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Thanksgiving and the Harvest We Reap

November 12, 2023 · 2:14:09 · Watch on YouTube ↗

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Summary

This Thanksgiving celebration opens with the story of the ten lepers (Luke 17). Only one, a foreigner, came back to fall at Jesus' feet and give thanks, and the Lord's question still echoes today: where are the other nine? We gather to thank God for everything He gives - the joy and the tears, the rain and the sunshine, and above all His Son.

Drawing on Paul's words to rejoice always, pray continually, and give thanks in every circumstance, and on David's psalms of praise, the message reminds us that gratitude is not a once-a-year event but a daily way of life. A thankful heart is a satisfied heart, while ingratitude grows when we forget God's mercies or believe the enemy's lie that breeds envy and complaint. Thankfulness, like grumbling, spreads from one person to the next.

The closing sermon turns to the law of sowing and reaping (Genesis 8:22, Galatians 6, Hosea, Matthew 13). A man reaps what he sows, and the harvest points to the end of the age. The repentant thief on the cross (Luke 23) shows that though all have sinned and earned judgment, Christ willingly took our payback upon Himself, so that whoever calls on His name receives mercy and a place in paradise.

Key Points

  • Gratitude is meant to be a daily lifestyle, not just one holiday a year.
  • Like the one cleansed leper who returned, we are called to come back and thank God for His mercy.
  • A thankful heart is a satisfied heart; thanklessness grows from forgetting God's daily blessings.
  • The enemy steals our thanks by tempting us to compare, envy, and complain.
  • Rejoice always, pray continually, and give thanks in every circumstance.
  • We reap what we sow, so sow to the Spirit and to righteousness, not to the flesh.
  • The repentant thief shows that one honest cry to Jesus opens the door to paradise.

Devotional

Before you sleep tonight, retrace your day and name the mercies God set along your path - the breath, the bread, the protection you never even noticed. Gratitude is not a feeling you summon once a year but a habit that keeps your heart satisfied and your eyes on the Giver rather than on your neighbor's table. Remember too that every word and deed is a seed, and a harvest is surely coming. Sow thanks, sow righteousness, and trust the One who took your judgment on the cross so that He could carry you home.

Where are the other nine? The question still waits for an answer in every grateful heart.
A thankful heart is a satisfied heart.
A man reaps what he sows, so sow thanks and righteousness while it is still seedtime.
Transcript

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chapter 15 [Music] 17 175 we [Music] read one of them who saw that he was healed came back and praised God God in a loud [Music] voice he threw himself at Jesus feet and thank him and he was a Samaritan Jesus asked we're not 10 cleansed where are the other nine why has no one returned to give God praise to God except this [Music] Foreigner we know this story when Jesus healed the 10 and one saw that he was healed and he returned to give him praise he rejoiced that God's mercy was upon him but interesting about the nine others that were with him but only one returned to give God praise and the remaining question is where are the other nine and today maybe this question question remains to someone how much Mercy we have seen from the Lord how much uh blessings we've heard saw from his hand and the question remains today did we give him praise and honor and thanks we had a sister from Korea very [Music] Kim one time she was praying and she was saying Lord I gave you all of my life I gave you so much in my life and the Holy Spirit spoke into her heart and she he asked of the question and everything that you have given me who did it came from I give you the mercy didn't I give you the life didn't I give you everything that you have you know of course kids love it when we buy them gifts when we go to Vacation favorite snacks and when we buy them favorite snacks the best thank you very much and when they tell us dad you're the best thank you but I remind him always don't just thank me but Al but thank the Lord because he gave me a job he gave me Health he gave you a father but a child to for me let us bow our head in this prayer and give him an answer what are you thankful for we're not supposed to do this just once a year but it should be a style in our life that we are thankful always from our heart from our whole of soul for all the mercy that he has given us let us bow our head to be thankful Heavenly Father we thank you for this day wonderful day that you created as you said to this time you have helped us you have fed us you have given us clothes you have protected us to to this moment you have kept us safe to this path we thank you for the word who gives us hope who shines in this world who shows us the future we thank you Lord that we are your children we thank you for the cross which is the greatest that you have given us and even though sometimes it is painful for us and we have something that we didn't want but today we are here to say thank you cuz you love us because you take care of us and you have a future for us we are thankful loving father loving God amen amen look to your left to your right and just welcome everybody GRE them I thank God for each one of you it's nice to see you the new faces the old faces that we haven't seen in a while we are thankful that you are here with us may God's name be glorified online we we greet everybody who is watching us online