Word of God

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Where has the Word of God spoken?

Where can we find the Word of God? I tried to respond to this in the first part of these articles, which has been published with the title of The Power of Prayer. We find the Word of God in the Bible. We do not say that only the Bible contains the Word of God; we attest that the Bible is the Word of God.

In a time of turmoil and distress, and in the midst of the doubts and weaknesses of our lives, we can accept with absolute confidence that Book.

When we say that the Bible is the Word of God, we mean in fact something very concrete. We mean to say that the Bible is true.

We mean to say that the writers of the Bible, in addition to all the requirements providential Possessed for his task, received an impulse and support immediate and supernatural by the Spirit of God, the impulse and direction that made them free of errors that are found in the other books.

As a result, these books, the Bible, is completely true in all that it says about matters of fact, and has an absolute authority in what it commands. This is the great doctrine of the plenary inspiration or full of the Sacred Scripture.

This doctrine, contrary to what it has often been imputed, non-violent, the originality and personality of the biblical writer; and it does not mean that they become mere automatons who knew not what they were doing. It does mean, however, that the move of the Holy Spirit in inspiration was supernatural.

Was not a mere providential action of God, nor the simple-to-use on the side of God of the resources of the universe that he had created; it was an interference with the benevolent and free in the course of nature by the immediately power of God.

This doctrine means that the Bible is the work of God and not of man. Other books give the idea that they advise as to what is good and what is bad; this book only advises on what is good, or rather gives precise mandates that come to us with the full authority of the sovereign God.

This articles we are now are based on this high perspective of the Bible. I will try to examine the Bible with you in order to discover what God has said, not a simple man.

In this presentation of what God has told us in the Bible I truly hope is not the lack of sincere compassion for the man who does not believe in what I believe; I hope, not lacking in sympathy for the doubt. I hope to be able to show to that man in the development of my articles that some of the objections against the teachings of the Bible, common currency among our contemporaries, based on a misunderstanding of what the Bible says or a lack of consideration of important evidence that confirm the veracity of the Bible.

But all this about the Word of God should not confuse what I'm trying to do.

I am not trying to introduce you to what I have discovered by myself, nor help you to discover things by yourselves, but I ask you to read with me to what God has told us in his Word.

In the articles that we begin today, as I began to talk to you about what God has told us in his Word.

The revelation of God contained in the Bible, we said, is not the only revelation that God has made. God has revealed himself through the universe he has made. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament tells the work of his hands."

God has also been revealed by his voice inside of us, the voice of our mind. "When the gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, although not having the law, becomes a law, a law to themselves." The Bible puts the stamp of approval in what you may call "natural religion."

But the revelation of God through nature is not the only revelation that God has given. In addition nature has given a revelation that is called "supernatural" by reason of his higher nature.

This supernatural revelation was needed for two reasons.

In first place, the revelation of God through nature had been concealing from the eyes of men because of sin. The wonders of the world of God would have had to make the men worship you and would glorify the Creator, but his foolish heart is darkened.

The voice of conscience would have had to decide with clarity what was good and what was evil, but the consciousness of the men had been numb as seared. Because of that a sinful man needed a clear and new confirmation, of what nature and conscience, were saying.

In a second place, and this is even more transcendental that we acknowledge, man as a sinner needed to be revealed about God certain things which nature and conscience did not offer even the slightest clue.

He needed the revelation of the grace of God. Sin had not only blinded him but also got him lost him. He was under his own guilt and curse. He was under that influence. He desperate needed to be told how God had saved him. Nature was saying anything about this. The knowledge about God could only come to a sinful mankind in a way that was supernatural in the strictest sense.

How wonderfully and how rich it is the supernatural revelation of God found in the Bible verses! How much it surpasses the revelation of God through nature! All the doctrine of the Trinity, the appearance and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the application of the work of Christ through the Holy Spirit, the glorious promise of a world to come, all this is not manifested to us through nature; we are told about this in the Bible and in the Bible only. We are intrinsically in contact with a revelation that is not natural but supernatural.

In previous articles, I started to tell you some references about this revelation. I explained to you the great biblical doctrine of a triune God. There is only one God, self depending on himself but in three persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

At the very core of that presentation of the doctrine of the Trinity in the Bible, as we have seen, is the teaching concerning the divinity of Jesus Christ.

Less than two thousands years ago, a person with the name of Jesus lived in Palestine.

And related to Him exist are two opinions.

Some people consider him simply as a great religious genius, as the founder of one of the great world religions, as a man who did not mix his own person with the gospel, who did not demand that men have any special idea about him but simply he proclaimed God the Father, who did not ask that men have faith in him but only in God in the same way that he had faith in that God.

According to those who have this idea, Jesus was only a teacher and an example to copy, who opened for mankind a new path to God. This is the idea of the unbelievers.

But there is another idea about Jesus.

According to this idea, the person known in history as Jesus from all eternity he was infinite, God eternal and immutable. Through Him was the vast universe made. He came to this world by his own will. He took our nature, and was born as a man in order to be able to redeem his people on the cross. When he lived on earth, he offered himself to men as an object of faith, and he did not ask them to have faith in God only as he had, but to believe in Him.

He made salvation depend on the faith in Him, completely free. He died on the cross as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us with God. It is God and man in two different natures and one person, and this is forever. He will come back and we will see Him with our own eyes. This idea of Jesus is for Christians.

We saw that this Christian perspective of Jesus is what he teaches in the Bible, and it is the one that Jesus himself taught in his person.

Did Jesus present Himself while on earth only as an example for the faith of menkind?
Did he just say: "Believe in God in the same way that I believe in Him?
Was He indifferent to what men thought of Him?

These questions are easy to answer if we take the biblical history of Jesus as a whole. The Jesus who presents himself totally in the Bible is evident that he offered himself to men as an object of faith, and that he made faith in his person something essential to achieve eternal life.

But unbelievers do not accept the full presentation of the Bible about Jesus. Well, then, I will say to the unbelieving friends: "Here you have a New Testament, take it and choose the passage you want to show me that the way of thinking about Jesus is right, I know that I do not like the passages that I quote. Let's see, then, what the passages you choose have to say."

In our previous articles we saw that when the unbeliever is invited to choose a passage, he will most likely turn to the Sermon on the Mount. In it, the unbelievers say, we have a non-theological Jesus, a Jesus who gave very high commands and made it clear that these commands could be obeyed whatever the idea that men had about Him.

They do not stop telling us this. Theology, we are told, is not the important thing, not even the theology that deals with Jesus Christ. If, they continue, the men decided only to do what Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, it would be a better man than to reach some agreements regarding him or the meaning of his death.

"Well,"I will say to that incredulous friend, "let's take only that passage that you have chosen, let's see only the Sermon on the Mount, and let's examine if it really presents the idea of Jesus, if in reality it presents us with a Jesus who was just a teacher and an example, and that he did not ask men to have any specific high idea about him.

We take the Sermon on the Mount to examine it from that perspective.

And what do we discover?
Did we discover a Jesus who did not identify his person with the gospel he preached and who did not care what men thought of Him?

We responded in a categorically negative way.

What we described in the Sermon on the Mount was a Jesus who in the most amazing way gave the rewards in the Kingdom of God, a Jesus who placed his commands in complete parity with those of God in the Old Testament, a Jesus who did not say like the prophets, "Thus saith the Lord," but said, "But I say to you, "a Jesus who called blessed those who maintained a certain relationship with Him. "Blessed are you when for my sake they revile you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you, lying". a Jesus who said about himself that one day he would sit in the very throne of God to determine the final destiny of men so that some would be send to eternal punishment and others to the lasting life.

No, in the Sermon on the Mount we can not find any clue that allows us to elude Christ from the rest of the New Testament.

