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Welcome to this ninth

class, the ninth video in the course The

Ministry of the Word of God. On

this occasion we are going to touch on a topic

that I hope will be not only interesting, but

also important to you. It also

has to do with the burden of the word

and the formation of the minister of the Lord.

What do we mean by this

burden and what does it have to do with the

ministry of the word?

Well, when we read the prophetic books,

prophetic books,

we're going to find that many times a

word that's used for prophecy or

God's message is the word burden.

Here we have, for example, in Isaiah 13

verse 1, the prophet says or writes

the burden of Babylon, that is, the

word of God, which the prophet

felt as a burden and he had to

convey it about Babylon.

In the book of Naum it begins, there are two or

three prophetic books, it begins this

way too, right? In the Reina Valera,

but in the original Hebrew text it says

the burden of Ninebeth, that is, the

prophetic message from God that Nahu

receives with a burden and he has to

announce that word.

We can also look at Jeremiah 23,

verse 33, it

says, "When this people or

the prophet or the priest asks you, 'What

is the burden, what is the prophetic word

of the Lord?' you shall say to them, 'What burden shall

I leave? I will leave you,' says the Lord."

So this word, which in Hebrew is the

word masa,

communicates to us the concept that the

word of God becomes a burden

for the servant of God when he has to

preach the word to others.

Now, here we face this interesting challenge.

challenge.

When God reveals himself

to a pastor, a preacher,

he reveals that word, the pastor

feels it with a burden.

I imagine many of you who

preach have felt that from time to time.

time.

During the week, they begin to feel that

they have a very clear word from God

for the church and they begin to feel a

sort of emotional, spiritual charge

within them.

And it must be said, brothers, that if the

preacher does not feel that burden,

a true ministry

of the word will not occur.

He may speak, he may teach, he may

convey certain truths, but he

will not be a true ministry of the

word in the full sense of that

word. That is, he will not have reached the

level of preaching

expected of a pastor. It

is essential

that the preacher feel a burden in order to

preach. Or we change the metaphor

using a figure that the prophet Jesse

Jeremiah used.

The word of God has to be like a fire

fire

burning inside the preacher

to the point that he cannot contain it and he

has to go before the church on Sunday

and proclaim the word of God. I hope you

understand that concept.

Now let's think first about

how we receive that load. It

actually happens when God

reveals something to us as we study

the Scriptures.

We are reading a passage from the Bible

when suddenly the Holy Spirit

makes us feel the importance of a text.

We feel the impact of that revelation from God.

God.

And it is when we feel that impact of a

text, a word, a verse in the

Bible that the generation of the

burden begins. It is not yet the charge itself, it is

simply the seed that will give

rise to the charge.

What the preacher has to do next

is continue studying that subject under the

direction of the Holy Spirit. This is where

human responsibility comes in. God doesn't

do everything for us.

He begins the process by giving us a certain

revelation, a certain indication of what

he wants to teach us to communicate to the

church. Then comes our

responsibility to study this

subject thoroughly under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit.

And when this is happening correctly,

correctly,

as the study progresses, you

begin to feel a growing responsibility

responsibility

to communicate the teaching

that the Lord is placing in your heart.

heart.

In this way, through study,

meditation, and prayer, the burden increases,

increases,

and the preacher begins to realize

that he will not find relief from that burden

burden

until he can preach.

Preaching is the way and the time

in which he will unload that burden.

So let's move on to communication.

of the burden of the word of God.

Obviously to discharge that

responsibility the preacher has to

use words. He's going to be in the

pulpit and he's going to speak.

These words he uses allow him to

synthesize the burden and transmit it to the congregation.

congregation.

Obviously the preacher's main goal

is not simply to relieve himself

of the burden personally; that would be very

selfish, wouldn't it? What he wants to do is

transfer that burden from himself to the congregation

congregation

so that the church leaves, the

congregation leaves the temple feeling

that they have heard the word of God, that they

now have a burden, a

responsibility to put into practice

what God has said.

Now, sometimes you have to admit that the

pastor can't find the right words.

right words.

When that happens,

he finds that when he preaches he fails to

communicate the burden appropriately.

And that's sad.

And when that happens, the pastor

realizes that after

preaching he doesn't feel that relief, he feels like he

failed to convey that burden and

therefore he carries it himself.

The congregation also realizes

something and feels the message is a bit light.

because they do not leave with a burden of having

heard the word of God and are

aware of that absence in the

preaching. I imagine you

have experienced this many times

when listening to a sermon.

