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True Service That Points to Christ

March 17, 2024 · 2:13:28 · Watch on YouTube ↗

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Summary

Beginning from 2 Timothy 3:16, Pastor Nikolai taught that all Scripture is God-breathed and given to teach, rebuke, correct, and train us. From Matthew 23 he showed how Jesus confronted the Pharisees, who twisted the teaching of Moses and turned their religion into a public performance, widening their phylacteries, seeking the best seats, and loving to be called Rabbi. Their aim was to be seen and praised by people rather than to honor God.

True ministers do the opposite. Paul declared that we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord (2 Corinthians 4:5). Like Philip in Samaria, who preached Christ while Simon the sorcerer drew crowds to himself with a show, the genuine servant steps into the shade so that only the glory of Jesus is seen. The enemy still works to replace real worship with entertainment, so we must stay sober, test what we hear (Ezekiel 33), and put the Word into practice rather than merely admire it.

A second message, from Hebrews 5 and 6, asked whether we feed on milk or solid food. Information that only fascinates the mind is milk; the hard truths that change the heart, such as forgiving an enemy, loving your family, and repenting like Zacchaeus, are solid food. God humbles us as a good Father, teaching first and then correcting, so that, like Zacchaeus who came down from the tree, we look up to Christ, welcome Him into every part of life, and grow toward maturity.

Key Points

  • All Scripture is God-breathed, given to teach, rebuke, correct, and train us in righteousness.
  • The Pharisees turned worship into a performance, seeking human praise instead of God's glory.
  • True servants preach Christ, not themselves, and are content to stay in the shadow so Jesus is seen.
  • The enemy still swaps shows and entertainment for genuine service, so we must stay sober and discerning.
  • It is not enough to hear the Word; God's blessing rests on those who tremble at it and obey it.
  • Milk is information that interests the mind; solid food is the hard truth that changes the heart.
  • Humility comes first: like Zacchaeus, come down, look up to Christ, and let Him into every area of life.

Devotional

Ask yourself honestly why you come to worship, whether to be seen, to be entertained, or to meet the living Christ. The Pharisees performed for an audience, but Jesus seeks a humble heart that trembles at His Word and then obeys it. Refuse to settle for milk that merely interests you; reach for the solid food that forgives an enemy, loves your family, and lets God correct what needs changing. Come down from your own success like Zacchaeus, look up to the Savior, and invite Him into your home, your work, and your words. Then your service will not be a show but a life that quietly gives all the glory to Him.

We do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord.
The true servant steps into the shade so that only the glory of Jesus is seen.
Milk only feeds your curiosity; solid food changes your heart.
Transcript

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so much that gave Jesus Christ for our sins for us for our Salvation we thank you and holy spirit we invite you today to come to speak to our hearts to speak to our minds to bring the joy bring joy peace into our midst on us we thank you that we have a father that cares and loves for us that prepared a wonderful meal today for us that we able to gather enjoy what you have prepared today we thank you we invite the Holy Spirit to do work among us to touch each heart to touch each mind so that your word bring more things to our life we thank you in Jesus name we pray amen dear Church let's everyone say praise be to the Lord it is WR with one heart with one voice praise the Lord let's say one more praise be to the Lord hallelujah hallelujah one little brother helping us it is written in second Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 it says all scriptures is God's breath and is useful for teaching rebuking correcting and training in righteousness we see a very important Point here when we go deep into the word of God it is building us up it is useful and what's interesting it is all scripture from the beginning to the end is useful it is written here that it's teaching us it also rebukes us and it also corrects us and it's training us and it guiding Us in righteousness praise be to the Lord and today I would like to speak on this topic about the true Ministry of to to a god to a Lord that God himself has given for his disciples and his church and it's the foundation passage from the word of God we're going to read Matthew chapter 23: 1 and 2 we see that Jesus address to his disciples and all people at that time what seemed to be a big problem through the entire passage he was rebuking the the the feres he would call them double faced those people of the Lord they Twisted the the teaching that Moses received from Christ because the teaching of the Old Testament was the Forerunner for the new what we uh read in the New [Music] Testament even if then through the teachers of the law he was the devil was twisting the teaching of uh the true teaching how more true it is today that he with such an eagerness and passion he wants to twist that teaching in the days that we live today we truly live in a difficult times and those different sources come from different places internet and such and many people they are [Music] confused it was also true at the times of Jesus Christ let's continue in this chapter 23 verse 5-2 where he continues and he explains more you know all the Deeds of the those Pharisees they were made so others would [Music] see they make their fies wide and their tassels on the garments long and they love the place of honor at the Banquets and most important seats at the synagogues they love to be greeted with the respect in marketplaces and to be called Rabbi by others but you are not to be called Rabbi for you have one teacher and you all are brothers and also sisters and do not call anyone on Earth father for you have one father and he is in heaven meaning a spiritual father nor you are to be called instructors for you have one instructor the Messiah the greatest among you will be your servant the main point that we see here is Jesus talks about the teachers that I have this responsibility to carry the teaching when they teach when they instruct by doing so that they would not uh put a shade on the glory of [Music] God and Apostle Paul he highlights that we have this ministry by the grace of God and let's go back to chapter 23: 5 and we see the Pharisees the main purpose for them was everything that they did is done for others to see not God but themselves the main purpose that they would be recognized that they would be rewarded for what they do do and the ministry to God they would make a show out of it you know that's how it was this religious show back then everything that they did was for their own purpose for their own gain selfishness selfishness they would pray they would fast publicly the only thing the purpose was is to show themselves Moses he did not do that uh Joshua did not do that but Jesus said that something has changed and Jesus he rebuked him very strong only if we open the Gospel of John chapter 5: 41 I do not accept Glory from human beings but I know you you I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts he say I have come in my father's name and you do not accept me but if someone else comes in his own name you will accept him but how can you believe since you accept Glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God and Jesus knew those secret motives that took place in place of the teaching of Moses and Jesus did not participate in any of that show that was taking place back [Music] then but instead he was rebuking them he says there is no God's love in you and you have no there's no faith in you because you're not seeking the glory of God but you're only seeking is the glory for yourself and everything that you do is just to show off others to see so people would glorify and recognize you but not God and it's a tremendous problem even in the days that we live in but when we continue to read and study the scriptures we see how disciples they acted and they behaved completely differently completely opposite but let's open up the passage it's written in 2 Corinthians chapter 4: 5 where Apostle Paul says for what we preach is not ourselves but Jesus Christ is Lord and ourselves as your servants for jesus' sake when Pharisees they were on the in the background of Christ they were preaching themselves they were showing off themselves they would put those burdens on other people but themselves did not even move their finger it is not the ministry from God he God is not being glorified through that but Apostle Paul says we are preaching Christ as Lord and we show Christ in our life in everything that we do this is the purpose this is the the the purpose of the church uh the mission of the church here on Earth is to focus is to show Jesus Christ I remember when I just came to Christ and we had this guest that would come from Ukraine evangelist and my only motivation to come to church was Jesus Christ it was then and it is true today I love my brothers and sisters not just rais my head and says no I only see Christ and him and all alone but I remember when this brother when he was preaching and he said to follow in words you know it it stuck in my mind because he spoke this in spirit I would like to to um uh to bring you towards the the the Lord of our faith and that brother and that brother he just disappeared he was at the p but the effect that that what happened is that after these words all we saw is the the glory of Jesus is the fire of God just was was lit up in our church everyone came to the front to pray and I remember just like Jacob I grapped onto this and I was just glorifying God with everything that I had this is our only purpose beginning and am end Jesus Christ amen amen praise be to him I would like to share an example from the uh book of Acts it's going to be chapter 8 vers verse 5 through 13 and you will see two people the Philip evangelist it says he was preaching Christ not himself not to show that he is a Jew but his only purpose was to show Christ pH [Music] Bewitched he Bewitched them he would just had this influence over them [Music] we see a story about two men in this Samaritan City you know with the story about the Samaria that there was a lot of uh Gentile practices that took place there and as evangelist Phillip he came to preach the gospel there but we see man Simon and he would trick people and show uh those those Miracles that he was able to do he wanted to show himself as someone who was [Music] great and what's interesting before philli came all the people in that area they were amazed they were so surprised they were uh what this man was able to do it was a big show I do not know what kind of Miracles he was able to do maybe he was able to pick up objects from the floor or something else but people they were so excited and they were surpris as what he was able to do and just like in verse 10 it says that there was no salvation in those acts but people were thinking that this man was a great power of God you notice that the old Focus all the attention was focused on the personhood and then the man of God comes and now Bible says he's not preaching himself but he's preaching who he's preaching Jesus Christ the one who died who was risen the one who's coming again and that Christ started to show his Mercy Mery and power and only then people were start truly started to get saved people who had sicknesses they would get delivered and healed they would get delivered from the bondages of devil even this man Simon he was got saved and Bible says this great joy filled everyone there that those people never experienced before it is this Joy of Salvation Joy of Salvation and we know that after that disciples they came and the people people who were there they received the gift of the Holy Spirit but I would like for us to focus on the fact that we should be sober you know sometimes you can maybe hear being spoken about Jesus Christ but the core of that is person [Music] the enemy always wanted to direct people's attention on shows on some kind of entertainment in order to turn people away from the true service of to for God the the one that God has chosen himself and he written that in his word and it's not changing you know it's why I'm speaking about this it's to highlight the fact that it's always been in history uh these type of uh uh acts type of things that taking place but if even back then the devil was uh doing everything possible to get people's attention on this entertainment on the show to get their attention away from from the true things but then that those type of things they seep in and they become part of the church and and and and it becomes acceptable you know I've seen a video where the pastor would just descend on the robe from the from the balcony to the stage what is this where is Christ but you've seen the latest things and it's just the only focus and the only only thing is to get their attention on themselves Apostle Paul he was warning Pastors in assia and it says they the uh the Wolves will will enter among you mad raving yes the one that do not would not care about this the the the the flock their number one goal and focus will be to break up their faith and it's not that he says even among you there will be people that also will be teaching the the the the the false gospel and those uh false disciple uh false Apostles false teachers they will be on the place of Apostles and we they will do and follow the path of those that we read in in the word of God but holy spirit spoke through apostle Paul something very very important it says among you there will be some that will be teaching uh false and we twisting the the word of God it is a chapter 20 of the book of Acts and the main important the main focus of that Bible says is is is just to to have the people who would follow them them as a person but Jesus says I'm the only teacher instructor I'm the only one who is teaching I'm only the the only one father but anyone who would like to be bigger you have to become a servant you have to become smaller praise be to the Lord it is the main motivation that got people away back then and it does now and what's interesting some people they follow them not to follow Christ but to follow people you know the true Ministers of God they always want to be ini a shade they would not be seen or visible but only is seen is the glory of God the true ministers they never divide the church but all they do is to edify the church there is no myself there is no me there am it only says I am and his name is Jesus Christ and all the glory belongs to him all the honor belongs to him and all the worship belongs to him hallelujah hallelujah but even in the old days in the in the days of prophet eek ezekiah but also I would like to point out that in the New Testament Apostle Paul he he came to Ephesus in Greece and when he started to preach Christ to them you they had different gods that they would worship and [Music] respect but when Apostle Paul was preaching in those places they called them into this Center it was like a Phil philosophical uh place you know I would say University of our age there was this big arena there you know what they liked they love to listen for new things Athens their favorite thing was to hear the news hear the new things what about now you know we we seek some parallels good news but our purpose is to preach the good news you know the desire to hear something new it was a big show for them and when they realized that something very serious here there was this question of life and death and the judgment and the Holy Spirit started to work there they say you know it's not a show we'll listen to you some other time because that's the true preaching of the Gospel praise be to our Lord there's a last example I'm going to read before we pray it's the prophet Hezekiah let's open up chapter 33 and we will read what what's taking place during the time of this Prophet it's going to be verse 30 and below imagine there was this true Prophet anointing man of God I would like to point out about prophets there was a very good saying not Everything Gold that is shining if somebody says so says the Lord it doesn't mean it it's God who's speaking you have to examine and test it Bible says you have to think about it you have to also follow what what is following after that but there's prophets in the time that we live in also and also there's false prophets that we there is true teachers of of God but there's also false teachers the time that we live in and that's why we have to be extremely careful you know recent L Pastor vasil was preaching about the poison that we we receive Sometimes some people say I will never eat mushrooms because there's good mushrooms but there's also some poison ones but if you know but if you know well you know which is a good mushroom which one is poisonous one and many people they poison themselves because they were grabbing everything because it's what God says but it turns out it was false and a true uh prophet of God here's what he says but the people used to this entertainment they are used to this show they want this theater taking place it's going to be the last passage let's follow this on the screen it says as for you son of man your people are taking talking together About You by the walls and at the doors of the houses saying to each other come and hear the message that has come from the Lord you you might say what's wrong look they just getting together and talking about this many my people come to you as they usually do and sit before you and hear your words but they do not put them into practice their mouth speaks of love but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain indeed to them you are nothing more than one who sings Love Songs with beautiful voice and plays as instruments well for they hear your words but they do not put them into practice when all this comes true and it surely will then they will know that the prophet has been among them you know this people they are used to this show and entertainment maybe they received this when they were in Babylon you know maybe people say let's have this different effects maybe some kind of smoke some other different things but we need to be sober and understand where is it coming from people they hear they listen to that but they never put what they hear into practice but Bible says my eyes will be upon those those who have a humble heart and that trembling before my word Bible says when you he has his eye on someone that means he's going to be close with them what is more important for us is to the show of Christ himself for me the most important is Jesus Christ who saves even if there's going to be only three people there but if he is him s among them but they will gather together with one heart and they would in trembl before God I remember when opening up the word of God in in this trins on my knees before I read it and tears of joy would fill me and The Tear of of Joy because of his presence would fill me up and the fire of the Holy Spirit the love of God that unites all of us together and the one that tells each and every one of us if one died for all and we died so we no longer live for ourselves but we would live for the one who died and the one who was raised from the dead and his name is Jesus Christ what is our attitude towards the word of God what is our relationship or attitude towards the ministry when I'm when a service ends today what are we going to do what would we heard today I would like to invite you invite you to stand up on your feet and let's glorify our Lord and give thanks to him for Jesus Christ with one heart let's worship and glorify him it says his his name should be glorified among all people in church in church and now Church let's raise up our voice let's turn to him with all of our hearts that we would love him not like Pharisees did but just like Apostles did Hallelujah let's pray let's raise our voice [Music] hallu [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah for hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen you may be seated for [Music] [Music] fore [Music] the [Music] children is [Music] the [Music] sh for [Music] you pe of [Music] the [Music] highest is for [Music] all [Music] love BR [Music] the [Music] for [Music] for for still [Music] the you [Music] for you you [Music] for I greet every one of you praise be to Jesus Christ uh Pastor Nicolai was saying the the very necessary and sobering word for for every one of us and I will say if to in order to survive in this last times we need only one thing just humble ourself before the face of the Lord because God looks at the humble at Heart The Humble person is is listening the humble person is examining himself recently the pastor from Ukraine told me this story it's amazed me he was driving from Odessa to K and the block post soldiers stopped him and they they asked please take the wounded soldier to Kev he was lightly wounded it's easy was easy to transport him to K and they sit in in the car together and the pastor thought oh I have to tell him about Jesus Christ and he said I'm a believer I'm just coming from the front lines when they called me to Army for the for the war and they found out I'm a Believer and they started to put me down and they they made me carry all the heavy stuff all the everything for them and they say oh You Are Holy Holy One you can carry all this stuff one time they would put a lot of burdens on me I I'm lagging behind because it's a lot I'm carrying a lot of stuff and they come into the Minefield everyone who was ahead of me everybody died and me I I just I'm just light lightly wounded and I was thinking if he wouldn't be a humble person what would happen to him and I always want to remind as the The Humble people God gives Grace I want to make some announcements for the follow for the coming week uh our services are without change to tonight is going to be youth service in the evening at 6 uh Monday we have the prayer service and fast on Wednesday we going to have a guest a very gifted brother I invite you to come to church maybe God will reveal you something also to our school and to our church comes the pastor uh vuk he is one of the Pastors in vers in one of the churches that I ministered he very gifted teacher uh on Friday from 700 p.m. to 10: p.m. is we going to have uh lessons also on Saturday from 900 a.m. to 12 I invite everyone it's going to be a special subject will be interesting for everyone to hear how to grow spiritually very important subject I invite every one of you and on Sunday he is going to be ministering in our church also we going to have American Pastor evangelist he's also going to be serving also we start the the lessons toward the water baptisms April 14 is going to be lesson number one responsible for the for the for the preparation for the water baptism going to be toas also who wants to receive a water baptism uh come to me also who wants to uh join our church uh please