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[Music] okay let's let's stand up we'll pray the Lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] a thousand Generations Falling Down In Worship to sing the song of Ages to and all who've gone before us and all who will believe will sing the song of Ages to the your name is the highest your name is the greatest your name stands above them all all Thrones and Dominion all p and positions your name stands above them all and the angels cry holy all creation PR oh hly you are lifted High holy holy [Music] forever if you've been forgiv if you've been with sing the song forever to the if you walk in fre and if you bear his name we sing the song forever [Music] to sing the song forever and amen and the angels cry ohly all creation chist holy you are lifted High holy holy [Applause] forever your people sing Holy to the King of Kings oh holy you will always be holy holy [Applause] [Music] forever your name is the highest your name is the greatest your name stands above the Lord all Thrones and dominions all poers and positions your name stands above them all your name is the highest your name is the greatest your name stands above them all all through and dominions all W and positions your name stands above them all the Angels [Music] Cry all creation Christ oh you are lifted High holy holy [Music] forever you people sing Holy to the King of Kings holy you will be holy holy forever you will always be holy holy [Music] forever holy forever praise God I thank God for this opportunity that we have this evening and uh we're in the house of the Lord so we're going to be worshiping God I also welcome everyone of You Who Came this evening and I see older Generations in here I see young people I see Sunday school you're welcome kids I love you you're welcome welcome you happy to be here yes I see you you guys welcome as well I see older generation old folks our fathers Pastor I think you know church is like like a family and in the family we see different Generations amen different Generations we see Young Generation we see kids we see older kids we see youth we see you know we see fathers it's like a family you know I went on Google and I Google um family picture and what you know what kind of picture I got on Google I got little kids I got older kids and I see parents it's a picture of the family when you see different Generations why I say this I just want us to understand and be thankful to God that we are one family and we have different Generations in the house of God we came to worship God and we have everybody imagine it's only old people no kids no youth or imagine it's only youth no older people I feel like it's something missing in that picture picture of the family but no we have full picture of the family so everybody's welcome and I want to read one passage three verses it's going to be first John please open up 1 John 5 chapter 5 verse 1 and three whoever believes in uh whoever whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves him who begotten also loves him who is begotten of him by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments for this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not hard to obey amen his Commandments is not hard to obey you know to who to people who are humble people who are humble it's not hard to obey those Commandments amen it's not hard to obey parents' Commandments when they ask you something to do when you're humble before them it's not hard to obey God his Commandments when you humble before him so I would like to ask everyone to pray and to ask God to come to this place and talk to us speak to us let the Holy Spirit be in this place and actually talk to us let's pray oh Jes Jesus we thank you so much and we ask you today to come to this place we thank you for this opportunity that we have as your family as brothers and sisters to be in your house this evening we ask you Jesus to come and speak to every one of us speak to every one of us speak to our children to younger generation to older generation speak to us oh Jesus we ask you to to to bless the preachers that going to preach your word that they're going to share your word oh Jesus we need your word because your word is giving our life oh Jesus we also pray for the worship group we thank you for them we pray to you so you bless them you bless everyone who is going to worship your name because your name worthy of the worship All the Glory Hallelujah Jesus we also pray for everyone who came to this place and have problems have need oh Jesus may your your grace your word touch them and give them the answer to their problem so when they leave this place they leave with the blessings in the name of Jesus we pray [Music] amen [Music] we fall down we lay our grounds at the Fe of Jesus the great of mercy and love at the feet of Jesus we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy is the Lamb no more fears you've dried our tears at the feet of Jesus Grace ABS to all who fall at the feet of Jesus we we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy is the [Music] Lamb we down we lay our grounds at the feet of Jesus the greatness s mercy and love at the feet of Jesus we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy is [Music] the no more fears youve dried our tears at the feet of [Music] Jesus Grace of bow to all who fall at the Fe of Jesus we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy is the [Music] Lamb we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy we cry holy holy holy [Music] is [Music] H Lord Jesus You Are Holy and we give you all the honor and all of the glory we glorify your name Jesus that your blood was shed for us that breaks away every single chain and we just want to give you praise tonight Jesus we just want to praise your name we put ourselves on the altar again and again Lord for you are worthy of everything you are worthy Jesus you are worthy and worthy Lord we welcome you into this place and we thank you for coming here today Lord touch each and every one of our hearts Lord for everything we give you praise in the name of Jesus [Music] Amen [Music] praise God there brothers and sisters it is good that we've uh chosen to come here tonight I think God has something special for us prepare today can we say Amen I'm glad like brother ol said uh to see um different faces here new uh young older uh our teens our youth it's nice um so uh today I'd like to share something that maybe already shared with you so those who were on Wednesday you get to hear it again those those