The commandment increases sin! The commandments are given so that by fulfilling them (more precisely, by trying to fulfill them, because without God they cannot be fulfilled; how can one be God without God?!), a person recognizes their godless state!!! We think that we do not want to do good, or do not want to refrain from sinning; and when we sin or our good deeds turn out to be evil (I wanted to do good, but it turned out as usual) – we start to justify ourselves, we look for someone to blame; some fall into despair – how could I have done, said such a thing?! – and they do not know, poor things, that they cannot do otherwise! That they do not not want (to do or not do something), or: today I am not in the mood, or: ‘the devil confused me,’ etc., – but they are paralyzed cripples for good, for life! A sinner cannot not sin, every action of theirs is a sin! An egoist cannot act non-egotistically, every action of theirs is egoism! (When a sinner does not sin, that is, there are no manifested symptoms (sins are symptoms of the sin of godlessness), it means that God has had mercy, just as a paralyzed person does not relieve themselves under themselves only because their nurse had mercy and put a pot in time; the paralyzed ‘sinned’ – because the nurse forgot about him; if a sinner sins, it means that he is left by God alone with himself, for the opportunity to recognize his helplessness; when we, trying not to sin, sin – it is a great mercy of God (details in the following parts)).
The saints (= Christians, that is, those who have acquired the Holy Spirit), before becoming Christians (= Spirit-bearers), zealously fulfilled the commandments of Christ (God’s commandments, not their own interpretations of God’s commandments; for example, God asks us to make Him coffee, saying: – make Me coffee, – and we prepare tea and want to quench His thirst with tea! God asks for coffee, and we give Him tea with sugar!? God asks for coffee, and we even added a slice of lemon to the tea!? The cup – is the form of the commandment, and the content, the essence: God asks for ‘coffee,’ and we give Him ‘tea’!? Did we fulfill the commandment, did we quench God’s thirst?! We gave a drink, but something He is allergic to!!! Why allergic to ‘tea’? Because to make ‘tea’ (to fulfill our will, our interpretation of God’s commandment) – does not lead us out of selfhood, egoism, the illusion of normality, because we have a pile of ‘tea’, plenty of sugar, lemons to spare (the whole pantry of the heart is crammed with these goods), but to make coffee – it needs to be bought, and to buy it, you need money, and they in turn need to be earned – and here’s the problem: I am not smart (without-mind) and cannot (paralyzed)! Therefore, if I had listened to God and fulfilled His commandment, – I would have recognized my helplessness, infirmity, godlessness and would have asked God for mercy, and to those who ask Him for mercy, He gives the Holy Spirit without measure! And those who serve God tea – think, poor thing, that they are God’s best worker, an example to be followed by all(!?), that the Lord is preparing a great reward and honor for them before everyone (how many tons of tea he prepared, only God knows, not like those adulterers, murderers, thieves, misers, from whom you cannot beg a spoonful of water in a flood… Thank you, God, that I am not like them!?)), while he is being prepared a verdict: I do not know you! Remember the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee. The Pharisee fulfilled not God’s commandments, but his own interpretations of God’s commandments (that is, not what God asked to do, but what he himself thought up, himself interpreted the commandment, adapting it to his own egoism and pleasure-seeking), therefore, by fulfilling ‘commandments’ (not God’s, but his own!), he did not become righteous (not a sinner who sees his sin, a cripple who sees his infirmity, a godless who sees his godlessness), and, as a result of righteousness, did not become humble, but on the contrary, saw himself as holy and worthy to be an example to be followed by all who live in the universe (that is, he became a holy Satan, the fruit of which is pride). And the tax collector tried to fulfill the commandment (not justifying himself, not looking for someone to blame), and recognized his helplessness, his sin, therefore he prayed: ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner,’ – knowing (having learned of his powerlessness, hell), that his salvation is only in the hands of God! Zealous fulfillment of God’s commandments (and not our interpretations of God’s commandments – V.A.) teaches a person their helplessness.’ The first gift (priceless) on the way to salvation – is the gift of seeing one’s own sin! This is the fundamental gift of God, on which the house of salvation is built, it is the guarantee of acquiring the Holy Spirit. God only gives grace to the humble, and the foundation of humility – is seeing one’s own helplessness, paralysis for good, one’s sin. (The apostles before Pentecost (before the descent of the Holy Spirit on them) were miracle-workers: they cast out demons, raised the dead, healed the sick… and at the same time were godless, did not have the Holy Spirit, were not in the Kingdom of God!? (How can it be, that a miracle-worker is without the Holy Spirit, or a holy Satan – see Part I.). In the history of the church, there are many examples of miracle-workers, clairvoyants, who ended their lives by suicide! The ‘saints’ did not recognize their sin, did not acquire the Holy Spirit, therefore perished in a godless state of blind pride! Therefore, for happiness, not gifts (miracle-working, clairvoyance, exorcism, etc.) are needed, but the Holy Spirit, and in the Holy Spirit (which is given only to the righteous, those who have recognized their helplessness, their powerlessness, their sin – that is, the humble) all gifts are not a cause of pride, but even more humility! Gifts for the proud – a guarantee of destruction, but for the humble – a reason for even more humility!) acquired humility.