Episode 52: Christianity in one word

In the name of the Glorious Trinity.

Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever.

Amen. Glory be to the Everlasting

mercies which sent you to us. Oh, Christ the light of the

world and the life of all give us wisdom by your law and

Enlighten our impulses, by your knowledge sanctify, our souls by

your truth and Grant that we may be obedient to your words and

may fulfill your Commandments at every hour.

O you who enlightens the rationale with the knowledge of

your greatness? Do Enlighten?

Oh my Lord, our thoughts that we made meditate upon your holy and

divine scriptures at all times O Lord of all Father and Son and

Holy Spirit. Sometimes I'm asked to Define

Christianity in one word and there's one word that always

comes to mind and we throw it around here and there and

everywhere is the word. Grace Christianity is a religion

of Grace, the grace of God, through Jesus Christ, and Grace

is defined as an extension of the love compassion and mercy of

God. In Romans, The five verses, 89

Saint, Paul writes here, God demonstrates his love for us.

Because, if, when we were Sinners, that means deserving of

Eternal damnation. That is the privation of a

relationship with God, Eternal punishment in Hell.

The Messiah Christ died for our place, in our place or died for

us. How much more, therefore, would

we all more be justified Now by his blood?

That is the blood of Jesus Christ and be delivered.

The Wrath by him. This is Grace.

Beloved Grace is not when you show love to someone who loves

you. Grace is not when you love

someone, who is your friend, your family or relative Grace is

showing love and charity to a person that is hurt.

You that has wronged you or even you don't know.

So while we were yet, sinners when we were Sinners Jesus

Christ, the son of God died, add on our behalf and that's the

grace of God. One of the gifts of the grace of

God is that he has one of many and one that really strikes me

is that he has declared us to be.

Now, listen to this us, meaning Christians, those who have

believed in Jesus Christ, and have been baptized in his name,

in the name of the Trinity and a received his holy spirit, God

has declared us to be sharers. Of the divine nature.

We have a divine nature. That's what we are called, God's

we to our God. We too are Christians

christ-like. We to ungodly Godlike and this

all by Grace. We read this in Second Epistle

of st. Peter 1:4.

So the question is, how do we respond to Grace?

What is Our obligation to this Grace?

What is it that we have to strive in order to appease lack

of a better term? Appease the grace of God.

Second Peter chapter 1 verses 5 to 7.

2 Peter 1:5–7

Peter goes on to say and when this has happened that we are

sharers of the divine nature, Now we need to bring all

diligence and add to your faith. Listen to these words.

We're going to talk about these add to our faith virtue.

Meaning believing that Jesus Christ.

God, his father has saved us through the blood of his Christ

by his grace believing that we need to add to that Faith.

This is the response to Beloved virtue.

We're going to talk about these, excuse me, and onto our virtue

knowledge, and onto knowledge, perseverance, and onto

perseverance patience. And to patience the worship of

God. But on to the worship, that

means fear and love of God, the affection of the Brotherhood but

onto affection of the Brotherhood.

He ended up with love. Let's define this beloved.

And here, I'm going to refer to the commentaries of the Blessed

theophil Act of quoted him and mentioned him a few times.

The Blessed, the awful Act was a Byzantine Archbishop of awkward

or accreta. What is known Bulgaria now and

this is circuit. 1050 1108, he writes this in second Peter one.

Saint Peter. Lays out the Order which we

ought to follow to come into full maturity.

Our response to the grace of God, our reaction to the grace

of God, first comes comes Faith, obviously Faith, which is the

foundation and source of all good works, Romans 10:9.

Romans 10:9

Saint Paul writes. And if you will confess with

your mouth, our lord Jesus, and you will believe believe in your

heart that God has raised him from the dead.

You shall have life. That is new life with Jesus

Christ. There's another simple equation.

We talked about this last episode about.

Excuse me. How to how to what actions to

take. When someone has wronged you

this is another equation. Not just build merely believe in

Jesus Christ Mellie. Many believe in Jesus.

Some believe that he was a very good profit.

No, he was not just a very good profit.

He was a perfect prophet. He was the prophet of the

prophets, some believe that Jesus Christ was the nice and

the good brother of Satan. Satan was the bad brother.

This is blasphemy. This is heresy.

And, and, you know, I only mention it as ridicule.

So believing in Jesus Christ is great, is the first and

foremost, but we must believe this is this is the, the essence

of Christianity beloved. And you must believe in your

heart that God has raised him from the dead because of Jesus

was not raised from the dead. Then our faith.

Saint Paul says, is invalid. There's nothing in our faith.

