Sent to Witness: The Church's Missionary Call

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[Music] [Music] I [Music] [Music] for praise God brothers and sisters we're going to start our missionary service with worship so if everyone can stand up and to praise the [Music] [Music] Lord [Music] [Music] for St oh [Music] St oh [Music] Moree God [Music] take me past the outer courts into the holy Place pass the braise and alar Lord I want to see your face Pass Me By the crowds of people and the priest to sing your praise I hunger and thirst For Your Righteous but it's only found in one place take me into the holy of holies Take Me In by the blood of the Lamb take me into the holy of ho take the cold touch my Li here I [Music] [Music] am [Music] for news oh boy [Music] God [Music] you oh more [Music] [Music] [Music] praise be to our Lord turn to one another and say I'm glad that you in Lord's house today may God tremendously bless you may his word touch you may his grace descend upon you may my may God's glory be glor be appear in this place today we have a missionary service and we'll be focusing Our intention and what Jesus has commanded to the church here on Earth we have two groups that came from mission trips first is theic family they came from from Dominican Republic recently and you share the testimony in award and also our youth that just re came back from a Clearwater Beach yesterday from Outreach I was there myself and I was very glad and rejoiced norport a a group of from norport visited us here and we started our meeting here in this in this building and they were sharing uh giving some tips and ideas and they were here from 1 to 300 p.m. what really stood out is this passion this drive that they want to go and preach the gospel be and when they finally arrived at the Clearwater Beach and we put out our speakers the sound system so everybody could hear the police came and they told us no you cannot be very loud about your gospel here you can only use your natural voice to speak but our our our youth did not get uh off track and they run around AC in the neighborhood in Clearwater Beach and with their natural way they continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I walk and I hear Brother David morza and he screaming on top of his lung saying that Jesus loves you and he does not care or pay attention to any kind of prohibition because he knows his calling and may God bless our youth our church I would like to read the word of God before our prayer let's open chapter Romans chapter 10 verse 11- 15 and for us assignment is is to prepare the young people and to send them to go and preach the gospel because the person cannot be convicted or condemned if they never heard the gospel the person cannot receive and be saved if they did not hear the good news of the gospel and our job is to prepare so that they go and preach the gospel and we will come to prayer we will pray that God's mercy Grace would work in our church it would touch every single one of us every one of us would experience and feel the calling God has for each and every one of us let's pray [Music] Hallelujah for for for I [Music] mean all the saints and Angels they bow before your throne and all the elders cast their crowns before the Lamb of God and sing you are worthy of it all you are worthy of it all for from you over all things and to you are all things you deserve the glory [Music] all the saints and all the saints and [Music] Angels they bow be before your throne and all the elders cast their crowns before the L [Music] of God and sing you are worthy of it [Music] all you are worthy of it all King Jesus for from you are all things and to you are all things you deserve the [Music] Glory you are worthy you are worthy of it all you are worthy of it all for from you are all things and to you are all things you you deserve the [Music] glory day and night night and day let in Sur R day and night night and day let incense rise day and night night and day let incense Sur rise day and night night and day you are worthy of it all yes you are you are worthy of it all for from you are all things and to you are all things you deserve the [Music] glory holy holy are you Lord God [Music] Almighty Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb You Are Holy Holy are you Lord God Al might Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb You Are Holy Holy are you Lord God Almighty Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb You Are [Music] Holy Holy are you Lord God [Music] Almighty Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb of We Praise You Lord Jesus thank you so much that you are holy and worthy to be praised Lord God you are the perfect sacrifice Lord God for us and I pray that our praises to you today may be an offering to you God pleasing to you Lord Jesus praising You For You Are Holy and worthy and you are good and you are love and I pray that you bless the rest of the service and the testimonies Lord Jesus everything that people share about how we're telling the world about you Lord Jesus and sharing you with the world [Music] Amen [Music] [Music] you are alha and [Music] om we worship you oh Lord you you are worthy to be [Music] praised you are alpha [Music] and we worship you are Lord you are worth worthy to be praised praised we give you all the glory we worship you are Lord you are worth worthy to be [Music] praised we give you all the glory we worship you are Lord You Are worthy to [Music] be I exalt [Music] the I exalt thee I am [Music] oh I exalt thee I exalt thee I exalt thee oh Lord we exalt thee we exalt the we exalt the oh Lord we give you all the glory we worship you are Lord you are worthy to be praised we give you all the [Music] glory we worship you all Lord you are worthy to [Music] be church let us just give him all the glory let us give him all the praise in this place Lord Jesus you are the Holy One you are the righteous one that sits on the throne above all things above heaven and earth Lord and as we stand here in your presence today Lord we Proclaim your name