Speaker: Igor

• "Be ye reconciled to God": only the Spirit of Christ within makes us God's own. "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life" (John 10:17).

• "Take my yoke upon you… for I am meek and lowly in heart" (Matt 11:28–30). The carnal man finds this yoke repulsive; he can accept it only if God speaks to his spirit.

• "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his" (Rom 8:9). Meekness and humility cannot coexist with a double life. God breaks our self-confidence so that, as living stones (1 Pet 2:5), we take our place in His body.

Speaker: Mikhail

• "Pure religion and undefiled… is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (Jas 1:27). The fatherless and widows are all who were "made subject to vanity, not willingly" (Rom 8:20) and cannot help themselves: the sick, the addicted, people with perverse urges since childhood. Material help is needed, but the main thing is to give them the word from God's mouth.

• As soon as he believed in true godliness, the attacks increased: humiliation, slander, tangled circumstances. "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (2 Tim 3:12).

• "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh" (1 Tim 3:16). The teaching that "Christ was 100% man" is a substitution. Christ was not the natural Adam but a new man: a Spirit living in a prepared body ("a body hast thou prepared me", Heb 10:5). The body was only a "dwelling" for Him, and He proved that heavenly life can be lived in a body.

• The Spirit cannot be seen with the eyes; it is seen in its qualities. "Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more" (2 Cor 5:14–17): the goal is not to imitate Christ's outward life but for His Spirit to be manifest in our flesh.

• The "Babylonian harlot" teaches that a person cannot help being unfaithful to God. God Himself must show each person the way into the Kingdom: people can only lead you to faith.

• The "vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers" is passed down and accumulates from generation to generation, which is why the last days will be perilous (2 Tim 3:1–2).

• Meekness is like the servant who, after a full day in the field, first serves his master (Luke 17:7–10): he demands nothing and takes no offense. Seeking salvation for your own sake is still "me and mine". Christ died "that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves".

• You can renounce yourself in words many times, but you cannot command the heart: love for God and aversion to your own life come from the Holy Spirit. That is how he comes to communion: "Lord, save me from myself."

Speaker: Edik

• Communion: Christ "by one offering hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified" and writes His laws in hearts (Heb 10:14–16). God sanctifies spirit, soul and body (1 Thess 5:23); "the body is… for the Lord" (1 Cor 6:13). "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Phil 1:6, 20–21).