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March 15, 2025 - Brother Nathanael
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Episode 73: The Girl From Ipanema
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Well, hello.
It's Brother Nathaniel.
I am launching my Bible and Doctrine series because those are worthy of double honor who labor in the Scriptures and doctrine.
Church attendance, Bible study, and doctrine are all important together.
Don't divide one from the other.
Like somebody does.
I'm not going to mention his name.
Okay, here we go.
The girl from Ipanema.
Church marriage children.
The idea of men longing after women has a higher meaning.
Yes, it's very basic and earthy and necessary.
For the perpetuity of the human race, yes.
But it does have a higher meaning.
And that's why I'm calling it the girl from Ipanema.
This higher meaning is the striving of men longing after women, the striving for a lofty ideal that leads to the betterment of the individual connected to mankind.
Hmm.
The girl from Ipanema captures this longing, this yearning, this craving.
Okay, Rockwell, play this thing.
I think a sound but that swings so cool and sways so gently That when she passes it, when she passes, goes out.
Oh, but he watches so sadly.
How can he tell her he loves her?
He would give his heart gladly.
But each day when she walks to the sea, She looks straight ahead.
not at him She doesn't see.
Okay, rock.
Very good.
Such a cool song.
It's just so subtle, you know.
It's the longing after the woman, okay, which has a lot to your ideal, okay, again, okay, the idea of men longing after a woman.
Which is very necessary.
God implanted in us this longing.
It does have a higher meaning, and it was really brought out in Faust, Goethe.
It's the striving for a lofty ideal that leads to the betterment of the individual attached, connected to mankind.
No man is an island entire of itself.
Every man!
Is a portion of all others.
The next door neighbor.
The guy across the street.
The guy that lives half a block away in his family.
Those are the others that we are attached to.
Our own neighborhoods.
Our towns.
Our states.
Our nation.
And the church, the body of Christ, with Christ as the head and we members, one of another, attached to the head and each other, must be the center of all that we are with each other, as a community, as a neighborhood, as a society.
And community is the key.
And the center is the family.
Yes, the family is where?
Responsibility, obligation, interaction, order, and cooperation is learned.
That's the very basic of a nation, the family.
And we're going to build a family again.
Yes, it's been torn apart.
But we're going to build it up again, and it's going to be built up through the church.
This is how Jesus means it to be, and the apostles established this, the church and community, families, for eternity until Jesus comes back.
Now all the New Testament writers in their letters to the churches address the entire gamut of the neighborhood, the community, the family, the greater family.
The society, husbands, are addressed.
Wives are addressed.
Fathers, mothers, children, younger men, older men, younger women, older women, masters, servants, or, let's bring it up to date, employers, employees, widows, their relations, in-laws, nephews.
It's all in there.
Look it up and you'll see I'm right.
Now, the only time that celibacy and Corinthians.
Now, Jesus said there are some eunuchs who have been so from birth.
There are some eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and that was in the court.
Especially, we see that in, I suppose it was in the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine Empire.
And there are some eunuchs, Jesus says, who have made themselves eunuchs.
Not by cutting off their testicles, but they've decided they were going to lead a life that was not involved with sexual intercourse with a woman.
He says that there are some eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, for the ministry, like Paul.
Like Paul, who was once married.
I guarantee he was, but I'm not going to get into that.
He's separated from his wife.
And then Jesus qualifies this.
He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.
In other words, this is not for everybody.
This is really a rare exception that one is not going to marry because from the beginning it was not so.
From the beginning, the first commandment to Adam and Eve is to be fruitful and to multiply.
Now the other place that celibacy is brought up is Paul in his letter to the Corinthians, and he says, Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord.
I'll read that again.
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord, because he was asked how to address this.
Yet I give my counsel.
But he didn't have the Holy Spirit here.
I suppose that it is good, this is the key, for the present distress because of the persecution that the Corinthian church was undergoing at that time for the persecution, for the present distress.
This is not an absolute counsel for all time.
I say, says St. Paul, that it is good for a man so to be and keep his virginity.
Okay?
This is a very exceptional situation that was out here, but I'll give you my counsel.