That's why we must believe. There is a reason why you must

believe. We believe in the resurrection

of Our Lord. So that we confirm our own

Resurrection. This is what we need to believe

in. Jesus Christ, the son of God,

Lord Christ, praise be trees, name the Lord, the Christ, the

son of God, but also believe in our hearts that God has raised

him. Why Romans 10, sorry, Romans

Romans 6:3

6:3, 24 verses 32, for those of us who were baptized into Jesus,

the Messiah. That is the Christ.

Were baptized into his death. Listen to this, we were buried

with him in baptism into death for as Jesus.

The Christ arose. From among the dead in the glory

of his father. This is why we ask believe in

our hearts, that Jesus was resurrected by God, his father

in this way. We also shall walk in New Life

that we have a new life with Jesus Christ, and that new life

will extend into the Kingdom of Heaven.

If we remain steadfast in our life and we continue to appease

him and to follow him and to believe him and to trust him and

to live in his life because he is the way the truth and life

St. John chrysostom writes about

baptism. Listen to what he says, what

does being baptized into his death?

Mean that it is with a view to our dying as he did for baptism

is the cross. So what the cross and burial is

to Christ that baptism has been to us even if it if not in the

same respects, why for he Jesus died himself.

He wasn't. It wasn't a sinner.

He wasn't worthy of death, death wasn't proclaimed upon him.

No, it was proclaimed on, man. That's why you took our flesh.

For, he died, himself and buried in the flesh.

But we have done both to sin, but yet it is the death of Jesus

Christ, and the resurrection, which we must believe.

So, first and foremost comes, faith and st.

Paul writes, the two amazing. Specs of faith, that Jesus

Christ is Lord, but we must also believe in his resurrection in

the Nicene Creed. We continue that.

Not only, we believe in Jesus Christ who died and suffered in

the died and was buried and rose and third on the ascended, I was

sorry, I'm sorry rose on the third day is ascended into

heaven. If we stay and remain there, our

faith is flawed but we believe that he will return.

This is the faith that we need. So you believe that you believe

Jesus is the son of God. Meaning God himself, praise be

to his name sinless. Perfect took on our flesh.

Fulfilled his ministry for three years and was captured and

wrongly judged and was beaten battered.

He suffered, he was crucified. He died, he was buried, he rose

on the third day ascended into heaven after 40 days.

And then we'll come back again. Great, that's first step.

The Blessed. The old select goes on to say,

now this is our response to the grace of God, having faith.

Next comes virtue. Excuse me by, which means good

works for without good works, our faith is dead, it's so

simple. So simple.

Please read James 2:26 and of correct st.

James 2:26

James, if we believe the scriptures are breathe and

inspired by the Holy Spirit of Kur.

Same James to justify our own ideology or our own

understanding of the Holy scriptures.

No, James put, it very simply faith without Deeds is dead, our

Good Deeds, beloved, our Good Deeds, which are essential and

necessary, why? They also assure as assure us,

that we have been created in Jesus Christ.

Listen to what Paul writes to the Ephesians 2:10.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his creation worker who are created in Jesus, the

Christ for good works. Those things which God had from

the first prepare that we should walk in them virtue.

Shabbir, dobar a well-mannered, good works morality ethics.

Then next comes on to Virtue knowledge.

That is an understanding of the secret things hidden in God, the

Mysteries, which are not revealed to everyone.

Beloved, you know, many people cannot cannot see the, the the

mystery in Jesus Christ. The Mystery of the Incarnation,

The Mystery of the Resurrection, The Mystery of the miraculous

birth. Why?

Because Only those who continue Faithfully in the works already

mentioned about. They to those will be revealed

the mysteries of God. We are to increase knowledge.

In what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing to God.

Romans 12:2 So after virtue comes knowledge to increase on

Romans 12:2

none upon our knowledge abstinence Temperance and

self-control. Why why does some Saint Paul

include self-control? So that when we do possess the

virtues and knowledge and the face?

So that we are not puffed up, we are not haughty.

We're not arrogant, we're not disdain lack of respect as a

result and many people do fall into that Temptation into those

snares because they notice how to quote scriptures, you know,

some people Define Christianity, as when you're when you can

quote scriptures left, right? And Center sometimes out of

context and sometimes those scriptures are not relative to

what you're talking about or what the what the topic of the

situation is. So when we do have faith, we

have virtue, we know the, the mysteries of God have been have

been revealed to us. We need to have self-control All

to Humble ourselves. Always always be humble.

Beloved, there is not one person that has walked the earth.

That is all knowing that can do everything that is everywhere.

Omniscient, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent the Lord

Jesus Christ. Yet, he humbled himself to the

point where he washed his disciples feet.

