach through this very 1 Lord Jesus Christ.

Forgiveness was preached through Jesus Christ, no one else.

Yes Robbie, get over it. You're you're repeating

yourself. I will repeat myself until we

until I receive messages that yes Robbie, I believe yes, it is

only through Jesus Christ. No other person on earth that

forgiveness of sins is preached. But a side note.

And this is not contradicting myself aside not John chapter 20

John 20 · chapter mention

when Jesus was resurrected and he went to meet his to meet his

apostles and disciples, the doors were closed.

He walked in, he he greeted them, he gave them peace because

they were in in terror, they were in fear.

He gave them their peace. He breathed on them and said,

received the Holy Spirit. Why?

Then there was a need for Pentecost.

They received the Holy Spirit. It was a spirit to forgive sins,

but Christ is the ultimate figure of sins.

So when you approach the church and you ask the church to

absolve you, you ask the church to pray for you.

You ask the church to to place on you and to enter you through

a period of absolution. And when the church proclaims

that Jesus has forgiven you, Jesus, not I, I do this, I do

that. No, no, no, Jesus has forgiven

you. Then you are forgiven, beloved

now. Debatable.

No it's not. It's simple. 2 + 2 is 4, right?

Although now they're saying that's that's racist.

Steven, 2 + 2 is 4, but that's racism.

Well that's going to end anyway regardless.

So it's so simple. Forgiveness of sins is through

Jesus Christ, who gave that gift of the Holy Spirit, that

provision to be bestowed upon those who believe in Jesus

Christ through His Church and His priesthood.

Just a side note, let's come back again.

Be known to you therefore, brethren, that through this very

one, Jesus Christ is preached to you, the forgiveness of sins

through Jesus Christ and by Him. Now listen to this.

Once saved, always saved. Once justified, you're in the

Kingdom of heaven. Are you saved?

That means you're in the Kingdom of Heaven.

But I think we have misunderstood.

We misquote Ephesians chapter 2 verse 9, please.

Ephesians 2:9

And I always say Ephesians chapter 2 verse 9.

Ephesians 2:9

There's 22 verses in Ephesians chapter 2.

Ephesians 2 · chapter mention

Yes, I know I've said this in my other other episodes, maybe last

week. But we have to, we need to

continue to preach so that people come out of that era.

Let's not use grace as a license to sin for immorality.

Some people do some people preach that, but Paul writes

this to Jude. Some have used the grace of God,

a license to sin. No listen to what Paul says to

the leaders of the synagogues here and by him.

And by the way, let me again, this is AI haven't mentioned

this for a while. This is the beginning of the

church. This is how the Church of Jesus

Christ, which was deposited all the graces of of the gifts of

the Holy Spirit deposited, gave to to the church as a

depository, gave to the apostles.

And then they deposited in the church and we go and withdraw

from these this depository. This is the church.

It's in the Scriptures again. It doesn't concern me what 200

years ago, what philosophy and school of thoughts came about.

No, no, this is the early church and the remnants of those

churches are these Apostolic churches that we still we call

Apostolic because we still adhere to this chapter 39 and by

him all that belief, first and foremost, faith are justified

made right. You know when you when you

justify on the in Word right means it makes it right.

It's all over the place. You want to justify it

indentation, what have you right.

I'm not that computer savvy. You make it right so it fits

right. It's the writing the script and

the text is right. You've been justified being made

right, and we can go in further and say saved, even save.

Justified from what? Justified from all things from

which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

There is our salvation, beloved, There is our salvation.

What the law of Moses, as Saint Paul writes in Romans chapter 8,

Romans 8:3

verse 3, was weak by the sickliness of the flesh.

Not that God's law was weak and couldn't perform, but we were

sick. You know, you have a you, you're

prescribed a medication, but because your illness is so

severe, you're you. You're prescribed 20 grams of

what do you call? No.

Yeah. Penicillin, antibiotics, Right.

You prescribed 20 milligrams that 20 milligram of antibiotics

heals a person who is not whose illness is not that severe.

But then you go back to the the physician say, listen, it didn't

do anything for me. Is it you know what, I'm going

to up the dosage or I'm going to I'm going to increase the dosage

or the milligrams. I'm going to increase it.

But obviously your illness is a little bit more stronger and

then that starts working The we the flesh was see sick insane

corruptibility transgression. The law of Moses could not do

anything, and not only the 10 command, we're not talking about

the 10 commandments, only the 600 plus laws that Moses, he

could not do anything because man was so sick, was such a

Sinner, dreadful stench, right? But faith in Jesus Christ, why?

Because he fulfilled it. And he fulfilled the law, the

Mosaic law, and he brought eternal, he brought new life,

the newness of life. And he, he opened the Kingdom of

heaven one more time. He promised the resurrection.

He, he conquered sin, death and Satan because he was pure.

And by believing in him #1 we believe that he did this 1st to

believe. And then we'll continue to see

that when, when the people who heard Saint Peter preach chapter

2 of verse the the book of the act, they said, what do we do?

What was what must we do to be saved?

He said baptized. He didn't say just believe,

baptize. So when we believe and we are

baptized, we put, we are put to death in baptism with Christ and

we have a new life. We are then saved from the

mosaic and the rituals and the instructions and the

requirements of the law. He's telling the Jewish leaders

now he's telling the leaders of the synagogue, but now you are

still under that and it's not going to do anything.

