Why God Created You

Well, this evening we'll be talking regarding the book of Psalms and we've chosen Psalm 1 and it is verse 1. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. And all glory be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ forever and ever. Amen.

Book of Psalms, to give it a title we call it Blessed is the man. And these are the very first words that Psalm 1 and verse 1 begins with and we're going to give it this title, Blessed is the man. In the book of Sirach, which probably a lot of you have maybe have not even heard of it or even read it, but in the book of Sirach chapter 14 and verse 1, this book is of the deuterocanonical books.

So in the book of Sirach chapter 14 and verse 1 it says, Blessed is the man who does not blunder with his lips and need not suffer grief for sin. Now we are tying Sirach 14.1 with Psalm number 1. They go hand in hand. When we look at Sirach 14.1 it says, Blessed is the man who does not blunder with his lips.

What does that mean, does not blunder with his lips? It means does not make a mistake in his speech in the way he talks. So blessed is the man who never makes a mistake when they talk and need not suffer grief for sin. It means he does not make a mistake in his actions.

So in other words, blessed is the man who does not make a mistake neither the way he talks nor the way he walks. Blessed is that man that does not make a mistake neither the way he talks nor the way he walks. This applies to none of us because all of us are sinners and all of us have sinned with the way we talk and with the way we walk.

This is why both in the book of Sirach 14.1 and in Psalm 1.1 they refer to the man not a man. Blessed is the man, the man. So the man means there is only one man and no one else but him because every other man failed and sinned with the way they talked and with the way they behaved and walked.

But there is the man who never sinned neither with the way he spoke nor with the way he went about his obligation, his duties. And the only man which both verses apply to is none but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to his holy and mighty name.

Jesus is the perfect sinless man that never sinned neither with the way he spoke nor with the way he walked. And as the as the man he is perfect sinless like God but obviously he is also the perfect God and as the perfect God he is perfection in itself does not need to say anything further. However our topic today is about the man, the perfect man.

We connected Sirach 14.1 and Psalm 1.1 together as they both speak about the man Jesus. The first part of Sirach 14.1 so verse 1 is we can divide it into two parts. The first part of verse 1 it says blessed is the man who does not blunder with his lips.

We find the meaning to this in Psalm 1 and the first half of Psalm 1 which is verses 1 to 3. And the second part of Sirach 14.1 that says and need not suffer grief for sin. We find the meaning of this in Psalm 1 the second part of it which is verses 4 to 6. So Psalm 1 consists of six verses. This is why we connected Sirach 14.1 and Psalm number 1. Now before we come into this psalm my beloved I want to say something here before we comment on Psalm number 1. There is something called the divine project.

There is something called the divine project. Many people ask why did God create me? Many people ask this question why did God really create me? What is the purpose of it all? Since after being born, raised, started working, got married, raised a family, being successful and after all this hard work and many many years of suffering and sacrifices I depart from this world and leave it all behind. And I say I wish it never existed in the first place.

What is the point of going through all this and at the end just farewell everything and put it to rest. So we question this. However my beloved there is an objective as to why God created us all.

God has a goal and he wants to achieve this goal. And when I say God I mean the triune God. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, one in nature, one in essence, one God.

So this God who is Father, Son, Holy Spirit is all love and he has infinite goodness. God has only one begotten son but God wishes to have many children to inherit his infinite goodness with his beloved son. Because he is love he wants to share this love.

Because he is good he wants to share this goodness and the only one who shares it with is his beloved son Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So he wanted to have instead of just one begotten son he wanted to have many many children to share his goodness with his children along with his beloved son Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This is God's objective.

Now his son is Christ and whoever believes in Christ they are the children who will inherit God's goodness i.e. glory. His son is Christ and whoever believes in Christ they will be those children who will inherit God's goodness which is his glory. Now a question.

How would God bring these children? He wants to have many children but how is he going to do it? Well my beloved, there are two ways to have children. No more, no less. There are two ways.

One of them I'm sure a lot of us here are aware of. There is the first one is called the physical connection. When the man and the woman get together in a matrimonial bond sanctified by the almighty God and they bear fruits they bear children.

So there is the physical way of making children possible. However this physical biological way it cannot work with God. It is impossible to work with God because simply God is only one and there is no other God like him to be together.

So he is only one and one God only. So the biological physical aspect is out of the question. Then we are left with the second option.

How God went about to make children and plenty of them. The second option is called mortification or simply death. Through death God made children.

Can death give birth? The answer is yes. I'll give an example. Let's say I have a grain of wheat and I want this grain of wheat to have many children, many grains of wheat.

