Sunday Sermon (English) | 26.09.21 Feast Of The Holy Cross

[Music] in the name of the father of the son and of the holy spirit one god amen our beloved fathers deacons nuns and our beloved congregation we thank our lord and savior jesus christ for his infinite mercies while we are living in the end of times yet his infinite mercy is allowing us still the unworthy servants to come into his holy house into his holy church and celebrate the holy eucharist the true body and the true blood of christ our messiah our king our lord and god today my beloveds it is the feast of the holy cross according to the old julian calendar which our beloved church follows there is a difference between the old and the new calendar new calendar is the gregorian after saint gregory the pope of rome which came into the 11th century more so so the difference between the new calendar gregorian to the old calendar julian is 13 days so the 13th of september all calendar julian equates to 26th of september new calendar gregorian may the feast of the holy cross be an enormous and infinite blessings upon you my beloveds may the feast of the holy cross be the reason for your salvation and redemption more than ever before may the feast of the holy cross be the sign of you coming back to christ in in a contrite heart and a repentant soul more than ever before may the feast of the holy cross shed the light on your path so that you see the way to christ the messiah the king who is the way the truth and the life there are seven feasts in our holy apostolic universal church and the holy cross is the last or the seventh feast of the of these seven feasts is the last one it begins with the nativity or the birth of the messiah followed by the epiphany or the baptism of the lord jesus at the river jordan and then followed by the sunday resurrection the ultimate miracle done by the lord in the flesh on earth risen from the dead followed by the feast of the ascension where the lord jesus ascended and sat at the right hand of the father and then followed by the feast of the pentecost or the 50th day when the holy spirit descended on the 120 faithfuls who were sitting in the upper room and the holy spirit descended on them as the tongues of fire and then followed by the sixth feast which is the feast of transfiguration where the lord jesus took his three disciples simon peter john james and john sons of zebedee and took him to the mount top of mount tabor and the lord transfigured right before them on that mountain and then followed by the seventh and the last feast the holy cross queen helen or helene who happened to be the mother of constantine the king she decided to go in search of the cross of the lord jesus so she went all the way to israel and to jerusalem and she gathered all the elders those who are well informed and educated in judaism in the torah and the scriptures and she began seeking their guidance and asking their their wisdom as to where jesus of nazareth was crucified and where the cross of the lord was buried and after a divine intervention queen helen came to this place and was dug up and there they were the three crosses right there buried underground queen helen did not know which of the three was the lord's cross at that time as the church tradition teaches us and tells us there was someone uh going to be buried and queen helen ordered the people of that departed soul to bring that dead person because the queen said that one of these crosses is the lord's and i believe when this dead person is placed on this cross shall rise so they brought the dead person and placed it on the first cross nothing happened on the second cross nothing happened and then when it was placed on the third one that dead person rose immediately and came back to life she then realized that this must be the cross of the lord jesus the life-giver the one who raises the dead she took the cross with her the holy cross was found on the 13th of september 326 a.d on the 13th of september 326 a.d there are some of our beloved christians celebrate the feast of the holy cross on the 14th of september instead of the 13th the reason for that is at the time of queen helen in the 3rd century technology was not as advanced as it is now so what they used to do to send the sign or the signal or to send the message all the way to the um to the queen's empire they used to place a person on every mount top and they would light a fire so the queen said when the cross is found of the lord jesus we will start lighting the fire on the mount top in israel and continue all the way to the roman empire and that's why it took an extra day for the message to be delivered from the east to the west and that's why when the message was sent to the west it arrived on the 14th however the holy cross was actually found by the queen by queen helen on the 13th of september 326 a.d may the illustrious may the power hidden in this cross give you the insight give you the discernment and give you the wisdom to realize what god's will in every one of you's life my beloved why did the lord jesus die on the cross even even christians some christians ask this question and non-christians say how can god how can this massive god how can this so elevated god how can this mighty god come down to earth become a human and then chooses for himself the most degrading the most humiliating way of dying in the flesh and that was the cross the cross my beloved was invented by the barbarians and implemented by the roman empire as a way of killing people at the time those who were non-roman citizens anyone who was a non-roman citizen that was found to be guilty of whatever offense that needed the death of the cross they would actually kill this person or sentenced to death via being crucified on the cross the lord jesus in the flesh being a jew this was the way