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Appointed Not for Wrath, but for Salvation

October 16, 2022 · 2:37:24 · Watch on YouTube ↗

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Summary

The pastor opens the service by inviting Christ to be present and blessing the congregation with the grace and peace that Paul speaks of in Ephesians, reminding everyone that the peace Jesus gives is unlike the peace of this world. Turning to 2 Thessalonians 2 and the book of Revelation, he walks through the end-time events: the breaking of the seven seals, the sounding of the seven trumpets, and the pouring out of the seven bowls of God's wrath (Revelation 6, 15-16), describing the Great Tribulation in three stages.

He stresses that the church will be gathered to Christ before that wrath falls, just as Noah was saved from the flood and Lot was rescued from Sodom. The great danger, he warns, is to live like the people in Noah's day who simply never thought about God or eternity. Drawing on his memory of a Siberian snowstorm where men held a rope so they would not get lost, he urges believers to hold tightly to eternal life and to Jesus amid the many false winds of teaching.

From 1 Thessalonians 5 and Romans he proclaims that God did not appoint His people for wrath but for salvation through Jesus Christ, and that the only escape from judgment is repentance, not pointing fingers at others. A visiting brother closes with a call to honest self-examination and sanctification, comparing God's trials to the refiner's fire that purifies gold and to the prodigal son who discovers his true worth only when he returns to the Father.

Key Points

  • Invite Christ into your gathering and bless one another with the grace and peace that come from heaven, not from the world.
  • The Great Tribulation unfolds in stages - seals, trumpets, and bowls of wrath - but the church is taken up before God's wrath is poured out.
  • Like Noah and Lot, the righteous are rescued before judgment; God knows how to deliver His own.
  • The deadliest mistake is to live without ever thinking about God or eternity, as people did in Noah's day.
  • Hold fast to eternal life and to Christ, because many false teachings blow like a storm trying to sweep you off the true path.
  • We are appointed not for wrath but for salvation, and the only way to escape judgment is genuine repentance, not judging others.
  • Let God refine you like gold in the fire; honest self-examination and a return to the Father restore your true worth.

Devotional

In a world that grows darker by the day, it is easy to drift along like everyone else, eating, working, and planning as though tomorrow will never end. Yet the Lord calls you to be a thinking person - one who remembers that this earth is not your home and that Christ is coming. Hold on to eternal life the way a traveler grips the rope in a blinding storm, and let nothing pull your hand away from Jesus. Remember that you were appointed not for wrath but for salvation, so let that mercy lead you to fresh repentance today.

God did not appoint us for wrath, but for salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hold on to eternal life - in a storm of false teachings, never let go of the rope.
The wise are simply those who think about God and about where their lives are heading.
Transcript

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have done it is you Jesus it is your name the name of Jesus that is worthy to be praised it is the name of Jesus that is worthy to be exalted it is the name of Jesus that brings salvation it is the name of Jesus that brings healing and deliverance in this place Lord and we have come before you the name of Jesus and we have come before you and place ourselves on our altar Lord before you we come in surrender before you Jesus and we just ask you Lord do as you will Lord God In This Place through the word through the song Lord we ask you Jesus that your will be done father God we ask that we all have come here let us receive from you Jesus let us receive a word from you let us receive from your presence let's let us experience Your Love Your Grace your mercy in this place today Jesus we ask you you have said come to me those who are heavy laden and I will give you rest Lord and we come before you Jesus and we are asking you Lord we are in need of this rest we are in need of this peace Lord we are in need of this of this peace Lord in this time of chaos Lord in the world we live in today Lord there is much distraction Lord and stuff going on but we need your rest we need your peace Lord Jesus let us believe and enter into your promise let us believe and enter into your rest which is perfect which provides what we need Nation Lord for our healing Lords that we may proclaim the gospel of your kingdom Lord and become your children glorified with you in heaven Jesus amen you may take your seats I'm going to do our announcements is six o'clock we'll be having our youth services this Saturday in the morning we'll be having our yearly uh cleanup Church cleanup on Saturday we will be having a big we would like to invite all the volunteers for this Saturday we want to do a full cleanup inside the church because as you know we have a lot of stuff that we need to go through and maybe get rid of so each department if possible comes Saturday so we could go through what's not needed and get rid of it foreign all depends on how many volunteers show up the more volunteers show up the more work we could get done so we welcome you and God bless you um and uh next Sunday at 10 30 we have our prayer in the conference room as always and at 11 o'clock uh in the morning we will have our service and it'll be a missionary service and we will have a missionary visiting us and many know him his name is waldemars foreign so remember that the fifth of November on a Saturday at 11 o'clock in the morning we will have a Brother's breakfast and following that we will have an extended Brothers meeting that will proceed our members meeting according to our statutes you should and