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00:00Very well, then
00:29Let's see now, we are
00:31addressing this topic of the
00:33justification by faith and
00:37salvation through works.
00:40When we identify
00:42justification and salvation, and
00:45the latter as a development
00:47end of our life in the
00:49Earth, we commit a great
00:51error, since as I pointed out
00:53As previously mentioned, Pablo
00:55absolute speaks of not being
00:58do works, and that it is enough to
01:00believe in Jesus to remain
01:02saved. Pablo points out that there is
01:05that believe in Christ to remain
01:07justified, that is,
01:10Rehabilitated. An error in the
01:13interpretation of the texts
01:15Pauline that is done in a
01:17frequent, especially driven
01:19because of the Protestant Reformation, it is
01:22translate justification by the
01:25word salvation, which as
01:27You can see it right now on your
01:29screen, the term in Greek is
01:32different. One thing is the
01:35justification and another thing is the
01:38salvation, which is not the same thing.
01:42There is a text from Paul to the
01:45Ephesians, who gives us much light
01:46about this. I want us to go to
01:49Ephesians 2, 3, 9. Formerly,
01:52We too lived like
01:54They, driven by our
01:56sinful desires, following
01:58our own will and
02:00Our purposes. Like the
02:03Besides, we were by nature
02:05object of God's wrath. But
02:08God, who is rich in mercy, for
02:11His great love for us gave us
02:13life with Christ, even when
02:15We were dead in sin. Because
02:19Thank you, you have been
02:21saved, and in union with Christ
02:24Jesus, God resurrected us and made us
02:27sit with Him in the regions
02:29celestial, to show in the
02:31future times the incomparable
02:34richness of His grace, which by His
02:36goodness poured out upon us in
02:38Christ Jesus. For by grace,
02:41You have been saved through
02:43through faith. This does not come from
02:46you, but it is the gift of
02:49God, not by works, so that no one
02:52Let him boast, so that no one may boast.
02:55If we analyze this passage, we will see
02:58verse 5 tells us that
03:01By grace we have been saved. In
03:04This text, grace is used for
03:07to indicate a favor, that is, for a
03:10God's act of love through
03:12Christ. It is evident then that he
03:15It refers to the justification made
03:18freely through Christ. Now,
03:22in verse 7, now grace is
03:25referring to the spirit that has
03:27poured into our hearts, like
03:30We can confirm this in Romans 5:5.
03:34Finally, verse 8 unites the
03:38words grace, haris, salvation, which is
03:43sosó, which comes, is from soter, faith, which is
03:47pistis or pisteuo, and excludes the word
03:52justification, which is dicayos.
03:54In other words, we see that already in this verse it
04:00It already excludes the word justification, but
04:03It includes two important words, which is
04:08On the one hand, faith, which is fundamental, and
04:12the topic of grace, which has to do
04:15with the spirit, which has to do with a
04:17favor, with something that God pours out, that God
04:20It does in our lives. Now, the text
04:23that we mentioned from Romans 5:5, we
04:26He says, and this hope does not disappoint, because
04:29God has poured out his love on our
04:32heart through the Holy Spirit who has
04:35given. It then presents us with the
04:38God's action in the heart of
04:40Christian, who can perfectly
04:42associate with the text of Ephesians that already
04:45We were analyzing it. It's interesting then.
04:48notice how little it mentions the action
04:51of the Spirit in this letter. This obeys
04:54I bet this isn't their motivation
04:56letter to the Christians of Rome.
04:59It should be clear that the work of
05:01God was free and unattainable
05:03by no means other than mystery
05:06Christ's Passover. Paul, in this letter,
05:10He's not interested, at least not in the
05:12The first part, in developing how it should
05:15to be the life of the Christian after the
05:18redemption and under the action of the Spirit,
05:21topics that it deals with especially in
05:23Colossians and Ephesians. Therefore,
05:26You will recall that in the introduction
05:27We said that in this letter we cannot
05:31Take it as if it were summarized here.
05:33all of Paul's thinking, or if this
05:35outside, as another of the theologians said
05:37of the Reformation, if it were truly
05:39Paul's Gospel. No. This is the
05:42Paul's justification for remaining
05:45Of course, nobody can do anything about it.
05:48To be saved. Salvation is a gift from God.
05:52It is something that God has accomplished through
05:54of Jesus Christ, to whom we
05:57We adhere through faith. And this
05:59true adherence to the mystery of
06:01Christ brings as a reward or as
06:04as a result that God pours out his grace on
06:07Our hearts, once again an action
06:09free that comes from the free action
06:11of Christ's redemption, so that
06:14we can really, now,
06:17walking in the Spirit, which we will see a
06:19a little further on, walking in the Spirit
06:22so that we can achieve
06:25Let us truly attain salvation.
06:28Eternal redemption. Therefore, it is important.
06:33have all these elements clearly understood
06:36because it's easy to get confused and say
06:38solely through faith so that no one may be
06:41Glory. Yes, that's correct. Nobody can
06:45to say I was saved because I was very good.
06:48We've already seen that this isn't the case. Furthermore
06:51good that we are, given that the rule of
06:54Goodness is in God, we cannot do it.
