ENGLISH Dante Gebel #855 | The black swan
Many theologians agree that the way God loves his children is a kind of black swan; because the love of the Lord is radically different from the human way in which we love. Unlike us, the Father loves those unworthy of being loved and does not love us according to our merits. He does not wait until our moral lives are in order before He can love us. His love is unconditional and scandalous. God loves us as we are and not as we should be! His arms are always extended; It is we who sometimes stray from Him.
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there’s Argentina Cuba Dominican
Republic Puerto Rico Colombia how
beautiful the flags from all over the
world being represented here at River we
are river don’t stop that Applause we’re
connecting with the rest of the
world here we are on this side of the
planet oh let’s go with that Applause
how
beautiful look at the shirt the
Jersey ah the only one missing now is
the Argentinian one oh here it is
Argentina no that’s not
Argentina may God bless you how are you
please take your seats may God bless all
of
you just a moment ago we were crying out
and praying for Cuba praying for our
countries in Latin America and now we’re
connecting with all the people in Europe
Africa Asia Australia
America that are have been receiving us
for so much
time going back to February 2020 until
now they have been faithful so thank you
for being there on the other side of the
screen thank you for listening to these
messages and for being faithful not just
to God to the Lord to his word but being
faithful with your offerings and what
you have planted always give thanks to
those that sell from different parts of
the world thank you for making it
possible for us to be the barns around
the world are we ready for what God is
going to give us say with me I’m ready
are you ready yes or no very
well a few years
back I was invited to
speak at the criminal unit number three
in San Nicholas one of the oldest jails
or prisons in Buenos Iris
they had given the inmates a
recess an invitation to reflect or think
about their lives their
decisions something that people outside
of those walls don’t usually
do but there behind the jail cells
there’s always a lot of time to reflect
and so those men were there it wasn’t a
an Evangelical meeting they just invited
everyone to the meeting but they were
there for an hour power to listen to me
by their own will it wasn’t an
obligation and so they gave me their
presence and I was very grateful for
that and beneath those rude aspects and
those apparently hardened hearts that
had been hardened by Life by the
misfortunes that they had to go
through I was able to see
children locked in adult bodies
I can’t remember what exactly I said I’d
be lying if I said oh I spoke about this
or that but most likely since I know
myself I probably spoke about the
prisons in my own life and that we can
sometimes be locked up without
necessarily being in a in a jail cell
like these
men in that Hall in that room while I
was speaking I was very young but while
I spoke a few wounded Souls began to sob
and I saw them crying as children right
in front of me there were lost coins in
front of me lost sheep lost
children but not just any coin not just
any sheep not just any
child I felt that the Lord was
whispering to me be careful be careful
these are my children they are my sheep
they are my
coins the uh the meeting finished some
of the men went back to their cells but
a man who who I assumed was about 50
years old stood right in front of me and
when I greeted him and I and I gave him
a hug I felt
that he was carrying a
burden and he decided to let it go he
began to cry as a
child to see a man like this cry like
that it moves
you it touches you deeply I couldn’t
understand all the
misery or all the humanity that was out
in that moment in that small Embrace but
it was visceral it was
heartbreaking the man dried his tears
and he said to me do you really think
that God loves a man like me do you
really think that God can love a guy
like
me it wasn’t a rhetorical question or a
theological question no it was a
heartbreaking question he was asking me
someone that was maybe there because he
murdered someone or maybe he
abused or raped someone maybe he scammed
someone in the best of cases who knows
but the question was there this tender
human being
because he was still a boy locked in a a
in an adult body he asked me he trusted
me with this Monumental question in
other words he asked can God find
something within me that’s worth loving
am I worth
loving I think that every human being
from the time we’re young we long to
hear the words I’m proud of you whether
it’s because we did good or we got good
grades or we did well on an exam or
maybe we did well in a sport but
generally it encourag us more when they
don’t say it due to our Behavior but
just because we exist when they say I’m
proud of you why well because you exist
there’s nothing that can heal a child’s
heart more than when they’re told I’m
proud of you but not because of what
you’ve done but just because you’re here
because you were born I always sustain
That Old
Wounds have a very good memory but
terrible interpretative
skills because it it’s true pain keeps
memories fresh but pain also hides what
happen in some cases psychologists say
that in the majority of cases we don’t
really remember things from our
childhood we just have memories of
memories what we think we lived the
majority of our memories are what we
think we lived and we believe them as
true not everything that we remember is
how it happened and so that’s what
happens when you go back to your
childhood home and you say what happened
to that big old tree that I would climb
on and make a house in and and dad says
well that is the tree and you say no
that’s a bonsai that’s the son of the
tree but no that was always a tree but
you have a memory of something grandos
because you were little and then you
find out things aren’t so big so
Majestic in our childhood home isn’t
that great palace that scared us when we
see it we say really I was scared in
this little
house because your perception
changes so when we’re
children we
interpret what actually happens we
interpret it
incorrectly and we come to the wrong
conclusions yet we maintain them all the
way into to our adult life for example
if our parents’ marriage was in problems
then inevitably as children we would
personalize what would happen we would
say well maybe it was me because I was
born well maybe if I cleaned my room
more my dad would have stayed at home he
wouldn’t have looked for another family
maybe mom left because I always got bad
grades and and she just got tired it
must be my fault I’ve told you on many
occasions that my dad was disapp
appointed by me well that’s what I felt
as a kid that’s what I believed I never
knew if my dad was actually disappointed
in me or
not because we never had that
conversation and we won’t have
it in the future but children that
suffer verbal abuse or physical abuse
they can’t process that their CH that
their parents might be mistaken they
can’t process that the abuser is a
monster a child that
goes through abuse believes that the
rage and the
anger that is poured out on them is
deserved children believe that the words
are true but there’s another devastating
way to abuse a child and that’s through
Silence with
indifference a sigh of tiredness that’s
what US parents do oh man I can’t take
