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There is a big question
the human heart:
Does God exist?
This question is not passing
only through your mind.
Many people have been questioning that.
And today, with the advancement of technology,
psychology, psychoanalysis,
people come into internal conflicts.
And there is often an incentive from media,
and I am talking of a manipulated media,
to muddy your faith.
So if you stop believing,
you do not receive the blessings.
"if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?" And what if you do not believe?
There is no blessing for those who do not believe.
The blessings of the Lord are promises that God gave
for your life and for my life by believing.
And faith means believing.
But faith is the result of relationship.
And today fewer and fewer we are closer to God
and more and more we are relating
with the things of the world around us.
But God exists. God is a fact.
I want to start showing to you an
illustration of a movie
that will translate the "I am" of God.
What is God?
What is God for your life, for my life,
with this representation of God around us.
Let's start with this movie.
But even so, pay attention.
Before you were conceived I already was.
I've always been.
I know for whom life has existed for a short time
is hard to think of eternity.
But change your references now.
Start thinking as if time did not exist.
And everything you see around you
fact only exists in you.
Each being, each movement, before it happens out there
is germinated and developed where no one can reach.
Look out there. What do you see?
Everything that passes before their eyes is a bit of you.
Each being, each element ...
The breath you will ever hear.
That touch you may never feel.
All these things were born in you, first.
The world fits in your heart.
And I live there.
My name is the name of all that things you recognize as being good.
I am!
And I live in you.
I understand that it is almost impossible for you to think about it.
It's impossible for you to think that a bit of me is living there.
But you don´t need to think too much.
Only feel it.
My voice is life. My way is the wind.
My steps, the earth, the sea ...
I'm here.
places you never ever imagined.
hidden corners
where there is no sign of the human race,
everything all the time. I am!
I just hope you live, And I hope you find me in
smiling, breathing, movement,
crying, footsteps, light in darkness, in the good and the bad things.
There is nothing that can contain me.
and there is nothing that can stop me.
I live in you and nothing, even you, fully explains it.
Touch me because I'm here.
Talk to me! Because I am always hearing, every time.
I hear you when you feel
breathes, sleeps, silences, smiles, lives.
I always answer.
There is no voice I can´t hear
There is no crying I do not answer,
but you know almost nothing.
A short time you're here,
and here or no longer is together.
Your walk exists only with me.
And here with you I will stay.
That's my nature,
I live in you.
I am, and even if you do not know
you know me and you know my name.
God is not an abstraction.
He is real.
And I want to share with you today something
that is not just the result of a mental equation,
nor of a Cartesian rational line,
but it is also the result of a personal experience.
So for those who are watching me from YouTube
and you don´t know me
I am a writer. I've written 11 books.
Ten of them have already been published.
One will be released later this year,
the "Kilaim".
I'm writing the sequel to this book,
titled Ikarin and also the Catedral das Sombra (Cathedral of Shadows).
I have learned a lot from God
and I have shared these learnings with you through literature.
We have also developed six different seminars,
each one is ten hours long,
and they will address various issues of eschatology,
of spiritual warfare, healing and deliverance.
So God has given us knowledge
and this knowledge I want to share with you today.
If you start thinking ...
We are in the XXI Century. Regardless the amount of technology we have
the world still believe in God.
Or at least they believe in a sort of being that created all things.
Statistic says, this is statistical,
I will be guided numbers today, in facts,
so you are anchored in reality,
not in abstract realities, but in true realities
empirical, practical.
And today, the world, although there is so much technology
around us, in the twenty-first century,
we've send a little rocket these days,
a robot to Mars.
And maybe that mission will prepare a manned trip to Mars.
A planet very close to Earth similar to Earth,
but without life on it like Earth has.
Look how much technology: we stepped on the lunar soil,
there are cellular phones, satellites, plasmas TV.
And all this things did not move the man away from God
The man remains believing in God.
And it always has been this way throughout history
All expressions of history, culture,
always had a religious conception.
Humans have this need to connect with the creator.
That's because the creature is incomplete without the creator.
A child will never be happy away from the arms of his Father
And today, statistically,
they says that 98% of world population
believes in something higher.
They may call "God", or a "being creator of all things".
They believe in something spiritual
something beyond our natural horizon
98%! This means that in the world today
The Earth population is about 7 billion people across the planet
we'll see that a significant number of individuals,
believes in God. And only 2% do not.
It's a very small number when you
begin to equate therein.
So the vast majority, 98% of 7 billion
believe in the existence of God.
This is a curious thing
translated it into numbers:
140 million do not believe God. 140 million.
A population less than the population of Brazil, we are about 200 million,
They do not believe in God. But everyone else does believe:
6 billion, 860 million people the world believe in God
or in a kind of being creator of all things.
So, there is a belief almost universal
which lead us toward something spiritual,
which brings us to a life that goes beyond the life we know
the three-dimensional world, that fraction of time we live.
The overwhelming majority of the world believes it.
There is a curious story which is the biography of a great scientist,
Louis Pasteur´s biography,
He said he was on a train,
this story happened two centuries ago,
the 19th century
He was on the train and beside him sat a young man
an enthusiastic, excited about physics, and science.
And that young man opens a physics book and sees that the man beside him
He didn't know that the man next to him was a scientist.
That man beside him was reading the Bible,
He was reading the gospel of Mark. So the youg scientis asks:
"Mr, do you believe the Bible?"
"I believe the Bible, of course. It is the Word of God."
"Oh no, do you have to know what the big
scientists are talking about the Bible. You are mistaken."
