You know, we are resting from Romans, for a moment, to be able to explore the teaching of Paul in Romans 12, Romans 13, sorry, when he, to be able to talk about putting the armor of the light, Paul goes in more detail in Ephesians 6, I want you to go there, please, this morning, and let's read together, verses 10 to 18. Ephesians chapter 6, starting in verse 10. The Apostle writes to you for the rest, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power of his strength. Dress yourselves with all the armor of God, so that you may be firm against the insidious of the devil. Because our fight is not against blood and flesh, but against the incited, against the powers, against the powers of this world of darkness, against the spiritual hosts of evil in the heavenly regions. Therefore, take all the armor of God, so that you may resist the evil in the day, and having done everything, be firm. So be firm, fastened to your waist with the truth, clothed with the armor of justice, and barefoot with the covenant of the gospel of peace. In all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you can put out all the darts of the wicked. Take also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. With all prayer and supplication, pray all the time in the Spirit, and thus watch with perseverance and supplication for all the saints. In our last study, we discussed the first part of this spiritual armor that Pablo says is so important that we all wear. And the first part is the belt of truth. I will not go over it, except to remind you that if we are going to be prepared To enter the spiritual battle that is around us, we must first be bound or wrapped in the truth. And what is the truth? The truth is the word of God. And this will ensure that we are known as people who tell the truth and who are is that, unsurprisingly, is full of relativism. We live in a world that, at best, is subjective, wherever you want. We live in a world where it is possible, according to the erroneous philosophies of the day, for you to have your truth and for me to have my truth. It is not possible for a singular truth to exist. and this is the secondary product of the postmodern mentality that at some point in 1940s, 50s, 60s decided that the only truth in the world is that there are no absolute truths now the very interesting thing is that if you ask someone who believes that if they are absolutely sure that it is true you will have a look as if without knowing anything As I pointed out last week, this insistence on renouncing the truth is so important because the truth is the foundation by which the Church of God is firm. And that is what Paul says to Timothy in 1 Timothy 3, 14-15. I write these things to you, waiting to go to you soon, but in case I am late, I write to you so that you know how one should conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the Church of the Living God, column and pillar of truth. What truth? The objective truth of the word of God. Incidentally, it is not by accident that Paul mentions the belt of truth. First, the truth is apparently a predominant theme among this letter. totally in the first two chapters. For example, in Ephesians 4, 14 to 15, Paul reminds us that the most important thing is that the more we are in the truth, the less likely we will be led from here to there by all the winds of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by the deceitful tricks of error. And he keeps saying, but or instead, speaking love in the truth, let us grow in all its aspects in him who is the head, that is, Christ. And then in verses 20 to 21 of Ephesians 4, Paul makes the point that, unlike those who were ignorant, those who were hard of heart, He says, but you have not learned Christ in this way, if you have truly heard him and have been taught in him according to the truth that is in Jesus. Pablo says, look, I have given you all the advice of the word of God. Beyond that, he will tell the Ephesians, the elders specifically. I said, no, I stopped declaring all the advice of the truth of God, which means that everything has to do with Christ, everything has to do with the truth, the truth that makes sense, that can be known, objective truth. Versículo 25 dice, por tanto dejando a un lado toda la falsedad, habla verdad cada cual con su prójimo porque somos miembros los unos de los otros. Pablo pone la cintura de la verdad al principio de la explicación de esta armadura de la luz porque sin ella ninguno de los otros componentes puede ser eficaz. Si tú estás demasiado ocupado Trying to control your tunic, all these things that can make you subject to be easily captured by the enemy. If you are too worried about the things that are around you. So you will never be able to use any of the other armors or components successfully. The first thing you have to do is follow you and raise that mantle and secure it in the belt so that you are impervious to things or external attacks. This morning we talked about the armor, which is the armor of justice. Let me ask you when you think of the Justice Shield. Well, I think of the old film of Ben-Hur, Spartacus. And up to the Ten