Transfigured to serve

I would like you to go with me to the book of Matthew chapter 17, and I am going to say this premise to begin. I tell you: all revelation of anointing and power that happens in the internal context of our services are to be used in the restoration of each man and woman as children of God, who is our Heavenly Father.

I go back and repeat this premise: all revelation of anointing and power that happens in the internal context of our services, such as this service today, are to be used in the restoration of each man and woman as children of God, our Heavenly Father. . I explain. Many times I have found myself and even in our service, when I hear the way we pray, and we turn to God, that many times we say Lord we want to see Your Glory, how many have manifested themselves like this? That we want to see more of Him. And I have no problem with praying in this way, what's more, we must pray in this way, but at the same time we have to be well understood about how we are praying.

In the Bible there are different accounts of people who could not resist being before the Glory of God. Isaiah was one of those who, when God revealed himself to him, fell dead, Elijah was also another who, when God revealed himself to him, was so moved that he could hardly even speak in front of God. Moses when God revealed himself to him, his gagging got even worse. On the island of Patmos when Jesus began to reveal himself to him and to speak to him about all the mysteries of what was to come, of what was to come, on several occasions John said that his body was failing, and that the Spirit had to come and lift him up. so that he could receive all that God and Jesus had for him. So throughout Scripture there are several examples of people who could not resist the presence of God.

The presence of God is something so and so strong, that no one, no one can resist standing before the presence of God. The priests and Levites, when the Glory of God filled the temple, they say that a cloud was formed, they all had to run away, because they could not be in His Presence. So when we pray, I have to pray with a level of understanding of what I'm saying, oh yes Lord, show me Your glory Lord, we want to see Your face. Look, if God did that with the glory that's on his finger, he's just going to knock us to the ground.

We have to understand what we are asking for but that does not mean that we stop praying to see that manifestation of God in our midst. Now, I know that recently we have had these services where the presence of the Holy Spirit has been felt in a very precious way, but I don't know if it happens to you like me, here is my side where I have to say Lord help My incredulity, I don't know if it happens to you like me when I leave one of these services and I start to reflect and analyze everything that happens, there are times that I say to myself, is that it? Is that all? Is that all, Lord, what you have to see that that person comes out speaking in tongues, that that one interprets, that some of us fall to the ground, that others like me end up crying there in a corner, that's all, or is there anything else?. Or am I the only one wondering that? Please don't leave me alone here.

Ok my brothers, I am going to explain myself better. It is the idea that what we have seen here is not everything, and that there is like a membrane in the air that we are trying to penetrate because there is something beyond that we have not seen yet. Jesus himself spoke to the disciples telling them, I still have many things to reveal to you, but you still cannot bear them, otherwise the Holy Spirit was going to reveal them according to his time according to each one. So, Jesus knows what He can unfold or manifest of His Glory, of His mysteries, of His purposes, at the moment in which He understands it better, because we, in our capacity, cannot bear everything.

If He were to pour out everything He has on our lives pf, everyone has to run out of here because we couldn't resist or hold on. What He wants, what He desires, what is on His heart for each of you individually as well as for us as a Church. But He knows his time, He knows the path through which he takes us. And this is where I come to this example of the transfiguration of Jesus, Matthew chapter 17, it's a passage that many of us are familiar with. It says: "Six days later Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves, and was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as the light." Look at what a beautiful description, speaking of the Glory of Jesus that was manifested at that moment.

And behold, the friends of Jesus, Moses and Elijah, appeared to him and spoke with him. Have you ever wondered what they were talking about? Just in case Luke chapter 9 where there is this other evangelist who tells this story as well, Luke chapter 9 says in verse 30, "And behold, two men were talking with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared surrounded by glory and They talked about his departure that Jesus was going to complete in Jerusalem." So if you want to find out, Moses and Elijah with Jesus was about that, they were talking about the moment in which Jesus was going to die and that he was going to leave this earth to fulfill everything established by God.

