St. Anthony the Great on the Christians of the Last Days
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2024
- Excerpted from Lesson 3: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle & Evangelist John the Theologian, Rev. 14: 6-8 (Series 4), by Fr. Peter Heers
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Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on us sinners.
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Amen Lord Jesus Christ Son Of God Have mercy on us sinners.
Thank God for Orthodox Ethos. Thank God for men like Father Peter, Metropolitan Neophytos, and so many others for upholding the true faith.
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To my Bishop Paisios Papadopoulos who follows the Patristic calendar, Lord have mercy.
Thank you very much Fr. Peter for this, it is difficult to keep Our Lord commandments but His Mercy is even greater.. God and Our Lord Jesus Christ keep blessing you and your dear ones.
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Our Lord said, “My yoke is good and my burden is light.” I wonder how this relates in these times. Is it always thus?
@@eh3345 Yes it is so since Our Lord's Words are eternal, I would even say that His Words are "more true" now than ever
I wonder if we underestimate just how psychologically unbearable life is for many today on account of how well off we are materially. I've spent most of my life not just alone but isolated. Gotta wonder how that sort of thing compares with the suffering of previous generations. And the temptations we face today are off the wall nuts. Internet porn alone, i.e., wet dreams on demand is pretty unbelievable when you look at it from a pre-modern perspective. And with AI, it's only getting more immersive and sophisticated. The Christians of old didnt have to deal with that sort of thing at all, much less on a daily basis. Only seems natural that we wouldn't be held to the same high standard. We're both weaker and constantly buffeted with temptation from every direction, and moreover, more and more of us are expected to face the world alone, or with far fewer friends and family and much weaker bonds than previous generations enjoyed. We're easily the most spiritually impoverished and afflicted generation to ever walk the earth (or drive around it in cars, anyway)
Well said. There are different trials today, even though life is good survival wise, we are spiritually deprived and sin is being encouraged.
"Where sin abounds grace abounds more" Romans 5:20-21 this can either tell us that there is more mercy due to their being more sin ; or that he gives us strength
Because our strength is irrelevant; it is so weak that we naturally will sin as we are under the power of sin
"I do not what I want to do, but the very thing I do not want to do; therefore it is no I who do it but the power of sin within me"
We achieve more strength through grace
Which we get by fellowship and communion
As we stare at Christs face he changes us
And if we don't pray for a while or read the word, we can begin to let sin take over. It's by total consistency but not monastically or legalistically
It's about surrendering and letting God have Ur heart.
From the heart the rest will be done and I Will love the things of God also. He doesn't always give the power straight away in our temporal sense but he also gives ways out. God always knew how bad the temptation would be in these days and how bad it will get, and therefore lays our path straight.
However the more straightened the Lord makes our path, the more bent the enemy will make that sinful path.
Therefore we must not entertain sin but also learn how the devil operates so we can begin to have better human discernment but we should rely on knowing God's Holy Spirit and knowing God who is personal. His grace is so much more than we can perceive.
I'd like to add that we're physically weaker too. Our gluttony is shortening our life spans and compounding our spiritual problems. One passion fuels another...
@@merg-vh5sx Not to mention that we live in a toxic soup. We're literally being poisoned by our food and water supply - not to mention the medical establishment's not insubstantial contribution, the chem trails crisscrossing the sky & the RF/EMF radiation we're constantly exposed to. Transgenderism isn't only running amok because of bad ideas - it's running amok because our hormones are out of whack. Anyone who thinks this generation is in a privileged position is either a) smoking crack, or b) uses material wealth as the sole criterion of what constitutes a good life
Yes I think the same way. I like to think that Gods mercy will be proportional to our current times and struggles not the same standard for all time periods because like you said we face the hardest temptation battle of any time in history.
May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️
Saint Anthony pray to God for us☦️
Joel 2:32 (KJV): And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Here to prevent people from saying "first"
... last. 😅
So you're first in preventing others from being first?
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Latest
Many who are first will be last
The grace is incredible. I can imagine the older saints being awestruck by the willingness of God to show mercy.
They knew grace, but man..
I totally agree. But I would also add the other end of the spectrum, meaning that even a quiet, godly, relatively simple life demands and consumes so much of our time and energy (or maybe just our time alone) that we can't find a way to maintain, let alone increase, practices and prayer rules of more than just prayer and maybe scripture a couple times a day. There was an existential philosopher who said, "you can't become a saint when you work 16 hours a day". If you work a moderately tiring job, there's no way to sleep 3 hours a night in order to spend the other few hours praying and reading and not collapse eventually, ruin your health and/or lose your poorly performed job. And days off aren't much better. You need to catch up on all the things you haven't done all week. Food shopping, laundry, cooking, and chores, eat up your time significantly. And I'm a single person without many people in my life. I can't imagine taking care of children and/or maintaining a relationship while trying to pray more than on workdays.
