00:00:21.000We're, of course, in the middle of a very, very unusual time in our marriage.
00:00:26.000And for legal reasons, which you'll be aware of if you follow what I would call old media, traditional media, at some point I would call it corrupt media, hypocritical media, deceptive empire media.
00:00:40.000If you follow empire media, you'll be aware that, of course, we as a family and me in particular, in a situation that requires the Authenticity and authority of true justice.
00:00:51.000And for that reason, we'll be extremely cautious in any way that we refer to the events in the trial so that truth and justice serve for everyone involved and everyone involved deserves it.
00:01:39.000Amazing the intimacy we can have with animals.
00:01:40.000And as we've shared before this show, my journey to our Lord, our King, our Saviour, our Healer has been so much connected to our dog bear.
00:02:05.000Oh, God, please help me in this moment not to do anything that's like about showing off or trying to make myself feel better or anything that's clumsy.
00:02:12.000Or please guard my mouth and guard my lips, Heavenly Father and Lord, so that I'm just useful to you, that I honor your name, that I'm of service, that I'm a cheerful Christian.
00:02:23.000Cheerfully accepting trials and present for you, Lord, that I would do nothing to dishonor your holy and gracious name.
00:02:30.000Please, God, look after my beloved wife, Laura.
00:02:33.000And the people watching this will be aware of their own lives and their own challenges, things that go beyond media and fame and into the reality and the suffering that ordinary people are destined to endure unless they're able to turn away from worldliness and to your eternal light, the only salvation, the only justice, the only healing, and the only love.
00:02:54.000That we can ever do comes from you, Jesus Christ, fountain of every blessing.
00:05:56.000So as soon as I see, when you're coming around the corner, you see the name on the street, I immediately start to think, okay, this is it now.
00:06:05.000Get into shape, get into your strength.
00:06:08.000And then so tomorrow, it's going to be interesting because there's going to be a lot of police presence and there's going to be a lot of people and a lot of protesters, I think.
00:06:25.000You're doing incredibly well in this entire process.
00:06:28.000Therefore, so Ephesians chapter 6, 13.
00:06:32.000Therefore, and this is, I think, advice for all of us that feel like we're in the midst of spiritual warfare or battle.
00:06:39.000Therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground.
00:06:46.000And after you've done everything to stand, Stand firm, then, with the belt of truth buckled round your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.
00:07:00.000In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
00:07:07.000Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
00:07:29.000When you think yourself and your own feelings and preferences as a kind of personal religion, which the culture is very adept at making us do, you are trapped, therefore, in sin.
00:07:38.000You put the helmet of salvation on, it helps you with your thoughts.
00:07:41.000Then I like that, and as Jayden explained to me, the breastplate of righteousness.
00:09:38.000But did you know when we prayed with Peggy and Mae today, and I said that the crucifixion and resurrection, I goes, what do you think it gave us?
00:09:46.000And one of them, Said power, another one said energy.
00:09:49.000Yeah, actually said like Wi Fi, didn't they?
00:09:53.000Uh, I thought you brought up Wi Fi, but in any event, our children are very bright, but they did say power and energy.
00:10:00.000Yeah, like it establishes a new frequency, a new possibility.
00:10:05.000Consider the work of Richard Framan, which I can't claim to understand, he's a physical theorist or a theoretical physicist.
00:10:11.000I'm always confused already, but then it is both wave and particle in a super state of potentiality.
00:10:18.000When we envisage light, we envisage light traveling.
00:10:21.000But really, what's happening is an excitation in the field.
00:10:24.000It has no mass, it's an excitation in the field.
00:10:28.000So, if you consider the resurrection of our Lord to be a kind of someone switched on the Wi Fi, someone switched on the Wi Fi, you have access now to a different field.
00:10:37.000It takes you beyond the limited service available to you.
00:10:41.000Speaking of myself, when you are trapped in sin.
00:10:43.000So, also very beautiful, isn't it, my darling, to consider that even in doing this, if we are able to do our humble service of talking about how.
00:10:51.000With Jesus Christ, even doing things that might otherwise be considered shameful and hurtful, walking with Him, you realize nothing you're doing is that important.
00:11:01.000And you know from your own life, your own struggles, your own suffering, and we are in prayer for you as much as we know that you are in prayer for us because we receive and we feel these prayers.
00:11:28.000Actually, I think that, I mean, obviously, that is the thing.
00:11:30.000There's no other thing that you could say could carry through something like this because I, you know, when someone might be like, I don't even know what to say to you, you must be having a really hard time.
00:11:41.000And I'm like, actually, there's a lot of grace in this.
