 Tonight briefly I want to speak to you on the message called a changed hearts a change of heart a Change of hearts You know how many of you here said I'll never do this to raise your hands Yes, yes Such a dangerous word I'm telling you was it called What's the guy say never say never Justin Bieber said never say never he was right. You know, it's one of the things he got right I remember when I was when I was still back in high school You know growing up in the Russian culture for me was like marrying a different race. I Remember myself saying I'll I'll I'll not marry a different race now for me was like and I remember saying I'll never do it Today lo and behold, you know, I'm married to her to to my beautiful wife, Sylvia Who's who's Hispanic and remember? That time I was I was coming up to my parents and I was about to tell them, you know, I have this girl in my mind things like that and So funny to see their reaction. I'm like, you know, so I love, you know, I said I like they're not to say love in front of parents Especially the Russian parents I was I like this girl, you know, and I see myself, you know the future and I want to take things to another level and Parents will yeah, you know, that's awesome. That's cool. I'm like, you know, I want to propose to them. Doug What? My mom like check my head. She's like, you don't have fever or anything like that grabs her phone I was like, what's silly call TV Joshua This boy is lost, you know, so there's certain things that happen in your life That sometimes you're like, I'll never do this. I'll never be that I'll never be on stage. I'll never be, you know, this Christian I'll just live my life that but you never know the purpose and the destiny that God has for your life And that's something that I want to speak about tonight change of heart There's certain things, you know, like we feel like this is the direction of going whereas God says this is the direction I want you to go This is where where what and you feel like, you know, I'll never do this. I hate it, you know How can I'll never speak, you know, I remember even saying to my dad one time He was like, you know, Martin, I'm gonna want you to, you know, one day to be preach I want you to be doing this and I say, no, I know I don't see myself doing that I don't like it today. I'm standing here doing it The will of God for your life might be one thing you might be heading a different direction But there will be a time where a change of heart will begin to take place You know Remember guys before they get married. They're like, man, my wife is gonna do this. He's gonna cook for me He's gonna clean, you know, and Later on they're the ones cooking clean and doing everything Don't ever say those things The will of God for your life might be a little different And sometimes kids are though are the people who are saying, you know, I'll never you know I'll never raise my kids this way, you know I'm not I'm never gonna be like my dad yet They growing up to be just like their parents and change of heart begins to take place I want to read the scripture in Exodus 4 verse 10 in a new living translation If you don't have your Bible, I want to read it off the screen and it said this It's funny that Jacob read read this earlier, but the same topic my talk about Moses pleaded with the Lord Oh Lord, I'm not very good with words. I never had have been and I am not now Even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied and my words get tangled Moses grows up in this area of runs away from from Egypt runs away from from this area And he becomes a shepherd says, you know what? I'm never going to do this You know, I'm never even think in his mind. He's going to be a great deliverer But a plan of God for his life was different I'm not saying tonight each one of you gonna stand here and do this, you know preach each one of you this thing Oh, but you know gonna do this or or that no, but I'm saying is this God's will for your life Might be much different than what you think it'll be The things that you think that you hate right now will later on become your obsession Will become something that you that you burn in your heart with Moses did the same God that said the same guy that said God sent somebody else God I don't I don't like these people. Um, they will figure me this and he did not want it He hated it later on becomes a man who says God if you destroy these people destroy my own life What happened? Change of hearts and I want to bring few points from this story that we can that we can learn and apply for our lives That we can take on because we have to understand not everybody's called to be a pastor Not everybody is called to be a worship But not everybody is called to be this or that by each one of us We're called to be witnesses of the good news of the gospel We are called to be able to share what God has done in our life The great commission that God gave to each one of us is to go into the whole world Win souls and make disciples You may be a businessman You may be a worship leader. You may be a janitor. You may be NBA player You may be soccer player. You may be person who just makes videos on YouTube You may be just a stay-home mom But the commission of Lord Jesus Christ go into the whole world win souls and make disciples Does not give labels to anybody. It says it's to everyone It is to everyone and Something that Moses was trying to run away from trying not to understand But God is like, you know, hey you you can do whatever you want, but don't ignore my people Do not ignore my people who out there you've been delivered you've been saved you escaped that but also Don't forget where you're coming from which leads me to the first point is Distance in yourself from the world makes you indifferent to people Distance in yourself from the world makes you indifferent to people When we begin to When we begin to pull ourselves away from where we came from we become very indifferent to people One of the biggest things that always from my life and I kept record Reminding myself is don't forget where you came from Don't forget where you came from So some of you may say my life has been perfect for all your life. No remember what Jesus said Yet when you were sinners he died for you When we were lost when we