Episode 71: God will not kick you while you're down

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

fulfill your commandments at every hour.

O you who enlightens the rationale 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. Permit me to start with a

question. Now I'm going to pose this

question to everyone. Think about it.

How many times have you been kicked when you were down by

family members, relatives, friends, the world laws,

regulations, your priest, your church?

Off the top of my head I recall twice, and it was so

heartbreaking too. I feel sorry for myself thinking

about it, but I recall many times that I had ruthless,

ruthlessly done this myself, especially during my school

years. We had this tradition, this

habit, this ruthless habit, cruel habit that when someone

would trip and fall, we would put that person on show by

crying out with a loud voice. Ha ha.

Everyone saw you fall and a person would be ashamed and just

walk away. But you know what?

We need a reality check. We need it every day that life

is cruel, mankind is cruel and can be cruel.

And one verse that comes to mind, as I mentioned, this is

Isaiah chapter 49, verse 15. If a woman or a mother forgets

Isaiah 49:15

or abandons or deserts her infant, her child that's cruel,

that's ruthless and does not love on a son of her womb, has

no has no love for that child that's been born from her womb.

Even if these forget, I'm going to stop there.

Even if these forget, that means this will happen.

It will happen. Just Google how to Google.

Just search with how to ask how to Google and find, and you'll

find many cases where children were abandoned by their parents

or their mother. As sad and as realistic that

sounds, the second part of the verse is joyous and comforting.

God goes on to say, I shall not forget you.

Behold on the palms of my hands, meaning the care, the protection

I have engraved you. Why?

Because God is near to us than a Father and a mother is, for He

is our Maker and Creator. Hence in Matthew chapter 10,

Matthew 10:37

verse 37, Jesus commands whoever loves father or mother more than

me is not worthy of me. So beloved, God doesn't kick us

while we are down. God doesn't give up on us when

the world even parents, siblings, teachers, employees

give up on us. And when I mentioned parents, I

mean both biological and spiritual parents.

Your spiritual counselors, pastors or priests, Christ too,

praise and glory be to his name, was foretold by the prophets

Isaiah that he too would not do the same.

Because while we're down pour salt in the wounds in Matthew

Matthew 12:20

chapter 12, verse 20, he will not break off a fractured Reed.

And the lamb that flickers, he will not extinguish until he

will bring the verdict of innocence.

That is to say, according to Marishiudad and I quote Marishi,

I I love his commentaries along with Saint John Chrysostom.

So Marishiudad was a Bishop of Hadatha.

Christ will not be hard or angered with those who have a

feeble spirit, a weak spirit. He will not render powerless

that strength that is left to them, but he will listen to

this. He will lead them back to

virtue, good deeds, with kindness.

Now as I mentioned, the prophecy was from Isaiah chapter 42,

Isaiah 42 · chapter mention

verse three. And Isaiah calls the dimly

burning weak Wick, that is one whose oil is finished, almost

about to give up, and where there is no greasy matter left

at all for the Wick to continue to burn.

And this means when the people are about to be extinguished

because of the affliction of captivity.

Talking about his people, talking about the Israelites, he

will make them shine against their hope.

He gave them hope. But looking at Christ who was

not crushed by death, and the only person that was not crushed

by death, what comfort do we take from this?

What rebuking do we receive? What instructions are we to be

heeded? By?

This we learn if you are in a bad place in your life.

Drugs, gambling, alcohol, addictions, immorality, adultery

or fornication, abominations, homosexuality, transgenderism,

same sex, marriage, etcetera. And your conscience is eating

you alive to the point that you wish to walk away.

Yes, simply walk away from and turn to God.

That is, repent. Don't for a minute think,

presume, Be convinced and be afraid that Christ will not

accept you. Remember, he will not be hard or

angered with those who have a feeble spirit.

He will not render powerless that strength that is left in

them, but he will lead them back to virtue with kindness.

Just get up. Get up after admission to sin

and transgression, like the prodigal son did, and start

walking headed to the House of your father.

In Matthew Chapter 11, verse 28, Jesus gives you this invitation.

Matthew 11:28

This is out there for all of us. Come on to me.

All, all not, come unto me, oh all you who have Halos, No, come

on to me. Those who have the Halos or the

horns and are wearied and bearing burdens come on to me.

If you are wearied by the burden of sin and transgression that

you are carrying, come on to Jesus Christ.

He will not kick you when you are down.

The world will. Satan will, Your friends will.

But Christ will not do this. He will not reject you.

He will not ridicule you like Pasha Gennard would, those who

would fall and trip and maybe even hurt themselves.

He will not ridicule you. He will not reprimand you.

He will rest you. He will seize you from your

burden, by His grace, by His spiritual gifts, provisions that

are bestowed upon all through His church.

What are these gifts, beloved? What are these gracious gifts

that God has provided, if not repentance, forgiveness,

absolution, cleansing through the best Sacramento life of the

Church given by the priesthood? You know what Christ will do.

If you are reluctant because you feel that you'll be ridiculed,

you'll be rejected. Don't rebuke Satan in Jesus

name. Now if your conscience is eating

you alive as they say, because you know, you know that the

world has fooled you into thinking that this is right when

it is an abomination, when it is a sin, when it is transgression

before God. Just come to Jesus Christ, come

to the Church, come to the renowned physicians that are the

that is the priesthood, and they will through Jesus Christ, by

the grace of God, bring out the best robe which is perfect

clemency, perfect grace, perfect mercy, and love and kindness.

