Episode 64: Deliver us from the evil one

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.

Oh 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. Neither conclusion of the

eucharistic service for the holy feasts of our Lord idoate.

The priest prays on behalf of the congregation and he

beseeches make us worthy, Oh my Lord, in the confidence which is

from you to pray before you this pure and holy prayer which your

life giving mouth taught to your true disciples, children of your

mysteries, that when so ever you pray in this manner, pray,

confess and say, and we recite and chant the Lord's pray,

praying and bring us not into trial, but deliver us from evil,

deliver us from the evil one. Satan, Someone posed me a

question and I'll be What is Satan's occupation?

That's an amazing question actually.

What does Satan do for living? What is his occupation?

Well, when we read Job chapter one, verse 7, the Lord meaning

the Angel, many times angels are referred to as the Lord because

they are messengers and represented representatives of

God. Because Satan cannot face the

Lord, Satan fears the Lord and trembles.

The Lord said to Satan from where do you come?

Satan answered the Lord and said from roaming about on the earth

and walking around on it. Let me read you, Saint Gregory

the Great 6th century Church Father comments on this.

It's a little lengthy, but please bear with me and be

patient and listen intently. Satan's going to and fro on the

earth represents. He's exploring the earth or the

hearts of the carnal, the fleshly.

In this way he's seeking diligently for grounds of

accusation against them. This is what Satan's occupation

is. He goes around about the earth,

for he surrounds human hearts in order to steal all that is good

in them, that he may lodge evil in their minds, that he may

occupy completely what he has taken over, that he may fully

reign over what he has occupied, that he may possess the very

lives of those he has perfected in sin.

Note that he does not say he has been flying through the air, but

that he has been walking up and down it.

For in fact he is never easily dislodged from whomever he

tempts. But where he finds a soft heart,

he plants the foot of his wretched persuasion, so that by

dwelling there he may stamp the footprints of evil practice, and

by a wickedness similar to his own he may render reprobate or

condemnation to all whom he is able to overcome.

So from this we learn Satan, his targets, his occupation, his

lifestyle. What he does for a living is to

target the hearts and minds, and once he finds that target, he

loosens or releases his flaming arrows at these targets, our

minds and our hearts. And where does he aim?

What attracts Satan's attention to this target that is within

the mind and the heart is our weaknesses and evil desires.

He feeds on them and in actual fact, spiritual fact.

We provide the food and nourishment.

We provide that opportunity. We give him that food, that

strength. How?

Let's read scripture. James chapter one verses 13 to

15. A man should not say when he is

tempted. I am tempted by God.

For God is not acquainted with evil, and he does not tempt a

man. But each man, a woman, is

tempted from his own desire, and he's lusts and he is seduced,

and this desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin.

But sin, when it has matured, gives birth to to death.

So true, so true. So we can't point the finger at

God, don't dare and and claim that God is tempting us.

You know, in the Aramaic version of the Lord's praise La Ta, Alan

Nessiona. And yes, maybe translated

Juraba, temptation, but really we're referring to trials.

Do not allow us to go into temptation, or more importantly,

the trials. But Lord, if you do, if you have

a perfect will, if it's for strengthening me, if it's for

sharpening me, if it's for rebuking me and teaching me and

correcting me, if you allow me to go through trials and

temptations, deliver me from the evil one.

Give me the strength to overcome.

Give me the strength to become victorious.

Keep in mind, beloved, Satan has been defeated.

Satan has been defeated and his defeat was foretold by God in

the Garden of Eden. Genesis chapter 3, verse 15.

Genesis 3:15

And I shall God speaking, and I shall put hatred between you and

the women. You the serpent, Satan, and the

woman Eve the mother of life, and between your seed, demons

and her seed referring to Jesus Christ and us, He shall tread

upon your head. That is, Christ will tread upon

Satan's head, and you will strike him in his hill.

And this all happened where we love it at the Cross.

Let me share some anthems from the liturgical services of the

Church of the East in relation to the Cross, so that you may

know and understand why we Revere and why it is important

to Revere and worship now in the Aramaic language.

