What does restoration mean?
Emma de Sosa
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: Dr. Emma de Sosa speaks to a congregation about the importance of repentance and conversion to the nature of Christ. She cites Acts 3:17-21, where the Apostle Peter urges listeners to repent and convert to experience the times of refreshment that come from the presence of the Lord. She explains that repentance is feeling regret for past wrongs, while conversion involves changing one's direction to follow the principles of Christ. Dr. de Sosa also shares a personal story of being assaulted in Honduras and finding strength in the Lord's presence during the ordeal.
The speaker recounts a story of being attacked while driving with a friend, but finding gratitude and blessing the attackers instead of getting angry. He then discusses the idea of restoration and returning to the original model, which is Christ. He emphasizes the importance of restoring man's communion with God and becoming children of a loving Father. He also talks about the adoption ceremony performed for the Lord Jesus Christ and how it certifies him as a mature son to administer the inheritance.
The restoration of our relationship with God as a Father is the key to restoring all other relationships in our lives. We cannot be good evangelists, shepherds, or parents without first being a good son or daughter to God. We need to know and feel that we are loved and accepted by Him and have a clear identity in Him. This will give us the security and direction we need to be good spouses, parents, and leaders. We also need to forgive our biological parents or authority figures in our lives to allow for healing and the revelation of God's love and fatherhood in our lives. Those who struggle with feeling rejected or condemned by God or have a hard time achieving victories in their lives are encouraged to come forward for prayer and the activation of the revelation of God's fatherhood in their lives.
The speaker is asking for prayers for men of God and delivers a message of God's love and fatherhood. They ask for the Holy Spirit to bring revelation to each heart and erase negative memories of relationships with biological fathers. They bless the audience and declare healing and strength in their lives. They end by calling for singing and praising God.
The speaker recounts a story of being attacked while driving with a friend, but finding gratitude and blessing the attackers instead of getting angry. He then discusses the idea of restoration and returning to the original model, which is Christ. He emphasizes the importance of restoring man's communion with God and becoming children of a loving Father. He also talks about the adoption ceremony performed for the Lord Jesus Christ and how it certifies him as a mature son to administer the inheritance.
The restoration of our relationship with God as a Father is the key to restoring all other relationships in our lives. We cannot be good evangelists, shepherds, or parents without first being a good son or daughter to God. We need to know and feel that we are loved and accepted by Him and have a clear identity in Him. This will give us the security and direction we need to be good spouses, parents, and leaders. We also need to forgive our biological parents or authority figures in our lives to allow for healing and the revelation of God's love and fatherhood in our lives. Those who struggle with feeling rejected or condemned by God or have a hard time achieving victories in their lives are encouraged to come forward for prayer and the activation of the revelation of God's fatherhood in their lives.
The speaker is asking for prayers for men of God and delivers a message of God's love and fatherhood. They ask for the Holy Spirit to bring revelation to each heart and erase negative memories of relationships with biological fathers. They bless the audience and declare healing and strength in their lives. They end by calling for singing and praising God.
I want to introduce you to Dr. Emma de Sosa, give her a big round of applause. I'm not going to make it too long, the women have been blessed this weekend with their extraordinary presentation, their spirit, their sense of humor, complexity of presentation, many beautiful things that I know that you, those who did not listen to it yesterday, They will have the opportunity to see for themselves. It is truly a joy to have our sister who comes from Honduras, with her husband, so the Hondurans and the Central Americans are celebrating today, which is great. That gives me great joy, great happiness, and I know that she has a word for us.
Unfortunately their books ran out yesterday and all the things they brought, so it was like a plague of locusts descended on what little they brought. But I know that we are going to have another opportunity in a not too distant time for her to continue blessing us with what God has given her. So sister, be blessed and welcome. Amen.
Hallelujah! It is good to be in the midst of the congregation of the saints. I'm going to bother him a little. How about you stand up for a little while and raise your hands. He knows that we are trees of justice, Jehovah's plantation. You are a tree, the tree of life is in you. So move your branches, move the tree that you are, right? The leaves are for healing the nations, so in their hands there is healing. Wave your branches and declare God's blessing on this place, the presence of the Lord is here. He is good, he is wonderful. We adore the one who lives, the eternal, the almighty, the youngest lion of the tribe of Juda. We adore him, we bless him, we exalt him. To Jehovah Shammah, the one who is always present. Jehovah Rohi the prince of shepherds, to Jehovah shalom, the God of peace, we bless him. Jehovah, Tsidkenu, God our justice, we bless you. Jehovah, Tsidkenu, oh we bless you, Jehovah, Sabaot, God of war, we bless you, God and we declare that you are Lord in this place. I bless you beloved brother, you who are here, you who listen on the Internet may God's extreme blessing on your life. May this be a day that marks a before and after on your calendar, that today you can be extremely blessed through the word of the Lord.
You know that the word of the Lord can be like a hammer that breaks the rock, but it can also be like a powerful sword, sharper than a two-edged sword that penetrates like a dagger that can penetrate your heart to separate what is from the soul and what is of the spirit, a sword that penetrates to the marrow and that today, today can be definitive for you. So open your spirit, open your heart to hear the word. Don't say the word, it's for the one who didn't come, it's for you who are here.
So I bless you and declare that you have a receptive spirit, a teachable spirit to receive the word of the Lord. The word is medicine to your bones. You can receive healing today through the word. The word is alive and effective, it brings vigor.
You know, Jesus said, my words are my spirit and they are my life. So I believe that today you receive life from the spirit and are enlivened through the word. You can sit down, my love. Thank you so much.
Brenda received the Lord yesterday and that's an extreme blessing, not just for Mary Santiago, but for all of us, right? Mary leaves for Ocala, but she stays here in a very good position. And Anthony is the husband of Brenda and I know that this family is going to start walking in the firm footsteps of the Lord. I bless you with all my heart.
I want you to open your Bible with me for a moment in the Book of Acts in Chapter 3. Look, the Lord is wonderful and we have a very efficient God that in 20 minutes we are going to get where God wants us to go. TRUE? The anointing is efficient. Amen.
If you can stay longer, I don't have a problem, I can be here as long as the word of the Lord is speaking, I can stay until dawn. I do not have a problem. You know, many times I have stopped to preach feeling ill-health, and when I start to speak the word, and I forget everything and when I get off I say, and what happened? I was relieved, my fever went away, he healed me and everything.
We have a saying there, in our congregation, that the first thing that is converted when people arrive at church is the watch and the purse, or the wallet, because we know when we start but never when we finish. And the wallet has to be converted, right? Because when you give your heart to the Lord, the least important thing is to give him your wallet. But hey, I'm not going to ask for your wallet today. Do not worry.
We're going to go to Acts, Chapter 3, I think it's a Scripture that we're all very familiar with and I hope that God will speak to us today. Let's read from verse 17 onwards.
He says, "... more now brothers, I know that through ignorance you have done it as well as your rulers..."
They are talking about having crucified Christ. “…. But God has thus fulfilled what was previously announced by the mouth of all his prophets. Jesus Christ had to suffer…”
Verse 19 that concerns us a lot on this day, "... so repent and convert so that your sins may be erased, so that times of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord and he, verse 20, sends Jesus Christ who was previously announced to you, verse 21, to whom indeed it is necessary that heaven receive until the times of restoration of all things of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from ancient times….”
Let's see, I want to illustrate verse 19 a little bit. Here is the Apostle Peter talking about the things that have happened after the death and resurrection of Christ and he is establishing a truth. He says, "...so repent and convert so that your sins may be erased and times of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord..."
