The Gospel, this Good (Happy, about Happiness) News about the Resurrection of Christ and ours in Him, which the Church proclaims, – is Great Joy for all people, but especially for those who are in despair, hopelessness! Unfortunately, the Resurrection of Christ is not preached today, “Christians” have made the Church a religion, which knows that there will be a resurrection on the last day, sending everyone to a distant future, – then Happiness, the Kingdom of God will come, and now: labor and sorrows, payment for sins… And the very “Christians” no longer hear the words of Christ’s Gospel: “I am the Resurrection and the Life… And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die”. “Christians” do not live by faith in Christ, but by ideology, rational knowledge (in the list of those postulates that need to be accepted and recited: the last day will come…). This all happens due to the inability to hear the Proclamation of the Church, to approach it without prejudice, pagan stamps (which are easily imposed on the Church, because it proclaims in the language of the era, in which it carries the service of awakening people to Life), because the forms of communication are the same, but the content is diametrically opposite. The Church says one thing, and we hear absolutely another! Why? – Because we do not want to hear the Church, do not want to ask, what is being talked about when we feel that we do not understand something (or anything)! “How can this be?” – ask the Church, and She will personally explain and clarify the subject of misunderstanding, dispel all myths, pre-judgments, clarify, interpret, what is said in the Scripture, and show that there are no contradictions – simply about the same reality is spoken differently… But today we have lost the culture of communication, we do not know how to and do not want to hear each other!
The Church says that we are saved, that we are rich, happy, everything has already been given to us: Kingdom, Warmth, Food, Happiness, and we continue to live in poverty, hungry, cold, unhappy… Because we do not know, are not announced, are not taught (“untaught and unestablished” – see Part I.), are not enlightened by the Word of the Gospel. We were given a Book (the Bible), but were not told in essence, what it is, and we do not know how to read it, to understand reality. They gave us in hands and said:
“Read!”, without explaining how (apparently, they themselves do not know what to do with it)! And it turns out: a person has a check for 100000… UAH, and starves, bums, is in despair and thinks about suicide from those miseries, at the same time when she – a billionaire, only she does not know about it! The Gospel of the Church – this is the “check” for the amount of the entire God-man Reality (“hereditary testament”, a debt obligation of God-Love to people), which the Lord through the apostles handed as a gift to every person: “Go teach all nations (= hand out “checks” and explain what they can buy for them – V.A.), baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you (and those who want to exchange “check” for the God-man Reality, teach them “to keep everything”, to own everything they have acquired… – V.A.); and behold, I am with you all days, to the end of the age”. Now there are fewer and fewer missionaries who understand what this “check” is, what can be bought for it and when (in most cases, through ignorance, they say that after death, beyond the grave… you can buy the Kingdom of God, if it does not become more expensive and we have time!?). People still dwell in darkness (while everything has already been filled with Light!) and “do not know what they are doing”!
“A blind man will lead a blind…”
Christ is Risen – and the disciples are in fear and inconsolable grief and hopelessness, the women-myrrhbearers proclaim to them, and they do not trust and do not want to listen (what seems to them nonsense), and even are too lazy to check whether it is really so, as the women tell. The same with us – the Church proclaims about the Kingdom of God (Christ Risen and our resurrection), which is already among us and inside us, about Eternal Life, Happiness, given to us – and we do not trust (although there are no reasons not to trust the Church: the teaching without contradictions, objective arguments – plenty, witnesses – “a cloud” (hosts), fruits – saints – at all times and epochs, in all conditions, ranks and vocations) and do not want to check, and remain unhappy, devastated, dwell in despair, live death… One thing is required from us – to hear the Gospel, understand what is being talked about and check whether it is really so! It is necessary to trust the Church (of course not unfoundedly, but to know why I trust someone) and check – having worked a little! As soon as we hear the word work – we immediately retreat, because we want Happiness for free! And in fact the Kingdom of God, Happiness – is a Gift, which does not need to be earned, deserved, because everything has already been accomplished – the gift is already at your doors, from us is required only the “work” to open the doors of our house (heart) and accept the Gift. (The task of the Church (with its sacraments, rites of sanctification and ceremonies) in this world is precisely to help(!) us assimilate this Gift (become an organic part of this Gift of deification) through the church-organization (with its hierarchical structure, which is created for the Eucharistic service of the Church)). “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him, and will dine with him, and he with Me”. Christ is the Kingdom of God, the Resurrection and Life – whoever lets Him into his heart, will make Him the essence (substance) of his hypostasis here and now (in whatever form of existence he lets God into his life), will pass into the Happy, Eternal Life, which will have no end!