WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.799 We are going with our second exhibition, which, in my opinion, is 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:09.000 far more important than the first. I don' t know those who will 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:14.000 endure to the end, but in any case, it is much more important 4 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:22.000 than the first, because it is wisdom in Jesus' teaching First, and 5 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:25.960 this is something I shouldn' t say, but I have to repeat it 6 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:30.719 because there are people who seem to ignore it. The only personage in the 7 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:39.079 Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, which is normative is Jesus. There are 8 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.159 people who suddenly, to defend anything, resort to any character. Of course, 9 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:50.640 the Bible has countless teachings related to other characters, but the only normative 10 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:58.640 character is Jesus. Not even Paul is a normative character in the Bible only 11 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.280 Jesus is, so if you decide that Jacob is suddenly a normative character, 12 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:11.280 surely Jacob has interesting teachings, about everything you don' t have to do, 13 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.640 but you should remember that the normative character was polygamous and I guess no 14 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:23.319 one will consider polygamy to be an acceptable standard of conduct. Today, Abraham 15 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:30.799 is a character whose life contains many teachings and in this case, more positive 16 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:36.719 than negative. But Abraham had a daughter with the maid, a son with 17 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:40.719 the maid, and I suppose no one will think it lawful to have a 18 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:46.680 son with the maid, because Abraham had it and could repeat Davis Solomon and 19 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:52.799 many other illustrious characters. The only character that is normative to our life is 20 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:57.000 Jesus and is so among other reasons, apart from being the son of God 21 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:05.680 and God incarnated because Jesus is the wisdom of God, what we have seen 22 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:12.520 this morning in the Old Testament, which is obviously applicable and is enormously important 23 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:21.879 to us. However, they are only small flash small advancements of light of 24 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.719 what is going to be the wisdom that is Christ. If you accompany me 25 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:32.439 to the First Letter, to the Corinthians, first, the Corinthians and verses 26 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:39.280 of the eighteenth. From now on Paul' s statements make that theological principle 27 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:46.120 good, which say that when God wants you to enter a truth he leaves 28 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:50.400 the key at the door. This usually happens in Paul' s letters, 29 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.919 in the first verses, already gives you clues to what the Letter is going 30 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:59.319 to be and here it happens the same and says so in the first of 31 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:06.199 Corinthians, chapter one and verse eighteen onwards, because the word of the Cross 32 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.000 is madness to those who are lost, but those who are saved. This 33 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:15.599 is to us the power of God, for it is written. I will 34 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:22.439 destroy the wisdom of the wise and destroy the understanding of the wise. Where 35 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.919 is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of this 36 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:31.360 century. God did not make the wisdom of the world mad, for in 37 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:38.080 the wisdom of God the world did not know God. Through wisdom it pleased 38 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.520 God to save believers by the folly of preaching, for the Jews ask for 39 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:51.240 signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified to the Jews, 40 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:58.599 certainly stumbling block and to the Gentiles more folly to those so called Jews. 41 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:09.199 How Christ power of God and wisdom of God, for the foolishness of 42 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.400 God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 43 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.319 Well, look, brothers, your vocation that you are not many wise according 44 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:25.519 to the flesh, neither many powerful nor many nobles, but God chose the 45 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:30.839 fool of the world to shame the wise and the weak of the world chose 46 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.040 God to shame the strong and the vile of the world. And the despiseable 47 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:38.759 chose God and what is not to undo what is so that no one would 48 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:44.839 boast in his presence more for him are you in Christ Jesus, who has 49 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:51.120 been made us by God wisdom, justification, sanctification and redemption so that, 50 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:58.279 as it is written that glory should glory in the Lord the only thing that 51 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:05.680 is normative, one hundred percent for all of us is Jesus, his life 52 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:14.360 and his teaching. We can learn from Solomon, but it is not normative. 53 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:17.560 Solomon was led astray at the end of his life by pagan women. 54 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:23.680 We can learn many things from David, but it is not form, it 55 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.399 is not normative. David had no problem killing a person to cover a grave 56 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:33.879 sin of adultery. We may have Jesus as our standard, but there will 57 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.800 be, even if we learn from him, neither Isaac nor Jacob. The 58 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:44.720 only thing that is normative, the only thing that is the wisdom of God 59 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:49.040 is Jesus. And that is precisely why the revelation of the New Testament is 60 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:53.920 definitive, as it was not of the Old Testament. And above all, 61 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:59.439 it is not only definitive, but we also have to interpret the old Testament 62 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:05.120 in the light of the new Testament. It is the New Testament that gives 63 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:11.720 us the correct interpretation of the Old Testament. It is not a misinterpretation of 64 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.480 the Old Testament that makes us well interpret the New Testament, although, unfortunately, 65 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.480 it is very common these days. I will examine five points, seven 66 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:28.600 points of Jesus' wisdom and how they apply in our lives. Like I 67 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:30.720 told you, it' s seven. As you go through, you are 68 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:39.560 feeling more relieved because we approach the end. Point one. First point, 69 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:46.519 the real meaning of life? And this is essential for living in a wise 70 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:51.879 way to know what the real meaning of life is? Let' s go 71 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:58.959 to Matthew' s Gospel. The Gospel of Matthew is very well placed as 72 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.120 the first book of the New Testament and also as the first of the Gospels, 73 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:12.439 because it is a gospel specifically addressed to Jews so that they understand that 74 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.079 the Messiah and the Son of God is precisely Jesus. Therefore, the Gospel 75 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.839 of Matthew, unlike Mark, for example, or other books, is a 76 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:28.199 gospel that begins with reference to the fact that Jesus is Abraham' s son 77 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.959 and is David' s son and mentions a genealogy that we Gentiles care about 78 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:38.079 a pepper, but that it was very important to the Jews and in that 79 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:44.000 sense, it is a Jewish gospel not only that. I' ll try. 80 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.240 I don' t get too involved in this, because it can be 81 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:55.399 dangerous. The Gospel of Matthew contains five great discourses of Jesus that are parallel 82 00:07:55.519 --> 00:08:00.439 to the five books of Moses and, of course, kill O Gis Made 83 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:07.000 with all intent. Jesus' first speech in Matthew is the sermon on the 84 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:11.839 Mount, chapter verse from five to seven, which is a parallel to Genesis. 