@@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.
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.
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
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 🥰
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 ❤
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.
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.”
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.
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!
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. ☦️
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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. th-cam.com/video/5mEMG4tkQf0/w-d-xo.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?
Christ answer that question in the Bible! ....we know the answer! "After Jesus sat down and told the twelve disciples to gather around him, he said, “If you want the place of honor, you must become a slave and serve others!”
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.
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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)
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.
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.
Thank you Father Josiah for this pocket of wisdom, If possible, please pray for those who suffered in the path of Hurricane Milton.
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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
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 🥰
This is perfect timing for me Father God bless you!
Praise God!
“The way to become great is to be voluntarily small…” amen!
Thank you very much
Putting God first, yes!
❤✝️ ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ ✝🕊️
БОГ С НАМИ ПРОТИВ ЗЛА И ИСКУШЕНИЙ ✝🙏⛪🤗🦾
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 ❤
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.
We should be great for The Lords kingdom. Like 1peter 4:10 says
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.”
What a great teaching. I get so much out of these videos.
Absolutely based title picture
What an honor to be great in the kingdom of God! God help us be great Amen
Thanks to you and fr paul I'll be joining holy orthodoxy and humbling my before the lord
Lol "I confessed this morning" ngl its this type of humsility I can get behind
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.
Wow! Thanks Father, this was an edifying word.
Has me thinking differently. May God strengthen you to fulfill your ministry
MAKE PEOPLE GREAT AGAIN
Thank you for this Father, very edifying
Only God is great. That being said you should always compete with yourself to be greater servant of God.
I knew St John was known for his homilies but wow that was something else. Thanks for sharing father!
I’d rather be a good man than a great man.
"Be sure of this, o young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease." - Herman Melville
Great word Father. Thank you!
Thank you
God bless
wonderful!
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!
Amen.
God bless you all what a great title Fr.
☦️🙏🏾 Great Message
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. ☦️
Absolutely
St. Paul was checking for "power," ignoring the "puffed up," in 1 Corinthians. It takes power to get to the Kingdom
Wow. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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.
Depends. We have Constantine the Great, Theodosius the Great, and Justinian the Great
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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.
Me too
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.
The more I learn of christian morality, the more Nietzsche calling it "slave morality" makes sense
“He who goes low goes sure”
+Saint Paisios the Athonite+
But what exactly IS greatness in God's eyes?
My name is Magnus so I can’t not be great
unless you take a Christian name
the implications are deep if you think about it
@@NFS0038it’s a joke look at what Magnus means in Latin
A very bad joke but one at that
People are not going to tell you how to be great. They will, however, recognize how to be great.
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
What do you mean by being even servant
#geopolitics would be even greater :)
When looking up PNP is gave me portable North Pole.
It looks like fr. Josiah doesn't read comments here on his videos
Mother Teresa said that we can do no great things, Only small things with great love
It depends on what you mean by “great”
If you mean domineering humanity, no
Sola scripture Soli deo Gloria
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.
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
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.
th-cam.com/video/5mEMG4tkQf0/w-d-xo.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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Christ answer that question in the Bible!
....we know the answer!
"After Jesus sat down and told the twelve disciples to gather around him, he said, “If you want the place of honor, you must become a slave and serve others!”
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.
Amen