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