Discern the New Times

Raise your hands to the Lord. Thanks, Dad. We thank you for your presence here, for a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge, Lord. Blow into our hearts now, Lord. May you reveal yourself in a fresh way, in a new way, that we realize the new times in which we live and that we do not stay behind but that we advance according to your rhythm on earth, Father.

Thank you for waking us up for a time like this, God, to fulfill your purposes for which we were born, Lord. We ask you to give us grace this afternoon in Jesus name amen.

A pleasure to always come. Every time I come to León de Judá I perceive that there is a weight in this place of the glory and presence of God, of purposes of the Kingdom of God, not so much because of my dear pastor Miranda friends, but also because of something that God has for you. very special that it is not only the fact that they are here, but the reasons why he brought them here. and more now than precisely that we live in such different times. Who would have imagined 2 years ago, if we had said that all of us who were as a world profile were happening now, no one would have believed it.

And yet, all of these things we can trust that the sovereign God is fully in command. Amen. Whatever happens, he is still on the throne and he is still moving in the nations. And I want to tell you this year, I was sharing with Pastor Roberto, that I have been traveling fully for several years and I had made the decision to travel less this year, but this year I was in 7 nations in January and I started in the Philippines and for Romania, and Albania.

In fact, it is a privilege to see everything that the Lord is doing around the world, but I want to tell you something, that the United States and us here, as the Hispanic people in the United States, is not outside the context of the winds that are blowing around the world. , that God is blowing something very different, a historical correction to many of the patterns and cycles that we have been falling as a Christian people and as world populations. A sense of taking away or puncturing the rubber of a global movement to truly lift up the individual priesthood of the believer and the power over the individual to choose for himself the path he should walk.

Now, that has a double-edged sword because when you give someone free will to make decisions, you also have to give them freedom to make mistakes. say amen And to realize that if you pass the queue for one thing that includes everyone else, not just those in your game or on your team. And God is helping the church to truly understand that God is drawn to us, not because of our strength but because of our weakness.

It is like a magnet that attracts the presence of God that he perfects his power and power in us in the midst of our humble attitude of perceiving and being truly in communion with what is weak in us. That doesn't make or justify us in our dark areas of our life... how many know what I mean by dark areas? That does not mean that God does not want to touch those places, but it does mean that God is not the figure we have thought he is, that he is waiting for you to make a mistake, to discipline or hurt or punish you, but that the heart of the Father of God it is always to lift you out of the mud, cleanse you and make you walk according to his purposes.

I feel that we are living in a change of direction of the pendulum where it is being subtracted with such force around the world, mind you, that it is not only about what happened in the elections here, but also in a Brexit in Great Britain, in 8 elections that this year are going to be held in the Commission of European States, from a Philippines that elected a man that all the polls said was not going to win, just like in Guatemala, just like in Peru, just like in Argentina. There is a change that is taking place around the nations and in the United States we are not outside of that change that God is bringing.

It is raging, as I have said before here, on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. This year, on October 21, 500 years of the Reformation. And what was it? The fruits of the Reformation were many, but one of them was to give the will and the capacity to the individual to be able to go to God by himself, without another mediator, but Christ, only Christ. Just faith, just scripture. Only Christ. That was one of the historical moves, 500 years ago.

They know that within 5 or 10 years if the current of salvation continues around the world, of the people who are converting, the evangelical church will outnumber the catholic church, for the first time in history. Let me tell you, that is good but at the same time there is a great conversion and great baptism of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic Church. God is moving through these…many of them may not have the right theology but God loves them anyway. God is moving in Muslim countries in incredible ways.

In fact, just now there was a meeting with people with whom I work with one of the elders, let's say, from outside China, from what is the underground church in China, almost 200 million people. Brothers, what is happening on earth is incredible.

We live in extraordinary times and God began to speak to me about this several years ago. I even, the part of the refugees, I lived it firsthand in Hungary when the day I landed there was a tremendous mess, a sampablera, a tremendous mess, all this happened when they crossed from Serbia to Hungary and the doors had opened in Germany , and they opened for 3 days and closed them because they never could... they did not understand the weight of what they were doing.

We still don't know the times we live in. But God is changing, moving our compasses, say amen. And then either we look at it defensively or with fear or we trust in a good God who has better things for us.

Anything that is not of faith is not of God and without faith it is impossible to please God. and this is the time we live. That's why in this context I want to speak for you, I don't want to spend time talking, I have been preaching a word... to discern the new times and what that means for us.

