Resurrection (John 11)

On this day of resurrection we want to meditate on the Christ of the Resurrection, we want to meditate on the fact that you and I can live in that triumph of the Resurrection and here we see the Lord in advance showing what his Resurrection would mean and the positive implications that would have in the lives of all followers of Christ.

John XI: We are going to read some verses and there we will enter more fully into the story. Verse 1 says: A man named Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and Marta, his sister, was sick. Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. So they sent the sisters to say to Jesus, "Lord, behold, the one you love is sick."

Hearing this, Jesus said, “This sickness is not for death, but for the glory of God, so that the son of God may be glorified by it.” Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus. “When he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples "Let's go to Judea again", the disciples said to him "Rabbi, now the Jews tried to stone you and you are going there again?" Jesus answered, “Does not the day have 12 hours? He who walks by day does not stumble because he sees the light of this world, but he who walks at night stumbles because there is no light in him. Having said this, he told them, "Our friend Lázaro is sleeping, but I am going to wake him up." His disciples then said: "Lord, if he sleeps he will heal!"

But Jesus was saying this about the death of Lazarus and they thought he was talking about rest, sleep. Then Jesus told him clearly: “Lazarus is dead and I am glad for you that I was not there for you to believe. More we go to him. Then Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: "Let us also go so that we may die with him."

May the Lord bless his holy word.

On this day of Resurrection it is good to meditate on the resurrection not as a merely historical event, which we celebrate as something that happened two thousand years ago, as it happened and has no relevance to our lives, but rather we remember the resurrection as something that happened to Christ, but has happened to us too, something that has implications for our own lives as well. And that's the wonderful thing about the resurrection as well as the birth of Jesus. These are not things that just happened in history in some objective and distant way, but they happened to humanity.

I really like what the prophet Isaiah says when he prophetically speaks about the birth of the Messiah, and says “because a child is born to us, a son is given to us”.

When Christ was born it was like the birth of a child in a family, it was cause for celebration, joy, enjoyment. That son was given to humanity. We could say that a Christ is resurrected for us today. When Christ rose, he unleashed fire. It was an explosion more powerful than an atomic bomb. The world would never be the same again, the universe, its foundations were shaken. The very texture of reality was changed because death, humanity's most terrible enemy, had lost its grip on men.

The triumphant word of the apostle Paul is heard when he says: “Where is your sting, oh death? Where, oh sepulcher, your victory? Sucked up is death in victory."

When Christ rose from death, they removed his claws, they removed his poison, and now death is like a tiger without teeth, it can roar but it cannot bite. Because in Christ Jesus all things are different, and we today, brothers, in the 21st century can live in the power of the resurrection. We can now live in a new and different way because Christ has changed all things. And that is what we read in First Corinthians, Chapter 15 when it says:

"But now Christ has risen from the dead, firstfruits of those who slept that fact, because since death entered through a man, also through a man the resurrection of the dead”

If Christ had not risen, brothers, today we would be the most worthy of penalty. But since Christ is risen there are many implications to his resurrection. And one of them is the fact that we have an expectation of eternal life, and of resurrection ourselves.

The resurrection also speaks to us of triumph, it speaks to us of victory over adversities, it speaks to us of healing, it speaks to us of power in the midst of struggles, it speaks to us of advice when we are in difficulties, because all of this is the result of the resurrection. The resurrection was simply a symbol that everything negative, summed up in the image of death, was now subjugated to the benevolent will of the father. And here we see that in this drama of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. We see something of this, of how Christ who is the resurrection and the life, as he later calls himself, has power to enter the human realm and on a human scale can intervene in our own deaths in our own situations.

The story here in Chapter XI begins with the statement of a serious problem that exists in a family. Martha and Mary send a message to Jesus. His beloved brother, whom he knows, lies on his deathbed. He is extremely sick. There is a crisis at home and they send a message to the Lord. They say to him: “Sir, Lazarus, our brother, is sick. See if you can do something, if you can come see and touch him so that he is healed.”

And that reminds me how important it is that we turn to the Lord in the necessities of life, when things are tight. Thank God that Marta and Maria knew where they had to go. When you have a need in your life, when you have a problem, go first to Jesus. We sometimes do the opposite, we go to the financial adviser, we go to the doctor, we go to the psychiatrist, we go to the neighbor, we complain to a family member and then later, when we have already tried all the alternatives, we go to Christ. We have to go to Christ first, we have to go to Him in the time of need. We have to learn to look into it.

