extra mile extra mile it's the 1970s his name is Allan and Allan is raised on the Virgin Islands he is um a he actually has a sister his mom is a musician she is a Dancer his dad is a musician of sorts Al will tell you he's a musician at his own bar and grill I greasy spoon but at the end of the day they do okay but if you were to asked Al about this life he would tell you it's tumultuous it's ups and it's Downs it's lefts and it's right it's rarely ever just kind of plateaued and as a result of it man by the age of two Alan's life is already upside down his parents are divorced he's got to move to Virgin Island he lives with his grandparents and then by the age of I guess maybe 10 or 12 Allan's World takes yet another turn all be it for the worst he moves to Miami to go to school stay with his dad his grandfather passes out he close to him and then if that's not bad enough his dad is killed in a robbery a home robbery man Allen's world upside down and all of a sudden he's in high school there's not enough peer pressure already as a result he's decided you know if I go into drama and the drama club and what have you the theater I can HDE I can be a great player I can be a great spokesperson I can be an oror I can be position I can hide my wounds because I'm playing the part he does so good at it that juli actually gives him a scholarship now he'll tell you I don't tell you that it was the greatest semester of his life when he remembers he didn't know he had to go to class he's expelled by the end of the first semester he's back on his heels and he's decided that man I just I've got to do something if I just go that extra step I go that extra mile he said his dad used to tell him that as SM too you just never saw it need need to play out so as a result of such he goes to Broadway does a couple bit place he does pretty good and as a result of it he gets a bit part in a show called Kennedy then he gets a bit part in show called back to humor and then he gets another show called I think was called The Hulk as a result of it people started to recognize it so get more popular got a little more money in his purse as a result man's decided that man this is okay and then man tragedy hits out it again man his his mom passes and then if it's not bad enough not long after his sister is murdered his dad remarriage and his half brother and half sister they get killed in a b acet the school by accident man he is upside down he doesn't know whether he should go active it's drugs it's alcohol it's wine women it's all and then he remembers what his mom and dad told him it's that extra m just go the extra step as a result he talks with someone who says you know maybe if you went to prison and listen to that guy's apology about your mom taking her life who give you a chance to start a Liv our brother and sister in Christ he turns his life around he becomes probably one of the best better actors of our day man Adam leaves from that and next thing you know his world is different he's been dry and sober now for quite some time as a result of it man he's in he's in movies like X-Men he's in The Expendables he actually did a comedy it was absolutely excellent It's called Down Periscope if you ever see it man I got to tell you it's very cute and then all of a sudden man he's in Toy Story he does the voice over for stinky Peete he's in The Simpsons he plays I think he plays one of the voiceovers for Bob but then all of a sudden he gets his big break he gets to be part of a show about a bar in Boston he gets a few cameo of course you know the big starts nor but man when he gets there he starts doing his thing pretty soon he's more of a regular he sits at the n Bar opposite from Norm he's a psychiatrist psychologist if you will then he gets his own show he's got a brother named n he lives with his dad you know him it's crazy oh because he took that extra step yeah you know it it's Kelsey gr my brother sister Christ it's all about the extra step that is exact that gospel is about the blind man is standing before our good Lord and he's told go the extra M take that extra step and go to the pool of salom and watch he walks he extra mile and he's pure you can now see now scop you're a first century Jew you know scripture like the back of your hand Brothers and Sisters in Christ you know automatically when you see the good Lord spit as if you and I were standing there you see him spitt to the ground you would think Genesis God created man from the ground ground Adam Adam meaning ground the good Lord spit into the ground and formed the man so now that he's spitting into the ground and you see him Tak it and making clay and putting in on his eyes remember what the good Lord said at the well with the lady did you remember that he said I'm to living water and anybody that drinks as me will have eternal life the same God that spit the ground batt the same that that just spit on the ground and cure the man that is blind my brothers and sisters in Christ you know what's amazing the pul ofon is it down the street it's at the southern part of Jerusalem it was started by King Hezekiah it's kind of like a a storage bent of water but it's it's it's quite large but to get to it it's no small task can you imagine a blind man walking down the street leading people who can see if you will so that they can now see spiritually that must have been something to behold my brothers and sisters in Christ when they get to the pool of salon and he washes and he sees because he was sent remember what the good Lord said I sent my son into the world in other words brother sister Christ man for a Jew this is all starting to come back into Play My Brothers and Sisters in Christ remember too that this is where the sacrament of baptism begins think about it for a second go and wash remember now the Jews told me you were born in sin original sin my brothers and sisters in Christ remember original sin is often times explained as a as a stain on our soul that's not a bad way of putting it but it also could be an absence in other words that the soul is not totally complete and by you and I getting baptized then all of a sudden that sin is removed in other words the soul is made complete you no longer are blind you now can see you've been made complete a foretelling of the sacrament to come not an acceptance of Jesus Christ as often times is promoted because back in matter day that's confirmation you confirm what your parents said that I do believe in holy mother church and I do believe that the Blessed Mother is ever virgin oh yes my brother and sister in Christ it's the removal of original sin now you and I live in the day we've watched this take place we also now live today 2,000 years later we've been given the benefit of being in both worlds secularly it's interesting to note did you know that the song Amazing Grace I was blind and now I see it's where it came from my brother sister in Christ you know they criticize the man because this was done on the Sabbath or more importantly they criticized Christ but here's the IR my brother and sister in Christ as a blind man on Sunday or Saturday if you will remember how hard everything is for him if you want to drink of water he's got to go find it and search for it what if it's out at the sister in the well how does he get there how does he get the bucket low how does he make sure he's po what if he wants something to eat what if he wants to go for a visit what if he just wants to go for a pleasant walk how does he know where to go what to be careful of but then now the fact that he can see he's been given rest on the Sabbath they get the glass of water so much easier going for a wall man how can I just I can't wait to do that my brother Christ he is free to enjoy the Sabbath my brother sister Christ and there's one more thing you and I need to realize in one hour more or less in one hour small steps the extra mile that that man walk from the minute that good Lord laid hands on him all the way to the pool Isam and all the way back to give thanks he goes from identifying Christ as a man to a prophet from God to The Great I Am oh how that extra mile was for all eternity now stop brother Christ now think go back in scripture all of our best players all of them man are those that go the extra mile just look just look at the crucifixion itself just the crucifixion there are four or five people involved but their names are now in The Book of Life there's Simon s there's Veronica Mary of magdala there's l g Joseph of Aria everyone of them did something extra they went that extra mile think about it you're sign to sirene you're there for the Passover one of three times when you have to go to Jerusalem you went all the way to Jerusalem with your two children Alexander and ruus and as a result of it you want to get your land bring it to the altar allow to be skewed in the form of crucifix and then you celebrate the Passover but here's the problem you come into town you see the the crowds you're up in and next thing you know you conscript welcome to the arm it could have been up to a day or several days for the Jews because that was the deal you could be conscripted that quickly as a result man he's brought into the freight put yourself in issues once blood of Christ gets on him he's done you going to be quarantined for least 7 days maybe up to 14 you'll never celebrate the Passover what about your two boys what are they going to crucify me too when I get to the top remember crucifixion was a common occurrence remember brother's Christ the passion the movie passion PID me the right way in that at the end of the day he realized that that Journey that he just took that extra mile which was exactly about what it was to bring Christ to go with his name is now in The Book of Life he may he may not have the blood of an Al Al he's got the blood of the land my brother Christ you're Veron you take the time to walk out and make sure that you stand in the way of the crucifixion as a woman you have absolutely no right and as a result you're not even stopping the crucifixion and because you Brave your Veil and you go that extra mile to this day we have the veil in Rome my brother Christ you can actually see we actually have a part of that in our Relic which you can see it at Rome usually on Easter Sunday she goes that extra mind what about L di I mean here you Centurion you probably got your orders earlier that week and again that morning there'll be three criminals you'll make sure they go through town you'll have a town CER in front make sure you have at least 100 soldiers around them and you make sure the procession handles and remember by 3:00 in saath they've got to come down I like to wonder what was going through L's thoughts at the very start okay three crimin three murderers let us together let's get through this we got to get somewhere along the way he realizes well I know two are murderers because I spent most of my life chasing distance in guest house but I'm not sure about this third guy within several hours you've gone from thinking that he's one of the murderers to I'm not sure do you make the words truly that man was the son of God that extra mile do you know according to tradition small T he actually brings the spirit tip to the Blessed Mother we have it this day he becomes Saint all gu but brother Christ chose gives up this to I mean talk about going extra mile it's not like you can go do one FR by tomorrow he's saying you can just bury me anyway as long as the good Lord has a to what if you marry magd on Easter Sunday when everybody else is sleeping you decided that you know what I'd rather be next to quote a dead savior than live people because she knows that extra M I don't care if there's a boulder I can't move I don't care that there's soldiers in the way took advantage more ways than I know I don't care how much harassment I get I am going to the do and because she goes the extra mile she's the first to see the Risen Christ so much so that in grief she actually grabs him and she won't let go this why Christ says to such an extent you must let me know for I get to return home my brother sister in Christ you know according to tradition small te Peter asked why is it you showed to Mary Magdalene and not to me I mean I'm your Vicor I'm Peter I'm protos I'm Don and he says you know Peter I look for you and I didn't see my brother and sister in Christ she's the first to see the RIS in Christ because she goes the extra mile and I tell you this and I know we pick on Peter all too much and I understand that but at the end of the day I would love to meet the Peter the day it started and 33 years later I bet you that man would go through anything to bring people closer to Christ remember he's the only one that have his name changed remember he's the first off the sacri he's the first my brothers to Christ every time they list the Apostle Judas is always last remember brother sister in Christ he is our first Vicor he's the first one to fight the Pharisees and Sadducees he's the first to baptize several thousand people he is the one that is decided who will do what and when it will happen he is one that decided all times one my brothers Christ here you and I said or maybe at home 2,000 years later will you go the extra M will you do what is necessary especially in a time in day like today as chaotic as it is as we search for a new normal will you and I go the extra mile to make sure our family and our friends are all taken care of our parents and our grandparents when they call you and that phone bring in and you see that number you know all too well you will be on it for at least an hour you know that you're going to start in the spot and you can end up in the exact same spot you probably won't solve one problem but they need to hear your voice voice they need to know there's calm in the world they need to know that something is true and that it is still true and there is some normal by talking to you will you stop watching television walk away from you know listening to the Stars you don't have to worry about football therefore you should have plent of time my brother and sister in Christ when you make sure that when people ask you to run an a that you will go the extra mile because just the way the world is sp when you're at work and they ask you to do more because there's just so much chaos when you do extra work without saying it's my job it's the description it's the money behold you I warn you that whenever you move the decimal point I a doing this because it's not my job scripture I need more money once your name is tied to money are we any better than jeice or pieces of silver my brother sister Christ or you go the extra mile while you have the time to pray with your families and sit down and pray erosion to read scripture to read the Breather to pray together as a unit will you wake up in the morning and make sure that you pray for yourself and for your family before you ever get started will you make sure at the end of night that you take the time to pray that you go to the extra mile when somebody call you together with family and friends they said let us begin with a prayer before we eat will you make the sign of the cross clearly and distinctly or will you give me one of these my brother and sister in Christ I pray with a friend I asked him the same thing what was that he said that was the sign of the cross I said I didn't know if you were giving me a sign to lay down a bun or still second I'm telling you brother of chist stop apologizing for being cath at the end of the day you either Jewish or you were a Catholic Christian my brother Christ for 1600 years for the most part that's the only two faiths in the game when you give the courage to walk the extra mile to pray to Hell Marica when you walk the extra mile people why we do as we do as a cathic when you sit together as one another and make sure you pray and help one another my brotherus Christ remember this you and I are never neutral you can't be every email every text message every drive by every time you go to the store every time you have communication the words you use the actions you applo the thoughts you have will they endear you to Christ or will they push you away as a result of such you are never neutral so therefore in everything you do is going to be tied back ultimately to him so therefore control the words you use make sure you don't get so angry that you go you lose control or you sending your wrong email or text mess or Facebook what I'm asking you to do is go to the extra M pray for them pray for the courage to remain silent that you don't have to win every fight you don't have to have the last word that somebody's keeping score oh there way you score it's not who you and I want to it's him my brother and sister in Christ you can't can't be neutral to him and all the things that we do if you go the extra mile and do the prayers with your family and friends and you begin to read scripture and pray the bre and read pray the RO Ros I promise you'll win to day my brother sister Christ I leave you with this and it's simple but it's quite profound walk the extra mile I promise there are absolutely no crowds amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

past the past it's the 1970s his name is Allan Allan lives in a place called I think it's Blue Island Illinois he will tell you Allan will that his dad is uh kind of does a little bit with movies does a little production a little editing does okay his mom is a quintessential mom she can do and does do now if you and I were to ask Alan tell me tell me about high school he would say well if it hadn't been for my band I'd have never got through High School here's the irony if you ask his mom she would tell you I don't know how he made it through high school thanks to his band my brother Christ but they I'll tell you one thing his mom and him will agree that the drama club is what set the table the Drama teacher that got him so engaged man Allan got so good at it that as soon as he graduated allbe it 18 he starts his own company called steppen Wolf Theaters in the bottom of a Catholic church he does his first production called I think it was called true West it actually got out got some publicity people start to recognize him give him little extra jobs put him on uh shows on plays a little bit on Broadway he does another show called orphans and that really gets him some recognition he meets his wife at Stephan Wolf Theaters to this day they are still married and doing well I got to tell you brother and sister in Christ it's the lure of Hollywood right so he goes out to LA thinking that he's going to make his his passion as a result he gets on the show Frasier he gets a little bit part and then all of a sudden the world kind of opens up for him he's in movies Allan is called of Bice and Men he's in uh the movie Ransom he was in the movie reindeer games and just when things started to open up he will tell you that living in Hollywood and working as an actor is like living on a rocket ship you just never know when this thing's going to to take off so you better keep giving it the gas he said man he just thought his past was catching up with him the insecurities the challenges the mistakes he made and then all of a sudden through prayer and he'll tell you through the church he says I meet Tom H he said the world began to change for him he said in the movie with Tom Hanks he was in The Green Mile Allan prayed the prosecuting attorney that prosecuted the gentleman coffee who was on death row and then all of a sudden he was in Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks he was he was the astronaut who didn't who didn't make the trip and then his big splash of which everybody knows him from he's in a movie with Tom Hanks that takes place in Vietnam it actually takes place in the middle of a battle scene they're out and there's this massive field with rice patties and I'm telling you it is all about the war it is bombs coming in planes are dropping na pom's going off smok's going bullets are firing this is going people are screaming and yelling you can't see 10t in front of your face and all of a sudden Allan who's the lieutenant yells out Forest have you found Jesus Christ in Forest yells back Lieutenant Dan I didn't know we were looking for him yeah you know Allan you know him as Lieutenant Dan you know him as Gary s you know what's amazing if you were talk to Gary s today he would tell you that through all the trials and tribulations of his journey moreover his past there was no better place to find peace than the Catholic Church My Brother and Sisters in Christ it's all about our past that's the gospel that is exactly what Christ was speaking about my brother sister Christ Lazarus come out four days have passed four days have passed and Lazarus comes out now stop you and I need to make sure we understand this you and I are there we are there with Martha and Barry and all the Jews in from Judea you need to understand things in the light of a Jew you and I do know scripture like the back of our hand we know who Hebrew scripture like that first thing you and I need to know that the Jews believe that after 3 days in the Tomb you cannot be resuscitated that's why Christ Waits a fourth day they believe that after the third day you can no longer identify the body for legal purposes because they don't they don't embal they they just protect the outer coving which eventually gives way so after 4 days there would be no identification as a matter of fact what they would do is leave it in the Tomb let it decompose you would go in and gather up the bones according to the mishna and then what they do is they put it in what they call a box of the bones that way you could have everybody together in other words you would have the complete body hence go back to the prophet Ezekiel where he'll put Flesh on the bones and breathe fresh excuse me breathe air into the flesh which goes to the bones now my brother and sister in Christ he's purposely waited four days you also need to know who are the Jews here the Jews are the Jews of Judea these are the ones in southern Jerusalem that do not like Christ this is why you notice that Christ gets a little perturbed you know why he's perturbed because the Jews in southern Judea not only do not believe him to be who he is but they also have professional criers at at these burial services these aren't people that care they're just paid to cry this is why he's perturbed not only do you not believe me but you're really not caring whether you cry or not you're just getting paid my brother and sister in Christ you also need to understand about about Lazarus himself remember he's been in the Tomb four days notice what the good Lord does when he finally gets to the tomb he gets to the tomb my brothers and and Sisters in Christ he makes them take him to the tomb he's been to lazarus's house he knows exactly where it is but like at the wedding of Canan he doesn't want to touch anything that's why he stands in front of the Boulder and says now remove it and even though Martha and Mary say what they will at the end of the day they remove the thing and then he yells Lazarus come out if Jesus says only come out the problem is everybody rises from the graves this is the second coming remember when Christ he called him by name names are significant go all the way back to the Garden of Eden in the Garden of Eden the names of the couple in there is not Adam and Eve Adam adaman means ground he doesn't get that name if you will until he's after the moniker until after they sin Eve doesn't get her name till after she's kicked out the garden names are significant so therefore when you see a name in scripture it's not parabolic the name of Noah Jonah Lazarus they're all all real my brothers of Christ do you know what he says come out my brothers of Christ did you listen did you listen carefully he was bound hand and foot this is where they get the term swaddling clothes in a Manger so the baby doesn't scratch himself or doesn't hurt himself that the legs are somewhat bound and the hands are bound so they can't hurt themselves he can't walk out that's the miracle behind the miracle Christ always has it seems another miracle in the behind the scenes the blind man and the deaf who's blind and deaf yet when he gives him the ability to see and speak he already knows the language he can already make identification marks and yet here's a guy that comes out but yet he can't walk his hands are bound did you notice Brothers of Christ is a Jew that the mask that he would have had on his face that they had to remove it for him go back to the tomb of Christ where was the one that was placed on the face of Christ it was several steps away Christ is driving home the point I'm the only one that can remove death as he gets up walks off of where he was laid and places it in another part of the Tomb Lazarus doesn't have the ability to do that my brothers and sisters in Christ think about how powerful this must have been for Martha and Mary and remember this too when Martha comes out she does something very unique She lays prostrate before Christ my brother Christ everybody who believed Christ to be the Messiah either bows lay Pro St nelt or ginu Flex this is why you and I before we receive communion during the consecration we're kneeling and if you can rece receive him by kneeling to do so why because everybody who recognized Christ as the Messiah in scripture did one or four things My Brother and Sisters in Christ go back in scripture my brothers in Christ all of our best players are people that had a checkered pass think about it Mary Magdalene here she sits Mary Magdalene she has all seven demons Pride anger gluttony lust aers sloth and envy but yet she's the first to go see the Risen Christ think about where she's at if she had worried about her past you're telling me she's going to get up on Easter Sunday morning when everybody else is not going to the tomb she is going to go walk out there by herself for a woman who has no rights in so in Jewish Society she's going to have to walk through the guards that took well advantage of her in her prior life you got to move a St that's way too big and break the seal that pilot is sealed with wax all to be next to a dead savior but because she'd rather be next to a dead savior than alive people she's willing to forgo her past what Mary Magdalene understood it's not where I came from it's where I go from here she's the first to see the Risen Christ because she said no matter what my past is it's irrelevant and immaterial it only matters where I go from here my brother and sister in Christ what if you're the good thief dismus you spent your life pillaging and plundering raping you made your dad look like a Boy Scout that's no small undertaking and here you are at the crucifixion about to have your shins broke so that you can suffocate just minutes before I guess it's time for the Passover and yet you make a public Proclamation you could care less about the number of people you killed you could it's irrelevant the only thing that matters is I must tell the Messiah remember me he is so sorrowful he can't even get the words out he just wants to be remembered and because he makes that public Proclamation for going whatever the past may be the good Lord says this day you'll be with me in Paradise my brother and sister in Christ what about Peter what if Peter had said Lord from the very beginning man I was always a problem I I I doubted whether we were going to catch fish then I decided I could walk on water and if that wasn't bad enough I tried to get you ton not saying my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink and you say Satan get behind me and if that's not bad enough I'm not even there for your crucifixion if that's not bad enough I cut off a guy's ear while I was in the garden and if somehow another you can get past that I denied you not once not twice I did it three times what if Peter says enough I'm done nobody can get past this I quit do we have Apostles do we have a church Upon This Rock I will build do we have a name change protos do we have a baptism of some 5,000 people do we have the first miracle of the [ __ ] My Brother and Sisters in Christ what if you're Joseph of arthea what if you have decided that you know really didn't defend the good Lord like I was supposed to in that public hearing so I gave up my tomb but man if I could ever relive that past I'd surely stand up for him more now today than ever before don't you see my brother and sister in Christ all of our best players Mary Magdalene the good thief Peter himself not to mention Joseph of arthea my brother in Christ the question for you and I is 2,000 years later how bad does the past haunt you how much of today is spent on yesterday the day before the month before the year before my brother and sister in Christ how much of your day spent with the would or could or should have deemon if I would have done that or could have done that or should have done that how much time do you spend saying man if I would have just done this right our relationship would have made it our marriage would have done better if I would have just spoken prudently maybe I wouldn't have gotten fired maybe the relationship my children would still be there if I had just walked away from the alcohol or the drugs or the pornography my brother in Christ don't you see the evil one wants you to live in the past let me make sure you understand this he hates you and the Very air that you breathe you've been made in the image of Jesus Christ and as a result of it he hates you and everybody that's tied to you Lucifer is a liar and a chief he wants you to believe he's got a string on you he wants you to believe that he can tie you back to those drugs he wants you to believe that alcohol and pornography cannot be beat he wants you to believe that your anger is so bad and so deep seated there there is nothing that can be done about it my brothers in Christ he wants you the evil one to walk through life backwards hitting everything in your path you'll never hear Christ call your name and by the time you turn it'll be way too late my brother Christ I am begging you cut it loose and let it go it does not matter where you come from it only matters where you go from here don't you see everything else is a lie Brothers of Christ everything that the devil brings up everything about your past that has der derailed you you and I are carrying it like it's a life sentence remember Christ listen to me never ever be a prisoner to your past it's only a life lesson learn learned it is not a life sentence it is not a death sentence it's just a lesson learned what I'm asking you to do is to start a new it's where you and I go from this day forward my brothers said Christ I want you to cut it loose and Let It Go whether it's the job it was the contract it was the relationship it was the person it was this it was the family it was about the money it was about the prestige it was about the car it was about the camp it doesn't matter you and I have one job and one job only and that job is to get to heaven I do not care what your profession is how much money you have in the bank the closeth you wear the club you belong to the camp the boat the fishing gear the hunting I don't care the only thing that matters is that you make it to Heaven my brother and sister in Christ cut it loose and let it go and I'll leave you with this if Mother Teresa could come back today and tell you one thing I bet you it would be the poem she wrote called anyway it goes like this people are illogical unreasonable and self-centered forgive them anyway if you are happy people will be jealous be happy anyway if you are successful you'll win false friends and true enemies you succeed anyway if you are honest people will cheat you you be honest anyway if you spend a life time building something they will destroy it overnight you build it anyway because at the end of the day it was never never between you and them it was only between you and him anyway go forward amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

complaining complaining it's the 1950s his name is Anthony Anthony lives in Syracuse New York and Anthony would tell you that his life was tumultuous Hills and Valleys just always seemed to be that way he loved his parents and his parents were immensely talented they seemed anony would tell you they seem to to love what they did just regrettably not with one another they were both sculptors they were both artists uh his mom was even a poet but early and on they separated he lived with his mom and he'll tell you man grammar school Wellness uneventful high school man he said it was more hit and miss according to Mom it was far more misses than hits he barely gets out of high school and then he'll tell you two things changed his life he'll say at the age of 10 he did a play at the age of 10 he did a play Wizard of Oz he played Anthony plays the Cowardly Lion knowing when you find out who he is there is no way that he could have ever been that part for real it just doesn't fit his demeanor but tells you what great actor that he ultimately became the fact of the matter is he said playing that role at the age of 10 and being in a gang changed his life he'll say he'll tell you he was an Italian gang they called in Bobby milk and it was because of his fair complexion and he also had a birth mark and as a result he'll say early on it it added to more chaos but later in life he was so thankful he got out of it he goes to his mom because life is up and down he's complaining about this and that and that he's nowhere to go and he's working for money and he this that and the other his mom finally sat him down and said stop enough with the complaining it's getting you nowhere I have put some money aside and you're going to get one chance of this I don't want you to complain that you didn't get your shot and I don't want you to complain that you didn't make it I'm going to give you the chance to do whatever you want I only have limited funds he said I'd like to go to New York and be in a play I like to be in the movies I want to act she sends him and he's in different movies different plays the first one that he was in was bedrooms in Manhattan it didn't go too well as a matter of fact you'll probably tell you it wasn't one of his better movies and then he gets in another one called bloody mama he said he only thought the bedrooms in Manhattan was a bad movie until he did this one he said surely it can't get any worse than he does the Executioner boy he has hit rock bottom he is at wit's end he's going back to his mom he's about to complain and she said oh no you run this all the way out no need to stop to complain now he gets one more chance a talent agent calls him and says look I want you to put 25 pictures together of uh you know face shots and etc etc and then we're going to put this together in front of some studio Executives instead of getting the same picture or different views if you will he gets in 25 different costumes and different characters they loved it man and my brother and sister in Christ to this day he will tell you that when he does a part he is all in he will do whatever it takes to study the part no use complaining about the time and the essence it's what he loves to do he'll tell you that when he decided to to portray a boxer he did it in a movie called Rag and bull he gained 100b just to do the ACT then he got involved in another movie where he was uh was going to be a taxi cab driver he said he spent two months driving a cab and then all of a sudden he needed to be on Broadway but they said you need to play a musical instrument he learned to play the saxophone man Anthony AKA Bobby milk becomes one of the greatest actors of our day and he does so because he throws himself totally into the role you'll rarely seem complain about the hours and the time and all the the price that he had to pay to get there and what's amazing is of the top 100 movies are the top 100 movie quotes Anthony has like 10 of them it's amazing my brother and sister in Christ in one of the movies he was um he played Al Capone in the movie The Untouchables and in the movie movie he makes the statement you know I grew up in a tough neighborhood a kind word would go a good ways a gun would get you all the way through he was in another movie where he was uh he played a gangster he was with Billy Crystal in a movie called Analyze This Billy Crystal is a counselor trying to help a Crime Boss to stop being a Crime Boss and in the movie they both walk around to Billy Crystal's truck to get something out and of course Anthony steps back and says man that that's a nice trunk I bet you could fit three people in there he's in another movie my brother it's Christ where he is uh called Midnight Run where he is a bail bondsman and he gets so mad at the guy that he's chasing he tells them that if you don't be quiet I'm going to introduce you to fifth Villa man my brothers and sisters in Christ the movies that this guy has been in even in the movie like Good Fellas where he makes the quote there's two things you need to understand don't write on your friends and keep your mouth shut he's in movie like The Godfather but brother and sister in Christ he was in Meet the Parents he was in the movie The Heist my brother and sister in Christ his name is Robert dairo and one thing he said is what his mom told him is forever true there's no need to complain about it it won't get you anywhere that is exactly the point of the Gospel nowhere in scripture did you hear Christ complain about what was about to happen to him you didn't hear him bemoan and belittle you did not hear him scream and call out you didn't hear him curse or in any way get close to sin my brothers and sisters in Christ I need you to remember this according to the Saints St Bridget St Katherine Emer blessed Mary of AGA the good Lord carried a cross 12T tall 8 foot wide he carried it one mile my brother and sister Christ from the minute in the Garden of Gethsemane till the minute he says it is finished he is beaten according to the three Saints over 6,000 times and yet he never complains when the anxiety is so great in the Garden of Gethsemane and he begins to perspire blood he doesn't complain my brothers and sisters in Christ do you know they offered over 1,000 insults against Christ from the minute in the Garden of Gethsemane to the minute he says it is finished he received over 1,000 insults you know what's amazing you and I get insulted in one day get a bad email bad text message somebody say one thing negative we could have a hundred positive things said something somebody says one thing negative and for the rest of the day if not until the next day next week we are still mad about it we are still losing our patience we are still complaining we will still complaining about it years and months later my brothers Christ according to the Saints do you know that they spit in his face over 100 times they spit into your face or my face one time I can tell you where we're going to be for the next 24 to 36 hours surely in the local prison my brother Christ they said they beat him on the head over 100 times they kicked him in the stomach over 100 times they said the crown of thorns alone the crown of thorns alone gave him 100 Pricks to the Head 20 were legitimate holes three of them are mortal so whether we beat him or not or crucify him he will die by the crown of thorns alone but he never says one word you know according to the Saints and according to tradition the only time that he let out even one scream was when they laid him on the cross and they put the first nail on the first first hit of the first nail into his palm he let out a scream he heard his mother scream and he never said nothing until the end until the words that he needed to Proclaim my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture complaining has never brought anything to anyone except sin go back in scripture think for a second everybody who's complained James and John at the Last Supper Lord we would like to be on your right and left the good Lord says say stop James John I love y'all you do not need to be on my right and my left can you drink of the Chalice that I'm about to drink well yeah sure yeah Lord yes we can well maybe so but the writing left is not for you it has been given to somebody else my brother and sister Christ can you imagine John's face when he walks up the hill with Mary Magdalene Blessed Mother and sees two thieves on his right and left also being crucified I'm bet you his first thoughts thank God for unanswered prayers why bother complain about it my brother and sisters in Christ what is it about Martha and Mary Lord if You' been here my brother wouldn't have died complaining because Lord if you just come when I called you which was two days ago now 4 days ago my brother would be alive Martha Mary man I'm the life I'm the truth I'm the way my brothers and sisters in Christ Martha and Mary you seen the blind sea the lame walk the dead rise why now do you question me why now do you [Music] complain man can you imagine their thoughts when Lazarus come out what could have been going through their head my brother and sister in Christ according to tradition small T Peter meets with our good Lord prior to Pentecost when he ascends into heaven and asked him Lord why did you appear to Mary Magdalene complaining that you've appeared to her first before you appear to me am I not your Vicor am I not your first pope is my name always first on the list and Judas is all be it always last am I not the one that will convene the councils am I not the one that baptized several thousand people then I not do the miracle was I the one that you change the name for and then the Lord looks at him standing face to face and says Peter when I was on the cross I looked for you and where were you I can't even imagine what must have gone through Peter's head man I should have never complained his response probably hit him to the very marrow of his bones and for the rest of his life what about the Pharisees my brothers and sisters in Christ who complain because a blind man was cured on the Sabbath I mean he can city as a result of being blind would not the Sabbath be even easier for him to walk around to eat to even get a drink of water to go to the well to find family or friends I mean all he did was give him sight he gave him Everlasting sight as well my brother and sister in Christ here you and I said 2,000 years later how much time do you and I spend in complaining my brothers and sister in Christ I'm almost convinced it's an inable right we have the right to life liberty and the right to complain my brother and sister in Christ how often do you and I complain you know there's a survey done that says that the average person complains every 15 minutes that's got to be an old survey we've got that down to a science my brother and sister Christ We complain about anything and everything we feel it's our right to inform others as if they had asked for our opinion we complain brother to Christ and we're in south Louisiana We complain about the temperature the weather look we have two seasons humid and less humid that's all we've ever had my brother and sister in Christ man We complain when it rains and then it sunshine We complain of whether or not the day is cloudy or it's not We complain that we had to go to work because man we just there's other things I want to do but us Christ We complain about anything and everything including our country our president We complain about the virus thank God that you and I are in this country fighting that virus you and I ought to drop to our needs and thank God every day that we live in the greatest country in the world with the greatest resources that we have a roof over our head and closing our back and food in our stomachs but we pass judgment and we condemned we talk about gossip and we email and text message and talk about people behind their back as if we know all there is to know about them We complain about them so incessantly that we are the judge we actually tell the good Lord get out of those shoes I'm stepping in them because I know people and I know where they come from and where they're going I know all there is to know and therefore my judgment is final and I promise you the words will not stop echoing out of your mouth before your judgment will be before the Christ my brother Christ you and I need to stop complaining about anything and everything do you complain more than you say thank you do you complain more than you say I'm sorry do you complain more than you say you're welcome do you complain more than you compliment do you complain about the traffic the house the school my spouse the children the work I do the work I don't do how I should get paid how I didn't get paid my brother it's almost contagious adino is right you complain so much it's contagious and then everybody's that way my brother Christ don't you understand complaining gets to a point where it becomes imprudent and imprudent is a sin it's the wrong thing the wrong way at some point you and I realize that Lincoln was absolutely spot on and his answer was it was better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt my brothers in Christ I am begging you the next time that we decide to open our mouths to stop and ask yourselves will this judgment come back on me will this complaint resonate with our Lord my brothers and sisters in Christ I leave you with the words he's an anonymous Prophet I guess if you will but he made a great statement he's a very holy man he made the statement that people enjoy complaining people enjoy complaining almost as much as doing nothing about it my brother and sister in Christ I'm asking you I don't care if you got to peel it and eat it like a grape stop complaining start praying they need it we need it and he needs to hear amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

distractions distractions it's the year 33 I live in the city of Jerusalem like most people we do a little bit of everything anything I work the fields I harvest crops I take care of distribution I take care of gardens I even help people construct their homes do repairs you know even as a community in Jerusalem we take turn Shepherd make sure that we all take turns to help one another you know actually actually I live in the southern part of Jerusalem I live right next to the pool of salong I live right across the street it's a beautiful place it's actually a very Jewish town I'm probably the only Gentile little in that section you may remember that fool remember that story as a blind man walking with mud on his face if you will on his eyes he's being followed I remember it must have been 30 or 40 people imagine a blind man leading people who can see what they said was everlasting life they walk him all the way to the pool and when he gets to the steps I was standing there I'm KN him from his birth he was blind I know that he literally walks down the steps and when the war begins to rise as he steps into the pool he literally just submerges and then he comes up and begins to wipe his eyes he was blind but now he can see you should have seen the commotion the rockus The Scream I couldn't even get close enough to him it was it was pandemonium and then I heard someone say that was the work of the the Messiah I never forget that day gr I'll actually never forget this particular day I've been living in Jerusalem most of my adult life and I live in a little 10 by 10 well you you call it a house it's made of rock and I actually fill the openings with moss and Clay the roof is made of Das it may not be much but it's mine I'm again I'm the only Gentile living in the city of juice and I admit when it rains it gets a little damp in there I mean I don't make a whole lot and sometimes the forest made of dust and it gets a little damp you know I got a little table not much bigger than that I had two chairs a candle I actually have a window right next to the door I put some cloth in it I have a few shells on the four wall I have no knickknacks I live off the essentials utensils bowls fabric right below it it's just it's just my B made a p but you know it was such a beautiful night I can remember the night because I sometimes would go and I would lay up on the roof in the back now remember looking up and saying that has got to be the most clear sky I've ever seen everything was so clear I remember looking at the stars you can almost name different Stars I remember thinking man they're so distinct they they seem to illuminate the whole ground you didn't even need a torch to walk the sky was almost like a bluish black now that cloud for miles it's not even a b Breeze and I remember thinking wow this is so beautiful and I remember thinking maybe it's a calm for the storm I came down it's about eight it's getting late I decided that man is time to call it a night I go to my house and I prepare a little bit to get ready and then he knock to the door and I remember thinking man it's awfully late and the doors back in the day are not those that attached on hinges like you and I know it's it's much different but it does its purpose I open the door well there's John John if there's anybody in all Jerusalem that everybody loves it's John he is pure love he wouldn't hurt a fly he wouldn't even think of hurting a fly I bet you if you went door to door and ask every couple getting married who their best man know us it would be John he radiates us off he comes and says will you will you come with me to a meal tonight and I started to laugh and John I'm the only Gentile in the city we live next to the ases that's very Jews matter of fact John CL SL the Don the Baptist way back in the day well he was in the the very strict he said I want you to go to a Passover meal with me and I'm thinking well I'll go with you John he was so excited he was like a young boy just like he was just amazing the energy at we walked down the road I bet it's not 10t wide it's just dirt and then we look at a different houses some had candles lit in the window somewhere in darkness some of the fames that were able to build them a little fence to hold their sheep you look out into the fields you see the Shepherds man in it and the road would run directly into this twostory white house and it's almost as if the stones were whitewashed they had a big oval shaped door if you will a beautiful door had maging Windows two downstairs and two up and you a Stairway going up the left John was telling me that it's a Passover meal and I remember tell John you know I wasn't invited and he said oh please come come come as my guess so we go up into the room the room is about 30 ft by about 15 ft and inside the room is the shape of a table in a you they got one main chalice Chalice of a carpenter you see all the couches on the outside and the inside of the you there's a tape there's a there's a bch I bet it's not much longer than this so John and I go in and he begins to explain to me that if you should sit on the bench make sure you lay with your feet off the back make sure you lean on your left hand and only eat with your right and as a result only eat when something is passed so you to do something to something is just Dr as we're waiting the apostles begin to enter first is his brother James man you can tell their brothers you can see it you would swear they hadn't seen each other in years that Embrace is only that of a brother it was John's Pure Heart Andrew is a little more at distant but you can tell the commitment now I'm not saying that if you will that James wasn't good to me he was very kind he shaved my hand you can tell it was that fish you can tell that his clothes that may not have been much may not had an abundance but they were clean but he wasn't as open as John but he welcomed me to the table and then I realized he'll die in a few years about a decade more he'll be beheaded and then no sooner than James can come in and then comes and keep his brother man he's nothing like Peter Peter's very gregarious very outgoing very outspoken very direct Andrew's just the opposite he's the cons introvert he's the one who just need to keep things to himself but him and John was Spirits because they embraced as if they had known each other their entire lives probably had fish together but just like James before him clothes were simple you can tell he used his own fishing line to repair he was very pragmatic but I'll tell you this he gave me very respectful bow and thank me for coming to pray with he comes in and he goes to take his seat then comes in James the lesson you know I heard about James they said he's the one that if you ever ask somebody to pray for him James is the one you want I got to tell you I try not to be conspicuous but it's kind of hard not to want to notice they said his knees were like campel skin that when he would go to to to pray he would he would whether it was the the middle of the street the middle of the day the middle of the night in the middle of the marketplace if you said would you pray for me James the Lasser would have dropped and praying immediately and man you can tell he's all about prayer man my brother sister in Christ he's very cordial you can tell he's got a keen intellect with him him and John spoke about some things big man is very cautious very GED but also very welcoming no sooner than he come goes to his chair and John and I began to talk again and then comes in this one man he's I got to tell you compared to the rest he's well dressed he's the consequent intellectual him and John start speaking in different languages Greek arama they even do some in Hebrew man you can tell he's a little bit better dressed no doubt it's Matthew man he's a consonant he understands money in the world they even talked about different people when he looked at me you can tell he was a little guarded about what's he doing here he didn't know me but by the same token he was every minut cry to me he shook my hand and he proceeded in and then not long after that in cameth and then came philli man Philip he's a big man you can tell he's pretty robust you can tell he's also fish you can see his skin is somewhat leathered when he shook your hand he had that old man strength that he shook your hand he knew your hand had been shaken he was very much guarded he may have embraced John but that wasn't going to happen with me but by the same token orthy they're both a little bit up and age but both of them have to tell you they seem to have known each other almost in a prior life they acknowledged me but they didn't give me a whole lot of do they can see they were wrapped up in their own conversation tradition hops that they were married it's what I'm talking with families and as a result of such man they started becoming one time after another Here Comes dadus dadus is a gu's guy he's a little taller than the rest and you could to say he's just it and he doesn't care he came in he embraced John but not like the rest of them and he just noded to me there would be no handshakes he was guarded but by the same token he walked away from a lot as well I remember later in life he would be spirited to he was nice to me but more more than that and then he goes to take his seat a brother and sister Christ and then one comes in he's got the greatest disposition of he's just got a sense of humor about it that just seems to radiate everybody liked him as a matter of fact they were calling as he walked in it was Thomas he had a disposition that everybody wanted to be everybody wants to be with Thomas outside of maybe John man him and John HED off great he even gave me a hug as he walked in he lived up to his reputation he doesn't know a stranger he know sooner gets in and begins to John and I begin to talk again and then I realize it's probably time to can see it and then all of a sudden my brother and sister in Christ I can see it's almost like everybody Stood Still it's almost like everything in the room changed it got cold I didn't know where to sit so I turned to tell John and the guy that woke in man he he he looked like like somebody like the world was on his shoulders he looked overwhelmed his clothes were tatted and Tor he looked dis shoved he looked nervous then he was sweating he was perspiring and matter of fact every no one even acknowled outside of John even John really didn't hug him he called me over but I didn't know if he called me over to introduce me to choice or just to make sure I was closer to him when I tell you that man looked at me his eyes were pitched black and I'm not just talking about the iris itself talking about the ey pitch black he said a shiver down my spine and I'll never forget I remember even taking a step back as if somehow another man May touch he walks by me and he goes to sit on the inside of bench I don't think much of it at the time and then as John says well I think it's time to take our seats I begin to walk and then I noticed John says as he leans over and Whispers you need to sit on the bench and I remember Ving of all people I look at John as if to say I'm even supposed to be here but I don't want to S than to him I wish I had the courage to say it but it just didn't as I he began to walk me around the table to see me man all of a sudden the door opens up make no mistake about it everybody got up from their table when Peter walked in you can say he's not the rock you can say he's not the lead Apostle you can say he's not protos you can say what you want but at the end of the day everybody recognized Peter Peter did not go to them they went to Peter he actually embrac each and every one of them held them by their shoulders ask them how they were and everyone gave their due Judas never moved John brought me along and I got to tell you Peter gave me the look to make no mistake about it your fault my fault nobody's fault there better be nothing that goes wrong here because you are here but you're welome he was in arms distance he shook my hand and I got to tell you that is one big man he is thck he drove us he is determined he is resilient his grip made Phillips and them look like man they didn't even know how to shake a hand you can tell he been on the water his skin was almost like a Le you can see his eyes and prases it looks like he' been through the ring he was gracious enough to say wellcome any friend of John is a friend of his and then he said please have a seat he just looked at Judas that would have been enough to buckle a man's knes I go to sit next to Judas I said on this much of thech I don't want to touch it I don't want to be near I have so lost my focus I am so distracted because of where I sit I didn't even see walk into the room I am staring at judas's side I can tell you the description of his ear I can tell you his nose I can tell you his jawline I can tell you his hair I can tell you his clothes I'm staring at him saying so you're you're the one and I hear John say Mark I've almost like in a days I look up the Messiah the one I heard about at the pool of Sal he's got eyes that are so blue he he knew me you can't tell me he didn't know my name you can't tell me he didn't know my name in my mother's room he he knew everything about me I was so embarrassed because I knew that he knew I also knew he would not say nothing every one of them got up to embrace him Peter is the one he spent the time with when he came to me John introduced me he took everything I had just to stand in front of him part of me just wanted to drop to the ground and say forgive me Lord I do not what I do depart from me Lord I'm a sinful man when I tell you he Embraces love that permeates the very B of your bones I'm not even sure how was standing as much as it was he was holding I remember thanking my Lord my God why have I forsaken you he gave me a look of above he walked off and I was still stand as a matter of fact they were all seeting table John had to get me was pulled me back to my seat I said again next to Jews I actually moved over so that I wouldn't touch you I actually couldn't help to keep looking at it the Messiah of the world is across the table and I am so distracted at who this guy is my focus should have been when I am what came all the times Bo Martha and Mary and Lazar the blind SE the lame walk the dead R the the blind man the Sabbath the lepers Lazarus himself the Miracles that came in his fingertips know some Judas I want to shake you I want to say man can you just can you just not not do it just and then I hear the good Lord say to wound by and hand I watch Peter talk to John I watched John lay his head on the savior's chest I can't hear the whole conversation but it sure doesn't sound good I watch him give and it's almost Z on C he gives and he reaches out and shoes his hand imately goes out and I'm thinking oh my God I almost going to stand up and say stop do you not know what you're about to do you're two words away from being sels I'm sorry I remember just watching I remember watching him get up to walk out in the I am to see right there I never PID attention I remember I don't even want to get up for my my own my own PE and then I hear the IM moral words my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I'm not in you you are not in me you will not have eternal life I'll watch them raise the bread I watch them raise that CH Judas leaves before he partakes I'm so distracted I'm almost watching the door as if I waiting for Jud to come back and say me a CO the ma they said told you I'm going to the Garden but I can't go with part the 12 all because I got distracted he' been in our city over 3 years never took the time to go Mee study talk to him to listen all the distracts of the world Brothers and Sisters in Christ nothing changed in 2,000 years we are distracted people if there was ever any time in your life that you and I been focus on one thing and one thing only it's Jesus Christ you have one job and only one job is to make it to Heaven your profession is irrelevant your job is to get you and your family to Heaven every time you get distracted because of what somebody said what somebody did what somebody wrote on an email the internet or Facebook what somebody did in the parking lot what somebody said that somebody gossip sland or belittled or condemned remember you are never neutral to Jesus Christ in everything that you do you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him do not allow yourself to get distracted because there will come a day when you will stand before him naked and alone there will be no arbitration there'll be no mediation there'll be know nothing there will only be judg you and I will hear only one of two statements what could hold my son my daughter oh how I have waited for you well done my child come come to me or say depart from me I don't know you I never knew all those distractions they took you from me my brother and sisters in Christ I leave you the words of Winston Churchill and un paraphrase you will never reach your goal you will never reach your goal if you stop with throw rocks at every barking dog be on guard of those distractions that come from the evil one your soul is instead amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

choice choice as in you have a choice you have free will it's the 1930s and his name is Isaac Isaac is a New York boy he is a Brooklyn New York boy through and through moreover he is a Jewish boy of New York with that being said he is one of four in his family his uh mom is the quintessential mom she can and does do pretty much anything and everything that needs to be his dad well his dad was a bus driver now Isaac will tell you that his life was well uneventful in high school maybe even in grammar school he said things Chang but the world changed he said as a devout Jew and very loyal not only to my faith to my country when World War II comes he said man the Germans are taking over the world and man the way they're just they're just they're just killing so many Jews as a result of such man he joins the war effort when he comes back he goes to Syracuse University he's got a choice to make he can decide to go and maybe do something else but he's decided his parents man you've you've got to get educated no matter what happens in the world you got to make the right choice at least have an education he goes to Syracuse he gets out and he's met you know his high school sweetheart is still with with him he will tell you to this day he would tell you that she was the ideal girl for him she had the best Outlook he loved being with her very attracted to her they shared so much and similarities they could talk about nothing till the ends of the day as a result man they get married and he said he'll tell you it was a great choice he said then it was decided for me well I got to start making a living he had that personality so he started doing the little things with television and next thing you know he started doing a little bit of standup and next thing you know man before it's all said and done even though it's the 1960s he's more popular in the year 2000 than he was way back then and it's because of the choices that Isaac made as a matter of fact my brothers and sisters in Christ it gets to a point where he's decided that he's going to go to Los Angeles he said he's going to make a name for himself his wife says look you got to make a choice you I can either stay here and make sure we earn some income and you go all come with you he said look just come with me if we don't make it we don't make it he goes there and he gets in a couple of movies first one was a Highway to Hell which didn't do too well he's in another one called hairspray then he was in another one called just I think it was called habit or something along those lines and then he was in Zoolander one and then Zoolander 2 and then his wife said look you're you're making good money but you're not the lead so you're only going to make so much but if you ever got onto a series he goes she goes do you think you could make the choice to jump to doing a series instead of doing movies he said you know if I do this you can't just jump back it doesn't work that way they pray about it and he'll tell you she's a devout Catholic he's a devout Jew they make the Jump Man next thing you know brother CHR he's in one of the most popular series of all time he praised um the father of George castanza and Seinfeld man my brother sister Christ Mr stanza if you will and then from there he's in the uh King of Queens where he is a father-in-law to the couple that that that lives there and as a result man his popularity grows Leaps and Bounds yeah my brother and sister in Christ you know Isaac you know him is Isaac Jerry Stiller my brothers Christ what you don't know about him is an interview that he gave late in life and they asked him they said you know Mr Stiller you've got a very popular son and been and he's done a lot of movies you've done movies you've done this but what is the greatest decision you ever made the greatest choice you ever made he said without question marrying my wife best decision I ever made best choice I could have ever made whether I made it or not man that's how the world begins for me right there as a result he said well when when did you know she was the right one and he said well it was at dinner he said we just we kind of started reconnecting again and man I came from a very poor family so I wanted to really whine and dine her so I take her to this most expensive place in all of Brooklyn he said man it is some expensive but I saved I crimped I borrowed I did what I could I wanted to make sure it was the best meal and he says when she sat down she looked at the prices on the menu and ordered a cup of coffee man the reporter jumped up right then and said so that's when you made your choice that she was the right one he said no it's when she got up and stole the silverware and put it in a purse he said said that's when I knew she was the right one my brothers Christ it's all about choices that is exactly the gospel it's time to get up it's early morning and nobody's Arisen the Savior quote is dead end quote and I'm going to a tomb which I know there will be soldiers in a boulder I cannot move but the choice is mine and boy oh boy does Mary Magdalene make the right choice my brothers and Sisters in Christ because she does get up on Easter Sunday she's the first to see the Risen Christ she even Converses with an angel my brother and sister Christ I want you to stop for a second there's some things that you and I need to know as a first century Jew you and I live in that day tombs are not something that you and I would have free access to as a matter of fact if we were considered a Christian we may not even get our name on a tomb maybe just a number so the fact that they got to found a tomb and Joseph of arthea gave up his that was no small token of appreciation Joseph of arthea is now not going to go heun another cave and build himself one for his departure chances are he's going to be buried like the rest of us you also need to understand that when the when when Mary Magdalene gets there please remember my brother and sister Christ that she speaks and Converses with an angel that has absolutely so little of an impact on her that unlike the other soldiers who were pretending to be dead she is standing there conversing because she's more concerned about the choice of where her savior is than what this Angel has to do or not to do that's courage my brother and sister in Christ when the apostles finally get there did you notice that in another reading another gospel that John gets there right before but he only looks in he doesn't enter the tomb he waits for Peter the choice was John's to enter or not and his choice was that Peter is proos Peter is always listed first Peter's the only one having his name changed Peter's the only one where God the Father spoke and said this is my son who I'm well pleased he is the only one that has the conversation that says you're the son of the Living God he's the only one that is cured he's the only one that has fought the fight he's the only one that is baptized he has made a choice to give reverence to Peter and when he walks in the Tomb I want you to make sure you understand when he walks in the Tomb and he's you notice that the face mask the burial cloth of the face is on one part of the Tomb and the Shroud is on the other this is important for you and I as Jews because we know from Lazarus that when they when when he said Lazarus come out remember the way they would bury him would be is that they would bury and they would tie your hands and feet so that you could not move what did they tell Lazarus untie him is what the good Lord said why because Lazarus could not do it himself and remove the burial napkin no one can remove the burial napkin except him that's why it was placed so many steps away to show people that I literally got up walked and I placed death over here I'm the one that untied and rolled it like it was supposed to be it took a conscious effort work had to be done I'm showing you that so that nobody could say it was just coincidental it was just happen stance that's just how things are my brother and sister Christ as a first century Jew once you and I heard that then we would have known that nobody could have done that it couldn't have been thieves stealing the body you would have taken the body and the garments nobody would have separated and put the death mask or death napkin over there and left the other garments here the only thing worth anything is the Garment my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people that have made the great choices by the same token all those that have made poor choices are the ones whose names are no longer even in the Book of Life my brother and sister in Christ pilate had a CH Choice he could simply give them barabus or he could say man my wife is worried about this she is concerned she's had a dream I'm sorry but we're not going to kill him I may beat him I may Scourge him but that's it but he had a choice and he made it as cowardly as it was when he asked Christ what is the truth this is what what he doesn't understand he being pilate is that's the point it's the truth is standing before you this is your moment of truth pilate and you chosen poorly my brothers and sisters in Christ if you're King Herod the Great you had a choice to either go worship the newborn king or to do what you've chosen to hunt him down and kill him you subsequently died just a few years later a tumultuous death my brother and sister in Christ do you find it ironic coincidental happen stance that all four people that judged Christ took their own own life their own choices Judas what's the last sentence Christ says about Judas been better you never been born pilate ends up taking his own life because of the people that he's arguing with about killing Christ are arguing over the issue of water you got also Herod the great grandson who takes his own life and Herod the Great took his own life as well my brothers and sisters in Christ for everyone that makes a diabolical decision or a poor choice they had to live with the consequences more importantly there's people in the in Scripture that made a great choice his will be done at 14 years of age she's the mother of the Messiah at 14 she made a decision that forever impacts the world his will be done St Joseph makes the decision that I can't in no way divorce her and cast a shadow upon her I'm just going to walk away I'll be seen as a dead beat dad but what difference it make what other people think of me is none of my business what a great choice so that no dispersions fall upon her do you know in Peter's Last Words according to tradition small T he tells his wife who was probably persecuted on that same day go with God say what you want about Peter and all the mistakes they made he called him Satan he denied Our Savior three times he tried to walk on water he tried to argue with good Lord I want to wash my whole body and not just my feet at the end of the day when PRI comes to Ser the man was crucified upside down and for three hours proclaimed the gospel and his last words go with God well done well said Kaya Peter dominant the rock the boulder my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture great people make great choices and the reason they make great choices is that they put their hands together before they try to make the decision well now here you and I sit 20 th000 years later some of of us are not often times are are not making the right decision we're not making the right choices my brother and sister in Christ how many times do I hear people say father I just curse a lot that's just it's just how it is there are 40,000 words in the English language 40,000 and you get stuck on three or four of them two of which the f bomb in GD or Mortal you can't find any other words what a poor choice that is well father you don't understand I I I'm I'm not an angry person but you know that's how God made me no he didn't no he didn't you just heard the Book of Genesis six straight days all things were made good he made you good you have chosen you have had the choice to be angry and you spill it over into everybody everything you go to work angry you come home Angry you're at home Angry you're at work angry you're with your boss your wife your children you're angry and it's constant and it's incessant and the problem is is it's contagious and it's destroying your family and the problem is at the end of the day you do control you do control your attitude you do have a choice and it's a poor excuse to bring the good Lord to say well I'm just angry well look what's happened to me this has happened this has happened this has happened look you want to have a pity party have one great you finished now grow up clean yourself off and get back in the game because at the end of the day it's not between you and them it's between you and him and being angry about it doesn't solve the issue the problem isn't the problem the problem is your attitude about the problem that is the problem and at the end of the day it's a poor choice on your on your decision my brother and sister in Christ how many people go through life and are always negative the glass is always half empty man it could be a beautiful day it could be sunshin and and man we're complaining that it's just too human we can win the lotto and we'll complain about taxes man you could be on the beach enjoy man you could be enjoying just the most beautiful of days the sun could be setting you're under the umbrella there's no one out on the beach there's a slight breeze man you just feel good you got you a big old glass of holy water and then all of a sudden something happens and you snap you start thinking about yesterday you start about worrying about this somebody brings up somebody else's name next thing you're so angry you're so mad you you done Ru the whole day you had a choice and you chosen poorly because you have allowed the evil one to get into your thoughts and roam up there that is expensive real estate do you not understand that in your thoughts three people can put a thought in your head he can he can and you and I can when that thought brings negativity causes you to get angry causes you to be cursing can I ask you to stop for just a second just a second and ask yourself where is this coming from why now and why to me my brother and sister in Christ every day on this Earth you either walking towards him or you were walking away from him you are never neutral to him you got to control that anger you got to control that language you got to stop with the negativity man you could stuck the life out of Mother Teresa and the problem is it's contagious and infects everybody else you got to stop thinking well man the glass is half empty well get another glass or if that's the case then pick it up suck it up and get in the game because 90% of the people don't want to hear the problem and 10% of the problem people are glad it's your problem and not theirs and the problem is it spreads it's like it's like gossip and slander it's the greatest sin of our day and it's out of Lucifer's own mouth my brother in Christ when I hear people start to gossip and to slander and they're on Facebook and their emails well I'm just saying you know what I heard well it's true as if somehow another bearing false witness is exonerated because it's you're telling the truth bearing false witness means you're not a true witness to Jesus Christ more importantly you're breaking the Commandment love of neighbor what you're saying is is because it's true I've got the right to judge no you don't nobody condemn nobody around you can and it's pretty sad and Despicable that you believe that you can pass judgment on the fly as if you know their sins you know their crosses my brother Christ you want to talk about a poor choice if somebody's name on your lips is so insecure and unsafe that the mere mention of their name causes you to to mortal sin you're disordered the problem is yours because you made the choice you have Free Will My Brother and Sisters in Christ there's one thing in our lives that you and I need to stop doing and there's one thing in our lives that you and I need to start doing that's right we got Free Will and the choice is yours but so are the consequences not only do you have the right to choose freely but the consequences that come because of your choice is equally free my brother's Christ what I'm asking you to do in the words of Abraham Lincoln it's better to be thought a fo then open your mouth and remove all doubt you may be slow in making a decision but you never walk backwards what I'm asking you to do is make the right choice that sometimes the decision to say something is not to say something even though you know you got the great answer and the answer is true and they need to hear it sometime the answer is I just better pray for them them but no you don't understand father I need to correct this my per these people are not helping me my family's not helping me my loved ones they always want something it's always about the money they never get along I got problem with my children stop stop all things come through Jesus Christ and if he brought you to it he will bring you through it but I will tell you this you better get up and dust yourself off and get in the game you want to have that pity Bo and go have it but for the love of God get in it and finish what you started the choice is yours it's your soul at stake it's your soul at stake the choice is yours amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

choice choice as in you have a choice you have free will it's the 1930s and his name is Isaac Isaac is a New York boy he is a Brooklyn New York boy through and through moreover he is a Jewish boy of New York with that being said he is one of four in his family his uh mom is the quintessential mom she can and does do pretty much anything and everything that needs to be his dad well his dad was a bus driver now Isaac will tell you that his life was well uneventful in high school maybe even in grammar school he said things change but the world changed he said as a devout Jew and very loyal not only to my faith to my country when World War II comes he said man the Germans are taking over the world and man the way they're just they're just they're just killing to many Jews as a result of such man he joins the war effort when he comes back he goes to Syracuse University he's got a choice to make he can decide to go and maybe do something else but he's decided his parents man You' you've got to get educated no matter what happens in the world you got to make the right choice at least have an education he goes to Syracuse he gets out and he's met you know his high school sweetheart is still with him he will tell you to this day he would tell you that she was the ideal girl for him she had the best Outlook he loved being with her very attracted to her they shared so much and similarities they could talk about nothing till the ends of the day as a result man they get married and he said he'll tell you it was a great choice he said then it was decided for me well I got to start making living he had that personality so he started doing the little things with television and next thing you know he Ed doing a little bit of stand up and next thing you know man before it's all said and done even though it's the 1960s he's more popular in the year 2000 than he was way back then and it's because of the choices that Isaac made as a matter of fact my brother and sister in Christ it gets to a point where he's decided that he's going to go to Los Angeles he said he's going to make a name for himself his wife says look you got to make a choice you I can either stay here and make sure we earn some income and you go I'll come with you he said look just come with me if we don't make it we don't make it he goes there and he gets in a couple of movies first one was uh Highway to Hell which didn't do too well he's in another one called hairspray then he was in another one called just I think it was called habit or something along those lines and then he was in Zoolander one and then Zoolander 2 and then his wife said look you're you're making good money but you're not the lead so you're only going to make so much but if you ever got on to to a series he goes she goes do you think you could make the choice to jump to doing a series instead of doing movies he said you know if I do this you can't just jump back it doesn't work that way they pray about it and he'll tell you she's a devout Catholic he's a devout Jew they make the Jump Man next thing you know brother Christ he's in one of the most popular series of all time he prays um the father of George castanza and Seinfeld man my brother sister Christ Mr castanza if you will and then from there he's in the uh King of Queens where he is a father-in-law to the couple that that that lives there and as a result man his popularity grows Leaps and Bounds yeah my brother and sister in Christ you know Isaac you know him is Isaac Jerry Stiller my brother in Christ what you don't know about him is an interview that he gave late in life and they asked him they said you know Mr Stiller you've got a very popular son and Ben and he's done a lot of movies you've done movies you've done this but what is the greatest decision you ever made the greatest choice you ever made he said without question marry my wife best decision I ever made best choice I could have ever made whether I made it or not man that's how the world begins for me right there as a result he said well when when did you know she was the right one and he said well it was at dinner he said we just we'd kind of started reconnecting again and man I came from a very poor family so I wanted to really wine and Diner so I take her to this most expensive place in all of Brooklyn he said man it is some expensive but I saved I crimped I borrowed I did what I could I want to make sure it was the best meal and he says when she sat down she looked at the prices on the menu and ordered a cup of coffee man the reporter jumped up right then and said so that's when you made your choice that she was the right one he said no it's when she got up and stole the silverware and put it in her purse he said that's when I knew she was the right one my brothers Christ it's all about choices that is exactly the gospel it's time to get up it's early morning and nobody's Arisen the Savior quote is dead end quote and I'm going to a tomb which I know there will be soldiers in a boulder I cannot move but the choice is mine and boy oh boy does Mary Magdalene make the right choice my brothers and sisters in Christ because she does get up on Easter Sunday she's the first to see the Risen Christ she even Converses with an angel my brother and sister Christ I want you to stop for a second there's some things that you and I need to know as a first century Jew you and I live in that day tombs are not something that you and I would have free access to as a matter of fact if we were considered a Christian we may not even get our name on a tomb maybe just a number so the fact that they got to found a tomb in Joseph arthea gave up his that was no small token of appreciation Joseph of arthea is now not going to go Hune another cave and build himself one for his departure chances are he's going to be buried like the rest of us you also need to understand that when the when when Mary magalin gets there please remember my brother and sister Christ that she speaks and Converses with an angel that has absolutely so little of an impact on her that unlike the other soldiers who were pretending to be dead she is standing there conversing because she's more concerned about the choice of where her savior is than what this Angel has to do or not to do that's courage my brother and sister in Christ when the apostles finally get there did you notice that in another reading another gospel that John gets there right before but he only looks in he doesn't enter the tomb he waits for Peter the choice was John's to enter or not and his choice was that Peter is proos Peter's always listed first Peter's the only one to have his name changed Peter's the only one where God the Father spoke and said this is my son who I'm well pleased he is the only one that has the conversation that says you're the son of the Living God he's the only one that is cured he's the only one that has fought the fight he's the only one that has baptized he has made a choice to give reverence to Peter and when he walks in the Tomb I want you to make sure you understand when he walks in the Tomb and he's you notice that the face mask the burial cloth of the face is on one part of the Tomb do and the Shroud is on the other this is important for you and I as Jews because we know from Lazarus that when they when when he said Lazarus come out remember the way they would bury him would be is that they would bury and they would tie your hands and feet so that you could not move what did they tell Lazarus untie him is what the good Lord said why because Lazarus could not do it himself and remove the burial napkin no one can remove the burial napkin except him that's why it was placed so many steps away to show people that I literally got up walked and I placed death over here I'm the one that untied and rolled it like it was supposed to be it took a conscious effort work had to be done I'm showing you that so that nobody could say it was just coincidental it was just happen stance that's just how things are my brother and sister Christ as a first century Jew once you and I heard that then we would have known that nobody could have done that it couldn't have been thieves stealing the body you would have taken the body and the garments nobody would have separated and put the death mask or death napkin over there and left the other garments here the only thing worth anything is the Garment my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are people that have made the great choices by the same token all those that have made poor choices are the ones whose names are no longer even in the Book of Life my brother and sister in Christ pilate had a choice he could simply give them barabus or he could say man my wife is worried about this she is concerned she's had a dream I'm sorry but we're not going to kill him I may beat him I may Scourge him but that's it but he had a choice and he made it as cowardly as it was when he asked Christ what is the truth this is what what he doesn't understand he being pilot is that's the point it's the truth is standing before you this is your moment of truth pilot and you chosen poorly my brothers and sisters in Christ if you're King Herod the Great you had a choice to either go worship the newborn king or to do what youve chosen to hunt him down and kill him you subsequently died just a few years later a tumultuous death My Brother and Sisters in Christ do you find it ironic coincidental happen stance that all four people that judged Christ took their own life their own choices Judas what's the last sentence Christ says about Judas been better you never been born pilate ends up taking his own life because of the people that he's arguing with about killing Christ are arguing over the issue of water you got also Herod the great grandson who takes his own life and Herod the Great took his own life as well my brothers and sisters in Christ for everyone that makes a diabolical decision or a poor choice they had to live with the consequences more importantly there's people in the in Scripture that made a great choice his will be done at 14 years of age she's the mother of the Messiah at 14 she made a decision that forever impacts the world his will be done St Joseph makes the decision that I can't in no way divorce her and cast a shadow upon her I'm just going to walk away I'll be seen as a dead beat dad but what difference it make what other people think of me is none of my business what a great choice so that no dispersions fall upon her do you know in Peter's Last Words according to tradition small T he tells his wife who was probably persecuted on that same day go with God say what you want about Peter and all the mistakes amen he called him Satan he denied Our Savior three times he tried to walk on water he tried to argue with good Lord I want to wash my whole body and not just my feet at the end of the day when PR comes to Ser the man was crucified upside down and for three hours proclaimed the gospel and his last words go with God well done well said kayi Peter dominant the rock the boulder my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture great people make great choices and the reason they make great choices is that they put their hands together before they try to make the decision well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later some of of us are not often times are are not making the right decision we're not making the right choices my brother sist in Christ how many times do I hear people say father I just curse a lot that's just it's just how it is there are 40,000 words in the English language 40,000 and you get stuck on three or four of them two of which the fbom and GD or Mortal you can't find any other words what a poor choice that is well father you don't understand I I I'm I'm not an angry person but you know that's how God made me no he didn't no he didn't you just heard the Book of Genesis six straight days all things were made good he made you good you have chosen you have had the choice to be angry and you spill it over into everybody and everything you go to work angry you come home Angry you're at home Angry you're at work angry you're with your boss your wife your children you're angry and it's constant and it's incessant and the problem is is it's contagious and it's destroying your family and the problem is at the end of the day you do control you do control your attitude you do have a choice and it's a poor excuse to bring the good Lord to say well I'm just angry well look what's happened to me this has happened this has happened this has happened look you want to have a pity party have one great you finished now grow up up clean yourself off and get back in the game because at the end of the day it's not between you and them it's between you and him and being angry about it doesn't solve the issue the problem isn't the problem the problem is your attitude about the problem that is the problem and at the end of the day it's a poor choice on your on your decision my brother and sister in Christ how many people go through life and are always negative the glass is always half empty man it could be a beautiful day it could be sunshin and and man we're complaining that it's just too human we can win the lotto and we'll complain about taxes man you could be on the beach enjoying man you could be enjoying just the most beautiful of days the sun could be setting you're under the umbrella there's no one out on the beach there's a slight breeze man you just feel good you got you a big old glass of holy water and then all of a sudden something happens and you snap you start thinking about yesterday you start about worrying about this somebody brings up somebody else's name next thing you're so angry you're so mad you done Ru the whole day you had a choice and you've chosen poorly because you have allowed the evil one to get into your thoughts and roam up there that is expensive real estate do you not understand that in your thoughts three people can put a thought in your head he can he can and you and I can when that thought brings negativity causes you to get angry causes you to be cursing can I ask you to stop for just a second just just a second and ask yourself where is this coming from why now and why to me my brother and sister in Christ every day on this Earth you either walking towards him or you were walking away from him you are never neutral to him you got to control that anger you got to control that language you got to stop with the negativity man you could stuck the life out of Mother Teresa and the problem is it's contagious it affects everybody else else you got to stop thinking well man the glass is half empty well get another glass or if that's the case then pick it up suck it up and get in the game because 90% of the people don't want to hear the problem and 10% of the problem people are glad it's your problem and not theirs and the problem is it's spreads it's like it's like gossip and slander it's the greatest sin of our day and it's out of Lucifer's own mouth my brother and sister in Christ when I hear people start to gossip and to slander and they're on Facebook and their emails well I'm just saying you know what I heard well it's true as if somehow another bearing false witness is exonerated because it's you're telling the truth bearing false witness means you're not a true witness to Jesus Christ more importantly you are breaking the Commandment love of neighbor what you're saying is is because it's true I've got the right to judge no you don't nobody condemn nobody car you King and it's pretty sad and Despicable that you believe that you can pass judgment on the fly as if you know their sins you know their crosses my brother Christ you want to talk about a poor choice if somebody's name on your lips is so insecure and unsafe that the mere mention of their name causes you to to mortal sin you're disordered the problem is yours because you made the choice you have free will my brother and sister in Christ there's one thing in our lives that you and I need to stop doing and there's one thing in our lives that you and I need to start doing that's right we got Free Will and the choice is yours but so are the consequences not only do you have the right to choose freely but the consequences that come because of your choice is equally free my brother's Christ what I'm asking you to do in the words of Abraham Lincoln it's better to be thought a fo then open your mouth and remove all doubt you may be slow in making a decision but you never walk backwards what I'm asking you to do is make the right choice that sometimes the decision to say something is not to say something even though you know you got the great answer and the answer is true and they need to hear it sometime the answer is I just better pray for them but no you don't understand father I need to correct this my PE these people are not helping me my family's not helping me my loved ones they always want something it's always about the money they never get along I got problem with my children stop stop all things come through Jesus Christ and if he brought you to it he will bring you through it but I will tell you this you better get up and dust yourself off and get in the game you want to have that pity boies and go have it but for the love of God get in it and finish what you started the choice is yours it's your soul at stake it's your soul at stake the choice is yours amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

solve as in solve the problem solve it's the 1960s his name is Harry Harry is sitting up on top of a roof and it's kind of caught he's kind of in a ravine on the roof and it's over if you will a garage he is sitting there and he's just contemplating life he's not sure what to do he's looking around and he noticed that man he's in trouble he's got a problem you see he's sitting on top of a roof that's not his it's sitting on the top of a garage which is not his he's actually got two problems the problem is is that he told the gentleman that he was working for that he would take his garage and make it into a Sound Studio that's his second problem if you will the third problem just being honest is he's never done this converted a garage to a studio a Sound Studio look let's just be honest he ain't built a thing he's got all kind of problems he's sitting up there just trying to figure out what he should do he starts thinking back about the past man he goes back to grammar school starts lamenting all the The Bullying that took place and that he was a victim of it then he gets to high school and he said man you think grammar school is bad it was hor horrific in gra in high school school he said man it was just it was one thing after another I wasn't good in school I was bullied I was belittled I wasn't popular he said it was just it was tumultuous he said and man I just I wish I would have just solved the problem if I could have just done something man I maybe I just wouldn't live with this thing man his mind is still kind of just off in nowhere Landing then all of a sudden he hears a noise outside and it kind of startles him he kind he goes up the side of the roof and he peers over it and there goes the only actually the owner is a recording artist Sergio Mendes and he's walking out to get the paper he's got his pajamas on he's got his slippers got a cigarette in one hand a cup of coffee in the other and he's watching him hair he is as he walks down the driveway and says you know I just I can't let this guy down I can't live with another disappointment so man he slides back down the roof and he opens a book how to convert a garage to a studio and then he says I just got to solve it he does such a great job solving the problem it may have taken longer a little more dollars and you thought but it was so impressive to Sergio Mendes that he introduces him to James Khan and then if that wasn't enough James Khan introduced him to Richard drus and as a result of it to other actors that if you wanted a garage converted albeit to a studio man who better than this guy Harry they loved Harry it wasn't just the work that he did which was quite good actually it was his disposition man he just seemed to flow with things he seemed to be easygoing had a good good feel about him just worked hard just a just a good old Joe and man as a result of it man the work started drying up because not everybody needs a garage so they decided or converted to a studio excuse me and then they decided man what we need to do is get Harry some more work if we don't get Harry work we're going to lose him then if we have any carpentry work done we'll never get it done so James Khan Richard drus Sergio Francis Ford Copa they had another decided that if we could just get him a bit part in movies to keep the wheels greased as a result of it he gets in a first bit part called it's it was dead heat of a merrygoround dead heat of a marry go round I can't see your Expressions but I can only imagine that's right it didn't do well as a result of such he gets in another movie and he gets another little bit part he's in the bit part of gunm smoke he gets in another one with FBI and then all of a sudden man's popularity starts to grow next thing you know they decided Well man maybe if we can get him in some a movies maybe that would get him where he needs to be so man they pull their resources they start getting some more work next thing you know Harry's in man he's in all kind of different movies when he first gets started he was in the movie Witness where he plays an FBI guy trying to protect um an Amish young boy who saw a murder it's an absolutely great movie he's in that one then he's in another one where he's actually a fugitive they accuse him if you will of killing his wife and he spends the whole time in his own City trying to solve his own crime man then he's in another one called Force 10 a Navarone then he was in another one called regarding Henry Brother s Christ he was in Star Wars and a matter of fact his probably his most popular scene is when he's trying to find the Tabernacle the one with the Ten Commandments The Man From Heaven the staff of Aaron ultimately you and I know where it ended up in a warehouse I'm just telling you what the movie said at the end of the day you know Harry it's Harrison Ford all because he solved the problem in front of him and then people came together to help solve his problem at the ultimate end my brother and sister Christ that is exactly what that gospel is about it's about solving problems think about it my brothers in Christ for fear of the Jews they are locked in a room my brother in Christ now stop you're a first century Jew you and I have been walking with Christ for a year we've seen the blind sea the lame walk and the dead rise we were at lazarus's tomb we were also living in Jerusalem we went to the Last Supper to see part of it we actually seen the outskirts of the crucifixion and now all of a sudden brother Christ you twoo and I are locked in a room why because if they killed him they're going to kill you and I it's a matter of time as a matter of fact if you go back in history and you look at the lifetime of all the popes from Peter lonus Cletus Clement evus Alexander Copus all the way to Francis if you take the first 100 years the average span is somewhere between 4 to 8 to maybe 10 years that's how long they catch up to you and you're martyred it isn't until St elen's son Constantine comes in the world about the year 400 the point being is they're behind locked doors so I know we beat Thomas up because he didn't believe but yet they're behind locked doors they didn't believe either did you listen when he walked walks in the first words Christ says peace be with you my brother and sister Christ they're still so nervous he's got to repeat it to them again then he's got to breathe on them so that they will know my brother Christ no stop you and I are in this room now you and I know that when Christ walked through that door that was locked that's his glorified body this is why you and I at the sacrifice of the m it's the body blood soul and Divinity of the glorified body of Christ this is why I say body of Christ and not body of Jesus Christ lends it to his divinity Jesus to his Humanity if you will remember the crucifixion is included in the in the in the Passover meal that's when he drinks the fourth cup this is when he says this will be given up for you it is finished and when he walks through the door you can still touch him because look they got to see his wounds he had to show them to him my brother and sister Christ while you and I are there this is when the sacrament confession starts did you hear him the send you forgive or forgiven the ones you retain or retain nowhere is there a footnote that says skip it let them go directly to me do you know in scripture I've been a little bit of everything nowhere in scripture does Christ ever say come directly to me all things come through Christ all miracles go through Christ maybe and possibly through the individuals that they work through this is why Peter could tell the crippled get up and walk this is why the apostles could blind see and the lame could walk my brother and sister in Christ he's telling them whatever you forgive and forgiven is retained is retained the good Lord never baptized anybody and never heard a confession nowhere in scripture did Christ say tell me your sins your sins are forgiven you can point to Mary excuse me you can point to the lady being stoned but he just writes the symbol of their sin in the ground and he ever points to the individual you can say that Peter went to him but what was Peter's confession I Love You Lord no I really love you well Lord you know everything you know that I love you my brothers and sisters in Christ this is the beginning of the sacrament of confession nowhere in scripture does it say confess directly to the big guy more importantly my brothers and sisters in Christ This is why every Sacrament has an outward sign in other words so that you and I as Thomases because we're Thomas' we would have been in that room too every Sacrament at baptism we pour water on the child's head that water is for that child and for you and I to know when was the sin removed when does their soul become pristine and clear when the water hits the head my brother s Christ when you come to receive communion I place it on your tongue so that you can actually consume it you can taste it when you come to mass you hear the bells ring that means Heaven and Earth touched you heard it ring I anoint you I put maybe on in your hands we confirm you you put oil on your forehead so that you can feel the oil so that it's the outward sign of the inward reality when you go to confession you hear the priest say your sins are forgiven go in peace my brother and sisters in Christ you and I are first century Jews we know where Thomas sits in the world but you know what's amazing everybody remembers this story but nobody remembers the part where he says Lord if you're going back to raise Lazarus from the dead I'll go back with you and die with you there was 11 other guys there I never heard one of them else say anything else and also he speared to death in India my brother and sister in Christ it's all about solving the problems when the good Lord breathed on them and they received the courage that there's no more long confined to this little room we're no longer scared to go out and proclaim the gospel that is the point he's given them the courage to solve the problems to be the leaders of of his church and from this day forward Upon This Rock I will build my church now look stop go back in history go back in scripture every time there was a big problem to be solved no matter how scared they were give them their due they solved the problem my brother Christ we're talking about there were 11 Apostles in that room and every one of them were scared to death and here's the irony My Brother and Sisters in Christ every one of them was martyred you can say that John wasn't Ed but according to tradition in a good way in that that is more than one Church Father speaking to it at the end of the day they tried to boil him in oil and when that didn't kill him they regulated him to the island of Patmos my brother and sister Christ so say what you want about Peter and James and John and Nathaniel bar and Thomas and Simon and Matthew and mitias thus but at the end of the day they all gave their lives for it my brother in Christ I want you to think for a second go back in scripture according to tradition Peter's now been around almost to the year 66 they are starting to catch up with Peter they would be uh centurions Romans cers Caesars the governors Etc he is so scared in Rome that he's decided to sneak out through the back and there's a quote that goes to Peter called Domino quadas where are you going it says that Peter was sneaking out through the back because they wanted him to leave because if Peter stays alive the church stays alive and he sees Christ standing up on a boulder and Christ asked him where are you going and Peter responds I have to go I have to flee they're coming after me and according to the tradition Christ steps off the Boulder and begins to walk back and Peter says well where are you going he says well if you're not going back then I need to go back and yet be crucified again Peter gets the courage to return back to be crucified up upside down and for 3 hours proclaim the gospel Upon This Rock I will build my church you know what's amazing brother Christ if you actually go to Rome near the catacombs is this little no nothing white um white I guess painted building it's a church it's so small it's about half the size of our little church here and when you go in in the main aisle there's actually a stone cut out with a set of footprints in it said to be that of our savior asking Peter dominicus where are you going if you ever see it it will touch you to the very marrow of your bones Peter solves the problem my brother and sisters in Christ The Blessed Mother she lives for about 15 years after the death of Christ imagine the apostles are trying to decide what to do they're supposed to go out in the world again Peter do he knows that if I take one of the Apostles and I bring them in then they're not not going to be out proclaiming the gospel because remember once Maas is brought back in they have the 12 apostles the 12 tribes they are all firsthand Witnesses of the blind sea the lame walk the dead rise the crucifixion the resurrection and the Ascension into heaven they have to be firsthand Witnesses so Peter knows that he can't make James a pope or or John or go go make Mathias or Thaddius or his brother Andrew he knows that they are the only firsthand Witnesses they're problem according to the teachings of the church is Peter's got to make a decision what is it that all 12 of these must know so that when you go to India and you go to Spain and you go to Africa and you go to Europe and you go here and you go there never to see each other again what is it the one thing that you and I need to believe in who steps up to solve the problem through the intercession of the holy mother is Peter we're going to come up with a Creed each one of us will come up with one line immutable truth I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth and then his brother Andrew takes over and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord my brother and sister in Christ and Then followed by James and John and John the Lesser all the way down to Mias 12 lines 12 Apostles my brother and sister in Christ he solved the problem so that they were now all on the same sheet my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later are you or are you not solving the problem that comes to your door you have a problem at work are you sitting down with your coworker or your boss or the per somebody at works for you are you sitting down with the owner or if it's you with your employees to solve the problem in other words will you sit down and talk to them casually and comfortably without getting the voices ramped up so we're yelling at one another or our Lang Saks to four-letter words are you solving the problem at work so that you can talk about it and work amable just being honest and candid but prudent are you are you working to solving the problem in your relationship oh no father you don't understand it's not my problem it's her problem oh no it's not my problem it's his problem I'm not going to counselor it's cuz it's not my problem well let me help you it is your problem because when you came before him and got married you boasted you will become one so it is not their problem or her problem or his problem it's y'all's are you going to solve the problem or we just going to kick it the can up the street you got a problem with pornography or you going to stand up and admit that there is a problem here and something must be done or you just going to keep saying well this because everybody does it you got a problem with alcohol or drugs or you going to make make sure that you go get help who cares what other people think what other people think of you is none of your business aren't you going to solve the problem or not it's your soul that is at stake will you go to the counselor will you go get help will you admit that this is the demon that's before you and brother s Christ and don't you ever forget this in order to First solve the problem you must first put your hands together together and stop trying to put your hands around it remember this Psalm 127 if you build your house without God you build it in vain my brother and sister Christ if your problem it has to be with your anger it has to be with your cursing it's the poor attitude and it's not my problem it's my boss's problem it's the work's problem it's the world's problem no at the end of the day it's your problem and it spread through your family so bad that you're destroying it you're destroying the very thing you promised him that you would not do you took a vow that y'all would stay together and solve the problem it's almost unconscionable that you somehow or another feel it's everybody's problem but mine at what point will you not admit that this is going on long enough that we have hurt enough people that I am actually going to find my way to my knees and ask the good Lord so whom should I go what should I say how should I go about it give me the courage to admit to it don't you understand this is why you and I come to pray that's the whole point talk to him he's right there telling your biggest fears your worries your concerns all your issues your greatest challenges talk to him and tell him and leave it with him but for the love of God ask for him to help you solve the problem to have the courage to take that step my brother in Christ don't you see the past has nothing on you it doesn't matter what's happened before I'm man I'm so tired of everybody saying well it's the church's fault it's my dad's fault it's my mom fault it's their fault I'm going to tell you my fault your fault nobody's fault at the end of the day if you don't solve the problem it's on you and from this day forward this is all that matters so instead of blaming everybody for our plight in life and why this is wrong and that's wrong and why I ended up where I am why don't we just suck it up and do what we need to do and solve the problem there are problems behind every door and if you would hear confessions your jaw would drop your head would Spin and you would beg God to say thank you that that problem hadn't come to me yet but yet we can judge on a fly we can tell people what's wrong what they need to do my brother and sister in Christ you know sometimes in solving a problem the best way to solve it is not to participate in it I remember a gentleman once told me he said man I was in New York City I'm in the back of a cab nicest cab he said the guy had the greatest disposition gave me some coffee gave me uh gave me a little roll actually gave me a sports page he said man I just like this guy so much I gave him my card just to tell him call me when I come in town I'm going to call you excuse me and guess what you're going to come pick me up and I'll pay you twice as much the guy's business blossomed they're driving through the street he said man this garbage truck cut him off he said the man the garbage truck got out of that truck and I'm telling you there ain't one curse word that guy didn't know he went upside down that cab driver backwards and forwards the guy in the back seat said he just sat there he was shocked that this guy could be that kind of control over a non-issue he said man the cab driver just smiled and kept going he kept up with the conversation like it was nothing finally the guy in back seat said stop what was that and he said just because someone throws garbage at your feet nobody told you to pick it up my brother and sisters in Christ you can either solve the problem or you can leave it but nobody told you to take it with you my brother and sister in Christ I am begging you to whatever the issue may be to stop to get on your knees to put your hands together and ask for his help not a bird will fall from the sky not a hair in your head would get touched I will be with you until the very end of time he loves you talk to him and then solve it amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

Born Again Catholic Born Again Catholic years is 1861 our country is about to embroil in a great War the Civil War if you will man Lincoln has his hands full people are drawing up sides man quicker than they can imagine the North and the South as a result man it's amazing to find that there out of everybody that's choosing up sides there are two people better are not you see in a small courtroom in Atlanta Georgia which usually holds about maybe 50 people today almost has 200 people in it I mean they have lined the walls to hear the argument see these two young men are arguing and of course they're going against the city of which they sit and where the judge and jury take place man it is so crowded that when the judge comes in he hits the gavel calls to order and he said let us begin counselor the two men you represent please proceed he said your honor I represent this young man here and his friend Phineas Phineas Miller he's the money man Phineas is the other man the inventor he said we are here because these people have stolen our product they not only have stolen it they are utilizing it and they are making money from it and we are here for restitution it's just that simple he sits down the other attorney stands up the attorney uh the judge says please please proceed he said your honor please we're God-fearing people I mean really we're going to we're going to Rob and steal this guy of his patent if you will we're going to take his money please nothing could be further from the truth for three days this argument goes back and forth and back and forth noise outside begins it becomes deafening to a point that the judge hit's gavel tells the bayth look whatever the noise is out there enough just shut it off shuts it off the judge comes back in and says look it's time for a verdict he turns to the jury and he said I need a decision is it indeed true that these people have this product and that therefore need to be restituted or in other words are are these people right there's no such thing the jury comes back and says your honor we don't believe that ever such a product ever existed much less that there's any restitution my brother and sister in Christ the foreman couldn't have gotten the words out of his mouth when the young inventor got up and literally ran out the courtroom he kicks open the doors he's out in the middle he is $50,000 in debt it's the start of the Civil War he can't believe what his whole life that he put together is now going down the tubes while he's standing in the middle of the street trying to figure out which way to go all of a sudden he hears that noise the same one that he heard in the courtroom the same one that he recognized he walks down the street he goes over to a barn door he kicks it over and there it is the Cotton Jin running smooth the silk that young man Eli Whitney the height of irony the crowds and the BFF catch up to him they throw him in jail why because he's $50,000 in debt and he owes many people they throw him in jail and he says there is no way I can ever pay this back sitting in here their answer it's your problem not ours he sits there and he's just trying to decide where do I go from here if anywhere they finally decide well we might as well let him go because he surely won't pay us back there not that he probably ever will Eli Whitney gets up and begins back to his house when he gets there there is a telegram for him telling him that there's yet a new day A New Beginning born again it's a letter from the president of the United States President Lincoln telling him that they need interchangeable musket Parts my brother and sister in Christ Eli Whitney makes his fortune from interchangeable musk parts and nothing would have died dead broke if it had been left up to his previous pieces of equipment the cotton gin my brother and sister Christ it's all about starting a new born again Catholic that is exactly that gospel my brothers and sisters Christ listen to what's going on in the gospel he takes the bread he breaks it He blesses it and then he feeds them my brothers and sisters in Christ at that moment it is the first mass outside of the Last Supper as a result he disappears he's the bread listen L to me he disappears he's the bread this is why brother and sister Christ he is born in Bethlehem the city of bread this is why he's born in a manger a food trough so that he could feed people this is why brothers and sisters Christ I say body of Christ and not body of Jesus Body of Christ is his divinity hence this is why Brothers and Sisters in Christ as a devout Jew you and I would have known that the fourth cup that you would haded every Passover meal takes place at the crucifixion my brother and sister Christ when he says it is finished the final and fourth cup as a result of it he says it is finished and he gives up his Spirit In other words he controls when death comes my brothers Christ and then he is now dead and passed they stab him and yet he still bleeds this is because he is divine this is why a quote dead man quote end quote can still bleed this is why he can walk through locked doors on Easter Sunday night but yet they can still touch him he can still eat food my brother in Christ what he's trying to tell the people this is how I will come to you from this time until I come again I will be the bread hence the Eucharist my brothers and sisters in Christ now stop you're a first century Jew let's make sure you understand EMAs is several miles outside of the Jerusalem direct East it's a little more of a journey than most people think but notwithstanding these two men one of them clus if you will is eventually he will become one of the 72 disciples in other words my brother and sister in Christ think about what's going on they have walked out of the city and it's probably his son according to church fathers his son's name is Simeon he will actually be born again as a bishop the second of Jerusalem clus has a wife whose Mar name is Mary who is also at the crucifixion along with Mary he too will be one of the 72 disciples Simeon will be My Brother and Sisters in Christ as they're walking along all of a sudden they are kept from seeing Christ Christ is if you will veiled himself so that he can make sure that they understand what it means to now to be truly Catholic my brother and sister in Christ as a result of it now all of a sudden their eyes eyes are open as he takes it breaks it and blesses it this is why at the Last Supper he says it is a New Covenant in other words it won't always be like it was with a lamb or Turtle does or a bull it is now going to be the bread of life I am going to feed you for life eternal I am time I am past tense present tense and future tense my brother and sister in Christ he's saying this is how I'm going to feed you from this point forward my brother and sister in Christ on the road to amas when they unveils their eyes and now that they see that he is now the bread of life this is why manif Falls every day and every country in every hour in every language in the church his church my brother sister in Christ remember if you believe that the Eucharist is a relic a theory a conjecture an understanding it is in the words of my prior life it is just a memory do this in remembrance of me as if it's a recollection and just your basic intellectual understanding my brother Christ what you just said in those few words is that the Old Testament is more important than the new because in the Old Testament they got blessed bread from Heaven as a matter of fact my brother and sister in Christ they believe it was Angelic bread that fell from the altar of God by St Michael to them and therefore they got blessed bread and all we got was a relic brother say Christ it can't be true my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink if I am not in you and you are not in me you will not have eternal life as is EST in Greek I'm The God Who is who was and who is to come use the same Greek word are we now to assume that he meant it theoretically that he wasn't there isn't coming my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in time everybody that started out in Scripture started out one way and then yet they're born again Catholic remember this my brothers and sisters in Christ this is important to you and I the word Catholic means according to the whole it became so popular it became Universal if you read in the first couple chapters in The Acts you'll see that they gathered under one house one roof they sang Psalms the responsorial psalm they broke bread like you just heard and like we do every day and they listen to the readings of the Apostles if you did those four things you were no longer considered a Jew you were considered to be Catholic so much so that the word became so popular it shows up in letters even as far back as the year 100 My Brother and Sisters in Christ what irus wrote is if you were looking for God you were looking for Christ find the bishop and if you found the bishop he will be in the Catholic Church my brother and sister in Christ you were either a Jew or you were a Catholic that's how it was for the first Thousand Years all the other games and I know for I've been a little bit of most of them if not all of them not to mention study the rest at the end of the day I can tell you mother church is true so when you were born again maybe you need to be born again Catholic think about it go back in scripture here's a guy that starts out as a fisherman he's got a couple of boats he is married he's got a he's got one brother and all of a sudden he starts out is he is nothing more than a fish named Simon and then all of a sudden he becomes Catholic and he becomes Capa in Greek in Aramaic excuse me and as a result he becomes protos the first Apostle the lead the dominant the first to speak the first to cure the first to baptize the first to determine who will take uh judas's place mathas my brother and sister in Christ you can go look at Saul at one minute he's a devout Jew and a killer of Christians and all of a sudden man is blinded for three days he is cured and for several years he studies and finally becomes the Paul that you and I know Born Again Catholic as a Jew and as a devout Jew he believed that the Eucharist was the body blood soul and Divinity in his letter to the Corinthians is not the bread we break is not the bread we break the body of Christ is not the blood we drink if the Chalice is not not the blood of Christ why would a devout Jew several years years after Christ is gone still proclaiming that that is indeed true when most Jews believe that if you drink of an animal in Leviticus as a result you were basically on your way to hell my brother and sister in Christ think about the young lady that touched the tassel of Christ she's hemorrhaging she can't wait to touch him the crowd is so packed around him the apostles ask oh so let me understand Lord you want to know who touched you look around you somebody touched me she is so scared of having to admit that finally with the courage that can only come from Christ and to be born again it was I his words to her your faith has saved you and just so you know the rest of the story according to tradition she's the woman that is standing in the middle of the crucifixion that is blocking it to get his face wiped in the veil Veronica her name means true icon that's called Born Again Catholic my brother and sister in Christ if you're a Matthew you are a devout Jew and you are all about the money when you finally meet Christ the only thing you care about is no longer per se being Jews as you were being Catholic more importantly my brother and sister in Christ it had nothing to do with money my brother and sister in Christ did you know that Lazarus all the money and fame and fortune the wealthiest man of all Israel and as a result a close friend of Christ with the two sisters Martha and Mary do you know after the crucifixion he walks away from all the fame and for fortune and money to actually become ordained and subsequently a bishop ordained by Peter himself my brother and sister in Christ did you know that Mary Magdalene left her world of the seven demons to yet be born again Catholic and to follow the Blessed Mother and John to Ephesus and to help the poor and now a saint my brothers and sisters in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later it's time for you and I to be born again and to be bornn again Catholic you and I need to stop apologizing for being Catholic let me ask you if the if the police were told to go out and arrest you if they saw you wearing anything Catholic whether you said anything or not your house your car whatever it may be would they come and arrest you or would they even know that you're Catholic my brother and sister in Christ would they know it by the clothes you wear that you are Catholic would they know by the medals that you have that you were catholic would they know by the house they drive by that they would see a statue out front as if we worship statues and plaster please we all have intellects would they know that you are Catholic if somebody said let us pray would you make the sign of the cross clearly and distinctly on a side note and a humorous note one day I'm meeting with some friends from high school and one of makes the proclamation he goes man Padre I'm glad you joined us I had seen you since high school of course I'm in my cassic my dress if you will he said man let me start the prayer and I remember thinking Lord he can pray oh please begin he gives me this that's right you saw it I said what is that he said oh it's the sign of cross I said no no I don't know if you that's a steel signal or you're laying down a bun or it's a hit and run I don't what is that do you think the good Lord put his arms on the crucifix like this or did he have to extend them all the way out even to the point of dislocating it would people know you're Catholic whether you say a word or Not by what you wear how you act how you intercede with people would they know it if they walked into your office would they walk in and said wow truly this person is Catholic a young man approached me not long ago he said father he said I I really want to start out with on the right foot and he said I've been hired to do this job and so I'm leaving one organization to go to another and he said what do you think and I said well I'm going to give you a gift I gave him a um a statue of the P of the Blessed Mother holding the Christ child that was done in Rome and you could see you've seen the pictures by Da Vinci as a result of such he says well I'm afraid if I put that out there though people I don't know how that will respond you know what's amazing everybody wants to hire be associated with or have friends with or know people who are honest driven straightforward God-fearing family people and yet the one person that gave us all those attributes is the Messiah and possibly through the intercession of his mother but yet we don't want anybody to know that you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ there was a bishop in Philadelphia who made the statement that we've made our religious life so private we couldn't make it public now if we knew how to how true how true my brother Sisters in Christ that's the point if you were so worried about what other people think then you shouldn't be Catholic because at the end of the day you are either a follower of Jesus Christ and the teachings of his church are you are not the excuses of well the church didn't teach me enough of that excuse it's on you learn the faith you got a book you got an intellect read and study ignorance of scriptures is ignorance of Christ you need to understand where he sits where his Apostle or why she is where is and why we have the sacraments stop blaming everybody else you want to be born again Catholic then you got to do what you need to do oh it's got too many rules you don't even understand let me ask you if you are God would you not have chosen how you would like to be worshiped if you are God would you have wondered or would you have put it in black and white how I want to be worshiped because if I don't put it in black and white last time I did this you worship a golden calf today we worship all kinds of gods football basketball baseball travel ball kickball my ball your ball I commune with God in nature I can spell his name my brothers and sisters in Christ you need to learn your faith more important you need to learn the faith of holy mother church will people know you're Catholic by the way you act whether you speak or not would you be on the precipice of being arrested because they know that you are Catholic when they walk into your house when they get into your car when you do something or talk to somebody my brother sister in Christ it ends and begins with you it is your soul at stake if you do not acknowledge Christ in public he will not acknowledge you before his father how simple is that you're either in him or you're not you're either a believer in him or not man this isn't pck aill you don't get to pick and choose as if somehow or another the good Lord came down and see you decide oh but you do in its free will on whether you will be a follower of him according to the whole my brother sister Christ Martin Maro made a great statement he said either the church started out Catholic and then became Protestant or it started out Protestant and became Catholic my brother and sister in Christ according to the whole you either a Jew or you were catholic there's no in between she is true and you and I need to make a decision of where we stand and plant our flag no more of this mediocre no more of this well I'm not sure then find out enough already and I leave you with this with a great quote by St maximilan Kobe if you will not have Mary as your Immaculate mother you will not have Christ as your brother Born Again Catholic amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

