The subtle way of the Antichrist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 เม.ย. 2024
- 'What has light to do with darkness?'
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May God bless us all! CHRIST IS RISEN!
Christ is risen. Indeed He has risen. Thank you Father you are such a huge blessing to me. You are a light that shines in the darkness.
Can a lay person visit your community? To pray .
As a Catholic, I am immensely grateful to Father Seraphim, in his words I can always find the unequivocal love and wisdom of God.
Me to I find solace and peace among his message. I feel no difference in our teachings
We're all brothers and sisters in Christ. That is what matters most 🤝
There are differences, they might not be in our love for Christ, as both sincere catholics and sincere orthodox love Christ... BUT there are differences in the Catholic and Orthodox dogmas! And they are significant! And the Catholic Rome is the one who changed the dogma (adding the Filioque, the papal primacy and infallibility, the purgatory, the immaculate conception etc.) and as a consequence of this heresy it ended up splitting further and further into protestants and neoprotestants and to all these denominations today that have very little in common with the original Apostolic Christian Church... which is, theologically and historically speaking, the Orthodox Church.
I think the birds outside my window are trying to talk to the birds in this video. They sound the exact same. Praise the Lord.
Christ warns us on false prophets... We have to endure these hard times
Although elderly, I am fortunate to have had a Christian faith all my life, though exposed to the splinter groups, described by Fr Seraphim. Happily as soon as I entered an Orthodox Church,I knew that I had found my true home. Thanks be to God
As a convert to Antiochian Christian Orthodox from Protestantism I found the true teachings of Christ and his Apostles. It is totally wrong for anyone to suggest or believe that any church should change for the way of the people. People need to change for the way of the church and follow the true teachings of the Lord.
What is Antiochian Christian Orthodox and how does it differ from Catholicism or orthodox Christianity? Google at first glance just gives me the geographical origin
@@JoannaT2 Antiochian orthodox is one of the original jurisdictions of the many jurisdictions in orthodox Christianity. There are many jurisdictions and most are in communion with each other. We Antiochian orthodox have the same faith as Russian, Greek, Serbian, alexandrian orthodox and more.
Pray for me, that the Lord may have mercy on me, for He is my only hope.
Pray that He finds favour with me and shows His Mercy!
Thank you Father Seraphim. A Moldavian nurse saved my life when I was in the hospital with Covid. I have severe asthma since birth and didn’t think I would leave the hospital room alive. I believe this nurse was an angel sent from God as I believe you are another Moldavian sent by our Lord to help all who listen to you.
Hristos Au Înviat!🤗
Cu adevărat a înviat!
What a gorgeous backdrop
You are a true angel from the sky✝️💐 Christ is risen!!
"Broken and distributed is the Lamb of God; broken but never divided; ever eaten, yet never consumed, but hallowing those who partake."
LORD JESUS CHRIST HELP US ALL IN THESE LAST DAYS.
Love your work, Father. I've been separated from people for too long, it is no longer possible for me to join the church. But I love the ancient faith and do my best to live it in exile. I worry about not being baptized, but trust in the Lord's mercy. May he save us all.
You can get baptized
Please get baptized, brother! …and you can go on living in exile if this is your way. Indeed, our Lord is merciful, but please be wise. Ask yourself: does He or doesn’t He want you to receive the baptism? He Himself got baptized. St emperor Constantine baptized himself at limit, in his last days. We don’t know when our last days are. May Lord protect you!🙏
Very well said dear Father
We need to remember in the midst of this manipulative world that there is only one truth which is Christ himself one salvation one way only one.
Amen Father 🙏🏻and thank you 🙏🏻 ❤
Fatherr thank you 🌹🌹🌹♥️♥️♥️
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Thank you,Father.Your teaching is solace to our wounded hearts and uneasy minds.Please pray for the sinner that I am.
Oh, Father, I have been a Mainline Protestant in the past, even studied theology for a year (in Protestant terms, theology is really just what smart people make up about God...), and I have made many friends in that time who have seen glimpses of the face of Christ but have not found their way into His Church. I pray that, with the Lord's help, they will find their way into His Kingdom.
On the other hand: It is not only in the leaders of heretical churches that we find "Ferraris". The human side of Orthodoxy arouses many scandals that discourage many good people, which worries me very much...
I don’t think there is one branch of Christianity immune from sin and evil. But I don’t say that to mean that they are all the same. I do believe that orthodox Christianity is the oldest and closest to perfection. And i say this as an Episcopalian/Anglican. I pray for the person who asked this question. May they find peace and cultivate their faith. I too left a non denominational mega church for the sick display of wealth. Sending love.
