Main news for 29 December 2025

The Savior's words about those who cannot at the same time perform miracles in His name and immediately revile Him seem quite reasonable and understandable in human terms. Sometimes a newly appeared religious movement needs not even support, but only more or less favorable neutrality. Yet Jesus also said something else: whoever is not with Me is against Me; whoever does not gather with Me scatters. It would seem that these are two mutually exclusive statements. And if Christianity were simply one more religious movement, even a messianic one, this would be so. But the point is that Christianity is not a religious movement, but a path into the Kingdom and life in the Kingdom.

Here everything is not as it is with ordinary religious movements. The Kingdom is an objective reality. It came into the world through Jesus, and however we relate to this fact, our attitude does not change the fact itself in the least. And in order to enter the Kingdom, trust in the Savior is important. That very trust which, in the traditional language of most Christian religions, is called faith in Jesus Christ.

But even for those who remain outside the Kingdom, it is not completely closed. For now that it is in the world, its breath is felt everywhere. And anyone can feel this breath. Of course, such a breath, sensed by outsiders, is not the same as the fullness of life in the Kingdom opened by Christ. But it is still better than nothing. To sense it, one need not even be a disciple of Christ in the proper sense of the word.

The only thing that protects one completely reliably from the breath of the Kingdom is an unambiguously negative attitude toward it and toward the One who brought it into the world. This means that anyone who has not said an unambiguous "no" to Christ or to any of His disciples doing His work is not lost for the Kingdom. Of course, for a Christian this is not enough. For a disciple of Christ, another principle is in force: if you do not do Christ's work, if you do not gather with Him, then time has been lost in vain, something has been missed. But here there is already another path and another measure. The measure of one seeking the Kingdom and striving to live its life.