1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,120 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:04,440 Spirit forever. Amen. 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,200 Glory be to the everlasting mercies which sent you to us, O 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,840 Christ, the light of the world and the life of all. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,960 Give us wisdom by your law and enlighten our impulses by your 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,920 knowledge. Sanctify our souls by your 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,800 truth, and grant that we may be obedient to your words and may 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,760 fulfill your commandments at every hour. 9 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,040 Oh you who enlightens the rational with the knowledge of 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:33,880 your greatness, do enlight, O my Lord, our thoughts that we may 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,240 meditate upon your holy and divine scriptures at all times, 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,320 O Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:01:06,000 Amen. As committed, true, and genuine 14 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,280 believers of the Lord, we take heart and are joyous of the 15 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:17,360 truth that God hears all things, sees all things, not only what 16 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:22,460 has been done and said, what is evident, but also all that is in 17 00:01:22,460 --> 00:01:27,380 the heart and in the depth of the soul. 4 According to Hebrews 18 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:31,980 chapter 4, verse 12, He God praises name, is quick to 19 00:01:31,980 --> 00:01:35,100 discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. 20 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:41,220 So we take heart and we boast about the Omni characteristics 21 00:01:41,220 --> 00:01:45,180 of God, the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresence. 22 00:01:46,410 --> 00:01:50,970 But there is another reaction, another response, another 23 00:01:50,970 --> 00:01:57,250 emotion that we are instructed to possess in order to live in 24 00:01:57,250 --> 00:02:00,010 the Lord God, Jesus Christ. We're going to talk about what 25 00:02:00,010 --> 00:02:04,210 it means to live the how we how the Scriptures and Christ 26 00:02:04,210 --> 00:02:11,600 himself instructs we can live in Him, our Lord and God, Jesus 27 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,960 Christ. And that emotion, that reaction, 28 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,640 that response is fear and trembling. 29 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,720 We sing during the presentation of the gifts of bread and wine 30 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,160 to the altar in the Divine Liturgy of Holy Urbana. 31 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:34,000 We sing the body of Christ and His Precious Blood, that which 32 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,160 is going to be crucified by the way, not the resurrected one at 33 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,800 that time. It is the crucified body. 34 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,360 The body of Christ and His Precious Blood are up on the 35 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,640 Holy altar. Let us all drown into Him in 36 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:53,080 fear and in love. Poredam she Howard Mayor Al 37 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:59,800 Madva Kocha de Kaltao Rehamza de Kalta wo Rehamta, In fear and in 38 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,240 love. Let us drawn into him in Luke, 39 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:09,510 chapter one, verse 50, in the song the Magnificat of the ever 40 00:03:09,510 --> 00:03:12,750 Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ, our Lord God, she 41 00:03:12,750 --> 00:03:18,230 proclaims, and his mercy is to generation after generation 42 00:03:18,470 --> 00:03:25,390 toward those who fear him. Saint Paul the blessed apostle 43 00:03:25,390 --> 00:03:28,990 writes and warns the Hebrews 10/31. 44 00:03:29,270 --> 00:03:35,680 It is with terrible, awful, feeful I'm sorry. 45 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:41,080 It is very terrible, that is awful feeful to fall into the 46 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:47,520 hands of the living God. Hence he instructs the 47 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,240 Philippians in chapter 2, verse 12 after his discourse on being 48 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,120 like Christ, who humbled himself by becoming obedient to the 49 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,440 point of death, death on a cross. 