Vladimir Pustan la Biserica Betania Arad

at Betania Church, Arad, Gradiste January 25, 2012 http://bisericabetania.ro/ Page with sermons Vladimir Pustan here http://rodiagnusdei.wordpress.com/201... Sermon outline: We must follow the Lord Jesus, following His footsteps: 1. In doing the will of the Father 2. In the purity of life 3. In serving others 4. In the desire to reach the top Points from the sermon: We criticize Catholics to the fullest for their statues. But unfortunately, we and they have become statues while criticizing them. Statues of Christ, who after having managed to get a saving baptism (as we say) let us easily go to the holy ones. We have become stuck in our Churches after having built huge towers for ourselves. Let them look proudly at the sky. With impudence at the sky and we want to sit like some people who no longer do anything for this society. Let the state do it. Let Mr. Boc do it. Their job...their job...It's not the state's job to take care of widows and orphans. It's the Church's job. Our steps should be in hospitals. We put our monks on the top of the mountains. It's good that they take care of the eagles instead of sending them down through hospitals, instead of teaching them to do medical school. Let there be no more pressure. Brothers, don't live like some people -- a Pentecostal theology and a life like Jehovah's Witnesses because heaven is not here on earth. I love people who pray, but I love people who pray and work the most. Service that costs nothing will achieve nothing. God is very happy that he has a lot of money but he has a problem that the money is in our pockets For 22 years we have been taught that all things are obtained instantly. The Romanians have lost their patience. Unfortunately, this is also true in the Church because many of us have forgotten that repentance begins here and ends in heaven. And, as a true holy man, it cannot be done overnight. (Then he makes a call for fasting and prayer for Romania on January 26, 2012) So that we can hide our sinfulness, you know what we say? "Only God repents, only Christ is holy!" and Paul comes with fantastic audacity and says: "Follow my footsteps as I follow in the footsteps of Christ". The Lord Jesus did not come only to save us. He came and saved us! Very good! But our big problem is not that "Christ wants to save us". Is it that we have the capacity to get where the Lord wants us, without Him, the Lord, having left us a model to follow? Let us live like Christ! I asked the young people: "Why don't you read the Bible?" "But we will be severely condemned if we know and do not fulfill it." Doesn't it seem strange to you that we are afraid of this book? Because it will weigh heavily one day, an eternal weight for us, for each of us. You will tell me that knowledge is a deep pain. Wouldn't you like to live like these people who have no pain, not even their heads? I don't even know that they have any. Christianity means that your head and soul hurt and that you feel this pain, that you no longer have sleep, that you no longer have peace. That you often have nothing in you as long as you don't see Christ ascended. We divided into parties. We divided into cults. We have divided ourselves into wealth and ranks, into degrees and have forgotten that we have a God who commands unity. "Because you separate from Me", says Jesus (and from others) you cannot do the work. Do you know what I see when I read the Easter texts? After the Lord Jesus was resurrected, He could hardly wait to leave. At that moment you are a true Christian when you can hardly wait to go to heaven, to be able to leave for a world prepared by our Lord Jesus Christ. There are three temperatures of the heart: 1. Cold - Insensitive, just like a husband after 20 years of marriage. The Bible says that in the last days the love of most will grow cold. And those we say we had a wonderful past, we still remember the past that is no more (instead of living in the present). 2. Cold - like the Church of Laodicea. Without joy you sing, without joy you pray. When you go to Church it's like you're going to the army. We do so many things without joy. Joy is missing. 3. Burning your heart - like the two on the road to Emmaus. If your heart doesn't burn, you don't want heaven either. You will have to learn that your heart must burn because only then will you truly want heaven. And that's what God wants from us every moment. To miss heaven. On August 3, last year, I suffered a stroke while sitting next to my wife at home. I was taken to Tirgu-Mures. The doctor said to me, "What's wrong with you?" I said, "Pastor." He said, "Sir, you need to take it slow." I am 44 years old. I want to tell you something with all my love. The time will come when all the years we have lived will be just like a second. We must think that something awaits us beyond. Eternity. When it comes to Christ, never let it go!