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00:00It's a great pleasure to be with you again in this wonderful course following in Paul's footsteps.
00:24where we see, as we were saying earlier, as we follow his path, as we see the things that he surely also struggled with,
00:33We are seeing that all of this is part of our Christian life and that little by little we can see how, with these instructions given to us by the Apostle Saint Paul,
00:45We can overcome it. Especially as we've seen in these last two videos,
00:53the tremendous importance of the action of the Holy Spirit in us,
00:59which is contingent upon our response in prayer,
01:06in our response primarily in prayer, in the sacraments, in the word,
01:12And in that daily effort we make, which we call asesis, to get closer to him
01:19and removing from everything that could bring for us, therefore, an inconvenient relationship with the Lord.
01:26But let's talk a little more now about life according to the Gospel.
01:30Another of Saint Paul's great statements regarding the new life he is proposing to all his communities
01:39And that is precisely what identifies us as Christians,
01:43It is the way of life that must be identified with the Gospel of Christ.
01:50Indeed, the apostle says in the text of Philippians 1:27, if you would like to join us,
01:57He says, just behave in a way, listen, worthy of the Gospel.
02:08If you have the chance, underline the word, worthy of the Gospel.
02:14The new man, converted to Jesus Christ, not only does not steal, does not kill, does not commit these kinds of sins,
02:27but also that their life must be the pride of Christ.
02:32Christ must say, "I am proud of you."
02:35This is the expression of Saint Paul that makes our lives, therefore, identified.
02:42It must identify with the entirety of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
02:47That's why Jesus is proud, because he says, what I taught, you are now living it.
02:54If we think about it, he's talking about life.
03:00He is talking about how we behave, about the behavior a Christian should have.
03:04This life that we lead, that we live, must be worthy of the Gospel.
03:11In other words, it must be in complete agreement with it.
03:15With this expression we understand that the Gospel is not a document that we have to read
03:22or that we have to know by heart,
03:25but it is the rule of behavior for those who have been born again.
03:31Okay, this is the rule of behavior for those who have been born again.
03:38There are people who then tell me, "Man, Father, I've already read the entire Bible."
03:43Dude, it doesn't seem like this has impacted your life.
03:48People who know quotes and quotes and quotes and quotes, but then you see that their life is not in accordance with the Gospel.
03:56Sometimes, wow, that's really terrible, not even in the simplest, most basic things of the Christian life.
04:06The Gospel is the rule of behavior for those who have been born again like you and me.
04:16That's why it's so easy to spot a Christian, because he's a different kind of person.
04:25The Gospel, especially today, has little or no agreement with many of the situations in our modern life.
04:35Obviously, if you follow the Gospel, people will notice, because you won't be following the same path they do.
04:45but you will follow the path that Jesus has laid out for you.
04:48And this makes you evident to others as a disciple, as a true Christian.
04:55If nobody recognizes you, if it's not noticeable, brother, as I always say, if it's not noticeable, then it's because you're not you.
05:04If it's not obvious that you're a frog, then you're not a frog.
05:09You have no green color, you have no palm grove, you have nothing, because you are not a frog.
05:13That's why I really enjoyed these spiritual exercises I gave, where I identified that transformation in Christ.
05:19As if it were a transformation of a human being into a frog, right?
05:24All the things that are changing, the color, the taste for water, the palm groves, in short.
05:30There is a transformation that is not physical, as in this case of the frog, right?
05:37But there is a moral transformation, there is an intellectual transformation.
05:42What I used to like, I don't like anymore.
05:45What I didn't like before, well, now I like.
05:48In short, there is a true transformation in each of us.
05:54And all this, then, further explains why evangelization is necessary.
06:02And above all, the personal acceptance of this gospel.
06:07Most of our Catholics, as we have said, are traditional Catholics,
06:13as you and I were before our Pentecost.
06:18Like you and I were before the evangelization course.
06:23In other words, when before your course, you had personally accepted,
06:31You had agreed to live according to the gospel.
06:36I can almost guarantee you didn't even know him.
06:42Most Catholic Christians haven't even opened the Bible.
06:47They have one or two that were given to them as gifts, or at their baptism, or for this or that, right?
06:51We have already seen it in the evangelization course.
06:52I mean, without this, how are we going to live evangelically, right?
07:02I have to decide that if Jesus says red, then it's red.
07:07If it says green, then it's green.
07:09In other words, it is to follow the instructions of the master that are in this book.
07:15The gospel is more than letters and knowledge.
07:23It's like I said a while ago.
07:25It is the Christian's rule of life.
07:29A rule that must always be lived and everywhere.
07:34At all times.
07:35Not just when we go to mass or when we go to the group.
07:38Always.
07:42Sadly, today the gospel is far from the lives of most Christians.
07:50And we do not see that there is a way of life that provides an exemplary way of being according to what Jesus taught us.
07:59Brother, this must not happen to us now.
08:04It shouldn't happen to you.
08:05We, you and I, have decided to be disciples and witnesses of the love of Jesus and, of course, also of his gospel.
08:18We cannot be like everyone else.
08:22People need to recognize you.
08:24That is why we, as Christians, reborn of the Spirit, must live and begin a new life in Christ.
08:38In this sense, Antonio Romero says that the Christian life becomes holy when one walks with Christ,
08:50which sanctifies our way of life in all its manifestations.
08:59In all aspects of our lives, she shows herself to be Christian.
