True Christians Have No Enemies (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)

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True Christians Have No Enemies (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)
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[@janrenegar503]

This is beautiful

[@AncientFaithMinistries]

Agreed.

[@Jeremy-bi5gl]

Thank you ! God bless you . God bless you all 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

[@Klaxonsmith]

As always, beautiful message

[@jonathanpearce8854]

Thank you Father, I found this very instructive, and don't worry about structure, speaking from your heart was beautiful. I am working through your videos, and pray for you and your monasteries for many years

[@starstrike81]

Father, we all needed to hear this. Thank you.

[@Cody8211Cody]

God bless you, Father. Thank you for uploading.

[@tonyhayes9827]

Thankyou Father We can experience the truth of all you said in our own lives. I was in a dark place once, trying to be pleasing to others and the world and failing. Then God’s grace gave me insight into who I really am and what my true identity is, as a beloved child of God. I saw that my life is actually the life of God in me. God himself is my life, creating me every moment of my existence. My darkness of having to be `I am who I am’ (i.e. being my own God) was dispelled by the light of no longer living in myself but God living in me. It is no longer who lives but Christ who lives in me, Paul said. I looked around and all people in the street and all creation shone with the same light of the same life of God in them and giving them their life as well. And because I loved my life not for my own sake but for the sake of the life of God that is in me, so therefore, I loved my neighbour’s life for that very same life of God that was in them. Hell is other people as Jean Paul Satre once said. But now I knew how to love my neighbour and why the first commandment is to love God. Love God first and when you see your `lover’ in other people you will love their life for the same reason you now love your own. There’s so much more to add based on my own life experiences that we all have but now is not the time of course. But the theory of why we love our neighbour can be experienced as a reality in our own life based on those experiences and then we `get it,’ and we have an `aha’ moment even if we can’t quite put it into words as I have undoubtedly failed to do here. Does it mean I love my neighbour now even if they are my enemy. No way! I am far from perfect but I understand the reason and I know I fail it. I know now my failure to love my enemy is a real failure, not just some kind of esoteric wishful thinking and therefore I’m still working on it, because it’s worth it. Sometimes I think God shows us His truth in some small way and leaves us to wrestle with it. The value is knowing that this is a good wrestle or as St. Paul said, I have fought the good fight.

[@traviswilson36]

Did you read your Bible today? No? Why are you on KZbin then?

[@katherine3486]

@@traviswilson36 the words on paper are nothing if they're not written in our hearts. He is a fellow struggler, and the fruit of God is being grown in him also. Phronema is the transmission of The Way. May we acquire ...

[@ThunderbirdRocket]

I liked this big-time !

[@meropivannooten5240]

From his pure heart....what else can we ask for....thank you Father please pray for us all 🙏

[@gabbyeeee]

This is so deep. I want to love and forgive my dad but I struggle so badly. I am so often reminded of the hurtful words and actions he made against me, my mom, my sister and other family. It still all hurts and I often want justification and compensation from all of these years I've gone without the presence of a father, but that all together is extremely self seeking and spiritually sick. I've cried because of how much I wish I knew my dad without his many falls, and how much I wish I could love my dad despite his falls. It's just so hard. But I want to do it for Christ and for Christ I will do what's hard through His love and mercy for me and human kind. God bless you, father Seraphim, your monastery and your island

[@katherine3486]

Dear Gabriella .. he may be your Dad but he's not your FATHER. That place is already taken ... The man from whom your body came is a broken male and deserves your prayers, indeed, NEEDS them ... and your love. Ask HIM to give you what you need to be your Dad's salvation. Everyone we meet is helping to bring us to God. If Christ is Our Life ... we are permitted to call on Him and His Mother to help them, AND US, to complete His work in us!

[@katherine3486]

Do you know what childhood/life he had? Maybe you could have that conversation! He's asserting attacks to try and "protect" something inside ... Beware of poking the hornets nest ... God will protect you, but also be aware that you will know him in ways that may also damage you and your perceptions ... If it's meant to be, God will give you both the opportunity to speak from your broken hearts ...

