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00:15Very good!
00:29Very well, then, let's now look at some of the elements that Saint Paul presents to us
00:34about this transformative force that made him a new man.
00:41And let's start by talking about Romans 5:5.
00:44In Romans 5:5, St. Paul tells us that the Spirit is a gift from God that dwells in us.
00:51hearts
00:52and that makes us understand deeply that we are children of God.
00:57It compels us to call him Abba, that is, Dad, with the affectionate name,
01:02That is, to truly feel like real, authentic children of God the Father.
01:10It is the same love of God within us.
01:15With this, we are once again confronted with the immensity of God who has desired to share his divine love with each one of us.
01:23of us.
01:24Therefore, we have no excuse not to love even our enemies.
01:29For it is the very love of God that loves within us.
01:34He is the one who loves and dwells permanently in the hearts of all Christians.
01:41And this is the same Spirit that dwelt in Christ and that was able to say when they were crucifying him,
01:49Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
01:53God, says St. Paul in this beautiful text, Romans 5:5,
01:58He has poured out his love into our hearts so that we can call him, Dad.
02:05On the other hand, Romans 8:26 shows us the importance of the indwelling of the Spirit in order to be able to pray.
02:14as appropriate.
02:16Because we don't know how to pray as we ought.
02:19When the Spirit does not develop in the soul of the Christian, prayers will generally be selfish.
02:26as the apostle James tells us in his letter chapter 4.
02:31And that is why we do not receive what we ask for.
02:35We ask for things that are really useless, but that our gayness makes us ask for.
02:43It is the Spirit who, from within ourselves, acting mysteriously, teaches us to pray and to ask for what is fitting and
02:51at the appropriate time.
02:53Let us remember that Abraham had to wait 40 years to receive the promise that God had made to him.
03:01I mean, imagine, in a time and in a way that sometimes we don't expect.
03:07We are too impatient when we ask, and it is because the Spirit does not calm the soul.
03:12And so we want what we asked for, we want it now.
03:15Give me patience, Lord.
03:17But right now we need to give the Spirit time to work.
03:24In other words, we don't know how to ask, and that's why when we pray we ask in the Holy Spirit.
03:30Let us remember that there is a time for everything, as the Ecclesiasticus says.
03:34And only the Spirit knows the depths of God.
03:39We must make room for this Spirit that works within us and teaches us to wait and to
03:48to receive from God the things, the gifts that He has prepared for us for our benefit and the benefit of all
03:56those who live with us.
03:57On the other hand, in Romans 15:13, Saint Paul understood that the action of the Holy Spirit is capable of
04:06to fill the Christian with power and peace.
04:09This power manifests itself throughout life, especially in times of difficulty,
04:14where it pacifies the soul and fills it with the joy that arises in the heart as if it were
04:22a source.
04:23How right Jesus was when he said that the Holy Spirit would produce a stream of life that would spring up like a fountain
04:32towards eternal life?
04:35It is truly a spirit of power with which we can peacefully face all situations that arise in
04:43our life.
04:44It is the power of God working in us.
04:47Therefore, we have nothing to fear.
04:50God gives us peace and strength through his grace.
04:55He gives us his peace and his strength.
04:58Therefore, for the Christian, everything is truly possible.
05:03That is why the great novelty of the New Testament is the presence of the Holy Spirit in each one of
05:09us.
05:10As Saint Paul says in 1 Corinthians 16.
05:14Let's read this text together.
05:16Do you not know that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit?
05:22In other words, God is no further from us than we are from ourselves.
05:28He dwells within us and in us offers the perfect worship of praise to God.
05:35This passage reminds us of the Old Testament concept in which God descended sporadically,
05:43Sporadically, not always, but he descended in his glory to the tent of meeting where he met with Moses, his
05:52elected.
05:52Now in our day, God only comes down once and for all from the moment of our baptism and not
06:02descends to a meeting tent,
06:04but the meeting place is found, which is none other than our own soul.
06:11At that moment, the Shekhinah of God becomes present in every Christian.
06:19His love, as we have already mentioned in Romans 5:5, becomes a reality in loving others
06:26with God's love
06:27and to be able to give Him back the glory He deserves.
06:33John, who deals with the most advanced, highest mystical theology, tells us that Jesus promised that his Father would come and
06:41He
06:41and they would make their home in us.
06:43Just open the door and he'll come in.
06:47And he will make his home among us and even dine with us.
06:52What beautiful elements, so mystical, so full of love and intimacy, dinner.
07:03Here we would delve into everything that food and dinner represent in the mentality of our Eastern brothers.
07:13It's about creating true intimacy.
07:17God is our intimate one.
07:20It is more intimate than ourselves.
07:24It is truly incredible, my brothers, the action of the Spirit that puts us practically in heaven.
07:31That's why Sister Isabel of the Trinity said...
07:34It's a text I use frequently because it truly gives us a perfect view of this reality that we have.
07:45with God.
07:46Sister Isabel said that it was not necessary to die to go to heaven, because God lived in her heart.
07:53And this is the reality we are seeing and that the apostle Saint Paul has been presenting to us in these texts.
08:00which confirm everything we have already said about the New Testament in the Synoptic Gospels,
08:06particularly in Lucas, which we were looking at in this first part.
08:11Jesus wanted man to be able to experience, even imperfectly, what paradise will be like, even from here on out.
08:20That is why he sent us the Holy Spirit who sanctifies us, that is, who separates us from this world.
08:27He makes us new creatures, separate from this world, so that we can begin to live the reality that God promised.
08:35for all who love him.
08:37Saint Paul understood and lived this perfectly, telling us precisely that in the Spirit we have received the
08:47arras,
08:48which is nothing other than a glimpse of heaven.
08:53He is the guarantee that Jesus was serious when he said that his Father had prepared rooms for us.
09:03in which we would live eternally.
09:06And well, the Holy Spirit gives us that little taste of heaven, of that place where we will go.
09:14to live eternally.
09:17Finally, considering all that it meant for Saint Paul and the first Christians to meet the Comforter,
09:24to the strength with which the witnesses of Christ would be clothed,
09:29He understood that a spiritual force inhabited them and gave them gifts, charisms, power, joy, happiness, and strength for trials.
09:41Thus, the first Christians understood and experienced that the Spirit was a living being,
09:49that the Spirit is not, as it is claimed today, a force; all this is mainly taken from the topic of the New Age.
09:57It is not a force, it is not an energy that drives a machine,
10:05but a living being that needs to grow and feed in order to give power to the human being.
10:13This power that comes from the Spirit, yes, from an inner strength,
10:18but it has nothing to do with energies and these things that are said today in the
10:23world.
10:24It is something that comes directly from God.
10:27It is a spirit of joy that continually offers within us a sacrifice of praise to God,
10:36but who can also become sad at a given moment.
10:40Just as spiritual things nourish him and encourage him to continue with inner joy,
10:47Sin affects him and saddens him.
10:51Paul was concerned and troubled that there were people who, after all that the Spirit does,
10:57saddened him.
10:59And for this reason, he will encourage the Ephesians not to grieve,
11:07That is, not to grieve the Spirit,
11:11so that he may always be acting with great joy, with great strength in our hearts.
11:17Our lives must respond generously to its impulse
11:22and to distance himself from anything that might sadden him.
11:26We must, therefore, keep in mind that this living being needs food
11:31and that we have to find a way to give it to him.
11:34That's why I continually invite my community,
11:37and in every way and manner that I can,
11:40so that we may lead a truly religious life,
11:43a spiritual life,
11:45that we seek out spiritual readings,
11:48that we look for spiritual films,
11:51that we seek spiritual music,
11:54spiritual conversations,
11:56that our whole life is constantly encouraging
12:00and feeding this Spirit that we have received
12:03and that is what makes us truly witnesses of Jesus Christ.
12:08Okay, let's stop our discussion here.
12:11We'll continue in a few moments to talk.
12:13One last topic that I think is vital
12:15and about whom much is also spoken today in the Church,
12:18which are the charisms and gifts of the Holy Spirit,
12:21of which we have already given a brief overview in this section.
12:26We'll be back in a moment.
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