A Heart After God's Own Heart

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thank you foreign foreign oh just need to do if certain populations foreign I mean [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] peace [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] it's so wonderful to be in the house of the Lord and you know I'm ready to receive from the Lord today you know we all come here for a reason and as we've already heard earlier that was said we come here to learn from the word of God to hear from the word of God and to receive this faith in us for that the Lord so that he could build up our faith so that the Lord he could be our strength so today I want us to listen to this message and just to see what does God want to do in us what is God speaking to each of your hearts individually amen I mean amen I wanted to speak about two men in the Bible and I'm sure all of you know their names it is the Saul and David and before I start speaking about them I wanted to read in Acts chapter 13 verses 21 and 22. chapter 13 verses 21 and 22. first I'll read in English and then we can read in Russian afterwards and afterward they asked for a king so God gave them Saul the son of Kish a man of the tribe of Benjamin for 40 years and when he had removed him he raised up for them David as a king to whom also he gave testimony and said I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart who will do all my will can we go back to 21. videos amen how many of you want to be like David where God says about us that we are after God's Own Heart Is I'm sure every one of us in this place has that desire if you don't have that desire I pray after this message you would have that desire yes so many of us read this and we see that how praise how much praise David Gets from God of how great of a man he was how he did the will of God is but there's a reason that David is lifted high but Saul is just spoken about and moved past by yes because Saul was the first king of Israel and David was the second and king of Israel Israel David and there was a difference in how they ruled and a Difference In Their Kingdoms and even in their characters and today I wanted to talk a little bit about the difference between Saul and David about how there are people in this world that act like Saul and there are people in this world that act like David um the first difference between Saul and David is Saul he loved to be praised by the people uh he would seek to be praised by the people in his kingdom but David he would not seek praise from the people David would himself want to praise God and he wanted the people together with him to give praise to God and that is the first major difference between Saul and David you know some of us we call this Pride [Music] um there are these proud people in this world and they think they're so amazing so wonderful and maybe it is true maybe they do accomplish many things in their lives but it is never the answer for us to receive all the praise for ourselves because we need to know and recognize that without God we will not even be in this world and that's what David understood that without God he would just be some young Shepherd boy that would never receive this entire Kingdom but Saul thought because he was such a mighty warrior because he was such a strong man because he was so beautiful he received this whole Kingdom so the so the first thing we need to do is recognize that we would not be in the place that we are if it was not for God and then when it came close to the end of their lives we see that the Throne of Saul or the kingdom of Saul it came to an end with him and his children they all passed away but we see the throne in the Kingdom of David continued on in his lineage all the way to Jesus the King of Kings so that's what will happen when when we want the praise to ourselves is our kingdom will die just like the kingdom of Saul um whenever we have something good in our life if we begin to praise ourselves for what we achieve suddenly for some reason it starts to disappeared because the first thing the praise of man would will do first it will flatter us first it will make us feel good but in the end it will flatten us it will make us feel it will destroy us but the praise of God in our life it will establish a Eternal Legacy in us to uh [Music] because God is eternal even when our lives end here on this Earth his legacy will live forever another difference between Saul and David is how they would act in certain situations you know as Christians we know that we all fall into sin Christian so all of us have sin in our lives and the same thing with Saul and David they both had sin in their lives there were certain things that they did wrong as kings as leaders and they fell into sin is not the problems in their lives the problem is not that they sinned because they both sinned but yet one had an amazing Kingdom but the other Kingdom fell uh the difference between Saul and David was their reaction or their response to their sin uh what happened when they realized they had sins because you see when Saul fell into sin he began to try to justify himself he began to try to maybe even cover it up or say why it was not so bad why he did maybe was the right thing to do is but when David realized what that he when it was told to David that what he did was wrong and he realized that he had sinned before God the very God that he wants to praise and glorify videos and he did not try to cover up he did not try to justify himself what he did is he ran back to God and he asked for forgiveness because David knew he was not in control of everything but God was in control David was a man after God's Own Heart and he knew that God just wanted David to come back close to him when Dave it would get far God just wanted David to come back closer and that's what happened David would fall on his face David would began to pray begin to praise and he would come back closer to God but when Saul began to be distant from God [Music] he got distant and he thought God was walking away from him so he went even further that's the difference between Saul and David is