then the 6th of November we will be having our communion and then we following that we will have our members meeting we will be confirming uh Nikolai vertovic for pastors service and also other ministers on all the other ministers through Anonymous voting remember we do this every four years and therefore if you will be present that day for whatever reason please be there please let me know ahead of time if you have any questions you can ask me Pastor Nikolai or um Bishop Victoria try not to decide amongst yourselves or ask amongst yourself but try to ask us and if you would like to become a member of our church let us know and you're well more than welcome foreign and if you would like to receive water baptism we already have a candidate so just let us know foreign [Music] you know listening to the news and the things going on in this world we can see that the end times are coming I would like to sing a song reminding those that leave their homes maybe you forgot uh lost something maybe left many things behind and they're going through a hard time now we are just a foreign in this land in this world and that our Eternal home is in heaven [Music] thank you [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my eyes [Music] [Music] foreign give up America [Music] [Music] [Music] to shut my [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] eat it yeah [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] they're preparing for a great uh celebration of Thanksgiving and they are in need of prayer there you need a prayer so God can help them be attentive learn how to say sing songs and say verses I mean praise the Lord hallelujah hallelujah as we heard this wonderful singing that we are on our way to meet with Christ is that we are just visitors on this Earth right you know Abraham Isaac and uh Jacob they call themselves foreigners in the land and they were awaiting a architect designer is god um and we as well are heading are heading that way because we are promises of Christ are we awaiting for this inheritance a second Thessalonians chapter 2 we'll uh read uh first 11 verses the gospel is concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him we ask you brothers and sisters this is my topic for all of us today about the return of Christ and about our gathering to him and I will read the rest of 10 or 11 verses and we'll just follow along on the screen is foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign and so that that was a short description of the last days as apostle Paul wrote in his epistle images and I think that the last days last times uh concern not only the Christians but everyone on Earth because everything is getting more closer and closer and we see The Return of Christ is approaching and in the book of Revel Revelations to John the Apostle John this Revelation was given to him where in more detail these uh end time events are described starting with chapter 6 until chapter 16 it's uh describing in three uh periods of that end time a very difficult and uh trial time and it is called uh the Great Tribulation and we are approaching those times and to those uh time periods and the first period that we are beginning to read is from chapter six is when Christ approached the one that is sitting on the throne and he took the scroll that is sealed with the Seven Seals is and Christ himself began to break those seals because no one else was worthy to take this book and to break those seals and when he took broke those seals all kinds of uh difficult events tribulations and trials begin to happen on Earth [Music] and when Christ broke the last seal at the balloons and that was in the end of the first period seven angels appear that the ones that were standing before God is and each one had a trumpet and they begin to sound those trumpets one after another and that is the second period of those tribulations that will happen on Earth and when they begin to sound the trumpets uh the catastrophe is one more worse than the other begin to happen for example one-third of all trees on Earth will be destroyed um one third of uh Earth population [Music] when one angel will sound the trumpet and it will be a very difficult time and specifically during this second period when the trumpets will sound we see the description of the rule of antichrist and the persecutions that will happen during that time and when the last trumpet will sound and the voice of an archangel will be uh will will sound and then according to the revelations that God gave through the Apostle Paul the great mystery of God will be fulfilled it was the resurrection and the uh taking up of the Church of Christ to heaven and everyone that will be ready according to the gospels of Christ they will be taken up to heaven but um and that's why church we have a good time to prepare if we want to be taken up and be with Christ at that time because nothing unclean will enter into that place yeah and that's why Christ gives us that time of preparation and that's so that no one will be found in the number of those unwise people you know how it says that you will be laying in bed husband and wife and all of a sudden one will be taken up and one will be left behind these are serious uh matters and that's why everyone must check themselves am I ready to meet Christ and in this time Antichrist appears and besides all the catastrophic events there will be a great suffering and tribulation because of this Antichrist and this sin during this time a lot of blood of holy people will be poured out [Music] and when this period ends then we go to chapter 15 even though the church will already be taken up to heaven no treaty period score biblically but the third period of Great Tribulation will continue on this Earth and about this it is written in chapter 15 and 16 of Revelations and today I would like us to look at this third period the last period and we'll read a few verses from chapter 15. one more time I would like to point out it is written as was during a time of Noah people ate drank got married built and did all