the name of Jesus Christ Lord we worship you we glorify your name we we exalt you Jesus you are the one you are the creator of the heavens and the Earth you are the creator of Our Lives you are the alpha and omega the beginning and the end Lord and we are here as your children Lord honoring you glorifying you Jesus we we worship you Lord God your Holy Spirit Lord in this place only that you would reign in this place and in our hearts Lord Jesus May the fire of your Holy Spirit burn inside of our hearts Lord Jesus Lord that we would experience you experience you in a deeper more more more powerful way in our lives Jesus let us see your glory let us see your grace and mercy in our lives Jesus let us see your hand at work in our families in our church Lord God oh Jesus we glorify you we exalt your Holy Name Lord Jesus Lord your name is worthy to be praised we give you all the glory we exalt your name Jesus let us just sing I exalt you one more time let us sing I exalt you EX I exal the I exalt [Music] the oh Lord I EX [Music] I exalt I exalt we give you all the glory Jesus we give you all the glory Lord we give you all the glory Lord you We Worship You Church give him all the glory in this place let us just glorify his name he is worthy to be praised he is Alpha and Omega we give you all the glory we worship you let us pour our hearts out before him he is worthy he is worthy to be praised his name is glorious his name is [Music] mighty [Music] Holy Spirit I pray Lord that you just work in this place Lord let your spirit Lord let your spirit move in this place Lord let there be freedom in this place Lord let the chains be broken in jesus' Name Lord let heaviness be lifted in Jesus name we are your children coming to you Lord Jesus in a time of need oh [Music] Lord we glorify you Jesus we glorify just the voices just the voices ex the I exalt the I [Music] exalt oh we thank you Jesus for your glorious presence in this place Lord we thank you that you have died Lord on the cross you have sacrificed your life given it up for us Lord so that we may have life and life more abundantly Lord and as we strive for eternity Lord Jesus we ask you that you lead us you guide us and you allow us to see your will your your way Lord lead us into the truth lead us into the path of Eternity Lord and Into Your Glory we pray this in Jesus mighty name amen um be uh we our youth was at an Outreach yesterday and I was very happy to see you know everything that was done and all that they did but I would like to invite David he's you know an evangelist so he has the heart for so and so I want him to share what he you know experienced what he saw and praise God dear Church you know before I get into what I experienced in some of the testimonies I just want to explain to you what happened yesterday you know you might be confused what Outreach where did the youth go what what happened exactly so we've been planning this for a couple of weeks already we were we're going to have a Ministry from the Northport Sarasota area called vital Gathering come here vital Gathering oh so it's a Ministry where there's some Slavic people some Americans got together and they do evangelism in the streets of the Sarasota Northport area so what they did is they came here for a day to teach us and go with us to go preach the gospel so they came in the morning and in the morning we had a time of classes where they were just teaching us you know they have many amazing evangelists in their group they prayed for us you know they prayed so that we could get over this fear that's inside of us cuz we're all Christians I'm I'm sure we've all had this moment where we wanted to tell somebody about Jesus but we get a little bit scared you know so we had an amazing prayer where they prayed for us blessed us you know we were filled with the Holy Spirit we were on fire and ready to go and preach but we just didn't know how to go what to say exactly so they made it very simple for us for maybe three hours here in this church they were teaching us what exactly to say when we talk to people you know they taught us how to share our testimony as Christians with a person in a minute to two minutes they taught us how to preach on the streets out loud with and form a message within five minutes to preach the gospel and they even gave us some tools and preaching oneon-one to people after that amazing time of training and being equipped and filled with the Holy Spirit we were ready to go to the street so for the evening time we went out into the streets of clear waterer beach beach we were all paired up a member of our youth and a member of vital Gathering so they could kind of teach us and lead us [Music] so the way we did it is we were each in pairs of two and we would go up and down the streets talking to every person we saw and at the very corner of the street the very beginning of the street we had one group of people preaching the gospel out loud to everybody who could hear and you know we had many many testimonies you know we are preaching for maybe two hours we had many encounters with different people and you know I want to share a few quick testimonies I don't want to take too long and then I want to give me one member of our youth the opportunity to come up here and share as well you know the most encouraging thing for me to see yesterday was was to see us Believers gathered together going out and conquering this fear and preaching to others you know as we were there preaching out loud in the streets many people heard us and many people would come up to us and they would tell us oh we are Christians it's such a wonderful thing that you're doing they would say oh we want to see more people do what you're doing they would pray for us bless us and keep on going you know as Christians we all want to see somebody doing that we all want to do that but it's it's sometimes very difficult for us to do it ourselves but you know we had one brother jogging down the beach and he heard what we were doing how we were preaching so he decided to stay around and listen after he was