"Woe to me if my faith depends on people"... The Church is not a social club where you choose to go depending on how much you like the people there and the club owners... The priests can have as many Ferrari as they want, they will answer to God if their wealth was a result of stealing... BUT thier individual sins should have nothing to do with our faith. And we go to church not for the priests or the people, not because there we find perfect people... we go to church (us Orthodox Christians) because that is where Christ is in His Holy Mysteries, in the Holy Liturgy! The Church is a hospital fir the sick, all of us are sick with sin. Just as you find the biggest concentration or sick people in a hospital, similarly you'll find the biggest concentration of sinners in the church :) the difference being that the sinners that go to church at least (in their majority) are aware of their sinful state and they fight with Christ's help to get better, they don't embrace their sin.
So, don't be discouraged. The Orthodox Church, as the millenary thesaurus of the teachings and grace of Christ and His saints, is and always will be the same, regardless of the sins of people. That is what you must search for. The truth, not perfect people. None of us are and the devil is fighting the Church harder than ever.
I keep getting thrown out for suggesting God won't torture folks endlessly.
@@benc6537 God doesn't do this, it's a path of your own making.
Thank you Fr Seraphim for speaking about this subject that's been occupying my mind lately. Many times I find myself wondering if I'm in the wrong path, it gets so confusing as to what is the way to please God. Your words are a light in the darkness. May God always inspire you to keep our eyes open and His word alive in us.
Another intense and beautiful message of truth. It is time for all teachers of Christ's word to speak about the end of all and the soon appearance of antichrist. It is a frightening time to be alive as well as a lovely time. We can see God's prophecies coming to pass in front of our eyes every day. I wish every person in the world could hear this homily. It would wake them up and bring them closer to Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father Aldea, for this precious message. Thank you also for the beautiful countryside and the voices of the birds. It seems idyllic there.
Father Seraphim can you pray for me my fiance and our families and my 2 children please? And for our salvation. And for us to never be deceived by the antichrist. And for us to never get the mark of the beast. Please? Thank you.
Hi. He îs on the news nowadays. He has been preparing for this for a few decades. Nobody believes this but He will keep the war going. I dont know how his mark will look but I know him. You wont be fooled for it will be told to you if you dont take it you will die eventually. The mark is to be accepted but those who are real Christians know about it and they wont be deceived. May you and everyone else be safe în these times.
Christ Is Risen!
Amen Father!
I am so thankful for this message, Father. For years people have said to me, including my own son, Why can't you just leave people alone? Why can't you just accept that you have your truth and other people have their truth. Let people do what they want; it doesn't have anything to do with you!
I have always replied, your best friend, the one who loves you the most, is the one who is willing to tell you the most truth. Any acquaintance will lie to your face, and tell you what you want to hear, but that doesn't help you in the long run. I'm not a person who goes out picketing, or walks up to people on the street asking them if they have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior. You can't nag people to Christ. But if someone asks my opinion, I will tell them the truth. If they are indulging, for instance , in a sin that is clearly forbidden in the Bible and they ask me about it, I will say, Well the Bible says that it is a sin. Now, I say it in a loving way, and I do it off to the side. I don't embarrass people in front of others, because the Bible says, if your brother is in error take him aside and talk to him. It doesn't say picket his house.
I tried to explain to my son, if I saw a group of people talking and a car was bearing down on them ready to hit them, do I ump into the conversation, and say, "Get out of the way! You're going to be killed!" or do I say to myself, Well, they have free will. I have no right to jump into their conversation and warn them, even though it might mean their death? No, I love them enough to warn them. What they do with the warning is up to their free will, but if they ask me, I love them enough to warn them. I am not going to stand by and let them die (or lose their soul) without at least telling them what God's stand on the issue is, because many people have not actually read the Bible; they are only going by what these liberal ministers and priests are telling them, so they don't even know the actual truth. God bless you Father, and your order, and thank you for these teachings. I am disabled and practically homebound, so I never get to church. I recently spent 10 days in the hospital and couldn't arrange confession and communion there either; so without channels like yours, I would have no spiritual adviser at all.
im from moldova too...thank you for the message
Xristos Anesti ✝️
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6.
Thank you so much father Seraphim
I’m another Catholic who really appreciates your insights and loves your channel. There should not be separation in the body of Christ. I know that would be Christ’s will because it is in scripture. There is unity among Christ’s followers. The Antichrist will try to “adapt” the Church but as followers of all denominations we have to stay faithful.