85 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:18.879 In Genesis Moses tells us about the origin of the world, the origin 86 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.560 of the people of Israel, the origin of salvation, etc. In the 87 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.720 sermon on the Mount appears what has to be the origin of Christian life. 88 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.200 I know that many people think that the sermon on the Mount is for when 89 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.519 you have fifty years as a believer. It is not Jesus' teaching, 90 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:43.120 it is not what appears in Matthew. The believer begins right now by living 91 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.519 according to the sermon on the Mount, trying to live according to the sermon 92 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:52.320 on the Mount, because that is the genesis. The second book of Moses 93 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.000 is the exodus. It is no coincidence that Jesus' second great discourse in 94 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:03.639 Matthew ten is the apostles' departure, precisely to win the land, preaching 95 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.120 in the same way that the exodus is the Book of Israel' s exit, 96 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:13.559 of the slavery of Egypt, to conquer the land. And so I 97 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.759 could keep showing them parallels. But if I start with that, I' 98 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:22.519 m going to deviate too far. Matthew' s Gospel is a deeply Jewish 99 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.559 gospel. It is the most quoted of the Old Testament and, in addition, 100 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.200 there are continuous parallels with the Old Testament. Unfortunately, people do not 101 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:37.240 usually know the Old Testament and miss all that. Let' s go to 102 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.440 the sermon on the Mount. As the sermon on the Mount chapters from five 103 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:48.200 to seven begins what Christian life is. It is very interesting how it begins, 104 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:54.440 for example, by saying that those who follow Jesus are blessed, happy, 105 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.000 which is shocking, because it also says why we are. For example, 106 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:05.120 we are because we cry. We are because they talk bad about us. 107 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.080 We are because they slander us and persecute us because of Jesus. But 108 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:16.480 Jesus explains why and says well you really are blessed because you weep. But 109 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.279 it is that you are the only ones who will receive consolation in the whole 110 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.840 history of humanity. It is true that they slander you and speak evil unjustly 111 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.120 of you, but it is because you have me as a teacher and you 112 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:37.039 follow me like this, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, so you have plenty 113 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.879 of reasons to be happy, even when you are slandered and even when you 114 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:46.919 are persecuted. Moreover, when you are peacemakers and you are criticized, you 115 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.200 are showing that you are children of God' s character. It' s 116 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.039 very important, but I' m not going to stop at this. Jesus 117 00:10:54.200 --> 00:11:00.919 then shows that what defines believers is the fact that they are salt and light. 118 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:07.840 If you really want to know if you are following Jesus, you have 119 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.559 to ask yourself if you are salt and light. But finally we come to 120 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.720 this first point of wisdom, in which Jesus reveals the meaning of life. 121 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:28.440 And it begins in mateo chapters six and we are going to read the verses 122 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.320 from nineteen onwards and thus says mateos six from nineteen onwards. Do not lay 123 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:39.639 up for yourselves treasures in the land, where moth and rust break and where 124 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.440 thieves mine and steal. If you don' t make treasures in heaven, 125 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:48.919 where neither moth nor rust break and where thieves don' t mine nor steal. 126 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:54.159 For wherever your treasure is, your heart will be there. The lamp 127 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.360 of the body is the eye, so if your eye is good, your 128 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:01.279 whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is evil, 129 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.000 your whole body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is 130 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.559 darkness? How many won' t be the same darkness? No one can 131 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.720 serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, 132 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.120 or he will esteem the one and despise the other. You cannot serve 133 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:24.120 God and riches. Therefore I say unto you, Care not for your life, 134 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.519 that ye shall eat, or that ye shall drink, or for your 135 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.240 body, that ye shall put on. Life is no more than food and 136 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:35.799 body than clothing. Look at the birds of the sky, who do not 137 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.200 sow, blind, or gather in barns, and your heavenly father feeds them. 138 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:45.919 You are not worth much more than them, and who among you will 139 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:50.000 be able to add a cubit and a garment to his stature. Why do 140 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:56.960 you strive to consider the lilies of the field. How they grow, they 141 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:01.080 neither work nor spin, but I tell you that not one Solomon with all 142 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.440 his glory was dressed as one of them. And if the grass of the 143 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.039 field that is today and tomorrow is cast into the furnace God so clothe it, 144 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:13.440 it will not do much more to you men of little faith. So 145 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.440 do not worry about what we will eat or what we will drink or what 146 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.639 we will wear, for the Gentiles seek all these things. But your heavenly 147 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:28.360 father knows that you need all these things. We' re gonna stay here 148 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:35.679 for now See the picture you start talking to. Jesus verse, nineteen you 149 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.559 want to live. Wisely, don' t make yourself treasure in this world. 150 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:45.039 The treasures in this world are not safe. Of course there are people 151 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.360 who can steal them from you. Of course, at a certain point, 152 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:54.960 a disaster that happens can wipe out your treasure. Of course your treasure, 153 00:13:54.519 --> 00:14:03.360 at a certain time, can disappear in a wave of immense prosperity. In 154 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.879 the twenty- ninth year, this country was the most prosperous in the world. 155 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.279 It was finishing a decade that was called the decade of the happy twenty 156 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:16.480 and at a certain time, in what they call the black Friday of nine 157 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.679 hundred and twenty- nine, the bag broke and the people who had direct 158 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.159 in the bag were left with nothing. And throughout this country there were people 159 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:30.240 who threw themselves from the windows of the skyscrapers because if they were millionaires, 160 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:39.519 they had become economically miserable beings. There' s no safe value, none, 161 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.279 and it doesn' t necessarily have to be stolen from you by a 162 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.840 person who comes in to steal from your house or makes a hole in the 163 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:48.480 wall and takes it away. It' s enough that there' s an 164 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.919 economic crisis and it' s over so that. Question one. Do not 165 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.120 put if you want to be wise your life in material things, because they 166 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.360 are much more insecure than you think. What' s more, you might 167 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.440 think about it and you don' t want to think about it because you 168 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.000 ' re very nervous, but you' re insecure. If you are really 169 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.639 thinking about having a safe capital, the only one there is is one that 170 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.360 you go together with obedience to the Lord in heaven. End point. First 171 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.279 question, that is a matter that you must be clear about. Second, 172 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:33.080 keep in mind that, as you look at things, those things are going 173 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.200 to influence your life if the way you look at things is a clean way, 174 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:43.200 it' s a wise way, it' s a sensible way. 175 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.159 You will act in a clean, wise and sensible manner. But if the 176 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:54.120 way you look at it is darkened by money, greed, material concern, 177 00:15:54.480 --> 00:16:00.720 you will not see well. And if what you have to see is blinded, 178 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:07.080 you are not going to see anything at all, so this is a 179 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:14.360 very important question. First, don' t give importance to what doesn' 180 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.120 t, and besides, it' s much more insecure than you think. 