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[Music] but what does Matthew chapter 8 verses 5 onwards say it says the following entering Jesus into Capernaum a centurion came to him begging and saying Lord my servant is lying at home paralyzed severely tormented and Jesus said to them I will go and heal him the centurion answering said Lord I am not worthy to have you come under my roof but only say the word and my servant will be healed for I also am a man under authority and I have soldiers under my command and I say to this one go and he goes and to the other come and he comes and to my servant do this and he does it when Jesus heard this he marveled and said to those who followed him truly I say to you that not even in Israel have I found such faith I am going to speak for a few minutes about honor precisely about what is the spirit that is flowing here and in the spiritual world honor is a culture that is to say it is something that operates naturally in the spiritual world honor is a culture and we intend that you in all the areas of life where you move can operate in a spirit of honor in your work in your home in your church in any other country you go to that people distinguish you for being a person who manifests the codes of honor and honor of the spiritual world tell me if you are ready for this and we will begin because you are looking at me as if you are scared if you are ready we will proceed with this tell me if you are ready 1 2 3 ok the word to honor to honor is a Hebrew term that means to carry although it is literally translated as weight weight not of money but as something that has value that has worth something that weighs and that word is known in Israel to honor the elders who have a good testimony who have a good reputation that people speak well of them some who are have many lands those old people who have a lot of land who have wealth in cattle who have territorial wealth who are respected people this word is used to refer to them saying that elder is a man of substance is a man of weight the word that tells you he has power of what he thinks should be considered because he is a person of testimony of worth another word that is used for honor is dime which means value preciousness reverence respect so every time you hear the word honor it has to do with respecting it has to do with esteem it has to do with value it has to do with weight it has to do with someone whom you hold in high esteem blessed be the name of the Lord because regularly on earth this spirit does not operate with more ease than it should that is to say because people know so little about this because people in their jobs do not operate at these levels of honor regularly you do not see the respect that should exist between employees and employers or between coworkers by the way why is that not seen in churches why is there not that respect that should exist why is that not seen in homes because parents and children you look at the profile of treatment and there should be a high degree of esteem of honor of honor but regularly those things are not seen daily and if you see it you see it as terror that is to say honor has nothing to do with me being terrified of my father or my mother because of the beating they will give me that is manipulation honor is natural honor is something that comes out spontaneously and I taking for example some observations I realized that the master of masters our Lord Jesus said in Matthew 7:12 so whatever you want men to do to you do also to them for this is the law the prophets Jesus is revealing a very high code and is saying I suggest that exactly what you want others to do to you you should do to them because this will become the summary of the law and the prophets so starting with something called harvest if people have not sown honor if people have not sown respect if people have not sown esteem if people have not had reverence for others have not been someone who has known how to treat the elder who has not known how to treat the boss who has not known how to treat the man or treat the woman who has not had respect when you do an analysis according to Jesus' law you are a very high candidate to not be respected to not be considered to not have value over you so to begin if you want to see an atmosphere of honor everything indicates that you have to start with you honoring and valuing everyone around you let me know if you are understanding me at this hour Jesus materializes that concept saying in Matthew 22 verse 37 and 38 you shall love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind this is the great and great commandment but he continues saying and the second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself on these commandments depend all the law and all the prophets so if you realize on two occasions Jesus first says number one do to others what you want them to do to you number two love your neighbor as yourself and on that depends all the law the prophets Jesus is saying you want to compress all the mysteries of the Bible you want to see them reduced to one word here I come to simplify it for you show respect for others show them honor show them esteem show them reverence and obligatorily the spiritual world is ready for that same thing that has to do with esteem with value and with respect to return upon you I found a key that when it says love your neighbor as yourself here in my deep study I found a possible key why many people cannot see a manifest culture of honor in their environment love your neighbor as yourself the model that God is using for me to learn to love others is the love that I have for myself and what does that have to do with it probably if you have been very mistreated if you have traumas in your life about the value you place on yourself and we have not touched for example dealing with people with very low self-esteem who have a very low concept of everything they have had to face in life they did not have a father who educated them who did homework with them who asked them how school was today who gave them money for a snack they did not have a mother at home modeling the sculpture of mother they have had very difficult situations in their marriages they have had very difficult situations in their work environment they have had very difficult situations in life itself they have had to, as they say in my country, fend for themselves, go out on their own. That person, although not in a single word, could have very bad fractures in their hearts because every time you hear someone say I don't believe in anyone, it's a warning of a fracture in their soul due to something very painful that has been caused to them. Pastors are the ones who, as a lawyer, I don't believe in anyone. Those