Amen!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌 My mom always used to tell us, "Life is the transition from selfishness to selflessness."

Be careful not hate yourself though That happens many times

The Bible says that we are made in his image and if we love him we naturally love our self’s 😊

Yes 🙌 and sadly the world make it a trend "Love yourself! First" 😢

Loving God with all our being, leads to understanding how we should love ourselves (being humble but not so low that you murder yourself, being confident but not so much that you see your own sins as good).

“Lovers of themselves” is hyperbole for narcissism and self-absorption, especially to the detriment of our relationships with others, and Christ more importantly. No disrespect; but it’s so sad to see us constantly either go to that extreme, or to intense legalism such as the example seen in this video. I look forward to us becoming a people of scriptural context and balance one day.

This is that ONE PARTICULAR MESSAGE ive been hoping for. Prior to this, i used to preach exactly like him about loving oneself as a sin. But even almost all of our community and church members thought i was mad. Glad i find this short. May Yah continue to bless your works, brother.

Well that's for sure happening these days. Thanks to Social media

Amen. May I be filled with Christ Jesus. Amen

What if I hate myself to the point where I think I don’t deserve love

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.❤

Amen thank You Lord for everything🙏🙏

beautiful sermon at last someone with the true understanding of the Word.

I needed to hear this SO BAD right now! And on a deep and true meaning, thank you. That is such a beautiful yet intricate way of describing Gods love for Us and Our love for God on a deeper and more solidly, spiritually grounded level. Thank you for spreading the Word of God in a loving way. I pray above all, God is in line with this and that this is as pure as I hope and believe it is. God bless you.

Thank you vlad. To me this goes along with "forgiving ourselves," which does not make sense to me as the one we want forgiveness from is our father. Then, we believe him that he has forgiven us

Beautifully said

Amen , love God and love your neighbors.. No written in the bible to love yourself . but loving self means you taking care of yourself.

To take it a step further the Bible actually labels self seeking as demonic James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

Love God❤ Love Your Neighbor❤

Because God already Love us

*Love you neighbor for he is like you*

Amen ...Pray for my son's marriage it will be next month of 15th in a,good auditorium here and reception too there , a Pst will come to conduct it here .. Needs your prayers ...

So powerful Pastor thank you!

God loves those who love him. Take care of the Christians around you and you are doing it for christ.

Finally, someone is saying it!

I love God so much. He has saved me from the darkest parts of my life. I rely on him and I only trust him. I am starting to make lots of friends. I have loved ones who I care for deeply. I am grateful God has placed them in my life. Lately though. I have been feeling this overwhelming hatred for myself. It’s hard to explain. But I’ve been exhausted. I have lots of health issues and a rly busy work and school schedule. But I’m grateful for those experiences. I just noticed that I rly hate myself. I get so upset with myself. I love myself because God loves me. But daily I struggle to think I am so tired of being alive and just want to go home. I cry consistently every day & I can’t shake this idea. I’ve a experienced it before when I was in my teens dealing with depression. Which I now know was serious spiritual warfare. God delivered me from suicide & self harm. But now recently I feel the love of God yet I am tired of living & fighting and just want to go to heaven. I know these things might sound selfish. I’m sharing it bc I am in need of help. Thank you ❤may God bless all that are seeking his kingdom!

AMEN Pastor Vlad 🙏♥️

AMEN!!!❤😇

WOW Bro blew my mind fr 🤩

Shalom Vlad, I absolutely understand what you say... Yet, at the same time i have terrible troubles with it... Let me explain: First of i do believe, see and act in the sense that others arround me are more valueable then me. And i do pick up my cross daily by giving everything (which is first my relationship with Christ and every waking moment of my existance) in my life for the sake of the gospel. 🕊❤😇 Yet, at the same time i'm terribly lonely because i have no one who really desires my presence. Which is hardly bareable in the sense of normal relationships but not bearable in the sense of someone to love in the Adam and Eve kind of way. Because of this, it's intens to do this. And keep on going... If there was just one steady person who loved me in the same way that i give myself for the love of Christ. Then it would be so easy to bear it, yet at this moment it doesn't exist... I hope this will not be for the entirety of my life, but it feels like it is gonna be that way... What's good (biblical)news for someone in my situation??? For i can't find much to lift me up these days... Especially because i recently met someone who i really liked (and i think she liked me too...) but i cannot get in contact with her anymore... She could contact me (because she knows my first and last name in writen form) but i cannot contact her...

