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Most of us, by rule, by tradition, by logic, think that we have, uh, so many years counting from the moment that you let out the first cry of weeping when you came out of your mother's womb. From then on, here on earth, supposedly in hospitals, in places where birth is registered, in city halls, in our country, etcetera, uh, it is said, such day, such month, such year, at such hours, so-and-so was born, and from then on, they start counting your days, your years. However, the 9 months that you were being developed in the womb are overlooked. Why don't we count that? Because really our life on the earthly plane begins from conception, from that moment a life begins to develop. It already has life, it is already a being, not a product, as those who support abortion say, it is already a being, it already has life. If we also take that to the thought that before you had, uh, well, an experience in the mother's womb before being born and at birth, then we are much older because our spirit was given birth by God or created by God. Brother, who knows how long ago. We could talk about millions, billions of years. We could talk about a past eternity, so that you are much older. And at the moment God decided to give birth to you in the facet of the human spirit, the purpose for which God gave you existence was already established. In that dimension, God not only, uh, with all due respect, as here on earth, some conceive children, brother, without having planned them, without having desired them, even simply it was one night, right?, that you know what happened, the light went out and the next day began, right?, a process that culminated with a baby within the family. Okay. But really God did not, because here on earth it happens that when a child is not planned, then if the family is very large, then complaints come from one and the other. I told you to take care of yourself. Ah, no, you didn't take care of yourself, eh? Look at the time. We can barely afford to support the 12 mini-apostles we have in discipleship, and you came up with another child. Okay. But that doesn't happen up there. Up there everything has a purpose because God is a planner. So that when God decided to create the spirit that you have, he established from that moment a purpose for which you were going to enter into existence. Now, why do I teach you this? Because it turns out that the topic, as I have titled it, who will open the book of my destiny? It is a reality that we have to understand because if we come to have consciousness of this reality and we ask God to help us by revealing to us all that was written about me in a book, then and we were to ask the Lord to reveal that to us, to show us, God can do it in some ways, for example, through a dream, God can reveal things to you. By reading the word, God can reveal. But one of the ways God also uses, and why I mentioned the prophets, is because God uses prophets and prophets should know that they are supposed to read the books of each of the people who make up God's people today and announce to them the things that are written there. The only way for a prophet not to be able to see that book is if the book is closed. And then the problem is that when the book is closed, a prophet cannot read what is written and runs the risk of inventing things that he communicates to the person to whom he is or wants to prophesy. So, the problem is that people, by not knowing these principles, receive the prophecy, even if it has nothing to do with them or their lives. But people rejoice every time when they are told good things will happen. Thus says the Lord, you will win the lottery and glory to God, keep using him. This man is from God, do you understand? And so, but when they tell them negative things, they don't like it, they reprimand, they renounce, they reject. Okay? But the problem is that, if the book is closed, not even the prophet can read what is written, and then there is a risk of inventing prophecies. Now, the issue is, why is it closed? And that is what we want to study today, why is the book closed? So, when I look in the Bible that we are to be judged or God will judge all human creation based on the books. Then, it is important to understand that, and it is so important that even in the last few weekends, teachings have been given about the books. How many have heard the Sunday school teachings? Yes. So, I think it's Sister Elena's turn, right?, this Sunday, so what we are going to talk about will be very helpful to her, in addition to what she already has to share. But it is an important topic. When I first heard about the books many years ago, I think it was one of the topics that impacted me the most, that I got most excited about, that I most wanted to learn about, and I dedicated myself to studying and learning about that topic, and the importance that is handled in the Bible about how one day books will be opened and things that were written in them about each one of us will be sought, and we did not do them, and things that were not mentioned in the book, and we did them, has always been in my heart. Then we find ourselves with two realities, things that someone wrote that we did and should not have done, but they were written, and things that were written before the Lord decided to give existence to each one of us, were written, and many of us have not done them. Brother, a