CHRIST, THE LIGHT
Rev. William Soto Santiago, Ph.D.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Very good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present and everyone through the Amazonas satellite or Internet in different nations, and all ministers and all those who are working in the Work of the Lord, may the blessings of Christ, the Angel the Covenant, be upon you all and me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For this occasion we read in Isaiah, chapter 60, verse 1 onwards, and it says as follows:
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand.
“CHRIST, THE LIGHT.”
Through the Scripture we hear a lot about the Light, and that there is a great blessing for people who will see the Light, just as there is a great blessing for people who have good eyesight, who can see and then they can see all the things that are happening around them.
Now, here this Scripture we read is about the Coming of the Lord, is about the Light being manifested to give light of knowledge to all human beings; we find that in addition to this promise here, there are others that speak of the Light For example, we have Hosea, chapter 6, it says:
“Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning
(in other words, as the morning, as dawn, the going forth of the Lord is prepared, the Coming of the Messiah)… his going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”
And now notice, His going forth will be according to this Scripture, as the morning, as the morning, and He shall come as the Latter and Former Rain unto the Earth. These are the symbols that speak of the Coming of the Lord for the Hebrew Church and Gentile Church.
The Hebrew Church is waiting for the Coming of the Lord, of the Messiah (in other words, Israel, the Jews), and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is under the New Covenant, is awaiting the Coming of the Lord as well. In Malachi chapter 4 also tells us, verse 1 onwards:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
That’s what will happen during the time of the great tribulation which corresponds, that time, to the three and a half years that remain to be fulfilled in the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy, chapter 9, verse 21 to 27. But it continues … so shall it be for humanity in the Last Day, in the end time or end of time, called the ‘great tribulation’ in the midst of Christendom. But for the born again believers in Christ that form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, says:
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”
Now look, for those who fear the Lord’s Name, it says, “shall the Sun of righteousness arise,” here it speaks of the Light coming from the Sun of Righteousness, coming from the Messiah, coming as the Sun of Righteousness, as the Light of the World to the Earth in the Last Day.
The last song you heard, was written in Israel when I was there in the year 1977 at the breaking of the day, and I looked out through the window of the Hotel Moriah, at that time, now … it has been renamed a few times, and it is the hotel where I stayed 99 percent of the times that I’ve been to Israel since 1977; there while I was looking out through the window towards the East, the sun coming up, came the inspiration for the chorus, and it is a prophetic chorus. “By the east it can be seen, a light is appearing.”
And now we’re talking about that same Light which is Christ, the Messiah, the Light of the world, the Light of Israel and the Light of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The divine Light manifested is the promised Word made flesh for each age in the messenger that God has for each time, for each age, and he preaching, bringing the message of his time, and God through him carrying out what God has promised for that time, this is how God is Light, and Christ said: “I am the light of the world,” and He said: “Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life,” He also in addition to John, chapter 8, verse 12, He, in John, chapter 16, verses 1 to 15, says that He will be with us and in us, in all believers in Christ and with us as the Mystical Body of believers, who form, we that form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Matthew, chapter 24, verse 14 to 16, says:
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the end come.”
For the Last Day the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached which John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth started preaching, where it speaks of the Kingdom of God and the establishment of the Kingdom of God that will take place on Earth, of which Christ said in the prayer Our Father, in chapter 6, verse 10 onwards of Matthew, it say that when we pray: “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come and Thy will be done as in Heaven also on Earth (or here on Earth).”
When praying we should ask for the Coming of the Kingdom of God which will be the restoration of David’s Kingdom on Earth, where the Messiah the Prince shall sit upon the Throne and in the Throne of David, and shall reign over Israel and all nations, because the Kingdom of the Messiah is universal; and it is there where Israel will be head of all nations, for Israel, the territory of Israel, is the federal district and Jerusalem will be the capital not only of Israel but of the entire world, and there shall be the Light of the world, the Messiah the Prince, seated on the Throne of David.
And now, many wonder: “How will this be which is promised?” It will be in the simplest way that people can imagine. Now the Light of the world, Christ, the Messiah and whom is the Angel of the Covenant which appeared to Moses … as had also appeared to Noah and spoke to Noah, and when Noah received that promised Word and became flesh in him, the Angel of the Covenant was shining through Noah, shining, bringing through Noah the message relevant to that time.
Therefore, the Word made flesh in Noah was the Light of the antediluvian world at that time, it was giving light, shining, revealing things that would happen, and how to escape, it was just one: the Ark which God commanded Noah to build.
Likewise every time, in every dispensational messenger, also in each messenger of each stage of Israel and the Church of the Lord, when the Word promised for each stage comes to the messenger of each stage, a man comes and is made flesh in that man and he proclaims it, there is Christ, the Light of the world, shining, enlighting, the heart, the spirit and the human being completely, enlighting him the understanding to see the Divine Program for the time in which he lives and to walk in the Divine Program, becoming part of the Word of God for that time.
And that promised Word is the one that God will be fulfilling and therefore it is the one God will support, to which God will be giving life, bringing it to fulfillment; that is the Word that will be prospered and therefore in whom that Word is, he that will be proclaiming it and those who will be with that Word working in God’s Program for that time, will prosper, will prosper spiritually and materially also, because that Word that will be in them and which they will be working with, God will prosper, and that prosperity will become the greatest blessing of God for the people who will be living at the time.
In Noah’s time, the Light was shining where Noah was living, and hence all the antidiluvian people could see it. But they closed their eyes so that they don’t see it and they paid no attention to what Noah was speaking about, which was the Light for that time: for the Word, which is the Light, was in Noah, was made flesh in Noa, and therefore the promised Word made flesh in the person for each stage is the light for that time, it is the light of divine knowledge to the human beings.
As we send children to school to receive the light of knowledge of different subjects they have, so we send children to school for children, Sunday school, we also come to the Church to receive the Light of the Word, to gain the knowledge of the Divine Program, the program of salvation and eternal Life, redemption program, and to know in the Divine Program in which part of the Divine Program we are living.
Because we are not living in Noah’s time. If we were living in Noah’s time, we should be with Noah, believing the message of Noah, which was that God would destroy mankind, the antediluvian world at that time, but there was a way to escape the divine judgment, escaping from death, and it was according to how God had revealed to Noah, building an Ark and entering the Ark to save his physical life. It did not work otherwise, that was God’s provided way for salvation to escape and then to form a new generation of human beings.
The antediluvian world was full of knowledge in all fields, it was not like some might think, that they were savage, without knowledge, although many of them were wild, but in knowledge: knowledge in science, mathematics and all sciences that the human being has.
But they were in trouble, wars, nations against nations, for power, the Earth was filled with violence, and Christ said: “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall be the day when the Son of Man will be manifested, so shall be the day when the Son of man cometh,” (Matthew, chapter 24, verses 34 to 39 and Luke, chapter 17).
And now we see that humanity is filled with violence, all nations are full of violence, because we are living in a time like Noah’s time, a time parallel to Noah’s time.
But just as the light shone at that time through the prophet Noah, on this end time Christ says in Luke, chapter 21, verses 27 to 28, that “the Coming of the Son of Man will be as the lightning that cometh from the East and shines where? in the West.”
The first Coming of Christ was there in the Middle East, the Son of Man manifested there, God through the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, in a veil of flesh, speaking to the people, preaching the acceptable year of the Lord. For the Last Day He will be preaching “the day of vengeance of our God.”
Now, as the lightning comes from the East, the Middle East there in Israel, and shows where? in the West, the American Continent. And now, “but unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” For the Jews the Coming of the Son of Man in the Last Day, they’re going to see it, The East is going to see what God is carrying out in the West.
Let’s see what the Rev. William Branham on page 69 [Spanish], paragraph 593 of the book of “Quotations,” which is a passage from the message preached … entitled: “Restoration of the Bride Tree.” preached in the year 1962. It says:
“There will come a Light, will rise. Whereabouts? Over in Jerusalem?
(Question) No, sir! The evening lights will not rise in Jerusalem. The evening lights go where? In the West! (And the West is the Americas) They had their day and refused it (in other words, the East, Israel, had its day), but the evening Light shall rise in the West. What for? To shine upon the Word …””
In order to shine on the Word, and what? and let us know what is in the Word of God for this end time, which are the divine promises for believers in Christ in this end time for that Word to become flesh in us and materialize, become a reality, to be fulfilled what God has promised to His Church for this end time.
