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Remember that the Lord is in every Christian. When your neighbor comes to you, always have great respect for him, for the Lord is in him, who often expresses His will through him. “God works in you both to will and to do according to His good pleasure” (according to the good will of God) (Phil. 2:13). Do not spare anything for your brother, as you would for the Lord, especially since you do not know in whom the Lord comes to visit you; be impartial to everyone, kind, sincere, and hospitable to everyone. Remember that even through unbelievers the Lord sometimes speaks or wins their hearts towards us, as happened in Egypt with the prison guard, whose heart the Lord moved towards Joseph (cf. Gen. 39:21) (6). Always remember that your neighbor, no matter who the Christian he is, is a member of Christ, even if he is sick - and you yourself are sick - and always receive him with respect and love, talk to him from the heart and treat him and do not spare anything for him: no food, no drink, no clothes, no books, no money, if he needs them. The Lord will reward you for it. We are all His children, and He is everything to us. We are all sinners, and the wages of sin are misfortunes, troubles, sorrows, illnesses and death (Rom. 6:23). To get rid of sins, you need to pray, and to pray, you need to have faith and hope. So, for us sinners, prayer, faith and hope are necessary. A sinner should not leave his mental lips and even his outer prayers (6). My neighbor is a being of equal rights to me, the same person as me, the same image of God; and since he is the same as me, then I need to love him, as I love myself. “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39), - you must observe him as your own flesh and blood: treat him with love, meekly, kindly, forgiving his mistakes, as I willingly forgive myself, as I myself thirst for forgiveness or indulgence from others for my weaknesses, i.e. so that they would not notice them, as if they were not there, or would notice them affectionately, meekly, kindly, benevolently (6). A dark, evil force often comes between me and God, between me and my neighbor. I know this from experience, right, logically (7). You might be interested in: