I'm going back for my church

I want to share something with you that, as I was telling the group this morning, is not an easy message to share, since it has a lot of material to cut, but at the same time I understand that it is a message of great hope for all of us. that we call ourselves Christians children of God.

And I want to share this more because it comes out as part of a very deep and very intimate reflection about everything that has been happening this past weekend in our involvement with the Puerto Rican Festival, and the same time in so many other events where we will have the opportunity to share the love of God with many people. I believe that this summer is going to be a summer where evangelism is going to be key for us as a church and for us as individuals, as people.

And you know what? Pastor Samuel recently consulted me that between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m., two very sporadic people approached Pastor Samuel sharing a vision with him that they had had about these people who have been well involved in what evangelism is.

And basically what I was saying is that those actions are going to have a repercussion and of course, it's going to be a blessing repercussion for many but for the evangelists themselves, the repercussion maybe in some moment it will get a little strong, where the attack on that person will be a very direct attack.

Why is this said? Because what we do when evangelizing, do you know what we do? We are removing souls from the clutches of Satan and bringing them once more into the hands of the Lord Jesus. That is what we do when we evangelize. A simple 'God loves you' to a person who has never been told that is a word that you are saying to bring that person to life and to take that person out of a nebula in which perhaps the enemy to that person.

So I would like as I begin this message, I would like to take an opportunity to pray for all those people who have been actively involved in what has been evangelism, whether this past weekend or whether anywhere; It may be at work, it may be in the grocery store where you share a word, it may be in your work area. I want to start this message today by saying a prayer for you, because you are in full battle and I can say it like this, you are in full battle, you are winning souls for the Lord taking them out of the hands of the enemy.

So I would like all those people who have been well involved in evangelism, and you know who they are, I want you to stand up because I want to say a prayer for you. Every person who has been well involved in what evangelism is, not just in the Puerto Rican Festival, can be in any other field, and you know what? don't feel shy, don't feel ashamed if you don't stand up, because I know that the opportunity will come to you, sooner or later the opportunity will come to you.

And I tell you my brothers who have stood up, my brothers and my sisters, God has great plans and I know that each one of us is in those plans of God. And we are warriors of a strong army, we are part of an army that makes a difference and you cannot see yourself as something less or as little, you have to see yourself as part of that army.

So Lord, at this time I say a prayer for my brothers and sisters who are here. Father, we know that they are people who have a specific call, who have that charisma, who have that gift of being able to share your word and for that we thank you. Lord, I know that not all of us have that gift because it pleased you that way, Lord, but we are all called to share your love. But for these specific people, Lord, we lift them up before you and ask for your protection over each one of them, my God. We know that they are making war against the evil force, Lord, rescuing souls for you once again, so we ask you my God, that you send angels around them, that you cover them with your grace, that you cover with your power, may your word consume their hearts every time they approach someone to tell them about you, Lord Jesus. And to the rest of all of us, my God, I declare that same protection for each one of us because we are part of your army, Lord. There are some who are at the forefront of the battle, there are others who receive them, there are others who guide them and prepare them to send them to another field, to another level, Lord Jesus, we all play a plan in your vineyard, we all have a role to play in your plans, in your purposes.

So, Lord, here we are as a church and we say to you once again 'here is God,' and I ask that as we go into this message I pray, Lord, that you give me courage and confidence to be able to share this word today with my brothers and sisters and that all of us can open our ears and our hearts to receive the message that you have for each one of us today. We declare in your name, Lord. Amen and amen. Thank you Jesus.

Brothers, you can sit down. I invite you to open your Bible to Matthew, Chapter 24 and I know that Pastor Greg had mentioned about the people who participated in the Festival. I personally also want to tell you that I also feel very proud and I congratulate you brothers and sisters for all your work and certainly, as Pastor Greg said, we have to prepare ourselves because what is coming is even better. Not only because it is the Dominican Festival, but because of all the opportunities that come for us to share the love of God, in the Alfa walk and in any other event where the Lord sends us, brothers. There we will be poking our noses. As we Puerto Ricans say, "we are going to be presented by the kingdom." So there we will be.

