3.2. The Working of God’s Commandments

The one who hates his neighbor, the one like him, that one is not written with those who love God and because of this, the devil does not stop bringing all kind of conspiracies among brothers, and these things come by haughtiness not by weakness, and I cannot love the haughty one and the fruit of his haughtiness, and he cannot love Me either, since only he, and barely has he got little room in himself with his justice, poor of him. How shall I, the Lord, speak to one like that everything I had to speak to him? The prophet Samuel spoke from heaven to king Saul, who was not obeying God and he told him that disobedience was greater and stood before the sin of witchcraft, to which the king was drawn after that, and he was drawn by his works. However, how shall I speak now this to the one who does not listen?

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the saint archangels Michael and Gabriel of November 21, 2006

I have spoken to the man in one of My commandments: «Man, you shall not commit adultery!», and disobedience is debauchery like that of the son who took power and harvest from his father and went away with them no longer to listen, and thus he was counted among those who were sexually immoral. Behold how much lack of resemblance between the one who does My will and the one who does his own will, for when I put My disciples to work with obedience and holiness, I also told them not to take any purse with money on them, so that they could be clean in everything then, and the one who left his father’s will, required to take with him a share of his father’s properties, and then he was ashamed, strange and naked, and this it was the way he came back, begging for mercy and shelter at the courts of his father like a stranger.

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the saint archangels Michael and Gabriel of November 21, 2006

Oh, as the tobacco fiend is never satisfied with the tobacco that he inhales to swallow its smoke, in the same way the grumbling one cannot be satisfied with his lamentation and slander, and I do not know how to tell him anymore and to make the man accustomed to the spirit of heavenly love in order to save him from those that are foreign to this spirit, by which he has always stirred opposition against the love among brothers, love which has its face in the Scriptures. Happy is the one who has this sweet and dear treasure as his task, the love from God in him, sharing it with a gentle spirit and to the sides and gathering its harvest with it, and it will be that I, the Lord, will overcome over the earth with its sons, with its face and with its kingdom. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the saint archangels Michael and Gabriel of November 21, 2006

I comfort Your sighing, dear child of the Father and mine, for the man is used to comfort the man and not You. When the wrong man is favored by all those around him, he gets no benefit from this, but they rather suffer damage and You suffer damage as well and not only the wrong man, and this judgment of the things is guilty, like the favored man, like the biased man, and that is why God does not have on earth a man improved with love, with patience and with humility for the forgiveness of the sins and for true salvation. When the Lord is not let to be at the helm, the man becomes haughty against another man and he does not get humble, for the man sticks to the man and not to God, and not to the spirit of humility, and then the Lord loses the benefit between man and man and the man falls down, and the one who is favored by man always falls down, and he falls and does not stand and he is not. Behold how much You are disregarded because of Your justice, my Lord and my Son. Here is why the man does not grow. The man grows only by humility, but he takes Your place and judges with partiality because of the anxious and pretentious man in his struggle, and the man does no longer prosper in the humility, which is supposed to give him life and to raise him from his falling. Everywhere many people are called Christians and where You are not there by the man’s spirit of humility, they stay under You name, but they do not seek Your face in them, since they show partiality to one another for their stature in them. However, You will overcome, child God, and You will gather together those who are humble in their spirit and great with their life and mercy, those who have mercy on You and not on them, and not on the man who keeps You lower than him before You, for the man has no fear of God by his nature and he is anxious because of the part of his nature. I teach Your people, dear Son, to love You more than man so that he may not commit sin against You and against man like many who say that they are Yours and commit this sin.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Assumption of August 28, 2006

When I spoke to Israel to love his God with his entire heart, with his entire soul and with his entire mind, he did not understand this wisdom of the love that comes from God. When the man loves God in this way and no otherwise, only then he knows how to love his neighbor, and then he knows to love himself for God. The one who does not love for God with his love, that one does not understand what I spoke when I said: «Israel, you shall love God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and you shall love your neighbor as your-self». Oh, the man does not know what this all means, which I had asked from him for his love for Me, and that is why I came two thousand years ago and I said: «If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me». Moreover, I also said that I would be with these to the end of the time. Amen.

Oh, My people, the one who denies himself, that is the one who loves Me wisely for the use of the salvation of many, as the old Simeon and the prophetess Anna did, who lived for God with all their being, waiting for Him to testify about Him, and then they confessed Him and tool the fruit and the crown of the salvation. The soul of the one who loves Me with all his being with his entire wholeness, that one is bound only to God with his soul in him, and the spirit in him confesses the Lord and is bound spiritually to his neighbor for God.

