The Gift That Saves and Sets Free

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[Music] so [Music] [Music] uh called it the gift and it's our christmas um english service outreach service so whoever's you know still out there in the hallways and everyone around here you may take your seats and we will begin our service also whoever's joining us online we want to welcome you as well to our service to join in and listen to our to the word that is spoken and the songs that are saying and sing along with us and i would like to invite our worship group up if possible and we can begin singing worship and we will be doing testimonies and also uh we will have a special a special worship set that our youth is going to be doing so uh before we begin our service i would like us to stand to our feet and pray and just ask god to guide the service and everything that we do so that we truly receive a revelation something new today father god we thank you for this opportunity to be gathered here in this place all together your people as we step into worship lord we want to glorify your name we want to praise you and your son that was given to us as a gift 2020 years ago lord and we know that this gift is so precious because it brought us the salvation and the freedom that we live in today lord but we also want to be able to send this message to this whole world god through the music through the words through whatever it is that we do lord but let us use our gifts and talents that you have imparted into us lord and and through this service and many other ways that we try lord to make to make your name the name of jesus christ known to all people and all creation so let us just praise your holy name for who you are because you are glorious mighty and powerful lord in jesus name we pray amen [Music] [Music] who brings the power of sin and darkness whose love is mighty and so much stronger the kingdom glory the king above honking who shakes the holder with only thunder who leaves us breathless in all in wonder the king of glory the king of all kings this is amazing grace [Music] this is unfailing love that you would take my place that you would bear my cross [Music] you laid down your life that i would be set free oh jesus i sing for all that you've done for me [Music] who brings our chaos back into water who makes the orphan our son and daughter the king of glory the king of glory who rules the nations with truth and justice shines like the sun in all of its brilliance the king of glory the king of all kings this is amazing [Music] this is unfailing love that you would take my place [Applause] jesus i sing for all that you've done [Music] worthy is the king who conquered the grave [Music] is [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] that you would [Applause] [Music] all you've done for me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] amen glory to god who's happy to be here are you excited i've come to know that when you come before god you wanna you wanna come expecting right we come to see god's face to see his presence then we expect him to show up and when god shows up something happens right we don't just come just to come we expect god to be here because he's faithful to his words he says we're two or three are gathered i am there so we glorify you jesus because you're here with us lord we might not see you father but we know you're here lord because you're faithful to your word and we love you god and we want to be here we want to glorify your name and we ask that you fill us with your presence god you fill us with your spirit lord [Music] as we sing praises to your name and sing with us this this next song [Music] from the first break [Music] you've always been there [Music] from a baby's first cry to last breath every fight in our minds every victory you've always been [Music] ancient one so amazing unfailing you are the holy one [Music] overwhelming my heart with your [Music] faithful god you're here to stay [Music] forever [Music] where the sky meets the sea and breaks free [Music] [Music] thank you lord [Music] ancient one so amazing unfailing you [Music] your love your [Music] we are [Music] we are faithful [Music] is the same every moment of our life's gone you're always there god almighty lord of glory and lord [Music] god oh my [Music] god oh my lord our [Music] [Music] forever are always forever and always the same [Music] lord we come before you in jesus name god we thank you lord for your presence we thank you god that we come before you with a hungry heart to seek you lord and with musical without god we can still praise your name lord forgive us father for we taught ourselves that we need music to serve you lord to worship you god but all you want is our heart lord so father in jesus name as we lift our hands to seek you to worship you god would you come and meet us where we're at lord would you speak to us through these testimonies father would you meet us where we're at father we want to worship you father we don't just come here to come here god we come to the house of prayer to pray lord we come to seek your face god this isn't a habit this isn't tradition lord we want to meet you god where we're at and you are here lord we want to seek your face lord your word says open your mouth and i will fill it god your word says to lift our hands and you will be there with us lord so this is what we do father as a church as a body of christ lord we want to glorify your name the name of yahweh lord [Music] so father even through our imperfections even through our mistakes and even through father us being human lord and not perfect we know that you receive us lord unto your kingdom we know that you receive us lord we know that you accept us father because we're made an image of god so listening this together [Music] [Music] forever [Music] you're here to stay [Music] forever [Applause] [Music] faithfulness [Music] forever [Music] father what you need to say with your blessings tonight lord the speakers the preaching everything that we do we do for you for your glory father i want you blessed and jesus mighty name and the church says amen you may take your seats thank you thank you for all of you that serve and continue to serve god and with your wonderful talents and gifts so really appreciate it sam thank you and uh we're all here for one purpose and it's to worship a god that has created us that is perfect that is loving and uh that's why we call this service the gift because we understand