the eyes of jesus

I am going to ask you to think about the eyes of the people who are the loved ones in your life. It can be the eyes of your mom, the light eyes of a baby you have, it can be the eyes of your spouse or a dad or a grandparent. It is often said that the eyes are the window to the soul, right? and that's why when we're bad we don't want to look anyone in the eye.

Did you do that? And you, 'Oh, no, I didn't. Looking and looking... why don't you want to look them in the eye? Because the eyes are the window to the soul. I remember my mom, 'Gregory', when I, I don't know... I screwed up something, I did something, 'Gregory, did you do that?' 'No, no', 'well, look me in the eye. ... and you did that....', and I 'ahhhhhhh', I admit it. I'm wrong. The eyes.

When people look into your eyes, what do they see reflected there? I want to think a little about the eyes of Jesus, the looks of Jesus Christ in the Bible and we know that the Bible says that God is love, so every look of Jesus, whatever it is, is by definition a look of love. And we are going to find some surprises when we look at the number of different looks of Jesus.

We pray together. Father, in the name of Jesus we know that you, Lord, are looking at us this morning, Lord, and we want to raise our faces and look at you too, Lord, and we want, Lord, that your heart, Lord, be in our hearts May your eyes be reflected in our gaze, Lord. I ask you in the name of Jesus to be your holy spirit speaking to us this morning. I want to hear from you, I want my brothers to hear, Lord, a fresh word from you and only you can do this. So I ask you Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

The eyes of Jesus. I don't know if you've ever had the feeling of being looked at for better or worse. God is looking at you for good. Let's talk a little about that.

A look of love. I think of a time when Jesus looked at all the people sitting around him and he said, looking at those who were there around him, 'behold my mother and my brothers because everyone who does the will of God is my brother and my sister and my mother."

When Jesus looked at those who followed him, he looked at his own family. A look that says 'I am your brother and you are my brother. You are part of me and part of my family. I don't know if we can look at people this way.

He also looked at very raw, fresh people of the world and he could see the latent potential within them. He had a penetrating look that a fisherman could have looked at with a bad smell, bad behavior, maybe bad mouth, I couldn't say, but he said 'you're Simon, but you know what? son of Jonas, Simon you will be called Kefas, which means Peter, which means the rock, because I look at you and I don't see just any fisherman, I see a rock.

When God looks at us he can look beyond appearances and he looks at the heart, he looks at the potential that is within us. He once said when a person called Nathaniel came to him, he says 'behold a genuine Israelite in whom there is no guile'. He says 'how do you know me?' He says 'before you came I saw you sitting under a fig tree.' And he says 'did you look at me? Wow...' and I saw you for more than your physical body, I saw your heart, your soul, your being.

Jesus had a penetrating look of love. But you know what? I start to think about the looks that perhaps were not soft. I want us to go together to the book of Mark, Chapter 3. What would it have been like to be there for that look that we are going to read?

Mark 3, verse 1 to verse 5. The word of the Lord says, ".... again Jesus entered the synagogue and there was a man who had a withered hand and they were watching him to see if on the sabbath he would heal him so that he could accuse him.”

So there was a person there with a disease of the hand, a deformity and there were Pharisees, religious leaders, there looking to see if Jesus would do a miracle on the Sabbath day, because it is not lawful for them work on the Sabbath, and they wanted to accuse him and get him in trouble for it. So look what happens:

“Jesus then said to the man whose hand was withered, 'Rise up and stand in the midst,' and he said to them 'Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good or to do wrong, save life or take it away?' But they were silent. So looking around them.....," what does the word say? "....looking around them angrily, saddened by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man 'stretch out your hand' and he stretched it out and his hand was restored to health and the Pharisees left and took counsel with others to destroy him."

Jesus looked around with anger and sadness, but we know that if God is love, every look of Jesus is also a look of love. How could it be that someone who loves you can look at you with anger, sad because of the hardness of the heart? This will have been a penetrating gaze, a fiery gaze. What would it have been like when Jesus looked at the Pharisees who were trying to set him up and look them straight in the eye and say that since it is what is written on the stone that the builders rejected, he has become the head of the corner. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken, but whoever it falls on will crush them.

Jesus looked at his enemies and spoke strong words to them. Not sometimes but many, many times. But still with a look of love, but it's not a love, I don't know what, a wimpy love, a love I'm going to use a word that I don't know if you know the meaning; God's love is not a soft love. What is mushy, this is like bread that can be .... it's not hard, it's mushy, it's wimpy, it's wishy washy.

