Dante Gebel #182 | Suelta la piedra

I was reading a story that there was a volunteer organization many centuries ago called the Humane Society, it was a group of people who decided to volunteer to save other people from shipwrecks because of the big storms that were in the Atlantic then during most of the rocky coast of massachusetts there were ships that used to shipwreck even though they were sometimes a mile from land, some who did not know how to get to the coast there was no lighthouse at night there was no good lighting and then they lost their lives so the neighbors want them to understand This happened many eighty-odd years ago, the neighbors or those who lived near the coast decided to get together as a group like the volunteer firefighters in our countries who do not charge money to be volunteer firefighters because they are precisely volunteers and one says but why? what they do and to serve the people because they have an altruistic desire to collaborate to do something to have a purpose in life so this these coastal people decided to join together in a group and create this humanitarian society they built cabins independently if they lived near the coast or not, cabins that bordered the coast and all the time they watched the sea their motto was we are dedicated to saving lives from one coast to the coast of ours they said to each other if you have to go save a life don't worry about coming back The important thing is that you save a life.

They did it for many years, they saved people from shipwrecks. Finally, upon learning of this, the United States put the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard in a more professional manner patrolling the parts of the coast where the shipwrecks occurred. He took care of the people who could lose their lives and then the humanitarian society decided that they no longer needed them but something had happened. They had worked together for 25 years and they had amalgamated in such a way that they still continue to this day. meeting although they no longer save lives they are no longer dedicated to saving lives because the coast guard takes care of that professionally but a kind of lodges or private clubs continue to meet and they still have the slogan they still say we are dedicated to saving lives they still say if you leave to look for someone you don't necessarily have to go back just make sure the person stays alive they still feel like they are in the coast guard although they haven't been dedicated to saving lives for years but I have a story that is about people who forgot that they had to saving lives at some point, religiosity or spiritual stature made them lose the vision that they were there to save lives.

In this story, there is also someone who is still looking towards the coast looking for shipwrecks to save them and a woman who was about to be killed by what They should have saved his life. I have talked about that story in some other message but the point I want to get to you today has to do with what gives the title to this message called Loose the Stone and I think that some who know biblical history know the What am I going to talk about, those who have the Bible, I want you to go with me, please, Saint John, chapter 8, verse 3.

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees then took a woman caught in adultery and placing her in the middle of the group, they said to Jesus, teacher of this woman. He has been caught in the very act of adultery in the law of Moses he ordered us to stone such women what are you saying with this question I was understanding a trap to have him accused but Jesus leaned down today with his finger he began to write on the ground and as they harassed him with questions, Jesus in corpore said to the one of you who is free from sin, let him throw or throw the first stone and, bowing down again, he continued writing on the ground.

When they heard this, they left, one after another, starting with the older until leaving Jesus alone with the woman who was still there then he sat up today I asked him a lot he asked him woman where are they where are those who accused you no one condemns you anymore no one sir she responded well I don't condemn you either now go go back to home and do not sin again go and sin no more dis the best known version San Juan chapter 8 verse 3 I do not know the Bible does not give the name of the woman it does not say we assume that she had a husband because she was caught in adultery but it does not say it tells us the background the story how it got to that point but it is not difficult to fill in the dotted line and imagine what is not written possibly the woman once dreamed of getting married she fell in love maybe she had 12 children and at one point as some marriages happen she disconnected from her husband, which is what we always talk about when we preach about the family that the greatest danger is disconnection when one can be sleeping with a stranger every day in bed, they are a married couple, they have sexual intimacy from time to time but that is not why they love each other.

They begin to disconnect She is attracted to another gentleman There is a connection with that man First there is a connection I don't want to be spiritual because it will sound ugly but there is a connection in the soul A tica soul I don't think she is looking for sex, generally women They are not necessarily looking for sex but they are looking for affection affection and she finds affection in a man who finds looks that she no longer finds in her husband she finds affection that she no longer finds in a chivalry that her husband forgot and she feels attracted at first it is a coffee another Maybe it's holding hands and finally they end up doing what they didn't have to do.

She feels dirty. She feels impure. Suddenly there are people who know that she is having adultery even if you don't believe it. When there is adultery, everyone knows except you. They know who doesn't. - the deceived the deceived the rest everyone knows but there are some people who are suspicious and then perhaps they are watching what the woman does and use her as a decoy to catch Jesus perhaps as someone there said perhaps the man who sleeps with This woman is an envoy from the religious, they tell her we want her to seduce this woman, we will be spying on her when you make love to her and at the right moment we have to enter, just don't hurry too much, we want to look a lot, I always say that it is worse. the sin of having looked because you had to have to accuse a woman of adultery in the same act you had to have several eyewitnesses according to the law of moses it couldn't be one there had to be several so they had to be spying behind a curtain that It was what was happening and then what you already know, let's avoid the sordid and sordid details, but they suddenly enter a door that opens to the screams of the woman who asks for mercy, asks to be killed, not to shame her in public, but there is no mercy.

There is no mercy if they are going to kill her, the one who calls themselves the messiah, they wrap her in a sheet, they drag her, the man in the story does not appear in the Bible, that is, both of them had to be stoned where the man is because pasta There had to be a tyrant there. The man does not appear in the story. Maybe they throw a few coins at him. The man gets paid what he had to do and he was simply someone who provided his services so that the religious could have Jesus in their grasp and then he They introduce him to Jesus who is teaching.

I think he answered. Once I loved that the rabbis sat down when they taught and that's why they could now preach and I like that because everyone had to stand up and he was sitting. I don't know who. He changed the rule of the game, I could preach for hours so he would sit and everyone would stand and listen to him in silence and that's when they bring the woman wrapped in sheets and ask her what should be done with a woman who was caught in the act. of adultery according to the law of Moses you have to stone her or you have to have mercy the trap is that the Romans had said that the Jews could not execute their own people the Romans knew so not everyone has to know this and he clarified it, there are many people who are relatively new to the church, the Romans, an empire that took the Jews by surprise and they were under the oppression of Rome and they made the laws, the coins, everyone had to obey Caesar, so 'Rome' said No Jew can execute another Jew without going through the court of Rome, that's why they had to take Jesus before Pontius Pilate, so yes, I said stone her, they would get in trouble with Rome.

If Jesus said no, stone her, he would get in trouble with the law. From Moses we have Jesus then something very particular happens Jesus says the Bible that writes on the ground is the only time in the entire Bible that Jesus appears writing there is no other time when he is writing but he is writing on the ground I don't know what would be writing, some say that maybe he was writing the ten commandments or maybe he was writing the sins of all those who were there saying who has the most sin, the woman, or what they were looking out of the window for longer than they should have looked, I don't know what he is writing. the sand or maybe he wins by batting like those of us who spoke on the phone and simply scribbled and then what happens that you had seen in movies we have just read that majestic extraordinary phrase of Jesus that says ok stone her but please do it first whoever is free of sin in other words he is saying is to lose it but please whoever throws the stone first, let him be the purest the holiest and the oldest then start little by little to drop the stones and then the youngest do it and finally No one was there to condemn the woman.

Jesus tells her where those who accused you are, they are not there, sir. Well, I don't accuse you either. I'm not going to fight you either. Go away and don't sin again. Until then, the story of the woman, the great mercy of God and the eternal mercy. wisdom of god made man the point I want to get to today is to talk about the stone throwers because it surprises me that those people who were once dedicated to saving lives spoke about the religious people who should have looked towards the coast looking for shipwrecks were now eager for the teacher to give him the order and smashing the woman with stones would have been, that is why it is an extraordinary pleasure to say burst, they would have jumped over it and this would have been a pleasure, those who were there were not the mob, those who were there and the religious people who once dedicated themselves to saving lives but who now dedicate themselves to lifting stones I grew up I was born in a church like that a church where the pastor's son didn't seem to congregate often we grabbed a stone so-and-so's marriage no He is doing so well because I see that she is no longer so affectionate with him.

We grab another stone. So-and-so is not coming to the cell meeting. A little stone. You can't see that he has life. Prayer for another stone. So-and-so is not tithing. and with a laser, when someone was discovered who was in sin, there was a pleasure. Now I have noted in the Bible, I don't know if you don't know, I'll tell you that Jesus was not as scandalized by the sins of the flesh as by the sins. of the spirit there are two types of sins, all sins are the same sin, but there is no red sin, the clearest sin is by the way.

I'll clarify, no, because sometimes some come to pastoral counseling and I don't even tell them what they say, they tell me I'm small, but a little. pastor with whom you hit a little with the whore you have to wait a little and if I tell him what he tells me it makes you want to castrate the circles and that but all because it makes you want to silence that you got married it would have been fine just use I said a little that says that sin and in hell the only thing you will see is a separation, those who sinned well and want to burn with pleasure and those who sinned a little are going to burn the same but with guilt but then I won't clarify this for everyone.