who weren't I figured because there's a lot of faces a lot of people that didn't hear this message so I'd like to continue building onto it um as we know throughout the last few weeks and months um I think the spirit of the Lord has something special he's been saying to us uh like brother ol a little while ago preached about um the company Bad Company corrupts good character right as we know that what we let into our lives will eventually impact us also uh brother vasil pre preached about our minds and our thoughts how those impact Our Lives as well what we allow in will also dictate our life because it's going to go in our heart and then eventually we will act it out so some of these things that we um allow into our lives will also impact how we live our daily life so I would like to continue building off of that because um as as some of you know the the sermon that I called is our heart right our heart plays a big role in our uh in our daily life and our walk with Christ our our heart our physical heart does gives us life right same thing is we have a spiritual heart that gives us um a heart as a heart gives a beat right same thing their spiritual life there's a beat to it too so in all of these things I think uh God wants us to learn something because he's given us everything for our physical life and everything for our spiritual life to grow and to um get to know him better um uh when um how often when we go uh we go to doctors right to check our heart and I know every every year or every six months I myself have to go to the doctor and they check they're like hey Peter you got your cholesterol is high you're uh your metabolism off you got to drop a couple pounds so they keep on reminding us right something to do so also what about our spiritual spiritual life how often do we connect to the spirit right and he looks and or and he convicts us say hey hey maybe this area you need help with or hey maybe you're letting this too much in into your life and today brother had a good uh sermon about what are the some of the um uh Jal um Springs right that you have to Maybe cover to get that Victory I think it was a very good analogy that we sometimes need to apply also for our lives because it's our heart that uh reflects of who we are um another thing as we know when um when we have to put uh things to protect us also our heart right our hearts requires a border something to protect our heart because as we know we're influenced by different things throughout life and things that enter our heart will also impact the way we are and how we walk before the God and then how often are we cleaned or cleansed by the scripture of um scripture of the word for our own lives so those are the things I'd like to discuss today and have our um uh take a few minutes to discuss as we know um David was a great example right from from our from the Bible teaching us that he says he was a man of a man after God's heart and I was wondering how I mean the things that David did you're like yo how could God say that he's a man of God after God's heart and then you also have Solomon right two different Kings but what we know how different they were when it came to when each of them fell Solomon uh so Saul was like hey just honor me before the people I want to look good David on the other hand right he said he repented he fell on his knees he found he was trying to seek God's mercy and so two different people but the state of their heart was completely different so I think God looks at our heart to see where we at and I think when he sees our repentance and our uh willingness to uh repent and seek him he gives R um so we live in a fallen world right the fall the world around us is is broken and we live unfortunately we have to live in a broken World in a broken World we're going to run into broken things or bad things so here is where we have to be careful how we um what we let into our lives because in a broken World we're going to be influenced by Temptations worldly influences and uh sin so those are the things that we need to guard our hearts from uh Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is deceitful above all things and Beyond cure who could understand it this explains why we live in a broken world right because um after Adam and Eve sinned sin entered into the world and with that we um humanity and uh sin brought Brokenness and with that we have a broken heart uh uh I was listening to uh maybe a preacher you guys heard or David Jeremiah he did an interesting like analogy of the heart what the heart is and couple points that he brought up that I want to share with you um he focuses about abundance of a heart and in Matthew uh 1234 through 40 he refers to this he says Matthew 12 34-40 for the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks a good man out of the God out of the good Treasures of the heart brings good forth good things and evil man out of the evil Treasures bring forth evil things so here it talks about a heart and what a heart is filled is going to bring out either good or bad things um David Jeremiah said these things about the heart uh if you if your mouth speaks heart words you have an angry heart so this is kind of where we could check our heart right like when you go to the doctor or the Holy Spirit he says these this is how you could check what is within your heart to see what your heart because your mouth eventually will speak it uh so he says harsh words angry heart so sometimes like is our words angry or how so that points uh to our harsh heart negative words means you have a maybe negative heart so we need to again check what kind of words coming out our our M our mouth um overactive words or overs spoken we do a lot of chat and chatting that means you have a maybe unsettle heart um also boastful words when you're boasting or being proud right that means you have a proud heart um another one filthy words filthy jokes filthy comments that might mean that we have a dirty heart again something we check ourselves for to see what is in our hard to determine because it will come out of our mouth and uh if we have critical words do we criticize ourselves maybe or other people that points to a bitter heart right so these are the things that the scripture says you want to avoid you to avoid because if you're filled with it you will eventually pour it out on you or your surroundings um as a family long long ago we were doing a Bible study and I already share this last time that um and we came about a devotional called the filter and it was really interesting that they talked about um they use this I don't know those people that go to Camping they they have this tubed right if you drink water from a stream you put this through a filter and you could drink the water because sometimes you don't know what bacteria lives in the water so he goes a great analogy was same kind of filter must be applied for our lives what filter have we place to protect our heart also as brother talked about what filter do we have to protect our mind right and then what filter do we have around us to Pro protect us from Bad Influence so I think these are good examples that the Bible teaches us about to protect us from worldly influence because the worldly influence will influence towards sin or towards worldly uh lifestyle but this but the scripture calls us to protect the heart because and it's very important so the filter in any other things or people that work with um computers or computers or different kind of Industries there's a lot of filters put in place to protect either something bad coming into it I work in the IT department and we have what's called firewalls we have um um what do you call it firewalls we have filters we have antiviruses again all different filters to protect anything bad coming in also same things for our human for us for spiritually what filters have we put in our in front of our eyes in front of our ears in front of our mouth right because all of that impacts the most important thing excuse me and it says proverbs 4 verse 23 says above else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it again scripture tells us that the most thing in this translation says say to above else to guard your heart because from your heart is where everything will pour out so and as in physical life we have filters everywhere to protect from U negative things or harmful things same thing into our lives um Corinthians 1533 says do not be mislead Bad Company corrupts good character as we heard brother ol already talked about this we need to say no sometimes or a lot of times especially the days that we live in everywhere you look everywhere you see you just see that the world is becoming more degrading right you could see that it's falling apart more and more um about 20 years ago I remember in Jacksonville um where my wife is from there was um a preacher you might know he would even went to the Lord um we took and he brought a really good point and back then I I didn't I didn't understand it but now I do 20 years later he goes the day that we live today is going to seem like it was um clean so much pure so much n 20 years from now you will be shocked into the world you will live in and I'm like how could that be possible right now looking today knowing today what's going on looking back 20 years I am in shocked I mean I mean just the things you you you hear at the news the the School the agenda that's being pushed on the kids I'm like w that's that's scary right so how much protection we need not just um for our kids for each one of us but to keep us away from the evil that Satan is attacking families children all the things that that is good he's corrupting it and making it bad but again we have good news because we have the scripture and we know the scripture has washes us and we know that we have the protection of Jesus's blood of upon us and I think that is very important we do have a hope we do have future and only through him and through his scripture what renews US what gives us strength and what keeps us going because without that we would not be able to survive because the world it's not getting any better and then maybe somebody will say hey I remember Peter said 20 years ago that the world going to get so if Jesus doesn't come in next 20 years it's not going to get better it's going to because as we know the world is degrading means just falling apart and it's not going to be better so again we have to be ready to be we have to prepare ourselves but only through scripture and through the practice of what uh the Holy Spirit has provided us through his word to guard us and we have to be careful because again some of the filters where we need as we talked about uh social media begs a big play role right today in our uh the what do you call the media or television I don't know I think people don't watch TV anymore everybody watches the screen now everybody so it's uh so think social media also friends who do you surround your friends with right uh I remember with me and brother Nikolai when we were growing up uh our Saturday we we looked over we looked forward to the weekends right because we had two things on the weekends we had volleyball and then we had prayer and those two things I think kept us uh first it kept us away from all the bad influence out there because we had just our friends together together and then we had prayer which which took care of the spiritual side and I think that's kind of what we need to encourage for the Youth right find yourself activities a church that's why we built a nice volleyball net for you guys we know because we've been there and also find those good friends around you because that will help you protect you from the worldly influence so we have those two things to kind of help you as well so that way you don't you're not alone and and we're here to help you because not too long ago we went through it so we know so we want to just say that U God doesn't live doesn't leave his kids alone he his children he loves them and he provides a solution right he says I'll never leave you or forsake you so he's provided all the means that we need to keep us safe from this world but sometimes like I said today you have to do your part God will do his part but you have to do your part your part is hey put up those filters put up those barriers put up the protection for you especially for parents I mentioned the last week if you don't have filters on your internet definitely invest it's worth it because I mean if there's no internet kids could get into things and see the things they're not supposed to at this age so be careful so if you don't have it there's very good resources out there to help with that um but again uh going back to the heart if you don't feel it with you don't want to F with anything bad so what's the opp Opposite you have to fill it something good right and the Bible says that we have to keep on pouring something good into our lives uh like the scripture right worship Fellowship I think those are good habits someday um come into prayer that will help uh Monday we have prayer reminder Wednesdays so don't