question. Wouldn't you like to know what God established for your life? Right? Really, brothers, when we see it that way, we would have avoided so many problems, so many struggles, so many tears, so many mistakes, so many failures. Even sins, brother, we would have avoided if we, uh, had the consciousness and the reality of following step by step what God wrote for each of us. So, when I see this, there is no doubt that we need to ask God to open the books for us, and the key to opening each one's own book is you. You are the key. No man has the key. A prophet has to read to announce to someone what is written, what the prophet sees and announces to them from God. Brother, I believe in that with all my heart. Do you know that many years ago, perhaps about 24 years ago, it is even recorded, I received a word from a prophet at an apostolic event, and it strikes me that on that occasion we were recognized in the apostolic, but the prophet did not know me, nor I him, first time. I didn't even know who had been invited and was teaching the word. And one of the things this prophet did was to address me, and among the things he told me, to make it short, were words that impacted my life, and among them, the one that impacted me was this, thus says the Lord, start writing books, remember? Instead of giving them to the people, start writing them so they can go everywhere. Brother, he, he, I didn't even have a book published, and he didn't know me, and I didn't know him. It was the first time we saw each other. And who told him that I had a desire in my heart to write books and that somehow I had made pamphlets for Sunday school, for discipleship. I used to write topics there to develop with a group of disciples we had, and based on that, but they were very artisanal things, brother, very, very, let's say, simple, typed pages or printed, a poorly made cover, brother, if you want, and binding the books with a plastic spiral that were put in the places where photocopies were made, etcetera. And then, brother, I didn't publish them, not online, not anywhere. And this man of God tells me that word, and I felt that it was for me because that was a calling I had, that was a desire. And then that has been developing because, thank God, we have our 40th book. That 40th book is already being distributed, today we don't even put it in the bookstore here in the church because, thank God, there is already someone who distributes it, and I don't have to worry about mailing the books. There is already a company that does it. So, not even this, because anyway the brothers don't buy them, they wait. So, I don't know if they don't like to read, and for me that is very tremendous, because if they don't like to read books, how will it be with the Bible? Do the brothers called to conquer read the Bible? Look, not even an amen. Ask the one next to you, well, help me preach. Ask, ask, ask, ask. And do you read the Bible? Well, up there they know if you read the Bible or not, right? So, the point here is that we have to understand that if our book is closed, there is no prophet on the face of the earth who can tell you in prophecy what God has for your life. You may say, "Brother, I don't need a prophet. I have a relationship with the Lord, and he reveals things to me in dreams." That's fine, but even dreams are not, brother, completely described of what God has for your life and where you are going to go, not even that. And the biblical basis I have is Joseph. Joseph had two dreams. In one of them he saw 11, how would it be? Uh, sheaves of wheat. Sheaves, right? Ah, Gabías. Uh-huh. But but like that, right? In sheaves of 11. And the other one also revealed stars, revealed things, brother, of a very, very spiritual nature, far from the earthly. The earthly was based on what they were accustomed to, sowing the field, harvesting, binding it, and preparing it to be stored in the granary. That was similar. The other was celestial, but both things had to do with the same thing. And the end of it all was where God was taking him and would use him as an influential figure in his life and to even save an empire like Egypt from famine, but he did not tell him the path he would take, he only told him, "You will be great, you will be powerful, I will use you. You will have influence, you will govern." But he did not tell him the way. He did not tell him, "To reach the goal, your brothers will hate you. To reach the goal, your brothers will try to kill you. To reach the goal, they will sell you as a slave. To reach the goal, you will go to jail. There in jail someone will rescue you and you will be put as a servant in the house of another of those within the Egyptian government structure. To reach the goal, Potiphar's wife will accuse you of adultery and you will go back to jail." They didn't tell him any of that. So, dreams, yes, God can send us a message, but he doesn't give you the details. And prophecy or the word that a prophet gives can give you more or less details, but it must be constant. It must be constant. However, if the book is closed, if your book is closed, no prophet can see it. For the prophet to see it, it must be open, and the key is me. And then the question is, since when have you not been prophesied to? Since when has there not been a word that comes from God? through the gifts of prophecy or through a prophet who brings you a message from God at a time when you are about to throw