26 de Julio

Lord, give him the desire to worship you, the person who is close to me. Give him the desire to seek you now. There are those who have our dancers. There are those who are ready to worship the Lord as they are. Ready to worship the Lord with desire and to move with the desire to worship the King of kings. And Lord of lords. How many of us are ready to worship him? Exalt him and seek him. Give him a loud applause. Let's go with everything. Let's go with everything. Let's go. Let's go. Glory to the Lord. Amen. How many believe we have a God who rose up from the dead? Ah. Don´t believe that. How many believe we have a God who rose up from the dead? Amen! Let's sing this. Let's declare. My shame buried me. And my shame buried me. I was looking for a savior. But his fear set me free. And while I was in fear. I was hiding. I was hiding from you. My Lord.

But his forgiveness. But his forgiveness set me free. And we all say his voice. Your voice spoke to me. And to death I rejected. Glory to the Lord. Your blood saved me. Your voice spoke to me. Your voice spoke to me. And to death I rejected. Glory to the Lord. Glory to the Lord. Your blood. Your blood saved me. And we all say now I am free. And now I am free in your love. It is his grace. And it is his grace that healed me. His forgiveness. His forgiveness set me free. Your voice. Your voice spoke to me. And to death I rejected. Glory to the Lord. Your blood saved me. Your voice spoke to me. And to death I rejected. Glory to the Lord. Your blood saved me. In my sin you saved me.

Your glory chains are broken. My life alone and without consolation. Now I am a citizen of heaven. Your table is born and I am wounded. Jesus for your love I breathe. I have a future. Now I see why. Because your voice spoke to me. And to death I rejected. Glory to the Lord. Your blood saved me. Your voice spoke to me. Your voice spoke to me. Oh Hallelujah Señor, hoy declaramos que tu nombre Señor es glorioso, poderoso Que no hay nombre como el tuyo sobre la faz de la tierra Tu eres maravilloso Señor Declaramos de tu grandeza Gracias Cristo El esplendor de un rey Vestido en majestad La tierra alegre está Cubierto está de luz Venció la oscuridad Y tiemblan a su voz Y tiemblan a su voz Cuán grande es Dios Cántale cuán grande es Dios Y todos lo verán

Cuán grande es Dios Día a día Día a día Él está Y el tiempo está en el principio y el fin Principio y el fin La Trinidad de Dios Padre, Hijo y Espíritu El Cordero y el León El Cordero y el León Cuán grande es Dios Cántale cuán grande es Dios Y todos lo verán Cuán grande es Dios Cuán grande es Cuán grande es Dios Cántale cuán grande es Dios Y todos lo verán Cuán grande es Dios Cántale Su nombre sobre todo es Él es digno de alabar Y mi ser dirá Cuán grande es Dios Tu nombre es digno Él es digno Él es digno de alabar Y mi ser dirá Cuán grande es Dios Tu nombre sobre todo es Su nombre sobre todo es

Él es digno de alabar Y mi ser dirá Cuán grande es Dios Tu nombre sobre todo es Y se dirá, cuán grande es Dios Cuán grande es Dios Cuán grande es Dios Y todos lo verán Cuán grande es Dios Cántale su nombre Cuán grande es Dios Cántale, cuán grande es Dios Y todos lo verán Cuán grande es Dios Tú eres más grande que aquellas maldiciones generacionales que me esclavizaban Tú eres más grande Tú eres Tú eres Dios Y por eso hoy, hoy Señor podemos caminar arraigados en la certeza de saber que aunque ruja el mar Que aunque rujan los vientos Que aunque ruja la tormenta Nosotros estamos anclados en aquel que es grande En aquel que es poderoso En aquel que sostiene En aquel que no abandona Y su nombre es sobre todo nombre No hay Dios como él No hay Dios como él Iglesia cántalo, cántalo Tu nombre es grande, vamos a cantar una última vez

Cuán grande es Dios Cántale, cuán grande es Dios Y todos lo verán Cuán grande es Dios Gracias Gracias Gracias Gracias Tu nombre podría yo cantar Toda mi vida sin cesar El nombre de Jesús yo levantaré Pues cada vez exclamo más dulces Solo el nombre de Jesús Vamos, levántense con amor Solo el nombre de Jesús Decláralo Solo el nombre de Jesús Is Me Me Foreign Is Foreign Is foreign is foreign is is it's

my is foreign foreign is Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign We don't want you to feel like, you can stay seated, we won't make you stand up, but at least know that in this place, in this house, you are welcome, and this is the place where God brought you, and I think it's never a coincidence. How many of you say amen to that? Amen. God bless you, Johnny. God bless those who also watch us on the internet. What a blessing to be able to connect with you from here, and even from the jails this week.