And which things are promised? The gathering of the elect to give them the faith to be changed and brought to Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. From the West, which is the West, which is the American Continent, hence that Light will extend to shine upon all human beings who will see it and are written in the Book of Life.:
“To shine upon the Word What? To ripen the fruit
(or fruit), bring forth the Bride Tree with the same signs, wonders, and fruits that they had in the beginning.”
When the squeeze comes we will understand this better, because then the fullness of God will be manifested in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they will have reached maturity, they mature through the divine revelation that Christ brings through His Spirit in this end time, and that will be the Light shining upon the Word and upon the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that will be: “For thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord, of the Lord is risen upon thee.”
And that will be in the restoration program, the fourth stage, where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completely restored as it was at the time of the apostles, and in that environment the believers will receive faith to be transformed, they will receive faith to be changed, and after being changed together with the dead in Christ that will come and will be raised in glorified bodies, we will all be for a season here in glorified bodies, from 30 to 40 days, and then we’ll go with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore, it is important to know how that great Light will be shining on Earth, and thus filling all believers in Christ with the divine knowledge. On page 128 [Spanish], paragraph 1141 of the book “Quotations,” an excerpt of the message: “Feast of Trumpets,” preached in the year 1964, says:
“The Word made flesh is the Light of the age when they see it.”
And so we can still see what is the Light that has been promised to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. On page 105 [Spanish] also … I was satisfied to speak to you even if it was five minutes, but by reading this here, page 105, paragraph 907, of the message, extract of the message: “Why cry? Speak,” preached in the year 1963, says:
“The time of the Rapture is at hand. And we’re looking for a rapturing faith that can pull the churches together and give it some supernatural strength that can change these bodies that we live in
(look how everything will be ). We see a God that can raise the dead off the floor, or out in the yard and brings them back to life again and presents him before us. When we see a God who can take a cancer that eats a man to a shadow, and raises him up to a strong healthy man, that ought to give rapturing faith to the people.
That when that light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the body of Christ will be quickly gathered together
(in other words, the Church), and changed in a moment and taken into the Heavens, when what? When that light shines from heaven.”
Christ is heavenly, and the believers in Christ have also their citizenship in Heaven:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
(Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21).
And now, on page 118 [Spanish] of this book “Quotations,” paragraph 1054, says:
“When the persecution comes, don’t get scared; there is a Light said He’d catch His people away. She’ll not go through the tribulation. She’ll never do it. He said she wouldn’t, she’ll be caught away.
(in other words, She, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ). “
When the persecution comes, that squeeze, it will be a sign that our time for departure has arrived, and during that time of persecution the resurrection of the dead in Christ will take place, and also our transformation will happen. But by that time the full manifestation of God through Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will be in His Church; and what we saw in part in the Rev. William Branham, that powerful manifestation of God through the Holy Spirit in him, it shall be without limits in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at that time that She will be going through a squeeze: not through the great tribulation, through a squeeze to come.
That time will somehow emerge, therefore, keep your eyes open and do not stumble over the Word of God, do not to stumble over the divine promises, but remain steadfast believing them, because under that stage of squeeze and persecution, the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we which are alive we will be transformed, and after a manifestation there, of a certain time, and already premiering the new bodies, then we’ll go to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb with Christ, to Heaven.
Remember that when Christ was resurrected, He was with His disciples some forty days appearing to them at different times, but before when He rose immediately He ascended to Heaven, He presented Himself and presented the Sacrifice and His Blood before God on the Throne of Intercession on the Mercy Seat, the Throne of God; and then He appeared to His disciples and spoke with them, ate with them, and showed them that it was Him, although they knew Him not because in the resurrection is a glorified body and therefore a young body that will represent between eighteen to twenty one years of age .
They were not able to recognize Jesus, who had been with them for three and half years, means that there was a change in His appearance; it is like the one who knows you: when you are transformed and he sees you and you say to him: “It’s me, such and such” or he sees you, he is not going to know you, not going to know that it is you, and if you say to him: “It’s me, so and so,” he will not believe you either until you speak to him about some things he already knows that you know about him or that you told him, and then he will be able to understand a little.