were when we were even maybe in in material world Everything was okay, but deep down inside when we were lost when we were destroyed when we were depression Jesus Christ came and he saved us out of that situation Never ever forget where you coming from Some of you that are sitting in this place been delivered from drugs Some of you sit in this place been delivered from depression some you've been healed from diseases the doctor said There's no way that you can heal This is how many months you have to live some of you were healed from from from taking out from a terrible self-esteem You know living a life that was lost that was alone that was confused those depressed and God has Rescued you from that place Do not forget where you came from because if you do forget you become very indifferent to people Become indifferent to people's pains you become indifferent to people's when they're going through through the hardest time of the life And you just begin to pass by like the one the the the man who was on the side of the road and you know the Levi the All those people that they've been passing by him But the Good Samaritan remembered where he came from and also picked a person up from the side of the road That always has to be are on the top of her mind What has God sent me free from that makes you to appreciate What you have right now and that makes you not to forget the people that you were with once Many people like well, I don't I don't want to bring people to church You know, I'm too busy. I'm too tired to have this going on this this this if you look for a reason not to bring people to church You always find one if you look for a reason to bring them to church You will also find one. It's just what are you looking for if you're looking for a reason not to do it You'll find it if you're looking for a reason to do it. You will also find it. I've for for my life I've always understood always understood One principle the moment you surround yourself with people who are hurting that's the day your heart will begin to change If you surround yourself with people who are doing good, your your heart will actually grow dull to people's pain That's how that's our house. Remember in one person one gentleman that we grew up that we grew up and In high school we go to high school He kept coming to our church and one time I was picking him up to come to church and I remember picked pulled up to his house and you know call this person hey come out you know I'm here outside relate to church and Nothing's happening. Nobody's coming out and I know he just called me five minutes ago. So as I begin to walk into inside the house I'm like dude this guy's problems phone is off or whatever. I open the door and I begin to see Right in front of my eyes I open the door his dad beating his mom right in front of my eyes was just dramatic scene that that I begin to see that and and at the same spot I begin to be paralyzed to see the the the devil's work and not family I remember I closed the door around the way God on my car drove off and I was as I was driving to church I was weeping I was crying. I said God, how can you allow this to happen? How can you how can you? These things happen and God's like that's not me. That's the devil And and God was clearly speaking to me that night is that I want you to see this So your heart becomes soft for the people who are hurting And it's the people that you rub shoulders with every day It's the people that we come sometimes in contact. Hey, how are you? Oh, I'm doing fine We're as deep down inside the same can somebody see my pain Can somebody see my hurt the things that I'm going through there right around you? Moses decides to run away from that from from that pain from that struggle and he's out there He's a shepherd. He's doing everything. You know, he's living the good life and God comes to says I've heard the cry of my people lower my mic I've heard the cry the crying out to me daily and it's coming to remembrance of me Just cuz you can't hear their their pain doesn't mean God doesn't Just cuz you you begin to shout yourself out say God has set me free goddess, you know Delivered you from drugs goddess delivered you from this this and we begin to forget where we come from And that's a day when we forget we become a different to the people that are around us They're they're everywhere. They're the malls when you go to the gym They're there when you're in your workplace when you go drinking coffee at Starbucks at roasters. They're all around you and The thing that always always makes me to understand is when you begin to understand the hurt and the pain your heart begins to change Moses will never be a great deliverer if he never encountered people's pain Moses will never be a person of influence a person that God begin to use until he begin to come into the people's midst With there were torture that were there were beaten there were abused there was pain and there was hurt No, it's crying and when he begin to experience that pain Their hurt became his heart that he begin to come to God as a God deliver my people He begin to come in front of fair and begin to say let my people go you don't deserve it They begin to they belong to God and that is where Moses's life begins to change Just in in moments just in just few moments Moses becomes from the lowest point of his life somebody that was forgotten Somebody that was rejected somebody that was looked at as a murder becomes into great deliver. Why? It began to encounter people's hurt When you begin to make other people's needs become your needs You begin to see how God will begin to change your life When you begin to understand that look these people, you know, just cuz there's they look good Just cuz you know everything in the last seems to be great does not mean they are doing good Said Jesus was a friend of sinners the Bible always begin to understand and many many times I'm like, man, what is what is Jesus me? He should go like to the temple to to Pharisees and Sadducees and start like this revival moment Inside the church yet Jesus spent more time outside of church than inside the church and begins to make me to understand Where Jesus's heart was Jesus said I did not come for the righteous, but I came those who are lost I did not