Now, I want to start with a question that I try to bring to anchor us, to give us the foundation of what God wants to talk about every Sunday. And today, the question that God wants to ask you this afternoon is as simple as this one. It's not that simple, but let's see. Have you ever gotten angry? Oh, look over there, fast. Have you ever gotten angry because someone else was good to you? I can't finish it. Sometimes you have to be careful to finish the question, just in case. But, have you ever gotten angry because someone else was good to you? Not bad. Good. Good. Someone who hurt you, and now is prospering. Someone who got out of a literal or perhaps figurative jail. And people treat him as a hero, while you keep carrying what he did to you. If you ever felt that, that uncomfortable anger, it's because he did, and I didn't. Because that person, yes, because I didn't. Welcome to the club, and to the most honest and most uncomfortable chapter in the whole Bible. It's very uncomfortable, and it was uncomfortable for me this week while I was reading it. I talked to several men and asked them, how do you see this chapter, because it feels uncomfortable. There's an emotion that almost everyone has felt, and almost no one dares to confess in the church. And it's courage against God's mercy. And you say, but who has the courage for God's mercy and grace? What fool would have the courage for that? Well, that fool may begin here, with me. Nineveh repented. The most violent city in the ancient world, from the king to the cattle. It must have been the best day of Jonah's life. No? Or yes? It must have been the day of celebration of victory, but it was the worst. And you say, how? It's chapter 4, and Jonah starts off furious, ungrateful.

Furious, and the contrast is so strong that we can hardly believe it. The first time we read it, we say, this doesn't make any sense. How can this man feel that way? Jonah preached the most successful sermon in history. And he left the city wanting to die. And it was only 8 words that he preached to this capital of Assyria called Nineveh. And something seems to me that doesn't fit here. That something is exactly what God wants to expose in this chapter for our hearts this afternoon. The chapter that closes the book without closing the story. It only has 4 chapters, so it was easy. We've been doing this for 3 weeks, and today is the last one. We basically closed this series. And before I finish this message, you will have a real answer to a question that perhaps you have never dared to ask God in a loud voice. I'll tell you quickly what I would like to bring to those who are visiting for the first time, or perhaps who have not been able to come for one reason or another in the last few weeks. Holidays, this and that. 60 seconds, I hope to give you a quick summary. God told a prophet named Jonah to go to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. Jonah said no. He was a prophet, and he said no. And he fled by boat in the opposite direction. And a storm came. In that process, there were several conversations that you can read in Jonah 1 and 2. And in that process, a giant fish swallowed him. It didn't chew him, it didn't eat him. Thank God. He swallowed it right away. And three days later, he threw up on the beach. I don't want to give you a graphic of what could have been seen at that moment. Jonas preaches eight words for a second chance he has.

Instead of fleeing from the Lord, now he does. I'm going to preach these eight words of judgment to this evil city. And the whole city, from the king to the cattle, repent. The same animals there, as part of the hay and the silica. God forgives them. Simple. It must have been the greatest victory of Jonas' life. With that, Jonas would say, God used me in a gigantic way. How many would have said amen to that? I preached eight words here in the front, and everyone from FW came to the feet of Christ. It's a great victory. We would all get out of here rejoicing. But no. To understand why Jonas gets to this point, we have to listen to his own words. And they are more honest, and perhaps uglier than we would expect from a prophet. When I read it, I say, Lord, I don't know if you chose wrong. I always choose well, but here it seems strange to me. So, my first point is the most honest and ugliest prayer in the whole Bible. At least from my point of view. Look at what verse 1 says, and I want you to follow me. It's from Jonas chapter 4. But this displeased Jonas in a great way, and he got angry. This displeased Jonas in a great way, and he got what? Have you ever gotten angry here in this place? Or am I the only one? In the last two minutes, yes. A week ago, no. It doesn't say that he got angry.

It says that he got angry, on fire, burning inside. That inner flame. And then he prays. But it's not a prayer of worship, as one would like. Well, after everything that happened, this is extreme worship. On my knees, thank you Lord. You took me out of the giant fish. I came in obedience. And instead of not seeing the result, I saw it instantly. Thank you Lord. Instead of that, he makes an accusation in the form of prayer. Look at verse 2. Because I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to anger and rich in what? Mercy. Slow to anger and compassionate. That's why I anticipated to flee to Tarsus. Because I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to anger and rich in mercy. And that you repent of the evil announced. That should be the opposite. And then God answers, not with a scolding, but with a question. In verse 4. Do you have reason to get angry? Do you? Do you? Do you see the struggle between God and Judas? Between the God of the universe and a common man like you and me? God likes to ask questions.

If I had been God there, thank God that I am not God. God likes to ask questions, not because he doesn't know the answer. He does it because we need to hear it. To come out of our own mouth. The answers. To Adam, he asks, where are you? As if God didn't know. To Cain, where is your brother? To Saul, why are you chasing me? Each question exposes. It doesn't inform, it exposes. And the question of God to Jonah doesn't look for information here, it looks for confession. Because God sees the whole picture. He sees a heart that needs to confess in that moment. So, those words were not invented by Jonah. He knew them by heart. It is almost a textual quote of what God revealed to Moses centuries before in Mount Sinai. When in Exodus 34, verse 6 says, The Lord, and this word is beautiful. Thank you for this word. Because, look, the Lord, the Lord, compassionate God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant, great in mercy, and what? And truth. This would be a verse to memorize every day. Jonah knew perfect theology.

