Give Thanks and Examine Your Harvest

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e e e e e for for h for okay for for for he Brother s dear brothers and sisters and our guests I greet you all with the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ peace be with you the time has come to go into our Godly service but before we continue I ask you to turn to your neighbor greet them and say you are in the house of the Lord but we're if we're in the house of God we have to do three things listen very carefully we have to pray that is first second we have to sing loud and joyfully and the third thing is listen carefully to the word of God our service today is going to be a little bit longer than usual we have the day of Thanksgiving today and in the first part of the service Pastor Lon will be serving and then after that we will have the ordination for the for being a pastor to Nikolai vich and Bishop ruk will be doing that VI and also our exor pastor of our church will be serving us uh Victor lenko and then people will share their [Music] greetings and it's going to be a nice beautiful banquet the the greatest Cooks of Florida prepared this banquet it's our sisters and our wives some of them have been up since the very morning and they've been a little bit upset because it hasn't been how they wanted but everything will be good I'm gonna read the word of God and I ask you to please stand uh Exodus chapter 15 verse one [Music] [Music] for for [Music] amen [Applause] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] for [Music] [Music] fore for [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you to be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you for [Music] ien light of the world Tre of heaven really like the stars in the win Sky joy of the father reach through the darkness shine across the Earth send the Shad to light of the world from the beginning toes of time where no match for your love great heart of Glory you s my story you enter and onor sing Hallelujah sing Hallelujah sing Hallelujah for the things he has done come and adore him bow down 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[Music] [Music] you foree [Music] [Music] youee [Music] [Music] hallelu Hu [Music] for amen Hallelujah C Hallelujah if we had a full understanding what's taking place in heaven I'm sure we would have behaved differently today because in heaven day and night is being proclaimed that he is Holy and holy God Almighty and we are in this service today where Earth in heaven gets United because God is a great God if it wasn't our God and God forbid what would have happened to us where we would end up with but but the mercy of God was over judgment and we here standing before his face today and in this service we being tested today May every service that we have be a gathering where we have this fellowship with the Lord but God's anointing and God's glory would fill all of us because before we were here on Earth he has prepared a food for all of us not only that he gives what we have on our tables not only he gives us the clothes to wear it's great but what's most important he is filling a spiritual table and he's feeling by his presence from his glory praise be to may God's power and his grace will transform our hearts and during this day of Thanksgiving we would rejoice and be pleasant what we see in front but through this celebration today let's look deeper into our hearts let's have a conversation with ourselves how fruitful are we before the Lord how are we representing his kingdom here in Earth here is why we need to that every service that we have there would not be just the fellowship with one another but every service you would have a fellowship with the Lord even if I did not come here to this place it would be nothing even if the brothers would not come it's not that important but what's most important that he would be himself presing Among Us and the Holy Spirit would guide us today May Holy Spirit would guide Brothers it's God who's building up the church here all those services and Ministries that we have by Design to build up the church it also speaks that we are gathered together participating in this ministry and that's why the word of God is telling us he is the lord of the of the the harvest [Music] because he's the one who gives the laws and Commandments to Israel and that's also being spoken to us today because in all of our days on in our Liv this sowing reaping does not end and that's why it's extremely important to focus our attention on our own condition for turn to your neighbor and say it is the time to seek the Lord tell one another it is a time to seek the Lord it is not a time to do something else but it's time to seek the Lord and that's the heart that sing starts with us seeking and seeking him from the bottom of our heart that he could be found by us when he comes he will pour out his truth on us what we are sewing it depends on all of us individually and what we are sowing will be time will come will will gather in the Harvest this time will come for someone sooner for someone later but the word of God is telling us very clear in Galatians 67 and8 I would like to ask you a question and awaken your heart today where is your desire to SW today are you going to be sewing into the spirit are you going to sew into the flesh because those that s into the flesh there will harvest destruction but those that s into the spirit will reap eternal life that's the ministry it is something that lifts every one of us and for us to understand from what we are sowing depends whether we going to be there now and may the Holy Spirit speak to us and every Harvest depends on the seed that was swn when a God's seed's being sewn into your life it is bringing the fruit and the word of God is very clear about in Galatians 3:16 if we going to be sowing into our spirit and doing harvest the results will be in 50 60 or 100 but many people have stopped they just justify I'm in I'm in a Lord's House I'm fine but the calling is for us to do something is to participate that through this Harvest celebration we would have this renewal of a spirit a a flesh and and and body that from the bottom of from top of our heads to the bottom of we would fully belong to because the word of God is telling us who is God's they're the one knows him that's why church needs to know and harvest your your life depends on har the question i' would like to give you one more time there's moments when people saw something and then when Harvest comes they regret about it but may the Holy Spirit speak to us today the word of God it talks a lot about Harvest and the question is what's what's important is that what you are sewing is because there was storing wind there will be reaping the storm you know recently we experienced this hurricane you know there was this small beginning and but many people