1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,320 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:07,040 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,280 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of. 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,320 The world. And the life of all Give us 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,120 wisdom by your law, and enlighten our impulses by your 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,120 knowledge. Sanctify our souls by your 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,960 truth, and grant that we may be obedient to your words and may 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,960 fulfil your commandments at every hour. 9 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,160 O you. Who enlightens the rational with 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,280 the knowledge of Your greatness? Do enlight, O my Lord, our 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,840 thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and divine 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,560 Scriptures at all times, O Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy 13 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:41,440 Spirit. Forever. 14 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,960 risen indeed, He is risen. Resurrection, life and renewal 15 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:09,280 be upon you. My beloved brothers and sisters 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:14,200 in Christ, I pray that you celebrated a blessed and joyous 17 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,160 feast of the Resurrection of our Lord with your families, friends 18 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,680 and beloved ones, and that the blessing of the resurrection be 19 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,840 best out upon you and your families. 20 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,560 And for those who have lost loved ones in the past year or 21 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,440 so, this is the day where you take heart. 22 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,800 You become more confident, you lift up your heads and you stop 23 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,800 the weeping and the grumbling and the doubt and the sadness 24 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,880 and the hopelessness, and you proclaim that Christ is risen. 25 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,360 My beloved will rise and be resurrected. 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:55,280 I pray that you had an amazing time and that you attended the 27 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,360 services at the church. You partook in the all 28 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,600 sanctifying body and blood of our Lord and our Savior Jesus 29 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,120 Christ. What I want to do on this 30 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:10,880 episode is, you know, go through a recap of the Holy Week and you 31 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,360 know, and see what what happened, what we did during 32 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,840 these days that we gathered in the churches for various 33 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,520 services. We began with the Friday of the 34 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,520 40th, which is the Friday of the 40th day of the Lent. 35 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:32,480 Friday of the 40th is when the 40 days have concluded and then 36 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:37,640 we also commemorated on the same day the resurrection or the 37 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:42,280 rising from the dead of Lazarus by Christ our Lord, praise be to 38 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,280 His name. And we had the Eucharistic 39 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,920 service. Then we gathered on Palm Sunday 40 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:56,320 or the Sunday of the Hosannas, and we celebrated that in a very 41 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:01,200 joyous manner and with chantings and and processionals. 42 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,200 Then we gathered one more time on the Thursday of the Passover 43 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:13,560 or Thursday of Pasca Pasca. And we also partook in the 44 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:19,840 Mystical Supper, not the Last Supper, but the Mystical Supper 45 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:26,760 that Christ instituted on the Thursday of Pasca or Passover. 46 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,800 Pasca we one more time gathered on Friday of the Passion of our 47 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,320 Lord. And we carried the cross, and we 48 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:40,640 covered the crosses with black cloth, and we commemorated the 49 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,680 Passion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ again with a 50 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,320 processional. Thursday of the Light was all 51 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,240 silent, but there are services. And then we gathered on Sunday, 52 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,320 you know. Our service of. 53 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,800 The Thursday of the light, beginning with the vigil in the 54 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,000 evening, extended into the Sunday of the resurrection. 55 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,920 So let's go back and have a look at these individually. 56 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:13,160 Friday of the 40th for 40 days, but we extended, obviously we 57 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,480 fast for 49 days so that our Lent, our far lentil period, or 58 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,120 our fast concludes on the Sunday of the resurrection. 59 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,920 But during those 40 days we we commemorated or we reminded that 60 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,360 we strived to join in the fast of our Lord. 61 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,640 Everything the Lord, the Lord did we do. 62 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:40,520 We have a part in his baptism, his prayer, his death, his 63 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:45,280 resurrection, his fasting, his love, his peace, his charity. 64 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:50,120 We must all have a physical relationship and participation 65 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,120 in. So we strive to during those 40 66 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,120 days. We strive. 67 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,280 We tried our best to join in the fast of our Lord and we spoke, I 68 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,160 think there was 5 episodes on Lent. 69 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,560 We we strive to humble ourselves. 