Justified by faith without works of the law

Let's go to verse 21, Romans 3:21, from 21 to 31. Actually we are going to be touching the whole Chapter but these verses are representative of the content of the rest of the Chapter.

It says: .... But now... –there are two very important things there, a 'but' and it also says 'now'. Remember that the Apostle Paul is speaking in terms of his time. Now why? Because there has been a change in the situation of man, of humanity in the time of Paul. That now is in Christ.

It says: "....But now apart from the law -another revealing term- apart from the law the justice of God has been manifested beforehand -I put it there before- by the law and by the prophets...."

That is, the justice of God had been manifested until the time of Paul through the law and the prophets, the ordinances, the commandments, the principles of the Kingdom of God had been manifested through Jewish law, the Old Testament.

".... by the law through the prophets, but now the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ..."

That is, Paul now says the God's justice is manifesting itself in a different way, now it is through faith in Jesus Christ.

“...for all who believe in him.” That reminds me of that passage, right? for the salvation of everyone who believes, everyone who believes in him.

“....because there is no difference...” Remember that this is a theme that the Apostle Paul has been continually elaborating on, this that there is no difference. There is no difference between the Jew, the Greek, the Roman and we are going to see that it does not even include the Christians in what sense.

“.....for everyone who believes because there is no difference, for all have sinned”

How many know that verse by heart? Say it with me:

“....for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely.”

That's a very important term too, 'free' means without any cost. Because? By your grace. And using what instrument, by what means?

It says “....through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God set forth as a propitiation”

What does the word propitiation mean? It means as a ransom, it means like when a person has been kidnapped that a ransom is requested from the relatives. It's an idea more or less like that, no. The Lord was set as a ransom for us. He 'paid the price, he put himself in our place. All of those ideas are tucked into that idea of propitiation.

“....as propitiation through faith in his blood to manifest his righteousness because of having overlooked past sins in his patience with the aim of manifesting in this time –the time of Paul but from then on this reaches down to our own time-his righteousness so that he may be just and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.”

Notice that God has a personal purpose in doing things that way, that salvation is through Christ and by grace and by faith. He says so that he gets the glory and the credit. God is very interested in his glory, brothers, and we are going to explain a little why. So that he may be just and the one who justifies the one who believes in Jesus.

So it says here “Where then is boasting?” In other words, this is more of a rhetorical question. Boasting is a theme that Pablo has been working on continuously, the boasting of man, the pride of man and the boasting of the Jews who thought they were better than anyone, the last Coca Cola in the desert, as they say out there. Ah, we have the law, we have Moses, we have the prophets, we have the revelation of the only God, and they boasted of being a great thing.

That is why Paul attacked them before: “behold, you have the nickname of a Jew, you rely on the law, you glory in God and you know his will and you are instructed by the law and you approve of the best and you trust in that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, etc.”

Paul has already told you, you are nothing, he has spoken to the Jews, and he says then here "Where then is boasting?" There is no boasting if salvation is by faith no one can boast, no one can glorify.

Where then is boasting? It is excluded, in other words it is neutralized, it is completely annulled by what law? By the Old Testament law of works? No, it says "... not by the law of works, but by the law of faith."

And here is Paul's conclusion to all of this, which I'm going to elaborate a little more on in a moment, but Paul as a theologian and as a person who is writing a logical, coherent, sequential treatise, he has been setting up his arguments in a very elaborate, very concrete way, he says:

"...we therefore conclude that man, that is, humanity is justified by faith without the works of the law" .

Now, brothers, those who are here who do not know much about this language and these biblical images, which are new, as I say in the Gospel, when he says the works of the law he is referring to obedience to all those commandments that God established through the Mosaic Law. When you go to books like Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Exodus, even a little bit of Exodus as well, and all those books where the law and the established law of... you will see that there were many dietary commandments there, formal commandments of wash your hands, to do this, to do that, and you know what? not content with those commandments the jews elaborated a number... the Talmud was literally hundreds and hundreds of tracts and additional commandments to make sure that those commandments of the law were fulfilled. Then it became an incredible apparatus, a bunch of commandments that governed everything, absolutely everything, the whole life of man was... the Jew could not move without a law having something to do with any operation. It had become something bulky and overwhelming in the life of the Hebrew people.

And Paul brings something revolutionary, a revelation that had to come from God, that he is clarifying now, because when Christ came, he died on the cross, there was no book out there that said what that meant and what were the detailed implications of that death of the Lord on the cross.