In this Syrian language, Sliwa. According to the book of the

Pearl Marganita, Morodishu of Sowa, one of the Church fathers,

Sliva, means the Crucified one. For example, Christ was

crucified on the Cross. Mushiha pishla sliva El sleepa

spepulun. So when we say that we worship

the slee one, we worship the one that was crucified on that

cross. But again, yes, we Revere and

worship that that cross itself because of the power that it

has, because of what it was accomplished through Jesus

Christ. We sing The living cross became

a fountain and it's caused and it caused life to flow into

creation through the force of its power.

It gave life to the four regions of the earth through its

glorious rays and brought the peoples back from era to its

knowledge. The knowledge of the cross Jesus

is sacrifice. The devouring that is consuming,

destroying Shoal became sad on seeing the tombs burst open.

When Jesus was crucified the tombs of the Saints was open.

Many of them walked into Jerusalem.

Satan and his servants lamented and wept bitterly, and death.

The steward of Shoal set in mourning.

Not mourning as in day and morning, but mourning in sorrow.

Biliya, on account of its fall, for the Holy Cross, has reigned

in the four regions of the world.

Glory to it again we sing. Jesus our Lord was hung upon it,

and by it He affected for us deliverance from death.

And Satan He affected for you and I deliverance from death and

Satan promising us the Kingdom and continuous blessings.

And again we sing. The cross of our Lord has become

a source of all help for us and directs us by it.

Listen to this, by it the demons are vanquished, uprooted,

defeated. Satan falls down, has been

hammered. Kayode and the power of error

comes to an end. And again, lastly we sing.

Hence we signed the cross. The victory I'm sure.

I'm sorry, no, this is not a an anthem.

Hence we signed the cross, that is the victory, the

accomplishment, power of the cross upon ourselves in

reverence and worship. Jesus has defeated Satan,

beloved, that is his power, his dominion and influence on all

who have believed and baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity,

receiving that which is within them.

We have that power by which through which Jesus conquered

and defeated Satan. In the First Epistle of John the

Evangelist chapter 4, verse four, we read you are from God

children and how are we children of God, Beloved Galatians

3/26/27 You are all children of God through a faith in Jesus

Christ. For as some for as many of you

are baptized, were put to death with Christ and being close with

Christ, so there be A to be a child of God, we need to believe

in Jesus Christ, and that's what we do.

And those who listen, who are listening to this message and

have not believed in Jesus Christ and received them as Lord

and Savior and have not been baptized, regardless of how many

good deeds you're doing. God bless you.

Contact me. See a spiritual counselor in the

church? Consult a priest or a Bishop.

You are from God children, and you have conquered them.

He's talking about Antichrist and false prophets, obviously.

And you have conquered them because he who is in you, that

is the Holy Spirit, is greater than he who is in the world.

The power of God. Again, sure, he's referring to

false prophets and antichrists, right?

But hey, we have the power, so do not fret.

We're saying a Syrian la talta lo Yeah, don't get weary and

uptight and start being nervous and Oh my God, did you see what

the government said? Did you see what they're trying

to bring? Bring up on us?

Do not fret when falsehood is being enforced upon us by

Antichrist laws and legislations and governments and people.

Actually be proactive. Be proactive, not reactive.

Let me give you an example of being proactive.

Parents, young and old, we all speak about this.

The filth that is being taught at schools, you know, now

they're trying to say 2 + 2 = 4. No, that's that's racist.

Or that's what's that other way they use discriminative.

When you say 2 + 2 is 4. Oh my God, Oh my God.

This person is saying 2 + 2 can be 5.

What school did you go to? Who gave you that that

certificate? Or people identifying themselves

as dogs gather in front of a government building and they sit

there and start howling and and barking.

Yeah, you know, Saint Peter is right about calling them

animals. Yeah, animals.

But you know, when dogs bark, that's the way of communication.

Something's wrong. Okay.

So we talk, speak about this and we tisk, tisk, tisk, tisk.

And we start, you know our our our philosophical understandings

and political stances. Don't fret.

Be reactive. The filth that is being taught

at schools as I speak. How do we become proactive Is to

work hard to toil and strive to establish our own schools, our

own private, true and Christian schools.

And we've begun this. Beloved, let me announce it.

It's not an official, official endeavor.

