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The Unforgivable Sins. The Sins against the Holy Spirit.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2023
- These are the unforgivable sins against God's Love and Mercy. Feeling entitled to God's forgiveness, reducing God's Love to an automatic, impersonal tool of forgiveness-this is spiritual abuse of God's Love, this is the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit. The other is to lose hope, to think that God's Love is not strong enough to cover our sins, to sink so low in our despair that we believe our sin has defeated God's Love.
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The video 'The Unforgivable Sins. The Sins against the Holy Spirit.' was recorded by Fr Seraphim (Aldea) at Mull Monastery (The Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints), on the Isle of Mull.
Please give prayers to my country Ethiopia, the government is killing so many people. And is kidnapping and is arresting the Ethiopian orthodox Christians. Please pray for them.
Oh, Jesus, hear this prayer and see these people. Invade Lord, protect, redeem. Be strong with your people in Ethiopia. :’(
May the Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy please.
Lord Jesus Christ, hear the prayers of Thy most pure Mother, and heed the pleas of our Ethiopian Brothers and Sisters in Christ. One of your holy disciples guided the Ethiopian, opening his eyes to the scriptures. Hear now our prayers, Oh our King and God, and stay the hands of those persecuting Thy Holy Church, and bring them into the Light of they Grace and Love. Amen.
Спаси вас Господь!!!
I yearn for salvation so much but i feel so unworthy of such a beautiful gift. I wish i was strong enough to completely turn my back on all worldly things , particularly my lustful sin. I keep trying , and keep failing but i wont stop hope and trying and praying , thankyou for this honest video.
May God give you the strength to withstand this fire of repentance, dear one. Do not compromise either side: keep your fear of God intact (that will protect you from the hardening of your heart), while also keeping your hope in His Love intact (that will protect you against despondency). May you be blessed, my dear one.
I am there too, God won't let us be lost, hallowed be his Name!
You are worthy.
Jesus Christ have mercy on us, Father Serafim thank you for your teachings!
Amen x
Amen
I am the most evil person. I should be utterly ashamed of myself.
I am a new Christian and I love the different people God has put in my path to learn about Him from. Thank you for serving the way you do to strengthen the faith of people like me, and so many others. This is a question and prayer answered, your message here. ❤️
Please pray for me this Lent. I have betrayed my wife's trust and our marriage is in peril. We have a 2 year old that means so much to us and I want her to be fully loved, especially now. I pray the Lord guide us through this time and I pray that the Lord have mercy. ☦️
Rely on His Mercy and Grace, that's all any of us have.
May the lord prepare us for the period of repentance that is lent. The fear of coming out of lent the exact same person as one enters is overwhelming at times .
May the lord search our hearts and see if there’s any wicked way and lead us to the way everlasting. May He accept our tiny Lenten offerings and by His grace change us.
Thank you for the message today of hope and true repentance
Amen, dear Amira, amen. Often, change comes in manners we do not expect, and Christ uses 'tools' we do not expect. Just hold on to your faith, your patience and your determination to do all that is in your power. Once you have reached that limit, Christ will do the rest. May we all be blessed, dear one.
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Thank you dear father for taking the time to write back . I needed to hear those words . God bless you 🙏.
By Gods grace and In Him , I will try to follow your words. Pray for us 🙏
Pray for God's mercy on my soul that I may gain a new lens into my wickedness please 🙏. I want to feel more remorseful and repentant when I sin. Not just apologizing so I can feel his love and reap his benefits again, but apologizing because I regret hurting my love
I'm new to Christianity (I'm a child of Indian immigrants, not raised in a Christian household) and also new to this channel but this was an excellent video and I'm gonna observe Lent this year! However your supposed to do it, I don't really know lol.
I've been doing OMAD (one meal a day) intermittent fasting for quite a while so I'm down to fast!!
Edit: at 7:00 you say to kick off Lent by going over those parables of Jesus. I'll be sure to do that!
May God bless you and direct you, dear one. Have no worry - many of us (myself included) have been raised in circumstances that are far removed from Christianity. I grew up in a Communist state, and yet Christ found a way to touch even my sinful heart. Keep moving forward; make the small slow steps that you can make, and Christ will do the running for you.
I'm so happy you have become a Christian! God bless you my new family member xxx
@@mullmonastery Thanks I appreciate the encouraging words! 😀🙏
@@robynmarler3839 Thanks Robyn :D very glad to be here
Glory to God! if you're curious about the fasting/Scripture reading schedule and Lenten traditions that Fr. Seraphim mentioned, these can be found at your nearest Orthodox Christian Church, or there are some resources online. There is too much to explain about Orthodox Christianity, and Lent in particular, for me to put in one comment, but I will mention that this is the historical and sanctified Church of the Apostles that was created at the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Church is not denominational; She is pre-denominational. Fr. Seraphim is a monastic priest at the Mull Monastery in the Hebrides, Scotland.