and we are greeting those who came for the first or maybe second time to our church we are glad that you're here we want to get to know you better may God bless each one of you speak to your spirit be [Music] blessed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] God eloh [Music] [Applause] him [Music] [Applause] you and he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] shall is strong [Music] [Applause] [Music] all [Music] B your [Music] all y [Applause] [Music] God [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sing it [Applause] Church [Music] eloh sh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foree [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] for [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] him sh [Music] sing it s than you [Music] Jesus El sh [Music] ad [Music] [Music] for [Music] hu hallelujah huuah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] bee [Music] oh [Music] [Music] fore fore fore [Music] fore [Music] [Applause] foree [Music] give thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to the Holy One give because he's given Jesus Christ is with a heart give to the Holy One he because he's given Jesus Christ his son and now let the weak say I am let the poor say I and because of What the Lord Has Done for us and now let the weak and strong let the for high and reach the Lord [Music] has [Music] [Music] y [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] for Heavenly Father we come before you Lord we thank you for this time we thank you for your mercy we thank you for the sunshine and the rain Lord we ask you for your blessing we thank you for your mercies we come before you Lord thank you for everything that you have done for our lives thank you for all that you have shown us even sometimes when we go through the valley you are still with us Lord we thank you for your mercy we ask you that you would bless everybody that is here here give your mercy and Grace let us come before you with an open heart and be thankful for everything we worship you for everything that you have done we ask this in Jesus name amen amen go ahead and take your seats please praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ today we have a celebratory Service as you can see you can see we have a beautiful setup here up front Beautiful People beautiful hearts we came here to worship God and I would like to join together all of our worship that we have to God and I would like to invite every single person here to give a worship to God because God is worthy of all praise praise God I would like to share a Bible verse Apostle Paul writes to the Christians Apostle Paul writes to the Church of God here in these words he says Rejoice always pray continually give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus you know to give thanks to the Lord it's not just to be happy you must Rejoice you must Rejoice you will never be able to give thanks to the Lord if your heart is not filled with joy you can never give glory to God if you do not pray and so he says always Rejoice always pray and always give thanks to God when I say uh Rejoice always what does that mean it it doesn't Al it doesn't only mean to rejoice when I'm happy when in the good times when do I rejoice when I have when I am in good times or do I always Rejoice the Bible says to always Rejoice to continuously pray so that the prayer would go up to God because if I do not rejoice if I am not uh if I am not full fulfilled in my heart satisfied if I'm not satisfied you know sometimes I I tremble I tremble I cannot Rejoice to the Lord and so it is important for us to always remember to always Rejoice always pray and always to give thanks to the Lord we're going to do something today that we did yesterday and the day before that and the day before that we're not going to be doing anything new today we're going to do something that we did yesterday the day the day before that and the day before that and what is this be Rejoice pray to God and thank God or or is there someone in here that might think I I waited all this entire year just to just for this one day to come the day of Thanksgiving to get to give thanks to God no I don't think there is a person here like that we gave thanks yesterday the day before that we gave thanks to God and today we continue to give thanks to God today is only a day that we Mark in the calendar to give thanks to God we just uh we Proclaim what we have been proclaiming every single day you know why because because if yesterday I forgot to give thanks to God if the day before that I didn't give thanks to God because I forgot today is a day of remembrance that we give thanks to God maybe I would not give thanks to God maybe I wouldn't give thanks to God today because every day we give thanks to to God but today is uh the main day that we give thanks to God I would like to ask each and every one of you raise your hand if you are thankful to God today raise your hand if you are thankful to God today I see a lot of hands but not not everyone's hands and I don't understand why some of you did not raise your hands what has God not given you that you would not be able to give thanks for are you hungry today after service we will feed you give thanks to God God is good you know maybe there's someone here in this place and he says to himself I understand that I have to give thanks to God but I don't have it I don't have it in my heart to give thanks to God I understand that I'm supposed to give thanks to God and maybe I force myself to maybe it's a good thing that you force yourself to but you know to be fulfilled in God to God to be thankful to God this isn't you forcing yourself it's not because you feel like it that you should give thanks to God but a thankful heart is a satisfied heart it is a satisfied heart of mine that's it's because I'm thankful to God with my entire heart David in Psalm 106 ver it says give thanks to the Lord for he is good his love endures forever you know this day of Thanksgiving or this idea of giving thanks to God you know one might think to himself who came up with this who came up with this day to give thanks to God no one no one came up with this day this is God himself gave it to humanity to desire to give thanks to God you know way back when God created the first humans on Earth Adam and Eve Adam and Eve gave thanks to the Lord and they rejoiced in the Lord they praised God and they gave him thanks but the devil came Satan came and he lied he lied to Eve he lied to Adam and he lies to us today and his lie is to take away Thanksgiving to take away Rejoice from your heart and his lie is to steal away your prayer to God his lie is to steal away your Thanksgiving to God and he says to you look at your brother look at your sister look at your neighbor to one side and the other do you see what he has do you see what kind of car he what what big of a house he has he has this and that wouldn't it be nice if you had it wouldn't it be nice if you had it yourself and we sometimes listen to this and this not uh this uh peace get takes away from and we and we kind of start to have jealousy towards your brother towards our brother and sister and there there's no Thanksgiving to God there will be curses there will be uh complaining complain about somebody might be cursing the person complaining and saying I don't have this I don't have this I don't have that this is the work of the [Music] devil WR verse verse [Music] one bless the Lord oh my soul why because He blesses [Music] us because his Mercy is so great and so steadfast and because he forgives us our sins he forgives my sins and your sins raise your hand if the Lord uh forgives your sins Absolut every everyone who repents the Lord the Bible say there is no righteous one know not one for everyone has sin and we give thanks to the Lord because Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins because he forgives my sin and your sin than he says that all your trans transgressions he forgives all your sicknesses he takes away understand that we we fall sick if not in one thing we fall sick in another if it's not Co 19 then is co 20 understand that he heals us from everything and so we have to give thanks to God he says that he he takes away he delivers from from the Valley from the grave you understand we we walk every single day we every day we drive we fly on an airplane we sometimes do deeds and we don't know what wa what awaits us on the road and in the Bible it says that when we walk we don't know if there's a grave waiting for us ahead maybe uh paralyzation waits for us ahead maybe death Waits For Us ahead but he protects us he protects us from death he gives us life I want us to give thanks to the Lord for that you know a problem for some people why some people don't give thanks to the Lord it is for one reason they do not remember the mercy that God gives them they just don't remember they go through one day they lay down in bed and they don't even think God you know they they go lay down in bed and they don't think you know I was walking today I was driving today I was working today and they don't remember that God was merciful to them I know one thing if we start to remember the mercies that God gives us in our lives every single day before we go to sleep there will be glory to God can we say Amen there will be glory to God because God is always merciful to us for you know our our fulfilled heart our fulfilled heart it falls over to your neighbor maybe some of us here we're kind of in a relationship with a friend or or a neighbor where you where that person is always always is thankful and always rejoices and after a little while you start giving thanks for everything you know a neighbor might be saying Thank You Lord thank you Lord and then that falls over to you and you start thanking the lord I would like to give thanks for everyone for yesterday I I'm not saying thank you for yesterday or the day after the day before that but to everyone that was here yesterday who helped us finish the volleyball court you have all helped us TR may the Lord bless you without you guys I would not have done it you understand that when a heart is thankful it falls over to someone else but when a heart is not thankful it also falls over on someone else if you walk along with someone with your neighbor who does not give thanks who also curses he's always not satisfied in his life he says this one's bad and that one's bad too this family is bad this church is bad it's time for us to go to another church in that church over there there's blessings over there is good and when you spend time with other people you start thinking the same way that same way cursing that is want the same thing you know uh person is thankful it says that it is relying off of someone else so it's a relying on someone else without that other person you're not able to be thankful and like I say thank you for all the people that came yesterday and help with the volleyball court you know when we say we thank you God we we confess that we are reliant on him you know we say without you God I cannot walk forward without you I cannot drive without you I cannot live my life when we give thanks to God but when we do not give thanks to God in other words we are demonstrating in front of God that without you God I can go on forward I can drive on I can walk forward without you I can live life without