181 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:23.919 Second, keep your eyes clean in the face of greed, for if indeed 182 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:30.360 you do not keep it clean, if what has to give you light and 183 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:34.000 brightness is blinded, you are lost, you are rich. Third, do 184 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:41.679 not think that you can come to an arrangement between God and money. No 185 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.799 one can serve two gentlemen in anything, and if you serve two gentlemen you 186 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:51.519 end up serving one more than the other, you cannot maintain double loyalty. 187 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:00.519 If really the situation you come to is that you serve money, you will 188 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:07.440 not be able to serve God. It is absolutely incompatible, because you cannot 189 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:12.559 serve two masters and at that moment Jesus enters into another tremendous situation, because 190 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:18.920 surely he was seeing the face that was put on people and effectively continues in 191 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:25.160 another way. People suddenly hear that what they have is not safe. It 192 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:30.440 ' s not saying besides, as you' re looking through the money. 193 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.519 You' re not going to see well and besides, you can' t 194 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:42.880 serve God and money a paper bag that I' m starting to hyperventilate and 195 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.680 Jesus is saying something tremendous at the time. Therefore, I tell you, 196 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:55.079 do not worry about your life. Literally this should be translated. So, 197 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:02.680 I tell you, don' t get caught up in anxiety. I know 198 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:06.839 that, after listening to all this, you' re on edge, because 199 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.640 what I' m supposed to give me is not giving it to me. 200 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.839 It' s not safe. They' re cheating on me. I remember 201 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:19.039 on one occasion, as soon as I came to live here, almost twelve 202 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:25.279 years ago I was quoted by an employee from one of the banks where I 203 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:30.799 had an account and had a lot of interest in advising me, offering me 204 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:37.000 some products and all I was offering was to get into debt and I was 205 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.079 telling her not everything. And there came a moment like the poor woman had 206 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.519 been talking to me for half an hour I was sorry she wasted the time 207 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.559 with me that I told her to look Don' t offer me any more 208 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.440 things. I' m really not interested. When I want to buy something, 209 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:55.839 if I just save and buy it but I never get into it and 210 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:00.000 then the woman stands up for a moment and says you. Imagine how much 211 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.960 wisdom and in what you say and how much pain people would be spared if 212 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:07.720 they did like you and suddenly stopped again and said clearly that I would then 213 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:17.640 have no work. It must be acknowledged that the woman was completely sincere. 214 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.160 Well, this isn' t good, but it' s good for that 215 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.640 woman to have a job and for the bank to fool those who aren' 216 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:32.799 t very wise. You cannot serve God and money, do not blind yourselves, 217 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.880 because if you blind yourselves, you go through life blind And Jesus says, 218 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.799 therefore, because he realizes what is there, do not let yourselves be 219 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:45.720 caught up by anxiety, how are we going to be caught up by anxiety? 220 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.960 Jesus, if you' re telling us that what we' re accumulating 221 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.759 at any moment there' s a stock exchange break, you don' t 222 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.279 like the powers of the world, the President in the United States, I 223 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:02.680 know anything and we' re left with nothing, how are we going to 224 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:04.440 get caught by anxiety? If the way we' ve always seen things now 225 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.680 you say it' s that we' re blind to life, but how 226 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.680 are we not going to get caught up in anxiety? If you see it 227 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.920 ' s nice to be told that if you follow Mr You' re going 228 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.680 to fill the bank account and Tora says no, you can' t serve 229 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:21.480 it. And money and goodbye at the same time, for how I won 230 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:29.119 ' t be anxious. And Jesus says do not be carried away by anxiety 231 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.759 about what you are to eat, what you are to drink, because your 232 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.960 life is more than food and body, more than clothing. And that as 233 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:45.319 you know, Jesus. And Jesus says in verse 26 look at the birds 234 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.480 of the sky. This is more important than it seems. Some people think 235 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:55.440 this is something agricultural, Pastor, and anyway, what they say is an 236 00:20:55.599 --> 00:21:00.559 extreme look into this life. They' re pushing you all over the place. 237 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:06.559 You put it on, the TV and they' re selling you a 238 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:11.839 whole hemorrhoid remedy. How to spend the holidays, a whole insurance, a 239 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:15.079 cheaper connection to the Internet. They' re pushing you from waking up in 240 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.880 the morning until you get into bed at night, and it' s possible 241 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.920 that when you get into bed you still feel like you' re being pushed. 242 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:29.000 Don' t listen to them, stop for a moment and let' 243 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:30.640 s look at the birds. Hey, jesus, it' s not about 244 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.079 anything, but I have more important things to do than this bird- watching 245 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:41.640 nonsense. Don' t stop and look at the birds. Don' t 246 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.119 let them keep pushing you, you don' t have time to think, 247 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:51.599 because they' re pushing you everywhere. Don' t stop. Now look 248 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:59.200 at them birds to you those birds seem to be more important than you or 249 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:03.359 you think they' re neo. If any of those birds is less important 250 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.400 than you, then if you see, even if the bird is very nice 251 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:11.200 and such or, I think it goes more than just a right bird. 252 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:18.279 If God sees and feeds those birds that are worth what they are worth, 253 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:23.000 what makes you think he' s not going to feed you and he' 254 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:26.880 s not going to dress you. I know you' re gonna get nervous, 255 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:33.519 but stop another time to look at what' s around, don' 256 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:42.119 t go running stop look at the plants are pretty, you think you' 257 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:51.680 re worth more than that massive delusions or that rosebush or you think you' 258 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:52.359 re worth less in God' s eyes, I think it' s worth 259 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:56.960 more. Indeed, you' ve ever seen a bare