пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 28 ФЕВРАЛЯ 2016. ЭТАПЫ ХРИСТИАНСКОЙ ЖИЗНИ. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about various periods (or seasons) in our Christian life. And this is not so much reflection on different spiritual ages as a reasoning about how important it is to rethink themselves in connection with the current shifts. I will draw an analogy with ordinary human life: when we look (or remember) our childhood, then as a rule, we really want to return there. Today we do not remember our griefs, our cones and failures, we remember good and most importantly that it seems to us valuable that season of our lives - this is the concern for us who raised us. We remember how great it was to live a carefree life because there were adults who took care of us. But we all know today that there is no return to this carefree life, we are responsible for ourselves and for those whom God entrusted to us to take care of them. And at the same time, the Lord clearly tells us that with all our concerns there is some kind of given, there is that with all the desire we cannot change: and which of you, caring, can add to ourselves to the growth of at least one elbow? Matt. 6:27. End, this, as Christians, we feel the certain meaninglessness of many things that we have to do and this can weigh us, we may want to “jump out” from all this cycle of life, but here is the question that we need to try to answer: unless the Lord is not Did you leave us to live in this world? If he does not take us from here, then what are we called to learn to do here? Again, drawing a parallel with ordinary human life - this is the period of youth, when there is no clarity how to live, when there is a crisis of adult authority, and your own understanding has not yet been formed, how do we live? We live “to the touch”, try to understand ourselves again, make a bunch of mistakes, but in this state God does not leave us, although we often cannot understand where we are, what is with us and where the Lord is in all this. We love when everything is clear, we want to understand how to move step by step by a step with a clear plan of action, but life is more often incomprehensible than understandable, and we obviously must learn how to live in this state of a “hedgehog in the fog”, without losing faith In God, calling us to him through this fog of circumstances. Today we again see how the world is lost in conjectures what will happen next, we see how forecasts have stopped working and of course it can disturb us. Such times in history are called "vague." We are now passing through the Time of Troubles and the troubles are also trying to rise inside us, so it is so important what we are talking about here today! Friends, landmarks are not in the external, and even more so, the guidelines are not inside us! Perhaps it is difficult for us to accept ourselves as “lost”, we see weakness in this, we see “ailments” in this (and perhaps we were taught), but if we do not get lost in ourselves, we will not be able to find in Christ! As I already said at the end of the past ministry, I (and I think not only I) like to be “granting”, I like to understand what is happening and reacting, ahead of the events, to act “to a lead”, but as I also said, the Lord lets me “find himself In fools ”, I often feel my inability to solve elementary issues because other people have free will and they are free to do everything in their own way! And at the same time, I still find myself “extreme”, I am responsible for the consequences, demand from me, because I am in the position of responsibility. This is my feeling of my own powerlessness and talking with different people (I am talking about Christians now) I noticed that many at this time go through such experiences, only for other reasons. I see a common denominator - we are obviously grown to the state when we find ourselves can look at our own perfect powerlessness and at the same time not to break up, not to lose faith. If some time ago they told me that I would say something like that from the department, I would probably laugh in the face of these people, because I always thought, I was always convinced that we need to talk about strength from the department, and not admit in powerlessness . But the apostle Paul, passing his way of humility, also came to a conversation about impotence and says this: therefore, I will have a good thing in weaknesses, in resentment, in needs, in persecution, in oppression for Christ, for when I am weak, then strong. 2 Cor. 12:10. I know the power in that the enemies would be shameful, but how can one talk about the strength, being in the shame yourself? We do not strive to discover such power, we like it more when it happens as David says: my enemies turn back when I appeal to you, from this I find out that God is for me. Ps. 55:10. And so it happened to us when we were at the beginning of our Christian path at first, but now many of us are happening differently, something similar to the said by the Lord Apostle Peter is happening: truly, truly I say to you: when you were young, he himself was herself and walked, he went to, he was herself and walked. wherever I wanted; And when you grow old, you will get your hands, and the other gives you, and leads you where