it anymore or turning your face not
answering them ignoring them
leaving the child completely frustrated
flattened by the
silent look of disapproval and growing
up with my father was very disconcerning
because technically he wasn’t a bad man
but being close to him was like walking
in a Minefield with explosives that
would change location during the night
and so I’m not judging my father’s
values or and as I always say since he’s
not here he can’t defend himself in fact
his chip of being a good
father was crushed by his own father
much before I came along but I believed
that I deserved my father’s indifference
because I was convinced that there was
nothing good within me and when he would
become Furious and he would raise his
voice he used to raise his voice very
often I would always go back to the same
phrase I would say I promise I’ll be a
good son I promise I’ll be a good I
promise and through the years I
understood that with each repetition of
I’m going to be a good son I was
reaffirming a belief that took me
decades to
remove a simple and brutal declaration
I’m going to be a good son meant that I
considered myself to be a bad son and
unfortunately as I said last Sunday
there are people that sadly believe that
that’s what the gospel is and what’s
even
worse it’s spread it’s disseminated
behind the pulpit through the years that
there are good children of God and bad
children of God or what’s worse that
there are children of God and then there
are children of the devil I’ve never
received so many Evangelical attacks
like I did this past week after last
Sunday sermon and that message Homer is
not a son of God and other legendary
Evangelical falsehoods they wrote
studies on me they attacked me they said
that I’m I’m losing
people there was such
anger but it’s not that I said if I
would have said only a few will go to
heaven then they would have applauded me
but as soon as I
said that we’re all children of God and
as soon as we call upon his name that
makes
us inheritors of Heaven oh they got so
angry they some scratched their heads
those that are bald I don’t know what
they scratched but they they didn’t
scratch their
heads but either way I didn’t know that
deep down inside my father was suffering
depression I I found that out years
later but I remember that when I was 5
years old he had a weapon that he he
kept stored away for safety or for an
emergency he had it in in his nightstand
and while he was crying out loud he
decided that he would take his life and
so he locked himself in his
shed in the corner of the yard and my
mother told me to lock myself in the
bathroom until it all passed because I
couldn’t see my father in that
condition but C curiosity killed the cat
like they say so I went went to go look
and as he walked by very drunk he said
your mother is dying and it’s your fault
of course my mom had cancer she had her
days counted and everything pointed to
the fact that if she hadn’t been left
pregnant at her age then the cancer
wouldn’t have come well that was those
were the medical beliefs back then maybe
today the diagnosis would would be
different but my father said she got
sick because she gave birth to you and
when he looked me in the eyes I didn’t
see anything other than hate it’s fine
the man was drunk but a 5-year-old boy
whether he was drunk or not sober not a
5-year-old boy only understands one
thing I loved my dad and in my child
brain I couldn’t understand that he was
wrong your father tells you or is
supposed to tell you that you’re
beautiful that you’re a beautiful
princess or that you’re a champion he’s
supposed to carry you on his shoulders
he’s supposed to fight off the monsters
under your bed your father is supposed
to tell you that you’re worth a lot and
that you shouldn’t just give in to the
first person that that wants to take
your your
innocence but that my dad my father that
always treated me with indifference
confirmed what I believed was true and I
found out that there was something
terrible within
me I said that I would never ever allow
anyone to get close enough to see the
same thing that my father had seen of
course it wasn’t an explicit or
articulate decision because I was only
five years old but I realized that that
was the day in which I hid away that was
the day where my personality turned 180
degrees I stopped speaking I stopped
communicating I stopped expressing
myself I became an an introvert I don’t
know if I was born that way or if that
was the moment that impacted me a click
or a crack I thought I don’t want anyone
to realize that I was born a failure I
don’t want teachers to know and not my
class not my friends and that mortal
strategy affected my relationship with
God because I
decided once I had more reasoning and I
was older that I would be the perfect
Christian man so that God would never
see anything in me that would make him
stop loving me so that God would never
say what my father said to me in that
moment I could never put up with that
same look but with God’s eyes and that’s
the same path that many people follow
follow even today and so I see many
people that battle with a distorted
image of
themselves an even more distorted image
of God because of events in their past
that’s why there are people that say
no
God shouldn’t do internal healing
because all things are made new yeah for
him he forgets about our sin there is no
past in that but we continue to drag
that past on certain occasions
how many adult women say my mother
always said I was toxic and that I
always harm whatever I touch how can I
have a good marriage if I was always
like this as a little girl others say my
husband is an abuser but I make him very
nervous I I make men very nervous women
have said this during counseling
sessions women with with black
eyes there’s no reason for someone to
hate you that way no matter
what we have seen women justifying the
violence in the household by saying no
no no well I’m I’m a woman that makes a
men very nervous it’s not the first time
that that it happens to me and they
repeat the pattern or others say when I
look in the mirror I see someone fat or
overweight and they don’t deserve to be
loved I’m going to be single my whole
life who’s going to want to marry me or
I can’t have children God is punishing
me for the things that I’ve done in the
past and the point is always the same
what’s wrong with with me that’s why I
say Old Wounds always have a good memory
but they
have very very poor interpretative
skills and what’s worse is that they
distort our idea of God’s love it’s
tough for us to understand that God
loves us
that’s the
main chain that I’ve tried to
communicate through streaming it’s it’s
a mental chain of or train of thought
time ago I was watching a
documentary of a small Lamb with its
head inclined and I assumed that its
neck was
hurt but in the documentary they explain
through a little bit more investigation
that sheep that have their heads bowed
down it’s not that they have a physical
ailment they say that sometimes the the
Sheep’s spirit is
broken due to something they don’t know
why it they haven’t discovered why it
happens but sometimes a sheep’s spirit
is broken
and they call them useless sheep or
broken
sheep they have their heads inclined
hunched over they don’t eat and they die
I don’t know if it’s because their
girlfriend sheep broke up with them I
have no idea I’m just saying
hypotheticals but very frequently these
sheep simply end up dying first their
Spirit dies and then they get sick the
same thing that happens with a lot of
human
beings but for some reason in the in the
case of the
sheep their Spirits are broken and they
lose the will to
live and the only ones that survive are
those that when the shepherd comes and
sees that their necks are bent over the
shepherd cares for them and gives them
Grace he gives them a special Grace that
the rest of the flock doesn’t get so
those useless sheep that’s how they’re
called in reality they’re the Most
Blessed out of all the sheep in the
flock because they are the ones that the
shepherd takes care of more personally
more intimately and this documentary
said that when the shepherd Embraces
them and takes them to
sleep then their spirit is renewed and
they eat again those sheep develop a
certain relationship with the Shepherd
that the other sheep can never dream of
the other sheep say no no no they’re all
going to hell because that’s how they
are
but since we’ve been useless sheep with
wounds in our hearts in our mind and our
soul in our spirit we develop a
different type of relationship with God
where we know that he loves us that he
heals us that he
he he spoils us he covers Us he redeems
us he anoints
us many of us have
felt like useless
sheep from When We Were Young and this
is very sad to
admit but we felt like us useless sheep
in God’s family as
well we come to to church and they make
us feel useless so I think all of us the
majority of us that are here and at home
you must know what it feels
like to be undesired abandoned rejected
left on the side of the road abused
Isaiah
4011 says that
God
as a
shepherd He tends his flock like a
shepherd He gathers the Lambs in his
arms and carries them close to his heart
he gently leads those that have young
that’s an image of a true Shepherd not a
not a pastor that says oh you’re not my
children you’re you’re more you’re more
black you’re more white you’re spotted
you’re not get away from me no a
Shepherd tends to his his his sheep his
Lambs who does a Shepherd go towards the
the the sheep that wins Awards and and
and and has diplomas and does great
things no if a common Shepherd from the
fields does it for the broken sheep then
it that’s an image that’s a an
illustration of what God does he loves
us just as we are today with all the
decisions that we’ve made the good and
the
bad he loves us on our best day and on
our worst
day never forget this God loves you on
your worst
day on the worst day of your life where
you don’t want to get out of bed and you
smell like a zombie that can kill the
whole crowd on that day God loves
you with all the secrets the deep dark
secrets that we sometimes
hide
that we have to shed light on at one
point in the presence of God we try to
hide them but we tend to think that God
has an in an in ination to love those
that make him more proud due to their
behavior we say well no I I I mean I
can’t compare with with this
person or with this pastor or this
Prophet we always measure
others by their behavior and we believe
that God sees it the same way it’s like
when one of us as a child asked our
mothers mom which one of your kids do
you love the
most
when I would when when I was alone with
my mom I I would I would say to myself
oh now that we’re alone she’s going to
tell me that she loves me the most and
that my foolish Brothers don’t even
qualify any mother or father that’s
emotionally healthy we’ll say that it’s
an impossible question to
answer because when we con conceived our
first child we never imagined that we
had the capacity to love someone else
like that those that had their first
child
always say no no no I can’t I can’t love
someone else like this when you have
your firstborn you say no it’s
impossible for me to love someone like
this it seems like the first the
firstborn always gets the most love that
we can’t love another tiny person the
same way we love this tiny person but
then the second one comes
along and a new deep love that didn’t
exist or that was dormant comes to
life upon that baby’s arrival and so it
seems like
each baby that comes along brings its
own dose of Love whether you have seven
eight or nine kids because you don’t
have
Netflix each child each
baby brings a new dose of love you can’t
say no no no well it doesn’t compar to
the first child the second one I loved
less and then the third less and then
the fourth one I didn’t really pay
attention to no you might have made that
baby without any any desire but you love
that baby so when I say how the lord
loves you you I’ve said it since the
pandemic for many it was an ointment
that healed their soul people said
please don’t stop saying that phrase
Believers that have been Believers for
years asking that same question that
that inmate asked me is there something
in me worthy of
love I have a reporter friend that poor
guy doesn’t even believe in electrical
light he’s an atheist but he said I was
going through the worst crisis of my
life I was going through a divorce he
said it was his worst divorce because he
had many many many
wives but he
said I would stay at the radio station
to listen to your final Reflections
because I I I used to be on radio radio
vortx during the
pandemic and I had another spot on CNN
and at the end I would always say God
bless you and he would wait for that
phrase he said that phrase would give me
strength to face the divorce it would
give me strength to fight for my
children I would wait for that phrase
and he said to me one day you didn’t say
that phrase one day and I said but it’s
not magic and he said I know it’s not
magic but you don’t know what it means
for a guy like me to hear God bless you
because I made it
personal he said God can bless a man
like me I’m a bad man but I would cling
on to that word and when you would say
God bless you I would turn off the car
or turn on the car or turn off the car
and I would go fight my battle in the
home that’s why I repeat we have to
build our Christian
lives on the foundation of the love of
God and we don’t have to earn that love
or even carry it in one way or another
God Jesus said to us come to
me all those who are weary and tired of
religion and I will give you rest I will
take away any mental shackles I will
give you rest yes or no
so now God’s love is radically different
from the human way in which we love
because as
humans immediately we love a person that
seems attractive to us physically or in
their way of
being they might be ugly but they could
be
fun beautiful but let me give them some
brains and you’ll see they’ll be a great
specimen right
so we feel attracted by certain
qualities that appear pleasing to us
when we
love first of all we’re
attracted Oro by something good that we
found in the other person we we feel
love for someone based off what we see
first of all oh I like them and they
look good she looks beautiful or he
smells good what do I
know now the difference between us and
the father is he loves those that are
Unworthy of being loved as soon as you
look at them the Lord doesn’t love us
according to our merits because if that
were the case we would be
screwed he does it because that he is
love that’s his Essence that’s why we
can reaffirm with theological conviction
that he loves us as we are and not as we
should be he loves us as we are now just
as we are does someone believe it yes or
no that’s how it is now can we say with
absolute conviction but the Apostle John
wrote in his first letter and so we know
and rely on the love of God on the love
God has for us he considered himself the