The sins are the same. On the same list as the murderer, there is the gossiper, but there are sins that are of the flesh and sins that are of the spirit, sins that have to do with the soul, better said, and sins that have to do with are more striking, more colorful. That is to say, the Formic brother, I remember in my time when we were children and parents we believed that fornicating on a credit card but even those who explained what it was but Formic wanted to know with who with whom and it was nice to see the couple who Formic passed by because we We imagined and let's see if the prettier things than the one that cost you that which is that morbid that man or woman couldn't even dream of going through the church or not in our intention time that sinned because I can't have my pants up but there is others proud jealous envious gossip yes look how I change sex in my time here not every manna they are all saints here the sisters meet on Fridays to drink tea and talk about the things of God but in my church they fall into the language of one of those on the tongue and that was not a sin, that is, gossip, they are on the same list as what acs was, but they were a sin of the soul, no, they are not as striking as colorful as the other sins, the most striking sins such as adultery, red, but nevertheless noted in the bible that jesus every time he got angry i have not seen him call a whitewashed tomb the living generation the adulterous generation i have never seen a thief call a prostitute i have never seen him be angry with someone who has come full of sins to present himself in front of him I have seen him merciful I have seen him touch I have read him touching the lepers I have seen him sit with drunks with people on the street with whom he got angry were those who were drinking, having dedicated themselves to saving lives, today they are lifting stones to condemn those who saw you or should be looking towards the coasts seeing what the shipwrecks are, they are with a stone waiting to stone, squander, whoever makes a mistake, let them barely make a mistake and my question is how much of usWe go through life with a stone from which we cannot detach ourselves, we cannot let go.

Even though we are leading ministers, we walk with stones that we do not want to release stones against an ex-husband against a spouse, stones against betrayal, stones that we keep, we say yes, forgive me. but we have the stone and we are waiting for the opportunity that God gives us to put it on his forehead so that he can learn, we are because there are people who cannot even imagine what life would be like without carrying that stone and today I felt very strongly on the part of the sir, tell them when we talk about forgiveness we always talk about forgetting and I know how difficult it can be for a lady who was molested in her childhood who was robbed of the most precious thing she had to give and tell her, forget it, that cannot be forgotten, forgive me, but the wound remains. like wanting to forget a limp forgetting a broken femur a broken femur an arm that came out of place is like wanting to forget what still hurts and bothers a back pain a headache a migraine I'm not going to tell you forget but I feel very strongly about part of the holy spirit that tells us there is a stone that you have to let go of some stones that you have been dragging for many years that you must let go of today God brought you to let go of that stone and leave it here today at the four in the afternoon service a stone that you have that he is keeping it for some reason when I see him I'm going to tell him I haven't had a chance to cross him yet - but when I cross him he's going to hear how many times we've said something like if God gave me to others for their actions and to us Because of our motivations, well, I did something bad but I didn't want to do it, but he did it to me and we go through life with stones to throw and the Lord is the same one who today draws in the sand and tells us whoever is free from sin cast the first stone we are ready to receive in these seats that are still empty prostitutes who say I want to come to church but I am going to continue prostitution for a while because I do not feel like changing my life as we would look at it we are ready to receive a drug addict that he must fight with his addiction even if he congregates Sunday after Sunday and that about homosexuals and that if lesbians come we will look at them with suspicion as if to say there are things that he should have left out before entering the cathedral we will forget that we are dedicated to saving lives and we will take a stone waiting to see who comes with less spiritual hygiene to kill him by stoning him or we will understand that this is for those people I am surprised that the prostitutes the ragged people ran towards the Lord and today they precisely avoid his followers I am surprised that those who loved Jesus do not want come to church, you know that we believers have been saying for years that no one is saved by works so that we don't have to love so that we don't have to get involved so that work is no joke so that social work can be done by the Catholic friends who have won us over.

