Smash Your Idols: Worshipping the True Christ - With Fr. Turbo Qualls

[@OrthodoxEthos]

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[@LeontiusInvictus]

Every once in awhile, Father Turbo will say something simple, and clear, which totally catches me off guard or forces me to reflect. He did that like five times in this one. Incredible stuff. Thank you both!

[@OrthodoxEthos]

WE APOLOGIZE for the glitchy screen for Fr. Peter! That has been fixed.

[@ceedub_1983]

The prayers of the saints and the Theotokos are amazingly powerful. My marriage was falling apart, my relationship with my 3 children was awful, my problems with alcoholism, drugs, cigarettes were making me a slave, my oppression from the devils was making me insane etc. And I called on the intercession of the Holy Saints and Theotokos and their prayers were heard! Thank God for His Body aka the Orthodox Church! Thank God for His Son who is its Head! I’m so thankful for His Grace, Mercy, and Forgiveness. Pray for me brothers and sisters! I’m 40 years old and my life is just beginning. Will it be easy? No. Will it be right? Yes. ☦️ Thank you fathers for all your work. Keep it going ✊🏻

[@acekoala457]

Thank you Father. I encounter many people "Raised by Nones" seeking Christ and not having any point of reference. And I try and live out Christ for them. As St. Patrick of Ireland says, "Christ in every eye that sees me". I try to live that out. St. Patrick of Ireland, by thy Prayers enlighten this land as you enlightened the Irish Lands and pray unto God for our souls.

[@EpirotKing_GeorgeK]

Fr.Turbo sounds very articulate, intelligent, and educated to me...yet he is very humble. All glory to Christ our Lord!

[@savvasbournelis8401]

NO PAIN NO GAIN! AMEN!☦️🙏❤️

[@OrthodoxEthos]

I.M. Shirley Rough: There is One Lord, one Baptism, one Faith, right? And therefore One Church. It cannot be that BOTH the Orthodox Church and Catholicism are TRUE and THE Church, right?

[@jacob6088]

28:36 “If you can’t learn to find God in stillness, if you can’t learn to find God in what eventually becomes known and familiar to you, you aren’t ever going to find God” Fr Turbo

[@L0wen]

I believe Im still stuck in that slave/soldier section as i prepare to start my catechism.....I think that beautiful son type love is showing its head at times, more and more often, I hope so because as father said "He who has been forgiven much, loves much" and I have been forgiven some truly stomach turning and henious sins 🙏🏻❤️

[@GuitarTunings33]

Turbo! What a great name.

[@kaylakincannon3458]

Thank you Fathers. This has been my beginning experience through my catechism. I realize that this is only the beginning of repentance and God revealing the darkness hiding within my soul. It is a long road with many tears. God willing, our family will be baptized in two weeks. But this is just the starting line of the race. Fathers bless!

[@Rubberglass]

Only Christ can fully satisfy.

[@soundsnags2001]

Fr Turbo is a true treasure.

[@TechnoirGraphix]

Very edifying stream. God be with you all! 👑☦️🕊️

[@DominanteMegaLit]

Excuse me, dear brothers and sisters! Greetings and Salutations! I'm a new subscriber to the channel from Orthodox Bulgaria, and while I was listening to the waterfall of an exchange of the aspects, I was thinking about our King Tzar and Savior! Then I heard "Pain-Killers". Then I remembered when Iisus Xristos of Nazareth came to my Baptizing, as a newborn, as THE Pain-Killer. What IS THERE TO SEARCH FOR?! JESUS IS RIGHT HERE! To all Brothers and Sisters - ALLELUIA! To Father Heers - Blessings! To Father Turbo - Blessings! To The Blessed Community - Blessings! I am writing this message in the day of our Father Saint Paisios of The Holy Forest Aton 07/12/24! I kissed a piece of his cloth today in our Church Saint Demetrios Great Holy Martyr and The Great 40 Holy Martyrs, Bulgaria, Sofia, Pancharevo, and I realized, we indeed are Blessed beyond measure! WE CHRISTIANS ARE HEALTHY AND IN ACCORD! В Името на Отца, Сина и Светия Дух, ЕДИН БОГ, АМИН! ☝🙏🙏🙏 Съ Нами Богъ, Съ Нами Сила Вовеки! Амин!

[@jeanniekaramigios3838]

Amen. Thank you Fathers🙏☦️❤️

[@betsyvines8904]

Fathers, your symbiosis was outstanding! At times i couldn't even discern who was speaking! Bless you both!

[@ICXCNIKA8]

Great stream! Fr.Peter and Fr.Turbo Bless !!! 🙏🏼 ☦️ 🇷🇸

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

_"Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed simply falls away."_ In other words, to "smash an idol" is to first GIVE IT reality -- a reality it does not ACTUALLY have! _"What is an idol? Think you know? For idols never appear as such."_ Peace be with you from Peace, Love from Love, Grace from Grace, Faith from Faith, Life from Holy Life.

[@st.mariaofegypt5390]

Wow 🤩! Thank you both so much for this Live Giving Truth! “Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.” John 14:6

[@patrickgoff6512]

This is a very important discussion. Thank God

[@jaimelago5729]

We need Orthodox Church in Spain 🇪🇸🙏🏼

[@stavrouladeessegloria]

May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ The seriousness to provide a continuous strong catechism and proper initiation to the Mysterions are the true manifestations of the salvific Synergia in the Church founded by Christ. May the Lord help us all.

[@NoOneInParticular94]

Excellent conversation! Can't wait for the next one with these two fathers!

[@d0g_0f_Christ0s]

I started the journey from Protestantism 4 years ago, started attending a GOC 13months ago, the Holy Fire critiques really threw me for a six, I stopped attending for a month, now I'm trapped in a vicious meth cycle except this last week. I've attained Influenza which has been more blessing than curse. I have no where else to go but Christ, I don't want the Christ I made with Protestant straw but the stench of filth that pours out my flesh is not fitting for the dung heap. I turned to the Orthodox way knowing that I would find the real Christ Jesus, then I turned my back, has the plough left me behind or can I still run after it? The Holy Spirit knows me, He sees if I fall or rise, I don't want to insult the Lord if I'm just going to insult the Lord. I want to bring Him glory but I always/have fail/ed Him. Do I pursue anyway? I hope but it's dim.

[@Phocas77]

Forgive me. Most of us are constantly falling away and then turning back to Christ, Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us

[@OrthodoxEthos]

Run immediately to Christ and never look back; if you fall, get up again and run back. HE is the ONE Who said: forgive 70 x 7... He is Truth and His Word is True.

[@icxcnika9399]

There was a monk in the Egyptian desert that had great difficulty in following Christ to the degree he had desired, to continue his path with hope, he started every day new.

[@johntsirakidis9544]

I'm Greek Orthodox, Born in Athens,Greece, raised in Queens- New York, Now living in Georgia- USA. I Have sinned for years, when I was young and Stupider, Now that I'm older and wiser, I understand the Holy Bible more clearer and now comprehend what my earthly father tried to teach me.. My Father passed 7 years ago,, I wasn't able to go pay my respects to date.. We All fall short of the Glory of God. The Only Man whom Never sinned is Jesus. The reason Jesus died on the cross, he knew we would fail, And he did his Father's will. Obedience, and Love for Your Neighbors is not hard to do. Its a process. Love God like you Love your brothers and sisters. The least we can do is Glorify God/Jesus, and All the Saints and The Holy Theotokos, Jesus's Mom. Let your best addiction be Jesus. God Bless and I will Pray for You. AMHN ❤❤❤

[@johntsirakidis9544]

The Holy Bible says; those who save their lives will surely loose it, Yet those Who loose their lives in my namesake will be saved. You can't be a Coward. (Let me give you another example), i.e.: I would Rather be judged by the World and Stand with God, Rather than stand with The World, and be Condemned by GOD. AMHN.