Can I bring another grain and unite them together in order to bear children? Can I? I'm asking you. Can I bring one grain of wheat and bring another one and say okay now you're united in a bond now and to bear children? Of course not. But how can I make this grain of wheat bear fruits many children when the grain is buried into the ground? When the grain is buried into the ground the moment this grain of wheat is buried into the ground the secret of life that is hidden in it becomes revealed.

For as long as this grain of wheat was outside above ground there is no sign of life there is no sign of multiplication. But the moment it is buried the secret of this very life that was hidden in this seed became revealed the moment the grain was buried i.e. when it died. The moment the grain died gave life and the moment it's buried it shoots out roots, stump, flower and then in that head 40 grains of wheat are produced exactly identical to the very one that was buried into the ground.

One died produced 40 fully identical through death children were made possible and this is exactly the way God used to bring us into existence. This is exactly the same way God used to bring us all into existence. This is revealed to us by Christ himself.

We read in John 12 24 the Lord Jesus is speaking here he says truly truly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it remains alone but if it dies it bears much fruit. Through death birth was made possible. When we study the four gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John we do not see the Lord Jesus referring to anyone prior to his crucifixion.

We do not see the Lord Jesus referring to anyone as my brother. I guarantee you read him and I encourage you to read please. Please do read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

You will never see the Lord Jesus prior to the cross prior to his resurrection referring to any human being as his own brother. Yes people said to him your mother and brothers are waiting outside. People said it but did Jesus say it himself? Never never.

When did the Lord Jesus say my brothers for the first time ever after resurrection and tell my brothers I am ascending to my father and your father to my God and your God. When did the Lord Jesus refer to us as his brothers after he was risen from the dead so that grain of wheat is Christ himself because what do you make out of the grain of wheat bread and in John 6 he says I am the living bread that descended from heaven. He who eats me shall live in me forever.

So the grain of wheat is himself unless that grain of wheat is buried into the earth it will remain alone but if it dies it will bear many fruits. The grain of wheat Christ he was buried into the grave and when he rose from the grave he bore many fruits and that was the only time he said to us and called us brothers. That was the only time prior to the cross.

What did he refer to his disciples as? Friends and beloved. That's all. After resurrection he called them my brothers.

Now Jesus Christ is the son of God and if Jesus Christ who is the son of God calls us brothers so what are we now to God? Sons of God. If we are brothers to the son of God then we are the sons of the almighty God at the same time and who made this possible? Jesus the grain of wheat when he got buried and died and rose and brought forth gave birth to many children. God the father gave birth to many children through his beloved son when he was buried into the ground and rose from the dead.

All glory to his holy and mighty name. My beloved any project any project requires three parties. First one is the project owner.

Second one the engineer who will design the project and the third one the financier who will fund the project. So there are three parties to any project. The owner, the engineer and the financier who's going to fund the project.

Now the project owner is God the father. The project owner is God the father. The father wants many children.

That is his project. He wants to achieve this. So what is what does he do? He brought the engineer into into play to make it to draw it all for him and who is the engineer? The holy spirit and who is the financier? The son of God Jesus Christ.

He financed the project with his own precious blood. He paid the price of the project in full on the cross. Since the engineer is the holy spirit and the financier Jesus Christ of Nazareth for this the engineer takes from the financier and implements it and that's where the Lord Jesus said it in John 16 14 about the holy spirit.

He says he will he meaning the holy spirit he will glorify me. So the holy spirit the engineer will glorify me either financier for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. The engineer will take from the financier and declare it to you.

John 16 14. The holy spirit takes from Christ and gives us until Christ is reflected and revealed in us clearly and vividly. The holy spirit's job or role is to make us Christ-like imitating Christ.

John the beloved in his epistle the first epistle chapter 3 verse 2 he says beloved we are God's children. We are God's children now. It does not yet appear.

Now if I ask you you are a child of God you're going to say oh please father like I'm I'm a mighty sinner. I can't be the child of God. You know I've got too many defects.

There are too many wrong things in me. It just cannot I cannot be the son to the almighty God. God is perfect.

How can I be his son and yet I'm full of errors and that's why John the beloved is saying we are God's children now. It does not yet appear what shall be what we shall be but we know that when he appease we shall be like him. So on the second return of Christ when he appease we shall be like him in the next life.

We will be Christ-like in the next life but here we're struggling but the grace of God and the power of the holy spirit and the sacrificial lamb of God trying frantically in us to shape us and form us and mold us and make us Christ-like. We're struggling but getting there but if you trust in the Lord he will make sure at the end you will end up like him. He will make sure you need to trust him.

Now my beloved you will say to me why did you say all this yet we haven't even entered into Psalm 1. Why all this introduction and I will reply and say this to you my beloved because Psalm 1 is telling us the following. No one will enter heaven unless they are Christ-like. Psalm 1 is telling us no one can ever enter heaven unless we are Christ-like.