By far, then it's more the Teresa brand who was the one who the businessmen got involved in. It's the priests who fed the people who got into the places where no one wanted to go, we say no no no no no no no but that doesn't save people. The important thing about people is the soul which is a great truth but we have forgotten to save people and I was wondering this week if I send the people that I want to send to you there will be people prepared to receive them there will be people who will tell them come here with your miseries with your dirt come here with the worst thing you have done with your muddy feet sit down this is the place where we are waiting for people like you I want those people when they love people who need the Lord how many today need mercy there is no mercy in the streets they want let's have a different church let's offer grace let's offer mercy it's the only thing that will differentiate us from the people remember when it was said how we can differentiate ourselves from the other peoples of the earth if your presence does not live with us the presence of god is already with us we know that we need thanks if we manage to have grace then we will be different than a lot of thousands of denominations only thanks thanks what is not abundant someone finds grace on a Monday morning when all the traffic wants to pass someone says she let him pass because Today I want to thank you, someone does it to you, someone tells you, I have a green light but I'm going to let you pass because I know you can tell that you're going a little faster than me, someone receives grace, someone says, I should charge you for this shirt or this one. pants but I see that you are a little tight financially take what I pay for when who can give me a single example of grace that you have experienced or encountered this week when someone sat at a table the other day I went to lunch with some Pastor friends, I didn't know that there were people from the cathedral in that same restaurant, but how happy I felt when I said the bill, please, and they told me someone told him this paper.

He told me, Pastor, we are members of the Crystal Cathedral. We didn't want to bother you, but we paid your bill. account I told him well if you want I'll tell him where as always and they're paying my bills and I'm happy they want me to get angry they think I said no I can't allow it I said whoever wants it or a family that was there left and I felt that someone had given me grace, that's fascinating, someone had given me something that I didn't deserve when the religious believe that they have paid for what they have and the eleventh hour worker comes in and obtains by grace the same thing that the other thought he had.

You don't know the satisfaction that the worker of the eleventh hour has when the Lord tells this story of the eleventh hour. There are few who identify with the worker of the eleventh hour. Now everyone identifies with the one who worked since the morning because I am diligent. because I am a worker God says grace is for those who do not deserve it grace is for those who simply did not ask for it but want it the church is willing to receive people with grace with love how many here today are not just so willing to receive those people but how many today need to throw stones on the ground, notice that I paused, how many need to throw stones on the floor today, I have legs to throw, there were many people who hurt me, what less harm many years ago and I have to throw stones and they throw their hands at me.

Lord, but if one day I meet her, throw the stones, she is not yours, revenge is not yours, taking revenge throws the stones and how many here today need an anointing of grace, sir, I need you to receive me, I have made a mess this week with my life. how many are tied hidden habits to sins that they cannot let go of a rotten character to things that cannot be free and they say, today I need just one thing grace what the prostitute had when she met Jesus thank you the religious go to heaven and there are someone at the door saying I arrived before entering tell us what you did to deserve heaven if you collect a thousand points you can enter and then it goes to someone from the crystal cathedral who was with Ortiz and yes I was Ortiz's elder and then I had with us for many years and I'm here with Dante holding it, so and that noise of everything, I've done everything, I'm a certain person, so he starts counting and it appears on the board, print 10 points, I had to collect a thousand, well, what else do I remember, I mean, I remember one day.

I came and excused everyone in 15 points and I remember I also remember well that when they invited me to missions I went to Tijuana Tijuana I went and gathered Sabana I was there with brother Gerardo I went in 22.5 I remember and To the pastor's birthday, I shook his hand and hugged him and I loved him so much print 22.7 and this one who is from the cathedral and congregates that he visited if I don't know what is possible here and bureaucracy if with everything I did he couldn't get in, what? you have to do here to enter through grassi mercy of God first point enter because by grace and mercy of God you are going to bring thanks and six me so many who the graces of God say amen amen stand up please hallelujah they need need anointing of grace tell me yes need it I need grace today I need grace every day there is something nice about starting a new day because I say a new grace comes upon me if yesterday not now this much there is a new day a new opportunity new are his mercies every morning and you need a new one You need grace, embrace that grace, throw the red stones, the stones you have to throw, throw them on the floor and tell him, Lord, I am as sinful as the prostitute, nothing more than that no one knows what I think, no one knows my jealousy or envy, no one knows my most hidden miseries.

If they knew, I would have to be at the altar asking for thanks. I will not ask them to go to the altar. Just where they are, say the Lord. I need your grace. Your forgiveness. We need forgiveness. Of course, if what those who want to be reconciled with the Lord are for the first time, They say you know one day I went to church and I came because and on the radio because they heard it and I know why I am please I don't know if you're going to come back but take grace today if that's all I can give you from God take it grace, nor do I condemn you, neither do I condemn you, betis, don't sin anymore, Betty, don't really sin again, I'm forgiven, of course, if no one threw a stone at you, neither would I, just go away and don't sin again, hallelujah.