Everything you do has spiritual effects

Today what we are going to talk about is how the spiritual world is combined with the earthly world, especially in our life, physical that what I do with my body, how I move, how I speak, how I look, has spiritual effects, we are spiritual beings, and holiness is more than something that must be done, it is something that enters the flow of the Holy Spirit, of our lives, that opens our lives to the move of God supernaturally through us. So those are the things we're going to talk about.

I invite you to open in Romans 12, Romans chapter 12, which says the following: "So, brothers, I beg you for the mercy of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, do not conform to this century if not that you be transformed by means of the renewal of your understanding so that you may verify what is the good will of God, pleasing and perfect". God through his word begs us to deliver what?, our spirit?, amen, but also our physical body, as if we were that goat, there on the altar, the problem is that we are alive, so we can also try to escape from the altar, but the idea is that it is something physical, we say Lord here I am, I am yours, my body, as You have made me, with everything perfect and everything imperfect, I am yours, and I give myself to you.

The word says that this is our rational cult, it makes sense. What do you think of when you think of worship and worship? We think about the spiritual, but God also thinks about the physiological, about the natural, that when we are before Him physically we are worshiping with our body, and the natural and the spiritual are connected, and a change is unleashed in my mind. When I surrender to God as my spiritual cult, the paradigms of my mind begin to change, I see the world differently, and I can discern what God is doing around me, because my body belongs to Him now, but it begins with a physical surrender to Him. I imagine that there are many of you here who have had the experience of coming to church, and something broke the first time you approached the front of the service, that you are here and say oh, what are they going to do to me? do if I step forward?

But then you say I'm going, I'm going, and you break the ice, and you come forward, and even more so the first time you raise your hands, something breaks out in the Spirit, and I'm not saying you have to do it, you can raise your hands if the heart is still more closed than ever, so one thing does not automatically indicate the other, but when we do physical things it makes a difference in the Spirit. I know some very proud people who, the first time they knelt before Him, broke spiritual ties in their lives, because they said, Lord, I am yours, and I am going to do it not only with my mouth but also with my body, for all that I am. We know that our movements in life have spiritual effects.

My wife has a gift for dance too, imagine it's the opposite in the universe of what you just watched, it's Japanese dance right, all in the kimono, many of you saw that, but when she does her dance with the kimono before God the glory of God is unleashed in a place. I am so proud of her! When she does it I feel, wow! I feel that the glory of God is showering me with it, and it was like that with these men who were dancing here, and with everything. The dance, which unleashed something in the Spirit, broke something in the Spirit, it is not for nothing that Miriam, the sister of Moses, after being freed from slavery, what did she do?, she danced, it is noted many times, when people They are free of ties in their life, there is a beautiful freedom, they dance because they have exchanged a spirit of heaviness for a mantle of joy, and they dance before God and are free, with their physical actions as well.

Dance can also do the opposite, right? Maybe dance can be negative, could it be that dance could unleash another kind of Spirit?, come on, I think we know that, in the Bible the prophets of Baal did dances, madness, cutting, to awaken the spirits of the Baals, they danced for Satan, and another spirit was unleashed around them, they tried, but God was stronger than that, so our movements mean a lot, they can impact our environment, our life, our mind, the people around, the body has power, the music, imagine that some can worship God, without words. There are some who just by playing the piano, without singing a single word, you feel something different, you feel an anointing.

Some drumming, in some way that you can feel is Spirit moving through him or her, are physical acts that have spiritual effects. The music is powerful, there are also prophetic actions around the Bible. You know that he told me something very interesting, our architect Glenn Noss who, together with the pastor, designed the new temple, he is an architect, he once told me something, his job is to build buildings, that God once told him: "Glenn, the geography it has meaning. The raw material, wood, has meaning in the eyes of God." Think of all the parts of the bible that have architectural drawings, chapter after chapter of how to build the temple, Noah's Ark, because those buildings had spiritual significance, and they came together like a portal to heaven, Moses what did he do to do his miracles , God gave him, what?, a rod, a stick, is it a magic rod? no, let's talk about that, it's a normal rod, but taking that represented Jehovah is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing, and I am also representing my people as a scepter of a king reigning on earth, and when he extended this rod Plagues were unleashed, they opened the Red Sea, the waters of the Red Sea, miracles were done, the rock hit and water came out, something natural, something concrete that was used for something spiritual.

