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Thank you for watching and, through our hearts, our goal the preaching of the Gospel through the ability that technology gives us in our days. Thank you, dear Croatians. Hello, hello Accroates, welcome to another episode of the World of Gold Podcast. Our today's topic will be a special topic and I say it especially for the following reason because it concerns another person, a student of the Lord, very well known to all people and has been identified with the prophecy, with the way in Christ essentially surrendered to be crucified, and no other than Judas. Of course, with the grace of God, we will see who Judas was, how he got along with the Twelve, how he walked and how he finally came to the Lord. But where we would like to focus mainly is on the effort of Christ and the way in which he faced this particular person, this student, along with the others, and how, in the end, the energies of Judas were not those that the Lord saw.
Σπύρος:And, with the grace of Christ, let's see what is prophesied around. His name With us on the microphone. With me for the accuracy, because there are two of us tonight is Konstantinos. Good evening, konstantinos.
Κωνσταντίνος:Good evening, spyros. And as you said, judas is a special person from the beginning in the Gospel of Christ, one of the twelve disciples chosen by the Lord to be an apostle, together with Peter, with John, with James, with all the disciples. And yet we will see in the end how bad the end was, because the end was not good and, with the grace of God, we will focus on how you reached this end, but also, as you said, mainly on the events, on the behavior, on the reactions of Christ to Judas, because we will see. But above all, the message is the message of the Gospel, that Christ saves all people and wants to save all people, even Judas. Even Judas wanted to save him Exactly.
Κωνσταντίνος:Some general details about Judas. His name, for example, means Do Doxology, the Doxology towards God. It is taken from the Genesis. We see it in the book of Genesis where Elijah had born the Patriarch, ie from the Judah, from whom the tribe of Israel, judah, came. And he says in Genesis now that I have born the fourth child, that I have born Judah, I will doxology the Lord, and that is why I gave him the name Judas. So we see that his name means glorification to God, even though, in the end, with his actions and with his life, he did not glorify God.
Σπύρος:So we see that the name has nothing to do with the actions of man and with the result of man. So we see that the name is of a Jewish origin.
Σπύρος:Exactly yes, it was the name in one of the tribes of Israel, which was the tribe of Judah, and we could say that it was quite common to see the name of Judah in person, isn't it? We see, for example, the brother of the Lord, judah, who again has the same name, who had another journey because he became an apostle in the journey and he has written the famous letter of Judas. We would say, as we have done with George today, in our days, he was Judas in that era. Here. Let's talk about this, since we are talking about some details and information about Judas' face, and we do this mainly.
Σπύρος:We focus a little now on these information for the following reason to learn and it is not bad to have a little knowledge who was the person and for each person within the Holy Scripture.
Σπύρος:But now, because it relates to the days of Easter and because it was the person who actually gave the Lord to be crucified, we decided to deal with this name and to find out what we could get to give messages. So Judas, like the other disciples, was called by the Lord and became this body of 12 disciples, which were also the close disciples of the Lord, along with the others, but it was the body of 12, that of the body that was close to Christ, and this Judas was also characterized by an apostle, like all the others, the Lord did not discriminate against him, although he knew. He knew his course, he knew how to betray him, he knew anything. In no case did he separate him or separate him, and how much less than the others. I see, through reading the Holy Scripture, reading the Gospel, we can see that Judas does not seem to be reduced, except from some comments made by the evangelists who say that he is the man who will betray the Lord, so that we can understand that it was he who finally gave it to us.
Κωνσταντίνος:Exactly Spyros, and we see references very early, theoretically, in the Gospel, I think in John in the Old Testament. The Gospel in the sixth chapter is the first reference, which is one of the initial chapters. It may be a mistake to be a little below, but relatively early in the Gospel it is mentioned, as you said, as information, because we see the Lord when he sent the twelve, two by two, to proclaim the message of the Gospel that the kingdom of heaven is near, and gave them authority to remove demons, to heal. It was Judas among the twelve, it was one of the couples, it was Judas together with another student and they went and proclaimed that the kingdom of heaven is near» and they healed their sick and they cast out demons Unbelievable.
