Unnatural associations
Summary
TLDRThe speaker addresses the pervasive influence of confusion and fear in today's world, which have distorted Christian values and led to a reluctance to confront evil. They discuss the silencing of the Church's voice due to fear of misinterpretation and the dangers of truth being spoken from places of hatred or sinfulness. The speaker calls for truth to be spoken with love, free from tribalism and fear, as a means to counteract the false reality that hinders spiritual growth and salvation.
Takeaways
- 😣 The world is currently dominated by confusion and fear, which have a significant impact on society and individual behavior.
- 🤔 Good Christian values are being held hostage by evil, leading to a situation where opposing evil seems to oppose these values.
- 🔒 Society's perception has intertwined good values with sinful behaviors, causing fear to defend the truth as it may unintentionally defend evil.
- 🗣️ The voice of the church is often silenced due to fear of misinterpretation or being associated with evilness.
- 📢 Some individuals speak their version of Christian truth aggressively, but this approach may be corrupted by hatred and judgment, distancing from Christ's truth.
- 💔 People who are kind and loving may fail to defend the truth due to their desire not to offend, leading to betrayal of the truth and the world's need for it.
- 🤝 Joining a group for safety can lead to endorsing behaviors that are not in line with Christian values, as individuals seek to avoid isolation and fear.
- 💬 Speaking the truth from a place of sinfulness or hatred can lead to self-deception and a false sense of righteousness, which is not Christ's truth.
- ❌ Condemning others violently can be a sign of an individual's attempt to cover up their own sinfulness, rather than promoting genuine salvation.
- 🙊 Silence or dilution of truth to avoid offense can lead to presenting a false reality, which is not conducive to spiritual growth or salvation.
- ❤️ The only way to navigate through the confusion is to die to the world and its values, allowing Christ's truth to speak through us with love and peace.
Q & A
What is the main theme the speaker discusses in the video script?
-The main theme discussed is the confusion and fear that seem to control the world today, and how these emotions have intertwined with Christian values and truth.
Why does the speaker believe that good Christian values have been taken hostage by evil?
-The speaker believes that societal thinking and functioning have led to good Christian values being associated with evilness and sinful behaviors, causing confusion and fear in standing up for the truth.
What is the consequence of the confusion between truth and evilness as described by the speaker?
-The consequence is that the voice of the church is silenced either out of fear of misinterpretation or being misused by polarized groups, leading to a lack of clear moral guidance.
How does the speaker describe the effect of hatred and lack of love on speaking the truth?
-The speaker states that when truth is spoken from a place of hatred and lack of love, it becomes corrupted and disconnected from Christ's truth, leading to judgment and division.
What does the speaker suggest is the motivation behind people violently defending their version of the truth?
-The speaker suggests that people may be defending their version of the truth violently as a way to cover up their own sinfulness, attempting to elevate themselves by condemning others.
Why does the speaker say that silence from the church is a form of betrayal?
-Silence from the church is considered betrayal because it fails to provide the truth and guidance needed by those who are spiritually self-destructive, leaving them without the means to correct and repent for their behavior.
What is the speaker's view on the relationship between Christ's truth and the truth spoken from a place of hatred?
-The speaker believes that Christ's truth, when spoken from a place of hatred, becomes corrupted and loses its connection to love and salvation, thus failing to represent Christ's message.
What does the speaker mean by 'dying to the world'?
-Dying to the world, according to the speaker, means leaving behind the unnatural associations between truth and lies, and allowing Christ's truth to guide one's actions and speech, free from hatred and fear.
How does the speaker perceive the role of the online community in supporting the monasteries?
-The speaker views the online community as co-workers in the spiritual journey, sacrificing to support the monasteries, which in turn helps in the spiritual growth of both the community and the monastic members.
What is the speaker's ultimate goal in discussing these topics?
-The speaker's ultimate goal is to promote understanding and clarity in the face of confusion, and to work towards the salvation of humankind by speaking the truth in love, as guided by Christ.
Outlines
😔 The Grip of Confusion and Fear
The speaker begins by expressing the difficulty of initiating a video due to the complexity of the topic they wish to discuss: the pervasive influence of confusion and fear in today's world. They reflect on their experiences during Lent, where they noticed a troubling trend of good Christian values being conflated with evil, leading to a reluctance to oppose evil for fear of appearing to oppose these now-tarnished values. The speaker emphasizes the societal and cognitive dissonance this creates, where standing for truth can inadvertently seem like defending evil behaviors. They highlight the silence of the church's voice in the face of this confusion and the polarization that results in people either being fearfully silent or aggressively defending their version of 'truth,' which may be corrupted by hatred and lack of love.
