Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, says the word: "the Lord tell them... say everyone tell them (tell them) tell them I live, says the Lord Jehovah, that I do not want the death of the wicked, .... says the Lord Jehovah that I do not I want the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live."
There you have a powerful and profound expression of the heart of God, which reveals to us the love of the Father for his creature. God does not want the impious, the sinner, the man to die, but quite the opposite, he wants them to live, he wants them to prosper, he wants them to be saved.
I told the brothers, I was talking with our daughter Abigail who is in Philadelphia, as you know she is studying there at the university and when Meche went to take Abi to the university, the parents were she gave them a program, a presentation with the students who were entering a summer program in which she was a month before regular classes began in September and she was warned…(if we can keep the children please, quiet for to be able to concentrate specifically, let's remember that there are classes up there that we can take our children too so that they can also receive education). But I was telling them, we went… Meche was there and the university authorities were very clear with the students and told them, they warned the students that the University of Pennsylvania has zero tolerance for alcohol, and that if the students… yes Some student during the summer program would get caught drinking, it would be an immediate ticket back home, they would get kicked out of the program, and they would tell them so in different ways. They warned him that they did not want to have to expel any students. However, this weekend, Abi was invited to a party, she said no, she couldn't go because she knew what was going to happen at that party.
And sure enough, at one point, the authorities of the building, the supervisors, entered and four students were expelled from the program and had to face shame, safely call their parents and lose a great opportunity they had received educational, because they did not take away from the warnings of the authorities. They violated the law of the institution and had to pay the price.
These authorities did not want to expel these students, it was not their wish, on the contrary, they wanted them to stay, but there was a law that they had established for the good of others. The consumption of liquor is a terrible thing in the universities of the United States. Students drink in uncontrolled ways. Did you know that the number one cause of death among young people in the United States is alcohol use? thousands of young people, three thousand to four thousand young people a year die, no!!! like five thousand!!! I read that in National Geographics, they die every year from drinking and driving.
Then, the university, out of a desire to protect the lives of these young people and put in them healthy habits of control and behavior, told them: "we don't want them to drink", however these young people violated that law and for therefore they had to pay the price.
I imagine that these young people must have thought: “well, they are not going to comply, these people are too good and too benevolent and we don't think they are going to dare to throw us out, too severe”; They were wrong or perhaps they thought: “even once, what does it matter and we are going to do it behind doors so we are in private, they are not going to do anything”. Unfortunately they were wrong, they had to pay the price. And this authority from the university was forced, they didn't want to do it but they had to.
I find it ironic that this type of drama takes place in a very modern, highly intellectual, very sophisticated university but it is still governed by a very important principle and that is that when a law is established, there is two things: if one obeys the law there is reward and if one violates the law there is punishment. No matter how sophisticated humanity gets, that will always be a principle, that a law requires punishment and requires reward.
God is a God of law, God is a God of justice and when he establishes his laws along with the laws that he establishes, reward and punishment must also come.
The Lord told the Israelites when they were going to enter the promised land, He said: “Today I set before you life and death, choose which path you are going to follow. If you choose the path of serving and obeying and honoring me, you will prosper, your enemies will flee before you, there will be no sick people in your land, I will prosper you in every way. Now if you violate my law, he told them... seven will flee from just one and you will dig wells that you will not be able to use later and you will build houses that you will not be able to live in.
And so it has been with the Jewish people, all these centuries they have been persecuted, wandering because they have disobeyed God's law and God does not want the wicked to die, God does not want anyone to be lost.
One of the things that moves me about this passage is that I see here the heart of God pleading with man not to force him to comply with the law, to punish the wicked, because one day the Lord will have to call us to account and each human being, says the Bible, will have to give an account of what they have done and each one of us will have to come before the throne of God and say 'what did you do with the offer that I made you? '
God is a just God and as much as he wants, he has to comply with what he has established. There are two paths for man, when one dies, all distinctions are left aside. You may have been rich or poor here on earth, attractive or unattractive or intellectually developed or uneducated but when you die all those things are ripped away and all that remains is your soul, your eternal identity, that no matter what you did here in life or did not do except one thing, did you make your peace with God through Christ Jesus? If you obeyed God's law to seek Christ, you can enter eternal life if not enter another type of life, but it is not life but an eternal death, it is a punishment where no one wants to go and God says: " I do not want the wicked to die, I do not want the death of the wicked but to live” do you know that God has been saying that through all the centuries?