you you are not needed to me so God calls us today so that we would have a thankful heart so that we would remember the mercies of God so that the Lord would be glorified may the Lord bless you all and be glorified amen [Music] this [Music] storye do [Music] for be good [Music] [Music] the oh [Music] [Music] is sweet [Music] [Applause] [Applause] the [Music] [Applause] the [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] be the me [Music] oh the be for [Music] is [Music] therey [Music] [Applause] [Music] I you be your for he [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] for you [Music] loveing [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for well [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] for go ahead bless my soul like to share a couple of announcements that we have for today and for the rest of the week usually we have uh youth service at 6: p.m. but because of our celebration today we will not have a youth service we will be celebrating together as a whole church as a reminder Monday prayer at 7:30 p.m. and as a reminder to continue to pray to continue to fast for Ukraine for Israel Wednesday we have a midweek service at 7:30 and Sunday we have a prayer meeting started at 10:30 and service at 11: and we have service at 11 you know as from the church we want to thank all of the entire team who did a lot of work to build the uh volleyball court in the back for our church for the Youth to have it so we want to say thank you and we all want to thank also from the bottom of the heart people who who dedicated their time people who dedicated materials all of this effort to make this project happen from the bottom of our hearts we just want to say thank you may God bless you and weay you tfold as you you know brother ol already told you a secret we are planning to feed you guys today we just want to encourage you know we have a lot of guests so the guests not be uh too humble to go first we'll have a a little table for the kids they will have more of the American food and we'll have our adult food kids will have their own line the adults will have theirs jumpers and we'll set up jumpers for the kids outdoors and we'll set up some tables underneath the trees for them as well but you know the adults be like our air conditioner will be here inside as a reminder when the church service ends we'd like to ask you politely to step outside for a few minutes so we can redecorate the hall that we could have our dinner you know in my uh hand I have a little package with a pen pencil and an invitation card for those who are here for the first time or maybe you're here for the second or third time we would like you to fill out that information give us your phone address so we can keep in contact with you to let you know when we have our next church service or event we have plenty of them so we didn't want to miss anyone if you're here for the first time second time if you if you don't mind raise your hand we'll give you a piece of you know invitation card a little candy you know fill out your information we'd love to hear from you if you're a little shy don't worry you know we will you know raise your hand we want to uh keep in contact with we don't we don't want to miss you i' would like to invite our youth to the stage they will participate and after the youth participation the Sunday School the kids will have their program the program that they have prepared the thankfulness that they have from them children you are coming right after um youth participation may God bless each one of you during our worship team from our youth we invite you to participate in our love offering and Tides when God gives it to us you know this is a way we can give back or show them how grateful we are that we have comes from him can we say amen and let's participate in it may God bless you [Music] foreign [Music] for [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] [Music] foree [Music] [Music] my [Music] fore for you fore fore [Music] [Music] foree [Music] [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] the [Music] for night night [Music] now who s [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] the [Music] the the I will glorify God I will glorify God I will glorify God every day more and more I will GL God I will glorify God I will glorify love every day more and more glor God I glorify God I glorify [Music] God what oh you [Music] foreign speech foreign [Music] speee [Music] [Music] the the deep deep [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] for c [Music] c down [Music] C [Music] you show [Music] Peter Vicky Vicky em emem her got it just let sing [Music] it one for bless a day two every breath I take family five just to be alive six for the Earth and Sky and seven for heaven for every good thing that I have comes from God every day every hour there are blessings count [Music] orful for the chance to grow n Heart and Hand and S 10 for the to see all God has given me I could go on and on Counting the I know is with me for every good that I from God every day every hour there [Music] are or thousand I'm sure there still be more there will still be more and more to be thankful [Applause] than [Music] [Applause] [Music] do you see what our kids are thankful for for Mom and Dad for the church for the dogs for the food for brother and sister they all have a thank what to be thankful for to God are you thankful for Let It Be a reminder to each one of us that it would be a purpose of our life when we are thankful that we show that we we are relying on the Lord i' would like to invite a pastor from Miami he will share a greeting to us uh that God had pred may God bless you greeting church we came from