06:57We, humanly speaking, cannot do it.
07:01We absolutely need to comply.
07:04something or someone inside us
07:07can fulfill, motivates us, gives us the
07:10Grace, give us the necessary elements
07:14in order to accomplish this. Otherwise,
07:17It's not possible.
07:19So, if we wanted to summarize a little
07:21To shed even more light on this topic, we need to
07:24to refer to the theology of
07:26rehabilitation, as it is also known
07:29this theology of justification in
07:31Pablo. Talking about rehabilitation and
07:34justification are two different forms
07:37to refer to the same action that
07:40God has made man. We can
07:43to say that sin, original sin
07:47made it impossible, rendered the man incapable
07:51in order to attain salvation and this
07:54So that's clear. Sin will...
07:56to block this ability within ourselves to
07:59love, this ability to refer to the
08:03The standard of love, which is God, and this will
08:06completely frustrate the action of
08:08man as a possibility of saving himself.
08:12He has been disqualified.
08:16In other words, this salvation as the final outcome.
08:19of life and participation in the prize
08:21in the sky.
08:23In other words, the man was disabled, no
08:25can, he can't, it was fragmented into
08:27words of Saint Augustine and cannot
08:30Why can he access heaven on his own?
08:32Because he is inept, just as if we
08:36We would like a paralyzed person
08:39Well, I could run 100 meters. One
08:42person who is paralyzed in their
08:43legs, because he can't run. Why?
08:47Why doesn't it have legs? No, because
08:50He is disabled due to an injury in the
08:52column or some other situation. It has
08:54He was disqualified. In other words, he hadn't
08:57no means by which he could achieve it.
09:02He can't do it. Why? Because
09:06is truly incapacitated like the
09:09paralytic. That is, the paralytic is
09:13radically unable to run.
09:16He can't even walk, let alone run.
09:20Thus man, before justification,
09:22that is, from the Paschal Mystery of Christ,
09:25he was radically unable to
09:29to be saved. The Paschal Mystery that
09:32we can identify with the justification
09:35that Christ performs, death and
09:36resurrection, remember the theme of Saint
09:39Juan, rehabilitate the man to gain access
09:42to heaven. If we return to the topic of
09:46paralytic, let's think that because of a
09:48operation, due to some external situation to
09:52That person enables him again to
09:56walk and eventually also to
09:59run. But it's because there was a
10:00intervention, in this case surgical or
10:04in some other way, so that this
10:06The person will be rehabilitated. That is, their
10:09legs could again be able to
10:11to start working. Exactly.
10:13The same thing happens to us. Now, this
10:15a person who is rehabilitated, who is already
10:18He can walk, he can already run, he wants
10:21I don't know if he's reached his goal.
10:24It simply tells him, you can now
10:27Enter the race, if you wish.
10:30You now have the opportunity to
10:32to reach the goal, maybe last
10:34place, but he can go now, because he has already
10:37has been rehabilitated. So, if
10:42Let's go back a bit to the example that
10:43We had something to discuss about the ticket, about
10:47to have a ticket to go somewhere, or
10:50That is, this does not mean that already because
10:52Having it gives me the place. I mean,
10:54They simply handed me the ticket and
10:56Now I need to go. I mean, I need
11:00The works. I have been rehabilitated.
11:06Now I can go to heaven. God, to
11:10through a gratuitous, undeserved act,
11:14not because I've been very good,
11:16because I behaved very nicely, so
11:19You like it, not because of the works. I don't.
11:22I can save myself. The paralytic
11:26He cannot walk on his own. He needs
11:29that someone operate on him, give him rehabilitation,
11:31Someone needs to do something, if it was an injury in
11:34the column, repair it, repair it, repair it
11:37rehabilitate so that he can return to
11:40walking and in that way, being
11:43Rehabilitated, he may, if he so chooses,
11:47to enter a walk or a competition.
11:50This person can remain in their chair.
11:53wheels for life, even when it has the
11:55ability to walk. What would that be?
11:58What happens to a baptized person? A baptized person who
12:02accept faith in Christ, at that moment
12:05receives, immediately receives the
12:09justification, even in baptism
12:11Grace is also received, it is received
12:13The spirit too. But he decides.
12:16He decides to remain seated in the chair.
12:19Instead of going to mass, he decides not to do anything.
12:23In his work, he decides to live, to keep living
12:26as a disqualified person. Well, it's a decision of
12:31each one. That's why salvation isn't
12:34Something that God decides. Salvation is
12:38Something that we are going to decide, because
12:42We have already been rehabilitated. Jesus Christ
12:46in that death and resurrection has
12:49rehabilitated and also gave us the Spirit
12:53Saint, that is, now the capacity to
12:55walk. Now we can, if we
12:58That's what we decided, we can come in
13:01to heaven, because we have already been rehabilitated,
13:04We have been justified. And so, we leave
13:07Here's our reflection, we'll return in a
13:09one more moment to continue with this
13:11topic of justified by faith and
13:15Saved by the works. We returned in a
13:18moment.
13:31Thank you!
13:33Thank you!
13:35Thank you!
13:37Thank you!