Keep Watch: The Lord Is Coming

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time to begin our last Sunday service this year this year last time I maybe SC scared someone because I say it's the last prayer but all of us we live in the U subject to time and Solomon says there's a Time time for everything and the countdown of time was present back then and it is now we need to remember that the time will come where there be no more uh time counting there'll be no more clocks the sun will not be turning around the new uh Earth and now we will gather it together to praise the lord we will ask him for his Blessing and iow to greet everyone with the upcoming 2024 year for some people this past year was a difficult one for somebody was was so so and maybe for that Joy was full of blessing and we were full of joy but regardless how we went Bible says rejoice and give praise for everything and before we come and worship and uh praise the Lord I would like to share this word that I have on my heart I would like to leave with you this word that Jesus Christ left for his disciples it's going to be in Matthew 24 verse 42 and then he says he summarizes and and he says therefore keep watch because you do not know on what day your Lord will come but understand this if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief will be coming he he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into so you also must be ready because the son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect upon Him Peter he wrote that uh Christ will come as a thief at night why is he telling this following word to us why the coming of Jesus Christ is being compared to this terrible Act of uh when a thief comes is because so you and me would remember that Thief he would comes unexpectedly therefore we have the calling from God is not to sleep and it says you know that you have must watch somebody might tell in his heart you know from this new year I will start watching but I would like to invite you from this moment from this second that we would start watching that we would uh you know um mind G our minds we would G our minds if we would watch the devil who is a thief would not steal something that is most important you know that each and every one of us we have this safe and it is has the most precious things and it is our hearts and in our hearts this most impr impress important thing because the thief wants to steal that's where our faith is located this is where our love is located this is where our fear of God is located this is where our hope and the Lord is located amen amen and that's why it's the word of God tells us the most important thing to guard is to God guard your heart is to guard your eyes is to guard your lips but most importantly guard your heart guard your uh because it's important and if we continue to watch you know we will not let the devil to steal our faith when we enter this New Year we will put full our trust in the Lord let's invite him and call his name of Jesus Christ and our Savior Jesus Christ Our allowed us till the last day of this passing year to live and as Paul wrote he delivered us from those difficult circumstances and we believe that he will deliver more let's put this uh uh is guard our hearts and we watch our and we would be is sober because devil is like a lion he's walking around is to devour and Destroy we know that bless are those who do what it say I will invite you to get up on your feet and praise and worship our Lord [Music] e [Music] [Music] for Hallelujah [Music] huu [Music] you may greet one another bless him with this upcoming new year let's praise the Lord together it is wonderful to do this together also we have announcement for you um for all the parents who have children until that three years old we would like to make it comfortable for you you can take your kids to this uh before while service is taking place in this room over there in Sunday school Sunday school thank you we build a strong the the nor will be [Music] you with [Applause] us [Applause] for with the [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] you put the [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] 4 [Music] more [Music] for SP [Music] foru amen [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] spee with now [Music] Lord Jesus thank you so much for this time Lord God thank you that we're able to be gathered here Lord to Praise Your Name Lord Jesus from the coming of your birth Lord to this New Year Lord God pray that you may be with us Lord Jesus so that we may be Worship You Lord God that is what we were created for we pray over this day and over this celebration in the name of Jesus [Music] Amen [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] [Music] for for show [Music] soe [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] fore [Music] he Heist [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Hallelujah [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for foru [Music] for amen praise be to our god dear church I want us to turn our attention and be very important as we listen right now I want to share some congratulations and you receive it as congratulations to your heart I congratulate you all with this year that has passed why because every one of us is here in this place today because for every one of us God has helped us this year amen and by his mercy me and you we are not gone we're not gone from the church we are not gone from his people God continues to love you and you continue to love the Lord and this past year this next year is for me and you this this past year is for me and you but the the next