00:11:46.000Like, there is a lot of grace and a lot of, would you say even mercy?
00:12:00.000It doesn't mean there aren't moments of terror, you know, challenge, but it does mean you, whether it's what you've just read, whether it is the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of righteousness, whether we're putting on that armoury or armour, would you say armour or armoury?
00:13:01.000I mean, there's something come, there's dark, it's darkness because you know, That you hear the same things they hear, but you know that's not what they're reporting.
00:13:10.000So, for example, and that could be applied to anything.
00:15:01.000It makes it clear because what I love about Alcoholics Anonymous is Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step anonymous groups that I may or may not belong to are like there's no single authority in there.
00:15:18.000And as a group, you have to recognize people are fair and decent and beautiful.
00:15:25.000In fact, the empire is predicated on the idea that we are broken and ruined.
00:15:29.000And some might say rather, not fatically, I want to say acerbically, for people do, that Christianity is founded on just the very same principle, the fall.
00:15:39.000But Christianity isn't founded on the principle of the fall.
00:15:44.000And Christianity is salvation and it's God coming down.0.64
00:15:46.000And the narrative that means, by this narrative, I mean my faith is that this narrative is.
00:15:52.000Explains the truth of our condition is that we are made for oneness with God, but we turn away from oneness with God because free will affords us to be in self should we choose to.
00:16:03.000We can elevate self to the highest priority.
00:16:08.000Therefore, it doesn't matter if in elevating yourself you identify with any particular cause.
00:16:13.000It could be that you're addicted to chocolate, it could be that you think your job as a manager of a fast food, of a chicken restaurant means that you can shout at people.
00:16:24.000Anything you do that is predicated upon self, the principle that yourself is the highest idea.
00:16:28.000And I think this can happen in neutrality.
00:16:30.000I mean, if you look at the tool just off the 12 steps, you'll note that the very method that can be used for drug dependency can be used for alcohol dependency, but perhaps more surprisingly, behavioral problems around sex or food.
00:16:45.000This means that this problem of self is not the nexus, but the loci, the locus of the problem.
00:16:56.000If you solve the problem of self and As a follower of Christ, you believe that by giving your life to Him, by saying, All right, I can't do this anymore, you know, it might start with a diffuse, an amorphous God, but in the end, the cross will bring it all together that you are a recipient of grace and that your job is to love.
00:17:14.000You are a recipient of grace and it's your job to love.
00:18:08.000Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, for the joy that was set before him.
00:18:24.000He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
00:18:30.000Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
00:18:40.000That he didn't give to you as the world gives to you.
00:18:46.000The world is sin always on the way in, it is exciting.
00:18:52.000You at some point were invited in, were you not?
00:18:55.000Come this way for the money or for the excitement or for whatever.
00:18:59.000And how does it feel when you're in there?
00:19:02.000And is the general trend that it's decaying, deteriorating because this?
00:19:06.000Is the dark signature of the enemy, of the fallen one, decay, death?
00:19:11.000Or did you find out it's just got better and better since I took that Faustian pact?
00:19:15.000Since I did that deal with the devil, my life's getting better and better and improving.
00:19:18.000No, once you're in there, you realize it's not real.
00:19:21.000I think of the immediate thing I think of is how much I sometimes so want to eat a McDonald's.
00:19:28.000And even when we go on those long drives, whether it was to the hospitals or whatever, and we're on those 10 hour drives, and it's like just right towards the end, you cave and you think, let's just have a Wendy's.
00:20:42.000No, but the point being, when we get nearly towards the end of a trip and we've done so well and you're nearly there and you've maybe done a couple of loose stops, but you haven't.
00:20:51.000You've eaten good food and you're not going to do it and you're not going to cook something.
00:20:54.000And then just right at the end, I think I have to, I cannot hold it anymore.
00:20:58.000I need a double whopper, whatever it's called.
00:22:52.000The reason I brought up fast food and the feeling of it being sinful is the only reason I'm thinking of fast food is because of the advertising on the side of the road.
00:23:00.000The worldliness of the, the, The advertising on the side.
00:23:06.000Are you seriously suggesting that you don't have enough self determination to resist a Wendy's advert?
00:23:12.000And somehow the Wendy's sign itself is responsible for you wandering into the Wendy's, ordering a double Dave burger without, might I say, even the courtesy to pick up some napkins and then be surprised that you're covered in grease.
00:24:44.000Listen to this from our beloved Paul, Corinthians seven, four, seven.
00:24:49.000But we have this treasure in jars of clay.
00:24:52.000In fact, I'm going to start a line at verse earlier because it gives you For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.
00:25:05.000But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us.