plant. You' 260 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:02.640 ve ever seen a lily that wasn' t dressed in a beautiful way. 261 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:10.039 You' ve seen a rosebush where the roses don' t have anything to 262 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:12.240 cover them with, but it' s very well- dressed. If God 263 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:18.319 saw a plant that does not speak, that does not sing, that surely 264 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:23.359 does not think, what makes you think that it will not clothe You, 265 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:33.960 for what Jesus says seems to make quite sense. Well, if it makes 266 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:41.640 enough sense, then why is there the circumstance that you get carried away by 267 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:48.839 anxiety, that you trust things that aren' t safe, that you try 268 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:55.559 to build a stability that the human being can' t build, that that 269 00:23:55.799 --> 00:24:00.759 happens. It is logical that it should happen with the pagans arsicle thirty- 270 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:08.119 two. The Gentiles are looking for all these things, that your neighbor Antonio, 271 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:14.839 that all he cares about is the sauce and fill his gut with rice 272 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:18.960 and pork and see who he sleeps with every weekend. This one is logical. 273 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:26.200 The weird thing would be that your neighbor Antonio didn' t have that 274 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.599 anxiety, that your neighbor Luisa, who spends herself on taking her hair off 275 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:34.759 her body and putting it on another part of her body and is thinking nothing 276 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:38.599 but how she gets fat or takes off fat or stuff like that is with 277 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:42.839 that anxiety. It' s logical. But you know that God is your 278 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:51.279 father, and since God is your father, he knows better than you what 279 00:24:51.359 --> 00:25:00.000 your needs are, as verse thirty- two says, because the gentines seek 280 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:06.559 all these things for him. But your Heavenly Father knows that you need all 281 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:11.759 these things. The pagans are distressed, it' s just normal. The 282 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:18.119 strange thing would be that a particularly enlightened Gandy person was not distressed. Yes, 283 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.839 but it is normal for pagans to be in terrible distress, but you 284 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:30.160 have God as your father and God knows your needs better than you. And 285 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:37.279 that makes your life have a meaning that is not the meaning reached by those 286 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.079 who have not known God, who have not known me and who, therefore, 287 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.119 do not have God as a father. And what is that verse thirty 288 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:52.960 - three more seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all 289 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.759 these things shall be added unto you. So do not worry about the morning, 290 00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:02.319 for the morning will be anxious and your own evil will suffice every day. 291 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:10.000 First, Jesus’ wisdom says that there is a way to have a 292 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.440 full life. But it is not trusting in that which is not stable, 293 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.799 it is not blinding itself in such a way that you do not see, 294 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:26.759 it is not trying to serve God and riches, it is understanding that God 295 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:34.720 takes care of us in an absolutely logical way, because we are more important 296 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:41.440 than any bird, We are more important than any plant and, moreover, 297 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:47.799 we have a way of living a full life seeking the kingdom of God and 298 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:48.960 his justice and the rest God will add it. The wisdom of God, 299 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:56.480 the wisdom of Jesus, is manifested in the first place by pointing out the 300 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.960 meaning of life, and the meaning of life is in seeking the kingdom. 301 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:08.119 About twelve years ago, I finally moved to Miami. I was thinking of 302 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:12.359 going on vacation until they called me the same day I arrived in Miami and 303 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:17.920 they informed me that I had been saved, that they would put a bomb 304 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.720 on me practically for hours, so I decided to stay here wisely, which 305 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:25.599 was what I was recommended by those who called me from Spain. But I 306 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:30.880 think starting from scratch in a country that isn' t yours isn' t 307 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:36.480 easy when, besides, you find that your friends have the secret of the 308 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.119 invisible man and disappear and that people you' ve done favors to over a 309 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:47.640 decade suddenly swallow the earth and even discover that some friend you' ve got 310 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:52.279 closer steals from you. Well, man, this gives you joy, doesn 311 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.519 ' t give you joy. And I remember one day I left my house, 312 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:02.519 where I still live here, in Miami, and I must have been 313 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:06.240 worried about why I was looking down instead of looking at the front where I 314 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:11.640 was going, risking hitting someone who came in the other direction. I was 315 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:18.680 looking down on the ground and suddenly, about a hundred and fifty meters from 316 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.720 my house, I found a little bird lying on the grass, the poor 317 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.799 dead boy who would have given a heat blow whatever it was. And there 318 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.680 was the poor little bird and I, who was looking down on the ground, 319 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:36.839 probably not very cheerful. Suddenly I saw the bird and at that moment 320 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:44.880 I told myself not even this little bird is here without the lord allowing it. 321 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:51.160 If I' m in this situation, it' s because the Lord 322 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:53.960 wants me to be in this situation and if he wants it, it' 323 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.880 s because it' s the least. And I remember at that moment I 324 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:02.000 stopped looking at the grass. I looked up in the awful heat here in 325 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:07.119 Miami. I got as far as I was going. But the idea is 326 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.279 clear. The first thing that Jesus shows and notice that he already shows in 327 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:17.720 his first discourse in the Sermon on the Mounts that there is a meaning in 328 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:22.440 this life and that meaning is not material and that it cannot be made compatible 329 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:26.720 with God' s service. That material vision and the meaning is to seek 330 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:32.720 the kingdom of God and his righteousness, because God is our father, because 331 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:37.079 he knows our needs better than we do, why he replaces it and because 332 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:44.920 everything we need he will add. Second sample of the wisdom of Jesus, 333 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:51.440 which appears in the Bible and which is very important life has a meaning that 334 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:57.160 is to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, but that sense of 335 00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:07.599 life is a sense of service. If you accompany me to Mark' s 336 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:22.319 gospel, Mark chapter eight, Mark chapter eight and we were going to read 337 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:25.559 from verse twenty- seven and it is a tremendously important text. It says 338 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:32.079 so that Jesus and his disciples went out through the villages of Cesarea of Philippi 339 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:38.000 and on the way asked his disciples telling them who the men say I am 340 00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:42.799 and they answered some, John the Baptist, others Elijah and others, one 341 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:49.240 of the prophets. Then he told them and you who say I am answering. 