Many times we think that love is a beautiful feeling, right? That love is a feeling, oh... I feel love. If you listen to the music on the radio, there is a song 'I have lost that feeling of love and what to do now'. 'I lost that loving feeling and now it's gone, oh gone'.

Loving feeling….. oh, it's gone, I have to leave you because it's gone. Love has already left me. As if love were a feeling of hunger to eat a cake. Love is not a sweet feeling. Love is also not always being all nice to everyone. Love is not always giving everyone what they want. If you love your son always give him all the twinkies he wants, all the ice cream he wants because you love him. 'I thought you loved me'.

Love is not something soft. It's not always kind. It's not something soft. Love is not always nice. Love is deeper than this. The love and the look of love of Jesus Christ was not a look at all..... I have photos of some poets who have that look.... ah.... that's not it.... The look of Jesus is not It's a poet's look, there sweet with his heart in his mouth. No se la palabra, wearing your Herat on your sleeve, is the way they say it in English.

The love of Christ, the love that was seen in his eyes was something different. you know what? I was praying for you and for this sermon here in the sanctuary and I started, for a moment, to look at this flag and well, look, it scared me a little when I looked at those eyes. Look, look at that. Look at that, if you look closely there are some jewels there in these eyes. It is the fierce gaze of a lion. God's love is like that, it is penetrating, it has its ferocity and its intensity.

It's not always a soft look. It's the eye of the tiger, isn't it? Have you seen Rocky, the eye of the tiger? It IS the eye of the tiger, it is the eye, look, let's look at the Apocalypse. Let's go to Apocalypse together. Let's see Jesus' eyes of love.

Revelation 1, the weak Jesus, the human Jesus of flesh and blood, here walking the earth like you and me no longer exists. The Jesus who exists now is the Jesus who has passed through the cross and is glorified. He still has his body, but it is another body. It still has the marks, but the marks are shining with the glory of God. And look at that in Revelation, Chapter 1. A vision of the son of God, let's look at Revelation 1, from 12 to 14:

"... and I turned to see the voice that spoke with me and turned by 7 golden candlesticks and in the midst of the 7 candlesticks one like the son of man clothed in a garment that reached down to his feet and girded around his chest with a golden sash, his head and his hair were white as white wool like snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like burnished bronze, shining as in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of many waters.”

His eyes were like a flame of fire, burning, burning. I look at the looks of Jesus in the Bible and most of those looks are not soft looks, they are not sweet looks, but they are looks of love, they are looks of intense, determined, fixed love, it is the look of an athlete.

Look, the next time David Ortiz is there in the ninth inning and the bases loaded, they're losing, and look at his eyes and his nose........ I can't even imitate , I'm sorry. It's not even come close. It's an intense look, a look that says 'whatever it is, I'm going to win this game.

It is an intense look, a look that says 'I love you, I am willing to give my life to protect you if necessary. I love you so much that I am willing to discipline you if necessary. I love you so much that I am willing to tell you a truth even if it is not pleasant, even if it is a hard and difficult truth to listen to. I love you so much that even if you hate me, even if you reject me, even if you decide not to be my friend, I will just continue to love you because there is nothing and no one that can separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus Christ our Lord.

That is the love that has character, that has courage, that has bones and muscles behind it. The Bible says that Jesus is the good shepherd. How do you visualize a shepherd? Many times we visualize him as a little boy who is playing his harp. The reality is that a shepherd had to be a young man or a man willing to fight lions and bears to defend his sheep.

In modern days pastors in Israel and the Middle East walk around with their weapons, with their pistols, with their knives. They're armed to the teeth. They are willing to fight because they are shepherds to protect their sheep. It is a strong and determined love.

Let's start with the idea that the love of God that should be reflected in our eyes that is in Jesus' eyes for you is a love that is determined to protect his own. It's the love of the mother bear, I don't know if it's said..., the mother bear and her cub is taken from her. I don't want to be close. It is said that the animal does not matter, it can be a little bird, if you mess with its little eggs, you mess with the wrong little animal because it takes your head off. It's a fierce eye. Jesus had a fierce love to protect his sheep.