As an adult convert, I can say that you are in the right place, and are certainly welcome in any of our churches. God bless! :)
You are hitting every bar in the "things I take too literally and proceed to incessantly worry about" category. Thank you so much.
God bless you dear Father for those powerful words of reminder against our all too easy presumption of entitlement to salvation. As St. Augustine wrote, and as you put it so succinctly in your own words, “Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.”
I understand more why I need Jesus prayer in my life, because I must remember I am a poor muddy sinful man, I have no merit.
We get to participate, yet we get stuck. Stuck in selfishness, condemnation, and that keeps me stuck in repetitive sin. The more active I am in my spiritual life, the less I sin, the despair and condemnation fall off. The more I have a heart to be desperately closer to Him.
Thankyou for answering our email. I really appreciate that. I have learnt from my spiritual father that it is only to persist in the unforgivable sin is unforgivable.
I hope my friend who is a Calvinist will hear this message and find insight.
That is correct, dear Christopher. To persist in the sin makes it unforgivable.
This was a completely lovely sermon. It contained a lot of advice for my soul, needed advice to ascertain if I am keeping my feet on the road to salvation. It is difficult to know if you have no person to help you, and, you are trying to evaluate yourself. You Father, opened up your heart once again and revealed your love for your sheep and your Savior. I had asked many people in my life what is the unforgiveable sin. I received various answers. Today I received the proper answer. This was a perfectly appointed teaching to start pondering before Lent. I feel relieved after listening. God Bless you my Dear Father Aldea, for giving us another teaching full of wisdom and spoken with gentleness and love.
That is so kind of you, dear Rema. May God bless us all, may we all remain open to learn from each other what Christ speaks through us.
@@mullmonastery I believe He speaks all knowledge through you Father.
thank you so much father for your videos they have always been very useful and insightful to me. I want to ask you please to pray for the people in Turkey and Syria as a devastating earthquake hit. I'm following you from Syria please if you can send us a message of comfort and faith as the suffering and pain we live feels too heavy to bear. I ask your prayers all sisters and brothers 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you father!
Dear Maria, I am so sorry for the pain you are going through. I am so sorry for the years of nightmarish pain your nation has suffered. Syria has give Christianity some of the most powerful, beautiful and loving Saints the Church has ever known - St Isaac and St Ephrem above all. May you grown in your faith through it all. May you grown in your love and compassion as you witness all that pain. And may Christ plant a seed of His Love in your heart to protect you from all evil and to guide you to His Light. We pray for you. Please pray for us. In our prayer we are one.
@@mullmonastery thank you so much father for your words and prayers 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you
Please help me
May God help you in your struggle, whatever that may be, dear one. If you share your Christian name with us, I am certain many of us will pray for you.
I want to! What's happening?
Things can change so fast.🎆
What do you need help with?
Thankyou father ,I feel like I'm struggling alot. I feel I know inside that the faith is real but in my head theres this confusion which almost makes me feel like I'm in some kind of spiritual battle. I feel I am also struggling alot with sin.
We all are and we all do, Lisa. We are all sinners in battle.
Thats the Christian life; struggling. We all must struggle with sin, and there are two elements to struggle. One is the failure: we can think "why is this so hard? Why must I struggle? It should be easy!" But there is also the element of attempt. If you werent trying, there would be no struggle! "Well, I may not understand why it is difficult, but I accept that it is, and I will do what I can to fight. Most importantly, when I fail I must get up again, repent and start striding back towards Christ with a new resolve." So keep struggling Lisa. As Father said in a comment; we do the small steps and Christ does the sprinting! The Father of the prodigal son runs out to meet him from a long way off. God bless you and your holy struggles.
Dear Lisa, as Mike said above, we are all struggling. This is not a sign that you are failing, this is a sign that you are joining the Body of Christ - we all struggle, because we are all opposed and purposely thrown into confusion by the evil one. You are a sister in Christ of the one who cried 'I believe, Lord! Help my unbelief' - hold on to the seed of faith in your heart and it will continue to grow and it will bring forth fruit at the right time.
This finally makes sense to me. I have always denied the unforgivable sins any merit because God can do anything. However, if I live in sin while asking for grace and forgiveness and thinking that i will be covered for the same sin, that can not be forgiven because the sin continues. It has nothing to do with the Gathers desire to forgive me. I would not be forgivable because i would not be positioning myself to receive forgiveness. I am experiencing something similar with family. now,. Praise Jesus.
