Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled

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[Music] [Music] [Music] Dan know [Music] sh [Music] [Music] the [Music] praise God brothers and sisters it is always good to be in the house of the Lord amen you know right now in the middle of our week our midweek service we gathered here together you know in the middle of all the worries all the things going on in our life it's good that we've gathered together in the presence of God you know to just be able to praise His name worship him for what he's done and he is doing and you know really quickly to open up the service I wanted to read Psalms chapter 23 it's a very famous Psalm you all know it Psalm 23 says the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he makes me lie down and Green Pastures he leads me beside Still Waters he restores my soul he leads me in Paths of righteousness for his name's sake even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me you prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup overflows surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever amen amen you know you could say we're in this midweek service we're going through these trials right [Music] now it might be like a valley you know you know a Sunday is the very high point and then you start going down down down and Wednesday might be the lowest point and then it goes back up to Sunday and we're all just waiting for that day of [Music] Sunday but no God says even when we're down in that Valley his rod and his staff they Comfort us goodness and Mercy will follow [Music] us why is that because we dwell in the house of the Lord so let's just stand and praise God that we're able to be here in the house of the Lord and bless the service Lord we thank you that we're able to gather here in your name in your house house God that we're able to just give you thanks today we just thank your name and glorify you God you are worthy You Are Holy we thank you that even everything going on Lord through our jobs through our trials everything going on in our life we're able to gather here in your goodness and your mercy we just ask that your grace pour out today on this service As We Praise Your Name Lord let everything we do be done in love today God that you would fill our hearts in this service fill each and every person here God we just want to praise your holy and mighty name Jesus we thank you and we pray in the mighty name of Jesus amen [Music] amen [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] for [Music] Fore for [Music] [Music] spe sisters God is good and it's just like David says it is wonderful to be in the Lord's house today it's the place that we dwell it's the place that we draw uh strength you know I would like to share a few thoughts that I have on my heart with you today and the the place that I would like to read is going to be written in the Gospel of John Chapter 14 verse one Chapter 14 verse one and it says do not let your hearts be troubled you believe in God believe also in me you know the the topic of my sermon today do not let your heart be troubled you know what's interesting this passage that we just read Jesus he told his disciples right before he was leaving he says I'm leaving this place I'm going to go prepare a place for you and it says where I go you cannot go but where I go you know the way because he is the way Hallelujah you know when Jesus was leaving he was trying to summarize the important things for disciples because he's no longer going to be with them is to give those very important things for them to remember when he leaves and the first thing he tells them do not let your your hearts be troubled you know the reason why this passage stood out for me personally because many times when we live in life our hearts do get troubled we do get worried we do go through stress In this passage Jesus knew when you live on this Earth You will have this this this this this moment where you're going to be troubled when you're going to worry when you're going to to to be stressed about something but he starts this wish for them or this by giving them a commandment he says do not let do not let your heart to be troubled you know that things that really troubles us it is somewhere [Music] outside and for some reason when those things come that's when the way we deal with it this is when we are starting to trouble you know I would like for us to open up the book of uh 1 Samuel chapter 17:1 chapter 17 verse 11 and and it says or hearing the Philistines words so Saul and all the israelit were dismayed and terrified we know this story that Goliath he was trying to threaten the people of Israel is he was trying to scare them because he was so big he was so tall he was so strong and Bible says when God's people when the King Saul when they heard this Philistine this Gentile saying those words Bible says they were dismayed and terrified how did it happen but those are just words how many times in our life we hear things and it troubles us how many times it just the simple words they allow to to ruin the peace that is in our hearts but words have power you know this past Sunday brother wasili he had a sermon about the people that went to the promised land some of them they said no there is no way we are going to be able to obtain this land there is no way we'll be able to overcome the Giants that live in that land and look let's well while brother vasil was preaching I went and read a few a little bit more verses from that passage and I would like for us to open Deuteronomy 1: 28 look what it says there it's going to be Deuteronomy chapter 24 I'm sorry 1 verse 28 Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 128 I'm going to start reading and then if it shows up on the screen where can we go a Brethren have discouraged our hearts saying the people are greater and taller than we the cities are great and fortify up to heaven moreover we have seen the sons of Anakin there I would like for us to look at the