There is a difference between being repentant and being converted. How many know? They know that many congregations are full of people who repent but have not been converted. Regretful is that you hurt from the old way of living, it hurts you for the things you did that were not correct before God, the Holy Spirit works through the conscience of the human being. We all have a conscience. The conscience is touched by the Holy Spirit through the human spirit and many times even when you did not know the Lord, you did things and you said, that my conscience rebukes me or my conscience bothers me, even though you were not a Christian yet, although there had not been recognized Jesus, you knew that you were doing something that was not correct, because the Holy Spirit was giving you conviction through your conscience. And then when you came to the knowledge of the Lord because your measure of faith was activated by the preaching of the Gospel, by the word of God.
How many know that we all have a measure of faith? We were all given a measure of faith. But that faith is activated at the moment of God when the active word comes that produces in you that faith to listen and to believe. I remember in my life that they had spoken to me about the Lord and I did not want to hear anything at all. They told me that he was the solution to my problems but I was totally deaf and blind. I didn't know but when the day came, when the moment came, when the suddenness of God came because everyone has an hour under the sun, and my day of salvation came and my hour came and my moment came, it was like when they preached that word, my eyes kind of went open like the lights went on, something happened, right Brenda? Something happened and the same thing that you had heard before now you hear it in a different way, you capture it in your spirit, you hear it with understanding, something inside of you is activated, they make the call and you don't know what happened but you go there and start to cry, you begin to remember all the bad things you did and you begin to cry and oh, Lord, and why, and look. Well, a whole revolution is coming from within, the light of the Lord begins to confront all the darkness that was within us. And that causes us to repent, our conscience makes us understand that we were not walking on the right path, and we repent before the Lord.
But then, when the spirit of God comes within you, your spirit begins to illuminate from within all areas of your life, your mind, your soul, your whole being, with the purpose that you convert. Now, convert to what or who. to the nature of Christ. We are on this journey to model the Lord. We human beings of the new creation are the image and likeness of God on earth. That is why it is so important that the parents in a family, dad and mom, walk according to the word of God, because when you walk according to the word of God, according to the Bible, according to the Scriptures, according to According to the Holy Spirit of God you are going to be the model for your children of who God is. Children learn about God by what they see in their parents. Your parents, if they are born again, should be the image and likeness of God on earth.
So, we are here, not only to have repented but to convert. You know what? I imagine that here, as in Honduras, in the army there is a word about conversion, I imagine that in English it is the same, or in the United States it is the same. When someone, a soldier, is marching and then they say, left conversion, and then you have to change direction. In other words, there is an instruction in the army when you are marching, a conversion is that you change direction. So, I was walking in the principles of the world, in the natural principles, in what I had learned in school, in the college, in magazines, on television, etc. But when the day came when the light came and illuminated me, then it tells me, conversion, and I have to start making decisions and submitting my will to the will of the Lord to convert myself to the nature of Christ. I cannot follow a walk in the Lord simply having repented. I need to convert.
And the word tells me that when I convert, in addition to repenting, times of refreshment come from the presence of the Lord. The times of refreshment have to do with the presence and filling of the Holy Spirit.
Humanly, at work, at school, at college, at the university, one says, we are going to have a break, that is, a snack, right? And we have snacks from time to time, but you know what? In the presence of God there is fullness of joy and you can live in continuous refreshment in the midst of all tribulation. One beautiful thing about the Lord is that even though the situation is critical, even though things are heavy, even though the news is dramatic, you can be refreshed in the midst of all tribulation.
You know that when you are converted and you truly live for the Lord, you can be in the middle of hell and live in heaven, if you can understand me. It's a beautiful thing. You know, in our country we have been going through many difficult situations, perhaps if you have read on the news, there have been assaults, kidnappings, terrible things, I personally was assaulted this year in the month of March, I was assaulted with a weapon, I was They put it here and they stole the new truck that the Lord had provided us. And it's one thing to see her coming and another to talk to her, right? When you hear, yes, you pray like that for things but look, when I, because it was something in the blink of an eye, things that God still took control of. My husband is a very healthy man, it is very rare for him to get sick but when he was coming to Boston he got sick. No, not because I was going to come here, no.
But on that occasion, in March, he had sprained his ankle playing basketball, because he is very athletic wherever you see him, and then he slipped on a ball, our little seven wanted to play with him, he threw the ball at him, he is walking backwards and he slipped and hit his head, but he also sprained his ankle and well, he felt really bad, and on that occasion I was going to see his parents and normally he is the one who drives and I go with him, but I I have a luxury driver, and I feel very comfortable when he drives, but that time, one of those few and rare times, I was driving and it was really tremendous, in the blink of an eye, I don't know where the assailants appeared from and when I go to open the door, they have the gun on me and that man starts insulting me and ordering me to get into the back seat because they wanted to take us I don't know where, to do I don't know how many things with us. And I don't know where I got the strength from, I was struggling with that man and he with the weapon here, I wanted to close the door and he opened it for me.
Well, but finally, I threw him the car key and told him, here's the car but I'm not going anywhere with you. But, the thing, I don't even know what time I told you, right? Later I began to tremble, not at the moment, but they took the truck, expensive, good and everything, but at that moment what mattered was that they hadn't touched my life, everything was fine, I was still able to get my wallet, my bag and there was the phone and there I started calling my husband. But what I want to tell you is that even in the midst of everything terrible that can happen in a place, if you live in the dimension of the spirit you will always have refreshment, even in those things that seem negative, that seem bad, you will be refreshed. .
When I came to my senses and began to meditate on everything that had happened, I never complained, I never got upset, I never got angry, I began to bless the attackers and I began to thank God. Sir, thank you very much, Lord, thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you, it was like a gratitude towards the Lord began to sprout for his coverage, for his care, because he saved our lives, for so many things, I was so grateful to the Lord. And after that, I see that all things always work together for the best, but what I want to tell you is that even in the midst of the most difficult situations you can be refreshed when you have converted to the nature of the Lord.
Now, I want to go a little further down, it says, this is like a premise for a promise that is in verse 20, it says, “…and he sends Jesus Christ who was announced before…”, obviously this is written after Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, in Chapter 2 of the book of Acts, the Holy Spirit already descended and filled all those who were in the upper room, that is, he is not talking about the first coming of Christ, he is talking about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says, so that Christ who was announced before may be sent, but he is talking about that he will be retained in heaven, verse 21, whom indeed it is necessary for heaven to receive until the times of restoration of all things.
If you look in the new international version or King James version, or other versions, it says, who indeed is necessary for heaven to retain until the restoration of all things. What he is talking about is that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven but is retained in heaven and that his second coming, when he comes as Lord to pick up his church, will be until the time of the restoration of all things.
And that is what I want to leave this day in your heart. What does restoration mean? To restore is to return to the original model. When you take an artist and say, look, I want you to restore this painting for me, or to restore this statue or sculpture, they need a photograph of how it was originally so they can restore it and leave it the same as it was.
Now, our original model is not Adam, our original model is Christ the man of the new creation. Yes, man, applaud him, strong, like this, give him the applause because he deserves it. Amen.
Your original model is the man of the new creation, in which God thought from the beginning and who created him in his image and likeness. You believe that when God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, God knew that Adam would fail. Sure, God is all-knowing, all-knowing, and all-knowing. Now, you believe that God already had an alternative plan for when man failed. Of course, God knew that he would have to send his Son who in the beginning was the verb, in the beginning was the word but then in John 1 we see that he says, in the beginning was God or was the verb, the verb was with God and became flesh and dwelt among us.
God had an alternative, God had an alternative plan because he knew that man was going to fail. Now, the last Adam, Jesus Christ the Son of man, he is the image and likeness of God on earth, because he did not fail, in him there was no sin, in him it was not found that he even protested when he was led like a sheep to the slaughterhouse, then, I take from him today my model, it is not Adam, it is Christ. So, when the restoration of all things comes, when all things are aligned to the model that is Christ, now, the word we know Christ through Scripture, who is the word, these are the letters that bear witness of the. The Lord Jesus Christ told the Pharisees, you search the Scriptures because you believe that life is in them but you do not want to come to me. They bear witness to me but I am the way, the truth and the life. So, the Scripture gives reference to who he is, but when you come to him, it is that you truly know him by experience, by experience, not only by reference and theory, but an intimate knowledge of who he is, what his nature is, what can you expect from him.
