Vivendo os últimos dias

 O pastor Eduardo pregou: 

Vivendo os últimos dias.

Os escarnecedores negam, mas aos quais o povo de Deus se apega.

2 Pedro 3: 8-10 Mas, amados, não ignoreis isto, que para o Senhor um dia é como mil anos, e mil anos como um dia. O Senhor não retarda a sua promessa, como alguns consideram tarde, mas que é paciente conosco, não querendo que ninguém pereça, mas que todos cheguem ao arrependimento. ”Mas o dia do Senhor virá como um ladrão de noite; no qual os céus passarão com grande estrondo, e os elementos em chamas serão destruídos, e a terra e as obras que nela existem serão queimadas.

1- Que um dia é como mil anos com o Senhor, e mil anos como um dia: O que nos leva para sempre é nada mais do que um pouco de tempo para Deus, Todas as coisas estão igualmente próximas e presente à Sua vista; a distância de mil anos antes que um evento ocorra não é mais para Ele do que o intervalo de uma tentativa.

2- O Senhor não retarda Sua promessa: A verdade é que Deus manterá Sua promessa, e Ele o fará sem demora de acordo com Seu tempo. Qualquer demora percebida pela nossa perspectiva é dada pela paciência de Deus. Existe um propósito compassivo no tempo de Deus.

3- Não querendo que ninguém pereça, mas que todos cheguem ao arrependimento: Pedro aqui nos revela uma parte do coração glorioso de Deus. A razão pela qual a volta de Jesus não foi tão breve é ​​para que todos venham ao arrependimento, porque Deus não quer que ninguém pereça. Entendemos que Deus não quer que ninguém pereça no sentido de um decreto divino, como se Deus tivesse declarado que nenhum pecador pereceria.

4- Mas o dia do Senhor virá como um ladrão de noite: Embora o amor paciente do Senhor pelos perdidos faça parecer que Ele está atrasando sua vinda, a verdade é que Ele certamente virá. E quando Jesus voltar, Ele virá em um momento que surpreenderá a muitos (como um ladrão de noite). O resultado de sua vinda será uma transformação total do mundo atual (no qual os céus passarão com grande ruído e os elementos em chamas serão desfeitos). Deus poderia destruir a Terra novamente, como fez na época do dilúvio. "Ainda há água suficiente para inundar a Terra, e há iniqüidade suficiente para induzir Deus a destruir a Terra e seus habitantes." (Clarke) Porém, Deus prometeu lidar com este mundo com fogo, e não com água.

5- Viver à luz dos últimos dias e da promessa de Deus. 2 Pedro 3: 11-13 Visto que todas essas coisas devem ser desfeitas, como você não deveria andar em um caminho de vida santo e piedoso, esperando e apressando-se para a chegada do dia de Deus, no qual os céus, ardendo, eles serão desfeitos e os elementos, sendo queimados, derreterão! Mas esperamos, de acordo com suas promessas, um novo céu e uma nova terra, nos quais habita a justiça. Como não andar: “O Rei está vindo; Ele virá ao Seu trono e no Seu julgamento.

Wolf or sheep?

 Pastor Eduardo preached: Wolf or sheep?

 No one can live thinking about deceiving others all the time or taking advantage of people, as if that were a trivial thing.

Every choice has a return. Whatever has been planted will always be harvested. Nothing goes unpunished in the eyes of God, when those who are harmed are "the apple of God's own eyes".

 The difference between a sheep and a wolf inside the church of God is not the outside: on the outside both can look like a sheep. Instead, the difference is in the fruit they bear. As the Lord said:

 Matthew 7:15 Watch out for false prophets! They arrive disguised as sheep, but inside they are wild wolves. 16 You will know them by what they do. Thorns do not give grapes, and nettle feet do not give figs. 17 So every good tree bears good fruit, and a tree that sucks bears bad fruit.

Usually the wolf is very intelligent and observant. It uses tactics that are often very spiritual, but similar to those used by heretical sects, which we will describe later. God is very clear when he says that good trees do not grow bad thorns or fruits. Whoever is on the vine, must bear fruit from the same origin as the vine and not pineapple.

 How do I know if I'm a wolf or a sheep?

1- Fruits: It is not the words, the wonders or the prophecies that mark the genuine in relation to the non-genuine, the wolf of the lamb, but the fruit that is given. And here we talk about the fruit. However, do these things make you a true lamb or give you entry into the kingdom of God, if your fruit is the fruit of the above passage? Well, as the Lord said

Matthew 15:33 You can only have good fruit if you have a good tree. But if you have a tree that sucks, you will have fruit that sucks. Because it is by the quality of the fruit that we know whether a tree is good or not. 34 Litter of poisonous snakes! How can you say good things if you are bad? For the mouth speaks of what the heart is full of. 35 The good person takes good from his store of good things, and the bad person takes evil from his store of bad things.

2- Source: James 3: 11,12 Can fresh water and bitter water come out of the same source?

My brothers, can a fig tree produce olives or a vine, figs? Likewise, a salt water source cannot produce fresh water.

