Maria

Gospel according to Saint Luke, there in Chapter 1 we have a passage that is well known and in this Christmas season it is good to take moments to remember the events, remember the details, remember the aspects of the Christmas story.

In verse 26, Luke, Chapter 1, the word of the Lord says: “...in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary, and the angel entering where she was said: "Hail, highly favored, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women." ”. But when she saw him, she was disturbed by his words and thought what salutation this would be. Then the angel said to her: Mary, do not be afraid, for you have found grace before God and now you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, you will call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and his kingdom will have no end. Then Mary said to the angel: How will this be?, because I do not know a man, answering the angel, said to him: "The holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will cover you with his shadow, for which reason also the holy being that will be born will be called the son of God and behold your relative, Elizabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her, the one they called barren, because nothing is impossible for God. Then Mary said: "Behold, the servant of the Lord, let it be done with me according to your word", and the angel left her presence. Lord bless your holy word.

I propose a simple goal this afternoon and it is to remind everyone, including myself, the main aspects of what the incarnation is, the coming of Jesus into the world, why things were the way they were , why these details that the writer Luke provides us and what meaning did they have in terms of the total plan that God had for humanity. Lucas is one of my favorite books and of the 4 Gospels I would say that it is the one that fills me the most, although each one of them has its beauty and has its special message, but Lucas has a particularity that it was written by a historian, a man that he liked the study of history and that he set out to record the events of the birth of Jesus as they happened so that they would not be lost to time, and he did so for a very special purpose as well, to record events and details in a concise and reliable way. And there are details that have the flavor of a historical account, but more than history, Luke is also a book that reveals the mysteries of why things happened the way God made them happen. It is not just history for mere intellectual interest, but also has a deeply spiritual meaning for us. And at Christmas it is important that we once again remind ourselves that Christmas is above all those spiritual events, those events that deal with the relationship between God and man, because it is so easy to forget, in all the hustle and bustle of buying gifts and preparing the house for family visits and all this, forgetting that there is a very deep spiritual plot and that God was doing very mysterious things when he gave birth to his son Jesus Christ in the world.

And this story, here this passage that we just read, has many elements that should be studied in order to better understand what God was doing through this situation and what I am going to go through like this, line by line, or concept by concept.

It says here that the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph. The first thing that strikes me is the name and the character who brings Mary the news that she is going to have a son, is Gabriel, and Gabriel is a mysterious character, he is obviously an angel, an archangel rather, of a high rank and a high dignity in the angelic hierarchy.

The first time Gabriel appears in the Bible we see him in the book of Daniel speaking to Daniel, and bringing him revelation about the events that are to take place at the end of time. And then we see Gabriel announcing to Elizabeth that she is going to have a son too, that he is going to be called John and that he is going to be a forerunner of Jesus, he is going to be a herald of the Messiah who is to come. And Gabriel identifies himself there, before Elizabeth, as "I am Gabriel, the one who stands before God", and evidently Gabriel is alluding in this way to his very special function, it seems that Gabriel was an archangel who had a special privilege, of to be before the presence of the Lord and to be used for very big and very powerful missions and from that moment we can understand that we are not dealing with one more story in the history of the Scriptures, but that it is about something very special and of great magnitude that has to do with God's plan throughout history.

We then see Gabriel with Daniel, speaking to him about the end times of humanity, and now we see him here bringing news to Maria and to us also of the important, exceptionally important role that this mysterious being he is talking about was going to play to Maria. That is to say, from the announcement alone and the character who gives it, we can understand that Jesus was not just any old thing. Jesus is not just one of a list of exceptional characters in history. Jesus is not simply an enlightened man of great spiritual prowess, or a very exalted spirit, as some have led us to believe, but that Jesus is, as He said, the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to Father if not for Him. That is to say something exceptional, something unique. Jesus is unique in all genres of existence and that is why it was convenient that the announcement be made by a person as important as the archangel Gabriel. And then Gabriel tells María that she is a virgin betrothed to a man named José, that this mysterious being is going to be born to her.