Commandments, you see the Roman centurions and they had these big shields that are perfectly made to give the impression that there is musculature underneath there. Yes, yes. I would love to have one of these armors. I would put it under my shirt. And I would go to places and people would see how muscular I am. Under these armors that were made of bronze, or of ember, or of silver in some cases. And they are very helpful. Most of the time, I didn't have those things. Those were ceremonial pieces. And Hollywood has done a lot of damage to our mentality, to our minds. And imagining that, because the most common thing was a dress made of linen, and it was full of shells, of tortoises sometimes they put things woven as woven of metal and they also had the thing above the armor so that they were not attacked by their enemies which is very important in this area that needs protection well I don't have to tell you but your vital organs are in your torso El pecho, según la configuración de la coraza, era desde el cuello hasta tu ombligo, tu corazón, tu vejiga, todos tus intestinos, tu estómago, todo eso necesitaba protección en contra de los enemigos. Even if a sword attacked you, it could cause you to die several days later from sepsis. It could cause you to die from sepsis in a matter of days. Therefore, it was very important that you cover the front and back in the most effective way so that you could do it. ¿Cómo podemos traducir esta imagen física a lo que es lo más importante espiritualmente? Bueno, pues es muy fácil. Como yo dije, la coraza era diseñada para cubrir los órganos vitales del torso. Dos de estos órganos, el corazón y las entrañas o intestinos, tienen significado muy importante en las escrituras. El corazón era conocido que era una representación simbólica de la mente en los años anteriores. El corazón era simbólico de la mente. Déjame darles un par de ejemplos de las escrituras. Proverbios 23.7. Dice, pues como piensa dentro de sí en el corazón uno, así es. El corazón era el lugar donde se generaban los corazones. En Mateo 15.19, because bad thoughts come from the heart. Well, obviously they mean that from the heart to the mind, from the heart to the mind, that's where the thoughts come from. No, no, no, they legitimately thought, they didn't understand the brain. They thought that your thought was made in your heart. And what about the guts? Well, the guts, It was where your emotions were. It is where all the feelings come from. We still use that terminology today. When you are insecure about something, when something is not going well, you are worried, you are out of place, what happens to your stomach? You have butterflies in your stomach, or worse. Or they give you big butterflies and then they move around and bad things can happen when that domino effect begins. We know very well that we feel our emotions in our intestines. When Satan attacks, think about this. What are your favorite whites? The mind and the emotions. If Satan can captivate our minds so that our emotions are changed or disturbed, if he can govern the way we think and govern the way we respond emotionally to certain situations, he can make us useless in the battle. How many of you have been so worried or overwhelmed by something that you can't control ourselves spiritually. They are so worried about this thing or the other thing. Read my Bible. What? I have real problems right now. Pray? No, no, I can't get this out of my mind, much less pray. And it's destroying me from the inside out. This is what Satan does. He dominates the mind and convinces us that we We are at the door of death at any turn. It convinces us that we have nothing but the concern of occupying our time and that causes the emotional concern and it takes us out of the battle and we are no longer useful. We have to protect. We have to protect ourselves because Satan is very cunning to fill us with false information and so successful in darkening our thoughts with false doctrine, confusion, lies, worries, anxieties, that he uses these things to be able incite inappropriate emotional responses and cause us to put our affections and our hatred in the wrong things. That is why Paul mentions renouncing the truth first. It is one of the best defenses against Satan's ability to deceive us, which can very quickly be a prohibition or an obstacle. Parte de sus tácticas exitosas son de quitar nuestras mentes de que nosotros debemos estar arraigados en la verdad. Cuando nosotros somos arraigados en la verdad y tenemos ese cinturón puesto correctamente, es que nosotros podamos vestirnos bien con la coraza. Estaba pensando en una canción de Casting Crowns o Echando Coronas. una de las cosas es una que se llama la voz de la verdad no la voy a cantar o no se las voy a repetir pero busquen esa canción porque todas las mentiras que satanás les dice son una cosa pero la voz de la verdad me dice me cuenta otra historia la voz de la verdad dice no temas Déjame preguntarte cuánto de la voz de la verdad resuena en tus oídos. A diferencia de la voz del maligno. Puedes defenderte de estas cosas ceñido bien con la verdad y revestidos con la coraza de la