The man then shows up interested and say: "Ok. So tell me."
"What great scientists have to say about the scriptures? "
"Oh, it's so much. I'll get off at the next station. "
"There's a lot of thing. Gimme a card so I send it to you by mail. "
And he gave the card. When the boy falls from train
he reads the card that said
who was that man, "Professor Louis Pasteur,
Director General of the French National
Centre for Scientific Research"
He starts digging a hole to bury, doesn´t he?
A bit of science distances us from God.
A lot of science brings us closer to God. So ...
this story ... this situation was so peculiar
it joined the biography of Louis Pasteur.
So if scientists like Louis Pasteur did believe in God,
Why we don't?
What is blocking and blinding our eyes?
what is preventing us from believing that God exists?
that He is inside our heart ... that He can dwell in your heart.
It's a tremendous thing that Jesus dwelt in us.
So the presence of the Holy Spirit is in you
when you accept Jesus as your Lord and savior.
Today, this religious expression in the world,
if you group the evangelicals
Brazil are about 40 million
if you group evangelicals and Catholics,
a single Christian belief
at least on the label, on the title
there are 1 billion and 100 million Christians,
against a 1 billion and 300 million Muslims.
So you see that religious belief, even in our century,
This belief is still great ebullition.
There's a theory that is against the theory of creation,
it´s called the theory of evolution and This theory
has been implemented by other theories
to corroborate the theory of evolution ...
it's emerged after industrial revolution
approximately around the year 1700.
It is popularly called The Watchmaker Analogy,
or The Blind Watchmaker Analogy
There is different versions. What is this analogy about?
It says that, if by our intelligence,
the man is able to draw a clock, with complex mechanisms
using very small parts, very complicate ...
And if with our rational intelligence we can elaborate
and we can build a machine so perfect
that can measure our time... Right?
So, based on this line, if we have this capability,
why does not life could evolve naturally?
Why it could not happen? However the more you know
about the human biological mechanics, for example,
the more you realize that God is the creator of all things.
There are tremendous things here.
I saw a documentary and encouragement you to watch it.
It´s called Incredible Creatures.
It´s about a professor of an American university
that has defended evolution strongly.
However, someday a student asked him: "Professor, I want you
prove to me that God did not create anything.
Prove to me that creationism does not exist.
Give it to me based in a concrete scientific stand. And that teacher started studying about it.
And in the next week he did not provide an answer to his student yet.
And the more he studied the more he realized that there are "n" species
which never passed through an evolutionary stage. Right?
And that man began to rethink his values.
Today he is a Christian and a extremely effusive creationist.
It's a beautiful documentary. Very cool. The guy is PHD and everything else.
So we've seen: "Well, the man evolved from ape", they say.
but since I know the monkey, the monkey remains monkey.
They did not continue this vector, did they?
"Well, but it was a relative of the monkey.", they say. But where's the missing link?
Where's the missing link that will show us by a fossil chain
there was indeed an evolution so great
that an ape became a human being?
That there was a so pronounced brain evolution.
They did not find the missing link.
A curious thing came from biography of Einstein,
a very curious one.
This was played through an ad
that was highly publicized worldwide
a period which portrays the life of Einstein.
Look at that interesting thing.
I will show you part of this ad.
I'll prove to you
that if God exists, then he is evil.
Did God create everything?
If God created everything, then he created evil.
This means that God is evil.
Excuse me, professor. Does cold exist?
What kind of question is this? Of course it exists?
You never got cold?
Actually, sir, cold does not exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider
cold is actually absence of heat.
Professor, does darkness exist? Sure it exists.
You are wrong, sir.
The darkness does not exist.
Darkness is in fact the absence of light.
The light we can study, but not the darkness.
Evil does not exist, nor darkness or cold. God did not create evil.
Evil is the result of what happens when the
Man does not have God's love present in his heart.
That´s it.
And the reality is exactly this.
The cold, according to the laws of physics, does not exist.
It is simply the absence of heat.
The darkness, according to the laws of physics, does not exist too.
Darkness is only the absence of light. The light you can study.
There are light photons. You can measure its speed.
But you can not study the darkness. So ...
Einstein came to realize this at his early infancy.
So, actually, that idea developed by philosophers,
supported by Plato, for example:
"How can you believe in something you do not see,
something you do not know its origins, and you've never seen?
How will you believe that?"
This is a question that philosophers wonder about.
And there's another: if God is good, why did He create evil?
So if God ... And that´s the way the teacher tried to persuade his students.
If God is good, why did He create evil? If God created evil,
then God is not good. If God is not good He is not God.
But it is a confused train of thoughts. He´s confusing your mind.
fact, if your heart is not in God,
if it is in the dark, of course,
you will have an inclination to evil.
Because you do not have God's good introjected into your heart.
And the Bible already tells that this would happen. This is nothing new.
It is written in the Bible. I will read to you.
I Timothy, chapter 4, verses 1 and 2.
"But the Spirit saith expressly, that in
later times some shall fall away from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and the doctrine of demons.
through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies
branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron"
So it becomes clear. The scriptures make it clear now
that this kind of mental cauterization (hot iron in the conscience),
through lies, lies, who are distorting the truth,
"the love of the many shall wax cold."
It is a characteristic of the end of the times.
It is a strategy that Satan has used
so you stop believing in God. And you stop believing in God
He is putting doubt in your heart.
It is not important to him that you believe the lie,
if you doubted the truth he won, right?
He will place doubt in your hart about the truth.
If you doubt that God exists, you have already lost. You lost the blessing.
