The Prophet of the End Times, the Blasphemous Olympics, and Reverence for the Holy
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Sermon delivered by Metropolitan Demetrius of America on the feast of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias, at Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, Cobleskill, NY. For more videos visit: / orthodoxtradition
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The sermon, Prophet of the End Times, the Blasphemous Olympics, and Reverence for the Holy, was delivered on July 20/August 2, 2024.
We should all pray UA-cam doesn’t take this down. This message needs to be heard and out there. May God protect our Geronda by the prayers of Panagia and the Holy Prophet Elias.
Amen!
Amen ☦️
Amen!
Thank God you speak the truth about these evil times. Some clergymen won’t even talk about these evil issues, not to become political. Thank you Despota for showing the love for our Orthodox faith , and for the concern for our souls. May God continue to give you strength! ☦️🙏
God bless you!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen.
I’m going to the church regularly but I’m not baptized yet, pray for me to get baptized before my death!
May God deem you worthy of Holy Baptism.
Get baptized! I got so fed up of my daughter being left in baptized while she struggled with worldly demons giving her no respite, I baptized her myself, out of my Holy Missal, which has the correct form. Get a Catholic or orthodox friend or relative to baptize you. It is valid. It is the best protection against evil. Becoming ‘worthy’ has nothing to do with it, as an adult, simply desiring baptism is enough.
@@MsDormy what you are saying is economia, only allowed in extreme circumstances. The Mystery/Sacrement of Holy Baptism is performed by an orthodox priest, because they have the grace of the priesthood given by Jesus to the apostles. We do not believe in the validity of sacrements of other churches
@@MsDormy laypeople can baptize in extreme circumstances, but it needs to be revisited by a priest. Hopefully your action will help resolve whatever the problem is so a complete baptism can be done as is necessary.
@@MsDormy Exactly! We catholics are baptized not long after birth. I was baptized when I was around 22 days old.
I was so touched now by these wise words 😢and your voice brings peace to my heart❣️Thank you🌹
God bless you!
❤God bless you
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤💪🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏👩❤️👨🕊
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Your sermons have the spirit of sermons written by blessed Averky Taushev. Glory to God! Thank you for uploading.
Glory to God!
I'm very glad to hear a priest telling us to not watch the television and not listen to any popular music. It's not possible to bring your soul to Christ if you use these devices.
The Metropolitan has been preaching this for a while now....
@@OrthodoxTraditioneven if you are very selective of what you let in? No freemasonry, only Christian trusted TV?.. or should we not even have phones?
Just be very careful.
I don’t even have my tv hooked up anymore. 5 years. Do not miss it at all. Can’t take the car radio, either. Too cachophonic.
But you use the internet and you tube!😮
I live in Oklahoma and very grateful we have strong Bible believers but I see a lot of worldly people moving here that haven’t the beliefs that I was raised with your teachings help me in my faith to help spread the truths to a hurting world..
May God grant us zeal according to knowledge.
@@OrthodoxTraditionsomehow those words, ' zeal according to knowledge ' affected me just now in a way i never experienced before. And i have known of them for most of my life in church and Bible classes etc. Probably memorized them at some time in my prtnst life..
Thank you
Thank you for teaching us this🥰🙏🌺 Your voice and teaching is helping me so much 🥰🥲🙏Living in this world being set apart is not easy, only with Gods help.
They didn’t show on the news thousands of Christians filled the streets in France, singing church songs.🙏❤️The movies , music, entertainment is all demonic incantation’s, rituals. Getting worse and worse.
May God grant us all wisdom.
Pray before you go online and ask Jesus Christ to protect you from anything demonic.
Amen!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. Have mercy on me a sinner.
Amen!
Glory to God always, thank you beloved Fr. Demetrius ☦️
God bless you.
My old Bulgarian friend once told me how she had some relatives who were separated from the family during ww2 and lived in Georgia. There the uncle had an orchard. It was raining and he was putting on his coat to look at his trees. His daughter warned him to be careful of the weather because it was st Elias day. He said Bah, what do I care about St Elias? And he went out. He found a golden ball on one tree and touched it, it was ball lightning. He perished
God help us!
I live in California. I understand the Orthodox faith to some degree. I am trying to join a small parish near me because I understand that the church is the experience of salvation and the continuation of the incarnation, having realized this, everything has become very difficult for me. My eyes don't see the way they once did and I'm struggling between two worlds. One world where I pray, and I rejoice in hope and I understand Love as St Paul describes it in chapter 13 and the other world where I am expected to do things to make money to pay the bills and these two worlds don't like each other...and I fall and I pray and I fall and I pray, and sometimes I fall and it takes me too long to pray again. And I'm scared and I despair because I see....but can't change completely. I have expectations from my Fr and I have expectations from my boss. The more I understand that all are sent by the Lord, the more I react the wrong way, as if the more I understand what the Lord wants and the more crystal clear it is what I must do, the more I fail because I am afraid to take a stand and say no, no matter what the consequences. I can only conclude from my laymen's perspective Praise the Lord with all your heart because he was sent to save us and only he can save us.