Σπύρος:Unbelievable. They did miracles. That is yes. In the name of.
Κωνσταντίνος:Christ. Unbelievable In the name of Christ. Then with the Seventy, when the Lord sent the Seventy again.
Σπύρος:Seventy.
Κωνσταντίνος:Again, the same Judas among the disciples. What can I say? For example, through the journey of the Lord with the disciples through the boat, through the boat that they were boarding, judas was also there and he was boarding with the others and he saw Christ walking on the waves. He saw Peter walking on the waves towards Christ and bowing and pulling the Lord and putting Him on. He saw Christ saying to the waves, to Christ, and to work and to pull him and to put him on the water. He saw Christ saying to the sea stop quiet and to stop forever. He said the same thing to the others. They had not understood until then from the sins he had committed the sin with the bread that he had eaten five loaves of bread and two fish for five thousand. And they said who are you?
Σπύρος:they said you are a son of God there, they understood in all of this, judas was there and yet you see, these very nice details and information that you gave and described to us, with the miracles that Judas saw, like all other disciples who saw these great things happening in front of his eyes, how and how easily, to be precise, the blinding came to man Because with so much he saw and he reached the point of betraying him to be crucified how much he was blinded by passion and desire. Right Before we continue a little and analyze a analyze the character of this Jew that we have touched on and with what he saw, I would like to talk a little about his name, because he was known as Judas Iscariot, and I didn't even know him, to be honest. I had searched for him, I didn't even know him. We say Iscariot, but where does he come from?
Σπύρος:There are two versions, and we refer to it informally Either because it originated from a region of Judea called Kerioth, so had a special jealousy, revolutionary, towards the Roman situation, because they wanted the State of Israel to gain its autonomy and its kingdom again, and so it is said by some of course, the second case is not so clear but that it was disappointed. Christ was not the king who would be set free from the Romans. This is a coincidence, but we can say that it has been mentioned.
Κωνσταντίνος:Exactly, especially for the zealots. Many say that they are not standing because the Zealots appeared a little later than Christ, at least officially, in the State of Israel. So from this the version is probably also destroyed. The version, this is the theory. And continuing we see that Judas walked and this makes mees me is that he heard the words of Christ. That is, someone will say to me, it is smaller to hear him in miracles. It is not smaller to hear him in miracles. I am sorry to say that you do miracles, because Judas did miracles. He did not see them alone. It is not smaller to do miracles, he was just watching. It's not less to make miracles. But Christ came and preached and always tried for others to believe in his word, in the words of God, and he tried. Everything he did and everything he told them was to believe that what he tells them is from God and that what he has came from God. And Judas heard that, he saw that, he lived it Exactly.
Σπύρος:He lived it Exactly, he lived it.
Κωνσταντίνος:And despite all this, he had left something in his heart which finally led him to betray the Lord.
Σπύρος:And I would like to continue to talk about this because it was very important what you said. He lived it and I want to make the following reference this little passion, this little desire, the exits of the apostles, I will say because it was the apostles, through the apostles, and the Lord this was passion. This little thing that he left, as you said, led him while he was listening and living, everything to make this action, unfortunately, but fortunately, we would say, because through this came the cross of our Lord and our salvation. Of course Judas could have been transformed and he was also in this grace, but from then on the decisions were his. But we as people must remain in what Christ gave us and, as much as we can, we must not exclude and take as an example the weakness of Judas, so that we do not fall into the same mistakes and in the same way of dealing with the Lord, exactly and as you said.
Κωνσταντίνος:you mentioned it exactly before. I said it because we didn't mention it, it doesn't matter.
Κωνσταντίνος:Because we didn't mention the passion. The passion is the filagree. We see the Jew moving from the money and wanting and caring above all the money. That's right, of course. Now, knowing the grace of the Lord and reading the Word of God, we know and the Word of God says that the root of all evil is the knew that he was stealing from the Glyphosate. We will see Judas a little before and all in the big week.