They've gone to church with

great expectations. They've listened to the preacher,

preacher,

he's been hard-working, eloquent, and emotional,

emotional,

but in the end, it all seems a bit light,

light,

and they leave the service unclear about what

God has told them.

Now, sometimes the problem is lack

of experience.

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As I was saying, there are preachers

who, when they try to convey the

word of God or try to put

that burden into words, fail to

convey it effectively. They

talk a lot and the listeners do not understand this

burden clearly

and the result is frustrating

for both the preacher and the listeners.

listeners.

At times, the church senses

that the pastor truly had a burden,

wanted to communicate something important,

but they feel the pastor didn't find

the right words to convey

that burden. And that's why the church leaves the

service, not feeling that they have heard

the word of God well. At least the

Now,

on this matter of receiving the word to

transmit the burden, let's read what the

apostle Paul says in First Corinthians,

chapter 2. Will you remember that passage? It

isn't true? Paul says, "We

have not received the spirit of the world,

but the Spirit who is from God."

So that? Note these words, so

that we may know what God has granted us.

granted us.

There is the moment of revelation.

When God gives a person a burden to

study the scriptures, God has

given him something, a word, a burden.

Now, how are you going to communicate it? Well,

Paul goes on to say, "Which we

also spoke about."

That is, we speak what God has granted us.

granted us.

And how do we talk?

Not with words taught by

human wisdom, no,

but with words that the Holy Spirit teaches,

teaches,

accommodating spiritual things with spiritual things.

spiritual things.

Here the preacher has

a great ally in the Holy Spirit.

First, the Holy Spirit uses the

Scriptures to reveal something to you, the

germ of an idea.

Then you continue to study and deepen

that idea until you feel a burden on

your heart. What God is

showing you is very important for the

Christian life, perhaps very important for the congregation.

congregation.

Now, the big question the pastor

begins to feel, how do I communicate this to

the church? How do I convey this to the

church? And there the preacher begins to

cry out to the Holy Spirit. Give me words.

Help me to be able to transmit well this

burden that you have given me.

Now let's explore this

process of converting charge into words a little further.

words a little further.

Obviously, when God first

reveals something to us in the Bible, we

grasp it in our minds,

but often what we are grasping is not very clear .

For example, sometimes, and I'm sure

this has happened to you many times, we are reading the Bible when

suddenly the Holy Spirit leads us to

But it's not clear why he's doing it.

doing it.

There begins our responsibility to

take time to reflect and meditate

on the essence of the truth that God

is revealing to us.

Now, in this process it is important to

seek God's help,

not to rely on our own

abilities or knowledge. Sometimes

this is the mistake that many preachers make. They

preachers make. They

are reading the Bible one day, they

feel the impact of a text, a verse,

verse,

and without further ado they trust that that is enough

to preach. Maybe they are in a hurry, don't

have much time, feel that God

has told them something and mistakenly trust

that this is enough.

What happens when they go to

preach? Well, they put the pulpit in,

they read the scriptures, now they try to

communicate that first impulse that the

Holy Spirit gave them, and what they find is

that they go around and around the

issue and fail to clearly convey

what they felt in their hearts, and

the church ends up a little confused.

We are relying on our own ability

instead of investing time and asking for the

help of the Holy Spirit.

And here, brothers, how important it is to

have a broad knowledge of the

Bible and theology

to pass all these thoughts

through the biblical and theological filter.

To do this, we often need to

continue studying and

meditating on parallel passages,

trusting that God will clarify that

initial concept so we can communicate it

well to the congregation.

Now, the apostle Paul himself did

not trust himself.

He said to the church in Ephesus,

pray for me

that when I open my mouth to

preach, I may be given the word to make

this mystery known boldly.

So here the preacher has to

rely on a double help from the

Holy Spirit. First, the

Holy Spirit reveals a truth, and then the

Holy Spirit gives words

to expand on that truth and

convey the burden to the listeners.

Let's give an example. A

few days ago I was reading the book

of Genesis and my devotional. And I came to

chapter 26 of Genesis, verses

15 and 18. Let me read these

verses. You can look it up in your

Bibles too. Genesis 26 verses

15 and 18. And I noticed something interesting here.

Verse 15, speaking of

Isaac's experience,

says, "All the wells that

the servants of Abraham his

father had dug in his days, the Philistines

stopped them up and filled them

with earth."

