Lessons from St. Justin Popovic.

«The supreme value, the ultimate criterion is the Godman, He is the Truth, the Way and the Life, the only friend of man and the sole guide to salvation. The Godman, He opens a pathway, a different route that offered us anything it wants to present as a religion, as science or philosophy.The luscious Wonderful Lord Jesus,

»the Risen God-Man is the only Existence under Heaven by which man may here on earth overcomes death, sin and the devil and becomes blessed and immortal participant in the Eternal Kingdom of Love of Christ.

"The supreme value, the ultimate criterion is the Godman, He is the Truth, the Way and the Life, the only friend of man and the sole guide to salvation. The Godman, He opens a pathway, a different route that offered us anything it wants to present as a religion, as science or philosophy.

"The way of Jesus is much more of a teaching, is the Truth itself, is this the same person of Christ, the same Jesus Christ, Who offers us the possibility of our incorporation in Him and our organic membership in His Body, which left in this world in the form of the Church.

»The charity of Jesus Christ has no limits and end, because to acquire we the people of Eternal Life, the "in Him" ​​and the live, not asked us only a, which everyone can have: faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, says the Gospel: "God so loved the world, so the only begotten Son gave, LNA whoever believes in this non apolitai, But echῃ everlasting life ". "Believeth on the Son hath everlasting life".

»The entire human race, only Christ, as the only true God, gives man that which one of the angels or people can not give. He alone has the power and authority to declare "Amen, Verily I say unto you, who believes in Me has everlasting life " and "Metaveviken EP to death to life" even in this life ". (St. Justin Popovich)

«The entire creation is captured "in the Great House of the Holy Trinity" in Her eternal plan for the purpose, as summarized this in the face of the Word. The Godman concludes the divine with human nature, to show us alive original perspective, the original plan of plastheisas in the image of God our nature.
"The sin of our forefathers, Adam and Eve even though invalidate the original greatness of our nature, although it managed to compromise the divine plan, however fails to ransack the continuation of this.

»Without the holy dogmatic truth about the Trinity, we do not have the divine energies of the Holy Trinity. Which derive from good faith and that our life-giving, sanctify us, save us and our gods. Without the holy truth about the God-Man, there is no salvation for man. Because of this truth, when the living man, Hence the divine power, saves from sin, from death, by the devil.

»And this doctrinal truth about the God-man Jesus does not clearly and martyrithei empeirikotata in the lives of countless saints; That is why the saints are holy, because they live around the Godman Lord Jesus, as the soul of the soul. As the consciousness of their conscience, the mind of the mind, the existence of their existence, life of life. In this way each one of our thunders divine Apostle truth: "I live NOT ouketi, ZH NOT Christ in me "». (St. Justin Popovich)

The saints show us the way and how to unite with God. Our saints are expandable Christ in the centuries (Justin Popovic). They show us how through the material nature can we attract the grace of God and unite with Him. Standard for our saints is the God-man Jesus Christ.

The compound God made through Godman, where the existence of Jesus joined the human with the divine nature. We have the opportunity to take Holy Communion to Jesus Christ in us. besides, This tells us the Lord: "My eats my flesh and blood drinker in me remains, kago in aftῷ ".

«Before the advent of Christ the Savior in our earthly world, we humans only know death, and us death. Everything human is imbued with death, captured him and katanikimeno.

»Our death is closest and ourselves and more real than ourselves. stronger, incomparably stronger, every man, separately and by all the people together. The earth is a dreadful prison of death and we are powerless captives and slaves.

»Only with the advent of Jesus Christ "life is revealed". Evident in desperate mortals, the wretched slaves of death, us, "Life is Eternal". From our personal experience we know: Jesus Christ is "the true God and Eternal Life". Our only true life, is life "in tῷ monῳ alithinῷ Theῷ and Kyriῳ Jesus Christῷ", because it is entirely stronger and eternal death.

»True life on earth is just beginning the Resurrection of the Savior, it is life that ends with death. Real life is that, which does not end with death and such a life is possible on earth only with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ». (St. Justin Popovich)

«Our street, It is the way of the saints and fasting. Is violence ourselves to doing any good. Perpetual violence of ourselves to every good, because our nature does not want the good, but is inclined to evil. But you raped yourself drown every evil that exists inside you.

»Your Lord gives the power of the resurrection to really do any good. To lift your cross, christopoieis to yourself and realize that fasting is not another, by replacing yourself with Christ, our God.

»Through every virtue man must replace himself with God, the Lord Jesus Christ, because God is a virtue. The divine power is the most powerful. It is stronger than this world. This power was granted to us to overcome all evil, to overcome every sin, every diabolic power.

»Hurry yourself in every good and the good Lord gives you the power of the Resurrection, You are heading to the greater sorrow to the smallest and the least joy in greater. To walk to all the Kingdom of Heaven.

"Until we can say with the Grace of God we: Lord Jesus Christ, I no longer live, you live in me through the holy mysteries and the holy virtues. In Thee belong glory and thanksgiving, now and forever and to the ages of ages, Amen". (St. Justin Popovich)

«Divided man by Christ; Then separated from the only logical meaning of "being" of, of his life, of its existence. Divorcing the man Christ, divided by the only logical concept of soul, the "mind" of, the conscience of, his will, his body.
»What is the human mind without Christ; He is a martyr, obsessive lament.

What is the soul of man without Christ; It is a spoken scarecrow.

What is conscience, or wish; He is a desperate blind.

What is the body of Christ without; It is a disgusting, loathsome worm.

What is his will; He's a helpless criminal.

What is generally the man without Christ; It is an awesome spectacle outside. So every other creature, by the angel to the most insignificant creature, loses any logical sense of his existence, if not kept in the "being" of, the Lord Jesus Christ ". (St. Justin Popovich)

«godlike soul! Where is it; to Christ. Christ becomes man to tell us: to, so must be the man. That, God, is man. That, God, shows himself to His Face. We are wonderfully made in the image of God, we must live according to this.

»What is our mind; Figure mind Christ, mind of God. Our obligation is to make our mind like the mind of Christ. Ie all christopoioume our minds and we can say with the Apostle Paul: "We we have the mind of Christ".

»But until you equate our wills to the will of Christ, God's, our own will always wanders, always impossible, always stumbles and sinks into sin. If we have the Lord Jesus Christ as our eternal Template, the eternal our vision, then we identify ourselves with His own will. then say: I do not want to become my will, but thy Lord ". (St. Justin Popovich)

What condemns the soul to death; The sin. He explains St. Justin Popovich:

«Sin is the only disruptive force, separates and breaks all ties with God. Separates man from God, separates the angel and every other being. So, removing sin man from God, the precipitates in foolishness, the meaningless situation, death, in diabolism (state of the devil). That is why the philanthropist Lord, God the Word, is man. By uniting Himself, Divine and human nature, "Without confusion and indivisible", purify our nature by sin, insanity, death and the devil ".

Our soul is the incarnation of Lord regains the ability to immortality, for which he coined as it is created by Breath of God. Our soul loses immortality after the fall of Adam and Eve, but regains the opportunity for immortality with the Incarnation of the Lord, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.

Following the Lord and we become immortal, become by Grace gods. This is the purpose of our lives. The immortality of the soul removes sin, which separates man from God and leads to loss.

We are doomed to be immortal, He tells us St. Justin Popovich. The Lord beats death and we have the opportunity to be winning death, defeating sin. With the victory over sin and the passions garment we immortality. Every time we win our selfishness and sin we win death and the devil.

«Faith is the soul of anazoopoiisi deadness, the dead resurrection soul. Faith in Christ unites man with the eternal Lord. Who by the measure of man's faith, meets his soul with the Eternal Life. Then man feels and understands itself as eternal.

