87. Куда ты идешь? Там тебе беда будет

It happens that a man warns a man who is heading towards some danger, saying: “Where are you going? You will be in trouble there." Thus, the holy Christian books warn and restrain the faulty sinner, striving for destruction, saying: “Poor sinner! Where are you going? You will be in trouble there." Where are you going? What greater misfortune can there be than eternal destruction and eternal death? For just as true good alone is eternal good, so true evil alone is eternal evil. Where are you going, poor sinner? To destruction! Fornicator, adulterer and lover of uncleanness! Where are you going? To destruction! Evil, and breathing vengeance on his brother, and desecrating his hands with human blood! Where are you going? To destruction! Thief, predator and robber! Where are you going? To destruction! Slanderer, scolder, slanderer and foul-mouther! Where are you going? To destruction! A drunkard and every disorderly person! Where are you going? To destruction! Sly, flatterer and deceiver! Where are you going? To destruction! A careless and tempting shepherd! Where are you going? To destruction! You are dragging many with you into destruction, many for whom Christ shed His Blood. Judge, oathbreaker and bribe-taker! Where are you going? To destruction, and by your example you will pave the way there for your subservient servants! A ruler who serves his own whims, not society, and seeks his own self-interest, and not the common good! Where are you going? To destruction! A landowner who torments or burdens his peasants! Where are you going? To destruction! A deceitful merchant, selling a cheap thing for an expensive one, a bad thing for a good one, and a rotten thing for a strong one! Where are you going? To destruction! A mercenary who accepts a decent price and does not work, or works hypocritically! Where are you going? To destruction! A money-lover holding a mercenary's bribe! Where are you going? To destruction! A sorcerer and calling him to help himself! Where are you going? To destruction! Every sinner who is not reformed and unrepentant! Where are you going? To destruction! The life of every person while he lives in this world is his path. As life is, so is the path. And as he lives, so he goes. And whatever life he has, he goes this way. It goes either to eternal bliss or to eternal destruction. He lives godly in Christ Jesus - he walks the godly path and goes to eternal life. He lives lawlessly - he follows the path of lawlessness, and goes to eternal destruction. Ah, he is going to destruction, he for whom Christ died is coming, he is going and will be lost if he does not return! Poor sinner! Hold on while you are still on the path, return before you are lost. Once you disappear, you will never come out. You will forever be like a dead man, in destruction and eternal death. Go back! Christ the Lord, Who suffered and died for you, calls you back and calls you to repentance. “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Matthew 9:13). Turn and take the path of repentance, the path leading to eternal life, yes, walking along it, you will die blissfully and enter eternal life. “Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wicked people, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9-10). “But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death” (Rev. 21:8). “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). You might be interested in: