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Right? A truly prophetic dedication, because that's what I believe in, because my name plus R$15, the most you get is a happy clan, but one word, no, one word has power and goes beyond, right? So that's it, OK? The Gospel of Jesus, as written by John, chapter 19, was the word the Lord brought to my heart as the word of God for tonight. The Gospel of Jesus, as written by John, chapter 19. Glory to God. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Hallelujah. >> Mighty is the name of Jesus. I believe this service will end at 8:30. Do you believe? Don't laugh at me. I believe it. I believe it. John chapter 19, verses 23 onwards. The Gospel of Jesus, as written by John, chapter 19, from verse 23 onwards. Please, those who found it, say. >> Amen. >> Wonderful. Thus says the sacred text: "When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. So they said to one another, 'Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be.' This happened so that the scripture might be fulfilled. Complete it for me, please. This happened so that the >> scripture might be fulfilled. >> Which said: 'They divided my garments among themselves, and for my tunic they cast lots.' And this is what the soldiers did. Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold your son.' Then he said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother.' And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. Later, knowing that all was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, in order that what might be fulfilled, people? He said, 'I am thirsty.' A jar full of sour wine stood there. So they put a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and brought it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, 'It is finished.' And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of preparation, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high day, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. He who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that what he says is true, so that you also may believe. These things happened so that what might be fulfilled? The scripture that said: 'Not one of his bones will be broken.' Say amen to this word. >> Amen. >> Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. The author of the letter to the Hebrews states that all that exists and all that is was not made by apparent proof of what is seen, but heavens and earth, all that exists and all that is was created by the power of his word. And the word he is referring to here, obviously, is the word of God. So, this already makes us understand how powerful the word of God is. It is absolutely the greatest power on earth. The greatest power on earth. No, Camila. Paul said that the greatest power on earth is faith. And where does faith come from? What is the raw material of faith? The Bible says that faith can only come from where? By hearing, and hearing the >> word of God. Therefore, faith is the victory that overcomes the world. Because the basis of faith must be the word. Thus, the word of God and he who possesses it becomes as powerful as what it can offer. So, the victory that overcomes the world, being faith and being based on the word, makes everyone who believes powerful to live extraordinary things. Jesus made this very clear even before he was taken up to heaven. He said, "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." Why, Camila? Because he loves me? No, because he reacts to your word. Many people confuse their relationship with God because they know they are extremely loved by God, that God will react to the feelings they have. When in reality, God does not only react to feelings, but above all, God reacts to his word. Just remember how the prayers made in the Old Testament were answered most immediately. They did not pray saying: God, I feel this, I feel that. Look at the great princes who had a relationship with God and whose prayers were almost immediately heard. They were men who, instead of praying saying: "I feel this or I feel that," they appropriated the promise that God had guaranteed them. And when they spoke with God, they spoke about the word that God had manifested to them. So, instead of using their time saying: "I feel this way, I feel that way, I'm like this, I'm like that," they always prayed saying: "Because you said." And that's how they managed to make God react so quickly, if not immediately. So, you see, they are not just men of faith who are in the gallery, according to the author of the letter to the Hebrews, whom we call heroes of faith, but they are above all knowledgeable of the word that was upon them. And this gave them powerful faith to live out the fulfillment of what God had spoken about each of their lives. And Camila, why are you explaining this? Because most people, and in the last 5 years, I have been systematically observing the church. In the last 5 years, I have noticed how our generation has been putting its faith to work in a completely misguided way. A sensory faith, a faith that lasts for the duration of a service, a faith that is only good while the worship is playing, a faith that is only