Self-Examination at the Lord's Table

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scripture Psalm 53 one only a fool says there is no God we serve an a mighty God can we say Amen also one thing that I caught my attention during this man's Retreat and this man's retreat they had people that were deaf and mute they weren't able to speak but they were able to use their hands to do um their speaking and I was observing my kids how they were watching these people communicate with their hands but what important was what was more important to watch is how they how they watch them during worship they don't have uh voices to speak or uh to say anything but the passion you would see how they were using their hands and their gesture to praise God our kids were looking at and they were like whoa this is something what about us how does God see us when we are standing here today and worshiping him is God looking down and saying wow that is true worship God gives us hands ears mouths let us use him to worship [Music] him God has given us everything but most thing he given us is salvation through the blood of Jesus we have something to be thankful Amen Let us today and forever worship Him truly with our uh voices with our lives and everything that we do let us pray the heavenly father we thank you for the time you've given us again and again during this time uncertainty where there's Wars around us but you've given us a peaceful time you've given us a peaceful Heaven you given us we have the blood of Jesus and we have this time that we gather today to celebrate the communion the remembrance of what you've done for us the price that was paid for each individually for individual that's here today I ask you by the Holy Spirit touch each heart teach individual person whatever they might be going through whatever might be facing let the Holy Spirit renew their minds re re renew their hearts to remove their spirits that they may feel your you feel your presence here today we thank you that we have a mighty God that's given us everything but the most important he's given us salvation through the blood of Jesus Through the sacrifice through Calvary we thank you and I call upon the holy spirit we invite you Jesus to come here today to speak to touch each who's here today we thank you let us life be a worship to you for everything that you have done for us we're grateful and we're thankful and we thank you Jesus and everything that we do and pray in Jesus name we pray amen [Music] is never [Music] [Music] many [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] now [Music] [Music] be [Music] [Applause] for [Music] Z she Los she Los fore [Music] fore [Music] for Hallelujah hu [Applause] [Music] Glu [Music] [Music] [Music] Hallelujah [Music] Hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah oh oh [Music] Pro you yes [Music] for you [Music] the B [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] you show [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Laughter] spee [Laughter] [Music] [Music] oh oh hallelujah hallelujah [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for to be amen PR dear Church dear Gathering I'm greeting you in the name of Jesus Christ just now we sang that song about Golgotha every time we hear this word and when we pray or hear the word of God this word is pen bet trates me deeply because there on the cross Jesus Christ died and today you remember his death and the the remembrance of him is being commanded by Jesus Christ the lord and we will open up First Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23-33 where Apostle Paul he says that he received this Revelation from Jesus Christ himself please follow English test on the screen for to in this text that Apostle Paul wrote I would like to highlight a very important Point here it is mentioned in verse 28 and then in verse 31 let's open up and open up and read those verses again 28 and 31 everyone out to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink drink from the cup but if we were more Discerning with regard to ourselves we would not come under such judgment what does it mean to judge yourself that means every single one's responsibility is to examine our hearts in the light of God's word maybe we somewhere overstepped or did not commit to the will of God according to the word of God we need to repent and ask him for forgiveness for our transgressions for our transgressions Jesus often often mentioned that Pharisees they were constantly seeing the um splint splint in the in a Brother's eye but in their own eye they would not notice a log therefore the word of God is in the mentions about the remembrance of his suffering the holy spirit is inviting us to look at our own Hearts before we fulfill this commandment we need to examine ourselves and as I mentioned if we notice something if we something caught our attention we need to ask for forgiveness and we admit our short fallings the times we were wrong and we leave those things behind then he Jesus Christ being righteous one forgives us transgressions and he washes us from all unrighteousness praise be to our Lord but very disappointing sometimes instead we judge and we judge others robbing us of God's grace and mercy and under his judgment it is very serious I would like to invite you to read from the book of Romans a few verses second chapter of Romans verse one let's take a look and see how Stern is the word that's being mentioned here you therefore have no excuse you who pass judgment on someone else for at whatever point you judge another you are condemning yourself in other words when you judge someone else we commit sin you know I would like to remind that to judge others it is a very big sin before the Lord that's why Apostle Paul he's inviting us not to do that but instead for focus on our own hearts in Romans Chapter 14 verse 10 and Below we read and then you who judge your brother and sister and why do you treat them brother and sister with contempt for we all stand before God's judgment [Music] seat and it is written as surely as I live says the Lord every knee will bow before me every tongue will will acknowledge God it means that every one of us listen every one of us everyone who is present here today and everyone who may be listening to us online every single one of us will give account for the before the Lord and then we read in verse 13 therefore let us