listening sometime he decided to maybe join in partner with us and preach with us as well you know that's the kind of Believers we like to see the on fire Believers the ones that when they see someone else preaching they can't help but preach along with them you know in Mark chapter 15 verse 16 chapter 16:1 15 it says chap chapter 16 verse 15 it says and then he told them go into all the world and preach the good news to everyone you know that's simply what we were doing we were preaching the Good News to everyone and I right now I want to give a moment for not just me to share but for somebody else to share I want to invite Iana to come to the stage to share a short testimony of her experience preaching and maybe an encounter that she had with somebody else praise God so I was in a different um there was the groups were split into two sections David's was more of like the in the downtown like street preaching things but I was on the other side like on the pier with the boardwalk yeah so we we didn't do so much like out preaching but we like did one-on-one we just stopped people and started talking to them and I wanted to say something about the training too we had a prayer that um like the fear of fear of man and like fear of speaking to people so that we'd be able to actually talk to people about Jesus and actually be able to come up to them and approach them instead of being scared and that prayer really did something because we were able to just see people and just walk right up to them and start talking to them about Jesus and you know there was a lot of people who were like um oh yeah like I'm a Christian like when you come up to them like oh yeah I'm a Christian but then you start talking about the gospel and how Jesus died for them and there's so much that they they don't know um there's like quite a few instances we were able to pray for healing for uh a man under a bridge who had arthritis in fact and I just want to say like um my my me and my partner personally didn't have like salvations or like bringing like people having the sinners prayer or like healings or anything like that but whenever we were talking to like the men under the bridge there was two men and the man with arthritis after we prayed for him I I told him uh like why we prayed for him and that we actually believe that um The God Who we were praying to will heal him and I I shared um the testimony of my mom's healing and I told him like I've witnessed it in my life like I know he can do it for you and the man who was like who had arthritis he was a little bit unresponsive like he was not really listening too much and he was kind of just like but his friend who was with him was so touched by everything he talked to us for 20 30 minutes kept on going asking questions sh asking about what we believe like what what is true like for us yeah so my partner he he got connected contacts with him and and we told him about a church we told him about our church and he he wants to come to church today but he said it's far so he might go to a closer church so it was just really amazing that we were able to like share things with people that they just didn't know and even like um even if they think like they say like oh yeah I believe in God like I'm a Christian but like there's so much that they still asked about they still like wandered about and were able to be like strengthened in there and that's just my like from my me and my partner I know a lot of the groups had so many amazing testimonies of actual like salvations and healings and so it was just a really great experience praise God and we have a slideshow to show you guys right now but before we show the slideshow I forgot to mention the brother Christian brother that jogged along the beach and started preaching with us his name is brother Lewis and he's actually here today in our service praise God he in the back praise here to visit our church join us welcome and you know we had many Great Encounters we want to show you some of those counters on encounters on the screen you know there was a young lady that as we were preaching to she got convicted and a girl was sharing us with us a testimony that as she was convicted she actually had a vape on her that's like an electronic cigarette that she threw away because she was convicted by the Holy Spirit you know we saw many amazing things happen and at the end of the day with our whole group we saw more than 10 people make this decision to follow Jesus people whose contact information we got that we are going to follow up with them today and invite them to church praise God and now we want to show you this quick V slideshow and just so you could see what we've experienced you can turn on the SL show this is our whole team This Is Us in church preparing our prayer our training our equipping as we're getting ready to go and preach you know we had to be equipped filled with the spirit before we could this us preaching on the streets in Clear Water us Gathering as you can see there's many encounters with many different people you know in Clear Water that night not everybody received Jesus but I'm sure we can tell you that everybody heard about Jesus you know as you saw the police tried to stop us there were other people that would get angry at us but we wouldn't stop we would worship we would preach yeah and then and we would share testimonies at the end of the night praise God praise God for that amazing evangelism outest thank you dear church God bless you all dear Church let's stand to our feet and pray for our youth at this fire that's among them he wouldn't stop but it would grow more and more for the glory of God I know if we had more time we would give more testimonies from they could share so much more I know they love this they're on fire for the Lord let's pray and bless our youth [Applause] for you can take your seats brother Nick vich will share right now praise be to our Lord de Church you know it's wonderful to see a youth a children to be out there and doing such work you don't see that many churches in United States