Are you able to offer the world water of life?

John chapter 4 verse 5: It's a long passage but we're going to cut it short and then we'll just share it by recounting it. You all know it pretty well anyway, the story of the Samaritan woman, Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The Lord is walking and stops in a place in Samaria, in a city called Sychar of the province, the region of Samaria.

It says: "So he came to a city of Samaria" verse 5 "called Sychar next to the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. And Jacob's well was there. the sixth hour." It was like 12 noon, it was practically noon. "A woman from Samaria came to draw water and Jesus said to her: give me a drink, for his disciples had gone to the city to buy food. Samaritan woman?, because Jews and Samaritans do not treat each other."

"Jesus answered and said to him: if you knew the gift of God and who it is that tells you to give me a drink, you would ask him and he would give you living water. The woman said to him: Lord, you have nothing to draw it with and the well is deep. Where then do you have living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well from which he, his sons, and his cattle drank?

"Jesus answered and said to him, Anyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst, but the water that I will give him will be in him, in it a fountain of water that springs up into eternal life. The woman said to him, Lord, give me that water so that I don't thirst and have to come here to draw it. Jesus said to her: go call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said: no I have a husband. Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said that I do not have a husband because you have had five husbands and the one you have now is not your husband. You have said this truthfully."

"The woman said to him: Lord, it seems to me that You are a prophet" and then he enters into a dialogue, we go further. And it's okay, there are a few verses left, I want to put together the most important part. He says: "Lord, it seems to me that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain and you say that Jerusalem is the place where one should worship. Jesus said to her: woman, believe me that the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You adore what you do not know, we adore what we know" because salvation comes from the Jews, from the Messiah, "but the hour is coming and now is when the true worshipers will adore the Father in spirit and in truth because also the Father such worshipers seek to be worshiped. God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit and in truth must worship."

"The woman said to him: I know that the Messiah called The Christ will come, when He comes He will declare all things to us. Jesus said to her: I am the one who speaks with you." The Lord bless His holy Word, thank you Father, amen, thank you Lord, enter this Word into our hearts Father and allow it to do its work and its effect, Lord, have it in our lives in this Congregation, in the name of Jesus we ask it, amen, amen.

The reason why I have chosen this message is very simple, a few days ago on New Year's Eve God gave me a Word to share with you declaring my feeling that God is calling us this year to consecrate ourselves, concentrate more than ever in an effort to evangelize. Juan, do you have a place to sit? There's a seat up front so come over here and sit over here, sorry I put you there in the spotlight but like, wherever you want up front, maybe we're not going to charge you more up front than there.

So we are talking about the importance of being an evangelistic Congregation God has called us, this is the time God has put so many beautiful things in this community. When one sees you, he sees all of Latin America reflected and even other countries in the world, so many different cultural temperaments, cultures, colors, different cultural sensibilities, different socio-economic levels, intellectuals, different capacities, it is a treasure of people that we have here for glory of the Lord. And God wants to use this rich and diverse humanity for His Glory. We represent and embody the entire community around us and God has placed in us the possibility to achieve.

Whites, blacks, Asians, intellectuals, professionals, humble people, people who cannot read and write, undocumented, we are all here ready and waiting. God has been investing in this Congregation so many beautiful things. Faith, intensity, passion for the Kingdom, gifts of the Spirit, a strong vision about the Kingdom of God. And I believe that we are prepared, I feel in my heart that we are like the pregnant woman, the womb is already there and she can no longer want to give birth inside her. And I believe that this year is a year that we have to dedicate to the Lord, put into practice the things we have received, give more to the Lord, evangelize, dedicate ourselves to intentional evangelism.

By that I mean that God has given us the blessing to grow through the years and to be a healthy Congregation but God wants us not only to grow in the organic and spontaneous way that we have done through different programs, radio, internet, social action, people inviting others to come to Church, relatives coming, friends hearing about the Congregation. God wants us to put on, like programmatically declare an evangelistic work in the city. And that frankly frightens me, declaring these things in public commits me, and if I don't do it this year, I'm going to look bad, so I'm also committed to you and you to me, amen? all with the Lord.

We are going to do a play because this is the time. I believe that God has placed in our hands an anointing, a call, an endowment, a passion, gifts and now we have to start launching ourselves for what God has done for us. It is like the people of God who are in front of the Promised Land and there is a mighty river there in front of them and there a land flowing with milk and honey awaits us, and we have been forty years in the desert, almost forty years we have actually been here in Boston and Cambridge, and this is the time of all that experience that God has given us in Egypt and in the desert to put them into practice.