If the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ did not know Him when He was raised, much less they will know you when you are transformed, and the dead believers in Christ who died, when they rise, but we will know people of our time, those who have departed when they rise and appear to us and talk to us.
We are not expecting those who died, born again believers in Christ, to be resurrected in the bodies they had, mortal bodies, but in immortal, glorified bodies; that’s why we’re seeing and watching each other the last days of our earthly life, because then we we’ll see each other but in the eternal and glorified body, and we will no longer look representing the years that we represent today.
For young people, well, may be the change will not be very noticeable, but one will do notice it, because it will be in perfect, immortal, glorified bodies, and therefore with all the divine power. What they shall speak, it will be so fulfilled, the power will be in everyone as it was in Christ our Savior.
We are waiting for that glorious moment of our transformation. He says that when Light of Heaven shall shine and the trumpet sounds, the body of Christ will be gathered together and in a moment it will be changed (in other words, transformed).
Do you see why it is important to know, to know, this Light that will shine from Heaven, this Light which will also carry the Church, the believers in Christ, when the squeeze comes, when that persecution comes, fear not: there is a light that says it will take His Church.
Therefore, when that Light shines, shines from Heaven, remember it is heavenly, the Light shining in the Last Day, it is from Heaven, comes from Heaven; it is Christ manifested in the Last Day in the midst of His Church. Now it says that the trumpet shall sound, he says it will be when the Light has shone from Heaven, that these things will happen:
That when that light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the body of Christ will be quickly gathered together
, and changed in a moment and taken into the Heavens, when what? When that light shines from heaven.”
Here there is another place which says, page 169 of the book of “Quotations,” paragraph 1509, says, that was preached in 1965:
“I thought, Oh my God, one day there will come a blast from Heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Them Old Testament Saints
(it says here, but it may be from the ancient age) back yonder who are waiting for your call a blast forth and come out there first and go into the resurrection; we’ll drop in line and going to the skies, these old mortal bodies changed and made like unto His Own glorious body (glorified).”
The blast of Heaven is the one of which Paul speaks in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 58, it says:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
You can then look in your Bibles to read it and have it as it was written, I’m just quoting it, and it’s good you look for it for you to have it then as it was written … let’s see here, it says chapter 15, verse 51 and onwards says:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Then we will already be immortal, with young, eternal, glorified bodies. The apostle Paul also, very knowledgeable of this topic and firm believer in this promise, says in Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 15 onwards:
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God
(there you have the trumpet): and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
There we also find the Trumpet of God, from Heaven, this is nothing less than the Voice of Christ speaking in the Lord’s Day, in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium from Adam until now, or third millennium from Christ until now, because the last days before God are the last millennia which are: fifth millennium in which Christ lived at the beginning of this millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.
Of those three millennia the last millennium is the third. Two millennia from Christ toward us have already passed by, and we are already in the third millennium from Christ until now, these are the last days: the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium before God, for “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Notice, Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11 which reads:
“I
was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.”
What day does he hear that great Voice as of a trumpet? In the Lord’s Day, to which John the Apostle was translated in spirit: “Saying…”
“Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last…”
Who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the first and last? Christ our Savior. All these things are promised for the resurrection of the dead in Christ, the transformation of believers who are alive, and the rapture or catching away of the Church pertain to the Last Day, and it’s that time of redemption, the day of Redemption which is that time where the physical redemption is carried out, which will be the transformation our bodies, the redemption of the body, of which Paul spoke in Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 30 says:
“Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
The day of Redemption, the day of redemption of the body, which will be our transformation. Romans, chapter 8, verses 21 onwards says:
“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
Because we will be physically delivered from the condition of physical corruption. The body has a span of time of life, then it dies and and goes away:
“…into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
The redemption of our body which will be our transformation to have eternal, immortal, glorified bodies, it will be our physical adoption, the redemption of the body. Now notice, why have we been sealed with the Holy Spirit for the day of redemption, unto the day of our … and until the day of our physical redemption, the redemption of the body.
