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Our beloved fathers, deacons, nuns, faithful, both in

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this holy church and everyone who is watching

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us for live streaming, may the almighty God

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the Father and God the Son and God

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the Holy Spirit, one in nature, one in

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essence, bless you, guide you, protect you and

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deliver you from the snares of the enemy,

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whether it be visible or invisible in Jesus'

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mighty name, we pray.

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Today's gospel is our church fathers have chosen

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a passage, actually it's an entire chapter from

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the gospel according to Saint John and it

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is chapter 17 in its entirety, which is

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26 holy and sacred verses.

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26 verses which will take 26 years if

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you're not rushing, we'll explain it for you.

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26 verses, chapter 17.

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You've heard us say this before, the gospel

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according to Saint John is the depth of

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theology.

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That is why the way it is written,

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it is totally different to the other synoptic

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gospels being Matthew, Mark and Luke because John

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the Beloved is introducing the Lord Jesus to

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the entire world and he's saying to the

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whole world that Jesus Christ is God himself.

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It cannot go any other way.

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He is either God or he cannot be

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anything else.

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He cannot be a prophet only, he cannot

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be a holy man only, he cannot simply.

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It's either God or nothing.

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There are four chapters in the gospel according

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to Saint John that are referred to as

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the chapters of the Holy Spirit, periclete, the

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Holy Spirit or the comforter.

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And these four chapters are chapter 14, 15,

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These are the chapters of the Holy Spirit.

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The Lord Jesus in chapter 14, 15 and

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16, he is talking to his 12 apostles

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about the father.

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And in chapter 17, which is today's liturgical

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gospel, he is talking to the father about

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the apostles.

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So 14, 15 and 16, the Lord is

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talking to the apostles, to his disciples about

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the father and chapter 17, he is speaking

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to the father about the apostles and his

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disciples.

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26 verses, I will elaborate by the grace

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of the Lord on one verse, which is

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verse three, 17, John 17, three.

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And it says, and this is the eternal

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life that they may know you, the only

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true God and Jesus Christ whom you have

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sent.

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This is the eternal life that they may

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know you, the only true God and Jesus

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Christ whom you have sent.

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So the question arises naturally, how can a

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person live?

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The Lord Jesus says, the only way for

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any human being, not Christians only, for any

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human being, in order for them to live,

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they need to know God and Jesus Christ.

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If you ask any person, do you wanna

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live or die?

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Everyone will say, I want to live.

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But everyone does not know how to live.

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The people of the Old Testament, they tried

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frantically to fulfill the law of God.

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For one reason, because they wanted all to

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live.

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God said to them, if you follow my

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rules, my law, and fulfill my law, I

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will give you life abundant.

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So everybody wants to live, and the only

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way to live is to get to know

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God and Jesus Christ.

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And that is the only way to gain

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life, but not life only, eternal life, a

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life that ends not.

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Now, how do we gain this life eternal?

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Through knowledge.

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That is the only way to gain life

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and to remain living is to know, through

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So looks like there is one kind of

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a knowledge that gets you to eternal life,

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but there is another kind of a knowledge

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that gets you to eternal death.

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Since there is knowledge that leads to eternal

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life, well, therefore, there will be a knowledge

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that will lead you the opposite way to

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eternal death.

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What knowledge leads a person to eternal death?

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The knowledge of the world.

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And the Holy Bible says that the world

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is being placed in the bosom of Satan.

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And that knowledge is called the knowledge of

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good and evil.

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That was the tree that was placed in

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the Garden of Eden where God warned Adam

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not to eat from.

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And the day he eats from it, surely

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he will die.

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And that tree was called the tree of

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the knowledge of good and evil.

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Which tree is this?

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Me and you.

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The human being is that tree.

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What God is saying to every single human

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being, the day that comes, you manage your

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own affairs.

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The day that comes, you be in control

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of this life on earth.

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That day that you become your own God,

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your beginning will be good, but your end

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will be 100% evil.

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And look around you, my beloved.

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Every person that chose to live their way,

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walk their way, do things their way, look

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how they started and look how they ended

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up.

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Absolute disaster.

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At the beginning it was good.

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Well, the first time when my friend said,

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let's go out, I was on cloud nine.

