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Now enjoy this message. Aren't you glad you're here
tonight? Man, I'm glad you're here.
We have a treat. So you know Pastor Marcy and I
last May, and Chase went with us.
He was a creative team that went to help document, but we were
invited to Poland, Steve and Pam Spears, who are our missionaries
to Poland. They had invited us to come to a
pastor's conference. It's the first one they have
done there. It wasn't a Raima event, it was
a Steve and Pam Spears ministry event, but it was there so they
could introduce them to the Bible school.
And so apparently in their time there, they they heard that
there's some things that needed to be imparted into the pastors.
And so they invited us and we took some time to minister there
and we met this lovely couple right here in Poland and it was
awesome. We actually went across the
street ate what are those things called?
Pierogies. Pierogies together, not only,
right? Not only, but we had a great
time and the history that Pastor Maximilia has in Poland was
amazing. I mean, I mean, if if you know
somebody, he knows them. I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm finding
out how much he knows and who he knows and how God's got him in
places. It's amazing.
And so he had called and we were talking a little bit and he's
like, hey, I'm coming to Florida.
He actually was talked to me back in December and I'm like,
December's not going to be great for us.
So he said I'm coming in May. I said, well in May, let's do
something. And so they've come through and
he's going to minister tonight. Amen.
So would you give a Warm Acre faith welcome to Pastor
Maximilian? I'm going to have him give you
his history. He has started multiple
churches, but I think he explains it way better than I
will. And so he's going to share about
himself. His wife Silva's here as well.
And so if y'all want to come up and then we'll have your wife
sit back down, Maybe she wants to preach a little bit before
you get started. Hallelujah.
Wow, that is amazing. Sylvia, you want to say
something? It's a a pleasure for me to be
here and to send greetings from Poland.
Maybe not all people knows where where Poland exists.
But anyhow we are the people about 39,000,009 million.
Yeah. So and we have in, we are in in
the middle of of Europe. And I would like to say that for
us personally, it's a special time because we yesterday had
our 47th anniversary of of our marriage.
Yes. So I would like to say what is
in my heart, first decision, the most important in my life.
It was when I chose Jesus to be in my to be my Lord and my
Saviour. So we both were saved when we
meet together. But during lives, you know, we
make different choices, but it's very important when we make
choices together with Jesus. So we could have success as a
marriage and also in our life because always we make choices
with Jesus. Amen.
Thank you, Sylvia. That's it.
You know, when she say that I just come back to my memory in a
day when I meet with her and ask her, are you marrying me?
You know, I was the time in Bible school in seminar and I
have three friends. We stay together in same room.
The only four men Bible school. That time in Poland it's a
communist time, it's only woman, woman don't go to any Bible
school. But you know before I go because
it is for me very important decision.
I'm very successful in the Bible school.
I'm doing very good and they choose me to go, you know, to
continue my education in England or Brazil, Brazil in Slavic
people in England, you know, in English and so, but they have
two condition you needed to be married or you needed to be
total alone, not anything to engage.
I didn't tell her that, but they asked my friends.
We pray one hour before I went to meet her and we have
agreement. You pray as long I come back.
It's not mobile from the time you know we don't able to
communicate. It's taken like 5 hours.
When I come back and they pray, they continue pray on his knees,
you know to help me. But I come back with very right
and good decision. She say yes, I marry you, but
after one year, no more in that time, in a Bible school in
education for that they have a break.
OK, yes, but then she's right with all decision made together
with Jesus. And when you know Jesus, when
you know he's able to help you in all kinds of your decision,
you always be succeeded. You always win.
Of course, for different people, winning is a different things.
People, you know, they think they win when they get what
they're looking for in the shop or some like that.
But if you do, with Jesus, of course in a shop too, Jesus help
you. But if you trust on him, if you
put your life on him, you really win.
Even if you die, you win. You know, if we go to Gospel of
John chapter 18, verse 36 and 3037, you know it's the very
good conversation what Jesus have with Pilatus, You know, the
talk they accuse him. He is like, you know, he was
investigated that time and Plato says some things about it.
You see the word, you read it. I don't need to read for you.