70 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,240 We strived to bend our necks like a bow in shame because of 71 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:19,800 our sins and trespassers, and we laid down on sackcloth again and 72 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:25,080 ashes, metaphorically speaking, meaning that in sorrow, in 73 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:32,880 mourning over our sins, we didn't dance, we didn't drink 74 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,640 alcohol, we didn't hang out. We will more to ourselves 75 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,600 according to Isaiah chapter 58, as the Lord commands the fasting 76 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:50,000 to be on the 40th and for the 40th day, we strive to release 77 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,840 the bonds of evil again. Isaiah 58 cut off the burdens of 78 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,960 deceit, release the oppressed to liberty, and cut off all 79 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,200 burdens, all the burdens of the world of our sins, our our 80 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,200 foolishness, our stupidity, our stiff neckedness. 81 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:10,880 We strive. We tried our best to put those 82 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,520 all the way. We strive to break our bread 83 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,000 with the hungry by feeding the homeless and the hungry and 84 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,440 maybe even sheltered the the strangers. 85 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,800 Put them up in a hotel or a motel. 86 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:31,960 We strive to strive to cover the naked, those who are homeless, 87 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,560 with war, with torn clothes and shaggy clothes. 88 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,560 We tried to maybe some of them even in in nakedness. 89 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:45,120 We tried our best to find them and to clothe them. 90 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:50,200 We tried not to turn away or neglect the son of our body that 91 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,000 is fellow mankind. Isaiah chapter 55. 92 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,920 We tried to do that while abstaining from the meat factor. 93 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,960 We've spoken about that As for Lazarus has been commemorating 94 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,240 the resurrection of the Lazarus. We became witnesses to his 95 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:15,920 resurrection after being dead and decayed, putrefied for four 96 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:21,880 days, and this as evidence and preparing us for the 97 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,800 resurrection on the third day of our Lord. 98 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:32,800 He who resurrected Lazarus after being dead for four days, His 99 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,520 divinity, which was with him in the grave, His divinity 100 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,360 resurrected him on the third day. 101 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,360 So there's no questions. There's no doubt. 102 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,040 If we doubt, how can someone be resurrected on the third? 103 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,200 Because the critiques we're doubting, we come back and reply 104 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,120 and say, well, the same person that you're doubting resurrected 105 00:07:53,840 --> 00:08:00,880 a dead corpse after four days. And during this time, we 106 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:06,680 resurrected our dead physical state as well, with Jesus Christ 107 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,000 hand in hand with our fasting and praying, scripture reading, 108 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,400 attending church on Palm Sunday, Sunday of the hosannas. 109 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:22,760 On this day, we too accepted Jesus as our King of Kings and 110 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:29,280 Lord of Lords. We proclaimed, we confirmed, and 111 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,679 we confirmed that He is the promised Messiah. 112 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,720 We sent him off to a battle, as the kings would go off to a 113 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,640 battle chanting Hosanna. That means salvation, save we 114 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,200 saw him off to go and conquer death once and for all. 115 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:54,680 Death putting to shame Satan and nullifying the power of sin. 116 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,600 This is on the Sunday of the Hosanna's salvation. 117 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,920 We too did the same, beloved, in Christ, just as the infants and 118 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:11,800 the sucklings in Jerusalem on the first day of the Pascha, 119 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,840 Passover and the Mystical Supper we began. 120 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:22,440 We became witnesses to the truth, beloved, that Jesus is 121 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,320 the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world as 122 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,640 proclaimed by John the Baptist in John 129. 123 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,240 We became witnesses to this one more time. 124 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,960 We replenished one of the sacraments of the Assyrian 125 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,480 Church of the East and it's only found in the Assyrian Church of 126 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:49,280 the East. Now other churches may still 127 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:55,000 have something that is similar, but in place of the Holy Leaven 128 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,840 being a sacrament, it may have been substituted by another 129 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,080 sacrament. But within the Assyrian Church 130 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,840 of the East, the Holy Leaven, the Malika, the king, is a 131 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,520 sacrament. We replenish that because it was 132 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:13,280 instituted on the Sunday, Thursday of Pasca. 133 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,760 As for the Mystical Supper, not the Last Supper, correct, people 134 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:24,360 who call it the Last Supper. It cannot be the Last Supper, 135 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,840 beloved, and I you know it. It astonishes me when we see 136 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,600 some clergy, priests from various churches, various 137 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,360 Apostolic churches, celebrating the Mystical Supper, taking 138 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,560 bread, breaking, and yet calling it the Last Supper. 