And then I read verse 18.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water

which had been dug in the days of

Abraham his father, and which the Philistines

had stopped up after the death of

Abraham, and he called them by the names which

his father had called them.

So when I read that passage, I felt the

Holy Spirit in my heart. Here's

something important to note.

First of all, why did the Philistines

stop up those wells?

Humanly speaking, it's a bit senseless,

isn't it? The Middle East, water

was so important. Who will cover

the wells that Abraham dug? But that's

what the Bible says.

And then Isaac is looking for water, where does he go?

go?

to the wells that his father had dug,

but which were now covered up. Isaac

has to uncover those wells. Note that

they are more than one.

Another detail says, Isaac called them by

the names his father had given them.

Now, let us remember that all scripture

is inspired by God.

Every word is important.

So here when we read that each well

had a name,

Isaac obviously knew the names

because he had accompanied his father and now

Isaac renames them back to the

original names. Now, why is

that in the Bible?

That was my question. What is God

trying to tell us?

So I continued reading, verse 19.

But when Isaac's servants dug

in the valley and found there a well of

springing water, the herdsmen of Gerar

quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen,

saying, "The water is ours."

Therefore he called the name of the well Esek,

because they had quarreled with him.

And then they dug another well and

quarreled over that one also, and he called its name Sidna.

Sidna.

And he moved away from there and dug another well,

and they did not quarrel,

and he called its name Rebot. Now, what

is the Holy Spirit saying in all of this?

this?

Let's move on to verse 32.

On that day

Isaac's servants came and told him

about the well they had dug.

They told him, "We have found water." And he

called him Seba. For this reason, the name of

that city is Verba, the well of water.

water.

Now, Beersheba became an important place,

important place,

so I was left with the question, what

is the Holy Spirit

trying to teach us?

through these seemingly

seemingly

everyday incidents that have no

spiritual significance, but are here

in the Bible.

So the Holy Spirit gave me that curiosity,

curiosity,

what is my responsibility now? Now I

have to begin the process of study,

researching in more detail,

trusting that the Holy Spirit will guide me.

guide me.

to what was happening. Why did they

cover those wells? What was

Isaac doing looking for more water? Why did he give them

the names he did? What does it mean

when they stopped fighting with Isaac?

Brothers, here there will be a very

important lesson to learn and perhaps to

communicate to the church. I hope you

realize this example. It's

one thing to grasp the initial idea.

The Holy Spirit gives you the burden to

understand something. It

doesn't reveal everything to you at once, no.

That's why we have to study,

research. But we don't do all that studying

in the flesh, we don't do it

trusting in ourselves, we do it

trusting that the Holy Spirit will guide us.

guide us.

Therefore, I repeat, sometimes we feel that

God is telling us something in his word,

but sometimes

a closer study of the text does

not confirm it. I

mean, many times we can have an

initial idea about something

and an idea catches our minds and

we think God is telling me something.

But when I start studying, I

realize that I was wrong for some

reason, that that word doesn't mean that

or that I wasn't grasping the

context correctly, whatever.

Brothers, listen carefully.

How important is it to have discipline?

to put that idea aside

and accept that maybe it

wasn't a revelation from the

Holy Spirit, but rather my own thinking.

thinking.

And the most dangerous thing of all is falling in love

with that idea that I had.

And although we can't

clearly confirm it in the Bible, we are so

in love with that idea

that we take it to the pulpit to preach,

insisting that the church has to

listen to what I feel and what I think.

think.

And brother, frankly, not only is this a

grave error,

but sects or heresies come from this . For

. For

example, we

might be reading Deuteronomy 28,

verse 13.

We read these familiar words: "The

Lord will make you the head and not the tail."

And how many people reading that have

suddenly jumped to the conclusion, God

wants to make me personally

tremendously successful so that I can

climb the ladder in the company

or whatever and eventually become the CEO.

CEO.

and we begin to fantasize that God is

giving me a word

or that the church where I am working

should not remain a small church.

Rather, that church must grow and grow

until it becomes the largest building in the entire

city, and we are filled with great

ideas and want to justify it in light

of the Bible.

But further biblical and theological reflection will

show us, first of all, that

this word is a promise of the old covenant,

covenant,

not the new covenant.

That old covenant was made with a

political nation Israel, it

was not made with the church

or with believers personally.