[@rusty159753]

Excellent interview. Thank you.

[@dalewhite5152]

Father Turbo is way spot on!.a TRUTH TELLER

[@undertamssubjective]

In spirituality it's call the dark night of the soul In Christianity is call the valley's of the shadow's of deaths. How wonderful to know the Love & Forgiveness of oneself through CHRIST...💖

[@nbinghi]

Looking forward to this conversation! 🙏☦️

[@eliasandrinopoulos8746]

Thank you so much, gentlemen! ☦️🙏🏻

[@DisgruntledDocs]

Great amazing podcast.

[@adambenedict6155]

Excellent Discussion, Frs. Peter & Turbo. Thank you. ☦️

[@lisatsakopoulos4885]

Wonderful Conversation ✝️

[@michaelbarber5633]

Hit like soon as I saw the names

[@yourneighbour3309]

wonderful video thank you.

[@mariavlahochristos7756]

Amen

[@y-complex2379]

praise be to god amen.

[@HudsonFamily7]

Seeing myself, the most fearful thing I've done ever. First thing I remember realizing once I got started in the Holy Orthodox Church was I am a babe in Christ. I thought I was an adult or at least a teenager. Haha ego destroyed daily. Glory to God. 😊❤🎉

[@roberthambly9926]

I agree with Fr. Qualls, Close to a Godless generation.

[@meangreenmememachine2890]

pain & gain ✋🏻☦

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

A father who punishes a child for disobedience or poor conduct does not hate his child, but loves him. Wanting his child to do well and grow into an upright productive citizen, the punishment serves to help direct the child to the better path.

[@DKjellby]

This will be interesting! ☦

[@rileyp1419]

The intro song is Makarismi- by the choir of vatopedi fathers

[@leoandolino4668]

Wow.

[@THEOOBRASTOFF]

Franky Beverly and Maze: Joy & Pain, it's like sunshine and rain. Both are necessary. ;-)

[@Brody-Aleksander]

❤

[@metrab8901]

This very topical, truth cuts through the empty ways of the world and begins to treat and cure the nihilistic wound filled with ineffective pharmaceuticals of political or intellectual beliefs.

[@Di-Pi]

🎯 “They trust in their own idea of Who Jesus is.” That’s what I got from Protestantism.

[@moldyapple1789]

👑👑

[@Mishakol1290]

For me, exorcisms are paramount because I have been experiencing bad symptoms of demons infesting my body/soul. By praying in the name of Jesus Christ, the demons power is reduced a lot. In fact I have a audiobook by St Ignatius about this. On my KZbin channel. They fear this more than anything. In the Talmud, it is forbidden to use the name of God to raise the dead. That's how much the non-Messianic Jews feared this practice. Since it has effectual abilities. Some of the Fathers said that the vision of God can destroy demons. It is definitely a two-edged weapon. I think its the secret which the world does not understand or want you to know about. It reveals demons, and drives them out. Protestants are keen on this, this calling on Jesus. Its strange. It could have to do with the reptilian part of our brain/selves. I'm just gonna leave it at that. Stay safe and sane.

[@CenterPorchNP]

I was evangelica and became Roman Catholic over 20 years ago. After reading scripture, the father's, saints, I have issues with some of the main precepts like: the change to the nicean creed, infallibility, papal authority vs Bishop of Rome, the immaculate conception, etc.

[@LadyMaria]

You and me both!

[@bethsp9066]

So, throughout the years I’ve been gifted little Angel figurines and those of Mary & Jesus as well. I don’t worship those and I acknowledge their essence isn’t in the figurines. Are having these items a sin? I also have different decorated crosses on my wall.