Κωνσταντίνος:We say a little before the Lord's Passion, when a woman goes and breaks a very exact mark to be redeemed because he broke and we did not sell it to put it in the Glyphosate and give it to the poor because he stole, as he says there. He stole from the Glyphosate. He said he would steal a and we know that what we said, this little, this small thing that he left in his heart, was the reason in the end to leave Christ. And this can be a lesson for us, that we are all guilty. Many of us may have done bad things in our lives or we may be weak in many things. The important thing is not to leave them in our hearts, that is to go to Christ and say Lord, the important thing is not to leave them in our hearts.
Κωνσταντίνος:That is, to go to Christ and say Lord, I am like this, I have this weakness. I have this weakness, I don't want it. I know that you don't want it. You are upset. I know that this is not good. I know that this doesn't make me good.
Σπύρος:Forgive me but also help me not to do it again. And in the Bible, since you mention this part, konstantinos, we do not see Judas anywhere. Although he may realize that he has this bad desire, I will not call him weak, I will call him a bad you. I have this weakness, I have this passion. Help me, what can I do to get rid of it? On the contrary, what he does as it is written, he keeps it inside him. In no case does he show it, in no case in the Lord, in no case do we see him confessing it to him to tell him his problem. But, on the contrary, we see him holding it for himself and making movements that show this passion and desire.
Σπύρος:And the students themselves realize it the most general circumference. And the Lord wants this. He expects you to approach Him and bring Him your problem, bring Him your desire, bring Him your weakness and tell Him Lord, don't hold it. Lord, save me. And I say don't hold it for yourself, don't hold it, don't act like Judas, Don't become like Judas. And our desire, our mistake, whatever it is, everyone knows about himself to keep it for himself and not to go to the Lord. The Lord knows it, but he is waiting for the step from you to set you free.
Κωνσταντίνος:And, as we will see later, with the grace of God, he died for our sins and he was resurrected for our sake. He died exactly to take these things through our hearts and through our lives. And it makes me very impressed, now that you came, that you said excuse me. It makes me very impressed because it is mentioned in the Gospels that a very specific verse that says Christ did not need to testify for man because he knew what was inside him. And this is what the disciples write. So the disciples knew that the Lord sees the hearts of men. Probably even Judas knew that the Lord knows and understands the hearts of men.
Σπύρος:Because he had seen things.
Κωνσταντίνος:Yes, yes, and it makes me very impressed because, as you said, it never seemed seemed at least To go to the Lord and say I don't want my voice, I can't stand it.
Σπύρος:It's a power because it's a pyramid.
Κωνσταντίνος:I'm weak to this. I can't, because where I see them, many with me when we have a little more, they go away a little in my pocket. I don't want it. Take it At least, as you said, as it, as it seems in the Scriptures.
Κωνσταντίνος:So it is amazing that the Lord lets us he knows our heart, but many times he lets us go to the problem to Him and he will fix it. There we are sure Christ will fix the problem because he wants us to walk in His will. The problem is for us to want to walk in the will of God and then God will do us a favor.
Σπύρος:That's right, my brother. And it is written that when temptation comes and I go to him, God will not let me be tempted beyond my power, right? Therefore, the person who brings the problem to Christ, his weakness and his passion, his bad desire, which he cannot reject, cannot chase away. When the temptation comes upon him, the Lord will make the excuse and will free him. That is why we see in Judas because I believe, and I believe him, because, seeing the course of Christianity and the teaching of our Lord and the Word of God, that there was no case for the Jews to go and say, Lord, I have this problem and the Lord did not excuse him to free him.
