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 --> 00:00:11,880 Christ, the Light of the world and the life of all. 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,960 Give us wisdom by your law and enlighten our impulses by your 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,960 knowledge. Sanctify our souls by your 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,800 truth, and grant that we may be obedient to your words and may 8 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,800 fulfill your commandments at every hour. 9 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,040 O you who enlightens the rationale with the knowledge of 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:33,840 your greatness, do enlighten, my Lord, our thoughts that we may 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,240 meditate upon your holy and divine scriptures at all times, 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,280 O Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. 13 00:00:42,160 --> 00:01:03,970 Amen. What happens when, on a cold 14 00:01:03,970 --> 00:01:08,490 winter's night or day, freezing temperatures, while you're 15 00:01:08,490 --> 00:01:12,330 snuggled under your blanket with a heater on nice and comfy, and 16 00:01:12,330 --> 00:01:16,250 then someone leaves the door they came in through open. 17 00:01:17,570 --> 00:01:22,290 Now I know we may quote the idiomatic phrase Were you born 18 00:01:22,290 --> 00:01:26,090 in a tent along with any other words or I'm not going to speak 19 00:01:26,090 --> 00:01:29,700 about those today. So what caused the commotion? 20 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:34,540 It is the cold air, the breeze, the draft which was allowed 21 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:39,300 permitted to enter the room or the house. 22 00:01:39,940 --> 00:01:44,420 Now why did I begin with this question is some people reached 23 00:01:44,420 --> 00:01:46,220 out, some of the listeners reached. 24 00:01:46,220 --> 00:01:48,780 And again thank you so much for reaching out and your 25 00:01:48,860 --> 00:01:51,340 suggestions and your recommendations and your 26 00:01:51,910 --> 00:01:53,190 Kudoses. If you want us on your 27 00:01:53,190 --> 00:01:55,310 blessings, we really appreciate it. 28 00:01:55,590 --> 00:01:58,830 The producer Stephen and Adreno on their behalf, I'd like to 29 00:01:58,830 --> 00:02:01,670 thank you all express our sincere gratitude. 30 00:02:01,670 --> 00:02:04,150 But we ask one thing that you always glorify God. 31 00:02:04,150 --> 00:02:08,590 Let us always glorify God. Some asked. 32 00:02:08,590 --> 00:02:13,270 A lot of you spoke about, you know, Satan taking a foothold. 33 00:02:13,670 --> 00:02:19,710 How can we avoid Satan taking that foothold? 34 00:02:20,050 --> 00:02:26,690 How can we avoid freezing by the breeze and the cold air that 35 00:02:26,730 --> 00:02:29,850 entered the room because someone left the door open? 36 00:02:30,650 --> 00:02:34,930 You see it's the same. We can say the same about the 37 00:02:34,930 --> 00:02:40,690 devil, Satan and us. See we have the armor, the armor 38 00:02:40,690 --> 00:02:46,220 that have had been graced by God as mentions mentioned by Saint 39 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:49,820 Paul in Ephesians chapter 6 verses 7:50. 40 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:55,100 They we can say are the doors, the walls, the fortresses that 41 00:02:55,100 --> 00:03:00,580 keep him keep, Satan and his Wiles, his stratagems, his 42 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:05,940 deceitfulness. At a distance though he makes 43 00:03:05,940 --> 00:03:09,780 every attempt to find ways loopholes opportunities to enter 44 00:03:09,780 --> 00:03:16,520 our hearts minds will desires through his vial is stratagem 45 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:22,040 which is a a a device to capture the enemy by his trickery. 46 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,200 You know I remember when when we would do something wrong and mum 47 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,320 would would get up to you know spank and use the Bahusta or the 48 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,680 the flip flop. Yeah, the Chikanta. 49 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,640 I have to be careful when I say flip flop because in Australia 50 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,710 we say something else which is not appropriate in the United 51 00:03:42,710 --> 00:03:44,790 States. I remember when I came to the 52 00:03:44,790 --> 00:03:48,510 United States and I would use the Australian term of flip 53 00:03:48,510 --> 00:03:53,310 flop, flip flop. And I used to get these frowning 54 00:03:53,310 --> 00:03:55,270 looks and I thought why are you frowning my world? 55 00:03:55,270 --> 00:03:56,990 And I said Robbie, that's not a good word anyway. 56 00:03:57,390 --> 00:04:01,030 So the chikalta, right. And what you do, you'd run away 57 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:05,470 and then you're like I, I, I, you know, I escaped the the 58 00:04:05,470 --> 00:04:08,550 beating. And then Mum would have this 59 00:04:08,550 --> 00:04:13,740 stratagem, this strategy. She would pretend that she's 60 00:04:13,740 --> 00:04:18,019 forgotten to talk to you and you know, try to lure you. 61 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:21,260 And then when you thought everything's OK, all quiet at 62 00:04:21,260 --> 00:04:25,500 the Western Front, once you entered the house and you got 63 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:30,640 close to him, and then smack would come the the slap or the 64 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,680 flip flop. You know, Satan has a stratagem. 