these things but the most important thing is that they didn't even think they didn't think about God and they weren't thinking about what will happen tomorrow and what kind of an end will be uh tomorrow and that's why we have to be the ones that are thinking only Noah at that time was the only one that was thinking about it he saw where the world was heading he saw all the perversions and he was uh going to God because and God gave him Grace Grace of Salvation praise the Lord and him and his wife and his uh sons and eight more same thing happened in the times of Sodom and Gomorrah but um and that's why me and you we have to be wise people and wise people are the ones that that are thinking people do you think about our life and about our future to get married is good to get married is good isn't that right sisters that's the brothers Delta building is good new house a a business but all of this is temporary but God has called us for eternal life it is and to this eternal life as apostle Paul says we have to hold on to it and when I was serving in the military in the Soviet military in Siberia in altai region 7 475 a year 1974-75. and ironically we were building the platforms for the for nuclear uh weapons that were aimed towards the United States can you imagine and this was way back in 1975 but do you have any idea what's going on right now I think all of us have some idea about it right now um and in that area they had a kind of like we have hurricanes but they were called Buran and this would happen during the winter yeah I've never experienced anything like this all of a sudden this uh snow uh storm started with the similar strong winds as uh went through Florida recently [Music] and you couldn't exit from the buildings you couldn't do anything everything just night and day it was just swirling and blowing around and when this storm was over for about three days this smart idea they had this rope from from one building to to an outhouse or from the kitchen to different buildings and so you would hold on to this rope uh and you know and that's because as soon as you let go of this rope you would not find your way back and I'm sure your imagination you can imagine what it's like you're walking and you have to hold on to this road and that's why the scripture says hold on to eternal life because there are so many different teachings false ideas all kinds of wins and they can blow you off this true path but we have the word of God praise the lord we have to hold on to the truth we have to hold on to Jesus Christ praise the Lord of Great Tribulation and in the beginning of this chapter it's describing how the safe people are singing uh on the Glass Sea it's like the song we used to sing back in the day there's a song who will not be afraid of you and will not glorify and praise you the Nations will come and bow down before you because your judgment will be open and now be very attentive don't be distracted by your phones or by conversations pay attention Grace after this great worship of God we'll read uh verse 6 and 7. eight and eight eventually is same angle of angle of image is same here is out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues they were dressed in clean shining linen and were golden sashes wore golden sashes around their chests then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with wrath of God who lives forever and ever and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power The Colony Angelo and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the Seven Angels were completed we see that seven angels exit they they come out of the Angel they were wearing a white linen with Gold Belts he is and one of the uh four creatures gives each of the Angels uh these bowls with wrath of God inside of them Golden Balls with Breath of God and as they exited the uh the temple times we read that something happened in the temple that has never happened before all of a sudden this smoke showed up the glory of God the power of God appeared foreign and in this way God close shut down he closed the entrance to the temple nobody could come to God at that time anymore those Seven Angels were the last ones that walked out of the Temple zakrita and so this were the temple was closed out until the last uh Bowl was poured out on Earth but just imagine specifically during this time of seven bowls of seven angels Heavens or will be in other words they will be shut down closed out I think maybe on the other example similar to that was uh when all the sins of the world were laid on onto Christ when he was on the cross and this was her continuing for three hours Darkness thickened all around the Earth in Christ for the first time experienced what it's like when Heavens are shut out it is the worst thing that could possibly physical death as well as spiritual death when he was separated from the father and he cried out with a loud voice father why have you left me um and then here now years go by and we are approaching something that is similar something similar is beginning to happen nobody heard the voice of God nobody could approach Where Angels were everything was closed out and that was the time of the wrath of God is and as we read it is it was closed out for those that did not receive the truth and did not receive the grace of God um foreign chapter 16 it says when the voice of God for the first time again spoke is the seventh angel poured out his bowl onto the air and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne saying it is done the same thing happened on the cross Christos much Christ was suffering this very special this difficult suffering inside for three hours for us so we would never have to experience this to be separated from God and when he cried out it is finished the heavens opened up and his Spirit went up to heaven praise be to God the same thing will happen and the same thing will happen from the first Bowl to the seventh bowl of Wrath total uh silence he is here emotions and these horrible punishments you would say were being poured out on Earth