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0:00Let's go to the biblical text. There it
0:02is. Look, First John, chapter 1, it
0:04says this. This is the message we have
0:09heard from him. Who is he? Christ. This
0:14is the message we have heard from him.
0:17Because last night, remember that John
0:19says, "I have touched him, I have seen
0:22him, I have heard Christ?" Because he
0:24lived with Christ, right? This is the
0:27message we have heard from him. and we
0:30announce it to you. And what is the
0:33message? God is light and in him there
0:36is no darkness. If we say that we have
0:41fellowship with him, with Christ,
0:42because many people say, "I am good
0:44with Christ, I have already given my
0:46life to Christ, I am a Christian." Then
0:49John comes and says, "If we say we have
0:52fellowship with him, but walk in
0:55darkness, well, we lie, we do not
0:58practice the truth. But if we walk in
1:03the light as he is, Jesus is in the
1:06light, what is the proof that we are in
1:08the light? We have fellowship with one
1:12another and the blood of Jesus Christ,
1:17his son, cleanses us from all sin. This
1:20is the text. Now we are going to
1:24understand phrase by phrase, word by
1:26word what God wants to tell you tonight
1:29. Because there is something wonderful.
1:32The Bible is truth, it was written in
1:35ancient times, thousands of years ago.
1:38The other day I was traveling with a
1:40journalist in Brazil, on the plane, a
1:43famous journalist sat next to me and
1:45when I saw him, I knew him. I, I know
1:48who he is. I see him on television
1:50every day, a commentator, a thoughtful
1:52man, he writes for the biggest
1:54newspapers, magazines in the country.
1:58And I felt somewhat excited because I
1:59said, while I go from São Paulo to
2:01Brasilia, I will have the opportunity
2:03to talk with him. And indeed we began
2:06to talk and he found out that I was a
2:09pastor, because I told him I was a
2:11pastor. And he says to me," Pastor,
2:13since I am here with a pastor, I am
2:15going to ask you a question that has
2:17always intrigued me. Do you believe in
2:19the Bible? Isn't that right? Because he
2:21is an atheist, he is an atheist
2:22journalist and he doesn't deny he is an
2:23atheist. He declares in all his
2:24writings that he is an atheist, he does
2:26not believe in God. So, he says to me,
2:28"Do you believe in the Bible?" No. I
2:30say, "Yes." Now he says, answer me this
2:33question. How is it that you believe a
2:37book that was written centuries ago—
2:41because when the Bible was written
2:44there was no internet, no cell phones,
2:48there was no technology like today,
2:51there were no cars, no planes, not even
2:55ships. When the Bible was written, man
2:59lived in the desert. So, how can a book
3:04written so many years ago? Back then,
3:09nobody wore pants, nobody wore suits,
3:12everyone wore robes; nobody wore shoes,
3:15they wore sandals. The Bible was
3:19written in that time. How can such an
3:23ancient book be useful today? If the
3:27world has changed, culture has changed.
3:33I tell you, well, it’s easy. The
3:38other day I heard you, I told you,
3:41commenting on a terrible murder,
3:44because over a millionaire father's
3:47inheritance, two men fought and one
3:51killed his brother. And I listened to
3:57this journalist commenting on the news
4:00and saying it's savage to kill your
4:02brother for money, for cold cash. And I
4:06took the opportunity to say, "Do you
4:08remember when you commented on the news
4:11that a brother killed his brother?" He
4:14said, "Yes." The Bible tells of a
4:20brother who killed his brother, and
4:25today a brother kills his brother. What
4:30is the difference between the man from
4:32back then and the man of today? Back
4:35then there was loneliness, sadness,
4:37desperation. Today there is loneliness,
4:40sadness, desperation. Why is the Bible
4:43still valid despite having been written
4:46so many years ago? Because the human
4:50being has not changed. There were
4:53family problems back then, today there
4:55are family problems too. Children
4:58rebelled against their parents back
5:00then. Today they do it too. Men
5:03betrayed each other in that time. Today
5:06they betray each other too. There was
5:09injustice from rulers against the
5:11people in that time. Today there is
5:13that as well. Well then, the human
5:17being hasn't changed, the human heart
5:20hasn't changed, and the Bible's message
5:23is valid today because the human being
5:26hasn't changed. And this journalist,
5:30who is a thinker, says to me, "Pastor,
5:33it makes sense, it makes sense. I am
5:39going to read a Bible for culture's
5:43sake to see." I told him, "Look,
5:46that’s good, it's just that the
5:47flight lasts an hour and a bit, we
5:49already arrived in Brasilia, I said
5:50goodbye to him." But dear ones, the
5:55Bible is the word of God. And the
5:59beautiful thing about the word of God
6:02is that everything He wrote, God wrote
6:04through the men He chose back then, is
6:07valid for you today. That is why, when
6:12you read the Bible, you cannot read it
6:14like a book of past history. You have
6:18to read the Bible and try to extract
6:21what it is that God is telling me here.