Σπύρος:We see the heart of the Jew to be hard and tormented, that is, to want to keep this desire. That was his love for money. And in the Jew it may have been love for money, but I wanted to say before, in Judas' face, each of us could have been, Because each weakness is separate. In the present phase it is the philharmonic. Someone may have weakness in the pornography and cannot cope with it. Someone may have a desire for glory, and Judas thought that he wanted glory, that he was given palaces and power and again, he was preaching to the Lord for glory. So let's not focus on what was the blasphemy, which is the blasphemy of all evil, but let's put ourselves in this position and see that each of us would be able to be in this position if we behaved in this way. That is, let's not go with our weakness and our passion to our passion to Jesus Christ, to our Lord, to set us free.
Κωνσταντίνος:Exactly and slowly. Slowly. This was the course of Judas until the big week. Until the so-called big week, until the moment when Christ came to Jerusalem for the last time. On Sunday of the Vagas, he enters, he is glorified, the people take the vases, they welcome him with glory. After a few days, they call him Aaron, aaron the Cross, and he sees Christ walking, talking, being touched by the Pharisees during the Holy Week. He sees Christ responding to various false teachings. He sees the adulterers coming there. He sees the plague with the fig tree.
Σπύρος:I think it's the Great Trinity.
Κωνσταντίνος:The fig tree is being exhumed. One day the Lord says don't eat the fig tree again, don't eat any fruit in in the century from you. And the next morning he says they saw her naked. He continues until the last moment and sees and hears the teaching and the miracles of Christ. And on those days he decides and goes to the Pharisees who were already looking for a way to catch Christ and condemn him. He goes and says he agreed with them, he entered into Satan. He agreed with them to give him for 30 argyris.
Κωνσταντίνος:And now we get to the events of the big week. And before we go to the big fifth, to the night of the big fifth, which is the prayer and the surrender, we will go a few hours before, which is the mystical sleep, the so-called mystical sleep where, for those who do not know the story, christ sends two disciples, if I am not mistaken. He tells them to go to that place. You will find there a man. You will tell him where is the room, the anointing, where I will eat the temple with my disciples. He will show you a table lined up there. You will prepare us to eat the Passover fast. And there the Lord makes the Passover fast with the 12 students and there, in essence, becomes the Holy Communion, what we know today as Holy Communion. He says this is my body. He cuts it and gives it. This is my blood. He cuts it and gives it to everyone. They ate from the body they drank from the blood.
Κωνσταντίνος:He puts the excuse, cuts it and gives it to everyone. They ate from the body, they drank from the blood. And he puts the excuse me. And he puts the glasses in the bottle and gives it. And there something terrible happens. There, he takes a brush, he puts it in the middle, he takes out his coat, his top coat, he takes the brush, he puts it in the middle and he starts and he in the middle of him and starts to wash the feet of the students. And among these 12 students there is Judas. There is Judas.
Σπύρος:So the Lord now reaches this point to wash the feet of Judas and I take the word Konstantinos to add on to what you say that the man who the Lord Jesus Christ, knows that he will betray him and will go through these pains, that he will die to wash his feet, to kneel, to humble, that is the Lord to give an example and to wash the feet of Judas as well as the other eleven students. And we see the greatness of God and the teaching of humility that he wants to show us and how he taught. And in the same way, it was the same teaching of the Lord. Whoever wants to be the greatest among you, to be the smallest, and in this way, showing this example, walking on the feet of Judas, we understand how man should walk. If Christ, who died for the man on the cross because of Judas' betrayal, was drunk on his feet, what should we do? What example should we take?