I'm sure even evacuated your city because the storm came my dear brothers and sisters the the celebration of harest it needs to stir up us here that we not to fall into the category of people that are sowing those that are sowing gossip those that are swing disrespect behind all of this the storm is they will not reap the bread but I would like to invite your heart there is a wonderful passage in the word of God and my desire that this passage would touch your heart is Genesis Isaac planted crops in that land the same year reaped a aund fold because the Lord blessed and it says the Isaac was swing into that land and he received hundredfold but most important it says because God has blessed him I would like to turn to all of you here today take this passage from the word of God and instead of name of Isaac put your name in there and sayson was sewing into this and your name fell in the blanks sowing those things and they were received 100 fold is because God has blessed him May every service is be a preparation for this wonderful time when we are with all other holy ones was call upon him and say Isaiah 259 Hallelujah it is our Lord and may everyone in this [Music] service this is what heaven speaks today with those that are you met him at one point they will say it that day he is my god when we finally see him face to face and he looks at us and we look at him back and says you are my Lord because all my hope is in you is in you Lord chge let's give praise to our Lord even if something's not right there is a time of the renewal a time to get to know him more that the time will come and he will will appear and we will see him and may God bless every one of us that all of us here we could say he is my Lord the one that I put my Hope on it will be a great joy and celebration it is when the entire Earth is going to be United with heaven and that reward that his gift we will bow before him and we will take our our and we will say with the Holy ones you are worthy you are worthy because everything belongs to you may there not be a single person in the service today that these words when they touch you and to be said what let's come to read next everything's passing away this everything's changing in this and one time through the Prophet Jeremiah this very powerful word was being told they also were rejoicing cating they may be got before his face just like we do today son the Holy Spirit starts speaking through uh Jeremiah the Harvest has passed summer has ended and we are not I would like to turn to all of us here and I'm speaking to my first because when this Harvest passed pass it is everything that God is taking every service it is what God is testing us and one time this word was the Harvest came the summer ended and but the most painful one they did not understand that they are not saved in the name of Jesus Christ dear Church let's examine our hearts is any obstacle in your life today for you this summer of Grace is being extended to until this Harvest comes because Harvest is the the end of time and this great division will come there's ones going to be separated to the left others to the right but ask yourself a question looking at this blessing how am I fruitful before the Lord how am I filled with his word today how is the power of God's word is transform I would like to remind one more time this passage the Harvest passed the summer has ended and we are not saved thear church I'm blessing you what the prophet Isaiah said when we finally me every single one of us you will say Lord you are the one that I put my all my trust it is your harest it is being you know United in two celebrations here you know Harvest is the joy and celebration you know Israelites they did not celebrate two hours they were celebrating this for seven days to fully understand and comprehend what God did in their Liv oh dear Church please that through this celebration of harest God would like to reveal your condition and how fruitful you are before him and also through this celebration may God would build up your church God puts his ministries in so the church would edify it is our you know Harvest together it is our you know together what we before that a bishop Victor Leon was a pastor of the church Pastor nikol was a pastor Pastor vasile was a pastor in the transition but we all entering into this Harvest somebody's sewing somebody's throwing those Apostle Paul says I was swing that Apollos was watering but Lord is the one who's given grow and we are just ministers participants co-workers with you coworkers in this great may God bless you brother my God's anointing be on you may the word from God be on your Li let the power of His grace but most importantly I would like to give you that not my hands but the hands of God they will be upon you that God's grace that the Church of Jesus Christ through your ministry would enter into his that through your ministry every single member of church everything that are here and there will be that there will be part partaken in this dear Church bless dear Church hunger and in this Harvest day of harvest open your hearts for the Lord and if we are lack in something may this stream of God's would fill your heart would bless you and encourage you I'm blessing you by the name of Jesus Christ that it would be like a city that is united in one and every single one of you would bring Harvest before in the name of Jesus Amen dear Church let's stand up and pray and during this in this prayer how are you ready to bring this Harvest before and if you find something pray before him May the his his his living Str for Aman you may be seated Church fore [Music] [Applause] [Music] spee [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for and worthy Your Glory great are your lord and worthy your praise great are you Lord I lift up my voice I lift up my [Music] [Applause] [Music] voice you [Music] [Music] for fore [Music] [Applause] [Music] speee foreign foree [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] St [Music] sh stop [Music] for your [Music] the [Music] [Music] we thank our choir we thank Pastor larion for the word of God we thank you for our worship team and we thank everyone that so wonderfully so amazingly prepared this celebration we truly thank every one of you that you have came to this place it's our big uh service of Thanksgiving we're also going to have uh Thanksgiving for the bread that God gives us every day today every fourth person in the world goes to sleep hungry but God has truly blessed us and we will see this even in our banquet so we will earnestly thank God for the bread and also we will thank God for the word of God through what we have eternal [Music] life let us stand before God's face and pray amen for [Applause] [Music] for for [Music] [Music] let's all say Lord thank you you may take your seats praise be to God dear church are you thankful today are you really thankful to [Music] God look at all these fruits and the things we have today you know sometimes we aren't thankful because we have everything but if you take those things away right away we will value them you know the first time I ever went to Haiti on a mission trip you know I went from America we were there for a couple of weeks and I remember the first time I came back to America I I seriously thank God for the lights I thank God for the air conditioning we have why because for two weeks I didn't have it I want our hearts to be filled with Thanksgiving for everything because God truly has blessed us amen I want to make a few announcements for this upcoming week today we will not have youth service but tomorrow as usual we have a Monday prayer service at 7:30 p.m. we pray for America we will continue to pray for the election that is coming up we're praying for Ukraine and for Israel that God would give peace also on Wednesday we have a prayer service at 7:30 p.m. and next week on Sunday we'll have a members meeting we invite please every member of the church be here but if you're not able to make it you can go speak with the pastor also this Saturday we'll have a family seminar it'll be from 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the theme will be how to be a happy family who wants to be in a happy family I think all of us want to so we invite everybody even those that are happy today so that you would be even more happy and maybe those that don't even have a family yet but you plan to have a family we also invite you because you will hear some important things and with us we'll have have Pastor Dimitri and llo who will go through that theme and now we'll have a uh offering please we invite sister Bella to come [Music] up and also I want to remind you next week on Sunday we will have our communion service remembering and we will prepare our hearts before the Lord may the Lord bless you all [Music] who is the great king of glory Seated on high in the heavens oh Jesus you [Music] alone you are the Lord God [Music] Almighty strong in compassion and mercy oh Jesus is you alone I've searched the world for a love that could fill my heart but nothing compares to the Wonder of Who You Are Holy all the earth singing Holy all the Angels cry holy Jesus you alone Jesus you are alone you set the stares in the heavens you set the world into motion oh Jesus you alone you breathed your life in creation you walked among your created it all Jesus you and I've searched the world for a love that could fill my heart with nothing compar to The Wonder of who you are ho all the earth singing Holy all the Angels cry holy Jesus you are [Applause] [Music] [Applause] worthy all creation seems worthy All The Heavens exalt thee Jesus you Jesus you [Applause] [Music] thank thank you for praising our Lord I want to thank the have a prayer of Thanksgiving to the Lord that he gives us finances here in America let us stand for pray amen please take your seats we're going to the second part of our important service and I want to invite Bishop who is also the superintendent of our district of the Assemblies of God and so we invite him to um leave this second part of the service thank you Pastor it's very wonderful to be here on this amazing celebration with my wife this celebration of Thanksgiving we as Believers were actually very thankful people to God [Music] we are very blessed people here on this Earth but our biggest blessing is still ahead of [Music] us today is also the ordination of uh brother Nikolai vich as the senior pastor of the church ministers are gifts of God to the church and before I invite brother Nikolai and sister Natalia here to the front I first want to invite brother vasili and um here to come to the front um one year ago we had a meeting here in your church and we had the decision by the church to give brother vasili the ministry and it so that brother Vil who not long ago turned came back from his ministry in Europe would be for a Time the pastor of the church he did not have an easy assignment he had to create a friendly good environment here in the church to prepare the church for the uh election or voting for a pastor and from our Brotherhood Brotherhood brother vasili we thank you you completed your assignment we thank you sister love for your help to your and do you know what else I wanted to thank you for for a good example of your ministry to the Lord that you've left for our children you know looking at your family we see that your son Nikolai he's agreed to the ministry and along with the pastor and the father brother vasili we will um have the ordination service for the son brother my desire is that you would continue to be active in the church to help and to listen to the new pastor let's stand for a prayer and we'll bless brother and we'll thank the Lord for their Ministry let us pray for [Music] amen we thank you please take your seats I I want to thank our church every minister of our Brotherhood and may God truly truly bless you all I love you very much and I don't even want to give up the ministry brother [Music] Nikolai that is for you from the church may God bless you all I remember me and my wife Lily were standing here a year ago and they were greeting [Music] us and brother vasil stepped into this ministry and he has completed on all five may God bless you now we're you know you know praise one another and in time it'll return to you I invite the ushers to take those two chairs and bring them here to the front and brother Nikolai and sister Natalie please come to the front um to be in front of the church you know we take every minute of the service very quickly please come to the front I want to give a short word to brother Nikolai and his wife I'll read one verse it's going to be Acts chapter 20 verse 28 Apostle Paul once in this pastor's meeting shared these words for the pastors he called from Ephesus and he says the church is the Church of the Lord and God [Music] and turning to these pastors he says keep watch over yourselves and all the flock to turn your attention to something to listen to and hear out brother Nikolai first first thing is to keep watch over yourself and to the whole flock the role of the pastor spiritually in the church to give true teaching and before the people hear the voice from us pastors before the pulpit this word is given to us ourselves to stay in God's word Apostle Paul taught Timothy to be in the scriptures take part in this always in this way you will save yourself and those listening to you to study to study the word and may this word first touch you personally John says to keep watch over yourself so that we would not lose what we worked for but so we would receive a full reward being a pastor is a great privilege but at the same time it's a great responsibility the second thought I want to leave with