that it was a gift that was given 2020 years ago but this gift even though he died 33 years later he's still living inside each and every one of us and that's why this next part we are going to be doing a testimonies a time to share what jesus has done in your life what jesus has done through you maybe share testimonies of how jesus uses you with your gifts and talents and things that he has given you the opportunity maybe to lead someone into salvation maybe to share the gospel with somebody maybe just to be a good example or you know be a good influence on another person's life help him with something and whatever it may be you know whatever it is that comes to mind this is the time we will have for open mic and testimony so if anyone wants to start us off more than welcome to to start this so catherine has her hand raised welcome catherine everybody welcome catherine hi everybody how's your evening going so i've actually been thinking about this topic for quite a few weeks now right when i started my job i work at marshalls right when i started i was going home it was like one of my first days and i was listening to the joy fm and it was like late at night and she was talking about peace on the radio she was talking about the piece of this world she said what does the peace this world gives you it's like that quiet you're you're always peaceful when it's quiet when you're not like around something loud and like just different peace that this world gives you but you still somehow feel troubled in your heart during this peace and she said that we have to strive for the peace of god and for a few weeks i've been thinking like what truly is the peace that god gives us like how does that feel you could say like obviously i felt the peace that god gives you but i've just been like diving more deep into this piece and while i was at the jesus image conference this past weekend i'm pretty sure two weekends ago i was just worshiping and i took a moment i sat down and i just watched everybody while they were worshiping and i took it in and i was like this this is what like heaven will look like this is it like i'm so excited like this this is what i'm striving for and just in that moment i felt such a peace such a certainty that like i'm going to heaven and this is what my life will look like and like he just like filled me you could say like i felt like i couldn't move and during that time i read this verse and it's john 14 27 it says peace i leave with you my peace i give to you not as the world gives you do i give to you let you not your heart be troubled neither let them be afraid and so i just wanted to encourage everybody to just dive into this peace of god just search deeper for him and that's it thank you catherine that was an awesome testimony and it's true to experience the peace of god in our lives and i'm glad to hear that you're diving deeper into that piece and searching for more anyone else looks like amy's excited to go before she even raised her hand i knew she was coming up everybody welcome amy i feel like it's coming a habit coming up here so i don't really have anything planned i i guess the theme is gifts um honestly i feel like everyone has a gift from god and everyone should share that gift you don't know when you're good you don't know what the gift is until god reveals it to you and you don't know how you use that gift and you will know at the moment how to use the gift [Music] recently because i work at a doctor's office with patients and to help them yeah um i recently i've i've been thinking like what does god want me to do in this world i wanted to do missionaries but i never really got to do it no matter how many times i had offered i just never got there i don't think that's what god wanted me to do at the time um i wasn't ready or something like that um and then i've been talking to a couple of my patients it's a little harder with my mask on but they're like i'm always happy to see you smile and that always lifts up my mood that always makes me have some hope and always makes me feel better and a lot of my patients it's really hard to be religious in a professional setting because if you cross a line that could be some complaints you could get fired it's all that but god shown me when is the right time to talk about god and religion and relationship with god in the professional setting and every time i was i knew it was the right time or i know the patient won't go off you know how some people are um i told them i'll pray for you i'll pray for your family because they come here talking about their life they're talking about what's going on and i'm like well i will pray for you and there was actually one patient she gave up on god she was very she was in a lot of pain and she kept going in more and more pain and i'm like she's like i i officially gave up on god and i'm like i kept saying to them no it's okay i know that sooner or later you will get better it will take some time i will pray for you plea don't give up hope and after about a year a year she finally she's like i feel great and well i realized i went off chalk about the smiling thing i feel like my gift from god is my smile a lot of people say that when i smile it just lights up the room i guess um and they're like even with your mask on i can see you're smiling with my eyes or whatever it is so i feel like that is my gift from god and i feel like i can use it and just recently i realized that that's a thing that i the gift that he gave me um and i hope everyone else has or can find their gift and i'm sure a lot of people did and i also wanted to thank god for the gifts of my family you know how big the shock family is um because our family we're all there for each other i know there's we're sometimes split apart people are in different states but we're always there for each other we always know that we're loved by one another and i wanted to think that us we've been through a lot together he's like my other brother he's not like he feels like a brother to me more than a cousin although both are good um growing up we've grown up with me ellen thras and rustic we always hung out um and then a little later on in 1617 on the ross he helped me a lot about problems i've had and a lot of situations i've been going through and a lot of his words and support helped me and i just know that anytime i can go to utras and i thank you very much for that and i think god gave a gift that us is a gift to all of us so thank you tras and hopefully