Episode 102: At Christ's Disposal

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.

The 1963 song by Leslie Gore that's taking you guys back.

You know, it's before I was born as well.

But 1963 song by Leslie Gore. It's my party and I'll cry if I

want to. It's my party, you know.

Yeah. Now that has to me.

That has two significant points. The 1st is my.

That is mine. And if I want to, it's my party.

I'll cry if I want to. They are authoritative words.

They are blunt words and true. It's mine.

I do as I please. Now things brings us to what we

are going to discuss today. And it's from the Gospel

according to the preaching of Saint Matthew.

That is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the

preaching of Saint Matthew, chapter 20, verse 15.

Matthew 20:15

Jesus says do I can do whatever I want to do with my own.

Now let me give you a brief this description a the story behind

this. It's the parable of the workers

in the field. Some went out 6:00 in the

morning and they were promised to be given one Dinari.

Let's, let's bring it to today, $200.

And then the, the landlord, the landowner went out at 9:00 AM

and saw people hanging out, chilling out, waiting for

someone to hire them. And he hired them and said, I'll

give you 100 Dinari. Then he went out 12 PM, 12 noon

and he did the same, went out at 3:00 PM, did the same and went

out at 5:00 PM and he did the same.

And at 6:00 PM, after 12 hours, he calls his servants and says

call all the employees and give them what they have been

promised. Start from the last to the

first. Now the last came who only

worked one hour, remember just one hour and they got the $100

or $200 we promised, right? I'm glad I'm not the landowner.

They got the $200. Now those who worked for 12

hours thought great, that must be over $1000.

But they too received $200.00. And they started grumbling and

murmuring and saying what is this?

This is not fair. This is outright not fair, This

is robbery. But the landowner prays me to

his name, resembling Jesus, says, my friend, listen, let me

tell you something. Did we not agree to a contract,

agree to a payment that you work all day, I'll pay you $200.00.

So there's your $200. I'm not doing any evil to you.

I want to give this last person $200.

Then he says, are you evil? Are you bitter because I'm good?

There's goodness coming out of me.

Or Jesus says, can I not do whatever I want to do with what

is mine? It's my field, you're my

employees, it's my money, and I'll do what I want to do with

them. So let me now pose your

question. What in the world that we see

and cannot see tangible and intangible, comprehensible and

incomprehensible, speakable and unspeakable, Fathomable or

unfathomable? What in this world, in those

categories doesn't belong to God?

You tell me. Let me blow your minds a little.

As a matter of fact, even evil. Yes.

Oh, Rabi, how can you say that? No, no, no, I don't say the

Scriptures say it. But there's a perfect reason and

there's a there's an interpretation.

Thank God for the church. Thank God for the life of the

church, the framework of the church.

Thank God for the church fathers, even evil.

In Isaiah chapter 45 verse 7, we read, for He formed light and he

Isaiah 45:7

created darkness. Now listen, He formed light and

created darkness. So because he formed light,

darkness was created. We're going to talk about that.

So for he formed light and he created darkness.

He made peace and he created evil.

Is Isaiah erring here? He that is God made peace and

created evil. I am the Lord God, I who have

done all these things. Now let's come to my favorite

church fathers, one of my favorite Saint John Chrysostom.

We call him Johannan Pommedawa, John the mouth, the golden

mouth. Look at what he comments.

God said through the prophets, I, God, am making peace and

creating evils. See the key is in making and

creating. And he goes on to say what sort

of evils? Captivity, servitude, that is

bondage and things like that. Not fornication, not sex out of

marriage, not a homosexual relationship.

No, no, not not licentiousness, that is wastefulness, not

avarice, that is greed and anything like that.

He goes on to say do not let the false prophets undermine you.

That is the government's today. Do not let the false prophets

undermine you. God can give you peace and

consign, that is, entrust you to captivity, which is the meaning

of making peace and creating evils for you to learn.

He goes on to say for you to learn that this is true.