forget to fellowship with uh Believers because that's going to help you build you spiritually and give you that uh motivation that desire that to find a common ground that you have with Believers to help you with the walk through life um Psalm 11911 says I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you so one thing a the biggest or the best filter you could have in your life is a scripture it says I have hidden your word so it's not just like hey I remember it but hidden it deep right where can you hide it you could hide in your heart because if it's there that's going to be a filter to protect you from sin and I think that's what the scripture God give us this scripture to help us to keep us from sinning because that's the only way and we know that was only possible through Jesus Christ um Holy Spirit can help Believers guard their heart and make wise choices every day you got to make a choice it either be a good choice or a bad choice yes or no and as we heard about making good choices only the Holy Spirit could guide you to make those good white choices because those will impact your life I tell my children all the time and remind them your choices have consequences like it or not they do if you make good choices they typically have good consequences bad choices will definitely lead into bad consequences so again May the Holy Spirit helps us throughout our daily walk right makes good choices so we don't um have something to regret I know Jesus forgives and loves but we could protect if we do it from our side the Holy Spirit Will and the will do it from his side Galatians um wrapping up Galatians 5:22 say for fruits of the spirit but the fruits of the spirit is love joy peace forbearance kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control this is what our life or our heart should be filled with because the more joy that we have the more love that we have the more kindness goodness gentleness and self-control I think it will reflect that right who doesn't want to have more joy I know I need more joy I mean living in days today in this life we need all of these aspects but these are the things that come from the Holy Spirit when we have that connection with the Holy Spirit we will have those things but again it's in our lives that we need it but when we are filled with the Holy Spirit our lives and our words will change um going back to what David Jeremiah was saying about the heart when we have the Holy Spirit living in our hearts our M our words will change our speech will change into our good things right we'll have a our words will be encouraging if you have a if you have encouraging words that means you have a happy heart I mean who doesn't like to have a happy heart I know this world needs a lot more of that because it's struggling everywhere you look is just misery and disappointment people are just on anti-depressants left and right they're giving them out like candies today so it's sad it is it's we're living in a different type of world than what we grew up is also gentle words I think uh uh when you have gentle words right you're going to have a loving heart I think that's especially important today and these days um and the trustful words means you have honest heart those are the things I think we need to all strive put away what is not not pleasing but find those good things the things that are from the spirit that will bring joy peace love and all of that um wrapping up I want to leave uh with Psalm 51 verse 10-2 says create in me a pure heart or God and renew a steadfast Spirit within me I think this is something that David said as we know David had a heart after God and he he wanted a pure heart and I think it's a scripture reminding us to seek that to have that pure heart but when we have that pure heart we also have to make sure we keep it and by the grace of God by his Holy Spirit and by the sacrifice of Jesus's blood it could create that Pure Heart in us not by own our means not by own our decision or mean our actions but his mercy so I just want to leave these reminders for us to continue to pursue that pure heart that only we could find through Jesus Christ amen let us pray dear heavenly father we thank you we stand before you we thank you for the scripture you've given us we thank you that we have a holy word that we could rely on the foundation that you've given us we thank you for that we thank you for everything that you've taught us today and continue to teach us through the Holy Spirit I ask you to bless every individual here young and old who stands before you I ask you to touch their hearts May their heart be filled with joy peace kindness goodness faithfulness gentle and self-control I ask you that you fill their hearts Fill Their Minds with what is good what is Noble what is encouraging I ask you to put those protections about around them around their hearts especially in the world that we live in today we need your mercy we need your grace we need your protections and things that we do we ask you to protect our children our close ones to give them strength to help them to say no in any circumstance that they may be ask him to give them good company around them because Bad Company corrupts good C we ask you that surround them with your love surround them with good people that will bring them good because as we know Iron Sharps iron we give we ask by the holy spirit to guide their hearts guard their steps in their school in their work wherever they may be let them be that light let them be that Joy because only through you and we thank you for the love of Jesus we thank you for the love of the we thank you for the cross that we that we have the the mercy that was shown on the cross the the blood that was shed for us to give us that pure heart not because of who we are but because of who what you did on the cross we thank you Jesus and everything we ask amen [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] I want to be close close to your side so Heaven is real and death is alive I want to hear voices of Angels Above singing as one hallelujah holy holy God Almighty The Great I Am who is worthy none beside the God Almighty The Great I Am I want to be near near to your heart loving the world hating the dark I want to see Tri living again singing as one hallelu holy holy God Almighty The Great I Am who is worthy none beside God Almighty The Great I Am [Music] hallelu holy holy God Almighty The Great I Am [Music] who is worthy n beside God Almighty the great I am great are you the great are [Music] you [Music] the mountain shake