come as a doctor for those who are doing good, but I came to those who are in pain I'm here concerned about them and and this Pharisee see them like why are you chilling with the sinners and he's like This is where God's heart is This is where where God's heart beats. He's with the crowd. He's always at the multitudes He's always with the herd with those who are bound with those who are sick and healing and delivering them Why because God is like dots is where is my heart? When your needs become people's needs you begin to understand God's heart and your life will begin to change a man church number two Your weakness qualifies you for extra ordinary service your weakness Qualifies you for extra ordinary service You have to understand that what disqualified Moses to be a leader deliver actually qualified him to be a great leader and deliver I Mean looking back into our lives Looking back into our lives our pastor When he first came to America and he said first thing then when he came to America He said one thing so we want to see revival in tri-cities. We had only three families. We did not speak English There was nothing happening his greatest weakness became his strength for God to bring a revival that's happening right now What this quote the weakness that this qualifies you to to think that God cannot use me How can I go and bring a message of hope somebody else? We know when you know, I don't know how to speak You know, I'm not good You know, there's certain things that happened in my life and my family the weakness that you think this Qualifies you is actually the thing that qualifies you to deliver God's people The weakness that Moses had that the not being able to speak not being able to talk at the always tripping as much If you think of a great leader Moses will not be one of them. It's like right now just a current example It's like our president elect to become like not being able to speak would you vote for him? Of course not It's like our president elect had murder in his history and he's becoming running for president like hey I'm gonna do this. Of course, you're not boyfriend, but that's who Moses was He was a murderer and he did not know how to speak and yet. He's like I'm gonna deliver this Generation from slavery from activity. It did not make sense. It doesn't fit into your mind right now It happened it took place and in it and Moses did it But just to show us that your weakness is actually the thing that qualifies you to become a great deliverer You will you will begin to succeed in your life when you understand that you were sent for Hundreds and thousands and they will only hear the gospel when you go to them Your life will begin to change when you understand that there is hundreds and thousands of people waiting to hear the message Of hope from your mouth the people that I can that I can reach you can't reach the people that you can reach I cannot reach There's always somebody's out there. The only will listen to you not to me There's some people out there though only listen to me and not you There's this fear that God has sent you to there's this there's this Egypt that God has sent you to and says Go and deliver my nation. Maybe it's your family. Maybe nobody in your family has you know It's coming from a different culture coming from a different background Maybe they do not believe in Jesus and God is like I want to send you to them And you might think who am I to to deliver them, but don't ever listen to me Don't ever just don't you know if if I begin to tell them the God God wants to save them They're gonna be like well, I remember you stealing well, I remember you used to cuss remember used to be drunk I remember you were getting wasted all these things and devil might use that by your group Your greatest weakness becomes your greatest qualification to become a deliverer for your people come on Let us put our hands together for Jesus Christ I remember Remember when we were when we were first beginning our church It was like I don't know if you would want to remember me I was like this ill and Vlad and there's a few other people that were that were it is when we're starting out the church Vladimir was our pastor Vlad was least qualified to be a youth pastor literally least qualified You know what you know what Vladimir used to do we I don't know if you guys still remember those projectors like these These shines a light into this thing and then the projector shines you're there What are they called overheads over there you go existed back in the few old enough you don't understand what it is So Vladimir used to take the the thing and he used to be the one that's flipping the the pages for worship team So whatever our people doing on the computer now Pastor a lot back in a day used to be the one that's doing that He was the least if you hear his testimony He said his self-image the way he saw himself He was the least qualified to do what God is using him to do today today He's traveling all over the world to preach the message of hope But yet he was the most disqualified to be for the job yet got qualified him because of that Whatever you might think that you're going through in your life today You might think these are the things that you know, how can I speak? How can I do this much track? I have criminal history. I have a you know bank robberies. God, I beg you don't have those You know, I you know, I have all these things, you know on your record But you think that nobody will listen nobody on to understand but God's like these are the same reasons I'm qualifying you to rescue your family your friends the people that you are around and God's like if you Do not do it. I'll raise somebody else Esther was in that position Esther was you know You know, she was delivered. She was an orphan. She was a nobody and God begins to lift her up God begins to pick her up God's like and then she comes to a point where her people are gonna be destroyed people are gonna be wiped out and She's in a position if she doesn't speak up. She could be like well I'm an orphan. What if people find out who I really was they'll also take me out But I was like I put you in this position for a reason to save your generation You will begin to succeed in your life when you understand that there's