The Bible and You - To Bear Good Fruit

Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange in California.  He is also founder and president of Spirit Filled Heart Ministries, which engages in evangelization and support of the foreign missions.  He and MaryAnne have been married for nearly 50 years and have three adult children.



Transcript:
announcement: 0:29

It's nice to be invited over to a friend's house and Deacon Steve and Mary and Greco have a fresh pot brewing and comfy chair waiting for you. So kick back, relax and get ready to soak in God's Word with some good friends. It's the Bible and you with Deacon Stephen Maryann Greco.

Mary Anne: 0:49

Everyone sticking Steve Greco, Marianne and welcome to the Bible. And you

Deacon Steve: 0:55

and you and you and you, you know your eyes look very pretty today. Oh, okay. You know why? Because you see clearly and there's no Splinter or log or playing or plank in your eye. That's good. You love the Lord. Good. Amen. Amen. Out there. Amen. Hey, I

Mary Anne: 1:14

want to thank you. I want to congratulate you. Why yes, because Steve won the evangelist of the year for the whole country. And it was given to him from the group The Goddess, a Catholic group of business,

Deacon Steve: 1:30

yeah, 90 chapters across the country. So I was very blessed. And because I know you, I am as you inspire me, anyway, beneath my sails, a

Mary Anne: 1:39

beautiful Ward and well deserved because if anyone is an evangelist issue, Steve

Deacon Steve: 1:44

will thank you, and you are too and it shows again, Jesus washing the feet of other people. And that's what we're called to do. Not just on Holy Thursday, but to wash one another's feet, to serve one another, to love one another with all of our heart. And we are to love one another without judging. Right? Right. It fits right in with what we talked about that last week to where it continue the Sermon on the plane and for the gospel. So let's begin then the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, amen. Heavenly Father, we know Lord God that you are healer. We know Lord God that you are king. And we asked Lord God for the Holy Spirit descend upon us, to melt us, mold us and use us. We asked Lord God, not to judge other people, but to encourage them, not to see fault, but to see the beauty in them, to build them up. Lord God, Lord, heal us spiritually, mentally, mostly, physically, heal our families, our marriages, heal everything that we're doing, Lord God, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother, through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the intercession of St. Joseph through the power of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus name, and I flesh in Him the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, a man that deserves at least one Oh, les Lujah. Oh, Lilu. Yeah, good. Okay, Rock was about. So that's

Mary Anne: 3:09

an author that's a wise and pious Jew, who lived around 200 BC. And his purpose in writing this was really to encourage his fellow Jews to live devout lies by following the laws of Moses. And in this reading, he really emphasizes man's speech, and how it shows your character or your religious outlook in life. And he did this using similes. So let's read it and see what we get out of

Deacon Steve: 3:36

it. And, you know, this is out of the books of wisdom, right. But there's something kind of controversial about this, too, the Protestants don't really buy into this at all. And the reason they don't buy into this, they call it do to do Chiro canonical, it means second canned and, and the reason why they don't like it, is that they, you know, a lot of it was how it was written. You know, it wasn't necessarily written in the Hebrew as before, but written in the Greek right. And so they don't accept it, but we know that it is truth. And so that's why we accept it.

Mary Anne: 4:13