1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,440 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,120 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:11,040 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,800 and the life of all. Give us wisdom by Your law and 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,800 enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,880 Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,320 obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,680 every hour. O You who enlightens the 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,840 rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,680 Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,040 divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,680 and Holy Spirit, forever. Amen. 13 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:06,000 The last two weeks have been quite challenging to the entire 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,160 world, most importantly to the Christian world, Christendom. 15 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,560 We began with the murder of the two young brothers in the Church 16 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,480 of Annunciation and then our sister. 17 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,920 I'm please forgive my ignorance, I forgot the names. 18 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,880 And the sister who is travelling on public transport, who got 19 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,400 stabbed in the neck and no one went to the hell. 20 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,200 Maybe there was fear. I I don't know. 21 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,960 I don't want to judge. Then we hear of another school 22 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,080 shooting, another two children. Their lives were taken. 23 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:49,040 And then we come to our brother, the son of our faith, our 24 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,320 Christian faith, our brother, Charles James Cook. 25 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,840 There is only one thing that comes to my mind and I learned 26 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:07,600 from this and I think I've been trying to give this message and 27 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:14,880 and here at home that the martyrdom that awaits those who 28 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:22,360 love the Lord, who preach the Lord, who live the Lord not in 29 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,840 perfection, trying to attain that completion. 30 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,760 The martyrdom is at hand, O beloved Christians, faithful 31 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:42,800 Christians, faithful Christians who live their life, who offer 32 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,560 every minute of their lives to the perfect will of God. 33 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,920 Yes, we drop the ball, we sin. We're all sinners. 34 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,360 Our brother, the late Charles, wasn't a St. 35 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,080 He even confessed to this in one of many of his programs or when 36 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,280 he was speaking on the campuses. He he, he boldly confessed that 37 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,080 we're all sinners. We fall short. 38 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,200 But when we have Christ in our minds, in our hearts, and we 39 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,200 want to live that life, and more importantly, when we want to 40 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:19,480 bring people into that same realm of holiness, martyrdom is 41 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,880 knocking at the front door. It's at the door. 42 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,000 Blessed are you who are persecuted. 43 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,200 This is the cross that we this is denying ourselves, beloved, 44 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,200 denying ourselves and truly take up the cross. 45 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,720 Sunday. I I believe the funeral has been 46 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,560 set for Sunday, this coming Sunday. 47 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,520 We've prayed for the repose of our brother. 48 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,040 He's he's sold to be accepted along the and and counted and 49 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:57,520 numbered along the just and righteous among all the Saints 50 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:03,480 of our Lord who died and shed their blood for the Lamb, who 51 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,280 are now crying according to the Book of Revelations. 52 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,400 They are crying out. So they're not, they're not 53 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,360 asleep. They're not asleep crying. 54 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,440 They are crying out. How long? 55 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:18,959 They're worried about us, Our brother, the late Charles will 56 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:21,519 join them as well. How long, O Lord? 57 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,960 How long are they? Are they going to be persecuted 58 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,880 through many means? I don't want to go too much. 59 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,400 I don't want to go into politics. 60 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,960 Well, we pray that the Lord will forgive his sins and trespasses, 61 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,000 which we all have, and that he will truly grant him that 62 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,680 everlasting life. Our sister Erica, if you're 63 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,480 listening by chance, well, no, I don't believe in chance. 64 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,760 But if God has moved you and God has arranged for you to listen 65 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:59,600 to this message, a mere sinful servant of God is praying for 66 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,640 you. But if there's consolation 67 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,720 there, take a consolation. The entire Christian world is 68 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,840 praying for you and for your two daughters. 69 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:15,920 And we know that the cross that Christ has given you to bear, he 70 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,520 will also give you the comfort. We say in Assyrian Alhammad 71 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,720 Nikhle, may the Lord rest his eternal soul. 72 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:30,320 Not only oh, and I forgot our brother Ashur Nissan, also in 73 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,440 German, in France, in a wheelchair preaching the word of 74 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,160 our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ. 