you from this U passage the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to watch over the flock of the the Holy Spirit has put you brother Nikolai the Holy Spirit has put you you know very often when they put a new pastor they give him one year of a testing period God has taken your pastor a special way it was a test it was a little bit it was everything that God wanted to take your pastor through and today is the ordination and Apostle Paul just a few verses above says these words ver 24 and he says I Look to nothing and I don't I consider my life worth nothing my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace the words of Apostle Paul all two times they underline the same thought he says the Holy Spirit has put you and here he says I desire to fulfill my Ministry that I received from the Lord I want to leave one important thought but I want to say that sometimes pastors have these trials where they think they need to be good and please everyone you know to greet to look into the needs of different people so that everyone was happy but I want to say it's not going to work out like that you won't be able to please everybody people very often change their mind even towards you you know maybe somebody today they support you but tomorrow they just pass you by always love people they will change again continue to love people continue to serve people but may your ministry always rely on God the Holy Spirit has set you you've received the ministry from the Lord with joy fulfill it serve people and please God and your fruit will be shown may God bless you in this at the end of our service Bishop Victor Lono will be sharing you will hear this word and I want to share a few more Thoughts with brother Nikolai the Holy Spirit has put you as an overseer an overseer is somebody that protects something he watches over something very simply put in two days we'll have the election in America how do you think do we need an overseer that will keep control of things I remember the last election it was a little a little bit scary it's very good when they protect us we delegate some of our rights we give up some of our rights so that we could live safely and once upon a time there was people that would stand on the walls and they would give a sound a siren of things coming when you're in danger and it was very important God has put you as an overseer May the church where you fulfill your ministry always have order our God is a god of order Jesus says in his prayer coming to a finish with his ministry he he says to God the ones you have given me I give them none of them has passed away Pastor Nikolai give your people to God's presence so they would all be protected by the Lord are you many times in America when people greet each other they say how are you we know this is that formal greeting they don't want to really look into the problems of other people but Jesus he looked into the problems of other people a church is a place where we serve one another another a church is a place where our problems are solved and our friends and May in this God bless brother Nikolai to Shepherd the minister is responsible for the spiritual growth of the people we put together things from what we see what we hear from what we read who we fellowship with may God bless as a church you dear brothers and sisters so that you would feed yourself with healthy food and you would be able to grow and the third thought I want to leave from this passage verse 28 the Holy Spirit has put you to be a Shepherd over the Church of God which he bought with his own blood brothers and sisters we are bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ in church there are many different people in the churches where people are constantly growing they're going from one level to another level sometimes they can make mistakes but always remember brother Nikolai this is God's people for them there was a price paid that was great it is not our church it is not your church it is the Church of Jesus Christ and take care of it he chooses the best of the best for them to serve in the church he has bought it with his own blood the church is the people here on Earth that the blood was poured out for and I want to turn to Sister Natalia for a very short word you're going into the ministry of your husband you might even have your own ministry that's not based off your husband like being the choir director or being in charge of a different Ministry but I think the most important role you have as the wife of the pastor so that Nikolai would succeed as pastor I believe that God as he was appointing this assignment for brother Nikolai that he would go into this ministry when he's married with you and your things that you bring so that the ministry would be blessed of brother Nikolai so that you would support you would pray so that you would look at it with understanding it is your ministry together and when God um rewards you at the end your reward would be the same as your husband's support your husband so that your fruit was bless your husband I also want to leave this with you so that with joy you would fulfill your ministry [Music] uh don't be lazy with laziness there's always a trial that comes with every Ministry always you know sometimes when the mother ask the children to clean the floor or clean something else and little children very often they'll say why does it have to be why not my sister and you know it's not a good thing to hear for parents I want to say in the same way the team of the pastor all the ministers don't answer to him why must I do this better to say here I am I will do what you have assigned me in this is God's blessing because speaking about the talents God spoke about the lazy servants but we are not lazy another thing is love people all our ministry is based on love towards God and people Jesus said to Peter do you love me P Peter replied yes Lord I know that you know that I love you and Jesus said if you love me here my children take care of them love people this helps you have enough patience to serve and not grow weary Jesus in the beginning LED church and then he gave himself up love people and the third thing is be faithful in your ministry you know with the ordination you have a certain responsibility that's going you're beginning your ministry be faithful faithful to God and faithful to the local church that has given you this may God bless you that you would be a faithful servant from the ones that build the houses everyone needs to be Fai we are coming to the important part of the ordination of brother Nikolai we're going to be praying everyone the church especially will be praying so that in everything brother Nikolai does the name of our God would be praised may this ministry be built brother Nikolai very beautifully begins this ministry my desire is that God would bless him in this and in his time he