Living Sacrifice and the Path of Humility

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time is coming for me and you when we see prophets come to P prophecies come to pass and you know there's an important word In this passage Redemption and you know it's it's kind of hard for us to be taken away from a thing that we like or a thing that we find comfort in but if we love God if we uh if we see his Holiness and if we see how this world is being attacked by Satan then this is a Redemption that we need in our lives this is happiness and let us pray so that this thing bad things wouldn't happen for Forest [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] for me [Music] for [Music] [Music] foree fore [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] for me he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] as [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] for for am mean [Music] speee for you [Music] yes [Music] be [Music] we [Music] she for [Music] ni [Music] for shop [Music] sh sh [Music] be [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for for [Music] for [Music] [Music] fore for [Music] [Music] Hallelujah [Music] [Music] for [Music] 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to read two scriptures from Apostle Paul Romans 12 verse one therefore I urge you brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy offer your bodies as a Living Sacrifice holy and pleasant to God this is your true and proper worship First Corinthians 6 19 and 20 19 and 20 do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have received from God you are not your own you were bought with the price therefore honor God with your bodies until we're here and alive on this Earth the scripture talks about our bodies also for our souls that were bought by a precious uh price of uh of [Music] God our external which is our body and our inner person [Music] and we need to glorify God with our bodies and with our [Music] souls God bought us fully B on the cross through his [Music] sacrifice if you separate the soul from the body that the body would be dead we cannot separate one from the other when we um dedicate one we have to dedicate the other you cannot separate one from the other and we talked about our uh our soul we're also talking about our body there's a false teaching out there that says the body is separate and the soul is separate but no it's it's a false teaching they're together God wants to be glorified in our body and in our soul amen amen um as we as we read through the scripture that our bodies is a temple of God each one of us it's important to be led God's [Music] leadership if I belong to God I also need to understand God [Music] will second thing we need to glorify God in with our bodies and with our souls because all belongs to God in Psalms David Psalm 49 says bring sacrifice of praise it's a calling bring God a sacrifice of [Music] praise and you know in the Solomon's Temple there were different sacrifice being brought and us as well we shouldn't be cheap but we should be able to glorify our god let's say praise our Lord hallelujah hallelujah among his people hallelujah also if we can open uh Romans 13 verse 15 through Jesus therefore let us continue offer God a sacrifice of praise the fruit of the lips that openly profess his name first when we spoke it we talked about that our bodies are a temple and the Holy Spirit lives in it second that God calls us to bring worship to him in our bodies and in our [Music] soul and the third one is our we are an instrument in God's hands Romans 613 do not offer any part of yourself to your sin and as an instrument of wickedness but rather offer yourself to God as those who have been bought from Death to life and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness also First Corinthians 613 you say for the stomach and the stomach for the food and God will destroy them both the body however it is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord the Lord for the body [Music] and it's a calling when we should take our bodies and have it as a Living Sacrifice to serve the Lord let's go back to the first uh passage that we were reading Romans 121 today I want to concentrate on this word today we know how to glorify God and like we could say like David said I would glorify all praise but this word that Paul said he said something inter he said I I command you as Paul said I urge you brothers and sisters in you God's mercy to offer your bodies as a Living Sacrifice God's not going to take our body he's not going to force it he gave himself on the cross for you and me he shed his blood for us to buy us from the uh from um slavery slavery of sin of sin and the Holy Spirit talks can you now bring a Living Sacrifice why we living today the soul is in the body we're still living and the body is living and God says I want this body and your souls take it into my work God blesses us with guests in last week last Sunday we had brother Vali he preached and we were in a meeting there brother vasil took a pen name f gospel church and the address on it and he gave gifted him and told him this is your pen at one point it was our churches but now it's yours and he do with it whatever he likes it when he likes it and when he needs it maybe write checks with it for good God it's not important but it's an example today we give it to another brother Andre who's gonna preach next it is his pen now and whatever he writes the pen itself cannot write what it likes we are being used like an instrument all glory all praise belongs to God and if God is asking us for something and it's because we dedicated or give our life to him to offer for to offer him as our life as a sacrifice a [Music] sacrifice and as we read God wants a Living Sacrifice he's not waiting when we die while we're living here he wants to sacrifice he wants to do something he wants to write something he wants to create something says