"It simply came to our notice then, but man lives by this faith, which gradually sanctifies his soul, his heart, his conscience, whole being with the divine energies of Grace. Depending on the faith of man rises and the sanctification of his nature. As man becomes more and more possible it becomes holier, more lively sense of personal immortality, becomes aware of his own, and the eternity of everything.

»Indeed, the true life of man begins with his faith in Christ. Which hands to the Lord all the soul, whole heart, whole mind, all his strength. he sanctifies, transforms and deifies all gradually. Thereby the sanctity, transformation and deification, Lord diffuses in man the divine energies of Grace. Which give a powerful feeling and consciousness of personal immortality and eternity. Our life is so life, as is life "in Christ". How it is 'in Christ'; This is manifested by the holiness of, the more holy is our life, more immortal and eternal.

"That man truly believes in the Risen Lord, It proves to be struggling against sin and the passions. If you are struggling, be aware that striving for immortality and Eternal Life. But if we do not fight, his faith is futile. For if the faith of man is no match for immortality and victory over death, then to what our faith; If by faith in Christ no one arrives at immortality and victory over death then to what our faith;

»If Christ did not rise, this means that sin and death have not defeated. If you do not have these two defeated, then why believe in Christ; But he who by faith in the Risen Christ fights against every sin, This enhances slowly - slowly through the feeling that the Lord really resurrected, softened the center of death, conquered death on all fronts of the battle ". (St. Justin Popovich)

Detail the words of St. Justin Popovich on the Bible, They inspired me to read with the greatest attention and devotion and I draw strength from the infinite words of God have life, as we said the Lord: "Focus the Spirit gives life, The flesh is quite a benefit none; verbs A. I speak unto you, Spirit hob and theirs is life ".
«The Bible is somehow the biography of God in this world. And even the Bible, the New Testament is the biography of the incarnate God in this world. Within this describes how God, to show Himself to the people, sends God's Word, Who sarkonetai and becomes man. As a man said to the people, all that God has, all that God wants for this world and for people who live in this.

»God reveals His Word project in the world. God Word with the help of speech, God shows people, as is possible to human reason involves God aperilipto. The,what is necessary in this world and the people who live in this, the Lord gives in the Bible. Within this gives answers to all questions: What is God, what is man, the salvation of man, future life.
»God says in the Bible all you need to tell people. In the Bible there is the biography of every man, of everyone without exception. In this each of us can find all himself. Presented and described in detail all your virtues and defects have not got. Find the streets through which the soul and the soul of every man, walking from sin to perfection and all the way from man to God and man as the devil.

»In the Bible you find ways to liberate from sin. Find a word, Throughout the history of sin and sinfulness, and the whole story of virtue and righteous. In this find medicine for all your imperfections and defects, and nourishment for all your virtues and exercises.

»The more man reads and studies the Bible, the more he finds reasons more and more to the study ceaselessly. In the words of God is someone who juice immortality by reading His words fall -stagona drop in the soul of man and gives life from death and decay.
»How do we study the Bible; prayerfully, respect, because every word there is an eternal truth drop, and all words are endless ocean of Eternal Truth. OR Bible book is not, but life. Pray to the Lord to illuminate your mind, to understand the reasons for, Chariton and your heart, you feel the truth of those grounds and life.

He realized that these were God's words, that He Himself sent thee. In every word reveals infinite truth and ineffable mystery. Key is to read the Bible as much as possible, but parallel with it and practiced a virtue. Exercised until the it becomes your habit. And even if your mind does not understand and your heart feels, review, however, read. Why reading sow the Word of God in your soul '. (St. Justin Popovich)

«Sin manages to build the evil within us. Next to that godlike soul received from God, his own soul. If sin us becomes a habit, creates within our own soul. If we do sin, she gradually conformed to our soul. Close to that godlike soul which God gives you, you bring a stranger who captivates. he dominates, while,what is divine in you, It is like sleeping, as numb. Rejected and that does not live in you, is dying.