year is not promised for us yet and you know what else I want to congratulate you with with the next coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and I want us to congratulate one another in this he is coming and praise be to our Lord that we are here on this place and may he continue to help us so that from yesterday's day the next whole year we would be faithful to him and next year we can at the end of next year we can see each other again and congratulate each other one again with the year that has passed by you know God gives us certain periods of time well God created time overall for us you know God's not in time but he created time for us and we're used to seeing different [Music] seasons and this evening the year 2023 will come to an end that's one section of time one season of time will come to an end something will will change nothing will change we have to look at the sections of time so that like it was said to Israel we would look at the seasons of time and this time is given to us by God he put us in time you know time isn't under our control uh what is under our control is how we spend that time how me and you with this time that God gave us what do we do what have you done where have you gone have you done something in this time that God has given you something that will give you fruit in the future time is one of the things that needed if you want the fruit to blossom and grow to form and as it was already said the wise Solomon said everything has its own season everything has its own time there's a time when we sew a time where we look after the things that we have sewn we water it and then there will come a time when we will reap you will only reap that which me and you have sown nothing else you know many people mistake this way of thinking they think something they're reaping is something they have not sown but that's not true you know one Professor I had back when I was younger he always told me he said I don't believe in God but I believe in sewing and reaping and I thought you know that's a spiritual law and that's one of the things that took me to seek the Lord there's a time to sew and a time to clean up a time to be born and a time to die and the day of our meeting with our Lord is a lot better than the day of our birth and sometimes like you think the past year is better than the one that we have not lived [Music] yet the time it shows us the result of what we have sown and it it puts a price on what we have sown it shows what we have done it says a day or time it will it will judge what you have done you know the day or the time it'll show how you have built how you have lived this or That season of your time that God has given you and one more time God gives us those Seasons the ones that we have to go through with patience you know when I was younger I always thought that time was something joyful you know I can't wait to pass time but now I see you have to go endure it with patience and even looking on a little bit more older people you see that they have even more patience even more even more that they carry with this time I want us to turn to the word of God James chapter 5 vers 7 to8 you know the sewer is waiting for a valuable crop and that's why it says he is p patient how do you say in English it's longsuffering longsuffering what you know he's suffering for a long time or he's waiting patiently for a long time it's a long time and the word of God calls us to this you to be patient for a long time you know spend your time wisely you know you have swn but spend this time wisely long suffering it's a long time you have to wait patiently for a long time to receive a valuable crop but here it's not talking about the crop that that is based on the sewer and here it's talking about the coming of Our Lord that we are waiting for so we're waiting for this coming of the Lord just like the S is waiting for his valuable cross and this coming of the lord it's not based off of us you know the Lord is going to come it's not based of what we s but the word of God says in another place about the coming of the [Music] Lord 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse one the most important part I want to look in this verse ver is our being gathered to him the coming of the Lord is coming that's yes and amen and that's what I congratulate you all with and we must congratulate one another with these all the time but here it also says our being gathered to him our Gatherings our readiness to to receive his coming that is a crop that is that valuable crop that we're all working towards we work we strengthen our hearts with faith that this is going to be soon but I wanted to look and think about what is that valuable crop in our being gathered to him to the coming of the Lord when we get ready to go somewhere what what do we usually do you know we pack our suitcase who's ever packed a suitcase before everyone everyone's come to America someone more someone less but this is that crop this is that Gathering is what is talking about you know sometimes people think into their suitcases they need to bring money or they need to bring gold and they bring it to heaven and and the streets are filled with gold and they don't know what to do with it what is that valuable crop in our being gathered to him what is are we supposed to work towards in the Gospel of John Jesus Christ says these wonderful words in John chapter 10 verse 14 I am the Good Shepherd I know my sheep and my sheep know me my sheep know me what that's that valuable crop is knowing the Lord to have Jesus Christ as the Lord of your and my life Jesus says my sheep know me and