God has been forming us, he has been working on us and I feel like we are ready to enter that additional dimension and it is time to face the tribes that are there ready, waiting with their spears and swords because the devil does not give up his ground either. easily either, you know, but victory is ours. And we are like Joshua when God tells him: I have given you all the land that the soles of your feet tread upon, as I was with Moses, I will be with you too. As God was with His Church in the first century, as He has been with the Church through the centuries, as He has been with other Christians in the great revivals of history, God is with us too.

And God is with you not only with the Pastor. The Lord says: as I was with the Pastor, with the evangelists I am with you too. That Josué was a young man relatively speaking. Now he had his battles that he had fought too unbelievably. But now he was assuming the command of Moses that great servant of God whom God had backed with great signs and wonders and he felt inadequate too, and unprepared because the mantle of command had fallen on him and now he had to lead this great people, and enter them and lead the war to conquer the land.

But the Lord tells him: do not be afraid, I am with you. I have given an order that everything you step on, whatever you undertake is yours. You have the judicial title in your hands now you just need to execute it and make it a reality. I believe that in the Kingdom of Heaven God has declared victory over us. God has declared growth, prosperity, abundance, blessing. And now He says: you have it, the title is in your hands even if you don't see it. It is an authority that I give, it is a decree that I have given. Now simply execute it, materialize it, make it real, make it visible, practical, applicable. So that's the part that's up to us.

And that is the story of God's people. God gives orders, declarations and we here on Earth say: amen, we take them and turn them into reality. And if we move in the Word that God gives, we cannot be defeated. So I think so; I feel insecure, I am honest because I know how difficult it is to do evangelism in these times. The devil has taken it upon himself to enclose Jericho with very large and insurmountable walls, and high. Did you know that the first city the Jews had to confront when they entered Canaan was Jericho?

And I believe that Jericho is symbolic of the fortresses and the principalities, and the powers, and the things in which the empire of evil is rooted, established, equipped, entrenched and he says: well if you want to go through here you have to go through Over me. The enemy, God, has allowed Satan to close our cities with impassable walls. The Bible says that Jericho was there, its walls were closed, well closed. Historians say that the walls of Jericho were so thick, so dense, so wide that several horse carts could run parallel to each other along those walls. They were tall and very large, very wide.

And that was the wall. I believe that the enemy has established walls of isolation, suspicion, of privacy that nobody wants to be violated over our cities, of pluralism that when we announce that Jesus Christ has the answer and is the way, the truth and the life, people say : ah how you disrespect me? I believe in Muhammad or in Buddha, or in Shiva or Bishnu or whoever. And we feel scared to talk about Jesus Christ. There are walls, psychological walls, cultural walls, judicial walls that the enemy has established over this culture to close it to the Gospel.

The Jews felt inadequate. The walls were definitely not passable by them, this tiny town that did not have weapons, they did not have a cannon there to send a cannon shot at the walls, they did not have a war tank, they had stones, spears. They had no metals to make any kind of weapons of war. And that little group had to break down that wall in order to get through and enter the Promised Land. In other words, the first opponent that the Lord gives them is a hundred times more powerful to resist than what they can do.

And by all this I am referring to Evangelism, I am still in the text brothers. Later we will have the opportunity, we will be talking a little about this and reflecting a lot on Evangelism in the coming Sundays. I want to instruct all of us and declare the Word of the Lord prophetically. So, but remember Jesus the evangelist is talking to a woman there and he's doing evangelism. And we are going to enter the text later, but God puts something in my heart that I did not share in the morning service, right?

So God puts that wall there it is closed, it is an insurmountable city far beyond the resources that those weak Hebrews have at their disposal who have just come out of slavery and spent forty years wandering around in a desert imagine how are they going to win a war?. But the Lord puts them there. I say again when I look I say: Lord, how will this be? Whenever God wants to do something great, the mind says, how will this be? When the Lord announces to Mary: you are going to be the mother of the Messiah, Mary tells him: Lord, how will this be? I don't know a man. Do not worry, the Holy Spirit will fall on you, it will descend on your life and the being that you are going to conceive of that cosmic energy is going to be called the Son of God.

God always has a solution, right? And I ask myself, how will this be? How are we going to conquer? How are we going to duplicate ourselves, how are we going to triple ourselves? How are we going to bless this city, how are we going to seize it and take away from the devil our young women who are being pregnant prematurely, our young men who are turned into predators of women because of the insecurities of our girls and because of the sensuality that the enemy has instilled in their lives? hearts through the media, commercialism all these things?.

How are we going to snatch from the devil the people of drugs, alcohol, sensuality, the vice that the devil is in charge of using to pervert this nation and these societies? How are we going to break and tear down the walls of Jericho?

