¡La Verdad te Hará Libre! || Victory Church

Hola, buenos dias familia. Toda la familia Victory nos acompaña durante este fin de semana. Demos la bienvenida a Midtown, a North Cove, a nuestra familia en línea de Hamilton Mill. Y por primera vez, recibimos a Victory de Kula. Vamos, demosles un fuerte aplauso. Hola. Este fin de semana, Victory de Kula tiene un lanzamiento suave. Un lanzamiento suave es básicamente para asegurarse de que la luz y electricidad funcionen bien y ese tipo de cosas. El próximo fin de semana, el 9 de agosto, será el lanzamiento oficial. Si estás por esa zona, acompáñanos en la Dula High School a las 9 y a las 11 de la mañana. Estamos muy emocionados porque un campus de Victory que da vida está llegando al noreste de la ciudad. Así que una vez más, los esperamos por allá. Vamos a celebrar lo que Dios está haciendo allá arriba. Estamos muy emocionados por ustedes. Si te acabas de unir, quizás eres nuevo en Victory. Llegas a mitad de camino, pues estamos recorriendo todo el año el libro de Juan. Si eres nuevo en Juan, Mateo, Marcos, Lucas y Juan están en el Nuevo Testamento. Es un evangelio. ¿Qué es un evangelio? Evangelio significa las buenas noticias de Jesús y Juan lo establece. Él dijo, aquí está la razón por la que estoy escribiendo este libro. Estoy escribiendo este libro, lo que se llama el Evangelio de Juan, para que ustedes crean que Jesús es el Mesías, el Hijo del Dios viviente, y que al creer tengan vida en su nombre. Ese es el viaje en el que estamos. Ese es el viaje al que te has apuntado. Yo quiero vida en Jesús. Por ese mismo motivo estamos aquí hoy y Juan no se guarda nada. Desde la primera palabra, él dice que la palabra de Dios se hizo carne. Como si estuviera diciendo desde el principio que Jesús es Dios. Pasamos la página. Jesús convierte el agua en vino valioso. Empieza a voltear las mesas en el templo. Corrige a los líderes religiosos, pero al mismo tiempo le muestra su gracia a una mujer pecadora en un pozo. Vamos. Sana a un hombre paralítico y luego alimenta a cinco mil personas con una lonchera. Como si estuviera revelando.

Está mostrando que realmente es Dios. Y luego hace dos semanas llegamos a Juan 8 y hoy estamos terminando Juan 8. Pero Juan 8 es sin duda el capítulo más confrontativo que hemos visto. Jesús está subiendo la intensidad. Él está revelando quién es. Y entonces la oscuridad está luchando contra la luz. Eso es lo que vemos aquí en Juan 8 desde el versículo 1. Arrastran a esta mujer adúltera frente a Jesús. Y todos sabemos que se necesitan dos para que algo funcione. Pero ese hombre no está ahí porque en realidad no les interesa la justicia. Le preguntan si deben matarla y Jesús dice el que esté libre de pecado tire la primera piedra. Ya conocen la historia. Entonces los ancianos tiran las piedras y se van. Jesús la mira y dice yo tampoco te condeno, estás perdonada. Le dice ahora vete y deja tu vida de pecado. Es gracia total, verdad total, lo cual ofende a todos. Así es Jesús. Entonces las multitudes se reúnen. Aquí es donde aterrizamos hoy. Jesús enseña a la gente y como dice Juan 8 30 mientras decía estas cosas muchos creyeron en él. Todos digan creyeron, muchos creyeron en él. Aquí es donde decimos alabado sea Dios. Tradicionalmente vemos que la gente cree en Jesús y eso es increíble. Estoy seguro de que los discípulos están emocionados. Me imagino a Pedro siendo super Pedro y diciendo Juan está sucediendo justo ahora. Está sucediendo Juan, todos están empezando a creer. El número de seguidores de Jesús en Instagram acaba de duplicarse. Ese video de TikTok que subimos, el de las piedras, tuvo un millón de vistas. Chicos está pasando. Todos los discípulos están emocionados.

La multitud se está formando. Y miran a Jesús esperando que esté feliz. Pero él sigue concentrado. Y es casi como si hubiera algo en Jesús que no se conforma con que la gente solo crea. Y es a esos creyentes a quienes en el siguiente versículo Jesús les dice probablemente una de sus tres frases más famosas de la Biblia que es donde vamos a aterrizar hoy. Y aquí está el asunto. Esta frase que él dice ahí todavía resuena hoy en día. Esto es lo que dice. Jesús les dijo a los judíos que habían creído en él. Si permanecen en mi palabra, verdaderamente son mis discípulos. Y entonces conocerán la verdad absoluta. Y esa verdad los hará libres por completo. ¿No es verdad que nos encanta eso? Como bien sabemos, la verdad los hará libres para siempre. O sea, nos fascina esto. Ahora, aquí está el problema. Nos gusta más de lo que lo entendemos. Lo releí varias veces la semana pasada. Nos gusta el final. Así que leamos toda la parte. Si permanecen en mi palabra, entonces realmente serán mis discípulos y conocerán toda la verdad. Esa parte me gusta. Verdad, no entendemos la primera parte, pero nos gusta. Por eso digo que a todos les gusta esa última parte. La verdad los hará libres. Por eso está en el sello de la Universidad Johns Hopkins y en el edificio de la Universidad de Texas.

