What does the sky say about your life?

I love it because there is so much Colombian. Glory to God. That makes us feel much more at home. Let's go to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 16, verses 13 onwards.

“…When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples saying, “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” They said, “Some, John the Baptist; others, Elijah; and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “And who do you say that I am?” Responding Simon Peter said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Then Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father who is in heaven.”

And here we have a very beautiful scene. Jesus is with his disciples and he asks his disciples two questions, the first is, what do the men say outside, in the street, where you walk, who am I? And it was so easy to answer this question, they said, "Some say that you are Elijah, others say that you are Jeremiah, others that you are one of the prophets." But then the Lord looked at them and said, “And who do you say that I am?” It was another concept, because they had walked with the Lord for 3 years, they had eaten with him, they had lived with him, they had received his teachings. They knew him not as the crowds knew him, they knew him closely.

And there was silence and before long only one voice, Peter's, stood up and made the most beautiful statement we can find, “Lord, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus said to him, "You are blessed because what you just said was not revealed to you by your flesh or your blood, it was a revelation from my Father who is in heaven."

He was asking for outside opinion and he was asking for inside opinion. And that is the title of my message for this afternoon, what does heaven say about your life? Jesus was not asking for an opinion because he had an identity crisis. When we live in an identity crisis we live a life of great stress, because we want to show others what we really are not.

There was no identity crisis in him, there was no crisis of purpose, he knew who he was and he knew what he had come for and in this when you and I reached the point in our Christian life of knowing who we are, not what we do, but who we are, and what God has given us to do, is what we call a successful life. To know why I exist, who I am and why I am on earth.

And it's so beautiful because there was no identity crisis in it. He knew who he was, he knew what he had come for, but we live in a world where the opinions of others really enslave us. There are people who live a slave to what they will say, so you live a life to want to please others. You see the political campaigns, they talk about an image expert to be able to project an image in the campaign of someone that the truth is not. And this has permeated into the Christian life. I understand the lights, I saw churches where before I leave here they have to make me up. And I say, but if I do it well, I know myself, I know what to wear, I know what looks good on me.

And it has permeated in such a way that we live in the Christian life in a dimension of appearance, projecting a personality and personality is what I want others to believe that I am, but the reality is the character that I am. That's why someone said, if you want to meet Inés, walk with her for a month. That's why I think I told the women, boyfriend comes from two words, one from boyfriend doesn't see anything. He is the perfect man, the incredible woman, that is the wonder woman, that is the man and the woman of my life, we got married and someone said that marriage was miraculous because it restores sight. Does anyone agree with me?

Making a good first impression on others is easy, maintaining it if that good impression is not true, is very complicated. Opinion is the concept that others have of you and me and that concept may be correct or incorrect, it may be good or it may be bad, it may be based on real facts or assumptions. That concept can favor you or it can disadvantage you.

But have you ever wondered, what is God's opinion of your life? We are always thinking and giving and projecting and doing so that others have a good opinion of us, and sometimes we fall into religious pride, and that is why we take religious positions.

There is a sensational video in Cristianos al Horno, of a little boy who comes in to ask his dad for something. His father is sitting on a sofa and the boy is about 5 years old, and the boy arrives and stands in front of his father and begins to tremble and says, "Oh, loving father, I come before your divine presence to appeal to your merciful heart because I know that you know what I need but today I come before you, oh…” and so on. And he keeps saying, "And you who love me, you who can do everything, you who don't hide anything that I need," and the dad looks at him and everything is strange, and he keeps saying, "I come before you so that you give me some coins to go buy an ice cream.” He says, “Enough, enough. And why doesn't he say, 'Daddy, give me to buy an ice cream,' and stop all the fuss?" "Ah, as I see you asking God like that, I think that's the way."

And, beloved, we want to impress people, we want people to feel that we are so spiritual. Concepts, opinions that others have of us. But, we ask ourselves, what does heaven say about your life or my life? What opinion does God have of you? Have you stopped to ask what do you think, God, of me? Because that really is what should matter to us, because that opinion that God may have of my life will determine how I am going to live my life, will determine how I am going to live it, if I am going to live it pleasing people or I am going to live pleasing God .

But if I walk pleasing God, I will end up pleasing many people and displeasing some, but it doesn't matter. What matters is God's opinion of me.

And I have taken some characters, there are many, but I am only going to talk about some characters about whom God gave his opinion, gave his opinion. And we are going to go to the first one about which God had an opinion, said something, heaven spoke of that person, and I am going to start with Abraham. What did heaven say about Abraham? What did God say about Abraham? When you go to Genesis chapter 18, you find that God goes to Abraham's tent, God is going to visit Abraham, first verse, 1 onwards, says:

“Then the Lord appeared to Abraham on the top of Mamre, as he sat in the door of his tent in the heat of the day. And he raised his eyes and looked, and behold, 3 men were standing by him, and when he saw them he ran to the door of his tent to meet them and prostrated himself on the ground and said, “Lord, – this is a theophany, here he was the Trinity – if now I have found favor in your sight, I beg you, do not pass up on your servant, let him now bring a little water, wash your feet, recline under a tree, bring a morsel of bread, sustain your hearts and then you will pass, for that is why you have passed near your servant.” And they said, "Do as you have said." Then Abraham hurried to the store and said to Sarah, “Quickly take the measure of fine flour, knead it, and make loaves baked under the embers.” And Abraham ran to the cows and took a tender and good calf…” and you already know the rest.

What opinion did God have of Abraham? It was that Abraham was his friend. A friend thus arrives at the house of another friend. A friend isn't calling, even though they're from different cultures, I'm not calling Susan and saying, “Dude, can I come visit you right now?” I arrive and ring and if it is there, he opens the window and says, "Oh, it's good that you arrived."

The night we arrived from the trip was so beautiful, for us it was something very special. Whenever we travel to minister in churches we eat in restaurants. I love restaurants, but I am a woman very much from home. If you know that you are very close to my heart and that I trust you, we are not going to invite you to a restaurant in Bogotá, we will invite you to my house. And that night Meche and her pastor invited us to eat at home. This was awesome. Their pastor prepared the food. That was better. We enjoyed it a lot because it means a lot to me, it has a meaning of closeness, not that I dislike restaurants, no, they won't limit themselves because of that, but that night was very special. It was like the afternoon that God arrived at Abraham's tent and it is incredible that he arrived in the heat of the day. It speaks of a difficult time for Abraham. I had waited a long time, almost 25 years had passed since the promise and God arrived.

A friend arrives at the moment you need him the most. A friend enters your house like Pedro through his house. A friend can open your fridge. A friend is the one to whom you trust everything, you open your heart to him, you know he will never betray you, you know he is loyal. You can share with him. And the opinion that God had of Abraham was that Abraham was his friend, that's why God arrived at any time. God did not send him a WhatsApp, he did not send him an email, God did not send him a text message, God arrived.

And when he arrived, this chapter 18 is tremendous, he not only ate with him, he not only shared with him, he brought him two pieces of news, one good news, next year Sara will conceive and give birth to a son and the son of promise will be born . But the second, you find it in verse 16. They finish eating, they leave the store and it says:

“…And the men arose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them, accompanying them. And Jehovah said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?”

Can I hide from Abraham what I am going to do with Sodom? If he is my friend. I want God to say that I am his friend. That's what I want, for her to see me as her friend. You know, Jehoshaphat declared it in his prayer when a whole army came around him, when he was afraid, when he knelt down, when he cried out, in Second Chronicles 20:7, in his intercessory prayer he said:

"Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?"

Josaphat, hundreds of years later, is crying out and says, you gave this land to Abraham your friend forever. Wow! in the New Testament James mentions it in chapter 2, verse 23 he left it on record and James says:

“…And the scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness and he was called a friend of God…”

Few in the Old Testament were friends of God, very few. In the New Testament the Lord says, I will no longer call you servants but I will call you friends. In his 12 disciples he had 12, out of 12 he had 3, and out of 3 he had one, and God wants you to want to be his friend and his friend, that heaven can say, Roberto is my friend. Manuel is my friend, it is what I want. I want to have such a wonderful relationship every day. Sometimes I laugh alone because she makes incredible jokes, a close relationship, friendship with God.

I have a great friend, I have very good friends, in every nation God has given me the gift of friendship. In fact it is an inheritance in my house. My mom's best friend, they had a friendship of 75 years, in fact, my middle name is Leonor in honor of her best friend. My oldest sister's best friend has a 50-year friendship, and my second sister's best friend has a 53-year friendship. Your children are best friends and your grandchildren are best friends.