And the solution that God gives them is simple: "Shout, announce, declare, worship." The technology of the Lord is much wiser than the technology of men. It is a very cheap technology. No great technologies or mechanical devices are required or anything simply announces what you have in your mouth, declares the Word of the Lord. We are a prophetic people, now we work, we make an effort, we invest, but ultimately it is the Power of God that is going to do the work, not us.

God tells me: don't worry there is a way to do it, trust. I believe that one has to simply jump in and step ahead of the other and believe that God is going to open up the sea before us. All those images are there in that paradigm of the conquest of the land. And I want us to be filled with that missionary vision, that evangelistic vision. I want you to become a man today, a woman who says: I am going to bring lives to the knowledge of Jesus. And we want our Church to prepare itself to be a place where people can come and receive that Word, and that we do different activities and use different media.

Let us ask the Lord for wisdom to do the work of Evangelism that God wants us to do because the harvest is plentiful and the workers are few, and the obstacles are many, but the Lord's grace is also great. These are harvest times, not loss times, you know. People say that the world is difficult, I don't know what God has for humanity. I believe that God is going to be before us opening a gap and calamities are going to come and economic crises are going to come, and difficult things will come but all of this will be by the grace and mercy of God softening the hearts of men so that they may be saved. .

Because you know? many times it has to come first like the housewife who takes the tough meat and tenderizes it first there with a mallet right? and he hits the fiber to break the fiber to make it soft, likewise sometimes God has to come first with judgment, he has to come first humiliating man's arrogance, his pride, his ubris, his great sense that he can do without God. And God has first to show self-satisfied humanity that they are but dust so that He can then raise them up and restore them.

No one can be saved until they humble their intellect, you know? No one can be saved until they humble themselves before God. This culture is too prosperous, too self-sufficient. Their technology has given them so many interesting things that they think they can do without God but they don't know that they are simply madmen, they are fragile creatures that need God, because there is an eternity with which they have to stumble one day. And there are cancers, and there are rebellious children, and there are marriages that fall apart, and there is fear of death, and there is old age that is coming. All these things, even if you are very rich, sooner or later you have to deal with those things with loneliness, sadness, fear, neurosis, anxiety, depression, old age, all those things, and in those moments there are opportunities for you to let's tell people about Christ.

God is going to go ahead of us like those defensive soccer players who go ahead overwhelming the opposition so that the one with the ball can pass, we have the ball, it's called Christ, it's called the Gospel, it's called the Word of hope (applause ). God will go before us preparing the world. Things will come but I believe that the calamities and the problems and the financial crises that come will be for life, not for death, they will be to prepare people, to soften their hearts because God is merciful.

So I don't worry too much brothers. Come what may, God has good things, I know it, and the grace of God will be there in the midst of all the tribulations and struggles. So we see here again that's why I liked this passage because we see Jesus in His evangelistic role. He is walking, he sits by the road, how beautiful this passage is so full that it would take us hours to break it down. It says that the Lord was tired of the way. (sings) Tired of the road (laughs). Maybe we have to sing it later, I was tired from the road, tired, very tired.

The Lord was human, he wants to show us the humanity of Jesus. Do you know why the Lord can be good news for humanity? because He went through what we have gone through. He says we have a priest who knows our condition. He was where we have been. He felt lonely, he felt sad, he was tempted by the devil himself. We have been tempted but we do not have the privilege of being directly tempted by Satan himself, he always has a secondary demon there but he had to deal with the mere mere.

He was tempted in everything, he says, but without sin he climbed to the cross, he experienced the agony that no human being will ever be able to experience and that is why He is there to help us, to identify with us. He doesn't have to make an objective effort to figure out how you feel. No. He felt it. When He sees your pain He feels it in Him and a neuron inside Him remembers what He went through when He was human and He is human, does He know that He is God and man still there in heaven? Christ did not get rid of his humanity when he ascended to heaven, it is interesting and a theological tip that I give you.

When He resurrects, He has the marks, He eats, right? That is to say, I think that up there He is a rare being, He is still a mixture of humanity and divinity, that was irrevocable, God did it, I don't know if I'm blowing the lid off someone's brains, but that's interesting, isn't it? So He knows your condition, He knows what this world needs, He resonates with us and our needs.

So the Lord sits there tired but He was never too tired to evangelize a soul. We should never say: you know what? I'm too tired, I have too many problems, I have economic situations to solve, I don't know how to do it. No matter what your situation is, always set aside a little time to do the Lord's work. At work, at home, at school, at work, in your neighborhood, you are appointed by the Lord 24 hours a day to be an agent of life.