they hear the voice of their Shepherd and they go after me that's that life that's that crop that every single one of us that know the Lord must have on this crop this fruit of knowing the Lord I want to stop there and look at it God knows you and me completely but how much do I know my Lord and if I know him how much is it shown in my life how much is it seen in that fruit that I bring that's what shows how much we love love how much we know and have known the Lord the main uh scripture that I wanted us to stop at and look at is second Peter chapter 1 verse one to 11 SEC the book of second Peter I'll read the whole thing and then we'll startop and look at it B sections [Music] Sim for [Music] for praise be to our Lord knowing or knowledge first of all it's the thing that the Lord has revealed to us about himself the Lord opens it up according to His Holy Spirit and he's opened it to us that knowledge is what we can receive in us and we can and show it to others knowledge is is US receiving that us knowing the Lord and it showing through us to others what brings into our life the knowledge of the lord we just read it gives us grace and mercy and that is us having knowledge of Our Lord it multiplies it's not like it's given to you and you have it it's on you are you going to continue to grow in that in the peace of God or not how much do you know God how much are you transformed into the image of God and that's how much it shines through you Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our lord through this knowledge is given us everything that we need in life everything that we need in our life our father gives to us as children in knowledge [Music] I want us to open Psalm chapter 90 verse 14-6 it it's right correlates with this exact verse it's Psalm chapter 90 verse 14-6 for praise be to our Lord second Peter chapter 1 verse3 knowing the Lord we become one in nature with him and in God we have this great heritage heritage with the children of God open verse four please second Peter chapter 1 verse4 and these next few verses that we're going to read talk to us about the work that we must do with this season of time that the Lord has given us here it says make every effort how how does Scripture teach us with John the Baptist is is the Kingdom of Heaven given to everyone the power is given and everyone that uses that power it protects them make every effort to add to your faith goodness and to goodness knowledge and to knowledge self-control and to self-control perseverance and to perseverance godliness and to Godliness Mutual affection and to Mutual affection love those are the fruit or the crop that we grow in our life that's that crop that should grow in Us in that season of time that God has given us that those are the crop in what we should put our time into and with patience await that with faith the coming of our Lord Jesus verse eight for if you possess these qualities that we mentioned before that we read before in increasing measure they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ going through a certain season of our time we have to to put a price on things you know look at it how those things that we read that we read those things that we read how are they growing in our life sometimes it doesn't work that's not a problem it's most important that we try you put more effort we have to use all our strength all our power to so that these things would grow but most importantly so that we would see how important it is and ask God to give us his power to achieve these and to move in these and always await and be ready that the coming of the Lord is coming there's such a small word here but it's so important but like that like almost like yes almost yes like this you will receive a rich welcome into the Eternal Kingdom of Our Lord and this word that almost says yes or like this it captures the things of that fruit that crop that will bring us into the kingdom of our Lord and savior this is how you know God this is how you need to live and with our yes we will enter into the kingdom of God a deep knowledge of our Lord and his will and his will working through us will lead us to to this eternal Kingdom of Our Lord it talks about how we gather to him and are awaiting his coming therefore going through certain seasons of our time that are given to us by God let us put a price on our life that we see how much these fruit that are listed in the book of Peter are in there how does it work in my life am I making an effort so that these characteristics these crops these fruits are being shown in my life the new year is before us and the Lord is saying who wants which one of us wants to go freely into the kingdom by the mercies of God he has called each one of us he leads each one of us he has Justified every one of us and he calls us so that in our lives we show him no matter how hard it may be we have to try it's not an easy path but the word of God says as we have read earlier just as the SE Waits a valuable for a valuable crop and he is patient for it a long time the rain that is early or late it it is not based off of us it's from the rain when the rain comes that's that's when it comes comes the rain comes from the Lord but we have to be ready because our goal is to grow these crops and we wait and we ask God send these rains into my life or else these crop aren't going to grow and the Lord sends if we seek if we knock in front of us is another year what will every one of us search for what will every one of us knock for into heaven I call us let's knock about these things so that we would freely come into his kingdom because the coming of the Lord is is