in his own person as the incarnate visible word of god in other words he is god visible in the flesh he did not change just to find nature always the second person of the trinity who speaks creation out who spoke to moses who spoke to the three men young men in the fiery furnace the burning bush  always never visible now in the new testament the incredible happens god who always told god the son in the old testament to the jewish nation israel teaching and guiding him becomes flesh that is he doesn't change from being god he adds to the divine nature the human nature that is our own he has a human soul a human body a human will everything that pertains to our human nature with out sin he did not have a father he has a mother to have the holy spirit come upon her and to generate a person from her blood from her flesh therefore the mother of the lord jesus christ is very important in that she gave him the humanity that is our bridge in to the divine nature and  transformation into holiness our transformation into being one with god reconciled perfectly with him this perfectly is we as human beings god is love we look to the gospel of john specially chapters fourteen through seventeen as he prepares his disciples and apostles to share in that passion of his in the three day burial and in the lord of his resurrection he says to the father glorify me as i have glorified the my father he tells us that i and the father are one they are sharing completely the divine nature as soon as the holy spirit is sent by the son from the father we will have the third person of the trinity working among us a new nother advocate to bring us into the son who in turn brings us back to the father and we can truly pray our father who art in the heavens above every other name that is named therefore we want to look especially at the gospel of unity we have god now in utter mercy and love and forgive us does he chastise his people as a father have to discipline his son of course but god doesn't lay the whip himself he's simply draw us back is protection to a certain point we see it in the book of chapter and you'll see god with our adversary prancing around in front of him saying god you think that joel can't hold up under temptation let me test so right away we know through this all this book of the bible is written we know who the tester is god allows this to be chastised and to be strengthened what soldier is it strengthened by exercises in battle conditions he allows us to be strengthened in battling the real enemy the real hater of god the true wrathful one who wants to tear up and destroy mankind this is satan the shocking thing is to ones that some who call themselves pastors will actually say that christ has to risk us from god the father this is total confusion with paganism that was introduced by the western papacy when they used a custom who was a pagan philosopher to destroy and blasts fim the name of god who is gnosis pouring out himself this is the heart of god he pours out himself in creation he pours out himself in love to draw us into his son the love and is not wrathful from mankind's point of view it may seem that it is anger and but we know that god is love he is disciplining its children in great let's talk from the viewpoint of the ancient church always and forever based on scripture based on the eyewitness accounts as passed down from the apostles themselves as they wrote that scripture remember the divine liturgy preexists to the written new testament to what they call scripture where the old testament books whatever that falls of his creation first of all we have falling away from the love of risk god he knows that with out him and without our loving attachment to him by obedience we will self destroy we will self destruct the first one to do this was l perfect like god now he himself was allowed to test god by the way he took a third of the angels with him a tremendous thousands upon millions  father his loving father who created t v and his helpmate eve now let's watch what happens there we're going to call we're going to talk a little more carefully about it here god did not who created a feudal system and imposed upon the scriptures there is no wrath thing god's response to the center he went further distancing himself at one point enoch seven generations after adam was so perfect and perfectly in tune with walking with god he actually was physically brought up and transported into heaven physically as a precursor to the ascension which christ would accomplish later in its fullness for all humanity and we know  because of pride again with drew itself cloud itself off from the branch of the life giving apostles the life giving holy scriptures instead of using holy scriptures and the teaching that the councils which reveal the will of the holy spirit in working out and living out our salvation implies they cut themselves off because of power and pride they wanted power it was and bishan think back to judas that fall is pictured the fall this picture and repeat it by the fall of the pope the frankish head of the church who use server to as an anti christ taking the place of christ calling themselves infallible usurping the place of christ as head of the church so actually we have lucifer the fall of the end jelly cause we have the fall of adam because of temptation he could not hold up under that again and tempted to be like god because of also another fall terrible fall who wanted the kingdom to be on earth and he wanted power in the kingdom then the last fall of thousand years ago is s where the papacy failed one thing to be equal again with god christ is the head of the church no man can use serve or take the place of that position it is god was glorified not a earthly man who is prone to sin now let's get into the could news of our salvation this lord who loves is the lord it's called the rescue mission that is the story very denture it's a story of we see it with people reflecting depths of a man who sees children helpless of the streams the floods and goes in on a rescue mission christ poured out his very life anyone who