He could quote the character of God of memory without thinking, and he used it as a weapon instead of worship. And here is the most honest confession of the whole book that we see hidden in the 2nd verse Jonas did not flee to Tarsus out of fear of the Assyrians Although two weeks ago I said, wow, Tarsus was a place, or a place, or Assyria Not even a place where you did not want to go as a Jew But you had reasons, but the reality is that here he exposes the real reasons of the heart He fled because he knew from the beginning that if he preached, the city was going to repent And God was going to forgive them And that was precisely what he could not bear You would say, I would say, what a strange man But I think we are going to see ourselves in a mirror today He did not flee from the mission, he fled from the mercy And here is something that explains the instability of Jonas in the book In chapter 2, inside the fish, he worships God with a beautiful prayer Two chapters later, the same man asks to die How can you explain such a violent change of heart? Now I feel like this, two chapters later like this I do not know if at that time I saw a psychologist and I asked him what my problem was I have a double heart, I have a little problem here Jonas served the true God, but also a God that he himself fabricated The image of God that he wanted to see, his own idea of ​​justice, his resentment against Assyria A heart that serves two masters ends like this Worshiping one day, crumbling to the next What is the rival God that competes in your heart with the true God? Your resentment, your pride, your need to be right Here is a detail that escapes us the first time we read the book Jonas was never afraid that his message would fail then He was afraid that it would work

I do not know what preacher will preach and say, Lord, let what you are going to do today not work I'm wasting my time Here in front of me, Lord, today is Sunday, two in the afternoon, I'm going to preach, but let it go the same way Where? That is, a prophet who fears the success of his own preaching Because success meant forgiveness for people he did not want to see forgiven Jonas himself had received that same mercy in the womb of a fish Now when it extends to others, he feels it And he did not deserve it either What would happen if God treated Jonas exactly as Jonas wanted God to treat Nineveh? Common sense, right? Imagine the moment, a prophet standing on the outskirts of a city Saved, repentant, with tears of courage on his face Jonas had this man saying to God, I prefer to die than to live in a world where you forgive these people Jonas came out of the womb of the fish, but he never came out of himself It was something perhaps external, it seems Knowing the literature of memory, the Bible, the scriptures It does not guarantee an aligned heart with her A connection You can quote the character of God Perfect, God is Provider, He is loving, He is faithful God is everything, and to continue to hate the one God loves How many times have we done the same with Jonas, just like Jonas, and we do not realize it? Someone really hurt us, a father who was not there, an unfaithful partner, a brother who left you alone A boss who kicked you And the list can be long, because I do not want to fill it today I think God can tell you exactly what has happened in your mind por tu corazón y con el tiempo esa persona se reconcilia con Dios y empieza a ir a la iglesia y se siente por allá en otro lado y en vez de alegrarte tienes coraje, sientes el coraje porque a él sí lo perdonaron tan fácil esa reacción tiene nombre, se llama la oración de Jonás, de Jonás se llama la oración de Jonás, no es que no conozcas a Dios o su carácter

Jonás lo conocía perfectamente, mejor que la mayoría de nosotros el problema nunca fue teología o su teología fue que su teología nunca bajó de aquí, aquí, al corazón y puedes tener la doctrina perfecta, ¿no? esta es la doctrina sana, doctrina puedes tener la doctrina perfecta y el corazón todavía en guerra con la misericordia de Dios una cosa es relación, una cosa es conocimiento puedes salir de la cárcel, del hospital, de la crisis, del país que dejas atrás y seguir preso y Dios no deja a Jonás solo con su enojo, lo lleva a una lección más incómoda todavía ¿y cómo se puede poner esto más incómodo? pues sí mira, más incómoda una que empieza con una simple planta una plantita, la planta que expulsó lo que la ciudad no pudo mira lo que dice el versículo 5 y si me puede ayudar aquí dice, entonces salió Jonás de la ciudad y se sentó al oriente de la misma hasta ver que sucedería en la ciudad voy a dejarla por ahí, gracias, me gustan los árboles Jonás todavía tiene esperanza, no de que Nineveh se salve sino que Dios cambie de opinión y la destruye en fuego así que se va para una esquina, se siente a esperar por el fuego algo Dios va a hacer porque esta gente son malvadas fueron bien malos, se construye su propio cobertizo primero, un lugar de poder descansar el esfuerzo humano contra el calor ahí del desierto y no es suficiente, mira lo que dice y el Señor Dios dispuso que una planta creciera sobre Jonás para que hiciera sombra y Jonás se alegró grandemente por qué? por la planta, yo no sé cómo Dios lo hizo yo nunca he visto una planta crecer en 24 horas así bien rápido pero yo sé de un Dios que es capaz de hacer cualquier cosa

