we have to talk about hell

Luke chapter 16 is a well-known parable of the Lord, the rich man, and Lazarus. And there are many differences of opinion if this was a totally illustrative parable simply as an illustration or if this Lazarus does not look like the same Lazarus that the Lord raised by the way or if he was referring to real characters or not, the important thing is the beginning and the spiritual teaching that is contained in this passage. The Lord always used parables, illustrations, stories, stories to make the teaching of certain mysteries of Scripture more understandable and clearer.

Many times he spoke to people who were not educated, not very academically developed, and this was a way of making His teaching clear, among other things, right? Now the Lord says in this parable that: "There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and made a splendid feast every day." The Lord is thus establishing an almost exaggerated, hyperbolic image of a very prosperous man with so much money, all his clothes were the most exquisite, the best and every day was a feast where he invited all his friends and family, a total banquet, right? ? splendidly.

A man, I imagine he was very popular inviting all his friends to eat the best delicacies. The Lord always talks about that, doesn't he? that when people have so much money they don't know what to do with it then well, do you remember the other parable of this man who had so much money that he said: well I don't know what to do, what I'm going to do is I'm going to tear down all my barns and all my buildings and I'm going to make them bigger? and this man seems to have so much money that well, the only thing he could spend it on was clothes and banquets, his material, physical wealth was so great.

But also: "There was a beggar named Lazarus who was lying at his door." Lazarus is the complete opposite, he is the diametrical opposite of this rich man because Lazarus, instead of fine clothing and health and great financial splendor, "He was full of sores and longed to be satisfied with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table and even the dogs came and they licked his sores" you cannot imagine two beings in two conditions more different than these two men.

But what happens?: "It happened that he died" there is the word, take that word "died the beggar." Death is a dividing point in human destinies, death is what makes us equal, here on this Earth people can be in the White House or in a palace or in an incredible mansion or they can be in the greatest misery but when there is a funnel that we all have to go through, the CEO or the president of the biggest corporation or the director of the most powerful corporation or the biggest beggar have to go through a door called death.

And on the other side there are things too, there is an eternity; we all have to go through that door that is eternity. The Bible says that God has put eternity in the hearts of men. How many know that we have the essence of God in us? That does not perish, that does not die, that does not disappear.

What is it that makes us humans? What is it that gives us that virtue that makes us human, what is it that gives us that virtue that no other living being has only the human being? Psychologists rack their brains trying to decipher it, philosophers, ontologists, but we and the world's great religions have always said that the human being has eternity within him, her. We have the spirit, that is what makes us different.

What psychologists sometimes call consciousness, I believe, is not just consciousness in terms like that of the brain and its biological electrochemical processes, it is something that goes beyond biology, goes beyond psychology, goes beyond the trillions of neurons and their connections established by the human brain. What explains the complexity of man, woman is that mystery that is the breath of God in each one of us.

Do you remember the creation story? It says that God created man and created him from mud, a way I believe to declare that yes, we are very united to creation. If you examine the human being in terms of its physical biological content, we have all the elements that a stone, a tree, a monkey, a fish, water, the skies, the planets have; the same substances are the elements that make up all matter, chemists have already figured that out to some extent. We have the same elements that make up that chair where you are sitting and what we eat, everything.

When you die, that part disintegrates because you no longer have what is inside there, which is what gives integrity to what you are, that part. It says that God breathed on man, remember? then man was simply a clay doll, a physical-chemical material content of the same elements of the Earth; Now when God blows on man, He infuses him with His breath. Imagine having the breath of God within you, if God breathed into you, hear how many nutrients should the breath of God have? what more wonderful things must the breath of God have?

When God breathed into that man who was a dead doll, the man was a living being and we, that's what we have inside of us. I was watching a documentary recently about Artificial Intelligence which is a new dimension of science. Some scientists believe that by the year 2050 or so, computers will reach the same level of intelligence as men and from then on they will go beyond it and beyond them, a fascinating area of scientific investigation.

But there is a problem that they have to deal with is what is conscience? In my opinion and many philosophers and scientists, a machine will never be able to do what the human brain does, but not only the human brain is human consciousness and these philosophers have to deal with this. What is human consciousness? They try to explain it. It interested me that none of them gets into the area of the spirit, they are all materialists and in the discussion, at least there, they limit themselves to deciphering what consciousness is in terms of the processes of the brain, the neurons and the electronic processes and the complexity of the human brain.

And yet they say that this complexity seen from a purely material perspective is far beyond what a computer, the most advanced computer. They say: we can make a computer that does a number of things but doubling and equaling the capacity of the brain is impossible; that is still not taking into account what the spirit is. I believe that what makes the complexity of the human mind possible is not the billions of neurons and their incredible combinations, it is the spirit that is within us, that spirit God has placed there.

All of this that I am saying we could go much deeper to say that death, that atrium through which we pass to the other dimension, the eternal dimension, when we get rid of this material body, the apostle Paul talks about it in Second of Corinthians 5 I think it is, it says: "If this building vanishes we have in us a building not made with hands, eternal" eternal it says, that is your spirit. It is eternal and the spirit of every human being is irrevocable. It has the essence of God, it cannot be done, it is like when a king gives a word that cannot be taken back, that is in the Bible many times. When a king gave a decree, that decree could not be annulled, it had to be fulfilled, a promise.

When God put eternity in us He does not take that essence of Him that is He, sacred, it is a divine, eternal, infinite essence. He doesn't take that and kind of undo it, it has to exist for eternity, it's an eternal essence. and then that essence passes into eternity and there are two paths there.

And that is what I wanted to talk about this morning because the Lord has put it in my heart that we have to talk about these two roads but I want to talk about only one for now, it is called hell. I don't like to talk about hell, who likes to talk about hell? but we have to talk about hell; the Lord spoke of hell. The New Testament speaks of hell about 50 times and Jesus Christ, the most loving being that has existed and will exist, spoke of hell continuously.

Hell is not something just for preachers who have burned their food, are in a bad mood when they preach. Hell is a reality that the Bible talks about and we have to talk about it because we have to alert people. If Christ spoke, I cannot be more sophisticated than Jesus in my way of preaching the Gospel and there is a place, we don't always talk about him but there is a place.

In this year that we have been talking about so many evangelistic things, God put it in my heart: at some point you have to talk about what hell is, what eternal damnation is; that part A of the two destinations, heaven, hell. So these two men with very different conditions here on Earth pass through the court of death and something happens on the other side, look what it says here: "The beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom."

The bosom of Abraham is a contemporary way of saying Jesus: heaven, paradise, eternal and positive life; He is using a term that the Jews of His time understood. Something interesting is that in the Old Testament the doctrine of hell is not as completely delineated as it is in the New Testament, a mystery but there are places where they talk about it.

It is not something totally new, but like in the Old Testament, I believe that for reasons of its narrative style it does not develop as much in the doctrine of hell but it is outlined and pre-drawn there; in the New Testament it is quite clear, not one hundred percent because there are still mysteries that none of us can explain about what is the ultimate and complete nature of hell but we have a lot of information, a lot of information and it is a place where nobody wants to go.

Now it says that, "Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried" now, what happens? there are two places here that are drawn. It says: "And in Hades" again the word Hades is a word that is actually almost the equivalent of hell; I don't know if the Lord here, as when he says Abraham's bosom, is using contemporary language. Today we understand hell or if there is a subtlety between Hades and Gehenna, which is the other term that is used there for hell, long to explain I do not want to get lost in that either because I am afraid but in Hades it is definitely an image of hell , in Hades this rich man who by the way brothers does not go to hell because he is rich, you know? there are many rich who are going to go to heaven with shoes and everything and there are many poor who are going to go to hell without shoes but it is not because they are rich or poor, your condition here in that sense does not determine where you are going to go.

God has nothing against rich people or against intelligent people or against prosperous people, just as I don't think that because you are poor and you suffered here in the world or you were hit a lot or whatever it is like you sweated your sin and you're going to heaven then, it's not like that either. What is it that determines according to the Christian faith where we are going? Christ Jesus, our position with respect to Christ, what do we do with Christ, but it's another thing apart, let that be clear in this passage, right?

So it says that one went to each side, right?: "In Hades" in hell this rich man who had not cared about spiritual things, that is what leads him to hell, I am going to deal with that a little later "in Hades he lifted up his eyes" in the Bible hell is located in physical terms below. I'm not sure that if you take a machine right now, one of those big cranes and start digging a giant hole, you're going to enter hell somewhere on Earth, I don't think it's like that, but the idea of being down It's always the idea, isn't it? of the bad

Then it says that: "In Hades he lifted up his eyes while" in what? "being in torments." Look at something here again, some people say: The Lord Jesus is too good, God is too good to torment people; again that would take a whole lecture just a message about it but time and time again the Scriptures associate hell with torment. Whether it's fire, whether it's sulfur, whether it's literal flames, whether it's a flame of unsatisfied desire, whether it's a little devil poking you with a three-pronged fork, I don't know; what matters to me is that hell is a place of torment, what does it matter to me that it be with fire, with burning water, with oil, it is torment.

And another thing, I say this: the Lord was an accomplished Teacher like no other. His pedagogical capacity like no other is admitted by anyone who sees his way of teaching and illustrating. Pedagogically, it would have been a serious, serious mistake on the part of the most accomplished Teacher on all Earth to give teachings that caused so much confusion if He had not wanted to say that yes, there is a hell because He repeated the doctrine of hell so much that: why? repeat it and teach it in so many ways if it doesn't exist and if He had no intention of endorsing that teaching? I don't know in which head to believe something else about the teaching of Jesus and exclude some things, I don't know by what reasoning we can accept some things from the teaching of Jesus and not others simply because we don't like it, in the end it is that .

But over and over again, the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of hell as a place of torment, of suffering, so much so that one must do everything possible, says the Lord, to avoid going to that place, okay? So it is a place "being in torment he saw Abraham from afar" again I think he was using that language of a Pharisee, of a Jew, of Judaism because it was what was familiar to the people who were listening to him at that time and Abraham was the father Abraham the symbol of the Jewish salvation system.

So the Lord puts it in terms of this man in torment looking up and being allowed access to the other dimension, seeing it, visualizing it and there he sees Abraham and who else does he see there? to Lázaro, the beggar that he passed by the door of his house every day and did not throw him a penny, as the Puerto Ricans would say, not even 25 cents because he was going too fast to get into his limousine to go anywhere, play golf or go to the club select to which he belonged or to his office in a high-rise in Manhattan, I'm getting too dramatic already.

But he saw Lazarus and remembered: ah, this is the guy I never saw when I left my house, he saw him in the bosom of Abraham Lazarus now transformed, rejuvenated, totally healthy; "he saw it and then crying out: Father Abraham" said this man rich in torment "have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue because I am tormented in this flame." His suffering, his agony, was so great that just as Lazarus would have been content with a crumb of bread that he would have given him from his abundant table when he was on Earth now, in hell he would be content with a drop of water that was on the tip of Lazaro's finger to calm the terrible thirst that consumes him.

"And then Abraham said to him: Son" that word impacts me, son. Note that Abraham does not tell him: shameless you deserve it, you are there in hell because of your bad head, you had so many opportunities when the people of León de Judá went to preach to you and you never listened to them, now you suffer. No, look: son. Don't you derive something touching there, a teaching? God does not hate the person who is in hell, on the contrary; that son is the son of a mother who sees her son suffering something unnecessarily, son why are you there? what have you done? I don't want you to be there, come to your house, there is a good bed where you can sleep, boy, why are you suffering so much danger and so many things, son?

He is a son of mercy, he is a son of love. In Abraham's heart there is no hate, people say: well, how can a loving, good God condemn people to hell? If only God were so loving. Brother: God suffers, I believe, for every soul that goes to hell, and do you know who is the greatest producer of condemned people? it is the devil because He knows that it causes pain to the heart of the Father when one of his children goes to hell.

The Word says that God does not want anyone to perish: "And he so desired that no one go to hell that he sent his own Son to die on the cross." There you have another question: if hell does not exist or if we all go to heaven or we are all turned off like a little light that goes out, why did Christ have to come to suffer the unspeakable and why did God have to elaborate all this complex system? what is called the Christian faith and investing so much energy in the last two thousand years and more than that if we bill creation itself since the time of the fall, everything that God has done to elaborate a plan of salvation because even the existence of the Hebrews, Jews is part of God's plan of salvation, the preparation.

