The Messengers – Turneul Esti lumina ochilor Lui – Sibiu, iunie, 2014
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'That I may know Christ and the power of His resurrection. Philippians3:10
23 oct. 2014 Comentarii închise la The Messengers & Emma – Grajd sau Cer
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23 oct. 2014 Comentarii închise la Adevarul.ro: INFOGRAFIE Sondaj. Biserica pierde din încredere
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23 oct. 2014 Comentarii închise la Cristian si Cristiana Vaduva – Israel
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23 oct. 2014 Comentarii închise la Puternic: Lecții despre dărnicie de la oamenii străzii
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Un tanar se preface ca ii este foame si cere de mancare unor tineri la mol (mall). Apoi merge pe strada si cere mancare de la oamenii strazii…..
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23 oct. 2014 2 comentarii
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Habacuc 3:17 „Căci, chiar dacă smochinul nu va înflori, viţa nu va da niciun rod, rodul măslinului va lipsi, şi câmpiile nu vor da hrană, oile vor pieri din staule, şi nu vor mai fi boi în grajduri,”18 „eu tot mă voi bucura în Domnul, mă voi bucura în Dumnezeul mântuirii mele!”
Nu știu cum este pentru voi ,,chiar dacă’’.
Poate că e o boală ce te-a țintuit și ți-a secătuit resursele și încrederea.
Poate că ești blocat într-o durere surdă cu privire la o relație eșuată.
Poate că nu știi unde și cât să mai alergi pentru o pâine pe care să o pui pe masă.
Poate că dezamăgirea te-a doborât și nu mai ai putere pentru un nou vis sau măcar pentru încă un pas.
Poate că rănile făcute de oameni te-au întristat peste măsură.
Dar cu toate că nu știu ce înseamnă pentru tine ,,chiar dacă’’, știu totuși că trebuie să ne bucurăm în Dumnezeul mântuirii noastre. Poate că astăzi nu e încă Dumnezeul vindecării tale, nu e încă Dumnezeul izbăvirii tale pământești dar este Dumnezeul mântuirii tale.
Chiar dacă ești plantat în câmpul durerii tu trebuie să înflorești!
23 oct. 2014 Un comentariu
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Slavit sa fie Domnul! ,,, ma uit cu emotii la materia prima pe care Domnul a dus-o in aceasta seara in casa Lui. Slavit sa fie El! Si cer Domnului ca prin Duhul Sau cel Sfant, El sa prelucreze materia prima din sala aceasta. Vad un tineret plin de viata, un tineret indraznet, un tineret care a indraznit sa plece din tara natala; asta inseamna ca aveti curaj si ma rog Domnului ca El sa foloseasca curajul acesta pentru Imparatia Lui. Si din voi, sa faca o biserica vie si din tineri sa faca un tineret binecuvantat pentru Imparatia Lui si pentru slava Lui. In seara aceasta avem o tema mai sensibila, o tema frumoasa care mie imi place foarte mult si vorbesc mereu despre ea si anume: Chemarea la slujire.
Dragi tineri, vreau sa va spun inca de la inceput ca astazi vor fii foua parti. Am hotarat ca astazi sa nu va mai dam un singur fel de mancare, lung de un ceas, ca se inghite mai greu. Va dam foua feluri, asa ca eu, astazi, sunt cu aperitivul, un aperitiv spiritual, constand in invatatura. Si atunci, vine fratele Florin cu felul doi. Nu stiu ce are pregatit, insa m-am gandit ca veti digera mai usor in felul acesta, asa ca va rog sa fiti atenti…
Diferitele chemari
Insa in seara acasta vrem sa abordam un subiect delicat: Chemarea la slujire. Si inca de la inceput vreau sa va spun ca aceasta chemare la slujire nu este la fel pentru toti oamenii. De aceea este dificil sa o identificam. De aceea multi tineri se intreaba: oare la ce sunt chemat in biserica. Si-i intreb pe multi: „La ce esti chemat?” „Nu stiu.” Habar n-are. Altul, spune superficial: „Sunt chemat sa cant in comun.” Foarte multa confuzie in dreptul slujirii. „Oare ce menire am eu, aici in biserica locala?” se intreaba tanarul. Si trec anii si trece tineretea si trece puterea si vlaga si multi nu se apuca de slujit. Dragi tineri, toti suntem chemati la slujire.