on ungodly people but praise be to God then God's church will not be on Earth at that time Thessalonians chapter 5 beginning with uh verse 8. Thessalonian first Thessalonians 5 verse 8. yeah but since we belong to the day let us be sober putting on faith and love as a breastplate and the hope of Salvation as a helmet book s for God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ let us the god appointed us not for Wrath but for salvation you know when lot was in in Sodom he was suffering in this place he was a a righteous holy person and God has sent destructions on this place on Sodom and Gomorrah this is until this day everything is dead in that area everyone not there's nothing uh alive in that area until this day but two angels came to him and said Angels told them take your family and leave and get out because we are unable to perform all of these punishments on this place until you are still here and of course Abraham had an intercessory prayer and saying will you really destroy the righteous with the wicked an apostle Peter is writing he says God knows how to rescue the righteous from destruction because he predestined his people not for his wrath it is to turn to each other and say praise the lord we were not appointed to be uh say to each other thank you to Christ for what we were appointed for Hallelujah I think just thinking about this thing alone you can worship and praise God all day let us continue reading he died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him therefore encourage one another and build each other up just as in fact you are doing just what we are doing she's busy she is through songs Through sermons through conversations edify each other encourage one another some people say you sit there and just preach to each other sure we preach to each other yes [Music] because in the New Testament there's this phrase to each others preach to each other encourage one another admonish one another it says those the Lord they say to each other the Lord sees solution the Lord here and he is writing the book of remembrance and he will not forget a single thing I will tell you even furthermore when Isaiah has seen the Open Heavens and the cherubims were up there is they would cover themselves up with wings because they were not able to look at God's glory and with other Wings they would fly and they're in heaven and they kept telling each other holy holy holy is God say to each other amen amen don't be quiet tell one another God sees it all teach one another encourage one another even with love you can correct each other can you say Amen praise the Lord foreign foreign and to wait for his son from Heaven whom he raised from the dead Jesus who rescues us from the coming wrath from the coming wrath from the Wrath that is coming and he will rescue his church has he rescued lot on his poet he will rescue his own praise be to him Hallelujah he is worthy of all glory to him be the glory in church through all generations Romans chapter one verse 18. Romans 1 18. the wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven against all the Godless and wickedness of people who suppress the truth by their wickedness but wrath of God as it is written is being revealed you know on the political Arena today here on Earth as it is written uh the the secrets of evil and it is it is written that these Wicked people they'll be able to accomplish some things but not a whole lot this is America is here in the United States if you follow politics people are complaining and they say they openly say because no free speech you you're no longer able to practice uh Free Speech no longer do you have the freedom is against Christianity there is resistance happening already those that suppress the truth with wickedness so don't be alarmed don't be uh surprised by this the youth will not be surprised by this you will see even more be prepared for these things and understand the times that we are living in it's just and right now it's not a good time for fun um Romans 5 verse 9. since we have now been justified by his blood how much more shall we be saved from God's Wrath through him Romans 2 3-5 Roman two three children is so when you were a mere human being passed being past judgment on them and yet do the same things do you think you will escape God's judgment people think okay I judge him you see what they did the scripture says do you really think that by doing so you will escape the Judgment of God don't you see that the rest of these three fingers they're pointing back to you and it is written that that uh judgment without Mercy will be upon the one that will not show mercy and further one is or do you show content for the riches of his kindness forbearance and patience not realizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance saidushi nope this is but because of your stubbornness and your unrepented heart which is the problem that we're talking about you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's Wrath when his righteousness righteous judgment will be revealed God through his grace leads a person to repentance he Jesus the only way to avoid the wrath of God it is not Judgment of other people it's not a blowing up uh conversations according to the Scripture it is to repentance before God and to believe in in the grace of God when a tax collector entered the temple he wasn't pointing fingers to anybody else he kept saying Lord be merciful to me and he left Justified and that's why Apostle Paul in Athens said that God commands all people to repent praise be to God is that we have God's mercy and we have the time to repent uh hurry up and then a rush to do this you still have today Jesus when they were preaching the gospel that is the only thing that can rescue people from wrath was when John the Baptist was preaching by Jordan and he was inviting people he is all kinds of people uh came there uh but uh there also came people that were just um crafty ridiculous they were religious people but they were really crafty they were what's the word foreign do a worthy fruit