That is why it is applied to the nation of Israel

in the Old Testament. God did not want

Israel to be a small nation, but

a great nation and this was fulfilled in the

kingdom of Solomon.

But we cannot apply it to the church or the

believer today. Why

not? Well, first of all because

and the new covenant has other promises.

Furthermore, this contradicts certain

principles of the New Testament. For

example, if we go to First Corinthians,

chapter 1,

we're going to read that the apostle Paul says,

"The Lord has chosen

what the world despises and I saw it and

what is not."

And in that passage the apostle Paul does not

say, he does not say that he chooses those people

and then makes them tremendously

great so that they are impressive.

impressive.

No, what Paul is saying is that God

purposely does this and puts his tremendous

treasure in a clay vessel

so that the excellence of the glory will not

be ours.

but of God.

In Matthew 19, do you remember? The Lord

warned the Jews that they always

sought the highest positions,

they wanted to be the highest, the most

important, and Christ turned everything upside down.

down.

He said, "Do not seek the first

places. Do not seek to be the head, but be

at the tail, says the Lord." How

interesting. Totally the other way around, isn't it?

it?

And if we read that passage in First

Corinthians 4, the apostle Paul describes

his apostolic ministry

and Paul clearly says,

"The apostles, what are we?

The best, the most important, right?"

Paul says, God has put the

apostles in last place

so that the church and the believers would

go forward and the apostles would be reduced.

reduced.

Of course, Paul is speaking ironically

in a certain way to the Corinthians,

but Paul never had the idea that he

wanted to be the head and not the tail.

So, how much error has been caused in

the church

when we have misinterpreted

biblical texts, especially from the Old

Testament, and we pretend to apply it to the

Now, in this process of finding

words to transmit the burden, we

must take this thought. The words

of God

in human words is what the

preacher has to do. During the

week he receives the word of God, right?

right?

But on Sunday he has to transmit

those divine words with human words.

human words.

Mostly when God reveals himself, he is going

to use divine words, that is, we are going to be

studying the Bible. I have used

the example of Genesis 26.

I'm talking about biblical words like

well, Isaac,

Abraham, the Philistines.

All of that comes from Scripture.

But when I receive a burden on that

passage to preach on Sunday, I'm

not going to limit myself to using those biblical words.

biblical words.

Why not? Because the church needs to

understand how it applies to their

personal lives. Because, brothers, if we don't

do that, I can give a whole

sermon about Isaac and Abraham and the

Philistines about something that happened almost

4,000 years ago

and it all remains as something historical.

The church doesn't gather to hear

Bible history. That's

why I have to find the

right words to interpret this

passage and apply this passage to the congregation. I

congregation. I

have to be able to answer the question:

Isaac, who does he represent?

Abraham, who does he represent? The

Philistines, who do they represent? What do the

wells of water represent? It's

a lot of work, isn't it? A lot of

reflection, a lot of thought,

and I have to know the vocabulary of the

congregation to use words that

they will understand. They will understand.

understand.

Because if I use Very sophisticated words,

technical words perhaps from books

I've read, the church will not grasp

the word of God. Do you

realize, brothers? Preaching is not a

simple thing.

Preaching is very complicated. It

has several stages, several processes,

and we have to be skillful

in going through these processes.

I emphasize, not trusting in

ourselves, not trusting in my

experience or my spiritual gift,

but trusting in the help of the

Holy Spirit in this entire process.

Now, when we go to the Bible, this is

exactly what we find.

If we read the letters of Paul, Peter,

John, James, we will find that

each one has his own way of speaking and his own

particular vocabulary.

They all transmit the word of God,

but in Pauline words, in

Petrine words, in Johannine words, or in the

words of James.

And the truth is that sometimes another apostle

found it difficult to grasp what another

apostle was saying. The apostle

Peter, for example, 2 Peter 3:16,

he confesses

that there were things in Paul's letters

that were difficult for Peter to understand.

In part, I I imagine, because Peter didn't

have Paul's mind or

Paul's vocabulary.

And Peter confesses very honestly,

there are certain things in what Paul

writes that are difficult for me to grasp.

grasp.

And brothers, we are not surprised because the

biblical authors themselves

found it difficult to communicate the

burden of God's word,

in this case due to problems within the congregation.

congregation.

For example, haven't you felt,

reading First Corinthians 3:1-4,

a certain frustration on the part of the apostle Paul? He

wanted to teach the Corinthians profound things,

profound things,

spiritual things.

