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00:00Oh brother, what I want to tell you, I want to get off the train, but I can't, we have
00:28crucified or we are in that process, imagine I started 40 years ago on this topic and I continue
00:36On this topic, because as I mentioned at the end of our last video, the Christian, yes
00:44He who truly wants to be a good Christian, a good disciple of the Lord, must remain
00:51crucified, I can't be unnailing myself from the cross only to go and get into another problem,
00:56No, I must remain crucified with Christ, keep my body crucified, and that is why Saint
01:08Paul, as I'm telling you, uses it a lot, and above all, he reads Corinthians; if you read all of Corinthians
01:13You'll find a whole treatise there about this crucifixion because, as I mentioned,
01:19Previously, Corinth, no man, you have to read his letters, I mean, you say, no man,
01:27The people of Corinth were quite something, I mean, to the point that they said, well, what do they want?
01:33Go with a stick and fix them, or what? I mean, Corinth was difficult because it was a port.
01:41where there were all kinds of currents, that is, sin, no man, what color do you want it?
01:46red, green, yellow, blue, grade 1, 2, 5, 8, 15, 50, what grade do you want, there was
01:52of everything there, so he had to continually insist, crucify, crucify us,
02:02To live crucified to Christ, let's go to 1 Corinthians, it's 1 Corinthians chapter 9, let's read from it
02:0924 to 27, come with me in your Bible, okay, what does this text from Saint Paul tell us, it's 1 Corinthians
02:20Chapter 9, verses 24 to 27, tells us, they do not know that those who run in the stadium, all
02:30They are indeed running, but only one gets the prize. Run, says Paul, run in such a way that you may win.
02:42And everyone who competes in the games abstains from everything; they do it to receive a crown.
02:53corruptible, but we are incorruptible, notice, verse 26, very important, therefore,
03:03This is how I run, not aimlessly; this is how I fight, not like I'm throwing punches at thin air.
03:13verse 27, listen to me, listen to me,
03:17Rather, I discipline my body and make it my slave, lest after I have preached to others, I myself
03:27be disqualified, that there was him, that there was him, the apostle of Christ is speaking,
03:39It is the word of God, I discipline my body and subdue it, why? Because I am pursuing a prize.
03:51But I know my nature, I know my little body of clay, and as I always tell you, the animal pulls.
04:00The animal is drawn to the mountains; it must be subdued, its little body must be made to...
04:10obey us, and to what extent does Saint Paul do it, striking him and subduing him, where are you going? What is it that
04:23Do you want to? I subject my body to discipline, why? To avoid being disqualified, to be able to reach the
04:33Our goal, brothers, heaven awaits us, but this animal doesn't want to go, because it doesn't understand what it's about.
04:42He gets lost, right now he wants to eat, he wants to drink, he wants to touch, he wants to feel, he wants to do everything that
04:48He does what he wants, and many things, far from leading him to the life of God, lead him to death, and I don't
04:59I want that for my body, but since the body doesn't understand, it wants to go where it shouldn't, so
05:07We have to grab it and restrain it, right? We were saying that part of it is done by the spirit; it has reins.
05:14strong, which is what sustains us, what holds us back, right? But the animal is quite wild and
05:21Some are more rough, especially at the stage you're at, the newly converted stage,
05:30No man, the animal is still really wild, it wants to head for the woods right away, right away and
05:35Where are you going? No, we have to hold the animal back, because otherwise you'll end up in the mountains, my friend, remember that.
05:47Like I said, you're still young, if I, who's already half-hardened, the animal wants to go to the
05:53He'll always want to go to the mountains because he's an animal, so no, I mean, you have to pull him.
06:02Right? This is a text that has always seemed fundamental to me, and practically, well
06:10It would appear, since nobody knows it and even less talks about it, it is a text that speaks to us of deprivations,
06:21abstaining, and this abstaining is from everything that is inherently sinful,
06:33But not only that, but everything that can be a cause, a reason or a path to get there
06:43New to sin. Two points. Shows, friends, places, activities, in short, brother,
07:00of all that you know has led your life to what is not pleasing to the Lord.
07:07And you know, I mean, let's not kid ourselves, right? You know that our nature
07:16She is stubborn, always inclined to sin, and like an animal, she heads for the hills. Paul uses a word
07:25What causes a scandal today is hitting her body. I understand this very well, and I believe the first
07:37communities, the first generations of Christians understood it and developed what was
07:44They are called disciplines, with which the body is subdued, with which the body is struck, they are called
07:54Penances too. But today people think those were medieval practices. However, no, brothers.
08:06We know of virtually no saint who hasn't used them. It's truly astonishing.
08:16to read the lives of the saints. And how, then, was this how they truly managed to tame the animal?