But you know what is very important in that, you know,
passage Jesus say one very important things.
My Kingdom is not from that word.
Now this is very important for us to knowing that when Jesus is
present life, when he walk on the air, he enter another
Kingdom. His Kingdom is not there.
You know place in Jerusalem or any another place where he walk
and do these miracles and great things He is passing through.
He prepare to build his Kingdom. And this is very important to
understand that when we believe to extend our faith in the base
on the faith. Because when you be born again,
I hope everyone you born again already.
If not, you better do the decision today.
The soon is better like late. With that decision, you know
when I get safe the first my reaction is why is so late.
But by the way, I would like to tell you I get safe in first
meeting in the church I grow up in at East home.
My father was politic officer in communist army.
No church, no God, nothing like that.
I don't attended any church before.
I show up first time in a church and in that meetings I get safe.
And my first reaction is why is so late Better now, like later.
Just take that when we end up born again, we need to
understand what start to happen with us.
Because you be never same again if you stay with Jesus.
When you stay with Jesus, you be never same again like you
before. And I tell you one thing, if you
continue, the coming days are better like passing day, because
of him, because of his Kingdom. I would like to just to mark
that in the beginning just to to make focus for you how it's
important to understand the Kingdom rules.
When Jesus was there, his Kingdom is in heaven.
And now he fulfilled everything. He fulfilled everything.
And he have us here to represent his Kingdom in a place where we
are living. Amen.
This is very important. You don't, you know, think about
who are you when you look to the mirror in the morning.
This is one story. The another story you need to
know who are you according to the word of God.
You didn't understand that it's only you know with Jesus the
only one Kingdom what Jesus create the old citizenship
people belong to the Kingdom and to the parenthood of King.
Hallelujah. You are a king child.
You belong to him not only to say I belong to some things, you
represent him. They represent Jesus Christ in
the area. It's also concerned, you know,
you needed to demonstrate his gospel, his power, his life,
because. He.
Died for that. He paid the highest price for
that to help you to bond you to that way, to create you, to be
good ambassador of Jesus Christ in a place where are you living?
And I tell you guys one things. If you ask me for last month
what really impressed me. I tell you what impressed me
Liri your place your work. You know when we talk little bit
you know I I hear what he share you know your pastor share for
the pastor for students in that conference what he was visit
Poland. And I have two things.
You know I in my mind the number one is the should be more
pastors. Listen that this is #1 and #2.
I need to go to sea. I honest I need to go to sea
because he say great things about you guys.
He really promote you and I driving there I go, I I can't
you know I'm in a way here and I always thinking I want to see it
because you know you hear many things from the people you have
different imagination for that. But it's also you have desire to
see if it's proof. Guys you are a proof they make
me really impressed. I walk with your pastor through
the all that area around and I think like that Father God was I
able to tell to that people if they then done the things what
is I see around. Was I able to tell them thank
you, thank you to give me chance to see it.
Thank you to give me chance to knowing you people to be with
you. I'm really blessed.
I'm really blessed already and you know, but everything is base
of some things, you know If you want to base your life and to be
good ambassador and to be fruit, produce a faithful one in the
Kingdom of God, what you blank already to.
You needed to base every things on the word of God.
I remember, you know, when I'm already pastoring 8 years in
Poland, I already pastoring 8 years in Portland.
I already planned that time, I think to three churches already
planned for four. And I received first book from
Kenneth Hagin about authority of believers about you know wrong
and the right weight of thinking and everything says the base on
the word and we needed to base our life to solid put our life
on the word of God the best. What are you doing to keep your
life on the word of God. It's not another way to keep
your life on the word of God. Like to reading the word of God.
Like to memorizing the word of God, to make impact to your
life, to be your life a really change.
Because born again is one things come to be citizen, you know in
the Kingdom of God it's one things.
But to function in and growing up and do something you need it.
Word of God you get saved by free it cost you nothing.
Nothing completely nothing about the way you receive something in
the day. No, you don't give something you
receive. Like if you look look at me did
you imagine I don't able to speak proper.
I want to be army officer too. I went to the school but it
dropped me out because I not able.
