Christianity did not come to bring laws, what
is right and what is wrong.
Christianity came to create a new man.
This new man in him develops and grows
principles that are capable of making that Christian
family a successful one.
Now why we have to be born into
this new man?
Because my beloved, any external principles, what do
external principles do to the person?
It conquers the person, they do not create
a person, it conquers the person.
Principles from outside are heavy, unwanted because they
are imposed upon us.
Anything that comes from outside, we don't like.
Why?
Because it is imposed, you have to do
this, you have to follow this rule, you
have to go over there, you have to
come over here.
Anything that I have to, I have to,
I have to, is uncomfortable, I do not
want it, I reject it.
So external principles are laid heavily upon me.
They do not create me, they enslave me
in fact, enslave me, that's the best and
the ultimate they can do.
Christianity did not come to impose principles from
outside, Christianity came to create a new human
being, a new human being.
This new human produces beautiful behaviors because the
inside is created, it's not imposed anymore, it's
a new creation, it comes from within and
anything that comes from within is natural, it's
not unnatural.
Anything that comes externally is unnatural, uncomfortable, but
when it comes from within, it is natural.
I'll explain it more to you, for you
to understand where I'm coming from.
Imagine this with me, you know, especially in
the Middle Eastern countries, years back, there was
what they called arranged marriages.
The parents choose your partner in life, whoa,
the poor guy, the first time ever he
would see what kind of a looks his
future wife has, is when he's already married,
tough luck, too late.
He lift up the veil and hope for
the best, if she is Mariah Carey or
some other one, kind of scary.
Imagine you don't love this person, you don't
know this person, but mom and dad, especially
dad, he will say, you listen to your
dad and you will do accordingly, whatever I
say goes, you will marry this person and
tough luck.
Imagine you are living with someone you do
not love, how are you going to last?
It's hell.
Why?
Because it was a principle given from outside
to you, i.e. imposed upon you, weighs
heavily, I can't breathe, I'm imprisoned, I don't
know what to do anymore.
But when you choose your Rosella, Juliet, oh
la la, impossible, when you choose, that was
in French, when you choose, well I have
to speak all these channels because I've gotten
people from Sweden, I'm getting people from Switzerland,
I've yet to learn a few words in
that language, I have to learn more.
So I'm trying my best.
Habib Albi, that one is easy.
But imagine you choose the person, you fall
in love with that person, freely, naturally.
You see, it's an internal principle.
It's an internal principle.
Internal principle is light.
Internal principle is freedom.
Internal principle is you, not someone you are
pretending to be, which you can never be.
Why?
Because God never created you to be someone
else but you.
Christianity came to set you free, not impose
upon you laws in order for you to
do him and if you don't, you are
doomed.
No.
This is why Christianity is based on love
and that's why love is associated with a
person, not a law.
Law doesn't love you.
You break the law, the law breaks you.
But the person that loves you, even if
you break them, they will forgive you because
they love you.
The law has no mercy.
You break me, I'll break you.
Non-negotiable.
But a person, no.
This is why Christianity is totally different to
every other religion out there with all love
and respect.
There's no comparison because all, all religions are
to do with laws.
The only faith in existence on earth that
is to do with love is Christianity.
Why?
Because we're dealing with a person and this
person is the new creation, Jesus Christ of
Nazareth.
All glory to his holy and mighty name.
You come to love this person and you,
when you accept this person, this person is
born in you.
This person comes out of you from inside
outside.
The principles grow and are from within.
It is a natural, natural instinct.
It's a natural reaction.
That's why with Jesus there is freedom, with
Jesus there is prosperity, with Jesus there is
enlightenment, with Jesus there is everything good that
you could ever imagine.
This new human produces beautiful behaviors because the
inside is created.
Created according to God, according to the divine
standards.
And what are the divine standards?
St. Paul says it, in true righteousness and
holiness.
This is the standard of this new creation
that is created by God.
This new man has to be walking in
the truth and righteousness and holiness.
The word righteousness, we said it's the work
of God.
But it also mean being in harmony with
God.
Because every time we do the work of
God, we are in harmony with God.
What pleases God, if we do something that
pleases God, we are in harmony.
If we do something that is displeasing to
the Lord, there is no harmony.
So righteousness is being in harmony with God.
True holiness, holiness is what God desires from
everyone.
With all love and respect to the Dalai
Lama, when this person asked this monk, he
said, you left the world and the desires
of the world to achieve the ultimate.
And what is the ultimate?
Is to kill desire.
That's in Buddhism.
What is the ultimate is to kill desire.
Why?
Because according to that faith, and I'm talking
with love and respect, I'm just stating facts.
Okay, please.
I've had a couple of stabs, so I
can do maybe, I don't know.
But anyway, I mean, well, but the ultimate
is to kill the desire.
Because in that faith, in that belief, they
think by killing the desire, then and then
only you are free.
Because desire apparently, according to that faith, brings
you down.
Why?
Because desire chains you, locks you, enslaves you.
I have a desire for this.
I have a desire for that.
I'm not free.
Therefore, the moment you kill desire, you are
then free, you become like a God.
Not realizing desire is a God-given gift.
You cannot kill what God has given you.
So you are chasing something impossible to achieve.
Holiness is God's desire.
And with that desire, there is no motivation.
How are you going to go forward if
there's no desire?
But the problem is, the problem is not
in desire itself, but in the imbalancing of
that desire.
You need to have a balanced desire, you
will chase holiness.
Because when you let that new creation grow
in you, He will teach you on how
to desire holiness, which God desires.
Righteousness, you are living in harmony with God.
Holiness, you are living and walking in God's
desire.
And when God desires something and you do
it, the rest is history.
Therefore, it is not the fake holiness.
Fake holiness is a result of submission to
external principles, which were imposed on the human
to walk in.
Some people fake it to live in holiness.
It's ugly.
This is what I call an over-saved
Christian.
Have you ever heard of this term, over
-saved Christian?
An over-saved Christian is like you're with
them in Maccas, McDonald's.
Old McDonald's had a farm.
So imagine you are with that over-saved
Christian in Maccas.
And then you say, man, I'm hungry.
And he will say to you, this over
-saved person will say, Jesus said, I am
the living bread, which is descended from heaven.
He who eats me shall never hunger again.
Okay.
Oh, I'm thirsty.
Jesus said, I am the living waters.
He who drinks me shall never thirst again.
All right, bro.
What's wrong with you?
Oh, I don't know where the car keys
are.
Jesus said, you need the keys to enter
God's kingdom.
He said, I don't drive a kingdom.
It can't fit in my garage.
Relax.
All I want is just a big Mac
and a big can of Coke.
Don't act as if you are holy, faithful
to the Lord.
If you're faithful, keep it to yourself.
Keep it secret between you and your sweetheart,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
You don't blow the trumpet and tell the
whole world, hey, I'm here.
I'm the holy one.
Well, you're not.
That's fake holiness.
When you are walking in true holiness, this
is God's desire.
God works in secret.
Not in the open secrets.
The new person, the new human created according
to God, in whom all divine principles and
standards lie and complete in him.
This person is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.