El Rey que se acerca — Verano sin fin — Lisa Harper

the house, they say Amen. You can take a seat. Thank you for the prayer. I am a fan of Boo. I listen to his music in Nashville. I felt I could not have been in BooCon. Someday I will be able to be participating, but I feel what the Lord has done recently. Don Sherry and I were able to do some events in the country recently, and I feel that every time she comes in, things fall from her, but I want to get up. It seems that it has been so palpable among you. Speaking of palpable, I am going to talk about the story and then we will close the word of God. I have from the south, I am going to use many expressions from the south and I am old. I am going to be happy that they feel, it seems that I was born in a stable. Who went through a difficult 2024? Those are the years that we do not want to live again. So at the end of 2024, I did not want to go to another women's event. I talk about many events for women throughout the country, at events, and I said no, I can't. I want to go to Christmas, to my house, eat and watch a documentary. But a friend asked me to do a final event. I did it not because I wanted to be there. I'm sorry. In the church I can't lie. So there was a group of women in Nashville, Tennessee. All the people use a particular style. It was a two-week event and in the end he said, we are almost at Christmas and sometimes it underlines things that are missing in our lives. So not everyone has a perfect family and I have to have someone missing, someone at the table or we don't have a family image like Norman Rockwell. So let's say an honest prayer. He said, if you are struggling with loneliness, stand up. We are 40 or 50 women who stood up. I said, oh, that's good. Especially if we are not in town and I hear a baby. Do not worry about the baby. I am a mother by adoption. When I turned 50, when I hear babies in the houses of God, I say, glory to God. That drives me crazy. When I see the church, they look at me and say, oh, they look at me badly. I say, I hope they slap you. Because these babies in the house of God are something beautiful. That is the melody of the miracle. Do not worry about the baby. Yes, it is a mini-drama, but if not, we can still do it for 10 minutes. Where were they? These women stood up. I said, especially in a context like this, where everyone seems to be with a strip, great. They do not know what a strip is. Do not worry, do not google it. They will not be able to erase the image of their gaze. It is nice that there are people who are being vulnerable in a church. I am sitting there and she is standing here. You are amazing. I like your hair. Why are you trying to do it Haitian style?

When I do it, it looks very bad. I like it. Perfect. Tell me what your product is. She stood up. I have to be careful. I told you, you are the example. I am there in Dakota, and when she stood up, I thought, she had the courage to say, I am alone in a place where I could be judged, maybe. I have nothing else to offer the body of Christ, but I can. My hugs are the most. I am 61 years old. She is like a grandmother. Aunt Lisa, I am going to go and give her a hug so that she is not standing alone during the prayer. I approached her, I gave her a bear hug, and it seems that she began to cry. She is a leader of the advance in Nashville. A woman of God and very short. I don't have the gift of consistency, when Christi said she was going to pray, it is consistency, it is an intimate moment with someone strange, but I'm going to be two or three minutes, I think Christi should have been behind, I didn't see her prayer plan because the prayer went on and on and on, it's like my friend Grace, she didn't have where to run to go back and I was leaning against the platform with my thighs, instead of being uncomfortable, I'm going to send her to therapy, I don't know, I have to put something on, I didn't expect it to be fixed, we have sweaters, I think she was feeling that she was sweating, so I move my face away so as not to be so intimate with someone strange. It's beautiful, I love this role, people who have beautiful hair get ready here, so I'm going to say something like, sorry if this is uncomfortable, but we couldn't separate our faces, I said sorry, I said no, don't worry, this is my favorite place, I love this authenticity, I'm a Christian. No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, no, I love this, it's something beautiful, I said no, I'm sorry, you have a little bit of mucus in your hair, my mucus, how can I respond to that, I didn't know what to do, I said thank you. So they called me to pray, I didn't have to go to the bathroom, so it wasn't small, it was very obvious, the rest of the night was very incredible, I went to my house and I bathe, and when I get out of the shower, I look and sometimes you have those revelations, the Holy Spirit imparts something to you, you see something greater, and I said, this is the hypostatic union, I learned it in the seminary, I have to tell you because I paid a lot for these classes, it is the hypostatic union, it is an academic term, what it means is a miracle, that our Savior is transcendentally perfect, when He incarnated, He did not dirty His transcendence, and sometimes that is taught in the culture, do not receive your TikTok theology, please, because as He became man to save us and that He could embrace lepers like us, He did it less than God, that is not true, that is Gnosticism, He was perfectly transcendent, perfectly holy, and this is the miracle, and perfectly and simultaneously accessible, He is not a distant God, He is not an existential image, He is close to us, I said, wow, I went to 50 Christian meetings around the world this year, but the holiest I had the privilege of being was to be close to someone else who has the image of God, who has the residue of his pain in my hair, and I said, King Jesus is close enough to us to receive the residue of our pain in His hands, and in His feet, and on His side, and that beautiful holy head received His crown of thorns, He is not an impersonal Savior, He is not a distant God, He is a God who is close, look, miraculously visceral, a Savior so close, more incredible than we could ever dream of getting closer, that we keep our distance for property and for shame, we have a God who says, come, come to me, it is a miracle, it is not about our persistence as followers of Jesus, it's not about how often you come to Miami Garden, or if you go to SOME first that morning, because it is very special that you go to two, it's about the proximity, it's about the fact that it says, come, get close to me, it's in getting closer to Jesus that we become saints, We are going to change our behavior, we are going to fill the questionnaire of the biblical study, the more I get closer to Jesus, the more his goodness will disarm you. I came to Jesus at the age of 5 years, I have 61 hours, it has been a long journey and most of the time it has been characterized by a lot of distance. Although I spent 10 years in the seminary, I did Hebrew and Greek to be ashamed. The shame was that wedge that was between Jesus and me. Because I became a follower of Jesus when I was little and my father left us. And someone in my family did things to me that I would not have to do to anyone, no other woman. And I faced the shame since I was 5 years old and for decades she was my companion. I could preach the grace, I could do the exegesis of the grace, but the idea that the King of Kings could descend and receive the residue of the pain of my heart in his hair and that he could speak to me. I can preach that to you because I embrace it. That is the gospel, that is the gospel, it is who we are.

That must permeate our whole life, our relationships. If you are not shocked by the intimate audacity that we have with Jesus, our Savior, you have to be evangelized again. Maybe you don't know Jesus, if you don't, if you can't receive his embrace. I was a obedient daughter of God and I tried to do works. I knew it was not for salvation, but I didn't want to be disappointed with myself that God had given my heart to him. I spent years working hard, but to be embraced by God, to be sustained by him, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who created the universe. I said no. When I was a pastor, he told me that he loved me as I love Billy Graham. And I said, you are wrong. There is no way that God can put together something like me and accept to be. There is no way. Let's go to Mark 1. Let's see Mark and Luke and Hebrews. Mark 2 is the first gospel. When they put the Bible on the list, when they canonized, Matthew is the first gospel. It's like there were different gospels before Jesus. They all had one. But in Christ, this one, the gospel, are the good news. This changes the whole culture. It's the first of the first compilation. It's Mark. He wrote it first. I love Mark's tenor. Do you know who wrote it? Don't talk. Mark. Mark. Do you know who the narrative voice is? It's Peter. Don't you love that?

He had failures, continuous failures. He denied Jesus. He betrayed him three times. It's a moment of... What am I going to choose? I'm going to choose the worst person. If you're under the idea that you have to have everything resolved before Jesus comes, you're wrong. You have to regret that. We have to know how disastrous we are, but that doesn't define who we are. We are the children of God. I love that Peter is the one who tells this story. Mark wrote it on an old iPad. He's saying... Mark 1.40. And he said, If you want, you can save me. He says, Moved in compassion, Jesus extended his hand and touched the man, saying, Yes, I want. It's clean. He was healed. It's a short story. But it has a great... We have the lepers. Not only were they disfigured physically, but they were very contagious. And according to the cultural laws and norms, a leper can't be with us. because we can have leprosy. So, early in the ministry of Jesus,