before him the Demons Run and flee at the Manion of your name king of majesty there is no power in hell for any who can stand before the power and presence of the great are Am The Great I Am The Great I Am The Great I Am The Great I Am The Great I Am hallelu holy holy God Almighty The Great I Am who is Worthy none beside me God Almighty Great I Am the mountain shake before the demons running At The Mention Of Your Name king of majesty there is no power in hell for any who can s before the power and the presence of The Great I Am The Great I Am The Great I The Great I Am The Great I yeah the great are you hallelujah holy holy God Almighty what The Great I Am who is worthy beside God Almighty for The Great I Am hallelu holy holy God Almighty You're The Great I Am who is worthy none beside thee God Almighty you're the great I am great I [Music] am thank you Lord Jesus for your power and for your glory Lord God thank you for that you are worthy to be praised Lord Jesus over every nation and every tongue Lord God May your name be praised Lord Jesus in this room and everywhere that we go Lord God so we remember your power and your glory everywhere that we go Lord Jesus we pray that your name may be declared amongst all the all the nations Lord Jesus that every knee will bow and tongue confess at Your Name Lord Jesus we thank you for your power we thank you for your glory may your name be magnified [Music] amen praise the Lord Brother sister Hallelujah Liverpool uh I Don't Preach in English yet it's a problem is in the you you can write Manchester and translate Liverpool and there is a difficulty in order to speak correctly but everything is possible for for those who believe in Ukraine there is a saying uh the young is the person who feels in the evening just as he feels in the morning and the old person is in the morning he feels like he feels in the evening I hope that all everybody's young here and in the evening you feel like you feel in the morning Gospel of Luke Chapter 2 from verse 25 you'll read following words men for uh we moving toward the Christmas and when Jesus was born in his he was surrounded with very interesting people uh short time after he was born the parents uh did what was lawful uh in Israel they didn't bring Jesus to Jerusalem in order to for for he could meet Simeon or Anna they did according to the law but God prepared two unique meetings from above uh with certainly with one person it's his name was Simeon I would like to ask us to concentrate upon this person and among his characteristics in verse 25 he was uh waiting for consolation for Israel he was waiting very interesting word in the Greek there is a word which pertains on a dream or waiting for a dream very interesting this is old person had a dreamed he was waiting for something and a dream in this text is a a very special form to see the future when we talking about the dream we talking about the future it was the elderly person and this dream did not pertain to him personally this dream was pertaining to the people we know that Israel lived through difficult times not not the best times over there it was not a generation of David or Solomon at that time the ter Israel's territory was so big from the river of Euphrates to the Egypt they had Temple they had a country when this during the life of Simeon nothing of this is in place he goes outside and he see the presence of the Roman Empire uh Israel does not have its own country and 8 % of the Israelites live outside of their historical birthplace and in that kind of time it's very difficult to dream if everything goes according to the plan little by little then you can dream and but the situation is difficult what are you going to dream about and in in in few verses from we going to think about how Simeon entered his dream if this dream is in the lord it's not going to be egoistical it's not going to be pertaining to one one person so uh Luke begins to describe Simeon and the first he said that this person was righteous and the righteousness and his devotedness was the conditions in order right condition in order to dream to be fulfilled when people in the world wait for something they uh look for something to stick their fingers in something uh like grab on anchor or something somebody has brother some brother-in-law some some says account in the bank but when we think about the dream in the Lord we you cannot go without the righteousness or devotedness what is is righteousness the in Old Testament the righteous person who is um yeah ready for God's promise or the um meets God's expectations God has certain expectations regarding people and those person who meets those expectations are called righteous and in the New Testament righteous is who is honest he doesn't have like a back thoughts or he's straight in devotedness it it means that you um fulfill the the rules of the law and the see was that kind of person and even though that his dream but was not fulfilled around him he still remained in the in the state of righteousness and devotedness even though there's nothing was changed in the world he continued to be that kind of person the second characteristics which we see it is written the Holy Spirit was upon him and it's written that he he was told by the Holy Spirit he will not see death until he see the Christ of God and holy spirit led him into the temple in the three verses uh Holy Spirit mentioned three three times you know the presence of the Holy Spirit warms up the dream and and and it leads to the time of its fulfillment the Holy Spirit was on him continually and the Holy Spirit told him you not going to see death and one time he he the Holy Spirit told him go to the temple today is your day when the person walks with the spirit uh the its dream or wa your expectations of is warmed up and it seems the dream is so far away but the Holy Spirit points up to it the second thought and that because we have something to wait for our life gets longer and the absence of the dream either shortens the lifespan or makes it not interesting at all we don't know how old was Simeon uh some or Scholars say that he was about 300 years old because he was translating the septo the Greek text of the Old Testament if it's true that he was 300 years old then the Anna who was mentioned later he was younger than him only about 216 years and Luke says that he she was she lived until the Deep old age what kind of old age Simeon got but the presence of the dream lengthens the lifespan and if you have a dream even your physiology is subject to your dream and even