especially Slavic ones or even American ones that do that that should makes us very happy that God sending young people and gives them desire to do this that God sent young Brothers brother Tas Brother David they want to move into that direction may God bless them and we need to pray for them because they stepping on the devil's territory and they they feel this spiritual war young people did you feel the spiritual war such but what most importantly God is working with them I will never forget the testimony the Brother David shared with us when he came from New York City when handing out tracks when those when those big investment bankers you would give them the the brochure they just say no I don't need it he said for me as a lesson it's finally this word from the word of God that says that it's hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of God that's how God is teaching them through I would like to have very limited time I would like to share a few a couple of words with you you know um I drive my kids to school every morning morning or picking up in the afternoon on Tarpon Avenue here and it's our church there is a Egyptian church that just moved the next door to us my children's school is in a former building where the chapel used to be and there's there's another building in between these churches I shared it with some of my brothers this and I drive and I always think to myself what is this you know there's cars over there late at night sometimes it's very early in the morning there is no sign outside but I know it's it's a church or some kind of religious building and I a few times I saw people dressed in white robes come out of there and I realized it must be some kind of Islamic Temple or something but I was thinking to myself so I'm passing by looking at this building always question questioning and I'm thinking to myself when people pass by our Slavic church what they think do they think the same thing as I was thinking about this other building over there are they questioning are they wanted to know what's what's what's what's inside what's place I'm constantly thinking about this because we praying Lord please have use our church to be for the blessing for the Slavic community may our church also be a blessing to our American Community I'm constantly thinking about this you know when I was uh recently reading for some reason the whole book of Acts and there is some moments that really stood out you know when when there was a storm and Apostle Paul was on the ship that angel appeared to him and he warned him and said do not be afraid and he said the following words after that and it says all those people that are on that ship I'm giving them to you I'm handing I'm entrusting you and I was thinking to myself Lord there is so many people that need salvation and you are using us plain people for people's salvation and I'm questioning myself says Lord who will you entrust in our hands who will you entrust to like Brother David was saying they were sewing the word of God into a community in Clear Water who will you entrust to later to partake in the Harvest of those people Lord who you will entrust to water those people so they can grow spiritually and I'm thinking to myself Lord help me help us to be worthy to be used by you you know I would like to read the word of God real quick for you from Thessalonians 1 verse 5-8 verse 5 through 8 and it says for Our Gospel did not come to you in word only but also in power in in the Holy Spirit and in much Assurance as you know what kind of man we were among on you for your sake and it says and you become followers of us and the Lord us and of the Lord having received the word of much infliction with joy of the Holy Spirit and so that you become examples to all in Macedonia and aaya who believe and in verse eight it says for from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and akaya but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out so that we do not need to say anything you know Apostle Paul when he speaks to the church in in Thessalonians he says the gospel is not just in words only and look what it says in verse vers seven what else beside the words that was effective and work for those people in Macedonia in this it uses the word model or in other in my translation it says you were an example to those people it is so important brothers and sisters because Jesus told us that you are Delight to this world and because you are Del light you cannot be put under the table whether you like it or not it always put for everyone to [Music] see Apostle Paul in Corinthians he wrote that you a letter that everyone is reading that everyone knows about everybody reading us us he is looking at us and everybody knows about it it's not just the words Our Gospel but it's example it is a life and look what it says in verse eight Apostle Paul in the last words he says because of your example because of your great faith we do not need to say anything about it you do not need to use words anymore because your example does its job it is so important brothers and sisters that we not just speak but we live and what interesting where apostle Paul talks about the letter that we are the letter to this world but it says that we look at Christ Jesus in that same chapter three and we transform into His Image we are looking at the mirror for us Jesus Christ and we become like him and when people look at us they don't see our ego they don't see our character they see Jesus that's why Apostle Paul he used to say mimic me I'm an example the reason why you know it sounds very selfish it's like look at me but the reason why he was able to say that because Christ lives can we say amen and one another Point here I'm not going to open to save time you know when Jesus appeared to Saul in chapter nine he speaks to the [Music] uh he speaks to uh cor um no not corneli an thank you he speaks to an and he says go for he means Saul he's a chosen vessel of Mine He's a chosen Chen vessel of mine and look what it says in Chapter 13 just a little after thats 13 verse 9 and