I want us to go to Mark 8 together. We all know the story about when Jesus had to rebuke Peter and says 'get away from you, Satan. Do you remember this story? Jesus just said, 'I'm going to Jerusalem and they're going to flog me, and they're going to punish me, and they're going to kill me, but after that I'm going to be raised from the dead.' And Peter comes to Jesus and says ' No, no, no, it will never ever happen to you like this. You are the king.’ And look what happens with Jesus, and that is a very important detail that we often overlook.

Verse 33, we're going to start at 32, Mark 8:32. are you with me Because it is a detail that I guarantee that most of us have not seen before. Is there. Well, verse 32, this is what Jesus told them clearly: ".... then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, he began to rebuke Jesus." Do you want to rebuke Jesus? We do it, brothers, we do it more than we think. And look what happens here.

“....But he, Jesus, turning around and looking at who? Peter rebuked the disciples saying "Get behind me, Satan, because you do not set your sights on the things of God but on the things of men."

Who was watching before rebuking Peter? He was looking at the disciples. What do they have to do with what is happening between Jesus and Peter? It is that everyone heard Peter say 'no, no, it will not be like that, you will not suffer', and Jesus looked and saw that all of them are going to be influenced by a lie from Satan. Even if it is through their leader, Pedro himself. And Jesus out of love for them, to protect them, looked at Peter, and said 'get away from me Satan'. He could not bear the rebellion for the good of the other disciples.

It was like that with Moses. Moses publicly disobeyed the Lord. God told him 'you are going to speak to the rock and water will come out of it'. And Moses got angry and hit the rock twice, and God for love of the people, for the holiness of Jehovah to be established among the people had to discipline his son Moses to protect them.

God keeps and protects his children even if it is with a love that disciplines those who want to deceive others. I explain? Are you with me on that? Okay.

Guess what, another time when Jesus got angry. Can you think of another time when Jesus got very angry? When he made himself a whip of ropes and entered the temple. The Bible says that before he entered the temple and he saw the tables of the people selling things, he saw everything they were wearing, he looked at everything the night before.

What would that look of Jesus have been like? A look of holy anger filled with love, and him the next day and him turning tables... you know what? who is your jesus Is your Jesus a little Jesus? No, so soft that you would never do anything, my cute little Jesus. Look, Jesus is a tiger, he is the lion of the tribe of Judah. Jesus was a man of spiritual warfare, but a warrior of love, not a warrior of pride, a warrior of love.

And guess what? The Bible says why was he so angry with what they were doing in the temple? Have you thought about that? Why did you react so strongly? I believe that it was not only that they did something wrong in the temple, but the people who sold things in the temple of God set their tables, they set their tables and their money, and their junk, and all their things in one place in the temple preserved for the Gentiles.

God said 'I don't just love the Jews'. God said 'I love everyone, people from every nation. I love the rejected people of the city, so I am going to set aside a space in my temple that is going to be called the space of the gentiles, the atrium of the gentiles, where anyone from the street can enter, 24 hours a day, they can come in and pray and shed tears there in front of me, because my house is a house of prayer for all nations.'

And they had put their tables and all their things there to exchange money and sell things in that space, the court of the Gentiles. Jesus says 'ah, ah, ah, you are not going to mistreat my children. It doesn't matter if you don't like them, this is the space that I have put for them. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. He became angry with a fierce look of love for his children who were being mistreated. Jesus protected and guarded.

I want to ask you the question if you love this way. Yes, when people look at you, they see eyes that say 'I am willing to look for your good, whatever it is. I will protect you if necessary. That's a look of fierce love from the Lion of Judah. It's a love that doesn't always tell people what they want to hear.

Do you remember about two months ago we were talking here in a sermon about the rich young man. Do you remember the rich young ruler? Do you remember him? A young man who had a lot of money, who came to Jesus and said "I want to follow you, I want to be good." and Jesus, the Bible says "..... Jesus looked at him and loved him." I loved him, he loved that young man.

What do we expect? This young man has been saying 'I want to follow you'. Jesus looks at him and loves him. What do we expect Jesus to do? I hope that Jesus will say 'welcome', and give you a big hug. But it was not like that. Do you remember what Jesus said to the rich young ruler? He told him 'look, there is something you are missing. Go and sell everything you have and then follow me and you will have treasure in heaven. And the sad young man left and stopped following Jesus.