In fact, I did a 4-day series on this whole subject that I'm going to give you in about half an hour, 4 messages in the name of Jesus. And I want to start with this, Lord help me now. In the book of John, the Gospel of John is a book that talks a lot about important theological transitions for what was and what was to come from the New Testament. For example, it is the only Gospel that speaks of Jesus when he came from heaven to earth and not from earth to heaven.

That is why John is different from the other 3 Gospels, because John begins with the Word that came from above and not from Jesus who came to a manger, but the word of God came and brought the Son of God and those who were from him and what he had created they resisted him and did not receive him. This is how John 1 begins. And in John 1 we also see how John the Baptist had equipped and discipled his disciples so that when the one who was prophesying that he was coming came, they would not stay with John but would close that door and keep moving. where Jesus wanted to move.

In fact, John points 2 times, the first time he says, this is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and the second time he says, look, there is the Lamb of God. And I feel at this time that it is a very prophetic and very apostolic time, because God is not only going to give us fresh revelation but He is going to send us to be able to give to the world so much that we have been receiving.

And John tells his 2 disciples, there is the Lamb of God and the 2 disciples leave John and begin to follow Christ. One of them, as Pastor Gregory shared, I also feel that Andrés is an Apostle that is hardly talked about but Andrés is a hero. He is an Apostle of possibility and Andrés was the only one who understood the new move of God in John, who was able to go until the end of John's ministry and was able to get hooked on what Christ had been doing and receive the spirit for what he was going to do for the centuries of the centuries.

Andrés was able to go to all these time zones, he was able to cross all these zones and I tell you, I fly so much that going through time zones is part of what I do. In fact, I spent 13 hours on the move from here to the Philippines and then 6 and my body didn't know, it seemed like a game of ping pong inside me, whether I could sleep or not.

But John, notice that when God tells Malachi, I come to free the spirit of Elijah, from the power and strength of Elijah, I come... 400 years later John appears. How many do not want to wait 400 years to see their promise come true? But 400 years and one would think that when John manifested the people of Israel would have received a prophet of whom they could say, well, this is a normal prophet, a Gucci prophet, a Versace prophet, a prophet who has good linen clothes, someone who speaks well But no, the new move of God was a revelation of Christ very different from what they were expecting in their time.

When he arrives, John doesn't even go to Jerusalem, he tells them Jerusalem to come to me in the desert. That's why I loved that Gregory was talking about deserts, dry places, because that's where God's new move for John began. And it was normal. Because? Because John carried in himself the spirit of Elijah and Elijah when he begins to minister to Israel also comes from the desert. There are 2.

These people from the desert who are catalysts, who bother our sensitivity, who begin to speak to us, a manifestation of Christ that is different from what we thought was the normal order of God. When times begin to change, the revelation of Christ also changes, although he is the same forever, yesterday, today and forever, he is always moving. And it moves according to reality and the plans and purposes it has for the people alive at the time.

That's why right now at such a time... 500 years ago so much happened in a century of 100 years, the discovery of Columbus, Gutenberg's press, Luther, all these things happened at that time and there is something in the world today that is happening very similar, that God is awakening a youth with a different vision, where the first time now it is not important to have a press, because we have these toys here. and as a consequence people read less and watch more, and God is changing the way we learn, the way we assimilate.

I tell pastors around the world, don't think that the only preacher they are hearing in your church is you. say amen In other words, on Monday morning there are 20,000 messages that you can go online and hear about 20 things. And then what is it that holds a congregation together? It has to be more than preaching, ministry, it has to be a personal relationship with God and with one another. We have to think that we are not a church but a family and that we have different types of gifts but it is precisely our difference that makes us powerful, that we do not have to judge everything that we do not understand, but rather that we have to complement it and celebrate our differences in gifts.

A culture of honor, a culture of celebration, a culture of love. say amen Juan was very different. He discipled his 2 who were there, he did not disciple them to follow his ministry, he discipled them to follow Jesus. And when he says, there is Jesus, they changed, they shook hands with John, they surely ate crickets with him in the desert, with honey. Thank you, Juan, we follow the Lord.

And the first conversation they had with Jesus was… Jesus turns around and says to them, what are you looking for? What do they want? And he tells them, where are you staying? Where are you staying? And Jesus tells him, come so they can see. The first conversation with an Apostle is relational, not ministerial, is where are you? Come so you can see.

And notice that in this time, in these last 10, 20, 30 years we have heard of revivals, we have gone, we have seen. But note that Andrés had to stay the night, at first he calls him a rabbi and then in the morning he goes to look for his brother, Simon, and tells Simon, Simon come with me, I want to introduce you. We have just met the Messiah. The night before he was a teacher, the next day he was a Messiah. Tremendous encounter with God.

How do you go from a simple philosopher, a simple teacher to the Messiah, the one who brings salvation to Israel. It had such an impact on Andrés that notice that he did not do much more ministerially, but one of the things he did do was introduce Simon to Jesus. Pretty, right? Imagine those parents, tremendous way to raise their children. You had 2 Apostles in your family. say amen

And the others, Juan and Santiago, two more Apostles, there are 4 with 2 pairs of parents, that's a good relationship, right? And then Mary and Joseph who were nothing more than parents to the Son of God. But it was a change of time, because Jesus said, the least in the kingdom is greater than John, but John is the greatest of them all. In other words, there was a total, abrupt change, where Jesus began to say, I bring peace but not as the world thinks, I bring a sword that will even divide families, I bring a sword of love and love is not something so romantic and all emotional. Love is a divine action on the part of God and love can be very harsh at times, as Pastor Gregory commented this morning. And we cannot say, where is your love, when they do not agree with what is happening. One has to say, what does God mean by love in that situation.

And that change that came because Jesus always comes in the opposite spirit of what we think. When God was introduced on earth, and in John 20 is when Jesus comes from hell to heaven. When he takes the keys of death and sin from the devil, when he is raised from the dead, this is John 20:1. Mary Magdalene is coming, do you remember the story? He arrives at the tomb, he arrives and sees that the stone is no longer where it should be, he sees that Jesus is not there, he runs to where the Apostles are and tells them, they took the body of the Master. Peter and John run out, John arrives first but he does not dare to enter because he is the least of all the Apostles and he says, I am not going there alone. He waits for Peter to come, Peter enters and takes two Apostles to believe the word of a woman. They say, it's true, Mary, they took the body of the Lord.

And the Bible says that they did not understand the scriptures. The Bible says that they still did not believe in what had happened. Jesus had told him, I have to go 3 days and rise again. There is a change that is happening. I'm not necessarily going to be the one here in the flesh anymore, I'm going to ascend. He told them from the beginning. And he says, they returned to their homes. They went, they saw but they did not stay.

Who stayed? Mary Magdalene, crying, where is my Lord? In tears. Maybe all of his mask running down his face. Where is? Where is my Lord? He enters the tomb and sees 2 sitting angels, do you remember the story? Two seated angels, that probably means they were there when the Apostles came but they didn't see them. God opens Mary's eyes so that she sees what the Apostles… This should give hope to everyone here, right?

The great Apostles entered and did not see these angels. He gave them to open Mary's eyes so that she could see what God had done, and she did not understand either but she had been left hungry to see the Lord. And the angels tell him, why are you crying? God is going to come in such a way, Jesus is going to manifest himself to us in such a way that it will perhaps offend our sensibilities. He's going to come in ways that we don't understand now, like a John the Baptist, like an angel telling you… when it's obvious, and heaven knew why she was crying. It was obvious why she was crying but they ask her as if that was not important, because God wanted to take her to another place just like all of us.

I don't know what the Spanish word for upgrade is, but he says I have to promote, I want to upgrade everyone. I am no longer the one who walked before, I am another. Why are you crying? Because they took the Lord. And again listen behind her, why are you crying? Who are you looking for? And she thinks it's the gardener, she doesn't recognize Jesus manifesting himself in her new time. And all of a sudden... it's easy to pray for revival, Lord, let the winds blow, let revival come. If we go to conference, Lord, touch me, Lord, move in me. This has been the time for that kind of thing and many times we return to our homes without really staying in those oils that God has released in us so that his image is forged in us and we convince the world that he is good and that he is not a religious god. say amen

Thinking it's the gardener, he says, they took the Lord, didn't you take him? Show me where you put it so I can bring it to him. Imagine, you are talking to Jesus saying, Jesus, where is Jesus? Where did you take him Jesus for me to bring Jesus to me. And it's Jesus all the time. And if we don't realize it, God is already speaking to you in unconventional ways, but we don't see it because he's doing it in ways that we don't understand in these new times.

And God told me, but this is not that anymore, as the prophet Joel says, this is not that. For all this there is an that and that perhaps we do not know what it is but what we are living is not what we have lived. Prepare for that.

There's something going on here, because this gardener suddenly says, Maria, and his eyes go wide. It went from the wind that blew of revival to the breath of personal encounter with God. Where it is no longer Moses who is going to look for food for us, but it is you, my dear brother and sisters, who go by yourself to seek God's answers for your own life. say amen

So that you gain courage and confidence that you can go to him without having 20 thousand pastors and 20 confirmations to obey the Lord. Now, the pastors are there to equip the ministry, the ministry team is there to help, but God wants to lead the Latino people from having a victim mentality to a victorious mentality. And these are times where you can no longer say, poor thing, I am Hispanic and I need the government to take care of me. Brother, sister, what is your source of life? God wants to take us from what we trusted in all those... when you physically did... when the manna flowed. Let me tell you, God is changing manna into bread of life. The manna takes one day and you were hungry the next day, but the bread of life is forever. It satisfies you deeply, at every level of your being. Amen.

Mary, her eyes widen, [inaudible] and she throws herself on top of him, both heaven and Jesus knew why she was crying. And Jesus, sweet Jesus, what does he say to Mary, come on, there she is. Tell me, don't touch me. This is no longer that. Say it. I have not ascended yet, Maria, I am in a new time, you are in transition, Maria. You loved me, stop loving, stop looking for bodies and bones that are no longer relevant to this time. stop looking for me

I have been a revival student. Roberto knows me, revival prayer, let's seek the presence, and all of that is still true. And it was a tremendous foundation and how God moved in that very special, here in New England, but this is not that anymore. This is something totally different, where if we don't keep looking, we won't know what the it is for this. But we know that that of the past is no longer this.

And look, you can do things well and not do the good thing. You can do good things that were good for an old time but now, since it is not that same time, you are doing good things but not the right ones. You can no longer see how you came before. You can no longer be waiting for other sources that are not the Lord to be what feeds you. You can no longer go to work and think that you are there to get a check on the 15th and 30th, God is the one who supplies your needs.

You are in your work as a function to advance the Kingdom of God there. Why is God making all this fuss? Because it's changing the way who we trust, what our source is, my dear brother.

Maria, don't touch me. But I command you, go, go and tell the brothers, I'm back. I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Anda, he puts us in the same breath with himself. Go and tell them. Mary runs, you can make the case, you can almost say that the first apostolic mission of Jesus was to send a woman to tell the Apostles. And tell them, get your batteries. And when Maria arrives, she tells them, “I have seen the Lord, I have gone from my old time to my new time. I don't understand. He told me something that I had to ascend, I don't understand but I've seen it." I went, I saw and I stayed and he opened my eyes to see.

I saw a cartoon in an article that I was reading where the leader said, how many want change? And there were some people in some kind of meeting and everyone says, we want change. And then he says, how many want to change? And you heard the crickets, crie, crie. Because change means you have to take personal responsibility. If God is changing the global part and puncturing the rubber of the Babylonian car in which we were all rolling and is reintroducing non-individualistic language but rather so that the individual goes and seeks the Lord and receives from him, as an individual in a family manages to fulfill his purpose for which he is born and created, like our children, one wants to do this, the other wants to do that, and they are all children. They all work for the family and at the same time they all work to fulfill what they have in them as a passion.

What is your passion? Why are you afraid of fulfilling your purpose? Why are we afraid of taking responsibility? Don't look at me like that. Because we don't believe that God works with us as Hispanics as he works with those who have money, who are white, who are from the West, why don't we believe that God is the same for everyone? Why don't we dream wonderful things?

Why is God changing everything? Right now they are talking again about removing what is called the Johnston Amendment, that means, brothers, that about 50 years ago God removed the prophetic voice from the church. Because? Because the only thing we knew how to do is judge what is not equal to us. We lost a whole generation, we lost all of us hippies because we all came to church with ties and white shirts and dresses and we didn't know how to love what had dirty feet, what didn't smell good, these young people who came who were saved, who didn't they knew what to do but they did not receive the necessary affection to stay. They came, they saw and they left.

About 50 years ago when Johnson essentially banned non-profits from speaking and prophesying. In fact, they took away his freedom of expression because otherwise they would take away his ability to be a non-profit. And now we are...