But Paul says, "I cannot speak to you or

write to you as spiritual

because you are carnal, you

are dividing yourselves, there are fights among

you. And if I try to put the

word of God in

spiritual terms, they're just not going to get it."

get it."

And Paul was feeling frustrated.

The author of Hebrews too, if you read

Hebrews 5, verse 11 through chapter 6,

verse 3, the same thing. The author of Hebrews

Hebrews

says, "I wanted to teach you, to give you

meat, to give you deep things from the

word of God,

but I can't because you, having

been believers for so long and

ought to be teachers, have become again

like babies, needing spiritual milk."

spiritual milk."

And in chapter 9, the apostle Paul

mentions various aspects of

Old Testament worship.

And the author of Hebrews, sorry. And the

author wanted to explore and explain the

spiritual meaning of each element

of the tabernacle,

but he realized that the readers

couldn't grasp it.

So sometimes as pastors we notice that problem.

problem.

We want to convey something profound to the church.

church.

The church is not always in a

position to accept it

and it is a struggle that we have and we must

ask the Holy Spirit to help us.

Now, whenever we look for our own words

our own words

to convey a teaching Biblical, we

should always strive to use biblical words.

biblical words.

In what sense?

If we look here, brothers, at the books of

the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation,

we have an incredible variety of books,

books, experiences,

experiences, teachings,

teachings,

illustrations, and characters.

characters.

And obviously, when we are going to teach something

from the Bible, it is best to use examples

from the Bible,

illustrations from the Bible, to

soak the preached word with the Bible.

Of course, that requires a

broad knowledge of the Bible. We

have to know the Bible very well

from Genesis to Revelation, to have all that

information at our fingertips, in our minds,

minds,

so that the Holy Spirit makes us remember

remember

what we have read.

Brothers, I confess, my

experience as a preacher is beautiful.

How many times have I been reading, studying the

Word of God, and suddenly the

Holy Spirit makes me remember a text, a

passage, a story, a

biblical illustration? And how wonderful it is to be able to

fill that sermon with many

biblical examples. That is the ideal way to express

the burden that God gives us.

But apart from knowing Well, the Bible, there

is one more very important element

in this whole process of selecting

words to transmit that burden, that

revelation of God, and these are the

The reception of the burden

and the transmission of it

depend on the kind of person we are.

are.

And here, brothers, we have to start

being very honest, each one of us, even though it may

hurt and make us uncomfortable. I repeat,

the reception of this burden, that is, the

ability for God to speak to me

and for me to speak to the church,

all depends

on the kind of person I am.

Light people, in quotes, are

only going to receive light burdens. God is

not going to give them more because people

cannot receive more.

Their soul, their spirit is not

big or deep enough to

receive a deep burden.

Imagine, let's compare the

revelation of God to a tank

with perhaps 1,000 L of water,

and it is not as lifeless as a 1 L bottle.

L bottle.

That 1 L bottle cannot receive 1,000

L of the tank.

What we are going to receive from God depends directly

directly

from the greatness or smallness

of my soul, my heart, and my mind.

Now, brothers, you will understand why

so many messages in the churches seem light

light

or superficial.

And brothers, even in large churches,

I confess, even great televangelists, I

hear them preach and I wonder,

how in life do they have so many listeners?

Because they haven't said anything?

That message has been totally light,

flabby, as we say.

Dear brothers,

in order for us to be good ministers of

the word, God will have to form us.

God will have to deepen

our soul, our spirit,

so that we can grasp God's revelation

and God's burden. Let's

listen to what Watchman says about this.

about this.

The kind of person we are

determines the kind of words we speak.

we speak.

How interesting.

The kind of person we are determines

determines

the kind of words we speak. If

we are a superficial, immature person, it

will be very difficult to understand when

God wants to tell me something profound.

So the question, brothers, is, what

makes us superficial people?

First of all, thinking only or

mostly on superficial things. It

must be acknowledged, although it is sad to say,

say,

there are pastors who think a lot about things

like fashion, soccer,

numerical success, appearances,

those things fill their thoughts.

When you speak with that person

intimately, you realize, those are the

things that interest them.

Obviously, they are going to be very superficial people.

The topics that a person talks about in private

private

indicate whether they are a deep person or a

light person.

Another thing that makes us light

is when we think only about ourselves.

ourselves.

