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The Lord Has Been Calling You
Mar Mari Emmanuel
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Mar Mari Emmanuel

The Lord Has Been Calling You

Mar Mari Emmanuel passionately calls listeners to respond to God's lifelong invitation, warning against the deceptive allure of worldly pleasures and emphasizing the protection and faithfulness found only in Christ.
In this powerful evangelistic sermon, Mar Mari Emmanuel urges listeners to heed God's persistent call and reject the fleeting allure of worldly pleasures. Drawing from personal experience and vivid illustrations, he exposes the deceptive tactics of Satan and highlights God's unwavering protection and faithfulness. Through the story of the crow and biblical truths, he encourages a transformative encounter with Christ that leads to a life of light and purpose.

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The Lord has been calling you all your life. What have you been doing? Ignoring his callings. My daughter, I want to see you in the church.

Hello Rachel, are we going clubbing? I'm coming. And then the Lord came again. My son, I want to see you in the church.

Hey buddy, what are you doing tomorrow? Nothing. You want to go downtown? Of course mate. You're not tired? Nah.

For downtown anytime brother. Church is for the pensioners, for the oldies. We're still young.

We need to have fun bro. It's boring. Did you say that you pray and you go to church? You're only 23, 24.

Something wrong with you? People in your age, they need to have fun. Dress up semi-naked, do all the Botox and the makeup and show yourself and let's go and have fun and let's stay overnight in the city. Don't worry about mom and dad.

Who cares about them? It is our time now. We enjoy it while we can. Well, Corona came, shut the city down.

Shut every club, shut every cinema, shut every alley, shut every airport and every port. For two years, we were prisoners. Is this the fun you want in the world? Look what the world has done for you.

Made you a slave. See the enemy my beloved, now I'm talking with experience, please. This beard did not go white for nothing.

It's not easy to be a Santa Claus, right? Takes a lot of sweat. I can assure you, I can assure you, Satan exists. If you don't want to believe the Holy Bible, there is a person here that is living in the flesh and I gained nothing out of this by saying it.

I can assure you, Satan is as ugly as you could imagine and beyond your imagination. It's ugly. He is absolutely hatred.

He is not full of hatred. He is hatred itself and he hates every single one of you to death. You have no idea how much hatred he has for every single soul and more so, more so those who belong to Jesus Christ.

He is on fire. He wants to shred you to pieces, burn you. It is the Lord who is protecting you.

By the way, Satan is very powerful. Don't think you can win with him. Outside of Christ, he will swallow you before you blink your eyes.

No matter how smart, how strong, how wise, forget about it. You cannot surpass the wisdom of Satan. He is over 5,000 years old.

You cannot surpass that wisdom. How old are you? 20, 30, 50, 100? He is thousands of years of wisdom. He will play with you like a little ball in his hand.

It is the Lord who protects. Now Satan wants to swallow me right now. Oh, he wants to come and rip me.

Get lost. Yes, my beloved. Satan is ugly.

He will come to you first and he'll make it look gold. He'll make it look honey. He'll make it look perfect.

He will lay the road, the path. He will make it floral. You know, this is the best experience I've had in my life.

I went out with my friends. I've never enjoyed such freedom, such beauty in my entire life. I don't know what I was missing on until I went out with my friends and we had fun, brother.

Satan will make it look there is no tomorrow. This is it, the best life. Until he drags you and he pulls you and he pulls you and he brings you into the deep, into the deep and into the deep and he knows and he knows he is good with the timing as well.

He knows now you cannot do nothing anymore. He will let go of you and will make fun of you and then you look to the shores where Christ is and you have swum so far away and so deep and it's a wild ocean. There are so many enemies that will come and devour me.

It is so dark, so lonely, so fragile I am, so weak, so vulnerable, so alone. That's what the enemy will do and the so-called friends they will disappear at the time most needed. No more those friends that used to laugh in your face.

You will see them no more when you are fallen. Once upon a time I said my friend is the only loyal person in my life, is better than my own mother and father but when I fell and I was broken and I hit rock bottom, I realized my friend was nothing but a big lie in my life. They were with me for the wrong reason and at that fallen moment I came to this truth and realization.

There is only one true friend and that is God who art in heaven. Daddy, my heavenly father because everyone left me, everyone deserted me. Jesus was always there when everyone hated me and walked away.

Jesus never walked away. Jesus never walked away. Jesus never walked away.

I've mentioned this before. King David in Psalms talks about the crow. You know that black bird? The black bird, the crow.

This is a true story. When the father and the mother have a baby, the baby of the crow when it comes out has no feathers, it is just skin and the skin is dark blue, almost bluish blackish and the baby is so ugly, the parents despise the baby's ugliness. They leave him in the nest and they fly away.

They say what an ugly baby. Well, well who brought him to life? You parents. You must be uglier than this baby but the parents leave this ugly baby alone in the nest.

No feathers, no wings, no power, no strength. For 40 days the parents fly away, leave the baby alone to die. Who comes to the rescue? God.

That's a true story. God through his infinite wisdom put something in this little baby. The bee through those vents brings out a substance, bring out a substance that attracts small flies.

When the flies smell this substance, they think it's food. This substance is like super glue. So when the fly comes thinking it's food, it sits on it, it gets stuck on it, can't fly anymore.

The little baby brings that tongue of its and then eats that fly, lives on these flies for 40 days until the wings and the feathers come out and he can fly. After 40 days the parents show up. The baby is reliant on itself.

Thank you mom and dad for not being here. That's why King David says my father and mother deserted me but God embraced me. He is referring to the crow baby.

My own parents deserted me but God embraced me. If God embraces this bird, how much more he will embrace you? You are the image and the likeness of God. You are his child, his own son.

Do you think he will desert you? Impossible. Make him your friend. Enough going with the wrong people for the wrong places for the wrong reasons.

The noise will wake my conscience up. Thunder. God will shake me up.

He'll put me through lockdowns, social distancing and masking thanks to Anthony Fauci and the WHO, World Health Organization. All of these big lies. The whole world is one big lie.

It's so sad buddy. Very sad. God gave us a beautiful world and we destroyed it through our ignorance, greed, false glories and chasing after Satan.

When God shakes me through thunders, there's going to come lightnings because after the thunder, the lightning will shine and the whole sky will light up. When God shakes me, his word will light up my life. I will realize for the first time ever, my goodness, where have I been all this time? How blind was I when the word of Christ lit up in my life like the lightning.

When he enlightened my life, I realized I was so lost. And for the first time, I'm going to thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to see your light once again. I am indebted to you forever Lord.

And when his light shines in me and in my life, the last thing is a huge earthquake will take place. An earthquake shakes the ground beneath you and then you will go to bring that earthquake to everyone that Christ brings your way. You want to give the Lord Jesus to people.

You want to say to the people, come, you guys have no idea what you're missing on. I was one of you. I was exactly in the same mentality.

I was walking in the same way as you guys. I used to have fun like everyone in the world did. But today when I go to the club, I suffocate.

I receive my life, my oxygen when I go to church. Please come. I want to take you to church.

No more club. I want to praise the Lord. No more swearing.

I want to speak the truth. No more lies. I want to walk in the light.

No more darkness. I want to be the child of God. No more slave to Satan and the filth of this world.

Sermon Outline

  1. I. The Call of the Lord
    • God has been calling throughout life
    • Ignoring God's call leads to emptiness
    • Invitation to join the church community
  2. II. The Deception of the World
    • Worldly pleasures are temporary and enslaving
    • Satan's cunning and hatred towards believers
    • The false freedom offered by sin
  3. III. God's Protection and Faithfulness
    • Only God remains when all else deserts
    • God's embrace likened to the crow's survival
    • The power of Christ to protect and save
  4. IV. The Transformation through Christ
    • God's shaking leads to enlightenment
    • Turning from darkness to light
    • Sharing the gospel with others

Key Quotes

“The Lord has been calling you all your life. What have you been doing? Ignoring his callings.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Satan will make it look there is no tomorrow. This is it, the best life. Until he drags you and he pulls you and he brings you into the deep.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel
“Jesus never walked away. Jesus never walked away. Jesus never walked away.” — Mar Mari Emmanuel

Application Points

  • Respond promptly to God's call and engage actively in the church community.
  • Reject worldly temptations that lead away from God and seek His protection.
  • Share your testimony and the gospel to bring others to Christ.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does it mean that the Lord has been calling you?
It means God has been inviting you to a relationship with Him and to live a life aligned with His purpose.
Why does the speaker warn against worldly pleasures?
Because they are temporary, deceptive, and ultimately enslave people, leading them away from God's protection.
How does the sermon describe Satan?
Satan is portrayed as a powerful, hateful enemy who deceives and wants to destroy souls.
What is the significance of the crow story?
It illustrates God's care and provision even when others abandon us, symbolizing His faithfulness.
What practical steps does the sermon encourage?
To respond to God's call, turn away from sin, embrace Christ's protection, and share the gospel with others.

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