Good to see other people are noticing what is happening nowadays
Anyone in hell has chosen to be there. Those who truly love to dominate and exploit others, who take joy in sadism and so on, cannot abide in the atmosphere in the heavens; they run from it to a place where they can be what the truly want.
It is so true, we are not saved by works, but by faith in Christ
BUT
We show the reality of Christ in our lives, we show the reality of our faith by what we do and how we live!
I remember a sermon, where the pastor had said, "The reason why so many people choose NOT to come to Christ is because of what they see in Christians...it is because of Christians!"
That really hit home to me, and though I am weak and fail often, being the sinner I am, my hope is found in Christ, and I need to show that hope to others by how I live and act!
Faith in Christ saves us, how we live shows the reality of that faith and of Christ in us.
Praise God, praise Jesus, praise the Holy Spirit
I think that the most important take-away of your talk was defining the "balancing act" between despair and entitledness, and pinpointing both extremes as the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit. I am taking note of that and hopefully sharing it with others.
That is right, my dear Barbara. If I could convey that, glory be to God!
But you DO need to be good to remain on the earth my friends ❤
It seems that you know me and that you gave this lesson for me. Truly inspired by the Holy Spirit. I am thinking of becoming a monk, giving my life entirely to Christ. Pray to the Holy Spirit to give me discernment.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
I feel so awful after this video, because I'm constantly there in my sins, and I think it's the worst sin I commit, even above my sins of lust; that I assume that "oh, I've sinned, but God will forgive me if I go to confession, so I might as well indulge and get it out of my system."
I just feel so horrible.
Thank you for sharing this with us. 🙏
This really resonates. Beautiful description. Thank you.
Dear Fr Seraphim, thank you so very much for this very timely video & your exposition on entitlement ( so evident in society today & difficult to throw off) & your call to hope in God's freely given gifts of love self-sacrificing, to humility & true repentance as we keep before us both ends of the spectrum. I'm not wording this very well. At this moment i am feeling overwhelmed by the suffering of so many people both in my own country NZ from horrific floods completely destroying homes & that of the people in Turkey/Syria as a result of the earthquakes & the ongoing war in the Ukraine, with the loss of so many lives. Perhaps you could develop a session on how we can, in our prayers & small selfsacrificing acts..., have hope & help others struggling to connect with God when in the depths of their pain & suffering they are struggling to find God.
May God continue to bless you Fr Seraphim, and shower you with spiritual fortitude as you give of yourself & help so many of us with the wisdom we crave and you share so beautifully. Blessings & assurance of my prayers. From Jenny in Dunedin NZ.
Do what you can (if there is anything you can do) to help in a practical way, dear one. If not, light a candle for those people. Wake up at night, when the torrents of thoughts and worries are asleep, and stand before an icon with a lit candle - there is no need to pray with words if you can find none or if you are too tired: just stand there, with a burning candle, like a burning candle and pray for the people who are under those collapsed buildings, those who have died and are now standing before Christ, those whom they left behind. Burn for them as a living prayer and Christ will receive the sacrifice of your heart, dear one.
@@mullmonastery Thank you, dear Fr Seraphim for your response to my comment; so very practical as ever. Yes, I shall light a candle before my icons & stand as a burning candle with Christ the Light of the World beside as all these images pass before me. The northern part of nz is currently in the throes of a destructive cyclone which has been passing over the land for 2 days now. Thank you for your prayers & encouragement in this time when one clings to hope for others while at the same time can feel useless in the enormity of it all. Yet our prayers & small acts are never useless in the sight of God. Be greatly blessed dear Fr Seraphim & thank you from the depths of my heart. It has just turned 7am here in nz- 14th February.
I have put down chewing tobacco for Lent & pray I can complete this & quit for good. All I want is to be close to Jesus & support my family. My wife has finally woken up and realize we are in perilous times, but with Lord Jesus we can get thru anything. I notice many people wanting genuine relationship with God & I pray they get it, no amount of money can buy the feeling of being "right with God" (as my old priest use to say). Jesus, and Mama Mary, are my 2 go tos. Sometimes I have to shut myself up cause when alone I talk to Them nonstop. God Bless you all with the peace of Jesus.
I'm a fairly new Christian and am doing my first fast right now and I wasn't even sure when Lent was. I feel like God put it on my spirit to do so 🙏
Normally the topic of the unpardonable sin would bring me despair, but this video has left me with a sense of peace that God has me on the right track in the long-term
Thank you for this
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom
You have been granted, dear Fr Seraphim, to put into words and bring to surface the deepest longings of my heart. Now you have more fully opened up my understanding of the prize (and the opposite), the striving somehow becomes more purposeful and worthwhile. O lazy me for all the years I have wasted, may God have mercy.
