JESUS CHRIST

THE BOAT

© Carlos Padilla, November 2007

The boat is a subject on which it has been written abundantly because it is identified with the Church, physically speaking, an institution of a certain and identifiable denomination. Nevertheless I would like to present/display in addition another approach exceeds what represents the boat, in one more a more spiritual essence of its composition, I am talking about to the conjuncture of the disciples composes that it, and of whom comprise those that the Spirit Santo unites. On this development a complete approach but ahead in this study.

Without a doubt there are many types of boats, to motor, oar and/or candle. Looking for parallelisms we could see in the motor the money, in the oar the submission to an organized system, but the candle symbolizes the wind, that can be the one of the Spirit. Many believers are in boats where they row to are of rate drums, in the style of galeras Roman, where she was chained to the slaves to the oars. In others nevertheless all to one in a perfect balance and coordination row voluntarily and in freedom, but the best boats were those, without a doubt those that went speedily; but today we were with great the transatlantic ones motor, churches companies, calls “mega churches, or mega churches�? that if well they are managed and focused turn into great tools of the Gentleman for million souls, as it they are being some televising ministries, besides others in Internet and its present fusion. The small boats fueraborda, of personal and individual use, for the benefit, and the contraband “of souls�? others, are taken by the egoism and the world, by the love to the delight but that to God.

The boat serves like transport of disciples from a earth to another one, that is to say from a side to another one as its lives in Christ, as much in a period of personal and spiritual growth like in the qualification preaching the Gospel. In addition the boat is a temporary deposit to take great amounts of fish to the border, fish with the network, which thrown to the right of the boat, that is to say, on the faith in the Spirit of the Word of God, gives to fruits gathering multitude of fish of the Gentleman. The one that only fishes, does with cane, and fishes little, the Gentleman said to him to Pedro that entered the boat and rowed inside but and threw the network to the right of the boat, and the Gentleman also entered with him.

The boat is definitively an instrument that serves to sail envelopes the spiritual seas, and is simultaneously many more things, is a ministry, is a place of rest and spiritual joy, if he is santo, but mainly is means to learn to coexist between the fellow, between the brothers that God puts to our side, so that we learn the brotherly affection and the love of God. The important thing of all this is whereupon aim we sailed, to where we go, because and what is the destiny of the trip, but not only this, but we are arranged to do during navigation by the others that are attack.

I have divided the navigation of this subject in three parts: SAILING GOVERNED BY CHRIST, SAILING COURSE TO OUR DESTINY. THE MINISTRY, AND SAILING PROPHETICALLY.

SAILING GOVERNED BY CHRIST

JESUS CALMS THE STORM: MATEO 8, MARKS 4, LUCAS 8.

… And dismissing the multitude, they took him as it were, in the boat; and there were also with him other boats. 37Pero rose a great wind storm, and threw the waves in the boat, in such a way that it already drowned. 38Y he was in the stern, sleeping over a mall pillow; and they woke up to him, and they said to him: Teacher, you do not have well-taken care of that we perish? 39Y rising, reprimanded to the wind, and said to the sea: It is silent, enmudece. And the wind stopped, and great bonanza became. 40Y said to them: Why thus you are intimidated? How you do not have faith? 41Entonces feared with great fear, and they said the one to the other: Who is this one, that the wind and the sea even obey to him.

One of the dangers of navigation, besides losing the course, is the appearance of a storm. This Text as much shows a history to us that symbolizes our daily life, in the material as in the spiritual, therefore we must cry out to God waking up to him in oration, song and praise, building and crying out in the Spirit. We must learn to trust the Gentleman and to wake up to him spiritually, that is to say, to ask to him that He is who calms the storm by us, because… we do not have fight against blood and meat, but against principalities, powers, the governors of the darknesses of this century, against spiritual followers of badness in the celestial regions… Efesio 6:10.

The storm is a battle of spiritual winds that put legs above our world, the circumstances of our lives, to make sink the faith of each person in particular and of the Church generally. Whichever times we have seen storms between friendly, even marriages, with the children or the parents, besides in the world, in the work, and between brothers in the Church, etc. he is something that happens on a daily basis. We do not have to fall in the error to think that we are single, because the Gentleman sails with us in the passage of our lives, and must avoid to try to calm winds with our forces, instead of to pray and to cry out to God in Christ, who for being the creator, the winds obey to him. We have then faith in Him and we say to him to the world in the name of Jesus: It is silent, enmudece.

So that the next time that undergoes a storm in its life, if it has a mix-up with a friend and it cannot solve it, pídale to the Gentleman who calms the storm; if it has discussed with his esposo/a and it does not know like fixing it being it even tried, pídale to the Gentleman who calms the storm; if with the children or the parents it has had some fight and there is no form to fix it, still putting of its part, pídale to the Gentleman who calms the storm; if in its work the storm does not lessen, ask to him the Gentleman who calms the storm; and if in his church they do not march the things well they try although it, it wakes up to the Gentleman crying out and building in the spirit, because the boat will be able to sail if the weathervane Christ, because He calms the storm.

