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Reflection on Mt 7:12
Post date: 2023-03-26Autor: BCP
These words remind us of a very important rule for our personal life, for our relationships with those closest to us as well as for our relationships with other people. We usually want others to do something and we are sad when they do not do what we would like them to do or we reproach them for it. Or we even make a gloomy face because they are unable to guess our wishes. This is the picture of the old self. We should learn our lessons from this unsound thinking, and learn true self-criticism instead. We have to assume that the other person is just as unsound in his thinking. If our thinking was vertical, in other words if we sought first the kingdom of God and the salvation of our soul and communicated with God in prayer, we would also seek the kingdom of God within us first and prefer it to temporal and passing values such as human glory, recognition, excessive wealth, vanities, etc.
Word of Life – Mt 7:12 (19/3/2023 – 2/4/2023)
Post date: 2023-03-21Autor: BCP
"Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."
Word of Life – Mt 7:7 (5/3/2023 – 19/3/2023)
Post date: 2023-03-08Autor: BCP
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."
Word of Life – Mt 7:6 (19/2/2023 – 5/3/2023)
Post date: 2023-02-19Autor: BCP
Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.
Word of Life – Mt 7:5 (5/2/2023 – 19/2/2023)
Post date: 2023-02-04Autor: BCP
“Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye,and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.”
Word of Life – Mt 7:1-2 (22/1/2023 – 5/2/2023)
Post date: 2023-01-22Autor: BCP
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you."
Reflection on Mt 6:34
Post date: 2023-01-11Autor: BCP
Jesus lays down principles even for the mundane matters of our daily life. These are common worries, worries about the future, about food, about finances, about health, about yourself and your family, worries about your house, etc. Jesus gives a simple instruction that we should not worry about tomorrow, because each day has enough trouble of its own. So we should focus on the day that is given to us and live it according to the will of God. Jesus says, “Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” In another place, Jesus says that we should watch because we do not know when death will come. Death will relieve us of all worries. Scripture tells us to redeem the time. Worries rob us of peace. If we are overwhelmed by worries, we need to set proper priorities and distinguish what needs to be done first in a given situation, and then do it, and put aside what is not so relevant or even what is unnecessary.
Word of Life – Mt 6:34 (8/1/2023 – 22/1/2023)
Post date: 2023-01-11Autor: BCP
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Word of Life – Mt 6:33 (25/12/2022 – 8/1/2023)
Post date: 2022-12-25Autor: BCP
"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."
Word of Life – Mt 6:24 (11/12/2022 – 25/12/2022)
Post date: 2022-12-12Autor: BCP
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Reflection on Mt 6:22
Post date: 2022-12-01Autor: BCP
If you have bad eyes, or your eyesight is failing, you suffer. If you lose your sight, you are in complete darkness and see nothing of the material world. A particular kind of look or facial expression may reflect an inner harmony or disharmony. A gloomy face, an evil look, an envious or lustful eye conveys sin and disharmony or spiritual bondage that enslaves man. Nowadays, with the help of so-called modern psychologies, even the greatest criminal can easily create an artificial smile or pretend kindness, but it is unnatural and fake. Sooner or later it will be unmasked. We have three kinds of sight or eyes – physical, mental and spiritual. With our physical eyes we see the material world. Mental sight is our reason and we can use it to discover the invisible realities, such as abstract, mathematical or even logical truths. In the light of reason, we can also recognize moral laws, which are reflected in the sphere of mutual relationships.
Word of Life – Mt 6:22 (27/11/2022 – 11/12/2022)
Post date: 2022-11-26Autor: BCP
"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light."
Word of Life – Mt 6:20-21 (13/11/2022 – 27/11/2022)
Post date: 2022-11-14Autor: BCP
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Word of Life – Mt 6:19 (30/10/2022 – 13/11/2022)
Post date: 2022-10-31Autor: BCP
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Reflection on Mt 6:19
Post date: 2022-10-31Autor: BCP
Our nature corrupted by original sin is not concerned with treasures in heaven, where rust does not destroy and where thieves do not steal, but rather is inclined to materialism. It believes material things will provide for our future, and it even indulges the pride of life and looks down on the “have-nots”. Jesus says in the parable of the rich fool who wanted to pull down his barns and build greater: “You fool! This very night your soul will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?” Naturally, such people are not mindful of death or the end. Finally, in time of serious illness, and especially in the hour of death, they receive quite a shock. They may even keep the Christian faith, but if their heart clings to possessions, they will hardly get rid of the demon of mammon at the hour of death. Jesus says clearly: “You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Word of Life – Mt 6:14 (16/10/2022 – 30/10/2022)
Post date: 2022-10-16Autor: BCP
"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."
Implementation of prayer acc. Mk 11:23
Post date: 2022-10-07Autor: BCP
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Our sins proceed from the source of evil in us, original sin. Therefore, each of us now acknowledges: I am an egoist who does not seek the will of God, but my own. I am a hedonist who seeks pleasure even at the cost of sin. I am a critic who condemns others, but I refuse to see or admit my fault. May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Jesus died for me and my sins. I look in spirit at the cross of Christ, at His five wounds, and call on the name of Jesus in Hebrew: “YE-HO-SHU-AA-AA-AA” (5 times).
Reflection on Mt 6:6
Post date: 2022-10-07Autor: BCP
Jesus continues in verse 7: “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases like pagans, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them…” Jesus then tells us how to pray, and teaches us the Our Father (vv.9-13). The word of life assures us: “… your Father (God) who sees in secret will reward you.” Verse 8 adds: “For your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” Prayer requires favourable conditions. One of them is to go into your room and shut the door, that is, to quieten your heart and not be immersed in your plans or worries. Today, the Internet, mass media, mobile phones, and thus constant communication with people, are major obstacles to silence of heart. There is no need to go into your room for such communication. But if you are to communicate with God, this requires outward separation from the world, but also inward silence of thoughts.
BCP: Through whom will God liberate the USA, Russia and Europe from mountains of demons? (video)
Post date: 2022-10-07Autor: BCP
Dear brother and sister in Christ, God is waiting for your obedience of faith to liberate America, Russia and Europe from mountains of demons. Demonic forces today control the thinking of people who have trampled on God’s laws, suppressed their conscience, and serve the spirit of lies and death. An army with the most modern weapons is not enough against Satan and his demons; they can only be overcome by the almighty power of God. It is here that biblical faith is decisive which unites us to the holy name of God – Jesus (Yehoshua). Our Savior promised: “If you say to this mountain (specifically, the mountain of demons): ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will happen, it will be done for you.” (Mk 11:23)
Word of Life – Mt 6:6 (2/10/2022 – 16/10/2022)
Post date: 2022-10-01Autor: BCP
When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.