We have already been sealed, we are sure and we are awaiting the redemption of the body which is our transformation, for which in this end time the Light, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will be shining through the promised Word for our time, through that which God has promised for our time, where that Word will become flesh and through that manifestation in the flesh of that Word of promise, all the promises Christ made to His Church will be fulfilled, which have been made by the Holy Ghost through the prophets of the Old Testament and New Testament and the apostles and messengers of every age.
Under the Light shining in the Last Day in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the promises that are made to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be fulfilled, and therefore they will be made through the manifestation of the Spirit of God in His Church. Just as God poured Himself out, was manifested in Christ in all His fullness, placed all His power in Christ, Christ has placed all His power in His Church. Through the Holy Spirit He said: “I am with you always until the end of the world,” how? In Holy Spirit, and through the Holy Spirit all of God’s power has been placed in His Church, made available to all believers in Christ.
It is Christ in His Church in Holy Spirit who has been shining through the Word promised for every age through Peter, the rest of the apostles, Paul among the Gentiles, and other messengers, through the Rev. William Branham and from North America Christ shining upon all nations, and in our time too.
It is important to set our eyes on Christ, the Light, shining in this end time, on the Word promised for our time being quickened, being brought to life, being brought to fulfillment, in this end time.
It is in the Word promised for each age that the manifestation of Christ is among His people always, and it is where we can see Christ in the midst of His Church, for He is the Word, the Word which became flesh and dwelt among the people, saying: “I am the light of the world,” and He also said to His disciples: “Ye are the light of the world.”
Christ shines through His Church from age to age, as the sun shines through the moon in different phases of the moon when it is seen, the moon has no light of itself, it is the sunlight that is reflected on the moon and the Church hasn’t got its own light, but the Light of His Church is Christ, the Light of the world, shining in the midst of His Church.
“CHRIST, THE LIGHT.”
When the Word promised for every age is made flesh, there is the Light shining in the messenger where it becomes flesh and in the Church of that age that has received Him, has believed and worked with the messenger, it was so from stage to stage, and so will it be in this final stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are in a time when God is calling and gathering His Church to give Her faith to be changed and brought to Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. It is important to understand how the Light comes to the Church and shines in the midst of the Church: from age to age there is a man who can turn on that Light which is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, through the messenger that He has for that time. There is no other way, it has been from age to age, both in the Old Testament and New Testament, but it is always the same person who turns on the light, the one with the switch to turn on the light in the midst of His people.
“CHRIST, THE LIGHT.” Christ the Light of His Church and in His Church, and Christ the Light, Christ the Angel of the Covenant, the Light of the Hebrew people. Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of God, which was manifested in human flesh in His fullness two thousand years ago, the same that was manifested in the prophets, the same who then said: “I am with you always, until the end of the world.”
And already some two thousand years since Christ until now have passed by, and He has been in the midst of His Church all the time. In this time as in other times where He shone in the midst of His Church, He will also be shining according to His promise, and then we will see things of the Boble which we did not understand, Scriptures, the Divine Program, we will understand them and being prepared, being matured, with the Light of Christ, the Son of Man shining on the Last Day, because we will stand before the Son of Man to mature in the manifestation of Christ, the Son of Man in the Last Day, to mature in the knowledge of the Word of God, the Divine Program for our time, and also learn the history of what has been the Divine Program of the past, which helps us to understand that a new stage of the Church will be repeated in our time, a new stage for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb’s Bride, Christ our Savior.
“CHRIST, THE LIGHT.” The Light of His Church.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant be upon you and me too.
If there is someone who has not yet received Christ as Savior, you can do it right now and will be praying for you for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom, forgive you and cleanse you with His Blood from all sin and be baptized in water His Name and Christ will baptize with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, for which you may come forward where we are, and those in other nations may come forward there back in the church auditorium where you are right now, so that you may be included in the prayer that we will be doing for you.
The most important thing is eternal Life, and we can only obtain it through Christ our Savior, He said, “My sheep hear my Voice and I know and I give them eternal Life, and they shall never perish; my Father that gave them to me is greater than all and no one can pluck them out from the hand of my Father.” (John, chapter 10, verses 27 to 30).
There is no other way to receive eternal Life, God has given us eternal Life and this life is in His Son Jesus Christ, “He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son hath not life, hath no eternal Life,” (First John, chapter 5, verses 10 to 13); and the good news is that God has given us eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Savior, there is no other way to receive eternal Life.
Children ten years and older can also receive Christ as Savior, because they are aware of good and evil, most children in that age; and children from 13 years and older have full knowledge of good and evil.
In all countries you can also continue coming forward to be included in the prayer that we will be doing for them that are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior. We will stand on our feet to pray for people who have come to the Feet of Christ our Saviour here and in other countries.
The most important thing is eternal Life, there is nothing more important, Christ said:
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and loses his own soul, or what shall a man give in Exchange for his soul?
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”
(Matthew, chapter 16, verses 26 to 28).
And Revelation, chapter 22, verse 12 says:
“Behold I come quickly and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Now we are ready to pray for people who have come to the Feet of Christ right now, therefore, with our eyes closed and hands raised everyone:
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come and Thy will be done as in Heaven also on earth.
Lord, eternal God, I come to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, O heavenly Father, and I bring before Your presence all these people who have now received Christ as their only Saviour. I pray You receive them in Your Kingdom.
Now, repeat after me this prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Thy Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You with all my heart, I believe in Your first Coming, I believe in Your death on the Cross of Calvary as the Sacrifice of Atonement for my sins and the sins of every human being, and I believe in Your Name as the only Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. I give public testimony of my faith in You and receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin and baptize me with the Holy Ghost and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name and produce in me the new birth.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live forever, Lord, make a reality in my life the salvation you purchased for me on the Cross of Calvary, I accept You as my Savior and accept the salvation You purchased for me on the Cross of Calvary.
I pray You for it to become a reality in my life and I pray all these things in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
With our hands raised up to Christ, to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
Christ has received you in His Kingdom because you have received Him as your only and sufficient Savior; you will say to me: “I want to be baptized in water as soon as possible in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for He said: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned.” You will say to me: “I heard the preaching of Christ, I believed and now I want to be baptized in water in His Name as soon as possible. When can I be baptized?” You may well be baptized in water right now, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth.
Christ Himself was baptized by John the Baptist, who when he saw Him entering the baptismal waters, he says to Christ: “Jesus, I have need to be baptized by you, do you come to me so I baptize you ?” Jesus Christ says to him: “It is becoming us to fulfill all righteousness,” and then he baptized Him.
If Christ to fulfill all righteousness needed to be baptized by John the Baptist, the more we need to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Water in baptism does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is in the likeness of death, burial and resurrection of Christ. In water baptism is that we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
When a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world. When the minister immerses the person in the baptismal waters, typologically he is being buried. And when he rises him from the waters of baptism, he is being resurrected to a new life, unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. As simple as that is the symbolism, typology, of water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it was a divine commandment that Christ gave to all believers in Him to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ; they were baptized by the apostles, Peter and other apostles, and (also) Paul and by ministers who have been baptizing everyone who receives Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
It has been going on for two thousand years in the midst of Christianity, and there are millions of human being who have received Christ as Savior and have been baptized in water in His Name, and then have received the Spirit of Christ and have received the new birth and have entered the Kingdom of God and have eternal Life and they shall never perish, they will live eternally in glorified bodies with Christ in His Kingdom.
The good news is that He has given us eternal Life, therefore you can be baptized those who have come to the Feet of Christ right now, which are present or in some other country, and we continue to see each other for all eternity in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior. You may continue spending, everyone, a happy afternoon, and we’ll meet next Sunday God willing.
And we will also be during Easter, I’ll be with you during Easter, pray much for the Easter activities, and pray much asking for the protection of Christ with His angels to the Church, His Church, to protect us always, to take care of all the dangers, because we know that there comes a time, a very difficult time for believers in Christ, and most of all for those who will be transformed and brought to Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
So pray much for Christ to protect us all in this end time and use us in His program for Him through us to carry out the work that He has promised to carry out, and may we soon be transformed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
Well, may God continue to bless everyone and may you continue spending a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. And also to Miguel there wherever he is, God bless you Miguel, and to every minister where Miguel is, and in all nations and all believers in Christ: may the blessings of Christ be upon you all and me too. Amen.
Well, I leave with you the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez to let you know how to do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you and keep you all.
“CHRIST, THE LIGHT.”