the Medics prove it Professor uh in my University there was one professor and he was 7 years old he wanted to retire and he was very good professor and they didn't let him go he was 75 years old he again he wanted to retire and he was held back again and now he's 80 years old and he said 100% I'm leaving they they gave them flowers presented with the flowers and a tie and he left University two weeks passed by and he died and we were all amazed he was very like person but the rhythm of his life changed he knew that every morning he has to go to university it's not just put on his suit and correct his hairstyle you have to gather your thoughts you have to teach a long time and everything ended and then two weeks later he dies and I understood and we have waiting for something that life goes on when the expectation ends there is no reason to live I don't I'm not amazed before by the older people uh I am amazed by the phenomen phenomen called phenomena it's called a young grandpas did anybody meet the young grandpas he is 25 years old he's very young it's everything ahead of him and and and and you ask him what kind of expectations do you have where your Lifeboat goes to you know what I'm I'm just riding the waves whatever the waves bring me I will say I I I was going there you know the absence of the dream makes the life very uninteresting and you say oh again this Monday came H why do I need this Tuesday why do we need this 2023 year in in December and the person doesn't see this this meaning of his life it's in vain he gets up in the morning and and waits until [Music] night and from day today he eats the bread of Sorrow there is no that kind of person does not have a goal if the person has a goal here his life spend lengthens uh my my my father got sick with the covid in 2020 and he um 74% of his lungs were affected and the doctor called me he says there's no hope and we prayed in very much in our family and we were able to call him and he was barely speaking and then he says I have two more dreams and I don't want to die and I understood right away that he's going to live even though the doctor gave less than 10% two weeks passed and nothing remains from that Co do you know do when you have expectation or dream like Simeon your life goes on because you need to do still need to do something if those uh this came from God if he gave him this special form to see the future that means that our body has to submit to it next thought about this text [Music] um temporary temporary temporary uh disappointments does not mean that your dream is crushed it's a part of the God's plan in order for this dream dream to be fulfilled very often on to on the way to our expectation the black clouds C our dream and we think God probably it's not going to happen and one text that that when Jesus Christ died and when the disciples went to and some stranger joined them and they they started a conversation among themselves and in in their conversation there was a theme now we were expecting that this was the one who was supposed to deliver Israel but there is a three days he's still in grave those disciples have a dream and that dream was similar to The simeon's Dream they're waiting for somebody to come to deliver Israel and now now he died and they go to another Village and Jesus himself joined them they don't know that it's Jesus and they started to to talk something very Ukrainian and they say oh we were hoping that he will deliver Israel and we were hoping that the fifth president of Ukraine and they were hoping the 45th president of United States this is very Ukrainian phrase we were hoping I I was say like if um Elisha would be Ukrainian when Elijah told him ask what you want Elisha would say I would need like a half of your spirit but do you remember what Elisha said the spirit of of that you have I want to me be upon me twice that much and it's everything he had double Elijah resurrected one person first in the in the history of the world Elisha also resurrected one person but the spirit was supposed to reveal himself double and you remember Elisha already died how in this instance will will will die D the the the power will be doubled and then that Soldier was they were burying somebody else and as soon as his body touched the body of Elisha he resurrected why did he resurrect because Spirit was supposed to be revealed in double and it's very interesting the temporary um disappointments doesn't mean that the dream is crushed it's a part of the God's plan do you know how many times the dreams of of Simeon was delayed everything around him told it's not going to happen God works not only for in our waiting God wants to change us personally and to change us is harder than to realize our dream and it takes very much a lot of time God changes our character God fixes us recently I was in Charlotte and and then they they they led me to the place where billing gram and his wife Ruth was buried and when I are standing on the place where Ruth Graham was buried I noticed a inscription on that uh Tombstone is written Ruth Graham 1920 2007 and in the end it is written um repairs finished thank you for your patience I was amazed what kind of inscription is this and then the written is like writing another writing beside it the Ruth Graham was wife of bigram was she was a wife of the very famous evangelist she was a mother of five children it was very difficult for her and when she became old and one of the her last trips uh as a driver she she saw the road repairs [Music] and what kind of feelings do we have when we see the road work ahead in uh in Ukraine they're encouraging drivers when you come into the work Zone it is written the work uh road work for 12 kilm and the road a face like very sad face and you you were driving for six kilometers as so as though you you were driving all 12 and then they six more kilometers of road work and then the face was supposed to like smiling a little bit more and then the the road work two more kilometers and this the smile is bigger and then they say the the road work is finished thanks for your patience and a very very wide green and then she pass the the work Zone and she reads the the inscription and she loved it so much and she imagined her life like constant [Music] repair God not only real not just realized her dreams but he was working on her character and her surroundings were her husband children church and they were patient with her and the moment came in 2007 she died and if she asked somebody to write on her tombstone uh the repair is finished thanks for