Choose Your Friends Wisely

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[Music] [Laughter] [Music] fore [Music] let us say praise the Lord praise for Jesus Christ praise him for the Holy Spirit we're not orphans and it's Pleasant to see the young standing here to praising the Lord [Music] and before our prayer we're going to read Psalm 33 when verse ver three verses 2 three and four Psalm [Music] 33 David praised the Lord constantly he blessed his name because it is blessed the Blessed Lord created the heavens and the Earth he created us and David did this constantly it's a good example constantly he praised him through his [Music] words but he but when he gathers with the uh to the Lord's House he encourages Let Us Praise the Lord together I'd like each and one of us who's here today praise the Lord glorify his name Hallelujah he is worthy of all the glory all ages in the house of the Lord today we're in a church and he wants to hear this praise that we glorify him do you hear from the word of God Let Us Praise Him together together [Music] hallu for [Music] [Music] Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah the story for [Music] [Music] am [Music] for it was my cross you bore so I could live in the freedom you died for and now my life is yours and I will sing of your goodness forever more Worthy is your name [Music] Jesus you deserve the praise worthy is your and now my shame is gone I stand amazed in your love are deniable Your Grace goes on and on and God will sing of your goodness forever more Worthy is your name Jesus you deserve the praise worthy is your name Worthy is your name Jesus you deserve the praise worthy is your name be exalted now in the heaven as your glory fills this place you alone deserve Our Praise you're the name above all names be exalted now in the heavens as your glory fills this place you alone deserve Our Praise you're the name of my name be exalted now in the heaven as your glory builds this place you alone deserve Our Praise through the name of my name be exalted now in the heavens as your glory fills this place you alone deserve Our Praise you're the name above all Nam name Jesus you deserve the praise worthy is your Worthy is your name [Music] Jus you deserve the praise worthy is your Worthy is your name Jesus you deserve the praise worthy is your [Music] [Music] name [Music] for for [Music] [Music] there is power in the name of Jesus there is power in the name of Jesus there is power in the name of Jesus to Break Every Chain Break Every Chain Break Every Chain to Break Every Chain Break Every Chain Break Every Chain be GI such a price but our Redemption Heaven Gates swing there's an army ring God there's an all Army rising up there's an army rising up to Break Every Chain Break Every Chain Break Every Chain to Break Every Chain Break Every Chain Break Every Chain to break every Chain Break Every Chain Break Every Chain to Break Every Chain Break Every Chain Break Every Chain let it rain let it rain open up blood Gates of Heaven let it let it rain let it rain open the F Gates of Heaven we feel The Rains of your love we feel the Winds of your spirit now the heartbeat of Heaven let us he we feel the rain of your love we feel the Winds of your spirit now the heartbeat of Heaven let us Fe let it rain let it rain let it R open the god Gates of Heaven Let It Rain let it rain let it rain open up the gates of Heaven let it rain let it rain open the flood gates of Heaven Let It Rain Let It [Music] Rain open the flood gates of [Music] Heaven Jesus we thank you Jesus We Praise You Jesus you are worthy you are worthy Jesus Jesus your name We Praise Your Name the name above every other name Jesus we give glory to your name tonight the name that breaks every chain the name of Jesus the name by which men shall be saved on heaven on Earth and under the Earth to the glory of God the Father the name of Jesus Christ We Praise Your Name Jesus we give glory to you Jesus because you are worthy you are worthy Jesus You Are Holy we invite your presence right now Lord your Holy Spirit Let Your Presence of your Holy Spirit sweep across this room right now God let just rain down on us holy spirit rain down on every life rain down on every problem on every chain on every Brokenness in this place and just cover us God just break every chain God renew every mind god Set every captive free tonight God by your presence God by your spirit God by your name Jesus we just want to worship your name God the name that is above every other name We Worship You Jesus our King our Lord we give you praise and glory god we just lift you up tonight we lift you up right now God because you are worthy you are worthy you are the only one that deserves all the glory that every tongue would confess and and every knee would bow before you Jesus you Jesus the one that loves us the one that paid the ultimate price for every single one of us we just praise you today we just stand here in awe of you God we just bow down before you and Praise You Lord we give you our worship we give you our lives we give you our everything today because you are worthy God you are worthy God there is no other one worthy but you God oh we thank you for your love we thank you for your presence we thank you holy spirit that you're moving in our hearts right now and we ask that you continue to move during this service continue to move through every word spoken God everything that is said here from the stage Lord let it be your word that goes out that does not come back void God that your word would move in our lives today God that we would just receive a touch of heaven today God we are here to receive a touch of you God we just want to touch a little taste of you God we just want a little bit of you just come God we thank you we thank you we thank you and we glorify your name Jesus in the name of Jesus Christ we pray amen amen amen