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Episode 61: God Cannot be Mocked
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In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy
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Spirit forever. Amen.
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Glory be to the everlasting mercies which sent you to us, O
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Christ, the light of the world and the life of all.
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Give us wisdom by your law and enlighten our impulses by your
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knowledge. Sanctify our souls by your
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truth, and grant that we may be obedient to your words and may
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fulfill your commandments at every hour.
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Oh you who enlightens the rational with the knowledge of
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your greatness, do enlight, O my Lord, our thoughts that we may
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meditate upon your holy and divine scriptures at all times,
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O Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever.
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I recall a story or a joke I heard when I was young of a man
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who was drowning in the ocean. And he cried out to the Lord and
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said, oh Lord, please help me rescue me.
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For my parents sake, for my friends and relatives sake, for
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my wife's sake, for my children's sake.
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And all of a sudden a hand rescues the man from the ocean,
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pulls him out and brings him to the to the seashore.
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And as he is walking up the the the shore, his friends came and
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said to him and said, listen, we heard your cry.
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We understand that you know you ask God to save you for your
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parents sake and your relatives, but your wife and your children,
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you're not married, you don't have any children.
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And he said be quiet, I fooled God.
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Which goes against Galatians. Chapter 6, Verse seven.
Galatians 6 chapter mention
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Do not err, not make a mistake. Don't be foolish.
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God is not mocked. God is not deceived for anything
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that a man sows, he reaps. When I speak to some of my
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brothers and sisters or some of my brothers, in particular some
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of my sons, my spiritual sons, and you know, I talk to them
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about marriage and that, you know, you should, you know,
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settle down and and think of taking holy matrimony, finding
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yourself a wife, pray about it and find a wife, take for
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yourself a partner in life. And I recommend that you know
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they they participate and they come to church.
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You know, there's a social gatherings to weddings and
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feasts and and parties and what have you.
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And you know, there you may find someone and you may be
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interested and da da da da, da da, But it really disappoints me
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and it breaks my heart to hear their reply.
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Robbie, you think those girls who come to church all dressed
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modestly and, you know, during the Assyrian weddings, they're
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with their parents and, you know, seated so well mannered
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and behaved. And, you know, we see them in
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many of our cultural and traditional gatherings.
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Do you think that they are angels come down from heaven?
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No, Robbie, you have no idea what we see them get up to in
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night clubs and rave clubs and hook lounges.
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So when they come to these special events, don't be
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deceived, Robbie. That breaks my heart.
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It truly does. And I say, oh, what a wicked and
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perverse generation. Now my reply to them is, of
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course, what are you doing in such places?
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How are you conducting yourself? What is your manner in these
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places? And their replies, well, I'm an
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Orza. I'm a man giving themselves the
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justifications, the right, the right to, you know, be engaged
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on what they look down upon their sisters that are engaged
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in such manner. Well, again, that goes against
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the holy Scriptures. Galatians, chapter 3, verses 28
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and 29. We read there is neither Jew nor
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Armenian, There is neither slave nor free, There is neither male
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nor female. For you are all one in Jesus
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Christ. So if you belong to Christ, then
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you are descendants of Abraham and his heirs, according to the
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promise. I'm an Orza.
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Well my dear brother, when it comes to sin and sister when it
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comes to sin or holiness, there is no dispensation, there is no
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allowance, there is no partiality, there is no
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favoritism with God being an Orza, Being a man doesn't give
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you the right to sin, doesn't open the door on sexual
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immorality and or lack laxness. In faith.
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My dear sister, if there is truth, and I believe there is an
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element of truth in what your brothers are saying, well, who
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are you trying to mock or fool or deceive?
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Your parents? Your community members?
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Your parish priest? Others.
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You may do so. Yeah, you may fool those people
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that I just mentioned, but you can certainly not mock or
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deceive or fool God. You know what you sow is what
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you reap. People may, according to Isaiah
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chapter 5 verses 20 to 23 say or call evil good and good.
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Evil people may do that and that is so evident.
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Truly in this wicked world good is seen as evil and evil is
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commanded as good people may do that.
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People may put light for darkness and darkness for light,
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put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, according Isaiah
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5/20/23. But the scriptures ascribe and
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appoint woes to such people. You know what woes are.
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Why? Remember those words coming from
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mum when she would, you know she'd look at you really, really
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angry. Why Woe to you anguish grief.
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So the scriptures are saying, Woe to those people who call
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good evil and evil good. Woe to the world.
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Don't take heart from and be encouraged by those who applaud
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you, love or like your posts, your pictures, your your posts
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or comments, those that are attracted to your life or your
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manner or conduct or posts. Again, comments that are
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contrary to the precepts of the Holy Scriptures.
