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00:00So, returning once again to this idea of this death, of this transformation,
00:25of this new man who is emerging in a slow process, but one that must be continued.
00:35Is it slow? Yes, but if we keep at it, we'll make progress.
00:41Maybe I can't take strides of one meter, no.
00:46Maybe there will be people there who reach the finish line in three strides.
00:50That's great! Thank God he gave her such long legs and all this opportunity.
00:54He gave me short legs.
00:57And well, here I go.
00:59But what I can assure you is that I will also reach the end.
01:05If I don't stop, our conversion will continue.
01:10And we cannot compare ourselves to anyone in this matter of conversion.
01:14The important thing is that these events, these changes, keep happening.
01:19For this reason, the apostle Paul invites the followers of the Lord not to conform to the standards of this world.
01:32Do not conform to the standards of this world.
01:34Because?
01:34It's very simple, brothers.
01:38Because if you conform to the standards of this world, that's where you'll end up.
01:46And look at what it says.
01:47If you'd like to read the text, it's very nice.
01:49Therefore, brothers, take note.
01:53I urge you, in the name of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
01:59I thought about the sacrificial theme.
02:01And holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable worship.
02:06Verse 2 is the most important one.
02:09Underline it and put it there in bold, anyway.
02:14Engrave it in your heart.
02:16Put it in your refrigerator.
02:19Don't adapt to this world.
02:24Don't adapt to this world.
02:26But be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the will of God.
02:34What is good, acceptable, and perfect.
02:40Do you notice?
02:41It's an ongoing job.
02:44But we cannot stagnate.
02:47When the Christian adapts again.
02:50When everything is alright again.
02:51Do you remember when we were talking about the risk of normality?
02:55This is over.
02:56Because you think you've already arrived.
02:59And not.
03:01You haven't arrived.
03:02There's still a way to go.
03:07Very long way to go.
03:09But you've settled in now.
03:11You've gone back to adopting worldly standards.
03:14You've stagnated.
03:16You stopped moving forward.
03:19Don't get too comfortable.
03:21Don't get too comfortable.
03:23Christianity, brother, will always be uncomfortable.
03:27It will always be uncomfortable.
03:28Because the world offers us things that do not help us to please God.
03:34They are not good for our lives, for our families.
03:37They have no place in the kingdom of heaven.
03:41The Christian must walk.
03:45It must move forward.
03:47Stagnation will always be a setback in the spiritual life.
03:52And this will always be the danger of the Christian life.
03:56Accommodate.
03:58And stop aspiring to holiness.
04:02To be half new men and half old men.
04:05One of the things I always tell them is, yearn to be saints.
04:10The saints are not the ones on holy cards.
04:13Those are called canonical saints.
04:15In other words, these are people who have lived heroically.
04:20Start there.
04:21All virtues are heroic.
04:23Perhaps we won't be able to experience them in a heroic way.
04:26Well, we're not going to be saints.
04:29It doesn't matter.
04:29But let's not be half new men and half old men.
04:34Let's not get complacent.
04:36Because that invites us to no longer be saints.
04:41And that's not the idea.
04:43God wants us to be holy.
04:47Let's remember that we are in a boat sailing against the current.
04:55And if you stop rowing, invariably, invariably,
05:03you will retreat.
05:05Isn't it the opposite?
05:09We will adapt to the world.
05:12As a result, our lives will deteriorate rapidly.
05:18And I assure you that you will easily return to previous stages of life
05:22that you had already overcome.
05:24Because you settled back in.
05:27Because you stopped rowing.
05:29Conversion is a crisis.
05:33It is a crisis that the process is carrying out.
05:38Through Christ, once and for all,
05:43We have been given a new position in God's new creation.
05:47But day by day, by faith,
05:52We must take ownership of everything that Christ won on the cross and gave to us.
05:59Now then,
06:00to the extent that we surrender to the word of God,
06:06Let us surrender to the word of God,
06:09This will renew our minds day by day.
06:12And it will show us things as they really are.
06:18And it will show us,
06:20as we already saw in Paul's letter to the Romans,
06:23Just now, as we were reading this chapter 12,
06:27which is good,
06:29what is convenient,
06:31and what is pleasing to God,
06:34which is perfect.
06:35On this,
06:37Saint Paul,
06:39What he is doing is echoing the words of Jesus,
06:42in the Gospel of John.
06:44John, in chapter 17,
06:46in verse 17.
06:48What does it tell us?
06:49It clearly tells us,
06:51in this chapter 17,
06:53where he prays to the Father,
06:54says,
06:55sanctify them in your truth,
06:58And your word is truth.
07:01Siblings,
07:02and enter into the word,
07:06at least in my life,
07:08It's always about entering a crisis.
07:11It's always about entering a crisis.
07:13Because?
07:14Because,
07:16as the letter to the Hebrews says,
07:18It's a sword.
07:20It's a double-edged sword,
07:22that pierces the heart of man,
07:26cuts it off,
07:27so that it is exposed,
07:30because intimacy,
07:32of each one of us,
07:32what we truly are.
07:34And this,
07:35And this puts us,
07:37It puts us,
07:38He has to put us on,
07:40in crisis,
07:41Because that's the truth.
07:42I thought I was really good,
07:44And that's the truth.
07:44No.
07:47You need to be better.
07:49And this,
07:52It's a crisis.
07:55But it's a crisis,
07:56which leads to a process.
07:58And to that extent,
07:59whichever one we go in,
08:00meditating on the word of God,
08:03we'll see how,
08:04gradually,
08:05gradually,
08:07the spirit,
08:08it will transform us,
08:10It will give us light,
08:12It will provide us,
08:14the new criteria,
08:16that we must adopt,
08:17adopting,
08:18in our daily lives,
08:19in our daily actions,
08:21which,
08:22on many occasions,
08:24It will be a crisis.
