ENGLISH Dante Gebel #856 | Relentless grace
We do ourselves no favors by justifying our sins by saying that we bear fruit and that we have sound doctrine. How can God heal what we deny, what we hide? How can God give us grace, if we want to pay it only with actions? If we want to truly change, we must be born again, remain on the vine… and the fruit will appear organically. Separated from God, we cannot bear any fruit. Let us remember that the Lord cuts branches so that we can bear fruit and hears the prayers of thieves. We are saved when we look up to the cross. All we have to do is believe and repent.
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there we have Colombia Salvador
Dominican Republic
Peru Argentina don’t stop that Applause
from Broadway Street Asia Africa
Australia America Africa everyone
connecting Europe let’s go with that
Applause let’s go look look
look this is what’s going on right now
here in
Anaheim what was once the capital of ENT
of entertainment is now the capital of
the Holy Spirit Let’s go
people thank you so much we’re missing
the Argentinian flag but I forgive you
thank you for being there we sang We
worshiped we
celebrated we won’t transmit that ever
because you you have to live it here I
know there are people that say well
you’re so selfish no because we’ll share
the word in just a few moments but
everything else you have to live it so
every time we connect at this moment at
this
time after we’ve had our local service
private personal family service that
everyone’s invited to from all over the
world all the people that are connecting
with us now good morning good afternoon
good night according to whatever time
zone you’re in we’re happy are we happy
here people yes or
no just a few moments I’m going to
transmit what I believe God told me to
tell you but before this is something
that we prepared especially for you and
it has to do with an orphanage of little
ones that are
abused in the worst cases raped molested
and they’re they’re under the direction
of of nuns they started this many years
ago I won’t spoil what’s going to happen
but they never ever imagined a blessing
from River like
this this happens in my beloved country
Argentina in the South where Carly
anakia who always represents us with
this entire team they discovered this
home Mother Teresa where the children
have their stories I we can’t share them
all but when you see these images you
think how could we be so foolish in
thinking that the only
saved are Protestants or Pentecostals or
Baptists when there are so many people I
know that you don’t earn Heaven by by by
works but there are so many people out
there with big hearts like this woman
that we’re going to get to know now this
Italian woman that arrived at the
country and this is all she does she
lives for the little ones she gives them
love and and and affection and we went
and helped out a bit right I don’t know
if we
made or if we change their lives but we
try to improve their quality of life I
want you to pay attention after this
I’ll transmit what I believe God told me
to tell you and now obviously I want you
to enjoy what I’m sure is going to reach
the deepest part of your heart because
it has to do with children every time
there are elderly people or children
you’re moved this has to do with us
being River in Argentina and in this
very special place
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for that is your seed that’s what you
have planted so that Applause goes to
all those that have given those are that
are a part of river thank you how
beautiful the whole home that’s watching
now Mother Teresa and
Cuda they’re watching it live now on the
screen please take care of your toys
take care of them and if they break let
us know and we’ll replace
them but thank you for
being so special Miss Rena everyone that
works with there thank you for allowing
us to help we are more blessed than you
it’s better to give than to receive so
thank you so so
much thank you for allowing us to be a
church very well are you ready yes or
no there was
once in a very far away
Kingdom two sons of a king who asked
their father your
majesty is a gentleman born or he
made and the father said well what do
you
think well I think that a gentleman is
born a gentleman one of the sons
answered I don’t agree said the other
son a man only becomes a
gentleman through prep preparation
training
discipline so the king gave them both a
challenge she said all right test out
your theories and then show me an examp
example if a gentleman is born or if
he’s made the king said I’ll give you a
week and then come back with
proof he had a like an Old English
accent I guess so both children both
sons went in different directions the
son who believed that a gentleman has to
be made and isn’t born found his proof
in a Tavern he asked for a cup of coffee
and he he was astonished to see that the
the bartender the way
was a cat this cat was trained to walk
on its hind legs and carry a tray with
its front legs he was wearing a small
uniform and that was proof that a small
creature can supersede its nature
through discipline and preparation and
so the first
son had his proof for his theory if you
can change a cat
then of course you can change a
man and so the prince purchased the
animal and took it with him to the court
as proof but the other son didn’t have
so much luck he went through the entire
Kingdom but he wasn’t able to find
anything to support his theory so he
went back to the palace with empty hands
and to make things
worse he heard the comments he heard
comments about his brother’s Discovery
the news about a cat that walks on its
hind legs it made him doubt his own
convictions but just a few hours before
they were going to meet with with their
father he saw something this second
brother he saw something in a store that
made him smile he bought it he didn’t
tell anyone anything about it and the
two brothers went into the king’s court
each one taking a box the first son
announced that he could prove that man
can go beyond any obstacle and become a
gentleman and in front of the king he
presented the cat dressed in a small sup
with a tray and the K the cat offered
the king a coffee the King was
astonished stunned the son was was happy
and the court erupted an Applause and
they all said what undeniable truth who
could deny the evidence of a cat walking
on two legs when it was the second son’s
turn he opened up the box he had and he
set free two rats two mice and in that