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Don't take heart to those that are those those you know
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conducts that are contrary to the principles and instructions
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of the Church. And I will also go as far as the
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ethics and manners and etiquette of our Syrian culture and
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traditions. Don't take heart.
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Don't be encouraged. Don't build your life upon those
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who call your evil good. You see learning the Assyrian
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language and the Assyrian history, the Assyrian culture,
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the Assyrian identity, the folklore, it's non beneficial to
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the Assyrian plight or existence if we do not adhere and live by
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them. The Assyrian etiquette Manners.
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I want to be a true Assyrian. Yes, learn the language, learn
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the history, be proud of it. But live it.
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Live the etiquettes. Live the manners as well.
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It's not multiple choice. I'm an Assyrian, but what is not
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deemed as etiquette and ethics, I will not adhere to.
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But I want to wrap the Assyrian flag around me.
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You know, we are in that actual fact, bringing disrepute rather
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than respect and value. That's a little hypocritical,
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right? So reading scripture, posting
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scripture, attending church, serving in the church, making
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markings and tattoos of crosses and scripture verses on your
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body are really nonprofitable. Beloved, if we do not live the
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scripture, live the service that we are offering in the church,
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live the power of the cross that we tattoo or the verses that we
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post or tattoo on our bodies. James says these in chapter one,
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verse 22. Saint James right.
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Be a doer of the word meaning a living example, and not only a
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hearer or a promoter. And do not deceive yourself.
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See you deceive yourself. You can't.
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You can deceive others as well, but you cannot deceive God.
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Definitely you cannot deceive God, and most definitely those
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who are witnesses and are aware of your lifestyle which is
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conducted outside of the scriptures, which are conducted
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not in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Philippians 127 Beloved, we are warned in Proverbs chapter 15,
Proverbs 15 chapter mention
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verse three. The eyes of the Lord God are in
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every place you know. It's not like God only knows
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what happens at church, at home. No God knows exactly what's
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happening. And I'll use these terms in the
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brothels, in the prisons, in the nightclubs, in the rave clubs.
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God knows exactly. The eyes of the Lord God are in
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every place gazing on the good and on the evil.
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So what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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Actually what happens in Vegas and every place will be
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submitted as evidence at the feeful tribunal of the Lord when
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he returns to judge the good and the evil.
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Matthew chapter 16, verse 27 for the Son of Man Jesus is speaking
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here. Listen intently, pull to one
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side, forget about the dishes. Don't worry about the, you know,
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stirring the part for cascasta, for Dolma.
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Just listen intently, Jesus, our God Incarnate, warns.
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For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father
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because he is God, the glory meaning the divinity by his
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nature. Praise me to his name with the
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holy angels, and then He will repay.
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He will not ask what were you doing in that place?
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It was so much loud music and drugs and alcohol and
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debauchery. No, no, no.
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He will repay each man according to his works.
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Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 10.
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Saint Paul writes For we are all going to stand before the
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judgment seat of the Messiah, that each man will be paid in
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his bodily, in sorry, in his body, anything that was done by
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him, whether of good or of evil, meaning, deeds, they're
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important. Don't let people fool you.
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Those who try to fool me, I know those who don't want to work the
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good deeds. They just want to give lip
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service to God. Oh Jesus, I believe in you.
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You are my Lord and Savior and I am saved because I just said you
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are my Lord and Savior. Was the chaos wasn't saved When
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he said Lord, before he began to tell Jesus what he was going to
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do, he said, Lord Jesus didn't stop him and say Hallelujah,
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there is salvation in this house.
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He said no, Lord, this is what I'm going to do.
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And then Jesus says today there is life, not salvation, actually
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life in this house. What is being spoken in Vegas
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and at every place will also be presented as evidence for the
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accountability of he or she who spoke it, Jesus warns again in
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Matthew chapter 12, verses 36 to 37.
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For I say to you that every idle, empty, meaningless,
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derogative, rude, filthy, lying, blaspheming, parasitical word
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that people will speak. They will give an answer for it
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in the day of Judgment. For by your words you will be
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justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
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Oh, justified by words. I thought it was only justified
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by faith. Well, there's another topic we
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need to discuss. So hence in Colossians chapter
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4, verse 6, Saint Paul instructs and and encourages that your
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words should always be with grace, as if seasoned with salt.
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And be aware how it is appropriate for you to answer
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each man. God cannot be deceived, God
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cannot be mocked. The praise we utter during
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church, when we are worshipping and when we are serving, when we
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are singing La Huma rathola mo. Then on on to you, Lord of all,
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we confess, You know those words of praise that we utter from our
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mouths. From that same mouth we utter
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cussing, insulting words, offensive words.
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From that safe same mouth, how can that be?