dear Church you may take your seats [Music] praise be to Jesus Christ as you see we have a youth L service today and I don't know if you notice but as you can see our youth is growing spiritually they're more in Ministry and service they love to serve God they're growing for the Lord you know this brings me great joy I'm sure you're rejoicing as well and today I wanted to speak to the youth you know I'm going to be preaching the word of God that means it speaks to us to all of us The Young and the old but I want to turn our attention to our youth and I want to preach from 1 Corinthians chapter 15 I'm not going to read the whole chapter just to save some time so I just want to read two verses it'll be verse 33 and 34 and then I'll bring the context Apostle Paul here writes to the Church of Jesus Christ it's not evangelism but it is a word to the Church of Jesus Christ to the Believers so we read do not be misled Bad Company corrupts good character come back to your senses as you ought and stop sinning for there are some who are ignorant of God I say this to your shame that's the two verses that I want to share with you today why did Apostle Paul write those following words that's because in the Church of Corinth they had those kind of preachers and those kind of false teachers theologist oh theologists the ones that taught that there was no resurrection and when Apostle Paul heard this it was a big problem for him and I'm sure it's a big problem problem for us as well because Apostle Paul says if there's no resurrection that means that Jesus did not resurrect from the dead that means we won't resurrect that means our faith is false and we're in sin and for Apostle Paul it was very important that in the Church of Jesus there would no not be such teachings so Apostle Paul writes and he says be careful who you listen to be careful who you're friends with because with the ones that you're friends with and the ones that you listen to that's who you will become like and the theme today it will say you'll see right now on the PowerPoint it's choose your friends wisely we can choose friends not wisely you see there's a brother standing in the middle and from both sides he has two different friends one is standing with a Bible and he's calling him into friendship so he would be his friend and he can become his friend but that the same time there's another standing next to him also calling him but he's standing with a bottle and how do you think who should he choose and I would like for us to open up Proverbs 13 verse 20 and look what it says here He Who Walks With wise men will be wise but the companion of fools will be destroyed He Who Walks With The Wise becomes more wise but who has companion with fools or the one that has friendships with the bad people maybe the ones that's offering a bottle it says here that he will be destroyed sometimes we think maybe just a little bit you know not a lot for me but when we read 1 Corinthians chapter 5: 6 you know please put this on the screen and here it says do you not know that a little yeast leens the whole batch of dough a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough I remember when I was still a young boy I was helping my grandma mix this dough I was helping my mom mix the dough and I'll say I don't remember that I ever helped my wife but I know I remember I helped my grandma and my mother to mix the dough and I remember how little bit of the yeast you needed to throw inside but all of it would be leavened you know sometimes we just allow ourselves we say well just a little bit just a little bit of sin just a little bit of bad friends but it it infects all of our flesh all our whole spirit and our soul it infects our whole life and our thoughts and our actions we have to be very careful with who we are friends and that's who will become like I want to look at a few translations of verse 33 that we read earlier you should slideshow if you could put the slideshow back on screen be not deceived evil Communications corrupt good manners so it corrupts your good manners or good things you do are good actions a different translation of the English Bible says Bad Company corrupts good character amen you know you can become bad F friends with bad guys or bad girls maybe you have such a good character and you've been taught the right way maybe you have the best discipline maybe you have a really good character but being with bad friends it will all go very quickly you know when we talk about character we don't get character overnight you don't get a good character overnight and on the next day you have it right when we're born again from God we're working on our character and we're praying and asking God help me in my character and we pray a day and we pray a year and five [Applause] years and maybe 10 20 and 30 years you're praying for your character and then you get caught up with bad friends bad friends and all your prayers all your fasting all your tears it'll go just like that right after a very short amount of time a good spiritual person can develop a bad character do not be deceived evil company corrupts good habits good habits as Christians we have good habits you know over our life we have been taught we learned some people say we don't have to we shouldn't have habits but as Christians we need to and it's good to have good habits we read Hebrews chap 5:4 it says that we have discernment we have the habits to be able to tell the difference between good and evil you know we don't have to as Christians sit there should I do this should I not do this is it good is it bad should I go to church should I not go to church we do it from a habit we do good things we live a Christian life because that's what we do but if we get caught up with bad friends they will take us away if you look at the picture there's there's this rope and they're pulling us they're pulling