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It was the first time ever that I

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was alive.

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Because I did not realize that I was

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sentenced to imprisonment called home, controlled by mom

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and dad.

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And the way I lived at home, I

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did it their way.

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And their way for me was suffocating.

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So I chose to do it my way,

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not parents way, not God's way, but my

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way and no one else.

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So when I did it my way, the

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beginning was good because I had fun, I

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went out, I enjoyed life to the fullest

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the way I chose to dress up, the

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way I chose to speak, the way I

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chose to eat, drink, dance, jump, go and

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come.

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It was stunning.

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But before I came to really live it

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to the fullest, I ended up being in

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an evil way.

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Either in prison, drug addict, homeless, lost everything.

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See, when God speaks, we must pay attention

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because God is the truth and everything outside

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of him is one big lie.

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My son, my daughter, don't ever believe, don't

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ever trust anyone that comes and says to

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you, you are free and you can do

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whatever you wish to do.

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This is non-existent, never will be.

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Trust in what God, who is Jesus Christ

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of Nazareth and what he says.

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If anyone says to you, you are free,

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you can do whatever you wish, this is

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a lie.

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No one is free.

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There is either the knowledge that leads you

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to light or the knowledge that leads you

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to darkness.

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If you do not choose the light who

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is Christ, the light of the world, you

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will be controlled whether you like it or

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not by the darkness who is Satan.

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There are two forces, two powers.

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It is either Christ or Satan.

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It is either heaven or hell.

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It is either the church or the club.

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It is either the Lord or you end

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up in the bosom of Satan.

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And this is the eternal life that they

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may know you.

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The Lord is talking about his father, that

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they may know you, the only true God.

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So Christians worship one true living God.

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But this God cannot be just one, has

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to be three in one.

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There is no such thing as God just

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being one.

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Doesn't exist.

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You have time?

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And this is the eternal life that they

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may know you.

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The only true God.

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The Lord did not stop there.

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And Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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So how do you gain eternal life?

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By knowing God and Jesus Christ.

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Now who is Jesus Christ?

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The son of God.

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Well, since Jesus Christ is the son of

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God, then who is this God?

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The father.

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Since he has the son, therefore he is

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the father.

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Now, Jesus Christ, according to the gospel of

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St. John, how does St. John represent Jesus

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Christ to the world?

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As the logos, the word.

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John 1,1, in the beginning was the

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logos or the word, and the word was

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with God, and the word was God.

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Now what is this word?

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Knowledge.

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How do you gain knowledge?

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You gain knowledge through words.

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When you read a book, when you read

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a text, that book is made out of

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words.

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When you read those words, what have you

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gained?

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Knowledge.

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Through words, you gain knowledge.

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You go to school, you study words.

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Those words give you knowledge in whatever field

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you choose later on.

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an engineer?

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You need to read words.

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Otherwise, you will never be able to gain

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the knowledge of medicine, science, whatever field it

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is, unless you read words.

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Christ, Jesus Christ, is the logos, the word.

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He is the only true knowledge that leads

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you to the Father, to God.

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Outside of Jesus Christ, there is no knowledge

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that will ever get you to God.

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That's why he is the only way to

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God, the only truth of God, and the

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only life eternal.

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Because life eternal, according to John 17 three,

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is gained through the knowledge of God and

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his beloved son, Jesus Christ.

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So you need to know Jesus Christ in

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order to know his Father.

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If anyone says, I believe in God, ask

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them this question.

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Have you seen God?

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They'll say no.

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Can you ever see God?

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They will say no.

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Do you know God?

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They will say no.

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Can you ever see, know God?

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They will say no.

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Well, you've never seen him.

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You cannot see him.

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You do not know him.

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You can never know him.

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How can you believe in a God that

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you don't know?

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Paul, do you know God?

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He will say no.

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Do you know Jesus Christ?

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He will say yes.

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When he writes in his epistle to the

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Ephesians, he says, all glory to God.

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But Saint Paul doesn't stop at the word

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God.

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He continues and says, all glory to God,

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the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

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Saint Paul, have you seen God?

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Have you seen Jesus?

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He says, definitely yes.

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I was going to Damascus to persecute the

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Christians.

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And on the way, this brilliant figure appeared

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where I lost my vision for three days.

