tirelessly, and sees the goal, it is yours, just pedal and everything will be fine, tirelessly, kind, i greet everyone who watches the program.

shepherd. and in this program we will return to answering the questions that you send to us. here is maria pavlovna luzgova from the city of orenburg asking: please tell me, your holiness, why are deeds of mercy so important. after all, the lord especially highlights them in the gospel. if you do not feed and clothe the poor, then you will not feed me either, i quote from memory. can these deeds alone save oneself? but i am a friend.

and it is even difficult for us to imagine what mountains of sin we form throughout our lives. so what, and we think that some good deeds that we do can completely balance out all the bad, wrong, sinful things that we have done throughout our lives, and never. and then how to calculate all this, on what scales to weigh, how much good,

so that we can say exactly what awaits us after death, whether we have earned the kingdom of heaven with our lives or not. but here is the text that i just quoted, testifies to the fact that we are saved not by our deeds, but by the grace of god. this does not mean that grace automatically saves us, like we can do whatever we want. here is some grace, here it saves us, so we can not think about deeds, but this would be a completely incorrect interpretation of this gospel text, because a person cannot attract divine grace to himself if he commits lawless, dirty, terrible, sinful deeds, grace cannot touch such a person cannot

white cannot unite with black without becoming black, good cannot unite with evil without becoming infected by this evil, therefore nothing can truly save us except the grace of god, but if the grace of god comes up against human sin, against our conscious rejection of god, against our un... good deeds, then no grace will work automatically. therefore , it is necessary to clearly understand that no one can save us except god, it is he who does the work of our salvation, beginning with the sacrifice of his son on the cross, beginning with the feat martyrs-confessors, who are a great example for us, starting from... a multitude of

holy saints, who with their prayers for us before god beg, including the forgiveness of our sins, therefore our participation in the matter of... our own salvation is not decisive. once again i want to say, we cannot be saved by any good deeds, we cannot enter the kingdom of god, if the lord himself does not accept us into this kingdom, if the grace of god does not burn away our iniquities and forgive our sins, by grace you are all saved through faith. these are the words of the holy scripture that everyone should understand, especially those people who say: well, you know, i don’t go to church, and i don’t really believe in god, but i try not to do anything bad, so i kind of live according to the law of my conscience, i hope that even if god exists, then somehow

i won’t be punished for my life choice, for my life orientation, this is not true. a person who rejects god also rejects divine grace, which can act even when our faith is lacking, even then the lord by his mercy can support us, strengthen us, as our soldiers feel, those who are on the front lines, whom the lord often saves, pulls out of terrible life circumstances, he was not such a holy man, and maybe he committed enough sins to consider himself a sinner, and maybe he really is a sinner, like all of us, and the lord helps, saves us on the battlefield, and we believe that by grace he will save us from eternal life.

your holiness, my call sign gypsy is carrying out a combat mission in the special zone military operation, the enemy uses inhuman methods of warfare, he releases such mines as petals on the civilian population, children are blown up, he uses direct fire in order to destroy some rescue resources, that is, he destroys ambulances to save. in the heart, i am in combat, i the bible teaches us that there should be no hatred

i can not treat my enemies with love, i sometimes. the emotional level of a person is such that he cannot be in conditions of military action completely detached, as it were, from their emotions, therefore, there is, including

anger and hatred towards the enemy, but what i would still like to say is that... there are even certain rules of conduct in war, but, for example, there is such a concept as war crimes, but isn't war a crime, and isn't any murder a crime, from the point of view of such pure morality, yes, a crime, from the point of view of laws - not a crime, even from the point of view of what is called how our conscience reacts. to certain acts, but is it a crime to defend one's homeland, as a result of which one kills another, since it is a crime to defend the weak, who is attacked by the strong, and so on. in other words, not every violence is

a sin, here the criterion is very important: if a person going to war will think that everything is allowed to him, then where will he? draw the line between the acceptable use of violence and a war crime, there are, of course, legal ones. and participation in military actions in itself

is not condemned by the word of god, just as it is not military service is condemned, and for what the lord condemns warriors, there is a list there, you should not take something extra, there, well, what is called to inflict, in our language, incomparable. of course, it is easy, as they say, to reason on this topic in such conditions, probably,

completely differently, all this is as if to implement on the battlefield, when the nerves do not stand, the tension is colossal and the threat of death is incredibly high, there, of course, probably some other emotional factors are in effect, but nevertheless it is still necessary remember that even in the case of... actions, at least every christian must remember his responsibility before god, not to allow actions that in human language are called war crimes, but in the language of the word of god, simply the correct behavior of a warrior, there are no such words in the holy scripture, but based on everything that we know from the holy scripture, what is said: in relation to military service, such rules are certainly present, even a warrior in the conditions of military

action must protect himself from the fact that are called war crimes.

dear most holy patriarch, my name is elena, i am a doctor, i am on the front lines, they bring us dead soldiers. i am interested in the question, if suddenly a person is not baptized from the point of view of the orthodox church, if he gave his life for the fatherland, for his friends, for the defense of our holy russia, that is, what will happen to these souls, i do not know, i cannot know, i only know one thing, that blessed is he who lays down his life for his friends, this is the word of god, and let us hope that those who give his life for his homeland, for his neighbors, for

his relatives, will be forgiven by the lord and accepted into his abode. on this i will finish our program, until next time. hello, on the first channel the news is coming out, in the studio maxim sherfuddinov and briefly about the main thing. a few seconds from detection to hits, the buk complex, tv. and footage from the kursk border strike.