Jesus says 'I love you but I am willing to tell you something that you are not going to like. I love you so much that I am not going to let you continue in something that will take away the blessing that God has for your life. I love you too much to be kind and let go of something that is killing you spiritually. God's love is a love that makes us uncomfortable from time to time, it is a love that tells us the truth even if it hurts from time to time. This is the love of God. It is the love of a father who disciplines his children.

Think about that. The sinful woman, right? Do you remember the best one who was caught in her adultery and they take her there and they are going to stone her, they are going to kill her. Jesus begins to protect her and says 'look, the one who has no sin is the first to throw the stone'. And then everyone leaves, he saved her life. But, he doesn't say 'well, okay, keep on what you're doing'. What did Jesus say to this woman? Does anyone remember? He tells her to 'go and sin no more.'

If I love you I will tell you the truth even if it is hard. Even if you don't like it, even if you get mad at me. How many parents know that if you want your son or daughter to always be happy with you, you will never be able to guide that child to that young person in the proper paths for them. He has to be willing from time to time to be the bad guy. Some father or mother who has been the bad one from time to time, right?

If you had to be the bad guy every now and then. But if you love... if you don't discipline your child, the Bible says 'you hate him'. Sometimes for the child you are an ogre, you are bad, how can you tell me that I am not going to eat more ice cream at ten at night, how can you tell me something so bad. what a bad mom I thought you loved me.

God's love is willing to discipline. The word says that Jesus says, 'I rebuke and punish everyone I love. So be zealous and repent." May God discipline the son he loves. And he has done it with all his children in the Bible, he did it with Moses, he did it with David. When David did wrong, God said 'I love you, and with tears in your eyes, you have to pay certain consequences for what you have done. Because I love you too much to let you continue on that bad path.

Guess what, brothers? If we're going to be Christians who love people the way God loves, we have to be willing to have a really strong backbone from time to time. We have to be willing to take positions that sometimes co-workers won't like. But it is with love.

There are many who like to speak the truth without love. They take the truth like it's a big stick, bam, and they give it to people, like the Bible is a baseball bat to give it to people. The Bible says that we are called to speak the truth with love, with love.

I remember just learning Spanish, I hardly spoke any Spanish at all, even worse than now, much worse, if you can imagine. I was working as a night watchman, with my gun to kill everyone. I was there in the building but I was in the building, there was a Colombian man who always cleaned in my section and we started to speak a little Spanish. And he, thank God, was very patient with me, and he let me talk about my barbarities and we became friends.

There came a time when I saw him talking on the phone in another part of the building, I say 'well, Eduardo, I saw you talking on the phone. Who were you talking to? He tells me 'well, with my girlfriend'. And I began to think, well, I know that he has a wife and 3 children there in Colombia, and I thought, maybe I don't understand the meaning of the word girlfriend. Maybe girlfriend means friend and he is ministering to her friend, right? maybe that's it.

So I assumed the best. I said 'well, and is she friends with your wife too?', and he started laughing. Laughing there and I'm like 'oh, oh...', and he said 'he would kill me'. And I didn't understand that grammatical form but I could understand that well, I wasn't talking about an innocent friend. I said, look, am I Eduardo's friend or not? If I'm an enemy, if I don't care about Eduardo, I'm not going to tell him anything. Ok, well, keep on with your things. If I am your friend I have to tell you something harsh. And at that time, as I said, I did not know how to express myself delicately. The only thing I could say is 'the Bible says it's sin, sin'. He didn't know how to say it: sin. And he like... that little gringo got weird with me. He looked at me with those eyes.....

Guess what? we have to tell the truth from time to time. Not once in a while we have to say it with love, we have to say it delicately. The Bible says that if you see dust in your partner's eye, well, first remove the beam, please don't go around giving it to everyone. After removing the plank from your eye, after acknowledging that you also have sin, that you are not perfect, then you will see clearly to remove the dust from your partner's eye.

But how do you get dust out of a person's eye? I'm not going to let anyone touch my eye. You come... no, no... It has to be very delicately, with love, with affection, but it has to be done. If we love people we have to be willing sometimes not to like them. Sometimes they get mad at us. If we love them with a love that has character and not a sweet love of the world.

You know we're talking a lot about the event at the Estate House. I am not one to get into protests, this is not my favorite thing to do. What do you want to do today? Oh, I want to go to a protest that people yell at me, that they hate me, that... No, this is not at the top of the list of activities that one would like to do, is it?

