Darling,here ...I AM SEND YOU MY BLESSING, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, PEACE, LOVE LIGHT,HIRE LOVE FROM YOU,YOU CANT BE ITS,ONLY AFTER YOU FIND REAL LOVE....THAT GODS SAY ,ITS NEVER SAY YOU ALL CANT NOT FIND WIFE,DARLING ITS KEY TO RISE ALL SECRET ABOUT GODS PLAN FOR YOU.....TRY ....DID YOU WANT,I CANT TECH YOU DARLING....,OPEN HEART,MIND , SOULS, SPIRIT,NO LIE,PURE LOVE,NO HATER,.....ONLY THAT....LOVE ITS MY KEY ,LOVE ITS LOVE,
I was praying yesterday about what my purpose is here in this life, and a very beautiful answer came through: "You are here to help your brothers and sisters find their way back home."
@@gomertube its an inflection, hopefully someone can relate, but i just made a statement in a public forum of other statements. God bless you and strengthen you
Your comment is in line with how I was thinking. Thank you for sharing your thought. Lets aim to be great in the Kingdom rather than to be great in this world which is corrupted and leads us astray. Alot of people are chasing to be great in this world - they want to be like Elon Musk or like Caesar. The greatness of this world fades away, and perishes. The greatness of the Kingdom lasts forever, because the Lord lasts forever.
Actually, I was taught, and I come from an Orthodox country, that it is our duty to work on our talents. Because our talents are a gift from God, and not to use them is a sin of laziness.
Thank you for this message father! A desire to be great before God is good and godly, while the desire to be great before the world is vanity. Wish I could hear messages like this before. One of my favourite verses is Psalm 108:13 With God we will do mighty things and number 2 and 3 ( keeping and sharing the commandments and embracing and having faith like children) is my goal
Dallas Willard, who was a Baptist minister, said he thought he never met someone who actually thought too highly of themselves. The problem is thinking too little of ourselves. And I think he is right-it seems like even severe pride grows out of insecurity, and a wrong conception of what it is to be great. Remember that Christ loves, likes, and wants the best for you. He never loathes you. That is the Devil. I know we can’t just drop those feelings, but it helps me to call that knowledge back to mind when I struggle. And to remember how Christ has shown genuine love, affection, and gentleness to me in my life God bless you ❤
This lifted my heart today. How beautiful that God appreciates and glorifies the small, the humble, the simple. It means every single one of us are loved and can participate in His plans. It’s too wonderful for me to fully understand 🥰
I am Lebanese and go to beirut everyday for work, its getting crazy there, hundreds are sleeping on the streets and in their cars, no bathrooms and barely food. Please lord jesus, watch over the needy, for they need you most.
Amen, thank you once again Fr Josiah. To me, all the points you made boil down to the one thing that I and hopefully all the faithful long to hear from our Lord, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
I think the saints to consider humility the greatest and most difficult to cultivate of the virtues. So greatness has to be understood in that light, a greatness of humility, a wonderful mystery.
Father, please pray for me, to have strength to forgive people and love them even when they’re bad. Too many bad things happened to me lately and my heart is full of hate right now and I hate people.
Greatness is holiness righteousness making others greater then is even when having authority showing love to them all your employees are your beloved workers that you respect and never abuse be the servant of all men sit with the homeless and those that are less fortunate those that have addiction and those that have issues love them not with lip services but with action that is true greatness love and charity through Christ that is true holiness
A great lesson! Thanks Fr for explaining what it means to be great in Christ, it's truly the opposite of what the world defines greatness to be. Uishi miaka mingi!
Thank you for the lecture father.An Endlessly fascinating subject. I must confess I am quite conflicted, having heard the critiques of Christianity as a slave morality which glorifies the Meek who will inherit the earth, the last who shall be first. And turning the other cheek. As behaviors which could only have come from a culture of enslaved people. The critique is that the Europeans have adopted this and are now suffering the consequences through demographic collapse and mass migration, having embraced The stranger and turned the other cheek until they are minorities within their own countries, and truly if birth rates and migration rates don't change will soon cease to be. That in other words Christianity has ultimately neutered them of their Martial vital spirit which allow them to survive plague famine and war and to ultimately become dominant. It is predicted by many historians today on the dissonant right that a new Caesar will come again as the circumstances in the western world today are much the same as in the reign of Caesar. I wonder if there is truth in this critique? And if there is room in orthodoxy or Christianity in general for some bold nationalism perhaps which may save the European people from Extinction. Thoughts? All the best and God bless.