good while the preacher is preaching, a faith that is only active and real while you are in an environment and atmosphere of worship. While the pastor is ministering a prophetic word, it seems you believe with all your might. But if this faith were true, on Tuesday, you would not waver from what God said again. In fact, if our faith were visually accessible to us, some here, it would appear like that electrocardiogram exam, that graph that one moment reaches its peak up high and another moment reaches the inverse peak down low, going up and down, up and down. Why? Because sensory faith is not enough to preserve the life of someone who has a word. Sensory faith is not enough to sustain the life of someone who has hope in something. Your faith needs to last longer than a 2-hour service. Your faith needs to last longer than a 3-month campaign. Your faith needs to last longer than the period of your vow. Your faith needs to last longer than the amount of your offering. And why doesn't it last sometimes? Because you have faith in what I am preaching, you have faith in what you are feeling, but you still don't have faith because you are not aware of what the word of God has said about you. >> And why not? Because it's easier to know what God wants for me from someone's mouth than to actually know what he wants from me through his own word. And this is how sophisms, movements, vain doctrines, vain philosophies, and above all, a faith that becomes dependent and sensory, arise. Why? Because it is not doctrinal. Because someone began to disseminate in our midst from the 80s and 90s a triumphalist faith. And a triumphalist faith is very revivalist. That's very good. Why? Because we feel the fire, we feel the power, we feel what we call anointing. But the truth is: who are you after the fire goes out? Who are you after you return to work? Who are you when you are at home and not in the atmosphere of worship? Who are you when the temple lights go out? Who are you when the electricity bill comes with a disconnection notice? Who are you when the biopsy says the tumor is malignant? Who are you? When life's circumstances do not draw you into a favorable atmosphere, that's where genuine faith will be born, >> because there what has been lacking in many churches will be manifested. And when I say church, I'm not just talking about denomination, but I'm talking about institutions that live on power conferences, on revival, talking about the triumph of faith, but in reality, they are forgetting basic and doctrinal matters. You find people who can swim with the best in the ocean of the spirit, but have absolutely no idea what is written in Psalm 90, because the page of their Bible is yellowed at Psalm 91. So what, Camila? So what? This is not enough to give you sustainability, to get you to heaven. You need to know what the word says about you. You need to have, not only in your heart, but in your mind. What are the words that God has released about you? What kind of word gives you authority? What kind of word gives you autonomy? What has the word of God guaranteed about you and your family? You need to know what Jesus knew. You need to be someone who goes beyond Psalm 23. You need to be someone who knows a little more than Psalm 91 says. It's time for Christians, those who have been taken out and separated, those who need to be conformed to the image and likeness of the lamb, those who bear the name of Jesus Christ to act as he acted in the temptation of the desert. Satan did not try to dissuade him in any other way than by using the word against him. >> And why did he use the word? He used the word because anyone who has partial information of the word becomes a dangerous person. >> How many false prophets. Why? Because they don't have the word? No, because they only use a partial part of the word they have. How many false believers, why don't they know the Bible? No, because they only know the parts that are convenient for them. >> And where does ignorance reside? In not knowing? No, ignorance resides in sophism, in the feeling of knowing what is actually not complete information. That is why when Jesus manifests himself to Paul on the road to Damascus, chapter nine of the book of Acts of the Apostles, he could have manifested himself in fire. He could have manifested himself as God manifested himself to Elijah in the cave. He could have manifested himself as the angel manifested himself to Moses in the burning bush, but no. As Paul's problem was ignorance, he manifested himself in light. Why? Because light manifests the word, and the word awakens truth, and truth liberates from all evil and all ignorance. Therefore, when Jesus appears to Paul, what John said in the first chapter of his book is fulfilled there. Unlike the other evangelists, John does not give the name of Jesus' father. He does not dwell on the name of Jesus' mother. He begins by saying: "In the beginning was the Word." What is the Word, people? Shout it to me. Word. >> No, this is a Pentecostal service. When I say shout, you really shout. Oh, Camila, but I'm not very Pentecostal. Then next time, look for a place with a less Pentecostal Sunday, because this one is Pentecostal to the core. When I say shout, you shout. OK? The text says: "In the beginning was the Word." And what is the Word, people? Word. Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Then look what he says. In him was life. So where does life reside? In the word. >> In him was life, and the life was the light of men. >> And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. >> As I always say, the greatest darkness is not the satanic works and rituals that manifest on the outside. The greatest darkness is that which dwells in the human mind, >> making him vulnerable to any kind of information, since he knows nothing, >> making him a sponge that absorbs any concept, since his mind resides in the limbo of unknown darkness. >> But look what the text says. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Camila, how do I know God? I know God as soon as I start to know his >> word. Now, humanly speaking, how does this mechanism, despite our theological knowledge, work in practice, day to day? How do we find it cooler to have faith than to have the practicality of knowledge? We sentimentalize faith much more than we discipline the mentality of knowledge. Broadly speaking, because the emotion of faith is much cooler than the boredom of discipline. So, I prefer to develop a faith that depends on what I feel. And when I feel that everything will be alright, I feel that everything will be alright. But what if I told you that feeling does not sustain faith? And with this, I have sought, with God's help, to clarify the mentality of some people who are ready or who desire to experience miracles, but are not yet ready. And why are they not ready? Because they have used the reasoning of thought in the following way: "This thing that I would like to happen did not happen because I don't have enough faith." When in reality, you don't lack the will to believe, the problem is that you don't necessarily know what to believe in. Why? Because you don't know the word that is upon your life. So, in reality, the non-realization of so many miracles and so many things that I know God can and wants to do for me is not happening because I don't have faith. It's not happening because I am not aware of the word that God has released about me. Because true faith can only be faith if it is based on the word. Faith does not feel, faith knows. >> And this is not cool to say. Why? Because we are almost daily encouraged to live a faith that feels. >> But do you know the problem with faith that feels? Because when you are here, you agree. But when the evil day knocks on your door, the only feeling that takes over you is fear. And if there is nothing there to preserve what you know, your faith will flee so quickly. The faith you claim to have will leak out as quickly as water flowing down the drain. And in the end, who will you blame? The lack of God's power, not the lack of your knowledge of the word. Why? Because without realizing it, you haven't realized how much easier it is to be guided by what I feel than by what I know. What I know speaks of what God said, and what God said has no variation. What I know is guided by what God affirms, and what God affirms does not change. What I know is guided by what God decrees, and God's decrees are immutable. What I know is guided by the word, and he guarantees about it. Heaven and earth will pass away. Do you know what this is? Circumstances and circumstances will be variable, but my word will never pass away. Look at someone there now and say: "You don't need more faith." You're weak. Say: "You don't need more faith." Say it. You need. Say, you need more word, more Bible, and then faith will naturally produce the conviction you need to believe the word. >> This is very serious, people. Let's receive this awakening word tonight. It's a night of instruction. Put your hand on your chest and say: "Faith is true." Faith is true. It doesn't feel, >> it doesn't feel. >> Put your hand on your head and say: "True faith, true faith >> knows?" >> Knows. >> In the order of your body, what comes first from top to bottom? The head or the heart? >> The head or the heart? When Paul uses the typology of the body of Christ to speak about church membership, he says: "Look, you are members, but Christ is the head." Look what he's saying. All command of the body will come through what the head directs. Let's go. Raise your right hand quickly. Lower it. Raise your left now. Can you raise both? Can you raise your hands and stomp your feet? Wonderful. You can stop. You could only do this not because you have hands. You could only do this not because you don't have them, but because you have feet. You could only do this because you have. >> Come on, my people, because you have. >> Do you know people whose heads are not right and their hearts are being pumped in the hospital now? What does that mean? That they are alive, but without a head, can they make any movement? No. So is your faith. The Lord is saying: "If you are guided by what you feel, movements that you know you should make will not happen. Things you should do, you won't do. Places you should enter, you won't enter. When you have to pray, you won't pray. Why? Because