us in one way or the other way and the question is who will win will good win or will evil win will good habits win or will bad habits will I go to church or will I stay at home will I preach or will I say no I don't want to will I come to youth service or will I stay at home brothers and sisters dear youth this battles in our flesh in our Spirits always it's always this battle and we're fighting Apostle Paul writes to Galatians chap 5: 16 you know follow the spirit and you won't fulfill the desires of the flesh because the flesh desires against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh we must understand that this rope is always tightened between our spirit and our flesh our spirit or God's spirit touches our spirit and he tells us read the word of God pray and have time with the Lord go to church help your brother or sister but our flesh says no I don't don't want to I don't have time I want to watch a movie or something else we must remember that we have to choose good and be Overcomers you know we have different kinds of friends you know we have friends with feet and without feet in other words you have friends that are alive or dead you know there's friends of a person or friends of a digital friend you know right now we live in this time we have a TV we have a computer and very often we have our phone and he's it's right in our pocket and sometimes this becomes our very closest friend and sometimes he gives us bad bad things and we listen to it and the word of God tells us today that we only have to listen to good friends only have good friends Proverbs chapter 22: 24 please put on the screen do not make friends with a hot-tempered person and do not associate with one easily angered don't make friends with a hot-tempered person go back to slideshow if we could go back to the slideshow you know there's people that by their character they would always be fighting they're they're taught to always give Payback you know there's people that are always ready to create problems and that's how they live look at this picture this girl is already ready she's ready to give some payback give it to someone good look at this young boy he's very young but he has a problem he's already breaking in his head I want to tell you children listen very carefully I think the problem with him he has bad friends he probably has bad friends he's young but he's already bashing it in his head how often do we see a CH a child that is still young but they're already crushing in their head and sometimes you think why are they acting like this he's so young why is he so worried because he has bad friends maybe in school maybe outside maybe look watches a lot of movies that are bad cartoons maybe cartoons and it's all pouring out on his life and he's just crushing in his head as we read the one that walks with the wise becomes wise but who goes with fools will be destroyed brothers and sisters dear youth we have to choose friends wisely if you want to be wise then choose wise friends because wise friends have a big blessing next one look two young men are sitting on stairs and they're talking fellowshipping and I like this picture I like it when Christian people have this kind of Fellowship it's normal brothers and sisters God created us to fellowship with one another God created us in such a way so that we would have friends in our life because if we don't have friends if we're going to be at home by ourselves if we're going to have bad friends the problems will come into our life big problems depression and very often it ends in suicide why because the person didn't have a good friend we read from Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verse 9 it says it's better for two two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor maybe it's talking about family relationships and the family but right now in this moment it's very good for us it's better for two than for one in life because we have a better reward volleyball court you know yesterday we were building that volleyball court we were building the volleyball court and I thank everyone that came yesterday and you know who was here and the youth and the older people came to help and I was thinking to myself what will I do if nobody comes text message I sent text messages and Jacob sent some text messages are you going to come and nobody's writing back are you gonna come and they don't respond we order the Bobcat they brought the sand all the material is here sometimes I think why do they not respond dear youth dear brothers and sisters it's a very bad habit to receive a text message and not answer right you don't know or you you can't or I will come but uh aside from I started to think what will I do if nobody comes but praise be to God they came and I started to think and to tell them if you guys didn't come what would I have done by myself brothers sisters we read it says they have a good return for their labor if we have two or three or 10 we can do a lot more in our life for God you know the second part or verse 10 it says if either of them falls down one can help the help the other up when I have a friend a good friend and I fall and you know there's different pits there's physical holes there's spiritual holes holes in our soul and very often we fall into those and what happens when I have a good friend he gives a hand of help and he raises me up he says everything will be okay get up he's right next to me he's with me but if we read further but pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up brothers and sisters who's by themselves it's bad I'm saying who doesn't have a friend who doesn't have someone that they could tell their problem or someone that can't see that you have a problem because you're closed in yourself and when you fall in any hole you're going to lay there you can fall in depression and very often people end their life