But that human-divine Christ sits there waiting for an opportunity that He knows will come and a woman approaches, I think a symbol of all lost humanity, a Samaritan woman to get water from a well. It is a very symbolic well because that well was dug by Jacob, the patriarch father of the Jews, of the Judaic religion. The Samaritans were half Jewish and half other pagan tribes, it was a mixed race. They had a Jewish race but they also had other mixtures and their religion was also a mixture of Judaism and other religions. You can read the story of them in the Old Testament. And that mixed race was despised by the authentic Jews supposedly according to them that they were pure. The Jews despised the Samaritans, and the Samaritans returned the favor by despising them as well.

This woman did not seem to have anything to recommend her but the Lord took pity on her and the Lord valued her. He had all the strikes against her; woman in a society that looked down on women and didn't count them as a spiritual entity, women in the middle east are still an asterisk that god put there, a little note to jail is all. It was not valued. One would have thought that the Lord would have gone with the little time he had to the head of the town or an influential person, but no.

This woman, a despicable woman, a second Samaritan as we say, was a woman from an impure town that had gone astray. They had abandoned the ways of truth and they still practiced an odd mix of religion. Third place another strike he had against her: a woman of dubious past. Five husbands in quotes "husband" and the sixth was also not. This woman was diligent let me tell you, she lost a husband and after a while she found another one at once. Some sisters say: Father, give me that anointing, just one, I don't ask you for more (laughs).

This one had six behind her and I don't know if it was because she was sensual or because she needed to have a man next to her. There are women who are like this, it is not because they are sensual, it is simply because they are realized with a masculine body next to them. And this woman had had all these husbands and some commentators on the passage say that perhaps that is why she was alone there in that public square fetching water when drinking water from the well was something social. Perhaps the other women in the village were saying: hm! We are going to take care of this one and when they saw her coming they pulled her husband and put him inside the house and closed the doors and windows (laughs).

She is alone there and the Lord sees her. Why does the Gospel record these events? Because I believe that the Lord evangelized hundreds and hundreds of people but we only have a few examples of what the Lord did. I believe that the Holy Spirit wanted us to cast our eyes on that event and to understand something like he did with Plunder, as he did with the story of the prodigal son, with Bartimaeus, with the story of the Roman centurion and with so many other characters. of the writing. The Lord wanted how to choose an exemplary character in the sense that it was a representative character. That woman represents humanity.

It represents people who are in your neighborhood, it represents a homosexual that you don't want to know about, it represents the person who sometimes sits next to you in Church with a stink of liquor, it represents the person who smells bad, it represents the homeless over there Outside, it represents the drunkard, the sensually corrupt person. It represents people that these are the people that God came looking for. The people we think are inveterate.

He represents the secularist intellectual who despises the Gospel and is keen against evangelicals because he believes they are hypocrites. It represents the university professor with his intellect who thinks that God does not exist and that they are hoaxes and the Gospel is for the poor and the weak, those who do not have the courage to face life with their own strength and they invent a God that is like a little pillow that is there and gives them peace of mind.

People that we sometimes don't want to enter our Church but those are the people that Christ came to save, you know? and they are in your neighborhood. It's the people who shout drunk on Saturday nights and we tell them: shut up, I want to sleep! and they get drunk every Saturday and have fights and spoil our party, and create problems for us, but those are the people that the Lord wants to work, right? and that we have to take pity on them. We have to keep our eyes alert.

The Lord saw that woman, he understood her, he knew what she was limping from and what foot she was limping on, and he let her approach him and said: give me a drink. Why does the Lord say so? I think because He wanted to use a hook to lure her. What this woman was used to was people who shunned her, who despised her and turned their faces away from her. Perhaps she was wearing lipstick and a provocative dress and a flirtatious walk but the Lord did not let that frighten him, he says: give me a drink.

Do you know too? the disciples say that after a while they came, found him talking to a woman and said: ugh, the Lord talking to a woman? Jewish rabbis and they didn't want anyone to see them so they wouldn't think otherwise. We have to get rid of that nonsense brothers, we have to get rid of that. I believe that the Gospel is flat, the Gospel is at ground level, it needs people who smell like sheep, you know? We evangelicals are too fearful sometimes what we do is project our own demons that we have inside with a false mercy.

People want flat people, you know? people who speak in their own language, people who take risks, who want to be salt of the Earth. Make friends in the world, who know how to laugh, who don't have to be one all the time: be careful, there is the evangelical! Let's not say this or that, right? they are nonsense, if you say it at home worse than them sometimes surely.

The Lord did not care about these things, so He takes this woman and says to her: give me a drink because He knew that this woman when He asked her for a drink, being obviously a Jew as she admits, a pious man, she is not used to that treatment. The Lord places himself rather at her mercy. We have to learn how to win people over before preaching the Gospel, you know?