139 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,720 Why are you doing celebrating? It was the last one. 140 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,600 It's done, it's finished. No, it's not. 141 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,480 It was a mystical supper. Mystical meaning there is a work 142 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,680 of the Holy Spirit. There is an outward expression 143 00:10:52,680 --> 00:11:01,520 of an inward act of God, if we may say in this sacrament at the 144 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:06,120 Mystical supper instituted by Jesus Christ, we not only became 145 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:12,880 witnesses, but also partakers in the presentation and declaration 146 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,120 of Jesus being the Lamb of God, of the New covenant. 147 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:24,760 The Lamb of the New Covenant and offered his own body in a form 148 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,000 of a bread. We learned, we became witnesses 149 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,720 that he truly is the bread that came down from heaven in place 150 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,960 of the man. Now let's go back when Abraham 151 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,760 took his son Isaac to the mountain to offer him as a 152 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,520 sacrifice according to God's commandment, there was a lamb 153 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,640 that was stuck in the tree, and that lamb prefigured the Lord 154 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,280 and Savior Jesus Christ. We witnessed and we confirmed 155 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,520 and we praised him and called him and accepted him as truly 156 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:04,040 the Lamb of God, the Lamb. So that lamb was prefigured, was 157 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,120 a shadow and was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. 158 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,160 Manna was a prefiguring or a shadow of the bread. 159 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:20,320 That Jesus is, not, was, is, and forever will be on Thursday of 160 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,520 pasta and the Mystical Supper. During the Mystical Supper we 161 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:35,480 learned that we must, must, must partake in the actual physical 162 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,440 consumption eating of this bread. 163 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,400 Not just believe, not just praise and sing hallelujahs. 164 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:49,600 No, no, no, to physically consume this bread and not just 165 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,440 once a year can eat, break bread and drink a glass of wine and 166 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,680 proclaim that we have commemorated the last. 167 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,880 Well, maybe that is the last of it because the, the, the, the 168 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:05,360 service is not a sacrament, but we call it the mystical, the 169 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,080 Assyrian Church of these and the Apostolic churches know it as 170 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,440 the mystical summer because it is still in communion with what 171 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:17,000 Jesus did on that Thursday. We must consume this bread, 172 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:25,720 being indeed, indeed, indeed communion joined united with his 173 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,600 body in the Kingdom of heaven. 1 Corinthians 10/16 I'm giving you 174 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,320 evidence. I'm giving you scripture 175 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,240 evidences and scripture references, not just sitting 176 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,840 here and talking my thoughts and, and you know, complaining 177 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,680 about what this person said and what that person said and not 178 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,400 giving you an alternative. No, no, no, no one. 179 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:50,040 Corinthians 10/16 If we wish to remain in Him and He in US, we 180 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:56,760 must partake, physically consume the body in the form of bread, 181 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,560 which is the real presence of Jesus Christ according to one 182 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:04,920 Corinthians 1016. If you wish to remain in Him and 183 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,200 He in US, possessing life in our souls. 184 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:15,560 John 656 He who eats my body and drinks my blood remains in me, 185 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,920 remains abides in me. John 656 Not Jennard, his own 186 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,240 thoughts. No, no, no. 187 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,560 John 653 If you do not eat the body of the Son of Man and drink 188 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,080 his blood, you have no life in yourself. 189 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,480 This we were witness to on the Mystical Supper on Thursday of 190 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,360 the Pasca Pasca. It's still not over yet. 191 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:45,240 We imaged the humility of Christ our Lord by washing the feed as 192 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,400 He commanded his disciple John 1314. 193 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,440 But then He's disciples then by the authority vested in them, 194 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:57,080 given to them by Christ, then commanded that we too must wash 195 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,400 each others feet. That means be ready to serve. 196 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:07,040 We became witnesses to our Lord, surrendering himself guiltlessly 197 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,480 on Thursday of Passover. Pasca surrendering himself not 198 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,560 captured. Yes, they laid hands on him, but 199 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:19,440 He surrendered Himself guiltlessly, sinlessly to his 200 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,000 capturers because his time had come. 201 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,520 He gave himself up. They didn't capture Jesus 202 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,760 Christ. We say it, we, we sing it. 203 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,480 They captured our Lord Christ. We, we, we sing it. 204 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,040 But he, he gave himself up to be captured. 205 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:41,280 We witnessed the hatred and resentment towards Christ by his 206 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,080 enemies. This we witness at a greater 207 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,240 scale, beloved today, oh, how the world hates Jesus Christ, 208 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,240 how the secular world hates Jesus Christ. 