(Din primele 4 minute, mai sunt 40 de minute din mesaj) Mesajul a fost tinut de evanghelistul Emi Fedur la conferinta de tineret din biserica Muntele Sionului, Arganda del Rey, Spania. Invitati au fost Florin Pop si Emi Fedur. www.holyfire-ministries.org VIDEO by foculsfant
Mesaj tinut la conferinta cu tineretul organizata de biserica penticostala Muntele Sionului, Arganda del Rey. Invitati au fost Florin Pop si Emi Fedur. http://www.holyfire-ministries.org
Dumnezeu mi-a dat o viziune care intr-una persista in mintea mea in ultima vreme. Dumnezeu mi-a aratat ca in ziua marilor rasplatiri, cand toti credinciosii vor sta inaintea Domnului ca sa-si primeasca rasplata, unii din acesti credinciosi vor sta si ei inaintea Domnului, asteptand, si Domnul se va uita la unii dintre ei si-i va intreba: tu cine esti si ce-ai facut pentru Mine? Si foarte multi vor veni atunci inaintea Domnului si vor spune: „Doamne, am fost la biserica duminica dimineata, am fost la biserica duminica seara. Doamne, am cantat in cor. Doamne, am recitat o poezie. Din cand in cand am pus si eu cativa bani la colecta.” Domnul se va uita din nou la ei si le va adresa aceeasi intrebare: „Voi, ce-ati facut pentru Mine?” Si din nou, acesti oameni vor da acelasi raspuns.
Tineri dragi, vreau sa va spun in aceasta seara, daca nu lucram pentru Dumnezeu, daca nu-L slujim pe Domnul cu abilitatile noastre, cu darurile pe care El ni le-a dat, nu vom putea avea acces in sala tronului. Este imposibil pentru Dumnezeu ca sa ne dea o rasplata in Ziua de Apoi. Domnul, din nou se va uita la acesti credinciosi care a treia oara se vor scuza si le va spune: „Daca ai mers la biserica, ai mers pentru tine. Daca ai cantat o cantare ai cantat-o pentru tine. Daca te-ai rugat, te-ai rugat pentru tine.” Toate aceste lucruri le facem pentru noi. Slujirea nu inseamna doar programul de biserica. Ci, Domnul ne cheama, intr-un fel sau in altul, sa ne punem la dizpozitia Lui si sa-L slujim.
Biblia spune despre Isus Hristos ca El a venit sa slujeasca. Nici macar o clipa, Domnul nu si-a slujit Lui insusi. Il vad pe Fiul lui Dumnezeu slujind, ocupanduse de nevoile spirituale ale oamenilor. Orbii care veneau la El primeau vindecare. Flamanzii care veneau la El primeau paine si pesti. O slujire spirituala si o slujire fizica. La aceasta suntem chemati cu toti.
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23 oct. 2014 Comentarii închise la Ghana Student Bible Campaign – a report from Tyndale House Publishers
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23 oct. 2014 Comentarii închise la Alistair Begg – Jeremiah 9 – Westmont College, Oct. 20, 2014
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Alistair Begg at Westmont Chapel, preaching on the Three Things You Dare Not Trust: Wisdom, Strength, and Money.
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TEXT – Jeremiah 8:18 – 9:1-5; 23-24
18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick within me.
19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”
20 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved.”
21 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
Chapter 9 – Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
a company of treacherous men.
3 They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
When you read these words form Jeremiah, it’s no surprise that he’s referred to as the wailing prophet. It’s almost as if he has been reading our contemporary newspapers. It’s one of the striking things about the Bible. that here we are, some 600 years before the incarnation, before the appearing of Jesus and the circumstances that are being confronted by the prophet of God are not dissimilar to the environment in which we find ourselves. And that’s why he is saying, „I wish I could get out of here. I wish I had a place in the desert.” It’s not an unusual notion, except when you’re living in a beautiful place like this, why would you ever want to go into the desert? But, anyway, the whole idea was isolation- „if I could get away from these people”. He says we live in an adulterous world, we live in a world full of lies, we live in a world of serial sins. They precede from evil to evil. We live in an environment where there is a loss of mutual trust. And he says that God is actually saying through the prophet, „You live in the middle of deception.” You find it so bad that you will discover that God says we actually need more mourners in this environment: ‘Death has climbed into our windows, corpses are lying in the open field.’And in the extremity of those circumstances, the response of humanity, in its proud affirmations, then, and I would suggest to you[also] now, is essentially „Leave it to us, we can fix it. We know how to get out of this predicament. We are only in need of a little more health, a little more money, a little more education.” And confronted by the great questions of life, they are prepared then to trust in themselves and in their own judgment. Humanity is proud by nature and we’re tempted to believe these things.