Now, let's think about this idea for a moment. He says a virgin, why a virgin? Why not an already married woman, with children, who was simply going to be born a mysterious and new character, in this fact that he was a virgin there was something very, very important and it deals with the transactions and dealings of God with the humanity. Mary, in her virginity, was playing a key role, that God needed a bearer, God needed a container for his son. God needed an instrument that would give this mysterious being that was going to be born a very important nature in the drama of the incarnation, and it was human nature. Maria gave him, we could say that almost, like a half to the identity of the savior, who was half human. And that is why Jesus could not be born from the union between a man and a woman, and that it was a union simply blessed by God and that he was one more like Gideon was, or like one of the judges or one of the great prophets who there was on earth.

God was doing something through this incarnation and that was that He was solving a problem that He had, so to speak, with humanity. Mankind had fallen, Adam and Eve had sinned, and since that time man and God had been divided, and man had been deserving of death and damnation, and there could be no direct communication between God and man. And then man found himself in a season of separation and God from the beginning of time had had every intention that He was going to solve that problem, and He had said there in the Garden of Eden' that a son of a woman I was going to step on the head of Satan, the serpent. And then God devised this plan that He Himself, perfect God, infinite God, God of total and infinite value, He was going to come into the world, He was going to assume the form of a man and on behalf of humanity God Himself was going to pay the price. of all sins, of all men and that from that time on, anyone who took refuge in what God had done, dying for man, paying the price of man's sin, was going to receive salvation, was going to receive forgiveness and he was going to receive the possibility of communicating with God again.

And that is why the birth of Jesus is not a neutral birth, it is not like God was having fun, doing something mysterious, but it was something well planned by God. God was solving a cosmic spiritual situation, so to speak, and God was creating a being that was going to be able to give humanity what humanity needed, to solve humanity's dilemma. And for that, a woman was needed who would give her human nature to the Lord, to the Messiah, who would lend her womb, as it were, to God and then God could enter that human part and make a perfect mixture of the human and the human. the divine. And from there the savior of humanity was going to be born, that is why it was necessary for it to be a virgin, because the being that was going to be born had to open the womb, it had to be something...... God always talks about the first offerings to the Lord, in the Bible it is said that the man who opened the mother's womb was consecrated to the Lord.

So, Mary had to be a virgin for two reasons: first, that God, by having contact with her, would impart his divine nature to the human nature that she was going to contribute, but also so that it would be clear that This was something that was consecrated to the Lord, that it was designed by God, that it was going to be something new, something unique in the history of humanity. Then God joins, spiritually rests on Mary. Mary asks him: "but how is this going to be, how is it possible that I am going to give birth to a son, since I am a virgin?", and angel Gabriel tells her: what is going to happen is that the holy spirit is going to descend on you, it will settle on you, and God will make you conceive a son. In other words, there is nothing here, let's understand brothers, there is nothing sexual, there is no union like those unions we see in myths, between the deity and a human maiden. In the history of humanity there are such things, there are stories like that, in the myths of religions. This is about a holy union where God descended in the form of a holy spirit, incubated on Mary and gestated in her a being that was a perfect mixture of humanity and divinity. The two things were perfect and then that being that was to come out, as it says here in verse 35 “the holy spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will cover you with his shadow, and therefore also the holy being that will be born will be called the son of God." That is the precious mixture that God wanted to bring to this moment, a mixture of humanity, deity and that holy and mysterious being that was going to walk the earth, was going to include these two natures. Christ was going to walk the earth, he was going to win over temptation, over demons, over nature, over death, over diseases, over loneliness, over the betrayals of men, over all kinds of things. Christ in his human nature was living the life we were supposed to live, both good and bad.

In the good he lived purely, perfectly refusing every temptation that came to Him, he completed what men were supposed to complete when God created them in the Garden of Eden. He did everything right, he did everything by the book, he fulfilled all the requirements that God required of a human being, and as God, in his divine part of Jesus, He was able to pay the price for our sins. Because if he had only been a man, no man is valuable enough to be able to save all humanity, perhaps his sacrifice could have been worth it for him, but in his divine quality, of God, he could, by giving his life and releasing his life that was within Him and assume our sins, He could pay the debts of all of us. And that is why today when we look at Jesus, we look at that man God, historically speaking, and we say Lord, I believe that you completed that in your incarnation, you paid the price for my sin and now I can have the freedom to come before him. Heavenly Father, then you can also be saved, you can receive communication with God, you can receive the forgiveness of your sins.