everyone has a good time thank you amy i was not expecting that at all that wow i appreciate i appreciate you thanking me for that and yeah and we should all strive to be you know a person that allows jesus to work through us for others to be the couple words that they needed at a time that they needed a hug maybe or just you know some encouragement some comfort and whatever time it may be and i'm seeing you know two girls came up so i don't know as anyone else does anyone else want to share and the guys are kind of uh there's got to be a guy that you know has some kind of testimony that jesus did something in their life or through them anybody okay did you want to go up leona or just okay all right so the girls are definitely uh dominating tonight so guys got to step it up thanks start thinking praise god everybody so i didn't really have a plan for anything i was going to say and i still don't have a plan but but when katya got up here and started talking about the conference that we went to last weekend the jesus 20 i want to share my experience and what i received from that conference actually to start off well i wanted to say that what i got from this conference there was a lot of worshiping and i learned something at about worship that i didn't always realize before so worship is obviously very dear to me i'm one of the worship singers and stuff but at the previous conference we went to in northport like a month ago or something there was this brother that was talking david i forgot his name but he's a speaker and he said um we were talking about like what is your favorite worship song or something like that and he said my favorite worship song is any song that is about god and that gives all the glory to god and i was thinking about that over the past month and like a lot of the worship songs that i listen to they're more about like god using us how we're supposed to spread the love of god and everything and i never really thought about the worship songs that are only about giving glory to god and are about who he is rather than what he does through us and or what he has done what he is doing what he will do that's important too but at the conference of jesus 20 a lot of the songs i noticed the whole worships that we were worshiping for many hours and the whole worship said none of the songs were about us they were all about god and how he is worthy how he is holy and just about who he is and i just want to encourage everybody that when you're worshiping remember that it's about who god is and it's so important to recognize this of not just what he does in us but who he is like he's there's this one song i forgot how it goes but it's like magnificent glorious like all those attributes it's a choir song it's very powerful it also played that song i just want to encourage everybody to remember the attributes of god and how worshiping now my favorite worship songs have to do with songs that are about god and that glorify him amen thank you ileana that was an awesome awesome message testimony um about who god is and how great he is so did any of the guys come up with anything or am i gonna have to step in and say sure oh there we go we got david so welcome david first guy bold enough yeah hello everyone um i hope we're all having a great day today i wanted to talk about truth today like personally uh i've been going through a little bit and like over this break especially uh god opened up so much to me but then like i kind of i don't know i kind of like drifted in a way like i stopped reading my bible as much i like still go back to it whenever i feel like like the thirst of god whenever the holy spirit touches me and i also want to talk about like hiding things like the truth to be truthful with yourself and like with all your family with others and just recently um we all had those days where like we hide something from our parents or like our family or friends like we try to keep it to ourselves we try to like help ourself in a way like try to like figure it out without god or anything like that and today it like really touched me because like something happened earlier in the day and like god opened up to like my eyes where you can't hide anything from god god is in you he sees what you do he knows your life before he even happens and like he showed me that you have to be truthful with yourself you can't hide anything from anyone like it may be bad it may be good but you can't hide anything the truth will always come out and that really touched my heart because whenever i like i had like this guilty feeling and like i did something and like something went wrong and i had like this really bad stomach ache i was like really down i was like like sweating almost like my i got really hot and i was like like i couldn't control like anything i was like frozen like i couldn't do anything and then god opened up to my eyes and he's like yes you did wrong but in the end you learned that you shouldn't do this again and that you can always come back to me and i'll always help you back up so i want to talk about truth hey thank you that was an awesome awesome testimony and hopefully encourages all of us to know and understand that god knows everything god sees everything we're going through and he's always there for us regardless of whether we fall or not so i'm gonna give another chance we still have an open mic for a little bit i know pastor peter he just came back with his family and our our head pastor nikolai has something to share so pastor i'll let you have the concluding word pastor peter and then pastor can share now praise god you know this is the time for wishing we wish merry christmas wish nice new year right so many wishes and i wanted to give one wish including me including everybody on a new year it's to be successful of knowledge jesus christ remember jesus came to samaria very religious place and eventually with this woman at the well jesus uh woman's she's she started talking about the worship worship god she said where i have to go you have to you said we have to go to the jerusalem but our father said no this is the mount good enough for this and jesus said to that woman you don't know whom do you worship and it's a wonderful i mean to be worshippers jesus after said about true worshipers and the father seeks these people worship is very important very important but more important to know him personally like just we heard this who who he is in our personal level you know apostle paul never in school he