The Christian’s Road To Spiritual Life
30 December 2010 
Irpen Biblical Seminary
James 1:22-25 - Every person desires to be successful. Christians also wonder how to succeed and be happy. The book of James helps us to answer this question. James gives an example of two types of Christians, but only one is leading a successful Christian life.
Teacher: Andrey Iskorostensky
The Christian Life, part 11a
28 December 2010 Roman Dechtiarenko
The Lord places a priority on spiritual growth. Spiritual growth results in spiritual life. It is God’s intension that every Christian grows to spiritual maturity, as 2 Peter 3:18 states “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Spiritual growth can be characterized by the following:
1. Following after righteousness
2. Being transformed
3. Growing in holiness
4. Living and proclaiming the Gospel
5. Being built up in the faith
6. Being filled with the Spirit
7. Walking after the Spirit
All We Need, Part 4
23 December 2010 Minsk Theological Seminary
We finish the meditation on the spiritual quest of Asaph. He had envied the wicked and doubted God when he observed the wicked prospering. He found spiritual healing in the sanctuary, his thinking changed and he gazed upon God’s goodness. Asaph found peace only when he went into the sanctuary of God. He realized that his arguments were superficial and hasty. He was as a beast: foolish, ignorant and narrow-minded in his reasoning. He gave vent to his feelings, guided by instinct, without assessing the situation with biblical perspective. He did not understand that there is more than this life, thinking that what we receive both our reward and punishment on earth. Only when the psalmist drew closer to God was his heart settled. The situation did not change much, if at all. The wicked continue to prosper, but the Psalmist was changed. He has found God!
Teacher: Leonid Mikhovich
The Christian Life, part 10b
21 December 2010 Roman Dechtiarenko
The Lord places a priority on spiritual growth. Spiritual growth results in spiritual life. It is God’s intension that every Christian grows to spiritual maturity, as 2 Peter 3:18 states “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Spiritual growth can be characterized by the following:
1. Following after righteousness
2. Being transformed
3. Growing in holiness
4. Living and proclaiming the Gospel
5. Being built up in the faith
6. Being filled with the Spirit
7. Walking after the Spirit
Theological Thinking, Part 3
16 December 2010 Minsk Theological Seminary
In Psalm 73, Asaph overcomes his confusion and doubt caused by the prosperity of the wicked by affirming God’s goodness. Asaph’s thinking changed when he walked into the sanctuary. He rose to a new spiritual level of thinking. He understood when he drew close to God. After visiting the sanctuary, he was now in a position to properly assess his state. “When my heart was embittered and I was pierced within, then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.”(Ps. 72:21-22). Asaph began to think spiritually.
Teacher: Leonid Mikhovich
The Christian Life, part 10a
14 December 2010 Roman Dechtiarenko
The Lord places a priority on spiritual growth. Spiritual growth results in spiritual life. It is God’s intension that every Christian grows to spiritual maturity, as 2 Peter 3:18 states “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Spiritual growth can be characterized by the following:
1. Following after righteousness
2. Being transformed
3. Growing in holiness
4. Living and proclaiming the Gospel
5. Being built up in the faith
6. Being filled with the Spirit
7. Walking after the Spirit
What Happens in the Sanctuary, Part 2
9 December 2010 Minsk Theological Seminary
Psalm 73 deals with some weighty issues such as sin, the punishment for sin, the prosperity the wicked and the suffering of the righteous. The Psalm deals with the paradox between God’s omnipotence and goodness on the one hand and the presence of evil in the world on the other. Asaph was confused as he watched the blatant injustice of this world. His envy of the unbelievers’ carefree and satiated life almost destroyed his faith …
Inspiration came in the sanctuary. Let’s hear how to solve Asaph’s problem.
Teacher: Leonid Mikhovich
The Christian Life, part 9b
7 December 2010 Roman Dechtiarenko
The Lord places a priority on spiritual growth. Spiritual growth results in spiritual life. It is God’s intension that every Christian grows to spiritual maturity, as 2 Peter 3:18 states “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Spiritual growth can be characterized by the following:
1. Following after righteousness
2. Being transformed
3. Growing in holiness
4. Living and proclaiming the Gospel
5. Being built up in the faith
6. Being filled with the Spirit
7. Walking after the Spirit
Crisis of Faith, Part 1
2 December 2010 Minsk Theological Seminary
The Song of Asaph (Psalm 73) is a chasm of wealth and wisdom. We need a minimum of four sermons just to begin to understand its depths, but it will serve us very well. First we’ll talk about the experiences of Asaph as he observes the prosperity of the wicked. He was nearly shipwrecked in his faith. Next, in “Finding Faith”, we look at the spiritual healing of Asaph, which occurred in the sanctuary. (We need to know where and whom to go when your faith was weakening.) Then we’ll talk about Asaph’s perspective after meeting with God and how his opinion changed about the wicked, about himself, and about God. (We sometime lack Spiritual thinking.) In the last sermon, we will look at the bliss of being with God. Asaph became closer to God and cried out, “Who do I have in heaven but You and there is nothing on earth that I desire besides You.” (Ps. 73:25).
Every pious listener will at times feel like Asaph, but will in the end experience the great blessings of God’s closeness.
Teacher: Leonid Mikhovich
