Before doing anything, it is necessary to carefully consider, think, and weigh: measure seven times – cut once! We previously mentioned that all advice, orders, recommendations, instructions… should be checked against normative documents (constitutions, statutes, regulations, instructions, rules, laws…) that indicate norms, goodness, and appropriateness. The Church Constitution (the Constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven) is written in one word – Love (God is Love, the Father is Love, Personality is Love, Freedom is Love, Truth is Love)! Therefore, everything written (created, built, implemented… all forms of Tradition) by the Church, that is, by Christians (of course, for the sake of announcing and for the announced!) – is an interpretation of the Church Constitution, that is, Who is Love, what it means to Love, how to realize oneself in a given situation, to be in the Law of the Lord, not to sin against the Truth, against the Constitution (Love). All God’s commandments (the Code of Laws – interpretation of the Constitution (= Love, Loving)) are about one thing – Love! The spirit, essence, content of all church forms (Tradition of Tradition: word-writing, icons, music, architecture, rites, ceremonies…) – Love! Therefore, everything in the Church is Love, serves Love, expresses Love, and has Love as its goal! Therefore, the announced are obliged not to follow criminal orders – those that contradict the Constitution of Eternal Life, that is, Love, Truth! (An example to all the announced is the martyrs (witnesses of Christ in the court of the sons of this age), who had no drop of deceit, conformism, adaptation… Who went to death, to terrible tortures for the Truth, that is, for the Lord Jesus Christ, rejected deceit (the deceitful one – the devil, Satan), lies, hypocrisy… to become able to partake of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth!).
The Constitution of the Church is Love (God the Father is Love! The principle, the Constitution, the Hypostasis, the Foundation, the Beginning of all existence (“everything from the Father, by Him everything stands, in Him, and for Him”) – Personality-Love, God the Father!). And then come two Laws, two Commandments that interpret the Constitution (of all existence): the first Commandment-Law – to Love God (with all your being, with all your strength, with all your understanding); the second Commandment-Law – to Love the image of God, that is, all that belongs to God (every created free hypostasis – humans and angels (all people: both “evil” and good; and all angels: both “evil” and good))! And these two Commandments-Laws are interpreted and specified by the Ten Commandments of the Decalogue (the first (Love for God) – by the first four commandments of Moses (see Ex. 20: 2-11), the second (Love for the image of God) – by the next six commandments of Moses (see Ex. 20: 12-17)). And those ten commandments of Moses, in turn, are interpreted by hundreds of other commandments, laws, decrees, sub-laws, supplements, etc. (for example, see Ex. 21-23). (But no matter what commandment, decree, rule we take, their essence is one – Love! Very often Love evaporates and only the bare letter remains, which kills, which crucifies Love, the Lawgiver God Jesus Christ)! In this world, which lies in evil, soaked in deceit, it is necessary to constantly clarify, explain, illuminate everything – therefore we have the Talmuds of laws, canons, rules, explanations, clarifications, recorded on thousands of pages of the Bible and the works of the Holy Fathers.
The Lord Jesus Christ did not abolish, did not cancel the Law for this world – in this world, the Law is necessary! Therefore, as long as this world stands (until the end of history, until the Parousia) not a single stroke or dot of God’s Law (the smallest commandment) will pass, will not lose its relevance and effectiveness (to protect against evil and to recognize one’s impotence, hell, and to gain humility, a contrite heart, poverty of Spirit). The Lord only divinely interpreted the Commandments of the Law, breathed the Spirit of Love into the dead letter of the Law, which over the centuries had evaporated, over time the understanding of God’s commandments became literal, non-Spiritual (see, for example, the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7)) – the Lord breathed the Spirit of Love into each commandment of the Law, and everything that could not contain the Spirit of Love (traditions of the elders – korban, sabbaths, and other heretical nonsense) fell away by itself. God’s commandments in this world will be necessary until the end of this age. But in the Church, there is no longer a Law, Commandments – Christians are led by the Holy Spirit, in their hearts is written the Law of God, the Law of Love by the Holy Spirit! Therefore, the end of the world comes for Christians in their baptism by the Holy Spirit – in the new creation when the old all passes and the Lord creates a New Heaven and a New Earth in the heart of every Christian (the announced, who is baptized by the Holy Spirit).