209 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,560 And you know what, How the spiritual world world and 210 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,160 christen them to those who claim that they love Jesus Christ, 211 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,640 those who claim that they are Christians, yet they hate him by 212 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:09,920 their words, deeds and actions. Calling black, white, white, 213 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,240 black, calling good, evil and evil good. 214 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:14,280 And I'm not going to get into that. 215 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,600 I've done it. I've done many times. 216 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,440 We witnessed the rebuking of Simon by Christ, Simon, Simon, 217 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,840 relax, don't say no to me. And as I said in the English 218 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:38,840 segment, if a person or family or community or a society or a 219 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,960 call from I'm not sure who's calling. 220 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,200 Steven, I told you, don't touch. I I know how to let's keep 221 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:50,120 going. It's OK if a person, a family, a 222 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:58,520 community, a society, a nation, a church says no to Jesus, that 223 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,520 person, that family, that community, that society, that 224 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,079 nation, that church will be destructed, will be rebuked. 225 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:14,760 Because when Jesus said one of you will you, they, one of you 226 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:20,599 will deliver me, betray me and you will all fleet, No Lord, not 227 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:22,720 me. Don't ever say no to Jesus 228 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,520 Christ, never. Because if you do, you will be 229 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,600 rebuked and you will be proven wrong. 230 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,800 You will, you will have eggs on your faces, but the Lord will be 231 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,920 always ready to receive you back one more time to reinstate you 232 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,520 when you repent. We witness the abandonment of 233 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:45,040 His disciple by His disciples. We witnessed the gracious 234 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,520 compassion. This is all the first day of 235 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,680 Passover. We witnessed the gracious 236 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,240 compassion of our Lord to His capturers. 237 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:58,840 Malchus, the high priest servant whose ear Simon took off with 238 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,200 the sword. Jesus healed it and again said 239 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:07,120 to Simon, Simon, Simon, oh Simon, you, you shoot from the 240 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:08,720 hip. You, you know, you're quick to 241 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,080 react. Do you not know that if I ask my 242 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:16,640 Father, you know, and you know I'm going to dare to extend. 243 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,440 Didn't even need to ask his father for angels didn't need 244 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,960 the Angel to come and defend him. 245 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,040 He could've, he could've, he could've blown them to misery, 246 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,240 blown them away, but he didn't for this I have come Simon. 247 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,440 So don't we learnt all these we gave witnesses. 248 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,040 So when when you're hated and again, going back to what I 249 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:44,560 said, the world hates Jesus. We shouldn't be surprised. 250 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,720 We shouldn't have to go out there and hold placards. 251 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,040 And you know, no, we don't do that. 252 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,360 We just pray for these people because they're doing nothing 253 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,840 for the the you know, they're only hurting themselves. 254 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,760 Beloved, those who oppose Jesus Christ are only hurting 255 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,200 themselves. Christ is not moved. 256 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,840 Christ is still asleep in that boat where the boat is rocked by 257 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:14,280 the ocean and the and the storm. Christ is still in peace and 258 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,880 calm, sitting on the right hand of righteousness and reigning 259 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,640 from heaven on earth. Our Lord is a awesome God who 260 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,200 reigns from heaven on earth. Right, we sing, and yet He is 261 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,920 always ready to receive those who hate and resent Him. 262 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:36,560 We just need to pray for them. We witness betrayal, bamboozle, 263 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:42,680 bogus broken promises by His disciples and Simon encountered 264 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,080 by Jesus Christ. We witness the foolishness, the 265 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,040 carelessness, the stupidity extended from hatred and 266 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:56,440 jealousy and pride by the Jewish people who said, and to date, to 267 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:02,560 date until this very moment, this is binding His blood be 268 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,040 upon us and our children, beloved. 