Description
In this sermon, Fr. Paul Girguis reflects on Christ’s striking words: unless we are converted and become like little children, we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
The world teaches us to become more complicated, suspicious, independent, critical, and consumed with what is happening around us. Christ calls us in the opposite direction, back to the simplicity, humility, purity, trust, and innocence of a child.
What have we allowed into our hearts through what we watch, hear, discuss, and believe? Have we become quicker to judge than to see the good in others? Fr. Paul challenges us to guard the doors of our hearts, close ourselves off from the corruption of the world, and allow the Holy Spirit to purify our vision so that we can see God and goodness again.
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
Timestamps
00:00 Unless You Become Like Little Children
01:08 What Does It Mean to Be Converted?
01:50 We Have Lost the Simplicity of a Child
02:32 Holding the Father’s Hand
03:09 What Is Corrupting Your Heart?
04:29 The Responsibility to Protect Innocence
05:06 Love Believes All Things
05:44 Guarding What We See and Hear
06:58 What Enters the Heart Comes Out
07:37 Learning to See the Good in Others
08:53 Division, Judgment, and the Loss of Innocence
09:27 Look at Your Own Sin First
10:44 Seeing God Even in the Smallest Things
12:00 Be Converted and Become Simple Again
13:10 Guard Your Heart with All Diligence
14:26 The Holy Spirit Restores Pure Vision
15:04 Undoing the World’s Way of Thinking
15:42 Pope Shenouda’s Wisdom on Guarding the Heart
16:40 You Don’t Need to Know Everything
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