very moment the cat threw the tray out
the cat ran out on four legs trying to
catch the the mice and the cat’s true
nature was evident and so a point was
made a cat that walks on its back to
legs is still a cat you can change its
clothing you can teach it a few
tricks you can put a suit on it and
train it to walk on its hind
legs for a moment it might seem like the
cat has changed
but present something that it cannot
resist and it’ll face an undeniable
truth a cat that walks on two legs is
still just a cat and the same thing
applies for people we can change our
suits where ties where longer skirts
well you guys not me I not going to wear
a long skirt because I would be worrying
but we can change our
habits we can use a Christian
vocabulary increment the amount read
even change our our attitudes but
according to the Bible there’s one thing
we can’t change and that’s our sinful
nature now
Society always agrees with the first son
they tell us that if we change our
exterior the interior will change
organically
inherently given education and
preparation and the right habits and
adequate discipline a person can change
that’s what we’re taught and man do we
try to live that we buy name brand
clothing we go after academic
degrees we try and do Feats we tell our
children you have to do something
important with your lives we tell church
goers come to church so that you can
have a good life or a successful life
but let’s take off the outer layer let’s
take away all the habits let’s remove
the makeup and beneath all that we’ll
see our true nature a selfish heart a
prideful heart sinful
heart when someone lets the mice free
then you’ll see what we all do there’s
no one better than Paul in describing
this in Romans 7:18 he says for I know
this this caused so much theological
controversy because they’ve been
debating it there people ask what is
what did he try to say but he said it
simply he
said for I know that good itself does
not dwell in me that is in my sinful
nature for I have the the desire to do
what is good but I cannot carry it out
for I do not do the good I want to do
but the evil I do not want to
do this I keep on doing now if I do what
I do not want to do it is no longer I
who do it but it is sin living in me
that does it so this is one of the most
uh brutally honest confessions that we
find in scripture the Apostle says so I
find this law at work although I want to
do good evil is right there with me for
in my inner being I Delight in God’s law
but I see another law at work in me
Waging War against the law of my mind
and making me a prisoner of the law of
sin at work within me it’s not some
crazy guy saying it’s someone who just
converted no it’s the Apostle Paul a
legend and then he finishes by saying
what a Wretched Man I am who will rescue
me from the body that is subject to
death this explains or this appears in
scripture to show us that it doesn’t
matter what we
do or how much effort we put into it we
will always sin against God one way or
another whether they put new clothes on
us they teach us how to walk on our hind
legs if they take us to the presence of
the king but let two mice cross our
paths and
boom the true us comes out to the Sur
and I know you’re looking at us as if to
say oh this message isn’t for me I knew
this wasn’t today this is for the people
that come to the second service but what
do we do no we lie we exaggerate we
covet we’re jealous we demand we gossip
oh good thing that gossipers don’t come
to this service right but we
gossip we gossip amongst our family we
murmur we Envy we insult and the animal
the Beast Within us takes control of us
so changing the clothes doesn’t
transform a man or a woman the external
Doctrine can never alter what’s
inside new habits don’t make a New Soul
if somebody wants to truly change the
Lord said that they have to be born
again and here we go here’s the
point this phrase of being born again
was used by Jesus when he was speaking
to Nicodemus Nicodemus was a decent man
he was a Pharisee a religious Governor a
member of the
Sanhedrin he made the most important
decisions in
Jerusalem and he also thought what the
majority of churches think nowadays that
if you change what’s on the
outside then inherently what’s inside
changes as if the inside organically
changes and
Nicodemus just like Paul wanted to do
good he wasn’t a bad guy he thought that
a good doctor Doctrine would make a cat
a waiter or a bartender but Jesus tells
him in John 3:3 he tells him very truly
I tell you no one can see the kingdom of
God unless they are born
again and Nicodemus doesn’t ask well why
he asks well how how can someone be born
again and here is the great secret that
bothers many people’s theology including
my own for many
years let me ask I asked last Sunday
what did we do to be
born how active were we in that process
obviously we have no memory of
it but did any of your mothers tell you
that you helped push during
birth did you say oh let me slip out
through here no does anyone of you
remember asking the doctor how the
contractions were doing and and if he
would be coming out soon no none of us
we were passive we took advantage of the
trip like I say they pushed us out we
weren’t born by what we did someone on
the outside did all the work yes or no
someone outside of us felt all the pain
our mother is the one who pushed she’s
the one that battled and fought and our
birth is thanks to someone else’s effort
the same thing goes for our spiritual
birth we’re born through Christ’s pain
it’s not by our own effort I’m going to
be born again no it doesn’t work that
way for something else not to be born
again we are born by the Lord’s efforts
yes it’s not by our blood but by his
blood that was poured out that’s why
we’re born again do we understand that
so he is the one that made things all
new when we were born again because the
first time we were born we were all new
new hands new eyes to use new members to
use now the second time we’re born when
we accept Christ in our hearts he makes
it all new so 2 Corinthians
5:17 confirms therefore if anyone is in
Christ the new creation has come how
beautiful you don’t need to have a lift
you don’t need Botox I know nobody here
uses that everyone here is natural but
there’s no need you don’t need to say oh
I’m happy with the
Lord doctors say hey get a refresh no
don’t believe it that’s that’s that you
look like Joker it’s terrifying it’s not
a
refresh the doctor told me that I have a
fresh face I look like I just got out of
bed no there’s no