"With the heart one believes". A confession is true when the heart agrees with it. And when there is faith in the heart, then there will also be the respective fruit. “Every good tree produces good fruit and every bad tree produces bad fruit. The good tree cannot bear bad fruit; nor the bad tree bear good fruit. ” It is impossible to have faith and not have the respective fruit. Externally, both the wolf and the lamb look the same: Both look like the lamb. However, it is the fruit that makes the difference.

Lobo ou ovelha

 Pastor Eduardo pregou: Lobo ou ovelha? Ninguém pode viver pensando em enganar o tempo todo os outros ou tirando proveito das pessoas, como se isso fosse uma coisa banal.

Toda escolha tem um retorno. Sempre se colherá aquilo que foi plantado. Nada fica impune aos olhos de Deus, quando os prejudicados são “as meninas dos olhos do próprio Deus”.

 A diferença entre uma ovelha e um lobo dentro da igreja de Deus não é o lado externo: no lado externo ambos podem se parecer com uma ovelha. Em vez disso, a diferença está no fruto que eles dão. Conforme disse o Senhor:

 Mateus 7:15 Cuidado com os falsos profetas! Eles chegam disfarçados de ovelhas, mas por dentro são lobos selvagens. 16 Vocês os conhecerão pelo que eles fazem. Os espinheiros não dão uvas, e os pés de urtiga não dão figos. 17 Assim, toda árvore boa dá frutas boas, e a árvore que não presta dá frutas ruins.

Geralmente o lobo é muito inteligente e observador. Usa táticas que muitas vezes passam por muito espirituais, mas que se assemelham às utilizadas por seitas heréticas, que descreveremos mais tarde. Deus é muito claro quando diz que da árvore boa não nasce espinhos ou frutos maus. Quem está na videira, tem que dar fruto da mesma origem da videira e não abacaxi.

 Como saber se sou lobo ou ovelha?

1- Frutos: Não são as palavras, as maravilhas ou as profecias que marcam o genuíno em relação ao não genuíno, o lobo do cordeiro, mas o fruto que se dá. E aqui nós falamos sobre o fruto. No entanto, estas coisas fazem-no um cordeiro verdadeiro ou lhe dão entrada no reino de Deus, se seu fruto for o fruto da passagem acima? Bem, conforme disse o Senhor 

Mateus 15:33 Vocês só poderão ter frutas boas se tiverem uma árvore boa. Mas, se tiverem uma árvore que não presta, vocês terão frutas que não prestam. Porque é pela qualidade das frutas que sabemos se uma árvore é boa ou não presta. 34 Ninhada de cobras venenosas! Como é que vocês podem dizer coisas boas se são maus? Pois a boca fala do que o coração está cheio. 35 A pessoa boa tira o bem do seu depósito de coisas boas, e a pessoa má tira o mal do seu depósito de coisas más.

2- Fonte: Tiago 3:11,12 Acaso pode sair água doce e água amarga da mesma fonte?

Meus irmãos, pode uma figueira produzir azeitonas ou uma videira, figos? Da mesma forma, uma fonte de água salgada não pode produzir água doce.

“Com o coração se crê”. Uma confissão é verdadeira quando o coração concorda com ela. E quando há fé no coração então haverá também o fruto respectivo. “Toda árvore boa produz bons frutos e toda árvore má produz maus frutos. Não pode a árvore boa dar maus frutos; nem a árvore má dar frutos bons.” É impossível ter fé e não ter o fruto respectivo. Externamente, tanto o lobo quanto o cordeiro parecem o mesmo: Ambos se parecem com o cordeiro. No entanto, é o fruto que faz a diferença. https://www.facebook.com/PastorEduardoAlves/videos/10217774806350030 

KNOWING CHRIST

 Pastor Eduardo preached:

KNOWING CHRIST

1- KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT TRANSFORMATION

 There are people who knew Jesus up close, even in an intimate way, and never got to prove his transforming power. A clear example of this is Judas Iscariot, who, after spending years walking with Christ, still betrayed him. John declared in his gospel that Judas was a thief and stole what was thrown in the bag (John 12: 6); and this information demonstrates that he was never actually transformed.

Someone can come to know a great deal about Christ without ever having known Christ! Evangelical churches are full of religious people, who have been well taught how to be a “good Christian”, but who do not manifest any transformation in their lives! They are always the same, and there is no evidence of genuine change. This is due to the lack of revelation that accompanies a true experience with Christ.

When Paul wrote to Timothy, his son in the faith, he spoke about some people who were living an “untransformed” life:

 "They are always learning, and they never manage to reach the full knowledge of the truth." (2 Timothy 3.7)

2- THE BROTHERS OF JESUS

 Another example of knowledge without transformation (according to the flesh) can be seen in the brothers of Jesus. Many of us have difficulty seeing this because of the Catholic heritage we have received that Mary was always a virgin, but this is not the biblical teaching. God's Word declares that Joseph and Mary were not physically involved until Jesus was born. See what the Holy Scripture says:

 “And Joseph, awakening from his dream, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and received his wife, and did not know her until he gave birth to his son, the firstborn; and gave him the name of Jesus ”. (Matthew 1:24,25)

Another biblical text mentions the names of the brothers of Jesus: “Isn't this the carpenter, son of Mary and brother of James, and of Joseph, of Judas, and of Simon? And are not your sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him ”. (Mark 6.3)

3- REVELATION

Death is an intruder in human experience and is therefore not accepted. Man's greatest desire is to live. To have life he is able to do anything, pay any price, make any sacrifice. "What will I do to inherit eternal life?" Is the desperate cry of the human heart.