first half of that verse and in my translation in Russian translation I like how it says there because Brothers they relaxed our [Music] hearts how did they relax our hearts with the words they started saying those things in another English translation it says um that they melt a heart with fear and all there was was just simple words and it's just something that comes into our ear something that just came into the ear of God's people just through those couple of people it really affected the entire nation of Israel it relaxed their hearts how many times in our life we hear things or maybe we see things and it relaxes our hearts it affects our hearts it troubles our heart even Jesus in Matthew chapter 24:6 look what it says Matthew 24:6 we know this passage very well that says and you will hear of wars and rumors over War see that you are not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet what is Jesus saying that you will hear you will hear things they'll be coming through your ears but you need to do something about it and do let not do not let your heart to be troubled you know it is such a maybe small thing it's the information it's the word and something so maybe Innocent but can have such a big effect on our life such a big effect on our hearts you know and you might ask yourself but it's just the word but if you don't deal with those words or with what you see correctly it will do do something with your heart and here's how it works remember this story about Ania s look what it says there it's book of Acts 5 verse 3 and 4 Chapter 5 Verse 3 and 4 it says then Peter said ananas how is that Satan has filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received from the land he's asking a question how did it happen how did it happen that the Satan filled your heart with a lie and look what it says in verse four it says while um didn't it belong to you before it was sold and after it was sold wasn't the money at your disposal what made you think of doing such thing you have not lied to just a human being but God you know it here it says what made you think of doing such thing and and I really like this Russian translation he says why did you allow that for to be born to be conceived in your heart first he says how did you allow the devil to fill your heart with lie but then he goes basically to explain in another in verse after it says because first before the devil was able to put that lie in your heart that you allowed it to be conceived in your heart heart also remember the story about Kane is going to be in the Book of Genesis 4:7 Ka yes look what it says if you do what is right will you not be accepted but if you do not do what is right sin is crouching at your door it desires to have you but you must rule over that look what it says over there God is warning Cain and he says the Sin is knocking on the door of your heart it is knocking on the door of your heart and then it continues he says You must control that and this is exactly what happens when we allow things through our ears through our eyes knocking on the doors of our hearts it is constantly knocking but it says over here you must control that for each one of us it could be different things maybe be a Temptation maybe it's going to be a serious sin maybe it's going to be some kind of hatred or maybe it's going to be maybe some kind of bad information and if you don't control that it will settle in your heart look what it says about Jew in John chapter 13:2 Gospel of John vers 1 chapter 13:2 the evening meal was in progress and the devil had already prompted Judas Judas the son of Simon es scariot to betray Jesus why was he able to put it in his heart because Judith he did not control it this is why Jesus when he's saying these words do not be [Music] troubled it's a commandment it's a very important commandment you know what's interesting what comes into our mind it's usually through two doors that is located in our head it is our eyes it is our ears what Jesus is saying guard it you know what's interesting a few weeks ago brother Peter kimchuk he had a sermon that says guard your hearts in other words you can say lock your hearts lock your hearts Bible tells us that we should be using the armor of God the helmet of salvation why this is so important that we need to be wearing this helmet of salvation this helmet that's going to be covering our minds they're going to be covering our thoughts and that is our Salvation because if it's not covered in our life because if it's exposed it is so dangerous it could be so devastating bring disaster and when we we have some good examples when job was saying the following words I made a covenant with my eyes not to look at the woman he didn't say I will um I will not commit adultery in my life he says I I will do I will put this this this this this Helm of Salvation on my head I will be protecting that my eyes they're not exposed to those different things in my life because if I don't do those things in my life it's very close for me to go to the next step that is that is very painful one and that's what job he was a wise man like I will be putting guards on my eyes I'll be protecting my heart remember David remember his fall how did it happen he was walking on the roof relaxed everybody's fighting and then he sees something then he wasn't guarding his his his heart and we saw how it progressed more and more you know another good example is the the Samuel and his friends you know the first thing they did when they were in the Captivity they said you know the food that you are given me us we not going to eat please forgive me yes Daniel and his friends and he says we're not going to eat this food it's the food was of you know maybe pork and camels the things that said they because they are chosen people they did not eat and what's interesting nobody told him if you're not going to eat this food you're going to die they willingly said you know what we not going to do this we we're going to make this we're going to guard our hearts we're