You lost the life of abundance that He promised to me and you.
You lost that peace
which passeth all understanding, A peace that only Jesus can give to you.
You end up losing. And who ends up having victory is him.
I'll read you another text
II Timothy, chapter 4, verses 1-5.
A little bit more. Let's read from verse 3. II Timothy, Chapter 4, verse 3.
"For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine... "
We have spoken massively about it.
At this moment in history, when someone receives the truth ...
we've alluded about it.
The people are so used to taking coke
that when you give people the water they think it´s odd.
Water? This thing has no flavor. So this is the truth.
The truth is simple, but extremely powerful.
"For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine;
but, having itching ears; will heap to themselves teachers
after their own lusts."
What is ***? *** means desire.
We see here that word in Scripture and
we think that is a bad word, a sin, right?
But *** is a desire. You can say
"Today I have a *** eating a barbecue ", ok?
So is his a desire, a willing.
So the Scripture is telling us that
people are looking for teachers
who will speak what they want to hear.
They have itching ears. They can't handle the truth.
And they'll start looking. They are going adrift.
They go from one church to another. They go from one place to another.
"Well. That church said what I want to hear. "
"Here's the truth." "Here God've spoke. I felt peace in my heart."
However the gospel confronts you.
Sometimes it won´t adulate your heart.
Sometimes it will say something you do not want to hear.
Often this confrontation will make you grow.
You need to be sanded, cut and polished, right?
And more: "and will turn away their ears from the truth"
and turn aside unto fables." ...unto fables.
We've seen a lot of stories like that one. Right?
We've heard so many stories, don´t we?
It began with the "A Divine Revelation of Hell"
"A Divine Revelation of Heaven"
"A Divine Revelation of stars," Angels, Moon, Mars.
We began to fall out of the biblical precept.
Everything you need to know is here Scripture.
The key is here for you to know.
You begin to chase the wind
listening stories of fables.
I have commented. These days we've post about it our site (www.danielmastral.com.br)
There are so many people going to hell. I thought it was just one.
No. There are a lot of people going to visit hell
and bringing pseudo-revelations.
I could even imagine a conversation between these people.
"-Where are you going today?" "-I'm going to hell."
"-Ok. We´ll meet there." "-Where will you be?
"-The lake of fire and brimstone?" "-Yeah, I'll be there." Meeting Point.
We start to see, uh such a great desire
to lean on what is absurd,
that when one speaks the truth it´s stranger.
If you tell a bizarre story.
like "Someone was performing a prophetic act at the Himalayas
and he was transported to the Everest."
"-Oh! Whoa! What a big deal."
Now if you talk "Jesus is Love", "Jesus loves your life"
"Le´s chase a life of holiness"
"-This word is strange. " "-That's weird."
"Where's the power?" We think that if fire doesn't fall from heaven,
if the ground does not shake, God is not talking.
But this is wrong. God often can talk to you through
a still, a small voice.
It is not always connected to this pyrotechnic acts
we've unfortunately produced in our times.
So "and will turn away their ears from the truth,
and turn aside unto fables" Verse 5:
"But you ..." He is saying it to Timothy,
Paul was giving an orientation to Timothy.
"... be thou sober ..." To be balanced, right?
"... be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship ... "
When you have a balanced side, buoyed and
grounded in the scriptures, be sure: you'll have afflictions.
Jesus went through it. All the apostles experienced this.
You will get through this too.
"... do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry."
Paul gave to Timothy guidelines here.
"Look, you will go through afflictions."
When you are preaching the message of truth,
you shall be persecuted. You become a target.
Because you're saying things God wants you say
You are not saying things Man wants to be told.
But Does ... God ... exist? Let's go a little further.
Could ... Could Jesus give to us evidence
of their existence these days?
He gave many proofs.
When Jesus came on earth as a man,
He gave compelling evidence of His power.
Real proofs. He raised the dead. He did.
Lazarus was dead for four days, already stank. He was resurrected.
And even making signs like this they did not believe him.
They didn't believe, did they?
And Jesus made it very clear.
Even today, God could do
many signs to the people to believe in Him.
But even if He did, they would not believe,
as this is a matter of faith. It comes from your heart.
Is not connected to an external signal. It is connected to a spark
that will be ignited in your heart.
John 20:29 says so. Jesus is talking to Thomas
"Jesus saith unto him: Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."
This is a portion of faith, ok?
Thomas only believed seeing. But Jesus said
"blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."
And believing is an equation of faith.
Hebrews 11:6 says:
"Indeed ..." "In fact ..." 're saying
"...without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him."
"... Without faith ..." Faith is sure, is conviction.
"... it is impossible to please God.
"for he that cometh to God
must believe that He is"
must believe that He exists.
If you approach God, but you do not believe He exists,
you will not experience God in your life.
You will always have a life blurred, and temporally limited ... oscillatory.
You'll never experience the abundant life
and that peace which passeth all understanding.
So if you do not believe in God, how may God work in your life?
Because that precedes faith. "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed"
Look at things that we couldn't do, right?
Titus 1:16 "They profess that they know God;, but by their works they deny him. "
Do not look for men.
Regrettably it is so. Since those times it has been so.
And God is giving us here enlightenment through the sacred Scriptures.
Many people say they know God
but the work they do is antagonistic to what they preach.
They do not live what they preach.
So do not look at these people they say one thing but do another.
Do not look at them. This is not the voice of God.
God's voice will always bring peace to your heart. It will bring peace.
Often God will confront you, but this confrontation will bring you peace.
