1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,700 In the name of the Glorious Trinity. 2 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:03,900 Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. 3 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:06,800 Amen. Glory be to the Everlasting 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,200 mercies which sent you to us. Oh, Christ the light of the 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,000 world and the life of all give us wisdom by a law and Enlighten 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,900 our impulses, by your knowledge sanctify, our souls by your 7 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:22,800 truth and Grant that we may be obedient to your words and may 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,800 fulfill your Commandments at every hour. 9 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:29,000 O you who enlightens the rationale with the knowledge of 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 your greatness? He's doin light O My Lord. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,400 Our thoughts that we made meditate upon your holy and 12 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,900 divine scriptures at all times. Oh Lord of all Father and Son 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,600 and Holy Spirit forever. Amen. 14 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,800 Glory be to the mercies which sent Christ Our Lord to us. 15 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,300 Amen. Hello everybody. 16 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:18,500 Receive the peace. The Compassion, the love, the 17 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,000 Tranquility of our Lord and our Savior, Jesus Christ. 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,800 And I pray that you're all well protected under the healing 19 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,100 protecting guiding comforting hand of Our Lord. 20 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:33,700 God great to be with you. And again one more time I want 21 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:39,800 to begin by thanking you all for your feedback, many texts me 22 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,000 many I think, right? I think they email or somehow 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,500 they get their message across, I'm not the Remember it's the 24 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:51,100 producers are Stephen and Audrina so they they keep me up 25 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:54,000 to date but thank you so much and God bless you. 26 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,600 Let God be glorified. Please remember that. 27 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,500 What we do we always do for the glory of God and the salvation 28 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:04,000 of Souls and thank you for your suggestions of topics. 29 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,600 What you would like us to discuss. 30 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:12,300 And and I know that many of you enjoy the the interviews you 31 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:16,200 want to call them or the, you know, when there's someone else 32 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,700 with Me a quick q and A's. You know, we may, we may do a 33 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:25,600 Q&A one day. You can you can send us your 34 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,000 questions that you have. And they may not be presented as 35 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,200 a topic per se, but we can, I can, you know, certainly through 36 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,900 the grace of God and the mediation of the Holy Spirit, 37 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,700 answer, the questions that we receive in any case every week, 38 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,700 God's Summer season Grace is fulfilled. 39 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,800 We come together and we discuss the holy scriptures, wherever 40 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,100 you may be. And may these words give you the 41 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:03,000 Comfort, the healing, the the consolation, the answers that 42 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,100 you have been searching for Again by the grace of God. 43 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,800 Today, we're going to speak on a topic. 44 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,300 It's going to see when I told steering goes, or who it's going 45 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:17,200 to be in two parts because sometimes Oh, I see those very 46 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,900 important to really get the message across and it's going to 47 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:25,600 be difficult to, to just present it. 48 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,900 You know, looking at it from one point of view or, you know, when 49 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:34,300 there is two parts to the topic or the verse that we discussed. 50 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:41,100 So today's topic is yoking with unbelievers and God willing, 51 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:44,100 next Monday will be speaking about your cooking with 52 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:48,000 believers. So let's begin this by the grace 53 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,100 of God. What is a yoke? 54 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:53,300 Joking, obviously comes from the word yolk. 55 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,900 Yoke is a wooden cross piece. That is fastened, over the next 56 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:00,500 of to animals and attached to the plow. 57 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,300 I think it's also called a bullock attached to the plow or 58 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:08,500 a cart that they are to pull. So when the yolk is placed on 59 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:13,600 the necks of the two animals, mainly Bulls or even horses, the 60 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,500 animals are to work. and to strive together in the Aramaic 61 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:24,000 version, The scripture that will be reading we pertains to yoking 62 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,900 with unbelievers. The Aramaic word is Benes, Olga 63 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:32,800 lahari to and Benes Olga. Been a means children's Olga 64 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:38,200 means Partners couple so do not couple, do not be children of 65 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,300 couple for example, or do not couple with the unbelievers 66 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:47,800 which could refer to marriages, obviously and some sort of a 67 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:54,200 partnership or a Relationship. And as far as the unbelievers in 68 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,000 the Holy scriptures is concerned, it's solely pertains 69 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,400 to non-christians. Those who haven't received, 70 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,000 Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior, and I'm not being 71 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,900 baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity and have not confessed 72 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:12,300 the Lord to be their savior Christians, good or evil. 73 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:15,900 There are bad Christians there are good Christians. 