We do not find in that passage, by favorite that it is for the unbelievers, Not a mere human Jesus who would be indifferent to what men thought about Him and would only ask them to take him as their example to follow on the path to God.

We find in that passage just as in any other passage a Christ and only one, the Christ who was a 100% man and 100% God.

Yes, on the other hand, we find in the New Testament the Christ that others are looking for, a simple leader and an example, a simple discoverer of the path that leads to God.

What good would this Christ do to our souls?
What good would produce a simple guide and example to those who, like us, are dead in our transgressions and sins and are under the righteous wrath and curse of God?
What is the answer from the Christian point of view?

It is very simple. Yes, there is no doubt that the great double commandment of Jesus, "You shall love the Lord God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself" is more than enough for anyone.

Oh, but the case is friends, which is too much, there is the problem. This is the only reason why we are Christians. This stupendous commandment of Jesus is too rigorous; It is so rigorous that we have not succeeded in fulfilling it. If we had loved God and our neighbor, in the most exalted way that Jesus required, everything would have been fine; nothing different than this we would have needed; we would not have needed any doctrine of the Cross of Christ because we would not have needed any cross of Christ; we would not have needed any doctrine of the person of Christ, God and man in two different natures and a single person, because there would have been no need for Christ to become man. We would have been righteous, and we would not have needed a Savior.

But the fact is that we are sinners.

This is the reason why we need something more than a teacher, more than an example, more than just a legislator. This is why we need what the unbelievers despise as mere doctrine, but that we prefer to call the gospel.

For this we cling with all our soul to the great biblical doctrines of the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Suppose I had listened to Jesus only as a great example and legislator. Suppose I had heard him say, "You shall love the Lord God and your neighbor as yourself"; suppose I had heard it said in the Sermon on the Mount, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

What could I say then?

I would say: "I thank you, Jesus, this is what I needed to know, I am so happy to know that if I love God and my neighbor and I am clean of heart all will be well and I will enter the Kingdom of God."

My friends, the truth is that I do not know what I would say, although of course it would not be anything like this. I could only say, after listening to the commandments of Jesus: "Oh, I am lost, I have not loved God or my neighbor, I have not been clean of heart, I am a sinner, Jesus, have you nothing, apart from your exacting commandments, to tell me?

When I come to Jesus in this way, as a sinner, confessing that I have not obeyed his commandments and that I have nothing to offer him but that I am completely unworthy and helpless, do you have anything to tell me?

He might simply says: "You have already heard my rigorous commandments, this is all I have to tell you, this is all the gospel that I have to offer you, this is all the doctrine you need."

No, thank God, this is not all it takes to give me that cold comfort of a commandment that I have not fulfilled and can not fulfill.

He gives me more than this. He gives himself to me, He offers himself to me in the Bible as my Savior who died for me on the cross and who now lives as the one I can trust.

He offers himself to me in the great doctrines of his person and work. If it had been different, he could not have saved me and I could not trust him to save me. But since he is God himself, he could save me and saved me and the Holy Spirit has united me to Him through faith.

Do you see it, friends?
This is why Christian insists on the doctrine of the divinity of Christ. They does not consider it as something purely academic, but resorts to it as a castaway who clings to the board that can save him from drowning. No Christ below to the one in the Gospel could save us; this Christ could only save us from eternal death.

From this perspective we are going to focus on what we hope to expose in the following articles. The doctrine presented in the Bible is not for us a matter of curious interest; It is not something to be relegated to seminars or classrooms. It is a matter of transcendental importance; It is a matter of death or life. We are on the verge of eternity. We are sinners. We deserve the wrath and curse of God. Our hope lies only in what God has told us in the Word of the Lord. Let's listen and read it while we have time.

The Living And True God

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LIVING AND TRUE GOD

As we begin to reflect on the Christian vision of man and the decrees of God that sustain the existence of mankind, we are undoubtedly in the midst of a disturbed world.

We are living times of vertiginous changes. Less than twenty years after a war that was supposed to have been in defense of democracy, this democracy is almost everywhere in a precarious state and freedom is rapidly heading towards total disappearance.

Who would have thought, twenty years ago, that after such a short period of time freedom of expression and freedom of the press would be completely exterminated in large sections of Western Europe? Who would have thought that Europe was going to sink so soon in a wilderness worse than the medieval ones?

North America has not been an exception in terms of such decline. Freedom is threatened, and the specter of the hopeless maelstrom of a collectivist state hangs over us in the near future.

There is no doubt that if we consider the world as a whole, we are forced to recognize that the foundations of freedom and honesty are suffering a progressive deterioration and that the slow achievements of centuries are recklessly rash.

In an age like this of kaleidoscopic changes, is there anything that remains immutable? When so many things have shown that we do not deserve our trust, is there something we can trust?

Is there at least one clear point ??? We can not trust the Church. The visible Church, the Church as it exists today on earth, has too often fallen into error and sin.

No, we can not accept the Church in our disappointment with the world.

But then, is there anything we can welcome?
Is there something that remains unchanged when so many things change?

For this question I have a very specific answer. It is contained in a verse taken from the prophecy of Isaiah: "The grass withers, the flower withers, but the word of our God stands forever."

There are many things that change, but there is one that does not change. It is the Word of the living and true God. The world suffers decay, the visible Church has apostatized considerably; but when God speaks we can trust Him, and His Word endures forever with absolute guarantee.

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International Pastors and Leaders Conference 2019

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Nature of Demon or Evil Spirits

at June 16, 2018 0

Nature of Demon or Evil Spirits

We are going to do a fairly comprehensive study on these spiritual creatures also called demon, which we are surrounded by, and of which most of humans are totally in the ignorance.

In the book of the Ephesians 6:10-12 it reads;

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

So connect with God and take out of him your fairy powers because we inherently we do not have the power to live neither to endure nor to raise our children, neither to endure the wife, or relatives, or friends or even less our enemies.

If we want to reach the end of the race, having joy and not bitter, we better learn to discover where is the source and origin of our strength, in God.

Dress up with all the armour of God so that you can stand firm against the snares of the communists, against the Mormons, or your mother-in-law, or your enemies, no right?

The true real enemy who is trying to destroy us, discourage us and trying to avoid us from reaching the goal and abort the mission that God has entrusted us is a fallen spiritual being, who is called the prince of darkness, Satan.

Wear the armour of God to resist a demon or evil spirits

Because we have no fight against blood or flesh the fight is not between us, the struggle is not with churches against churches, nor churches against sects, or against groups of politicians, or against people like you and me.

When the Christian loses their vision that we are not fighting against human beings you lose the battle.

Our fight is not against blood and flesh, is not against any particular person, but against principalities, against powers, against governors of darkness of this century, against hosts or legions of spiritual soldiers of evil in the celestial regions, a group of being called demon.

Then a Christian is a person who begins to be aware of the world that surrounds him and he realizes that if a child has problems, you will not solve it beating the child or taking the child to the psychiatrist or the psychologist. If you have problems in your home with your wife, conflicts, frictions, if you are envious, if you are jealous, all of this comes from spiritual forces, invisibles, that the Bible call a demon or demons.

The word demon in the Greek is the word daimon, and it means intelligent beings.

The existence of a demon or these evil spirits around us, called demon, is one of the most clearer teachings of the bible, the four gospels are full, not the Mayan code, not those of the psychologists, not those of all sects, but some people are incredible, they believe more to the world than to the bible.

Which is the book of books, and the four gospels are full of references from the bad spirits, which spirits wherever Jesus Christ started walking they started to manifest attacking the bodies of human beings and the minds of the people.

The ministry of Christ since the beginning, was aiming against any demon in Mark 1:34;

And he healed many that were sick of diverse diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. In verse 39 and preached in the synagogues of them throughout Galilee and cast out any demon.

Jesus commission later to two disciples with the power for him to any demon or evil spirits, in Matthew 10:1;

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Here already changes the name from evil spirits to unclean spirits, in the Greek the word to Akathartos which means one that is contagious, a person who has a demon or demons or evil spirits, however you decide to call them, that demon spirit within that person or inside that boyfriend of yours or your girlfriend, has the potential to infect you.

If the person is bitter you get his bitterness, if the person is a gossiper you It spreads his gossip to you, if the person is murmuring you get infected with the murmuring.

Imagine a spiritual leader or a pastor who is bitter or who is jealous or having mental problems or problems of emotional instability, the same will infects all the believers.

Because a demon is unclean, is like a disease, like leprosy, that spreads and contaminates those around.

There is no doubt that the coming of Christ to world fuss and shaken these spiritual creatures calls demons.

Somehow, these spiritual creatures or a demon, already existed before Adam and Eve, when this world was formed, there was another world on this planet earth where Satan was the king and there was a group of beings and creatures.

The bible does not describe that more than these beings that populated this world, they lost their bodies when the judgment of God came, and now these spiritual creatures that lost their bodies are those that the people call souls, ghosts, grief spirits.

The mediums are deceived through their spirits to believe that they can have communication with the Cuauhtémoc spirit or with the spirit of any person or with the spirit of a loved one, etc.

But they are deceived because they do not know and are ignorant of what the bible says of the spiritual world.

Jesus Christ said in Luke 4: 33, that these creatures were the ones he came to fight with.

He was in the synagogue, says Luke, a man who he had a demon spirit;

· Where was the spirit?

· In a canteen?

· In the red zone?

The demons, for when Christ came to the world, he found them in churches.

In other words, Israel, was infested with a demon or many of them, and when the son of man appears, Jesus Christ on the world stage, it begins to riot, imaging as he came pouring gasoline into the scorpion nest and everywhere they started to manifest, but one could think;

Oh! "me in church where less demonized people should be"

They should be in canteens, in red zones, etc. But we realize that demons had the religion under his control in the times of Christ.

It means that it was a suffocating religiosity that existed in the times of Christ and who were the ones who crucified Christ?

· The Romans?

No! Romans were instruments, the one who crucified Christ were the religious, those who represented religion in that times and this is absolutely true in the light of the whole bible, because the devil never it's more devil than when he disguises himself as an angel of light.

And while he can infiltrate to places where the bible is open and where Christ is preached, and infiltrates himself between all the others, is where he can do his best work of destruction.

When can notice then, that the ministry of Christ on earth was a continue war against the evil spirits.

In Luke 4: 33;

This demon when saw Christ it shouted... which means, they can use the vocal cords of humans. It was not the person who shouted, but the devil.

And pay attention to what it said to Jesus Christ; verse 34, leave us! What do you have with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?

These spiritual creatures, invisible, they know and they knew when Jesus Christ appeared, who was he and the mere presence of Jesus Christ started to shake them, but it's interesting that they have asked;

· Had you came to destroy us?

Which means, they know their end is coming!

Revelations 12; the devil knows that He has little time left.

Read carefully my beloved saints in Christ Jesus, the closer we get to the second coming of Christ, who already seems to be close around. Volcanoes belching, earthquakes, seas contaminated with oil, the air contaminated, food contaminated and international economic problems, an incredible chaos of political leadership in the whole world.

Apostasy of the church, false signals, false miracles, what are we waiting for to Christ to appears?

The closer we get to the coming of Christ, more intense will be the war between us, more attacks we will suffer, more enemies will rise up against your life, your family and your marriage, to prevent us from reaching the destination and it is precisely now, the time in which we are living, when we must wear the armour of God and take God seriously.

This is not a game, this not Realm of Adventure, we are not in Disneyland, we are in a world occupied by the enemy and Christ came to fight the enemy and to give us power thru the Holy Spirit, to be victorious in all problems and struggles.

The problems with your marriage on your knees can be resolved, the problems with your children are solved on your knees, problems and conflicts and tensions between families and between churches are resolved on our knees.

Do not attack each other, it is not between us the warfare, are demons that are inside the people who wants to declare war to you, and it's on your knees that you are going to be able to fight against them.

When Christ said pray for your enemies and forgive your enemies, he was giving us the secret to win the spiritual warfare, do not seek revenge, if you look for revenge you will tight the hands of God and God cannot act anymore to assist you, but if you let him the revenge, God and to your enemy you tell him, I bless you and I have nothing against you, if you want to talk bad about me say anything you want, but you know One thing? I bless you, I love you, I have nothing against you and if I find you on the street, I will not hide, I will say hi, because I have nothing against you.

The problem is you against me not me against you.

And if you have that attitude of forgiveness towards those who persecute you, towards those who slander you, those who murmur against you, then God acts, because you are binding any demon and confusing them. "My is the revenge says the Lord, I will pay".

It's the secret of spiritual warfare, we don't take the weapons, but leaving them to God.

Christ recognizes the presence of the devil in his enemies, in John 8:44 he says to the Pharisees;

You are sons, you are sons of your father the devil and the wishes of you father you want to do, because the Devil has been a murderer and a liar from the beginning.

In other words, one of the characteristics of a person controlled by the devil is hatred. A person who has hate against someone, a person who has a grudge against someone, is a breeding ground for the devil's act in your life, as well as there are fertile lands, where the devils needs fertile ground in the heart for them, a demon to seed and grow evil in your life and in my life.

And there is not a better field or land where demons can sow better their seed than in hatred and grieve.

That's why the bible says that love will cover many sins.

Christ recognized and declared that he came to proclaim freedom to the captives, when Christ comes into the world recognizes that human beings we were tied.

I before Christian was tied by alcohol, women and everything and you with other vices and everyone reading this was not a saint, we were not all pure before meeting jesus, with emotional problems, with traumas in our childhood, to some they were abused, to others they were robbed when young, others were dumped by the wife or girlfriend, others disappointed in love, others disappointed from men, but all we humans, we are hurt.

We are all hurt because someone or something in the past hurt us and those wounds if not healed, they will continue bleeding and if they keep bleeding then you will bleed out, and then you cannot function in God's kingdom.

Christ comes to heal, to take care, to put a bondage on that gangrene, to that everything we had that we had unused because of sin, and grieve, and hate, and traumas of the past, Jesus Christ came to free us all.

And the most tragically is that there are Christians that after 5 or 10 years in Christ, they keep murmuring, they keep talking bad and slandering, they keep revealing against their spiritual leaders, this is terrible in the eyes of God.

Christ declared that Satan could not have anything against him because Christ was sinless.

Let's make a careful study of cases of demonic possession mentioned on the gospels, and we're going to learn the features, you will be amazed, about these spirits, that can open your ears, these spirits can infiltrate our mind, our mind is the field of battle.

The main target of these spirits it's our mind and you are going to see that they have access to our mind, they can talk to us without us hearing them, they can suggest ideas of hate, of killing, of lies or ideas for you killing yourself.

Any thought, any thought, read careful, of suicide in the mind of a person, comes from a demon.

Because finally, it is there to where they want to corner us, to take us to a place where you say; I cannot stand this situation, I cannot stand it anymore, it's better to end my life.

· You know a thing?

I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me.

In those desperate situations in which you find yourself, you must remember that there is an almighty God, that although you have a red sea in front that looks like that it will not open and on the back the Egyptians chasing you, at that moment cries out and fall on your knees, instead of taking you pills and shoot yourself, falls on your knees and cries out to the Lord almighty, God.

God is waiting for how we react when we find ourselves cornered.

When you lose your job, when your boyfriend leaves you, when your wife leaves you, when your husband leaves you,

· How are you going react?

· What are you going to do?

· Are you going to drink alcohol?

· Are you going to fall using drugs?

· Are you going to go with other women?