Now, while He was speaking, excuse me, I came forward. Then Peter said to Jesus, Lord, how good it is that we are here now, if you want, we are going to make three huts, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah, we will We stayed under the rain, we are going to do them for you three, and look how interesting my brothers, this response from Peter, I understand that many times it is the inclination of us human beings, when God manifests his power, when He manifests something secret from Him, the atmosphere becomes so different, so and so full of peace, so and so full of energy that you can't get out there, that one's tendency is to stay there. "There are moments that should not end" and that song was inspired from there.

But Jesus says sorry, this moment has to end. And Marcos Vidal, I lost points with Marcos Vidal right there, was it Marcos Vidal who wrote the song? Danilo Montero, ok, even worse. Well. The issue is my brothers that our tendency is to want to stay there, on that mountain of transfiguration, on that mountain where everything is sensational, where everything is fantastic, oh I received a prophetic word, nobody bother me, this is my moment, this is my place, I fell to the floor, ah, that nobody lifts me up, that the Spirit lifts me up whenever it wants. We want to stay there, like ah I want more, I want more. We always want to stay there, it's like that place is an escape from all the stresses one experiences out there. And the presence of God becomes such that what one says is that I want to stay here, in this bath of warm water, in Your Presence, I don't want to go back to my house, I don't want to deal with my children who have me again. there with my head full of things, I don't want to deal with my boss again, I don't want to get into traffic on 93 again, I don't want to leave here in the heat it's out there, I want to stay in the cool of Tu home.

The thing is that while Peter was trying to plan all these things that I don't think Jesus was even paying attention to, the text says that a cloud of light covered them, and a voice from the cloud said this is my beloved Son in whom I have complacency, hear him. That point of the transfiguration my brothers, I think it had two purposes. One of those purposes was to affirm, God wanted to affirm the role of Jesus, not only with his disciples but also there in Jerusalem, the moment in which God sent Jesus there to fulfill a divine purpose. God is using that moment to confirm and affirm the ministry of Jesus. And at the same time I understand that there is a second purpose, which was the mere fact that moments like these work to equip us to be able to serve, they are moments that God allows us as his sons and daughters to have those moments when God looms ahead of us, and that a revelation is coming that cannot come if it is not through another resource than divine, and God uses those moments to affirm us, to equip us for then pup, the moment is over, we must lower the mountain, because there are people who need what you are receiving.

And I understand my brothers, I believe that God has been confirming several things through this service, Sister Lucy a few moments ago was praying asking God to move us to impact our community, our society to live what we receive, to live in the light of the Word, and I said to myself wow, this is the experience of the transfiguration, because it was an impartation, a totally new, different, mysterious revelation that the disciples received so that they could then go down and attend to the multitudes that They were waiting down there to receive what the Lord had for them.

And I understand my brothers that God is equipping us here today, with what He reveals within the context of these services, He is equipping us and preparing us to go out there and give a much stronger and more effective testimony of what He can do in the midst of the lives of the people who are there. But for that to happen we have to receive something first from Him because we cannot give what we do not have. I can't give what I don't have. I have a phrase that I have saved there in one of my books, the phrase says I cannot teach what I do not know, I cannot go where I have not gone and I cannot preach what I have not lived. I can't do those things, I can preach about philosophies but if I haven't lived it, it won't have an impact. And therefore we have to receive from the Lord what He has for us. Now, what does He have for us, what is on the other side of that membrane that we cannot see?

Today in that conversation that I had with the Anglican bishop I received some light, and it is that many times our tendency is what is behind that membrane within the walls of the Church, but many times what is behind that membrane it can be seen when we are out there, because that is where God wants to start revealing his power through us. And that brought me back, it was something I knew but something woke me up again in my mind and in my heart. That many times one kind of withdraws from being able to do an even more impressive evangelism because ah, they are going to reject me, or the person is not going to receive me, or who knows if I go backwards with a rudeness, and one He starts to think about so many things that he says, no, I better not do it, that the person who has the gift of evangelism goes to that corner and reaches out to the lost, I take care of receiving them here when they arrive and I disciple them.