lays down his life  for him the lord says is imitating my love in ever so small and the love of christ is expressed in his arms outstretched on that cross he reaches to the right to the left the cross itself reaches up into the heavens cleansing them putting principalities and powers to shame i'm taking for granted you know where the scriptures are look them up and piercing down even into eighty's routing the enemy and steering him by the root of the one thirteen just and i'm just giving you a tiny fragment of the giant body of scripture here he has transferred to us from door to us in two  f the son of his law collections one thirteen and we are delivered from corrections roman eight romans eight twenty one in fact the book of romans chapter five has been mistranslated because of them laugh to error into rome or one of the latin translators they use the wrong god would be sown unjust if he made us you need pay for the sin of someone else this is totally in comprehensible especially when we know that god is total love in the essence of a self sacrificing poured out love that needed in one sense his creation to speak of it in order to have a vehicle a vessel to and grant me the power which is the earnest of our promise of ourselves ation who is the horny spirit promised all the way back from abraham even until now why they said we need to ask god to be merciful to jesus christ is always merciful god is merciful and forgiving why do we repeat or call out for mercy and forgiveness it reminds be a little of a story from the life of the great rabbi hier little and one student because for we mortals for we human beings to let the words rest on our heart is the most of we can achieve and let the words rest on our heart until and ask for forgiveness over and over again perhaps at first just asking as most of we human beings can accomplish and yet when we say lord have mercy we're not always we're well we're never suggesting that god is a worse of all or that our lord jesus christ is anything but merciful toward but we cry out from the anguish and the confusion and the inner suffering of our own heart when we need god's mercy to help us to come to understand our anguish and our inner human suffering and the mercy that are asking is not to try to get god to become  that he give us his merciful help and grace to come for him to understand to come to grips with and to be healed and when we ask for forgiveness we really are asking for healing because both mercy and forgiveness are healing bombs to the troubled soul to the tortured mind to the broken heart to our human nature lord heal me from all these things that tend to separate me from you that drive me into alienation when i feel empty and homely and without my father god you mean by your forgiveness so that this alienation within we will be healed and i can feel complete and whole one floor and i can feel your communion and feel that i've once more come home to you desire to spend eternity in the household of the living god and this is what we mean when we crowd roared to mercy and asked for his forgiveness this is not something that's negative wants our good as any good parent even in a small way does back at the old testament at the patriarchs and we see the most a clause imposed temporarily to make the israel te people realize they're in sand and disobedient to god and then we see that christ comes close bad to the promise of abraham we knew that as of these seed of abraham and we are in christ anyone who comes into christ is a child of abraham in death there are dop to him to the same ship of the father through the son jesus christ remember there's a parable that the lord tells the jewish people when you see on the year teaching healing restoring the loving he says there were two sons and the father asked him to go work in the field and run son said yes yes i'll go work he doesn't go the second son says no i don't think so but in do you see that it's not just faith which is needed that's our initial step then how do we respond to this savior who has saved us and delivered us and forgiven us we who loves me in john kennedy's chapters fourteen to seventeen he who loves me will that means not making up your own doctrine not writing your own books it is the gospel of greed to make a trafficking out of the word of god god cares for the souls that are taking up your book  but it cares about those who are exposed to your own problems as you write your books and in making tapes and all of this so we have over b d s and not sacrifice as the lord said those who have fallen asleep will rise first and then those who are life will be joining them in the heavens this is the physical bodily resurrection this is not the rapture this is the final judgment there will be a judgement especially for christians and we will be judged on whether we have o commandments and given to our neighbors loved our neighbors as ourselves that's how we show our love for god so this is the test for every christian not pit gross which is the masculine for peter himself with masculine anyone who believes in the rapture denies that we will have to go through the tribulation behind me satan he was talking to peter in calling him satan now peter didn't turn into satan just like he didn't turn into the rock in the previous first it was what he he was either speaking in faith that jesus christ is the son of the living god that was the rock the foundation of our faith or he was speaking the words of satan because he felt lifted up and arrogant and proud by giving compliment for the previous statement and christ had to say get thee behind me satan did that mean peter turned into state it meant that what he's said se eighteen in matthew they forget sixteen through twenty two twenty three just five verses down let's read our scripture that's the problem right there they don't read scripture so preach only christ in him crucified deny yourselves take up your cross and follow me the crust is not dark  undo the disobedience of adam to correct that twist in human nature that resulted from the fall and resulted in our corruption and