always include himself with this and he said i want to know jesus you yeah i want to know him because when we more and more know jesus our worship will be changed we will be changed right not only inwardly outwardly too everything around us will be changed it's only when we know christ personally and when we know him more and more like we just heard go deeper and deeper in his peace grace will be increase in our life and life will be more and more wonderful because his name is wonderful amen that's my wish to everyone not concentrate on worship only concentrate on jesus to whom we worship and then everything will be perfect and all right that's my wish i include myself with this too okay as apostle paul did god bless you amen thank you pastor and um so we still want to give chance to the rest of the crowd if anybody does have anything to share before we continue with everything else so it looks like it's like we can go in so uh what's going to happen is where uh pastor peter will share the word that he has with us he came back i'm surprised to even made it to this service because they were on vacation with their family for a week and he called me like right i'm pretty much on my way here and he's like yeah i'll make it to the service and i have awards so really thankful pastor peter that you know you came in and you're prepared and to share a word with us today and after just want to let everybody know uh the group that's saying worship they will be um sharing their two evangelical songs some of you may not have been here when they already shared them but they're uh they're banned uh they're they have a desire to be an evangelical band in order to bring unchristian people to the knowledge of christ so they have these two songs that are very awesome and they will uh you know perform them for us and then after that we'll have uh katya and the girls eliana they have a program as well for us with some songs and a little bit of a special ending to our service so pastor peter it's all you good evening merry christmas this is a wonderful time of the year right i love it and i'm so glad we're back we've been blessed we was watching today morning service on life we were with you pastor nikolai and everybody else it was a blessed time i was driving a lot of traffic but i was so excited to came tonight if we can have this uh the picture on the screen that the gift the most important time of the year when people exchange the gifts was one another and as a family was on a vacation and i would say i always wanna have a nice christmas movie every night we try to get together you know when i noticed that i couldn't find any good ones everything's about the love about relationship did you notice that all the christmas movie is just finally the dream dream come true finally i can that there's always a love story you know i was like it's not about you know me me me my feeling all i want you for christmas is you you know the song i was like guys really and i was like so set in my heart i really want to see the christ jesus christ you know it's just lift up in this time of this season but the new movies all the media it's all about this the kind of idea of the the the the center the miss center you know it's just like all about me all about my feelings and his spirit in me was not agree with all this i said i'm really wanna there was jesus was left up even in those movies you know it's i was founded there is all those movies been driven by one desire the relationship the people learning to be accepted to be forgiven if it's a relationship between a woman and and a man between a fiancee or like husband and wife all this stuff being broken finally they was waiting for that magic moment when the christmas come around the gifts and it's something supposed to be happens and everything's supposed to be fixed up and i truly believe there is a part of that was a gift from god supposed to be to bring that relationship we heard today in the sermon to bring that relationship back it's all about relationship so it's not just the gifts we have by the way did you have all the gifts did you erupt as all what you expect or you can wait till the next christmas always going to be the next opportunity right always going to be a next christmas but come back to this ultimate gift of jesus christ who became a gift it went in him bible said if god is father give us jesus his son you think he'll not going to give you everything go with it it's like a package deal it's everything you need it's in jesus christ in this ultimate gift i'm going to read the word of god and i'd like to share with you what god put on my heart that i was like praying and reading the word of god i'd like to share tonight is the study of jesus matthew chapter 1 20. when joseph have a counter with angel but after he considered this the angel of lord appears to him in in a dream and said joseph son of david do not be afraid to take the mary home as your wife because what is what is conceived in her is from holy spirit he will give she will give the birth to your son and you are to give him the name jesus because that's the key key words for this passage because he will save his people from their sins did you know there was a god's people in israel israel in that time the people he bought for himself the people he he saved them from egypt the people he preserved them as many people today who is safe like those people but it's one problem there was a sin which was hunting down the people with this holiday time this christmas time i realized more and more there is a one problem was there there was a people who belongs to god israelites bought out of the egypt but as a one problem they cannot be free is like a prejudice like this a beast which is hunting down the people their own sins how true is it tonight for many christians around the world include maybe some of us i'll speak up for myself maybe behalf of you when we realize there is a christmas come and go the presence if it's not here we always have a next year right hope wish list we always want to be better like this time of the year when there's a new like new year resolutions we want to promise ourselves want to wish ourselves we want to be better we just want to grip much as we can out of this holiday season we don't want to miss the opportunity right christmas our wish but they come the holidays go and the reality come back to us if it's just a presence out on the tree or like through the relatives if we said this what was this this