SRR #88 | A Special Tribute To The Montijo Family

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August 5, 2018

00:02: I do a podcast. I'm not interested in your podcast. The anathema of God was for those who denied justification by faith alone.
00:13: When that is at stake, we need to be on the battlefield, exposing the error and combating the error.
00:24: We are unabashedly, unashamedly, Clarkian. And so, the next few statements that I'm going to make,
00:30: I'm probably going to step on all of the Vantillian toes at the same time. And this is what we do at Simple Riff around the radio, you know.
00:37: We are polemical and polarizing Jesus style. I would first say that to characterize what we do as bashing is itself bashing.
00:57: It's not hate. It's history. It's not bashing. It's the Bible. Jesus said,
01:07: Woe to you when men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way, as opposed to,
01:13: Blessed are you when you have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness. It is on.
01:23: We're taking the gloves off. It's time to battle. Dr. Piper, in your defense of the gospel against N .T.
01:34: Wright, have you found federal vision theology of Doug Wilson to be another gospel?
01:40: No. That's easy. Doug Wilson doesn't preach another gospel. Okay. I don't think
01:48: N .T. Wright preaches a false gospel either. I think N .T. Wright preaches a very confusing gospel.
01:55: The burden of that book is to say, tell us more clearly what you mean, if you think all of this in different categories really coheres with historic reform theology.
02:05: I wonder. I wonder if it does. I doubt, but I wanted to be so careful.
02:12: I sent the manuscript to him. He wrote an 11 ,000 word response. That was a third the length of my book, and he wrote that much response.
02:21: It helped me a lot to catch on to some nuances. Commenting on Paul's statement in 2
02:35: Timothy 3 .13, Paul warned Timothy in his final correspondence with him before he died, that wicked men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving others and being deceived.
02:47: John Calvin wrote a sentence that I wish every pastor had plastered over the door of their study.
02:53: Quote, it is highly necessary for godly teachers to be reminded of this, to be reminded that wicked men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
03:06: Calvin says that we need to be reminded of this, that we may be prepared for uninterrupted warfare and may not be discouraged by delay or yield to the haughtiness and insolence of adversaries.
03:20: End quote. There are new Galatian heretics today. There are new Galatian Judaizers today.
03:28: The new perspective writers like N .T. Wright and the federal visionists like Steve Wilkins, Peter Lightheart, Rich Lust, Doug Wilson, Steve Schlissel and many others.
03:37: The names change, the nuances change, but it's always the same rehashing of the same old errors.
03:42: Listen to N .T. Wright in his own words in his newer book, which I just got on Kindle, The Day the
03:48: Revolution Began. I was reading this in the introduction. Quote, we have paganized our understanding of salvation, substituting the idea of God killing
03:56: Jesus to satisfy his wrath for the genuinely biblical notions we're about to explore.
04:02: End quote. The idea that Jesus died in the place of sinners, says N .T. Wright, is quote, closer to the pagan idea of an angry deity being pacified by a human death than they are to anything in either
04:14: Israel's scriptures or the New Testament. End quote. N .T. Wright rejects the concept of Christ satisfying divine justice against our sin at the cross completely.
04:25: He denies that entirely, comprehensively. No substitutionary atonement whatsoever in N .T.
04:31: Wright's theology. He denies that our sins are imputed to Christ and that Christ's righteousness is imputed to us.
04:37: Says Wright, quote, if we use the language of the law court, it makes no sense whatsoever to say that the judge imputes, imparts, bequeaths, conveys or otherwise transfers his righteousness to either the plaintiff or the defendant.
04:52: Righteousness is not a substance, an object or a gas which can be passed across the courtroom.
04:58: This gives the impression of a legal transaction, a kind of cold piece of business, almost a trick of thought performed by a
05:06: God who is logical and correct, but hardly one any of us want to worship. End quote.
05:12: N .T. Wright also said, quote, I must stress again that the doctrine of justification by faith is not what
05:18: Paul means by the gospel. The gospel is not an account of how people get saved.
05:25: Are you hearing this? First Corinthians 15. Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel by which also you are saved.
05:36: As John MacArthur said, N .T. Wright is N .T. wrong. You can clap.
05:44: It's not. And there are
05:52: Protestant ministers today who promote this man's incredible array of false teaching, obfuscations, contradictions and simple denials, frontal attacks on the core gospel and biblical truths that are the very lifeblood of the
06:08: Christian. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast. My name is
06:13: Tim and you are listening to Semper Reformanda Radio. So what you just heard was a little bit of a promotional clip to advertise one of our podcasters,
06:25: Pastor Patrick Hines. And I want to encourage everybody out there to turn off John Piper and to turn on Patrick Hines.
06:34: We played a little clip of his latest episode and it is a fantastic episode.
06:41: I want to encourage everybody to listen to episode number 16 of the Protestant Witness. And we contrasted that to an interview that John Piper did in which he was asked about Doug Wilson and in which he said some really outlandish things.
06:57: I find it remarkable that in the preface of a question about Doug Wilson, Mark Driscoll prefaces the question by saying,
07:06: In your defense of the gospel against N .T. Wright. And so here we have Mark Driscoll crediting
07:14: Piper for defending the gospel against N .T. Wright to which John Piper then goes on to clarify that he does not believe that N .T.
07:22: Wright preaches a false gospel, but rather he preaches a confusing gospel.
07:27: Well that is troubling to say the least and it is flat wrong because N .T.
07:33: Wright does in fact preach a false gospel and thankfully we have faithful godly men like Patrick Hines who are willing to point that out.
07:43: And also the gospel is not confusing. Anybody who is telling you the gospel is confusing is likely preaching a false gospel themselves.
07:52: And here we do in fact believe that Piper preaches a false gospel because he says that faith alone, a faith which produces and manifests itself in good works and is therefore a true and living faith, a faith alone is not enough to get you into heaven.
08:08: It is only enough to justify you. So we are going to tackle that issue one more time in a future episode.
08:16: Carlos Montijo is about to publish part two of his article on the
08:23: John Piper controversy and we want to encourage all of our listeners to read that.
08:28: It is long, it is lengthy, but it is well worth your time. So we also want to go ahead and promote an upcoming event in which we are going to have
08:40: Brandon Adams and Pastor Patrick Hines talk about baptism. So that is going to be interesting.
08:46: Pastor Patrick Hines is a Presbyterian and Brandon Adams is a Reformed Baptist. So we are definitely looking forward to that.
08:54: And I also wanted to promote Timothy Kaufman's new series. It is called From the
08:59: Diving Board and he is evaluating and looking closely at testimonies from people who have converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
09:09: So that is a big mistake. Don't do that. But do check out his latest episode.
09:15: I believe he has done episode one. And it is very good. Timothy Kaufman is a first -rate historian and he is a first -rate theologian.
09:25: So if you haven't heard Timothy Kaufman yet, please check him out. We have a whole page against Rome which is basically all of his work dedicated to tackling the errors of Romanism.
09:38: It is fantastic. And then we also have Radio Lux Lucid. Hopefully Steve Matthews will be coming back soon.
09:46: But be looking out for that. So today we are going to play a sermon by Carlos Montijo.
09:55: It is his first sermon that he has ever preached. And unfortunately, it is the sermon that he preached at his father's funeral.
10:02: We want to tell our listeners, thank you for praying. We received messages from some of our listeners asking how they could be praying or just telling us that they were praying.
10:14: We mentioned a couple of episodes back that Carlos' dad had end -stage cirrhosis of the liver.
10:20: And his dad did pass away about two weeks ago. So our deepest condolences go out to Carlos and his family.
10:28: But they are comforted in knowing that his father did believe in Jesus as his
10:35: Savior. He did believe the Gospel. He believed that Jesus died and rose again from the dead. And that believing in him was the only way that he could enter into heaven.
10:47: So we are very grateful for that. I want to commend Carlos for laboring intently to preach the
10:54: Gospel to his father daily. Every chance he had, he preached the Gospel to him.
11:00: And it is just a wonderful testimony to God's faithfulness.
11:06: With that being said, let me go ahead and play this sermon. And once again, let me give our deepest condolences to the
11:15: Montijo family. God bless. That psalm that my sister read became very dear to my father before he passed away.
11:26: He would ask my mom repeatedly to read it to him. Give him comfort.
11:32: That psalm that my sister read, Psalm 25, my father appreciated it a lot.
11:42: In his last days, he would ask my mom to read it to him.
11:56: I want to thank you all for coming very much. For your love, your support, your prayers, your condolences.
12:04: I never thought that my very first sermon would be about my dad's funeral, but here we are.
12:12: Les quiero pedir muchas gracias a todos por venir, por todas sus condolencias, su amor, su apoyo, sus oraciones, y sus condolencias.
12:24: And it really, I don't think it's really hit us yet, the reality of his loss. This is really just the beginning for us,
12:31: I think, for the grieving process. But we, as short, as unexpected his death was for us, even though we all saw it coming, we are nevertheless,
12:45: I'm nevertheless extremely grateful that the Lord gave us to him for that long, and that we were able to enjoy his company, and to be with him his dying days.
12:55: Nunca me había esperado, no nos ha impactado su muerte todavía tan fuerte como probablemente en el futuro nos va a pegar, pero estoy muy agradecido con el
13:09: Señor porque nos dio 62 años con el, y podemos, pudimos apreciar muchas memorias con el, y es, and it's for,
13:24: I wanted to share some, a passage from Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, speaks about how there is a time for everything.
13:46: For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, a time to and a time to sow, a time to keep silence and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
15:19: my dad, it has been and will be a time to, a time to weep, to mourn, to embrace and to love.
15:31: Para los que conocimos a, los que conocieron a mi papá, ahorita y en el futuro va a ser un tiempo de llorar, de lamentar, de amar y este, quería también,
15:48: I wanted to share some memories, some of the fondest memories that I have of my father. He blessed us with a, with a very good childhood.
15:59: He was a, he was a good father. He was not perfect. Nobody's perfect of course, but he blessed us with a very good child.
16:07: Este, mi papá nos trató muy bien cuando éramos niños, nos dio una niñas muy bonita, nos cuidó muy bien.
16:18: And one of the fondest memories I have of my father was at my wedding day.
16:24: He actually, we had a situation where my, we had to order, pre -order dinner plates for everybody who was going to attend and we ended up ordering a bunch of them and only about half of the people attended, so we were left with 10 extra plates and we didn't know what to do with them and it was going to cost a lot of money, so I just,
16:49: I didn't know what to do, so I panicked and I ran to my dad and I told him that I, we have a bunch of extra plates,
16:56: I don't know what to do with them and, and all he said was, excuse me, he said don't worry,
17:19: I'll take care of it, my son. Esta es una de las memorias más apreciadas que tengo de mi padre cuando, este, nos casamos y este, ordenamos muchos platos, muchos platos extras para la cena, en la recepción y este, no más que, no más, este, nos quedó varios platos y no sabía qué hacer con ellos y entonces estaba un poco paniqueado y corrí a mi papá y le dije que vamos a hacer y mi papá simplemente dijo no te preocupes, mi hijo, no te preocupes, yo me encargo de eso.
18:10: He also, he loved to, he was very playful with our kids, he loved to draw boats for my son, le encantaba dibujar barcos para mi hijo, he was, my son loves boats, he loved to play with our kids, he was very playful, así que estaba a jugar con nuestros niños, he was, he had, he was famous for his salsas, he was a very good chef and he made very good salsas, they could have been world famous salsas, era, tenía mucha fama por sus salsas, era muy, muy buen chef, muy bien cocinero, and he bought me my first car, my first truck, which
19:03: I called Tigger because it was orange, Ford Ranger, también me compró mi primer carro, era una troca de naranjada, era, he was an extremely hard worker as well, very studious, he was very brilliant, he got an
19:20: MBA and he was, he was, ever since I could remember him, he would always be studying and reading and reading technical books, desde cuando estaba chiquito me acuerdo, viendo a mi papá, como leía y estudiaba, and he was always, he was always very diligent and he also inculcated that in us, to my, me and my sister to pursue studies, to be diligent in our studies and to pursue them and my sister and I did excel in academics and in college and he, it's very funny because I always say that my dad was my seminary trainer,
20:13: I've never been to seminary, but my dad was, because he was so smart, he would always spot inconsistencies in everything that I, whenever I would talk to him about the
20:23: Bible, he was not, he didn't believe for a time and we would always go back and forth and argue, he loved to debate, le encantaba a mi papá a debatir, a discutir temas bíblicos y de la religión, and it was, he always immediately saw implications, the inconsistencies in my, in my beliefs and when
20:46: I would share with him and so he helped me to become a better believer, a more consistent
20:52: Christian and to understand the Bible more consistently and we also towards the, towards the end of his life but not too far where he wasn't too debilitated, we had a
21:08: Bible study on Romans that we finished as a family and we had a lot of very fond memories, good memories of that, he, he always challenged me, he had, he always had something to say but he would listen and he would, he was very attentive, también tuvimos un estudio bíblico sobre el libro de
21:28: Romanos que es uno de mis libros favoritos de la Biblia y este, él este, siempre era muy atentivo y discutíamos mucho, este, and he wasn't perfect by any means, he had many faults, pride especially, my dad was a very proud man and the
21:50: Bible has a lot to say about pride, that pride cometh before a fall, pride goeth to destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall but thankfully the
22:00: Lord actually convicted him of that towards the end of his life and he was able to share with me that he, that he felt very convicted for, for his pride.
22:10: Que mi papá no era perfecto, tenía muchas, muchas, este, este, faltas, no era perfecto, tenía mucho orgullo también, este, porque era lo que le inculcaron su familia, pero el
22:26: Señor lo convenció de su pecado y le abrió los ojos para que vea su orgullo, este.
22:33: And he had a lot of personal struggles and he, he had, he struggled a lot with, with many, many issues and he fought to the very end, to the point of dying, but he was very blessed to be surrounded with his family towards the end of his life and to be surrounded by those who loved him.
22:54: Este, mi papá tenía muchos, este, tenía muchas batallas, muchos, este, batallas que tenía que pelear y nunca dejó de pelear, pero también estaba muy bendecido de estar con todos los que lo aman y los que lo, lo, los, lo querían y lo amaban, estaban ahí con él en sus últimos días.
23:28: And one of, my last conversation that I had with my dad gave me a lot of hope and encouragement because even though his mind was faltering because of the cirrhosis and the ammonia levels,
23:44: I, I talked to him about the gospel, about Christ and about God and I asked him if he believed that Jesus is
23:51: God and he said yes and I asked him if he believed that Christ died on the cross for, for his sins, that he suffered the wrath of God on his behalf and he said yes and I knew he wasn't just saying yes just to, just to say it because he himself then told me that, that Christ is the only way, that he is the only
24:11: Savior. He's our only Savior and our only salvation, our only hope and I was very encouraged by that.
24:18: That gave me a great hope that he is up in heaven with the Father and with the Son rejoicing.
24:25: La última plática que tuve con mi papá fue sobre el tema de la salvación y sobre el evangelio y le pregunté que si creía que, que si
24:34: Dios, que si Jesús era Dios y dijo que sí y que si, este, si creyó que
24:42: Jesús murió en la cruz por sus pecados y que sufrió la ira de Dios en su, en su lugar y dijo que sí y, y sé que no, no solo estaba diciendo que sí porque él mismo me dijo que
24:56: Jesús es el único camino, como dice Jesús en Juan capítulo catorce, versículo seis, que él es el único camino, la verdad y la vida, que nadie llega hasta el
25:05: Padre sino a través de él, que es el único Salvador. And on his deathbed, so because, because of this, this hope, this great encouragement that I, that I got from this conversation, on his deathbed, on his deathbed,
25:25: I reminded him that if he is in Christ, then there is no more judgment. There's no judgment to face on, on that final day.
25:36: There is no judgment, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. That is what, one of the greatest treasures and greatest truths that the
25:43: Bible shares all throughout the Old and New Testament. There is no longer any judgment for those who believe in him.
25:53: And, and John chapter five, verses 24 through 25,
26:09: Christ said this, truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life.
26:16: He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the
26:26: Son of God, and those who hear will live. And, el Evangelio de
26:31: Juan, capitulo cuatro, versículos veinticuatro y veinticinco, dice, de cierto, de cierto, os digo, el que oye mi palabra y cree al que me envió tiene vida eterna, y no vendrá a condenación, mas ha pasado de muerte a vida.
26:47: De cierto, de cierto, os digo, viene la hora y ahora es, y ahora es, cuando los muertos oirán la voz del
26:54: Hijo de Dios, y los que oyeran vivirán. And so, that was what
27:01: I, one of the things that I encouraged my dad with, not to be anxious and not to be fearful of facing God, because he has
27:08: Christ now, and so there is no condemnation. We are no longer, those who believe in Christ are no longer sinners, they're no longer criminals in the eyes of God, and God is no longer a judge to them.
27:19: It is because Christ himself said, on the cross, it is finished, it is done.
27:28: And so, instead of sinners, we are now sons, and instead of God being a judge to us, he is a father to us, he becomes our father, and he becomes, and Christ, instead of our accuser, becomes our greatest advocate.
27:44: Y este, todos los que están en Cristo, todos los que creen en Cristo por su salvación, ya no son pecadores en los ojos de
27:52: Dios, ya no son condenados, ya no van a ser juzgados, porque Cristo dijo en la cruz, ya se cumplió, ya no hay nada más que pagar, porque
28:03: Cristo es el que pagó la pena de muerte por todos nuestros pecados. Ya en vez de pecadores, somos hijos, y en lugar de que
28:13: Dios sea nuestro juez, ahora es nuestro padre, y Cristo, en vez de ser nuestro, el que nos acusa, va a ser nuestro gran abogado, y nuestro salvador.
28:30: And so, one of, another amazing truth about, that the scriptures share, that the scriptures talk about, about the resurrection, that Pastor Joe touched on, in 2
28:43: Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 8, it says, yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and home with the
29:01: Lord. And, la segunda carta de Corintios, el capítulo 5, verso 8, dice, pero confiamos, y más, quisiéramos estar ausentes del cuerpo y presentes al
29:14: Señor. So the Bible talks about how when departed, when believers who have died, before the final judgment, they go straight to heaven to be with God, to be with the
29:25: Lord, to be in heaven, except that they do not have a body yet. La Biblia explica que cuando los creyentes en
29:33: Cristo, los cristianos cuando mueren, van directamente al cielo, a regocijar en el cielo con la
29:41: Santa Trinidad, y con todo el pueblo de Dios que ya ha muerto, no más que todavía no tienen cuerpo.
29:53: And so, this is why we grieve, we still grieve, we still feel the loss of my dad, but we grieve in hope, because we have a hope in God and in Christ.
30:10: And the Bible even tells us in Romans, Romans 8, 28, that all things work together for good to those who love
30:19: God and for those who are called according to His purpose. All things, no matter how bad, no matter how ugly, no matter how wicked and bad they may seem, all things ultimately work together for God's people and those who trust in God.
30:31: Así que todos los que conocíamos a mi papá todavía dolemos, todavía sentimos y todavía lamentamos, pero lamentamos con esperanza porque tenemos la esperanza que vamos a ser reunidos con él en el cielo, con
30:45: Dios. Y la Biblia dice en Romanos 8, que todo lo que pasa,
30:56: Romanos 8, el capítulo 8, verso 28, dice, y sabemos que a los que aman a
31:05: Dios, todas las cosas les ayudan a bien. Esto es, a los que conforme a su propósito son llamados.
31:13: Entonces tenemos esta esperanza en Cristo, a ser reunidos con Él.
31:21: However, there is one condition, you might call it. There is a major condition that is required for this salvation.
31:35: All of these blessings, all of this mercy, grace, forgiveness, justification, resurrection, glory, glorification, all of these benefits come with a condition.
32:07: It doesn't come by default, no viene por default, no viene automáticamente porque
32:13: Dios no está obligado a salvar a nadie, porque somos pecadores, y los pecadores merecen el juicio y la ira de
32:21: Dios. It's not, Christ said the very first words that came out of his mouth in the public, when he started his public ministry, in Mark chapter 1, verse 15, he says, he says this, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.
32:50: Repent and believe in the gospel. Las primeras palabras que Jesús dijo cuando inició su ministerio público, dijo esto, el tiempo se ha cumplido y el reino de
33:02: Dios se ha acercado. Arrepentidos y creed en el evangelio. And that is the condition that we must meet in that sense, that we must believe in order to receive these benefits.
33:16: It must be Christ and Christ only,
33:23: Christ alone, not saints, not Mary, not your own good works, nothing, nothing can be added and nothing can possibly make up for the perfect work and perfection that is required for God, for God's holy, perfect, righteous standard.
33:40: He demands perfection, his law is perfect and he demands for you to fulfill all of it.
33:47: Not one jot can be faltered. And the
33:53: Bible says in James that if you fail at one point, you fail them all. And so it must be a perfect work, a perfect life.
34:04: And we are not perfect. None of us are. We are all sinners. We are all born sinners. And that is why the only one who can save us is
34:12: Christ and Christ alone. Not saints, not
34:17: Mary, not our good works, nothing can save us because everything is stained by our sin.
34:24: We are all sinners. The only one who is not a sinner is Christ. And God demands a perfect sacrifice, a perfect lamb without stain.
34:34: And that perfect lamb is the Son of God, Christ Jesus. And so that is why nothing can be added to Christ, not a single good work.
34:47: And the Bible, in fact, says that in the book of Isaiah, that all of our righteous deeds are filthy rags in the eyes of God if we try to use them to justify ourselves, because it's a spit and mock on the perfect life and the perfect work of Christ.
35:01: Nothing else is required. Nothing else but simple faith in him and his finished work on your behalf.
35:08: Nothing else can be added to the perfect work and the perfect life of Christ. Nothing else.
35:16: In fact, the Bible says in the book of Isaiah that our good works, in quotes, are filthy rags in the eyes of God because they cannot justify us because we are sinners and we are stained with original sin.
35:30: We cannot save our salvation and we cannot save our... And that is why neither saints, nobody, nobody died on the cross.
35:53: The saints did not die on the cross. Mary did not die on the cross. Nobody died on that cross except for Christ alone. And apart from him, you will face
36:14: God as judge and you will not have these blessings because if you did not trust in Christ for your behalf, you will face him as judge and as a sinner.
36:50: And so that is why, that is also why we have another problem.
36:55: That problem is that we cannot choose God because we are by nature sinners. And therefore we are at enmity with God.
37:01: We are the enemies of God. That's what it means to be a sinner, to be at odds with God. And therefore
37:07: God must choose us. And if God did not choose us, we would not choose God ourselves because we are sinners by nature.
37:14: And that is why there is also another problem that because we are sinners, we are not going to choose God because we are in a state of enmity against God.
37:23: We are against God because we are sinners and we are selfish and we want to make our own life apart from him.
37:31: And that is why God has to choose us. God must choose us and that is what
37:37: Christ himself said in John 15 verse 16, that you did not choose me, but I chose you.
37:53: He is the good shepherd who takes care of his sheep and his sheep hear his voice and they come to him.
38:07: then death is no respecter of persons la muerte no discrimina viene para todos not not too long ago my my niece also passed away
38:18: Sophie my sister's daughter and she was just an infant she was only she only lived a few hours after she was born and so death does not discriminate la muerte viene para todos hasta para los bebes tambien mi sobrinita tambien murio hace no mucho tiempo y la muerte no respeta la edad no respeta nada a nadie ningún credo nada and why is that the
38:43: Bible we've already kind of touched on that is because the Bible says that we are all born in Adam and that means that we are born under the guilt of Adam and condemned in Adam que todos nacimos en
38:57: Adan y eso quiere decir que nacimos con la pena de muerte de Adan y con la condenación que
39:04: Adan recibió cuando desobedeció a Dios en el jardín de
39:10: Adan. When Adam disobeyed a God in the garden we all became guilty in him and that's what the
39:18: Bible explains in Romans 5 in the book of Romans that we when we covered this in in the
39:25: Bible studies my dad had plenty to say about that but ultimately he seemed to have come to reconcile that and to recognize that people don't often have a problem with accepting
39:35: Christ as their Savior on their behalf but they have a problem when they when the
39:41: Bible talks about how Adam we are guilty of Adam's sin but that is how God chose to to save us and that is how
39:49: God has chosen to work que Adan todos los que están en
39:54: Adan mueren, lo que dice la primera carta de Corintios en el capítulo 15 y solamente los que están en
40:02: Cristo son los que viven. Only those who are in Christ, the second Adam, the last
40:07: Adam, that's what the Bible calls him. Only those who are in him will receive these benefits and blessings, solo los que están en
40:15: Cristo y solamente en Cristo pueden recibir estas bendiciones y la salvación.
40:25: And so as we remember my dad and his life and his death and we reflect on these things I also urge you to reflect on your own faith to consider your own death because it's coming for us all it's just a matter of time and so I urge you to consider these things and to trust in Christ alone for his mercy and for your salvation.
40:46: Así que cuando ya que estamos tomando tiempo para reflexionar y para sobre la vida y la muerte de mi papá de mi papá les pido también que reflexiones sobre su propio destino donde ustedes van a ir como van a enfrentar a
41:04: Dios como padre o como juez espero que consideran estas cosas y que confíen solamente en
41:12: Cristo para su salvación. Thank you very much. God bless you. Gracias y que
41:17: Dios los bendiga. Thank you
41:29: Carlos. Thank you Jorge. It was beautiful. I should have read it in Spanish. I should have stayed here but it's ok.
41:36: Muchas gracias a todos ustedes. Les agradecemos mucho. Esta es la única oportunidad casi en momentos así tan tristes que se pueda que puede ir la gente las cosas de
41:46: Dios que ahora, pues claro, cada quien tiene su Dios, ¿verdad? Por eso dijo
41:51: Carlos que nosotros nos cogemos a Dios. Escogemos a uno que figuramos en nuestra imaginación, que nos queda, que queda la manera en la que vivimos, el estilo de vida.
42:04: Pero mi Dios es bueno y me bendice. Sí, tengo mucho pecado y sigo cometiendo, pero mi
42:09: Dios es bueno. Lo inventamos, lo hacemos conforme a nuestros gustos, pero ese no es el
42:15: Dios verdadero. El Dios verdadero no lo podemos conocer si él nos hace conocer primero.
42:22: Y esa es la gran misericordia de Dios que se hizo conocer. You know, as Carlos was saying, you know, we cannot choose the true and living
42:32: God. We all have an invention of God, a creation of our own liking, a
42:38: God that fits our lifestyle that I'm ok with, that is accommodated to me, because I don't like the
42:47: God of the Bible, he's too harsh, he's too inconsistent. Well, he's not the inconsistent, our minds are the inconsistent, our finite minds are inconsistent.
43:01: Another encounter that I talked about when I encountered Jesus with the Sadducees and Paul with the philosophers, the
43:09: Epicureans and the Stoics. Pablo se enfrentó con los filósofos en
43:14: Grecia, in Greece. The same philosophies that we see today, existentialism and all the junk,
43:24: Nietzsche, Jacques Boussaud, all those God -haters.
43:29: Mark Twain hated God in his Huckleberry Finn adventures, he mocks
43:35: Christianity, but I'm pretty sure he knows right now that he was wrong, he faced God. But there's so much hatred towards the
43:43: God of the Bible. People are ok with the gods of other people, but the God of the Bible is just too narrow to be a type of God.
43:52: That's the God that we hate by nature, and it's the God that has revealed himself to us in Scripture.
43:58: Throughout the ages, different people, men from different backgrounds, from different ages,
44:05: I would not trust a person, a book that was written by one person like Muhammad, one book by one guy,
44:11: I wouldn't trust that. A Bible that was written by 40 authors from different ages, from different epochs, from different backgrounds, and it's so consistent, if there's any inconsistency there that we think we see, it is explained clearly by the
44:30: Scriptures when you read the whole from Genesis all the way to Revelation. That's what really convinced me, by God's grace.
44:37: But I pray that the words that we share here would do an effect in our hearts because we will all face death, all of us.
44:46: None of us can buy ourselves away from death. And either we meet him as a father or as a judge, and I pray you all meet him as a father.
44:57: He has made that available for us. There's not a single person that's going to accuse God of being unjust.
45:04: The Bible says his judgments are righteous and perfect. There's no unrighteousness in God.
45:11: So when we stand and we think we can interrogate God, we realize that the
45:18: Bible says every mouth will shut completely. We won't be able to say anything because all our sins, if we haven't been forgiven, will be exposed before us with much shame.
45:29: And that's why this is the only opportunity when a loved one passes away that we can hear from the
45:35: God we shun, the God we ignore, the God we do away with through atheism, which
45:43: I don't believe that atheism exists. Atheists are always angry people who are angry with God.
45:50: Karl Marx was angry with God. Voltaire, in his deathbed, cursed
45:56: God. He denied God, but then in his deathbed he cursed God, so it's the inconsistency of atheism.
46:03: But the truth is that we all are worshipers. We worship either the true living God or we worship the
46:10: God of all making, intellectualism, scholartism. We worship self.
46:17: We worship man. We crown man and exalt man. A mortal being, a bubble in the ocean, that's what we worship today.
46:27: And every university should have on their entrance, professing themselves to be wise and become fools.
46:34: The fool says in his heart, there is no God. And what a shock, as soon as their eyes close, physical eyes close, and their spirit springs forth from this debilitating body.
46:46: They stand before this God whom they denied for all their lives. And the
46:51: Bible says every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is
46:58: Lord to the glory of the Father. I bless each one of you and I ask the
47:03: Lord to strengthen each one of you and think about it. Think of God's grace.
47:09: He gave you an opportunity to hear this message. It's not about denominationalism or some religion.
47:15: It's about the God who revealed himself in the scripture and revealed himself through his son, Jesus Christ. So I'm going to ask you all, shall we stand as I give the benediction?
47:32: May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
47:38: May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
47:44: In the name of Christ Jesus. Amen. Thank you. Amen.