You're still related. You're still in a bondage to the

Mosaic Law, which was not bad. The it's not that the law is,

you know, was, was weak and not that the law was defeated and

failed. What you need to do now after

all of this, that I have said to you that this Jesus Christ, I

read you all the prophecies. I, I, I, I prove to you that he

was resurrected. You know very well he was

resurrected because when he was resurrected, you fooled, you try

to fool the people and say his body was stolen.

His body was stolen. How, how in one of the one of

the church hymns, doctrinal hymns, We, yeah, we, we, we

sing. And this is on the Sunday of the

resurrection. It's a dialogue between Mary

and, and Joseph of Arimathea is and Mary is, is crying and

weeping Saint Mary, the Blessed Mother.

And she weeps and she cries and said, and it says Mary was

weeping and crying as she was saying, they have stolen my son.

Maybe Mary even for a minute thought maybe they've stolen

him. She's a human being.

She kept everything in her heart.

But the peers that, that, that spear and that sword that Simon

the Righteous said will go through.

Maybe at that time she was thinking maybe they have stolen

him, right. Hey, 22,024 years.

They're still trying to say his body was stolen.

Where it is, we don't know. They keep saying, oh, we found

the bones of Jesus Christ. Where are they hastily?

No, no, no, they're not. Christ didn't see corruption.

Saint Paul writes what Mary was weeping and saying that she was

they've stolen my son Joseph of Arimathea said be still, be

quiet Mary. No one has stolen him.

Who can approach this fire? Who can approach the fire?

The body of Christ, the incarnated and and in particular

the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.

No one can touch this body and not be burnt.

He didn't see corruption. I mean to that.

And through that, through that victory, that power that might

that's sovereignty. We believe we are baptized.

We are then introduced in the new life and we have we refer to

that now, when I say the laws of the Mosaic laws and the laws and

the prophets, it doesn't mean we don't read them.

It does not mean that some of the laws, some of the the the

ritual instructions on how to how to read the Holy Scriptures

and the liturgy that was back then.

We are totally we abolish this because the the word abolish

doesn't even Jesus did not abolish anything.

No, it was still practice, but we practice it in the life of

Jesus Christ. Praise be to his name.

So when someone says are you saved, your reply will be yes, I

am saved from the unjustifiable law of Moses, which was weak

because I was a Sinner, I was sick, I was saved hell.

I believe in the one who fulfilled that law, who died and

was resurrected. So yeah, but I have a part.

I have a participation in that death and resurrection where?

In my baptism and I'm bored. Not born again.

Born and you I was born anew. I have new life in Jesus Christ.

So what's your destiny? Eternal life.

What must I do now to inherit eternal life?

You know, they asked Peter what must we do to be saved?

He said be baptized. So baptism does save you.

Peter himself writes it. What must I do to to to inherit

eternal life? Believe in the Lord, Continue to

live in the Lord piously, virtuously through your deeds,

Produce fruits, deeds of produce fruits or deeds that are worthy

of repentance. Praying, fasting, reading the

Holy Scriptures, attending to church, participating in the

holy sacraments. We're going to talk about the

Holy Eucharist in one, one episode.

It's not just mere, it's more than a mere bread and wine.

No, no, no. We're going to talk about that,

beloved. And then when the Lord returns

and when he has examined and graciously, there's the Word,

there's the word graciously invites you to His eternal

Kingdom. It's that place we will cry out

and say, Lord, we are not worthy, but only through your

grace because our deeds are not what has granted us its eternal

life. It's your grace, but you examine

the deeds and you saw that through our deeds, we portrayed

our love for you. That's going to be the next,

next episode, next week, verse 40.

Beware, therefore let's that lest that which is written in

the prophets may come upon you, be careful.

You despise. And this is from Habakkuk,

Habakkuk chapter one, verse 5. Be careful, O you despise us,

for you shall wander and perish, for I will do a great work in

your day which you will not believe, even if a man fell, if

a man tell it to you. What did they say about Jesus

Christ? This is about Jesus Christ.

Is this not the man of a? Is this not the son of A, a

Carpenter? What's he doing in these

synagogues? Who is this man?

Is this? This is the this is the Messiah.

A simple gown. This is the Messiah who looks

like a slave, a servant. Philippians chapter 2.

Philippians 2 · chapter mention

Yeah, Yeah. This is the man that's going to

save. This is the man the Jews would

say, this is the man that's going to topple the Roman

government, politically speaking, and revolt, and then

we're going to come in power. This is the man.

He's talking about love. He's talking about he who

strikes you on, on one cheek, turn the other cheek.

This is the man you mockers, those who mock Jesus Christ

today, those who mock Jesus Christ.

Film stars, movie stars, music stars, priests, bishops,

patriarchs, popes, whoever it is, you mock Jesus Christ

because of his humility. Be aware, be aware, Saint Paul

says. Be aware that you don't fall in

this warning of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You will have your own damnation and your own judgement.

So wake up to yourselves. He's saying wake up to

yourselves. How much proof do you want?

You know, as I was saying, if I was a leader of the synagogue

there, I would say Saint Paul, what do I do to be saved?

And he would say, believe and be baptized as he did, as Simon

did. Believe and be baptized in the

name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one

God forever. Amen.

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