How many pastors think basically about

their ministry, their family, their

possessions, their health? They almost never

think about others. They

also think about superficial things and also about material things

like how much money they are paying me, what

material things I can achieve, what things I

long to have, where I go on vacation.

If our minds are filled with those

superficial things, we are obviously going to be

superficial people.

And all of that is going to be reflected

in the burden

we are capable of receiving from God

as well as the ability to communicate it. There is an

interesting example in the life of

Abraham in Genesis 18. Do you remember that

great servant of God?

In Genesis 18, he receives a visit from three

spiritual beings.

One seems to be the angel of Jehovah, the

Lord Jesus, before the incarnation, the

other two angels.

And after the two angels leave for

Sodom and Gomorrah, the angel of Jehovah

remains speaking with Abraham, and we read the following:

following:

I will hide from Abraham what I am going to

do to the city of Sodom,

Abraham being a man who walks with Me,

with Me,

who will teach his children to walk in

My ways.

In other words, the Lord began to

look at Abraham's life and realized

Abraham was a profound person.

Profound, because his entire mind and heart

were on the things of God.

And God reveals to Abraham, gives him a

burden about what God is about to do in

Sodom and Gomorrah. And of course, Abraham,

who had just heard that Sarah was going to

have a son,

instead of running back to speak with Sarah,

Sarah,

stays interceding for Sodom,

showing the depth of that man of God.

God.

But notice, compare the experience with

Lot, the following chapter.

The two angels arrive at the house. of Lot.

Lot realizes there's a danger

of violence here,

and Lot, frankly, acts very badly.

But the next day, when they get up,

get up,

Lot is supposed to be in a hurry

to get out of that city, but he's not.

The angels have to hurry him. Read,

read Genesis 19, verses 15 to 20.

The angels have to hurry him, and he doesn't

want to leave.

And then Lot says, "But no,

we're not going very far. Let's go to this city

right here."

And the angels are pleading with Lot to

leave so that he won't be consumed in the

destruction of Sodom.

And do you remember that when Lot tried to

warn his future sons-in-law, they took the danger

as a joke?

With a joke?

All of this indicates the tremendous superficiality

superficiality

of Lot.

And that's why Lot's end is so sad. He

was a believer. Yes, Lot was a believer .

But he ends up in a cave.

A sexual life with his daughters was so unpleasant.

unpleasant.

Brothers, let's be very careful

how we use our minds,

what things we are interested in.

Let's allow God to deepen our

minds and our hearts,

especially if we want to minister the

word of God. Now, how does

God do it? How does He deepen us? First of

all, through the internal ministry

of the Holy Spirit.

Every believer

has the Holy Spirit dwelling within them

them

and that Holy Spirit begins to mold us

mold us

and transform us and place things in

us so that little by little we think

the things of God and have the word of

God. Listen to what Watchman says.

Thanks to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,

God can incorporate something of His being into us,

incorporate something of His being into us.

So that when we think

and speak,

the word of God flows through us.

us.

The minister of the word must allow

the Holy Spirit to reconstitute us

so that we may have the word of God.

Their thoughts must not only

agree with God's thoughts,

but they must be His thoughts. How

must not

simply conform that what I think or say

is in agreement with God's thoughts

, but even more so

that what I think

is God's thought.

That is, God, through His Spirit, works in

my inner being. He

so attunes me to God

that I begin to think the

same way God thinks,

I begin to speak the same way God speaks.

speaks.

And we can see this process in Second

Corinthians 3, verse 18. How the

Holy Spirit transforms us into the

image of the Lord Jesus—

our whole being, our

behavior, our words,

our thoughts into the image of Christ,

Christ,

so that when we speak, it

is Christ speaking.

When we think, it

is Christ thinking. That

is the goal. of the Holy Spirit.

But then there's also the whole aspect

of trials and difficulties that God uses

to mold us.

This goes hand in hand with the internal work

of the Holy Spirit. Trials and

difficulties are the external work God

does in us, molding us like the

potter's vessel.

Watchman says, "God has to sculpt us.

sculpt us.

We are shaped

or carved

by the struggles and trials he

allows into our lives.

In other words, what he is

saying is that we by nature

are like a block of marble in shape.

And for God to conform us to his image,

image,

for our being to reflect what God is,

is,

he has to take his chisel and

hammer and start hitting and hitting and

hitting this block of marble, removing

everything that is carnal and worldly in

us so that little by little the form

of God is manifested in us.