when David would get distant he would come back to God David was and you know Proverbs right writes about this in Proverbs chapter 24 verse 16 it talks about these two men it says for a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again but the wicked shall fall by Calamity that's the same thing about Saul and David foreign because it does not say a righteous man will never fall uh but it says when he falls he will get back up because Saul was thinking he was righteous and he was thinking that he should never fall so when he did fall he tried to justify himself [Music] but every time they would fall he would get back up you know I want to tell you a little bit about one sport there's a very good example of this verse and it is in the sport of boxing because boxing is a sport where two people they fight each other and many times people think you know in a fight it's always the biggest one who will win or some people think it's the one who's strongest and who has trained for the longest amount of time they will win or they think maybe the one who is fastest and who has the most abilities that person will win but I want to tell you something about boxing it is none of those people that I have just explained that always win because in boxing when two people when they get into a fight they may be fighting fighting fighting and then one that is stronger he knocks the other one to the ground but the fight is not over then just because one man falls on the ground does not mean the fight is over because the referee gives that man 10 seconds for him to get back up to his [Music] and so that man can get back up to his feet and they begin to fight again and maybe he falls again but he has another 10 seconds to get back up and he gets back up and they begin to fight again and he can fall even a third time but he will have another 10 seconds to get back up my friends this man could fall as many times as he wants as long as he gets back up every time uh and he does not lose until he falls and he is not able to get back up so that's why boxing is not about who is strongest the winner in boxing is not the fastest the strongest or even the smartest the winner in boxing is the one who can get back up over and over and over again the one even though he is knocked down he gets back up and my friends it's the same in our lives I'm sorry it's the same in our lives you know that we are in a fight in our lives we are in a war in our lives and it's not against flesh and blood um but it's against the powers and principalities of darkness and we are in this fight and we do not lose but just because we fall just because we fall to the ground does not mean our war is over yes because when we fall down we can get back up just like the righteous man we can get back up to our friends and we get back into this war we get back into this fight and we can fall again but we just have to get back up and we do not lose the war the only time we lose the war is when we fall down and we do not get back up is when we fall away from God but we do not come back close to him once again it's when we fall down we fall away and we think oh God left me it is not my fault yes that is when we lose this war this fight in our lives but that is not what God wants for us God's God wants us to be like David God wants us to be after his own heart [Music] so that we would always run back to foreign so that it would not be our life that we are living but we are living everything for God and my friends when we live our lives like this that is when God will say these things about these blessings on our lives that is when God will say that we are so blessed because we're after his own heart foreign that's when God will put favor out on our lives that's when he will establish this Eternal Legacy on our lives because we seek God we don't look for the opinions of Manish we don't look for the Praises of other people but we look to God and Only God so that his name would be praised in our lives so that we would always be close to him even if we fall we would come back to him and that's when his name will truly be glorified in our lives so my friends in just a moment we will pray and I want us to pray so that we would be after God's Own Heart so that if there's anything in our lives maybe where we have fallen we would come back to God so that every circumstance in our life would be to praise God and not ourselves so that even when we pass from this Earth God's Legacy would stay here forever so that through our lives God will will be done here on this Earth and that's when we will live like David and not like Saul amen brothers and sisters let us stand to our feet and let us pray right now Jesus we come to for you right now father we come to you and we praise your holy mighty name we thank you Father for who you are and what you do in our lives and we give you glory and all the honor and all the praise God we praise you with all that we are we praise you in every circumstance in our life whether we're going through the darkest Valley or we're right now on the highest mountain Jesus we give you all the glory and all the praise God we ask that it would not be our will that we are living for but it would be your will that is done in our lives that anywhere that we go your name would be glorified and your name would be praised that whatever we would do people would not look at us but they would look at you father that we would always get back up as we're walking our walk of Faith as we're walking after you Jesus as we're walking on this Earth that we would follow you always that every time we would mess up and maybe we fall away from you you would reach down and you would pick us back up and we would run to you when we make a mistake we would fall on our knees we would come back to you in prayer and praise because you deserve it all you deserve all the glory Jesus and that's our lives on this Earth it would not be about establishing a legacy for ourself it would not be about our own kingdoms but God it would be about your kingdom here on this Earth that through everything we do your kingdom would continue to move forward your kingdom