74 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:19,800 I mean I you know I always say you're either a Christian or 75 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,300 not. Other Christian, let me rephrase 76 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:24,600 it. There are committed Christians. 77 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:29,200 There are Christians who are on fire for Christ and there are 78 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:32,400 lukewarm Christians which is very dangerous because Christ 79 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,800 states that he will spew us out. The lukewarm Christians will be 80 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,000 spewed out as we read in the Book of Revelation in and in any 81 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,400 case Christians good or you know committed or non-committed 82 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:49,700 faithful, you know lukewarm are referred to as brothers. 83 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,200 When we reading the holy scriptures in particular in the 84 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Epistles of st. Paul, where he addresses the 85 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,100 brothers, these are the Christians brothers and sisters, 86 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:05,200 obviously because he's addressing his he has letters or 87 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,800 his Epistles to the churches who have received Jesus Christ. 88 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:11,400 And in Matthew, chapter 18, Jesus himself. 89 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,700 Praise be to his name, says, if your brother sins against you, 90 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,200 if your brother sins against you and he instructs us, what we do 91 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,700 in Galatians, check the sea, Verse 1, Paul writes, my 92 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:28,100 brethren, if any of you should be overtaken by a fault, you who 93 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:31,000 are in the spirit, the Holy Spirit should restore him in the 94 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,600 spirit of humility, see my brethren. 95 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,400 So, the Believers are referred to as Brethren's and the 96 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,500 non-believers here, the Believers, sorry. 97 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:44,000 It would Christians are referred to as Brethren's and the 98 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,700 non-believers are the Gentiles. So, in this program, let's 99 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:53,200 concentrate on The Outsiders, the non-believers The non 100 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,800 Christ. Christians or Believers, The 101 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:05,200 Atheist the worshipers of God without not by not through Jesus 102 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,800 Christ? You know, there are many gods 103 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:10,900 and the owned the one and true God is known through Jesus 104 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:14,200 Christ, worshippers of gods made by hand. 105 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,300 Notice, I said God's. So we're not going to 106 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:20,300 concentrate on the children of God or the Believers were 107 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:26,100 talking about the non-believers. And according to Galatians. 3 108 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:30,900 verse 26 in the scriptures who are the children of God, those 109 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,600 who by faith have received Jesus Christ for your all the children 110 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,500 of God by faith in Jesus, the Messiah. 111 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:49,100 So one can be a child of God. One can be my brother or my 112 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:57,400 sister by faith in Jesus Christ to whom only and I'll emphasize 113 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:05,200 and stress. Only Bell Hood G God twice. 114 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:11,100 Speaks God the father and says this is my beloved Son in whom I 115 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:13,000 am pleased. Listen to him. 116 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:19,400 Matthew 3:17, Mark, 93. So the holy scriptures are 117 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:25,600 instructing us not to have partnership with the 118 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,900 unbelievers. Now, let me from this point 119 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:33,299 stress, not to hate the unbelievers. 120 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:38,299 Not to despise the unbelievers, not to mistreat. 121 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:41,900 The unbelievers. Not to disrespect the underbrim 122 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,900 unbelievers, not to kill or to oppress them. 123 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:50,500 No, but we should not have a relationship with the 124 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,200 unbelievers according to the scriptures and don't jump the 125 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,600 gun. Hold on to your seats. 126 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,500 And just calm down. We're going to go through this 127 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:03,000 but remembering there is no hatred, there's no disrespect 128 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,500 but we Cannot commingle with the unbelievers. 129 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,100 But the scriptures tell us that we should be continually praying 130 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:17,800 for those who know not Jesus Christ who have not received and 131 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,600 believed the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior, we must be 132 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,000 praying for them and we must be at all times prepared ready to 133 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,500 introduce them to Jesus Christ to witness to them. 134 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:39,300 See, I say this you know, so that we don't have don't have 135 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:42,000 this understanding that. The unbelievers we should 136 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 totally avoid and have nothing completely neural. 