justicia. No está hecho de... No es hecho de cosas físicas. It's not a bronze arm fight. Maybe they are effective against real physical opponents. But we do not fight against the powers of flesh and blood, but against the powers, against the spiritual forces in the heavenly places. Since our battle is against the spiritual things, our armor must also be spiritual. What is the armor made of? The armor is made of justice. It is made of justice. And what is this justice that Pablo is referring to? Well, there are three possibilities that Pablo is talking about. Pablo is talking about one, the self-justice of man. Or number two, our demonstrations of practical justice. Or number three, the justice imputed by Christ. These are the three options that exist. Which one is it? Well, the first one we can say immediately, because Pablo makes it abundantly clear in Romans 3.10, and I agree with you very often about this, there is no just, not even one. Therefore, any just act that a natural man in his natural state may appear to be, are not just. How do we know this? We know this because in Isaiah 64, it is said, All our injustices are like rags of filth. That is, anything that is generated from you, like a fallen man, a person outside of Christ, a person who does not possess the justice of Christ, anything that you do, that you consider just, Es un trapo de inundicia. No lo puedes hacer. Pero espérate, yo he conocido mucho tipo de personas que nosotros diríamos que no eran criaturas, que han hecho muchas cosas justas. Piensen en la madre Teresa, ¿no? La madre Teresa estaba fuera de Cristo. Nada lo que ella hizo era justo. Why? Because in their natural state, in the natural state of any person, we are not capable of demonstrating justice. That is to say, what God defines as justice. We would define it as good, perhaps, or philanthropic, or something good. But our opinion does not matter with respect to these things. Only God's opinion matters. What about the second option? Maybe Pablo is referring to the ability of the believer led by the Holy Spirit to be able to do things justice or is Pablo talking about the third option or if he is talking about the justice imputed by Christ I think he's talking about option number two and option number three I think he's talking about Both the just acts that we do as children of God, those who have the Holy Spirit within us, that are led to be able to do just things, if we can do just things for the first time in our lives. I think he's talking about this, but more importantly, we have to understand that we can only do those things if we possess the justice of Christ. Everything returns to Christ, anyway, no? It's all about his justice. I was discussing with a brother the importance of believing, as we are told in the scriptures, that the battle of the believer against sin has already been won. Jesus Christ has already won the victory. Jesus Christ has already won all the battle that you will face as a believer. Jesus Christ has already overcome sin, death and the tomb. Jesus Christ has already gone before us to be able to prepare a place for us. And where he goes, we will follow. Therefore, we have already won the battle. As Paul told the Romans, we are more than winners in Christ Jesus. We have been freed from the power of sin and death, as Paul says in Romans 6, and we are now slaves of justice. What a wonderful blessing it is! Aren't you happy that Christ sees you, that God the Father sees you as a slave of justice and not a slave to evil? We are no longer enslaved to impurity. Now we can present our members as slaves of justice, bringing sanctification. And yet, here is the point, here is where people deviate. We have to recognize the difference between our positional reality and our practical reality. What do I mean by that? Well, what I mean is that in a positional sense, there is no argument. As believers, we are before God the Father, not dressed in our own justice, but in the justice imputed by Christ. There is no dispute. Paul says it in Philippians 3. Go there, Philippians 3, 8 to 9. And when you go there, keep your fingers there, because we are going to go through several passages, because we are going to return there. Philippians 3, 8 to 9, Paul says, And even more, I consider as a loss all things in view of the incomparable value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost everything and consider it as garbage, in order to win Christ and be found in him, not having my own justice derived from the law, sino la que es por la fe en Cristo, la justicia que procede de Dios sobre la base de la fe. Pablo dice, miren, no es mi propia justicia. Yo no puedo sacarla por mí misma, no puedo vivir perfectamente dentro de mi propia justicia. Esta es la justicia de Dios que viene por medio de la fe. There are some other relevant passages that I could mention. 1 Corinthians 1.30. Paul says, "...but by His work ye are in Christ Jesus, who made for us the wisdom of God, and justification, and sanctification, and redemption." Everything is in Christ. We all owe it to Him. 2 Corinthians 5.21. al que no conoció pecado le hizo pecado por nosotros para que fuéramos hechos justicia de dios en él tú eres declarado justo tú eres declarado o considerado justo por dios el padre solo al nivel que tú estás en cristo estás vestido en su justicia What is particularly fascinating about this concept of the justice of God imputed to me is that the Lord has a unique name in the Old Testament that teaches this thing for real. You may have heard it before in Jeremiah 23.6, 36.16. The name of the Lord in those places, the Hebrew name of the Lord is Jehovah Tzitkenu. What does it mean? This is the most fascinating thing about this. This was not a concept that at this time was understandable by the Hebrew mind. It was not something they thought about. We are talking about a people who had been trained to believe that their own justice was contingent on their ability to obey the law. They firmly believed in a justice based on works, and now suddenly the Lord identifies himself as Jehovah Tzitkenu, which means God, our justice. It's wonderful. If you know anything about the redemptive history at this point in time, the opening had not yet been opened for them to understand if they were going to be just, it would be only based on the justice of the Lord. It's prototypical. A prototypical teaching. An old teaching that would not be clarified for many centuries. In the eyes of the Father, you and I as believers, we are completely justified by His grace and only by that grace. Paul knew it. We have already talked about the Order of Salvation, the Order of Salvation in Romans 8, 29-30. A perfect description of your salvation and my salvation from beginning to end. Because those who knew beforehand, Prognosus, who loved before, also predestined them to be made according to the image of his Son, so that he may be the firstborn among many brothers, and those who predestined Aestos tambien llamo. Y los que llamo, Aestos tambien justifico. ¿Qué quiere decir eso? Los nos declaro justos en Cristo. Nos preamo, nos predestino, nos llamo, nos justifico. Y a los que justifico, Aestos tambien glorifico. Y todo es en Cristo. Pablo was rejoicing repeatedly for his writings in the positional reality of his justice. He knew that he was firmly justified before a God three times holy on the basis of the completed work of Christ. Therefore, this idea of positional justice is basic in the Bible. It should not surprise anyone. And even so, it surprises many people because there are many who insist that along with positional justice, practical justice must follow. I have to be just practically too. I want to show you that this is not the case. What does Paul say in Philippians 3, verse 12? Note very carefully what he just said. He says, I possess the justice of Christ, a justice that is not mine. And now in verse 12 he says, not that I have already attained it, or that I have already come to be perfect, but that I continue forward in order to be able to attain that for which I was also attained by Christ Jesus. Pablo is admitting, I still do not have this justice in its entirety. Positionally, yes. Glory be to the Lord, that positionally I am as sure as I could be. But, justly? Practically just? Not yet. Keep reading. Brothers, I myself do not consider having achieved it, but one thing I do. Forgetting what is left behind and extending myself to what is ahead, I continue towards the goal to obtain the prize of the supreme calling of God in Christ Jesus. So that all of us who are perfect or mature have this same attitude, and if in something you have a different attitude, that will also be revealed to you by God. However, we continue to live according to the same norm that we have achieved. There is a significant difference between being covered in the just clothes of Christ and living a consistently just life. Here we make the difference between positional and practical reality. Although we will always be just and sure in Christ, and God has declared us in the eternal past, to be just are the merits of the completed work of Christ. Our lives are not always the mirror of that positional reality, unless they are. Some of you want to raise your hand and say, oh no, Pastor, you are wrong. My life is perfectly in line with the position of justice. Someone? Good, good. You have to ask yourself, why? And the answer is, because your positional reality has not reached the level of your practical reality, nor will it happen from this point of glory. Any person who lives on planet Earth, even now, there is no one who is perfect, there is no one who is fair, even among themselves. We are only fair if we are in Christ. Now, think about it this way. If at the same time we received the justice imputed by Christ, that is to say, if at the same time we were declared just positionally in Christ, if simultaneously we were blessed with the practical justice to be able to be the mirror of that positional justice, why would we need three quarters of the New Testament? If it is true, that at the moment we receive the just vestments of Christ, we are made perfectly just in the practical sense, what need would we have of the constant exhortations in the scriptures that are mentioned here in Ephesians 