going to we're going to separate ourselves we're going to be different than these people they live here they put this fans around them Bible doesn't saying I'm sure there was many boys just like [Music] them but but we know what happens next later in their life they had a true test in their life and it was such a test that you know it was the the decision of death and life but Bible says they were able to be strong put their faith on the Lord you know in my heart I believe that the the test for them was not the big one but the first one with the food what are you going to do when your life is not threatened when all you have to do is just make a decision to build a guard you know the first thing we need to lock a do of our hearts you know another very important point when Somebody's knocking on the door and the door is locked what is the question that you ask who's there who's there you ask a question who is there who is behind those closed doors who are you coming from who's sending you it is so important before we let those that in into our hearts we ask our question who is there you know when somebody tells us any kind of information you know many times we ask a question almost always who told you how do you know did you get it from the source or somebody else told you that it is so important brothers and sisters when this information when all kinds of things is knocking through a ears or through our eyes we ask ourselves who's there where is it coming from you know but again you might already know who's there but another question is how do I know that it's actually him how it it maybe looks just like somebody else who they say they are maybe they say who they are but who do I truly know you know in John chap 10: 27 you read my sheep listen to my voice I know them and they follow me how you you know that this is coming from God how do you know that this this information is going to bring it's G to edify [Music] you Jesus says I know them but the question is do you know him and he also says but they also follow me and the question is to me do I follow him that is the only way the two things that I need in order for me to know and to be able to extinguish the voice of God in my life is to know him and to follow him it is so important brothers and sisters when we have that our Heart's Not troubled we don't have the worries and look what's interesting about the passage that we read it has two parts it says do not let your hearts be troubled that's part number one and it says you believe in God you believe also in me because when you do believe in him when you believe in Jesus Christ with all your heart your heart will never be troubled you know Jesus says you will hear those rumors of wars and about wars and it says do not be troubled because those things they are to come and they are to be so he's not saying listen if you're going to trust me those things are not going to you're not going to you're not going to be in your life at all he says yes those things will be there the bombs will be flying over people's heads but he still tells them do not be troubled why we do not be troubled because all our trust is in him all our trust is in him our future is with him he'll have to prepare a place for those that love him he says I go to the father and you know the way because I am the way you know it is so important when we hear who is saying those words because when Jesus is saying those words and those words of encouragement in our life he's the one who created heaven and earth he's the one who holds the sky in his hands he's the one who put mountains on his scale and when we hear when he speaks when he talks oh it's so different it lifts us up it encourages us let's hear more of him let's let's hear his voice in our life you know it's so so interesting many years have passed and older generation would always stay to the young don't watch that TV thing they would call names it's a it was Roski you know because of the antenna sticking out you know we can laugh how they used to call those [Music] things but the principle is the same it is exactly what devil is using to bring the information into the age that you live in right now and through the devices through our phones through the video through the information all kinds of different things because he knows when he's going to knock on your doors the doors of your heart and if you don't have a guard and if you don't have it locked up and if you don't have it protective he's going to be able to be in your heart he's going to be able to enter with the sin into your life he's going to be able to enter into your life with fear and that's what Jesus was saying do not be troubled but believe in me believe in me let's stand up on our feet and be encouraged in prayer let the Holy Spirit encourage each and every one of us that would encourage our hearts with this word today [Music] amen hallelujah huju [Music] [Music] fore [Music] for forx for for [Music] amen [Music] br fore [Music] fore when Don keep for was [Music] bles the US [Music] don't [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for yourself [Music] for SP [Music] for [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] for Miss sh the we were just singing this song praise be to God in the highest and very importantly that that peace of God it would be in our hearts peace is important when there's no peace all around when all around there's just problems us like people we don't understand the true meaning of Peace but God's son came to Earth Jesus Christ to bring peace to every person and the people that receive that peace are joyful not so long ago I came to my [Music] friend and on the Gate of his neighbor there were words written it was written if you come in I will rip you to pieces and I thought to myself that person has host Hospitality but the Lord comes and he sees your heart and he wants to say peace be with you peace for you God's peace is higher than anything else I want to talk a little bit about the ministry of one of our missionaries if you can please put on the screen Roman this is Brother Roman paj and his wife Julie God has blessed their family with five children and in the coming few months they're awaiting another addition he is he was still young and he came up to me and he said brother Sergey I want to go somewhere to bring the word of God God to the people and I told him a lot of options he had but he said God put it on my heart to work in the mountains your pastor Pastor V there was a time where he also lived not too far from the mountains and brother Roman decided to go 15 20 kilometers further and there already a couple of years he's has the ministry of being a missionary but 18 days ago if you could put up the next picture 18 days ago this was Saturday night he along with his wife and his kids decided to go to their parents and they were driving 5 km and all of a sudden they could smell that the car was being filled with smoke they stopped everyone got out of the car and in just a couple of minutes the car caught on fire if you could the next this is everything that's left of the car and brother Roman as a missionary he has dedicated his ministry towards [Music] people and he finds a lot of those people that are in need we weren't able to have another video where you were able to show a few other pictures where he goes to the people that are living in the mountains and he brings them some help and tens of people got and then he's able to testify about Jesus Christ he knows who is sick there who is paralyzed and not long [Music] ago before I came here I was with our youth there in that place and we're driving home and he says we have to stop by one place he said there's one girl here that is paralyzed and I went to them we testified to them about Jesus Christ and the parents were so touched they said the doors of our house are always open for you let's stop by there we'll sing we will pray and we were there with that [Music] family and this is the car that you see that's what how he drove but on today's day is not able to work anymore if you can the next please people say that the troubles don't just come one at a time their youngest son who's just one year and 10 months old he fell off the couch he broke his hand oh and they put a cast on and after they took it off they were but the hand didn't grow correctly they did another operation and they put another cast and again it wasn't the right way and they said we're going to try one more thing and if it doesn't work then we're goingon to have to put some metal in the arm I was just talking with them yesterday and I was asking how is it with your son he said praise God I think we won't have to have a surgery and operation and you could show the next and in the evening after church service he comes home this was a little bit earlier and he saw that their furnace that they heat up their house but this house it is not his house in this house people lived and the father of them is a Believer he went to the United States and in this house his son lived who also went to the United States and he said I give you this house that you could live there he said I don't need any money but please just watch over the home so everything you do a good work and I want from my side to just put into it a little bit and when he came home from service he saw that his furnace began to leak and it was already freezing temperatures there so they poured out the water they poured out the water there was two other furnaces that they lit up and the fireplace was still open and they also lit up the fire in the fireplace and after everything had caught on fire already they finally went to sleep and the wife wakes up in the middle of the night because one of the kids begin to cry and she wakes up Roman she says Roman in the house we have smoke he went to the place where the furnace was and everything was already burned up luckily it was just the beginning of everything burning so they were able to put it out they were able to fix it a few days went by a few days go by he wakes up in the morning and he goes and he sees and as you can see in the picture the furnace was leaking again it's electric it's old and the metal just got Rusty and you already need to change it brothers and sisters today before we pray I want us to turn to the word of God and in these situations we have a question Lord where are you why do you allow this in my life I think through these trials it's not just one person that has to go through and you have a very big question Lord Where Are You When it Hurts the Most why do problems come into my life why does it happen like this with me I have given all my life to carry your word but in my life I have these problems we're GNA read from God's word SEC the book of second Corinthians chapter one verses 3 to 12 n [Music] for for [Music] amen In this passage Apostle Paul looks at three points that say where is God when it hurts and you know there might be a lot of different reasons but I want to stop and look at these three points that are here in this passage Apostle Paul writes and talks about God that God is our comforter if we read verse three praise be to the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of compassion and the God of All Comfort God the father is a comforter Jesus is the one that Comforts and the Holy Spirit is the comforter if we look look at the Holy Trinity they are the ones that Comfort who do they Comfort they Comfort us they comfort me they comfort you Brothers you sisters and the children as well and just how God has not one person can give you comfort and no matter what a person says when even in their life they have some problem and somebody comes and they want to comfort them and no matter what a person says they cannot Comfort the way that God can when we read the book of Job in the Russian translation of the Bible it says you are not good comforters but when Jesus comes he Comforts Everything Changes one short example Jesus with his disciples they are traveling and getting close to one place and