Summarizing the above, we see that Jesus (not only saved-healed us but) also showed us how a person (a Christian! and not a pagan) should live on earth (and how to relate, in particular, to patriotism-nationalism)! Dziunio, you still don’t understand (that Jesus lived an earthly life, acting only by human nature, and all the Divine was accomplished by the Holy Spirit…)?! All right… We will try to tell (explain) with even simpler analogies… Listen: for example, Jesus needs to lift a huge weight of 1000 tons (human forces and methods cannot do this—only Divine! There are Divine methods—Jesus is Hypostatic Divine Wisdom, but He voluntarily (for our salvation) refused to use His Divine Powers! Jesus (voluntarily, freely) cannot use His Powers, but another Divine Hypostasis (the Holy Spirit) with His (Jesus’) permission (faith-trust) can use His Powers, Energies of His (and His own, the Holy Spirit’s Nature; the Holy Spirit is God; and in God, one nature in three consubstantial hypostases),—but Jesus, although being human and not using Divine power, still lifts this weight by the power of the Holy Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit lifts the weight, and Jesus by faith-trust allows the Holy Spirit to do this (the will of the Father!)! Jesus does the Divine, but as a Human, who by faith allows God (the Holy Spirit) to act freely!
Once again (for the hundredth time) we will repeat: Jesus lifts this weight not by Himself, not by His power (although He has the all-powerful “right hand”—He is God, but He does not use it until the Resurrection), but calls the Holy Spirit for help with the “left hand”, or better to say, Jesus is in a state of calling the Holy Spirit for help, because He lives not in His own name, but in the name of the Father, fulfills all the will of God (the Father), and therefore the Father loves Jesus and sends (constantly) the Holy Spirit to help Jesus (in service), Who accomplishes everything that Jesus cannot accomplish by human forces (and the Lord Jesus, by the Divine plan of our salvation, does not use the Divinity, the “right hand”—He lives as a Human). Therefore, the Lord Jesus is an example for imitation for all people—every person can do the Divine by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit acts under the condition of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord God! Therefore, everything (absolutely everything!) is possible for the believer!!! “For men this (to be saved) is impossible, but not for God—for God all things are possible! Therefore, the one who is in the Spirit—in Christ—can do all things! (Sorry for chewing this thought so long, but our elder is not interested in “fancy words” or compact packages, the main thing is the result: for a person to understand, to understand well! Therefore, the elder explains until Dziunio understands. There is nothing to be done—such is our Dziunio. But it is for the best (everything is for the best, all good, for good)—because then we are sure that everyone (if they want) will understand what it is about). If you did not understand something (although this cannot be, because Dziunio has already understood—you probably read it inattentively or fell asleep…), then write to the elder, he will pick up thoughts-medicines for you from this ignorance)).
Therefore, Jesus Christ can be cited as an example of the life of a Christian, a Human! What, what? You got confused in these simple theological truths (and you are not ashamed?—even Dziunio has already figured them out!), you still don’t believe and you don’t accept this argument as relevant and convincing? All right, we will give an example of a created hypostasis, so that you understand once and for all that you cannot be a patriot-nationalist of two (hostile) kingdoms at the same time: this age and the Kingdom of Heaven; you cannot serve God and mammon!
Once upon a time, there lived a patriot-nationalist named Saul of Tarsus—a fiery guy! He could tear anyone to pieces for the traditions of Israel, for national, religious values, for ancestral traditions—beat them with stones with pleasure, in the name of Yahweh! And when the “Nazarene heresy” appeared (so at that time Christianity and Christians were called by Jews and pagans), you know perfectly well what this fiery patriot-nationalist of Israel did, how he dealt with sectarians (Christians), with those heretics: killed, tortured, persecuted, literally destroyed… (see Acts 8:3 and others). One of his favorite patriotic songs of Israeli patriots-zealots was:
Our father is Abraham,
And Israel is our mother.
We will fight for Israel!
Such songs exist
in every nation, every patriot-nationalist has similar hymns. Ukrainian patriots sing the song: “Our father Bandera!”
Our father Bandera,
And Ukraine is our mother.
We will fight for Ukraine!
But now, my dear ones—ATTENTION. When this fiery patriot-nationalist (to the core) met Christ, what happened to him? Did he add another slogan to the slogan “Glory to Israel!”: “Glory to Jesus Christ!”??? Was it so?! Or did this Heavenly Man sing another song instead of the song “Our father Abraham”: “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of mutilation, for we are the circumcision, who serve God in the Spirit and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:2-11). This patriotism, nationalism (“earthly members”, properties, characteristics of the “old, old man”)—”circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless…”—for Saul, after meeting the Risen Christ and knowing Him (and uniting with Him) by the Holy Spirit, all this is not just rubbish (the translation is incorrect—see in detail in II part), but “skubala” (you can somehow live with rubbish in the house, but not with “skubala” (smelly filth, feces, vomit)! Since Saul became a disciple of Christ, a Christian, for him—everything and in everything is Christ! His favorite songs-confessions: “Put to death your members which are on the earth,… putting off the old man with his deeds and having put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all” (see Colossians 3:5-11); “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:27-28)…