you have become accustomed to praying when you feel, to forgiving when you feel, to releasing love when you feel. Now, if you are guided by what you know, you will discipline your whole body to obey what the word of God commands. And then? And then I repeat: "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish." He doesn't say, "I'll think about it." He doesn't say, "I'll study." He says, "I will react immediately to my word." What do you know? No, no. Tonight, with all due respect, I will not fall into the victimization of your feelings. You feel one thing, I feel another. But if we gathered here today without having the exact psychologists to care for each person's mind, which is not something your science demands, but demands time, this meeting would not become what it truly is. Because we are not gathered here only to talk about what we feel, but we are here by the faith we have in what we know. While Job spoke of what he felt, the worse he got. After all, he wasn't talking to a psychoanalyst, nor a psychotherapist, nor a psychologist. He was simply expressing the feelings that put his soul in a state of putrefaction within. After all, who went through what this man went through? But while he talks about what he feels, he continues to feel, he continues to get worse, he has no power to organize what he feels. And he only talks about what he feels. And as he talks about what he feels, you notice him murmuring. And someone says: "Camila, Job never murmured against God." Against God, no. But the amount of nonsense, of nonsense he said about himself, he even said: "I wish my mother had aborted me before my birth. I wish I had no name, I wish I had been an abortion, I wish my eyes had never seen the light of day." Indignant, feeling bad, trying to justify the reason for his pain. It's complicated when a gracious God shows himself as sovereign and doesn't tell you why he tests you. And in this whirlwind of information, as he talks about what he feels, he gets worse and worse. But then comes the composition of one of Job's narratives at the height of his pain. I said at the height of his, >> let's go, church, at the height of his >> he stops for a moment from talking about what he feels and then pronounces the only thing he remembers of what he knows. And then, instead of saying: "I feel depressed." Instead of saying, "I feel like I should have died." Instead of saying, "I feel like I shouldn't be going through this," he opens his mouth, stops talking about what he feels. Then he says, "Now I know." I know, [laughter] I know. The fact of knowing doesn't change the fact of feeling, but the fact of knowing gives me a direction despite being lost in my pain. He says: "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. From then on, God's dialogue with Job begins to change. Why? Because God is not a captive of my feelings, but is faithful to his word in me." Then God begins to relate to Job, hallelujah >> and allows him to ask approximately 70 questions. Things he felt before, but God did not respond. >> Things that already existed, but God did not appear. But when, instead of using all the time he had, saying what he felt, he began to pronounce what he knew, despite what he felt, God comes. This means that God never cares about what I feel. God's love is so immeasurable that when John wrote about this love, he had to use a term, which is what? It's the term we use to describe what has no measure. And what does John 3:16 say? >> He loved the world. How? >> He loved it so much that he gave his son >> so that everyone who believes in him >> will not perish but have eternal life. >> Whoever believes does not perish. >> Hallelujah, >> Camila. So, if I have faith, why am I perishing? Because it's sensory faith. If it were genuine, it wouldn't perish. >> It would last longer than a service, it would last longer than a night, >> it would last longer than a worship song, it would last longer than an hour of ministration. >> Hallelujah. >> But why isn't it lasting? Because it's easier to be sensory than to be disciplinary. But today, the rose whose perfume we have already smelled tonight will end up pricking us with thorns, so that we understand that this is not because God wants to hurt us, ever, but so that we understand that what we know is always greater than what we feel. And by having enough awareness of what needs to be known, one day the motivation of our feelings will be corrected. Why? Because they will be based on what I know and not just on what I feel. Guide your life only by what you feel. You'll see where you'll end up. Those who guided their lives only by what they felt are seeing the sun rise square. They are taking half an hour of sunbathing in the courtyard. Why? Because they couldn't live in society. Because whoever only does what they feel will be sued. Whoever only does what they feel will be beaten on the street. >> Whoever only does what they feel will confront others, even if they are believers. Whoever only does what they feel will cause a scene. Whoever only does what they feel will shoot without ever having killed anyone. Because feelings confuse your thoughts. Feelings confuse your life. That's