We know that it is so also in the New Covenant. Next week after this cult we are going to have baptisms, amen?, amen. How many have been baptized here? Several of you, several elsewhere, some not yet, what you do, you go out here, you get down here, you get wet, you get up saturated with water, it's something unforgettable, I I mean you get wet, you really get wet, it's something very sensual, something physical, but with a very spiritual meaning, the same with weddings. I have the privilege of officiating many weddings, some here know, and there is not a single wedding that I do that I do not feel the presence of God in a special way. It is a physical act of exchanging promises and rings, but in reality what they are making is a spiritual pact, and I feel that the angels themselves are looking there in amazement, how can it be that God has given human beings the right to do so? such sublime pacts between them?, and God himself is there, I always feel the presence of God at weddings, because God is there. It is something physical with a spiritual meaning.

The same with the Lord's Supper that we are going to celebrate today, these elements, we remember the death of Jesus, the blood, the body of Jesus. The word says if someone approaches the table improperly, they eat and take judgment for Him, because it is something extremely sacred, they are physical acts that have spiritual meaning for us, amen? The two worlds connect with each other. Now, it's very easy if we're not careful, when we start thinking about it, to get into an almost superstitious mentality, right? Because, after the baptisms, what are we going to do with the water? It's something sacred, something anointed, something precious, so what are we going to do with the water? Is it something spiritual now? The pastor suggested maybe we can bottle it, sell it for the new temple, right? (laughs), he was translating, he misbehaved, he entered his own comment like that, joke, we're not going to do it.

It is that the water is not anointed, but the act of doing it (laughs) thank you. The act of doing it is. Do you know what? Think about that, when they asked Peter the question, does your boss pay taxes or not? Peter says yes, then Jesus says, look Peter, go out to sea, catch a good fish, fish, and pull out two coins from your mouth for your tax, imagine, oh how nice, that this miracle repeats itself, we hope a thousand times (laughs). But like that, he took out some coins, made by God, put in his mouth, they are holy coins, spiritual coins, right? Then he paid the tax, we don't know what the government did with this money, maybe it went into circulation and all that, we don't know what it was used for later, maybe to pay Judas himself, so that they killed Jesus, but no it means that it is a blessed or cursed coin, it is a coin used for good or ill, but it does not mean that it has no power, because the way you use it has spiritual meaning, but the coin itself does not become a spiritual coin. Do you understand what I'm saying? Think about it.

The Lord's Supper that we are going to celebrate, that is something extremely sacred and sublime, it is taken seriously, it is something physical, we are going to eat and drink it, and thus we know that it represents the body and blood of Jesus, what happens if a there will be an accident and one of the pieces of bread falls on the floor? Has he committed a sin against the body of Christ? Of course not, it is not the bread that is blessed, it is not the bread that is spiritual, it is the act of remembering Jesus with my faith that makes it a highly spiritual act. But the bread itself is not blessed bread or cursed bread. I explain?. Very important.

I am studying little books with my son, things like that, I learned that there are metals that are neutral like that, but an electrical charge can enter them like that and they can be magnets, and other things stick to them because they are charged, then the charge is removed or it is changed and has another power flowing in the metal. The metal itself is neutral, but it can be charged positively or negatively, just like the raw material of life. Life, we have bodies, there is music, there is dance, there is raw material that can be used for better or worse, but what we have to decide is if I am going to be the raw material that is around me to unleash the anointing of God in the world around me, and we're going to talk more about that.