342 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.079 Peter told him you are the Christ, but he commanded them not to 343 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:59.319 tell any of these things about him and began to teach them that he was 344 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:03.680 necessary for the son of man to suffer much and to be rejected by the 345 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:10.640 elders, the chief priests and the scribes and to be killed and resurrected after 346 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:14.240 three days. This I was telling you clearly. Then Peter took him aside 347 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.920 and began to reconvert him. But he, turning and looking at the disciples, 348 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:23.359 rebuked Peter by saying," Get out of my sight satan because you 349 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:26.359 do not look at the things of God, but at those of men, 350 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.920 and calling the people and his disciples, said to them if anyone wants to 351 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.200 come after me, deny himself and take up his cross" And follow me, 352 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.079 for whoever wants to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his 353 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.880 life for my sake of the Gospel will save it, for what will profit 354 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:52.200 man. If I win everyone and lose their soul. Let' s read 355 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:56.480 another text below. But look at this story, Jesus comes with his disciples 356 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:02.200 to Caesarea of Philippo. Caesarea of Philippi was just the boundary between the Gentile 357 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.359 world and the Jewish world. You were jumping here that you were in the 358 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.559 Jewish world. You jumped in here and you were in the gentle world. 359 00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:16.079 And it is no coincidence that Jesus chooses that place and then asks the disciples. 360 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:22.160 Well and people who say that I am and you are a disciple look 361 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.160 there is everything, there are those who think that you are a prophet and 362 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:29.240 who think that you are Elijah, etcetera. And he says good and what 363 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:36.160 do you think and Peter says you are the Messiah? And as they say 364 00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:40.960 I kill that you have not deduced it by your pre- clear intelligence, 365 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:47.119 but it is my father who has revealed it to you and at that moment 366 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:52.240 Jesus begins to teach how the messiah is going to be, which is a 367 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.759 messiah, a servant as it appears, for example, in isaiah fifty- 368 00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:02.400 three, an eye that you want a messiah, as a netanian, a 369 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:08.279 man who crushes all that is around him, who destroys the Romans, who 370 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:13.759 cleans the temple and then enslaves all the Gentile nations around it. Anyone who 371 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:20.319 moves around. He crushes it, for it will be that not because the 372 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:24.680 son of man is going down to Jerusalem, but not to implant the kingdom 373 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:30.799 that you think, let alone what you think, the son of man is 374 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.319 going down, he is going to be reviled, he is going to be 375 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.279 insulted, he is going to be tortured and he is going to be crucified. 376 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:43.920 And at that time I pedro that evidently had more nationalist ideas than according 377 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:50.799 to what Jesus taught. He takes part in Jesus and tells him, sir, 378 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:52.799 that can' t be. Come on, it can' t just 379 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:53.720 be,' cause I don' t want it to happen to you. 380 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:59.720 A disgrace is that we' re not here for that. We' re 381 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.960 here to see the Romans. We' re not leaving one. We will 382 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.599 fully implant the kingdom of the Jews. The temple is going to be cleaned. 383 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:12.840 There' s going to be peace here, because all the Gentiles are 384 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.440 going to be subject to us what' s this about you coming down and 385 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:16.960 they' re going to kill you, but what do you say? And 386 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.280 Jesus' answer is clear Peter, whether you know it or not, find 387 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:28.480 out, your plan is diabolical. What you are saying is not God' 388 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.159 s purpose, your messiah, is not God' s messiah. It is 389 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:37.599 an antimessiah in any case, and that is as if satan spoke for you. 390 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:44.480 I' ll tell you something else, but it' s not just 391 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:49.920 that messiah' s gonna happen. This is because of the servants of the 392 00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:54.280 Messiah they are expected to follow the program of the Messiah. Those who follow 393 00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:00.360 me will have to follow me every day and deny themselves and if the case 394 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:05.119 comes, I will end up on a cross like me. And I' 395 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:08.239 m going to tell you something else, Peter, this may suffer you that 396 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:13.639 it' s a loss, but it' s the only way you can 397 00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:16.119 save this life. And unfortunately, there are people who think that saving their 398 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.039 lives in a way doesn' t realize that they' re losing it. 399 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:24.239 But this is the way of the messiah and it is a way of service, 400 00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:29.440 not a way of imposition or a way of destruction, not a way 401 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:34.000 of not letting anyone take us the opposite and anyone will say it is questionable 402 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:38.360 what you say. Yes, go with Enmarcos to chapter ten, because again, 403 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:45.039 Jesus, to these calves that he had as disciples, had to explain 404 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:50.880 it to him once again, Jesus, evidently had a patience that greatly stimulates 405 00:35:50.960 --> 00:36:00.880 me. Of course, Mark ten verses from thirty- five onwards says so. 406 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:07.199 Then James and John, the sons of Cebedee, approached him, saying, 407 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.800 Master, we would like you to do to us whatever we ask, 408 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:16.280 and he told them that you want me to do to you and they told 409 00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:19.320 him to grant us that in your glory we sit one on your right hand 410 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.000 and the other on your left. Then Jesus told them you don' t 411 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:24.039 know what you' re asking for. You can drink from the cup that 412 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:30.159 I drink being baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized, and they 413 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:32.840 said we can. Jesus told them to the truth of the cup that I 414 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.960 drink, you will drink and with the baptism with which I am baptized, 415 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:39.679 you will be baptized. But to sit on my right and left is not 416 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:45.000 mine to give it, but those for whom it is prepared. When they 417 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.119 heard it, the ten began to be angry with James and John more. 418 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:55.599 Jesus, calling them, told them that those who are counted rulers of the 419 00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:02.320 nations exercise authority over them and their great eyes exercise authority over them, but 420 00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:08.280 it will not be so among you, but that whoever wishes to become great 421 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:14.960 among you will be your servant and whoever wishes to be your first servant will 422 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:20.440 be a servant to all, for the son of man did not come to 423 00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:22.440 be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom. By 424 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:35.679 many they went down, down to Jerusalem, and on their way to Jerusalem 425 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:37.800 the two little brothers. We know from another of the gospels that there was 426 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:43.159 an attempt by Mom to put the children right. They approach Jesus Jerusalem. 427 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.800 When we get there, you' re going to end everything, you' 428 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.039 re going to implant the Kingdom of Israel by crushing those miserable people who have 429 00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:53.800 come from Rome. There' s going to be a government here. We 430 00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:59.519 would like to be with two important ministerial portfolios if possible that of the left 431 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:06.239 and the right. And Jesus says that you have no idea what you are 432 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:10.679 saying. You' re going to swallow the drink I' m going to 433 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:15.000 swallow. You' re going to let them dive into you, which is 434 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:16.760 what it means to baptize, as I' m going to be immersed in 435 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:20.480 myself. Yeah, we can, well, that' s gonna happen, 436 00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:23.880 but who' s gonna be with me. It' s a father' 437 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:28.440 s thing of course. Immediately, the other ten feel upset, these two 438 00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:36.079 mom children who do telling Jesus they want the two most important positions. And 439 00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:42.079 Jesus answers in a very clear way. You continue to have the mentality of 440 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.440 the world, you believe that politicians say that they are going to serve their 441 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.840 country, when in reality, what they want is to send for the best. 442 00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:52.280 There is someone so foolish that we have realized that, but it would 443 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:58.679 be good for him to understand, because Jesus himself says so. They present 444 00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:05.199 themselves as benefactors. They are willing to sacrifice themselves for us, although if 445 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:08.039 they find us on the street, they would not invite us to a coffee 446 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:14.159 and once they are up, of course, they rule and have all the 447 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:16.360 power and do what they want. And Jesus says it' s normal. 448 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.360 But that is not my way and it cannot be my way to come to 449 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:28.800 serve me, but to serve and to give my life. That' s 450 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:34.320 your change. If what you expire is really something great, you have to 451 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:38.760 serve, not because, but because it is what I have done. Jesus 452 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:45.400 is normative and it is what Jesus does that we should copy. And not 453 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:52.559 what the two little brothers do trying to see how they put themselves better than, 454 00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:57.559 of course, into this life. The meaning of life is to seek 455 00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:01.559 the kingdom of God and his righteousness to that life is lived in service. 456 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:08.199 That life also excludes the idea of violence. If you accompany me to John 457 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:15.599 Chapter eighteen, I sometimes hear believers talking about international issues and talking about how 458 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.400 people should be killed and then wondering where they bury the dead, because it 459 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:28.079 is truly tremendous. But in any case, it is something separate from Jesus 460 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.519 ’ message. We could read a lot of texts. Let' s read 461 00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:40.000 one John Chapter eighteen and let' s read from verse thirty- three and 462 00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:46.760 then say Pilate went back into the praetorium and called Jesus and said you are 463 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.400 the King of the Jews, and Jesus answered him, you say, this 464 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.440 for yourself or others have told you of me. Pilate answered him," 465 00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:02.320 I am a Jew of your birth, and the chief priests have given you 466 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:07.920 what you have done to me" Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of 467 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:15.039 this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight 468 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:17.519 that I would not be delivered up to the Jews. But my kingdom isn 469 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:24.079 ' t from here It seems pretty clear. I don' t think there 470 00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:30.360 can be a more just cause to draw the sword than to defend Jesus, 471 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.199 but as Jesus says, it is that my kingdom does not act as the 472 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.119 kingdoms of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom like this world, 473 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:43.079 my people would be fighting so they wouldn' t have given you up. 474 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:49.199 But my kingdom is not from here. Not only that. Look at another 475 00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:55.000 important aspect. Moreover, the Kingdom of Jesus is characterized by something that is 476 00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.840 not exactly one of the things by which we can say that it is always 477 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:06.800 clear that it is characterized. If one, at a certain time, asked 478 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:13.440 why one thinks that a church is going well, because it is growing spiritually, 479 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.239 why there is supposed to be a presence of the Lord the answers would 480 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:22.480 be diverse, but curiously, Jesus gives a very clear mark. John chapter 481 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:34.119 thirteen and verse thirty- four and thirty- five says a new commandment. 482 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:40.159 I give you that you love one another as I have loved you that you 483 00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:47.320 also love one another and by this all will know that you are my disciples? 484 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:53.000 If you had love with one another, will you not know that you 485 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:59.079 are my disciples? Because there are miracles. Because there are supposedly miracles in 486 00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:01.679 the Catholic Church. There are in Islam. There are people who go to 487 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:07.559 the tombs of Muslim saints and are supposed to heal, their hair grows. 488 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:09.360 Which one of these things. There are in India, there are in Buddhism. 489 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.119 That' s not a mark. Nor speak in tongues. I regret 490 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.840 the gestures cause you a deep pain, but speaking in tongues do. Mormons 491 00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:30.039 appear in India, Buddhism occasionally appears also in Islam at all. Nor fill 492 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:37.000 great temples. That any religion that is worth modestly fills you with great temples. 493 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:44.840 That which they will know that you are my disciples is if you love 494 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:52.159 one another. This makes one feel restless, because it does not seem to 495 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:57.719 be what will characterize some lives, but it is the teaching of Jesus. 496 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:04.679 I give you a new commandment, which is going to allow you to see 497 00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:10.599 whether you are indeed my disciples or not with Jesus. I had some remarkable 498 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:21.239 wisdom ideas, but this is normative. Not only that still something more Jesus. 499 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:23.960 And I am not going to read the passages, because we would be 500 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:29.079 very long and I want to finish the exposition Jesus as the wisdom of proverbs. 501 00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:36.079 I did not believe in religion when one goes to the sermon on the 502 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:38.760 mountain, and one can say I am very holy, because there is one 503 00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:42.840 Jesus. So he tells her not to notice you, or to wash your 504 00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:46.519 face, or to put on perfume and not to be noticed, for the 505 00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:50.840 purpose of fasting is not that they see how holy you are and how bad 506 00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:55.239 your face has been. But I pray and when you go to pray, 507 00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:00.559 lock yourself in your room, that is, do not organize these books out 508 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.880 of the street so that everyone will see how hours and how holy you are 509 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.159 not your father will see you in secret. I have seen presidents meeting with 510 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:15.599 clerics and such have already received their reward to all. As Jesus says, 511 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:21.360 you lock yourself in your room, talk to your father and your father who 512 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:27.360 listens in secret, he will reward you. Okay. I already make offerings, 513 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:31.000 okay, but if you' re going to make an offering and have 514 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.000 something against a brother, let go of the offering. Get ready with your 515 