The Most Dangerous Person in the World

[@stevelenores5637]

When you recognize who the most dangerous person is you are truly Orthodox.

[@TranslatedAssumption]

You can't fix other things until you fix yourself, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand ☦️

[@kingoftheearth2149]

It's already here. The KINGDOM is named Palestine... It's been here .... Now go fight to defend her

[@feeble_stirrings]

It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me.

[@verntweld51]

Thanks, I thought it was me

[@state_of_repentance]

Best comment!

[@somevids4187]

Maybe if man(kind) was supposed to be one, but in many persons, as is God, then we also share that oneness in our broken, fallen state. You are that person, I am also that most dangerous person and so on…

[@Emerald_City_]

:))

[@virginialopezrey6860]

I thank God for enlightening you, for granting you the heart to share the wisdom, and for this channel, so we can aim more rightly.

[@KatAdVictoriam]

Great message, Father! Thank you.

[@KittehNow]

Father, THANK YOU for this beautiful truth❤❤❤

[@A-uz3uj]

Thank you

[@nikoletalappa2518]

Needed this soooo much! Thank you, father! I read St. Gavriilias book. It is wonderful!

[@mariavlahochristos7756]

Thank you Pater ! Blessed OXI day!

[@joylarson9040]

Thank you Father.

[@joyjadin]

I needed this 💕. People have been mean to me online recently and I’ve been struggling with what to do with angry feelings. Thank you Father 💕

[@vasyasuper2010]

thank you. I love your videos; they help to look at my spirituality on a different angle.

[@arsenya.7298]

You are the only person who can get take away your salvation, as long as your soul is pure nothing external can separate you from Paradise! excellent video father❤

[@Metoches]

Amen Father Paul!

[@s.d.berquist6866]

Thank you for this word!

[@thefuzzytongue]

I absolutely need this today, thank you ❤

[@brightstarxiphos3261]

Beautiful words!

[@internet-user22]

Here I was thinking it was Claus Schwab, and all along it was me! Duh!

[@conniesad7]

We need to pray for Claus Schwabs conversion ✝️🙏🙏🙏✝️

[@nobu9462]

God bless you fr.

[@Son_Of_Mort]

thank you brother!

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

I’ve mostly been the opposite my whole life, very hard on myself to the point of self injury through destructive behavior, never forgiving myself… since I met Christ in 1995, He has forgiven me first, and still is every time I fall… I still see myself as a sinner and now I know that any good in me or that I might do is of and from God…

[@specialcombatdefensivetact1784]

Amen, we create our own prisons.

[@SF.B]

Thank you!

[@ირაკლიმაისურაძე-ნ8დ]

God bless orthodoxy amen Jesus ❤

[@IIZCHAOS]

Thankyou Fr I must struggle to do this

[@areianos]

Excellent Pater

[@Talktothehand.253]

As soon as i heard the title i knew it was ME! 🙏🇦🇺

[@georgeruble]

thank you

[@birukhailu7113]

Thank you father

[@antenehgetnet9991]

Very insightful ...

[@SaintChase85]

Hooray! I got it right!

[@richarddeneen5194]

My country is being invaded. What do I do? I need practical advice. Am I permitted to resist?

[@Baklava33]

Yes you are able to resist. The devil is weak

[@CMAC.1483]

Father Josiah of Patristic Nectar did a 3 part lecture titled “War and Peace: an orthodox perspective on violence” which can be found for free on the Patristic Nectar website or application. And in this lecture he also referenced a book on a similar topic titled “On resistance to evil by force” by Ivan Ilyin. I hope this helps you get some answers and may God be with you.

[@firewerk66]

Thank you Father Paul. I'm an ex-Catholic newer convert (Chrismated Greek Orthodox last month) and Ive been struggling with this topic quite a bit. My humble question is this - is there anything in and of this world worth fighting for? Or is every negative, harmful, or abusive act up us as Christians simply there for our salvation and to be accepted?