stop passing judgment onto one another instead make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister it's a reminder for us that every single one of us will give an account before the Lord for their own actions it is called the the the the Judgment seat of God it will be Christ and then every single one of us will be standing before him and that's why we have to be reminded it's it's waiting for us and we need to prepare ourselves that we would not come to his judgment but instead we would love to hear that you have been uh faithful and righteous Serv and come into the uh into Joy of you of the Lord because in his kingdom there is Joy praise be to him and for that reason he gives us this opportunity to repent and if we use this time and as mentioned earlier when we admit and say Lord I should not have said that I should not have committed and done things so and so when you confess and admit this before him and that his mercy and Grace that is beyond bdg judgment is a is is given to you praise be to our lord for his grace it is written that his his Mercy remains forever and by his grace we have not disappeared and by his grace we will be receiving this great commandment for life and instead for us to judge others let's learn to forgive others their transgressions it's something that we need to learn Jesus Christ is an example for us as Christ and the Lord have forgiven you you also forgive others we live in this world when people in this world they they hurt each other they lie to one another but we come to the Lord with confession and repentance and he makes us hard white as snow and David says if I were to see or notice any kind of sin in my heart there's no faith it says you will not be able to hear me if I would have notice any kind of sin in my heart there was no faith because sin separates man from the Lord but when you hear hear these words saying that your sin is Forgiven and you being cleansed there is no obstacle on the way we enter into the holy of holy and then we when we ask him what he gives us our requests because he is a father he is a Heavenly Father I would like to invite you in prayer that we would every one of us would repent before him where we maybe we an obstacle for someone else maybe that's in our household maybe it's in church or maybe in our workplace maybe in our school maybe in our neighborhood or friends or the place that we live we need to admit it and do such thing no more and one more passage I'd like to read from 1 Corinthians chap 10:32 do not cause anyone to stumble whether the Jews Greeks or the Church of God it is God's calling do not cause any stumbling or obstacles through your life or actions we live in the community or Society Church in the back in the days were living among Gentiles and even in the church the place of our community that we should not cause any stumbling or it is something we need to stay on alert and before we approach this uh uh the holy uh communion I would like to invite everyone for this very special prayer before the Lord where we could ask our father or maybe ask forgiveness from from one another and ask God to give us strength to forgive others to ask for he give us provide strength to love the Lord that gave his only son Jesus on the cross and if he remembers in a special way I would like to invite you to get up on your feet in this prayer I would like to invite you to once again to look at your heart Lord help me to see the things that you do not like or approve maybe it's something that is pride it could be easily displayed in a relationship between a husband and wife or parents and children I displeased with this or maybe you were living with something all your life I never mentioned it but God he does not approve that it is time to repent admit it in your heart we will be closing our eyes in order for us to see Lord and to see our uh our hearts and if you need a special prayer it is an opportunity to come here to the front is to say I need strength I need strength to to forgive others and Lord I need strength to leave my NE to to love my neighbor if you need this prayer we invite you to come here to the front because this this time is a is a good time for this don't miss this eternity it is better to come when you're being called than later regret for that because here is being preached the gospel the God's word we not preaching ourselves or our denomination but Christ Jesus the son of of God who died on the cross for us and we are his body we will partake in one in the same bread and you have not forgiven someone for many years it's your opportunity to do that and God will give you strength I deeply believe that let's pray Church Praises Hallelujah for for Hallelujah [Applause] neighborhood for Hallelujah hallelu hallelu Hallelujah foru Hallelujah Hallelujah [Music] hallu hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelu amen amen you may be seated you'll be approaching for communion before we start a communion there's going to be a song about suffering of Jesus Christ [Music] foree [Music] fore is this spe [Music] foree [Music] fore [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] foree [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] foree [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] foree [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] dear Church I'd like to invite you to get up on your feet you know this past week as Pastor Nikolai already even mentioned we have been preparing our hearts we have been examining ourselves you're trying to look deeper for the Lord to show us our faults our our weaknesses so that you and me we become worthy to partake and this ministry of communion they would be a blessing for us blessing for our souls blessings for our bodies and let's open up First Corinth has already been mentioned 11: 23 second verse second half it says the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread and we had given thanks he broke it and said this is my body for it is for you do this in remembrance of me there's little piece in that passage that really touches my heart it says this is my body that be broken for you you can say this is the body of Jesus Christ that is being broken for me for me for me we will be praying for bread I'd like to invite you to Bow your heads and continue in this prayerful mode to think what Jesus has done for us the price that he paid for me let's pray