The Devil Has Millenia of Experience on How to Bring Us Down (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)

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The Devil Has Millenia of Experience on How to Bring Us Down (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)
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[@RaymondFelixFrancis]

The power of Christ renders the devil impotent and powerless, unless he is granted permission to act...fear what Christ can do, not what the devil thinks he can do...🙏☦️♥️

[@katkat2340]

Thanks be to God - 😇😇😇💙🙏🏽

[@NothosXXI]

Amazing! Thank you Father for your counsel. God bless you!

[@tracyallen2738]

We love you Abouna, you are a light in the darkness. God keep you for His Kingdom always, Amen.🕊🕊🕊

[@fasted8468]

The devils strategy is very simple. Appeal to emotion. Like children crying out in a marketplace

[@907pikealaska5]

Im fighting servere depression I feel so broken inside please pray for me, and thank you for all your videos is a great help to me

[@matthewhebbert9712]

You don't have to, nor should you, battle through life by yourself, nor work out your salvation alone. There is a saying, "the only thing we can do alone is go to Hell." You're not alone. ---------- "Without the safety, without the shield of the Tradition of the Church, we shall be defeated sooner or later."

[@PaulDebardlabon-nv8bh]

Amen my beloved brother I'm going to follow Christ yeshua so much that no matter what the last days tribulation bring I will enjoy it even tell our Lord dear God yeshua comes back for us and we as true follower's of God will rain this world and kingdoms with our Lord dear God yeshua whom we serve Amen 😇🙏⛪❤️🇮🇱🌎🇺🇲🕎✝️🫒🕊️🧬

[@andrewwhite6264]

Lord make me an instrument of your peace

[@Rosiedelaroux]

What great news.

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

Lord have mercy on us! ❤❤❤

[@evangelopetropoulos4317]

Excellent job dear father !🙏

[@TheAbundanceVibration]

Lovee these videos!

[@johna3322]

Great video. Plain and simple. Alone we are nothing but defeated. But together as the body of Christ, we are victorious is Jesus. Learn from those who have already fought the good fight. Amen

[@CA_Watchman]

The malignancy of princes of the power of the air has been palpable the last two years.

[@fasted8468]

This is one of the worst things about only living to 100. Back in the day when people lived to 900 thy could learn. We just don't have enough time to catch on

[@JohnnyMUTube]

It's true, but as Fr. said, we have the saints experience, hundreds of years of wisdom to help guide us. Lord have mercy ☦️

[@dwrod24]

I really appreciate these videos, thank you for not keeping these thoughts to yourself.

[@iliesculiliana5846]

words of much appreciation.BE BLESSED.PRAISE THE LORD

[@jeffreyfernandez2037]

That's great logic

[@user-bd8ts1qd1p]

Thank you, father. Greetings from Serbia

[@mariamehaddad]

Thanks to God for you and this teaching Father Seraphim. Christ is Risen!

[@dga2135]

Even when One, Even when Done...there is The Manifestation that MUST BE COMPLETED. These Blessed Brothers and Sisters and True Friends in Christ Jesus pray constantly, pouring THEIR hearts out as One Voice COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS CHRIST. O HEAVENLY FATHER THAT YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN... NEVERTHELESS IN THE PERFECT TIME SET BY YOU THROUGH YOUR MOST HOLY SON BY THE POWER OF YOUR MOST HOLY SPIRIT, ONE GOD ETERNALLY IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH CRUCIFIED ON THE HOLY CROSS AND RESURRECTED ON THE THIRD DAY. AMEN.

[@tomalexiou9573]

Thank you for the Great words of TRUTH.

[@donhaddix3770]

God has an eternity of truth to protect us.

[@zacharybraganza3747]

Amen

[@roccocarlino067]

The story of Adam & Eve is metaphorical to illiterate how the vices are born through the consciousness of the body, the illusion of the self, and how sin is the expression or the consequence of that illusion. It's a story how Body Consciousness (the fall) defeats Soul Consciousness (virtues). The first vice is Ego (false knowledge) This is the false recognition of humans as male and female as oppose to a “Soul” who we truly are. This was the first mistake humans made, so we became body conscious (sinful) and all other vices took birth from that first vice of Ego. The cause of evil and sin begun with the advent of the five dominate vices that entered the soul. Ego, Lust, Attachment, Anger and Greed. Over the ages, religious teachings have depicted these vices as the devil, satan, fallen angels, a serpent, ravan with ten heads, demons and so on. However in reality they are the vices which dwell within the soul. So think of it as a battle between the souls virtues vs vices which have come to overthrow our inner kingdom!