the lepers were segregated from the rest of society. It was illegal for them to join other people. Where they went, they had to shout, impure, impure, so that if we didn't see them, that they were dressed in harapos, that was required. If they hadn't prepared their hair, they didn't have, they didn't go to the salon, to the hairdresser, they didn't have the benefit of this chemical, they were going to have black and white hair, hairy hair. Someone would see you and say, lepers, don't come near me. And if they couldn't see you, you had to shout, wherever you were, I'm impure, I'm impure, I'm impure. Imagine the stigma, not only of physical disfigurement, but also in their bonds, in their relationships, I can't imagine the trauma of that. So, he was outside the city gates, because at that time, there was a wall around

so that no one could attack your city. So, you were inside the city gates, but he couldn't enter the city, he was sitting outside the city gates, horribly disfigured. Now it's called Hansen's disease, or Hansen's disease. In the last year in the United States, where it's treated, what's called leprosy, it's leprosy, it's in Louisiana. We think it's a skin disease, the connective tissue is lost, and it's actually a central nervous system disease, and it emanates everywhere. So, everything is lost, the nose, the teeth, the ears, and it smells horrible, because it's rotting. So, if you can imagine, at some point, that person outside the city, and he looks at Jesus, who is entering the city, and he says, Sir, he doesn't say Rabbi, he says, I think you're a good teacher,

he says, you can stop time with you, with Yahweh, because you think you have an intimate relationship with him, that's not what he says. He says, I think you're the Christ, I think you're the one we've been waiting for, I think you're the King of the world. He says, Sir, Adonai, the Christ, I think that's you. And if you want, you can clean me. And Jesus can say, I want you, stay there. And Hashem says, like the powers of the fantastic twins, activate. You could have saved him from far away. These are two verses, but if we could stay in this miracle, two verses, nothing more. Moved with compassion, he says, I do want. Moved with compassion. Yahweh says, He felt outraged by his difficult situation. He says, Plaunitzoma, it comes from the inside,

where our glass comes out. He has no compassion, like Hallmark's card. No, he says, from the insides of God himself. He says, perhaps I can talk to this person as he is alone. No, it's not something so twisted. But from the insides of God, he approaches this person, segregated, infected, and touched him, and healed him. Do you hear this chronology? Moved with compassion. He is still infected, still dirty, while he still smells. Jesus receives the residue of this leprosy in his body, and heals him. This visceral compassion of God is something we cannot understand. A God like this, Loves someone like me, loves a woman like me. And in Luke 7, we have a woman who is taking her son, who, as you know, bodies are not allowed to be in the city, where people are.

So they are taking the body of a widow, and now she lost her son, not only her son, but also her son. So my guess is that she is not looking up. My guess is, Luke does not tell us exactly, but he is the one who is walking next to the funeral procession, and he says, I think she is looking at his feet, and says, I hope they put me on the ground with them. In the same contract, Jesus is entering the city, she is leaving the city, and this is the difference. She did not ask Jesus for help. She does not call him Lord. She probably does not even see Jesus. She is consumed by the pain of her situation. I was there in 2024. I said, I can't carry the weight of my life. I prayed, I fasted, I adored, I did everything. I can't carry the weight of my life. I know he is a good God, but my life is not. So this woman can barely put one foot in front of the other. You know what? Luke uses the same word. He says he sees her. He does not do anything spiritual. He says he sympathizes with her. He says, Esplanitza me. From the bowels. And he jumps the gap. He closes the gap and says he touches her. He probably hugs her.

He touches the hand of the dead son. And he resuscitates him. He says he returns the son to his mother. My mother called me Mama Blanca. Now Mama Blanca is still my favorite name. I had never been called Mama. Mama Blanca. Le devuelve al hijo. Es la compasión visceral de Jesús. ¿Cuánto lo has accedido a ella? Tú tratas de ser tu hija buena. De ser lo correcto. Y portarte bien. Y poner las sillas en medio. Y tú diezmas. Y haces. Y haces. Y haces. Pero la idea de traer toda tu basura. Y confiar de que Jesús no solamente se preocupa por ti. Como lo promete Pablo. Que podemos poner nuestras ansiedades de él. Como lo dice Pedro. No solamente llevar eso a Jesús. Sino tener la confianza. De que él nos quiere abrazar en medio de eso. Podemos apoyarnos en Jesús. Vamos a Hebreos. Hebreos 1. Recuerden el contexto de Hebreos.

Esto es después de la crucifixión y de la resurrección. En el 50 o 60, después de Cristo, los cristianos estaban pasando un momento muy difícil en la cultura porque los están golpeando. Los cristianos están siendo martirizados por los locos como Neón, narcisistas. Y estos son cristianos judíos. Este pastor, no sabemos quién lo escribió en el libro de Hebreos. Algunos creen que es Pablo. Otros que fue Lucas. Otros que fue Priscila, que se llama él. Creo que era ella. No sabemos quién exactamente escribió Hebreos. Pero sabemos definitivamente que él era el pastor de esto. Era el pastor de esta gente. Y sabe que están en esas temporadas que piensan que no pueden llevar el peso de su propia vida. Ya. Y les dan este mensaje que se predicó como un sermón. Y luego se escribió para que quede como una epístola. Y les da este mensaje acerca de la cercanía de Jesús. De que él es rey. Él es absolutamente el rey de reyes, pero también está un rey cercano. Y empieza en Hebreos de esta manera. La gente está a punto de apostatar de la fe. Nosotros, cuando éramos judíos, nos odiábamos, nos cancelaban. Escribían grafiti en nuestros vehículos, pero no estábamos siendo asesinados, martirizados.

Nadie nos estaba bombardeando nuestros negocios. No secuestraban a nuestros hijos de regreso de la escuela. Era más fácil cuando íbamos a Yahweh. Pero cuando me entra Jesús en la ecuación, es más difícil de lo que pensábamos que podía ser, de lo que esperábamos, siendo rechazados por nuestra propia familia. No pensé que iba a ser tan difícil. the part of Jesus and let's go back to Yahweh, if we become only Jews again, maybe we can carry the weight of our own life, maybe it will not be so difficult, but considering the apostasy, a pastor gathers them, it is a small group, it is not Miami Gardens, there are no screens, they are people who are gathered in a mall, in a place with a God who in many and different ways spoke in other times to our parents through the prophets, in these final days, in these final days, it is the period since the first incarnation of Jesus, the first moment that Jesus incarnated and on the last day that he is going to die, these last days are since we have Emmanuel who comes to seek us, to claim us as a church, in these final days he has not spoken by means of the Son, to whom he constituted the heir of everything and through whom he made the universe, he is the radiance of the glory of God, it is the image itself, you know what that word image is? and the hypostasis, people tell me that technology is boring, no, this is that you are very lazy and you do not want to talk, it is not something academic, God wants logos, you have the conversation, you had a coffee before entering, we are all theologians, we all have conversations about God, some of us are a little crazy because our conversations are not linked to the beautiful letter of love that is called Leviticus, but these conversations, it is the image itself and hypostatic union of what God is, he who sustains all things with the word of his power, after carrying out the purification of our sins through himself, he sat on the right of the majesty of the heights and has come to be superior to the angels for having received a more sublime name than theirs, he is God, he is not a good guy who has long hair and who is making videos on TikTok that feels close, it is not like that, Jesus says that he is the image itself, he is the king of kings, he is majestic, there is no one like him, then he establishes the authority of Jesus here from the beginning and then we go a page to Hebrews 4, if you grew up in Lehiza like me, that you go to the church,