maybe we're happy maybe we're not but it's more bigger more deeper something in our lives with god knew was a mankind need you and me that is ultimate gift to be free is one of the gift of god not just do you know that so many people can be safe and they are safe but are they free completely from the sins from the from from uh from uh from those results of this actions of sins david king david he was a saved man here are the songs but it was one problem in his life and he was not free in one one moment of his life or the period of days months i don't know what really what happens with this with that man who wasn't young anymore but it was a period of time he was not completely free the consequences of his actions the same he committed come back to him almost hunt him down how is it possible to be a safe and still not fully delivered from some of this stuff in this holiday season the lord spoke to me very clearly preach talk deliver my words tell the people there is a gift of god not just to be safe but fully delivered from whatever is haunting you down he said my people he will save his people from their sins how would you like to be safe completely would you like to be free from all this stuff which is probably we struggle we go through this holiday season the gifts come and go the new year resolution will come we'll dream more about we'll write it down we'll wish to ourselves we're still going to be wait for 2021 will be better than 2020. maybe next year i'll be better maybe next year i will be more successful maybe next year i will will live victoriously life and will overcome those areas in my life there is a gift of god through in jesus christ in the christmas time when through jesus christ he will fully understand he cannot not just only can we can receive the salvation but also preserve their salvation and be free from all the stuff which is probably hunting us down as a christian through the life i was surprised more and more and i see how many times with a christian fully do not understand do not unwrap this gift you know some did you all did you open all the gifts you have you know a lot of people receive the gift and they wait till christmas to open is it good to open a christmas night before or two days before ah no good you have to wait till the christmas morning right some of the people never never open up the sum of the gift god give it to them it's okay to wait until christmas morning they say well wait it's a good habit that if you open up before right but some people never really unwrapped the fullness of the gift we have in jesus christ not just to be safe not just to praise and worship on sundays but freely be delivered from all the sins because jesus was supposed to bring and he did bring to this world that was a prophecy about jesus he will angel said to joseph he will save his people from their sins and this night tonight i don't know what you what this passage is read this bible story as the new lights come into my heart i realize more and more there is some stuff in our life we can struggle with fighting we go through from one new year resolution to another from one service to another from one period of that moments of the life to another and we just look back there is a time when is the time to look back examine your life examine this year 2020 to really see where you are today are you get close to god do you have more victories the more areas in your life actually are actually under control of the god's will or is it still some loose answers here and there or some stuff still you don't really don't wanna you know like they say in english don't open up this box you know don't open the can you know don't touch there's some area like i don't want to deal with it no it's wrong the right answer jesus christ who was born in in bethlehem he is alive he is strong he can he able and part of this mission full complete his mission not just uh save you for a moment but to truly deliver you and me from all which can hunt us down from the past from the mistakes whatever it is you can and you will be free fully in jesus christ that's the kingdom that's the promise this is the good news of christmas in 2020 i shared that with you my friends brother and sisters what lord spoke to me i would like to give it to you unwrap this gift don't keep it under the tree don't wait for a better moment today is a better moment today on reveal this and say lord your promise this your mission your your birth and your gift that it would be you promised through the angel god promise he will deliver his people from the sins if any of the any of us who can hear this word still struggling in some areas in the life with this and that the will of god will of god that you and i will be completely free and will be completely have free life from all kind of sin from all those consequences of sins so god like to set up the set up his people free in this 2021 yes in this various christmas time unwrap this gift receive it accept it and let's be yours i would like to pray prayer of understanding of this truth and receive this truth if you would please stand with me will come to the lord in our prayer lord jesus thank you that you are the gift you are the gift of the life gift from heaven thank you thank you jesus you agree to come to this world you agreed to receive was father prepare for you you agreed to deliver that gift of life salvation forgiveness that not just the salvation or do you own people but you say you say in your words you will you will you will you will deliver your people i pray that any bondage whatever struggles today the christian people i'm not praying for those who don't know you lord jesus they will receive the full package of blessings but i pray specifically tonight for those who walk with you who is yours who've been who've been following you who who will committed the life to you jesus but they still have a struggles in some of the areas in their life the sins was like a hunting like it's like a prejudice a beast who can just spot it we just just hunt it down it's just like grab it when you're not ready when you don't expect that was that's what enemy does that was that's what the prejudices dust lord jesus i pray that understanding of your gift will come through the holy spirit to every one of us if we agree we receive they say i'm free i'm free in you lord jesus i receive the gift help me not just to have a civilization and salvation in my soul but let me have the salvation in my body in my mind and my source