This is only preliminary talks. We have had three meetings to

begin to work on, seeing whether or not we can build a school.

Yeah, impossible. Of course, for you and I.

Impossible. Nothing's impossible for God,

especially when the aim is to preserve our children from the

evil one and his hosts from Satan and the hosts, the laws,

the legislations, those in government.

Be proactive. So let me side note.

Are you involved in a school? You work for a school district,

You've been a principal. You have knowledge on how to

establish schools. Contact us please.

Let's be proactive, let's pray about it.

He who is in us, which is the Holy Spirit, is greater than any

legislation in law we can overcome.

You know we don't. We don't need any charity.

We don't need money then to be dictated.

What I can teach, I will teach what I teach, which is Jesus

Christ is the Lord and Savior and there's only one way to God,

and that's only through Jesus Christ.

Praise and glory be to his holy name.

So Satan has been defeated and we have that same power through

Christ. Remember, beloved, remember my,

my, my, my beloved. Brothers and sisters and

children that are listening to this.

What is more great? You know, you call me, you text

me, We text one another. Robbie, please say a prayer.

My friend, my family, my dad, please say a prayer.

And when I reply, may the prayers of the the the holy

Saints of our Lord be a beacon of healing?

Oh, thank you, Robbie. That made me feel good.

Well, let me tell you, my dear, that's Robbie who is weak,

frail, unworthy, servant of Christ.

Yet the Lord still his prayers. Not just mine, but everyone's.

If we take heart because Robbie is praying for you, or a Bishop

has prayed for you, or a patriarch has prayed for you,

well, let me tell you something, beloved.

Jesus has prayed for you and I in the Great High Priestly

Prayer, John chapter 1715. First for his disciples.

Hence an Apostolic Church for his apostles.

Hence the significance of the apostolicity.

Apostolicity of a church. John, chapter 17, verse 15.

John 17:15

It is not that I am praying you would take them from the world

for His apostles, his disciples, but that you would preserve them

from the evil one. There it is.

There's my power, there's my strength.

And you may say, yeah, that's the apostles.

But no, he extends that to all those who believe in him and

have been baptized. Verse 20.

Neither do I pray alone for them, Not only for the apostles,

but also for those who are trusting in me by their word, by

their laws, by their liturgy, by their orders, by their

mysteries, by their commandments.

So come on now, beloved. Let's be real.

Come on, let's be real. Let's keep it real.

Let's keep it 100. So what they say, Steven, let's

keep it 100. Bro.

Call a spade a spade. God cannot be mocked.

We spoke about that. I think it was the last episode.

God cannot be marked. We open ourselves to the attacks

cause of our desires, our evil desires.

We give the devil a foothold. Yes, when I have lust sexual

immoral lusts, don't blame it all on Satan.

Let me give you an example very quickly.

And I always use this when I speak about not blaming Satan

for everything, because if that's so, then then what's in

me or he who is in me? He's weak has the.

God forbid, yeah, there was a monk, there was a brother in the

monastery who who was hungry at night.

He was in his dorm. He felt hungry and he knew that,

you know, the shopping, the the rationale that had had arrived.

So he went into the kitchen, grabbed the an egg and came back

to his cell and sat down and try to cook it.

So when he held it over the candle it would burn his

fingers. And he thought, how am I going

to cook this? He said.

I know what I'll do. I'll put two holes in the wall,

I'll put two pencils or pens or two two sticks.

I'll put the egg on there and I'll put the candle under it and

I'll turn it. It's like a a spit right

rotisserie, I think it's called at that moment.

The monk, the chief brother walking past saw the light

coming out of and from under the door of the cell he opened up

and he saw the the brother sitting there and turning the

egg and he goes, oh brother, what are you doing?

He goes, the devil made me do it.

And at that time the devil appeared and said, listen, I

would not have even thought of this.

So don't you there blame me. You know he blamed the devil.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Keep it real.

As I said, keep it 100. Show off your body parts.

My beloved sisters. Don't blame the devil.

This is what you want to do. That's why you take all those

derogative pictures and you post them on social media.

You know, when we want to satisfy our our sexual desires,

gentlemen, what do we do? We go on the Internet and we

want to start searching. We start searching, right?

And it's oh, the devil maybe. No, no, no, no.