But no, the point is that all of us have something of an evangelist in us, each one of us has something of God to share. And you know, I found a secret in this passage, I found a secret here and I want to share it with you. In verse 11 of Matthew 17, look at how it says, sorry, verse 10: "Then the disciples asked Jesus, saying: why then do the scribes say that it is necessary for Elijah to come first? And Jesus said to them: truly Elijah comes first and will restore all things, but I tell you that Elijah has already come and they did not know him but they did with him everything they wanted, so the Son of Man will also suffer from them, then the disciples understood that He was speaking of John the Baptist."

Look how interesting, I began to investigate this character of Elijah, the role of Elijah here that Jesus himself is validating, the role of Elijah here is seen as a person who was going to restore all things. I don't know if you know this but in Malachi, which is the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi chapter 4 verses 5 and 6 says: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of the Lord comes, he will turn the hearts of the fathers toward their children, and the hearts of the children toward their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Elijah's role was to restore all things, but not only all things, there was something very specific, which was to restore, I would say family relationships, the parents to the children and the children to the parents. Do you remember who it was that Jesus met when he came down from the mountain, with a demoniac, right? Who was he? He was a demon-possessed youth, and who was he that came within reach of Jesus? A father.

Doesn't this shock you now? It shocked me. It says: "When they reached the crowd, it says that a man came who knelt before him and said: have mercy on my son who is a lunatic, and he suffers a lot because many times he falls into the fire and many times into the water, and I have brought him before your disciples but they could not heal him." How interesting that we see here a father who is trying to have a relationship with his son but because of the spirit that is overwhelming this son he cannot do it. And tell me who it was that Jesus spoke with when he was on the mountain, with Moses and with Elijah. So in other words, part of what God was doing through Jesus was also fulfilling Elijah's purpose as well, which was to restore all things, to restore those relationships.

Therefore my brothers, this is where I tell you my secret. All revelation as I said at the beginning, I say it again now: all revelation of anointing or power that happens in the context of this mount of transfiguration, are to be used in the restoration of each man and woman as sons and daughters of God. That is where the secret is for each one of us, that is where our challenge, our call. Paul confirmed this in second Corinthians chapter 5, when he is saying that God gave us the ministry of reconciliation, preaching the Gospel my brothers does not necessarily mean that the person comes to know Jesus, but rather directs people to a process of restoration and reconciliation with God as their Father, and that they can understand who they are as sons and daughters before God.

That is where the challenge lies for us. I left this meeting today my brothers inspired in a new way, because God knows my heart. I am not taking for granted what is being said here, I am not lowering the degree to which a person can pray or speak in tongues, someone comes out prophesying, someone comes out healed, a person cries before the Lord, I do not take away the degree of intensity from that, I value and respect it, and I promote it, and I want it to continue happening, but there is something else that is happening behind it, and God is moving us towards that. I believe that we as a Church have a very big challenge, many of us can say that we are evangelizing in one way or another, we are doing our best to share God's love with others, but I believe that God is about to reveal himself to us. us a new way of how to do that. That is the conviction that I have in my heart.

How will it be? I don't know. Ah Pastor Omar I have a treaty here in my portfolio, if it is with a treaty, amen. Ah Pastor Omar I have a couple of friends who invited me to a house, they invited me to a party, but I know they are going to be drinking, but I am not going to drink, do you think I should go to that party or not? . If you are firm in your convictions, go, but when you see that the darkness is turning off your light, run out of there.

I believe that we have to make an impact in the midst of darkness, but God has to equip us with a transfiguration experience, a transfiguration experience where our light expands exponentially, and wherever we go, see God through us. we. I believe that this is the membrane that the Lord is waiting for us to cross, and that when this begins to happen that we are not surprised by new things that begin to happen in our midst. I am sure my brothers that God will continue to move in our midst because He has done it, He wants to do it, it is his way of connecting with us as a Church, as his sons, as his daughters, but he is also waiting for us to leave How do you say?, from our comfort thresholds, that we dare out there.