65 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:39,320 And that stratagem, that strategy is a device to capture 66 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,400 the enemy by his bickery, trickery. 67 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,640 And who are his enemies? We are his enemies. 68 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,960 You see, the devil does not openly displace sins to man or 69 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,600 woman. He does not suggest that a man 70 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,210 or a woman practice idolatry, prostitution, homosexuality, 71 00:04:59,450 --> 00:05:01,770 murder. No. 72 00:05:02,010 --> 00:05:06,850 But he prepares these things in a roundabout manner, covering 73 00:05:06,850 --> 00:05:10,770 his wickedness. And by making his suggestions 74 00:05:10,770 --> 00:05:16,290 seem plausible, he makes us ready to commit these very sins 75 00:05:16,290 --> 00:05:19,370 according to the writings of the Blessed, the awful act. 76 00:05:20,250 --> 00:05:25,010 And that's why Saint Paul urges us not to sleep, not to be 77 00:05:25,010 --> 00:05:29,130 complacent, not to be laxed. This is our problem. 78 00:05:29,730 --> 00:05:34,250 Oh, you who believe in the Trinity, that is you. 79 00:05:34,250 --> 00:05:37,810 This is your problem. This is our weakness. 80 00:05:37,810 --> 00:05:43,090 This is our shortfall. This is our issue, that we are 81 00:05:43,090 --> 00:05:47,650 laxed, we sleep, we're in our comfort zone, complacent, and 82 00:05:47,650 --> 00:05:51,280 we're careless. But Saint Paul writes to us, 83 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,840 urging us, begging us at times not to be asleep and be 84 00:05:55,840 --> 00:06:01,120 careless, but to be awake and eager for the unseen warfare 85 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,280 against the enemy, which is Satan and his demons. 86 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,560 Why? Why? 87 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,400 He writes in Ephesians 6. Because our struggle is not 88 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,600 against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the 89 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,800 powers, against the world forces of the darkness, against the 90 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,800 spiritual forces of wickedness under the heavenly places, 91 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:33,640 Against the attempt, the stratagem, the deceitfulness, 92 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,040 craftiness. The attempt to defile the minds 93 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:43,920 of our dear children, innocent children with drag Queens at 94 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:49,460 schools, reading books with principles, openly announcing to 95 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:53,580 innocent and young children that they are gay and lesbian, 96 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:57,660 homosexual, corosexual, bisexual, pinticexual. 97 00:06:57,660 --> 00:07:00,140 And it goes on and on and on. Right. 98 00:07:00,660 --> 00:07:05,980 This is our warfare, beloved. So since our battle is not 99 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:12,220 against flesh, so too the weapons of our campaign, our 100 00:07:12,260 --> 00:07:18,670 attack are not flesh but are directed at those deceivers that 101 00:07:18,670 --> 00:07:24,430 are from of old, the demons. And there is a holy war that 102 00:07:24,430 --> 00:07:31,590 must also be waged against every sin beloved against Satan and 103 00:07:31,590 --> 00:07:35,550 his army. So the question is, how do we 104 00:07:35,550 --> 00:07:42,710 fight this battle so that we do not give Satan the foothold off 105 00:07:42,710 --> 00:07:45,510 the bat? No need to go pick it and glue 106 00:07:45,510 --> 00:07:49,430 your hands onto streets and sit in every freeways blocking 107 00:07:49,430 --> 00:07:54,070 traffic and throwing coloured dust onto tennis courts, snooker 108 00:07:54,070 --> 00:07:59,630 tables or running naked on a stage or in an on an arena. 109 00:07:59,750 --> 00:08:04,390 No, we don't need to do that. What we need to do is not fret. 110 00:08:04,390 --> 00:08:09,790 By the way, let Alka Ellen we say in a Syrian don't don't get, 111 00:08:10,470 --> 00:08:14,070 you know, discouraged quickly and oh, what am I going to do? 112 00:08:14,070 --> 00:08:16,830 No, we are the children of light. 113 00:08:16,830 --> 00:08:21,150 We've been empowered. We are told to put on all that's 114 00:08:21,150 --> 00:08:26,030 the problem. All, not only those armours of 115 00:08:26,030 --> 00:08:30,030 God. That's bets bests us or suit us 116 00:08:30,030 --> 00:08:33,740 best. Those that suit our lifestyles, 117 00:08:33,740 --> 00:08:38,659 our philosophy in life know we are to put every armor of God 118 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:42,780 according to Saint Paul in Ephesians chapter 6 verses 10 to 119 00:08:42,820 --> 00:08:45,340 18. Put on good ourselves. 