thousands of people out there waiting For you to speak to them. That's when you'll begin to succeed. Oh, I'm telling you guys the truth for me right now What got me to where I am right now? Do you know God has blessed me with a lot God has blessed me with you know the position that I have right now business You know relationships influence and all that and I truly in my heart deeply believe it was because I'm not care for people Because I have my care for people till this day. I sacrifice time. I sacrifice money cars You know a time patience prayer and it's one things in my heart is I want to help certain people to succeed in life Well, I want to get them closer and closer to Jesus Christ when you put yourself in a position where God can't afford to lose you God will begin to elevate you Come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ I remember a prophet to be Josh are always saying this and he says you always would tell I said I put myself in a Position where God can't afford to lose me and I'm like, well, that's rightful What do you want to say that stuff? He says, you know, there's thousands of widows depending on my income to feed them There's thousands of sick people waiting for me to stretch my hand so God could heal through me there's thousands of people waiting for me to preach the message of hope and They are the ones praying for me that God would bless me because once he blesses me I bless them Wow, that is a secret to success guys That is a secret is the more if you want to succeed in life make other people's needs your needs Make other people's pain your pain because when when you don't have enough God's like well I cannot afford to do not to bless Eric because father bless Eric Jacob is not gonna be blessed if I don't bless Victoria then her friend Rosie's not gonna be blessed if I don't bless Alex then his friend Bryson is not gonna be not not gonna be out so I can't afford to lose him I can't afford not to bless him. I need to elevate them That's when the reasons God begin to raise Moses when he was a murderer when he couldn't speak because God says if I can't raise Moses then millions of my people will be died and and they're gonna suffer in slavery Put yourself in a position where God cannot afford to lose you in your family You know in your family tree you might be the only one that's that that's trying to change channel trying to become different God is behind you God wants to support you because the one that wants to let you know that your weakness actually Qualifies you to become great to deliver your people. They will listen even though they might laugh now. They'll listen God did not rescue you from from the pain from the hurts from the drugs for for just so you can feel good No, he rescued you so you can rescue others There was a change of heart that begins to place take place with Moses because he begin to understand And you put myself in the area where other people are hurting. I Can't be indifferent can't be just here in this this land, you know Pastor and sheep where my own people are dying and that's when God begin to take him out God will begin to even his weaknesses He begins to turn him to strength and and I truly and truly believe the area that you are lacking now Right now, there's maybe new financial Maybe you're healing maybe it's is it delivers that you need the moment you begin to care for people the moment begin You begin to take other people's needs your needs. God will begin to care of that thing that you're going through I truly truly believe that but when I wouldn't when I did not have enough finances Now I begin to give other people sometimes cars sometimes Finances I begin to do that and and now God blessed me in that area that I was lacking And and it's not to say that you you put God in the corner God I give now you better give me back No, you put yourself in the position where God can't afford to lose you God needs to bless you that when you wake up in the morning that the people that you're inviting to church They need to hear a message of hope from you They need you to pray for them because they know when you pray, you know, their nightmares go away The sicknesses begins to go away and God's like this is a place that I have chosen you and that is a place I delivered you from that you can be a message of hope to those who are lost in my church Many times the more perfect we are The harder it is for God to use us Sometimes the more perfect we are it is it is the more the harder for God to use us. I know certain people that They feel like, you know, I'm not tasting drugs. Oh, I'm not done this. I'm not done this, you know I don't have a hard background They're like, you know, my life is my life is good and as many times what God wants to use them It is so hard for God to use them because they're not broken down They have not tasted darkness enough to be able to appreciate the light that the God has had for them You know, so sometimes we feel like, you know, my life is perfect And and that is when when when it's so hard for God to use us because God wants to see a person that that came out Of that mess God's like, I want to use you and the same the mess that I'm taking you out from and to send You back to those who are hurting and my last point is this It's fighting for God's people empowers you for greatness fighting for God's people Empowers you for greatness. I said this quote many times is that the greatest investment in life is help to people The greatest investment in life is Help to other people and let me explain what how that works is is I remember when my When my dad back back in Russia You know, he opened an orphan and I or he opened a rehab center to help people who are in drugs and I remember not after that many times you take him in at your own house and At night as we were locked in a room, you know, they would have withdraw also to be breaking things They will they'll be tearing things apart and and and to me. I'm like dad. Why are you doing this? Why are you helping those people these guys are a drug addict? They're just nobody and back in my mind. I'm like you're you're threatening our family What if they and many times they would rob us the many times, you know They'll steal from us many times are coming in the middle of the night