because of that reason they are by themselves let's go back to the slideshow and you know I want to say one thought it's very important important for us to not be friends with the people that aren't friends with wise people one more time don't be friends with the people that don't want wise friends because they don't want it you're going to be trying and nothing's gonna happen out of this and he's gonna pull you down and you know sometimes some people listening to this might think what are you saying we're Christians we have to go into the world preach and be friends with all people and I agree with you but that's not what I'm talking about I'm saying today that if a person doesn't want wisdom and you're going to be friends with them you will become like them children this for you right now look at this young boy you what do you think what kind of example of is he showing what is he doing uh I think he kind of got a little lazy and he's bored but now for the Youth for the Youth look at this picture a young man is laying he has popcorn on his stomach and he was eating it and he fell asleep and he's laying there and I think this his wife that came up to him and she says the roof is leaking but he's laying therec he's eating popcorn and for him he doesn't want the roof he doesn't need that roof it's easier to lay on the couch Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 18 through laziness the rafter sag because of Idle Hands the house leaks and if you think about it when a person laying on the couch and the roof is leaking the roof is leaking because you know he doesn't have time he's busy it's too much for him he doesn't want to and he grabs some sort of bucket puts it under there so that it would just drip down in the and it's dripping dripping dripping when it gets full he goes dumps it out and puts it back and he goes back to lay for another month and then he's thinking he's like oh I'm just gonna leave it so much work to put that bucket back and the bucket gets full and it's already overflowing and already the floor is wet why because he's lazy he's lazy the roof is leaking the roof is rotten and now the floor is rotten that's why we have to remember brothers and sisters if we become friends with the lazy we will become lazy we will become lazy yeah go back to the slideshow I'm going to skip a few points James 411 and James 4:11 says don't speak one against another because who speaks against them judges a brother who judges a brother speaks the law and is judged himself you understand brothers and sisters in our life we can be caught up in these kind of things okay um you know you're speaking against a brother and a brother is listening to this information maybe it's the youth and its young sisters and you know sometimes our head is about to explode from this information because we speak one against the other but the word of God says don't speak against one another why shouldn't we speak against someone gosip say these things because we are sinning against the word of God you know sometimes we say I'm going to preach the word of God in the house of the Lord and at the same time we can be stuck in gossip and Psalm 14 verse one says David says Lord who can be in your presence who can stand in your Holy Mountain the ones that don't gossip with their tongue and doesn't do evil against his others and the closest one they do not hate you know we might have different friends sometimes we like these kind of friends a little bit more young people youth you see a young man he's a cool haircut he's a clown and it's very fun with him with him it's very fun you'll never be bored you know he's always talking laughing laughing and very often we pick these kind of friends for and what does the word of God say 2 Timothy 2:1 16 second Timothy 2:16 please avoid Godless chatter because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly that kind of actions those kind of friends that kind of chatter it brings us to ungodliness to sin and the word of God says it will spread like a cancer we know how how bad cancer is and how difficult it is toal I think us with our friends we should be careful I'm not against for us to have a good time it's not like we have to be sad always we're talking about what we listen to and how we act you know if you have something unclean unclean jokes jokes unclean jokes and you're doing all these things and all these actions and it's very joyful for you be careful of those friends back to slideshow and the last thing I would like to say the last point I would like to make dear Church learn to say no learn to say no learn to say no to sin ungodliness to bad actions look at this picture one friend is offering another a cigarette and he's saying just smoke and the wise friend says no I'm not going to smoke maybe it'll be something different maybe it's electric cigarettes you know for Christians right now it's very popular these electric cigarettes you know they they smell like raspberry cherry strawberry different things and then um young people youth Christians get hooked up on these electronic cigarettes these Vapes but we have to learn how to say no no if they offer you alcohol say no because it'll bring you to a big problem but God wants to bless us and the last place I want to read and we'll be praying Hebrews chapter 3 chapter 3 verse2 brothers and sisters do not Harden your hearts when you hear the word when the word of God says don't be friends with bad friends because it's like a cancer it can infect us and our life will turn out the complete opposite way how want may God bless us and right now we'll be praying I want the church to pray for the Youth right now youth if you can come quickly to the front the youth all the youth doesn't matter just as long as you're young and and the the Sunday school as well please all the children come to the stand stand up come to the front right now