All Moscow city Calvary Chapel service

                                                            

 

Pastor Kostya CC 1905 taught on the Millennium Temple


Pastor Morat CC Karsherskya led us all in communion

Artom,Nastya and Nikita CCSokol led worship

My life was not complete! ( photo of Artom and his wife Nastya)

Hi! My name is Artom. I'm 22 years and for the last 7 years I have experienced the manifestation of true love in my life. For some of you my story will seem quite normal. I was not a difficult child growing up.  I never experimented with drugs or alcohol. I was given a good education. In general I had a normal fulfilling life. But you know what? My life was not complete! Every one of us is looking to satisfy the desire if the heart with something. Whether it be Work education or drugs or alcohol, creativity or the philosophy, man is always seeking to fill the emptiness of normal life. I found out 7 years ago that nothing can ever replace the presence of true love and true God in your life. It has been said that every person is born with a cross shaped void in their heart, and then we spend the rest of our lives trying to fill a cross shape with a squares of a circles, that obviously will not fit. That was the story of my life. In 2004, a team of missionaries came to our city. They made two free concerts and between the music they told about the person of Jesus Christ from the Bible. I did not quite understand what was happening to me because I knew virtually nothing about faith and God, but God was speaking to my heart and I felt that I must do something. One man on the team then told me about God. He did not say anything supernatural he spoke very simple and understandable about what was missing in my life Jesus Christ. That Day I accepted God into my life.
Wow ... it was something special. I knew that my life had changed, but had no idea how much. God changed me day by day. I started noticing things that had not previously seen or understood. Yeah, sometimes it was not easy to change old attitudes and habits. It’s not always easy living the Christian life and to admit mistakes and repent of them. But I now have the realization that my sins have been paid in full, and I know that Jesus Christ is the one who paid the price for me and that I will never die but have eternal life with HIm. It is Jesus Christ who gives us strength, faith, understanding, courage, and everything you need to live. God has a plan for every one of us! We just need to listen to Him as written in His word. Nobody knows better how to deal with the creation than the Creator! God created us to know Him in our life. He also gave us detailed instructions for our lives - the Bible. Look what God has to say to us…:

Ro 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Ro 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ro 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Ro 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

God bless you, Artom

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Bible correspondence studies to the prison population

Romans 12:13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.

Paul speaking to believers gives two ways to express brotherly love one to another by practicing generosity and hospitality.

Both generosity and hospitality does not require any special theological training. They don’t require the understanding of Greek or Hebrew. What generosity and hospitality does require is just being aware of your surroundings and recognizing a need that may exist in the life of another and respond accordingly. Every believer has the opportunity to exercise them. You can follow in the foot steps of Jesus Christ and be generous and hospitable in your Christian walk. God gives the true believer many opportunities to be generous and to be hospitable. One of the many reasons why is so that we can express our faith in Christ Jesus. If we really believe in the words of Jesus we are free to be generous and hospitable to others. Remember what Jesus said to his followers

Mt 6:31-32 "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

32 "For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

The promise of Jesus to those who belong to Him is that our heavenly Father knows what all our daily needs are. And so the Lord gives us opportunity to express generosity and hospitality because our needs are already looked after by God Himself.

We are to supply the legitimate needs of others by giving. However hospitably sometimes is much more of a sacrifice. It sometimes is much easier to just open up our wallets and give. Where as expressing hospitality in many cases requires a greater sacrifice, as you open up your home to bless another. Paul declares that both giving and hospitality is to be the behavior of His follows among each other. This behavior was never meant to be confined to the church It first must begin in the house of the Lord, and then it is to be exercised among the non believers in this world with the sole purpose of bringing a person to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Jesus Himself declared as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 16:26 "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Generosity and hospitality towards others is to show the love of Jesus Christ that was shown towards us.

Ro 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” The love of Jesus was directed towards us the sinner so that we would repent and believe in Him to be saved from the judgment to come. It is with generosity and hospitality that God blesses so that the heart of the lost may be open to know about His greatest act of generosity, the giving of His Son for all of mankind.

Jesus gave His life for ours so that we could be saved, and restored to fellowship with our creator for all of eternity. Not only did Jesus and the Father express their Generosity towards us with the ultimate price, Jesus ascended into heaven where He will one day show every believer His eternal Hospitality

As Jesus promised every believer with a place to dwell with Him for all of eternity. Generosity and hospitality is for one purpose and that is to bring glory to God, to bring attention to the Son of God, so that man would put his faith in Jesus Christ. If generosity and hospitality are not rooted in  Jesus Christ and under the influence of the Holy Spirit, they are just good works at best making life a little better for others on this earth Generosity and hospitality without the Gospel of Christ is dead.

Unfortunately among the Body of Christ it is becoming the fashion to be generous and hospitable at the expense of the truth of Jesus Christ! Generosity and hospitality can never be separated from the truth of Jesus Christ. Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Generosity and hospitality are from our creator, everything about Christ was manifested in generosity and hospitality, God is the source of all good! Every one of us at one time or another will have the opportunity to be generous and hospitable towards one another in the house of the Lord, and also towards the unsaved so that through our good works they may see and find Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Jesus exhorts all who follow in His footsteps Matthew  5:16 "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.