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In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Glory to Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters!
Today is the last but one Sunday before the Lent. And, as it is taught by Church, you should eat all meat in your house, that your fridge would be empty. Then you will not have temptations and you could start to eat only diary products from Monday. But if you do not have time to eat all, so you should not overeat that meat, which is left. It is better to give it to someone, because your greed could make you trouble. Do you understand?
And today the Orthodox Church traditionally read the Gospel of Matthew, where in the 25th chapter it is told about the God's Judgment, which will be for all people, who live in this world (Ìt., ÕÕV:31-46).
Jesus told it in such a way: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne." And He will judge the dead and the live. Jesus Christ will judge all people of this land. So, this time will come, it will just come. And it is not necessary that God will come in His glory right from the Heavens. He will come like the king to judge the dead and the live. He will be like the President of the Universe. Have you understood? The President of the whole Universe. He will have this power, He will be in the absolute Truth, He will be surrounded by His Angels, they will teach people, who will be on the Earth that they could correct their mistakes.
And when it would become His full power, He will sit on his glorious throne and will gather all nations. From the right side there will be God's sheep, God's children. And from the other side there will be goats, that people, who did not want to serve God, who did not want to love God.
And He will say to one group: "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me." You were not afraid, You did not run away, because a lot of bad things, slander were told about me, You have been following me. "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." And He will offer you the entire life, good health, full harmony in the life with Father, with His Angels, with Heavens Power, with everything, what is beautiful.
So, it will be the evolution of the humanity. Somebody will be lighter than the other and someone will be very light and it will be even difficult to look on him. Everybody will have its glory. But these souls will ask: "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?" Because they will look on Him and think: "No, we did not feed you, we did nit clothed you. You are sitting so beautiful on Your glorious throne, with Your Angels, Your aura is in Light?"
But God will say: "It was when I came to you in the appearance of My youngest brothers: in the appearance of those people, who were asking, who needed something, who were cripple, who were sick, who had very good soul but very difficult situation in life and had to ask for help. And at that moment you helped them. And in the same way you helped me, because you have helped the good to multiply on this Earth. "
That is, if you are doing good things to good people, you are doing good thing to God.
So, come in My Kingdom, in My gladness, in the eternal life.
And each of you wants to hear these words, each of you wants to enter the Kingdom and for that you should work to improve yourself.
If we do not work to improve ourselves, He will put us from on his left, like goats and will say: "You cursed, go away, I do not want to see you. Go in the hell; go in that boiler of sufferings, which is prepared for Devil and for all his servants from the beginning of the world."
They will become afraid and He will say them: "I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me." And they will say: "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?"
They will be as advocates, they will defend themselves, and they will catch at a straw. And He will say: "When I came in the image of the least of my brothers: those cripples, those orphans, that person, that person, you refused to help me". It is clear, that when they see the king in his glory, they will lay the carpet before him, etc. Yes? But it will be their hypocrisy and it will be unjustly to score it as their virtue. Therefore Lord tests our hearts so that we do not know when He is with us.
And these goats, in other words, demonic souls, they do not know the presence of God. Firstly, they do not believe in Him, because they are materialists. They consider those who believe to be "fool". And they are "wise, sly". And they already have everything during their material life. And that is why such sentence will be for them: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." And that hell is like a large boiler in the Universe that boils now and expects the advent of these souls for the eternal suffering, to be locked, closed. In order these souls could not do the evil in other galaxies, or on the Earth anymore. In order to stop the fight with this evil. To end with this part of fallen angels, fallen souls that did not want to work to improve themselves that did not want to believe in Jesus Christ.
That is why, we have to accept these words of Jesus: "Truly, truly I say to you" (John, ÕV², 23).There is no another truth. If we are clever, we understand that it is the truth. And we prepare to build the Kingdom of Heaven in our souls, to serve Him now and prepare the Kingdom for Ukraine and for the whole world.
At the same time, why do we talk today about The Final Judgment? Because we prepare ourselves for the Lent. We prepare to enter the state of confession, cleaning from the sins, because our sins prevent us from salvation. If we clear up partly, then it as a source from that water flows, but there are yet such nooks, membranes, where this water stopped and grows into a bog. And in those nooks appear vipers and frogs.
And in the same way in our souls vices, some secrete sins appear. And we stick to it, and become ill and our relatives also become ill. And we pay no attention to it and think that is all for no reason in particular. But nothing can be for no reason.
Stay under this shower. Stay under this source, give it a way to you, take away all the stones, all the barriers, that water went exactly, that water went clean, that it did not strangle, that it was not musty. And then you will accept at the same time presence of the Holy Spirit. You will accept it in such a measure, that you will feel people, see with whom you have business. First of all, you should feel God in yourself, the presence of Him and know how to build happily the Kingdom of Heaven in your soul and in Ukraine.
And we have to be practical Christians in this understanding. In other words, to be the Christians who save themselves. There is no better salvation, than to be with God. People cannot be happy, having money, having everything, people will be unhappy without God.
When you are with God, you can have nothing, you can even have no money for bread, you can be hungry, cripple, and at the same time you can be a happy man. Because you can be happy with that singing of birds, you can be glad with wonderful sky, with wonderful air. You can be glad, because you feel the presence of God in you, when He is in you. When He is not, then an irritation grows in you and devil eats you from within and wants to displace on other.
Now that, my dear, the Lent begins in Orthodox Church, which we have to enter with dignity, we have to purify ourselves with dignity, not to harm ourselves physically, but vice versa - to improve our health. And for this purpose it is necessary again to enter this Lent, as you entered it the last year, when you not just ate less, but many of you drunk only water for a week, and somebody for two weeks, and for a month. And thank to God, we survived and felt good and got rid of many illnesses. And you cured from many illnesses of stomach, blood was cured. And now God gives us one more chance: to get the spiritual and physical healing.
May God bless us.
Glory to Jesus Christ!
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Apostle (1 Corinthians,8:8-9:2):
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8 Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we
do not eat, and no better off if we do.
9 But take care that this right of yours does not somehow
become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an
idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat
food offered to idols?
11 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed,
the brother for whom Christ died.
12 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their
conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never
eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus
our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for
you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
Gospel (Matthew,25:31-46):
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31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the
angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will
separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the
goats.
33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on
the left.
34 Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you
who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and
you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited
me, I was in prison and you came to me.'
37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when
did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or
naked and clothe you?
39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'
40 And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as
you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me,
you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty
and you gave me no drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you
did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'
44 Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see
you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did
not minister to you?'
45 Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as
you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to
me.'
46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the
righteous into eternal life.".
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