The Shaped Apostle Sergio Enríquez Guatemala, June 15th Year of Abundance
As we said previously, we are living times of the end and very difficult ones, up to the degree that the world doesn’t regret the death of Christians the seek God, however the world regrets that in a place, that we might consider as a sinful place, several people were killed, we are not saying that this action is less important, because there is no right on taking someone’s life; God gives life and He is the only one who is in charge of taking it; but we cannot let pass by the fact the Christians around the world are being persecuted and sacrificed in many ways and no one regrets it, but when a homosexual is killed the human rights make themselves heard all around the world as if Christians have no value and a homosexual do. Today we see the first power of the world, is in election day in which any candidate that will be president has a work plan that goals in finishing the platform for the antichrist; meanwhile we, the Christians, continue wasting time criticizing, fighting one another, committing sin from the most insignificant way up to the most scandalous sings that are a product of attacks from the enemy against the Church trapping the mind of the Christians. Let’s read the following verses: Romans 12:1 (ESV)I appeal to you therefore, brothers,by the mercies of God, to present your bodies bas a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. With this we see an Apostolic beg no for us to be spoken positively of our life, but to: Romans 12:2 (ESV) Do not be conformed to this world, We need to reach perfection in the middle of a hostile environment that the world’s live, in the middle of a situation that might make us adapt to this world and make ourselves one with those who regret the death of a group of homosexuals. In the middle of this hostile environment that world lives, it is when we have to work the hardest in order to reach the perfection in which God is calling us. This is why this verse says: Luke 21:28 (ESV) Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” This is why we cannot quiet the instruction from God, when He says that we have to work hard to the situations that are moving around the world; as Jerimiah the Prophet encouraged to speak the people of Israel what was about to come and no matter that will take him to jail; he didn’t let the message of God; today we have to do the same and not quiet what God commands us to do, taking care of our life so we continue with the transformation that we must reach in order not to go back and deform ourselves but we need to give our mind to Christ so in the middle of what we see every day; there won’t be any bitterness in our heart because the state we reach with the Word of God, will depend of the way we walk and allow God to transform us. Now well; let’s check the beginnings of the creation with the words God used: BARAH =
to create in different ways.
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The Shaped Apostle Sergio Enríquez Guatemala, June 15th Year of Abundance
ASAH =
to make something out of nothing.
YATSA =
to shape something out of something already created; visible or invisible.
BANAH =
to build, to make or shape.
According to these terms we are able to study the following verses to see in which moment God created, made and shaped: Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV) Then God said, “Let us make man8 in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. After this God shaped the man; this is so important that God shapes us so the devil doesn’t have a chance to be deformed. Zachariah 12:1 (ESV) The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him… In order to understand this, it is necessary to understand that when conception takes place; God sends a spirit that was already created but not shaped, it is there when shaping starts as we read it in Zachariah 12:1. 2 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV) So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self4 is wasting away, our inner self his being renewed day by day. The inner man it is the spirit that God placed and shapes every day as it is described in Zachariah 12:1. This is why it is not possible that we let ourselves be guided by men that pretend to get humanistic conclusions in order for us to live; we must let the Holy Spirit guides us at all times. Isaiah 43:1 (ESV) But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When a person is made but not shaped, he or she has many defects, among then the fact of being a liar as it happened with Jacob. In this shaping God allows us the first to happen is our fears to be eliminated and then our name is changed as it happen with this man and change his name to Israel. This is why it is necessary that we allow God to shape us and in this way our name will be changed. Genesis 2:8 (ESV) And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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The Shaped Apostle Sergio Enríquez Guatemala, June 15th Year of Abundance
Here we read that the person God allows to be shaped is set in the garden to enjoy the best; this is why even if around us is chaos but only for being at the garden nothing will touch us. John 7:4 (ESV) For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” John 7:10 (ESV) But after ahis brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. Psalms 139:1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! We don’t have to forget that God is shaping us in secret for our and other blessing; we do not have to ask to make this process in public, everything that we do or what God is doing with us. He is shaping us in secret.
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