need he says that he makes all things
new and then he
adds the old has is has gone the new is
here new eyes that now see with faith a
new mind so that now we can have
Christ’s mind he gives us new Strength
strength so that we have new energy when
we accept the Lord so that we don’t grow
weary a new
vision so that we don’t get discouraged
a new voice to praise new hands to serve
and fundamentally a new heart a heart
that Christ has purified so our first
birth let’s agree this might seem
childish but let me set the foundation
for what I’m going to
say our first birth was for our Earthly
life our second birth was for our
spiritual life the first time we
received a physical heart the second
time we received a spiritual heart the
first birth prepared us to have life
here on this Earth our second birth
prepared us to have eternal
life and so that there’s no doubt on how
to be born
again the Lord gives Nicodemus an
example he makes him remember when Moses
lifted up the serpent in the desert in
John 3:14 we find the story just as
Moses lifted up the snake in the
wilderness
this is Jesus talking to Nicodemus so
the son of man must be lifted up and you
might ask well why is he speaking about
the snake well to make a long story
short when the people of Israel were
leaving the slavery from Egypt and they
were on their way to the promised
land they were bitten by many snakes
that arrived in the desert where they
were camping because of their
Disobedience and so God tells Moses to
make a bronze serpent a bronze snake to
nail it to a post and tell everyone that
had been bitten to look at the at the at
the snake and they would be healed and
so the Lord told Nicodemus just as the
as Moses lifted up the
snake the son of man must be lifted up
just the way Moses nailed the snake to a
post Jesus was nailed to a
cross the people of Israel weren’t told
to take medicine or to
take or for someone to suck it out or
for them to do good do good works or for
Moses to intercede no they just had to
look up and they would be healed and
just as those people were healed and
saved when they looked up at the snake
we’re healed and saved when we look up
at the cross right look up and you’re
and it’s done for many that’s too good
to be
true we tend to believe all right God
saved us by Grace but we’re always
looking for the fine print in the
contract like no it can’t be that easy
my mom used to say when the offering is
too big even the Saints
distrust H when you get a big
offering the Virgin and the Saints say
hey what’s going on here are you a drug
dealer or what that’s how it
is because we are used
to believing that there’s always a trick
or a catch behind every good offer
nobody ever gives you anything for free
there are people that say well online
there are a lot of things that are free
well if it’s free online it’s because
you’re the product but there’s nothing
free the bank after all lends US money
if we can show that we don’t need
it if you go to the bank and you show
that you don’t need money then they lend
you money so we have to have enough
money to back the loan so then why would
we need the loan in the first
place bring me proof that you have a lot
of money so that we can lend you well
then why would I ask for this loan I
come here because I’m starving not
because I’m Elon
Musk insurance companies insure our cars
and this surprised
me it’s hard for me to find com
insurance companies for me for
myself as the great driver that I am
they say no we don’t want to ensure you
Gabel because we only ensure trustworthy
drivers that truly need it no but they
don’t need
insurance what do you mean I’m the one
that puts Bread on insurance agents
tables no you have to show us that
you’re a good driver that you’ve never
been in been in an accident well then
why do I want insurance I want insurance
so that I can go and
crash to get down and tell the Asian hey
I have
insurance or medical insurance it gives
us coverage as long as we can show that
we’re
healthy if you have a an existing
condition they don’t insure you you have
to
show that you enjoy good health but if
you’re sick and you’re looking for
health insurance no no no no no you have
to pay for an insurance and not use it
and in the same way we distrust God and
when we do that we’re stealing from him
let me explain why we’re stealing from
it and this has nothing to do with our
offering or our tithe we steal in a
different way imagine you give me a gift
a perfume I’m very very simple you can
give me anything you go boss I’m sorry
arm money uh excuse me you give me a
perfume I see the perfume and I pull out
my wallet and I ask you how much do I
owe you and you say no no no it’s just a
gift no Dante you don’t owe me anything
I understand oh what you want is a check
yeah you want a check that’s fine that’s
fine you don’t want cash so let me write
a check and you say no no I don’t want a
check I just want you to the gift and I
look at you and I say I know where
you’re going you want to extort me
you’re giving me your perfume so that
later on I’m obligated to do something
for you and then you start to get
bothered at this point anyone would get
bothered and you say look it’s a gift
you can’t pay for a gift I just want to
honor you and I look at you again and I
say all right I know that’s fine I think
what you’re looking for is that I buy
you another perfume as retribution for
your gift right at this point I’m
already offending you
I’m insulting your intelligence at the
very least because by trying to buy the
gift from
you I’m undermining your
gesture I took away your desire to give
a gift I took away the joy of giving I
took it and that’s the way we take God’s
joy when we try and pay for God’s
goodness it’s
offensive God loves a joyful Giver
because he is a joyful
giver when he gives you Grace he gives
it with joy and if we bad and we rejoice
when we give things what about our
father how much more does he Rejoice if
as humans we get offended when we
believe that a gift is an an attempt to
to subordinate us well how how about God
when we say well I give you thanks from
for Grace but I have to do something to
pay for it that’s where God offers us
Grace forgiveness and the enemy Whispers
to us Don’t Preach such an easy
gospel this week not just the enemy but
many people called me to say that
because of course it’s always easier to
easier to manipulate a more complex
theology being holy means you have to
come to church the whole week you can’t
miss any activities you have to follow
all the rules that defines good
Christians in theory and we have
infinite debates as to what you can or
can’t do and we evaluate other people’s
behaviors as if our gift was to judge
other people’s
maturity and we have our sinometer
measure in big sins little sins and and
you might say well what is the the work
that God wants us to do what does he
desire of us whether you believe it or
not all he
wants is for us to believe to have faith
that it’s like this someone has to say I
believe in him now I have a Biblical
basis John 6 29 says the work of God is
this to believe in the one he has sent
to believe
believe some might ask well are we saved
by works yeah the work he wants you to
do is for you to believe I know someone
is saying oh what a relief you’re
telling me that it’s possible to get
into heaven without having to do
anything without doing good works no the
answer is no good works are a
demand see how your faces
change so someone else asks all right
all right all right you’re saying it’s
possible to go to heaven without having
good character no no no no no no way you
also need good character to get into
heaven let’s see you have to at the very
very very least just to get started you
have to do good works have good
character but whoops Houston we have a
problem we all lack both
things
basically we believe ourselves to be
good people we believe ourselves to be
decent but that’s not enough to get into
heaven the Bible doesn’t say that the
decent will see God the Bible says that
without
Holiness without Holiness no one will
see the Lord Hebrews
3:14 so it’s not enough to be decent
without Holiness no you need Holiness to
see the Lord so you can pay your taxes
come to church read the Bible never
Watch The Simpsons kiss your
mother-in-law but without Christ we’re
not
holy nothing nothing nothing nothing of
what we can do qualifies as holy
Hess that’s why it sometimes astonishes
me when people say oh this church or we
here live in Holiness all scripture
describes any attempt of Self auto
salvation are
repulsive
Isaiah 644 says our works are like
unclean Rags referring to feminine
products Paul in Philippians 3:8 says he
equates our religious credentials with
manure he says everything I have is is
trash it’s it’s manure so how do we get
into heaven because you’re looking at me
kind of desperate at this point of the
sermon all you have to do is believe
except the work has been done by Jesus
on the cross what do I have to do well
accept that Jesus died for you because
God loved you
before God so loved the world that he
sent his son someone has to celebrate
more than that and then it
says those that believe and are bapt
whoever believes and is baptized will be
saved but whoever does not believe will
be condemned of course Mark 16:16 it’s
just believing the point as soon as you
say yeah yeah that’s
true in the movie The Last
Emperor a young boy who was anointed as
the last emperor of in China lives a
luxurious life he has thousands of
servants that run this way and that way
to tend to him and his brother asked him
at one point point in the film he says
what happens emperor when you do
something wrong and he says when I do
something wrong they punish someone
else
and to prove his point the boy breaks a
vase and immediately one of his servants
is whipped well in Christian theology
Jesus inverted that old guideline when
the servants messed up the King was
punished Grace doesn’t cost you
anything
but that’s because someone gave their
blood the one that gave us that Grace
was paid for by Blood Grace isn’t free
no it’s invaluable we would never be
able to pay for it it’s a scandalous
Grace it’s Relentless we would never be
able to pay for it and all you have to
do is believe so the thief on the cross
just believed and cried out remember in
Luke 23:42 Jesus Remember me when you
come into your kingdom and what did the
the Savior promise truly I tell you
today you will be with me in Paradise
the thief
he was almost an Argentinian that’s
what’s believed
theologically how can a guy like this go
to paradise how can a stained soul soul
a soul stained by sin go to heaven how
can it be saved I can imagine the people
down below as if there was a Pharisee he
didn’t believe what was happening up on
the crosses but it happened that the
thief’s sin left him and went to
Jesus every bad thought every vile
act all his greed and lust all that was
now covering Jesus Christ and at the
same moment Jesus’s Purity covered the
thief and the way the father clothed the
prodigal son Jesus clothed the thief and
he who had no sin was now filled by sin
and he who was filled by sin was now
sinless it was the most exceptional
Exchange in all of history Paul
describes it in this way in Galatians
3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse
of the law by becoming a curse for us
for it is written isn’t it marvelous
people second Corinthians 5:19
adds that God was reconciling the world
to himself in Christ not counting
people’s sins against them and he has
committed to us the message of
reconciliation so we were given a
perfect record which was Jesus and he
took our record and now what did he do
with our calamitous record you might be
asking what did he do with my sin well
we know that Jesus throws it into the
deepest part of the ocean but we’re
always scared that there are brothers
and sisters that have the ministry of
scuba
diving see one of the divers just
laughed right now out
loud Colossians 2:14 what did he do with
our sins well I could live with this
verse for the rest of my life having
canell the charge of our legal
indebtedness which stood against us and
condemned us he has taken it away
nailing it to the Cross someone has to
celebrate more than that people
hallelujah
now I know some are
thinking I know what you’re thinking
beloved
brother now I know some are thinking all
right all right all right I can’t debate
what you’re saying now because it’s in
the Bible but the Bible also says that
we have to give fruits this week someone
said all right all right all right all
right
you know what I believe in I’m saved but
what about giving
fruit you know there are people that
work as inspectors of other people’s
fruit oh let me see how many grapes this
sister has oh this person’s lacking
apples there are people like
this again
misinterpretation Jesus let’s see let’s
put it this way Jesus defines himself as
a good farmer who cuts and prunes the
Vine
John 151 says I am the True Vine and my
father is the
gardener he cuts off every branch in me