It's like that scolding you give to your children.
You say, "Look son, sit there. You mistook.
You've made a bad choice." He confronts you.
You may be talking about things he is not enjoying listening.
But then he'll understand that the things you are talking about are good for him.
And that brings a comfort peace.
God is love and God disciplines those He loves. God disciplines those He loves.
We need to understand that this is the love of God and we need allow
Him to tune and strengthen our character.
Romans 1:25: "...for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie.
... and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator ...
who is blessed forever. "
It is clear to see this shift of values
we are living in our century, bringing glory to men.
Today I know people, I know leaders in Brazil.
And the most prominent leaders,
these people in the media ... I know them.
I do. And I say this with very awe before God:
I can count them on one hand.
The real ones.
Those who are committed with god I can count them on one hand.
The great before God are the little ones.
It is often those who you have not heard.
The one that is great before the Lord.
I was not long time ago in Rio de Janeiro, City of Nova Iguaçu.
A poor region, a humble region.
But I met a man of God with power, with an authority
I've seen in few people in my life.
We've been ... The "Land of Pamonha" where is it?
Piracicaba. ok. Land of Pamonha.
There is a pastor there: Pastor Saulo.
A small church, a simple and modest church.
But there is a man of God with integrity, with respect, how few people I've seen.
Ribeirão Preto. Edmilson. Pastor Edmilson, Ribeirão Preto.
A man of God. A great before the Lord for his simplicity.
He does not beat his chest to say, "I'm a shepherd"
"My ministry" "I... I... I... "
No. He knows God does all things through him.
Humility. We've been in Araraquara.
I know Pastor Edson. A man of God.
So we start to see the little ones.
It's not a rule. I know people
with more reputation, but they are righteous before God.
But they are not the majority. It is a rule exception.
What we have seen as rule is the little ones beeing man of God.
And these are great before God.
These are great. Next week I'll be in Fernandópolis,
a simple, small and humble church.
But what a integrity in preparation. what a zeal in the details.
We will be going to Rio de Janeiro, City of Paciência.
I did not know there was a city called Paciência
But pretty soon I will visit this city.
And what a integrity. What a dedication.
They worry about the smallest details
They want to offer to God and to his people the best.
There is no arrogance, There is no hubris.
So that humility precedes honor.
The great before God are these little ones.
The little ones, right?
And even if you look around you ...
And that is what the Bible is saying:
"... they exchanged the truth of God for a lie ..."
We've talked repeatedly about that.
A lie told many times is taken as truth.
Then you're trapped in a lie.
The truth makes you free. It doesn't imprison you. It sets you free.
if you find yourself thinking
"Does God exist?" Certainly God exists.
God created all things, created the heavens and the earth.
Let us anticipate something now ... Let's bring some evidence to you.
Did you know that a molecule. A singular molecule ...
I'll get something simple, microscopic:
a protein molecule.
Do you know the mathematical chance of this
protein molecule to be formed by chance? By chance.
It is one in 10,243 times.
One in 10,243 times.
It is a huge statistic. It is the equivalent ...
imagine that you take the parts of a car, parts of a brand new car ...
You pick up the pieces in the carmaker. You get all parts of a vehicle,
Tire, wheel, Fuel Pump ...
You put all pieces grouped on a plot ... you dropped the pieces there.
Then you hope a hurricane comes to move
those parts in such a way that they
will band together and form a brand new and functional car
That is the mathematical probability about it.
This probability is so unreal for us, so we just disregard it.
There would be impossible for a hurricane to organize these parts
and make a running car. It's impossible.
This goes against to a law called the Law of Entropy.
The entropy says that everything goes toward chaos. Everything goes from the order toward chaos.
It is a law of entropy.
Things do not organize themselves. They will disorganize.
If you stay a while without tidying your room
it gets worse and worse, doesn't it?
I see it in the kitchen of my house.
Suddenly the dishes pile up
Things are quickly disorganized
It happens in your room and likewise in your home.
It happens this way anywhere in the universe.
It's called the principle of entropy.
Things always go from order toward chaos.
You will not see anything coming from chaos backwards order.
And when we look the evolution of the human species ...
we find loopholes.
We think "This do not belongs to an evolutionary process."
A protein molecule... such a simple thing,
it is something people stop to think about
"But how is that managed?" "How about the odds of that happening?"
It is very small, is very remote. This was the conclusion that the scientist reached
when he wrote the documentary Incredible Creatures
So there are things around us that the probability
statistics, mathematics, they are formed at random
or by an evolutionary line are completely discarded.
God created this things. I'll talk about something even more bizarre
The cell comprises three layers. You should be
reminded this concept from the school.
Membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus. Ok?
So, our whole body is formed by cells.
When these cells are grouped they will form organs.
And these organs form systems.
There is endocrine, metabolic, excretory,
vascular, digestive, nervous system.
They work in perfect order. Scientists have conducted a research.
They took a fetus, an embryo yet
and took cells who were gathering
to form the cardiac muscle.
They put them together the ones which were forming the nervous system
That cells were forming the brain tissue.
The cardiac cell knew it was the wrong place.
For some reason unknown to science
the cell knew that its biological fate was not that one.
It left that place and joined the cardiac muscle cells again.
It was a divine order. God determined that.
We already told here, for example, the flight of the beetle.
Statistically it is impossible the beetle to fly
If you group data about its characteristics. It is about an article made by a brother of ours.
If you group on a computer all information
we have about buoyancy about speed, about aerodynamics ...
and we feed this computer with those information.