name as in your name it's 1923 and his name is Eddie Eddie lives in the big city of Chicago the city of big shoulders Eddie is probably the most dominant attorney and prominent one as well in the city of Chicago make no mistake about it your fault my fault nobody's fault Eddie is who you want to represent you from jay walking to shoplifting to murder Eddie's the man he had a license to print money he was that good one day while he's in Chicago working in his office a gentleman comes to see him his name Big Al Big Al comes to him and says Eddie I'd like to make you an offer and the offer is I would like you to come work for me man you can see Eddie is just sitting there you see big ow well he's not somebody you'd like to turn down he's not someone that'll take no for an answer so Ed says well let me think about it obviously it didn't take very long because big Alli convinced him Eddie I want you to run my tracks horse tracks Dog Tracks this track that track I want you to handle the gaming institution can I tell you Eddie only thought he had a license to print money man when he took over the gaming for Big Owl man I got to tell you Al Capone took off I'm telling you his empire spread throughout the States as a result of it man it was wine women and song and then and then that proverbial day the day when things Chang for Eddie it's the birth of his son man the whole world changed for Eddie don't get me wrong it was hard with Al there and the money and the fame and the fortune the wine the women the song but man he's got a son he started wondering the more time he spent with his son what kind of life will I give my son what kind of name will I leave my son man will I tie an anchor to his neck if I'm tied to Al Capone he's decided that he's going to turn States evidence man he does It ultimately Al Capone is convicted but the fact of the matter is two weeks after he testified Eddie Eddie was found dead with a Rosary in his pocket of course Al was convicted he spent the rest of his life in what we call the alcat he dies of a venial disease this is true Eddie's son is born he goes to the war he becomes one of the greatest fighter pilots of all times he becomes so popular that he's actually the only fighter pilot ever to win the Congressional meta of Honor he is so popular that they named they named an airport after him and every time you and I go through Chicago you go to Eddie O'Hare International thanks to his dad who realized All Too Well the importance of a name that is exactly that gospel my brother and sister Christ no less than five times in scripture did the good Lord name be used in different ways five different ways they described Christ the shepherd not a Shepherd the shepherd The Voice the gate they said he was the life where you and I get the way the truth and the life and then they said he was the Abundant Life five different names all directed to the Messiah now stop you're first century Jew you and I are living back in this time we are there when this gospel takes place my brother and sister Christ the reason he uses a lamb is for every everybody in this time frame knows the significance of a lamb whether you're Jew or Gentile Pagan or Sojourner you know the importance of that animal my brother and sister in Christ it's food it's milk it could be used as clothing or fabric at the end of the day a lamb is money it's barter it's exchange my brother said Christ if you and I lived in that day as a first century Jew this is what you and I would know you and I would take care of our Lambs one of three ways if we had a lot of money we would have fenced in our own field and we would have shepherded or paid somebody to watch it at night if we were absolutely destitute and quite poor you and I would have brought our farm animals into our little house and we would have slept up on a little like a shelf or if you will uh like a little upstairs if you will and then we would have kept the animals downstairs we wouldn't have had many because we're poor hence the size of our house is small this is the reason why brother and sister Christ when you hear the parable where a man knocks on the door and says it's I know it's late but I got friends coming I need bread and the man that's in the house said it's too late I'm not coming down the reason he's not coming down is cuz he's got to walk through the animals to open the door not to mention give you the bread but because you persevere he's going to do just that but that is if you're very poor if you were somewhere in between and you get along with your neighbors you will pick someone's house or maybe a field you'll build a a rock fence only about maybe two foot tall just enough to keep them uh encamped if you will and you'll put and you'll put all the animals in one you and me and the other neighbors will rotate at night in the mornings you and I will go to our respective Fields the owner of the house will stand by the gate and as you call out your animals he'll open the gate and yours will go to your field that's how you how important Lambs are in our day my brother and sister in Christ you got to go one step further as a first century Jew if we hear this story we know the prophet Ezekiel the Old Testament like the back of our hand we can quote it in scripture my brother and sister in Christ whenever you hear thieves and robbers the place where it shows up most prominent is in the prophet Ezekiel now just so you know Ezekiel is one of the big four to the Jewish people I mean when you say thieves and robbers it would be tanam out to you and I say uh in the Declaration of Independence you have the right of life liberty in the pursuit of happiness we know right to go where to go look for it so do first century Jews when you hear thieves and Roberts you immediately go back to Ezekiel this is the prophet that gave his the four gospel writers if you will the images of the four gospel writers he's the one that gave us the sign of the cross not the X on your head is a Mark that will save you that's why we do this today if you go back and read Ezekiel man it is so powerful quote and I'm paraphrasing quote before the Messiah all Shepherds will either be robbers or thieves EES the blind will not see the lame will not walk the dead will not rise all until that day of the Messiah when the shepherd has come and on that day there will be darkness and quaking and Rain the reason it's described that way in Ezekiel because that is how you describe the day of the crucifixion as Darkness overcame and the earthquake began to tremble the world and Reigns came he's telling everybody in Ezekiel that the shepherd will be the one you crucify all the rest are Impostors make sure you remember that name my brother and sister Christ go back in scripture names are most important if I were to ask you what were the names of the couple in the Garden of Eden you would have said Adam and Eve you would have been incorrect Adam Adama means ground go back to in in scripture in the garden they are man and woman remember when the good Lord is walking through they have partaken of the fruit of the tree and they realize that they were naked as a result of such he calls out to him and says man man where are you man first passing the buck Garden of Eden oh no not me Lord the woman you gave me and then he goes woman calls woman and then he says woman and he say oh no it's the evil one they don't get the names if you will or he doesn't retain his name Adam Adama she gets Eve until there after outside the Garden of Eden the point is simple if we had all stayed in the Garden of Eden we'd be well on our way because the Garden of Eden is the garden of paradise on its well and way to heaven there would have been no name need reason for us to be judged for there was no sin once we've sinned our names are important we we are now accountable for our actions for we have all been named my brother and sister in Christ when the good Lord goes to resurrect Lazarus Martha and Mary Lord if you'd been here my brother wouldn't have died Martha Mary I'm the way I'm the truth I'm the life he walks to the tomb and what does he do he calls by name Lazarus come out my brothers and sisters in Christ if he just yells out come out everybody rises from their grave it would be the second coming this is why he calls Lazarus by name my brothers and sisters in Christ throughout scripture names and name changes are even more important Jacob to Israel Abram to Abraham Saul to Paul Simon to Peter that's why popes change their name the ontological change why because names are that important to you and I my brother and sister in Christ I need I need you to think how many times in scripture have you heard oh Noah that's just make believe oh take my boy Jonah that's make believe stop that's a lie in a parable if a name is used a proper name is used it is not it is not parabolic it is a person this is why Christ says to those Pharisees and Sadducees much like in the time of Noah people were married and getting married so will it be when I return why would you use an example of a makeb believe person to explain your second coming to Jews who believed in Noah why would you say to those same Pharisees and Sadducees no you've already he been given the sign of Jonah he descended to the dead and so will I why would you use a makeb believe guy to explain your subsequent crucifixion and resurrection and please do me a favor when you read Jonah make sure you study it because what he's proclaiming or what is being called for in the the belly of the whale is a funeral durge he died in the whale just like the Christ descended to the Dead my brother and sister in Christ there's often times in scripture the story of the the poor man Lazarus the dogs would lick his wounds the rich man would step over him and wouldn't even give him the scraps of the table we don't know the name of the rich man and according to the story true story proper name Lazarus it's not a parable they die roughly on the same day Lazarus goes to the side of Abraham Abraham's bosom remember before the Gates of Heaven are open when the Christ goes up on Pentecost until that day happens nobody's in heaven those people that have passed Brier St Joseph Elijah Moses Noah Jonah I can tell you where they are they're in Abraham's bosom because once the gates are open then they were then then they ascend into heaven the point being is they die on the same day the man is behind a Chasm the rich man he's yelling to Father AB Abraham remember Abraham has already been dead a thousand years how does this man know who that man is he knows him because he knows scripture he's a Jew and he knows that is Father Abraham and this is Abraham's bosom until the Messiah returns to Heaven he does it did you ever notice he's in a Chasm he will never cross he's in hell and as a result he's yelling to Father Abraham he's still treating Lazarus is a slave he didn't even speak to Lazarus tell tell Lazarus to dip his finger and send him to put him on my tongue Abraham's answer no well up send him to my brothers so that they will know no well what you need to do is you need to warn people they have the scripture and the prophets no my brothers and sisters in Christ do you notice that we only know the name Lazarus and we don't know the name of the rich man man because his name is not in the Book of Life he's in the book of death and there is no name for that it's irrelevant the only thing that matters is yes or no so here we sit 2,000 years let's ask my brother and sister Christ will your name be in the Book of Life yes or no you either made it or you didn't we got one job one and that job is to get to heaven I do not care what your profession is I don't care what your hobbies are I don't care what your likes or your dislikes I don't care if you like your job you don't like your job and I don't care about your income of the decimal point the only job you and I got is to make it to Heaven my brother and sister in Christ there are 10 commandments 10 commands he wrote him with his finger in stone twice those are the 10 things that could prohibit you from making it the Kingdom of Heaven if you break them how is it you and I don't know them there are only 10 you love God with your whole heart mind and soul don't use his name in vain keep holy Lord's Day honor your mother and father do not murder adultery steal bear false witness coverage your neighbors goods and spouse 10 they're not suggestions they're not guidelines they're not sticky notes they are Commandments my brother and sister Christ the first three deal with our relationship with Christ the next seven deal with how you and I relate to one another the only commandment that's contingent is the fourth one the problem is if you do this then you get this you don't do this and I promise you this is what you will get the problem is you and I only know the front half honor your mother and father if you and I studied it enough we would know it would say honor your mother and father and I'll give you a long life in the land that I've given you but if you dishonor them your life will be tumultuous my brother and sister in Christ those Ten Commandments make or break you and I I asked a friend of mine and we were talking he said father I yeah I I know the Commandments uh don't kill yeah yeah yeah don't kill and honor your parents man that's two for 10 you ain't even a good ball player what what are you hoping for my brother sister in Christ you're either in the Book of Life or you are not you either made it or you did not my brothers Christ listen to me you must know the Ten Commandments for your name to be in the Book of Life do you honestly believe that anyone in heaven does not know the Ten Commandments my brother and sister in Christ think about it the things that you and I do that fracture those Commandments is your name if I was to ask somebody if I was to ask your spouse okay scratch that don't do that if I was to ask somebody and I gave your name how would they describe you in 10 words or less with the words that is one good Catholic man that is one prayerful Warrior of a woman boy they are devout Catholics they are honest as a day is long they are genuine as genuine could be they are the poster child for holy mother church is that how they would describe your name would they say man I don't care what I got a sign with that guy his word is his bond his name is more important to him than all the money in the gold and silver Proverbs by the way my brother and sister in Christ ask yourself if I ask somebody to describe you in 10 words left they say man is that guy narcissistic he's so self-absorbed there is no such thing as a self-made man or woman woman that is a lie there are no such thing as a self-made man or woman all gifts all gifts come from the Messiah without him we don't even have an Essence we have no existence it begins and ends with Jesus Christ and we you and me need to give him credit for anything and everything the only thing you and I bring to the table is regrettably probably sin my brother and sister in Christ is other people's names safe on your lips when you hear somebody else's name do we pop out and judge them condem them gossip or slander about them brothers of Christ do you understand that the eighth commandment you swear not to bear false witness against your neighbor do you understand it has very little to do with you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God which isn't a truthful statement in the courtroom to begin with notwithstanding the biggest sin that breaks the eighth commandment the biggest act that breaks the eighth commandment is called the sin of detraction detraction where you steal somebody's honor whether it's true or not nobody told you to be the town crier the truth of the issue is not the issue the issue is you were told to love your neighbor and not to judge so if you get on an internet email text message or Facebook and you condemn somebody well let me tell you what I think oh I know what happened and this is the truth I'm just saying well let me tell you my brother and sister in Christ at the end of the day when you hit that send button oh you s it all right you sent mortal sin right to your soul my brother and sister in Christ is his name safe on your lips you know it started out as a Jew you couldn't even say his name hence where we came with with the term Yahweh then we have LOM and then all of a sudden we were able to say his name and today we use it as a curse word I can promise you this everybody that uses that MF or GD that's a moral sin you've asked him to condemn it and to damn it and you used his name my brother and sister in Christ are your parents your friends your ex spouse your ex classmate your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend are their names safe on your lips my brother and sister in Christ I am begging you to watch what you say to guard your mouth when that thought hits your head to not to judge somebody not to condemn somebody because at the end of the day the measure which you judge is the measure which will be used against you and I when we will be judged my brother Christ I leave you with this on the day of our judgment we came in the world on this day we're going home on this day say non-negotiable it's already done and now you and I are somewhere in between on this day we are called home you and I will stand before him we will be naked and alone there will be no arbitration no mediation no discussion no excuses no understandings there will only be judgment and I leave you with this aspect when you stand before him naked in alone you and I will hear one of two things and I pray that you hear welcome home my child you have done well I knew you in your mother's womb Welcome to My Kingdom I am so proud of you and I have waiting for you welcome to the table of all of my Saints or he'll turn and say depart from me I don't know your name Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

worry worry anxiety it's the 1950s his name is Jamie Jamie lives in Montgomery Alabama and if there was one thing you need to know about Jamie Jamie loves loves movies I'm talking he would watch them all day today all day tomorrow and twice on Sunday and there is one movie Jamie love loves more than the rest I mean he loves it my brother and sister in Christ code of the secret service code of the Secret Service he could watch it all day today all day tomorrow any day all day part of the day some of the day my brother and sister in Christ to a fault one day his dad comes in he's watching Jamie and Jamie of course is watching the code to the Secret Service as a result his dad walks in and says that's it enough with the movies Jamie enough with code of the Secret Service he said Son the movie is terrible the acting is horrific and not to mention the fact that I'm worried that if you keep watching this movie about the Secret Service you're going to be one he said well Dad that's why I like it someday I want to be a secret service agent he said see now you know why I'm worrying as a result 40 years later Jamie par P RR becomes a secret service agent not just any agent he becomes the agent the agent for the president the president none other than Ronald Reagan as a matter of fact Jamie Parr is there that day as he would have should have been guarding the present this is the day when uh hinley fires four shots he hits the president he hits the Secretary of State he hits a police officer and another agent if memory serves the police officer and the agent were were killed and the SE and the secretary of state was was d uh was severely injured but when the shots were fired if you were watching Jamie PA you would have known he had spent his entire life for that one instant they said according to the records They said man he moved with such speed and precision they said man he knew what he was doing he knew how to do it what he needed to do where he needed to go what was it he said if it hadn't been for Jamie PA if it hadn't been for Jamie PA man he picks up the president he literally carries him over to the limousine he throws him in the back he lays on top of him he reaches over slams the door tells the driver take off he gets on the walkie-talkie he calls it in the president has been shot we are taking him to this particular Hospital man you could hear man you could hear the Frantic the anxiety the worry man on the receiving end man they come back and said no Jamie you you have to go to this hospital this is the one he needs to go to we don't have time it's of the essence he's been hit it looks serious from what I can tell we are going to this Hospital you get the nurses you get the doctors you get what you need you get the staff you get them to this hospital my brother and sister in Christ is there pulling up Jamie says man you can see the doctors and the nurses the gurnie Man People are running out to the car he picks up the president he lays him on the gurnie man all of a sudden man the doctors are coming in out of nowhere because comes Nancy Reagan she is screaming at the top of her lungs man Ronnie what happened how did this happen and only in a Ronald reaganesque way he yells out I forgot to duck next thing you know the doctor's getting in he said don't worry Mr president you're in good hands he looks up at him and says and I hope you're a republican man my brother and sister in Christ next thing you know they operate you know the story Ronald Reagan comes out really well the next day he's he's in a recovery room and they allow a few if you will uh reporters in they're interviewing him and he says you know uh President Reagan Mr President if it hadn't been for Jamie PA you probably wouldn't have made it and he says oh I know he said you know I I worry a lot about this man was going to happen one day I try not to worry too much because I knew Jamie was all around always around always there for me and thank God he was again he said but I was worried and they said well you know Mr President did you know that way back in the day he used to watch a movie called Cod of the Secret Service and that's what made him become a secret service agent man President Reagan says man I do know that he kind of smiled to himself he said man I and while I'm speaking of that issue he said I have to tell you that movie is absolutely terrible he said the acting is absolutely horrific and he said I'm not even sure and they said well well Mr President well why do you think they had the movie he said Well everybody's got to eat he said well why was the ACT how did you know the acting was so bad he said well I ought to know I was the one playing the secret service agent man My Brother and Sisters in Christ all that worry was for no reason that is exactly that gospel my brothers and sisters in Christ did you listen to our Savior speak do not do not do not let your hearts be troubled you have faith in God have faith also in Me In My Father's House there are many dwelling places if there were not would I have told you that I'm going to go ahead of you and prepare a place for you and if I go ahead of you and I prepare a place for you I will come back I will come back I will come back and take you there myself so that where you are I am I am and then you know the way Thomas says Master we don't we we we don't know the way Thomas I'm of all people I'm the way I'm the truth I'm the life now Christ now listen you're a first century Jew and you need to understand how this conversation comes about if you and I were there when this conversation takes place with Thomas and Phil and the apostles my brother and sister in Christ then you and I would only have to go back to the last supper now remember the apostles are not sure of what is to come but you could see there might be an exalted understanding of their position that a little more Fame and Fortune may be coming their way and what the good Lord is trying to do is say no that's not quite it so how does he begin he puts on an apron and begins to wash their feet and begins to tell him no you're not going to start up here you're going to start out on the floor and then Peter's having the conversation well Lord if you're going to wash my feet then wash my head and he's telling Peter Peter you need to stay focused you can tell the anxiety is starting to grow in the room they're starting out on the bottom and then all of a sudden he talks to them that he's going to be crucified and that he'll be beaten and scourged and man all of a sudden man the anxiety's Rising even more then he tells him that there's one you is going to deny me now the anxiety's coming up almost above their heads and then he's got to tell Peter you're going to deny me three times my brother s Christ the anxiety is off the top the meter is pegged and as a result their anxiety and worry is so great they can't even function now stop on a side note my brother and sister in Christ often times you hear the term that he built there's many mansions in heaven that's actually a poor train translation my brother in Christ is actually he's talking about a room he's talking about an area he definitely does not use that word to describe a mansion my brother and sister in Christ while he's talking to them and he also you need to make sure you understand this Thomas isn't the only one in the conversation when Thomas says master I mean I don't know the way and Christ says I'm the way the truth and the life you know what the irony is when the good Lord went to see Martha and Mary and they asked said Lord if you'd been here my brother wouldn't have died Thomas is with them when he says I'm the way the truth and the life this is now the second time he's heard it and Phillip my brothers and sisters in Christ if you and I are there when he's explaining to Phillip you had to know that the good Lord must have taken a step back and look not just did Philip at all of the Apostles and said are you not devout Jews surely you know scripture you want to see the Father in Heaven you all know that that's not possible go back and look at the story of Moses on the mountain and the glory Cloud would come down did Mo Moses not have did didn't he not ask to see God the father and the only thing that he was going to be able to see was his back as he walked by another words I can't allow you to see his face because if you do then you're now in heaven and you're no longer here what if you're Elijah he's looking at Philip and wanted to say what if you had been Elijah when you're up in the mountains looking for me in the earthquakes and the rains and the Thunder and the lightning and then you hear me in The Whisper Of The Wind and you had to Veil your face so that you wouldn't see me but yet you ask me can I see the father my brothers and sister Christ philli and Thomas are so worried do you ever ask yourself nobody ever says doubting Phillip but yet they all doubted all the apostles my brothers and sisters in Christ the worry had gotten so great go back in scripture all of our best players are warriors but it doesn't change the fact that they had to get over it my brothers Christ Martha and Mary their brother Lazarus is is dying he's sickly two days into his sickness they send for the good Lord the good Lord Lord purposely waits till day four that means Lazarus had to be dead for 4 days why because the Jews believed that you could resuscitate somebody up to three days the good Lord wants to make sure that everybody knows that when he tell Lazarus to come out man he is dead this is why he tells the apostles because they got confused you remember the story before he goes to Martha and Mary they wait a couple more days then he sits with with Thomas and the apostles and he says we need to return Thomas says Master I'll go and die with you cuz he knows if he goes back to the city there's people that want to Stone him yet nobody remembers Thomas ever saying those words remember this Thomas was spear to death when he gets back into the city Martha and Mary come out to him at two different times with the same question Lord have you've been here my my brother wouldn't have died and you could see the Lord if what do you mean well Lord if you'd been here we we sent messages for you I mean we were in day two he was gone and now it's day four if you just been here Martha Mary I'm the way I'm the truth I'm the life take me to the tomb he's been to the tomb a 100 times he's been on their grounds 100 times he's been in their house 100 times he doesn't want anybody to believe that he manipulated anything so they take him and when they roll it back what does Martha and Mary still say they're still worried Lord if you open the thing up it's I'm worried that the smell is just going to be horrific and then he tells for him to come out and he calls him by name Lazarus come out they worried for 4 days and for absolutely no reason because he's the way and the truth and the life my is Christ go back to Peter man think about the First Time Peter ever meets our savior he meets him in a boat it's at night it's late Peter's been net fishing as a result the good Lord gets in his boat at some like I think it's the third or fourth hour and as a result of it they go out on the lake Peter doesn't want anything to do with it and then next thing he says he tells the the good Lord tells him throw your nets over Peter throws his net there's so many fish Peter drops in the boat and says depart from me Lord I'm a sinful man they're in the same boat and it's just two of them he's teaching Peter you're worrying about things of which you have no control all things come through me and so he's teaching Peter when it's just them two the next time they're in a boat there's a storm going up where is the good Lord asleep in the bow within Arms Reach man the storm is so great Peter thinks I'm a fisherman I'm not going to wake up a carpenter why I don't need a boat buil I can manage I've been on the sea my entire life I am the consumate fisherman and as a result the storm is so great Lord do you mind we're about to perish he has Faith only because the good Lord is right there that's why he's not consumed with so much anxiety he can't function because the Lord is within Arms Reach the guard Lord gets up and rebukes the wind now to rebuke an inanimate object there must be something in the wind otherwise why would you rebuke it there must have been some diabolical aspect and at the end of the day he he calms it to such a point and looks at them as if to say and your worry was what again the next time Peter's in a boat the good Lord is some 50 yards or so off the bow Lord if it is you tell me to come come Peter now give him is due he does walk a little bit 11 other guys in that boat nobody moves but the fact of the matter is he turns his head because the wind blows his worry and anxiety grows he totally had forgotten that he took he had the nerve to step out of the boat he had the nerve to begin to continue to walk and the fact of matter is brother and sister Christ anxiety and worry became so great the good Lord had to immediately reach down and save him and pull him up and they do walk back to the boat nowhere does it say the good Lord carried him the next time the Peter's in a boat he's by himself he doesn't even recognize the Lord on the shore this is after the crucifixion and resurrection and he says children have you caught anything Peter and the apostles yell out no he said throw to the right throw towards me they catch so many fish it about sinks the boat and then when someone yells out John it's the Lord Peter has absolutely no worries he swims 100 yards a football field to get to our Savior the good Lord was teaching Peter that you're going to continue to have faith you got to get rid of that anxiety you controlled it because I was in front of you in the boat then I was in the bow of the boat then you saw me off the stared about 50 yards and now you recognize me and you swam 100 yards to get to me he says you need to stop that worry and anxiety my brothers said Christ they fed 5,000 men that's 15,000 men women and children remember the Jews only count them men five loaves of bread and two fish he multiplies it and then he Christ feeds the 12 and then the 12 feed the 5,000 or 15,000 people remember Christ does not feed any of the individuals he's getting them used to the fact that he is now going to feed the 12 and then when he leaves the 12 will continue to feed you man if they didn't worry about feeding 15,000 people then why any worry or anxiety at all and that's how it's been for Martha and Mary for Mary magdalin who went to the tomb and Peter himself so my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how much of your day is spent in worry how much of your week is spent in worry how much of the month is sp is spent in worry how much of your life do you spend in worry every minute of every second of every day if you counted up the minutes that you spending worry how much time is it is it in your conversations is it in your prayers is it in your thoughts is it the way you walk around town is it shown in your actions and your words My Brother and Sisters in Christ that is the problem we are worriors and for all the wrong reasons my brother and sister in Christ how much time do you and I spend about worrying about money whether or not we're going to be able to make the payment on the house whether we can make the mortgage make the rent we can to make the car note am I going to keep the lights burning am I going to be able to pay the bills am I going to be fured am I going to be laid off am I going to have to take a cut and pay how much of your day in the past month has been spent worrying and consumed about money that's what he's trying to get to you about nothing happens until it comes from the good Lord not a hair in your head gets touched so if you are consumed about paying the bills and the mortgage and the rent in the car and this job and a Furlow and lack of money he's telling you you must come to me let me ask you how much time do you spend worrying about your job will it be open will it remain will we get the contract will we not will they move me along do I need to go somewhere else will the schools open will they not how much time do you spend is worrying about the doctor's appointment I got the test I got to get to the doctor I am consumed with waiting for the results I got to make sure and get to him and even if I get good results I still worry about the next test which is coming my brother said Christ don't you see that's the point you and I are consumed with worry we're worried about relationships we're worried about our families we're worried about our children we're worried about whether or not they're going to make it or they're not are they going to marry this person or not should they be dating or not are they on drugs or alcohol we are so consumed with worry you and I cannot function and the good Lord is saying enough enough worry has no place in here everything begins and ends with Jesus Christ not a hair on your head will get touched until he is ordained it not a bird can fall from the sky until he's ordained it and if he brought you to it he will bring you through it the fact of the matter is you and I have no faith that is where the problem relies the more we worry the less faith we have my brother and S Christ I tell you this CK chesteron wrote a book CK chesteron wrote a book call screw tape letters the story takes place between Lucifer and his son if you will and as a result of it he's talking to his son about how to affect you and I as a result of it his son is saying dad I got this he said Son listen to me he said no dad I got it I'm going to get this group of people with pride then I'm going to get that other group over there in the back that's that's anger I'm going get that group that's toward the middle I'm going to get them with lust I'll get the group in the back corner I'll get them with Sloth I'll get this other group with envy and I'll get this other one with aest money he said Son what happens if those groups that you named don't get hit by that demon what if Pride needs to be over there where gluttony and gluttony needs to be where lust is and lust needs to be where sloth is and sloth needs to be where money's at he said you want to get these people all you got to do is steal their peace get them to worry son and you'll get them all my brothers and sisters in Christ listen to me when you worry you take counsel with the evil one he hates you the very mention of your name causes him to spit you've been made in the image of Jesus Christ and as such he knows that if he puts the thought in your head you will consume it that is very expensive real estate up there so why do you give him so much time you allow him to roam free you and I worry about anything and everything it's incessant to a point that we can't sleep my brothers Christ we can't eat or we eat too much or we worry about this we can't even have a beautiful night out we can't even go walk we can't even pray my brother Christ listen to me three people can put thoughts into your head he can you and I can and so can he and he's going to put that thought in there it's going to consume you to worry and at the end of the day he wants you to worry he absolutely has no say on this he cannot control what happens or doesn't he does not have the final say my brother sister in Christ he hates you so much he will actually make it up and make it a lie put it in your head and hope you buy it and guess what we do and that is the problem you walk out these doors today of a church you turn off that television back at home today if you walk out of here and and in this Mass with the same worries that we had when we started it you have made one of three mistakes you have forgotten that this is God's house you have forgotten that he is God and we are not or worse you took it back you gave him the worry and anxiety only to take it back as you went out to your car you turned off the television you've allowed the devil back into the real estate my brother and sister Christ do you know that of all the prayers we say in mother Church in every country every hour of every day in every language we only pray for one human emotion and we know what's amazing we say the prayer every MTH and then we just say it and it's only because tell me God doesn't know his children Deliver Us Lord from every evil grant us peace in our day in your mercy keep us free from sin protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ it's the only human emotion we pray about worry my brothers and sisters in Christ I'll leave you with this worry worry is worshiping the problem worry is worshiping the problem cut it loose and Let It Go all things come from the Messiah he brings you to it he'll bring you through it amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

resilient the ability or inability to take a hit take a punch to handle a left-handed compliment resilient if I were to ask you in the world today who is the the world's third most popular hand an you may say well that would be in the movie The Passion the one holding the nail in the palm of Christ I'd say you know you might be right if I asked you today who is the second most popular set of hands in the world you might say possibly in the ceiling of the cinee chapel where these two fingers are just inches apart you'd probably be right if I were to ask you who had the most popular hands in the world today I digress it's the 1500s his name is Mr Durr d r r he lives in Newberg Germany and he is without question the hardest working man in all of Germany Barone there is nothing he can't do there's nothing he won't do there's nothing that he will ultimately do 18 children 18 they sleep in one bed yeah yeah he's a blacksmith by trade but he'll tell you it's not enough money to go around jack of all trades master and none there is no better money than working the coal mines mining the coal if you will every day all day twice on Sunday 18 miles to feed not counting his and Mama as a result one night his oldest son Albert is laying in bed and he is talking to his second oldest and as a result his his brother if you will and he turns to him and says after Mass tomorrow after Mass tomorrow we will flip a coin the winner will head to the the academy that way they can learn a trade sculpturing art painting construction whatever it may be while the other stays in works when the one that goes that one gets out and graduates then he pays for the other one to leave the mind because if we don't do this Albert says if we don't do this this is our lives from here on out you only think that Mr dur is resilient until you meet his son Albert he purposely loses the coin flip so his brother can go he sends him to the academy man there is nothing his brother can't do it seems like everything he touches turns to Gold if you will he was a sculptor then he did a little bit of artist work he also did a little construction he did a little molding as a result of it he became a household name meanwhile Albert worked in the mines every day all day twice on Sunday the man is absolutely resilient to work the coal mines to pray for the tuition to send his brother to school his brother graduates with honors and somewhat of a household name he comes home and all the family is there to welcome him home man he's a household name throughout Germany his paintings are selling his sculptured works are selling his art is selling and he comes home and he came home to thank his brother Albert as they gathered around the table he stood and he said I would like to pray and subsequently lift my glass to my brother Albert for it hadn't been for his resiliency I would not be who I am today I would not be able to help the family and now Albert is time for you to go his brother stood up he showed him his hands he said my brother there's not a bone that's not been broken I have enough arthritis in my joints that I can barely hold my glass I am too up in age and too far gone I thank you for your offer but we are good as a result his brother said well you know maybe there is something I can do for you maybe I could do some sculpturing or some art or a pain you know the world's third most popular hands belonged to Mel Gibson he was the one holding the nail in the movie The Passion in the palm of Christ before it struck if you were to look at the cine Chapel they were the hands of God the father and Adam they were actually Michelangelo's hands but today the most popular hands in the world belong to Albert dur the oldest son they're in every gift shop they at every religious shop you see them in stores throughout the world and it's the set of praying hands they're not the hands of Jesus Christ indirectly they are they're the hands of Albert dur it's all about being resilient that is exactly that gospel I will not not I will not leave you orphans if you keep the Commandments I am in you and you are in me I will send an advocate I will send an advocate who will be with you until the end of time if you do not keep my Commandments and you do not stay in me and I in you there's nothing I can do now stop your first century Jew let's make sure we understand what's going on we are at the Last Supper the good Lord has just put on his apron and washed the feet of all his Apostles he's had the conversation with Peter about whether he should wash his hand and his feet and his arms as well he's already let them know that one will betray him ultimately Judas he's told Peter ultimately that you will deny me three times upon the [ __ ] Crow and they're about to Embark to the Garden of Gethsemane and he's talking to them of that I'm going to send the advocate now my brother Christ stop that the holy spirit that the world does not know nor does it see so you may feel like you're alone but I am with you I am until the very end of time my brothers Christ go back in the very first reading of Genesis in the verse 33 words you'll notice that they talk about a wind that blew over the waters the Holy Spirit at the trans at the baptism of my Lord in the River Jordan a holy spirit descends and all of a sudden you hear God the Father this is my son who I am well pleased at the Transfiguration Peter James and John walk up the mountain to be with the good Lord Moses and Elijah and then all of a sudden they hear God the Father speak and a cloud overshadow them they are full aware of the Trinity my brothers Christ the word Trinity may not be in scripture that's an English word the book was written in Greek but the concept of the Trinity is there from the very beginning and he's also telling you and I about the Commandments you notice that he didn't say there are 10 suggestions 10 sticky notes 10 understandings 10 guidelines ah there's 10 but if you can get if you don't kill anybody you're good to go they are commands you and I as a devout Jew know that there were two sets of tablets one that Moses brought down and broke in front of the golden idol and then the second set that he actually put into the Tabernacle as a devout Jew we know they are commands written by the Finger of God more importantly they were written on both sides of the tablet more importantly my brother and sister in Christ there are 10 commandments and those Ten Commandments can either preclude or include you into the Pearly Gates of the Gates of Heaven ask yourself this one question did the people in heaven learn the Ten Commandments when they got there or did they have to learn them beforehand and if they had to learn them beforehand which would be logical they surely didn't learn them in purgatory or you wouldn't have been there to begin with which means you had to learn them here on Earth how many do you know my brother and sister in Christ do you understand that the first three Commandments deal with our relationship with Jesus Christ and the next seven have to do with our relationship with one another do you understand brother and sister in Christ that if you break any of The Commandments from number two to number 10 that you automatically broke the first commandment you love God with your whole heart mind and Soul how is it you can say you love with your whole heart mind and soul and then turn around and say I didn't make Mass I've Dishonored my parents I've murdered adultery steal bear false witness cover your neighbors goods and spouse how is it you can say you did that and loved him with your whole heart mind and soul it's a ball face life that's why there are commands my brother Christ there's only one commandment that's contingent you do this and this will happen you don't do this and I can assure you this will never come to be the problem is you and I only know the front half honor your mother and father if you read the entire commandment it would say honor your mother and father and you'll live a long life in the land that I've given you dishonor them and your life will be tumultuous my brothers and sisters in Christ do you know the 10 your soul is at stake did you know that a poorly written email or text message could constitute a mortal sin when you intentionally and willfully distracted or disparaged someone that when you dro the f bomb or GD that you committed a mortal sin that you have mmass that you have mismas and then received communion you've now doubled down on immortal sin the eighth commandment bear false witness is more powerful than you think my brother and Sisters in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are the ones that are the most resilient I'm talking about the ones that can take a hit and keep going the ones that can take a punch and not flinch the ones that can take that left-handed compliment and shake it off as if nothing was said there are two people in Scripture that absolutely modify the definition of resilience Peter and Mary Magdalene man I tell you what say what you want about Peter that man is resilient that man can take a hit how many of you and I the first time we met Christ we're in our boat we're exhausted we're coming to shore the good Lord Waits at the end of the pier walks in steps in the boat and says let's go out to fish how many of us said well isn't this just great I've got a carpenter telling me to go back out tonight and I'm a fisherman my whole life in the Sea of Galilee and just because he says throw out your nets they will come you know how Peter threw those Nets out oh you want your nuts out over here you got it you want that okay great w man we're going to catch a boatload they catch so many it almost sinks the boat Peter is so resilient he drops in the boat and says depart from me Lord I'm a sinful man how many of you and I would have gotten back to Shore and prayed to God that i' never see him again how embarrassing would that have been if people had been around not Peter he takes the hit next time they're out there in the boat and that storm comes up Peter thinks he's the consumate man all gifts are natural or so he thinks the storm is so great he yells to the Lord Lord do you care we're about to perish and the good Lord gets up and rebukes the wind it had to be something intrinsically evil why would you rebuke an inanimate object unless it was animate My Brother and Sisters in Christ you don't think that made Peter look like a fool oh I see Peter you think you have natural gifts no Peter all gifts are Supernatural and they begin and end with me you bring nothing to the table do you think most of us would have just jumped into the thing and swam to Shore and just hoped to God I never have to be around the group again how do I explain that one off Peter is resilient the next time you're in the bo the good Lord's out there on the shore and you he's out walking on water lord if it is you tell me to come boy Peter man after my own heart come man he begins to walk and the wind blows and his head turns and next thing know he begins to sink man he's screaming Lord help me and he's got to walk back to the boat with good Lord cuz he does walk on water and gets in the boat would that have been enough for you and I to say I never yell out something in public ever again not Peter he's resilient he just takes the hit the next time he sees the good Lord by a choar fire the same type of fire in which he denied Our Savior three times would you have gone and sat next to the good Lord by the same type of fire you denied him just to sit next to him so he can ask you the question Peter do you love me well well yeah Lord you know what I do Peter do you love me well well yeah Lord yeah Peter do you love me Lord you know everything you know that I do well someday Peter you're going to show me you love me you're going to be crucified upside down and they're going to take you where you don't want to go and for three hours you will proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ then you will love me Peter is absolutely resilient do you know they said he cried so long after the three days of denying Our Savior that the creases remained in his cheeks until the day he died you don't think somewhere everywhere Peter went that somebody in that crowd after preaching to them to to thousands of people that someone doesn't stand up and yell well aren't you a piece of work you're telling us what we can and can't do and and here you are denying Our Savior three times yeah I know there's nothing you can tell me that I haven't committed or done is there a greater sin than denying our savior is there a greater sin than not making the sign of the cross cuz you don't want to offend anybody but you have no problem offending Our Savior do you have any problem saying the hell Mary in front of other people that are not of our faith you have a problem not defending the church in front of other people because you just you just don't want to do that but yet you want Christ to acknowledge you Mary Magdalene was probably the most abused woman in history seven deadly sins Pride anger gluttony lust average sloth Envy but give her that woman her due Easter Sunday morning she's going to get up and be next to dead a dead savior quote and quote versus live people and I don't care how many soldiers I got to walk through that surely had their way I don't care there's a boulder I can't move and it's been sealed by Pilot himself I'd rather stand next to a rock then be here with people first to see the Risen Christ that woman is absolutely resilient you mean to tell me she didn't go into one village with her family later on and become a saint and there wasn't somebody there that had taken full advantage of her she probably had a thousand false friends and true enemies everywhere she went somebody knew something about her that was intimate and personal and you don't think somebody didn't throw that up in her face absolutely resilient my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how resilient are you that you can take a hit take a punch take a left-handed compliment and dismiss it as if it was never said how resilient are you when you get in an argument with your spouse that you will not will not make it personal how resilient are you that you will say sorry regardless if it had anything to do with you or not because peace must reign in our families more than who wins or loses are you resilient enough to admit you were wrong and be man or woman enough to admit it that if you made a public outcry you make a public apology my brother and sister in Christ how resilient are you when somebody else gets the credit and you say absolutely nothing so you don't disparage her how resilient are you when the credit that was supposed to go to you goes to somebody else or you get blamed for something that was not of your fault but you take the hit because you know they can't afford to take it how resilient are you to turn your cheek as Christ has asked you and I to do when the good Lord says when they hit you on your left give him your right he's talking about being backhanded that's the only way I can hit you on your right cheek he wants to know will you be eternally strong enough to say I don't care who wins the argument I don't care my brother who gets the credit I am not going to I am going to be so resilient that I'm not going to let the evil one roam in my thoughts and consume me with worry that I'll actually spill the Venom on everybody ruining their day as well that I will worry so much that I can't even have a breath without spilling it and make other people worry because I got to believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and nothing comes to me that unless it goes through him and if he brought me to it he'll bring me through it enough is enough your job is to be resilient is to finish what we started you must finish this race at all cost when somebody writes something ugly about you on Facebook how resilient are you to turn the other cheek how resilient are you that when you see something come up you just dismiss it and stop reading it so that you don't partake of the sin you pass it on you think about it and speak to it you've committed the sin my brother and sister in Christ it's imperative that our names are in that book of life and that somewhere on that list after Peter and Mary Magdalene are yours and mine and our children the devil will go to the ends of the Earth to break you all you and I have to do is stay in the day to consume the Eucharist and I leave you with this and of all people I leave you with the words of George Carin when they asked him the definition of resilience he said just because the monkey is off your back the devil has stopped tempting you just because the monkey is off your back doesn't mean the circus left town be on guard be resilient amen amen name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