they chose to kill him on the cross the problem the cross to the jews is a stumbling stone the cross to the to the greeks the philosophers of the world the wise prudent per people of the world to them the cross is ignorance to the jews it is a stumbling stone why because to the jews their messiah cannot die at all let alone die a humiliating way the cross a jew cannot accept the cross period that is why when the lord jesus was speaking to his disciples and said that it is written about me and the prophets that i'll be handed over to the authorities and the high priest and they will sentence me to death the death of the cross simon being a jew said far from you lord it is impossible for you to die the death of the cross the lord jesus said not to simon but to the enemy that spoke through simon the lord rebuked satan and he said away with me satan so to the jewish people the cross it is a huge no-no let alone their messiah to die on the cross impossible it is a stumbling stone for the jews for the greek philosophers the educated the wise people it is absolutely ignorance how can you believe in a god how can you worship a god that died on the cross that is an absolute ignorance in its call what kind of a weak god is this to die a very humiliating way of death the death of the cross so to the greeks and the wise people of the world it is absolute ignorance for christians to claim that we worship jesus christ who died on the cross saint paul [Applause] says that i may not boast about anything but the cross of my lord jesus christ for the cross of the lord jesus christ to us the saved it is the wisdom and the power of god for us the saved it is the wisdom and the power of god but for the jews it is a stumbling stone for the educated and the and the literate and the wise people it is absolute and ignorant statement so sad you see when people question the cross they are denying one thing that is absolute foundational love love my beloved when we do not understand the concept of love and i mean true divine love we will totally misunderstand the power of the cross i've said this before and i'll say it again what leads to love is knowledge what leads to love is knowledge you see i cannot claim that i love someone i do not know [Music] i can only love a person that i came to know someone that i do not know i cannot love simply so what leads to love is knowledge i get to know the person and the more i get to know the person the more i begin to love the person and the more i begin to love the person the more i get to know the person the more i know the more i love and the more i love the more i know however the more i know and love the more i suffer where did suffering come from and how did suffering [Music] came about through knowledge and love you see it is impossible for me to suffer it is impossible for me to feel any pain unless i know and love i cannot be hurt i cannot suffer because of strangers i only feel the pain and i only suffer with my own closest people my own family and the closest people to me when a total stranger offends me it means absolutely nothing to me but when the dearest of all dearest of people to my heart offends me they stab me in the heart they destroy me and they shred me to pieces they break me period why because when i know the person the most and i love the person the most when that person breaks when that person says an offensive word to me it breaks my heart totally why did the lord jesus die on the cross the lord hanging on the cross saying to all of us my beloveds he's saying the following my knowledge for you is perfect and my love for you is perfect since i know you perfectly and since i jesus christ of nazareth love you perfectly the day you broke my word you broke my heart you nailed me on the cross because you broke my word you broke my heart because i love you so much i know you so much when you walked away from me you simply killed me love kills my beloveds love kills love is the most powerful thing in the world and at the same time it is the weakest thing ever to exist love is the most powerful and the weakest thing ever to exist with love you can move mountains and with love can move you and break you it is very agonizing an extremely excruciating and painful thing when you lose your loved ones when you lose your beloved the love of your life the love of your heart when you lose that person you're gone you're destroyed when parents lose their children they are absolutely shattered when a man loses his woman or the woman loses her man they are absolutely shattered love is so powerful it is extremely painful but you know what it's amazing sometimes when you feel that enormous unbearable pain because of love you say i wish i never loved i wish love never existed around it it is too painful to bear it is too painful to handle but guess what without love there is no life without love there is no life and if there is no life then we don't exist it's amazing how the almighty god through his infinite wisdom brought life through love which is the most powerful and the most painful thing ever but it is but life is only made possible through love through love only you grab any serial killer you grab any gangster any drug dealer and drug addict you grab any homeless person whatever has become of them when you trace their life story all the way to the childhood you will find i can assure you 95 i'm gonna be reasonable and conservative here i'm not gonna say hundred percent but i will say 95 and that person's life they were lacking love in their childhood that's why they became what they became every child that is born is born like an angel none of us were born to be drug dealers none of us were born to be serial killers none of us were born to be drug addicts alcohol alcoholic none of us were born to be homeless but what made me a