would continue to pierce the darkness and your kingdom would continue to spread all over this world we thank you God and we just ask that every person in this place that we would all be after your heart God that your will be done in our lives not our own will so that you would find favor upon us God and your blessing would come down upon us your blessing would come into our lives your blessing would come upon our church there would be favor upon our church because we seek after your heart God and we thank you and glorify your holy mighty name we pray together in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody said amen amen hallelujah foreign [Music] [Music] premium [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] very [Music] very welcome [Music] foreign [Music] boy zombie meme [Music] which is you know right now we have this time of maybe people are worrying what is yes because we will there will be a sister that we will present to all of you that have received the Lord here is and if God willing this Saturday we will have a water baptism so I invite Christina to come to the front a she came from Ukraine [Music] and even though she's been visiting churches even back there here God really touched her and here's where she made the decision to receive Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior this is [Music] and we've had times where we've had a lot of people maybe just two people but today is just our one Sister Christina but I like how the scripture says that all of Heaven rejoices even over one Hospital and it's just something for heaven to be peaceful about and for us as a church and Dear Sister Christina can you just give a short testimony why you have this desire or what encouraged you to be baptized foreign [Music] but after certain circumstances in my life and after my mother passed away I got closer to God and he just drew me to himself and now I want to give him my life foreign [Music] and we talk about when a person gets water baptized they become first of all a member of the local church but also a member of the Heavenly church do you love the Lord she says yes we prepared her we had classes for her and we gave her um information about our church and we asked her if she agrees with everything and she says yes in just a moment we'll be praying but if you have any questions that maybe you want to ask um right now is your time you can raise your hand we'll pretty much do we receive her into the member the body of our church foreign and you know this Saturday at nine in the morning on Sunset Beach we will have water baptism [Music] is and we ask that you invite friends maybe even especially unbelievers that everyone would see this testimony before the world of the Lord and on Sunday morning service we will have communion where for the first time Sister Christina will partake in this foreign if you have not yet received water baptism prepare for this and get ready for this this is the Lord's commandment they asked how old is she she said she's 23. and as we were teaching her in the class I was able to share the testimony of how in the same age I took received this water baptism maybe somebody else has a question or uh encouragement word to share and from Brother Peter's family he says from his whole family as she is living in their home right now he wants to just encourage her and say that they're so proud of what the Lord is doing in her life and she will never regret this decision so that God would give good weather and so that it would be a truly celebration in all of Heaven [Music] so much it is and I want to encourage Christina because sometimes people get water baptized because their parents are really encouraging them but she made this decision on her own because God touched her and I'm so proud and I just want to encourage her and all that she does this is the most wonderful decision that she could ever make in her life and I want to encourage her that as she makes this step forward that she continues to serve God in her work in the church and in many different things one more thing brother wants to share Miami and a year ago I remember when me and my wife were receiving her from the airport in Miami photography I never seen her before I just had a picture and I I met her just by seeing her picture yeah and in my heart I told her right away the what the Lord revealed to me is and even though it was late already I still shared with her that God has a desire for you to be close with him here in America is the second thing I told her is God has worked for you God has a place for you here and a good family for you to be a part of here foreign and like one month later I come to her in church service just to greet her and she says I have something to ask you because and she says when do you guys have classes God put it on my heart to get into this Covenant with him and I want to tell you this is the best moment in my life when I see God calls people to himself and I'll I'll share with you the second part of this secretary the first day she'll partake in communion it is on my birthday praise God praise God um we can pray but I want Bishop to conclude the prayer for sister but we will all pray together CNN Sports um [Music] who is [Music] I mean be blessed is you could take your seats we'll listen to the word of God right now praise be to Jesus Christ I have the wonderful opportunity today on Wednesday to be in your church usually it's on Sunday morning but today we have the circumstance where I can be here together with you which I am thankful to God for I truly is foreign I want to share with you the word of God and I will be reading from The Book of Luke Chapter 5 chapter 11 chapter 11 verses 5 through 13. is foreign foreign universe [Music] this last Sunday we celebrated the day of Pentecost is it is a special day and all of us we have um had our own personal day of Pentecost in our lives we remembered when 120 people gathered together in the upper room received the baptism and they began to speak in other tongues and God baptized me in the Holy Spirit when I was 12 years old it was a very late tonight everyone was already