But I beat all my brothers because I have the best friend who is God. What does heaven say about you? What does heaven think of you? What did God say about Abraham? He said, he is my friend, but he said something else, in the same chapter 18 he declared another very important thing about Abraham, he said, I have generational trust in Abraham. Verse 17;

“…And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, when Abraham is to be a great and strong nation, and when all the nations of the earth are to be blessed in him? Because I know – stand there, say, because I know…

Who was speaking this? God. God said, I know. How forceful.

"...I know that he will command his sons and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, doing justice and judgment so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he has spoken..."

God was convinced. I know. I know. I know in whom I have put my promises. I know. And she hadn't had Isaac yet. Sara was barren. There were no offspring, but he said I know that the day his children are born, he will teach them my way, he will lead them to fear God, he will teach them my statutes, he will teach them, he will mark their generations.

Beloveds, we are in such a dangerous time. The church needs to wake up. You and I need to wake up. This is a generational time, hell has unleashed all its weapons against the generations. The world has unleashed it. This country, our countries are fighting for generations, they are really trying to exterminate them.

You know what? If you study the word of God you know that a Jewish generation consists of 40 years. Changes came every 40 years. Do you know what the experts are saying today? not the church, experts say today that a generation is changing every 7 years. How much time do you spend with your children? Oh, they go to Sunday school. Only one hour, 45 minutes, they don't even study in Christian schools, they are in public schools. It is the time to mark our generations. It is time to do a job of putting the principles and values of this word so that heaven says, I know, I know. And the day that our children have to be in the universities of the world, in the river of this world, there is full conviction in their hearts. They may live around humanism, materialism, hedonism, all the isms, but they will know who their God is and they will know who they have believed in and what we cannot do, he will do. He asks me to do what I have to do and God will do what I can't do.

When our first grandchild was born, those of us who are grandparents know what I'm talking about. My pastor says, "If I had known how beautiful grandchildren were, I would have them first, before children." Grandchildren, as a precious Colombian song says, are the prolongation of our existence. Grandchildren are our crowns, as the Bible says, grandchildren are your generational significance and when the grandchildren were born, well, you learned to be a father with your children, that's why you are such a good grandfather with your grandchildren.

When Jonathan was born I had the privilege of receiving him. The Lord knows how he does his things. Because my husband, my son-in-law and I were waiting for them to come out and that's when my son-in-law and my husband had to go sign some papers, it took about 10 minutes and in those 10 minutes they took Jonathan out. And then they say, "Jonathan Frigerisi's dad." And I said, "It's not here, but it's here, Grandma, pass it to me." There were many expecting children and I never forget, I took my grandson, I didn't think, I picked him up before kissing him and I said, “God I give you this third generation. I consecrate him from today to you so that he may love you all the days of your life and serve you all the days of your life." I don't know what else I said, I cried, I had it up and I talked about its name, its meaning, I marked it.

When I lowered my grandson, those who were there were crying, unconverted. And one told me, “Could it be that you can wait until they pass me by. What does the name we are going to give it mean?”

One day rejoicing, thinking about that first grandchild, I was afraid, thinking about what is coming to the world, about the darkness of this world, about all the moral degradation, about everything we are seeing today, and I was afraid. What is the Lord going to do? And God spoke to my life, he told me, "I took care of your children, the same God who took care of your children will take care of your grandchildren." 20 years have passed, today that Jonathan preaches with his grandmother.

I know that Abraham will command. Can God say about you, I know, I know that Ana Sofía is marking them, I know? The angels tell you, look, the world… no, it doesn't matter. I know I know. God says, I know. Can God say that about your life and my life? Can we be coherent at home? Can our children see dad and mom in church or mom in church and be consistent with what we minister in church, with what we talk about God at home? But the experience that we have, is there support in my words with my life?

In the collapse of marriages today, can we really be the challenge for them? Today that nobody wants to get married, today that everything is distorted, could it be that our children and our grandchildren can say, we want a marriage like yours? We want to be like you. We want to live the kind of life that you lived, because they have seen coherence between what we speak, preach and what we live.