08:25But a crisis,
08:26that is progressing,
08:27a crisis,
08:28that is calming down,
08:29because the word of God,
08:31There comes a time,
08:32in which it begins to be,
08:33really,
08:34part of our life.
08:36That will get us in,
08:37in other crises,
08:39because by acting,
08:40In that way,
08:41Well, people,
08:42Well, he won't understand us.
08:44and we will enter,
08:44in other processes,
08:46of crisis,
08:46that they have,
08:47that to see,
08:48precisely,
08:49with the conversion.
08:53It is said,
08:54that physically,
08:56We are what we eat,
08:57it isn't true,
08:58but spiritually,
09:00are,
09:01what we think.
09:03The book,
09:04of proverbs,
09:05in proverbs,
09:0623,
09:077,
09:08He tells us,
09:08as follows,
09:09because,
09:16how is,
09:17his thought,
09:18in his heart,
09:20such is,
09:21the person,
09:23As it says,
09:24a friend of mine,
09:25So, or to put it more clearly,
09:27the truth,
09:30the thing is,
09:30the conversion,
09:31It begins,
09:32with experience,
09:33and an inner revelation,
09:35of God's love,
09:36As I believe was made clear,
09:38at that Pentecostal moment,
09:40But this must,
09:41now,
09:42continue in us,
09:44the experience,
09:46It must be done,
09:47daily,
09:48stronger,
09:50deeper,
09:52fuller,
09:53and the lighting,
09:57that occurs,
09:57through the word,
09:59he must be guiding,
10:00continuously,
10:01to the Christian,
10:03Yeah,
10:03If there is a light,
10:05There is an insight,
10:06important,
10:07But now,
10:08the word of God,
10:10He continues to guide us,
10:12so that it can be done,
10:13really,
10:13consider,
10:15a new man,
10:17It's a slow process,
10:19I insist,
10:20But it's a process,
10:21It's a slow process,
10:24but I continue,
10:25to die,
10:25to ourselves,
10:27and to die,
10:28also,
10:28to the world,
10:29to their pleasures,
10:30to their vanities,
10:31to all that,
10:32that we are invited to,
10:34but,
10:35no,
10:36that leaves nothing,
10:37within us,
10:39these two elements,
10:41the lighting,
10:42on the one hand,
10:43And on the other hand,
10:45that transformation,
10:46gradual,
10:49They come from,
10:50of a spiritual life,
10:51I would be,
10:55that is to say,
10:56if we,
10:57siblings,
10:57we don't have,
10:58a life of serious prayer,
11:02forget it,
11:07forget it,
11:09It's not going to work.
11:11It's not going to happen.
11:14you need,
11:15necessarily,
11:16you have,
11:19a life of prayer,
11:21I would be,
11:21I would be,
11:23says,
11:26an author,
11:28prayer,
11:29It's serious.
11:30Let's do it seriously,
11:32I mean,
11:32If you don't dedicate time to it,
11:33at least,
11:34As I was saying,
11:35I've told you,
11:35on other occasions,
11:37at least 15 minutes,
11:38which can grow,
11:40the idea,
11:40is that you can get there,
11:41to have an hour,
11:42But it begins,
11:43for 15 minutes,
11:44But if you don't have one,
11:47I mean,
11:47You've already emerged from your Pentecost,
11:49You already went to your retreat,
11:50This and that,
11:52And you don't have 15 minutes,
11:54daily prayer,
11:55forget it,
11:57You will never be a good Christian.
11:59forget it,
12:00Bye,
12:00If you don't have one,
12:06at least,
12:0710 minutes,
12:0815 minutes,
12:09reading,
12:10and meditation,
12:11of your word,
12:123,
12:124 verses,
12:14something that can,
12:15to leave you,
12:16in your life,
12:17subscribe,
12:18to the daily gospel,
12:19It's already been chewed up,
12:20the word,
12:21something that leaves you,
12:22Take an idea,
12:23a thought,
12:24See other authors,
12:26something that,
12:27from the word of God,
12:28Let me tell you,
12:29Oh,
12:29wow,
12:30this,
12:30for today,
12:32If you don't have it,
12:34Bye,
12:35Make an effort,
12:39for confessing to you,
12:40with greater,
12:41more frequently,
12:43once a month,
12:44every month and a half,
12:46take out the trash,
12:47You sin gravely,
12:48because maybe,
12:49You're still at that stage,
12:50where,
12:50mortal sin,
12:51It's still moving,
12:52with force,
12:53within your heart,
12:55No problem,
12:56my friend,
12:59confess,
12:59my son,
12:59every month,
13:01a month and a half,
13:02And if you sin immediately,
13:04Okay,
13:05the next day,
13:06if there's no chance that day,
13:08but not,
13:08remain in sin,
13:10because otherwise,
13:12Life gets stuck,
13:13and you're not making progress,
13:15If you don't make a small effort,
13:19for taking away your little chocolate,
13:22the soft drink,
13:23the little coffee,
13:25What do I know?
13:26the things you like,
13:27How will you be able to resist temptation?
13:32the cesis,
13:33is,
13:34necessary,
13:36in our lives,
13:37that's why,
13:37I invite you,
13:38so that you may have a life,
13:40spiritual,
13:43strong,
13:44that allows you,
13:45that this process,
13:46that you have started,
13:48may,
13:48continue,
13:49And we'll leave it here,
13:50our reflection,
13:52and we returned,
13:52in a moment,
13:53for the third part,
13:55of our,
13:56from our class today,
13:58I'll wait for you in a moment.