137 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,800 No, no peace. No. 138 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,000 You know, we got to we got to wage war on the unbelievers that 139 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,600 is not what Christ has taught beloved in the Christian faith. 140 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,600 Nothing but love. Peace Harmony. 141 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:10,200 Although non compromising is also instructed but in love in 142 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,500 peace and Harmony in the first Epistle of st. 143 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:17,000 Paul to the Corinthians chapter 10, verse 27. 144 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,100 Listen to what he's saying, anything one of the Gentiles, 145 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:28,200 meaning the non-jews or today, the non-christians invites, you 146 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,700 And you are willing or you desire to go to his or her 147 00:10:33,708 --> 00:10:36,900 invitation, eat. Whatever is before you he's 148 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:41,000 talking about food, that is offered to Pagan to Idols, eat 149 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,600 whatever is before you without any inquiry on account of 150 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,900 conscience. So don't totally draw the line 151 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:51,900 and cut relationship and not speak. 152 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:54,200 No communication. Because then how you're going to 153 00:10:54,208 --> 00:10:57,200 introduce Jesus Christ to someone who does not know, you 154 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,100 know st. Paul says in the heat book of 155 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:02,900 How will they believe, if they've not heard of him? 156 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,900 How will they hear of him? If they are not preach to, how 157 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,000 will they preach? If they are not sent by the 158 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,300 church? Okay, so if a gentile invites, 159 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:18,100 you Paul, he's not saying, don't you dare step foot in the house 160 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,800 actually, Paul he's even more severe and we're going to look 161 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,000 at this next week. More severe with the Christians 162 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,700 who do not live a Christian Life. 163 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:30,300 He says you should not even eat with these People and we're 164 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:35,300 going to talk about this but with the Gentiles who probably 165 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:40,300 know not of Christ, don't have an understanding, haven't been 166 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:45,600 witness to preach to invite. You go to the / to that house in 167 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,800 love and peace. Not to compromise, never to 168 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:54,300 compromise and eat the food. But then Paul goes on to say 169 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,000 that, but if you're invited and you're told that this food is 170 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,700 for Idols, you should not eat it. 171 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:02,300 Okay let but we're not talking. About that and in the, in the 172 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,500 diac diaconate litany om Shapiro. 173 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:08,500 We say let us all stand up as it is right. 174 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:10,000 It's a lie. It's called a litany Royal 175 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,400 Proclamation. This is and these are this is 176 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:17,200 during the the holy feasts the shamash of the deacon proclaims 177 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,100 o Saviour of all men talking about Jesus Christ. 178 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:25,100 And especially of them that believe in you. 179 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:29,300 We beseech, you salvation is for every person the believer, the 180 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:34,500 number The Pagan. The the righteous salvation is 181 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:39,800 for all, but especially who attained salvation, those who 182 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,000 have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. 183 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,500 It's there for the taking taking, but who receives it is 184 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:50,600 those who take it, those who believe in the Lord, and Savior, 185 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,700 Jesus Christ. You know, they may be 186 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:56,600 non-believers listening to this product cast at this very 187 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,500 moment. And I bid you welcome and I pray 188 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:05,900 that the Lord will the Heavenly Father by through whom only we 189 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:08,700 are brought to Jesus Christ. I pray that the holy spirit will 190 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:13,600 move you that you will Enlighten your mind and your thoughts that 191 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:18,000 you may draw knee to the light of the world who is Jesus Christ 192 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,800 to be taken out of the darkness. Praise be to his name. 193 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:27,200 Saint. Paul also writes in his first 194 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,000 letter to the Corinthians chapter 5, verses 9 to 10. 195 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,800 Listen to this, I have written to you in a letter, not to mix 196 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,900 with fornicators. Now, let me tell you from now, 197 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,800 this is talking about the Believers, but we're going to 198 00:13:40,808 --> 00:13:44,100 talk about that next week. In any case I have written to 199 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:48,900 you in a letter not to mix with fornicators but I am not talking 200 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:53,100 about the fornicators who are This world. 201 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,300 Those who are not of the family of the children of God. 202 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,900 Or about the greedy or about extortioners or about Idol 203 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:09,600 worshippers otherwise you would be obligated depart to depart 204 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,700 from this world. So again, we're not to hate 205 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:15,900 unbelievers, new are not to despise and have nothing to do. 206 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,600 But the only thing that we need to have with unbelievers is to 207 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,100 introduce our Lord and our Savior, Jesus Christ. 