00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:39.599 brother first and then come back and introduce her. The wisdom of Jesus is 516 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:46.519 like what we have seen in proverbs. Let us not pretend to substitute the 517 00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:52.480 relationship of wisdom and fear of God with religiosity, for it is true that 518 00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:54.920 perhaps we can deceive people how pious it is that always, whenever they are 519 00:45:55.079 --> 00:46:01.400 not praying, they are on an impressive fast. It is possible that we 520 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:06.559 feel very happy, because people see the saints they are, they think they 521 00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:12.840 see, but there is nothing in that that looks like two more points and 522 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:21.880 I conclude sixth, Jesus had a vision of eschatology, which is almost nothing 523 00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:30.039 like what is preached in many places. I know people, I became soon. 524 00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:38.440 It will be fifty years that I became when you are almost fifty years 525 00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:44.000 of believing, for you have seen many good and bad things and, for 526 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:46.840 example, you have seen the people who like to announce the proximity of the 527 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:52.480 second avenue. In this almost half a century I have not seen anyone who 528 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:55.800 was right. I' ve seen everyone who gave a date, a closeness, 529 00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:02.000 etcetera make a fool of themselves. All of them continue to make a 530 00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:06.920 fool of themselves decades later and in a truly prodigious way. There are people 531 00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:12.199 who listen to them after they have not been successful in more than half a 532 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:15.840 century. I have an acquaintance for whom I appreciate that this practically every year 533 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:22.679 announces the rapture for the fall. It is clear that he has not been 534 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:30.320 right so far, and there are people who listen to him sometimes because there 535 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:36.320 are moons of blood and for a reason we ignore, because the moons of 536 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:40.000 blood are a sign that the rapture is there. It reaches the blood moons. 537 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.280 There' s no rapture. Years go by and no one remembers that 538 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:47.719 he said something stupid and that he made a fool of himself and that you 539 00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:50.400 have to be very careful when it comes to listening to him. No. 540 00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:54.760 Not quite the opposite. The ball keeps going around sometimes instead of the blood 541 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:59.800 moons. There is a war in Syria that has nothing to do with the 542 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.920 Second Avenue of Christ, but people are man. The war in Syria is 543 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:08.480 over and no one remembers the amount of crap that was said in connection with 544 00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:13.679 that I am not going to go into Gog and Magog and Russia, because 545 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.679 you have to be too ignorant to believe that Gog and Magog Russians is having 546 00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:22.639 no idea what is stable. The examples are a lot. The waste of 547 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:28.519 time is immense and what this shows of lack of wisdom is tremendous, but 548 00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:32.320 above all it is a sign of disobedience. I will ask you to accompany 549 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:39.639 me to Acts chapter one, where Jesus is very clear about it. It 550 00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:51.639 says so. In Acts chapter one, verse four and being together, he 551 00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:55.320 commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of 552 00:48:55.320 --> 00:49:00.519 the father, which he told them you heard of me, because John Er 553 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:06.960 baptized with water but you will be baptized with the holy spirit in not many 554 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:13.440 days. Then those who had gathered asked him saying Lord you will restore the 555 00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:15.719 Kingdom to Israel at this time and Jesus said yes. Besides, I' 556 00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:21.079 ll give you the map you' ll see. First it turns out that 557 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:22.960 the Church is leaving. I' ll take it. Then comes the Antichrist, 558 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:27.480 a seven- year covenant, but in the middle of the covenant he 559 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.800 decides not to. And then there are some Jews who become ends, according 560 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:37.039 to some, even well in aliens. Don' t look at Jesus' 561 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:46.519 answer verse seven. It is not for you to know the times or seasons 562 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:53.920 that the Father placed in his sole power. But even though that' s 563 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.719 not your turn, don' t waste your time. That' s all 564 00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:02.880 Father Gnos knows. How will you know if only the father and the son 565 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:07.519 know not the day and the hour. How will you know what you' 566 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:12.400 re going to do in September that you' re smoking lately to reach those 567 00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:22.119 conclusions. Verse eight, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has 568 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:29.559 come upon you and you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all 569 00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.760 Judea, in Samaria and to the ends of the earth. What is, 570 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:38.159 what is supposed to be done by someone who wants the wisdom of Jesus. 571 00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:46.639 In eschatological terms, don' t waste time calculating that' s not your 572 00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:50.119 thing, no, but what I like. It' s very entertaining. 573 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:53.599 Suddenly the Chinese move through the Taiwan Strait and perhaps this is that Christ is 574 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:58.599 near that you don' t waste your time with pavadas, that' s 575 00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:01.960 not a thing. You know that only the father and father are not going 576 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:05.159 to tell you and not even the two of you are going to take care 577 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:09.280 of what you have to take care of and what I have to take care 578 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:17.519 of being a witness to Jesus until the last of the aunt. And it 579 00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:22.880 is tremendous how, instead of being witnesses of Jesus to the ends of the 580 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:29.159 earth, people are dedicated to making maps of the future that are never fulfilled. 581 00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:37.239 Never. The proof is that we' re all here. The pastor 582 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:45.400 who baptized me almost fifty years ago was an English missionary and one day he 583 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:49.199 told me that when he was a young man apart from the church he was 584 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.199 going to, in a church of free brothers, as they are called in 585 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.360 Argentina. Apart from the church I was going to, he went to another 586 00:51:54.440 --> 00:52:00.760 church of his own denomination, because he preached much of eschatology. One of 587 00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:05.440 the pastors of that church preached a lot of eschatology. This was a young 588 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.039 man and he was interested in seeing what was going to happen in the future. 589 00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:15.280 And he tells me he says and I learned not to dedicate myself to 590 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:22.119 doing calculations and dedicating myself to other wiser things, because there was a pastor 591 00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:28.039 saying that he gave not one, neither two, neither ten nor fifteen, 592 00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:36.880 gave more than thirty reasons that made clear who the antichrist was I and who 593 00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:42.920 says Benito Mussolini, Well, Benito Mussolini, killed him in the year forty 594 00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:45.480 - five. So look at what was right and biblical about this pastor who, 595 00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:49.400 perhaps, had a very healthy doctrine on other issues, but I have 596 00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:52.920 seen as the antichrist, Sadán Hussey, who has been raising mauves for decades, 597 00:52:53.079 --> 00:53:00.519 as they say in Spain. I' ve seen King Juan Carlos. 