6:26Because each one of you is a different
6:29world. Perhaps one of you has a loved
6:33one in the hospital. Let's see, at this
6:36moment, how many of you have a loved
6:38one in the hospital? Raise your hand.
6:41There must be some. You see? There they
6:43are. There must be. But I don't have a
6:48loved one in the hospital right now.
6:52But the Bible is going to speak to them
6:55. tonight, but I may have another
6:59problem and the Bible will speak to me.
7:04If you are 3 months behind on rent and
7:06don't know how to pay, the Bible will
7:08speak to you tonight. If you have lost
7:13a 3-year-old child to leukemia and you
7:15ask yourself, "But what did my little
7:18child do wrong to die? God is unjust.
7:22Well, the Bible is going to speak to
7:24you tonight. If you have problems and
7:27can't sleep at night, are tormented,
7:29and toss and turn in bed, the Bible
7:30will speak to you. The beauty is that
7:34the Bible answers all the concerns of
7:36the human being. For that reason,
7:39welcome to Bible study.
7:42Now we are going to analyze the text to
7:44see what God is telling us. John says
7:46it this way. This is the message we
7:48have heard from him. In other words, he
7:52is going to preach, because I already
7:54told you that the epistle of John is a
7:56sermon. This is the message we have
7:59heard from him. I have learned from
8:01John. That is why when I come in here,
8:05I don't say like John, this is the
8:08message I have received from God. No,
8:11but I open the Bible and by opening the
8:14Bible and reading the biblical text and
8:16starting to preach from the biblical
8:19text, in other words, without saying it
8:22, but with the attitude I am telling
8:24you about, tonight I am not going to
8:27speak what I want. This is the message
8:31I have received from him and this is a
8:33message for all preachers. How many of
8:37you brothers here preach from time to
8:39time? Raise your hand. Oh, how good.
8:44And what is the advice, the challenge
8:46from God? You cannot preach what you
8:49want to preach. You have to preach what
8:52the word of God says. You have the duty
8:56to open the text and study the text and
8:58meditate and pray and ask God to
9:00illuminate you to understand the
9:02message of the text. That is why John
9:06says," This is the message we have
9:07heard from him. "In other words, what
9:11he is about to say has authority, has
9:13weight, has sense, has meaning. Why?
9:18Because what he is about to say does
9:20not originate in man, but is a message
9:23that comes from God. Many people ask me
9:29," Pastor, when you preach, why are
9:31there so many people listening? "
9:33Precisely for that reason, because I do
9:36not speak what I want. When I teach the
9:40theology of preaching to pastors—I
9:44will be in Washington next week giving
9:48classes for pastors. I tell them that
9:52we preachers are slaves to the word,
9:55meaning we are at the service of the
9:58word. We preachers cannot take a verse
10:03and make it say what we want it to say,
10:06but we have the mission, the duty, to
10:09understand the verse to preach; not
10:13what I want to preach supported by the
10:16verse, but to preach what the verse
10:19says, even if I have to strip myself of
10:22my ideas, because God is sovereign. But
10:26there is another thought. Look at how
10:28each phrase has an idea. This is the
10:31message we have heard from him. And we
10:34announce to you tonight. You are going
10:39to receive the message from him, from
10:41the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the
10:44message you are going to receive from
10:46God. But if God's message reaches you
10:51and dies in you, it will not help you
10:54at all. That is why John says," This is
10:59the message we have received from him
11:01and that we announce to you. "Because
11:05the word of God will only help you when
11:09you receive it and pass it on. But if
11:14you receive it and keep it to yourself,
11:17the word of God does not help you at
11:19all. There are people who say," Pastor,
11:23I read the Bible, I read the Bible, but
11:26it does not help me at all. Nothing
11:28changes in my life. "I ask them," How
11:31many times have you shared the word
11:33that has come to you? "" Let's see,
11:36show me where the person is that you
11:40are teaching the word of God. "" Ah, no
11:43, pastor, I don't have anyone. "Then,
11:46now I understand why the word of God
11:48does nothing in your life. Because if
11:52the word of God reaches you and you
11:54keep it to yourself, it does you no
11:57good. The word of God only does you
12:01good when you receive it and
12:03immediately go and share it. Because it
12:08works like this, like a lake. If water
12:14flows in and water flows out, the lake
12:17water will always stay clean. But if
12:23water flows in and does not flow out,
12:27before long, the lake water will become
12:31contaminated. That is why the word of
12:36God will only help you. And the word of
12:39God can perform wonders and miracles in
12:41your life. But for that to happen, it
12:44has to come in and it has to go out.