I am Catholic, and your preaching helps me a lot.
it desperately needs to be translated into Serbian subtitles so that a large number of believers in Serbia can watch this video. please father...
Slažem se brate. Mogu se uključiti i automatski titlovi na mnoge jezike. IC XC + NI KA
Somewhere in there, you said, "love is a witness to truth." That helped me understand. Perfect. I hope I can remember it next time someone says "love is love."
Thank you Father. Your subject reminds me to thank you. Thank you for entering the arena of "online Orthodoxy"... I found the church during the pandemic like many others I'm sure. As you know it can be "toxic' in some comment sections and it's difficult to hear the voice of our Good Sheperd in the midst of it all. So thank you for helping us find Christ and His One Holy Catholic* Church. (*the Creed....the One Church is Holy Orthodox). Thank you from a Catachumin named Michael from Minneapolis. Father Bless. Cu adevărat a înviat!
I couldn’t help but think of Ezekiel 34 (Irresponsible shepherds and the one true Shepherd) as I listened to MR. Pence’ statement. For most of my adult life I have wandered in and out of different Protestant churches only to find after many years that my life looked no different than anyone else’s in the world. The only differences were, I had a Christian vocabulary and I was still trying to seek God. It wasn’t until I left those churches altogether that I have been able to unlearn many of the twisted doctrines I had learned over the years. Yes they sound biblical, but they have a way of tickling our ears because they make us feel good and our Christianity costs us nothing. They allow us to join with the world with its psychology and self-involved culture.
This is not easy to break free from and yet we are called to be in the world but not of it.
Father Seraphim, please continue speaking the truth in the way you do. There are few voices out there that break through the veneer of what is called “the church” today. God bless you and bless Mull Monastery.
I used to be an athiest, so I understand this man's question. I hated Christians due to what I saw in Protestants and The Vatican, until I found Orthodoxy. Thank you for the wise words!
Same! For over a decade! Thank God for his patience!
Being orthodox since childhood, I am wondering what is it you saw in Orthodoxy that had such a profound effect on your soul, brother in Christ. Not a rhetorical question. I am just genuinely interested in you experience.
Im a Catholic brother and I find these videos lift my spirit.
Thank you
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Χριστός Ανέστη.
Thank you Pt. Serafim for these wise words. I have been blessed to choose the Orthodox way and I am 100% certain it is the only way .🙏
Thank you Father Seraphim. We are getting closer
Hristos Voskrese 🙏🏼☦️🕊❤️ HE is the Truth and the LOVE.
As an orthodox Christian i absolutely agree with everything you said father !!! All Glory to the Holy Trinity Father Son and Holy Spirit ☦️
Thank you Fr. Seraphim
Dear father Seraphim, thank you so much for this teaching, becouse I do struggle with my family about these modern ideas.
My children are raised Coptic orthodox, but they do find the teachings to strictly. So they don’t go to church and are living a secular live.
My oldest daughter even doubt the existence of God and thinks our Lord teaching is not necessarily the only truth out there.
You can imagine how that gives me a feeling of guild and despair,because I am so scared for her soul. I pray that somehow she will return to the truth of our Lord Jesus. And the guild I feel: Did I raise her good enough in the church,or was I too weak by not going always?
I feel myself moving towards Jesus because I have become a Christian by marriage. I clearly feel my destiny, but I am horrified my children will lose the way.
I do hope Christ will help her because my words do not work.
Bless you dear father, and the monastery🙏❤️
Please keep praying for her, she will find her way back to Christ and orthodox teaching as I did. I'm an Orthodox Christian from Syria i was like your daughter lost but on my thirty Jesus found me. I believe someone was praying for me. God bless ☦️🙏
Bless you Father Seraphim pray for my inequities
Please pray for me too 🙏
Your videos are helpful and give peace I LOVE YOU, DEAR ONE.. thank you.
Să trăiți Părinte!
Christ is Risen! Father Seraphim- Glory to God for your lessons. They are deeply appreciated.
Charity (love of God) will grow cold. And us people will put ourselves in His place being our own gods and driving our Ferrari's, just as Satan tempted us in the beginning. As for following my heart unguided, if I did I'd be in jail by the end of the week! Thank you once again Father.