SAILING COURSE TO OUR DESTINY. THE MINISTRY

In the most spiritual plane, it draws attention that the boats become of wood planks, a little finer and flexible, but similar to which is used to make a cross. If we united many planks of many crossings, that many disciples take to follow the Teacher, we can make a good boat with good brotherly conjunctures, anointed with tar to caulking it like the coffer of Noah.

As well as Pedro, in the test that asked to him Jesus on Its identity, walked on waters, little it would take in beginning to sink until it cried out to the Gentleman that gave the hand him, we also we can walk on waters in the faith, but the Gentleman immediately aided to Pedro and he took next to Him to the boat. In that Biblical Text we can see other approaches on the faith, that will find in WALKING ON WATERS.

We must change to the boat concept organization who does everything by my, by the one of boat conjuncture in brotherly affection, where I contribute a spiritual value and of friendship in Christ. Here we have to analyze the following thing: many believers enter the boat, seeing it like an institution that solves the spiritual life to them, in the style of the old woman traditional churches full of warms up banks. The problem also is in the lack of project that it includes to all. In the boat it is necessary to work, it is necessary to loosen the anchor to leave to sail, is necessary to clean and to wash the feet, is necessary to extend rag so that when abrir the candles the Gentleman blows, is necessary to row shoulder with shoulder helping to the brother, is necessary to take the rudder praying so that Captain Christ, governs and to be safe of the course. It is necessary to throw the networks to the right and to gather them, soon to take to the fish to mainland and thus both sees. The projects of spiritual life for the people are vital, besides the main projects of love and praise to the Gentleman. The boat is the spiritual conjuncture. For that reason we are enabled in the Spirit Santo to serve our children, the future generation dedicating to them a specific ministry that fills to them, teaches to them to walk with Christ and to enjoy a total life and values. That to say of a plan of support to the pairs, as much young as marriages. Management of finances, work and bureaucracy. Aid to old and the ill ones. Ministry for men. Ministry for Women. Ministry for Young people. Evangelisation. The praise. The focused study of the Bible with a program for each age and present subjects in the history of the Word. A boat which it enters all we really manage, with our great variety of capacities and knowledge, for the blessing of the familiar community of the Gentleman a spiritual project of total life in Christ, while we sailed by our life and until the coming of the Universal Kingdom of God.

Pablo standard that within the boat, and it sailed enough, many Christians are rejected and detested by its bishop-servants because they do not hear the call… you receive to the weak one in the faith… Romans 14; another different good thing is that it is admonished and they do not make case nor they strive, those that walks disorderlily and delighting in the sin. A good guide for the crew is for that reason this Text: … Therefore, I protest to you in today, that I am clean of the blood of all; 27porque I have not avoided anunciaros all the advice of God. 28Por as much, you watch after you, and all the flock in which the Spirit Santo has put to you by bishops, to feed the church on the Gentleman, who He won by his own blood. 29Porque I know that after my game wolves will enter in the middle of you predatory, that will not pardon the flock. 30Y of you yourself men will rise who speak perverse things to drag after himself the disciples. 31Por as much, you guard, acordándoos that by three years, at night and by day, I have not stopped to admonish with tears to each. 32Y now, brothers, I entrust God to you, and to the word of its grace, that he has to be able for sobreedificaros and daros inheritance with all the sanctified. Facts 20.

When the boat grows secondly, it is important that to that they finish being fished them of the welcome and it is invited to participate to them, first in its own spiritual growth, by the study of the Word, and in the conjuncture of the Church, but first is necessary that is seen by its facts, that they are of Christ, and the same is applied to the old ones in the faith. The boat must be faithful to the landlord, Christ. The old ones, prophets, teachers and bishops who serve the congregation do not have to allow riots of the enemy on board, if they teach well and they are examples to follow, are friendly and accessible, of course, nondictators of their own ideas. We invite then our fellow to enter our boats so that they can enjoy the brotherly affection and the love of Christ in His presence, because the Kingdom of God is in the middle of us, because Jesus lives and because the destiny of our navigation is Genesaret, Mateo 14:34 - 36.

SAILING PROPHETICALLY

THE MIRACULOUS FISHING, LUCAS 5

… It occurred that being Jesus next to the lake of Genesaret, the crowd crowded envelope he stops to hear the word of God. 2Y saw two boats that were near the border of the lake; and the fishermen, having descended from them, washed their networks. 3Y entering one of those boats, which era of Simón, requested to him that it separated from earth a little to it; and sitting down, it taught from the boat to the multitude. 4Cuando finished speaking, said to Simón: Fashion out to sea, and you throw your networks to fish. 5Respondiendo Simón, it said to him: Teacher, all night we have been working, and nothing we have fished; but in your word I will throw the network. 6Y being it done, locked up great amount of fish, and its network was broken. 7Entonces made signs to the companions who were in the other boat, so that they came to help them; and they came, and they filled both boats, in such a way that they sank.

