We celebrate the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary. The Word of God says: “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” Jesus said the same words at the end of the Sermon on the Mount which begins with the Beatitudes and ends with the parable of two men who built a house. One man built a house on the sand and the other on the rock. Those who hear the word of God but do not keep it build on the sand. Those who hear the word and put it into practice build on the rock. This reveals the essence of the way of our salvation.

Unfortunately, modern theological studies lead just to theorizing and rationalism. This all is a house on the sand – philosophizing instead of repentance, self-denial and the following of Christ.

7 November 2014

Lies kill: “Have a drink, don’t be afraid, it’s clean water!” But it was poison in fact!

The first woman, Eve, believed the spirit of lies and death spread to her and her offspring (Gen 3). The devil is the father of lies (Jn 8:44). He disguises himself as an angel of light (2Cor 11:14-15). The technique of lies, behind which is the spirit of the angel of light, is used today towards autogenocide of mankind. It has four stages:

Ukraine, 13 November 2014

Vatican Secretariat of State

Francis has called a meeting with pagan leaders to discuss the gender issue. What is gender ideology? It is amoral ideology which holds that a man has a right to declare himself to be a woman, and the whole public must accept it. He also has the “right” to undergo a sex-change operation. The term “gender” includes homosexuality and about 50 other forms of gender schizophrenia.

The Vatican and pagan leaders will say no clear words which would support human nature and sound mind but by means of pious phrases and psychological manipulation they will open the door to this spirit of immorality to penetrate into the Church. This is the aim of the gender meeting in the Vatican.

To love God means to lose my soul for His sake. There is no other way. By losing my soul and its spiritual powers, which are infected by original sin, I will keep it for eternal life.

Today the devil uses a system of lies and various promises to make people love their souls in a wrong way and ultimately give themselves wholly to him and perish forever. He promises money, career, pleasures, but this all is a deceit. There is salvation in no one else but Christ (cf. Acts 4:12). He loves me, He died for me on the cross. He lost His life for me and I am to lose my soul for Him – to give myself wholly to Him to save my soul.

Utter the holy name “Jehoshua” quietly and realize the presence of God – the whole Trinity – in you. Lengthen the vowel “a” by breath and realize that at this moment you consciously love God and lose your soul for His sake.

What is it – Christ’s commandments? What the Ten Commandments are, it is clear. They are God’s laws formulated in ten clear commandments of God. And what are Christ’s commandments? Is it the same or is it something different? Nobody speaks about them, nobody emphasizes them. Nobody has taught us about them. Christ’s commandments are partly expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, then in the words of Jesus the night before His death, and in other places of the Scripture too. His commandments touch the heart. They are related to the inner life of man. For example, the sixth commandment says: “You shall not commit adultery!” But Christ’s commandment says – if you look at someone lustfully, you have already committed adultery in your heart. Or the fifth commandment: “You shall not kill!” But Christ’s commandment says – if you hate your brother in your heart, you commit a sin and call down a just punishment.

(celebrated in Ukraine on Oct. 14)

In relation to this feast, Jesus says in the Gospel: “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” (Lk 11:28) The first thing is to hear the word of God and the second thing is to keep it. How many obstacles there are in us and around us which prevent us from hearing the word of God, thinking about it and keeping it so that it may become incarnate in us. This word should become incarnate in us just like in the Blessed Virgin – in her the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And how did it happen? She was prepared. She lived by faith, wholly devoted to God. When the angel came to her, she said: “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.” These were not mere words, this was her life. And what did it involve? In that situation she risked her life. Any woman in Israel who was pregnant without being married was stoned to death. However, Mary knew Isaiah’s prophecy: “The virgin shall conceive and bear a Son.” She asked: “How can this be?” The angel said to her: “The Holy Spirit will do it.”

If you judge yourself – that means, you admit your sin truly before God here in time, you can taste forgiveness in this light. God’s Word says: “If we judge ourselves, God is so good and just to forgive us our sins.”

People can overcome sin neither by means of psychology, nor by modern theologies, nor by oriental meditations… The victory depends on our deep communion with Christ. The essential thing is to be in Christ Jesus, our Lord, by faith. It means that in the particular present moment I am in Him not only passively but at that moment I love Him with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength.