Miami our church name is infinity you know the the Church of Without End we send you our greetings and be uh happy to be with you you know I am uh glad to be here with my wife we have lived together for 32 years I think I got it right we have three children and five grandchildren and we are thankful to God for our life that what has God what has God done in our lives and the day of Celebration it is our celebration as well we are pleased and thankful for what God has done in our lives and you always want to see people people who are thankful around you and as a person the Lord who created all of this how he is worthy of all praise and it's normal that he awaits for it and we as people we have to learn to be thankful to be thankful to God to be thankful to parents people around us to the church because God himself he gives us the church the people and family and He blesses us a passage from the scripture I'd like to read it'll be fast Hebrews chap 6 verse 7 the Lord uh the land drinks the rain often falls on it and it produces a crop used for those who is farmed receives a blessing from the Lord or from God but what about a land or a or ground that only drinks drinks and then does not produce anything all braines may be you know weeds and grass it is close to a curse when you think about it it should bring us to a feeling of being thankful to God that he has given us life he pours his uh reign of word upon his around us the church we bring fruit and then He blesses as well we as people we look as a ground or you know a plot of land that brings good fruit it seems like we are protected and we are guarded by God himself and we have a blessing in that and those people who don't know God or though or who haven't met him you know to realize that God blesses or he he He blesses those who bring fruit in their Liv that God would bless them every morning we get up and are our tables we have food we have the everything that we need on our tables God sent his brain the snow we don't get snow but snows well and the fruits that have the Earth has brought we eat them it is a blessing for us and we should be thankful to God for that teach your heart to be thankful always thank you for everything that you have that you're welcomeing our greeting thank you for the opportunity to speak and greet the church may God bless you thank you may God bless [Applause] [Music] you before we have our last sermon I would like to uh come up to the front of Brothers they're going to have a song for us we have a lot of people it's something new but we want to together worship God and we'll have the last sermon from our pastor Nikolai a little bit more patience let us open up our spiritual ears what God is trying to tell us thank [Music] you AP for for for [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] foree [Music] speee [Music] spee [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] foree [Music] [Music] dear Church dear guests on this day of Celebration a special day let's say praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ the bottom of our hearts through our lips praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ you know when I was sitting there and my attention cut this bouquet that is the closest to me and my first reaction was I never seen such flowers that are on this bouquet when I Clos look I saw it's not just flowers but it actually has different fruits and vegetables are placed on it here but it's a work of a designer these sisters that took time and effort to put this together but I would like for you to look around you know how beautiful is Lord's Church everyone is so different and holy spirit he brings us together and makes this one bouquet out of us and it produces this Aroma and it has fruits on it I often remind my wife and she always say Amen how beautiful it is that I belong to the Church of God how beautiful it is that you belong to the Church of God God's people it is a good Community it is a special Nation those that are eager to good deeds and we are so different yet we are together but among us there is Jesus Christ himself praise be to our Lord hallelujah hallelujah today is the Thanksgiving celebration you know uh things get Harvest it's when we collect the fruits and when this hard work is all finished everybody would get together and celebrate because what they collected but I would like to remind us what is Harvest it is the hard it is the end of a long yearly process here on Earth and our life depends on this miracle from God somebody who is planted somebody was watering and working on it but the word of God that God is the one who made it grow May glory be to him don't be afraid to say praise be to our Lord say praise be to you Lord and as I mentioned our life fully depends on that but it has the beginning of sowing the [Music] seeds and the Bible tells there is laws that are being in place by God himself here on Earth and that's what I would like to talk about today briefly it is the law of so and reaping let's open up the Book of Genesis chapter 8 verse 22 when After the flood this peace came to Earth God said the following words by the Holy [Music] Spirit as long as the Earth endures sea time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night will never cease this Harvest it is the beginning a harvest is the end or is the end result or the fruit of something it is maybe a beginning or a fruit of some kind of story or situation there is a beginning but there is also the end God he controls everything that takes place here on Earth Jesus Christ when he was here in Earth preaching and his he he Define the end of everything while here on Earth with the following words in Matthew chapter 13:39 we read