sleeping and from time to time through my father who was sleeping I received prophecies he did not even wake up but he would prophesy [Music] and it was enough for either our guests or even our family to come up and just touch his hand and God would speak to us personally and we were already used to this we would wake up we would get dressed and then afterwards he would wake up and we would all pray together and I remember this night that I could never forget my father walked up to me and put his hands on me let me [Music] and throughout my whole life the holy spirit is upon me and I feel his presence dear brothers and sisters the holy spirit is always with us Jesus said he'll be with you to the ends of the ages he protects he teaches and always through life he leads us it is a very big blessing when we talk about the day of Pentecost we talk about the Trinity is and even though this word Trinity isn't in the Bible we see throughout the entire Bible how the Trinity moves [Music] and God through Moses says listen o Israel the Lord God is the god one is in three persons God the Father God the son and God the Holy Spirit and they are one there's no division among them when we talk about the Trinity we talk about one God seen them the Holy Spirit presents a worthy Son of God he reminds what Jesus said when he lived on this Earth he talks about his suffering he reveals Jesus Christ and when Jesus lived on this Earth he revealed God the father he said I speak nothing of myself but that which I have heard from my father that is Peter filled with the Holy Spirit spoke a sermon that he did not plan he spoke about Jesus Christ in that time the Holy Spirit worked through people and because of the Holy Spirit three thousand were added unto the church the Holy Spirit on the Earth against them and among them they have Unity Phillips and one time Philip would say to Jesus Lord show us the Father and Jesus said for how long I am with you and you do not see the father I am in the father and the father is in me Jesus they saw but they wanted to see the father and he talks about the unity between the father and the son because Jesus from himself he did nothing he would reveal the heavenly father is one place that talks about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and they say if the work blasphemy is among the son of man then it will be forgiven to them but if they speak blasphemy on the Holy Spirit it will not be forgiven to them in this age or the next one is and it's been multiple times that I have heard that the devil lies to people and even they think that they have said a blasphemy on the Holy Spirit don't listen to that voice the devil is a liar foreign speaking about the blasphemy of the holy spirit means we can't blaspheme the holy spirit because he is God this is because here Jesus says if somebody speaks blasphemes against the son of man unto Jesus people said a lot of things and you remember when the the priest took Jesus to his hands blessing him and he says here is laying the one who will fall among many men and before the many ages because they will argue about Jesus they will not understand him he is 100 God but 100 and people looking on him they cannot see God in him that's a apostle even the apostles Jesus asked who do people see me as [Music] they say some big Prophet but he says but you who do you see me and Peter speaks not from his own mind he also looked at Jesus as a man on this Earth maybe yes [Music] but just receiving the word of God he says you are the son of the Living God is [Music] blessed are you Simon Peter because it was not it was revealed to you from the heavenly father but what what is interesting about the Holy Spirit is he is and also the heavenly father and also the glorified Son of God is God you cannot it does not matter if it's the Holy Spirit or the Son of God Boke his book God is God he receives the yeah many people they call unto God and and they are punished for their pride because the holy spirit is God but for Jesus people they had disputes over him because they didn't see him as well and in the Old Testament it says does not do not speak about God and even the priests they were upset because Jesus called himself God is and there's people that are murdered drunkards but still they know that God is Holy Spirit they are not correct but they still know that God is Holy and he sits on his throne is and in Acts chapter 2 it says coming to the day that they were all United together dear church I want to leave this thought with you in this evening I really love this verse the unity of the of the disciples I did not know how they could unify together when it was the last supper and Jesus Was preparing to go on Calvary at the will of torch Aviation evangelis Luca episode and it was that same night where evangelist Luke writes about this story Jesus said one of you will betray me and there there's one verse and there it was a dispute among them who among them will be greater they were not just discussing among themselves but there was this dispute among them and Jesus was teaching them he was explaining to them he was telling them Parables he said you will know all the secrets of the praise there was a time to take the test but they were not ready there was no time earlier where he was in need of the disciples like he was that night he was just asking them please be with me stay with me but they were disputing and arguing who will be greater who will be sitting at the right and the left yes and there was no more time and Jesus shows an example he takes off his top covering and he begins to wash the feet and Peter says you will not wash my feet we did not mean about this maybe he was thinking we were discussing who will be greater Among Us you are the teacher you are above us to snatches but Jesus showed an example what it means to serve and love stars and if you want to be greater be a servantages because the son of man did not come for him to be served but he came to serve and to give up his life for the Salvation praise be to him forever and you know in many churches and I think even in yours there's they practice um the baptism of