why I carry a life philosophy with me. I always say, always say, filter your feelings and emotions with prayer, because not everything is as you feel it. Who here today gets along with someone they once thought was terrible? Girl, I thought so-and-so was the worst, the worst, and now they're your friend. And the other one, you think, girl, so-and-so, I'd put my hand in the fire for them. They couldn't even handle the heat and left before. >> Feelings. Listen to this. Genesis, chapter one. We will not see the manifestation of faith for the creation of the world. Genesis, chapter one. Do you know what we will see? Manifestation of the word. Pay attention, this is serious, so you don't say later that I preached heresy. Listen to the end. In the beginning, the earth was formless and void. In the beginning, the earth was how? >> Meaning there was nothing. Complete it, my people. Meaning there was >> nothing. >> There was >> nothing. What does the text say? But the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters or over the face of the abyss that was in darkness. It is not the spirit of Satan. The text is clear. The spirit that moves is the spirit of >> He is moving, but he is not doing anything. >> He is going from one side to another, but he is not doing anything. >> He is walking over what we will later call earth, but he is not producing. >> The spirit is God's, but it does not generate seed. The spirit is God's, but it does not create light. The spirit is God's, but it does not plant a tree. The Spirit is God's, but it does not create man. The Spirit is God's, but it does not make the sun, it does not make the moon, it does not arrange stars, it does not create the firmament. But the spirit that moves is whose? God's. >> But he doesn't do anything. >> Because God only reacts to one thing. >> What, Camila? >> Huh? >> Huh? Now look how everything changes. And God said >> and and God said, >> "Let there be light," and there was light. >> And what happened? >> There was light. >> Now let's be very realistic here, OK? Let's not have sensory faith, no. Sensory, no. Let's have faith in what the word says. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. When the light came, who said amen? >> When the light came, who said? I believe? Which angel descended and said, "It's on, Jehovah?" So, answer intelligently: "Is there a manifestation of faith for the creation of the world?" Yes, yes. It's so much fear. Do you know what that is? It's that damn feeling. I'm going to say something like this, I'm saying what's written. So, use your head. Manifestation of faith. Did God use faith to create the world? >> He used what? >> Camila, are you discouraging me from having faith? No. I'm just correcting your expectation of faith, because this sensory one will only last for this service. But if you take what is being preached, >> there is no manifestation of faith for the creation of the world. Why? Because God does not depend on my faith to do absolutely anything. But how does our daily Christian reasoning work? God depends on my faith to have the power to do. But God does not depend on my faith to have the power to do anything. If I believe, God can. When I don't believe, he continues. >> But he only does it in the life of whom? >> So, pay attention. I don't have faith to give God the power to do. I have faith to receive power. Ah, to receive what God has already done. So, pay attention. Verse 31 of chapter 1, people, says: "When God stops everything and rests, since he has done everything, the text is clear. God finishes by saying: 'Look, I have given you everything'." >> It's written. I'm not preaching what I'm feeling, no. I'm preaching what's written. What's written is: "I have given you everything." This means God has already given everything. >> Camila, prove it. It's not me who proves it. It's the Bible that says it. After Genesis, chapter one, God never again manifested creation from nothing, but manifested miracles, wonders, signs, marvels, extraordinary things from existing raw material, that is, from things that had already been created, from things that already existed. All the miracles you see after Genesis 1, you will see God doing them based on things that already exist. For example, the creation of man itself, after God finishes the part of the creation of the world and the earth, he will create man. When God creates man, from where did he create him? >> From the dust of >> And was this earth there? No, no. It was God who created the >> And then he uses the earth that had already been created to manifest the creation of man. So, pay attention. That's why he reaches verse 30 and 31 and finishes the creation narrative by saying: "I have given you everything." What does that mean? It means that there are things that, obviously, it's redundant, but it's for you to understand. They already exist. And you cannot think that they don't exist just because they are not yet before your eyes. Japan is not in your sight now, but it exists. Yes or no? >> Yes or no? >> The house you live in, the bed or the floor, I don't know where you sleep. You who are laughing are on a mattress. I know what that's like. For a long time, we