What is behind us is almost irrelevant, dear Pat. We shall be judged in the state we shall be found - if you are found standing in your faith, this is how you will enter the Kingdom. There are all those beautiful stories of the Saints who lived in the deepest sin but found the grace to repent the day before their death and they found their salvation. The first among them is the Good Thief - one who confesses himself that he deserves to die on the cross, and yet he is the first human being to enter Paradise. The Tradition of the Church collects these stories for us because we share a common humanity and they can be of extraordinary help to us.
O the love and mercy of God, boundless beyond my measly comprehension, a tiny peek is overwhelming!
I needed this
THANK YOU
Your true Christian God bless you by venkatesh in🇮🇳
I fell into sin and felt that I was lost for yrs. I've been drawn back to the cross and I've been led to the orthodox faith of which I knew nothing before. I first came to Christ through the Word and then fell into sin for 14 yrs. I felt damned. But almost 3 years ago I was able to come before the cross and seek Him, I've been given a new heart. I was in serious sin. I felt I was not able to come back to Christ. But now, I no longer steal, I no longer long to kill as I did. I was so far gone I was sick 😢. I've been given a heart that longs for Christ constantly and my sin has tormented me. That depth is what I was in and still am. I know I'm not worthy of anything and what I have done is so terrible 😢 that it tore my heart and I still bleed from it. But in this searching Him out, in hopes that against all odds He might have mercy on me. That in hope against all odds that I might have been kept from committing the unforgivable sin and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. I pray 🙏 I might somehow be given the grace to pursue Christ in spirit and truth.
And in part, I believe it because when I first found Christ and experienced the beauty of communion with His precious and beautiful Holy Spirit, it was through the Word, but all I knew was protestant teaching and Roman Catholic, which I couldn't agree with the pope being infallible. Yet the protestant church is so divided and i always knew it was wrong, and that the Scriptures do not disagree. I know there is one truth. It is the truth handed down from the beginning. And so being led into the orthodox teaching has been healing to me. And because I've been led to this, knowing that the Father draws us to the Son, it is not of our self that we are drawn but it is Christ who chooses us. So I have found a hope dawning within me that I may be able to come to the throne of grace. I've felt so unworthy to even come to Him in prayer, for yrs. And these last 3 yrs. The longing that is so deep I am able to only seek Him. Even with the sin I have, that I despise and with all I've done, it is as though a dawn is coming within me and the Sun, is the Son. I feel like I was in the darkest hrs before the dawn. But in truth, i know that Christ loce is above and beyond our comprehension, but my sin was so heavy I felt I wouldn't be forgiven. Though even in those yrs. of debauchery I still longed to be in Christ Jesus and felt only despair in my sins. I never doubt Christ, it is myself that i despise and doubt, knowing how unworthy I have only proven to be..😢 and in truth, Christ alone is worthy, and whether or not I make it into the Gateway of heaven, i will worshio His Holy name and i will continue to strive to grow closer to Him amd strive towards the goal. And i will continue to tell others of His love and His mercy and of our need for Him. Hoping that I might be a dog in the dog house on the very outer portions of the kingdom of heaven and receive the scraps from the table 🙏 and I will kiss His feet if He permits it. But even if I have no hope, I will still strive to serve Him and all of you who are within the body. And love all of those who I encounter. I've done so much bad that my good could never outweigh the bad that I've done. But still I will hope, and I will pray, and i will strive, and I will humbly learn the way of orthodoxy. And I pray the Lord will grace me with the ability to pursue this out in Him, and that He will uphold me to be able to do this in all of my weaknesses. I have been humbled in a very major way. And for that, I give God praise, and God is glorified in that along with all things. For all is to His glory. Amen. God bless you brother 🙏 🙌 ❤️ in the precious and mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Thank you for posting this and God bless you.
Thank You All Powerful Lord Jesus Christ for Paying for All my Sins Thank You Jesus For Shedding Every Last Drop of Your Perfect Redeeming Innocent Blood For The Forgiveness Full Remission of All my Sins Thank You Jesus For Dying in my place on The Cross ✝️ ❤To Pay for All my Sins as The Perfect Sacrifice because You Have No Sin Thank You for Being Buried Thank You Jesus for COMING BACK ALIVE 3 Days After Your Death because You Are The Son of God and God At The Same Time!!! I LOVE You Heavenly Father ABBA I LOVE You Jesus I LOVE You Holy Spirit Not 3 Different Gods But The 1 The Only True Living GOD Most High Revealed to us in 3 Ways ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤she who is Forgiven Much LOVES Much!!!!