12:47You have to receive it and you have to
12:49share it. Do you want the word of God
12:53to work wonders in your life this week?
12:57Look, let me tell you one thing, I am
12:59not a prophet nor the son of a prophet,
13:02but I tell you with all the certainty
13:04and conviction that Christ gives me in
13:07his word, this week God can perform
13:09miracles in your life. But you have to
13:14share what you are receiving. But if
13:18you listen and keep it to yourself, it
13:20will do you no good, because the water
13:23of life that reaches you will stagnate
13:25in your heart. So, tomorrow, if you
13:29want God to work his wonders in you
13:32this week, tomorrow you must look for
13:34another person, a friend, a neighbor, a
13:37coworker, a relative by phone,
13:39personally, and you must tell them:"
13:41Look, last night I learned this and it
13:44really helped me. "And when you are
13:48transmitting, what happens when you
13:50transmit? You are in a position for God
13:54to give you more. But if God gives to
13:57you and you don't transmit, why would
13:58He give you more? Everything is
14:00stagnating inside you. Now I am going
14:03to tell you a story. When I was a young
14:06pastor, there was a sister in the
14:09church who would visit me every day,
14:12and sometimes she would arrive at 6 in
14:15the morning and knock on my door, but
14:17she didn't understand that I was giving
14:20conferences at that time. I didn't have
14:24a car, I was a young pastor. The
14:26conferences ended at 10 at night. I had
14:29to take two buses to get to my house.
14:32When I got home, it was already
14:34midnight, so I could sleep until 7 or 8
14:39to get up, but she was already knocking
14:42on my door at 6 and would say: since
14:45the pastor doesn't visit the sheep, the
14:48sheep is going to visit the pastor. And
14:53she would knock on my door and want me
14:55to pray. You know there are brothers
14:58and sisters like that, right? They only
15:00want to be visited, and visited, and
15:03visited. And do you know why that is?
15:06Because they receive the word, but they
15:09do not transmit it. The member, the
15:13Christian who receives the word but
15:15doesn't pass it on, becomes bitter,
15:18becomes critical, becomes hardened,
15:20like this sister. This sister, pastor,
15:25and something always hurt; my head
15:27hurts, it hurts right here. I have come
15:30for you to pray for me. Today I have
15:32this, pastor, I can't sleep. Pray for
15:35me. She visited me every day so I could
15:38pray with her. One day she found me as
15:42I was leaving, because that day I had
15:45several activities. I had to visit
15:48someone who was in the hospital. In the
15:53hospital because the wife was from the
15:56church, but he was an atheist, but now
15:59he was dying and wanted a visit. And
16:03the wife told me," Pastor, he could die
16:06at any moment and I want you to visit
16:08him and talk to him before he dies. "
16:12And I was, but I had another person to
16:15visit who had lost a loved one and
16:17needed someone to pray with them. So I
16:22left for the hospital, the sister
16:24appears, and that day I was full of
16:27activities. Pastor, pray for me, since
16:31the shepherd doesn't visit the sheep,
16:33the sheep is here. I tell her," Look,
16:37sister, forgive me. Today I'm not going
16:39to help you because you are fine. "No,
16:42pastor, I am not fine. I haven't been
16:44able to sleep. I have tossed and turned
16:47in bed all night, but I have two very
16:50important visits. One who is dying. I
16:53have to run, I don't have time for you
16:55right now. But pastor, how can you deny
16:59me a prayer? Because she didn't want a
17:02little 30-second prayer. She wanted a
17:0510 or 15-minute prayer for herself. If
17:09I prayed briefly, she would complain to
17:11me. So I tell her," Look, sister, let's
17:15do one thing. While I go to the
17:17hospital, which is urgent, since the
17:20man could die, you go visit this other
17:23brother, this sister who has lost a
17:25loved one and is sad there, and go,
17:28help me, when you finish, come back and
17:30by then I will have returned from the
17:33hospital. Then I will say the prayer,
17:36but right now I can't. "So she took the
17:38paper, the name, the address, and left.
17:42And I left and returned around 10 in
17:45the morning. She wasn't there. I was
17:50doing some things at home, she didn't
17:52arrive. In the afternoon I went out to
17:54visit the brethren, she didn't arrive,
17:55she didn't appear again. The next day
17:58she didn't appear. And I thought, she
18:01has become resentful, she has become
18:03resentful. Now she doesn't want to see
18:05me anymore. On Wednesday I went to the
18:08prayer service, because there’s a
18:10prayer service every Wednesday, and I
18:11find her there, so I go straight to her
18:13. I tell her," Look, sister, I waited
18:16for you. "" I told you to go visit, I
18:19waited for you, but you didn't arrive.
18:22"And she says to me," Pastor, I didn't
18:24go back because when I saw the
18:26suffering and the pain of the family
18:29here, it made me so sad. "I spent 2
18:33hours with the family praying, asking
18:36God to bless them. Later, when I went
18:41home, I laid down and slept all day.
18:47And the next day I woke up with no pain
18:50, and today, Wednesday, I have come to
18:52church to worship God. Now, Pastor, by
18:56any chance do you have more names of
18:58people I could visit? The problem was
19:03over. When she was just receiving,
19:06receiving, receiving, it hurts here, it
19:08hurts here, it hurts here, I can't
19:10sleep. When she received and passed it
19:14on to another, the pains ended. Because
19:17the word of God is like that. Some of
19:21us like to listen to sermons. Listen to
19:24a sermon, listen to a sermon, listen.
19:26Never pass the message on to anyone.
19:30Then, that word doesn't do anything for
19:32you. Then you say," No, well, the Bible
19:35doesn't work. "But how is it going to
19:37work? For it to work, you have to pass
19:41the word of God to others. Now, if you
19:46all do this, tomorrow there shouldn't
19:48be room for everyone here, because if
19:50each one brings one, imagine that. But
19:54that is what will help you grow in your
19:56spiritual experience. Well, John says
19:59it like this," This is the message I
20:01received from God. "And for it to work
20:04in my life, I announce it, because only
20:06when you announce the message does the
20:09message help you. And what is the
20:12message that he is going to announce?
20:13The message he has received from God.
20:16He says," God is light and there is no
20:20darkness in Him. "God is light and
20:24there is no darkness with Him. This is
20:26wonderful. How does this help you? Oh,
20:32well it helps you, because suddenly
20:34tomorrow, Monday, you have to make a
20:37decision and you don't know what
20:39decision to make. Suddenly you have
20:43received a job offer, but you don't
20:46know, do I leave this and go over there
20:50, or do I stay here, and you are
20:52undecided. Suddenly a young man
20:56declared his love to you and you don't
20:59know, do I accept or not accept?
21:02Suddenly tomorrow you have to travel
21:04and you're thinking, do I go or do I
21:06not go? Suddenly someone asked you for
21:11a loan and you are ready or not ready.
21:17Have you realized that our life is a
21:19handful of decisions? Life is deciding.
21:24We decide every moment. You woke up.
21:27First decision. Do I get up or not? You
21:31have to decide. You decide to get up.
21:35Second decision. Do I shower or not?
21:40Third decision, do I have breakfast or
21:42not? Fourth decision, do I go by car?
21:48Do I go by train? Decision. But there
21:54are some decisions you can afford to
21:58get wrong and nothing will happen to
22:00you. You won't die because of that. For
22:03example, if I had decided to come
22:06tonight in a red suit and a yellow
22:09shirt and a green tie, what would you
22:13think? Would I have made a good
22:15decision? No, surely many would laugh
22:19and not listen to anything I say
22:21because they are looking at my curious
22:23way of dressing. I made a wrong
22:26decision, but am I going to die because
22:29of it, right? So, in life we have to
22:32make decisions, but there are many
22:34decisions where we can afford to be
22:36wrong, which won't affect us much. But
22:40there are other transcendental
22:43decisions in life. Transcendental
22:48decisions that if you get them wrong
22:51can be an occasion to ruin your life
22:55forever. Every day we have to make
23:01decisions. There are parents who
23:03approach me," Oh, Pastor, I don't know
23:05what to do with my son. I just found
23:07out. He is smoking marijuana. He is
23:09only 12 years old. Pastor, help me.
23:12What do I do? What do I do? You don't
23:16know what to do, pastor. My husband has
23:18betrayed me, I've discovered it, I
23:20don't know what to do. Ah, you don't
23:21know what to do. Well, in life we often
23:25don't know what to do. Now, look at
23:28what John says. God is light. Why don't
23:33you know what to do when facing life?