near and when it's difficult remember that the coming of the Lord is near and when we have that when we wait patiently it is easier for us to walk through our life and the Book of Job says just like a laborer is waiting for the end of his work just the same way here how many of you have worked outside many of you have how many of you wait till 5 o'clock when you can get in the car and turn on the AC and sometimes I'm thinking just driving in the morning to work I'm thinking soon 5:00 will come and this work day will end and I tell my partner don't worry soon this day will come to an end and we can come go home therefore encourage one another with those words the coming of the Lord is near let us stand and pray to our Lord for for for amen let's all say praise be to our god let's also say praise be to Jesus Christ Jesus is born praise be to him in whose heart has Jesus Christ been born in everyone I hope I don't see that everyone raise their hands you know the Jesus Christ that was born 2,000 years ago the one that has given us life today the one that was born into our hearts he must grow he's not supposed to stay as a baby he's not supposed to be in our eyes so small but in our eyes he's supposed to be a Great and Mighty Lord and in these Christmas celebrations that we continue to celebrate we will remember that Jesus Christ is Lord and may he continue to grow in US and Us in him a few announcements for this upcoming week today we have a church service at 10 p.m. in the evening we'll start at 10 and we invite everybody to this service it's our last service this year we invite everyone the older the younger the youth the children so that one more time we can gather together pray and ask for the blessing for the next year on Wednesday we have a prayer service at 7:30 but we'll have a special offering and collection for the home in Ukraine um orphanage yeah home in Ukraine so come ready to be able to support this orphanage and next next week next Sunday our service again like always will be at 11: and we have a prayer before service there in the conference room at 10:30 also next Sunday that will be January 7th we will have evangelism um Christmas evangelism at 5:00 pm here in this building we have these invitations we have many of these invitations back there in the hall so if you want take some and give it to people whoever you want to invite we want for a lot of people to come and lost people un saved people we're going to preach we're going to sing in the name of Jesus we're going to talk about this Jesus Christ that was born in hearts of people and we're going to continue to pray that God would bless this evening right now we'll have a collection of our love offerings so if the group could come to the front and we also invite all the children to come we're going to bless the children for Sunday school so children you can come up now all the children please come to the front we'll be praying for you as a church let's pray for the [Music] children for [Music] [Music] you may take your seats [Music] call me [Music] quickly [Music] fore [Music] [Music] fore [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] Liv [Music] fore [Music] [Applause] spee [Music] for I give believe [Music] [Music] this praise God dear brothers and sisters it's good that we have come today I think it's a great PR uh privilege for us to be able to gather on the last day of the year in the house of God because um God has called us to a different life he's called us to worship Him to seek him and then share that with the surroundings uh we serve a mighty God and one of my favorite passages that I like to remind myself or um even speak about is in Lamentations 3:22 where it says God's mercies renew every morning can we say Amen to that amen doesn't his Mercy renew every day he makes the sun rise he makes his sat down he gives breath to our lives so his Mercy renews every day either we see it don't but God does renew his mercies every day and today I'd like to share something with you that's been on my mind and as we heard already brother Serge he already took a lot of my points which I think then the Lord has really something to say for us today he spoke about the sewing and reaping and the fruits I'm gonna touch upon some of those points as well so I think it's um the Holy Spirit wants us to pay attention to take something from today and again as this year comes to an end and when we look back and reflect to 2023 a lot might have happened um some good maybe some bad maybe we lost someone maybe we gained someone but I think everything's still in God's hand and then as we look back in 2023 what do we see what do we what can we take from it what have we learned and as brother sergery mentioned what can we change what have we done and what kind of fruits have we um um planted or or even Harvest already as you see on the screen I called my sermon uh year end review spiritual review um I work at a corporate office maybe some of you and well a lot of us do work in a [Music] business and we also have What's called the annual review and me personally I don't like writing reviews it's my least thing to do at [Music] work I think it's a Slavic type of thing or because we just don't like to brag about ourselves but in American culture especially in American um work you have to outshine yourself you have to show that you're the best that you contribute that you do what you need to do and in my workplace we're graded in three different categories or three criterias uh it's like client Focus teamwork and Leadership and these are the things that they observe or you're supposed to um kind of say what did you do