But, brothers, today's message is a message that perhaps not many of us are used to hearing, although we all know this message. And basically my experiences with the Festival there is something that led me to reflect on this and I feel that the spirit of God led me to reflect on this word, because it is something crucial that we understand in terms of what we are doing every time we share God's love.

When we share that love we are not only leading a person to know Jesus so that their life can experience transformation in the depths of their being, we are also leading that person to great promises of life eternal life that the Lord himself has proclaimed over each of these people, with salvation not only comes the forgiveness of sins and being okay with the Lord, with salvation also comes a promise of eternal life. And many times we overlook this aspect of eternal life, but today I want to stop and be able to focus on this, because I believe it is important, brothers, that we remember basic and crucial principles of our life of faith.

As I look at all these people that we meet, I can see people who have incredible caliber and by caliber I mean the potential in the midst of their lives. But, at the same time, in many of these people that potential has been impaired by some experience that person has had. I'm sure, if I look around the entire congregation here, I can say that maybe 90% of each of us have had an experience that has traumatized us in some way or another. Each and every one of us has had an experience that none of us might want to remember from that experience, perhaps because of the shame it brings or a sense of pain that one remembers and you know what? many of the people we saw at the festival have those experiences as well.

One sees it in their faces, when these people have not known the love of God and have not been able to experience that transformation and healing that only he can. One can see in their faces the anguish they suffer, trying to get something that can ease that pain more but they can't get it.

And when I saw that, I said to myself then, something `deeper that is behind all those things that we can see. If you look at society today there is a constant political fight, legal wars, moral wars over people who are misrepresenting things. The good is being called bad and the bad is being called good. Today there are many things that are changing around us and on top of that, my brothers, if we look at a much higher level, if we go to a world level and see the wars that are happening today in this world as that we....

Think about this..... You are sitting here now and a bomb is falling on a building in the Lebanon area, over there. Innocent people are dying right now while we are listening to the word of God. Relatives, friends of ours are involved in a war where perhaps they do not want to be, and they are there sleeping on the floor, sleeping in the dust, in the dirt, there are times when they do not have anything to drink, they do not have anything to eat, and us here with air, well dressed, well comfortable. Do you see where I am going, my brothers?

There are times when we are not completely alert and aware of the things that are happening around us, and they are determining things, my brothers. These events that are happening around us today are events that are pointing to an even much greater event that is going to bring all things to a stop. And that event of which I am speaking is the return of Christ Jesus for his church.

Yes, brothers, I believe that Jesus is going to return for us. I believe that there is a new heaven and a new earth, which is waiting for each one of us. I believe that we are going in that direction, but at the same time I recognize that there are many people who do not believe the same as I do. And it is worth clarifying that there are some Christians who do not believe the same as I do. Because? We see the situations around us and there are times when people have even forgotten about that promise, brothers, it is a central promise to our Christian faith.

Guess what? If you take from my Christian faith that principle, that promise that Jesus is going to come back for us, you know what? I prefer not to be a Christian and I prefer to be an atheist. If you give me a Christianity only where I only need salvation for my life and to know Jesus and nothing else, that for me would be another empty religion that only offers something that is halfway.

But I am very sure that this offer of Jesus does not remain in a mere salvation, it does not remain in a mere forgiveness of sins. This offer of Jesus comes with a promise and it is a promise of eternal life, it is a promise that Jesus himself said that 'I am going to return for my church and I am going to take you to reign with me'.

I know it's a message that maybe many people either aren't used to hearing it or when they hear it it kind of gives them a kind of remorse, like they believe it or I don't believe it, it's a crazy fable or is it true You know what, brothers? We are not the only ones struggling with this. At the theological level, theologians also battle in different perspectives.