Y lo tienen en edificios de hospitales y en despachos de abogados, y lo citan en películas. Porque la verdad los hará libres. Y lo que realmente están dando a entender es que cuanto más conocimiento tengas, más libertad tendrás. Así que si seguimos obteniendo más títulos y seguimos entendiendo más cosas, tendremos más libertad. La vida seguirá mejorando, pero hay buenas noticias. Ellos están equivocados. ¿En serio? Aquí están las buenas noticias para ti hoy. Puedes ser tan tonto como un ladrillo y aún así ser libre. Vamos, señalen a su vecino y digan, habla de ti. Creo que pensaba en ti cuando dijo eso. Eres tan tonto como un ladrillo. Vamos. Puedes ser tan tonto como un ladrillo y aún así ser libre. Y puedes ser tan inteligente como Einstein y aún así ser un esclavo. Bien, porque aquí está la idea. En resumen, todo esto no se trata de tener licenciaturas, maestrías o doctorados, ¿verdad? Esas cosas son efectivas para ciertas áreas de la vida, pero no son efectivas para las áreas más importantes de la vida, que son conocer a Dios, ser conocido por Dios y vivir una vida que le agrade a Dios. No necesitas títulos para ser libre. Un título no te hará libre. ¿Cómo lo sé?

Porque los discípulos eran hombres comunes y sin estudios que estaban revolucionando el mundo. Y los fariseos lo señalaron diciendo, lo único que sabemos es que estos hombres han estado con Jesús. Estos hombres han estado con Jesús. Esto es lo que intento decir. La libertad no se trata de saber algo. La libertad es conocer a alguien. Libertad. Nunca encontrarás la libertad suprema de la vida al abrir esta bóveda de conocimiento en el pergamino dorado de sabiduría y nirvana de Kung Fu Panda. No, no, no, no. Conocimiento. Saber algo no te hará libre, pero conocer a alguien sí te hará libre. Y lo que Jesús está tratando de decir aquí es, chicos, necesitan ser liberados. Y cuando Él dijo, escuchen, cuando les dice a los creyentes que necesitan ser liberados, ellos se alteran. Y esto es lo que dicen. Le respondieron, somos descendientes de Abraham y nunca hemos sido esclavos de nadie. ¿Cómo es exactamente que dices que seremos libres? Ahora detente aquí, porque si tú, si sabes, sabes. Y eso es gracioso. Hay muchas cosas en la Biblia realmente graciosas que no entendemos. Si conoces la historia, estos tipos son judíos.

En el Antiguo Testamento afirman no haber sido esclavos de nadie. Fueron esclavizados por los asirios, los babilonios, los persas y los griegos. La razón por la que Jesús incluso dice que necesitan ser liberados es porque ellos acababan de terminar Sukkot, que es la fiesta de los tabernáculos, cuando celebran la libertad. Cuatro siglos de esclavitud en Egipto. Así que dice, oigan, deben ser libres. Y responden, somos libres mientras lo dicen. Levantan cabeza y ahí están los romanos. Estos tipos han sido esclavizados por todos. Nunca hemos estado en esclavitud de nadie. Han estado en esclavitud de todos. Y lo que realmente intentan decir es, oh, no, no, no. Y Abraham es nuestro padre. Sé que fuimos esclavizados, pero nuestras almas eran libres. Y Jesús dice, eso no es cierto, porque Jesús no habla solo de la esclavitud como ellos creen. Habla de algo mucho más siniestro. Y aquí es donde continúa y les responde. En verdad, en verdad. Amén. Amén. Él dice, les digo que todo el que practica el pecado es esclavo del pecado. Dice, el esclavo no permanece en la casa para siempre, pero el hijo permanece para siempre. Así que si el hijo los libera, serán verdaderamente libres.

Vamos, solo ven. Podemos. Esa es la verdad suprema. Esa es la verdad suprema, justo ahí. Si el hijo te libera, serás verdaderamente libre. Esto es lo que Jesús está diciendo. No vine a liberarlos de los romanos. Vine a liberarlos del diablo. Y la libertad que Jesús ofrece es libertad del pecado. Diré dos cosas. Dominación y condenación del pecado. Es el pecado gobernando sobre ti en la vida. Y también es, en esencia, el pecado gobernando sobre ti en la muerte. Y si el hijo te libera, serás libre de verdad. Chicos, estuve leyendo eso la semana pasada, probablemente unas 40 veces. Y simplemente dejar que eso me invada, eso es una buena noticia. ¿Sacarás algo más de este sermón? Quiero que entiendas esto. Quiero que entiendas esto. Jesús es quien te libera. Y si él te libera, serás verdaderamente libre. It's not a partial freedom, it's not a 10% freedom or an AA program, no. Jesus has the power to break the chains and set you free from slavery, from sin, from addiction, from depression, from the devil, from darkness, from death. And when Jesus is calling, he's calling right here, he's saying, guys, listen, listen, I know you believe, I know all that kind of stuff, okay? But listen, you need to be set free, and I'm the only one who can do that.