😥 The Misguided Defense of Truth
In this paragraph, the speaker delves deeper into the consequences of defending truth from a place of sinfulness, hatred, or fear. They argue that when individuals use truth as a weapon to condemn others, it often serves as a cover for their own shortcomings. The speaker points out that such behavior not only fails to lead to love, peace, and salvation but also corrupts the very essence of Christ's teachings. They discuss the failure of the church to speak out against sin without causing offense, leading to a dilution of truth and a presentation of a false reality that is non-offensive but ultimately misleading. The speaker calls for a return to speaking the truth from a place of love, which is the only way to present a genuine reality.
😢 The Dilemma of Speaking Truth in Love
The speaker addresses the challenge of speaking truth in a world where societal associations have become twisted, making it difficult to express opposition to sin without being misinterpreted. They discuss the struggle of Christians to untangle these unnatural connections between Christ's truth and the world's darkness. The speaker emphasizes the need to die to the world and its false realities, allowing Christ's mind to guide speech and actions. They argue that only by speaking the truth from a place of love, without fear or hatred, can one truly represent Christ's teachings and contribute to the salvation of others.
🙏 A Call for Unity and Spiritual Growth
In the concluding paragraph, the speaker expresses a heartfelt desire to address the topic of confusion and fear further in the future. They acknowledge the role of the devil in creating societal divisions and the importance of working together with Christ for the salvation of humanity. The speaker thanks the audience for their support, especially those who contribute to the monasteries, viewing them as co-workers in the spiritual journey. They end with a prayerful sentiment, hoping that their message is received with love and that it contributes to the spiritual growth of all.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Confusion
💡Fear
💡Good Christian Values
💡Evil
💡Truth
💡Sinfulness
💡Love
💡Polarization
💡Silenced
💡Salvation
💡Dying to the World
Highlights
The speaker discusses the pervasive influence of confusion and fear in today's world, which they believe has affected Christian values.
The speaker mentions that during Lent, several retreats were conducted via Zoom, emphasizing the confusion between good and evil.
Good Christian values are described as being 'hostage' to evil, causing people to fear opposing evil for fear of opposing good.
The speaker highlights the societal and mental associations between good values and sinful behaviors, leading to confusion.
Christ's question about the relationship between darkness and light is used to illustrate the current societal confusion.
The speaker talks about the silencing of the church's voice due to fear of misinterpretation or association with evil.
The risk of truth being corrupted when spoken from a place of hatred or lack of love is emphasized.
The speaker warns against joining groups for a sense of safety, as it can lead to judgment and condemnation of others.
The speaker discusses the tendency of people to cover up their own sinfulness by condemning others.
The importance of speaking the truth from a place of love, rather than judgment, is underscored.
The speaker criticizes the dilution of truth to avoid offending, calling it a betrayal to the truth and to the world.
The speaker calls for Christians to untangle the web of unnatural associations and speak Christ's truth without fear.
The speaker reflects on the difficulty of navigating societal confusion and the struggle to find one's way out.
The concept of 'dying to the world' is explained as leaving behind the unnatural associations between truth and lies.
The speaker advocates for speaking the truth in love, which is the only way to avoid contributing to societal confusion.
The speaker concludes by expressing gratitude for the support of the online community and their role in the mission of salvation.
Transcripts
hello my dear ones I always waste so
much time trying to just begin the video
because when I start the video I usually
have a very clear thought about what I
want to communicate to you I don't quite
know how I'm going to get there but I
know what I want to tell you and it's
usually because it's been on my mind for
some time and in this case what I want
to share with you today has to do with
confusion confusion and fear
which seem to control the world in which
we live today and this is a topic that
has been on my mind for a few months now
during Lent we've had uh several
Retreats which we've done via zoom and
which we've shared some of them with our
online community the people who support
us on a monthly basis they are available
for them to to
view but the main topic that has stuck
with me through land has been that we
live in a world that is controlled by
confusion and by fear
this this world in which all our good
Christian values seem to have been taken
hostage by by evil to the point where
one is afraid to attack evil to oppose
evil because by opposing evil you're
thinking that you are attacking or
opposing the good values that now are
associated with evilness
and good values have been associated in
our minds by the way Society works and
by the way Society thinks good Christian
values have ended up being associated
with all sorts of evilness all sorts of
sinful behaviors to the point where one
is afraid to stand up and to defend the
truth as we know it as Christians simply
because when you stand up and you defend
the truth you stand up and you unint
intentionally defend evilness and
sinfulness behavior as well because of
this confusion because of these
unnatural against nature associations
between evilness and Christian truth
between light which is Christ himself
and the Darkness of this world I think
it's by no accident that Christ is
asking us what has Darkness got to do
with the light
and uh truth with Li and may your yes be
yes and your no be no this is the world
in which we live where truth and
falseness evil sinful life and behavior
and Christian lifegiving Life and
behavior have become so intertwined in
the which in the way in which the world
presents them to us that one simply
cannot stand up either to defend truth
or to oppose evil without
unintentionally ending up defending evil
or opposing
truth and um and there are all sorts of
horrible ramifications coming out of
this the first obvious one is that most
people from from the church the voice of
Christ the voice of the church into the
world is being silenced because most
people in the church not all by any
means but most people in the church are
kind loving people who do not want to
offend anyone and who do not want to be
associated with evilness
somehow so we live in a world where the
voice of the church is either silenced
for fear of being
misinterpreted or it is
completely manipulated and misused by
certain of these tribes
that have polarized the
world I think what happens is that we
see people who just don't care who then
stand up and they speak their truths
their Christian truths but it's their
Christian truth not Christ and his truth
and they speak this truth in a sort of a
Victorious mtyc way where they say we do
not care we speak the truth but they
don't realize the that when you speak
the truth out of a place of hatred and
lack of love that truth is already
corrupted and it has nothing to do with
Christ's truth it has everything to do
with the need to judge someone else
either out of fear because when you join
a group you join a club you're no longer
afraid you're no longer weak and exposed
to the world so people end up being
horrible against other people simply
because in the name of that truth they
will join this new tribe that will make
them feel safe or even more commonly
people speak their truths from the place
of their own sinfulness the hatred that
they feel the racism that controls their
heart or God knows or other horrible
things and then even Christ's truth when
it is spoken from such an evil place and
with such an evil intention ends up
being a known truth as
well don't forget don't forget my
brothers and my sisters that sometimes
when you hear
someone violently again courageously
defending the truth if that truth has
nothing to do with himself or herself
but is a truth that's meant to condemn
someone else that is almost always a
sure sign of of that person trying to
cover up for their own
sinfulness because when you've opposed
your own sinfulness the evil as it is
manifested in yourself and you've
realized that you are completely unable
to control it or defend it then the only
way you can make yourself look better
before the eyes of your own conscious is
to put down everyone else around you
because if you can't get yourself out by
getting yourself to stand up from
sinfulness onto virtue then the other
way in which you can be above everyone
else is to push them lower than you are
if you can't get yourself up and out of
your sin then push everyone else condemn
everyone else to the point of pulling
them down pushing them down enough for
you to stand up in relation in
comparison to them so either way the
truth spoken from the position of I
don't care or you know I speak my truth
which is of course the absolute truth in
in one's mind that's never going to lead
us to the love and the peace and the
salvation of Christ the other people the
ones that are Kinder and loving and who
do not want to offend anyone they also
fail because what they do is either they
are completely
silenced and they don't speak about
anything that could offend anyone at all
anymore and that's pure betrayal
betrayal to the truth in them and
betrayal to the world that needs to hear
their truth or what they do and this is
I think the ultimate Way of failing is
that they end up navigating they end up
diluting corrupting the truth in them to
the point of presenting the world with
an non-offensive but at the same time
false
reality in other words if someone comes
before you with a sinful Behavior
someone who doesn't care is just going
to condemn and judge and kick them down
put them down which will make them feel
better but will completely compromise
the person in front of them and their
chances of Salvation because that person
will associate this horrible human being
forgive me for being so blunt with
Christ himself so of course they're
going to run all their lives away from
Christ and they are going to receive the
right Judgment at the right
time but if you are someone who doesn't
want to judge doesn't want to condemn
but at the same time you end up
approving and not speaking the truth
that comes from Ling you then you also
also betraying yourself and that person
because you're presenting a false
Reality by
not by not telling these people that
their behavior is non salvific that
their behavior is um not leading them
onwards forward towards Christ and
eternal life you're presenting them with
a comfortable reality a comfortable
non-offensive reality in
life but that's also false because you
are Faking It can you see what I'm
saying it's
like they present you with a reality
which you recognize as being non
salvific you do not want to offend them
so that you simply quiet yourself down
or you rephrase things in a way that
doesn't offend them and then we live in
a world where those who are living a p
that is self-destructive spiritually are
robbed of the voices that they need in
order to correct and repent for their
behavior and thus God willing may be
find their own salvation it's a known
reality it's a false reality when you
don't speak your truth out of love out
of love always it's a non reality it's a
false reality that we present to all
these people all this world around us
because yes it's non offensive yes it's
non painful here but it's not real so we
all end up living a known reality a
falseness that has nothing to do with
the truth and the life that is in
Christ this is what leaving the world
means this is what dying to the world
means this is what ending up hating
one's life one's soul in order to gain
one's soul and one's eternal life in
Christ
means to hate the world to leave the
world simply means to Leave Behind These
unnatural against nature associations
between truth and lies between Christ's
truth Christ's lifegiving values and the
evilness the darkness of the
world in this world in which you cannot
say for instance let's take something
that's obvious you cannot speak against
abortion for instance because as soon as
you say that you also become a hateful
gun loving Refugee hating human being
and if you uh stand on the opposite side
you also end up supporting things you do
not
support we need to learn
again at least ask people in the church
I'm not speaking about the world the
world is in God's hands as are we but
the world doesn't even have a beginning
the world doesn't even have a place
where they might start to untangle this
web of unnatural associations but we
should be able to do that as Christians
as ones who claim to follow the one who
is
crucified we should be able to speak the
truth of
Christ without speaking from a place of
hatred without speaking from a place of
fear without speaking from a place of
needing to belong to some tribe the only
tribe one needs to belong to is the
tribe of Christ the tribe of the Saints
in the heavens and the tribe of the
Saints here in in the making sa saints
Saints in the process of being born in
the
world the
confusion that has covered the world
today is such a horrible false reality
and we each try to make our way out of
it but it is just like tiny little flies
trying to make their way out of a
spider's web the more we do through
battle the more we turn right and left
and we try to push ourselves out by our
own means the more in Tangled we become
the more confused we become and the more
we end up
serving this web of confusion and of
lies and of falseness the only way out
of it is to die to the world the only
way out of it is for our minds to die to
the mind of the world world and to allow
Christ's mind to speak through us and
Christ will never ever in eternity speak
a truth out of hatred or speak a truth
out of fear or insecurity or judgment in
the sense of Pure Evil
condemnation only when you can speak a
truth that does not make you feel like
you've lost peace and love when only
when you speak the truth and in you you
feel pain for the people who hear this
truth and it increases the love in you
and it wants you to to just give
everything that you are and everything
that you own for them to hear you for
what you really want to say in order for
them to be saved if possible even before
you when you get to that point where you
can speak the truth out of love then
speak the
truth speak that
truth I'm not certain that what I wanted
to say was
actually communicated you you'll let me
know no
doubt uh but it is something that's so
important to me and that I see as being
one of the very clear tools that the
devil is using through through the world
in which we live to to get
us confused and Afraid and separated and
segregated between our own
tribes polarized to the point of hating
each
other that I'm convinced I will come
back to this topic at some point in the
future all I say comes from a desire to
save I can't save anyone but I'm called
to be a coworker with Christ for the
Salvation of every single human being
from from Adam and Eve through us the
most sinful of all generations up to the
very last human being God's hands will
ever create nothing comes out of hatred
nothing comes out of the desire to put
anyone down I hope and I pray that at
least that is obvious to all of
you thank you for your prayers thank you
for all your love and all your support
thank you especially for those of you
who are supporting our monasteries on
the island of Mal and the island of aona
by joining our online community because
these people these members of our online
community are the ones that on a monthly
basis they sacrifice something it
doesn't matter how much it is something
and that something allows us to keep
doing this work to keep surviving here
in the islands to keep growing in our
own spiritual lives and hopefully to
help you grow in your own spiritual
lives you are little co-workers with us
and together we are little co-workers
with Christ hopefully to the Salvation
of the
entire
humankind all my love in Christ to you
my brothers and my
sisters amen amen amen
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