· Are you to throw yourself to a cliff with the whole car?

That silly you are, because if you do you are going straight to hell.

Then God wants us to put in action our faith, if we really believe in God, let's resort to him in our moments of despair, because he is our protection, our strength, in all our tribulations.

I will never leave you says the Lord.

In Mark 1: 25, now beginning our study and analysis of the main characteristics of these spirituals creatures that can infiltrate our minds, can infiltrate our eyes, our vocal cords, our auditory senses, they can enter to your heart, pancreas, the bowels. You’re going to be surprised of the access that they have, access of destruction in our interior life.

In Mark 1: 25 we see in first place that these spiritual beings are smart, since jesus went to them intelligently. There was in the synagogue, verse 23, a man with an unclean spirit, Mark 1: 23, that gave voices. We can see that they use the voices of people, saying;

· What you have against us Jesus Nazarene?

· Have you come to destroy us?

I know who you are, you are the Saint of God.

And Jesus rebuked him and told him to shut up and get out of him. Now, Christ is addressing his voice to a smart creature, these intelligent creatures called evil spirits, demon, recognizes that the voice of Jesus is telling him to shut up and these creatures have to submit to the voice of God.

Because greater is the one with us that the one who is in the world.

And when a Christian recognizes that authority, that God has given us about this kind of spirits, is when you really know it's not holy water, neither the scapular, nor magic words, abracadabra, for it to leave a person, these spirits the only thing they recognize is the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through US.

If you do not have the Holy Spirit, the crosses you put in your house, and the holy water you may have or the scapular that you, they are not going to listen to them, because they know who has the presence of the spirit of God inside.

In verse 34 of Mark 1 it says; healed many sick and cast out many demons and He did not let any demon speak because they knew him.

We see then, that a demon is intelligent, they recognize who Jesus is, they have the ability to take action, they can only take decisions only towards evil things.

In Matthew 8: 28 to 29 we found another case where we are going to realize that demons can speak different languages, demons are polyglots, they are much smarter than us, unfortunately towards evil nothing more, but they fear. They can talk to you in Chinese, in Portuguese, they can speak in any language.

Because if there was a demon in France it will not speak in Spanish, they speak dialects, they speak languages, they are creatures infinitely more intelligence than us.

Matthew 8: 28;

And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

We can realize by that text, that demons speak. In the time of Jesus, they spoke Aramaic. Jesus spoke Aramaic, which is a derivation of the Hebrew language. They spoke in Hebrew at this time.

They have emotions, "what do you have with us?”, they began to tremble, they have emotions just like human beings do.

They feel fear and also desires, they were scared and trembled emotionally and they also had the desire and they said to Christ; "do not cast us out and send us to the abyss" allow us to go to the pigs" and Christ gave them permission to enter the pigs, with What purpose?

What was the reason?

What lesson wanted Christ to teach us by allowing these demoniacs men were free and his demons go out and get into the pigs?

In Leviticus 11 in the First Pact or Old Testament, the bible teaches us that there are clean animals and unclean animals.

When Adam and Eve sin many animals got contaminated, scorpions, spiders, vipers etc. And God also created the flesh of all animals, then God is the cooker, the great chef, and he knows what we should eat and what we should not eat. And he forbade Jews to eat meat of pig.

And hundreds of years passed until 30, 40 years ago when was discovered that the pig has some parasites, that are called Trichinella, and cysticercus that if you eat a pork rind, and it bring a little hair, in that little black hair can come the parasite and if you eat it, it goes to your brain and it is almost impossible to remove them from the brain and the pork meat, especially when they are malnourished.

To these pigs the demons entered, because they were unclean animals and we see a rare phenomenon, when the devils entered the pigs, they ran violently down a steep place into the sea. And you might ask yourself;

This is an incongruity, is something illogical, something to ask to the demons; Why if Christ gave you permission to go into the body of the pigs, you killed the pigs?

Here is a principle, read me very carefully, in the spiritual world, Evil has two enemies, yes you read good, the evil has two enemies: Evil itself and good.

And good has only one enemy: Evil.

I want to tell you, evil itself is self-destructive, for example in a band of thieves, if the police do not they catch them, sooner or later among themselves they are going to end up killing themselves.

A person who hates, a person who is a murderer, a person who try to hurt others, sooner or later that person is going to destroy itself, or by drugs, or by the anger, or by suicide, because evil is self-destructive by itself.

This was what Christ did teach us; that evil has two enemies, the demons are self-destructive, they know not that everything what they do is to destroy themselves too.

And also we are self-destructive, the human beings.

Ask a person why you smoke?

Don't you know that when you smoke your tongue, your oesophagus, your eyelids, your palate, your gums, your teeth, are you aware of the harm you're don’t to yourself, poisoning with the cigar?

Are you a human being guided by reasoning?

Because if you are guided by reasoning, you are self-destructive.

Do you believe that people who get drunk and smoking they do not know what they are doing?

Then why they do it?

because we are by nature self-destructive.

It is a lie that reason governs us, what is governing us are feelings.

Who does not know that if you are unfaithful to your wife, the level damage of great damage, says Proverbs 6; "The one who commits adultery is lack of understanding, corrupts his soul", adultery person that cheats on his wife or husband is self-destructive.

You're going to last because sins, says the bible, "sins will take over you sooner or later. The paid for sin is death.

The moral laws of God are inexorable.

Demons need human bodies or animal bodies to rest.

What tremendous lesson is Matthew 12: 43 to 45;

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walked through dry places, seeking rest, and find none.
44 Then he say, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he find it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then go he, and take with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

places without water, that is what demons seek, the desert. When Satan tempted Christ, he did not tempt him in the city of Jerusalem, he did it in the desert.

This is very important, vital.

There is a sect called "stop suffering" very famous in Latin America, as "Pare de Sufrir", they say to put a glass of water up on the TV so that demons leaves. where did they get that?

That it is witchcraft, because they took it out of the Bible, precisely because they want to mix the Bible with their goals.

Demons can't stand water, they look for desert places and when they go out, they look for cemeteries, tombs, that's why the bible tells us, Christians do not come back anymore, you already buried the deceased, your mom, your uncle, your dog, then no longer return to visit their bodies, because they are not there anymore.

Do not take to those dead bodies, flowers!

Both the rich and the poor ignorant and pagans, because it is paganism, why they do it because?

They are doing it because traditions which we had learned. And that have no foundation in the word of God.

It is absolutely irrational, absurd, seeing it logically and philosophically.

But that's how we humans are guided, by traditions not for reason, our passions, our emotions, the Bible tells us; when you bury a person never come back. When you go to the grave, he or she does not hear you, the worms laugh at you and the devils make a party.

Because you cannot even communicate with no spirit, says the Bible, that has departed from this world.

If you try to communicate with the spirit of your mom or some else, you 're going to be tricked. first 1 Timothy 4: 1, by deceiving spirits, which will double the voice of your mother, your aunt, your child, and you will not be communicating with your mom or your son, your mom and your son are in heaven, or they are in hell.

There are no human spirits wandering in space, more than demons and infernal spirits and creatures.

In Matthew 12, this unclean spirit, gets out from a man and it says; I'll go back to my house.

You see that the human bodies they call them house.

They are so comfortable inside you, you put them already sofa, and even lemonade for breakfast you give them, every time you turn to pornography in the TV/PC.

They are like every time you walk on the street watching women, undressing them with your eyes, inside of you they begin to root and sink its claws, and take root inside of you. The eviler and more sin we have the more they cling to our nature and the harder it becomes to cast them out.

They have no rights over us more than the right that we give them, when we want to go against the laws of God.

These spirits say the Bible, that when they come again the find it unoccupied, sweep and adorned, this is a case of a person who came to church or to a Bible seminar on his side, but they are scorched and now while preaching this word of God to you, the Holy Spirit is here working in your life and in your heart, convincing you that this word is true and faithful and a demon cannot stand the word of God.