or how did you contribute in each category and like I said I don't like it I'd rather say Hey you write I tell my manager hey just write my review and I will sign and say that's correct but there's a logic behind it why they want that because they want you to personally think about what you did and how you contributed and did you show by example and on and on also so as we come into end of the year I kind of had an idea how that how can we apply that to our life and a sermon was born or an idea came and um this gives us a time to review our spiritual life how was our spiritual life throughout the year and there is many criterias in the Bible that speaks about how we could do that and if you were asked yourself to grade yourself or you could probably ask your partner husband or wife how they would grade you I think you You' be surprised surprised because sometimes we want to always say I'm I'm better at this I'm not um I don't struggle here I'm I'm perfect in this situation I don't yell I don't uh argue back I don't Grumble but but sometimes uh our better half could show us that hey you might not think of yourself that highly because we all are fall short and as I was sitting at church last week I was looking at our stage and our decoration team did a wonderful um decoration job and if you notice these gifts here they stood out for me and then a thought came or an idea was born and do we know what these nine gifts are and I'll remind you it's from Galatians 522 it's the nine spiritual gifts I'd like to use that in my sermon today it's a lot of criteria so we will go quickly but it's more of a um more of a reminder for us for us to check ourselves how would we grade ourselves but most but most important how would God grade us would he say good and faithful servant so these nine criterias I'd like to go over this morning you could ask yourself or if you forgot you ask your wife or husband and have them grade you to remind you as brother s we mentioned that we may grow and change so that we may bring fruit good fruit because that is what we will bring to Heaven eventually and when we lay before the Christ and those will be measured or be um there'll be an altar that will be burnt and what is good will remain what is is gold but that that was anything from us our own doings our own anything that was me centered I think will be burnt away so gal so this morning Galatians 9 I'm sorry Galatians 5:22 verse 23 I'll read it here but the fruits of the spirit is love joy peace longsuffering kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control these fruits it's a big calling I think if we start checking each one I think we might find ourselves uh struggling one area or more so I know but through the whole by but through the mercy of God and the Holy Spirit I think it's possible because we don't rely on our own strengths but we we rely on God and through the power of Christ we could do it we could grow we could bring those fruits that's worthy before Christ if we could go back to the presentation uh the first thing that we uh uh from the nine um spiritual gifts or the nine the criteria that we're going to use first one comes to mind is our love as we heard uh we learn a lot about love and we know that in English in English um there's love is only used as one word but as we know in uh Greek love there's three different words for that and in English language we use love very like very um very easy with different things I love my food I love my wife I love I love everything uh yeah but I think we're called to love a little bit more than that as we know God's love to us is called agapa love it's the unconditional [Music] love if you could click tab to go to the so my question for you today did you did you love your neighbor even if even in the way that Jesus taught us and as we know Jesus said I give you a new command to love one another as I have loved you I think it's a Commandment that something sometimes we forget some or so seldomly we say oh I love you I love this I love that but my brother sometimes we forget to show him love because that is what we're called for specifically because we are children of God and Jesus taught I love the way I have loved you this is important for each and one of us especially because it's is how we show Christ through our life sometimes it doesn't come easy and sometimes we have to work on that and again but through the power of Christ I think it's possible uh second thing is um our what about our [Music] joy how is our joy as we know during this Christmas time we celebrate joy we hear the songs of Joy but do we have that in our life is it shown in our life is the joy in our relationship with God honest and do we share with others if you guys tab thank you um interesting I have a neighbor next door to my uh to my house he's an older they're an older couple uh he's half paralyzed and uh so we try to help him out when we can and he calls us when he needs some help uh a week ago or maybe a couple weeks ago he ran his car into the garage and damaged some shelves so he's asking hey can you come over and help me out so I was helping him and somehow we touched about church we started talking about I figured because hey it's a good time to witness when you're doing something good to a person so keep that in mind when you wna uh when you want to preach to someone do something good for them to open their hearts and we were talking back and forth and then I asked them hey um what about what do you think about church do you go to church and he goes yeah I went to church a couple times but I had bad experience people there weren't either friendly or they