Let's not be like the woman with the issue of blood. Twelve years he was with his problem and the only thing he got was to lose all his money with bad doctors. And at the end she was able to gain access, she heard from someone who healed in a different way and then she made a great effort, she reached Christ, she touched the edge of his cloak and then she was healed. When Christ does things, he does them as no man can do them.

The Lord wants that if you are here today, and you do not know how to get to Jesus, that today is the day that you establish the telephone tone with Christ Jesus, that you learn that he is your first resort and your last resource too.

That's not to say we don't go to the doctor, go to human resources, or do our part. It means that our efforts must always be based on the person of Jesus. That everything that we do and undertake, we first sanctify it by entrusting ourselves in the name of Christ. That is the first thing a Christian has to do.

And that was what Marta and María did. Martha and Mary teach us the power of prayer, the power of the intersection that they sent for Christ to heal their brother. As a Christian, as a child of God, you have a great resource in your power called the intersection. If there is someone in your family, if there is a child with problems, if there is a husband who has hardened, if there is a work situation, that you know someone who is lonely or depressed, send Christ a message: Lord this person needs you, touch, heal, bless. You have that power in your hands, brother, prayer is powerful.

You can pray for yourself too. You can use prayer. You don't need a theology degree to pray. All that is needed is to have communication with God through Jesus Christ.

And if you have not taken that step of faith this morning, I tell you, prepare your heart so that you can turn to the Lord in times of difficulty, because after all what is needed is a previous relationship with Christ.

Martha and Mary were able to come and send help to their brother because Christ had been in their home before. The Bible tells us that the Lord went from time to time to stay in the house of Lazarus, Martha and Mary. They had spent time with the Lord, they knew this wonderful being, they knew of his healing power, they knew of his divine nature, they had been close to him.

We remember that text that tells us about when Martha in a home scene approaches Jesus who is there visiting them and complains to Jesus that Mary has left her alone and that she has to be preparing food and serving the disciples . And the Lord tells her with a very soft voice “Marta, Maria has taken the best part and I am not going to take it from her. What you have to do is download a little more and seek from me because there is the solution.” Marta was the busy one, the one who always had to have everything arranged, and then if there was time left to go to Jesus. Jesus must be put first.

And that scene at home reminds us that Martha, Mary and Lazarus had an intimate relationship with Christ. He felt comfortable giving them a scolding and they felt comfortable expressing their needs to the Lord, and he gave them advice, gave them wisdom for their situations, as he was teaching Mary in this scene.

When the time of trial and necessity came they knew exactly what they had to do. They felt confident in sending so that “Lord, attend to us, please. You know us. That Lázaro whom you love, the one you know, with whom you were in the house is now in need of your touch.”

How good it is, brothers, when we, in the time of normality and the daily routine of life, take moments to be with Jesus and to develop a personal relationship with Christ. Because? Because when the time of trial comes and the bullets are whistling over our heads, we instinctively know that we can go to Him and that we will receive help in our time of need. But how many people are there who, by not having that prayer relationship, that dialogue and intimacy with Christ, when the time of trial comes, we do not feel that we have the authority to come before the Lord. We feel like Adam and Eve that we want to hide from the Lord, we feel that we are far from the Lord

Brothers, the time to be intimate with Christ is when everything is fine, not when things are going wrong. Because when everything is fine it is the opportunity to develop a good relationship, so that when times of crisis come you can go before the Lord.

It's like in marriage, if we wait for crises to come to talk and get to know each other and solve problems, that's not the time. Tempers are too heated, there is too much tension in the air and we are not going to be able to speak as we should. That is why couples should find time to get to know each other first in the times when everything is fine. Share hygienically, relate. And I say hygienically in the sense that it has to be done as a continuous routine. Build the foundations of good communication, build the foundations of a good relationship, so that when trials and difficulties and tensions come, there is a whole reserve of love, friendship, and sincerity, and then that is what can help us. for the bad day And the same goes for friendships and everything else. And so it has to be with God.