Heavenly Father we thank you so much for this gift that you have given us you have given your son Jesus Christ on the cross to die for me to die for me you want to gross hanging there between Earth and Heaven and you were thinking of me Lord thank you so much for that thank you for my brothers and sisters Lord that we are one United by your suffering United by your body United by your blood we thank you Lord that you have given us this gift we are your people we are your children we are brothers and sisters because of the suffering because of the sacrifice you have done on the cross and we thank you Lord that today we remember that suffering we remember what that means to me personally we remember what what that means for my future thank you Lord may your name be glorified and I ask that everyone who's going to be touching this bread who's going to be consuming this bread there will be a blessing but not judgment Lord for everyone in the name of Jesus amen amen [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I would like to remind everyone who is able to partake if you're not on any kind of church discipline or being excommunicated if you were baptized and you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior in your adult life not as a child we invite you to participate may God bless [Music] you [Music] has everyone had an opportunity to partake in communion [Music] [Music] first 25 in the same way after supper for he took the cup saying this cup is the New Covenant in my blood do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me remember the word of God tells us that we are healed by his wounds that healing first came for us soul that healing came for our spirit and that healing comes for our bodies I invite you to to participate with faith you are taking the blood of Jesus Christ that's what the power is the power of our Salvation the power of our healing I'd like to invite brother sery to pray for [Music] blood for for with cups you will be handed one when you finish please make sure you pass it to the middle of the hole so be much easier to collect them thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] as everyone had an opportunity to participate in Vine I would like to greet you and congratulate you for God giveing you an opportunity to participate in communion because it's his body it is his blood that's being shed on the cross for you and me so we would not die but we would have blessing in eternal life we would have healing in our bodies we would have healing in our souls healing in our Spirits healing in our relationship ship healing in our families in the name of Jesus let's bow our knees and we will pray give thanks to the [Music] Lord for for amen praise God we're going to have a few announcements today youth service at 6 p.m. we're going to have two Gatherings one the first one for the church and the second one like we always do for Ukraine please prepare for that Monday we have our prayer 7 p.m. Wednesday we have uh Bible study and service at 7:30 project and this Saturday we're going to be starting a project to uh build the volleyball court if anybody would like to uh volunteer for this project please reach out to Dennis I'm sorry Dan sorry grou out to me so we could uh coordinate uh communication so we could uh uh start this project at 8: in the morning Sunday 10:30 we have our prayer and 11 o' we have our main service as you might know our sister tat she went to heaven there's information here out there and also on our group chat uh funeral servic is going to be this Wednesday October 11th Hill memory garden cemetery the Kuru road yeah from 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Kuru Hills Memorial Garden Cemetery we're grateful for your prayers your good good words and the support you've given us I never called her my mother-in-law I called her mom like my mom she left we invite everyone who who's able to to send the body as the last funeral home as States uh curu Memorial Hills at 10:00 thank you for your support de Brothers sisters also reminder for every head Department to gather together to make your plans for 2024 that you could create your budget for 2024 for all so that we Church could confirm this please try to get this done on next two weeks or so thank you we're inviting our worship group we're going to have the two um two uh love offerings we're going to ask the kids to come up while the Sunday school please come up and we're going to bless him you know brothers and sisters our kids are going to Sunday school we also go through Sunday school we came today we also were here Friday and Saturday as you know we also have this Bible uh seminars going on for the adults I'd like to say I'm very pleased we spend two days listening to the word of God and we want we invite everybody who has a desire or people who are participant or taking uh or preaching the word of God either behind a Podium or with the kids yeah come uh sign up to learn how to uh it's very minimum cost may God bless pray for our kids [Music] for for [Music] amen [Music] fore [Music] [Music] for and with swe we do [Music] [Applause] [Music] Glory [Music] [Applause] fore [Music] [Music] for is C we [Music] [Music] SE is cry you [Music] for C [Music] you praise be to our Lord dear brothers and sisters are you happy to be in God's house he is here he was speaking to us today and he continues talk to us today and when you leave this place he continue to be with you praise be to our Lord he says I will never leave you you will never be orphan he said there will be he'll be with you until the end Praise Him rejoice in his salvation may his grace surround all of us us here I would like to send a special greeting for my family from my wife uh greetings from courland New York from my [Music] church it is a tremendous privilege for me to be with you today to be here on this morning service and I'm glad that you're reading that same word of God that I do because it is God's word it is the power of God for salvation for yours and my soul and to be honest I do not know what to read for you you are holy people you are Washed by the blood of Jesus Christ and I what I don't know what to say or what to say but I don't have this word because that word God has I I think you understood what you and me did today in this service he became holy and clean before the Lord the faith of the Lord came in to call upon his name