anyway it was never between you and them it was always between you and him anyway it's the 1970s his name is Allan Allan lives in engleberg New Jersey he's one of three kids his mom well she um she's a travel agent his dad owns a little bookstore he does a little singing on the side but that's just that's just to make ends meet as a result they do okay but if you were to ask them to describe Allan in 10 words or less you would have heard man he is focused he is driven he's got like a like a laser I guess maybe it was the blue eyes and the focus that maybe gave him so so much of a concentration but I digress in high school he was the consumate athlete he was the star of the football team gets a scholarship to col IIA and Allan's got to make a decision but he never thought it would come to be he got a scholarship to play football but for some reason Allan loved the theater he goes up to Columbia The Season's about to start spring practice he's got coaches he's got recruits he's got alumni and man they're telling him we can't wait for you to join it it's it's all about the team and Allan said well it's really not it's really about what I think I need to do and someday for my family anyway but I thank you for your consideration he leaves school because he wants to be part of the play Oklahoma he literally goes to the University of Oklahoma Allan does he gets part of the play and I got to tell you he's pretty good as a matter of fact he's so good in the play that people start to recruit him to come do their plays G Grapes of Wrath street car Named Desire there was even one called balam b a l o a a a.m. and I got to tell you he knocked it out the park he's so good as a matter of fact that he's decided that man if I'm good at the theater May maybe I should try TV well they come to him and say wait a minute you you can't go to television because well the finance years need you at the theater your friends need you at the theater I mean the the Actors and The Producers need you at the theater and he said wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute I hear you but it's not just about y'all is it I mean it's about me too anyway so he goes and he gets on a couple series he gets and I don't know if y'all remember Barnaby Jones there was a series called chips Rockford Files well man bits and pieces next thing you know he gets a chance to play in a movie called coma exactly it tanks but the problem is somebody saw it in a good way and said man we need you in movies by this time he's married well the people of the TV series man we Alan we can't let you go because man we have an income we have endorsements we have other actors they need you in the shows and he said wait a minute it's not just about you and them it's about me and my family anyway as a result man he starts getting in movies and he gets in movies that maybe at first didn't seem very popular one was called jack knife another one that he got involved in which did okay was it it was just a little bitty miniseries but of all people Clint Eastwood sees him and gets him in the movie absolute power Clint Eastwood plays a jewel thief and Allan plays a detective trying to catch him man I got to tell you Allan's confidence is growing next thing you know he's with the movie called The Firm with Tom Cruz he's playing this FBI agent that's trying to help if you will kind of catch Tom Cruz in a way well man next thing you know he gets that from from Tom Cruz he jumps to Tom Hanks and he's in Apollo 13 he plays Alan CR the man that's the head of the whole Apollo system and as a result of it man his popularity begins to grow he's in National Treasure with Nicholas Cage uh my brothers and sisters in Christ he's even in the movie Alcatraz with Nicholas Cage and you know him as Ed Harris then again you may not know him as Ed Harris my brother and sister Christ he also played black Bart in a whole different life prior to all this got ever got started you know what's amazing is they interviewed him not long ago and somebody made the comment to him Mr Harris you know when you play football it was about the competition is you versus them he said when you're an actor it's still that way and he said no it's not that way it's never been that way it's always been about competition Within Myself anyway that is exactly what the gospel is about the good Lord is trying to tell his Apostles you worshiped me but you doubt it you doubt it because you think it's between you and the Pharisees you and the Sadducees you and the essence you and the zealots you're worried about Caesar you're worried about Pilate you're worried about Herod you're worried about the RO he said it's never between you and them it's always been in between you and me anyway my brother and sister Christ think about it he takes 11 men and they go up a mountain he gets up in the mountain they worship him but they doubted and then he says to him all power y'all listen to me all power all has been given to me from the center of the earth to the surface to the rocks to the trees to the sky to the birds to the Stars to the planets to the Angels Above All has been given to me go therefore and baptize All Nations and I need you to baptize them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit I want you to teach them to observe all that they have commanded I've been with you and will be with you till the end of time now stop you're a first century Jew you're either looking for the Messiah or you have reason to believe that he might be the Messiah my brothers and sisters in Christ let's make sure you understand how this conversation is taking place they are up on a mountain every first century Jew knows anybody that goes up a mountain is going to be tied to Christ Moses goes up a mountain talks to God brings the Ten Commandments Elijah goes up a mountain ends up talking and talking to God directly and actually has to bail his face my brother and sister Christ they have the Transfiguration where Peter James and John see Christ transfigured for them to go up a mountain and a first century Jew explains to you and I there must be some significance maybe this guy Christ is God my brother and sister in Christ when they go up a mountain and all of a sudden now remember now my brother in Christ whenever you hear anything to do with a cloud that has to do with worship Divine worship that means Christ is divine only God can be in a cloud go back in the Psalms go back to the Prophet Daniel everybody speaks to the cloud as it means to Transportation if you will for God my brother sister in Christ you got to make sure you understand the words that he uses when he says worship that means they either laid down they knelt or they bowed only people who believed Christ to be the Messiah would have done that that's why you and I as Catholics when we come into the church we bow we genuflect before the Tabernacle this is the reason we kneel during the consecration because were before him that's the whole point so for them to worship he caught up and this is what what bothered Christ is you worshiped me you lay prostrate you knelt you bowed and then you doubted and it's more than just Thomas doubting my brothers and sisters in Christ when you hear the word I will be with you until the end of time he's not saying that once time ends good luck to you it's been nice knowing you I wish you the best of luck to the Greeks to the Jews the Greek word is heos H EO which means once I say this time it's irrelevant what happens over here I only want you to focus on this point backwards I will be with you until it is time for you to come home in which I will judge you and separate the sheets from the goat but I'm going to be with you because I'm leaving and you're going to start to doubt this is why my brothers and sisters in Christ as Catholics when you hear this the scriptural passage Mary did not have relations with Joseph until she bore him a child if you and I read it in English 2,000 years later we're going to assume that they had relations because until means a change of point and Direction it does not to a Jew and never did to someone who knew Greek he's saying only focus on the point that comes beforehand my brothers and sisters in Christ isn't it amazing that he brings 11 Apostles up to that thing up to the mountain and here's what you're not being told they're not the only 11 there Maas is there Barnabas is there the only reason maias can become the 12th Apostle is because he's there during the crucifixion the resurrection and the Ascension he's a firsthand Witness that's what Apostle means only the 12 have experienced everything including the blind see the lame walk and the dead rise my brother and sister in Christ this gospel is so powerful listen when he tells the apostles go therefore and Make Disciples of all Nations listen listen teaching them teaching them to observe what I commanded you he never said teaching them to observe what I wrote in the Bible in other words do as I do and say as I say teaching them is what we call in scripture the Great Commission go and do what you saw me do and teach them to do the same my brother Christ this flies in the face of solar scriptural where scripture alone does Scripture ever describe the Trinity does it ever use the word Trinity not hard ly does it ever use the word tell about Peter's death no it doesn't it doesn't tell most of the Apostles death am I to assume that Peter and some of the Apostles are alive my brother and sister in Christ it doesn't explain the word Purgatory either but guess what Purgatory is an English word that book's written in Greek you got to make sure that when you study scripture you study for everything that it's worth you get everything out of it he's telling them to go do what you saw me to do our traditions and teaching my brother and sister in Christ do you know why he said it did you listen carefully did you hear him go there and baptize them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit he never said in the name of the father in the name of the son and in the name of the holy spirit because if he does that then we have three different names and three different gods this is why he only says in the name of the father Son and Holy Spirit this is why I can't baptize in the name of the creator Creator Redeemer and sanctifier because you're saying one created one redeemed and one Sanctified this is why it's so important that we be careful of the words do you understand that Christ must leave he must go because he's going to give us salvific Grace faith hope and love so that we will have faith in him hope to see him and one day love as he loves if he stays here on Earth there will be no need to have faith because he's right there there's no need to hope you can touch him you just learn how to love more this is why he must go because you and I come on on this day we're going home on this day everything in between the day you come in the world and the day you and I go home is nothing more than a test that you will have faith in him that you will hope to stand before him to hear the immortal words welcome home my child job well done w welcome to the table of all of my Saints and that you and I will love like he asked Peter to love Peter do you love like me my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players knew that that it was never between them and any wedding it was only between them and Jesus Christ longus the one who stabbed Our Savior can you imagine what must have been for him put yourself in his shoes you are the Centurion pilate doesn't have a chance of controlling those crowds without this guy everybody even the soldiers respected this guy longinus when his word was spoken I believe even to a greater Point than pilate if pilate said go left and he said go right boy I would love to see how that played out for him to do what he did at the crucifixion imagine I want you to take this man leading through the streets 100 soldiers will be around Jesus Christ there will be a town crier in front calling out all the the Despicable Crimes of the three your job is to get them through one mile through the town and crucify him how is it that you could have grown your whole life and been a centurion you've got the respect of Legions of men you get him up on the crucifix and you stab him and then you say true that man was the son of God he realized that it was not between him and pilate him and his friends all the people that he fought this whole time it's been the relationship between him and him my brother Christ if you're Paul do you think Paul's worried about what the Sadducees think of him or the Pharisees or the zealots or the esses you think Paul really cares about what other Christians think of him or the TW think of him Paul knows that the relationship is between him and Jesus Christ anyway it has nothing to do with anybody else because at the end of the day I'm only going to stand before Christ so it really doesn't matter what anybody else has to say the argument is not with Rome it is not with the Greek it's not with the Persians it's not with the Babylonians it's not with the Sanhedrin it really doesn't matter because at the end of the day I'm checking out on this day and my judgment will be immediate there will be no negotiations there will be no B there will be no mediation arbitration or excuses Paul is the consumate understanding of the way and the truth and the life my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later don't you understand the conversation and the argument it's not between you and your competitor it's not between you and your your neighbor or you and your doctor or you and your spouse or you and your children or your neighbor or the people at work or your co-workers or your boss the whole problem is between you and God the problem is you and I think the relationship is this way it never was it's never intended to be he is God and we are not thank God the relationship is this way it's covenantal he established seven covenants with mankind he established it with Adam and Noah Abraham and Moses King David the good Lord and Heaven itself blessed are the poor in spirit the first beatitude if all you have per se is just a personal relationship with a Divine being then you have flown in the face of the first beatitude blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are those who have a childlike reverence for God blessed are those who fear the lord they they know that they have disappointed him in their sins and they just can't stand to stand before him and accept that my brothers and sister is in Christ don't you see it has nothing to do with the email it's got nothing to do with the text message it's got nothing to do it has everything to do with Christ and it's not between you and me it's between you and him anyway before you send that email that text message respond to a conversation talk to your boss your coworker your children your spouse before you talk to your neighbor can I tell you the conversation should first be between you and him anyway that is why he says I am the way this way I'm the truth and the life Martha and Mary come to him Lord If you bid here my brother wouldn't have died Martha Mary I've been here for 3 years 3 years you've walked with me the blind sea the lame walk the dead rise but yeah but Lord I know that on the last day we're be with but my brother is done can you imagine their thoughts when he says Lazarus come out man if I just not said those words if I hadn't sent that email wrote that letter picked up that phone call if I hadn't judged those people or condemned them my brothers and sisters in Christ don't judge anyone you know not the crosses behind those doors they are so big and profound your jaw would drop your head would spin your knees would wobble and you drop to the ground and beg God to forgive you that you ever pass judgment I hear confessions all day every day or twice on Sunday and I'm telling you there's things behind those doors that would make you say thank God in heaven it is not me my brothers and sisters in Christ I leave you with this people are unreasonable illogical and self-centered you forgive them anyway if you are happy people will be jealous of you you'd be happy anyway if you are honest people will try to cheat you you be honest anyway if you are successful you in false friends and true enemies you succeed anyway if you are kind people will tell you that you have selfish motives be kind anyway give the best you have give till it hurts because at the end of the day it was never between you and them it was between you and him anyway amen amen oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you up amen amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

recognize recognize the year 1812 our country our colonies are at war with Britain yet again man Britain's plan is real simple we're going to mass all of our Armada we are going to drive it if you will orale it if you will in Chesapeake Bay once we get into ches Bay we're going to take over parts of Maryland in the port once we get there we're going to march on to DC plan is working seamlessly till they get to Bladensburg right outside the port city as a result of it it is the biggest battle of the Revolutionary War there is cornage everywhere I'm telling you there's Red Coats there's colonists there's militia there's Farmers there's people who are just trying to help man anybody and everybody the Red Coats have done the damage it goes down in history quote as the greatest disgrace to the Americas end quote they've decided to march on they march on to DC they burn the city they burn the White House they burn the capital building and then have to repaint it with only they have of white paint hence the term White House as a result of it man the cornage is so great still at Bladensburg they go find a Dr Bennis he said when he gets there he said there are so many bodies the rumor has it that he could walk across the field without touching the ground by just stepping on that many bodies and he didn't care red coat colonist militia Friend or Foe he's helping everybody for a week's time he is amputating he is saving he is burying he's doing all he can do meanwhile the Red Coats have taken over Capitol Hill they have burned the building and now coming back they get to the city a little small city outside of Maryland they decided well this is going to be easier said than done wine women and song after a couple hours we have more wine more women more song the problem is it happens to be Dr benn's Hometown so as he's finally getting in from Bladensburg what does he see they're burning buildings they're ravaging people they're taking advantage I mean it's ugly he gets into a brewhaha with two of the men beats him up pretty well probably deserving of it they throw him in jail one of them escapes he goes back all the way to Chesapeake Bay he gets the Admiral the Admiral gets their group together they come find Dr Bennis they haul him all the way back to chesp Bay put him in a ship put him in the bottom of it and put him in irons as a result man the colonist are Furious so who better to go than Mr key he's a prominent attorney he's a loyal colonist so they get him man this is what happened they go through the story of Bladensburg Dr Bennis the the pillaging and the plundering he finally goes out to ches Bay he arrives on the ship of the Admiral says Admiral I understand you have one of our colonists Dr Bennett he said yes we do he said well I need you to let him go said that's not going to happen he said let me make sure I understand Admiral that man saved 2third of your group you got them here today you wouldn't have half the soldiers you got if it wasn't for that man he single-handedly kept people alive in Bladensburg he said that's a true statement good point he said however I cannot let you leave now uh we're about to bomb a fort if you go they'll know where I'm at they'll know our strength you're going to have to just stand and bear it he said but when it's over we both walk free he said absolutely well Dr Bennis and he explains to Dr Bennis the story this is what's going to happen then all of a sudden man the bombs and the rocket start and man you would have thought that the world had come to an end Dr Bennis is yelling up tell me what you see he said man it's he said there's bombs bursting in air he said there's this red glare that has come from the Rockets he said the smoke is so great but I can still see the flag truly we are the land of the free and the home of the brave I pray you recognize that as a star spangle Banner if not this is going to be an ugly death up here I can just promise you my brother and sister in Christ that is the point it's recognition that is exactly what that gospel is about it's recognizing Christ for who he is my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I am not in you and you are not in me you will not have eternal life he says it five times in seven verses my flesh my blood how is it 2,000 years later we still can't get it right it's a relic it's a theory it's an understanding it's conjecture it's just a representation he never said it he is the word made flesh do you think it's ironic coincidental it's a happen stance that he is born in the city of David the city of bread he is born in a manger a food trough and we call him the bread of life and he just Echoes that sentiment that he is the bread for the life of the world my brother and sister Christ 11 times in this in this gospel he uses the word I me or myself yet nowhere does he say anything else about some type of understanding or just conjecture now stop you are a first century Jew you know the Old Testament like the back of your hand you know the Psalms by heart please The Ten Commandments I've got those memorized in my head in Deuteronomy I tattooed them on my children's forehead my brother sister and Christ this is what's happened prior to him making the statement Christ is in the middle of a synagogue he is two blocks from Peter's house he's right off the Sea of Galilee where he's making the statement my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink right before he gets there he's coming through Samaria he meets the lady at the well you know the one that was married five times on her sixth husband remember seven to a Jew is the most complete number of the world seven days of creation seven years to build a temple the lady does not stay with that husband she becomes a follower of Christ we believe she ultimately becomes a religious he's the seventh husband once he leaves and visits with her he goes to a place called Capernaum he meets an official there that official tells him that his son is ill he tells that man don't worry about it your faith will save him at that hour the seventh hour his son was cured when he gets back to his home in Capernaum he asked him when was he cured they said quote the seventh hour the good Lord has just walked through Jerusalem M and as a result of it he's at the to what they call the pool of Betha the pool of Betha this is where the cripples or handicap would go they would wait for the water to Ripple because they believe that the Angel Michael may have come and then they get in the man is so crippled and handicap he can't get it so the good Lord tells him to pick up his mat and walk 38 years 38 he's standing by that pool to a Jew that number represents the Mone of time that you were were at the mountain of cadesh until you entered the promised land this is where Moses broke the Ten Commandments for a Jew you and I would have picked up on that number that it's significant it goes into the 40 now my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord is walking a little bit farther and they're starving for food 5,000 remember 5,000 men that means 10,000 men and women that means 15,000 men women and children five loaves of bread and two fish what's important for you and I to understand it's a foretelling of what is to come do you understand that Christ did not feed one person he only fed the 12 and once he gave the bread to the 12 then he said now go feed them why because if I feed you directly you will never go to my Apostles if I hear your confession you will not go to my Apostles if you hear my baptism you will not go to the apostles everything must go through them they are the start of the church Pentecost is when things will begin my brother and sister in Christ remember this when the good Lord said take this and eat for this is my body when he said eat in Greek it's trogo take it and gnaw on it chew it swallow it does that sound like a theory or a relic to you my brother and sister in Christ when you hear the argument that it says do this in memory of me go back to the original language how many times have I spoken to you to you everybody thinks the first prostitute in scripture was Mary Magdalene the first prostitute in scripture was the translator I promise you if he translates it correctly he translates it to animis do this in sacrifice of me another Words My Brothers and Sisters in Christ he's saying do it do it not have a recollection understanding you're translated in English 2,000 years later go back to the language now listen to me my brother and sister in Christ in the Old Testament there's things that you need to understand in the Garden of Eden there were two trees one of good of evil and one life Everlasting and he reminds Adam and Eve that if you don't eat of the tree and as a result of it you will live forever what's his last words in the gospel that if you eat of me you will live forever as a Jew you and I would picked up on this we would have known instantly what he's getting at my brother and sister in Christ remember this when the good Lord is making this Proclamation my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink I can just see the walls if you will I could just see the walls of the synagogue begin to crumble I could see all the Pharisees and Sadducees lined up shaking their head saying well we couldn't have missed it we're a Pharisee we're a sadducee he is two blocks from Peter's house when he finishes the proclamation Peter is walking up to him as they walk back to his house Lord do you know what you're saying you're saying that if they don't eat of you they're going to think you're cannibalistic he doesn't change his mind he doesn't say you know what Peter let me go back in and fix it because we're just going to lose votes as if I came running for an office the fact of the matter is he tells Peter again my flesh is True Food my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you're not in me you don't have eternal life that's it Peter no if no hands no butts you're either in or you're out make your call man do you know the next line are those people who left him do you know what line that is in scripture John 66 six there are 40,000 faiths in the world today and only us have the body blood soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ there were only two faiths when Christ started the church you were either Jew or you were a Catholic that's it Catholic means according to the whole it becomes so popular it becomes Universal but if you do these four things you break bread you sing Psalms you listen to the apostles and you gather then you are no longer Jew but you are Catholic almost 1200 years there are only two guys in the game Martin Luther shows up a former priest marries a former nun and all of a sudden we got 40,000 people to deal with now you think the good Lord sat on his hands for over a thousand years and said well they'll figure it out it's close enough give or take if there was a problem in the church he would have addressed it especially the teaching about his body blood soul and Divinity my brother and sister in Christ remember everything in the Old Testament is a foretelling of what is to come the Old Testament is never greater than the O than the new the Old Testament is just a foretelling the New Testament is a fulfilling think about what people are telling you when they say the Eucharist isn't true my brother and sister in Christ in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were drawn to a tree and they took from it in the New Testament the good Lord and his his mother were drawn to a tree and they put his he put his hands to it and they nailed him to it in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were drawn to sin and brought sin into the world the good Lord Is In The Garden of Gethsemane and guess what at the end of the day he brought salvation to the world Adam and Eve came with no sin and left with sin the Blessed Mother and the good Lord came with no sin and left with salvation of the world the New Testament is always greater why is it that when Jonah and yes he's a real person any proper name is no longer parabolic Adam and Eve don't get there name till after they're kicked out of the garden which means names are important that's why you and I have names as a result of it Jonah descends he's in a whale he dies in the whale read the story it's a funeral durge the people believe that that's a great sign and what does the good Lord said that might have been that way in the Old Testament but in the New Testament there's a greater sign than Jonah I will descend to the dead for three days but with it I will bring Salvation all Jonah did was Return to Nineveh Noah only saved eight people the good Lord saying I've come to save the world my brother and sister in Christ the old the New Testament is always better so if the Old Testament had blessed bread from heaven when Mana fell they believe it fell from the altar of God and they believe that was done by St Michael and it was blessed bread are you telling me now 2,000 years later he got it wrong that everything else the New Testament is far greater than the old except with the most important thing of all the bread of life that the Jews had it right that it's blessed bread and all we gets a relic so now the Old Testament is more important than the new no way no how you just made Christ to be a liar there are some 20 words in Greek and Aramaic that said Theory conjecture understanding or Relic he uses none of them my flesh is my brother and sister in Christ I'm The God Who is and who was and who is to come he's not coming he never was there's no one to wait for it's the same is it's a stin my brothers and sisters in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later will people recognize that you believe in the Eucharist on how you receive it when you come to receiving will everybody else that's watching say now that was a disciple of Jesus Christ he believes that the Eucharist is true we sit at home because of a pandemic I don't care what you believe about it but what it doesn't change the fact is you can't receive the Eucharist at home so at some point you and I are going to have to step out somewhere along the way you and I going to have the courage to receive the body blood soul and Divinity you got to suck it up it is awfully frustrating to be part of a church that at times we Proclaim it to be one thing and when the pandemic comes we start acquiescing you either believe in him or you do not you either made the gates to heaven or you did not will people recognize that you are a good Catholic because the way you make the sign of the cross before you eat in public will they recognize you as a good Catholic when they say lead us in prayer and you're saying oh they're getting a hell married today and you pray it clearly in this distinctly will you make sure and defend her honor and her veil and stop blaming the church for not teaching you it's your soul at stake stop blaming the priest in the church you learn as much as you care to learn and at the end of day she's true I've already been or studied almost everything out there I'm telling you she is true we have been unfortunate and how we've handled and spoke with y'all it has been unfortunate that we haven't educated you in the manner that we should but at the end of the day we can only do so much at some point Point it'll be your soul that will stand before him you'll be there naked and alone will Christ reckon you as a child of his or he will not what is going to be your excuse well you don't understand but I think I do no you don't you see it wasn't my fault well it could have been mine my brother and sister in Christ it's Paramount that you receive the Eucharist don't you walk out them doors and leave these gates with the same worry that you walked in here with have you forgotten that this is his house have you forgotten that he is God and we are not stop being hypocritical he is either God or he's not if you came here and you bit your knee and you received him then that's who it is he is The Great I Am All Things come through him not a hair on your head gets touched nothing happens in your world until he ordains it and if he wants it then you suck it up and run with it because at the end of the day that's what he wants you and I will never get better at being a good catholic christian unless we are pushed we become come like a days ago we start staying at home it becomes too easy the Eucharist is everything if you leave here with that same worry that is the hype of being hypocritical people need to know that you're a follower of Jesus Christ that you believe in the church that you believe his mother was ever virgin and that it begins and ends with the start of the Apostles my brother and sister Christ I leave you with this John Paul II was spot on every problem in the world every problem in the world world the solution to it is the host amen amen no y'all can do better than that amen there you go father son holy spirit amen<\p>

price price as in a price to pay willingly it's the 1880s and you know in the 1880s 65 to 85% of the people lived in the rural country they lived in the countryside that's amazing that some 65% of the people did the 1880s but for Richard man it's just what he wants he he prefers to live in that way as a result of such he's doing okay you need to understand Richard though Richard is the manager of the train depot and he will tell you that he just loves what he does to a point he will tell you there's anything I can do I will do can do does do jack of all trades master none but that boy got a motor and he can flat run as a result of it m comes in off the train his job is to collect it and distribute it his job is to collect and distribute the mail from the towns and The Villages and get it on the train he's responsible if you will for telegrams and the telegraph incoming and outgoing not to mention he's got the cargo and the boxes that come on the trains not to mention he's also responsible for lining up the tracks for the train to go on destinations times Etc one day Richard's taking care of business and all of a sudden he sees this one box all it's got on it is an address to a store being that he's the mailman in Persona if you will he sees the box he looks at it saysi just make this doing one of my drops he goes through the town he all of a sudden he comes to the store and he tells the store look this box is for you he said no it's not for me it's just a scam he said well it's he's got your name on it's got the store's name on it anyway and I mean it's got your address he said Richard look he opens a box and it's it's glasses a lot of sunglasses for the most part he said I didn't order these they come from Chicago they're going to tell you that you can sell them for $12 each uh 14 and you can and sell and you can keep the 12 you send two to me and he says it's a scam he said I'm not even doing it he said it's just a scam he said well let me ask you is it possible that we could sell these sunglasses for 14 and still pay them to 12 he said well yeah there's a market for it he said uh he says it's glasses it's watches it it's it's a little bit everything he said well can I sell the watches for the same thing and he said yeah you can he said because people are hooked on time different time zones we travel in different states people are working longer during the day he said I'm telling you you can but Richard there's a price to pay and he said well I know it's going to be the difference no no no he said no no I'm not talking economics he said I'm talking you still got a train depot you still got packages you still got mail you still got the Telegraph and now you're going to add this to your plate I'm going to tell you you're not going to be home a lot so Richard takes the back he said well can I take it and start he said it's yours he goes back and he starts thinking about how could I distribute these glasses and these watches and he starts taking sheets of paper Richard does and he starts making like pictures of them and then he starts stapling them together then he puts it together in the mail since he's got to distribute the mail and then when he's Distributing he start his own little mini catalog as a result of it the numbers are coming in people are buying glasses people are buying watches to a point that he needs to get a partner so Richard goes to a guy named ala and he tells ala he said look I can't fix him but if you don't fix them I'm only going to have a one-time sale Alvin says okay I'll fix them he said tell what we'll just split the profits he said good deal first 2 3 months $5,000 profit and then Here Comes the bad news the people in Chicago are saying well we're going to continue to sell it but you really need to come here so he turns to his Budd Richard does and said here's the bad news the price we going to pay to keep doing this because there's only so many Su glasses and and watches we can sell in this County we need to move to Chicago Alva said man I'm not moving to Chicago I'm a country person I love where I'm at I'm not moving he said if we don't move this job is over they move they do the same concept they start their own catalog you and I growing up used to get it every Christmas he told Alva we name the company after you robu he said no only if we name it after you Richard Richard Sears Sears and robu because somebody was willing to pay the price that is exactly that gospel the good Lord is asking his apostles are you willing to pay the price more than you think that you're going to have to love me more than your mom and dad you're going to have to love me more than your children and your children are going to have to love me more than they love you now that's the price you're going to have to pay now stop you're a first century Jew Matthew is a Jew he is a tax collector Matthew's other name sometimes is Levi he's very articulate he is very Jewish now remember as a tax collector remember this my brother and sister Christ the Jews don't like you CU you're taking money from them the Gentiles don't like you because you're a Jew the Romans don't like you because you're taking money but you're adding a tax on top of the money that's your own tax and therefore you're the probably the wealthiest guy in the whole County and as a result of such this is why Matthew is speaking Matthew speaks to the Jews a 100 times in his gospel he talks about what it's like to be in the Old Testament so he's going to assume as a Jew that you understand how he writes he breaks his gospel up into five categories one is the call of the Apostles that's what this is when he calls the apostles do you ever notice that he only calls Peter first every time in Judas always last do you notice that Peter is the only one that had a name changed kayi in Aramaic Boulder massive remember he speaks to them in Aramaic not Greek which would have meant Little Boulder that's why he called him kayi that's why John refers to him as kayi my brothers Christ Peter is the first to anoint Peter's the first to hold a counsel Peter is the first to baptize Peter's the first to do a miracle he's the first to defend him that's why he is protos and dominant now he has called the apostles together now remember you're a good Jew you know scripture like the back of your hands you know all about Ezekiel you know all about Daniel you know Elisha Elijah you know about Daniel you know all the prophets you know the Miracles that they did remember the Old Testament Hebrew scripture is structured in a way where it's always pointing to the coming of Christ they all do the same types of Miracles the blind sea the lame walk the dead rise until one guy comes along and then he says your sins are forgiven and then he makes reference to himself I am my brother and sister in Christ he has called the apostles together and you know what's amazing as a Jew you know the Commandments equally well but you know what you know better than the Commandments you know the shama that's the Ten Commandments in our vernacular the shama would be tied to your wrist in a little box it'd be a little miniature scroll and on the scroll it would say the Lord our God is one we will love him with our whole heart a whole mind and our whole soul that's the first commandment so for him to say that you must love me more than your parents more than your children and your children should love me more than they love you he is saying I am my brother and sister in Christ remember it back in the story in Matthew remember that one of the first Miracles there was a a handicapped person was paralyzed they lowered him down in the house that was Peter's house by tradition and all of a sudden the good Lord comes out and says your sins are forgiven get up and walk all the Pharisees are sitting on the inside of the house are saying well how can he forgive sins Only God Can and the good Lord says well so that you will know I am pick up your mat and walk in other words he's telling the disciples I'm the one you've waited for I'm the Messiah as a result of such Your Love must be greater than that and as a result of such you got to be willing to pay the price whatever the price may be now my brother sister Christ go back in scripture everybody that followed Christ pays the price you know the god longus the one that stabbed Our Savior whether that is his name or not is irrelevant longinus means speartip but for the sake of argument he Spears the good Lord the good Lord is already dead but yet he continues to believe which means he's Divine that's why I kiss the altar that's where his wound would have been as a result of such he makes a statement and says these seven or eight words truly this man was the son of God talk about p a price for making a proclamation you are a centurion you are the head of a legion you are pilate's right-hand man and you just made a proclamation truly this man is a Son of God which said pilate you were not only wrong you're dead wrong you Jews that put this up y'all lied and you are now dead wrong my brother sister in Christ he doesn't have employment he's not going to have a pension plan or a health plan you know what happens to him he finally Ates the Blessed Mother and according to tradition brings her the spear tip it's about a foot and a half long he brings it to her he leaves what he's doing he goes to a country called capid doia for two years he lives off of whatever he can get preaching the gospel he is one of the most dominant preachers in his whole area in capadia which is turkey and you know what's amazing pilate sends centurions to go grab him and kill him and according to tradition when they get get to capid doia they have nowhere to stay so they stay there not recognizing him he feeds them takes care of them and houses them and then has to tell him I am longus as a result they behead him and they take the head all the way back to pilate a price he paid for making seven short words willingly he paid the price what if you're Joseph of arthea I mean man do you know Joseph was a fison do you know he was part of the hedrin man nothing happens until that group heads it up until they say it's okay for him to come out and put Christ in his tomb you know what you just told the rest of the Pharisees the the whole Sanhedrin man y'all were wrong I told y'all not to do anything when he put him in his tomb and they closed that rock that was the beginning of the end of Joseph arthea do you know according to tradition Caesar got wind of it pilot puts him on a boat to go all the way to Rome so that you can be held in court oh I bet that's going to be a fair trial the boat sinks another boat's got to pick him up he ends up going to another country and starting a monastery and dies there he has to leave his country and his family in order to defend the statement and the price that he pays is today that Monastery is still alive and well my brother and sister Christ did you know that when Peter was martyred on that proverbial day did you know his wife according to tradition was martyred as well remember brother Christ according to the tradition when they were about to take Peter and turn him upside down he looked at his wife for she was about to be martyred because she's the wife of Peter that's the price she will pay he says remember the Lord and go with God my brothers and sisters in Christ there is a price to pay to being a follower of Jesus Christ there's going to be there is going to be a price to pay to be a follower of Jesus Christ and to be part of holy mother Church you and I are not getting out of this game free if they martyred our Our Savior and all of the Apostles even the gospel writers even the gospel of Mark they drug him to the street until he was dead even the Gospel of Luke he was eventually hunged you and I really think that we're going to end up just going through life like it's a parade route you and I are going to have to pay the price of being Catholic and being true to Mother Church in our teachings how many times you need to start proving yourself on Small Things how many times when people say let us pray that you make sure the sign of the cross is made clearly and distinctly how many times when they say let us pray you jump in and say I will pray how many times when you jump in and pray you give him the hell Mary oh wait a minute you don't want to offend him I mean because now you're going to have to defend her honor and her veil that's the price you pay are you going to say well I just didn't want to hurt their feelings but I have no problem disparaging hers will you not make the sign of the cross because you don't want to hurt their feelings but you have no problem hurting his my brother and sister in Christ there's a price to be prayed for being Catholic in the world today and it's going to be coming sooner than you and I think the fact of the matter is how good are you at sticking to your guns my brothers Christ will you continue to go to the sacrament of confession the saic confession is scriptural it was in existence before the coming of Christ l 5 and 6 Hebrews 5 in the New Testament I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one no one should take it upon themselves but how many times do I hear people say oh I just go to the good lord well so did I back in the day I mean heck I'm a pretty good guy I haven't killed anybody more importantly it wasn't my fault it was y'all's it's easy to get forgiveness when you're judge jury and executioner my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to go to the sacraments when everybody else tells you not to are you willing to go to mass in an arena when everybody else says I'd rather watch it on television that way I can watch it while I'm having coffee I can have a snack I can watch it in my pajamas the Messiah of the world comes at Mass Heaven and Earth touch and you're telling me it's more important that I watch it instead of be present my brother in Christ that's fallen and be careful we don't fall much more I do understand there are precautions in the wind and I get that but at some point the Eucharist is the Eucharist and in that little host all the solutions of the world will reside John Paul II my brother in Christ I'm asking you to stick to your guns I'm asking you to do what is necessary to make sure that you finish and pay the price when that person calls you and it's so you're so tired of talking to him because you end up in the same Circle I mean you start one hour and the next hour you're in the same spot will you take the phone call instead of watching the television or making an excuse why you can't are you a good catholic christian or are you not would Christ walk away would do Apostles have walked away are you willing when somebody says pray for me when you say the words I will pray for you are you being truthful or you just giving them rhetoric my brothers Christ when you tell somebody you're going to pray for them you must pray for them and especially for those that do not like you Matthew would tell you it's it's easy to pray for other Tax Collectors for I was one the question you got to ask yourself will you pray for those that have this stain by the mere mention of your name causes them to spit will you pray for them because if you're not no one is I'm asking you to persevere I'm asking you to dig in and dig hard because at the end of the day if you get to the gate and you do not recognize anybody on the other side of that gate you're at the wrong gate you're headed to hell because they're disembodied they look like animals if you have no friends in heaven you're at the wrong gate and there's nothing I can do for you if you and I do not learn to persevere and pay the price I promise you we will pay even a greater price my brothers and sister in Christ you make that sign of the cross you pray the hell Mary if you don't know how to defend the church then go learn it stop blaming mother Church you do what you got to do ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ you got to do what you got to do it's a priority we got one job one job only is make it to Heaven I do not care about your profession your job your Camp your income your health plan I don't care the only thing that matters is did you or did you not make Heaven yes or no pay the price I leave you with this my brother and sister in Christ there will be there will be a price to speaking the truth there will be a price to speak the truth but there will be even a greater price not to act on it pay it forward pay it in advance pay it fully pay the price amen amen no no I'm work way too hard for that one amen there you go the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

weeds are wheat weeds are wheat my brother in Christ it's about the 1950s 1960s his name is Gerard and Gerard is a can do does do type of guy he is New York City in and out he loves the big city man he if you were to ask him he will tell you New York is in the very essence in the marrow of his bones he will tell you that he will do anything to stay in the big city he actually will tell you that not only I want to be part of the big city I want to be part of the big tent and you might assume that he's talking about movies television radios and he probably is to an extent but his desire is that he wants to be the best trapas artist the world has ever seen he actually wants to be in the circus he wants to be in the main tent as a matter of fact brother Christ he's so Dev out about wanting to do this he's decided to pick up his family and move all the way to Australia he gets to Australia and he's getting his opportunity but let's be honest you don't start at the big tent right away so he's doing little odd andin jobs he does okay with it but at the end of the day there's other issues there's a lack of money so he's decided I'm going to do whatever I got to do he starts working in the docks at night that way he can subsidize his income and his family and then all of a sudden Manny gets a pay check and he's going home one night five gentlemen catch him going home and say they want his money he tells him not only no but heck no ah I see where's your mind Brothers and Sisters in Christ as a result of it man it turns into a brewhaha it turns into a melee they beat him Gerard like there's no tomorrow when it was all said and done five on one not only did they break his eyes to such an extent that it was coming loose of the socket they broke his nose so bad that if it wouldn't have been for the skin I'm not sure they could have located it they gave him a concussion they knocked every tooth out of his head they broke both his arms they broke both his legs my brother and sister in Christ when the police showed up they called the morg they didn't call the hospital they actually put him in the hearse and the guy that put him in says I think I heard something he goes back and he's got a little voice left in him they immediately get him to the hospital one year not a weekend not a couple of days God forbid outpatient you're in out in 24 hours and that's not enough one year he's in the hospital they finally put him back together he is so hideous looking that they actually make a movie about him later in life called the man with no face the man with no face big hint big hint as a result of it man he's decided that as Catholic as he is he's going to go to church they probably think Satan would have entered when they seem he sits in a Pew contemplating whether it's time to take his life tell me the good Lord doesn't work as he works a priest came in wearing his clerics easy to recognize he sees this man crying in a Pew and when he sees his face he tries not to make that sudden jerk back he sits next to him and says talk to me he said there's nothing to say he said I think I'm going to take my life he said you're getting confused with the weeds and the wheat there's work for you and we can make it happen he asked him what can be done about it he said give me a chance to give one doctor just to help you with your look and one dentist if what I've done is failure then you can romp in the weeds all you want fair enough he finds the surgeon he finds the dentist puts him back together again he starts to work again at the circus and then finds out that man you know he's a pretty handsome guy pretty soon he starts getting bit parts and this and that next thing you know my brother's Christ he's even producing movies like Heartbreak Ridge The Passion of Christ he's the star and Lethal Weapon and you know him as Mel Gerard Gibson all because somebody took the time to explain the difference between the weeds and the wheat that is that gospel my brother and sister in Christ how well did you listen did you hear our savior say you have ears but you do not hear or worse you do not listen you have eyes but you do not see gross is your heart now stop you're a first century Jew and now you understand the dynamic you understand that Isaiah is the prophet and for this got to quote Isaiah he is either equal to or better than because everybody in the New Testament has to be greater than that of the old the good Lord does everything Isaiah does the blind see the lame walk the dead rise he prophesizes and he also forgives sins so for him to do that you and I as a Jew would have taken a step back saying man he's quoting Isaiah now remember brother and sister in Christ you need to remember this too he said for those who hear and listen And for those who see he said you will grow 30-fold 60-fold 100 fold if you got tenfold in Scripture that was miraculous if you were Sevenfold in Scripture that was called profound so for you to get 30 60 or 100 tells you how profound it is if you listen and you see my brother s Christ I need you to understand that there were four different options first it fell on a path next it fell on Rocky ground then you found out that it fell in the thorns and then fell brother and sister in Christ that it fell on rich soil one out of four understand understand it nothing's changed today only one out of four 25% of the people are following through with our faith look around you it's too hot it's too this it's to that I will remind you that Christ his masses once he started proclaiming the mass and the apostles we either played on a mountain side in a cemet below ground or sneaking between people's houses My Brother and Sisters in Christ you need to understand that one out of 25 how is it my brothers and sisters in Christ every funeral I go to every funeral whether I'm a priest or not whether I'm participating or not everybody's in a better spot everybody I had a dear friend I went I was a priest as I am now I wasn't a speaker another Reverend was speaking I went because I knew my BR my brother that has passed is in trouble and I needed to offer a Mass for him the Reverend stood up and said he's in a better spot I remember thinking I'm in the wrong room there is no way my boy made it I know him I know his ways and the way he went about the world there in lies the point point my brother and sister Christ go back in scripture while you're going back in scripture ask yourself this one question where do you sit are you on the path because it's going to sprout just because it's on good decent ground but it's very shallow are you going to be in the middle of the Thorns where the world will choke it off the world will choke it off with money and power and Prestige and anxiety maybe Brothers and Sisters in Christ it's on Rocky song that it's not going to last any longer than the day the first time frustration comes to your life the first time somebody pushes back you're going to fold your ttin and go away are you have you taken the time to put forth the effort to make sure that you now have planted your seeds among the wheat 75% are planting theirs among the weeds that's the problem now look go back in scripture if there's ever one time where the good Lord is trying to get people to think think go back to the story remember when the woman is being caught in prostitution you ever noticed the man's never caught I mean he was involved I'm just saying you know what it's like being a priest you're like Switzerland you're not on either side but it sure is good just to throw rocks just cuz you can my brother and sister in Christ in that story the scribes and Pharisees come up and says we found a woman and prostitution now what you're not being told is where this argument takes place within earshot of a centurion near the Roman Roman court and why is that important because nobody can kill anybody until that Centurion gets it blessed by the authorities so the the the Pharisee or the sadducee if you will the Scribe is saying Lord according to Jewish faith we are to Stone her what do you say in other words you say Stone him and the centurion's going to have an argument you say not the stoner then we're going to have an argument in other words nobody is stopping to think in other words they're trying to pull you into the weeds so the good Lord begins to talk to him and then as he's talking to him he generally gets down on his knees and he starts to take his finger and I don't believe he wrote the sin into the the ground because then he would look at you and then he would look at me and then he'd make the symbol of the sin that way you and I knew exactly who he was talking to and some just stood there he stands back up and he says well man you without the first sin throw the first stone nobody's moving nobody's decided what they're going to do the good Lord's trying to pull them to the wheat and get out of the weeds they're not listening and he gets back down on his knees again and begins to write as they begin to drop their rocks and walk away and pretty soon nobody is there to make the argument do you know why he waited till everybody left because according to the Jewish law and to the Roman law two or three are gathered in my name you got to have two witnesses to Stone anybody or to have any argument now you have no argument you have no Witnesses so the Centurion can go about his business and you can go back and study the law that you profanely gave to me he's trying to get people out of the weeds and into the wheat well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later what path are you on Brothers and Sisters in Christ let me ask you are you in the weeds or the wheat or you on the one PL path that you planted your soil and you planted that seed deep let me ask you if we're only talking about our faith as Catholic Christians for you to be able to say you're on the right path and that it was planted in deep soil means you know the Ten Commandments first and foremost in order that's why he wrote them that way that's why the first three do with th relationship with Christ and the next six if you will the next seven deal with our relationship ship with one another and that there there's only one commandment that's contingent and that's the fourth honor your mother and father and you'll live a long life in the land that I've given you dishonor them and your life will be tumultuous if you do not know the Commandments and the words of St John if you say you love me but do not know my Commandments his words not mine you're a liar so if you're on the right path then you already know the Commandments if you're on the right path can you defend the honor of the Blessed Mother as being ever virgin how long have you been Catholic can you defend the concept of purgatory or confession or the seven sacraments or that you need to have a covenantal relationship with Jesus Christ far greater than a personal relationship Christ is also Divine we need to consume the Eucharist so because we were made in His image therefore our relationship needs to be covenantal are you willing to defend the faith how much have you studied our faith do you only study it when I come up here and yell and scream for every 10 minutes My Brother and Sisters in Christ it's a way of life what about it work are you willing to make sure that you do what you do to plant The Good Seed of Jesus Christ when you go to work and everybody else has lost their minds when everybody else only calls your name when they need help your phone is the only phone that rings when go south are you willing to pick up that phone Simon and answer it because you want to make sure that the seeds were planted were that of Jesus Christ and that the seeds will produce wheat when you get that email or that text message or you get home are you going to make sure that you cultivate the wheat and not the weeds my brother's Christ every day you should I should take counsel and ask ourselves very simply did I produce more weeds or more wheat did I bring people that were lost to the wheat or did I leave them in the weeds or did I plant weeds around them in regards to our faith and not being able to explain it or take time to study it I'm only relying on just on Sundays to get my fill we spend all week putting knots in our rope and we think one hour on Sunday is going to remove it my brother and sister in Christ that's what Paul was talking about that's what Isaiah's come that's why the good Lord says man are you listening with your ears are you watching me with your eyes if I were to watch you all day whether you say nothing or not if I watched you would at the end of the day I say now that was a disciple of Jesus Christ would I walk up to you at the end of the day and say my child God bless you for being my disciple on this Earth I will welcome you home to the table of all of my children or will I say depart from me for I don't know you yeah you spelled my name and you judged me you condemned my priest you cursed them in darkness and I will shed light I got on emails and Facebook and I gave people the business my brother in Christ every action that you and I take every thought we're going to stand before him and be accountable every thought every action it's either going to produce wheat or it will be thrown into the weeds my brothers and sisters in Christ I leave you with this at the end of the day this is what you and I believe as Catholic Christians and as the Jew descendants of the Jews Jeremiah made the argument that the good Lord will either write your name in the Earth or he'll either write it in the book of life that's why he's bending down to write there your sins he's telling them that if you keep going I'm not only going to write your sin in the earth I'm going to write your name that's why we don't know the name of the rich man and Lazarus when that incident took place because his name's not in the book of life it was written in the earth ask yourself each and every day was your name written on the earth or was it written in the Book of Life was it a wheat that you produced or was it that you produced wheat amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

