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2014.09.28. You advised me to dig up, to build what I had dug below and to work with the same effort. Then I went up, after I had built upwards as much as I dug downwards and I remained there with my life, and You overshadowed me and showed me to the people, and those in my time were thrilled when they saw how much I trampled myself down and exalted You in me, good Counselor, merciful Master of my humility. Oh, man has to work very much for his saving life, saving from the flesh and body, oh, Lord. Oh, man works very little for You so that You may give him sal- vation, too. You made me an apostle upon people by my life built for You with hard work by my abstinence before You, Lord. Oh, how shall I advise holier the man to receive with much cour- age and with more fear of good God’s work and for God? You have built man for You and not for him, Lord. However, even from the beginning man has forsaken his destiny for You and has become a slave to the sin in him, stirred up in him by his disobedience to You, Maker of every- thing, everything that are visible and invisible. I was the beginning of the holy stylites on earth before men, and I came to You and to the saints once with the beginning of the Christian and spiritual year, on the first day of the first month of the year. (1 st September – the beginning of the church year 6 , r.n.) I came as ripe fruit and You set me on Your table with the saints and now I see from heaven on earth together with Your saints, with all those who see together with You from heaven on earth everywhere. (See the selection topic: „The change of feasts - the denial of faith 7 ”, r.n.) Oh, Your work of today is great, Lord, very great, and the saints are thrilled with its greatness in heaven and on earth. You are so gentle in Your closeness to man when You come and speak with Your voice of today. You are gentle, Lord, gentle concerning Your greatness, seen by Your saints. Oh, how great is Your glory in heaven and on earth, the glory which man would not be able to look at and resist from falling down under it! However, You are so gentle, so good and gentle, and You become so little, although You are so great, oh, Lord, and behold, You have come again on earth as word and speak with man as You spoke in paradise, and let Your word be heard, which man has to obey, Lord. You, those who want to be with the Lord on earth, be careful to the Lord’s voice and under no circumstances are you to listen to your voice. Oh, do not do like the man in Paradise, who instead of obeying the Lord, he obeyed man, and by so doing men pulled one another from before the Lord and fell down on earth; moreover, it is much to be worked with your life to give it back to the Lord, from Whom you have it as a gift, and for which you owe the Lord. Oh, listen 6 The church year starts on 1 st September (the New Church Year) and ends on 31 st August. According to the Jewish tradition, on a day like this God started His work of the creation of the world and our Savior started His activity of the preaching of the Gospel. The church year is not identical with the liturgical year. As distinct from the church year, the liturgical year starts on the Passover day. The New Church Year was founded at the Ecumenical Synod I from Nicaea, when it was decided to be celebrated on 1 st September, r.n. 7 You can also see on: https://jumpshare.com/v/ffwEqRWqZ4GpFkbYrGEp https://www.edocr.com/v/w6a96e6m/billydean-en/The-Word-of-God-about-the-change-of-feasts-the-den https://archive.org/details/TheWordOfGodAboutTheChangeOfFeastsTheDenialOfFaith http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/billydeana-3642239-word-god-change-feasts-denial-faith/ https://www.scribd.com/document/395539068 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uDWpABlyN-L31d6cGt8H0QSo3bpFaYYg https://joom.ag/0yPa 5