Also, I don't go to the gym, have any other extra curricular hobbies, or attend any special events, and I am dead tired. It's hard to resist a nap here and there.
I think society is designed this way. To separate you from God and family and marry you to your job. Your rituals are all the chores and errands you need to do just to function. Add in what this clip is about and it's a miracle if you even make it to the dentist.
We have to do whatever we can, of course with the blessing of a spiritual father. No matter how busy our schedules are we can pray, but some are busier than others. No matter our state in life, we can always make excuses for ourselves at the prompting of the devil who always wants us to relax, cater to the flesh, not try too hard, treat ourselves, take it easy, etc. We only make progress by having a fighting spirit against laxity, always striving to love God more and pray more.
@@OrthodoxEthos Totally agree. Thanks for replying.
Vigilance!!
I think when God calls us to have a deeper relationship with Him, He will provide us with the grace necessary, no matter what our present circumstances are. Heeding His call might require giving up a lot of things that we’ve grown used to, lifestyles we’re comfortable in. It’s a terrible thing to find ourselves as the rich young man, doing everything else right but being unwilling to sell all we have and give the money to the poor, whatever that means for us in our lives, because our possessions are too great. The more pitiable if the things we refuse to give up aren’t even that great, but we cling to them as if they were one of our organs. I’m speaking here from present experience 😅 we might have to radically restructure our lives to answer the Lord’s call. That can be very painful. Agonizing even, to the point that our souls are sorrowful even unto death, enough to sweat blood. But we know that He endured it before us, so that when we’re faced with the cross we must bear, we know that we don’t bear it alone. It becomes a yoke that is easy, a burden that is light.
Reminds me of how things have changed in the LDS church from my youth to now.
When I was young, we were asked to keep a years worth of food storage. My family was certainly amongst those who couldn't keep up. So the church leaders asked we do 6 months. Now it might be down to 3. Speaking of three, our services used to be, 3 hours. Now they're only 2... very peculiar indeed...
Lord, have mercy on me a sinner.
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Your blessing Father Peter, I just wanted to make a correction that this wasn’t St. Anthony that said this but Abba Issychrion, it’s recorded in the sayings of the desert fathers for anyone who wants to read the original quote.
Thank you Father and God bless
Father, your words and faith heal those who's hearts are open to true change. You lead us to the Lord through your example, thank you
Excellent discernment. I know we are deserving of chastisement but wish there was another path. Compared to the faith of previous generations we are profoundly weak. Jesus come soon!
Genius. Everything I felt this past week is all in this lesson.
You hit home with this one. Nailed it! I'll be sharing this around.
Lord have mercy on us😢
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Thank you so much, Father Heers! ☦️🙏🏻
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Lord have mercy
All of your work has helped me so much and continues too. I often look through the comments on your videos. I see how many attacks you get. It makes me feel bad. Not pity. I admire you. I admire your courage. I hope someday to find a spiritual father like you. I want to be a monk. God has allowed for me to lose everything and everyone due to my own will. I am going to emulate the life of a monk( i know its not possible outside of monasticism) but i am going to do my best to be a copy cat in my home cell. The only thing that makes me happy is orthodoxy. I thank you for your work. Its because of Fathers like yourself that i feel like i know what i can and want to do with my life.... im not trying to feed you pride. I am just grateful for you and i often cry thinking about where i would be without Holy Orthodoxy and without good honest Fathers like yourself who are professing the truth of Christ. Thank you. God bless you. I am trying to seek silence. Most times i speak i feel like i have to repent. I have often repented for speaking but never for silence...st Arsenios seeker of silence. Thank you Father Peter.
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Your reply brought tears to my eyes. May our merciful God give us strength in these demonic times. As far as those who attack Fr. Peter. As our Lord said, those who hate me will hate you. Prayers for Fr. Peter.
God bless you my beautiful brother.
Very eye opening. I never heard that one from St. Anthony the Great before.
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Amen...
I'm watching your content, thank you for taking away from your free time and doing this. Being a priest in these times it is not easy. The burden and spiritual warfare must be immense. Watching your content from Macedonia (the one that is north of Greece) !
I appreciate this!
Its happening now even among family and friends
Thanks I needed to hear this ….