If you ask for the computer, passing the dimensions of a beetle ...
the computer will say the beetle does not fly. It is very heavy.
Its wings are very small.
It is impossible there is flying beetles, but the beetle flies.
The computer says: "No. That is impossible."
But we know that the beetle flies. And why the beetle flies?
Because God spoke: fly beetle! And the beetle flies.
Our God does amazing things, tremendous things.
So the cell´s made of membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus.
Our body is formed by cells.
The cells will form the organs, and the organs will form the systems
Inside the cell there is the cytoplasm. The membrane ...
It is a semi-permeable membrane. And there are organelles inside the cell.
These are structures that will preserve the life of the cell.
These organelles will bring functionality to the cell.
One of these organelles is called "mitochondria".
"Mitochondria" And if you want to study "the mitochondria"
there is a little medicine book with 600 pages that only talks about mitochondria.
But, if there were no mitochondria, the cell would not breathing.
The mitochondria is responsible for cell respiration.
So little things ... a small misfit would be enough
There is another thing in medicine that is very interesting.
There is a a part of a cell called sodium-potassium pump.
Without this pump we would not exist. Every life is guided by this equation.
It is an active force, not a passive one.
The semi-permeable membrane ...
if you put a saline solution on both sides of the membrane
it will try to match them. Match. It's a passive (active) law of physics.
So if you take two bodies,
a very hot and very cold one both of them slopes ...
there will be an exchange of energy,
An exchange of heat, This process will equalize the temperature.
It's a law of physics, a passive process.
that case, the sodium-potassium pump, there is an active process,
which will allow the cell stay alive.
So the cell makes this exchange.
It expels potassium and absorbs sodium.
And there is a sodium-potassium pump every living being.
Without it, we would not exist.
A small imbalance there would be enough.
It is a tremendous thing. The more you know the human mechanism,
the more you know about human body, the details ...
people study medicine ... the renal system is so complex ...
to make the filtering of blood and turn it into urine ...
It is one of the most complex systems to be studied.
All of them are complex, but the renal system ... all physicians,
and I have a lot of physician's friends, they always say:
it's the hardest thing to study.
"What a complicated little thing!", Right?
So, there are a lot of things. And they are so perfect.
It is a biological engineering so perfect done, so wisely,
it would be impossible to be originated from a unicellular being: a flatworm.
Something that have evolved into a complex system such as there is nowadays.
There is one more thing. The Bible says that all creation, all creation praises God.
Psalm 19, verses 1-4. I will read to you.
"The heavens declare the glory of God.
And the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech
And night unto night showeth knowledge.
There is no speech, There is no language;
Their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.
Do you know it is possible to hear the stars?
How can I listen to the star,
if the sound propagates through air and the space has no air?
The Earth has a gravitational field that traps the atmosphere.
So here we have air. But in space there is no air.
But in the vacuum radio waves propagate For listen to these radio waves ...
there are these telescopes, radio telescopes, who can listen to the stars.
And it is interesting that the stars produce sounds. They produce sounds.
Some of them produce sound like a string orchestra.
I want to show you how wonderful it is,
the Bible is saying that nature,
all nature, the stars, praise God. It is not mere chance.
This is happening.
I want to show a snippet of an preaching that I found very cool.
I want to share a little bit with you. Let's take a look.
This is a sample of grandeur Engineering of God.
Something that is not a fluke. It is the Lord's work of creation.
Pascal, a great scientist came to equate
and tried to prove whether God existed or not by calculation.
Then, he took a series of elements present in our everyday ...
Where man takes this notion of right and wrong?
There are things that nobody needs to teach.
You know it's wrong to steal. You know.
Our moral values are introjected within us. It's in our DNA.
So we know. On the same side,
There are things that are within the heart of man.
Things that God put. Compassion, love, zeal, care ...
Then Pascal began to equate these possibilities
and he made in a mathematic shed ... he took a number of variants ...
He came to a shed math .. and drew the following conclusion:
There is a 50% chance that God does exist and 50% chance God does not exist.
Then he rethought his calculation and wondered:
What if I suddenly die and meet God?
God would present my equation to me and say: "Ah, so that's it, isn't?"
"-That's what you have to introduce me?" "Go, go to mud now, right?"
No. He then retraced his calculation, redid their calculations and concluded
that there are 51% chances God exists and 49% do not.
It is better to err to the side of God.
This was a interesting story which joined his biography.
If we talk about all the men who lived the earth, the wise men ...
If you think about Gandhi, Buddha, that was Siddhartha Gautama,
Muhammad... These men, these thinkers ...
None of them, none of them claimed to be God.
None of them said that. Only Jesus. Only Jesus said that.
None of them said they were God.
They presented themselves as thinkers, as having a shed,
a line of thought, a philosophy, a doctrine,
but none of them said: "I am God." Only Jesus.
"I am the light of the world." "I'm here to change your life."
So only Jesus said this. That was a feature occurred.
He was God in the form of flesh. He was the word made flesh.
And from where did this concept come? ... Have you ever stopped to think about it? ...
We though we live in a rational world, a world
surrounded by material things, where everything has a beginning, a middle and a end ...
But you can understand eternity. You Can.
You know what is written in Ecclesiastes 3:11?
God has placed in the human heart the concept of eternity.
It was God who gave it to you. It is the DNA of God introjected in your heart
and it makes you contemplate eternity,
even living in a temporal and limited dimension.
So we have this concept. These are things that God has for us.
I remember one occasion, my son 3 years old, today he is 9.
We like very much of praying together.