in the towel, as they say popularly, when you say, "I can't take it anymore, I don't know what to do, all doors have been closed to me." Don't you think it's time for God to send you a message from a prophet to encourage you and tell you that what you are experiencing is only temporary or is like a type of school you are going through and that it is preparing you for a better stage, that without that adversity, without that trial, you would not be in the condition to take on what is new, the new stage that the Lord has for us. So, we need to understand about the books. Now, if anyone thinks that this does not exist, the Bible shows us from the Old Testament what existed in the conscience of those men. I want to take you to the basis. Daniel chapter 7, verse 9. The book of Daniel says in this verse, "I continued watching until thrones were set in place." Look at the experience Daniel was having. And the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, and its wheels were burning fire. Verse 10. A river of fire was flowing out before him. Thousands upon thousands served him, and myriads upon myriads stood before him. The court was convened, and the books were opened. Tremendous, right? Look at the vision the prophet Daniel had. Now, when I look at this, this passage is describing a court where God is the judge and is using books to process the thousands upon thousands standing before him in the court. That's what that passage says. There is a difference in that it says, "Thousands upon thousands served him, different from myriads upon myriads who stood before him." So there were some who served, which was a very, very numerous number, to be redundant, but there were also myriads upon myriads who were the ones the court would judge. Can you imagine how many books for so many people? And then, according to the passage, as the books were opened, descriptions were sought in them that corresponded to each person. So, the question here is, what is in the books? If they were books, because there were myriads upon myriads standing before the Lord, listening. Brother, have you ever been, uh, uh, in a court here on earth? Raise your hand. There's nervousness, right? Especially when someone is going to tell you something. Your feet are cold, right, brother? And they are about to call you. And then suddenly San Caralampio passes by, and here comes the judge, and he starts talking to you, reading you guilty or not guilty. Guilty or not guilty. So, imagine those who, from that moment, are told so many years in prison and are immediately handcuffed and taken away as soon as they say goodbye to someone who accompanied them. There is nervousness. Now, imagine yourself before the Lord, and the books are going to be opened. So, here we see that before the Lord, and my question is, how can a person defend themselves in that court if they did not do what was prophetically written there? And as in every court, there is not only a judge, obviously there is a defender, who is our Lord Jesus, but there is also a prosecutor, there are witnesses, there are officers, there are secretaries who are writing, and there is the judge. Now, as these are books that correspond to each of those who will appear, this is a court for me, my beloved, for me. We are seeing Daniel, which is very, very parallel to what the book of Revelation says, when the Lord is also sitting on his white throne, which is to judge, to condemn, but we have a Bema, the Bema of Christ, we have the tribunal of Christ, and as it is a tribunal, it has the same concept, meaning, there will be books too. We have not spoken of those books that are in the Bema of Christ, tribunal of Christ, but it is the same concept, we will appear, we will give an account of the good or bad things we did while we were in the body, books will be opened, even if it is not said, it is the same concept. So, how will we defend ourselves against something that is in the book prophetically written if we did not do what we were supposed to do in that book? Delicate. So, on the other hand, this passage, we see that judge. You see the judge there, right? in the passage, doesn't it also seem worthy of observation that this judge is not like the judges here? Of course, right? It is God. But I mean in description. Can you help me by telling me how you have seen a judge in a court? What do you see first? Ah, well, he is old. Okay. Good observation. Anything else? Ah. Ah, who said the clothing? Interesting. What color is the clothing, sister? The clothing of the judges here is black. Wow. My goodness. Why? We, we look at that in a judge. But but this one is dressed in white and is a judge. Now, it is worth asking ourselves why judges on earth dress in black and not in white, and then I started to investigate, I said, "Yes, interesting." When I saw that, why do they dress like that? Did you know that in England it is also customary to wear an outfit and they put on wigs with curls, as they say? Do you understand? Their judge's attire is different. And then here is something that may help you understand. For example, wearing clothing for court is an English tradition in the first place, and it shows that in 1694 in England, upon the death of Queen Mary II, upon her death, the judges adopted wearing black robes as a sign of mourning, because they used to wear other attire, red with white. But then, upon the death of this queen, from then on they started