Igna de Suárez

The message explores the importance of seeking God's opinion of our lives rather than living to please others. Using the example of Abraham, the speaker highlights that God considered Abraham to be his friend and had generational trust in him. The message encourages listeners to cultivate a close relationship with God and seek His opinion of their lives.

In this sermon, the speaker discusses the importance of marking and guiding future generations in the faith. She uses the examples of Abraham and Job, highlighting how God knew their hearts and their faithfulness in the face of trials. She encourages parents and grandparents to be consistent in their faith and to instill the principles and values of the Bible in their children and grandchildren. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fearing and revering God and being willing to worship Him even in the midst of trials.

The Ministry of Jesus was marked by crowds who were hungry and thirsty for something more than the religious and political systems of the time. Jesus couldn't even have privacy because people always followed Him. The Father revealed His Son to the multitudes, Peter, Paul, and to us through His Holy Spirit. We cannot hide Him because the Father has revealed Him to us. The first means the Father uses to reveal His Son is creation itself, from sunsets to mountains.

The Father uses creation, His Word, and works of power to reveal His Son. The Old Testament speaks of Christ and the prophets foretold His coming. However, we can hinder Him from being revealed by neglecting evangelization and denying Him like Peter did. We must prioritize making Him known to others.

The speaker begins by remembering a woman named Toñita who passed away a year ago. Toñita was a simple woman who lived a holy life and left a great legacy of faith. She was known for reading her Bible daily and leaving it well-marked. The speaker then turns to the book of Neemiah in chapter 8, where the people of Israel gather together to hear the reading of the law. The people are attentive and moved by the words they hear. The speaker emphasizes the importance of having a passion and vision for one's family and city, just as Neemiah had for Jerusalem.

The speaker encourages the audience to have passion and vision for their city, like Nehemiah did in the Bible. Nehemiah's vision was to restore the walls of Jerusalem and his passion led him to take action. The people of Jerusalem cried out for the book of the law, and Ezra read it to them from dawn to noon. The people were attentive to the book, not the preacher. The speaker emphasizes the need for the word of God to be central and for preachers to disappear, so that the glory belongs only to God. The speaker also expresses concern about the superficiality of messages in churches today and encourages a passion for the word of God.

The speaker shares about a word that the Lord gave him recently, based on 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, which calls for a Christian life without reservation, return, and regrets. He expresses his sadness about the superficial Christian life he sees today, especially in terms of leadership and discipline. He then talks about the story of William Burtan, a young man who gave up his multimillion-dollar inheritance for the extension of God's Kingdom, and wrote on his Bible, "without reservation." The speaker connects this with the story of the rich young man in Mark 10 and Paul's understanding of unreserved commitment in Philippians 3. He emphasizes the importance of giving everything to God and not letting possessions possess us.

The Christian life should be unreserved, meaning that we must give everything to God without reservation. We must surrender all the keys to our locked rooms and give God all areas of our lives. The Christian life is also one of no return, meaning that once we put our hand to the plow to serve and follow the Lord, we cannot go back. We must always walk forward towards our goal, forgetting what is behind us and focusing on the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. In order to reach God's blessings and promises, we must walk forward and not backwards, like Joshua and Caleb.