Self-Confidence and Humility | The Publican and the Pharisee | Lenten Triodion | Met. Christophoros
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- In this video, Archbishop Christophoros from Jordan talks about contemporary self-confidence and humility starting from the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. Let us see here how genuine humility is correlated with self-confidence and what is the Christian way of life that attracted so many from outside the Christian community.
This is a sermon recorded in February 2019, in the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (beginning of the Lenten Triodion) by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese - Amman - Jordan.
English translation by Waad Rabahie
Video source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese - Amman - Jordan
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Archbishop Christophoros Attallah:
Blessed is the Christian who realizes that he or she is nothing! Only when you realize that you are nothing, through humility, you can understand the verse of the Bible which Christ said: "without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
And what happens then is that you empty yourself and Christ becomes everything for you. Christ will become everything.
It's noticeable that we worry a lot, we get saddened and troubled a lot, but after the hard days pass, after our sicknesses and hardships pass, we look back and wonder: "Why did we make this much of a drama of it? It wasn't worthy." Why, my children? Because Christ is not occupying all of us, He is occupying only a part of us. While His commandment is clear: "you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37) Our Lord wants the entirety of us, not just a part. If just a part... then you can't meet Him. He wants us fully. His commandment is clear. His first commandment which He wrote with His finger on the two stone tablets which were given to Moses in the Old Testament: "you shall love the Lord you God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." (Deuteronomy 6:5)
So my children... It's very important for the human to reach a certainty that he or she is nothing. This nothingness is spiritual and not psychological. We should be aware of this.
Because if it's seen from a psychological view, some people would ask: "How, then, can I have self-confidence?" Of course you should have self-confidence… The more you feel you are nothing the more you will be confident in yourself... in truth. Because your humility will lead you to self-confidence.
Most of people and even us have fake self-confidence, earthly and prideful self-confidence.
We don't have spiritual self-confidence, that's why we become cowards in many stages... We become cowards during trials, hardships and distress, this means we don't have self-confidence, but a confidence of another type which is prideful and earthly confidence, which the society gives us.
For example, some people have confidence that they drive a good car. Others feel sad for themselves for not having a car, they don’t have confidence in themselves. Some people have confidence when
they open Facebook and find 200 likes: "Wow", they think to themselves, "I'm an important person!" Emptiness... loss... disaster... such things became our indicators of self-confidence.
Do you see what a tragic and catastrophic situation we are in? Very far from Christ, from the Church and from spirituality. This is not self-confidence. This is pride and weakness, weak personality and cowardice.
The Lord says: "I forgave this publican, he went down justified, rather than the other", rather than the Pharisee. Here we see the judgment of the Lord, the Savior, concerning these two situations.
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The Church and the Holy Fathers of the Church tell us how we - Orthodox Christians, children of the Church - should be in our life. And through the chants of the Church which were read and heard in the Matins today, the Church asks us to not pray as the Pharisee but as the Publican, meaning our prayer should not be as the one of the Pharisee but as the one of the Publican... So, my children, let's pray as the Publican, that is to realize we are nothing and in this way we get closer to God and to our neighbor and to ourselves.
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So we realize that we are in a crisis and we need to solve it. The church gives us the solution which is this prayer today's gospel teaches us. It teaches us how to pray and how to meet with God with
ourselves and with our neighbor.
My children, I wish you a blessed time, a blessed and graceful Triodion period!
Without God, I’m a zero; But with my God- I’m a hero!
Amazing, amazing teaching. This is it. Want to kiss the hand of this Father. Thank you so much for uploading this. May The Lord Bless you and give you everything you need.
It is self evident that what society teaches us about confidence in our SELVES is directly contrary to the humility Christ teaches.
IC XC NIKA.
Glory to God in the Highest. amen
this is one of the best homilies I have every heard from a priest. thankyou to this channel!
When we become humble the lord will be with us, and then we have nothing to fear in the world.
How very true, we can do nothing on our own...only through the help
of Jesus Christ are we able to love one another truly, something I often struggle with. My hope is that God will help all of us including me to have true and genuine love for one another. So important to
Love one another as days are becoming dark...
Very nice message!
Lord Jesus 💙 Christ ☦️🕯️✝️have mercy on me...us. Amen
Κύριε Ιησού 💙 Χριστέ ελέησον με..ημάς, αμήν. ✝️🕯️☦️
Splendid SERMON, God-filled FATHER-BISHOP. GLORY BE TO GOD WORSHIPPED IN THE HOLY TRINITY, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, AMEN
Than you for the blessing,,, even that I am not a orthodox, but I know I am a sinner.
I listening to Orthodox teaching every day and it helps me to pray morning and evening with our kids and yesterday my wife start following.
We are in a Protestant church that is what we have, we are missing out so much for some protestant is moving more and more towards the worldly things.
Glory be to God for all things!
My friend, why don't you try seeking an Orthodox Church?
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If there was and orthodox church I would go there.
Life is difficult, I am worried about who easily it is to follow this world.
I pray that God will open our ears so we hear Him and eyes see Him so we follow Him. I am in need of Jesus.
Please pray for me and Christian around us.
Inside I am crying for I feel people is going to follow this world, even they call themselves follower of Christ and the love is turning cold.
@@briankristensen349 may the Lord Jesus Christ guide you my brother, just pray about it. God is always there and He will not forsake you and your family. May you lay your burdens at the feet of Christ 🙏🏾☦️♥️ Love from an Orthodox sister in Christ.
suggest research blessed father seraphim rose and utube channel gregory decapolite. God Bless.
May God grant us His joy in the midst of difficulties.. And His love for one another 🙏
Thank you father Christophoros.
Great message from the Bishop. God bless +
IC XC NI KA
Glorie to God, a great inspiring message with wisdom and love from this bishop very inspiring. Much love for all my brothers and sisters in Christ 🙏✝️☦
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@@walterdreiberg wellicht ben ik dat, ik weet niet precies wat dat is 🙂
Such true words!!!❤May God give eternal love and joy his Emminence and the whole world💖💖💖much love from Georgia 💚💚💚
Much love from Greece,💗💛💜🌷🌹🌷🇬🇷
Mulțumiri pentru traducerea și în română! Ne aduce bucurie Preasfințitul Hristofor, și la noi se simte iubirea sa pentru oameni . Domnul nostru Iisus Hristos să-l ocrotească și să vă ocrotească !
Amin!
So awesome, thank you, please if you can post more vids of this Blessed Priest
🙏❤ love and blessings from Romania, to all orthodoxes brothers and sisters.
Than you for the blessing,,, even that I am not a orthodox, but I know I am a sinner.
I listening to Orthodox teaching every day and it helps me to pray morning and evening with our kids and yesterday my wife start following.
We are in a Protestant church that is what we have, we are missing out so much for some protestant is moving more and more towards the worldly things.
@@briankristensen349 , all of us are sinners. Only God is without sin.
AMEN🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💖💖💖💖
Love and joy radiate from Metropolitan Christophoros every video I see of him and it is such an inspiration to me!
Frumos spus Preasfintite Părinte
Great speach! كلام عظيم
Excelentă omilie! Mulțumim mult și mai așteptăm și altele!
Lord have mercy, such words. God be with His Eminence!
Thank you very much for sharing this, glory to God
Thank you so much for this video! Glory to God!
thank you!
I humbly request that you consider limiting the number of ads within these videos that promote your other social media accounts and content for this TH-cam channel. I feel that doing so right in the middle of Father’s sermon is disrespectful, and in a way, contradicts his message about the delusion of the ‘importance’ of having followers and ‘likes’. Maybe think about other ways to grow your audience, like by simply asking people to share your videos in the video’s description, and putting links to other social media accounts there as well (instead of over top of icons in the video😞)
Thank you for reading this and giving it some thought. 🙏 I trust that if you pray on it, God will also send you in the direction of quieter, more respectful video production.
You're right Tina, we'll work on it and make it less intrusive. Just to give you an example of why promotion is needed sometimes: many viewers don't even realize these videos have English subtitles... if you can believe it...
@@otelders Thank you so very much. 🙏
Thank you!
This is a beautiful message. I wish we could get lengthy and more of these contents.❤
Great Teacher and a wonderful Bishop
The Spirit came to me this year in the biggest way ever in my life (during Lent). I learned through the way the Spirit came: I was on my couch relaxing and holding my new baby daughter, and trying to pray the Jesus Prayer, but I knew it was not real prayer, and I had never had real prayer but rarely, perhaps. But it occurred to me then, I could ask God why, so I asked why and immediately I got an answer within me: I must first ask for prayer, I should never believe I can have prayer through my own effort (humility lesson #1 for me). So when I now asked for prayer, truly believing I could not pray without the Spirit's help, suddenly a measure of peace and joy came and my prayer become somewhat genuine. After this, I realized I could now ask in prayer to have some passions which had been tormenting me my entire life to be removed, but as I prayed, I became aware that God was not answering, so then I asked God "why are you not answering my request to be free of these passions which You've told us are unhealthy for us?" and then the answer came "You do not believe I will or want to help you." When I realized this, my spirit naturally let go of her fear of God's judgement against me and began to ask in confidence for the removal of her spiritual illnesses, and over the coming months since then, their influence over me have been slowly decreasing and being replaced with true faith and trust in God. This is relevant to the archbishop's talk, here, because once the humility which motivates a true trust in God and desire to be obedient because of that trust is present, Perfect Love invades the heart and then it is natural and easy to have joy and to love even in trials, but all we must do is truly believe, truly have faith in God, and not worry about our current circumstances, but trust God will work everything out not just for good, but for the best, even better than before. God is good like this, always bringing even greater good after the tragedy than we could conceive of in the potential before the tragedy.
What an awesome sermon. Thanks!
Thanks SO much for this Beautful Talk!! So much needed! Is this the Whole talk?? If you might upload the Whole talk please? Thanks So much!!
th-cam.com/video/_2rzc7fRfX8/w-d-xo.html
Unfortunately, only in Arabic...
@@otelders Ohhhh..what a pity..would have loved to see the translation of the WHole Talk!! Such an Amazing, truthful and down to earth talk! Just what we need - thanks SO much!!!
Video with English subtitles: facebook.com/otElders/videos/261584985487533
Read the full transcript here: otelders.org/theology-and-spirituality/self-confidence-and-humility-the-publican-and-the-pharisee-lenten-triodion-met-christophoros/
Powerful. Just powerful. Wise words to live by
Glory to God in the Heighest
Amin.. Thank you father.
سكر ربنا يحميك
Thank you Father. God bless .
Amen! I agree with this, lord have mercy I am a sinner!
Greatest WORD! LORD JESUS CHRIST SON of GOD, have mercy on me a sinner.
(People walking in the background while the Pastor is preaching is wrong. They should do all trips to the restrooms before the Message. That's a distraction from the enemy!)
Wow, just realized the name of God being the Christ, is Allah in that language!!
Thus 'Allah' is rather not bounded to the Muslim terminology, but the broader term for God.
I need some time to digest this!!
Yes... it's the same in Arabic for both Christians and Muslism...
What language is this?
Arabic
Amen papa
Your Eminence Christophoros please pray for me.
❤❤❤❤❤☦☦☦
SLAVA TIE DOAMNE AJUTA! iertati.
This guy is amazing
Maybe only through hardship may Christians return to the things that matter.
As a western Christian, it's always strange to hear "Allah" used in a Christian context.
the word Allah is only an arabic word for God, when you speak of a "god", does it necessarily mean you're speaking of the God of the Bible? maybe you're speaking about brahma the hindu god; same for the word "allah", it's not the nickname of a certain god, (in this case, the god of Islam & an illiterate 7th century caravan robber of nastorian origins), but any god you're referring to according to context. so "allah" is a very general noun.
He addresses jordanian christians
@@justinaacuriouswanderer1496 so here the Bishop does not refer to the God of the Muslims? Greetings my friend
@@PAOK-G4-Orcs The word, "Allah", is simply Arabic for the word, "God". Actually Arabian Christians had been using the word for hundreds of years prior to the rise of Islam. In Aramaic, the word is very similar.
@@felixdelgado1893 thanks a lot my friend
والله اني احبك سيدنا وجهك من نور
When families turn against each other, isn't that one of the signs of the end of ends?
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I kindly request you In The Name of Our Lord JESUS CHRIST to translate the videos in Amharic (language in Ethiopia)and othr languages in order to benefit others with The Word of GOD!
GOD may be with us.
Please recommend us someone who could do it...
Wow..beautiful sermon...
A real patristic ☦️
GOD bless all the people and this channel too! ✝️✝️✝️
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An romana
Vedeti aici cum sa activati subtitrarea in limba romana: th-cam.com/video/if7eELuaYtI/w-d-xo.html
wow
is he speaking Arabic? or i misheard this language 😂.
Arabic, he is from Jordan...
@@otelders thanks! God bless you and Christians around the world 🙏🙌🔥✨
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Спасибо.
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bien
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