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00:00And well, as you can see, it's a somewhat complex topic, so I'd like to elaborate on it a bit.
00:27We also find passages that complement all of this in the letter to the Philippians, here we go
00:35Finding a passage that emphasizes what we have said on this subject is not in Philippians 3:20-21
00:44The text in your Bible says, "We, on the other hand, are citizens of heaven and are..."
00:53Waiting for the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven and change everything. Pay attention, he will change everything.
01:01our lowly body so that it may be like his own glorious body, and he will do this through him.
01:08The power it has to dominate all things, do you notice or can you see this speaks volumes on one side
01:19We heard it will transform, if here it uses the word change, if it will change our body, but it is not
01:33What is another one going to give me if it's not understood that another body is going to transform it so that it is
01:41As his own glorious body says, we are going to have a body like his; we are likeness, not being
01:49He's still God, we'll only be his likeness. Well, it seems to me we're on the same page.
01:58It is true that with this text from the apostle there is no longer any doubt about what will happen to us, and that, brothers, is not
02:07I know about you, but it encourages me and gives me firm hope. I hope it will do the same for you.
02:14Above all, it encourages me to work diligently to achieve salvation; we work diligently to
02:22To achieve what Paul has proposed to us, what the Lord himself has proposed to us, brothers, remember what
02:31As we have said on some occasion, Hebrews 12:14 says, "Strive to live at peace with everyone and live a life..."
02:41Because without holiness no one can see the Lord, okay? So you see how important the topic of being holy is.
02:53We have prepared these chapters, this section by Pablo, for you with the idea that you realize
03:03about the importance of earnestly seeking holiness at all costs, and well, finally about
03:14On the subject of the resurrection, it is also worth mentioning a passage from the letter to the Romans.
03:21Continue looking at this map, not where the intervention of the Holy Spirit is mentioned, which
03:27We know that this is the core part, because the spirit becomes the guarantor.
03:33of the resurrection for all of us who have believed and accepted to live according to the gospel of Jesus
03:41Look at what it tells us in Romans 8, one of the most beautiful chapters of the letter to the Romans
03:46Verse 11 says, "And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the same Spirit who..."
03:56Christ resurrected will give new life to their mortal bodies through the living Spirit of God.
04:02In you, that is, God has given us his Spirit, which is the same Spirit that Christ had, and that Spirit
04:11He who raised Christ from the dead will also raise us with the power, as we read, with that power
04:18that he has received so that we may attain resurrection; that is why we have
04:25that we as believers must always have a very firm hope at the center of our
04:32This life, this Christian hope, this vision, this goal, there is nothing more important in the world or in our lives. This Christian hope, this vision, this goal, there is nothing more important in our lives or in our lives.
04:42life that truly has the power, as Saint Paul says, to live eternally beside our beloved
04:51Sir, there is nothing more important; that is the most important thing we have: being with the Lord.
04:58that ultimate destination of the believer and can be considered as the final point, the omega point, the
05:06the culmination of God's saving work in each of us; that is why he who is not saved
05:13It makes God's project fail; being with the Lord forever has a personal meaning, but
05:22It is also communal because it involves people who place their hope in Christ and also have
05:31Well, a sense of the future, because the believers who make up the current community are the ones who yearn for it.
05:38to be united around the Lord at the end of earthly life if this was the concern
05:45The expectation that motivated the first Christians was to live eternally with Christ. Remember.
05:52Brothers, we save ourselves in community through our own charity, but in community, and this
06:01It makes us co-responsible with others so that our entire community can live in
06:09holiness and may we finally be united with Christ in heaven and enjoy his love and glory
06:17eternal, that's why we work on the holiness of our family, on the holiness of our community, on our
06:23church so that we can all enjoy it; according to this we can then affirm that the church
06:31It is an eschatological community in the strict sense that it lives facing the imminent arrival of its
06:40Lord, when will it be, we do not know, but before Him we are there to be taken definitively to Christ.
06:49Our Lord and Savior, this longing to be with Christ, which has a clear collective dimension and
07:00eschatological, as we have been saying, especially in 1 Thessalonians 4, the manifest
07:06The apostle also appears in later letters, but with a more personal tone, and it's more something that will...
