Episode 18: Be Doers of the Word

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. Oh, Christ the light of the

world and the life of all give us wisdom by a 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? He's doin light O My Lord.

Our thoughts that we made meditate upon your holy and

divine scriptures at all times. Oh Lord of all Father and Son

and Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

In the gospel of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ.

According to the proclamation of the preaching of Matthew chapter

Matthew 7:26

7 verse 26, Jesus our lord instructs and everyone who hears

these my words. That is the holy scriptures but

does not practice them, put him in practice act upon them, do

them will be likened to the foolish man and woe to the man

who he seemed foolish in the eyes of God Saint James.

Simplifies it in chapter 1, verse 22, but be a doer of the

word, a practicer of the word and not only or mere here.

And do not deceive yourself. Let's put these into practice.

Let's, let's have a look at some of the examples.

As what have we talking about here?

What are the scriptures? Instructing us?

Jesus says, in Matthew 5:44, listen to this very carefully.

Matthew 5:44

See, the reason why I tell you to listen because we are now

hearing these words, but I say to you love your enemies.

Yeah, right here we go. Well if we dare if we have so

much courage to say that to the holy scriptures and this is our

response and our reaction to the holy scriptures.

God help. But I say to you, love your

enemies and bless the one who curses you and do.

What is beautiful to the one who hate you and pray over those or

pray for those who take you by force and persecute you.

Now, when we read these scriptures, face value, they are

not common. Obviously in this most wicked

World, these are not common, common acts of man, be it

Christian. Non-Christian what have you to

love your enemies and to bless the ones who curse.

You? Why is Jesus asking this?

Why is instructing this? Because you know what, let's put

it very simply whatever. Our enemy Eminem is whatever our

enemies do to us. And the worst they can do is

kill the body. We love them because when you

die for Christ, you live with Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you die for Christ on Earth, you live for with Christ in the

Kingdom of Heaven, So, hearing these words, we must put them in

practice if right now. Our reactionary response to this

verse is. Well that's not how I feel.

That's not common. That's not realistic.

Let me take you back to Matthew 726.

Hearing it. And not doing it.

We are fools in the eyes of God. We're only fooling ourselves to

I mean St. James says, you're fooling

yourselves. You think you have a

relationship with God? You think you are a baying god

you believe you love the Lord but we truly don't, we're

fooling ourselves. In Mark chapter 11 verse 25 to

Mark 11:25–26

26. Jesus again says and what

whenever you stand to pray, forgive whatever you have

against anyone. So that your father who is in

heaven. May also forgive you your

faults, but if you are not forgiving, neither will your

father in Heaven. Forgive you your faults or your

sins? Let's do a little exercise.

This is going to be a practical episode.

Those who are sitting down and listening to this podcast at

home in their office, in the park.

Wherever Raise your hands. If you have no faults.

Those who are driving their car. If you're listening to this

podcast and you're driving, honk your horn, if you have no Faults

on those sins. If there are two or three

amongst each other, listening to this podcast, admit to one

another confess to one another. If you believe that you have no

Faults and you have no sense. Well I'm sure I'm I'm 99.9%

confident that no one has raised their hand or honk their horn or

has confessed that they are sinless or have no fault that

point 0 1 percent, you must be venerated to to the saintly

orders because you have completed, your urine are

complete in Christ. But then again, those who think

that they are sinless and faultless, let me rain on your

parade in the first Epistle of st.

John the disciple, 1 John 1:8 John tells us that if we shall

1 John 1:8

say that, we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth

is not in US. So Jesus is telling us that we

need to forgive the sins of those who have sinned against us

and of hurt us. We need to pray for them.

Otherwise, when we who now we have ascertained that we too, we

are not faultless and sinless. We to have faults and sins when

we go to the father and we ask the father to forgive Let me

read the scripture again. Matthew Mark 11:25 26.

Mark 11:25

This is how see right now we're pondering on.

These villagers are not just reading and praising the Lord

and agreeing with them. We want to see where we stand

with these. If we, if we have fallen, let's

stand and continue to stand in these scriptures.

If we are standing in these scriptures, continue and praise

God. And whenever you stand to pray,

when we come to pray, this is what Jesus telling us.

Give Whoever has sinned against you basically.

So that your father in Heaven, shall do that because if you

don't, and this is not a scare tactic beloved, this is not

Kasha jernard or priest Jenner telling you that.

Listen, if you don't come to church, I will not do this or

not do that. And I will not Grant you this

and then two months later, you know, I'm going to be, you know,

compromising. I'll compromise it.