Meek doesn’t mean weak. Meek simply means the person who has and knows how to use a sword, but keeps it sheathed until the last second. The meek will inherit the earth doesn’t mean what people think it means. To follow up, I find the exact opposite critique to apply to the current situation; that the west isn’t Christian enough. Do you think that any other people could have pulled off the crusades the way God-fearing Christian’s did? Consider the pagan berserker; he gets riled up into a rage like state, to the point that he fears nothing. Why does he do this? The logical conclusion is because he is incapable of facing down his enemies in a normal, calm state without crumbling in fear. Contrast that with the God-fearing man. We may feel fear, but we push on anyways. Now, reconsider what the term “meek” means. Lots of people are going to, and currently are, telling men to take action for their own benefit. This is foolish, and the Christian man only takes violent action when absolutely necessary, not riling yourself up in a fit of rage, ready to pounce on whatever is deemed the current target. God bless.
@@Dan-x4o3m it's a fascinating debate.... To play The devil's advocate, (I really don't know what I believe about these things) the argument is that although it may be argued that this is not what meekness May mean theologically, this is how it is taken in the majority of Christian culture, that to be harmless is to be good. As for the crusades and the conquest of Europe by Christianity, some would argue that what that actually was the last gasps of the virile pagan conquering spirit available to Rome after the council of nicea and of the state adoption of Christianity. These same people would argue that Christianity is a fundamentally anti vitalistic or Life denying..... Instead of Life affirming. These people would suggest returning to ancient pagan ideals. Which no one even remembers what they are. 🤷
Europe's kindness and virtue is false, and that is why they are dying. They have not obeyed God's law of hospitality, they embrace lgbtt, fornication, and marxism. They are being punished for their sins. They have embraced communism, Satan and death, and they are reaping the rewards.
So many things in the Bible remind of why its impossible for me to be how God wants me to, because his way is almost the furthest from the way i want to live. „Be a servant of everybody“ while most this world and its people have given me is pain, humiliation and neverending suffering. And when you pray to God there is no answer to anything.
Hello from Greece father God bless you and your family... We have saints who are we call them great or Megas in Greek language... Megas Vasileios from Kapadokia Megas Antonio's the professor of desert.. Megas Athanasios Megas Fotios Megas Konstantin os....
For the work we have to do is no affair of persuasive speaking; Christianity lies in achieving greatness in the face of a world's hatred. -St Ignatius of Antioch in his 3rd epistle to the Romans, on the way to his martyrdom. ☦️
Father, I have so many questions in regards to the Orthodox Church and practices. Can we eat pork? Can we eat shellfish? Can we eat meat with cheese? Can we eat snacks outside of meals with prayers? Can we consume alcohol? Can we smoke? Can we consume coffee and caffeine drinks?
Fr. Josiah, in my own personal quest for the fullness of the Apostolic Christian Truth, I have encountered people among the Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches, who have accused me of not being humble enough as a Blue-Collared Middle-class Lay Person. Due to this, I feel as though the Members of the Coptic Orthodox Church understand my Neurological Uniqueness better than the Members of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches do. Someday if Triune God can show me the Omenous and Prophetic Miracles and Signs that He is ready to stop being Neglectful of my needs and wants, I will be ready to repent of having a Theological Mindset like that of Lt. Dan in the Movie "Forest Gump". After which, I want to be part of their Church and their World.