praying in tongues and I want to leave one thought with you the heavenly father will give or will he not give the Holy Spirit you know some need and God baptizes but some many times they come and they say this prayer request but God does not baptize them in the Holy Spirit Jesus shared this Parable the friend comes at night to his friends he says listen my friend came to me and I have nothing to give him just give me bread you thought that which is and the other says listen look at the time already we're sleeping our children are split sleeping this is not the time yes and Jesus even says if not because of um friendship yet because of Shameless audacity he will surely get up and give thus he will give as much as you need not looking at the fact that it is you know even we to one another we don't call each other we don't text each other there is a day for this Jesus says a sermon about a prayer that goes on and on and this teaching leads us to the receiving of the Holy Spirit and in this question is our audacity and our desire desire we see what it's literally appropriate private we already heard a sermon that the righteous seven times will fall but he'll get back up he needs strength strength of the holy spirit for yourself it's difficult to get up but God will lift him up through the Holy Spirit and here talk talks about how a man must desire if I did not receive the baptism of the holy spirit that does not mean that it is not for me Jesus says knock and it will be used to show it that it is show this desire and seek after this seek at all times day or night maybe when you are young or when you are older This Promise is for me and foreign in the last times the prophet says I will pour out my spirit on All Flesh [Music] your sons and daughters will prophesy and see visions and the old man will dream dreams a man has a right to receive God's promise one man really desired this and he was praying God baptized me in the Holy Spirit but nothing was happening he said God if you don't want to baptize me don't baptize and then in just a short time he says sorry God and he says again baptize me and God baptized him in the holy spirit because the heavenly father will give the Holy Spirit and God says if you being evil but when it comes to your own children you give good gifts to your own children how much more will the heavenly father give to you that ask for Jesus Jesus talks about the father we must always have the right thoughts about God I want to remind us of the story and the um of job and it's a very sad story when he was cursed and he was in these sicknesses from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet and three of his friends for a few days could not even say a word but then they began to speak you can say to his stories to foreign and in Job chapter 42 verse 7 it says these words and when we read the book of Job I don't see where his friends say something bad about God yes I see that job he had this passion and he even [Music] the friends of job they did not say bad things about God but God says my wrath be unto you and unto your friends you did not speak about me you did not imagine me in such a way I am not the one that you spoke about they said job God is punishing you for your sins God cannot possibly be on yourself nothing happens in your life just like that and that touched God he said I'm not that God like you were imagining me my dear friends we must come to God as we come to our father yes God is holy and righteous yes and if that was all of God's characteristics and yes that means he hates sin and that includes the sinner but why does God forgive the sinner my friends because God loves us he hates the sin but he loves this and he forgives him we can't just look at God like a judge and he gives his grace I want God's blessings that we knew God like a father God like the one that gives the Holy Spirit God the one that baptizes with the Holy Spirit he is a good yes and all good things come from the father into our lives God loved the whole world God Jesus Christ poured out his blood for all the people that live on the world but the Holy Spirit he gives to him the one that are born from above and we have have the right to receive this promise and as I'm concluding my sermon I want to bring one more example one Bishop in Belarus was sharing this example he said we have we had a brother with a lot of passion that came from the world and he gave his life to Jesus and he was a very hard worker in God's doing God's produces he was working in one Village and he opened a church and then he passed on and we took him and we sent him to a different region and over there he opened it and there he passed on the minutes and then even another church but his past sinful life less left a light in his he was very very sick and his last days as he was in the hospital he said I came and met with him every day like I went to work and one day he came to him and he was in this heavy spiritual state he said brother Sergey I have known God as a lord for me Jesus Christ is like a Lord that I'm ready to do all of his commands I sacrificed myself sacrifice my family but I was never able to know him as a father yeah brother Sergey says the bishop says I had nothing to say to him I just cried with him and prayed with him I left the hospital and drove not very far yeah and I see that I receive a call from that man and he picks up the phone and the brother says to the bishop he said after we prayed and you left he came to this hospital and he came as a loving father yeah I experienced his love as a father I'm not afraid I know that my family is in good hands of a loving father but again dear church we have a good loving heavenly father who will give the Holy Spirit to the ones who has enough Grace we live in the best time and no matter what happens in this world we live in the time of God's [Music] [Music] the spiritual renewal today foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] Sports [Music] um slowly [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign I mean is millennium children's foreign [Music] foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign