69. Тоска и страхования. Невинные развлечения. Разобщение с людьми дурными. Английский «апостол» из секты духоносцев. Его лживость

God's mercy be with you! Your melancholy with insurance is something incomprehensible. What do you want? Everything is in order with you: both at home and in the work of your soul. Be patient. What to do? Pray to God and hand over your fate and the fate of all yours to Him. This is the most reliable path to peace! Take care of one thing, so as not to do anything to anger God. From this you will have strong hope and lasting peace. That there are some family entertainments that are nice, nothing. Just don't get carried away. Do not forget God and thank Him for every consolation, accepting that consolation as if from His hands. But when you are alone, fall more diligently to the Lord, asking Him for admonition and guidance on the paths of life. But it also happens that entertainment, even pleasant ones, gives rise to melancholy, because although they are not sinful, they are not something that can satisfy the heart. However, changeability of feelings is so characteristic of us. It must be endured and endured, taking care of one thing, so that the main decision - the goal of life that you have chosen for yourself - does not change, but always remains in force. Is this what could be happening?! God finally asks for your heart, but God’s heart wants it. For without God it is never full, it is always bored; look at yourself from this side. Maybe here you will find a door to God’s chambers. It is very good that you have fallen out of love with one of your friends, who, with her pretty and insinuating disposition, exerted an influence on you that was unfavorable for the goal of life you had destined for yourself. You once mentioned this influence, but I missed telling you: beware. Well, thank God! Now things naturally took a good turn. However, one should not allow hostility in the heart. Limit yourself to not trusting her anymore and not taking her sweet speeches to heart. Keep yourself calm and don’t upset peaceful relationships. You ask how to think about an English “apostle” of some kind 14. But in your own words there is a solution to how to think about it. He says that the Lord appears to him and orders him what to do and what to say. Don’t you see, or don’t they see there, that he is a deceiver? If the Lord had appeared to him, he would not have sent him to us, but to the Turks, for example, or some other unbelievers. The Lord Himself has repeatedly confirmed and continues to confirm our faith with miracles, holy relics and appearances of Himself and His saints. There is nothing to teach us. On the contrary, he himself needs to learn from us. This “Apostle” is not of the general English faith, but of a special one that has recently appeared. Recently, a sect of spirit bearers appeared there. It occurred to someone that in the Church of Christ the same thing should be repeated that happened to the Apostles, that is, so that the Holy Spirit visibly descends and visibly acts in the believers. Several people believed him - more than the beauty. We started thinking about how to achieve this. We thought and thought and came up with an idea. It is unknown how, they became convinced that the Holy Spirit was definitely working in them, and they began to assure others of this. They came up with several dark miracles and began to spread them everywhere. So a lot of gullible people gathered around them. They separated from the others and established their own church orders. And here is the sect! Your “apostle” is from among them. He talks about the Holy Spirit, that everyone must be filled with His grace in order to be saved. This idea is absolutely correct. I revealed it to you in my first letters. But there is only truth in his words. Everything else is a lie! He shouts: “Believe, believe, and the Holy Spirit will come.” This is his main lie! Faith is definitely an essential condition for receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, but the receipt of the gift itself occurs not by faith alone, but by faith through the divinely instituted sacraments. This was the case during the time of the Apostles. Here's a case! Saint Paul came to Ephesus and, meeting some believers there, asked them if they had received the Holy Spirit. They answered that they had not even heard whether the Holy Spirit existed. It turned out that they were baptized only with the baptism of John. Then Saint Paul baptized them with the baptism of Christ, and after baptism he laid his hands on them, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. They were renewed by baptism, but did not receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. He communicated to them through the apostolic laying on of hands, and baptism only made them capable of receiving the gift and worthy of it. As it happened with these believers, so it happened with everyone: both under the Apostles and after them. This is how it still happens in the Church of God, precisely through Holy Confirmation, which the Apostles introduced instead of the laying on of hands. We all, baptized and anointed, have the gift of the Holy Spirit. Everyone has it, but not everyone has it. How to achieve it to become effective is depicted in my first letters. Take the trouble to watch it again. Here I will only add that there is no other way to achieve this. Turn now to the English "apostle" and ask whether he himself has the gift of the Holy Spirit. Doesn't have it. For the English do not have the sacrament of confirmation, without which, as without the laying on of apostolic hands, the Holy Spirit has never descended and does not descend. The English have only two sacraments: baptism and communion, but there is no sacrament of confirmation. Therefore, there is no gift of the Holy Spirit in them. This “apostle” does not have it either. Therefore, he talks about what he does not know, and preaches about receiving what he himself does not have. In his speeches you will not notice even a mention of how the Holy Spirit is received. He talks only about the need to have Him and then cries out: “Believe!” It’s like: “Open your mouth and the Holy Spirit will fly in.” How does the word of the Lord come to this “apostle”: “Physician, heal yourself!” (Luke 4:23). Please agree with this and convey my thoughts to others, in fact to the one who speaks with passion about objects of faith. Through him, such a view of the “apostle” can spread more widely. God bless you! Save yourself! You might be interested in: