You want God to hear you, you need
to be obedient to Him.
My daughter, my son, when you are disobedient
to your parents, don't ever expect them to
do things your way.
Anybody home?
When the mom comes and says to you,
darling, daughter, come let's go, you say no.
Come let's cook, you say no.
Come let's clean, you say no.
You always say no to mom.
Why are you expecting mom to do what
you wish?
You want mom to hear your request, to
grant your request?
You better be obedient to your mom and
to your dad in order for the parents
to respect what you're asking for.
How much more God, the perfect Father, the
perfect parents.
How is He going to listen to us
if we are disobedient to Him?
We need to be obedient in order for
God to hear our prayers and grant them
and grant them.
You see, though he was a son, son
of God, yet he learned obedience by the
things which he suffered.
Now a question, was Christ not obedient?
Because you're saying, yet he was a son,
son of God, he learned obedience.
Does that mean he was not obedient?
Of course not, he was obedient.
But what does that mean he was, he
learned obedience?
He learned obedience.
You see, some criticize the gospel and say,
how is it that Christ is the son
of God and yet he learned obedience?
We get attacked on this.
How is it Christ, you Christians claim that
Christ is the son of God, but here
it says in Hebrew 5.8, he learned
obedience.
So there is contradiction.
On one hand, he's the son of God,
he should be always obedient, but he's saying
here, he learned obedience.
So which one is it?
No, no, no, he is the son of
God and he learned obedience and it's so
absolutely beautifully said.
I'll explain to you.
Let's look at an example, John the prophet.
John the prophet, God came to him and
said, I want you to go to Nineveh,
Iraq.
He went to Tarshish, Spain, opposite direction.
He was disobedient to God.
God put him through tribulations, hardships, the whale
swallowed him.
He remained three days in the, in the
belly of that whale, in the depth of
that sea, absolute darkness alone.
Nobody can hear him.
Nobody can come to his rescue.
He realized his mistake for being disobedient, begged
God for mercy.
Just get me out of here.
I'll do whatever you say.
John learned how to be obedient after going
through tribulations, but Christ learned obedience.
How?
Prior Christ, prior to his incarnation, he, he
commanded others and they obeyed him.
After incarnation, he was commanded and he obeyed.
Prior to his incarnation, he is God and
God gives orders and everybody obeys those orders.
After this, God put on the flesh, he
was commanded by God the father to do
things and he obeyed.
He had to learn how to be obedient
once he put the flesh on.
He was never used to be given orders
prior to the flesh being put on because
he's God.
No one orders God.
God orders everyone and everyone listens, but this
God became man.
When he became man, he became lesser and
there is another authority above him.
That's why he had to learn to be
obedient.
The one who commanded is now being commanded.
Amazing.
I hope you got what I said.
Now you see the picture in the garden
of Gethsemane is absolutely beautiful.
The Lord Jesus laid the foundation that he
will enter the cross press.
He got pressed on the cross.
That olive became crushed, that grape became crushed
on the cross.
He trodden the wine press alone, Isaiah 63.
He got crushed on the cross.
He got crushed on the cross, my beloved.
He is the stone which David striked Goliath
and Christ is the true stone which will
strike Satan.
Which will strike Satan and achieve victory to
bring us back to the garden, i.e.
paradise once again.
For this reason, on resurrection day when the
Lord rose from the dead, he was in
the garden of Gethsemane.
Mary Magdalene comes looking for the Lord.
Where is the master?
She sees someone there.
She calls him gardener.
Now was she wrong?
No.
Mary Magdalene was not wrong when she called
Jesus gardener because he is the true gardener.
You see my beloved, the first gardener lost
everything that is Adam, but the second gardener
brought back everything that was lost.
So when she called him gardener, she was
absolutely correct.
He is the true gardener.
Adam got kicked out of the garden, paradise,
for failing being a good gardener.
Jesus entered the garden paradise and accomplished God's
will and word to the fullest and became
the true gardener.
Gardener, tell me, where have they taken him?
And he turns and says, Mariam.
The tone, she recognized him by his voice,
not by seeing him, but by hearing him.
And this is how we recognize the Lord
first.
You can't see him unless you hear him
first and recognize his voice because Christ is
the logos, the word.