God had to use a man like Paul and other of the Bible writers to give people the explanation of what he meant, why it was necessary for Christ to die, and what was the importance of it. his death and what were the positive consequences of Jesus' death. People did not understand that, God used the Apostle Paul to clarify to us the meaning of all those things.

So, Paul says man is justified by faith without the works of the law, that is, apart from all those commandments because there were many Jews who converted to Jesus Christ who believed that he was the Messiah, but Since it had not been explained to them, they believed that they had to keep keeping all the Law of Moses, continuing with all those religious ties and all those commandments, and all those rituals and that Christ was simply like the cherry that is put on top of the cake. , to the cake Boom, a little cherry there that makes it pretty and cute. But Paul says, no, no, Jesus Christ is not the cherry. Jesus Christ is the complete cake. You see, when Christ died he annulled... a wind came and blew away all that crap that was purely commandments and man-made. In addition to that, God established the law later, we will see, to provide a background for what was to come, which was grace through Christ Jesus. We will clear that up later as well.

But all of that is implied in that expression "a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law", that's why in verse 21 "but apart from the law..." here it says it in a different way.

"We conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law."

Now, one of the conclusions of this is what verse 29 says: “Is God only the God of the Jews? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Certainly also of the Gentiles”

That was one of the great mysteries that God entrusted to the Apostle Paul to reveal to humanity. It was that salvation was not only for a select group of people, born in a small town called Israel, but that salvation was for all humanity, all flesh will be saved, says the writer Joel.

Then, ".....also of the Gentiles, he says, because God is one and he will justify those of the circumcision by faith -that is, the Hebrews- and through faith to those of the uncircumcision –that is, to the Gentiles, those who were not born in Judaism-. Then by faith do we invalidate the law? In no way, but we confirm the law.”

You see brothers why I am taking this time to work on these concepts. Brothers, it is important that you young and old in the faith know the basic principles of the Bible and the Christian faith.

When I take time, as I am doing, to comb through different passages from the book of Romans, I am doing it because I want to give it a subliminal message, a subconscious message, and not so subconscious because I am explaining it now, and it is important that you know the Bible, it is important that you study the concepts that are enclosed in it.

It is important to have a people who are biblically literate, because we have many churches and many people who are biblically illiterate. They don't know the principles of faith, they don't know the terms of faith, they don't know exactly what they believe, they don't know the characters in the Bible, they don't know the great events of Scripture, they don't know the difference between prophets and the kings of the old testament and the patriarchs, do not know is the new testament and old testament. There are so many things that you should know, brothers, and I encourage you in the name of the Lord to go deep and study the word of God and know these things and as we take time to break down the Bible, that's the way we are telling you, it is important that you know, when you read something, what it is referring to. And that takes time, but we can all get there.

I assure you that this is not for the gifted, all of you can receive that type of teaching. Now, remember well, that Paul has already cut off the heads of the pagans, the Romans and the Greeks. He said "they are under sin, they have disobeyed God, they have turned it into an idol, they have turned it into an image of reptiles, of animals, of men and God is upset with them and their sins disqualify them from being saved."

And then he goes after the Romans and the Greeks and all the other humanity that doesn't know the true God, he goes to the Jews and says: “and you Jews too, don't think you're too important because you also, you say that you keep the law and this and that, but you also sin continually. No one is saved by works of the law."

And then Paul also takes away any claim of justice to the Jews and says, you too, as we saw in Chapter 2, have sinned and disobeyed God and are also children of sin. By law no one is saved.

But guess what? That now in Chapter 3 also says the same even of Christians who believe that they too can be saved by their good works.

How many evangelicals do you know who believe that because they come to church, and give money or dance or be a member of the deacons group or whatever, they are saved? There are people who have a sense of personal justice and believe that, well, because they belong to León de Judá or because they are evangelicals, or because their father was a pastor, or their grandmother was a woman of faith and prayer, that they are saved.

And Paul says, look, no one can be saved by anyone's work, or their own works. That is why Paul says here in verse 9: “...What then are we better than they? -Speaking of the Jews- In no way, then, says Paul, verse 9, Chapter 3, we have accused Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin.”

It is very important for Pablo and for us to understand that. Brothers, there is not a single human being walking on this earth, nor who has walked on the earth who can say that by his good works he can enter the Kingdom of God.

That is why there are so many people when you say, look, receive Christ as your Lord and savior. Turn from your sins. They say, but why do I have to convert and repent? I don't kill anyone, I don't steal, I don't hurt anyone, I don't go around kicking dogs in the street. I am a good person. I don't need to regret anything. Brothers, all of us, says the Bible, have offended God in some way or another. Whether it's thought, whether it's things we haven't done, things we've done, looks we've given, desires we've had in our minds, little or big things we've done, no one enters the Kingdom of God by their works.

How many say love to that? The only thing that could allow a man or a woman to enter the Kingdom of God by their works is if they were impeccable and perfect. Since you committed a single sin, you are already disqualified. The only thing that allows you to pass your own intelligence or cunning or resources, God's test is a perfect A. And what human being can say I have never done anything wrong?

And that is what Paul wants to develop here. He says “there is not one righteous, not even one – quoting the Bible, right? he is quoting psalm 14 here. If you go to psalm 14 he says the following, speaking about humanity, he says “they have become corrupted, they do abominable works”. That's you and me brother. There is no one who does good.

It says "The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any understanding who sought God." And do you know what his conclusion was at the end of that search? It says: "everyone has strayed into a corrupted state, there is no one who does good, there is not even one".

When someone tells you that you are a good person, that you have nothing to repent of, they are making God a liar, because God already said it, there is no one who can be saved by their own goodness .

And that is what Pablo wanted to make clear before going into the positive. First he has said: humanity, all of you are worthy of hell. No one can be saved by obeying a religious system. No one can be saved by behaving well and doing the right thing. Everyone, and he proves it, one by one, pagans, Jews, Christians, all are under the same condemnation, except – and this is where he begins to get positive – except for faith in Jesus Christ.

Paul says, salvation ultimately is by divine grace, it is by divine favor, it is because God has proposed to do so. That is why look at what it says in verse 25, it says:

"Whom God put as a propitiation through faith in his blood to manifest his justice because of having overlooked in his patience the past sins."

In other words, the Lord said, you know what? These people, no matter how much they want to, will never save themselves, so you know what? I am going to forgive your sins through the blood of my son. I am going to overlook your sins and I am going to save you all.

How many have been to a public library? They know that sometimes libraries have days to forgive people fines, they are interested in getting their books back and they say: today, we are going to forgive everyone who has fines and bring us the books and we are going to forgive them. They are interested in having the books brought to them. Because? Because there are people who don't want to show up at the library because they owe them money, so they keep the books at home. They say, come today and we'll forgive all your fines, but give us back the books.

Guess what? God has also said to humanity. Look, you know what? I am going to forgive their sins, I am not going to take them into account, but there is one thing we have to do. Do you know what it is? Receive Christ's sacrifice as applicable to us. That is what Paul is saying.

Each one of us, the only way we can be saved is when we admit, Lord, by myself, I'm fried, by myself, I would go to hell right now, but now I accept the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross of Calvary as substitution for my sin and I believe that by blood I am saved. And I receive him as my savior.

Do you understand what it means now to receive Christ as savior? It means, I recognize that by my own strength I cannot save myself, but Christ died for me and then you pay the price for my sin. And that makes you safe.

And what Paul is insisting on here, that is such an important doctrine in the Christian life that salvation is free, that salvation is by grace, that salvation is through faith and that salvation is through Christ Jesus, because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. There is no human remedy that works against the sinfulness of man. Only the blood of Jesus.

So, that's why in verse 27, look at what it says:

“Where then is boasting?” In other words, when one understands that, that I cannot save myself, that only Christ saves, that immediately cancels any pride that I may have.

Remember that I have told you something that one of the great controversies of God, indeed, the greatest controversy of God with humanity is regarding pride and human arrogance. Look, since Eden God has been dealing with pride. The first proud man was Lucifer, the most exalted angel that God created, as the Bible says, the Bible suggests that he wanted to become like God and put himself in God's place, he was filled with pride.

If you read there in Ezekiel, it talks about this, it says that he was filled with pride and wanted to put himself in God's place and that is why God threw him out of heaven. And that is the Satan that creates so many headaches for us here on earth today. And that Satan tempts man and man in turn, does the same. God tells him, do not touch that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the man does so and reveals himself against God.

And you follow the tower of Babel, the men doing the same thing again, being proud, saying, we are going to build a very tall tower as a monument to our wisdom and our greatness. And what does God do? He kicks that castle of sand and confuses their tongues and throws them all over the land; pride again.

