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00:00How are you, my dear brothers and sisters? It's so nice to see you all again in this wonderful course.
00:23Following in the Footsteps of Paul, Apostle of Christ. A course that I hope you're finding as enjoyable as I am.
00:31Fascinating now that I'm writing it. Truly, because I'm remembering my own life again, I'm going back to
00:39to meet Pablo's kind of person who is always ahead of us and shows us the way
00:45to be a good Christian first, and then to become an excellent apostle.
00:52And well, one of the objectives of this course is to strengthen the Christian life in each of us.
01:00which barely crosses the Jordan or any other of the means by which evangelization is communicated
01:09fundamental. This is very fragile and is therefore once again exposed to the action of evil, which, well...
01:19As you know, it seeks to uproot it as soon as it's planted in the heart. Jesus already says so in the parable of the sower.
01:28Well, he's barely planted it, and if it falls on the path, the birds will eat it, right?
01:35And this, well, it's like after a major operation, right? I imagine this thing about the kerygma and this
01:42The initial part is like after a serious operation they send us home and give us nothing.
01:49To take care of what's necessary for what we need, so that the wound closes, right? And so that we don't get infected.
01:56But what happens if this isn't done? It could even happen that our situation after the operation
02:05It was meant to heal us, to cure us, to have a better life, even if it's worse than the one we had before.
02:11That's why we're seeing what life is like for a Christian who wasn't evangelized by Jesus.
02:21like the apostles who did not know him in life but were formed by the Spirit and by the
02:30apostolic community because of that Christian community that helped it grow and that is what we are
02:37Now trying to do it with you and with each of the members of your community, and well, that's life.
02:45The Christian Church presents a series of new developments that we will now see, but at the same time it will...
02:53leading to a series of problems that, well, in our times, it is very useful for us to review how Paul did.
03:01She faced them and overcame them because they are truly great, and when we don't have that...
03:09These problems that all Christians experience, that Paul experienced, and especially those that are well established, are problems that all Christians face.
03:15that their communities experienced, because then we find ourselves in a situation where we don't know what to do, and that's what
03:22What does the enemy use to take advantage of our fragile nature, so that he can quickly take us away?
03:28again to laziness or going backwards in what we have already achieved in our lives
03:34Christian above all, we are going to delve deeper into the problems of this new life in order to be able to
03:43By understanding them, we can overcome them, and thus that newness which the Lord has given us may remain within us.
03:53He has given us through his spirit; this is the idea we are now trying to convey and to
04:01To communicate through this course, we are now going to talk about the newness of the Christian life
04:10We can say that in short, the novelty of the Christian life is the indwelling of the Spirit who will...
04:22to produce the fruits that are proper to it and that Saint Paul clearly presents to us in his letter to the
04:30I would like you to read Galatians with me. In chapter 5 of Galatians, verse 22 tells us
04:40But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, dignity, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
04:56These are the characteristics of a Christian who is being inhabited by the Holy Spirit, that is to say
05:05All these elements are what outwardly manifest that the Holy Spirit truly is present.
05:13He lives in us. At Pentecost we saw how the evident signs for the community that saw the
05:21The apostles went there to the community so that they could speak in their own languages, as it is
05:28It's possible here we have Medes, Parthians, Elamites, people who come from the Greek countryside, etc., and all the
05:34We heard them speaking in our language, that was the sign, it was an incredible element, okay, certainly already in the venue
05:43Regarding Pentecost, there is what Saint Luke tells us, where he tells us that a gust of
05:53A rushing wind caused these tongues of fire to appear and begin to speak in what we call
06:01with the gift of tongues, that is, what is called glossolalia, that is, a language that we cannot understand
06:08which according to Saint Paul in chapter 14 of his first letter to the Corinthians, would refer
06:15He says it's in a supernatural way, like angels speak, right? We're really entering into the mystery.
06:22of the prayer, but it was the signs of the elements that made people realize
06:30that indeed the holy spirit was now in them, well in us ordinarily there is no glossolalia
06:38There is no xenoglossia, no hurricane-force winds, and no flames of fire above our heads, which is
06:46What we have, what we just read in the letter to the Galatians, is peace, love, kindness above all
06:56Think about self-mastery; all of this is what people see, and that's why these are the properties.
07:05that we must continually check to see if our Christian life, if our process
07:12Is your conversion progressing or has it remained static? And remember that in the Christian life, if it is not...
07:20Forward necessarily means backward; nobody stays static, we always go backward because
07:28We always go against the current of the world
07:32That is, on the one hand, what allows the person to experience a new reality in all aspects of their life
07:43But at the same time, what makes it visible, as I was saying earlier, is our Christian reality.