Thank you for this Father. If anyone has any thoughts or spiritual insight it would be much appreciated. I so badly wnat to be seen as great in the sight of the Lord. There will be times where I want to do good for someone. But then i shut myself down because I think to myself "you are only doing this because you wnat others to notice you". Then other times when im in Catechism class.(I feel like I am pretty knowledgeable when it comes to theology and church history) When I want to say something I get the feeling that Im only saying something "smart" so that others will notice you. I feel like its coming from a genuine heart but before i say or act I shut myself down then start overthinking. Thanks and God Bless.
From FF Bruce's book dedication, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free: ..bearing in mind T.R. Glover’s comment on a Roman Emperor’s condemnation of the Apostle to the Gentiles - - that the day was to come when men would call their dogs Nero and their sons PAUL
Question, when you say that people should be a slave and servant to all, how would I go about being humble in such a manner without feeling lower and worthless compared to others. Also, how should I as a Christian go about pursuing my passions? Thanks for the help.
To your first question: first keep in mind that Our Lord never denied his own greatness, nor his divinity. He however relied to The Father during his time on earth and was willing to spend all he had to bring others to His Kingdom, even to the point of giving his life on the cross. We should do that in a similar but human way. Don't try to make yourself worthless, don't throw away what you have but be willing to sacrifice for those who need it, in a way that will truly benefit them. And if you're ever in a situation where you can show grace to someone who's against you, be ready to do it. Again, don't set yourself up to fail or get used, just genuinely try to do what is right without thinking if it's going to make you look good. Judge the worth of actions based on their final result and not the apperance of it That's how i would explain it
Being Glorified through dishonor is something that the Monastics and Clerics should do more often than the Laity. Once again, you want to make the truest path to Eternal Salvation more difficult for the Lay people of the Church to obtain.
It might seem repugnant to one who adheres to worldly values. Jesus was fully aware what "meekness" means, otherwise He wouldn't have elevated such diametrically opposed morals. But that's not even the point. The point is that Christian values make sense if you also have the Christian understanding of just what the word "omnipotent" means. Our Father in Heaven is beyond worldly ideals of greatness, and those ideals are a dark, pale shadow of the greatness that is to come, and the foretaste those who are truly great in the eyes of God experience in this life that we hold as examples for us, our Saints.
@@NFS0038 very beautifully written and I appreciate your response. However, I dont see how the message of your reply does anything but provide an example of what Nietzsche was precisely criticizing about christianity
@@charlienachname1978 slave morality is only bad if your master is not the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, All-Holy, All-Wise, Perfect, All-Loving Father who never does anything that won't benefit you. Which is why calling it slave morality is wrong, you are comparing our relationship to God with a relationship between human dictators and all the connotations that come with that, which is not even close. Not to mention it's a strawman of Christian eschatology. God's will is not that we become slaves, but that we participate in Theosis; we are deified and share in Christ's divinity.
@@NFS0038 anything that wont benefit us such as martyrdom, degradation, humiliation like the deaths of the apostles? Or Christ washing the feet of a woman? Im sorry but such moral system that makes us behave as everyone's slave aka "the last will be the first and the first will be the last" is not only self degrading but straight up pitiful
If you strive to be great for Christ you have to be careful because without Him desire to become great whether with all the good things can easily turn to judaism pride which is an abomination to His eyes and I have just sinned in the mind so pray for me.
Does the saying don’t cast pearls before swine matter in relation to gods call to see others as better than us and to be a servant to others. In other words are we called to serve those who don’t appreciate it, I don’t recall Jesus ever teaching that? Honest question
Genuine question: isnt it seen as pathetic when a man is a servant of his children? When ghe children are able to push him around and the man does not repond, is this the servitude that is spiken of in this video?
Unfortunately service is abused in particular charitable organisations to keep people washing toilets even when they possess other gifts that could be used to serve. I know one story of a man like this.
Don’t you think 🤔 some people are destined to be “great”. I mean someone who makes a scientific discovery. Brave men who win battles. Thinkers who seem to have the bigger picture ex. Abraham Lincoln. God has me on a path that is unique to me. That’s all that matters to me.