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And I heard, I saw this brilliant figure

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at the beginning before losing my sight.

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And I heard his voice saying, why are

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you persecuting me?

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He said, who are you that I am

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persecuting, Lord?

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He said, I am Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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You cannot go against me, Saul.

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He says, Lord, what do you want me

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to do for you?

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When he met Jesus Christ, he gained knowledge

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because Jesus Christ is the word.

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And through the word, you gain knowledge.

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He gained knowledge of divine nature.

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And through Jesus Christ, who is the knowledge,

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that knowledge led him to the Father.

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Now, who is the Father then?

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Love.

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And so God loved the whole world that

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he gave his only begotten son so that

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whoever believes within him shall not perish but

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have everlasting life, eternal life.

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John 3, 16, the center and the heart

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of the entire Holy Bible put together.

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And so God loved the whole world that

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he gave his only begotten son.

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Well, since this God has a son, then

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he is the Father.

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Who loves the world?

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The Father.

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And who loves the church?

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The shepherd, the good shepherd.

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Jesus Christ, as the good shepherd, he loves

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his own.

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But Jesus Christ, as God, he loves the

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whole world.

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So love cometh from the Father.

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It was the love of the Father that

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sent Jesus Christ to be the Savior and

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the Redeemer of the entire world.

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What slain Jesus on the cross, what crucified

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Jesus was the love of the Father to

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the entire human race.

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Now, why Jesus is so central in all

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of this?

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Because he is the word.

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He is the only knowledge to lead you

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to the Father.

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Why it is so vital and foundational?

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My beloveds, what leads to love is knowledge.

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What do I mean?

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You've heard me saying it many times and

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I'll keep on saying it every time the

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occasion arises.

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Can you ever love someone you never know?

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You can only love the one whom you

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came to know, isn't it?

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How can you love someone you don't know?

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You cannot, isn't it?

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It's only logical.

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But what happens?

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Let's say John is out and his eyes

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fall on this Rosella and she happened to

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be Rachel or Elizabeth or Melissa or Irene.

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So he meets this girl.

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He doesn't know her for the first time.

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He doesn't know her name.

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He doesn't know anything about her.

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So he walks up, says, oh, hello, my

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name is John.

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What's your name?

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Oh, she says, Rachel.

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And then they start talking.

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They exchange numbers and they start talking and

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talking and then they go out.

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And as time goes by, they get to

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know each other.

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As they get to know each other more

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and more and more, they start loving each

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other.

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You see, what made them love one another

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was knowledge.

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Without knowledge, love cannot happen.

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If you don't know, you cannot love.

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You can only love what you came to

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know initially.

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So what leads to love is knowledge.

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Love begins at the point of knowledge.

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I came to know the person and as

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I came to know them, I began to

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love them.

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Now, my beloved, let me put it this

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way to you.

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Jesus Christ came to give us the knowledge

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of the Father because he said it, he

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said it to everyone.

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He said, whoever says, Lord, Lord, will not

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enter the kingdom of God.

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It is he who does the will of

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my Father.

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How can we do the will of the

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Father if we cannot see the Father, we

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only saw Jesus?

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So the Lord Jesus came to give us

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the knowledge to get to know the Father,

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but the Father cannot be known only through

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the Son.

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There is no time.

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These 26 verses of John 17, it will

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take ages to explain.

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Who's here from the Middle East?

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Show of hands.

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Oh, quite a number, not bad.

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My beloved, if you're not aware of the

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Middle Eastern culture, I'll tell you one thing

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and maybe it's in other countries, I don't

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know, I'm not familiar.

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But in the Middle East, my beloved, the

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Father is never referred to with his own

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name.

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He's always referred to by his first son's

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name.

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For example, the father's name is John and

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his son's name is Smith.

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In the Middle East, John will never be

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called John.

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He will always be referred to as the

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father of Smith.

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How are you?

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Abu Flam.

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The father of Smith, how are you?

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So when you go, you wanna meet John,

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who is the father.

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You go and ask the neighborhood, do you

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know John?

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They'll say no.

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The moment you say, do you know the

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father of Smith?

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They'll say, oh yeah, why didn't you say

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that from the start and saved us all

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the headaches and the heartaches?