Do not wait for the time of need to seek Christ. Cultivate a relationship with God every day of your life. Learn to talk to him, develop an intimacy with him. Learn to know his voice. Because when the pressure comes and the ravenous wolf is roaring around you, you are going to need a very fine ear to distinguish the voice of the shepherd who wants to guide you towards the right path.

I remember a passage in the Book of Ecclesiastes where at the end of his great story the writer Solomon says: “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come about which you say: I have no in them contentment.”

Young man, what the Word is saying there is that. Seek the Lord at the time of your best strength and your best state, at the time when you have energy and things are going well for you, when your body is still strong, and there is the enthusiasm of life and youth and you have not yet received the sticks that those of us who are a little further along in life have already received. And there at that time he thinks of the Lord. Because the days will come when your stomach doesn't work so well and your joints aren't as agile, and you can't move so easily and you can't climb the stairs so fast, and you don't have the spirit and power of your 20s or 25s. and your vision is blurring, and you no longer know the number of pills you are taking, and not even the name because there are so many.

This is what the writer of Ecclesiastes says “before the days come of which you say: I have no contentment in them”. And that reminds you of those days when you could eat a plate of food at 12 at night and go to bed without any problem, but if you eat at 7 at night you spend the whole night blank because is not the same. "About whom you say: I have no contentment in them." Now if you take a clear soup, that's already a great event. And the writer says "before the days come." Seek the Lord in normal times, come to church and this is not an unpaid ad for the Lion of Judah Foundation. Seek the Lord on Wednesdays, seek the Lord on Sundays, when all is well. The bills are paid, the wife is happy, the children are behaving well, the house is not falling down at all. Come then to the house of God and cultivate your relationship with the Lord. Speak to the Lord and let him speak to you when the days of trial come you will know where to go like Martha and Mary.

And you will then be able to come with confidence as the Word says: “let us approach the throne of grace with confidence.”

But they had a previous relationship with the Lord and they told him "the one you love, Lord, is sick". son of God be glorified by her.”

Here begins a very interesting process where it is as if the Lord is listening to a very different music than the one that the other people who are involved in this story are hearing. The Lord has a different perspective and he is interpreting the crisis in a very different way than the disciples, Martha, Mary and the other people who are involved in this drama.

The Lord is seeing things in a divine perspective and these people are experiencing a drama playing it in a minor key and the Lord is playing it in a major key, with great triumph, with great joy and with a positive interpretation of what is happening . They are scared and sad, they are in a hurry and there is a rush for the Lord to come and he will arrive quickly and the Lord is very calm there seeing things in a different way.

The first thing he says is "you know what, guys, this disease is not for death, don't worry, but for the glory of God"

The Lord understands, brothers, that there is something in this death of Lazarus, in disease, which goes beyond the merely human and has to happen for God to be glorified.

You know that many of your problems, the struggles of life that you have, do not end or begin with you. They have a meaning beyond. Many times God is allowing many things in your life for Him to glorify Himself through you, for Him to strengthen your life. Sometimes the Lord gives us blows with the chisel to better form his image within us. Many times the tests of life are the blows of the divine sculptor, removing something from us that hides the image that he wants to make emerge from that hard block of stone that he has in front of him. And each one of us is like a block of marble that when we are born we have no shape. Or when we are without Christ, it has a form that is not due and when you enter the ways of the Lord, He says: I am going to take that block and I am going to start giving it chisel blows to give it the shape and image that I want to impart to it. .

And I imagine, brothers, that if marble could feel like we feel, it would say Ouch! Every time the Lord gives a chisel blow. Many times God will use the trials of life, the difficulties of life to glorify Himself, but also to bless you, to bring out something, a spark of greatness in you.

I can safely tell you that the crises in my life have always been the prelude to times of blessing and growth. I have already learned not to question too much, because sometimes I question it. But when I find myself questioning something that's going on in my life, and questioning the Lord, I suck it up and walk away. I take two aspirin and say, Lord, give me the patience to wait until you show what you are trying to get out of me. Because God sees things differently. God is always seeing what can I do to bless my son?

Sometimes, brothers, the times of greatest testing will be the times of greatest presence of the Holy Spirit in your life. God will be there nearby supporting you, encouraging you. After all the holy spirit is called the comforter, the paracletos. And as for the translation of the word "dildo" I did not like it so much, although I am not an expert in the Greek language. But I think the holy spirit should be called the "encourager" because that is the idea in the original Greek. The paracletos was a character who for rowing boat races in the Greco-Roman world, the paracletos that is transmitted to the holy spirit later, was the one who encouraged the rowers. Also in the marathons in Greece they were the ones who encouraged the runners to reach the finish line.