Listen to me brothers, we are standing for you to return this jewel back to the church. My prayer is… I was going to preach about a pure heart that sees God, Matthew 5:8, my prayer is for the body of Christ, that we begin to prophesy to the areas of the world where our voices have been taken away but not prophesy our preferences and our prejudices but the true voice of God. Where we sing songs that are not simply for the blessing of the body, that we are not a church like Las Vegas, what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas, what happens in the church stays in the church. Rather, from here, from these 4 walls, they release words to the world of science, release words to the economic world, release words to the governmental world, where the athletes are, where the artists are, to the religious people, who really want to see Christ but they are seeing what is no longer, when God wants to take them to the heights where he is so that we may dwell with him and obtain something fresh to give to the nations, so that Isaiah 2 is fulfilled, that like a river come from the nations to ask what do we do with our countries, with our cities, so that the legal world knows true justice.

When the medical world sees God's healing flowing, when we no longer need Moses and super stars but each one of you moves in the flow of God's spirit. When it is no longer that one or this one, but me, Lord. Send to me. Say, send me, Lord. Here I am.

But it means a different training. Read not to survive but read to influence. Study to be salt and light, not only take someone from darkness to light, but position them to fulfill their purpose for which they were born. How are young people going to come when we tell them that things are so bad that when Jesus comes he will fix everything, what hope do we give them? When things get a little worse we become apocalyptic, we leave everything in the future, when Jesus comes. Well, Jesus is here, what are you doing with him now? What are you doing with Christ in you now? Or we forget about this and just die and he comes.

I end with this, brothers, what is coming is going to be impressive, it is going to bring immense joy, brutal expectation and fear because we are not going to understand what to do and then we are going to have to cling to it like we never have. He is going to bring a spirit of wisdom and revelation where we are going to know who he is, to be a mirror that changes us according to his image and takes us from glory to glory, but for what? Why do you look pretty? No, brother, so that you flow in your area, in your sphere in such a way that it influences all your work, where you enter your work and the whole atmosphere changes, where your business where you are working is prosperous because you are there, where in Instead of problems with bosses and problems with people, you start praying for them, where you stop speaking religious words and start reasoning deeply, not depending on your education but depending on your encounter with God.

I am hungry and thirsty. He brought us as a family to this country, he made us citizens after a long time for this moment, brothers, to prophesy to rulers, influencers, musicians, creatives, writers, students, brilliant people, the city of Boston, brought us to this moment. This is not that anymore. say amen

Stand up now. So God told Joshua, Moses died, and that old time is no longer the time. Get up, Joshua, cross over, you and all yours to the land I have promised. And there are many who say, but in the end he says this, the most mentioned promise in the entire Bible, that's it, I'll be with you. I'll be with you. Strive and be brave. I command you, not because you don't want to fight, but because you are afraid to lead in a new time out of the shadow of old leadership and old ways of doing things, into the creative world of this 21st century. Strive and be brave that what is coming is impressive.

There is a song that says, it's wild, it's great, it's tremendous, it's crazy, it's impressive, it's terrifying, all at the same time and that's why our center and focus is you, Jesus, our cornerstone. Amen. The only true prophetic apostolic foundation, all of Christ, all of Christ.

Stand up for a moment. I want to do a prophetic act with you. How many are ready to enter your new time? How many know that we are not talking about changing pastors? say amen It's time. Get well back in the chair, I want that in a moment I am going to give you an opportunity to take a step to that new time, to that new land. God told me that the year 2017 was a year of manifestation of the prophetic promises that we have in us.

And when you take this step you are saying to the Lord, Father, I take responsibility for my life. I stop making excuses, I stop blaming others, forgive them that I have to forgive. I leave my victim attitudes and enter into the victorious attitudes that you have given me, Lord. I leave my past behind or my behind behind and I enter what you have for me now. Say now. If that is the decision you are making, brother, when I count to 3 take a step forward and say, Lord, I enter my promised land and begin to eat not the manna but the sustenance of that promise, I do not work towards the promise, work from promise.

Ready. One, two and three, come on, take the step. Raise your hands to the Lord, glorious God, Heavenly Father, sovereign God, look at this people here, Lord, queen, rain on them, Lord, rain strength, rain courage, the confidence to go to your presence, God I ask you , in the name of Jesus break every yoke of fear, every yoke of terror, every yoke of fear of men or death, or failure or poverty. Lord, we break every spirit of victimization today and we enter times of victory, Lord, for our partner, for our marriages, for our children, for our finances. say amen