to wear black attire. And then there was here a, uh, he was the judge of a Supreme Court, John Marshall, in the year 1801, who then looked at that and brought it to the United States, adopted a simple black robe as well, and from then on all judges followed the example until this day. But then now it has its meaning. What does wearing, what does wearing a black robe represent according to American justice? Impartiality, dignity, judicial authority, service to the law. The principle is that the judge is at the service of the law, not of his personal interests. But, brother, only the black color intimidates. Just seeing that judge is not just a matter of elegance. It intimidates. But if I have a spiritual perspective, then for me it is not so much impartiality that it represents, but rather fear. Or don't you feel fear when you go before a judge? Oh, may he tell me, "Ah, no, brother, I, I'm not afraid, brother." What, brother? Not at all. It intimidates him, brother. The appearance of a judge is impeccable, brother. And before entering, you have to stand up, right? He just enters and stands, they announce him, and you stand up. And here it is difficult for the brothers to stand up. And there is the judge in white who counts your standing and sitting. Okay. So, our judge dresses in white. Your judge dresses in white, and your judge expects that when the books are opened, you will have the composure to say that you followed the details of what was written in the book of your destiny. How many believe they will be able to do that? It is an amen that requires thinking twice, and that we still have an opportunity. Well, so in summary of what has been or has been being told to you, there are approximately these seven books of the dimension of a tribunal. The book of the living in Psalm 139:16, which is the entire destiny of each one registered here, the book of life, Revelation 25. Upon receiving Christ, our name was inscribed in it. The book of tears, even Psalm 56:8, where your sufferings are counted, not because of sin, but suffering for preaching Christ, for moving forward, for maintaining your faith, because someone, brother, wants to make your life impossible, becomes a stumbling block for you, attacks you, tries to harm you, and you, brother, because of the gospel. You suffer to maintain your faith, to maintain your integrity and your testimony. Those tears are counted in that book. The tears you shed and that others have made you suffer. They are there. The book of memories, Malachi 3:16, is where those who are generous, who financially support the work, are inscribed. Your prayers and pious actions are also there. The book of rewards speaks of service in the work. The book of wars, Numbers 21:14, the battles we fight in obedience to God, and the book of Jasher, which is mentioned twice in the Bible, which narrates cosmic events, laments, and exploits. But that was even for the book of the ancient, it was for the Jews, and they mention it twice in the scriptures. But I only mention this as an idea. Now, the books, every believer, what strikes me is if those books exist, if they have descriptions of people, wouldn't you like to know if you are there? At least, right? You know you are in the book of life. You are sure of that, right? Why are you sure you are in the book of life? Come on, tell me. Ah, no, no, no, that's not all. The book of life is a term that describes that we are inscribed there because we received Christ in our hearts. So, what he means is, he is saved. He accepted the Lord, even if he didn't see it with his own eyes, but he received him in his heart. He has the revelation. He believed that the blood that Jesus shed on the cross of Calvary was to cleanse his sins. He recognized that he was a sinner and that only he could save him, and he said, "He is my savior. He is my salvation." And not only that, you also accepted him as the Lord of your life. Your name is there. Surely it is there. But what about the book of the living? It is also there, but what you are supposed to do in life is there. And the question is, I return to the charge, have we done it? And you would also have reason to say, "But I don't even know what's there." So, if you don't know, wouldn't you like a prophet to start reading your book to you? But a prophet who truly doesn't invent things, right? Who doesn't miss church either. Ah, no, if he comes in rude today, brother. Why do they invite me if they already know how I am? Of course, we need that. Now, what strikes me is what things can cause our book to remain closed and for no one to be able to read it. Has any of you ever in your life or still have the habit of writing memoirs? Yes. You know that, it used to be done. I don't know if this was part of some ancient or modern generation. Do any of you write a book of your memoirs? Yes, every day. Wow, some people have the habit, you understand? Ah, now they use Facebook. Before, they used to buy their little book and write, Friday. What day? What's today's date? Ah, the diary. The diary of life. Ah, what's the date? Friday the 19th. It's 6 a.m. I woke up sad, I don't know what's wrong with me. And I start writing. I don't want to talk to anyone. I've even lost my appetite. And I close it. Later, it's 3 p.m., I thought someone would remember me. No one called me, no one loves me. I close it, and at night I go to sleep sad again. I endure it and close it so no one reads