But again, this, I know who I'm talking to, today I'm talking to the choir. Listen, why does Jesus tell the believers that they need to be set free? Well, that word, believer, is complicated, right? And we discovered that these guys liked things about Jesus, they believed things about him. In fact, if you know the rest of Juan 8, where we were last week, these are the same people who, in a few minutes, when Jesus makes the big statement, before Abraham was born, I am. These are the same believers who pick up stones to kill him because they liked some of the things Jesus said, but they didn't like the other things Jesus said. I want to be very clear. The people who tried to kill Jesus weren't atheists. They were believers. But they're believers. How is that possible? Jesus is saying, in the nicest way possible, guys, you can't just stay in this place of liking some things about me. You can't just stay in this place of simply believing. You have to go deeper. In fact, believing some things about Jesus can be one of the most dangerous places you can be in. Because when you're hot, you know you're hot. And when you're cold, you know you're cold. But when you're warm... That's why Jesus says again, in verse 31, If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Listen, there are four key words right there. I would probably add a fifth, okay? I'll just leave this here for a second. I want to do my best to interpret this for you in 90 seconds, okay?

What Jesus is saying, the true objective, okay? It's not just believing for a moment. It's staying all your life. That's the true objective. The true objective of this. It's not about going to church once every 14 years and saying a prayer. The goal is not just that you like some things about Jesus. His true objective is to follow his ways for all his life. Remain in the word of God and in his ways. If you build your life on my teachings, it's not to read them once, or memorize them for a trivia contest and impress your group, but to live them. No, no, you cling to his word, you cling to his ways. You meditate on it and you obey it. The objective is not to feel attraction for Jesus. The purpose is to always be committed to Jesus, even when he offends you. Especially when he really offends you. When you want to do something and he says no. When you read something in his word and it hurts you, do you still obey? Even when it hurts, even when the lights are off and you think no one is looking at you, do you remain? Do you remain? Because that's what a disciple does.

Believers obey when it's convenient for them. Disciples obey no matter what. And when a righteous man falls, he gets up seven more times. That's what produces transformation. Disciples obey in the long run, even when it hurts. And Jesus says, if you do excess, you will know. That word, to know, is really important. It's gnosco in Greek. Gnosco means to know something intimately because you have a prolonged relationship. So how can I know the truth? How can I have an intimate relationship with the truth? Well, it all depends on this. This unlocks this verse. In John 14, Jesus said, I am the way. By remaining in my word, you will be my disciple and you will have an intimate relationship with me. Jesus is the truth. He says that if you follow his way, you will know him and he will set you free. And if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free. And I love the Greek. I like to give you words in Greek from time to time. It's lutero and eleutero.

Eleutero, there in Greek. And the biblical dictionary says that lutero means to make someone free from domination. The freedom that Jesus offers is not just to take away your freedom. esposas. Es sacar al ocupante de tu vida. No es un simple encierro de fin de semana. Un ejército extranjero tomó tu vida. Y Jesús dice, si permaneces en mi palabra y en mis caminos, llegarás finalmente a conocerme. Y entonces yo te libraré de la esclavitud. Así que te voy a dar una, tal vez solo una reformulación de Juan 8 31 32. Verás que es la JSB, o sea, la versión estándar de Johnson. Trataré de poner esto en un lenguaje algo más amigable. Eso me ayuda a comprender, si permaneces en el modo de vida de Jesús, realmente eres de su familia, eres su hijo, eres de su pueblo, y entonces podrás llegar a conocer a Jesús de forma muy íntima. Y él te liberará totalmente del dominio del pecado. Así que si el hijo te libera, serás verdaderamente libre. Ese es el resumen de todo, pero eso viene a medida que permaneces. Al conocer la verdad y los caminos de Dios, viviendo en ese lugar, él te va a liberar. Permíteme enfatizar nuevamente al contrastar ambas formas. Esto es lo que dice, si eres un discípulo, eso significa que permaneces en la palabra y conoces la verdad, y entonces experimentas libertad. Un creyente visita los caminos de Dios, termina creyendo mentiras y vive como esclavo. Bien, bien, bien, bien, bien. Te voy a hacer una pregunta realmente difícil. ¿Cuál de los dos quieres ser? Muy bien, vamos a resumirlos. ¿De acuerdo? ¿Quieres ser un esclavo? Muy bien, todos los esclavos. Bien. ¿Quién quiere vivir en libertad? Bien, es como tres a uno. Está bien, de acuerdo. No, no, no. Vamos. ¿Cuál se ve mejor? Vamos. ¿No quieres vivir en libertad? ¿No quieres que tus hijos vivan en libertad? ¿No quieres que tu alma sea libre? Escucha, déjame decir esto aquí desde el principio. Déjame aclarar. Hoy no estoy hablando de convertirse en un cristiano bueno y limpio. Estoy hablando de vivir de tal manera que la pornografía no destruya tu matrimonio. Estoy hablando de vivir de tal manera que