Σπύρος:And since we came to the secret temple of Constantine, it is an opportunity to talk a little about the fact that Christ because we referred to it there the fact that the Lord began to show that someone is the traitor through the disciples, and the important thing here is that we see the discernment of the Lord, as in every other verse, but especially in these cases where the verses about betrayal are described, that he does not reveal, he does not expose man, he does not say in any of the cases this is the one who will betray me, judas. We do not want to insult him or anything, but to bring him to a difficult position, to reduce him, to accuse him. We do not see anywhere this movement. On the contrary, the only thing we can say is that at some point that was with the students, the Lord said, to mention everything, that I did not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is the devil. He did not say, however, that Judas is the devil and, as you very well said and described the events, konstantinos, at some point it was that Satan entered him. At some point it was that Satan entered him. And here we want to distinguish something that Judas was not in Satan as he was in the Lord, he was in Christ. At some point he reached this point where he let the desire to overcome, to put Christ in his desire for salvation, to reach such a point that he gave the power to Satan to bring him to such a position that he would betray the Lord, because only the inhuman would not be able to do it. And that's why Judas, with his behavior and his mistake of not bringing to Christ, his weakness and his passion to allow Satan to enter him, and that's why the Lord referred to him as a devil. And when did what entered him Satan? When the Lord gave the bread to Judas, because at some point he was asked by John and Peter who is he? And the Lord said the one who will be with me, that is, his hand with my hand, will be with me. And again he did not make a reference.
Σπύρος:And there again many did not understand. We see that there were also priests in the Dianas and all these events are happening. And someone will say why are they being said then? Since they did not understand?
Σπύρος:Let us not forget that the Word of God is timeless and that any reference that we see now and understand why it has been done was done to be written and for us to see it and understand it, that the disciples who lived it may not understand, understand and indeed they do not understand, because it is said through the Word of God who the traitor was and what were all these things that the Lord revealed and they understood them. Later. They were written and we will understand them because we read them and we know them. So what do I want to say with this? That many events on this basis the event were written so that we know them, so that our teachers and we can understand them. So let's not get confused with the Word of God in this way. That's why I mention it. And, konstantinos, if you can add something to this how the Lord in this way hides things, and in the same way we must also hide the sins of our brothers.
Κωνσταντίνος:In essence, christ tries to save Judas without exposing him, without exposing Judas we would say sorry for the word.
Κωνσταντίνος:He tries to save Judas without imposing, without intervening, more correctly, without intervening in his free decision. He tries to influence him in such a way so that he changes his decision, he changes his thought. But not Christ intervenes in Judas' decision, in Judas' free will. He tells him, for example, in the decision of Judas, in the free will of Judas. He tells him, for example, in the Mystical Dome, he says one of you will give me. And he continues and he says the Son of man, I will go to be crucified, to die. As it is written, as it is the will of God, that's it. But if only the man who will give me would be better if he had not been born. What does he say there? Better if this soul had not been born? Such a terrible act. And even there Judas doesn't say what am I going to do now? What have I planned and agreed with the Pharisees? He says it would have been better if I had not been born.
Σπύρος:How blind he was from his passion and again, christ does not tell him.
Κωνσταντίνος:He tells him that if you do it, it is better to not have been born, but he does not tell him you will not do it with the burden. Not, this is the destiny, because you will finally give me nothing, nothing. The decision of Judas remains free until the students started to ask maybe me, sir? Because the decision of Judas remains free Until the students started asking maybe it's me, sir? Because the others are honest.
Σπύρος:It's very nice what you said, because I was thinking too while reading the book. We see that Judas doesn't enter into this process to control himself. We see this fear of the students, and this is good. It's good many times when something happens.
Σπύρος:Maybe I made a mistake, sir, because this shows a fear of God. It shows an honest face of things, a clarity in the heart. Right, maybe I am the one who has made this mistake and I have not understood it. It shows a heart, that is, which is ready at any time to repent, ready to accept its mistake. And we see Judas in no case not entering into this process to investigate the depths of his heart, whether he is the one. He obviously knew it. And that's what makes it even more serious To see the others to say whether I am I, whether I am I, and again, his heart to be pierced. And how many times have we fallen into this mistake, people from our own, our own desires or passions or anything else, that many times we realize that what we do is wrong and we cannot fix it at that time? Why? Because man is blinded by sin. He is blinded by the situation in which he is concentrated.
Κωνσταντίνος:Sin hardens the heart and when the heart of man is hard, he cannot understand. He cannot understand the Word of God, he cannot understand the will of God, so he does not react and does not act according to the will of God. And just afterwards we see the Lord leaving. The disciples have not understood anything. The Lord, jesus Christ, takes the eleven and they leave and go to the Garden of Olives where the prayers with the three disciples develop, which are taken by the sleep, the events. And after three times that Christ prays, he says come Oghlos, with fire, with branches and with wood, and the Judas in front of him, to capture the Jesus. It is now the time of tradition, of prophecy, where everything was revealed.
Σπύρος:With every officiality.
Κωνσταντίνος:Exactly. And the amazing. It makes me very impressed every time I read it. Judas comes with the cross. Christ comes to meet him. The disciples are behind him. I make an image of him in my mind, excuse me. And Christ asks Judas, friend, what do you want? Why did you come Friend In the beginning.
Σπύρος:He says want. Why did you come Friend In the beginning?
Κωνσταντίνος:he says why? Why? That is even at that moment, maybe at the last moment, maybe something has changed, friend, because he says he is caught, the Jew is holding him, and it was the point of the tradition, the Jewish friend, as we say.
Σπύρος:Exactly, and the world knows that. In this way, we see here another great sin, the hypocrisy, in a hypocritical way, that is, you protect, because the tribe is a sign, a movement, a gesture of love, sympathy, to make such a move, to betray this person. And let's not go too far. Let's not go too far at all, because we all accuse and we see, we accuse, we see the face of Judas and this behavior, and we said earlier that we can easily get into this position. How many times have we lied, we have been hypocritical to our fellow man, to our neighbor, to someone we don't know for some reason? How many times have we cheated a person, which is a sign of fraud, a sign of betrayal? How many times do we know people who are couples and we discussed the previous issue with marriage and family where the husband betrays the wife and the wife betrays the husband? What is this? It's betrayal. So let's not go too far and necessarily reach the depths of the heart of Judas and say ''Pope betrayed Christ''. We become that too. We become traitors.
Κωνσταντίνος:A person can easily come to this situation, and that's exactly why the today's message and the today's topic have meaning. What we read, what we discuss, is that Christ wants all people to be saved, even if they have reached this state. And for them, and for you, and for me, and for you, and for me, for all of us, christ has died for all sins that's why it's not that if my sin is very big, it's not like that.
Κωνσταντίνος:Christ died for our sins and rose again for our sins. As long as I go and confess to him and tell him Lord, I have committed this sin, I know it is wrong, forgive me, I made a mistake, help me not to do it again. Cleanse me with your blood and Christ takes it, and God takes it in the depths and in the heavens.
Σπύρος:The most important thing is that the Lord does not want our abilities, he wants our honesty. It's very simple. It's so simple. We will make mistakes. We didn't say we would chase the mistake, we will fall. But we must return with an honest heart and say, lord, I fell again. Don't say, okay, I can do it on my own. It comes out, it doesn't come out, I have it or not to have it, it's gone. The whole game has been lost.
Σπύρος:My brother Konstantinos, and with the grace of Christ, as we move forward and the events of the Great Week are also moving forward the betrayal of Judas, who has now handed the Lord over to the soldiers there, and they take the Lord and take him to the praetorium. And we will also mention later in this part but let's stay here a little bit, since the issue is Judas after that, when Judas now understands that now the Lord will be crucified, he will go to death. And reading this, maybe a conclusion will come out, not absolutely certain, but reading from the phrases that maybe Judas had not understood, or maybe Judas had been deceived by the Pharisees that they would catch Christ and kill him. Maybe he had not understood it, because it seems here that he talks later when he realizes that the Lord is going to die. That is, it may have been in his mind that he would simply be imprisoned and he would be released. He didn't have in his mind the exaltation of the punishments for the Lord, and this might have brought him to this point where he describes the Word of God and I will read it from the inside to see the story it says and they said to him what do we care, it's your business. And he threw the argyris at the temple. He left and, leaving, he went and hung himself and the archpriests you will read the whole story took these argyris and said it's not right to put this money in the treasure chest because it's the blood of a god. And after they made a deal, they bought a field, the field of the cherimoya, which was for the foreigners to be buried there. It was a cemetery For this. He named himself the farmer of blood until today. And then a prophecy is also fulfilled, since we will make references to prophecies which says Rithen for the prophet's peace, saying and they received the thirty argyres, the value of the one who was praised, whom they despised from the Son of Israel, and they gave him to the farmers as a pyramid, as the Lord commanded me. We see the prophecy at the same time with this verse to be fulfilled, which was the 30 argyria and the purchase of this farm, of this field. But I want to go a little further. Since we talked, since I mentioned before, about the Jew who now begins to realize that the Lord is condemned to death, he begins to ignore some situations through him. That's why he says you will be repaid. And because there is a theme and a confusion on this part, because they say a lot that Judas was saved, he was not saved and because he was hanged in comparison with the suicide, to distinguish a little something here.
