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In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Glory to Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters!
Today we have heard the Gospel (Luke, VІІІ: 5-15), in which God tells us the simple parable about His word, which falls in people's hearts and how it can grow there. And He has divided people in four types: who will redeem and who will not redeem. And Apostles did not understand this parable, because God said to them: "Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear" (Мark, VІІІ: 18). And He explained them that the sower is the preacher, He is the God, He is the Prophet and it is the person who carries the God's word. "The seed is the word of God". He goes and sows his seed among the people. And people are divided into the four types. He said such words about the first ones: their perception of God's Word is similar to the seed, which "fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it". If the seed falls there it can't life there - on each side of the road. It will be trampled underfoot. This is one type of the people.
To what type you could refer yourself?
The second type of people, God says, are people, who are in problems all the time. And if the seed falls there it is the same as it falls in the thorns, in the bushes. "And the thorns grew up with it and choked it". Actually it is true that if the seed falls in some bushes or thorns, it will not grow there.
And there are people, who are like stone. They take this seed with pleasure. God says that they are happy with God's word, because they are blissfully happy, they feel themselves very good. They come on lectures, they are so satisfied, they feel so happy. But the seed does not grow in their souls at all. They come only to take the grace. But the grace fills these people only till some moment. If there are not good doings the grace stops to fill. It works temporarily to show: "Look, you listen to God's word - you feel good. God loves you. You do good doings - here is the grace for you. Now it is with you." It is the circulation of the grace: The good went to God and returns you with grace. And if there are no good doings, it will return nothing to you. It is the protection for the person: not to burn in God's energy. So, there are people, who are similar to the stones: they listen with pleasure, they receive blessing, and they feel good at this moment. But the seed does not grow up, because it is the stone. "It withered away, because it had no moisture." Stone becomes hot on the sun or becomes cold like ice. The seed can't give the roots on the stone.
So, Jesus teaches how the devil steals in and takes away the God's word. The person does not understand that he should live according to this Word. When you will start to live according to God's Word, you will harmonize your life with God; your own problems will be so vain and useless. Then you will start to recognize your mission, to understand why you are carrying your own cross, how should you carry it, how should you bear and forgive. And people with stone hearts can't understand it, they think that they are good where they are now.
And there is the fourth type of the people. They are good soil. Good soil is the special field, which is prepared to be sowed with seed. And the seed falls there "and grew and yielded a hundredfold". So, here are such souls, who listen to God's Word with the great pleasure, who have been thirsty and who were waiting for it for the long time. They turn on the TV and switched it here and there. Maybe, they visit different pastors. Maybe they visit different churches and stay disappointed. But when they have heard the God's Word (on TV or somewhere else) they have followed it because they say: "We have heard it before, we know this voice, it is so familiar, we know him and his words are in our hearts." And these people come to pray here to us, even if it is far for them to come. These souls are good soil, black soil, in which the seed falls and grows with pleasure and gives hundred times more crop. These people are apostles, priests, servants and it does not matter what sex they have: male or female. And the God's Word is taken, it is carried, it is multiplied. It is multiplied on their work, in the family.
So, as Jesus taught, we should think to what type of people we belong.
Or are we just the side of the road, where the seed will fall down and will be trampled?
Or are we just the thorns and vital troubles take us and we do not have time to carry out the God's word. Maybe you can't even find the time to glorify God, you do not find time to talk with your Guardian Angel. If the person is like the thorns - this person suffers, such person should live in the constant worries: to feed the cattle, to look for the job and so on.
Are we that stone for the seed: it falls down without any result? We listen and there is no result, we listen and there is no result. And the grace has left us, but we come automatically. We listen to God's Words but there are no results.
Or maybe we are that soil, that black soil, in which the God's Word has fallen down and grown? It means that we come from God to hear this word. And we come to execute His mission on the Earth: to spread God's Word, His seed. For that it could be sowed all around the world and first of all in Ukraine. For that the fields were full of God's golden wheat. That the rivers were clean and the lakes were limpid. This is God's knowledge. That the people, who have come to these rivers of God's knowledge, could drink and not to be poisoned with some bacillus or diseases of the bowels, but to feel themselves good. After this God's river they will not be thirsty, but they will know the Truth through the Guardian Angel, through God.
All this knowledge, which we are carrying - is the clean streams of the great mountain and the Mountain is God. And we should irrigate these fields with this water and on these fields the seed should grow up and these fields should give the hundred times more crop of God's Word. And these people exist, they just wait their time. God gives time for everything. And if you are this soil - grow up in God's Word to have positive results.
It is clear that God wants such Church; He wants to lead such serving on the Earth, to sow the seed. But not as it happens: we sow and it is trampled and stoned. But there is a time for everything. Nor does God light a lamp and put it under a basket. Yes?
It is clear that we are absolutely God's Church, which God builds and develops. Who comes against us will be defamed, and he will be very sorry after a while. And who follow Gods deed, will be very happy. Because they will see: What God has done would not be defamed.
Yes, we are persecuted and chased. Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Ðœatthew, V: 11,12). Lord said so. But what we build will be built forever.
We see the positive results of our serving. Do not tie our hands, but give us a chance to illuminate Ukraine. We can illuminate it so quickly and so positive that everybody will be very surprised: "Oh, look, how it has become easier to live." It is clear, that the popes will not allow to do it. It is clear that the rats, who conquered the territory would say: "No, we will not let to go here anything noble. We will pick the spiritual grounds of this state, which are already picked; we will not let this state to stand up." It will be chaos because of it. Any president could rule the state correctly because of it. It will be only the chaos. Because there is no respect to each other, no love. There is no understanding that God is exist and we are His children, and we should live with Him. And nothing can be done without Him.
It can be imitation: to put on expensive golden frocks. They order miters for 50 thousand dollars. You see, this is the most important for them. And we want to leave it. We want to follow God. Because it is easier for us not to put on heavy miter and stuffy frocks, because of which you can feel bad during the Liturgy. We want to serve God, to carry crosses, which are hard but sweet. People feel very good from it, because they unite with God. And the Earth unites with God too.
Let the God turn on the light in everyone that it will be among people. All of you have your own individual trials and problems. We should not have the problems, only - trials. The trials sometimes are very difficult. But you really not such people, as you were when you came on the lectures for the first time. The seed has grown very much in you. And the trials are more difficult, compared with that ones, which you were given before. That time you irritated because of any trifle and now you lose your temper only because of something big. But God asks you to stop even this thing and to ask love and forgiveness, patience. If you know that you will lose your temper ask love and forgiveness, love and forgiveness. You have heard all my lectures.
Let God help you, that the seed grows up in you and gives its crop all the time. And carry it in the places where they could be received. And they will reach for you, will follow you. If you are happy, you can share with somebody.
You are not closed. Vice versa - you want people to live happily.
Let God bless everybody, because God love you all.
Glory to Jesus Christ!
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Apostle (Galatians, 2:16-20):
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16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the
law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ
Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the
law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too
were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a
transgressor.
19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live
to God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who
live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I
live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gospel (Luke, 8:5-15):
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5 "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some
fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air
devoured it.
6 And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered
away, because it had no moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it
and choked it.
8 And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a
hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to
hear, let him hear."
9 And when his disciples asked him what this parable
meant,
10 he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of
the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing
they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the
devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they
may notbelieve and be saved.
13 And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the
word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while,
and in time of testing fall away.
14 And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who
hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches
and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
15 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing
the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with
patience.
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