Obviously a long process,

a hard and painful process

for the word of God to emanate from a

life sincere for God.

In essence, this is the ministry of the word. It

word. It

is the word of God that comes

from a life

sincerely spoken by God in the trials and

What we will be able to talk about from God

God

is closely related to what

we have learned

about God's work in our lives.

In Hebrews 12, verse 11, the author

speaks of God's discipline in the

life of a believer.

And he acknowledges, discipline is never

something pleasant, it always causes a lot of pain.

pain.

But in verse 11 it says, "But in the end

end

this discipline produces the peaceful fruit

of righteousness.

In whom?

In those who have been trained by

discipline." You have to notice that

word exercised. In Greek, gumnazo.

We have the word "gym" in Spanish,

where you do exercises.

Many believers, unfortunately,

when they go through a discipline from God,

simply endure it, put up with it,

but they don't learn.

And if we don't learn something, that test is of little use .

Brothers and sisters, we must understand that in

every difficulty that God allows, he

wants to transform us, make

us sincere, and prepare us to be his ministers.

ministers.

For example, the case of Paul, 2

Corinthians 12, the famous thorn in the

flesh, something very painful for Paul.

Paul asked God to take it away three times

. God told him, "No." What did Paul do?

Paul do?

Did Paul insist

that God had to take away

the thorn?

Paul set out to declare, to

declare with faith that the thorn was free

. No, brothers.

What did Paul do?

He heard the voice of God

through the sting.

And because he started listening to God

instead of just declaring that he was free

from the sting, he started listening to

God and began to understand why God

sent him that sting or allowed it.

And then Paul accepted God's will

for his life to such an extent that Paul

ends up glorying

in the thorn.

And notice when you read that passage, now

comes the word of God.

This apostle has been trained

in God's gymnasium through this

thorn in the flesh.

And now the word of God comes out.

God's grace is sufficient for

us. How many of us have heard that

great statement?

But you have to notice where it comes from.

From a man who has been formed by God

God

in the fire of discipline and suffering

suffering

so that the word of God may come forth from a

deep person, a deep soul, not

superficial, who understands the things of God.

God.

And that's why Paul says something so paradoxical:

paradoxical:

the power of God is manifested in weakness.

weakness.

So from that moment on, the

apostle Paul stopped trying to feel strong, he

strong, he

stopped trying to psychologically

make himself look strong, he

didn't accept his weakness

because he had learned something very important.

important.

The weaker he was,

the more the power of God would manifest itself.

manifest itself.

And that's why Paul could say, "God has

put this treasure in earthen vessels."

Today there are many pastors who don't

want to be vessels of clay, they want to be

vessels of gold, they want to show off, they want to

be impressive, they want people to

congratulate them,

but that's not the case, brothers.

The word of God is not going to come from a

golden vessel.

The word of God will come from a

clay vessel,

a vessel made pure by God, so that the

word of God may come out of that vessel. Let's

finish with some quotes from Watchman

that I find very interesting. It is

worth meditating on.

First, he said, "God makes us

go through many trials. He

allows us to be tested even through

other children of his, other believers.

As we learn,

we receive the word of God.

It all depends on our willingness to

submit to God's plans.

We receive his word

to the extent that we obey him

and bow down before him in submission.

submission.

The word of God is written on the

tablet of our life, it

is engraved on every fiber of our being. That is

being. That is

why God allows his ministers to

go through many difficulties.

Each difficulty clarifies and perfects the

word of God in us.

That allows us to stand and preach the

word of God. And that word encourages and

blesses the children of God. It

becomes a word of light.

At another time he says the following: That is

why ministers of the word

must first be tested

so that they may know God deeply

in the furnace of affliction.

In that way they will be prepared to

minister Christ to those who listen. It

is because they have endured much,

that they can help much and have much

to give.

God has placed us to supply the

needs of many of his people,

and that's why we must endure much more than others.

others.

What depth of thought that

last part is.

God has placed us as ministers of the

word to supply the needs of many.

many.

In the church, 50, 100, hundreds of

believers. How much need is there for a single preacher?

And that's why the preacher will have to

endure much,

much more than others,

so that from that depth of his soul

he has something to say that can help

many people.

But then Watchman adds something very, very

important, brothers.

All these struggles and trials

are to teach us one fundamental thing:

fundamental thing:

that with Christ we are more than conquerors,

that he is the source of eternal life,

that we need nothing but him,

that he is sufficient for any

desert and any tribulation.