así que Dios le suplió a él en un desierto con mucho calor la oportunidad de cobijarlo y lo interesante es que de ese enojo parece que era bipolar no sé, pero de ese enojo en cuestión de nada ahora con esa provisión de Dios se puso alegre y dice alegró grandemente se alegró, tristeza, enojo, alegre, tristeza, enojo toda una combinación en un capítulo el mismo hombre que no derramó ni una lágrima por 120 mil personas se alegra grandemente por una plantita fíjense en el patrón Dios ya había dispuesto un pez para salvar a Jonás en el capítulo 1 mire eso ahora dispone una planta luego dice más adelante un gusano luego un viento o sea en el desierto Dios está encargando de cuidar y proteger y amar aquí en a Jonás el profeta, el verbo en hebreo es maná ¿han escuchado la palabra maná antes? designar algo con propósito con quien cuenta y aparta con cuidado Dios no improvisa con Jonás en ese caminar cada elemento está calculado que a propósito pero ninguna de esas cuatro cosas era el verdadero proyecto de Dios eso no era lo más importante el pez, la planta, el gusano y el viento que uno dice bueno esto está bonito esos son milagros a veces uno se enfoca en esos milagros

que para uno wow Dios viento en el momento una ballena que me protegió Señor todo esto y lo que Dios realmente estaba preparando con tanto cuidado no era una planta era un profeta quizás eres tú y soy yo y si Dios se tomó tanto trabajo para formar el corazón de un solo hombre terco imagínense cuánto cuidado está poniendo Dios ...in yours, today in 2026. Look at what verse 7 and 8 say, God ordered a worm to attack the plant and it dried up. A suffocating east wind dried up and with all its soul it wished to die. There is the version, and it happened that when the sun rose, God ordered a suffocating east wind and the sun hurt Jonas' head, so he died and with all his soul he wished to die and said, Death is better for me than life. I brought this umbrella just so you realize, there are times when we, with the sun, we cover ourselves with the sun. God ordered precisely a plant, for what? To protect it and give it shadow. It wasn't the same, God did it. Sometimes we look for this because we want to have control of that necessary shadow, a sun of 95, 100, 105, and maybe if you go to Arizona and other places, of 120, almost close to the temperature of a place we don't want to go to in the future.

Very far. I want you to close your eyes for a moment. Just a second. There. Where you are, on the bench, in the seat, in your house, in your cell. There, from the prison, wherever you are, looking, from another country, wherever. Think, it's dawn. Jonas sleeps under his plant. The only good thing that has happened to him in the whole book, supposedly. In the silence, without anyone seeing him, a tiny worm begins to eat the stem. No thunder, no storm, just a quiet work all night. Dawn. The plant that covered him yesterday was bent, wavy, gray. And before he could process it, he felt the wind. Not a fresh wind, a desert wind. Hot, as if it came out of an oven, loaded with sand, that dries his throat with every breath. Now the sun hits him directly in the head, and his legs fail him. And there, lying down, weak, he says the same words as before. Death is better for me than life. The man who saw an entire city repent, reduced to this, wishing to die for a plant. Open your eyes if you haven't opened them yet. He cried more for a plant than for an entire city. That was never the plant. It was never about the plant. It was about him. It was about his situation. About his heart. And what anger does when we let it rule. Airaus, but what does the word say?

He didn't know that part, maybe. I want you to look at the three movements of Jonah in this chapter. Because they are exactly what he, without solving it, does to any of us on our path. First, he renounces. Death is better for me than life. He says it twice in the chapter, not once. And when he repeats it twice, he's telling you, that's what he was constantly thinking. Second, he isolates himself. He leaves the city, he moves, he sits far away, just as far away from the people that God has just saved, liberated, helped in the process. And third, he becomes a spectator. He sits to see what would happen, looking from afar, instead of participating in what God is doing. He renounces, isolates himself, becomes a spectator. I don't have that call anymore, I don't have that sensitivity. I don't know if it has happened to someone, someone who is in the first love, who sees himself clearly giving himself to the Lord, giving everything, and from the moment something happens, like this, he renounces, isolates himself, becomes a spectator. Spectators are what the enemy wants in your life and in my life To isolate ourselves, to give up, to become spectators That's the path that the heart takes, that releases our anger Not suddenly, but step by step, like the worm working at night without anyone noticing The most uncomfortable thing about the text Is this, God didn't take away the plant from Jonas to punish him He took it away to teach him The loss didn't create the problem of the heart

Jonas' heart only brought it to light I was there, hidden under the comfortable shadow What hurts you the most is to lose It tells you what you really put your heart on It's reality Do you cry more for your comfort than for the people that God loves And you still don't forgive? Don't worry, this is Jonas' last chapter Next week is something else I think God has been hammering our heart in this four weeks, in this direction Jonas doesn't answer that question yet Instead, God does it again And this time, Jonas' silence becomes the end of the whole book The question that God never closes And that's where my dilemma was when I was talking to several people this week I need you to help me Because every book you read, you expect to have a conclusion And you ask, do you have any reason to get angry because of the plant? Do I have any reason to get angry to the point of death? With God You took pity on the plant for which you didn't work and didn't grow That's what God is saying to Jonas And shouldn't I take pity on Nineveh? The great city where there are more than 120,000 people Who don't know how to distinguish between their right and their left Their left and also many animals? I want you to look at the last sentence of all this The one that almost nobody preaches And also many animals It's almost comical that the book ends like this