In the book of First Peter, the Lord tells the people the same thing. First Peter, chapter three, let's see... sorry is Second Peter, chapter three, verse nine, says: "....the Lord is not delaying his promise as some have delayed, but is patient with us Not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance...."
Do you know why Christ hasn't come yet? It is not because God does not keep his word, but because God is trying to expand time or trying to wait as long as possible so that no one is lost, but instead everyone comes to repentance and is saved. However, there are people who say that Christ is not coming because it has been a long time. And for that the word of God has an answer, the Bible says that: "... there will be daring and stubborn who will preach that Christ will not come, but just as Christ came when Noah's time, he says that the whole world was celebrating and eating and doing all the things that the world does today and his judgment came suddenly, so it will also be in these times, when condemnation will also come, the day of judgment will also come.
In verse 4, Second Peter, chapter 2 says: “…for if God did not forgive the angels who sinned, but, throwing them into hell, delivered them into prisons of darkness to be reserved for judgment and if he did not spare the ancient world, but kept Noah, the preacher of justice, with seven other people, bringing the flood on the world of the wicked.
Go to verse 9, it says: “…the Lord knows how to deliver the godly from temptation and reserve the unjust to be punished on the day of judgment. And especially those who, following the flesh, walk in concupiscence and uncleanness and despise lordship…”.
The gospel according to Saint John also says: “…God so loved the world -chapter three- that he gave his only begotten Son so that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have life eternal, because God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him…”.
God does not want the wicked to die and he has told us "tell them, I don't want them to get lost",
You know, I believe that at this time in history God he wants to reconcile with the human race more than ever. The human race is more inveterate than ever, the human race is more rebellious than ever. Han, like the ancient tribes of the Old Testament, have filled the cup of God's patience. This humanity that we witness today has reached extremes that not even the pagan tribes of the Middle East that God destroyed and that God threw out of Canaan to possess the land the Hebrews reached the extremes of evil that modern humanity has reached and However, nevertheless, I believe that God wants to be reconciled with his creature even more than ever, because God is a Father of love and because God sees in each man, in each woman a reflection of himself.
If God says that God created man in his image and likeness, if there is something of God in every man, in every woman and therefore when a man is lost, something of God is wasted, and that is why God does not want humanity to be condemned.
In writing we have the example of Jonah, the Bible says that God called Jonah to preach repentance to the city of Ninibe. Ninibe was the capital of a great empire, which was one of the cruelest empires in all of human history. A bloody and cruel empire in its conquests.
That empire had persecuted the Jews, had attacked them and had killed many Hebrews and God in his mercy calls Jonah and tells him: "Jonah go and preach to those people that if they do not repent I will I'm going to completely destroy the city” and you know what? Jonas, who was a Jew who knew what they had done to his people, despite being a prophet said: "I am not going to go from those people, I am not going to preach repentance to them" he escaped and you know the story. God grabbed him with a strong hand, put him in the mouth of a whale, kept him there for three days and chastened Jonah finally went and preached to the city of Ninibe, that terribly sinful city.
And you know what? the king repented, declared a fast for the whole city, even the cat had to fast that time. They repented from their hearts and you know what? God spared the city, He forgave that nation that had attacked their own people, God forgave them.
And you know what? This shocked Jonah so much that he became angry with God and said: "That's why I didn't want to preach to them, because I know that you are a merciful God and I knew that if they repented you would forgive them."
And God said to him, “Look Jonah, do you know the story?... God chose a vine and made Jonah fall into a sleep and sent terrible heat on the earth at that moment and that pumpkin It began to grow and that vine and it gave shade to the prophet and the prophet found rest. But then God commanded the vine to dry up, the gourd, and then Jonah woke up all upset and upset because the vine that covered him had dried up and God said to him: "Look, if you bothered that it dried up, a mere plant, the more it hurts me to lose people who do not know how to divide their right hand from their left hand, I love them for that I have forgiven them.
God loves humanity, you know what? there is a humanity that is lost because the devil has blinded their understanding because the church has not done its job, because there are erroneous doctrines that run in the world today. There are preachers who are preaching false security to people and telling them: "don't worry do what you want, the Bible should not be taken completely seriously, all those things that they say there about holiness and morality, that belongs to an ancient culture, God already caught up with their morality, so don't be in a hurry, God accepts everything, God rejects no one." And they are preaching false doctrines, doctrines of demons that give people a false sense of reconciliation with God.
There are other churches that are afraid to preach the truth because they think that people will not want to visit the churches if they preach the truth of God and there is no teaching today and people do not know many times dividing their right hand from their left hand, they do not know how to discern between good and evil. Apart from the fact that there are others who are simply inveterate in their wickedness, they are bound by the devil.
And the church has been raised up to warn people that God doesn't want them to get lost, God loves people and God does everything possible to forgive, God looks for every possible reason to endure his judgment and that people do not go to hell.
Last Sunday I told you brothers that God has said that we are the light of the world, we are the only hope, there is a coming judgment.
God has put it in my heart in these days to preach these words, how many times have you heard me speak so openly about hell? seldom. But at this time I feel a great urgency in my heart that the church has to rescue those teachings that have been lost, and remind people that there is a system of justice that God has established and God cannot violate his own justice. God is a God of judgment, God is a God of justice, he is a God of love, but he is also a God of systems.
And every system of justice presupposes two things: punishment and reward. Reward for the one who abides by the law and punishment for the one who breaks the law. The entire universe is governed that way. The law of gravity is a law of the physical world, if you respect the law of gravity, you do wonderful things, you can walk on the earth, you can get on a plane. People think that a plane violates the law of gravity, no! An airplane respects the law of gravity and that is why it can go up to 30,000 feet or send a person into space. Scientists know how to obey the law of gravity, how to use it while obeying it in order to send a plane to those heights. Now, when a person violates the law of gravity and without the correct apparatus jumps from a fourth floor... you know that he doesn't go up, he goes down and he's going to regret it when he gets down, yes or no? of having violated the law of gravity, because even the blind laws of nature have rewards and punishments.
In the world of human relations it is the same. If a person relates well with others, he has harmony with others, good friendship, respect from people, he has company, if he adheres. Now, if that person violates the laws of public relations and starts oppressing people, deceiving them, telling lies, abusing them, what happens? He stays alone or they put him in jail. Because in the world of ethics and behavior there is reward and there is punishment.
The same is true of spiritual laws. God says: "I require you to take me seriously and that if someone wants to enter my kingdom", like the University of Pennsylvania, said: "whoever wants to enter this university and stay here has to respect the laws of no alcohol consumption. And if they don't have to leave" God has said: "no one can enter my eternal Kingdom except through the justice that my Son achieved through his death on the cross.
Now if a person does not abide by that law, whose fault is it? Is it from God or from the person? Of the person, God established a system. He doesn't want anyone to get lost but he has said this is the way. My kingdom is a kingdom of purity, my kingdom is a kingdom of perfection, my kingdom is a kingdom of impeccability and nothing impure can enter that kingdom. Now, who of us can enter the kingdom of God by his own righteousness? Who can say I am going to behave in such a way that by my own behavior I can enter that perfect kingdom of God? Nobody. There is only one way to enter that kingdom of perfection, it is when Christ by his death on the cross covers us with his justice and when Christ pays the price of our impurity and adopts us then we receive a safe conduct that allows us to enter , because God fulfilled his justice in his Son. Now, that is God's plan, if man does not respect it, it is because of his bad head.
People say: how can such a good God send people to a place as terrible as hell? God does not send anyone to hell brother, people go to hell for their disobedience. God has established a plan and that is why he says: "tell them that I do not want the death of the wicked, but that he repent and come to life."
Hell is a place of terrible suffering where no one wants to go, no one wants to be there. I am not sure if hell is a literal lake of fire, I personally believe that it is some kind of dimension where the person is sent when they die, their soul goes to another dimension. And there are two dimensions, one is the dimension of eternity in God, where everything is blessing, reward, joy, peace, reconciliation, happiness, and there is a dimension where the grace of God does not reach and is not enough, and it is a dimension of terrible suffering. .