It was your evil desires. Yes, the devil has a hand in it.

He starts attacking, he starts luring and he starts deceiving

you. Yeah, you know, everyone's going

to see you, You're going to get all these likes and oh Hon, how

about a hunk? Oh wow, sexy.

This is all evil talk and we will give an account one day

when the Lord returns, beloved. So let's not completely blame

the devil. Let's say that I myself get

myself into this mess. And then the devil latching on

this opportunity causes me to continue.

Don't give Satan a foothold, the scriptures teach us.

When we give Satan a foothold, he then in turn gratefully and

appreciatively determines our footsteps to sin and death.

Unless we repent and rebuke him in the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ, the Nazarene, this way he will flee from us.

This way we will be delivered from the envy and his bitter

nature, his deceptions and stratagems, his scheme and

tactics, so to be delivered from the Evil One and his host, to be

delivered from Satan at all times.

Cling on to be connected. Submit to the Father and the Son

and the Holy Spirit. Beloved, always strive to be

adamant, to work hard, to be with Jesus Christ, filling your

heart and mind with him by him through Him.

Period. Colossians 32 think of things on

high, not of the things on earth.

Each time in our daily life we get preoccupied.

It's understandable. We are living in this world.

Jesus said Father, I don't want you to take them out of this

world. No, they have to live in this

world, but deliver them from the evil one.

Think of the things that are above lion, that one mother

icon. Let your minds be above.

We had a retreat. I think let your minds be above.

That was the theme. Constantly think of things that

are above. Call out to him, sing out to

him. King David did, and he did this

with confidence and experience. Psalm 17/6 He writes.

I called you because you have answered me, not you will

answered me, You have answered me.

God call out to the Lord, cry out to the holy Saints to

besiege and deliver you by their prayers to the Lord.

They are not asleep. Beloved, don't be fooled by

those who claim that the Saints are asleep because then the

scriptures are talking about sleepwalking Saints or sleep

talking Saints. Revelation chapter 6 verses 9 to

Revelation 6:9–10

10. Oh but the Church of Jesus

doesn't believe it or none. We don't not believe.

It's all canonized, but we use it for references.

Revelations chapter 6, verses 9 to 10.

Revelation 6:9–10

And when he, Jesus the Lamb had opened the 5th, 5th seal I saw

under the altar. Listen to this, beloved.

I saw under the altar the souls of them, the souls of them who

was slain on account of the word of God.

There's a cup, upper, upper case, tab W that means Jesus

himself. And on account of the testimony

that is the scriptures to the Lamb which was with them, And

they cried with a loud voice saying, Are they sleep crying?

Did Christ wake them up so that they could proclaim, and then

put them back to sleep again? How long they were crying out?

How long? O Lord, thou holy and true?

Dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on

the earth? The Saints are crying out to the

Lord. Hence we join and mingle our

prayers with the crying out of the Saints.

Lord, have mercy. They are certainly not dead.

The Saints are not dead. Gone perished Matthew chapter

Matthew 12:26–27

12, verse 26 to 27. Listen.

Jesus is speaking, but concerning the dead that they

rise. Have you not read in the book of

Moses How from the Bush God said to him, I am the God, Listen to

this. Stop your cooking.

Stop your talking conversation. Pull over to one side.

Stop vacuuming. Stop doing anything you're doing

right now except work. Obviously you gotta continue

working, but you can stop for a few seconds, God said to Moses.

I am the God of Abraham and of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

The Saints, the patriarchs which we supplicate, that they pray

for us, beseech on our behalf along with us.

And then God says, and God is not of the dead, so they're not

dead. They're alive, They're in

paradise. I mean, they were seen with

Jesus on Mount Tabor, Moses and Elijah.

God is not of the dead, but of the living.

You therefore do greatly err. So those who tell you they're

asleep, they are there. They are erring.

Don't be ashamed. Don't be reluctant to cry out to

the Saints. Oh, Margie Vargas, oh St.

Mary the Blessed Mother Virgin Mary the Mother of Mother of my

Lord and my Savior, Jesus Christ.

Pray to your Lord. Pray to your Savior.