that bears no fruit while every branch
that does bear fruit he prunes so that
it will be even more fruitful then he
adds he
says go and give many fruits remain in
me
I ask what is the fruit that God wants
it’s not the fruits it’s just one
according to Galatians 5:22 that’s one
that
includes love joy peace forbearance
kindness goodness faithfulness
gentleness and
self-control putting up with your
mother-in-law could be part of the
fruit and so he is the
farmer who’s busy and active taking care
of the land the one one who
builds the one who builds and and and
and and tends to The Vines and the
plants and once again here’s the Dilemma
what do we have to
do well what’s the instinctive answer
well obviously I know what I have to do
I have to give off fruits but let’s not
rush if a branch doesn’t give fruit
let’s go back to this metaphor because
we can’t say oh the Lord spoke in hyperb
here but then he stopped no no no let’s
let’s keep going with the metaphor he
speaks of a Vine his father is a farmer
he’s the vine and we’re the branches
that have to give off fruit is it any
good for the farmer to demand a plant to
produce
fruits have you ever planted something
have any of you ever planted something
somebody lift your hand if you’ve
planted something oh write a book at the
very least do
something four people have planted
things is it any good to say hey tomato
grow grow in the name of Jesus I order
you to grow does that help at
all now let’s just say it were a
branch they understood what I said
earlier just
now they understood the scuba diving
Ministry because they’re a little
delayed
listen is it any good to say or for the
branch to say oh I’m going to produce
fruit because I’ve decided to produce
fruit is it any good to say oh I’m going
to try and try until I give off a grape
is that going to work even if we try and
even if we clench our jaw we’re not
going to produce a grape but religion
has taught us no now that you’re saved
it’s fine you can’t pay for your
salvation but give off
fruits we’re taught that we have to try
and give off fruit so what do you say oh
now that I’m a believer I’m going to try
and be patient Lord Jesus give me
patience now now give me patience that’s
how you want to be patient no you won’t
be patient it’s fine it’s fine it’s fine
fine fine fine I understand I understand
I’m going to give all fruits I’m going
to be joyful when I give Now give me
that stupid envelope so I can take the
money to the dumb piggy bank and I’ll
give no that’s not how it
works oh I need a grape to come on I
need a grape to come on no no no a
grape’s not going to come out something
else is going to come out of
you okay all right okay okay okay I’m
going to forgive this stupid person so I
can give fruit no you can’t give Fruit
by force that’s why sometimes the
religious people that try and have
fruits of Holiness end up showing their
true Essence because they
believe to be waiters of the king
because they walk on two
legs you show them a small Mouse and
then they show that they’re still
cats as soon as the Mouse runs by the
cat from within them comes out because
you can’t produce fruits by force any
religious person that roams on social
media starts by saying saying oh may God
bless you or here’s my humble opinion
what I do is I show them a
mouse I show them a mouse and then the
insult comes out they send me to hell
because that’s what they are they’re
cats that’s why we won’t find Jesus
saying I order you to give fruits no
nowhere we won’t find that God doesn’t
order us to give fruit look for it look
for it I already
did look for it even those of you that
have L Bible than a mosque look for it
really I’ve looked for it it doesn’t say
go and and bear
fruits I was at a church where someone
said to me I believe in that word of the
Lord that says I Won’t Give
Up L FY
316 people repeat things and they don’t
even know what’s in the Bible they don’t
even know what they’re
saying
it’s a fallacy to say that God orders us
to bear fruit so what’s the order he
gives us well let’s read it together
John
15 remain in me as I also remain in
you no Branch can bear fruit by itself
it must remain in the
vine neither can you bear fruit unless
you remain in
me I am the vine you are the branches if
you remain in me and I in you you will
bear much fruit someone has to say
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amen apart from me you can do nothing no
Doctrine no effort can you produce a
miserable
grape if you do not reain in remain in
me you are like a branch that is thrown
away and withs such branches are picked
up and thrown into the fire and burned
if you remain in me and my words remain
in you ask whatever you wish and it will
be done for you this is to my father’s
Glory that you bear much fruit showing
yourselves to show to be my disciples
isn’t it marvelous so what does the Lord
ask us for to remain in him it’s not Rel
religion it’s relationship I’m not
against the fruit but the fruit comes
out on its own I don’t wake up in the
morning and say oh today I believe I’ll
be a patient man yes I’m deciding it no
it’s not a
decision the fruit appears
organically you’re with Christ you spend
time in prayer you’re with him and the
grape comes out oh a
grape
another one oh oh it just
appears someone comes and they mistreat
you and they insult you and a blessing
comes out from within you because the
grape comes out on its own it’s not
about the effort and the doctrine or
what God says or I can’t avenge myself
no it’s not a law the fruit comes on its
own now apart from God we can’t give any
fruit we can’t apart from God you can’t
have spiritual life right
look
Jesus was a teacher he was a rabbi
right and in the Jewish culture each
teacher had his own yoke of teachings
their yoke were their teachings the
content the
message
sometimes penants many rabbis placed
yolks of teachings upon people that were
impossible they were legalistic like
when we would go to school in high
school and we had a professor or a
teacher that would give you a lot of
homework there was always one that gave
you so much homework they would ruin
your Friday they would ruin your weekend
you would have a test on
Monday because they wanted us to learn
by force and then there was the other
teacher the nice one should we
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study and I would say I love this
guy there are some that taught so well
that would say there’s no point in you
doing the homework if you don’t
