Our brethren in Christ from Trinity Reformed Baptist Church, Kansas, received an email from our brother in Siberia, Russia: Click here to read more about the church in Irkutsk–to give thanks and praise to God for His work and to know what to pray for these brethren.
The Grace and Mercy of the Most High God, yes will be on you much!
We pray for you and we ask the God, to protect you and your ministering and to bless your work for the God.
We from news see many cataclysms worldwide. The Lord shakes inhabitants of the ground, that all would obey the God and have rendered glory to the Holy name of the Lord. So it is written to Bibles: there Will be a famine, pestilences, earthquakes, hurricanes, cataclysms, all this certificate, that second coming of the Christ, comes nearer! Praise to the Lord! Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Lord has blessed me to visit church of Baptists of Sovereign Grace in a town Svirsk. I send you a photo of this church.
They preach Grace of the God in the area. There people especially worships to graven images. It is a lot of people occult burdened. People there, worships to demonic spirits. In a town Svirsk, people drink many vodka and a narcotism. These are consequences of long years of a godlessness in Russia.
I preached in church, about Glory Holy name the God. That we glorify the God, through announcing Him Glories to all people. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.” (1 Peter 2:9)
There at assembly there was one person who visits church of baptists of arminians. He closely listened to the sermon on glory of the Sovereign God, and the Holy Ghost broke him heart. This person cried during the sermon, and I Him after assembly have presented books about the doctrine of Grace. We ask you prays for rescue of this person. Him a name Paul Blashchuk. He from the city of Cheremkhovo, alas… There church of arminians and there glorify the person wherefore they have divinity where the person costs in the center, and the God as though depending from the person.
Still many churches invite me to preach for them, about Glory of the Sovereign God. But I do not have means for realization of this ministering. I ask you to pray for me and my ministering Master of God. If there will be a Holy Will of the Lord what to me still to visit other churches. That the Lord will open heavens and will send me everything, that it will be necessary for this purpose. Yes to become famous Holy Name the God!!!
My family and all churches of Siberia, transfer you our warm Christian greetings!
Jon Bloom, from Desiring God writes about Conversation Ministries (launched by Springs Baptist Church). Please keep this ministry in your prayers.
After some more email correspondence, we received yet another very encouraging email from our brother in Siberia. Please pray for the church there!
“For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us… that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many person thanks may be given by many on our behalf.” (2 Corinthians 1:8-11)
Mercy, Grace and Peace, Lord Almighty, yes will be on you and your church, Plentifully!!!
We in our prays, appeal to a throne of grace for you. We see, that the second coming the Lord is closer. The more furiously attack of a satan to church. To us today it is especially difficult. We now understand, how it was heavy to apostle Paul. About what he wrote to Corinthians. Spiritual war, amplifies. As it is written in 1 Peter 5:8-9. We know, that you too suffer affliction for True God’s. You people true to the God. You have not gone on the compromise with a sin and liberalism. You have not receded from the Biblical doctrine. And for your faithfulness to the God, the devil to abhor you. But the Lord Master, Loves you and has prepared you for the award in heavens! Praise to the God!
We as now very much require comfort and the help. We pray to the God and we cry before a throne of grace. We feel the full powerlessness. We absolutely depend on favor of the God. We pray so: “O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.” Isaiah 33:2
Thus, our hearts are full of jealousy for the God. We continue to preach the Word of the God. We convict any sin. Force of Grace of the Lord, we attack a domain of darkness. Praise to the Christ!
I with our whole heart praise to the Most High God! The Lord me extreme trespasser, on great Favor, has made the the Servant! It is the greatest privilege for me. I now a servant of God! I have the privilege from the God, to worship, praise, proclaim glory of Master of the God!!!
The Siberian independent churches of Grace. Very much require encouraging. For on July, 30th, we have agreed to gather in Irkutsk and to have encouraging training assembly. There are 2 brothers who had with us dialogue earlier, and they believe in Grace as well as we. One brother from Ekaterinburg, it in Urals Mountains. His a name Alexander. He there preaches in baptist church. He them has started to learn Biblical belief. Him create greater opposition. But there there are those people who has obeyed to the doctrine of Grace. The help is necessary to Alexander. We pray and we wish to invite his to us to Irkutsk to 1 week. That he at us has become stronger in belief and we shall give him a lot of the spiritual literature. But for realization of this project, it is necessary your pray.