07:51It is precisely these signs that identify us as new creatures
07:58Fundamentally, as we just read, the theme of love, which is the driving force, is highlighted.
08:08of everything, for it is the same Holy Spirit that is identified with love, as Saint Paul says in his letter to the Romans.
08:17a text that we already know from our evangelization course and that I love
08:23Romans 5:5 says that because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Spirit
08:33Holy, that is, the Holy Spirit is the love of God that has been poured into our hearts. If this is
08:41a truth and we do not hinder it, this love will manifest itself and this love is the gift for
08:51excellence as it says in his first letter to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 13
08:59In verses 4 through 7 we find that this is what clearly identifies us. Let's go to the text if you like.
09:07Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
09:23Arrogant: does not behave indecently, does not seek his own, is not easily angered, does not take into account the wrong done to him.
09:31It does not rejoice in injustice but rejoices in the truth; it bears all things, believes all things, and trusts all things.
09:43He hopes, He endures all things, what a marvel, isn't it? I mean, whoever has received this gift, we can say that they live.
09:56Already in paradise this is the gift of heaven, since the spirit is what makes it possible for man
10:05The new man who has already received the grace of God, the man who has already gone through a Pentecost, can
10:12To live this experience now, which is the same one that Saint Paul describes to us, but also in his letter to the
10:20Let's read what Romans tells us in chapter 14, verse 17: "For the kingdom of God is not food."
10:31nor drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit
10:38In other words, my brothers, the kingdom is the inheritance.
10:45and in it dwells
10:48naturally the new man in this, in this new dimension of love
10:55Love is the inheritance with which one can achieve
11:00fullness
11:01We can do nothing without this love, and this love is what defines us.
11:07that's why
11:09The novelty of the new testament is none other than being inhabited by the love of God
11:17However, we realize that this is not always evident; we do not always act out of love.
11:26Because we set aside the sun, we set aside the bond, we set aside our prayer, we set aside the
11:35We stop reading the sacraments and the sacred scriptures, and what happens? Well, we are once again obstructing the possibility of the spirit working in each of us. That is why we cannot neglect our entire spiritual life.
11:53because this is what enables the Holy Spirit to fulfill all these functions.
12:02The function we saw in Galatians in chapter 5 verse 22, the function we saw in the letter to the Corinthians in chapter 12, the one we saw just now also in the letter to the Romans—all of this is disabled
12:19Because our relationship with God is weakening, and although the spirit would like all this to manifest itself and be the signs that our life is being transformed, it doesn't happen that way.
12:38And so, in the eyes of others, we will always remain the same.
12:46We can say, then, that this indwelling of the spirit gives our whole life a new dimension
12:56It is the same spirit that inspires new thoughts that will gradually become new attitudes, and these attitudes will also transform into new actions.
13:13Without your help, brothers, everything would be back to how it was before we had our encounter with Jesus.
13:24only in good intentions in things that, as we reviewed in the gospel of Matthew when we looked at the new law of Christ
13:34Remember Matthew chapters 5 through 7? Well, it would be quite clear, and you'd agree with me, that they would be frankly impossible to live through.
13:44Turning the other cheek when you're hit? Of course they should let them take your cloak. No way.
13:50It is therefore the spirit that dwells in our others, in our lives, that makes it possible; without it we cannot advance
14:00That is why the Christian, filled with the spirit dead to this world and reborn for Christ, goes as Paul says.
14:11spreading the sweet aroma of Christ everywhere
14:15For the Christian, everything is alright.
14:21Because the spirit makes him understand clearly that everything works together for his good.
14:29because we enter fully into a mystery that we do not understand, but the spirit does.
14:35And that's why he understands that everything is alright, and that everything can be lived with the spirit, poverty and wealth
14:45That is why Paul, and with this I would like to conclude this section, tells us in Philippians 4:11
14:53that everything can be experienced with the grace of the spirit
14:58Let's go to this text from Philippians 4. If you like, the text tells us...
15:04I know how to live in poverty and I know how to live in prosperity.
15:09In everything and through everything I have learned the secret of both being full and being hungry
15:18from having abundance to suffering need
15:21I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
15:25You see, brother, that is, when we open our hearts to the action of the Spirit
15:33when our spiritual life grows and develops
15:38It is strengthened primarily through prayer
15:42spiritual reading, the reading of the word
15:46our frequent communion
15:47We are giving the Holy Spirit every opportunity
15:52to completely transform our lives
15:54that love, charity, joy, peace
15:58May benevolence emerge naturally from our lives
16:02But not only that, it also strengthens us in every way
16:06so that whether we are hungry or thirsty
16:11Let us have abundance
16:13For we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
16:19But we'll be back in a moment to continue our reflection.
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