weed as in singular weed it's the 1920s 1930s he's been laying in a field all day he has been laying in a field of weeds all day just waiting for that opportunity he knows the little girl is going to come out to play It's the grandmother's house she loves to be outside I'm just going to sit and wait hours go by he knows that she's going to come out you see he's just got to wait you see you got to understand and first of all the girl is absolutely adorable she's about yay tall pigtails but kind of brownish hair to her shoulder she has these freckles across her face very light skin and she's always loves the outdoors he knows this you see because he's her dad he's really trying to kidnap her is what he's trying to do man he's waited so long he's become tired exasperated he decides to sit up against a tree and he starts to look around the field and he says man it's just nothing but weeds how aopo my whole life is one big weed it's been nothing but weeds he started thinking back that his dad died when he was five he gets to high school and he doesn't quite have the grades it would help if you show up but Harlen has decided no I'm not as a result man he doesn't get through high school he's got to come back later and finish he's decided deed that man he's got to do something with his life so he decides that I'm going to join the Army he gets there turns into a little bit of a brew haa with a couple of soldiers he gets Le he gets he goes awall he's got to leave man he left he never even became a private as a result he said man I got to find some other work he decides that man I'll go I tell you what I'll do I'll drive a street car goes to work for a street car gets into an argument with some of the passengers another brewhaha in sores as a result of it he said man I got to find me another job so he leaves he says man I'm going be a farmer that's what I'm I'm going to be a farmer Harlin has no green thumb therefore there is no Farm therefore he has lost even more money as a result of it he's decided that you know I I just need to do something you know he actually finished high school go studies to be an attorney takes the bar passes in his first trial he does such a magnificent job until the very end when his client and him getting an argument and a fight ensues in the courtroom he's disbarred as a result of it man he can't even make ends meat he tried to sell tires he tried to sell insurance he tried to sell cars and now he's sitting in a field hoping against hope that he could see his daughter he came home one day his wife had taken sold all their goods moved back home to a grandmother that's her house that's why he's out there he just wants to see his daughter he's finally decided you know there's only one thing in my life I've Done Right Out of all the weeds in my life the one thing I did as I married the right woman albeit we're estranged and I have a beautiful daughter man next thing you know he's decided I'm just going to go go back to work he tries little in and odd jobs man he built a this a pressure cooker that was absolutely well beyond his years man he started going back to try and sell cars and next thing you know he meets his friend and his friend tells him look go back back to your wife do what you got to do you know you harling you only do one thing good man besides fight that's obvious he says the only thing you do is run a gas station and the only thing in that gas station that's worth anything is the chicken that you make yeah my brothers and sisters in Christ it's when he decides to go back and do what he does best notwithstanding all the weeds you and I come to know Harland as the colonel because he gets back with his wife and they BR another child in the world and today you and I have KFC because he recognized that he needed to get the weeds out of his life that is exactly that gospel this is why the good Lord tells them no don't pull the weeds let me do it you take care of yourself I will handle the weeds of the world now stop you're a first century Jew please remember this whenever the good Lord talks parabolically he's speaking in in Parables look for the twist something that just doesn't seem logical two weekends ago a farmer went and got seed he threw seed Upon A pathway he threw seed in the Rocks he threw seed in the thorns and he finally planted on good soil what farmer spends 75% of his Goods on ground that he know it will not grow there's the twist there's where the good Lord wants you to look at it it's totally contrary to what you think instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing are they in the Thorns are they are the rocks are they on the beaten path the only thing you need to worry about is where are you relative to him and did you realize only 25% of the people get it look around my brother and sister in Christ the parable that he's now speaking to you with you mean to tell me that you hear a story that overnight 24 hours weeds are now growing and when you come out what farmer wouldn't already start pulling the weeds granted it's diabolical that the weeds have shown up overnight but why wouldn't he allow you to pull it cuz he's trying to tell you I need you to start with the small weed the one that's in you and not in everybody else I need you to start small so that you will know where I want you to be so that you will be in the 25% that I'm after because 75% are falling away my brother and sister in Christ when he talks about Le do you know to a Jew when you speak of Leaven to raise bread if you will they use that to describe the Pharisees and Sadducees who walk around in pump and Circumstance and he's saying no don't be that way but because I used Levan this is how it will be when you decide to take care of that one weed it will start to grow within you and then it'll be contagious between you and your spouse then you and your spouse and your children and then your family and then your neighbors you have to start all there is where he's driving home the point my brother and sister in Christ when he said a mustard seed and that it would grow into a beautiful Bush have you seen a mustard plant have you seen the shrub at its height it's a 10- foot tumble weed instead of saying the Cedars of Lebanon or the massive Oak he said if you start small I promise you no matter what you come out like if you follow me people will come to you to find me even in a mustard plant a mustard shrub a tree my brothers and sisters in Christ therein lies the point he's asking you to focus just on the weed that grows within you and I so that we can prune it so that we can grow closer to him look go back in Scripture it doesn't take long for weeds to grow within six days of creation Lucifer has already been planted and is already removing Adam and Eve man and woman my brother and sister in Christ Noah is not up the mountain excuse me Moses is not up the mountain 40 days and they're already building a golden calf in order to get that calf built somebody had to start early they didn't wait till the 40th Day so somewhere less than half the days weeds grew Judas turns Our Savior over and in 24 hours he goes from the Apostle Judas blind sea lame walk dead Rock to the son of predition and it would have been better You' never been born that's how dominant one weed can be well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother sister in Christ you and I need to look inwardly and ask ourselves what is the one thing we need to stop doing and what is the one thing we need to start doing what is the one thing that we need to stop doing how much time do you and I spend on our cell phones emails text messages if you and I are on the phone texting talking or whatever more than we are praying that's disordered that has to stop that's one thing that has to stop if you're on the computer not out I'm talking about outside of work more than you are reading or studying about Christ or reading a spiritual book it's disordered if you spend more time talking about others than Jesus Christ that is the height of disorder my brother and sister in Christ the good Lord is telling you to stop worrying about the world and worrying about you you will not change the world by opinion you will only change the world by action my brothers Christ that is Mother Teresa that is the point of the Gospel he's saying there's got to be one thing that you need to stop doing is it that one extra drink oh but father I can stop whenever I want then please do so because you're killing everybody else man is it pornography is it the computer you and I both know that once you get into that computer you're there for hours man look at Facebook if you spend more time responding to Facebook than you do in prayer on your knees that is disordered it must stop there is one thing that you and I need to start doing is walking away from conversations that do not compel us to bring us closer to Christ how safe how safe is somebody else's name on your lips that's the bottom line I don't want to hear well father I was just saying good what you just said was a lie it was imprudent it's bearing false witness because whether it's true or not nobody told you to be the town crier so once you put it on the Internet or the email or you hit sin congratulations you've done bought into the sin of commandment 8 now you got to go to confession before you come to receive this is how easy the evil one gets in our game he starts intertwining our thoughts and getting us to react because we are passionate because we are people with appetites in St Thomas's words so what I'm asking you to do is stop and think before you respond before you act why because that's where the evil one resides he resides at the very end so when someone starts speaking about somebody else would it be best for you and I to say at least man let's pray for them or better yet just walk away my brother and sister in Christ what are the one things that you and I need to stop doing is how much time do we spend in front of the television could we not spend a little more time just in prayer to go by the Adoration Chapel to sit before him my brother and sister in Christ to help a family member that's in need to get on a phone to go see a loved one you haven't talked to to go by the nursing home to do what it takes to make help a family out my brother and sister in Christ the problem of the world today is we are narcissistic if it's not the way I want it when I want it and how I want it then I will not participate then so be it and when you stand before him you tell him because I'm not going to take the hit for the sin I am not going to stand up and say Lord I'm sorry I shrunk in front of you I know I stutter and stammer but during the homy for some reason for the last 10 years it's never been the case and you want me to cow toow and say that I'm not going to say it but at the end of the day gossip and slander destroy our church it destroys our families it destroys our fabric that is why our church is in trouble trouble that is why our families are in trouble that's why we're in trouble my brother and sister in Christ you and I always have one thing that we need to start doing and one thing that we need to stop doing I'm asking you to make it start today I don't care if you get up and you fall down get back up I don't care if you get up and you fall down a 100 times get up I don't care if you want to have a pity party great step on the side kick your dog do what you got to do now get in the game because you came in on this day and you're going home on this day everything in between is what we will be judged on my Mercy doesn't want it but Justice demands it stop looking at Christ as a big marshmallow in the words of one of our great Saints she said his Mercy stops on the day of your passing and then only judgment is left you have up until this day to make amends go to confession do the best you can and just love one another my brothers and sisters in Christ I leave you with this at the end of the day there is no greater gift than the Eucharist outside of the Eucharist it's it's confession I'm telling you find a priest and go pick one thing in your life that you need to stop doing and one thing in your life you need to start doing amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

fence fence as in standing or walking the fence in other words not taking a decision not making up your mind being on the fence it's the 1980s his name is Daryl Daryl is a I think it's Sinex New York he is a New York boy he's a Catholic New York boy now he's not the poster child for Catholicism but he is today back in the day he'll tell you man he said said life was kind of ups and downs more for me and my family I had three three family members or three sisters and brothers and as a result he said man my mom and dad my dad was a bodybuilder my mom she was the quintessential mom he'll tell you that man no sooner they got started they got divorced and next thing you know man he's moving to Miami with his other siblings and his mom he'll tell you he said man grammar school was okay but High School there you got to be identified a certain way and he said as much as I like doing plays I loved boxing even better in high school 27 and three he was that good he decided that he needed the discipline of boxing because it kept him out of trouble per se kept him off of drugs and alcohol but when he did the play called the serpent in high school he said man there was just something about it and he said but it didn't have the discipline well man next thing you know he's out of high school and man you're good at boxing and then he said said I kept going and he said then I met one guy who hit me so hard he actually gave me a concussion he said man I'm one step ahead of the law and everything that happens he said I'm losing it my sister comes to me gives me $400 and said get to New York I'm going to introduce you to this one guy who does a little playwriting maybe you can get on a little stage a little screen do it makes him ends meet he goes to New York City but you don't make money right away he's in a show called The Diner which did okay and then he decided Well man maybe I should try something else and he's still just one step ahead of the law finally his sister contacts me and says look you got to stop walking the fence you're either going to be an actor or you can go back to being a fighter but you're going to have to make up your decision you can't run both of these he said well I need the discipline of the fighting and the boxing she goes no what you need is the discipline to be a good actor because as soon as you ever got involved you would find out it's every bit as disciplined as the other life and man can I tell you he starts getting in movies bits and pieces here he did a movie called Once Upon a Time in Mexico I can see no one here saw it but that's okay from that he gets into another movie called nine and a half weeks from that one he gets in another one called Harley-Davidson in the marbor man he gets in another one called The Rain Maker then he's in another one called the iron man he's actually in the the little show that comes on called The Expendables with with Stallone you know what's amazing My Brother and Sisters in Christ is that you know Mickey roor but you'd have to actually see what he looks like and then you would recognizing for who he is you know today if you and I were to ask him what is the one thing that got you off the fence he would tell you it's my two dogs and my priest named father Petey to this day he is a devout Catholic talk about get off the fence that is exactly that gospel my brother sister in Christ four times in as many paragraphs the good Lord says the Kingdom of Heaven is like this my brother and sister in Christ three of the four are Parables now listen stop make sure you're a first century Jew you and I now know after being with Christ for three years that whenever he speaks parabolically there's always a Twist something that doesn't seem logical that's where he wants you to focus because that illogical point is what he wants you to focus on for example you're walking by a field you notice that they have a a treasure instead of just taking the treasure and continue on your way you decided to take it Go bury it go sell everything you have and hopefully by the field he said so you and I know something's not right well obviously the apostles didn't know either because that's why he gives a second Parable he said it's like a man who finds a precious Pearl he sells everything he has his home his clothing his food so he can buy the one Pearl so that he can buy a bigger home more clothing more food well you can't wear the Pearl you can't eat it and you better hope you sell it quickly that's what the good Lord is saying listen to what's happening my brother Jus Christ what the good Lord is saying is you can't steal Heaven you can't buy your way in so therefore when you find a treasure or a pearl and to make sure that the apostles understand that you can't steal it if you and I were there with Christ and we had all this knowledge of living here today he would say the Kingdom of Heaven is like a baseball field if you would like to steal second base you're going to have to take your foot off of first you and I will now understand that to get to second it takes Faith but you're going to have to act and you're going to have to walk out your comfort zone now the apostles must be understanding why because the next thing is the Kingdom of Heaven is like the angels and when they come they're going to separate the good from the bad they're not going to say lukewarm or all those who are walk in the fence I'm a part-time Catholic or I'm a Christian I worship God in the field and the Duck Blind the deer stand I worship him on the baseball field I commune with him he created nature so you would know he exists by its beauty but there is only one place where he is physically located therefore to keep holy my day and being that he's the only thing holy I need to be in front of him it's so profound that the apostles finally get it and he says you think the Scribe are important you think they have knowledge because they know the legal and they know words they know language he said you will be better than the scribes for the scribes only know the Old Testament but you and I are going to write the new you can't steal second with your foot on first you're going to have to get off the fence now look go back in scripture all of our best players or people that made a decision to get off the fence are never to be part of it they make have been on the other side but once they planted their flag and crossed over to Catholicism to Christianity man they that's where they stayed now for everyone that did that there is a Judas who says I'mma Walk the Line with Christ for three years three years you were considered an apostle the blind see the lame walk and the dead rise money gets into your craw and you simply can't get away from it in 48 hours hours you go from an apostle and ultimately one day you would have been St Judas to have been better you've never been born you're the son of predition what about Pilate is that not the greatest fence Walker of our day I mean here he is trying to patronize the Jews all the while keep Caesar happy so that I can stay in control so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull out a bowl and towel and wash my hands but brother Christ how many people still do that today today say oh man he's just washing his hands of it how many people today use the anal analogy man he just moves the decimal point that's where he is he's waiting for his 30 pieces of silver but I promise you for every one of those there's another one on the other side take Joseph of arthea do you think that he waited to the very last second to say I'd give up my tomb remember he's from the Sanhedrin he's a devout Jew one once he gave up his tomb he has forever planted his flag he said look I'm not walking the fence I may have been a Jew and will always remain a Jew but I now know him to be the Messiah two years later oh what I take it back within a year he has been called to Rome to justify giving up his tomb to the Messiah so much so according to tradition that when his sh ship sinks he actually goes to another country and starts a monastery still existing today that's what it takes to plant your flag and say I no longer I'm going to walk the fence my brother Christ long guus how much courage did it take when this crucifixion is going on you are paid by Rome your boss is the quintessential fence Walker for you to turn in the middle of the crucifixion and say truly that man was the son of God you you can take your 401k and put it on the side you can take all the P power and Prestige of being a follower and being the right-hand man a pilot what he said was I'm not going to walk the fence either he is or he is not and now that I believe two years later do you know that Rome sends Alle Legion after him and according to tradition they were looking for him in a city they actually sat down to eat with this man and as they started to eat and he was feeding all the different Souls soers one of them recognized him and said you're longinus and he said yes I am I'm the one you're looking for well we're going to pretend we didn't find you but no you're not because I'm not going to walk the fence I'm a Believer in Jesus Christ as I made my Proclamation they beheaded him and took his head back either to Rome or to pilate my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later you've got us you and I I need to stop walking that fence on the issues of holy mother Church you're either Catholic or you are not there are seven sacrements or there are not I've already been pretty much every Faith there is if not I have studied it so therefore if our argument is I believe in the sacraments father but confession I go directly to the big guy let's make sure we understand what we just said I don't care what it says in scripture in Leviticus that before the time of Christ there was confession confession Christ makes the statement I came to fulfill the law not change it so therefore I can't change confession did you know that in Leviticus you had to confess your sins publicly and based on the animal you bought for the sacrifice they could have pretty much dictated what your sin was when John the Baptist is in the Jordan he is baptizing them for the Forgiveness of sins how does Matthew know that if he's not listening to what's being said my brother and sister in Christ Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins and no one is to take it upon themselves but yet we got the unmitigated goal and our argument is well God is the only one that can forgive sins my brother sister in Christ that's not the question the question is does confession need to be said and it does it was that way in Leviticus it was in Hebrews 5 and in chapter 20 of John he'll tell you go out and heal them and forgive them of your sin sins my brother sister Christ I don't understand the argument if you and I die on the same day and the good Lord looks at you and says you know what you're right I should have said something 2,000 years ago what the heck come on in I've been hearing your sins you know what you're very forgiving of yourself but I digress I'm going to say wait a minute I've been following your rulebook so if you let him in you got to let me in but if he turns to you and says you knew better but you chose differently then you can walk the fence there in lies the point my brother and sister Christ how many times do you go to baptism and I hear people say well father you know I got to make sure that I can accept Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior before him baptized stop John the Baptist is baptized in the womb that's why the baby leaped at Mary's greeting when she walked in the house of Elizabeth first intercessory prayer in the New Testament not with standing if you go back to First Peter and he'll tell you that baptism is the new circumcision 8 days old when you were circumcised as as a Jew that was for the Rems of that original sin confirmation is when you stand up on your own two feet and confirm that I believe in Jesus Christ I believe in the teachings of his church I believe she was ever virgin I believe in what was proclaimed in the Apostles Creed that's why you stand up and make the proclam of what your parents said was true 15 or 20 years ago what I can't understand is how you can't understand it because now youve become the greatest fence Walker because you're saying well I'm not real sure but are you studying it well no I'm working at it well no no no did you study it because if you had then you wouldn't be walking backwards because when you stand before him and he ask you I noticed you never got confirmed well I was working on it well we're a little late now now because you're here so how am I supposed to assume that you're going to change your mind well you're changing your mind because you see me but you didn't think enough of me during your time you forget my brother and sister in Christ Mercy only lasts up until the day of your judgment once you and I pass there's no mercy it's only judgment Mercy takes place while you and I are alive because we have the ability to ask for it my brother and in Christ the sacraments of getting married in the church do you know why the good Lord wants you in front of his Tabernacle because at the wedding of canaa I stood there y'all don't even know the name of the couple 2,000 years later that's how important I be there so if you decide to get married on the beach on the balcony in the Mountaintop please understand yes God is omnipresent that is true but he's not physically present like he is here what if he's at the wedding to canaa but he's he's there as God another other words he's not physically present who's taking care of the wine who's filling the jars who's doing the blessing there in lies the point my brother and sister in Christ how many times do I hear people say you know if priest would marry we wouldn't have a pedophile issue wow how disordered is that my brother and sister in Christ I can tell you right now I love Mother church with my whole heart my whole mind and my whole soul and it hadn't been for his mother I wouldn't be here to speak to you you can only have one woman in your life you bring a family into this equation and I can promise you you'll never see your priest again because the demands are too great it is a gift it's a supernatural gift and that's why it takes father Howard and not so long to go through the go through the Seminary because it takes five or six years for you to make the adjustment that indeed were you called did you accept the calling are you willing to live the calling remember B Christ you either accept the church for who she is or you walk the fence how many times in your life are you walking the fence about what to do with someone in your family how many times are you walking the fence about whether you should go down this path or the other for work or relationship should I move forward over here should I even buy this house what about the car my brother Christ do me a favor go to conf confession on a consistent basis so the gap between you and God is small the further you get away from Christ and you try to discern which way to go everything is in the way work people relationships life the world the pandemic the virus money rent the note everything you got to go to confession and close the gap remember this nowhere in scripture did Christ ever baptize anyone or did he hear their confession I don't care what your argument is when Christ wrote the sins of the people the symbols of the sins on the ground you notice he didn't call them out and say well Bob that's yours that that's yours John that's yours Mark right there just in case you missed it he just wrote the symbol so that he wouldn't Proclaim out loud what was Mary magdalene's answer if you will his answer to her was go and do not sin again he didn't ask her what she was there for he never once said Is it true my brother and sister in Christ when Peter goes to the good Lord and He forgives him if you will for his three denials and asking Peter do you love me what's Peter's confession well I do love you Lord no I do I Lord you know everything that's not a confession My Brother and Sisters in Christ Peter later realizes that the Forgiveness can only come from Christ my brother and sister in Christ sometimes you and I have to make a decision and what I'm asking you to do is go to confession to close that Gap do it on a consistent basis remember Proverbs the average holy person sins seven times a day don't go to confession for a month that's 200 don't go for a year that's over 2,000 don't go for a decade that's 20,000 what type of relationship do you have my brother and sister in Christ when you receive the Eucharist it is the Eucharist the body blood soul and Divinity how you and I can jump to the fact that it's a relic or Theory or conjecture is unbelievable because if God is the word made flesh and he is and if the word says this is my body and he is a fulfillment of what Paul calls the New Covenant and therefore Judas never partook of the meal he partook of the uh the urve then why is it that you and I are so afraid of it so much so during the pandemic man we got more rules on how to receive the communion is it not the body blood soul and Divinity of our savior it either is or it isn't we can't walk the walk we can't stand on the fence sometimes you and I have to say Lord I've gone to confession I've gone to spiritual Direction I have obtained some advice and I've gone to adoration not just what the good Lord puts on my heart you always need somebody with you usually a priest so that you can discern what's from the evil one and what's from God and then said Lord I'm going down this path block it if you block it open it if you want but I feel this is the right decision and then full forward go forward my brother and sister in Christ remember this you and I do not have the luxury of waiting look at the world around you ask yourself are are we going better is it going to change the only time a car runs itself is when it's going downhill my brother sister in Christ you got to pick a side you got to plant your flag you either believe in mother church or you do not you either believe in the sacraments or do you not you either believe the Eucharist is true or you do not you either believe that he is omnipresent and Omni important and all powerful or you do not when you and I go to vote for an election that's coming up make sure you understand something abortion is wrong intrinsically there's nothing we can do to fix it other than stop it so when it comes time to vote and I hear people say it well I'm just not a I'm sorry father but I'm just not a a one type of guy in other words there's many issues I tell you what if you believe God is all powerful and all knowing but you like the economic policy of this one but he's okay for abortion you honestly believe God is not the king of supply and demand that God is not the king of economy and that because you killed my children I'm going to bless your plans because you got a good way with people because you have foreign policy my brother Christ what will we tell the Messiah when he says I don't want to hear any questions I got one question where are my children well Lord you got wait minut Lord work with me here we got a good plan where are my children well we have choice and so you do you have chosen to pick the fence and I Leave You In the words of Johnny Cash if there is a fence Between Heaven and Hell the fence will be owned by Satan amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

share share as in Sharing it's the year is 1901 Buffalo New York the home of the Pan-American Expo oh no be careful here it is the Expo it's the Expo around the world it'll be over 1 million people will come to this thing it covers over 300 acres they've got everything everything they've got rides they got entertainment they got music they got shows they even got all the newest invention the inventions Rumor Has It Edison himself will come he will light over 200 oh Excuse Me 2 million light bulbs using the water from Niagara Falls 30 miles away people are coming just to go to hear it matter of fact there's another rumor going around that the first roller coaster will used well I got to tell you William red you have said well if I'm if they're doing that and Edison's going to be there and and and they're going to have a roller coaster which I've heard so much about I I need to go they even going to have the ship in which the guy is going to go around the world the ship is called the spray I bet it's not more than 40 foot long that's going to be on display he said I got to get a booth I got to get my product out there and the top it all off who's the guest speaker President McKinley himself man they get crowds after crowds after crowds the first evening over 1 million light bulbs are lit thanks to Edison man the show is a big hit William McKinley comes in and he gives a talk and you should have hit her words y'all they were so profound he said Expos are the timekeeper of the world's events it's a record for all the inventions a timekeeper of all the inventions and and Records will kept for the world man he gives a talk man people couldn't believe it they were so ecstatic he's going through shaking people's hands out of nowhere a man stops shoots him twice man Panic ensues man one group of people jump on the shooter another people up pick it up Mr uh President Buchanan you know what they planned unbeknown to everybody they built a fullscale emergency room thinking with 1 million people surely they're going to have problems who would have thought man the president's been shot man they're rushing him over they're getting him in the room man the first bullet goes in hits a rib and leaves the second bullet they can't find man Panic is ensuing man they're getting everybody cleared out they're trying to save the President William roten who's one of the little display people is going to him and saying man look I can help you let me share it let let take my invention you can keep it I don't care just use it we can't you you just you don't know what the side effects are are of your equipment we just can't he said compared to what lead poisoning you can't find the bullet what do you have to lose we can't risk it President McKinley dies eight days later my brother and sister in Christ two inventions were not allowed to be used for years after that show the roller coaster never made it because they were afraid people were going to fall and William ronen's x-ray machine which could have saved the president's life if they had just used it shared it or just borrowed it my brother and sister in Christ that is exactly that gospel my brother and sister in Christ did you hear what the good Lord said looking up to heaven stop that's why you see me hold the gifts and bring it up like this and I look up that's where we get it from He blesses he breaks it that's why I break a piece of the host and put it in the chalice and then he feeds them my brother and sister in Christ did you not hear him bring the gifts to me five loaves of bread and two fish now stop stop you are a first century Jew you and I have all the knowledge of the Old Testament we are Jews by descent we know Isaiah we know Elijah Elisha we know them all and as a result this is what you need to understand this event takes place on Sunday afternoon on Sunday actually a foretelling of what is is to come my brother and sister in Christ he feeds 5,000 men which means Jews only count the men this is why they don't count women and children because it's closer to 10,000 people five loaves of bread two fish to a Jew the number five is very significant it represents the first five books of the Bible but you notice there are also two fish the good Lord is saying yes there's the Old Testament but now there's the new they will now come to know that the number two is hugely significant that's why we have two candles the old and the new my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand that Genesis started on a Sunday creation of the world on Sunday the Resurrection on a Sunday if you and I would go back to Leviticus like around chapters 25 or so you will hear Moses say that on the seventh day you will worship but it is also okay when you go to Jerusalem in particular that when you go to Jerusalem you do it on the eighth day Sunday is the first day the 8th day is Sunday yet again go back to the Acts of the Apostles around chapter 20 St Paul's letter to the Corinthians around like chapter 16 my brother and sister in Christ they're talking about the first day of the week is the day that they are celebrating this is why you and I celebrate the mass and the Sabbath on Sunday even the Jews were arguing on whether Saturday was the Jewish feast or the Sabbath the Pharisees and Sadducees believed it but they were very political the Essen Jews John the Baptist believed it was on Tuesday and Wednesday so therefore My Brother and Sisters in Christ when we say that it should have been why did we not celebrate it on Saturday because Christ is the lord of the Sabbath the Sabbath is not Lord over him I started the world on a Sunday and I Resurrected and built a new creation on Sunday my Apostles celebrated on Sunday and it is a Perpetual institution as you heard in the very first reading from Isaiah my brothers and sisters in Christ you and I need to understand everybody thought that Isaiah was the man everybody thought Elijah was the man everybody thought Elisha was the man they even thought Moses remember no matter how great Moses Elijah Isaiah or Elisha are none forgave sins yes the blind see the lame walk the dead rise but yet no one forgive sins why is this important listen to me everything in the Old Testament has to be less than everything in the New Testament the New Testament is a foretelling of what is to come it is Christ himself the New Testament must always be greater a man and woman are drawn to a tree as I spoke to you earlier they brought sin into the world man and woman drawn into the tree at the crucifixion to golgatha and even to Gethsemane they brought salvation into the world my brother to Christ in the Garden of Eden they didn't have names once they sinned they had names he brought in the Book of Life they raised their hand to steal from the tree he raised his hand to bring us the tree back and to restore it he gave us life life Everlasting Elijah yeah he wore camel skin but all he talked about was the coming of the Savior John the Baptist wore camel skin and actually pointed to him my brother and sister Christ the 12 tribes that CHR that that God set up one being the Levites none of them cured none of them forgave sins but the 12 apostles the blind seed the lame walk the dead rise and forgiveness of sins so when Christ starts to forgive sins he's telling everybody in the Old Testament I can do what Moses Elijah Elisha and Isaiah do and tfold more this is why he tells the man pick up your mat and walk and they saying what who are you only God can forgive sins and he said so that they will know that I am pick up your mat and walk your sins are forgiven so that they would know that he is God my brother and sister Christ for him to take the bread now remember go back to the Old Testament again Elija has feeds about 200 people with a 100 loaves of bread so for him to feed 10,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish it's greater than therefore he's driving home the point that if they got blessed bread in the desert how can ours be a relic or Theory or conjecture because it would be less than it can't be this is why he says my flesh is True Food and my blood is true dram if you do not share it with me you will not have eternal life communion in the Greek communio in Latin cania means to participate in his sacrifice that is why you and I must partake about it give us this day our daily bread he is the word made flesh the good Lord said this is my body he didn't say it's a relic a theory a conjecture an understanding just kind of get with it if you can just whenever you pass me don't you understand he's trying to say if you do not share my body and my blood you will not have eternal life there is nothing I can do for you if you do not participate it's your soul and it's mine and I'll hold you accountable for it because I told you where I sit I will be with you to the very end my brothers to Christ you heard the good Lord say I'm the God who was who is and who is to come the same Greek word is then did I mean that theoretically that I'm not coming back I highly doubt it look at the world we're in now my brothers and sisters in Christ he's talking about that you need to learn to share among one another look go back in Scripture say what you want about Mary Magdalene but you know the gift that that woman shared with you and I the gift of perseverance she said no matter how bad things got you could have beat that woman you could have rented her out which they probably did you could have cursed her maligned her and beat her down that woman is showing up on Easter Sunday she does not care there are guards in the way she doesn't care there's a boulder in the way she can't move she doesn't care that the guards she meets are the same ones that brutalized her before she'd rather be near a dead savior than Li people that is the gift of perseverance the first to see the Risen Christ even before Peter himself my brother in Christ you know the gift that Peter gave you and I the gift of being resilient say what you want about him we do I do man we always using Peter's the stepchild the doormat man that's Peter you know first he thinks he can take care of a boat when the storm's coming can't do that thinks he can walk on water well didn't really accomplish that tries to convince the good Lord that that's really not the body blood soul and Divinity the good Lord calls him Satan did you ever find it ironic that in scripture when the good Lord says my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you're not in me you do not have eternal life it is Peter that goes to him and says Lord Lord come come we're going to lose these people they're going to probably think it's cannibalistic Christ rebukes him by calling him the name of the greatest Nemesis not Peter you're disordered Peter you're misunderstood Peter you're just not thinking it through he said Satan put that in your head and you pitched it to me if I'm not in you and you are not in me you will not have eternal life my brother and sister in Christ and then there were those who walked away John 6 6 6 some irony coincidental or Theory 40,000 fath in the world today and only one has remained true my brother and sister in Christ you know what the good thief gave you and I the good thief said you're never too late to say you're sorry seconds before they break his legs Remember Me Lord he's so sorry he can't even say sorry just remember me Lord just have a thought an understanding just remember my Essence this day you'll be with me in Paradise you're never too late to say you're so sorry you know what Judas gave you and I that the words I'm sorry outside of thank you are probably the greatest words in our vocabulary not texted said my brother and sister in Christ he's two words away from still being St Judas today I'm sorry my brother and sister Christ you know what Maas who took judas's place you know what his gift to you and I is just when you think nobody can touch you just when you think nobody cares what you're doing just when you think you've been with the disciples and the apostles for the last three years you have seen the blind sea the L walk the dead rise you had hadn't seen part of the crucifixion and the resurrection and the Assumption into heaven and nobody gave you your 15 minutes and then all of a sudden they got to replace Judas and Mias is chosen my brother and sister Christ he taught you and I that the good Lord will give you your due when he wants you to receive it it's his gift to you it's your gift that you and I are using Maas told us to hang in there to finish the race my brother and sister Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later what gifts do you and I share with your family and friends with one another my brother in Christ what share what do you every time you meet somebody every time you talk to somebody every email text message every time you even drive by somebody you're either sharing advice or you're Sharing The Virtue every time because you are never neutral to him you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him every conversation thought email or text message everything you do either brings you closer or away therefore if everything is on that line then therefore you and I are either given a vice or a virtue well let's see my brother and sister in Christ what about the virtue of Justice would you treat everyone the same period because that's what Christ did Rich or poor tall or short black or white this country or another will you treat everybody with Justice will you treat everybody with Prudence the right thing the right way which means probably saying absolutely nothing will you temper your desires to do what you want so that others can do what they want my brother in Christ will you give them the virtue of fortitude that means that you will dig your heels in and you'll do whatever it takes for the good of the greater of all and less about me we live in a world where we are narcissistic everything begins and ends with how it impacts me the problem is we don't stop to thinking about how it impacts everybody else we are quick to bring out Vice man Pride anger gluttony lust a sloth and envy which one of these demons is the ones that haunt you and you're lucky if it's only one do you have to win every the argument and that's what you bring to the table that you're going to win the argument at all costs and you don't care who you trample you don't care whose throat you step on you're going to win because we're keeping score oh we're keeping score and he's the only Keeper of the score are you so angry that you can't have a conversation without bringing four-letter words into it you know back in the day of the Jews we couldn't even say the word God we had to say Yahweh or Adam and I today we use God as a curse word we use the fu you telling me that's not out of the mouth of Satan did you bring the vice of over drinking to your family and food have we brought slothful and being lazy to our F family and spread it that we no longer work for a living we depend on somebody else to pay us are we envious of others so much so that it dominates our conversations that we gossip and slander so bad that we do it just so tongue and sheap do we bring the vice of complaining to the table if you say if you complain more than you say thank you or I'm sorry we're disordered We complain way too much I bet it's not cold out here I'm just saying my brother and sister in Christ here lies the point at the end of the day you and I have been given a gift love of God love of neighbor you and I must share the Eucharist and then we must share it with other people think about what I'm telling you you and I the only way we will ever grow is that you and I share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others we share the Eucharist and what it means with others because one day you and I are going to be judged and we're going to stand before him and he is either going to say one or two things welcome home my child where have you been I have waited and waited for you welcome to my table of all of my Saints or depart from me for I do not know you yeah you yelled my name you proclaimed me but your love of neighbor was nowhere to be found be gone that's it all eternity the only good gift is a shared gift if you get to some Pearly Gates or a set of gates and you do not recognize anybody inside those Gates then you're at the wrong gate and there's nothing I can do for you because in hell you won't recognize anyone because we will be grotesque and animalistic according to the Saints but if you make it to the Pearly Gates everyone that helped you helped and is now going to help you remember Brother and Sisters in Christ we're going to get to heaven on somebody else's coattails so I'll leave you with this in a few minutes you and I are about to receive the the Eucharist it is the body blood soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ it's not a relic it's not Theory it's not conjecture you know better it is him I can feel it I'm telling you you can touch him he's making his Essence known it's his glorified body be respectful of him and receive him give me this day our daily bread 25% of the Catholics still remain true to the teaching hold your ground finish this race and I promise you you will share eternal life with the king of kings and welcome to my table of all of my Saints amen I've been yelling for well over 10 minutes amen if son holy spirit amen<\p>

portrait as in a self-portrait a painting of oneself it's the 1970s his name is Phillip Phillip is a UK boy he is United Kingdom boy through and through his mom worked for the circus and his dad well he was a commercial pilot if you and I were to ask Phillip what was grammar school like he said it was a little tumultuous he said it was different every every year I'm in a different country if you were to ask Philip how was high school he would say it's an unmitigated disaster he said Not only am I going to different schools in different countries I have such a thick dialect man it's just you were just the poster boy for being bullied he said it was tumultuous I finally did graduate he said but man I didn't know what I wanted to do and then my my parents told me of a story that my great-grandfather was a standin of all people John Wayne he said that that's it I'm going to be an actor he does a commercial for Pac-Man of all things it gets him started he does another one with Charlton hon called Treasure Island it's going okay but then man the the wheels start to come off I mean let's just face it there's not many people in demand that have a different dialect and so thick to do American movie movies he gets in a couple movies one of them was called uh the Hustler it was okay he got in another one called little woman it was a little better and he said but man no matter what I touched just seemed to fall apart he said I was the poster child for man somebody that thought they could but they really never had it then all of a sudden he gets his first Big Break he gets the 310 to Yuma the movie and man all of a sudden people start to pick their head up and notice then he's in another one where he gets um he does a little bit of everything he's he's kind of U multifaceted he gets in a movie called hostiles which where he's like in a fort and he's in out the Wild Wild West and they're trying to break into the country so to speak it did okay and then all of a sudden man things started to bounce his way and finally he gets his big break he is the first non-american or unamerican if you will a non-american to play the role of Bruce Wayne that absolutely did no good I could see that from here man my brother and sister in Christ matter of fact if they did a portrait of him today he would tell you man if you're going to do a painting to me I want to be in my costume he said man it's got over 100 moving Parts he says go to the bathroom first cuz once you in that baby you ain't coming out for a while he said claustrophobic the whole movie was claustrophobic he said man you got to think about it I'm the first guy to play Bruce Wayne that's that's a non-american he said man I'm in Batman Returns Man I'm In The Dark Knight The Dark Knight comes again man my brother and sister in Christ you know him is Christian Bale okay you don't know who he is he's Batman that's the point it's all about a self-portrait that is exactly what that gospel is you know what's amazing if you and I were to pay a picture of Peter this would have been the gospel that we would have painted here he is in a boat with the other 11 the good Lord is out cu remember the first time he's with the good Lord It's just him and him him and the good Lord fishing it's midnight cuz they fish at night remember the Sea of Galilee as a result man he says Lord I've been out fishing all night throw your nets over Peter you know how Peter threw the nuts out Lord I'm the fisherman your Carpenter you want the Nets out great great there they're out they catch so many fish this Elm sinks the boat he drops in the boat and says depart from me Lord I'm a I'm a sinful man just him and the good Lord the next time Peter's in a boat a storm's coming the good Lord's asleep in the bow you know the story Lord do you care that we're about to perish he didn't wake him up because you know why because he's just a carpenter I'm the Fisher man I've been on this seene my whole life man this is my home away from home I'm the man and now all of a sudden man he can't even take care of a storm this time the good Lord is saying yeah Peter you have confidence in me when I'm right here well this time I'm going to be 50 yards out there Lord if it is you tell me to come come my brother s Christ that's the portrait we painted Peter he's walking on water the wind begins to blow he turns his head and man next thing you know he's drowning that's the portrait we paint but I bet you if we ask the good Lord to paint him I bet you he would paint it differently I bet he would paint Peter crucified upside down and I bet the words at the bottom of the painting which says this is my rock and I did build my church on him my brother and sister in Christ that's the portra that God painted for Peter not the one that you and I paint so all too often now stop go back in scripture the good Lord has just fed 5,000 to 10,000 people with five loaves of bread into two fish for you and I as a devout Jew that brings back a lot of memories that all of a sudden they don't have enough food to feed 1 million people in the desert and then all of a sudden Mana falls from the altar of God and as a result you and I as a Jew would start to think wait a minute that looks awfully familiar five loaves of bread and two fish the number five represents the first five books of the Bible the number two will now come to represent a new beginning the old and now the New Testament 12 wicker baskets full you and I now know that the number 12 is significant cuz there was 12 tribes there were 12 Apostles and now we have 12 wicker baskets full as a Jew you and I are starting to say man this sounds awfully familiar is this bread from heaven like it was out there and it was blessed bread and make sure you understand this my brother sister Christ when they are out after he's already fed everybody please make sure you understand the good Lord did not feed one of the 10,000 people he only fed the 12 and then said now you go feed them why because I'm not going to be here in a couple years they will look for me and they will not find me but they will find you Peter James John the B Thomas and you through Matias therefore I will not baptize I will not hear your confession because you will look for me and I am not here so I only feed them this is why priest give the communion to the Eucharistic ministers and the Eucharistic ministers feed you you cannot self communicate only the priest can that's why I consume the host at the mass make sure you understand the good Lord goes up to the mountain To Pray by himself every Jew would have been there would have realized wait a minute the only people going up mountains Moses goes up to talk to God Elijah goes up and hear God in the whispering and now of a sudden he's going up to the mountain to pray my brother and sister in Christ they are on the water from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. this is very common for the Jewish people to be out on the water remember the Sea of Galilee is the everything revolves around the Sea of Galilee still to this day do you know today that you and I cannot fish with a real C pole you can only netfish on the Sea of Galilee because that's how they did it they're netf fishing my brother and sister Christ from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. the [   ] Crow is the 3:00 a.m. me when the good Lord tells Peter you'll deny me so many times before the [   ] crows that type of a situation that's where he's at that's the time frame in which Peter is out there on the boat my brother sister in Christ think about what's happened they see him walking on water he's just fed 10,000 people he's went up a mountain and now he's walking on water this is why they drop in the boat when he finally gets in and do him homage for a Jew when you say you give somebody homage what you're saying is you're going to do one of three or four things you're either going to Bow you're going to glex you're going to kiss his foot or you going to lay prostrate on the ground so for them to say we did him homage they have now come to have an A theophany like Moses talked and Elijah saw well now we've come to believe because when he said it is I it's Ergo of me it is I am so now they come to recognize him so now this is the Son of God that's why you hear him say what they want and remember this say what you want about Peter there are 11 other guys in that boat and nobody moved moreover when he was drowning they still didn't move nothing like a good set of friends can you imagine them all on one side of the boat with those little bitty alligator arms here Peter grab my hand my brother and sister Christ make sure you understand Peter did walk out there the good Lord did save him and he did walk back to the boat the good Lord never carried him so Peter did walk on the water my brother and sister in Christ the portrait that Christ would paint would not be the one that you and I just painted why did you doubt oh you of little faith as a good Lord pulling Peter from the water I'm telling you the one he would have painted is him upside down preaching for three hours the gospel with the adage at the bottom for this is my rock and I did build my church go back in scripture I bet you if I painted a portrait of someone you and I may not know who he is but if God painted the portrait you and I would recognize him immediately case in point if I told you that he was a farmer's farmer he had two sons he was married a devout Jew he is a big man and if you and I would have taken a portrait I'm sure it' have been with his wife and his children in front of all their crops not a speck of blood to be found but I bet you if we took a picture and made a portrait like the good Lord did of this man you and I would have seen him carrying a cross with no family in the picture drenched in blood trying to hold our good Lord and you would have said man that's Simon of sirene isn't it ironic that Simon as Irene may have painted himself this way but the good Lord now has a new portrait and because he does his name's in The Book of Life and we don't even know his last name we just know he's from Northern Africa what if I painted the picture for you that all of a sudden man he's in his white robes he would have had gold tassels a golden collar he would have had gold trim he would have had sandals that were Immaculate he would have been part of the Sanhedrin he might have been standing next to a big beautiful column he might have had several books in his hand and you have said man that is an important man that's the portrait that he might have painted but then all of a sudden the good Lord decides to paint a different portrait he's outside of a tomb his white beautiful garment is covered in blood his hair is disheveled he has no fame or no fortune and he's Bowing in front of a tomb with his head against The Rock saying forgive me Lord for I have been a sinful man you would have known him as Joseph of arthea two years later he's had to leave the country because his life is in danger he actually starts in the Abbey my brother and sister in Christ if I saw if we painted this guy painted his own portrait I bet you it would have been in front of all of his Legion I bet you he had had his helmet in his hand his hand on his sword he would have had all the ribbons they would have standed up in front and as soon as you saw his face You' have said man that's the man but I bet you the portrait that the good Lord would have had is that he would have had his back to the painter he'd have been facing the crucifix with his sword on the ground and his helmet rolled to the side with the words truly that man was the son of God you would have known him as longinus my brother and sister in Christ if you and I would have met Saul the portrait would have been a man with many horses and Beautiful Homes he's taught by gel himself he'd have had all the books laid out in front of him with money Fame and Fortune and I bet the PO pit that the good Lord has of him is his head on a chopping block with no books no money no Fame no fortune he's balding he is almost probably to a point of his life where he could barely just even stand up that's the Paul that Christ would have painted well now hear you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister Christ if somebody or yourself was to paint a portrait about you or I was to paint one about me what would we put in the picture when we put all our diplomas on the back wall so everybody can notice how intellectual we are maybe they put all our patents and trademarks and copyrights all of our intellectual property so they can understand our prow maybe we could put a bank statement at the bottom so they could show how much money we accumulated as if it was ours maybe they had all our sports memorabilia maybe they had all our knickknacks maybe they would have had our favorite dress our favorite clothes my brother sister in Christ don't you understand every one of those items every one of those items are immediately worthless Upon Our death the minute that portrait was painted it is now useless because not one of those things will go forward with us my brother and sister in Christ if you painted a portrait of yourself would there be anything on you that somebody would look at it and say look they're in the b top right hand corner on the shelf behind those six bucks to the right down an edch I think it's a rosary would you even have a Rosary in your picture would you be carrying a crucifix in your hands would behind you be an image of Christ if you were a Eucharistic Minister would it be you holding a chalice if you were an Al the server would it be you holding the cross if you were a reader would it be you here at the holding the book of the gospels my brother s Christ ask yourself what would be in your portrait that would go with you to life Everlasting and what in that portrait would be of this world the world that will come to an end if Christ painted your portrait which he will and is doing as I speak what would he put in the picture which one of the seven deadly demons would he say that's behind you that seems to be over encompassing what would he have in front of you that you said that's the god that you worshiped in L of me was it your money your Camp your car maybe it was all the deer heads behind you maybe it was all the fish you caught maybe it was all the memorabilia and your sports and your Awards wearing that picture would Christ say now that is a child of mine brother and sister in Christ remember he is going to paint a portrait the question for you and I is what would be in that if you had to pick five things just five okay four one you pick one thing to stick in there so that at the end of the day when Christ says now that is a child of mine would you be standing there with a crucifix would you have a Bible in your hand that you've read would you have a rosary would you be on your knees with your head bowed would it be a computer with your face buried in it would it be your cell phone so you can text and all we get is the top of your head is it your car your house your Camp my brother sister in Christ you and I are painting a self-portrait and it will be corrected by Jesus Christ on the day of our judgment that's the problem it's going to be way late into this game my brother and sister in Christ I am begging you you must learn to find your knees you must go to the sacraments how would your children know that they are following the right church if it's not a part of our daily life well there she is praying the rosary again well at least somebody's praying oh there she go she's got to go to mass even we're on vacation don't tell me you couldn't find the church you can find Disney World world you can find the church you can find another country find the church my brothers Christ will your children know when they see you in a portrait that's Mama that's daddy that's my spouse that's my children those are my parents man they go nowhere without making sure they pray they got religious books all over the house man they can't turn into a room without seeing a crucifix or the picture of the Blessed Mother don't you see if the portrait you F does not have some relic of Christ then why would he welcome you home he wouldn't because this is why we're here you came in on this day we're going home on this day and on that day there is no more Mercy there's just judgment you had all this time in between to make a portrait of yourself my brother and sister Christ I leave you with this of all people President Lincoln I don't know which you may think of President Lincoln it's irrelevant but if you were to ask people back in the day tell me what did Abraham Lincoln look like there was a man that was going to be at a debate and when he saw President Lincoln he quote said I've never met a man so ugly so disfigured it was almost repulsive in the debate the other gentleman stands up and says Mr Lincoln if I were to paint a portrait of you I would paint you as being two-faced Mr Lincoln stood up and said do you honestly believe I'm two faced the gentleman said absolutely he said well if I had another face don't you think I would have changed it by now man my brother and S Christ make sure the portrait that you paint has some relic of Christ more relics of Christ than relics of the secular world for that is going to be the portrait that Christ will come to amen amen<\p>