We do this until today. We worship our household ...
But on one occasion, my son said:
"Gee, Dad, we're praying here for so long.
God will not answer? "I said:
"God answers. But he uses another way, I do not know how to explain that to you. "
"But from where his voice comes out?"
He imagined that the sound came out from a speaker.
I said "I can not explain it to you, son." He stopped, thought ...
"-I know, Dad. God must be like air.
It's something we do not see, but you can feel.
I'm feeling God here.
"So it's an interesting thing, because although
you can not see with your eyes,
You can feel His love.
You can feel the divine presence.
It is internalized in our lives there. Jesus said:
"I am the light of the world.
he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness but shall have the light of life."
The light of life. He will bring to light for you life. Think about it.
Jesus said "I will rise again."
"On the third day I will rise again."
Jesus died, was crucified, He was placed in the tomb.
What happened? What just happened there?
The Roman army ... the Romans were concerned
that the disciples might steal the body of Jesus.
If they could get it, and move that stone,
which according to some historians had about
Approximately 2 tons ... extremely mild, a little thing.
If they could remove that stone and take away the body of Jesus
and they scattered the news "Jesus rose"
"We will create a problem for the empire"
"We will create an awkward situation" "A rebellion may starts"
So what happens? A Roman guard
was taking care of the tomb of Jesus.
An extremely capable guard.
The best soldiers on the planet at that time.
The Roman soldier had no protection on the back.
It was a shield in front ...
And it was supported by leather straps "X" shaped on the back,
giving the impression that the Roman soldier
never gives his back to an opponent.
Extremely well trained.
The best army in the world at the time of Christ.
And this group was taking over the tomb of Jesus.
What these men extremely trained could not stop?
Jesus was resurrected. He lives.
When they arrived there the stone was already moved.
And the soldiers were on the ground in fear, they were scared to death.
Then you notice that historically, there is an incongruity there.
They did not want ... The body was not picked up by the disciples.
Jesus resurrected, as he said he would.
Here is a historical evidence.
The Bible ... Jesus divided history. Today we have the time
"BC" and "AC"
Only Jesus did that. Only Jesus divided history.
The Bible was written over a period surpassing more than 1500 years
over 40 different authors,
different locations, and on separate continents.
It was written in three different languages,
talking about various issues and different points in history.
And yet, there is a consistency amazing in your message
that complements itself. It is something remarkable.
Today, if you take a line of psychology ...
uh ... you get a line of psychology today ...
And if you look at a row of psychology 100 years ago, 200 years ago.
It changed. It changed. Every time the medicine changes.
"The egg is good for health ' "No. it´s not good anymore." "Now The egg is bad"
They say "The chocolate is good " "Not now, chocolate is bad."
Every hour is discovered something new. Sometimes it is good. Sometimes it´s bad.
The opinion varies, it changes If changes in psychology field, in science...
But the Word of God is always the same.
It is a tremendous thing. It is in the scriptures
Now Let's imagine something. Suppose, just suppose,
you spent your life throughout its existence ...
And you had not believed in God.
What if today was your last day alive? What would you do?
There is man, I liked much of this testimony.
I want to show you. This man saw death very closely.
He was on an airplane. I remember that it was
amply documented by the media.
This aircraft ... the pilot was very good.
He managed to land in a river, on USA.
And the pilot gave life to the crew
They managed to be rescued there. But this man saw death
very closely. Very closely.
This is not a Christian testimony. Is a person like me,
like you, made of flesh and bone, with fears, with limitations.
But when you get close death, you start
reflect a little about your life.
We start giving value to the little things.
I'll show you an excerpt of this testimony to you.
I found this man's testimony very interesting because
he came very close to death.
And when we come near death we shall review
some of the values and conceptions of our lives.
What if today was your last day what you have to say to God?
I spent my life walking as a lost balloon,
looking for a route, looking for a motivation?
Or did I live everything the Lord has given me?
Could I live love? Could I live in his grace,
Could I live the privilege and the honor of being called friend of God?
That's what Jesus brings to us.
And there's two ways you get closer to God: through love or through pain.
And God used a very different mechanism
my life, coming out of the rail.
You know that there is a old adage that
when you go through the land you have to do one of three things:
plant a tree, write a book or having a child.
I did these three things.
But I think it's not over. There is much more.
God has more for you. He has much more to me.
Your story isn't over If you're still here,
God is giving you a opportunity to make difference.
I met Jesus, perhaps by a more circuitous route.
I met the well I met the love of Christ
when I had contact with evil, with hate.
My mind was seared.
And I believed with all my heart, and all my understanding
that the devil does exist, That he is a powerful being.
And I believed because I saw it with my eyes.
I saw demons materializing themselves,
Angels also materialize in the Bible.
You can see. They ate with Abraham, they ate with Lot
Demons also materialize themselves. I could touch them. They are cold creatures.
So I believed in what my eyes were seeing.
I believed in the powers of magic although they are just an illusion,
a manipulation of our mind.
I believe in those things because they were demonstrating in front of me.
The spells worked.
I saw the unit I always wanted in that group;
I always wanted a place that I could be supported. I did not feel that kind of support in my home.
I was born into a very troubled home. Street gangs I joined could not give it to me too.
They offered to me a lot of drugs, a lot of fighting.
I was looking for a place to bring me care.
I was looking for a family. Where would I find my family?
So I was looking for some group in which I could fit
where I could be upheld.
And suddenly, I'm baffled. Satan deceives me.
He specializes in illusions. And puts an illusion before my eyes
and made me believe I was part of a family.