slept like that. But listen to this. Is the place where you sleep in front of you now? But does it exist, yes or no? >> Yes. >> You affirm with certainty that it exists because you have been there. My question is: do you have enough knowledge of what God has affirmed exists, but because you haven't seen it yet, you continue to believe that it exists? >> Because, and if I tell you that the fact that you haven't known it yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And if I tell you that the fact that it hasn't reached your hand yet doesn't mean it hasn't already been created. I'll say it bluntly and someone will understand. If I tell you that the husband you think doesn't exist, for whom you pray, already exists, has a name, an address, a job. >> He just hasn't been manifested yet. But God brought me here today to say, if you know the word that is upon you, you will know that the husband exists, the son exists, the house exists, the realization of the dream exists, the car you want to drive exists, the church you want to build exists, the person you want to conquer exists, the healing you desire exists, the ministry you aspire to already exists. The people you will heal, you will heal, already exist. What is the problem? >> And why then am I not seeing it? Because you want to use faith in fulfillment and not in waiting. >> And faith in fulfillment is not faith, it's realization. >> So, pay attention. God, then, does not depend on my faith to have the power to be God. To have the power to do. But why do I still believe? Because he only manifests this power in the life of whom? Those who believe. But it's not my faith that gives God the power to do anything. Yet I continue to believe because my faith is the only thing capable of giving me the power to receive what God has already done. Hallelujah. Glory. >> That's why I believe, >> that's why I don't give up. >> Glory. >> That's why I prophesy the word in the midst of the valley of dry bones. >> He says to Ezekiel: >> "Son of man, can these bones live?" About this, I don't know. But you, Lord God Jehovah, know." And do you know what he's saying? About this, I don't know, but I know the Lord. >> What is he saying? If the Lord commands this cemetery to become an army, >> I don't know them, but I know the Lord. >> That's what Ezekiel is saying. Then you say: "Camila, I want to be a prophet." Do you want to be a prophet? Be faithful to the word. A prophet is not someone who speaks a few languages and says: "Thus says the Lord." No. A good prophet is like Ezekiel. Who is it, Camila? It's someone who has the revelation of the unknown, right? Who is capable of faithfully producing what God has already said. Look at this. Ezekiel is not clothed with power to say something he didn't know. Dry bones. Hear the word of the Lord. No. The word is like this: Son of man, can these bones live? God said to him. Lord Jehovah, about this I do not know, but you know. He said: "Then tell them thus: Dry bones." Who said it first? God. Then Ezekiel says: "Tell them now. Tell the wind from the four corners." He said: "Tell the spirit." Then Ezekiel says: "I will tell the spirit, wind from the four corners." Then God said: "Breathe upon this valley." And Ezekiel revealed, he did not repeat. >> I will ask again. Did Ezekiel reveal? Answer. >> Did he do what? >> Ezekiel revealed. Answer. >> No. >> Did he do what? >> People want to be prophets to bring the hidden and the concealed. God is saying to someone here today, do you want to be a prophet? Prophesy what you know. Prophesy what I have already released. Prophesy the psalm you know. Pray the psalm you know. Prophesy the word that is upon you. Someone might come and say: "Oh, prepare yourself. I've already put your name in the toad's mouth. Seven fathoms below the earth. Give the answer and say: "Prepare yourself. 1000 will fall at my side, 10,000 at my right, but I will not be struck." Prophesy what you know. Someone will look at you and say: "You lost your husband, you lost your family, you are an orphan, you are a widow." Someone will say what they see, and you will say what you know. I serve the Father of orphans, the judge of widows. Release a word that you know, even if no one has told you, except God. And I don't know if this will make you a showman, but it will certainly make you a man and a woman of faith. Put your hand on your heart again and say: "True faith, true faith." >> Open, open, open your lungs with force and say: "True faith, >> true faith >> does not feel. >> Does not feel." >> Put your hand on your head and say: "It knows. >> It knows. >> How did Jesus overcome the temptation >> he went through in the desert? Satan also knew the Bible, but that's the thing. What he knew of the word manifested partially in the temptation of the desert. Now, look how cool this is, meditate on the text, if I'm not mistaken, Luke 4, right? That's where Jesus' temptation is. See this. Hmm. He says: "For it is written," Satan said to him. Then look how he responded: "But it is also written." >> I love this. >> A believer who only knows "it is written" knows, but a believer who, upon hearing what another knows, also knows something? >> It's