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Of course we know the father of Smith.

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Who doesn't?

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Everybody knows who the father of Smith is.

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But John, we never got used to calling

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him John.

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Do you know God?

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No.

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Have you seen God?

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No.

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Do you know his son?

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Yeah, his name is Jesus Christ.

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I saw him, I met him.

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Because Jesus Christ, the son, became man like

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us.

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He put on the flesh and became one

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of us.

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He's got our figure.

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I'm able to see the son.

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And what happens, it is through the son,

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the father is revealed.

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Do you know God?

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No.

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Do you know the father of Jesus Christ?

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Of course, because I met the son.

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And through the son, I was led to

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the father.

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Now this son is knowledge, so vital, because

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without knowledge, love cannot exist.

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I came to know Jesus Christ, I fell

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in love with him.

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When I loved him, I realized, he says,

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I want you to love my dad.

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If you truly love me, love my dad.

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And if when you love my dad, you

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will do his will.

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You will never do someone's directives unless you

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love that someone.

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When the love is great, the obedience is

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also great.

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The greater the love, the more obedient you

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are.

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Mom worked so hard and raised you for

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30 years.

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Mom and dad.

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And mom, for 30 years, tried to get

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you to wash your plate.

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You never did.

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And all of a sudden, you meet this

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strange girl and you fall in love with

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her.

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You wash the dishes, you mow the lawn,

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you wipe the floor, you do everything like

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a slave.

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وإنت الممنون.

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This was in Iraq.

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I had to slide it in.

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You will run like crazy.

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Your mom will come and say, son, do

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you have a temperature?

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Are you okay?

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You're acting weird.

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How come you didn't do what I said?

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Well, mom, I never tasted this love before.

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Yes, I love you, mom.

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But this Rachel blew my mind away and

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took my heart with her.

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I am no longer me.

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I am all her.

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When you come to know Jesus and you

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fall in love with Him, you will start

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doing things you've never done before.

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You will go the extra mile.

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You will forgive your persecutors.

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You will forgive your enemy so easily.

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Before, anybody says a word to me, I'll

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chop him.

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But now, they not only say things to

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me, they are attacking me.

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And I'm still forgiving.

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Why?

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Because when I love, I do weird things.

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Love makes you do the impossible.

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So when I came to know Jesus, who

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is the word, the knowledge, that knowledge naturally

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leads to love.

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When it led me to love, it led

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me to the Father.

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Father is love.

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Now, why do I need love?

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Because love gave me life.

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And this is the eternal life.

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That they may know you, that you are

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the only true God.

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But since I cannot know God, God became

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man.

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So that I can know the man and

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through the man, I get to know God,

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the impossible to be known.

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And when I came to know God through

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this man, Jesus of Nazareth, I came to

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love Him because when I knew Him, I

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began to love Him.

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Because without knowledge, there is no love.

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So when I came to know this man,

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I came to know God.

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And when I came to know God, I

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fell in love with God.

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The moment I loved God, I was given

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eternal life.

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For love gives life.

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And knowledge gives love.

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Without knowledge, there is no love.

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And without love, there is no life.

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You want to live?

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You need to know Jesus in order to

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go to the Father, to know Him through

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Jesus Christ and fall in love with Him.

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The moment you love the Father, life eternal

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is yours.

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Now, how do you know Jesus Christ?

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In King's Cross?

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00:26:26,250 --> 00:26:27,890
In Star City Casino?

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00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:29,910
In Las Vegas?

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00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:32,790
In that little white powder?

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00:26:33,650 --> 00:26:34,350
In gambling?

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00:26:34,890 --> 00:26:35,770
In alcoholism?

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00:26:36,410 --> 00:26:38,510
In doing whatever you want to do?

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Of course not.

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How can you know Jesus in darkness?

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How can you know Jesus in evilness?

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How can you know Jesus in deception, in

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00:26:48,170 --> 00:26:49,790
lies, in destruction?

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How can you?

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Jesus Christ is the truth.

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00:26:54,170 --> 00:26:56,670
Jesus Christ is the light of the world.

559
00:26:57,570 --> 00:26:58,550
You want to know Him?

560
00:26:58,850 --> 00:26:59,950
You need to come to the light.

