Today we celebrate The Lord’s Easter. What is Easter? This is the center of our understanding of God, because Christ is risen. On a passionate Friday, he died, and on Saturday he was doing the work beyond the curtain, work in the underworld, He was rescuing those who were before the flood, and those who were after it. And He came out with such power that the stone moved, and the dead prophets were raised. I don’t know how many prophets were raised, but definitely not one, not two or three. And it is written that they went out and appeared to many. I don’t know how they appeared. Perhaps some were knocking on the door early in the morning, perhaps some stood by the bed and said: “Get up!” I don’t know, but it is written that they were raised and appeared to many in Jerusalem – the risen prophets on this day. And who were these prophets? There was a tradition in Israel: they thought that Jeremiah came when they spoke about Christ, or Elijah. Perhaps, Moses also came or Elijah – couldn’t they come? Maybe Zephaniah, maybe Haggai, or maybe those that are not written in the Bible, were also raised – God has His own list. But it is written that they appeared. I want the prophets to appear again, the angels to appear. But this is all Christ and His faces. Christ is risen, and He is not alone. Jesus is never alone – He is in a host. I want to be part of this host, I want to be His host, cloud, His retinue. And it is written in the Scriptures that you are in His family. And it is also written that you are in the circle of His friends, in communication, in the society of God’s Son. It’s amazing!
“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6: 4).
Can we understand what kind of milestone it is today? I may need a prophet who will tell me what season is starting now and whether this Easter is a milestone. There are two options. This is a sovereign invasion of God in His calendar, when He says – now this season begins – and you walk in it. This is a sovereign will, you don’t choose. But it happens that you yourself choose and begin to live in a new way. So I am inclined to the latter. Awakening is when I wake up.
When I believed, I immediately rushed to Him into His arms. And so I still do and love this. I recommend this to you as well – believe God and not look at yourself. Who are you, man? What will you find in yourself? Who of you can say: “Now I’m ready to follow God”? None of us are ready. We must believe and thrust ourselves, not looking at ourselves, but trusting. You surrender, jump into the abyss and believe that the big hands of God will pick you up, and He will lead you. Since that time, so I believe, so I stand, and so I live. If you believe, you know, believe and trust. There is no need to check anything, especially when it comes to things of heart, about the heart.
I feel that a season has come when I need to share my heart. Faith of the heart. As for the head, this is one thing. We spoke about space, and I felt a strong stirring of the spirit that I had to defend the Word, because scientists went into madness, they came to the fact that there is no God. Many came to the point when they began to justify wickedness. And even discoveries began to harm man. That is, they stood against humanity – nuclear physics, in particular and so on. We would live better if not for scientists. We would be kinder if not for them. That is, this is foolishness. And therefore it is written “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise”(1Cor. 1:19), and “What is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight God.” (Luke 16:15) And I believe that there is the pillar and ground of the truth. We must simply be merged with this pillar, never leave it, be near and never deviate from it, because the Word is sufficient. Which of you could say today that you are smarter than Adam? Who could boast that you know more today than Adam? He lived a thousand years – and not because there were less infections on the planet, but because he could live by the spirit, he had peace inside his heart, he coped with redemption, he taught his third son to call the name of the Lord and supported him in the formation of the new kind of people. And Eve was the mother of all living, and she was a blessed woman – the prototype of the Church of Christ.
He told her: “You are life!”, And he called Eve – “life”, because she began to give birth, and the man began to multiply on earth.
And then came many thoughts, people became futile in their thoughts, they sought out many schemes and rebelled against each other to take over other people’s thing, to be better, to be “above”. And so far it all continues, just with new technical means, but man is the same. Why the Scripture says: “Look at the ancients, learn from them”, and yet – “Return to the ancient paths”, take the grounds, “do not remove the landmarks”.
And this is a season when I feel I can call to the heart. In some season, you serve with the “face shield” on, put on the shoulder and knee pads, check the chain mail, armor, tighten the belt stronger, tighten the shoes – and run along the mountains and crowbars, through the waters and the sea. You are moving. But then you feel that you need to stop, because you got inside a green garden, it is important not to trample, it is important to help, in the “iron gloves” your fingers don’t bend, you break things. And you need to uncover. And even if you “cut your finger,” it’s all right, the Lord will heal.
And this season, when it has to be the heart. Perhaps this will help, especially those who have been in faith for years. People need your heart. They need a piece of your heart, your juice. Think about it. Maybe someone has nothing to give, he opens the lid, and “ink” flows from it. And someone, perhaps, needs to widen his heart, from where the light comes. And from there comes not only light, but also warmth, smell and healing nectar. Something is holding us in a closed heart. “I serve, but with a closed heart!” I think obedience is not enough. I will not survive with obedience. I need Love. Obedience will never soak me. I can obey like a soldier, by orders. But this will not give pleasure. And if there is no pleasure, I can’t give it, because I give only what I have.