different. It's different. >> My God. So see, >> it wasn't about what he felt. What did he feel? Hunger. What did he feel? Weight. What did he feel? Tiredness. But what made him make the journey was not what he felt, it was what he >> Camila. What does all this have to do with John chapter 19? I'm going to close the Bible because it's not 8:30 yet, but it won't end at 9 either. First point, we read like this, look, from verse 24, that the soldiers took Jesus' garments, tore them, and cast lots for the tunic. Then John says: "I am John, I saw this and testified." Do you know what he's saying? Believe what I'm telling you, because I am an eyewitness to what I'm telling you. And we tend to pay more attention to those who saw than to those who only heard. Yes or no, right? It's different when someone comes to tell you something and says: "Boy, sit here, I heard." Then you, hmm, OK. But when the person says, "Sit here," no one told me, I saw it myself. Speak. It's different. It's more or less what John is saying. He says: "Look, the testimony is true." And I will prove it to you in the first episode, where it manifests in the narrative of chapter 19, saying: "They tore it and cast lots for the tunic." He says: "I saw it, I, John, saw that the soldiers did this to Jesus." Complete it quickly. Who did this to Jesus were the >> soldiers. According to John's narrative. And he is right, but at the same time, he remembers what Isaiah said. Then he says: "But this happened so that now, since I have put the understanding of the word in your mind, let's replace scripture with word, and you already know it means what God said." OK? Then John says, so that the >> word might be fulfilled, >> which was that which had been spoken by the mouth of the prophet Isaiah, who said hundreds of years before it happened, what, Camila? The text is there, two points. "They divided my garments among themselves, and for them they cast lots." Then he's saying, the soldiers did this, but this only happened because it was written. >> No, but who did this? The soldiers. But this only happened because it was written. >> The word. >> But who did this? The soldiers or the word? >> John can only identify and attribute what is happening, the manifestation of Isaiah, because he knew what word Isaiah had released concerning Christ. Camila, I didn't understand. You will understand now. When you know what is upon you, you detach the personal relationship >> and begin to understand that things are not happening because someone hates you. >> And you begin to understand that some things are not happening because someone is simply persecuting you, but because upon your life there is a. >> So, pay attention to this. If John had no knowledge of Isaiah's word, he would not attribute glory to God now, but hatred to the soldiers. There are people who attribute hatred to people who are actually employees. >> Who understood? God is saying: "Hey, if you know what I have in your life, you will see that it is not the neighbor, it is the word. If you understand what I have in your life, you will understand that it is not persecution, it is the word. If you understand what I have in your life, you will see that it is not envy, it is the word. The word of God >> coming into motion to make God fulfill what he told you. Raise your right hand. This is prophetic. Place it on your head and say to yourself: Upon me. >> Say: "Upon me there is a word. From today on, filter everything through the word. Everything God has said about you, filter it through the word. And begin to understand that some people, in reality, are not enemies. They are people who are available for God to fulfill what he has said. No matter how bad this may seem now. >> Hallelujah. >> God brought me here today to tell some: "Don't have the anger of the soldiers. My God! Make me now understand more clearly why Jesus, at the moment of crucifixion, instead of saying, 'Father, kill them,' said, 'Forgive them, >> because they >> do not know.' But I >> know why there is confusion? Because people don't know, but it's because they don't know, right? Because you should know. Oh dear! >> That's why there's arguing, that's why your finger is nervous on WhatsApp. That's why you're taking screenshots. >> Then you say: "It's because they don't know." But the problem is not that they don't know. The problem is that you don't know. >> Because the word about them, I don't know. The question is: "And about you, do you?"