208 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:26,900 Yes, I'm going to answer the question, but why love has no 209 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:29,000 boundary? We are all children of God. 210 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:31,900 Well we could have to look at the scriptures and see how that 211 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:35,300 refutes the scriptures refutes. These philosophies, these 212 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:40,400 justification to prevent and to avoid fulfilling the scriptures 213 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,600 when we are instructed not to yoke with the unbelievers. 214 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:47,100 Now, as I said here, Paul actually implies to the 215 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:48,700 Believers and the rest of the verse. 216 00:14:49,100 --> 00:14:52,100 If you continue to read this, this episode is part one. 217 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:55,000 We'll talk about the Believers in our next episode. 218 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:02,000 So let's tackle the why question but why, Love has no boundaries. 219 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,700 It cuts both ways they go. Anita love has no boundaries. 220 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:10,000 Well, let's tackle the why question first? 221 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,700 And then the issue of love Paul sets. 222 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:16,800 It nice and simple and gives us a reason st. 223 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,000 Paul in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians chapter 6 verses 224 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,100 14 to 16 explains. Why what cocoa mixture. 225 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:28,000 This is the positive version. What color mixture has the light 226 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,600 with Darkness? There's no relationship. 227 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:34,000 Actually you know they say that there is no. because it's the, 228 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:40,700 it's the It's the absence of light. 229 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,800 What kind of Mischief mixture? Has the light with Darkness? 230 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,500 We are the children of light. What Concorde? 231 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:51,600 What agreement? What Harmony has the Messiah 232 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,700 Christ with Satan. When Christ was being tempted 233 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:58,900 for 40 days and 40 nights, only three Temptations have been 234 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:02,100 recorded. He was tempted for 40 days and 235 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:07,800 40 nights did Christ, sit down after 5:00, the Satan clocks off 236 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:09,300 her The cries coughs. Aah. 237 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:13,700 Coughs clocks off and they said and Converse and you know, have 238 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:17,200 a relation there is no relationship whatsoever with 239 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,900 Christ and with Satan or what part has a Believer with an 240 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:26,200 unbeliever or what agreement has the temple of God, which we are 241 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:32,100 with that of demons for you all children of God, Believers are 242 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:36,700 the Temple of the Living. God Our bodies are the Temple of 243 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:38,400 the Living. God the Holy Spirit. 244 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,300 As it is said, I will dwell among them. 245 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,800 When your parents brought you at an infant age and you were 246 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,000 baptized. All right. 247 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,800 We'll talk about infants baptisms. 248 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,400 Let's not jump the gun. We'll talk about that, but at an 249 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,400 infant age or bought brought to the church, your parents being 250 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,500 your garden. Guardians, your sponsors, why? 251 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:06,900 I'm sorry, not your Guardians. And those who are to make the 252 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:12,400 decisions for you. And you were baptized in the 253 00:17:12,407 --> 00:17:17,099 holy vessel of baptism. Three times, you're immersed in 254 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:19,900 water, in the name of the father of the son and of the Holy 255 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:24,200 Spirit, your temple received the Holy Spirit that body received 256 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,400 the Holy Spirit. Some say, well, how can children 257 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,900 receive the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit cannot work 258 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:34,200 through children. Please don't limit the power of 259 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,100 the Holy Spirit. That's blasphemy it is 260 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:41,300 blasphemy. When you limit God, when you 261 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,300 limit the father and the Son and the Holy Spirit to our 262 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:49,000 understanding Because I want to ask what moved those suckling 263 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,800 babies to cry out. Hosanna, it was the Holy Spirit. 264 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:57,800 So we our bodies have have received the Holy Spirit. 265 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,500 We are the temples of the Living God. 266 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:06,300 And as I said, we are all children of the light Children 267 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:09,200 of the day. We are not Children of the 268 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,000 Night, neither Children Of Darkness, 1 Thessalonians 5 5. 269 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:19,000 You know, it's like seeing a nun and a prostitute. 270 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:24,900 Commonly listen to my words commonly and casually 271 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:30,100 commingling notice I said commonly and casually not 272 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:35,500 implying intentionally purposefully with a vision and a 273 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:40,000 goal possibly to rescue to save and to bring light to life 274 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,200 through Jesus Christ to restore know. 275 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,300 But if it's commonly and casually and compromising Lee, 276 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:50,800 well, you know what, this is a child of God. 277 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,300 And who am I to judge? No, we do not judge beloved. 