LIFE ACCORDING TO THE HOLY GOSPELS St. Ignatius Brianchaninov (+ 1867).

LIFE ACCORDING TO THE HOLY GOSPELS

St. Ignatius Brianchaninov (+ 1867).

Do not be content with a mere fruitless reading of the Gospel; strive to fulfill its commandments, and read it with your deeds. This is the Book of Life, and it must be read by life.

We will be judged according to the Gospel comm.andrn.ents at the judgment established by God for us Orthodox Christians ... we will be judged according to the Gospel, that carelessness in fulfilling the Gospel commandments is an active rejection of tie Lord Himself.

The Gospel is the image of the qualities of the new man, who is the Lord from the heavens (i Cor 15:47). This new man is God by nature. He makes His holy tribe of men, who believe in Him and are transformed in accordance with Him. gods by grace.

Humility, love, meekness, and so it would follow, all the holy commandments of'Christ are a throne and resting place, so to say, for the Holy Spirit.

Take counsel with the Gospels concerning your own thoughts as well as your neighbor’s thoughts and advice.

The Gospel beatitudes are a spiritual state that is revealed in the Christian from his fulfillment of the Gospel commandments; beatitudes are revealed one after the other, one giving birth to another.

The  Holy Spirit effects' purification in a person who expresses by his life the will for purification.

Confessing God with the lips without confessing Him through deeds and the hidden life of the heart, through only a few external churqh rites and institutions, is recognized as empty, soul-destroying hypocrisy.

The Commandments should be the soul of each Christian, and of Christian society.

Spiritual discernment is acquired by reading the Holy Scriptures, first and foremost the New Testament, and reading the holy Fathers whose writings correspond to the type of life the Christian lives.

It is necessary that reading be assisted by a way of life: Be ye doers of the words and not hearers only; deceiving your own selves. (Jas 1:12).

Our abode in the) sonship of God received through holy Baptism is upheld and continued by a life according to the Gospel commandments. Tins abiding in sonship is lost by departing from a life according to the Gospel commandments.

It is necessary for salvation that the one who has been baptized into Christ should live according to the laws of Christ.

Damage to humanity consists in the mixing of good with evil; healing consists in the gradual removal of evil, when it begins to act more than good in us.