It's easy to misunderstand holiness based on a superstitious average perspective. Please go with me to the book of Colossians, chapter 2. A false teaching entered this church, perhaps by people coming out of the pagan world, who used amulets and things like that. And they taught that to be holy as God commands, you have to be very careful with many objects in your life, and so the apostle Paul teaches, against this false teaching. Colossians 2, verse 16, reads like this: "Therefore, let no one judge you in food or drink, regarding festival days, new moon or Sabbath, all of which are shadows to what is to come, but the body it is Christ, no one deprives you of your prize affecting humility and worship of angels, meddling in what has not seen, vainly inflating by his own carnal mind, and not becoming the head by virtue of which the whole body nourishing itself, uniting by joints and ligaments, grows with the growth that God gives. Well, if you have died with Christ regarding the rudiments of the world, why as if you lived in the world do you submit to precepts, such as do not drive, do not taste, or you still touch, in accordance with commandments and doctrines of men, things that all are destroyed with use, such things have a certain reputation for wisdom, in voluntary worship, in humility, and in harsh treatment of the body but they have no value against the appetites of the flesh."

Rules, many rules, many taboos, superstitions, thinking that some objects are dangerous and others are blessed, and we, do you have any amulets? Do you have any good luck charms? It seems that every baseball player has his good luck charm, he has his rites, his rituals, he does his thing, and he hits, he doesn't serve God at all, but he gets super religious on the field to have good luck, right? And I did it before I was a Christian, I prayed things before wanting something, hoping for good luck, maybe carrying something for good luck, you know what? There are some that we can even use the Bible like that, right? same house, perhaps it is never read but it is always open on a shelf, because it has to unleash the good vibes to the house, right? (laughs), this is funny, isn't it? it doesn't hurt.

Unless, it can do harm, if we see it as a good luck charm, because it replaces Christ. You see those people, all those rules, they were not focused on Christ, they were thinking about angels, about the spiritual, even fasting, but nothing about Christ, all spiritual, very mystical, but nothing about Christ. Some testimony from a very special brother to me, that this brother loved Christ, and had his Bible that he always carried his Bible on that you could put on, small, and he always put it on for good luck, and maybe read it sometimes in the bus, what do I know, and one day this brother had to go to an immigration appointment, very big, very important, we know everything that is involved in that, the anxiety thing, that you can go in, you fast and everything, and then, before going, he felt the Holy Spirit tell him "you can take your Bible or you can leave it at home, and it doesn't matter because I'm going with you."

And the person, the brother, the brother decided, you know what, I love my Bible, I've got a good grip on it, but you know what, my trust is in you, and I'm going to leave it at home today, like a gesture of faith and trust in you God, because I do not want anyone to replace God. You know that in the Bible this happened, many times. There was a moment in the history of the people of Israel when they were suffering a plague in the desert with snakes biting them, and they were dying, and God said to Moses: "I want you to make me a bronze serpent", have you heard of that? ?, "and I want you to lift up that bronze serpent like a statue" image type. But he lifted it up, and everyone who looks at the bronze serpent will be healed of the poison it has, and that's how it worked.

Imagine, what will they have done with that bronze snake after that, are you going to throw it away? It makes sense that they say wow, it's something special, they ended up worshiping this bronze statue as an idol, and God said this has already become an abomination, please make it dust. And a king who worshiped God destroyed this bronze serpent because it had become an idol, and that's how we make ourselves rules sometimes, we are so focused on the spiritual power of things around us, that we stop seeing Christ and we end up following rules that we become focused on the rules, but forgetting about Jesus.

And the word says that these rules have no value against the appetites of the flesh. I don't know if anyone has experienced that, you don't have to raise your hand please, but you make rules for yourself. I'm going to quit smoking, I'm going to stop, whatever, doing anything that you know is not what God wants you to do with your body. And you make many rules for yourself and you are very strict and you judge yourself, and you judge others by the rules and you end up more rotten than ever in your lifestyle. The Bible says that there is another kind of holiness, there is another kind of holiness that is not based on rules, but is based on a personal relationship with Jesus, it says in Colossians 3: "You have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, put look at things above", that is, a supernatural mentality, "not on things on earth, because you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God, and when Christ appears in your life, you too will be manifested with Him in glory."

We have to die, baptism represents a burial, right? I have heard this saying, after throwing a stone and it is the tombstone, the old me is already dead there, there is a new me that is living. I don't know if you have ever met a person, they are usually older people who love the Lord so much, that you can feel that they have detached themselves from this life, and they are already there. They are present with you, they love, they serve you, they pray, they seek God, but you can feel a detachment, their eyes are not here, they are on Christ, on what is to come. He knows that one day this veil between the natural and spiritual world is going to be opened, it is going to be opened and Christ is going to appear in glory and we too will be transformed in the twinkling of an eye, we will be transformed, we will have a new body, a body of glory, and there will come a new heaven and a new earth, we will have new bodies, there will be new trees, new love, there will be new animals, the only thing we will not need is the sun, because God himself will shine so bright.

They are looking forward to this new world so much, that they live only for Christ, and have Christian attitudes. Instead of focusing so much on your rules, focus on Jesus and then say strip off everything earthly and put on Christ, with compassion, with love, take away bitterness, gossip, lawsuits, jealousy, impurity, emotional, mental and physiological adulteries, in Instead of that the things above, it says at the end in verse 17 of Colossians 3, it says: "Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him .

Instead of thinking about all my taboos I am going to think about how I can do what I am going to do in the name of Jesus, what does it mean to speak something in the name of Jesus?, what does it mean to touch a person in the name of Jesus?, What does it mean to dress in the name of Jesus? What does it mean to dance in the name of Jesus? What does it mean to live my natural life in the name of Jesus? Some ask me questions when they are in complicated situations, when they don't know if they are right, if they should do it or not, and perhaps there is no clarity in the Bible, and they say, what should I do? Give me a rule. Well, maybe if there's something in the Bible we teach you, you don't have to pray whether God wants you to be in adultery or not, okay, the Bible is clear, don't do it, you don't have to pray, you don't have to discern , just read the word and there it is, but there are other things that are more like you know, the Bible is not clear about what you have to do, and it asks us the question, what should I do?, in such a situation maybe nebulous . We make the suggestion, think about it, if Jesus were to return today or perhaps at the moment you are doing such a thing, how would you feel? If He walks through the door and you're doing such a thing, what do you say? How do you feel? If you say hmm well, I feel like I'm pleasing Him, even though I'm nervous because I'm not sure but I do it for Him , well, in that case you are doing it for his name, but in that case you say oh I'm dying, well, don't do it, but the thing is that you are not doing it out of obligation, as a law, you are doing it because I want to do what Jesus He wants, I want to live my life in the name of Jesus, loving Him, not because of a burden but because of the joy of using my body for the glory of God.

Complications entered the early church about bread, no, not bread, meat that had been offered to idols, at that time they, you can't go to a good restaurant in that old age and ask for a good steak, I don't know. what and eat it, you have to go to markets associated with pagan temples where sacrificial animals had been killed to demons and then they took the meat and sold it in a market, right? Now, the apostle Paul, he liked meat, and he clearly taught good, there is no blessed or cursed meat, I don't care what the other did with that meat, I do it to serve God, I do it as and I use this for the glory of God, so he says there is no problem for me, but there were brothers who had participated in these parties who were scandalized by that, and the apostle Paul says look, if your conscience tells you no do it, don't do it, and I'm not going to eat it in front of you either. In private, yes, I am going to eat it because I do not have to abide by your conscience, but I love you, and I want to eat for the love of God and you, so I am going to abstain.