Now I did. They were people which had ... they were intellectuals,
businessmen, politicians, rich people with a successful life.
And they said: "The devil gave it to me."
"The devil is the master of the world" He owns the world.
The world lieth in wickedness. Satan offered it to Jesus.
"All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me"
"... for it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it ..."
And that story was presented to me deformed. "Look, Daniel!", they said.
"Satan has power" "He can give you all the wealth and power of the world"
"If you simply accept him as your father"
And that mask family seduced me a lot.
I thought I could be part of a family.
I saw the things being unfold. It was real for me.
Because I lived it day by day. Things were happening.
But one I was as delusional, and believed that things
brought to me so much power ...
I had the illusion of money. I had the illusion that
money could buy everything.
It's that old story: every man has his price.
And how many people I saw falling by a handful of cash?
How many people were doing small favors
exchange of a expensive gift?
I started to get flattered flattered by people.
People start respect you by the packaging you are dressed.
And that massaged my ego.
Massaged the ego. I believe it.
I believed that I was part of a family.
I believed that was my time.
I had found a reason for my existence.
I found a very powerful being. And I thought God was unsuccessful.
God was wrong with creation. God was wrong. He made the creation,
but He did not take care of it.
The creation was adrift. Look what happened to it.
It was the illusion that Satan put on my head.
But I saw, I understood the evil. I understood the Satanic doctrine,
extremely intelligent and well elaborated.
And that was so real to me, so concrete. It was not abstract.
It wasn't something ethereal. It was a real thing in everyday life.
From 17 to 25 years. I breathed it.
I coexisted with that group that would be able to give them life for that cause.
So I had no doubt about
the existence of that organization, or about the existence demons,
But my conception of those demonic entities is that they were good.
What a mind cauterization. I though they were good beings
and they were there to protect me.
"Son of the fire the fire does not burn" they said
"The son of the evil is not touched by evil"
"You can just walk through the Earth because you are
the son of the owner of the earth."
"The world lieth in wickedness. Nothing will happen to you, you won't have assault"
you will not have violence because Satan is the one who manipulates the strings."
But you are a child of fire ...
And that illusion of power massaged my heart.
I thought I was unbeatable I had found a family.
I had found a very powerful force.
But I had no peace. I never had it.
I never had it. My nights were sleepless nights.
There wasn't real joy
but little joy moments produced under the influence of drugs.
But I had no true joy. Those things were ephemeral.
When I came home, I locked myself in my room, and only heard silence.
I often spent the night crying because I
remembered things I had seen,
things I had heard.
And those things moved me so much.
I had no peace. I had no peace.
I did not have joy. I seemed to be fine, but it was all fake.
I was far from God.
I thought God was something so far. Something very distant from me.
I thought church was too much institutionalized.
The first time I entered a church I was not treated well.
And unfortunately we end up leveling everyone by the acts of only one.
People are different.
The church is a storehouse of love. And If you go into a place
where 2 or 3 are gathered Jesus' name.
The presence of Jesus is there.
And you´ll be touched by this love.
You have to feel this love in your life.
Because God, you feel Him.
You realize, through something that is in DNA,
God has put it in you and put it in me.
This concept of eternity, that is in you and in me.
And that evil was so real to me ...
But they talked about another force.
They spoke about a representative of good strength
they talked about God the creator of all things.
But a God who had sorry for so many things.
It was a God who did something
but then "... repented the Lord ... " things out of context.
Satan is expert at distorting the truth.
And I had no vaccine against that lie.
I did not know the truth. I was completely
contaminated by that mass of lies.
And suddenly, one day, one very simple thing happened:
I listened to a worship, a worship.
The spirit of God dwells in worship.
And that simple worship made of simple words
"It's mine, only mine, all work.
and your job is just to rest on me."
That worship started to make me
rethink some things in my life.
I lost consciousness, I fell on the floor.
The demon lied down my body. A lot of things happened,
but it made me rethink why? Why the creature that
presented before me with such power ...
why this creature was thrown to the ground, by a simple worship?
What is this force that overthrew a demon so powerful?
At least that's how it was presented to me.
What is that force that made
Abraxas (the demon that protects me) lie down?
Suddenly, on another day, I saw a
man speaking God's message.
That man had such a joy I had seen in just a few people.
He had a twinkle in his eye that a I´d seen in few people
And when I looked into that man I wanted to destroy him.
It was the force that was in me, the devil, because it was not
Daniel, the human. It was a force supernatural that was guiding me.
But that man didn't fall,
even with the most powerful spells.
It made me think and rethink many times in my values.
What kind of god was I serving?
These demons. This evil to which I was introduced,
he bows to a force infinitely more powerful than Him.
And because I knew so much that evil,
I realized that evil feared a
greater strength.
I did not know how to define it.
That man, Luiz Augusto Zitti,
I tell this story in the book Catedral das Sombras (Cathedral of Shadows),
That Warrior of Lord remained standing.
because the Lord was with him.
And I realized that when God is with someone
Nothing can topple him. Nothing can topple him.
The love that God has for your life, protects you and keeps you
It is so powerful that we do not have words to measure it.
The more powerful spells from Hell did not work in that man.
"... the curse that is causeless alighteth not ..." ) [PV 26:2]
And that made me rethink my values.
God allowed me to fall deeply down in a dark pit
so I could see the light.
God allowed me to fall down in that dark pit
that location without light ...
But when I saw a thread of light towards me, my brothers ...
that light dispels darkness. It dispels the darkness.