I Ur your body and your soul in God's hands sometimes we see as we know a master could uh take a hammer and and build something very magnificent but it's not the tool saying that I'm so good you're an instrument it's an instrument to be used but you're but when you're in the hands of a master or a paintbrush it's a whole different thing the the creation or the yes art piece artart piece of art that's been created or pen or a marker or a paintbrush but in the hands of a master it's in the hands of a master and God asking please gift yourself to me as a Living Sacrifice sanctify yourself and then could be clean like a like a master or anybody who uses a tool it's clean [Music] a mechanic or artist or anybody they very uh dedicated or very careful with their instruments and the second thing it says um holy holy and the third um it's uh Pleasant to God and when we give to God when we know his will when we listen obey to his will and his movement it is Pleasant for him I would like to do it in one way or another way but God says no don't do this way someone's um uh suppressing you but you cover it with love and when we're doing it we're following God's will not by our desire God wants us to do it in in Free Will and a wise Service King James uh reasonable service reasonable service people ask why what's the reason what's the reason to give yourself to God and which way do we see ourselves are in Salvation and ourselves and salvation of others praising God serving God I had moment in my life God God was asked are you going to go are you GNA uh minister to them and I would say yes I would go I had to go minister to a brother that was in the jail I will go and when I went to jail when I went there I started to preach to him bring him to repentance and he would say I'm not guilty here like the pen and the holy ho spirit says to me I didn't send you to preach to him I would give I sent you him to give what he's asking he was asking for a Bible and money and I gave it to him because it's a Ministry like Peter said um a washed you only need to wash those who have dirty feet he says not just the feet my hands my head and everything and Jesus said no only one thing that's needed the needed to wash the and that's what I wanted to do and that's how we have to serve the Lord but the question remains brothers and sisters [Music] have we ourselves given our bodies as that Living Sacrifice as holy and pleasant that is I ask you to stand we're going to pray during this prayer i' like us to check ourselves is our life Pleasant before the Lord and everything that we do and do we hear the Lord's voice do we seek his guidance May beginning we did imagine us coming back to Andre said hey give me my pen back but sometimes we do the same thing to God God says please take it today is a question question can you over dedicate yourself to God say Lord forgive me I Repent my body my soul were bought for you to glorify you to serve you I I now again dedicate myself to you but God large in his grace and he could he won't say I'm not I'm not you're not needed anymore and he say I am waiting I waited I knocked and you lived let us pray let us pray specifically about this dear church if someone needs to conf front we will pray for you it says to pray for one another this is a House of Prayer say Lord I want to give myself again to you and the Lord will accept it and if you put your faith in it and love amen amen let's close our eyes and pray during prayer if you need someone to pray for you please come to rededicate yourself before God In The Name of Jesus and for Jesus and you could do this Hallelujah for Hallelujah foru for aen [Music] we have some announcements for the following week today we will have youth service at 6 o' and today it will be open for each and every one of you today we will have brother Andrew he will be preaching and we invite anyone who is willing to come to youth service today and you know anyone who comes I believe that the word is going to be for them on Monday as usual we will have prayer service here and we will be praying for Ukraine for America for Israel also on Wednesday will be midweek service also at 7:30 and then on Sundays as usual at 10:30 we will start with a uh prayer service inside of the conference room and at 11 o' in the morning we will have service here next Sunday and we would like to thank everyone that came out yesterday who helped do the labor work outside we we sincerely thank you and also next month uh November 3rd we will have a celebration we will have two celebrations P we will be uh praying for uh Nikolai who will become pastor of the church and we will also have the day of Thanksgiving and we will be praying that the Lord will bless this day and the service is South Carolina also on the 10th of November we will have a uh brother come from Carolinas his name is dimitrio and we will be praying so that uh God will bless him and his word that he will be sharing here in our church because a lot of it counts on how we come to service is if do we come prep prepared or do we come not prepared if we pray for the upcoming service and we will prepare ourselves and we will come God can anoint any Pastor or preacher that will come and share the word of God with you but as of right now I would like to invite the group that will be singing and we will be uh giving ties have us bless Lord may God bless you for fore fore fore foree for Alex fore for for fore for [Music] foree [Music] [Music] fore [Music] for forign spee [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] spe fore [Music] s for uh and [Music] Pro certificate you peace be Fe to you brothers and sisters praise be to our god Martin Luther King said these words King Luther not King Luther Martin Luther King uh if you know the pro Protestants they have these five different teachings only the word of God Only God only Faith only thing Thanksgiving only Grace and the last thing was a very interesting