your patience friends do you know what you going to write on your tombstones what could you write on the tombstone of Simeon the person who was waiting for ful fulfillment of his dream he was getting older but nothing happened his life was going on the the the dark clouds were not supposed to cover the dream it's a part of God's plan in order to for it to be fulfilled and the next thought is a central in this text God widens the dream and he had a dream to encouragement for Israel but when the parents brought Jesus and when he by prophetically saw me messiah in him then he starts to prophesy and he says today you letting go of your your servant uh by Your Word with peace because my eyes have seen the Salvation which you prepared for all the nations the light to for for for the Gentiles and glory for your people of Israel he had a dream for Israel but in Jesus the dream winding it pertains to all all the nations and how can you not remember the prayer of Paul who says that he can do exceedingly and abundantly above for what we think expect or dream with the power which he has in US Simon asks and and thinks about the encouragement for Israel but in Jesus his expectations broaden up you friends God widens up the dream which he likes and I love that you know the old great Ministries that we have around us they started from something very small and people say at least our block we would get on fire with the gospel at least we would get the the our budget up to 20,000 in our but God loved that dream and just like a Simon's dream that dream was widen up the broaden up and it has to encourage us today we are serving the great God he he can he is able to do exceedingly and ab above that what we dream and Simon is a witness to it and then last thought today you're letting all your you're letting go your Serv with peace you know the Fulfillment of the dream br brings peace when Simeon entered his dream he didn't need to remain on this Earth about David is written he but he fulfilling God's will he died and joined his his four forefathers who remembers how long did David live 70 years is it a lot or or a little you know he had so intensive life that would be uh enough for three lives it's better to live um bright and short and to then to live long and don't even understand what do I do with my days but when you enter your expectations there is no reason to be on this Earth we Christians are very strange people and my my father said everybody wants to heaven but nobody wants to die and we sing about heaven and we say how good is the day when would I get there and then the first calls hey you have to get ready for heaven and we want to delay that as long as possible do you remember this Grandpa and grandmother that got to heaven and when they walking by Gardens of Eden and the the grandpa felt the the feeling of Heaven and he says to Grandma why did you give me those pills that I've suffered 10 more years on this Earth friends when we get enter there we not going to be sorry for anything but on Earth we have to enter our expectation when we do enter it we go there with peace and the right the destiny of the righteous is blessed and it's a lot worse with those who denied God one uh woman she was a monk and she was staying on the uh burial place of volter he's a philosopher aist philosopher vol he she said it's better for me to stay by by the death bed of thousand of righteous people who died Volare was teaching about the non-existence of God when he started to die and she writes when she was he was dying it was terrible didn't even get to to hell but the demon already tortured him it's very terrible Destiny and the totally different person the Simeon when you enter your expectation in the Lord there is no reason to remain on Earth 1960 63 Luther King one person uh in the named Martin Lu Luther kingc uh he's standing in Washington DC and he uh proclaiming the most famous seron in 20th century and in front of him 250,000 people I have a dream even when he's uh saying a speech named I have a dream and in 17 minutes he'll speaks about very interesting [Music] things and he said in I have a dream that about my children in this country would be talking about not because of the color of their skin but the wholeness of their character and he said I have a dream that the children from Mississippi and Louisiana and they hold they will hold hands with the white children from Ohio and New York and they will sing a Christian song I have a dream he said that all the uh Hills will be will flatten and all the valleys will be filled and his dream was fulfilled and in 2018 I was riding a bus from Jacksonville to Atlanta and nobody told me in the South you better don't ride the night buses and 3:00 in the morning my my friend Eugene left me on the bus stop and I said oh just go to sleep I I'll sit in the bus the bus came the black driver came out uh I have a big bag I have to go from Atlanta I have to go back to and the driver tells me your your luggage is not paid for I said maybe I think I I I did everything right on on online but I looked right or left there is not even one white passenger uh he he tells me you either go only by yourself or you don't go at all and I sayena please come pick up my luggage I'll go but the luggage I'll just leave on the bus stop if it's still going to be there you just pick it up and I entered the bus 60 people all of them are black first time in my life I felt in minority uh by me that the person sit about 350b he he was sitting on a one and a half seat I've sat with like a little bit like a half of my myself on on a on that chair I tried to push him up little bit he didn't react and it's six hours whatever happened that bus I would not better not not tell you somebody was on drugs somebody was screaming somebody had a very loud music playing in the morning my my brother met me in Atlanta and when I exited the bus and he looked at me like what happened to you I said dream of Martin Luther King fulfilled I will never forget that that kind of trip and then the next the other brother brought my bag into Atlanta and I was thinking about those different dreams it's a special form to see the future brother and sister we have to wait for something but in order for that to be fulfilled the righteousness and your devotedness to God is a spiritual foundation in order for your dream to be fulfilled the presence of the Holy Spirit warms the dream up and and points to the time of its fulfillment and that the presence of the dream lengthens your lifespan and the temporary um disappointments