Now, the word also tells us that you become what you adore. That is, if you worship God you will become the image and likeness of God, or you will be the nature of Christ on earth in the body of man. So, restoration has to do with many things that have to be restored on earth, biblical principles have to be restored, God's truth has to be restored on earth, in his church. But, for all this to be restored, the first thing that must be restored is man's communion with his Father, man's communion with God.
Yesterday, I was talking a little about what happened when this first man and first woman sinned. God speaks to him and tells him where you are, and God was not asking him what geographic location. God knew it was in the Garden of Eden, he himself had put them there. What you are asking is, where are you in your relationship with me. What is your position now after you have failed, what is your attitude, what is your reaction, where are you. And they know that this is the same question that God asks us when we fail. The point is that this first male and this first female did not act as children of a loving Father. They simply acted as creation. And what they did was that they were afraid, they were ashamed and they hid, but when a son has failed, what he does is come to his father's arms and tell him, sorry, I failed but I know you are going to give me a chance. I have failed you, sorry, dad.
Look, when our children do something mischievous, I'm talking about our biological children, think of something that isn't right, the son who trusts his father, the son who considers that his father gives him security, that his father loves him despite No matter how bad he does, that son is going to wait for dad to arrive and he's going to say, dad, forgive me, look, I broke the lamp in the living room, so forgive me. If you are going to put me to work or to wash the car, or something, to pay it, but here I am, but I did it. That is what a son does when he trusts that his father gives him security and that he will not reject him but that he will love him despite the bad things he has done.
Or when the son has already been given a car and had an accident, the one who knows that his father gives him security and loves him despite the bad things he does, will call him and say, look dad, I had a little accident , they hit me, they hit me, I don't know, from behind, see I'm in the street, but sorry. And he knows that his dad is going to go and defend him and he is going to do whatever is necessary, but he is not going to stop loving him.
But Adam and Eve were not sure, they did not have the revelation that God was the Father and they were not sure what God's attitude was going to be, so they hid, they were afraid, they were ashamed. But Jesus, the Son of man, knew at all times that his Father heard him, that his Father loved him, even when he went to raise Lazarus and spoke and said, I am not saying this because of you, but because of them, because I know that you always hear me. Jesus was sure and certain that his Father always heard him.
So, the relationship of children with our Father God has to be restored in us. Someone can spend years in a church, they can receive all the biblical discipleship, they can be in the Bible seminary and be an orphan. In other words, not walking like a true child of God.
God wants to remove the marks of orphanhood from his children, he wants to attract our hearts to his so that we know that he is a good Father who always loves us despite what we do, because we can fail, but if our heart is right to go before him and we hurt because we have failed him, he will always have mercy to restore us.
We see that the Bible says that David was a man with a heart after God's own heart. Now, you say to yourself, but how is it possible if David, what he did, slept with Bathsheba having so many wives, and apart from the husband Uriah Etheus orders him to be put at the forefront of the battle to be killed, how is it that this man was in agreement to the heart of God? Yes, because even though he did, he immediately repented and hurt and went before his Father when he became aware of his sin, he went before his Father and began to fast and cry and cry and even though he paid the consequence because the son of that relationship died, but his heart was always ready to repent.
So, God wants a people who have a simple heart and sensitive to the love of their Father, that we know that even when we fail we have a Father of love who awaits us. You know, within the structure of a congregation, of a church, it may be that today we have a position and that in two years we won't, perhaps today you are a deacon and within, when the elections come, they won't I am prophesying to the deacons, but, it may be that they are no longer. Yes, but you know that in your Father's lap, you will always have a place, you will be able to sit on your father's lap and no one will ever be able to take your place from you. And even if you misbehave and go the other way, whenever you come back you'll have your place in dad's lap.
That is the beauty of the Father that we have. And that is the first thing that has to be restored. A lot of other things depend on that. I cannot be a good minister if I am not a good son of my father. It is interesting that although the Lord Jesus flowed in the five ministries by trade, he was the Apostle of Apostles, he was the prophet of the prophets, confirmed, he was the greatest evangelist because he himself was the good news. He was the rabbi, the teacher and he was the prince of shepherds. He flowed in the five ministries, he had all the gifts that accompanied him, however, when the adoption ceremony was performed, he knows that the Jewish people perform an adoption ceremony when men are 30 years old.
To be able to do that ceremony for him, they first investigate in the Jewish community what the behavior of that boy, of that man, is like. They investigate if he complies with what the Torah says, if he is respectful, if he honors his parents, if he is a man who knows how to manage money well, who knows how to save, etc., and when they have given all the certificates that he He has a mature behavior, so the parents, considering that he is a mature son, hold an adoption ceremony for him at age 30 and that is when they transfer the companies to him, or transfer properties to him, or delegate where he goes to work, or economically they certify him as a mature son to administer the inheritance.
But in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ when he reached 30 years, remember that 30 was the year of the priesthood. In order for someone to be a priest, they needed to have reached the age of 30 and have been approved and have had an adoption ceremony, which is why 30 years is chosen.
But in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he turned 30 years old before starting his ministry, which was what he was going to administer on behalf of the Father, they performed his ceremony for him and it was John the Baptist who did it in the Jordan River. But when John is pouring out the water or immersing Jesus, the one who certifies it is not Joseph, probably Joseph had already died, it is the Father who is in heaven. And the voice was heard that said, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Now, I want you to see that the Father did not say, this is the much loved Apostle, the Father did not say, this is the much loved prophet. The Father did not say, this is the much loved evangelist, or this is the much loved pastor, he said this is my much loved Son in whom I am pleased. In other words, my beloved, before the ministry, before anything, is that you can be certified by the Father as a son who pleases his heart, praise him and applaud him strongly.
As long as your relationship as a son is not restored with the Father, do not pretend to be a good evangelist, a good shepherd, a good Apostle, do not even pretend to be a good husband, or a good father of a family, because the paternity of God revealed to your heart gives you security, the paternity of God gives you identity and when you walk as a true daughter of God you will be able to be a good wife and a good husband because no matter what they tell you, nothing will make you change your mind. opinion of who you are in Christ Jesus because the Father has revealed it to you. Amen.
And when you have a very clear identity of who you are and who your Father is, you will be able to be a good father or a good mother. No matter what the enemy wants to tell you, you have an identity and you are sure of who you are and you will be able to give what the father has revealed to you that he wants you to be.
Many times one humanly wants to please people with things that are in one's heart, but not in the other person. An example, I really liked it every time I went out or when it was a special date, I wanted to bring my husband a gift. I really like giving gifts, I am a giveaway and I really like buying to give as a gift. So I went to the stores and what I liked the most I bought him the shirt that I liked the most, obviously by my nature I bought him the orange shirt, or the lemon green shirt, or the bright yellow one to my liking…. That he looked a little weak like that but when I arrived very excited to give him a gift, he kept watching that. I already knew, he's not going to put it on. It's not his taste, I'm thinking about me, about liking myself, I'm not thinking about what he likes.
And then I realized that even to make a gift you need the direction of the Holy Spirit. And even to do other things at home, even what you are going to cook, if you want to please the other person, you are not going to do what you like, you have to think about what he likes, right? And I know a person who said, oh, I'm going to cook a meal for my wife. And she made him spaghetti, and he hated spaghetti, but she liked it. So, even for that you need the direction of the Holy Spirit, and the direction of the Holy Spirit comes when you are walking as a true child of God and your Father who loves you and who gives you identity and gives you security makes sure that it is revealed every detail of your walk. Children, we cannot treat all children equally, each one is different. We have five biological children, one adoptive and they are all totally different. So, there are people who say, no, I am equitable, I buy from everyone equally. No, it can't be like that, because each one has its own personality. But even for that you need the direction of the Holy Spirit.