The word in its nature can only be
heard first and then when you hear it,
believe it, accept it, then the word will
reveal himself to you.
You cannot find him, he will find you.
But your job is when you hear his
voice, do not shut the door in his
face.
Believe in that voice, believe in the word
you heard, and when you believe in what
you've heard, Christ will reveal himself to you.
When he said Mariam, the tone, the voice
of Christ, she recognized him and said, Rabooli,
the teacher of all teachers.
Well you just saw me, Mary.
Why didn't you recognize me?
Because I was faithless and faith cometh through
hearing.
That faith was restored to Mary when she
heard the voice of the logos, Mariam.
The moment she heard the voice, believed in
that voice, faith came back, she recognized him.
And when you recognize him, that means Christ
has revealed himself to you.
The second gardener brought us back all, brought
back all that was lost.
The gardener brought us all back to the
garden again.
Tears of the garden opened to us paradise.
The Lord Jesus, while hanging on the cross,
said to the thief at his right, truly
I say to you, today you will be
with me in paradise.
The true gardener brought us back to the
garden paradise.
Well, truly I say to you, today you
will be with me in paradise.
Luke 23 43.
Here we recap on what we've said in
the last four weeks.
The Lord Jesus first teased.
The first teas were wept at the Lazarus,
were wept at the tomb of Lazarus.
Those teas, what did they do?
Death was defeated, brought Lazarus out of the
tomb and broke the sting of death.
Death was defeated, brought Lazarus out of the
tomb and broke the sting of death.
The first teas dealt with death and gave
us resurrection.
The second teas of the Lord, restored peace
to the city of your heart, Jerusalem.
Restored peace.
Why peace had to be restored?
Because the moment we sin, the first thing
we lose is our peace.
Have we noticed?
When we do something wrong, you feel empty,
you feel void, you feel confused, you feel
lost, disorientated, you don't know what you're doing,
you don't know who you are, you don't
know where you are, you don't know where
to start or where to end.
It is an absolute mess.
Why?
Because peace is lost through sin and that
peace Christ came to bestow on your heart.
That's Jerusalem, the city of peace.
So the second teas of the Lord were
to bring that peace once again to our
hearts and live in harmony with the Lord.
No more enemies.
We are in peace now.
No more fighting you Lord.
No more arguing with you Lord.
No more being disobedient to you Lord.
When the Lord called me to the church,
I went to the club.
I was fighting him.
I was going against him.
The Lord says pray and I didn't.
The Lord says fast and I didn't.
The Lord says come to the light and
I went to darkness.
The Lord says come to the church and
I went to the club.
The Lord says come to me, I Jesus
Christ and I chose Satan, not Christ.
We were in a battle.
We were fighting one another until he cried
and wept over the heart that was conquered
by sin and lost its peace.
The teas of Christ reinstated that peace.
The moment that peace entered my heart, I
said what have I done?
Why did I do all that?
I was so blind.
I was so lost yet I thought I
was doing everything right.
Until Christ wakes you up, you'll never realize
what you're doing.
Do not be shocked for the world to
act so evil yet they think they're doing
good.
Do not be shocked because they're blind.
There is no peace in the world because
the one who rules the world is Satan.
Satan has no peace in him.
Where are you going to get peace if
there is no source for that peace?
The only source of peace is Jesus Christ
of Nazareth who is God and the only
true living God my beloved.
That's where peace comes from.
It doesn't come from a prophet.
It doesn't come from a holy man.
It doesn't come from a good teacher.
It doesn't come from no humans.
It comes from God, the true divine living
God, the creator of all and this true
living God was revealed in the flesh over
2,000 years ago.
He was crucified in the times of Pontius
Pilate.
He was buried in the flesh but he
rose from the dead and his tomb is
empty.
The sepulcher church cries out every year and
every day.
Until when world are you going to be
blind?
Until when are you going to choose to
remain in this blindness, spiritual blindness?
Until when?
Look at the world and see how it's
behaving.
Absolute foolishness.
Absolute evilness.
To the core.
They can't stand the truth.
They can't stand the light.
Yet the light is so clear and the
truth is so powerful.
A world is sick and there is only
one healer that can heal this sick world.
His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
All glory to his holy and mighty name.
The crown of our glory.