it. Even loves are revealed there. Today I saw him or today I saw her. It was by chance. And she starts to say, "I was at the bar, he looked at me, I read [laughter] he wanted to talk to me." You know it well, right? Okay. There she writes, "He is the love of my life. Because of him I don't sleep, or because of her I don't sleep." And when I talk to him, he pulls my hair, okay? And she closes it so no one, she doesn't want anyone to know, because her secrets are there, her pains are there, her frustrated dreams are there, her so many things that could be written, okay? You open it when you want. You open it when you want to keep writing or to keep feeding yourself with what you have written. And this, who opens it for you? Hero, for me this is delicate. If sometimes, excuse me, brother, if sometimes we don't even read the Bible, [shout] we don't even open the Bible, don't you think it would be extraordinary to know what God said when he thought of each one of us to give us existence? Because it is very easy to say the guidance of the spirit. Every Christian says that, and it is true. We need to be guided by the spirit. Ah, no. To go in my destiny, I have to ask. I know the spirit guides me. Oh, I have the guidance of the spirit. Many people say it, but how real is it for that person to be truly guided by the spirit? Some say it only because it is the common term within Christianity. But really, how many are guided by the spirit to make decisions in life? But God wants us to have that book open and to be able to know what God said about each of us. When will I encounter the blessing? When will I encounter, brother, those things that God, before giving me existence on earth and giving me existence in the dimension of the spirit, put purposes in my life, put destiny, and made me, within that reality, supplied me with the resources I would need. He put all the resources, he even put the divine connections through the spirit that you would have with someone who would help you in life, people who would lend you a hand, people who would not abandon you, people who would, brother, even help you to catapult yourself in life, to have success, because God works with connections with other people whom God has destined to be a blessing for your life. But often we have never stopped asking about that book. Why? It could be due to ignorance, it could be due to disbelief, it could be due to lack of love and lack of fear of God. It could be due to continuing in sin. So, that closes the book. Ignorance, disbelief, lack of fear, and continuing in sin close the book. So, who will open the book for us? So, every believer needs to know that the instructions in those books to be able to flow in what God wrote, for that they must be opened before a judgment. I don't want it to be opened on the day of judgment, brother, and for the book to be opened only then. How is it possible that the book will be opened only then, and we will be surprised, brother. Mario Rivera. Well, he won't call me brother, right? He will call me Mario Rivera. It says here. It's not possible that we will be surprised only then. It's better to ask God here. So, the answer is, when the books are opened, God's prophetic intention with the person will be found. That is, God was the first, not only did he write it, but God made a prophetic declaration about your life. Amen. A prophetic declaration that begins with things as simple as, this man, this woman is for my glory and for my honor. He will glorify me, he will believe me, he will hope in me, he will obey me, he will serve me. And in times of affliction and tribulation, he will trust in me and lift his gaze and say, "From where will my help come?" Oh, my help comes from Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth. He will lift his gaze to the infinite heights, where is the God who wrote those books about you. Brother, the problem is to fight with what God wrote about your life, and to do so is to try to move against the tide, against the current. Interesting. I don't know if you know the nature of salmon. Do you know salmon? Amen. Come on, how many times have you eaten it? Right? Many times, right, sister? She says she has eaten many salmon. Poor things, sister. Why did you eat them? Do you know that salmon, when they lay their eggs, the eggs run downstream, and in that current the salmon egg develops, grows, and then when it is already large, it is interesting that the salmon returns to where it was laid. That's why you see salmon swimming against the current. There it goes, jumping. The river flows powerfully downstream, and the salmon goes upstream, and when it reaches the waterfall, it dies. Could it be that we are like that? Navigating against the book God wrote, navigating against the current. God tells you, "Little child, I want you here." No, I'm going over there. Pure Jonah. Go to Nineveh. No, I'm going to Tarshish. And Nineveh was closer, and Tarshish was farther away, 500 miles from Indianapolis. So, when the books are opened, what God prophetically established would happen in your life will be described there. It is what God prophetically said about you and wants to see happen in your life these days. There is still time. Success in this tribunal, when we all have to appear, will be based on what is written. And there, if we have flowed in that. What were you sent to do on earth? You are doing it in such a way that any argument the enemy