The Restoration Apostle Sergio G. EnrĂquez O. Guatemala, June 10th of the Year of Abundance
Luk 10:30-37 (Voice) Then Jesus answered and said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. (31) Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. (32) And likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. (33) But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. (34) So he went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. (35) And on the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come back, I will repay you. (36) So which of these three do you suppose was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves? (37) And he said, He who showed mercy on him. Then Jesus said to him, Go and you do likewise. We have already heard and read this story, and maybe we’ve heard some preaches about it. We need to consider some things, which are important of it; this man is very adventurous, because he lived in Jerusalem, and then he goes to Jericho looking for a better life. Possibly, arguing that his decision of moving of place to live was told by the Lord, situation that we can see in many cases among the Christians of today. This action gets depreciation, like the priest and the Levite did. They thought that the suffering of the man was a consequence for leave the church, and go to the world, they thought that his condition was all that he deserve. For this reason, they didn’t help him. Many of us were like that wounded man. Maybe, in some moment we leave the right way and the good things that God had for us, but we needed help. Nevertheless, we can analyze the attitude of the Levite and the Priest, sometimes we act like them with people that leave the church, and now they live in hard conditions. They get apart from the wounded man, leaving him alone. Then, the Samaritan appears, representing our Lord Jesus Christ, who was merciful and rescued him. This story calls us to restore others, people who leave the church. We cannot have the attitude of the brother of the prodigal son, which judge him and depreciate him for his decision of leave the place that God gave to him. Also, forgetting to give him a second chance. The thoughts of his brother should be in favor of the prodigal son, he needed to open his eyes to the work that God has made in his life throughout the process. We can be important elements and tools to restore others, so they can come back to God. It is not about the number of the people that has the church, not about his size. They need a real restoration in their lives, in the heart of the people that decide to get back to the house of the Lord, which need to be an eternal refuge and be fulfilled of the love of God. This needs an effort of everyone, so our life can be different. If someone feels unworthy of come back to God, to his house, let me tell you that our Lord, Jesus Christ, sees you with merciful eyes and he comes to look out for you, so you can come back to him. We need to be like the Samaritan, be his voice.
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The Restoration Apostle Sergio G. EnrĂquez O. Guatemala, June 10th of the Year of Abundance
Everyone needs a second chance, because we fail. With our mistakes we’ve learned, we need to come back to our first love with God, we need to look for it. We need to repent and cry before his presence. Some Christian missions, made the services like us, with worship and preaches; but, with the pass of the time, many things inside of the service to worship God are used to take off our attention and blessing, distracting us from the presence of God and seeking him first. Some of them, classified as arts. We need to focus on him. We need to teach this love to the people that is coming back again; people that were victims of the enemy, who stole their love for God. We need to teach and share this love, so they can be restore throughout the power of the Holy Spirit. Luk 10:34 (Voice) So he went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The Bible shows us that the Samaritan travel on his own animal. In that times, the people that had a good patrimony, had animals to travel on them. The wounded man, was unworthy of any help, but then, this man appears. He took him, and brought him and placed him in his place, mounted on his animal. Then, he took care of him. Also carried him to a god place to restore him. Exo 4:20 (KJV) And Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. Jethro, the father in Law of Moses had a lot of animals, but Moses asked him just for a donkey to carry his family. This represents family unity, because everyone were mounted one the same animal. On the way to Jericho, the enemy could destroy the family of the wounded man, for this reason the Samaritan mounted him in his animal. So, he could receive a restoration for his family, for his own life and for the life of each one of them. We need to comprehend that the major of the riches in this world is the family, because is a link that is very difficult to break; even if it suffered, and has some wounds, the Lord shows us that there is restoration to renew the family. The first opportunity that is given to us, is the family restoration. Those things that are repetitive in a lot of homes, in a negative way, they could be destroy by the unction of the Holy Spirit. There is something new for us, always. There is a new story for our family, and now, the unction of Elijah can work in us: turning the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, like a part of the final times. In this verse, Moses is coming back to Egypt, the place where he fail, where his brothers rejected him; the same place, where he killed a man and he had the fault of it; where his adoptive father assigned a price to his head. The place where he fail. But, then he get back to that place with the rod that God has given to him on his hand, which had the power of God. We have to know that in the place that we have problems, God is going to give us the victory, the healing and everything that we needed. The rod of God on our left hand, will makes us triumph in the place where we failed. This is our hope: the rod and the staff will comfort us. We know that the unity is uncomfortable, the wife of Moses and his two sons were mounted on the donkey, but even the incommodities, and we need to make an effort to have unity in our home.
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The Restoration Apostle Sergio G. Enríquez O. Guatemala, June 10th of the Year of Abundance
1Sa 25:18 (Voice) Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already done, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. In the place where are sited those who were wounded, because they were rebels and they had problems, God lifts them up and shows them his love. Firstly, they need to eat and drink the Upper Supper, it represents the loaves of bread and the skins of wine. The roasted grain means that the one that eat it, it´s maturing, because that person doesn’t receive the bread, receive the grain to make its own bread; this means another level of instruction, because this person has evolve or reached maturity, and this person can get the Rhema (Living word) of a preach that heard or read about the Holy Word. The clusters of raisings means food and the figs help to encourage the spirit, also heal the spirit, the soul and the body. The name of Abigail means: My father is joy, in consequence, the joy of the Lord comes to us. Zec 9:9 (Voice) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and having salvation, lowly, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the foal of an ass. The city of Jericho was damn, an example of all that we shouldn’t do. That wounded man was in the way to that city and God was merciful with him. He have an encounter with Jesus. He was mounted on a donkey and on the apostle’s garment. This man have an encounter with the most humble man. The humble people edify others, also promote that the people closer to them be humble too. We need to understand what to be humble means, because there are a lot of people that think that humility is synonym of dress like a poor. Another people think to be humble means talk in a wrong way about themselves. This is not real humility. The Lord never talked in a wrong way about himself, nevertheless he spoke what he really was, and he was the most humble person ever on earth. One day, a God man was in a problem, because a hundreds of his enemies came to attack him. Then, he saw a fresh jawbone and he thought that it could help him, and with it he killed a thousand men; we talk about Samson. This shows us that God can put ourselves in a place where we reach the triumph against our enemies. Those who mount the chair of the Good Samaritan, are going to have a restoration for their life, for the life of their family, justice, salvation, bread, wine, grain to prepare their own bread, joy and healing. All of this is available to us, if we decide to get back to the Lord or reaffirm ourselves in him.
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