Notice when the Lord sees Plunder this other politically corrupt inveterate sinner oppressing people, the Lord doesn't reject him either. Looting had a wound inside. We have to remember that, sometimes you see people over there denying Christ, but in their inner being they want to know Christ, I believe. At the end of the day, you have to go above all that rhetoric that they offer you; there is a being there in need in his solitude of the Lord.

And Looting a corrupt politician had a wound in his heart. He climbs a tree to see Jesus when He passes because he believes that this is all he deserves, simply to see the shadow of that being, that man who preaches a Gospel of grace and hope for sinners. He did not expect that the Lord would call him. And when the Lord sees him there up on the tree, he knows who he is, he knows what is in his heart and tells him: Plunder get down from there, tonight I'm going to eat a sancocho in your house so prepare it for me, let's go there . He doesn't even wait to be invited. He invites himself.

Do you know that there are many people who like it like this? There are people who tell him: prepare me a mangú that I'm going to eat there at your house, a pupusa, some tortillas, whatever, right? People like to serve because what they expect is the evangelical: "no I don't eat that pork that's too impure for me." We have to be people of the land, I like plain, simple people who don't walk around and you have to pay great homage to them, displaying as some say out there. A false mercy.

You don't have to prove anything to anyone. If you have the holiness of God, you don't have to be dressing up as a sanctimonious person, holiness is something that is organic, it is something that is total. It comes out of your pores even if you don't want to. If you have it, you can laugh, Jesus Christ went to parties, he ate what was put in front of him and I am not going to say anything else so as not to create bad thoughts in you, well now I have to say, he drank his glass of He came too, please, I don't want to spoil anyone's party. If you have suffered from the problem of alcoholism, neither touch it nor smell it, but apart from that, the Lord. And the Pharisees denied him, they criticized him. They said: this is an eater, a wine drinker.

The Lord was plain, he was simple. And when He tells Sacking: look, tonight I'm going to eat with you when he arrives at the house, it's full of other sinners like Sacking, what a tremendous evangelistic opportunity. And there were the Pharisees eating their knuckles and criticizing the Lord, looking at him with critical eyes: ah, if this were a prophet, he would not eat with this crowd. No? but the love of the Lord overcame Sacking, and Sacking stood up without the Lord preaching anything to him and said: oh I repent, if I have deceived someone I will return it quadrupled and I give half of all my goods. Looting was converted with shoes and everything and the Lord did not fire even a shot because His love overcame him.

We have to be people like that, brothers, people who win over others. Let us be fiercely holy but also plain, natural, simple. Let's win people over with our skin-deep humanity in other words. And that is the mixture that I see, the Lord says to her: give me a drink and the woman is surprised because what she expects is a rejection, a critical look and she says: how can you, being a Jew, ask me to drink? I am a Samaritan woman

The Lord says because look how He uses a symbol that has to do with your situation at that moment, you are collecting water, the Lord prepares water, life, hope. The well is a well indicating the failed religion of Judaism. You found the religion, the genuine spirituality, alive that He wants. There are a series of poetic images that occur to the Lord and He assembles them in that request: give me a drink. Lord how You? is surprised, it was a redemptive act that He did. He affirmed her, blessed her with her request, recognized her as a being who could give, who had agency, as they say today, a good word. It had inherent value, it could bless Him, serve Him.

So the Lord takes advantage, right? He is pulling it like a good fisherman pulls a salmon or a swordfish, little by little tiring it, he pulls it little by little and says: "If you knew who it is that asks you to give him something to drink, you would not only give him but also you would ask Him and He would give you living water." Not again? He falls in love with her and lures her as we say with that statement because what Christ wants to give is living water.

The Lord establishes a dichotomy between the water from the well, this woman had to work to get her water. It was a symbol, all that act that she was carrying out was a spiritual symbol. She had to come from her house carrying a heavy, empty jar to get there, put in a can or whatever, I don't think there was metal at that time that could but something, a very deep container, fill it with water, pull it out, take it out, throw it on her jar, take the jar, put it here, put it on her head and go back again to where she lived, maybe going down a hill that she had climbed before, get to her house, put it in a place, start dispensing it and after a while she had to return again the next day with other women or alone to repeat the same act, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and until she died she had to do the same, work, effort.

That was the Jewish religion and it is the religion in any part of the world, whether you are religious or simply secular, you have to be like the Samaritan woman. People take a drug, it cheers them up and makes them feel like giants. When the drug wears off, what remains is the burning of the drug and they have to take a larger dose again because their nervous system has already gotten used to the first dose. The sensual has to get used to more and more forbidden things to be able to feel the same stimulus.