561
00:27:00,950 --> 00:27:02,270
Come out of that dark alley.

562
00:27:02,850 --> 00:27:04,530
Come out of that dark you.

563
00:27:05,430 --> 00:27:07,170
And let Jesus Christ be you.

564
00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:12,440
So you start coming to church, no longer

565
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:12,860
the club.

566
00:27:17,820 --> 00:27:19,380
Stop going to the club, come to the

567
00:27:19,380 --> 00:27:19,680
church.

568
00:27:20,260 --> 00:27:21,940
Stop swearing, start praising.

569
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,860
Stop reading nonsensical books, start reading the Holy

570
00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:26,220
Bible.

571
00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:28,580
You want to have the mind of Christ?

572
00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:30,540
You better read the Bible because the Holy

573
00:27:30,540 --> 00:27:32,640
Bible is the mind of Christ.

574
00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:35,160
You want to receive Jesus Christ fully?

575
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,780
Well, Jesus Christ has got a body, has

576
00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:40,700
got a soul, has got a spirit, and

577
00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:41,400
has got a mind.

578
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:45,100
The body?

579
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,380
He said, take this is my body and

580
00:27:48,380 --> 00:27:48,860
eat it.

581
00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,500
You're receiving the body of Christ.

582
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,360
You want to receive His soul?

583
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,840
The soul lies in the blood.

584
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,500
He said, take this blood.

585
00:27:57,780 --> 00:27:59,580
This is my blood that has been shed

586
00:27:59,580 --> 00:28:00,500
for the remission of sins.

587
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,620
And when you receive my blood, you're receiving

588
00:28:02,620 --> 00:28:03,240
my soul.

589
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,200
For the soul that you have killed in

590
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,740
you, which sin killed it.

591
00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:11,420
So now, your dead body through sin, you've

592
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:14,580
received the living body of Christ.

593
00:28:14,860 --> 00:28:18,340
Your dead soul through sin, you've received the

594
00:28:18,340 --> 00:28:20,140
life-giving blood.

595
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,020
Body is the living, blood is the life

596
00:28:24,020 --> 00:28:24,340
-giving.

597
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,400
And when you receive the body and the

598
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,420
blood, you need to receive His spirit.

599
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,400
And His spirit is the gospel, is the

600
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:33,920
Holy Bible.

601
00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:36,080
Because the word is spirit in its nature.

602
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,120
Because it's the word of God and God

603
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:38,500
is spirit.

604
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,460
So when you receive His word, that is

605
00:28:41,460 --> 00:28:42,560
for your spirit.

606
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,460
But before you do that, you want to

607
00:28:44,460 --> 00:28:45,900
receive the spirit, the Holy Spirit?

608
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:46,900
Baptism.

609
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,060
Baptism you receive the Holy Spirit.

610
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,380
But when you want to receive the mind

611
00:28:52,380 --> 00:28:54,600
and the thought of Christ, you read His

612
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:55,620
word, the Holy Bible.

613
00:28:57,740 --> 00:29:01,620
That's why, my beloveds, the sacrament of baptism

614
00:29:01,620 --> 00:29:03,880
and the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist go

615
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:04,560
hand in hand.

616
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,960
Through baptism, you receive the spirit of Christ.

617
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:10,200
Through the body, you receive His body.

618
00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,220
Through the blood, you receive His soul.

619
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,520
Now you've got body, soul and spirit.

620
00:29:15,660 --> 00:29:17,000
Christ is resurrected in you.

621
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,060
One thing is missing, His thought.

622
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,220
That's why we read the gospel.

623
00:29:24,020 --> 00:29:25,880
The Holy Gospel is the thought of Christ.

624
00:29:27,220 --> 00:29:29,060
And what does this word, the knowledge do?

625
00:29:30,260 --> 00:29:30,960
Transforms you.

626
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,340
Do not be conformed to the world, but

627
00:29:33,340 --> 00:29:34,140
rather transformed.

628
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,600
How do I change from worldly to heavenly?

629
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:38,000
How?

630
00:29:38,180 --> 00:29:41,720
By transforming my mind, changing my mind.

631
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,920
What will change your mind?

632
00:29:44,380 --> 00:29:46,420
The logos, the word of God.

