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THE ROCK
JESUS CHRIST. THE FOUNDATION OF OUR LIVES
 © Carlos Padilla, March 2010
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I walked these days in oration and meditating with the Gentleman asking wisdom to advise older son to him, exhorting to him to that she builds his life, the “project of life� as calls he it, to she did that it on the Rock, Jesus Christ, in everything what she wants to do, so that does not fall to him, since although he is already a man of God, youth is a time that takes by ways of hopes and projects to us of our heart, which lets itself take by winds that so many times become storms. To speak with him on it, as the Gentleman taught to me, and to worry me about him in this sense have given like turn out to write on the Rock, Jesus Christ, as it bases and foundation of our lives. The Gentleman, in addition, in particular taught that making use of His omnipresence and omnipotence He is living our lives within us, the one to me of each of us, of it requests that us that we love the fellow and to thus we loved Him Him that knows well what we felt and what we thought, because It is the Rock that created to us, as we read in Deuteronomio 32:18. And loving the fellow we loved to him Him as we read in Its Word in Mateo 25:31 - 46… Because I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was foreign, and you gathered to me: I was naked, and you covered to me; patient, and you visited to me; in the jail, and you came…
Many believers think that once they have believed in Jesus Christ, the Rock of our salvation, no longer must strive to stay in the Way and they forget to construct its lives, in all its sections, on the Council of the Rock, the Word of God, and then, clearly, the lives crumble until the foundation that is Christ if they keep the faith, but undergo the demolition than they had constructed badly. … If some comes after me, and it does not detest his father, and mother, and woman, and children and brothers, and brothers, and even its own life, cannot be my disciple. And the one that does not take its cross and comes after me, cannot be my disciple… … Thus, then, anyone of you who do not resign to everything what owns, cannot be my disciple. Lucas 14:26… 33.
As a parabola we found that like in the field of the medicine, the prevention is the key to avoid many diseases, in the spiritual field the guarantee of a blessing life is that one that is built on the Rock that are Jesus Christ, the faith in Him and His Word, which produces a continuous medicine, the love of God. The problem that the medicine of the man finds when it is against a hereditary genetic disease is equivalent to that we found in the man who does not know Christ, that has inherited a heart egoistic and died spiritually and patient of sin, of which that one love does not emanate, the love banquet of 1Corintios 13, del that Martin Luther King Jr also spoke in its sermons which I remembered again reading “Leading with Love� The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham. Only this love of God that emanates of the Rock we will be able to fulfill the request that the Gentleman did to Pedro: … 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 ewes… Juan 21:15.
Although the medicine can do little with these hereditary diseases, which, besides the own oldness and some others, take to the man to the death, that death is only physical and temporary, but the death that interests to us is not the physics but the one of the soul, the spiritual, of which Jesus Christ heals cleaning to us completely to us of sin by the faith in His work in the Cross of the Calvary. That disease, the one of the sin, produces the death, and Christ by His work in us, by the faith, gives the resurrection to us for eternal life. He is then Jesus Christ the Rock of our salvation, the base to construct our lives. If we have never constructed on the Rock, we have done if it on the sand, our lives sooner or later fall. This is what we found around to ours in the lives of our fellow, and what we knew before knowing the Gospel and receiving Christ.
As we see, the man without God is ill terminal by the sin, and that sin or error, of Greek “hamartiaâ€? (to turn aside itself of the correct trajectory) there are like result a world and a society that throughout history, from the beginning, emanates egoism, impiedad and absence of mercy. The world learns of a base of erroneous information, intelligence datas that have a virus, the world has been deceived by the “engañadorâ€?. The solution on the other passes word that does not know as well as “the sinnedâ€? word, I talk about the famous one arrepentÃos! that it comes as well from Greek “metanoiaâ€?, change of mind or form to think; this is: change of information and determination to use the correct information, without virus, deceit.