Very insightful, thank you brother
I entrust myself to You,Lord,with all THOSE I love.Protect us under the shield of Your unfading love.Comfort us,and GIVE me more Time to repent.💔🙏
Thank you, your videos are always a blessing.
Thank you, beautiful insight, God bless you 🙏
Thank you for your teaching.
Thank you so much for ALL your videos! Your words are gold!
Great commentary; thank you
Thank you so much for this vital message fr Seraphim 🙏☦️
God bless you for sharing ❤
Bless you my brother
Amen, thanks be to God 💝
I truly appreciate your understanding and I could listen forever.
This was the right message for me to hear today
Wonderful video, thank you
I really felt the wisdom of each word
Thank you 🙏 God Bless you Seraphim.
Bless you Father...
Thank you father Seraphim. truly this video has enlightened me
Many thank yous for this elucidation and deep guidance.❤
Thank you and bless you for your spiritual help 😊🙏🙏
Amen xxx
Father! Thank you! ❤️ 🤗
Amen Father. Thank you for your time and openness.
this space is genuinely humble. My great need rn
Thank you Father
God bless you🙏
Thank you Father so very much for sharing in such a firm, no uncertain terms manner what we all need to strive to do during this year’s Lent period and beyond, if we want to have any hope of being judged worthy enough to pass through the narrow gate into heaven and ever lasting happiness with our Dear Lord Jesus Christ Son of The Living God.💫
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Thank you for this video, it is really eye opening. God Bless you friend.
Thank you so much Fr. Seraphim. This was a very insightful video and timely too. ❤
Father your prayers. Thank you for this message
Fr. Seraphim, thank you for all the videos you make. Glory be to God.
Thank you Father Seraphim. God bless you and all those close to you as well
Thanks. Same to you. God bless you.
Thank you dear father...
You have covered more than imaginable
You are a great preacher.
Thank you Father Seraphim for this very timely videos as we prepare ourselves for the letting season.
Beautiful Father thank you
Thank you for all that you do please continue. I know how difficult it is for you to make these videos and I'm very grateful for them they seem to come at the right time even though I'm struggling. Keep up the good work and may God bless you and your family
Tough teaching but i needed to hear it.
God bless you
Blessings Father .
Can't believe it's Friday again, good to join you.
Thank you for your sharing of fantastic information to help us all along the path to salvation
Great lesson Father, so deep, I always love to hear you because you always explained the philosophy deeply that make us understand so clear, God bless you abundantly Father Serafin!
Thank you very much sir 🙏 ❤. I am from India love your videos and teachings
Thank you, humbling and beautiful, Bless you man of God, the Word is Good today
Grazie..
Powerful. God bless you
Please never stop making these videos.
Thank U so much my dear! Verry helpful! God bless you and much love from Sweden 🇸🇪💟✝️💟
God Bless everyone and thank you Father for this lesson, it’s helping more than you know. ❤️🙏
Very very grateful to God for you my brother, in Jesus name.
Dear Father Seraphim,
I am new to the Orthodox Faith, and have only recently accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I am 51 years old, and I fear that I will die without given the chance to confess my sins, to be baptized. I have done horrible acts throughout my life, and am afraid that it may be too late for me to be forgiven.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. You have helped me immensely.
God bless,
Raphael.
Do not despair, the Lord is with you, he loves you, and he knows you. He will be compassionate and merciful to those who draw near to him in humble trust, he turns away nobody. Have total faith in God, and in the parts of you that are of God, that part of you that is love, and who rests in God.
Thank you Father. Thank you for praying for all the Christians in the world.
We definitely need it.
Thank you Father, deep words. I am reading the Canon of repentens already, preparation for the Great Lent. ❤️ asking your blessings!
Powerful!
Thank you Father! ☦️
God Bless you and the Brothers and Sisters of the Monastery. 🙏🏻
Father bless please.
Father, the Icon behind you is beautiful
Fr. Seraphim, thank you for such clarity. It talks directly to my heart. I'm a Catholic but it is beautiful to see how close we are to our Orthodox brethren.
Father, your words are gifts from God, May He Bless You Too.
God bless you my brother. You are truly a gift to all us who are struggling for our salvation. Thank you
We are all struggling, dear Clark - myself more than all. But we must all move forward because there is no Life outside Christ, no Life in the darkness of sin we have left behind. So we move forward; slowly, painfully at times, but forward.
Thank you Father Serafim , in Jesus our King we hope and prayer to forgive our sins and guide us to eternal salvation. 🙏🙏🙏. Blessings from Armenia