of repentance don't just bring excuses you don't have to bring excuses before God is it's the circumstances that are making me do this you don't have to do any of this is an even worse for example like Adam said and this kind of uh excuse he made and he shifted blame and begin to even blame God he shifted blame and said it's it's her it's her father you don't need to do this and I will put it this way this will not uh uh go by before God uh God gave uh his most precious son the most precious thing that he had for uh sacrifice for our sins [Music] as Jeremiah said simply acknowledge your guilt ask God for forgiveness for your sins and leave them alone and you will God will have mercy on you and he says and he says if if your sins will be read as crimson they will be washed out and be white as snow I will wash away your sins as you can imagine the sheeps have this beautiful white Furious for what Lord for repentance if and for Faith believe faith and believe in God praise the Lord foreign [Music] well that you would stress cousins do you want to know what happens in chapter 16 all the the most difficult tribulations those punishments of those questions who's curious come on Wednesday and we'll talk about this soon and uh we have a guest he will preach I would like for us to to have Gathering anxiety what much time looking what's up hello Luke 21 21 thank you videos foreign foreign she did it out of her heart I would like for us to do it the same way while we still have the opportunity let us stand and pray foreign Church Our Guest will will participate and brother Victor will share some things he was here on Wednesday but many were absent but we have a plastic box over there and in the corner and yeah you can put yourself if you haven't done so it's for brother it is all for for God's work for his own let us pray hello everybody videos foreign foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] excuse me is [Music] inside these shapes [Music] [Music] he is [Music] commercials [Music] [Applause] [Music] to the face [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] this way [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] explanation [Music] [Music] trust me peace be to you dear church I greet you mean it's uh it's a joy to be here with you today and to hear this news that has been spoken from the beginning that the Lord has appointed us to Mercy how about the hardships and the worries that come to us what about him the Lord said that anything that touches you touches the apple of my eyes and without his uh allowing it nothing happens to us in his time when Satan decided to go against job he came for approval from God he was he wasn't able to do anything until God first gave him the permission to do it when the devil was not successful job was praising God brothers and sisters we are protected by God and no one can take us out of his hand may God bless everyone here today and everyone that puts his hope in in him may you be blessed thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] bottom [Music] of spicy [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] belong [Music] s [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] below [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] brothers and sisters the pastor reminded me to share what we will be doing in as a church on Wednesdays [Music] so our ministry has two goals it's for refugees and and homeless people so the White House [Music] gives us a list of people that are cheap they actually have the status they have lost a lot or everything it's in song and sermon um in one hand we have the gospel and the second gift is on Thursday We Gather at four o'clock and only these people come is and we have Fellowship a heart to heart and we talk to them about who can help them and the result is that they go and visit the church the house of prayer and praise be to our God is the Lord said that is the sick not just physically ill people but spiritually ill as well foreign [Music] but the wife was drinking heavily and they wanted to take away her motherly rights it says and so he asked them to not not to do this that he will take them into his hands and the verse that you will be saved in your house the baptizer in the Holy Spirit and this is just a small thought s today we had a very uh deep and good and deep word and it's a solid confirmation that I must speak on this I want to be very clear with you [Music] we as people we are very close they have a body Soul and Spirit and I would like us to do this kind of uh self-reflecting of your own soul um and when I went through the borders I was being checked I went through the control and they let me go through but I could have brought um over this jealousy pride and all those other things that I may have not even known and they could have been revealed here not one control would have picked that up no yeah and but there's a place of scripture that says we are all standing before and nothing will pass by there is and that's why ministers and us having we take part in it's kind of like reflecting reflecting or having like a um taking care of your soul foreign [Music] look into the teaching and do these things and he says standing before God he doesn't catch certain things but I'm not just that actually judges the motivations of my heart Apostles in other words Apostle Paul is saying he cannot even see himself the way God sees him David says God see me in this dangerous path and David had a reason in order to not trust him because he had a great mercy of God and that's why he changed his prayer and said Lord watch over me because I am on a dangerous path because these are deep uh it's a deep relationship with God and David and he understood when he had hardships or testing it shows that his um path where he's headed and God will align it and fix it there's a place in scripture where the Lord himself touches he is talking about the plank in the in the spec why are you looking because if we are actually close with God we will find out that the shortcomings that we have