This announcement was taken to the inhabitants of NÃnive when Jonás announced the aim to them from God. We Christian them announced the sin to the world and its consequence and the good news of the Salvation for eternal life. The majority says that it does not create not to assume his responsibility, or rather to flee from her, because all we bring the order inside to look for God, but in the majority of the cases, if they realize, they think that they will find a remedy in some religion that puts it easy, or it conforms itself to his form to think, to be able to continue doing what it comes to him in desire, or think that is not a remedy for its lives. In the same way, in the majority of the people we found the negation of the sin and the recognition of the gravity to live a life without God. … There is fear of no God in this earth… said Abraham. God is good and it loves to us, but also he is sovereign and it punishes to us. Their judgments and Their wrath fall on the impÃos during the history of the humanity that it does not love to Him: Mateo 3:7, Colosenses 3:6 or Apocalypse 11:18 is only some references of the wrath of God.
All these are excuses in which the man gets dressed and covers before the others, but all we know that in the life we lived hard moments at which we looked for God. The world in which we lived is constructed on the sand of the deceit of the devil from Edén and is the result of not listening nor obeying to God that it loves to us. Wars, hunger, genocide and all type of tragedies caused by the man without God.
I to him said, also, to the Gentleman days ago praying: Lives broken throughout, are what encounter around, Sir, in whom they listen when them announcement of You. It seems that people do not want to know nothing of You until they are in the UVI of his lives, economically, physically, emotional spiritually and/or. It is then when they begin to listen to with attention the Word of God! This same experience anywhere shares with me all the brothers in the faith of the world.
The result of a life without God is evident, but the nonsense of the man blinds to him in its pride, which takes to the death, and this one eternal one. It takes to him to the suffering of his spiritual disease, that is the cause and origin of all the others, not only in this life but also by the eternity, to suffer the pains the sin eternally when they look for the things of this world, after reviving, in the coming world, where they will not be. Their lives, fall here and there because they are not built on the Rock of the Life that is Christ because they do not drink of the alive water of the Spirit and because for them Jesus Christ is not the center of his lives.
… Because you forgot the God of your salvation, and you did not remember the rock of your refuge… Isaiah 17:10.
But those that, building their lives on the Rock and having enjoyed the Light of God during their Earth stay, arrive at the end of this life, are called to enjoy the Paradise of God in Their Kingdom. They even are in time; ArrepentÃos.
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THE 7 PILLARS OF THE LIFE ON THE ROCK
Identifying the 7 more excellent aspects of our life we can build it beginning by the principle, by the foundation that goes on the Rock. The foundation is the faith on that Rock that is Jesus Christ del that emanates the planes to construct our life. First it is the Salvation takes that us to the second, our life from receiving Christ, our plans and projects. The third party is the marriage, the quarter the children, the fifth family, sixth it is the work and the finances and the seventh our church and the Christian ministry.
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1. - THE SPIRITUAL ROCK OF OUR SALVATION: JESUS CHRIST
The personal relation with God is built through Its Son Jesus Christ. It is entering by the narrow Door that we accede to the heart of God and have a true friendship in Its presence. In the praise and the song, the preaching of the Gospel, good works, the love to the fellow, Santa Cena.
… Acercándoos to him, alive stone, rejected certainly by the men, but for selected and precious God, 5vosotros also, like stones cheers, thirst built like spiritual house and priesthood santo, to offer acceptable spiritual sacrifices to God by means of Jesus Christ. 6Por which also contains the Scripture: I have here, I put in Sion the main stone of the angle, selected, precious; And the one that will believe in him, will not be shamed. 7Para you, then, those that you create, he is precious; but for that they do not create, the stone that the edificadores rejected, has come to be the head of the angle; 8y: Stone of slip, and rock that makes fall, because they encounter in the word, being disobedient; to which also they were destined. 1Pedro 2.
The key for that they want to enter Sion is to put to Jesus like the main stone, stone of the angle of its lives to construct to a life of blessing in Christ Jesus, because the one that will believe in Him will be shamed, because although in the Earth and the time we undergo persecution here, this cannot be compared with the glory that will come by the eternity, to that we will enter to comprise of the hand of our God Yahweh in Its Yahshua Son.
… As it is written: I have I put in Sion stone of slip and rock of fall here; and the one that will believe in him, will not be shamed. Romans 9:33.
Once we have received the Salvation by the faith, we must construct the rest of our lives on the Rock, in the rest of the sections that we will see next.
