DEAD TO SIN. ALIVE TO GOD. (10 OF 19)
Dead to sin. Alive to God. (10 of 19)
Series: Romans
Michael White
Romans 6
Grigory Yefimovich was a Russian monk whom most of you know more popularly by his nick name Rasputin.
He had a nefarious influence over Czar Nicholas the II and his wife Alexandra because of his reportedly mystical healing influences over their young son, who was to become the future Czar of russia.
They saw him in the courts as a humble and mystical man of God, who supposedly had an uncanny ability to heal and predict the future but when Nicholas II left to lead his troops during WWI, Rasputin's true colors emerged.
Exerting a massive amount of influence over the Czar's wife (whether it be by hypnosis or other mystical means) he began to have his say in the removal and addition of certain ministers in the weakening Russian government, which caused significant dissent among the populace and ultimately led to his assassination in 1916. Shortly thereafter the entire autocracy was overthrown due to the Bolshevik revolution.
Most of us have heard of his fantastical rise to prominence and his even more bizarre death. But what was also notable about this this insidious monk was his theology.
His nickname means ''Debauched one'' and it comes from the doctrine which he called ''rebirth through sin''. He believed that true and holy communion with God must be preceded by immersion and exhaustion in sin.
Rather than seeking aestheticism, the avoidance of all indulgence, which many monks throughout history have practiced, he believed that flagrant immorality and licentiousness brought him closer to God because in practicing such he would experience more grace.
And with the same religious devotion that he performed religious services, he reveled in immorality to the point of exhaustion He declared that if you are simply an ordinary sinner, you aren't giving God an opportunity to show His glory, so you need to be an extraordinary sinner!
And this strange theology not ...
Series: Romans
Michael White
Romans 6
Grigory Yefimovich was a Russian monk whom most of you know more popularly by his nick name Rasputin.
He had a nefarious influence over Czar Nicholas the II and his wife Alexandra because of his reportedly mystical healing influences over their young son, who was to become the future Czar of russia.
They saw him in the courts as a humble and mystical man of God, who supposedly had an uncanny ability to heal and predict the future but when Nicholas II left to lead his troops during WWI, Rasputin's true colors emerged.
Exerting a massive amount of influence over the Czar's wife (whether it be by hypnosis or other mystical means) he began to have his say in the removal and addition of certain ministers in the weakening Russian government, which caused significant dissent among the populace and ultimately led to his assassination in 1916. Shortly thereafter the entire autocracy was overthrown due to the Bolshevik revolution.
Most of us have heard of his fantastical rise to prominence and his even more bizarre death. But what was also notable about this this insidious monk was his theology.
His nickname means ''Debauched one'' and it comes from the doctrine which he called ''rebirth through sin''. He believed that true and holy communion with God must be preceded by immersion and exhaustion in sin.
Rather than seeking aestheticism, the avoidance of all indulgence, which many monks throughout history have practiced, he believed that flagrant immorality and licentiousness brought him closer to God because in practicing such he would experience more grace.
And with the same religious devotion that he performed religious services, he reveled in immorality to the point of exhaustion He declared that if you are simply an ordinary sinner, you aren't giving God an opportunity to show His glory, so you need to be an extraordinary sinner!
And this strange theology not ...
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