Thank you, Father. On a very different subject, I notice that a Protestant channel has used numerous clips from your videos to argue against Orthodoxy. Channel called ancientpathstv. In the video called "Filioque: How Eastern Orthodoxy Anathematizes the Church Fathers", they slate Orthodoxy as heretical, using your videos. I wonder if you've seen it. I thought you should be aware of it if you aren't already. ua-cam.com/video/5mEMG4tkQf0/v-deo.html
So what do you do when a church steals from you? I did about 65K worth of work for a church to fix up a building and in return I would get to use said building to operate my music school for a course or years. Just before we launched the program I was fired without warning. The pastor has lied about my employment there to unemployment and lied to the police when I called them to help me get my keys back. (You can do that in California) I’m ok with the fact that the church has chosen to be against me and has said terrible things about me and family. To the community. But I also have family I provide for. I have attempted countless times to talk to the pastor and work things out peacefully as a brother in Christ. But they have completely stoned walled me and won’t talk to me for fear of legal issues. So… as Christian I know that the scriptures talk about leader being required to be above reproach. Like in 1 Timothy 3:1-10. Should I pursue legal action for my family and to hold the leader accountable? Or should I let it go for the sake of accepting humiliation and being like Christ?
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It’s such a blessing. I’m enjoying the many incredible uploads. Thank you Fr., Glory to God
Darling,here ...I AM SEND YOU MY BLESSING, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, PEACE, LOVE LIGHT,HIRE LOVE FROM YOU,YOU CANT BE ITS,ONLY AFTER YOU FIND REAL LOVE....THAT GODS SAY ,ITS NEVER SAY YOU ALL CANT NOT FIND WIFE,DARLING ITS KEY TO RISE ALL SECRET ABOUT GODS PLAN FOR YOU.....TRY ....DID YOU WANT,I CANT TECH YOU DARLING....,OPEN HEART,MIND , SOULS, SPIRIT,NO LIE,PURE LOVE,NO HATER,.....ONLY THAT....LOVE ITS MY KEY ,LOVE ITS LOVE,
I was praying yesterday about what my purpose is here in this life, and a very beautiful answer came through:
"You are here to help your brothers and sisters find their way back home."
That’s beautiful! Praise God!
A D. 2024 A.D. !
When I stopped trying to be great and started trying to be pleasing to God, my life got a lot better.
Live for Jesus Christ, not the world.
Be great for Christ, not the world.
Please pray for me. Thank you and for Emily she is a young mum with cancer. God bless you all
I want to be great in accordance to the scriptures. What the secular world deems as “greatness” I dont want no part of
Who is served by your comment?
@@gomertube its an inflection, hopefully someone can relate, but i just made a statement in a public forum of other statements. God bless you and strengthen you
@@gomertubegood point, easy to piety signal...
@@user-vv1do1wg1j thank you for the correction, Holy Spirit guide us all to speak with purpose with every word uttered.
Your comment is in line with how I was thinking. Thank you for sharing your thought. Lets aim to be great in the Kingdom rather than to be great in this world which is corrupted and leads us astray. Alot of people are chasing to be great in this world - they want to be like Elon Musk or like Caesar. The greatness of this world fades away, and perishes. The greatness of the Kingdom lasts forever, because the Lord lasts forever.
A.D. 2024 A D. , Praises to King Jesus, he has earned it!!
Actually, I was taught, and I come from an Orthodox country, that it is our duty to work on our talents. Because our talents are a gift from God, and not to use them is a sin of laziness.
I'm working on my latent artistic capabilities after a long dormancy.
i agree
The title of this alone verbalized something I’ve been thinking a ton about since I was a teenager. Super cool.
5:55 Service to others.
8:28 Learning from Failures.
9:10 Lamp of Light.
9:44 Serve, Practice, Teach.
Love, Imitate (Christ)
Give your thoughts below!
Thank you for this message father! A desire to be great before God is good and godly, while the desire to be great before the world is vanity. Wish I could hear messages like this before. One of my favourite verses is Psalm 108:13 With God we will do mighty things and number 2 and 3 ( keeping and sharing the commandments and embracing and having faith like children) is my goal
what book were the quotes about Paul and Nectar read from?
What book were the quotes about Paul and Nectar from?
