Detach from the world, stick to God

I invite you to continue meditating on God's call to live healthy lives, healthy lives and to develop in us the ability to renew ourselves precisely, to rejuvenate ourselves in the midst of trials, the difficulties of life, how to overcome losses, tragedies, afflictions, physical defects. and emotional, past traumas, how to use all those things to even be a wiser, deeper, more merciful person, more reflective of God's grace and love, and know that the difficulties and trials that come our way they are not an indication of God.

For the children of God, trials, losses, and suffering are not signs of divine indifference, they are not signs of God's wrath, they are not signs of God's punishment, but rather signs of God's mysterious involvement in our lives. because sometimes God uses strange tools to advance His purposes in us to lead us to be more and more like Christ Jesus.

Let us always remember that the afflictions and trials that the Lord experienced on Earth, says the Bible, were used mysteriously, because I don't quite understand how, but to perfect Him, I imagine that in His human dimension, because there was always that tension in Him of the divine and the human, but the writer of Hebrews says so, right? that the Lord was perfected.

So they don't think I'm saying heresy now I'm going to have to look it up and I'm also curious, right? of that because it is important, because when we talk. I told you from the beginning that my presentation and all these are principles that I am going to be elaborating in many different ways, my presentation about health and sanitation was not going to be superficial but very dynamic, very acknowledging of the nature of struggle that there is in human life and how God uses many things to perfect us also that do not seem to be of that nature, right?

5:8? ok, we have a theologian here too, 5:8, yes, thanks who said that? Rafael, are you sharp, huh? excellent. Yes, Hebrews 5:8, says look: "And Christ in the days of his flesh offering prayers and supplications with great crying and tears to the one who could deliver him from death was heard because of his reverent fear; and although he was a Son" listen to this, there I think the writer begins to struggle a little with the divinity and humanity of Jesus put in a single vessel. "And although he was a Son, by what he suffered he learned obedience, and having been perfected he became the author of eternal salvation."

So we see this idea that the Lord was perfected by those struggles that he went through. So it's evident that God uses that process to purify us and work, and we shouldn't reject the struggles of life like: oh, God just doesn't love me, no. God is using all of those things to bless us and to perfect us and make us more like Christ.

Paul talks about how he wants to know Jesus in two ways, he says: "In his resurrection" and what is the other? Prosperity preachers often forget, "I want to know him in his resurrection and in his sufferings" look for it there if you want, in His resurrection and His sufferings because sometimes we are only interested in the resurrection because it is luminous, it is great, It is beautiful, but what about knowing it in His sufferings?

The Bible suggests that when we are going through trials we participate in the life of Jesus in a deeper and more mysterious way than in any other way. The Bible says that the glorious Spirit of God rests on us. I don't want proof, you know? but when I have to go through them I say: Father give me the right perspective and help me see Your work in my life.

So God wants us to use the circumstances of life to grow, to improve, to be stronger and that is why my dialogue about a healthy and healthy life includes pain and suffering, because healing only makes sense in the midst of the disease, in the context of the disease, if it would not simply be something neutral, and I encourage you to see your life as something beautiful, a great tapestry that God is weaving in different colors; some darker, some brighter but all are beautiful colors that will give the final design of your life an extraordinary beauty.

So why is it important? I said that last Sunday, last Sunday, that one of the principles that helps us to be healthy people is to know that God is with us and for us, remember? I read that verse of the Psalm that says: "This I know: that God is for me."

And also the idea that we must actively remember, affirmatively: God is with me, God is for me. When you go there to the Immigration office to take your citizenship test, go in there and say: God is with me, God is for me, God is going to give me wisdom, he is going to give me grace. What's more: before you go to the exam, simply daring to apply for the exam already requires a certain confidence that God can do it, right?

Many times we kind of think that: it's not going to work for me, it's not going to happen, it's not going to happen because that's for other people. Many times before even giving up the battle, we don't give it up because there is a background in us that: I can't, I don't have, I don't deserve it, it hasn't happened before in my life.