we are just me it's about I my brother and sister in Christ the year 1775 our country our nation moreover our colonies are involved in a a great dispute a great battle the war the Revolutionary War the King has made his decision and that is final but I got to tell you it may have been a war for the colonies and it may have been a war for our nation and it may have been a great battle but I got to tell you for Patrick his War had already started seven years ago he met the woman of his dreams Sally man they were soulmates from the get-go like teeth in a gear he would tell you that their life even though they came from two different worlds he would tell you man my wife she came for means he said we couldn't rub two sticks together he said she lived if you will on the right side of the tracks I didn't even know there were tracks everything her family touched turned to Gold Everything I touched turned to Brown good some of you got it my brother and sister in Christ man and he says they were doing well until their sixth child when Netty came into the world then problems abounded man it it was almost something traumatic must have happened to his wife Sally man it's just psychological and physical the mental man she she started forgetting people's names his children's names his names she started getting out of control to a point that the only one that could even physically be around her would have been just Patrick as a matter of fact he said he worked hard just tried to keep her together and friends would come over and say Patrick man it's time you you maybe you need to isolate her more a kind way of saying put her away his words to them this ain't about me it's about we in sickness and in health and good times and bad till death do we part it's about we he said where do you want me to place her in the building that they call quote this was the name of their building the home for the insane and the idiots he said no I can't have it they decide to leave him be man next thing you know within a month a rider comes up to him he's sitting on the porch with his children and his wife he said the the country is convened the Assembly of Virginia has been called we need to go to the legislature they're asking for a vote Patrick said don't go to the assembly Red Coats will be watching go to the church they won't know to look there St John of the Cross man everybody's waiting to see where he stands I mean he's got children his wife is it's going to be a little bit of a challenge man the country's about to go under he walks in and it is packed in St John Church I think people have literally come not just to hear the vote they want to see where Pat sits they have lined the walls he walks in my brother and sister in Christ and only in the words of Patrick he said my friends my fellow countrymen I come here today to tell you there is no greater patriotism in the world there's no greater honor in the world than to be a patriot of the United States our colonies now what I have to say may offend some but if I do not say it I will be a traitor to my country I will be a traitor to my Messiah as perfect timing for a Train My Brother and Sisters in Christ and they say the evil one does not exist my friends in Christ he says if I am a traitor to my country and if I don't Proclaim what I know I'll be a traitor to my Messiah I have petitioned the king I have written the king I've had adversaries or emissaries go on my behalf to the king I have done done all that I can I have supplicated him I have paid him if I were to show up he would put my hands in feet and chains and he'd probably kiss me on my cheek like that of Judas but at the end of the day Give me liberty or give me death my brother and sister Christ the words of Patrick Henry because it was all about we as a country we as a family and we as one as a couple that is exactly that gospel that woman is going on behalf of her daughter I have come on behalf of her there is not just me it is all about my daughter it's about we now stop make sure you understand what's going on here remember you're a first century Jew you know scripture like the back of your hands with that being said when you go to the areas of tire in siden if you and I lived in Jerusalem it would be several days journey to get up to the Sea of Galilee to where Peter lives at Capernaum it would take us another 50 miles another couple of days to get to Ty and then another couple days to get the sidon it's all on the coast they are very Pagan they will worship idols they will actually burn their children at stake and offer it to the gods if you and I were to go back in the book of wisdom wisdom and read back they would give you all the different degrees this is where the good Lord is going when he gets there you notice that this lady who comes to see him calls him son of David have mercy on me for a woman in that Pagan part of the world to make a public Proclamation referring to him from the line of David calling him Lord giving him homage my brother of Christ this would have been unheard of for her to do it and I can promise you she would not not not only not be welcome in her country her life would be put in Peril but because it was that important that she be there on behalf of her daughter she will endure and what does the good Lord do man he ignored it would it not been better that he just screamed at her acknowledged my presence breathed on me looked looked at me he ignores her so much so the apostles don't even speak to her they speak directly to him Lord send her away and the Lord makes the statement I've come from the lost sheep of Israel now stop you're a Jew 10 tribes to the north Isaiah's prophecy they're going to be scattered throughout the world the two tribes to the South will be overr by the Babylonians I've come from the lost sheep remember when he told Peter Peter feed my Lambs my Apostles feed my sheep that's the people of Israel more importantly the 12 tribes take and then feed and take care of my sheep I.E you and I my brother and sister in Christ she is proclaiming him to be the Messiah they're ignoring her and then she says Lord even the dogs get the scraps off the table the dogs would have been you and I we would have been the Gentiles and the pagans and he says your faith has saved your daughter as you wish at that very second at that hour the the child is cured my brothers Christ when you heard her say Lord have mercy this is where you and I get Lord have mercy Christ have mercy Lord have mercy this is where you and I get it from from her making the proclamation my brother and sister in Christ she's a we she's all about her daughter the powers and the prayers of a mother are so powerful and so could they be for you and I if we would pray with such intensity and we would pray with such perseverance and we would pray with such tenacity that no matter how many times the answer is no you and I will stay the course that's what she's bringing to the table and she's bringing it on behalf of somebody else not even for herself my brother Christ go back in scripture look at all the great players in Scripture that were weeds think about it man there there's Lazarus the wealthiest man in all of his time man there's nothing he's not involved in Fabrics clothing crops animals me it he's everything he is the guy of his day and when the good Lord is crucified and he resurrects he walks away from everything he takes Martha and Mary and they depart leaving the keys on the door if you will whoever wants it he eventually becomes a bishop in Tradition my brother in Christ that is the consumate we say what you want about Mary Magdalene but at the end of the day she'd rather be next to a dead savior than a live person on Easter Sunday that is a consumate we and her reward hard the first to see the Risen Christ my brother Christ Paul Saul who became Paul that's a we I'm going leave my fame my fortune my money and everything so I can be beaten I can be scourged I can be stoned and the ships I go on sink and at the end of the day I'll beheaded that is how important it is to me I be close to Christ my brothers and sisters in Christ but for every one of the we there's always a me that's pilate man if I align myself with that person man I'll be kicked out of the armpit of the world I won't even have a chance to ever get to Rome let me just wash my hands of it 2,000 years later you and I use the same analogy when we say oh they just wash their hands of it his name is no longer in the Book of Life can you imagine my brother sister Christ the point I'm bringing to you is very subtle but very true are you a we or are we so narcissistic and self-absorbed it's all about me myself included my brother and sister in Christ when somebody ask you to pray for them will you say okay but I got let let me you need to pray for me no no are you going to pray for them like this woman when you do your prayers are you praying for others first and you last or your petitions first moreover are you willing to pray for others and say Lord if you take care of them that's good enough for me and then our prayers never get mentioned my brother and sister in Christ when that friend calls you on the phone and you know you're going to be on that phone for a good hour you're going to be in the same spot one hour from now after you get finished because it's the same story over and over and over again are you willing to sit and listen and to be the person Christ asked you to be love of God and love of neighbor will you sit and listen again and be sympathetic and caring for the cross that they carry Simon that's right are you a Simon Simon is a dedicated we Simon is the one I've got my children I have come for I I've traveled to Jerusalem I've already bought my animal I've got my one-year-old and blemished lamb I've come here for my week of Passover and you're going to conscript me to be in the Army to carry the cross of a thief and a murderer next to two guys that I wouldn't spit on if they were on fire his name's in the book of life because he's the consumate we my brother and sister in Christ will you stay on the phone with them will you pray for them when it's all said and done say let us pray for two or three gathered in our name my brother and sister in Christ when somebody calls you at work and says man man uh can you do this for me are you going to pull out the old calculator and decimal point say I'm sorry that's above my pay grade I I just don't do that it's not my job description are we going to do what Christ would do because they called you Simon I don't care if they got everybody else's phone number but the only one they can find at work is you I don't care that your family has all these issues and the only one taking care of Mom and Dad is you well Simon that's because you've been called and The Graces are twofold upon you will you do it at work because that's what you do is a good Catholic and a good Christian will you do it when somebody says man can you run this extra errand can you stay a little earlier can you get up a little sooner when you get home can you help prepare the meal will you help children will you help clean up afterwards or you just going to walk away I mean you did Dirty the plate you could at least clean it will you at least clean your room I mean you didn't have to build it didn't have to pay for it all you got to do is breathe oxygen and live in it can you help is it all about we my brother and sister Christ look at the world we're in we are self-absorbed in narcissistic we want everything on our own terms including praying the mass how diabolical I want it on my terms yet he carried a cross 12T tall 8ft wide one mile we beat him like a ritten mule over 6,000 wounds not count the 8 in Nails in his hands the 16in nail drove through his feet which they had to back out because they got it wrong the number of times they dropped the crucifix which we believe was twice with a crown of thorns on his head which what gave him over 100 wounds but I'll be darn father if I'm going to come out there and sweat so be it my brother and sister in Christ at some point you and I have to become become sacrificial we have to pay the price to be what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ which means we have to be last in everything we do it's in helping others is first helping our family is first helping our spouse is first our parents and our children if you answered every question as if you were in second place you will be better served in the long run my brothers and sisters in Christ I am begging you to fight the fight of a self-absorbed world that is what modernism is postmodernism it's all about me I have a truth and is my truth there is only one truth there's only one way and it's Jesus Christ it begins and ends with him you're either a follower of him or you are not you either made heaven or you did not you're either in the gates or you are not there is nobody in heaven that is self-absorbed and it's all about number one I can promise you that that is why love of neighbor is so important I'll leave you with this there are a number of things that take absolutely zero Talent there are a number of things that take absolutely zero Talent getting somewhere on time takes no Talent having energy takes no Talent putting forth effort takes no Talent putting forth passion takes no Talent having the right body language takes no talent and becoming a we takes no talent but until you do you will not have any of the ones I just mentioned amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

keys keys as in the key to the way of life a key to peace a key to understanding a key to carrier cross our country is embarked in a great World War World War II it has now encompassed the whole world Britain has become quite concerned so has the United States because if you are part of that war I.E a soldier you end up in one of four categories if you made it through the war and you were did so then you are obviously you were lucky you were one of the very few so you would get through the war either by making it I.E being alive you would be wounded you would pass would be killed or you would be a prisoner War which subsequently would be a desence for over half of them as a result of it more and more prisoners are being garnered especially in Germany as a result the prime minister of England has got together with one of his generals and he said it's Paramount that we save our soldiers the PS it's a 50% mortality rate and of the remaining 45% they will come out damaged if you will physically mentally spiritually only a few percentage will make it out unharmed it's important that we get them out we need them out we need the reinforcements we need them to fight the fight we needed to call disarray in the country of Germany as a result the General calls other generals to the table and he says I need a plan on how to get our prisoners out what would be the one key and they said look before you get started General every one of the men there said look there is one soldier that we think we need to speak to his name is Clayton don't get lost his name is just Clayton as a result of it he said why is he so important he said well General he's he's got a Houdini complex that's all I can explain it he said I've come to know him he's the only one that's ever escaped a prisoner War Camp he's the only one we know that's made it all the way back and we need his input he would be the key he said bring him to me he brings him he comes in the general says well tell me Mr Clayton what's the key he said well there are three things that are important he said first and foremost you need to understand how a concentration camp works if you become a p you were interviewed by a psychiatrist that psychiatrist will evaluate each and every one of you and put you in the barracks that way they have people thinking similar they know how to control that barracks if they need to put you in um like a quarantine if you will or they need isolation they can do that too there would be a 15t bob wire fence around all the barracks another 15 or 20 foot would be another 15t fence around bobbed wire in between it landmines dogs bombs Guns Etc and then another 100 yards out would be pill boxes all facing in with lights that would come on arbitrarily he said you got to understand once you get in your chance of getting out are tough but there are some keys he said well before you get started what's this Houdini complex that you seem to suffer from he said well growing up I went to see Harry Houdini and he gets in this box they put it with chains they drop it down and next thing you know he's out and I I just knew that can't be possible so I stood up in the middle of the congregation or the group at the circus and said for $100 I bet you that if I'd take care of that box and I have somebody build it you can't get out Houdini said give me the dollar $100 I'll take it and we'll do with it he gets with the carpenter he lines out the box puts it out there next show they come next Saturday he said he comes they put Houdini in the box boom he gets out within minutes he goes up to the guys afterwards and said man I gave that guy $100 he said well no you only gave him 50 he said No I gave him 100 he said no he took 50 and he gave the carpenter 50 to build a box and he said ever since then I'm obsessed with getting out so I escaped he said what's the key to escape he said I need three things I need a map I need money I need a compass he said well well maybe we could put it in the heel of your shoe and he said and he said with all due respect General and do what he said make sure you understand something when you're outside that gate you got one job it's to run and when you get tired run some more and when you think you're about to throw up you keep running you don't have time to take your heel off look at it what if it's raining and you got a map or is the compass is it broken I mean you're going to put your heel back on he said General it's not going to work give me some time within a week he comes back he brings all the generals in Clayton walks in and lays out this game on a board everybody looks at him and he said that is the key and he said let me make sure I understand this we've been sitting on our hands waiting for a week you gave me this theory about all you do is run and you need a map encompassing money and you bring out this game sitting on a board he said that's exactly right he said explain it to me he said well we're going to take the money and where it says community chest we're going to put it inside the board and then when it says over here chance we're going to put the map and over here in free parking and go to jail we're going to put a compass and in the middle we're going to put a guy like Mr Moneybags Grandpa Moneybags a board game that you and I still play to this day and you and I call it Monopoly over 40,000 men escape prison P during World War II because of the game Monopoly because they gave it to the Red Cross and the Red Cross gave it to the Germans and the Germans saw it as a board game to keep them entertained all the while giving them the keys to get out my brothers and sisters in Christ that is exactly that gospel how well did we listen and to you Peter I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven now stop you and I are first century Jews we are listening to this it's important that you and I understand some things cesaria Philippi was about a one or two mile walk from where they were to get to where they needed to be and if you were at and I at ceria Philippi we would be sitting at the bottom of a cliff the mountain would probably be to the tops of those trees at the top of it would be the Temple of pan p a n all the gods would be up there the same ones you dealt with if you had lived in the time of Moses the same ones that they destroyed with the 10 plagues you would see the statues all up at the top so he's asking who do people say that I am thinking that they may look and go up that way the intermediary between the gods and you and I is a guy by the name of pan Peter Pan is where Walt Disney gets it my brother and sister in Christ it's a place on a theology that's diabolical as a result did you hear their answers so who do y'all say that I am Jeremiah Elijah John the Baptist and Prophets my brothers Christ you know what they have in common They're All Dead therefore the people that are responding must think there's something Supernatural about it because it's not right because he's doing things that they're not doing my brother and sister in Christ and when Peter says you're the son of the Living God he says Flesh and Bones didn't tell you that my father in Heaven well why didn't he tell it to the other 11 because Peter is protos Peter's the Prime Minister Peter is the eliakim of the New Testament where he is now overseeing the whole house my brother and sister in Christ make sure you understand how significant this passage is when he gives Peter the keys to Heaven did you realize this isn't whatever happens in heaven I want you to do it on Earth it's just the opposite they're so important whatever you do here on Earth is how I will handle it here in heaven oh yes the holy spirit will come so you know the understandings of heaven but it will begin here and whatever you bind here will be bound and whatever you leave loose Peter so will it be up above my brother and sister in Christ he has the keys and they're temporary because the same way it was in the Old Testament with Isaiah my brother brother Christ did Eli come not get the keys from someone else and he too will pass them on hence why Peter will pass them on Peter lius Cletus evestus Alexander torus henus pasus all the way to Francis my brothers Christ this isn't one in done now he changes his name that's hugely significant to you and I because the people in the scripture that got their name changed only happened only a handful of times and it was very significant Abram which in their language would mean like father or exalted father is now called Abraham the father of the multitudes he goes from very little of a family if non-existent to the family of multitudes my brother and sister in Christ Jacob to Israel Saul to Paul Simon to Peter everybody knows that that name changes significant this is why popes change their names because ontologically they are changed to the Vicor of Christ my brother and sister in Christ it's more going on in Peter's world than you think he makes the proclamation you are the son of the Living God you think it's ironic happen stance million to one shot that the Apostle Creed begins with Peter's words I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth for he's the only one to have heard it my brother and sister in Christ do you think it's not significant that he's telling Peter even though you saw all this you've now heard from my Father in heaven my brothers and sisters in Christ do you know when he changes his name in the in the in the Aramaic remember Christ speaks to his Apostles not in English not in Greek he speaks in Aramaic and the word is Kaya k p ha or kayas we sometimes pronounce it sephus in the readings in Greek a little bit it's pronounced that way but it's a hard SE my brother's Christ kayi means massive Bolder and why is that important because you and I as a Jew know that they have what they call a foundation stone in the temple which is the stone that they would have place down and then put the temple or the Tabernacle on top of the stone and the temple on top of the stone Therefore your Temple's built on the stone and Upon This Rock I will build my church once again every Jew would have recognized that that name changed and to make it a massive Boulder if you translate it to the Greek it's going to mean little Stone but if you go to John's gospel if you go later in Matthew you'll hear even Paul and John referred to him as kayi an Aramaic a massive Boulder this is why Peter's listed first and Judas is last this is why Peter's name is mentioned over 180 times in scripture the next closest Apostle John at about 30 and combined all the rest are less than my brothers Christ that is why he's the first to make the proclamations he is the first to baptize the first to do a miracle the first to make a decision he's the first in the Apostles Creed because he is protos he is dominant My Brother and Sisters in Christ if you and I were to go back all the way in scripture and now that Peter has assumed the prime ministership over the house until it is time for him to return the keys my brothers Christ do you know that when the pope dies they break his ring so that he can no longer seal documents he can no longer stamp approval because the keys are about to be passed my brother Christ if you and I were to go back in scripture the key to peace in the world is Jesus Christ it was back then and it still is today when Moses is taken over 1 million people out of Egypt to the promised land of which only two make it they're in the they're about to cross the Red Sea did you find it ironic that the soldiers and the Chariots are coming he's got the water between him and now the solders on the other end and he's caught the only way he brings peace is to pray to God and ask for help for his intercession the key to peace to Moses was God the father and he opens up the Seas he crosses over on dry land the miracle behind the miracle as most of them have the deaf man who hears in blind man who sees and then begins to speak but yet they never had the ability to learn the language the second miracle here Moses crossed in the promised land for 40 years he feeds them on Mana 40 years they live off communion one item and one item only my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink if I'm not in you and you are not in me you do not have eternal life my brother and sister in Christ there are those who left them John 6 6 6 my brother and sister in Christ this is where the key to our life is it begins and ends with Jesus Christ Saul is blinded for three days in order for him to come to recognize the Messiah and he goes from Saul to Paul because the key to his world was not the trappings of being a Pharisee the key to his world wasn't his money fame or Fortune his bank balance or his intellect his key to peace in his life was Jesus Christ my brothers and S Christ he believed the Eucharist is true go back and read First Corinthians did he not say roughly around chapter 10 that this is the coup of blessing is the cup of blessing which is the third cup which is what we celebrate at the sacrifice of the mass did he not say that is not this chalice the blood of Christ is not the bread we break the body of Christ my brother and sister in Christ all the great players throughout scripture all knew that their peace begins and ends with Jesus Christ with god with the Trinity the question for you and I is is 2,000 years later I think we've forgotten it or we've acknowledged it we have an understanding of it we recognize it but we don't participate in that peace my brother s Christ how often look in the world that we live in we're in a pandemic world that has lost its way we have no moral compass we can Riot on the streets so much for social distancing but yet I can't even pray with inside my own confines because I can't put more than 40 people inside a church my brother and sister in Christ everything is boiled down to an issue of color did you ever think this would happen in our world and I'm telling you there's only one thing that will bring peace back to our world and that's Jesus Christ and if you and I don't find our knes we will never find a way back to peace you want peace in your family then y'all need to start praying together you want peace in your family pray in the morning together pray before meals make sure you pray before y'all go to bed pray as a unit when you just get married or your couples and your children are gone you want peace between you you you need to pray together I do not care that you hold hand sing come by yah and you enjoy the same movies at the end of the day it all begins and ends with Jesus Christ if you do not have him in your life you will never have peace do you not understand it begins and ends with the Eucharist that is where your peace begins and ends you and I will not be able to generate it we are already bent towards concupisent from the very beginning of time the only only place peace was was in the garden and once sent into the world and we left the world is now the devil's oyster look at it we have lost our way because we haven't found our needs my brother in Christ you want a better relationship with your children with your parents are you praying together I mean there's only so much pop psychology to go around you can only talk about it for so much but at the end of the day you must learn to pray together because that's what's going to be the glue to hold you together that's what's going to make you comp um understanding brother Christ democracy only works if Christ stays in the game because you and I know deep town in our heart of hearts written Jeremiah is his name he was written on our hearts therefore we know intimately right from wrong so what I'm asking you you got a problem at work then pray before you get there pray before you wake up when you wake up in the morning okay after you have your cup of coffee now go pray pick a spot in your house for just a minute before you turn on the television what are you looking for good news come on you're going to read the front page the sports page Brothers Christ if you want bad news just wait for it watch news at the end of the day my brother Christ it's got to begin and end with Christ when you're in your car turn your radio off and listen or pray my brother Christ turn your cell phones off stop worrying about the text messages learn to pray it begins and ends with him don't you see the Eucharist is our way of being fed we're in the desert and we will be here longer than I think people care to understand brother Christ there's nothing coming we haven't found our knees think about it do you honestly believe the good Lord is going to allow you and I to go back to the way the world was just because we burned a few beads we said a few prayers and yet we're going to go back to killing our children where are my children Lord we got a good economic plan I did not ask you that I want to know where my kids are they're coming well we see we have free choice to hell you are and that's where you'll belong you take care of my children I took care of you and I came for you yeah you have choice and I will hold you to it but nobody has the right to touch my children of all ages and of all colors and of all religions and of all sex my brother and sister in Christ I'm begging you to take time to go to adoration I don't care if it's for five minutes once a week it's it's five minutes you can't just drive by and stick your head in the church go in adoration ginu Fleck bow and and walk out you you you just you're so busy are you so busy doing your job you forget your job your job is to get to heaven that's the only job you and I got my brother and sister in Christ in screw tape later letters there's a story about Lucifer talking to his son and his son says pop them people I got them them people in they meet I got them I'mma get that group on Pride I'm going to get that little group right there in Anger I'm going to get the group in the back on gluttony oh man that group over there man that's lust I'm going to get this group over here that's average sloth money and then I'm going get this group on Envy he said Son you you're not very bright all you got to do is steal their peace and you'll get them all John Paul is right to all the problems of the world the Eucharist is the solution that's the key amen amen the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen<\p>

names names if I were to ask you there's this quarterback some may say mediocre but we would probably say oh he's far greater than that he's probably our greatest player ever to put on a Saint's uniform they could probably rename the city more or less I'd ask you his name you'd say oh man that's Drew Brees if I ask you who's the greatest quarterback in the today some may debate the issue but his name may be in the top two or three if I asked you man tell me of a great college coach some may say Nick Sabin not here but somewhere it's Sabin my brother and sister in Christ is the last name my brother Christ you may say his name is at Aron man he probably had the greatest college team ever in the last well two or three decades name may be true my brother and sister in Christ you I know what you're saying well yeah father I I I I know those names because I'm part of the world I understand the names of the world I understand how they're applied so if I were to say he's a great actor you would probably say well tell me something about him I would tell you that he's probably one of the greatest actors of our day has been for the last three decades if I tell you that he was in movies like The Bucket List he was in Chara Shanker Redemption he even played God Almighty then you would say man do you know who say it louder Morgan Freeman for the six people that know who he is y'all are all tax exempt my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that spaghetti westerns became possible you say oh Father I know that Clint e would get to something that I'm that I'm maybe not I may be marginalized in Abraham's the father of Isaac who's the father of Jacob who's the father of Judah who's the father of Perez who's the mother of tar who gave life to Perez who gave it to herah who gave it to Ram who's the father of aminadab who's the father of Sneezy Dopey and grumpy ah ah father but we know those names I just gave us the genealogy of Jesus Christ does that tell you how far we have fallen we knew all about movies we knew about sports but when it came to the Life of Christ man I could have thrown those names in I could have probably thrown in maybe I could have said his name was vixen or Blitzen or some other name would we even have known it my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing so let's say we understand the ways of the world if you do not get seven out of 10 of these right then we don't even know the ways of the world seven out of 10 six ain't of 10 ain't passing and I'm even going to give you a bonus question to make sure that you could possibly make the promised land if I told you who's on a $1 bill said man I got that that's Washington I told you a $5 bill you'd say oh man that's Lincoln I got you if I ask you who's on a $10 Bill some of you would say man that's Alexander Hamilton if I told you it's a $20 bill you might say Andrew Jackson you'd be correct if I set a $50 bill would you know that it's uliss Grant if I told you it was a $100 bill would you know it's all about the Franklin if I told you it was a $500 bill oh well man the test is going south it would be McKinley if I told you a $1,000 bill would you know it's Cleveland Grover Cleveland if I told you it was a $5,000 bill would you know his name was Madison if I told you it was $10,000 would you know that it's salmon Chase if I told you there's a $100,000 bill I'm just looking to see if anybody looks in their wallet that's all I'm doing right now would would you know my brother it's woodro Wilson did you get seven out of 10 I tell you what I'm going to give you a bonus question the $2 bill would you remember that his name was Jefferson and I tell you what for all the money we just discussed they actually printed a $3 bill at one time would you have any idea whose name was on that Santa Claus true story my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the names that is exactly the point of what the good Lord is doing now stop get behind me Satan you are nothing but an obstacle to me now you need to understand where this is taking place stop you are first century Jew we have been traveling with the apostles now for over a year and a half maybe two it's going into his third year he has dragged us all the way to cesaria Philippi that's that place up on the mountain where all the gods that were the people proclaimed where the god of pan was the intermediary between us and those gods and he sat us in a big circle and he says who do you say that I am first words Jeremiah the prophet you just heard Elijah John the Baptist you know what's amazing they're all dead but there must be something Supernatural about him for them to use past prophets he just asked him who do you say that I am Peter of all stands and says Lord You're the son of the Living God Flesh and Bones didn't tell that Peter It could only have come from one spot my Father in heaven and you Peter will be my rock Boulder and Aramaic cuz that's the language they would have spoke Greek and lethos which would have been smaller rock he spoke in Aramaic Boulder Ki as a matter of fact John refers to him sometimes we pronounce it sephus it's a hard C it's a massive Boulder he just changed his name called him the massive Boulder and for you and I guess what as a first century Jew we knew that there was a stone inside the temple where the Tabernacle and the temple resided they called it the foundation Stone so for him to change his name and call him the Boulder and then refer to him as the stone my brother and sister in Christ there's no doubt that he is protos that he is dominant that he is the lead and Judas would have been last only for a temporary time until he's removed the point being my brother and sister in Christ Christ now has changed his name it hasn't been a day and a half he is now told him you went from Simon to kayi to Satan and then if that's not bad enough the good Lord says you're an obstacle to me do you know what that is in in their language scandalon that's where we get the word scandal from it means stumbling Stone just an obstacle in my way that I will just kick aside from Simon to massive Boulder and it wasn't bad enough he didn't stop he called you Satan I don't know about you Christ turns and calls us Satan is that a good time just dig a hole and bear yourself and be done with life and now he's called him you're nothing more than a stumbling Stone scandalon my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in scripture names are important to you and I in the Garden of Eden if I were to ask you since you know so much of names what was the name of the couple in the Garden of Eden most of us would jump in and immediately say it's Adam and Eve and I would say stop and think Adam Adama means ground for he was made of the ground that's why from dust we are and dust we shall return that's why we play that game that's why you need to be buried on Holy Ground that's why you need to go back on the ground and not on a shelf not up on a credenza not up on a mantle or spread throughout nature my brother and sister in Christ in the Garden of Eden when they ate of the fruit what does the good Lord do as he walks through the garden man man where are you I'm hiding why are you hiding well I'm I'm not clothed why is that oh it's not me first passing the buck the woman you gave me woman where are you they're not calling them by names he's calling by man and woman they don't get the names or the moniker of Adam doesn't stick until after they're kicked out of the garden where she picks up the name Eve therefore names are important he knew you in your mother's womb the prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah and Elijah he knew your name in your mother's womb you and I are now going to be judged because if we lived in the garden there would be no need to have names because there would have been no sin but once sin in the equation we now all have names my brother and sister in Christ think for a minute all the apostles that you know however many you can name how many of them do you know their last name none that's how important your giving name is my brother and sister in Christ I want you to think about it go to the crucifixion everybody that's named in the crucifixion if I told you what they did I bet you know their name if I told you that he pulled out a bowl and towel you'd say oh that's pilot my brother and sister in Christ 2,000 years later that's his moniker he pulled out a bowl and towel we know him by his name my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that he was standing there the whole time and he was a job was to get Christ from this point to this point make sure you do not stop make sure he does not die make sure you crucify him because Rome will come and if they hang me I will hang you before me Pilot's conversation to none other than longinus but if I told you that he turned at the crucifixion and said truly this man was the son of God you would know his name is longinus and the irony is we're not sure of that other than his name is speartip because we believed he was the one that speared Christ if I told you that his he's well picked up at the cross and carried it with Christ you'd say man that's Simon all we know he's of sirene in Northern Africa if I told you he gave up his tomb you'd say Joseph of arthea if I told you that she stayed in the middle of the of the road and put her an imprint on his face so that he could wipe it you'd say that's Veronica that is her name we believe but the name also means true icon to this day on Easter Sunday it was with Pope Benedict and John Paul you would actually see that up on the altar on Easter Sunday my brother and sister in Christ there's only one name probably more but there's only one name per se that's more important than yours and mine and that's his name that every knee shall Bend and every H head shall bow my brother and sister in Christ you heard our savior say it I Am The Great I Am there is no beginning and no end I'm the alpha and the Omega I'm the gatekeeper I'm the shepherd I am the Messiah my brother and sister in Christ if I ask you to go to the wedding of canaa would you know the name of the couple that got married it's been 2,000 years and we still do not know the name of the couple which tells you how important it is that God be present at your marriage it's so important that their names are not important come on 7 Days that's how long they've been there that's why they need so much wine do you understand the significance of why Christ is there only at the petition of his mother and the minute she tells him that they are out of wine and he says my hour has not yet come what does this have to do with me she says do whatever he tells you she already knows that the minute she says that his name goes from being Jesus the son of Mary and Joseph to The Great I Am he's decided to go public early at her insistance he is the seventh jar that blood and water will not flow from my side to the crucifixion so I will fill the six jars you have here because six is incomplete and seven is the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple seven jars notwithstanding six jars 30 gallons of wine each 180 gallons Catholic wedding just saying my brother and sister in Christ here in lies the point this is why you and I must get married in the church or eventually come back to the church to get your marriage blessed because we must be physically in front of him that's why the sacraments are physical because he came back incarnational that means he was here physically that means we had to participate physically the question for you and I is is our name in The Book of Life or is it not yes or no you made heaven or you didn't it begins and ends with do you know the Commandments yes or no it's all about your soul my soul do you know the Commandments it's not going to be good enough to say well there's thou shall not kill heck of a start there there's got that Mom and Dad thing oh yeah I got to love God three out of 10's not going to make it because if you break any of the other seven you broke the first one and the problem in the world today is is that we trample on the eth commandment and don't even know it because we haven't committed it and there is no excuse for not knowing scripture there is no excuse for saying the church didn't teach me there is no excuse well they never mentioned it in school it's your soul it's mine you will be held accountable on the day of our judgment it's me and him there will be no arbitrator there's no attorney there's no counsel there will be no friends and when he asked me do you know my Commandments Mark I would like to hear them because you sure had easy problems trampling them what will be my answer well I didn't really understand it you know the priest kept talking about it differently I no I'm I'm I'm talking to you I named you in your mother's womb I gave you a soul do you understand that bearing false witness every time you open your mouth publicly against someone else to lower their standing you have broken the commandment and to receive communion is now you've doubled down on immortal sin just that simple you can call it what you want to call it and justify it because it's true father got nothing to do with it nobody said that you're the the judge the good Lord said I will judge you he just said I will pay you I will repay you according to your Deeds my brother and sister in Christ when you and I go to work work is the means for people to know that we are tied to Christ I tell you what my brother and sister in Christ if you don't know the 10 I can only tell you that's on you I know my 10 and I am guarded excessively about them because I know that'll actually separate me from our savior and I cannot receive the Eucharist or the sacraments of the church until I have joined him back if I want my name in The Book of Life I need to know the 10 once you get past the 10 ask yourself if somebody was to describe you in 10 words or less I mention your name would they what would be the first words out of their mouth would it be about your hobbies oh he's a fisherman he's a hunter she's this she's that would it be your work ethic would it be your personality would it be your temperament at what point would they say anything about your faith if we're that far down the food chain we got a problem if somebody goes to describe You by name and the word Catholic doesn't show up to numbers 3 4 5 6 7 whatever that's problematic because the problem is the ways of the world according to St Paul in Rome 2,000 years ago is still true today at the end of the day your name is got to be in the book of life it's going to be predicated on how you act it'll be predicated on your ability to withstand and take the hits to receive the Commandments and follow them so when somebody meets you if I asked them to describe you would they say that was a disciple of Jesus Christ that woman is Catholic that husband is Catholic and then they describe them brothers Christ would they see it in the way you and I walk would they see it in the way you and I talk would they see it in the way we go about our jobs drive around town would they know it by just reading the emails over our shoulders would they know it by the text message that you and I sent just in the past week my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this your name and my name is all will'll ever have we came into the world on this day and we're going on home this day it's non-negotiable my brother in Christ I am begging you I study the saints that have gone before us in our church fathers and Judgment Day is not a picnic I'm going to repay you for what you have done what will he say to you and I will he say to you and I welcome home my child I have waited in and waited for you I was so pleased to see you bring your children to mass I was so pleased in how you educated them I am so please thank you thank you thank you for introducing me to your family your children your friends and at work at the tip of your tongue was my sign of the cross in my name welcome welcome to the table of all of my children and my Saints for all eternity or will he look at you and me and say depart from me I don't even know your name Amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

listen as in to just listen I know you may hear it but the question is are we listening the years's about 1835 Mr Alexander is worried he has reason to be he has been when our country became a country he has been through the wars even that of 1812 but now he's concerned about a recession he's concerned about a depression he's worried about his two daughters they have come to me him and they have told Mr Alexander man we feel the country is about to slide he said it is he said our president Mr Martin Van buan who he affectionately referred to as Martin Van ruin whatever he touches it gets ruined he said well I need to speak to your two husband William and James he brings them together and he says look I am not only concerned about my daughters I am concerned about you and your well-being he said I do understand that you are both entrepreneurial type guys and you have your own business one of you William if you will makes candles James you make soap but here's the problem our country is going to go through a recession it's going to be grave we haven't recovered from the war as a result of such animal fat is dominant in our time of of which you make candles and you James make soap I'm going to ask you to combine your services it'll be about $3500 each so that y'all can learn to work together you will not survive just on candles and just on soap but you may survive together I just need you to listen at the end of the day he's convinced them $3,500 each they have combined they have starting to do well the recession hits the depression follows man the country is on its heels albe it it's only the 1830s as a result man there're starving to make ends meat but they survive on their way out as a result of it to grab a quick bite to return to work they decided just happen stance they left the machine that makes the soap running they leave it run as a result to such and coming back in next thing they notice it's put so much air into the soap that it begins to float but yes that's right and you do know that soap it's the soap that we've made a commercial that it's 99 whatever perc pure you and I call it Ivory soap you know what's amazing my brothers and sisters in Christ it's not because of an accident per se that their company now begins to flourish it becomes one of the most dominant companies in the world today as a matter of fact at one time they they did so many commercials during these little drama shows during the mornings and afternoons that they now became soap operas yes you know William and James you know him as William Proctor and James gamble is Proctor and Gamble all because they listen long ago to their father-in-law Mr Alexander that is exactly that gospel three to four times the good Lord uses the word you're not listening now stop he says if you are listening then they will understand if people don't listen then you need to get two or three in their name if they still don't listen then you are to go to the church now remember you are a first century Jew you know exactly the conversation the good Lord is speaking only to the 12 my brother and sister in Christ he has just made Peter The Rock he has just told Peter that not only are you the rock but he has now called him Satan and then not only did he call him Satan but he called him a stumbling Stone scandalon in Greek my brother and sister in Christ Peter is going from the height of height of keys and his name Chang to being called Satan to a stumbling Stone and now he's telling them that when two or three of you gathered in their name whatever y'all decide for the church is how it will be in heaven and on Earth he didn't say that's how it will be on earth and subsequently in heaven he did just the opposite he said it there be this way in heaven and subsequently that way on the earth he's telling them you better make sure and listen now remember Matthew is a devout Jew Matthew is a Roman citizen he is a tax collector that means he knows several languages he understands money he also has a lot of it as a result of it the Jews don't like him because he collects money from the Jews the Rome doesn't like him because he's probably wealthier than most of the centurions and governors of their day but one thing there is about Matthew that nobody speaks to is that he was pretty straightforward he would he would not charge somebody more than others just because my brother Christ whenever you read Matthew's gospel he's all about the facts you and I know him as a Jew we've run across him at the tax table we've met him out when he's talking to the Jews we met him when he's speaking to the Romans we may have even been by his house when he speaks he is all about the facts it's this it cost you this you do that it's going to be this that's the law that's what the Jews believe if you look at his gospel five times he breaks the gospel up he talks about The Sermon on the Mount he talks about the apostles he talks about Parables and how Christ explained it and and now he's using the word eklesia in Greek he's referring to the church listen to me he's talking about a place to a Jew you and I would have said he either means the temple or wherever the people gather one or the other he's now talking about Christ in his church so that wherever I am you must also be my brother and sister in Christ he's telling them you better listen to me because you are the church and therefore whatever you bind and he's telling the apostles this now remember only Peter got the keys there is a difference but how they now have the full authority of the church so that James and John and Philip and Bartholomew and Simon and thus and youu maias and you too uh uh Simon uh the the Lesser James the Lesser my brother Christ he's telling them you need to listen because whatever you tie down is how it will be my brother Christ go back in scripture all of our best players know how to listen what would it have been if Noah had turned and said man build a boat man you're talking a year years there's not a cloud in the sky what if Noah just simply refused to listen what if the Blessed Mother albe it at the age of 14 man I'm sor sorry Angel I hear what you have to say that's beyond me my brother and sister in Christ what if the good thief dismiss in his heart of hearts does not listen to what the good Lord is talking to him internally man they're about to break his shin so that he will suffocate and when everybody's around and everybody's listening he proclaims out loud Lord just remember me have a thought of me just have a glimpse of me a recollection he is seconds before he loses his life he will go into convulsions and lose his mind and his thoughts but he makes one Proclamation because he listened in his heart of hearts that that truly had to be the Son of God my brother and sister in Christ it had to impact longinus because no sooner than he passes longinus makes the Proclamation truly that man's the Son of God Rome was listening too it cost him his job and his retirement his money and his Prestige and within two years he'll be beheaded by the same men that followed him into battle as they track him down to return his head back to Pilot my brother and sister in Christ but for everyone who listens there's always somebody that just fails to understand pilate if he had just listened to his wife and let that man go he's a holy man I've had dreams of him I've had nightmares do not pass judgment on him did he honestly believe that pulling out a bowl and towel and washing your hands and you're exonerated when you could have let him go and for decades and years the blind will see and the lame will walk and the dead will rise but yet he refused to listen my brother and sister Christ what about the other three guest when he's on the cross and the good thief says Remember Me Lord instead of complaining and saying if you're a God get down and bring me down with you man what what has he got to lose he's going to die in seconds why wouldn't he just stand up and say man I'm a Gambling Man yes Lord so be it remember me too he refused to listen to a guy he had been a crime with for over 40 years they have butchered and murdered people at the drop of a hat you know what's amazing my brothers and sisters in Christ is those two thieves actually met Christ 30 years earlier according to St Augustine and St anel that's right when when Joseph gets the word take Mary and her son and flee the only place to go is through the desert if you go go by water it's expensive it's public if you go by the desert the chances of being seen are nominal except by the thief that controls the desert dismus made his dad look like a Boy Scout according to the church fathers they do cross paths Christ is 2 years old he's still Christ and when they meet dismus tells gestos the bad thief if you will we need to let this one go look at him if God could come down that's how he would look have you seen a more beautiful child let's let him go and then he says to Christ Remember Me this day should our paths ever cross the good thief bad thief wasn't listening then he asked for 40 pieces of silver of which his buddy paid him to allow them to go through and now at the crucifixion seconds before his death one more opportunity to Proclaim Christ the savior of the world and he stiff arms it my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how good of a listener are you and I my brother and sister Christ do you and I listen when the church speaks do we well let's see when the good Lord in his church speaks about going to confession when when's the last time you've been the church tells us in Proverbs that the average holy person I'm not saying you're not holy send seven times a day don't go to confession for a month that's over 200 sins don't go for a year it's almost 2400 sins what type of relationship you have with anybody much less god with over 200 sins on your soul my brother and sister in Christ tell me in scripture where it says I can go directly to Jesus Christ and I can bypass the law that you put into fact Hebrews 5 I will choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon themselves yet how many times do I hear no I I I'm just going to the big guy well that's novel however how many confessions did the good Lord hear while he was on Earth scripturally none how many baptized none but yet we no longer want to listen because we know better St John in the gospel go out and heal them and forgive them of their sins St Paul to the Corinthians reconciliation has been given to us what I don't understand is why it's so hard to just listen and do it I don't care if you pre-shop I don't care if you cherry pick seven times a day if you've been over 30 days how much further will you wait do you curse more are you moody or temperamental are you angry then I can tell you you're too far removed do you listen to the church when she talks to you about making sure you go to mass and making sure you receive the Eucharist my brothers Christ I understand what's going on in the world but at some point you and I need to receive the Eucharist it's the body blood soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ it is not a relic it's not Theory it's not conjecture that's a lie and stop buying it you know it's the truth I can feel it and don't tell me you can't either that's why you come here wherever he is we must be this is his home and we must receive him we go nowhere without him my brother and sister in Christ are you listening to the church when they say you need to get the marriage an olded because that's not Catholic answers to divorce it's the church's way of rectifying what was a natural marriage men and women get married all the time and a sacramental marriage one that got married in the church under the right pretext my brother and sister in Christ are you listening to the church when she speaks not just about the Eucharist about the anointing of the sick about getting your child baptized you want your child to have eternal life yes or no they had to circumcise 8 days old Peter told you and I in in First Peter circumcision baptism is the new circumcision they circumcise to be blessed in the removal of the sin so therefore why do you wait to be baptized so that you can acknowledge Christ but yet you carry the sin of Adam and Eve my brother and sister in Christ think for a second do you listen to one another when they speak look in the world today let me ask you rhetorically when you sit down to visit with somebody and they begin to talk are you listening let's see when your phone dings do you pick it up in the middle of the conversation to return a text my brother and sister Christ are you on the phone already and responding to a text that somebody sends you in the middle of the conversation you can't be listening when you sit at the dinner table or have a cup of coffee and that phone dings do you pick it up to read it even though they're sitting right across from you what do you think the message to that person that they just set upon you just fit me in when you can catch every other word oh I get it you're multitasking you're a poor juggler stop it sit at the table with your family and friends and give them there your undivided attention and when they come to you with an issue will you do me the favor and just listen don't jump in and speak over them don't jump in and tell them how to fix it or tell them man you think this is bad wait till this part happens my brother and sister in Christ how well do you and I listen when you're you want to hear what Christ has to say to you and I turn off your radios turn off your cell phones turn off your television remember Moses and Elijah only hear Christ speak in the quiet every time Christ wanted to speak to his father in he would go to the mountains to pray so that he could be alone how much time do you spend in adoration I don't care if it's 5 minutes I don't care if you go in ginu flect and leave all I'm saying is it's directly proportional to the peace in your life you want peace in your life then learn to listen only way you can learn to listen is to give him time and the only way that you'll give him time is that you must go to his house or wherever he's present you can't have it both ways you can't pray the Rosary in front of the television are you kidding me my brother and sister in Christ you need to understand the church is true you need to understand that her teachings regardless of the inequities of those that are in control of the church doesn't change the authenticity of holy mother church at the end of the day she is true and the Eucharist is the source and summon of Our Lives my brothers Christ I am begging you to start to listen to what the church has been talking to you about our teachings I need you to begin to listen to what people say on whether it's for the election or on being set on television I need you to start to listen for the truth and if you somehow another believe that killing our children is in any way acceptable to our Savior oh oh my God then you're disordered and you are lost I don't want to hear the argument that I'm more than a one issue person what other issue is there oh please you're going to tell me it's okay to kill my children and in the same mouth tell me healthc care you're telling me you're going to kill my children but I got a great economic plan I'm the god of Economics I'm the god of supply and demand did I not tell Peter you need coins for taxes the first fish you catch take the coins and go pay Peter opens the fish pulls out not one but two Peter says I don't need the second one he says pay for me so now I need to understand well he's got it they understand well I just don't like what he does or I don't like this my brother's Christ we go nowhere without Christ he is everything he is in every thought every action every word that we do he knows your thoughts before you do them he knows how you drive how you respond how you get up how you lay down he knows your prayers and your intention he understands every thought so how is it that you and I simply refuse to listen my brother and sister in Christ I'm begging you the fight in this world has nothing to to do with a donkey very little to do with an elephant and everything to do with the lamb listen to me you are either a follower of Jesus Christ in his church or you are not the cafeteria is closed it's time for you and I to make our bed and it will be made as you and I leave it and I leave you with the words of Martin Luther Martin Luther King excuse me Martin Luther I digress Martin Luther King I have found it true I have found it true that I will not teach myself anything I will not teach myself anything as long as I'm speaking if I want to learn anything then I must remain silent and learn to listen she's true she's always been true it's now you and time for you and I now to plant our flag amen amen the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