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2. - THE LIFE ON THE ROCK. PLANS AND PROJECTS OF THE LIFE
Our life is had to build on the Rock, Christ, which although evident for the Christian, is necessary to remember from where we come, from where our life comes before knowing God. The man without Christ constructs on the sand (tradition, knowledge and science of the man), reason why his life falls by some of the pillars when coming the storm.
The life projects must be based, built, based on Christ, the Rock, the Rock of our Salvation “Psalm 89:26� that gives the water without needing striking it, Exodus 17:6. That Rock that emanates water is open in the Word. Any project of our lives must have the measures, the times and the motivations and objectives of God, not them ours. To plan without Christ is to construct on the sand of the arguments of the world, the friendly advice of the world, of the family,… It vetoes of your earth and your relations… Genesis 12:1, said God to Abraham, and of all the human experience and sources of intelligence and of tradition that are opposite to the Word of God; if they are of Christ are blessing and Rock of construction, for which we have the Word of God and our personal relation with God in Christ, as it had Abraham, to whom the Gentleman called: Abraham, my friend.
… Pharaoh also Said: There am the Earth town is here now much, and you make them stop of their tasks. 6Y sent to Pharaoh that one same day to the team leaders of the town had who it to their position, and its overseers, saying: 7De in future you will not give straw here to the town to make brick, like until now; they go and gather the straw by themselves. 8Y you will impose the same brick task to them that did before, and you will not diminish anything to them; because they are idle, for that reason they raise the voice saying: We go and we offer sacrifices to our God. they 9Agrávese the servitude exceeds, so that they take care in her, and do not take care of lying words. Exodus 5.
It is not certain that today in the civilization of the West the people live in a frenetic stress and is no time for anything? , because here we have because. That they make the same brick but not them of the straw: with mud brick that is our sins and the straw that are the fragility of our worldly arguments makes the man its house, its life, the society and the entire world. God proposes to make Its temple with a foundation that is the Word and to build on the Rock that is Christ. Its Temple becomes, not with mud bricks, but with stones worked outside the sacred place, that is to say, worked and polished, with people worked during our lives in Christ, those that they have the Gospel in their heart and does not deal to mold it to their own interest.
The world has been constructed on the sand of the serpent of Genesis that deceived the man robbing to him its freedom and making him enslaved of the code of the knowledge of the good and of the evil, because of which the relation with God lost the man, the personal relation with Him which we see among others reclaimed in total Abraham and under the Grace in Jesus Christ seeing the Apostles. The devastating effect even follows alive today when we observed as the humanity and the governments are incapable to solve the great problems of the hunger, the wars, the inequality, the lack of education and the long list of damage with which they live in his you bring back to consciousness every day those that can and they do not do anything. And we also do, we pray to know what is in our hands, although… always you will have poor men with you… Mateo 26:11.
Under the love of God and emanating love of God we will see a new panorama between which they are true friendly in Christ, we will take care of our health, we will strive in the studies and work, will put into the hands of God the trips which there will be to undertake, the companies or businesses in which to participate or to lead, and all the plans that come to our heart, so that reveals It us where is His will and blessing for us, and that life is of blessing also for those to ours around that we loved and those to which we pruned to help.
We live a total life fulfilling our duties Christian, that we can read in Romans 12.
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3. - THE MARRIAGE ON THE ROCK
Many people write to us to josephmorrisministries.org to tell us that their lives have fallen; or its marriages, or their children or their works or any part or pillar of support of its heart or the faith, to see fall its church or leader or shepherd.
The marriage is the origin and foundation of the family, who is the objective to destroy on the part of the enemy. If the spouses nonOran the one on the other, meat, the egoism, the lack of respect, etc. and the cooling of the first love fall. When a marriage prays in Christ, the fire stays ignition, and I do not talk about the passional fire, but to the spiritual that he is the one that illuminates the love, and not only to the love eros, but to the greater love, the love banquet.
When a man and a woman marry, they must include/understand that the love is the base to be together all the life and to enjoy the one the other. It is also the base to be able to leave triumphant in the difficult situations. But it would want that all the marriages asked to him to God, that in the name of Jesus Christ is blessed their marriage, so that It is Rock where to build this life in union, that they pray together, that asks God, which they study the Bible on the matter, and does everything what is in its hands to polish its character and to have own dominion, fruit of the virtue.