The Lord Jesus Christ gave an illustration about it, he spoke of Lazarus and the foolish rich man and the Lord Jesus Christ says that when these two people died; the rich man and Lazarus, in life Lazarus was a beggar full of sores, smelly, unpleasant in appearance, and Lazarus sometimes went to the door of this rich man, and that man was so insensitive to moral and spiritual things that he did not He gave Lazarus absolutely nothing. One day he says that they both died, and that is very important, we all have to die, we will all have to appear before the throne of judgment, and we will all have to give an account before God, no matter what our condition was.
The Bible says that Lazarus went to Abraham's bosom, it is rather an illustration of that place of reward and the rich man went because of his bad behavior, because of his bad head he ended up in hell. And the Lord establishes an illustration and says that from where he was in hell, the rich man could see Lazarus in Abraham's bosom enjoying well, and the rich man was suffering from thirst, from terrible torment, and he tells the Lord: "Father send Lazarus so that with the tip of his finger, he may dip it in water and put it on my tongue because I am suffering horrible torment." Look at that, again every time the Bible talks about judgment it talks about a place of suffering and punishment. What difference does it make whether it is literal fire, whether it is a terrible thirst, emotional or spiritual, whether it is a gnashing of teeth in repentance? wow I missed the opportunity that was given to me so much and now I'm doomed for the rest of my life here. What a difference it makes if it's dark and gloomy or whatever. It is a place of great suffering, of great emotional, mental and physical agony, where no one wants to be.
That is why God says: "I do not want the death of the wicked" is always spoken in terms of death, suffering, eternal damnation, eternal punishment, darkness, darkness, that is the place.
And the rich man says to him: “Lord, let Lazarus come, only and wet my tongue with the tip of his finger”, and the Lord tells him: “I'm so sorry, there's no more time. Now there is an insurmountable barrier between you and those who live in that place of eternal blessing, there are no doors, there are no second chances, no appeals or anything”. Hell is one thing, hell is final, hell is irrevocable, separation from God no longer has appeal, the time to repent and seek reconciliation with God is now.
And God is looking for every way possible for people to understand this. Then the rich man says: "Well Lord, it's okay, if he can't come at least send Lazarus to my brothers to tell them to repent, so they don't come to a place as terrible as this" and the The Lord tells him: "it cannot be done either" he says: "but Lord if you send Lazarus and they see him they will regret it" because of course, who does not regret it if a dead person appears again and says: "look, repent and receive to Christ”, I am not saying they repent, they go to a monastery for the rest of their lives, to atone for their sins. And do you know what the Lord tells him? he tells him: “look, they have Moses and the prophets, in other words, they have the Bible, they should read the Bible because if they do not repent with all the prophecies that I have sent them they will not repent if one rises from the dead.
In other words, God has a system, entry into eternal life is by faith. If God made things so clear that it was absolutely convincing without any possibility of doubt, then salvation would not be by faith but by sight. So I believe that there always has to be an element of something that is hidden, some doubt so that man can exercise faith, to believe God. And that is why God is not going to force the human race to believe nor is He going to send absolutely incontrovertible signals because man has to believe because…it is by faith that one believes. And you have to believe God, God has invested centuries of human experience in this word, he has sent his Son Jesus Christ, he has left his Holy Spirit, he has sent his church. The church has spent two thousand years preaching the truth of the gospel to humanity, what else can God do? God says now, I did everything I could, I sent my Son, I came in a personal, human way, I stripped myself of my glory, I suffered the contingency of a human life, I climbed on the cross, I was buried for three days, I can't do anymore. Now they have to take my word for it and if they don't repent that's their problem.
No one wants to go to that place of eternal suffering, nor does God want them to go to that place either. This idea that God is a stern, uranium God, angry with humanity, wanting as many as possible to be lost, that is a distortion of the heart of God.
God is a God of love and mercy, of blessing, he wants everyone possible to repent, and you and I are the means that God wants to use for that repentance.
“…Tell them that I do not want the death of the impious but that he become the impious of his way”. Look at a very important call to the church in verse 14 of the same Ezekiel 33:14, I'm finishing… sorry come on, let's go a little more, let's go to verse 7, a little before that, it says:
“…to you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel.....” a watchman is a person who sees danger coming and warns when danger comes. God has placed each one of us as watchmen, “…and they will hear the word from my mouth and you will admonish them from me when I say to the wicked, wicked desert you will die, if you do not speak so that the wicked may be saved from their way, the wicked will die for his sin, but his blood I will require at your hand...".