75 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Radical Muslims, I will say it, radical Muslims used machetes to 76 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:52,520 murder him because he was preaching Jesus Christ, their 77 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,760 Lord, their savior. If they don't accept Shum, our 78 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,960 brother Arshur will be in the bosom of Moses. 79 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,280 And if they haven't repented and return and turn away from this 80 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:15,360 evil, they will be burning in Shoal and asking Abraham, oh 81 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:20,960 father Abraham, please send Arshur to dip his fingers in, 82 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,520 in, in the water because we are burning. 83 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,280 We want him to come and wet our lips. 84 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,520 But if you want to hear what our father Abraham will say, you 85 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,640 read the the parable of Lazarus and the rich man. 86 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,960 Let's continue. Let us not stop. 87 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,040 We continue to preach the truth, the whole truth and nothing but 88 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,120 the truth which is Jesus Christ praise between his name Acts of 89 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,120 the Apostles and we see we've been learning how the church has 90 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,280 been been built upon the truth and how the church has from the 91 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:56,800 day of its inception and conception and beginning. 92 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,440 The church has been preaching the truth and using the truth 93 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,120 the truth in our last episode just the recap St. 94 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,440 James, the Bishop of Jerusalem whom Jesus appeared to after 95 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,560 resurrection 1st Corinthians 15 seven Now let me tell you 96 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,120 something find me in the Gospels where it mentions that Jesus 97 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,400 appeared to James. It doesn't and if I stand 98 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,040 corrected glory to God. But Saint Paul is mentioning 99 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,240 this. How did Saint Paul know this 100 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,160 Please call this the oral tradition. 101 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,440 It was passed down. Saint Paul had asked people had 102 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,000 told him that this is what happened. 103 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,840 So just because it's not in the the New Testament and Saint Paul 104 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:46,400 or in the Gospels, I'm sorry, in the synoptic Gospels St. 105 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,360 Paul mentioned, it doesn't mean there is an error there. 106 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,920 No, no, no, no, Saint Paul had heard it and he writes it. 107 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,560 So Saint James solves the issue at hand, but he teaches them 108 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,960 that this is what we need to do to the to the, the Gentiles that 109 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:01,760 are coming into Christianity. They don't need to be 110 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,080 circumcised, but they need to stop from fornication or sexual 111 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,600 immorality. This is why those who preach 112 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:14,800 Jesus Christ are being murdered. Not because we say Jesus is the 113 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,600 way the life, but we condemn sexual immorality. 114 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:25,160 We condemn, you know, the the Sodomites. 115 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,320 We condemn the lives of Sodom and Gomorrah that are apparent 116 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,680 today. And we read Marisha Dad, Bishop 117 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,360 of Hadith circa 18850, and he writes this according to the 118 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,760 custom of the appeasing of demons, meaning that it was not 119 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,440 allowable for women to belong to a man unless they had first been 120 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:52,920 prostituted to the priest in the idol, the temple in the idol of 121 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,640 in the the idol temple. So Saint James says we need to 122 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,840 tell them that they need to stop this and they need to stop 123 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:08,640 strangled blood, they need to cook the animal Leviticus 1710 124 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:15,920 to 12 and this Saint James proclaims verse 22. 125 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,280 Then the apostles and elders with the whole church chose men 126 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,680 from among themselves and set them, send them to Antioch with 127 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:31,480 Paul and Barnabas, namely Judah, who is called Barsabba or 128 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:37,520 Barsheba and Silas, men who were leaders among the brethren. 129 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,760 Verse 23. And they wrote a letter and 130 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,920 sended by them after this manner. 131 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,520 This is what they wrote, the apostles and elders and brethren 132 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,920 to the brethren's of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria 133 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,520 and Silesia. Greetings. 134 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,800 Let's stop there. The entire trip. 135 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,000 First it was the apostles. Of course it has to be the 136 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,560 apostles, because Christ gave the apostles the key to the 137 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:09,640 Kingdom of heaven. The apostles, then the 138 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,920 presbyters, the priests, the clergy, then the entire church. 139 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,160 The whole church community agrees, of course, because the 140 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,560 Church is not just the apostles and presbyters. 141 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,960 The Church is not just the faithful. 