Is sin leading you to despair? Restore your hope with God by Fr. Gabriel Wissa
- Preacher
- Fr. Anthony Messeh
- Tradition
- Coptic Orthodox
- Published
- Length
- 6:26
About this sermon
Is sin leading you to despair? Restore your hope with God In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit one God Amen One of the most powerful tricks the devil uses against us is when he attempts to make us fall into despair. To make us believe that there is no hope for our salvation—that we are so weak that we will not be able to escape perdition. When we fall into this trap, we feel stuck in this fake quick sand and we are unable to move forward. It is such a dangerous snare because people who choose to listen to him give up on their spiritual struggle, give up on their repentance and deeply indulge in sin. This thought usually comes to us after committing a huge sin and just when we are in a state of utter disbelief about what just happened, the devil jumps in with ideas that God will never forgive us…it is too big of a sin for God to overlook. That is what he wants us to believe. This thought can also come after gradually falling into sin as we saw in the first video of this series on spiritual warfare. When sin is now rooted in us, he makes us believe that we will never be able to return to our former selves. In addition, in either of these cases, he tends to exaggerate the easiness of the sin, meaning how widely available it is and therefore makes us think that we will never be able to overcome it. Some other times, he exaggerates our own weakness and corruption as if God is not present to support us in our struggles. SUBSCRIBE TO COA! https://www.youtube.com/copticorthodo... Spiritual Warfare series : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDATE0vJlQ&list=PLA20bNyz8F1CH10pTIczqvtQdNF2ivUyB orthodox spiritually series : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTE5pY9NHzE&list=PLA20bNyz8F1AW6fWWPD4K-dE02otSSYeH FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Website | http://www.copticorthodoxanswers.org/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/CopticAnswers/ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/CopticAnswers/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/CopticAnswers
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