So, you cannot be a good husband or a good father if you have not been a good son of the great king. But still to be a good child of your biological parents you need to feel and know that you are a good child of almighty Father God, the giver of all things.
Now, when you as a son go to your dad's or mom's house, you are free to open the fridge, right? Open the fridge, drink water, if you need it, yes or no? You can do it, you feel free because that is the house of your parents, of your father, of your mother. Now, I ask you, do you have that same freedom to go to your Father's house and open his pantry and take all the things he has for you? Sometimes not, sometimes it seems to us that God is too busy to hear us. Sometimes it seems to us that God has other priorities and that he does not have us on his first list, but I came to tell you that your good Father loves you as a son and you are always in first place. Amen. You need to know that he is your loving Father, and that he wants you to walk in trust with him.
And once that relationship is restored, then you can expect the restoration of all other things. Everything has to be restored, moral principles, the relationship between parents and children, the relationship from one generation to the next. All of that is going to be restored, but the first thing that has to be restored is the fatherhood of God revealed to your life.
If that is not restored, the other things will not come. God wants us to live as his children. The Scripture says that Jesus Christ came to his own, his own did not receive him, but those of us who have believed in his name have been given the power, the delegated authority to be made children of God, right? Because you choose, you choose to walk like a son. The Father is always with open arms, but many times we are losing more than half of the package that corresponds to us as children because we think we have no right or because there are so many rejection wounds, or we had a natural father who mistreated us so much. that we think that the Father of heaven is the same, that he is waiting for you to make a mistake to hit you.
I want to tell you particularly in my life, I worked since I was 8 years old, since I came home from school, I had to put my backpack aside and work in my parents' pharmacy. I was the cashier at 8 years old, at 10 years old I prescribed, injected and did everything. I had no salary but I had to work. And I remember one day there was a man and he told me, put down that bottle of talc, put down that other bottle now. And he began to buy, and that other one, when he had about 5 bottles, I was a girl, I got angry, I did that to him, an ugly gesture and my dad grabbed me by the ear, took me to a little store that was back there and he told me, look girl, when you have your own, do what you want, but right now you have to put on a good face and if you have to lower 20 bottles, you have to do it. Yes, dad is fine. And I always worked, always.
Yesterday I shared with the women that at the age of 18 I was already married and had 3 full-time jobs and my whole life was work, work, work. And even when I was doing my doctoral studies I had two full-time jobs plus studies. I worked in a school in the morning, in the afternoon in a college, I don't know what time I studied, but I always worked.
And then when I came to the Lord it was so difficult for me to sit down, that is, I thought that in the Lord I had to be working, working, working, that everything was activity. And when ever, because I was very tired, I would sit down for a moment and a brother would come home, I would stop immediately. I was embarrassed to be seen sitting down because my mentality was that to be accepted you had to work, work, work, because that's what my dad showed me.
And forget about it, I thought you had to work hard to be able to be paid. The first time I was invited to preach somewhere and they gave me an offering, I returned it because I didn't feel well receiving it. And I remember that this pastor was in an area of a farm and the pastor said, oh, that's good, she returns the offering, and then she kept inviting me a lot because I returned the offering. But the third time, the pastor tells me, do me a favor, sign here that you received the offering, but you always return it to me. I don't accept an invitation from him again because he told the others that I had received it but I returned it. But God began to work with me and until the paternity of God was revealed to me above the biological paternity that I had had from my father, until then I can say that I began to walk in healing.
But many people may still be in ministry, may be in a leadership role, and still not feel that full freedom to go to Daddy, open their hearts, and take all that belongs to them. Because all yours is ours. We are joint heirs with Christ with all riches in glory.
Now, I want to tell you this morning, I cannot go into all the restoration of all areas, maybe the next service we can go into other restorations that have to be given but, I want to say this morning it is extremely important that you have forgiven to your father or your biological mother or any figure of authority that you have had over you so that healing can come, that the enemy does not take advantage but that there is healing in your heart and it can be revealed to you as is the nature of your Father God so that you then walk in security and identity, be a firm and secure person, it doesn't matter if you have a position today and tomorrow you don't. That doesn't affect you because you know who you are in Christ Jesus.
The Father wants to reveal himself to you as the good Father and that you live confident that you will not lack anything because he knows that it depends on us that Jesus Christ returns and that he returns soon because it says here that he is being held in heaven until the restoration of all things . If we are restored as sons, we will be instruments to restore all the other things that have to be restored, which has to do with the restoration of the tabernacle of David, has to do with the restoration of the ministries, with many things, with the government of God in the church, but the first thing that has to be restored is your condition as a son.
Now I want to ask you a question because I would not want to leave this place without you having the opportunity to change your condition on this day, if there are people who do not feel free as children of the Father, people who sometimes feel rejected by God or who they feel intimidated, or that even when they do something wrong they enter into condemnation instead of going directly to the Father to be forgiven and released. If there is someone who easily falls into condemnation for things of the past, or falls into guilt, I would like you to come forward, I want to declare a word of blessing over your life before I leave and I am speaking to you because I was a person who passed through condemnation all the time and I was always asking for forgiveness for the same things until one day the Lord told me, what are you talking about. From the first time I deleted it from the list.
But many times, although forgiveness is already there, if we do not receive it, we return and feel condemned by situations of the past and we do not enter into freedom, I would like you to come forward because the Father wants to manifest himself in your life and wants to give you the identity of a son or a daughter, he wants to do something wonderful with his church on earth and I want to bless you this day, declare that this revelation is activated for you and I know that there are men here who need that revelation, I know that there are men who sometimes struggle with their own their lives and get frustrated because they can't achieve the victories they want.
Then I would like to ask you to please support me praying for the men of God. Hallelujah! Luis Enrique God loves you so much and since last night I knew that I had to bring this word for you. God is going to do something wonderful in your life. God loves you. Pastors feel free if you want to minister to someone. Spirit of God, I beg you that this morning by your immense grace you bring revelation to each heart that they are children of a good Father. Oh, Father, thank you very much for each of your sons and daughters who are in this place, may the fatherhood of God be revealed to them. I beg you that the blood of the lamb be effective at this hour to erase dead works from their memories, that the blood of Christ now be effective to erase all negative memories of their relationship with their biological father. Oh in the name of Jesus I beg you, reveal yourself to the heart of each child, please reveal yourself God in the name of Jesus. Oh...... in the name of Jesus come the revelation to your heart. Reveal yourself God, reveal yourself God… oh….. the Lord loves you, your Father loves you.