Each has virtues and defects, that will be discovered throughout the life. Facets that not even one knows itself, because one has never faced certain situations before in his life. But as it is a very painful pity and to see as the pairs divorce, and whatever undergoes they and their children, I must recommend that they take refuge in the faith in Christ, who It has the power to free us in the bad day and to give His triumph us; for example, when another person crosses itself and calls the attention of the other, that woman or that man. God gives forces, but they do not become sad before the difficulties but they trust God, He will give the force them that we do not have. The fight of the devil is until death, so they take all the armor from God. Efesios 6:10.
There are some supports here from the Bible, of the attitude in the marriage that believes in God and loves its pair:
… You will not commit adultery. 7º order. 20 exodus and Deuteronomio 5.
… Therefore it will leave the man to his father and to his mother, and it will be united to his wife, and will be a single meat. Genesis 2:24.
… Honorable it is in all the marriage. Hebrew 13:4.
… Virtuous Woman, she will find who it? Because its esteem exceeds long to the one of precious stones. The heart of its husband is in trusting her, will not lack gains. Proverb 31:10.
… Because the incredulous husband is sanctified in the woman, and the incredulous woman in the husband; then of another way your children would be impure, whereas now they are holy. 1ª Corintios 7:14.
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4. - THE CHILDREN ON THE ROCK
Our children need to see parents who lean on the Rock and which they see that although there are storms and storms, the house does not fall. Discipline, project of life and order are fundamental, but the Rock will give to the love necessary and the affection us to help them and to enjoy together its lives, so that we are its better friendly, respect and honor.
… Ay of the children who separate, says Yahweh, to take advice, and not of me; in order to shelter itself with cover, and of my spirit, not adding sinned to sin! 2Que separates to descend to Egypt, and they have not asked of my mouth; in order to fortify themselves with the force of Pharaoh, and to put its hope in the shade of Egypt. 3Pero the force of Pharaoh will change to you in shame, and the shelter in the shade of Egypt in confusion. Isaiah 30.
Indeed this is what Eva did, not to take advice from the mouth of the Gentleman neither of its husband, but of another prophet, and to shelter itself under the cover of the knowledge of or and the evil, the own moral, and no longer to share its life with God Father. But the moral of Egypt, the society, is changing at every time, reason why the mind of the man who does this stops feeling safe. God does not change, He is the Rock of our salvation. We see Eva like our mind with independence and knowledge thirst that is revealed against God, which we can put under with the power of the Spirit Santo in us. Jesus Christ has to reign in our soul so that the mind is dominated. The rudder of our lives must be our spirit under the Spirit of God, not our mind.
… Honor to your father and your mother, so that your days are extended in the Earth that the Gentleman your God gives you. Exodus 20. 5º order.
… Children, you obey in the Gentleman to your parents, because this is just. Honor to your father and your mother, who is the first order with promise; so that it goes to you well, and you are of long life on the Earth. And you, parents, do not bring about to wrath to your children, but criadlos in discipline and reprimand of the Gentleman. Efesios 6:1 to the 4.
The children are blessing of God, own or are adopted in marriages that cannot have them. God knows each circumstance. To be parents is difficult but precious. There is no a short course to learn. Each son is different from another one and each family and the parents are different. Again we must go to the Teacher, to the Father ours, He yes who knows to be a good Father.
The Word Hers says: The one that discipline to its son does not consider bastard, Hebrew 12:8. Same God disciplines to us so that we come to look for to him and we become humble.
It is important to pray by them, to listen to them, to be his friendly really. Although they always, as well as we and our parents before us, will come with their fashions and their properties to their group that yes is in fashion and parents no.
Recommendation: desmayéis not to guide to them in reprimand of God although seems that it does not bear fruit. In the long run you will see the result and will be for blessing. The parents must take to their children to the knowledge of God like greater education to receive, best science, the greater blessing and the best friend than can present/display to them. All the others are of our own harvest following our time, but that is on the Rock.