Behold, My people, what wisdom I am letting today upon you. The soul bonds among people bind people together and the spiritual bonds among people bind God to the people and the people to God, and this is the wisdom of God’s commandment for the love between man and God, and this has to be on earth. And it will be. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the saint hierarch, Basil the Great of January 14, 2006

You, those who thought and think that you know something on the earth, I call you with the gentleness of the Lamb of God, to open your eyes and to learn the mystery of life on the earth. Christ, the Word, was and is the life, and without Him nothing was made. God, the Word, this is the One Who was in the beginning with God, and everything was made by Him, because life was and is in Him, and it was not hard for him to shepherd us with it, with the life, which is being given. He is the Word Who spoke on the Mount of Sinai and told us to love God with all our soul, which is given by Him when He filled the sky with breath of life at the making of the sky and of the earth, and behold, we all have received our soul from His fullness, we all have received life, and we have received grace upon grace, we those who knew Him that He was the Word from the beginning, and by Whom all things were made, and Who became Man for us, the men, for our life and salvation from death. And behold the Lamb of God; He came again in the world as word by which the living and the dead are judged. Amen. The most judging of His word over the living and the dead is the first word of His prayer before the man when He spoke on the Mount Sinai, saying: «Israel, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your soul». Then God told the man to love Him with all that which the man has from God, with the soul, which is the man’s life, for the soul is from God in man, and it is the breath of life, which God, the Word, put it between heaven and earth at the creation of the world. Amen.

Oh, little Lamb, Lord, I loved You in me and I loved You without limits with my life, and my life had no any boundary when I loved You within it. I loved You within me and I did not love myself, and this was my live and the soul of my life. You were my soul, and I did nothing else with it but I loved You within me through it, through You, for You are the soul of the man, and You cry within each man through his soul, taken from You in him, and the man does not know this, because his heart, his thought and his virtue, which are in his body, do not love You from man, and Your soul from man is a slave of the man’s life, because the man lives his own life. However, I lived You and I listened and I listen only to You, just as You listen to the Father, and I ask the people to give You life in them, for You are their soul, and they do not know the mystery of life; the man does not know who cries within him after life. Your word on the Mount Sinai has taught the man to love You within him with that what You has put in him. The most judging word over the living and over the dead is the word of Your love, by which You asked before the man and said: «You shall love your God with all your soul, man!».

Oh, little Lamb Shepherd, how sweetly You have been calling the people to Your pasture, and You have been calling them to love! And I had been calling likewise, for every disciple of Yours is like You. I gave the Gospel of Your love to the people and I spoke to them much and lovingly that You are the Shepherd, full of grace and truth, and we all have we have received from Your fullness. Amen.

— Oh, child of the life full of love! You have loved Me in you and My disciples bow before you, for you were My love among them, and I was your love, and you rejoiced them inexpressibly because you became the first word among them on the day of the feast of My disciples, with whom I walked on the earth after My Word became My body and dwelt among you and you saw His glory, a glory such as the One born of the Father, full of grace and truth, and of which fullness you, My disciples, received, when I declared to you the Father, Whom no one has ever seen, as it is written. However, you saw Him, for whoever saw the Son, he also saw the Father, as I taught you, those who knew to learn. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the saints apostles Peter and Paul of July 12, 2005

Oh, blessed are those who listen to God’s word and fulfill it with humility, with a gentle and humble spirit, which becomes paradise in man, paradise for God and for the saints, sons. Oh, you have to show My face in you to the people, because only in this way you can fulfill the great commandment, which says: «You shall love your neighbor as yourself»; only this way and not otherwise, sons.

Oh, if the man fulfilled God’s commandment given to him, then he would become like God with his entire heart, with his entire soul and with his entire mind and power, and this is how he would be seen by his neighbor as his brother, and this is how the man would be confessing and bearer of the cross, by following Me.

Oh, My people, you should remember how I put the man to test, the man who says that he fulfills the commandments, which will be to comprise in them his love for Me and not in that one for he himself or for his glory and not Mine. When I tested the rich young man, who was fulfilling the commandments, I told him that if he wanted to be perfect he should deny himself and give what he had earned to the poor to have it as his treasure in heaven, and then to come and become My disciple, for only that way the man who loved God completely was able to become perfect in everything, and then he became sad and went away, for he had many riches. Behold, the man does not love God from with his entire soul, with his entire heart, with his entire mind and with his entire power. Behold, the man cannot deny himself to become My disciple, but I told My disciples who were afraid, when they saw Me speaking with the rich young man, for that what was not possible with the weak men within the perfect love was possible with God, Who takes care to prepare man’s heart, and his souls and his mind and power to be able to give them all to God that the man may belong of God, but not to himself, for the body is of no use, and the man, poor of him, labors only for his body, forgetting about the eternity of his soul and body, which cannot be separated as the man would like to believe that it is possible when he is only flesh, poor of him.