Amen
May God lead you to salvation.
Following Jesus is about being with Him, Loving on Him, Reading Scriptures together, always keeping Him in your Presence. The Lord promises to take care of the needs of those who make tis effort. Everything else is Satan, really. Trust in Him and ask Him to guide you and ask for discernment! God Bless!
I loved your message. All of us struggle on a daily basis. But something I keep reminding is that God is always with me, and he won't put me through anything I can't handle. He is there when the going gets tough. And when it's tough, take a couple of deep breaths and pray. Doesn't have to be long, just pray. Any Orthodox church is welcoming and we love people who are interested in the faith and come to church and talk to the priest or parishioners. Very excited for you. Let's just all pray for each other!
I was a year ago in the same dilemma as you were. God has given you this job and has you where you need to be. If you feel that it is not, then pray to find a job that God wants you to be at and he will answer your prayer. We all need to make money to live and provide for our families but do what is right, refuse to do wrong at your job and see it as an opportunity for you to spread God’s love in this sad world. So many people are in despair in these times and we as Christians are called to be Gods light. So work like you are working for God and the two worlds will unite and you will find peace. Pray for Gods peace, love and joy and for His will to be done. I hope you find a good Orthodox Church and we will be praying for you. Stay strong and trust God. 🙏☦️
the enemy knows that his days are numbered on one hand, hence the vulgarity….Lord Have Mercy.
Lord have mercy!
Yep.
To all Christians stand firm in front of the devil..
Refuse to watch, to participate!
Remember ίσους Χριστός ΝΙΚΑ!
Jesus Christ is the VICTOR! ✝️❤️❤️✝️
God help us!
@@OrthodoxTradition slava Bozhe!
Please pray for us ☦️🛐📿☦️☦️. Lord have mercy on us. God bless you for your wisdom of God’s words may our Lord Jesus Christ help us all and save us all. May our St. Elias intercede to our Lord Jesus Christ to help us and save us. Amen🛐☦️☦️☦️📿 thank you and God bless us all
God bless you.
Does the bible not teach that the holy spirit and Christ himself is our mediators before GOD, I don't understand the praying to men and women for our behalf
This a great sermon ! thank you Fr. 🙏
God bless you.
May we all have the patience and faith of the saints and the martyrs before us and continue our ascetic struggle in this temporal world✝️❤️❤️✝️
Κύριε ίσους Χριστός ελέησον ήμας✝️❤️❤️✝️
God help us.
Glory to God! ☦️
Glory to God!
Glory to God the Saviour! ❤
Master, Bless!!!!
God bless.
Dear father, please pray for me because I am suffering from high egotism which make me criticise every one and be very sensitive to any comments from anyone.
May God help you.
Well, yes, you and many many other people. I have my own issues of pride. But, take heart, because you see it and want to repent and be healed from this. I hope that you are Orthodox or on your way. I hope you have or will soon have a priest to talk to about this. The Orthodox Church sees our sins as wounds against ourselves.. so when we are judgmental , we very often feel empowered and justified.. only later to see how we have again wounded ourselves as well as those we have judged..
Takes a while to understand that. Completely goes against the thinking of the fallen world.
Your thoughts are NOT YOU..guard your mind..pray and fast..we all have these feelings from Satan ❣️
@@lindaphillips4646 thanks
@@senselessDesires666 thanks
Amen❤
God bless you.
@@OrthodoxTradition 😊
Ive been falling so much into lust recently, listening to secular music at work, becoming more spiritually lazy and having this paralyzed feeling and I dont know what to do
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY! 🙏
Never give up. If you fall, ask forgiveness right away. Light candles, say prayers, go to Church, go to confession. Show fruits of repentance. Ask for the gift of repentance.
Force urself to do prayer rope in your car when driving or travelling to and fro. Saying Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me. That's your start. So prayer doesn't actually use your personal time, but it uses your down time. Soon you will want to do prayer in your personal time. xo
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God bless you.
Amen
Amen.
Metropolitan Demetrius how can we abtain old copies out of print orthodoxy books? like those written by Saint John of san francisco?
Borrow, scan, print for yourself
Your Blessing Your Grace, do you believe we are living in the final years before the 2nd coming of Christ? Or do you believe there will be a period of prosperity after these events before the 2nd coming of Christ?
God bless you! God only knows.
Why do people go on believing that this blasphemy is against sports when it's really the inevitable outcome of angry, competitive, violence of sports? Emperor Theodosius banned such things and sports didn't make a strong resurgence until the rise of Communism. Look at any stadium game and you'll see eyes full of rage, voices of anger and insult, indecent "entertainment", followed by fights. Can anyone seriously imagine St. Peter going into a rage because St. Paul wasn't good at running fast or catching a ball? Should people really spend money glorifying millionaire athletes when that money could support their churches and families? What is done for God matters. What side of a line a ball lands on doesn't matter.
Pride and celebrity 🤮🤮 self worship... Gross ignorance...💯😎
Good point.
Saint Theodosius banned brutal pagan sports, but not sports and games in general, that's nonsense.
Also, Saint Paul used a lot of athletic imagery in his writings.
When Novak won the gold medal in tennis 3 Aug, he shook his opponents hand, hugged him, shook the umpires hand.
Then he prostates himself on the clay, rises up to make the sign of the cross and lift his hands toward heaven, and fell down on his hands and knees.
In front of the entire world. Imho, he set a good example.❤
@@noway165Don't be deceived. Novak Djokovic and his wife are into hinduistic religion so deeply that their foundation is promoting so called "mindfulness" in some serbian schools and kindergartens. They both visit monasteries as if they are historical monuments and they even brought their guru to Dechani, Kosovo. and Metohija. Novak is practicing kundalini yoga. He did not wear his cross for so long so people started critisizing him for all the things he did against orthodox faith. Being superstitious he put his cross back believing he'll win because he started loosing and he had so many injuries. He never won Olimpics and this was very important to him. He did win and I hope that he truly repents for all the false beliefs. So far, he showed that all he cares is winning. And about showing his cross, you know Serbs have one word that describes it: "inat". Whatever others do, Serbs do the opposite. That's what kept them alive on the crossroad.
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God bless you.
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God bless
I very happy that iran is abandoning hundreds of mosque if not thousands and building orthodox churches. millions are converting, this is very good news very recent news. May God bless us ☦️
Doxa to Theo 🙏☦️
Δόξα τω Θεό!
Many lose faith because of in-action and because of ones who are often a little late to the table with very little or nothing at all to say. It would be encouraging if timid hierarchs and laity would take example from the non-Orthodox Christians mentioned here. They used their voice in a timely fashion to speak out and speak against the corruption that infected the world one week ago.
God help us all.
Thank you Father for this poignant sermon. A question - 'There will be a time when the prophet Elias comes ...' I get a bit confused with this as I thought scripture says he's already been: "Elijah has come already" Mt 17:12 (also Lk 1:17) referring to St John the Baptist having his 'spirit and power' and the Hebrews having misunderstood Malachi's prophesy and taken it literally
It seems like it will be Prophet Elias himself since he was taken up to Heaven with this purpose.
Worshipping God and his moral laws are intrinsically connected to him.. if your morality is based on your own morals .. you become a god
But repentance is the beginning.
Beloved, remember that Elijah (Elias) already came as John the Baptist in spirit and power. The Malachi prophecy was fulfilled then during the time of Jesus. However, Elijah will physically return as a judgment against all who reject his ministry as John. Thus, the two Witnesses of God-Elias and Moses, will be God’s judgment against all who reject Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For this reason, this time is Biblically referred to as “Jacob’s trouble.” The time of strong delusion. Jesus is Lord. Amen.
Are we really in the end times? Isn’t God the only one who knows when is the end? Anyways may lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us all sinners! ☦️
From the time of the Apostles, we are living in "the end times."
Jesus said we may not know the day or hour but we could discern the season
@OrthodoxTradition This is wisdom. Something so easy and simple yet unrecognized, yet when said brings so much clarity. Thank you. Glory to the most high.
There was no reference to the last supper in opening ceremonies of the Olympics. The Olympics were founded in Ancient Greece. To celebrate the Greeks they enacted a mashup of the very famous wedding of the Greek god of wine and partying, Dionysus. At his wedding he turned water into wine. What is presented is the head table, which as in all weddings everyone sits at one side facing the guests. This myth is from hundreds of years before the advent of Christianity. I am a ministers son and in discussing Jesus's similar miracle we always mentioned that the guests at the wedding would have been familiar with the mythic tale. But Jesus performed it in actuality.
Hard to believe Christians could have failed to understand this. Time to brush up on Greek myths I thought we all knew this one. And they're fun!
Deluded. The OIC admitted it was based on this.
It's pretty clear.
The last supper ritual clearly denotes the ‘judas kiss’ ultimate betrayal scenario and of course the ‘guillotine’
Can you see what the Israelites are planning?
May God save us!
@@OrthodoxTradition its a triple cross
What are the Israelites planning? I don't understand.
Dear Vladyka. I am sorry to hear you say you are not shocked by the mockery displayed in the Olympics.
The devil doesn't shock us, and neither do his servants. May God protect us all from the evil one and his minions.
Yeeees the end of time, of couuurse 🤦
God help us!