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[Music] that the Lord in my heart and I want to develop it and it is because the enemy has always attacked fatherhood in a very strong way being an orphan is someone who has no inheritance is someone who has no genealogy is someone who has no has no focus to walk into the future a person who has no fatherhood is a person who will lack identity a person who has no fatherhood is a person who will even lack a ministerial identity so the enemy raises enemies of fatherhood and I want us to be able to identify some of these enemies today and the first character I saw who was taken away from fatherhood is Joseph in the book of Genesis 45:3 the Bible says and Joseph said to his brothers I am Joseph is my father still alive and his brothers could not answer him because they were troubled before him you know the story in which Joseph is torn from his father's house against his will he is taken away from his father and had to spend more than a decade alone it is believed that he was between 15 and 17 years old when he was thrown into the cistern and then brother at about thirty when he became Pharaoh's second in command then the seven years of Pharaoh's dream passed remember the seven years of abundance and about two years after the years of hunger we are already talking about nine about 39 years 40 years old Joseph would be when he reunited with his brothers if we do the math about 40 years minus 15 or 17 that he was when they sold him how many years are we talking about 34 35 years right no 24 25 years away from his father 24 25 20 years brother in a strange land without fatherhood and when Joseph sees his brothers the question he asks is is my father still alive that question makes me see that Joseph always needed fatherhood and perhaps I understand why he was so loyal to Potiphar why he was so loyal to the jailer and why he was so loyal brother to Pharaoh because he was like a father to him so every time he saw a man he was looking for fatherhood now what separated Joseph from his father say with me The Brothers the first enemy of fatherhood within the church can be the one sitting next to you Joseph was the youngest brother and the brothers were bothered by the way his father loved him brother has it bothered you don't answer me yes no just do a self-examination do an ultrasound deep in your heart and check yourself has it ever bothered you to see that your pastor loves someone in your eyes more than he loves you just take it out from the depths of your heart because that can be an enemy of fatherhood The Brothers were bothered that he was the beloved that's why the first attack was to take away his tunic that's why they didn't kill him and sold him because it wasn't Joseph's life that bothered them but that Joseph was at home they took him out of the house so that the father would have no one to love so one of the enemies of fatherhood are the brothers who become jealous and do everything to remove the beloved beloved brother never make a bad report to alienate a son from his father how low that there are people who fall into the act of saying but kein is bad pastor you just don't know her with the desire to separate her an example of me you know what the brothers were doing one of the enemies of fatherhood is not understanding the sovereignty of God I heard a song many years ago saying God has no favorites I said that's nonsense God does have favorites Jesus was his favorite David was a favorite Joseph was a favorite Daniel was a favorite So not understanding that God has favorites leads us to question God's sovereignty but we become an enemy of fatherhood because it may bother you a son don't look just you just you alone there with the Holy Spirit has a scene of love between a pastor and a sheep ever bothered you because you want it and since you don't have it you get bothered don't even look I would have put tape on my glasses because the enemy may want to use you as an enemy of someone else's fatherhood to achieve separation to achieve brotherly disunity or to remove a son from home just because he is loved they took a beloved son out of the house because the love bothered them love is so good that there are people who are bothered by it love is so good that there are people who are bothered by the love of others there are people who get angry because others are loved look look how hard brother imagine the brothers from afar watching how the father hugs brothers I don't know if that word exists but I've heard some of you say it I learned it hugs caressed pampered cherished rocked kissed loved a son and while the father loved one they didn't look for what did he do so that daddy would love him so I could imitate him no brothers became enemies of fatherhood how hard it is that the first enemy of fatherhood can be in the church and that he is also a son but without identity he is the enemy of fatherhood is another son who has no identity who is a son and doesn't know it and so since there is another who has already understood that he is a son and is benefiting from it then brother he gets angry at the one who has identity tell the one next to you never mess with my love with God marriages that fight it's just that everything works out for you and nothing works out for me with the past you have and how well they treat you no one even talks to me brother nothing happens here but that's that's jealousy and we become enemies of fatherhood I want to run because I have so many brothers and I want to leave a space at the end for questions in Exodus 2:10 there is a son who is an orphan of a living father and that is Moses when the child grew up she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son and she named him Moses saying for I have drawn him out of the waters and it came to pass in those days that Moses when he grew up went out from where to where his brothers and saw their hard work and saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew one of his brothers then he looked around and when he saw that there was no one and when he saw that there was no one what did he do brother he killed him and hid him in the sand where is the mystery of this preaching looking for a note I put on this point because I fell in love with this passage imagine growing up in your house your father hugging you putting you to sleep in the afternoon and not being able to tell you that he is your father do you remember that Moses was born there was a decree that every male child had to die his parents prepared a basket caulked it threw it in the water and threw the child into the water by the grace of the Holy Spirit the child arrived where the princess was bathing a sterile woman whom I believe because I don't believe in coincidences God had closed her womb God had left her infertile because God knew that on that day and at that hour she would meet Moses then she sees the child falls in love with the child but she doesn't keep the child either because she couldn't feed the child so she looks for someone to take care of him and the girl who is Miriam who must have been about 5 years old one day I have to preach about Miriam brother because Miriam's traumas were not normal she became a nanny at 5 years old and threw him into the water she had to watch him watch his death because nothing else was expected but that's not the topic today the case is that suddenly Miriam arrives and tells the princess I know a woman who can breastfeed him but this woman couldn't say she was the mother and this father couldn't say he was the father either so look at what I see the father sees the son and can't tell him you are my son you carry my last name because they couldn't give him a