633
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,640
That is the only way to change your

634
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:48,940
mind.

635
00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:53,960
And if you want to live, you need

636
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,500
to get to love.

637
00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:57,860
And the only way to love is knowledge.

638
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,800
Jesus is the knowledge that will get you

639
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:01,220
to love.

640
00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:03,980
And when you love, you live.

641
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,440
Because what gives life is love.

642
00:30:09,420 --> 00:30:12,040
You ask all the religions of the world,

643
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,180
with all love and respect, they will tell

644
00:30:15,180 --> 00:30:17,980
you life precedes everything, including love.

645
00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:21,180
The only place where it says love precedes

646
00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:23,220
life and everything else is Christianity.

647
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,340
And so true.

648
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,140
Because if life preceded love, what would I

649
00:30:29,140 --> 00:30:30,580
do with a life that has no love

650
00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:30,880
in it?

651
00:30:31,060 --> 00:30:31,980
It's an absolute hell.

652
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:34,480
So what is hell?

653
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,640
A place where there is no love.

654
00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:38,400
That's it.

655
00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:40,900
It's called hell.

656
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,560
Can we taste hell on earth?

657
00:30:43,980 --> 00:30:45,240
While we're in the flesh, yes.

658
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,000
Live a life that has no love in

659
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:47,120
it.

660
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:47,860
You're living in hell.

661
00:30:48,660 --> 00:30:50,080
And when you live in hell, are you

662
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:50,560
alive?

663
00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:51,840
You're dead.

664
00:30:51,940 --> 00:30:53,300
But you're not dead in the sense of

665
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:54,460
you come to a full halt.

666
00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:55,120
You're still alive.

667
00:30:55,460 --> 00:30:58,460
But even though you're alive, but since there

668
00:30:58,460 --> 00:31:00,560
is no love in this life, as if

669
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:01,040
you are dead.

670
00:31:02,380 --> 00:31:06,000
I'd rather not live a life that love

671
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,200
is absent in it.

672
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,080
But when I live a life that has

673
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,240
love in it, now that's what you call

674
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:12,600
life.

675
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,420
What makes life truly life is love.

676
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,940
And what gets you to love is knowledge.

677
00:31:20,460 --> 00:31:24,920
And Jesus Christ is the only knowledge to

678
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,560
God the Father, who is love.

679
00:31:28,590 --> 00:31:31,270
Through knowledge, you gain love.

680
00:31:31,470 --> 00:31:35,550
And through love, you gain eternal life.

681
00:31:37,030 --> 00:31:37,990
You want to live?

682
00:31:38,970 --> 00:31:39,710
Never die.

683
00:31:41,070 --> 00:31:42,270
Get to know Jesus Christ.

684
00:31:43,950 --> 00:31:45,430
Through Him, you will get to know the

685
00:31:45,430 --> 00:31:45,770
Father.

686
00:31:46,470 --> 00:31:48,650
And when you get to know Him, you'll

687
00:31:48,650 --> 00:31:49,410
start loving Him.

688
00:31:50,010 --> 00:31:51,830
And the day you love Him is the

689
00:31:51,830 --> 00:31:53,270
day you live.

690
00:31:54,390 --> 00:31:55,270
You'll never die.

691
00:32:02,110 --> 00:32:06,600
I don't want to talk too much.

692
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,140
You know, when you read in the gospel

693
00:32:10,140 --> 00:32:11,900
according to St. John in chapter 11, the

694
00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:14,380
Lord Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead after

695
00:32:14,380 --> 00:32:14,960
four days.

696
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:15,880
He was rotted.

697
00:32:17,980 --> 00:32:20,520
You know, some would say raising the dead

698
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,260
is the ultimate miracle.

699
00:32:24,140 --> 00:32:25,040
No, it's not.

700
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,820
Because the very Lazarus whom the Lord raised

701
00:32:29,820 --> 00:32:32,000
from the dead, 30 years later, he died

702
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:32,640
in Cyprus.

703
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,180
I've gone to Cyprus and I've seen his

704
00:32:36,180 --> 00:32:38,200
tomb, the tomb of Lazarus.

705
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,700
He was a bishop in Larnaca in Cyprus

706
00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:42,480
for 30 years.