mortality and our inclination to sin and follow our emotions and actions out of control that is healed by our giving over our will glory to your glory to jesus christ brothers and sisters the love of god how great just this one when he first created man from dust and breathed life into his soul and put things into the soul of man in a manner appropriate to his commandments but when the man fell from paradise the so was tainted with sa then the law gained through moses the law that was appropriate and fitting for this soul tainted by send th law that would expose the senate so that man would repent and come back into paradise then this almighty loving god came to us to restore us to remake us we see this throughout the holy scriptures how he when he comes to us to set us free that he is remaking us we see it in the man with the withered hand if you recall that he asked this man to stand and come right into the myths of the group that he was teaching and he asked them to stretch making us re story now it's in to that place that he first created us we also see it in this wonderful event in turn coming into the city of nineteen this pleasant place of comfort a pleasant place there is a procession coming out from the city from the city gates a funeral procession we see that the sun the only son of a widow is being carried to the funeral to be buried and cries comes opposite this procession with his  this is the the general resurrection brothers and sisters and he comes and it says that he had pity on the woman as he had pity on each of us when he comes to us to save us he was not the war the widowed woman did not come to him asking him to save her son to restore her son he comes on his own this merciful loving god comes on his own and it says as we read that he touched the and the procession stopped stood still and then he calls out this voice calls out as gregory palomas one of the dust that and we read that the poets and that he was restored to his mother this is what he does for each one of us when he comes he goods love your god when now we hear the love your god with your whole soul your whole mind your all of your all virtue all good deeds all good thoughts everything that is right chance is contained in this pronouncement and since he create first created us in a manner suitable to receive with these the pronouncement that now comes with this incarnate you see brothers and sisters that when the soul of man our soul was created it was made suitable to hear and receive the voice that now comes and says love your god with all of your heart with all of your soul with all of your mind with all of your strength and love your neighbor as thyself you see it is in name in our human nature the cleanse soul having been restored to that state which it was first created it is easy to hear and to receive that pronouncement is no longer a pronoun sma for a single nation but for the whole world all  nations and every one of us has within our innate nature the ability to receive this  with all of our heart soul and body and to love our neighbor as thyself we also hear and read that that if we love god and love our neighbor as ourselves that we fulfill all of the commandments because contained within this are all the commandments and it makes sense how loving is our god and savior jesus christ beautiful wonderful loving lowered and for us like this where all son who has died and has no been resurrected brought back to life we are being have been brought back to life by the incarnate god jesus christ when he comes to us he bowed down the heavens and came down for the salvation of the race of man you and i all of us everyone he comes for is washed from the taint of sand and we are restored and able to hear his voice when he calls out to us like he called out to this stead young bein called being called into bein that which had no bean all lord jesus christ son of the living god have mercy on us and save us for you are good servants may stand before the glory of your holy altar and all for unto you do worship angle or if occasion the lord jesus the holy spirit will guide us in following that will and in order to do that you need the mysteries that is those helps in the orthodox church prayer i c just standing our sinfulness that's what makes us worthy we were the receive when we are humble that's the only thing our fathers tell us that satan cannot corrupt under humility around us will usually help us again if they're orthodox christians we have the wonderful teachers we have to take care of because the enemy of course has made inroads in these last days people falsely c elders and all of this stuff you will know them by their fruits you will know them by the joy the utter simplicity and childlikeness of the person who is teaching we should be and crannies the little fifths the little one truth this much as we can by the grace of the holy spirit and ask him to claims us to walk perfect in his sight to glorify him so that the father knows he will be floor fight in the sun by that work of the holy spirit among us together not independent not going it alone we need one another we the help of one another they worship together one of our wonderful teachers father john roman midis said that in and among us to gather united for outside the safety of the fold so that he can snatch them away we join together in the holy church and with our brothers and sisters we praise and love each other perfectly as we can asking forgiveness of one another in john fourteen through seventeen when christ as a note prays for unity it is for the unity of his holy orthodox  when you come into orthodoxy i will not say if i'm depending on the grace of the holy spirit to give you grace to come on in us we pray in any church that is right and teaching the word of truth in orthodoxy christ pretty is that to make him one that does not mean all the other disparate western churches one with orthodoxy they are separated not by simple disunity they're separated by truth and untruth so in order to correct that kind of unit two they need to come in repent of their false teachings and