Beloved disciple he didn’t say oh I’m
the writer of Revelations or what do I
know I’m one of the three preferred he
said no I am the
Beloved after so many years I told you
about my father I told you what I went
through as a kid but not
to not for you to feel pity
now later I
said I can’t believe that the lord loves
me he smiles when he sees me he loves me
wildly when he sees me he says oh this
kid oh my gosh I’m convinced of it that
he loves me crazily that anytime I go to
pray he smiles anytime he sees me he
smiles that’s why I’m not asking if he
loves
you because he’s he’s he’s
scripturally and theologically obligated
to do so no I’m asking you in your heart
do you think that you please
God well what about the
others no it’s a deep
question do I rub God the right way or
or do I please him or no I’m not asking
theologically no just just like that
like that face to face do you think do
you think he likes you do you think you
please
him in Isaiah 49:15 God says can a
mother forget the baby at her breast
and
have there are mothers that abandon
children but I’m talking about
forget hey woman didn’t you have a baby
oh yeah I thought I forgot I know I
forgot something it’s been three
days no can a mother forget unless she
has a mental psychological issue then no
a mother doesn’t forget her
baby and have no compassion on the child
she has born though she may forget I
will not foret for get you says the Lord
I can never forget you it’s not that God
says oh you mess up and I forget you or
you sin and I’ll forget you you get into
problems and I’ll forget you it’s
fine maybe we’re almost discardable but
we’re loved and he says I won’t forget
you and we can’t be loved without being
changed and this is where things get
good because when we experiment love we
develop
Beauty this is true
with your
physique scientists say that when
someone is in love they pump more blood
their heart beats faster so their face
radiates
more eye bags and and and your belly
goes away well at least some like try to
suck it in
but being in love makes us so that the
brain secretes dopamine
serotonin these are two types of
neurotransmitters
that spread throughout the body dopamine
produces pleasure and Euphoria and
serotonin makes us feel
happiness no synthetic drug can produce
that our pupils
dilate for someone to look more
beautiful their pupils have to be
dilated it’s not that someone says oh
your pupils are dilated no but but
people say oh why do they look good why
do they look so so beautiful oh well
their pupils are Dil dilated their eyes
are clear
and bigger when we smile we’re more
attractive this is proven but we’re more
used to the type of Love That seeks
someone that has a certain
value the love that we’re more familiar
with feels attraction for someone
because they’re attractive or because
they’re attractive to
us they may not be attractive to others
but if they’re attractive to us we may
feel love the Greeks had a word for this
type of Love Aeros when we hear this
word we immediately think about
something erotic but Aeros means
something more than just sexual
attraction Aeros describes the type of
love that satisfies our desire of
validation our appetites our flesh
Aros is the love that seeks the great
treasure that never arrives it’s the
waiting on on the night and shining
armor on the
princess waiting on that
on on on that woman that has no mother
an orphan that’ll never happen but
arrows is a love that comes out from
from need from desire from admiration
it’s not a bad type of love I’m not
going to satanized it either I’m not
going to demonize that type of love
because for one reason or another God
also gifted us that love it’s good that
a baby loves his mother whose milk means
life the first attraction that your baby
has to you mom is because of your
milk if the dad gave the baby milk then
the baby would forget about the
mother if the if a mother-in-law could
give milk then then she would but God is
wise it’s great that someone who’s in
love admires the beauty of of their
partner but AOS is a very precarious
type of
Love at one point that baby won’t need
his mother’s milk anymore or your
beloved’s beauty will cease to exist or
you’ll get used to it I know that some
might say oh I would never get used to
Brad Pit no yeah you would you would say
oh once again the same
thing
so if our life is based on that
precarious love then we’re going to live
trying prove that we’re beautiful
spiritual intelligent to deserve love
and that’s just running on a hamster
wheel that that’s exhausting no we need
a much more resistant love than AOS so
there is a type of love that creates
value in what is love it doesn’t seek
love in what it loves or it doesn’t seek
value in what it loves it’s a
love that turns us from
discardable to Priceless that’s why why
it’s so difficult for some to understand
Grace people understand punishment and
that God sends people to hell and that
God separates the sheep from the Rams
they understand
that but they don’t understand an
unconditional extravagant love Paul
describes it this way in Romans 56 he
says you see at just the right time when
we were still
powerless Christ died for the
ungodly very rarely will anyone die for
a righteous person
though for a good person someone might
possibly dare to
die a mother or father might say well
before you touch my children touch me we
might take our children’s places if they
were in
danger but God demonstrates his own love
for us in this while we were still
sinners Christ died for
us when we didn’t deserve it
do I need to explain it any
better Christ died for us when we were
still
discardable and the writers of the Bible
didn’t want to use the word arrows to
describe that type of love for the first
time they use the word
Agape there are two Commandments that
can’t be separated Jesus
said love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind and the second
commandment is love your neighbor as
yourself if we love God then we love all
his children all of
them not just some all of
them if we take loving God seriously
then we should start with his people all
of them all of them repeat after me so
that you can remember all
people that way I I still get attack
during the week
right
and he loves those especially those that
the world
discards and so the
capacity to assign value to people is
one of the most marvelous gifts one of
the most scarce gifts in all the world I
once told you I’m sorry that I’m
repetitive with my stories but there are
always people that are blessed by these
stories and I include
myself when we decided to buy this
Arena the bank came to the concl
illusion this only happens in this part
of the world but in order to be sure
that they would that the debt would be
repaid I had to remain
alive I know that banks in other parts
of the world don’t do this but here they
do I asked two or three times if I was
understanding
correctly they came and concluded that
if I were to die then maybe River
wouldn’t have the same
income if if I were
alive and that’s a risk they weren’t
willing to
run they said all right we’ll sell you
the
arena and you’ll pay it off over seven
years but what if you die within the
seven years and we said no but but if I
die then then we’ll have someone else
replace
me but it’s very strange they want to be
sure that they’ll still get payment even
if I died
suddenly it’s almost as if I had a
promise I promise I’ll live I promise
I’ll live well how did we resolve it
the bank
decided to assign me a life insurance
policy not just from anyone but from
them and so they said we’re going to
study this man’s life over the course of
a couple weeks they asked me hundreds of
questions and they asked if I travel to
risky
countries constitutionally risky
countries that are having humanitarian
crisises or countries that have a high
risk of kidnapping so basically any
country for Mexico down I said my middle
name is
risk I said well what do you
consider countries that are exempt of
risk so that the policy can be cheaper
they said oh well the policy’s cheap if
you go to Iceland Denmark Andora New
Zealand Switzerland Austria Lux and
break Finland
Norway and I say no I tend to go more
towards
Tijuana Nicaragua
Ecuador
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colia oh Salvador before bu
Venezuela
Argentina when I said
Argentina and at that
point when I told them all the countries
that I traveled to and I showed them my
passport my policy had the same value if
not more
than Messi’s contract with inter
Miami after many Health exams and and
how
many family issues family family health
issues
existed they assigned me a value it’s
always nice to have a
value but it’s terrible to find out that
you’re worth more dead than
alive if I’m alive I’m not worth two
peanuts but if I were to die now I
understand why years back we had debts
and some of the team said hey how are
you doing how’s your
health there’s a type of Love That seeks
value in what is
loved there are certain banks that
assign you a value to not take any risks
if you die but there’s a type of love
that creates value after having
loved there’s a story of an Old Dutch
Minister that was very fascinating he
tells it in this way he said I’m one of
13 brothers and one day I was playing in
the streets in our neighborhood in in in
the
Netherlands my father was speaking to a
neighbor in the dining room table I went
inside to get a drink of water and my
dad didn’t realize that I had come in
and the neighbor asked him you have 13
children is any one of them your
favorite is there one that you love more
than the others or one that makes you
more proud than the others and so I
stayed there waiting to hear my name
that’s what all us children would do and
my father answered immediately and he
said of course there’s one that I love
more than the rest Mary she’s 12 years
old poor
girl she
just she just got braces she’s so
embarrassed but she doesn’t want to
leave the house oh no no but you asked
me about my favorite uh Peter he’s 29 he
just got a a
divorce he’s so lonely he’s so solitary
I don’t know what to do to do away with
that sadness but the one that I love the
most is my little
Miguel because he he doesn’t have hand
eye coordination he’s so bad at all the
sports that he tries he’s not good at
any sports and he gets frustrated so
much he gets bullied at school oh but of
course my little girl is Susanna she’s
24 she lives
alone and she’s battling against an
alcohol problem and she thinks I don’t
realize it but now that I think about it
I love Manuel a lot more because he has
a terrible character he just he can’t
get good grades at school I don’t know
who he came out like and the the
gentleman said and so my father went on
to name each one of his 133 kids and
what I realized what I learned is that
his order of priorities or what appeared
to be a priority is that he
loved the one he loved most is the one
that needed the most love in that moment
but Jesus’s father is the same he loves
those who need him the most those that
depend and Trust on
him there’s a preacher that says God has
you tied to a string and when you mess
up when you sin when you break what he
does is he cuts the string instead of
saying instead of cutting the
string or instead of the the string
being cut and him saying oh well I guess
he’s gone no he ties it again the string
is now shorter and you’re closer to
him and so God doesn’t care if you’ve
been as pure as St John or a sinner like
the prostitute in Simon the Pharisees
home God doesn’t wait until our moral
life is organized to then love
us I don’t discard that someone might be
thinking now because I know what some of
you are
thinking you’re from the second service
but you came to this one today you say
ah so so is the gospel free to all is
this a gospel where just anyone can come
in
if you know your partner loves you let
me ask
you is that confession of love an
invitation to have an attitude of I
don’t care oh really am I love you love
me yeah yeah I love you so much all
right well then let me go mess around
really no true love provokes love and
faithfulness but love and faithfulness
in complete Freedom I’m going to explain
it with this magnificent
phrase wanting and not being able to is
slavery
wanting to do something and not being
able to is
religion if someone
says with all the pleasure in the world
I would do this but I don’t want to
offend God then that’s slavery being
able to but not wanting is
freedom being able to do it but I don’t
want to offend God that is
freedom that is
freedom yes or
no that’s what resolved my my
Doctrine I’ll say it again wanting to
and not being able to is
slavery oh I I I wish I could s oh I
would love to I’m dying I’m dying I’m
burning I’m burning I want to sin that’s
slavery being able to sin and I don’t
want to that’s
Freedom John 8:36 says so if the son
sets you free you will be free indeed
and Paul says that our
freedom wasn’t to indulge in the flesh
in in in the flesh no it’s not oh I go
to River so I can sin no if you want to
sin then you’ll find it anywhere
Galatians 5:13 says you my brothers and
sisters were called to be free but do
not use your freedom to indulge in the
flesh that’s what the Apostle says
rather serve one another humbly in love
God says love me from Freedom that’s
what a healthy couple
does it’s no good for you to get married
and that your spouse puts a chip in you
to follow you wherever you go or that
you have to leave your phone unlocked
all the time and that they have to check
everything because they distrust that’s
not love that’s manipulation in all
orders of
life and you say
well why shouldn’t I know well because
to
love brings Freedom if they’re going to
cheat on you they’re going to do it
anyways whether you have the passwords
or not you have to love from a point of
freedom I preach that we could be set
free I transmit the freedom that the
father gives me and then you all will do
whatever you want with your
freedom the Lord made us free in the
Garden of Eden he didn’t want robots he
didn’t want angels that were obligated
to serve him he said I’m going to give
free will to
humankind and he gave us a
tree that many times we ask why was that
tree there well so that we could be free
and when we’re free our no Noble blood
obligates us to change not because
someone asks us to too but because we
want there’s no more need for the law a
child doesn’t need to be taught to love
his
mother being free of the law also means
to be free of
sin when we’re
free we don’t violate a rule we break
the Lord’s
heart when you’re a
slave you leave this the healthy
Doctrine am I explaining myself because
you’re looking at me weird am I
explaining
myself when you’re a slave to a Doctrine
or to religion you simply disobey you
say how how great is the punishment for
this sin but when you’re free when
you’re no longer a a slave to
religion you dishonor an intimate friend
when you sin see you can but you don’t
want to anymore because we’re no longer
just committing an infraction we raise