142 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,720 No, it's the apostles, the presbyters and the church 143 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,760 community. Hence when we come to church on 144 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,280 a Sunday, you too are offering that holy mystery. 145 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,120 You too. But there is the priest of the 146 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,280 altar who is under the auspices of the high priest, which is 147 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,120 Jesus Christ, and the deacons who are the resemblance of 148 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,160 Saint, the angels, and they are the mouth of the people, the 149 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,160 congregation. And there is you offering this 150 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,800 sacrifice. That's why the priest speaks in 151 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,320 third person term or he speaks plurally. 152 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,800 There's such a word because everyone is offering that holy 153 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:10,400 mystery. They also agree to some men from 154 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,320 the community of Antioch, faithful people, by the way, 155 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,400 faithful, they know these people. 156 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,200 They were faithful. They send them to Antioch with 157 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,880 Paul and Barnabas and we're going to read why. 158 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:29,560 And Judas, he was also named Barsabbas and Sealas, leading 159 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:31,200 men. They were leading men. 160 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,480 So they were leading. They were, they had a position 161 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,960 in the church. They were examined. 162 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,720 They were proven to be correct in their faith, their doctrine, 163 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,680 their teaching. And then they were accepted to 164 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:48,560 lead and they were sent with Saint Paul and somebody and 165 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:51,600 there was a written a letter was written and the letter was as an 166 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,960 evidence of the actual discussions that took place 167 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:00,720 regarding the matter presented to the apostles and the apostles 168 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:07,480 decree, beloved, the apostles decreed, not the presenters, not 169 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,000 the faithful community, the apostles decreed. 170 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,480 And because the apostles have agreed decreed, it now becomes 171 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:21,720 Canon law. So when the Apostolic Church 172 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,200 tells you, instructs you and commands you, it is law. 173 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:31,760 It has to be backed up by the law. 174 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,880 Not because I'm telling you. No, no, no, Robbie. 175 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,440 Yes, Father, you tell me. Can you show me? 176 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,480 Is there a, a canonical law? Yes, it is. 177 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:41,760 Aiming finish. Done. 178 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,840 Case sealed. Well, I don't think and I don't 179 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,640 feel well. Thoughts of deception, deceptive 180 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,360 feelings of deceptive. The heart can be deceptive. 181 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,920 No, no, no, it's the law it has become. 182 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,960 It has been bound by the apostles on earth, which makes 183 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,440 it bound in heaven. Matthew 1619. 184 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,840 And I'm going to read that it becomes law. 185 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:13,560 And this was so evident in this chapter, beloved, the 186 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:18,240 significance of the place of the apostles authority in the 187 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,640 church. They appealed to the Holy 188 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,800 Scriptures, but they then appealed to the experience of 189 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,840 the Holy Spirit. And that's where they came to 190 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,160 their decision. And Christ did that as well. 191 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,440 You know, when the when the Pharisees and the priests were 192 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,800 being ticked off because Jesus was eating with the tax 193 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,880 collectors and the and the prostitutes and you know, and 194 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,440 they were saying, well, that's not right. 195 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,680 Of course they were right. They're on the point. 196 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:47,200 Leviticus stand verses 8 to 10. Yeah. 197 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,400 What's holy should not have any relationship or should not be 198 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,200 mingled with what is defiled. They were correct. 199 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,360 But Jesus said, hey, I said that law, I am God. 200 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:02,400 Now I am going to tell you that Yeah, I'm not going to adhere to 201 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,120 solar Scriptura. No. 202 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:10,560 And the apostles being moved by the Holy Spirit did the same, 203 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,800 beloved. And how did the apostles come to 204 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,960 the binding decision, not merely, as I said, appealing to 205 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,200 the Scriptures of the Old Testament Testament, but more so 206 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,360 to the experience, admonishment, rebuking, guidance of the Holy 207 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,600 Spirit of one person, Saint Peter, verses 24 to 26. 208 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,600 Let's keep going. We have heard that. 209 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,680 Now listen to this. We have heard that certain men 210 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:42,720 have gone out to disturb you with words, thus upsetting your 211 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:47,160 souls, saying you must be circumcised and keep the law 212 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,280 concerning these things. We have never commanded them. 213 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:55,680 Whoa, whoa. Now I know why some of our 214 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,880 Protestant brothers and sisters don't like reading and preaching 215 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,760 from the books of the No. I, I, I encourage you the to 216 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,040 read the book of the Acts of the Apostles. 