and Jesus said the Harvest is the end of the age and then sometimes we hear among the people that we live in that says the end of the world Jesus did not say it's just going to be the end and that's it but he is saying there will be a harvest a harvest here on Earth it will be a great harvest Jesus did not talk about potatoes corn or wheat he only took an example from those from what's growing on the field in order to illustrate about this Great Harvest that is about to come there will be at the End of the Age and everyone's life personally including you and myself and every living man here on Earth because here on Earth we we s in a daily on our daily life we s [Music] something maybe don't pay attention and notice those things in our life but every one of us we saw something in Galatians chapter 7 uh chapter 6 verse 7 and N Apostle P said the following look what it says there do not be deceived do not be fooled God cannot be mocked a man reaps what he SWS whoever SS to please their flesh from the flesh will reap destruction whoever SS to please the spirit from the spirit would reap eternal life let us not become weary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we did not give up what the man will saw he will reap later maybe you did not even think about this today that this morning when you first woke up you maybe already had an opportunity to S something whether it's with the word or actions in your personal life with your lips even that you may be said same things that I mean towards you but it's sowing Solomon in Proverbs said that from your lips that there is a power in the of death and life in your lips sometimes we don't pay attention but words have tremendous power just like those seeds that we saw and result will be fruit and from the fruit of your lips you will be eating and God will not be mocked those are your words there was something that you made it into your life or into life of people around you even so that are close to you and those seeds were swn but what's important the result of That Swing will come at the time of harvest and every one of us dear brothers and sisters we will be reaping for what we were sewing in your life and according to the law of sewing reaping where God made it made put it in place we will be reaping much more what we saw because that's the law of The Sewing and reaping this is what God put in place and that applies to all of our personal lives normally when you place one potato it's very rare that you get one back you usually get way more only one seed produce look how many how much Harvest because the way this law is working there will be reaping way more whether it was good or maybe not good and in hosiah we read chapter 10 verse 12 sorry 87 87 please and they saw the wind and they reaped their whirlwind you know somebody might say you know it's not a big deal I just said something just look little small wind I say when you sewing wind you will uh harvest the storm it is the law and Hosea also writes and in chapter 12 vers 10 verse 12 he says he says s righteousness for yourselves reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up your unloved ground for it is time to seek the Lord until he comes and soers his righteousness let's sow good seed in righteousness in holy life and we will reap Grace he will reap Grace from the Lord and the Lord will come and he will reward every me according to their deeds you know people working doing different type of work and jobs regardless what what type of work they do but they wait for their paycheck P payday paycheck payment you know payday is always associated with something happy something joyous because it's the reward for the work that they did but look at let's look at this from a different angle but what if a person did something that is not good that man he was not happy about it he's full of fear his word because he knows when the time is come it's it's not the pay but it will be a judgment in in in Russian translation has a different word but it's it's tmus or payb back for their actions and there's many people these days already received this payback with finances with their own health or those that are around them affected by it sometimes they even pay with their own Freedom you know around the world the jails there are prisons they are full and people paid the price for what they did but it's not all the Lord is is speaking is is coming and he will pay everyone back according to their works and in conclusion I would like to leave this very special place there is one example from the word of God I like to share everyone knows this passage that it talks about life and death of Jesus Christ it is written in the Book of Luke Chapter 23: 32- [Music] 43 let's pay close attention to this passage in the word of God [Music] Hallelujah let's follow on this screen the passage for for truly I tell you today you will be with me in Paradise it's a very unique story it penetrates deep into a person's heart Christ is hanging on the cross just like it was for told before he will be counted with those uh with with the um criminals with the criminals himself being innocent and he's among those Sinners among those criminals and everyone is saying bad words to him is laughing at him and above his head there is a tablet with the words in in Greek in in uh Hebrew and other languag it says in Romans the pilot he commanded to write the following words he is the uh the king of the Jews [Music] even one of them who was by his side was also was cursing at Jesus but the other one he stopped and he started to think I worthy of this punishment that I received I was sowing those transgressions into my life but today the judgments upon me today this payback