And when you are facing trials, and the Lord is fulfilling his purpose through you and is seeking to glorify himself through you, the holy spirit is saying there: “Keep going, keep going, until you reach the goal ! Because I am with you, because I will not leave you or forsake you. I'll be with you until the end."

The Lord said: “this disease is for the glory of God.” And the Lord knew that this man, whom he loved, was capable of passing that test, and he allowed himself the luxury of using him as an illustration of his resurrecting power.

The closer you are to Jesus, the more struggles and trials you will have. And I'm not telling you this to say: "well I'm going to be fine outside." There are many who say so.

Many times the more purposes God sees in your life, the more he will want to hit you, and therefore he will have to remove some of the thorns and imperfections that distance between you and Him. stick to his body and his being, he's going to have to clean you up a bit. And it will hurt when he does that but that will be the indication of his preference for you.

I see many times that when they pass their struggles and their trials in the Lord they cling to Him, then they come out purified. They come out like when you get out of a sauna, and you sweat out all the impurities and then your skin is much brighter because those toxins are gone. It is like that, it is joy, it is the rough soap of the Lord to bless us.

Christ wanted to be blessed through Lazarus. Christ wanted Lazarus to give Him a gift of glory so that people would see that he was the Son of God, that he was above sickness and above death.

And that is why verse 5 says: “and Jesus loved Mary, her sister, and Lazarus. And therefore, he continues, since he learned that Lazarus was sick he hastened immediately to go and heal Lazarus.”

“When he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was.” He told the disciples “boys, reserve the hotel for a few more days because we are going to stay here a few more days, we are going to extend our vacations because Lazarus is sick.

Maybe it doesn't make sense to us, but it was what the Lord did. And in scripture there are many cases like this: when there is a bad situation already bad, the Lord makes it even worse before intervening. There is a great lesson there, and that is that before things get better, they have to get worse, and that is not good news for those of us who are experiencing trials. But sometimes there are things that God wants, in order to mount all his theatrical scaffolding, he has to wait for the drama to become a little more complex and He then makes the disadvantages become greater and the possibilities become more distant for the show. his glory, to show us his power and bring us out even more triumphant than ever.

Do you remember the story of Gideon? There were tens and tens of thousands of Old Testament Philistines against Gideon and his people. Gideon had only thirty thousand men and they had many more men and it was already a disadvantageous situation. But the Lord said to Gideon, “That's too many people. Even with that handicap, it's not what I want. Tell everyone who is afraid, who for some reason does not want to go to war, to go home, that there is no dishonor in leaving." He gives him an honorable discharge: let them go. Immediately 27,000 left in a single moment, like 90% of the people went to Gideon.

Some 3000 brave men remained who said: “We are going to fight” And Gideon told the Lord: “There are only three thousand left, you are going to have to perform an immense miracle” then the Lord told him “there are still too many. Take them to the river, put them to the test, put them to drink water, and I will tell you who you are going to stay with and who you are going to send back home.”

Of those three thousand men, Gideon had three hundred left against an army of tens of thousands. And with three hundred mighty men the Lord gave victory to Gideon. Because? Because the problems of our life may seem big and impossible to us, but for the Lord they are easy things, for the Lord there is nothing difficult. For the Lord there is nothing too late or too early. The Lord knows no distinctions of size or seriousness. For the Lord everything is Yes and Amen. We here on earth see things and we get confused and frightened and tremble but the Lord is there laughing on his throne sure that everything in its time, everything in its moment, he knows what he has to do.

The Lord waited for Lazarus to die, the Lord waited for Lazarus to be dead and then go to Judea and come to his aid. And when the Lord already knows that Lazarus is dead, he says: "Now let's go to Judea again" to which the disciples replied "Rabbi, a little while ago the Jews tried to stone you and you are going there again". The divine perspective and the human perspective are seen again.

The Lord says: “Let's go to Judea, don't worry, Lazarus needs us. Now is the time to intervene on his behalf.” And what are his disciples thinking, they are thinking that some time ago they wanted to stone Jesus and that if they go now their lives are in danger.

How many times when God wants to do things in our lives, we look at the difficulties and dangers and do not look at Christ who is more than powerful to solve any situation, any need.

And the Lord Jesus Christ tells them: "Doesn't the day have 12 hours, that is, isn't there enough light in the day for us to move safely?" 11:35

People who walk in darkness are afraid but those who walk in the light can do what they want. This is the idea behind this mysterious expression: "Doesn't the day have 12 hours?" For he who walks by day does not stumble because he sees the light of this world, but he who walks at night stumbles because there is no light in him.

There is a difference of vision and conviction. The Lord is sure of himself, the disciples are afraid. The Lord many times wants to do powerful things in our lives, but our fearful perspective, our pessimistic perspective prevents God from doing the things he wants to do.

Brothers, may God the Lord transform our perspective. If you have a negative perspective on life, if you always look at the glass as half empty instead of half full, I want to invite you this morning to start looking at life through the eyes of Jesus. The Lord Jesus is not afraid of anything. For him there is no problem that cannot be solved.

Brother, ask the Lord to renew your vision, to put courage in your heart. That no matter how big the giant you have before you, as David says, "in the name of the Lord I am going to decapitate you and I am going to feed you like meat for the birds of prey, because God is with you. ” When you have a big problem in life, when there is something big ahead of you, undertake it in the name of the Lord.

Ask the Lord to change your negative perspective, to change your defeatist perspective and dare to undertake great things in the name of Jesus Christ. Dare that when life's problems come, that your faith grow even more and say, God is more powerful to get you forward.

And the Lord said: “No, let's go there. It doesn't matter that there are people who want to stone us. We go because our brother, our friend needs us." And then the Lord tells us: "our friend Lazarus sleeps but I'm going to wake him up", to which his disciples replied "Lord, if he sleeps he will heal". But Jesus was saying this about the death of Lazarus and they thought he was talking about rest, sleep.

Here again is the difference in perspective. For the Lord, the death of Lazarus is simply a slight dream, and they cannot understand that the Lord sees it that way and that is why they interpret it literally. They say, it's good because if it's sleeping, it's resting and that means it's going to restore itself. But the Lord said that about the death of Lazarus. Another difference in perspective.

For the Lord death had no meaning. For the Christ of the Resurrection, death was simply a dream, a prelude to something glorious that he had in mind for Lazarus. For the disciples, death was something final, terminal. If Lazarus died there was no hope. To the Lord it was just something light.

Brothers, this is how death must be for each one of us who are in Christ Jesus. In Christ there is no death, in Christ there is only life. He says: “I am only the resurrection in life. He who believes in me, even if he is dead, will live."

Therefore, if you are in fear of death, you need to fill your eyes and your heart with the courage that Christ instills. As Christians we must do everything possible to never fear death. We are going to ask the Lord to give us spiritual strength, to anoint us with his spirit so as not to fear death.

If you are in Christ death in a sense does not exist for you. Death is just a threshold through which you pass to enter a new, more perfect life with God. In Christ Jesus death no longer has relevance for you, everything is hope. The Christian is not afraid of death. For the Christian, death is a light sleep from which we wake up in an instant in Christ Jesus.

We have to ask the Lord Father: Help us to see death as you see it. The apostle Paul, in a dungeon with the possibility of dying and never leaving there again, wrote one of the most glorious letters, which is the 'Letter to the Philippians' which has been called the Letter of Joy because Paul had been in heaven and Paul had seen the glories of heaven. He says that he was taken to seventh heaven and that he saw and heard things there that he was not even allowed to share with the men and women of this world. And when Paul returned to this world in spirit, he remembered those wonderful places that he had visited in his ecstasy. That is why Paul writes in Philippians “If I die, I go with Christ. And being with Christ is much better and is what I really want. But if I have to stay here in the world to be a blessing so that others can know Christ, I will stay, but I would like to be with Him more because being with Him I am much better."

Many times for us it is different, we want to extend every minute here on earth, even though we are worn out and almost dead we want to cling to life, as we understand it but the Christian changes the perspective. For the Christian, life here on earth is something illusory, something fleeting. We know that in Christ we have the hope of a much better life. So we are not afraid of death. For us, death is how Christ sees it, it is something simple, something fleeting, something that can be resolved.