If anyone comes to you and says that with your deeds and with your sacrifices and with your hard work you can make it well the law will say this to you yes theoretically speaking yes you can make it however if you can get a hundred out of a hundred in God's law. If you sit in an exam God's exam and you get a hundred out of a hundred then you can enter heaven with your own hard work but can anyone fulfill God's law in its perfection? That is the question. You need to be like the man.

Blessed is the man. Can we have the verse on the screen please? Blessed is the man. Can you be like this man the man? Well in James the epistle of James chapter 2 verse 10 he says for whoever shall keep the whole law and yet stumble in one point he is guilty of all.

In other words what Saint James is saying if you sit an exam in God's exam and you get 99.9999 out of a hundred God will give you zero. It is either a hundred or it's nothing with God because God is perfect. He will never allow anything enter his presence unless it is perfect like him.

So 99.999 is not a perfect number. The perfect number that will get you to heaven is a hundred out of a hundred. So unless you get a hundred out of a hundred you can never make it.

No human being can ever fulfill God's law in its totality. We all failed. God gave us ten commandments through Moses.

We miserably failed in all of them. In all of them. Someone might come and say well one of the commandments says do not kill.

I never killed anyone. Really? Maybe you didn't kill somebody physically but you've killed somebody mentally emotionally. What about your gossip? Talking behind people's back, stabbing him in the back that is called murder.

That applies to the commandment. You are now a killer in the sight of gossiping. So I didn't kill him with a bullet but I killed him with a word.

So there is the physical murder and there is the spiritual murder. It all falls under do not kill. All of us failed my beloved.

If ten commandments we were not able to fulfill how can we fulfill the fullness of God's law? It is impossible. Therefore no one can make it to heaven. This is why the grain of wheat came.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Since God the Father wanted children and God the Father realized these children even if he make them they won't be able to get back to him because they will not be the perfect ones he intended for them to be. That's why he sent his beloved son Jesus Christ of Nazareth to be that grain of wheat that was buried into the ground died and through death God the Father gave birth through his beloved son's death gave birth to many children who believed in him to fulfill the fullness of the law of God on our behalf.

That's why Jesus came to fulfill the fullness of God's law on our behalf where we failed. Now to fulfill the fullness of the law I'll give you several biblical references that talks about Jesus fulfilling the law on our behalf and it's just a few just a very few of them. Read Matthew 5 17 to 18.

Read Romans 8 3 to 4. Read Romans 10 verse 4. Read Galatians 3 verse 13. And Colossians chapter 2 verses 13 to 14. Just a few to name where Christ fulfilled the law on our behalf in order for us to get a hundred out of a hundred.