I declare that the spirit of revelation is now activated over your lives and complete healing comes, all condemnation leaves your hearts and God provokes in you the desire to seek the Father and to be at peace in your relationship with the Father. Oh thank you very much, I bless you man of God, I bless you with all my heart, may the condition of a son be activated in you today, be blessed, be blessed. I speak inner peace to your heart, I speak now to your spirit so that it may be awakened as the spirit of Zerubbabel was awakened so that you can be a builder of the house, that it be revealed how much your Father loves you and how much security you can have in him. He is a good Father, I bless you, I bless your wife, your children, your grandchildren. Be very blessed this day in the name of Jesus that your life can be marked, a new beginning for you. Thank you, spirit of God. Thank you for each life, for each heart. Thank my Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Please minister the hearts. Oh….. Hallelujah! Father, thank you, thank you for your daughters, beloved sons. Let your identity and your nature be revealed to them. I bless you in the name of Jesus. I declare a full restoration in your life, in your heart. May your status as a daughter with the Father be restored, may this day be a new beginning for you. Be blessed in the name of Jesus. Thank you very much, Father. Thank you so much. I declare a new beginning for you, a new beginning for you, may the love of the Father be revealed to your life. Oh spirit of God, thank you very much. Minister to every heart, Lord please. Thank you very much, in the name of Jesus. I bless you powerfully. Oh Lord, it is never too late to start walking as your child. Oh, I bless you in the name of Jesus. Oh…. That now I can receive the ministration of the good Father, of the Father who loves you. Oh... from the father who accepts you and receives you. oh holy… Rigo, can you come… Hug him please. Oh….. I bless you, I bless you, oh, come the revelation of who you are. The daughter of the most high God, the beloved daughter, the very pampered, I bless you in the name of Jesus, your memories are healed in the name of Jesus. Thank my Lord. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank my Lord. Thank you thank you very much. Thank you very much, God. Thank you so much. Be healed your heart, my sister in the name of Jesus. Thank my Lord.
Father, I bless you for your beloved son, be ministered to your heart now, I bless you in the name of Jesus. Oh... come the revelation of God's fatherhood into your life, I bless you. Oh…. In the name of Jesus, thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus. Minister your heart in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord for your mighty work. Hallelujah! Oh yes, Lord I bless you in the mighty name of Jesus. I declare the healing of the heart, a new beginning, the strength of God in your life, man, that God wants to use you powerfully. Come the revelation of the fatherhood of Almighty God to you. Oh…in the name of Jesus. I break all ties of the past on your life. Oh, in the name of Jesus. Thank you Father in the name of Jesus.
Father, thank you in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! People of God get up and sing please. Hallelujah!
Unfortunately their books ran out yesterday and all the things they brought, so it was like a plague of locusts descended on what little they brought. But I know that we are going to have another opportunity in a not too distant time for her to continue blessing us with what God has given her. So sister, be blessed and welcome. Amen.
Hallelujah! It is good to be in the midst of the congregation of the saints. I'm going to bother him a little. How about you stand up for a little while and raise your hands. He knows that we are trees of justice, Jehovah's plantation. You are a tree, the tree of life is in you. So move your branches, move the tree that you are, right? The leaves are for healing the nations, so in their hands there is healing. Wave your branches and declare God's blessing on this place, the presence of the Lord is here. He is good, he is wonderful. We adore the one who lives, the eternal, the almighty, the youngest lion of the tribe of Juda. We adore him, we bless him, we exalt him. To Jehovah Shammah, the one who is always present. Jehovah Rohi the prince of shepherds, to Jehovah shalom, the God of peace, we bless him. Jehovah, Tsidkenu, God our justice, we bless you. Jehovah, Tsidkenu, oh we bless you, Jehovah, Sabaot, God of war, we bless you, God and we declare that you are Lord in this place. I bless you beloved brother, you who are here, you who listen on the Internet may God's extreme blessing on your life. May this be a day that marks a before and after on your calendar, that today you can be extremely blessed through the word of the Lord.
You know that the word of the Lord can be like a hammer that breaks the rock, but it can also be like a powerful sword, sharper than a two-edged sword that penetrates like a dagger that can penetrate your heart to separate what is from the soul and what is of the spirit, a sword that penetrates to the marrow and that today, today can be definitive for you. So open your spirit, open your heart to hear the word. Don't say the word, it's for the one who didn't come, it's for you who are here.
So I bless you and declare that you have a receptive spirit, a teachable spirit to receive the word of the Lord. The word is medicine to your bones. You can receive healing today through the word. The word is alive and effective, it brings vigor.
You know, Jesus said, my words are my spirit and they are my life. So I believe that today you receive life from the spirit and are enlivened through the word. You can sit down, my love. Thank you so much.
Brenda received the Lord yesterday and that's an extreme blessing, not just for Mary Santiago, but for all of us, right? Mary leaves for Ocala, but she stays here in a very good position. And Anthony is the husband of Brenda and I know that this family is going to start walking in the firm footsteps of the Lord. I bless you with all my heart.
I want you to open your Bible with me for a moment in the Book of Acts in Chapter 3. Look, the Lord is wonderful and we have a very efficient God that in 20 minutes we are going to get where God wants us to go. TRUE? The anointing is efficient. Amen.
If you can stay longer, I don't have a problem, I can be here as long as the word of the Lord is speaking, I can stay until dawn. I do not have a problem. You know, many times I have stopped to preach feeling ill-health, and when I start to speak the word, and I forget everything and when I get off I say, and what happened? I was relieved, my fever went away, he healed me and everything.
We have a saying there, in our congregation, that the first thing that is converted when people arrive at church is the watch and the purse, or the wallet, because we know when we start but never when we finish. And the wallet has to be converted, right? Because when you give your heart to the Lord, the least important thing is to give him your wallet. But hey, I'm not going to ask for your wallet today. Do not worry.
We're going to go to Acts, Chapter 3, I think it's a Scripture that we're all very familiar with and I hope that God will speak to us today. Let's read from verse 17 onwards.
He says, "... more now brothers, I know that through ignorance you have done it as well as your rulers..."
They are talking about having crucified Christ. “…. But God has thus fulfilled what was previously announced by the mouth of all his prophets. Jesus Christ had to suffer…”
Verse 19 that concerns us a lot on this day, "... so repent and convert so that your sins may be erased, so that times of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord and he, verse 20, sends Jesus Christ who was previously announced to you, verse 21, to whom indeed it is necessary that heaven receive until the times of restoration of all things of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from ancient times….”
Let's see, I want to illustrate verse 19 a little bit. Here is the Apostle Peter talking about the things that have happened after the death and resurrection of Christ and he is establishing a truth. He says, "...so repent and convert so that your sins may be erased and times of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord..."
There is a difference between being repentant and being converted. How many know? They know that many congregations are full of people who repent but have not been converted. Regretful is that you hurt from the old way of living, it hurts you for the things you did that were not correct before God, the Holy Spirit works through the conscience of the human being. We all have a conscience. The conscience is touched by the Holy Spirit through the human spirit and many times even when you did not know the Lord, you did things and you said, that my conscience rebukes me or my conscience bothers me, even though you were not a Christian yet, although there had not been recognized Jesus, you knew that you were doing something that was not correct, because the Holy Spirit was giving you conviction through your conscience. And then when you came to the knowledge of the Lord because your measure of faith was activated by the preaching of the Gospel, by the word of God.
How many know that we all have a measure of faith? We were all given a measure of faith. But that faith is activated at the moment of God when the active word comes that produces in you that faith to listen and to believe. I remember in my life that they had spoken to me about the Lord and I did not want to hear anything at all. They told me that he was the solution to my problems but I was totally deaf and blind. I didn't know but when the day came, when the moment came, when the suddenness of God came because everyone has an hour under the sun, and my day of salvation came and my hour came and my moment came, it was like when they preached that word, my eyes kind of went open like the lights went on, something happened, right Brenda? Something happened and the same thing that you had heard before now you hear it in a different way, you capture it in your spirit, you hear it with understanding, something inside of you is activated, they make the call and you don't know what happened but you go there and start to cry, you begin to remember all the bad things you did and you begin to cry and oh, Lord, and why, and look. Well, a whole revolution is coming from within, the light of the Lord begins to confront all the darkness that was within us. And that causes us to repent, our conscience makes us understand that we were not walking on the right path, and we repent before the Lord.