There is time to fish, to enter the boat, time in which the Gentleman commands, entering her, Fashion out to sea! and The network throws! in the faith in My Word, to the right, but it is necessary to hear the voice of God for it, when, where and with Him. This is the key that teaches east Text to us: Pedro indicates the Gentleman to him that is been all night working and they have not fished anything, but the Teacher gives the instruction him of prophetic faith. Pedro it had been fishing without the instruction of Christ, with his means, with his forms, but it shows the Gentleman to us who the great fishing becomes when we trusted the power of Its Word, not in our time, but in his, not with our method and project, but in his, like and when It indicates it to us. … But in Your Word I will throw the network… Sir. The great amount of fish broke the network. When no longer they fit fish in our boat we must call to the companions who have other boats so that they help us, because all the boats will fill. This it is the prelude of a spiritual livening of a country, a time, or a ministry.

They would not take much in returning to fish to its form and not to fish anything, because at the end of Its ministry, Jesus, once revived and before promoting the Father, must return to teach to Pedro, just as it does today, that returned to raise its boat and to throw the network to the right.

JESUS IN THE BEACH JUAN 21

… When already he was dawning, Jesus in the beach appeared; but the disciples did not know that he was Jesus. 5Y said to them: Little boys, you have something to eat? They responded to him: No. 6El said to them: You throw the network to the right of the boat, and will find. They threw then it, and they could remove no longer it, by the great amount of fish. 7Entonces that one disciple whom Jesus loved said to Pedro: He is the Gentleman! Simón Pedro, when it heard that he was the Gentleman, fitted the clothes (because it had undressed of her), and lay down to the sea. 8Y the other disciples came with the boat, dragging the network of fish, because they were not of earth but like two hundred elbows. 9A descending to earth, saw put live coals, and a fish upon them, and bread. 10Jesús said to them: You bring of the fish that you finish fishing. 11Subió Simón Pedro, and removed the network to earth, full of great fish, one hundred fifty and three; and even being so many, the network was not broken. 12Les said Jesus: You come, you eat. And no of the disciples dared to ask to him: You, who you are? knowing that he was the Gentleman. 13Vino, then, Jesus, and took the bread and it gave them, and also of the fish.

The Teacher continues teaching now to us on which to do with the fish. When roasting it to the fire, a fish is passed through the fire of the Spirit, and burned all old thought and forms that were not of God, and very important, this is a work that makes the Spirit Santo, in the time and on the form who each person needs, it does not depend on us, but on the Gentleman. The unique way to be able to accept to a new brother, fish, that has died and been born again, is after passing the baptism of the Spirit and the fire of God. The following thing is to feed to the brothers obtained in the prophetic fishing. To eat the bread and the fish is to understand in the same way that we eat the meat of Jesus like life bread, a fish is also the result of Its work, that is to say a brother, which is based on the Word in loving God and the fellow.

… When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simón Pedro: Simón, son of Jonás, You love to me more than these? It responded to him: Yes, Sir; you know I love you that. He said to him: He feeds my lambs. He reads is Biblical Solid Food Study FEEDS MY LAMBS.

CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY OF CONCEPTS TO CONSTRUCT AND TO MAINTAIN THE BOAT AFLOAT AND IN COURSE

The boat is the spiritual conjuncture, the Spirit Santo is the one who unites that conjuncture of the disciples we compose who it anywhere in the world.

The boat is definitively an instrument, mainly is means to learn to coexist between the fellow, between the brothers that God puts to our side, so that we learn the brotherly affection and the love of God. What we are arranged to do during navigation by the others that are attack.

Although salvation is personal, individual and intransferable, which is reflected when Pedro walks on waters, we must differentiate it from the contribution that we must to the boat, because we are not independent same but to God and the body of Christ, an the other, and as it says to Pablo… ocupaos in your salvation with fear and tremor… Filipenses 2:12, not to lose it, and this is not only made walking on waters, but comprising of the boat.

The storm is a spiritual wind battle in which there are to avoid to try to calm them with our forces. It is necessary to trust the power of God and to wake up to him spiritually, is necessary to follow to him like Captain of the Boat.

Whereupon aim we sailed, to where we go, because and what is the destiny of the trip? To oar and candle or in the mega churches, or now in the ministry of Internet, it is necessary to throw the network to the right of the boat, not to be all night working and not to fish anything. If we create in the power of the praise our God, if we stay in the oration in the name of Jesus Christ, Yahshua, in the Word of God, our Father and in addition the brotherly affection and in the love to God, the success is ensured, the boats will fill gathering multitude of fish. This it is the prelude of a spiritual livening of a country, a time and a ministry.

So brother loved mine, I wish a happy navigation you in calm, without tempestead, in La Paz of Christ and your candles are pushed by the wind of the Spirit Santo. But you remember, not you leave to sleep to Sir, you cry out, you praise, escuchadle, that is Jesus who governs the boat of your spiritual life and the one of your soul, naveguéis in boat or transatlantic.

And that the Gentleman of the spirits, creator of everything what exists, Jesus Christ, Colosenses 1:16, is your protection before the attack of the storm in your lives, because He calms the storm. Welcomes on board. Amen.