But when he did have the commandment of the Lord in Timothy, where the fullness of instructions is given by Paul by commandment of the Lord to all the members of the church that Timothy was the pastor of, that how, quote, People ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, Paul says.
He has the Holy Spirit.
He has the commandment of the Lord.
This is more absolute.
I will, therefore, that the younger women marry.
Not become nuns.
That the younger women marry.
And they need husbands from the church.
Because Paul says we're not to be unequally yoked.
That means young men are not to become monks.
Again, where are they going to get the husband?
From the church.
The young men of the church, which Paul addresses, which is addressed in 1 John about the young men who are strong, that they would marry and help these women.
To bear children because it's in childbirth, says Paul, that a woman is saved.
That doesn't mean she's going to go to heaven.
That's a larger, broader, more fluid meaning of salvation.
This is how a woman fulfills herself.
Because, he says, the woman, young women, are saved in childbearing, managing the household.
Managing the household.
Children who are well-ordered, and blessed is the man who has a quiver full of them.
Twelve of them!
And then you read also in Timothy that forbidding to marry is disapproved of, it's censored, it's objected to.
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, younger men, younger women, older men, older women, employers, employees, widows and their relations, in-laws, nephews.
As we have many members in one body, so we being many are one body.
Just to give a little touch here, this second girl from Ipanema.
Oh, man. man.
Okay, there's your girl.
I want you guys to get married.
Now, I'm not...
Denouncing or disparaging monasticism.
No, there is a place in the church for the monastic communities.
Yes, there are.
There is a place, but it is not to be predominant in determining our spirituality.
It's the exception not to Mary.
There's a place for it.
I'm not.
degrading it, I'm not disparaging it, but it is not the norm.
It is not the biblical Old and New Testament thrust, because it says that fathers' fathers are the glory of children.
So it's just not the father that's the glory of the child, the children, but it's the grandfather, it's the ancestry.
As we say, when I grew up Jewish, the mishpocha, the entire community, which begins with your mother and father, your mother's grandfather, your mother's father, your mother's mother, your father's grandfather.
It's just a continuation of the humanity, and I want to bring that into the body of Christ, as we have many members in one body.
So we, being many, are one body in Christ.
Now, Rockwell, show me that picture of the creation of Eve.
This is very interesting.
Okay, this is very interesting.
Okay, there's Jesus, the eternal Son of God, the Word of God.
The Trinity is in the first three verses of Genesis.
But I'm not going to get into that today.
Okay, so here you have...
Jesus, the eternal Word of God, put at him to sleep.
He don't know what's coming off.
He doesn't know what's going on here.
He was in a deep sleep.
So while he's in a deep sleep, surgery is done.
The eternal Word of God, the Son of God, Jesus, pre-incarnate, takes out a rib.
And from that rib, a bone, he makes flesh, cartilage.
Cuticles, hair.
How did he do that?
I couldn't do that.
You couldn't do that, but the eternal Word of God can do that.
Okay, so Eve comes out from a rib, and she's got flesh, and she's good-looking, and she's got it all to make that man excited.
Okay, let me go back to my script here.
Okay, now.
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
So now Adam's missing a rib.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
And then he brings this woman unto the man, and Adam said, Foxy lady!
All right, now he waxes prophetic.
He don't know what's going on, but somehow he's got the spirit of prophecy.
He didn't know that the rib was taken out.
He didn't know how this woman was made.
He wasn't there.
He was in a deep sleep.
Because he now has the Holy Spirit.
And I would say that that woman brought it out in him.
You know, a woman can be very inspiring.
It can really inspire a man in many ways.
Adam says, I wish I had the Hebrew here, because it's more poetic in Hebrew.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
She shall be called woman for out of Adam.
He didn't know he was sleeping, but he knows that this is bone of his bones, this beautiful woman, this foxy lady.
And he's ready to get it on, to be fruitful and multiply.
That's the first commandment.
I grew up in Judaism.
It was called the first mitzvah.
Okay, so now, this idea that Adam waxes very prophetic is also brought out in the great prophet, the summit of prophecy, Isaiah.