we have the right to say to our Lord I am [Music] clean through the blood of Jesus Christ speak to me Lord send me Lord and be with me he is great God you know what connects me with your church is a few families and if I don't mistaken brother brother Paul and [Music] sister they were one of the first in in in my Ministry who I gave the um wedding uhu appreciating their wedding yes and I remember when I told them before the wedding I don't fully remember the wedding itself because it was a long time but I remember what I was speak praise be to the Lord and another family that I'm being close with brother and his wife and your family may God bless you and the closest of dear sister oana they moved here to [Music] Florida and her parents and my wife we are very close friends when we were in the youth and God has gifted us both to be in the ministry and serve God's people and it's a grace of God you sister o may God bless you I know that you are member of this church but I still remember that you represent all we want to hear is the best report brother Yar he left the church to the Sunday school but it's a young man whose heart is my heart is very open to him he last time he took most of my sermon last time but I'm glad that he has this passion to share the word of God brothers and [Music] sisters and here is the word that I have on my heart that i' like to share with you it is in Gospel of John and it's going to be chapter 1 verse 47 [Music] Hallelujah brothers and sisters dear Church for you and me God has called us we are in being part of his [Music] body we sing this song that says we are lord's children we are all happy we are children of God hallelujah praise be to him when Nathaniel was called and said listen let's go see the Messiah we found him he had his own thoughts he had his own vision and he even expressed that in his own words about Jesus Christ what he thinks and about the town where Jesus comes [Music] from but he was invited and says go and see in other words go meet and greet and it's so great that he listened you know many people they being good advices but they not willing to and it's so good that uh the the the the servant of the naon he listened what if he did not listen he would continue his life with his Le but he did listen Nathaniel also listened and he was told go and see and he did brother and sister everyone who listened to God's word and they follow him you made the right decision you have tasted How great is the Lord and you know God he sees every single person Nathaniel when he was walking towards Jesus uh Jesus was told that this man is going to see you uh the disciples could have said how do you know and it says here comes the man that there is no deceit in him but you know in this world there is a lot of Deceit and deceit a lot of Deceit in this world but I would like to tell you that children of God people the Christians that partake in communion the seed should not be even named among them because Jesus Christ is our savior he gives us new heart new mind new heart that is expanded his spirit that is the power of God is upon us therefore trust him believe in him and hold on to his [Music] ways I would like to to to explain the thoughts out of my heart I will not continue to read more passages but I will share a few examples from the word of God you know Noah Bible says that God was looking at him and the word of says that God saw him there was another woman that the word of God it name was AAR when he got she got lost in the desert and she did not know what to do next but God found her who was watching over her when he showed his grace and he gave her advice what she should do next she said you are God that sees me God saw her God showed the circumstances and he met her we read another passage there were two men I'll tell you that they are relatives it's very important point and when they separated because the face of one man which would look differently than before but in that meeting God is meeting this older man and he says the following words you are going after Jacob he is your but I have a word for you what do you need to say and what do you need to do next with him brothers and sisters do you remember what Jacob said I do not know who God is speaking to but Jacob replied and says if it wasn't for the if it wasn't for his hand in other words I will be empty-handed I would have completely different circumstances but it says my Lord he looked upon my my Lord he saw my work brother and sister for many people God does not see it's hard I'm working I'm being Li to my relative [Music] people not being fair with me but my brother and sister that I would like to remind that your trouble and your circumstances and your tears sees [Music] Hallelujah when he met Jacob says if it wasn't for the Lord who met me I would like to conclude with the following words but I would like to remind the story of another man God is speaking to Moses and he tells Moses I look at the Troubles of my people brother and sisters the word of God is that Jesus himself when he was with his disciples before he told them the following words in this world you will experience a lot of troubles but in other words I will be always with you be and I'll be with you Hallelujah the world clock is reminding us that difficult times are coming it is reminding us that we will be hated by all people but God reminds it say I'll it says I know your troubles I know what I know the suffering you're going through hold on to what you the Salvation hold on brother and sister the Lord sees you you will leave the service today hold on to this torch that you God has given you the word of God is telling us those that drink the cup andat the body will have have a life in Bible tell this everyone will be Tau maybe tomorrow they put another maybe the electronic will maybe there's going to be a bra tracking bracelet on your feet will not allow you to walk but God is telling us hold on to what you have the faith that's in your heart it is God's faith and it says I will save you and you will have eternal life praise be to Lord love our Lord with all your heart call upon his name tell him that you are the child of God the daughter of God may be praised be all to him amen hallelujah I see the years they don't touch you and I really love people that in their in their silver years they are active and fruitful for the Lord I would like to before our