Christ came to pay our debt in full and fulfill the law of God in full. So when we say blessed is the man the very beginning of Psalm 1 and verse 1 blessed is the man the word the means this is the man and there is no one else but him period no prophet no holy man you knew whoever you want to bring all humans are sinners and the wages of sin is death only one man was sinless like God this man is the man mentioned in Psalm 1 1 blessed is the man so when we say blessed is the man then who will enter heaven Jesus the man since he is the only one perfect the only one who fulfilled God's law then he is the only man that will enter heaven then the question is what about me well if Jesus is the only one who fulfilled the law therefore he's able to enter heaven then what about me what will happen to me well you want to enter heaven you need to cancel yourself and enter through Christ you need to cancel yourself and enter through Christ look at Saint Paul understood it Galatians 2 20 Saint Paul is saying it is no longer I who live I canceled myself it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me you want to enter heaven it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me in our terminology in our simple English stop being stubborn and doing things your way stop going downtown stop going here and there and so-called having fun stop doing it your way because Christ purchased you with his own precious blood you no longer belong to yourself you belong to him and the only way to enter heaven you need to be perfect as God and the only man that is perfect as God is Christ the King therefore you want to enter with Jesus to heaven you better live for him no more for yourself as a Christian we cannot be worldly my son my daughter don't ever fight for materialistic things I see so sadly even in marriages they became materialistic even in baptisms they became materialistic we've introduced materialism which is the world we brought it into the church and we made the church worldly and Christ established the church to change the world into heavenly when as Christians fight over a diamond ring fight over a house fight over a block of land fight over clothing fight over a car fight over money we haven't lived Christ yet we haven't Christianity is not a story being told Christianity is not a song being sang Christianity is not an eloquent preach given Christianity is Christ being lived Christ needs to be lived not talked about it's so easy to talk about the Lord yet so hard to live the Lord that is why many talk about the Lord but only few live him only few the Lord says to enter God's kingdom you need to be perfect like God the only one who's perfect like God is Jesus the man so the only one who's going to enter heaven out of the entire human race is Jesus but God the father wants many children so therefore you need to die for yourself and live for Jesus Christ of Nazareth in order to enter heaven through him by him with him and in him that's the only way otherwise we are all going to die eventually anyway and whatever we worked hard for will go astray it'll be just a vanity what a loss what a great loss if I don't have Jesus in my life whatever I've gained on earth even though I've worked hard for it it is all a loss at the end the grave will take everything away from you but when you have Jesus your portion whatever you worked hard for you will see a massive credit for you in heaven the Lord will say come my child this place is yours because you made me your portion you made me your savior you made me your redeemer you made me your king over your life whatever you worked hard for because you've done it in my name for my glory I will glorify you in heaven the way you glorified me on earth amen come on amen so my beloveds stop seeking the world and its pleasures and temptations glorify Christ in everything you do glorify Christ when you are with your friends don't let your friends take you away from the Lord and if they do they are not your friends walk away from them a true friend is the one who takes you up not down it's the one who takes you to the church not the club it's the one who takes you to the light not darkness it's the one who takes you to Christ not satan that is the true friend so you want to enter heaven cancel yourself and live for the Lord Jesus and since you live in the man you will enter heaven enter heaven in a perfect way someone will apply to you completely you enter heaven through Jesus Christ someone will apply to you completely and perfectly we will enter heaven perfect there are two important verses that reveal this that we will enter heaven perfect two vital verses that reveal this to us one verse one is Ephesians 5 27 look at same poem that he might present her that he here means Jesus Christ that he might present her meaning the church that he might present her to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she would be holy and without blemish that he might Jesus present his beloved church the bride in the end to the father perfect like him that is telling us he will bring us into heaven as perfect as he is the second verse is Matthew 25 21 this is when you enter heaven what the Lord will say about you as you're entering heaven this is true by the way trust every word that is written in the holy bible this is the only place the truth exists trust me not me trust this perfect God perfect man Jesus Christ of Nazareth look at Matthew 25 21 as you're entering heaven the Lord will get up to welcome you look what he will say to you his Lord said to him well done good and faithful servant so the Lord will say to that person who enters heaven he will say well done good and faithful servant now hang on the holy bible teaches us there is no one good but God there is no one good but hang on God himself is saying in Matthew 25 21 I will say to that person who enters heaven well done good but hang on the word good only applies to God why are you calling me good I'm a sinner no the Lord says the only reason why I called you good and faithful servant because I did not see you I saw my son in you that's why I called you good and faithful because I know I'm God you don't need to tell me who is good and who is not my son is the good God and my son he is the good God in his divinity and he is the faithful servant in his humanity so that's why I saw my son in you and that was the only reason I referred to you as good and faithful servant because you entered through my son otherwise I do not know who you are away with you or evil doer go to hell a place prepared for satan and his foul spirits but if you enter through Jesus Christ you will hear God's calling you the good and faithful servant and God is good and since he called you good then he made you like God we will be Christ like in the end this is why John the Beloved says in 1 John 3 2 we shall be like him in the end we shall be like him now Psalm 1 verse 1 says blessed is the man in this verse this the man blessed is the man this man has three qualities in