Who prophesied everything about Jesus, the coming of the Messiah, who would be Jesus, including his suffering and his victorious reign after he suffers and rises from the dead.
It's all in Isaiah.
Did you know that Isaiah, the great prophet, had a wife who was a prophetess?
Isn't that interesting how this culmination Of Adam and Eve, where Adam waxes prophetic, is also seen many years later in Isaiah and his wife, the prophetess.
This is profound stuff.
I'm going to continue this series of church marriage children.
This is just part one.
And we're going to end it soon.
So get your questions ready.
If you have questions, if not, we'll wrap it up.
God created male and female.
That's in Genesis.
The male-female connection spans God's union of heaven with earth.
Yes, it does.
This counterbalance.
The male-female connection solves the aloneness of Adam.
I'll get into that.
The male-female conjunction secures the perpetuity of the human race, which God wanted to continue, and still does.
The male-female conjunction, union, satisfies the urges of our youth.
And they got those urges.
Yes, they do, by the time.
God said when he created Adam, he wasn't there.
God looks at this thing, everything is good, good, good, very good, but now something is not good.
Huh?
All of a sudden, something's not good in God's wonderful creation.
Aha!
So Moses tells us that God says, it is not good for Adam to be alone.
Thus, we can see here, we can draw out that there is some deficiency, something lacking that's inherent Huh!
It's just like a natural thing for men to be attracted to women.
Now, God solves this aloneness by forming what's said in Hebrew.
You have to hear it in Hebrew and understand what the Hebrew is.
Etzer keneglo, which means a strengthening counterpart.
Not a help meet for Adam.
It's the strengthening.
Ezra means strength in Hebrew.
The etzer konegdo, the strengthening counterpart God makes for Adam.
In the King James, it's a help meet for him.
But that's not what the Hebrew is.
It's the strengthening counterpart that that which is lacking in man, that which may be considered some kind of Weakness or deficiency in man is a God brings forth the counterpart that strengthens that.
That's the woman.
That's why I encourage, urge young men and young women to marry by the time you're 18. And we'll talk about making a living.
We'll talk about trades.
I don't think college is really going to do it for you because we don't have any jobs left.
The whole concept of the upward mobility is gone, but that's for another Bible and doctrine of old men.
And the glory of children are their fathers.
Do you see this interconnectedness that goes back, not just to the father, but to the grandfather, the ancestry?
This is the glory of mankind.
Now, I study...
The genealogies.
Not endless genealogies, but the genealogies are there.
And I study them.
And I see in these genealogies what is formed in these genealogical communities.
Some are workers in fabric.
Some are workers in pottery.
Some are scribes.
Some are writers.
And it's a dynastic type of gifting or trade that has brought to the fore through fathers, fathers, children, and their children.
Okay?
I think we can wrap it up.
Rockwell, do we have any questions?
If not, that's going to be it.
Two super chats on Rumble, two separate chats on...
These are read by computer.
Okay.
Okay, ring her up, Brock.
Let's see what it is.
Okay.
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Yes, they're called the number one noticers.
And on my next stream, we'll bring it up.
And they're not...
They're kind of buried on my At Real Ronat now.
But Rockwell, you want to bring up that thing?
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Okay?
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All right.
Do we have another question?
And then we're going to wrap this thing up.
I'll play another song to get you in the mood to get a woman, to get married.
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I'm not going to kvetch and complain, okay?
But I'm basically, I don't know how to put this.
Thank you for the edge of bankruptcy, basically.
I work so hard for the money and I don't get money.
So if you want to help me, I'd appreciate it.
Okay, so let's play, because as I began this, those who labor in the Word and doctrine are worthy of double honor, okay?
And I labor at it.
I read 15 chapters of the Bible a day, five chapters of the Church Fathers.
I've been doing this for years.
I grew up in the Bible.
I grew up in the Old Testament.
Okay, here's Harrison.
Am I going to hear this rock?
Hello, dear brother.
Have you heard of F.R. Thomas Hopko?
He's written for S. T. Vlad Seminary.
If so, what do you think of him?
Yeah, he's a disciple.