would fulfill it to the end and about this we will pray I just invite you to stand on this side there's a little bit more room and in just a moment they'll bow their knees and first brother Nikolai will pray and I invite that their children please come stand next to them as well come to the front a great support in the ministry is when children bless their father and support him and we will pray to um for to ordain brother Nikolai and as well as the bishop Victor Lono will lay hands and pray episc also Bishop Lon maslo the father and Pastor vas also Pastor Nikolai so in the beginning brother Nikolai will pray Pastor then Pastor vasil vich and then Bishop um will finish and then for the family brother let us stand to our feet Brothers I called the brothers that I called please come up to the front also all pastors that are here in this place all pastors that are here please come to the front you'll stretch your hand as we pray Come Bless church this is a day to remember brother Nikolai sister Natalia they need God's blessing may their Ministry be blessed blessed by God and the prayer of the church has a very important role God hears your prayer Natalia please bow bow your knees brother Nikolai and sister Natalia Nikolai brother Nikolai you can pray for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for amen for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] amen [Music] for for [Music] [Music] m [Music] for amen for [Music] [Music] amen you may take a step back back we want to congratulate you with our Brotherhood the certificate this document will always remind you of this day we we want to bless you as well as from the church congratulate you [Applause] please you may take your seats we'll have a time to congratulate them in some time just so I don't have to come out two times you may here in the front this is where you may take your seats we're gonna have one more song and then we'll have the sermon from Bishop Victor Li but I want to say a few things you know I've I've been friends with Victor for a long time and you know we gather with some brothers with and they tell him Victor you look amazing but they say to me vasil we can't even recognize you this is what it means to be a bishop he will be preaching after the song Brothers if you could please come [Music] for for [Music] [Music] for [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] foree [Music] [Applause] [Music] for foree [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] [Music] fore for [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] my greetings for the church greetings for family of vich greetings to to Pastor Nikolai the day has come the day has come this day that the Lord himself has planned for your church brother Nikolai we thank you that you've received this torch of the ministry church we thank you that you've um entrusted him with the torch of the ministry but here I have a word not only for brother Nikolai as the pastor but to the whole church because the healthy Ministry of the pastor relies not only on him and his family but it relies on all of you I think you want to have this successful Ministry so that it would be even greater than before so look into this become a part of this ministry and a successful Pastor has a church that supports the pastor and the most talented the most gifted Pastor as a person without his helpers without the Brotherhood without the members of the church he will not be successful we're reading 1 Timothy 1:8 and 19 Nikolai you've been fighting the battle well in a different translation be a a soldier like on a battle listen to these word not just to be a [Music] soldier or to have the calling of a soldier but to be a soldier that is at Battle At War [Music] the next passage is 2 Corinthians chapter 10: 3 and 4 the theme of this sermon this word it's almost asked as a question is is life lived by inertia or is it in a spiritual war I think is there a difference between inertia and War what is inertia I looked up the definition and hear what they say about the word inertia is The Stance of nothing you know just slowly moving until an outside force adjust this stance inertia is without any anything it's without anything it's absence of initiative but War it is to attack it's to battle it's to show your strength it's to defeat to stand against to stand against something you might say what what is the brother preaching you know the pastor needs to step into these arguments we read what Apostle Paul called unto Timothy for he said you must battle you have to go to war and you have to do this like you are at War but you have to be a so soldier in the barracks where they live it's totally different than being a soldier in the trenches where the bullets fly by the mines are exploding loing bombs are tanks are driving at you this is the soldier that is a tested Soldier you know those that served as a soldier they know there's different [Music] service you know some of us served as soldiers in the Soviet Union we didn't have a choice we had to serve there and certain soldiers had this little calendar and when the day would pass they would they would use a needle to poke through that day on the calendar they were waiting until the day would come when they would get to go home but our battle our war dear Church we are not waiting until it ends and our battle our war will never end maybe that's good news for some for them not to relax once Lucifer very first he stood against God and from that time in the spiritual world this spiritual war continues and continues and continues it had a beginning but it does not have an end until the day where the Lord comes back to this earth and receives his church to him so it's a very important question where do we stand today ourselves are we soldiers that are only dressed like soldiers maybe we only have the calling of a soldier or are we a soldier that is at Battle like he is at war I'm going to remind you members of the church when we U made the commitment with the Lord through water baptism what did we promise our good conscience we promised our conscience our good conscience and also we confess that we believe in the Son of God and we step into this commitment with the Lord and Apostle Paul writes to Timothy to have faith and a good conscience you know Believers are everyone who believes is that true or no brothers and sisters but what about with conscience does is everyone in the church somebody with the conscience you know sometimes you have different people you know so it's very important so that along with our faith we had a good conscience and the life of a Christ the life of the pastor of the church that is it's the life that supports the gospel so our words our actions they all align with the word of God the life of a in the army of Jesus Christ that is a life of responsibility it requires strength it requires patience it