217 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:12,160 It is the procedure, the foundation, the constitution of 218 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,320 the Church. Verse 25. 219 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,680 Therefore, we have considered the matter while we are 220 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,920 assembled and we have chosen and sent men to you with our beloved 221 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,800 Paul and Barnabas, men who have dedicated their lives for the 222 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,160 name of our Lord Jesus Christ. So you can't write them off. 223 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:39,160 These people are faithful. Some who went out, that is to 224 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,280 say, we didn't send them. These people who are causing the 225 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,880 disruption, we didn't send them. They had no authority from us. 226 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:57,160 So when you want to go out and evangelize and preach, which is 227 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,240 great. Amen to that. 228 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,680 Let me, let me give you an example of, of what I'm going to 229 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:10,080 talk about. Our brother, the late Charles in 230 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:16,440 his religious talks and discourses, 2 things he has 231 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:22,800 confessed to and he was at, you know, he was trying to trying to 232 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:28,560 press the issue #1 was the disrespect that Saint Mary, the 233 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,760 mother of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ was 234 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,360 receiving from the Protestant churches the disrespect. 235 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:42,280 He corrected it and he went on to say that the Apostolic 236 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:48,000 churches have history. They have the church fathers, 237 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,640 they have it complete. And I'll go on to say, so that 238 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,520 you don't think I'm only bragging about the Apostolic 239 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,560 churches because I am a priest of the Apostolic Church. 240 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,920 No, no. And he admonished the Apostolic 241 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:06,480 churches as well and said, however, the evangelization, 242 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,440 mission and missionary of the Apostolic churches has somewhat 243 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,480 ceased. You're right, my brother, rest 244 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:13,680 in peace. You're absolutely right. 245 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:15,359 Here we are. That's why we're here today, 246 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,400 That's why we're here. That's why we have podcasts, 247 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,160 that's why we have live streaming of preaching the word 248 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:26,599 of God. So they say the apostles say, 249 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,680 listen, we didn't send them. So whoever has come out to you 250 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,160 without our consent and authority, no, no, no, don't 251 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,720 listen to them. And we see Paul touching up on 252 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,920 something that is somewhat confirming what they saying. 253 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:45,000 Romans chapter 10 verse 14. Therefore, how would they call 254 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,360 to this one that is Jesus unless they believe in him? 255 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,960 Or how would they believe him unless they heard him? 256 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,120 And how would they hear without a preacher? 257 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,600 And how will they preach? Listen very carefully. 258 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,640 How will they preach unless they are sent? 259 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,320 Not go out and do it on their own. 260 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:11,560 No, that's why we have the, the the the one saved always saved. 261 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:17,080 Calvinistic heresy. That is why we have the the 262 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,760 rapture heresy. Yeah. 263 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,520 You know, what's God, What God's going to do for you? 264 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,240 He's going to come and he's going to rapture. 265 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,120 Who's going to take away all those who believe so that they 266 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,440 don't have any, you know, persecution? 267 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,320 Why do you take out our brother Charles, who's a martyr before 268 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,080 he was martyr? Why didn't he do that? 269 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,120 Where's this rapture coming? All these people that are dying 270 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,680 for Christ, suffering for Christ, being persecuted for 271 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,680 Christ. When is this rapture coming? 272 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,160 It's not coming. It will not come. 273 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,560 By the way, 23rd Steven, Are you ready? 274 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,640 Are you ready? There's another heresy by some 275 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:52,640 foolish. I don't know who is. 276 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,560 I don't even want to know. I'm not even going to Google his 277 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,480 name. He's calculated that the 23rd of 278 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,440 September, the world is ending and he's raking it in again. 279 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,280 I think, you know, gullible naive people, God bless them, 280 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,200 pure in heart, maybe pounding them with money, giving them 281 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,480 money. 