doesn't mean the dreams crushed and the God can widen the dream which that he likes and the reaching for fulfillment of the dream brings peace friends if you will have to wake up early you have to have a big dreams and if you sit late it's for to widen the kingdom of heaven if we are supposed to eat the the bread of Sor so that's to that means that tomorrow we have to eat the bread of Joy I want us to look even more on that Simeon and our life would be filled with with meaning let's pray about it for for for for for [Music] amen [Music] for you can tell we're still in the transition because we The Lord's Prayer in Ukrainian I Haven a memorize it in English yet but we will have a prayer for needs and it was extremely important sermon today that are dreams in Christ Jesus and the Lord and it's so important because um we sing this song in Ukrainian our joy is hidden in Christ so when we have this requests right now before the Lord maybe you are going in this season of your life where you're the the sky is changing the dark clouds are coming and you and you just like any other person reacting to it but you're reminded today that it's all in God's hands because maybe he's working on a character maybe he's trying to teach us something but at the end his dreams will always come true in our life amen so let's stand up on a feet and share whatever your prayer requests are we are beginning this new week school colleges we came back from a Thanksgiving vacations and uh whatever those are please share we are bring it before him so that God would guide us and bless us into this new week uh into this holiday season uh and everything in in our uh daily lives today for travels for sister Luda yes we'll definitely pray pray for the war that is going on in Ukraine and Israel we'll definitely do that that God would show peace in both places and show his Mercy protection for travel also upcoming travel sister Cornelia that God would bless and protect sister Mara sister Mara is asking for healing um actually I would like to invite you over here sister amata because she after today's service in the morning she says you know I would like for the pastors to pray with the anointed oil so this is her desire because let's do that let's pray and support her in this prayer together Brothers if you have pastor vasili Pastor Nicolai brothers would pray for a dear sister anybody else has any requests final exams that God would help our children all the students in college and school and high schools and everything let's also pray for uh my nephew bhan because he's been having fever for a few days and he's feeling very weak his his throat is coughing a lot that God would show mercy and Grace and we also pray along with sister Martha that actually parents if brother ol and sister amaros both of you and we'll pray for for ban he home right now with grand that God would show healing for him anybody else all right let's pray Heavenly Father we thank you so much for this wonderful time that we have together here we thank you Lord because you have spoken to us through your word Lord you were reminding us about our hearts Lord you reminded us that we would guard our hearts Lord that you would guard our mind Lord it is so important Lord because because our hearts is the source of Life Lord we ask that you would protect our children you would protect our students that you protect our teenagers Lord that you would protect our youth in the name of Jesus Christ when they start this new week when they go back to school when they go back to their classes Lord they would show your mercy they would show your grace Lord you see Lord for the healing of a dear sister Martha Lord that you would show your mercy and Grace Lord she believes in your power she believes in your anointing Lord that would be descend on her Lord in her situation Lord that you would bring healing to her body in the name of Jesus Christ in the blood of Jesus Christ in the stripes of Jesus Lord we have healing we have Lord blessing for our bodies we ask for our ban Lord that you would show your mercy and Grace that you would take away Lord this fever that you would take away Lord this sore throat Lord that you would give him healing completely in the name of Jesus Christ Lord I ask that you would bless their family that you would bless every single one of them in the name of Jesus Christ Lord dear sister Cornelia and sister Luda Lord going to be traveling Lord for the journeys Lord that you would protect them that you would show your mercy and Grace Lord sister lyanna is asking and for the rest of the students Lord for their final exams Lord that you would show your mercy they would show your grace in that situation Lord we ask you in the name of Jesus Christ Heavenly Father you know all the situ ations Lord in Israel that's taking place what's taking place in Ukraine Lord they would show you mercy and Grace Lord you the Prince of Peace Lord please come into those areas Lord please come into those places Lord and bring peace into those places into those cities Lord people who make those decisions Lord who who's who's behind those Lord those conflicts Lord we ask to you would work at their hearts that you would work with their minds they would bring them to peace Lord reconciliation in the name of Jesus Christ Lord we thank you so much for this evening we thank you for so much for this Fellowship that we have with one another we thank you so much for this word Lord that you're reminding us Lord that we would have those dreams in you Lord and you are the one who make him true Lord you are the one through this journey that you're teaching us that you're developing a character Lord every single one of us we are going through something Lord but help us understand Lord what are the valuable lessons that you would like to teach us Lord we were also reminded today about our hearts Lord how important in this digital age Lord in this in this in this age where we consume so much information Lord that we would guard our eyes that we would guard our hearts that we would guard our minds in the name of Jesus Christ Lord I ask you that you would show protection for your our children for our teenagers for our younger Generations also ask Lord for our brothers and sisters Andre stanovich who is in the hospital Lord you ask that you would show he's feeling much better Lord and we give praise to you Lord he wants to go home Lord that you would Grant his wish in the name of Jesus Christ may your name be glorified amen amen I want to thank everyone who came this evening all the gener