requires faithfulness the life is like a life of a minister of the church it is not the life to sit on the couch it is not a life of inertia it is not a life of laziness or this unright living this example the lord gave me when I Was preparing remembered how we used to drive in Ukraine around the Soviet Union we didn't have automatic cars everyone had that uh um stick shift gearbox and so what did we do you know I worked on big vehicles and buses you know you would get a lot of speed and you'd put it in neutral you know what NE you put it in neutral gear you know we're thinking we're saving on gas and when the neutral is working when we're going up a hill or when we're going straight and down a hill you know in a life as a Christian you won't make it very far in neutral because dear Church the life of a Christian isn't a life going down hill it's a life going up a hill but when we're driving up a hill that's when neutral does not work you have to go down in the gears maybe your engines Roar but we know you cannot stop because then it's going to be hard to St and there's the chance you might roll down brother Nikolai do life the ministry of the pastor it is not inertia oh it'll take oh somehow it'll work the same way Natalia knows with the choir nothing will happen if nobody and everyone in the ministry they can't just be however they want but for the best very great thing very terrible thing that happens is when laziness comes into the church you know let's just relax let's not do those things oh like those virgins they say oh well he's not here we'll sleep a little bit more we are called to wait wait for the coming of Our Lord not just wait for him but we have to prepare and him we have to tell him how we lived what fruit did we br today we're celebrating a lot of fruit and someone had to work for them to be here and will be there be difficulties in the pastor's Ministry is there difficulties in the life of a Christian there will be if you don't have them right now just be ready they will come they will be there and the church will be tested and the pastor and the ministers will be tested so let's Hold On Together to encourage one another I like one more word from Paul to Timothy second Timothy chapter 2 verse3 amen join in suffering join in suffering and one thing I don't understand like a good [Music] soldier you know for soldiers you need to be very strong faithful you'd have to have strength to attack but here they're talking something about being so that means being good does not go automatically go in that word of so in our spiritual [Music] war sometimes we have to stand against we have to attack and there's one more very important thing that the devil is afraid of is our love and our goodness oh how strong is it is when we are good and we love so when they're waiting for us to explode and to give Revenge but we just turn the other cheek and somebody want like this you know like a rule when you present your cheek they don't already hit the hand will not raise to hit be a good soldier of Jesus Christ Church let's be good soldiers of Jesus Christ we don't have the right to be afraid of Trials or to be afraid of enemy did and a lot of people say today did you hear brother Victor what's going on what's in the what's gonna happen here on this Earth I said I don't entertain those things I don't even listen to what is on the Bible says everything about what will be here and we don't need some revelation the Bible reveals that it'll be difficult times the church and so we would prepare for this we would not relax somewhere on our beds but we would be soldiers in the trenches for Jesus Christ we would stand behind the church behind God's work brother Nikolai you will need to fight and we will all need f for the Salvation of people for the Salvation of children widows for the freedom of any kind of addictions or sin people have we also need to stand behind the older people brother n so they would good they would pass by to prepare them for their meeting with the Lord because everyone says oh you have to look for the Youth for the young families but when a person is getting ready to and I've seen this myself they they're already looking at their salvation they're saying oh I don't know if I deserve my salvation but the time has come to so you need to even so with joy they would receive the day of their passing into the other life Ephesians chapter 6 verse2 this means our battle our struggle is not against people but for people people but like a pastor and every Christian we must think about somebody else and not only about ourselves we have to stretch out our hands and help those that fell those that in not look at them and say oh they're unclean but go to those people maybe they don't dress like us they don't talk like us but for that reason there is a church here to struggle and fight for the Salvation of people the in the Book of Revelations Allah La is written to the angels of the churches what is waiting for the church how the church must live but there there's a very important word that the Overcomer will so not just to go and battle not just to go and stand against but in that war to overcome not to run away from the enemy to go back to the be but to stand against all the enemy and nothing will harm you the Overcomer receives fall praise God for that kind of promise we'll go back to the beginning let's remember what we read in the beginning be a soldier like is that who is at War having faith and a good conscience today we have already remembered about Aaron and her the ones that lifted up the hands of Moses from one side is family from the other side is church that lift up the hands of the pastor and here we don't only have the focus on three but there is a fourth in the story at the bottom was Joshua and how these three were keeping themselves on on that's what relied on what was down in the battlefield and we know when the hands ofes when they lifted his hands when they let Moses sit on the Rock then Joshua had the Victory and there's this one more thing this isn't from the Bible um the the swan the crab and the fish three as well and there was one more there was like a wheelbarrow there and it said they were all working to move that wheelbarrow you know the swan to the air the crab along the the land and the fish into water but how did the story end but the wheelbarrow is stayed in that same place were they were using their strength they were fighting for it but not in the right direction because each went in their own Direction I very invite Church let's move in unity in One Direction one one fight one for one another to support the pastor the leaders the Ministers of the church and then they will take care of you let us today that we will never put our ministry into the neutral gear never think that by inertia you will make it to your destination our goal is to go up let us