All I know is that my personal sin tends to be the fruit of self-loathing rather than showing myself proper honor as an image-bearer.
Dallas Willard, who was a Baptist minister, said he thought he never met someone who actually thought too highly of themselves. The problem is thinking too little of ourselves.
And I think he is right-it seems like even severe pride grows out of insecurity, and a wrong conception of what it is to be great.
Remember that Christ loves, likes, and wants the best for you. He never loathes you. That is the Devil.
I know we can’t just drop those feelings, but it helps me to call that knowledge back to mind when I struggle. And to remember how Christ has shown genuine love, affection, and gentleness to me in my life
God bless you ❤
This is perfect timing for me Father God bless you!
Praise God!
❤✝️ ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ ✝🕊️
БОГ С НАМИ ПРОТИВ ЗЛА И ИСКУШЕНИЙ ✝🙏⛪🤗🦾
so putin needs to be stopped. he is a nero.
This lifted my heart today. How beautiful that God appreciates and glorifies the small, the humble, the simple. It means every single one of us are loved and can participate in His plans. It’s too wonderful for me to fully understand 🥰
I love it when you said "Nero couldn't figure Paul out."
I’d rather be a good man than a great man.
I am Lebanese and go to beirut everyday for work, its getting crazy there, hundreds are sleeping on the streets and in their cars, no bathrooms and barely food. Please lord jesus, watch over the needy, for they need you most.
How is the war going on there? Feel so bad for Lebanon
Amen, thank you once again Fr Josiah. To me, all the points you made boil down to the one thing that I and hopefully all the faithful long to hear from our Lord,
“Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
"Poor Nero" made me chuckle.
Another nepo baby given power he didn’t earn or deserve.
“The way to become great is to be voluntarily small…” amen!
We should be great for The Lords kingdom. Like 1peter 4:10 says
I think the saints to consider humility the greatest and most difficult to cultivate of the virtues. So greatness has to be understood in that light, a greatness of humility, a wonderful mystery.
What a great teaching. I get so much out of these videos.
Putting God first, yes!
Father, please pray for me, to have strength to forgive people and love them even when they’re bad. Too many bad things happened to me lately and my heart is full of hate right now and I hate people.
Thank you Father Josiah for this pocket of wisdom, If possible, please pray for those who suffered in the path of Hurricane Milton.
What an honor to be great in the kingdom of God! God help us be great Amen
Greatness is holiness righteousness making others greater then is even when having authority showing love to them all your employees are your beloved workers that you respect and never abuse be the servant of all men sit with the homeless and those that are less fortunate those that have addiction and those that have issues love them not with lip services but with action that is true greatness love and charity through Christ that is true holiness
Thankyou Father. This was helpful and insightful.
Only God is great. That being said you should always compete with yourself to be greater servant of God.
"Be sure of this, o young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease." - Herman Melville
sounds dumb
I pray he stay healthy and strong and also keep him in good and great mood ❤❤❤
Dear @Reverend Father Josiah , Respects ! Dear Brothers. and Sisters in e,
Thank you Father. I am trying to be a good man, that’s all I know. God bless you, God bless America.
To be great is to become what god intended for us
Lol "I confessed this morning" ngl its this type of humsility I can get behind
I knew St John was known for his homilies but wow that was something else. Thanks for sharing father!
MAKE PEOPLE GREAT AGAIN
Holy and Good, if I manage to be great in the process, All thanks be given to God.
Wow! Thanks Father, this was an edifying word.
Has me thinking differently. May God strengthen you to fulfill your ministry
If you are the servant of others, you are taming responsibility for them. By serving, you claim authority. (Depending on how you serve)
Thank you very much
Really great approch of the subject! Very useful, merci!
God bless
I needed this
Great video. My hear was burning and I want to be great for God like Paul. Made me think of the rewards.
A great lesson! Thanks Fr for explaining what it means to be great in Christ, it's truly the opposite of what the world defines greatness to be.
Uishi miaka mingi!