Why is it important to note that?

Because God doesn't want to use us to

teach stoicism,

that is, to endure trials.

There are believers who are very stoic; they

endure trials,

but they never find that Christ is

sufficient for them. That's why they

always walk around sad, with their heads They

come to the services discouraged, they

are already enduring, they are not there, they are not

going backwards. But where is the

joy of the Lord? Where is that fountain

of water that they bubble up with?

God does not want to teach us to be passive

or to be content with what we have, no.

God wants to use us to transmit

words of eternal life, words of

abundant life. That is

why, like Paul, we

must rejoice

when struggles come, when

difficulties come into our lives,

it is because God is preparing us

to have more words to give to others. You

can read these passages in Second Corinthians.

Corinthians.

As Paul testifies of his

tremendous difficulties and struggles in the ministry,

ministry, all so that Paul can

all so that Paul can comfort and have words of encouragement for

comfort and have words of encouragement for the church in Corinth.

the church in Corinth. And brothers, that is my

And brothers, that is my personal testimony as well.

personal testimony as well. From the moment God converted me

From the moment God converted me until I arrived at the mission field, God

until I arrived at the mission field, God had to make me go through many

had to make me go through many difficulties.

difficulties. Difficulties in

Difficulties in romantic relationships, problems at church,

romantic relationships, problems at church, problems with the pastor, problems with the

problems with the pastor, problems with the university evangelical group, tension

university evangelical group, tension in the seminary, etc., etc.,

in the seminary, etc., etc., etc. Very difficult years.

etc. Very difficult years. And I was wondering, "Lord, what are you

And I was wondering, "Lord, what are you doing with my life? Why is

doing with my life? Why is all this so difficult?

all this so difficult? And it was when I arrived in Peru and began to

And it was when I arrived in Peru and began to serve the Lord

serve the Lord that I began to realize.

that I began to realize. God was deepening my soul,

God was deepening my soul, preparing my heart, my spirit to be

preparing my heart, my spirit to be able to transmit,

able to transmit, even in a very poor way,

even in a very poor way, some of the word of God and the burden of

some of the word of God and the burden of that word. spiritual.

that word. spiritual. So here we end with the

So here we end with the apostle Paul's exhortation to Timothy. He

apostle Paul's exhortation to Timothy. He says to him, Timothy, you must look for

says to him, Timothy, you must look for faithful men whom you are going to teach, who

faithful men whom you are going to teach, who are also capable of teaching others.

are also capable of teaching others. But before beginning that process,

But before beginning that process, Paul says, he suffers hardships

Paul says, he suffers hardships like a good soldier of Christ. You

like a good soldier of Christ. You will never be able to form other soldiers.

will never be able to form other soldiers. If you're always looking for shortcuts, always

If you're always looking for shortcuts, always looking for ways out to avoid suffering, you

looking for ways out to avoid suffering, you 'll never be able to train other soldiers.

'll never be able to train other soldiers. So endure the suffering first and

So endure the suffering first and then you will be able to give voice and train

then you will be able to give voice and train others as well.

others as well. We see, brothers, again the tremendous

We see, brothers, again the tremendous challenge

challenge of being a minister of the word of

of being a minister of the word of God.

God. No one should get involved in this task

No one should get involved in this task simply because they want to.

simply because they want to. Only God has the right to call

Only God has the right to call a person to this ministry,

a person to this ministry, and each person he calls

and each person he calls will be subjected to suffering and

will be subjected to suffering and put through many trials

put through many trials so that they can become good

so that they can become good ministers of the word of God. Father,

ministers of the word of God. Father, thank you for sharing these teachings with us

thank you for sharing these teachings with us .

. I pray, Lord, that they may be useful to

I pray, Lord, that they may be useful to us in our Christian life.

us in our Christian life. Work in us,

Work in us, especially those of us who are

especially those of us who are called to administer your word.

called to administer your word. Deliver us

Deliver us from being superficial men.

from being superficial men. Deepen our soul, our

Deepen our soul, our spirit

spirit so that we can be a blessing to

so that we can be a blessing to many people.

many people. In the name of the Lord Jesus

In the name of the Lord Jesus we ask this. Amen.

we ask this. Amen. Amen. Brothers, may God bless you and

Amen. Brothers, may God bless you and the next class will be the last, so we

the next class will be the last, so we look forward to it in a week. M.

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