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At last, at long long last, the answer to something long struggled with. Thank you so much, Father, thank you.
Thank you as always great words of God.
Thank you Father Spyridon! I love your speech, I am a Roman Catholic, but I subscribe to many Orthodoxy youtube channel too, and you are one of the best too! 🙂
Thank you for another gem of Truth Fr. Spyridon.
Hi Father Spyrifon, I recieved your book ( Orthodoxy and the kingdom of satan) and find it eye opening..thank you. I and new to Orthodoxy, visited a few times a Coptic Orthodox church s few times. I was brought up under christian values, I read the Bible and pray often. But I have a few questions I hope you can answer.
Is it ok to call a human Father in the church , when I was told it's not right..only Christ is the father.?
Is it ok to confess to another human being, and where its says so in the bible. ?
Will the sinners go a literal hell, tormented by fire for ever?
The Coptic orthodox church I went a few times mainly speak arabic which I dont speak and the material is n arabic also. I feel out of place. Here in Brooklyn there are a few Greek and Russian Orthodox churches. I'd be the only Hispanic there and feel out of place and also I am a little darker in color. My question here is it really necessary to attend the physical Building to be saved? Can I just follow as much I can the Commandments, pray, study, fast, read the saints lives. Is that enough?
Thank you Fr. Spyridon , God bless. I ask humbly and respectfully for your thoughts Fr. Spyridon 😊
God bless you Fr. for sharing the Word. 😇🙏
I love the way the sheep come in on the left at 0:55. There is something prophetic about that!
Love this
Thank you father… words I needed to hear today ☦️
If someone strikes you across the face, turn to them the other cheek.
Thank you for your wise words and for your effort in putting together these wonderful, edifying videos. Glory to God!
Extreme ownership
Thank you!
Amen
God Bless Father Spyridon…we need you desperately in these hard days!
-American Christian
J.C. Ryle 📖 Holiness 🙏 Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots 📖 page 190-92
(C) Assurance is to be desired, because it tends to make a Christian ✝️ a decided Christian ✝️. Indecision and doubt about our own state in God’s sight is a grievous evil, and the mother(Bad Choice of words, IMHO) of many evils. It often produces a wavering and unstable walk in following the Lord. Assurance helps to cut many a knot, and to make the path of Christian ✝️ duty clear and plain.
Many, of whom we feel hopes that they are God’s children, and have a true grace, however weak, are continually perplexed with doubts on points of practice. “Should we do such and such a thing? Shall we give up this family custom? Ought we go into that company? How shall we draw the line about friendships? What is to be the measure of our dressing and entertainments? Are we never, under any circumstances, to dance, never to touch a card, never to attend parties of pleasure?” These are the kind of questions which seem to give them constant trouble. And often, very often, the simple root of their perplexity is that they do not feel assured they are themselves children of God. They have not yet settled the point which side of the gate they are on. They do not know whether they are inside the ark or not!
That child of God ought to act in a certain decided way, they quite feel; but the grand question is, “Are they children of God themselves?” If they only felt they were so, they would go straightforward and take a decided line. But not feeling sure about it, their conscience is forever hesitating and coming to a dead lock. The devil whispers, “Perhaps after all, you are only a hypocrite; what right have you to take a decided course? Wait until you are really a Christian ✝️.” And this whisper too often turns the scale and leads on to some miserable compromise or wretched conformity to the world!
I believe we have here one chief reason why so many in this day are inconsistent, trimming, unsatisfactory, and half-hearted in their conduct about the world. They feel no assurance that they are Christ’s, and so feel a hesitancy about breaking with the world. They shrink from laying aside all the ways of the old man because they are not quite confident they have put on the new. In short, I have little doubt that one secret cause of “halting between two opinions” is lack of assurance. When people can say decidedly, “The Lord, He is the God,” their course becomes very clear (1 Kings 18:36-39
King James Version
36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.)
(D) Assurance is to be desired, because it tends to make the holiest Christians. This, too, sounds incredible and strange, and yet it is true. It is one of the paradoxes of the gospel, contrary at first sight to reason and common sense, and yet it it is a fact. He who is freely forgiven by Christ will always do much for Christ’s Glory; and he who enjoys the fullest assurance of this forgiveness will ordinarily keep up the closest walk with God. It is a faithful saying and worthy to be remembered by all believers: “He who has hope in Him✝️ purifies himself, even as He✝️ is pure” (King James Version
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.). A hope that does not purify is a mockery, a delusion, and a snare!
None are so likely to maintain a watchful guard over their own hearts 💕 and lives as those who know the comfort of living in close communion with God. They feel their privilege and will fear losing it. They will dread falling from the high estate, and marring their own comforts, by bringing clouds between themselves and Christ. He who goes on a journey with little money, takes little thought of danger and cares little how late he travels. He, on the contrary, that carries gold and jewel, will be a cautious traveler. He will look well to his roads, his lodgings and his company, and run no risks. It is amn old saying, however unscientific it may be, that the fixed stars are are those which tremble most. The man that most fully enjoys the light of God’s reconciled countenance, will be a man tremblingly afraid of losing its blessed consolations and jealously fearful of doing anything to grieve the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, Father Spyridon, for reminding us of the great need for continual self-adjustment before God. It is easier for God to work through a clean vessel that a dirty one – more souls can be saved.
They justify their sins because they love their sins more than they love God
I make a point of watching at least one of Fr Spyridon's videos every day.
The world of full of people who are not only unrepentant, moreover they are proud of their sins in the name of their “civil rights”
Ace! The more I walk with God the more I see what a warrior a true Christian is. War hurts I forget & I dare say I'm not alone! its not all conquer & feast's hu? Great homily again 💯
Lord Jesus Christ , Son of God , have mercy on me a sinner.
Thank you for your words Father.
Nice, quiet, reassuring voice, beautiful nature as background, great message 🤗
Pray for Compunction ☦️🙏🏻🙏🏻
I was wondering what kind of trees are in the orchard behind you….?
thank you …father, Jesus, and the holy spirit bless you. .
Sadly people with villainous intent are the hero of their own story and sinners dont refer to their actions as sin ,soon the world must remember
sin is just a religious word for a form of directed negative energy in the secular vernacular its true name is now hidden behind renameing and hollow justifications by devils writing their own ethical codes ,we must see things for what they are if the emperor is naked say so and strive to do active tangible deeds to objectively affect the immediate world around us only in the words of others can our actions be deemed good only by sacrifice can one help another
Thank U FATHER SPYRIDON for another beautiful WORD from the LORD
…LOVE U – GOD BLESS