phrase and it's uhia only God deserves Glory Bible I would like to thank each and every one of you for up upholding uh the seminar you know this doesn't it's not only helpful for those uh who listen but also those who serve and um it helps those who love your own family family members it helps you to uh serve better in your church and it also humbles you the uh teaching of the Bible humbles a person and you know uh without without the teaching we become balloons and we float up to the air and you know when we learn what the Bible says uh it humbles us and you know people who come to learn what the Bible says kind of admits that they don't know everything that the Bible says you know I was teaching in a seminar and a lot of uh people they work in uh uh the Hebrew teachings the the Hebrews they have uh these laws and it goes like this stop teaching when you stopped learning stop teaching when you stopped learning it is not moral for a person to uh teach something that they are themselves not learning anymore and so in the Hebrew culture uh there is no such thing as stopping learning one time I was in a synagogue in New Jersey and you know people uh kind of older every morning praying and uh learning is something that they always do constantly every [Music] morning you know you never hear the older gentleman say you know I'm older I've already learned everything I have experience and so on not and you know a philosopher once said that um I don't know anything that I don't know and he turns to his students and he says but you don't know this and you know to this point you need to know a lot and so I thank all of you who are here uh to learn I give greetings from uh my seminar and I also thank the brothers who up uh uplifted this uh service and you know you can't uh further a seminar if you don't have uh if you don't have help from Brothers all around you and so I would like to uh give a certificate to those who were learning some of those aren't here we uh engraved it very nicely and when you come and uh receive your certificate I ask that you stay on on the stage so we can take a picture and we would also uh be doing a program at the end you know learning in our church has has not stopped and uh every once in a while we will we will be inviting a uh kind of a professor so we would learn from them and my encouragement is for each and every one of you to come and learn as these these seminars happen we invite to the stage Sergi Seri murza sergy murza ananova Anna imanova Ina Pro Ira PUK pavuk pavuk Alexander ianov Alexander sarov Sana V pamario Karina kimchuk Peter clim chuk Seri Kovalchuk Marta baranet Ludmila kushnir Tim PUK liol vich EV Vali karski [Music] foreign spee for for [Music] [Music] am for before we hear the word from Andre I would like to make some announcement that that we have missed on the 9th of November the 9th we will have a family seminar on the 9th of November December November that's what I said of November thank you for correcting and so the man that uh Oleg was uh talking about he will be uh leading this seminar on November 9th we will be making this announcement uh later on the screens but uh on the 9th of November at 11:00 and it'll be going through till 2: p.m. and we invite everyone to be there praise God once again brothers and sisters we will be entering the word of God it is very important to listen to the word of God in church amen there's a difference between an organized uh Gathering and a word of God Gathering and you know sometimes people say oh today God hasn't spoken to me you know sometimes we say you know God spoke to my mother or the pastor but he didn't speak to me and you know us pastors we are um responsible for the words that come out of our mouths when we are standing up on stage but we can't be responsible for where the word of God lands and you know sometimes uh this isn't um this isn't a worldly problem amen amen let's go ahead and uh open up the 23rd chapter of Matthew we will be talking about a spiritual uh law today you know in this world there are laws correct there are physical laws and uh bi laws and uh you know there's the laws of gravity when you throw something up it has to come down it falls down why because there's a law and you know you you you don't have to necessarily believe in this law and you know you might say oh Isaac Newton came up with these laws and and you know these laws don't don't affect me so I don't mind about them and you know to me it it seems like this is a problem or a tragedy and you know because laws they exist not because somebody believes in them or they don't you know you might plant an orange tree and and expect apples to grow but that's not what's going to happen because it's not by law and you know in this chapter 23 of Matthew we read in this verse we will read uh verse 11 and 12 the greatest among you will be your servant for those who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves will be exalted this is a very easy law what what can be uh easier than this if you want to be exalted you must humble yourself and if you walk humbly then you will be exalted but if you exalt yourself if you don't see in front of you enemies if there is no one accusing you the Bible warns and says those will be humbled and you know this law it you can see it happening in anywhere of the world any country any church anywhere you go and even if you don't believe in this law and you know you might think God this is definitely not about me and this is very important those this this affects everyone those who exalt themselves will be humbled and you you might think that oh this is just for people who are higher maybe the pastors and the deacons and the leaders of the church no this is for everyone and you know it says two times that you will be and you will be this way and that way and you know it's not uh uh we will see how life goes for some people it will be and for some people it won't