we find in others and and I'll go back to David where the a prophet Nathan he's showed the problems of David to him and how he saw his own problems and then the clear word of the Lord came to him so God was David wasn't able to see and judge himself correctly so God clearly showed him and if we are attentive to our state and we are working on our short our shortcomings and we will be able to see the shortcomings of others but in a different way God will give us wisdom and uh empathy in order to help them when I saw the doctor sure was in a white guy and she looked at me in the eye and I really trusted this person I knew that they were in their place she's not only wearing the white guy and I let her touch the most valuable thing that I have uh a needle in order to pull out the uh I was calm and I knew that I was being helped she did her work prescribed me some cream and I went home praise God um that gave stupa leaves and so I I don't want to take up too much time so I'm going to try to the third chapter of Revelation Network names we will touch on the uh Church of audition maybe you have heard uh maybe tens or hundreds of certain and they will all it will always be revelatory Revelations you can put it up it's the third chapter verse 17 and lower um foreign foreign foreign the problem is that the Lord already came and he is continuing to knock in order to have this uh this supper I live in Maya Slovak let's say but he has a word for this church and it's clearly talking about its state he sees that the problem is that the person does not see the way the Lord does his own state he says do you not know problem it's not a problem that you're blind naked and poor yeah because through repentance God's able to change but the problem is actually in the fact that you don't see he's speaking in the truth and we must understand he is giving the advice then comes a time in which you have to pay a price and God brings you to the baptism of Fire foreign [Music] go through this refining process by fire you see this ring I don't know the percentage of gold in it but it's beautiful especially that I don't understand I don't understand but it shines and it's nice for me it has a really nice view of godliness but it has a form only because because of other metals that are with it what makes the nature of gold it's soft like foil is foreign and it's very important for whoever's doing this work to take all those Metals out yes and if he doesn't remove those metals and let it uh get cold in that state then all of those imperfections that were there they will be at the top and so if we're speaking about ourselves and God's leading us through trials and when we're going through it we look in the mirror and we're like we don't even recognize you know the passport says that we have one day of birth and of course we were truthful we were making we were putting everything in order everything is Apostle Paul in second Corinthians chapter 3 in the last verse he says second Corinthians so that means you have to have an open face you have to have an open uh being as a person that sees their imperfections has stepped away is I believe that the word of God is uh making us better because it shows the face of the inner person soon the son of of the truth has has reflected God's reality and it has uh entered somewhere and you have a senior state but there's this we oftentimes we leave and we forget foreign and so God asks the question well who will know him not even the prophets in the bible and so God himself says I am the god that speaks into the depths of the heart and therefore this fire it actually shows the the state that we're in how how we really are yeah and so if the fire if it was placed in the fire and the imperfections are brought to them if the Lord has taken us through different trials and and tests maybe through people around us and we have come to the realization of something that I have maybe some kind of anger or maybe I have jealousy I didn't see this I have uh robots maybe like uh uh ain't not anger but grumbling yeah grumbling and we haven't we haven't answered an escape from this it's it's a quite it's a um option we can uh not accept uh what we see and leave it the way it is but to but to have that desire to repent and a Zeal for repentance in order to leave so that uh Allowing God to uh take away these imperfections process in the fire to not let it get cold and remain like that but for us to actually change and so through all of this we have to find what is valuable and so I um I bring this example that when a has a a surgeon and so if he has a surgery for the appendix his dad will uh watch him and look look after him and he will try to convince or talk to his son and he will give him an option is I can just put some kind of cream on it so the Pain's not there and you can just go home but you will die but he understands that the father is saving him we must know in our hearts that if we have circumstances to these uh problems or these valleys of of mourning every in everything that is not good there is good God heard your prayer when he said Lord give me life help me and what is hidden he wants to reveal to you but there is a preparation for this you said test me and I will come out like gold gluteny sin the problem and I want to wrap up on this no vitnosis with his relationship with his father he did not have a supper with him he did not have a relationship and therefore the pride allowed this boy to leave the best place and he took the inheritance from his dad in a way that what we have that we can give when we gather all of us have something and we had a song today which is again we have a sermon from us this is all the inheritance the gifts of God are also his inheritance when there is no gold and silver what he has in the name of Jesus get up and go this is the inheritance praise be to him equality and so if you leave the father with the inheritance the devil or Satan will take him he will leave you with nothing he would now started and the only thing that remains is God's name when God will