"Sin creates within our own world, creating our own philosophy through, own world view. Sin seeks to understand the place of God in your soul, the position of the Face of God. Sin in fact wants to deprive those people of beauty divine in its soul. Yes, the devil is struggling through the sin he create in him and in me his own image. For sin is always like the devil. Always embraced the. Prints slowly in our soul's own form skotismeni.

»By habit conformed to sin within us another "I", another soul, another self, he himself whom the Lord calls to renounce. Evil created it ourselves, while the good is from God, says St. Paul. I want to live right, but the power to do that I have not, I find the strength for it, I find the strength in me.

»The Gospel shows us how to realize in our lives the good you want. This way is the renunciation of yourself, your sin, this sinful soul created, built conformed in you. With fasting, in fact, repels sinfulness is in us.

»gradually replace ourselves with Christ, until we reach the perfection to which the Apostle Paul arrived. To what "aparnisastho himself". It means to eliminate all our evil desires, everything human, sinner and replacing them with Christ, become all Christ.

»Th gar If thelῃ his soul sosai lose it· th d he ceases his soul my sake and EVANGELI, this saves. If certainly renounce every sin, every passion and desire, Christ is soul within our soul, heart in our heart.

"Replaces ourselves, "I" Our, with Himself. This the only way to keep the soul from hell, from destruction, by the devil, from all evil, of eternal torment, It is to find within us the godlike soul, that a divine soul, which God gives us.

»The sin gradually diminishes the soul of man, the approaching death, the change from mortal to immortal, from imperishable and infinite in finite and corruptible. The more sins is the man, the more it is mortal.

»Every sin is a retreat, every passion a betrayal, every vice a beating. One who with faith in the Risen Christ fights against every sin, gradually strengthens the feeling that is inside that the real Christ resurrected, actually defeated death in all fields of battle.

»By filamartia and voluntary and persistence in sin, the man gradually demonized, gradually transformed into hellion and voluntarily creates hell for himself. For every sin is a small hell.

»Unlike in the Church of Christ, through the holy mysteries and holy evangelical virtues, man filled with the Godman Christ. Wears Christ, and gradually transformed into humans Kitts and christoeidi: "A perfect man, To measure the age of the crew of Christ ". (saint Paul) Gradually becomes God-man by grace and thereby acquires within the soul of Paradise, because each holy evangelical virtue is a small paradise for the soul ". (St. Justin Popovich)

Serbian St. Justin Popovich us talking about our world, who "in his wickedness", that is dominated by the devil. Ruler of this world is the devil:

«The sins have their own god and he is the devil. That is the main creator. And the people, when they make the sins, become accomplices of the devil, and not only that, and slaves and servants. The sins have their kingdom, their world and he is hell. And this our earthly world, the willful, our intentional living in sin, It becomes theirs world. And so is theirs, as we humans do with pleasure the sins.

»The devil comes with sin in our earthly world and captures completely the sins that people make. And with the help of sins, the devil governs people and dominates them with death. And make people "helpless slaves" and becomes god of this world, "God of this world,". For this reason, the Lord Jesus Christ calls the devil master of this world, "Lord of this world".

"For this, this world, "The whole world lies in wickedness" called bad, "Wicked world", until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in our world, until the "incarnation" and the wonderful "economy" of salvation.

»And salvation "involves" the victory of the Savior over sin, victory against the devil and his power, victory against the pan-power thereof i.e. death.

"Until the Lord Jesus Christ and without Him and out of Him, people "lived and live" in sin and death. "They walk" in sin and death, day and night or more live in the kingdom of this world, After walking through the endless nights of sin and death. And this world, which governs the devil, through sin, It has its own way of life, own walking, own flow, his own way.

»Sin managed to become a way of life, for the people of this world. as this (the sin) acquires rights in this world, so much is familiar, so you become one with the people. And so it becomes a, so deeply penetrate this world, both associate human nature, from ancient times, so as not to present something instant, something short.

"But something deep, the enduring, the eternal, and "all the century", all "weather" Eternity is permeated by this. In any case the sin wants and desires to become in this world something eternal, It is really the eternity of. Why this world "see" the sin life, the "immortality" of, the "eternity" of.