The man knows nothing about the mystery of the love of his neighbor and about its work. The man does not know what to give to his neighbor, and does to his neighbor what he does to himself, for the man is only flesh like his neighbor whom the man helps in his needs, which these have nothing to do with the man’s salvation and of his neighbor. The greatest truth in man is the humility of his mind and heart, for it wins the man over to God, and the man is consumed before Me, fulfilling with his whole heart, soul and mind and power the love of God in him, the love that burns in man. The man’s love burns in man for man, but My love in him burns in man for Me and it wins the man over for perfect and eternal life, and eternal life means nothing else but God’s love in man, the love which loves consuming the man, so that only God may remain and every man’s neighbor to see God burning like fire in the one who lets himself to be My dwelling place in him. Amen.

Oh, there is no love of his neighbor but only in the man who loves God and likewise, and he loves his neighbor as himself, making this one see and love God from all of his things, which are not of the flesh, but from God and for God in man. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the holy archangels, Michael and Gabriel of November 21, 2004

the most painful thing is not that the man does not want to become like Me. More painful than this is the fact that the man makes God like him, and the mystery of the embodiment of My word in man is completely strange on earth, because the love and its benefits, which are made known by My word, by the gift of prophecy, which crowns the man with life from heaven, do not longer have room on earth, and the man does no longer want to do like God not even in hard times; however, even then he wants to do like him, and I, the Lord, would like to do like him, to become like him, and this pain is hard in heaven when the man tries to make God like him.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the birth of the Lord’s Mother of September 21, 2004

Oh, My people, the work of the grace is great and much and the man who tries to work over the man with his love for Me cannot work well without a teacher, without the Holy Spirit, by Whom I make prophets over the people. The man who tries to work in My name over the man does not know that it is not enough only to help the man believe that God is and to come from his worldly way after God. The man has to learn then the way and its life and the work on it and the fruit of this work, which is learned from God and not from man, and I have been wounded, since I made the man and to this very day, for the man has no longer been learning from God so that he may know after that.

Oh, the man does no longer use the life that suffers in him, the grace and the spring from Me in man, in order that I may become counselor from Me on man, the one who makes signs and miracles over the unfaithful ones from which every man is caching the spirit of world. I can no longer exhort the man by the word, for it does not come to Me if I do not make signs and miracles on earth to make the man believe that God is and that the Lord is on the way after the man to turn the man back to life and to hate death, for the life that does not suffer in man it does not suffer because the man lives in death.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the saint prophet Elijah of August 2, 2004

There is no happiness in man but only in the holy man who knows what love and longing after God are, and who struggles with longing after the loved One, for without love, the man is ugly before Me, for it is written: «God is Love». Amen.

I cry and mourn because the man, who does not understand and does not know what love is, makes love for his heart out of anything, and he can hardly understand the way with the love on it, because the man loves himself and that is the way he loves, for My commandment says: «You shall love your neighbor as yourself».

Oh, My people, how shall I not cry from the man with pain when I see how much the man loves himself and his neighbor for himself? The man cannot love his neighbor for Me, since he loves himself. Oh, how much do they try to love Me for themselves and not for Me, those who love Me, and here is why I do not have a people of saints on earth. I said that everyone who will leave houses, or brothers, or sisters, of father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, or name, for My name’s sake, will receive much more, and will inherit eternal life, a life of a holy man on earth and in heaven, and many who are first will be last and those that are last will be first, for he who loves father, or mother, or son, or daughter, more than Me, is not worthy of Me, for he cannot take his cross and follow Me and to confess Me before men so that I may also confess him before My Father Who is in heaven.

excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of all the saints. The feast of Saint Virginia’s birth of June 22, 2003

Oh, sons, guided from heaven, the man on earth loves himself and so he loves his neighbor; he loves him for himself, not for Me and not for his neighbor, and I do not have a people of saints on earth among the sons of the people, who do not learn from heaven the love which is given to God from the man who has it. He who does not deny himself is not worthy of Me, and the man does not know what this Scripture of Mine means. He who loves himself cannot love Me, if he does not denies himself, and he cannot confess Me alive, if his works are dead, if they do not have the power and My face in them and My life, of life giving upon the man.

excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of all the saints. The feast of Saint Virginia’s birth of June 22, 2003