So, infants, children (and all who are not able to freely, consciously say to Christ: YES!) – cannot be Christians (we do not peek into the Mysteries of God’s Providence and God’s Ways, by which the Lord leads each unique, unrepeatable personality, and we do not dictate to God, and we do not consider all possible exceptions-cases – we testify the Truth for the repentance of those who do not belong to exceptions! And exceptions, as you know, only confirm the rule!). No matter how many infants you baptize – they will not become Christians! Children in this world are not Christians!!! Whatever analogy of the Sacrament of Baptism we take: sowing the seed, conception (receiving into the womb of the seed-sperm), leavening dough, grafting a branch onto a tree, an operation-transplant, Marriage (we said in Part III that Marriage is the best analogy, because in it the necessity of freedom and consciousness is clearly traced; to sow a seed, add leaven, graft a branch can be done mechanically, unconsciously, without the consent of the soil that receives the seed, or the branch that is grafted – which is what the heretics teach), – all this is done only when and where there is FAITH (conscious voluntary trust-self-surrender) in the Lord JESUS CHRIST (not in God, but in Jesus Christ, in the (name) of the Father, Son (Lord Jesus Christ), Holy Spirit)!!!
Do you feel the ontological difference, my dear ones, between the Old and New Testaments – even a little? When you are not just warm (heated, warmed from the outside, because by your nature – selfish, separated from God – you are cold), in the light, enlightened, illuminated (naturally dark – enlightened from the outside), but your very nature is Warmth, Light, Joy, Peace, Delight… You are not just (temporarily, by someone from outside) warmed, enlightened, comforted… but you yourself are Warmth, Light, Joy, Peace… by “necessity,” by the nature of the Holy Spirit (by Grace), you cannot help but Shine, Rejoice, be Happy… (Before baptism, you (a Christian) freely, consciously gave yourself into slavery to the Lord Jesus Christ, into the slavery of Love, Joy, Freedom, Delight, “necessity” of deification…)! Whoever has ears to hear, let them understand, and whoever knows what we testify to, let them together with us glorify the Merciful God-Love, Who has given us the power to be children of God, gods by Grace!!! Glory to You, God! Glory to You, God! Glory to You, God! Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to You forever!
John the Baptist – is a man of the Old Testament! The Old Testament (and everything in it) is a shadow of the reality of the New Testament (absolutely New, Unprecedented, Unique – eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and it has not entered the heart of man the greatest prophet of the Old Testament, “seer of God,” “knower of mysteries”)! Do you feel the difference: to warm oneself, to be comforted by the shadow (of the coming Kingdom of God) and not just to be in the reality of the Kingdom of God, but to become the Kingdom of God (by Grace), to become one with this Reality (to become this Reality), which casts off this shadow (the Old Testament)?! Christianity begins with the Incarnation (at the Annunciation), with a conscious, free, voluntary “Yes!” (the conscious, free, voluntary response of a person to God’s declaration of Love and proposal to save-heal and become His Bride) of the Most Holy Theotokos, and to this day Christianity in every person begins with a conscious, free, voluntary “Yes! I am the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ forever!” of every created hypostasis!!! And the Holy Spirit still blows in this world, in the Old Testament (which will be until the end of the age – “not one jot or tittle will pass from the Law until all is fulfilled”) – on everyone and in everyone He prepares for Baptism, for the operation, whom He prepares to become a god (by Grace), that is, a Christian! Thus, the phrase “to be in the Holy Spirit,” depending on the context (Old or New Testament), indicates two ontologically different states, which differ from each other like Heaven and earth, the Kingdom of God and this world, the Holy Spirit and the flesh, which lies in evil…
But heretics claim that the Old and New Testaments are the same (that the Old Testament righteous knew God just as Christians do, that in the Old Testament there was orthodox Theology, Knowledge of God – and other heretical blasphemy – see Part III). Heretics feel no changes after “baptism” – they crossed the border between the Old and New Testaments and didn’t even notice, didn’t feel any changes (by their fruits you will recognize them)! (The dead do not feel changes… Leave the dead-heretics to “baptize” their dead). This (crossing the border and not noticing, not seeing changes) is possible only when two neighboring countries (kingdoms), two brotherly peoples live in peace and love, and there are no customs and checkpoints, anti-tank ditches and a 10-meter-high fence with barbed wire… But not in the case of two hostile and warring kingdoms: the Kingdom of God, the Church, and the kingdom of Caesar, this age, the kingdom of the antichrist… Can one unconsciously wander into the Kingdom of God from the kingdom of sin and death, when there is an irreconcilable war between these kingdoms: Satan does not voluntarily release anyone (from occupation, we break free only with fierce battles with the occupier with the support of Heavenly Aviation!!!), and into the Kingdom of God, no one without a conscious, free, voluntary “Yes!” to Jesus Christ is taken, is admitted (is baptized by the Holy Spirit)?! Heretics and similar various autocephalous pagans claim that one can become a Christian and not even notice and feel it!? (In this world, a sleeping child can be smuggled into another country (you can bribe or deceive customs officers); but not from this world into the Kingdom of God, where you need to pass two customs checks: the occupier-Satan, who cannot be bribed or deceived, and God-Love, Who Loves, and the unprepared (who are friends with the occupier, double-minded, want to have dual citizenship, want to serve two masters (Christ and the antichrist), who want only to receive a pension and subsidies in the Kingdom of God, but to live in passions and sin in the occupied territories, and to glorify the occupiers) are sent back, no matter how many times they try to cross the border illegally (without faith in Jesus Christ) (the rite of the Sacrament is an attempt to break into the Kingdom of God, but if there was no request from the Kingdom of God, the Holy Spirit did not notify Christians about you (meaning you are not ready to receive the Holy Spirit), then no Sacrament will be performed – even if you baptize, circumcise, take communion a hundred times…)!