we're going to pray for today is a youth service we're praying for the Youth we're asking for God's grace for the Youth we can't pick good friends by ourselves but God could give us the wisdom give us that desire to find wise friends those Christian friends that would help us and we would help them but dear youth dear young people dear children pray for yourselves always pray for yourselves that God would help you make the right choice let's pray dear Church Hallelujah Jesus huj for Hallelujah Jesus in the name of [Music] Jesus [Music] Hu Amen to beava aen praise be to our Lord dear brothers and sisters it's a good word for the time we're living in I want to remind you that today at 6 we're not having Youth service we're having an English service service it's a church English service so we invite all members of the church to come to this English service and be with us especially if you have children that that speak in English so you would come and you would support them and so that we would work on this because it's important we live in America we need this I want to remind you that on Mondays at 7 we have a prayer service 7:30 you know we are praying for many needs we praying for Ukraine other needs so we invite you to come and pray with us and fast with us on Wednesday we have our midweek service at 7:30 and on Sunday we start our services in the conference room with the prayer at 10:30 it's very important that we would all come gather together in that conference room to pray together you know at uh 11 we have our service starts on Sundays I want to remind that next Sunday we will have a communion so that we will prepare our hearts ning home Temple Road and today also Al we will have nursing home Ministry in Tampa Road at 2:30 so pray with us if you want you can also join us and come with us I want to invite all the parents that have children in Sunday school to stay after service for 10 minutes Thanksgiving and also you see we'll have Thanksgiving service on November 12th uh Bible school and also this on 3rd and 4th November 3rd and 4th that's a Friday and a Saturday we will have Bible School it'll be 7 to 9 on Friday andur and 900 a.m to 12 on Saturday all our speakers and teachers are from different states so it's important if you're coming to register to be with us anoun so we'll have an announcement we'll have a short video one more announcement and then after that we will have a collection for our church may God open up our hearts God loves the one that is a cheerful Giver and you know it's everything is written in God's book with what heart how how much when did we serve the Lord with our finances and after that during the collection brother Sergey will sing a song Thank you so much Jesus I pray Lord that you make heal broken marriages that you may heal broken families in the name of [Music] Jesus Jesus is the answer for this nation Jesus is the answer for Africa Say Amen for hail the power of Jesus name let Angels prostrate fall bring forth the Royal diem and crown him Lord of [Music] Lord but I come to you in the name above every name the name that is higher than every principality the name that is higher than every Power it is the name of Jesus Christ [Applause] everyone who call upon the name of the Lord shall be [Applause] [Music] sa every need shall bow every time confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father forever I have heard your knocking I respond to it this moment I open my heart's door for [Music] [Music] you every knee should bow and every Tong should confess of things in heaven on Earth and under the Earth that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father say amen hallelujah dear church can we say amenu you know the video you just watched this is the ministry of ryanard donkey it's the ministry of Christ for all nations you know I had the privilege and the honor of of being trained for Christ for all nations and we have another brother here in the area his name is Zach Teasdale he's an evangelist he was also trained by Christ for all nations and you know we were trained by Reinhard Bon and he had a vision we were trained by his ministry but with his ministry he shared the vision that not only Africa would be saved but America would be saved amen how many of you want to see America saved you know we're believing the same Gatherings we saw in Africa the millions of people coming to hear about Jesus we will see that in America as well and you know it all has to start somewhere and right now we are starting here in clear waterer beach with an event called Freedom Fest it's a Freedom Festival and so it's a festival about the Gospel of Jesus how it will bring freedom to [Music] America you know Christ for all nations is coming here and all the churches in the area are partnering together the festival the event will happen November 17th to the 19th a Friday Saturday and Sunday at 600 PM every night and we have will have an invitation in in the back you can grab an invitation if you would like to [Music] come take a couple share it with your neighbor share it with your friends maybe your family those that aren't here today it's just three weeks from today God's going to move here in America you know the churches are uniting and something special is going to [Music] happen and I'm so happy that our church is on board pastor vasili Pastor Nikolai thank you so much but another way we can take part is not just to support it but to volunteer as [Music] well I have a slide here for a volunteer if you want to sign up as a volunteer to help out in any way possible any way you can this is the one time in church that you can pull out your phone right now and scan the QR code if you're not good with those QR codes right now Daniel and kiwi will come around the aisles they have a sheet you can just fill out your name and your phone number to sign up as a volun so they're