[@LadyMaria]

Just a laywoman reiterating what I've been told and learned. No, they are art (although we have crosses that are not mere art, of course). We have icons but we do not worship them, though we venerate (give honor to) the person written on the wood in ink, to venerate the image of God within them. They are our beloved family in Christ.

[@nivchek]

This was an enjoyable and challenging conversation. But sometimes very discouraging. I don’t think people quite realize just what heavy burdens people carry. Or how much of their failures are simply weakness and true limits of strength. Also, since when is a beer and a football game prohibited to an Otthodox Christian? That really caught me off guard, though I’m personally interested in neither.

[@OrthodoxEthos]

What minute in the discussion was that said?

[@nicodemuseam]

​@@OrthodoxEthos 32:08 Approximately there.

[@nicodemuseam]

I think the point of what was being said is an attitude of lacking zeal. "I've done enough;" Let me rest. Not that football or a beer is, by itself, sin.

[@pah9730]

@@nicodemuseamSorry we never responded earlier! What does the LORD say?: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This means that step by step we struggle, persevere, grow…. “…till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness This laxity of forgetting about God for a few hours here and there to be entertained - is it a fulfillment of the Lord’s words and does it further us on to the fullness of Christ? OF COURSE, all things in moderation, as the ancients said… that is, all ascetic struggles according to our present capacity… and there are times when we stop and take a breathe - absolutely. BUT… over time the aim is for that capacity to expand, step by step, until Christ is all in all.

[@patrickbarnes9874]

The "incarnational aspect" of the saints? What does that mean? Is that meaning an emphasis on the saints as real living people as opposed to characters in stories?

[@petergunn9149]

☦️☦️☦️☦️

[@user-ht3xe5kp7o]

What's the name of the chant that plays in the intro the video?

[@ortho-g9826]

The world today is one great mission land, even in countries of long standing Christian tradition. It is not enough to know Christ. We must bring Him to others. Pope John Paul II

[@cri838]

Why the church doesn’t listen to the Church?

[@pah9730]

Sorry??

[@paulhagen1002]

shots being fired at pageau

[@coldjello8436]

Algorithm boost.

[@kamilfrompoland7]

Is the magisterium of the Orthodox Church infallible?

[@LadyMaria]

We don't have a magisterium the way the Roman catholic institution does. We have the consensus of the Saints and Ecumenical Councils which is far superior to the RCC's magisterium (ordinary or extraordinary). After all they would not have had Vatican II at the very least if they had the consensus of the Saints (pre-schism for them) and Ecumenical Councils. The Great Schism of the Roman church would not have happened either had they stuck to those things.

[@kamilfrompoland7]

@@LadyMaria Do the bishops of the Orthodox Church have an infallible interpretation of the Bible?

[@OrthodoxEthos]

@@kamilfrompoland7 The Holy Spirit is the infallible Voice of the Body of Christ which is heard in council, such as that in Acts, in Jerusalem, where the apostles said "it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us."

[@kamilfrompoland7]

@@OrthodoxEthos I know that the Bible is infallible and that the Holy Spirit is infallible and was listened to by the apostles. The question is: could the bishops stray from the path of a good understanding of the Bible like the priests in Malachi's day?

[@levitatingpotato109]

​@@kamilfrompoland7yes obviously, there have been multiple heretical bishops/patriarchs, but thanks to the church's decentralized hierarchical structure, it's impossible for it to be consumed by heresy like the latin church has.

[@sonyaanzivino8524]

More than not, people have been neglected by their dads. Their earthly fathers. They have no authentic example to understand a loving authority. One with boundaries and love in correction, in discipline. Christ is the ultimate Loving authority right? People live in father poverty. How can one understand discipline with love if they haven't experienced Christ through their parents or caregivers? We somehow have to give an authentic example for learning and understanding of Christ as our Father to even being to know Christ. This is the apostleship or discipleship that is necessary: we first live Christ so Christ can be seen by others in an authentic way. Forgive me for my word stew:) I just really love Christ and everyone deserves to know Him

[@Alex-jesus4life]

Is a jesus statue also a idol? What about iconography in orthodoxy ?