Because why? Because I'm a fool and I'm weak.

My judgment is weak, but God's judgment and righteousness.

Righteousness is complete. It's perfect.

So when Jesus says, but if you are not forgiving, neither will

your father in Heaven? Forgive you, your faults, my

God, I stand corrected, I stand condemned.

Now, with this verse But what do I do?

It's not the end of the world and I've always said, I need to

correct this I need to come to the Lord.

Beat my breast and say, Lord have mercy on me for I am, truly

a sinner. Help me to gain that.

Courage, that love. Help me to gain that, eagerness

to be obedient to your words that I may forgive those who

have sinned against me. And I know it's not easy.

We're going to talk about that. I'm not going to be a hypocrite

and tell you. Yes, it is.

It is what it is. You need to do it, you know,

Audrina apply it. Apply it Robbie will apply it in

1, John chapter 2 verse 24, he continues for.

John 2:24

He who says, I know him and let me dare to add.

I love him. I obey him, I praise him.

I want to be with him. I want him to be Part of my life

to take my heart in his hands and and Lead me.

And I want to offer my love my life to my Lord.

For he who says, I know him and does not keep his Commandments

is lying. There's a sin and the truth is

not in him. So let me ask every one of us

myself. First Stephen Adrena, the

produces a new beloved listeners.

Do you love the Lord? Do you want to obey the Lord?

Do you feel the desire to obey the Lord and commit to the lord?

Well, we need to keep his Commandments Jesus said if you

love me You don't need to do Dawn Ronnie.

You don't need to pay your membership on time and be the

first to pay your church subscriptions and you need to go

and help people and do your charitable Deeds.

If you love me first obey, my Commandments and his

Commandments, everything that I've spoken about has been his

entailed. St.

Paul in his epistle to the Romans. 12:2 he's begging.

Romans 12:2

You know when someone begs Audrina, when I say to you and

I'm your priest. I'm your spiritual counselor,

Audrina? I beg you.

How important, how much am I trying to stress and emphasize

that I want from you? This is truly a life and death

matter and it is I beg you. Therefore, Paul says to the

Romans the Gentiles My brethren. So now they're not Gentiles.

Now they were the Gentiles who accepted Jesus Christ.

Because when, when we read in the gospels or the Epistles

Brethren, it is the the faithful I beg you therefore my brethren

by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies.

Living sacrifices. Holy and acceptable to God by a

logical service and do not imitate this world.

These are the scriptures. These are the words of of Jesus

Christ. These are the words of the holy

spirit. Let me remind you again, Matthew

726, and everyone who hears. These, my words, you may say all

know these are the words of Mere Men.

Saint. Paul was not Jesus Christ, st.

Paul was moved. By the Holy Spirit to write this

so st. Paul.

So these words are the words of God.

So, right now, we are hearing these words of God.

By the mercies of God that you present or offer your bodies as

living sacrifices, holy and acceptable or pleasing to God

biological service and do not imitate this world.

The trend, the norm, the philosophy, the ideology, The

Hollywood dollar G. Do not imitate this world, but

be transformed by the renovation of your minds.

And you should then shall distinguish, what is the good

acceptable and perfect will of God.

Here is scripture. Here is the word of God.

Where do you my brother and most importantly, my system ID system

where do you stand with this scripture?

You just heard it. Now let's go back at to another

exercise. Raise your hands if you're now

agreeing and a mean and praise the Lord, honk your horn.

If you if you love this verse you know talk to one another oh

I love this. Words are we do ours of the

words? If not we're Hypocrites were

fools in the eyes of God. Saint John chrysostom rights and

I love Saint John chrysostom. I think I've already proven that

because in every episode almost every episode I I comment or I

used in John chrysostom's comments.

I refer to his commentaries, how is the body to become as

sacrifice here? It is Audrina, put it in

practice. How is the body to become a

sacrifice? Simple Matthew 5:29.

Matthew 5:29

He says he goes on to say, let the I look on no evil thing and

he it has already become a sacrifice.

What do you mean evil thing? Well, open your laptop.

Get on your phone now. And you start scrolling you

start surfing the net, you start scrolling the Instagrams and the

and the, and the Snapchats and Facebook's and you'll see that

evil things that Saint John. Chrysostom is referring to Jesus

said in Matthew 5:29. This is his quote, by the way,

Matthew 5:29

this is this is his, his backup verse wish.