So when Gabriel is announcing this to Mary, that she, a virgin, is going to have a child, it's all going around there. The fact that God was solving this problem of humanity and through that virgin birth He was giving salvation to all humanity. And I'm always moved by Maria's reaction. Mary, when the angel tells her that she is going to have a son, Mary was getting into a big problem, because Mary says that she was betrothed, that means that she was engaged to Joseph. She wasn't married yet, but in the Hebrew culture, being engaged was equivalent to marriage.

In the Hebrew culture you were friends, you could be friends with a boy if it was a girl and once that friendship turned into something more serious, it immediately had to be formalized with a commitment. And that commitment was tantamount to marriage. If that woman was found in adultery, even though she was not formally married yet but it was an offense as if she had been married, it would be extremely serious. And in ancient Hebrew culture it was an offense worthy of death. So when the archangel tells Mary: Mary, you are going to have a son and it is going to be a mysterious, virginal birth, God himself is going to do it. Maria, I imagine she immediately thought: Wow, what a mess I've gotten myself into. What will my family think? Imagine being asked: “But, Maria, how did you have this child, if you're not married yet? Oh, the holy spirit brought it to me. Nobody was going to believe him. Maria had to put herself at risk, she had to believe that God was going to solve that dilemma in some way, and that reminds us, brothers and sisters, that Christmas is also a time to make a resolution to live in faith, live by faith, live in obedience bye bye. Mary is a woman who represents fidelity to God, who represents faith in the Lord, who represents the spirit of service to the Lord. At the end of that story, Mary says: “Here is the servant of the Lord. Be done with me as God wants."

And at Christmas we have to ask the Lord, Father, help us to accept and adopt that spirit of obedience to God, that even though he asks us for things that are terribly strange, threatening, that bring insecurity to our lives, that we can say: Lord, your will be done. The Lord Jesus Christ when he had to go to the cross of Calvary unsure of what was going to happen there. He imagined more or less, but the only thing he knew was that great suffering awaited him, he said: Lord, if you want, pass this cup from me, but if you prefer to do something else, then your will be done in my life. That spirit of surrender, which is what we see throughout the story of Jesus' career, his mother receives him in obedience, He comes in obedience to the Father, and then He gives himself in obedience, again, to the Father, to the cross and to the arms of death.

And Christmas is that, about surrendering ourselves to the Lord, in obedience, resuming ties of subjection and surrender to the Lord, and remembering that God who says: look, I want to bless you. You may not be sure how I'm going to do it, but I have a plan. Don't worry about how this will be, I know how I do things and you just trust me and put yourself in my arms. Maybe God wants to bless you in some way this Christmas. Maybe God wants to bring something new for you in the coming year, but maybe God is telling you: trust me, take steps of faith, make a resolution to serve me better. Make a resolution to give me your time, to search for me more deeply each day, to consecrate yourself more to me, to study my word better, to pray more, to pay the price in advance, because many times God, before blessing us, asks us to be crucified, humiliating our intellect, humiliating how this will be, how it will happen, and what happens if things don't work out. God continually tells us: “Throw yourself into the abyss and I'm going to be with you, I'm going to get you through, don't worry. I know what I'm doing."

So that's important that we see that fact there. God was solving a big problem, a tremendous situation for humanity and He had his plan and Mary was necessary, and each one of us is often necessary for God to do something in humanity and he needs our obedience, he needs an open heart to tell the Father: Lord, do with me as you want. I am willing to do it.

So, it says in verse 28 that when the angel entered where she was, he said to Mary: “Hail, highly favored, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women”. I like that passage, that part of this story. And it is important that we do not overlook it, because here we have a key to who Mary truly is and what is the importance that we should give her. We know that this has been the reason for controversy for many years, especially between the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church, about what is the role of Mary, what is the true importance of Mary and what is the level of respect that is given to her. must give Maria.

I find here in these verses enough information to solve that dilemma. We as evangelical Christians who love Mary, respect Mary and venerate Mary because Mary was a woman that God used for a special role, unique in humanity and I want if any Catholic brother visits us this afternoon to know that in our heart we do not encourage any kind of irreverence, evangelical Christians give Mary a very special place in the spiritual economy. God has chosen Mary because she was a woman of great character, she was a respectable maiden, she was a woman that I imagine that if we met her today, we could say: this woman has the fruit of the holy spirit in her. He did not choose Maria because she was highly educated, he did not choose her because she was a member of an exclusive and high-ranking family. He chose her for her character, he chose her for her inner beauty.