I don't know how many of you have heard of these terms that are called 'the millennium', or the premillennials or the postmillennials or the amillennials. You know what? I know that they are a lot of big words but the only thing you have to know is this: millennium are one of the people who believe this theological perspective that says that there will be a thousand years where the Kingdom of God will be established over all the land.

A premillennial is the theological perspective that believes that before the tribulation comes, the great tribulation is going to come the rapture, where Jesus is going to come and take the whole world.

The postmillennials is that after the tribulation is over, that is when Jesus is going to come and take away his church.

And the amillennials are people who see that term of the millennium as something symbolic, which does not mean a thousand years specifically, but they do believe that Jesus is going to arrive before the tribulation and the day or the hour, nobody will knows.

And guess what? Each of those perspectives has its biblical basis with which to prove it. But if you just in case wonder, and how Lion of Judah is in that perspective. We are among those who believe that before this great tribulation arrives, Jesus is going to come for his church. That is the perspective we have.

And guess what? why do I say this? Because I know, there are many lines of faith, there are many lines of religions that believe different things. There are people who believe that we are experiencing the great tribulation right now, that all the things that we are experiencing today are the great tribulation. It may seem, if I think about all the things that are happening today, it may seem to be true. But I believe that that great tribulation of which we hear in the Bible has not yet arrived.

There are people who think that the great tribulation has already passed and what we are experiencing today is heaven itself. And believe me, when I hear that, I go, 'Wow! If this is heaven, then I'm not going to pay attention to the Bible. Because what I am living now does not look like heaven at all. Where are the streets of gold? What I see are asphalt streets. Where is the sea of glass? Here the sea looks black because of the sand that is at the bottom.

But, brothers you know, I believe that time is yet to come. And maybe you will say 'Pastor Omar, you know what? that message has been heard so many times and so many preachers have said it and so many preachers have wanted to manipulate people with that kind of message too, to try to get something out of them, or because they would respond in a certain way.'

Guess what, my brother? I don't want to manipulate you today. If you feel that I am manipulating you, let me know, but I do believe that there is a message that Jesus has been very clear with each one of us. It is a message that has to be communicated in every language and to every nation.

Let me go to the Bible. I told you Matthew, Chapter 24, in verse 36, says "...But the day and the hour no one knows."

Walter Mercado doesn't know, in fact I don't know what it is about him, I haven't heard from him for a long time. The corner psychologist doesn't know either. The tarot reader in the other corner doesn't know either. Whoever wants to read the supposed M you have in your hand doesn't know either.

"....no one knows, look at this, not even the angels of heaven but only my father..."

Look how interesting because Mark, Chapter 13, You don't have to look it up, but if you want to, verse 32 says the same verse but adds an ingredient that the Matthew passage didn't have.

It says "...but that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels who are in heaven, nor the son."

In other words, not even Jesus himself knows the time when dad is going to want to look at the clock and say 'it's time to go, it's time to go back. It's time to go and pick our people again'. He doesn't even know...

Sometimes I try to visualize it and I imagine Jesus sitting at the right hand of the father, obviously if he had been on the other side then you would understand, but I am here at the right hand of the father, and He kind of looks at him from time to time, like, now? Oh, still... Already?... All your horses, buddy.

The day or the hour, nobody knows, my brothers. And people may try to make stipulations and they have statistics that if according to this verse and that passage and that code that maybe for the year so-and-so... Do you know how many times they have tried to say that and they have not nothing happened yet? Lots of times.

But what does all this have to do, my brothers, with us as a church? I, the reason why I have felt in my heart to remind you of this, my brothers, is because many times we fall into the danger of forgetting this promise. We get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget this promise, we forget that we are pilgrims and foreigners in this nation and in this world. We forget that our citizenship is not American, nor is it Peruvian, nor is it Puerto Rican, nor is it Colombian, nor is it Chinese, nor is it Japanese, our citizenship is in heaven.

I don't know how many of you have heard that song called 'Vuelve', and I'm not talking about Ricky Martín's song, “....come back, because without you my life is gone ....” I confess, I have listened to Ricky Martín, ok. I'm talking about the song for pilgrims and foreigners called 'come back'.