Lord, I don't know how to speak to this person but look, I settle on what it says in Your Word, that Your Spirit will put the words in due time and that You are going to help me to flow, and that if my tongue got stuck before now it will not get stuck and I will be able to speak clearly to this person, that God is going to give us the ability to refute any argument that is raised against obedience to Christ, he is going to give us the ability to be able to refute and shut down any of those comments. I believe that God is moving in that way my brothers. I am not preaching a message that we are looking for our mountains of transfiguration, because I believe that these are specific experiences, keys, that the Lord brings at specific times, it is not like we can manufacture, but rather that the Lord brings them in a moment that He understands is opportune, to fulfill a purpose that He has in his heart for us.

We do have to keep looking. Once again, do not be confused, seek in your heart that his Glory be manifested in our midst, I am going to continue doing it, but let us do it with understanding, the Glory of God is not only manifested here, the Glory of God can be manifested in your work, when you are having a coffee with your colleague, the Glory of God can be manifested when you are in the building that you have to clean four floors of bathrooms, toilets and things like that, there the Glory of God can be manifested. The Glory of God can be manifested when you are taking blood from a patient, the Glory of God can be manifested in the grocery box and the marqueta as you want, and suddenly God tells you look at the person behind you and tell him something, and you say, how?, tell him something, and God will take care of the rest.

The Glory of God can manifest itself in front of you when you are about to tell your spouse something that you know is offensive, right there the Glory of God can manifest itself in you and cover you with peace and wisdom that instead of break his head you can build it even more, this is how I believe that the Glory of God is going to begin to manifest. Again my brothers, today I dared to ask that question, how is that going to look? I don't know what to answer, only God knows, it's like that. But the question demonstrates that hunger and that desire to want to see what God is up to.

Look, the fact that we are thinking these things does not mean that we are being negligent with what we have here now, our reality, if not on the contrary, I look at my reality, I look at the things around me, and because I see that I say, Lord I need to see Your hand moving in a more powerful way than I have yet seen. When I see the world out there, the things that are taking place, with more desire I tell myself Lord, we have to see you now more than ever, You have to speak more clearly than ever. Faced with the manipulations of the system out there, one has to say, Lord, give me wisdom, give me discernment.

A few months ago the President made a statement that we as believers would say this man is not going anywhere with us, however last Friday he did something that we all applaud, wow, yeah, victory for Hispanic immigrants, yes, I'm going to vote for this person, no, not that easy, in a situation like that, these machinations one has to be very attentive to the voice of God and not get carried away by the currents of the world if not knowing how to proceed according to what God willing and not what this world can manipulate us to do.

Dear God, You enclose a series of mysteries that no human mind will ever be able to comprehend, however You, in the desire of Your heart, You reveal them to us in the light of Your sons and daughters that we have decided to live in the light of Your purposes and Your Willpower. And Jesus, we believe as the Church, as Your sons and daughters, that we are living in crucial times, we are in moments in which anyone's faith can cool down out of nowhere, however, You are calling us to persevere to the end, and we want to respond. faithfully to that call Lord. Therefore we ask that You bring those transfiguring experiences that will let us see Your Glory in a whole new way. May that spirit of Elijah manifest in us once more, and may we see all things restored to the original purpose for which You intended them, not only the hearts of parents to children and children to parents, but also of a whole world turning to you once more.

We want to see manifestations of Your power, open our eyes Lord and help us to understand when it is You who is working, when it is man who is working, and even when it is the enemy who is doing it with us. Be with us, Lord, that these words can continue to echo in our hearts, that at rest tonight You speak to us, and that tomorrow if You allow it, give us the strength, energy and wisdom that allow us to face what let it come while at the same time we remain receptive and aware of Your move in our lives. We bless Your name and I bless each one of my brothers, my sisters who have come tonight, those who have seen us through the internet Lord, may Your peace be with each one of us, take us with peace to our homes, We ask it in the name of Jesus, amen and amen.