Thank you for the lecture father.An Endlessly fascinating subject. I must confess I am quite conflicted, having heard the critiques of Christianity as a slave morality which glorifies the Meek who will inherit the earth, the last who shall be first. And turning the other cheek. As behaviors which could only have come from a culture of enslaved people.
The critique is that the Europeans have adopted this and are now suffering the consequences through demographic collapse and mass migration, having embraced The stranger and turned the other cheek until they are minorities within their own countries, and truly if birth rates and migration rates don't change will soon cease to be.
That in other words Christianity has ultimately neutered them of their Martial vital spirit which allow them to survive plague famine and war and to ultimately become dominant.
It is predicted by many historians today on the dissonant right that a new Caesar will come again as the circumstances in the western world today are much the same as in the reign of Caesar.
I wonder if there is truth in this critique? And if there is room in orthodoxy or Christianity in general for some bold nationalism perhaps which may save the European people from Extinction.
Thoughts?
All the best and God bless.
what is going on in europe is something else entirely.
@@adenise__122 how so?
Meek doesn’t mean weak. Meek simply means the person who has and knows how to use a sword, but keeps it sheathed until the last second. The meek will inherit the earth doesn’t mean what people think it means.
To follow up, I find the exact opposite critique to apply to the current situation; that the west isn’t Christian enough. Do you think that any other people could have pulled off the crusades the way God-fearing Christian’s did? Consider the pagan berserker; he gets riled up into a rage like state, to the point that he fears nothing. Why does he do this? The logical conclusion is because he is incapable of facing down his enemies in a normal, calm state without crumbling in fear. Contrast that with the God-fearing man. We may feel fear, but we push on anyways. Now, reconsider what the term “meek” means. Lots of people are going to, and currently are, telling men to take action for their own benefit. This is foolish, and the Christian man only takes violent action when absolutely necessary, not riling yourself up in a fit of rage, ready to pounce on whatever is deemed the current target. God bless.
@@Dan-x4o3m it's a fascinating debate.... To play The devil's advocate, (I really don't know what I believe about these things) the argument is that although it may be argued that this is not what meekness May mean theologically, this is how it is taken in the majority of Christian culture, that to be harmless is to be good.
As for the crusades and the conquest of Europe by Christianity, some would argue that what that actually was the last gasps of the virile pagan conquering spirit available to Rome after the council of nicea and of the state adoption of Christianity.
These same people would argue that Christianity is a fundamentally anti vitalistic or Life denying..... Instead of Life affirming.
These people would suggest returning to ancient pagan ideals.
Which no one even remembers what they are.
🤷
Europe's kindness and virtue is false, and that is why they are dying. They have not obeyed God's law of hospitality, they embrace lgbtt, fornication, and marxism. They are being punished for their sins. They have embraced communism, Satan and death, and they are reaping the rewards.
Thanks to you and fr paul I'll be joining holy orthodoxy and humbling my before the lord
Great video!
Love how St John Chrysostom refers to Rome as the Royal City…and it has never ceased to be…
Amen.
Thank you for this Father, very edifying
Absolutely
☦️🙏🏾 Great Message
So many things in the Bible remind of why its impossible for me to be how God wants me to, because his way is almost the furthest from the way i want to live.
„Be a servant of everybody“ while most this world and its people have given me is pain, humiliation and neverending suffering.
And when you pray to God there is no answer to anything.
Great word Father. Thank you!
Hello from Greece father God bless you and your family... We have saints who are we call them great or Megas in Greek language... Megas Vasileios from Kapadokia Megas Antonio's the professor of desert.. Megas Athanasios Megas Fotios Megas Konstantin os....
God bless you all what a great title Fr.
wonderful!
Thank you
Wow. Amen. Amen. Amen.
I dont know help its a tricky question however I want to be great at something worldly but for Gods glory
For the work we have to do is no affair of persuasive speaking; Christianity lies in achieving greatness in the face of a world's hatred. -St Ignatius of Antioch in his 3rd epistle to the Romans, on the way to his martyrdom. ☦️
Father, I have so many questions in regards to the Orthodox Church and practices.
Can we eat pork?