And I remember the last time, but we do it because we believe that this is important for society and for my children and my grandchildren and Christians who come later and the community as a whole. Pastor Roberto said it this way, sometimes one says but what worries you, it does not affect you. What this same-sex marriage thing doesn't affect you. Pastor Roberto said it this way: this is like being in a boat and there is someone who is making holes in the side of the boat and you get upset with the person because you see that that person is making holes in the boat. And you say 'please stop doing that'. 'But why do you care so much about what I do on my side of the boat? It's not on your side, you're there.' Because it says it doesn't affect you, but if we're in the same boat it affects us.

So I went on principle because I knew that God wanted us to be here to express what we believe on this very important issue. And I was there with a sign on the steps of the Estate House and everyone... and it's not going to be like that this time. We are going to have separate space, it is going to be much more, better organized, but we are all tightly packed there. And I had my sign and there was a girl next to me for two or three hours yelling in my ear and I was there with my sign thinking 'what am I doing here?', yelling, yelling, yelling... and I didn't respond because our policy is that we are not there to argue, we are not there to fight, we are not there to.... We are there to express what we believe, right? So I was there and I decided not to respond because I didn't want to get into lawsuits that don't go anywhere.

Then she says 'but why don't you answer me?' And I decided, ok, now I'm going to tell her. I told her 'well, I'm here to express what I believe, I'm not here to get into lawsuits or arguments.' And she said 'well, if I promise not to get into arguments with you, you talk to me'. And I said 'well, okay'.

So we downloaded the signs and we were there and we began to talk and we got to know each other's names, the background, the experiences she lived, and why I believe what I believe is love, the pain that He gave that there is no more love and acceptance from people who are struggling with situations and whatever. And we were able to talk for a good half hour, 45 minutes of person to person dialogue. It was beautiful. There among all the noise, there with the signs blocking.

And we became friends and I promised to pray for her and I would pray for her by name for many months afterward. And still from time to time I lift her up in prayer. And after this she was very funny, 'well, we are friends. So, what can we do now? Well, the sign went up and she kept screaming.....

I don't want it to be like that, I always want it to be a dialogue between friends, but sometimes to express what we believe we still have to be willing to be misunderstood from time to time. We have friends who are not from the church, I hope that everyone has many friends who are not from the church and that we share love with them. And there come times when perhaps expressing this love can be something hard for them. But God blesses because his truth sets us free in the name of Jesus.

And that's where intense love comes in, God's love is a love that reaches the enemy. It is love that says, even if someone hates me I will continue to love them in Jesus name. No matter what you do to me, Jesus says 'there is no greater love than this', which says, 'greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends'. And then you know what? It is possible, perhaps, that someone would die for his good friend. But who would die for someone who hates you.

And the Bible says the following "... God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God did not die for you when everything was fine in your life, when your clothes were well ironed, when you were living well. Think about the most embarrassing thing you have ever done in your life, it was at that moment that God loved you and died for you.

And he said 'never mind, I love you'. And Jesus on the cross, when they were nailing him there, prayed not just once, but repeatedly, repeatedly he prayed, 'Lord Father, forgive them for they don't know what they're doing.'

God calls us to love our enemies. Is there someone who has an enemy here? Do you have an enemy? Everyone says, 'me, no'. Most of you have two or three, you have your list. He did me wrong..... and I hate him.... Or maybe I don't hate him, but I can't stand him.... grrrrr... Lord, teach him...

The Bible It says that we should pray for the enemies. How do you pray for your enemies? Lord, hit him hard, hit him for what he did and because he deserves it.

The only time a disciple said Jesus, we are going to call fire to consume those people who have..... Jesus rebukes him and says 'look, whose spirit are you? That's not me, I'm not here to seek revenge. Not that.... If you have an enemy, congratulations. He has someone specific that you can love.

The word says it this way. "Do not be defeated by evil, but overcome evil with good. But love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."

Is this possible? That you believe? But no, that would be hypocritical, Gregory. That person is so bad, I can't... Look, God calls you to a love with certain eyes that says even if it hurts, even though I don't like you, even though you smell bad, even though you said bad words to me, I love you in the name of Jesus. There is a determined love and that is where the eyes of fire that God calls you to have enter.

A decision you make that says 'I'm not going to let grudges and hate take me away from love. I am a warrior of love and I do not give up.’