understand it education wasn’t about
bringing in information but bringing out
what’s within well these guys had yolks
that set people apart from God instead
of bringing them closer they oppressed
people and one day Jesus spoke to the
crowds in
Mark or in
Matthew 11:28 and he said come to me all
you who are weary and burdened and I
will give you
rest take my yoke upon you and learn
from me for I am gentle and humble in
heart and you will find rest for your
souls and my question is does is
anyone’s Soul weary there was a song
that said weary Soul do not despair
waiting God one day I’ll I’ll I’ll make
a
CD so that my fans can have it and then
it adds for my yoke is easy and my
burden is
light this is crazy for a religious
person what do you mean it’s easy yeah
for my yoke is easy and my burden is
light and so Jesus teachings were on the
antipodes it was the antithesis of what
the rabbis were teaching back then
because he didn’t offer a series of
rules or rituals he offered Grace
Relentless Grace he offered them to be
connected to the vine be connected to me
and that’s it well there’s no catch
there’s
nothing sometimes activism the desire to
do is a great
disguise of course churches can become
that the Lord said elegant coffins a
church filled with activity is sometimes
the best hiding place for the
dead and having a relationship with
Christ no no no but I’m I’m at church
Monday through Friday playing music and
do you know the Lord are you connected
to to the vine no no it’s been a while
since it’s been that way I don’t feel
anything but you have no idea how I
serve I receive people at the door
really
a lot of activity doesn’t produce life
changes it gives the impression that
things are happening that there may be
life but the Lord says no no no no no
that’s it all you have to do is believe
and remain connected to me all the time
not just two hours a week all the
time that means that will that will
never chase mice again does that mean
that our old nature will never pop out
does that mean that we’ll always be in
in conditions to resist temptation to
answer this question we have to go back
to the nursery we have to go back to the
birthing room we have to look at the
newborn baby what does a newborn baby
do apart from going number two and
number one and crying can the baby walk
can the baby feed itself can the baby
sing read speak no one day they’ll be
able to but not today it takes time to
grow since the baby’s small and little
are the are the parents embarrassed to
the baby
no is the mother upset because the baby
can’t read or walk or because the
newborn can’t share a speech no of
course not the parents aren’t ashamed
they feel Pride they know that growth
will come through time and God knows the
exactly the same thing once we believe
and we’re saved then growth comes
through
time second Peter 3:9 says the Lord is
not slow in keeping his promise as some
understand slowness instead he is
patient with you not wanting anyone to
perish but everyone to come to
repentance he has such
patience I think well no I don’t think I
I’m confirming that God is much more
patient than we are with
ourselves we fall and we already believe
that we’ll never be born again or that
we were never born again we stumble and
we say I don’t think I was ever saved if
we have our old desires it’s because
we’re not New Creation because that’s
what we were
taught oh this person fell into sin
because they were never truly converted
that’s what they would say to me well
then
why why did they go through such Scandal
well because they never truly converted
they were just
convinced or they sinned because they
were they were never truly baptized what
do you mean I was there no no no they
just they just took a shower they bathed
they went for a
swim but like Juan Carlos Ortiz used to
say the founder of this church he would
say even if it were that way remember
this nobody Falls from Grace we all fall
into Grace into a net that holds us up
that supports us someone has to say Amen
yes or no it’s a
net oh someone fell oh well thank god
there’s the net of Grace we don’t fall
from grace we don’t fall from the net we
fall
into Grace
when we try to do good acts and we fall
Grace Catches Us it’s not a license to
sin but it’s just understanding that
from time to time a mouse will cross in
front of us and we’ll believe or will’ll
think well maybe I don’t have the Holy
Spirit am I fighting against these
desires do I want to strangle this
person because I have a demon within me
no it just means that we’re
growing to the stature to the measure of
the stature of the fullness Christ every
day and who can say I’m going to grow
who how do adolescence
grow adolescence it’s astonishing one
night they go to bed
small they go to bed with a small foot
and in the
morning it’s a big fooot they’re
Bigfoot their little shoes were like
this yesterday but now they’re two
canoes
right with hairy legs that you’ve never
seen
you ask why do they have so much hair
why are they so hairy they grow out of
nowhere it’s not because they decided to
do so they just grow Philippians 1:6
says that he who began a good work in
you will carry it on to completion until
the day of Christ
Jesus he hasn’t given up on you and each
day he will make us grow a little more
yes or no so let’s see
in many aspects our second birth is like
the
first because our new birth in our new
birth God provides everything we
need every all the pain that was felt
wasn’t through us but through someone
else and just as parents are patient
with a newborn God is patient with us
but there’s a
difference the first time we didn’t have
to decide whether we were going to be
born or not nobody asked us that’s a
question I would ask my mother when I
would get mad I would say I wasn’t I
didn’t ask to be
born the second time we’re born we do
have to decide to do
it the power is in God’s hand God puts
the
effort the pain is experimented by God
but the choice is ours and what’s the
choice well whether we believe or
not in these last days I was speaking
with many people that in theory we would
call unbelievers innocuous people I
don’t know people that are set apart
from God and they would ask well what do
I have to do to belong to this and I
said believe oh but I believe already
well that’s it
welcome everything else is a minor
detail when there’s a baptism we’ll
throw you in the
pool when there’s a Holy Communion we’ll
share but that all has to do with
sacraments and symbols and if there’s no
time for that don’t worry really you’re