name to have a child at home to be a father and not be able to give him a name because the name is given by the princess the name is given by the princess so maybe when the child was born they had given him another name have you never thought that the newborn child could have been named Peter but when he came from the palace and they said his name is Moses well there's nothing to do his name is Moses because now the princess is the mother you can't give him the name he had now you have to change his name look at how many things and you will say yes pastor and where in all of this is the enemy of fatherhood easy in a pharaonic decree how terrible that there are children who, being next to their father, can never see him as a father because there is a curse that pursues them the one who called him father was not him the one who was his father could not hug him and tell him he was a father Moses was an orphan all his life the day he discovered he had family that he had brothers that he had a home that he had a house he couldn't handle the emotion and became a murderer the day he discovered he was a son that he had brothers that he couldn't handle it and became a murderer and had to flee and the day he discovered he had a father he had to distance himself from him for 40 years in the desert brother that's tough look here is your father it can't be and this is your sister and this is your brother and this is your mother I have family he goes out he bumps into one he kills him and he has to flee for 40 years Moses' life was not easy that's why there are people who want glory without knowing the suffering behind it Moses don't think the 40 years for Moses were spent tanning in the desert brother he didn't go to tan in the desert he went to soak the desert with his tears the day I found out I have family I have to leave it how will my mother be which of them Moses the one who raised you the one who gave birth to you both how will they be how will my parents be which Moses the one who made you or the one who gave you everything both Moses was living in the midst of a horrible panorama and what kept him away from everything was a pharaonic decree that pursued him I'm talking about a curse that pursued him there are children who are pursued by curses who cannot see their father who cannot find their father who cannot find their father's love who the day they found their father something sad happened something bad but they live brother with an enemy which are ancestral curses fathers who don't want their children fathers who made them and abandoned them fathers who brother never gave them their last name never recognized them never loved them and those children live longing for a fatherhood they cannot embrace because no one embraces in the spiritual what they have not managed to heal in the physical so no one can have a spiritual father if they have not understood physical fatherhood it is someone who is hurt does not understand that is why when God reveals himself to Moses he does not reveal himself as Father Moses was everything but he was not the father of Israel look he was the deliverer of Israel he was the man of signs he was the man of backing he was the man brother of the power of God but he did not behave like the father of the multitude he was the leader but beyond that I take it further he did not behave like the father of his son and I can show you in Exodus chapter 4 when God comes to kill him because he had not circumcised his son Moses was not like here here have you read any passage of Moses with his son and the boy was with him brother even the father-in-law was with him in the whole desert they call him and he takes his family there was Zipporah there was the son there was Jethro he mentions it no brother the children of everyone are mentioned but not Moses' because in him there was a wound no one can give what they don't have so one of the enemies of fatherhood is what we have experienced in childhood the one who experienced rejection from his father in childhood will have difficulty understanding spiritual fatherhood and the fatherhood of the soul because there are three fatherhoods physical fatherhood is biological fatherhood your physical and biological parents the fatherhood of the soul is ministerial they are the pastors who shepherd who cover the soul and then comes spiritual fatherhood which is that of our God it is someone who has a trauma in biological and physical fatherhood cannot embrace spiritual fatherhood can embrace an authority as a pastor but not as a father one of the enemies of fatherhood is what we have experienced in our childhood or adolescence who has not been marked in one way or another by their father brother it was difficult for me to understand fatherhood if it weren't for the Holy Spirit I wouldn't have embraced it it was difficult it was difficult because my dad didn't raise me didn't educate me he was never with me and when he arrived he took my brother and told me if I had been a boy you would have gone with me and I cried brother I said I want to be a boy I even wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to get covered in grease I have to learn mechanics because my dad liked cars and my brother was a mechanic I said here's how I qualify by being a car mechanic and there's nothing to do sister I even removed my moles I think I have the same size the same mouth everything so I said Daddy I walked around like a girl but not just rejection and you know what I realized when I came to Christ that I didn't feel like a daughter I would go to church and God blessed me because I have great fatherhood but I felt like just another sheep I didn't feel like a daughter because there was something the Lord had to heal so one of the enemies of fatherhood is what you lived in your childhood because many times you will see the father of the soul or the father of the spirit remembering what you lived with your biological father it is difficult when you see a pastor I tell you a story that is not a story I tell you a story that is not a story there are people who cannot say the word dad because they are marked by orphanhood and since they never had a father to call father because their father was absent it's not even I don't dare to say it because I didn't research it but I would like to look if Moses at any point told God father I don't think so but I can't be sure because I didn't stop to study it because I find hundreds who did believe in fatherhood even in the Old Testament but Moses knew God in many ways the question is would he know him as Father in what way do we know God because when the Lord Jesus Christ preached to the disciples they knew God in all ways they knew him as Rapha as Jireh as the provider as all ways they knew God but they didn't know him as Abba So when Jesus came he came to manifest to them an identity of God that they did not know God's fatherhood So to what extent brother can we be marked that this prevents us it becomes an enemy of fatherhood I will continue to the next point numbers chapter 27 verse 3 our father died in the desert although he was not among the group that joined against the Lord in Korah's group but he died for his sin and had no sons in chapter 27 of the book of Numbers appears the story of the daughters of Zelophehad brother of Kohath and this man the Bible says that he sinned the Bible does not say in what but it says that the Lord killed him in the desert because of his sin he was near Korah's group but had nothing to do with Korah's sin what sin we don't know when I get to heaven I'll ask him the case is that this man sins and dies but he had no male children he had five daughters the law said say with me the law the