Σπύρος:The word of the author is clear. Either you see it in the archive or in the translation of the book. He speaks of a transgression and he does not refer to repentance. And where I want to stand is in this obvious difference between these two words. Transgression with repentance has no relationship, but it has no essential relationship. And what do I want to say? That metamelia is a step before repentance.
Σπύρος:If Judas repented, wouldn't the Lord forgive him? That is, it's simple. Judas will be given the opportunity again. He himself takes and punishes himself with this movement of self-deception that is, he goes and commits suicide. He goes and is hanged. That is the gift that God gave him in his life. He himself calls himself and instead of waiting and finding an opportunity to approach Christ and ask for forgiveness, he goes and makes a desperate move, and I return a little to the intercession. That's why we understand that he is not repent. Forgiveness goes and makes a desperate move and I return a little to the transgression, and that's why we understand that it is not repentance but it is transgression. And you will allow me excuse me Konstantinos.
Σπύρος:I'm taking a little time to read a little the difference between these two terms, transgression and repentance, Because it is important to understand this thing, the transgression and I will read it exactly. The definitions I found are two different, albeit closely linked, situations of the human soul. First, the metamellia refers to the feeling of sadness, of regret or of acknowledging a mistake that has already happened. It is a emotional reaction and an inner conviction that something we did was not right or caused negative consequences. As we see in the example of Judas, this is what happens to him. Essentially, Transformation is the first phase of self-analysis and realization of the mistake. And now let's go to repentance. Okay, we won't see it etymologically. We see the terms. We don't see the etymology of the words.
Σπύρος:He goes a step further than the words. He goes a step further than the metamelia. It is the next step of the metamelia. It is the active process of changing the way of thinking, the stances and the actions that come from the initial realization and loss. It is a very clear definition, Konstantinos. Repentance includes the decision and commitment for positive change and improvement in the future. While the metamelia focuses on the, the past and the recognition of the mistake, Repentance looks to the future and contributes an active effort for change and improvement, and he ends by saying so we can say that repentance includes transgression, but it goes beyond it, as it requires action and change beyond the simple recognition of the mistake. So, to close and take my word, Konstantinos, here we see Judas recognizing his mistake, coming to an internalization of his situation, but not making the next step, which is to go and ask forgiveness from the Lord.
Κωνσταντίνος:And in two words, to put it this way, it is one to recognize my mistake and other to try not to do it again. Recognize my mistake we repent. Repent means try not to do it again. I make the moves, I'm struggling. You want to say I try. We know that only with the grace of God we can succeed in this not to do the mistake again. And if we do it again and if we fall again, we go to the Lord and say Lord, I'm sorry, I made the same mistake again. Help me. We see Judas in the essence. As I think of it. It's not in the Word of God, it's just how I think. The whole situation at this moment is that Judas betrayed the Lord. He took 30 argyris and said if I made a mistake, I wouldn't have given it to him, I would have taken it in another way, I would have stolen it in another way he changed his mind about what he did.