[@gabbyeeee]

@@katherine3486 Thank you so very much for the thoughtful response ❤️ and yes, my dad was in and out of foster care during his childhood. He was the youngest brother for a long time and all of his older sisters had children during their teen years. I would love to have a conversation with him sometime in the future when I'm a bit more spiritually grounded in Christ. There is most definitely something inside that is aching to be healed. A few years ago he was "baptized" while on a retreat. He might lightly understand that Christ is the answer but is at arms length. I think about how much "ego death" my dad would undergo if he were to turn to Christ. Even though it would be a good thing, it worries me that Christs light would illumine his darkness and it would strike too much fear. But that's in the hands of Our Lord, I'm just the type to overthink haha. I strongly appreciate your encouragement to keep praying for him. You're absolutely right that he needs them from me, no one else in our family is Christian so hopefully I can intercede for him and the rest of my family

[@m.a.g.3920]

My father also abandoned me when I was 1 year old and didn't see him since I got diabetes type 1 when 4yo. Years later I discovered that I have ADHD and then I started thinking that probably my father also has It, and all made sense, including him having children with different women, chain smoking, low key alcoholism.. I mean, I won't justify him but everything has a reason in this world and there's things as generational curses.

[@m.a.g.3920]

​@@katherine3486for some people it's even more difficult, in the sense of being just recently born again and their faith being still fragile in some way. I'm having a very bad period in my Life, feeling like I'm jynxed or that my effort all my Life has lead to nowhere, I feel like I don't have a Cross to carry, but several ones and It feels not fair to me. At the same time I know I cannot complain and it's even a sin to do it, but I feel so unlucky and I cannot understand/Accept that God trust me this way, that I feel it's too much and I feel close to lose all hope. This seems not a good thing to feel but I'm just so so tired of fighting. Should I end up suffering all my Life? The irony of this all is that one should Accept this fate if It's their fate but i don't have enough faith to accept this from my heart.

[@aftizzy]

Amen ❤️🙏🏽☦️🕊️

[@TheModesOfBeing]

Living day Genius

[@patriciagreen4063]

❤

[@nataliadtut]

We do just not among fellow human beings.

[@JUVA-r2h]

😊+++

[@d.torrent1822]

Dear Fr. Seraphim, what did you mean by God has no enemies and we should pray for the devil as other Saints have? Please help me understand what you mean.

[@TheCatCameBack]

Romans 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

[@JoesWebPresence]

Lord help us to forgive our misguided brothers and sisters in Christ who cheapen or corrupt Your gospel, for judgement starts in the houes of God. They are YOUR servants, and You are their judge, not us. Lord help us to forgive those of our neighbours who scoff, and even those who despise Your witness and testimony. Lord help us to forgive those who actively work against Your divine purpose, whether deceived or deceiver. Your marxist, nihilist, occultist and luciferian children. Hurting and rebellious, filled with rage and hatred for You. Lord, we recognise that You love them all, and we acknowledge that You are their only hope of redemption. Your salvation is sufficient for even the worst of our brothers and sisters, and we proclaim that You are mighty to save!

[@m.a.g.3920]

To love your enemies you need to totally deny the world because if you understand and recognize that the Prince of this world (Lucifer) is taking more and more control, the only way to try to be compassionate with those who hate Christ and Good it's to understand that whatever it happens God will triumph, but you can die and "fail" in terms of mundane goals: ending up being a martyr. You can accept martyrdom? Perhaps this is not right but my guess is that the majority of modern Christians wouldn't...

[@jeanneelisabeth]

Son amigos disfrazados.

[@ValentinBrutusBura]

That's "angel" perception... I don't fully understand it and I don't need to.

[@Solomonic.Cleric.83]

Wdym

[@traviswilson36]

I remember this guy whining about having to go own a plane and give a talk. Ridiculous. Also this is a clickbait title.

[@jeffreyhoward6319]

Maybe you need to discern between describing and whiining about an experience?

[@traviswilson36]

@@jeffreyhoward6319 No he is a spoiled lazy brat.

[@Book-bz8ns]

You know what's ridiculous? Being scared of a monk.

[@traviswilson36]

@@Book-bz8ns I ain’t scared I’m annoyed

[@Book-bz8ns]

@@traviswilson36 ok, that's a starting place. If you can, have a long walk with no electronic stuff, or a have a good run. Just be alone with yourself and be in the air. Then go have a bath or a shower. Then give a small prayer. Doesn't have to be specific right now. Then have something to eat, a grilled cheese sandwich or something simple. Don't even think about church or monks or anything. After awhile, if you want, maybe look up some other orthodox ideas online, if that's your only source. I'd recommend going to an Orthodox church and having s conversation with the priest. But if something is annoying, the best thing to do is have a break from it for awhile. Give it a shot. Good luck, and I'll put you in a prayer from me for peace for awhile. I'm an old soldier. Sometimes the best way to fight is retreat.