not asking for anything no no all you
have to do is believe that he always
loved you that he died for your life
the gentleman was crying he never
believed in
anything everything that goes beyond
believing and remaining in the vine is a
foolish attempt to try and pay God for
that Grace it doesn’t matter how much we
take care of the doctrine God knows us
and God knows that we see a few
mice and our true Essence comes to light
there’s an old
story of when the emperor Frederick the
great visited a a a prison in Prussia a
state that existed in Europe in in the
Baltic
region and he spoke with all the
prisoners Frederick the great and they
all confirmed that they were innocent
and the king would ask well why are you
here and one would say oh I’m just a
victim of of the system another one said
oh I’m innocent I’m innocent I didn’t do
anything but then there was another
prisoner hiding in the corner that
didn’t say a single word and the
governor asked him what about you who do
you fault for your
sentence and his answer was your majesty
I
am guilty and I more than deserve My
Punishment and the emperor called the
guards he was surprised and he said free
this man before he corrupts the rest of
these innocent men in in these
cells so the
king can set us free as soon as we admit
that we messed up believe and repent
we’re not doing ourselves any favors by
justifying our acts by saying well the
Lord forgave me but you know what I’m
now I’m giving fruits by justifying that
we have a better
Doctrine or by forgiving our sins or
speaking about our errors instead of
sins no I remember when I was young
there were bandages called
Band-Aids and I thought they were
magical because it didn’t matter if I
had a splinter if
I had a gash I would say Mom
can I get a
Band-Aid and my mom will say what do you
mean son you need stitches that Band-Aid
won’t help and that’s sometimes how we
act we come to Christ with our sin and
all we want to do is cover it up with
good acts and holy and and healthy
Doctrine but God can’t heal what we’re
hiding 1 John 1: 18 says if we claim to
be without sin we deceive ourselves and
the truth is not in us we’re not
authentic
we can trust if we confess our sins he
is faithful and just and he will forgive
us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness the whole church not
just here but around the world we all
have a problem of a lack of authenticity
we all pretend that we’re not sinning
that we don’t have to confess each and
every day the Lord already died for all
of our sins all we have to do now is
confess them confront it and cover it
with the blood of Christ how can God
heal something that we deny H how can
God touch what we’re trying to
hide how can we have communion with
him with the vine and give fruit if
we’re hiding
Secrets if we’re not brutally honest
when we go and pray that’s communion
examine me oh God David
said observe my heart see the sins that
are hidden in other words maybe I’m
sinning in certain things and I don’t
even realize that maybe you could help
me and set me free from that as well man
that’s a heart aligned with Gods because
morally David had a lot of shortcomings
a
scammer a
killer or at least the intellectual
author an adulterer fornication so why
would God
say he is a man aligned with my heart
because even when he sinned he would say
oh Lord Don’t Take Your Presence from me
he lived in
communion he didn’t have higher morals
than the rest his soldiers had more
morals the little soldier that he sent
to kill had more morals than him but
what did the soldier lack well the fact
that David was connected to God and as
soon as a prophet confessed or
confronted him he broke that’s the true
fruit not trying through effort
how can God give us
forgiveness when we don’t even admit our
guilt how can God give us Grace if we
want to pay for
it the church has a problem with Grace
we want to pay for it and they write to
me and they say stop preaching a cheap
gospel no my friend you guys preach a
cheap gospel by saying that they have to
pay for
it when I receive by Grace I connect
with him and I begin to live in Holiness
in an organic way not through
effort am I explaining myself yes or no
what do you have to do well believe and
repent don’t add anything else to it
believe and
repent God has already paid for all of
our sin say all all I don’t like making
you repeat it but it’s it’s beautiful
all our sin what do we have to do just
confess it Lord yes I am an adulterer
yes Lord I I I’m lustful yes I gossip
Lord I’d love to be in the lines and
talk about everyone no no not here but
at the supermarket line I don’t know
where there is a beloved author that
wrote a magnificent
story and it was called it was a Pros a
unique Pros it was called if only you
knew I love it I I Adore it he
tells that one day a hummingbird went
into flew into a garage and couldn’t
find its way
out so the hummingbird was
flying all over the
room and so the author opened up a door
but the the the hummingbird couldn’t
find the door and the hummingbird kept
crashing its head up against the window
boom boom
boom the hummingbird wanted to leave but
with even with his determination he
would never be able to break the glass
and so the man opened the
window waiting for the bird to fly out
but the bird didn’t do that so the the
gentleman grabbed a broom and pushed the
bird softly towards the window but the
hummingbird got even more scared and
flew in the opposite direction and
instead of flying out the window the
hummingbird flew back and crashed up
against a brick wall and was left
stunned and now the hummingbird was was
trapped defenseless so the man took the
semi passed out bird and carefully
places it on the the window sill until
the hummingbird panics and flies out the
window when the hummingbird went back to
its nest it had a story to tell he said
hey
woman I’m not discriminating that’s what
the hummingbird said to his wife he said
you have no idea what just happened to
me what happened to you old man it was a
frightening day it just so happens that
I fall into an enormous room with false
exits well what do you mean false exits
well I could see outside but there was
an invisible wall that would push me
back isn’t it a glass or a window I
don’t know I don’t know but it was
pushing me back and then there was an
ogre a terrifying
ogre that took a stick and I’m sure he
wanted to eat me alive and when he tried
to to smash me I flew back cuz I have
reactions you know me woman I have some
quick reactions and this