Here is the season when I feel that I can share the best that the Lord gave me. Not that you give yourself, but to some extent even so. When Jesus broke Himself, he gave out Himself. He gave out bread and wine and said that it was His body and His blood. This is the service of the shepherd. Listen, shepherds! Blood and body is what you can also give to people. It’s so amazing! This is like first love that begins to possess you, and it turns out that she is here – you just need to give place, raise your voice, sing a song. She is right here, she is not hiding somewhere, running away and tormenting you with her being unreachable. You locked her in a cage of your thinking, in the cage of your heart, in the cage of your restrictions and fears. Don’t look for her somewhere far away, but let her go, and that’s it.
I noticed that some people whom we consider non-spiritual, are, in fact, better than those who consider themselves spiritual. It’s not that they are closer to God now, they may have locked up, because the outside world has convinced them, but they feel deeper, they have a higher tendency to openness.
I have recently been touched by one thought: that the system will always work with repetitions. Any system is based on repetitions. Tradition and ritual are repeated all the time. And repetitions are always associated with the past. You are doing what you did in the past, what has already gone. Think about how terribly it sounds – the system is turned into the past, it is doomed to become history, it doesn’t work with the future, because if it worked with the future, it would not be. Because we don’t know what will be in the future, the river flows in unknown ways, the Lord makes all things new. If our faith is turned to support itself, so as not to make a mistake, so as not to look back, then we are unlikely to advance anywhere far. And first love doesn’t want to live in your fears, complexes, blocks, boxes, your stereotypes, she wants to be free, she has wings. Did you know that your first love has wings? First love likes to fly most of all. This is her favorite pastime, and those are most beautiful things.
The spirit understands what kind of dimension this is. Opening your heart means making yourself vulnerable. When you open your heart, you get transformed, and your personality changes, it looks different. Do you know what happened? When you open your door a little wider, not for the light to come in, but for the light to come out – I am talking about the light that burns inside us – and when you open your door wider to give way to this light to shine brighter, then you suddenly discover that new people begin to appear, and they also transform you.
God loves so that you can’t contain it. Eternity is less than his love. His love is bigger than eternity. Therefore, do not be jealous. Jesus says: “Do not be jealous because I am good.” This enriches you because you open yourself, and the outer light “floods” there. The light becomes of better quality, stronger. And many people are closed due to experience, because they have gone through traumas, opinions, pressure of the common world, close people, who turned out not very good teachers.
Revelation
“A dove flew out of the city and started to live in a rock. She flew away from comfort, which was for her like a cage where she was locked up. While in the rock, she felt free and could create what she wanted. Some saw her in the rock, and wanted to make her comfortable there, but the dove didn’t want this, she flew high to the top of the cliff, which was unusual for her. Without this comfort, she felt perfectly well and free, learning to soar high. ”
I feel that this season is important to me not with how much information I communicate, but how much of the light goes forth. This is an interesting season – you open the door and the inner light goes out and the outer one comes in, they connect, and together they make a very interesting kind of light, which is already shining with eternity, no darkness can consume it. Your light and God’s light in compound are immortality. And it is interesting that new faces appear at the threshold. They came like angels to you, and they came to make you more beautiful. This is a risk, this is work, because you feel that this person needs you. And you need him. This is eternity. There is marriage on earth – but it is just a shadow. Just as the seed differs from the spike – the spike is full of life, bread gives life.
If we open our eyes wider, we will see that many objects and concepts are specific messages on this earth. Why are birds compared with angels? Why is an angel compared with the stars. Why is the light in heaven compared with the truth? Think, this is the sign of God on this earth. We still have to learn to hear the voice of God, brothers and sisters. This is the Book. I will test and try all things. But this is not a book. If you saw with spiritual eyes, you would have seen that this is a sword that shines, this is not a stack of pressed wooden pages. Raise this sword high and shine with it and from it.
And this is a marvelous season – when you feel life at the threshold. Probably, this is how the river flows from under the threshold of the temple. The water is flowing from under the threshold, and it oozes from the temple. But there, deep under it is the living stone, which gives water. Like Moses – he gave water from the rock: he touched it with his staff, and the water flowed directly from the rock – the living water. We are stones, and our living water should flow, we must give this water. Open your hearts for people. Life with a closed heart, based on repetitions, on the rituals, “keeping yourself” with all your strength, with fear – this is a community of slaves, fearing people, notorious, and, ultimately, evil. Kindness is also not so easy to find in the religious world – it is so surprising that people are right amidst of life, but they can maintain a quarrel for days or weeks … You’ve got to find a way – not to love each other in the garden of love … Think: do you splash out in love, do you bathe in love? If not, then we believed somehow wrong, we see the Lord wrong, something happened to us that we can’t enjoy it from the source of love.
Christ is risen not only by power, but also by love. I want to proclaim this season – so that we all experience the power of love – not the power of the Holy Spirit, but the power of love, namely this sacred, metaphysical substance named Love. Because love has the greatest power. Augustine said powerful words: “I want God and soul,” but it could also be said not any weaker: “I want love.” And this are all things, because it is God and the soul.
“The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz caw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Now it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say: “Come, and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths”. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Oh, house of Jacob’s! Come and let us walk in the light of the Lord ”(Isaiah 2: 1-5)
See how right this revelation speaks.
“A cloud is falling on the Eastern Gates. It is very heavy – so that there is nothing heavier and denser than it, it seems that it will crush everything. But along with this, for all that is part of it, it is very light, tender, living and moved by the wind. ”
I have the same kind of feeling – that it will crush, and then you look – and it is tender, what is connected to it. I can make damage with my spirit to what is alien. But whatever is called drinks this for good and connects stronger and merges.
“And the cloud is light for those of the same nature. It is tender, living, moved by the wind, it covered the Gates.
Then it was shown how a cross arose from the cloud and the Gates. And the Gates and the cloud become like the mountain on which the cross is established. At some point, the cross is transformed into the body of the Lord, and then into the Church of God, which consists of the living stones, which are faces, hearts, eyes and souls of those who are part of the altar. These are not only those who became part of it in past times, but those who will become in the future. And all these are one whole thing.
The sun begins to rise, from all this a shadow falls to the earth, the sea, the mountains, the sun rises higher, changing the shadow up the mountain, which is getting higher and higher, rising above everything else and over all other mountains.
And at the top of the mountain there is something similar to the House of the Lord, which is the throne of God, which stands on a stone, and on which the living Stone is seated, which is filled with the power of life, which can come off and start its movement, but the voice sounds: “There is still time! There is still time.” The mountain from the Gates and the cloud continues to rise even higher and higher over all the other mountains.”
The word that I read to you previously has a mountain, and there was a house, and it grew up to be higher than other mountains that will be called hills. It is interesting that there is a prophecy exactly the same, only more expanded. So spoke Isaiah, but exactly the same prophecy has Prophet Micah. Word in word Micah repeats the words of Isaiah after hundreds of years! Only he expands and adds.
“Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills, and peoples shall flow to it. Many nations shall come and say: “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths, for out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords into plowshare and their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sward against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore ”( Micah 4: 1-3).
And here Micah begins to open a wider picture than Isaiah:
“But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of host has spoken. For all people walk each in the name of his God; but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
In that day, says the Lord, I will assemble the lame, I will gather the outcast and those whom I have afflicted. I will make the lame remnant and the outcast a strong nation; so the Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion from now on even forever. And you, o tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, even the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.”(Micah 4: 4-8).
Therefore, we go from the hill – to the mountain, from the tower – to the house at the top, from the weak – to the strong people, from the sword – to the plowshare, from the kingdom of man to the rule of God.
Continue to love! When? – When you don’t feel like it. Whom? – Those who don’t love, who oppose. Continue to love when you feel indifference. This is hard. It is harder to love in indifference than in hatred. Continue to love when there are no feelings. Continue to love during your wounds, when it hurts, you are not up to others at all, they don’t give you anything. But you decide to love. You open your inner light, this door from the inside and continue to shine. Because this light is vital – someone will get saved because of it.
Some of us have a small room of light, but they shut even that. There is no light there, but he still shuts it. He thinks an earthly way – they tighter you shut, the more you keep. This is wrong. It must come enter in to you.
Continue to love as you yourself get weak. Continue to love in times of temptations, in times of stumbling, when you get betrayed. Keep good memory, do not hold evil. People may keep bad memory, and they torment themselves. Keep only good memory. Keep your feelings sharp with the good memory of a man. Never break off with anyone. Don’t break off to the last. This doesn’t mean to be stupid. Sometimes we must leave – from where the devil reigned in your life.
Continue to love. Do not give up hope. Continue to love and remember no evil. Continue to love walking in forgiveness. Continue to love, restoring the torn where you were wrong. Continue to love and nourish this garden. Become a new sprout and let the new sprouts grow. Plant new seeds. You change and ascend.
This is the season of faith of the heart. Not of faith of the head or rituals, feelings, emotions. There is something real. The main thing is that the water flows. You can be a perfect reader of the Bible, but there is no water. The main thing is that the water is flowing, and not that the sermon is “good”.