Thank you, as always, for your guidance dear Father, and thank you to the commenter. I needed this so desperately. It is so easy to fall into delusion, which I’ve learned is exactly what heresy is. Lord have mercy on me!!! Please pray for me Father! My Husband too. Tom and Bobbi Bartlett - Daniel and Mary. We hope to visit you next year.
Truly He is risen! ☦️🙏🏻
Glad to have you back❤️Please keep telling us the TRUTH!
Dear Father Serafim,this is so important video ,thank you for the way you represented these truths , hopefully will reach to more people ,God bless you !
Go inward dear one.. All the answers you seek are there 🙏🔱💕💜💖🩷🥰🔱💙🕉️
Amen! May your blessing be with us. May God protect us from all darkness and keep us in his church forever.
I have been having the same issue. You cannot imagine how helpful your words have been Father. Your love has comforted me. God bless you 🙏🏽 - Navin
Să trăiți, Părinte!
Thank you for the wisdom. You've brought great comfort to my soul.
Anyone who sees this please pray for me. I'm struggling setting down my ego and pride and accepting the fact that i dont know anything.
Please pray for me that I might be a better brother to all ❤
Dear FATHER thank you for a needed message 🙏
GOD bless you, dear soul..❤🙏
Thank you Fr Seraphim for this important message. ☦
WoW. I was so touched. I love you Father Seraphim ❤
Fr. seraphim may God bless you. I’m happy your feeling better. I pray to God, thank you for Fr. Seraphim’s efforts to bring us sound teaching. I have appreciated all your teachings. It’s been enriching my spiritual life. Thank you, peace be with you.
If you havent read the Revelation series by Elder Athanasius you really should, then you will see just how late the days really are. The series explains Revelation in terms of how it relates to other parts of the Bible, our church practices, and crucially how it relates to the world today. It was very eye opening for me.
Such a powerful message. I was kept away for many, many years by perceiving that the heresies were actually reflective of what Christianity was. I am so blessed that Christ lead me to His true Church, and I pray that many more come home as the lies of this current zeitgeist are revealed.
The truth is unchanging, unwavering. Only the way the truth is taught changes.
I am so grateful for your explanations and showing the demon for his Deceits!
The antichrist and the devil are fast friends and they are hiding in the public view!
Thank you Father☦️
I'm so glad the shepherd has not forgotten me at the edge of the cliff. I feel like I have been a false hermit my entire life.
Father Bless, Christ is Risen!
Father you have managed to answer a problem I have been struggling with for the last few weeks in relation to how I relate to those outside the church I relate to who claim to follow the Gospel but also how I pray for them and especially for the young people who have been deceived by the spirit of the age which muddles the clear revelations on what it means to be human and how humans relate to each other. I had been praying while searching both the scriptures and the Fathers on how to love and pray for those who have been deceived by the spirit of this age and in this video you have answered my doubts and questions so simply.
Thank you father
Please pray for my children Abraham Rachel, Jonathan, Michael ☦🙏
Thank you so much for these very comforting and reassuring truths, as to where AND how to find Christ's Truth! VERY helpful! ESPECIALLY about how we cannot ever rely on JUST our Minds, or JUST our Hearts, or our Bodies! This has personally been very insightful, timely, and helpful for me, dear Fr. Seraphim! THANK YOU!!
Thank you for this much needed encouragement❣️
Thank You Fr. Seraphim 🙏
Amen 🙌🏽☦
Thankyou Seraphim
Fr. Seraphim, thank you for this excellent and helpful video. God bless you and your work.
Definitely trying to control everything can be a way to go awry, just let go and relax remember you are in God's hands❤ it brings peace, glorifies God and pisses the enemy off ❤😂
I just came across this channel, this is an immense help to enhance my faith and relationship with Christ. Thank you for your teachings, may God to continue to bless you.
Father Seraphim I have just discovered your channel through an interview you did with Gospel Simplicity. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for speaking God’s wisdom! I struggled with the same issue as the person whose letter you were reading from in your video. I was already attending The Greek Orthodox in Singapore because my daughter asked me to go along as she knew I was seeking. I just cannot understand that division involving the churches. I was leaning towards Roman Catholicism because I was attracted to some the sermons I heard online from American priests. However, I did a lot of homework and I finally COULD NOT AGREE with some the principles of that branch; the biggest one being that the head of the Roman Catholic Church is infallible. To me the only being that can be infallible is one God, the one Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit - all one essence. I am now a catechumen and am going through a year of catechism classes before eventually being baptized. Once again thanks a million for shining a light on the truths of God’s ways.
Holiness, yes! This is love. Be holy as He is holy and let Him be the example of how to think and live as revealed in the written Word of God. Find a church that works toward this and not the false theologies, especially the social "justice"/humanistic/liberation theologies.
Thank you for yet another timely offering of wisdom. ❤
Blessings Dear Fr your words are like jewels please do keep me in your prayers with my family and children and you are in my prayers 🕯🕯🕯
Bravo father.
powerful teaching father..thank you...we must keep praying..its hard at times..feels empty..but im reminded that even jesus asked his disip[les to keep him company and stay awake and near him while he went off to pray..he "needs" us..i know that sounds strange as how could god need anything..but it seems he is so in love with us that its true.
How can you be the chief amongst sinners when I consider myself to be the chief amongst sinners. God bless and God help us all.
Thank God Jesus Amen 🙏⛪🕯️
Father Seraphim, I value your videos and your experience and your thoughts (your God inspired wisdom, clearly guided by the Holy Spirit) and I yearn to hear your guidance on transgenderism. Someone extremely close to me, in my family, identifies as transgender and they have walked away from us because they say I do not love and accept them "as they are". I try to explain that I do truly love them as they are (who God created), but not what they are trying to become. And it is they themselves who do not love and accept who they actually are. This situation is the perfect example of what you describe in your video about the enemy distorting the truth, defiling Christ and trying to trick people into believing that dark is light.... that acceptance without question and without borders, and without God, is love. I am living this painful reality first hand, every day, and many people around us will be affected by it. What is a Christian to do? How do we respond to transgender people - our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, nephews and nieces, friends - who accuse us of hatefulness. My response has caused the person to even distance themselves from the faith, because it does not agree with their desires and image of themselves, and their opinions about God's love.
God bless you, your work and your monastery. Χριστός Ανέστη
The Church is like a Tree with many branches... 🌲 more homes for more birds & creatures to nest. Christ is the True Vine, and He allows even dead branches that bear rotten fruit to exist. Those fruitless branches will be cast into the hell of fire. God will Judge, and separate the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the tares, but all at the end. Press into God, God's Word, Love Him & your Neighbor, and do not fret... if you are a doer and not just a hearer of Christ's Word, you are on the narrow road, and Christ is The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Gate! Amen. 🙏🎄
I know that Orthodoxy is the true Church. Please pray for us. My wife wants nothing to do with Orthodoxy. Thank you all.
Pray for me father I'm being attacked by Satan. I'm a sinner. May God forgive me. May the precious blood of jesus christ save us and the whole world ❤
Bring this person back to prayer 🙏 when we are overcome with the ways of this sinful world. We become separated from prayer. "Glory be to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ". Amen.
Amen.
Very true...the words in that letter is deep.....seeking from the heart and God will guide you to the truth 🙏🏻
Dear Father. I'm very confused and it's leading me to despair. I was in the new age for over 20 years. I have been very influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism. About 5 years ago, I felt Jesus was calling me to him. I was very surprised. It's been an exhausting battle ever since. I'll move towards Christ, then find myself running back to Eastern practices. I feel ashamed of my doubt and inconstancy. I struggle with wondering if it's my own personal demons, the devil or a combination of both that I'm battling. I would appreciate your advice and prayers. Thank you.
The singing of the birds...😇
Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.... the same yesterday, today and forever!! Slava Bogu!!
I thought my user name was cool... but Mr Elk pants is pretty dam cool. God bless you Mr Elk pants, and may your heart be guided to peace and truth on this matter.
Thank you for your advice and lessons Father Seraphim 🌺🌻
Every video you make is important in it's own special way, Father Seraphim.
This video is especially important.
Thank you.
This video was very helpful to me because living in the modern world, we're all experiencing these same doubts and feelings
Dear Father,
I have just turned my eyes back to Christ. I have felt led to the words of yourself and other Orthodox Fathers. I was raised within the Dutch Christian Reformed Church, but have become disheartened by the false teachings I have seen and heard within that church.
My family has moved to México, but I am not yet fluent in Spanish. There are no Orthodox churches in my city, and no English services in the Catholic Churches here. Can you give me some advice on how I can walk with Christ, gain wisdom, and be given guidance in the Scriptures, in my circumstances?
Thank you for your videos.
I'm sure the viewer's letter may have been intending those TV evangelist types.
Also beware of the new-Age movement and particularly things like the 'ramtha' entity and kryon etc
Can you pray for my fiance's health to be healed if it's God's will? Please and thanks