about the past, if you are our jewelry, my strength of well-being, that the lord led you, we strangle the holy autumn of the saint. in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit today we have heard the story. which secular critics, especially atheistic critics of the new testament, have always presented as a kind

of absurdity a certain illogism that is present in holy scripture and therefore gloated about it in every possible way, including defending the unfortunate pigs that christ drowned for nothing. such was the atheistic attitude to this text, nobody did not raise important and serious questions. and what does this story about the expulsion of a demon from a person and the settlement of this demon in animals mean? but it was really about the salvation of man. it was about the salvation of a man possessed by demons, so the importance of this story is that the lord tells us exactly that without it exists.

philosophers usually think about god in some other way, but in all likelihood they do not recognize demons in any way. this is his greatest. victory he convinced people that he does not exist. and here today's gospel claims to exist. yes, even as it exists, it was only by the grace of god that it was expelled. this is a terrible demon from an ordinary person who has become incapable of existing like himself. and what happened to him? i would like to talk about what happened in very modern terms. it was under external control. today everyone knows what external control is. this is when the strong control the weak, when someone lacks competence, knowledge of money,

then someone is called who will it happens at the level of national economies, moreover, at the level of the world economy and not only the economy, but also politics, when the strong are invited to manage the weak. this is external control. it has different consequences , different meanings and meanings, we will not enter into this topic, which is not typical for a sermon , let's turn to the spiritual component of the story that we heard today. it is indeed the lord casting out the demon. real power as one wise philosopher said without doing everything to ensure that people stop believe in him. but this story testifies that not only demonic power exists, but it is capable of

catastrophically influencing human behavior. on the mind on the will on the feelings, if it was in the days of the new testament, then who will tell us that today this does not exist. isn't there an external control in relation to the psyche to the human consciousness today? we will not list them with huge powerful means; everyone can transfer these funds himself. who understands them how, but really and pseudo art and pseudoscience and much, much that is used today to convince a person that there is no god. and that there is no demon? and this is the most important thing for the demon himself, so that he can control people, so that it

would never occur to anyone that they are under external control. and such an unfortunate person who cannot understand that in his life there is failure after failure, error after error, begins to get confused . search for cause-and-effect relationships. nothing works. it seems that out of seven a good education is good colleagues at work also not bad and something doesn't work out in life. today's gospel reading tells us that there is an external control of people, including from the side of the black dark force. i imagine how those who inspire the dark forces will react to me now and begin to criticize me. but we are ready for this criticism, because behind us the word of god is the greatest power. and what conclusions should we draw, my dear ones, and today's narrative, under no circumstances should

we give our soul to someone who can take over us external control. and through what ways and by what means is this achieved by agreeing one person is tempted by money? what is called blows the roof, they don’t see anything else in life, as soon as they earn more money, even by what means it doesn’t matter. the main thing is to earn more or have more of these funds. and everything else becomes secondary, and for such people. sometimes there are very high arguments related to the need to develop the economy there and everything else, but, in the end, turning into everything that a person himself falls into the power of money and in order to have this money. he may even commit a crime. are there not enough economic crimes today? but this

is about money, but also because a person is enslaved today and thoughts, ideas, stereotypes of behavior, a huge industry works for this, especially through the media. our still blessed country, as if protecting itself, but tony in full measure. and what is going on in the world, these stereotypes of behavior stereotypes of thought are a certain model of behavior person. it is formed, including through the media through the cinema through television, so our scolding, as the apostle paul says, is not against flesh and blood, but against the authorities against the world holders. the darkness of the age of this spirit of malice is under heaven. and what should we do in order not to fall into this slavery? first of all, keep faith very firmly. because

faith and the word of god is the criterion of truth. namely, starting from the word of god, each person can answer the most difficult life questions by saying, this is good. and here this is bad. as long as we have this criterion in our hands in our minds in our hearts , god's word and even further i will say the prayer of our lord, because what prayer means is prayer - this is a request. lord limit our freedom. we ask, please. here do it. and what does this mean? it means that the lord must invade our lives in some sense, limit our freedom and act according to his will , this prayer is the transmission of his will. and in

a sense, our freedom into the hands of god and when we make such a transformation of our thoughts of one’s behavior, when the lord really becomes the ruler of our life, then life becomes different, what yesterday seemed important for which it would be necessary to fight and break coffee today, when a person gains this wisdom in christ, he looks at everyday life from the height of this new spiritual experience. he measures it on a completely different scale, preventing, among other things, his spiritual life from temptations and, as a result , from the fall into sin. today's gospel reading, as i said, is important in that the lord tells us about the existence of the devil and

dark forces. he tells us that this force can invade a person and control his behavior. but at the same time, this story helps us understand what we must do so that this force will never control us. we must believe in god, we must invoke him in prayer, especially when we are faced with a choice. we must really become religious people, and the word religion, as you know, means a connection between a person and god , so if there is this connection, if there is the chain that connects a person with god with this highest divine wisdom is closed, then the person also has it. wings grow, he is able to overcome sorrows and conflicts,

the problems of everyday life. this is what we are taught through the story of casting out demons. and god forbid that no devilry. i didn’t wear it either with our mind, or with our heart, or with our will. we know that there were such terrible moments in the history of our people. when did the people fall into complete madness? here, when you read, some historical texts, written by, uh, peers of the revolution, those who during the revolution were already a mature and intelligent person and could reflect their thoughts on paper, then really everything that happened to the people then seems to be some kind of madness. as the people say

, they broke off the chain, destroyed everything that they could destroy, first of all, the faith, then the state, morality, morality, family relations. with what difficulty then it was necessary to restore all this and, of course, the lord bowed his mercy to russia so that in today's modern russia we overcame those terrible consequences , a new perspective is opening before us, moving both up to god and forward along the path of improving human existence. so today we are taught by the word of god. and our answer should be such that it does not succumb to demonic obsession, which can appear in the ideas of philosophy in cinema in various other ways of influencing human minds and the human psyche.

we must protect our internal sovereignty from the enslavement of the devil. well, in the end, no thoughts and even no strong-willed attitudes can cope with everything it is very important to live in the church, partake of the holy mysteries of christ, confess your sins before the lord. and of course after all, to do works of mercy, that is, to live as the lord tells us and then around us will arise, this is armor. a powerful spiritual defense capable of protecting us from any diabolical temptation. may the lord help us all to be strengthened in faith in piety in wisdom in purity, life according to the commandments of god , as far as we can, but the most important thing is to keep the orthodox faith, through which we unite with the lord in prayer and which is the guardian of our people. and if

so. that in russia will be a wonderful future. we hope for this and we pray to the lord and ask that by the grace of the lord, our people strengthen our fatherland and everyone who, with faith and hope, turns his prayer to the savior. god bless you all amen attention says and shows, st. petersburg annually on the last sunday of july, russia celebrates the day

of the navy in accordance with the decision of the president of the russian federation , the main naval parade will be held. i congratulate you on the day of the navy. sunday 30 july on the first