пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 26 МАРТА 2017. КАК МЫ ПРЕДСТАВЛЯЕМ СЕБЕ ПРОБУЖДЕНИЕ - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about that vision, that idea of ​​​​the results of our prayers and all our ministry, which we used to call “awakening”. We live and work for some purpose. A person who lives aimlessly will not feel happy, and this is in us from the Lord. Our God is the Lord of purpose. He says: I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and hope. Jer. 29:11. When the Lord speaks of a wife (and typically of the church) who is completely pleasing to Him, He also shows her achieving her goal: She thinks about a field and acquires it; from the fruit of his hands he plants a vineyard. Prov. 31:16. And when the Lord in the Gospel interprets the parable to the disciples, he says: The field is the world; Mf. 13:38. We can see that the church is called to conceive, to intend, to acquire this field! Here is another parable from the Gospel, in confirmation of my words: The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which, having found, a man hid, and out of joy over it he goes and sells everything he has, and buys that field. Mf. 13:44. The Lord Himself did this - He redeemed the whole world, paid everything that He had, so that everyone who believes in Him would not perish, but have eternal life! This world has already been redeemed, and we have the opportunity to “acquire ownership” or take away a certain “field” from Satan. And this is the work of the church and this is also the purpose of the actions of the church! And we often think like that priest from the work of Ilf and Petrov “Let's find a treasure, build a candle factory, and live.” Those. when we think about awakening, we see not a field, not our city, not our region, not our country, but we simply want more people in the church, so that we will no longer be considered sectarians, and thinking in this way we do not understand God’s intentions for us! God wants to give us a “field”! He speaks to us back in the Old Testament: Every place on which the soles of your feet tread, I give to you, as I said to Moses. Iis. 1:3. The book of Joshua describes the revival in types. And the only problem that was described there in Jesus. 13:1: Jesus became old and advanced in years, then the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there is still a lot of land left to inherit.” The only problem was that the field was too large to be mastered in one generation! But a little earlier in the book of Numbers, chapter 14, it is described how the previous generation was defeated in battle and was unable to take possession of the land because it did not think forward, how to live in the conquered field, but backward, as it was good in Egypt. How do we think today? In this society, in this country, we really live as if in a desert; the people of this city don’t know, don’t understand, why they should be in our church. But we know the Scripture and it speaks to us through the mouth of Ap. Paul: Know that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Eph. 5:5. We need to see this society perishing, we need to learn to think about ourselves in the same way as the same Apostle did: to the Jews I was like a Jew in order to gain the Jews; to those under the law he was as one under the law, in order to gain those under the law; for those who are strangers to the law - as one who is stranger to the law, - not being alien to the law before God, but under the law of Christ - in order to win those who are strangers to the law; He was like one who is weak to the weak, so that he might gain the weak. I became everything to everyone, so that I could save at least some. 1 Cor. 9:20-22. But I notice in myself that when they put pressure on me, they treat me like a sectarian, I try to defend myself, as if hiding my faith, I have no time for the “field”, I begin to think like a person living behind a fence and only on his own plot. They also put pressure on Jesus, Ap. Paul was also persecuted, but they both knew the lot that God had given them and did not settle for less. Friends, awakening is a matter of our faith, how we imagine the destiny that God has given us. Today, our destiny is actually within the fence of this church building. And this is not bad, because at one time in Canaan, Abraham’s possession was only one cave, where he buried Sarah. But the Lord spoke to us through His prophets and said that He wants to do, wants to bring about something much greater here. And in order for our eyes to see this greater thing, we need to look at this city where we live as a field in which a treasure is hidden and accept God’s condition: If we want to receive this treasure, then we need to think about purchasing this field, which means being ready “ sell" everything else, i.e. make the “field” the No. 1 priority in your lives. And here is my question to you: Do we by faith see this treasure in the field? What if this field is just dirt or worse, a garbage dump? Of course we will not “lose ourselves” for the sake of some piece of land! Therefore, we need to pray to see, to consider the treasure located in this field, for the sake of which nothing will be spared. One day God appeared to Ap. Paul and told him about the treasure hidden in the city of Corinth: But the Lord said to Paul in a vision at night: Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent, for I am with you and no one