23rd of September, we say in a scene robust Soho. 282 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:19,000 Enough of this heresy. How will they preach if they are 283 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,720 not sent the church and which church? 284 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,240 I think now you're sort of coming to that understanding and 285 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:33,360 maybe confession that yes, OK, but OK, enough, Robbie, enough, 286 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:35,960 Father. Yes, yes, we understand. 287 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,400 OK, OK. The Apostolic Church, because 288 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,040 for 15 chapters from the book in the Bible, let's go solar 289 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,840 Scripture, the Bible. You have not me. 290 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,880 No, no, no. You have hit the message home. 291 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,040 It is the Apostolic Church. St. 292 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,760 John Chrysostom uses this in one of his homilies in Antioch. 293 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:04,800 When a heresy, A heretic called, I think it's called anumism, 294 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,880 there was a heresy, anumism they were teaching the Son was 295 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,760 completely unlike the Father had risen. 296 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,880 That means definitely unlike the Father, not only the Son wasn't 297 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,680 the isn't the Father. This is what we say. 298 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,480 The Son is not the Father, the Father's the Father, The Son is 299 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,880 the Son, but the Father and the Son have a being, have a have a 300 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,680 nature, which is the divine nature. 301 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,960 Look at what he said He said This you have received as your 302 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,000 patrimony, that is from your Father's, the desire never to 303 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,520 allow the teachings of our faith to degenerate into heresy. 3rd 304 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,400 or 4th century. What makes this clear? 305 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,720 In the time of your ancestors, he's going to allude to this. 306 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:53,160 People came here from Judea. He's preaching in Antioch. 307 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,840 People came from Judea who were muddying the clear waters of the 308 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:03,280 doctrine taught by the apostles. They were exhorting your 309 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,560 ancestors to practice circumcision and to observe the 310 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,720 Mosaic law. Those who then lived in your 311 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,080 city did not remain silent, Amy. And then we see this. 312 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,880 Nor did they put up with this innovation. 313 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,240 He calls it an innovation. Not even a theology, not always 314 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,440 a doctrine, an innovation. Someone come up with it. 315 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,200 They were like courageous hounds who saw wolves attacking and 316 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,520 destroying the entire flock. They sprang after the wolves and 317 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,560 did not let up, chasing them and driving them away. 318 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,960 They saw to it that the apostles from every corner of the world 319 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,480 sent them their decision in the form of a letter that would 320 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:49,200 protect them from any attack launched against the faithful by 321 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,640 those innovators or modern noses. 322 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:01,360 Modernizes and all such as might come thereafter, but listen to 323 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,920 what he said. It's not in the scriptures 324 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,400 right. They saw to it that the apostles 325 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,720 from every corner does he every corner of the world. 326 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,560 He must have heard that and it wasn't only injured every every 327 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:19,080 apostle that was alive then adhere to this and was in 328 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,960 agreeance. That's defending the faith 329 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,560 beloved. Not so much without. 330 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,040 That is against paganism and other faiths outside of 331 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,600 Christianity. No, that is a given and it 332 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,840 doesn't take much. No effort to defend Christianity 333 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:41,120 from non Christianity. 3 words. 3 words. 334 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,920 Learn them, learn them. Jesus is alive. 335 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,200 Simple praise and glory me to his name. 336 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,360 Jesus is alive, I worship and a Lord that is alive. 337 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,480 He is alive and he's working and his his his life is within me 338 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,520 and I have a connection with him. 339 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,800 I share in his life. Each time I go to the church and 340 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,800 I partake in the holy mysteries. I partake in the life of Jesus 341 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,720 Christ. Getting excited, right? 342 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,120 Life of Jesus Christ, but no more. 343 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:18,600 So the heresies within in Jesus name hiding behind a cross and 344 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,400 not believing in the power of the cross and the Bible and 345 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,680 teaching false doctrines and heresy, false teachings within. 346 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:33,360 Beloved we need to be alert. Our late brother Charlie started 347 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:39,680 to preach this as well. Be alert verse 27. 348 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,800 And we have sent with them Judah and Cillas so that they may tell 349 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:51,200 you the same things by word of mouth to avoid non acceptance of 350 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,000 the decree coming from Paul and Barnabas. 