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  1 LawGod   |                        On the Law of God~
  2 LawGod,1 |             of our youth.~The Law of God was written primarily as
  3 LawGod,2 |            moral law given to man by God. This moral law, this voice
  4 LawGod,2 |             moral law, this voice of God in man's soul is felt in
  5 LawGod,2 |              and believe in the True God Who placed the moral law
  6 LawGod,3 |         Scripture, and believe, that God created man in His own image
  7 LawGod,3 |             sin. Even the righteous, God's saints, bore sin within
  8 LawGod,3 |        themselves and, although with God's help they struggled with
  9 LawGod,3 |           voice of conscience and by God's aid if one will only turn
 10 LawGod,3 |          special mercy and help from God and one is in need of prayer
 11 LawGod,3 |             according to the will of God and by God's power, nevertheless
 12 LawGod,3 |            to the will of God and by God's power, nevertheless distorted
 13 LawGod,3 |    blaspheming the Spirit of truth - God's Holy Spirit.~We must note
 14 LawGod,3 |              himself who believes in God and trembles but who nevertheless
 15 LawGod,3 |              Apostle, is enmity with God. The milieu around us seduces
 16 LawGod,3 |       beginning." In struggling with God and His Truth, the devil
 17 LawGod,3 |          fierce temptations to which God's saints, strong in spirit,
 18 LawGod,4 |           For this is precisely what God's truth demands of one on
 19 LawGod,4 |       eternity.~Each Christian, with God's help, shapes his own earthly
 20 LawGod,4 |         towards virtue must, through God's mercy and help, struggle
 21 LawGod,5 |                                      God's Law~The task of man's
 22 LawGod,5 |                that is, according to God's will.~How can one recognize
 23 LawGod,5 |           one recognize this will of God? First of all, in one's
 24 LawGod,5 |           for this reason, is called God's voice in the soul of man.
 25 LawGod,5 |            live and act according to God's will. The need arose for
 26 LawGod,5 |              Such a law was given by God to people in two aspects:
 27 LawGod,5 |              which deal with love of God and neighbors) are accepted
 28 LawGod,5 |             man submitted himself to God as a slave to his master,
 29 LawGod,5 |       commandments about love toward God and neighbors, which the
 30 LawGod,6 |     undoubted freedom; only Almighty God possesses the perfect and
 31 LawGod,6 |          responsible for them before God's truth. Such freedom is
 32 LawGod,6 |          most great gift to man from God, Who seeks from man not
 33 LawGod,6 |             commands of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this
 34 LawGod,6 |            day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways,
 35 LawGod,6 |           live, and ... the Lord thy God shall bless thee ... but
 36 LawGod,6 |                 to love the Lord thy God" (Dent. 30:15-19).~
 37 LawGod,7 |              lively intercourse with God and with his neighbors.
 38 LawGod,7 |           highest of all, concerning God.~The first, and the most
 39 LawGod,7 |              life; it strives toward God and the immortal, blessed,
 40 LawGod,7 |      consider the things given us by God (ability, talents, etc.)
 41 LawGod,7 |          must consider them gifts of God. We must use these gifts (
 42 LawGod,7 |             these "talents" given by God, not for ourselves egoistically,
 43 LawGod,7 |         according to the teaching of God's Heavenly Truth, he who,
 44 LawGod,7 | understandings of earthly egoism and God's truth. In this parable,
 45 LawGod,7 |         prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil.
 46 LawGod,8 |        Everything good in us is from God. From our own selves, we
 47 LawGod,8 |            the Holy Scripture says: "God opposes the proud and gives
 48 LawGod,8 |              and will fall away from God's mercy.~Together with a
 49 LawGod,8 |            and the resultant loss of God's Kingdom. Moreover, amidst
 50 LawGod,8 |           they shall be comforted by God, with love. And those who,
 51 LawGod,8 |        surrounding life - to turn to God's truth, to holiness and
 52 LawGod,8 |               He seeks this truth of God and its triumph over human
 53 LawGod,8 |          these faithful followers of God's truth already see, at
 54 LawGod,8 |            victory in the actions of God's Providence and in the
 55 LawGod,8 |             in the manifestations of God's justice and omnipotence.
 56 LawGod,9 |         mourning and striving toward God's Truth. Now, we must speak
 57 LawGod,9 |            sinner. Man's betrayal of God is usually manifested in
 58 LawGod,9 |             receives everything that God has given one in life, and
 59 LawGod,9 |              live in remoteness from God.~In that far away land,
 60 LawGod,9 |            it were not for help from God, Who Himself said that He "
 61 LawGod,9 |       prodigal son heard the call of God's Grace and he did not push
 62 LawGod,9 |       falling away and conversion to God occurs in one. One is, as
 63 LawGod,9 |         steps. At first, betrayal of God, going away from Him to
 64 LawGod,9 |              In this alienation from God, there is a complete serving
 65 LawGod,10|            about how one enters into God's kingdom, our Savior replied, "
 66 LawGod,10|            cannot see the kingdom of God." Further, He clarified
 67 LawGod,10|            enter into the Kingdom of God" (Jn. 3:34). Baptism is,
 68 LawGod,10|          efforts in cooperation with God's Grace). For, as we already
 69 LawGod,10|             For, as we already know, God's Kingdom is acquired by
 70 LawGod,10|             If, however, the help of God's Grace has such immense