Let us make a precise examination of the individual

expressions after saying before, that is, before he said I made

evil. He says I am the one who brought

light and darkness into being. He then went on to say making

peace and creating evils. He cited 2 opposite 1st and then

two opposites after. That is for you to learn that he

is referring not to fornication but to calamities and to

disasters. He goes on to say I mean what is

said as the opposite of peace. Clearly captivity, not

wastefulness, no fornication or greed.

So just as he cited 2 opposites first, so too in these causes.

So he's saying when he says I created good or I made good,

automatically evil is created. That's all.

We're going to talk about that because I've I've, I've

mentioned that Isaiah that says God has created evil.

I want to clarify it also. Other church fathers comment and

say evil is also the punishment of sin through the law.

Now when does sin become in existence?

When is sin actually committed? When law is broken or disobeyed?

So when the law came, Saint Paul comments on this sin then came.

So God didn't create sin. God created the law, which

automatically brings sin. So God didn't create evil as in

evil. Let me give you an example when

you're traveling, and I've given this before.

Let me share it again. I think this is a great example.

Let's copyright it. Stephen trademarket.

Asha Gennad's a great example. When you're traveling on a

street and there's no signs, there's no Rd. signs at all, you

can do as you can drive as fast as you you want, as fast as you

please, and you're not committed in crime.

There's no crime. Now, naturally, yes, naturally,

and that's another story. But naturally, yeah, it's bad,

it's wrong. But according to the law of

speeding and the law of driving, there's no crime.

But as soon as that sign, that speed sign of 50 or 45 or

whatever it is, is posted and you drive 100, then there is

there is a crime. So and then there is a

punishment of crime. So that sign which the

government has placed on the road has also placed the

punishment, the evil of the crime itself.

I think you understand what I'm saying.

So let's get to back, back back to it's my party and I'll cry if

I want. You see, beloved, everything

belongs to God, everything belongs to God is held by God

through His Son Jesus Christ, being God by nature, true God of

true God being God by nature, by power and by authority.

He poses this question to all of us.

Can I not do as I please with my own?

Now that answers many questions and puts us in our places in a

spiritual check when we ask God why?

Why? Let's do that, let's ask God.

Join me in asking God a few questions and you may have your

own, but I pray that these answers will answer your

question. Why must I obey you?

Oh God, why? If we read scriptures, listen to

our conscience and our mind, maybe not even read scriptures,

but the law of nature, the conscience will say because you

are mine. God is saying, why must you obey

God? Because you are gods.

He created you from dirt. God created me from dirt.

God is saying I created you from dirt.

You cannot come from nothing. Guys, let's not be fooled by

this stupidity, this ridiculous law that something came from

nothing. It's proven that it's wrong.

It's a theory. It's an inconsistent theory.

For the past 7008 thousand years, it's constantly changing

because it's inconsistent. Let me tell you what is

consistent for six to 7000 or maybe 10,000 year years.

Genesis chapter 2, verse seven, the first part and the Lord God

Genesis 2 · chapter mention

formed Adam from the dust, from the soil.

And look at what our disobedient did.

So I created you. I made you, you are mine.

Now if that's not good enough, God is saying I made you a

living soul. I could have kept you as a as a

fashion dirt, a body made of dirt and no life a lifeless

dirt. I could have done that.

But I breathed in your face the breath of life.

I gave you that life. Not 2 molecules out shopping,

colliding and an explosion happened and then life came.

No, no, no. I gave you that life.

Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, second part of that verse.

Genesis 2:7

I breathed into his face, God breathed into his face, breath

of life and Adam was a living soul.

I gave you life. You are mine and you

transgressed and I planned your planned, your reinstatement,

your redemption. I came down and took on your

flesh. I took on death.

I died and I overcame death for you all for you.

So when I do what I want to do with you, through you, by you,

which is mine, I do it for your own good.

It's all for your good. Why am I restricted with what I

can do with my own wisdom? You know we always confess to

the Lord in our frailty, in our foolishness.

In truth, Oh my Lord, we are not worthy.

Have mercy upon us, Oh my Lord, for we are not worthy through

our frailty because of our foolishness.

Why? Why am I restricted to brag

about my fool wisdom and to do what I want to do with my

wisdom? Because God will answer.

It wasn't your wisdom from the beginning.

Don't brag about your wisdom. It's not yours.

I gave it to you along with knowledge and along with

understanding. Grace upon grace.

Proverbs chapter 2, verse 6. For your good, I gave you

Proverbs 2:6

wisdom. So today you can make a car,

right, Steven? In two years time, it's going to

be a cab. It's a Tesla.

You can buy it for $30,000. You can use it and there's no

steering wheels there because the car drives by itself.

You can use it for your own personal use or you can rent it

out. And yeah, people can hire the

cab, right? I gave you that wisdom, not Elon

Musk. God bless you.

It wasn't your wisdom. It wasn't it was God who gave

you that wisdom. God gave us that wisdom.

That's why we are restricted because you know what I just

mentioned? It's great.

I love it. Now, I don't know how safe it

is. That's that's another story.

But I love that. I love to see man succeed in

technology for good, for good. I like social medias, Beloved.

Look at what we're doing through these mediums.

We're preaching the word of God. We're bringing people to

understand, to know their creator.

Look at what we do through Instagrams, through Facebooks,

through Snapchats. I have all of those through

Twitter. Do people still use Twitter?

They do, right? Yeah, through Twitter.

What else is this now? There's there's a lot more

things now. Sorry, tick ticked.

Oh, no, no, I don't have ticked, unfortunately.

Look at what we do through this. Yes, people use it for evil.

That's the wisdom God doesn't want you to use.

He restricts you don't use it for evil.

You don't need to take a picture of your body and your and your

dress and say this is my dress. Well, congratulations.

God bless you, Brachta, Brachta. Why do you want me to show me?

Show me your dress. Talk to me about your life.

Talk to me about your your, your experience with God.

Use your wisdom, your knowledge, your understanding for good, not

for evil, because God uses you who are His property, because He

bought you by that precious blood of His Son Jesus Christ

for good. Why am I restricted with what I

can do with my knowledge and wisdom?

Well spoke about that. God gave it to you.

Why can't I do as I please with my body?

My body? We've already ascertained that

because I fashioned it again from dirt.

It's not yours. You didn't make it.

I made it. Well, my parents.

Yeah. Your parents.

Yeah. Birds and the bees.

Yeah, your parents made it. But keep going.

Where did your parents come from?

Keep going and going and going. Then you come to the flood and

you go post flood and pre flood and you keep going.

Adam and Eve. God made them, Adam and Eve.

I created you, God said with XX chromosomes.

My dear sisters, I created you with that.

It was perfect. I created you with XY

chromosomes, my dear brothers, I fashioned you.

I designed and instructed it in a way that is great for my

beloved sisters, our dear females.

I gave you uteruses for childbearing so that you can be

a part of me. Something from you will come,

even the the the the male. Something comes from you.

You become a creator. You give life.

Just just as I am the fountain of life.

Through you there's life. I gave you breasts to produce

milk for child suckling. I'm not going to keep going with

that because they may be underage listeners, but you get

the point. I made you and I made you

perfect. I have every right to use you

and what you have, what I've given you for His glory and for

your good. For your good.

All of it is mine. I can do and demand as I please

with it. I can do what I please with you.

God is telling us be grateful beloved brothers and sisters, be

grateful and take heart that God is good.

Be grateful and take heart that God can do anything with you

because all that he does, as I said, is good.

Hence all He created was good as we read in Genesis chapter one

verse 31, chapter 131. Yes, good, actually perfect

Psalm chapter 100, Psalm 100 verse 5.

Psalms 100 · chapter mention Psalms 100:5

The Lord God is good and his grace is for eternity and his

faithfulness for a generation of generations.

So I want God to use me as he pleases because he is good.

Nothing evil will come from God. Nothing.

The only evil has to say this God cleanse me to come from God

is when he tells me don't because when I do that's the

evil that's created from what God has made me not to do what I

do how I do and when I do with what is mine is always good and

pleasing says the Lord God all good for you.

Why because he loves you. He loves us beloved.

Look at what he's telling you and I come on stop here we go.

Stop, pull over to one side and stop your vacuuming stop your

diaper changing. Stop doing what you're doing.

Please. Please not for God's sake, for

our sake, for our knowledge and understanding.

Please listen, honey, Linda, listen.

Please listen to what Isaiah chapter 49 verse 6 is telling

Isaiah 49:6

us. God is telling us, Behold, on

the palms of my hands. I have engraved you on the palm

of my hands. You see all who believe in

Christ, you do say it. Do you say it to yourself?

Say what I mean, yes, I do. You believe in Christ while you

are in the hands of the Father. So let him do what he pleases.

Don't grumble because it's good. Now in the case of death, you

know this is the most difficult circumstance in life.

You know when I think one thing that may ease pain and help to

understand and come to our understanding and acceptance of

death is that remind ourselves from whom was life in the 1st

place? Who gave us life who go back to

Genesis, it was God, praise and glory be to his name.

Look at what we have. What do you have?

You have wealth, you have wealth, your stocks did well

last night. Praise God you sold many houses

within the month. Praise God you have wealth.

May the Lord replenish it and multiply it a hundredfold.

You know, when we pray on a a bride and a groom, we pray that

God will increase the bride and the groom in health, wealth and

faith. Wealth.

Yeah, so that you can do good because it's his, it's not

yours. And when you do good, don't take

pride, don't brag about it. It's not yours.

It's God's right. What is it?

Wealth, health, material, children, etcetera.

These are all provisions from God and he can use them as he

pleases. Let me ask you a question again.

Is not free will from God as well, you know, And that's a

gift of independence, right? Yeah, I'm free.

I'm free. I'm free will who gave you free

will who who created you with free will, with rationale and

you know, understanding for you to choose who got Yes, yes, God

did. And yet God at times so rightly

so meet in perfect and fitting interferes with our will.

Now some will say, well, well, where's the where's the loving

God who's interfering with my free will?

Well, if you pay attention, God interferes for good.

Remember our beloved Jonah the prophet.

You know all Assyrians must remember Jonah the prophet,

Jonah Yonan, right? And all Assyrians should that be

grateful. He didn't want to go to Assyria.

He didn't want to go to Nineveh. No, he wanted to see Nineveh

destroyed, right? When God, when God returned and,

and and showed mercy on the city of Nineveh, he was, he was such

a grumbling. He wasn't happy, right?

What did God do? He didn't want to go.

There's his free will, but God caused him to go.

God put him on a boat and there was a storm and he knew.

He said, listen, throw me out, throw me out in the water.

And then the whale swallowed him and and the story goes on,

right? Yeah, God can interfere with

your free will, of course, because he gave you that free

will. And when he sees that your free

will is being used for evil, you know, pray to the Lord.

Lord, I pray. Now let let this be our prayer

point. Now, if you've parked to one

side and you're at home, bow your heads.

Let's pray. Lord, Lord, we surrender our

free will to You. When we are using it for evil.

We surrender, Render it to You so that you can interfere and

take over and use it for good, just as you did with Jonah your

prophet. Having a God that is good,

gracious, and full of mercy, we should at all times commit all

that we have from Him to Him to do as He pleases.

Let us not murmur, beloved. Let us not murmur, grunt, and

complain when Christ does as He pleases with what is His.

Let us not think evil because He is good.

Let us humble ourselves before Him that we may receive the

promise of exaltation by Him. Let us glorify Him at all times,

surrending, surrendering all of our life into His perfect hands.

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

forever. Amen.

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