Proper speak and proper make you know anything in order in army
because I'm stuttering. I'm stuttering.
Before I say something like pastor, it's like that.
And they increase and they keep me out.
But in a day when I get safe, I get completely healed
completely. I have documents like that, not
possible. This day I get healed, but I
don't know anything about the church.
Nothing about the church, nothing about the word of God.
Honestly, I don't even make attention too much for the
preaching first to session. I get saying the first one, but
I know one things after that. God it's really exists.
I don't know who are you, but you exist and you have a power.
You have authority and you know when you're stuttering you put
your life to some things. I read in books, lot of books,
you know, hundreds of 100 books, but nothing about God.
It's in a book sometimes dimension, sometimes God and saw
some religious things, but I read more, you know, communist
books and some like that. You know, history books,
architecture books and so. But that day I decide on things,
I go to read his words. I put my life to his word.
I based on his word. I know who is he, I know the
power, what he have and I go to know him by his word.
I make you little challenge for you today, you know, little
challenge. I don't ask you who read all
Bible already one time at least to don't embarrass someone and
maybe you know, but maybe not. But about the way sometimes I
ask, you know, in some churches and then you know half people
don't read all Bible yet. But you know, I decide to read
my Bible. I say my in the beginning I get
4 gospel. It's not possible to get word of
God in Poland. I don't have my own Bible in the
beginning. Next I get New Testament.
Next I borrow from some people or Bible.
But I told you one thing during 410 months.
During first ten months I read 6 times New Testament and two time
old ten months. Hello, it's a challenge for you.
Built your life on the word of God because when the time coming
you need it, you get it. You know the Bible says in
Second Timothy three chapter 3, verse 16 and 17, The Word of
God. It says his birth is importation
for you. When you read it, you're
receiving, you have meeting with God.
If you really put your life on him and you submit to him, you
feel during reading that his birth.
You feel that and your life be changed because the word of God
like it says there. Verse 16 and verse 17, it's a
good for your life, for everything, to prepare you and
me, everyone who take it the word of God to the good work.
If we think about me and you for the good work for the Kingdom of
God, you know by the way if you think about the word of God, of
course in many situation in everyday life, many times we
don't need it. You know, for clean something,
do something like like like that.
But you needed to know that it's coming situation when you really
need it. You needed to remember the word
of God. You need to remember what the
word of God say to your life for such a situation.
What you right now with what you face now you know when we think
about Holy Ghost, you know when Jesus prepared his disciple and
informed them, hey guys, I go to heaven, I go to my Father.
The first reaction of the people is no, no, no, no.
You're not able to go. Who provide us with everything
is what we need. Who do the great miracles, who
feed us, who be with us. They say no, no, no, you don't
go. But Jesus says so in Gospel of
John chapter 14, verse 15 and 16.
It's a very, very important word of God to make, you know, really
impact your life, to put you in a challenge.
Because sometimes I meet people say, oh, I'm lost because in
that situation, no, any doors or is closed, I die.
It's nothing. No, no, no, no, not with Jesus.
Jesus says I sent you Holy Ghost, the conforted, the one,
the one who remembered for you every word I spoke to you and
the people think, yeah, but I don't mean Jesus personally.
He didn't tell me anything. No, no, no.
You able to meet him every day, many times when you base your
life on the word of God, when you really go to the word of God
and you read his word, you take it, you take it, you take it,
you take it, you eat it. When you do like that you be
inspired. You be really, you know make
impart your life to the word of God.
I remember I tell you one story. You know, story sometimes is
very good. I like to you know I have many
stories but some of them you know I remember when during
communist time it's every many thing is forbidden special if
you acting in a supernatural way where they don't understand that
they try to pulling down every Church of the activity every
things you know the communists put you down and down and down.
I remember that story. What I want to tell you is begin
about one situation we drive with the kids to the Sunday
school. We have that in Saturday we have
our kids some another kids in the car.
They stop our car on the road. One police car on the front, one
behind two motorcycle on the side.
They take all my documents that they say to me go follow us to
the police station and I pray and I hear don't go, go to the
church. By the way I have little better
car like they have. I have you know, Volkswagen,
cucumber, if you remember that one.
