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00:00Well, here I am again with you to continue moving forward with this, which I think is very important.
00:26that we understand what conversion is. That's why we said at the beginning of this week's chapter,
00:33We said that we have to start from this experience and understand what it is.
00:38Because otherwise we would think it's just another ritual, something that happened and we went and trained and put up the Bible,
00:43Yes, we said a series of prayers, but did it happen? Have we truly begun a life in the Spirit?
00:53We have been authentic in accepting Jesus. Conversion is truly a process.
01:02Yes, as I was saying, there's no need to rush. God will reveal his Son to you in due course.
01:09The important thing is to stand firm in what you have decided, in what you know.
01:16And as I've told you and will tell you a thousand times more, let's not abandon prayer,
01:22Let us not let go of the word of God, let us not let go of the church.
01:27Because once we do that, we've once again entered the enemy's territory.
01:33And we will surely end up, if you'll excuse the expression, we will end up getting thrashed.
01:40So, let's pay attention to this and realize how this Pentecostal experience,
01:46This experience, this Christophany, has to develop within us.
01:51We could say that, well, somehow, deep inside us,
01:58as happened inside Paul,
02:01The value of the salvation that Jesus accomplished through his death and resurrection was revealed to him.
02:09He then reveals himself as the Messiah.
02:11He is the Messiah of God's plan and He gave, He provided a new vision of the history of salvation.
02:23With this, he inaugurates the messianic era and the waiting of the people of Israel comes to an end.
02:31with the definitive realization of the arrival of the Savior.
02:36All this revelation, we don't know if it's because it's infused, happens at that moment.
02:44It will happen gradually during the three days of fasting and darkness,
02:48where the new man was conceived.
02:51In other words, there was a process, at least it seems that way.
02:56Yes, there is a revelation, there is a moment like the one you had.
02:59But there is a process of inner revelation that is what is happening in your life right now.
03:07The fact that the encounter with the resurrected Jesus Christ, the Messiah,
03:12in whom the prophecies were fulfilled, would leave him blind,
03:17It shows through this sign, that is, it externally reveals the inner blindness
03:23that Paul had in relation to faith, in relation to Christ.
03:29I have already made this clear in many of my sermons in various ways.
03:35that blindness in the Gospels, and we could say, in general in the New Testament,
03:42It is an outward sign of a lack of faith.
03:46The blind man has no faith.
03:51To be blind is to be blind to the light of God.
03:57That is why only when Paul receives baptism,
04:02He will regain his sight.
04:05In this way, what is theologically accomplished in baptism is physically fulfilled.
04:13It is from that moment on that the illumination comes in.
04:16There are a number of symbolic elements that help us understand all of this.
04:24Benedict XVI, in the General Audience of September 3, 2008,
04:29in which he speaks of the conversion of Saint Paul,
04:32He affirms that since Jesus is the light,
04:37The act of beginning to see is the outward sign of conversion
04:43which allows us to see the evidence of the kingdom and the new reality brought by Christ.
04:50It's only from there.
04:53It is only from this illumination that God works on the heart.
04:59how can I understand what the kingdom is?
05:03What is the kingdom?
05:04Therefore, as I mentioned,
05:09Well, you start to see things in a different way.
05:13To love in a different way.
05:15Because you see things differently.
05:18You see your wife differently, your children differently,
05:21Your different job, your different community.
05:24Your own life is different.
05:29It is something that God encourages.
05:32And that is why, theologically, biblically,
05:36We find it as spiritual blindness.
05:40We don't actually see that many people,
05:44So many people are blind,
05:46all those people walking in the streets,
05:49so many people
05:51who go to mass, once, twice, a thousand times, and all their lives.
05:56And they are blind.
05:58Some may be nearsighted.
06:00But they don't have that full and perfect vision.
06:04Because it hasn't developed in his life
06:08a life of conversion.
06:10But you, you don't see.
06:15You are in the process of beginning to see.
06:18Now you see things differently.
06:20Now you like Holy Scripture.
06:21You like going to mass.
06:23The power of the Spirit is beginning to work in you
06:27to transform you and take you to a new life.
06:32The life of the new man.
06:33The life of man in the kingdom.
06:37And that is why Benedict says 16,
06:39Baptism is the moment when this is born.
06:44We would certainly have to think
06:45not exactly in baptism as we have it now,
06:50but baptism as it was practiced at that time,
06:53where he had to go through a whole catechesis process,
06:56a whole process of formation, of evangelization,
06:59like the one you had,
07:01so that the person choosing Christ
07:03be baptized.