That's how it ends with the question, the last word that comes out is Animals, it's over, let's go to the next book of the Bible Exactly But it's not a joke It's the final echo of a care that begins in the first book of the Bible A God that since Genesis 1 cares for every creature That made his creation He made everything we see around us, nature Not only the important people If God cares for even the cattle of a pagan city Imagine how much you care That you are here and you say, nobody cares about my life That maybe you still have the question, where is God? Come on, give it to him if you are going to give it to him Where is God in all of this? And there the book ends without a response from Jonas And then he understood And he became all happy I would have said, Lord please add that phrase And Jonas understood everything that God said to him Amen, that's it, I would say this book is complete But no, total silence Of all the prophetic books of the Bible This is the only one that ends with an open question without a resolution That's not a writing accident Because God doesn't make mistakes Not even less of this book It's the whole point of the book And if this were the only thing you would remember all these four weeks It's this, the book doesn't end

It ends in you And it ends in me The question is for us Maybe 26 or more centuries later Jesus told a similar story a few centuries later He said, yes, how does that apply to me today? Simple, a father has two children The youngest asks for his inheritance in life Basically he says, for me you are already dead Don't you remember? He goes, destroys everything, ends up taking care of pigs Starves to death That's it, the book ends Casa sin nada que ofrecer solo una disculpa Y el padre que lo estaba esperando Corre a recibirlo por ahí voy por ahí voy viene mi hijo viene mi hijo mata el mejor becerro vamos a hacer fiesta Ahí llegó vino de regreso el hijo mayor El que nunca se fue el que siempre obedeció todo bien Derechito el que el que se quedó trabajando mientras su hermano gastaba todo Diego del campo y escucha la música y party cuando le gusta las fiestas aquí no no se hagan los verdad que no que no le gustan Se entera de la fiesta y se enoja No quiere entrar Y mira lo que dice el lucas 15 25 al 29 al 30 mira por tantos años te he servido y nunca he desobedecido Ninguna orden tuya pero cuando vino este hijo tuyo mataste para él el becerro engordado que injusticia Y el padre sale no a regañarlo si no a Arrogarle Les ruega y le responde algo que también lo pudo haber dicho dios a una

Era necesario hacer fiesta Y reloj y jarnos porque este tu hermano Estaba muerto y ahora vuelto a la vida Porque no hacer fiesta Porque una es el hermano mayor del antiguo testamento Mismo corazón Mismas preguntas sin responder el texto tampoco nos dice si el hermano mayor entró a la fiesta Jesús mil años después de jonás Todavía tenía que contar la misma historia porque el corazón humano no ha cambiado 2026 que contarla quizás de nuevo por eso mismo Y si lo pensamos bien Toda la serie de jonás nos ha traído hasta aquí Hasta el punto culminante yo creo de de una tarde de ministración a nuestros corazones Vimos a un hombre huir de dios Vimos a dios perseguirlo con amor con ternura incluso dentro de una tormenta Vimos a una ciudad entera arrepentirse con sólo ocho palabras Y ahora al final descubrimos que el verdadero obstáculo nunca fue ni ni ve Nunca lo fue el verdadero obstáculo todo este tiempo predicado fue el corazón del profeta Eso deberían quitarnos un poco esta tarde Porque significa que uno puede conocer a dios servir a dios quizás predicar de dios Y aún así cargar un corazón que todavía no se parece el de dios Tengo que evaluar mi corazón constantemente Ni ni ve no fue un caso aislado es el plan completo de dios miles de años antes de jonás Dios le había dicho a abraham escuchame esto mira le dice que a través de él serían bendita todas las familias de que de la tierra ni ni ve era una de esas familias una ciudad pagana Fue ese pacto cumpliéndose en tiempo real mucho antes de que existiera la iglesia inclusive de que existiera la gran comisión y por todo el mundo y predicar el evangelio Y el libro de apocalipsis nos deja ver hacia dónde va todo esto una gran multitud que nadie podía contar imagínese eso