prayer requests I would like to invite dear sister natala she would like to share a testimony what God has done in her life I would like to say that God is great he's healing every person we just need to trust with everything you know I always suffer with my back and you know when I would sit down and in church I would always the pain would show itself yeah and I've been experiencing this pain for several month and I was praying one day at Lord I just want to come to church to be able to sit and not feel any pain in my body if you heal me I will share and tell everyone what you did he is able Jesus is able and I'm Shar this with so rejoice in the Lord and thank you so much for for all my brother and sister I just thank you thank you so much God bless you all in on Monday prayer God showed Mercy for dear sister Natasha she sharing that with us and I also had a testimony and share with many of you I had an issue with my hand I didn't know what what it was and over two month have passed and I can feel my hand is completely healed and recently I visited my sister we had a professor that visited us John and her son came up to me and say John he said hey how's your hand because he was praying about he wanted to see how things I said time has passed now I can share a testimony and I thank Lord for the healing that he's gifted me and now we'll be praying for our also if you have a need for healing please come here to the front we will pray with anointed we will also pray for the family brother their family has had a conversation with him they have a to join with their family their their sons and children Church it is their decision he also shared a message with all of us on they have invested a lot of their time money and effort church we thank you and we honor we would like to bless him their decision and we respect it because family com Country Church they will be joining Country Side Church in C and I would like for maybe some of you are watching us online if you may be attending and another the church but you're not a member there I would encourage you strong only to join and become official member you cannot be a free agent because you are exiting from being PARTA in Christ body that's why it's very important to choose the CH Church of your liking and join it and we will also pray for a nursing home team going to be going there to minister yesterday we had a very interesting meeting with the ministry of Sean rer Bon and their team they're planning to do a very uh interesting event there was was a pastor Nazar who was in attendance he is visiting local jail here in our and he mentioned there's quite a bit of Slavic people that and we have plans to join this uh prison ministry as in order to minister Slavic people that are there there now we will be praying for Israel you know what's going on there now nobody would have thought that in just in one night there would be such a but our prayer is for Israel and continue to pray for Ukraine as well and we have a prayer requests please share those with us we have a few announcements after brother he's asking to pray for his travels today sister oana has a prayer request and also a praise report before the Lord de sister Martha she has a praise report sister has a praise report as well for for for [Music] foren you might have noticed that our parking lot was completely transformed you might be asking why why so everything's so quick because on the 22nd of October will be a celebration 25th anniversary of church and we are getting ready in preparing our church building and everything we also would like to thank brother Natoli who was in intensively pushing everyone to work on this project administrator of our church pet clim who are participating in this project but I also would like to mention other one other ones who were helping today and working is one of the young men that was working with us and he says now I'm going to be going to college I realize you need to go to college we' like to give uh thank you for TAS boski movi David mza Brother David murza Mark bernatsky brother Mark Bernat Jacob Kush brother Jak and then brother andrean he brought us comes out of the car barely carrying the bag with it was so interesting he sat there by the O he covered the table for us we everything he brought us because we were so hungry thank you and thank you everyone I would like to remind that this coming Saturday we have a on Saturday we will get together with administrator and organize all the jobs that needed to be done and we'd like to invite everyone at 9:00 a.m. to come there was a lot of uh work that needs to be done in the kitchen there's a lot of closets that needs to be some get the God's house needs to be it needs to be much cleaner than our homes therefore I'd like to invite everyone to come at 9:00 a.m. brother he talked about the the volleyball uh project he and he came so excited one day saying we were we got uh sand that's being donated to us brother Tim uh and Linda they donated five full tracks of sand it is very expensive but we thank them for their and we for the project of our walls boards please send the pictures to Sister Daria and then brother uh Nick and sister OA they will putting together them organized there on the wall we also have few changes coming up in the ministry of our Ash we are you will see them dress differently one day don't be scared they are our asers they belong to our church we also have this big desire one of the Ministries to be greeting people coming here we received a lot of feedback in a box of suggestions we read them all and we are putting in and a priority list to work on them please write as much as that brothers would stay busy and work till 1:00 a.m. I'm joking but I don't want them to get together that very also we working to include three languages in our Translation Bible translation remember that our church is the Slavic church it is very important and we need to respect one another after this service I would like to invite uh missionary Department to meet in the Mee conference room for a few minutes and also thank dear sister swetlana and the team that's helping her with these sweets and i' like to remind that after our service is over our guest at the first one in line we will have Fellowship greet one another we would like to bless each and every one of you greet one another may 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