I'm worthy I receive it I agree with it but he he did not do anything worthy of this death and the Holy Spirit was present there and he saw there the one that is by his side on his head there is this this this Crown of Thorns blood is dripping on his face and patiently he's praying it says father forgive them because they do not know what they are doing and he realized he realized that it's him who pays price all the payback all the sewing all the all those words all those actions he was looking at him he says I am worthy of this punishment but he turns he says calls him Lord and he says the following words Lord remember when you come into your Heaven you know people who are on a death bath they say there is no atheist that are dying when the death is breathing into their face they start to realize there is another life after this and the judgment is to come and God is a righteous one and what I was reaping into my life I will I will I will harvest and he says remember when you come to your kingdom what faith what a faith in this man single man [Music] he said truly I say to you today you will be in heaven with me and the life ended one went to hell one reive judgment but another one went to heaven into God's kingdom Paradise into his paradise he went there why because the payback did not come to him in eternity yes here on Earth he received punishment but what's the most troubling is what after after having received him why because he re received Christ God's word testifies to us and reminds us that there's no righteous man on Earth Bible says everyone sin and they are left out of God's glory this mercy and grace and the punishment for sins is death and internal judgment with the devil but God the father he loved us so much and because of his great love and gra he sent his son Jesus Christ Jesus Christ into this world that is filled with with hatred that filled with the with evil in order to save us for to be for the payback that we deserve and he was there went there willingly to die on the cross he willingly received this pay back upon himself for you and me righteous for the unrighteous he shed his Precious Blood and he gives his life on the cross that any man that believes in him call upon his name will not perish but would be shown Mercy and be moved into his kingdom and peace with the Lord It's the word of God and if you here today in this service you need you feel that you need to get rid of the this unho sewing that you did in your life he is here to help if you're ready he's waiting he is leing those 99 sheeps and goes and looks for the one that is lost and when he finds he put on his shoulder and he comes back and says this sheep is saved if you are that lost soul maybe at one time you were in Lord's hands you maybe we're going into those beautiful Fields with the rest of of the sheep but today as David once said Lord seek me as a lost sheep if David himself said those words don't be shy to say the same thing to the Lord you know Salvation is in the Lord maybe you would like to renew your commitment to follow Christ maybe you would like to come in peace with the Lord if you are willing and ready to make this decision I would like to invite you to stand up on your feet if you're ready to call upon his name today with your own lips it doesn't have to be loud but you are the one who need to make those words I would like to invite everyone to close their eyes and I would like to remind if you need Jesus who is here today please raise your hand raise your hand and say I need Jesus raise your hand high so I see I see your hands today even if you believe and you know Christ raise your hand and keep it holding it is a very whole and holy and precious time loving Christ he's stretching his hands towards you and we will be praying for you right now I would like to invite you to come here to the front even if you did not make those those few steps out of the place where you sitting and come to the FR come here to the front pleas please it is a blessed time come here if you would like to wait a few moments we would like to pray even if you are believer in Christ Lord is waiting for you that you would renew your WS with him your your your your it will not just be a celebration here on Earth but also in heaven hallelujah hallelujah I would like to ask you to Bow your KNE bow your knees Hallelujah and I'd like to invite you to prayer for this wonderful Souls that they could be brought together in this bouquet that is called the bride of Christ Jesus which is church it is the time of mercy and Grace Hallelujah let's pray for those people who came and for those that are standing here just pray before him he is with you today and during this prayer if anybody would like to make this step and come out and pray together I would like to ask the ministers come please pray for those that came here to the front please let's minister to those that came to the front let's pray Church let's close eyes he is a savior he is a savior Hallelujah but if you may be not feeling comfortable call upon a lord's name where you at he is present everywhere he is a mighty one may his glory in all the eternity amen for brothers and sisters they came here Lord let's call upon his namej hallelu hallelujah hallelu hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Applause] hallelu hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah amen [Music] hallelujah hallelujah Hallelujah hallelu maybe somebody else wants to join that wonderful group you can raise the hand we have a time for you we have a time for you we have a time for you Hallelujah Hallelujah Jesus hallelujah hallu hallelujah [Music] for am for

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