verse 1 it tells us that this perfect man has three qualities in the same verse first quality blessed is the man the first quality is who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly this perfect man does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly second quality nor stands in the path of sinners third quality nor sits in the seat of the scornful those who ridicule and make fun of people so the qualities of this perfect man one he never walked in the counsel of the ungodly he never associated himself with ungodly people are you associating yourself with ungodly people you need to ask yourself this question number two this perfect man he never stood in the path of the sinners are you walking with sinners doing what they do living the way they live because this perfect man never did and number three quality third quality is he never sat in the seat of the scornful those who make fun of things if you're sitting in the midst of group of people and you say something and they laugh at you and make fun of you don't associate yourself in that kind of an environment you need people that would appreciate you need people that would respect honor honor christ who is in you so if they're going to make fun and joke and laugh and ridicule you and what kind of an a group you're with you need to ask yourself this question my beloved we need to be very very very cautious of what we do where we go and how we live our life now on the other hand we are sinners we are weak yes we get drawn we get tempted we slip we slide we walk away we veer off the road i know this god knows this more than all of us but together but there is a difference god came to call not the righteous but the sinners to repentance that's what the lord jesus said i did not come to call righteous but sinners to repentance the lord jesus said i am the doctor that's why i came because you are sick if you were not sick the doctor wouldn't have come i know you are sinners i know you make mistakes i know you are weak i know your fragility you don't need to tell me this but i came i chose to come for the sinners because my dad wants many children at the moment you're not ready to be my dad's children i have to make you ready so i came seeking the sinner unto repentance and the lord gave us two examples of sinners you see when the holy bible talks about birds plants animals he's referring to them in order to pass a message to what people are like so through the animals he's saying there are certain characteristics in these animals you my children i don't want you to be like them so through those animals he's given us a very profound spiritual lesson what are the two animals the lord jesus spoke of one sheep the other pig when it comes to sinners he says one kind of people is a sheep and the other kind of people is a pig you're either a sheep or a pig one of these two but if you choose to be like the pig then i can't choose you i cannot choose you if you choose to be like a pig let me tell you a few characteristics of a pig of the pig number one the pig loves living in filth loves it you take the pig out of the filth and you wash him clean give him a nice bath and you make him spotless he will hate you for it he will get so so upset with it he can't stand cleanliness he will run straight away and jump into the filth and the moment he is in the middle of the filth and he's on cloud nine he's saying yo what's up bro get down brother lay me some skin bro now you're talking brother get down what's up that's the pig loves filth you can't clean him he can't stand being clean that's one two for as long as the pig's eyes are on the filthy world on the filthy ground the mouth never shuts oink oink oink oink oink oink oink it's always oink oink oink oink oink everywhere old mcdonald had a pig oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink as long as the pig's eye are on that filth the mouth never shuts in the olden days where there was not uh there wasn't uh sort of those tranquilizers you know being sort of invented yet they used to steal pigs professional thieves do you know how they used to steal a pig obviously with experience they timed it in a way where they had to run so fast at that pig before he screams because if the pig screams he will wake up the entire neighborhood very noisy and very annoying noise so before the pig goes off they run they grab the pig the first thing they do they turn the pig on its back they turn the pig on its back the moment the eyes of the pig see heaven the mouth shuts you want to kick the pig you want to punch the pig you want to open the pig with a knife will never make a sound the moment the eyes see heaven but the moment the eyes see the filthy ground the mouth never shuts but the moment it sees heaven no matter what you say to the pig it will never talk the lord jesus says do not associate yourself with people when they when the when the subject is about the world and worldly things the mouth never shuts but the moment you invoke the name of jesus christ everybody shuts up and finds an excuse to get up and walk away do not associate yourself with people that are not interested in god they just love worldly things you talk about who got married you got divorced yes i'm all for it you talk about people how many millions they have yes the mouth will never shut you talk about politics about anything that is worldly the mouth never shuts but the moment you say i just want to share with you what jesus has done in my life oh sorry bro i just realized i have to go i have a very important meeting wow just like the pig sees heaven and who is in heaven god and the world what are you going to get out of the world at the end the grave you will not take anything with you nothing we came empty-handed through our mother's womb and we will go back to mother earth also empty-handed but he who has christ as his portion you will go full and filled and perfect chase the world you'll end up alone nothing with you choose your friends wisely the holy bible tells us about friends it says a friend is closer than a brother to you a friend is closer than a brother to you then my question to you who is closer to you than your own brother who can tell me who can tell me who is closer than a brother to you your partner in marriage no one beats that god said about couple married couple he said they are one no longer two every other one is another person a totally unique separate person to you your brother is separate from you your mother your father is separate to you the only one who is one with you is your partner in marriage so your the friend the holy bible says the friend is closer than a brother to you meaning the friend is as influential as your own partner in marriage that means friendship is extremely dangerous if we do not choose it wisely you see how much does your wife influence you so as your friend can influence you how much does your husband influence you maybe nowadays not much it's more so the wife but how much your partner can influence