Thank you
Yep, seems to be that after 1-2 years in the final 7 year tribulation such things will start like that but especially in the last 3.5 years.
This is why we should study to be part of the 5 wise virgins and not the 5 foolish as the foolish are the ones who will really suffer the most.
Danke!
That is what I heard yesterday come out from among them after I went to confession
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Truly, Christianity is a martyrdom
Especially these days
Бог да сохранит вас батюшка
Call no man on the earth father for you have one father and that is GOD !
Makes the laxity of the Catholic Churches fasting regulations for Lent make a little more sense.
I’m a Catholic, and I’m continually astounded by my own weakness and inability when it comes to basic practices of fasting from times past.
We have only one Father, God
Ευλογία πάτερ. I sent this video to an evangelical friend and he responded by saying salvation by faith alone. We know it’s both faith and works,(theosis). What apologetic can I offer him to better explain the words of Saint Anthony. Κύριε ίσου Χριστέ ελέησον με.
They need: Humility before the saints and 2000 years of life is in Christ
Father
Interesting
I thought things were going to get better for the Christians...after about three years of toiling from the land. I thought i heard this from Saint Paisios....Does St. Anthony have a good track record of prophecy like Saint Paisios?
The people who were subject to the siege of Constantinople, terrible in every way that it was, could at least lean on teaching of their fathers, could trust to the community of friends and their Church. They could say that they lived in a Christian world that at least recognized good and evil. Now? Now men struggle to even know what it means to be men, without fathers who may have taught them, constantly uprooted and without community. They have no peace of mind for even bare minutes without the World imposing on them in a way that the Desert Fathers would have thought purely demonic. Distracted and incapable of focus, try as they might practically from birth. This is the burden of these dark days, and not even the half of it.
Colossians 1 About Jesus:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.
Rev 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS….
1- THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME
2- THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE
3- THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THY GOD IN VAIN
4- REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY
5- HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER
6- THOU SHALT NOT KILL
7- THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
8- THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
9- THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOURS
10- THOU SHALT NOT COVET
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Hebrews10:26-31- For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!!..
These few verses unmask deception and reveal idolatry:
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. SO DO ALL WHO TRUST IN THEM. Psalm 135:15-18
Deuteronomy 4:16
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
Jeremiah 7:18-19 KJV
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the ¨queen of heaven¨, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Mary and saint worship, Mary the mediatrix and queen of heaven? God cleary told us Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and mankind. Whoever else you use as mediator or pray to is IDOLATRY.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
Saints dont intermediate and dont listen to prayers, they are dead people like you and me, made of flesh and they died, Mary also is one of them, she was a normal woman who gave birth to Jesus and she and other people may not be worshipped.
God declared the dead as the following:
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. 6Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.
If the dead are alive somewhere... then who are the ones Christ will resurrect at his arrival?
*Second commandment (Ex 20:4): Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, ...*
this includes rosary necklaces, Mary and saint statues, Jesus, Mary and saint images, crosses, 'holy relics' and many more items used in worship by most denominations. People bow down before these things, kiss them, pray with them and that is wrong.
Christ is the mediator we pray towards, close the door and pray to him honestly without any items or images, he is the living God and does not share his glory with manmade things.
It is time to return to the old Hebraic faith of Jesus (Yeshua) and do what he did (obey the Fathers commandments and laws). There was no Catholic church or hundreds of denominations each with their own views and opinions back in the days of Jesus and the prophets. Believers had the old testament back then, which is the foundation of all scripture and the key to understand the new testament. Most Cathechism practices like rosary prayers etc are just invented in the 16th century.. first pope existed in 538ad and not in the apostles their days. those things got nothing to do with Jesus, its the traditions and vanities of religious men who went far astray from the Fathers commands.
Matt 7:22
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’…
Berean Standard Bible
Only those who obey Gods commandments will enter the kingdom, there is a large familiar group of people who think they please Jesus but obviously they will be rejected by Him because they denied the commandments.
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I have a question. I want to live a ascetic life and one of the things is eating less food. But I want to become a father one day and for that I should be strong and I have to eat a lot for that. Should first eat a lot and gain muscles or stay skinny and live an ascetic life now?
Perhaps best way would be to adopt Orthodox calendar on the matter of feasts and fasts... eat as per Orthodox calendar - get one that has prescribed fasting for each day of the year. Orthodoxy does not prescribe to one to go any more ascetic or less ascetic from that.... unless!... your spiritual father prescribes fast that differs from the Church's.