Quiero que te lo imagines de todas las naciones tribus pueblos lenguas de pie adelante del trono de dios Cuántas naciones sabemos aquí y hablamos español imagínate cuántas más Porque si estás aquí quizás porque entiendes español o quieres aprender Todas las naciones de centro suramérica el caribe nacido eeuu primera segunda tercera generación Eso incluye a los hispanos que están escuchando ahora mismo en Dallas en Fort Worth en Puerto Rico en México En centroamérica en sudamérica ni ni ve no fue una excepción divina dios quería alcanzarles Fue una muestra pequeña de un plan que sigue corriendo hasta hoy y que te incluye a ti La objeción que nadie dice en voz alta está claramente tal vez alguno de ustedes está pensando algo que no se atreve a decir en voz alta que hoy quiere hablar dios al corazón Un dios que perdona a genocidas Que silencio Un dios que perdona a tiranos Un dios que perdona a abusadores Un dios que perdona a tiranos Un dios que perdona a abusadores A mí no me suena justo Eso muchas veces es lo que pensamos no Me suena muy débil de dios ¿Por qué? Eso es una objeción no es una objeción tonta no lo es o sea es la objeción de dios of Jonas, in other words, and deserves a real answer, not one that ignores it in the process. I mean, God, why do you do this? I mean, it hurts me that he forgives the one who has done harm to my life. I mean, God, I don't see that. There's something here that doesn't make sense to me. And generations later, I think you should pay attention to this detail. The prophet Nahum announces the final destruction of that same city. God did not lower His guard with justice. Because sometimes you read a story and you say, hey, it's over. No, no. Yes, the story, right? He gave time to mercy first. God worked with the heart. He told them, but there's something even more precise to say here, and it doesn't mean that they should escape. It's the cross. God didn't have to choose between being just and being merciful. And maybe what I'm saying here is a little deep, what I'm going to say.

It was both at the same time. Completely. So that He is just, and He is the one who justifies the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3.26. And what do you mean by all this, Arnaldo? Justice did not disappear from the cross. When we talk about justice, it's what the human being deserves. The payment of sin is what? It fell on Christ. That's why God can forgive you and Nineveh and the person you don't want to forgive. Without ceasing to be just. Why? Because someone paid. Because someone surrendered. But there's an even deeper answer, and it's this. That Nineveh deserved, and that you and I deserve, didn't disappear on the cross. It fell on Christ. That's what we talk about when we talk about the meaning of the cross. Why do you see crosses everywhere? It's this. God's mercy has never been cheap. Someone always pays. On the cross, God Himself paid. He surrendered. He died in our place. What Jonah couldn't do, Jesus did. He did it. Jonah couldn't bear for God to forgive his enemies. He sat outside the city, wishing to see the fire fall on the same people who just repented for their preaching. Now look at Jesus, hanging on a Roman cross, clad in soldiers, laughing at Him, surrounded by religious lines. They had condemned them for their jealousy. And He still says, Father, forgive them. Because they don't know what they're doing. There's still forgiveness there. This is the exact opposite of Jonah. Where Jonah asked to die because God forgave His enemies, Jesus was dying to be able to forgive His enemies. And I am one of them.

An enemy of God. I have been, and thanks to His grace, I am standing here today. Jonah wanted to die because God forgave His enemies. How sad. But you and I, before Christ, we were Nineveh. Far away, confused. And instead of a resentful prophet, God Himself came and carried our sentence. That's the meaning of the Gospel. Good News. He prayed for our forgiveness while we were crucifying Him. And that's the reason why you and I can let go of our resentment. There's no other. Today, we can do it. Yours has already been absorbed on the cross. Because if God lived with resentment for your sin and for my sin, we wouldn't be here. I love it when He says His mercy is renewed every what. And this book doesn't end with Jonah because it was never only about Jonah. It's simply a mirror. And I want everyone to see themselves in it. Those who are listening to me, I invite you to stand on your feet with me. And now you will imagine that what is in front of you is a mirror. And maybe closing your eyes... I can't sleep standing up, that's the good thing. Closing your eyes... I want you to imagine that you are looking at a mirror right now. If you are looking at me from a cell, right now your body can be behind a net. But your soul, your soul does not have to be there. Listen, listen well. The freedom that God offers never depended on the walls that surround you.

Listen, in prison. You can be in prison and be freer inside than many who walk the streets carrying years of resentment. God has mercy on a whole city of confused people. He can have mercy on you too. Today in that cell. And on the people you are still angry with too. And if you are here in the temple, in complete freedom from the outside. And you say, from here I know I'm going to go out to a restaurant to eat a steak while others can't. But you are still carrying years of resentment towards someone. You have a house, family, health and you are still as imprisoned as Jonas. Sitting under his blanket. Waiting for someone who hurt you to go wrong. Or someone you don't love. Many here in Dallas, in Fort Worth. We know what it is to work double shifts. I know many people who are not here today precisely because they have to work in restaurants. Work hard, raise children away from their grandparents. Carry the pressure to move forward. Sometimes the people in our land, where we come from. Many of us think they are doing very well there. And they don't realize that here there are two or three jobs. In Costa Rica people still say pure life. And who says pure life here? When life is so fast. So fast. And today is the day to let it go. That real fatigue can become bitterness. Just like the heat turned Jonas' fatigue into a desire to die. Perhaps someone here has said, Lord, I don't want to live anymore.

And if you don't see from another country, far from everything you know, from your family, from your language, from your land, the same God who said to Nineveh that he had 120,000 people who don't know how to distinguish between right and left, is the same God who is there with lost people, confused, far from Him. And God is still pitiful. God still says, I am here. With you. I have mercy on you. I love you. You are my son. You are my daughter. Thank you Isaac for sharing last week. And thank you for every testimony that is here. That if I opened the altar to share stories, all of us would be Jonas' or Nineveh's, saying, Lord, thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your truth. Close your eyes with me. If the Holy Spirit of God is here as we know He is, He will begin to seal this word in every heart, in every life. Closing this series, asking the Lord to free us from all the resentment that we may have over the years. We can be Christians living in resentment

that enslaves us, that has us chained, that we need the health of the spiritual body, emotional resentment with previous partners, resentment with children, resentment after divorce, resentment with bosses, I don't know. You call Him. You know exactly where your heart is. And God is telling you, just as I am working with you, I want to work with all the families on earth, even when you think they don't deserve it. God wants to free hearts today. You know that when you forgive, many times, even if you don't see the quick result of another person coming, doing something, changing, your forgiveness frees you. It helps you walk in your eternal purposes. Period. And God wants you to walk free in Him. Free and free and free in Him. Let the Holy Spirit do it today. There is no other way to live. There is no other way. You have to let go. You have to let go. You have to let go.

Start letting go. Say, Lord, I let go. Even, perhaps, let go of the government you hate, here or in your country. Don't let hatred hurt your heart. Don't let that. I let go, Lord. And if there is someone here who wants to surrender in front of the Lord, the altar is open. We will be here to pray with you. We are here to pray with you. We are here to walk with you. There will be someone here who will say, Lord, I need to give up my resentment, I need to give up my bitterness in front of you. There will be someone here who will say, Lord, I need to give up my doubts in front of you. Lord, I need to give up in front of you my heart that has tied me to my circumstances. Amen. Amen. Amen. Give it up in front of the Lord. Give it up. Don't leave this place. Believe me, in the end I will celebrate. I won't be like Jonas. He preached and the result came out. God is the one who does the work, the Holy Spirit. Let him complete the work that he has already begun in you. Let him. There will be someone else, someone else me in front of the Lord. Someone else, someone else in front of the Lord. You know your heart. It can be on the bench where you are sitting, but also if you want to come here. Because we are here to embrace you, to support you, to say we are with you. There will be someone here who needs to come in repentance. I am the Nineveh of my time. Lord, I need to come in repentance in front of you. Do it in front of him. Believe me that a heart with Christ and humbled, God accepts, opens the heart in a special way and touches life in the name of Jesus. Come, come here and let us respond in adoration in front of the Lord. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Aquí permaneceré, aquí y aquí permaneceré. Decimos, poseado, poseado a tus pies. Y aquí permaneceré, y a los pies de Cristo. Decimos, no hay lugar. No hay lugar más alto y más grande que estar a tus pies. Estar a tus pies. No hay lugar más alto y más grande que estar a tus pies. Estar a tus pies. No hay lugar. No hay lugar, no hay lugar, ni más alto, ni más grande, que estar a tus pies, que estar a tus pies. Solo anhelamos estar a los pies del maestro. Donde tú nos sigas iremos, donde tú nos mandes cesaremos. No importa lo que cueste mi señor, tú mereces mi devoción y mi sí, mi sí señor, ahí estaré. Todo lo dejo a tus pies, a los pies del maestro. Lo dejamos a los pies, a los pies del alfarero. El que ha creado y ha dicho esto es bueno, todo lo dejamos a tus pies, maestro. A los pies del maestro y déjalo todo, a los pies del maestro. Esta es oportunidad, déjalo a los pies del maestro. Toda situación o tempestad, déjala a los pies del maestro. Él quiere tomarlo, ven y déjalo a los pies del maestro. Él dice mi yugo es fácil, a los pies del maestro. No hay nada igual, ven y prueba, a los pies del maestro. Pues no hay nada mejor, no hay nada mejor que los pies del maestro. Ahí es donde quieres. Él va a sanar nuestra tierra. Aquellos que puedan, los que no se pueden inclinar, sentar o quedarse de pie. Aquí no hay nada que pueda sentir presión. Yo tengo ganas de cantar Yeshua, no sé ya, pero vamos a cantar esa canción un momento dado. Pero ahí yo quiero un abrazo, si vamos a orar en arrepentimiento delante del Señor, en cada área de nuestra vida. Y quizás no diga, bueno, ya yo me arrepentí hoy, ya hice lo que tenía que hacer. ¿Qué tal si no arrepentimos por nuestra ciudad? Por los pecados de nuestro vecindario. Le pedimos Señor que sanes nuestra ciudad, que sane Amostan, que sane Gravine, que sane Euless, que sane Bedford, que sane Coppell, que sane Irving, Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlington, todas las ciudades. Señor trae un avivamiento en cada ciudad. Nos unimos a miles de iglesias, Señor amado. Miles de iglesias que se reúnen los domingos buscando tu rostro, Señor. No somos solo 121, Señor. Estamos aquí, hay iglesias en otras iglesias, en Gravine, Señor, otras iglesias en Euless, en Bedford, en Coppell, Señor, ingles, español, chino, coreano, indio, Señor, tantas naciones de la tierra, Señor, representada en el DFW que te busca, Dios amado. Somos una iglesia más grande de lo que nosotros nos podamos imaginar, Señor, que cada iglesia pueda ser usada por el poder de tu Espíritu Santo, Señor, que no nos acomodemos en las cuatro paredes, sino que cada domingo sea la representación de llenarnos de ti para que nuestra semana sea completamente rendida en ti y que se vean frutos, Señor, de arrepentimiento en nuestra vida y de gente a nuestro alrededor.