It's very good in that time, communist time in Poland.
By the way, I have one in all district in Poland.
In that area only one. You know when we go out from the
ferry because we needed used to ferry to go to the church.
After the ferry I just dad follow me now and I say to my
wife Sylvia take the kids and go out to the church.
Our church is not big it's small but in same St.
Face to face the big Catholic Church the always you know
people watching that people is dead around in this case you
know I know that place is good to escape for her and they go to
in you know and the man from police car he Take Me Out you
know by force you do nothing with that with the grant put gun
to my head and say next time use it many bad words next time it's
not big game. You'll be shut down if it's next
time you don't obey and then this happens to be not obey
after you know. I think so more like a year to
take me to a police station. You don't have you know any any
possibility you choose and not you say yes or not you don't
have chance to say I need my lawyer No, no, it's not lawyer
that time for you it's not that time.
It's a different story that take me to police station and that go
through with me to the many iron doors you know and the door
behind you shut iron doors. Now I know that you know take it
me sometimes to same doors few times but in the dark.
And when you you know in a situation like that you don't
recognize that in the beginning and they says, hey listen me now
your wife is already raped by my friends, your Kitty is already
placed in a children's home and you never you never go out from
that room and I start to pray and the God reminds me the word
of God from Romans 8. You remember the passage and I
say, OK, you take everything from my life.
You take out my life, but you're not able even touch Jesus who is
inside me. You remember from Romans 8?
Sorry I didn't give, you know that words.
I didn't plan to say the story. And you know what happens?
He gets furious. He put gun on the side when I
say this because he put gun to my, you know, to my head and I
was in the army. I know where is the bullet in.
And I know what happens if you know and not sometimes where is
bullet in and you have gun in the head.
I'll be honest with you guys. I pee to my pants.
But I get words from Jesus and I
say no way, you're not able to touch him even.
And he destroyed his table, his chair, he demolished his room.
He gets furious, like, you know, demonic attack, it's incredible.
Everything is destroyed. For a moment I think like that.
I take the gun and shot him out because gun is on the window
side. You know I know how to do that,
no problem. But you know the Jesus show up
again with his word and he give me prophetic word about that
man. I don't know you know he if he's
married and not, who is he? I don't know that I know he's
wrong. He's captain and you know the
Polish KGB. That's what I know, nothing
else. And the God spoke to me by
prophetic word and they say to him, listen me now, this morning
your wife with two your kids ran away from you because of the
things what are you doing and where you're working.
And she say she never come back. But when we pray, when I pray
for you ask me for prayer, she come back.
You know what happens? All is changed because he know
one things. No one know about it, no one.
It's not mobile phone. He didn't even know if the wife
already arrived because she went to her mother 300 kilometres to
another city. And actually I'm sorry, 750.
I called now from Warsaw. This is in another city happens
and he start to talk with me nice.
He begging me it's true. It's sure OK.
He asked for forgiveness. He give me new parents.
I take shower. He very nice for me.
He drives me back home. We pray to his wife come back,
his wife come back and that it happens.
To make the story short, he resigned from his work, he
escaped from Poland. He come back when communist fell
down. But you know what I want to tell
you with that? It's a time coming in your life
when you really need Jesus. What you really need his words
when you need it, need to be remind for you what he spoke to
you. It is only possible when you
base your life on the word of God.
If you're not what Jesus able to remind you if you don't hear
anything from him. Hello, Because in the modern war
and the modern churches many times people think we don't need
it. We have fun.
We have good. We have good pastors, good
preaching, good stories, good encouraged world.
But tell us every Sunday you are you are a good.
You are a blessed. Jesus is in your sight.
What I needed more. I hear that from people as I
tell you again you needed base your life on the word of God.
Base your life on the word of God.
Read your Bible in daily leather.
Memorize if you can. It's good to memorize word of
God you know in in communist times still in Poland I don't
know if you remember that kinds of you know teaching little bit
around the world. The people think, the believers
think they maybe take it Bible away from us during war in the
time in Cambodia. You know, they think like that
And I start to memorize the Bible verses with the mission
called navigators from the US actually that's what Dafsson
Trotman organization and you know the three years course and
very hard. You need to memorize 700 Bible
verses in 500 places in the Bible.
