Daniil Sysoev/Catechetical Conversations/ Library Golden-Ship.ru Priest Daniel Sysoev CATECHETICAL CONVERSATIONS Publishing House of the Church of the Prophet Daniel on Kantemirovskaya, Moscow, 2007   Orthodox Library, Golden Ship, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS On God and the Holy Scriptures On the Commandments of God On the Mystery of the Incarnation of God On Baptism and the Sacraments of the Church On Good and Evil. On the struggle with sin.

It happens like this: a person gets angry, then comes home – the family quarrels, and then they call on the phone, the wife is called to the phone, the wife immediately begins to speak affectionately, as if she had not just scolded. And why? There was an exchange: the demon of anger passed the demon of vanity to the man, one changed the other. "And why do sectarians cast out demons?" "One demon is replaced by another.

How, in fact, does the real exorcism of demons manifest itself, what is the sign? In the fact that a person begins not only to recover, but to show love for God. He begins to do good deeds with all his might, to fulfill the commandments of the Lord, living in the Orthodox Church, living in the Church of Christ. This is the sign of God's real action. This must be distinguished. Pentecostals cast out demons, solemnly.

The shaman runs up to them: oh, he says, you are shamans like us! We do the same, you know how great we do! He asked: share your practice, what spell did you start? "But they expel in the name of Christ, you can't do that, can you?" "Why?" "Everyone is standing there with icons. "Yes, everyone is standing with icons, sorcerers are standing with icons and crosses and calling on the name of God.

Find at least one sorcerer now who does not call upon the name of God. — There are believing healers in the Church. "Here they are acting in the name of the enemy, not by the Spirit of God. They blaspheme God. Do you know why they call on the Spirit of God? To blaspheme Him. For this, the enemy helps them. Psychics always demand to baptize a child in order to work on him. What for?

In order to mock Baptism, to gain more power over a person. You see, a man who has been saved by grace has committed a greater sin than a man who has not had grace. Many magicians require that a person come to them after Communion. That is why the Lord said: "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven..." (Matt. 7:21)

It was not by chance that it was said, remember: "Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! God! Have we not prophesied in Thy name? and did they not cast out demons in Thy name? and did they not work many miracles in Thy name?" (Matt. 22) It is said directly about these people, about sectarians, sorcerers and psychics: "... many will come in My name, and will say, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many" (Matt. 24:5). Why?

The sign is this: the Spirit of God leads into the Church. If a person begins to cast out demons in the name of Christ and at the same time be proud, he will, of course, be punished. No miracle will save him, of course. But the point is different: that if a person casts out demons in the name of Christ, this does not mean that he really casts them out. This is manifested in the results, as it is said: "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20).

But the authors of the Bible performed real miracles: miracles of the resurrection of the dead, miracles of healing. Obviously, God worked through them. — Why is this very important? Because if a person says that God works through him, he must prove it. God says to idolaters: "Tell us what will happen in the future, and we will know that you are gods, or do something, good or bad, so that we may be amazed and see with you" (Isaiah 41:23). But they can't do anything.

And Christ said, "Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; but if not, believe Me according to your very works" (John 14:11). It is very important, for example, that Muhammad could not perform any miracle, when he was asked, he began to refuse to do miracles. Christ made them. In principle, there were other people who worked miracles, for example, Shoko Asahara said that he was a miracle worker because he healed cirrhosis of the liver.

Правда, возникает вопрос — как он его заработал? Но это как бы вещь такая, сложно проверяемая. — Скажите, а как вот Церковь относится к тому, что люди видят при клинической смерти свет в конце тоннеля? — Есть такое явление — клиническая смерть. Церковь знает, что есть, но оно для нее как бы малоинтересно, это процесс выхода души из тела. Почитайте мытарства блаженной Феодоры.

Следующее, четвертое, свидетельство богодухновенности Библии, одно из самых ярчайших, — это пророчества. За много веков до происшедших событий в Библии точнейшим образом описано то, что произошло. Самые известные пророчества — о Христе. Существует триста тридцать три сбывшихся пророчества. И эти рукописи написаны за несколько веков до Пришествия Христа совсем не христианами.

Там сказано, что Его продадут за тридцать сребреников, что Его пронзят. Что Он родится в Вифлееме, что Его будут судить и языческие власти, и иудейские власти. И множество других пророчеств, которые были сделаны и сбылись спустя много веков. Есть пророчества, не только касающиеся Христа, касающиеся вообще судеб мира. Например, предсказано, что Вавилон, царство царств, гордость халдеев, станет болотом и местом обитания ежей и никогда он не будет построен.

Интересно, что очередной раз пророчество сбылось не так давно. Дело в том, что Саддам Хусейн хотел построить Вавилон. У него была гигантская идея построения и восстановления Вавилона. И все кончилось знаете, чем? Он остался с большим болотом, где живут ежики, в больших количествах змейки. Как и предсказано пророками, там совы ухают в увеселительных домах, и по ночам там опасно оставаться, потому что куча привидений.

Причем написано было в то время, когда Вавилон был мировой столицей, как Нью-Йорк, как Москва, как Лондон. — Это бесы сделали? — Да, конечно, бесы. Это место так и осталось — вы можете приехать в Вавилон, там читать, прямо на развалинах, видя, что написано верно. Или Тир, торговая столица мира. Если политической столицей мира был Вавилон, то торговая столица — Тир.