I'm talking to you, dad, mom. What did God say about Abraham? That he was his friend. What did God say about Abraham? That he had a security, generational confidence, but he said something else. When you go to chapter 22 of Genesis, Isaac had already been born, Isaac had already grown up. The experts say, the commentators say that by this chapter 22 Isaac should have been about 17 by now. Mac Arthur says he must have been in his 20s. Well, he was already a boy. And God comes and in the first verses he says:

“…that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham, here I am. Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering..."

He made sure, he said, "Isaac, whom you love." Because if he says, “Give me your son,” Abraham would have sacrificed Ishmael and taken the problem away from us. But God knew and made sure and God said, "Give me your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much." Because you did not make me any sacrifice again, since Isaac was born, he planted a tamarisk tree but did not raise an altar. And God said, "I want you to give it to me." And then he says something very harsh:

"...Offer it to me as a holocaust," he did not say a sacrifice, because if it had been a sacrifice at least he would cut off a leg, cut off an arm, and say, "I offer this to you." Partial. The Holocaust was total, it was everything, … to the land that I will show you, and you know the story. Abraham goes up the hill with his son, his son carries the wood, they carry the fire, they carry the knife, they come up and Isaac says, "Dad, we carry the wood, we carry the fire, where is the lamb, dad?" He says, "Don't worry, God will provide."

There is that beautiful song that they sang, Jehovah Jireh, you are my provider. God will provide it for you. They got upstairs, they got the wood, they made the altar and Isaac surely asked again, “Dad, what about the lamb?” "God will provide." But where is it, son? You are the lamb. There had to be not a running fight, he didn't run, he wasn't a child, but there had to be an explanation. "Dad, you said that God doesn't want human lives." "I know, son." "You have said that in me it would be called offspring, how can God ask?" “I don't know, I don't understand it, but he asked you and all I have to do is deliver it. Son, don't worry, God is going to fulfill his promise, or he will prevent it or he will resurrect you, but I know that I know."

Because then how do you explain that a 17-year-old boy with a man who was already almost 120 years old, that boy did not run away. Isaac went up to the altar, after he understood. Isaac lay down on the altar. Isaac spread his arms. Isaac told his dad, “Tie me up,” because Isaac was a type of Christ, you know. He loaded the firewood, Christ carried his cross. He willingly went to the cross, Isaac willingly went to the altar. And there Isaac knew and heard the voice of God and heard the ram, when they were about to kill him, he heard the meee, and the voice of God, "Stop."

But he heard the voice of God, and Abraham heard the third concept that heaven really had of Abraham. In chapter 22, verse 12:

"...At that moment God said, "Do not extend your hand over the boy, or do anything to him, because I already know, I know, I am convinced that you fear God, because you did not deny me your son..."

I spoke to the women yesterday about what God asks for. In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 10 and the first thing he asks for, which Moses says that Jehovah asks of you, that you fear the Lord, that you fear God, and Abraham knew that he knew that if God asked his son, he would He was going to give it, but God knew that he knew, that Abraham was afraid of God.

Let me ask you something, can God say the same about your life and my life? Can you say that man and that woman walk in fear of me? Not fear, in reverence, in the determination not to do what God dislikes. A life of fear of God is a victorious life, it is a life of fragrant smell of God. What did heaven say about Abraham? Wow. Can heaven say the same about us?

Let me go to another character. What did heaven say about Job? Chapter 1 of the Book of Job. You know that chapter 1, verse 1 opens talking about Job and says:

“…There was in the land of Uz a man named Job, upright, perfect, fearing God and apart from evil…”

When you go to verse 6 to 8 it says:

“…One day the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, among whom Satan also came. And Jehovah said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered Jehovah and said, “From going around the earth and from walking on it.” And Jehovah said to Satan, “You have not considered my servant Job – look what God said, and do you know who he said it to? To Satan. – Have you not considered my servant Job that there is no other like him on earth, a perfect, upright, God-fearing and apart from evil man?

He told Satan. He didn't tell the angels, he told Satan. Have you seen it as it is? There is no other like him on earth. He was showing her his trophy. How gorgeous! And Satan answers him, “How can Job not live like this if you have given him everything, if even what he has you have surrounded him? My demons have gone against their properties, they have gone against their businesses and they have returned with broken teeth because there is a fence that protects them, but remove that fence and you will see if they do not deny you.