And when I accepted Jesus be my Lord and savior
I experienced something that I never imagined experiencing in my life.
There is one thing money can not buy, something that power can not give you.
What all this illusion around us is not able to give us.
It is the peace that passes understanding.
I have no assets. I do not have goods on earth.
So far I have not.
Who knows if God further ahead want to bless me with something ...
But do not have a house, I live on rent.
Neither car I have now. It is borrowed.
But there is something I am not missing: There is not lack of peace in my heart.
Sometimes I can see everything falling down around me.
I know the Lord is with me; he is the master of my life,
he will guide my feet the paths of righteousness
Does not matter the struggles I will pass
Does not matter fingers pointed to me,
Does not matter carnations, Does not matter the cross I will carry.
Because I know Jesus is with me.
And if He is with you, my brother, He will give you peace that transcends your understanding.
A peace that only He can give to you. Only he can.
Money can not. We've said it several times here.
Elvis Presley had everything people think is important to have to be happy.
"I have money, I have beauty, I'm Famous" So what?
He died 42 years old. These things do not give us happiness.
It doesn't bring. God exists.
The concept of eternity is your heart because He gave it to you.
The value of love, compassion is in your heart because it came from him.
Mitochondria exists because God created it.
The sodium-potassium pump exists because God created it.
The whole universe sings and worships the Lord because God made it so. God made it so.
He did the little things, the simplest.
The devil is not able to create a flower.
This remained a long time in my head.
He is not able to reproduce a flower, with its perfume.
Only God can make all things. He can create something from nothing.
Do not pay to see it.
Accept Jesus as your true savior.
Let Jesus to change your story.
Without Jesus you are going toward death.
You are going toward bad things to your life.
With Jesus you know you're on the right track.
He is the light that guides your steps.
He will help you to walk on Earth.
It´s like a father who gets into the hands of his son.
"Son, I'll help you cross the street."
That's what Jesus does to you, does to me.
He helps us in this journey of life.
He can tell you to stop.
Other times he will say "Forward!" Or "Rewinds, son."
This is what happens when we are with Him.
Jesus gives us today the privilege of
we renew our covenant with Him
This is the direction the Holy Spirit has for us today.
If you do not have Jesus as your Lord and savior
and you want to experience this peace A peace that transcends understanding,
the one only He can give to you.
You need a kind of joy that only Jesus can give to your heart
that life in abundance That does not necessarily mean
financial abundance.
It is the abundance of peace, joy, health, happiness.
That's the abundance I´ve seen my house.
That's the abundance I´ve seen on the smile of my son.
on the health of my pets.
That's the abundance I I´ve seen in my life,
the daily provision God orders on my desk.
That's the abundance Jesus has for you.
This an abundance that transcends our understanding, our values.
So now here is an invitation for you.
If you want to accept Jesus as your Lord and savior.
Or even if you already have Jesus in your heart,
but you´ve walked away from him.
When you take Jesus your life must to change.
It can no longer be the same.
The conversion calls for a transformation.
If you look at your life "Gee, I did not change anything"
You have not converted. You´ve convinced.
It must happen in your mind, in your reason. Gotta get down to the heart.
You must be converted, not a convinced one.
We have to change our history.
So today is a day that you have this opportunity
to put yourself before the Lord "Lord, I want a genuine conversion"
"I want to change my life for real" "I want my life to be Christ"
"I want to think death is gain" Be made our own the words of Paul:
"And to live is Christ." Really. May you live Christ
with your property, with your talents, your time.
You can give the best to him And you'll taste something tremendous.
When you give your best to God, God will honor your life.
God honors. The hand of the Lord will be extended over your life.
And you will prove a peace that only Jesus can give you.
A joy that only a child of God has. The certainty of
that nothing in the world will separate you from the love of God.
You are not exempt from the carnations, or the cross,
neither of whips, or persecution.
It is a narrow path, but I can assure:
you will have strength the narrow path,
There's a saying that water gains strength in its fall.
storms make the oak roots
to delve further.
Fights will always strengthen you.
you will come out stronger stage by stage of struggle
because Jesus is with you. The Lord
is with you wherever you walk.
Believe it. Let's talk to God.
If today you want to have your name written in the book of life.
Jesus wants to enter its heart and change your story.
If today you are here and want have a genuine conversion, a true one.
Not a superficial on.
Not just for the world to see, not only packing conversion
but a true conversion,
if you want a total surrender to God.
If you want deliver before Him your problems, limitations,
your flaws, lift your hand.
Make a signals to the spiritual world.
I'll turn off the lights so you can think.
For you to have privacy before God.
Oh Lord! We place our lives before thine altar.
We place, Lord our weaknesses before Thee
We put God, everything, Lord, we can not do
before You, Lord.
Oh Father, in Jesus' name, we ask you operate in our hearts.
Switches, Lord, the route of our lives.
May we, Father, indeed, to live for Christ.
Live to Thee, O Lord. May our lives be a tribute.
May we, Lord, worship Your holy name
with all our heart,
with all our mind, with all our strength.
May we, in fact, Lord, love Thee,
thy precepts, to your values.
And not to the world. Let us love Thee
May we, Lord, please only Thee
Father, in Jesus' name, sanctifies this people that are present here.
There´s a party in heaven for your life, son.
There is a celebration in heaven.
By that name which is written in the book of life.
And by that one who backs to the arms of the Lord.
Today you bring joy to the heart of the Father
And when you bring joy to the heart of the Father
that is your strength.
That's where your strength comes from.
Oh Lord. Stands. Let us worship God.
Let us worship the Lord.