you so as your friend that's why the holy bible says when you choose friends make sure you do not exceed three oh oh i think i'm talking to myself here bishop you're making it very difficult now brother what am i going to do i have about 200 of them you know you need to have if you are going to choose a friend choose a friend that you can trust blindfolded you know why because a friend in the friendship all levels are equal all levels are equal in friendship the moment the level is equal you will open up and tell your secrets to that friend the reason why you open up and tell your secrets to a person is when you see that person in the same level as you are if that person is in not is not in your level you will never open up why because you know if you talk they will misunderstand you or they will not understand you at all that's why so many times the son doesn't speak to his dad but he speaks to his friend the daughter doesn't speak to her mom and she speaks to her friend why because if the mother treats that child as a mother the child will never open up because the mother's level is here and the daughter's level is here two different levels cannot fathom cannot comprehend if the father level is here and the son's level here they will not understand when will the levels become one when the father befriends his son and when the mother befriends her daughter the moment we are friends we are equal level then i'll tell you what's in my heart that's why friends must be chosen wisely and closely because the moment they know about you and if they're not trustworthy they will let the whole world know about you and the more friends you have the more heads you have meaning the more different intellect you have so the more friends the more different perspective the more different opinions the more different you know vision so next time you want to do something you'll have a hundred different ideas you want to ask for an advice you'll get 100 different advices which one do you take you don't know you're lost that's why you need to come to someone like me you know one head one idea can't go wrong and i'll say to you you want to marry this guy let me scan him for you i am the that mri scan i'll scan him and then i'll send you a full report and i'll say yes he's got a thick head good head no head at all forget it you know it's like this joke this husband and wife they used to fight and argue a lot so one day the husband came and he said honey you know what i've been thinking about it enough fighting i can't stand it anymore it's not right it's not healthy neither for me neither for you nor for you so you know what honey um we need to stop fighting but i've got a problem i want you to take me to to the doctor i need help she said honey with pleasure so she took the husband to the doctor they did some scans and as x-rays for the head for the brain and then the result came out they went back to the doctor the doctor has got the x-rays on that on that sort of projector and then he looks at this at the x-rays and he looks at the man the man is looking at the face of the doctor he got worried he said doctor you don't look very good is everything okay he said i don't know he looks again he said come on doctor i'm worried now tell me what is it said well i don't know what to say but i'll have to say this when i'm when i'm looking at your left side of the brain there is nothing right and when i'm looking at your right side of the brain there is nothing left did you get that one yeah there is nothing left like it's not like left but there is nothing left you know left right and left when i looked at your right side when i looked at your left side of the brain there is nothing right and when i look at your right side of the brain there is nothing left that's your problem that's why your wife fights with you all the time it was actually about the wife but i swapped it and i done it about the man because i don't want to die as yet tonight you know so women please take it easy don't kill me you know i'm a good boy my son and daughter choose wisely your friend is extremely influential but remember choose a friend that loves jesus christ of nazareth exactly the way you choose your partner in marriage if you do not choose your partner in marriage that loves the lord you will have problems because if the two do not agree on christ there will never be peace in that household if the husband says i want to go to church and the wife says no or the wife says i want to go to church and the husband says no then there will be issues and especially when the children come what are you going to do are you going to go on your own leave the children behind and your partner or are you going to take the children and leave your husband or your wife behind the whole family must worship the lord like joshua son of noon as for me and my family we worship the lord incredible amazing amazing joshua that's why he entered the promised land with the israelite nations he led them into the promised land because he and his own family worship the lord jesus make your home a church this church that you come to on sundays this is called the universal church there are three kind of churches one is called the individual church second is called the family church and third is called the universal church each one of them is made out of three components the person the personal church is made out of body soul and spirit three i am the church because i'm made out of three body soul and spirit the family church is made out of three father mother and children three and the universal church is made out of three priest deacon and faithful and god is triune three when the three come together in that unity of love for jesus christ of nazareth so when will we die to ourself in order to live for christ if giving up on a cigarette is too hard to do when will i fulfill the law if giving up on chocolate is too hard if giving up on material things is too difficult like i can't when i see a lamborghini i just can't i have to have it i can't say i don't have a ferrari or a private jet now if someone in the world has a private jet yes but someone in the church has a private jet why what do you need the private jet for your portion is christ not the private jet your portion is christ not the mansion your port your portion is christ not money and as christians we do not belong to this world we live in it but we are not of it for christ has chosen us and purchased us with his precious blood took us out of the world to live for him no longer for me for him so my son my daughter i beg you every time you do something wrong run to the lord jesus don't ever run away from him run to him and say lord i made a mistake i sinned i am ashamed of myself and i the holy spirit just reminded me the lord jesus came for the sinners and he says there are two kind of sinners one is the sheep and one is the pig both of them are equally sinners but there is a difference between this sinner and that the pig loves filth there is a