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5. - THE FAMILY ON THE ROCK
The family, of very revealing form, must be built like a house on the Rock and not on the sand, so that house remains when the difficulties come. That Rock, once again, is the faith in Christ, and His word, the Bible. In her, under the grace of the New Pact in the Spirit Santo, they are the instructions, so to speak, for the life of all man and also of the family. The familiar sand of the traditions, interferences, the bad advice and the arguments of the world take to the divorce and children in drugs or the alcohol and to homosexuality. In the society all bond.
It is there where we must have communion with others. The family parents must shepherd their families and to be example to theirs. If she is the single wife in the Gentleman, he looks for other brothers or groups of brothers to share the things of God and to take Santa Cena, and teaches to his children in the way of the Gentleman. If you are son, speaks with your parents of the Gentleman and if they reject hónralos to you in your relation of son, because this says the order, that it has promise of the Gentleman to receive blessing.
Those pray that they do not have to all the members of his house in Christ and He will do. Sometimes they can spend years, but patience is asked to Him the Gentleman, becomes that time shorter. Those that we know God, we only want that all know Him, but is not necessary to forget that each relation with Him is individual, who only belongs to them to them, to the Gentleman and that person and whom also there is to respect the privacy of that relation and to hope to that person falls in love with the heart of God. Then It will give the faith him.
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6. - THE WORK AND THE FINANCES ON THE ROCK
… If some does not provide for those with its house, to denied the faith, and is worse than an incredulous one. 1Timoteo 5:8.
Jose in Egypt was the richest man of the world and served God. We must look for God before and the other things will occur us in addition; the Scripture says.
In the labor relations we must be identified like followers of Christ, so that when having a straight and serious attitude in the businesses or uses, the others sees that the possibility exists of walking right and to have blessing of God. Disciple must to know well laws his time and to fulfill them (those that is not opposite to the orders of God), must help their companions, if she is head must help his subordinates and not to be a dictator, to be a good friend. The one that is called to itself disciple of Christ must be seen like the same Jesus in action. And when they ask to him that how its attitude is possible, reveals his faith in the Gentleman.Â
The man is not prepared to that they give nothing to him and is said to itself: … please! , I have intellectual capacity and can organize a company and have my own projects and prevail…; and account does not occur the man of which is a slave in Egypt: world, where we will have to fight to subsist, but while we got ourselves to think that when we are successful we felt very important by the triumphs and makes us feel us superiors and more intelligent than the others, that is that the personal ego of an industralist that great success has or of the employee that emphasizes by its efforts elevates and begins to watch at its fellow below the shoulder. This circumstance causes that the great power of the man does not allow him to be humble before God, reason why is blinded by its own light and it does not see the advice and the wisdom of God. In the same way envy produces a missed behavior, far from the blessing of God: … You will not covet thing some of your fellow… says the tenth order. Exodus 20:17.
Without God and in the world, and looking for the benefit and the success, one falls in the arms of the devil. But it is possible to be successful and great benefits and knowledge that is God that gives them to us, and to share and to give needed opportunities to but. It is necessary to see the circumstances of which they starve, and they do not have hope neither work, nor health, or have fallen into the hands of a spirit of drug or depression and are in the jails or the hospitals, and to do something by this society. We can eradicate the poverty, we can give use all, we can provide a worthy life for all the humanity, but we did not obtain it by the world-wide egoism.
The Gospel teaches to the man to know its God, and to wait with hope the Great Coming of our Great God and Salvador Jesus Christ, who will issue a new order to us of things, where no longer we will have to worry to us don't mention it. Why it is not spoken of this in the works, besides soccer, stock-market or Internet.
That one that honor to God, will be pleased in separating the tithe from its income and using them for God, preaching and humanitarian aid, and the Gentleman will abrirá the windows of the sky and will give his blessings until they sobreabound. It is not the tithe leaves originally from the Law of God, was added later, but of the faith of Abraham, it is not an obligation, it is rather to honor and to be thankful for to God its economic blessings, is a pact between one and God. It reads MalaquÃas the 12 3:8 to and Genesis 14:18 to the 20.
The Gentleman exactly demands the tithe to us of our income like property hers, because from Him the blessings come. Abraham and Jacob, of their own heart made pact with God it blessed so that them and separated the tithe for Him. Eye to the impositions of the organizations demand who it. One must feel frees to use this 10% of its money in which it receives from God as use that to give him. If we are only convinced that one is used in the work of God we must contribute it, if is not better to hope to than God to confir its use to me. It invests in the poor men, is the best investment: … To the Gentleman it lends the one that it gives to the poor man, and the good that has done will return it to pay. Proverbs 19:17.
In MalaquÃas 3:6 to 11dice: Because I the Gentleman nonchange; by this children of Jacob, you have not been consumed. From the days of your parents you have separated from my laws, and you did not keep them. Volveos, and I will become, is this Yahweh of the armies. But you said: In what we have to return to us? Will rob the man to God? Then you have robbed to me. And you said: In what we have robbed to you? In your tithes and offerings. Damn you are with curse, because you, the nation everything, have robbed to me. You bring all the tithes to the public granary and is food in my house; And probadme now in this, says Yahweh of the armies, but I will abriré the windows to you of skies, and will spill envelope you blessing until it sobreabounds. I will also reprimand by you to the all-consuming one, and he will not destroy the Earth fruit, nor your grapevine to you in the field will be sterile, says Yahweh of the armies. And all the nations will say to you fortunate; because you will be desirable earth, Yahweh of the armies says.
The work and the finances are then tools which we cannot do without for being able to cover our needs. The society catches to us with a system of consumption fortified by the marketing of the producing companies focused to the gain, looking for the benefit to become rich and to win to the competition. … Root of all the evils is the love to the money. 1 Timoteo 6:10.
The Kingdom of God will not be a place where there is to work to secure the own sustenance nor of theirs, which we can see in the paradise where they were Adam and Eva. God does not propose an eternal life of work, but an eternal life to us in the paradise, with Him, without needing looking for sustenance, because It is the sustenance of our spirit. Thank heavens and thanks to Him who has given to the resurrection for that eternal life by the death hers us in Christ in the Cross to free to us of our sin.Â
Therefore the Gentleman says: You look for the kingdom of God firstly and their justice and these things will be added to you. Mateo 6:33.
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7. - THE CHURCH ON THE ROCK
And he himself constituted to, apostles; to others, prophets; to others, gospellers; to others, shepherds and teachers, 12a aim to perfect to the saints for the work of the ministry, for the construction of the body of Christ, 13hasta that all we arrive at the unit of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, in accordance with the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14para that no longer we are young fluctuating, taken by anywhere of all wind of doctrine, by stratagem of men that stops to deceive use with cleverness the ruses of the error, 15sino that following the truth in love, we grow in everything in which is the head, that is to say, Christ, 16de that all the body, arranged and united well to each other by all the conjunctures which they help themselves mutually, according to the own activity of each member, receives its growth is built itself in love. Efesios 4:11.
As it leaves from that anchored love to God living for the Rock we found the following revelation:
… Responding Simón Pedro, it said: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God… … And I also say to you, what you are Pedro “Petrusâ€?, and on this rock “petraâ€? I will build my church; and the doors of Hades will not prevail against her. And (Church mine) I will give the keys you of the kingdom of skies… Mateo 16. San AgustÃn bishop of Hipona, in his commentary on the first epistle of Juan, explains the confession of Pedro: … What means these words: I will build my Church on this rock? They mean: I will build my Church on this faith, on which you say to me: Your you are the Christ, the Son of alive God. And in one of its famous sermons AgustÃn of the following form would preach: Your you are Pedro, and on this one rock, (stone) that you have confessed, on this one rock that you have recognized confessing: Your you are Christ, the Son of alive God, I will build my Church; on My same one, that I am the Son of God I will build, it; and not on Pedro. With this affirmation of AgustÃn we can begin exposing what at his time it was the common faith between the Church of the first parents, like also San Ignacio, bishop of Antioch, 98 a.C., San Jerónimo, San Hilario de Poitiers, San Cirilo, San Ambrosio of Milan, San Juan Crisóstomo, and the others showed in the Council of Chalcedon a same faith on the confession of Pedro, and the bishop of Rome did not have any supremacy on the others, did not exist the figure of the Pope, because she is not Biblical, but created by the man adopting a figure of pagan Rome. Own the Pedro in his first letter in chapter clarifies it to 2. If it were Pedro, and its successor the head of the true Church, how he is that the church of Rome has turned aside so much of the healthy doctrine of the Bible, of the lessons of our Mr. Jesus de Nazaret? It would not have been thus if that catholic-Roman exposition were the true one, it does not seem to him. I would like to take a Text from 1Pedro 2, that fodder that something would know on the meaning of the Rock, so that we see the proposal makes that us to build the Church on Jesus Christ: … Acercándoos to him, alive stone, rejected certainly by the men, but for selected and precious God, 5vosotros also, like stones cheers, thirst built like spiritual house and priesthood santo, to offer acceptable spiritual sacrifices to God by means of Jesus Christ. 6Por which also contains the Scripture: I have here, I put in Sion the main stone of the angle, selected, precious; And the one that will believe in him, will not be shamed. 7Para you, then, those that you create, he is precious; but for that they do not create, the stone that the edificadores rejected, has come to be the head of the angle; 8y stone of slip, and rock that makes fall, because they encounter in the word, being disobedient; to which also they were destined.
