31. SERMON OF PATRIARCH MOSES ABOUT HOW TO BE WISE AND TO LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD'S KNOWLEDGE, 20.06.2004
The third Sunday after the Pentecost
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit! Amen.
Congratulations, dear brothers and sisters!
The feast is the holy Sunday.
Today we have heard the Gospel from Matthew (Ìatthew,VI:22-33), where God taught us the way we should treat life, the way we should understand it not to burden ourselves with extra thoughts, not to doVain things, which could deprive you of calmness, happiness, life and could lead to the hell. Because if you suffer now, you will suffer in the future life.
That is why Jesus taught, think about his words: "but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness", i.e. he who has bad eyes. everything is bad for him and then what is his soul? Do you understand? That who has an evil eye constantly notices all bad things; so what kind of the soul he will have? It will suffer, because there is constantly much black energy. This evil eye is not able to notice wonderful flowers, blue sky, green beautiful trees and it is not able to listen to the birds singing. It is not able to enjoy the clean air, or something beautiful, or something wonderful. Even to enjoy the architecture of the city or something like that. Do you understand? This person is not able to notice something positive in someone or in something. And when the person is not able to do it, it contaminates itself, the soul becomes dark and the life isVery bad.
These people nag themselves during their lives. Their blood is spoiled, they suffer from leukemia; different illnesses, which you know, develop in them.
God taught and says: "If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” If a person was full of darkness he or she suffers. Right? Then how worse is in hell? Imagine that it is much worse in the hell. This person feels badly here, he/she doesn't love anything: doesn't love Motherland, language, doesn't love anything. Do you understand? Such person is hateful. How this person will feel in the hell? What is the hell and to what extent is it worse?
What should we understand from this? Our eyes have to be healthy. We must analyze circumstances, we must analyze people. We should see in what person sins and in what redeems; for not to follow people but to follow only God. And do not let them go deeply into your heart, do not question minutely, do not judge in the presence of someone showing your righteousness. It is the false form of righteousness, God doesn't like it.
God taught and said: "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" We could think: "How we shouldn't be anxious for the food; we could die of famine."
Don't be anxious. But why?
He says what we have to seek: "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
And what is the God's Kingdom?
It is gladness, your harmony with God. The sins in which you have confessed and which have pressed you are not any more on you. You understand that you have not already had them. You always try to please God. First you think about God's Kingdom and about the glory of this Kingdom.
Above all think about the God's Kingdom, think how to do right. Because if you do not think about it, you will sin. "Think about it, and all other things will be added to you, - Lord says, - the food will be given and the raiment will be given too". And will not simply come. No. God will give you a job; you will start to work honestly. But first of all you will take care about the God's Kingdom, about the Truth of God's Kingdom. Yes? Do you understand?
He makes an example: the birds fly, they do not think what to eat, they do not sow, they do nothing. Yes? They simply fly. They glorify God by singing and Father feed them.
Well, you of little faith, will God take care less about you? Father, Who for the sake of you and those birdies came on this earth, to improve your souls. Will God take less care of you? Only the unfaithful people, who do not believe in God, the bad ones, who do not know Him, do not know His laws, must take care of themselves, because they do not know God. To take a care and do not know, like the children of devil. Do you understand?
You should trust God above all, think about God, Live according to the Lord's laws.
"Consider, - the Lord says, - the lilies of the field”. Aren’t they beautiful? God has created it such that "even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”. It means he wasn’t as beautiful as this flower. No women can dress herself so smartly. "But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you,O you of little faith?” So, just think, if God take care about this flower so much, will He take care less about you of little faith? Do not be anxious about the worthless things. Be anxious about the God's Kingdom, Truth, the order in your heart, love to your neighbors.
He also says: "Be not therefore anxious about tomorrow."
How is it: do not think about tomorrow? How is it: do not prepare for tomorrow? If my child wants to study in the university I have to earn money. If the person can't earn money he/she will take bribes, steal, because the child ought to study in the university. If it will be in five or four or two years he/she have to think beforehand. He/she cheats, worries, wrangles and thinks: "Where I have to take money? The son will enter the university when he grows up. And I have little salary. The person turns to the sin." Do you understand?