you go to the summer biblical school, you know this passage, you know it, Hebrews 4, 11, therefore we enter the rest so that no one falls for the same obedience, because the word of God is alive and effective and more cutting than the sword of two pines, because it penetrates from the soul and the spirit and the conjunctures, the tuetanos made the thoughts and intentions of the heart, what is he talking about? What is he talking about there? Everyone taught us that he is talking about the Bible, right? I grew up in the Baptists and in the Pentecostals, my grandmother, my mother was a Baptist, my father was a Nazarene, but we went through different ones, he finished the assemblies of God, so I am a Baptist, that is, a Pentecostal Baptist. If you are somewhere, you will see if the builders, we have the authority of this beautiful letter of love, you have been taught all your life that this verse in Hebrews, the word of God is active and effective, it is about the Bible, it is about a Bible of leather or imitation of leather, but I want to give you something bigger this morning, when I told you that Hebrews was written during the 60s or 70s after Christ, Dakota, don't talk, you know it, you can't answer it. Also, do you remember when we had our collection of books of the New Testament? Informally, in the year 140 AD, we did not have a New Testament until the year 393, the Council of Egypt, the word of God comes logos, who is he talking about all the time? All the sermon of Hebrews is talking about Jesus, the supreme and accessibility of Jesus, I love the Bible, I love the physical Bible, I love the Bible, I love this book, I give it with all the Bible, I am hyper conservative because I believe that the Bible is true. La conozco y la creo de tapa a tapa, creo que es la autografía de Dios, creo en la autorrevelación de parte de Dios, saben que Pablo tuvo que inventar una palabra, no había una palabra en el lexico greco romano, tuvo que ver con ceonustos, dice, el aliento de Dios dio vida a este libro, tenemos que pasar más tiempo en este libro, y habría menos apatía en la iglesia si amáramos esto como amamos el café, si amáramos, esta es la escritura de la palabra que habló Dios, pero no está hablando de la Biblia, no está hablando de la Biblia, porque ellos no tenían la Biblia, tenían las escrituras del hebreo, está hablando de Jesús, la palabra de Dios, Jesús que restaura la misma palabra, dice que en el

principio, en el principio está hablando de Jesús, está hablando de Jesús, está hablando de gente que dice, esto es difícil, no sé si puedo vivir el día de mañana, si se puede, porque eso está más cerca, Jesús es accesible, él es el rey y es accesible, si tan solo vemos el mismo versículo entenderíamos, dice, dice por lo tanto la palabra de Dios, nada de lo creo puede esconderse de él, la Biblia es inanimada, dice, esconderse de él, de los ojos de Dios, sino que todas las cosas quedan al nudo y descubiertas los ojos de aquel a quien tenemos que rendir cuentas, por lo tanto, ya que en Jesús, el hijo de Dios, tenemos un gran sumo sacerdote que traspasó los cielos, retengamos nuestra profesión de fe, porque no tenemos, perdón, me cambié más la palabra, la página, porque no tenemos un sumo sacerdote que no puede compadecerse de nuestras debilidades, sino uno que fue atentado en todo de la misma manera que nosotros, aunque sin pecado, por lo tanto, acerquémonos confiadamente al trono de la gracia para alcanzar misericordia y hallar gracia para cuando necesitemos ayuda, está hablando de Jesús, está hablando que él es perfectamente Dios y perfectamente accesible. Tú puedes ponerle el residuo de tu dolor en su pelo y en sus manos y en sus pies. Jesús está tan movido por nosotros que él descendió y aceptó estar cerca de nosotros. Oh, hermosos hermanos y hermanas, ¿por qué estamos trasciendo al tanto para mantener la distancia que nosotros creamos? ¿Nos avergüenza mirar lo que está dentro y ver que nos falta algo? ¿Tenemos vergüenza cuando yo voy a una cita, entonces me pongo fajas para agarrar todos los tejidos? ¿Por qué nos estamos poniendo faja con Jesús? No hay nada de nuestras vidas, se esconde en sus ojos y aún así dice, ese es mi hijo, estoy orgulloso de él, esa es mi hija. Yo la tejí, ella es creada, formada, perfecto. No sean como yo, no tarden tanto tiempo para recibir ese abrazo, no se escondan de términos teológicos, de muchas sílabas o por horas de voluntariado. Por favor, por favor, por favor, les ruego, como mamá de la casa de Dios, entréguense a los brazos de Jesús, él los ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama, te ama. No trates de limpiarte primero, eso no es el evangelio. Él dice, ven, tal como eres, tráeme todo, tráeme todo el residuo de tu dolor a mí.