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In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit! Amen!
Today we have heard the Holy Gospel of John (John, V:1-15 ), where it was told about such event as the healing of paralyzed man by Jesus. It seem that Jews should be glad that a paralyzed man began to walk. But they started to blame the healed man. "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed." But he answered them, as you have heard: "The man who healed me, that man said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'"
When God came to healed man for the second time He said: "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." Jesus said that the person falls ill if he sins. So, when the man gets the healing, he should try to live pious life, to do his best and not to return to the old sins. Otherwise, evil spirits come back to the person with their bad energies and they chain, tie, truss and break all vital processes, so the man starts to suffer and falls ill. It happens in the such way to prevent the man from the active sinful life.
The healed man said to Jews at once, when he saw them: "The man who healed me, that man said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'" He probably did not understand that he shouldn't told Jews about Jesus, because they rose against Him at once and you have heard their blames: "There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day." (Luke, Õ²²²:14 ). It means: "How dear you to force the people to carry the beds, heal and work?!" And Lord explained them: "My Father is working until now, and I am working. The Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing". (John, V:17; 19 ). So, as Jews consider: the Saturday is the seventh day - the day of the rest. Lord said that God does not have time to have a rest, even if He created the world for six days. He cannot have the rest during the seventh day, because people constantly sin, as the third part of fallen angels are on the Earth and they work with every person, who does not have connection with God and does not have true knowledge. And they, these fallen angels, try to lead the people to the destruction through different sins.
Ant that is why God has to work too, because His Heavenly Father send Him, His Only Son, to the Earth, that that One could work, illuminate and inspire. And God with His Angels is working to save the humanity from the destruction and He is taking into the consideration the free choice of every person. The seventh day is not the day of the relaxation; it is the day of God's strong feelings, the day of the sufferings of the Heavenly Father. Because He is watching what His children are doing, what the fallen angels are doing with God's Angels, who come from the Heavens. It means with God's chosen ones, who come on the Earth and under the influence of dark angels sometimes can forget what they knew on the Heavens, they make mistakes, lose God's protection and go to hell. That is why Jesus came on the Earth to make the deeds of Heavenly Father, to give people the knowledge of God's Truth, due to which they can live and stand against fallen angels and in the end of the life return to the Heavenly Father.
And sometimes we also work on Sunday after the Liturgy, because the work should be done. And we work, we preach and regenerate that Church, which was bequethed by Jesus Christ, but not the Church made by fake Stalin priests.Through them devil works in the Church, because of their love to money, to power, to all what is disagreeable by God.
That is why we are working now and starting His Church - it is the seventh day. And this seventh day will be crowned by our work, difficult work, persecution, tears, sufferings. Everything happens like Jesus told: "If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you." (John, ÕV: 20 ). All this will be in our work (it is already here, but not very expressed), because we are carrying our cross. But we are carrying it very easily, because we are with God, we are working for God.
If we work hard during the seventh day, the eighth day will come. The eighth day is the day of the victory of the good over the evil. The eighth day is the day of the absolute victory of life over the death. It is the symbol of eight-point star in which the image of the Virgin is illuminated. The eighth day is the day when God could have a rest and become glad that the Earth has come out of the curse and entered the God's Kingdom, that it has enter the period, in which the time does not exist and the saint souls live there. This seventh day will be pretty long; we will have to work for many long years. It will not come tomorrow, but we can feel it all the time during our Liturgies, when the Holy Spirit comes down on us. And it happens when we meet and pray together, when we go somewhere to have the rest. Well, actually we did not have the rest together.
This all is the eighth day for us. When we are building the Temple - it is the eight day. When we become glad and feel this grace - it is the eight day, which is very close in this moment and we can feel it. Why? Because God's Angels come down to us and we feel that state, when we are near the eighth day. During the seventh day we work hard, but we can all feel the fresh air from the sea, wood, mountains, which comes down to us - this is the fresh air of the eighth day; it comes from the God's Kingdom. We inhale the fresh air, we are glad, we feel better and our problems seem to be not so difficult and the problems of our children seem to be not so hard; we feel better and they too. The eighth day is the day of the Eternity, the day of Life, the day of the Victory. Do you understand? Number 8 - is the number of Victory. Number 7 - is the number of Love. God loved this world so much that He gave His Only Son for the sake of every man, who will believe in Jesus Christ and accept His knowledge and then will get the eternal life.
Number 6 - is the number of material perfection, because God created the Universe and the Earth during the 6 days. Number 6 is very honored by Jews. And we the Christians honor number 7 - it is God's Love. And we strive for number 8, which is the symbol of God's Kingdom.
And by the way, thank you for your prayers, your help, your sincere work in the name of the God, your serving to God and for your donations.
Christ is risen!
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Apostle (Acts, 9:32-42):
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32 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came
down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
33 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight
years, who was paralyzed.
34 And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you;
rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose.
35 And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and
they turned to the Lord.
36 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which,
translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
37 In those days she became ill and died, and when they had
washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that
Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, "Please come to us
without delay."
39 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived,
they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping
and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with
them.
40 But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed;
and turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes,
and when she saw Peter she sat up.
41 And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then calling
the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many
believed in the Lord.
Gospel (John, 5:1-15):
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1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in
Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
3 In these lay a multitude of invalids--blind, lame, and
paralyzed waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool,
and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the
water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight
years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already
been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me
into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another
steps down before me."
8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk."
9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and
walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is
the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."
11 But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man
said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'"
12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up
your bed and walk'?"
13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was,
for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him,
"See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you."
15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who
had healed him.
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