God will always bring you out of Sheol

In the spirit of Easter Sunday, I want to share with you this thought: the God who does not let us remain in Sheol, the God who does not allow His saints to see corruption, as the Psalmist says, in Psalm 16 there are some verses I want to share with you. The Psalmist says in verse 7: "I will bless the Lord who advises me, even at night my conscience teaches me. I have always set the Lord before me, and because He is at my right hand I will not be moved" and now I want to direct his Mind these next few verses, the two verses.

"Therefore my heart rejoices and my soul rejoices, and my flesh also will rest safely, for you will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will you allow Your holy one to see corruption." That is the Lord's promise to you and me, the Lord will not allow my soul to remain in Sheol, nor will He allow His saint, put your name there, to see corruption.

You know, and we have seen it in the beautiful drama that we are witnessing here, musical of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, there were many promises and prophecies, and we also said it last Sunday, which were being fulfilled in very specific and detailed ways, in death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. God populated the prophecies and the Psalms, and the writings of Moses with all kinds of promises that were to be fulfilled and fully realized in the life of His Son Jesus Christ. And there are Scriptures that if we did not have the benefit of how God interprets and clarifies them in the light of His Son Jesus Christ, we would never know that they were written in reference to what was going to happen.

Last Friday we read a Scripture where the Psalmist, in Psalm 24, says that: "The righteous cries and the Lord answers, and delivers him from all his troubles" says that "He guards all his bones; not one of them will be broken. " And the writer, in one of the gospels, when the Lord Jesus Christ dies quickly, because all that was needed was simply to fulfill the Scripture and for Him to die, that was all, he didn't have to spend too much time dying, the Lord died quickly and therefore the soldiers, when they discovered that He had died, did not have time to carry out a rite that was always carried out to hasten the death of those who were crucified and that was to break His legs, break His legs so that liquid came out, and apparently that accelerated the already dying process of the person who was dying.

The Lord died before the soldiers could do that, because God did not want His Son to go through the indignity of His legs being broken in such a humiliating way. But God had already put a law, an order, an order in Scripture in Psalm 34, saying to Himself: "That He guards all His bones, none of them shall be broken."

And here we have another, which would seem to be written in general for the benefit of the psalmist who writes it or for us who read it, where the psalmist also says in the same way that: "God will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will allow His saint to see corruption." The first way to interpret that is: well, the Lord takes us out of Sheol and does not allow our bodies to deteriorate and decompose when we die; It is a beautiful promise of resurrection.

And the Word in the Book of Acts says, the apostle Peter in his first sermon speaking about the Messiah who has risen, applies that promise that is there as in code, almost invisibly, and says: God put that Word there speaking of His Son Jesus Christ, that God did not leave His soul in Sheol, God did not let His Body rot in the grave, but He released it, brought it to life again. And then it clarifies that this Scripture was written to prophesy what Christ would experience from His resurrection. But what I want us to meditate on for a moment is, how does this apply to us and our lives?

Easter Sundays are a precious time to remember what God did in the life of Jesus Christ, but one of the things I like the most is that we can also apply it to our own lives. We already know the main thing and that is that the Resurrection of Jesus is an announcement, a prelude to the definitive resurrection of our souls, our lives that we have to experience on the final day. The Bible says that when the trumpet sounds the dead will also rise, they will rise from their graves, and that Christ is the First, the Firstborn from among the dead.

We too can aspire to our resurrection day. The death of Christ and the Resurrection of Jesus remind us that death has been defeated, the grave has already lost its victory and we can aspire to our resurrection.

But look brothers, here is the most important thing and what I want to leave in your heart this morning, and that is that many of us also experience periods of death in our lives. Many of us go through times when our soul is like it is in Sheol.

For the ancients, Sheol was like an intermediate region, it was a gray place, like a kind of limbo where the person was neither dead nor alive. We can't get into all the mysteries of this and what exactly was going on before Jesus Christ came, and what happened to souls when they died, but the point is that the Bible certainly talks about when a person dies, their soul simply doesn't disappear, or just falls asleep unconscious, there's something else. And the psalmist is saying here in Psalm 16: God will not leave the soul permanently, neither from His Son nor from us, because the psalmist is talking about himself there, but he is also talking about all the saints.

By the way, there are some versions of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew that do not say: He will not allow His saint to experience corruption but rather His saints to experience corruption, meaning that we also have that promise. But what I want to point out this afternoon is that that Word: God will not allow His saints to see corruption, does not limit it just to the idea that your body is not going to be completely destroyed, or that your life is not going to be permanently in Sheol, do not interpret it only as a final resurrection announcement. I also prefer to see something here very, very beautiful.

That word corruption tells us about the world in which everything deteriorates. We go through times when our emotions experience damage, we go through times of drought and gray, where it seems that we are in a valley of the shadow of death. How many of us have not gone through family crises, difficulties in our lives, failures, times of financial drought, times when we have experienced some kind of disappointment, discouragement, some kind of betrayal? How many of us do not have some broken dream that we have had to leave behind us?

We all have periods of being in limbo, we all have periods of being like in the grave, in a gray place like indefiniteness. That is why I wanted to tie this time of celebration to our resurrection, as I was saying a little while ago: we have passed too. I certainly have had times, as I have already said with you. We knew that when we entered this time of construction we were going to enter Sheol. We were about to enter a time of trouble and darkness and testing. Our system was to be tested. We were going to experience brokenness and danger, we were going to cross a desert.

And when I ended this time, and I know many of us felt this way when we first arrived at this place, we were like tired and dusty pilgrims, hungry after the long journey, and we had difficulty entering into the joy of this place. . There was a time of drought, we were exhausted and this place seemed strange to us, because we had been in Sheol and we still could not enjoy this place, because our emotions were strange and difficult.

But now that we are here and on a beautiful day like today when we see this place full, and this morning was the same, when we celebrate our own resurrection we can say: Thank you Lord because you did not leave our soul in Sheol, you did not leave us in the darkness, you did not leave us in darkness, you did not allow us to experience corruption. And certainly I see that on the contrary, God has blessed us, God has prospered us.

And I want to encourage you in your own life my brother, my sister, this is what I want to emphasize in your heart, that you get used to it and train yourself to live according to that principle, according to that promise that God will never It will leave you in the place of sadness. It will never leave you in the place of loss, it will never leave you in the place of defeat, it will never leave you in the place of lost dreams, never settle in that Sheol.

God's purpose in your life my brother, my sister is that no matter what you experience, no matter where you go, no matter the deserts you go through, God wants you to renew yourself every day, that you raise wings like eagles. It doesn't matter what you've been through in your childhood, it doesn't matter what pains you've experienced, it doesn't matter that now you're struggling with something strong in your life, it doesn't matter that you're in your own Sheol right now; remember that God promises you to get you out of wherever you are.

The Word of the Lord says: "The one who rescues your life from the hole, the one who heals all your ailments, the one who forgives all your iniquities, the one who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that you are rejuvenated like the eagle." Brother the law, the principle by which you live once you are in the ways of Jesus Christ is a principle of perpetual resurrection, of perpetual renewal.

The children of God take all the experiences of life and turn them into material for greater glory, greater growth, greater blessing. If we give in and let our guard down, and unnecessarily declare defeat then the trials become a curse on us. But if we understand that the Lord is committed to getting us shining like gold out of any trial, any difficulty that we go through, we will see our life go from ascent to ascent. We will see how the psalmist says: "Because the path of the just is like the light of dawn, which increases until the day is perfect."

And for our life to shine in that way, there must be trials, there must be difficulties. But remember that these tests come because your Father is disciplining you, he is discipling you, he is dealing with you to ultimately do you good as the Word says.

God sometimes leads us through deserts, God sometimes allows harsh circumstances to come into our lives, but if we have eyes to see and a heart to interpret, we will see that all this is to rise up and strengthen us. The Word of the Lord says: "Because this slight momentary tribulation engenders in us an ever more excellent and eternal weight of glory." Hallelujah.

The Lord tells you this morning: I do not want you to ever remain in Sheol. There will be Sheol in your life, there will be times of difficulty but remember that I am committed to you, I will always get you out of Sheol. Keep your eyes on Me, never give in, never admit defeat. I will not allow you to experience corruption.

Again, if we limit ourselves to thinking of "corruption" in the sense of the physical generation of the dead body, we are missing all the resonance of that wonderful Word. I believe that the psalmist chose the word: corruption, because it is a word that speaks of decay, deterioration, degeneration of healthy and living things as the body experiences it. And throughout life we are going to experience corruption, because life often hits us. This is a fallen world, we are in a desert, we are fighting against circumstances, against sin in ourselves and in our fellow men, we are fighting against the principle of evil, we are living in a creation, he says, that groans for the day of its liberation, it is in chains, and all of us who live within it will experience decay and corruption.

The law of this world is: corruption, everything is corrupted. Our bodies are continually corrupting, the beauty of youth, the freshness of the look, of the skin, all this degenerates. As I said before: the cars, you buy them and from the moment they touch the street they begin to degenerate too. Our cells are continually decaying.