@@johnnyd2383 I am a Serbian orthodox Christian since I am a kid and I have fasted since I am a kid. That is not the problem
Being a good father implies asceticism, but it's not the same asceticism of the monks. Work hard and be strong to keep your family safe and well.
We should have a spiritual father who has spiritual experience and who knows how to guide souls to salvation by applying the teachings of the saints to our particular circumstances. The best way to prepare for fatherhood is to live a holy life. All Christians are called to live ascetically, but exactly how much we eat and when may vary depending on our responsibilities. A man does not become a good father by weighing a certain amount or having a certain amount of muscles.
@@OrthodoxEthosThank you a lot for the advice. You are helping me a lot with your videos to learn more and come closer to God. God bless you and your team.
I'm a transgender Orthodox person and while the criteria says being trans is a sin. I have really struggled bringing Christ to my queer family. No one believes in Christs message anymore.
I love Jesus and I am chaste. But I feel like I am climbing up a mountain. But Isaiah 56 gives me hope. People will argue its not about me. But it is a passage for people "Othered" by the church.
Whatever happens, never abandon Christ. You are to love Him with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. Even if your family disowns you for professing your faith as an Orthodox Christian, when they realize that this is not just a passing fad of yours, you should not pick your family over God. If the ship is sinking, you need to abandon it, and if it's God's will to let the ship sink, if nothing seems to be working - let His will be done, accept whatever cleansing scrubbing God puts you through with humility.
Saint Seraphim of Sarov said "acquire the spirit of humility, and thousands will be saved around you". Your guardian angel (both of them, if you're baptized as an Orthodox) will both pray to God for you, as long as you keep quiet and don't escalate whatever tensions you may have with your family and neighbours. Don't rely solely on your power to convince others of the truth of Orthodox Christianity, because only fervent prayer can really bring other people to God.
Thank you
You're "othering" yourself though. You insist on clinging to this identity. Let it go
I have an oriental Christian friend who wants to live for Christ. I tried to explain to him that the oriental church is heretical and he should come to the Eastern Orthodox Church but he thinks that that does not matter. I’ll keep trying to go deeper in repentance and to change his mind. My question is could he still be saved as an oriental and is being an Oriental as worse like Protestant and papists or less because they are more similar to us?
They are actually less similar. They lack the councils we have in common with the other heterodox
Worse to think your in the church and thus feel no need to change than to feel the lack and have the good uneasiness.
As an Oriental Orthodox Christian your comment deeply saddened me. I wish you have read Oriental Orthodox christology and the councils that were held before chalcedon.
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Definitely not there yet
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The denominations always believe they will be saved only by confession of faith that is to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
Did the Saint mean all including those who are not in Orthodox Church?
Father Peter used forgery that were now put out of context, knowingly or unknowingly, I do not know... Search for the other versions of those sayings, those are so RC and ecumenical in their"s twisted spirit
he mostly meant the orthodox, that we will be shallow to the matters of faith, if faithful at all, the Lord said the same, reasuring theword of saint Antony
They are not confessors. They don't confess the true Christ, but rather some other christ (many non-Orthodox even believe the christ they worship will return to rule an earthly kingdom, whereas we know the only one who will rule a world kingdom will be the final ac, who will rule the whole world for the final 3.5 years of this world, of history & time, before the Lord returns in glory to judge the living and the dead & rule His Kingdom without end. They preach another gospel, another God.
The Saint is saying the Christians of the end times (& I don't believe we are at the End of the end) will have faith in the true Christ, true doctrines (not heresies).
Also he's not saying those final Christians will hold the belief that they will be saved by their faith in Christ alone, but that they will not be able to do much else other than hold their faith in Christ as the God-man in the face of terrible pressure (they, the remnant, will be few, they may be ragtag groups in the mountains, deserts, the holes of the earth. They may have nothing except what the Lord provides them for their survival, as prefigured in the OT by manna. They will have given up everything so as not to bow down to a false god (the final ac). They may not have the Holy Eucharist, they may not have icons & relics, all of which may disappear from the earth, when the final ac is crowned world king. But they will not have any strange god in them because they refused to turn away from the Truth, their Life & Lord.
That is all they will need to do in those terrible times, the like of which the world will have never known nor will be again, to be greater than most Christians who went before them.
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@@agiasf7330 your first two sentences make a lot of sense. Good way to think of it. If I remember correctly, St. Theophan wrote a book, "Preaching another Christ" to those outside the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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He's the after sabach anthani Rapha elyon Elohim
How is the martyrdom of the last christians different than the martyrdom, the most cruel tortures the first christians endured?