707
00:32:43,540 --> 00:32:48,060
So, the Lord raised Lazarus physically and he

708
00:32:48,060 --> 00:32:48,660
died again.

709
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,560
So, if raising the dead is the ultimate

710
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,080
miracle, Lazarus shouldn't have died.

711
00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:59,940
But what is the ultimate miracle that once

712
00:32:59,940 --> 00:33:02,600
you give it to a person, that person

713
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,340
never dies, is love.

714
00:33:09,150 --> 00:33:11,530
When does a person never die?

715
00:33:12,110 --> 00:33:14,090
When the heart is changed.

716
00:33:16,110 --> 00:33:17,610
What changes the heart?

717
00:33:18,270 --> 00:33:18,690
Love.

718
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:22,420
It's all in the heart.

719
00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:26,520
You know, the Lord Jesus said, and I'm

720
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,180
not talking about the heart that pumps blood,

721
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,520
you know, I'm talking about the core of

722
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,520
your being, the inner person.

723
00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:38,860
The inner person, when that inner person changes,

724
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,140
you'll never die.

725
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,800
But that inner person, no one can change

726
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:43,680
except God.

727
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,920
But God cannot change you unless you know

728
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:46,120
Him.

729
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,620
And since you can't get to God, God

730
00:33:49,620 --> 00:33:51,280
became man so He can get to this

731
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:51,540
man.

732
00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:54,240
Or this man can get to you, rather.

733
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,800
Because Jesus came to do one thing, to

734
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:07,449
change your heart from stone, dead, to flesh,

735
00:34:07,630 --> 00:34:07,949
living.

736
00:34:17,540 --> 00:34:20,880
Brother and sister were the only ones living

737
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:21,260
together.

738
00:34:21,380 --> 00:34:22,659
The parents had moved on.

739
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,300
True story.

740
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,000
Brother and sister, they were living together for

741
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:28,760
a long time.

742
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:30,699
One day the brother gets married.

743
00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:35,060
The sister remains because she didn't want to

744
00:34:35,060 --> 00:34:37,620
get married because she wanted to be like

745
00:34:37,620 --> 00:34:38,940
a mom to her brother.

746
00:34:38,940 --> 00:34:42,159
So she sacrificed her life for the brother.

747
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:42,500
Why?

748
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,880
Because love gives life.

749
00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:49,800
So she remains single to look after the

750
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:50,080
brother.

751
00:34:50,780 --> 00:34:51,920
The brother gets married.

752
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,100
First few years, absolutely beautiful, him and his

753
00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:56,420
wife.

754
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,520
Loving each other, respecting, beautiful life.

755
00:35:00,620 --> 00:35:03,680
Few years later, Satan whispers in this brother's

756
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,120
ear, the husband, and he veers off the

757
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,000
road, and he goes and finds another woman.

758
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,680
While he's still married, he's also living with

759
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:13,200
another woman.

760
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:21,660
After a little while, the wife starts having

761
00:35:21,660 --> 00:35:24,660
her own doubts and suspicions because she started

762
00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:27,980
seeing changes in this husband toward her.

763
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:34,480
So she, she was a best friend with

764
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,920
his sister, the sister-in-law.

765
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,040
The sister-in-law and the wife, they

766
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:38,940
were more than sisters.

767
00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:40,220
They became more than sisters.

768
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,960
So she went to her sister-in-law

769
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,500
to open up to her because she couldn't

770
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:46,380
handle it anymore.

771
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:52,700
She said, Sister, I don't have solid proof,

772
00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:55,920
but my feeling cannot fail me.

773
00:35:56,660 --> 00:35:58,680
I think your brother has got another woman

774
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,240
in his life.

775
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:08,420
The sister said, Impossible for my brother to

776
00:36:08,420 --> 00:36:08,800
do this.

777
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,240
I know my brother.

778
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,560
I was like a mom to him.

779
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:13,480
I raised him all my life, all his

780
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:13,740
life.

781
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,780
I know him more than himself.

782
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:16,680
No way.

783
00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:19,360
You have married the best man you could

784
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,540
ever ask for in the entire world.

785
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,740
No one is like my brother.

786
00:36:24,620 --> 00:36:26,600
And I know for a fact, he loves

787
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,480
you, he adores you.