I don't think he's living anymore.
He was a disciple of Schmiemann.
Schmiemann was very profound.
Hopko was not.
That's all I want to say.
Okay.
I've read them.
I've read them both.
And I knew Thomas Hopko's daughter years ago.
She probably doesn't remember me.
I know a lot of people.
Okay.
Go ahead, Harrison.
Am I going to hear this?
Dear brother, what do you think of Putin agreeing to name her?
Well, I don't know if Putin agrees with it in principle.
He's a diplomat.
Diplomatically, he basically said yet.
That's the latest I've heard, but I haven't been on the news all day.
So maybe there's something new.
I don't know.
But let's just stick with Bible and doctrine.
Okay, go ahead, Harrison.
Dear brother, if one were to attend and get baptized at OCA, should they be cautious when speaking of the chosen?
Well, it depends on who your priest is, you know, because you can't generalize.
You may have a priest that has read the Bible and sees that the Jewry's house has been left unto them desolate and that Isaiah calls them the seat of Sodom and Gomorrah.
That's in the Old Testament.
And that our Lord and Savior said, made no fruit grow on the Jewish realm, henceforth and forever, when he cursed the fig tree.
So if your priest knows that, and he knows that twice Jesus Christ said the Jews are of the synagogue of Satan, that's biblical.
And if that St. Paul says that they're contrary to all men, that they're the enemies of the human race and that they're dogs, then yeah, you can.
But if he doesn't know the Bible, I would stay away from it.
Okay, so let's go on and let's finish it up.
Oh, Harrison, come on, man.
That's great.
Thank you.
Dear brother, the number one shirt is so comfortable.
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Well, Rockwell, put up where they can buy the number one noticer shirt because this was the way I was going to support my sailing.
But Rockwell's going to get mad at me for saying that.
It's been very difficult for me.
I was very famous on YouTube and I got banned.
Okay, but I don't want to be negative.
But I'm working on coming back on YouTube.
I'm working on it.
With your help, I'm trying to get a groundswell support to everybody, maybe in a couple months, to write to YouTube.
The Jews still run it.
And see if I can get back on with the least Bible and doctrine series.
At least with that.
Okay, so...
And buying the shirts helps me to do this, okay?
So get that shirt, Rockwell, put it up one more time, then we're going to close this thing up with a girl from Ipanema, okay?
Oh, Harrison, I love you.
Hey, let's stay on, and I'll be a millionaire by the time this is over.
Go ahead, Harrison.
Some years ago, I was watching a congressional hearing with the FBI in attendance.
It was about...
Agencies have undercover agents and informants within the clergy or priesthood.
No, they're not interested in the Orthodox Church, I guarantee you, they're not.
Because the Orthodox Church is very unpolitical.
I've been to many different Orthodox Church jurisdictions, including my own, the Russian Orthodox Church, which I'm still in, by the way.
And there's nothing in the sermons that's political at all, which is good.
We shouldn't be talking about that in the sermons.
We should be teaching, encouraging, exhorting, for all doctrine is profitable.
For all scriptures is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction, and righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, that we may reach to the maturity of the head, Jesus Christ.
So that's what we should be doing in the Orthodox Church.
You can do it.
You're going to get hit hard, okay?
But I'm not going to go there.
My pillow.
Five bucks.
Thank you.
All right, let's keep this thing going.
Been using a prayer rope every day.
I find that it's very powerful in battling sinful thought.
You better believe it.
Thank you.
I'm currently seeking to become a catechumen, but my mother is evangelical.
So, please pray for me.
Don't argue with your mother, okay?
Don't do that, okay?
Just try to love her and just accept her.
Don't argue with her.
Don't say, I'm right.
You're wrong.
Don't do that, okay?
What advice could you give to forgive one's father?
Well, this is a tough thing, okay?
To forgive is not always so easy.
Because if it's a fresh wound, time heals all wounds.
So don't force it.
But just ask God to help you, to help you to forgive.
Because forgiveness is what helps us.
Because if we bear a grudge, it's going to eat away at us, and we can get cancer from it if we bear a grudge for too long.