in my emotions lord jesus i'm free i'm free i'm free in you because you're the ultimate gift you said if those who believe in me will live at abandoned life lord jesus not just not just in the heaven but here have a victorious life lord jesus i pray for my brothers and sisters i pray lord jesus i'm include myself in it this revelation is true and big i want to be completely receive you your biggest gift lord jesus and be free in you lord jesus thank you i received this i understand i agree lord jesus unwrapped that gift i know it's mine i believe it i confess with my mouth i believe in my heart lord jesus i confess you to my lord because the god is lord jesus is is right now speaking of confession lord jesus i would like to confess all what is bothering me i confess to you father i confess through jesus christ i confess all my sins i confess all my struggles i just pronounced a proclaim that you truth your gift your forgiveness your freedom it's mine in this christmas time thank you jesus thank you father thank you we receive this we agree i pray that this this this holiday season starts with a christmas and coming up new year all those wishes all those all this expectation we have to be better reveal yourself lord jesus more and more through your word to every one of us more and more of you so we truly we can stand your words we can be free and free free for all in jesus christ i pray this prayer amen amen thank you peter for the lord you may take your seats um i actually wasn't planning on sharing anything but uh peter peter touched on a couple of things and uh while i was praying it kind of came to mind and i just have the desire to share it before we invite the group up to share their song perform their songs so peter was talking about life of freedom you know when you receive jesus as a gift into your life freedom is supposed to come with that and a lot of times we as christians you know even growing up in a christian family growing up in church and sometimes no matter what we still struggle with things some people say oh it's human nature oh it's you know it's something that you know my family struggles with and you know we can make all kinds of excuses for all these things and why it's happening and i've actually noticed to fully taste this freedom or something that just in my own personal walk with god and just my own experience so to speak um what helped me or attain this freedom to its fullest is when i i walk in my purpose when i receive jesus and not only just receive him and call myself a christian but when i live a life where he truly abides in me and me and him and i have my identity in him i know who i am in him and not only that but i am walking in my purpose his purpose for my life using my gifts my talents and the things he's given me and why does that allow me to live a life of freedom i noticed that i noticed that when you walk when you have your identity in christ and you're walking in your purpose it it does not allow you to stray away from that path because you understand the responsibility you have for the kingdom of god you understand that you have a goal in mind you have a purpose set before you that you need to take care of and you cannot allow sin or other things and you know distractions temptations yes they're going to come but if you are walking in your purpose and you have you know this responsibility or the sense of purpose or iden because of your identity in christ those distractions those temptations will have less of a power over you because jesus that the one that lives in you and allows you to walk in this purpose while you abide in him that protection that comes through the salvation that you know when he came and died for us on the cross and says just like peter said that freedom comes with that but we have to live we have to like unite with him we have to be one with him and and walk in our purpose because i noticed in my life when i like david said actually he touched on it he said when he you know strayed away and he was first he was like you know with the holy spirit reading his bible and then he strayed away and then when you stray away it allows it opens that door you know for you to get sidetracked so my encouragement to everybody to fully receive that freedom is to spend time with jesus find your identity in him why did you receive him as a gift when you were saved find out why see what what he has in store for you see the purpose he has laid out before you spend time with him in prayer in in whatever you know in worship whatever you decide to do and begin to walk out your purpose and the gifts that he has put talents he has put into your life and begin to move in that and you will start to see that the freedom that was given to you you can live out fully and freely so we're going to allow the group to perform use their gifts and talents and uh you know show us what they have in store for us today so you are welcome it's going forward while the band comes out i know we we we heard a lot a lot of word i just want to share something can i share something really quickly uh we have seasons in our lives where the season opens and then it closes and what we've sown you can't change that and most of us here we're you know we're younger we're we have youth and right now there's a season of your life where you're under your parents there's going to come a time when you leave your parents and that season closes and you're going to start your own family and then have a season of having your own kids and then the kids leave that season ends and what you've sown during that season it's a process of seasons of sowing and weeping and right now when you're in this period under your parents because most of us are younger here it's the first commandment with a promise obey your parents so that you will have a long good life and it's hard we've been there but some some of the older generations some of us some of us older folks right we're a reaping of the sowing we made under our parents that's the way god puts that this is his law god he created everything you know concrete ever he gave materials he created the law of logic reasoning and at the same time he created this law of sowing what you reap so when you're under this season i know it's difficult i know sometimes you want to open up your mouth to your parents i know and you know but if you stay faithful to god's word ah the harvest is much much much better than the sowing and then you're gonna leave your own family and what you've