And he took the spittle, and I always said, because In Sunday's

the Madden's the prayers that was mentioned, that he's telling

Jesus tells Simon that. I took that spit on your behalf

right yet, he humbled himself but he was all-knowing

omnipresent omniscient and omni-benevolent have to think

about those. I'm sorry so to Humble

ourselves. Taff self-control. if we know,

As much as we know we should always declare that we know

nothing because every day beloved God puts us to shame

when we think we know and God reveals something to us, we

crumble away and think oh why didn't know that yeah God's

telling you listen don't puff up and be haughty you know nothing

you think you know me you think you know of me you know nothing

of me because no man can know complete me.

A of me and who I am or what I am no but what is revealed to

you in the mystery and that according to the will of the

Holy Spirit, then comes patience.

Which is an attribute of the 1. Corinthians chapter 13, lab.

1 Corinthians 13 · chapter mention

We're going to talk about that. Next, episode patients follows

next because it takes time. Beloved to acquire Temperance,

it takes time for you to grow in faith.

It takes time for you to increase your virtues to gain.

Virtues The Good Deeds to fulfill the Good Deeds.

It takes time to know the mysteries of God and he also

takes time to build self control.

Sometimes we rush ourselves sometimes because I'm not like

my friend is in faith in his knowledge and his virtues.

We tend to discuss be discouraged, but be patient.

God is patient with you, you know, God is so patient with us.

It is us who are impatient with ourselves.

We want to rush things if we're a little bit at Heron and we

listen to the word of God and the voice of God.

He is telling us don't, I'm not, I'm not rushing with.

You impatient with you? I understand your flaws.

I had missed and your weakness. You have been given an ability

to take your time. Someone else has that capability

know to to get it as soon as they hear it.

You know I have to sometimes read, I'm reading a news article

or even the scriptures or the church fathers commentaries.

I have to read a sentence, maybe three or four times and it maybe

I've Go back and read it word by word if you okay he's talking to

me are such as okay. This is what I ended.

I understand it but there are some people will read it and off

the bat, they understand it. But that doesn't mean that.

I don't know. And I don't have faith, I don't

have virtues time be patient with yourself.

First of all, with god with yourself and with others were

going to talk about that next. Next episode His beloved

increases our trust in God. Writes the Blessed theophil acts

which is why godliness then comes first the more we are like

God the more we become like God with our faith virtue is

knowledge abstinence patients. The more we are like God, there

are we trust in God, the more we are patient, we trust in God,

which is why godliness is next to increase on your patience

godliness. And as I said, The more we are

like God, the more we are compelled by that likeness to to

do what to create another world. No.

To, you know, give salvation to another who can introduce people

to Christ. Through whom is only salvation,

no to brotherly love, which is the next on the list.

Brotherly, love the 1 Corinthians 13.

Love patient. Long-suffering and sweet

pleasant. Kind love the an envious love

the non upset and puffed up love the Shameless selfless.

Well-mannered moral love the Revocable and clean minded.

Love the evil hating love the truth loving.

Love an enduring believing hopeful and bearing love

beloved. Why?

Because God is love, and The Godly must also, portray and

reflect that love writes, the Blessed the effect.

So this must be our response to Grace.

Not only to In it. No need to use it to to

sometimes. And you know, I'm sorry to say

to condemn people to hell because they don't know Grey's,

they don't understand Grace. No, you leave that to god.

Let's leave hell and heaven to God beloved.

Let's leave the righteous Judgment of God to the righteous

judge. Not you and no one else because

God is the only righteous God who judges without partiality.

What you and I need to do is in order to understand Grace, is to

have a response to this grace. And that is number one to

believe in that Grace on our faith to increase that virtue.

Good Deeds because of the grace of God and on the Good Deeds,

the knowledge that is to know the mysteries of God and then to

abstain have Self-control not to be buff, puffed, up and have

patience so that we can be patient with ourselves and

others. And God, firstly and then on

patience godliness, that means being more like God and ending

it with brotherly. Love, this should be our

response. This should be our, our

gratitude, to the grace of God because when we Face the

ultimate judgment God God is not going to ask you.

When I to define grace, just knowing what Grace he is, and no

one should dare to say. I understand it fully no, no,

knowing what Grace is and who Graces from and who threw, I'm

sorry, and who gave us the grace, which is God through his

son, knowing it is like the person who he is the word of

God, and does not fulfill it in Jesus, liking that person to a

foolish person but when we he the grace of God and we have a

understanding enough for us to move in faith, virtue knowledge,

and what we have been speaking about and the God of all love

and constellation will grant us his Blissful Kingdom when the

day comes to judge us according to his perfect righteousness,

righteousness, praise and glory. Be to his name now in at all

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