If I may say, if your right eye causes you to sin, gouge, it

Gadget out. It's best to enter the kingdom

of heaven with Two eyes. No eyes then to enter into

eternal, hell with the whole body intact.

Let the tongue say nothing filthy and it has become an

offering Proverbs 10:31, the mouth of the righteous speaks

Proverbs 10:31

wisdom and a perverted tongue will be cut out.

Cussing is now the norm, but I told you, I went back, not the

norm, where is it? Let me find that scripture

again. If I could if I had here it is

and do not imitate this. The Train, the known, the

philosophy. Oh, you know what?

It's cool too. Cause it's a long now.

It's natural now. Well, this is imitating, the

world and if we want to imitate the world, then we will end up

where the world is ending up in Eternal fire.

Where st. Paul says that every element of

this world will burn in Eternal fire.

Let your hand do nothing evil and it has become a whole burnt

offering. And he goes on to say, but even

this is not enough for we must have good works.

Also. Saint Paul writes to Timothy and

I think it goes hand in hand with this verse 2, Timothy 2:21.

If a man will purify himself from these things, the norm of

the world, he is a pure vessel of for Honor suitable for the

use of his Lord, and ready for every good works.

And it all comes down to reading the word, agreeing with the word

praising. God, for the word obeying.

The Good and doing the word putting it in practice.

St. John goes on to say the hand.

Must do arms. The mouth must bless those who

curse it. And the he's must find time to

listen to the readings of the scriptures and st.

John chrysostom quotes, 2. Timothy 3:16, every writing,

2 Timothy 3:16

meaning every scripture which is written by the spirit and who

determines the scriptures that are being being inspired by the

spirit, that's the church that Determines.

This is proud of profitable for teaching for correction for this

direction and For A Cause in righteousness, This is the

scripture. What are we going to do about

this? I'm going to add this.

Our social medias and I always touch up on this.

We just heard we just read, we just agreed.

I believe everyone raised their hand and honk the their horn

and, and discussed amongst one another that.

Yes, that is scripture that is the word of God.

And the word of God is commanding us that we do not

conform, or do not imitate imitate this world.

Social media posts, social media pictures, social media comments,

what's that? Is it a?

What is it called, guys? It's on Tick-Tock, I think, and

you sit there and there's a song playing in the background and

you sing that song, is it sing along or something, Mary had a

little lamb or them and the ball bounces, is it?

No it's not, but it's like that, okay?

You know, and it it never ceases to amaze me.

For me to sit there with my cross hanging out of my outside

of my shirt, and I'm singing along to a song, every third or

fourth word is a cuss song. So how do I claim that I am a

Christian? Then how can I claim that?

I am a doer of the word when the word is telling me that I should

not imitate this world, who cares, the owner of tick, tock

has given you this application. And we are permitted.

Who cares about that? My Lord teaches me mice.

Scripture teaches, teachers me the holy scriptures, teach me

that. This is what the world.

This is the pattern of the world.

We should not confirm who should not imitate.

So yeah, you know what, if you have one of those post going

deleted now, right now you're going to leave and say thank

you. Lord!

Thank you. Jesus Christ.

Thank you, Father. Son and Holy Spirit.

Praise with your name. I did not know.

But this is how far I need to go.

This is how serious we need to be with our faith.

Otherwise remain in the era that the world is leading us to and

we will continue to go to where the world will end up. the

sides, the pages, we engage in the site's, the pages, the

Instagrams, the, the snapchats that we agree, with, with light,

we like, So now you're we've heard it.

Now we know that the scriptures are quite clear of our social

media living. What are we going to do about

that? Beloved, then onus is on you.

Now, the onus is on you to expand and understand and

comprehend and put in action. Yes, I'm serious.

If, you know, if right now, York on your conscious, it's

convicting you. Because the post that you have

there, the Sure that you have there is, is now convicting.

You go now and remove it, then you truly become a doer of the

word if you are now nodding your head in agreement, But do not do

it. You are the sun.

According To Jesus, parable in Matthew 21:13 who said to his

Matthew 21:13

father, he will go to the vineyard and work, but he didn't

go, if you are now somehow convinced convicted, maybe

somehow right now, sorry not convinced.

And not convicted maybe somehow. Right?

At this moment, you don't see the point I'm trying to make you

not agree. Do not comprehend fully at this

very moment. However, you're not totally

writing off this episode and later on through prayer and

consultation, you take baby steps and even if you do not

master or you do not complete, you come to that conclusion but

you're striving now you know you want to delete but you feel

well. I don't see anything wrong with

that but I'll be everyone else is doing it.