stand for prayer for [Music] we thank you brother Victor for the word of God please take your seats you know I I really hope in the kingdom of God I'll look better than him he said the same see he doesn't want it you know our service coming to an end but we have ministers pastors who's visiting us and we love them and we thank and here we'll have a short time of greetings and thank first me then Nikolai then Pastor bdan then Pastor alexov then bdan melik and then you know for my son I want to give him a gift the word of God and my desire for him from our family I will read the day of ordination on November 3rd 2024 our oldest son Nikolai our desire for you very important that you would love people that you serve and you will only be able to do it by prayer and loving reading the word of God and that same grace of God that will give you wisdom and love strength to serve in God's Vineyard serve God and people with love with joy we love you and we bless you n uh father mother your brother vital and your sister [Music] Nina we want to give you flowers from our family and we're giving sunflowers sunflowers are not just a flower they bring a lot of fruit and so our desire from our family so your ministry and your life would bring a lot of fruit to those that you serve and to you as well we invite youai dear brother Nikolai yeah I'm very joyful for this wonderful day for you being ordained for this great ministry also sister Natalia because it's written uh equal are the women in the ministry and the vineyard where you're serving on in the reward will be double for both of [Music] you you know we read about different Ministries in the Bible starting from the Old Testament and there was a thing that the uh Minister he had special clothing and everyone knew that that was the minister the high priest and that he was dressed in such a way that you know saying it with our language now was like the office of the high priest and today like in the New [Music] Testament we read that they received the ministry through the laying on of hands like we did [Music] today and before was the prophets they received the ministry by uh pouring on of oil on their heads and but I want to tell you that you today you receive that office that clothing of the ministry from Jesus [Music] Christ and every Pastor will he will come and he will answer to Jesus when I became the pastor it was back in 2013 and I remember right after this two prophets from totally different places they never met one another one after to the other in different circumstances they came to me and they shared an important word that I want to share with you today I was so surprised word for word you know it was almost even to the the comma and the period remember for me is valuable every soul and throughout my Ministry these words always resounded with me and I desire for you to remember those words that the Lord entrusts you with souls and so that we would not forget like today it was said with what price they were bought and the other thing I want to say to put on the clothing of Christ you were always humble especially today's day especially in today's day sometimes everything's different but saying these words I bless you so that you would put on that clothing and God's Grace will be with you and the third thing the last thing never go ahead of Jesus Christ if Jesus says I take care of your personal life even more he will take care of his church and feed it and take care remember this that he will take care and you just remember that and we will support you that office of the head senior pastor may God bless you dear Church praise be to Jesus Christ Church of New Life greets you all with this celebration and I want to read from the Bible a passage which will be for the whole church and as well as to Pastor Nikolai and his family very important scripture about a man who is on a special notice from God and the reason for this is in himself he had three very important characteristics and today I want to um say that for everyone here the Book of Job chapter 1 verse 21 and he said this is job amen three important characteristics Jo was a very humble person he understood who he was in comparison to God being humble doesn't mean putting yourself down to the lowest point it is looking at yourself with faith but also knowing god is above all of that if we are reverent prayer warriors God is above if we are prophets God is above us if we are Levites God is still above us we might be ministers or pastors but God is above us these are people that God looks at them as they are humble it was already said the second is people that Faithfully give everything to God they trust in him God gives and God has given remember not everything that happens to us is from God May the Holy Spirit show us and especially to Pastor Nikolai what God gives and what God does not give and not everything that's taken away is God taking it away sometimes people lose it themselves so may brother Nikolai have this what he was praying for about today this wisdom and all of us as well God is our good God if he gives he gives it for good and if he takes it away he also takes it away praise be to Jesus CH Christ and the third characteristic that job was growing inside of himself he was thankful to God in all circumstances of Life Today is the Day of Thanksgiving but we know it's not always like that so may God help us to always be thankful to him because people who are in all things and always thankful to God I bless you all so that you would be humble so you would trust God with everything and you would always be than in Jesus name amen amen praise be to our Lord I want to greet you all from our church church of Grace in Orlando with the day of Thanksgiving glory to God for everything we also want to congratulate you with the day of ordination and I want to leave you with two thoughts first will be for brother Nick and the second for the church First Corinthians chapter 4 verse one dear brother my desire for you today for us Ministers of God amongst all that we could do in the house of God we are given a blueprint from God to prove faithful to our god the circumstances might change the wind might blow from one side or the other side but we have to prove faithful to our God and our blueprint is the word of God second dear church do you want to see your pastor filled with the wisdom of God amen amen what must we do to pray and ask that the wisdom of God would fill him do we want to see for pastor Nikolai to be filled with the love of God yes we want this then he will speak to us with wisdom and with love and it will be good for us so I invite you dear church if you see some shortcomings with him pray for him if you want to see something in him the power of God the anointing of of God pray for him if we will pray and bless him then we will have that Pastor that we want to have and I want to say