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We will say something about antichrists, heresies, deceptions of various kinds and degrees (severity) of hatred for the Truth. If you are sincere, do not deceive yourself, but sincerely seek healing, the Truth (union with Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ), then even if you make a mistake (fall), you will quickly recognize the mistake (rise with repentance after the fall – that is, from the delusion you will return again towards Christ, you will stand on the path of following Christ, the Truth, Humility, Freedom!), and the Lord will set you on the path of the Truth-Divine Love.
If a person is deceitful, deceives herself (and others), her conscience, then she gets entangled in lies and enters a satanic, antichrist state (not at once – but gradually, imperceptibly to herself, when she systematically rejects the truth, the truth and chooses falsehood, lies, then over time she begins to consider delusion as truth, and truth – as delusion, she already begins to “love”-desire evil-delusion-lies and hate truth-love-good, enters a state where “killing Christ and His followers and thinks, sincerely convinced in herself, that by doing so she serves God, killing-crucifying the Son (sons by grace) of God the Father”!?). One of the fruits of deceit is heresy – a state where good is called evil, and evil is called good and live according to those knowledge-beliefs: “according to the Scripture (heretical interpretation of Scripture, by the spirit of the devil, not by the Holy Spirit, which fills the Word of God – Holy Scripture) Christ and everyone who believes in Christ must be crucified” (see more about heresy in III ch.).
Sincerity is openness to the truth, to growth, to forgetting the old, the past (conserved) and to striving for the future (“behold, I make all things new”), but with prudence: as a wise scribe who brings forth from the treasury of his heart both old and new (that is, from the past takes useful and capable of being in the service of the New – Freedom, Love, and Truth). If you are open to the truth, and everything to which you say “amen” (yes, this is the truth), is “truth”, which you include in your worldview (and not just agreed and discarded, neglected, “forgotten” – because it (truth, truth) does not fit into your (selfish) worldview and way of life) or try to include, and if it does not work out, that is, if this truth turns out to be incompatible with your worldview (your worldview – “old wineskins”, and the heard Truth – “New Wine”), then you sacrifice not the Truth, but your worldview, that is, you begin to change your worldview – you begin to repent, become real scientists – for the sake of the truth you sacrifice your previous achievements (many years, even if the work of your whole life! For example, the apostle Paul: persecuted Christ, and when he knew the Truth, renounced everything he valued – for the sake of Truth, for the sake of Christ!). It is hard for a rich (with illusions) egoistic “good deeds” to enter the Kingdom of God – to renounce everything he has (because everything you have “your own” is stolen – stolen, appropriated Gifts of God; see above): “words”, “knowledge”, “acquisitions”… to renounce everything to acquire EVERYTHING – God-Truth-Love.
In the last times, love will grow cold in many hearts, through deceit people will not be able to accept gifts and love with thanksgiving. The deceitful heart is healed by the therapy of the announcement: obedience (to the truth), self-denial comes out of delusion into reality – we know ourselves (I am nothing, no matter how you look), and then with hope in Christ-Love, trust in Christ-Truth in the Sacrament of Marriage-Baptism we accept Love (the Holy Spirit) – we begin to Love, until in due time we become by grace Love, and we are called to this – to deification. God is Love!
The one who is rightly announced, orthodoxly struggles (“runs-prepares for Baptism”), does not judge anyone, does not accuse anyone, does not make claims to anyone, does not demand anything from anyone (neither love nor respect), thanks for everything, joyfully accepting every moment and everything in it, as a Gift from God-Love, as the best that can be now for me and for everyone, and in this “everything good” creatively works in synergy with God (with God’s help, in God’s Grace), so that this “everything good” that is now, becomes “even better”, “even better”, until “God is all in all”, until everything becomes absolutely “Very, Divinely Good”. Therefore, a Christian (and announced) – a warrior of Christ – joyfully and courageously accepts reality as a Gift from God (even his sins, mistakes, falls – it is all good, very good – it is what quickly heals pride!!! The fall of sin very much humbles, therefore it brings the greatest profit – the Holy Spirit (“So, shall we sin that grace may abound?”, – such a question-accusation was already posed to the apostles (for example, to the apostle Paul) by heretics who neither know the Scripture nor the power of God); the falls of Christians – is not their willfulness, they cannot want sin, but mercy (“permissiveness”) God’s, given to them for humility! Saints (Christians) fall, but quickly rise and become even stronger after the fall, that is, more humble (“a fornicator is not one who has fornicated once, but one who fornicates systematically!”)). Let us compare ourselves, our state, whether we are at least a little like Christians (or at least like orthodox announced): grateful, joyful, peaceful, courageous, sincere, good, meek, open to the truth, striving to know it… and all this in Jesus Christ. For Christians (and announced) – everything is Christ, everything in Jesus Christ, and what cannot be in Christ, belong to Christ, be dedicated to Christ – it is all foreign to Christians. For Christians – everything is Christ and Love for Christ! Not “Christ and something else (husband, wife, children…)”, but “Christ and the wife in Christ, husband, children… in Christ”! Next to Christ God, nothing else can be. We never say “Christ and…”, but – “Christ!”. And everything true, saving, necessary, appropriate – only in Christ, and not near Christ or outside of Christ. One Lord – one service (“You cannot serve two masters”).