[@HomoEucharistica]

I don't honestly see how those two would be mutually exclusive options 🤔 We know as a fact that all things work together for good to those who love and fear God (Paul writes that in the Epistle for Romans), and we also know that in spite of all its falleness the world in itself is still good in its core (otherwise it would've ceased to exist because evil has no substance of its own)

[@thebookcompanion7324]

Amen.

[@ირაკლიმაისურაძე-ნ8დ]

❤

[@elenalele]

I would love to accept people being mean to me with gladness but i am afraid i am not that holy. How does one reach a point where they rejoice in this type of affliction? How does one even try to reach towards such thing?

[@williamphillips3330]

I was thinking yesterday abt a story that is in the Prologue of Ohrid: A monk went to his elder, a saint whose name I can't remember at the moment, with a concern about his resentments against the words of others. The elder told him to go to the graveyard and praise the dead. He did. Returned to the elder . The elder told him to go back and curse them. So he did.. Then returned to his elder. Did the dead respond to you when you praised them?? No. Did they respond to you when you cursed them?? No. Then be like the dead, said the elder. [I am using my husband's phone so the name you see isn't mine. ]

[@elenalele]

@@williamphillips3330 thank you! I have actually heard this before. I’m still baffled with how this is done. Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner.

[@williamphillips3330]

​@@elenalele that's a good start. I know your priest will tell you more. The prayer does help me. Has helped me, I believe, but I almost dare not say that, as weak as I am. BTW, I am using my husband's phone so the name you see isn't mine. I am Linda.

[@elenalele]

@@williamphillips3330 God bless you Linda. Thank you for taking the time to answer me. Remember me in your prayers!

[@bearchrist2513]

im the most DANGEROUS. thank GOD

[@xnihilo64]

Thought it was gonna be about my wife 😜

[@VytaiJohnBrannan-wl9vp]

Well and good when things in life are moving along swimmingly. But when religio-theory and pontification gives way to real pain that’s when you find out what you really believe.

[@TranslatedAssumption]

Audio of treatise referenced: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIOWe4Cfi8R7gc0feature=shared

[@Terri7665]

Many Thanks!! I was just trying to locate it

[@docbroom2593]

uh huh, we need to die to self to truly live.

[@Brandon-S-Federico]

Honestly really hard being an American and following Christ through the Orthodox Church. There’s been many pitfalls in my path to following Christ.

[@Emerald_City_]

Yes, there’s not much fresh air in the smoking volcanic crater… yet it is essentially not different from the other worldly desert regions. And not difficult to be orthodox, as our Teacher and His teaching stand so high and recognizable. Keep up your spirit and rejoice!

[@dystopian-future]

What about in the case of being raped? How can we think that should 'benefit us', as well as all the trauma, the PTSD that goes along with it?

[@kassianistevens]

Research St Olga of Alaska. She specifically helps people with this.

[@sotiriapapadopoulou8945]

I guess it's a matter of priorities. Firstly, you try to heal the trauma and love yourself again-inside the Church, with the help of God, but also a good professional if you can afford it. And then you call yourself "the most dangerous person in the world", and the rest.

[@gezalesko3813]

my click is baited :)

[@godlysouffrant7056]

Father can you make a video on racism because I need to know what orthodox teaches on this matter because their seems to be a lot of it even towards saints such as Moses the black God bless ❤️

[@williamphillips3330]

I haven't heard or read one word against St. Moses the Black. Everyone I have ever read or seen or spoken to absolutely loves him.. One man in my parish even took his name.. I am using my husband's phone so the name you see isn't mine.

[@godlysouffrant7056]

@@williamphillips3330 no I’ve seen someone literally say “animals can’t be saints” and other things such as saying this church is for whites and this church is for blacks and even I have seen plenty of orthodox people that are nazis or want to be nazis.

[@richarddeneen5194]

White people are denied jobs, college, healthcare because of their race. Please spare a thought for them.

[@emineleata7750]

Eu isami

[@Geo_not_Neo5381]

MY FATHER SAID TO ME SON IN THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT SHIFT I PROTECT YOU BUT SOON SON YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PROTECT YOURSELF. ONLY GOD GIVES THE KING TO BE LOVED AND FEARED ITS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE KING TO DO IT ON ITS OWN.