But there were others who said, not only am I going to eat this meat, but I am so spiritual that I can go to the pagan festival where they are slaughtering the animal and eat there, and it will not affect me, the apostle Paul says well, now you have crossed the line, you are already entering madness, and he says that it is one thing to offer an animal to the devil and it is another thing to eat there, to know that I can eat what God has given me with gratitude and it will not affect me spiritually, do you understand the difference?

It is that there were brothers who were confused between the natural and the spiritual. There were brothers especially in the city of Corinth, who believed themselves to be so, so spiritual, they had gotten into the false teaching of the Gnostics, which said that the world is so spiritual, that everything natural is fleeting, so no matter what that you do in the natural because your spirit is with God. Go figure. So they could be in church, worship in the Spirit, speak in tongues, and all that, and then abuse their brothers in the financial area, make dirty deals, because they said well, that's spiritual church, but in the natural It doesn't matter, so I can do what I want, and all this will happen. There are brothers who say Gregory, in the church I am a Christian, but when I am in the world I have to do what I have to do, that's the way things are, well, you're not going to be so innocent, if we can't do something in the name of Jesus, both at work and at church, what are we up to?

Spiritual holiness affects not only the church, but it does not affect the way I do my business. I am going to do business in the name of Jesus. I am going to glorify business so that it can be seen that a Christian is there at that desk, or in that factory, or on that decker, that there is something different, that is being done in the name of Jesus. It's just that the Corinthians thought they might as well be involved in sexual immorality and it doesn't matter. That they could do what they wanted with their body because it didn't affect their spirit. And see what the apostle Paul teaches them in First Corinthians chapter 6: "that you say all things are lawful for me." It seems we already know the verse. It is that we are free, we are not living under legalism, all things are lawful for me, but not all are convenient for me.

Then he says: "All things are lawful for me but I will not let myself be dominated by any". Further on he says that God who raised up the Lord will also raise us up with power: "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?" You know that the body you have is going to pass, unless Christ comes with us alive now, which is possible, but in general the bodies fall apart, they become dust again, the Word says that one day it will be touched a trumpet and we are going to be raised with Jesus, we are going to have new bodies, just as God raised Jesus from the grave and gave him a new body. And he says that if I am my physical body, it is a member of Christ, I will remove the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Or do you not know that one who unites with a harlot is one body with her? Look what he says the two will be one flesh, but he who is united to the Lord, is one spirit.

"Flee from fornication, any other sin that man commits is outside the body, that is, he who fornicates against his own body sins. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, the which ye have of God, and which ye are not your own? Because ye were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Amen?.

It is that they, we are members of Christ, in the world. Do you really believe that? If God is in you, if the Spirit is in you, when you touch someone, Christ is touching this person, it is something powerful, you can, I don't know if you know people who can heal you with a hug, I know people like that they have anointed hugs, people they can touch and the anointing flows. It is not for nothing that the Bible talks so much about the laying on of hands, because when it is touched, a spirit can be transferred, the anointing, for better or for worse, so in that intimate union that is sex, which is something well, something that God made up to represent the covenant between a man and a woman, can be twisted to convey spirits that are not of God as well.

But instead of that we can see our body as something that represents Christ in the world, that when I speak it will be the words of God that I speak, when I touch, it will be the touch of Jesus that is transmitted to the person, I am going to live as the temple of the Holy Spirit, so this mortal body with all its defects, is going to be a temple full of glory in the world, Moses had his rod, God has me. In the end I am just a stick, right? A piece of wood, I am nothing, but also in the hand of God this body can be used to do wonders. If I know that I have a call to do great things in the world that the power of God will channel through me to those around me, how am I going to abuse this temple and use it improperly? Never.

