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00:30Hello dear brothers and sisters! Welcome back to our virtual classroom for Active Evangelization.
00:36We are now progressing in the last module of our Pauline writings; we are looking at the spirituality of Saint Paul.
00:45Well, we've made progress; we've already seen some of the elements of Paul's spirituality. Last week, we looked at the topic of the church.
00:56And along with that, another very important topic, which he will actually dedicate a lot of space to, is that all his letters are completely filled with the topic of the Holy Spirit.
01:10And we have already spoken about how the new life in Christ is born from baptism in which the Holy Spirit is received,
01:18who will be the one to encourage each person and, therefore, the church.
01:23We can say that one of the original convictions of the early Christian community,
01:30It was that of being animated by the invisible power of God, which had been promised by Christ before he ascended to heaven.
01:39Certainly for believers in Jesus, when he spoke of this power that was the promise of the Father,
01:45They could hardly have understood what we understand today.
01:49Since the idea of the Holy Spirit does not exist in the Old Testament, at least not as we understand it,
01:58This person that Jesus has revealed to us, yes, he existed, he has always existed, but he had not been revealed until the coming of Jesus.
02:07Although the imprint of the Holy Spirit is present throughout Scripture, from Genesis,
02:14When God speaks in the plural, let us recall the first verses where He says,
02:20Well, there you have the essence of the Trinity.
02:25even the mentions in which the Spirit possesses a prophet or a king,
02:30which, however, is not something common and operational as we have it today.
02:37Today, therefore, it has manifested itself in all its power and has created the spiritual man.
02:43This spiritual man who is the image of Christ.
02:46That is the function of the Holy Spirit, to make us Christ-like and fill us with his love.
02:53That is why this will be one of the fundamental themes of Saint Paul's theology.
02:59This novelty is evident in many documents, not only those of Sacred Scripture,
03:05but rather writings that were developed by lay people,
03:08in which they testify to the importance and vitality of this gift received by the Church.
03:16The letter to Diognetus, to which we continually refer, bears witness to this.
03:21since it is a very important document from the early stages of Christianity.
03:26It states that what the soul is to the body, the spirit is to the Church.
03:33This tells us about the importance; that is, if we do not have the Holy Spirit within us,
03:40Well, we really cannot speak of a true Christianity, and therefore we could not speak of the Church either.
03:46The theme is so important to Saint Paul that it appears throughout the Pauline Corpus,
03:53In all the letters attributed to him, we find about 146 mentions of the word pneuma.
04:01This Greek word, which means breath of air or wind,
04:06It now designates, depending on the case, the spirit of man or the Holy Spirit.
04:11The reader of the Greek text of the New Testament knows the difficulty involved in its translation in many cases,
04:20when to write the word in uppercase or lowercase.
04:24In other words, we don't know exactly when to write with a capital letter or a lowercase letter.
04:29because we must keep in mind that texts, especially original ones,
04:36or the oldest texts we have, all are written in capital letters.
04:43Therefore, it is not always easy to know when it refers to the Spirit of man or the Holy Spirit,
04:50when Paul only uses the word pneuma.
04:54Sometimes it's almost impossible to make a decision,
04:57given the fact that the Spirit of the Lord deeply permeates the Christian spirit.
05:03We can see this in one of the texts in which Paul involves both senses of the word.
05:10Let's look at Romans 8, 9.
05:13In this text the apostle tells us,
05:16You are in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in you.
05:23We can see the word Spirit twice there.
05:26The first one, at least as understood, refers to the Spirit of man
05:32and the second to the Spirit of God.
05:35However, we could well speak of a spiritualized Spirit
05:41where it mixes, where there is a communion more than a mixture,
05:46There is a communion of the Spirit of God with the human Spirit.
05:49The most abundant mentions of the Pneuma Spirit are found in the first letter to the Corinthians
05:55and in the letter to the Romans.
05:57Between the 34 and 40 mentions that can be read respectively in each of these letters,
06:0418 of the 34 that appear in Romans
06:07and 22 of the 40 that appear in the first letter to the Corinthians,
06:14These appear to designate the Pneuma Holy Spirit.
06:17This shows us the sheer amount and complexity of power.
06:22at a certain point, then, separate the two elements of Neuma Holy Spirit
06:27and the man's pneuma.
06:31Now, outside of Ephesus, the writings attributed to St. Paul are relatively more discreet.