Why would so many theological treatises have been written, why would a faith as exquisite and complex as Christianity have been elaborated, and why would the Son of God have come into the world to get into the straitjacket of His humanity, suffer what he suffered, getting on a cross, being torn by sin and nails, going to hell that I don't understand why he went to hell that I don't understand exactly what he means when he went to hell if he just went there to preach to souls, yes He, that's too big an abyss for one to get into but the Bible says he went to Hades.

Why would He have done that if we are all simply going to be saved or disappear depending on which of the two things you believe when we die, for what? No, it is because God wanted to develop a way that people would not have to go to hell, He does not want everyone to perish but rather everyone to proceed to salvation he says. God does not condemn anyone. The Word says that when Judgment Day comes it will not be God who condemns but the Word of God and the works of men themselves are the ones that go.

Oneself is condemned to hell by not receiving the offer of free salvation that Christ made possible, but God does not hate anyone, God does not rejoice, he says, in the sinner's death, God suffers. Who is it that has all these young people here in the gangs tied up in death, this culture of death? This Friday we officiated here, there was a young man I knew, we prayed for him many times here in front, this young man was lying here, how many bullets he had I don't know and these gangsters came, these young people tattooed up to their ears with the spirit of the death upon their men and their heads, terrible, terrible.

Young people who already inhabit a dimension almost demonic, many; girls and young men. Who produces that culture of death? the devil. God is suffering and that is why we have to do it. I would have wanted to get into each one of these young people and give them a little piece of my flesh so that they heal, what one feels is infinite mercy. Who produces that? it's the devil.

The Bible says that if some perish it is because their understanding is blinded, in which it says the king of this world blinded their understanding so that the light of the Gospel does not shine on them. Satan is the one who has the empire of death; Christ came to destroy the empire of Satan, he came to do it for all those who sign with the plan that He developed, which is the plan of free salvation through faith in Him, in His Grace and in His substitutionary death in the Calvary cross.

You just need to believe in it, sign virtually with your spirit and mind and will and say: I sign up for that plan and you are a saved child of God, you don't have to go to hell. Now you have to live in a certain way and get into that plan with your head and all because it's not just a question like that: ok I sign and I continue living like a little devil, no. There is a whole teaching that is absorbed and lived but the fact is that God does not hate sinners, God cries with those who suffer in hell, God has done everything possible so that no one is lost and that is why I believe that Abraham He tells him: "Son, my son, remember."

Listen to me, I don't want to hear that nobody tells me: remember, do you remember there when you were walking through Jamaica Plain and someone handed you a treaty? No! don't you remember? watch the video there it is: look; when you were on the train that madman there with a guitar singing: repent and what do I know, ok this bah! When your mom told you: remember. I think one of the greatest terrors in hell is going to be when people remember all the opportunities they had on Earth and didn't accept. That will be for me.

Regret is the most terrible thing, futile regret and without result in eternity, I think that regret is the greatest torture of all, knowing that you changed something in time and space for an eternity, how terrible that is. A few meals here, a diploma, a passing praise from men for an eternity of damnation, who wouldn't feel totally desperate with that? I tell people: don't let yourself be surprised like that, having traded eternity for a few glass balls.

I wonder if the Indians of Mahattan, do you know that the Indians of Manhattan sold the island of Manhattan for 24 dollars and a number of glass necklaces to the Puritans who were not so puritanical, they were quite treasonous and businessmen? 24 dollars, the equivalent with inflation I don't think it's the same yet. The island of Manhattan, if they could see Manhattan they would say: ayyy.

Regret, right? when you sell something of infinite value for something that is worthless, this will happen to so many people; Selling eternity with Christ, with God for a little piece of nonsense here in the world, how terrible that is. "Son: remember that you received your goods in your life." The Bible says, "What good is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?" The terrors of hell are so terrible and the blessings of paradise are so exalted that even if one could say: do you want all the glory, all the money, all the gold, all the fame and all the achievements of the world or eternity? With God?

The other is so glorious, so incomparable that not all the wealth of this world can be compared. Let's not talk about 100 million or 100 billion or 50 million, no, everything that is in the terrestrial orb does not compare with the glory there. That's why even though where do you want your glory here or there? There are many people who say: I'll stay here; with fame here, with the appreciation of my friends here, with money here and many people make that bargain, that diabolical agreement here on Earth every day, many times a day.