120 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:53,980 Take it on and put it on and be constantly equipped and clothed 121 00:08:53,980 --> 00:08:58,230 with these armors. And the first and foremost, and 122 00:08:58,230 --> 00:08:59,790 this is going to be a few few series. 123 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:02,630 We're going to talk about this in in a few episodes. 124 00:09:02,870 --> 00:09:06,390 What I'd want to talk about today is what Paul says first. 125 00:09:06,390 --> 00:09:13,430 Gird our loins with truth. This is the first thing he says. 126 00:09:13,670 --> 00:09:17,230 This is the armor is girding. There's a belt. 127 00:09:18,030 --> 00:09:21,510 Now what are the loins? And I don't want to go into too 128 00:09:21,510 --> 00:09:26,620 much into human anatomy and biology so simply. 129 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:31,540 The loins, also known as the lumbus, are the sides between 130 00:09:31,540 --> 00:09:36,820 the lower ribs and pelvis and the lower part of the back. 131 00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:40,860 And Saint John Chrysostom, the blessed Saint John Chrysostom, 132 00:09:40,860 --> 00:09:45,300 the Church father writes just like the Neil or the kill. 133 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:49,580 Sorry, just like the kill. That is a fin upside down on the 134 00:09:49,580 --> 00:09:53,360 bottom of a ship. The loins are the central 135 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,520 balancing support of our whole body. 136 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:02,440 They are a kind of foundation all is built upon from them. 137 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,320 Now the girdle, as I said, is a belt that goes around the loins 138 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,600 or around the waist, and what does it do? 139 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,280 It secures the strength within us. 140 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,040 You've seen bodybuilders when they're doing their workout, 141 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:22,150 when they're lifting weights, they put this belt on and I'm 142 00:10:22,150 --> 00:10:27,230 they make it so tight, right? And it gives them that strength 143 00:10:27,310 --> 00:10:30,830 to, you know, do you have the strength to lift up the 20,000 144 00:10:30,830 --> 00:10:34,150 gazillion pounds of weights? Whatever it is you've seen, when 145 00:10:34,150 --> 00:10:36,350 they're on the stage, they're showing off their body. 146 00:10:36,350 --> 00:10:40,190 The bodybuilders, they they grasp or they hold on to their 147 00:10:40,190 --> 00:10:43,470 loins and then they start pumping themselves and you see 148 00:10:43,470 --> 00:10:45,270 the muscles start appearing, right? 149 00:10:45,590 --> 00:10:49,700 That's the strength. So what Saint Paul is saying, 150 00:10:49,700 --> 00:10:54,860 listen, you need to strengthen yourself, your strength, both 151 00:10:55,180 --> 00:11:01,420 physical and spiritual. But I would say more physical at 152 00:11:01,420 --> 00:11:07,660 first, because if your physicality is weak and is 153 00:11:07,660 --> 00:11:13,580 flawed, then the spiritual is affected as well If we have evil 154 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:19,940 desires, evil fleshly desires. Gentlemen, when you get on the 155 00:11:19,940 --> 00:11:24,700 Internet and social media to start searching for videos and 156 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:31,460 pictures to satisfy your evil and your bodily desires, right 157 00:11:32,020 --> 00:11:34,540 then the spirit is yearning and crying out. 158 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:41,020 No no don't do that. But because you're fleshly weak, 159 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:46,020 so we are too good ourselves with truth. 160 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,000 And what is truth? What is he talking about? 161 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:54,840 Truth that you never lie. They always say what is right. 162 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,800 Well, Paul is referring to, according to church fathers, the 163 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:04,000 right faith along with the right doctrine creed. 164 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,800 We're not going to go too much into the creed. 165 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,600 We'll do that next episode. But the right faith. 166 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:14,080 The true faith. The faith. 167 00:12:15,470 --> 00:12:20,470 Now what is faith? What is faith believing? 168 00:12:20,470 --> 00:12:22,830 Well, that's faith, obviously. But what what? 169 00:12:22,830 --> 00:12:25,430 What is faith? What is this process of 170 00:12:25,430 --> 00:12:29,470 believing? It is a complete trust, 171 00:12:30,510 --> 00:12:35,390 confidence, unwavering, assurance, certainty, 172 00:12:35,390 --> 00:12:42,110 consistency in someone or something uninfluenced by human 173 00:12:42,270 --> 00:12:45,950 reason. And John Chrysostom quotes or 174 00:12:45,950 --> 00:12:50,990 writes. Faith supersedes human reason 175 00:12:51,590 --> 00:12:56,030 and is penetrate as it penetrates the invisible 176 00:12:56,030 --> 00:12:59,390 substance of things. You know what that means. 177 00:13:00,230 --> 00:13:04,590 How can a man be inside of a fish or a whale for three days 178 00:13:04,590 --> 00:13:08,270 and not be digested? That's ridiculous. 