forgiveness forgiveness his name is Edwin he lives in the year 1840 1860 and I have to tell you he is absolutely the greatest actor of his day Bar None there is nothing this man can't do drama murder comedy he's got it all you think the actors of today they hold n a candle to Edwin I got to tell he is so good at what he does he's not only popular in the United States Edwin is equally popular in England it's the 1840s 1860s I mean in two countries he did MC Beth for 100 consecutive nights pack every night as a result you know what's amazing about Edwin Live and Let Live he lives a simple life power money Prestige Fame he's got it all there's nowhere Edwin can go without people seeing him want to talk to him get his autograph if pictures were available back in the day they surely would have taken him man he couldn't walk down the street on his own that's Edwin he really never cared he was a very forgiving heart man life is going good one day he's decided to take a train out of DC and he's waiting on the platform you know you've seen it in the old western movies right that train starts coming in that coupling is a little too big and as a result you see that train come in starts to shake same way when it takes off until that momentum kind of catches up well the platforms back in those days would Shake cuz they're attached to the rails as a result man the platform is packed and every how could you not miss Edwin I mean everybody knows him they're looking they're pointing they're staring Edwin stays in the back doesn't want to be bothered loves people but rather be left alone all of a sudden man the train's coming into the station and man there's a blood curling scream only a mother could yell as a result man everybody is's Frozen she's yelling for her boy he is Fallen between the tracks he's about to get caught between the cars she is paralyzed with fear and she is screaming for her son nobody moves not one Les Edwin Edwin begins to fight through the crowd pushing and whatever he gets to the rail he sees the child wraps his foot around the rail grabs it with one hand reaches between the cars and pulls him there is no way he should have made it that's that one gives the child back to his mom stands him up the the mother can barely get the words thank you out balling her eyes out the little boy is petrified with fear Edwin's decided just to walk away man the crowd couldn't believe it if anybody who could have lost everything that's Edwin you know what's amazing Edwin lived his whole life like that about the year 1864 1865 Edwin's brother gets in so much trouble it leaks on towards Edwin to a point that it cost him everything you know when Edwin died not a penny to his name lived in the same House wore only two sets of clothes you know when they found him dead they had a letter on him and everybody would tell you the only thing he cared about was that letter didn't care he lost money didn't care that his brother ruined his reputation didn't care about anything it was a letter from a general working on General Grant staff a thank you letter now listen thanking him for saving the life of a young boy whose father the young boy's father had been killed by Edwin's brother you see Edwin's last name is booth and his brother is none other than John wils Booth the young boy he said was Robert Todd Lincoln the woman that screamed was Mary Lincoln that's Edwin forgive and forget they said when his brother did what he did and assassinated the president he just felt shame for him he felt sorry for him and for the country to lose such a great man my brothers and sisters in Christ that is the gospel on this side right here my brother in Christ My Brother and Sisters in Christ it's all about forgiveness listen to what the good Lord says You must forgive now make sure you understand the setting and understand what the numbers and all mean my brother in Christ according to tradition small T Peter is having a conversation about Judas he's about had all he can stand he's tired of forgiving him him and Judas didn't get along since day one as a result of in he's saying how many times Lord seven times Peter's trying to shorten the number Peter's counting the good Lord now if you translate it correctly I would tell you that the translation is probably closer to 7 time 70 and not 77 but hear me out this is why I believe this to be true my brother Christ go back to um Cain and Abel if you and I are a first century Jew numbers are important seven is the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple three is the most perfect number in the world Father Son and Holy Spirit so sevens are important if you go back to Cain and Abel there'll be several years where Cain will be looking over his shoulder for what he did to Abel in other words there'll be consternation anxiety and worry if you go a few more Generations there's a guy by the name of lamech who kills somebody in a heated B uh brawl and as a result it's 7 time 70 see how long it's starting to get in other words you committed the sin that's your F there's your Penance you commit the same sin again now your Penance is growing so now my brother and sister in Christ if you go into the Book of Daniel as a Jew you and I know that 490 is the ultimate and forgiveness that if you want to be totally resolved from the sin just pay up 490 years seven times 70 my brother and sister in Christ This is why the good Lord is saying you got to forgive Peter like the ultimate Jew 7 time 70 490 years that means you got to cut it loose and let it go because if you don't then I'm not going to pull the wood plank out of your eye until you have remitted all that you owe in the spiritual prison Heaven's Hospital Purgatory because no one enters Heaven until you are perfectly clean Revelations 21 go back and read Matthew 5 my brother and sister Christ Heaven's hospital was agreed to by the Jews they believed in purgatory what I'm trying to tell you is he's telling Peter be careful you don't offer forgiveness now you're going to owe me later and you will not get out until you paid the last penny now my brothers of Christ now stop you heard the parable about the money that was owed remember every time you hear a parable but this guy owed a huge debt remember look for the twist in a parable something that's not logical not reasonable and here's the issue when you hear huge debt if you and I were to go back to the original language what you and I would find out is that he owed 10,000 talents stop 10,000 talents that's a gold coin is one Talent you and I would be worker bees in the days of the of the Jews in the Rome we would be paid a daer a day the size of a dime the whole dime is yours to spend any way you would like a day get sick get hurt not making it no dime for you you work a whole year you get 365 daer one gold Talent is worth 6,000 daer think about what is that if my 14 15 years of salary 10,000 talents that you owe the king my brother sister in Christ it's almost like 60 million days 160 some odd 60,000 years of income that's how much he owed the king the number is exorbitant you and I as a Jew said wait a minute 10,000 talents you're lucky you see one in a lifetime see it not get it he's saying that the debt was owed was so great and the King absolved it provided that you gave it You Paid It Forward but if you don't I'm going to get it back from you in either this world or the world to come so when he goes to the guy do you know how much he owes a 100 Diner a 100 days and he's throwing him in the debtor's prison remember there's no prison for for um for murder you just they just kill you debtor's prison is just for debts and the only way you get out is if you pay your debt or someone pays it for you so to throw someone in jail for 100 dinary when you hold 10,000 talents 60 million days 160,000 years that's when the good Lord loses it that's when the king says this is my righteous anger my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players understand it think about it for a second you're Peter man you're Peter you you are going to be the leader of his church for all eternity statues will be made keys in your hand the Bible in the other if you will and as a result you will make bound on Heaven you will Bound in heaven what you bound on Earth he didn't say it the other way he didn't say you bind it on Earth and you can do it up here too he's say wherever you bind it it'll be bound that way on me too my brother in Christ Peter has his name changed to Kaya Boulder massive in Aramaic in Greek it means something different but the they speak in Aramaic the apostles do to the to uh to Jesus massive Boulder it also means foundation stone to a Jew you and I know that's what the temple was built on he told Peter man you're going to be my Boulder which I'll build my temple my Tabernacle you know I know exactly where Peter sit he sits number one now listen Peter is denied him three times if the good Lord doesn't make a purposeful effort to forgive Peter think about what Peter's doing after the crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection what does Peter go do he goes fishing he's going back to his old way of life he's not coming back he's lost he only knows what he knows the good Lord is is gone and then all of a sudden they're fishing there's only seven of them maybe that's because they were only seven Fisher I don't know but I'll tell you this he swims 100 yards to sit next to a charcoal fire the same type of fire in which he denied Our Savior only twice in scriptures that word used charcoal and as a result of it Peter do you love me now all the apostles are there and Peter says well Lord you you know I do Peter do you love me yeah you know I do L Peter do you love Love Me Lord you know everything you know I love you I hope so Peter Cuz someday they're going to take you where you don't want to go and dress you like you never been dressed and they're going to do it upside down and for three hours you will Proclaim my name if he does not forgive Peter do we have a rock of which to build our church do you know Mary Magdalene went to our good Lord according to tradition big tea not little tea three different times people are pulling away the world's pulling her money's pulling her fame's pulling her Fortune her looks are pulling her away she finally gets in front of our savior if he does not help forgive her which we actually believe is the same woman that's about to be stoned in which he writes the sins of the other people or the symbol of the sins into of the ground will she get up on that day and go and go look for him on Easter Sunday or would she say man what what's the point whatever if he does not forgive her she will not be the first to see the Risen Christ my brother and sister Christ but because he does forgive her he's telling you and I that no matter how far you have fallen I will always forgive you provided you come back to me you've got to at least turn your head and acknowledge me do you know they said Peter cried so much for those three days that when Christ was gone that they said the creases in his cheek never healed my brother and sister in Christ if he doesn't knock Paul from the horse or Chariot because it says he fell to the ground he fell at distance Paul had plenty of money Saul back in those days my brother and s in Christ does he become the Paul that you and I know where in other words he's bringing converts back to the church my brothers Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later how forgiving are you and I to other people no father you don't understand they have gotten on Facebook they have gotten on the internet they have gotten together at dinners and coffees and sat around the table and have trashed me do you think they didn't do it to the good Lord did they not do it to the Blessed Mother you're pregnant and where was Joseph your son thinks he's the Messiah you don't think they spoke ill of the good Lord or Peter or James or John or Nathaniel or Bartholomew or Thomas or Matias or for James the Lesser James the Greater My Brother and Sisters in Christ how forgiving are you and I when somebody puts our name on the Internet and Facebook and trashes us how forgiving are we or do we want our pound of Flesh and then some do we want our restitution does the good Lord say if they hit you on your left cheek to give them your right do you understand that for me to hit you on your right cheek I need to backhand you he's talking about verbal my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to walk away do you honestly want to allow them to attach themselves to you for days and weeks and months and years so much so that the mere mention of that person's name will cause you to get so mad you could beat them within an inch of their life and walk away with a smile on your face and the debt and the regret will pound you for the rest of your life my brothers and sister in Christ will you be able to forgive it and let it go when somebody says man they've abused you and woe to them who's raised a hand to you and if it was a priest then the what waits for him you won't know part of my brother and sister in Christ are you willing to walk away and when you say you forgive somebody it's it there ain't no going back to the well don't get in an argument and then go back and bring it back up and say well let me tell you you think that's great well here let me tell you what I thought when you did this yes or no you either forgave them or you didn't your word is your bond that's all we've got it is hard but I got to tell you until you learn to forgive one another you might as well put that suction right up to your heart you could be on the most pristine day you could be on the beach you could be walking in the fields you could be in the deer stand the Doug mine the ball field you could be walking with your loved ones somebody mentions one name you could take a tire iron out and finish the business that's when you know it's gone too far my brother and sister Christ when you're tired of being tired tired of being tired you will finally cut it Loose because why did you allow somebody to get so attached to you that you can't E 10 years later you're still harboring it five years later two weeks two months I understand it takes time I get it too but at some point you got to cut it loose and Let It Go I mean how much more time are you allowing them to roll around in this real estate your mind is very expensive and you're allowing them to run rentree why because the devil has put the thought and you've entertained it and now they take with you no matter where you go you could be this city another city this country or another this job or another this relationship or another and it follows you because you haven't cut it loose and said Lord I'm tired I'm tired of them I'm tired of the family I'm tired of the relationship I'm tired of the people at work I'm tired of the people that I deal with I'm tired of my neighbors at some point when you're tired of being tired I pray that you cut it Loose because at the end of the day they're not spending one second worried about you you're not even on the radar never have been never will be and they do not deserve any more of your time enough they have taken enough of your life cut it loose and Let It Go be done with them and when that thought enters your head give it back to the good Lord I don't care if you got to do it a thousand times in a day the more you pray the less the evil one will return my brother and sister in Christ there's a great story and I leave you with this there's a cab driver who 20 years ago was well above the curve he decided to get his own cab and spend all the extra money putting thermoses in the back hot chocolate coffee cold drink several different newspapers he got so good at what he did that when people would come to the airport they'd actually call him Uber 20 years before he had a clientele that he never even had to show up for the airport he just had to wait for the calls one day he picks this guy up and he says I got to tell you ever since I've seen what you're doing this is utterly amazing he said man I got coffee back here I got I got the Wall Street Journal I got this I got USA Today I got what I want he said man no problem I just love what I do he's driving along he gets caught behind a truck a garbage truck true story he said man that garbage truck pulls out Cuts him off the guy in the back he's already lost his control he said man I can't believe that b b believe believe guy did that cab driver never says nothing the guy gets out of the truck takes the garbage and starts yelling and screaming and throwing it all about the car God never budges goes around and keeps going finally the guy in the back seat can gets his composure and says okay stop you mean to tell me that what you just went through didn't bother you has it pissed you off he said just because someone throws garbage at my feet nobody told me to pick it up same is true for you and I cut it loose and Let It Go Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

judging judging his name his name is Al he is a banjo playing disciple he loves to sing Al Al's a composer uh Al's a jailbird let's just be honest and the problem Al is having albe it the 1930s is that he doesn't play well with the other inmates he's been kind of cast side he he he doesn't fit in okay he's been ostracized and it's just more than just being made aloof when matter of fact when they walk by Al they'll make a comment some may spit some may giving the proverbial Brush by some may literally push him by the time he gets back to his cell people will walk by and throw things in it Al is being judged he's being judged harshly be that as it may he is where he is as a matter of fact he's decided that someday if I could just get the inmates to kind of understand me I think it would work out better he decides to put a band together of course he'll be play the banjo he's got a couple others to help join him he will actually sing a song and composes a song called mother absolutely without question a huge flop when I tell you it tanked it tanked matter of fact he thought he got pushed back before you think he got cursed before maybe spit on things thrown in his cell nothing like it's happening now man he's kind of concerned because things are getting a little sideways later that week two cells down from a his friend starts to yell out in the middle of the night he yells out the guards yell back be quiet next thing you know he yells out again they tell him to be quiet he's screaming in pain they telling him to be quiet Al yells out for him they tell him to be quiet man next thing you know that next morning they finally take him to the infirmary man lo as you would have it bleeding ulcer dies in The infirmary man the inmates are besides themselves they have decided that they're going to have a strike a sitdown strike you work in the yard sit down you work in the laundry you'll sit down you work in the construction sit down you make the plates you sit down but the problem is every inmate knows you pull that game you're going into the Solitaire no if ANS or butts about it Al can't handle Solitaire that's the problem claustrophobic can't deal with it he goes on strike he may not even make it out of solitary as a result of such he backs up from it that night from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. because Al knows what waits for him the next day man can I tell you they said he was shaking so bad that you could actually walk by and see the Sheep pulled over his head looks like the Ripple in a wave in a sea in an ocean they said you could hear him crying all night long they said if you would go touch his sheet the next morning stop and wet now I'm not here to judge Al I'm not here to judge Al in his prior life you know at one time alance held Chicago in the palm of his hand at one time he was the greatest warlord they could have ever imagined and the greatest Crime Boss he was the greatest Bootlegger of his day he dies 15 years later from venial disease I'm not here to judge that issue either and you know him as alap but what happened to Al Capone is exactly that is exactly what took place in that gospel everybody's judging everybody and everybody's judging the owner how dare you spend your money like you'd like I mean it's your money surely I can spend it like I would like my brother and sister in Christ now I need you to stop for a minute you're a first century Jew Matthew is the author of this gospel he is the writer of the Gospel the good Lord is the author every time he speaks Matthew always has a propensity to speak towards money he's a tax collector he is a Jew and he's also a Roman and as a result of such he has the privilege as a result he writes this about a parable the good Lord says now I want you to listen to the parable the man goes out and the way you kept time in the Roman day in the day of Christ was 6: a.m. is the start of the day the third hour is at 9: the 6 hour is at noon the 9 hours at 3: and the 12th hour is back at 6:00 p.m. now make sure you understand he goes out of his Vineyard and he goes into the marketplace at the break of day and says I'll pay you a daer remember this is Matthew he's the one that talked about 10,000 talents last weekend a daer is the size of a dime that's what you get for one day's work a whole dime he says if you go now I'll pay you he notices nobody comes and then he goes out again at 9:00 and then all of a sudden he pays them a dime too if they come and work he goes out at noon he comes back out at 3: and then last but not least an hour before he says I'll go one more time and he comes and then when it's time to pay him he pays starting with 5:00 then 3:00 then then noon then 9 and then the early a.m. hours now my brother and sister in Christ just stop for a minute if you and I were to judge that owner would you and I make the argument well it's it's really not fair you see you see because I've been out there for 12 hours I live through the heat of the day you gave me a daer I mean maybe I could see the 9:00 guys but I got to tell you starting noon they should get half of theer I don't even want to speak about what 3:00 and as far as 5:00 you shouldn't even gone and gotten them every time you hear a parable listen for the twist what is it that doesn't seem logical is it logical for you and I to say that it's acceptable to pay a guy that shows up for one hour it's going to take him 20 minutes to figure out what he's got to do another 20 minutes find out where he's got to go well man you only got 20 minutes left to work now here's the point of the first reading my ways are greater than your ways my thoughts are greater than our thoughts the distance is even greater than the distance from Heaven to the earth now you may think it was logical to complain and judge the owner but here's the irony the good Lord is using this to talk about what it meant for him when he created the world he's saying in the very beginning at 6 a.m. if you will I brought Adam and Eve into the world I brought people at 900 a.m. I bring into the world Noah so that we can save families at noon I bring in the world Abraham to save Nations at three I bring in Moses so that he can begin to save people and then at 5:00 I sent my son into the world to save all the Gentiles that have been you and I you and I are the 5:00 people so therefore if we just judge and said we shouldn't get paid he's saying the reason I came at 5: because if I don't come you won't make Heaven it comes 6:00 so stop worrying at 6:00 a.m. whether you made it you made it and as long as you made it what difference does it make if I bring others in whether it's at 9: noon 3 or I send my son into the world that's why he's driving home to point why are you so envious did you not make heaven then what is your complaint it's your soul that I'm coming here for what difference does it make if I decide to go back into the world and it cost me this so I can save even more of my lost children why are you judging me my brother and sister in Christ and if you listen to that last sentence are you envious every Jew that just heard that would have literally taken a step back and said did he just say what I thought he did why are you envious of what I've done stop the translation for a Jew when the good Lord was speaking he would have spoken Greek but to the Jews it would have been an Aramaic my brother and sister in Christ he said did you look at me with an evil eye did you look at me through an evil eye stop go all the way back to Genesis in the Garden of Eden every Jew knows that when they see the tree when they see the tree they desire it they become jealous and envious and they want the tree even though God told them not to eat of it therefore my brother and sister in Christ This is how pride gets started I see the tree I want it it will taste good lust of the flesh lust of the eyes lust of the Flesh and at the end of the day it'll make me wise like God pride is like a pitchfork it has three times that's why it's the table ET for all the seven deadly sins he saying if you commit the sin of judging me then you are looking through the evil eye this is where you and I get the term you were looking at it through the eyes of Adam and Eve who got caught up in Pride and look where it landed them My Brother and Sisters in Christ my brothers Christ listen to me he's saying that if you judge what difference will it be to me than Adam and Eve everybody who judg Christ in scripture go back and think everybody who judged Christ Herod the Great when they told him they being the wise men when they told him look we have come therefore the newborn Kings what is the title of King Herod King of the Jews so when they say we're looking for the newborn king of the Jews he becomes beside himself so much so he issues a proclamation that it must have taken about a year year and a half for the wise men to make it they come from Sheba in Serbia from Persia it's a Year's Journey at least so now he issues a decree everybody from two years down must all be killed he judges looking for Christ he takes his own life as well as the white the life of his favorite wife one of his sons and all of his cabinet he judged Christ he took his own life pilate judges Christ and believes that by the mere washing of his hands he's exonerated 5 to 10 years later he too will take his life arguing over the rights of water with the same Jews that asked him to condemn Christ he too took his life Herod Antipas a Rel to King Herod when pilate said he didn't want to judge him they sent him to Antipas Antipas sends him back to pilate antibus takes his own life and then Judas the coup de Judas it have been better you never been born he called him the son of predition my brother and sister Christ he hangs himself everybody who judges Christ takes condemnation upon themselves my brother and sister in Christ the whole point of the gospel and the readings all the way back from Isaiah to St Paul to the good Lord speaking through Matthew judging is only left for the good Lord remember this my brother and sister in Christ and don't forget when you and I judge people we've made two fatal mistakes one we have literally told the good Lord step away Lord I got this I was there in the beginning I helped you create the the world I did it so in six days I rested with you I know everybody's name in their mother's womb I know every option that they may have had I know every decision they made I know everything about the information I can judge them that's our first mistake we've made ourselves unequal with God not to mention the condemnation of the Judgment itself and then the second biggest mistake is that we will now be judged as a equal that means it's just not your and our sins going back and forth we're now going to be judged on how we judged others as in the shoes of God my brother and sister in Christ you know they say that Purgatory has seven levels I think it's seven because the Jews believe that's the most complete number in the world seven days of creation seven years to build the temple the bottom level of purgatory they say is where most preached in religious land because they have more understanding the bar has been raised well let me help you there's going to be plenty of room down there for everybody who also has judged because you have now raised the bar you have made yourself an equal to God my brother Christ think about it how many times it works have you gone somewhere got a cup of coffee just having a cup of coffee and we're judging our co-workers our boss the people that come the people that go how many times do we judge them just flippantly I can't believe he did that or she did that I can't believe he's doing this I don't understand what they're doing those little statements or sin and now that you begin to share it and begin to bear false witness which is against the eighth commandment and you do so in such a manner that you keep going to the well well let me tell you what I think about him well let me tell you why I think that's wrong every time you and I step out and judge our neighbor the condemnation and the bar begins to rise why because we're going against the Commandment love God and love of neighbor when you bear false witness against your neighbor it has very little to do with whether you're telling the whole truth nothing but the truth who help you God that wasn't the point bearing false witness means you and I are not true witnesses to Jesus Christ and therefore we do not believe in love of neighbor love of neighbor means you don't judge which means that at the end of the day you don't know the options they had to pull from you don't know the background so therefore if you bear false witness and condemn your neighbor your boss your coworker your parents your children My Brother and Sisters in Christ especially spouses be careful about judging your spouse when you get to work and you spread that Venom about what has happened at night because I can assure you people there will not forget and then when you go home and things are better and apologies are made nobody goes back to work and tells everybody that they just bad mouth it's all better now my brother Christ I'm telling you guard your lips especially about your spouse about your children your children guard your lips about your parents my brother and sister in Christ they put clothes on your back a roof overhead they educate you and we're still the best country in the world call it what you will but I don't see anybody leaving the United States as many as those that are coming to go live in another country my brother and sister in Christ when you and I judge we have brought condemnation not on them but on ourselves remember when we pass an opinion on somebody the opinion that's going to stick is the one that's going to be made on us my friends in Christ you know what's amazing some of the people that you think should have no reason to be nice sometimes we're nicer to total strangers than we are to our own family how many times we have a bad day and the first person that gets shot is the first person we see of our family it's reprehensible and it's got to stop I don't want to hear about the world and got the best of you because we're shooting the same people over and over and over again my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with this before you judge somebody don't just don't amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

lip service lip service it's the 1970s her name is Mary she lives in Honolulu Hawaii she's got two great parents one by by trade is a biochemist he also kind of likes to dabble and being an author of books if you will his wife the consumate mom consumate nurse and also kind of an editor of Papa's books married will tell you that she had one sister but the one thing they had in common she was Catholic and still is with a big c as a result of it she'll tell you that high school was a little tough first she starts out in Honolulu then she ends up in Australia and when you ask her what was her problem she says I'm an introverts introvert I don't even like eating by myself I won't even go out in public by myself to this day I have to have somebody with me I'd just rather be left alone her mom said but in high school she came to me and said mom I like to do two things I like the ballet and I love drama she said well you know your lifestyle would fit ballet but if you want to get into drama and theater or whatever then you better do it more than give it lip service because it's just not who you are she decides to get into a play now remember now she's in Australia and it's called Christmas in the bush you know the nickname from Australia as a result it kind of makes her kind of gives her a little bit of a name gives her a little bit of confidence a little momentum then she decides well I've got to make that leap of faith and then she finally gets in a little show called it's a little movie called a country physician A Country Practice it did okay then she found another one called like a five River Creek okay nobody saw it but that's okay she was in another show called Vietnam and then all of a sudden man the big step came man can she do it can she can she go out on that step and boy could she you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ most people don't even know what Chanel Number Five is but ever once she got her face on it the world definitely changed do you know know to this day she got the record for being paid the most money for a three-minute commercial 4 million a minute my brother and sister in Christ she was in shows like Days of Thunder she was in Golden Compass she was in the movie um Batman Forever Cold Mountain look I didn't memorize a dozen of these things I ain't even seen the movies I'm just trying to get you there yeah you know her is Mich is Nicole Kidman my brother and sister in Christ you know what's amazing about her it's her humility it's her Catholicism when they were putting her handprints and her star in you know in the in the Walk of Hollywood she said I've never been so proud to have people walk on me and then the the reporter picked up on it and he said well something about what about is that like how your Catholicism is and she said no I don't give my Catholicism lip service I'm a Catholic I'm a practicing Catholic I even go to regular confession she goes to Regular confession just to make sure you caught that matter of fact and she even got an analment from Mr Cruz my brother and sister in Christ she doesn't give it lip service that is exactly that gospel I want you to make sure you understand the good Lord is making a statement to the Pharisees and Sadducees and to the scribes that prostitutes and tax collectors will enter the kingdom before you because you pay me nothing but lip service now stop make sure you understand they are in a synagogue the people have lined the walls because they know he's going to be there there would be a certain section just for those that have the clout Pharisees Sadducees scribes and he's using what he calls a parable now remember in a parable you got to look for the twist for something that doesn't seem logical that's where he wants you to go a parable was written why because 90% of the people in the day are illiterate and the only way they can pass it on generation to generation is like passing on a story so he says there's two sons in a Vineyard one says yes and then doesn't go the other says I won't go and then does he says you are the you are the one that says I'll go but then I don't you give lip service you gave it to John the Baptist your forefathers gave it to Ezekiel you just heard it they even gave it to Jeremiah and now you're giving it to me that is why the judgment will be harsh my brother and sister in Christ look go back in scripture think of all the greatest players in our day no matter how great your power is if you give the good Lord lip service you will pay accordingly my boy pilot can you imagine you have the guy beaten to an inch of his life he's got so many beatings and scourgings that you got the unmitigated goal to say what is truth the truth is standing right in front of you you can actually touch the truth you can actually converse with the truth and you actually wash your hands in a bowl of towel and feel that exonerates you lip service but I tell you for everyone that had the power that didn't get it there's one that does get it King David the minute that that he kills that man's wife and marries her and loses a son in seven days he loses his son he's in sackcloth and Ashes he's not given good Lord lip service he knows he must repent my brother and sister in Christ no matter how grave your sin is don't all victim to giv lip service like Judas you were so depressed and slipped into Despair and you did that why because you didn't think he could ever forgive you for what you've done and you went and hung yourself and the last thing the good Lord says about you had been better you never been born you took the test and the teacher said it been better you never took the test you think you passed my brothers Christ but for every one of those there's one that knows what it means to be Allin Mary Magdalene she has all seven demons none of the Apostles had it none of the prophets had it none of the Fallen away had it pride anger gluttony lust a sloth and envy but yet she's the first to see the Risen Christ she's not giv him lip service she's all in my brother and sister in Christ it doesn't matter how how late it is in life think about the good thief man he's he's a minute away from having his legs broken and as a result he will suffocate and die an absolute miserable death all he can get out of his mouth is just remember me Lord have a thought of me a passing Glimpse or understanding he's so sorry he can't even get the word sorry out this day you will be with me in Paradise yet just next to him gestas his partner in crime he's yelling at him he's complaining if you're God get me and you off you're going to die in a minute why wouldn't you talk to him and beg for his Mercy even if you didn't think so you've lost nothing but you get you gave him lip service it doesn't matter how old you are when the good Lord calls you to change your chat direction or do something else or get more involved my brother Christ Peter is late in life he's married why why now Lord I've got my boats I've got fishing I've got my house I'm set here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother Christ do we give our good Lord lip service on what we believe do we give our good Lord lip service about being Catholic my brother and sister Christ there are seven sacraments there are non-negotiable I don't care if you like them or you don't it's not up for you and I to decide Jeremiah said it Ezekiel said it Paul said it Christ is say it and now I'm echoing it go back and read scripture Hebrews 5 I'll choose priest among men for the Forgiveness of sins no one is to take it upon himself you either in or you're out you either believe the church or you do not you got to stop negotiating what you think is reasonable and logical that's why we're in the suit this is why we have somebody running for president with a big cross on his forehead thinking somehow another it makes him Catholic how disgusting canot be that some point this has got to stop that you are either in the church or you are out it is the same with our speaker you are either Catholic or you are not you either follow the seven sacraments or you do not you either know the Commandments or you do not how in Sam Hill do you think you and I are going to make the promised land when we don't know the Big 10 do you think they know them in heaven you think they learned them after they got there it's what kept them from getting there was the fact that they didn't know and they therefore went against them my brother and sister in Christ how many times if you and I go to confession we ain't 50 ft out the door we committed the same sin that we just walked in there with we judged or we cursed or we gossiped is that not lip service Serv did you just not walk into that confessional and say bless me Father for I've sinned and I gave the sins and it's the same sin over and over and over at what point do you take yourself serious my brothers in Christ you think it's logical that somehow another the greatest sin of our day is gossip and slander but yet we don't stop doing it because we justify it it's true it's irrelevant whether it's true or not nobody made you the town crier what is truth it's him love of neighbor you broke a commandment and then try to defend it breaking it yet again now we've got multiple sins against the Commandment my brother and sister in Christ stop talking about other people stop just stop it is someone else's name as safe on your lips as our own if it's not Shame On Us My Brothers and Sisters in Christ you and I are about to embark on a great journey it's going on in our midst never has our world seen more chaos than they got it now we have seen the world tremble we are arguing about everything now there is nothing that's not there and I promise you you and I better learn to plant our flag and stop giving the good Lord lip service we we must follow his laws and his Commandments we must vote according to his laws no exceptions where are my children you don't understand Lord we got a great policy I got a great economics you have nothing without me you don't even have an essence you don't even have a thought you will not have a name and you will not be born if I don't ordain it and you got the unmitigated G to somehow another bleed on me and say you don't get it step away because there's more issues than that no you either in or you're out and I leave you with this may your actions speak so loud may your actions speak so loud that they never hear your words stay away from lip service amen amen amen there you go<\p>

anyway anyway it's the 1960 his name is Vil voil is born in Springfield Massachusetts he is one of four children Vil has three sisters and he will tell you that his life was was pretty good he said he'll tell you that his mom was a dancer and that his dad was an actually an actor matter of fact his dad was in The Magnificent Seven he played the uh he played the deputy on Bonanza and as a result of it he said you know he always kind of had an inkling about acting but at the end of the day it's all about playing ball baseball from grammar school he was enamored with it matter of fact in high school he was even that much better he told his dad one day and his dad said Son you always need to have a plan B you got to make sure you got something something behind you just in case baseball doesn't wake make it he said Dad everything else is irrelevant it's all about baseball anyway he said son it's never about baseball that's irrelevant anyway go back to grammar school he's so good at baseball his dad said look since I'm doing work for Disney I'm going to get you some work and the 1970s Vogel is so popular he's probably Disney's poster child he was in Daniel Boom he was in the Virginia he was in The Man from Uncle he did a little bit on Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island cricket cricket as a result of it man he gets a little bit and lost in space and then man his dad said now that's where you need to be be careful he said man this is where you need to be baseball's going to come and go son anyway he's decided he's going to leave and go play ball After High School he gets and he makes the Anaheim Angels minor league goes to turn a double play he gets taken out tears his rotator cuff it's all gone anyway all of a sudden his dad said now do you see why you have to make sure what's a priority to you as a result he starts getting involved in a couple movies his dad gets him involved in a couple more he's in the movies like Escape From New York executive decision he was in a remake of The Poseidon Adventure he was in overboard with gold Deon oh this is going to be ugly you know I didn't memorize a dozen of these things I'm just saying as a result of it man he's in a couple more Tango in cash as a matter of fact my brother in Christ he was in one called Backdraft he was white her in Tombstone thank you Lord for the 20 people who now know he asked my brother Christ it was Kurt Russell you know what's amazing when they interview him and they asked him man tell me about your life he said you know I thought baseball was that important anyway he said then I found out that I needed acting and then I found out that the most important thing to me was my family anyway he said if it wasn't for VHS tapes I wouldn't even have a job my brother and sister in Christ what he realizes is he found out what anyway finally means that is exactly that gospel my brother Christ the good Lord is talking to the Pharisees and Sadducees and he gives them a parable about a Vineyard about tenants and sending more tenants and then next thing you know you sending more people to get money and next thing you know they killed his son and he's saying what do you think's important anyway they get so lost in the parable they don't even realize who the owner of the kingdom is who the owner of the vineyard is who owns The Wine Press he doesn't they don't even know who owned the hour and at the end of the day he said the only thing that was important is me anyway now stop you're a first century Jew Christ is coming to the end of his life here on Earth he's been preaching for three years he is in the synagogue of Jerusalem the synagogue which would have been held by the high priest and instead of just talking to the people who have lined the walls to hear him speak he's literally tur and speaking to them and he gives them the parable every Jew there would know immediately where Isaiah sat and immediately they would recognize what Isaiah would have told them you didn't recognize who was most important you destroyed the temple you destroyed the city you destroyed the foundation and everything that's under it because you were too caught up in your world you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ they don't see the forest for the trees you know what's also amazing in that Temple he actually quotes Isaiah Isaiah is s in half for the privilege Jeremiah comes into the world and tells them the same thing that they are destroying the vineyard and they Stone him and now Christ is in the world and they're going to crucify him for telling the exact same thing and to help him understand he quotes Psalm 118 you and I would have known the Psalms backwards and forwards they wouldn't have numbered them but the first couple of words would have given us the clue that's how they did it you didn't know him by number you know him by name so therefore when he says that the in the the Cornerstone will be the structure of the church he's telling them it's from the last supper he's telling them it's the great Psalm called the Great Hal every Jew would have known it so if you didn't listen to Isaiah and you didn't listen to Jeremiah would you at least listen to me when I quote you Psalm 118 they ignore it my brother and sister in Christ go back in scripture all of our best players are those that have come to recognize that there's only one thing important anyway Paul taught you and I that it doesn't matter how much Prestige you have doesn't matter how much money you have doesn't matter where you have many chariots and many horses and a lot of land and you're also the great Pharisee taught by gel himself all that mattered to Paul as he is now Paul and no longer saw is Christ he dies in a prison he is beheaded he has only one set of clothes he has no money no Fame no fortune and all he's got is 240 lashes on his back he's got three memories of being sank on a ship he's been stoned to a point they thought he was dead he was even Cain but Brothers Christ the only thing that mattered to Paul anyway was the preaching of the Messiah Paul Peter Peter no longer cared about fishing it was more important that he proclaimed the gospel it was more important he become the Rock in which we build our church anyway Mary maglin all seven demons it didn't matter to her whether Christ had died or not she'd rather be at the tomb the next morning I'd rather be near a dead savior than live people anyway because that's all that's important do you know my brother and sister in Christ that Martha and Mary and Lazarus actually leave their home and their fortunes and all their money to become a follower of Christ my brother and sister in Christ the one that stabbed Christ longus he didn't care about his profit sharing his health benefits I'm the Centurion in that area iort I report only to Pilot I leave that day and I make it clear truly that man was the son of God that's all that mattered to me anyway so now it's 2,000 years later Brothers and Sisters in Christ there's only one thing that should matter to you and I anyway did we we make heaven or not yes or no my brother sister in Christ do and I are caught up in the world in the past week I've anointed more people than I have in the last 6 months and let me tell you not one conversation on that deathbed did anybody ask me man what what about my house my car my clothes my Camp what about my hobbies what about my shop guns what about my fishing gear what about my boat father all they cared about man is this good father am I good with you not with me with him will you hear my confession will you anoint me do you have the bread for the journey home that's all that matters anyway why are you and I so consumed about our retirement plan as if somehow another it's still going to be there why are you and I so concerned about all the trappings of our world when all of our best players only had the clothes on their back Peter left his home and for all intense purposes his family Paul will die in a prison Peter will be crucified upside down longinus will be killed about a year and a half later when they behead him when they find out who he is Martha and Mary and Lazarus will all leave and unfortunately be subject to a terrible death so my brother and sister in Christ I'm begging you ask yourself the problem is not between you and your work anyway the problem is not between you and your boss or your co-workers anyway my brother Christ you think they go home worried about what you and I think the only thing that matters is your relationship to Christ everything begins and ends with him so why is it we are so consumed about what other people say about us think about about us or write about us it does not have anything to do with them your work your income you're finished where are you going to be your profit share and your car none of these things matter I'm telling you my brother and sister in Christ only things that matters are are you keeping the Commandments do you even know them my brother and sister in Christ if you don't know them then how do you know what's going to prevent you from making the kingdom ofen my brother and sister in Christ do you know the seven sacraments why will you not go to confession I still don't understand that nowhere in scripture did Christ ever say come confess your sins to me he never said it moreover he never did it he didn't baptize anybody either so I'd like to know where it says you can go directly to the big guy he feeds 5,000 people with a few loaves of bread and fish which is about 15,000 men women and children but yet he doesn't feed any one of the people he feeds only his 12 and tells them to go feed why so people could get used to being fed by them confessions were in existence before he got here I came to fulfill the law not to change it go to confession oh my God how hard is it what is going to be your argument when you stand before him well Lord I've been coming to you all this time I know do you not read my scripture do you not follow my teachings of my church for500 years 1,500 Years everybody did the same thing you either a Jew or you were catholic until Martin Luther gets in this game nothing changed we now got 40,000 faith and don't tell me that they're all telling you the truth I've already been half of them so I'm telling you go to confession get back in the church learn the Commandments at the end of the day only one thing matters did you or did you not make it did your family make it did your children make it did your spouse make it because if not you're in hell for all eternity stop getting worked up over what people think of you what people say of you what others write about you it's irrelevant anyway and I now leave you with this Mother Teresa was right and she all often is she wrote a point called anyway people are unreasonable illogical and self-centered forgive them anyway if you are honest people will cheat you be honest anyway if you are successful you'll win false friends and true enemies succeed anyway if you build something overnight they will destroy it build it anyway give it the best you have give till it hurts because at the end of the day it was never between you and them it was only between you and him anyway Amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

Helping Hands Helping Hands the year is 1970 his name his name is Jeff Jeff is a California boy kind of California threw it through he lives in a little city called Concord his mom works for the hospital his dad is kind of a short order cook he is one of four and if you were to ask him Jeff tell me about your family he said well we're a little disordered a little disoriented he said my parents got divorced way early and he said man by the age of 10 I'd actually lived in 10 different households he said so man I was a little just disordered he said by the time I get to high school my dad is remarried so I have half brothers and half sisters if you will and he says but high school he said man high school was tumultuous he said it was just he said if you were to ask him tell me Jeff I tell you what in 10 words or less describe yourself Jeff would say I was um a loner I was a geek but not a computer geek I was just a geek I didn't even have the privilege of being a computer geek he would say that he said man I was I was so shy it was it was scary how shy I was to a point and he said man I just didn't want to be around people I didn't know how to converse he said I was the introvert's introvert he said so going through high school can you imagine and then he meets a guy by the name of Mr forworth the head of the drama the theater he said if there is one guy in my life that gave me a helping hand no strings attached he said it's forworth he said man he says why don't you come with me and be in be in the theater he said I started laugh in you want me the introverts introverts to be in a theater I don't like being around people I'm I'm afraid of my own shadow I I I just can't handle the pressure he said you know what's great Jeff about being on the in the stage you can be anything you want to be are you a good athlete he said oh absolutely not he said you can't be in the theater he said you want to be a great oror a great speaker he said man who wouldn't he said man you can't be in the theater he said man you want to be head of the student body you can be here you want to be a brainiac he said man you can be at here he convinces him to get into play called the Pacific he does well with it so much so when he finally graduates he goes to a university and I got to tell you he do he doesn't last long and he ends up having to go to the Great Lakes Academy however I will tell you this according to Tom magazine and Forbes Magazine Jeff is one of the top 10 college dropouts of all times as a result of it he gets in a little couple bit Pats and he gets a bit piece in a in a show called Bosom Buddies okay I'm going to die a miserable death I can just feel it coming as a result of it man next thing you know he gets another bit little part in a movie called The Money Pit he was in another show called Dragnet Turner and Hooch okay I didn't memorize a thousand of these then all of a sudden I'm going to tell you how good of an actor he is let me just help you he's so good of an actor he got you and I to shed tears over the losing of a soccer ball named Wilson thank you Lord for what has now fallen upon this congregation man he is the one that said man there's no crying in baseball man life is a Bo box of chocolates man he's in apolla 13 he's on the Green Mile I mean my brother Saving Private Ryan and you know him is Tom Hanks Jeff would have been his middle name all because somebody gives him a helping hand that is that gospel now listen the good Lord makes the statement in the parable where the king Walks Into The Wedding Banquet and says how can it be that you entered here without a wedding garment now listen what he was saying is how could you have entered here and not helped anyone and no works of Charity how is it you entered here without giving anybody a helping hand now let me explain how he gets there go back you are a first century Jew every time somebody mentions a Wedding Banquet they're talking about the wedding and the banquet of making it into heaven after the final judgment so remember now he has been in the temple in Jerusalem he just ran all the money changers out he's turned over the tables he's turned over the uh the the stools of the people selling doves and now he was about to ask them about John the Baptist because the Pharisees and Sadducees have gathered let's face it there's a big commotion right before he speaks and he's talking to them and they come to him and say remember there's no secondhand team player here these are all the best of the best this is the high-ranking Pharisee the high ranking sadducee the high ranking Zealot and now they want to know by what Authority did you run all this through turn over our tables run out our animals so who might you be to have such Authority so he asked him this question when John the Baptist was here baptizing did he do do so in the name of God or man so they started to think if we say God then they then he's going to say well he said I was the Messiah so therefore I must be if you say man people are going to get upset because they believe I'm a little more than just a prophet so they don't say anything and now my brother and sister in Christ he's got to come up with another Parable hence the parable about the wedding feast in the Kingdom think about it my brother and sister in Christ remember they know Isaiah they know it by heart they know it in their head so for him to give the story yet again of a wedding Feast is telling them man I'm talking about final judgment I invited you to come but y'all aren't coming and then when you don't come you'll never be able to make it now stop my brother and sister Christ is a first century Jew they know that he's now talking about final judgment and entering the temple in the kingdom of God for the big banquet as you enter my brother and sister Christ for you and I whenever you hear a parable look for the twist something that it just doesn't seem to fit you're having a wedding your family your daughter your son your spouse whatever it may be can you imagine sending out wedding invitations of course people are going to say they come and they can't come I can't I'm busy I got this you're going to send out another set to the same group of people and then those people are going to beat up the mailman to a point they'll probably kill him or the servant that brought the mail and then all of a sudden you're going to get so mad you're going to send troops over their house to kill them all there's the twist I mean that's that's a wedding just short of the Pearly Gates that's this point if you focus what I'm telling you as a devouted Jew then you know I'm talking about the wedding feast The Wedding Banquet of finally being able to enter my kingdom my brother and sister in Christ listen for a second the reason why he's explaining to the man when he sends out people and they don't come then the king comes in and says go out and get everybody in the streets the poor the homeless those that have no clothes and barely enough money to survive bring them in so when he comes walking through the heavenly banquet he sees somebody not wearing a wedding garment he is not talking about the cloth they're poor they barely have enough clothes to keep on them so why would he go up to someone who has nothing and say how did you get in here wearing that wedding garment what he's saying is how did you enter my kingdom when you did no charitable works at all how did you enter my kingdom with not offering a helping hand did I not tell you in Matthew's gospel which this is where this gospel comes from Matthew 7 not everybody who yells my name not everybody who yells my name will enter my kingdom but only those who do the will of my father works of Charity did St James not tell you and I faith without works is dead did St Paul in Corinthians say you could have the faith to move a mountain but if you don't have Works love charity then you're just a resounding gong what good does it do to tell a man who has no clothes keep warm a man that has no food make sure and get something to eat my brother and sister in Christ faith without works is dead because you have faith you will do good works because you do good works people will see you have faith there in lies the whole point of Helping Hands look go back in scripture I bet you if I had pictures can you imagine the size of this backdrop of somebody's hands in scripture you would know who they were just by their hands for example if I told you that his hands were immaculately manicured there were rings on every finger matter of fact he probably wouldn't have lifted an instrument his entire life probably never held a hammer never drove a spike never held a sickle never bailed anything and next to it was a little bowl and towel You' have said oh that's Pilot's hands if I would have showed you another set of hands and next to it would have been holding a spear that was Dripping with blood and that blood would have been dripping on his hands and His Hands would have been callous and marred probably with all kind of Nicks and cuts because he's a soldier you have said I bet that's long Gus's hands and you'd have been right if I had told you that his hands man they look like they have been weathered for decades it looks like he's got more rope burns on there than he does skin and in one hand he's got the keys in the other hand he's got a fish you would say man those are the hands of kayi Peter if I told you that this lady's hands are holding up the veil of Christ and in it is his image you would IMM would have said oh that's Veronica's hands my brother and sister in Christ throughout scripture you and I are identifying people just by the look of their hands if a man is holding a money bag of 30 pieces of silver with the salt that has been knocked over next to him because if you look at the painting of The Last Supper the one where all the apostles are on the backdrop if you look real closely somebody's knocked over the table salt why the good Lord says are you worth your salt that would have been Judas you would have known him just by his hands well now here you and I sit 2,000 years later would people recognize you and I your spouse your children yourself your family your friends would they recognize who you are just by a picture of your hands would it be something that you have in your hands and then they would have said oh if it's got a computer mouse I know who that is if it has a remote control your family would say oh I know whose hands those are if it's a phone would they know it's your hands if it's fingers texting on a phone would they know it's your hands my brother and sister in Christ would they know at your hands because there's a drink in your hand would they know it because there's a cigarette and the nicotine is stained would they know it because there's always bald up in a fist because we're always angry and woe to you who strikes another what waits for you you could never even dream of The Nightmare will only unfold for those who raise a hand to another my brother and sister in Christ would it be a syringe in the hand would it always be a finger that's pointing at others which finger would it be my brothers and sisters in Christ don't you understand when they took a picture of you and they had a Rosary in your your hand would your family say I know who that is I've seen that Rosary I've seen him pray it that's that's her that's him would it always be like Mother Teresa would do when she'd pray she said she'd always have to pray this way with the hands folded flat together and the thumbs crossed to remind her of the crucifix and remind her what it means to be totally compliant and totally dependent on our savior she would never pray this way she would only pray this way way because it's the height of humility would that's how you're in our hands be would there be anything religious in our hands at all would it be a rosary a cross a prayer card would it have anything in it at all would they even know that you're a religion would they even know that you're Catholic if we don't know they don't know how will he know my brother and sister in Christ by your hands and our gestures people will know whether we are followers of Jesus Christ I'm always amazed that when I go to funerals everybody always has a Rosary in their hand and I always pray Lord I hope that Rosary has been in their hand all along my brothers and sisters in Christ I am begging you in the way that the world is now spun and the way it will continue to spin if you and I don't ratchet it up and we don't begin to pray more and show show people with our hands that we're willing to be helping hands and it begins and ends with prayer if you and I don't show people that we are indeed Catholic then how are they to know by simply by our thoughts we have made our faith such a private thing that now we can't even go public with our faith the problem is it needs to be the other way our faith needs to be public and it needs to be seen in our hands and I leave you with this the greatest asset in the world is not a brain full of knowledge it's a Heart full of love charity and works it's an ear that is willing to listen and hands that are willing to help amen amen amen amen there we go name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen please<\p>

