{"id":7053,"date":"2019-08-18T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:49:32","slug":"elder-joseph-of-vatopaidi-on-charimas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7053","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi on Charimas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6lre6\" data-offset-key=\"kaeo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"kaeo-0-0\">\u201cThose who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires\u201d (Galatians 5, 22) and \u201cno longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again\u201d (2 Corinthians 5, 15). It is obvious that they also participate in His charismas. \u201cTo one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another the ability to speak in different kind of tongues and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines\u201d (1 Corinthians 8-12).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6lre6\" data-offset-key=\"ajb7n-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ajb7n-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ajb7n-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6lre6\" data-offset-key=\"e51ll-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e51ll-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e51ll-0-0\">If all these and other gifts, which the Lord distributes to those who love him, are only the hundredfold of those they themselves have abandoned to follow Him, no one is able to describe how grand would the eternal gifts be after the regeneration. The godly have only been \u201cpartly\u201d allowed to comprehend such grandeur since they still are in the struggling Church. No one is capable of judging \u201cspiritual people and spiritual issues\u201d, but the spiritual people alone judge everything. We are therefore not able to evaluate anything, but we may only slightly describe what they themselves have confessed to us&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e51ll-0-0\">(\u2018Practical Repentance and its Fruits\u2019)<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e51ll-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7054\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/z7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/z7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/z7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires\u201d (Galatians 5, 22) and \u201cno longer live for themselves but for him who died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}