And I am going to tell you as long as you live in this dimension, there will be a fence around your life, and the fence can only be broken when God allows it, but when God allows it, God will be there and God will take you out of affliction and the test and it will lead you in victory to the other side.

And the fence was opened. You know the story, but God knew that he knew what Job was going to say. God says in his word that he will not let you be tested more than you can bear, but along with the test he will send the way out. He knows to whom he delivers certain dimensions of tribulation and trial, he knows that he knows who he has believed in, as Job knew about him. How terrible it is when he loses everything in one day, when he loses his sons, when he loses his daughters, when he loses his cattle, when he loses his workers, when he receives the news and they come to tell him, then verse 20:

“…Then Job got up and tore his cloak, shaved his head, prostrated himself on the ground, with all the pain, and worshiped, and then he spoke and said, “Naked I came out of my mother's womb and naked I will return there. Jehovah gave, Jehovah has taken away, be blessed in the name of Jehovah. Praise the Lord," and with all this Job did not sin, nor did he attribute any nonsense to God."

It was not a son, it was 10 children. He was left with nothing. I like. Can you worship in the midst of trial? God can say from heaven, "I know, I know you will worship." The angels will say, "It's not very hard." “She and he will adore. I know it, I know, I know it, I know it, even if I lose everything, they will adore me, even if I lose everything."

There is a song, a glorious hymn that is one of the ancient hymns, it is called "All is well with my soul, all is well." And it was written by Horace Stafford. That man really lived tests after tests, he lost his only son when he got scarlet fever, he lived in Chicago. After his son dies, there's an economic collapse and he loses all his businesses and then the Chicago fire came and wiped it out. And when he was left with nothing, only his wife and his 4 daughters, he sent his wife and daughters to England. He would finish organizing some things and leave in 15 days to meet them.

The ship carrying his wife and 4 girls arriving on the shores of England collided with another ship at 12 midnight and the ship sank within 10 minutes. His 4 girls were carried away by the sea, his wife survived. When he received the news he left for England to meet his wife. In the boat where he was mourning as Job did, as he arrived, he remembered the portion of Second Kings with Sonen's wife when her son dies, when she goes to look for the prophet, when her husband tells her, "Do you you will search? It's alright, everything's alright."

And when he came to the prophet, "What are you here for?" "Everything's fine." And there God inspires that hymn and sings it. The ship stops at the place where his daughters succumbed and that hymn is born there that to this day has not lost its anointing. It says, “when the stormy sea and when the waves come and take what they love the most, you can only say, all is well with my soul, all is well.”

"Naked I came out of the womb, naked I will return, Jehovah gave, Jehovah took away, blessed be his name and he did not attribute any nonsense to God."

He didn't say why? He said, Lord, you know. A statement come true, a statement that continued when he lost his health as well. Chapter 2, verse 9 and 10, a woman who had his wife tells him:

“…Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die, you're mangy." And he said to her, “As any of the foolish women usually speak, you have spoken. What, woman? Will we receive good from God and will we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”

God knew Job's struggle and pain. God knew the struggle of his heart but God marveled at this man's responses. Later in chapter 13, verse 15 and 16 he says:

"... Behold, even if he kills me, I will hope in him, nevertheless I will defend my ways before him, and he himself will be my salvation..."

And in chapter 19, verse 25 to 27 he stood up and he said:

"... I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will triumph over death, and when my skin has been destroyed I will still see God with my own eyes, I myself hope to see him, I hope to be the one who sees him and not another, this longing consumes my entrails…”

This was a man who had lost everything in life, but could still stand. What does heaven say about you when you go through trials, when you go through fire, when you get sick, when there is a loss, when there is no job, when the economy runs out, when family conflicts flow, what does heaven say about you? the sky of you? Because heaven knows your heart and knows your complaints and knows everything.

Let me go quick to another character. We find it in John chapter 1, verse 43 onwards, and it is the life of Nathanael, he says:

“…The next day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and he found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” And Felipe was from Betsaida, the city of Andrés and Pedro. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found the one of whom Moses wrote in the law, as well as the prophets: Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth." Nathanael responds; "Can something good come out of Nazareth?" Felipe told him, "Come and come." When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching him, he said of him, "Behold, a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit."