kind of people when they sin they love it like the pig when they sin they enjoy it and if they don't sin there is something wrong but there are kind of people like the sheep when the sheep gets dirty or it loses it i can't stand being dirty the sheep hates filth that's true ask people that know about animals they will tell you the sheep can't stand filth dirt the moment they get dirty they will come they say please clean me immediately i can't stand it i'm suffocating pig gets dirty starts breathing the sheep gets dirty starts suffocating the lord says i came for those who sin and suffocate i came to save them i came for those when they sin they run to me begging me for mercy begging me for forgiveness because they can't stand the sinful status these are the people that i came to choose and these sinners if they hold on to me i will make them saints in heaven i'll bring them perfect like me without a stain without a spot without a scratch without a blemish we will be like christ or christ like perfect from sinners to saints from worldly to heavenly from earthly to spiritually from slaves to sons of god that's what christ is offering all of us every single moment of our life and what are we doing too busy for him too preoccupied with material things that are absolute vanity and christ has given us the heaven of all heavens christ has given us not only heaven he's given us himself he is much greater than heaven you see it is christ who makes heaven heaven if it wasn't for christ there wouldn't have been heaven that's why my advice is always to you it's what i'm about to say don't get me wrong yes there is hell yes there is heaven and some people believe there is something in between but regardless what you believe and the bible tells us that there is hell there is heaven yes but i'll say this to you don't focus on hell or heaven focus on christ because the place matters not what matters is the owner of the place as long as i am with the lord who cares where i am i don't care about the place lord i care about you you know i don't want to talk too much between abraham and lord abraham was lord's uncle so it's much older much wiser and much more respected than lord but when abraham heard that the shepherds of lord and abraham started arguing and fighting because the flock started mixing and someone said some said this is my land don't bring your sheep here and the other one said no it's my land don't bring your sheep here they started arguing as shepherds abraham being the wise father and leader he called his nephew to him and he said we are family don't let strangers get between us and separate us so i'll give you the first preference you choose a land for you for your family and for your flock and you go and god be with you the older the more respected gave the preference to the younger one because abraham was humble so lord looked around seeking a land and his eyes fell on a very fertile land with rivers flowing through it and he said that's it i found this perfect place for me for my family and for the flock and he went away and he ended up in sodom and gomorrah where god burned it to the ground same sex lgbt so it's not something new it's very old this lgbt and then abraham chose a land for himself he looked around and he chose the most desolate the most dry dead land you could ever think of and he said this land will be perfect for me my family and my flock and he went to that land and that land ended up being the promised land jerusalem because lord seeked a land with his physical eye but abraham seek the land with his spiritual eye and abraham said i do not care about the land i care about the honor of the land for as long as the honor of the land is with me he will turn that desolate dry dead land into an oasis so when you focus on christ the land the place matters not so therefore i'll say this lord by your grace and mercy i say lord i don't care about heaven i don't care about hell all i care all i care about is you all i want is to be with you lord if i am with you and you take me to hell that is not because as long as i'm with you even if i'm in hell i am in heaven because my heaven is not a place is a person called jesus christ of nazareth but if i go to heaven and you're not there then it is hell for me because you are heaven lord i want to be where you are i don't care about the place i care about you dad i want to be with you lord wherever you go i want to be with you yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for you are with me amazing king david so beautifully said it in psalm 23 4 yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death yea though i walk through hell the valley of the shadow the shadow of death is hell yea though i walk through hell i will fear no satan because jesus is with me and when jesus is with me then wherever he goes it's heaven amen i pray and we ask the lord jesus from the bottom of our heart that he grants us this precious gift lord teach me how to live for you i just want to live for you lord my daughter if you're getting married don't focus on the man that you're marrying if he's got money if he's got wisdom if he's got this and that focus on christ that is in his heart and i'll leave you with this this is for marriage and christ is the heavenly groom he came to betroth his bride to himself the church every christian baptized soul in the name of the father of the son of the holy spirit is the bride of christ he is the heavenly groom and we are the bride king solomon in the book of proverbs 31 10 which is the last chapter of the book of proverbs book of proverbs teaches you wisdom how to be wise on earth how to be wise on earth in proverbs 31 10 he says a virtuous woman who can find a question mark for her price exceeds the precious pearls it's one verse divided into two parts a virtuous woman who can find question mark for her price exceeds the precious pearls very quickly a virtuous woman who can find this is for the men to seek and find for her price exceeds the precious pearls this is for the girl to seek and find a partner for her marital life he comes to the to the to the men he says son are you looking for a girl to marry yes well let me advise you since i am the wisest man on earth and i received wisdom from god himself king solomon is saying so let me advise you through my wisdom received by god and through god my son if you are seeking a woman to marry find a girl that is virtuous now what is the word virtuous literally it means loving the lord fearing the lord jesus my son find a girl that loves jesus christ of nazareth you know why because the moment you find the girl that loves the lord fear her not since christ is embedded in her heart she will be nothing but good to you because the good god is in her she won't do anything but good toward you and my daughter you're seeking a man in marriage seek the man that sees you as exceeding the precious stones now the question is what exceeds the precious pearls saint paul answers king solomon he says he meaning