portrait as in a a self-portrait a painting of your own doing years 1990 his name is Phillip often time he goes by George but Phillip is really where it resonates with him he is a UK boy from the very beginning born and raised in the UK he would tell you that his parents were good people they didn't make it very long but they were good people you'll tell you his dad was a commercial pilot he'll tell you his mom worked in the circus she was actually a clown in the circus the head clown be that as it may and as a result of it he has three sisters and he said they traveled a lot commercial pilot you know the the circus and if you asked him Phillip tell me Philip tell me about your life he'd say well man growing up was tough he said man I had that thick accent and then we moved and we traveled and he said it man it was just tumultuous I mean I there was bullying there was there was there was fights and he said man it was just the accent you know if you ask him today Philip what was it like going to visit his mom in the circus he said you know he told the reporter I met my first girlfriend I had my first kiss he'd say at the circus and the he started laughing the report I asked him why are you laughing he said well I guess I guess i' ought to be happy that Mom my mom didn't work in a zoo and he said but it worked out he said they got a divorce and man you know it is what it is and he said she they asked him and said well when did you think you might want to act and Philip said well along the way because everywhere I went I was the new kid on the Block I always wondered what it was like for other people so I always wanted to walk in their shoes and when you want to walk in other people's shoes you kind of always want to be play their role he said then I hear my dad stood in for John Wayne and he said man that was all it took he said but let me tell you he said it's it was no better roses for me he said man I started out some of the shows that I did and he'll tell you he said man there was one he said I did that was uh uh if it hadn't been for Charlton hon I'd have never made Treasure Island he said man I was involved in another one and he said it was so bad he said we're just going to skip the name he said it just it just didn't work and then he said I thought well maybe if I could just just get a little bit out of it and then another one is was called in the in the ring into the sun gave him a little notoriety then he got into a show called Anastasia man people started to pick their head a little bit then he said man I got on another wrong road and then he said man it was going south he said I got into one called Little Women and then he said that didn't work then I got into a show called hostile he said man the whole show was hostile he said man it was almost like no matter what I did it was going south and then he said I get a show called um the 310 to you and he said man the world starts to change then he says I get another one called American Psycho say what you will but it was pretty good then he says I get into another one called The Machinist he said then my notoriety really started to grow man then he said I started getting no matter what I touched he said it just seemed to turn to Gold he said if we had to pick one movie that you did that if they wanted to paint a a picture of you a portrait of you he said what would it be oh Philip said man if I had to paint a picture of me and my acting ability he said I would only pick one show he said he said now look I don't like superheroes Mario Brothers is my type of superhero he said but it's got over 100 moving Parts just in the costume he said I'm claustrophobic you put this costume on you become real claustrophobic he said I am the first non-american to play Bruce Wayne I'm the first non-american to play Bruce Wayne big bat in the sky big bat in the sky brother and sister in Christ right he says one thing I tell you about getting up into this uniform you better go to the bathroom before because once you get it on you ain't getting off in time he said man it was everything I thought it was to play Batman he played in the uh The Dark Night The Dark Knight Rises and you know him as Christian Bale okay for the eight people who know who he is God bless you you know what's amazing my brother and sister in Christ they have interviewed him afterwards do you know he's never seen the movie Dark Knight he's never watched the movie that he was in they asked him was say anything you did in the movie that was not portrait esque of Batman that if they think of you they think of Batman they think of the costume is there one thing you did in the movie that was not very batman-esque he saidoh absolutely he says you know the signal goes up into the sky they're calling for Batman Morgan Freeman's in the r in the movie Michael Caine they're having a meeting because one uh Morgan Freeman's the head of the of his business and of course Michael Kane is his Butler per se and as a result they're talking to him he's supposed to be pretending to be asleep because they don't know what the waking because of the signs in the sky he's sound asleep through the whole thing they actually had to wake him up and do the skit over because he about to wake up man my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the portrait that is exactly the gospel whose image is on the coin they said Caesar well then give to Caesar what is Caesars but give to God what is God now stop let's make sure you understand you're a first century Jew you need to understand where this is taking place the good Lord has just run through the temple he has turned over the table of the money changers on a sidebar remember this when people people say the good Lord got angry in the temple to a point he never loses control that's the difference between being upset and being angry angry often times connotates a lack of control how do you know you and I know that Christ didn't lose control because when he's in the temple and he goes over to the table of the money changers he turns over the tables and everything and then when he gets to the table where the doves are he only turns over the stools cuz if he turns over the table he'll kill his own creation he has now done that in the temple he's given them two Parables to the Pharisees one about the vineyard that the king will build a great Vineyard he will lease it out and then the people that he leased it to won't pay it and then now he's got to bring judgment upon them they don't get it he talks about The Big Wedding Feast that nobody comes and as a result he has to throw a man out because his soul is not clean they still don't get it so they want to know by what Authority are you now throwing these things around running out our animals throwing over the coins telling people to leave and that this is a house of God and you're playing God how is it you could do this so this is what they do so you understand who the power to be are the herodians are people who follow Herod King Herod King Herod is a butcher and a murderer he is titled King of the Jews CU he wants you to believe that he's a Jew he he's not he's an Edomite but what he's learned is if I don't play well with Caesar then I'll never have control so what he is very much a Roman but he wants to be seen as a Jew this is why he's so mad when the wise men come and the wise men said where's the newborn king of the Jews when he's the king of the Jews he has killed his favorite wife favorite he has killed three of his sons he killed 50 Jewish leaders to take over their role to become the new king of the Jews and if this isn't sad enough the day before he dies he convenes a council with his centurions and says everybody on my Council must be killed on the same day that I die so that people will least weep at my funeral they fulfilled that that wish this is how diabolical he's all about Rome they're part of the group that's going to see the good Lord the other group are the Pharisees they are called the separated ones they are very popular politically they have a lot of clout they have a lot of money and as a result they are Jews but they don't want to cause problem with Rome because they just got to deal with them the only thing the herodians and the Pharisees have in common besides hating each other is they hate him more so now they're bringing him a coin the coin is a very particular coin it's about the size of a dime called the daer you would get one a day for every day that you worked that's the payment on it is a picture of tiberias Caesar Tiberius is the son of Augustus who followed Julius those are the only two Romans that they believed were divine so on the coin it has son of the Divine so this is why the good Lord is saying well whose image is it they said Caesar that's right cuz tiberious is the current Caesar well then give to Caesar what is Caesar but give to God what is God now my brother and sister in Christ remember they're trying to get the good Lord to make a statement if you tell us that you're not going to pay Rome's taxes they're can accuse you of sedition and then they will take care of business that way if you're saying that you have more allegiance to that image then they're going to say well if you go back in Exodus you talk the god talked about no graven images this is why the good Lord's answer is so Godlike if it's his image then give it to him but if it belongs to me then give it to God now remember you're a Jew so whenever you hear the word likeness that goes all the way back to Genesis please never forget this only Adam and to a certain extent eve were made in His image and likeness image that you are like God and that you have dominion over the animals and that you are like him in that you have no sin your image is that you are a king and you have no sin so you are like me when Noah comes off the ark what is God tell him you've been made in my image he never again says anything more about being like me because of original sin Adam and Eve didn't have original sin so they were like God in that way that's where the good Lord is going you're bringing sin to the table so you want to be like him then give it to him but give to me what is mine and sister in Christ go back in scripture if you had to paint an image or a portrait or if I put an image or a portrait up here and I said who is this man and I dropped this painting down and you see him carrying a cross with our savior clinging to him you'd say oh that's that's Simon of sirene if I had showed you an image of a woman sitting there in her hands and holding a veil with the image of Christ you'd say oh that's that's that's Veronica if I told you there's a woman reaching out to touch his tassel now remember Christ is a Jew the tassel is not at the bottom of his feet it's up in His Garment he's wearing a prayer Shaw so to get this high up through all the apostles but yet she touches it you and I would now know too that is also Veronica we believe that tradition holds that that was her that touched the veil that touched his tassle and had so much courage to stand in the road of the crucifixion if I told you Brothers and Sisters in Christ that he's standing there looking at Christ and says truly that man was the son of God and he's holding he turns and you notice he's holding a spear tip with blood on it you would say man that's the image and the portrait of longinus my brother and sister in Christ nothing's changed in the world in 2,000 years if I showed you an image of a lady called the Mona Lisa an image would immediately come to your mind if I told you Washington standing in a little boat Crossing the Delaware an image would come to your mind a portrait if I told you dogs playing poker yes a portrait would come in your mind well now here we sit 2,000 years later if somebody was to come paint a portrait of you over the yesterday just yesterday what would that painting look like would you be angry would you be mad judgmental condemning would you be play would they be showing you in prayer would they even show you holding a Rosary in your hand would religion be anywhere in that picture yesterday last week last month last year if the good Lord said I'm going to paint a painting of you using only your words that you used all last year the painting is nothing with you on the front and me and behind it every word we used what would be the caption he would write at the bottom sailor because we curse like one blasphemer because you used my name or you dropped the f bomb out of the mouth of Satan is where that one came from would he have gossip slander a man or woman after my own heart just your words what if it was just our actions and man they had a painting last week last month or last year of just our actions the things we did what would be at the bottom of that painting would it be Apostolic a disciple of Jesus Christ or would it say lukewarm where I will spit you out of my mouth a fence Walker we never pick one side or the other my brother and sister in Christ what he say it's all about the party nothing but elephants nothing but donkeys we only follow the lamb don't ever forget that because that's how our paint our portrait is going to be painted at the end of the day if the good Lord was going to paint us a portrait the ID that you and I were going to use to get into heaven it's our passport to Heaven what would it have on it would it have a backdrop with all our degrees irrelevant would it be a backdrop with all the things that we've accomplished in all of our war our our Awards inconsequential would it be all the things that we've done with our family and trips that's nice but when it came to painting you and I what would the good Lord have painted what will you and I have painted if there's only one image behind it that will dictate whether we enter the kingdom or not what will it be will it be a crucifix with a corpse on it we follow I crucified Christ St Paul's own words would it be the statue of the holy mother would it be a big Rosary what would it be that he allows us to get into heaven and I can tell you if that one image is not the most dominant image if it is not the portrait that God wants to see we are late we are too late the judgment will be final no arbitration no mediation no negotiations no nothing the one thing that you and I must have in our image and it must be the dominant part of the image so much so that you don't even recognize anything else in it not the degrees not the awards not the prestige not the people we know not the ceremonies we attended or the places we went the one thing Christ will say and everybody else would say in our family now that's a portrait of him or her will it have a rosary and nothing else will it have the ways of the Cross will it have the seven sacraments will it have a sign of the Eucharist will it have the last rights or confession or will it only have six sacraments because we confess our sins directly to God even though confession was in play before Christ came into the world Leviticus 5 and 6 my brother and sister in Christ I am begging you you do not know the hour or the day what portrait will we paint that the good Lord says oh no you can take that out irrelevant inconsequential immaterial that has no bearing been better you never took that picture what is it that you and I must have in that painting that's how you and I must live don't you see it's the only thing that matters you came in on this day we're going home on this day everything that takes place in between is only a test to see that you are followers of Jesus Christ and his church all I'm asking you is you you and I do not know what is to come the painting that you and I paint must have only one image behind it and it better be tied to his church because otherwise Brothers Christ we have nowhere to go what are you what's going to be our excuse man that's why the world wanted it I I just I just I just I can't I can't do that Lord I just I couldn't see that well I just didn't believe it was that important don't you understand the church is everything it's his church that's why he formed it my brother Christ I'm begging you to stop and think about what you're doing in every aspect to your life live in the moment you're in an arena at Florida parishes in a meet Louisiana participating in the sacrifice of the mass everything is irrelevant you're here my brother sister in Christ and I leave you with this our world has lost its way we have no Compass we have no moral compass comp us we're not following the teachings of the church and I'm telling you right now that if you and I don't learn to stand up on our own two feet and start following the teachings of the Lamb we will pay a price that our children and grandchildren will wish we never walk this path I am begging you to be careful on how you vote because it begins and ends with his children that goes with capital punishment and in euthanasia but woe to you who put somebody in that spot because you think they got a better plan or policy or economics or understanding or they just get along better I don't care and neither will he because all things tie directly to Christ you have no plan you have no economics you have no Supply you have nothing without me you don't even have life you don't even have Zoe I am begging you to make sure you understand the portrait that you and I paint is the way we live our lives and if the dominant Point painting in your background is not of the church there's nothing I'm going to be able to do nor you my brother's Christ be careful on the portrait that you paint amen amen man I've been yelling for 15 minutes amen amen in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

word as in keeping keeping your word it's the early 1900s and his name is he goes by Alex and you he would tell you that look I was born in the UK I got moved to Canada I ended up in Boston Massachusetts and he's very reclusive he's kind of an introverts introvert but if you ask his dad and his mom they would tell you that his intellect was just was so high it was it border lined uncommon or unheard of he said don't get me wrong the rest of my children were good but Alex was just almost steps Beyond us he said at the age of 12 he said here we are working on a on on a farm trying to help and this man comes to him and says Alex can you help us now he said he didn't talk to me he didn't talk to my wife he walked straight to Alex is 12 and he said I'm having problems with the cane I'm having problems with the wheat we can't get the husk off Alex came his word I'll get on it and we'll come up with something within weeks Alex comes up with a paddle system that's got Nails on it and as you put the wheat and the cane through it it actually beats it and tears it and it actually separates and then he figured out that if he sped up the RPMs it would even do more man that's Alex gives you his word that therein lies the fruit next thing you know a neighbor comes by and says well you know I I really don't know how to play the piano Alex can you help me and he said well you well yeah I I'll give you my word I I can do that doesn't know how to play the piano he learns by sound and ends up teaching them and next thing you know man there's the word matter of fact he doesn't get he's so enamored with that with Acoustics a family comes to him and says Alex can can you help us my daughter she cannot hear we have no way to communicate the sign language we use today came from Alex man it's almost as if man Alex is just a prodigy if you will and as a result man things start growing man a friend comes to him and says Alex I need your help he said the Navy is coming and they want me to build boats for the Navy and he said okay and he says what they want to do is make it faster and bigger and Alex said well you mean besides just putting a bigger motor on it right you're you're looking for something he said the problem is is that that friction on that boat on the bottom of the boat in the water is where the problems are he said well the Navy's going to come out in a couple of months can you help me he said look I I'll give you give you my word I'll help as best I can he ends up saying that what we need to do is take the motor off the back of the boat put it up above it and he said we need to lift the boat out of the water and almost put it on stilts what you and I call a hydrofoil today it could get up to 70 miles an hour my brothers and sisters in Christ the Navy comes out it looks at it and says this ain't going to work Alex said oh it's going to work it's going to work better than you think it's going to go up to almost 70 M an hour they run the test they prove it works and next thing you know the Navy says well it I just don't see it being practical Alex answered to them well the truth of the matter is we only need the Air Force to control the war so we don't need you anyway matter brother and sister in Christ he got so enamored with flight long before Kittyhawk ever gets in started he's decided that man that if this is just the start he finally goes home one afternoon he's up in age his friend comes to see him and says man I got an electrical problem I'm trying to run wires I'd like to run it so that we could light up the whole house instead of just run every off of candles and this that and the other this is the beginning of what you and I use for electrical wiring and currents as a matter of fact he tells the man you know if you really were wanted to we could really make this work and communicate through it ah here we go The Immortal words Dr Watson can you come in here my brother and sister in Christ you know him as Alexander granell every time he gives his word fruit came about of it that is exactly that gospel it's about the good Lord giv his word remember brother and sister in Christ blessed are the poor in spirit who have a childlike reverence for God for you will be in the kingdom of God blessed are those who mourn and I will show you merciful blessed are those who are Meek and you'll inherit the land blessed are you or those who seek and thirst righteousness and you will be satisfied blessed are you who are merciful for you will be shown Mercy blessed are those who are pure of heart for you will see my face blessed are those who are the peacemakers and I will call you children of God and blessed are those who are persecuted for you will you too will obtain the kingdom of heaven now stop he's saying I give you my word that if you live according to this you will be considered my Saints in heaven now stop you're first century Jew you and I have now going up the mountain of Mount garam and all of a sudden we're hearing this talk remember the last time God came to a mountain he gave it to Moses the Ten Commandments Moses comes down breaks the Commandments because of what's going on now he's telling everybody I want you to come up the mountain to meet God that's why he's up there and when he gets up there he does something very Jewish he sits down and every synagogue only the high priest would have taken a seat we went up a mountain versus coming down a mountain we went up to see God and now he takes a seat he set in the table for that you will know who he is now stop my brother and sister in Christ remember this the word in the Greek is called maros which is means blessings granted it doesn't seem like a blessing when he said blessed are the poor in spirit or the poor or those who mourn or Meek or thirst for righteousness but what he's saying is that is the outline that is the job description to being a saint in heaven if you want to make heaven then I'm going to ask you to carry your cross down on the earth so that when you get to heaven you will obtain these rewards you think it's ironic that the first beatitude and the last beatitude says you'll inherit the kingdom of God what he's saying to you and I is it all starts in heaven blessed be that you be part of the Kingdom we come down to earth our souls are infused we spend our time on here and on this day we go home and then we try to get back up the mountain and the last one says welcome to the kingdom of heaven for those that have been persecuted for my sake my brother and sister in Christ what he's trying to tell you is no matter what your trials and tribulations are I give you my word that I will walk alongside of you and you will never be alone I will walk behind you L you fall and I will catch you I give you my word that I'll be in front of you so you know the way but what you have to do is give me your word that you will follow me and the teachings of my church we are not Picadilly Cafeteria Catholics you either in or you're out you either follow the teachings or you do not my brothers Christ go back in scripture all of our best players Mary magin would have given you her word in her day before meeting Christ but once she met the word made flesh that is two totally different women seven demons later that have been expelled and now all of a sudden she's one of the most dominant Saints in scripture my brother sister Christ if you and I had met Peter we would have gotten the word of a fisherman before he met Christ but once he got the word made flesh well he became a fisher of men Saul would have given you his word word written in a letter saying I can persecute Christians and he brings us all the way from Damascus once he becomes Paul he believes that to follow Christ we must follow a crucified Christ hence why there's a corpse on the on the cross and not a plain cross because we follow in the words of St Paul my brother and sister in Christ the question for you and I 2,000 years later are we worth our word are we worth our salt when you give your word when I give mine do we mean it I will call you later as ins insignificant as it may sound will you call that person later you gave your word if it's insignificant then why did you offer it more importantly TI your name to it my brother and sister in Christ when you told somebody at work you're going to do this even though it's not your job description remember do not tie your job description to a decimal point Judas did it and 30 2,000 years later we know his name is worth about 30 pieces of silver you do it because you gave your word as a good person as a good Catholic as a good Catholic man or woman my brother sister in Christ your word is all you and I have that's all we'll ever have when you tell somebody you're going to pray for them for the love of God don't back up on that don't make it it's just a courtesy you said you were going to pray for him pray for him you promised and matter of fact the good Lord's waiting to hear that petition did you offer a thank you in response to something being granted did you go back and say Lord I gave you my word I would pray and now I've come to give you my word that I will offer thanks my brother and sister Christ will you give your word when you tell somebody I'm going to be there at this time not 805 or 810 or 8:15 you said 8:00 can you at least have the common courtesy to be there at the time that you you agreed my brother and sister in Christ it doesn't matter where you and I have come from it only matters where we go from this point forward our word is all we'll ever have the good Lord is not handing out memos with the Beatitudes on them he's not handing out the Commandments he's not handing out scripture he's talking to you and he's giving you his word so now here you and I sit and we're probably before the biggest fight our world has ever seen and if few days we're going to elect the president of the United States all I'm asking you is to keep your word as a Catholic don't talk to me about saying I am but I don't buy it not stop you're either in the church or you're not you either follow the teachings of her and him or you do not my brother and sister Christ it's between you and him no doubt about it but I find it very hard that you're going to be able to go to confession when you don't believe you're sorry and you voted for so who's brought abortion to our table where are my children the very first beatitude do you understand that the first beatitude without it the rest of them do not exist every beatitude is built on the one before it so the number one blessed or the poor in spirit who have a childlike reverence for God a fear of the Lord our relationship with Jesus Christ is not horizontal our relationship with Jesus Christ is vertical he is God and we are not he is not only human but Divine so our relationship has to be childlike my brother and sister in Christ I leave you with the words of Napoleon of all people tell me Napoleon was wrong please tell me he was wrong that the only time that we keep our word the only time we keep our word is when we don't give it keep your word amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

final words final words the last words you and I utter from our mouth before we are called home it's the 1970s his name is Michael Michael lives in the big city the city of big shoulders Chicago he loves it he'll tell you that his mom and dad had a tough relationship but they did okay his dad worked for the Chicago some sometimes he was a he was a printer he has one sister he'll even go so far as to say High School grammar school pretty much uneventful it was for pretty good and then he said man I just knew that I needed to get to College he goes to the University of Missouri and gets a Bachelor of Arts degree Michael will tell you and tell me he would say the reason I wanted to be an actor was because of a play I did way back in the day and as a result of it he said it was so good who's Afraid of Virginia wolf he said I just felt like I needed to do it he said I'm starving to death he said I became when you figure out who the guy is he's a flight attendant on Eastern Airlines he'd becomes a bellhop he's a Dorman man he can't he can't rub two sticks together then he gets a break in a movie uh show called uh a soap opera called Days of Our Lives why why so many people nod at our head I have no idea I digress as a result of it he gets on that Mo little s uh series then he gets in another one called the Hatfield and The McCoys then Michael starts doing a little bit better and he makes it to Cheers he is actually the plumber on Cheers I can see your mind's moving good good as a result of it man he says man I I I hit a stretch and he said I got tough again and then all of a sudden he said thee World kind of broke my way he said man I was in a a movie called Shoot the kill and then he said I got another uh break in the action he said man it was called platoon and then he said man I got another break he said man it was almost like the good Lord was just handing things to me called The Big Chill then next thing you know I got in another one called the sniper he said man it was almost like man somebody was feeding me in an interview Michael gave not long ago he said you know I I just love what I do so the reporter said let me ask you a couple questions he said of all the things that you could do in the world what would it be he said I would love to either act or to be a reader I love to read he said if there was one person in the world you would like to be for a day he said Jack Nicholson just so I could see life through his eyes he said if there was a if there was a movie that's going to play that you did long after you're gone after your final words what would it be he said Major League where he played a catcher his name is Tom baringer no really it's it's Tom baringer okay well look it up when you see it okay because you're going to recognize who the guy is my brother and sister in Christ it's all about the final word that is exactly what he's driving home my brother and sister in Christ he's saying in the last final hour and the last final words that you have on this earth when you come to the kingdom of heaven which will be like a wedding Feast to get to the wedding Feast to get to heaven you're going to have to pass through your final hour and you're going to have words that you're going to say what will those words be for you do not know the hour nor the day my brother cry now stop you're a first century Jew this is why you and I do it this way Christ is a Jew born of a Jewish mother in the city of all Jews David he is born in a food trough a Manger manga to eat they call him the bread of life he is circumcised under Jewish law crucified under Jewish law and he's found in the temple he's a Jew and as a result of it you and I need to study him as a Jew so whenever you hear this Parable where he talks about there are 10 virgins and they're waiting for the bridegroom this is how weddings work in the Jewish World when you get engaged you are engaged for one year you are betrothed you are legally married the husband has one year to find you a home and as a result of it the wedding will last seven days as a result on the seventh day you will take your wife or your spouse your husband and then you will go to the home that you have worked for for a year trying to get ready the a those 10 virgins with their lighted oils are going to walk you to your house now that is how it works in the Jewish World now stop the good Lord is saying that's how it's going to be for the ultimate wedding Feast when you return home that you don't know the hour of the day think of about it brother and sister Christ we get bridesmaids from this Parable this is where it comes from and he's telling them that somewhere you are going to be ready and look there's not a Walmart or stop and go or somewhere or or some type of Pharmacy that you can go get the oils man they're only walking from here to another building what he's saying is you don't know the hour of the day and then there's going to be no arbitration there'll be no mediation it'll just be judgment now stop I need you to understand this when the angel appears to Mary and the angel says that you have found favor with God that you will bear a child she says how can it be for I do not know man she's already betrothed to Joseph she's already engaged she already knows she's going to get married they're all for they're going to walk to the house with the 10 bridesmaids if you will brother and sister in Christ for her to have said that means that she is not going to consummate that marriage as you and I would come to know because she says I do not know man yet she's already engaged to Joseph and they've already established a date my brother and sister in Christ This is why the holy spirit will come upon you and overshadow you the same Greek word for the glory Cloud that used to come down out in the mountains and over the Tabernacle my brother and sister in Christ it's important you understand that because often times we say that she had children yet she's telling the Angel that's not how it's going to be and that's why the angel calls her by her title hail full of grace and not by her name Mary he calls her by her title because it's a pass active verb which means all the way back from the beginning when you were born you were full of grace you had no sin you can't have relations with Joseph he has original sin and so will the children therefore you will no longer be full of grace that means I would have lied to you and therefore when it's time to be assumed into heaven Body and Soul so will it be because you have no s on your soul for you are full of grace that is the power of what he's trying to talk to you and I about the last words my brother and sister in Christ before you get to the wedding feast or Paramount look go back in scripture all of our best players have very profound statements take Christ as our example his last words on the cross father forgive them for they know not what they do he also made the statement Lord I commend my spirit to you in other words death doesn't come to me I allow it to come and I give you my spirit my brother and sister in Christ what if you were Peter do you know Peter preached for three hours upside down on the cross his last words were preaching the gospel and according to tradition small T you know what his last words to his wife who was martyred on the same day go with God boy from his lips to God's ears do you know if you're James the Greater that's John's brother they said he was so convincing in his belief of God before they beheaded him he was so compelling they said he was so he he just he said man they could have reached out and grabb people's hearts they said his talk at the end was so powerful that one of the guards took off his helmet laid his sword down knelt next to him and got beheaded as well from God from our lips to God's ears my brother and sister in Christ the good thief his last words Remember Me Lord just remember me have a thought of me just a passing remembrance this day you'll be with me in Paradise you know what's amazing my brothers and sisters in Christ is here you and I sit 2,000 years later what will be our last words what will be our final words well let's see my brother and sister time you and I spend on the computer versus reading how much time do you and I been playing on the phone how much time do you and I spend in conversation about things that we should never be discussing my brother and sister Christ how much time should you and I spend this is my point the more time you spend in the secular world the less chance you're going to have of saying the right thing when the time comes you either been living the life or you have or have not you either made it or you did not you're either in or you're out there's no in between if you're expecting your final words from your lips to God's ears to be so heart-wrenching and so great and so powerful the only way that's going to happen is if you've been living the life up until that point if you're caught up in the world and the work and the socialism and and all the things on television and the video and the phones then I can tell you your last words will mimic your lifestyle case in point I'm going to give you 10 names of people that passed that you and I may not know personally but we would have some understanding of them you know their name you understand kind of where they were in the world for example Michael Landon a very prayerful man and Little Joe on the Ponderosa the cart writes okay great Lord thank you we got one his last words to his family it's time for me to go I love you man only only a man that's been staying close to God would have even thought about his family and using the word love and now it's time for me to go My Brother and Sisters in Christ the other there was there were several others I'm going to give you their names and I'll explain to you why I think their words were so profound Michael Landon said that the next person up would have been someone like Winston Churchill who was all about the world and solving the world's problems his last words on Earth I'm bored it's time to go wow I could have thought of a thousand things I might wish I he would have said my brother and sister in Christ Leonardo da Vinci who paints the cinee chapel in all the great paintings and sculptures I have disappointed God and Mankind my paintings are just not that good wow my brothers and sisters in Christ the man that shot Abraham Lincoln John wilss Booth his last words useless quote OT quotes Elvis's last words as he was walking to the restroom he was told don't fall asleep and his answer was I won't that's it my brother and sister in Christ Steve Jobs yells out wow wow wow as he was looking up into the heavens my brothers and sisters in Christ Mozart made the statement Lord I can feel death at my doorstep and I can feel there's something Supernatural here Alfred Hitchcock it is time for me to go I don't know what waits for me but the Catholics say we should have hope my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later what will be your words on your death M your last words to Christ on your lips to his ear years will it be I'm sorry Lord forgive me welcoming me Lord to the table of all of your children I am wrong for all the things that I've done or will it be something secular because that's all we know my brother and sister in Christ your last words are just that they better be profound and if you don't live the life today you're not going to say it when the time comes and I Leave You In the words of the Blessed Mother according to tradition in St Mary of agrita when it was time for her to return home she said I will follow my son I will follow my son and I offer my spirit almost the exact same words her son says at the crucifixion I commend my spirit what will your last words be they are the most powerful amen in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Spirit<\p>

talent talent the stadium is packed it is wall toall people I'm telling you there is so much noise you can't even hear yourself think they have been putting this on their calendar for months they knew it would someday come to their backyard they have lined the baseball field there is more people there than you can ever imagine there are cars there's horns there's music there's band there cow bells it is so loud it's almost agonizing it's the championship baseball game and they have come out in volume as a matter of fact it is so crowd it had been yelling since the first pitch and now we're in the ninth inning and man it's at a fever pitch man it's the bottom of the ninth there are two men on there's a man on First and there's a man on second and the League's best batter has come to the plate when he started to walk up from the on Deck Circle you could hear the booze cascading it's almost as if they had a life itself man you saw things being thrown from the stands people are screaming all kind of unce things as he begins to walk up to the stadium you can catcher Runs Out talks to the pitcher got to make sure this is important best player in the game has now come to the plate the coach is sitting in the dugout he's watching his man prepare to take his Cuts he looks down and sees a man sitting at the end he walks down he sees one of his players he puts his arm around him and he says if this man gets on if this man gets on and the bases become loaded you will go in for Johnson and you will bunt on the first pitch you understand yes sir fair enough takes his arm off walks back down the batter gets in the thing first pitch ball one man the crowd erupts man they are screaming it's a m what are you talking about man they're screaming at the Umpire the noise you can't even have a conversation side to side it's so feverish as R man here comes the next pitch man strike one man next thing you know man they're all excited you can feel the intensity start to grow man the coach looks down at the end and sees the man he's got his head down gets back up walks down puts his on around the young boy and he said what did I tell you he said if this man gets on I'm supposed to go in for Johnson tell the Umpire and on the first pitch bunt he said son you've got the most Talent out of all the guys to be in the spot just do what I tell you you'll do fine he walks back down next thing you know here comes the next pitch ball too man they're still screaming and yelling cowbells are going off horns are sounding band's going off you can't even signal to the coach because the noise is so loud next thing you know it's a full count and man people are about to just they're about to have an epip plexy as a result of it man ball four the bases are now loaded the young man walks by the coach the coach just leans over to him he said Son you got the talent do what you do best this is nothing for you young man walks up there the Umpire comes out takes his mask off flip opens his little pad and he said sir my name name is Smith I'm buting for Johnson on the first pitch man the Umpire doesn't know what what he's supposed to Signal the catcher trying to yell they're bunt on the first pitch man he's screaming as coach they can't hear him he gets in the batter's bot here comes the pitch that guy lays down the most perfect bunt you couldn't have drawn it any better and LSU wins their first championship series against Mississippi State with skip burtman true story it's all about the talent my brother and sister in Christ they asked coach burtman well how good is he he said I'm going to tell you how good of a player is if I watched him throw you'd say he's all right if you watched him run the bases okay maybe not where he needs to be if you watched him catch your field he's okay he said but I could put a quarter on the ground and tell him to bunt and I guarantee you he will hit that quarter two out of three times that is his talent and that is exactly that gospel the good Lord is now making a parable that I'm going to give each of you talents based on your ability and his generosity and to some he gave five to one he gave two and to another he gave one now stop your first century Jew make sure you understand what this is all about you and I have been living in the day if we're in the middle of this conversation and we see him pulled out either a gold or silver coin that's a talent 20 years worth of wages one coin 20 years so even if you got one you got 20 years of wages if you only made quote 50,000 a year you're now made a million that's how valuable it is so him to give you five are two man the generosity and the blessing and the responsibility that comes with it now stop just like with any Parable make sure you understand wherever the twist is is where you need to look something that doesn't seem logical why would this be here in the middle of this Parable it doesn't seem to fit here's a man that only had one talent that buried it his argument to the man that gave him the seed to the man that has the land to the man that owns the crop that I'm going give you work so you can take care of your family and what's his argument well you didn't throw the seeds out I did it and I had to go gather it you didn't plow the fields I had to do it but you didn't have to do it this is why the king is so upset he's saying so that's your answer so you just buried the talent so he takes the talent from him he gives it to the one that has all of them 10 if you will and then turns around and says be gone with you into the into the Wailing of nashing of teeth now stop as a Jew you and I know what that means that actually means he's throwing you into hell he's talking about the sin of omission now please listen there's two types of sin the sin of commission that's the ones we committed we acted on WE cursed we gossip we did this we did that we knew what we were doing we chose to do it the sin of commission the sin of omission is you simply chose not to do anything to faint Amnesia to look the other way not put your talents in Play here's the irony he didn't put his talent in play he didn't kill one person but yet he's on his way to predition in the road to hell because he didn't live up to the talent that I gave you I put you in the world on this day I'm bringing you home on this day in between it I've given you gifts and talents and challenges as long as you come to me your burden will be light when you decide to take it on your own then you're just that on your own he's saying this is how you will be judged I've given you my rules the Commandments there are only 10 do you know them besides Thou shalt not kill because that's not what did him in my brothers and sisters in Christ go back in scripture all of our better players have talents that you and I seem to overlook when we read about them Paul is absolutely got the gift of perseverance you can beat Paul five scourges that we know of when they tell you they're going to Scourge you that's 40 lashes and in case they miscounted they would stop at 39 five sets is what Paul gets throughout his life three of the four or five ships that he on sinks he has been beaten just like he was out of thessalonica he's been stoned he's lost all his money do you know he's the only Apostle being that he's the 13th if you will to keep his day job as a Tent Maker he had to rely totally on himself you that guy marched the March he's less Fame and Portion and no matter what you did to him he proclaims Christ to be the Messiah that's the gift of perseverance my boy Peter he is absolutely resilient his gift is his ability to take a hit and keep moving no matter what you say about Peter give him his due yeah that's true he got into a boat and the first time he said Lord It's Too Late to be fishing next thing you know they catch more fish than you know he's got a drop in in the boat and say depart from me Lord I am a sinful man and if that's not good enough man that's Peter he's got to step back out on the plank again the storm comes up he's getting mad at the good Lord because well Lord stop the storm and then he's got to rebuke the wind you would hope Peter might have learned from that the next thing you know he's got to walk on water next thing you know the good Lord calls him Satan the next thing you know he's in the Garden of Gethsemane he's yapping a man's ear off and the next thing you know he's denying Our Savior three times you know what I love about Peter there is nothing you can tell Peter towards the end of his life that he can't say me too no you don't understand Peter I've had problems with my family I was married I'm going be bringing my wife to martyrdom me too well you don't understand I really disappointed my friends huh I wrote the book on that me too you don't understand I got so excited I got a little anger I got into an argument yeah I know I took a man's ear man my brother and sister Christ he's got the gift and the talent of being resilient John the Baptist has the gift of being disciplined who in their right Minds would leave the school that your parents sent you to to walk out into the desert knowing full well that once you Proclaim this guy to be the Messiah it's over for you you're not even a re blowing in the wind you got to wear a camel skin you have to eat a certain dietary because you're outside of your commun you got to pray so many times a day you can have nothing of your own and everybody you meet has an opinion of you and it's usually less than man John John the Baptist has got discipline longus man think about it here's a guy with all the powers to be watching Caesar from up on the hill all his soldiers that he's always been in all these fights with all the people for him to turn around during the crucifixion and say truly that man was the son of God there goes his 401k there goes his health insurance man you got to hand it to longinus that man's courageous to walk away from everything and make that Proclamation but you know what's amazing for everyone that does this there's always one that does that my brother and sister in Christ Judas was an apostle one of the 12 your name will be in the book for all eternity regrettably it still is and in a bad way all you had to say was two words from being St Judas I'm sorry my brothers and sisters in Christ can you imagine what our world would be like today our country Cuba a communist country if we just follow the teachings of the Lord would not every country be a paradise and be open and Welling there's just 10 rules if we followed the 10 rules would we even need a police force would we even need any body to discipline would you need a court system if we just followed the 10 my brother and sister in Christ here you and I sit 2,000 years later the question for you and I is are we putting our talents in play my brothers in Christ remember this God's gift to you and I is our talent how we use that Talent is our gift back to him so as a result of it my brother in Christ so we don't commit the sin of omission are you putting your talents in play think of one two three things off the top of your head is what you do best and man you do it well matter of fact other people know you do it well man you're good with your hands so you make sure you keep it in play man you're good with your intellect or computers that you're always helping others because you know that's your gift maybe your gift is engineering maybe it's your ability to understand money or Finance maybe it's medicine or chemistry so that you can make the complicated less complicated my brother sister Christ there is no such thing as a self Sade man that's a ball face lie every time I hear someone say man Michael Jordan man all natural brother Christ all gifts are Supernatural nobody has natural gifts he's given to those and given to those more and to some he has given less the fact of the matter is you and I are accountable for it there in lies the point My Brother and Sisters in Christ I leave you with this the sin of omission is every bit as deadly as a sin of commission you just heard it you've got to put your gifts in play at the end of the day have you done more good with your gifts than bad did I curse more than I put my gifts in play did I gossip more than I put my gifts in play did I lie more than I put my gifts in play did I hear thank yous more than anything else for putting my gift in play and I leave you with the words of John Wooden the basketball coach at UCLA for so many years he says the talent you have has come from God be humble the fame you get came from man be gracious conceit comes from yourself be overly cautious and guarded Amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen please stand<\p>

neutral neutral it's the 1960s his name is Jonathan Jonathan lives in Yonkers New York his dad is um a professional golfer his mom is a she's a can do mom can do does do all day every day twice on Sunday man I got to tell you he he's got a good family a very Catholic Family he has two brothers uh they and one of them you may recognize a couple of the songs he wrote angel in the morning and Wild Thing You Make My Heart thinging yeah you know it's funny y'all know that part not angel in the morning I digress I digress my brother and sister in Christ and as a result of such man he's doing okay he goes to Archbishop High School does pretty well there goes to college gets his degree and he doesn't know what to do his degree was just kind of a General Degree so it doesn't have a direction per se and his parents told him do something do anything Jonathan but you got to move being neutral he's not going to cut it he decides man I want to be an actor nobody in the family is an actor what's the heck so he goes and tries it he gets on a couple little uh series one is gunm smoke um NYPD Blue and then as a result of it they he's decided to make the big leap of faith and he wants to go into movies he goes into a bridge too far a bridge excuse me a bridge with a view same point it crashes so bad he becomes desperate there's not enough money can't pay bills can't make ends meet so he just begins to wallow in self-pity and in his finally as his parents had got to him and said Jonathan enough is enough you got to move man you can you can pray the good Lord there's no doubt about it but at the end of the day you got to show him that you're you're working with him in conjunction with him as a result he starts getting in a couple of movies and I got to tell you it's pretty impressive he's in the movie Deliverance if you remember seeing that with Bert Reynolds back in the day he was in another movie called uh jp2 he actually played John Paul II he was in another one called Paul Bear Bryant he was another one called Glory Road okay I didn't memorize a dozen of these things I'm just throwing the ones out there that I know he was in another one called Enemy of the State which was actually a very good movie movie he was uh he played Howard coell in the movie Ali okay look look y'all he was in National Treasure and his daughter is Angelina Jolie John voy for the one person that know whose it is God bless you my brother and sister in Christ you know what it's about it's about never being neutral that is exactly the point our savior's driving home what you do to others you do to me if you do something great but if you don't do something the sin of omission man when I was hungry man you gave me something to eat when I was thirsty man you gave me drink man I had no clothes and you clothed me I was sick you cared for me man you even came and visited me my brother and sister in Christ by the same token man where were you when I was hungry I mean you couldn't have spared a few dollars you couldn't have give me a jacket or extra pair of shoes that you already have in your closet you couldn't at least cared for me and maybe come visited me my brother's Christ now stop you're first century Jew need to make sure you understand the setting the good Lord is now speaking to more than just his Apostles he's talking to the groups that have now started to gather and he's trying to remind them that you have a decalogue you have a ten commandments that tell you what you can and cannot do but the Beatitudes tell you what you must be able to do he said well this is how it will be my brother and sister in Christ remember the words of Mother Teresa her M her manter if you will was you did it to me so if you fed me you did it to me also but if you didn't feed me you did it to me also no decision is a decision my brother and sister Christ you just heard the Corporal Works of Mercy now granted don't get me wrong and make sure you understand Corporal Works of Mercy the sin of omission is in in and of itself the fact that you don't do it is sinful but make no mistake about it abortion is Mortal intrinsically evil in and of itself whether you do nothing at all you're never neutral brother Christ go back in scripture think for a minute all of our best players I bet you I could describe him and I know you would guess who it is my brother and sister Christ he was a Pharisee he had money and Prestige as a matter of fact he was considered to be the intellectual of the group and as a matter of fact he took care of his Gardens he took care of his family he was the one that kind of cited with Christ albeit not publicly because fear of reprisal but more privately but if I told you he gave up his tomb you'd say oh man that's Joseph of arthea because he moved and he didn't stay neutral my brother Christ if I told you that he traveled almost two weeks Journey just to get to Jerusalem with his two sons and his family to participate in the Passover meal and once blood got on him man he was ostracised there's no going to the temple you're not going to be able to celebrate you've wasted two weeks and all the money in the world but if I tell you he's the one that carries the cross for Christ you'd say man that was Simon a sirene because he never stayed neutral my brother and sister in Christ if I told you that man the only reason the only reason pilot is who he is it's cuz he's got the best Centurion on the Block look nobody wants to be in the armpit of the fight but if pilate doesn't have this guy I can tell you it would be a living nightmare for him he's the one that made sure everything happened he had the respect of all the soldiers he was the one that led Legions but yet at the end of the day he's the one that had to lead Christ through the city one mile carrying a cross 12T tall 8ot wide he was responsible for the crucifixion but yet he's the first one to make the proclamation truly that man was the son of God you would know him as longinus never neutral he will die two years later when pilate will send legance to him to beheaded and as a result of it he will stick to his guns my brother and sister in Christ think for a second everybody I just named everybody I just named we only know their first name but it doesn't the fact that their names in The Book of Life this is why this is important because you and I cannot remain neutral remember when the young lady was about to be stoned and they had all gathered around and then the Scribe says Lord tell me Messiah quote in quote what should we do she was caught in adultery should we Stone her or what should we do he knows all too well that the Jewish law is that she's supposed to be stoned but you know why he's saying it because there's a centurion within earshot who's now listening saying well if they decide to Stone and they don't get pilate's permission then I will step in and arrest all those involved so now he's trying to catch Christ between following the Jewish law and following give what is Caesar what is Caesars this is why the good Lord drops to his knees and begins to talk to you and to everybody that was there and as he begins to talk to you and to me he would look at you and I and start to make a symbol in the ground and that symbol would be the sin that you and I have committed and then he begins to write it and then he stands back up as some begin to decide what to do he said well tell me what is your law he says the law of De Deuteronomy which the stoner he gets back on his knees a second time and he begins to write the symbol of the sins of all those Holden rocks and eventually my brothers and sisters in Christ they all walk away and then he gets up and then he says are there not two or three gathered here to be Witnesses well then get up and sin no more my brother sister in Christ what he was doing and for a Jew when he writes your name or symble in the Earth according to Jeremiah that means you're not going to make it that means you're going to remain in the earth I.E you're going to go to hell he's saying unless your name is written in the book of life it's because they did not make a decision which way are you going to go you just remain neutral you walked away but the fact of the matter is if I hadn't been there you would have stoned her so here you and I sit 2,000 years later my brother and sister in Christ you and I can no longer be neutral you and I have to pick a side and plant our flag you and I have to make a decision that when we go out to pray and people are watching will you make that cross distinctly and clearly or will you do it shortsighted so that hopefully nobody sees or nobody gets offended you're either or you are not you either word is in or you are not you either made the Pearly Gates or you did not if you and I remain neutral on our feelings and our faith because we don't want to influence others that's the problem we got now when good men do nothing evil prevails my brother and sister in Christ it's Paramount that you understand the corporate Works of Mercy are necessity it is our job to feed those in hunger it is our job to give them thirst to clothe them and to visit them but it's also our job to profess our faith it would be very shortsighted of us to only speak one way and then act another my brothers Christ I leave you with the words of Ben Franklin he said there are two people in the world there are those who write about things that are good and then there are those that do something that we write about that is that good ask yourself where you sit you're never neutral to him in every conversation and every email and every act and every thought you're either walking towards him or you're walking away from him amen amen in the name of the father and the son and of the holy spirit amen<\p>

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