coming up and down the aisle just raise your hand if you want to sign up and they will pass out this flyer for you excited what God's doing in our nation you know up to this point we've been here for already four months and we've we've been with many different churches we've done evangelism trainings with them worship nights with them and we've already seen 400 people make the decision to come to Jes and we're believing for many many more thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands and even millions and one last announcement I want to make is we are going to have an evangelism training here in our church on November 4th we will have the the uh the pastor seminar the uh seminar in the morning from 9: to 12 but then at 2: p.m. on Saturday we will have the evangelism training here Bible schooled so if you want to be trained on how to preach the gospel so that you can share with your neighbors your friends your family just come and you will be trained here I want to see us all in that training am amen and so that after that training I want to give us all a goal you know right now we have a few empty seats in our church I want us to use this training when we are trained and go out and try to get one person to come to church with us the next Sunday just share Jesus with one person if you don't know how perfect we have a training for you so again thank you all so much for partnering with us if you still want to volunteer and you didn't sign up we'll have the sheet in the back and we'll have some flyers back there as well God bless you all thank you so much bless Church like to remind that we invite everyone for Bible school or this training that is upcoming on Friday and Saturday we will do our best to have translation into russan and we would like to invite everyone who would like to participate to spread the gospel and a desire that God would use us to bring many people to Christ may God's peace be upon everyone who's here today I'm very excited that I was given an opportunity to participate in a youth service today you know every time we invite Children and Youth come here to the front I asked myself a question up until what age you counted as I'm also youth but from 1970 praise be to our Lord for this opportunity to be here today you know recently me and my wife visited our children in Oregon and during those short period there was are two big events that took place that pushed us to change our tickets uh one of our grand grandchildren was born into our family my wife's Ria's older sister passed away you know I compare a life it's like a life on the train station some come arrive some depart it happens all the time and while we are present at the trail sta train station we need to find ourself to for the kingdom of God what is life means or meaning has for each and every one of us many ansers your life it's a rich riches knowledge Glory power fun or vacation for some life is suffering but in in Philippians we read that for me Christ life with Christ is gain God wants everyone to be saved and gospel being preached all over the world in as a witness and unfortunately that gospel the good news is not into salvation for everyone our goal when we hear the the gospel that to respond and accept into our hearts and then when we sit on the train to depart we are being waited there in heaven God bless each and every one of you [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] fore praise be to our Lord dear church we'll take a little bit of more patience and we'll turn back to the word of God and before us we'll still have a prayer let's gather ourselves and turn our hearts to the word of God God first Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 17 for praise be to our Lord you know the coming of the Lord is near there's a there's one Psalm that we already hear the footsteps of the Lord who you know I turn on the news you know just normal news people that are unbelievers I'm listening and I don't believe my ears what I'm hearing iar hear the footsteps of the Lord I open my phone and I look and I can't believe what I'm seeing I see the footsteps of the Lord you know the last the few events in this world people start to think where is everything going and it's stronger and stronger you see all over this world that the footsteps of the Lord are coming closer a question to every single one of us when do we hear them when we hear about this or that when more and more we realize that yes our Lord is coming closer that understanding it brings us to a state of Joy the the fact that the end is near when I can come and stand before God the fact is that we will meet with Jesus today does it bring you to Joy or maybe this moment coming closer gets you to start to worry and you know sometimes people they kind of calm themselves down they say well it's already 2,000 years they're talking about this you know it might not come it's it'll they'll talk about it and I'll live my years like everyone else 100% you live like everyone but then what's there wasn't one that didn't live their life to the end everyone live to the end and what the word of God tells us everyone must stand before God because everyone has appointed once to die and then judgment but the coming the coming of the Lord is very near and it's coming closer and the word of God teaches us how we need to be in that coming those that are sitting here today it's a word for us the word of God says that we need to be wholly unblemished and if we truly ask ourself this question looking around and first looking at ourselves and looking at today's church if we really look at our situation and if you take this church that's up until the setting of The Sun if Jesus will come his coming happens before the sun sets today [Music] how do you think everyone that you know everyone will stand with joy before will every will Jesus be able to receive everyone with a meeting with him how do you think the word of God says that the Lord does not wait but he has um patience for us let's read it's the book of second Peter chapter 3 verse 9 the book of second Peter chapter 3 verse 9 pay attention to this word it says he is patient with you God is patient not with those with us the ones that must live a holy and Godly life is us and God leads every single one of us through repentance it talks about repentance to his Holiness so that he wouldn't just be satisfied with the little percent but with all and not to leave anyone who is called in the church no one if we look a little bit earlier in the book of First Peter chapter 4 verse 12 and 13 we're talking about the revelation of Jesus the revelation of his glory today and it he says that we receive fiery Temptations it's almost we don't understand it many things many situations for us are so unordinary and we just can't understand that but the word of God said that that you cannot go around it's important it's important for every one of us so that we may participate in the sufferings of Christ participating in them we might rejoice and have that Joy when Jesus comes or when we reveal ourselves him and God himself is interested not just for us to kind of wait and be scared and worri but then kind of calm ourselves down but God is is waiting and it's important for him so that we would all reveal oursel before him with joy and so what do we do we read further verses 15 and 16 it talks about a certain people with these fire trials and so this is one kind of aspect of those trials that we go through and you know we had a bible study on Wednesday brother vasil was was leading it and the question was asked what does that mean the judgment begins with God's household it's very simple with us with you and with me verse 17 says so the house of God we are the ones in God's household those that are led by his spirit and obey his will and the grace of God leads people to what it leads people to repentance if a person with the Holy Spirit judges himself and he repents through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ they presents um righteous before God and you know the Holy Spirit judges us every moment of our lives and even when we do something good and he encourages us that's still the Judgment of God has he's encouraging you that you did the right thing you know it's the Judgment he brings a judgment he says good and sometimes he judges and he says no that wasn't good you did it wrong you know repent and if you repent we'll stop and we'll talk about what is repenting that's when the blood of Jesus washes you and you become righteous if you're righteous than you how it's written here and if you're righteous you're righteous to be saved but those that aren't righteous can't well won't be saved let's open up the book of 1 Corinthians chap 11 verse 31 God punishes us here so that he wouldn't have to punish us with the whole sinful World there the there on the Judgment day before the white table the judgment where some will receive judgment for all eternity but some will receive judgment for the crown being judged being punished here on Earth a person gives thems up for good deeds for God and you might think to yourself but how can God punish here how can God punish he punishes do you remember David sinned what did God come and tell him you know I'm not going to kill you but here's three things you can choose what's your punishment and what did the punishment come it did and if you study the law of Moses you see for every action that you don't you do wrong it's you know pay give give back more give back five 10 times you know you you stole one lamb give back five punishment comes even though the person realized their sin why would they have to give it away and even here right now our law even here right now our law if you were caught speeding 20 20 miles per hour faster than the officer is gonna tell you he's gonna say it's nothing personal with us you're you might be a good guy but here's your the punishment will still be and the punishment will stay for everyone that um breaks the law and you know people would say that's the Old Testament that's those people that are unclean that would break we we we live in the New Testament you know it's not for us but if you look at zakus do you remember Zaki his true repentance what did you know zakus when he repented he said those that I have that I have um upset I will give you back four times I was thinking sometimes does he even have that much money he gave away half of everything he had and he was GNA pay back four times to everyone we're talking about repentance we're talking about repentance and the consequence that this repentance comes into our lives that we have to give something away we have to pay it back us being able to acknowledge the sin through the Holy Spirit shouldn't just lead us to knowing it but their realization should bring us to the point where we repent where we change something where we pay it back where we and receiving this punishment is true repentance and repentance involves you know judgment when the Holy Spirit judges us and receiving the punishment for what you deserve for what you and sometimes asking for forgiveness or making up with somebody after you have hurt them that's a big deal and you know that could even be a punishment for you you have to go you have to ask for forgiveness you have to humble yourself it's a very difficult process that the one that's repenting must go through to get away from the Judgment of the Lord if the person doesn't truly repent then they won't be able to get away from the Judgment of God they'll be judged there that is the grace of God to his chosen people so that to the point up until judgment the person would be judge himself and they would repent and they would come to this repentance and here on Earth God sometimes