[@mr.google2680]

Philosopher, simple monk.

[@PqV72MT4]

I trust my intuition. Not a community a church or group of people. Trusting my church and congregation was one of the biggest mistakes l have made in my life. Trusting yourself is not a sin.

[@denischetyrin6980]

Of course, but when it comes to obeying God, without the wisdom of the Church, it is not going to be easy, and without obedience to His Word, we won't see eternal life. We should humble ourselves and listen to the saints.

[@katrintchernev33]

Trusting the Church might mean many different things for different people and you have to find out what this father means. Trusting the Church is trusting Christ for He is the head of the Church

[@bonniegettingthrumyday2866]

He has no power over us at all. Read your Bible!

[@greymatter-TRTH]

10:19 "Our feelings are made of nothing..." Well, if our feelings are made of nothing, then everything goes out of the window. Why should I love my neighbor, then? Our emotional instability does NOT invalidate our emotions. Because Adam didn't listen to God, he got to know the difference between good and bad and became INDEPENDENT. That means the bubble of protection he lived before burst and he became “independent”. He wanted to be in control of himself, so he got to be in control of himself. Being in control of himself means also having to fight with the devil by himself, not being protected and not having to care about nothing. When the man became independent, he split himself from God. Before that, God decided everything for Adam, and he didn't need to worry about anything. Every responsibility was in God's Almighty hands, and that was perfect. Our problem now is that we have to practically become one with God, so to say, in order to be in Heaven with God. Once we do that, we're reinstated into that position where our will is God's will. For that to happen, we need prayer non-stop, until the very last moment of our life. Love is a cure. I watched one of your videos and liked it a lot. Forgive me if I said something wrong in this comment. Christ is Risen!

[@denischetyrin6980]

Listen, when it comes to obeying God's commandments, such as honoring our parents, giving when someone asks, sharing the Christian testimony, going to church, praying, reading the bible to renew our mind or for example forgiving, a lot of times your feelings will not be in harmony with the actions that God commands. So yes, feelings are just a bunch of distractions and noise in our obedience to God.

[@Jason-hw5qt]

I don’t even know what to say. Your salvation is with Jesus Christ! You walk is with Jesus Christ! You flesh and spirit needs to be in Jesus Christ! Nothing in the world or church can replace that. Please start walking with and listening to Jesus Christ. Find the truth. The only safety is in Jesus Christ!

[@billybobwombat2231]

The aboriginal folks of Australia did extremely well without following the christian god for 65,000 years, people can and do just fine without your god.

[@MaximusWolfe]

No, they cannot.

[@billybobwombat2231]

@MaximusWolfe well they did up till 150 years ago 🤣🤣, that's 64850 years, hell of a long time 🤣, just like I'm doing fine without him for 40 odd years

[@denischetyrin6980]

@@billybobwombat2231 The sad moment will be when you realize that your soul is going down and not up, but repenting at that moment will not work, we have to repent now

[@MaximusWolfe]

@@billybobwombat2231 You are assuming a great deal. You are equating existence and protraction with accomplishment, ascension and attaining to a desired end. Your narrowly construed definition of doing “extremely well” is a false one. Men were created for more than mere subsistence and continuity. Men were created in the image of God for the purpose of theosis (union with God to the point of becoming indistinguishable from Him). To fall short of that both individually and collectively is a profound tragedy, whether you like it or not. Being able to go on until the last feeble dint of your internal organs is nothing but biological temporalism. It is not the way in which the profound purpose (humans as instruments of God and microcosms of the universe itself) is cultivated and unfolded. Christ spoke of this many times. He was clear that life’s most precious and important possibilities lie in the ability to transcend and transfigure mere biological existence through the attainment of or participation in Gods energies. Australian aborigines were created for that purpose alone and to fall short of its realization is to develop only to the point of meaninglessness. "Only that which is religious and thus, Christian can with the assistance of eternity press the profundity of men through to its ultimate conclusion: the reverent, unworldly true, the only eternally momentous quality in men. And therefore that which is religious, may it be said to its glorification, is also the true humanity." Soren Kierkegaard - Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing

[@billybobwombat2231]

@denischetyrin6980 if a spiritual path needs fear to keep people on that path then to me it's a false path tells me it's evil, I'm cool with spending my afterlife with folks that peopled the 1000s of spiritual paths that your religion has destroyed