6, 10 to 18? Why would we need anything? We could be walking around saying, I'm already dressed in this armor, don't you see how wonderful I am? Don't you see how perfect I am? I firmly believe that this is exactly what was in Pablo's mind when he wrote the words of Romans 7, which has become controversial unnecessarily. In Romans 7 there are two groups of people in the church who interpret differently. Some say, Pablo cannot be writing about himself in the tense present, although in Greek everything is in the indicative present, which is very ambiguous. He is referring to himself in his previous life. Well, if you insist that Pablo is referring to himself as a sinner in his previous life as an unbeliever, then explain to me what kind of unbeliever is saddened that he does the things that he doesn't want to do and doesn't do the things that he should do. What kind of unbeliever says that there is a war between his members, between the spirit and the flesh? He doesn't fight. What kind of unbeliever tendría la habilidad en sí mismo de decir, ¡Oh, miserable de mí! ¿Quién me libertará de este cuerpo de muerte? Romano 7 está escrito por un hombre regenerado, triste que su posición, justicia posicional, no está de acuerdo con su justicia posicional, o práctica posicional. For this reason, Romans 8 begins with a wonderful statement. It says, therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. He is writing this as a celebration of the fact that although he is sad for his sin, El sabe que su redentor vive. El sabe que ha sido redimido de todos los pecados pasado, presente y futuro por la justicia imputada por Cristo. ¿No ven cuán maravilloso es esto? Romanos 6, 7 y 8 hacen una gran trilogía. Porque en Romanos 6 somos más que vencedores. Romanos 7. But we can't always act like this, because we are still miserable. We are still in this flesh that is dying. Who will free us? It is Christ who will free us, Romans 8. Therefore, therefore, since all this is true, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It works perfectly. There is no necessary controversy. Pablo is saying, maybe I am positionally right, you could agree with me, positionally correct, but I don't feel it all the time. Some of you feel that way, or feel that you have already had it, be careful. Pablo understood that when his practical reality and positional, they are in agreement. That is the glory. It is when he has already been glorified. And it will not happen until then. Romans 8, go to Romans 8, please. There is another thing about Romans 8 that is very clear, very clear the explanation with respect to understanding Romans 7. Romans 8 starting in verse 18. Pablo says, well, I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy of being compared with the glory that has to be revealed to us. We have not yet arrived, people, is what he is saying. Porque el anhelo profundo de la creación es aguardar ansiosamente la revelación de los hijos de Dios. Porque la creación fue sometida a la vanidad, no de su propia voluntad, sino por causa de aquel que la sometió, en la esperanza de que la creación misma también será liberada de la esclavitud, de la corrupción, a la libertad, a la gloria de los hijos de Dios. Pues sabemos que la creación entera aún ajime y sufre dolores de parto hasta ahora. Y no solo ella. but also ourselves, that we have the primacy of the Spirit, yet we ourselves moan in our interior, anxiously awaiting the adoption as children, the redemption of our bodies, because in hope we have been saved. But the hope that is seen is not hope. Why wait for what one sees? But if we wait for what we don't see, we patiently wait for it. Pablo is saying it again, definitely. Our positional justice is a glorious thing. but greater glory will be demonstrated at the moment that we free ourselves from this mortality and that our corruption is dressed in incorruption. When we finally and forever enjoy our glorified bodies, bodies that will no longer be subject to sin, that will no longer be subject to pain and suffering, Cuerpos que vivirán para siempre y se deleitarán en la gloria de Dios. Todavía no ha sucedido. Te has visto en el espejo recientemente. Era esta misma verdad que llevó a Pablo a escribir en Primera de Corintios 15, 53 a 57. Lo que yo acababa de hablar. Lo que he acabado de hablar. This corruptible has to dress in incorruption and this mortal has to dress in immortality. How often do you think about this? We talked this morning about the idols that we could create with all the things but God in our lives. How often do you feel pensar, reflejar y maravillarte en la realidad que esta vida no es lo mejor, que vendrá un día cuando el Señor Jesús vendrá con un grito, con el sonido de una trompeta y todos nosotros de las cuatro esquinas del mundo seremos reunidos para poder disfrutar de su presencia. ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que pensaste de que va a haber un cambio radical en ti? ¿Cuán a menudo has pensado en tu propia muerte? I have to admit, the older I get, the more often I think about things like that. But these things shouldn't bother us, shouldn't scare us. Why? Because we know that in a blink of an eye, we will be changed. You will go from this life to the next. You will not go to purgatory, you will not go to Hades or to Seoul and wait for your time. We are told, since Christ has gone to prepare a place for us, he is our precursor, the captain of our salvation. At the moment we die, in a blink of an eye, we will be transferred from this miserable existence to the glorious presence of the Lord. As Arcee Sproul, the pastor, said, I don't worry about death. I worry about the method. I don't want to burn, I don't want to drown. I don't want to be there for many years, for many years, or weeks, or even days. But I do know that in the end there is something called glory. That's why Paul said that these things are like garbage, because they have been dressed with the righteous garments of Christ. Paul continues in this passage, he says, But when this corruptible is dressed with incorruption, and this mortal is dressed with immortality, then, notice cautiously, as he uses the words, then, until then, I have shared this with you too. There are some who profess to be believers who have difficulty accepting the fact that although we have been redeemed, we still sin. I have had arguments with people on this topic. A few years ago, I remember, Steve, maybe you remember, we had a hymn singing, I think it was Ed Sachs. He wanted to sing a hymn, an old song, Gaither, And the song was, I am a sinner saved by grace. And there was one in the congregation who almost lost his mind. I'm not going to sing that. In Christ, I am not a sinner. I'm not going to sing that song that says I'm just a sinner saved by grace, because I'm not a sinner anymore. Okay, well, let me ask you a couple of questions. Do you still sin? Well, yes. ¿A qué le llamas a una persona que peca? No contestó. Él regresó como si yo fuera el diablo mismo. Y me dijo, ya veo lo que estás tratando de hacer. Yo no voy a caer en esa trampa. Hermanos, somos pecadores salvados por la gracia. ¿Cómo lo sé? Lo sé porque me levanté esta mañana y la primera cosa que yo hice fue pecar. ¿Cómo? Well, I'm going to be transparent. I woke up this morning and I said, I don't want to wake up. And I do want to be awake. Don't misinterpret me. I want to be alive, yes, of course. But I didn't want to get out of bed. But the Holy Spirit told me, it's the Lord's Day. I know. But this bed is warm. Everything is fine with the world. For the first time, I have woken up and nothing hurts. But it's time to get up. My first thought was one of discontent. Of sin. Some of you thought the same thing. Well, currently I don't think this person understood what I was saying. Because he was convinced that I was promoting this wrong idea that I mentioned in the first hour. Some people think that admitting that you still sin is an admission that you have a license to sin. Or an admission that you have surrendered to life. I'm going to sin, I'm going to continue to sin, because that's the person I am. No, no. I said it in the first hour. We have the Holy Spirit in us who guides us, who leads us, who gives us conviction, who corrects us, who punishes us, who leads us step by step. to greater sanctification, we become more like Christ, by the grace of God, every day by the spirit that lives in us, and our inclination for that spirit is to be obedient to God. None of us would dare to think that we could sin because grace abounds. It has not been given to me. God forbids you to think about that. But this individual thought it was what I was saying. Oh, no, no, no. We don't call people sinners. Those who have been redeemed, although they still sin. And it surprised me. As... As... Ingenuous, scripturally. In 1 Timothy 6.12, why would Paul say to a Timothy who believes, fight the good battle of faith? Against what are you fighting? Well, ideally you are fighting against sin, the sin that is against your faith. Fighting the good battle of faith. Give up the eternal life of which you were called and of which you did a good profession in the presence of many witnesses. Why would Paul urge Timothy to fight a battle if there would be no fight to fight? There is a fight. Why would you need an armor if there is nothing to protect yourself from? ¿Por qué Pablo exhortaría a los filipenses y filipenses 2.12 que continúen a ocuparse de su salvación con temor y temblor? ¿Por qué Juan escribiendo a sus hijitos en la fe en primera de Juan 2.1? ¿Por qué les acuerda a ellos? Si alguno peca, abogado tenemos para con el Padre, a Jesucristo justo. Si ya estamos prácticamente justos, ya no necesitamos abogado. In fact, there is this thing that John says in 1 John 8 to 10, if we say that we have no sin, if we say that we are not sinners, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us, if we confess our sins, which sins do we commit? Si confesamos nuestros pecados, él es fiel y justo para perdonarnos los pecados y para limpiarnos de toda la maldad. Si decimos que no hemos pecado, le hacemos a él mentiroso y su palabra no está en nosotros. Vamos a juntarlo todo y vamos a regresar al punto de partida de nuestro texto. Pablo insiste que nosotros nos vistamos