homeless alcoholic drug dealer and drug addict was lack of love in my childhood love is extremely powerful love can change a person love can build a person and the lack of love can destroy that person no matter how smart how intelligent how wise how rich how powerful they are without love they are absolutely nothing and what the world is lacking one thing and that thing is the foundation of existence love love that's why the world is in turmoil my beloveds it's funny but it's very ironic how a human being shapes up to be turns out to be my goodness if we think about it for a moment what the world is doing and has been doing absolute childish and ignorant what is the wisdom behind becoming a superpower what are you trying to achieve to say i am the most powerful nation in the world so what and then what okay you became the most powerful nation in the world and then what you became the richest man in the world and then what my dear friend you killed this person and you killed that person you destroyed this company and you destroyed that company you became so greedy and selfish you only saw yourself and no one else and then what you can eat all the healthy organic food in the world well you spray pesticides you spray pesticides on on the food that is sold to poor people the general masses but you the elite everything is organic everything is healthy they give you all the vitamins that are good for your bones and for your entire body and you try your hardest to do exercises and your oxygen is absolutely clean you live in a place where there is no viruses there is no pesticides there is no pestilence and your everything is absolutely purified and you're going to die my friend are you hearing what i'm saying you cannot die yes you can be the richest man on earth the healthiest man on earth you can exercise only life and you can do your botox and stretch your skin and iron it my dear friend the skin is gonna get wrinkled and you're gonna go down to the pit my dear friend and when you go to the grave the grave does not give one penny neither about your health neither about your wealth another about your prestigious life that you had the grave does not differentiate between the king and the slave everybody rots in the grave but there is one thing my dear friend the righteous shall live forever but the evil doer will perish and there is no trace of them anymore live in christ in order to live forever embrace the holy cross make the holy cross your refuge your shelter your lighthouse where your boat is being kicked punched by this wild ocean but the lighthouse is shedding the light to you to say come this way and reach the shores of peace make the cross the place where you can hide from the snares of the enemy make the holy cross your strength your power your wisdom love and knowledge cries out from the cross says to all of us my children i love you perfectly and i know you perfectly the day you broke my word you broke your jesus heart and when the lord died on the cross from death he gave us eternal life jesus rose from the dead and crushed that death with his death burial and resurrection and to whoever believes in him the lord jesus gave that person eternal life absolutely free forever i'll leave you with this it's so funny us as human beings when we study a little bit when we educate ourselves in whatever field of life when we learn theology we graduate and we receive our doctorate in theology we think that we can talk about god as if we know him more than himself it's amazing isn't it so we decide what we do and what we not to do in the name of jesus christ we on our alone by ourselves we decide without being obedient to no one else without adhering to church fathers of two thousand year history we decide now that i know what the bible means we decide now that i know jesus more than anyone else that has passed me by for 2000 year history it's amazing it's amazing my beloved what do we know about the lord jesus my goodness can we understand one day what god means can we comprehend fathom this it will take us eternities and we will never get to the drop of the ocean of god but one thing i'll say humility is also the cross with humility [Music] you get filled by the holy spirit from above and when you are filled by the holy spirit the holy spirit will teach you what the lord jesus said and what the lord jesus meant in everything he said and in everything he did it it takes only god to reveal to us the hidden treasures in the word of god because the word was in the beginning with god and the word was god himself the only one who can talk and reveal the secrets of god is god himself but god will not share with you his secrets god will not reveal to you his secrets until you humble yourself before him the cross is humility humility the cross is death death biblically speaking is self-denial self-denial is humility i no longer live for myself but i live for christ and christ lives in me i no longer do what i please but what the lord pleases this is humility this is the cross which the lord commanded us all to bear it to carry it and follow him unless you follow my unless you carry my cross and follow me every day you are not worthy to be my disciple luke 9 23 humility humility is wisdom love is knowledge knowledge love wisdom humility this is god god is love he is all knowledge and god is humility he is all wisdom this is the holy cross knowledge and wisdom one day this monk he used to pray for 40 years he would ask the lord jesus every single day for 40 years non-end he'd ask the lord jesus for one thing lord show me how you think show me how you work show me lord jesus when you are about to come and do something how do you prepare prior to doing it i want to know how you operate lord after 40 years the lord jesus show answered this monk in a dream this monk saw himself