Okay, so it's bad for our health.
Any advice for trying to become Orthodox in a Protestant family?
Yeah.
I would just share the Bible with them and share what you have in common.
You both love Jesus Christ in a Protestant family.
He's the key.
He's the center of our lives.
So just stick with Jesus.
I would not get into the icons.
I would not get into the commemoration of saints or even whether the...
Holy Communion is a symbol or not.
Don't get into arguments.
It doesn't solve anything.
It just makes things worse.
Okay, advice for a guy who's a catechumen but doesn't pray or want to be orthodox anymore.
Well, that's somebody else.
Well, she was a catechumen.
What are you going to do?
That's her decision.
I don't know why.
Talk to her.
Ask her why.
Don't judge her.
Say, what happened?
Start with that.
And maybe she'll say that, you know, somebody, you know, looked at her crosswise or said something to her.
The church doesn't want to join it.
And I sincerely asked him why.
Others were saying, we're right, you're wrong.
I didn't want to go there.
I just said, why?
What is it about the orthodox church that doesn't draw you into it?
And he was just very honest about it.
And we had a good talk.
And we're still talking today.
Because I just want to understand the guy.
Okay, are we done?
Rockwell, do we have it?
Done.
Okay, so now, let me go back to my document, because we want to close this up.
I want to keep this thing short.
Okay, I don't want to go too long.
Right to the very beginning, Rockwell, on this thing.
The girl from Ipanema.
Church marriage children.
I'm going to continue this.
I'm going to continue talking about church marriage children.
If any of you are thinking about the monastic life, I've been in it.
I've been in monasteries.
I was in two monasteries, total 10 years.
What I would recommend is wait until you're older.
Because if you do it while you're young, you may regret it later.
So when you're young, I say get married, have children, then you can work out something with your wife later on and decide you want to do monastic life when the children are grown and you make sure those children are taken care of.
Because the parents lay up for the children.
But, you know, there's different ways of coming into monastic life, okay?
The idea of men longing after women is a natural urge for both the male and female God.
Put it there!
Alright, we're not going to get into blaming God, but this is just life.
Okay.
Because God wants the perpetuity of the human race to move generation to generation.
That's what God wants.
All right.
And it's good for the church that there's children.
No crying.
The church is dying.
All right.
I mean, babies crying.
But the idea of men longing after a woman has a higher meaning.
It's the struggle.
Individual and mankind.
Scroll me down, Rockwell.
And that idea of man seeking something better for himself is connected to his unity with all of mankind.
That's his neighbors.
That's his town.
We're all interconnected.
That guy who packs the shells at 3 in the morning for my Campbell's soup.
I need that guy!
I don't care what his politics are.
I don't care what his religion is.
I need him.
We're all interconnected, you see?
And the church must be the center of our neighborhoods.
And that church is made up of male, female, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, children.
I brought it out before.
This is who Paul addresses.
And James and John and Peter, they do not address monks and nuns.
They do not.
But there is a place for it, but it's marginal.
And it should not inform our spirituality too much.
The spirituality that Paul really encourages is bearing one another's burdens.
How do you bear another's burdens?
You have to talk to them.
Find out.
Just at the coffee hour, talk to the guy, and he'll tell you without you even asking.
All right, so we have this longing.
For a woman, and this is for a higher ideal for the betterment of ourselves and all of mankind, which can find its fruition and its fulfillment in the church.
church, play it at Rockwell, and then we say goodbye.
Thank you.
Thank you.
so gently that when she passes it when she passes ghost Oh, but he watches so sadly How can he tell her he loves her Yes, he would give his heart gladly
But each day when she walks to the sea She looks straight ahead, not at here She ain't looking And turning Alright, that's good.
That's good.
That's good.
Okay, tomorrow I'm going to continue my...
I'm going to be the next Billy Graham.
I hope so.
Let's see what happens.
Let's see if God prospers it.
I'm going to do my second preaching.
Kind of pattern after Billy Graham.
The last was too much pattern after Billy Graham.
People say you're flailing around too much.
You're yelling too much.
I'll find my footing.
God bless you all.
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