The Signs of the Time… Message by His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2023
- In today's sermon, His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius of America emphasizes the importance of holiness and becoming saints. He highlights the willingness of many throughout history to sacrifice their lives for Christ and the church. It serves as a reminder to understand the eternal implications of life and to strive for spiritual growth and righteousness. The saints understood the true nature of this life and its eternal implications, which most people fail to grasp. We, while we still have the opportunity, we need to act before it is too late.
Metropolitan Demetrius gives us examples of the current state of affairs explaining that In the midst of troubled times, God may send signs to encourage the faithful. He then follows with a dramatic example.
Just before COVID hit, a miraculous event occurred in Greece involving one of our a parishioners who was in a helicopter crash. The helicopter flying in fog got caught in telephone wires, resulting in a terrible crash that killed five people. However, one person survived. She had an icon of the Mother of God and other holy artifacts with her. As the helicopter was falling to the ground, the mother of God herself rescued her by in an instant unbolting her chair and lifting her to a safe place. The Mother of God then placed her facing away from the tragedy so she would not be further traumatized and stayed with her until help arrived.
While together, the Mother of God explained that she was performing this miracle because she wanted to strengthen the faithful due to the approaching end-times events.
Metropolitan Demetrius concludes by encouraging us to pray to our holy patron, Saint John, to help us in these very difficult times, to remain steadfast in the holy Orthodox faith, and to live a life of repentance.
The Sermon was delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius of America at Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, on the Feast of the Recovery of the Relics of Saint John of San Francisco, September 29/October 12, 2023, Cobleskill, NY.
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Let’s not forget the Armenian persecution as well. May God have mercy on us all.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son and Logos of God, Have Mercy On Us All Sinners…. ☦️
I have a sweettooth metropolitan. I am a subdeacon pursuing the Diaconate. I have a weakness for sweets and I find myself distracted by my phone and the Internet. I pray for God to give me mercy and to guide my path. Please pray for me🙏🙏🙏 thank you for your videos they are a huge blessing. May God grant you many years Metropolitan!
May God help you to do what you need to do!
I have learned to distract myself from distraction with a prayer rope. It's still a battle, after all here I am, but a great help. I use The Jesus Prayer and Psalmody, especially Psalm 50. All-in-all it has cleansed my mind a great deal more than I was even aiming for.
☦️ “GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST” ☦️
Glory to God
At 1:11, as the Metropolitan explains the communicable energies of God by using the sun as an example, the Church fills with light.
A priest once told me God is like fire. If you are not like fire, if you are not as a flame, you will be burned by God. This is a crude analogy of Theosis. But if you are not like God, his presence will not be pleasant. If you are like God, it will be no different when in his presence.
@@LTzEz03zHe is a consuming fire yes, and He is like a Dove, very gentle. A quiet comforting Spirit, the way He appeared to Prophet Elijah.
I think God hates lukewarmness 🫢 and so He says in Revelation that those who are lukewarm, sitting on the fence, neither hot nor cold- he will spit them out of His mouth 🫢
@@annem2922 Nicely said.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner +
Thank you Your Eminence for this sermon. The analogy of the sun is so helpful and I am beginning to understand that Theosis will not come easily. Glory to God for his Gift of Salvation.
Dear beloved Father Demetrius, please remember us in your Holy prayers. Thank you.
Catherine ☦️🤍🙏🤍☦️
Glory to God!
May Elohim have the greatest mercy upon us all. This video struck me with fear of the Lord.
God save us.
@@OrthodoxTradition God save us.
Amen.
Amen.
St John Shanghai help me understand repentance. Margo I have a need if physical miracle to help serve 2 sick priests home les widow help stay ing w them
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Please pray that God would grant me perserverance in the faith and true repentance. Please pray in the Name of Jesus. Thank you
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Please do it more conversation this help me so much . Gracias God bless you.
Glory to God!
THANK YOU, YOUR EMINENCE!
ST JOHN OF SAN FRANCISCO, PLS HELP AND HEAL, A VERY HOLY AND PERSECUTED, ORTHODOX PRIEST, ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD! THANK YOU!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Death is a doorway to Christ’s glory
To see the Triune God ✝️🛐
May his will be done !
Lord save us!
Thank you for your message, Vladyka. The times are a challenge and your guidance is trustworthy light.
Yes your ruler worshipful Freemason master.
Glory to God!