let us know I am very glad for our uh sound uh guys they did amazing job uh they put our our service uh uh on YouTube uh I'm glad because a lot of people are watching us thank you brothers and sisters for this work that to you it's very important uh we going to have a collection for our church I invite brother serg he's going to serve us with a song during the service my dear ones we are very blessed people we always learning from the word of God Pastor Nikolai already read that all the scripture is God anointed and also to to reach the heaven we have to learn and it's very important and brother Nikolai also reminded us it's a lot of teachers that that make the the serve as a show uh God is my witness I'm uh thanking God for our ministers and if you want to learn more from them pray for them and God will give you what you need but if you like uh get listen to a lot of preachers from the YouTube God left for us just as his bride the white closes but when the time will come to to wear it maybe we will not be able to not because the the the the garments were dirty or disappeared maybe we got fat from the the different kind of food we're not going to be able to fit in that garment dear ones come on Monday when we read the word of God come to on Wednesday when the brothers read the word of God to us and come on Sunday when the brothers read the word of also by the by yourselves read the word of God don't be uh amazed with the services it's not going to bring you good results uh before me and my grand children go and then we'll continue all the guest who is in this place you can come forward too we'll pray for the kids for Hallelujah [Music] for amen amen for for for [Music] [Music] May [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] [Music] for [Music] for SLR praise the [Music] Lord we thank God that we have to be in the House of Prayer I also going to read from the word of God uh you know today BR n brother Nikolai started a very good thought and I'm living a thousand miles away I'm going to kind of continue on on his sermon how does the Lord can give you the same thoughts also I want everybody to listen carefully because we going to be talking about the word of God about the Bible and the the the word of God I wanted to read it's about what do we eat the milk or the solid [Music] food let's open up the letter to the Hebrews 58 Hebrews 58 for [Music] also like few verses from the chapter six for also this the word was said by the brother I also want to remind us the second Timothy today we're going to remind ourselves what do we actually eat the milk or solid food but every one of us will uh get pay attention to listen to the word of God and to Timothy Apostle Paul said that the word of God is acting in four directions uh Second Timothy 316 all that scripture is uh anointed by God and useful for teaching for rebuking correction and training in [Music] righteousness and I I like when I come to the service to listen what uh how the what the brothers teach me I like to learn and I was visiting one church and the brother said that uh God loves us so much as The Graces it work and just a little bit rebukes when you read that that that that passage and God as a father he teaches us at first and it was it's Pleasant for us to learn new things I know more than you do and you know more than I do and we can boast be before each other and after that the grace of God gives it three directions which rebuke me and the the word of God says that God first teaches me and then rebukes me it's not pleasant to to listen if some someone rebukes us we can test it at home when our wife says oh you didn't do this correctly you didn't do that uh we think maybe it's not love to to rebuke and then God corrects us he makes our way narrower and then he gives us instructions how to live righteously and we don't like that that much and you read the word of God who has two parts in this [Music] passage and the first part the Apostle Paul says I want to you to speak a lot about this as I said before when we live we we like to listen to a lot of different kind of teachings and when when Paul was preaching to those people at aragos he said you did not you do not listen to what is necessary for you no it was a Hebrews that you listen to whatever is uh easy to listen to the milk but you don't like the the hard [Music] food the word of God says that Jesus Christ being a Son of God he humbled himself until death and the death on the cross he resembled he was as a slave and we have to talk about it a lot just like we heard before you know the Bible is not only hisor just a historical book Bible is like a library with many kind of teachings [Music] therefore Paul says just don't go back to uh to learn about repentance from the dead Deeds just put aside again that the preaching about the water baptism put aside the teaching about the laying of the hands about the Judgment that's going to happen about the resurrection of the Dead or when we listen to the sermons about like uh how the Dead's going to be raised up or that's that we like it so much oh that's a that's a good food how much did I learn in church today the God says that they have to um permission to take permission to preach about those subject you know in United States you have to have you have to take a permit when you try to build a house you know what what it what it means to take a permit uh I I want to ask the preachers do you uh take a permit from the Lord to preach about the Judgment or about the resurrection of the dead before I didn't dig deep into this this word and I was kind of easy to preach about [Music] [Music] it think that this is all the the topics about the resurrection of the Dead about the judgment about the laying of the hands about repentance it's so important subject and I was when I listen about those subject and when I sit in in church