“...come back, oh...come back....”. Have you heard that song?

"...come back for your people, Lord,....", and continue there, I'm not going to continue singing. That song, brothers, if you listen to it in its depth, that song is a deep desire of the church with a capital I that Jesus return for the church. That song cries out anxiously, as if something were breaking inside him with desire and passion for the beloved. And in a certain aspect I can use the words of Ricky Martín because he says, come back because without you my life is gone. You know what? I tell Jesus. 'Jesus, come back because without you my life is gone...'

You know what? Jesus is the center, someone... I was talking with a colleague of mine a few months ago, and we were talking about different things and we also got involved in a discussion about, I'm not going to tell you the details. But the thing was that suddenly, he came out and told me 'Omar, look, I believe that the only alternative for this world is Jesus'. And I kind of sat down to think because it sounded like something very trivial to me. I received it as something very trivial. Yes, Jesus, of course.

And suddenly I ask him 'are you sure of what you are saying? You, do you know the depth of what you are saying?' And he tells me 'Yes, Omar. I am convinced that the alternative for each person, for each man, for each woman is Jesus.'

And you know what, brothers? Today I say it with the same conviction. I know that the alternative for this world is Jesus. I understand that the center of life itself is focused on the person of Jesus and I am not talking about the Jesus of the hot dogs, there are times when a person is called Jesus. And I say that with respect, I mean Jesus the son of God, that name above all names.

Guess what, brothers? I believe that Jesus is the engine of life itself. A person who has not met Jesus, a person who has not completely given his heart to Jesus, is a person who is leading his life half way. That person may be able to achieve some things, but his life is halfway. He's a person who can manage to start a company and become a millionaire, a great CEO, but you know what? He is a person who will be halfway. He is a person who perhaps, trying to find meaning and direction, will get entangled in a lot of things that will destroy his life and his life will not be halfway, his life will be completely empty.

But I believe that when a person comes to Jesus that person has found himself with the total resource that will fill and supply every single need in his life. And it is something inexplicable, brothers, I wish I could have the words to explain it to you, but it is impossible.

This morning I was talking with a woman who... and she's a single woman with a Christian life, her life has uuuffff... a lot of problems that are happening right now. My hands don't tell me, I mean, my fingers don't allow me to count the problems she is experiencing today, but you know what? this woman has an inexplicable peace.

Are you listening to me, brothers? How can a person experience an inexplicable peace in the midst of so many situations that they may have in their life? No, it's not by having a million dollars in your bank account. What's more, if you have a million dollars in your bank account, the stress you are going to have is going to be even greater.

'Oh, pastor, what's it going to be like if it's a million dollars? Bah, what's up...! And my life will be totally resolved. Now I can die in peace."

Yes, of course. You know how to manage a hundred dollars in your pocket. How long does 100 dollars last you? If I give you one hundred dollars in your hand now, how long will $100 last you? Hundred bucks, maybe some person... Hey guys come on let's eat. In an hour the hundred dollars went to you.

Maybe there can be a person who says to me, 'ah, it lasts me until tomorrow'. Okay, see you tomorrow. And there may be a person who tells me, 'yes, at least until Wednesday around there, it more or less lasts for me'. And it may be that there is a person who is so careful, that he does not spend a penny, and the hundred dollars will last him much longer.

But what I am saying, brothers, is that we seek to find peace in places or in people that we are not going to find. And that many times causes us to worry about how we are going to live each day of our lives, and what we are going to occupy ourselves with, and what we are going to do, and what kind of house we are going to have, and what kind of husband or wife am I going to have, what kind of friends and colleagues am I going to have, what kind of job am I going to have. And all these things, like they drown, little by little drown each one of our lives and we forget something that goes above all those things. And these are the promises that God has for each one of us, those promises of life, promises that there is a better life than the one we are living now, that awaits us. And I'm not saying, brethren, that we're going to stop doing the things we're doing now and start focusing on heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven.

I don't know how many of you remember when this American preacher Denis Peacock came, that he was talking about those people who focus only on heaven and oh, I want to go to heaven, and that's it, everything It's heaven, heaven, heaven.

Guess what? That is also a totally wrong perspective, empty and half. Because you are not seeing the totality of things. We have a reality in which we are living, brothers. God wants us to be present today. God wants you to have your family. God wants you to have your good house, your good job. God wants you to share those blessings that have come into your life today. God wants you to share those blessings with others as well, not forgetting, look at this, not forgetting that we are going to a place greater than what we ourselves can see or our mind can understand.

Those are the things, my brothers, that we have to learn to think and say what moves me. What is it that moves my life, what is it that moves me second by second, minute by minute. If I tell myself that I am a Christian, if I declare that I am a believer in Jesus, what is moving my life, what moves my life, what gets me up every morning. The need to go to work to be able to provide for my wife, my children, or the mere fact that it is God who gives me life and gives me strength to be able to do the things I have to do, knowing that that there is something else that is waiting for me ahead, knowing that I am walking in the direction of something that is ahead.

Guess what, brothers? There are... I know there are many people who may think, 'Oh, Omar, that's an old message, that's fine... if Jesus comes, fine, if he doesn't come, that's fine too.' to this kind of message, but guess what? One must be careful with that. because this message is key for us.

In Second Peter, Chapter 3, look at what it says next. He says "...knowing first this that in the last days scoffers will come walking according to their own mentalities and saying where is the promise of his advent, because from the day of the fathers, from the day that our fathers slept all things remain just as from the beginning of creation.”

Guess what? That verse is centuries ago, where people in society dared to confront Pedro and tell him, 'Pedro, that message that you are saying is not worth it. They have been speaking that message for so long, but nevertheless our parents, our grandparents have already died and where is Jesus? Things stay the same, nothing changes. Where is this advent of Jesus? Where is that that is going to arrive in a cloud and angels blowing trumpets over there and we are going to see a person like Edwin sounding the trombone announcing that Christ is coming, where is all that?

People, listen carefully, people who, because of the things they were experiencing, their feelings of faith, their sensitivity in their faith, the sensitivity of being able to believe these promises, brothers and sisters, were completely clouded and they had already forgotten about them. And they not only forgot but began to criticize them.

And what is the answer that Peter gives them? Verse 8, says “.... but oh, beloved, do not ignore this, that with the Lord one day is what?...... And a thousand years is what?..... the Lord does not retards what?.... according to some they have it for tardiness but it is what? .... towards us not wanting anyone...... but everyone to proceed to what?.....

Brothers, our lives in large part, our lives in large part They are defined by this. Our lives are largely defined by how we not only live upright and upright before God, but also how we can lead other people to experience those same promises that God has for each of their lives. .

And guess what? I'm only talking about the good side, but you know what? there is also a slightly ugly side to all of this. In that same passage from Matthew, you know what? Jesus talks about the little sheep and the goats, right? what will happen to the sheep? Where are you going to put the sheep? At his right hand, and he is going to send the kids, where? To his left hand. And what is he going to say to the little sheep on his right hand? Come, enter into the joy of my kingdom. Come in, you are part of me, why? Because they have remained faithful, because they have known how to respond to the call that I have placed on their lives. And what are you going to say to the kids? Bye, bye, so long, farewell, bon jour. No, that's... you get the message, right?

Those people on the other side are the people who did not know how to remain faithful to the end, who did not know how to receive the message of salvation, who did not know how to look, focus their eyes on Jesus. Those are the people who are going to go somewhere else not very good.

And, brothers, I tell you these words that I am sharing with you are as real as this pulpit that I am touching. They are as real as the seat in which you are sitting. I am not telling you a fallacy, I am speaking a word of truth. I am speaking a word of life to you, that moment will come. When? I don't know, I might be seven feet underground when that time comes. It might be when I'm getting in the car, when I'm leaving here. It may be when I'm eating a good steak at the barbecue with a couple of my friends. At any moment the Lord can arrive for each one of us. And that moment will come when each one of us will be called to account for the things that we have done and that we have not done.