To love Him means to offer Him my spiritual powers – heart = emotions, soul = powers of the soul, i.e. memory and reason, as well as my members. To love Him with all my strength means to give Him my will.

What to do in order to discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

The Apostle writes: Rom 12:1-2  I beseech you, brethren, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

How to transform our minds in order to accept God’s Word, to have experience of God, to trust in Him and to live by faith? Our soul has reason, will and heart – i.e. feelings. And if there is disharmony between them, evil and sinful feelings begin to manipulate us, enslave us and our will and reason must be conformed to them. And that’s our ruin! We become slaves of sin – fornicators, drug addicts, careerists… Or we live in hatred, envy, open our hearts to the spirit of evil which is behind them, and reason doesn’t work any more.

Ukraine, 30 September 2014

In May this year, “Pope” Francis uttered a statement that shocked the whole world! Bergoglio approved and blessed the “mark of the beast”, calling RFID-chips God’s blessing for mankind.

Francis said: “We have examined the Scriptures thoroughly, and I can conclusively say that there’s nothing to indicate that RFID Chips are Satanic in anyway. If anything, these devices are a blessing from God himself, bestowed upon humanity to solve many of the world’s ills.” (http://praisedc.com/1710415/pope-francis-gives-support-to-rfid-chip-implantation-shocking-video)

The statement by this so-called “Pope” is a betrayal of God, the height of blasphemy and lies. It is an obvious sin against the Holy Spirit!

Bergoglio is a false prophet with the spirit of the world. 20 years ago, Orthodox monks of Mount Athos pronounced a clear word of prophecy in God’s Spirit when they warned insistently against chipping.

The Apostle Paul says: …we constantly enter into Christ’s death”. It does not mean that we die physically but that in a particular situation we give the whole problem to God.

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

God promised to instruct us and teach us in the way we should go. How much we need it, for the world today is full of evil and traps prepared for us. And God says – I will counsel you.

We need to get at the root of Christianity. The essence of Christianity is our communion with Jesus, Jesus crucified and risen. This must not be just an empty phrase. We need to live a life of repentance and true following of Christ in a small house Church, in a sound cell of a biblical and prayer community under the guidance of the prophetic voice of a pastor or teacher. Moreover, we must be prepared for persecution. A fight with the spirit of antichrist is going on and destroying the Church little by little. It was our duty to stand against this whole system. It will seek to attack and destroy us.

What is necessary for us Christians to live a true life? How can we achieve unity among us? This is the most needful and, at the same time, the most difficult thing. Often it is not possible to speak about the problems of others in the community or to point to the root: “Look, you have such fault, you need to do something about it. You cling to this thing and attitude, and you deprive yourself of 90% of the blessing and all the graces which God has given you.” If you say this to someone, the old self (i.e. our corrupt nature) reacts by taking offence and fleeing both from the community and from Christ. What’s that? The problem is, too, that we are mostly under pressure, exposed to a spiritual fight, and so it is not possible to tell a brother about his faults because he would not have the strength to continue to fight.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. In all your ways be mindful of Him, and He will make straight your paths.” (Pro 3:5-6)

We have a variety of vices and self-pities which hold us in bondage. We can speak of spiritual resurrection if we let ourselves be healed by God. The precondition is to stand in the truth and to be willing to see and admit our faults. We should not take offence. Let us say: “Yes, it is true. This is my weakness.” We should not fall into depression but say to ourselves: “I have to fight against it. Yes, I will fail again and again but I will ask God for light and strength.

Pearls

• Psalm 86:5 For You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abundant in mercy to those who call upon You.

What does this Psalm say about God? He is good, forgiving and abundant in mercy. But only to those who call upon Him. Those who do not call upon Him, refuse His help, or do not even admit that they need His help, are like starving people whom you give bread and they turn away from you. They don’t want! They don’t want good, they don’t want life, so what can you do? The condition of salvation is: …to those who call upon Him.

• Eph 1:7-8 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

How are we forgiven? We are forgiven through His blood.