law said that women could not inherit So when Moses arrives and they start distributing lands and inheritance nothing falls to them by law and these five women super brave come and approach Moses and say but will it be fair we want land and inheritance we are not guilty that our father sinned and that we have no brothers what will we do Moses goes to talk to God and God tells him they are right you will give them inheritance and a law is established and for the first time God says now women in their cases will inherit for these five women but now what happens here how and when were they separated from their father and what do I see happening here is that they had to fight because there was no father to fight for them the battle for inheritance is not for the children it is for the father the battle brother beloved that someone fights for you it is for your parents it is not for you so today I want to give you something as a father if you have more than one child leave your affairs clear I'm not telling you you're going to die but arrange your affairs a will does no harm a will does no harm putting things in order does no harm I think it's called last will in my country only the will exists but I think here it's also called acts of last will where someone says I don't want to be cremated or I want to be upside down I want my coffin to be green I want an olive tree planted for me whatever you want I don't want them to cry for me I want them to share coffee that day that's what I'm going to ask you you will do arrange your affairs because how sad it is that these daughters instead of mourning their father were looking for how to survive because their father guaranteed nothing so one of the enemies brother beloved one of the enemies of fatherhood is to be content with what we have they could have said the law says and I'm content but they said no we will advocate we will seek a solution we will talk do you know how many people have never done anything to achieve fatherhood Oh I feel sorry I remember one day I thought of telling my pastor that I felt sorry asking for a photo with my pastor and my pastor told me off brother what are you sorry for if he is your father go and ask for a photo and I went up to him and with my phone hidden I felt sorry asking for a photo with my apostle we started in the ministry we were babies brother already ten years old and I with my phone hidden when my apostle said what oh he destroyed me what do I say what do I say what do I say and the pastor from behind that I want a photo prince and okay come and then I didn't want to get within 10 km for what reason because legalism hurt me if you are a woman you cannot be close to a man if you are a woman you cannot approach a man if you are a woman you cannot greet a man if you are a woman and yes it's okay there must be limits I'm not saying you should be all over him either so the word doesn't exist anymore lately I'm going to create my own dictionary brother I'm going to create it it's not like you're a tissue to wipe your drool with but it's another thing that legalism prevents you from approaching a father who you can't greet because no I was taught that men are respected but it's not disrespectful to greet one of the enemies of fatherhood is legalism it is legalism I can't approach him because because he is the pastor another enemy that would also apply here is the unfounded jealousy of many insecure female pastors who are traumatizing the congregation that no one should approach that no one should as if anyone would take their husband and so the sisters don't approach the pastor looks badly don't come the no and so a reputation is created where there are daughters who cannot enjoy fatherhood simply because there is a legalism that has hurt them or something is hindering them from receiving love so when I look at these five women my respect for them they said we are not going to be content we have to have rights we are going to seek our rights we are going to do something we are going to pursue something look I enjoyed in my church in Cuba how the old women loved my husband for us old women is not that they are old old women are over 50 and then we started calling them old women and it's a term of great affection some beautiful old women it's not derogatory it's a beautiful old woman and well in fact I call my mother-in-law old woman every day I call my grandmother old woman but it's not disrespect it's a term of affection so if one day I call you old woman you know it's out of affection well the case is that they came pastor and I said they don't let you in that fool is waiting for you at the door to hug you and they would grab his cheeks Oh pastor you can be my son how beautiful it is when you can enjoy fatherhood how hard it is when legalism isolates the people I'm not saying there aren't limits that must be respected and that cannot be crossed but there are women who don't greet us because they come from churches where they were taught that they cannot greet and the Bible says greet with a holy kiss and do you know what a kiss is a kiss so if you can kiss but in holiness when there is lust in your heart it's better not to kiss but if what is in your heart is the heart of a son go and seek your father and hug him and hug him and tell him a hug can heal look a father's hug can heal the soul it's incredible it's incredible the power these women said we don't have fathers but we won't be content Moses do something for us how beautiful these women are really they changed history and you know what I like most about the passage is that they don't have names to change history you don't have to be known to change history you just have to have the willingness to do something different you don't have to look oh the name of these daughters is not recorded and yet they changed the law men didn't change the law five women changed the law so sometimes I say how dare someone say that women can't do anything in the congregation if these women caused Moses to go talk to God and God granted their request there were few times when God granted something to men and to women it was granted how beautiful brother how beautiful so woman go seek the Lord he will grant you what you ask have faith that he asks that you ask and he answers look how beautiful another enemy of fatherhood is in first Samuel 24:10 behold today your eyes have seen that the Lord has put you in my hands in the cave this day and some told me to kill you but my eyes had pity on you I said I will not stretch out my hand against my king because he is the Lord's anointed and look my father brother look at the edge of your cloak in my hand seeing that I cut off the edge of your cloak and did not kill you recognize and see that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands and that I have not sinned against you even though you have pursued my life to take it David and Saul David and Saul one of the things the enemy can use as an enemy of fatherhood is the character of the man of God I don't approach because they are too serious I don't approach because they don't talk I don't approach because they have a lot of character I don't approach because they bite I don't approach because David taught me that fatherhood is fought for David sought in every way possible for his father Saul to love him so you know what I understood is that there are sons who are loved for free like Jonathan but there are sons who have to conquer love like David if you look at the passage on screen for one more moment I want you to see three things that are in that passage one the Bible says when David starts talking to Saul the first thing he says in verse 10 is I will not stretch out my hand against