My brothers, I am not saying this to scare you, I am saying this to encourage you, I am saying this to encourage you. because? I believe, brothers, that the moment is near. I believe that Jesus is coming. I believe that the Lord is around to return for us, his church.

And the question is, then, as Jesus says in that same passage in Matthew, Jesus says the following; At the end of Chapter 24, verse 42 says: "....watch therefore because they do not know the hour that our Lord is coming". That word watch means to be alert, it means to be aware, brothers. It doesn't mean that I'm going to be looking out the window every day to see if the Lord is coming, if the sky turned dark or turned red, or turned yellow, or tomato-colored. It does not mean that, it means that in my life, in every step that I take, I am fulfilling my responsibilities, if I am fighting to lead a life of integrity, to lead a life that reflects the love of God. But at the same time I am thinking, I am a pilgrim and a foreigner and I am going to that heavenly nation that is waiting, that is being prepared for each one of us, brothers.

I think it's important that we also remember the need to think in that dimension. I want to end by sharing something. When I was young, no, no, no... ok, why did I think I was going to get that answer? At least they are awake, they are not asleep.

When I was about twelve years old, I had a dream, brothers. In that dream I lived in Puerto Rico at that time, of course, and I lived... my house was next to an empty park, and in that park, in this dream I dreamed that I was in that park. And in the distance I saw like two buildings floating in the air, and the buildings were breaking up and lava, like lava from a volcano, was coming out of those buildings, they were burning completely. And suddenly, the floor where I was standing began to open up and lava also began to come out and I kind of stayed in a little bit standing like that... Look if that dream that I still remember was so vivid. Amen.

And suddenly, on the horizon, I look beyond those buildings that were breaking down, I see that a white cloud begins to move horizontally like this and a white light begins to come out, and I I see how the face of the Lord comes out and approaches me as if it were a zoom. And as he approaches me, he takes out his finger and points at me and tells me, ..... There were no words, only the gesture of a finger.

What would you feel if you interpreted that dream? And you see the face of Jesus that points at you and makes you...... Don't dress, you're not going..

I don't know how you would react, but I got up like a firecracker from my bed and I ended up in my mother's lap. My mother had a solid spirit, she still has. And I told her about my dream and she told me 'Don't worry, I believe that the Lord is letting you know something and I ask the Lord that he show you'.

A year later, I was 13 years old and we were in my church, at the farewell of the year on December 31, and the tradition of my church was to close the year in the holy supper, the Lord's supper . And the altar in my church was a much bigger altar, broader than this one, and the tradition was that the table was brought here to the altar and all the people would come and go to the front of the altar. The hujieres distributed the elements and all the people together at the altar said goodbye to the year at that moment.

I remember that that particular year the pastor before giving dinner he asked if there was anyone who wanted to accept the Lord Jesus as their Lord and savior. I don't know why my dream repeated itself in my mind.

And there I am in the midst of the tumult, thinking about this dream and hearing those words 'Is there anyone who wants to receive the Lord? I don't know why but my hand like a spring went up. I don't know if it was out of fear or not, I don't want to stay, I raised my hand and there the pastor calls me and takes me behind the communion table and kneels right next to him.

It is clear that he knelt to the right side of him and I can feel that I was a sheep and not a kid that day. And kneeling there I began to pray and I began to cry. I'm talking to you, I'm just a 13-year-old boy, and I'm there crying and crying and I said to myself 'Lord, I know that in that dream you were telling me that I'm not going to go with you when you come back and I don't want to For that to happen, I want you to enter my heart. I was praying like this, I was desperate. And a sentence that began as fear, ended in a sentence of conviction.

My prayer ended with conviction because I knew what I was praying for. I was saying 'Lord, I want you to be the Lord of my life. I want to live with you for the rest of my days. I want to live with you when you come and return for your church, I want to be there. I want to experience what it is to live next to you and I know that only through you will I be able to do it.'