has in that tribunal against you, against all of us, is annulled if we have flowed in what God prophetically established. What will he accuse you of if you did what was written in the book? Brother, this is delicate. I don't know if you feel what I feel, brother. I don't know if you are aware of what I am trying to get you to think about, brother. Are you doing what is supposed to be written in the book? Are we doing what is written in the book? So, we all have a book. The Bible says in a passage in Revelation 5:4, I want you to note it down. If you have it there, read it. I don't know if I have it further on, but I will just cite it. How are the books opened? I'd better not tell you, I'll tell you later, right? Sister Lidia can't wait any longer, Sister Lidia. We all have a book, and it turns out that we are not aware of it, but the Bible says that there was a man a long time ago who spoke of his book, and that we read it as if it were only about him, when he is a representation of what happens to all of us. It wasn't just something specific for, in this case, I'm referring to David. Daniel knew about the books. All the men of the Old Testament knew about the books, about their books. Moses speaks of his books. The prophets spoke of those books. David spoke of that book. John knew about that book. Jesus knew about that book. And you and I, the Bible says, I want you to read these passages. Psalm 139:16 in different versions, at least in two, David writes in the amplified version, "Your eyes have seen my unformed substance. And in your book were all my days that were appointed for me, when as yet there was none of them." Look what David is writing. Who revealed to David? Who told David that there was a book that was written, that is in the presence of God, but that was written in relation to the days that were given to David? David lived not a day more nor a day less. David lived the days that were written there. The Strawinger version says, "Your eyes already saw my deeds." Wow, it's talking about pre-existence. And all are written in your book. My days were determined before any of them came to be. Wow. When the amplified version says, the word "my substance" from Hebrew is "golem." The word "golem" means an unformed and undeveloped mass like an imperfect embryo or one that has not yet reached its full development. So David is saying, "For everyone there are books where, even though we have not been born on earth, they are already spoken of." And this version says, "God already saw my deeds." Why? Because he was reading. You will get married on such a day, you will do well if you marry the one God put in the book who was for you, Lord. And if I took her, well, there's the detail, as Cantinflas said, right? And don't you say, "Well, I realized you weren't the one in the book, so goodbye." Not that either. See you later, your law. So, the reason why you are still alive on earth or the reason why I am still alive on earth is because your days have not yet run out in that book. Oh, God. I would be clapping, shouting, "Thank you, Lord. Glory to God. Blessed be your name." So, now we have the great responsibility, and the only way to know what is in the book. We should all ask God to reveal it to us. So, we need to learn to discern what is in that book, and it can only be discerned prophetically. God wants us to learn to discern in order to open that book. So, look, I'm going to finish. What time is it? 9 o'clock. Exactly. Okay, I want to finish with this. How do I relate the books to the prophets? I am not interpreting the Bible in my own way. If there is anything I am very careful about, it is interpreting and establishing as doctrine only for my convenience. God knows I flee from that, I run from that. I think they gave me a vaccine against interpreting the Bible at my whim, because I am tired of hearing so much teaching only in favor of personal interpretation, and not of what is written and what the Holy Spirit teaches. So, how do I relate my book, your book, to the need for a prophet to read and announce to me what is there? I already said, I have to have it open for a prophet to read it to me. And a true prophet who wants to give a true message for a person, for a family, for a nation, do you know that they cry? If they see that someone's book is closed. That's why I told you, I told you about the passage I wanted to mention earlier, let me see if I have it here. Revelation 5:4. I will just read it to you. Revelation 5:4 says, John speaking, "And I wept much," says the Apostle John, "because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it." John in heaven saw books and saw seven seals. And John wept because he did not see anyone worthy who could open the books and read the contents. This is a figure. Of course, the Lamb is worthy to break the seals and open what is written there. But what strikes me is that this is the pattern in which God operates. I want to be read to, but I need a prophet to find my book open and tell me, "Thus, says the Lord, servant, [shout] do not be discouraged, do not despair, because God has something better for you." I need that in moments of sadness, of weakness, brother, of confusion, of battles. I need a prophet to tell me from God what I have to do. You need it too, that one day you who only God knows how you come to the house of the Lord, you come with struggles, you come with trials, you come with adversities, perhaps