07:05And in that baptism, the illumination occurred,
07:08the Pentecostal process took place.
07:10That's what you've had recently.
07:13You have had a long evangelization,
07:16You have grown in your relationship with Christ,
07:19You have begun your prayer processes,
07:22of reading and sacraments.
07:24You have started a process,
07:26even if it is small, of asceticism,
07:28Leaving behind everything that the Lord is taking away from you.
07:31And obviously, in that Pentecostal process,
07:35You are now beginning to see the light.
07:39The light that Christ produces in your heart.
07:44Because?
07:44Because, as the Pope says,
07:46He is the light of the world.
07:49We can then say,
07:50without a doubt,
07:52that the encounter with Jesus Christ
07:55It transforms human thinking.
07:59In the same way that it transformed
08:01Paul's thought and life.
08:06At this point we could say
08:08that this is happening in our lives,
08:12that we have begun a process of transformation,
08:15of metamorphosis in our lives.
08:19Brother,
08:19This is the idea.
08:24And that's why,
08:25The idea is also to keep questioning ourselves
08:27how much, yes,
08:28not so much.
08:29And you'll realize
08:30that if you don't pay close attention
08:33to prayer,
08:36if you're not going to accumulate frequently,
08:39if your confessions are still,
08:41as I call them,
08:42those confessions of the type
08:44hamburger restaurant,
08:46drive-thru,
08:47That's where you come in,
08:49raisins,
08:49Leave me their sins,
08:51Yeah,
08:51donna,
08:51prayers to our Fathers
08:52and one of Mary,
08:53add cat sauce
08:54and you go to his house.
08:57Well, you're not going to get very far.
09:00This means that your conversion process
09:02It gets stuck,
09:04it gets stuck
09:04and then
09:05you can't see
09:07the beauty of the kingdom.
09:10And this is what the devil wants.
09:11So that?
09:12Well, that's enough to discourage you.
09:15So that you can say,
09:16Pure fiction,
09:16Was it the same?
09:20Further
09:21of the same
09:22and not.
09:25That's why
09:26it is fundamental
09:27that you have this meeting.
09:31It is fundamental
09:32that
09:33in this process
09:35from the beginning
09:36of the conversion,
09:38of the profound transformation,
09:41It is due,
09:42must exist
09:43a total change
09:45of man
09:46that allows
09:47to live in the kingdom.
09:49without this meeting
09:51staff
09:52and transformative,
09:53brother,
09:54we cannot say
09:56that exists
09:57In fact
09:58Christian life.
10:01OK?
10:03We cannot say
10:05that exists
10:06Christian life.
10:07we will be
10:09we will be more religious,
10:10less religious,
10:12but Christian life
10:14No.
10:15Pablo was
10:16very religious.
10:19Paul was very religious.
10:20the rich young man
10:24of the gospel
10:27by Marcos
10:27He was a man
10:29very religious,
10:30Furthermore,
10:30much more than us.
10:32He had fulfilled
10:33the law
10:33from a very young age,
10:35but he didn't want to
10:36enter
10:37in this dynamic
10:38of the kingdom.
10:39It's not about
10:40of being
10:41men
10:43and women
10:44equal
10:44than the others,
10:44more than go to mass
10:45or they subtract the rosary,
10:47but their relationship
10:49with his wife,
10:50with the children,
10:50with the parents,
10:51with the community,
10:52with God himself
10:53It does not transform.
10:58The test,
11:00the test
11:01It's just that now
11:03Pablo
11:05go.
11:09The entirety of chapter 9
11:10of the gospel
11:11Juan's.
11:12The test
11:13This man
11:14He was blind
11:15of birth
11:16explained
11:18on many occasions
11:19which refers
11:19to the pagan.
11:20It is the one that is born
11:21blind,
11:21because I didn't know
11:22nothing.
11:24And it is found
11:25with Christ,
11:26personal meeting
11:27with Christ,
11:28transformative encounter
11:29with Christ
11:30and now
11:31The man sees.
11:33It's a test
11:34that in the text
11:36from Juan
11:37speaks
11:38of an action
11:39supernatural
11:41physics
11:44which is a sign
11:46theological
11:47of what happens
11:48now in our
11:49lives
11:49through
11:50of the meeting
11:51staff
11:52with Christ
11:52that normally
11:54I should go
11:55occurring
11:56throughout
11:56our evangelization
11:57and that ends
11:59with the light
11:59complete
12:00within the
12:01sacrament
12:02of baptism.