278 00:18:55,900 --> 00:18:59,100 We do not judge of our own accord. 279 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,900 We judge according to the Judgment of our Lord and our 280 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:03,800 Savior, Jesus Christ through the scriptures. 281 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:07,500 You know, Jesus says, do not judge but if you want to judge 282 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:13,700 righteously and what is, Right? Other words of God, which the 283 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:21,000 church for 2021 years has used as the base of the canons, the 284 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,300 scriptures Oh, but we are all children of God. 285 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:27,500 Some may be saying we're all children of God. 286 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:34,800 Well, as much as I'd love to agree emotionally and, you know, 287 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,200 feeling good. And I don't believe it's right 288 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,600 as much as I'd like to do this. Well, I can't because I'll be a 289 00:19:42,608 --> 00:19:45,300 hypocrite, then I will not be preaching. 290 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:50,800 The true scriptures scriptures refute that statement In 291 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:55,500 Galatians 3:26, we are children of God through our faith in 292 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:58,700 Jesus Christ. So let's reverse that if we do 293 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:03,500 not have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, are we then still the 294 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:06,000 children of God? No. 295 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:11,800 Yes we are all God's creation. God's amazing handiwork. 296 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:16,300 God's amazing wisdom. We are all God's creation, but 297 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:22,800 called to Salvation which means the adoption as children through 298 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:30,300 God's, the only begotten son, Our Lord and our Savior Jesus 299 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:34,400 Christ. But love has no boundaries. 300 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,500 Robbie Love is Blind. I can love me. 301 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:40,400 Blind. I think love is not blind. 302 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,300 I mean you know and when we speak about love we have to 303 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:45,500 ascertain. We have to we have to make a 304 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:47,400 distinction. Is that the true love we're 305 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,900 talking about? Is that the love that we are to 306 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:56,500 give to the god. The true God known only through 307 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:58,200 his son. Our Lord and our Savior Jesus 308 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,500 Christ. Is it the love that was 309 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:06,200 portrayed and taught and presented to mankind by Jesus 310 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,000 Christ who revealed to us too. Through God. 311 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,500 That's a question. We need to ask. 312 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:17,400 But what if someone you love someone with all your heart? 313 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,200 You know, I meet someone and I love this person and it is there 314 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,500 is so much love in the heart. So much love in the heart were 315 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:28,900 talking about Christians not joking with uh non-christians 316 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:31,300 Christians. Not yoking o Believers with 317 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,200 unbelievers and we were my thing I presented. 318 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,300 Plenty of scriptures. But what if I love someone with 319 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:43,300 all my heart? Well, the first requirement of 320 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:50,800 the great commandment is to love the Lord, your God, with all 321 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:58,000 your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, And when 322 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,100 you love it means you are faithful. 323 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,300 You are caring. You are compassionate when you 324 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:09,500 love your Bae but you do not compromise. 325 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:13,300 You cannot compromise. Let me give you an example of 326 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,400 the issues we have with, in marriages sometimes. 327 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:22,000 And you know, sometimes I'm quite explicit and I say it as 328 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,800 it is. So He who has ears, let him hear 329 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,500 here and he who does not like to hear these things. 330 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:33,500 Let him not here. We have. 331 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,200 Husbands and wives couples who have issues in their marriages. 332 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,000 And you know, I'm not going to mention any name. 333 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,800 So don't even wait for that. And this is not gossip. 334 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:54,500 This is generally speaking. we have marital problems and I 335 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,100 wouldn't, I can't put a percentage to it, but there are 336 00:22:57,108 --> 00:23:03,300 many times where The intimacy of a husband and wife, which is 337 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:09,600 blessed by God at times. It has been misused, for 338 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:15,000 example, the husband or the wife will say, well, you know what, 339 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Robbie, what my partner expects for me, when it comes to 340 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,500 intimacy, I can't. I it just it's not with it. 341 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,700 I just can't offer that. I can't provide that because 342 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:33,200 it's not Within me. And then the other panel say 343 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:38,300 well, where is love? Love has some limitations, love 344 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:44,300 has respect. Love, has honor, love has 345 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:50,300 reverence, and I'm going to say this Where there is true, 346 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:54,600 genuine love that is bound by Christ's love. 347 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:58,500 Even if in a relationship between a husband and a wife 348 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:02,800 which is the same relationship as the church and Christ. 