we have failed, but you come seeking an opportunity, and it is not right for someone to come and curse you and instead of helping you, to bring you down. It is right, and of course, perhaps sin, failure, everything that can happen in someone's life is because no one dictates their book to them. If someone makes a mistake, if someone is taking a wrong step, if someone is going down the wrong path, do you think they don't need a prophet to tell them, "Turn back, stand at the crossroads and ask for the ancient path." We need that, brother Juan. And Juan, why did Juan cry? Because he knew these principles. He knew that if the books are open, no one can read the contents of what is there, and no one can prophesy to you. So, the message so far is, would you like to have the books open? Amen. Let's pray for the prophets so that God may use them, so that they can read and speak from God, and that they may also gather. And I continue. Ah, no, well, yes. It's great to be anointed and appointed, and at the time of the blows, you were absent. Okay, I'll finish with this. How do I relate the books to the prophets? Because the Bible says so. Okay. Prophets must prophesy what is in the open books. Isaiah 29:10 says, "For the Lord has poured upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes; the prophets and covered your heads, the seers." Verse 11 says, "And all vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when it is given to one who can read, saying, 'Read this, please,' he says, 'Look at this passage, I cannot, because it is sealed.'" A prophet. So, not only the prophet whose eyes are closed, here it says the prophets and below it says the books are closed. Imagine, I don't have a book here, right? Do the brothers not use books to follow the songs, right? Right? Okay. Let's assume this is the book. A prophet who cannot read this book for two reasons: it is closed. And another, because God has closed his eyes. But closing your eyes means you won't be able to, no, you don't have to invent anything. Do you understand me? If it is closed, your eyes are closed. You don't have to invent prophecy. I open it for you.
The eyes because the book is open. Now what you are going to prophesy about that person is here in the book where God wrote about each one. Prophets must prophesy what is in the open books. However, if you cannot prophesy to the people or to individuals, it is because the books are closed. What is being said is that the prophets who exist will not be able to prophesy about you because your book is closed and they will not be able to perceive it, and they should not invent anything to please you. They should only speak what is written in the book. Two things and I finish. The believer must be an open book. Thus says the word, that we are open letters. Second, you will require a prophecy that prophesies over your life according to the book. Then, here we would have to develop another facet of this topic. I will leave it here because I still have a lot to cover, but I truly believe it is important that we can have the experience of someone reading to us about what God has destined for each one. And it is not about guessing anyone's life, because the one who is a true prophet does not need to guess. What they need is to have their eyes open to read the book, but the book must be open and you hold the key. You are the one who will allow if it is opened for them to read it, because it is in the language that the prophet can read it. I finish with this. Can you come up, guys? I finish with this. Do you know what it says there? wants to open it. Hm. Who, who, who can translate that? And tell me in a loud voice what it means there. You have a smartphone, use it. Sorry. It has already translated it. What does Manuelito say? at 32 it was written all and they were fire in that, it means the psalm. Don't think I put it there just to put it there. Don't think I said, "Ah, the brothers don't even know what Hebrew is." I didn't put it there for you to translate it with your phone. And the question here is, who will open the book of my destiny? How? How could we have avoided so many mistakes, [music] failures? tears, sorrows, losses, but we have had to go through things that were not there. Better, precious, glorious things are written here for your life, but we have ignored them. We make ourselves ignore. This is what is written in Hebrew. Your eyes have seen my immature substance, and in your book are written all the days that were appointed for me when not one of them had yet taken shape. This other version. Your eyes already saw my deeds, and all of them are written in your book. My days that were determined before any of them came to be. When they sent you to earth, they put you like this. Look, go to earth with your book. And there I will raise up men of God, prophets, who will open the book for you, which you will open for them. What does it say here, please? and they will prophesy it to you, brother. There are victories written there for you. That's why, whatever you are going through, don't give up. Perhaps God will use someone in these days to read the book to you [music] and prophesy to you. Perhaps the problem is like this, to finish, and they will deliver victory to you. But you will have to learn how to open it. I will teach you this. How do I do it, Brother Mario, to open the book? You will learn how to open the book, and by faith you will lift it to see if there is a prophet in the house so that they can read it to you, and no one will be able to read it. Don't worry. No one will come to see what you are doing. What does it matter to you? It will be so that the open eyes of the prophets say, "There is an open book. Thus says the Lord to you. I will not forsake you. The cold season you are living has ended. And look, the leaves have budded, their aromas have been spread. Now listen to the song of the turtledove. It is a new time for you. They will prophesy it to you, but you will have to keep the book open. Live with that reality. You will enter the church. Who will open the book? I want to know what God has for my life. I will get out of this. When, Lord? It is there. Stand on your feet, please. Wouldn't you like to come and tell the Lord, "Lord, yes, there is a book for my life. God did not give you existence to come and suffer, brother. God did not write about you. Oh, this one will be the one who will suffer in the whole family. This one will roll like a stone. No, no, no. This one will have to experience bitterness alone. These things do not happen to us because we decide on our own, because we close our book and we do not want to know what God has for us, because many times [music] you will have to reject some things that your flesh asks of you, that people offer you to lead you astray, that the world even with its delights and its pleasures offers you. And many times people fall into that because it is easier, brother. But consecration [music] begins there, enveloping yourself in what God wrote about you according to Psalm 139. Come, let's pray together. Come and tell Him, "Lord, open that book. Help me to open it. And if you have to repent of anything, let's do it too. Let's do it. Lord, forgive me because I have tried to live my life with my own plans. With my own decisions. I have come this far. I never stopped to ask if there was something where I could turn and contemplate with my own eyes the prophetic dictates [music] that you established so that my life would have that guidance. In Jesus' name, help me to pray for the sisters. Brother Edy, Sister Irma, please come, come. Do not be afraid. We are all in this reality here. [music] Perhaps there, in the attitude and in the faith that we will present before God, in the recognition, perhaps there [music] that book will open today and God will begin to tell you where to go. Don't stay there, come. I know that God has spoken to you. I know that you know deep down in your heart that this message has indicated why the life you expected has not turned out. Everything is there, brother. It is dictated there. How many members of your family will be there? It has been said if they will be males, if they will be females, even for you, man, it has been written about you what God had planned for you to be that man of God, that priest, that father of the family. It is written about you, sister, the quality of matriarch you would be, that mother, that grandmother, that sister, that daughter, that wife, that maiden. All the details of our lives are written there. Oh, we need to know how to open it and we need it to be prophesied to us. As Isaiah said, how will the prophets read if the book is sealed? Someone has to open it. You cannot remain paralyzed. You cannot hide from that. [music] God is giving that moment so that we can live by what is written. Thank you, Lord, for each brother. Your eyes [music] reveal, Lord, to your servant as a prophet of this house, I can [music][singing] hide. May he be able to read the open books of your people to dictate the prophetic that you wrote. May he be used, Lord, in Jesus' name. [music] In Jesus' name, we bless each sister, each brother who has come forward here. We bless them with all our [music] hearts [singing] and we seal this word in their being. Carry [music] my life to a single truth. That when you [music][singing] look at me, I can hide nothing. [music] I know it is your faithfulness that carries my life beyond [music] what I can imagine. [music] I know that [music] I cannot deny that your gaze fixed [singing] on me [music] fills me with your peace. [music] I know it is your faithfulness that carries my life beyond. [music] what I can imagine. [music] I know that I cannot deny that your gaze fixed on me [music] fills me with your peace. [music] I know it is your faithfulness that carries [music] my life beyond what I can [music] imagine. I know that [music] I cannot deny that your gaze fixed [music] on me fills me with your peace. Thank you, Lord. Your word is truth, and we do well to acknowledge and humble ourselves when we accept, Lord, that we have lived life without these eternal, profound, and written truths. Now we ask that this not be merely a sermon for one day like today, but that it be an instruction that we can heed, follow, and pursue [music] from today onwards, Lord, in order to encounter all the things that you have established, that are part of our lives, because you also put them there at the moment you wrote in your presence, in that book [music] about us. Bless each of my brothers and sisters of this congregation who gathered here. Allow them to return home. Hide them in the hollow of your hand. Carry them with peace and carry them with victory. In Jesus' name, we renounce all accidents, all provocation. We bind the strong man of the city, the violent man, hand and foot, and we declare