06:38In Ephesians we also have a strong profusion of the theme of the Spirit
06:44and in the others he doesn't mention it as much,
06:47although we could certainly find it in all of them because it is a fundamental theme for Saint Paul.
06:55However, this invisible force acts differently in each person.
06:59and gives him different gifts or charisms.
07:02So, it's now the application, the use of the Holy Spirit in our own lives, right?
07:10The Holy Spirit will develop gifts or charisms in us.
07:15Jesus had already spoken to us about this, and let me quote some of the most important texts.
07:22I want to propose a reference point that we will take directly from the Gospel of Luke
07:29to maintain more or less the same theology as Paul,
07:33since Saint Luke, as we know, was a direct disciple of the apostle.
07:38We can see that the Holy Spirit appears from the very beginning of the Gospel of Luke.
07:43which becomes a source of life for the incarnation of the Word.
07:46It is precisely through this action that Mary receives the conception or the conception takes place.
07:56We can see in the text of Luke 1:34-35
08:00This text, which directly refers to the action of the Spirit,
08:06Since Mary asks the angel, "How will this be?"
08:09since I don't know a man.
08:12And then the angel answers him,
08:14The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
08:22Therefore the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
08:27We see then how the Spirit is the begetter of Christ.
08:32In other words, it gives him human characteristics.
08:35The Holy Spirit takes on a personality there.
08:39In this text we also find one of the most mysterious and powerful actions of the Spirit,
08:45who, acting as in the beginning of creation, generates life in Mary,
08:51in which the Spirit, taking on the nature of Mary,
08:55It unites her to the new creation from which the incarnation comes as a result.
09:01This truly leaves us speechless, for it speaks to us of a creative Spirit,
09:07which in Paul's theology will be the cause and agent for the new birth to occur,
09:14and thus be able to become new men.
09:17The old man dies,
09:19and the Spirit gives new life,
09:21resulting in a new creature.
09:25That is why the Christian is truly a new creation.
09:29It has been recreated by the action of the Spirit,
09:33in a manner similar to how it occurs in the incarnation of the Word.
09:40We are not God, nor does anything like that happen in that sense,
09:46But we are a new creation.
09:49We acquired new properties from you,
09:51more ontologically in our being,
09:54Upon being baptized, he acquires a new property,
09:57which is what will allow us to live eternally in heaven with God.
10:02Their operation, as we can see, is completely mysterious.
10:05and it throws us into the infinity of God's being and his creative power.
10:11With the coming of the Spirit,
10:12It is God himself who now operates from and within us.
10:17God himself operating in and through us.
10:22If we continue reading Luke,
10:25It is also noteworthy that Zechariah,
10:28who will confirm the presence of the Messiah in the town,
10:31He was also filled with the Holy Spirit.
10:34This confirms how the texts of the Old Testament already contained it,
10:40And with this, he opens the reflection to the Old Testament,
10:43and it lets us see that indeed,
10:45As we already mentioned,
10:47The Spirit was already present in the Old Testament,
10:51where it is also presented to us in multiple forms,
10:54primarily by strengthening the warriors,
10:57And being the instructing voice of God,
11:00admonishes and guides the people through their kings,
11:04of the priests and the prophets.
11:06Zechariah, on this occasion,
11:09prophesy, speak in the name of God,
11:11because he is filled with the Holy Spirit.
11:14The New Testament presents us with a new vision,
11:18For Jesus is announced by the Baptist as the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
11:25We see this great union that exists between Paul's vision and Luke's vision.
11:30Lucas is the one who most profusely,
11:33with more insistence,
11:34He speaks directly of the Holy Spirit.
11:37Let us remember that baptizing comes from the verb baptismein,
11:41What does submerging mean?
11:44In other words, the main function of the Spirit will be to immerse us in God,
11:50in a spiritual fire that ignites and transforms the nature of man.
11:56This vision of immersion is clearly seen in the baptism of Jesus,
12:00especially in the case of the synoptic Gospels,
12:03because it shows us how the Spirit is poured out upon him.
12:07Thus the rite of baptism reveals to us clearly
12:11the action prophesied by Zechariah of being immersed in God,
12:16in living water,
12:18We find this basically already in the theology of Saint John.
12:21Another of the fundamental actions of the Spirit
12:25It is to lead man to a purification,
12:28so that, being completely empty of himself,
12:32may fully receive the life given by God in baptism.
12:37That is why we see how Jesus is led by the Spirit into the desert,
12:42theological place of the purification and revelation of God.
12:46According to Luke 4, Jesus, filled with this Spirit
12:52is now led in his prophetic mission,
12:55a mission that is confirmed by the prophet Isaiah,
12:59which he had already written many years before.
13:03of the action of the Spirit in the Messiah.
13:06Therefore we read how the text of Luke 4,
13:10Verse 1 refers to this.
13:12This text says,
13:14Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit,
13:17He returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.
13:24Indeed, He is already the one who is full,
13:28He is God.
13:29However, it is a way of indicating
13:31what the Spirit later did in our baptism,
13:35would.
13:36Jesus was always filled with this Spirit.
13:39But it is an indicative form,
13:41especially in Pauline theology,
13:43how the Spirit arrives
13:45and takes complete possession of the person.
13:48Something that certainly always existed in Jesus.
13:52However, we must remember
13:54that Jesus had to make a lot of progress
13:56in their knowledge.
13:59He went little by little,
14:00through the action of the Spirit,
14:02He revealed it to Himself,
14:04He gradually revealed his divine nature to her.
14:07to be the Son of God.
14:09Let's then notice the two words
14:12which we have already mentioned,
14:14full and carried or led,
14:17that we just mentioned
14:19in this text from Luke.
14:22When a man is filled with the Spirit,
14:25He will always be led by the Spirit,
14:28because he now takes it without difficulty
14:31the will of man
14:32and makes him a new man,
14:34guided by God
14:35and he guides him
14:38towards the project of love
14:41that he has for him.
14:43So,
14:44in a symbolic way,
14:46representative,
14:47Jesus,
14:48upon being baptized,
14:50It lets us see the action
14:51that the Spirit performs now
14:54within us,
14:55the baptized.
14:56With this,
14:57Saint Luke
14:58make it clear
14:59some of the many actions
15:01and reality
15:02of this invisible Spirit
15:03that acts with great power
15:05in man.
15:06We see that Lucas
15:07it tells us
15:08at the end of his Gospel
15:09and the beginning
15:10from his second book,
15:12the book of Acts
15:13of the Apostles,
15:14the need
15:15of this Spirit
15:16as an active power
15:18in the life of man
15:19without which
15:20It cannot be done
15:22God's loving plan.
15:23and how we will see it
15:25with Saint Paul,
15:26makes it impossible for man
15:28to reach salvation.
15:30Without this Spirit
15:31we cannot aspire
15:34to have a new life
15:36in Christ
15:37and without it
15:38we will not be able to
15:40carry out the work
15:41who asked us to.
15:43That's why he tells us
15:44in Luke 24:49
15:46that Jesus
15:47I was going to send
15:49About Us
15:49that promise of the Father
15:51referred to precisely
15:53to the Holy Spirit
15:54and he asked them
15:55to his disciples
15:56that they would not abandon
15:58the city
15:59until they were
16:00coated
16:02of this power
16:03from above.
16:04He tells us
16:05of this power.
16:07So it shall be.
16:08the new reality
16:09of the Christian
16:10who is
16:11under the action
16:12of the Spirit
16:13who empowers him
16:14It gives him power
16:16to perform
16:17the work of God
16:18avoid sin
16:20and direct their lives
16:21towards fulfillment
16:23in Christ.
16:24These brothers
16:25because it helps us understand
16:27the why
16:29for Saint Paul
16:30the man
16:31He no longer lives
16:32under the law
16:33under standards
16:35that do not save
16:36but under
16:37the power
16:38of the Spirit
16:39who is now
16:40enables
16:41to the man
16:42not only
16:43to avoid
16:43sin
16:44but now
16:45He directs it
16:46towards a new life
16:48full
16:48of justice
16:49peace
16:50and with joy
16:51as clearly
16:52It expresses it
16:53in his letter
16:54to the Romans
16:54in chapter 14.
16:56And well
16:56Let's stop
16:58one moment
16:58in our reflection
17:00and we continue
17:01in this
17:02very interesting
17:03issue
17:04and above all
17:05mystical theme
17:06of reality
17:07of the Holy Spirit
17:08in the writings
17:08Paulines.
17:09We're back
17:09in a moment.
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