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How can you be cussing on a Saturday evening?
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How can you be engaged in filth and sexual immorality?
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And I don't actually mean, actually, you know, involved in
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it. No, The dance moves, my beloved
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sisters. The dance moves that are today
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being portrayed, you're probably saying, how does he know these
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things? Yeah.
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You know, I research. I'm an unworthy shepherd.
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I need to be awake. I need to be alert.
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I need to know what my brothers and sisters, my members of my
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flock that have been entrusted into my hands are getting
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themselves into those sexually connotated moves, those cussing
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words, those, those lyrics that are cussing and derogative that
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come out of our mouth. And we're singing along with the
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with the artist who knows not Jesus Christ, who defames Jesus
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Christ, who blasphemes against Jesus Christ.
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And we know the lyrics back to front.
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But when we ask you to quote a scripture, it's well, yeah, I
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don't know who, what? Where is Sodom and Gomara
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Gomora? Who is Sodom and Gomora?
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Are they husband and wife? I've had this so from the same
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mouth, beloved, on a Saturday evening that we utter those
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disrespectful filthy mouth words.
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We come back on a Sunday and we sing La Humara to la Mo then.
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And James chapter 3, verses 10 to 12.
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God cannot be marked praise between his name from the mouth,
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precedes blessings and cursing, my brethren.
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These things ought not to be done.
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Is it possible that from 1 spring sweet and bitter waters
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go out? Or can a fig tree, my brethren,
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produce olives or a vine figs. So neither can salt water be
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made sweet. That's why we pray aka Maria,
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not oral form or not oral supply.
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That's in the Aramaic language. Arise a guard or place a guard
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on my mouth and on my lips so that I do not utter evil words.
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What we do, what we are engaged in, involved with, on a Saturday
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evening or any evening, anytime of the day, cannot be justified
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because I am at church on Sunday, participating, serving,
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singing, worshiping God cannot be mocked, cannot be deceived.
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In actual fact, unless I have repented, which we'll speak
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about next episode, or am I penitent in the process of
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repentance, I actually need to limit my participation in the
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partaking of the Holy Urbana, the Holy Eucharist St.
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Paul writes in One Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 29.
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For whoever eats and drinks from it, being unworthy, eats and
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drinks a guilty verdict into his soul for not distinguishing the
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body of the Lord, seeing it as a mere bread and mere wine,
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partaking of it when in mind. Immediately after that Sunday
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service, or in the evening of the Sunday service, I'm going to
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be back to my normal rigmarole. Just as a dog who returns back
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to his vomit, so too is a man who returns to his sins.
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We sing in the hymn at Clansora. We have hope, we sing, and it's
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a shame. Not many people know this
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because it's in the Aramaic language.
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Although I've recorded these these hymns in the vernacular
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the Lashana Khata the language that we use and they're on
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iTunes I believe benata.com Yeah if you messages we can we can
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direct you to the to the page we seen who so is intoxicated by
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heat this wine the flame of fire will be refreshing to him
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meaning. The state that this person will
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be who is intoxicated, who takes it unworthingly.
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The state that the person will end up He or she will be asking
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for fire. Please throw me in fire, because
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that, I believe, will be more refreshing than the state that I
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am in today, right. The Holy Church Father's
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beloved. If we are living in abomination,
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if we are living in filth, heterosexually, homosexually, or
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both, I strongly recommend For your own spiritual well-being, I
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strongly recommend that you do not approach the Holy Mysteries,
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but rather your spiritual counselor.
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He will prescribe to you the proper and befitting penance,
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the spiritual medication which we'll speak about next week.
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Let's not be like Adam and blame God and Eve, The woman you gave
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me. God.
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How dare he? He's quite a daring person.
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The woman you gave me, she made me do it.
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She made me break your commandment and be disappoint.
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Disobedient to you. That was a poor excuse.
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We too, let's not entirely blame the government laws and
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legislations. Let's not use the most
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ridiculous excuse and justification of blaming nature.
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I was born that way, creation and certainly not the creator.
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Let's take note of the three fingers that point back to me
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when I point the one finger. Let's not be Yosemite Sam when
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facing the devil in one of the cartoon episodes says the devil
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made me do it. I mean, the rabbit made me do
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it. Let's not blame others, others.
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Let's take ownership and be spiritual man and women.
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In place of excuses and uncreditable justifications, let
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us cry out and say do this with me now, beloved, do it with me
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every time. Say this with every breath you
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take Lord Jesus, the Son of God. Have mercy on me, a Sinner.
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Deliver me from the Evil One and His hosts and bring me to
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repentance. Why?
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Because God cannot be mocked. God cannot be fooled.
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God cannot be deceived. Praise and glory be to his holy
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name, now and at all times and forever.