🇬🇧 Glory be to Jesus Christ! 🌞💙💛
In general, all today’s large readings are devoted to four main topics – a scholarly dispute with the Jewish elders, exposing them in hypocrisy, the science of readiness for the Second Coming of Christ, and parables that show how we should live wisely.
Since I have covered almost all these topics before, now I mostly only give links to relevant posts and publications.
About the temple tax, relations with the authorities:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
On the resurrection of the dead and marriage:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
About the greatest commandments in connection with the parable of the
good Samaritan:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
About the Lord for the King David, that is Jesus Christ:
05062023.html
As for hypocrisy, it was the main reason why the Jewish elders
rejected Christ, and therefore many pages of the Gospel are devoted to
this topic, and, of course, the faithful need to avoid of it in all its
manifestations. See in particular:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
About self-exaltation and humility, as well as the desire for primacy
and supremacy, primacy and supremacy itself is well written in the work
at the link:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
Matthew XXIII, 15 – why twice as bad as you
? Hypocrites do not
really fight with their sins, but fight only for the opinion of people
about themselves, therefore, their students do not learn to fight with
their sins, but learn from their teachers as well, thus approximately
doubling
their sinfulness.
About oaths and words (slightly departing from the topic of exposing
hypocrisy) in general, there are good works on the links:
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/PowerOfHuman.html
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
About judgment, mercy and faith – hypocrisy avoids true judgment, the
ability to call things their own names, does not do real mercy (see, in
particular, at the link:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
22022023.html
),
leaves faith (also see the link:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
)
There is an interesting essay about external and internal at the
link:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj3_otXgmh1/
I will quote here: The Lord says: "Clean the inside of the cup first,
and then the outside will be clean." The bowl has a peculiar topology (I
note, by the way, that topology is a branch of mathematics that studies
properties that remain unchanged under continuous transformations: for
example, from the point of view of topology, a sphere and a bowl are
practically the same, because one can be transformed into the other
using a continuous transformation). So, we mostly keep the bowl outside,
and wash it from the inside. If we wash it only from the outside, then
the inside may remain unwashed due to its special shape. It is also
inconvenient to hold the bowl from the inside and wash it at the same
time, so we mostly hold it from the outside, and wash it from the
inside, and also touch it from the outside. So in spiritual life, even
in life in general, we mostly gain access to our life from the outside
(psychologists can mention internalization, for example), and life
itself is internal, and we live mostly internally. If something does not
work out, it is often because of the "bowl" and "wrong topology"
.
There is an article about monuments and tombstones and the prophet
Zechariah at the link:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
The Lord concludes the revelation by saying that God’s glory leaves those elders until the time of their repentance. This is also the case with the prophet Ezekiel, when God’s glory left the Jewish temple due to the sins of the people and the priesthood. Later, after that, the temple was destroyed (as it was later after the words of Christ – a second time).
Confession Blessed is he who goes in the name of God!
in relation
to Jesus means that those people had to fully repent and accept God’s
salvation in Christ.
There are good important works about the
time of the end of the world and readiness for it at the following
links:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
On the parable of the ten virgins is well written in particular at
the link (this is not my work):
https://parafia.org.ua/
About the parable of the talents:
https://parafia.org.ua/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
About the parable of the Last Judgment:
19022023.html
Finally, the readings are finished with the words of Jesus about His suffering.
Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!