10 ways to save our souls

10 basic things that are required for our salvation. 10 as many as the fingers of our two hands. The first, the most basic of all, is humility. Let us be humble people, not selfish, not proud. Humility is the soil on which all virtues thrive. After the experience of faith, we need correct faith, proper faith, and, together with faith, confession of faith. Third, hope that we do not despair of the difficulties of life, of the problems, of the dramas. If God had died, then we would have to believe. God does not die. God sees, watches with affection, and when we call upon him and struggle, He gives the solution. Humility, faith, hope, love. Love is the supreme virtue. If humility is the base, love is the summit, the queen of virtues, the sum of all virtues. God is love, and the man who wants to be a man of God and be saved must have love. Sorry for interrupting. Evangelical love, let's talk about the kimassoni in the I got love, we will develop the topics. Not because we don't have time, just like that, as a point of reference, not ekfisma love, worldly love and the vile people, because they are too in the pyramid in the The pyramid of the pyramid has the cornerstone, that is, in the pyramid always love, but worldly love, pathos love, we are talking about evangelical love, Christ preached a new love, an empty commandment, two-fold, us, or love as I have loved us, I give you a new commandment of love. Where does the new element come from? You will love as I loved Christ, purely and without self-interest. Yes, even your enemies, and you will love to the point of sacrifice and self-sacrifice. This is Christian love. The rest are vague words that we hear on the radio, on television. I love you, I love you, I love you, I adore you. All the vile people talk about love, but they mean an intoxicated love. And the lustful loves and homosexuality are still presented as love and as the kiss of angels. Not such a sportive love, but pure Christian selfless love. Yes. Well, love is the highest of virtues, the queen of virtues. How many virtues have I mentioned so far? Four. Humility, faith, hope, love. Four. The word of God is also necessary for us to be saved. That is, the Holy Bible, to read the Bible. To read other spiritual books that interpret scripture and to love preaching, Orthodox preaching. Scripture, the word of God. We said five. Indeed. Prayer is a necessary condition of salvation. Church attendance, regular church attendance, Mr. Koutrombelis, not church attendance at Easter and Christmas. Regular church attendance. We will analyze these and prove that it is necessary to attend church regularly. How have we said it so far, you count 3 6, but we said three seven or the meanings, pay attention to the number and both. Both. Nice. To be precise. As much as I can. Below. Very nice. That's right. Also, repentance and confession to a spiritual father are needed. Confession is a sacrament of the church from the beginning. We are sinners. No one is sinless, and we must humble our egoism. To lay our egoism at the feet of a loving spiritual father, a priest, a representative of Christ. This is how Christ himself ordained it. As much as the rationality and egoism of people do not want to accept it, to humble ourselves to confess our sins to receive absolution. It is a sacrament of confession. Then the coming to the sacrament of divine communion. If you do not eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, said Christ, you have no life in yourselves. Whoever does not commune does not have a higher spiritual life. He has a lower life that even unbelievers and the ungodly have, and even animals have it. The higher life is shaken by divine communion. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. How many things have we said, nine, one, I don't know, maybe it's baptism, the 10th, count it well. Baptism is understood, you understand it, we are talking about Christians, in fact, about baptized people, what must we Christians do to be saved, and the last one is a struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle against the devil, against the world that sets a thousand traps, that provokes with a thousand provocations, with irregular provocations and against ourselves, because within we have the seeds of all evil, of all passions. It goes without saying that the same will. We have the flesh that is a beast. We have the sexual demon, Asmodeus. So, we have temptations from the devil, temptations from the world, and internal temptations from our corrupt nature. And we must fight, struggle, struggle, unyielding struggle, as a politician here from Patras, Makaritis, said, but he meant, but he meant, a political struggle. We are fighting a general struggle, a struggle to earn our bread honorably and a struggle to defeat the devil, the world with its attractions and its traps, and ourselves with our passions. Mr. Stropoule, if we do these 10 things, we will go to heaven with our tsarouchia. We will be given the opportunity in other programs to analyze these. Each of these requires the time of a program. Very right.