comes into serious judgment for people for one reason to bring them to repentance and so that those would repent would rejoice and be glad in the day of the Lord but not be afraid of this day and for this reason it's written in First Peter for this reason it's written in 1 Peter chapter 4: 1 and two but the will of God is for us to be cleansed not my will but God's holy will may it be done in our lives that's why sometimes God must give someone a sickness or some other fiery trials but again if God's not doing it with the the purpose just to punish someone he's doing that so that we would be able to receive all the grace that he has for us and so that in our life we would have him as the one only center of our life that's what God does but me and you us he has called so that if we see someone's going through different things they worry about these fiery trials so that go if God opened it up to you don't just kind of make fun of them but help the person go through that don't don't try to look into the situation oh you received that for this or for that if God doesn't open it up to you you won't know and you in your life you'll have also things that sometimes and how do you want for people to of course every single one of us that's why we have a church to kind of uplift one another as we're going through these fiery trials every punishment that comes to us it'll never bring us joy it'll bring us great great sadness and sometimes you have such things that come upon people that if not for God's grace and God's mercy people can go crazy but the peace the peace of God keeps people from going there and protects them and so these these trials aren't aren't uh aren't upsetting us but God through these things he teaches us and going through God's judgment repenting and carrying that punishment for what we did we receive the fruit of righteousness and with all joy not looking at any situations we can say with full confidence hearing the footsteps of the Lord Lord come because that day that's coming must be the Central and the most joyful day of all your life your eternal life and God says the Lord says that every one of us would be ready he doesn't want to come and just take half he wants all so in the future when you go through something that worries you in the future when the church goes through some trials and persecutions and it will come because the people that go through these trials must be in the church Rejoice because the Lord wants a meeting with you and he wants you to rejoice and be glad in that day when you see the Lord or but you wouldn't run away with all your might and say no I don't want it yet may God bless everyone are you guys ready to pray about this let's bow down and let's pray about this for foren for today we had a wonderful service thanks Brothers for the sermons it's time for prayer for needs I have a praise report about my daughter we've been praying she's back from the hospital home also we will be praying for this upcoming Freedom Fast that Christ for all nations will in our community on November 25th we are planning to have an Outreach for Slavic people in our community a Thanksgiving Outreach and we would like to let you know now so that way you can start praying about the service and if you have any personal needs that would like for church to pray about please let us know let's pray for sister Galina she has a headache that God would heal her uh Kier family that has a praise report for their daughter Cornelia she turned 18 years old this past week sister Luda she has a praise report for for the church that prayed for her needs and her concerns sister Oxana is asking to pray for healing of our neck she's having some issues sister is asking to pray for her her friend who is now in New York and her son the relationship his name is Slavic that God would bring peace and Reconciliation into that family for a family who just recently came from Ukraine they have a praise report that God gave him an opportunity to come to Florida to see the family and also they are praying for their grandchild who is in Ukraine they used to go to Sunday school the youth but later he fell away walked away from the Lord that God would touch his heart and would bring him back to church back to Christ fore speech brother guest he gives thanks to all the people in the United States as a country for the support that they providing to Ukraine and all the help continues to pray forugh Allah for her salvation and also her grandson Ivan praying for the team for nursing home I would like to invite brother Andrew and his spouse wife come here to the front we would like to pray for you they express a desire to become members of our church it's a beautiful couple beautiful family I had a conversation with them they love the Lord that would like to be active in the church we have very great report from the church that they left in penylan and I would like to turn to those that are not a members of our church it's your opportunity it's your time to become one but most importantly make sure you become an active member of the church and participate in the ministry we have nine Ministries in our church and you can pick one and participate and be active in after the prayer I would like to show just a one minute video to share with you all I would like to say thank you to everyone that participated in our church celebration 25th anniversary everyone everywhere and the list is huge for everyone personally that participated for you participated as part of a some kind of ministry we thank you all very much and after the prayer I would like for you to uh please come and greet Andre and his wife invite him to your home gu guests I would like to invite you to pray for for [Music] Freedom f [Music] for foren you may be seated and after there we'll greet one [Music] another [Music] [Applause] [Music] foree [Music] for Thanksgiving Christmas