Pray to your life giver. Mingle my prayers by your

prayers that he may bless. Forgive whatever you want to

request. Moses and Elijah in Matthew 17.

They are alive. Seek their intercession, read

the life of the Saints. How did they When?

By reading the lives of the Saints, how did they overcome

the temptation? You know, someone said, well

it's easier than to go to in a wilderness and just live a a

hermit life. Where was Jesus tempted my

beloved? In the wilderness?

He was tempted in the wilderness.

Not in the Temple. Not in the temple in Jerusalem.

So yeah, it was even it was harder.

It was it was even more difficult because Satan was

continuing to tempt those who wanted to leave a life of

solitude and solid, solitary life.

Read their lives. Be comforted, be encouraged.

Read the Holy scriptures beloved.

Read the holy scriptures. Fill your mind with the Holy

scriptures. I think it is St.

John Chris Austin who says a house that has the scriptures

opened is a house that will continue continually be filled

with the blessings of the scriptures.

That's why, and to my shame, my wife is listening to my shame

today. I said where is our scripture

when we walking, That's why you're walking to some houses,

you see the scriptures open. You know what the forefathers

would say? So that the power and the

blessing of this holy book, the holy scriptures would fill the

house. Do that.

Pray and fill your mind. Sing hymns.

Sing hymns. That desha Alaha, that desha

heltana. Holy God, you, oh Lord of all,

we confess in truth. Oh my Lord, we are not worthy.

Sing songs of praise. Forget the I'm trying to think

of a very famous song. What's that song?

And I like it too. Yeah, when we were first in

love. Yeah, I like the song as well,

right? OK, every now and then.

But fill your mind with praise. Songs of praise.

Pray, beloved, pray. It's important, you know. 1.1

Great Prayer point along with many is Psalm chapter 51 verse

Psalms 51:10

10 Since Satan targets our minds and our hearts look at what's

King David praise. Create in me a pure heart oh God

or just mention just utter God, Jesus Christ and not oh Jesus

Christ because something falls. Don't bless fame, the word, the

the the the name of God the holy name of God.

Do you hear what those who a who hate Jesus Christ use the name

of God. How they use it.

And I'm you know what? I usually lash out.

But I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it.

It defiles me. But you know what I mean.

The F bomb in the name of Jesus Christ.

No mention. Utter God's name.

Jesus name. Oh Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father,

Lord Jesus Christ. The demons shudder.

They tremble when they hear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's how we can be delivered from his trickeries.

Or say Satan. I rebuke you in the name of

Jesus Christ. James, chapter 2, verse 19.

James 2:19

You believe that God is 1. Great, excellent.

You do well. The demons also believe.

Hang on, hang on. Let me read it again.

You believe faith. Only faith.

Just faith. You believe that God is 1

Excellent. You do well the demons who

believe. Oh, so demons are saved.

Demons believe and they tremble. We don't tremble sometimes but

the demons tremble. So no, the demons do not are not

saved. They know who God is, but they

have they don't have the deeds. Their faith is not justified and

persona if if it's a word I may use in their faith.

But that's not the point. You believe that God is 1.

You do. Well the demons also believe and

they trump tremble when you mentioned the name Jesus Christ.

That's why when our forefathers would turn on, switch on lights,

let's say Shim it out in the name of God so that if there's

any demonic positions there that they would shutter and flee.

Most importantly beloved. And this is what we neglect and

we mock it. We joke about it.

Partake in the Holy Eucharist, Parabana, Adisia, the real

presence of body and blood of our Jesus Christ in the Holy

Eucharist. Look at the prayer we say.

Sanctify my body with your holy body and absolve my deaths by

your precious blood, and cleanse my conscience, my mind with the

hissip of your compassion. Oh Christ, the hope of our

nature, Lord of all, Father and Son, Holy Spirit forever.

Amen. And remember too remember

beloved, my post on Facebook. Remember what Jesus has waiting

for evil and the workers of evil.

I will confess to them, right? Says Jesus in Matthew Chapter 7,

Matthew 7:22

verse 22. I will confess to them.

I never knew you depart from you workers of evil, as opposed to

well done, good and faithful servant, enter the joy of thy

Lord. Praise and glory be to his holy

name now and that all times and forever.

Amen. We hope you.

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