it says then the Soul who is also called Paul filled with the Holy Spirit looked intently at him this is when Apostle Paul was preaching to the proc consel and the Sorcerer came and he started to to to causing problems over there and we know after these words this man became blind but what's interesting what I'd like for us to to to to to see that it says Paul was full of the Holy Spirit and he started to speak and after this man become blind here's what happened to the proconsul Bible says the proconsul believed in Christ Jesus why because Apostle Paul was filled with the Holy Spirit brothers and sisters you and me we are the vessels of God you are the vessel of God and the Holy Spirit lives in you and me question is are we filled with that Holy Spirit when you read the book the book of acts the one thing that stood out that the church was moved by the Holy Spirit they had a plan to go and preach somewhere but Bible says the Holy Spirit closed the door for them but then they go somewhere else and Bible says the Holy Spirit opened the doors for them and it says on Barnabas and is the holy Spirit Came Upon [Music] them and people came to Christ it says they laid their hands because they were filled with the Holy Spirit and now the people were baptized with the Holy Spirit also and I said they didn't know what to do about those Gentiles people and God Appears to Peter and the H Holy Spirit starts speaking to him he say I need you to go there I'm sending you to that place holy spirit is involved everywhere and there's nothing we can do without the Holy Spirit and that's why we pray that God would use our children use us that he will be filled with the Holy Spirit and the last thing you know when Paul and John Peter and John they went to the temple and they healed this man you know what happened after that those wise people the cedon they got it together and he says we need to tell these people to stop preaching the gospel and what is the reply was are we going to listen to God are we going to listen to you and here's what they said and in verse 20 for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard 420 acts 4:20 why did couldn't speak why they couldn't stop speaking that's the answer for the church question what why why they couldn't stop speaking why because they what they seen and they heard in other words they were Witnesses they were Witnesses they saw it with their own eyes they could hear with their own ears and they couldn't stop and not speak about the question is for you and me are we a Witnesses of Christ have you and me experienced God in our Liv have you experienced the love of God do you realize the Salvation what God saved us from because what Apostle Paul Peter and John says here we experience Christ in our life and there is nothing that will stop us from going and telling others about it a single thing number one let's not just speak but also be an example we are the vessels that need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and number three we Are Witnesses of Christ may God bless each and every one of us a small reminder this is what needed Church remember that Bible says that God adds people to the church we only should be asking a question what do I need to do how I need to be Jesus told his disciples don't even think what you're going to say don't think don't take it upon yourself because the holy spirit will speak amen amen because when the Holy Spirit speaks when the holy spirit moves hearts are changed may God bless you I would like to invite my family here uh David rut and Matthew before we play the short video I would like to share a few testimonies you know we as a church been participating in this project in uh Dominican Republic for quite some time now brother Peter ban he was one of the first one who was the initiating person the the the the contact the the the the plans that we had for for that project in Dominican Republic yeah brother we have a young brother over there who we work with closely his name is Robinson you know it was a privilege for me to go on the mission trip for brother Peter where we did a lot of groundwork because there was a lot of issues that needed to be resolved participated where we bought the sound system for them we started a church there now they have a few people already there as a matter of fact we went and baptized one of them two people we were able to officiate their first wedding what's interesting there it's an older couple they never been married they used to exercise and do wuru stuff in their Community they are immigrants from hati but when they came to Christ the pastor says listen you you you cannot live like that not being married so in the morning we baptize them older kids and then in the afternoon we we we had a a wedding ceremony so now they're all legal before the Lord but not only that you can truly see how they are fully devoted to serve the Lord the one if somebody asked me what is your testimony about this trip when I saw this lady she is 70 years old when she was walking down the aisle and it was a real wedding with the flower girls flower boys all that stuff there was a young ladies dressed up as a bridesmaid we bought them the wearing dress the ring and the the the suit for the for the for the for yes we did supposed to buy we bought it for [Laughter] them we paid for the food for the wedding for the decorations but what really touched me when I saw this lady who is 7 years old when she was walking down the aisle and she had a you know beautiful white dress really fancy haircut and she was walking down the aisle she was crying and I'm thinking to myself how beauti beautiful it is this lady maybe for the first time felt what it's like to be a bride not only she became a real bride and real in in its old definition but the same day in the morning she became the Bride of Jesus Christ so for me the wedding took a completely different turn and understanding what it's all about it's a celebration of Christ and its church it was so beautiful Lord that you showing your love to this person did this person