269 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,920 And no Pope, no patriarch, no Bishop, no church can remove 270 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,240 that. Unless Christ himself and you 271 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:18,520 know Saint Paul writes it so beautifully that if they stop 272 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:23,880 from their non believe they accept Jesus Christ as their 273 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:29,320 Lord and their Saviour and ask for forgiveness and proclaim 274 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,120 that they have sinned on in heaven and earth before him. 275 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,120 Yes, they will be one more time grafted, but they will be 276 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:40,240 received, and that curse that they put upon themselves, that 277 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,880 will be removed. Then we come on Friday of the 278 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,840 passion of our Lord. We carried His cross and we 279 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,080 wept, not so much for Him, but for ourselves, beloved, our 280 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:56,240 stiff neckedness, our selfishness, our pride, our 281 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,320 disobedience, our evil immorality, our abomination for 282 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:08,960 which Christ was crucified. For as I always say, we shed 283 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,160 some crocodile tears. And on this day we witness 284 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:18,040 Caiaphas counselling and being heard, Hannah accusing and the 285 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,720 scribes were so excited. Oh yes, yes, yes, we're going to 286 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,560 put this man to death. It took us three years, but 287 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,480 we're doing it now. Pilot sitting on his throne and 288 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:33,040 our Lord clinging to the column. Andrew fleeing. 289 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,120 John is missing. We witnessed Thomas hiding, 290 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:42,880 Jacob astonished, and the full disciples, all the disciples 291 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:49,960 away in every side. Simon still stayed from far off, 292 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,800 but he's going to drop the ball again, as Christ has said. 293 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:59,840 We ourselves departed those who take Friday of the Passion 294 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:06,280 seriously and not make it a selfie opportunity and standing 295 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,120 in the cross of our Lord with a duck lips and crossed legs and 296 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,200 to pose to show that hey, I went to church, it's Good Friday. 297 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,000 But look at me, this is my glamour. 298 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,160 I despise, despise. And you know, if you don't want 299 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,120 to listen to these programs, God bless you. 300 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,200 I'll pray that the Lord will deliver you from Satan. 301 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,520 No, no, no, no, no. I'm telling you, I'm speaking 302 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,240 the truth, beloved. We see it. 303 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,200 You see it. You complain to me. 304 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,200 It's it's the Friday of the passion. 305 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,640 There should be no make up. There should be sackcloth. 306 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,720 We'll commemorate Jesus died for our sins. 307 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,680 Not not selfies. And as I, as I, as I described 308 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,480 those selfies. No, no, no, we go away, departed 309 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,280 to our homes, dismayed, disarrayed, disappointed, 310 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,240 dumbfounded, dreadful, doubtful. Yes, Christ is risen, Amen, 311 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,720 praise to his name. But because of our sins, that's 312 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,280 why we feel that remorse. He is in heaven. 313 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,960 We chanted awake, O Son of blessings, sons of blessings, 314 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:15,280 Sham and Japheth, who are filled with modesty and covered the 315 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,840 nakedness of their father while he lay asleep in his slumber. 316 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,360 Now listen, listen, I've mentioned many times that the 317 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:27,760 Father's right that Christ was naked on the on the cross. 318 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,040 Listen to what we say. Lo, the splendid moon and light 319 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,800 is clothed with sorrowful darkness, that they may not see 320 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,520 their Lord. This our Lord was crucified 321 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,520 disgracefully, but in His humanity, His divinity being 322 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:52,400 with Him, not even at the blink of the eye did His divinity 323 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,080 depart from Him. No, but all of the misery and 324 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,880 the sorrow and the pain and the suffering were experienced in 325 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:07,960 His humanity as His Holiness was proclaiming in His Easter 326 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,040 epistle. Then came Saturday of light, all 327 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,480 quiet at the Western Front, right? 328 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,560 But the Lord was not quiet. He was in Shoal, not hell. 329 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,320 Jesus didn't go to hell. When you hear someone give you a 330 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:30,720 testimony that Jesus took me to hell and then took me to heaven, 331 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:37,200 well, no one has seen heaven. So then Saint Paul's words that 332 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,400 no one has seen or heard an Alpha because Jesus took you to 333 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,360 heaven and you're selling your books for a million. 334 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,400 You've made millions of dollars. You know what? 335 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,480 Do away with these false prophets. 336 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,920 Do away with them. Jesus didn't go to hell. 337 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,080 You know why? Why do you think Jesus didn't go 338 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:02,040 to hell? I'll give you 5 seconds 54321 339 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,800 Why? Because Matthew 2541 Hell is 340 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,360 prepared for the devil and for his angels, not for Jesus. 341 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:14,960 Leslie, he went to show which is the grave, let's say in death. 