Can we eat shellfish?
Can we eat meat with cheese?
Can we eat snacks outside of meals with prayers?
Can we consume alcohol?
Can we smoke?
Can we consume coffee and caffeine drinks?
Absolutely based title picture
I would have said this exact thing 1 year ago. Now I knew what was coming before Fr Josiah even got around to the kicker
Genesis 6:2
Fr. Josiah, in my own personal quest for the fullness of the Apostolic Christian Truth, I have encountered people among the Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches, who have accused me of not being humble enough as a Blue-Collared Middle-class Lay Person. Due to this, I feel as though the Members of the Coptic Orthodox Church understand my Neurological Uniqueness better than the Members of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches do. Someday if Triune God can show me the Omenous and Prophetic Miracles and Signs that He is ready to stop being Neglectful of my needs and wants, I will be ready to repent of having a Theological Mindset like that of Lt. Dan in the Movie "Forest Gump". After which, I want to be part of their Church and their World.
Don't seek comfort in people who accept you in your brokenness, but find kindred spirits in those who want you to be better.
Depends. We have Constantine the Great, Theodosius the Great, and Justinian the Great
Thank you for this Father.
If anyone has any thoughts or spiritual insight it would be much appreciated.
I so badly wnat to be seen as great in the sight of the Lord. There will be times where I want to do good for someone. But then i shut myself down because I think to myself "you are only doing this because you wnat others to notice you". Then other times when im in Catechism class.(I feel like I am pretty knowledgeable when it comes to theology and church history) When I want to say something I get the feeling that Im only saying something "smart" so that others will notice you. I feel like its coming from a genuine heart but before i say or act I shut myself down then start overthinking. Thanks and God Bless.
St. Paul was checking for "power," ignoring the "puffed up," in 1 Corinthians. It takes power to get to the Kingdom
From FF Bruce's book dedication, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free:
..bearing in mind T.R. Glover’s
comment on a Roman Emperor’s
condemnation of the Apostle
to the Gentiles - - that the day
was to come when men would call
their dogs Nero and their sons
PAUL
“He who goes low goes sure”
+Saint Paisios the Athonite+
Me too
I wish the new app would rotate like the old one so on an iPad it can be used horizontal not just vertical.
People are not going to tell you how to be great. They will, however, recognize how to be great.
Reminds me of Thessaloniki where the glory of Saint Demetrius is evident and the ruins of Galerius palace is trampled on…
Father Josiah what book do you read of?
But what exactly IS greatness in God's eyes?
Christ
Question, when you say that people should be a slave and servant to all, how would I go about being humble in such a manner without feeling lower and worthless compared to others. Also, how should I as a Christian go about pursuing my passions?
Thanks for the help.
To your first question: first keep in mind that Our Lord never denied his own greatness, nor his divinity. He however relied to The Father during his time on earth and was willing to spend all he had to bring others to His Kingdom, even to the point of giving his life on the cross. We should do that in a similar but human way. Don't try to make yourself worthless, don't throw away what you have but be willing to sacrifice for those who need it, in a way that will truly benefit them. And if you're ever in a situation where you can show grace to someone who's against you, be ready to do it. Again, don't set yourself up to fail or get used, just genuinely try to do what is right without thinking if it's going to make you look good. Judge the worth of actions based on their final result and not the apperance of it
That's how i would explain it
What version of bible do you use in your parish Fr. Josiah? Is it the same version that your parishioners use?
Being Glorified through dishonor is something that the Monastics and Clerics should do more often than the Laity. Once again, you want to make the truest path to Eternal Salvation more difficult for the Lay people of the Church to obtain.
The more I learn of christian morality, the more Nietzsche calling it "slave morality" makes sense
It might seem repugnant to one who adheres to worldly values. Jesus was fully aware what "meekness" means, otherwise He wouldn't have elevated such diametrically opposed morals. But that's not even the point. The point is that Christian values make sense if you also have the Christian understanding of just what the word "omnipotent" means. Our Father in Heaven is beyond worldly ideals of greatness, and those ideals are a dark, pale shadow of the greatness that is to come, and the foretaste those who are truly great in the eyes of God experience in this life that we hold as examples for us, our Saints.