And they say: no, I prefer my reward here, that's what they are saying so when they are there they will tell them: no but you already signed there, you already have yours on the other side. Then: "Remember that you received good things in your life and Lazarus also bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are tormented."

Let me tell you something again, this is very important because the doctrine of hell is a whole system of teachings that is distributed throughout all of Scripture and one thing qualifies the other and completes the other and complements the other. What is being said here is again: what took the rich man to hell and what took Lazarus to eternity with God? In a parable, all the teachings of something as complex as salvation and eternal perdition cannot be contained in one go, so there are things that we would have to go to other verses to complete.

Salvation is definitely by grace and not by works and human perdition is not necessarily even by works either but by grace, by not appealing to grace and by lack of faith. One is by faith, salvation and by lack of faith, perdition. But lack of faith manifests itself in many different ways, and abundance of faith manifests itself in many different ways. What we have here in Abraham and in Lazarus, what the Lord is implying is that the faith or lack of faith of both was manifested externally in different ways.

In the rich man it manifested itself in the fact of not having mercy and love and pity and not thinking about eternal things. What the Lord elaborates in His initial image of the rich is a man who only cares about material things, a bon vivant, a freeloader who is only interested in food, clothes, friends, social affairs, and has no time for think about the things of the spirit: mercy, love, compassion, the treatment of the human being. So the Lord does not elaborate a total image of the rich man's morality, but he does leave us enough for a parable of six, seven sentences, which is what he has there.

This man did not care about things of the spirit and that is what kills so many people, is that they do not care about things of the spirit, they live in their psychological world. I was thinking of Romans where it says that: "Men were puffed up in their own reasoning and therefore God gave them up to a reprobate mind." They were conceited in their own reasoning means that: that human beings and this culture exemplifies it like no other, they get inside their own cerebral, rational, mental, scientific, technological, material constructions and close the world of the spirit.

There are many ways to close the spirit world. One may be dedicating yourself to sexuality and money, another may be dedicating yourself to science and philanthropy; both are perversities and both are materialists. The philosopher who only thinks of his scientific and logical constructions is as materialistic as the libertine who drinks and eats wildly or the rich man who simply dedicates himself to taking money and making money, both are in the same moral dilemma of thinking only about matter you understand?

So that's what happened to this rich man who only thought about material things, he didn't prepare for eternity, so when eternity grabbed him, he didn't have a passport, he didn't have papers, he didn't have anything, and then when you enter eternity you have to to go through two barriers, two frontiers and the only one for which he has papers or his absence of papers is hell, for the other the papers are Christ Jesus, His blood and he does not have them: he cannot enter there.

It's a matter of elimination, I think it's not even God's decision, it's elimination. You have what you need to enter, if you don't have it I'm very sorry you can't enter, you have to go because there are two places; if it's not B it's A so you have to go to A, I'm sorry it hurts my soul because you didn't prepare, it was so easy.

And Lazarus, what God is saying is rather that Lazarus had the virtue that although he suffered a lot and was miserable, it is evident that Lazarus treasured good things. Poverty is often true in the Bible, blessed are the poor in spirit because they will inherit the earth, poverty is associated because it is always the outsider, in the Kingdom of God there is something, long to explain. What God is saying in code is: Lazarus had nothing material but he had something spiritual and that allowed him to enter the Kingdom of God. Again, it is not being said that because Lázaro is poor, no. Poverty does not guarantee anything but a person can be poor and have a moment of lucidity and receive Christ as Savior and that is all he needs, he goes directly to heaven and there he will be infinitely rich.

So that's what you're plotting here, right? You didn't worry up there but now look at this one here consoled and you tormented. He says: "In addition to all this" in all this there is content, the Lord is a teacher but tremendous, there is a code here, he says: "In addition to all this" says Abraham "a great peak is placed between us and you" a peak wants say like a barrier, an abyss "a great peak is placed between us and you" that great peak can be geographical, it can be dimensional I don't know, it is a barrier, a dimension that makes it impossible to transcend and enter one or the other That is why I think that they are rather dimensions, not so much geographical places.