It is not because I am under a legal burden, I do not want in any way to compromise the call that God has on me, it is because my body is so good, it is so special, and God wants to use it, do you believe that? (applause). No, no, but really, do you really believe? Do you believe that your body is beautiful, that God made it, that He loves you just the way you are? You know, our young people need to hear that, because most of them don't believe in it, especially girls, that God made you the way you are and loves you, and your body is valuable, it's something precious, even when it hurts and you say oh my God , I will exchange this arm for one that works better.

Because we are in a fallen world, but although it is still fallen, perhaps this rod that Moses used, I doubt it was a perfect rod, we don't know, right? But I imagine it was just any stick, just a stick, lying there, but God used it to do beautiful wonders. With this clay vessel that I am, I can contain the glory of God, a treasure that there are no words to express the value that I carry inside, so we are going to live like this, in holiness, because I know that what I I do with my body unleash a blessing in the world, and I want to be used like that.

Now, what do we say to the person who says, well, if my body is a temple, I already damaged it? A lot of spray paint, it's already damaged, there's no remedy for this, sometimes you have to tear down a house and start over. Some say that about their body, with what I have done with these hands, since I can never raise them to God, much less touch a person to be used to heal, there are many who live with that sense of guilt or shame that God does not want them to have.

I know some men who in their lives in the past were involved in a lot of violence. Some who come from the war in their country or from this country and have done things that most of us cannot even imagine doing, and it has affected them, but when they really know Christ, when they receive the love and grace of God who forgives them, I have seen these men, the Bible says that he who has been forgiven loves much, and I have seen these men become the most weeping, the sweetest, and not only that, they are committed to the love, they are apostles of love. I have seen some men come out of a life of violence, be used for healing, touch hands, lay hands, and heal bodies. They say, I know that this does not cancel the evil that I have done to people, but at least it is something that I can celebrate in life. It is Satan who has come to kill, steal and destroy, and he did it through me, but now Jesus has come so that we may have life and life in abundance, and this abundant life will flow through this body.

There are some who think that they have done so many immoral things in their life in the sexual area that they feel that how can I be dignified, dignified, and serve Him in a public way? For a person who might ask this question, I want to refer you to a story in the gospels. Jesus was in the house of a Pharisee, and a woman from the street entered there without invitation. We don't know if she was a prostitute or what, but she was not someone of good repute, and she entered there and said, I know you don't want me here. but I am not going to be denied, I have to adore Jesus, and she entered with her oil, broke it, spilled it, cried and anointed Jesus' feet with her own tears and dried the tears with her hair. Imagine, what would you have said if you had been there? I imagine that we would have said exactly what the Pharisee said, how can Jesus let this sinful woman grope her like that, how can that be? Don't touch him, you are dirty and he is the Son of God.

But Jesus did not say this, I can visualize him looking into her eyes, and telling her not to listen to them, you have anointed me for my death, you had prophetic eyes, and you are forgiven, and the one who has been forgiven loves much, and adores, and he adores, and adores, and adores with his body, which is not a dirty body, it is a body bought with the blood of Christ, a redeemed body, a cleansed body, a renewed body before God. There are no damaged things in the Kingdom of God. There is nothing damaged in the Kingdom of God. We are before Him and we can touch it and be used by God, and use this body to be channels before the world.

But it is up to us to decide if I am going to offer myself as a living sacrifice to Christ, if I am going to offer this sinful, imperfect body, to say to God the Lord, use this clay vessel to contain your glory. We have to offer ourselves to Him as a sacrifice and say, I am no longer mine, I am yours. So that is the question that is before us in this time of consecration. In this time of definition, as the pastor preached in the New Year when he said define yourself, it will be a year in which the Lion of Judah has to define himself, has to decide, or which side I am on, this or that, I am going to be from On the side of Jesus, I am going to offer my words, my hands, my eyes, my feet, to do God's work in this world, because I have already died, my life is already hidden with Christ in heaven, and now I am going to live this body mortal for his glory on earth. Amen?.

And in this everything becomes holy, everything becomes holy, amen? I invite you to stand up. Amen.