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00:28Very well, then,
00:29Let's see now,
00:31We are dealing with the topic of justification by faith and salvation by works.
00:40When we identify justification and salvation,
00:45and this last one as the final development of our life on earth,
00:50We make a big mistake, since, as I pointed out earlier,
00:54Paul, by no means, speaks of not doing good works,
00:58and that simply believing in Jesus is enough to be saved.
01:03Paul points out that one must believe in Christ to be justified, that is, rehabilitated.
01:11A common error in the interpretation of Pauline texts,
01:18primarily driven by the Protestant Reformation,
01:21is translating justification with the word salvation,
01:27As you can see on your screen right now, the term in Greek is different.
01:33Justification is one thing, and salvation is another; they are not the same thing.
01:41There is a text from Paul, to the Ephesians, that sheds a lot of light on this.
01:47I want us to go to Ephesians 2, 3, 9.
01:50We too once lived like them,
01:55driven by our sinful desires,
01:58following our own will and our purposes.
02:02Like everyone else, we were by nature objects of God's wrath.
02:07But God, who is rich in mercy,
02:10because of his great love for us,
02:12He gave us life with Christ,
02:14even when we were dead in sin.
02:18By grace you have been saved,
02:22and in union with Christ Jesus,
02:25God raised us from the dead and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms,
02:30to show in times to come
02:32the incomparable richness of His grace,
02:35which in his goodness he poured out on us in Christ Jesus.
02:39For by grace you have been saved through faith.
02:45This did not come from you,
02:47but it is God's gift,
02:49not through works,
02:51so that no one may boast,
02:53so that no one may boast.
02:55If we analyze this passage,
02:57We will see that in verse 5,
03:00It tells us that by grace we have been saved.
03:04In this text,
03:05"Grace" is used to indicate a favor.
03:09That is, through an act of God's love through Christ.
03:13It is evident then that it refers to the justification freely given by Christ.
03:20Now then,
03:22in verse 7,
03:24Now grace refers to the spirit that has been poured into our hearts,
03:30as we can confirm in Romans 5:5.
03:34Finally,
03:36verse 8,
03:37join the words grace,
03:40haris,
03:41salvation,
03:43which is bland,
03:44coming,
03:44It's from Soter,
03:46faith,
03:46which is pistis,
03:48o pisteuo,
03:50and excludes the word justification,
03:53which is dicayos.
03:55I mean,
03:56We see that the word justification is already excluded in this verse,
04:03but it includes two important words,
04:07what is it,
04:08on the one hand,
04:09faith,
04:10which is fundamental,
04:12and the theme of grace,
04:14which has to do with the spirit,
04:16which has to do with a favor,
04:18with something that God pours out,
04:20that God does in our lives.
04:22Now then,
04:22the text we mentioned from Romans 5:5,
04:25He tells us,
04:27And this hope does not disappoint,
04:29because God has poured out his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit whom he has given us.
04:35He then presents us with,
04:37the action of God in the heart of the Christian,
04:40which can be perfectly associated with the text of Ephesians that we already analyzed.
04:46It is therefore interesting to note,
04:49how little he mentions the action of the Spirit in this letter.
04:53This is because this is not the motivation behind his letter to the Christians of Rome.
04:58It had to be clear that God's work was free,
05:02and that it cannot be attained by any means other than the paschal mystery of Christ.
05:08Paul is not interested in this letter,
05:11at least in the first part,
05:14in developing what the life of a Christian should be like after redemption and under the action of the Spirit,
05:20topics that he deals with mainly in Colossians and Ephesians.
05:24Therefore, you will recall that in the introduction we said that in this letter we cannot take it as if it were summarized here.
05:33all of Paul's thinking,
05:34Or if this were, as another of the theologians of the Reformation said,
05:38if this were truly the Gospel of Paul.
05:41No.
05:42This is Paul's justification to make it clear that no one can do anything to save themselves.
05:49Salvation is a gift from God.
05:51It is something that God has accomplished through Jesus Christ,
05:55to which we adhere through faith.
05:59And this true adherence to the mystery of Christ,
06:02brings as a reward or as a result,
06:04that God pours out his grace into our hearts,
06:08again a free action,
06:10which comes from the free act of Christ's redemption,
06:14so that we can truly, now,
06:17walking in the Spirit, which we will see a little later,
06:20walking in the Spirit,
06:22so that we may truly attain salvation,
06:27Let us attain eternal redemption.
06:31Therefore, it's important to have all these elements clearly understood.
06:36because it's easy to get confused and say,
06:39solely through faith, so that no one may boast.
06:42Yes, that's correct.
06:44Nobody can say, I was saved because I was very good.
06:47We already saw that this is not the case.
06:50No matter how good we are,
06:52Since the standard of goodness is in God,
06:56We cannot do it, humanly speaking.
07:00We cannot fulfill it.
07:02We absolutely need something or someone inside us,
07:06can fulfill it,
07:08inspire us,
07:09grant us grace,
07:11give us the necessary elements to be able to accomplish this.
07:15Otherwise,
07:16It's not possible.
07:19If we wanted to summarize this topic a bit,
07:22and give even more light,
07:24We need to refer to the theology of rehabilitation,
07:27as this theology of justification in Paul is also known.
07:33Talking about rehabilitation and justification are two different ways of referring to
07:38to the same action that God has done in man.
07:42We can say that sin,
07:45original sin,
07:47made it impossible,
07:49It made man incapable of achieving salvation.
07:53And this is clear to us.
07:55Sin will block this capacity for love within us.
08:00this capacity to refer to the norm of love,
08:04who is God,
08:05And this will completely frustrate man's actions
08:08as a possibility of saving themselves.
08:12He has been disqualified.
08:15I mean,
08:16This salvation as the final goal of life
08:19and share of the prize in heaven.
08:23The man was disabled.
08:25He can't.
08:26He can't.
08:26It was fragmented into the words of Saint Augustine
08:28and he cannot reach heaven on his own.
08:32Because?
08:32Because he is incompetent.
08:34As if we wanted to
08:36than a paralyzed person
08:39because he could run 100 meters.
08:41A person who is paralyzed in their legs
08:44because he can't run.
08:46Because?
08:47Why doesn't it have legs?
08:49No.
08:49Because he is disabled due to a spinal injury
08:52or due to some other situation.
08:54He has been disqualified.
08:56That is to say,
08:57There was no means whatsoever
08:58so that he could achieve it.
09:02He can't do it.
09:04Because?
09:05Because he is truly incapacitated
09:08like the paralytic.
09:10I mean,
09:11The paralytic is radically incapacitated
09:15for running.
09:16He can't even walk,
09:17Well, less running.
09:19Thus man,
09:21before the justification,
09:22that is to say,
09:23of the Paschal Mystery of Christ,
09:25he was completely unable
09:28to save themselves.
09:29The Paschal Mystery
09:32that we can identify
09:33through the justification that Christ accomplishes,
09:36death and resurrection,
09:37Remember the theme of San Juan,
09:40rehabilitates man
09:41to access heaven.
09:44If we return
09:45on the subject of the paralytic,
09:47Let's assume that through an operation,
09:49due to some external situation
09:52to that person,
09:54enables it again
09:56walking
09:57and eventually also for running.
09:59But that's because there was an intervention,
10:02in this case surgical
10:03or in some other way,
10:05so that this person could be rehabilitated.
10:08I mean,
10:08her legs could again
10:10to be able to start working.
10:12Exactly the same thing happens to us.
10:15Now,
10:15this person
10:16which is rehabilitated,
10:18who can already walk,
10:20who can already run,
10:21This means that he has already reached the goal.
10:23No, sir.
10:24He simply tells her,
10:25You can now enter the race,
10:28If you want.
10:30You now have
10:31the possibility of reaching the goal,
10:33perhaps lastly,
10:35But you can go now.
10:37because it has already been rehabilitated.
10:39Therefore,
10:41if we go back a little
10:43to the example we had
10:44Regarding the ticket issue,
10:47to have a ticket
10:47to go somewhere,
10:49I mean,
10:50This does not mean
10:51just for having it
10:52They give me the place.
10:53I mean,
10:54They simply handed me over
10:55the ticket
10:55and now
10:56I need to go.
10:58That is to say,
10:59I need the works.
11:02I have been rehabilitated.
11:06Now I can access heaven.
11:09God,
11:10through an act
11:11gratuitous,
11:13undeserved,
11:14not because I was
11:16very good,
11:16because I behaved very nicely,
11:18for whatever you like,
11:20not because of the works.
11:21I cannot save myself
11:23to myself.
11:25The paralytic
11:26He cannot walk
11:27by himself.
11:28He needs someone
11:30I operated on him,
11:30give him rehabilitation,
11:31someone do something,
11:32if it was an injury
11:34in the column,
11:34to repair it,
11:36I repaired it,
11:37rehabilitate him
11:38so that he can
11:39walk again
11:41and in that way,
11:43having been rehabilitated,
11:44may,
11:45if he decides,
11:47go for a walk
11:48or to a competition.
11:50This person can continue
11:52in his wheelchair
11:53lifetime,
11:53even if I have
11:55the capacity
11:55of walking.
11:57What would happen?
11:58with a baptized person?
12:00A baptized person
12:01that accepts
12:03faith in Christ,
12:04then
12:05receives,
12:07immediately,
12:08receives
12:08the justification,
12:10that even
12:10at baptism
12:11also received
12:12grace,
12:12It is also received
12:13the spirit.
12:14But he
12:15decides to continue
12:16sitting
12:17in the chair.
12:18He decides
12:19not going to mass,
12:21he decides
12:22do not
12:23no work,
12:24he decides
12:25live,
12:26to continue living
12:26like a
12:28disqualified.
12:30Well,
12:30It's a decision
12:31of each one.
12:32I mean,
12:32That's why salvation
12:33It's not something
12:35that God decides.
12:37Salvation
12:38It's something
12:39that we
12:40We're going to decide.
12:42because we have been
12:43already rehabilitated.
12:45Christ
12:46in that death
12:47and resurrection
12:48has rehabilitated us
12:49and also
12:50He gave us
12:51the Holy Spirit,
12:53that is to say,
12:54now the capacity
12:54walking.
12:56Now we can,
12:58if we
12:58That's what we decided,
13:00can we
13:01enter heaven,
13:02because we have been
13:03already rehabilitated,
13:04we have been
13:05justified.
13:06Well,
13:07we leave it here
13:07our reflection,
13:08We'll be right back.
13:09more to continue
13:10with this topic
13:12of justified
13:14by faith
13:15and saved
13:16for the works.
13:17We'll be right back.
13:19Thank you!
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