179 00:13:08,550 --> 00:13:11,300 That's beyond human reason, right? 180 00:13:11,540 --> 00:13:13,460 Well, let me pose you this question. 181 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:18,860 You see your children before the television and they witnessed 182 00:13:18,860 --> 00:13:25,300 Chapatl being swallowed by a fish with was it Cleo his. 183 00:13:25,340 --> 00:13:29,860 I think that was his cat. Cleo Vigaro. 184 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:33,400 Vigaro. And then Pinocchio dives into 185 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,280 the ocean and goes into the whale, and he sees that, hey, 186 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,720 Pinocchio is still alive. Maybe there's a subliminal, 187 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,800 subliminal biblical message there, right? 188 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:49,720 How can that be? How can a donkey speak? 189 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,040 But we pay hundreds of dollars to enter into, what is it, 190 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,320 Universal Studios. And we watch the animal show, 191 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,340 and we see rats come out from one side of the stage to the 192 00:14:03,340 --> 00:14:06,220 other side of the stage and we applaud. 193 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:08,500 And we are in awe. Oh, wow. 194 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:14,140 We see an eagle fly from its trainer's hand to the person 195 00:14:14,140 --> 00:14:16,620 who's holding the dollar note. Yes, I've seen it. 196 00:14:16,780 --> 00:14:19,540 And then we all clap and wow, Right. 197 00:14:19,740 --> 00:14:24,420 So if human beings have control over animals and they can train 198 00:14:24,420 --> 00:14:27,540 animals to do what they want, you fool. 199 00:14:27,540 --> 00:14:30,820 What about God, the creator of that human being and the animals 200 00:14:30,820 --> 00:14:32,740 and everything that we see and don't see? 201 00:14:33,220 --> 00:14:36,020 Everything tangible and non tangible. 202 00:14:36,540 --> 00:14:41,460 Nothing is impossible with God, yes, and faith supersedes that 203 00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:44,180 human reason. When you say are you serious, 204 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:46,340 that doesn't make sense. You say well that's faith. 205 00:14:46,740 --> 00:14:52,410 When it doesn't make sense, human sense, that is faith and 206 00:14:52,410 --> 00:14:56,410 faith, Lovett is more than emotions and knowledge and 207 00:14:56,410 --> 00:15:00,210 wisdom. You see, everyone has a faith, 208 00:15:00,970 --> 00:15:03,570 everyone has a belief. Let me use this as an example. 209 00:15:03,890 --> 00:15:07,010 The most ridicules of faith, ridiculous faith, evolution, 210 00:15:07,730 --> 00:15:14,450 evolution though a ridiculous instable, inconsistent theory. 211 00:15:15,170 --> 00:15:19,770 It requires more faith to accept and trust etcetera, right? 212 00:15:20,130 --> 00:15:24,090 Like the primordial soup. You know what a primordial soup 213 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:27,170 is, right? It's a notion that when the 214 00:15:27,250 --> 00:15:30,650 Earth was young, Hang on. Where did the Earth come from? 215 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:33,130 Oh, sorry, We didn't think about that. 216 00:15:33,130 --> 00:15:36,090 OK, it's ridiculous. So I need to have faith to 217 00:15:36,090 --> 00:15:38,890 believe because there's no proof it's inconsistent. 218 00:15:39,010 --> 00:15:42,130 So when the Earth was young, the oceans. 219 00:15:42,130 --> 00:15:43,130 What are you talking about? Oceans. 220 00:15:43,130 --> 00:15:44,730 Who? Where did these oceans come 221 00:15:44,730 --> 00:15:47,870 from? The oceans were filled with 222 00:15:47,870 --> 00:15:50,550 simple chemicals important for life. 223 00:15:50,550 --> 00:15:52,950 Where do these chemicals come? You see what I mean? 224 00:15:53,470 --> 00:15:56,790 You've got the gist of it. Ridiculous, inconsistent, 225 00:15:56,910 --> 00:16:00,630 continuously, continuously changing. 226 00:16:02,350 --> 00:16:06,270 So what Saint Paul is instructing us in order to not 227 00:16:06,270 --> 00:16:11,510 to give Satan the foot for whole, is to gird our loins with 228 00:16:11,630 --> 00:16:14,510 truth. The truth that in the beginning, 229 00:16:14,510 --> 00:16:15,550 God. God. 230 00:16:15,550 --> 00:16:19,430 Period. Don't text me and message me. 231 00:16:19,670 --> 00:16:22,630 But Robbie, what about God, Period. 232 00:16:22,630 --> 00:16:24,750 That is faith. You don't understand it. 233 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:27,190 It's OK. Praise God if it's not according 234 00:16:27,190 --> 00:16:30,310 to your the the human reason. Praise God because it's 235 00:16:30,430 --> 00:16:37,150 superseding human reason. The 1st and most important 236 00:16:37,470 --> 00:16:43,950 aspect weapon that we need to be armed with is truth and we are 237 00:16:43,950 --> 00:16:50,270 to stand strong in order to avoid giving Satan a loophole. 238 00:16:51,750 --> 00:16:54,870 And that is believing in God. That is the truth. 239 00:16:55,110 --> 00:17:00,630 All else is from Satan. I don't care what color robe 240 00:17:00,630 --> 00:17:06,030 they're wearing, what color sash is around their waist, what type 241 00:17:06,030 --> 00:17:10,270 of crosses are in their hands or hung on their necks. 