"And this is eternal life: that they may know you, only one true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent" (St. John 17: 3).

You see? The secret of eternal life is not only to know a body of doctrines or to accept a particular Church. The secret is the knowledge of a person: the wonderful person that is Jesus Christ. True Christianity is a relationship of two people: the human being and Christ. What matters most in our spiritual experience is not what we believe but who we believe in.

KNOWING CHRIST

 Pastor Eduardo preached:

KNOWING CHRIST

1- KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT TRANSFORMATION

 There are people who knew Jesus up close, even in an intimate way, and never got to prove his transforming power. A clear example of this is Judas Iscariot, who, after spending years walking with Christ, still betrayed him. John declared in his gospel that Judas was a thief and stole what was thrown in the bag (John 12: 6); and this information demonstrates that he was never actually transformed.

Someone can come to know a great deal about Christ without ever having known Christ! Evangelical churches are full of religious people, who have been well taught how to be a “good Christian”, but who do not manifest any transformation in their lives! They are always the same, and there is no evidence of genuine change. This is due to the lack of revelation that accompanies a true experience with Christ.

When Paul wrote to Timothy, his son in the faith, he spoke about some people who were living an “untransformed” life:

 "They are always learning, and they never manage to reach the full knowledge of the truth." (2 Timothy 3.7)

2- THE BROTHERS OF JESUS

 Another example of knowledge without transformation (according to the flesh) can be seen in the brothers of Jesus. Many of us have difficulty seeing this because of the Catholic heritage we have received that Mary was always a virgin, but this is not the biblical teaching. God's Word declares that Joseph and Mary were not physically involved until Jesus was born. See what the Holy Scripture says:

 “And Joseph, awakening from his dream, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and received his wife, and did not know her until he gave birth to his son, the firstborn; and gave him the name of Jesus ”. (Matthew 1:24,25)

Another biblical text mentions the names of the brothers of Jesus: “Isn't this the carpenter, son of Mary and brother of James, and of Joseph, of Judas, and of Simon? And are not your sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him ”. (Mark 6.3)

3- REVELATION

Death is an intruder in human experience and is therefore not accepted. Man's greatest desire is to live. To have life he is able to do anything, pay any price, make any sacrifice. "What will I do to inherit eternal life?" Is the desperate cry of the human heart.

"And this is eternal life: that they may know you, only one true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent" (St. John 17: 3).

You see? The secret of eternal life is not only to know a body of doctrines or to accept a particular Church. The secret is the knowledge of a person: the wonderful person that is Jesus Christ. True Christianity is a relationship of two people: the human being and Christ. What matters most in our spiritual experience is not what we believe but who we believe in.

CONHECENDO A CRISTO

C

Don't stray

 Don't stray, BEFORE IT'S LATE!

Jeremiah. 7: 23-24 “But I commanded them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people; and walk all the way that I send you, that it may be well with you. But they did not hear, nor bowed their ears, but walked on their own counsels, for the purpose of their evil heart; and walked backwards, not forward. ”

 There is only one way for human beings to walk - going forward. But how have you been? Forward or backward? Some believers live in a circle - they have the impression that they are moving and moving, but if you look closely, you will see a hole through which you have walked and no difference in your situation.

Jesus is our security on the way

Mark 10:46 -52 And they went to Jericho. When he left Jericho, along with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the side of the road.

The word of God teaches us to stay on the path and keep on the path and not on the side of the path. What is on the side of the road, the edges of the road, are those who go outside, those who are on the side of the road are vulnerable to many dangers, because the way to heaven is straight, Jesus is that way and not in it at shortcuts, detours, alleys, it is a straight road and those who walk the path are within the purpose and protected by God. When you walk in the path of God you have security.

Others manage to walk in a circle even in their spiritual life - at a certain moment, they are eager to seek and worship God, but soon, they are inside the church murmuring with Him.

To go in circles is to make money and soon to lose what you have just achieved, it is to start a longed-for relationship and soon find yourself alone again, it is to find a good job and, without a doubt, to be unemployed again.

But even worse are those who go backwards - in a good financial moment then they soon lose everything due to financial problems - literally traced the reverse path of growth. They start well and return to the worst.

Hosea 11: 7 For my people are inclined to turn away from me; although they call the Most High, none of them exalt him.

1 Timothy 5:15 For some have gone astray, going after Satan.

Proceed with utmost attention to your character, do not leave any lies along the way, much less a sign of debt or sin, because whoever continues to leave traces will, at some point, have to look back and come back to clean up, clean up all the accumulated dirt wherever he went. Understand that we are all born to advance and take possession of new spiritual territories. And to move forward means to go after God, He has to go ahead.