»So the man "walks in the world's present age" and this means that he lives in intimate and enduring the filamartisia, He sees sin as something 'natural', something reasonable, something necessary and even more like something "co-eternal" in this world. In fact, living with sin man kills himself, kills everything the upper, the holy, the divine, the immortal, the eternal and becomes mentally dead.

"But to the man walks' in the world's present age" means something else, that walks "by the prince of the air" power, that they walk according to the will of the devil. Human sin is not "self-made" but exported, It comes across from the devil and is dependent on him. Sin is pure invention of the devil. And prosetairizomenoi people sin, "Communion" with the devil, made "voluntarily" the accomplices ". (St. Justin Popovich)

«People sentenced God to death. But God in His Resurrection "condemned" people to immortality. People like to make God mortal, but God in His Resurrection made them immortal people. He resurrected the crucified God who kill and death. Death no longer exists. Immortality overwhelmed man and all the worlds of.

»With the Resurrection of Christ, human nature driven irrevocably on the road to immortality and becomes bullying him death. Because before the Resurrection of Christ, death is terrible for man. After the Resurrection of the Lord is the terrible man to death. When man lives by faith in the Risen Christ, lives beyond death, becomes immune to death. So, when the "in Christ" dies, simply leaves the garment of his body, to get dressed again with it on the day of the Second Coming.

»Every word of Christ is full of God for that, when he enters the human soul, the cleaning of each pollutant. Every His word comes strength, which cleanses from sin. That's why the Savior at the Last Supper told His listeners always present, His students: «ἤδη ὑμεῖς καθαροί ἐστε διὰ τὸν λόγον ὃν λελάληκα ὑμῖν ».

»Every word of the Savior is full of truth and, when he enters the soul, the end justifies all eternity. That's why the Savior sent His prayer, to his heavenly Father: "Father ἁγίασον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ σου· ⁇ λόγος ὁ σὸς ἀλήθειά ἐστι». Not accept the word of Christ as God's word, as a ground truth; This is a lie and the father of the lie inside you, revolted by this truth.

»In each word of the Savior there are many supernatural truths and blessings. And that's what Chariton soul of man, when the word of Christ to visit. As living gladsome power, the Word of God act miraculously and Life-Giver, if the man listens and accepts in faith.

»In all this the key is faith and feeling love for the Lord Jesus Christ. With the warmth of this feeling is opened every mystery of God's word, as with the warmth of the sun ray opens the calyx of the flower Evosmos ". (St. Justin Popovich)

«Who is the God-man Jesus Christ; Who is in Him God and man who; How do you know God in the God-man and how man; What donated to our people that God "in his God-man"; All this reveals to us the Holy Spirit, the "Spirit of truth". It reveals, namely, whole truth about Him, for God "in Him" ​​for man and for what he gave to us all. This disclosure goes beyond anything that human eyes see and feel our heart.

"In fact every holy Sacrament and all the divine qualities is a Agiopnefmatikotita. The Spirit therethrough comes to us and through us. That falls truly and substantially all the divine energies. The Holy Spirit to our Lord Jesus Christ dwells in us and we in Him.

»This alone indicates the presence of the Holy Spirit in us. We with the Holy Spirit live "in Christ" and He in us and we know "of the Spirit among us gave th '. In a word the whole life of the Church in all its own, countless, theanthropic realities guided and manipulated by the Spirit which always is the Spirit of Jesus Christ ". (St. Justin Popovich)

«With sin man becomes mortal and finite, the Resurrection of Jesus becomes immortal and eternal. In this it is precisely the power and rule of the Resurrection of Christ. Without the Resurrection of Christ, there would not even Christianity. Among the miracles, the Resurrection of the Lord is the greatest miracle. All other miracles stem from this and are summarized in this. From this derive faith and hope and prayer and piety.

"This is one that no other religion has. This is that which elevates the Lord above all people and gods. This is what, which uniquely and unequivocally shows and demonstrates that Jesus Christ is the only true Lord and all visible and invisible worlds.