and I say oh I learned a lot today but how important as the brother Nikolai preached about the humble your heart so Jesus could be in the first place in my life but now to take the subject about Eternal judgment I I was saying oh God will judge those and those kind of people but Lord asks me do you did you take a permit from me preach about it I am a judge the last word is be is is is is behind me and I I think I know a lot about the Eternal judgment about the resurrection of the Dead but but God said wait take a permit from me about this subject but the first part that we read that that the Apostle Paul says we have to talk about it a lot and don't even need to take a permit about it what he's talking about and he says we have to hurry toward the uh Perfection Perfection and toward Perfection which is in Jesus Christ and we see him as a great example I wanted to share one story which going to be an example for me and for you it's going to be a gospel of Luke chapter 19 about zakus very shortly first of all I wanted to look at me when I enter the church three times [Music] uh first I entered as my name is Roman I came here this is my children here I listen to have people sing I sing with them and just went home and I didn't even pay attention what was read I was in church a Sunday is a great time to to go to church and the different kind of Roman comes to church I sit and I listen to the preacher first of all I wanted to tell you it not depends on a preacher what kind of food you eat but it depends on you and on me uh being a preacher myself I want to stand behind brothers because how how my heart is tuned in that's how I'm I'm going to receive the word and the the time I come to to to to church like a different person I listen to the preacher and if you take this story about zakos and we we know the story when the Jesus came through Jericho there was a tax collector zakos and he climbed the tree to listen to Jesus and Jesus said that I'm going to be in your house and he invited himself to his house and I was thinking like could couldn't this preacher go to the to Google and just uh find out what kind of city was Jericho how many people lived there what kind of woles were there and I I I was not happy and I was came and I came home and I'm look looked at Google myself oh is the the walls were 10 m wide and 20 M long oh I know something about Jericho now and I can take a a lot of different kind of information but let's come the third time into the church my heart is tuned not for the milk which is just information but the solid food my heart is is stuned under the food which is not very pleasant it's hard to swallow when the Jesus says forgive your enemies is it easy to swallow or is it hard to swallow when Jesus says love your neighbor love your wife love your family is it easy to swallow is it hard to swallow so when my heart is tuning to eat the solid food the the information about the Jericho's walls is not very interesting for me and the Jesus the scripture says that Jesus came into Jericho in know we know what kind of place Jericho was gole the Google's not going to tell you what the spiritual meaning of Jericho but the God will and when I read about listen about the Jericho that the Jericho was a um city of Cur the cursed city city was was which was not supposed to exist and I when I listen to this I listen to Jesus you came into my heart which was not supposed to exist it was under the curse but you saved me and you you redeemed me and it was written about zakus he was a chief tax collector and he was short in stature and also the word of God says he was rich and maybe I come into the into the church and uh maybe I have a lot of money I am a supervisor and and I think what God's going to tell me and but when I'm uh tuned in for the solid food I understand that the richness did not give happiness to Z KS but in Google not GNA tell you this but Bible will God will speak through the Holy Spirit if my heart is tuned on a solid food it's not very pleasant it it hurts my heart just like as we read that God is a good father he teaches first and then rebukes and that burns me and gives me discomfort into my heart intensive care room Hospital well what if you uh got get into the ICU into the hospital and the doctor will put a lot of tubes into you a lot of Electrical uh machines and you'll say oh I don't want all of this uh I say I will say oh I'm Ukrainian and one tube like which is yellow and blue it's enough for me God will say you you're unwise foolish doctor will say you foolish man I want to save your life and the just it's like doctor it's just like a scripture which is one for to to to teach me and three more to rebuke me and to correct me and to to to teach me in in righteousness and I'm listening for about Zak zakus is not happy with material thing that he possesses he he looks for something more and he climbs a tree High to to in order to see Jesus and Jesus comes by and he approaches the tree and if uh Jesus would be just ordering man he would ask around hey can you tell me about this guy who is like on the tree over there and but Jesus says zakus I know you come down I want to be in your house sometimes we we when we come to the church we look uh down to toward the God we have some success in United States we have a lot of things what can God God give me I have everything uh the Jesus says uh zakus come down because if you look at God from high down you're not going to understand everything when we when you come down and you look upon the Lord from uh down into up to you upward you will learn a lot of things and the zakus comes down and Jesus says I want to be in your house I see you in church I see as you sing I saw if you opening the door for your wife to the church I see as you in church you smiling and your patient and he says zakus I want to be in your house I want to