walking on the beach it is all sandy ground and while he was walking on the beach he came to the place to this place where he saw a four-year-old kid sitting on that sand with a piece of stick in his hand digging a little hole in the sand and with his little tiny beautiful hand taking water from the ocean and pouring it into this little hole which he dug in the sand the monk being curious stopped and he said my son what are you doing he said father i want to empty the ocean into this little hole the monk laughed and continued on his journey because the man said he is a little kid that's all he knows he doesn't know any better and as he passed a little kid he realized this could be the sign from the lord jesus and as he turned to look at the kid he saw the kid no longer there and he woke up from his dream and as he woke up from his dream immediately this insight was given to him and the voice said to him this is your answer for your request for the past 40 years my son i jesus christ i am this infinite ocean and your head your skull is that little hole how much can you take from this infinite ocean to into your little hole here in your head your head can only take so much and once your head is full you cannot take any longer from the ocean because if you do it will just spill over for once your head is filled there is no more room to fill it with more guess what you are finite my child and i am your infinite god you can never contain me in your little hole your head my beloved child therefore no matter how old you grow you will always remain my little baby you will always remain my little child for there is no one that can stand in the presence of the almighty jesus christ of nazareth and claim to be wise and prudent for the wisdom of god surpasses any other wisdom the infinity of god surpasses any measures of life all we need to do humble yourself and let the lord fill you with his holy spirit so that you may be guided by the source of wisdom that leads you into this love so that that love can be preserved protected and enhanced and expanded through that wisdom so that everyone that comes your way sees christ hidden in you taste christ in you feels christ in you sees christ in you and blessed are you when your master jesus is glorified through you my beloved may the feast of the holy cross be infinite blessings infinite salvation and redemption infinite mercies and graces upon all of you my beloved may the power of the holy cross bring every evil tribulation to a full swift end we pray on this holy feast of the holy cross that this evil agenda that has engulfed the world this evil agenda that is happening in the 21st century may the power of the holy cross crush satan once again and all the foul spirits and every evil doer that is not wanting to repent that is trying to hurt his human being his friend his brother in humanity may the power of the holy cross bring every evil agenda to shame today my beloved i pray this so-called coronavirus plandemic has been brought to shame this very day on the feast of the holy cross may the power of the lord jesus may the wisdom of the lord jesus devour every evil plan of satan and satan followers in jesus mighty name and in the power of the holy cross may the light of the world shine forth and decimate every darkness amen happy holy cross feast may the holy cross bless you my beloved and you always make the sign of the cross to be blessed my beloved amen this is the teaching of the holy apostolic universal church we make the sign of the cross now whether you make the sign of the cross left to right or right to left that is okay as long as we love one another and we pray for one another and we make jesus happy by showing that we are his disciples for loving one another this is what the lord jesus commanded and it was the last command that he gave to his disciples he said if you truly love me love one another for in this the world will know that you belong to me when you love one another you are reflecting jesus christ of nazareth in your life for the whole world so that the whole world sees the light of the world shining through you and comes this dark world to the light and glorify your heavenly father who art in heaven love love love is the supreme ethic and the foundation to existence and the reason for for life to come into existence love precedes life my beloved in christianity for god is love may the love of god engulf you inwardly and outwardly may the love of god be instilled in your hearts in your souls in your spirits all the days of your lives and forevermore amen now let us bow our heads and confess our sins while we are reciting this prayer of absolution bow your heads down and seek the lord's mercy and confess your sins this very moment in the name of the father of the son and of the holy spirit one god amen our good god and full of mercy our good god and full of mercy whose grace and mercy is poured upon all pour my lord the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance renew in them your holy spirit by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace and instill the walks of their behavior in the paths of righteousness please them along with the saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith in the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will to confess worship and praise your holy name the lord of all father and son and holy spirit forever amen may the lord jesus forgive us our sins our foolishness inequities by the power of the holy cross and the blood that what share that was shed on this holy cross amen god bless you god protect you god be with you in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit one god amen

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Length: 42min 18sec (2538 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 04 2021