He who has money needs more money. Whoever rose to the top of the corporation as CEO now needs a bigger corporation to run. The one who wrote the first book now needs one that is a best-seller, a publishing success to feel better and when he has that then he now wants to be a poet and he is not content with criticizing poets but he also wants to be a producer of poetry. There is no end, there is no end to making books, there is no end to making barns, what you always have left is to do like the rich man who, simply when he has a barn, already says: what will I do with my money? well i'll destroy this and make bigger ones.

Have you seen that? That is the work that man has received, fallen man build barns and then take them down and make bigger ones. This is how people do in this city, they are always destroying buildings that are the most beautiful and they have to destroy them to make another bigger one with more capacity, terrible, right? Like this woman. That is what man is without Christ, without God, he has to procure his own water. And that water, like the water of the Samaritan woman, only satisfies for a moment and then you have to look for more water. And it is toxic water because it fills you up for a moment but it also always takes something away from you.

The pleasures of the world, the successes of the world, always rob you of something at the same time that they give you something and gradually weaken you. Christ says: you know what? look. If you knew who is asking you, I have a water that is different from the water from the well and it is different from the water of your religion. Religion is like that too. People come to Church on a Sunday, do their rituals, see the priest or the Pastor there doing their skirmishes and their strange issues there, cross themselves or get up, raise their hands because they tell them to raise them, go home to his usual misery and returns the next Sunday to have the tire inflated again until it deflates and returns on Sunday again.

That's religion that's what it does. How good it is when a person knows that they have water inside. God has called us to be spiritual camels. I compare people to chickens or camels, sorry that sometimes I am (laughs), they are not very elegant animals but they are real, right? God wants you to carry the water yourself within you, what is the water? It is called Christ Jesus, it is called the Gospel, the Word of God, the principles of the Gospel.

The Lord says: I have a very different water than the one you carry. It is not the water of justification by your own works, your own efforts is a water that comes to you for free. The product that I sell is priceless and yet it is free. I give it to you, I install it within you when you open yourself to it and that water runs within you for eternal life. It is living water, it is not stagnant water from a well, it is water that runs and makes noise, which promises life and joy and hope like a stream delights us with its sound, it is fresh water, it is aerated water oxygenated by his run. It is the water of the Gospel.

And the Lord says: I can give you that spring water for eternal life. That water is free, you carry it inside you, you don't have to, wow! Who does not want that product? And it not only satisfies your physical thirst, it satisfies your emotional, spiritual, and intellectual thirst, it gives meaning, meaning, purpose. It teaches you where you come from, where you are going, it teaches you to lose the fear of death, it teaches you how to manage your life, how to overcome your demons and your ties, it sets you free. That is the water that we have to offer to the world, water of life.

But brothers, I tell you: before offering the world that water, we have to drink it ourselves first. Knows? the world wants a Gospel that promises something. Many times people look through the display case, the windows of our Church and what they see is the same people who are out there: defeated, morally bankrupt. Our Church has to be different, our community has to be different. You and I have to drink the water of the Gospel first brothers. We have to let Christ change us, transform us, change our families.

We have to be authentic bearers of the Truth of the Gospel. When people look at our houses, they see men consecrated to their wives. Women filled with the Holy Spirit and trained with the authority that the Word of God gives them. Children who honor their parents, are studying and dedicated to a future life, are postponing pleasure to dedicate themselves to the call to prepare for the future so that they can study and graduate, and be good men and women of influence in the world.

He needs men and women who have taken their appetites and subjected them to the principles of the Gospel. It needs workers who give their bosses eight hours of work for eight hours of money. You need productive people, you need transformed people, liberated people. People who have exchanged their lie for the truth of the Gospel. If we do not live differently from the world, don't worry, the Gospel will not make a dent on Earth. Unless we first exemplify life, the water of God that releases we will not be able to speak to the world. We have to submit to the Truth of the Gospel.

Brothers, I am tired and God above all of people who come to Church, confess the Gospel, we jump, we jump, we raise dust, our hair falls off and we return to life exactly as we entered with the same problems, same ties, same sins , brothers we have to change. You and I have to hold on to the Gospel, we have to live the Word of God. We have to ask the Lord to crucify us and make us anew. We have to ask him to break the failed structures within us, that we can express God's love, compassion, grace, mercy, patience, goodness, gentleness of the Lord.

A funny town, a nice town, an attractive town. Do you know what defeats the devil in our homes, in our neighborhoods? people crucified for the Gospel. People who have taken up their cross and who follow it. People who reflect the love of Christ, the personality of Christ. Against such things there is no law, against such things the devil has no power. It's not the tongue-speaking Pentecostal around there and always shaking their heads. That does not affect the devil what affects the devil is a life submitted to the principles of the Gospel. Loving people, sanctified people, we have to fight for the ability to reflect the love, the grace of Christ.