But then, when the spirit of God comes within you, your spirit begins to illuminate from within all areas of your life, your mind, your soul, your whole being, with the purpose that you convert. Now, convert to what or who. to the nature of Christ. We are on this journey to model the Lord. We human beings of the new creation are the image and likeness of God on earth. That is why it is so important that the parents in a family, dad and mom, walk according to the word of God, because when you walk according to the word of God, according to the Bible, according to the Scriptures, according to According to the Holy Spirit of God you are going to be the model for your children of who God is. Children learn about God by what they see in their parents. Your parents, if they are born again, should be the image and likeness of God on earth.
So, we are here, not only to have repented but to convert. You know what? I imagine that here, as in Honduras, in the army there is a word about conversion, I imagine that in English it is the same, or in the United States it is the same. When someone, a soldier, is marching and then they say, left conversion, and then you have to change direction. In other words, there is an instruction in the army when you are marching, a conversion is that you change direction. So, I was walking in the principles of the world, in the natural principles, in what I had learned in school, in the college, in magazines, on television, etc. But when the day came when the light came and illuminated me, then it tells me, conversion, and I have to start making decisions and submitting my will to the will of the Lord to convert myself to the nature of Christ. I cannot follow a walk in the Lord simply having repented. I need to convert.
And the word tells me that when I convert, in addition to repenting, times of refreshment come from the presence of the Lord. The times of refreshment have to do with the presence and filling of the Holy Spirit.
Humanly, at work, at school, at college, at the university, one says, we are going to have a break, that is, a snack, right? And we have snacks from time to time, but you know what? In the presence of God there is fullness of joy and you can live in continuous refreshment in the midst of all tribulation. One beautiful thing about the Lord is that even though the situation is critical, even though things are heavy, even though the news is dramatic, you can be refreshed in the midst of all tribulation.
You know that when you are converted and you truly live for the Lord, you can be in the middle of hell and live in heaven, if you can understand me. It's a beautiful thing. You know, in our country we have been going through many difficult situations, perhaps if you have read on the news, there have been assaults, kidnappings, terrible things, I personally was assaulted this year in the month of March, I was assaulted with a weapon, I was They put it here and they stole the new truck that the Lord had provided us. And it's one thing to see her coming and another to talk to her, right? When you hear, yes, you pray like that for things but look, when I, because it was something in the blink of an eye, things that God still took control of. My husband is a very healthy man, it is very rare for him to get sick but when he was coming to Boston he got sick. No, not because I was going to come here, no.
But on that occasion, in March, he had sprained his ankle playing basketball, because he is very athletic wherever you see him, and then he slipped on a ball, our little seven wanted to play with him, he threw the ball at him, he is walking backwards and he slipped and hit his head, but he also sprained his ankle and well, he felt really bad, and on that occasion I was going to see his parents and normally he is the one who drives and I go with him, but I I have a luxury driver, and I feel very comfortable when he drives, but that time, one of those few and rare times, I was driving and it was really tremendous, in the blink of an eye, I don't know where the assailants appeared from and when I go to open the door, they have the gun on me and that man starts insulting me and ordering me to get into the back seat because they wanted to take us I don't know where, to do I don't know how many things with us. And I don't know where I got the strength from, I was struggling with that man and he with the weapon here, I wanted to close the door and he opened it for me.
Well, but finally, I threw him the car key and told him, here's the car but I'm not going anywhere with you. But, the thing, I don't even know what time I told you, right? Later I began to tremble, not at the moment, but they took the truck, expensive, good and everything, but at that moment what mattered was that they hadn't touched my life, everything was fine, I was still able to get my wallet, my bag and there was the phone and there I started calling my husband. But what I want to tell you is that even in the midst of everything terrible that can happen in a place, if you live in the dimension of the spirit you will always have refreshment, even in those things that seem negative, that seem bad, you will be refreshed. .
When I came to my senses and began to meditate on everything that had happened, I never complained, I never got upset, I never got angry, I began to bless the attackers and I began to thank God. Sir, thank you very much, Lord, thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you, it was like a gratitude towards the Lord began to sprout for his coverage, for his care, because he saved our lives, for so many things, I was so grateful to the Lord. And after that, I see that all things always work together for the best, but what I want to tell you is that even in the midst of the most difficult situations you can be refreshed when you have converted to the nature of the Lord.
Now, I want to go a little further down, it says, this is like a premise for a promise that is in verse 20, it says, “…and he sends Jesus Christ who was announced before…”, obviously this is written after Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, in Chapter 2 of the book of Acts, the Holy Spirit already descended and filled all those who were in the upper room, that is, he is not talking about the first coming of Christ, he is talking about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says, so that Christ who was announced before may be sent, but he is talking about that he will be retained in heaven, verse 21, whom indeed it is necessary for heaven to receive until the times of restoration of all things.
If you look in the new international version or King James version, or other versions, it says, who indeed is necessary for heaven to retain until the restoration of all things. What he is talking about is that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven but is retained in heaven and that his second coming, when he comes as Lord to pick up his church, will be until the time of the restoration of all things.
And that is what I want to leave this day in your heart. What does restoration mean? To restore is to return to the original model. When you take an artist and say, look, I want you to restore this painting for me, or to restore this statue or sculpture, they need a photograph of how it was originally so they can restore it and leave it the same as it was.
Now, our original model is not Adam, our original model is Christ the man of the new creation. Yes, man, applaud him, strong, like this, give him the applause because he deserves it. Amen.
Your original model is the man of the new creation, in which God thought from the beginning and who created him in his image and likeness. You believe that when God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, God knew that Adam would fail. Sure, God is all-knowing, all-knowing, and all-knowing. Now, you believe that God already had an alternative plan for when man failed. Of course, God knew that he would have to send his Son who in the beginning was the verb, in the beginning was the word but then in John 1 we see that he says, in the beginning was God or was the verb, the verb was with God and became flesh and dwelt among us.
God had an alternative, God had an alternative plan because he knew that man was going to fail. Now, the last Adam, Jesus Christ the Son of man, he is the image and likeness of God on earth, because he did not fail, in him there was no sin, in him it was not found that he even protested when he was led like a sheep to the slaughterhouse, then, I take from him today my model, it is not Adam, it is Christ. So, when the restoration of all things comes, when all things are aligned to the model that is Christ, now, the word we know Christ through Scripture, who is the word, these are the letters that bear witness of the. The Lord Jesus Christ told the Pharisees, you search the Scriptures because you believe that life is in them but you do not want to come to me. They bear witness to me but I am the way, the truth and the life. So, the Scripture gives reference to who he is, but when you come to him, it is that you truly know him by experience, by experience, not only by reference and theory, but an intimate knowledge of who he is, what his nature is, what can you expect from him.
Now, the word also tells us that you become what you adore. That is, if you worship God you will become the image and likeness of God, or you will be the nature of Christ on earth in the body of man. So, restoration has to do with many things that have to be restored on earth, biblical principles have to be restored, God's truth has to be restored on earth, in his church. But, for all this to be restored, the first thing that must be restored is man's communion with his Father, man's communion with God.
Yesterday, I was talking a little about what happened when this first man and first woman sinned. God speaks to him and tells him where you are, and God was not asking him what geographic location. God knew it was in the Garden of Eden, he himself had put them there. What you are asking is, where are you in your relationship with me. What is your position now after you have failed, what is your attitude, what is your reaction, where are you. And they know that this is the same question that God asks us when we fail. The point is that this first male and this first female did not act as children of a loving Father. They simply acted as creation. And what they did was that they were afraid, they were ashamed and they hid, but when a son has failed, what he does is come to his father's arms and tell him, sorry, I failed but I know you are going to give me a chance. I have failed you, sorry, dad.
Look, when our children do something mischievous, I'm talking about our biological children, think of something that isn't right, the son who trusts his father, the son who considers that his father gives him security, that his father loves him despite No matter how bad he does, that son is going to wait for dad to arrive and he's going to say, dad, forgive me, look, I broke the lamp in the living room, so forgive me. If you are going to put me to work or to wash the car, or something, to pay it, but here I am, but I did it. That is what a son does when he trusts that his father gives him security and that he will not reject him but that he will love him despite the bad things he has done.
Or when the son has already been given a car and had an accident, the one who knows that his father gives him security and loves him despite the bad things he does, will call him and say, look dad, I had a little accident , they hit me, they hit me, I don't know, from behind, see I'm in the street, but sorry. And he knows that his dad is going to go and defend him and he is going to do whatever is necessary, but he is not going to stop loving him.
But Adam and Eve were not sure, they did not have the revelation that God was the Father and they were not sure what God's attitude was going to be, so they hid, they were afraid, they were ashamed. But Jesus, the Son of man, knew at all times that his Father heard him, that his Father loved him, even when he went to raise Lazarus and spoke and said, I am not saying this because of you, but because of them, because I know that you always hear me. Jesus was sure and certain that his Father always heard him.
So, the relationship of children with our Father God has to be restored in us. Someone can spend years in a church, they can receive all the biblical discipleship, they can be in the Bible seminary and be an orphan. In other words, not walking like a true child of God.
God wants to remove the marks of orphanhood from his children, he wants to attract our hearts to his so that we know that he is a good Father who always loves us despite what we do, because we can fail, but if our heart is right to go before him and we hurt because we have failed him, he will always have mercy to restore us.
We see that the Bible says that David was a man with a heart after God's own heart. Now, you say to yourself, but how is it possible if David, what he did, slept with Bathsheba having so many wives, and apart from the husband Uriah Etheus orders him to be put at the forefront of the battle to be killed, how is it that this man was in agreement to the heart of God? Yes, because even though he did, he immediately repented and hurt and went before his Father when he became aware of his sin, he went before his Father and began to fast and cry and cry and even though he paid the consequence because the son of that relationship died, but his heart was always ready to repent.
So, God wants a people who have a simple heart and sensitive to the love of their Father, that we know that even when we fail we have a Father of love who awaits us. You know, within the structure of a congregation, of a church, it may be that today we have a position and that in two years we won't, perhaps today you are a deacon and within, when the elections come, they won't I am prophesying to the deacons, but, it may be that they are no longer. Yes, but you know that in your Father's lap, you will always have a place, you will be able to sit on your father's lap and no one will ever be able to take your place from you. And even if you misbehave and go the other way, whenever you come back you'll have your place in dad's lap.
That is the beauty of the Father that we have. And that is the first thing that has to be restored. A lot of other things depend on that. I cannot be a good minister if I am not a good son of my father. It is interesting that although the Lord Jesus flowed in the five ministries by trade, he was the Apostle of Apostles, he was the prophet of the prophets, confirmed, he was the greatest evangelist because he himself was the good news. He was the rabbi, the teacher and he was the prince of shepherds. He flowed in the five ministries, he had all the gifts that accompanied him, however, when the adoption ceremony was performed, he knows that the Jewish people perform an adoption ceremony when men are 30 years old.
To be able to do that ceremony for him, they first investigate in the Jewish community what the behavior of that boy, of that man, is like. They investigate if he complies with what the Torah says, if he is respectful, if he honors his parents, if he is a man who knows how to manage money well, who knows how to save, etc., and when they have given all the certificates that he He has a mature behavior, so the parents, considering that he is a mature son, hold an adoption ceremony for him at age 30 and that is when they transfer the companies to him, or transfer properties to him, or delegate where he goes to work, or economically they certify him as a mature son to administer the inheritance.
But in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ when he reached 30 years, remember that 30 was the year of the priesthood. In order for someone to be a priest, they needed to have reached the age of 30 and have been approved and have had an adoption ceremony, which is why 30 years is chosen.
But in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he turned 30 years old before starting his ministry, which was what he was going to administer on behalf of the Father, they performed his ceremony for him and it was John the Baptist who did it in the Jordan River. But when John is pouring out the water or immersing Jesus, the one who certifies it is not Joseph, probably Joseph had already died, it is the Father who is in heaven. And the voice was heard that said, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Now, I want you to see that the Father did not say, this is the much loved Apostle, the Father did not say, this is the much loved prophet. The Father did not say, this is the much loved evangelist, or this is the much loved pastor, he said this is my much loved Son in whom I am pleased. In other words, my beloved, before the ministry, before anything, is that you can be certified by the Father as a son who pleases his heart, praise him and applaud him strongly.
As long as your relationship as a son is not restored with the Father, do not pretend to be a good evangelist, a good shepherd, a good Apostle, do not even pretend to be a good husband, or a good father of a family, because the paternity of God revealed to your heart gives you security, the paternity of God gives you identity and when you walk as a true daughter of God you will be able to be a good wife and a good husband because no matter what they tell you, nothing will make you change your mind. opinion of who you are in Christ Jesus because the Father has revealed it to you. Amen.
And when you have a very clear identity of who you are and who your Father is, you will be able to be a good father or a good mother. No matter what the enemy wants to tell you, you have an identity and you are sure of who you are and you will be able to give what the father has revealed to you that he wants you to be.
Many times one humanly wants to please people with things that are in one's heart, but not in the other person. An example, I really liked it every time I went out or when it was a special date, I wanted to bring my husband a gift. I really like giving gifts, I am a giveaway and I really like buying to give as a gift. So I went to the stores and what I liked the most I bought him the shirt that I liked the most, obviously by my nature I bought him the orange shirt, or the lemon green shirt, or the bright yellow one to my liking…. That he looked a little weak like that but when I arrived very excited to give him a gift, he kept watching that. I already knew, he's not going to put it on. It's not his taste, I'm thinking about me, about liking myself, I'm not thinking about what he likes.
And then I realized that even to make a gift you need the direction of the Holy Spirit. And even to do other things at home, even what you are going to cook, if you want to please the other person, you are not going to do what you like, you have to think about what he likes, right? And I know a person who said, oh, I'm going to cook a meal for my wife. And she made him spaghetti, and he hated spaghetti, but she liked it. So, even for that you need the direction of the Holy Spirit, and the direction of the Holy Spirit comes when you are walking as a true child of God and your Father who loves you and who gives you identity and gives you security makes sure that it is revealed every detail of your walk. Children, we cannot treat all children equally, each one is different. We have five biological children, one adoptive and they are all totally different. So, there are people who say, no, I am equitable, I buy from everyone equally. No, it can't be like that, because each one has its own personality. But even for that you need the direction of the Holy Spirit.
So, you cannot be a good husband or a good father if you have not been a good son of the great king. But still to be a good child of your biological parents you need to feel and know that you are a good child of almighty Father God, the giver of all things.
Now, when you as a son go to your dad's or mom's house, you are free to open the fridge, right? Open the fridge, drink water, if you need it, yes or no? You can do it, you feel free because that is the house of your parents, of your father, of your mother. Now, I ask you, do you have that same freedom to go to your Father's house and open his pantry and take all the things he has for you? Sometimes not, sometimes it seems to us that God is too busy to hear us. Sometimes it seems to us that God has other priorities and that he does not have us on his first list, but I came to tell you that your good Father loves you as a son and you are always in first place. Amen. You need to know that he is your loving Father, and that he wants you to walk in trust with him.
And once that relationship is restored, then you can expect the restoration of all other things. Everything has to be restored, moral principles, the relationship between parents and children, the relationship from one generation to the next. All of that is going to be restored, but the first thing that has to be restored is the fatherhood of God revealed to your life.
If that is not restored, the other things will not come. God wants us to live as his children. The Scripture says that Jesus Christ came to his own, his own did not receive him, but those of us who have believed in his name have been given the power, the delegated authority to be made children of God, right? Because you choose, you choose to walk like a son. The Father is always with open arms, but many times we are losing more than half of the package that corresponds to us as children because we think we have no right or because there are so many rejection wounds, or we had a natural father who mistreated us so much. that we think that the Father of heaven is the same, that he is waiting for you to make a mistake to hit you.