And many people who lived without Christ and without the power of the Kingdom of God over them when they enter the Gospel continue to carry the same defeatist recording that they had when they were without Christ. Now as you are with Christ all the resources of heaven are with you and in your favor, my brother, God is with you. God loves you, God has good purposes. You can do great things in the Lord because Christ is with you within you, on your behalf. You have the great comforter, the Holy Spirit who encourages you, enlightens you, teaches you, fights with and for you.

So everything you do has a much greater benefit than trying to do these things simply with your own strength, do you understand? and that is why it is so important to remember that principle, and to come to the conviction of that principle takes a lot of time and a lot of effort.

You have to eat a diet of faith, you have to listen to sermons of faith, you have to sing choruses and hymns of faith, you have to associate with people of faith. Look: flee from pessimistic people as you would flee from a plague, brother. Get together and talk to people who have faith, and if you talk to people who don't have faith, it's to help them gain faith, but don't let yourself be infected and contaminated by pessimistic people, you know? No, you bring them to the optimism of the Gospel. We have an Almighty and strong God who is with us in all the processes of our lives.

And before I go into the next teaching, let me dwell a little longer because as I said, this is a long-term dialogue and sometimes I'm going to go back a little bit to move on, but let's remember these principles. When you go to the airport, now I was in Miami, and Miami is an airport but, it's incredible, it's huge, it's a city, you have to get on a train to go from one terminal to another many times.

So you have to walk a lot to get to certain places, to get to where they rent cars you have to walk maybe half a mile or more, or I don't know, but do you know what they have, they are like moving belts that are moving, slowly but enough So what does he do? you ride on them, they are strips that go, say, two hundred feet or three hundred feet, one hundred yards. You ride these moving rollers right? rides on them, then there is a certain speed that the belt itself already has. Now if you walk on the leash you are walking twice as fast right? because it has the leash that is carrying it and also its own motion; In other words, if a person is off the leash, he is only walking on the fixed floor, you will go much faster, okay?

And I have always said: wow, this is a perfect image of us children. I like it because of how complex it is because on the one hand it doesn't tell me: just stand there like a platypus holding on to the leash so that I can take you, no, if you have the strength, walk, take advantage, right? So two things: for me that moving leash is the blessing of God, the nutrients of the Kingdom, the Word of God that is already going to bless me in everything I do. Now, there is a part that if I do it, it is a double blessing. If I move with the wind of God, I will go faster than the one who is trying to do things by himself, do you understand?

And I believe that this is the dynamic and tense vision of prosperity and God's blessing in our lives, there is a part that God gives us. When you enter the Gospel, they give you the whole armor of God, they give you all the nutrients of the Kingdom, they give you truth and the Word of the Lord, promises, the good Will of God, that is the moving strap, but it says: Now use the endowment that I give you, make an effort and be brave, do not fear or dismay, make an effort and be brave because I will be with you wherever you go.

You are going to ride on the moving belt of the Gospel and you are going to go faster and with less effort than those who have to go only with their own strength, but that does not exempt you from making your effort as well, and from fighting, and from doing your part. But you have to be convinced that God is with you and for you because that will encourage you.

And reaching that conviction, that position of faith requires a reprogramming of the brain, especially for those of us who have suffered from depression, defeatism, who come from a past of poverty where they have not affirmed us, they have not told us that they believe in us, who can do things, right? We have grown up in a sometimes difficult world where our parents did not have time, the poor were fighting there to survive, how long did they have that they loved us and that we were worth it, and that we were children of God? they, the poor, were also existing and sometimes their good whipping escaped there, and when we brought them a little drawing: look daddy what I did, oh boy go over there, the poor were depressed struggling with life.

So when we enter the Gospel it is sometimes difficult for us to accept the idea that we have a good God, a benevolent Father who has good things for those who love him, who wants to bless us, who is committed to us, who is going to take all the elements from this fallen world and will turn them into gold and nutrients for our growth, and that I have the right to aspire and believe that there is a bright future for my life, and that God is going to help me in the processes of my life.