He said "obsession of yourself is not Christ". Loving yourself and being obsessed is on two totally different levels. Through God's word you have to speak life into yourself, not death.

Mind blown 🤯 now I understand because we already love ourselfs all ready we just love god and our neighbors

AMEN AND AMENNN!!!!

Amen brother ❤

Agree, He showed me this too, recently.

AMEN!!!!

Amen Vlad preach it

Amen truth❤

Thank you Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Vlad, thank you for following your calling to preach the truth, be it hard, isolating at times. I appreciate your no-nonsense direct communication style with love. The way Christ also would speak.

Well said.

Well said bro

Well said!

Holy Ghost air hug! thank you

Powerful

Amen, thank you.

Amen

Good point

Lemme tell yall a story but in short so my parents were gonna break up and stuff so I prayed and prayed for them not to and a little later there back ❤😊

It is no longer i that liveth but Christ who lives in me.

Amen! ❤

To love yourself is not in the sense of placing oneself on a pedestal in front of God and others-it means responsible self-governance of one's body, soul, and spirit in order that you can be a better steward of God in relation to other people. We are not to condemn ourselves nor are we to laud ourselves better over others. Paul even says for us to think ourselves no better than one another but always having our view upward and onward to Christ. We inhabit the spirit of the evil one when we have the horizontal lens of understanding reality instead of always looking upward to Christ. We are not look horizontal toward one another in fault-finding and neither looking down condemning ourselves as “far too gone” and too far from receive God's transformative grace.

AMEN 🙌🙌

Yes so true 🙏

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AMEN 🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌

amen

CHRIST IS KING!

Vlad, what is your personnal contact for counseling? I just need a few tip for grieving

I’m extremely vain how do I pray to remove it?

Amen 🙌🏻♥️🙌🏻

AMEN 🙏

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So true

How do you love yourself if you have not been loved as a child

As a person who was born in the church you do have to love yourself not in the way this world tells you but on ways that heal your heart and your mind soul and spirit forgiving others and realizing in order to love God and Jesus Christ you do have to love yourself, How can you love God or Jesus if you can’t love yourself?

The point is to find and realize that we are all Gods image EQUALLY in this realm that we could build to be heaven

TKY

Honestly there's a lot of people there who dont love themselves and wants to kill themselves and I was one of that, it was so hard to love God when you dont love yourself so how the hell are you supposed to love God and your neighbor when YOU CANT EVEN LOVE YOURSELF?! Do answer that ITS NOT BAD to love yourself just not much dont idolize,

If you hate yourself or are full of self-rejection what then is the answer? If you have a really destructive inner critic what then is the answer?

Deny self daily pick up your cross and follow Christ

Shouldn’t love ourself to the point of pride for sure. But if I hate myself that’s attacking Gods imagine.

Are you speaking against self-improvement/hard work in hobbies, sports?

So ignore the thyself part of the verse?

God wants you to love yourself

Hi!! My name is Ruth I'm a situation that I don't understand I need a guide may somebody help me

Self love is basically making sure your safe

Misquoted verse from Timothy, the verse actually says in the last days people will only love themselves and their money

I hate myself. I hate my job. I hate my car. I hate my girlfriend. I hate my life. I hate Rap "music."

Not true. Matt. 22:37-40, Mark 12:29-31, Luke 10:25-28 says otherwise. Please read for yourselves people of God. 3 books saying the same thing, in fact in Luke someone asked Jesus and he agreed. Also Timothy say people will be lover of their “OWN” selves. Moreover, how can you love others if you never value yourself? Meditate on this with the heart of the Father.

I kinda understand, but, so are we supposed to love others as Christ loved us basically and deny urself?

I came across thid video weeks ago and I'm having an existential crisis now. So you're telling me that self improvement is a sin? That taking care of youself is a sin because it is centered in "me,me,me" what the fck am I suppose to do? Someone please help. Can someone cite scripture for my problem.

you must love yourself but you must not idolize yourself, right? is that what he’s saying?

This is not Godly wisdom to exclude what is written in scripture … We don’t delete or overlook or minimize As yourself … vlad is missing the main point which is As you love yourself you will love your neighbor .. not everyone will love and nurture themselves naturally this is a false assumption - vlad is we can’t love ourslves then are we to hate ourslves ?

Love ur self but dont love ur self so much u think urself as a god

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists. Historically, evidence of atheistic viewpoints can be traced back to classical antiquity and early Indian philosophy. In the Western world, atheism declined as Christianity gained prominence. The 16th century and the Age of Enlightenment marked the resurgence of atheistic thought in Europe. Atheism achieved a significant position in the 20th century with legislation protecting freedom of thought. According to estimates there are at least 500 million atheists in the world.[1] Atheist organizations have defended the autonomy of science, ethics and secularism. Arguments for atheism range from philosophical to social and historical approaches. Rationales for not believing in deities include the lack of evidence,[2][3] the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection of concepts that cannot be falsified, and the argument from nonbelief.[2][4] Nonbelievers contend that atheism is a more parsimonious position than theism and that everyone is born without beliefs in deities;[5] therefore, they argue that the burden of proof lies not on the atheist to disprove the existence of gods but on the theist to provide a rationale for theism.[6] Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists. Historically, evidence of atheistic viewpoints can be traced back to classical antiquity and early Indian philosophy. In the Western world, atheism declined as Christianity gained prominence. The 16th century and the Age of Enlightenment marked the resurgence of atheistic thought in Europe. Atheism achieved a significant position in the 20th century with legislation protecting freedom of thought. According to estimates there are at least 500 million atheists in the world.[1] Atheist organizations have defended the autonomy of science, ethics and secularism. Arguments for atheism range from philosophical to social and historical approaches. Rationales for not believing in deities include the lack of evidence,[2][3] the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection of concepts that cannot be falsified, and the argument from nonbelief.[2][4] Nonbelievers contend that atheism is a more parsimonious position than theism and that everyone is born without beliefs in deities;[5] therefore, they argue that the burden of proof lies not on the atheist to disprove the existence of gods but on the theist to provide a rationale for theism.[6]

But if 8 don't? I'm not Rgueing against you, I'm just saying. I do believe. And care for my neighbor. Yet I have bog challenges when it come to 5ake care of myself, sometimes it brings very big troubles ...and as I see, being better with taking care of me would help in being better for others

no but got DOES say Love your neighbor as you love yourself that’s the thing. He calls us to love our neighbor AS we love ourself and if I don’t love myself I will never love my neighbor. When you hate yourself you will be sad all the time and you will never want to love anyone else. You must love and respect yourself but never idolize, please don’t be deterred, love yourself

Oh, well I think actually, the Bible does tell us to love ourselves because it says to love others as we love ourselves but I think it’s just that we don’t understand what love is. I think if we understand Love from the godly perspective there’s no problem - most people who think they’re loving themselves aren’t actually loving themselves with God’s definition.

Seems like he is twisting words to suit a narrative. Try this on for size, just like any random with a camera should not just blindly be listened to on KZfaq. any random on a soapbox that says he knows GOD is also not an automatic authority on the matter.

Why must you be sticking with something betterin the future when the best could be right now?

That's not true! Your eyes should be focused on you. You are the ultimate good. You are the one who has the power to reshape your reality as you wish. You won't find me outside. Search within yourself. Don't get lost. Open your curiosity and seek the truth. You're almost there. ❤️

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