All people for me – Benefactors (Divine Love to me!)! Therefore: “Love your enemies!” because your enemies are your greatest benefactors in this world (“friends” deceive you, lead you with compliments, praises into delusion; and “enemies” say and show that we are criminals, nothings, hellish god-killers, worthy of worse: even greater persecutions and reproaches!), who actively care for your salvation – drive you into the Kingdom of God! Be grateful: bless, and do not curse your benefactors (“enemies”), pray for them (to be saved from hell), do good to them (“enemies”) – for the good that “enemies” do to you (by God’s Mercy, it turns out to be Divine Goodness), repay not with evil, but with Good, Love, thanking God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ (Who is for me every neighbor; every person is the Image of God, it is the Lord Jesus Christ! Christ transforms every evil energy into Divine Good for me! The personal uniqueness of another is preserved by the Lord, and only evil is transformed into good for everyone!)! Love your “enemies” (the only real enemy in this world is oneself!) your enemies: those who persecute you, hate you, curse you, kill you, rob you… these benefactors drive you, ahead of themselves, into the Kingdom of God, from this world, which lies in evil, they do not allow you to sleep, to doze in the haze of cares, wealth, and pleasures of this age! Love your “enemies”, be grateful to your greatest benefactors! And finally, it is necessary for you (be good “egoists” who know how to love themselves properly), not for them; they (“your enemies”) are Divinely Loved – you cannot add anything to this Love! But to transform your hell – this is in your power: with humble and contrite spirit, give God your heart to transform with Love, the Holy Spirit! (“My enemies” are my greatest benefactors in this world, my persecutors (who drive me into Paradise from this world!) – “my saviors” (but we will know this later – as well as the king without a finger from the parable of “Everything is good!”)! Therefore, trust the Church!
Love your enemies because you actually owe them a lot – they work the hardest for your salvation in the Kingdom of God! The Kingdom of God is a Kingdom of communication and unity in Love, in the Holy Spirit. Therefore, if someone does not love (does not try to love – is not a catechumen), he loves no one and has no connection to the Body of Christ, to the Church (except as a potential candidate for the catechumen school in the unknown future – until he gets properly scorched in hell!). Christians and catechumens have no enemies! Thus, “enemies” (and the enemy – oneself (the Image of God, Christ) – as well) need to be Loved, from whichever side you look: they are my members – they are myself; they are my benefactors, the greatest in this world; they (“enemies”) are also the ones who need mercy the most (they suffer greatly in their own hell); they are unspeakably Loved by God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit. Therefore, being a member of the Body of Christ (or preparing for membership in the Heavenly “EU” – the Kingdom of God, the unity-union (“EU”) of all Christians, full of the Holy Spirit, Divine Love), I cannot help but Love them (or if a catechumen: not try with all my might to love my enemies: ascetically, humbly, repentantly-gratefully praying for them, blessing them, doing good to them) – this is a necessary condition for membership in the Heavenly EU: either Love, or Humility, by which we accept Love, the Holy Spirit! (A reliable criterion for checking for Christianity or catechumenship is love for enemies(!): praying for their salvation (from hell-evil), blessing them, not slandering-threats-cursing, and doing good deeds: giving the enemy a drink, feeding, clothing, offering a shoulder, helping in need, saving from death… and the endless goodness to the neighbor, friend (every person) – laying down your life for him (suffering death from him!)! A Christian – Loves “enemies,” and a catechumen – forces himself with all his might to love “enemies,” and humbles himself, knowing his weakness, lovelessness, and asks everyone for forgiveness and mercy!). Therefore: Love your enemies!!!
We are very unstable: just crying and sobbing, and now we are laughing and having fun!? Just talked about death, about the terrible Judgment, and now rushing to enjoy a treat and tell and listen to jokes about priests!? Therefore, we will once again say (remind) about the fear of God… The Sodomites were healthy, prosperous, but their verdict had already been passed – destruction in hellfire, yet God was patient, “delaying” the implementation of the sentence (as in the parable of the barren fig tree: did not cut it down, left it for another year – maybe it will bear the fruits of humble repentance), waiting for repentance… There is no cause-and-effect relationship: sins – punishment! Are you suffering, sick, crippled, troubles falling upon you one after another – it means for your sins, or the sins-crimes of your parents, ancestors; or vice versa: healthy, lucky in everything, successful, wealthy and getting richer, things going well, business – it means righteous, pleasing to God, God generously blesses-rewards His righteous… All this (this law: sins – punishment) are Jewish (“circumcised,” “baptized” Jews), pagan heresies! To refute this heresy, it is enough to give examples: the much-suffering Old Testament Job, the man born blind (see John 9), our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and all Christians in this world (“If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you – My followers!,” “in this world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer – I have overcome the world that hates you and Me!,” “through many tribulations, illnesses, troubles, patience, we must enter the Kingdom of God”; for example, read about the patience of the apostle Paul: 2 Corinthians 11:23-30, 12:7-10).