23:40Let's say all the lights go out and the
23:46earth begins to shake and everything is
23:49left in darkness and the earth starts
23:53to shake. What is it that we will all
23:55want to do? Get out of here. But
23:59everything is in darkness, you can't
24:01see anything. And so I, for example, in
24:05my case, want to leave and since it's
24:08all in darkness, I start running, I
24:11crash into the pulpit, I fall backward,
24:13I get up all hurt and start running
24:16this way and since there's no light, I
24:18don't see the stairs, I fall there. I
24:23might wonder what time I'm hurting my
24:24head, I try to get out that way and
24:26since there’s no light, I don’t see
24:28the piano, I crash into the piano, I
24:30break the piano, and I hurt myself even
24:32more. You realize when there is no
24:36light, when you are wrapped in darkness
24:38, you can't see. I don’t know what to
24:42do with my son, I don’t know what to
24:44do with my husband, I don’t know what
24:45to do with the debt, I don’t know
24:46what to do, I don’t know what to do,
24:47I don’t know. Exactly. How are you
24:50going to know if your life is wrapped
24:52in darkness? But now John comes along
24:56and says, "God is light." So, if you
25:01want your mind to be enlightened to
25:03find the path, for your eyes to open to
25:06find the path, and you aren’t finding
25:09it—you’re bumping into things here,
25:11you’re falling there, you’re making
25:14the wrong decisions because you are
25:16surrounded by darkness and now you want
25:19to find yourself, to find the light,
25:21the way out. What should you do?
25:24Let’s see, tell me. Go to God because
25:28He is light. And when you surrender
25:32your life to Jesus, what happens? Your
25:34life becomes illuminated. And then you
25:37think, "What a fool I was.""How was I
25:40trying to walk through the pulpit?""And
25:43how was I trying to get out this way?""
25:45There are stairs, and how was I going
25:47that way, when there’s a piano?""What
25:49a fool I was." You know, I have met
25:54people who didn’t know what to do
25:56with their lives; they were crying.
25:59When you don’t know how to make
26:01decisions, you hurt yourself. But I
26:05wish you only hurt yourself. The worst
26:08part is that you hurt innocent people
26:11who are by your side, be it your father
26:13, mother, husband, wife, or child. Your
26:18wrong decisions don't just destroy you,
26:20they don’t just make you suffer, but
26:22they make people suffer who are not to
26:24blame for anything. But one day I saw
26:30those people walk into a room like this
26:33one, into a temple, listen to the word
26:36of God, and stand up, go forward and
26:39say, "Lord, I give you my life.""And in
26:43that moment their eyes were opened
26:45because now they surrendered their
26:48lives to the Lord Jesus, who is light."
26:53And their eyes opened, the lights
26:55turned on. And then he says, "But how
26:59have I been making my wife suffer by
27:01being with another woman?""How have I
27:06been spending money on gambling when my
27:08children needed to study?""How was I
27:12destroying my body with cigarettes?""
27:15How was I doing this?""How?" Do you see
27:20? Because you are in the light. Those
27:23in darkness do not realize it. They
27:28live as if everything is fine, but they
27:30suffer. They suffer and make those
27:32around them suffer. But when the light
27:37comes into your life, your eyes are
27:39opened. So, my friend, I ask you, are
27:44you undecided? Don't you know what
27:46decision to make regarding something?
27:50And you go to a man and say, "Advise me
27:53." Well, the man will advise you with
27:55the best intentions, but he is a human
27:57being. He is human and can be mistaken.
28:01And how many times have you followed
28:02the advice of humans and ended up doing
28:04poorly? How many times have you
28:07followed people's advice and it turned
28:10out even worse? But when you give your
28:16life to Jesus, He opens your
28:18understanding, He illuminates your life
28:24and then, you reach the conclusion
28:26yourself: "I have to change this, I
28:28have to leave this, I cannot keep
28:30walking this path because I am heading
28:33toward death, I cannot do this because
28:35I am destroying my family, I cannot do
28:38this." You learn to make decisions; no
28:42one deceives you because now you are in
28:44the light. But what is the light? Now,
28:50look at what John says. The message I
28:52give you is this. God is light, and in
28:55Him there is no darkness at all. Now,
28:59if you say you are in fellowship with
29:02Jesus Christ and walk in darkness, you
29:05are lying. You do not practice the
29:09truth. That is why it is not enough to
29:15be in the Adventist church or any
29:17church. You have to do more than just
29:22be in church. You have to be in Christ,
29:27you have to live a life of communion
29:29with Christ, because many think that
29:33everything ends when you enter the
29:35church, right? If you do not live a
29:41life of communion with the light every
29:43day, even if you are in the church, you
29:44will be in darkness. That is why
29:49Christian people commit terrible errors
29:51because they are in the church, but
29:54they are not in the light. What is the
29:59light? Listen, here comes David in
30:04Psalm 119: 105 and says, "Your word is
30:08a lamp to my feet and a light to my
30:12path." Ah, my friend, when you accept
30:17Jesus Christ, you accept His word and
30:22now your life will not be led because,
30:25"Oh, I think this is good.""I feel that
30:29this is good.""I think that it is not
30:31like that anymore." Now your life will
30:34be led by, "What does God want for me?"