00:25:12.000We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned, struck down.
00:27:59.000But he needs to talk to, like, he needed the Eucharist and confession, like the way it would have been when you're using drugs and drinking, even though I didn't know him then.
00:28:10.000But both of us are on that path of recovering from drug and alcohol dependency.
00:28:14.000And like, so he was going, I've got to get a Eucharist.
00:28:58.000No, because I don't know anything about it.
00:29:00.000What you do is you're devoting yourself to the sort of compassion of, it says 33 days to merciful love, a do yourself retreat, preparation for the consecration to Divine Mary.
00:29:10.000And we're following St. Therese of Lesue, excuse me.
00:29:16.000And you're talking, and she's like leading you.
00:29:18.000Well, through this, there's an American author, I think, Father Michael E. Gately.
00:29:25.000And they're leading you through prayer into the mystery of Mary's love for Christ.
00:29:32.000Talking too about other great figures of the Old Testament, for example, Abraham, and bringing yourself to Christ in true humility and demonstrating that it is, in fact, Mary who, in a sense, redeems the original sin, a new Eve.
00:29:50.000Christ being a new and perfect Adam, and that it's Mary's faith that is a counterpoint to Eve's doubt, and that Mary, through her faithfulness, a woman that would bear a child, well, would conceive a child, as I've said before, redeeming both the, I think redeeming, it's non canonical, but the book of Enoch's talk,
00:30:15.000and indeed Genesis 1's talk of inter dimensional beings breeding with humans.
00:31:15.000That's what we're saying, as if we've got a reverend.
00:31:17.000Certainly they're including someone from a different Christian denomination, presumably for what passes for marketing reasons in such an esoteric field.
00:31:25.000Because I think part of the thing that can be conflicting, maybe, is.
00:31:40.000And before I was anywhere near Christianity, I used to think of our country, the UK, since I thought this, I don't know, Pabulous is a worthwhile thought and one that I've done last week.0.98
00:31:54.000The thought being that when we, through, you know, famously through Henry VIII departed from the Catholic Church, probably wanted to divorce, you know, I can't remember which one, but one of them, of the eight wives.0.60
00:32:08.000They sort of hold on, here was my point.
00:32:14.000Sorry, where did I start with that?0.60
00:32:18.000You were talking about, you were talking, it was a new story, and it was a new story about Henry VIII departing from the Catholic Church.
00:32:26.000And there was a point you were about to make.
00:32:27.000Oh, yeah, that's what I was going to say.
00:33:54.000This week, we've been looking at the meaning of trust, the heart of which comes through the examples of Abraham and Mary, who were blessed because they believed that what God had promised them would be fulfilled.
00:34:05.000But while Mary far surpasses Abraham as an example of faith, she also provides something that Abraham cannot.
00:34:12.000The grace to believe, the grace to trust.
00:34:31.000As we learned on day one, the old Eve brought about the wound of original sin.0.52
00:34:37.000A wound that causes us to have distorted, have a distorted image of God.
00:34:42.000A wound that causes us to doubt God's goodness.
00:34:45.000A wound that causes us to tend to hide from God.
00:34:48.000The wound, then, is clearly about God.0.67
00:34:51.000And so God uses another woman, a new Eve, to help heal the wound that the old Eve caused.
00:34:58.000A new Eve, a woman who was announced from the beginning, a woman who would be at enmity with Satan, a woman whose offspring would crush the serpent's head.
00:35:22.000He wants us fallen creatures to believe in His Word and to trust in His goodness, and that's something He can't force because trust, like love, must be given in freedom.
00:35:33.000Two, due to the wound of the original sin, we already tend to distrust God.
00:35:39.000So when he draws close to us, we often run and hide.
00:35:42.000You might say then that the new Eve is God's secret weapon because our wound doesn't have to do with her.
00:39:10.000I was like, Not that strange that reading, but he uses this device of yes, colloquialism, which of course the church always, yeah, wants to bring in, right?
00:39:18.000Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you're not meant to do that, you don't need to appeal to the culture, the culture is Satan.
00:39:23.000I could read this easier without the questions, but anyway, anyway, is something lacking in Christ's suffering, according to Saint Paul?
00:39:32.000There is, he says, in my flesh, I complete what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
00:39:39.000Now, of course, in one sense, there's nothing lacking in Christ's suffering.
00:39:43.000In fact, his suffering and death on the cross obtained the grace of salvation for everyone who has ever lived, is living, and will live, even to the end of time.
00:39:53.000In other words, the love that flows from the Lord's pierced heart is an infinite ocean of mercy.
00:40:00.000Problem is, not everyone accepts Receives and draws from such a super abundant source.