allow you to come to yourself and so this moment in which you do come to yourself in this Valley in which you were LED in God already has a plan because you come to the understanding of who you are who you are and so what you have lost it has attained a great value and you have something and so you became a person that is that understands you are not worthy and this is how people come to meeting with God and this this uh path where he sees God and when he when his father uh met him this is a great knowing of repentance but this was the first step because when God lifts you up and turns you know but in this state the prodigal son was not able to go have supper at the tables and the father has servants that also have their inheritance are responsible for the clothes that you're wearing where they can receive a confession and to touch your will and to see if those things that are not uh ready for the for the wedding are you are you willing to go into deeper of righteousness bursting I think first of all um but they were baptized we have this practice that when they get up in return it comes back and there are God servants that are uh to to be there for that person so that God would renew their sources and this is also a preparation to something greater that is maybe you were you you know you didn't have shoes but God has the issues then he knows how to put them on you turn you and to prepare you today and then a man is ready for uh this relationship that's deep with the Lord and therefore this person completely has a different Outlook where the Lord is covering the tables maybe with a pastor's sermon maybe with a verse I believe that to have to take advice from him and in order to ask and receive an answer praise be to Jesus Christ I would like for us all God to speak to us like he spoke to Nathaniel Israel and truly in Israel where there's nothing because he was uh true and sincere in history and God loves these kind of people you will see a ladder from Heaven because with uh God is cheerfully uh having relation with them foreign maybe God has already saved us from the pride of life and alcoholism and smoking many many different things if uh the the word of God is able to uh wipe away any blemish then God is able to see us to be give us the ability to see the Deep how like deep into our state is foreign [Music] foreign maybe you're not even feeling that closeness with God but God wants to bring renewal he wants to visit you he wants to fill you with the holy spirit because he lives is that the source and of this of this Holy Spirit it would be inside of you as well and God has a great plan you are not just here to sit God gives everyone gifts and talents in order to help you and to sanctify you you put repeat and just use you in order for you to serve one another the gift in which God has given let us all stand to our feet we will go to the one that loves us for the one that maybe your soul is the Lord is in this place and he wants to give you Grace and renew your relationship he wants you to go to that secret place with him he wants to give you yourself to strengthen you and bless you to give you peace upon Grace is there anyone here in this place please let you let us know and I raise my hand because yeah because I want to experience and God is gold is the way that that you are touched and you will receive power and you will be Witnesses God wants you to be here and this place he wants to work he wants to change reply foreign Thomas foreign foreign allowed foreign [Music] these people three days they had fellowships and everything was good because of him Simplicity as if I TV foreign I mean because it is an email please I mean foreign and so this word was said that God is sanctifying us and we are on this path of sanctification and it is the most important and that's why we have services in order for us to know God more and more and to be Sanctified through his word and so we will be praying for our needs and our Thanksgiving I like this example about the gold who in our name here has golden in their house no even we say it's all gold right so I have Russian gold on my mind so that it would be hard so we couldn't break it sometimes we look into the mirror and we see that golden yeah but God wants us refining comes through separations bless us and help us in this process of refining so that we will be clean and not infected by the world um and we will thank God for our families and in my family we have Thanksgiving as well on Thursday we had a boy that was born and it was without a surgery and everything and so I pray for the church to pray for the recovery of my wife and if anyone has needs or Thanksgiving you may share um it's Mom I missed you uh blessing uh prayer that God would bless the travels and the process of bringing a mother here too from Ukraine I want to thank God that He gave the mercy in order for me to be here in America our mission was to come here to uh for our daughter to be married to me are friends and family and it was a great miracle because we were received here but we have to go and we have to go sooner because we're beginning to enjoy it usually we're going to go to South Carolina our daughter's there we want to be there first and again I want to thank you that you pray for you we thank you for your your heart Ukraine is that doesn't take a small part in your heart but you pray and uh and I would like to send a greeting from you [Music] and I want to thank you for everything that God would bless travels tomorrow I'm leaving to South Carolina and God God is a wonderful God and so we said into North Carolina where else you will be going Pastor Nick will be returning from Korea for blessings for travel yes to show is there any other year let us stand to her feet and uh preachers foreign foreign foreign there's a box in the back by the sound booth and you can uh place your donations there [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's so strong Come Away gotta Revival pour it out [Music] pour it out

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