Just as he chose David from the herd of sheep, he was so far in there that not even his dad thought David could ever be the king of Israel. When Samuel came to look for the next king at the house of Jesse, because God told him: look, that house is where the next king who is going to replace Saul is. Samuel went there without knowing who he was and David's father introduced him to all his brothers, one after the other and each one was very promising, very strong, very handsome, tall, muscular and every time Samuel saw one of them he said: Oh, this must be...., and God said: no, that's not it, that's not it. All David's brothers passed by and God's approval did not come.

And Samuel finally asks Jesse: hey, that's it, don't you have another son? Isaí says: oh, yes, there's another one in the kitchen back there, his name is..... but that can't be because he's too small and too young. Well, that was the one God wanted. Because? Because David had a heart like God's. David had a personality that pleased God. David was tender with God. God simply searches the heart of man. He doesn't necessarily look for high lineage, he doesn't even sometimes look for the great works that you have done, but God looks for a tender heart, and I think that was what Mary had. Mary had a personality that pleased God. She was a virginal woman, not only in her body, but in her thoughts, in her heart, and the eyes of God searched all of Israel, and she went to the palace and there were many princesses, who would have been ideals for God, who were up to the task. of his son. But God said: no, that's not it, and he came to that humble kitchen, there was that maiden with a simple heart and given to God and God said: this is the one that I am going to use. And he chose Maria for that.

I mean, that's why we respect Maria and we will always give Maria a special place in our hearts. But, having said that, we also understand that Mary is not that being that we have sometimes assigned as an almost equal importance to Jesus Christ and what is more, in the sensibility of some Christians in Latin America and in other parts of the world, Mary is almost sometimes in his heart and in his affection as above Jesus. And they pray to Mary more than to Jesus, and Mary is like a mediatrix and today there is the idea in certain Catholic theological circles that Mary is a mediatrix, between God and men and that goes against everything she says the word, because the Bible clearly says that there is only one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.

The only one who can occupy this role of mediator between God and men is Jesus. That's why God did all this stuff about coming into the world, stripping himself of his glory. Imagine if I had needed something else, why so much work? You don't believe that God was enough, that if He was going to come into the world and assume his role as mediator, why do we need angels, saints or other things? God is sufficient in man, in the form of Jesus. He says: I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father if it is not through me. He who enters through the door that I am, can enter the fold.

Then Christ needed no one else. God made all that plan around his son Jesus. Maria is an instrument and like all actors in a drama, when her role is over. What do the actors do when their role ends? They leave the stage for another to come and so we see in the pages of Scripture, when the Lord ascends to heaven, in his ascension, Mary disappears from the pages of the Bible. The last moment we see her is in the act room with the Apostles, with other Apostles, but that's all. Because, of course, she was the mother of Jesus and she needed some recognition, she occupied an important place but that's all and here in this story we can see that exposed in a very natural way and because of how implicit the role of Mary is, for me it is even more convincing and more important, because when the angel enters where she is, he tells her: greetings, Hail, highly favored.

What word do we see there in favored? Favor. In the original Greek the word that the angel uses is caritomene, which means you have been the object of God's grace, caritas, of God's charity. You have had the blessing that God has found in you something that has pleased him. What he's saying is that Mary hit the jackpot so to speak, God chose her. God wanted her to go, not because Mary did something extraordinary or because she had some inherent right to be the mother of Jesus, but because God chose to favor her. When you favor someone because it comes from you, not because the person demands it of you, or forces it, but because it comes from your heart. It came from the heart of God that Mary was chosen. She had nothing in her, she was a maiden, God always chooses, says the Bible, what is humble, what men discard, what is not so attractive, that is what God chooses. Many times God chooses us, not so much because we deserve to be chosen but precisely because we do not deserve to be chosen by Him.

Then he tells her, highly favored among all women, and also tells her: the Lord is with you, blessed. Eulogemene, which also means again, God has decided to call you blessed. God has praised you with his favor, among all women God has chosen you. Now, what is Maria's reaction to all of this? María is upset, María is confused, but what kind of greeting is this that she is giving me, I am nobody, I am just a maiden from a small village, I have nothing. How am I going to be blessed among all women if I don't belong to a group of royalty, I don't have any academic lineage, I don't have money? She is disturbed, confused thinking what kind of greeting this will be. And the angel has to make it clear to her again, then: Mary, do not be afraid because you have found grace before God. In other words, God has been pleased, God has been pleased to tell you that you are going to be the bearer of your son.