Κωνσταντίνος:He betrayed the Lord, but he didn't change his mind to say I made a mistake. I wanted the money. I was a thief, I stole. I didn't leave all that.
Σπύρος:I was a thief that I stole that I I didn't leave all of that they don't see any change in his opinion, only that, essentially, the person he gave it to will go for something else than what he thought Exactly.
Κωνσταντίνος:I mean just another opinion, but in the end it's not right to give it to him. All the others remained right in his heart.
Κωνσταντίνος:I mean his opinion remained a joy in his heart and mind and that's why, unfortunately, he had this end, as you said, that he committed suicide. So he went to Napoli and we see that the Word of God had prophesied it From the Old Testament. All this was prophesied and it is also very important because, first, they confirm the Word of God for those who may have doubts that it is the Word of God. But secondly, why? Because the students were not the most independent with the Old Testament.
Σπύρος:They knew the Scriptures Exactly.
Κωνσταντίνος:they knew the Scriptures because all Jews listened, at least on Saturday to a certain extent. They listened to the law, they listened to the prophets, they listened to the prophets, they listened. Many of the disciples we see, of the apostles and of the disciples of Christ, were disciples of John before.
Σπύρος:So we see that many of no complete ignorance of the past.
Κωνσταντίνος:Exactly, they had a relationship with the Jewish religion and with the law and with the things of God.
Σπύρος:With the Word of God.
Κωνσταντίνος:With the Old Testament, with the Old Testament's Word. So we see, and we will see examples now that these come and confirm the prophets of the Old Testament, with Judas, as it says in Psalm 41, verse 9, and this man with whom I lived peacefully, in whom I hoped, who ate with me bread raised up with the cross. He got up and hit me and really, from the closest people to Christ, it was those who betrayed him in the end. But also in the Acts of the Apostles, in the first chapter, in the 20th verse, another prophecy is confirmed, which is said in Psalm 109, in verse 20,. Another prophecy is confirmed, which is in Psalm 109, verse 8. Let the days of the few be and let another receive his bishophood. We see there that Matthew is called, if I'm not mistaken, to another student to take now the diaconate of the apostle which was initially received by Judas.
Σπύρος:So we see that all this was prophesied, that the Word of God foretold all that will happen and they were confirmed, and we see them in the Word of God beautifully and beautifully. And because our time is up beyond the whole juice of the story, which is obviously our love for the Lord, we would like to close, at least I to say a related passage. It says inside the Word of God, which is related it was written later because it is in a letter from John, but we can very easily include this verse in the case of Judas, but also in each one of us. It says and here I want to stand a little bit to close, my beautiful Constantine, if you don't have anything else to add, no, no. And here I want to stand a little to close my beautiful Constantine, if you don't have anything else to add, yes, go ahead.
Σπύρος:That you can become Judas at any time and moment. You can open the body of Christ at any time and moment you can make mistakes at, but the important thing is to look like Christ and not the person of sin, Not to approach things in your life and in my life mainly I am talking about myself first of all with the way Judas approached and did what he did and did what he did. We must remember and execute what the Lord said and how the Lord acted With love, to remain within the Word of God, within the Church of Christ, within the Spirit of the Holy One. I don't know, Konstantinos, if you have anything else to add on this.
Κωνσταντίνος:And because I am all in many things as weantinos if you have something else to add to this and because we all suffer a lot. As we said, even if we fall, even if I fall, the blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, cleanses us from every sin. When we go to Christ, we confess our sins and abandon them.
Σπύρος:As the saying goes, we repent, we repent and even if it is the last moment, let's not reach this level that Judas reached, as we saw that God is protecting us, who had the opportunity until the end to repent, but we didn't. May God be with you. Thank you very much for another episode where you were with us and you listened to what we said. To conclude, you can follow us on social media if you want to communicate with us. Thank you for watching this episode on what we said. May God be with you. Bye.
Κωνσταντίνος:Have a good day, thank you.