And then, he takes a town out of nothing, from a poor wandering Bedouin over there named Abraham, old now, and dry and almost dead, and gives him a son and creates a nation and those people ungrateful and proud they leave Egypt, from slavery, and as soon as they have left they are already complaining about God and revealing themselves against him in the desert.

And then, they betray and adulterate with other gods while God blesses and blesses and blesses them. And they believe they are the best of the best, and they rebel against the Father, they violate his royalty, his paternal dignity, they continually insult him.

And the Romans do that, the Greeks do it, all of humanity does it despite the fact that God has given them a natural revelation so that they know because man knows, he instinctively has the outline of personality divine written in their genes. Man knows who God is in a general way and still persists in lowering him.

So, brothers, I see God as a being, a king tremendously aware of his dignity, his royalty, his holiness, continually ignored by his children.

Hey, those of you who are parents know what I mean. A rebellious son, a son who neglects his father and mother, the Bible says that this is why God hates him, why does God take rebellious children who insult their parents and disobedient and careless with their parents so seriously? Why is one of the first commandments 'honor your father and your mother'? Because? Because God knows what he's talking about. Because God knows the offense that humanity has continually neglected him, despised him.

And that's why you know what? God has made sure that man can never save himself. Because if he could save himself they would take God out of the movie completely. That is why it says here, then, where is the boasting? is excluded. Go?

And in verse 26 “...with a view, he says, God established things that way, with a view, that is, with the purpose of manifesting his justice at this time in order to may he be just and the justifier."

Because we have seen that, brothers, every time man can do anything for himself, he immediately takes God out of the matter. Why did God take Gideon and tell him: look, you have thirty thousand men against the whole army of hundreds of thousands, but they are too many, because if you win with those thirty thousand, they will believe that it was you who did it. So take them there to me and tell everyone who wants to leave to leave, and then he says: there are still many. They can still say perhaps that it was because of a good strategy, or because of their courage or their military prowess. He says: no, take them to the waters and try them for me and he left him with 300 men. Because? So that when they won they would have to give the glory to him.

Brothers, it's fascinating. If he had the novelistic capacity to express all of human history, it is God looking for recognition of his creature, looking for his creature to understand that there is nothing more important than submitting to him, the Father, the sovereign, the king, the Lord. That is why, brothers, it is that God loves humility and meekness so much. That is why the Bible says that God will not despise a contrite and humiliated heart. That is why, brothers, it is important to respect our authorities. It is important that young people learn to respect gray hair. It is important not to walk with a rebellious attitude that questions everything, that criticizes everything, that lowers everything like this current generation, because God hates the rebellious heart, because he knows and that is why God always does things in such a way that no glory remains for man, but glory be for him, because everything that exists, exists because God has created it.

Ultimately, brothers, all is illusion except the mind of God that conceives of man. Without God there is nothing. Without God there is nothing. So that's why God managed to establish a system of thousands of years to lead humanity like a dead end, little by little, it's like cowboys who take the cattle and take them little by little until put them in the corral. God elaborated a system called the law and gave it to man, he says, well, do you want to justify yourself?, ok, no problem, we are going to give you the way to do it: some commandments and when you fill those commandments, then you can be saved.

And guess what? the man in the end will have to conclude: I can't. Already exhausted, tired, Lord, the truth is that I cannot save myself. The law was a ruse, it was a trap that God put in man, a trip that God put in man. That is the law. It was a way of God to establish a black velvet background on which to put the diamond of the figure of Jesus Christ, even poetic I got there.

It is the black background of man's failure, man's sin. And God established that whole system of law. That is why Paul says, it is not that the law is bad, on the contrary. It plays a very important role, it is a mirror in which man can see his inability to save himself, so it plays a very important role.

You remember the bronze laver that the priests had in the Old Testament. Before they ministered they had to look at each other and if there was a stain or something, they had to wash their hands and feet, as symbolically, the extremities, before ministering before the Lord, they had to look at themselves in the bronze mirror of the fountain and then they could be washed. The law is the mirror that has allowed humanity to conclude that it cannot save itself, forcing it to go and throw itself on the mercy and grace of God.

So how wonderful is what Paul is saying, isn't it? Humanity, you have sinned, you are destitute of the glory of God, you have no right to anything from God, now you only have one option left: Christ Jesus, the blood of Christ. The propitiation that comes through the blood of Jesus.