If God wants him to enter the university, he will do it, with his own talents he will pass all exams and will even get the scholarship. But only if you trust and believe God. A lot of university entrants came to me for the blessing; they believed in this blessing and they entered and also got the scholarship. No one came and said that he didn't enter. Everybody passed their exams perfectly, because they believed in God. They came to the priests, to the bishops, to me. I have blessed them and angles helped them. Because they trusted God. And when we are anxious for the tomorrow, we make a huge mistake.
Then we do not trust God.
Do you remember how God through His Moses leaded the Israelites out of the Egyptian servitude? They were walking in the desert, became hungry and started to ask for food. God gave them manna, but Moses warned: "Let no one leave any of it over till the morning”(Exodus, XVI:19). Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was wroth with them. And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating.
Every our distrust to God is a wormhole, in which worms appear.
We collected that Soviet money, coupons and they turned into the papers in one minute. We stored money, earned it honestly; it was not money but paper. Collected, collected. Somebody had 15 thousand, others collected 20thousand. But in one minute it turned into the paper. Now have we start it once again?
Live today and live in truth. Tomorrow will be anxious for itself. God has given you some food today, Lord will give it tomorrow. God gives a day, God gives the food, God cares. He is now, He is in the future, He is in the past. Lord is above the time. We are being born, God is there. We are dying, God is there too. We are going up to the paradise or down to the hell, God is there. Only we are moving in this time so many years. Do you understand? God knows what is waiting for us, how to help us, how to correct us.
God is eternal. God is immutable. God is loving, He is impartial, He protects people, who trust Him.
Who does not trust Him should protect himself on his own and be persecuted by the Devil. And such people live in the fear, live badly.
And who trust God that tries to think first of all about the God's Kingdom. Every his step is checked and he thinks: "Does God want that? No? And if I am guilty in God's eyes, I will pay for it or my children will, or I will have illnesses: heart diseases, diabetes, cancer." So, we have to think about our doings, to check up every step. Do not be sly. God do not like slyness, because it is from the Devil. God sometimes shuts His eyes, gives the chance to that souls, but notVery much. And if you don't want to clean the bowl of your soul, to fill it withVirtues - so it is your free choice.
God accepts sincerity, homeliness, confession, love. So we should take care about the God's Kingdom. We have to build out relationships in sincerity, in truth and to be careful with people, who are not God's.
The main thing is: do not think what people will think about us, only think what God will think about us. Be independent of people, of society; be dependent on God and His Truth. Because if God turns aside, it will be bad for us.
If God is with us we don't have to be afraid of any enemy. Because they act against God, but not against us. So, first of all think about God's Kingdom, all other things will be added.
You will see, you will also become rich, if God wants it. The main thing is that you grow spiritually. You will have everything even more and will have thoughts what to do with all that things.
Do not store up grain, like that unwise man did and said: "What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' "And he said: ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry” (Luke, XII:18,19). And at night God said to him that he will die soon. When he needed that seed he prayed: "Oh God, give the rain, weather and strength to crop." And when he got much grain, he didn't pray to God any more. And later would give that grain to the poor people at interest. He would have already his soul depraved and would go in the hell. And God takes this soul in good time: "Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?"(Luke, XII: 20). If he had given the grain to poor to the glory of God, he would have been alive. And thus he reached the limit of his spiritual growth. "So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God” "(Luke, XII: 21).
Let God bless us to be wise and to live according to the God's knowledge. God wants us to be calm and happy, to start notice all good in this world, to read the Holy Gospel, to support each other, to live in Christ's faith as one big family.
May God bless you. Many and good years!
Apostle(Romans, V:1-10)
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1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2through whom also we have had our access by faith into this
grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations:
knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
4 and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath
been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto
us.
6 For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for
the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for
peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we
be saved from the wrath of God through him.
10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved
by his life;
Gospel (Ìt., V²:22-33):
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22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is
the darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life,
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the
raiment?
26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither
do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are not ye of much more value then they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto
the measure of his life?
28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which
to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or,
What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.