And when Christ approaches Martha and says: “Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died. And the Lord tells her: “Don't worry, Marta, if you believe your brother is going to live. Am I not the resurrection and the life? He who believes in me will live and everyone who lives and believes in me will not die forever."

Marta's perspective is limited again. She thinks, if Christ had gotten here before my brother died, then there would be hope. Now the only thing I can hope for is that my brother rises on the last day. But the Lord had plans for Lazarus now, at that moment. Sometimes we reduce the magnitude of the miracles that the Lord wants to do in us because of our little faith. The Lord wants to hopefully great things that the Lord wants to do.

The Lord says: “If you are in me, I am the resurrection, I am the life.” He is the resurrection itself. In the original Greek it says “Ego eimi”, that is, I myself am the resurrection and the life. If you have Christ you have resurrection, you have eternal life. Death is swallowed up in victory.

And the Lord, just as he can resurrect you, can solve any situation in which you may find yourself. If he defeated death, he can overcome any problem, any obstacle. For the Lord there is nothing impossible. God can solve your problem here and now, in this moment. God can do the work in your life. You just need to have a personal relationship with Jesus. Knowing Jesus as Martha knew him, as Mary knew him.

Do you know Christ that way? Can you in your situation of difficulty come before the Lord and tell him: "Father I have a need, answer me. I have a problem, you are my solution. Do you know him as the resurrection and the life?

Let's put our heads down now. On this resurrection Sunday I want you to visualize the risen Christ, that you visualize the one who triumphed over death, who triumphed over the cross, who triumphed over mockery, who triumphed over scourging, who triumphed over the agony of jethsemane . The one that the bonds of death could not retain, the one that the stone that covered the grave could not prevent him from leaving. That when the disciples arrived frightened because they did not know who was going to remove the stone, the stone had already been rolled away and an angel had sat on top of it.

There is no problem in your life that Christ cannot solve. There is no death in any manifestation whatsoever: illness, material lack, family problem, depression, anxiety, fear of any kind, there is no situation that Christ cannot solve. That is the essence of the message.

Christ wants to teach you that life has to be seen through His eyes, through His powerful and victorious look. Don't look at it through the eyes of reason or through human circumstances. Fill yourself with the faith and courage of the Christian and no matter how many problems you are going through right now, how great your difficulty, say “I in Christ am more than a conqueror. I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me." Fill yourself with that value. Live life with confidence, because the Christ who raised Lazarus from the dead and who heard the request of Martha and Mary, is here with you too, and is the same one who is willing to intervene in your difficulty and in your problem.

Christ wants to intervene in your life and this afternoon he tells you “I am with you every day, not just on resurrection Sunday. I want to be with you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that you be with me, that you look for me every day, that you know me, that you learn to distinguish my voice, that you learn to function according to the patterns that I have established in my word so that when the test comes you know where to go. Do not fear because I am with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you even if you walk in valleys of shadow and death. You will fear no evil. I will not forsake you because I am with you. My rod and my staff will give you breath, and I will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies.

That is the Christ who is announced today. We do not celebrate Christ who is still hanging on a cross, as a holy memorial. We are celebrating a living Christ who intervenes in our daily experiences. And that is the Christ that I want you to know this afternoon, and before you leave here you leave having been able to place the hand of the Lord. That you can say, as that chorus says, "I have my hand in the hand of the Lord." So I want to invite you this afternoon to take a step of faith, if you haven't already.

I want to invite you, a young person who visits us, an adult, a father, a wife, who is with us this afternoon. If you have not taken that step of faith yet, if you have not placed that hand in the hand of the Lord, I would like to challenge you to take that step of faith and say to the Lord: “Lord Jesus Christ, I want to know you and I want to give my life to you today, and I dare in your name to take a step of faith, and put my hand in your hand.”

If you would like to do that this evening, I ask you to raise your hand, wherever you are, raise your hand and invite Jesus into your heart. There will be someone who says to the Lord Jesus this afternoon: "I invite you, Jesus Christ, into my heart."

I'd like to see your hand raised right now. I start with this little girl, Glory to God, because we cannot underestimate children. Amen. This man also raises his hand there as well. God bless you brother. Who else wants to offer their life to the Lord this afternoon? There are hands here, there too. Glory to God. Do not be afraid, invite Christ into your heart.