know?" So, the first thing is to understand that not everything that is against me is because it is persecution, but it is because there are things that need to be fulfilled. >> So, if God said He will exalt me, there will be humiliation, because there is no exaltation without someone who knows the word knows this. >> Second episode. Then he [music] says: "And so that the >> Let's go, and so that the >> He said: "I am thirsty." So, pay attention. He didn't say: "I am thirsty because I am thirsty." Camila. But he is thirsty. He might even be. After carrying such a heavy cross, I have no doubt that Jesus is thirsty. But the text does not say that the motivation for asking for water was thirst. What the text says is that by the motivation of the word, he was going to say he was thirsty. [music] Camile, is there a difference? Yes. It means that Jesus is not asking for something because he needs it, he is asking for something to fulfill. Look at this. And so that the >> said: "I am thirsty, Camila, is it possible that he is thirsty?" It is possible. But is it possible that someone who knows they are facing their algós will ask for water? Would you ask for water from someone who wants to kill you? You know you are baptized. Open your mind. But pay attention so that the >> when I know what is upon me, I don't wait for anyone to do it, I do it myself. >> Look at this. Seeing that it was already consummated so that the scripture that the word said "I have" would be fulfilled. So it wasn't because he needed it, I'll translate. It was to accelerate the process. When you know the process, you don't run from it. You accelerate it, >> Camila. I didn't understand. You didn't understand. Talk to a believer who has already asked for forgiveness without having done anything >> and you will understand that it is the believer accelerating the process. Why? Because [music] when I know what I'm going to go through, I don't run away, brother. I see the best way for me to walk quickly. Two things I have learned throughout life. First, I always say this, doing God's will is not easy, but the second leads you to do the first. Running away from it is hard work. So, Camila, so God is saying, if you know what is upon your life, don't run away, accelerate. Look at someone there, say: "If you know, don't run backward." Look at someone and say: "Run upward. Run upward. Ask for forgiveness from whom you need to ask. Ask for forgiveness even without having done anything. Go down wherever you have to go down. Why? Because whoever knows what they have to fulfill does not run away, they accelerate the process. >> Third and last. And for me it's the best of all. Why? Because it's when he is already dead. Complete it for me, please. He is already dead. >> Then the text says: "Then the soldiers came to break the legs of Jesus. They broke the legs of the first and the third who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, is it saying they didn't want to?" It's not saying they couldn't. To what did they attribute this? Whether it was Joseph of Arimathea, whether it was Nicodemus arriving, none of that matters. John, who knows what had been written about Christ, says: "They could not." Why? Because they didn't have wood to break. They had. They had an instrument to grind. They had. They had a way to knock him off the wood, they had. But they couldn't. And then John says: "Because upon him there was a." >> There are things that even knowing the word, you will go through the process and it will give you the feeling that you are free. Why? Because you are living things that other people who don't have God live. And you say: "It seems like I'm free in the world." And at that moment you think: "If they broke the one on the right and the one on the left, they will break me too." Only God is saying, my child does not live by the method of comparison. >> There are people here who are losing faith because they are comparing their lives, the lives of those on the right and those on the left. And God is saying, your life is not followed by comparison. It is followed by the basis of what you have upon your life. What is the word that God released upon your house? What did God say about your family? He is saying, because if that is what I said, this is what will happen, falling from the right or dying from the left. Why? Because I am not guided by comparison. I am guided by the word of truth. There is a word. Then John says: "Coming upon him, they could not break his legs. Why? Because upon him there was a." >> But the text says that Jesus was already dead. The dead defend themselves, the dead react, the dead protect themselves, the dead speak. >> [music] >> This is what I find most beautiful. When you, in life, do everything that needs to be done to fulfill the word, when you can no longer react, who reacts? [music] >> God brought people here today to say: "My word will react. My word will enter rooms where you do not enter. My word will defend your name when you are not present. My word will bring deliverance from ambushes that you do not see. My word will become your friend in the enemy's territory. My word will cover you from above, below, behind, beside, and in front. My word will not let you perish. Raise your hand, I will prophesy. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. And every [music] tongue that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. It is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It is your word. Come, drummer. How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. Camila, I see so many people shipwrecked, but you will not be shipwrecked. Master, though we have toiled all night, we have caught nothing, but on your word [music] we will cast the net. They cast it and caught a great number of fish. Word, word, word, [music] word. Receive the word, preach the word, plant the word, look at the word, [music] live the word. Heh.