It does not sound to the behavior of some church? As far as behavior, also Pedro gives a skillful class on the relation between the brothers that form the Body of Christ, in his first general purpose map, chapter 5:
… Request to the old ones that they are between you, old I also with them, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, that I am also participant of the glory that will be revealed: You feed the congregation on God that is between you, taking care of of her, not by force, but voluntarily; not by dishonest gain, but with spirit soon; like not having señorÃo on that they are to your care, but being examples of the congregation. And when he appears the Prince of the shepherds, you will receive the incorruptible crown of glory. Also, young people, you are subject to the old ones; and all, submissive a humility a others, revestÃos; because: God resists to the magnificent ones and gives grace the humble ones.
On the other hand and whatever to the construction of the ministry, in this case the one of the Messianic Jews, within the prophecy also we found that the Temple of Jerusalem was also constructed on rock, the one of the Moria mount in the elevation of Sion, name that takes for centuries all Jerusalem, and the archeology finishes confirming, for which they doubted and that interesadamente want to discredit the true history of the place, that the great stones raised on the rock of the mount have been 3000 years there, which agrees with the date of the construction of the first Temple, the one of Salomón. The prophecy of Jesus Christ in Mateo 24 announced the destruction of the Temple that was destroyed in 70d.C for the last time. But it is now, when Israel has returned to his earth, and if this is not signal of the last times, that will be it? according to the Biblical prophecy, Daniel 12:7 and Romans 11, when they return the disturbances and the battles by the reconstruction on that one rock and Jerusalem are the Rock of Monte de Sion. He was and it is an established mount and foundation of the Jewish religion that now needs to put, and that will put at the end of the time, its foundation on the true spiritual Rock, Yahshua, the Son of God revived like foundation of the salvation of Its Town.
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LOOKING FOR THE WILL DE GOD TO BUILD ON THE ROCK
Once our life is founded on the Rock, that is Jesus Christ, the key to construct or to sobrebuild is in knowing what is Its will. Gedeón requested signal to God before the battle, Judges 6:36 - 40. We must also request signals to God to make the decisions in the clarity from the Spirit. It stops we have the oration and the sanctification looking for the heart of God in everything what we must live. We always look for moments of solitude with the Gentleman to listen to Its voice, because to our it speaks us God to the heart.
How many problems and broken lives we would stop seeing if the Bible under the Light of the New Pact were read and obeyed, the manual of God for our life. Whole nations are falling because they have not taken into account to God. Whole churches are crumbling - and I do not only talk about to congregations but denominations - because they are not constructing his ministry on the Rock, not adulterated spiritual milk, but on the sand of the opposite traditions to the Word of God.
If these great constructions fall when they are not constructed on the Rock, how they are not going away to fall whole companies, families and lives. The prodigal son fell, but there is hope if there is return to the Way where the one that regrets heart finds the arms of God abiertos to receive to him. Once demolished what it was constructed bad it again begins to construct on the Rock. This one is the new birth of the Spirit, when one believes in Christ, the Rock of our lives, in Its work of Salvation and Him like source of permanent and eternal life.
When we lived under the will of God, our lives are lived by Christ when It is the Rock of foundation, is then that we cried out by the Spirit “Abba, Father�.