598 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:05.079 I remember once I arrived in Miami and the brother who picked me up tells 599 00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:09.840 me very happy that the antichrist was going to be King Juan Carlos. Like 600 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:14.920 a fool, he never wants to get rid of foolishness. I said, 601 00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:16.880 " Look, don' t take this the wrong way" But I know 602 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:22.599 King Juan Carlos. He' s pretty dumb. I don' t think 603 00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.559 it can be, I don' t think, I don' t think 604 00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:28.599 it can be the antichrist and it' s with elvait. He' s 605 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:31.280 pretty dumb and I don' t see him as the antichrist and this person, 606 00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:36.719 instead of listening to me says that there, there' s the devil 607 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:37.239 ' s trap in which he seems silly, but because he' s the 608 00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:44.599 antichrist. Well, obviously, when you want to blind yourself, there' 609 00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:47.760 s no way you' ll stop being blind. Let us not take care 610 00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:54.760 of the times and seasons that the Father has put in his sole power and 611 00:53:54.960 --> 00:54:01.360 be witnesses of Jesus to the very end of the earth. And what would 612 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:07.440 happen? What would happen? And with this I conclude, What would happen 613 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:14.480 if we suddenly decided not to live life according to the wisdom of Jesus? 614 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.800 What if, for example, we do not put God’ s Kingdom and 615 00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:25.199 righteousness first and expect the Father to add? What would happen if, for 616 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:30.239 example, we decided that, apart from not placing God’ s Kingdom and 617 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:35.159 its righteousness ahead of us, our life would be a life of greatness rather 618 00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.679 than a life of service. What if, for example, instead of being 619 00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:45.079 characterized by love and rejecting violence, we really thought that nothing to prove that 620 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:51.559 I am a good Christian, there are other things. Let' s get 621 00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:57.039 out of this. What if, for example, my life was totally injected 622 00:54:57.239 --> 00:55:02.840 with religiosity so that people could see how much I donate to you, how 623 00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:07.239 much fasting or how much I do, any of these things, what would 624 00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:09.719 happen without my life. In addition, he spends hours wasting time to calculate 625 00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:14.360 the moment the rapture is going to take place, because I don' t 626 00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:17.880 know, because the planet Neptune is coming. I don' t know what 627 00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:23.440 planet or any of these things, what would happen, because my life would 628 00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:31.000 be a life subject to the possibility of being a completely ruined life. If 629 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:37.400 you accompany me to Matthew chapter seven and it is the conclusion of the Sermon 630 00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:43.119 on the Mount, what you say is truly tremendous. It is the key 631 00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:47.199 to making our life a life according to what God desires and a full life 632 00:55:47.320 --> 00:55:53.360 or disaster. It says so in Matthew seven verses from twenty- four onwards. 633 00:55:54.199 --> 00:56:00.000 Whoever hears these words and does them, I will compare to him a 634 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:05.760 wise man who built his house on the rock, rain came down and rivers 635 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:12.760 came and blew winds and struck that house and did not fall because it was 636 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:16.000 founded on the rock. But whoever hears these words to me and does not 637 00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:22.519 do them, I will liken him to a foolish man who built his house 638 00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:29.199 on the sand and rain came down and rivers came and blew winds and gave 639 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:34.559 impetus to that house and fell and its ruin was great. And when Jesus 640 00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:40.519 finished these words, people admired his doctrine. The word of Jesus is tremendous 641 00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:45.920 in this life. We are going to have difficulties if someone is telling them 642 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:50.320 that because they are Christians they are not going to have problems, or they 643 00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.960 are very ignorant, or they are very foolish, or they are very scoundrel, 644 00:56:53.239 --> 00:56:58.360 because it is not true. The Bible precisely says that all who want 645 00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:05.159 to follow Christ Jesus godly will suffer persecution. It does not say twenty percent 646 00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:08.360 if you touch eighty, well, no, but it says that all those 647 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:15.519 who want to follow Christ Jesus godly will suffer persecution and Jesus says so. 648 00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:22.119 Your life is like a house and it' s gonna come down and it 649 00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:24.960 ' s gonna rain and sometimes there' s flooding. But if your house 650 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:31.519 is based on my teachings, as if its foundation were a rock or rock, 651 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:37.880 you will endure, you will endure as much as it rains as it 652 00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:46.960 is gripped. You are sustained in Christ and you endure in the century In 653 00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:52.639 the 19th century, apart from inventing football in some places, the English invented 654 00:57:52.760 --> 00:58:00.360 a sport that was stealing from the shipwreckers. When suddenly a ship arrived on 655 00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:06.039 the English coast and there was no lighthouse in the area and perhaps a very 656 00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:13.239 common tempest arose. The inhabitants of the village facing the beach waited for the 657 00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:17.400 shipwreck and then threw themselves on the castaways, killed him and, of course, 658 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:22.119 took away all they could. By the time the king' s sailors 659 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:27.760 arrived, they' d find the bones and corpses and hypogmas. In one 660 00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:34.719 of these shipwrecks, one of the people, as the English sport knew, 661 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:38.800 swam as he could not get near the coast. He came to a stumbling 662 00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:44.280 block and climbed into the scotch. He grabbed the wall, the water fell 663 00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:49.440 to the seas, but of course he was not willing to move from the 664 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:53.559 rock. The next morning, after the friendly Englishmen of the coast had plundered 665 00:58:53.599 --> 00:59:00.000 everything, a ship from the king' s navy began to look for someone 666 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:05.840 on the high seas and found this poor man on top of the good rock, 667 00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:13.800 threw out a blanket was already protected by the king' s navy and 668 00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:21.599 told him you must have spent all night shaking and shivering, and the man 669 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:24.719 answered yes, I spent the whole night shaking, but the rock on which 670 00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:30.320 he was not trembling. And that' s our life. If we lean 671 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:39.199 on Sta, we can tremble, we can meet the floods, the floods. 672 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:45.639 But if we are sustained in the wisdom of Christ, on that rock, 673 00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:50.119 the house will remain. And what if it is not based on the 674 00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:54.519 wisdom of Christ and is based on religiosity, in dedicating itself to thinking that 675 00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:59.679 it will happen in the future, in keeping money or values, is in 676 00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:04.639 or, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. For if it comes and any of 677 01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:09.719 those situations, the house will fall apart because it is not sitting on the 678 01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:15.719 rock, but in sand, and the ruin of that life will be thirty 679 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:21.159 I hope that in these two hours approximately in which I have been talking about 680 01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:29.360 wisdom, you could have received even a few strokes of that wisdom in the 681 01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:32.760 Bible and you could see how our life has to settle in it and in 682 01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.039 the fear of God to be a full life, to be a meaningful life 683 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:42.760 and a life that does not come down and is ruined when suddenly the floods 684 01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:45.599 come. Thank you so much for your attention and patience.