How many say love to that? The truth, brothers, the truth is that I would not dare to come before the throne of God on judgment day, and pretend that I can argue in my favor, because already brothers, I disqualified myself thousands of years ago, only because of the mercy and grace of God.

How sad it will be those who do not have Christ as their lawyer and who intend to appear before the throne of God and argue according to their own arguments, which is something that Paul has also said.

He says, there are Gentiles who do not know Christ. How many have wondered, well, what will happen to that Indian stuck there in the Amazon jungle who doesn't even have a transistor radio and who has never heard that Jesus Christ saves and Yiye Ávila never got there or anything like that? What will happen to that person? Can God condemn you if you never heard of Christ? This is a subject that, as they say, has eaten the brains of so many theologians, but what Paul intimates and suggests is the following: those people when they arrive at the day of judgment, according to the way in which they have lived and according to their arguments personal, God is going to say, ok, you can defend yourself. We are going to see, within what you knew and received, within the light that you had available, how you behaved according to what you knew.

And the Bible says that Paul is going to have to defend his own reasoning. It's like you're now going to court here in Boston to settle a child support or insurance case or whatever, and there's no lawyer there and you have to deal with Boston law that doesn't even speak English, imagine. And you have to be your own lawyer. They say out there that the person who defends himself has an idiot for a lawyer or something like that.

Brothers, in a court, everything is done .... it is a language, it is a whole symbology, it is a cryptic system that you need specialized knowledge. Imagine standing before God and trying to defend yourself on your own arguments. Ah, that my mother did not treat me well, that she slapped me when I was three years old and that traumatized me. And from there I came out a criminal, a drug addict. The Lord is going to say, yes, but when they told you that God loves you and that you repent, and that he can heal you and what then... then... the idea is that no one will be able to defend themselves for himself, we need a lawyer who is Christ Jesus who has never lost a case.

Say the Pentecostals, glory to God. Hallelujah!

That's right. So I conclude with this brothers, what does that say about how then we should behave. First of all, Christian, what are the consequences of that knowledge? Number one is that you no longer have to live in agony wondering if at the end of the exam you are going to pass or not. Because God has already said, look, I know you're a scoundrel anyway, but I'm going to pass you by anyway, so what God says is, look, we can rest. We don't have to be under condemnation, feeling guilty all the time: I'll save myself, I won't save myself.

If you trust your life to Jesus Christ and know that he has paid the debt, you are saved. That if we confess our sins, if we believe that he is the son of God, that he raised him from the dead, we are saved, says the word. It is not by work, it is not by what you can do, at the end of the day there will be a thousand ways that God can condemn you if it is because you did everything right. When you reach the end of the day and have tried everything you can and have failed, you can say to him: Father, now I entrust myself to your grace and your mercy because I know that it is not by the works of the flesh, it is not by works of the law, except by your mercy.

God, when you have done your part, God will do His to cover the lack, the debt. So you can be confident, you can rest in the Lord. So that's one of the things, it's not by work but by the mercy of God.

Number two: I believe that one of the things we have to do is give glory to God, thank God, thank that merciful Father who has forgiven us our offenses and who has told us Don't worry son, I know you can't do it on your own, but I forgive you.

I believe that the Christian has to be continuously possessed by a sense of deep, consuming gratitude and humility towards God and for this reason we have to always give glory to the Father, praise him for this salvation that he has given us free of charge. . And tell him, Lord, thank you for getting me out of hell. Thank you for not taking into account all my sins. You are good, you are merciful.

Third very important thing, that we also have mercy on others. Because if I know that I am a sinner and that I cannot save myself, and that only by God's mercy I am saved, that means that I cannot be there showing off with others who are in sin . There is no place to be judging others. There is no place to despise the sinner.

The Bible says “if anyone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual restore him with a spirit of meekness, seeing that you yourself are not also tempted in the same way”.

God continually calls us to recognize that because I am a sinner, I cannot walk around with an accusing finger pointing at everyone else. I first have to look at my own fault and look at others with that same eye of mercy and goodness and grace.

When you look at the homosexual, when you look at the drug addict, when you look at the adulteress, when you look at the drug addict or alcoholic, when you look at the person who is immersed in some kind of sin, look at yourself there except by the grace of God and the mercy of God.