el alcoholismo no arruine a tus hijos. Estoy hablando de si puedes vivir de tal manera que el orgullo no destruya tu relación con Dios. Que tu rebeldía no te lleve al infierno. Eso es, esa es la libertad de la que hablo. ¿Quién quiere ese tipo de libertad? Si libres de verdad, verdaderamente libres. Entonces tenemos que permanecer en Jesús, en su forma de vida. Así que aquí está la pregunta. ¿Cómo? Si la verdad los hará libres, ¿qué relación debemos tener con ella? Te guiaré por esto unos minutos, ¿vale? Elijamos nuestra fuente de verdad. Sé que esto es como predicar a los convencidos, pero captarás algunas cosas aquí en los próximos minutos. Si la libertad depende de conocer la verdad, más nos vale tener la fuente correcta, pues aquí está la verdad. ¿Quieres una verdad? La verdad es que hoy tenemos un problema con la verdad. Esa es la verdad. La verdad es que ya no sabemos qué es la verdad porque hay una guerra contra la verdad. Yo tengo mi verdad y tú la tuya. Eso ni existía hace 30 años. Solo inventamos palabras sin sentido. Mi verdad, tu verdad, noticias falsas y la IA, vamos. Ya has sido la persona que envió el video y luego la gente dice, hermano, eso no es real, eso no es real. Eso es IA. Y tú dices, ¿qué? Pensé que le habían enseñado kung fu al perro. ¿De qué estás hablando? ¿Verdad? Vamos, no sabes en qué creer. El mundo se ha puesto patas arriba. Así. Si buscas esto en Google, esto existe. No sabía esto, que dos más dos es igual a cuatro es supremacía blanca. Toda mi vida ya no tiene sentido. No puedes confiar en nada de lo que dice el gobierno. Se vuelve confuso. Vivimos en un mundo bastante confuso donde la verdad ha sido desestabilizada. Nuestros cimientos se han erosionado. Así que muchas personas buscan diferentes fuentes de verdad, ¿verdad? Algunos de ustedes van directamente con su mamá, oye mamá, ¿qué debería hacer? Muchos de ustedes recurren a su crianza o educación y también otros se dejan llevar por sus emociones. Mi vida está construida, es mi verdad, así cambio a diario basada en mis emociones. Para algunos la verdad es lo que diga su maestro, para otros lo que diga Chad o Claude, para otros es lo que dice mi influencer favorito, para otros lo que dice mi pastor y si leo la biblia cada mes. Esta es la idea, miren yo también estoy en el mismo mundo. Voy a los comentarios

con ti, ¿saben por qué? porque veo Saturday Night Live, ¿saben por qué? porque quiero saber de qué habla la gente, ¿de acuerdo? Esta es la diferencia. He aquí la diferencia. Hay muchos sitios para sacar ideas pero sólo en uno encuentro la verdad absoluta. Eso es de la palabra de Dios, viene de la palabra de Dios, así que asegúrate de tener la fuente. Correct. This is the main idea. If the truth can set you free, the lie will keep you tied. And that's why there's a war against the truth. Agree? That's why, once again, Genesis 3. The first word that Satan says in the Bible is, God really said... That's why that's there. We talked about that the other week. Did Jesus really say that he was God? Come on. God? Really, Jesus? Come on, guys. Is the church lying? Come on. That's right. It's trying to destabilize the truth. Because if the truth, like your foundation, is destabilized, you're going to believe anything. You will be taken from one side to the other by any wind of doctrine. If the enemy sets you away from the truth, he can keep you dominated. That's why the people who deconstruct faith

are twice as many slaves as before. I'm tired of seeing our students who love God go to college and be knocked down by a single class from an atheist teacher. Because they never really built their lives on a foundation of truth. They listened to everything, trying to mix it to form this Frankenstein. Truth. But let me remind you that contrary to public opinion, there is still objective truth. Well, what is objective truth? Objective truth is truth for everyone, everywhere and always, no matter how you feel about it. Because facts don't care about your feelings. And it's true. And a lie is a lie. One of my favorite quotes, this is a real quote from Abraham Lincoln, is the following. He was at a political event and said this. If you call a dog's tail a paw, how many paws does it have? Good, so it has four paws. Do you call a paw its tail? Well, the answer would be five, right? This is what he said. He said four. Calling a paw its tail doesn't make it a paw. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

I don't care what you call a lie. Even if you dress a pig in silk, the pig stays. Say what you say. Calling truth a lie doesn't change it. May God be true and every man a liar. Okay, and here's the idea, guys. Love won't set you free. Money won't set you free. Emotions won't set you free. Sex won't set you free. Knowledge and titles won't set you free. Here's one. Your truth won't set you free, but the truth will set you free. And what is the truth? Isaiah 40, verse 8. The grass dries and the flowers fall, but the word of our God remains forever. This is what I want to say. Governments arise and fall. Your emotions change every day. Your emotions are an unsafe place to live. Today you're euphoric, tomorrow you'll feel fatal and you'll want to commit suicide. You'll say this about yourself, whatever it is. Look, opinions come and go. Social media influencers change their accounts every day. Everything is changing, but there's one thing that never changes. There's only one that doesn't project the changing shadow.

There's only one that's exactly the same yesterday, today, and always. And his word is good, it's truth, and it's life. The grass dries and the flowers fall, but the word of our God remains firm for centuries and centuries. And it's the safe place to build our lives on. It's our source of truth. It's our source of truth. If we want to live in freedom, the first thing is to choose our source of truth, and the second thing is to remain firm in it. To be planted in it. Plant your roots deeply in it. Build your life on it. This is a truth we have for today. The church has a problem of commitment. We have a problem with this. The people of God simply aren't reading the Bible as we should. Why? Distractions, other priorities. Other sources of truth. I don't know where to start. I'm bored. I don't have a physical copy. Me. My friend has one with the biggest letter. I don't know. My friend has one with the comment at the bottom.

I don't know. I'll do it next week or I'll wake up. I'll check the networks. There are a thousand reasons not to read it, but the problem is that we simply don't do it. Even people. I'll be very kind today. Even those who love the word of God. The problem is that we love sermons more than the Bible. I know some people listen to a sermon four times without even opening their own Bible. You don't know if I'm lying to you today, I could be making all this up. Come on, guys, don't build your life on what I say about Jesus. Build your life on what He says about you. May this be complementary to you building your life on it. Many will leave here to go to other... church will listen to podcasts or attend events all week? The problem is that they accumulate sermons without knowing the scripture or putting anything into practice. They are deceived by believing that this is how they build their lives. I do not spend my life going from church to church or in podcasts or in a Sunday experience. I do not build it on the truth and that is why this matters. In 2 Timothy 3, verses 16 and 17, it says that all scripture is inspired by God and it is useful to teach, to repent, to correct, and to train in justice. Just as some of you go to the gym. This does the same for your soul, so that the servant of God is fully trained. Everyone say, fully trained for all good work. If you only listen to sermons that deal with one scripture a week, you will only be partially trained for some works. I don't know about you, I want to be fully trained for all good work. I will build my life here. I will do it. I will do it. I will grow. I will plant my life on this. In summary, those who limit the word of God in their lives will have little freedom. But those who remain in everything

that He says will know all the freedom that Jesus brings. And here is our problem of commitment. They did a study on this and now they call it the power of four. And they discovered this. If you read the Bible once a week, there are no changes in your life. This is the problem. Reading it twice a week does not change anything. You can look for this later. If you read it three times a week, the change is really insignificant. Something happens when you read it four times a week. Four weeks. Infidelities dropped by 68% and porn by 61%. Alcoholism decreased by 57%. Loneliness decreased by 30%. Why four times? You just got over half of your week. This means that you begin to remain in the word of God and His word remains in you. In other words, you are planting your life in this truth. They are no longer just ideas. In fact, I begin to value it. I begin to love it more than life. And I understand that I have a pearl of great value. I want to sell everything else to have God in His word. I am valuing this. And so I begin to experience freedom because through this I am knowing Christ and Christ will set me free. I heard that there are two ways to empty your life of sin. Imagine a cup of coffee, a cup full of sin that represents your own life. You just tilt it and empty it. Done. And you turn it over again. Here is the problem. It is still empty. It is still empty. Can I scare you just for a second? It is not enough to repent of sin without changing anything. Jesus warns that then evil comes back with more strength. Look, there is a difference between simply saying, oh, I don't want to sin, right? Versus what would happen instead of just tilting? What would happen if God's hand simply entered that cup of coffee and displaced sin? Now you are not empty. Now you are actually full of the kingdom of God. Do you understand? It is not enough to say, God, I am sorry. I won't do it again so that I can go out and repeat it. On the other hand, man, I want to plant my life in the word of God and remain in the truth. And so the truth begins to enter and displace lies and evil in my life. And now I am not empty. Now I am actually full of God. That is what I am talking about. How do you see planting my life? It is not just visiting the word or the ways of God, but to treasure it and build my life on it. This is not just learning some theology, it is learning to be and to live. It is learning to pray. It is learning to fast. It is learning to love people. It is learning to love God. In reality, it is becoming a disciple. And that is the key to a free life. If I can really plant my life here and if I can plant my life in environments and with people who really help me grow fully in the truth, which, guys, shows us the second part of our

commitment issue, both here and specifically in the environments that help us grow in the truth. Let's put it simply. We have a commitment issue with the church. Right? Join me in this. If you are, let's say, more than 40 years old, you know this. Okay? If you are more than 60, you already know this. 30 or 40 years ago, how many times did we go to church? 380? Every ... Come on. Right? On average, people went to church three times a week. Okay? Do you want to know today's average? People go to church 1.6 times a month. A month. Three times a week versus 1.6 times a month. Well, that's ... How six or seven times less? Six or seven times less. And here's the idea, friends. People are going out with the church instead of putting a ring on it. I understand this. The church preaches heresy, uses money to buy jets and things like that. Listen, you know, this is not one of those claims. Okay? And here's the idea, friends. When we're not planted first in the word of God, but also in the places that can help us grow in the truth, we hurt ourselves and the church. Well, I was reading Nehemiah recently. And Nehemiah is like a master class of leadership. And the great idea of Nehemiah is, to build the walls, one person is not enough. After 100 years of failed attempts without finishing, they decided that each family would take care of one part. Your family took its part. And in the end, dozens of people collaborating

finished the walls in a month. What they did not achieve in 100 years, they did it in a month by participating all. This is what I mean. When there's something like Vision 2026, but you don't give, you hurt yourself and us. If there's a meeting of young people tonight and you don't come, or bring your kids, or serve, you hurt yourself and us. When there's Victory Kids, and you just leave your kids thinking, how nice that someone else takes care of it, you hurt yourself and us. When there are literally 5,000 people in small groups, but you reserve, you don't lead, you don't assist, you hurt yourself and us. When you come to worship with your hands in your pockets, looking at the crowd and thinking, when will they finish? You hurt yourself and us. But when you come hungry, when you come expecting, when you come ready for God to do a miracle, come on, when you come ready for God to release the captive, when you come ready to take notes, when you come ready to meet Jesus, when you come ready to grow, really, when you completely give yourself to the community, to service and generosity, this is what happens. Every step in your life starts going up and to the right. That's what the psalmist says, Psalm 92, verse 13.

Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will flourish. Everyone say, they will flourish. Those who only go out with the church. No, those who are planted in the word of God, in their paths and in their community, growing and being true, will flourish. Who wants to flourish? Yes, okay, here's the question. Here's the question. How would it look for you and for me to commit to entering the word of God and the house of God with the people of God? In a way that raises the temperature, you come to a coma six times a month. What if you came twice? What would happen if you came three times? What would happen if you were here every week? Here's the problem. You think you already know, but no, because you don't do it. I'm not talking about visiting the word of God. I'm talking about planting your life in it. I'm not talking about reading the word of God on a weekly basis. I'm talking about making it your priority. Wake up 20 minutes early to build your foundation before going out to the highway. That's what I'm talking about. What would happen if we really raised the temperature

in our lives? We went from one to six, step by step. The more you plant yourself in Jesus, the more you will flourish. You will flourish and you will be freer. Five ways to live in freedom. The third thing is by choosing our source and planting ourselves in it, then we must choose the kingdom. In fact, what I mean is that we have to move away from the other kingdoms we are part of to be part only of the kingdom of truth. If the church has a problem of commitment, I will say this, it is a problem of loyalty. Today, Christians have problems of loyalty. I doubted, but I'm going to say it. Welcome to victory. Here we offend everyone equally. This is our problem with loyalties today. Christians today and recently face loyalties to two kingdoms. They have captured the kingdom of politics and the kingdom of race. And people are completely involved in that. And that's why you will hear things like this. If your pastor doesn't talk about this this weekend, you have to leave your church. Said by a guy who can't lead or get out of a paper bag and has never led anything

other than a Wendy's self-service window. But he has a platform on social media to try to sow division and get you out of God's will. And since we have shared loyalties, we follow the desires of our flesh instead of the spirit's guide. And the problem is that we have become disciples of the culture instead of disciples of the kingdom. We are disciples of Fox News, CNN, and CNBC. We are disciples of Candace Owens. May God help us. And of The View. And of white Christian nationalism, this. And of identity policy, that. And then we leave here and live in the comments section. Because it says that if you're black, you should do this. And if you're white, you should do that. Latinos and Asians, trying to avoid trouble, for others to fight, you're with me. It's not my problem, brother. And so, the words of fashion shoot us to the point that when we preach values of the kingdom that clash with the earthly discipline that we have received, we see believers offending each other. Believers get offended when the kingdom is preached because they're not being disciplined by the kingdom. They're being disciplined by culture. Last week, I was in a room with another 25 pastors,

literally with the leader of the largest church in the United States. And he asked this question, he said, how many of you are under... He's asking pastors, how many of you are under a strong and constant attack? Each hand rose, the hand of each pastor rose in that room and then basically asked this, how much of that comes from your congregation? All hands rose. I know it's not the majority, you don't, but literally, that's what I thought. That's what I thought. Because on the way there, in Oklahoma, I was navigating and I saw the silliest question. It was one of those things just to ignite the comments section. It was the silliest question. And it said this, if Donald Trump were drowning, would you save him? And I thought, of course I would. He's a human being, right? And I knew that as soon as I said that, someone was going to be offended. I challenge you to do it. Right? And that's why we lack peace. That's why we're angry all the time. That's why we're always tense if we don't love our neighbor.

It's the culture that dissipates us instead of the kingdom. Friends, this is a fight for your loyalty. Which side are you on? That's what it says. If you fight for your loyalty, in the end you fight for your freedom. Which kingdom do you belong to? And I'm here to remind us today that our supreme loyalty is not to politics. We are not loyal to skin color or land culture. Our loyalty is for Jesus. Which side am I on? I'm on Jesus' team, baby. I want his kingdom to come. I want his will to be done here on earth as in heaven. I'm not from the republican kingdom. I'm not from the democratic kingdom. I'm not from the white kingdom. I'm not from the black world. I'm not from the Asian. I'm not from the Latino. I'm from the kingdom of Jesus. I'm not saying that politics or culture don't matter, but I don't owe them supreme loyalty. When land culture clashes with the kingdom, the kingdom must always win. Which means that we must rise up. We must look up and not focus on the disaster down here, friends. Because we belong to a kingdom higher

than this earthly kingdom. We belong to a family bigger than this earthly family. Friends, I don't care what color your skin is. The spirit is stronger than the blood. Listen, I share infinitely more with each person in this room and in this church than if I returned to that neighborhood of white people. No, let's go. This is the family we are part of. And we are in this world, but we are not from this world. Good. And if you want to know the real proof, here is the real proof of how you are being disciplined. Where is my loyalty to the kingdom? It's easy to say in the church, I'm from Jesus. Listen, your mood depends directly on what is said every day in the white house. My emotions change according to what happens in the culture, what happens in the comments. If so, check your loyalty. Get on top of that, because here's the thing. I understand that out there everything is a disaster. Okay, but listen. If I'm angry, like everyone else, I can't help to free them because I'm in the same thing as them. I'm as bad as them. Because I have to be able to get out of this, enter the culture of the kingdom, enter the kingdom of heaven.