50 00:04:02,090 --> 00:04:05,810 And he goes on to say, my beloved, just as you have always 51 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:10,450 obeyed, not as in my presence, only, not only when I'm with 52 00:04:10,450 --> 00:04:13,090 you, but now much more in my absence. 53 00:04:13,690 --> 00:04:19,610 Listen to this, Work out your own life translated to salvation 54 00:04:19,610 --> 00:04:23,970 in the English version. But the true word is your life, 55 00:04:23,970 --> 00:04:25,570 and we're going to talk about that as well. 56 00:04:26,010 --> 00:04:34,890 Work out your own life with fear and trembling, and that is your 57 00:04:34,890 --> 00:04:41,690 life in Jesus Christ. So knowing, believing and 58 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:46,090 confessing that God hears all things, sees all things, not 59 00:04:46,090 --> 00:04:49,130 only what is being done and said, but also all that is in 60 00:04:49,130 --> 00:04:53,690 the heart and in the depth of the soul, we need to be somewhat 61 00:04:53,770 --> 00:04:59,610 concerned. Now some may say fear does not 62 00:04:59,650 --> 00:05:03,930 actually pertain to an emotion that is in tremble. 63 00:05:04,010 --> 00:05:05,410 Well we're going to have a talk about that. 64 00:05:06,050 --> 00:05:10,450 Fear can be two aspects, yes. One aspect is the reverence. 65 00:05:10,890 --> 00:05:15,610 We Revere demon Alaha in reverence. 66 00:05:15,850 --> 00:05:20,810 Not that God will punish me. But then through the scriptures 67 00:05:20,810 --> 00:05:26,050 we learned that, yeah, we need to also fear God and His wrath 68 00:05:26,650 --> 00:05:33,090 because it is truly harmful when the Lord releases His wrath. 69 00:05:35,690 --> 00:05:42,530 So we need to be concerned, beloved, which means prior to 70 00:05:42,530 --> 00:05:47,570 making the decision or taking that step or going forward 71 00:05:47,690 --> 00:05:52,370 acting upon our own knowledge and understanding our own 72 00:05:52,370 --> 00:05:57,730 philosophy and look upon life and all that pertains to it, 73 00:05:57,730 --> 00:06:00,290 that is life. We need to know that it will 74 00:06:00,290 --> 00:06:07,130 most certainly affect our life with in through Christ, which 75 00:06:07,130 --> 00:06:11,970 will even more so affect our salvation on the day of His 76 00:06:11,970 --> 00:06:16,010 return, whether positively or negatively. 77 00:06:17,730 --> 00:06:23,050 Now if we take Philippians chapter 2, verse 12 with extreme 78 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:28,490 seriousness, we should be disposing, getting rid of, 79 00:06:28,490 --> 00:06:33,850 riding ourselves of evil. We should be striving to not to 80 00:06:33,850 --> 00:06:41,730 do or say or imagine anything that is evil that is in our life 81 00:06:41,970 --> 00:06:46,930 with Christ, in Christ, through Christ, because God and God 82 00:06:46,930 --> 00:06:52,450 alone knows the hearts of all the sons of men according to One 83 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:57,530 Kings Chapter 8, verse 39. Read it now you may be saying. 84 00:06:57,530 --> 00:07:04,130 Hang on, hang on, hang on. I'm going to join King David in 85 00:07:04,130 --> 00:07:09,850 saying the Lord is the Lord. God is my light and my 86 00:07:09,850 --> 00:07:13,290 salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid? 87 00:07:13,970 --> 00:07:16,810 The Lord God is the strength of my life. 88 00:07:17,380 --> 00:07:19,420 By whom am I shaking? True. 89 00:07:19,420 --> 00:07:23,100 Psalm 27 One so true. But that is true when you are 90 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:28,020 living a life in with through, and I'm going to define this 91 00:07:28,140 --> 00:07:31,220 with one word. It's true When you are living a 92 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:35,540 life in, with and through Christ that is appeasing to him and not 93 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:40,580 to the world, then you can rightly so claim Psalm 27 one 94 00:07:40,780 --> 00:07:43,340 and join King David in proclaiming that. 95 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:47,980 However, we must keep in mind that there are instructions as 96 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:53,740 to how we can remain in living or life in Christ. 97 00:07:55,460 --> 00:07:59,660 Some will say off the bat, faith, Amen first and foremost. 98 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:01,820 But there's a there is an equation. 99 00:08:01,820 --> 00:08:03,500 We're going to have a look at that as well. 100 00:08:04,420 --> 00:08:07,540 I'm going to concentrate on what Jesus is talking about and what 101 00:08:07,580 --> 00:08:12,500 Jesus instructs about the Holy Eucharist because that really 102 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:18,700 pertains a life abiding, remaining, waiting in Christ. 