08:28to subdue this animal, that animal that moves within us and is instigated by Satan
08:38to prevent our lives from progressing and to prevent us from killing the old man.
08:51Yes, striking the body. Look what we've done today in our church with discipline. It's called fasting.
09:01No, it's a penance. It's something I use to tell my tummy that I'm in charge, that it's not going to eat whatever it wants.
09:11Not whenever I want, nor as much as I want, but I'm in charge. But this requires training.
09:21And look how many fasts we have required in the church today. Only two.
09:35Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. And the truth, as well as penance, penance, penance,
09:43Well, we'd have to see if it is.
09:44Because what the church proposes is to have our bread with coffee or water in the morning.
09:56But oh well, with coffee, even with sugar. And well, bread, even if it's sweet, it doesn't matter.
10:01And he says to my dad, "Well, put butter on it so it slides."
10:03And then he says nothing between meals. And then at lunchtime, well, something light.
10:13And in that regard, regarding lightness, well, we would have to see what I mean by lightness.
10:18Well, I ate a chicken. It's light. It flies.
10:24What is light?
10:27Nothing between meals. And at night, another piece of bread with another coffee.
10:33Brothers, I know many people
10:36that they don't even eat that during the day.
10:41Not because they are doing penance, but because they have nothing to eat.
10:48What does fasting mean to you?
10:51What is sacrifice?
10:54What does abstaining mean?
10:57What does it mean to hit the body?
10:59And this is all that remains of those practices.
11:11Where real sandpaper was tied up, with the goat's goat of his life.
11:18Nails were tied around the body.
11:21The children of Fatima, little children of Fatima, tied a string around themselves.
11:30I don't know if you've ever had the experience of grabbing the rope, a thick rope that they use to go down into the well, the bucket.
11:41That rope, every time it goes down and up, gets wet, and when it dries, it looks like thorns.
11:55Well, that rope was what some children between 8 and 13 years old used to tie themselves to.
12:02In the most sensitive part, in the stomach.
12:10Until the angel told them, God appreciates your sacrifice, but He does not want you to sleep with Him.
12:21They can only use it during the day, because they slept with it.
12:24I don't know if they could sleep, but there comes a time when sleep overcomes you.
12:30I strike my body and subject it to discipline.
12:35Brothers, this isn't suicide, it's just, as I say,
12:42Well, tell the little body, "Who's in charge?"
12:45We, if we want, can follow the Lord, but to do so we must be free.
12:57And for that, we must tell our passions, which always want to rule, which always want to do what they feel compelled to do,
13:04Who is the true master? And who is the Lord of the body?
13:07Miguelito, I am the Lord of the body, and I say, where are you going? How much do you sleep?
13:14Where do you sleep? How do you sleep? What do you eat? What don't you eat? What do you bathe with?
13:19I'm in charge.
13:22Well, I don't always tell them, that's where the struggle lies.
13:25Another very valuable teaching of the apostle can also be found in the letter to the Romans.
13:30Let's read Romans, chapter 13, verses 12 through 14.
13:35Let's read this little bit.
13:37What does the apostle say? He says, the night is far gone, and the day is at hand.
13:44Therefore, let us cast off the remnants of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13:51Verse 13.
13:53Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness,
13:58not in sexual promiscuity and lust, not in quarrels and envy.
14:03Envirias. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ.
14:09And don't even think about providing for him, I mean, don't bring him anything, right?
14:14To provide for the passions of the flesh.
14:17Why? Because we already know that's how this works.
14:21If even if you don't bring them close, she still seeks them out, and you bring them close, then we're lost.
14:26We can say that the new man is a man, a woman, who has put to death the earthly.
14:37Look, he has crucified his flesh and put off the old man, putting on the new man, according to Christ.
14:51And brothers, this is the goal.
14:55And we cannot aspire to less, for it is for this that Christ paid with his own blood for this new life for us.
15:07Difficult? Yes.
15:10Impossible? No.
15:13Did the saints achieve it? We can achieve it too.
15:18I invite you, brother, I invite you to review this chapter carefully.
15:23It is a very important chapter, because it already talks about the concrete things of life and the difficulty
15:29that at some point you will find, all Christians will find,
15:34in order to be good disciples of Christ.
15:38You have to practice it.
15:41We must crucify our flesh.
15:42And as I always tell you, start small.
15:46Don't try to do great things, or make great sacrifices.
15:51A pebble in the shoe, for a while, or as they told the children, right?
15:55Well, use a rope, take it off for a while.
15:58So, what are you going to do? I don't know.
16:00But you have to tell the body who's in charge.
16:04Well, that concludes this chapter.
16:08God willing, we'll see each other next week.
16:10Meanwhile, review all of this, always keep track of where we're going,
16:18Because it is important that we continue to follow in the footsteps of Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ.
16:24Until next week.