пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 17 ИЮЛЯ 2016. БОГ, ЖИВУЩИЙ В НАС. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to continue to reflect on the words of Scripture: If the Lord had not been with us, let Israel say, if the Lord had not been with us when the people rose up against us, they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us ; Ps. 123:1-3. And this is what the Lord drew my attention to: David says this from the position of a believer living in the Old Testament, but we, New Testament believers, and the Lord says to us: I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever, the Spirit truth, Whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him and does not know Him; and you know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you. In. 14:16-17. I think that God’s being with us is a fairly understandable phenomenon for us, but His being in us is a mystery that we need to penetrate, this is a discovery that is like a challenge for each of us! Let's think: How does God reveal Himself? In the Old Testament, He showed Himself in various ways, which were called “miracles,” but miracles did not happen all the time, and when they did not happen, God’s people reasoned approximately as the Biblical hero voices it: Gideon said to him: my lord! if the Lord is with us, then why did all this befall us? and where are all His miracles that our fathers told us about, saying: “The Lord brought us out of Egypt”? Now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. Court. 6:13. And even when miracles happened, the people continued to sin, as it is written: Despite all this, they continued to sin and did not believe His miracles. Ps. 77:32. Therefore, God, continuing to speak to His people through the prophets, gives a new, most excellent promise: And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them, and I will take out of their flesh the heart of stone, and will give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My commandments, and they kept my statutes, and did them; and they will be My people, and I will be their God. (Ezek. 11:19-20); And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant will be with them. And I will establish them, and multiply them, and set up my sanctuary among them forever. And My dwelling place will be with them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people. (Ezek. 37:26-27). And already in the New Testament text of Ap. Paul, as if uniting these promises, says, expressing the very essence of God’s intentions: God said: I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. 2 Cor. 6:16. We who believe in God know from Scripture what happens when God says: He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it appeared. Ps. 32:9. When we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord, the God of Israel becomes our God and that means He dwells in us just as He promised! But awareness of this, our insight into Him dwelling inside us requires us to apply the efforts of faith! The truth is that we all always live out what we believe in. Our actions reveal what we believe. The recent terrible episode in Nice, France, clearly showed in which god the one who committed these murders believed. This is definitely not the God who says about Himself: The Lord God is loving and merciful, long-suffering and abounding in mercy and truth. Ref. 34:6. And no matter what this killer of women and children says, from his act it is quite obvious that his god is the god of death and extermination, the god of misanthropy and fear, i.e. his god is Satan! This is an extreme and very obvious case, but in our every action and word, one way or another, the God in whom we believe is reflected! During the earthly life of Christ, God revealed Himself through Him, as He Himself testifies: Philip said to Him: Lord! show us the Father, and it is enough for us. Jesus said to him: I have been with you so long, and you do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how do you say, show us the Father? In. 14:8-9. And then the Lord explains to the Apostles the will of God, telling them in the end what we began with: I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever, the Spirit of truth, Whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him and does not know Him; and you know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you. In. 14:16-17. The world does not see or know God, but we are called to reveal this unknown God, and for this we need to know Him ourselves! And here is the question that leads us to repentance: Are we doing what we are called to do? Now I’m not even talking about the gospel, but about the fact that we are ourselves! Unfortunately, many have tried to evangelize without reflecting on the fact that first of all we are called to demonstrate God through our lives so that our testimony can have power! But what are we like? Can we say that he who has seen us and has fellowship with us is dealing with the God of the Bible? By asking this, I understand that such questions make me want to “brush it off”, to say that “this is too much,” but in fact, God sets before us precisely such a “super task”, while knowing all our vanity and the sinfulness of our old nature just for so that we would begin to reason about these His words: I am the vine, and you are the branches; He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. In. 15:5.When we hear the Bible teaching that the Lord has called us to reveal Him, then for some reason we