Other brother, Oleg, he from the city of Krasnoyarsk. He as believes in grace. He very much requires dialogue. Through it, we hope to to help new church in Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarsk is a citadel of arminianism. That the brother Oleg could visit us, it is necessary your pray. We as wish to present him puritan books.
These are our needs. As we ask you, pray for ours 10 churches in Irkutsk area and 1 church in Buryatiya. All these churches are true to the God, the Word His, and believe in Grace. And all these churches independent of human structures. But all of us it is absolutely dependent on the God!
Pray for us! God’s Richest Blessings to you!
In Christ by Father’s Grace only,
[An annamed brother in Siberia who loves the truth]
This is the second half of the second email which we received from our brother in Siberia:
Our church was organized in 1995. Since this year, I the pastor of church. Earlier, we were in armunians churches. A the Lord of me has called for belief and humility to Him, in 1983. When we speak, that we strict baptists, we express refusal of liberalism, a modernism, a pragmatism, of modern sensual “Christianity”. For us the Bible an absolute manual in life. We do not give modern styles to wash away church and to make her similar to this sinful world.
We were blessed the God since 2000. We have received many books: Puritans, Reformers and modern ecclesiasts who inton the Truth of the God Sovereign! Earlier we were baptists - arminians. Alas… Russia - the country where an orthodox church holds minds of people in darkness of superstition, idolatry, and belief in the forces and in the free will. Therefore people do not believe in grace of the God and do not obey the Sovereignty of the God. And as orthodoxy, as well as roman catholics, learn about rescue by beneficences. That gospel churches have appeared under influence of arminian divinity. Till 1944, baptists in Russia, were Calvinists. But during persecutions on church, baptists for their faithfulness to the Biblical doctrine, many pastors subjected to repression and have shot. Arminian churches were more loyal to authorities and were more kept. Therefore since 1944 of authority have united churches of gospel Christians and baptists in one union. And as arminians was more by 1980, the union has accepted arminian divinity.
But the Lord is the True God! He heard prays of pastors for a brotherhood of baptist churches when they died for faithfulness to the God! And the Lord has sent to our hearts belief in doctrines of grace, as the answer to their prays. And we in Siberia, have obeyed the Biblical doctrine and have intoned our belief in the Sovereign God!
Against us began to act arminian the pastor. We for them now, as a bone in a throat. They about us distribute any thin hearings, us hold up to shame, against us adjust members of churches and speak them that to us did not contact.
But we have categorically refused arminian and liberal doctrines, and we in Siberia, send away from the union.
We have acted how the Bible in 2 Corinth. 6:14 - 7:1 learns.
“It is better to be divided True, that uniform in Error. It is better to speak true which all over again will wound, and then treats. That to speak lie which all over again calms, and then kills. How it is possible to name love or friendship, deviation from intoning all God’s will? Let is better us will begin to hate for true, that will love for lie. It is better to remain in loneliness, but with true. That in crowd, but with error.”
We have received requital for faithfulness to the God. Us pursue and limit with us dialogue those churches who is liberals and turncoats. They to be afraid to learn the Truth of the God of the Almighty. They wish to live in darkness and to go on current of this sinful world.
Brothers! We require dialogue with you. We pray to the God, and we ask to strengthen us in this difficult for us the period of time.
Recollect us and our churches before a throne of grace, in your prays!
Now we are, independent churches of Baptists of Grace!
We require brotherly support from biblical churches who as well as we believes in TULIP, and honors the Sovereignty of Master of the God!
Alas… We know the English language a little, I write you the letter through the computer program the translator.
Graces to You!
A sinner saved by SOVEREIGN GRACE of GOD ALMIGHTY,[An unnamed brother in Siberia who loves the truth]
After our first reply to our Siberian brother’s first email, we received the following wonderfully encouraging reply. Please be aware that these emails were formulated using a translating program:
Mercy, Grace and Peace, the Sovereign God, yes on you will be plentiful!!!