103 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:20,940 And that is the life Saint Paul is talking about. 104 00:08:21,060 --> 00:08:24,300 The lives of Christians is not just merely the life in the 105 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:26,140 world. No, he's talking about the life 106 00:08:26,140 --> 00:08:28,860 that we have received in abundance through Jesus Christ. 107 00:08:29,180 --> 00:08:30,700 Praise and glory between his name. 108 00:08:31,460 --> 00:08:33,659 John chapter 6. And this is where we need to be 109 00:08:33,659 --> 00:08:37,820 fearful, We need to be trembling, we need to Revere 110 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:42,380 both aspects. John chapter 6, verse 53 to 58 111 00:08:42,419 --> 00:08:46,310 Jesus tells us truly, truly, you know the word is I mean, I mean 112 00:08:46,310 --> 00:08:49,910 in Aramaic that means yes. You know when Mum would say yes. 113 00:08:49,910 --> 00:08:54,590 I'm telling you it's like Jesus saying yes, yes. 114 00:08:54,930 --> 00:08:58,570 Not for negotiation, not for compromising. 115 00:08:58,770 --> 00:09:02,170 Yes, yes. I say to you, unless you eat the 116 00:09:02,170 --> 00:09:06,050 flesh of the man, Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no 117 00:09:06,050 --> 00:09:08,170 life in yourself. What life? 118 00:09:08,330 --> 00:09:09,930 There are people who don't believe in God. 119 00:09:09,930 --> 00:09:13,490 There are people who do not observe the the, the, the Holy 120 00:09:13,490 --> 00:09:16,180 Eucharist. There are people who mock the 121 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:19,500 Holy Eucharist, symbolize the Holy Eucharist. 122 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:21,500 Do they not live in the world? Of course they do. 123 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:23,340 So what life is Jesus talking about? 124 00:09:23,460 --> 00:09:25,380 That life that we receive from Him? 125 00:09:25,540 --> 00:09:27,700 Let me read it again. Yes, yes. 126 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:30,300 I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and 127 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,460 drink his blood, you have no life in yourself. 128 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:37,420 The one or whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal 129 00:09:37,420 --> 00:09:41,460 life and I will raise him up on the last day. 130 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:49,250 Now for those who translate or interpret eating as believing, 131 00:09:49,330 --> 00:09:53,130 well, Jesus puts a throws the spanner in the works. 132 00:09:53,610 --> 00:09:58,210 He continues to say, for my flesh he's truly food and my 133 00:09:58,210 --> 00:10:03,530 blood is truly drink. The one who eats my flesh listen 134 00:10:03,530 --> 00:10:06,330 to this. The one who eats my flesh and 135 00:10:06,330 --> 00:10:09,530 drinks my blood remains in me. There is that life. 136 00:10:09,850 --> 00:10:13,690 So if you do not drink the flesh of Christ and drink eat the 137 00:10:13,690 --> 00:10:16,410 flesh of Christ and drink his blood, you're not remaining. 138 00:10:16,410 --> 00:10:22,030 Therefore you do not have life and I in him just as the living 139 00:10:22,030 --> 00:10:24,790 Father there it is life The living Father sent me, and I 140 00:10:24,790 --> 00:10:28,070 live because of the Father, the one who eats me. 141 00:10:28,310 --> 00:10:32,350 He also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down 142 00:10:32,350 --> 00:10:34,710 from heaven. Now there is objective, there is 143 00:10:34,710 --> 00:10:37,310 the objectiveness, there's a, there's an object, there's there 144 00:10:37,310 --> 00:10:40,350 is manna. This is the bread that came down 145 00:10:40,350 --> 00:10:43,270 from heaven, Not as the fathers ate and died. 146 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,920 The one who eats this bread will live forever. 147 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,760 Which bread was that beloved? Which bread? 148 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,600 Think about it. Go back to the Mystical Supper. 149 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,560 Not the Last Supper. The Mystical Supper. 150 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:03,640 Jesus took bread and he claimed, this is my body. 151 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,520 So all this time I've been telling you to eat my flesh. 152 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,770 Eat my body. And some of you left me because 153 00:11:10,770 --> 00:11:12,690 you thought. You thought that this is very 154 00:11:12,690 --> 00:11:14,690 hard. This statement is very hard to 155 00:11:14,690 --> 00:11:16,770 abide. Abide by. 156 00:11:17,130 --> 00:11:19,570 And I turned around. I said, Simon, would you like to 157 00:11:19,570 --> 00:11:20,610 also leave? No. 158 00:11:20,770 --> 00:11:24,930 So this is that flesh I was talking to you about. 