Knows? one of the things that I think is terrible is that heaven and hell are irrevocable. The place to make decisions is here, the place where your destiny can change is here, where your condition can change is here. On the other side there is no change possible, it is irrefutable, irrevocable, there is no appeal of any kind. Even those who are in heaven are no longer able to go to hell if they wanted to.

I believe that in heaven, not even this freedom of will will be needed anymore, freedom of will is for here; in heaven I think it will not have relevance, meaning freedom because our freedom, this is where freedom is needed, this is where you have to choose in heaven you don't have to choose and everything is over; No prophecy is needed, he says, no healing or miracles are needed because everything is fulfilled.

So those who are in heaven can't go to hell anymore, you don't have to worry anymore: I hear if I get burned, if I do something bad, now. You passed the test, enjoy yourself now. But those who are in hell cannot get out of there either. There is no longer any regret possible. There is no longer any change of opinion, there is no longer: ok I already tried it, yes it definitely burns I'm leaving, nothing. It is irrevocable. Abraham tells him: I'm very sorry but there is a law that prevents me from doing that, I would probably say Abraham but I can't because these are already two completely separate dimensions, insurmountably; You cannot go from one side to the other.

So, look at this man for me, this is the most pathetic and very significant thing, we're done with this, he reconsiders and says: well, if it's not like that, then look at what he says: "I beg you then, father, send Lazaro to my father's house because I have five brothers to testify to them so that they also do not come to this place of torment." This man suffering so terribly realizes that wow, first: endless torment, second: no change possible.

My brothers: there Abraham sends Lazarus and I am sure that if they see him after they read the newspaper that he had died saying that hell is real and that heaven is real they will convert because who does not convert when a dead person Appears and preaches? It's interesting too: why doesn't God send a few beefy angels there to preach the Gospel? I would immediately become a brother if an eight-foot man with very large and beautiful wings appeared to me and told me: repent before I say arre, I'm already on the ground.

But God has not made it so. What has God done? God has made us messengers of the Gospel. God's plan is: Christ died on the cross and we are the spokesmen of that message of salvation, that is the plan and there is no other. Why did God do it this way? Because God is God and also because God works with us His creation, he takes us into account, he takes us seriously. The Church of Christ has been left in the world to proclaim the message of salvation in all possible ways and that is our great responsibility.

People go to hell and we have the message that keeps them from going to hell that must be the greatest apologetic for the preaching of the Gospel from us. And I ask the Lord at this moment brothers that to me, I always: Father make the image of hell real in my spirit. Because I believe that if I truly believed in hell I would not go to sleep at home, I would be on the street twenty-four hours a day eating what I could only the basics and sleeping perhaps one or two hours preaching the Gospel but there is something biological in us that prevents us from absorbing the totality of what is heaven and what is hell, honestly. There is a psychological membrane that prevents us.

Neither you nor I really fully believe in hell because I assure you that if you and I believed it we would be out there twenty four hours a day telling people not to go to that terrible place. It's that there's something, it's a rebellion in us, it's that our psychology refuses to believe something like that even though we want to and so do people, unbelievers too, but the Bible says it's real.

I may continue with this next Sunday but we can see a number of verses that tell us about hell and that elaborate a little more about this doctrine. But the fact is that God has left us to preach reality to the world and it is not the only thing brothers to advise people to accept Christ. I think that for me the most compelling thing is heaven, not hell. I believe that what should most convince people to seek Christ is that promise of that eternity of seeking Christ is that promise of that eternity that God has destined so perfect that it is also inconceivable.

There are many things that we have to use as tools to preach to people, hell is just one of those tools and for me one of the most graphic and most important but it is a truly important tool. I believe that in the 21st century, so sophisticated that we are, the devil himself has blinded our understanding and made us hesitate to talk about hell because we don't want to be confused with those crazy fanatical people over there, but we are stealing from the Knowledge at least initiates people into a way of reasoning that might lead them to believe.

They may not fully accept it but at least it has put a seed of doubt in their heart and they say wow what if it's true? We have to talk about hell, of course we have to talk about Christ and His mercy, His love and many other things, but hell is something very real and I believe that is what God has told me, talk about hell. Don't just talk about the little shepherd with the little lamb in his hand with the blond locks and the blue eyes, also talk about the man that John saw with eyes of flames of fire, his tongue like a sword, his body shining like burnished bronze and his mouth with a voice of many terrible waters.

The King comes and comes stained with blood says the Bible. And the two images, the sinister image and the exalted and loving image; the two images are reflections of Jesus himself. Hell is real and we have to talk to people. talk to them.

Then this man tells him: send Lazarus to rise and go and preach to my brothers and not come to this place of torment. The word of Abraham is moving again, it says: "Abraham said to him: Moses and the prophets have, listen to them." God has already done everything, God has already done everything that He has to do. What we have to do now is to proclaim the Word as God has announced it if they want to believe it, believe it, if we don't feel it.

Brother, today I see the Evangelical Church in the United States and in many parts of the world with a poor image of itself, with a very low self-esteem, the Church trying to reduce the price of the Gospel to the lowest price so that people buy it and we ask people: what do you want to believe and what don't you like to believe, oh you don't like to believe that? ok don't worry pff we'll get it out. It's like taking a computer open the lid and what do I know, which of your circuits do you not like? Don't you like that one because the color is yellow? oh don't worry I can take it out, oh this red this little wire because it's not very pretty and it doesn't have a silk wrapper, don't worry I'll take it out too what will happen to the computer? destroyed, it doesn't work.

The Church is doing the same at this time. Today we believe that people are doing us a favor by coming to Church and receiving Christ and then we say: ok, what if you don't like that doctrine? Well, we can take it out, I'm going to take it out. Don't you like the doctrine of hell? I'll take it out, don't worry, and then we paint, we wire-out in the Bible a number of things that people don't like so they can buy the Gospel.

And we feel like we are being impoverished, we the Church of Christ whom God placed on Earth to guard His mysteries and announce to humanity the path to salvation and we are begging people to receive us, it is not to us is the Word of God that can save them. What authority do I have to change what the Bible says? what terrible panic has spread in the heart of the Church that believes that it has to change the message of the Gospel so that people come to the Gospel? that is a scandal.

We have to understand that our self-esteem has to go up. We have the mystery of God, God has entrusted it to us and we have to rack our brains and do everything possible so that people enter the Gospel but there comes a time when the decision is theirs, not ours, I cannot lower the content of the Gospel for people to come to the Gospel, there is no right; That is useless, and God gave the Word, gave the plan, gave the specifications. What we have to do is accept it as it is written. If they want to accept it they will accept it and they will be saved, if they do not accept it they will go to hell for eternity and I do not derive any pleasure from saying that, quite the opposite: I bleed when I say it but that is the truth.

And that is why Abraham tells him here: look, they have Abraham, they have Moses, they have the prophets, in other words they could say today: look, there they have the Bible, they have the Old Testament and the New Testament, there they have the Word of My Son, there you have His blood shed on the cross, there you have the story of Calvary, there you have the promise of the resurrection; Let them listen to that, if they don't listen to it I'm so sorry I can't do anything else.

Oh send them cherubs, seraphim, send them a virtual message that all of humanity will hear simultaneously in an instant and they will convert, they will not convert. They'll think it's a message from Pluto or Mars from a Martian who wants to confuse us. Nowadays, man has developed so many ways to neutralize that I believe that if God himself appeared in a simultaneous world vision, they would not convert, I tell you because the devil has blinded the understanding of humanity.

Today men have so many psychological, scientific, philosophical arguments to neutralize even the naked proclamation from the mouth of God himself, they will not receive it. That's why God doesn't change His form, He's not going to lower Himself anyway. The King of the universe is not going to stand like a beggar at the door to sell people the Gospel, no He developed His plan there you have it: receive it. It cost me enough.

And we have to have that same dignity. The Church on the one hand has immense love, she would give her life for a sinner, on the other hand a sense of dignity; I am a custodian of the eternal revelation that God has left humanity and I am not going to lower it so one walks with the same dignity that Christ walked. What moves me about Jesus is that: His deep love and His deep dignity as well, his sense of self-worth. I don't see the Lord lowering himself to anyone or begging for the Gospel or begging people to accept it, He preached it, proclaimed it, did everything possible but at one point said: don't throw your pearls to pigs either.