07:15to happen immediately after death. What does this mean? It means that there are
07:24a profound hope that we all must have, and this must always be present in the
07:31apostle, as Saint Paul writes to the Philippians, and he writes it for us, he says, in his experience
07:40Personal in verse 21 because for me to continue living is Christ and to die this phrase I love and to die a
07:51profit, and if by continuing to live in this body my work can produce so much fruit, then I no longer know.
07:59Choosing between the two is difficult; on one hand I would like to die to go and be
08:09With Christ, that would be much better for me, he concludes, but oh well, I'll have to, I'll have to
08:18Staying here to work among you isn't what I'm telling you, no, I'm packing my bags too.
08:23Ticket in hand, sir, when the plane arrives I'll get on, but I see so many people. I say, sir, if you see I'm going to
08:30I'll take my suitcase down a little and I'll start pulling. Maybe you have a family, you have to work, you have children.
08:36You have to work, you have a wife, you have to work, you have parents, you have to work, you have friends, you have
08:42What work needs to be done in your evangelization, brothers? There is a lot of work to be done. My favorite phrase is: those who...
08:52They know me, they know there's a world to evangelize, there's a world that needs to know this perspective of
08:59eternity and working for it, and that being the most important motivation of our entire lives, not winning an award
09:07A Nobel Prize or winning 20 billion dollars, but ultimately going to heaven, 20 billion dollars will stay here.
09:16in some building, in the bank, even worse, but we don't expect that, we expect to live eternally in
09:26That wonderful place that is heaven, I mean, look at these words of the apostle, they resonate continually
09:35Within me, brothers, is what is meant for those of us who are beginning to understand inwardly what eternal life is.
09:43Life ceased to have meaning, at least the meaning it had before I knew Christ and before
09:51that he would take my life
09:53The most beautiful thing, the long-awaited thing, the thing I've been eagerly anticipating, is going to heaven to live eternally with him, and that's what
10:05I wish that it were also your wish, your goal, your longing, that you could all
10:13They would find the meaning of life in glory, and then they would see that compared to this, everything else pales in comparison.
10:21In that sense, there is no glory, joy, or happiness more perfect and complete than living eternally with the Lord.
10:30This thought is also expressed in the second letter to the Corinthians, but only in chapter 5, let's see
10:39Verse 8 says, "We are therefore filled with good cheer and would prefer to leave this body and be with the Lord."
10:52well yes
10:53This hope of Saint Paul is reflected in most of the saints who have understood
11:02that life only has meaning if we work for heaven; to name just a few we have the
11:10The great Teresa of Avila, Saint Teresa of Jesus, and in one of her poems she says the following: I live without living in
11:19I die because I do not die, and I await such a high life that I die because I do not die, that is why my dear brothers
11:29Sisters, we live in holiness, we wait in peace for our time to depart, knowing that in
11:39At that moment, that for which Christ died and rose again will be fulfilled for us, that which we have...
11:47The thing we've been waiting for and have worked for all our lives is to live eternally with Christ in heaven.
11:56This is what has given meaning to my life, and this is what should give meaning to your life, and that's why
12:01We work and strive to be saints because if we achieve it, all of us who have lived will be there.
12:08with Christ in Christ those of us who have accepted to work on our holiness those of us who have given
12:17The good fight, as Paul says, and in the end he says in his final letter to Timothy, and in the end, the crown
12:28I promised a happiness that no one can even imagine, so I want to end this section with
12:37One of my favorite texts on this topic, which I hope will be a source of hope and encouragement in the
12:44The path of each one of you is taken from the first letter to the Corinthians in chapter 9.
12:52Chapter 2, verse 9 says, "Listen carefully to this, for no eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor can anyone conceive of it."
13:05I invite you to frequently close what God has prepared for us.
13:12your eyes and think about this in something
13:16What God has prepared is incredibly wonderful, that's why it's worth being a saint.
13:26As we have said in this chapter and in so many others, if your eye, your foot, your hand cause you harm...
13:31Sin, throw it away, whether it's a friend or whatever, it's not worth it. The only thing worth it is getting to the
13:39Heaven, that's the only thing worth working for, because there we will find what we are looking for.
13:47Christ lived, died, and rose again; He won it for us. God bless you. See you next time.
13:55chapter where we will now begin the last part of this course that will start to excite us
14:04I think we're already excited about this, but now we'll be even more excited to continue...
14:09Following in Paul's footsteps and being true witnesses of the gospel, we'll see you in our next chapter.
14:15Until then, God bless you in your home and throughout your life. See you soon.
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