We do not enter into relationships with Christ because we limit ourselves to merely religious duties (to sanctify, to baptize, to wed, to bury… and all this for oneself, not for Christ! – see part II for details).
“A religious person” – this phrase denotes a distorted personality that has never had personal relationships with God. People of this type only fulfill their duties towards God but do not attempt to enter into any relationship with God.
“Religious people” – Pharisees, Sadducees, lawyers-“theologians,” priests of various degrees of severity – cunning hypocrites – are the greatest enemies of the Church! These are people who listen to sermons, preach themselves – but do nothing from it and hinder those who want to do something! “Religious people” (cunning hypocrites) are convinced that they are close to God, His friends, that God owes them (they have an immense amount of merits and super-merits) – these people are often (in the second phase) incurable (in their pride-delusion). God was crucified (and still is crucified) by “religious people”! Sinners (that is, the impious: murderers, adulterers, thieves-corrupt officials, fornicators…) at least realize that they are sinners. That is why the Lord said that tax collectors and harlots go into the Kingdom of God before the “righteous”; and to the Pharisees, He said: you, the “religious,” will not enter the Kingdom of God, because the word of the Lord never changed your hearts… Hypocrites only joined the observance-keeping of religious formalities…
The Church is like a hospital where we are treated (from passions-sins and sin – which do not allow the Love of the Holy Spirit into our hearts) and helped to love Christ. And love for Christ is a flame (of the Holy Spirit), which ignites in a humble and contrite, prayerful, merciful heart! If we notice selfishness, malice, cunning, hypocrisy, vice (in any form) in ourselves, then we must realize and acknowledge that Christ (the Holy Spirit) cannot enter our hearts as long as they are full of “sinful bitterness.” And the goal of life is to acquire the Holy Spirit, to become Happy!
If I do not have love, then what is the meaning of whether I eat meat today or not?! (By the way, diet has nothing to do with the Church!). You can fast strictly and torment your loved ones (wife, husband, children, parents…) from morning till night, not forgive, judge, despise… In the Church, we should emulate Christ, step by step, from strength to strength… Yet people go to church for years, and there are no positive changes – they only become more malicious, cunning, hypocritical (they become like the devil, the cunning one, not Christ; and since no one deals with those people, no one catechizes them, it follows logically that they go to satisfy their religious needs in the synagogue of Satan, not in the Church of Christ; hence they become like the cunning one, the devil! By their fruits, you will know them, and whose spirit they are: Christ’s or anti-Christ’s. We testified about one of these multimillion-dollar synagogues in part III. Be watchful! God is Love – everything is permitted!).
People who do not sincerely seek the Truth and do not know (do not realize) what Christianity is (do not know the Holy Spirit, and in the Holy Spirit – Christ), how can they recognize the anti-Christ, anti-Christianity?! Correct: no way! The antichrist is recognized not by appearance and words, and not by “good deeds,” but by fruits, that is, by spirit. Christians have one goal – Christ, so Christians (and catechumens) do everything for the sake of Christ, to acquire the Holy Spirit. And the antichrist and his servants have thousands of goals, motivations, all of which are godless, anti-Christ. For example, you can give alms, but the main thing is with what purpose: to be glorified by people (like the Pharisees-idolaters – former and present), to win the presidential election, become a mayor, get into the Parliament, … or because I am trying to fulfill the commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore I force myself with thoughts about the Lord (Whom I love, and therefore fulfill His will) to fulfill each of His commandments, or I struggle with the passion of greed, etc. The action is one, but motivations, spirits – thousands! The devil appears as an angel of light, always covering his malice with “good,” “good deeds,” which the sons of this age seek: bread and circuses! (Bread (more money, a decent salary, pension – worthy of slavery) and circuses (more interesting, spectacular on TV, internet, social networks…) – ate, enjoyed, and stared at the monitor, screen – what else does a poor person need?! The antichrist promises this: 4G, 5G, … 100G internet (with a speed of 100 Tb/s), a decent salary, pension, and social package for everyone! What else do people need to forget, to be distracted… The merciful Lord awakens people to repentance, but fewer and fewer people hear and understand this Grace of God, and everything is leading to this: “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”). All thoughts of people are about earthly, temporary life – people become flesh, as it was before the flood (see Gen. 6, Mt. 24, Lk. 17). Most people will accept the antichrist (and have already accepted), and if you add to this (“bread and circuses”) miracles and various signs, with which the servants of the antichrist will deceive (and are already deceiving into perdition) the unfortunate people, how can they resist these “benefactors”?!