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I a little kinda understand. How to live in chastity when you live in a society where chastity is seen as the worst evil thing ever ? How to be innocent while you have watched p*rn since the age of 9/10 ?
My soul is torned, my heart is broken and my only hope is in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and His Immaculate Mother...
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners
May God help you. Keep repenting. Keep crying out to Christ for mercy. He will help you.
The thing is that all these elites in high places read the bible, and believe they are doing a good thing, in furthering end time prophecy.
Sola aristocratola.
Avoiding sexual sin in this age is near to impossible if you're not in a monastery.
How do you avoid lust when you can't even walk through a supermarket without seeing a woman essentially naked?
Then let's not even get started in the internet....
I have heard a man say, ”I made a covenant with my eyes…” draw the line and stay behind it.
Well, it seems. Martin Luther was right about Sola Fide, he was just way off about the time when that would be enough.
No, this has to do exclusively of the last days and times of martyrdom where a person may be saved for their confession of faith and martyrdom alone. Those who do not convert in such a context and who are not facing martyrdom must seek to be baptized in the Orthodox Church and follow the teachings of the Church for their salvation.
Cannot indure sound doctrine in the last days
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It's about psychological warfare. Which is synonymous with spiritual warfare
So protestants are right when they say Faith alone?
Seems what we do is so affected by who & what we are, and who we are is reflected by our faith. So wouldn’t one naturally be doing works if your faith is true? Wouldn’t faith and works be interconnected?
stop deviding the church. It was always faith alone.
If you are in that faith, you will do the good works on your own. But not because you want them to do, but because it will be your new nature in Christ. It is called sanctification.
That is why you will know them from their fruits.
This i meant by working out your salvation in fear and trembeling.
That is what it means to walk in the works created by our father before the world was.
There is no glory for us in that path but for God alone.
Many chuches (mainly catholic and orthodox) are mixing works and faith, which equals the "falling from grace" that Paul mentioned. The jews back in his time tried the same (well even today)
This is not a critique to the believers in this churches, because they are not the catholic or orthodox church (which are just organisations), they belong to Christ. In fact, many protestant churches a lukewarm because they say you are saved by grace alone, but are not examine themselfs and don´t get that they have not saving faith but conviction of them selfs instead of the Holy Spirit.
So basically, if you are trully saved and are sealed with the Holy Spitit, then you won´t mix works and faith anyway and the chruch you attend won´t matter, since we are the church and not some building or place or organisation. (and don´t get me wrong order is important, but many gathering are more than just then elders and believers)
@@Damtan01- Maybe read up on what the Apostle Peter says about it.
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please explain?
Just throwing" read Peter" won´t work.
@@Damtan01-Doesn’t work? What, for you? It does indeed work if you knew what Peter said about works and faith/faith and works. That without works, faith is dead. Seems if your faith is alive, you’d naturally be doing works. Maybe you could look it up if so inclined, i forgot exactly where it is.
Well If alk Catholic and Orthidox priests .had families and children and lived in the cities o monasteries then we would have. mulch more Christians “in the field”. The people don’t own anything and are forced to migrate to the cities. Christians should vote for the right governments so that the government will be limited in its power.
Even if I quote, you will not believe, because of your "modern elderism" atitude. Do your own research and math, first in the "Starecnik" of saint Ignjatije Brjancaninov where the full story is, and later in Prologue of saint Nikolaj Velimirovic... Do not find excuses in "trusting in famous living elders" but rather confirmation in the holy fathers themselves. Go.
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who decided Anthony was as saint. God decides, not men, so we do not know.
From what I know, it is based on their life-the fruit of their life. Then when they repose, if their body is incorrupt and miracles are evidenced, they are saints. I think those are standard.
Тhose are the forgeries of holy father"s sayings and put out of context, shame on you father Piter ... 5 44 belong to Egyptian elder Iperihije and are messaged to monks only, not in general as you presume ... You are caught cheating both yourself and others...
Really. Show us. You speak with such surety, so you must have the goods. . . We are quoting a great elder of our own day and have never heard from any elder or saint what you claim.
Even if I quote, you will not believe, because of your "modern elderism" atitude. Do your own research and math, first in the "Starecnik" of saint Ignjatije Brjancaninov where the full story is, and later in Prologue of saint Nikolaj Velimirovic... Do not find excuses in "trusting in famous living elders" but rather confirmation in the holy fathers themselves. Go. @@pah9730
On Rumble:
[The title is theirs]
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Fr. Peter Heers: The Orthodox Guide to Salvation in the Apocalypse
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