We need liberated marriages, liberated families. And I tell you, brothers, when you assume that burden of Christ, when you assume the yoke that the Lord places on you, you find freedom, you find healing. It is not only with the sword in hand that healing is defeated, Satan is defeated with his hands here confessing grace, mercy and love. The devil can't do against that.

That is why the Lord defeated principalities and powers, he was on the cross, not with a sword in hand, he was there crucified and tied, unable to move with his heart beating for love of humanity, that was what defeated the devil. Blood coming out of his side, you know? suffering, wounds on the back. That is what defeats the devil, it is love, it is compassion, it is the man who submits to the Word of God and commits to live a simple life. The person who forgives, the person who is patient and humble, not the person who walks around with the whip in hand and judgment in his mouth, always ready to criticize or attack someone. That is not the Gospel.

We have to offer man and humanity the water of life, fresh, simple water at a cool temperature that refreshes their hearts. This world is full of hypocrites and Pharisees and the world no longer wants to know about it. The world wants people who leave drops of blood in their trail because they are carrying the cross, slowly dying to their sins, and experiencing the joy of the Lord. Every day they become lighter, simpler, lighter, more joyful because they are losing the weight of their flesh and are learning the walk of a person freed from their burdensome humanity. That's what the world wants, that water of life.

The Lord says: I can give you that water. Brothers, we have to offer the world the water of life. Water that we ourselves have taken to be able to speak about it authentically. Let's leave it there but again; this woman is touched by that message of Jesus Christ and that woman becomes a great evangelist. But the Lord tells her, first she tells him: well Lord wow I want that product, where do I have to sign? I want twenty boxes of that water, install the component inside at once.

The Lord says: just a minute, look for your husband and bring him here to me. Husband me? I do not have a husband. You are right because you have had five husbands and the sixth is still not yours. You have to settle accounts, you have to preach the Truth of the Gospel to the people. A Gospel must be preached because people are not going to find the peace they need if they do not also adhere to the principles of the Gospel. Just as we put on the cross, we must also tell people: if anyone wants to be my disciple, take up his cross every day and follow me, that my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

There are many people who want religion, they want liberation but they don't want the process of submitting their past to the Lord. Interestingly, we don't know what the woman did at the end of the day, if she brought her husband or not because history doesn't tell us, I assume that at some point the Lord spoke to her, he spoke to her about her past. The Lord gently said to the woman: you know what? I am going to give you that water, you can receive it, but you also have to deal with your behavior, you have to deal with your past.

But look at how he says it in a gentle way, not in a self-righteous way, not in a self-sufficient and contemptuous way, right?, he says gently, reminds him: there are things that you have to deal with. I say that we have to mix as a Church a Gospel of grace, mercy and love but also a Gospel of Truth and announce to them that to be released there they will have to leave their things.

But what the Lord tells us is that we have to invite people to enter the Gospel and once they say yes then we gently go to them, gradually teaching them to free themselves and get rid of their lifestyle. The Lord does not say to you first: leave your demons and then come, He does not say: come and I will help you overcome your demons. And you're going to have to take your past.

Do not be afraid if you have ties, if your past is not totally fixed and you have ties, and obstacles and debts, do not worry; come to Christ and the Lord will help you. And we have to be the type of Church that allows people to have process. A saint is not made overnight brothers. A man of God takes time to form and God is not going to send people here to make them children of the devil twice. There are people who come to the Church and we distort them with legalism and a lack of understanding and pastoral complexity.

Those churches are never going to grow and I hope they die, forgive me for saying the same thing because many times what these churches believe are people who are rebels against the Gospel. This Church is open to all sinners who want to come and surrender to Jesus, we open the doors.

With all my love I tell you: whoever does not feel comfortable with that approach of ours I am very sorry, but if you come to this Church you have to know that this is a Church where we want to preach a Gospel of grace and truly both things united as Jesus Christ was, he says that he was full of grace and truth. Many people just want the truth but don't want grace, others want grace but don't want truth. We are a Church of grace and truth.

We want a Church that understands, a Church with a pastoral heart. When people enter the Gospel they come with a lot of obstacles and problems. They come divorced, they come with a woman who is not their original wife, they left her there in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala wherever, they have other things. They come with a swarm of problems, they come living without marriage, they come with the shackles of homosexuality, alcoholism, violence, a whole host of things. The Lord says: come I am going to work for you, I am going to heal you My water is going to run through you. A Church of processes.