At 13 years old I knew that I was praying that prayer. You know what, my brothers? When I got up from my knees, and I have brother Samuel Caravallo who is witnessing here, there were 15 other young people kneeling around the communion table accepting the Lord that day.

I believe that on that day God brought conviction to the hearts of many and I believe that in these days in which we are that our church is moving in a strong evangelistic dimension, I believe that God is bringing conviction to hearts of our need for him, that our lives without him are nothing; our lives without him are a totally empty hole; that our lives depend on him one hundredfold, my brothers.

Our lives, you know what? they do not depend on the diplomas that we may have hanging on a wall. And this is something that I have learned, our life does not depend on that, our life does not depend on the super-large salaries that we may or may not have. Our life depends on how the Lord supplies each one of us. And that is the message, brothers, that I want to share this morning with each one of you. Our lives completely depend on the Lord.

And today I want to end by making an invitation. If there is someone here this morning who has not yet made that decision to give their life completely to the Lord Jesus, I want to invite you, but before you respond, I want you to meditate on this song.

I warn you that I am not a singer. I defend myself, but I'm not a singer. But this song from the first time I heard it touched my life. It's an old song. It's on tape, it's not on CD, so if it doesn't sound great, bare with me. But I want you to think about this song, brothers. It's a song, it's a dream. And I want you to close your eyes and imagine this dream:

I dreamed that I went to heaven and you were there
A beautiful and crystalline sea and streets of gold I saw
Los angeles they sang when someone called you
You could see a young man who approached smiling

And said 'you don't remember me today, wait and see'
The Bible you taught me very short age
Every week at the beginning you prayed to the Lord
And one day in your prayer I gave him my heart

Thank you for giving me Jesus
He has changed my being
/> Thank you for giving me Jesus
Glory to God that's how it was

Another man next to you said
'do you remember the occasion that a missionary preached
making you cry< br/> You lacked money but that did not matter
Jesus took your offering and that is why I am here

Thank you for giving me Jesus
He has changed my being
Thank you for giving me Jesus
Glory to God that it was so

I saw many come to speak with you
Those that God touched with your generosi dad
Things made with love that the world ignored
Heaven before God proclaimed with joy

I know that there in heaven
There will be no crying
Safer I'm sure I saw you cry
Seeing something in Jesus when your hand he took
And said 'son, what you have seen will be your reward'

Thank you for giving me Jesus<
He has changed my being
Thank you for giving me Jesus
Glory God that it was
Thank you for giving me Jesus
He has changed my being
Thank you for give me Jesus
Glory to God that it was like that
Glory to God that it was like that
That's how it was

It is the best gift that we can give to someone is the gift of Jesus. And I go back and make that call, if there is someone here today who has not given their heart to Jesus, I want to take the opportunity that you can do it today.

Living for Jesus is the best thing one can do. And I still want to extend that call even more, if you feel that you have strayed from the love of God, if you feel that you have strayed from that love that is found only in Jesus, I want to invite you too. I am not going to ask you to raise your hand, I am going to ask you to come running here to this altar and that you renew your vows with the Lord.

You know your heart, you know your condition. I know mine too, so I invite you, my brother, my sister, not to be afraid of who is going to look at you or what they are going to say to you, I invite you to make this moment a moment that changes your life completely, that changes your life for the rest of your days. What Jesus offers you will never be compared to what this world is going to offer you, so I invite you to take the opportunity today to renew your complete life with the Lord. There is a promise of life that is for you. When the Lord says yes to something it is yes, when he says no it is no. we can be unfaithful but you know that the Lord remains faithful to each one of us. We may fail day after day, night after night, but guess what? the Lord remains faithful to you. The Lord remains faithful to the promises he has communicated to your life. The Lord always remains faithful, he does not change. We can change but you know what? the Lord remains faithful to you, so I throw this challenge today...