Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present, and all those who are connected through the Amazon satellite or via internet in different nations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me as well, and may He open the Scriptures to us and understanding in order to comprehend the Word of God, so that our souls may be nourished. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program pertaining to this end time.
We have already heard the announcements regarding the Judicial Forum that will take place tomorrow from 8 in the morning to 8 in the evening at Universidad Libre in Bogota, Colombia, and also about the dinner we will have with the magistrates today, on Sunday evening, at about 7 in the evening… at 7 in the evening, God willing.
You have also already seen the video of the Judicial Forums, where, just as I can say that I have a little part there, how many of you can say that, too? Each one of you as well! Because everyone is given the opportunity to participate in those Judicial Forums (some in one way, and others in another), and also in the other projects of the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace, in which everyone can also participate, because everyone has been given the opportunity to be an Activist for Peace of the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace. It is a work carried out in favor of the human family.
For this occasion, we will read in Saint John chapter 15, verses 12 to 17, where Jesus Christ tells us:
“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.”
“A COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD: THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
Love is the cornerstone of virtues, and for that reason, the final stage of the Divine Program in and with His Church is the Cornerstone of the entire Work of Christ with His Church. And that is why this stage is called the stage of Divine Love, as well as the cornerstone of all the virtues of the Church and in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Divine Love, love from the soul, from the heart, that is the kind that God requires of us towards Him. This is why when the Lord Jesus Christ is asked in Saint Matthew chapter 22 about which is the greatest or main commandment; let us see what Christ answers. Saint Matthew chapter 22, verses 34 to 40:
“But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
All the Law and the prophets depend on loving God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, and their neighbor as themselves. That is the summary of the Law. In other words, the Law is summarized in love.
That is why the first commandment is love towards God, the only God. This is why it says: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” [Deuteronomy 6:4.]
That is why idolatry is forbidden in the Bible, because there is only one God, whom every human being is called upon to love, to serve; and not have foreign gods to love. When a person seeks foreign gods, he is being unfaithful to God, and that is spiritual adultery.
That has been the problem, a big problem with Israel, God’s people; and that has brought grave consequences to Israel. It also brought grave consequences to Solomon and his kingdom. There is only one God, the only true God, the rest are human inventions.
And that true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who says of Abraham: “Abraham my friend.” And Christ says of His believers, “my friends.” In other words, the same thing that Abraham is to God (his friend), the believers in Christ are to Jesus Christ: His friends.
That is why He says: “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” [John 15:15.]
You know that friends tell each other everything, and sometimes, if the wife finds out she gets upset with her husband, because they even tell each other things about the home, and they ask each other for advice; and sometimes it is good advice, and sometimes it is not so good.
But the issue is love between God and His believers. Notice, love expressed; because it’s not just love through words, but it must be through deeds as well. God said that His people honored Him with their lips, in other words, they were paying lip service to Him, but their hearts were very far from God.
Let us see the expression of God’s love towards the human being. Saint John chapter 3, verses 16… verses 14 and on says:
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
The first coming of Christ is the maximum expression of God’s love for the human family. God says that He loves the human family, the human being, and He showed this by sending Jesus Christ to the human family, to be like the human beings, and that Body of Jesus was none other than the veil of flesh or body of flesh where God was dwelling in all His fullness. That is why it is said: “God has visited His people.” How did He visit them? Dressed in a human body. “That a great prophet is risen up among us.” [Saint Luke 7:16.] He was the prophet of whom Moses said: “A prophet like me will raise up the Lord your God or our God; Him shall ye hearken.”
And that prophet would be the Prince Messiah, in whom God would be dwelling in all His fullness, and for this reason He was also called… that was in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 15 to 19. And God has also visited us in His first coming with a purpose; just like when a friend visits another friend at his house, he does so with a purpose; a purpose of brotherly kindness, of affection, of companionship, of friendship, and family companionship as members of the human family.
In Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, it says the following regarding the Messiah: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” And Emmanuel means “God with us”.
Notice the way in which God would visit the human race: He would visit the human race as a man in the midst of mankind, as a prophet, which was represented when God visited Abraham the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and He came accompanied in that visit, He came with Gabriel and Michael.
And when Gabriel and Michael appear, something major is going to happen. Something major was about to happen there: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. But for Abraham it was a blessing, it was the final confirmation that next year Abraham would receive the child that God had promised him, whom Abraham had been awaiting for twenty-five years. And the more years passed, Abraham did not think that he was farther away from the promise that God made, but rather, he could say: “I am a year closer to being able to receive, and to receiving the promised son.” And that promised son, Isaac, represents Christ in His second coming to come to Israel.
And He is also the promised Son for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the promised Isaac, the son that Sarah could not conceive because she was barren, and then years passed and she grew older. Barren, and to make matters worse, old in age, it was impossible; but God had promised it and there is nothing impossible for God.
It is the same way for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to whom the promise has been made of the coming of the Lord for the Last Day. And even though the Church is advanced in age, it’s about two thousand years old, around two thousand years from the day of Pentecost to the present time, at the Last Day with Christ’s blessing, with God’s blessing, He will rejuvenate her, and the stage to rejuvenate her… let’s see which one it is… Abraham was 99 years old, and when he reached 100 years of age, the promised son was there, in the second jubilee, because the year of jubilee is always the year fifty.
The promised son did not arrive on the first fiftieth year of jubilee, on Abraham’s second jubilee year, when he reached 100 years of age, God told him: “Next year you will have the promised son.” On the second jubilee year, the promised son came.
We find that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is in the cycle of the year of jubilee, waiting for the promised Isaac, the promised Son, which will be the coming of the Lord to His Church.
When will He come and how will He come in regards to the year, day, and hour? We will leave that alone, and when will it be explained? When it is fulfilled.
When the Seventh Seal is opened, then we will be able to say: “This is the fulfilment of the coming of the promised Son to His Church, in the stage of Divine Love, in the stage of the Cornerstone, which pertains to the fiftieth year of the Church, the fiftieth cycle.”
Seven stages have passed, which correspond to the forty-ninth cycle, represented in forty-nine years, and the fiftieth year is the jubilee. And now, we were given the opportunity to live in the Age of Divine Love, where love will be restored from the bottom of the hearts of the children of God, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ towards God.
In the first stage, there in Ephesus, Christ says that His Church had left Her first love, Her first love towards Christ, but in this end time She will regain it, because the believers of the Last Day will be present in the Age of Divine Love; and therefore, that will influence the heart, the soul of every believer, to love God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, and with all their strength.
That will be the main commandment to be written in the soul, in the heart, on the flesh tablets of the heart of every believer. And therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be fulfilling that commandment
It will no longer be in literal stones, but rather on the stones or flesh stone tablets of the heart, as the Apostle Paul tells us in different places, such as Romans chapter 2. And therefore, there will be a group of believers who will be very grateful to God, who will be loving Him with all of their soul. Chapter 2, verses 28 to 29 says:
“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”
This is what the Apostle Paul tells us there in Romans, and also in Hebrews he tells us the following in chapter 8 of Hebrews… Hebrews chapter 8, verse 10:
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.”
Now the Law that was given in stone tablets would be written on the tablets of the heart of every believer in Christ, and the circumcision that was made on men in the flesh is now made in the heart of the human being by the Holy Spirit. This is under the New Covenant which Christ spoke of in Saint John, Saint Matthew, Saint Luke…also during the Last Supper, in chapter 26, verse 26 to 29 of Saint Matthew says that when He had supped, He took the bread and broke it and gave it to His disciples and said: “Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you.” He typified His body in the bread. And then, taking the cup of wine and giving thanks, He said to His disciples: “Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Here Christ is showing that He will establish the New Covenant that was promised in Jeremiah chapter 31, where He would write His Laws on the tablets of the people’s hearts, and therefore, those Divine commandments, being in the heart, would be wholeheartedly obeyed and fulfilled by every believer in Christ.
Love is the greatest virtue; it is the cornerstone of all virtues. Therefore, love towards God and towards our neighbor will be manifested in all its fullness in the mystical Body of Christ at the Last Day. And out of love, the mystical Body of Christ will also work in the Age of Divine Love, for the blessing of the Divine Program and of their neighbor.
Notice, another expression of this shown by the Apostle Saint Paul, a knower of Divine Love. Having been a persecutor of the Church, God had mercy, Christ appeared to him in the Pillar of Fire, that is, in Holy Spirit, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is the same Christ, the same Angel of the Covenant, who was in the Old Testament, then He appeared in human flesh and carried out the appointed Sacrifice, and then He descended on the day of Pentecost upon one hundred and twenty believers, and He has continued to descend upon all those who receive Him as their Savior.
It is Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit, also called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of God.
Jesus Christ is the most important person of Heaven and Earth, and it is a great blessing and privilege to receive Him as our only and sufficient Savior.
And why do we receive Him? He said: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life.” We receive Him as our only and sufficient Savior so that He may give us eternal Life.
The coming of Christ to Earth two thousand years ago was the greatest expression of God’s love. Notice in Romans, chapter 5, verses 5 and on it says:
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us (notice, he shows his love towards us), even after being sinners Christ died for us.”
In other words, that the coming and death of Christ on Calvary’s cross is the greatest evidence, the greatest expression of the love of God towards the human being. And the greatest expression of an individual’s love towards God is to love God and fulfill His commandments, which are written in the soul, in the heart of the people.
“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”
We have been reconciled with God through Christ.
And now, God’s House being under a New Covenant… the House of God under the New Covenant is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Temple of God under the New Covenant, under the New Testament. Saint Paul also tells us about this in Hebrews chapter 3, where he teaches us that we are God’s family, the House of God. Hebrews chapter 3, verses 5 to 6 says:
“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
And now, the House of God, the Temple of God, God’s family, is composed of all the believers in Christ. It is being built with living stones, human beings who receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior; and thus they have been born in God’s family, in the House of God, the Kingdom of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the one that has received the Kingdom of God, which is in a spiritual realm.
Chapter 2 of Ephesians, verses 14 and on says:
“For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”
Whenever any person watches films set in the time of monarchs, kingdoms, kings and queens, they say: “I would have liked to live in those days and be the son of the king and queen,” always searching for the best. And that is a positive way of thinking: we should always seek the best, the maximum.
Now, what about being a son or daughter of God? That is the greatest thing. And God is the King of the Heavens and Earth, and His children are kings and queens, who through the Blood of Christ have been cleansed and placed in the House of God, as God’s family: members of God’s family. And that is why the entire Divine program in the Divine Covenant has been developing in God’s family, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And for the Last Day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be waiting for the Cornerstone of God’s family, which is the second coming of Christ, coming as the Headstone, the Cornerstone that Daniel saw in chapter 2, verses 30 to 45, the Stone not cut by hands that came in the time of feet of iron and clay, in the dream or vision that Nebuchadnezzar had.
And see, it is in that stage–which pertains to our time–that the second coming of Christ will become a reality.
Since the time of the apostles, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been awaiting the second coming of Christ. They had the first coming back then, and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time will have the second coming of Christ, who will come as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work, to reclaim everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood, to restore them to physical eternal Life with physical, immortal, young, and glorified bodies like the glorified Body of Jesus Christ our Savior.
It continues saying in verse 20 of that same chapter, chapter 2 of Ephesians:
“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; (See? Jesus Christ is the Cornerstone.)
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
Now, we can see that the Temple of God under the New Covenant is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why all the things that were in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, are in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in people, being fulfilled.
For example, the two olive trees, the Ark of the Covenant, the two olives trees, and all of these things that were there will be materialized in human beings; and what was in the Holy Place has been materialized during the Seven Church Ages.
The sacrifice that was offered in the Atrium was carried out by Christ on Calvary’s cross, and the things that pertain to the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, when will they be materialized? In this end time, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why we find that the Ark of the Covenant was there, which represents Christ, the Word.
And it is in this end time that it passes onto the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, which is the Age of the Cornerstone. And the two cherubim of gold upon the mercy seat, and the two giant cherubim of olive wood covered in gold which King Solomon built–the two olive trees, the cherubim of olive wood pertaining to the two olive trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah–will be in the stage of the Most Holy Place in the Spiritual Temple of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day, in the Golden Age, the Cornerstone Age, the Age of Divine Love expressed to the believers in Christ, and from the believers in Christ to Christ.
Therefore, that Spiritual Temple of Christ has been growing from age to age. Just as a building that is being constructed grows as the stones or concrete blocks are being placed, that is how the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been growing, and now it is at the point where the last stones–which are people, living stones–are being placed.
And once that construction is finished, it is followed by the dedication, the inauguration, as some people call it. Just as King Solomon did when he dedicated the Temple to God, and as Moses did when he dedicated the Tabernacle to God, where the presence of God came, in that cloud of light, in that Pillar of Fire, and It entered and dwelt there.
That is how the coming of the Lord will be to His Church for and in the dedication of the spiritual Temple, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to dwell in His Church in all His fullness. In other words, the Church is awaiting a great blessing, in which She will receive the transformation, and then go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
In this time, the Church will be loving God with all Her soul, with all Her heart, with all Her mind, with all Her strength, and Her neighbor as Herself. Let us love one another this way, because it is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And in this final age, the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of Divine Love, we will receive all of God’s blessings. And before the great tribulation begins, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with glorified bodies, because there are no rockets or planes to take us to the House of the heavenly Father, to the seventh dimension.
But Christ has promised to take us with Him. And He said: “My words shall not pass away.”
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” [Saint Matthew 24:35.]
Therefore, in this end time we will have God’s visitation, Christ’s visitation in the midst of His Church. It’s His Church that has the promise of the second coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work with the little book open in His hand.
The little book that was sealed with Seven Seals in chapter 5 of Revelation, then He opens it in chapter 6, and in chapter 8, and then He brings it to Earth in chapter 10, the Title Deed for our restoration to eternal physical Life, as it is promised in the Scripture.
Therefore, keep loving God with all your soul, with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your strength, and your neighbor as yourself. The same applies to me as well.
If there is anyone who has not received Christ as their Savior yet, you may do so at this time and we will be praying for you so that the love of God through Christ is poured into your heart and He forgives you and cleanses you with His Blood from all sin; so that you be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord, and Christ baptizes you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and produces in you the new birth, and thus you are born in God’s Kingdom.
Remember that Christ said to Nicodemus in Chapter 3 [Saint John verse 5]: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
And we all want to enter into God’s Kingdom. For that reason, we must be born of the Water: of the Gospel of Christ, and of the Holy Spirit in order to enter into God’s Kingdom, the only Kingdom wherein the person is safe and in peace, knowing they have their eternal future safe in Christ.
You may continue coming to the front, those who have still not received Christ, and God has spoken to your soul, to your heart, because faith comes by hearing the Word, the Gospel of Christ, and with the heart man believes unto righteousness but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The most important confession a human being can make in his life is to confess Christ as his only and sufficient Savior. The greatest decision a person can make is to receive Christ as his only and sufficient Savior, because that is the only decision that places the human being in eternal Life. There is no other decision that places you in eternal Life, only receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
God has many people in Bogota, Colombia, and in all the beautiful Colombia, and He is calling you in this end time. And if the Kingdom of God is filled with Colombians, don’t worry, there is enough room in the Kingdom of God, and God has many people in all the countries of Latin America, and He is also calling them in this end time. And the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ, is being filled with Latin American and Caribbean people, and He has many people in other nations as well and He is calling them in this end time.
The only safe place is God’s Kingdom. There is no other place where the person can be safe and where a person can have peace in his heart, in his soul, because the only One who gives peace to the soul is Jesus Christ.
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,” Christ says. [Saint John 14:27.]
He reconciles us with God, and therefore, He places us in peace with God. That is why the apostle Paul says that Christ is our peace, because He is the Prince of Peace, according to Isaiah chapter 9, verses 1 to 11, and Ephesians chapter 2, verses 11 to 22.
It is the time in the Divine Program for the final call from God to complete His mystical Body of believers, in other words, His Church. And we were given the opportunity to live in the end time, in the Last Day.
The Last Day is the seventh millennium from Adam to the present time, just like the last day of the week is Saturday. Saturday represents the seventh millennium from Adam to the present time. And when we talk about the last days, we are talking about the last millenniums, in which God would pour out of His Spirit over all flesh, and for the human beings, those last days before God are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium.
In the fifth millennium God began to pour out His Spirit over all flesh, at the day of Pentecost, and from there He continued pouring His Spirit upon all flesh, upon all those who received Him as their only and sufficient Savior, and He continues pouring His Holy Spirit upon all those who receive Him as only and sufficient Savior and are baptized in water in His Name, and Christ baptizes them with Holy Spirit and Fire, and produces the new birth in the people, and thus they are born again, they are born in the Kingdom of God, in the Kingdom of Christ.
There is no other way to enter into God’s Kingdom. Christ said it: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God… Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” And therefore, he cannot obtain eternal Life. [Saint John 3:1-5.]
Christ is the One with the exclusiveness of eternal Life, on behalf of God, and He grants it to those who receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior, whom He represented, typified, in the sheep that the Father gave Him, to seek and give them eternal Life.
Let us stand to pray for the people who are coming to the Feet of Christ. In other nations you can also continue coming to the Feet of Christ so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom, forgives you, and with His Blood He cleanses you from all sin, and you be baptized in water in His Name, and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire, and produce in you the new birth.
Children ten years of age and older can also come to the Feet of Christ so that Christ may receive them.
Remember that Christ said: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” [Saint Matthew 19:14.]
With our hands raised to Christ to Heaven, and our eyes closed:
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, bringing all these people unto You who have heard the preaching of Your Gospel and the faith of Christ has been born in their soul, and have responded to the call, receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. Receive them in Your Kingdom. I beg of You, In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
And now repeat this prayer after me:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart.
I believe in You with all of my soul. I believe in Your Name as the only Name given under Heaven, given unto men, whereby we may be saved.
I believe in Your first coming and I believe in Your death on Calvary’s cross as the atoning Sacrifice for our sins.
I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior, a Redeemer. I give public testimony of Your faith in me, and of my faith in You, and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
I beg You to forgive my sins and with Your Blood, may You cleanse me from all sin, and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and fire, and produce in me the new birth. I beg You this, in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Now you may ask me, “When can I be baptized. Because Christ said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.’”
You may indeed be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and produce in you the new birth.
Christ was the One who said: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” And He said to go into all the world preaching the Gospel and baptizing those who would believe. It is a commandment of Christ for those who receive Christ as Savior to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord.
Jesus Christ Himself, when John was preaching (John the Baptist), and baptizing in the Jordan River, Jesus Christ went there to be baptized by John. He entered into the baptismal waters in the Jordan River, and when John saw Him, when it was Jesus’ turn, John tells him: “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me so that I may baptize you?” Because John was announcing that someone greater than him was coming after him. And now the One greater than John comes so that John–who is lesser–can baptize Him. And Jesus tells Him: “We must fulfil all righteousness.” And then, He baptized Him.
If Christ had to be baptized to fulfil all righteousness, our need is much greater! And when He was baptized and came up from the baptismal waters, the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus like a dove, and John said: “I saw Him, for He told me that One greater than I would come after me (who would be the Messiah). He told me that the One who I would see the Holy Spirit descend upon like a dove, He was the Messiah, He was the Lamb of God, the One who would come after me. And I saw It, I saw It coming, descending upon Jesus like a dove. This is the One who would come after me.” That is how he introduced Him to the people.
And that is why every person receives Christ as Savior, is baptized in water in the Name of the Lord, and then the Holy Spirit will come upon the person, that is the Biblical order for the Holy Spirit to come upon the people and thus produce the new birth in the people, and in this way, enter into the Kingdom of God with eternal Life.
Water baptism does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism and in water baptism, we are identified with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. That is the typology of water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is how we identify with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.
When a person receives Christ as his Savior, he dies to the world, and when the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters (in the baptism), he is typologically being buried, and when he is raised from the baptismal waters, he is resurrecting to a new life: unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. That is how simple water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ is.
Therefore, you may indeed be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue seeing each other throughout eternity in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
May you continue having a happy evening filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior, loving one another, and loving God above all things.
I leave Reverend Sarria with you to let you know what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. With you now, Reverend Alejandro Sarria; and in each country, I leave each minister with you.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“A COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD: THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
A NOTE TO THE READER
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