12:05Now,
12:07Pablo
12:07and any
12:08converted
12:09See things,
12:11we see things
12:12in a way
12:13different
12:13and this
12:15carry
12:16to one
12:16transformation
12:17in all
12:18the areas
12:19of life.
12:21That's why
12:21the thing is
12:22it turns out
12:23evident
12:24for the others.
12:26You can see
12:26in here
12:27of Active Gospel
12:28one of the retreats
12:30two years ago,
12:31three years,
12:32four years
12:32I remember
12:32where I spoke
12:33of the frogs.
12:35Said,
12:35It's as if
12:36a human being
12:37it will transform
12:37in frog.
12:38I mean,
12:39It's obvious.
12:39Clear,
12:40It's green now.
12:40Now he has
12:42palm groves
12:43in the hands.
12:44Now he wants
12:44live all the time
12:45in the water.
12:47It's obvious.
12:49There is one
12:50transformation.
12:52All
12:52people
12:53It's going to happen
12:54account
12:55about what
12:55Something happened
12:56in your life.
12:58If it doesn't happen
12:59account,
13:01Let me tell you
13:02something.
13:04It didn't happen
13:05nothing in your life.
13:06Because if not
13:07It's noticeable.
13:09then
13:09It didn't happen.
13:10it has to
13:11notice,
13:12It's obvious.
13:14All those who
13:14we have suffered
13:15this transformation,
13:16we have found
13:17this meeting,
13:18we have had
13:19this meeting
13:19with Christ.
13:22It's obvious.
13:24That's not the case.
13:25Ah,
13:26one day
13:26for another.
13:27No,
13:27No,
13:27for love
13:28of God,
13:28That's not the case.
13:29Remember that
13:30also always
13:30I have told them
13:31that our God
13:32He is a God
13:32of processes.
13:33There is a process
13:34of evangelization,
13:36there is a process
13:36conversion,
13:37there is a process
13:38of sanctification,
13:40there is a process
13:40of elevation,
13:41They are all processes
13:42in God.
13:44The important thing
13:45It's so that it doesn't get interrupted.
13:46And that's the reason.
13:47of this meeting
13:48with you,
13:49that it not be interrupted
13:51this process.
13:52The process
13:53You started it
13:54when did you start
13:55your evangelization
13:56fundamental,
13:57when you arrived
13:58to acceptance
13:59Christ's personal,
14:00when they imposed on you
14:01hands
14:01just like Pablo,
14:02But we must continue to follow him
14:03and you have to have
14:06well certain elements
14:08that this is the objective
14:09of this chapter,
14:11that you see
14:12how it moves
14:13the conversion
14:14in your life
14:14so that you leave
14:15ensuring
14:16that this process
14:18do not interrupt.
14:22Do not interrupt.
14:24All this,
14:25well,
14:26if we
14:26We took it
14:28to the apostolic life,
14:30we would have to say
14:31that the unconverted,
14:34the one who has not converted,
14:37he doesn't see the need
14:38to evangelize.
14:39Just like that.
14:39like that.
14:40Why is there no evangelization?
14:41Because there are no Christians.
14:43because there are no converts.
14:46He doesn't see the need.
14:49I don't know if it's already happened
14:50in your life.
14:53How much do you
14:53you feel
14:54the urgent need
14:56that your dad,
14:57your mom,
14:58your cousin,
14:59your brother,
14:59your friend,
15:00your girlfriend,
15:00your boyfriend,
15:02become.
15:04Have the experience.
15:09The unconverted,
15:12the unconverted,
15:15he doesn't see the need
15:17to evangelize.
15:19Simply
15:20because his life
15:22has not suffered
15:22no transformation
15:24and he remains just as blind
15:25that before the experience
15:27of evangelization.
15:30It's true.
15:32He knows more,
15:33But it's no different.
15:37And what's worse,
15:39He's not interested
15:40that those who are
15:41next to him
15:41be something
15:43that he himself
15:44not even
15:45perceives.
15:47And this
15:48It is truly
15:49sad.
15:50we leave it here
15:52this moment
15:53for reflection
15:54and we returned
15:54in a moment
15:55to conclude
15:56our session
15:58of this week.
15:59Until then.
16:00Am,
16:00Oh no!
16:01Max,
16:01Oh no!
16:02Am,
16:03Oh no!
16:03Thanks for watching the video.