 71 LawGod,10|          salvation is done for us by God and we only have to "sit
 72 LawGod,10|          with arms folded" and await God's mercy? In the history
 73 LawGod,10|            his own strength, without God's Grace. Developing his
 74 LawGod,10|         salvation is done for man by God's Grace, and man has only
 75 LawGod,10|            saved only in Christ, and God's Grace is the main acting
 76 LawGod,10|  Nevertheless, besides the action of God's Grace for salvation, the
 77 LawGod,10|         necessary, for without them, God's Grace will not begin to
 78 LawGod,10| simultaneously through the action of God's saving Grace, and through
 79 LawGod,10|           the Fathers of the Church, God created man without the
 80 LawGod,10|              salvation or ruin - and God does not impede his freedom,
 81 LawGod,11|          fullness of knowledge about God's Truth, man, knowing truth,
 82 LawGod,12|           sees the highest beauty in God, in Whom there is the fullness
 83 LawGod,12|            the beauty and majesty of God's creation, exclaimed, "
 84 LawGod,13|        sincere, vivid remembrance of God, inseparably tied with the
 85 LawGod,13|             Christian having hope in God will never come to despair,
 86 LawGod,13|           believer, one who hopes in God, knows His nearness to the
 87 LawGod,13|              triumphs over death and God's truth over worldly untruth.
 88 LawGod,13|             woe will be healed, for "God will wipe away every tear
 89 LawGod,14|         source of good principles is God's will. It is revealed to
 90 LawGod,15|            is an obedience placed by God upon sinful man when he
 91 LawGod,15|          since through it we receive God's almighty strength to help
 92 LawGod,15|      strength and resolved that with God's help he will fulfil them
 93 LawGod,15|              then having called upon God's help, set yourself to
 94 LawGod,16|              s soul being created by God, while the body supposedly
 95 LawGod,16|           body of man are created by God. According to Apostolic
 96 LawGod,16|              this, he will call upon God's help in prayer and by
 97 LawGod,16|          wedded union consecrated by God through the Church, or who
 98 LawGod,16|              virginity and chastity! God blesses only two paths for
 99 LawGod,16|           consecration of oneself to God and neighbors, - holy monasticism.~
100 LawGod,16|            purity and truth given by God, thus killing the soul.~
101 LawGod,17|            For, no one was born into God's world already addicted
102 LawGod,17|              for a rich man to enter God's kingdom." Thus does wealth
103 LawGod,17|              is a valuable gift from God and should be guarded. It
104 LawGod,17|       Doctors and medicines exist by God's will. We read in the Scripture
105 LawGod,17|              s cross, a rejection of God and hope on Him. Suicide
106 LawGod,18|       creation and image of almighty God. And no matter how a man
107 LawGod,18|              he darkens the image of God in himself by sins and vices,
108 LawGod,18|              still seek the spark of God in his soul... "Sins are
109 LawGod,18|              but the basis in man is God's image...Hate sin, but
110 LawGod,19|           except for the, All-seeing God. And many - especially among
111 LawGod,20|              words of pure prayer to God will flow through these
112 LawGod,20|          shall be called the sons of God." A meek person is above
113 LawGod,20|          shall be called the sons of God." The Christian peace-maker
114 LawGod,20|            peace-maker" - the Son of God, during Whose birth the
115 LawGod,20|            fervent zealousness about God's glory. Anger is sinful
116 LawGod,22|              which draws one near to God Who is Love Itself, in the
117 LawGod,22|             And the whole history of God's relationship to man is
118 LawGod,22|             Begotten Son. The Son of God came down from heaven, was
119 LawGod,23|          people to live according to God's will so that, through
120 LawGod,23|            choose a friend for life. God's word says of the Christian
121 LawGod,23|            by His Divine word, "What God unites, let man not separate."
122 LawGod,23|          from this; as we have seen, God's word orders parents to
123 LawGod,23|            father and answers before God for his soul. Apostle Paul
124 LawGod,24|              them and repents before God and other peoples for himself
125 LawGod,24|          would be non-Christian. No, God grant them well-being and
126 LawGod,24|       concluding of the testament of God, the Israelite people betrayed
127 LawGod,24|      Israelite people betrayed their God and worshipped a golden
128 LawGod,24|           calf. Then, the justice of God's Truth was strongly inflamed.
129 LawGod,25|        people fought on command from God, and defeated its enemies
130 LawGod,25|            defeated its enemies with God's help. Consequently, the
131 LawGod,25|            prayers. Nevertheless, if God deems it expedient to use
132 LawGod,26|              faith of the victory of God's truth and love. Communism
133 LawGod,27|                The Unity of Love for God and For Neighbor~Ascending
134 LawGod,27|       obligations in relationship to God.~According to the clear,
135 LawGod,27|               our main obligation to God is to love Him. This commandment
136 LawGod,27|           words, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
137 LawGod,27|               To this commandment of God's law, our Savior bound
138 LawGod,27|            neighbor is like love for God. The Holy Church, being
139 LawGod,27|              in the name of love for God and neighbor. Love for one'
140 LawGod,27|              highest love - love for God Whom we must love most of
141 LawGod,27|           theory that great love for God hinders one's love for neighbors.