пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 13.09.2015 БЛАГОЛЕПИЕ СВЯТЫНИ И ПЕРЕЖИВАНИЕ ОБНОВЛЕНИЯ - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to share some thoughts that arose after my trip to Karelia. We took part in a worship service in the Lutheran Church and this gave me rich food for prayerful reflection. The Lutheran Church is the oldest denomination of all Protestants, originating directly from Martin Luther. And this is what I noticed: Firstly, the service is very solemn. I remembered the words of Scripture: Give the Lord glory to His name. Take the gift, go before Him, worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness. 1 Par. 16:29. This is the first psalm that King David gave to Asaph to glorify God. I think that we are missing something because we made the Divine Service too “homey”, that somewhere we did not notice the difference between solemnity and religious pomposity and, wanting to avoid the second, we missed the first, losing through this the experience of the splendor of the shrine, about which it is also said: In the day of Your power, Your people are ready in the splendor of holiness; From the womb before the morning star, your birth was like dew. Ps. 109:3. And this is a prophetic word about Christ Jesus, from which it is clear that in order for the “day of power” to come, it is necessary that the people be ready and learn to abide in the splendor of the sanctuary. But we are missing this, and God wants to correct it, as it is written: Then I will return and rebuild the fallen tabernacle of David, and what is destroyed in it I will rebuild, and I will restore it, so that other people and all the nations among whom the name will be proclaimed may seek the Lord. Mine, says the Lord, who creates all these things. Acts 15:16-17. The second thing I saw as important was the purpose of all this solemnity, the center of the entire liturgy - the Eucharist, or the Lord's Supper. Here I want to step back from the topic so that my train of thought is clear. Ap. John says: Children! Lately. And as you have heard that the Antichrist will come, and now many antichrists have appeared, then we know from this that the last time. 1 John 2:18. What does the Antichrist do? What is his main goal? Ap tells us about this. Paul, characterizing the actions of the Antichrist: he who opposes and exalts himself above everything that is called God or that is holy, so that he sits in the temple of God as God, showing himself to be God. 2 Thess. 2:4. So the task of the Antichrist is to trample on the shrine, to destroy any idea that there is something unshakable, permanent, established by God Himself, standing above everything, above everything that people can create or imagine. And such a shrine is the Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior! Friends, I believe that God showed me that the shrine has a purpose, it is not just part of the ritual, no, it has a supernatural property that the Bible tells us about: seven days you shall cleanse the altar, and sanctify it, and the altar will be a great sanctuary: everything that touches the altar will be sanctified. Ref. 29:37. Agree that one of the most damning passages of Scripture is this: be holy, because I am holy. 1 Pet. 1:16. And we’re scared to even think how it’s possible to live as holy as God Himself is holy! Reading this we feel the same way as Isaiah did when he found himself in the presence of God: “Woe is me, I am lost, I am a man of unclean lips.” But what does God do in response to Isaiah's cry? Then one of the Seraphim flew to me, and in his hand he had a burning coal, which he took with tongs from the altar, and touched my mouth and said: behold, this has touched your mouth, and your iniquity is taken away from you, and your sin is cleansed. Is. 6:6-7. This is the act of holiness that we read about a little earlier, and today this act is accomplished through eating the Lord's Supper in His church! I want to show this from the Scripture: Tell them: If anyone from all your descendants throughout your generations, having uncleanness on him, approaches the holy things that the children of Israel dedicate to the Lord, then that soul will be cut off from before Me. I am the Lord. A lion. 22:3. Let's compare this with what Ap told us. Paul: 1 Cor. 11:25-30. One can see here only a serious warning, but the Apostle not only warns, but also commands: Let man examine himself, and thus let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup. 1 Cor. 11:28. Why is this test needed? It is obvious to me from the experience I had in Karelia that if you eat supper with a repentant heart, then from God comes what He gave to the prophet Isaiah: behold, this has touched your lips, and your iniquity is removed from you, and your sin is cleansed. Is. 6:7. Let's remember the moment when we first turned to God through repentance. What happened to us? He gave us forgiveness of sins and eternal life, as He promised, and we experienced great relief, getting rid of the burden of sins “hanging” on us. God has not stopped having mercy on us today, but we ourselves are missing the opportunity to experience this renewal again and again due to the fact that instead of the Lord’s Supper we made preaching the center of the Divine service. Friends, and God wants to correct this, because we need sanctification and this is His will, as it is written: the will of God is your sanctification 1 Thess. 4:3. I believe that it is the experience?