they only wanted money stuff like [Music] that he go sometimes as he go to the beach and sometimes I pray I said I mean those are good things but I think it's important to know that you have Jesus in your heart and I try to emphasize that hey you need to know Jesus because that is how we are saved by Jesus again like we're planting those seeds and we believe that one day they will be they will come they will ripe and this is where Joy comes into our life we have the joy of Christ in our lives correct and I'm glad that our church is a Missionary church we like to spread that new the good news that Joy not just for us but others that's suround us because this world needs that joy and in Philippians we know that it says rejoice in the Lord I always I will say again Rejoice we could find that joy in Christ I know our kids like the presents and the gifts that they give but that Joy only lasts for a few minutes a week from now they'll forget what they got but the joy and peace that they that we have in Christ for Lifetime next point is going to be peace as we know we live in a very um difficult times right now and right now especially for people in Ukraine or Israel that we pray for that they would have that peace uh it's easy sometimes for us to stay here right and preach about peace because we don't have to deal with those uh things that they do but I think peace is important especially today and how is our peace with one another also we love each other we need to love each other but we also should have peace among each other sometimes again we say we love you we but we don't show the love or the peace that we might have again I check today for each and one of us how is our peace do we bring peace do we bring peace into our family how about do we bring peace into the church or do we bring sorrow [Music] disappointment I think we're called to more more than that also did you trust God God's peace to bring those around you as it states up there I think it's important to have that peace especially today because uh Christ came to bring peace into this world as well peace into our hearts because without him we will be lost we would have no peace so again today we call to check yourself to check to bring that peace to surrounding wherever you might work in your family anything you are that people could feel that peace that only could come through Christ can we say Amen to that I know it's a lot of different points we're going through but again it's a reminder for each of us to check how are we doing in each of these categories uh the next one is our that we um want to look at is long [Music] suffering or patience uh Brother s already talked about long suffering today we live in a society or we live uh in a times that people want instant gratification or instantly hey answered my prayer answered my need answer my like right now I need an answer right now and sometimes we treat God like that yeah yeah we sometimes just want hey God I have a problem I need to fix right away and uh move on as we he today a fruit takes a while to to grow it's not instant only thing that's instant at the they call the instant microwave dinner that's the instant thing [Music] the as you look at the picture here I was trying to find something how can you explain long suffering and with today's technology you could ask now computers and they could draw you whatever you like said I'm looking for a picture that was that will explain what longsuffering is help me draw a picture and it picked perfectly I I knew what I was it knew what I was looking for well actually it drew it it drew it for me so it's my picture now but as you show it's going through a a a very hard Road through the through the mountains long suffering doesn't mean it's going to be easy and it doesn't and it's not it's something that takes patience and time because again we want sometimes that quick answer so did we display um patients during difficult without getting upset or complaining for a long time me grumbling help me out because we are called to be um the scripture says Be completely humble gentle patient bearing with what another love and love and patience in Ephesians 4:22 but be completely humble and gentle and then bearing with one another in love uh Ephesians 4:2 4 42 42 again comes back to also love also our uh patience and longsuffering goes hand in hand with love as as we heard or we read it says compassionate kindness and humility something these characteristics are hard to show especially when we have to be patient or or be uh in longsuffering they because we want again we want those answers right away but I think God knows every aspect he knows every every angle or every decision or every thought that we will make and he out of that still could make something good we serve a mighty God correct and he directs our lives but again it's up to us if we are obedient to him if we are obedient to his word and how how how patient and how much um how willing we are we to listen to his to his uh commands next um next criteria or next um uh one we want to look at is going to be our kindness and kindness they say goes a long way and as we heard today even brother serar talked about being kindness it shows who we are and as you see up there says did you did you show kindness and compassion in those in need as I shared the uh the example with my neighbor when we show kindness we are we open doors to Ministry that we could minister to people and when we could minister to them we could bring the joy and the Peace of of uh of our Lord Jesus Christ to them because kindness shows Who We Are are when Christ lives in our hearts it should come