30:37"What is it that God says?""How should
30:40I eat?" How should I live? How should I
30:44walk? How should I work? How should I
30:46relate? How should I marry? I no longer
30:50do things based on my feelings. What
30:55lights my path so I don't stumble is
30:57the word of God. That is why, if you
31:02accepted Jesus Christ or are accepting
31:04Jesus Christ this week, the first thing
31:07you have to do is buy a Bible and read
31:09the Bible. And this is the manual for
31:14happiness. You want to be happy, you
31:18have to read the manual for happiness.
31:21Do you know what the manual for
31:23happiness means? The manual. What is
31:26the manual for? When you buy a cell
31:28phone, a camera, any electrical device,
31:31it comes in a little box, right? When
31:34you open the box, the first thing you
31:36find there is, what is it? A little
31:39book called an instruction manual. Now,
31:42I don't know what you do, but I will
31:44tell you what I do. I open the box,
31:48grab the little book, and throw it away
31:50. I grab the device I bought and start
31:53handling it. Press here, press here,
31:56press there, press. And I only remember
31:59the little book when I have already
32:02broken the device. We are like that.
32:09Now, you are not an electrical device,
32:10you are a human being. You are
32:13beautiful, wonderful people. You have
32:15feelings. God loves you. You are
32:18special to God. And if for an iron
32:21there is an instruction manual, how can
32:24there not be an instruction manual for
32:26your life? And the instruction manual
32:30is here. Do you want to find a job and
32:35have that job last forever? Here are
32:39the instructions. Do you want to have
32:42good health? Here are the instructions.
32:45Do you want to sleep in peace at night,
32:48calm, without having to take medicine,
32:50here are the instructions. Do you want
32:53to be a winner? Here are the
32:55instructions. Do you want to have a
32:58wife, get married, be happy? Here are
33:01the instructions. Do you want to raise
33:03your children for the glory of God and
33:05the happiness of the family? Here they
33:07are, here are the instructions for
33:08everything. Do you want your money to
33:11go further? To multiply in your hands.
33:13Here are the instructions. The problem
33:17is that people want to be happy, but
33:19they don't look at the instruction
33:22manual. God is light. You have to walk
33:27in the light. His word is the light.
33:32His word illuminates your path and the
33:36final result of you having surrendered
33:39your life to Jesus and of you having
33:41studied the word. Look, the final
33:43result, the result of all that is verse
33:467. It says, "But if we walk in the
33:50light, if you say you are in the light,
33:53if you say you have accepted Jesus
33:55Christ, if you say you have known His
33:58word and that you accept His word, what
34:00is the result? Yes, but if we walk in
34:05the light, as He is in the light, we
34:08have communion, we have fellowship, we
34:11have love for one another." In other
34:17words, the greatest proof that you are
34:19in the light is that you must learn to
34:21live in peace with your brothers. First
34:24in the family: at peace with your wife,
34:26at peace with your children, at peace
34:28with your parents. And then in the
34:31neighborhood: at peace with your
34:32neighbors; at work: at peace with your
34:37coworkers, with your boss, with your
34:39employees; in the church: at peace with
34:42the other brothers. Now, dear ones, I
34:46speak to you with all my affection and
34:48love. How can you explain a church
34:56where brothers fight, where brothers
34:59yell at each other, where brothers
35:03accuse each other, where is God? Where
35:10is the light? Where is the word? John
35:18says, "If you walk in the light, just
35:21as Christ is in the light, well, you
35:24have to learn to love people, you have
35:27to learn to live with people." The
35:33other day a brother says, "Pastor, but
35:34I'm not at fault. Well, if the other
35:36person accuses me, I respond." But in
35:39Brazil there is a saying that goes like
35:43this: if one does not want to, two do
35:46not fight, because to have a fight both
35:49have to want it. It's true that one
35:54might start it, but the other accepts
35:55it. That is where the fight comes from.