And when a demon leave it tells you "I'll wait for you outside when you are done reading this". And the demon is waiting for to leave the church, he realizes that you chose your wife and that you liked the word of God, and you want to keep hearing the word of God, then the demon says Oh! Pancho is going to go back to church, then it goes and it takes seven evil spirits worse than the first one, because pancho wants to go back to the church, but he does not want to receive Christ as his saviour.

He already swept his body, unoccupied and adorned the body, but this body was not occupied, and as long as the Spirit of God does not occupy your body and make residence within you, you are vulnerable to be occupied by a demon, spiritual creatures or evil creatures.

This is the way how they are working, in acts 16: 16 we find that they use people as mediums.

The Bible prohibits us from communicating with the dead.

Deuteronomy 18: 10 - 12;

There shall not be found among you, any one that make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that use divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Be careful that you try to communicate with a dead, because you're going to be cheated by a demon.

Acts 16: 16 says the bible;

And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, these men are the servants of the Highest God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.

You see how pervert, smart and cunning is a demon or are the demons, these spirits did not say; "do not follow him" no, these demon or evil spirits were making publicity campaign for free to Paul.

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Hillsong Worship - Touch Of Heaven

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Lyrics:

VERSE1:
How I live for the moments
Where I’m still in Your presence
All the noise dies down
Lord speak to me now
You have all my attention
I will linger and listen
I can’t miss a thing

PRE-CHORUS:
Lord I know my heart wants more of You
My heart wants something new
So I surrender all

CHORUS:
All I want is to live within Your love
Be undone by who You are
My desire is to know You deeper
Lord I will open up again
Throw my fears into the wind
I am desperate for a touch of heaven

VERSE 2:
You’re the fire in the morning
You’re the cool in the evening
The breath in my soul
The life in my bones
There is no hesitation
In Your love and affection
It’s the sweetest of all

BRIDGE:
I open up my heart to You
I open up my heart to You now
So do what only You can
Jesus have Your way in me now

Words and Music by Michael Fatkin, Hannah Hobbs & Aodhán King
© 2017 Hillsong Music Publishing

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Hillsong Worship - You Are Life

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Lyrics:

VERSE 1:
You have come
And we have found life
Everlasting
Now alive
To know Your freedom
Never ending

PRE CHORUS:
You alone have made a way for us
In Your love
You are life

CHORUS:
I’m living in the light of my Saviour
Dancing in the arms of forever
I’m singing like I’m walking on water
You are life
Alive in me

VERSE 2:
From greyest skies
To living colour
You have called us
In Your life
Your light uncovered
The world to see now

POST - CHORUS:
I give my life to follow
‘Cause Your love is all I want now
You are life
You are life
Alive in me

BRIDGE:
For all the world to find Your love
For all the world to see that You are God
Forever be lifted high

The One who holds the universe
And every beating heart across the earth
Jesus be lifted high

Words and Music by Ben Tan, Scott Ligertwood, Aodhan King & Michael Guy Chislett
© 2017 Hillsong Music Publishing

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Hillsong Worship - Who You Say I Am

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Lyrics:

VERSE 1:
Who am I that the highest King
Would welcome me
I was lost but He brought me in
Oh His love for me
Oh His love for me

CHORUS:
Who the Son sets free
Oh is free indeed
I’m a child of God
Yes I am

VERSE 2:
Free at last
He has ransomed me
His grace runs deep
While I was a slave to sin
Jesus died for me
Yes He died for me

CHORUS 2:
Who the Son sets free
Oh is free indeed
I’m a child of God
Yes I am
In my Father’s house
There’s a place for me
I’m a child of God
Yes I am

BRIDGE:
I am chosen
Not forsaken
I am who You say I am
You are for me
Not against me
I am who You say I am

Words and Music by Ben Fielding & Reuben Morgan
© 2017 Hillsong Music Publishing

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Hillson Let Go

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Official music video for Let Go, a new single from Hillsong Young & Free.

Let Go
Words and Music by Aodhan King, Ben Tan & Laura Toggs
© 2018 Hillsong Music Publishing
CCLI: 7108455

VERSE:
I close my eyes and colours fly
There’s no hiding from Your grace
I can’t deny Your heart for mine
And its unrelenting chase

PRE-CHORUS:
I was on the edge of deception
Caught up in my own hesitation
Until Your love took over me

CHORUS:
So I let go and I let love
Show me life like it’s supposed to be
An oasis here awaits us
All the freedom I’ll ever need
Now I’m alive
When I let go then I find life

VERSE:
The higher way is calling me
To a life unlike before
The Father’s heart is beckoning
And I can’t resist no more

PRE-CHORUS 2:
Lead me in the ways of devotion
I don’t want to get caught in the
motions
My heart is only for You Lord
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What Religion Will Not Easily Tells You

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Days ago I asked somebody;
Have you receive the Holy Spirit?

Even though the person was dress up church / religion. He answered me;
What? what is that of receiving the Holy Spirit?

Me - Have you read the book of Acts chapter 19: verses 2-6?

Person - hmm? I don't remember

Me - Verse 2, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Person - We don't do that

Me - So in what name do you baptize the believer?

Person - in the name of God, Mary, Apostles, etc.

Me - You as a priest, you know we should as the Bible says and not as church says, because hundred of thousands of churches are in the world, but only one true God. The issue is that church people accommodate church ritualism for their own "wealth been", of the institution, and not for the people, reason why young people get sick and tired of church, because you don't teach them bible, you teach them church, and church is a place to go to, but God is the person, the power to come in.

Person - Yes but we have done this for hundreds of years, we cannot change now everything, just because you said it.

Me - Is not me, is the Bible saying it, read!

So the person got away from me, mad, but confused, kind but confronted.

People, read the Bible, don't let others to read it for you, because they might add things just to manipulate your faith to their convenience. God didn't bring us religion, he gave us life, freedom and peace, but these things are not good for religion because, to where all the gold and silver and masterpieces displayed in church will go?

Well, most probably those man made artifacts will be sold and feed the hunger, the poors which are many, paradoxically around the church.

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Have you receive the Holy Spirit?

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Days ago I asked somebody; 

Have you receive the Holy Spirit?

Even though the person was dress up church / religion. He answered me;

What? what is that of receiving the Holy Spirit?

Me - Have you read the book of Acts chapter 19: verses 2-6?

Person - hmm? I don't remember

Me - Verse 2, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Person - We don't do that

Me - So in what name do you baptize the believer?

Person - in the name of God, Mary, Apostles, etc.

Me - You as a priest, you know we should as the Bible says and not as church says, because hundred of thousands of churches are in the world, but only one true God. The issue is that church people accommodate church ritualism for the on wealth been of the institution, and not for the people, reason why young people get sick and tired of church, because you don't teach them bible, you teach them church, and church is a place to go to, but go is the person, the power to come in.

Person - Yes but we have done this for hundreds of years, we cannot change now everything, just because you said it.

Me - Is not me, is the Bible saying it, read!

So the person got away from me, mad, but confused, kind but confronted.

People, read the Bible, don't let others to read it for you, because they might add things just to manipulate your faith to their convenience. God didn't bring us religion, he gave us life, freedom and peace, but theses things are not good for religion because, to where all the gold and silver and masterpieces displayed in church will go?

Well, most probably those man made artifacts will be sold and feed the hunger, the poors which are many, paradoxically around the church.

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Hillson, Love Won't Let Me Down

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Lyrics:

When I was searching
Your love was never far
You made a way to get to me
You were the whisper leading me to Your heart
Forever I belong to You
Now I can see clearly My God You are for me
You won’t let go
Your love won’t let me down
And I know it’s true
Yeah I know that Your love is all around I believe in You
Holding on to You
Holding on and I know You will never fail
I want all of You
You never change Your love won’t let me down
Love won’t let me down
Love won’t let me (down)
Love won’t let me (down)
Right when I need You
You listen as I pray
You’d leave the ninety-nine for me
You paint the sky with promises of Your grace
So I would find my way to You
Now I can see clearly My God You are for me
You won’t let go
Your love won’t let me down
And I know it’s true
Yeah I know that Your love is all around I believe in You
Holding on to You
Holding on and I know You will never fail
I want all of You
You never change Your love won’t let me down
Love won’t let me down
Love won’t let me (down)
Love won’t let me (down)
Holding on and I know You will never fail
I want all of You
You never change Your love won’t let me down
Love won’t let me

Songwriters: Alexander Pappas / Michael Fatkin
Love Won't Let Me Down lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group

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Solomon Give Pray

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Solomon was a Prayer, but it took him some time to give an honest pray to God.

The devil has no power to contain the prayer. The prayer is spiritually nuclear in its nature; It is the pure matter of God and his people. The prayer is outside the influence of Satan. He has no power to divert or influence the course of the prayer to the throne of God after that has been done. Once a prayer has been unleashed, it bounces around eternity perpetually, burning in front of the throne of God as incense.
That's why the prayer is so spiritually dangerous for Satan. It exceeds the limitations of the mortal world. The prayer is immortal; it has neither limits nor lines that limits it and has a possibility of reaching the maximum potential. The highest to 10 that the devil can expect is that they do not pray and most of this strategy is to dissuade you totally from praying, since a prayer never made has zero chances of being answered ever.

Are your prayers 'prepared as incense'?

The covenant of the Law that had been concluded with the nation of Israel required burning incense every day (Exodus 30: 7, 8).

Does the use of incense have a special meaning?
Yes, for the psalmist sang: "That my prayer is prepared like incense before God, the lifting of the palms of my hands, like the offering of grain at evening" (Psalm 141: 2).
In the book of Revelation, the apostle John sees those who are near the heavenly throne of God with golden bowls full of incense. "And - says the inspired story - the incense means the prayers of the saints." (Revelation 5: 8) Thus, burning incense of sweet fragrance symbolized the acceptable prayers offered by the children of Jehovah day and night (1 Thessalonians 3:10, Hebrews 5: 7).

Wisdom in prayer

In 1st of kings chapter 3 we are going to analyze and we will develop this article the power of prayer.

But before entering this passage the bible teaches us that wisdom is one of the greatest blessings that any believer can possess. In proverbs chapter 3: 13 to 18 wrote Solomon;

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom

In other words, you have to look for it because, to find something we have to look for it. The one who finds it and who gets it.
The intelligence, because its it's much better to find it and have wisdom that all the silver and that all the gold that could you one day pile up, more precious is that the precious stones and everything you can wish, for it can not be compared to wisdom.
Once I asked god, oh god why you say that is more important the wisdom that the money?
Because most people would say; good I prefer a thousand times have more money than more wisdom.

And the answer we will find it through of the development of this article, because, I'm going to give you an advance, if you have money and you do not have wisdom You have to spend money, you will use it in things and in illusory vanities that will become a curse for your life.

People who have money and do not they know how to use it the money becomes a curse for their lives, but if you have wisdom before having money, when you have money you will know how to use it, where to use it and at what moment use it.
Then when we have wisdom before...
How many you have a career before having money?
Before getting married?

We started having the ability to know how to use what God has given.

Wisdom has a definition, wisdom can be defined as the ability to be able to understand and discern what to do, how to do it and when to do it.
We could also say that wisdom is the ability to know how to apply knowledge. Knowledge is not given by the bible, however if I have that knowledge just intellectual, and if I do not put that knowledge into practice what am I?

I know I can not have wisdom, wisdom comes into my life when I practice what I know, because there are many of you who knows a lot of bible, maybe, or a lot of theology, however, do not live what they know, saying one thing and doing something else and that's when the personality begins to disintegrate, when we we say one thing and we do something else, our mind starts to divide. In psychology is called schizophrenia, which means, mind divided.
Before which it was defined as schizophrenia, James chapter 1 said, 2000 years ago, the double-minded man, translated the double-soul man, the Hebrew nephesh which is translated as soul, is inconstant in all its ways, a person with a divided mind is not the same at work or in the bus, neither in the store nor in the supermarket, neither at school nor at home.

On one has a personality with his or her friends and in another moment another personality in the church, there are people who have two or three personalities, because they are disintegrated, they act one way in front of their friends in another way in church and in another way back home.
Here no one is around, but here in the church they kneel, Holy, holy saint, but in his/her family they are another thing, they are not one piece, and God wants you in one piece.

In Job 28: 28 says the bible; Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

what is that which makes a person wise, fear God. What does it mean to fear God?
To be afraid of him?
No!

Being afraid of God takes you away from God, but fear God gets you close to him.
That the difference between fear God and being afraid of God.

Do not confuse that.

When I have fear of God, I come to God and I also respect my wife, I respect my finances, pay my taxes and try to behave responsibly. why? Because I have fear of God in my heart.

Many of you, they do what you do because you do not have fear of god. Many of you when nobody sees you, mostly when we are young, we kiss, we hug, we abuse the caresses and we call ourselves Christians, and we do it because many of us have no fear of God.

Many men travel and when they come they reach the hotel and since there is no wife or nobody else, they they rent a porno movie, why they do it? because they think nobody sees them, but when you are aware that God you see you, you would not do the things that you do If you had the fear of God.

That is the why Solomon, the wise Solomon, was worried for being a wise king, was young he had just to consolidate his power, he had just put down an internal rebellion of the government of his brother Adonias, eliminating his enemies and the nation of israel was now perfectly unified by a leadership that was him and there was peace everywhere.
His father david he had just died and he was now sitting on the throne and Solomon when he is sitting on the throne, feeling his immaturity, his disability and his lack of experience, asks God for wisdom to discern and to govern such a big people.

When Solomon began to exercise the political and diplomatic commitment he created an affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, as he took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her to the city of david. Meanwhile finishing the building of his house and the house of jehovah and the walls around jerusalem. Solomon while entering his reign he immediately knew that he needed egypt, that needed syria, jordania those nations from around were very important to have a good diplomatic and political relationship.
He didn't want war, then Solomon, since in that time countries made alliances by giving the daughter of the kings to the son of the other king or the king himself, so marriages in times of Solomon were by political commitment, not necessarily Solomon fell in love with the daughter of pharaoh or maybe he didn't even meet her, but simply by being the daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt and marry Solomon king of Israel, Egypt and Israel made peace, they made a commitment through the marriage.
When Solomon acquires the commitment by politics and diplomacy with the daughter of Pharaoh, Solomon was breaking a law, that says in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17: 17, which God had given in the Sinai mountain to Moses for the rulers;

He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

God always was against true polygamy always, always.
The fact that Solomon and the fact that also David has had several women, does not imply that it was the will of God.

Because Solomon knew that the will of God is double.

The will of God is permissive and the God's will is directive.

God gives you permission to get married with a least likely person, God allows you to become a partner of a person who is not Christian, but that does not mean that by God allowing yourself to do that whatever you do, that does not mean it was your His will that you married that man or that woman, because you became infatuated with doing that something and God allow us to take up the consequences of what we have done and of what we have sown, the harvest is of us, but it does not mean that it was the will directive of God.
God's will directive is; I have for you a woman that is going to be faithful, that is going to be your wife the mother of your children, wait for the time in which I will bring it to you.
If you get impatient and get married with the wrong one and you live hell with her then you can't go saying, Well, God wanted that I married Jhon.

Let me tell you one thing about God, Yes, God let you married with John, and of course He could prevent it, but if God would have prevented it, God would have violated your freedom, your free will and we would no longer be true people, moral agents, we would be as robots and we would be puppets of a god that does whatever he wants. But God has given us free will to us, to be responsible for the decisions and consequences that is what we will carry.

Now, let's see then how did Solomon ended, precisely for these wrong decisions.

The people made the sacrifices in the high places, where regularly the pagans did their sacrifices, and God never wanted that Israel sacrifice in high places, but until Solomon finished the temple and sacrifices were offered in the place where God wanted, them to be offered. God allowed them to carry out sacrifices in the high places.

1 Kings 3: 2, Because there was no a house built in the name of the jehovah, until those times.

Solomon had a capacity in second place as a builder, if you read the entire first book of kings, is amazing, incredible architecture, the beauty of the decoration of the Temple of Solomon, of the paintings that he sent to bring, his throne had twelve golden lions on the stairs, his throne where Solomon sat, was pure gold.
There has never ever been in history, nor bill gates, neither the Mr. slim, nor the Kennedys, neither the two of them nor any millionaire, has had the money that has had, and the wealthy of the King Solomon.

But at the same time that Solomon has had the unimaginable riches that anyone could have reach. Solomon at the same time was the wisest man of all the history that existed, the wisest man.
Imagine, he had millions of trillions of wealth and at the same time he had the wisdom and at the end of his life, he put it aside, and he gets away from God, apostated god and then come back to God and write the book of ecclesiastes.
Which is the compendium of wisdom after the biggest proverbs of the whole bible, the ecclesiastes book.

Now we're going to start analyze this prayer that Solomon aware of his immaturity begins to say to God.

1 Kings 3: 5; At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.

To how many of you have God appeared?
We can all say true to none, but this is a partial truth because every time you open the bible God appears to you.

We no longer have visible manifestations of God, nor audible, as the times before the old testament, but now we have all the God's counsel in the bible, all that God have to tell us he is already in the bible. After the bible, there is no nothing else that God has to tell us.

That's why the bible is a sealed, the one who add something to these words or the one that takes out something away from these words, says apocalypse 22, the curses in this book will fall up on that person, because when we hear today that so many things about prophecy; the Lord told me that a girl with dress is the girl I am getting married to, or the man told me that from this church are going to run rivers of living water, and the Lord says that a revival is going to come to guatemala, in spain, etc.

To who the Lord said that?
Who knows?
Maybe that person ate pizza at midnight and they start saying things that are not in the bible, they assume that God said it, but God did not say it.

Because prophecy it is not to announce the future, prophesying means to eat this word for when you speak, you speak this word.
The person who preach the word is a prophet, a prophet is not a person who says this is going to happen or this other thing is going to happen, those are guessing.

Do not confuse prophecy with guessing.

Now in the old testament, there were seers, to they were given prophecies of the future, everything that is going to happen is already written in the bible.
Take care when people says, is going to tremble in February 2020, the Lord told me that at 10:00 in the morning. Be careful brothers and sisters in Christ of all these false prophecies. To light and to testimony, if it is not in the word of God for them they is not dawned, says the prophet Isaiah.

Then Solomon, has the appearance of God in dreams and says God to Solomon, ask whatever you want me to give you.

Wow not even Santa Claus. Here we are before the creator, the God of the heavens and the earth, and that we see in first place, is an invitation from God that he makes us, not only to Solomon, but also to us. In the New Testament, call out to me and I will answer you, He says in Jeremiah 33: 3, and I will show you things big and hidden that you do not know.

Now here we could immediately assume, if God appears to me saying; ask me what you want, I might ask a Cadillac, the latest model Lord, a house, a beautiful woman, all these are the things that the world would ask when they do not have a heart for God. But what Solomon did is what will teach us that God was so pleased, of what Solomon asked, that God gave him all that.

Then we must understand that when we pray according to the will of God, He will grant the requests we have made him. The first thing we see is the true incentive to pray, which is one of the thing that should motivate us to pray, the God we are asking is a generous God.

James 1: 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

And whoever lacks wisdom, ask God who gives it over abundantly.

Ephesians 3:20, Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.

This is very important, because I know a lot people saying; oh Lord please, and please and they believe God is over there far away from them, and ask, and they scream and they throw themselves and wallow on the floor and Ephesians 3:20 says that what we ask God he responds according to the power which is where? outside or inside?

According to the power that acts in within us

These power within us is the holy spirit, I just I have to kneel in the secret of my prayer and enter into communion with God and he is always hearing what I say, he is inside of me and I do not have to look for external manifestations of God, because the power is inside of me and within me, the holy spirit.

If I have a relationship of camaraderie with the Holy Spirit and I walk in holiness with God, whatever God puts inside of me He is going to give it, because God pleases me when we ask according to his will.

Although we are not kings or rulers like Solomon was, with the same level of responsibility that he had.

Is it not the same God that Solomon was approaching to in the Old Testament?

Juan 5:14 - 15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

If I have a child and 10 years, who tells me; daddy buy me a BMW! will I but it for him?
If I do it, I do an evil act more than a good one.

Now if he starts to know the wisdom from 10 or 15 years that he does not have the maturity to be able to use the thing, than he would not ask me that.

The he would tell me, Dad give me a car or a watch according to what you consider I should use.

It is important that we know which God's will for our lives, and how we can know it?
By reading the bible.
Do you do it daily?
Do you try to memorize few verses?
Or you only knows John 3:16?

If you do not memorize the word of God, the Word of God you have to save it in your mind, if you do not save it in your mind then you can not meditate in it, you can not think about it, murmur on it, reflect on it, ponder on it, because we need memorize it, chew it, assimilate it, and save it our heart, and there it will remains and length of days and years of life will increase in you and wisdom will begin to manifest itself in your life.

Christianity is not going to a church only on Sunday nine and a half to eleven in the morning.

Christianity is to believe what God says.

We have a father who wants to give us everything, but because he does not give us what we ask him, with our tastes, we ask him when we need him, when we have a tragedy, when there is a moral problem, when we get sick, but...

The previous days or months have we had fellowship with him? Have you loved him with all your heart?
Have you kept holy your love to your wife?
Have you bless your children?
Do you teach your children the word of God?
Are you honest in your business?

If no, then god can not give it you, because if you fail in the little will fail also in the big.

If God blesses you and give you what you want, and help you, he would spoil you, because you have not the wisdom to live and have what he would like to give to you.

Reflect and meditate deep on this saints of God.

Now let's see the foundation of prayer, the assurance that God is going to hear us.

God cannot be mock we have to understand that.

When God told Solomon, ask me what you want, Solomon answered Him;

First he said to God; you did great mercy to your servant David, my father. First of all Solomon remember before any asking, him remember God what he had done with his father previously, he says; because he walked in front of you truly in justice and with righteousness of heart in front of you you.
Second, remember that his father he received from God what he received because David walked in integrity, what is integrity?
Do as we say we will.
Live as we preach.

If you preach one thing and live another thing you're not an integral person, whole, you are falling apart, you're disintegrating, your mind is being dividing and can be divided in two parts, in three parts, up to four parts and there is where the psychologists come around to tell everybody, there are multiple disorders in the human personality.

There are people who have up to five personalities and that consider as psychopaths, who already have to be hospitalized in hospitals for mentally illness.

In reality there was never a problem in their minds, the problem was that they never solved their past sins, no they wanted to hear the voice of God in their hearts.

Third, says Solomon, and you have reserved this your great mercy, in that you gave him a son to sit on his throne as it is happening on this day. Solomon before asking anything to God remembers Him, that the fact that he is sitting where he he's sitting, like a king, it's not because he deserve it, he was immature, had not done nothing for god, he was just starting to build the temple, but Solomon says; I am like I am, and I am as the king of Israel because you made a pact with my father, and for the mercy that you had to my father I'm sitting here. I do not deserve to be sitting here, I am cause of the mercy that you had to my father.

And this is something very important because many of you are where you are because of the prayers of your mother, for your father's prayers, maybe the prayers of your grandfather who you did not get to know him, but God has promised, the generation of the righteous will be blessed.

The generation of the righteous will be blessed and their children will inherit the earth. psalm 112: 1 - 2.

What does this mean?
That even if we have still children that we see they still do not come to the path, I know of many great men of God, many missionaries, who died and their children were not Christians and they got saved after their fathers died, but God always fulfilled his word.

The fact that we die and we don't reach to see many of us, to all of our children saved, does not imply that God is not going to fulfill his word.

God is going to keep his word and our children, they are blessed and although right now many belong to Devil, God is going to snatch them from his claws and you know why? because the mercy that God has with us, his parents that we walk with Him.

But if you are not a father who walk with God, if you are not a faithful father with God, if you do not walk in holiness, these promises can not have fulfillment.

The mercy of God is up on those who fear Him and about them he will make known his pacts.

Finally, the mercy that God had for his father and the fact that he is where he is, that made him unworthy; You have put me for king instead of my father and I am young and I do not know how to enter or go out, and your servant is in the midst of your people to which you chose, a people big, that can not be counted nor can be numbered. Solomon finally begins to pray because when remembering the mercy with his father, he knows that what God says he does it.

What makes us prayers?

God's faithfulness!

In Ephesians 3: 20 and he who is powerful to do things much more abundantly!

You ask God something, he is going to answer you with something far much more beyond that what you imagined He was going to answer.

God is faithful but God does not give you things just like that.

But if you do not work, if you do not plant, then do not expect to have harvest, because you are not going to harvest in life what you had never sown, in what you had never worked.

Solomon begins to say to God, I'm young, I do not know how to get up, I do not know how to govern, I do not have the maturity and I want please, Lord, the ability to be able to govern.

When God told Solomon; ask me what you want, God was testing the heart of Solomon, and when we come in prayer and we ask God, for the abundance of heart speaks your mouth.

What you ask God denotes and manifests what is really that you want in your heart.

Now the Big secret why God answered him this prayer!

In verse 7 and 8, Solomon recognizes that he does not have the ability to govern such a people large or enumerate it, for such a large crowd, from which he begins to to recognize that he needed something important.
Then the first thing Solomon asks God was; give to your servant, give me an understood heart.

The word understood is ¨chama¨ what it means is to hear or listen. Give me a heart that can listen to the people, give me a heart that knows how to listen to judge your people and to discern between good and bad.

See carefully what Solomon is asking God, Lord let me introduce myself to you people. A pastor need to give counseling, to hear.

We need discernment and discernment is a capacity that the holy spirit gives to be able distinguish between good and evil, between a lie and falsehood, between what is real and what is not real, and this capacity is not given by any book, school, no seminar, it is given by God to those who have learned to before listen to Him.

When you come to the Bible to whom are you listening?
To God!
When you are in contact with bible to seek the truth of God, automatically the holy spirit, makes the God's word a discernment, and you begin to manifest a capacity in your life, so that when are you listening to something you have the capacity for judging with correct attitude.

Then Solomon asks for the ability to to be able to judge the people, and here is the center of all this wording, the main motive whereby God gives Solomon so much more of what he imagined, the reason was because Solomon´s motive was the welfare of the people of God.

As long as God sees that we love his people, as long as God sees that you love people, that you love your brothers in Christ, because if you're not going to love your brothers in Christ, if between us we do not love ourselves as we expect, then, to then dare to ask something to God.

If between us we turn the guns against each other and we attack each other, and you attack that preacher, and you attack that brother, and that coordinator, and we have that attitude of always authoritarianism, and always superb, and always the same interests, and I, and I, I am the king of " I "...

How can you then expect to have wisdom, intelligence and spiritual discernment?
You will never have them because God wants us to be humble with each other, that we forgive each other, that we accept with all our shortcomings to each other, that we we tolerate and we endure like Christ, he forgave us and he hold on to us on the cross and if God with all the sack of atrocities and sins that we brought, and they were put on the cross, now God ask you, go and you do the same with the rest of people.

Love my people says the Lord, because with the love that you love them in the world the world will know that you are my disciples.

If we are among ourselves with jealousy, and envy and criticism, and slander, and curses, and this and the other, as carnal people, who they are going to stay in the desert, they will never enter the promise, they will never have their petitions, will never have an answer to their prayers, because they never wanted to die to themselves, they will never have wisdom, they will sail always on different waters, like weathervanes in life, carried by all winds of doctrines, never take the rudder in your hands, get on your boat, never having the right course, always go wherever the wind goes.

Like sailboats without an engine, without wisdom, without convictions, because they never loved the people that God loved.

What matter the most to God, is love.

Now there are diversity of gifts, but the spirit is the same.
There are diversity of ministries but the Lord is the same.
There are diversity activities but God who makes all things is all the same.

Very important, but to be Christians, who have no gifts?
Well, we all have gifts, but to each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for advantage of the word, for profit of the word, that means for the benefit of others.

My gifts are not for me, they are for the others, to build you up, that with them, Paul says to the church, please do not speak in tongues because the church if they all get to speak tongues without an interpreter, and if there is no interpreter shut up. There are many churches currently they have not understood the use of spiritual gifts, they are never for our edification, the tongues are for the edification of others by the spirit is given to them for their profit thier edification.

Says Corinthians 1:14, The prophecy on the verse 3, speaks to the men for edification, on verse 4, the one who speaks in a strange language so he does not know builds, but the one who prophesies, he or she edifies the church.

So I would like that everyone speak in tongues, but more who prophesied, because greater is the one that speak in the prophecies that the one who praises in tongues, unless there is an interpreted for the church to receive edification.

So also you who crave spirituals gifts, seek to abound in them for edification of the church.

More than seven times in a chapter says pablo the gifts are for others, for the common good, ask for others, God give me wisdom, not to be wise by myself but to educate my family.

Father the give me wisdom to be a pastor and be a pastor who knows how to advise in order to bless your people.

Give me properties or give me material goods according to you, for edification of your people.

When we have in the heart the people of God, God blesses over abundantly.

Because nobody lives for himself, we live for everyone else. The secret of happiness is to live for the others, there is the secret for happiness. Your house is to be use for the glory of God, your car use it to transport brothers, use it for the kingdom of God, your money use it for the kingdom of God.

God is not against you having savings or money, but do not have just to save more than what is right, you might become avaricious. When you can use it for the glory of God, God begins to pour out more abundantly all those things that you craves, because he seeks instruments through which he can channel his grace and his blessings for others.

Abraham from the beginning of the bible God said; I'm going to bless you so that you be a blessing to the nations.

Everything what God gives us is not to be throw away, God gives me to give.

God give to give it.

If God gives me and I continuing saving and not giving, then the devil comes along, the devourer, and he take that, what belonged to God.

He begins to steal what belonged to God, because we have not understood that wisdom is for blessing the people of God.

Thank you Lord, because you are immensely generous and good for all your people, in such a way you have loved us that you gave your son, and if you sacrificed your son, how will you not give us all things, if we ask you.
But asking not for to spend on our delights for our own interests, but when we ask according to your will.

And what is your will?

Your people, for whom you gave your blood in the cross, the sheeps, those that you bought with your blood on the cross of Calvary, the price for their souls, is for those you want that we live.

When we love a person, when we hug a brother or sister, we are hugging Christ, we are embracing Christ, we are caressing Christ.

Christ because that person is your brother and your sister, Christ lives within them.
Now when you do your prayers, clean yourself out, out of personal vanities, and reach out to God accordingly to his will.

God bless you!

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