242 00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:16,599 The truth is God, All else is satanic, and it's from Satan. 243 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,960 Now you're probably saying there are so many gods and so many 244 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:25,079 concepts, so many philosophies, ideologies of the true God. 245 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:26,960 How do I know which is the truth? 246 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:31,120 So that I can believe and stand firm and have my power in it. 247 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:36,730 So that I can avoid Satan. So that I can avoid giving Satan 248 00:17:36,730 --> 00:17:39,930 a loophole. Well, it's very simple See on 249 00:17:39,930 --> 00:17:41,930 these programs someone make this comment. 250 00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:45,050 I think Adrina someone said that you know Robbie you keep it 251 00:17:45,050 --> 00:17:46,090 simple. That's right. 252 00:17:46,090 --> 00:17:48,730 Because I'm not philosophical. I know academics. 253 00:17:48,730 --> 00:17:52,450 Listen guys, you want to know how what my academic level of 254 00:17:52,450 --> 00:17:57,870 understand of education is? Sydney people contact Saint 255 00:17:57,870 --> 00:18:00,590 John's Park High School. You know what school I'm talking 256 00:18:00,590 --> 00:18:02,590 about or farewell high school, right? 257 00:18:02,590 --> 00:18:05,590 I have none. I like to keep it simple because 258 00:18:05,590 --> 00:18:08,510 it is the simple facts of Christianity. 259 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:12,790 When we fulfil and stand firming we can be granted and graciously 260 00:18:12,790 --> 00:18:14,230 being granted the Kingdom of God. 261 00:18:14,230 --> 00:18:16,390 Simple. I'm not here to philosophize and 262 00:18:16,670 --> 00:18:20,630 and you know, use human reason. I have no time for human reason. 263 00:18:20,870 --> 00:18:25,130 I'm here with faith. I may not even be able to 264 00:18:26,330 --> 00:18:28,050 explain it. Beloved. 265 00:18:28,650 --> 00:18:31,010 I may be, I may. I may reply. 266 00:18:31,090 --> 00:18:33,370 I don't know. But I have faith, and I know 267 00:18:33,370 --> 00:18:39,490 it's beyond human reason. A simple equation. 268 00:18:39,810 --> 00:18:42,570 You want to know the true God. You want to know the truth. 269 00:18:42,890 --> 00:18:49,600 You turn to the only person that in the history of mankind you go 270 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:56,000 and read all of those so-called religious books of different 271 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,240 faiths. Interfaith I despise in the 272 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,880 faith, but let's not go there interfaith. 273 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,400 Go and read all these books. No one has dared to claim this. 274 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:15,200 And in the history of mankind the one and true God spoke and 275 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:24,100 said to one person that this is my Son the beloved in whom I am 276 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:26,380 delighted. Matthew 317. 277 00:19:27,180 --> 00:19:31,660 That is the truth. When he first appeared to be 278 00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:33,940 baptized at his baptism, it was an introduction. 279 00:19:34,380 --> 00:19:38,340 God the Father introduced God the Son. 280 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:43,420 And then in Matthew chapter 17, verse 5, there's a an extension. 281 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,960 This is my son. When Jesus revealed his 282 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:54,760 divinity, revealed his Godhead on the mount of Tabor, there was 283 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,960 a voice again that came from heaven. 284 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,600 This is my beloved son in whom I am delighted. 285 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,200 Hear him. Listen to him, our friends, the 286 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,800 Muslim friends. If there are Muslims listening 287 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,800 to this podcast, I welcome you and I'm glad that. 288 00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:13,130 You are listening and I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will 289 00:20:13,130 --> 00:20:16,170 somehow according to his perfect will and timing and 290 00:20:16,170 --> 00:20:20,370 unfathomable. You know strength and and and 291 00:20:20,410 --> 00:20:23,290 and timing and desire and will will touch your heart. 292 00:20:24,050 --> 00:20:28,890 Our friends the Muslims was this said to Muhammad? 293 00:20:29,980 --> 00:20:34,580 Is there anywhere in your Quran that the heavens opened? 294 00:20:34,780 --> 00:20:40,700 And God the Father let's call him Allah for argument's sake 295 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:45,780 God the Father Allah spoke and said this is my beloved son. 296 00:20:45,780 --> 00:20:48,580 No, don't even dare. Don't go to the Quran. 297 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:50,780 Don't, don't, don't, don't waste your time opening it. 298 00:20:50,860 --> 00:20:54,700 I'm telling you there isn't our beloved friends. 299 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:57,760 Who the Buddhist did God say this to? 300 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,360 Buddha, Confucius, Rajneesh, Bhagwan and And in all these all 301 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:09,120 these faiths no one person, one person and one person alone. 302 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,920 And that is the Son of God, God Incarnate. 303 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,120 Praise me to his name Jesus Christ. 304 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:23,000 Through Jesus Christ we know the truth, and by knowing the truth, 305 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,770 we must good ourselves. You know what that means if you 306 00:21:27,770 --> 00:21:30,050 don't understand what it means to stand firm. 307 00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:33,930 Go and read the history of your forefathers, beloved Syrian 308 00:21:33,930 --> 00:21:38,770 brothers and sisters, from any faith, any denomination, right. 309 00:21:39,290 --> 00:21:42,970 Go and read the history of our forefathers who died for this 310 00:21:42,970 --> 00:21:47,290 faith. When the sword, when the sword 311 00:21:47,330 --> 00:21:51,210 of Muhammad was placed on their necks, you know what they said? 312 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,800 We will not deny Jesus Christ, right? 313 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,680 This was simple faith. You know, they probably couldn't 314 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,000 define grace saved by grace. They, they, they, they couldn't 315 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,480 define that. But one thing they knew that 316 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,400 they would never deny Jesus Christ. 317 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,320 Simon denied him. Our forefathers didn't deny 318 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,000 Jesus Christ. And that's how they they knew 319 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,840 the truth and that's how they were girded by the truth. 320 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:22,720 To the point, to the last drop, to the point of the last drop of 321 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,320 their blood. They didn't deny deny Jesus 322 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:30,600 Christ and through Jesus Christ, and rightly so, only Jesus 323 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,920 Christ has claimed in John 14 six. 324 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,360 Now this is the pshuto version. This is the Aramaic, you know, 325 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,280 I'm sorry to say with all respects and I'm not saying 326 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,280 don't keep, continue to read the scripts you have, but maybe you 327 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:51,600 need to look for other versions. In the Aramaic version, it 328 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:56,200 actually says John 416. Not just I am, I mean yes, yes, 329 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,520 I am ING God said to Moses go and tell them I am no Yahwah. 330 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,720 But it's actually I am the living God. 331 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,240 So Jesus is saying I am the living God, the way and the 332 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,120 truth and the life. No man comes to my father, but 333 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:17,680 by me alone you see the father you see me. 334 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,640 John 10 Everything that my father has is mine. 335 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:27,360 John 16 No one dared to claim this truth that we need to be 336 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,160 good by. So when when you're giving Satan 337 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,560 the foothold, it's most probably because you have no 338 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,240 relationship. You're not standing firm on the 339 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,000 truth of Jesus Christ. You're wavering, You're quick to 340 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,200 compromise. You're quick to give away this 341 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,720 truth and then follow other so-called truths. 342 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,360 And then you're opened. You know the door is open. 343 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:50,680 The breeze is going to come in. That's when Satan comes and 344 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,400 starts attacking. In many ways, he'll throw doubts 345 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,920 in your mind. Well, you know, maybe 346 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,480 Christianity isn't the only true fact. 347 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,400 Yes, it is. Christians are not good people, 348 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,200 let me tell you that. Yes, I admit I for one, I raise 349 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,720 my hand. Stand corrected. 350 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,560 I'm committed. I'm convicted. 351 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,440 I may not be a good and true and perfect Christian, but 352 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:16,920 Christianity is true, perfect. No one from Christendom has come 353 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:22,190 out of Christendom and when interviewed has said Jesus 354 00:24:22,190 --> 00:24:27,750 Christ was a cruel Lord has to say taught division. 355 00:24:27,750 --> 00:24:30,430 No. But from other faiths they come 356 00:24:30,430 --> 00:24:34,070 out and say, well you know what my faith was teaching? 357 00:24:34,230 --> 00:24:38,710 Murder and eye for eye and a tooth for tooth. 358 00:24:40,350 --> 00:24:44,310 So we need to stand firm in the truth that the one true God is 359 00:24:44,310 --> 00:24:51,520 known through Jesus Christ. And to stand firm, which means 360 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:56,200 we believe we have complete trust in have unwavering 361 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,320 confidence, assurance, certainty consistently. 362 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:07,920 You know, we mentioned it, we mentioned it in one of the 363 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,160 verses. How do we stand in this truth? 364 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,370 Maybe in passing. Maybe you just overheard it or 365 00:25:18,370 --> 00:25:23,650 got sidetracked or took a bite of the the in and out double 366 00:25:23,650 --> 00:25:27,130 double. Or the vacuum cleaner hindered 367 00:25:27,130 --> 00:25:30,370 your hearing or someone pulled out in front of you and you're 368 00:25:30,370 --> 00:25:34,250 too busy trying to, you know, tell the person to be careful. 369 00:25:34,810 --> 00:25:37,290 Let me repeat it. How do I stand in this truth? 370 00:25:37,570 --> 00:25:42,250 Matthew 17. Five God says listen to the Son, 371 00:25:42,690 --> 00:25:48,150 listen to Jesus Christ. Listen to him to gain, to ponder 372 00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:54,230 and put it in practice. Put that faith, that truth in 373 00:25:54,230 --> 00:25:56,670 practice that you are hearing right now. 374 00:25:56,870 --> 00:25:59,390 What you heard you need to put in practice. 375 00:25:59,590 --> 00:26:02,630 Romans 10/17. Therefore, faith is from the 376 00:26:02,630 --> 00:26:05,910 hearing of the ear, Shmit of natha, and the hearing of the 377 00:26:05,910 --> 00:26:09,070 ear is from the word of God. You're hearing the word of God. 378 00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:13,030 Once you have heard, you need to examine it. 379 00:26:13,030 --> 00:26:16,310 Now you need to study it. You need to contemplate on it 380 00:26:16,430 --> 00:26:18,870 and ponder on it. Which on what you have heard, 381 00:26:18,990 --> 00:26:21,110 Not just send me a God bless you, Robbie. 382 00:26:21,230 --> 00:26:24,750 These are amazing. No, go if you have time. 383 00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:29,030 Once you finish your vacuum and your cooking, what have you open 384 00:26:29,030 --> 00:26:32,910 the scriptures and start to read and examine what I've what I 385 00:26:32,910 --> 00:26:38,390 have just told you. This is the way we are on a way. 386 00:26:38,870 --> 00:26:42,500 On the road on the path to deterring Satan to take a 387 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:46,820 foothold, we quote two Timothy 316, right? 388 00:26:47,180 --> 00:26:53,100 Every written, every written which is written by the Spirit. 389 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,060 Every writing which is written by the Spirit, and the Church 390 00:26:57,060 --> 00:27:02,420 canonizes which writings are by the Spirit is profitable for 391 00:27:02,420 --> 00:27:05,740 teaching. That is how to avoid Satan for 392 00:27:05,740 --> 00:27:09,650 correction, correcting our ways, our thoughts, our understanding 393 00:27:09,650 --> 00:27:13,490 on how to avoid and flee from the devil for direction and for 394 00:27:13,490 --> 00:27:17,290 A cause in righteousness. That is the right path which is 395 00:27:17,370 --> 00:27:22,530 opposite to Satan's evil paths, that the man or the woman of God 396 00:27:22,530 --> 00:27:25,970 will be perfect and perfected for every good Works. 397 00:27:26,570 --> 00:27:29,770 Do it. You hear it. 398 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,560 You examine it. You study it. 399 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,760 Do it. That's another problem we have. 400 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,400 We want Bible studies. We want to be spoken about this 401 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,720 type of topic and that topic and and preach about this. 402 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,960 And I'll be OK Fine. Yes, we'll do that. 403 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,520 We have the service of Christ. Right. 404 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,480 But are you doing it? We have 60 something episodes, 405 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,120 right? We're in 66, right? 406 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,600 Yes. You've heard all of them. 407 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:53,840 Are you doing it? Sorry. 408 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,460 Oh well, I'm being modest. 67 right? 409 00:27:59,580 --> 00:28:03,940 Are you doing it, James? 122 But be a doer of the word, 410 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:07,900 and not only a hero, and shake your hand and praise Jesus for 411 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:09,740 these words. No, do it. 412 00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:13,780 Do not deceive yourselves, St. James says, and in chapter one, 413 00:28:13,780 --> 00:28:17,060 verse 25, he continues. But everyone who gazes into the 414 00:28:17,060 --> 00:28:20,060 perfect law of liberty. Liberty is from God. 415 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,880 It's not some political government that wants to give us 416 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,560 and teach us liberalism. No, no, no. 417 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,280 That's evil, by the way. It's evil because liberalism 418 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,720 today is teaching me that your grandson, when he goes into the 419 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,320 school, you're going to have a drag queen that's going to come 420 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,200 and sit there and teach your son how to become a drag queen. 421 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,320 That's evil. That's not liberalism, right? 422 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,360 Liberty is from God, which means freedom, independence, the right 423 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,860 to have a relationship with God. So everyone who gazes into the 424 00:28:50,860 --> 00:28:55,940 perfect law or liberty and continues in it, continues lives 425 00:28:55,940 --> 00:29:00,620 in it, does it fulfills that He is not a hero who heard what is 426 00:29:00,620 --> 00:29:03,980 forgotten, but is a doer of the works. 427 00:29:04,380 --> 00:29:07,340 And this man shall be blessed in his work. 428 00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:13,620 Read the scriptures. Listen to the scriptures. 429 00:29:14,260 --> 00:29:16,340 Do the Scriptures examine the Scriptures? 430 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:21,960 Jesus prayed for all of us. John 1717 Father, sanctify them 431 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,080 by your truth. What is the truth? 432 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,600 Your word Himself, the Word of God. 433 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,840 Christ Himself prays between His name and the word that came and 434 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,760 proceeded from his mouth is truth. 435 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,160 We prayed in the beginning. Sanctify our souls by your 436 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:45,440 truth. This is how we can begin to 437 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,810 practice to battle against Satan, avoiding him, taking a 438 00:29:51,810 --> 00:29:57,330 foothold, so girding ourselves with the truth of the One God 439 00:29:57,330 --> 00:30:00,130 through Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit. 440 00:30:01,210 --> 00:30:06,130 And we say we believe in one Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth 441 00:30:06,370 --> 00:30:10,890 that proceeds from the Father. What proceeded from the Father? 442 00:30:11,130 --> 00:30:15,090 Praise and glory be to his name, the Son and the Holy Spirit, One 443 00:30:15,090 --> 00:30:19,870 God, one triune God. So put these things in practice. 444 00:30:19,870 --> 00:30:25,830 Beloved, you know sometimes people want their cake and to 445 00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:27,230 eat it as well. No, you need to. 446 00:30:27,230 --> 00:30:30,310 You need to take onus in your Christianity. 447 00:30:31,110 --> 00:30:33,830 Go back and examine yourselves to the Scriptures. 448 00:30:34,470 --> 00:30:39,950 Go back and see if you truly understand and believe in the 449 00:30:39,950 --> 00:30:43,260 one true God and how do you believe in that one true God? 450 00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:47,980 Through Jesus Christ and only through Jesus Christ and worry 451 00:30:47,980 --> 00:30:51,100 about what the world is teaching and what some some religious 452 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,620 leaders are teaching. Don't worry about that. 453 00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:58,300 God will reward according to their deeds. 454 00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:03,780 You focus on the Lord Jesus Christ and the truth and the 455 00:31:03,780 --> 00:31:07,460 Holy Spirit that Jesus promised would send. 456 00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:11,220 And He will teach us the truth that proceeds from the Father, 457 00:31:11,460 --> 00:31:14,180 that Spirit that is in you that would lead you. 458 00:31:14,180 --> 00:31:19,500 But you need to be attentive to the Father and to the Son and to 459 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:23,100 the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. 460 00:31:42,810 --> 00:31:44,690 We hope you enjoyed this week's message. 461 00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:47,930 Please don't forget to rate and review this podcast and share 462 00:31:47,930 --> 00:31:50,730 with your friends and family. 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