35:59But if one does not want to and only
36:00this one wants to fight, but this one
36:02does not, who is he going to fight with
36:03? But the problem is that we say, no,
36:09he started it, I'll finish it. But,
36:12when did you meet Jesus Christ? Are you
36:16walking in the light? No, because if
36:20you were walking in the light, you
36:22would live in harmony with your
36:23brothers, in harmony with your husband,
36:25with your wife, with your children.
36:29Everything would be settled if you
36:30lived in the light and followed the
36:32advice of the word. Now, how can there
36:37be a person who is in the light coming
36:42to the pulpit to criticize, to condemn,
36:44to judge, to accuse? How can they be in
36:47the light? Because if you are in the
36:52light, people have to see Christ in you
36:54. They have to see Christ in your eyes.
37:01Because the first thing Jesus does in
37:03your life when you surrender it to Him
37:05is change your character. Jesus didn't
37:09say, "Learn from me, for I am what?""
37:13Gentle and humble in heart." If you
37:17haven't learned to be gentle, how are
37:20you walking in the light? How is it
37:23that you know the Word? How do you
37:27think you are defending God or
37:29defending His church if you are not
37:31gentle, if you are aggressive, if you
37:33are critical? How? This is something to
37:39think about, my dear. This is something
37:43to think about. Sometimes we are more
37:45worried about things. "I don't eat meat
37:48, I don't wear a ring, I don't play
37:49drums, I don't cut my hair." That's
37:52what we are worried about. I am going
37:58to tell you a story about a critical,
38:02harsh elder, who evangelized a person
38:07who came to church; he took him in,
38:09instructed him, and he was baptized.
38:12But in his instructions, he taught him
38:14that a Christian doesn't drink coffee.
38:17And he told him, "A Christian doesn't
38:19drink coffee." And the other asked, "
38:21But why, if coffee is so good?" And he
38:24told him, "No, because coffee destroys
38:27the nerves.""The person who drinks
38:30coffee becomes nervous, and God's
38:33children must be gentle." And so the
38:38man who was converted said, "Alright,
38:40then from today on, I won't drink
38:42coffee." He got baptized. A year later,
38:47the harsh, critical elder visited him
38:50and found him drinking coffee and
38:56almost ate him alive. And he says to
38:59him, "But haven't I told you that you
39:01don't drink coffee?" And the other
39:03looks at him and says, "Calm down,
39:05brother, I'm the one drinking coffee
39:07and you're the one getting nervous."
39:15Well, what is your teaching worth if
39:17Christ hasn't changed your character?
39:20What is the value of your teaching?
39:25Health laws make sense, but your
39:27character comes first. And for that,
39:34you have to surrender yourself to the
39:36light and walk in the light. But there
39:40is something more delicate here. It
39:44says, "And only when you are in the
39:49light and you are in communion with
39:51others, only then, what happens?""The
39:56choir, I want everyone to read." So,
39:59what will happen? sin.
40:06But if you don't know how to live in
40:08harmony with your brother, the blood of
40:10Jesus cleanses you from all sin. If you
40:15haven't learned to walk in the light,
40:16the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses you
40:18from all sin. Ah, well, brother, you
40:22have to be careful. because this is
40:27much more serious than you imagine. How
40:31is the blood of Jesus Christ going to
40:33cleanse you if you are not willing to
40:38walk in the light like Jesus? If you
40:42are not willing to receive the word of
40:44God. Now, brother, darkness provokes
40:50fear, you know? And if you are not in
40:54the light, you are in the darkness. And
40:57darkness provokes fear. In the first
41:01place, when you are surrounded by
41:03darkness, you see nothing and
41:05understand nothing. You hear a sound
41:09and you don't know where it comes from
41:10or what it is. He who is in darkness
41:16gets scared, lives in fear, and
41:18sometimes, to hide his fear, he
41:23expresses his discontent. I was a
41:27missionary in the jungle of my country
41:31for 3 years, when I was a 22-year-old
41:34young man. I would walk through that
41:37jungle, sometimes for days through the
41:40jungle. Those were beautiful years of
41:45my ministry. There were no roads,
41:49everything was on foot or by river in
41:51canoes. Always an Indian from the tribe
41:56would accompany me to guide me, to help
41:59me, because at first I didn't know the
42:01jungle, I didn't know the dangers. How
42:05many times I got lost in the jungle. I
42:08had to spend the night all alone in the
42:10darkness. And it is terrible, you know?
42:13One night I was with a chief, with an
42:16Indian who was accompanying me, and
42:18night caught us, and he says to me, "
42:21Pastor, we are going to have to sleep
42:23here. We are going to have to sleep
42:27here." I tell him, "But how?" He says
42:31to me, "We are going to look for a
42:33river, because next to the river we
42:35have water." And then, when we found
42:38the river, he says, "We are going to
42:40spend the night here." And he began to
42:44look for firewood, dry leaves, dry
42:47branches, and lit a bonfire. He says to
42:51me, "Pastor, the fire is going to serve
42:53us for three things. First, to cook
42:56something to eat tonight. Second, to
43:00give us light. And third, it will serve
43:07to scare away vermin and wild beasts,
43:11and it will provide us with warmth. So,
43:18let's go. We lit the fire and we laid
43:24down to sleep. And I woke up around 4
43:27in the morning. The fire had gone out,
43:31it was cold, and don't ever want to
43:38spend a night in the jungle, dear ones.
43:41The jungle has some infernal sounds, a
43:45permanent noise of the bugs, of the
43:49insects, of the cicadas. From time to
43:55time, far off in the distance, you can
43:57hear the roar of the tiger. Anyway, no,
43:59don't ever want to spend a night in the
44:02jungle. It was 4 in the morning, it was
44:06cold, the fire had gone out, the night
44:09was darker than ever and the native man
44:15who was with me says," Pastor, do not
44:18worry. When the night becomes darkest,
44:25it means the sun is about to rise. Have
44:28a little patience because the darkest
44:32moment of the night is when the sun is
44:36about to rise. "Indeed, 10 minutes
44:41later the sun appeared over there and
44:47he looked at me with a smile and says
44:49to me," Pastor, we are safe. The light
44:52has arrived. "In this life, my dear.
44:56Many times you will feel alone, you
45:03will feel surrounded by darkness, you
45:06will look here and there. You won't see
45:09light, you won't see a way out. Your
45:13heart will be filled with fear. You
45:17will ask yourself, what is happening to
45:19you? You will ask yourself where God is
45:21. You will ask yourself why God doesn't
45:23remember you. A moment will come when
45:27you will feel, I have no more strength
45:29to resist this pain. But I am going to
45:34repeat to you the words of the native
45:35man. When the night is darkest in your
45:40life, when it seems you have no
45:42strength to resist, just a little, wait
45:45a little. The sun is about to rise
45:50bringing light. And when the light
45:53arrives in your life, you will
45:58understand the things you didn't
46:00understand when you were in darkness.
46:06There is a young man whose name was
46:08Andrey. This young man, in a span of 2
46:14years, lost his father to cancer. He
46:19lost his mother in a traffic accident.
46:24He lost both his brothers in an
46:26accident in a span of 2 years. He fell
46:31into despair. The first thing he did
46:35was lift his eyes to heaven and say,"
46:37Lord, why? "A short time later he was
46:44diagnosed with cancer. It means the
46:50whole family would be extinct. His dad
46:53died, his mom died, his brothers died
46:56in 2 years. Now he with cancer would
46:58die too. The family was over. And he
47:02asked himself what sense life has. And
47:08he headed to the San Francisco bridge,
47:10here in San Francisco, to take his life
47:12. And he lifted his eyes in the
47:18darkness of the night and asked God,"
47:20Lord, if you don't explain to me why
47:22what happened to me happened, I will
47:25kill myself. "And then he felt a, not a
47:31voice coming from heaven, a voice
47:33inside his heart, like an inner
47:35conviction that told him," It may seem
47:39to you that everything is lost, but it
47:41is not lost. Life continues. "And if
47:47God allowed you of all your family to
47:49remain alive, it is because God has a
47:50plan for you. And he returned to his
47:55home. He was a musician, a pianist. He
47:59sat at the piano and the Spirit of God
48:02inspired music in him that he played,
48:04kept playing, and singing. The words
48:07came to his lips, he was singing, he
48:09had no paper, nothing. He kept playing
48:12the piano and singing. And you know
48:16that this music has encouraged the
48:20hearts of many people in the world. I
48:25first heard that hymn sung from the
48:27lips of Del Delker. Young people don't
48:31know who Del Delker is anymore. And the
48:36music says," Through the pain is how I
48:41understood the great love of the
48:42Redeemer. I thought that everything was
48:47lost. I thought there was no more
48:51meaning to my life. But today I
48:55understand that the pain had a purpose.
49:01But if tonight you want to tell Him, "
49:02Lord, I give you my life. You are the
49:06light. I want to walk in the light. I
49:09want to walk with you. I want you to
49:12change my character. Oh, Lord,
49:15illuminate my path. I want to study
49:18your word. If you want to tell Jesus
49:21that, I am going to ask you to stand up
49:23and come here to the front, even if you
49:25are just one person. No.

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