It's taking big effort. It's taking big big really big
effort you know to to memorize, to know.
But it's value I tell you I see in my life if I look back so
many situation when I need it and I get it.
Even if you don't have your Bible, you know what is written.
You know what is written and you know for what situation you go
to use that to have victory in your life, to win in your life.
I want to tell you one things you know from that story, what I
already finished. It's about, you know, I tell you
what I think. I think I died this day.
I think like that. I think I be gone physically in
my body. I think like that it's not easy.
But I know one things. Because the word of God, I know
nothing separate me from Jesus. I'm alive and I die.
I be with him, I be with him. And I wish you for, I wish you
first don't face situation like that.
But #2, if any situation like that coming, remember about it.
If you granted in Jesus, if you granted in His word, if you
belong to the Kingdom of God, if you his ambassador citizenship,
you be with him forever, you be with him forever.
You know what is important? For us to go for conclusion, to
go for finish. What is important for us to know
which place we are to who we belong, Where we are now.
Oh yes, you know, we say oh we in San Augustine.
It's a good place, a good air conditioned good place, you
know, everything's fine. It's funny preacher from Poland
he say so we didn't like him. It's OK, but you know what?
We needed to know this for our daily life.
Who are you and where are you? This is the most important
things to knowing who are you and where are you?
When you know that, when you know that, you need to know what
is your responsibility for what kinds of assignment you have,
what is your duty, You know what?
It's not any emptiness in the Kingdom of God.
It's not like some some be used, some not everyone.
Jesus want to use in his Kingdom.
Everyone, everyone, everyone. If we say now Jesus want to use
me in his Kingdom, they be true. Let's go say it.
Say to yourself, Jesus want to use me in his Kingdom.
Say it. Don't look on me.
Say it. Because this is true.
When you know who are you to who you belong and what is your
duty, what is your responsibility in the Kingdom of
God? I tell you when I get safe.
I tell you already, I don't know anything about God.
This day, it's a very rain day. I go back to home.
I don't get safe in the hometown and other city.
I need to travel overnight to go back home in the rain, heavy
rain. And this is in Poland.
They call in Europe Science Day, the day they memorize people who
die and the people go to visit, you know, graves.
And so like that they move from one side to another side.
In Poland, in this case, the train station is packed, no
place to even see it. I want to see it.
And I go up to the nice place, you know, in the Gap and I see
all that crowd, like maybe 2000 people.
And I have one desire. Tell them all to all of them,
about Jesus, about God. I know only one thing.
He exists and he have power. I don't know the time.
Anything's more, but I have the desire and thanks God.
The desire still is in my life. The desire still is in my life.
We needed to understand that. We needed to know that.
We needed to stay on it. And you needed to understand
also why. The reason why, because you need
to tell what Jesus did for you. He died for you.
He give his own life, the Bible says about Jesus.
The gods speak to us. He give his beloved Son for one
things, for one reason. To get you safe, to make you
free from condemnation, to redeem you from the hell, to
redeem you from separation with God forever.
He rebuilt this in his. Giving his life for you.
This is very, very important for every one of us to knowing that,
let's go finish with that number one.
If you be born again, you start to be belong to the Kingdom of
God, the Kingdom. If not from that heir, the
Kingdom would Jesus place it on the earth now.
But because he fulfilled it to give it his life to the cross,
but he fulfilled it also, He raised up from the dead, and he
gives chance to you to give your life to him.
He already chosen you. If you hear no money, no matter
how many times you're already there, if you not get safe yet,
it is time for you because he chosen you.
But you need to make decision, step forward for that.
And when you go to base your life on the word of God and you
continue with Jesus, he be baptized in the Holy Ghost.
He be you know, you go through all things.
And I promise you on things you'll be never, never same
again. Like today.
You'll be equipped, You'll be take care of.
You'll be blessed. You're growing up, You'll be
faithful. You'll be used in the Kingdom of
God. Marvelous way to bring people to
Jesus. Jesus able to use everyone of
you but the beginning is with dedicate your life to Jesus.
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