I can study, I can have a good marriage. My children can become powerful and good and noble people. I can have a healthy and vital old age. I can save, I can make changes in my life. I can reprogram my personality with the help of the Holy Spirit. I can get out of the quagmire of life because God has good things for me.

You can believe in those things because God has told you and promised you, and He is committed to you, and perhaps He is not going to give you success immediately because He wants to create your head, He wants to create muscles. If he does everything for you, what he's going to do is a parasite there, simply opening his mouth so that the Lord can put things there, no. He wants you to work too, to make an effort, He wants men and women with initiative, with authority because they have fought their battles and have seen the Lord then take them out of their trials. Sometimes the Lord then puts up with a little so that you then develop certain muscles, but He is definitely with you and that is important.

Let me go because there are many beautiful things about that idea, but remember: enter into the project of becoming a woman, a man confident that God is with you and for you, and consume, chew, and digest everything you can in In terms of the possibility of God within you, the good purpose, the gracious purpose of God for your life, eat a diet of faith. In that sense, I really believe in affirmative preaching, okay?

Now: there is also a principle that I believe is important for emotional health, which is also something that we have to learn to integrate over time, it does not come naturally. And it is related to everything that I have also been saying, when I even said that, let's remember that one of the principles of health is the idea that I have inherent value in God and that I don't have to be looking at the world and what what others think of me or what people say about me, or the accessories of success so that they give me value; I have value because God says that I have value and God loves me.

I said look at it: you can isolate a principle from there that is separate, it is included but it is separate, and it is this idea: over and over again I am calling this idea that we have to learn to detach ourselves from the world and to detach ourselves from people, that is a principle worth isolating.

To the extent that you want to be a person and be emotionally healthy, you have to disconnect from that dependency that the man of the world, the woman of the world, has on what others say, what others think, what others do to her. others, the circumstances you are experiencing, the things that are happening around you. And one has to go disconnecting those cables and connecting them to faith and spiritual vision, and to what the Word of God says and the principles of the Kingdom of God.

I believe that in the Christian life as you mature, you give less and less importance to people and the world, and to the things that you see day by day and you live more and more by the principles of the Word of God. You depend less on emotions and complexes, on fears and experiences of the past, and you become more and more whose driving force is not what people say or aspirations, or the desire of life, of success, the motivation that ambition provides, and you already learn to be a person who is moved by faith, by what God has said, by what God has declared.

If I'm afraid that's a problem of fear, it's not my problem. If I have doubts about myself, you tell him: hey, stand aside, I believe that God is with me. If people don't call you one day, you say: oh, they missed it. If one day it's cloudy out there you don't get depressed because it's cloudy, because you know that the sun of God is shining within you, the Presence of God is within you.

I learned that from my mom when at the beginning I said: oh it's raining, look how ugly the day is, my mom said: don't say that the day is ugly, it's a day created by God, it's a good day. It got to the point where I now love the rain, my mom did a good job of that.

And I believe that one learns more and more to be a creature not of time and space but of eternity. I mean about what the Word of God says, right? It says: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." There you have the tension.

Many people live from the bread of life, from the world, what the world offers them, what people tell them, the prestige that comes from having titles or having respect from people, or from the artificial achievements of life and Your self-esteem depends on that, on the bread that comes from the world instead of depending on every principle, every word, every teaching, every truth that comes from the mouth of God, on the Word of God, on the principles of the Kingdom of God. .

That's why it's so important: remember we talked about the armor of God, the armor of the Roman soldier, which is spiritual armor as well? and what's the first one he says? the truth, right? Truth and then justice, and also the shield of faith, these three ideas are united. I told them that applying that to the life of health one has to live in the truth.

If you, psychologists, psychiatrists and all mental health workers say so, all neurosis is born from a rejection or ignorance of the truth. When you know the truth, the truth sets you free as the Lord Jesus Christ says and we have to abide in the Truth of God because the world throws you a number of lies.

The Bible says that the heart is the most deceitful thing there is, remember that. Don't take away from your heart because your heart is connected to the world biologically, your emotions, your brain, your neurological programming is connected to the world and experience; you are programmed by the experiences of the world. You are a sum total of all the bad and all the good that you have experienced; generally the balance will go more towards the bad because this is a fallen world.

So if you always live from your neurology you will always be a very deformed person. We have to live from divine Truth and we have to cultivate an internal rejection of the world.

I think that in modern theology it is something that has been lost a bit, you know? In our desire not to be an exclusivist and alienated Church, and to win over the world through sympathy to a certain extent, it is as if the biblical language of the world and of the Church has already been lost. The truth is that if you examine the biblical language there is a very powerful idea that is the rejection of the world, that hymn that I always: "the world cannot be my home, in glory I have my mansion, the world cannot be my home ."

The Bible says that he who becomes a friend of the world becomes what? in enemy of God. It also says that: "Do not love the world or the things that are in the world." So I think it has been lost many times; In the desire to be modern and integrated, we have lost the other part: that we are not of the world and the world is ruled by a rebellious prince called Satan who rejects everything that belongs to God and everything that belongs to the Kingdom of God. yes or no?

The values of the world, the culture, everything is ultimately permeated by the principle of evil and the rejection of God, and the attachment to time and space instead of eternity. So we have to recover the biblical language of the rejection of the world and the separation that exists between the world and the Church in that sense, because on the other hand, yes, we are in the world! and we have to be a positive force but we also have to be clear; Yes, I am here in the world to restore and heal lives, and to get as much of the world out as I can and into the ark of salvation, but I know that this world is doomed to destruction.

When I go to a museum and enjoy the beautiful paintings by Monet or Michelangelo or whoever it is, I also know, while I delight in them, I know that one day all of this is going to burn and burn when this world be destroyed and God creates a new world and a new earth, I will see them but I will see them on video only because they will not be there, I believe, because none of that will be able to enter eternity. What's more: I'm going to be able to paint some of them as Michelangelo painted them, my brain will be perfect; What's more, I'll say: I know, and a painting like that will come out (laughs).

But knows? I delight in these great works with a divided mind: one part of my mind enjoys and celebrates the greatness and creativity of those men and women, and another part says: but vanity of vanities, all is vanity. "Man is like the flower of the field that the wind passed through and perished, and his place will know him no more."

The Bible is full of references to the fragility of life, the fragility of the world. The Bible says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man" and I believe that we have to learn brothers: ask God every day to disconnect you from people and the world, and from life experience, and to always allow you to see the life through divine lenses, the lenses of the Word of God. The true and irrefutable diagnosis of the Word and the principles of the Kingdom of God, because that will make you invincible, it will make you untouchable, it will cover you with a protective membrane so that nothing sticks to you.

When you go through sufferings, tribulations, rejections, they will slide off you because you are smeared with bitumen everywhere. Bitún is a Caribbean word, right? but it's the paste that you put on your shoes, maybe you should wear something more elegant but you understand what I'm saying. Anoint yourself with oil so that the bad experiences of life slip off you. Ok, you fell, you scraped your knee: put on a little oil and keep going in the Name of the Lord. Don't stay in the past, move on, embrace the life that is ahead of you, God's positive call for your life.

Do not stay stuck in what happened to you, what they did to you, what they did not give you because when you are in the Kingdom of God all that will come off you, you will be a perfectly renewed creature, you will not remember in a sense saying, because nothing that happens in this life is going to have an effect on you and everything that happens you are turning into a blessing.

And that's why it's so important that as Christians we make a point of coming to understand this because this is a principle that you're going to have to hear a hundred and seven thousand times before it sticks in your consciousness, but at least if You know that you must go towards it, you are going to continuously reinforce it: I am not going to become attached to the world, I have to detach myself from the world, I have to detach myself from what they say about me, I have to detach myself from what I experienced today and I have to see it through from the lens of God.

This is also linked to faith, to the Truth of God because the Truth of God is above all lies in the world and all illusory things, and it is also attached to the life of faith that allows you to say: no, I do. What I am seeing and feeling has a certain degree of truth but it is not the last word, what the Word of God says in my life has the last Word, and that ability to see the world with detachment, so important.

I believe that this is what the elderly, people who have lived a long time, learn. You see old people don't care so much anymore, unless it's Joan Rivers having fifty thousand plastic surgeries to hang on to, because those are the people of the world, you see? The people of the world see themselves aging and want to fight against it and cling distortingly to a fictitious and grotesque youth. But generally, when a person ages wisely, as time goes by, they no longer care so much what people say: they go out with a simple dressing gown there and a visitor comes, and you see her sitting there with one, because what does it matter to them? What do people think? they are already tanned.

They see the little grandson who broke a plate, the mother who doesn't have much experience believes that the son is going to be a criminal one day because he behaves badly, the grandmother says: no girl, you did worse things when you were his age , he is no longer obsessed with the moment because he sees things through a perspective stretched across years, decades of life. Imagine if you could see life in the light of eternity as God sees the world, who sees: oh a tragedy, 50,000 people died, God says: Hm, I have seen 100,000 people die, more died in the flood than he says The Lord, the divine perspective is a thousand-year perspective, says: "A thousand years as a day, a day as a thousand years."

And we have to acquire that eternal perspective as much as possible so that things, the sufferings of life at the moment, sort of dissolve and become less powerful over us, less deforming, they have less power, less capacity to deform us. because we are seeing everything in the light of God's eternal perspective. So what people say, what they think doesn't matter a damn to us: "You decide who you are going to serve, but I and my house will serve Jehovah." If they don't like it, that's their problem.

"Oh, you never come on Sundays when we invite you" "Not because I go to Church, I have to go looking for God and strengthen myself from the Lord, so look: come, join me and then we'll go somewhere somewhere. " What is it that God says, what is it that God wants, what is it that God determines and diagnoses? and one lives for that brothers. Ask the Lord to disconnect you from the world and circumstances. Do not be so attached to what your mind tells you and what your eyes see, or what your heart dictates to you, or the experiences that shaped or deformed you, and develop an inner capacity to live detached from the world.

Do you know that all great wisdom depends on that? even for example if you look in Hinduism, Buddhism, there is that call to take off, to take off. For example, Buddhism says that the root of all evil is attachment to the world, Christ did not say so; The Lord said it but the Buddha and other sages also said it, it is not that I am saying that all his teachings are true but in that sense it is very powerful.

It is that natural observation itself tells us that to the extent that we depend on daily circumstances and things in life, to that extent we are going to be attached to fluctuations, like the Wall Street stock market. One day it goes up, one day it goes down, one day it's a little higher, someone was killed in the Middle East and immediately it takes advantage of it to raise the price of oil a little bit or whatever to steal our money, that's all, you know? And then like this, we live like a weather vane instead of having faith, living: what does God say, what has God dictated about my life?

I write here: "This idea of always adopting the divine perspective of faith is paramount. Living by every word that comes out of the mouth of God instead of what we see or experience. Substituting the divine perspective for the experiential perspective" of experience . "Training ourselves to live like this takes time and effort but it's worth it, it allows us to live above negative circumstances, physical defects, deficiencies, the need for approval from others, stabilizes us emotionally, allows us to process losses of life healthily" because when you lose something, experience a setback in your life, some tragedy, you know that this too shall pass, as life says, that this world is a condemned world, I was looking for a word, to expire. It is a world that is doomed to expire, its license is going to expire.

The date of sale. Do you know that food products put a date after which the product should no longer be sold? the product is already illegitimate, the expiration date. This world has an expiration date and when you experience it you know it has an expiration date.

People who do not have God or the Word of God or the divine perspective believe that the world is going to last for all eternity and that is why they see their patio here, and if something fails here they shoot themselves, they hang themselves from the threshold of a door as happened to our dear Robin Williams, because if your self-esteem is attached to your physical beauty or what people think of you, or your popularity in the polls, no matter how much money you have, don't worry because you are going to be unhappy.

But when you know that this world is illusory, fictitious, deceitful by nature because it is governed by an essential lie, the lie of rebellion against God, because it is governed by an essential liar who is Satan who has not accepted the dominion of God. And this nature that does not accept the Lordship of God is destined for failure, so if you stick to it you are also destined for failure.