Don't judge. You remember we talked about judging people, judging with that eye that delights to see the mark of sin on others. No, when we look at others we first see our own inability to be saved and then we have mercy and try to help that person out of his sin and bless him and be merciful. Look first at the beam that is in your eye that would prevent you from entering the Kingdom of God and then look at the speck that is in the eye of others.

How good is God and how beautiful is the Gospel. We are saved by grace, not by works so that no one can boast.

Let's stand up. And I would like to invite my brothers this afternoon, first of all to recognize that we are disqualified from the Kingdom of God on our own account. Let's confess right now, Lord, by myself I cannot be saved.

Father, I am the first to confess that only by grace and mercy and faith in Christ Jesus and I thank you Jesus because you died on the cross for my sins and therefore I am saved , and that is why I am sure that if I die right now I will go to heaven, because you paid the price. You paid the ransom, Lord, and I thank you for that.

Father, I admit that I have offended you many times, we have offended you and we cannot claim to have our own justice, our own holiness.

Forgive us for judging others, forgive us for looking at others with contempt or pride. Help us to be people of mercy, humility, and grace, and extend grace to others, just as you have extended grace to us as well.

Father, may this church always have a fragile holiness, a conditional holiness, a transparent holiness, a holiness that is always with its eye on you, with its gaze on Jesus, with its hand in your hand, Lord, not trusting in ourselves but always attached to you, our heavenly Father.

Help us to be a church of holiness but also a church of love and mercy, of grace towards the fallen and of people who continually confess their sins before you so that you heal and save us.

We want, Lord, the spirituality of that publican who said 'have mercy on me, O God, for I am a sinner'. And help us to be such a church, Lord, that is always aware of the importance of Jesus and by your grace we will get to do it, Father.

Brothers, I also want to invite you, if there is anyone here this afternoon who has not given their life to Jesus Christ yet, to raise their hand now and do what the Apostle Paul says, make Christ their substitute.

I want to ask you if you haven't taken that step of faith yet, if you would like to do so this afternoon. I don't know his life, but if someone wants to take that step of faith, I want to invite him this afternoon to say, "Lord, I receive you as my propitiation, that is, my substitute."

Is there someone I can pray for this afternoon who wants to take that step of faith? Wherever you are, raise your hand if you haven't done so before, and place your life in the hands of the Lord. Will there be someone who has not done that yet, who wants to do it now in the name of Jesus? Will there be someone? Amen.

God bless that sister here. God bless you, sister. You are saying: Lord, I cannot save myself but through Christ Jesus I can be saved. You are saying that. Amen.

There is another hand that has been raised here too, where here, next to Araceli. Ok, amen, glory to God. Yes, I see the sister here behind. Amen.

Anyone else who wants to take that step of faith this afternoon, let us pray for you, let us entrust you to the hand of the Lord? There, this gentleman back there raises his hand. You are doing what the Bible says, aren't you? admitting: I cannot be saved by myself, only by Christ Jesus, so I want to sign that contract. I want to be clear, it is not for me, but for Christ.

Anyone else want to take that leap of faith this afternoon? We want to pray for you. Someone else?

Because it doesn't happen here quickly. Come here. Someone accompany him, those brothers who have raised their hand. Come over here for a quick moment. Come here, don't worry. Let's pray. That is all we are going to do, entrust him to the hands of the Lord and bless his life and place him in the hands of Jesus. Come here for a moment.

You already gave the most difficult part, which is to publicly declare that. Just come here for a little while. We do not want to embarrass you or embarrass you but simply pray for you.

The word says that whoever confesses me before men, I will confess before my Father who is in heaven. And that's all, you are not committing yourself to León de Judá, nor to me, not to anything. It's with Heavenly Father, that's all. Here there are no human ties but love ties in God.

Father, I bless this man, this lady who has passed here in front and that lady who also raised her hand, there behind, I bless her too. You know her heart, Father, be with her too.

Father, you have said that if we confess our sins we are saved through the blood of Jesus and they do this this afternoon, so send your grace now upon their lives and straighten the crooked, and come in to his heart as your word says, "I will enter them, I will dine with them and they with me".

Bless their lives, confirm them in the faith, Father. Illuminate their minds so that they can understand your mysteries and cancel all accusations of the devil, all claims on his life, we neutralize him now and declare him free to live that victorious and abundant life in Christ Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. Your people say, amen. Thank you Jesus. Brothers, God bless you. We love you. Keep in the faith.