788
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,260
But behind closed doors, when she pulled the

789
00:36:31,260 --> 00:36:34,740
brother aside, she shredded him because he confessed

790
00:36:34,740 --> 00:36:36,620
to her that he's got another woman in

791
00:36:36,620 --> 00:36:37,040
his life.

792
00:36:38,220 --> 00:36:39,580
So she shredded him.

793
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,980
But in front of the sister-in-law,

794
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,520
my brother is the best.

795
00:36:44,140 --> 00:36:47,580
She kept on praying and kept and held

796
00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:51,740
on to the secret until one day, your

797
00:36:51,740 --> 00:36:54,460
father who art in heaven, who sees in

798
00:36:54,460 --> 00:36:56,560
secret, will reward you in the open.

799
00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,820
He touched the heart of the brother through

800
00:36:59,820 --> 00:37:02,940
the love of the sister she had for

801
00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:03,480
the brother.

802
00:37:04,060 --> 00:37:07,880
Hid the secret, never revealed it because love

803
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,460
hides many errors.

804
00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:16,480
Until God touched his heart and one day

805
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:17,200
he woke up.

806
00:37:17,740 --> 00:37:18,800
He said, what am I doing?

807
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:21,340
I've got the best wife in the world.

808
00:37:21,980 --> 00:37:23,600
Where have I lost my mind?

809
00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:28,280
He stops, comes back and continues his life

810
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,480
with his wife.

811
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:34,860
What kept that life going was the love

812
00:37:34,860 --> 00:37:37,640
of the sister to the brother.

813
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,560
We can't wait when someone makes a mistake.

814
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,640
We blow the trumpet all over the social

815
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:49,120
media.

816
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:51,840
Did you know?

817
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:52,380
Did you know?

818
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:52,920
Did you know?

819
00:37:58,980 --> 00:38:00,840
Where is the love?

820
00:38:10,430 --> 00:38:11,410
You want to live?

821
00:38:13,070 --> 00:38:15,370
Get to know Jesus Christ in order to

822
00:38:15,370 --> 00:38:15,750
love him.

823
00:38:17,110 --> 00:38:18,610
Because when you get to know the Son,

824
00:38:19,470 --> 00:38:20,770
the Son will give you the Father.

825
00:38:22,950 --> 00:38:25,750
Philip and all of you, truly I say

826
00:38:25,750 --> 00:38:27,890
to you, he who sees me, I Jesus

827
00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:30,990
Christ of Nazareth, sees the Father, for I

828
00:38:30,990 --> 00:38:31,950
and the Father are one.

829
00:38:33,250 --> 00:38:33,570
Wow.

830
00:38:35,850 --> 00:38:37,350
Don't love me, love my dad.

831
00:38:38,230 --> 00:38:40,210
But one thing I will ask of you,

832
00:38:40,610 --> 00:38:41,350
get to know me.

833
00:38:41,570 --> 00:38:43,550
Because I am the word, I'm the knowledge.

834
00:38:45,790 --> 00:38:47,510
And without knowledge there is no love.

835
00:38:48,430 --> 00:38:49,770
And without love there is no life.

836
00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:53,110
Focus on the Lord Jesus.

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In him, eternal life is made possible.

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Amen.

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Let's bow our heads.

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In the name of the Father, and of

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the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one

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God, Amen.

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Our good God and full of mercy, our

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good God and full of mercy, whose grace

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and mercy is poured upon all, pour, my

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Lord, the compassion of the delightfulness of your

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love upon your servants, and again transform them

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in the hope of renewal to the life

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of repentance.

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Renew in them your Holy Spirit, by whom

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they are sealed for the day of salvation.

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Purify them by your compassion from all flesh

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and spiritual blemishes, and assure the hope of

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their faith by the aid of your grace.

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And instill the walks of their behavior and

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the paths of righteousness.

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Please them along with the saints in your

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kingdom by the assurance of the hope of

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their faith in the adoption as your children

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and in the joy of your absolving mysteries.

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Empower them by the aid of your mercies

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to observe your commandments and fulfill your will

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to confess, worship, and praise your Holy Name,

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the Lord of all, Father and Son, and

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Holy Spirit forever.

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Amen.