We can live in the world without being from it to minister to those who are there. Living this way, prioritizing my loyalty to the kingdom, I will free myself from the disaster in which others are trapped. In this way, the fourth freedom is that now I can always tell the truth to others. Choose and plant ourselves in the kingdom of truth so you can tell it to others. If the church fails in loyalty, it fails in submission. Many live only for rest and money, without a real purpose. We don't live with passion for what counts. And what matters most? The souls. And that's how I would say it, guys. I'm going to simplify it too much. If you tell me how much of your life you dedicate to helping to enter the kingdom, I can tell you how much freedom you live. Our 21-year-old son, let me tell you about Jeremiah, our 21-year-old son just came back from Italy. He participated in a missionary trip to Victoria with Jesus Revolution and was there. I prayed there for two weeks. We had never seen him so excited, never. More than for the sports or the girls, more than anything, he is very excited right now. And why? Because on that trip, in the course of two weeks,

he prayed for five people who were healed. Literally, someone arrived in a wheelchair and went home pushing the wheelchair. Someone arrived with a cane, put it on his shoulder, and went carrying him. And personally, he did not take the bill, but he estimates that in conversations with people, he guided about 40 people to faith in Jesus. Four-zero, 40 people who were simply living their lives. He would approach them on the street, start a conversation, okay? And I had never seen him so excited, to the point that, do you want to know a little bit about family pastoral drama? Do you want to know? Everyone is like, tell me, I'll tweet it right now, right? Okay, family pastoral drama. Now, Jeremias already had, let's say, his real stage of rebellion. Okay, the last time, that's my wife laughing. Last Sunday morning, around 6 a.m., he lets a voice message zoom in. And to sum up, this is what happened. Basically, he is 21 years old, you know, so he is focused on his own issues. But basically, he escaped from home to drive all the way to Florida, to meet up with three other friends and fly to Guatemala to preach to the people. Guatemala! Guatemala! Guatemala!

Who would dare to do that? And Summer replies, you don't know Spanish. He says that someone does know, and that they will translate it for us. What I really want to tell you is, when you really get into the game, something happens inside of you. This is what is happening inside of him. Again, Philemon, verse 6 says, And I pray that the participation of your faith is effective. Why? To know all that is good in us through Christ. That is, by sharing the good news of Jesus, we remember how good we are. And it revitalizes us to return to the game, because they are going to ask questions. And then you have to go and look for answers. And while you look for answers to explain your faith, remember how good you are. So that when darkness comes to knock on your door, you actually remember that no, in reality, the darkness is where they are. I am a son of light. Why would I return to darkness? That is what I am talking about, living in freedom. If you want to be free, share your freedom. That will remind you of the good news, which will prevent you from falling again. So the question is, do you want to live free?

If so, enter the game. Stop talking about the game. Get out of the comments section. Stop attacking your neighbor and start loving him. Stop attacking your neighbor digitally and start loving him personally. Go and knock on a door. Go and bring them some cookies. Go and share the good news. And by doing so, they will remind you of the good news you have, which will make you stay and live in them forever. Here is the last way to live in freedom. Finally, choose the King of Truth. Okay, listen. I know that what I am about to say is not popular. I know that the truths of the world would not agree with this, but without faith in the finished work of Jesus, you will go to hell. That is the kindest thing I could say to you. Why? Because you are still a slave to sin. You are still a slave to sin. The one who sins is a slave to sin. And here is the thing. Everyone thinks, well, I could leave it. Go ahead, try it. You can't. Because it is a deception of the Father of Lies. Okay?

In fact, Jesus says this. He says that you can only have two fathers. Either you serve Yahweh, God, or you serve the devil. Just decide and choose. Okay? And this is what Jesus says. Again, there at the end of John. Eighth, and in what verse were we? They are of their father, the devil, and they fulfill their desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he is not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. By lying he speaks his tongue. He is a liar and the father of lies. He only lies. How is he a murderer? He lied to Adam and Eve. Did God say that? He knew it. That is how he deceived them, taking them to slavery and death. The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But the great news is this. Jesus Christ came so that you could have life in abundance and fullness. Jesus came to defeat the domination of sin and condemnation in your life. Jesus came to defeat not only sin in the present, but also sin in eternity, as it was. He was nailed to his body on the cross. Your sin was nailed into his body. He took the punishment that was due to you to be able to free you from it.

And when you remain in his ways, you really get to know Jesus and experience the freedom that he bought for you. And you don't have to be in slavery like before, or like everyone else is, guys. And this is what I'm trying to say. We can put the five up here. By going through this, when you really choose your source of truth, when you choose to be planted in that truth, let me, maybe the right question is this. God, what other places am I going to for the truth? God, am I really building my life on you, or do I only visit you on Sundays? God, what other loyalties do I have? Where am I building my life? Who else do I serve? God, am I living a life in which I really share this truth, or do I only keep it for myself? Is Jesus really my king? Or am I just a faithful believer? And John says this. I was reading this last night. John says this. It's in 3 John. Nobody reads 3 John. And you think that this is probably the last letter that John wrote. He has already received the revelation. He has already written the gospel. And he writes this. He is the elder. He is the only one of the disciples who was not killed. Although they tried. 3 John 4. He writes this. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth. This is the old great-grandfather John, with some of his last breaths.

And he himself writes this. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth. That was his greatest joy. I don't have time to go into that. But listen. He had seen the revelation. He had seen Jesus. He knew that Jesus was going to return. This is the man who laid his head on the chest of Jesus. He says, What gives me the greatest joy in life is to know that you are not living a lie. To know that you are not walking in the darkness. But that you have really come to understand and know. And to build upon the word and the ways of Jesus. Because what he knew was this. If the Son sets you free, you will be truly free. Let us celebrate that freedom. Jesus. Family, this is what we are going to do in all campuses. I think we should celebrate this by taking one more step and receiving together the Lord's Supper. If you are at the end of the line, take that bucket and pass it on. The night that he was betrayed, before going to the cross, Jesus shares the call, Last Supper. He shares the food. He shares Easter with his friends, with his family. The idea is this. If you are or wish to be part of the family of God by faith in Jesus, we invite you to commune with us. And allow me to speak quickly to three groups of people. Because I don't know what situation you are in today.

If you are a disciple. If you are building your life upon the word and the ways of Jesus, I pray that you are strengthened. I pray that you rejoice at the freedom that you already have. Maybe you are remembering that you have been set free. Who used to do all of that. And I just want to encourage you. Take a shovel in your hand and keep digging deeper. Keep building stronger. Because you know that whoever trusts in Jesus will never be ashamed. You know it. You are a disciple. There is another group, the unbelievers. And maybe today you are here and you say, I am fine. I am not a slave to anyone. I do my own thing. I live my truth. It's fine. I pray that the goodness of God shows you that the bridge is fallen further ahead. And you are driving at 100 miles per hour with your eyes closed and your hands chained. Today I invite you to choose the King of Truth. He is not here to hurt you. He is here to save you and heal you. And maybe you are in this third group. With respect. Only the Holy Spirit will tell you where you are. Maybe you are what Jesus calls a false believer. Someone who likes things about Jesus. But you don't really want him. You only like his phrases.

You like being in his presence. But you don't like him. There is no version of Christianity that allows you to say a prayer and keep on living the way you want because God loves you. That is not the case. You will not find it. The idea is not to try and leave, but to try and stay and build your life here. Real love inspires obedience. There you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. I do not know where you are today, but if Jesus calls you to leave a false faith or disbelief to enter his kingdom, I want to encourage you to pray with me. Perhaps close faithful will pray with you. Let us pray like this. Say, Jesus, I want to remain in your word. I want to obey your teaching. I want to be your disciple. So I repent and turn my back on my sin and my rebellion. I turn to you. I confess that Jesus is the Son of God who died on the cross to pay my debt of sin, and that he rose again. You are the truth. You are life. From now on, I build my life on you.

I choose you as the truth. I will be planted in the truth. I will choose the kingdom of truth. I will tell the truth to others. I will establish my life on the King of truth. And if Jesus sets me free, I will be truly free. And I will live truly free for the rest of my life. In the name of Jesus, I was born again. Amen. God, thank you for life. Thank you for salvation. Thank you for freedom. If you already have bread, then why don't you take it out and break it with your own fingers? In that last supper, Jesus broke the bread and said, This is my body, which is broken for you. And so, right now, God, I thank you for the broken body of Jesus, because he was broken so that we could be made whole. And so, Father, wherever today the body is broken, wherever today the family is broken, if we have broken relationships, if we have broken thoughts, God, if we have destroyed relationships, if there are cancers in the body, God, wherever there is a breakdown, I declare integrity, health, and life. Why? Because through your wounds we are healed. And right now, we take this bread as the integrity of the body of Jesus in our life, and we do it in memory of him. Let's take the bread.

Jesus served the cup saying, This is the new covenant. The covenant is the divine promise of how we are made just before him. And so, Father, right now, I thank you. It's not about our works. Nothing we talk about, like being planted, nothing of that saves us. Only Jesus saves us. And so, God, I thank you for the shed blood of Jesus. God who cleanses us and leaves us white as snow when we receive it in our life today. We receive it again. God, it's not about us. It's about you and your kingdom. The attention is on Jesus. We glorify him because he gave his life freely and was able to recover it in the same way. And Jesus is alive. And right now, we take the living life, the blood of Jesus, in our life. To forgive each other, to reconcile with the Father and with each other. All of this is possible only by Jesus. And right now, we take this cup and we do it in memory of Jesus. Let's take the cup. Take that little bucket at the end of your row and pass it back. You need to deposit that there. Guys, once again, in all of Victory, we can thank our God. Because he who has a living son is truly beautiful. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you.