be but for everyone it will be and you know this uh law isn't just from different personalities of the Bible this isn't just for people but it's also for angels and I'll show you later this law is from God it's Universal for everyone let's go ahead and open Isaiah chapter 14 there are uh two different uh topics In this passage in chapter 14 vers uh 12 and 13 you have said in your heart I will come to Heaven let's see how many words says uh to come to Heaven how you have fallen from Heaven Morning Star son of the Dawn you have been cast down to earth you who laid low to the [Music] Nations you said in your heart I will Ascend to Heaven you'll raise my throne above the stars of God it's an interesting picture I will sit upon the throne I will be higher than the stars but there's a p there there's a period but you will be cast down like you have fallen from from Heaven you know who this passage is talking about right uh the Hebrews they they say that this was a kind of like a glorification of God and you know uh it talks about the pride when he started uplifting himself you've said in your own heart and you know um this uh this seed it has uh kind of like a a sense of Pride and where there is pride there will always be a a falling down and the Bible says that this this law came into fruition uh for people and uh in in my sermon we're talking about uh a um uh putting yourself up on a pedestal in the Book of Proverbs the wise King sa King Solomon in Proverbs uh chapter 18: 17 you know King Solomon he had a lot of uh hard things on on loaded on his heart before the downfall of the heart is hoty but humility comes before honor so before the downfall this this this is the problem it says that the heart is hotti meaning that it starts to reflect upon itself and kind of think about itself so any any before any downfall it doesn't H it doesn't begin on stage it begin begins in the heart and we were just reading in the Bible about Satan and when he was putting himself up on that pedestal imagining himself on that throne and so in in that passage it says that that uh downfall it started all in in Satan's heart before the downfall uh person thinks very highly about about themselves but before the glory before Heaven always comes humbleness because every single person that that humbles themselves will be exalted and you know maybe a lot of us are going through this Valley in our lives of this this uh uh this place of humbleness don't think of yourselves when you're going through these problems in your lives that God has for forgotten you or Forsaken and you know a lot of times in the Bible before every exaltation became was humbleness you know in Proverbs it it talks a lot L about being humble before humbleness be comes three important things who remembers these things the first and most important thing is the fear of God how do you become a humble person one the one thing is in their lives they have a lot of fear God the fear of God comes before humbleness and what comes second a lot of riches and glories it's funny you can be humble and you going have Rich you might you might say you you get uh um um craftiness but 24 and 25 it it say it doesn't say that 244 224 this law is for everyone and this law also was for Angels but not only to Angels let's go ahead and open up in the Bible uh Philippians and it talks about the first church in the Bible where they were singing Psalms the second chapter of [Music] Philippian and Apostle Paul he writes to this church and he says I want to show you something important that every Christian should have in their lives and uh in verse five he starts by saying I want you to have the same thoughts as Jesus Christ I want you I want to teach you how to uh carry yourselves as a Christian and you know uh how do you uh become a Christian how do you how do you uh carry yourself as a Christian what characteristics you need to have in the Church of the Phil Philippians they there were a lot of Romans a lot of wealthy people they were very proud of what they had of all the the quantities of what they had in their lives and Apostle Paul he says I want to show you this height in a Christian Life in your go back in your Rel relationships with one another have the same mindset as Jesus Christ and the next verse who being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage I want uh I want to take you to this height some people might not even fathom in their minds Jesus Christ was in the likeness of God but he did not equal equalify himself to God the Father who he who was Christ Jesus in himself who who was God who uh in all uh voice in his uh in his own words he said he did not put himself to pedestal of God the Father who is the alpha omega Paul says that Christ humbled himself uh and the second point is that he he made himself as a servant to be equal to humans here on Earth and in his likeness became a human he humbled himself and in two times it says he humbled himself up to the up until the point where he died on the cross and there's a period here and a very important word here because because because God exalted him and God gave him he exalted him and he named him higher than any name known to man and uh question that I'd like to ask everyone here is why God the fa why did God the Father exalt his son so highly because every person who humbles himself will be exalted imagine this picture that God himself humbled himself to the likeness of humans so that he would be exalted and you know for us it it'll be a little bit different but in in the Bible it says it this way and you know a servant's job is to wash a master's feet but I would like to show you something else the reverence of your height is it uh the amount of your humbleness uh pretty much measures the amount of exalt exalt that you will receive and you know uh they were kind of measuring the the kind of human that Jesus was even pilot said what kind of person is this to be treated in this