I just got in 'trouble' for saying "thank you" to you. I was prompted to watch again. Realized that the story you told about had happened to one of your parishoners. Truly amazing.
Glory to God!.
Decided to say 'thank you', again.. "Thank you." ☦☦
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
I'm a catholic living in Cyprus. Bravo Father. Thanks to God for your clarity.
Matthew 23:9. But you hate, Despsise, and oppose the word of God.
Catholic, Satanic, Freemason, Jesuit, false Church = Synague of Satan
Then you need to get saved.
Peace to you Mary, from a fellow Catholic in Amsterdam💟💟💟
May Our Lord’s peace and joy be your strength.
& Pray the Rosary 💙
Glory to God!
God is glorified in all His Saints!!!!
Amen.
God bless you
And you.
GOSPODE POMILUJ NAS GRESNE ..AMIN .
Amen.
Господи Иисусе Христе, Сыне Божий, помилуй мя грешного аминь брат мой 🙏 love from mexico 🇲🇽
Thank you for this sermon your eminence. I was not aware of the helicopter miracle so thank you for sharing this. By the grace of Jesus Christ and by the virtue of his glorious name may you be blessed a thousand fold from the storehouses of heaven. May the holy Matron the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God watch over you and the faithful. Amen.
Amen!
Thank you you’re Eminence for always keeping your flock up to date on many things that happen for the glory of God. It’s a blessing for us to keep reminding us about repentance, and how short our lives are.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Master, bless! Your sermons are always comforting and enlightening in these times. Please pray for me and my loved ones, sometimes its hard to know what the right choice is in certain circumstances. I can do nothing without our Lord Jesus Christ, if it be His will, I hope in living a humble, loving and repentant life. Glory to God! ☦️
But you oppose the word of God. Matthew 23:9. Your Freemason worshipful master
Glory to God!
Absolutely spot on message, Eminence! As father of 8 with 15 grandchildren, I ask for your prayers that their focus be on Jesus and not the world! It is indeed THIS is the core path to heaven: that we truly LIVE the Gospel as our central concern! You developed this message so well ... exactly what's been of increasing concern to my dear wife and me: i.e., never take Christ off our mind! I am powerfully edified by your expressing of this message. The older I get, the more I see how amateurish I was in raising our children ... I want them all to be aware of the Final Judgment, and to be receiving God into their every thought, word and deed. You brought out the reality of Satan distracting us from connecting with God ... God bless you for knowing our need to hear this message again and again. After all, we know this to be true, yet we let ourselves become preoccupied with the superficial things of life that God has clearly promised to take care of for us! So a sincere BRAVO and heartfelt "Thank you, I needed that!" I call upon the Blessed Mother to bless you. She personally took me under her care from early childhood, saved me from 2 shark attacks, a dozen car accidents, and the perils of the hippie movement when I was spiritually naive/undeveloped. I found myself asking her - quite out of the blue - for the gift of poetry as I approached my 16th Birthday, and 1 year later it arrived and is with me still! She just kept on saving me from great sadness and confusion, led me on to God's sweet destiny that He had for me, and found me a radiant, holy young woman to be my wife of 47 years! She is our family's patron.
You are a great pastor of souls! You lit a candle for all of us to hear in these overtly dark times. I thank you with all my heart ... and my wife and I will include you in our prayers from now on. We are converts to Orthodoxy from the RC breakaway church - and so joyous at all we receive in it. We are committed to living God's destiny for us, and my heroic, radiant wife keeps living the Gospel, wise and always caring for all, lovingly holy. She never lies and lives the Gospel asI never thought possible! God is joy itself! It is so perfectly natural in loving God to extend our love to His family... the saints and angels. It in no way detracts from our awe and gratitude to God to rejoice and connect with all the members of His great family!
Glory to God!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Thank you for this message. Glory to God 🌹
Glory to God.
Amen! Your blessings father!
Matthew 23:9 Why do you oppose Almighty God?
@@KallyKafritsasThis is the Orthodox Church, not an evangelical american TV "preacher".
"Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel." 1 Cor 4:15
Saint Paul is quite literally calling himself their spiritual father. Christ is not saying "never, ever call someone your Father", for what would you have, that I would be calling my biological Father by his first name? Christ is saying no man should replace the Father in heaven, for there is but One Father of us all. Christ is not saying no one should be called a spiritual father - which St. Paul does in no uncertain terms.
Put the nonesense of self- interpretation and splintering of the Church and enter into the one Holy Church, the Bride of Christ. The Church was not "hidden" until some 1,600 or 1,800 years after the crucifixion, it was established at Pentecost by real, living, men who laid hands upon their successors. We can trace all of our Bishops from the Apostles themselves. The Church which St. Paul wrote two letters to at Thessaloniki, for example, is still with us today.
Learn more of Orthodoxy. Lean not on your tier 101 basic level 19th century american evangelical criticisms of the Church that has been with us since the 1st century. You display zeal without knowledge. Lord, have mercy.
@@KallyKafritsas Mark 7:9 tells us.
@@sawyerwhited6802Amen, God bless you greatly
God bless you!
Thank you Vladika ☦️🙏🏻❤️
Yes, your ruler Freemason worshipful master.
Glory to God!
Thank you. I can only say, thank you..
Repent of this thy wickedness, you thank and love Lies.
Glory to God!
Thank you end time event is coming help us be strong physically and spiritually
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Your Grace, Thank God, and Thank You! 🌺☦️🌺
Your Freemason worshipful master. Repent of this thy wickedness
@@KallyKafritsas Do you know for sure he's a Mason? It seems like the devil has all religion locked down, from Protestant, Catholic, to Orthodox.
@@mikebastiat Religions are ALL of the devil. That is why God calls His children to 'Come Out' and be ye SEPARATE . Jesus did not come to establish Religions, He came to Destroy them. You Must be Born Again, into the body of Christ. Do NOT Join anything in this world Club Brotherhood of Satan.
They ALL take OATHS, Forbidden by Almighty God.
@@KallyKafritsas Yes...but do you KNOW this guy is a Mason? I've heard Orthodox rebuke Masonry before.
Yes.. Thats why i love st. Paisios of Mount Athos.
Thank you very much for this sermon, father!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
❤God bless!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a short story relevant to ignoring the truth in order to enjoy an easy life.
Lord have mercy.
Father bless. ☦️
God bless you.
☦️ 🙏🏻🕊 ✝️ 💚 ♥️
Glory to God!
🕊
Glory to God!
Thank you.
Thank you.
❤♥️
God bless.
I would like to meet this beautiful soul God has created. Money and Hemophilia won't allow me too.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
@@OrthodoxTradition Hello, why are you asking our Lord to have mercy on you? You didn't do anything wrong my Spiritual Brother. I just mentioned I'd like to meet him and maybe ask him questions and possibly get some Spiritual Guidance from this Blessed Soul.
@@g4340We must all acknowledge our sins and the fact that we are sinners. God is omnipotent and ever since the fall, Praying For The Lord to have mercy upon us is a normal Orthodox Doctrine. “God can save the sinner you are, But not the Saint you pretend to be.”
17:09min "The perogative of God" notice the candle
Glory to God!
"We have become indifferent to sacredness..." That is one of the great fault, maybe the greatest, in our society. Nothing is sacred anymore to most people. Not God, not their fellow man, not even themselves or the least of God's creatures and creations.
Christians should practice equanimity in all things....no outrage for any event in this world!....Hard Work.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
ICXC NIKA 💖🙏🇦🇺
Amen!
@10:30 Azerbaijan as well
Lord have mercy.
can't find the story of a survivor in the helicopter crash in Greece 2019 in Poros
Her name is Vasiliki Plexida.
It's on Google.
Who is speaking. His voice is familiar.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Are you speaking of st. John wrote John , revelation?
St John Maximovich of Shanghai and San Francisco, the Wonderworker
Father is speaking of St. John Maximovitch, also known as St. John of San Francisco. St. John is buried in San Francisco, California. Hope this helps.
@@jeanneelisabeth appreciate you God bless
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In reference to the martyors, "We're all going to die anyways, we might as well do it with honor and dignity"
Isn't this particular term suggestive of claiming one has nothing to lose?
Is this thinking and teaching in sync with the Holy Spirit?
My understanding is that it should be irrelevant whether we're going to die or not, and to die is to gain the crown of life.
Thank you in advance for your answer, and may God richly bless your works.
As for those who wish to comment or provide an explanation, please do so with no judgment, lest you also be judged in the same measure.
Thank you
By the time they reach their desires goal, they are so illuminated that they think differently from most of us. They don't understand "might as well do it anyway" as an indifferent thing, but as a word of encouragement to their fellow martyrs.
@OrthodoxTradition Thank you.
Like the Native Indians used to bravely say before going into battle against the invading colonists, "It's a good day to die"
Yes must all be strengthened and encouraged to fight the beast rather than on our knees begging.
Rather die on our feet than on our knees begging.
Thank you
Това беседа ли е ?
Yes.
I don't understand, every other Orthodox Christian I spoke with says we don't pray to Mary or to Saints.
Praying to the dead is demonic. God bless you, you are correct. ONLY ONE mediator between man and God, the man JESUS CHRIST
Sounds like you have been speaking with the wrong people, as Orthodox Christians definitely have always prayed to Saints, and to the Mother of God. Speak to your priest or Bishop.
@@KallyKafritsasprotestants think they invented Christianity. Your "church" history is 500 years old. No apostolic succession.
@@artdanks4846 What I've been told is we ask them to pray for us. Not that we pray to them.
Such details of prayer are indeed knowable and edifying - and it is our duty to get them right! We must always drill down into the specifics of our theology. This is exactly where we must not "wing it." It is our personal responsibility to read/inquire after it so we don't accidentally worship God incorrectly. We do not please God by improvising on Church tradition! The Filioque heresy comes to mind, as does the surgical precision of Mosaic Law Liturgy and God's response to Aaron's sons for attempting to embellish it! The Apostles showed us what to do by ASKING Jesus how to pray!
Yes, the Martyrs gave their lives for Christ! But if they were killed while they were killing their ""enemies" (= brothers), then they, even though they should repent at the hour of death, were not "Martyrs" but Heretics, slandering the Lord of Love since "believing" in an "other God" than the Apostolic Church!
For clarification: I mean that their acts were sinful (heretical and slanderous), but if truly repentant, they were forgiven by Jesus!
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Your message is very disheartening to the awake (as you are) aware of the world stage.A Faustian bargain you've made. I valued your teachings, it's sad.
Why do you say he has made a "Faustian bargain"? Yes, we are aware that the world is a stage. But we must not be a part of it.
@@user-mz6ly1fj3z speaking of things as though they are real fuels fear.
Because he is a Freemason. He sold his soul for a bowl of beans.
@@KallyKafritsas yeah. Thought he was different as how he spoke of "covid" early in, seemed to be cagey as intrying to help despite tptb. But now I see he's in the club.
@@merrill5780Amen. God bless you greatly. They Glorify and worship Mary above Jesus. She remains dead in her grave, awaiting Resurrection with the rest of her brothers and sisters. I left the Greek Orthodox false church years ago when God opened my eyes to their Blatant Blasphemy. There was even a Huge Muriel painted on the church wall of the Pyramid all seeing eye. Huge red flag to these imposters, they love Titles and awards. They deceive the young women to join the Maids of Athena. I still have my old membership card, and written on the back it states…Masonic Lodge Order of Washington DC. They are blind leading the blind. Sorry for the rambling, it is a breath of fresh air to find a true born again. Much love
Satan is a liar and you are being lied to. This is unscriptual.
Lord, deliver us from the delusions of the evil one.
Martinling
Glory to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ! Amen
Glory to God.
This is false teaching. You Must be Born Again. We are ALL brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, there is no difference. We do Not pray to the he dead, that is demonic. The Word clearly teaches, there is only One mediator between man and God, the man Jesus Christ. Repent of this thy wickedness
Scripture says: The Righteous live forever, and their reward is with the Most High. The Church has always venerated Saints. To not venerate Saints, is to not be part of the Church.
@@OrthodoxTradition You call Almighty God a liar. No where in scripture does it say this. Yes, the Born Again believers, The True Church, the Body of Christ live Forever, but when they die, they remain dead in their graves, UNTIL the Resurrection. Which begins with the Rapture. The Dead IN Christ shall rise First, THEN WE which are ALIVE and remain, shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And this ALSO includes our sister Mary.
Mark 7:8
Who was first, the church or scripture?
The church was born on Pentecost and the Bible was canonized a couple hundred years later.
Hey, just in case you're not aware. There was no Bible for the first 300 years but there was the Orthodox Church. Also, there is no rapture. Read Matthew 24 carefully and you'll see that Jesus only comes back once to judge the living and the dead. Not twice.
@@murahkamiSuch Ignorance. The Second Coming is NOT the Rapture. Jesus was speaking to the Jews concerning the Second Coming, NOT the Rapture. Jesus came to His own, the Church was yet a MYSTERY.