And so, God in His kindness, sends to His people a prophet. A prophet who will speak to them, sympathizing with their suffering, and yet at the same time providing for them a solution for their sins. And because he’s alert to the circumstances of their environment, He addresses their three foundational notions. He puts His finger on the pulse of the society. The great questions of life being addressed:
and men and women prepared to gut it out on their own. And so, He says, „Let me tell you three area that you dare not trust:
Here is this prophetic word from 600 years before Christ speaks to the issues of our day, because it addresses the deepest longings of our hearts. I was born in the ’50’s, I grew up in the ’60’s. If you’ve read the history of the ’60’s, you will know that we were told in the ’60’s that we were about to outgrow God completely. Like, God was pretty well finished and He would not be around much longer, so we could all relax. There were various things we were going to take over, and so we grew in the ’60’s, whole jumbo dreams and hopes and aspirations and contradictions. We found ourselves failing and resolving again, being disappointed with ourselves and ashamed of ourselves and resolving that we would be different people tomorrow. But nevertheless, we kept repeating the pattern. And Jeremiah says, „I can tell you why that is: Because you are worshipping at the wrong shrine.”
Just this past weekend, somebody introduced me, not to David Foster Wallace, but to the commencement speech that David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College in 2005. It gave rise to his book ‘What is water‘. In that commencement speech, at the beginning of it, he testifies and he says,
„everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth.”
Now, he’s not about to give moralistic platitudes, he’s not about to give a theological analysis. He’s just being gut wrenching honest, the same kind of brilliant gut wrenching honesty which tragically led to his own demise at the age of 46, when as you know, he hanged himself. Tragically, because he was clever enough to cut through the garbage of contemporary 20th century fascination with ourselves, with our ability to amass money, with our ability to look great, with our ability to triumph over the minds of others by our fascination with ourselves. And it was his very honesty in that speech that gave rise to all that flow from it.
Now, says the prophet, „This is what you need to be thinking about. If you want something or someone to boast about, then boast in this, that you understand and that you know Me.” You wanna go out and talk to somebody about something that is mind blowing, tell them that you know the Creator God. Tell them that you have encountered him in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Tell them that He has invaded your life and that He’s turned you inside out and has made you a new person. You want something to boast about? He says, „Boast about this.” And that when you speak of this God, you can tell people that Yahweh is the one who practices steadfast love-hesed, the covenant love of God, a pursuing love of God, a wooing love of God, a transforming love. And this God is committed to that love, and to justice, and to righteousness.
Because this God is just, He didn’t overlook sin. Because He is love, He provides a substitute to die in our place.
I was fascinated by the end of David Foster Wallace’s speech- He’s moving towards a close now, and he says,
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious.
Well, that’s where, of course, a Christian view would have to differ from him. He says, „I’m gonna be honest enough to let you know they’re hardwired into my psyche and that I’m at the center of the universe. That’s what Luther said. Luther said that we’re curved in upon ourselves, that we are by nature stuck on ourselves. And our humanity at this point , we could ask people if they had a major problem. If they were willing to admit to a major problem, we would ask what is the source of their problem. Almost without exception, they would have reasoned to externalize the source of their problem: because of this or because of that, or because of that. When we would then ask them: well, how are you planning to solve the problem? Then, they would say that the problem that was outside of them would be answered by their ability to look inside of them and they were fairly convinced that they could find the God within themselves, if they only searched hard. And what would we say? We would say, ‘Have you ever considered that it might be the very antithesis of that? That the problem is on the inside of ourselves and that the answer is outside of ourselves. Outside the walls of Jerusalem, where a Galilean died bearing our sins of all my selfish preoccupation with my mind and my body, and my resources. He granted to me a forgiveness that I don’t deserve, because He bears the punishment that I so clearly do deserve.