349 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:08,100 When there is love then, and I'm sorry to say the husband should 350 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:12,700 not see his wife as an object to do. 351 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:15,300 Whatever. He pleases when it comes to 352 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,900 intimacy. No, there has got to be 353 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,700 agreement because in love His agreement. 354 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:26,200 There is harmony. So when we love God with all our 355 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,600 hearts and let's let's stop the all our heart. 356 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:34,200 Well the first thing that comes in my heart is the love of God 357 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:40,200 which means a baby ins Harmony respect reverence and God is 358 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,300 saying to me as it did to the to the Israelites that your love 359 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:51,500 should not what I shouldn't say. You love you should not mingle 360 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:55,600 or Or be yoked with an unbeliever who hasn't received 361 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,300 me through my son. Jesus Christ, you see the point 362 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,800 I'm trying to make, you know, this is how we don't need to go 363 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,700 deeper than this. This is how serious we need to 364 00:25:05,708 --> 00:25:11,200 be with our faith, not because today's society, and the norm, 365 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:16,200 and Hollywood, and liberalism, and capitalism, and isn't all 366 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,700 these you, no, no, no. We look at our Lord and our 367 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:23,300 Savior Jesus Christ, and the holy captures that he has left 368 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:26,900 for us. So if we truly love the Lord, 369 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:30,800 with all my heart and I love the Lord, with all my heart. 370 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:34,500 And I'm Excuse me, I want to have a relationship. 371 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:36,700 I want to have a partnership with someone. 372 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,700 Well then when I know that that person does not have the love of 373 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:45,500 God through Jesus Christ now. No despising, no murdering no, 374 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:49,700 giving up no riding off. Well, maybe the first thing that 375 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:52,000 I need to do is before I fall into that. 376 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,500 That deep love where, where I'll begin to compromise, Jesus 377 00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:59,600 Christ. Maybe I need to stop and think 378 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,900 and say well you know what, my first mission, maybe God's 379 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:07,700 putting me here is to introduce to save this Soul. 380 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:10,700 Even you know, when you many people come when they want to be 381 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:13,500 married and we speak about baptism on having I say, listen 382 00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:18,000 baptism is not only because I want to bless you is not. 383 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:22,400 I'm not baptizing you because to permit you to marry your Owner 384 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,600 even in in a 1 or 2 months time, you come back and say you know 385 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,300 what? Father don't worry about baptism 386 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:29,500 because we're not getting married. 387 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,200 No, I'll still pursue that because we're talking about the 388 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:37,200 soul, the salvation of the Soul. So if you truly love someone 389 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,100 and, you know, I'm I was swept off my feet of my feet, I truly 390 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:44,200 have emotions and I have love for this person. 391 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:46,400 The first thing you need to do is save the soul. 392 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:51,200 Regardless, whether this relationship will work out to 393 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,600 save the soul and BB D into God, John 14:15. 394 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,400 If you love me, you will obey my commandments. 395 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,700 So before you let your heart speak and move you, your 396 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:06,400 emotions, your feelings. Be sure that your heart is 397 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,300 spoken to and moved by God through the holy spirit. 398 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:17,200 Let me quote it again, and I should copyright this before you 399 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:22,800 let Heart speak and move. You be sure that you hear your 400 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,900 heart is spoken to and move by God through the Holy Spirit 401 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,300 don't compromise. We are not, we are not 402 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:36,900 permitted, we should not dare compromise the truth, the 403 00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:41,500 sacrifice of Christ don't exchange, the love of God 404 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:44,800 through Jesus Christ. His son on the Christ on the 405 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:52,000 cross for you and Entire world for the love of one who does not 406 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,900 believe does not worship and Obey and does not obey God 407 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,700 through his son. Jesus Christ. 408 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,300 Jesus said, I am the way the truth, the life. 409 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:08,200 No one comes unto my father but me, not marriage. 410 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:14,000 Not Valentine's Day. Not 10, long-stem roses and 411 00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:18,900 chocolates and teddy bears. And and my Art is over filled 412 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:21,600 with love. Jesus is the truth. 413 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:27,400 He is the love. Jesus, instructs and warns in 414 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:34,400 Matthew 10:37, he does, he that loves father the most treasured 415 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,700 person on Earth, father mother, the most loved and respected and 416 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:44,800 honored person on Earth. More than me is not worthy of 417 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:49,700 me. He that loves son and daughter. 