threaten my dad all these things, you know It was a scary situation But my dad's my dad's heart was like man. I want to see these guys say I want to be rescued You know, and he always said if I don't help him who else will help him if I'm not the one who will begin To rescue them out of this who else will help him, you know, they'll be destroyed. They'll die They'll not be able to live till tomorrow who else would help him Years went by and many times and I felt like it was forgotten Until a few years back my my brother David begins to get on drugs And and his life goes just downhill to the point where it's like it's like we tried everything We call all the men of God. We did everything fasting whatever you may think of even beating him put in the jail Nothing is working the same time. God's like what you've done to other people Way back when maybe people don't understand now. I'm gonna do for you They're happy to be prophet to be Joshua who all the way in Africa Begins to take David into his house not church his house Begins to counselor begin to pray from delivers and does the same thing my dad used to do to the drug addicts long long time ago the greatest help in the greatest investment in life is Help to other people. You know, you know what I give cars away today, you know in me my wife We gave over four or five cars right? Why I'm I'm not just giving it just because you know, oh, I have so many no I'm giving it because I want to secure my own future I know though with their common time if I'm lacking God's like I remember the time where you gave now That's my trick to give you back Maybe not on money. Maybe there's no time in the future Well, I'll be sick and God be like, you know the time where you didn't have enough And you gave now. This is a time where where I begin to give back So you have to understand our generation is is dying is sick. It's everywhere around you Moses was so far away from from his people yet. God's like the cry is coming in my remembrance I hear it every day. I hear it every day, and I want you To go back to your wife because I rescued you from there. I want you now to go back Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him I want to challenge us tonight I want to challenge us to be able to understand what is why is the reason you are here today Maybe God has blessed you. Maybe things are are going good, but don't forget where you come from Don't forget where the times where you were suicidal where you were depressed when nobody Wanted to help you and God by miraculously rescued your life It's not so you can say, you know, I'm good. No My life is good. No, I'm God says now I want you to go back Now I want you to remember your friend Now I want you to remember that the person that's right now drinking and smoking has nothing to do with God And maybe even when you come to him, they'll say you used to be like me No, no the same weakness that this qualifies you qualifies you to deliver them One thing that Moses really understood and that's something I really really love The moment Moses began to fight For his people the supernatural began to follow him it's like He's not looking for supernatural yet. God's power begins to support him Now he begins to instead of dreaming of deliverance The deliverance begins to take place through his hand Healing begins to take to place because he puts him in a position where God's like, hey, you know what? You do what I love. I love my people and you are helping them out. I'm gonna support you with my power When when before you used to pray for this now when you pray you'll see power come through Before we used to you know speak about healing now I'm gonna use your own hand to lay hands in the sick and they will be healed Why because when you make you when you make God's obsession your obsession God says my power will be unleashed through you God God wants to raise Moses. I'm not saying each one of you becoming pastor No, you can be a a doctor You can be a lawyer You can be a just a normal housewife or or a husband But your mission that God has given you To deliver your own people where you came from never changes never changes What Moses hated the most became his obsession When Moses says I'll never do this forget. I'm out of here. I'm out of Egypt. I don't even remember anything God choose somebody else comes to a point where Moses stands before God and he says God if you Destroy these people destroy my own life, too I have to understand that People who begin to make God's heart their priority Which is the people that are all the way around us Will begin to achieve great heights You know, we are sitting today in a church that was based with only one vision to see tri-city saved 15 years ago when we were when we were in in the house when we were when we were there and trust me We did not speak English didn't have no money sitting on welfare eating from food bank. We were disqualified But today we have these things why because of division God Send us to our generation. We want to rescue that generation And God begins to say you know what I'll support you with power You know what you need a building I'll give you a building when you can't even afford it and I'll pay for it with my own money Then God began to support with supernatural God will begin to support with salvation with healing deliverance more people begin to come aboard and God's like do not forget Where you come from because I've sent you for such a time as this to deliver your people I'm not saying you go to Africa. Maybe God's calling you for that's fine saying to your own people where you are coming from Where you are coming from Continuously every day I begin to reach out to those people where I came from begin to some hey Not trying to pressure not to judge him or whatever they but hey God loves you. God wants to rescue. He rescued me Every day Even today there shouldn't be but I came came across gave me a call. They're like hey, how things going with you You know, I said man you make it God has a plan for you will get out of this Keep your head up come on and always offering the message of hope because that's what God did to me when I was on my lowest A change of heart My prayer tonight is that we'll be able to be the people that will not forget where we came from