experience the physical and the spiritual this is my short testimony from me and I'm going to have my children share what's on their heart so we went to Dominican Republic it was a great trip we did we did a lot of good stuff [Music] there the my testimonies uh one of them was on how on how on on fire they are for God in Dominican Republic when we had the kids camp it was like Christmas for the little kids they were so happy it was like Santa came to town all of them were so happy we had the K and the group that we worked with we had a prayer before um before each day started and the fires and the prayer was just amazing there fire and and I also like on how even though they live in a poor country or even if they have a lot of barriers it doesn't stop them to worship God when we also had the wedding that couple they did all that Voodoo all that witchcraft but I loved how they gave their life to Jesus and I love how they worship God so much it was so great to see on how they just threw away everything from the past it doesn't even bother them and they worship God and one more thing when we went to the Haiti Refugee place it was this uh Little Village far away um they actually live more poor than the ones in like the actual Dominican people the government doesn't give them any money and we went when we went to the Village it just touched me on how great it was to like give these little brasures to the little children there it was a great trip um as you heard we had the ability to we had the opportunity to serve at a kids camp over there in Dominican and so and the kids camp was mainly towards um the Haitian for the Haitian refuges because so many are coming from Haiti right now and while there we were able to have really good conversations with the kids even even with our limited Spanish we sang um did like little crafts and most importantly spread the gospel to them and one of the things I remember is serving in their church this is the church that we help set up last last year when we went before the service even started we just started singing our own like Christian Ukrainian hymns and while sitting there it just like well the humidity was like really strong and diin it was I mean we came back to Florida and it was just like fresh and while sitting during the service I was just thinking about how sometimes we can complain about the most like little things like oh the church is too hot and I was like wait I should probably take some people to Dominican and but it just in many small things we can complain and don't realize that there's there's people who like continue to to praise God even amongst like the small things like yeah yeah that's it Matthew what's your so in Dominican we saw how all the people were poor and all the buildings were not that good poor right in the building's not good right not like ours no and they didn't have that much money they don't have and we were preaching about um God [Music] and yeah you think it's easier to be on a mission trip you have to concentrate yeah and I gave money to a poor poor person that's it that's it did you eat any of their candy are they taste nice or or a little weird Matthew did you like their food yesc food was okay David did you play any soccer did you make new friends did you pick up your Spanish football all the kids there but usually baseball that's the biggest part oh baseball how about candy because Rafaela still remember that funny Taste of those all the candies is it still same or they make the better was thank you thank for four minutes we're going to show you the video you can see our ministry over there in Dominican Republic are [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] fore [Music] [Applause] [Music] speee [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] do our [Applause] C I'm part to [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this CH travel with five countries a [Music] [Applause] it the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] see feel and be [Applause] thank you everyone for coming today being with us as you may have all noticed we have those wonderful with us would like to share something with [Music] [Music] you [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] oh oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ I'd like to make a few announcements and after that I would like to invite you to participate in this offering today at 2:30 we will have a team going to a nursing home at 6 p.m There Will Be You Youth service on Monday 7:30 we have prayers on Wednesday midweek service at 7 30 that we have a um Bible study we have on the top on the in the book of First Peter and at 10:30 uh this coming Sunday we will have a washing defeat in the conference room and at 11:00 we will have a communion like to invite the choir to take their their spot I would like to make a very important announcement I would like to remind that last week during a members meeting brother vilic has been um has been uh appointed yes appointed to be a a pastor intermediate Pastor was uh and my desire is to to ask each and every one of you is to to honor him and show respect as the word of God is calling us to do if you can please maybe allow him at least a month that he would get situated comfortable in this in this role maybe hold off in the meantime with the ideas and suggestions but show your uh restraint and support church that God would bless us in the future of our church on the screen you can see his phone number you might toite is very easy to remember with the matching uh numbers senior feel free to reach out to him with any questions he is a one in church we have another very joyous announcement I would like to invite sister oresta Kik here to the front our dear sister who came from Ukraine she got more situated and comfortable and she made a decision to become a member of a church praise be to our Lord she wants to be active she's already taking part in choir and other Ministries I would like to invite you come here Church let's bless him if any of you would like to have a desire and like to officially join our church you feel free to do out to Let's stretch out our hands for and bless her for amen welcome and now we will have two collections for the first will asers please be ready uh doing just one song during choir song and first collection will be for the needs of our church and right after they will have a second collection and that second is going to be for the purpose of missionary department and their needs our church always been and will be the Missionary Church praise be to our Lord yes seated may God bless [Music] you [Music] fore [Music] [Music] [Applause] foree [Music] with [Music] [Applause] for [Music] Dee [Applause] [Music] [Music] for is be by [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] your [Music] [Music] be the [Music] [Applause] yes yes love [Music] you dear brothers and sisters I greet you all with the love of Jesus Christ Our Lord Lord and Savior peace be with you I want to genuinely thank our youth who sung so beautifully today and preached so wonderfully yesterday yesterday we were at a prayer meeting in Orlando I was surprised there were so many people at that prayer [Music] meeting and at the very end when we were having lunch I looked at one room in the church and I wanted to go into those doors but it was locked but then they open the door for me and it turns out there was another prayer in that room one lady that couldn't see she has the gift of Prophecy and I decided to pray with her she didn't know who I was she couldn't see me and it was a very interesting word of God that was for our church it was said that God is preparing many people to serve in our church God has a special plan plan for our church and when I saw the young people who are singing who are preaching I was thinking those must be the Billy Grahams the Oral Roberts you know don't don't be afraid you heard how they speak how they pray how they you know the service they had yesterday so our church bless our youth another Thanksgiving that you collected the finances for the Dominican the service there started from our church supporting we thank you for these finances a church is strong when when it preaches the gospel and my desire for every one of [Music] you so that at least once a year every year you would go on a mission I remember the first time we went to Haiti you know a brother that went with me he still remembers that [Music] trip so my desire for you is every year you would go somewhere and preach the gospel I'm going to read from the word of God and have a short reading from the Book of Jonah chapter 3 verse [Music] one [Music] for I'm reading verse nine praise God amen amen not long ago I was in Stockholm Sweden there's a Slavic church there and I was having breakfast at the pastor's house he was telling me a story about how the church was you know 10 years ago he lived in Ukraine and he had a younger son who was very sick and every three months his wife was supposed to go to the hospital and lay there with and they had very big worries for their son and they asked God many questions you know they ask God why are our older children healthy but this younger one is [Music] sick and in Ukraine the to help that sick child was very expensive and one time his wife went to the hospital with the youngest son and the the doctor turns to her and ask why are you still Ukraine go to Sweden they fix this problem there and Sweden is one place where they don't receive immigrants it's very difficult to become a citizen there and they got a Visa and with their whole family they went to Stockholm and the first thing they did they went into the police station they said we're from Ukraine our child is sick we want the child to be Tak care of and on the very next day they helped the child they gave the best treatment for the child and for a whole year they were giving that treatment and the sun got better and better and then they gave the documents to be citizens in and because of the miracle of the son being healed they gave them the citizenship in Sweden you know the pastor went to learn the language he learned the Swedish language he worked at work and then the war starts in Ukraine and thousands of ukrainians immigrate to Sweden but he knows the language he knows Sweden and in Stockholm he opens a church we were sitting and we continued to eat breakfast and he tells me he said you know what happens as soon as the immigrants begin they fired me from my job and I'm asking God why did they fire me from my job but it's because the immigrants are coming from Ukraine and now there's two churches in Sweden how God made this great miracle I want to share one more story then I'll go back to what I read in the Bible when the when the war started in the southern part of Ukraine back in 2014 a pastor goes from Ukraine to Poland he goes into Poland so he's serving in Warsaw in a [Music] church they gave him a very very cheap place to live next to a church he got a very good job he learned the Polish language opened up his own business and then the second war started and his wife is saying we need to go to America we need to go there that's where everyone is going and his name was Yuri you think before you go just you're Yuri went to America he was there for two months and now he goes back to Poland what do I bring these two examples for it's aligned with what I read in the book of the prophet of Nineveh was a very big place it was one of the biggest cities in the time half a million people live there and for a very long time they were searching to find where was place they found out it was in the territory of Iraq and they found a big big library that was made out of clay bricks that was the capital of Syria and it was a very evil place and God finds the prophet Jonah he says go and preach the gospel of Nineveh but Jonah he didn't go he decided he's not going [Music] there I'm passing the time where Jonah made a mistake in his life but the second time when God turns to him Jonah starts to go to Nineveh and when I was reading this text I was thinking why did God save his life especially why did the fish swallow him but God still saved his life could God have not found another Prophet other than Jonah but God really cares for his workers and he really loves them and there's two reasons why God because God loved him and God knew he would take this mission one time I I was speaking with George D we were talking about different things and George tells me these words he says do you understand brother Vil God has certain people who he takes care of there's like you there's some like George like me like other brothers and he has a certain relationship with he doesn't have different ones it's these and my thought today in this sermon God has you personally you every one of you and you are precious in His Eyes and God you're very valuable to God so we need to make the right choices in our life Jonah made the wrong decision in his life and he suffered for it greatly for three days he was in an unexplainable place and sometimes when we have these problems in our we have to think to ourselves maybe I picked the wrong decision or did something wrong but God's Mercy is great for us and from the fish Jonah was crying out he was saying Lord my trust is in you take me out of here can you imagine the joy of Jonah when the fish spit him out on he could not believe that he is alive he was probably laying in the sand and again the voice of the Lord comes n n has to be saved Jonah go to Nineveh preach the word and it's written he got up he had a very short he would go around the place and say in 40 days Nineveh will be destroyed the same way yesterday our youth went by the beach preaching the word of God you just don't understand what the word can do one word can change the destiny of a person one word can change their whole outcome and Jonah said nin will be destroyed and then he sat on a hill and he waited until it would be destroyed the one problem he had he didn't have love to the people he wanted Nineveh to be destroyed he preached the true word of God but then he waited for the wrath of God to be poured out on people but even then God taught him a great you know it's very interesting to note that the Bible doesn't say anything else about a few places Jesus reminded about him it was his One mission here on Earth to preach to Nineveh and my call for our church today that we would preach the word of God that we would go to different nations preaching the gospel so that our donations would be true so that the gospel would be [Music] preed and another thought is so that our church would pray for the people that left the church so that we would pray for those people maybe think about those that used to sit among you those that you know for a long time you know write down their names for your prayer list and pray for them never rejoice when somebody but always pray for those that God will turn them back and they have a big desire to go to church to go on Wednesday to go on Sunday the greatest miracles happen in church church and that's how it was and that's how it will very rarely miracles happen in someone's home but in the church God moves in the church God forgives so don't leave the [Music] church you cut yourself off and you don't receive the life of God and may God help every one of us to be in his will so that we go into the Eternal kingdom of God and someone will come up to you and say I thank you that I am here I saw you in New York you were preaching the gospel I saw you on the beach maybe God will reveal to you the books of prayer and you'll see who was praying for you and through your prayers people went into the kingdom of God let us stand for prayer [Music] for for amen we'll have one more prayer praise be to our Lord you may take your seats in a closing prayer we'll have about our needs and also about our Thanksgiving we already have a few needs we'll pray about and I want to read the word of God we come before the Lord and he says you can reveal your needs to that him and he will respond to them our brother Alexander he went through a surgery and right now and he's in recovery he just ask that you pray for him you might remember he's the one that plays accus to guitar a pastor from Germany called Pastor vasili and his wife is pregnant he asked that we pray as that everything go smoothly and as you heard we have our missionaries going to nursing home to minister today we'll pray about them and there's one more need to pray for our children very many of the young children right now are getting sick you know to pray for them greetings from church in South Carolina way of Truth and pray for blessing as they're going to be going home soon Thanksgiving for the the way to Orlando the prayer that was there and the way back and also continue to pray for that yesterday we had the opportunity to visit the church in Orlando for that prayer for the churches of Florida it was an amazing time praise God if anyone else has any needs or thanksgivings she has a Thanksgiving and also a prayer request for her son Paul he's on his way to Ohio for his travels there and back pray for brother that they know that he got sick with cancer that he's going through therapy right now pray for him for for remember one time with Jesus the disciples got caught in the storm and they turned to Jesus and they call him and Peter for you is a word and Jesus got up and said to the storm be still and there was a great peace when we turn to Jesus that's a place where we'll find peace and guidance may God bless us bless you and we'll pray brother Peter ask to pray for him and his family as they have this need how to take their next steps to for the God God's will to be revealed in their life God praise God they have a relative who got sick with cancer she has some time ago to pray for them and now she's cancer free praise God her name is Vera we could thank God for that pray for her daughter Allah and Van our brother Daniel he is leaving so we'll pray for his trip greetings from our church back take them back home to your churches as well if there's any other needs let us stand to our feet and we'll pray before our Lord for for home for for for amen