1920_10_30 Two Small Coins (Nik)

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Two Small Coins

We sang: "Bless the Lord, O my soul."

The Lord's Prayer.

I will read you a few verses from the 21st chapter of Luke: “And as Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them, for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had."

Christ makes a small remark about what the rich people gave and that widow, who was the poorest one. In these words of Christ lies a great law. She gave everything she had. And the obstacles in life are due to the fact that we do not invest everything we have. Countries also make the same mistakes. A country that is at war is investing everything. When an author writes, he invests all his knowledge. The spiritual people also make the same mistake of not investing everything they have. Modern Christianity also makes the same mistake of not investing everything they have. Ananias and Sapphira concealed. The law is such that if a person goes to God, he must invest everything. When the grain of wheat is laid in the ground, does it not put everything in the ground? Many contradictions may arise. If a student delves into trade, he will be neither good as a student nor as a merchant. He cannot become a doctor or a diplomat, because then he will not be good as a doctor or a diplomat. Energy must be invested in one direction. The example of this poor widow shows her courage, she does not think about what will happen tomorrow. One must invest everything so that the Lord helps you. He does not want tears, He wants us to work. And I am saying to all of you that if you do not invest all your possessions and decide to serve God, then I do not want to deal with you anymore. If your child does not want to learn, then the father and mother cannot make him a scholar.

Good and evil go together. The absolute can not be good and evil in itself. Good and evil are not inherited. Virtue is not capital by inheritance. When you distort your mood, you stumble.

There are two types of giving: if I give 2000 leva to a poor woman, a widow, or to a robber, I ask - where is the good? In the money? In both of them? Or in man? Evil is in the choice of giving. Who were those who killed St. Stephen? They were the Christians of that time. The Jews could not give everything to Christ. (The example of the beekeeper who had several hives. The Master told him to put aside several swarms for the Lord, but he did not agree, that seemed to him too much, and after disobeying his advice, all his hives died during the same year.) Giving is the law. For every 150 beehives you will give one for the Lord. We must give what God has given us.

We modern people say, "But we have to take care of ourselves." Well, if we take care of God, do we not also take care of ourselves?

The difference between physical and spiritual life is that the physical world takes up very little space. As there is life in the physical world, so there is life in the spiritual world. Therefore, as you were in the physical world, so you will remain in the spiritual world. (The example of the lamb. The lamb was 100 meters higher than the location of the wolf and the lamb was swearing at the wolf. And the wolf, seeing that he could not touch the lamb, said to himself: "Its meat is not worth it" and calmly passed.)

There is another law in the spiritual world that prevents evil. Move the rational world away from evil. In the spiritual world you have no opportunity to do evil - you can only do evil on earth. Evil is our man-made child. All the evils of the earth are the offspring of man, of whom the devil is the father and the world is the mother. So evil is the devil. As much as the devil is responsible for being a king, so is man. 25 percent falls to us. If evil is not being fed, evil cannot be done. At the same time, the human soul can do both good and evil. Everyone is a creator of their own destiny.

Happiness or unhappiness in our lives depends on us. Why did this widow put all her wealth into the common treasury? This widow had a high consciousness, she surpassed many modern Christians. Now I do not want this thought to remain, so that you invest your property in this common treasury, because if you invest it, you will not give me anything. When you have and give, always think that you could have invested more than you invested. We should always think that we have not given what we could have given.

And then we will be like those two saints, who, while traveling in the desert, one of them saw a large cauldron with gold, and when he saw it, he got scared and jumped aside. Then his companion went to see what had happened to him, but when he saw that what his companion feared was gold, he loaded it on a car, went to Alexandria, and started giving it away to the poor, the widows, and those in need; and so he gave away all of it. Then he went to see and ask the Lord if he had done the will of God, but the Lord replied, "Your goodness is not worth as much as the leap that your companion made when he saw the gold." Let us do good deeds with love, then it is real; if not done with love, it is worth nothing.

Several years ago in the Varna region, robbers burned a rich man with firewood, until they forced him to say where the money was, then they stole it. And when his neighbors later learned about it, they began to condemn him for giving away his money; he replied, "Have you have a hot firewood on your neck?" Now they are threatening in churches, "If you do not give, you will go to hell." This is giving without love. One cannot accept God's blessing, cannot have God's blessing, if he does not invest everything like that widow. God does not need our money and houses. It is a shame for the church to have property, it is a shame for a mother to want her sons to provide for her.