my king number one say with me authority then Lord's anointed say with me anointing and then say with me father there in that passage are the three different ways of seeing a covering it can be seen as an authority the pastor the female pastor the man of God can be seen as an anointed one whom God uses whom God speaks to whom heals who does who says who prophesies who performs signs but he can be seen as a father so there are people who are in the dimension of sheep who see a leader there is my authority if I have to do what he says because he is my authority and it is beautiful it is not bad but that is the first level the second is the anointed one it is when you recognize that he is there because God put him there I don't like it but God God I would change a few things but God liked him just as he is I would give the female pastor more size I would too brother but there's nothing to do that's how God chose him I would take a piece from the pastor and give it to her we've negotiated it doesn't work it can't happen it's impossible so sometimes we say yes he is there because God put him there that is recognizing that he is an anointed one but the highest level is fatherhood So I enjoy when I read that David says to Saul my father and the guy wants to kill him and the guy wants to kill him may the mistake your pastor made never be an enemy of fatherhood that day he went too far you don't know if God hardened his heart like Pharaoh's for something if God wanted to process something in you because sometimes when you are wrong God has to deal with you through someone else and the harder the stone the harder the hammer must be Israel was very hard and that's why God said Pharaoh's heart is not as hard as the people's I have to harden Pharaoh's heart to be able to work on the people's heart meaning Pharaoh was not bad his reluctance was because of God it is that when I read it my God that people must have been hard look how hard it is that in 40 years God didn't change him God had to say no Moses if Pharaoh sees you perhaps you are the son he will grant your request better I will harden Pharaoh's heart when I understand this Pharaoh was not bad Pharaoh gave Moses an audience every time Moses wanted come my son Pharaoh who for them was God on earth had a public audience let him come let him enter my secret place my chamber let little Moses enter and since Moses was a stutterer he needed company Moses and company Pharaoh wants to see them and they are there so Pharaoh was not bad count how many times how many times Moses spoke with Pharaoh ask for an interview yourself no Biden doesn't work that doesn't talk to Donald Trump no that old man surely the door will open for you and you will end up leaving through it but that's not the case the case is the following ask for an interview because he laughs brother it's the truth you knock on the door and he says I'm coming open and leave you alone in the office but well ask for an audience what I'm not going to talk about the president of a nation let's talk about what's his name the one who controls the state the authority that is the governor who in this case is disanti ask for an appointment arrive knock on his door there and tell him disanti I've come to talk to you the Lord sent me and tell me if they will give you an appointment and come next week disanti I bring a new message in frogs sell the prisoners for madness the government taxes will pay for your treatment in the asylum next week disanti that's what the Lord says brother Pharaoh was not bad he attended to Moses every time Moses wanted he opened the palace door to Moses every time Moses wanted and Moses didn't come alone there he came with his company with the one who spoke for him because remember he didn't speak and they came brother ragged poorly dressed they broke palace protocol they broke palace protocol to attend to Moses no one can tell me that Pharaoh was very bad he adopted a boy from the people he put him in the palace and gave him everything like one of his own he wasn't so bad he gave him life and education and money he wasn't bad and then who was bad the people I read that and say my God I wouldn't have wanted to have Moses' sandals even if I had seen and sometimes people say I want to see the sea open to see if they put a people like Israel on you because the sea opened for him because of the people because the people didn't believe it's just that sometimes we ask and we don't even know what we're asking for brother only when the answer comes we scream right but my point is the following if you read in the passage Saul was bad and David saw him as a father one of the enemies of fatherhood can be that the enemy makes you believe that your covering is bad and that you don't know if God has hardened his heart I believe that God worked with Saul because they were molding a David because the shepherd boy was very fragile and didn't know what pressure was like to be king and the only school for a king he had to go through with a king so I think that when Saul's heart was hardened it was because God was working on David's heart to make him fit for the throne so how many people have you heard say no it's just that I can't I can't call him father because he makes mistakes don't you make mistakes because I make mistakes is there any father here who has never made a mistake brother to ask him to give me the manual he uses I have made mistakes I have had to sit my children down and ask for forgiveness I failed daddy especially Cris who was the firstborn and the first one doesn't even know how to do it I have had to sit down and say forgive me I lost it I went too far I failed here I made a mistake forgive me and it embarrasses you Pastor no it doesn't embarrass me of course he doesn't take advantage either he points me out or questions me but when I make a mistake I admit that I make a mistake and that's it because I will continue to make mistakes but how many people are there today who say my pastor look that day what he said he shouldn't have said oh you needed David's school you needed David's school that an enemy of fatherhood is never what you have lived that your bad experience does not limit you from being a son you can be the son of the worst of fathers have you ever heard the phrase I don't understand how good parents have bad children and how very bad parents have good children never look at it has it never been in the neighborhood in your neighborhood in your family those cases of those mothers who were cows and you don't understand what the term means it's a Cuban term for women who do nothing who don't raise children they live on the street they abandon them and the children die for them they are the best and then there are mothers who worked they killed themselves they burned their eyes their eyelashes they gave them everything and the children don't even see them or call them or help them they mistreat them they hit them it's an incredible phenomenon So this applies to the church there are good spiritual fathers with very bad children and there are very bad spiritual fathers with very good children what is the key to fatherhood that you have the identity of a son when you have the identity of a son you don't care what your father is like I have spent a week talking to my pastor every day for a month without him responding because he didn't see my message among his 4000 one day we sat down to eat I say dad a brother says I wrote to him he didn't answer me apostle and I say to him I too he says to me when and I say check look yes and that didn't mean he didn't love me it could be that God was testing me to see what my heart felt look how he doesn't answer me of course surely someone else answers me look maybe it has happened to you I write to the female pastor and she doesn't answer me but I write to Keilin and she answers immediately and I write to the female pastor and she doesn't answer me I don't know why she doesn't answer me brother beloved brother may the enemy of fatherhood never be your attention deficit David was not close to Saul and loved him madly he was not close and loved him madly and when he was close to him he tore off a piece of his cloak to take it with him you know what he said I want to take something from him I confess I have stolen and one day I was in the office my apostle I stole a pen it had the church's name so beautiful so cool I took it I stole it when I realized I took it I saw it I was tempted brother temptation enemy and I ended up stealing a pen then I confessed the sin apostle I took a pen it's okay my daughter no problem then I'll get it back and so it came here I didn't want to take some cups he said it from the altar he confessed but why do I tell you there is nothing more beautiful than having fatherhood fatherhood is not closeness fatherhood is not being under a wing every day getting warmth fatherhood is knowing that there is a cloak that embraces you and that in the spiritual world you are not an orphan that there is someone who represents you it's like saying there is a last name that resonates in heaven and that last name is over my life how beautiful brother when one feels pride in their last name when one feels pride in the ministry a holy pride so that no one says pride yes a holy pride that one says that is my home David was never ashamed of Saul never so may the character of your father never never never be an enemy of fatherhood because life has taught me that there are very bad mothers who have had very good children and then what is the secret that she is bad no that the son's heart turned out good it is the son it is fatherhood it does not depend on the father it depends on the son the father says son always but he will always expect the son to say father the son is not yet born and the father already knows he has a son however it is difficult for the son to say it's even mom many others say dad others fight what did he say they invent what sounded like because it's not even understood but fatherhood is a beautiful thing I want to continue second Samuel 18:32 the Bible says second Samuel 18:32 the king said to the Cushite the young Absalom is doing well and the Cushite replied may the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise against you for evil be like that young man and the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept and said as he walked my son Absalom my son my son Absalom whoever wishes I had died in your place Absalom my son my son Absalom was a son who never enjoyed fatherhood and the enemy of Absalom's fatherhood was the rebellion with which he lived he felt like the last Coca-Cola in the desert do you remember it always impresses me how the day it was going to happen it was a show he was going to cut his hair and CNN arrived Telemundo arrived there because people had to see how he cut his hair he waited to cut it once a year he indulged in long hair because if you shave every month there's no expectation everything was a matter of manipulation once a year people know January 10th Absalom is going to shave what day is it tomorrow I'm going to shave and people in the hallways tomorrow he's going to cut his hair and everyone came to see how the prince cut his hair forgive me what's so extraordinary about cutting hair it was an attention deficit he wanted his father's throne and since they didn't venerate him he sought ways to be the center to stand out be careful because one of the enemies of fatherhood is when you want to be as seen as your father when instead of wanting to learn from your father you want to start competing with your father pastor what is the difference a very fine line
There is a very thin line between imitating and wanting to take your place. Look, if it had been someone else who had said this phrase, "I will ascend to the stars, I will set my throne on the Mount of God, I will sit," and it had come from a beloved son, someone would say, "How he loves his father, that he doesn't want to be where he is, but to be next to him." Because Christ sat next to the Lord's throne. Lucifer desired it and it was not given to him. The line is so thin between "I want to be with you" and "I want them to see me with you." "I want to spend time with you" or "I want them to see that I am close to you." Absalom had his own house, his own business, his own time. Remember that's where he took Tamar when he violated her. Absalom, eh, pardon, Amnon, he took her to his house. He had his house, he had his servants, he had a palace within his father's palace. Be careful when your pineapple is separate from the pastor's pineapple. When there is a circle, no, if what is mine is my father's. Look, God has given us a lot of churches. They are not mine, they are not your pastor's. They are my apostle's. And I say, "Dad, this house is yours. When you are here, don't ask permission. This house is yours. You are in charge. You call, you come, you say, whenever you want, you are in charge." And the churches here are, we gave them all to you, they are yours. You are the apostle, we cover by grace, but they are yours. For what reason? Because there can never be, when there is paternity, a detachment. "This is mine, and this is yours." No, brother, if it's not you, but I get home, it's my grandmother's, and I do whatever I want. But I access my grandmother, I open the fridge, I go to the kitchen, I grab the thermos, I'm serving myself coffee. I don't serve myself, I tilt the thermos because it's my mom's house, the one who raised me, and there I feel like the owner and lady. But when you go to someone else's house, you don't dare to touch anything, right? It's like that. Now, when you have parents, your father owns everything. Your father owns everything. What happened to Absalom? Notice that here alone there is a, there is such a rich message. I have to preach about those invisible threads that are so easy to move. If someone knows about construction, I have a degree. You put up a laser, and the laser starts to cast green or red threads, depending on the color of the laser, and you already know where everything goes. Someone came, tripped, and moved the laser a bit, as Dominicans would say, and when he looked, the wall was crooked. A thread moved. Absalom's heart. A thread moved. I always said, Jesus never asked for what he had. He didn't ask, he gave. Lucifer wanted it and it was not given to him because that's what was in his heart. So, brother, one of the enemies of paternity is what is hidden in the heart. What is in the depths of your heart? Do you want me to tell you? The closest people to us don't have photos with us because they are so close that they already see it as, "Why bother?" It's a thin thread. Why do you want to be close to your pastors? So that people see you close, or because you want to draw virtue from the mantle? I've always said, all those who surrounded Jesus, there was a multitude, they only wanted to be seen next to the master. The disciples, yes sir, here I am. You, the squires, speak from that mouth. What do you want? A woman touched me, master. The multitude, no, you are wasting your time. One drew virtue from me. It's for me. That's something extraordinary. How can you be walking next to a mantle full of power to be seen and not to be blessed by that mantle? Say with me, "Nothing happens here." Jesus, we declare it, but examine what is in the depths of your heart. Examine the depths of your heart. Why and for what, and what is there? Because what was in Absalom's heart prevented him from serving. Do you want me to tell you who could have owned the kingdom before Solomon was born? For me, Absalom. Why didn't he have it? Because he wanted it by force. Because he wanted to take it by force. He lost everything. Brother, there are difficult times in paternity, and perhaps I will talk about the stages of paternity sometime. The most difficult stage of paternity is the corrective stage. How beautiful are birthdays, how beautiful are parties, sleepovers, watching a movie. But the corrective stage, how difficult it is. Is there any father here who enjoys correcting his son? No, brother. I remember when it was my turn, I would lock myself in and shout. Of course, they didn't see me, but I would shout because I had to correct the one I loved most. After you hit or correct, it's not hitting, because hitting should not be done. You correct. You cry because you love what you correct. How hard is the stage of correction? So, if in someone's heart there is rebellion, they will not pass the corrective stage. They will not pass the corrective stage. So prepare your heart for when the corrective stage arrives, for when they throw a spear at you at a pastoral table. But it will pierce us with the wall of "no." If the Bible says that words are like arrows, then let's look at the spear as a public word that was said to you and you didn't like it. That could be one of Saul's spears. A public word at the table that you didn't like. No, but, but Peter didn't get up from the table when they told him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me." Publicly, Jesus sent a spear to Judas. "Hey, who is it, the one who dips?" And there was Judas dipping. Publicly, a spear. Do you know what I want to tell you? Prepare your heart for when the spears touch you. Here I have Boris, Darío, Ida, Mayito is back there, I'm missing others from the church. One day, someone is in the bathroom of my church, and I don't know who it is, and I'm going to knock on the door. We need the bathroom, and it was locked, and there was a big line of urgency. You already know what the urgency was: to use the bathroom. And I knock on the door, and they don't open. And I don't know who is inside. And they knock, and when they open, I say, "Washing your impurities." And one of the elders of the church, "Pastor, he went too far. He was sinning with homosexuality, and in the church bathroom, he was cleaning himself." And in my spirit, I feel it, and an impulse comes to my spirit, and I tell him, in front of everyone, "Cleaning the impurity of your sin." And yes, brother, in the end, sin comes to light. So prepare yourself for when they throw a spear at you. But for when you see them throw it at someone else. Because it's one thing for it to be thrown at you, but how will you react when you see them throw spears at others? What injustice! But an elder told me, "Pastor, how could you have said that?" And when the sin came to light, do you know what he had to tell me? "Remember that day? God revealed it to you." Now, so, how beautiful is this, brother. Check what is in your heart, because it can become the enemy of your paternity. When there was an abuse of correction, when there was an abuse of correction in the natural, it will be difficult to embrace correction in the spiritual. When you had a father, Christ, come here, let's go, Daddy, help me. When you had a father who abused you, or a mother, physically, who never corrected you but mistreated you, you will have problems receiving corrections in the spiritual. You will become jumpy, you will become like a rooster that scratches holes in the ground. That's why we have to separate the three paternities: divine paternity, which is the paternity of the spirit; the paternity of the soul; and physical or biological paternity, which is what is in your heart. And with this, I finish, to see if there are questions. Luke 15:1 says, "And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' And he divided his property." Not many days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and departed to a distant country, and there he squandered his property, living prodigally. He squandered his property, pardon, living prodigally. The prodigal son. What was the enemy of paternity that took him out of the house? The longing to live a life without accountability. If I stay here, they will ask me. If I stay here, they will question me. If I stay here, they will tell me. If I stay here, they will ask me what I did. If I stay here, and I'm not here to be interviewed, I'm leaving. And he left. The enemy of Absalom was what he had hidden in his heart. And do you know what the prodigal son had hidden in his heart? Libertinism, rebellion. "I don't want you to be asking me what I'm going to do with mine." But there is something in this passage that caught my attention, and that is that the mother does not appear. And if you notice, in most of the passages I have read, the mother does not appear. However, Jesus chose his mother because there must be equal paternity. There must be a father and there must be a mother. If the parents were not important, when Joseph wanted to leave Jesus, the Lord would have told him, "Go, Mary is enough." However, he told him, "Do not go, do not leave the child, do not leave the mother," and he chose Mary because the mother was important. So, one of the enemies of paternity, brother, can be an absent father. When someone has been missing, and you cannot value what you have in front of you. An orphan child has a very good stepfather, and he will never see him as a stepfather. He will embrace him as a father. Amen. Because he will value what he never had. Do you know what that indicates? A healthy heart. When a child doesn't have a father, he will look for an uncle, a cousin, a grandfather, someone to fill the void, because he needs something. So, when we, I want you to listen, when we have not healed, we cannot value paternity. We cannot value what we have in front of us. We cannot be, brother, intelligent. Why? Because in paternity there is blessing, there is benefit. The good thing is, I'll talk about the benefits of paternity according to the Bible another day. It brings blessing, prosperity, it brings wealth, it brings identity, it brings inheritance, it brings presentation, preparation, it brings everything. All the blessings that Isaac had were because they were from his father. So, when you have a father, what your father has belongs to you. The same mantle, the same thing that moves. What is the enemy of paternity that can be attacking you? Check what is in your heart. Check if you look at your father as a pastor, as authority, as anointed, or as a father. If they marked you in some way. We, my wife and I, had a pastor who told us he was going to kick us out of his house. And do you know why? Because we discovered he was stealing from us. And the day we went to tell him, "Pastor, what happened?" he told us, "You have never been sheep. You have never been from this house. I will kick you out." And that marked us. And one knows that when someone marks you for bad, it is difficult to open up to trust again. But there is something one must look at: what the mantle carries, to know if I want that mantle to cover me. That's all. What the mantle carries. Do I have questions there? If you turn it on, I'll hear you. If they turn on the microphone, please, back there. Tell me. Now, blue, perfect. Blessings, Pastor. Before asking the question, I want to clarify something here because in the chat there is something controversial about a person who is saying that Jesus said never to call anyone a spiritual father on earth. No, it's not like that. Do you have the verse there? No, I don't have it here. But well, what I wanted was to leave for all those who are not, ten verses in the New Testament where Paul and John also call the congregations they had under their coverage spiritual children. I was putting some there in the chat, but well, the others, let each one look for them, because there is enough biblical basis for that. But I will pause because it's good. Apart from the fact that he did it with bad intentions, it serves because remember that for God, everything works. It says Matthew 23:9, "And do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven." And he was talking about supplanting divine paternity. And I spoke of three paternities: the paternity of the soul, which is ministerial paternity; the divine, which is spiritual, which is only God's; and there is biological paternity. I can never cover your biological paternity. It is impossible for me to tell you, "Come, I will give you the surname F." Brother, that is nonsense. But it is also impossible for me to tell you, "You don't need God as a father. I am your mother." So, what the Lord was doing in the Book of Matthew chapter 23 was talking about supplanting God's paternity. That's what he was referring to, supplanting God's paternity. Because throughout scripture, in the New Testament, it is spoken of like this. Which is Matthew, I will look for it here. Matthew 23:9. Throughout, throughout scripture, the Lord speaks of paternity. But there it is on the screen. Let me turn it around because I want to show you something. Here it is. We are reading Matthew chapter 23, and Matthew 23 begins by saying, "Seven woes to the scribes and Pharisees." Then Jesus spoke to the multitude and to the disciples, and began to speak about the scribes and Pharisees. He began to speak about mantles, about coverings. He began to speak generally about everything that had to do with it, and then he says in verse 9, "And do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens. Nor call yourselves instructors, for one is your instructor, Christ. For the greatest of you will be your servant." What the Lord was doing was saying that the teachers of the law were not fathers. And today, there is a current in one house, there cannot be two fathers, or three fathers, or four fathers. And that was what Jesus was correcting. One can never take a verse, extract it, and interpret it. The first interpretive level is the contextual literal level. I have to read to understand. You cannot take a phrase out of the conversation and say, "But the pastor said I'm ugly." No, no, the complete conversation was, "If you don't dress like this, you will look ugly." So, what do people do today? They take a verse for a word and say, "No, no one is a father." If you read the passage, if you read it completely, the Lord was speaking to people who wanted to take the position of father and were not. Not everyone is a father, and I have already taught it, and I will take advantage of the fact that the word is beautiful to develop it. A mentor is not the same as a father. A discipler is not the same as a father. An oyo is not the same as a father. A teacher is not the same as a father. There are people who call the one who preached the gospel to them a spiritual father. Evangelists are not fathers. So sometimes it's "my spiritual mother" because she preached the gospel to me and I came to God. No, that's not a mother. A mother is one who nurses. A father is one who affirms identity and gives doctrine. So today there is a horrible level of confusion, and that is what the Lord was correcting. Everyone. One day someone told me, "No, I have, I have four fathers." I said, "Three, not four fathers." No, no, brother. Look, the one of the soul, he says, "No, no." Ah, no, if it's for that, I have seven. And now he's lost his mind and starts telling me, "No, because so-and-so," and he tells me about a woman, "She converted me and brought me to Christ's feet, and she was the one who took me to church." That's an oyo. Do you know what an oyo is? Oyo comes from pedagogue, and pedagogue comes from pedagogy. It is the person who takes the child by the hand and guides him in the gospel, but he is not a father. He is an oyo. When your child goes to school, his teacher shapes him, teaches him to read and write, but he is not his father. He is a teacher. So today, the church calls the mentor "father." "He is my father." Or a house where there are two or three fathers. The pastor, the leader, and the... no, no. Each one has their area, but father is one. Grandfather is grandfather, uncle is uncle, brother is brother. Father, there is one. Notice that it's curious, one has many grandfathers, many brothers, many cousins, many uncles, but only one father. It's the same in the spiritual. That passage applies to a correction from the Lord to correct an area that was rising, like today, where there are fathers who tell people, "Now I am your spiritual father." That's not right. That's not right. Paternity imposes itself. The spirit reveals it. God showed me that I am your... no, that's not right. You have to call me father because I am a father. No, the title is not demanded. The Lord reveals it. And when it is born, it is said because it comes from the spirit. Period. And two, it is not asked for, it is not offered. Paternity is revealed to the son, who the father is, and to the father, who the son is, to click. But it's not like they go around buying children at home. You arrive at a place and want to be covered, and you want to... no, brother, no. And that was what Jesus was doing. Beautiful clarification. Beautiful clarification. This other question is more... wait, wait. Paul was a father to many, but to others he said, "I am a nursing mother to others." He said, "I am not the father. I am the one who receives you and guides you." It's the same Apostle Paul. He was a father to Timothy, but not to others. I am a father-mother to a few, but for others, I am their pastor, period. Okay, but, excuse me, how can I forgive my father? He abandoned me, and now I feel resentment and hatred. Forgiving is a decision. Healing is a process. Forgiving is deciding. Forgiving is saying, "I will let go." Forgiving is not justifying. Forgiving is not justifying. Forgiving is not saying, "By forgiving, I am saying that what the brother did is okay." No, forgiving is not justifying wrongdoing. Forgiving is freeing myself from the burden I carry against someone who hurt me. The only one who is harmed by not forgiving is you. Why? One, prayers are hindered. Two, they are not heard or answered. Three, a person who has not forgiven becomes a breeding ground for negative thoughts and feelings. The wounded person will always seek an opportunity to take revenge or counterattack. When you forgive, you free yourself. And do you know what you are doing? You are handing over the cause to God. "Lord, you will take care of it." Period. So, forgiving is a decision. Healing is a process. That you forgive does not mean you are healed. That you forgive means you have begun to enter the process of healing. The first step of the healing process begins when you forgive the one who offended you. My father, my son, never recognized me. My son is 13 years old. How do I do this so it doesn't affect his soul? Because he has looked for him, and he has never shown his face. That is, the adolescent, the young man, eh, wants to look for the father, but this one doesn't show his face. I believe, I believe, if someone proves it to me, Psalm 27:10. I rarely remember chapters and verses. It's there. Ah, I'm on fire today. Psalm 27:10. If they put it on the screen, it says, "Though my father and my mother forsake me, yet the Lord will take me in." When one of the paternities is missing, God is enough to fill the rest. When you lacked a father, a biological father, a human father, a father in your body, God is enough to fill that void. And sometimes, by God's grace, you have a spiritual father so good, so good, that God uses him to even heal the void that is there. So, eh, how do you explain to him that God is his father, and that if He is his father, and he is His son, what else can God give us? Everything, brother. If there is inheritance and provision, everything comes from God. Explain to him that although man may leave him, God will take him in, as it says here. This has to do with envy and the lack of paternity or maternity. What is envy due to? Yes, and there's another one there, because there can be, and how beautiful it is to do a series, a bad paternity. Because there can be bad paternities. A bad paternity generates jealousy. For example, for me, Jacob was not wise, because if there was enough to make a tunic for Joseph, and there wasn't enough for the other 10, in my house, if everyone eats, everyone eats, and if not, it disappears or is divided, but it's the same for everyone, for everyone equally. It's not that you are the oldest, take the thigh, and I the wing. No, there is bad paternity. It's that I won't tolerate one thing from you, but I will tolerate all of them from her. Bad paternity. And there are fathers who have done bad paternities, and mothers who have done... I told you at the beginning, everyone makes mistakes, but there are more serious errors than others, with greater consequences than others. So, there are bad paternities. So, jealousy can be the consequence of bad paternity. For example, Joseph's brothers hated Joseph because of the way his father loved him. So, sometimes your heart may beat more for one child than for another. No, they are simply loved differently. It's not that one is loved more, they are loved differently. So, one has to learn as a father to filter emotions so as never to show that one loves more, and to show that one loves differently. Another thing, comparing, "If only you were like your brother." Comparisons destroy and generate envy and jealousy. So, it would be nice if we talked about it, if we continued it. Moreover, I will do it next Wednesday. If someone reminds me, let's talk about bad paternities, because in the Bible there are examples. David himself was one. He was an excellent son, but a terrible father. An excellent son, for me, David as a son of God and as a son of Saul, incomparable. But as a father, he was terrible, and perhaps because he lacked good paternity to learn from. But beautiful. The last question. What can be done when the coverage you had no longer wants to cover you? Look for another. If it's cold and you need to cover yourself, you need to look for a blanket. Look, but there I would say something else. Beware, beware, because I have cases where one doesn't want to cover, but it's not because one doesn't want to cover them, but because their attitude makes them... God could never cover Lucifer's rebellion, but until he rebelled. I always say, an incomplete story is not a story. Give me all the elements to be able to judge. Because you can say, "He doesn't want to cover me," but why? Why don't they want to cover you? What have you done? What have you done to harden your pastor's heart? What could have happened? Look, I was scared one day when my apostle said, "I don't give yellow cards, I only give red." And I didn't know about soccer. "Only red." And I say to my husband, "Translate, Mom. The yellow is a foul, and the red is out of the game, out of the match. They take you out, something like that, they expel you." And I say, "I want yellow." I even preached about it. I took it as a Rem. Brother, and I've realized that he's given me a yellow card a million times. Brother, he's never given me a red one. A million times he gives me a yellow card. And then I say, there's no absolute law. There's no absolute law. What can be in someone's heart for them to be given a red card? So, there we would have to see if the causes are because the pastor is reluctant to exercise paternity. Seek a father, because an orphan, an orphan is in distress. But if it's because he committed a mistake and messed up, let him do like David, let him go into the cave, let him go to where his coverage is, tear off the mantle, and say, "I don't want to hurt you, I love you." But that is generated by a repentant, humbled heart, in need of paternity, and who loves. Okay. There are no other good, good. Stand up. Let's pray. How I like Wednesdays. Brother, stand up. It's just that I feel that on Wednesdays there's no rush, that one comes comfortably. While they flatter, it rises. I want to pray for you. Leave it there, son. Don't raise it. Leave it there. Father, Father, in the name of Jesus, if the enemy is working to attack paternity, in the powerful name of Jesus, today we cut it off. If there is any enemy that has tried to infiltrate your home, your people, today we cut it off in the name of Jesus. If there is something hidden in the heart that can become an obstacle to paternity, Lord, today we are annulling it in your powerful name, Jesus. Cleanse our hearts, cleanse our minds, heal our wounds so as not to miss the benefits of paternity that comes from you. Blessed Father, I beg you, King of Glory, that you reveal yourself to us. Blessed God, that you reveal yourself as Father to our lives, and that you also reveal to us, Lord, the need to have fathers. Blessed Father, in the name of Jesus, we want to experience the benefits of a mantle. If there is any wound, heal it, Father, in the powerful name of Jesus. Blessed Father, I beg you that you be the one bringing balm, that you be the one putting an oil of healing, of myrrh, upon us. That you, Holy Spirit, be the one bandaging every wound. Blessed God, of all those who were marked, damaged, wounded, in the name of Christ. And may the intention to learn to recognize paternity be born in us, God. In the name of Christ, Lord Beloved, every spirit of orphanhood, we cut it off in the name of Jesus. If there is someone who has been marked, we remove that negative mark in the name of Jesus. If there is any enemy that is infiltrating with the objective of damaging paternity, today we cancel it in the powerful name of Christ. Holy Spirit, and we declare, Lord, that we are your children, that we recognize divine paternity, and that we benefit, Blessed God, from you being our Father, from having fathers. Blessed God, in the powerful name of Christ, we give you thanks, Beloved King. Thanks, Holy Spirit. I am a slave to fear. I am a child of God. I am no longer a slave to fear. We are children, Father. I am a child of God. Once more, tell the King, "I am no longer a slave to fear. We are children, Father. I am a child of God." There where you are, raise your hand. I want to bless you. Lord God, I bless your people, and I declare that your blessing rests upon them today and always. Thank you for the children of the house. Thank you, Lord, for each one who has made this their home, both physically and virtually. Those who have embraced this mantle, may the blessings we carry, because they come from the Head, descend to the hem of the garments and reach them. Blessed God, may they enjoy the blessings of paternity. Blessed God, and of having a mantle and having a home. In the powerful name of Christ, we give you thanks, Father of Glory. We give you thanks, Father of Glory, and we say Amen, Amen, and Amen. May the love of Christ minister. God bless you.