By the way, we will say: people tend to avoid personal responsibility, hiding behind others (parishes, churches, tomoses, authorities…). But on Judgment Day, each person will stand alone; everyone will give an answer for themselves! I must be Happy (humble, loving), not someone else for me! And when people hide behind the facade of the synagogue of Satan, behind heresies, the trouble is double… So be careful: are you happy? Are you in the Holy Spirit? And if the answer is negative, do not waste time, but hurry to lay the foundation of repentance!
Love for enemies is a sign of Christians, one of the main criteria (“by their fruits (and deeds) you will know them…”), by which Christians can be recognized, a criterion by which each person can test themselves, check and know what spirit they are (Christ’s or antichrist’s—see Luke 9:55). Those who hate the enemies of the Church, opponents of God, Jesus Christ: heretics, satanists, antichrists, etc., are in delusion and serve Satan, although they may be convinced that they are serving God (John 16:2). Hate evil, deceit, heresy, delusion, sin, but love the evil-doer, heretic, satanist, deceived… Love, wish them Happiness, Salvation, pray tearfully for your enemy (and the enemy of the Church, Christ, God) to be saved, to get off the path of falsehood, deceit, perdition and get on the path of Truth and Love!!!
Love your enemies, and do not cover your malice, the spirit of deceit with the letter of Scripture, canons, church rules, various traditions of the elders, saying, I am fighting for the Orthodox faith, for the Church, for God, against enemies, blasphemers, so I hate them, and not because I am evil, malicious, deceitful! But brother (sister), the Lord unequivocally commanded to love enemies and showed in practice what He meant by giving this commandment (or rather: pointing out the main sign of His disciples)! With what mercy, compassion, empathy must one use the thought-medicines of our apothecary, especially polemical-reproachful-therapeutic ones (hate the disease (delusion, heresy, deceit…), not the sick). And if you are blind (and moreover “with a plank in your own eye”), do not know how to perform this delicate, jewelry work of distinguishing, separating sin and sinner, evil and criminal, disease and sick, then do not dare to remove the speck, mote of evil-heresy-delusion-deceit… from the eye-soul-being of your neighbor! Be careful, what motivates your zeal: love-goodness or hatred-evil, seeking God’s glory (and in your neighbor—to be filled with the Holy Spirit, Christ) or your glory (pride, vanity, realizing your malice under the guise of fighting for the Orthodox faith; the devil also presents himself as an angel of light, and every evil is presented (advertised) under the guise of good!)! Christ commanded to love enemies, not to hate them! Be vigilant!
So, if there is still a log in your eye, take care of it first with diligent repentance (by the way, that log includes the specks you intend to remove from your neighbor’s eye); and as long as you walk around with the log (or a whole sawmill) in your eye, do not dare to save or heal anyone, or to remove specks from the eyes of your neighbors! What good will it do you, person, if you gain the whole world, “save” it, but lose your own soul?! Do not make yourself doctors, surgeons, saviors, teachers… instead, heal yourself, ask Christ, the only Doctor-Savior, to remove the log from your eye (soul-heart), and then, filled with the Holy Spirit, sent by Christ, you will be able to be Christ the Savior’s assistants in removing specks from the eyes of others! Therefore, all the medicines in our apothecary (especially the bitter and painful ones) should be used for oneself, for one’s healing, to diagnose oneself, and not one’s neighbor (to judge and thus lose one’s soul). So, if any organizations, synagogues, or specific people are mentioned, everyone should ask themselves: am I not suffering from the same disease (because those people or organizations mentioned (as examples) may have long been healthy, saved, deified, in the Holy Spirit)? And if so, start the treatment-repentance (remove that log from your eye, and when you remove it (that is, when the Lord saves you), then you can help others, those who are similarly ill, to show the way to humility and acquire the Holy Spirit, to know the Father God-Love in Christ). Everything written in our books has one goal—teaching-announcement! Therefore, the reader must first learn, heal, and only then, in Christ, in the Holy Spirit, teach, heal! And remember the most important thing: in this world (and in the future) there is only one Doctor—the Lord Jesus Christ! Therefore, all the sick must go to Christ; help the sick—bring them to Christ, help them come (believe) in the Healer of our souls and bodies.
Let us remind you once again: by spiritual law, “anyone who is angry with his brother is subject to judgment, that is, he is a murderer” (see Matt. 5:21-22)! Some translations of these verses add the word “without cause” (for example, in the Synodal: “who is angry with his brother without cause is subject to judgment”); this addition is very harmful, heretical, because it serves to legalize malice. This means that one should not be angry with a brother without cause, but with cause, one can and even should be angry! This “without cause” (“with cause”) opens the door to human malice—because you can always find a valid reason (canon, law, commandment, rule, tradition, truth…), for which the one I am angry with, the one I hate must be crucified! The reason (“with cause”) is “holy” and “most holy,” “law,” “article,” “canon,” “truth,” “rule”—will always be found, and if there is no such law, we will immediately adopt it and by this freshly adopted law, crucify, kill the one we hate! Anyone who is angry with his brother is a murderer! Whoever hates heretics, enemies of the Church, Christ, let him not deceive himself and not think that by doing so he serves God (see John 16:2), because in fact, he covers his malice and hatred of people with a supposed fight for the “purity of the Orthodox faith.” Once again, let us remind you: human malice by the Law, for the sake of God—the Son of God—was crucified on the cross! Be vigilant!