naturally then we could love we could have joy we will have peace patience all of these will come then naturally to us it should reflect Christ and when people look at us we we should be that mirror that shines back into this world and in this world today kindness doesn't uh we don't see it often people are now self-centered and as and we read in the scripture at the end of days people will be what self- lovers right they're going to be lovers of money self-centered so I think today we're called to be more than that again we could check our heart how kind was I how kind was I to my wife to my husband to my kids I know in in life sometimes it's hard it's difficult sometimes we just uh we explode we say something but I think when we listen to the Holy Spirit or you listen to your husband and wife and they'll remind you that you might need to uh apologize or go to your kids say hey I I was maybe too rough but this is what we're called for next criteria is going to be our [Music] goodness goodness goodness also goes a long way because uh it goes hand in hand with kindness it's important that it shows in our life did you try or do you try to be good and do things like Jesus did as a previous example we talked about like doing good to one another it's called we are called for that and again it's something we need to check our life how is our goodness how is it reflects in our daily uh daily life because I think that goodness people could see as well because when we do good things to others people remember that and I think if each and one of us if we remember a moment when someone did good for us it it stays with us for a long time I remember an example from My Life um when I was um uh it's been maybe 10 12 years now we were remodeling our first house and I bought baseboards and I they as you know you have to paint and Prime them yeah you have to paint them and Prime them right uh I like doing all the big stuff but the little nitty stuff it's not my thing I I try to go quick and I don't like doing it so and it was funny because at that moment we just had a child so really busy so I left those baseboards in my garage and one day I came to work on him and someone had painted him and I I think it was my sister I know but someone from my family came and I was like man wow wow and 12 years ago right I could still remember that someone did something good and it stays with us right so keep that in mind because I think these little goodness these little efforts that we do uh leave an imprint in people's lives amen amen again something to check because that's what we're called for we're almost done couple more to go a lot of criteria a lot of things to check but I think it's a reminder uh next one is faithfulness how are we faithful how we been faithful to our friends how about how how have we been faithful to our church I think that also shows who we are because we are called to be faithful have we been faithful to scripture next slide please have we been faithful to uh showing up to prayer Monday faithfulness please one back uh have we been faithful to come on Wednesday I think these characteristics or these points that we are going through are important and they remind us who we are faithfulness is important in our life it keeps us [Music] constant because if there's no faithfulness we're not going to be constant in things that we do we won't be constant in our prayers in our scriptures in our spiritual walk with amen amen uh next one as we see is gentleness again uh it goes hand in hand with all the things that we have gone over today and and throughout this year have you been gentle to one another were you compassionate and building one another up we were called to be gentle because that's who we are in Christ and we know through the scriptures Jesus never broke anybody or blew out that last hope in someone's life we are called to be gentle he said build up one another in our words when we speak to one another do we encourage each other do we give them hope or do we find ourselves criticizing people people or we put them down I think we're called more to be more than that we're called to live differently and in conclusion I think the last one that we have left is self control self-control please last slide oh one before last slide did you practice discipline in your thoughts your words and in actions in your spiritual growth it is important as we have heard a lot of um topics lately about our mind how we should control the thoughts we heard about the thought about our heart how we guard our heart Pastor Nikolai shed about shared this morning about guarding we need to guard our hearts our minds our ears and even our mouth because that helps us become more that gives us more self-control of who we are so this because without self-control be chaotic we do what we want say what we want with no control it shows that we have no Christ in our life we need more selfcontrol in our life in every aspect in our life no matter what it is in relationships in social media social Med in the aspects around us what information even news sometimes I uh like to watch news or read news but I noticed the more the bad news I know uh read or it puts you down it depresses you so be careful have self-control in every aspect you know yourself better than anybody these nine spiritual gifts should be our criteria it should be our goal for next year as well I know by ourselves we can do it but I know who can help us only Christ put up the last slide please only through his hands and another good picture that shows all of these uh spiritual gifts could only happen through Christ we have everything everything that