»Without the resurrection there is neither in heaven, nor under the sky, nothing more absurd than this world, neither greater despair of this life, without immortality. In all the worlds there is no more miserable existence than the man who does not believe in the resurrection of the dead.

"That's why the human being the Risen Lord is" all in everyone "All worlds, that nice, the good, the real, the hallowed. the Happy, the Divine, the Wise, the Eternal. He is all our love, our whole Truth, all our Joy, all our Good, our whole life in all eternities and infinity ". (St. Justin Popovich)

"With sin man became mortal and finite. With the Resurrection of Christ is immortal and eternal. In this lies the power and the state and the omnipotence of the Resurrection of Christ. If there were resurrection of Christ there would not even Christianity.

"Honestly admit that we have never believed in Christ, had he not been resurrected and had not beat death, our greatest enemy. But Christ was raised and donated our immortality. Without this truth, our world would be a chaotic exhibition odious nonsense. Only by His glorious Resurrection, the wonderful Lord and our God, It frees us from absurdity and despair.

»Man is born not when truly bring the world his mother, but when you believe in the Savior Risen Christ. Because he is born in the immortal Eternal Life. While the mother gives birth to her child to death, to the grave. The Resurrection is the mother of us all, all Christians, mother of immortals. With faith in the Resurrection of the Lord man is born again, born for eternity.

"This is impossible, observes a skeptic and the Risen God-Man replies: "Always loud tῷ Believing". The "I" is the one with all his heart, with all his soul, with his whole being lives according to the Gospel of the Risen Lord Jesus. Our faith is the victory which we win death, the belief that the Risen Lord.

"The center of death is sin, tells us the Apostle Paul. By His Resurrection the Lord eased the center of death. Death is the snake and sting of sin, sin death will pour poison to the soul and body of man. The more sins man has, the more are the centers that death will pour poison into him.

»He who through Christ overcomes sin through the, defeats and death. The fact that man truly believes in the Risen Lord, It proves to be struggling against sin and the passions. As long as she shall know that striving for immortality and Eternal Life. But if we do not fight, then faith is in vain. For if the faith of man is no match for immortality, for eternity, then it is futile.

»Christianity is a call to the last resort until breathing struggle against death, until the final victory over him. The four Gospels of Christ summarized in four words: Christ is Risen! Truly risen! Here lies the whole meaning, all God's worlds, visible and invisible.

»The power of Jesus Christ Risen Christ gives strength to every Christian to defeating every mortal and that death, all that is sinful and that sin itself, every evil and himself the devil. Because only with the Resurrection the Lord in the most convincing way, He showed and proved that His life is Eternal Life. The truth is His Eternal Truth, His love Eternal Love. The goodness Eternal Goodness, His joy Eternal Joy. All this gives the matchless charity.

»Christianity is founded on the fact of the Resurrection of Christ. That Eternal face to face on the status of Jesus Christ. Here are summarized all the events of the life of Christ and the Apostles. In Christ's Resurrection and eternal living Substance of Christ Jesus Christ. Only with the resurrection of Christ explained all the wonders, all words, all the events of the New Testament.

Until His Resurrection, the Lord taught Eternal Life. But after His resurrection showed that He Himself is the Eternal Life. Until His Resurrection the Lord taught the resurrection of the dead. But after His resurrection showed that He Himself is the resurrection of the dead.

"By His Resurrection the Lord taught that faith in Him transfer from death to life. But after His resurrection showed that he defeated death and secured thereby to tethanatomenous people the transition from death to life. The God-man Jesus Christ by His Resurrection, He showed and proved to be the only true God-man in all human worlds.

»The luscious Wonderful Lord Jesus, the Risen God-Man is the only Existence under Heaven by which man may here on earth overcomes death, sin and the devil and becomes blessed and immortal participant in the Eternal Kingdom of Love of Christ». (St. Justin Popovich)

All of the above are excerpts from my new book The Road to Deification.