We received an order-command to be saved (to build a House – a Temple for God), to become Happy! Our Customer gave us everything necessary (and supplies every moment!) – brought us into paradise (brings us into paradise every moment, by God’s mercy we are in paradise every moment). And we turn paradise into hell (spoil the material – do not accept thanksgiving here and now, but reject the “materials” with complaints and dissatisfaction), and make ourselves wretched (unhappy) – do not fulfill the order-command (do not build a dwelling for God, for the Traveler, who has nowhere to lay His head). What should be the behavior or claims (billing) of those who have done nothing good (although, if they had done everything, they should think of themselves as unworthy servants…), but only did evil – spoiled, ruined? … Only such (if they are sensible and adequate, that is, humble (wise), who know the truth about themselves and God’s love): asking for mercy, forgiveness (they know that they do not claim any Kingdom of God – they will not be there, and their place is in hell (they have done nothing good, but on the contrary – only evil, harm), – only one thing: save, have mercy, heal, forgive! Keep your mind in hell, but do not despair!).
Let’s tell another parable. One man got into a terrible catastrophe-accident. And to save him, many organs needed to be transplanted – all organs (body-soul-spirit). And a Donor was found, Who agreed to die (because He had to give all of Himself – all His Body-Soul-Spirit, and not part of Himself or some one organ!). How grateful should the saved man be to this Benefactor who died for him so that he could live?! The one who saved him from eternal death – what does he deserve from the saved?! Coldness?! Indifference?! Or simply: thank you?! After which nothing else follows, from which eternal gratitude-love, which never ends, is not born (see about gratitude in part II)?! Or maybe the saved one will say (as almost everyone says now – if not with words, then with life-existence): I did not ask Him (the Donor) to save me?! Now let’s explain the parable-analogy and let everyone ask themselves: how grateful am I (and am I at all grateful, and what shows this?!) to the Donor, Christ the Savior, who died for me on the cross to heal me, replace the perishable, mortal in me with the imperishable and eternal?! Someone may deceive themselves and say: – I thank Him!? The Lord clearly said what it means to Thank Him (= Love Him) – it is to do His Will, God’s Commandments, and the first among them is to belong to Him, to be a Christian, that is, a member of the Body of the Church, Parish-Eucharist and to communicate with Him (Who saved us for Himself, that is, for Eternal Life in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and to Thank in the Holy Spirit! The Church testifies that the Savior, the Donor, Who died for us, – Resurrected, Alive and with us forever! So why don’t you seek to meet Him, to thank Him, find out if He needs any help, or His relatives – and serve with a grateful heart?! And the Church testifies that the Savior has a large family, and many of His relatives are in great need: many are hungry, cold, poor, homeless, sick cripples in hospitals, prisoners, lonely… Why don’t you want to find out from your Benefactor: how can you thank Him?! And the Church further testifies: Christ says that our neighbor – it is He Himself, and everything we did to the neighbor, – we did to Him! How should we live if we were truly grateful to Christ, believed that He is our Savior?! How should we treat each other (Love each other as Christ loved us!)? And if we live as indifferent cynics (each for himself – as taught by heretics of the UOC KP), do we believe in the Savior?! So, our Savior is Alive and asks something from us (only cannot reach us – we are never at home) – let us come to our senses (with fasting and prayer, standing in the truth and in the search for Truth), let us begin to repent; the beginning of repentance (change of mind) – is to start thinking in the context of the Love of the Donor-Savior and our salvation (from hell, which needs to be realized in the school of the Proclaimed) by Him!
Every moment, every deed must be done under the judgment of God’s Love: how does the Lord God love me now, at this moment?! So should I love Him reciprocally (in the neighbor = Christ!). With what Love the Lord builds paradise for me every moment (paradisiacal conditions for self-realization in good and movement towards Happiness – see God’s providence) – so should I for Him! How the Lord cares for my Happiness, so should I care for His (in the neighbor) Happiness too! He died for me so that I live in Him, therefore I should die every day (renounce myself, take up my cross and follow Him) for Him (for the neighbor; and if necessary – suffer death from the neighbor, just as the Lord suffered death from me), so that the Lord lives in me…
Currently, all reality is divided into two kingdoms: the Kingdom of God (the Church) and the kingdom of this age! Each kingdom-state has its own state language, so there are two languages: the language of this age (selfishness) and the language of the Church (the language of Pentecost – Love). Whoever claims citizenship (wants to become a citizen) of a certain state must know the language of this state. Therefore, one who wants to become a citizen of the Kingdom of God must diligently “learn” the language of this Heavenly Country. To be a citizen of the Kingdom of God – is to be a patriot of this new Homeland. And one needs to be a zealous patriot because there is an irreconcilable war between these two kingdoms – this age and the Church. And during the war (which will last until the end of history), as never before, it is necessary to show patriotism – to be a true patriot (Christian, a real “Ukrainian”, “Bandera follower” of the Kingdom of God) and communicate with everyone in the State language (of the Kingdom of God, Pentecost – Love), and not in the language of the occupier (Satan) – the language of selfishness, alienation, separation, individuality, cynicism (each for himself)!