418 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,000 More than me is not worthy of me is talking about father and 419 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Mother's Son and Daughter. How about when you love someone 420 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,600 more than God and in particular the unbelievers we're going to 421 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,800 take care of the Believers next week we're gonna give it. 422 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,600 We're going to give it to ourselves next next program but 423 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,500 this is what the scriptures are telling us. 424 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,200 Father, mother son daughter, not the knight in shining armor that 425 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,300 were waiting for. Not the blond hair and blue eyes 426 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,400 that we're waiting for. No, he's talking about flesh. 427 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,000 Blood. If we love more than Jesus 428 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,800 Christ, we are not worthy. Do you know why? 429 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:26,600 Because he loved you. And I more than he loved 430 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,100 himself, he laid down his life for you and I and we can't 431 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:34,700 compromise this because, oh, I feel loved now. 432 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:39,500 We got to be very careful. Again I'm not implying that no 433 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:43,600 conversation, is to take place at all with non-believers, you 434 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,300 know st. Paul says, if that's the case we 435 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:47,700 should be taken out of this world we should we all 436 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,500 Christians are going to go to Mars and we're going to all live 437 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:57,500 on mars or Jupiter or Pluto. No let's let's let's let's let's 438 00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:01,500 invent a new Outlets let's discover new planet anywhere. 439 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,900 No that's not what the scriptures are saying but we 440 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,800 have to be alert. Stand firm, 1 Corinthians 613 be 441 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,800 alert and stand firm in the faith. 442 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:21,200 Be Valiant be strong, not to compromise, but to always share, 443 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:26,500 share the love of Jesus Christ with the unbelievers, understand 444 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:30,400 the circumstances of the unbelievers. 445 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,100 Just because the circumstances I've been difficult in one's 446 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:39,400 life but that does not justify, not receiving the Lord and 447 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,500 Savior Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 448 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:48,900 So the only communication you want to call it. 449 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:53,000 The only relationship partnership between a Believer 450 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,100 and a non-believer should be based on the vision that the 451 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:59,800 believer wants to draw near to the unbeliever. 452 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,300 So that He or she can be drawn closer to the Lord and Savior 453 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:06,800 Jesus Christ. This is what the script Spirit 454 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,700 the scriptures are teaching us. So next week or next program 455 00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:13,800 we're going to talk about the Believers and see what Paul is 456 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:22,200 saying about a Believer Christian who is lukewarm or is 457 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,400 a stumbling block to another Christian, be it in a 458 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,400 relationship of a boyfriend and girlfriend or a husband and wife 459 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:35,000 or in a in a family. We've had a lot of lot of cases 460 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:42,200 where the wife has been quite spiritual, but the husband has 461 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,000 been nothing but a stumbling block. 462 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:51,800 Oh, vice versa, but we'll discuss that and I hope that we 463 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,100 truly honor and treasure and know the value of what it means 464 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:59,500 to be a Christian. What it means to have received 465 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:03,500 the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and what it actually means to 466 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:10,200 be called the children of God, not the creation of God. 467 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000 So the children of God are brothers and sisters and that's 468 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,300 why many times when I greet people, I actually say good 469 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,100 afternoon, good evening, good morning, Brothers and Sisters in 470 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:25,100 Christ and Friends. See friendship, there's no 471 00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:28,900 animosity but there is no compromise as well and I hope 472 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:33,800 that I've touched up on what you wanted to hear but not me but 473 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,200 the Holy Spirit and let us at all times. 474 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,600 Beloved glorify ascribe Glory. Praise. 475 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:46,400 Anna confession and worship to the father and the Son and the 476 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,700 Holy Spirit. Now not all times in forever. 477 00:32:49,300 --> 00:33:03,900 Amen. One last thing. 478 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:07,700 Please also don't forget to rate and review this podcast and 479 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:09,500 share with your friends and family. 480 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:13,200 If you'd like to suggest future episodes or give us detailed 481 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,100 feedback, please visit the link in the description or on our 482 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:23,100 Instagram link TR .t e. Double edged sword. 483 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,600 God bless you all.