Raise me from my death: Meditations on Saturday of Holy Pascha
- Preacher
- Fr. Anthony Messeh
- Tradition
- Coptic Orthodox
- Published
- Length
- 7:24
About this sermon
The Church celebrates her incarnate Lord who died in the flesh who at this moment is down in Hades granting victory to the Kingdom of God. Imagine, if you will, that everyone prior to this moment, the righteous and the wicked, all went to the same destination: the righteous Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the prophets of old, Isaiah, Elijah, Elisha, Moses the archprophet and all of the great women of the past, Ester, Ruth, Deborah. Regardless of how righteous they were and how holy their lives were, because there was no incarnation, because there was no victory over death, all of them went to Hades. Now the Lord enters into this darkest of places. My beloved, I want to share with you a beautiful analogy that St. Augustine gives. He talks about death as this great beast, this monster. It roams in its realm and it is King there. He speaks of Hades as a great ocean. The soul of every human, ever since the fall of Adam and Eve, when it died in the flesh, would drop into this ocean. This great beast, this creature called death, would come and swallow up the soul of any human being who died. Now my beloved, this would happen, according to St. Augustine, since the beginning of time ever since the fall. So every human soul, David the prophet and king, the righteous of the past, the great patriarchs, the holy men and women, all of them fell into this great abyss and this great beast called death. But then there came a time when the soul of the Incarnate Word of God, the God-man Himself, our Lord God Saviour Jesus Christ, after dying on the cross for our sakes and for our salvation, also fell into this great abyss. The beast did not distinguish this soul from any other because truly He was human. So he came and swallowed up this soul as well. This is where the analogy of St. Augustine becomes so powerful, so beautiful. The moment this beast swallowed up this soul, thinking it was like any other soul that he had swallowed before, he quickly regretted it because he had swallowed the very antidote to death, the very enemy that would conquer him. He swallowed the soul of Him who is Life, and when the beast tried to consume Him who is life, death was conquered. Death was defeated. #CopticOrthodoxAnswers #COA #WOW SUBSCRIBE TO COA: https://www.youtube.com/copticorthodo... Catena Bible App: Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/catena-... Word Of Wisdom 2 series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxdx7XqKLCs&list=PLA20bNyz8F1DWwPAaKKwnEtNmB4URhPL4 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Website | http://www.copticorthodoxanswers.org/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/CopticAnswers/ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/CopticAnswers/
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