sown in this season of unto your parents you're going to be harvesting for your whole lifetime and then going into kids what you sown them to them you're going to be harvesting that and i know you're your pastor's nikolai platt you know if he you know he's he's he's your pastor he's your teacher of this congregation and i want to say something and and i know it's not going to be in contrast because i have i have peace to say from from god's word what i want to say is regarding sowing we don't come to church to grow i want you to remember that we don't come here to grow the bible says we come here to get edified we come to serve one another we come here to get corrected we come to serve with absalom with with words of knowledge revelations we serve one another but we don't grow here of course when you're corrected when you serve when you do all these different things you do grow we don't come here to grow we have a few mothers here and for example i'm going to use lena as an example when lena was a little a little baby but like with taco a little baby when she was a little baby so what does the baby need to grow food you need food so what did mama ira do give her food but but check this out before lena got food look what look what the mom does she takes her child she goes to a place where no one can see her there's no one else around if she's in another room she goes to a back closet and it's just mama ero with her baby lina it's just a person being fed in the feeder no one else is around there's nobody there's no pastor there's no deacons there's no mom there's no dad just you and god and he's feeding you and you're reading his word and you're praying to him in your meeting with him this is where you grow and then when you grow you come here and you serve other people you go in your closet jesus said close the door he wants to meet with you the time of sowing the time to grow is when you're by yourself with god and you're reading his word you're seeking his face and we know that the first gift the first greatest gift is jesus in our lives gift of salvation what is the second gift the holy spirit the gift of the holy spirit and we're going to sing a song it's called temple and paul writes to quran did you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit that your body is a temple take care of your body stay away from immorality take care of your body take your body go to the room and meet with god that you can not only grow physically but spiritually because he wants to use you he wants to use you and he can't use your if you're an immature christian there's a time moses took 40 years israel took 40 years jesus took 40 days there's a time of growth when you're just one-on-one so he can grow you so you can be mature so he can fill you with his spirit fill you with his power because your body is the temple of the holy spirit and you you can't go out there and as we heard today to be used by god to cast out demons to deliver people if you're an immature christian you know what's going to happen i know jesus i know paul who are you get out of here we have to grow we got to we got to be mature christians we can't be a church that's weak we can't be a weak church god needs an army a grown army and how pathetic is it when we have older generation of years and years and years but spirituality they're not grown they're not mature that's why from a young age so so so when god will use you and use you and use you until you're here god can't use you but he wants to that's that's that that's his law you start from the small and you grow up to large so grow being in the quiet place don't come out here behind the pulpit if no this is good testimonies everything is good but this is not where you grow this isn't where you grow this isn't where you learn to play the cello this is where you perform this is where you show of god this is where you show the goodness of god you don't practice right now i hope that you practice right yeah you don't show you don't practice here you show god's glory here you practice you grow at home amen so we're going to be playing a song it's called temple [Music] [Music] is [Music] what's built on the inside will stand [Music] did you not know your body is a temple of god's spirit jesus came to live and to die he rescues the sinner from there into life i carry his image of god for i am his temple of the kingdom of light you know nobody is a temple of god's spirit did you not know your body is a temple of god's spirit [Music] do not know your body is [Music] the old has passed away he calls you now by name no matter what was done [Music] you carry the spirit of god [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] do not know [Music] is [Music] [Applause] amen amen and now i know most of you have heard these songs from last time but we're going to do the same song it's called i have what i need and it's a conversation between an atheist and a believer and i want to repeat that uh the lyrics i'm gonna sing they're not really my lyrics they're they're from an atheist perspective and i think a few years back maybe four four five years ago god put in my mind a conversation how would it go an atheist talking to a believer what would he say and song came forward i have what i need [Music] i stamped out socks in my front door here comes a man his hair is up with a suit and tie in a bible in his hands he started to speak and said a name that i don't really like stop talking it off my heart and i starting to shout i don't cry it's all good i'm all by what i need i don't need christ he's a lie i'm already free but you don't know that you're dying inside [Music] very yourself [Music] [Applause] every day life drive my car and see these weird signs the pentor else you'll see the wrath of god in due time why should i verifiable that i want to need and with my strength i've got to know my necessities why [Music] [Music] did [Music] what i have to say you've asked yourself many times what does my life need now you feel it now deep in your heart there's something you're unseen without christ there's only death it's not hard to accept it's true he was crucified he gave himself to save you look around there's more than this you feel it deep in your soul just says lord he's your savior he'll give you it's all good i'm all fine i have what i need his name is christ he's alive [Music] is [Music] his name is [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] so [Music] [Music] his name [Music] and is know and