In other words, when God says to the church: “warn the people of a place that … of punishment and that I do not want them to go to that place, if the church does not warn them that fact, God cannot do anything, the wicked is going to die for his sin, because he was not warned, he did not know that he had the possibility of salvation "but you know what? The Bible says that God will make us responsible for the death, for the punishment of that individual.
Don't ask me how that responsibility has to materialize in us, but the truth is that I don't want to have that charge on my conscience, that somehow there are people who are losing themselves because I'm not here. doing my part and that one day God will say to me: “why didn't you talk to your neighbor? Why didn't you talk to your brother, to your schoolmate? Why did you live a lifestyle that belied the truth of the gospel? Why were you indifferent? Why didn't you support your church to preach the gospel? Why didn't you support missionaries to go to other countries to tell people to repent? Why didn't you invest your life in saving people from that place of perdition? They got lost and lost because of their bad deeds but you could have warned them. So in a sense you and I would also be responsible.
What I want to make sure is that in my life I don't have that burden. Do you know why I serve the Lord among other things? For this reason, because I know that one of the most useful things that I can do, that a human being can do, is to save a soul from hell. You can be a great social worker, a philanthropist, a lawyer, a doctor and do very good and very important things but… you know what? That person whom you saved from death and sooner or later had a heart operation it's going to die. Yes or no? And what you did well is something simply... it's a temporary patch, that's all, in the long run it's going to die again and one day it's going to have to come from eternity and it's definitive there. But a person who brings a soul to the knowledge of Christ and that person is eternally saved has done something absolutely incomparable because he saved his life for all eternity, and that is why there is something special for those of us who serve the Lord and you can be one of that category, that your life counts so that the impious does not perish, but proceeds to eternal life, what are you doing? What am I doing? how are we living our life? What are our priorities? Are we telling the world that God does not want them to be lost but to proceed to salvation?
Then God says to you: “warn them, if they don't warn themselves, they will be lost but I am going to demand your hand”. Now there is a second alternative, verse 9, “…and if you warn the wicked from his way to turn from him and he does not turn from his way, he will die for his sin but you spared your life.... ”
In other words, you can wash your hands and say: “ok son, that's your business now”.
Do you know what you can do at work, at school? You have to look for opportunities to share the good news of salvation with someone and tell them: "Young man, partner, friend, God does not want you to get lost."
You know what? I want to tell you something, God loves you. You know, sometimes homosexuals say that the church hates them, or that God hates them, that's a lie from the devil. You have to remind people that we love you, God loves you, but he says: "I don't want you to lose yourself", reconcile with God, today is the day of salvation. God wants your salvation.
We have to be preaching to the world messages of reconciliation, of salvation, of blessing, a God who wants them to repent, the Lord says: "come and let us be accountable, if your sins were red as scarlet they will become white as snow. If they were red like crimson, they would become white like wool." If they repent, that is God's position, God wants the repentance of the wicked, God wants man to be saved and as a last resort he reserves a place of punishment not because he wants to, but because his justice demands it, even if God wants him to. he cannot violate his justice, he is tied to his own personality which says that there has to be, just as there is a place of reward, there has to be a place of punishment. Just as the University of Pennsylvania said: "he who abides by the laws of the university can stay, he who can't, has to be expelled even if we don't want to."
Don't you think those administrators were hurt that those young people had to leave? Of course, yes, and this is how it hurts God and God wants us to help him in his process of not forcing himself, that he has to condemn people.
Two ways, death and life, one character, God does not want the death of the wicked, God's disposition is for life. One condition, the way to life is repentance. An instrument, you and I to tell the wicked that God is willing to reconcile with him. Let's do this? Are we going to do our part?
I want to invite the brothers of the Alabanza group to come by here, we are going to work. There are two warnings here, one is for the person who has not made their decision regarding Jesus Christ. If you are in this place and your life is not clear with God, I want to encourage you in the name of the Lord, this morning I want to alert you and tell you to be reconciled with God through Christ Jesus, put your life in order this afternoon, so simple it is The Lord Jesus Christ has come to be the mediator between God and men.
When a man receives Christ in his capacity as mediator, he is immediately entered into a relationship with God, he does not have to go to hell. Now, when a person despises God's offer, then he has no choice but to stay away from God's presence for all eternity.
So there is a call for the unrepentant person, for the person unreconciled with God and there is a call for the church that we also take care to do our part and to walk that path of evangelization, to proclaim the word, to be an instrument.
Preaching the gospel is not an option for you, for me, it is an obligation that God expects us to honor. Are you sure that you have exhausted all the possibilities of speaking to your people about salvation or perdition? You have exhausted... I believe that there are people that if you ask them, you can warn them, you can talk to them, and again you have to put it in a positive way... tell them: "God does not want condemnation, God wants a blessing because many times he we preach condemnation to people... if you don't repent you go to hell", it is much better to tell them: "look, God does not want you to be lost but rather that you be saved, God's heart is for reconciliation, it is a father who is telling you to his son: "come, be reconciled with me, let's talk, let's be aware, in other words, let's talk."
Introduce people that way, invite them to church, tell them it's urgent, tell them: "Look, I don't want to bother you, I respect what you believe but I want to discharge my responsibility, give me three minutes, and at the end of that time I promise that I will not bother you again, I want to talk to you about a God who wants reconciliation with you, and that he says that he is not angry with you but rather wants to be reconciled, but otherwise you will to have to leave it to your own fate, and he doesn't want that to happen."
And pray to the Lord to give you convincing words. God... we are in a time, brothers, I believe that it is a harvest time, when when we speak of the word of the gospel there are people who are going to receive it and they are going to be touched, this is a time when the wind of God is behind the church. If we ask the Lord for opportunities, God will give them to us, if we invite people to church, they will come, and if they don't come it's your business.
Do you know what the Lord said to the disciples? He told them: "Look, when you go to a city and preach the gospel, if you don't accept it when you get to the end of that city, shake the dust off your feet, you already complied, that's their business now." On the day of judgment, he says, what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah will be more tolerable than what will happen to those people. You know how Sodom perished and Gomorrah, with fire from heaven, was destroyed.
I have been to those places where Sodom and Gomorrah were in the desert, that place is as if meteorites had fallen, craters everywhere, not a scorpion grows there, I think. All that area out there completely dry, dead, the Dead Sea is in that area, it's the deadest sea, that's why they call it the Dead Sea. It is completely salty. You float, when you get into the Dead Sea, you float because of the density of the water there. Because imagine, if that was the punishment for that region, which was a fertile and green region, and the Lord says: "...on the day of judgment, the punishment they received will be more tolerable than the punishment that those who reject Jesus Christ will receive."
We have to tell people that, we have to preach to them, like that with simplicity, with love, with tenderness, no God doesn't want you to get lost, the day of judgment is coming.
Brothers, we are closer than ever, God's clock is... that's why I'm preaching these messages, because God is putting it in my heart to warn the church of its responsibility and warn the people his responsibility, and soon the time will come, there will be no more opportunity. So the time to announce…
I want us to lower our heads, we are here today in one of those two categories, those who are impious before the Lord because they do not have Christ in their hearts even though they are very noble people and hardworking and honest, and God says: "I do not want you to perish but to proceed to repentance and have eternal life" and we are, those who are already on the path of the Lord, that God says: "I do not want to make you you are responsible for the death of the wicked so warn them that I do not want them to get lost, preach to them”.
Brothers, this is serious, we either believe the Bible or we don't. If I believe in the Bible I have to spend the rest of my life making sure that as many people as possible are saved.
So I want you to make a decision in your heart right now, if you are in one of those two categories, in the first category invite Christ into your life and be your Lord and your savior. , recognize the saving function of Jesus and say: "Lord Jesus Christ, I believe in you and I accept you and you are going to be my means of entry to eternal life, I am going to stick with you and you are going to give me a safe conduit to enter eternal life.” And receive it right now and accept it, give your heart to him, give your life to him.