We have to imitate that same attitude, that same posture. Love and dignity do not discount the Gospel listen to me because that is not the answer. I tell all the evangelical churches in this nation today that are selling the Gospel for a handful of coins, believing that with that they are winning people over, they are not going to win them over, quite the contrary: more will leave away because the system is inviolable, sealed. If you take away a little piece, you destroy everything because that's how all of God's constructions are.

And Abraham said to him: "Moses and the prophets must be heard." One last argument he then told him: "No, father Abraham, if someone went to them from the dead, I am sure they would repent, but Abraham said to him: if they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not change their minds even if someone rises from the dead." the dead." Why am I going to rack my head trying to find out if it was true or not? it is so.

The only hope is us and the only hope is the Gospel that is in us preached to humanity, there is no other plan and the stakes are infinitely high, it is the eternal destiny of each one of us who are here and those who are outside. I ask the Lord that right now a terrible sense of responsibility spreads in us before the cost, the value.

Let's lower our heads for a moment brothers. I believe that the potential benefits of this message are twofold. One that any of us who have not made their peace with Christ and are not prepared for that atrium of death and the two destinies that await us, become aware right now and do not leave here without making their faith and their embrace of Jesus Christ clear. Number one and number two that we who already have that salvation not through our own merit but through the merits of Christ Jesus on the cross become aware that the only thing that justifies our life is to be used as an instrument of God for the proclamation of the Gospel that he can make men saved and women saved and prevent them from going to eternal damnation.

Those are the two benefits I would hope to get from this moment. The third would be perhaps that you put that teaching so deeply into your being that its intensity never loses, even if the days go by and you forget what I have preached that the sense of urgency of the seriousness of this remains stuck there. matter and that you know how important your proclamation of the Gospel is, that God use you to bring others. That you overcome shame, shyness, the false sense of dignity, the respect for people's privacy, that you reject all the teachings that you have been taught to suppress this teaching of God's revelation so important, so repeated of all ways through the Scriptures and that you say: no, no, no; I am going to focus on that part of the teaching and I am going to let that at least encourage me and shape the way in which I announce the Gospel.

And I cannot allow people to go to hell for an eternity that, although I do not know how to fully describe it in its complexity and mystery, the Bible tells me: don't worry, it is like that; believe it and preach it with the little you know about him because it is enough. I don't know all the mysteries about atoms but I know they exist, scientists don't know how to decipher all the mysteries of nature but they send men to the moon and operate bodies with the light they have; they do not wait to have all the light to do things. I can't wait to unlock all the mysteries of hell and then preach them. There are contradictions, it is possible, there are things that are not clear but there is a lot and we cannot ignore it.

And I don't know of another revelation given to men that is more powerful and more complete and more confirmable in its results than the revelation given by the Gospel, there is no, it cannot be compared. I ask God that our Church be consumed by a sense of responsibility to announce the Word and preach. I saw these young people this Friday (cries), I think that part of what I am reacting to is from this Friday those boys who are so lost, so lost; almost unattainable and the devil has a hold on them with their tattoos and their guns and their false sense of manhood and those little girls that accompany them like appendages to them, geez what a waste. it destroys me

I would like to do something for them but it can't be done, God can do something but we have to ask the Lord: break the barriers, break the spell and that's how they are also in the great universities they are as hypnotized and as devilish as these guys, what happens It's that their demons have three-piece suits and are extremely elegant, well educated, but they are demons too, they have them in their grip. Humanity completely lost.

Sir why don't you do something says one? surely I have already done it, I wonder why the hell not? I imagine I'm sounding like the rich man who says: watch Elijah get up again and they'll believe him, Lord, do something.

Thank you Lord: Father speak to us through this Word Lord, touch Your people Lord, do something Lord teach us how to be better and more effective in the proclamation of Your Word, we need you Father; we cry out to you A humanity is lost every day, thousands and thousands throw you off a cliff in this city, we need Your help, do something Father have mercy, activate Your Power and summon Your Church with Your Power. Bring revival Lord we need you.

Have mercy, Father, on those young people that we saw on Friday, they were in Your house, they entered Your sphere, Lord, that something touches them for the fact of having been in Your house and having received the Word of Your Church, Lord, activate Your Grace and Your mercy. in them and give us the ability to reach them in some way and give us passion for You and Your works.