I ask those who raise their hands to come up here accompanied by someone who knows them or who is just sitting next to them. Come over here because we want to pray for you this afternoon, we want to place you in the Lord's hands. We are going to pray for you. Do not be afraid, this is the time, the moment, the Lord of the Resurrection wants to enter into a relationship with you, so that when you have your needs, you know where to go. So that when the time of trial comes, you do not have to fear, but rather know that your Christ is powerful to solve your needs. Do not hesitate because it is the time of the Lord's visitation in your life. The Lord is calling and he is knocking. Come through here, come and give your life to the Lord. The best time to seek Christ is now, don't leave it for tomorrow. Tomorrow, as the Word says, may be too late.

I want to pray for you and I want to make sure that you leave today having established the connection with the Kingdom of Heaven through Jesus Christ. come this way I want to bless you and pray for you. Hallelujah. The Lord is almighty to respond to your needs.

I feel that there are people here today who come from families where the gospel has not entered yet and God wants to use you to drive a wedge into your family. I would like to see one of those people come forward here. People who feel like they are too far gone to take that step and still think they have a lot to fix before they can come down the aisle here. This is the time. Don't try to fix things. Let the Lord fix them for you. If you have obstacles, if you have struggles, if there are sins in your life, that makes you an ideal candidate to come to the feet of Jesus Christ. Do not worry! Some say if I do it now, I'm committing myself and what happens if I walk away later, and they get into a sea of trouble. Leave your problems to the Lord. If you stray away He is powerful to draw you back.

But it is necessary for that first confrontation to take place, for the foundations of your spirit to be shaken and for there to be a powerful confrontation with evil and with your spirit. May those ties be broken and may the blessing enter your house, the blessing enter your life. Oh! If you knew how much I desire, the Lord tells you "Come to me".

The Lord tells you: "Come to me, all of you who are labored and loaded, and I will give you rest." He laid Martha to rest, He laid Mary to rest, He laid Lazarus to rest from the weight of death.

The Lord may give you rest from your troubles on this day. Come to the altar. Come to Christ. Come to Christ, this is the moment. He wants to be intimate with you. I want to pray for you. I want you to leave blessed, that you take the Bible so that you can read the word, that you take the connection with the Father so that you can call him by phone as many times as you need and tell him "Lord, I have an emergency", because you have established a relationship with Him.

I rejoice to see these young couples, these mothers with young children. Excellent! Because you begin your marriage, you begin your family union with the tools you need for a victorious life. The Lord is going to begin that work of purification on your path, he is going to begin to clean up the difficulties and pave the path of your life and open the field so that you can flow and walk freely and clearly.

Therefore, go to the altar and let Christ bless you on this “Hallelujah” day. In the name of the Lord we remove all ties in the mind and those that the Lord wants to save and we declare freedom so that they can come to the altar of God and receive the blessing that God wants to give them.

This is the time for you to take that step of faith and let God do the work in your life. I know that God is going to do something special in your life this afternoon. God is going to bless you. God is going to free you from the ties that lie in wait for you.

Glory in the name of the Lord, thank you Father, thank you. All the brothers have someone praying there with them. Father, we bless your name. Thank you, thank you, Lord Jesus.

I want you to pray this prayer with me. It is a prayer of confession. Confessions have great power in the spirit world. When you confess Christ verbally, the demons tremble, the demons flee, the bonds are broken. Pacts are established through the mouth. And when you confess Jesus with your mouth, the word says that if we confess with our mouth that he is Lord, who is raised from all the dead, we are saved.

I want you to repeat these words after me: “Lord Jesus, I receive you as my savior. I acknowledge my sins and I come before you to receive forgiveness. You died on the cross for me and today I receive the benefit of that cross. I break all relationship with Satan and his powers and join the kingdom of heaven, I become a member of the Kingdom of Heaven. Come into my heart, Lord, and establish your throne within me. I declare myself free from all curses and all sin through the blood of Jesus. I will serve you all the days of my life and with you I will win in every difficult situation. Thank you Christ because in you today I receive victory. Amen. Amen. Glory to the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to Christ.

Today Christ truly rises in your life. Today Christ has truly risen. Hallelujah, Glory in the name of the Lord. Praised be the name of Jesus. Keep looking for the Lord, open the door Glory to the Lord!