i've been born with the blood of jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] before you guys go down i actually have it on my heart if we can just pray for them and bless them with the desire that they have to make this evangelical band and reach out for lost souls and to bring people to cry to jesus um and i would like pastor actually to to lead us in this prayer to bless them all as a group so that god uses them and blesses them and helps them along the way can anybody can join me into that group that we pray you know the bible says we need to put armor of light ourselves and walk in honesty okay that's very important maybe you need that armor of light come here write on the platform and peter will come to us okay do you want to join us just let's let's let's pray for this wonderful moment okay let's pray let's pray okay if you need the prayer come forward come forward oh lord jesus we thank you we thank you for this wonderful wonderful people your people and lord we pray that the armor of light spiritual armor lord be on them and they walk and they sing and then lord they see lord in the new year that grace will be increasing lord we pray for them lord that's your blessing your wonderful blessing lord be increasing in them lord jesus hallelujah your armor is light hallelujah there is no darkness in your armor hallelujah we heard today lord that we are the army of the lord hallelujah and lord thank you thank you for your weapons your spiritual weapons they so mighty hallelujah lord thank you they're not carnal they're spiritual and they come from you lord for victory of your people hallelujah lord i pray for sami i pray for the whole group lord and lord i pray for people here lord they may be hesitate but i know lord you put in my heart they want to be here they want to be that somebody pray for them lord and we pray that lord lord you put your armor your armor of light on them and they walk in honesty hallelujah to honor you we heard this wonderful word of ten commandments to honor the father and the mother the honor lord that your blessing be each of us and we will be so successful in your hands lord we give ourselves and we ask that you be with us and that we rejoice hallelujah rejoice in jesus name amen thank you guys may god bless you are you feel good about the be prayed be blessed you know i just want to emphasize who's pastor nikolai was said you know if you need a special prayer if you need a prayer don't miss the opportunity if the lord speak to you you've been invited you heard the invitation if you need a special prayer like we just pray for a band for the musicians i don't know what your gift is i don't know what your prayer needs is but if it's lord speak to you we're here with a prayer with the house of the prayer we will have the opportunity you will have the opportunity we will have that moment taras make sure we'll give we give a time to holy spirit to the prayer say make sure you don't go home was not answer prayer if the lord speak to you it's the last last one in this year the service but it's not just only that just because you know what other things not just because calendar and all this stuff don't miss that time once lord speak to you if you know that the word was for you when pastor nikolai speak there was an angel there was a god's voice was right there once the most musician was sinning sam and his band it's not just them yes we see that we appreciated all that but it's another part of the holy spirit in it was calling your name i'll leave that invitation open whatever the program will continue so make sure that we're not missing that opportunity for a prayer amen yes and we will have an open time for invitations and uh as we begin our program we will have some some songs and a special program that was prepared by our youth so just as peter said if you have it in your heart you know you can come forward and you know there are leaders here that can pray with you for you and whatever it is that you're going through if jesus is knocking on your heart especially on this day do not hesitate you have you know people here leaders that care about everyone in here and are willing to pray and support you in anything so i'll give it up to whoever who's going to be leading this katya okay so she's going to explain everything that uh we'll be doing and how it's going to go hi everybody so today if you guys have any of you been at a candlelight service i actually invite our group to come up and get your mics ready but if you guys have been at a candlelight service this is what it looks like and i just wanted to share a little bit about the meaning behind it and i want to read from matthew 5 14 to 16 while you guys are getting your candles you're going to share that light with each other you're going to light each other's candles share that light and in matthew 5 14 it says you are the light of the world a town built on a hill cannot be hidden neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl instead they put it on a stand and it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way let your light shine before others and so that they may see your good deeds and glorify father in heaven and then i have another verse it is one second john 8 12 it says when jesus spoke again to the people he said i am the light of the world whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have that light of the life and i just want to encourage everybody with this to go out we're going to actually put out the candles after we're done with them for the song but for you guys just to always have that light and to go out and share this light with everybody around you not just in this christmas time but throughout the whole year and i'm we're actually going to sing silent night all together so i just yeah let's do that one second all right ready that's where we're starting off with all right all right [Music] holy night [Music] sleep in heavenly [Music] peace [Music] square glory stream from heaven [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] son of god [Music] peace with the dawn of redeeming grace jesus lord [Music] all right when you guys blow out your candles be very careful with them and we're gonna have a trash bag or a trash on the way out you guys can put in the trash can and that's all for our section [Music] guys we're gonna be doing a final prayer so don't go anywhere just uh we're gonna do announcements and a final prayer [Music] whenever you guys get the chance just head back