we need through the guidance of the Holy Spirit but through the cross and the sacrifice that was made it is possible not because not because who we are not because we're so good but the power that that get that we are that are given through Jesus Christ and again we will go through many situations and what I want to wish you for the next year that these spiritual gifts or these spiritual fruits would grow in our life so next year when we'll do these spiritual review again maybe this year we got one or two we could get three or four but we continue to grow that I think if we continue to grow people in your life will see it people in the church will see it people at your work will see it and I think they will see who what we were called for can we say Amen to that may God bless you give us strength and may next year bring more fruits and the holy spirit gives us more strength that these spiritual growths will grow more and more in our life so may God bless you we will pray and may God's peace his love and his uh and the the patience that we have the kindness goodness faithfulness and self-control guide our life let us pray amen dear heavenly father thank you we thank you for your word we thank you for the time we have with one another we thank you that your love endures forever we thank you that you guide us every day in our lives we thank you for the words that you given us we thank you for the holy spirit that guides us in our life we thank you that we together as a family today on this last day of the year could gather together to praise you to worship you to give you uh praise and worship and give you great thanks from the bottom of our hearts for everything that you've you've done for us but more we're grateful for is the the cross the sanctification the renewal we have by the blood of Jesus we thank you as we heard today from these spiritual gifts that we have let them grow in our life let love peace Joy patience all of these things that we need more and more in our life show you and reflect you in our life we thank you but this by the power of the Holy Spirit by the power of God that leads us that gives us strength that gives us a hope in the future we thank you we thank you that we have one another and I thank you that you always work on us you don't give up on us we give us strength to carry on to keep on going no matter what we face in love in life the Longs suffering sometimes we have to go through we thank you for these moments we ask you to give us strength to carry on no matter what we are going through whatever we are facing we thank you Jesus that we have you and have everything in you we thank you Jesus and we come and pray in Jesus name we pray amen or fore [Music] dear brothers and sisters I greet you praise be to Jesus Christ peace be to you you know on Christmas everyone loves a certain food I love the grain with with with the honey and um K that's that's that's my favorite food today I I was sitting and I was listening to to to today's [Music] service I was glad observe this service I was sitting down sitting and and eating and eating the food that God gave us I'm very glad that we paid attention to those nine gifts nine gifts of the holy spirit we thank sister Olga who did it for our church uh I am not sure who was paying attention to what some for the Christmas tree some for fruits but I actually paid attention to the fruits and I very I'm very glad that our service just ended just especially on those fruits one more um proposition for you uh take the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit put it down on a piece of paper and put an um I mean put the pr not price um it's very hard to Value yourself put the value on next to to the each fruit three four or score you put the score in each fruit 3 4 10 which which which score do you have and then give it to your wife and so she can uh put a score what she thinks about you and the next year also write it down and and check how much did you grow for next year long suffering and very I liked very much the application of and if if you have that fruit it's just like a highway in in the mountains everything is very even may God help you uh today we're going to have a service at 10 p.m. and I know we you were busy you you were getting ready but I ask you very strongly we have we going to have a service it's a little bit different format and if anyone of you have a testimony I know a lot of you do come to me and so we can put you in the program we want to listen to what God did in your life and pray that's for sure uh we missed something in our announcements that January 5 and 6 we going to have a Bible School the very good good teacher is coming that's why I reminding you uh also I want to remind you that January 26 and 27 we also will get will have a school that the brother was coming to teach us about um caring of the souls we're going to have communion on Sunday next Sunday it's going to be next Sunday and also brother ol reminded at 5:00 we're going to have the Evangelistic Service uh please take the invitation and give to people Saturday the vision Global Ministry organizing the Evangelistic Crusades for people who are not Believers in and we going to have prayer for this ministry too in the evening we're not going to have a YouTube uh service so all the our operators you can be free and also if you have any needs please uh let us know if we going to pray Thanksgiving that God protected in the road on roads we have a need prayer for Galina and also uh sisters house I want to pray ask you to pray so my husband will agree to come to the service in evening thank the Lord for for Amen in order