In a choir, for there to be harmony, everyone must listen to others because even if all the choristers can sing professionally (like angels), but do not listen to each other (continuously during singing-communication), then nothing good will come of it – only cacophony! Even if all the members of the choir are world-class professionals! Therefore, first, you need to learn to listen, develop hearing, and only then sing!
So, once again, we emphasize: the beginning, the constant basis of communication – obedience, listening (with all being, with all forces) to the interlocutor, listening (with all the forces of being) to the one with whom you want to have something in common: the teacher – to the student-catechumen, the catechumen – to the mentor of repentance, the wife – to the husband, the husband – to the wife, parents – to the children, children – to the parents… everyone – to their neighbor! This is the way to the goal, to wholeness, to salvation (= to the catechesis that will bear fruit – godly humility), to the state when all will be one, as the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (“I in You, and You in Me”, “We in the created hypostases, and the created hypostases-personalities in Us”). The Son is always obedient to the Father in everything! Therefore, the Church always cares about obedience, so that the faithful, the catechumens, are always obedient, humble, gentle (about Christ’s followers, who in Christ demonstrate absolute obedience to the Father by the Holy Spirit – we do not even speak, it is self-evident!). Why is there such misery now in churches (the degeneration of “Orthodox” churches into Jewish synagogues, heresies, etc.)? We talked about this, and you look carefully around you and see if you see sincere, responsible obedience (any)? Unfortunately, everyone lives by themselves, each for himself, for himself, “save yourself”, there is no desire to learn, to listen, to read the Scriptures, everyone knows everything without learning, everyone is in a hurry to teach others, without learning for a second… – here is the spirit of the antichrist, which lives in churches, in “Christians”!?
What to do? God is Love! Let’s hurry to repent, to return to the Father’s House, enough to wander in heresies, to be prodigal sons, “free” – let’s hurry to become slaves of Christ, of God, to become obedient catechumens-slaves and the Father will have mercy on us by the Holy Spirit in His Son, will adopt us in due time, when we become capable of receiving the Inheritance – the Kingdom of God!!!
Before talking about catechesis, slavery-obedience – the painful and unpleasant process of preparation for the operation, we will voice two thoughts (the first: “Every person is divinely loved every moment!”; the second: “God allows everything!”), without accepting which we will not hear the main idea – about the necessity of catechesis – and will not believe (will not even listen) that without catechesis-preparation, nothing good will ever happen! The first thing we need to realize: we are already divinely loved (already here and now – in whatever state anyone is!) and that God-Love-Freedom allows everything without exception! Is hell real?! Yes! And what could be scarier than hell (all sorts of torments and sufferings that a person cannot even imagine). God did not create hell, death, but they exist! Angels fell and became demons?! Did God allow it?! Did man fall?! Did God allow it?! What has not happened in human history, what satanism, evil, hatred, sorrow, tears, pain, idolatry, heresies… – all kinds of evil! And all this was and still is! This means that at one time God-Love allowed it, and now gives freedom to the free, and forever and ever! God is Love!!!
“What I say to you (apostles), I say to all: be vigilant!”. Will the antichrist come? And has already come! Will God allow it? He allowed it before the creation of the world, when He created free beings, giving them the power to either accept God or reject His Love! Be vigilant, so as not to fall into temptation, not to fall into heresy, not to go to eternal torment (voluntarily! God is Love, so a person condemns himself to eternal torment, condemns himself). Our brother, Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ, condemned himself to hell (Glory to the Merciful God, Who in Christ destroyed hell, freed all the prisoners of hell, gave everyone the opportunity to come out of hell forever! However, not everyone wants to immediately come out into freedom… Therefore Christians pray for those who suffer in hell, so that they desire Christ and come out of the hell of selfishness and selfhood into the freedom of loving personal communication in the Holy Spirit – the freedom of the Sons of God). Therefore, once again I say: anything can happen where there is freedom – we have the power to crucify Christ or to release Christ, that is, to be crucified together with Him!!! This choice will be until the end of this age! What will the free man choose: betray Christ and give Him up for crucifixion, or be crucified with Him? God is Love! Christian Sacraments are not magic and no guarantee of anything (salvation, paradise, etc.), not the one who participates in the Sacraments (more precisely, the rites of the Sacraments) will be saved, but the one who does the will of God, the commandments of God! (And the Sacraments are auxiliary means on the way to deification – unity with Christ into one Body of Resurrection!).