Disconnect and get into the divine ark, the ark of God's Truth and live your life always telling yourself: what does God say about this? I try to do that continuously, with this Church and with other things I always say: Lord, what do you say? because if I let myself go I would be changing my tie every day and putting on a wig or whatever, or doing this, changing the program or whatever to get people to come to Church.

I say: Lord, what does Your Word say and what constitutes a healthy and true Church? I am not going to be looking at the fluctuations of the people, no, I look at what the Word of God says and I stand firm in that. And you know what? that time passes and the blessing is greater and greater, and greater because you live by principles.

I found myself the other days, I'll finish with this illustration I promise you. I always like to have a cup of coffee early in the morning, and sometimes I eat, one never wonders how much coffee do I add? sometimes I add a little more, a little less and sometimes the coffee is strong, sometimes it is not so strong, I said one day: I am going to measure how much is the quantity that I like. And after years of drinking coffee, I decided to take a measuring spoon and pour the coffee into it, and find what measure I say: wow, how good is this coffee.

So I took that precise measure and incidentally for me it's a table spoon of coffee because I don't add so much grounds, so much coffee powder, and then I discovered that for me, which is good for me, a table spoon, a full spoon of those of the biggest coffee measure, and but about the third day I added it and it seemed to me that it was very little, but my mind said: no, it is the measure that you added the other days and you liked it. And this idea came to my mind: trust the process, trust the process, trust the process.

Wow, that came to mind and I was like, wow, trust the process. Don't be dwelling on whether you think it's a lot or a little, or what, no. If you know that it is an accurate measurement, give it that and trust the process. If it is the same coffee, the same amount of water, the same stove, the same fire, the same principles of physics, throw it in and trust, and it was the same; I threw it out, the coffee was perfect. Trust the process.

And that's what I said: wow I have to learn this truth. And on several occasions when I have felt inclined to violate something that is working for me because today it does not seem so good to me, I say: no, trust the process, trust the process, trust the principle.

And that's how we have to live life. If you know that there is a truth that God has spoken in your life, even the children are affirming it, glory to God, they are saying amen. If you know that something comes from the Word of God, embrace it, believe it, plant your life on it, anchor your behavior to it and don't look around at what people say, or what your own mind says or what they say. your emotions included. Believe in what God has said because that does not change, get on top of it and live life according to those principles and you will be successful, and you will be happy, and you will prevail over any situation and any fluctuation of the world and of life.

Live your life according to solid principles of faith and spirituality, live according to every word that comes from the mouth of God, detach yourself from the world, detach yourself from people, that is the title of this sermon this morning. Detach from the world and detach from people, and in brackets: and stick to God and His Word, and you will be happy, you will be healthy, you will be healthy. Start living that because it's going to take time, learn that, get it in there and let it spread through all parts of your being until it becomes second nature within you. Without knowing it, you will know it, without hearing it, you will hear it within yourself and live for it and you will be happy, you will be successful in your life.

Let's lower our heads for a moment, let's receive that Truth of God in our hearts. Father: this morning we refuse to live because of circumstances, events, opinions, experiences. We will use them for information but that is all, but we will live by Your Truth, Your diagnosis, Your intentions, Your Lord's purpose.

And we know that Your Truth is irreplaceable, irrefutable, invincible, eternal, that if we unite our destiny to it, no force in this world can defeat or deform us. We received it this morning and we internalized it in our hearts, Lord. Thank you because you have done everything well and good and because you have good purposes for us. Oh thank you for Your Truth Father, I receive it within me, I receive it Lord.

I bless my brothers. Heal us from the wounds of the past Lord. Help us to reflect the perfection of Jesus Christ in our lives. Thank you because He has overcome all circumstances, He has even overcome the world and we can also overcome the world and live above the world even while we bless it. Thank you Father, send us out of here with Your blessing, in Jesus' Name, amen and amen. God bless you my brothers, the grace of the Lord be with you.