STEEMCHURCH: Jesus comes to transform

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The Lord rejoices when he sees lives transformed by submitting to the power of the Holy Spirit; he rejoices when he sees how those lives that have been opened for him enter, overwhelming everything carnal, everything worldly; he rejoices to see how they are cleansed of the dirt that sin had deposited within them, to be transformed into vessels of honor for our God.

Only a true Christian knows what it feels like to have enjoyed the transforming power of Jesus, being able to understand "that the foolish world chose God, to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God chose to shame the strong; and the vile of the world and the despised chose God "1 Corinthians 1: 27-28, and that under the power of God, the rejected by the world is transformed by the Lord into worthy tools for his service.

The world believes in the birth of Jesus as a good commercial moment because at Christmas sales increase, but he does not believe in the transforming power of Jesus, and it is logical because "the natural man does not perceive the things that are of the Spirit of God, because for they are foolishness, and can not understand them, because they are to be discerned spiritually "1 Corinthians 2:14; and many within the congregations do not believe that Jesus came to transform them because they do not consider the possibility that they themselves are the ones who prevent him from acting to that power.

John 2: 1-11 "On the third day there were weddings at Cana in Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. And lacking wine, the mother of Jesus said to him: They have no wine. Jesus said to him: What do you have with me, woman? My time has not yet come. His mother said to those who served: Do everything I tell you. And there were six jars of stone for water, according to the rite of purification of the Jews, in each of which there were two or three pitchers. Jesus said to them, Fill these jars with water. And they filled them up. Then he said to them: Take out now, and take it to the master of the feast. And they took him. When the steward tried the water made wine, without knowing where he was from, even though the servants who had drawn the water knew it, he called his husband and said, "Every man serves good wine first, and when they have drunk much, then the lower one; more you have reserved the good wine until now. This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him. "

This is the moment where the earthly ministry of the Lord begins, and it is manifesting the power of the supernatural in the face of material reality; Jesus presented in this transformation the symbolism of the task he would carry out in the world, that being prisoner of unbelief could be saved and not happen to him as the people that God rescued from Egypt to take them to the promised land, and that "we see who could not enter because of unbelief "Hebrews 3:19.

Transformation is the foundation on which the power of God operates to carry forward the miracles that made the world, and even its own disciples, believe; the transformation of water into wine was necessary, as the transformation of the Lord's body was necessary before being glorified so that those same disciples would believe in what they were seeing when "they finally appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were sitting at the table, and reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he was risen "Mark 16:14.

The Lord comes to transform our lives, and that is what should happen when we come to his way, because the promise is fulfilled there: "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be cleansed of all your filth; and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and I will cause you to walk in my statutes, and keep my precepts, and do them. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. And I will keep you from all your filth; and I will call the wheat, and multiply it, and I will not give you hunger. I will also multiply the fruit of the trees, and the fruit of the fields, so that you will never again receive a reproach of famine among the nations "Ezekiel 36: 25-30, but in the freedom of each one is to allow that transformation to take place. out in fullness, so that we can first achieve salvation, but also a prosperous life without needs where the presence of the Lord is marked.

How many there are in the world, and in the congregations, that have not allowed the power of God to act on them, that they are still prisoners of vices and are still in a situation of economic scarcity; they should think about submitting to the transforming power of Jesus, that power that transformed water into wine can transform wine, cigarettes, gambling, and all the vices or addictions into bread, into the money they need to carry on the welfare of your family.

Just as he transformed water into wine, he can also transform the discussions and fights that are the result of drunkenness, in profitable conversations or studies of the Word that will give as fruit a growth of marital love and spiritual maturity; The Lord can show his glory by transforming addictions into experiences to be transmitted so that others do not fall into the same networks that the enemy presents as very pleasant or as the only way out of problems.

We should think about what they could acquire with the money that they waste in the vices that imprison them, money that deprives them of blessings for their own life and that of their family; they should think about how much they are losing of their family's love and of the happiness they could share because of their vices, knowing that everything can be reversed with the simple action of allowing Jesus to transform his life.

How many are spending their money on remedies, being that "Jesus went through all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and disease in the people" Matthew 4:23, and now moves in the midst of his people healing the sick who allow their power to transform their lives into holiness, and the money of the remedies into well-being for him and his family; it is only necessary to believe, since "he who believes everything is possible" Mark 9:23, and allow the power of Jesus to transform his life.

How many there are who waste their money looking for the solution of their problems in healers, sorcerers, parapsychologists and all kinds of deceivers who rise up to live on the unwary; they throw away their money for not seeking the solution in which they came to transform lives, in "he who is able to do all things much more abundantly than we ask or understand, according to the power that acts in us" Ephesians 3:20 , allowing Him to show you the truth, "for this is good and acceptable before God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth" 1 Timothy 2: 3-4; and to know the truth is to know Jesus and to follow his perfect will knowing that what He disposes will always be the best for our life.

The Lord speaks to us in his Word in order to mark his will for each one of us, saying: "Beloved, I wish you to prosper in all things, and to be healthy, just as your soul prospers" 3 John 1: 2, where the prosperity of our soul will be obtained by submitting ourselves to the power and sovereignty of God so that our life will be totally transformed according to his will, "for I rejoiced when the brothers came and gave testimony of your truth, of how you walk in the true. I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children walk in the truth "verses. 3-4.

The Lord is born in our life to transform us and for that it is necessary that the Word occupies all the corners of our being; Many of us have allowed the transforming power of Jesus to work within us and make us truly new creatures, because "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; old things happened; behold, all are made new "2 Corinthians 5:17; and others, even though Word has come to them and the teaching "they did not hear nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to stop offering incense to other gods" Jeremiah 44: 5, they continue to suffer in their own prisons.

Jesus is now with you, he is waiting for you to present your vices, your addictions, your illnesses, your problems; Now he wants to enter your life to transform it, leave it, let him act, do everything he tells you; obey his voice and his Word and you will see how your life full of problems transforms into a life of happiness with your family, being able to say as the psalmist: "You have changed my regret in dance; You untied my sackcloth, and girded me with joy. Therefore, I will sing to you, my glory, and I will not be silent. Jehovah my God, I will praise you forever "Psalm 30: 11-12.