If God is going to bring people here, he is going to bring complicated people, listen to me. Any Church that is doing the work of Evangelism is going to have to deal with a lot of people who are going to come with ties because this century and the previous century have produced a number of people with problems that are not in the manual, honestly, and people are needed Biblically and spiritually wise to ask the Lord for wisdom on how to deal with this that is coming to me here, that is appearing right in front of me.

And we have to be people who are wise and understand that it is a Church, look, I say our Church is made of Teflon here nothing sticks to us, whatever comes and we clean the walls and they remain the same the next day. Don't be so finicky, let's be plain, easygoing. God wants folksy people, simple-hearted people, people who speak to people with a real Gospel. Drop all that self-righteous spiritualoid vocabulary and speak to people in language they can understand appropriate to their situation and give them time. I will be in charge of announcing our Gospel, our leaders and pastors are going to preach the Gospel for real. You stay calm, yours is to bring fish here, we catch them with the Word of God.

You bring people to the Gospel and the Lord takes care of it, not you, you don't make a saint God does it, the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, we are going to announce the Word with love, mercy and God is going to work on it and forming. I want our Church to be like a complex and subtle machinery that when people get into that gear of this living community they begin to pass like a little piece in a passing industry, each little piece shapes it in different ways until they come out on the other side and they will never come out on the other side, they will come out when they die because it is a long-term process. But let our Church be a conversation, help a little, and then another, and then a class of discipleship, and a sermon and a meeting, and a friendship and a service, and a giving, all these things are forming and configuring a man , a woman of God.

And that is what a living, evangelistic, pastoral community is, forming people with the gifts of the people of God. Love, grace, mercy, understanding, wisdom, justice, truth, example, giving, serving, being served. All these interventions of ours and directed by the Holy Spirit are creating transformed men and women. Our function is to bring them to the machine, put them in the first gear and the Holy Spirit leads them.

We have to be people of love and mercy. I don't know what happened to this woman, she doesn't tell me if she divorced her husband, if she left him and returned to the former who knows. I think they don't tell us precisely so that we think what happened to her? I believe that like everything there are processes. Maybe she stayed with the sixth husband and the Lord said: okay don't worry, start over; clean slate, just be good from here on out.

The Lord is more merciful than most of us who have been forgiven of greater things. I do not understand the Lord, I will never understand him, but I know that my desire is to bring Christ to the world and announce the Truth of the Gospel in an integral, authentic and transforming way. May the Lord help us not to go to one side or the other. , always in tension, the edge of grace and truth, mercy and justice, love and integrity. We have to walk at that point. God help us to be balanced evangelists.

Let's lower our heads. I want the Lord to touch us, transform us, the Lord deal with them. Lord help us this year and the years to come. Father we have declared something, we have wanted to do something for You. Help us, help us, anoint us, train us, endow us, forgive us, we are not instruments worthy of being used by You but in Your mercy You use us. The Samaritan woman was not worthy of becoming an evangelist and yet You used her, she says, to evangelize her entire village. None of us are worthy but You make us worthy.

Look at this Church. Anoint us as each of us are instruments in the market, in the square, in the university, in the classroom, in the kitchen, on the street, on the train wherever Father use us, use us as Jesus was used on a path dusty of Samaria use us too Lord and make us bearers of Your Truth. I don't know how you're going to do it, I don't understand myself and I don't have the slightest idea, but I believe that You are a God of miracles.

We are here, I say: here I am Congregation León de Judá send us, send us. I declare a year of miraculous fishing, Lord, of abundant harvest, of multiplication of loaves and fish to feed the whole multitude, that is what we long for, Lord. Help us, have mercy, cover us, keep us, protect us, seal us Lord, may the devil not laugh at us but rather laugh with joy when you see Your people doing the things that You have commanded them to do and doing Your Will.

We want to bring delight to Your Father's heart, we want to be an instrument, Lord, worthy of all that You have made dwell in our midst. We praise you Lord we glorify you.

Brothers, I want to lower your head for a moment, keep it there, I want to make a call too. If someone this afternoon wishes to give their life to Jesus, we have talked about Evangelism, we have talked about a water that is like no other water and that is the water that the Lord offers you this afternoon. If someone has come to Church this afternoon and has not yet drunk the water that is Jesus Christ, I want to offer it to you for free and tell you that all you have to do is like that Samaritan woman did: Lord, give me that water.

If anyone wants to give their life to the Lord Jesus, I invite them to give their life this afternoon so they don't leave here. God bless you, God bless you, brothers rise up. Drink from that water, drink from the water of life that Christ gives you, let the Lord transform your life. Do not put the problems ahead, do not put the ties, do not put the obstacles, do not put the difficulties in front of you, put Christ in front and the ties will come later and He will solve all these things.