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00:30And well, for this last part we're going to look a little bit at the topic that is mysterious, all of this
00:36When we step outside the timeline, when we step outside our human realm and enter the
00:44In the realm of God, we are now entering the realm of mystery, and that is why many of these elements sound familiar.
00:50or they seem difficult to understand, probably within all that we have seen in the Pauline letters and
00:58of his spirituality.
01:00From Saint Paul, we enter directly into the mystery of God, and so we have to take some references, which are...
01:07They are mysterious, but they already give us a glimpse of what will be, or rather, how it will be done.
01:18Let us now speak of ourselves, how it will happen within us, what we expect from our own person, from our flesh,
01:27of our lives, right?
01:29And the first thing we have to say is that the resurrection will not be a simple recovery of life with
01:36the current characteristics, as I have mentioned many times, but a true transformation as Saint Paul calls it.
01:44It will be the same person, but with a transformed body, a transformed body.
01:54It says in First Corinthians, which is where we have been reading about this topic of transformation, in verses
02:01Now to 35 to 38, says Paul.
02:05But someone will ask, how are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come back to life?
02:12Fool, what you sow does not come to life, but dies.
02:18And what you sow is not the body that will grow, but a mere grain of wheat or
02:24from some other plant.
02:26In other words, when we sow the seed, what comes out is not that seed, but the plant that
02:34It was already in that grain.
02:36And from there come grains like the initial grain.
02:40In other words, something is sown and that something is transformed, which is what Saint Paul is saying.
02:47A little further on in the text, let's go to verses 42 to 44, the apostle says the following.
02:55So also in the resurrection of the dead, corruption is sown, incorruption is raised; vileness is sown, glory is raised.
03:07It is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength; it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body.
03:17In other words, we would say, there is more than just an animal, a carnal body, which has flesh, but of course, referring to our participation in
03:26this world.
03:27So what do we recover? Well, we now recover a spiritual body.
03:32What is a spiritual body, Father?
03:37So we'll have to wait for the resurrection, won't we?
03:41To know exactly what a spiritual body is.
03:45Regarding these texts from 1 Corinthians, there is a passage in the letter to the Philippians that is
03:51very significant.
03:53Let's go to Philippians 3, verses 20 and 21.
03:56This text tells us that we are citizens of heaven, from where we await the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior, who
04:06He will transform our bodies to be like his glorious body, by the power that he has to subject all things to the will of God.
04:16things.
04:16This text is wonderful because it speaks to us of the transformation of the body, firstly, to a body like that of Christ,
04:28a glorious body like Christ's, which will now give us many indications of what our body will be like in that
04:36Resurrection.
04:37And on the other hand, it tells us about the extraordinary power that Christ, who is God himself, has to be able to do it.
04:44On the subject of the resurrection, it would also be appropriate to mention a passage from the letter to the Romans, in which
04:51Chapter 8, where the intervention of the Holy Spirit is mentioned, who becomes the guarantee, the guarantor.
05:00of the resurrection of believers.
05:03Let's go to this chapter 8, to verse 11.
05:20In other words, the Spirit that already dwells within us is the one that will be the cause, the effect, it will
05:28to be the element that will result in our body being able to resurrect.
05:35Finally rise again to eternal life.
05:39In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, it says,
05:44And so we will always be with the Lord.
05:48In this sense, this phrase is clearly eschatological, since being with the Lord will happen after his
05:56paruchia and the encounter of all with Him.
06:00Surely the ultimate fate of believers was at the center of Paul's interests.
06:06Even during his evangelization in Thessalonica, He had already spoken of the resurrection of the dead and of hope
06:12certain and of the next coming of Christ, which was for Him already imminent.
06:18Being always with the Lord embodies that ultimate destiny of the believer and can be considered the final point.
06:27the culmination of God's saving work.
06:30Being with the Lord always has a personal, communal meaning; it's not just one person.
06:48There is a personal, communal sense because these are people who place their hope in Christ and also have a
06:59future meaning because we, the believers who make up the current community, are the ones who yearn to live united around the
07:07Lord at the end of our earthly life.
07:10In other words, we're going to live in the community. Sometimes people ask me, Father, will we recognize each other?
07:16And will we all be there together? Of course, I mean, we'll recognize each other and we'll know each other perfectly.
07:25We're going to be there with the people we've loved, all living together in a wonderful community. How? Well, no
07:32We know this, right? This will have to happen, and then we'll know what it's like.
07:37Meanwhile, we continue to wait and say, come Lord Jesus.
07:42It can then be stated that the church is an eschatological community in the strict sense that it lives facing the future.
07:51to the imminent coming of her Lord, so that at a certain moment she may be definitively brought into communion with Christ,
07:58your Savior.
07:59Now, this longing to be with Christ, which has a clear collective and eschatological dimension in this text of
08:10The first letter of Thessalonians, the apostle also states it in later letters, but with a personal aspect and because it happens immediately
08:20after his death.
08:22What does this mean? There are two texts in which this desire of Paul is revealed. On the one hand we have
08:29Philippians, chapter 1, verses 21 to 23. Let's read it.
08:33In this text, Paul says...
09:04On the other hand, the other text is 2 Corinthians 5:8. Let's go to it.
09:10In this text Paul tells us.
09:18In this text we see how Paul clearly enters into a dilemma.
09:25He will continue working, as he sees that it is fruitful, but on the other hand, there is already a great desire to participate eternally.
09:33with Christ.
09:34And this is the yearning that should exist in all of us.
09:38Today I see that people are afraid of death, but this is because they do not reflect clearly on it.
09:45Because he hasn't considered that death is what will put him in heaven, that it will
09:52to begin living the life for which we were truly destined.
09:57Death, as we have seen throughout this chapter, is not the end of anything, but
10:04Rather, it is the beginning of ultimate life.
10:07The principle that certainly goes through a trial, but which will ultimately be destined, that is, as a vocation to
10:18to live eternally with Christ in heaven.
10:23San Pablo feels pulled by both extremes, should I stay and work or should I leave? He says no.
10:31For me, certainly, going to be with Christ now is by far the best thing.
10:37However, this is not our decision, but it has to be in our hearts.
10:43This idea of desiring, of yearning for heaven, needs to permeate our lives.
10:50Don't see it as something ugly, as something we should be afraid of.
10:57We are only afraid of those things that are going to bring something bad to us.
11:03There is certainly a certain fear of the unknown, but we have enough elements, as we have already seen,
11:11to be sure that we will first live eternally with Christ.
11:16Two, that life will be eternal.
11:19Three, that there will be no more suffering in heaven.
11:23In other words, we really have to long for her, we have to think about her.
11:29Life in heaven will be wonderful.
11:32We have some indications of what this life will be like.
11:38I would like to remind you again of this text, which I think is very, very important.
11:43In chapter 24 of Luke, they were discussing all of this; these are the two who had already arrived from Maus.
11:52when Jesus appeared among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
11:58Startled and frightened, they thought they saw a ghost, but he said to them, "Why are you disturbed?"
12:05Why do they have doubts in their minds and hearts?
12:09Look at my hands and my feet, it's me, touch me.
12:14And see that a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you can see that I have.
12:22Having said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
12:26Since they couldn't quite believe it because of their joy and were amazed, he told them,
12:31Do you have anything to eat here?
12:34They offered him a piece of fish.
12:37He took it and ate it in front of them.
12:42In this wonderful text we see some of the fantastic elements
12:47that will happen in our lives when we are resurrected.
12:51On one hand, we're going to have a body, bones, that is, our body as it is now.
13:00Incredibly, then, no blood will circulate through them.
13:04What will it be like?
13:06Well, it's mysterious.
13:09It is a body, as we were saying a moment ago, a spiritual one.
13:12On the other hand, we see that we're going to be able to eat, we're going to be able to eat, that is, we're going to be able to enjoy ourselves.
13:21We will have sensitivity in our hands, we will be able to touch.
13:26In short, the experiences that we have today, so limited by human capacity, will become full, perfect, complete.
13:36That is why Saint Paul says that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor can it enter the mind of man.
13:44what God has prepared for him.
13:46And this is what encourages us, my brothers.
13:49This is the most wonderful experience that should encourage us in our entire life.
13:56Life with Christ.
13:58Life, which will eventually end, will go through a judgment in which we will have nothing to worry about.
14:05Christ died for us.
14:08Death will simply be a consequence of our fragility at a certain point, but from there will come eternal life.
14:19Beware lest death end in eternal death, which will not be death, but a life of misery, of
14:28suffering far from God.
14:30But this, more than a decision of God at the end of our lives, will be our decision, your decision.
14:38a decision you made during your life.
14:41Going to heaven or hell is not God's decision, it's our decision.
14:48God calls us to heaven, and that's why we think about this.
14:51And our whole life is oriented and directed towards this glorious and triumphant moment in our lives that
14:57People call death.
14:59So, there's nothing to fear.
15:02God awaits us in heaven.
15:04Some will see the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:08Others will experience it differently in our death.
15:12We will see God come into our lives at the moment of our death.
15:16And we will be taken to live eternally with Him.
15:19And then we will return to our bodies.
15:22So, well, all this in one vision, this, when I say we will reclaim our body, I mean, what am I saying, right?
15:32I am speaking, as our Lord would say, of things I do not know.
15:37And so, my dear brothers, we have now reached the end of our course on Pauline writings, speaking of the most profound experience
15:47wonderful thing that a human being can have.
15:51To go and live eternally with God.
15:54May the Lord bless you, keep you always, and show you his face.
15:58And if we don't see each other before then, we'll see each other in heaven.
16:04Don't miss it.
16:05See you soon.