Jesus said of him. Here is a man with integrity, he is a true Israelite, in his spirit there is no deceit, there is no falsehood, there is no hypocrisy. I'm going to put it on our terms for today. behold a true Christian, that is a true Christian. This is coherent between what lives and what speaks, between what lives and what ministers in the church, between what lives and speaks in the church and speaks at home. It is complete.

Nathanael means gift of God. And the concept that God had of Nathanael was an incredible concept. Now, not only Jesus had the concept of Nathanael, because you see that when Jesus tells him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whose spirit there is no deceit," Nathanael says, "How do you know?" that amazes me. He did not have a religious spirit. Oh no, it's by the grace of God. Of course it's by grace, but you decided to live for it, that's the difference. And Nathanael said, “How do you know? How do you know me? How do you know I'm a true Israelite? How do you know that I hate lying? How do you know I don't live a hypocritical life? How do you know him? How do you know that I have determined to live right in a way that pleases God?”

Can God say the same about your life and my life? Here is a true Christian. Here is a true Christian. What does it mean to be a Christian? He is one who lives like Christ. The first time the Christian disciples were called was in Antioch. They were so familiar, they talked about the Caesareans, they talked about the Herodeans, who were they? Those who lived like Caesar, those who followed Caesar, those who obeyed Caesar, those who obeyed Herod, but when they saw the disciples they said, "Those are Christians, one who lives like Christ, talks like Christ, walks like Christ." look like Christ, love like Christ, forgive like Christ.”

Today there are so many Christians but not Christians. We come from a country of mega churches, I'm going to say church of 30,000, 40,000. 3 weeks ago I was preaching in one of the ones I love, which is a beautiful church, 8 services. Sometimes they tell us, "But tomorrow they have two services." I tell him, "Oh, Meche, we get 7 on Sunday, 8 on Sunday." There are thousands of people and the question I ask myself… Churches of 70 thousand, and the question I ask myself, are we really Christians?

In a moment of trial, of persecution, we will be able to stop, like the 21 Copts in the month of January, the martyrs who beheaded in front of the waters and gave them the opportunity, they deny and we will preserve their lives. The 21 raised their hands and said looking up at the sky, “Our Lord Jesus Christ, he is our savior.”

Can heaven say and determine that we are indeed Christians? Are our businesses clean? Are our answers sincere inside because out here I can say something, but what I feel is something else? That is why David said in Psalm 51, verse 6: “He loves the truth.”

Deep down, if we want to see change in this city, if we truly want a transformation, we will have to convert as the word says, you and I in the midst of darkness, a light in the university, a light in your office, a light where you work, in the house where you work, on the bus, in the store, in your daily walk. Can we respond in the right way, can we make the difference between us and the world?

And I close my message with the last one, the greatest one, come with me to Matthew chapter 3 and verse 17 and with this I close my message. What opinion did God have of Abraham? What opinion did God have of Job? What opinion did God have of Nathanael? But let me finish, what opinion did God have of his Son? This was the day of his baptism, I am going to read from the 13th:

“…Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. More Juan opposed him saying, "I need to be baptized for you and will you come to me?" but Jesus answered him, “Leave it now, for that is how we should fulfill all righteousness.” So she left him. And Jesus, after he was baptized, went up out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit descending like a dove and coming upon him. And there was a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

If only I can give you this message that will determine the kind of life that you and I should live. What did the Father say of the Son? This is my beloved Son. Another version says, My soul is pleased with him, he pleases my heart, he walks a life of obedience, he walks to make me known. His passion is to make his Father known. This is what I want. This is what my heart longs for, that God can say about my life, she is my beloved daughter, my soul and my heart is pleased with her.

Every morning when we wake up I just want to look up and be able to see God every morning and every night when we face up, "You're doing well." Do you know how we encourage children when they do something good? You have done super. You're doing it right. You are pleasing my heart. You are pleasing my heart. You walk as I have wanted you to walk. You honor me wherever you go. What you do for me you do with extreme passion.