159 00:11:25,210 --> 00:11:30,970 It's this bread, see we're talking about in fear and 160 00:11:30,970 --> 00:11:34,090 trembling Workout your life in Jesus Christ. 161 00:11:34,130 --> 00:11:38,060 There is the procedure. You want to call it lack of a 162 00:11:38,060 --> 00:11:42,020 better term. There is one one foundation 163 00:11:42,020 --> 00:11:46,500 through which we must build our life through Jesus Christ is 164 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:51,100 through the holy mysteries in fear and in trembling not 165 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:57,180 mocking and not joking and not having no relationship with. 166 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,840 Now when I continue side note when I continue to mention 167 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,960 living in with through Jesus Christ, I can admittedly 168 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:13,640 condense that one word in that those words in one word a few 169 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:20,680 one a few words single words abide remain continue. 170 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:27,320 Jesus saying you know let's let's work out this equation. 171 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:32,450 Let me give you an equation. Faith justifies you. 172 00:12:33,410 --> 00:12:37,570 What does justify mean? Justification doesn't mean 173 00:12:37,570 --> 00:12:40,770 salvation. No justify. 174 00:12:41,490 --> 00:12:43,890 Salvation, Justification, salvation. 175 00:12:43,890 --> 00:12:48,170 They're two different words. You know when you when you're in 176 00:12:48,170 --> 00:12:52,490 Word and you write your document and you want to justify it, you 177 00:12:52,490 --> 00:12:54,170 want to make it right. Yes. 178 00:12:54,610 --> 00:12:59,490 So faith makes us right, you know, again, let's put it this 179 00:12:59,490 --> 00:13:04,610 way simply. Later faith gives us the right 180 00:13:04,930 --> 00:13:12,650 to then receive the new life, the regeneration in baptism, 181 00:13:12,770 --> 00:13:16,930 because we have, we are being put to death with Christ and we 182 00:13:16,930 --> 00:13:22,130 are being born a new in Christ, we receive that new life in 183 00:13:22,130 --> 00:13:25,410 Christ. So faith has made us right, 184 00:13:25,410 --> 00:13:30,570 given us the right to receive this sacrament, this mystery of 185 00:13:30,570 --> 00:13:33,970 new life. But how do we continue that 186 00:13:33,970 --> 00:13:37,130 life? How do we continue to remain in 187 00:13:37,130 --> 00:13:41,370 that life and work out that life in Jesus Christ that we have 188 00:13:41,370 --> 00:13:45,570 received is through the Holy Eucharist? 189 00:13:45,570 --> 00:13:49,370 Now this this episode is not about the Holy Eucharist, so 190 00:13:49,370 --> 00:13:52,890 don't get me wrong. This is about working out your 191 00:13:52,890 --> 00:13:57,330 life in Christ and what life, if you may say, your sacramental 192 00:13:57,330 --> 00:14:03,410 life, your church life, your worship life. 193 00:14:05,810 --> 00:14:10,890 Jesus emphasizes this and gives us the reason why John chapter 194 00:14:10,890 --> 00:14:16,290 15 verses 4 to 5 abide in me. Now we know that if we drink, 195 00:14:16,490 --> 00:14:20,890 eat his flesh and drink His blood, we abide in Him and he 196 00:14:20,930 --> 00:14:26,890 abides in us. There's that spiritual, intimate 197 00:14:26,890 --> 00:14:33,490 relationship, spiritual, holy, pleasing, intimate relationship 198 00:14:33,650 --> 00:14:37,490 between the bride, the Church and her bridegroom. 199 00:14:40,850 --> 00:14:45,190 Abide in me one way, as we've we've already ascertained 200 00:14:45,190 --> 00:14:49,630 through the whole Eucharist and I In you that means there's the 201 00:14:49,630 --> 00:14:54,430 life that you have, because Jesus says, if you do not abide 202 00:14:54,430 --> 00:14:56,830 in Me through the Eucharist, you have no life. 203 00:14:57,990 --> 00:15:02,950 Jesus is not within you abiding me and I in you. 204 00:15:03,790 --> 00:15:09,350 As the branch cannot yield fruit of itself unless it remains or 205 00:15:09,350 --> 00:15:14,980 abides or waits in the vine, so also neither can you, unless 206 00:15:14,980 --> 00:15:18,460 you're abide in me. I am the vine, and you are the 207 00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:21,740 branches. Whoso abides in Me, and I in 208 00:15:21,740 --> 00:15:23,900 Him. This produces much fruits, 209 00:15:24,020 --> 00:15:26,940 because without me you cannot do anything. 210 00:15:28,660 --> 00:15:35,320 So when we come to remain in that life with Jesus Christ, you 211 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,960 may be saying, well, what about those people who sin? 212 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,600 And what about those who come to church and and partake in the 213 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,400 Holy Eucharist in order to, in tremble and fear to work out 214 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,600 their life? Yes, we are sinners. 