So what we see in this whole process is that it is a process of unmerited grace, of God's favor, God's love, God's preference for this humble girl. There is nothing here like Mary being something extraordinary, or that God had no choice. God chose this woman and Mary then receives the favor that is done to her, but, again, we have to give Mary that place, that space. Even saying that Mary is a perpetual virgin goes against what the word says, because I don't know if it is in this passage, but in another case it says that Jesus was her firstborn. Jesus was the firstborn of Mary, meaning that he was the first, but not the only one, he was not the last. Maria had other children. Maria assumed her normal life as a married woman, and had a natural and normal relationship with her husband, José. And the Bible is very clear that he had other children as well.

We can dance around what the Bible says, but it is very clear, no, that Mary had a relationship, after her role, she continued her normal life and even when the angel told her all these things, and later we see that Jesus is born and shepherds come and tell Mary and Joseph that they saw angels who told them that this is the savior of humanity and all these great things, the Bible says, that Mary meditated on those things your heart. She herself did not fully understand what that meant. She was a humble girl, with little theological understanding and the truth is that no matter how many of us were told that this was something exceptional, and that God was going to do this, this and the other, the event was so great, so exceptional that All she could do was meditate on it and wonder what it could be?

In fact, the Bible tells us that the brothers of Jesus, his mother, kind of never fully understood that he was the savior of humanity. At times they thought that perhaps the Lord Jesus Christ could be a little crazy, and Mary was part of that drama. She was simply an instrument that God was using for a specific purpose, but it was all. It was neither more nor less than that.

And finally I want to direct your gaze to verse 31 where the angel tells Mary: now you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son and you will call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will have no end. There are two things here, let me put the second first and the first last. The angel tells Mary, this wonderful being who is going to be born, he is going to be given the throne of David, his father. The Bible is very clear that Jesus is born from the lineage of David. If we read in the book of Matthew, Matthew traces the genealogy, that is, the descent of Jesus, through the lineage of Joseph. Joseph in human terms was the adoptive father of Jesus, because the true father of Jesus was evidently God, in divine, spiritual terms, but in human, legal terms, Joseph was the father of Jesus. So Joseph gave Jesus his Davidic lineage, because in Scripture, in ancient prophecies, there was the prediction that the Messiah would come through David's lineage. God gave King David a promise and said: I am going to make your throne an eternal throne, a permanent throne. A descendant of your house will never be missing and finally I am going to bring a descendant that will reign forever, as is Jesus.

So when the angel is telling Mary here that he will reign over the house of Jacob and God will give him the throne of David, his father, and he will reign forever and his kingdom will have no end, he is alluding to to all these things, the Messiah, his kingdom was going to be eternal and his kingdom was linked to the kingdom of David, because God had promised David that his descendants would inherit the earth and that his children would be permanently kings over Israel and that this being would come mysterious that would reign forever in his place. So all of this was being played out here in this story.

And finally he says: and his name will be called Jesus, meaning ..... the name Jesus means God is salvation. Alluding to the special role, the unique role that this being was going to play. The very essence of Jesus is that he was the savior of humanity, which is why the entire Christmas story revolves around the saving role of Christ Jesus. The only reason why God comes to earth is to save us, to heal us, to bring life and salvation to our lives, and that is why this Christmas we have to direct our mind, our spirit to that singular fact that the Christmas is above all the story of God's dealings with man to heal us. Jesus has come into the world to save you, to save me and if we want Christmas to have true meaning we have to have made that direct deal with Jesus, have given our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ and have invited him, as that hymn says, to our heart so that it reigns in our life.

If you know Jesus in any other way, except in his special and specific role as savior, you do not truly know him because the very word, the very name that was given to him, which was not a chosen name by men but by God Himself, alludes to the sanctifying, saving nature of Christ Jesus.