manner to be spat on and and uh ashamed in this kind of manner but for the eyes of the father this was the maximum amount of exalt then the best and so he gave his all his glory and he gave him the best of all names you know the Bible is is filled with paradoxal and you know it's kind of hard for our minds to think about this uh you know it says in the Bible uh chapter uh one one uh 1 n in James Believers in Humble circumstances ought to take pride in in their High position you know believers they might be in this deep hole and you know uh it it talks about these Believers in in this uh humble circumstance and it says uh if you want to be wise be wise in God the father if you want to live you need to die and if you don't die you won't live if you want to be first you need to be last if you want to be in a high position you need to humble yourself and you know when we read about these uh these circumstances we read it refers to angels to humans and and to everyone alike God lifts up a person and after that many many many years of humbleness so that you would be exalted highly why does it take so long we say because we don't change the speed and so in order to uh receive this exalt from God we must humble ourselves for a long time and uh in in the book of Isaiah it it talks it says how God looks for these people not not big people not uh not important people not smart people no he looks for the humble he looks for the for the gentle hearted hearted and uh those who tremble by God and we ask why does God look for these broken these heavy-hearted and you know we people we might have gifts and we might have anointing and you know when you see these gifts in your life you see that God has given you these gifts for a reason but our broken spirit this uh Readiness to serve comes from only from ourselves and you know when we when we uh see in Egypt all those broken people Nothing is happening with them and you know uh he he um somebody help me out please Moses he kind of uh thinks uh to himself that he's supposed to take these people out but somehow it doesn't work out and uh Moses thinks oh maybe in a Year everyone will be out and safe and and that'll be all but God sent them into a desert 40 years in a desert and you know their Egyptian perfume probably smell go away their their clothes kind of get holes and wrinkly and and uh they start fading away and you know their Egyptian clothes kind of uh changed colors and faded and the Bible says that Moses humbled himself before all the people and you know somebody may may have come up to Moses and said Moses who do who do you think you are what kind of person are you what does Moses say and and he says he says to Pharaoh uh let me let me take my stick where's my stick give me my stack and look at the reaction of Moses and he says that God himself will show you who I am he he falls on the face uh uh before God here's what humbleness does it it lifts you up and so our job is to Humble ourselves and for God God's job is to lift us up and you know uh this this happens when we flip our foundation because in order for God to exalt you he must first humble you the last uh point I want to make before we go to prayer F soon it's going to be uh Christmas and you know why why did God choose Mary a simple person uh who was just here on Earth and you know Gabriel when he came to her and he said Rejoice for God has chosen you and you know uh in Mary's life there will there will come this uh massive e exaltation there will be people who will look to you wow wow me and Mary says maybe it's a different Mary in another address not me but Gabriel came to that address you you might think that she might have thought that right who am I and she says uh let let God's will be done for I am his servant and you know when Gabriel leaves she starts being filled with the Holy Spirit and she starts singing Psalms and this this question stands why did God choose Mary and it says that you have come and chosen a servant of [Music] God and because of that many nations will be blessed you have come to your humble and faithful servant praise God because every single person who humbles himself will be exalted by God God has so much blessing there are so many missions and high places there are so many wonderful stories in life but I will cast my eyes on them says the Lord I will be looking for the brokenhearted but so that their names will not be glorified but my name will be glorified through them and even this Mary a very simple and poor family like many of us but God looks at the Heart of Mary and your your name will be glorified says and Peter says uh to uh humble yourselves with with each other have this sense of humbleness to towards one another and uh in in another translation it says to clothe yourselves in humbleness why because God seeks the humble and the humble he get he gives him exaltation and so humble yourselves under his hand so that him in his own time will lift you up because this is the law praise God let us PR amenu hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah for foru [Music] amen amen we thank brother Andrew for the word he had today I want to share something from myself after you can support me if you feel like it I I want to say I want to be the magnet that attracts God's grace and for the God's grace to attract well what do you have to do for that humble yourself to the very bottom and lift up someone else because we can sometimes put someone down saying Rejoice because that's what the scripture say now we have to uplift each other I want to read a short passage before our prayer and that is my wish for each one of us so that the love of God and for and the love of each one of us for each other that it would increase we have a thank you now for a successful surgery we have a prayer request for help as well we have another prayer request so let us get up on our Fe and for for for [Music] you may bless each other and be dismissed