215 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,080 Of course we will fall short, we will sin. 216 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:59,320 It is our human nature when Christ paid the debt, when 217 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:09,240 Christ gained us redemption on the cross and he paid the debt 218 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:15,000 and he was victorious over death, sin and Satan. 219 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,560 Keep in mind beloved, he didn't take away our free will. 220 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:26,160 Man is free, has his own intellect and choice. 221 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,320 That's why we see what's happening in the world today. 222 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,680 So we still have that free will. And sometimes, unfortunately, we 223 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,600 use the free will to grieve the Holy Spirit of God. 224 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,680 But we come back. We ask God to forgive us like 225 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,480 the prodigal Son. And one more time the garment of 226 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:50,800 grace is wrapped around us. The sunship authority of the 227 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,640 ring is given to us the gospel which is the the, the the the 228 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,360 path. You know the gospel which is a 229 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,440 symbolizing the shoes of new shoes, new new life in Jesus 230 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,000 Christ through the gospel. And we partake in the fattened 231 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,200 cow calf that has been slaughtered and in that mystical 232 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:15,480 celebration and that is how we remain in Christ. 233 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,839 And this beloved was practiced in the churches in the 1st 234 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:26,730 century of Christendom as it was practiced in the church at 235 00:17:26,730 --> 00:17:32,970 Corinth 1 Corinthian 10/16. What Saint Paul writes the cup 236 00:17:33,570 --> 00:17:38,090 of Thanksgiving, that is, the wine or the blood which we 237 00:17:38,090 --> 00:17:43,170 bless, is it not the participation, communion, unity 238 00:17:43,370 --> 00:17:47,810 of the blood of Christ? And the bread that we break is 239 00:17:47,810 --> 00:17:51,830 it not the participation or communion or unity of the body 240 00:17:51,830 --> 00:17:56,590 of Christ which we need to eat in order to remain in Jesus 241 00:17:56,590 --> 00:18:01,350 Christ, in order to have life in Jesus Christ. 242 00:18:01,590 --> 00:18:05,470 That's why you know we always preach and say when you approach 243 00:18:05,470 --> 00:18:08,790 the mysteries don't open. Come with your with your 3 244 00:18:08,790 --> 00:18:12,870 button top shirt buttons undone and and your your short sleeves 245 00:18:13,710 --> 00:18:17,990 rolled up and you know you know you you you approach the 246 00:18:17,990 --> 00:18:19,870 mysteries like hey bro, what's happening? 247 00:18:19,870 --> 00:18:24,390 No, we need to be trembling and in fear because the angels at 248 00:18:24,390 --> 00:18:29,070 that moment are trembling and the angels are envious of you 249 00:18:29,070 --> 00:18:33,510 approaching the mysteries because that is how you have 250 00:18:33,510 --> 00:18:40,030 life in Jesus Christ. The church lived in Christ. 251 00:18:41,070 --> 00:18:45,920 The Church lives in Christ through the holy mysteries, and 252 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:52,000 to date does the same until the day of salvation, when her 253 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:57,080 heavenly bridegroom arrives to take her in his bridal chamber. 254 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:06,920 So yes, tremble and fear of respect and reverence, but at 255 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,120 the same time tremble and fear of concern. 256 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:17,430 Hebrews 1039. It is very terrible or fearful 257 00:19:17,670 --> 00:19:21,150 to fall into the hands of the living God. 258 00:19:21,150 --> 00:19:23,230 Look at Sodom and Gomorrah. Read about it. 259 00:19:24,590 --> 00:19:31,550 Pharaoh read about him, and Anaya and Sephora his wife, read 260 00:19:31,550 --> 00:19:34,990 about them. And in Hebrews chapter 12, 261 00:19:35,390 --> 00:19:41,930 verses 25 to 29 regarding the unshaken Kingdom, see to it that 262 00:19:41,930 --> 00:19:44,450 you do not refuse him who is speaking. 