342 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,440 And as His Holiness writes in his epistle, he descended into 343 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,960 Shoal, wherein he proclaimed life to the souls who were 344 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,280 captured in darkness of the grave and awaiting the arrival 345 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,040 of the Savior of all creation. According His Holiness is 346 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:39,520 quoting one Peter 319, not hell. Then came the day. 347 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,720 Not D-Day. The day, the day that there has 348 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,880 never been, is never happening and will never be. 349 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:55,600 The day when Caiphus was shame, ashamed, Hannah was put to 350 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,440 shame, Judas was strangled, money was rejected. 351 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,400 The 30 pieces of silver, the scribes not speaking, 352 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:11,480 dumbfounded Stump quiet, steep, the head of the synagogue, 353 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,960 synagogues covering their faces in shame. 354 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,720 What happened? The Levites blaming each other, 355 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,960 Pilot wondering, the agitators. And this is from the 356 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,360 proclamation we present during before the service at Easter. 357 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,000 Easter Eve. The agitators and soldiers 358 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,760 nowhere to be found. And the assembly of the wolves. 359 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,560 No more crying ow, scattered with their tails between their 360 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,320 feet. The shepherd speaking with the 361 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:47,760 sheep and the flock spelling he's scent and becoming warm. 362 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:52,520 We heard his voice. Where did he hear his voice the 363 00:26:52,520 --> 00:27:00,720 first time when he said Mary? Mary, his mother exalts, is 364 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,280 victorious. Shalom. 365 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,880 Shalom is joyous Magdalene carrying the gospel of peace. 366 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,400 He is resurrected, He is risen. I saw him, the disciples raising 367 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,280 their heads one more time. What? 368 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:18,240 Raising their heads because it was hung in shame and doubt. 369 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,120 The apostles coming out of hiding. 370 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,040 Simon and John running to the sepulchre. 371 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,520 Matthew and Bartholomew exalting in their joy, high fiving fist 372 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,120 pumping each other. Andrew and Jacob forgetting 373 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:36,760 their afflictions. Thomas confessing my listen, 374 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,040 listen, stop, stop everything. Listen to this. 375 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,760 Listen. Thomas confessing my Lord and my 376 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:50,160 God, our Jehovah's Witness friends, William Smith I don't 377 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,600 know who what his name is. Smith was it Billy Smith, 378 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:59,560 William Smith Heresy, heresy, my Lord and my God. 379 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,440 And Jesus one more time accepted it and he returned his reply and 380 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,640 said, now that you see me, you believe that I am your Lord, 381 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:11,320 that I am your God. Jesus is God, everyone wherever 382 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,920 you are, cry out. Praise be to his name. 383 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,960 Jesus is resurrected, praise be to his name. 384 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,760 Pilot praising sigh of religion. So he's resurrected. 385 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,480 I didn't want to crucify him, but these people are stiff neck 386 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,680 as they are today. The way of the sepulchre 387 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:32,760 resounding and that of Golgotha being deserted tumbleweeds 388 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,320 because the tomb is empty. Weeping, crossing over to the 389 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,960 left. That is evil, but consolation 390 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:49,120 rising from the right, righteousness receiving 391 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:54,120 consolation, hope, the door of the sepulchre becoming the bed 392 00:28:54,120 --> 00:29:00,480 chamber, the bridal Chamber of the one that is killed. 393 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,280 We all looked death in the face and said this is on Sunday. 394 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:12,600 Oh death, where is your sting? Oh sure, where is your victory 395 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,000 on this day? Beloved, we proclaim Christ is 396 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,840 risen. Indeed, He is risen on this day. 397 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:27,240 We promise that having fasted, having witnessed all these 398 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,800 events in the life of Jesus Christ, that last week of his 399 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,840 life, we promise and we pray that Lord help us to remain in 400 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,760 this victory, in this holiness. And you know what's going to 401 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,480 happen, and it's probably already happening that we have 402 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:49,720 one more time returned to our sins just as a dog returns to 403 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,800 his vomit. But this gracious, resurrected, 404 00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:01,400 risen Lord is always ready to one more time reinstate, one 405 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:07,320 more time on the day of the resurrection we all proclaimed 406 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,560 Christ is risen. Indeed, He is risen. 407 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,640 Praise and glory be to his name, now and at all times and 408 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,200 forever. Amen. 409 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,520 Please don't forget to rate and review this podcast and share 410 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:45,720 with your friends and family. We hope you enjoyed this week's 411 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:52,280 message. The For any future topic 412 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,400 suggestions or to give us detailed feedback, please visit 413 00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:00,720 our link in the show notes linktr dot EE forward slash 414 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,680 double edged sword. Until next time, God bless you 415 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,000 all.