351 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,240 Rings a bell right today the same things happening. 352 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,280 What was that? What are the verses? 353 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,840 Come on, I'll give you 3 seconds. 354 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,520 It's finished. You try me. 1915 Matthew 1816 to 355 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,920 Corinthians 311. From the mouth of two or three a 356 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,000 matter is established. Practicing what the Lord 357 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:24,560 preached in the church, practicing what the Lord 358 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,080 preached. And the Lord preached because He 359 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,640 knew that one day it would be practiced. 360 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,120 That's why we say His words are alive. 361 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:37,240 They're active in His church, in our lives by word of mouth. 362 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,960 Did you hear that? And we sent with them Judas and 363 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,560 slides so that they may tell you the same things by word of 364 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:49,200 mouth. Our rule, instruction and 365 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,440 written instruction. Second Thessalonians 315 366 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,640 Therefore, my brethren, be established and hold to the 367 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:05,680 tradition. Tradition, that word that is 368 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,240 despised and frowned upon. Tradition. 369 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,240 You are very traditionalist. It's in the Bible. 370 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,760 I'm living a word in the Scriptures traditions with a 371 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,640 capital T by the way, hold fast that you have learned. 372 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,840 Hold fast on those traditions that you have learned whether 373 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,760 word or by now and that's what was happening. 374 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,880 See the the the apostles practicing what they were 375 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:38,080 preaching, but mainly the apostles practicing what was 376 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:43,400 taught to them by Jesus Christ. Praise be to His name, verse 28. 377 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,680 For it is the will of the Holy Spirit and of us. 378 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,360 What for? It is the will of the Holy 379 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:55,120 Spirit. Praise His name and of us. 380 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,800 What to lay upon you no additional burden than these 381 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:07,360 necessary things? The Holy Spirit, of course, it 382 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:10,640 appears the Holy Spirit because they appealed to the experience 383 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,080 of Saint Peter, Peter and the Holy Spirit. 384 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,160 It was good. When Peter spoke, it was good. 385 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,640 It was the Holy Spirit that worked through him and and spoke 386 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:20,840 to him. Good. 387 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,840 That word that appears seven times in Genesis chapter 1, 388 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,880 verses 1 to 31, good. It was pleasing to the Father 389 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,680 and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, one God, it was 390 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,400 pleasing. And then he says, and to us 391 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,400 what? Oh, no, no, dear Apostles, no. 392 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:41,400 What do you mean? To us? 393 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,840 You're mere men. You're only men. 394 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,640 You're nothing today. You're only man. 395 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,680 You're doing so fine. And now you go ahead and add 396 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:57,200 yourselves to the equation. Is it Saint Luke who's getting 397 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,000 excited and, and, and, you know, adding or, or was it truly this 398 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,240 word? Well, it was the word. 399 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:07,120 And yes, of course, they have every Christian given, I'm 400 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:11,520 sorry, every Christ given, right to add themselves to the 401 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,880 equation. And we're concluding Matthew 402 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,440 chapter 16, verse 19 to you. I shall give the keys of the 403 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,920 Kingdom of heaven. Everything that you will bind in 404 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,600 the earth will be bound in heaven. 405 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,760 And anything that you will lead release in the earth, it will 406 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,880 have been released in heaven. Of course you can. 407 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:37,360 Yes, Matthew 1040 Whosoever receives you receives me, and 408 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,560 whosoever receives me receives him whom sent me. 409 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,760 That's why they add themselves to the equation of the appeasing 410 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,640 of the Holy Spirit and appeasing of the apostles. 411 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,160 Whoever receives you receives me. 412 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,520 This is Christ's commandment, and whoever receives me receives 413 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,760 him who sent you. That's why it was the Holy 414 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,360 Spirit and and it it's us, it appeases us. 415 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:07,520 It is befitting us that we shall make this conclusion and this 416 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,160 decree. It was the authority they had 417 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:19,480 been vested with, given to them by the Holy Spirit through our 418 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,200 Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ. 419 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,920 Praise and glory be to His name now, not all times and forever. 420 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:58,790 Amen. We hope you enjoyed this week's 421 00:28:58,790 --> 00:29:01,110 message. 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