Nietzche couldn’t understand that in our weakness Gods strength is shown if he has humility he may have become a Christian
@@NFS0038 very beautifully written and I appreciate your response. However, I dont see how the message of your reply does anything but provide an example of what Nietzsche was precisely criticizing about christianity
@@charlienachname1978 slave morality is only bad if your master is not the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, All-Holy, All-Wise, Perfect, All-Loving Father who never does anything that won't benefit you. Which is why calling it slave morality is wrong, you are comparing our relationship to God with a relationship between human dictators and all the connotations that come with that, which is not even close. Not to mention it's a strawman of Christian eschatology. God's will is not that we become slaves, but that we participate in Theosis; we are deified and share in Christ's divinity.
@@NFS0038 anything that wont benefit us such as martyrdom, degradation, humiliation like the deaths of the apostles? Or Christ washing the feet of a woman? Im sorry but such moral system that makes us behave as everyone's slave aka "the last will be the first and the first will be the last" is not only self degrading but straight up pitiful
What do you mean by being even servant
If you strive to be great for Christ you have to be careful because without Him desire to become great whether with all the good things can easily turn to judaism pride which is an abomination to His eyes and I have just sinned in the mind so pray for me.
#geopolitics would be even greater :)
Does the saying don’t cast pearls before swine matter in relation to gods call to see others as better than us and to be a servant to others. In other words are we called to serve those who don’t appreciate it, I don’t recall Jesus ever teaching that? Honest question
Father, thank you again for your wisdom...and the muted lip smacking.
Sola scripture Soli deo Gloria
When looking up PNP is gave me portable North Pole.
It looks like fr. Josiah doesn't read comments here on his videos
Wait...we are greater then angels???
Sure were real.
It depends on what you mean by “great”
If you mean domineering humanity, no
Genuine question: isnt it seen as pathetic when a man is a servant of his children? When ghe children are able to push him around and the man does not repond, is this the servitude that is spiken of in this video?
No. I’m not appropriate for providing a proper answer but Father Seraphim Rose has a great video addressing specifically that
this is not the idea, the man is to lead and be responsible for his family, not to be a pushover, to be submissive, but to be low in spirit
I love Christentum.
Such a beautiful religion.
It's our white races religion, too.
Mother Teresa said that we can do no great things, Only small things with great love
Unfortunately service is abused in particular charitable organisations to keep people washing toilets even when they possess other gifts that could be used to serve.
I know one story of a man like this.
Don’t you think 🤔 some people are destined to be “great”. I mean someone who makes a scientific discovery. Brave men who win battles. Thinkers who seem to have the bigger picture ex. Abraham Lincoln. God has me on a path that is unique to me. That’s all that matters to me.
Thank you, Father.
On a very different subject, I notice that a Protestant channel has used numerous clips from your videos to argue against Orthodoxy. Channel called ancientpathstv.
In the video called "Filioque: How Eastern Orthodoxy Anathematizes the Church Fathers", they slate Orthodoxy as heretical, using your videos.
I wonder if you've seen it.
I thought you should be aware of it if you aren't already.
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So what do you do when a church steals from you? I did about 65K worth of work for a church to fix up a building and in return I would get to use said building to operate my music school for a course or years. Just before we launched the program I was fired without warning. The pastor has lied about my employment there to unemployment and lied to the police when I called them to help me get my keys back. (You can do that in California) I’m ok with the fact that the church has chosen to be against me and has said terrible things about me and family. To the community. But I also have family I provide for. I have attempted countless times to talk to the pastor and work things out peacefully as a brother in Christ. But they have completely stoned walled me and won’t talk to me for fear of legal issues.
So… as Christian I know that the scriptures talk about leader being required to be above reproach. Like in 1 Timothy 3:1-10. Should I pursue legal action for my family and to hold the leader accountable? Or should I let it go for the sake of accepting humiliation and being like Christ?
Follow Christ 🙏 Read the life of St. Nektarios of Aegina