пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 11 ОКТЯБРЯ 2015. . ХРАНЕНИЕ ВЕРЫ - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about the faith that lives in our hearts and about which we are called to take care, as AP speaks at the end of our life. Pavel: I worked as a kind feat, made a course, retained faith; 2 Tim. 4: 7. Last Sunday, we talked about mortality, i.e. The temporality, the unreliability of our earthly life, talked about how it is useful for us to remember what we have to appear before God, leaving this body. We accept all this on faith, if we lose faith, then we lose both the fear of God and any sound idea of ​​the eternal fate of our soul, the Scripture directly says that without this, without faith in the eternal fate of the soul, a person is likened to the animal: when my heart was boasted , and my inside was tormented, then I was an ignoramus and did not understand; As cattle, I was before you. Ps. 72: 21-22. The psalmist speaks of himself as a reasoning without faith, as a thinking only in the earth's plane. But we are already enlightened by the knowledge of the feat of Christ, and of course he suffered not for the sake of our earthly goods, but in order to be saved by our souls. And this faith makes us Christians, it is saving, and in this faith we all need to be preserved until our hour comes to appear before God! And this faith is subjected to tests, trials, we find ourselves before choosing-a tit in the hand (i.e. now certain earthly benefits or pleasure) or a crane in the sky (that is, for the sake of saving the soul, to deprive ourselves of something that we want, But God reads it with a sin and forbids in his word or to do what we do not want, but it is his command). Choosing Heavenly, we preserve and increase faith, preferring the earthly we will waste it and ultimately we can lose, speaking of the biblical language "tolerate a shipwreck in faith." Of course, everyone who has long been in the Church has experience and the right choice, when we made sacrifices, pleasing to God and the wrong, when we followed our flesh and did what we later repented. This is what I would like to put before us as a question-is faith the subject of our care for us today or are we treating it like something to the self-understanding? Yes, we believe in Christ, otherwise we would not have been here, but how hard is our faith? How far we are ready to go, what price are ready to pay for their Christianity? These questions can be better understood if we compare our faith with physical health. Until we experience loads, it may seem to us that we are completely healthy and full of strength. But when we went on a hike, after several kilometers along the crossed terrain with a heavy backpack behind our shoulders, we no longer feel so strong and healthy! The only difference is that we go on a hike voluntarily, and the tests of faith come to us when we do not expect them. Therefore, ap. Pavel and writes to us: experience yourself, in faith you; Explore yourself. Or do you not know yourself that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless you are not what should be. 2 Cor. 13: 5. If a person knows that in the spring he has a trip, then he will not “lie on the stove” all winter, no, he will prepare, will train his body in order to reach the right place on the campaign, and not fall from fatigue in the middle of the road! How much we, Christians, are careless if we begin to believe that our faith will not be tested! Scripture directly tells us the opposite: for no one can put another reason except the prescribed, which is Jesus Christ. Does anyone build on this basis of gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each business will be found; For the day will show, because it opens in the fire, and the fire will experience the work of everyone what it is. Those who he built, will stand, will receive a reward. And whoever burns out, he will tolerate damage; However, he himself will be saved, but as if from the fire. 1 Cor. 3: 11-15. Pavel describes here the quality of our faith using different natural materials and echoes him AP. Peter: Rejoice about this, there is now a little, if necessary, from various temptations, so that your tested faith is more precious than the dying, albeit with the fire of the experienced gold, to praise and honor and glory into the appearance of Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. 1: 6-7. Agree, we rarely ask ourselves: what is my faith? Is it straw, wooden, stone, silver or gold? But it is better to think about it, and if the faith is wooden, then pray that it would become stone, if stone, then pray that it would become silver! The Bible says that the Lord leads us “from faith in faith” (Rom. 1:17). He nurtures us in faith, because by faith we overcome all obstacles in the way of salvation of the soul. But again I put it as a question: and we ourselves - have the desire to move from one level of faith to another? Is faith the subject of reflection, research and care for us? Do we keep it or thoughtlessly hid it? At least we notice when we act by faith, and when we act contrary to her? In the church, someone always believes for us and by someone's faith we come to God. But also the moment always comes when we owe a “gap?