Now to those who are in the darkness of heresy and error, it

actually becomes a garment of adoption as children.

According to Ephesians chapter one, verse five, through Holy

Baptism the priest, the priesthood of the Church, the

body of Christ will place a ring upon your hand which is the

restoration of authority, of sonship, of heirship.

Of all you've walked away from your father, you've given up

that sonship and and the authority of sonship and

heirship. Come back and the ring will be

one more time placed on your finger.

Because once we have been reinstated as true, faithful,

obedient, pious children of God, we become heirs, Heirs of God

and Co heirs with Jesus Christ. What he has, we have awaiting

us. The Church will put on new

shoes. That is, the Church will prompt

you, will hurry you to increase in holiness and the evangelical

work and the obedient of the Word of God.

The Church would have had the fattened carved, already killed

and ready to be served, which is the body and blood of our Lord

Jesus Christ. Note Jesus called by others

lamb. He's been called as a Lamb of

God, but he himself calls himself a calf which refers to

his humanity, the flesh that he has taken.

Our flesh which is irrational and animal by nature, it dies,

it decays, needs to be fed. That has been all prepared.

Everything is prepared for you, beloved.

It's not like when you go to your neighbor's house or you go

to your nana's house or you go to someone's house and you're

walking and then and then they will offer you a dinner or

lunch. But they may apologize and say,

listen, I'll have it ready 10 minutes, 10 minutes.

I'll have you your Dolma ready to go.

No, no, no. It's all ready.

It's there for the taken. It is for you.

It is for you to come and enjoy and to share in the gifts that

God has given you. Because regardless of your

situation, now, your circumstances, now your sin.

Now, when you come back to the church through the church, this

is what is offered for you, beloved.

The body and blood, the cleansing, the final see, you

know, first it was the garment, then the ring, then the shoes.

It wasn't the shoes first. Oh, just the word of God.

No, it was the ring first, to be authorized to claim that you are

a children of the word of God and The Walking of the path of

God. Then the garment, I'm sorry.

First it was the garment which is grace.

Everything we receive is by the grace of God, not because of

what we are, who we are. We are worth nothing when it

comes to being without grace. The grace of God, then, the

authorship or the authority that you are now the child of God.

You will be raised on the tables of the mysteries of God, the

Sacramento services, the spiritual gifts of God.

And finally in that the shoes that you will be prompted to

walk in holiness in the paths of the Word of God, the direction

of God. And it closes with what it ends

and it stops at what? The body and blood of Jesus

Christ. So what is the comfort that we

receive from this? Comfort is that we are weak in

the Spirit. But that's not the end.

The world may frown upon us again, family, relatives,

friends, but it doesn't matter what the world says.

It's all about Jesus Christ, your Lord and your Savior.

How are we rebuked by this? Do not ever, for one minute

disqualify any person from the gracious spiritual provisions of

God. Do not deter people from

listening to Christ's call and to pursue that calling, Do not.

Because Christ says and warns that if we are that type of a

person, it would have been best for us for a millstone to have

been hung on our necks and to have been cast in the depth of

the sea. Whoa, that's that's alarming.

That is the rebuking we get. Do not dare to say.

This man will never know. As opposed to that we say God

can, if only this man turns to God gives the heart to the Lord.

And the instructions we get from this is that we are to lead

people to this. We are to encourage people.

We are to encourage our brothers and sisters, Christians or non

Christians. You know, I spoke about those

who are in the era of heresy and darkness that we bring them to

Christ because only through Christ there is the light

because Jesus is the light of the world.

Praise be to his name. Lead people to Jesus Christ.

Bring people to Jesus Christ. You know, I tell the youth,

don't go telling people that you need to come to church when

there is no relationship with Jesus Christ.

Many walk into the church doors that don't have any relationship

with Jesus Christ. They are there because there is

a baptism, there is a commemoration of the dead or

there is the commemoration of the of the Saints.

And you know food's going to be served.

And you know, we need to bring people to a relationship with

Jesus Christ because when that relationship is rock solid,

hard, built upon faithfulness and obedience, automatically,

without saying, the Spirit will lead these people to the body of

Christ, which is the Church. So beloved, what are you waiting

for if you're seeking repentance, forgiveness,

absolution, and cleansing from your drug addiction, gambling,

alcohol, addictions, immorality, that is, adultery or

fornication, abominations that is, homosexuality,

transgenderism, same sex, marriage, etcetera.

If you are seeking repentance, forgiveness, solution, and

cleansing, what are you waiting for?

Today is the day of salvation. Today is the day that God will

save you from your past sins and transgressions and destruction

and wrath and spiritual death as he did to the Gentiles recorded

in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1:00 to 9:00.

Ephesians 2 · chapter mention

Today is the day that God will set you on the path for good

works, oh good works, not just faith.

God will set you on the path for good works which God had from

the first prepared that we should walk in them.

Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10. Don't just read Ephesians

Ephesians 2:10

chapter chapter 2, verse 8 and make your claim in your

conclusion. Read Ephesians chapter 2, verses

Ephesians 2:1–10

1 to 10. Today is the day.

Today is the day that God will call you to holiness.

If you remain in faithfulness, then you will receive the

gracious gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

Today is the day to return to the Father and to the Son and to

the Holy Spirit, one God. We hope you enjoyed this week's

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