our fist against someone who poured out
their blood for for us someone that had
their hands nailed for
us John 17:3 says now this is eternal
life that they know you the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent
so faith in God generates people who are
free and very
secure it doesn’t generate insecure
people that’s why scripture makes such a
great emphasis on the need of having to
know
God God
speaks through his servant Hosea and
says my people do not know me for I
desire Mercy not sacrifice and
acknowledgement of God rather than burnt
offerings and he continues saying the
same thing God these people think they
can buy me with
fasting these people don’t know me they
think that they can buy me by reading
the Bible every day and and become more
religious or by congregating every
single day I don’t want burnt offerings
I want to be known and the question is
do we truly know him because if we
congregate every day but we need to be
told the lord loves you oh really it’s
because we don’t know
him because maybe we’re Christians
because we come here we believe that
we’re Christians because we read the
Bible and so we assume that we know him
but no we couldn’t be further from the
truth it’s no good to learn verses by
memory or to know the whole Bible by
memory
people say oh I don’t see you reading
from the Bible I don’t see you sharing
the Bible I don’t want to watch anymore
all right then don’t watch me
anymore no if you want to go watch the
guy that says all right let’s open our
Bibles to this page and this verse no I
know who my God is I know how he loves
me I know how he loves us yes or
no and on the night of his death Jesus
Di Jesus prayed to the father in John
17:23 says i in them and you in
me so that the love that you have given
me can be with them I and them and you
and
me I have loved them with the same love
you have given me just that verse
challenges my mind it leaves me without
words because it produces a state of
Fascination let’s see if we can
understand it together God loves us so
much as he loves his son Jesus Christ
not a little bit
less scripture says
it in in our logic we might think well I
love my spouse 75% 30% the pastor 1% my
mother-in-law if you think that the Lord
divides his
love with 100% to Jesus 70% to Mother
Teresa and 2% for you then you don’t
know
God I’m going to tell you something
interesting to start closing swans their
whole lives they’re black they’re white
sorry it’s normal a swan is typically
white in school if they say draw a swan
you draw it white we know it because
it’s the only colored Swan that we’ve
ever seen and this was the belief in the
Western
World until in 16 96 a Dutch explorer
was navigating the Waters of Australia
he found a Black Swan until he
discovered that there were black swans
it was an unexpected event that
surprised the whole ornithological
Community they were black swans but he
focused on something simple the
inexistence of proof in respects to an
an
event isn’t of itself in and of itself
proof of its inexistence for example
just because we’ve never seen an
extraterrestrial doesn’t necessarily
mean mean that they don’t exist now I’m
not saying that they exist or don’t
exist I haven’t seen anything that
doesn’t mean it doesn’t
exist there are thousands or millions of
things in the Galaxy that we haven’t
seen and just because we haven’t seen
them doesn’t mean that they don’t exist
now inspired by this ornithological
event a philosopher and Economist named
Nasim TB published a book in 2005 called
The Black Swan the theory of the Black
Swan and its impact on the improbable
and according to TB
a Black Swan is an event or An
Occurrence that no one was expecting
it’s extravagant it goes beyond what we
were expecting it
doesn’t resist any
any forecast so the Black Swan
represents a surprise a great impact
it’s like seeing a humble
Argentinian or a Mexican that doesn’t
eat
spicy but the Black Swan is related to
tragic events for example the black
plague in the 14th
century that killed 30% of the
population in Europe or 30 to
60% 25 million Europeans died on top of
60 million Africans and Asians then the
in the 20th and 21st century we saw the
flu in 1918 the two World Wars the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in in 81
or ‘
91 the attacks from Twin Towers or even
the pandemic at the end of
2019 but the theory of the Black Swan
also applies to define something
extravagant like a love that was never
seen that doesn’t resist any analysis or
common sense and many theologians
coincide that the way in which God loves
his children is almost like a Black Swan
event and that any human being that
tries to filter it through logic just
won’t understand it that’s why they say
no know God can’t love the whole world
not everyone is is a child of God
because a simple notion that God’s love
can reach us without any cost without
any conditions it goes against all human
instincts the Buddhist path the Hindu
doctrine of karma the Jewish pact the
legal code of
Islam they all offer a way of earning
God’s love but only Jesus was willing to
give the unconditional
and
scandalous only those who call on the
name of the Lord will be saved because
he loved you before he went to the Cross
someone needs to say that is my God
hallelujah and since God is all knowing
of the
resistance that we have to
oppose when the offering is too great
Saints even Saints distrust so Jesus
spoke about Grace all the time he said
the Sun comes out on all people the good
and the
bad the birds freely find seeds they
don’t plow they don’t store they don’t
pick Jesus saw Grace all over he never
analized that he never defined it he
never used the word Grace instead of
using the word Grace he communicated it
with stories that we know as
Parables and they’re not stories that he
used to bring in theolog theological
truths no they were like scripts traced
by his own life he was the Shepherd that
left the safety of his of his flock to
go and look for the lost sheep he would
receive tax collectors and prostitutes
at his at his table he came to look for
the sick and not the healthy he came for
the unrighteous and not the
righteous I couldn’t believe these
stories when I was a child because my
father said to me it’s your fault mom is
dying and I thought that many things
after that would happen because of my
fault and that’s where it occurred to me
that God couldn’t love me I saw that God
would forgive me but reluctantly that he
was tired of erasing me from The Book of
Life I always saw it as a distant
threat just like my father like a a
Minefield that could explode at any
point but they would change locations
during the night I always thought that
God God preferred that we fear him
before we love him but God Jesus speaks
of a father that humbles himself in
public that goes out and and runs to
meet his child that squandered half of
the family fortune but the father goes
out to meet
him he doesn’t say I hope son that you
learned your lesson no Jesus speaks
about the joy this son was dead but now
he’s alive he was lost but now he is
found and then words of Joy let’s s
celebrate my son is
back and so the Lord’s arms are always
extended they’re always open we’re the
ones that distance ourselves from him
but it’s so difficult to understand
God’s love is that Black Swan in the
story a
housekeeper a servant who rejoices
because she found her lost coin that’s
not an image that I see of God when I
think of him however this is the image
that Jesus insisted with my father is