jesus christ he who has purchased us not with silver not with gold not with precious stones or pearls but with his own blood so what exceeds the pearls blood and what is blood life and isn't life more precious than pearls what are you going to do with pearls of your date so he's saying to the son to the men find a woman that loves jesus christ and my daughter when you're seeking a man find a man that sees you in his eyes more precious than pearls in other words find the man who is willing to put his life on the line for you my daughter love the lord in order to find yourself and to find the right person in your life but you better find that person through christ and the only way this is going to happen is when you let jesus take over your will it is no longer me who lives but christ who lives in me it is no longer my way it is christ way it is no longer my will but it is thy will oh heavenly father you sent your beloved son to as a sacrifice as that grain of wheat to die for me to be buried for me but he rose from the dead also for me so that through his death burial resurrection the heavenly father brings many children through death god gave birth to many sons and daughters isn't god amazing god works in the impossible not the possible what is possible he leaves it to you but what is impossible he never asks you of it and i'll give you this and definitely i'll leave you with it i'm so sorry i get tempted what can i say um i'm now i'm talking about the love of my life how can you stop talking when you are in the presence of your love how can you stop breathing when you are in the presence of the one you love the most how can you how can you say i can't i i need to go i need to leave i'm huffing and puffing i'm not comfortable and i'm in the presence of my sweetheart jesus how can i so i'm sorry not for taking so long of your time because tough luck when you come to this bishop this bishop is crazy when it comes to jesus he will never shut up well when it comes to the world you will not hear a whisper from me because that's what my jesus has done to this piece of wreck called bishop marie and he's waiting for all of you to teach you how to live for him god works in the impossible not the possible the possible he lives to you but the impossible he will never ask you to do it john chapter 11 the lord jesus calls to raise lazarus from the dead look at this the lord jesus stands before the the tome he says to the apostle the disciples the 12 disciples he says remove the the stone remove the stone from that grave from the tomb so the disciples go and remove the stone and then jesus stands by himself before in front of that tome he says lazarus come forth removing the stone now i go to the lord jesus i say lord sorry pardon my ignorance i ask you this question my heavenly father which one is harder to say with a word stone move or to say with a word a rotted body get up and rise you will say well definitely what is the harder is to raise the dead if i'm able to raise the dead with a word i'm definitely able to move the stone with a little word but why didn't you remove the stone yourself he says no removing the stone is what you are capable of doing therefore i will expect you to do what you are capable of doing i will never interfere with what you're capable of doing but i will never allow you to interfere with what god is capable of doing so removing the stone is you you are capable of doing that i won't interfere so i'm expecting you to remove it if you don't i won't raise lazarus so you better move the stone they move the stone the lord jesus never said disciples raise lazarus because only god can raise the dead and we are all human beings except jesus he is the perfect god revealed in this perfect man that's why he stood alone and he said lazarus come forth what god can do only god will do and what man can do god will expect man to do in order to see god's glory jesus will say come to church you're capable of coming because he gave you the brain he gave you the body he gave you the intellect he gave you everything to make you this human being you're capable of getting up and coming to church that's why he will not force you he will ask you to come but the moment you come faithfully you will leave with god's glory trust in this when you come and you mean it god will reveal his glory 100 i've tried it a million zillion times god never fails you he's god he's god there is there was never anyone like jesus there is never anyone like jesus and there will never ever be anyone like jesus jesus christ is the only way is the only truth and it's the only life and he is the only true living god who was revealed in the flesh and he was crucified in the days of Pontius Pilate he was buried he died in the flesh on that cross he was buried and rose with his own authority from the dead and ascended to heaven and sat in glory at the right hand of his father he will come again 100 to judge everyone the dead and the living for there is no one in him salvation and redemption were made possible except in the name of jesus christ of nazareth period period period love him breathe him and digest him let christ be in every fiber of your being and you be in every fiber of his being dissolve in him so that you are no longer what it is him who is seen in you this is the perfection that christ is calling us to enter heaven with christ like blessed is the man the only man who is the only man that can enter heaven because he's the only one who fulfilled all of god's law never sinned neither through speech nor through action perfect like god but as a man you want to enter heaven he is the only way to get you to heaven there is no one else look the lord took me to heaven and took me to hell you're not going to find anyone but jesus christ in heaven hell is very ugly satan is very ugly satan you can't last with him a split second you cannot he hates the lord and hates whoever carries the lord and you you don't want to be there trust me hell is real as heaven is trust me satan is real and what is happening in the world satan is behind it now look at the world what a joke fighting killing destroying what is this hmm everybody's trying to get a nuclear bomb now why are you getting a nuclear bomb oh because i want to destroy humanity wow what a genius you are and now let let us not to be too comfortable let's stand for the finale prayer please in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit one god amen lord make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred let me so love where there is injury pardon where there is doubt faith where there is despair hope where there is darkness light where there is sadness joy or divine master grant that i may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love for it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life amen may the lord jesus bless you guard you and protect you all the days of your life now and forevermore amen go in peace the peace of christ be with you always my beloved god bless