see you at home what kind of words do you use at home I want to see you at work what kind of light you you you show at work I want to see a lot of things about you outside the church and then Jesus comes to the to this man's home and a lot of people were there and the chaos called his friends and and acquaintances and he prepared a a big table and Jesus didn't tell him hey zakus what kind of money did you use to buy those great chandeliers in your house uh what kind of money did you use to buy the silver [Music] dishes all the guests are very happy they eat and they they talk and very they're satisfied and Zak is burning in his heart and Zak did not does not understand what's happening to him what happened the god entered into his home when God touches your heart and that comes into your house maybe some people talk about different kind of things but you know that God enter your house and your your heart is burning and that the fact that God touched his his heart it's changed his heart maybe before he was thinking how to steal some things for from other people but now he is rebuked in his heart and he thinks about how to give it back how to repent to repent is a is a hard food to forgive it's it's a solid food to greet the brother which which offended you and and and forgive him it's it's a solid food I'm gonna finish up but I wanted to say a few more words when we tune our hearts about for to the information which not able to change my heart it's milk I came to the to the house of God and I listened to a lot of things but that information did not change my heart that's why when Apostle Paul preached to to Hebrews or wrote a letter to Hebrews he said hurry up toward Perfection you know the Bible has two parts the first part is very hard to understand there is a parts of the Bible where the B researchers or Scholars of the Bible study it a very long time and they cannot truly understand it and the second part is written very easy very simple but it's very important when Bible teaches about repentance it's very simple When God says the Bible says about eternal life it's written very [Music] simple When God says about the for those people who repented to receive a water baptism it's very simple yeah this is the most important part when we receive the teaching about the repentance about the water baptism about the baptism in the Holy Spirit this is most important in our life if I do not does not do not know uh fully what's going to happen in a Thousand-Year Kingdom it's not that important when when I repented and and I received the water baptism and I'm serving the lord I'm ready for the second part that's why the brother Nikolai raised a very important subject which I repeated in part which pertains to how I do I tune my heart when I come into the house of the Lord we're going to pray right now and um to summarize the uh spiritual milk is a lot of information maybe very interesting information but that cannot change my heart but the solid food which is CS you and me toward perfection and we live our lives and sometimes we get angry sometimes we said the wrong th things and we do some some things is not correct this is solid [Music] foot that's why Apostle Paul wrote and that Jesus after the end of this story Jesus came into the center of of this the Cha's life gives his verdict and he said that chaos became a son of Abraham God summarizes yours and my life and that's why it's so important to think about the person who redeemed us who saved us and who's trying to change our [Music] insights that's why Apostle Paul said that this wonderful word you read Hebrews 58 he being a Son of God he showed a great great example of humbleness on this Earth let God help us to be humble to before the Lord and then we will be able to swallow a solid food solid food the solid food that changes my character that changes the schedule of my life it changes my words changes my relationships toward my wife toward my husband and when he if he changes me after every meeting he overcame me he conquered me let's stand up to our feet thank the Lord for his work in USU foruu foree spee foru fore [Music] [Music] [Music] to [Music] for foree our s Service came to an end it's very pleasant the Holy Spirit was speaking to us raise your hands if you God was speaking to you today you know when brother Roman was speaking today brother brother Sergey was speaking about on a prayer before the service the Holy Spirit have had a theme for us today that like a pastor Nikolai read that they did not only hear into practice they they put it into practice I want to ask who is the first time in our church today raise your hand from Ukraine come and greet them please introduce yourselves invite them to the restaurant or maybe if who prepared extra B invite them toward your house go and may God bless you and we invite you for the next time for our service we are very glad that you're with us uh we're going to pray for needs and first we have received a request from family of gin something happened to him when he was driving a truck and his daughter and and the other family members came toward him we don't know exactly what happened there something with his health we're going to pray but the first first of all we're going to pray that God strengthen his also we continue to pray for our sister send a greeting to everyone we're going to pray that God will uh put you back to health also we have one sister that she didn't put her name that she is praying for healing of her kidneys if you have any kind of needs you can let us know uh sister Luda is thinking that he she's in church she's well now for a while virus comes around and it's going to hurt his wife Anastasia has a lot of pain that God heal her and give her Mercy his mercy and the for Maria pet want to pray it says God will heal 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