like the woman who found her lost coin
the story of The Prodigal Son
appears in between three stories the
lost
sheep the Lost coin and the lost son
they all have the same idea they all
underline the sensation of loss the
emotion of finding and the celebration
for having found it Jesus came to show
us that he’s a holy
God that receives the
petitions from a from a widow or from a
a Roman Centurion a tax collector or a
thief on the cross crying out in the
last moment some time ago a divorced
woman told me that at a certain Church
fortunately it wasn’t
here she went with her 15-year-old
daughter when a a a pastor or a pastor’s
wife went up to her and said I’ve heard
that you’re going through divorce what I
can understand is if you love Jesus and
if your husband loves Jesus why would
you do this to your children
don’t you dare to undo what the Lord has
has
United but this woman had never spoken
to the woman going through divorce but
as soon as she realized that she was
going through a crisis she challenged
her in front of her daughter and the
woman said I don’t know if I’m doing
right or wrong but what’s painful is
that my my husband and I loved Jesus
very much and our marriage was destroyed
we didn’t have hope of restoring it but
if we had any hope then that day I lost
it because what I needed from this woman
was was a hug an
Embrace to hear from her I I’m sorry for
what you’re going through we’re here for
you it would have made me feel loved
which is what I don’t feel but deep down
inside I know she didn’t see anyone
worthy of love and so I asked where did
we get that idea from why do we believe
that God loved us because we were worthy
or it’s fine we were unworthy and he
loved us but now we now you have to be
worthy to get that love I always share
that scene in the movie heartburn I’ve
shared it many times the main characters
are Jack Nicholson and merol
Street they leave a a Tavern and they
find a drunk woman a drunk homeless
woman lying on the snow and they discuss
what they should do with her Jack
Nicholson’s character asks is she drunk
or is she is she homeless and Merl
Streep’s character says no she is
homeless she always was I know
her
and then Jack says well she must have
been a prostitute in Alaska the woman
says no I don’t think she was born a
prostitute I don’t think she was always
a prostitute and Jack says I don’t
know she must have been someone’s
daughter at some point yeah she she was
a little girl at one point and Merl
strip says that’s something already so
not only is she not a homeless woman or
a prostitute she was a little girl at
some point that’s something let’s take
her
inside both were seeing that that woman
through the lens of Grace Society only
saw a homeless woman but religion sees a
prostitute the youth see an old
woman but Grace sees a little girl made
in the image of
God no matter what that woman went
through in life that has disfigured her
face she’s still a little girl in that
70-year-old body so there’s a type of
love that creates value in the loved
it’s a Str strange Black Swan I know it
but it’s an extravagant love Jesus never
identified a person by their sin he
never said oh you Thief he never said oh
you prostitute he would say son
daughter he would call the religious
teachers serpents
snakes whitewashed coffins dogs but he
never called anyone Thief
liar divorced person because he saw sin
as something foreign it didn’t belong to
that person and he would set them free
from it he would remove the labels Jesus
could love human beings because he loved
them going through that barrier of mud
he would go through that barrier and see
a
child Romans 8:38 for I am convinced
that neither death nor life neither
angels nor demons neither the present
nor the future nor any powers neither
height nor depth nor anything else in
all creation will be able to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus our lord let me get into some more
problems I always thought was hell
created or
not because if it was created then not
even hell can separate you from the love
of God now I’m getting into problems but
I believe it and I remember that in that
prison and in St Nicholas that that
robust man inmate that I was embracing I
felt when I hugged him how God how much
God loved him I can’t explain it because
I only saw a rude man I’m not going to
say that I loved him I just saw a robust
man I was a little scared he was 50 I
was younger in the end he was there
paying his punishment to
society but I know that God saw a young
boy who went through a lot of
trauma and that man had asked me without
any any extra words do you think that
God can love a guy like me
I give thanks that as a Young Man the
Holy Spirit guided me to answer not the
way religion had taught me not what I
believed but what came from my spirit I
said the question isn’t if God loves a
guy like
you he loves guys like you he loves you
especially he brought me here because he
loves you so much no it’s not a guy like
you you’re not the exception he
especially is in love with you and he
covered his emotional control he looked
me in the eyes and he said that’s all I
needed to
know young man that’s all I needed to
know and then I
thought that’s all we all need to know
we all need to know that how the lord
loves
us we’re going to give a great Applause
to the Lord of lords how the lord loves
us he’s healing people
come on celebrate the Lord he is healing
Minds Hearts Souls broken
Lambs someone need to celebrate more
than that for all the broken Lambs that
are being healed around the
world someone that I don’t know sent me
a message they said
you’re failing in your theology and when
you get to heaven you’re going to you’re
going to regret it well let’s just let’s
assume that it’s that way you think
Dante is going to you think God’s going
to tell me Dante you’re not coming into
heaven because you love people more than
I did no no no you can never go wrong
with love when you decide to honor
everyone well maybe we’re honoring
someone that that doesn’t deserve it but
you don’t lose anything but if you
dishonor a child of God there you lose a
lot you can’t go wrong by
loving I was never mistaken by saying
God loves you and and I see people break
down and cry and then all they have to
do is believe that God loves them and
that’s it that never
failed that’s been my my Evangelistic
tool the whole time love someone and
then when that person feels loved
they’ll accept anything but to be but if
you try to sell them something first so
that they can feel loved no they’ll
close themselves off oh no I don’t go to
churches oh no priest just want money oh
no pastors are just after money and
people are right they have the right to
to lift up those mental barriers and
prejudices because they’re not loved but
when you love you can open up the the
the doors of any heart we’re not going
to do wrong by loving too much the Lord
won’t say oh at River they loved more
than they should
have now he’ll say now be careful be
careful you don’t decide who goes to
heaven and who doesn’t you don’t
decide how great my love is you don’t
understand that you’ve never seen a
Black Swan like this when it’s tough for
you to understand receive it by
faith if Hitler repented in the last
minute was he saved yeah of course then
if not the whole Bible would be a lie a
farce anyone who repents and calls on
the name of the Lord doesn’t have to pay
if not how did the thief on the cross go
to paradise who knows how much he stole
how many people he abused how many
