пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 14 ФЕВРАЛЯ 2016. ЖИВАЯ НАДЕЖДА. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about the hope, about how she lives in us and how to cultivate her. Scripture tells us that “the Word of God is lively and effective” Heb. 4:12, as well as the fact that faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). We are talking a lot about faith, but I feel how the faith is exhausted because it does not interact properly with hope! A full -fledged Christian life is possible only where, according to the Apostle, these three are: faith, hope, love 1 Cor. 13:13. So, first of all, I would like to say that our hope that comes together with faith from God's living word is alive. Friends, hope should live in us, it is like nutritious soil for our faith, and it is impossible to preserve faith if hope dies. Now let's ask ourselves the question: what do we hope? Or "What do I hope?" When this question is “posed by an edge”, it turns out that it is not so simple to formulate this for us. As a rule, we are ready to say approximately the following: "I hope that everything will be fine." But is this hope of the one that is based on God's Word? Does God promise us in the Bible, gives us reason to hope that “everything will be fine”? Scripture speaks of “the hope of our salvation”: for we are saved in the hope, hoping for you in heaven. Rome. 8:24. Stake. 1: 5. At the same time, the Bible clearly says that by going in this hope our earthly path we will meet with different situations, some of which will definitely not fit the description of “everything is fine”. So somewhere there is a substitution and instead of biblical hope for the heavenly in heaven, we begin to hope for something, never promised to us by God, and then when the difficulties come, we are upset, because our hope for “everything will be fine” turned out to be false Hope! And in order not to be in this position, we need to “work” with our hope, we need to cultivate it, be careful for it. Someone always gives us hope. The very first and perhaps the main question is the source of our hope. Scripture says that there are two sources of hope - God and people and the consequences of these sources are completely different. If we receive hope from God, then we are updated in force: hoping for gentlemen will be updated in strength: they will raise their wings, like eagles, will flow - and will not get tired, go - and will not be tired. IS. 40:31. This is the best “energy drink”, it is hope, which, according to the Apostle, “does not shame” (Rom. 5: 5), and this hope will never seduce us, saying that “everything will be fine”, no, she It will encourage us to go forward and continue to hope the way David did: if the regiment is taking up against me, my heart will not be afraid of; If the war rebels at me, and then I will hope. Ps. 26: 3. But if we do not understand the difference, if we are not awake over our hope, then it is very easy for us to be “caught” by hope for a person. It can be a good person, he can say the right words, but the essence is always the same - on whom do we “rely”, on whom do we have the “weight” of our hope? God says that no person can withstand this “load”, no one is able to bear this except God Himself, although many are trying to do it. Why even those who read these words of scripture: the Lord says: Curses a person who hopes for a person and the flesh makes his harassment (Jer. 17: 5), still “step on the rake” and tolerate damage? I think this is because to hope only for God for us means to make serious efforts. And to hope for an effort is almost not required. So seductively achieve some obligations from a person and then "receive his own." The whole system of relations of this world is built on the fact that people “use” each other, i.e. Trying to fulfill their hopes with the help of other people. But we, called by the Lord, cannot live like that. We need to see, figure it out and recognize all cases in our lives, where we tried or try to put hope on people, as well as understand when someone is trying to put their hope for us. We need to learn how to “switch”, “translate” our hope from people to God. If we get some word from the Lord and it carries hope in ourselves, then very often everything looks like people are trying to “test for strength” and we need not to surrender, not to retreat, but to maintain this hope based on On the word of the Lord. But if we cope, then hope lives and grows in us and God is glorified in the lives of those who have learned to live, hoping for him. When hope from the Lord lives in us, we can calmly look at how everything is not reliable in this world. It can be very difficult for the people of this century to admit how defenseless they are in the face of the "elements of this world." The truth is that there is nothing reliable among people - there is no reliable relationship, there is no reliable health, no reliable banks, etc. Everything is constantly “hanging in the balance” and this drives people into chronic stress. But our God is absolutely reliable and we know this?