263 00:19:44,650 --> 00:19:49,330 For if those for if those did not escaped when they refused 264 00:19:49,330 --> 00:19:56,050 him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape whom 265 00:19:56,050 --> 00:20:01,890 turn away from him who warns from heaven, and his voice shook 266 00:20:01,890 --> 00:20:05,360 the earth, then. But now he has promised, saying, 267 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:11,080 yet once more, I will not shake only the earth, but also the 268 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,360 heaven. This expression, Paul goes on to 269 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,900 say, yet once more denotes the removing of those things which 270 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:23,780 can be shaken, and of created things, so that those things 271 00:20:23,780 --> 00:20:26,580 which cannot be shaking the Kingdom, may remain. 272 00:20:26,660 --> 00:20:30,300 Therefore, since we receive the Kingdom which cannot be shaken, 273 00:20:30,460 --> 00:20:35,060 let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an 274 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:37,580 acceptable service and reverence. 275 00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:42,540 And all for our God is a consuming fire. 276 00:20:44,580 --> 00:20:49,460 So, beloved, when we when we urge and when we at times maybe 277 00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:57,260 even forcefully, encourage you to attend church, to come and 278 00:20:57,260 --> 00:21:02,220 partake in the Holy Eucharist so that you have life and you 279 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:05,380 remain in that life, you celebrate Jesus. 280 00:21:05,380 --> 00:21:09,340 You share in God's life through the Holy Eucharist. 281 00:21:10,140 --> 00:21:19,420 That is because your life in Christ, your life in God the 282 00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:25,060 Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, you need to work out in 283 00:21:25,060 --> 00:21:31,580 fear and trembling because those who don't hate of the flesh of 284 00:21:31,580 --> 00:21:35,420 the Son of Man and drink his blood, very simply Christ puts 285 00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:38,660 it has no life in himself. They don't come and say, well 286 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:43,700 what about those people and just concentrate about what Christ is 287 00:21:43,980 --> 00:21:47,900 instructing and warning. So, truly beloved? 288 00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:54,700 Yeah, fear your life in Christ, those who weren't at church 289 00:21:54,700 --> 00:22:02,570 yesterday because of silly and unjustifiable excuses, Well, I'd 290 00:22:02,570 --> 00:22:08,370 like to see you in church this coming Sunday to be kneeling 291 00:22:08,370 --> 00:22:13,690 before the Lord and asking him for forgiveness and that he may 292 00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:18,530 have compassion and mercy. And once you receive the 293 00:22:18,530 --> 00:22:22,850 absolution from the church, you do approach the mysteries in 294 00:22:22,850 --> 00:22:27,370 fear and trembling, because that is how. 295 00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:31,690 And that is when you are working your life out in Jesus Christ 296 00:22:31,690 --> 00:22:36,330 and through Jesus Christ. So let's not take all these 297 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:42,090 blessings for granted, Beloved. Oh, I'm tired, you know, just 298 00:22:42,170 --> 00:22:44,730 that one Sunday will sleep. You know, there's going to be a 299 00:22:44,730 --> 00:22:47,570 sleep that's awaiting each and every one of us, and it's going 300 00:22:47,570 --> 00:22:50,290 to be long according to the earthly time, obviously. 301 00:22:52,340 --> 00:22:56,820 So let's approach this mystery. That's approach As the days are 302 00:22:57,220 --> 00:23:01,620 available for us, let us be wise and use the time and days and 303 00:23:01,620 --> 00:23:06,740 months and years wisely. Beloved, so beloved, one way to 304 00:23:06,740 --> 00:23:09,980 work out our life in Jesus Christ in fear and trembling is 305 00:23:09,980 --> 00:23:16,180 to be a church so that we you can receive that gracious gift 306 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:21,660 of the holy mysteries which will have you grow, sustain you, keep 307 00:23:21,660 --> 00:23:26,350 you in that amazing life in Jesus Christ. 308 00:23:26,390 --> 00:23:32,550 Praise and glory be to His Holy Name, now and at all times and 309 00:23:32,550 --> 00:23:33,550 forever. Amen. 310 00:23:52,580 --> 00:23:54,620 We hope you enjoyed this week's message. 311 00:23:54,620 --> 00:23:57,820 Please don't forget to rate and review this podcast and share 312 00:23:57,820 --> 00:24:01,180 with your friends and family. 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