His host is the renowned international speaker, Dr. Juan S. Bonstra. Today's message is titled, Total Renovation, and is based on the biblical words of Revelation 21.1. I saw a new heaven and a new earth. There are many people who are discontent with this present world and make great efforts to compose it. You know that there is a need to compose it, and there is a need to do something. Any general look can give you enough reason to feel discontent, If you contemplate the economic aspects, it is to assume that you see inexplicable injustices, they are rich for others and poor in excess. If you contemplate the social panorama, you realize inequalities and discrimination, divorces and differences, families in danger and children without love. And if you contemplate the political world, you could probably speak of irregularities and concerns that affect all levels of society. You know that there is a need to compose this world. Many, fortunately, are doing it. There are all kinds of philanthropists and visionaries and volunteers who make priceless efforts to compose this disconcerting world. Perhaps you have formed or are part of one of those admirable efforts. There are groups of people who, in some magnificent way, have come to understand what charity is. They have convinced themselves that they have a serious responsibility for the rest of humanity. They do all kinds of things, all kinds of things, they start programs, and they draft projects, and they raise money, and they sell raffles, and they create organizations of social, global, and local assistance. It is that they want to compose the world in which they live. There are much more violent movements that many times adopt the adjective of revolutionaries who want to compose the world. Even more, in these centuries of massive and instantaneous communications, we hear and see revolutions of all kinds and crusades and disturbances in which the participants always intend to compose, improve, heal the world in which they live. More than one government has been involved in improvement plans for its entire citizenship. There are from time to time plans called quinquennals, in which basic problems are sought to be solved in the course of five years. Many people contribute with their good will and their personal talents for the cause of the improvement of neighborhoods, or cities, or marginalized ethnic groups, or of elites, or of orphans. All this is done with the hope and prayer that the world is renewed, fixed, improved. Triumphs are not as great as efforts. The world is still decomposed despite so much human effort. This can lead to pessimism, and eventually to a spirit of failure. This would be a shame, and it must be avoided from every point of view. It is for this reason that the biblical message is a welcome breeze, an oasis in the desert. God Himself has been very busy with this world, which is, after all, His own creation. God also knows that the total renovation of this world is not an easy thing, something to be done in a matter of days, or weeks, or months. God has been busy without interruption in the renovation of this world. He does it mostly on a personal level. Humans want to do things in sensational terms, actions that deserve half-page headlines or television specials. God does His work as He wants to do it in His sovereign designations. It is thus that from time immemorial He has been involved in a plan of redemption, of salvation, of liberation, of total renewal. His triumphs are magnificent, and the rays of a final and glorious victory are already shining. When man fell and began the process of deterioration and decay, God, on His part, began His salvation program. He made promises, and those who accepted those promises were made children of God. In the letter to the Hebrews it is mentioned of many of these heroes of faith, and it is said of them that, by faith they conquered kingdoms, they did justice, they fulfilled promises, they covered the mouths of lions, they put out impetuous fires, they avoided the edge of a sword, they drew strength from weakness, they became strong in battle, they put foreign armies on the run. for faith. A man, a woman, a young man, can become part of that powerful healing force that Jesus called salt of the earth and light of the world. One day it is this man, who all his life has done things without God and without hope, God opens new horizons before Him and becomes a citizen of the Kingdom of God. Tomorrow, it is this mother who raised her children with the only passion of being rich one day. Now, she has realized the magnitude of her maternal task and prepares her children to be worthy representatives of God in this world. Another day is a young university student who aspires to occupy positions of responsibility and from there to do good to humanity. But God has made him see that nothing can be good if personal things with God are not arranged first. Also, this young man is now part of that Kingdom of God, which is the most healing element that exists in the world. This is how God wants to arrange the world. He goes to extremes to save his own. Jesus Christ spoke one day about this, and compared it to the shepherd who has a hundred sheep, but has lost one. And there is only one, Mr. Shepherd! But God does not want to leave a single one to be lost, so He locks up the ninety-nine in a safe place, and goes out through ventriloquism and graves and peaks and rivers, until He finds His lost sheep and reintegrates it into His liberating armies. It is in this way, one by one, that God is becoming a force that is genuine yeast. If you can be impartial, you should calmly observe the healing influence that this Gospel of Jesus has had everywhere. Those places where it has been most practiced are the most enviable and most envied places by the rest of humanity. has been a source of social improvement, and political stability, and economic benefits, and stimulating thought, and art, and progress. That people of God in the middle of the world establishes, in principle, the Kingdom of God on earth, and from that Kingdom come out into the world professionals, accountants, housewives, writers, men and women of leadership, conscious teachers, honest officials, inventors of new things. And every day there are more people who surrender themselves to Jesus as Savior and Lord, and every day there are more members of the kingdom of God on earth, and each time that kingdom has more and more influence in the world. They try to fix it. Many things straighten them out, and many evils eliminate them, and many dreams fulfill them. But the plan of God is not just one saved here and another there. God's plan is much broader. What he longs for is a total renewal. That is the objective to which he is directing all things. One of his apostles had the exceptional privilege of being able to see the totality of human history, from the beginning to the end. In the Book of Revelation, the apostle John saw that in that Kingdom of God there were multitudes that no one could count. They came from all the nations, languages and lands of the planet. There they are, with palms in their hands, singing the hymn of eternal victory. What a wonderful picture, and so difficult to capture, in this environment in which we live our struggles. But that is not all. The renewal of God is total. It is not enough for some souls here and others there. It is not enough for the healing of a small human group here and another there. It is not enough for a healing force in this region and in the other. What God longs for is a total renewal. With that end, He continues to carry His redemptive message to the ends of the earth. He continues to send messengers who bring the good news all over the world. God will continue to do His work. It is true that God could put an end to this universal effort and close the last chapter of history. He does not. says the apostle Peter, but is patient with us, not wanting anyone to perish, but that all may proceed to repentance. God is waiting for you to also pass to that wonderful kingdom of God through Jesus Christ. For this reason, follow the world, and follow history, and we will continue to be salt of the earth and light of this world. No one knows. Absolutely no one knows when. One day God will put an end to His extraordinary work of renewing His world. That will be the total renewal. The great apostle John saw that renewed world. It is a wonderful world, a new heaven and a new earth. Total renewal. Only one question remains. Will you be in that new heaven and that new earth?