That leads me to remember and with this I end, when God began to raise my life to the ministry 36 years ago, at that time we were already beginning to see the outbreaks of violence in our nation, and an awakening of praying for the nation began, as you are going to pray on the 22nd, not the 29th. And one of the young people who led at the national level, a very beautiful youth movement, he led a movement called SOS for Colombia, it was the cry for a different nation. Today that young man is one of the good councilors of the city of Bogotá and a standard bearer in the defense of all values and principles and it has cost him a lot. And he was studying journalism at that time, and he was the one who recorded the programs for the only Christian station called La Nuevo Continente, and my pastor and I had a program on Sundays. At that time I only presented the program and my pastor gave everything and then I closed the program and that was the greatest delight for me.

Well, they began to get to know me there and Marco Fidel invited me to that prayer vigil, SOS for Colombia, and in one of the largest churches in the city that would have a capacity of around 1,500 people and then it was all night. It was my turn at 2 in the morning. They don't know what I prayed for, what I sweated, moments of joy where you said, oh, what a privilege; other moments that I said, but why did I get into this? And I never forget, that night I arrived at the place early, I was with one of the disciples who was beginning but they did not let me sit in the front, they put her in the back. And everything was beautiful, prayer, praise, but before I preached there was a pastor, Pastor Eduardo Cañas, a man whom I greatly respect and honor greatly. He is a man of God, a true Apostle, we work together today with the Apostolic Coalition of Colombia, but in those Pilinos, and I was there and Pastor Eduardo was going to preach before me, swallow me earth, what did I get myself into? My god, a veteran. I said, God in heaven, all my news that I had brought I saw them horrible. They don't know what I suffered.

He preached a precious message, a master of the word, and I was sunk in that chair. He finished, now and everything is broadcast on the New Continent and 2 songs play and they play to me. And you can't imagine the fear and trembling, alone, over there I saw my disciple who, instead of praying, was... and I started the message trembling, but it was 2:30 in the morning when I see brother Lizi Kristi come through that door , Director of Desafío newspaper, and of Club 700, with his wife, they were seated here in front, a very respected man, but Lizi Kristi was my spiritual father and when he sat down and looked up and 10 minutes passed and from down there he began to make me... my fear left me, my fright left me, the power of God came over my life through the approval of a spiritual father.

Believe me that night I didn't even know what happened. God played on the radio. God touched everywhere. And it was the beginning of an open door opening for this ministry in the nation. A finger of approval, a spiritual father how much more, when the father can tell you, you are my beloved son. In you my soul is pleased.

Stand up, please. Thank you Lord, don't talk to anyone. I want you to close your eyes for a moment and for a moment you look inside your heart. It is not a religious routine, it is that we close our eyes so as not to entertain ourselves, it is each one of us with God. And my question is, how is your life with God? My question is, what does the sky say about your life? What is God's opinion of you? How have you walked, how is your behavior, how is your behavior? How do you walk on this earth? Do we walk knowing that the very presence of God is in our hearts?

That the spirit of God dwells within us? That the temple is not this place, this is a physical place, that the presence is brought by us. But that I need to walk, as Elijah said and as Elisha said, the God in whose presence I live. Can God say of us he is my friend? I have such a deep intimate relationship with him and her, he loves me and I love him. Can you say that he has a generational confidence that we will be able to train the children he has given us, the generations he has given us by establishing them in this truth?

We will take time for them. Can we be sure to walk in the fear of God? That in the midst of trials and struggles, God is sure that no matter how much fire or water you go through, he knows that he knows that you will be faithful to him. Can we believe that by walking daily we can please God's heart in such a way that he can say, as he said to Nathanael, "behold a true Christian"?

And above all, may you hear the voice of God telling you today 'this is my beloved son, my life, my soul, is pleased with you.' Lord, help us to live a life in such a way that we can only please you you. Lord, help us to understand that it is not about making a good impression on others but about living in such a way that our life impresses you.

Forgive us, Lord, for the many times that we have not known how to live as you deserve. Forgive us the times we have denied you with our behaviors, our behaviors, our actions, our responses. Forgive us the many times that we have been a stumbling block for others, who have looked at us saying, and is this being a Christian? Forgive us when we have brought shame to your name Lord.

Today, Lord, we want to raise our hands before you, surrender before you. Lord, we understand the times we are living in, where you are demanding a true life of consecration from your church. This is not a game, this is a life and life for you. Help us Lord to live in such a way that you can express it, that your heart pleases our life. We thank you, Lord. Thank you very much in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen.