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Welcome!
Glory to God
Come on!
Pastor
This is a very special moment for all of us.
You can take a sit, thank you all.
Youth, we have been talking with some of the pastors,
We have been praying for this day,
And we trust in god the incoming year this will be done at the stadium.
As God´s will.
So we are inviting all of you as of now,
To embrace this passion,
I want to say hello on behalf of our General Pastor who allows us to do this kind of activities in this place.
And to the young people, I want to ask you to give a round of applauses to all of your pastors,
Every single one of them that brought you to the house of God
Thank you a lot really, from the bottom of my heart I thank you all
Let’s open our bibles in the book of Philippians chapter 3
Philippians chapter 3
And the first conference this morning is called "Talking with the enemy",
“Talking with the enemy”
This week we were consulted by a TV channel
And said: Pastor who can you recommend me to in order to avoid that gangs recruit young people?
My beloved brothers I remind you what we have been taught
To any situation, Jesus is the solution
The only one that can change you, the only one that can motivate you,
the only one that can take you out from the place you’re in right now
is the presence of the Holy Spirit that lives through out a new birth.
Philippians, chapter 3, verse 1
Do we all have it?
Amen, we read the Lord’s Word in the name of The Father,
The Son and The Holy Spirit, amen.
“Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me,
but for you it is safe.”
Verse 2, ¿do we all have it?
Read it with me. “Beware”, I can’t hear you,
“Beware, beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision party”
Let’s pray to the Lord
Father, speak to our hearts,
let this minutes be of respect and honor to you,
Put words in my mouth that motivate this youth
to be a victory youth, a different youth
Touch and change hearts.
Let each and every one of the parents see the difference of you visit to their lives.
Lord I lay down my mind and my mouth to feed and guide your sheep.
I thanksgiving I ask this in Christ name, amen and amen.
You can take a seat my lovable brothers who stood up.
I want to tell you that one of the things that has complicated the youth,
(Give me more monitors because I have and awful reverb,)
One of the things that has complicated the youth is the computer and the internet.
In a late study made in South America the knowledgeable tell us
That the teenager, the average, a normal teen spends weekly 12 and a half hours in a machine,
That’s the normal, but we don’t have normal people here.
We’re all extreme, ¿amen?
Extreme for goodness sake. But as we are for good, in any moment that can change.
This chat stuff and talking to the enemy is nothing new,
This was born in 1972 when two men were working
With that sort of huge computers with hard drives that hadn't a lot of storage capacity
Accomplished for the first time in 1972 that those two machines could communicate
That was the beginning of the mess,
But it was in 1988 where a guy named Jacoby sold his internet idea
to someone in the United States and other companies.
The funny thing is that as the Internet came to grow, to make us develop
It also came to complicate our lives
And you started to chat with people you don't know
You started to chat with people that took away your peace of mind
The apostle is describing in this part of the bible in Philippians and he was a prisoner.
Can you say with me “prisoner”.
There was a song that said “I’m prisoner between the lines of a poem and it’s you who can help me or condemn me”
Hey, you say that your free, but you’re prisoner of many things as well as I am
You are prisoner of your pride, you are prisioner of your arrogance,
your are prisoner of the ***, you are prisoner of the music,
you are prisoner of the bad thoughts
The apostle paul was writting as a prisoner, detained, deprived of freedom
God's word says that Christ came to give you life in..
Where's the abundance then?
If your are complaining with your dad that what you have is not life
Where is the abundance whenever you ask for something the answer is no
And you say that's because of your father
The problem is that your father is taking care of you
like your heavenly father God from you talking to the enemy
The apostle Paul is saying to this people of Philippians,
Look people, rejoice in the Lord.
The real joy is in the house of God. How many of you say amen to that?
We have jumped, we have sung, we have brayed and some have sinned
How is that pastor? Ignoring the signs of life that God has for us.
The apostle is saying "rejoice", but beware because the enemy,
as the word says, came to destroy, to deceive, to separate, all of the contrary of what God has.
But the enemy doesn't dress like a devil.
The devil has no horns, the devil has no tail,
Look at your neighbor and you will understand what I say.
The enemy most of the times is very pretty.
A lot of times the enemy looks very attractive. Amen sisters?
Amen brothers?
What a devil's tail! What a horror!
The devil is a big issue, it doesn't dress like a demon.
And I laugh myself off when...
I told you years back, there was a singer,
Even today he's roaming around making a fool of himself,
and he was called "The prince of darkness"
Self declared the prince of darkness, Who was that guy?
His name is Ozzy Osbourne.
And he had a MTV show, also in VH1, called "The Osbournes"
And you can see who that heavy metal singer from way back, lots of decades,
is paying the price of talking with the enemy.
Curiously this man so called The Prince of Darkness
has a unique fear in life which is dying.
He's terrified about death.
Do you know what the psalmist said when he was in big trouble:
"And Jehovah our God will guide us even further from death."
That means that the fear of death is taken away by God
The assurance of your presence in heaven is given by God
And what can take you away from God?
Nothing says the word, nor the high, nor the low, nor the wide,
nor the deep, nothing can tear you apart from God's love.
But who breaks away then?, Is it someone or is it me? And why pastor?
Because I talked with the enemy.
Let me tell you a case, one of the most renowned cases,
look up with me the book of Judges
Book of Judges in the old testament
One of the first to talk to the enemy in the old testament was called Sanson
Can you repeat with me "Sanson"?
Sanson was picked by God to provoke the philistines.
God picked you to provoke a change in your house, in your neighborhood,
in your school, in your college, in your workplace.
God uses you as an instrument for his glory
and he has picked you in order for you to do things right.
We are in the book of Judges if you walk with me, chapter 13 to 16,
Book of Judges, chapter 13 to 16.
If you wish we can start at chapter 14,
chapter 14 and when you have found it give me a strong amen.
One of the first characters that started talking to the enemy was Sanson
Sanson had made a vow of separation.
Back in those days the separation vow was something preserved,
conserverd for the glory of God.
And says chapter 14, verse 1 if you join me,
"Sanson descended..."
Where did he descended?
When you're not walking with God you don't elevate tu lifestyle, it starts to descend.
The opportunities that you had once begin to go away.
I'm going to tell you something young man, you as a son of a pastor
or a father who's in a pastoral seminar,
All over 32 years we have seen a lot of people go through this church. A lot of people.
When you are at church you see people coming in their vehicles, with their families,
you see them at work, with stability,
But very soon those people like us start to weaken their faith because
of talking to the enemy, because of believing in the enemy
Do you know what happens? God blessings start to vanish.
Then you'll start paying the consequences of the lost of opportunities.
If you start to walk with your bad neighborhood friends the first thing that God closes is your wallet,
the finances, the relationship with your parents
And therefore your relationship with God too.
The first commandment with promise is to honor our parents,
Honor does not mean love, honor means respect
Respect to dad is to obey your house rules.
If I don't obey the house rules the first thing that my father takes away is the provision, is the blessing.
Sanson descended... say with me "descended".
Please starting from now on don't fall any further from where we are right now.
From now on, in that book that has been given to you, that booklet,
write as your main purpose stop descending form the place where I am right now
I'm going to choose my friends, I'm going to choose my T.V. show,
I'm going to choose my music. I'm going to choose the videos,
I'm also going to choose the moments I'm with God.
Sanson having power... let me tell you how Sanson was.
Sanson was a big man, muscular, pretty, "strongish", unstoppable, he was just like Jorge Aguirre.
As if...
I was going to say that he was like Jonathan Rivera
Listen, you have fans...
That was Sanson
Sanson was... �