I want to tell you particularly in my life, I worked since I was 8 years old, since I came home from school, I had to put my backpack aside and work in my parents' pharmacy. I was the cashier at 8 years old, at 10 years old I prescribed, injected and did everything. I had no salary but I had to work. And I remember one day there was a man and he told me, put down that bottle of talc, put down that other bottle now. And he began to buy, and that other one, when he had about 5 bottles, I was a girl, I got angry, I did that to him, an ugly gesture and my dad grabbed me by the ear, took me to a little store that was back there and he told me, look girl, when you have your own, do what you want, but right now you have to put on a good face and if you have to lower 20 bottles, you have to do it. Yes, dad is fine. And I always worked, always.
Yesterday I shared with the women that at the age of 18 I was already married and had 3 full-time jobs and my whole life was work, work, work. And even when I was doing my doctoral studies I had two full-time jobs plus studies. I worked in a school in the morning, in the afternoon in a college, I don't know what time I studied, but I always worked.
And then when I came to the Lord it was so difficult for me to sit down, that is, I thought that in the Lord I had to be working, working, working, that everything was activity. And when ever, because I was very tired, I would sit down for a moment and a brother would come home, I would stop immediately. I was embarrassed to be seen sitting down because my mentality was that to be accepted you had to work, work, work, because that's what my dad showed me.
And forget about it, I thought you had to work hard to be able to be paid. The first time I was invited to preach somewhere and they gave me an offering, I returned it because I didn't feel well receiving it. And I remember that this pastor was in an area of a farm and the pastor said, oh, that's good, she returns the offering, and then she kept inviting me a lot because I returned the offering. But the third time, the pastor tells me, do me a favor, sign here that you received the offering, but you always return it to me. I don't accept an invitation from him again because he told the others that I had received it but I returned it. But God began to work with me and until the paternity of God was revealed to me above the biological paternity that I had had from my father, until then I can say that I began to walk in healing.
But many people may still be in ministry, may be in a leadership role, and still not feel that full freedom to go to Daddy, open their hearts, and take all that belongs to them. Because all yours is ours. We are joint heirs with Christ with all riches in glory.
Now, I want to tell you this morning, I cannot go into all the restoration of all areas, maybe the next service we can go into other restorations that have to be given but, I want to say this morning it is extremely important that you have forgiven to your father or your biological mother or any figure of authority that you have had over you so that healing can come, that the enemy does not take advantage but that there is healing in your heart and it can be revealed to you as is the nature of your Father God so that you then walk in security and identity, be a firm and secure person, it doesn't matter if you have a position today and tomorrow you don't. That doesn't affect you because you know who you are in Christ Jesus.
The Father wants to reveal himself to you as the good Father and that you live confident that you will not lack anything because he knows that it depends on us that Jesus Christ returns and that he returns soon because it says here that he is being held in heaven until the restoration of all things . If we are restored as sons, we will be instruments to restore all the other things that have to be restored, which has to do with the restoration of the tabernacle of David, has to do with the restoration of the ministries, with many things, with the government of God in the church, but the first thing that has to be restored is your condition as a son.
Now I want to ask you a question because I would not want to leave this place without you having the opportunity to change your condition on this day, if there are people who do not feel free as children of the Father, people who sometimes feel rejected by God or who they feel intimidated, or that even when they do something wrong they enter into condemnation instead of going directly to the Father to be forgiven and released. If there is someone who easily falls into condemnation for things of the past, or falls into guilt, I would like you to come forward, I want to declare a word of blessing over your life before I leave and I am speaking to you because I was a person who passed through condemnation all the time and I was always asking for forgiveness for the same things until one day the Lord told me, what are you talking about. From the first time I deleted it from the list.
But many times, although forgiveness is already there, if we do not receive it, we return and feel condemned by situations of the past and we do not enter into freedom, I would like you to come forward because the Father wants to manifest himself in your life and wants to give you the identity of a son or a daughter, he wants to do something wonderful with his church on earth and I want to bless you this day, declare that this revelation is activated for you and I know that there are men here who need that revelation, I know that there are men who sometimes struggle with their own their lives and get frustrated because they can't achieve the victories they want.
Then I would like to ask you to please support me praying for the men of God. Hallelujah! Luis Enrique God loves you so much and since last night I knew that I had to bring this word for you. God is going to do something wonderful in your life. God loves you. Pastors feel free if you want to minister to someone. Spirit of God, I beg you that this morning by your immense grace you bring revelation to each heart that they are children of a good Father. Oh, Father, thank you very much for each of your sons and daughters who are in this place, may the fatherhood of God be revealed to them. I beg you that the blood of the lamb be effective at this hour to erase dead works from their memories, that the blood of Christ now be effective to erase all negative memories of their relationship with their biological father. Oh in the name of Jesus I beg you, reveal yourself to the heart of each child, please reveal yourself God in the name of Jesus. Oh...... in the name of Jesus come the revelation to your heart. Reveal yourself God, reveal yourself God… oh….. the Lord loves you, your Father loves you.
I declare that the spirit of revelation is now activated over your lives and complete healing comes, all condemnation leaves your hearts and God provokes in you the desire to seek the Father and to be at peace in your relationship with the Father. Oh thank you very much, I bless you man of God, I bless you with all my heart, may the condition of a son be activated in you today, be blessed, be blessed. I speak inner peace to your heart, I speak now to your spirit so that it may be awakened as the spirit of Zerubbabel was awakened so that you can be a builder of the house, that it be revealed how much your Father loves you and how much security you can have in him. He is a good Father, I bless you, I bless your wife, your children, your grandchildren. Be very blessed this day in the name of Jesus that your life can be marked, a new beginning for you. Thank you, spirit of God. Thank you for each life, for each heart. Thank my Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Please minister the hearts. Oh….. Hallelujah! Father, thank you, thank you for your daughters, beloved sons. Let your identity and your nature be revealed to them. I bless you in the name of Jesus. I declare a full restoration in your life, in your heart. May your status as a daughter with the Father be restored, may this day be a new beginning for you. Be blessed in the name of Jesus. Thank you very much, Father. Thank you so much. I declare a new beginning for you, a new beginning for you, may the love of the Father be revealed to your life. Oh spirit of God, thank you very much. Minister to every heart, Lord please. Thank you very much, in the name of Jesus. I bless you powerfully. Oh Lord, it is never too late to start walking as your child. Oh, I bless you in the name of Jesus. Oh…. That now I can receive the ministration of the good Father, of the Father who loves you. Oh... from the father who accepts you and receives you. oh holy… Rigo, can you come… Hug him please. Oh….. I bless you, I bless you, oh, come the revelation of who you are. The daughter of the most high God, the beloved daughter, the very pampered, I bless you in the name of Jesus, your memories are healed in the name of Jesus. Thank my Lord. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank my Lord. Thank you thank you very much. Thank you very much, God. Thank you so much. Be healed your heart, my sister in the name of Jesus. Thank my Lord.
Father, I bless you for your beloved son, be ministered to your heart now, I bless you in the name of Jesus. Oh... come the revelation of God's fatherhood into your life, I bless you. Oh…. In the name of Jesus, thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus. Minister your heart in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord for your mighty work. Hallelujah! Oh yes, Lord I bless you in the mighty name of Jesus. I declare the healing of the heart, a new beginning, the strength of God in your life, man, that God wants to use you powerfully. Come the revelation of the fatherhood of Almighty God to you. Oh…in the name of Jesus. I break all ties of the past on your life. Oh, in the name of Jesus. Thank you Father in the name of Jesus.
Father, thank you in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! People of God get up and sing please. Hallelujah!