I want to share a story of someone who lived through this. I shared that with the cult in English and with some from time to time, but it is an experience that I had that impacted me and left me impacted for many years. I was in Latin America for a few years, about 10 years ago, I was wandering around many countries speaking Spanish, preaching, things like that, eating too much. And in Nicaragua I met a young pastor who had those eyes of fire, a pastor filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And I invited him to eat afterwards, because I decided if I meet a man of God on this trip, I want to meet him and learn from him.

So I invited him to eat with me. He was a Nicaraguan pastor and we went to eat some new fajitas. In Nicaragua they don't make fajitas but we ate fajitas. And we were there and I asked him questions about his life, his past, his testimony and, mind you, he didn't want to tell me much. He was very careful with me, very much like he avoided questions, he didn't answer me. And I felt bad, wow, I don't want to make him feel like, I don't know what... if I'm one of the CIA here to spy or I don't know what.

So I decided, well, I'm going to leave the poor pastor alone and I'm not going to ask him any more questions. But then I don't know if it was the fajitas or the salsa or I don't know what, but he got happy at one point and decided to trust me and open up to me.

And he began to share his experience there in Nicaragua during the war. We know that there was a terrible, ugly, ugly, violent, brutal civil war. And when he was young, when he was 10, 11 years old, one of the sides turned out to be the Sandinista side, it could have been either side because they both had problems, they captured his father, tortured him and killed his father, when he I was ten or eleven years old.

He and his mother fled to Honduras and lived there hiding and he swore when he was 16 years old, I would go back to my country and I would take revenge on those men who killed my father, I would go to them. to make them pay for what they have done. It is understood, right?

I think anyone would feel that way. And he had that hatred and rancor that gave him the strength to grow strong and he thought I'll come back as a warrior and I'm going to take revenge one day. But at the age of 13 something happened that he did not expect. His mom took him to a church, he listened to a sermon from Jesus and accepted Christ as his Lord and savior. But still determined to return to his country when he was old enough to take revenge. But he gathered together and the Lord began to work in his heart.

And then when he got old enough to go back and fight in the war, he decided 'well, maybe I'll wait another year here to grow in Christ and then I'll kill again...' I'm going to grow in Christ but later..... But God had surprises for him. He began to minister in his church and he already decided at 16, 17 'well, ok I don't know what I'm going to do but I'm not going back yet'.

After the war he returned and the strongest test of his life came. He and his mother were approached by some men from the town who told him 'we know who the men who killed your father are and we can, if you pay us a little, we can balance the accounts for you and make you pay for what they did. '.

The mother said 'I'm so sorry, Lord, but we are children of God and we are not going to live this way.' So they asked their son "what do you say?" and he says "I have forgiven them, don't do it." And that man there looking at me at that table, I will never forget him, he looked into my eyes and he said "you I mean, Gregory, I have forgiven them and it is my dream to one day meet them in person and share the Gospel with them so that they know Jesus Christ.'

And he was looking into my eyes with a look, he was glowing. Brothers, shining with the presence of God and these strong eyes that say 'Gregory, I say I love you, I love you in the name of Jesus and I am going to preach the Gospel to you one day. And I felt blessed are the ears that hear what I am hearing. Blessed are the eyes that see what I see, for only God can make such a change.

We are called, brothers and sisters, to be warriors of love. I want you not to be afraid of anyone, who is a gringo, who is Latino, whoever is from the street, so that you can look them in the eye with a strong love that says 'I love you, I am here for your good, even if it is hard for me. Even if I have to do something that you don't like, even if you are and decide to be my enemy, I will always love you because I am determined to do it.

My wife met an old man this week at her hospital, a strong old man who had fought in World War II and he was in Japan and fighting. And my wife is of Japanese descent and the man says 'oh, I hope no one in your family suffered from that and what a pity...' And that little old man looked at her with a joy and strength that says even though I was soldier i always loved the people i met. And there in Okinawa all the children and all the families became my friends because my philosophy of life is I am going to conquer with love. And he looked at my wife and said 'you are beautiful'. No, he's old, he can say what he wants, right? He says, he looked into her eyes..... imagine the musicians and looking into her eyes and saying 'you are beautiful, there is no one like you in the world. God has made you special and beautiful and it cannot be duplicated.'

That man, already at 90 years old, is still active as a volunteer, doing things to serve others because he is a warrior of love, he is a warrior of love. And this gives him strength and vigor in his life.