ogre tried to trap me he lifted up a
wall behind me and the next thing I
realized is I was on the ground passed
out and I thought that I had already
gone to Hummingbird Heaven I thought I
was dead but the monster grabbed me
surely to eat me up but the fool thought
that I was dead so he put me right next
to the window I’m sure to prepare some
salt to or some condiments and but since
I’m since I’m quick oh yes that’s why I
fell in love with you old man well I
flew out my love I flew out I escaped
and and here I am now I’m strong and he
must be looking for me now the man was
trying to show an exit to freedom but
the bird thought that the man was being
cruel the man said hummingbird if only
you
knew that I was trying to help
you that I was on your
side if only you understood that that
stick was to guide you to the
exit and this story reminds us that
daily the help that God offers us tends
to be misinterpreted and we believe that
he’s punishing us that he’s harming us
and we complain about closed windows yet
we don’t see the wide open doors that
he’s
opened we’re filled with panic because
he wants to get close to us we try to
avoid that stick that tries to guide us
we avoid the fingers that try to free
us and God says if only you
knew he says to me once and again tell
my people that I love them that they
can’t imagine how much I love them
without ser
without fingers pointing at your past
it’s just a call to believe a call to
trust if only you knew hummingbird that
I came to help you and not to condemn
you if only you knew the gift that I’ve
brought to you eternal life if only you
knew that the only thing I want is to
take you home safe and sound but we
continue to ask okay okay okay what’s
the catch why that stick what’s the
catch here where’s the catch nothing’s
free
if only we could just
trust truly trust when he says I know
the plans for I know the plans I have
for you plans to prosper you and not to
harm you plans to give you hope and a
future Jeremiah
29:11 fill of Hope someone has to
celebrate that yes or
no if only we could learn to trust in
him until he cuts the branches so that
we can bear fruits he hears the pray of
the
thieves and him your father told me to
tell you this following message I don’t
know if you’re ready to hear this but
this whole message is what I believe God
placed in my heart but particularly
this this word was surgically placed
word by word he told me to tell you it’s
a
telegram it’s a documented letter that
he wants you to receive are you ready to
receive it yes or
no from The Moment I Saw You be born God
says I knew then and there that you were
mine the only thing you have to do is
believe that I have saved you and that I
loved you even before you were
born you just have to remain connected
to me but I warn
you I warn you that if you don’t do
it if you decide to not believe in me if
you decide to set yourself
apart if you abandon your
faith if you curse me if you insist on
continuing to sin if you decide to do
whatever you want with your life let me
just tell you now that you got into it
with the wrong parent I’m going to warn
you that I’m not willing to waste the
blood that I poured for my son or the
price that he had to pay for you to
believe and be found and brought back
home so it doesn’t matter to me how how
when or where you’re
hiding in the Heights The Depths below
the Earth and the heavens behind
anything
created I possess a very specific skill
set and I have centuries of experience
in finding people like you and I want to
tell you that if you try to disappear
from my presence then I will begin a
Relentless search I’m an expert in
finding my lost coins my lost sheep and
my lost children and I’m not willing to
negotiate
it or change my opinion so listen to me
what I’m about to say because I will
just say it once I swear by myself God
says that I will go after you I will
find you and I will forgive
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you someone has to celebrate God more
than that come on give a grand Applause
to the King of
Kings give a grand Applause to the king
that the king is in the house today
someone needs to celebrate because of
that Relentless Grace
Hallelujah blessed are you no no no no
no no celebrate celebrate celebrate
celebrate The King The King has spoken
this
morning blessed are
you and all you have to do is
believe all you have to do is believe do
you truly believe
the Lord has taken you
in and he’s told me that you’re the
item of a frantic search we’re
Unfaithful but he’s
faithful we fall but Christ Grace is
there to hold us up he won’t allow us to
fail he won’t let us finish the year in
a bad way he’s told me to tell you once
and again to remind you no one can take
what I have in my hand no one can take
what is
mine this isn’t Barca versus Madrid this
isn’t Mexico versus Argentina this isn’t
God versus the devil where sometimes one
wins and the and then the other one no
no no God gave us Victory to give us
eternal
life so lift up your hands and say with
me Lord I
believe even those that have been here
for a long time those that have been
Christians for a while say Lord I
believe how can I not believe whoa
impressive I believe God everyone
everyone
everyone I believe God I believe I
believe I believe
Lord receive receive receive this gift
receive it receive it son receive it
daughter Can you feel it at
home those that are all over the world
connecting the Lord tells me to tell you
now how I love you I love you so much
how could I forget you if I have you
sculpted it in my hands everyone
everyone praying lift up your hands and
and drink receive receive
receive those that are at home I don’t
have too much more to say we’ll take a
couple more minutes here before we go
but those that are at home I say goodbye
to
you by
saying the Lord tells me to tell you you
have no idea how much I love you Prince
you have no idea how much I love you
princess don’t listen to anyone that
tells you tells you the opposite he’ll
find you he’ll forgive you he’ll look
for you he’ll find you and he’ll for
you he’s taking you in from the moment
you were born it’s a promise from God
whether you like it or not may God
protect you may he bless you and may his
face shine upon you here we remain in
worship and on the other side I say
goodbye to
you don’t give in don’t
surrender and to those that are here
come on come
on Hallelujah Can you feel it give a
great great Applause to the Lord of
lords and King of
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