are signs of people who are hurt, and when you do a background check on someone who is hurt, their self-worth is not very good. That's why they have reactions in their lives because they don't consider themselves very loved, they don't consider themselves very precious, they consider themselves insignificant. When it comes to falling in love, you see them making drastic choices, and you say to them, but why did you fall to that level? And when you realize the value they have for themselves, according to him or her, they couldn't get anything better. So they settled for much less. It's because of the value they have, and if my value for myself is not good, it won't be good for others because the model is bad. How you love yourself. That's why in this house we have tried in some way for you to know what you are worth, for you to know who you are, for you to know the tools you have, for you to have fallen, for you to have had a marriage that broke, but above all, God has plans for you, that above all, He is valuable, that the best was perfect, but God has His eye on you to lift you up. You have also been imposed values, ladies and gentlemen. Now I can guarantee you that there are people who will hear me and say, my problem with evangelicals. I can guarantee you, it's almost 20 years, not sitting in a chair, always active on stage, and I have come to conclusions. I say this with respect and fear, that there are people for whom the worst things that have happened in their lives was arriving in some Christian environments. I will repeat it, there are people for whom the worst things that have happened to them has been arriving in some Christian environments because they have had to witness so much misfortune, so much disloyalty, so much mistreatment, so much religiosity, so many things that have created trauma in their lives, and today developing and bringing out their abilities is difficult because of all the traumas they have within. I say it openly and I say it without fear. I made some secret visits, and all the children who are in Dominican Republic, not in prisons. I have to go to the administration. It was quick. I went to my dentist 24 hours. When I go to my neighborhood where I grew up, I have to end up crying. Yesterday I went. You see delinquents, drug traffickers, you see all kinds of people from society. When I enter the neighborhood, in front of me, they put out cigarettes, they don't see that Piña is here, they don't admire anything, they don't curse. Everyone has respect, saying there is a pastor here who was among us, but now his life has changed. They don't allow them to take the lead in front of me, they don't allow them to speak ill of anyone, they don't curse. For any illicit activity they are doing, because they respect a certain investiture. But in some Christian environments, it's the opposite. They curse you, they call you a heretic, people who have never sat with you to have a coffee, they don't know your heart, they don't know your history, they don't know your tears, they don't know your reality, and for anything they hear that they don't agree with, they curse you and your generations, they open up all sorts of things. So that's why some people consider church a misfortune. There are people we won't win in another way. We can't mention church to them, they panic, they go into trauma. Church is even synonymous with success. It's synonymous with problems. It's synonymous with manipulation. They're going to take my money. I'm going to have an appointment. So they have traumas, and now we have problems, and it's that you have to love the other according to the love you have for yourself. So now it makes sense to me why people hurt others, and from there, in psychology, something is called projection. If you ask therapists and psychologists, one of the strongest tools used today is something called projection. What does that mean? It's when I start attacking you, and when a very deep analysis is done, what I'm attacking in you are my problems, and I'm reflecting them in you. Projection, I'm projecting it onto you. I'm telling you you're proud, that you're arrogant, when I'm the arrogant one. I'm projecting it because the structural problems I have within me don't allow me to see it myself. I am a saint. The problem is yours. Projection. Within us, we have identified that some had to fall into that network of mistreatment involuntarily, they are not to blame. I arrived there, I started attending, understanding that it would be the best for me. What did I know? That they would mistreat me in that way, that they would offend me, that I would find gossip, that I would find contempt, and they have these traumas. They are in life, and we, beloved, I did not come to this earth to stroll. In fact, I don't even like this dimension of life. I came to fulfill an assignment. For that reason, everyone who is exposed to this house, no matter how much they criticize us, we will seek all the necessary tools to let you know that you are an exclusive creation. There is not a single demon, nor angel, nor principality, none of all that you see in heaven, that has the stamp in your life, the image and likeness of God that is in you. There is not a single angel for whom the price of blood was paid. The angels who sinned do not have the right to salvation because nothing was redeemed for them, but for me, for you, they sent the righteous one who said, I will die for them. That is to say, you must have a very great value in heaven that they sent the most valuable, the most precious, to see how much you can value the lights. [Music] All you need is will, voluntary will with me, will, will is the desire to become the person God truly designed for you. God makes no mistakes, and when you meet that person, that is, the one God said, I'm not talking about ministry, not the preacher. Maybe you were not designed to be a preacher, nor a singer, nor a pianist. The one God said, when you meet that person, the one God said, you begin to find meaning in life. You begin to live a happy life. You begin to say, wow, but look, I used to speak, I say this with humility. Translate it as you wish, pride, as you wish, but I sat down yesterday with Pastor Juan and Pastor Dizen, and they told me to my face, we have 800 years in the church, and we felt bitter, sad, we couldn't find meaning in life, and since we've been working with cereals, we've found meaning. Now our faces have changed, our environment has changed, our children have changed. That will give you a satisfaction that you cannot translate into money or expressions. Or Pastor Ramón from Argentina calls, saying our whole life has been impregnated, changed, we feel an impartation over our lives, that everything here is different. Because they call you from California. That's why only people who have discovered their identity can do that. I want to tell you that this is not an exclusive matter for me. You are supposed to connect with people, and people say, wow, since I met you, I am a better person, I am a better son, I am a better employee. Perhaps all the problems you have had to battle have not reached there, but I assure you they will reach there. You will be better than others, you will be a reference for others, you will be help for others. May they worship the glory of the Lord. [Music] And to the extent of the proportion that your wars have been, I can guarantee you that your victories will be so. It has cost you to get up. He knows that when you reach the level that God said, you will be so dangerous, so dangerous, that is the reason why life has made it impossible for you. Some of you are about to awaken to a spiritual reality that is too powerful. Some of you are about to enter a spiritual reality of victory. You are about to start truly enjoying life, because he who knows his purpose begins to enjoy and say, this God is too God, and you will become an invincible warrior. Listen to what I'm going to tell you. This may sound to you however you want it to sound, but he who discovers why he came to this earth is not afraid of anyone who comes to attack you. You know who you are, you know the advantages you have, you know the kind of God you have, you know where you are going. You are not afraid of anyone, you are not envious of anyone, you are not going to be envious of anyone. You have discovered your true purpose. How much for vanity. [Music] To His name be the glory. So, among the functions we are performing at CF A, we are trying to repair with all our tools, those we can, those we have so far, your identity. We are repairing your identity. All the blows you have received in the misfortune of the marriage you had, the boss who sexually, spiritually, or morally abused you, all those traumas are there. We want you to be healed, to know who you are, because when you start to value yourself, you will be able to value yourself. To His name be the glory. First Samuel 2:30 says, therefore, the Lord, the God of Israel, says this: I had said that your house and the house of your father would walk before me perpetually. But now the Lord says this: Far be it from me, for I will honor those who honor me, and those who despise me will be held in contempt. For I must know honor, because I need CF A in all the structures of the world where the extensions are to know the subject of honor, to master it, for you to be capable of teaching it to others. Because here God is telling a king, King, do you remember that I told you that you and your father's house would walk before me perpetually? The king said yes. Okay, I change my mind. But you are God, you don't change, you don't lie. Well, I'm going to teach you a principle for you to administer from now on. I don't change until there is honor in the environment, because I had said so, but I will only honor those who honor me, and those who dishonor me will not be held in contempt. So, I already know my structure, and I want you to know that any promise God has made to you, if you do not know how to administer honor, they can fall, even if He promised it to you. God does not do that. Did you understand me? That is, if God Himself appeared to you and said, I will prosper your life, your house, and your family, if you manifest dishonor, the biblical code says that God might not do anything I told you, because He says, I will only fulfill it for those who honor me, because if they don't honor me, I no longer hold them in esteem, and I have no commitment to fulfill what I have announced. So, I don't know about you, but I have been given a lot of word. God has spoken to me in dreams, through prophets, in revelations. God has spoken to me in visions. I need to see all the things God has announced to me, which is why I will try to learn everything I need to learn about honor, because if I don't manifest honor, all those promises can be annulled, and I declare that here no one has annulled promises, but that you see with your own eyes everything God has said. Tell me, amen, are you ready for that? To His name be the glory. [Music] To enter that level, you need faith. I realized that only people with faith can enter that dimension. When Jesus was entering Capernaum, where we read, a centurion came begging him, saying, Master, my servant is lying down, he is paralyzed, he is severely tormented. Jesus says, ready, go back to your house, I will heal him. He says, don't go to my house, I don't want you to, because I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. There was a situation in that house that was shameful for him, and he said, I don't want the Lord to go and see what is happening in my house. Don't go, just say the word from here, and my servant will be healed, because I am a man under authority, and I have people under my authority, and there are people whom I tell to go, and they go, and to others to come, and they come. So, as I have people under authority and I am in authority, I know how your life works. Speak the word, and my servant will be healed. Jesus is surprised, and I asked myself, why should someone who knows that structure be surprised? Because he is seeing one who is a conqueror operating in a dimension like this. In that context, Rome had total control of Jerusalem. Rome governed politically. Rome had absolute control. Rome dictated who walked and who didn't. Taxes had to be paid to Rome. So, a high-ranking official of the Roman doctrine comes to a Jew. Right now, this Jew is one conquered by me. Legally, I have power over him. So he comes and says, I want you to heal someone in my house. And if the word, but how can you, being the conqueror, come to beg a conqueror? He is saying, although here in the physical world I have authority over you, in the spiritual world, you have the authority, and I know how that works. If the word, and my servant will be healed. Jesus is amazed, and he gives him the title of the guy with the most faith on planet Earth, because they say, so much faith cannot fit anywhere. That is, your act of bravery makes me place you in the hall of fame of faith, above all those I have put there. Because I have so much faith, because everything you are thinking is only happening in your mind right now. You are more than me on this earth. You are the Roman centurion, I am the simple carpenter. But he is saying, that is happening on earth, in my spiritual world, you are no longer a carpenter. You are the essence, you are the life, you are the healing. So speak the word, and my servant will be healed. That is called honoring. That is called honoring. That is to say, when I see spiritually what you represent, I have to tell you that it is I who owe myself to you. And the word that my servant, beyond there, there is a woman who came and anointed the Lord's feet with a perfume of pure nard. It is believed that it was the work of an entire year. That bottle of perfume, she takes her hair, anoints his feet, and honors the Master. To that level, when honor is activated, what the Master himself had said before, what you want men to do to you, do also to them. And what happens? She fulfills her part, honors the Master, pours perfume on him, anoints him with her hair. Immediately the Master says, truly I say to you, wherever in the planet Earth this gospel is preached, they will speak of this. You, not a trace of me. I will honor you today. Two thousand and some years later, I am mentioning that woman. There are people in the Bible who would have wanted a miracle, and you don't even know that person's name. There are people in the Bible who raised the dead, and you probably haven't even read it. There are people in the Bible who gave astronomically, and you haven't read it. But there are many people who know that a woman poured perfume on his feet with her hair because God told her, if you honor me, I will honor you. And wherever this gospel is preached, you will become famous because people will mention this story. And the woman, no, more than 2000 years have passed since then, and still preachers have to mention her, and they will continue to mention her for centuries to come, because of a word that God said, he who honors me, I will honor him. So, I like something I found in the Bible, which is what helps me to bring this out as a religious paradigm, a religious paradigm in what sense? We leave that sphere. The first is to say to God, and to God to say yes, not to call Him by His name, and to say that He was a great man of God, even when that had not yet manifested in his life. That is, if you went to Cyrus's life at that moment, he was a pagan, impious king, and to see God say, I have plans for you, you are my chosen, you are my anointed. I see God honoring someone who doesn't go to church, but God honoring someone who doesn't speak in tongues. I see God honoring someone who, probably in any scenario outside of church, would have been rejected. So, from my perspective, that is the reason why, in order to honor, we do not need someone to have the title of Christian. We honor bosses, work leaders, even if they are not believers. We honor authorities, even if they don't speak in tongues. We honor any person who has a talent, because the Bible says, every good gift and every perfect gift is from the Father of lights. Any person with extraordinary abilities, it is very likely that whoever gave them to them was your God, even if you don't see them in a church, and that requires honor and honor. I don't know if you are still there. On the other hand, when they were going to build the temple, I find nothing more and nothing less than Solomon in 1 Kings 5:6 says, "Now then command that you cut me cedar trees from Lebanon, and my servants will be with yours, and I will give you for your servants the wages you specify, because you know well that there is no one else in the world who knows how to work wood like you." The skilled ones work wood. Listen to this. This is not something you will be given in Bible institutes. Solomon is saying, I am going to build the temple of my God, the holiest, greatest, and most powerful God, and Solomon is saying, I need them to find me that wood from the skilled ones. If you read the Bible, those skilled ones are purely impious people, demon-possessed people, if you can say it on any level of life. Jesus even threatened, "Woe to Tyre and Sidon." But Solomon said, "It's not about their salvation here. It's that they are the best in the world at working wood, and I need that wood for the temple to come from them, and for them to work it." It's called honor. It's saying, this ability that God gave them, if God gave them that ability, then I will take your service so that you are the one who works it. It's called honor. It's called recognizing the talents of others. I have said this with music. Do you think that for most believers, the only ones who sing are Romeros, Malcolm Sui? You mention any other Christian, and already that's a demon. I wish many Christians had the talents that many of those intimate people have. They are pure talents that God has given them, capabilities they have. But what happens is that because you don't see them worshiping in churches, you don't respect them. You take away from them. That is considered dishonor to someone whom God has honored with a gift and a talent. [Music] It's one thing that they want to associate with them, but it's another thing to learn to recognize the gifts and talents they have. [Music] Of course, I know you would have had many chains. To His name, to the cross, to His name be the glory. What happens? What happens? [Music] As God knows that he who dishonors Him will be held in contempt and could lose all the promises He made to you at some point in your life, anywhere on planet Earth, because of the purpose that exists for your life, you will be exposed to a place where God will have you repair any lack of identity, any ignorance, because He needs to see you honoring at the correct level so that you can connect with all of God's benefits for your life in any scenario. That's why we tell people when they leave church, don't leave cursing the place where you came from, because God might have wanted to teach you something there. Don't leave cursing the place where you came from, because God might have wanted to show you something there. So, at any time, God will take care of repairing your identity, in any scenario, your perspective on life, so that you can learn to honor and connect with all the principles. I want you to know, I don't want you to answer me, I want you to put your head on the line with what he obeyed, that there are people who reject this that happened today, they won't tell you now, there are people within them who say that that is idolatry, and that is Moody's in the church. Sometimes there are problems with those who honor their leaders, or anyone else who wants to attend to their spiritual fathers. Well, in our church too, I got it in my head to change my pastor's car. My pastor didn't put that nonsense about the car. We did what we had to do, and we changed the car. Do you think it was celebrated by everyone? Before your tomb, dust. I didn't need to take the dust. I had a lot of money spent. But what does it mean? That there are people who are rejecting my level of honor, and why are they rejecting it? Because as they have not had models, and probably have very harsh perceptions of them, that's what they will project onto others. No one ever honored them, no one recognized their virtues. When they came with good grades, their father beat them. As they were never recognized, never honored, no one highlighted anything good they did, when they see it in others, they reject it automatically. I like that so much. I can assure you that there are people who could be here who won't say it, but within them, they would be sitting on a chair with cotton cushions right now, they would put a crown on their heads. [Music] And I can tell you that today I am saying very, very strong things. I can guarantee you with humility before the Creator who examines hearts, it is very probable, very probable, that I don't need it at all. Perhaps I have had to go to places, perhaps to get out of there, it costs, people want to hug you, people want to give you Rolexes, people want to give you offerings. People will probably pass by the bookstore, the most important bookstore in all of the Dominican Republic, and you will see it in the coming days, a recognition of best-selling author with the book "Eternity Within." So, I don't need it. Perhaps you need to do it so that the divine order is established in you and you can connect with everything God has said. It's like finances, God says, why do you sell this? Sometimes, and I won't open the windows of heaven, God needs my money. The heavens don't need money. I don't need a single dollar from any human being. But with that, you can't imagine how God can examine people's hearts. That's a test for God, to see how much He can give you. In heaven, dollars are not used. In heaven, only the intention of your heart is counted. That's why there are people who give, and others who don't. And it is very probable that the one who didn't give is counted in higher esteem than the one who gave, because the one who didn't give didn't give because he didn't have it and had a desire to give. [Music] I don't know if you understand. [Music] So what does God do? He says, well, I have plans for that person. I cannot allow them to grow like this, because I need, for example, some of you who will be recognized with songs, number one singer at some point, you will be a world sales leader, or a concert leader. Barack will be too small for you. Perhaps you will be a best-selling author. Perhaps your company will be recognized as number one. When you enter some hotels, they say, wow, number one hotel in the entire state. Your restaurant will be recognized as number one for quality, hygiene, flavor, and everything. But what happens? That is called honor, and since God only honors those who honor Him, probably in eternity He has already seen all that you have to receive in the coming months. But since it cannot arrive out of nowhere, here He prepares you and makes you honor, here He develops your ability to honor, so that when you honor, when you manifest a culture of honor, and you arrive here, you can receive all the honors that later correspond to you. I don't know if you understood me. One of the things God does is the following. Here I go, the terminal labor has advanced, but I don't want to leave at least two more principles. One of the things God does is in 1 John 4:20. He says, "If anyone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" It's a biblical confirmation. It doesn't matter if you understand it or not, it's a biblical confirmation that all the people around you in church, in your home, in your work, in your neighborhood are agents of God to develop your ability to love. But pastor, including the demon who lives next to my house? No, that demon could be the one with the highest rank to take you to a higher level. I'll explain it to you. Jesus says, if you say you love God and you don't love your brother, whom you see every day, you are a liar. God is saying a key: Do you want to learn to love me? Start with them, whom you see. But my love is for you. I don't receive it. Show me by loving them first. That is to say, that person next to you is a model for you to develop love for God. Your employees, your family members, your friends, your coworkers are models. Love them because until you learn to love them, God will not register that you love Him. It's that mine is with God, and God says, and mine is with them. That's so true that this is one of the most painful verses for me to understand. I have to confirm it strongly so that my finite mind can assimilate it, and it is in Hebrews 5:8 onwards, which says, "And although He was a Son, by the suffering He learned obedience, and having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation." Pastor, and what is He talking about? Jesus, and that by the suffering He learned to obey. The Son of God learned? Yes, because from where He comes, obedience is not needed. Things operate automatically. And as He was in the position of a high commander of the supernatural world, He comes to earth, learns, He has to obey. How do I obey if I don't know how? Do you know what He does? By the suffering. That means all that He suffered in His childhood. I imagine Him in school, being insulted, look at Him now, and there, struggling and learning. And I imagine within Him saying, well, this is how you learn to read. My mother is telling me, where were you? At my father's business. I lied to you. You don't know what that means. That was not considered by the Master. A great response in Judaism. In the synagogue, they told his biological mother, who was very worried about him because she didn't know where he was. I was at my father's business, in the full process of learning obedience, because that was not the answer he should have given his mother who brought him into this world. He was already learning to honor his biological mother. So he had to suffer, and he doesn't have... And this is the second part. The second part is what scares me to read. Not only that, but it says, and I don't have it here, I only knew it by heart. Hebrews 5:8 says, the first part says that by the suffering He learned obedience. But the second part, which is super complex to assimilate, says, and having been perfected, that is, they had to perfect Him on earth, and then it says, He became the author of eternal salvation. In short, for you to fulfill that function, we have to train you. So, on earth, you are receiving superior training day by day with your husband, with your wife, with your children. They are taking note of all your reactions, how you respond to your boss, how you respond to your employee, how you respond to authorities, how you respond to your husband, your wife, your church brothers, your leaders. All your movements are coldly calculated, because that is God's school for you, to see how far I can go, to see how much I can trust you. That's why you will not administer serious things of the kingdom of God if you do not enjoy a good testimony first. You must have perfected loving, so that God can delegate to you. And there is the very famous, very controversial topic of the times, where Hebrews 2:10 says, "For it was fitting that He, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, God, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering." It's talking about Jesus. Lord, are you here or did you leave? I'll repeat it. Look what a delicacy the writer is talking about. It's chapter two, verse ten. It was fitting that He, for whom are all things, is talking about God, and by whom are all things, is talking about God, that in bringing many sons, say with me, sons, evangelicals, not even Christians, sons, to glory, He makes the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. That is, Jesus, I need to perfect you by afflicting you. Every blow He received, every time they whipped Him, every time...
Who insulted him every time they told him demons, he must be receiving a high degree of examination, so then if you are catching me, to be able to be considered the author of salvation, because, because he who sacrifices and those who are sanctified are all from one, that is why they are not ashamed to call him brothers, that is to say, every blow they gave Jesus was saying, "I don't care if they give me a personal father or they don't know what they are doing in the spiritual world," they said, "This man is worth it," they mistreated him, a Tan came to him and said, "And from where he comes, can anything useful come out?" Then he looks him in the face and says, "This is a true and realistic one in the spiritual world," they said, "This man learns, this man is good, no matter what they did to him, he helped, knowing that he was going to deliver him, he read the plans and said, 'Here is one who must deliver,' how with him he honored him, he respected him, at no time did he call him a traitor, at no time did he retaliate, he told him, 'Help, I will do my function as a teacher for you, to your will, whatever you want to do, you will not harm me, you will not influence me,' you have to have a level for that." So that writer is revealing to me that every column on his table, every blow upon me, is an examination, that is why a professor told me one day that Jesus was not being a hypocrite when he says, "Friend, with a kiss you betray me," and when he told Peter, "Get behind me, Satan," because he calls Satan to one who defends him to the end and calls a hypocrite who is betraying him his friend. It seems to me Jesus is saying, "Humans would not understand this, this man wants to prevent me from dying, and if I don't die on those columns, he is already saved, get away, Satan, this one is betraying me, and by betraying me, I am easy prey so that I can die on that cross and give him complete salvation, this is my friend."
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You have to have supernatural capacity to operate at those levels. So now I understand you, that the only thing they will take to glory are children. Say with me, children. Sir, ladies and gentlemen, attention, critics, editors of the message, here I have food for this week. Christians are not going to heaven. Evangelicals are not going to heaven. Those who go to heaven are children, children, children, making them bring children to glory, children, to your name be the glory. And why? What is the confirmation of that? Galatians 4:6, there is the confirmation. Paul says, "Let me give you a mystery, because you are children." Say with me, children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. Say with me again, Son, who cries, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave but a son. Say with me, Son. And if you are a son, you are also an heir through Christ. You have to become a son to inherit. You have to become a son to participate in glory. You have to become a son to operate in the glory of the Lord.
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You are not going to ask that of someone who had no parents to model them, to hug them, to do homework with them, to give them money for snacks, to buy them sneakers, to turn on the little lights, to buy them the bicycles of the moment. Are you going to ask someone to become my son, someone who had no father model? What plan did God have? It's clear that God, no, God will not remain like that. He will send people to earth, he will send people to the sky, and you must have an out-of-this-world discernment to ensure that it is not a distorted person, an opportunist, a freeloader, to put him as a father model. Don't have a draw, but God uses him on purpose because that father-son relationship will develop the son's ability, the capacity to honor someone, because if you are not capable of honoring someone you see, much less will you honor the one you don't see. God's attack to tell you now, "Authorities, honor the boss." It's not that God has so much love for the boss. He is saying, "Learn to honor bosses so that you can honor me. Learn to respect authorities." That is why in my discipleship, I teach my leaders. One, the leader who comes to me, who was given a ticket for driving 90 in a 70 zone, I removed him from leadership, because by being faithful with earthly laws, you will become faithful with spiritual laws. By learning to honor earthly authorities, you will learn to honor spiritual authorities. Obviously, the topic is complicated because there are people who lack attention and will come with this flow, and I want them to not, no, no, no, no. There are people that God will put in your path, and what is God's desire? That God be like this. Look, and they say, "Here I have a man, what do I do with this strong one? This one's father died when he was 8 years old. This one doesn't know what a father is. The father didn't go to school with him, the father didn't correct his homework, the father didn't take him to play, he didn't take him fishing, the father didn't go to watch him play basketball, the father didn't pay his debts, and now he has to see God as his father. It's impossible, he won't honor him, he doesn't have the development on the path." This is God putting someone in your path, probably younger than him, and he begins to model a father, and he begins to call him "Dad," and you begin to hug him like a father, and he calls you and says, "Dad, how are you? I just need you to tell me." But if you are not hearing me, because now it will be easier for you to say, "Jehovah, you are my Father," when it comes to the glory of God.
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They are models, they are models. Because then he begins to take care of the map, and I take him on trips, and he wants to carry my suitcase, he wants to know where I am, he wants to help me. And do you know what happens? By developing, by helping me, it reaches the moment where they say, "Now I am ready to honor God, I have developed that capacity with humans." What is the idea? Connect to your true father, strengthen the relationship with your true father. Because now I just say, for example, to my style, to me, every time I go to honor my parents, every time I go to honor God, it's a serious problem for me. Because, and it's that my biological father, with much respect and humility, was wise as lightning. No, no, no, no. I honor my father. My father is a member of the SF A. On Sunday, he is probably here in church with us. Look, I have taken care of his health, I have taken care of his food for years. He doesn't work due to a health condition. Take that off, I'll take care of you. Not the house, I'll take care of you. Not my clothes, I'll take care of you. Very nice. But what happens now when it's my turn to honor my Father, the Father of fathers? Not even water, it can't be less than what I have done for my biological father.
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And all the people tell me, "Whose product comes out of a plane and goes to Los Angeles with him, and tomorrow another one, and what happens is that every time I know that my father wants me to go and build the people, I can't skimp, because if for my biological parents I go all the way to China, for my Father, I have to go all the way to Japan." Recently, I heard it's a challenge, it's a commitment. Don't ask someone who is disrespectful at work and to authorities to come and honor people in the church who will never honor them because they don't have that development. And from there, we try here to implement respect. "Respect Claudia as if you were respecting Pastor Medial, and respect Cindy as if you were respecting Ismael or Ariel as if you were honoring me," because it's a chain. There will come a time when it comes to studies, you already have the development in life, and when you begin to honor your God, legally, as it happens, then you will be able to connect with all the promises he made you. It's a chain, and there you will be able to see what God truly has for you. Obviously, it's not so easy to find someone who is firm, someone who pushes you, someone who cares about you, someone who models you, someone who respects you. But there are people on earth, and not all is lost. There are anointed people capable of going with you one more mile, who are divine in your moment, who don't just want your money but want your well-being, who want to see your inheritance restored, who want to see your life elevated. How many can worship the glory of the Lord? Not all is lost. Here we are going to raise a generation of warriors, of equipped people, of blessed people, of armed people to face the darkness, people who will honor God. How many can worship the glory of the Lord at this hour?
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Finally, what does that do? What does that do? What does that do? That a woman named Hannah had no children, she was barren, and she lived in a house when her husband had a wife elsewhere, because she had no children, and the other woman mistreated her. "Look, you are barren, I hope God, I hope you die, because what is a woman without children on earth?" And she began to bother her, and one day she threw herself on her knees at the altar and made a pact with God, and crying, she made a pact, crying. She began to make gestures, and all her hair was disheveled. A well-dressed woman, with two hours of crying and making gestures. The pastor in the church encounters this figure. "Who is this drunkard? Who is this? You came drunk here. Here comes someone with principles." I can assure you that there are women who are praying in church, and the pastor tells them, "You are drunk," and they jump like this. There are others who will not open programs, a deacons' meeting for her to take. She has no vision of a man. No, now some will leave the church, others will form a committee within the church saying, "We must pray because this man is too stubborn." First, and he tells me, "Drunk," but she didn't have a developed structure, and she says, "No, my lord, listen, my lady, your pastor, what's wrong with you? I am an afflicted woman, years waiting for a child, and God is not giving me one." And the pastor tells her, "Because I will give you what you are waiting for," and he activated her pregnancy. The man of God, three days later, the woman with a man, one thing, and she says, "I have nausea." That day, he activated it. Who activated the pregnancy? And what was the result? Samuel, for having manifested honor to a physical person, the spiritual world translated that as an honor to the Almighty God and said, "This woman must have her son." We believe you are hearing me. If it had been someone without formation, if it had been someone rebellious, she would have remained barren for all her history. But she manifested honor. The pastor was not wrong, she was right. By praying, she comes to say that I am drunk, but he says, "He is a human being, and he can make mistakes." So, no, no, I am a woman who is afflicted, so I need a son. And the pastor declared it to her, and that same day she received a son, and that same day she received the capacity to have children. When you are studying Hebrew culture, and they want to show you the richest characters in Israel, the richest men, the owners of oil, of the finest hotels, and everything, they will give you a tour until you mention three main surnames. And your question is, "Who are those three surnames?" And they will tell you, "They are in the Bible." Who are they? They were in the palace the day David entered tired and said, "Wow, who would give me to drink from the well that is in Bethlehem?" David didn't ask for water. David just threw a sigh, a sigh, and something you let go of while walking, saying, "Wow, Lord, if a vision appeared and it was with something sweet, I don't know, a pupusa, a su, praise God, and it can be in this hour, if there were a future su." And what happens? When I said that, "Who would give me to drink from the well?" King David. God asked for none of that. Later, David realizes that his escorts, and my people from here, arrive two and a half hours later, bleeding, wounded, bleeding, because in the Middle East, water in many places is more important than oil. It's a desert, and that well was sacred, the well of Bethlehem. It was said that that water was the last of the trinket, and David just said, "Wow, a glass of water from that well." And look, it would have been, it would have been with these three guys who had them by their side. Later they arrive bleeding, cut, wounded, and David said, "And where have you been?" And that blood, "The water, what water? The one you asked for." "Well, I didn't ask for water." "You wanted water from there." "You risked your lives to bring me water." "You, my pastor, you are the person God used to mentor me, to impart to me, you are the person God chose, you are the anointed one of this moment. Here is the water." "You risked your lives." "Here is the water." He didn't drink it. He began to cry and said, "No, I can't drink this water. This could represent the blood of these guys." And the war, he spilled it before God. Finally, who did they go to look for water for? David. Who ended up drinking it? God. And today, the three richest families in all of Israel are the families of these three guys who risked their lives. David said, "He who honors me, I will honor him." I don't know if you are hearing me. Their honor was not direct to God, it was to the leader that God placed, and God translated it for them. That type of person, you honor them for the mantle they carry, for what they represent. So people start looking for them, they fail the men of God, but you cannot honor people for what they are, but for what they represent. Ask David, at one point, he had Saul in front of him, he could have killed him, he had the opportunity in his hand, he was pursuing him. They told him, "Kill him." And he said, "May God deliver me from raising my hand against the anointed one." So, as the anointed one is an impious person, you are looking for witchcraft for your eyes. You are an impious person. He is still the king of this nation, he still represents a king. I honor everything, not him, I honor what he represents in the spiritual world. And what happens? By not killing him, on the contrary, later someone arrives, King David, "If you knew what I did." "What did you do?" "Today I'm going to find Saul lying there, half neglected, and I ripped off his head. Note my name, because I know you will put me as colonel of this government. Keep this circus going." Why? Because you didn't kill Saul, you killed the investiture that he represents today, that this people, David killed him. And what did that mean? Something that meant that David, a king with many ups and downs, had many character problems. At one point, Absalom rose against him, took advantage of David's weariness, the people had grown, David couldn't call the members of the church, and he wasn't very attentive, and Saul was waiting for him at the door. Absalom, "How is everything, pastor? Have you called this last month? Note my phone number, I'm busy with pastoral work during this time." And he raised a local army, and in a matter of days they are saying, "Long live Absalom, the king!" He is already running for a reign. But when the spiritual world came to calculate the history of honor and honor that David had manifested with his previous king, they said, "He never rose against him, he never raised a group to divide the kingdom, he honored him until the last day of his life." So, what must be done? What must be done? You must defend David, even in his lowest moment, no one could stage a coup against him, no one could despise him, because the merits he had accumulated were already working in his favor. So you who are here, who will one day be a pastor, who will one day be a businessman, who one day thinks of nations, someone of influence, start sowing honor, respect, start sowing honor. Respect the leaders, respect your authorities, respect your husbands, respect your wives, respect your bosses, respect the local authorities, because that will give you a level of glory and honor. It will also develop your capacity to respect your God. You will not become a better son by being a good church member. A good son, you will be a better son of God by honoring your local authorities. You will learn to honor God better. There are people who have never honored a local authority, but they have no relationship with their God. They don't dare to call him "Daddy." Do you know what Paul says? "The Spirit of his Son, so that they cry, 'My Father, my dear Daddy.'" There are people, I can assure you 100%, who have never been on their knees and said to God, "My Daddy," because they believe God is angry with them, they believe God wants to kill them, they feel very bad. But those who have the spirit of the son know what it is to have a father who loves me, corrects me, hugs me, who was placed for vanity. Stand up, raise your hand to God.
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