somebody comes on their path people are bringing a young child and a mother is coming who is bringing her son to the last to his last path just a short time left and she will not be able to see him any longer but Jesus comes he tells them to stop and he turns to the young man and by the word of God the Boy comes back to life he turns back to his home with his mother tell me please the ones that were walking with the mother were they able to comfort her but Jesus was coming I don't I don't know I think her heart was ripping out of her chest out of joy she says my son is alive once again he is with me the Lord is the one that Comforts he comforts you and me and God wants that with that Comfort please put verse four on the screen so that with that that God has on us that we could comfort others who we find in that same trouble and when he helps one of us and you go through that Valley of troubles and Jesus comes to us and he will Will Comfort us he wants with that same that God had comforted us we can Comfort others before the beginning of service brother Nikolai told about another brother he was a pastor of a church in Ukraine and one time with his with his children he decided to clean [Music] something their well they decided to clean their well and it was very deep I don't remember exactly it was either 23 or 27 M and they just began to lower him down and the platform that he was sitting on it either broke or he fell off but all of a sudden he fell to the bottom of the well when I was there with him in the hospital he told me I was I had just enough time to say Lord not in my family or in the church is there a lame person that's needed he had a broken spine but God showed his Mercy after that he was still able to come out of the hospital and be a pastor for many years and he said when I brought this question to the Lord Lord why did you allow this in my life and he said nobody knew about this but in one day one person came and she said the Lord sent me to you the Lord sent me to you to give you an answer to the question your putting before me this happened to you because I want you to understand more and deeper those people that have problems in their lives and secondly I am sure showing my mercy upon you and I want you to be able to comfort [Music] others those that are going through trials in their lives God Comforts us so that we would be able to comfort others my time is coming to an end very shortly the second Point God wants to teach us so that we would put our hope our faith not in ourselves but in God please put verse n on the screen God wants to teach us that we would put our not on ourselves but on God Apostle Paul remembers about the things that were happening with them in lra God um showed his mercy upon a lame person that could not walk with their feet and when the people saw this they brought the decision they thought that the Gods in the forms of man came down to us but the story finishes with the fact that the people took the stones and they stoned Paul [Music] and it says that they took him out of that place understanding that he was dead I'm very far from the thought that in that time people did not know the difference from a dead man and aive man and somewhere inside of me I let this thought come that may be truly Paul's life came to an end and here in this verse that we read he ends it and says who raises the Dead if Paul himself was alive I don't think he would have put the emphasis on the fact that God is the one who raises the dead but when the disciples came he got up and he went with them Apostle Paul he said we have to go through different trials that no matter where you look there's no way out but there's only one way out to put our faith to put it in God our faith put it in God go maybe in your life you have a problem that's not being solved maybe you're praying a lot of time and there's no way out you look around the people and nobody can help you put your faith in God just wait for that comfort and your problem it'll find its solution and the last thing Apostle Paul he talks about the people that receive an answer from God that they have something to please put verse 11 on the screen the person that receives an answer from God that person has something to thank God for we're gonna pray and I want for us in this prayer the ones that have received an answer from the Lord we could remember those we could remember the problems we had to go through and there was a day when Jesus came and he said the word and by his word the problem was solved I think that many of us have prayed to God and we've received an answer from him we sing this one song in the Russian language God's mercies remember them and count them all of them to the very last one in your heart repeat them remember how he gave it freely by his Mercy he has rescued you God is good brothers and sisters the Lord is good we're GNA be praying I want us to put verse 12 back on the screen and see what Apostle Paul writes I want to translate this that now this is our boast our conscience testifies not in our bodily wisdom but in God not in worldly wisdom but by God brothers and sisters we are in God's grace Apostle Peter writes once the Nations but now you're the nation once didn't have mercy but now you have mercy that's from us no it's from him who has loved me and every one of you and he loved us so much that he gave his one and only begotten son he came on this Earth that we remember he went to death so that today me and every one of us believing in him would have life Everlasting we are here in God's grace amen I invite you all to prayer for for for for for us dear Church during this collection during this song We're goingon to have a collection for that brother Roman that his Ministry could continue to grow and God bless us let us [Music] [Music] [Music] fore for [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] fore [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] for r am mean you uh David uh um [Music] uh for [Music] for newor [Music] stand for for am