There can be no friendship unless everything is given; there can be no brotherhood unless everything is given, etc. Now you have the real situation, if you give one half - it is not enough. For 2,000 years Christ has been deceived. You pray that he gives to you, and if he gives it, you forget your promise. Now you will return to your initial position. Can you be in the position of this poor widow who had no money and therefore had knowledge and understanding. She represented a large gem. You can help your Bulgarian people, only when you invest all your possessions in the Lord's treasury.

We have to make a clear distinction between human things and Divine things.

The people is a divine institution, but the state is a human institution. The laws of the state are human and transitory, while the laws of God are eternal. The state is a beast and the people - a sheep.

I want this thought to stick in your mind: to live with love for God. You cannot serve without any love of God, but not the love that you have now. The current love is immature. Now even the mother's love is distorted. You have to give everything and forget.

The salutation in the Old Testament is collective. Christ never addresses collectively, He addresses each soul personally. He does not address the people, but addresses each individual separately.

Christianity does not want any churches to be built, because every person is a church, a king, a father, a priest for himself, if he lives well. The "Support" association ate people's money. Christ seeks an individual soul, not a common one. Everyone who wants to correct other people, I call them incorrigible. Do not deceive yourselves into thinking that someone else can give you kindness, happiness and good. You can lift yourselves up.

There is no person in Bulgaria who knows the Lord. We must know the Lord as He is. You have been Christians for 20-30 years, I would ask you: What is your Lord, have you seen Him? The Lord, He is distinguished by this - if you get anxious and the Lord speaks, you will calm down. The first word that the Lord began with was, "Of every tree you may freely eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat" What is this tree? It is human selfishness. If you live alone - it is ugly, but if you give everything and live with the Lord, there is the salvation. It will be terrible in the future. Past sins are coming, coming, coming. I am not judging you. Christ has not come for judgement. Put an end to your current life today and start the new life right now.

When you take out the head and the spine of a man without his hands, he looks like a large snake. And do you know what terrible snake a man is?

When the time comes for a maiden to marry and if her mother has collected all her hats, dolls, ribbons, I ask, should her mother give her these toys? No, she has to take only her newest suit and leave everything else for her younger siblings. This refers to those girls and boys who have already grown up, who are 20-21 years old. Christ's teaching is for children, not for old people.

The present Lord, Whom I know, says, "Anyone who gives away everything is pleasing to me, but whoever gives only half is not pleasing to God." The English say, "When the Lord turns me over, He also turns my purse over."

No organization will improve the situation of modern humanity.

For me there is no suffering, for me there are no difficulties, for me there are no contradictions. I want you, like me, to find this same Lord, otherwise Alexander Stamboliyski (prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923) will take your money and put you in prison. Christ, who is coming into the world, will sweep away everything - church, state, and everything. We do not need crosses anymore, we will put them inside.

Someone says, "Blessed be the Lord our God." But are you blesses? You, my friend, have you entered the midst of the fire like St. Panteleimon? I would like all bishops in the future to wear crowns entwined with virtues.

A great preacher in America always added the word "but" when preaching, he was saying "but" for everything. When the sermon was over, the listeners came to him and thanked him for the good sermon, telling him that his sermon was excellent, "but". And when some people come to me, I say "but."

Once the Lord speaks to you, you will become different people.

The child who is born of a noble mother, it stands out. The student who is brought up by a good teacher, he also stands out.

Let everyone try everything in the world, and then help them.

We can only have a future when we invest everything we have in God. If we remain as we have been, we will have such great suffering, such catastrophes, that you will be amazed. The whole of Europe will be subjected to such unbearable suffering that will continue until people realize their mistakes and turn to the Lord.

I was not going to speak to you today, but I am talking to you now because the Lord is talking to me, and if you do not do as the Lord tells you, such great misfortunes will befall you, that if one day I meet you and see that you are unhappy, I will know that these misfortunes have befallen you only because you had not listened to what the Lord had told you.

Apply what I am telling you. Be heroes now. The rich and the poor have only believed so far. From now on, try to look like this widow and you will say, "Happy be that day." If you can, be free to fulfill that voluntarily. If you are not 21 years old, the time to fulfill it has not come yet.

We sang "Love is a Spring".

30 October 1920, 11 am.

Veliko Tarnovo

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