I am going to invite the musicians to stop by for a moment and I want to wrap everything up in that fact. All this story, all these details that we see here, and we could spend even longer, exposing different aspects of the narrative of the incarnation, but everything is oriented, one thing, another, all the details, revolve around that fact, that God he was directing the birth of his son towards the salvation of humanity, towards bringing reconciliation between God and man. And it's the only way for us to understand Christmas this year and every year. I encourage you, my brothers, to put aside all other things, it is good to buy gifts, it is good to cook, it is good to invite family and friends, but as Christians we have to value above all things the element of salvation that God was bringing to the history of humanity. And we have to make sure that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

This Christmas, if you have not taken that step of faith, to open your heart to Jesus, invite him into your life, I want to invite you that you have not done it before, take advantage of this opportunity to tell him to the Lord Jesus Christ: Lord, I would like you to enter my heart and I would like to receive you and I would like you to be my God and my savior and that this Christmas would have a special meaning because you have entered my life.

I invite you to lower your head for a moment as a sign of prayer to the Lord and recollection. Meditate for a moment on these aspects of the Christmas story. The magnificent angel sent to the house of a humble maiden to tell her that she has been chosen to be the bearer of a mysterious being, designed and elaborated, in its divine, human nature, to bring salvation and redemption to humanity and with it God He was also fulfilling a promise that he had made to a being, humble as Mary too, hundreds of years before, that his throne would remain forever and he was creating a marvelous being whose essential function was to be a savior. And Jesus is still in the business of saving, of saving those who give themselves to Him, who open their hearts to Him and say: come into my life, Lord. I want you to be my personal savior.

I would like to invite you this afternoon if you have not done so yet, if you have not yet invited Jesus into your life, to be your personal savior, to do so this afternoon and I am going to ask you that you raise your hand if you want to receive Christ, that you raise your hand or pass by here, as you wish, and that you invite Jesus to enter. Will there be someone? I see a hand behind that invites Jesus. Glory to God. Will there be someone else who says: Lord, I invite you into my heart here in front of me?, there behind another hand. Will there be someone else? This has been a very simple message. God bless you young man, there is nothing spectacular or flashy about it, it is simply a concise, Christmas story of things as they were. I invite those brothers who have raised their hands to stop by for a moment. Come, we want to pray for you. Come here, let that person accompany you. Do not be ashamed to come here for a moment and present yourself before the Lord and say: Father, I receive Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Still, if you haven't raised your hand and you want to, you want to come forward here, I invite you. The only thing we are going to do is pray for you and ask the Lord Jesus to figuratively be born in your heart, be born in your life.

The Lord says in his word, that He is at the door of our hearts and He knocks and if someone hears His voice and opens the door, He enters and is intimate with you. It is interesting that one of the stories says that no place was found for Jesus in the hotel where Mary and Joseph wanted to stay, there was no room. And I believe that God, again all the details of the birth have something to do with God's plan, God chose that because He wanted to make it clear that I don't know, Jesus is always looking for a place to stay, and the only place where Christ wants to rest is in your heart. He already has his place there in heaven, but here on earth he likes to dwell among us, he likes to dwell in our hearts and he is always offering himself and says: hey, I would like you to give me a place in your life And that I could eat with you and you with me, that we can be intimate. That is the story of Christmas, brothers, it is not to join a religion to be evangelicals or Catholics or whatever, it is to invite Jesus to enter our hearts and make him our Lord and our savior.

I would like you to repeat with me like this, I'll stay there in your own personal privacy. Tell Jesus the following words: Lord Jesus Christ, I invite you into my heart, I open the doors of my house for you, be my Lord and be my savior. I repent of my sins and I believe that in your blood, in your death, in your resurrection I have eternal life. Thank you for assuming the form of a man, being your very God and paying the price for my sins. I receive your sacrifice and I declare you owner of my life, savior of my soul. Reign in me forever in your name, Jesus. Amen. Amen.

I can tell you, my brother, my sister, you are made a child of God. The word says that he gave power to all who received him to be called, to be made children of God, so that is the best gift that you can give to the Lord Jesus Christ on this day, it is the best gift that you can give yourself. give yourself and your loved ones the fact that you have a new nature through the inn of Jesus in your life. Amen. I congratulate you, I thank the Lord for each one of you. Give the Lord a round of applause this afternoon. Amen. Glory to God. Amen. Amen. Thank Mr. Let's stand up brothers, let's sing that hymn again, You left your throne and crown for me. At Christmas you have to sing the good Christmas hymns from time to time, that's nice. And now, understanding a little more about the Christmas story, we are going to sing that hymn with intention and spiritual wisdom while we elaborate the Christmas story.

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Sermon by Dr. Roberto Miranda recorded December 18, 2005 in León de Judá Congregation (51 min.)

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