09:05People should see you as a Christian man.
09:11And that's why it directly affects moral life.
09:16The new man is new because he is morally new, because his actions will be different.
09:22In his letters, the apostle Paul leads us to contrast the characteristics of the old man with those of the new man in Christ.
09:34That is why we see that, particularly in the letters to the Ephesians, in Galatians, and in Corinthians,
09:41It makes the community see the vanity of life without Christ and the fullness we find in Him.
09:50Remember that you are writing to very complicated communities, particularly Corinth.
09:58It was a town, it was a city, right?
10:01Very important, it was a very important port, but very pagan, wasn't it?
10:06I mean, Ephesus, I think I was telling you that it had one of the largest temples of sacred prostitution in antiquity.
10:16If I remember correctly, he had more than a thousand prostitutes at the service of the cult, of this pagan cult.
10:23In other words, the evangelization of these cultures was not easy, just as it is not easy for us either.
10:30That's why when they say, "Oh, it's difficult to evangelize our culture," well, I don't think it was any more difficult than evangelizing the Corinthians.
10:37Or more difficult than evangelizing the Ephesians, right?
10:41And yet it was achieved. Why?
10:43Because Paul displayed a different life.
10:47His life was an invitation to others.
10:50This invitation was completed, as the late Pope Paul VI said,
10:59that his words were accompanied by his testimony.
11:06Testimony and word always went together.
11:09And what did this achieve?
11:10The conversion of cultures, if I may use this word,
11:14more perverse than there were, including the Roman one.
11:20Obviously, the Roman law was not something that could be passed immediately.
11:28It was a long process, but by Paul's time there was already a community in Rome.
11:36We don't know how large the community was,
11:38But we know that it grew and that little by little it even reached the court,
11:43It reached the soldiers.
11:45One of the oldest papyri we have,
11:49The oldest one we have is called the Raylings papyrus.
11:54which is in a museum in England,
11:57which appears to be a papyrus from the 2nd century.
12:00It is a small part of the Gospel of Saint John
12:02which was found in a Roman soldier's backpack.
12:06This tells us two things.
12:09First, regarding the originality of our texts
12:13which the copyists have been transcribing
12:17and that it reaches us.
12:19But we found a papyrus from that time,
12:23because the more recent papyri we have,
12:28because they are from the 7th, 8th, 9th centuries, etc.
12:32But they found it in a soldier's backpack,
12:34That is, imagine a Roman soldier who converted,
12:40How can we not convert,
12:42How can God not convert even the hardest and most wicked person in this world?
12:47Of course it's possible.
12:49What is needed?
12:51To know the Scriptures in order to preach them,
12:54but to preach it from our own lives,
12:56so that people may see in us this Scripture made flesh.
13:03Otherwise, then what is this all about?
13:06If I had learned one more course?
13:09Did I go to 34 meetings last year to pass around popcorn?
13:13Are we going to meet Jesus?
13:18but never say yes to him in the Jordan
13:20or in your Christian initiation course?
13:24No.
13:27In other words, the community
13:28This change has to do with us,
13:32this transformation.
13:37The reading of the Gospel, then,
13:42invites us
13:44not only to know the structure
13:49from Sacred Scripture,
13:51but to realize
13:53that this Gospel
13:57It was written for us
13:58and for all future generations.
14:02It's something we have to experience ourselves.
14:06Because it was written for you and me.
14:08in this 21st century,
14:10so that we
14:11we can also verify
14:14this big difference
14:16of life with and without Christ.
14:21So, it's something that
14:23we have
14:25that understand
14:27that Christianity
14:28It is to live in accordance with this.
14:32That's why, Pablo,
14:32in all his letters,
14:34in a way
14:35or another,
14:36It makes us see
14:37that the Christian life
14:38It has nothing to do with it
14:40with the life of the world
14:41and that sometimes,
14:43As I was saying a little while ago,
14:45It is completely contrary.
14:47Therefore,
14:48What it does is
14:49emphasize
14:50what Jesus told us
14:52in the Gospel of Saint John.
14:53You
14:55They are not
14:56of this world.
14:58And we'll leave it here.
14:59This reflection,
15:01We'll continue a little while longer
15:03talking
15:04of this topic
15:05of the problems
15:07and
15:07the great challenges
15:11which presents us
15:12Christianity
15:13in our next chapter.
15:16Meanwhile,
15:18well,
15:19Let's take a look at it
15:20to the appointments,
15:22check it out
15:23how much do you look alike
15:24That's what Pablo says.
15:26in the Letter to the Corinthians,
15:28how much do you look alike
15:29of what Saint Paul says
15:30in his Letter to the Galatians
15:32in chapter 5.
15:33In the end,
15:34try
15:35to reflect
15:36all of this.
15:37Remember
15:37that all this
15:38It is a profound reflection.
15:41You can watch it again
15:42again
15:43and again
15:43This video,
15:44take notes,
15:45check the appointments,
15:46internalize it,
15:48question yourself
15:49and above all
15:50go check it out
15:51that your life
15:52wow really
15:53taking
15:54a different dye
15:55and that your life
15:56it will be
15:57truly evangelical.
15:59See you
15:59God willing
16:00within a week.
16:02God bless you, brother
16:03and so
16:04that the Lord
16:05always fill
16:06your life
16:07of his spirit
16:07and of his love.
16:09See you
16:09next week.
16:11Until then.
16:15Thank you!
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