Psalm 95… You come, we acclaim gladly to Yahweh; we sing with joy to the rock of our salvation. 2 Lleguemos before its presence with praise; we acclaim to him with songs.
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BIBLICAL TEXTS … It is the Rock, whose work is perfect… Deuteronomio 32:4.
… The Rock that created to you you forgot… Deuteronomio 32:18.
… It spoke to David to Yahweh the words of this song, the day that Yahweh had freed to him of the hand of all enemies, and of the hand of Saúl. 2Dijo: Yahweh is my rock and my strength, and my liberator; 3Dios mine, strength mine, him I will trust; My shield, and the fort of my salvation, my high refuge; Salvador mine; of violence you freed to me. 4Invocaré to Yahweh, that is worthy to be praised, and I will be safe of my enemies… 2Samuel 22 and Psalm 18:2.
… It hears, oh God, my outcry; oration takes care of. 2Desde the Earth end I will cry out, when my heart desmayare. Llévame to the rock that is higher than I, 3porque you have been my refuge, and strong tower in front of the enemy. 4Yo I will live in your tabernacle for always; I will be safe under the cover of your wings… Psalm 61:2.
… My meat and my heart become weak; But the rock of my heart and my portion is God for always. Psalm 73:26.
… Anyone, then, that hears these words to me, and does, I will compare a prudent man to him, who built his house on the rock. 25Descendió rain, and came rivers, and blew winds, and struck against that one house; and it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. 26Pero whatever it hears to me these words and does not do them, I will compare a foolish man to him, who built his house on the sand; 27y descended rain, and came rivers, and blew winds, and gave with impetus against that one house; and it fell, and he was great its ruin. 28Y when it finished to Jesus these words, people was admired of its doctrine; 29porque taught to them like that has authority, and not you write as them. Mateo 7.
… Because nobody can put another foundation that the one that is put, which is Jesus Christ. 1Corintios 3:11.
… Because I do not want, brothers, that you ignore that our parents all were under the cloud, and all passed the sea; 2y all in Moisés were baptized in the cloud and in the sea, 3y all ate the same spiritual food, 4y all drank the same spiritual drink; because they drank of the spiritual rock followed that them, and the rock was Christ. 5Pero of more of them was not pleased God; thus they were postrados in the desert. 6Mas these things happened like examples for us, so that we do not covet bad things, as they coveted. 7Ni you are idolatrous, like some of them, according to is written: The town sat down to eat and to drink, and it rose to play. 8Ni forniquemos, as some of them fornicaron, and fell in a day twenty-three thousands. 9Ni we tempt the Gentleman, as also some of them touched to him, and perished by the serpents. 10Ni you murmur, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. 11Y these things occurred to them like example, and are written to admonish to us, to those who the aims of the centuries have reached. 1Corintios 10.
 CONCLUSION
Christ is the Rock on which we must build our life if we listened to the Word of Jesus Christ and we are, as He says, prudent. So that in our interior they flow alive water rivers must emanate of the Rock. Of Him water for the town when Moisés struck to Him twice, in the symbolism of the rock of Numbers flowed 20:11, because they did not have faith in the Gentleman, but we have faith we for those who it was written. Thus also Christ by the Law was struck, by the twig of Moisés when taking our sin, which crucified to Him in our place.
We receive then in humility the pardon, and we do not justify by the Law doing merits to fulfill the 613 orders and decrees of the Law of God or those of the traditions of the churches. That is the ego, the mind of the antichrist, the sin that produces the spiritual death, to be far from the presence of God. The one that does not have Christ, does not have the life.
It is the main stone of the Temple of the soul and our liberator of the sin and Salvador. That Rock is the head of the angle to finish the construction that we are, our soul and generally the Church.
Anchored in the Rock, we build our lives, to once we have received Him like Salvador. We build our lives, our marriages, to our children and families, our works and finances, and build the Church in the love banquet with which it loves God to us.
Jesus Christ is the life water Rock and source and causes that of us that alive water flows, the essence of his Spirit: The one that believes in me, as the Scripture says, of its interior will run alive water rivers. Juan 7:38. Â Amen. Â Â |