Brothers, let's stop criticizing people, of revenge and fights and arguments and selfishness, and we decided to walk in love and say that here I am, and where I am there is love and there is blessing and there is healing, and God uses you...

Brothers, come on, let's evangelize. At the Puerto Rican festival, I hope that each person with whom you speak can feel the eyes of Jesus from your eyes, that you look at him with a holy love, a strong love, a devoted love. And they say 'wow, there's something different here. I feel looked at as a human being, I feel that he cares about me, that this person takes me into account and sees me as a precious being made in the image of God.

Brethren, God has called us to do this. We are going to live this way. We are going to be warriors of love. Thank God

We're going to stand up and we're going to pray and ask God to make it so. Thank my Lord. Let's pray. Father, we are in your presence. Jesus, I thank you that you always look at me with love even when you are disciplining me, even when I am going through the desert and I don't know why you look at me with love, Lord. I thank you that to you, Lord, I am precious, that to you every brother and sister in this church is precious, a jewel in your hand. You love them, Lord, each one... even when we feel dirty, when we feel bad, when we still don't love ourselves, you look at us with eyes of love.

Every sister here is the apple of your eye, Lord. Every man here, Lord is the son of your right hand, Lord. Let us look at ourselves as you look at us and let us look at people with your eyes of love, Lord. amen.

With everyone still praying with their eyes closed, please. There are some who are feeling the love of God in your life and you want to know Christ as your Lord and savior, you want to accept him today, I invite you, if there will be someone here who wants to receive Jesus as your Lord and savior, I invite you to do it at this moment, I invite you to raise your hand to God who is your dad and say 'Lord, I receive you as my Lord and savior.'

Will anyone want to take this leap of faith? I encourage you, raise your hand to the Lord and receive Jesus at this moment as Lord and savior. God bless you, that's why..... God bless you sister on the balcony. God loves you. God looks at you with eyes of love. You are precious to him. Will there be some more want to receive Jesus as Lord and savior? To receive God, the love of God in your life at this time. I encourage you in the name of Jesus. Raise your hand and receive him as Lord and savior.

Is there anyone else who wants to take this step of faith? Let me see. God bless you. There is someone there, late and I don't even see your face but God sees you. God bless you. Someone else who wants to accept Jesus as Lord and savior. One more moment, we are calm in the presence of God. Others praying in the presence of God.

God says that today is the day of salvation, today is the day to receive my love. If there is anyone else who wants to take this step of faith. God bless you brothers. God bless you. He looks at their hearts to receive Jesus.

Well, I want to invite, if some who have taken this step of faith want to come forward, even if they are far away, if they want to come in so that we can pray for you. I encourage you, someone accompany me, please someone from the balcony. Don't make her go down alone. Any sister accompany her, please. Yes, you, very well, thank you.

And the others who accepted, please come up here. Come on, let's pray for you. We will continue to pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus I ask you to raise from the Lion of Judah congregation an army of love, an army of love, Lord. I ask you, Lord, that when people look at us that they do not look at people who are looking at them as if they were bad, Lord, I ask that we can project the love of Christ, the forgiveness of Christ, the mercy of God, Lord I ask you to be strong in love. Father, determined, committed in love, Lord, without looking back.

Thank you, my God. Come and if there is someone else who wants to join. Brothers who are here, God bless you, amen. We are going to raise a prayer to accept Jesus and I invite you to pray with me, okay? To repeat this prayer of faith.

Dear God, thank you that you love me, thank you that I am your daughter and I receive you at this moment as my Lord and savior. I ask you to forgive me, I ask you to clean me, I ask you to heal me. I want to be your daughter, your son, and I want to follow you for the rest of my life. I receive the holy spirit in my heart, I receive the filling of the holy spirit in my life. I am yours in the name of Jesus. Amen.

And father, I ask you for one more prayer. Brothers, we are going to ask God for an anointing so that we can all move in signs and wonders. When you love a person there is authority to lay hands and ask for miracles in their lives in a special way.

I feel like we're going to get that. Father, I ask that you pour out on us a powerful love, Lord, an anointed love that when we pray for people, sick people, broken people, people in pain, Lord, that when we lay hands on them, Lord, that we see healings, that we see, Lord, restorations. Lord, may there be miracles, signs and wonders. Extend your hand as you have done in past generations to do wonders in the name of your son Jesus, Lord. I ask that we be ministers of love in the holy name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.