one more thing on the pastor's shoulders lays all the responsibility of the church and the pastors they feel this burden that lays upon them so if you ever even come up to him and you say these words me and my family we're praying for you and your family you might be lifting his hands that might have fallen and you will serve as a great blessing for him pray and bless him amen praise God dear church I want to tell brother n it is finished God hears our prayers we've prayed for this ministry of brother Nikolai already a long time ago and we heard the word from God that came and today I'm saying it is finished I want to greet you with this holy day of Thanksgiving and from our Ukrainian Bible Church norport in the place of Northport to greet you all with this celebration also from our pastor greetings blessings for the new pastor of your church may God bless you God has already United me with your church a long time ago God has given me a daughter from your church my son came and she he took a a girl from your church and we are we are very Joyful We are very blessed God God has given me a friend brother [Music] Nikolai and now he's giving me family brother Nikolai your family because my daughter you are her cousin you see how God takes care of us may God's name be blessed may God bless your church that the church would support the hands of the pastor it's very important when you support the hands of the pastor I want to say to all the ministers in the church if you will love him if you will lift up his hand you will see blessings in your ministry and in your family lift the hands of the pastor when brother Victor Lon stood in this place and he shared he turned to the church so that the church was wise and in my mind I remember that time Victor when you received the ministry and when the brothers the ministers were laying hands on you I think if you remember I was there in that service with my father and I see him up to this day in Ministry brother Nikolai I desire that same blessing on you your father and the ministers they laid hands on you serve God don't put it in neutral may God bless you and your whole family all your children and know that in that word that re we received from the Lord there was one phrase they will look at your family keep your family in prayer may God bless you I think we need to thank our translator yeah you know it's not because I desire him to translate me correctly because what is he going to translate you know brother vasil said he gives us each three minutes not one person lefts extra time peace and grace to you dear Church of the [Music] Lord and I want to greet you all from an amazing City Place Portland State Oregon an amazing Ukrainian Bible Church and I hope that some of you already have been with us you know many say to us maybe you already I remember brother told me eight months ago when I came came oh are you already staying or are you just for a time dear friends in this earth we don't have a permanent living place where the Lord wants that's where he can send us you know me today from a pure heart I want to say that I'm very have this great desire and am glad to be here with you you know this is truly that situation that doesn't happen very often a double celebration of the church and this is that celebration that the Lord himself gave day for the people to celebrate because that's that's so that's the first thing why I am joyful and the other reason why I'm am joyful I came here um from Ukraine from ch brother vasil I've known him for already many years I'm just one year older than him and when I heard yesterday you're going to have this celebration all night I had this thought should I come or should I not come and I remembered where the brother was from [Music] I think I have to go and greet the V and I know this place where they come from has given you guys these amazing people brother vasil and now his son Nikolai will continue to carry on this so do not forget we are from the same place and I have one more joy it's the first time I've ever heard this from you brother my wife stayed in Northport and I'm gonna come back to her and I'm gonna say listen look at me very carefully how do you think since I've become a bishop do I look better or no I think I've taken on more onto my shoulders I used to only have uh to take care of one church now a whole region in our Brotherhood so may our joy be fulfilled for brother Nikolai without interpretation I want to just leave one um Apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 5: 6 verse 10 I was thinking how do I share with a short word how to be strong in the Lord we talked about all aspects of the anointing of God on the Min to love and all those other things and it's all correct and just for you as as it's the end of the service I want to leave you three important arguments so that you would look at these things first so that you would always have the Holiness of God upon you may God's wisdom always be upon you and may God's mercy be upon you always you know I had this sermon once where a person could be very holy but he'll go around and it won't be good for him Brothers [Music] God [Music] for may God bless you dear church I'm very Joy F that you are here godess you know sometimes they mix us up we look the same but you're you're more beautiful than I for for for for [Music] for for for for Mar SL [Music] [Music] me [Music] for for for amen praise God brothers and sisters go take a seat um a couple announcements how the next part is going to continue we pay made it this far we ask a few more minutes of your patience while we prepare also announcements please do not take any of the fruits because we're GNA still continue celebrating Thanksgiving till next week so after we uh pray here we want to ask you to excuse the the the sanctuary for for 20 minutes or so because we need to prep the premises to uh for the banquet I ask the gentleman to uh stay back and help set up the chairs and tables for the next event brother is going to be coordinating this event so please see him and he'll help us with this again we thank you let us stand we're going to bless our food this next banquet and may God bless us and the fellowship we have dear heavenly father we thank you for your mercy we thank you for your love we thank you for the gift that we've given we thank you for the life you've given us here we thank you for all the blessings we have through you we thank you for the day of Thanksgiving that we could come and give you thanks for everything you have done for us you've given us food for our bodies you've given as food for our eternal life we thank you for that we ask you to bless this banquet we ask you to bless our fellowship let this time be filled with joy with your presence with your Thanksgiving we give you thanks we give you all glory in Jesus name we pray amen thank you [Music] [Music] [Music]