Señor, como ayer vi en una gorra, en una tienda, Señor, que podamos llenar el cielo de almas a través de nuestra vida, Señor, tú eres el que atrae a aquellos que han de ser salvos, pero úsanos, Dios amado, para compartir la fe en otros, Dios amado, Señor, nos clamamos delante de ti por misericordia, Señor, que no sea parte, Señor, de esta nación, tu misericordia de cada rincón, desde el norte al sur, del este al oeste, Señor, tu misericordia, Señor, así como hiciste con Ídile cuando parecía que no se, no, no se permitía misericordia cuando parecía ser Lord, the judgment is yet to come, O God, O beloved God. You were merciful and compassionate, O God. Be merciful and compassionate before the idolatry that may be in our neighborhood. Be merciful and compassionate, Lord, before the evil that may befall, Lord, in our midst. Bring those at your feet who need you, O beloved God. This is your church, and Jesus, there is freedom in you. Jesus, there is freedom in you. Say, Jesus, there is freedom in you, O beloved God. There is freedom in you, there is freedom in you, there is freedom, we do not get tired of worshiping you. We do not get tired, say it to Him, Lord. Say it to Him, Lord. Say it to Him, Lord. Those who look at us online, say it to Him, Lord. Say it to Him, Lord. Say it to Him, Lord. We do not get tired. Say it to Him, Lord. Those who look at us online say it to Him, Lord. Say it to Him, Lord. Say it to Him, Lord. Prince of Peace. The Son of God, Immolated. Like a lamb, He was taken to the slaughterhouse. He did not open His mouth. He became silent. He became silent. He became silent. We do not get tired of praying.

We do not get tired of seeking. Say it to Him, Lord. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. And my soul is the most beautiful among billions. Give Him your best worship. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. And my soul is the most beautiful among billions. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. My soul is the most beautiful among billions. That is your church in Dallas, Florida. That is your church in the nations of the earth. That is your church underground in China. Underground in India. Underground, Lord, in those churches that hide to worship you. That is still your church, beloved God. And we join them in faith, believing God. That despite the freedom we may experience, we are one with them, Lord, your people. And we take advantage of that to worship you in spirit. and in truth, given with all heart, beloved God. That is our long journey, Lord, for that you created us. Lord, you did not create us simply to be born, to grow, to study, to work, to rest and to live life and to die. You created us to be eternal beings in worship. And this afternoon is simply a rehearsal of our eternity with you. When we are in those golden and crystal streets, where we worship day, afternoon and night, with renewed bodies in front of you, that is your people, beloved God.

Thank you for everything we are here for. Thank you for life. Thank you for the freedom we can have in you. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus and the people of God. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. As a team of hospitality, Sandra Contreras, can you stand up? Raise your hand. Can you come closer for more information? We believe that God is taking us to a new time where we will need more hands to serve Him since we entered here, to serve in the administration, to serve in different ways. Next Sunday at 9.15 on the second floor we will have a meeting to explain everything and also to see if the one who is prepared can be part of it. Right now we have approximately 20 people working and serving, rotations that we have present, but we want to add more those who can contribute because we are the body of Christ. Amen? Amen. And we all have a role in the body of Christ. That is an important announcement. And well, on Wednesday we will have a prayer meeting. God is doing beautiful and great things. At 7 at night on the second floor. There are groups of life in the week. Later we will inform more details. I see August 2nd, next Sunday for me as a new season. A new season begins in August or December. And I believe that God will do beautiful things in the midst of us. Amen?

He has been doing it. But his fresh action is in this place. And he will double, triple what he wants to do in the midst of us. Come ready. Lord, we bless this church, your church, knowing that when we leave this place we do not leave your presence. While we leave, Lord, we want to continue worshiping you through the dimes and the offerings. Lord, they belong to you. And we do it with all our heart. For your glory, dear God. And I ask you to guard each one, Lord, this week. As you leave, Lord, in your vehicles, at dinner, with the family, the preparation. Guard them in their work. The children who are still out of school. Guard them, protect them from all danger, Lord. May your angels camp around each home, Lord. And may your blessing be, as you did, Lord, at that time in Nineveh. When they came in repentance and your mercies were clear. At that time, we know that today it will also be clearly seen in our lives. I bless your church in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Greet each other. Greet each other. We are a family of the Lord. God bless you. God guard you. Amen. We love you. We love you. We love you.

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