We profess as: A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Spurgeon, John Owen, Puritans, Calvin, as Apostle Paul, as taught us a the Lord ours and the Saviour, Jesus Christ! We as trust, as church in Historical Baptist: - Biblical, God-Centered, Historical, Practical, Independence!!! We have creed of baptists of 1689. In our church of 50 members, we actively distribute the doctrine about rescue only on a Grace. It causes the big counteraction of our church on the part of liberals, apostasies - arminians. We very much require your prayful support. We would like to have with you Christian dialogue and the prayful petition, the friend for the friend.
I send you our firm belief, about rescue only on a Grace!
We received this very unexpected email (via our website) from a dear brother in Siberia:
“I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ” (1 Corinth.1:4)
Dear Irving, and church of the Lord at you,
Mercy and Grace of the Almighty of the God, Sovereign the Masters, Jesus Christ, the Saviour of ours, yes will on you plentifully!!!
For the sake of Jesus Christ, I ask you in your prays, to intercede for our church before a throne of grace. We trust in TULIP, we trust the Sovereign God, we Baptists of the Sovereign Grace. We strict Baptists. We have the baptist confession 1689. We would like to pray for you and to ask you, to pray for our church.
I only have stopped to read “Let the Nations Be Glad!“ by John Piper and already in fourth time I read A.W. Pink “The Sovereignty of God“. I find a lot of encouraging in this book and spiritually I grow. I give thanks to the God for true servants Him.
For us the most important dialogue with children of the God and a pray the friend for the friend. Material things will not help with spiritual life when it is necessary to solve spiritual problems. We trust in the Sovereign the Almighty, and we trust, that in this world, all things and all events under His control and all is made at the Supreme Will the Lord!
We as well as you, conduct spiritual “war” with false doctrines. We proclaim the Truth of the God, His Sovereignty. We see, that you true servants of the Christ. You assert Trues of the Word of the Alive God! God bless you!
We bless you a name Sovereign the Masters of the Sky and the Earth, a name of the Saviour of ours, Jesus Christ!
We live in Russia, in Siberia. Us very much do not love for our belief in the Sovereign God, and that we distribute doctrines of a Grace. We require your intercession prays for us and for our service to a the Master to the Christ!
Plentiful to you a Grace from a throne Supreme!!!
A sinner saved by SOVEREIGN GRACE of GOD ALMIGHTY,
[An unnamed brother in Siberia who loves the truth]
Please pray as Nick & Sheila join missionaries working in Zambia, from the 18th July to 4th August 07. This is an unexpected need & opportunity for them to work with Yacob & Amber, missionaries. Nick is needed to drive one of the 4×4 vehicles with double axle trailer, carrying cement and building materials to Zambia via Botswana. Nine men and 1 Russian Pastor from the USA are joining the South African team at Livingstone Airport, Zambia. Yacob, Nick & Tunize will be driving the vehicles. Sheila & Amber will take turns accompanying Tunize in her vehicle. She is most brave to drive such a distance. Some of the roads are dirt tracks.
Sheila Amber & Tunize will be busy preparing food, washing up, fetching water and firewood, whilst Nick & the other men will be carrying on the building works with help from about 20+ local people. Each day, the 20+ local helpers will join the team for lunch. The Russian Pastor will teach during the lunch times on the Attributes of God. (With Interpreter) On Sundays and week day afternoons, team members will be visiting the churches, schools and villages, to share the gospel. Sheila looks forward to this part but before that highlight, a lot of fetching and carrying will have to be done. It is very rural. No running water and electricity. Team members fetch the water by pumping it from a bore hole well a little distance away and carry containers back to camp in a wheelbarrow. There are snakes and other hazards about the place. The weather is colder and sleeping under canvas could be a little testing.
Items for Daily Prayer:
Thank you so much
With love & prayers
There will be a Morning Seminar held at the Constantia Park Baptist Church on Saturday the 14th July 2007 from 09h30 to 1300 entitled “Evangelising Our Children“. The speaker is to be Jim Eliff, the founder and president of Christian Communicators Worldwide, and all are welcome.
Should you be unsure as to the whereabouts of the Constantia Park Baptist Church in Pretoria, you will find a location map on the second page of the PDF (below). Alternatively, visit CPBC’s contact page.
Read: Jim Eliff Morning Seminar–Evangelising Our Children (PDF)
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