So shall I shan't I but you know you're striving.

Saying you're trying to get to that point where you say no, for

Christ's sake. I am a Christian.

I represent Jesus Christ. I need to live a Godly life.

I'm going to delete And eventually you get to that point

notice I said strive, Jesus said strive to enter the narrow

narrow gate. This is your challenge now and

eventually you do it then you are that son that said, no.

Father, I do not care to go but then felt remorse and repented

and went to the vineyard and work there.

You know, our feelings, our faith, our emotions I can, I can

comfortably say that they are in one way or another a Sacrament,

you know, when we believe in Jesus Christ, we have faith in

Jesus Christ. And then we come to church

partake in the Holy Eucharist or we actually read the scriptures.

Right now we're listening to these words, you know, there's a

Sacrament at work. Now it is the outward

expression. Now, the outward expression is,

I'm going to switch on this podcast, I'm going to listen to

it because I believe in Jesus Christ, there's an expression of

the offer, you know, when I walk into the to my daughter's home

soon, my own home because they're moving in, Abel.

My grandson. Are you clapping?

As soon as he sees me an innocent child looks at me and

goes wow that means sour which means Grandpa actually, Sowell

means old men. What's up old man?

Yeah exactly. Wow, any comes out innocently

with his arms, open runs to me. He's probably saying, oh I was

gonna give me something. We don't know if if there's

truly an emotion of love a feeling of love for his wow.

And I'm sure there is, is an innocent child, but when I

embrace him and I hug him, there is my expression of my love for

my grandchild. That I can't just walk in and

say hi. Wow.

And then just go and do my own sighs.

I need to go and hug and kiss her you clap.

I love you. Give me Bachi.

Baba. Watch.

And then, and he wants me to get on the ground and start singing

the ends. Go marching one by one.hoorah.

He loves it, right? This is my expression of care

and love to see him joyful. That's how I express it.

Husband and wife. The feelings of love for one

another. Sometimes it's portrayed through

flowers. Teddy bears.

Boxes of chocolate long-stem roses Honey.

Hi babe. My love my soul.

You know, these are expressions of Love, even further the

intimacy, the intimacy and her husband and wife have is an

expression of their love. It's an output expression.

Act of an Would desire beloved. This is exactly the same with

our Lord and our Savior. Jesus Christ.

Our Heavenly bridegroom, will you read his instructions?

We hear his instructions. He's instructions are preached

to us. He's instructions are you know

taught us and have been interpreted to us.

What do we do? Just by nodding our heads and

saying, praise God, I believe that is not enough.

That's a head service. We give or just a little lip

service but to actually put it in practice or I will go on to

say, to begin to put it in practice, I'm going to quote,

you send Augustine. He rides, neither.

I nor any other preacher can see into your hearts.

Here I am preaching right now. I don't know.

Who's listening, thank you for your comments and God bless you.

And please always glorify God, always, give glory to God, I

don't know what's in your heart. Now you put, you could be

mocking the word of God now, You could maybe well if you switched

off you can hear this and your but you know, you could be

totally in agreeance or totally in disagreements.

Neither. I nor any other preacher can see

into your heart but God is looking for, nothing can be

hidden from him, do not deceive yourselves by coming, eagerly to

hear the word and then failing to do it.

People ask for Bible studies left right and Center sometimes

and the church must always without any reductant real.

Students, without any delay, preach the word of God.

St. Augustine says do not deceive

yourselves and becoming eagerly to hear the word and then

failing to do it. If it is a good thing to hear,

it is as much better thing to do.

If you do not hear you cannot do and therefore you will build

nothing. But if you here and do not do

then, what are you building? Whatever your building will be

ruined. It is good to hear the word of

God. It's comforting to you.

The word of God. But is it comforting only for a

small period of time? Is that the seed that fell among

the rocks? It sprouted but because there

was no root it, dyed it with it. How do we keep the word of God

alive in our lives, in our hearts, in our everyday, coming

and going is to do the word of God.

And again, please do not think that we need our horns to be

immediately changed into Halos. It takes time it takes a

process, but when we're ready to put the first step to take that

first step and we rely on God and we truly want to obey the

Lord Jesus Christ. He assured Lee has granted us

and assured us that he is there for us.

He will never leave us nor forsake us, praise and glory.

Be to His holy name now in at all times and forever.

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