I want to ask if you have done that right now I would love to know, raise your hand and testifies to this, because the Lord says that: "...if anyone receives me before men, I will receive him before my Father." There's a young lady back there raising her hand this afternoon, God bless you my sister, God bless you, anybody else make your peace with Jesus Christ? This young man here before me too… God does not want the wicked to die. This young woman here on my left too, God does not want the wicked to die but to repent and proceed to salvation.
Will there be anyone else? Here a hand behind that column, someone is pointing at it, this person here, raise their hand here too, to my right too, amen!! If I see those hands, anyone else? Back there, over here, hear me God bless you young man here.
I feel so convinced, I have asked the Lord in these days to renew my sense of seriousness, of what I am preaching and I feel very safe, very overwhelmed by the seriousness of what What I am saying, this is serious, I believe that with the coming months this will continue to increase in my heart, that I am preaching the simple truth. That there is a destination, there are two destinations; salvation or doom and no matter how sophisticated the human race is, that will have to be continually preached to it.
And each of you is making such a big decision, so serious, so beautiful, do you know what it is to guarantee that you will enter eternal life through a transaction like the one you have done? And if you remain in that transaction and you remain faithful to that contract and God promises to help you to do so, you have your eternal future assured, you don't have to be afraid of death and you don't have to be afraid of life. neither.
Do you know why you did something so simple that God simply said: "Look, accept this plan that I have prepared and live" and that is what you have just done now in the name of Jesus.
I want to invite those brothers and sisters to come forward here, those people who have raised their hands, someone come and even accompany them, someone come and accompany that person here, someone come and accompany them that individual so you don't have to come alone. Come here for a moment, we just want to pray for you, we want to place the hands of the Lord, we are going to wait. If someone up there raised their hand and I didn't see them for some reason, don't worry, there's time, “…the wicked God doesn't want you to die”.
The unreconciled person, God does not want him to die, God wants him to live, glory to the Lord. Look how beautiful, what a beautiful number of people, your life is safe, your destiny is sure.
Young people, it's a wonderful thing that you're doing, and now your life is in the hands of God and you can be sure that no matter what happens in the next 30, 50 years of yr life you… at the end of at all you have an eternity of a harmony with God, while you are here, on this earth God will bless you and keep you and he will be with you every step of the way, he will never leave you or forsake you because you have done what he asked for, just to be obedient, just to follow his plan.
You can be sure today that you have reconciliation with God because you have done what God asked you to do, that you accept his Son, and that you recognize him for what he is, the savior of your soul that came to the world to pay the price for you to be saved. And now I ask you in the name of Jesus, that you say these words with me, there feel them in your heart while you say them, say with me:
Lord Jesus, I receive you as my savior and I recognize that by your death On the cross I have received forgiveness of my sins, I repent and I recognize that I am a sinner and that I have offended you, but you have sent your Son so that I may be saved and today I receive him as my savior.
Holy Spirit enter my life, Holy Spirit enter my life, and seal me with your presence. I am a son of God, a daughter of God, through Jesus Christ, thank you Lord, for my salvation in Jesus name, amen. Glory to the Lord, glory to God, glory to God, glory to God.
My brothers, this is wonderful what you just did, don't lose that sense of how should I say? Seriousness in what you have done this afternoon, walk with God. The world will not get better, it will get worse in a sense but you are sealed, you dwell in a different dimension, although you are here on earth but in the spirit you are already reserved for God,
And now keep walking with the Lord, keep learning from him, give your life to the Lord, there is nothing better than that. God is the same yesterday, today and forever and he will always continue to treat humanity in the same way to those who obey him, bless him and those who walk with him, there is prosperity, blessing, health, healing, joy, hope, all these things for the one who serves the Lord.
So I bless you in the name of God, in the name of Jesus. Know that you have support, like you in this congregation, your brothers who love you, we are here to serve you and the Holy Spirit that goes with you wherever you go, the comforter that will strengthen you and lead you towards all truth.
We love you and if we can provide you with a Bible or whatever, let the hujier or one of the brothers around you know. Somehow but we want you guys to keep growing.
When discipleship classes begin in September, sign up and keep learning more. Okay?
In the hospitality room, before you leave, go over there, there will be brothers there, pastors who will also support you in this, Omar if you can too... and any prayer you want, whatever that is, there are people who love you, we love you, God bless you, God bless you, we love you in the name of the Lord, glory to God.