But you know what? along with that corruption there is another process that is a process of continuous renewal, a process of continuous resurrections. Even those cells that degenerate are replaced with other cells. The winter we have spent, a harsh, cruel, difficult winter, right? but look, the weather is already beginning to warm up. It is time for another time, for the flowers, for the trees to be populated with their leaves, to go out again without those heavy coats that we are already crazy to put in the closet and forget about; we want to go back to the countryside, we want to go to the beach, we want to walk around the lakes and their surroundings. And God is always renewing nature, and that renewal process God wants to happen within your life continuously.

I want to commit myself each time, brothers, to live a life of perpetual renewal. I will never give in and you will never give in to that idea that with the passage of time, we have to get more bored, weaker, sadder, more sober, take less risks. You know that's what happens with people? As the years go by, after life has given us a few blows, we stop dreaming, we keep our heads down so they don't hit us, they don't realize we're walking. We are more cautious in the things we undertake. We stop longing and longing for great things. The sorrows and pains, and the losses of life take a little of the shine from us and we experience corruption. Our mind becomes a bit corrupted and degenerates.

But God says: I want to renew you, I want to give you life and resurrection every day. This afternoon, brother, I want to commit yourself and this Church to continuous revival, to continuous renewal, to be better every day, to be bigger, more powerful every day, to use everything that the devil throws at us and take it home run off the field, recycle everything we experience. Be better every day, more humble, more lovers of God. Use everything that comes to us, everything that happens to learn and be more like Christ. To be a Church that is renewed day by day.

We will never give in to times of drought, sadness, suffering or trials, or losses, we will use everything to be better and more like our Lord Jesus Christ. Because the Lord says: Church, Lion of Judah Congregation, I have passed you through deserts, you have been at times in Sheol times, but I am committed not to leave your soul there. I am committed to not letting them get corrupted but I am going to lift them up more and more each day.

And I leave you with the psalmist's words of promise. In Psalm 92, this is for you. God doesn't want you to get corrupted, God doesn't want you to get weak, God doesn't want you to falter, God wants you to commit yourself every day, no matter what you're going through, no matter how many times you fall off the horse, get back up, because The Word of the Lord, the Promise of the Lord is: "The righteous will flourish like the palm tree" listen to this "will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the House of Jehovah, in the courts of our God they will flourish, even in old age they will bear fruit. They will be vigorous and green to announce that Jehovah, my strength, is right and that in Him there is no injustice."

The principle of perpetual resurrection, the principle of anti-corruption. God has an anticorrosive that He has installed in your life called Christ Jesus, His Holy Spirit, His Word, and that will always cleanse you, it will always heal you, it will always restore you, it will always make you better, it will always raise your head so that be more and more useful to the Lord.

The Word of the Lord promises that the life of the just, those who love the Lord, those who commit themselves to Him, the life of the man, of the woman who loves the Lord says: "It will be like a tree planted next to streams of water "Hallelujah" that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not fall" glory to the Lord, because he is always drinking from the subterranean currents of the water of the Spirit and from the Word of God, he says: "and everything he does will prosper. " Glory to the Name of our God, amen.

And I leave you with one last promise of resurrection after death, I leave you with one last promise of rescue from Sheol when you are going through and have gone through times of trial, of difficulty. The Lord says in Isaiah 40 that: "God gives strength to the weary, multiplies the strength to those who no longer have any. Boys get tired and tired, young people falter and fall, but those who wait for the Lord will have new strength, they will rise wings like eagles. They will run and not get tired, they will walk and not get tired." Glory to the Name of the Lord.

This is Resurrection time, hallelujah, rescue time. Time to celebrate the mercy and goodness of the Lord, time of hope, time to expect great things. Fill your heart with expectation because the Lord tells you: I know the thoughts I have about you, thoughts of good and not of evil to give you the end that you long for and desire.

"Renew yourself, son of God, stand up, daughter of God, lift up your eyes. I will lift my eyes to the mountains. Where will my help come from? "My help comes from the Lord" hallelujah, "who made heaven and earth. He will not give your foot to the slide, nor will he who guards you fall asleep. Behold, he who keeps Israel will not slumber or sleep. Jehovah is your keeper, Jehovah is your shadow, your right hand. The sun will not tire you by day, nor the moon by night. Jehovah will guard you from all evil, He will guard your soul, Jehovah will guard your coming out and your coming in, from now on and forever." Hallelujah, glory to the Name of the Lord. God brings us out of the tunnel, God brings us out of Sheol, God brings us out From the grave, God takes us out of the place of mourning, God takes us out of the precipices that we sometimes enter to serve Him and places our feet on the rock.

"We wait patiently for the Lord and He hears our cry, and He takes us out of the pit of despair, from the miry mud. He placed our feet on rock, straightened our steps. Then He put a new song in our mouths, praise to our God. Many will see this and they will fear, and trust in the LORD." God bless you, we celebrate our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory to the Name of the Lord, hallelujah, amen and amen.