00:40:07.000They close their hearts to Christ's saving love.
00:40:10.000So, really, the lack is on the side of sinful humanity, but we can help make up for that.
00:40:17.000Through our suffering, lovingly united with Christ's, we can obtain for people the grace to accept his gift of salvation.
00:40:25.000For instance, I can pray and sacrifice for you, and it makes a difference.
00:40:30.000You can pray and sacrifice for me, and it makes a difference.
00:40:33.000But no human No human being makes more of a difference than Mary when it comes to helping people obtain the grace and mercy flowing from the heart of Jesus.
00:40:48.000Mary truly is the new Eve who brings us to the new Adam on the new tree of life, the cross.
00:40:54.000And once there, she lovingly encourages us not to eat forbidden fruit, but to drink from the blessed fountain of eternal life, the fountain of mercy.
00:41:04.000And through the grace of her suffering at the Foot of the cross, our gentle mother opens our hearts to receive the gift of salvation that comes to us in the love and mercy that flows from Christ's pierced side.
00:41:18.000Such saving faith truly is a gift of Christ through Mary, and such a gift leads the church to rightly declare death through Eve, life through Mary.
00:41:29.000And it says there, today's prayer Come, Holy Spirit, fire of mercy, bring me through Mary to the fountain of mercy.
00:41:40.000Bring me through Mary to this fountain of mercy.
00:42:30.000Now, I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, which is the church.
00:42:45.000By the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness, the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord's people.
00:42:56.000So then God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles, among the Gentiles, the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory that it is present in us.
00:43:07.000And I like the way that the author there, who doesn't put his name on the front, rather.
00:43:12.000Oh, yeah, Father Michael Gately poses to us that is through Mary's divine grace.
00:43:18.000That we become the recipients of Christ's mercy.
00:43:21.000And in a sense, I see how theologically this makes sense because whilst Christ's sacrifice or kenosis lacks nothing and is perfect, the requirement for our participation remains and therefore a role model such as the Holy Mother.
00:43:36.000As much as, I'm not saying as much, but perhaps one might similarly think of the beloved disciple.
00:43:42.000But of course, if you are Catholic, then Mary uniquely from the minute of her encounter with Gabriel, when she's basically a child, certainly a very young woman.
00:43:52.000Receives the news that she is going to be pregnant with, okay, let's go.
00:45:11.000And I think as a mother, reading about that is something.
00:45:14.000And when it says tender and loving and tender and grace and mercy, these words are emotive for a mother.
00:45:25.000And well, what it is is you can, the pain and suffering that she must have experienced, when it talks about that, even, and you think, gosh, as if she didn't experience it.
00:51:14.000I have this beautiful book where I'm praying the names of God and Shafate, I think I'm saying it correctly, is the judge aspect of our Lord God.
00:51:24.000An aspect of God is that He is a perfect judge.
00:51:27.000And we pray for that wisdom, of course, not just for me, but for everyone who requires true justice and for everybody involved, certainly in our situation.
00:51:34.000So you're going to read something from here and then close out with it?
00:52:43.000But we also have the same God, all of us.
00:52:46.000The people that believe they're in enmity to us in whatever form.
00:52:49.000Of course, you know what my appraisal of the situation is and know that.
00:52:55.000You know, we live at a time, perhaps we always have, where the institutions of this world, and in this instance, I'm talking about in particular the media, as I have been for some years.
00:53:08.000And I pray that through not only our suffering as a family, but through all suffering, we can move closer to the truth of arising in Him for us all.
00:53:20.000Because, you know, say there's instances where people don't believe in God, might watch this or listen to this, even for the most nefarious and malfeasant.
00:54:14.000And we pray for everybody watching this.
00:54:17.000We pray for all people that are suffering.
00:54:19.000And that ultimately means all people that they will find their way to you, that they will be recipients, as it said in that beautiful book of the mercy that flows from your heart, that we can emulate the model we have shown by your Mary.
00:54:32.000And turn to you in grace and fullness and submission and total love.
00:54:39.000This world is not an instrument of your glory.
00:54:43.000This world is in opposition and clear enmity.
00:54:46.000The empire, the imitative systems of power, where permanence replaces eternity, where institutions and systems of containment and oppression replace your eternal and spontaneous grace, O holy Jesus Christ.
00:55:02.000Let us flow like your mercy through all apparent time.
00:55:07.000Into the infinite with love for one another, that simplest of things, grounded to the earth, ascending unto you only through your favor and loving one another, Lord, as you on the cross formed this function that we may be reconciled to Him through you, you and He as one, through the Holy Spirit that you have endowed.
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