people he killed do we think that it was
just a small sin and that’s why the Lord
said all right I’ll take you
those who repent and call on call on the
name of the lord they’re always a
potential child of God but you just have
to believe it and that’s what makes it a
marvelous symbiosis that adoption that
Apostle Paul speaks of saying ABA father
and then we start to say you were always
my father but we’re not that orphan that
he adopted out of out of pity the lord
loves you and if that inmate in St
Nicholas is still there I I assume he’s
free if he’s somewhere around the world
and he remembers that encounter then you
know that God always loved you when you
were in prison and now that you’re free
when you were
committing that mistake on your good day
or your bad day he loves you just as you
are and that love deserves
correspondence we’re going to correspond
that love how many of you believe it and
receive it say amen hallelujah lift up
your hands to heaven with me
father thank you for this morning
afternoon night around anywhere around
the world lift up your hands here at
River I’ve transmitted what I believe
God placed in my heart in these days in
these last Sundays I have felt the heart
of the Lord saying these are my
children I can’t explain it but I’ve
seen young men consuming drugs on the
street corners and years ago I would say
oh they’re so lost children of Satan but
now I feel the Lord saying
these are my little ones who will go for
them they’re my
children they’re my prodigal
children they’re the ones that are
living in the pig pens right now and the
father will go out to embrace them as
soon as they say oh I have a
father oh my father’s servants eat
better than I do as soon as somebody
recognizes that God loves them that’s
what it’s about then there’s no dog
there’s no no that’s enough there’s no
Doctrine to take care of it’s a
lie love makes you take care of your
Holiness what doesn’t come from Love is
Law and law always disobeys the law is
always there to be broken but when you
love you’re faithful because you
love when you love you don’t need a
pastor to tell you you don’t need a a
quadrangular church or the Assemblies of
God or the the super Archy
Mega Mission shirt you don’t need anyone
to tell you anything when you love you
know what pleases your father and what
doesn’t you’re even going to pray out of
love and not out of
discipline and you give yourself to him
more and more each day Lord You’ve loved
me so much help me help me to not betray
you and there the Holy Spirit
saying when you can’t do something
asking for help he will intercede for
you
he will pray in ways you don’t know man
do we have an advantage I will not leave
you alone I will send a counselor that
will give you strength from within he
never said there will be a pastor
telling you about laws and then
congregate and there they’ll tell you
what you should do he said no here I
send you a counselor a comforter and
from within he will dictate and he’ll
tell you what to do what not to do and
he’ll guide you and give you discernment
of spirit he will open up your minds in
your
hearts you will rejoice when something
fills my heart with with happiness
that’s Christian Life my beloved live in
Freedom River live in
Freedom he will truly set you free
father I have spoken to your army and
your people your children your children
around the world and I ask that all
mental captivity fall now may all chains
be broken now any lock any religious
lock be broken now I’m not against the
men I’m against the chains the Demonic
chains that men have placed set them
free
Lord take away all slavery from their
minds now I ask you what I asked during
the message my beloved do you truly
believe that you please God if you
believe that you please God lift up your
hands and say Lord I love you you’ll see
how it how it sounds different it’s so
different when you feel unworth worthy
dirty sinful to when you say Lord I know
that I please
you I know you love me that’s another
level of worship that’s another level of
worship you’re not on the other side of
the sinner you’re on the side of the
saved of those Sanctified not by works
but by the blood poured out on the cross
of Calvary whoa and when you lift up
your hands you say Lord I love you and
feeling that love that that is true
love God says I have been waiting for
that phrase for
years with the heart that believes it
whoa say Lord I I love you I believe you
you know my life has been a disaster but
I love you and God says yes yes I know I
specifically love you your name your
name specifically I know you I know you
specifically I specifically died for you
you’re not in a group I love you you’re
special I chose you from your mother’s
womb just like
Jeremiah before you were formed I chose
you your bones were being formed and
they weren’t strangers to my vision I
was the one that decided that you would
be born in this generation in these
years during this time of life W lift up
your hands and worship come
on see how the worship changes see how
it’s a genuine
worship see how there’s nothing impeding
impressive more more more
everyone everyone receive at home as
well those that are watching the live
stream how the lord loves you
princess prince how the lord loves
you you have no idea how much he loves
you he told me to tell you to give you a
kiss to give you a
hug don’t give a don’t
surrender you’re my princess he
continues seeing that that little girl
in
you the Lord showed me this a few years
ago that he saw me as a child still that
he didn’t see this man he saw that boy
that
girl and that he was hugging that child
saying you’re not alone you are loved
you weren’t an accident it wasn’t your
fault that your mom got
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cancer I don’t roll my eyes I don’t
ignore you I don’t sigh of tiredness
when I see you no my heart is filled
with joy when I see you Zante and that
has healed
me that’s why I don’t care what people
say because fear God love God and you
won’t care what the people
say but don’t love God and don’t fear
Him and you’ll care a lot about what
people say about you because we were
born to be loved we were born to have
love or to have value through love but
if you love God you won’t care about
anything or what anyone says no human
being can give you the love that only
God can give you there is no man or
woman that will love you that way your
children will not give you the love that
only your father can give say Lord I
love
you begin a romantic relationship father
more thank you for
today for the tears for the people for
the joy and the
happiness I send them
home without any burdens free
like the Lord said to so many people go
sin no more go be free be
happy smile dance enjoy life laugh eat
with your people drink with your people
enjoy Dance all that you can be a free
Christian so that your neighbors say I
want your happiness how do I accomplish
this and you’ll speak to them about this
Freedom be
free it will make other people’s
theology uncomfortable able but dress
how you want live how you want and
everything based on that love it won’t
fail I know no one will sin or do
anything strange if it’s based on
love the law will be broken but love
will never be broken love always works
may God bless you may he protect you and
may his face shine on you bye people all
over the
world I’ll see you next I’ll see you
this week until next Sunday bye bye bye
blessings people
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