[@TheByzAmericanWizard]

None of those are idols. However Orthodoxy doesn't typically use statues in Worship. The 7th Ecumenical Council speaks on this.

[@seraphim3r]

statues in Orthodoxy are forbidden

[@shaunmulligan8717]

@@seraphim3r Which teaching states statues are forbidden?

[@Gorthaur-Bauglir]

​@@shaunmulligan8717it's in the ten commandments "You shall not make for yourself any carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven or above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."

[@shaunmulligan8717]

@@Gorthaur-Bauglir “And Moses made a serpent of brass ...” (Numbers 21:9)

[@MatthewJames-c5q]

Idols worshipping is devil act

[@americaneclectic]

The comment feature becomes a cacophony of triumphalism, cries for help, smugness, cries for attention, some wisdom. I feel that I would rather have quietness and reflection on my own. I would suggest turning off comments.

[@OrthodoxEthos]

You can shut it off on your screen.

[@CerebralThinking]

@americaneclectic... Think about this, my friend. You are engaged with a "sharing" platform" yet your preference is to shut down other voices. Is the "cacophony....[its] cries for help [and] some wisdom not an integral part of humanity, and our Christian heritage. I'd suggest that the "cries for help", specifically, are a symptom of this beast system throttling these very voices that attempt to express the inexpressible in a world gone mad; the nature of modern existence -- a gauntlet of social, political, health and religious crises that we are being compelled to negotiate. This always triggers a chorus of competing cries for help. That said, it does feel like a torturous passage of events, truly trial and tribulation. I am not a social platform sharer by nature, and do not air my own personal "agonies", but we all have them. Therefore, I now view these "cries for help", to use such an example, as a predictable, and necessary channel for those who have no obvious outlet to communicate their acute pain, and at times, sheer desperation. If the powers and principalities of the "evil one" can use modern media to their advantage against the human race, then we should counter-balance this in order to help and support each other. This is the unavoidable position I have come to. We simply must come together in Christ and connect via social and spiritual networks in order to insulate us from what has now become, the daily attacks on God, and his children. The beast system is now moving into its final stages: "mandatory innoculations", "digital identity numbers" (the mark of the beast), the coming "social credit" system (already trialed in China for over three years) which no person will be able to "buy or sell" if their credit score (social behaviour) is not approved by the "technocrats" (the little Eichmann's) overseeing this current tyranny. Essentially, those sociopaths are now setting up a siege system to compel the behaviour of mass conformity -- and, most significantly, the abandonment of Christ. We see the unadulterated image of this apostasy in the Vatican itself, and in the actions of a Pope who, according to an obvious globalist ideology (and Godless vision of our future) is single handedly taking a wrecking ball to the very foundations of the catholic church, and the image of God, Himself.

[@Eyesofmars2040]

I was baptized as a baby into the Greek Orthodox Church. I didn’t learn really anything beyond tradition, until I went to a non denominational church. I appreciate the conversation, but I don’t like how you put down the Protestants. You both have logs in your eyes.

[@OrthodoxEthos]

We do not put down "Protestants" but ProtestantISM... There is a BIG difference. Love the sinner -- for we are such -- but hate the sin -- for we love the sinners!

[@CunningOfReason]

Repent

[@LadyMaria]

The Orthodox Church has everything we need. I learned zip, nadda, nothing in Protestantism about the Bible nor anything else. Holy Orthodoxy has taught me everything.

[@Eyesofmars2040]

@@OrthodoxEthos you just did in this video. So you think all Protestants are unsaved and going to hell?

[@Eyesofmars2040]

@@CunningOfReason you too

[@christheodorou3646]

Could anybody tell me the name of the opening chant ? God bless.

[@Stophatingalready]

Intro song????