de la coraza de la justicia, porque sin ella cualquier confianza que podríamos poner en nuestra propia justicia No bastará. Necesitas una coraza que te es dada fuera de ti mismo. Dada a ti, una que no te ganaste, una coraza que te es dada como resultado de la gracia de Dios y que es acompañada por la fe necesaria para poder entender que tú la tienes y de entender que la necesitas. Often, when confronted, one is confronted by many tests and tribulations. We look back at our previous experiences and how we responded previously to similar circumstances. How we solved it. Ah, well, I didn't need the Lord at that moment. I made a good decision and everything went well. Let me give you a precaution against this, because although you may have left some circumstances for yourself, supposedly, there is no guarantee that you will be able to repeat it. And in fact, as a believer, you should not dare to think that you did it yourself. God will work in you, through you, for you and for you, even if you do not recognize it. As Martin Lloyd-Jones said, give thanks to God for the experiences. But don't trust them. Don't put yourself at the helm of the experiences, but at the helm of the justice of Christ. There is someone here who cannot identify with what Pablo is saying here. We all live in this strange reality, in which in one hand we are Positionally just, we are well before God, by Christ. And on the other hand, we fight to be practically just. How do we deal with this? What is the solution to this particular dilemma? The solution is clear. Put on the armor. How do we do it practically? We do it by remembering what we have dressed first. the belt of truth. If you want to be inoculated against the battles of Satan, you will put on each piece of this armor and you will realize that you have it on and that you need it. Only in this way can you be inoculated from the attacks of Satan. And notice this too, the commandment to put on the armor of justice is in the tense Aorist, in Greek, No es en el tenso futuro, no es en el tenso pasado, ni en el presente. Es en el tenso aurista. ¿Qué quiere decir? El tenso aurista denota una acción punctiliar en un punto en el tiempo. ¿Qué implica? Tenemos la idea de que nosotros, que cada mañana, tenemos la idea de que cada mañana tenemos que vestirnos de la coraza. It's better said that way. Having put on the justice's armor, keep it on. And don't take off the armor. It's like a child with the first time using the glasses. Kinsley? She has gone very well, like a young woman, of using her glasses all the time. We have had the problem with other children. Where are your glasses? I don't know where my glasses are. You are blind or blind. Without the glasses, you won't be able to see. And you will be tripping. Some kids wear them, and other kids... I don't know where they are. Therefore, I'm going to trip for the rest of my life. The same truth is about the armor. Now that you have the bet, don't take it away. Keep the bet. Keep the bet. To protect you. Until when? Not forever. Until you don't need it anymore. And when will it be? Not until you reach glory. I want to imagine, speaking spiritually, when we reach the glory, at the feet of Christ, not just the crowns. That is already a lot, but there will be a lot of armor at the feet of Christ. Keep your armor on until then, until He tells you that you can take it off. We are going to close with a hymn that we have spoken this morning. Y al llegar, José, aquí esta mañana, déjame leer las primeras dos estrofas. Quiero leer los himnos en vez de cantarlos, inicialmente. Porque son tan ricos los himnos, y a menudo nosotros sacamos mucho más si no memorizamos como canción. Pero escuchen las primeras dos estrofas. Dice Jesús, tu sangre y justicia son mi belleza, mi glorioso vestido. En medio de mundos llameantes, vestido de ellos con alegría, levantaré mi cabeza. Osado me mantendré en tu gran día, pues ¿quién me acusará? Estoy completamente absuelto por estos, del pecado y el temor, de la culpa y la vergüenza. ¿Estás vestido en la justicia de Cristo esta mañana? If you are dressed like this, do you agree that you are dressed to protect your vital organs, spiritually speaking? Next week we will talk about the third piece. I hope you are here. Let's pray. Father, how full of grace it has been with us, you have not left us to our own tricks, you have not left us to conjure any kind of justice that pleases you, because you know that like those of us who fell in Adam, we had no hope. of being able to obey you perfectly, to your perfect and just standard. And it has been so good for us to give ourselves the right clothes of Christ. It has been so good for us to declare our salvation from loving each other in advance to our glorification as a completed action. Father, help us to be a more grateful people. Help us to understand the blessing de tener esta armadura ayudarnos a entender la importancia y la necesidad de vestirnos de esta armadura de cada momento de cada día. Y solo así nosotros podremos inocularnos en contra de los ataques del enemigo. Solo así nosotros podremos honrar, glorificar y alabar tu nombre como debemos. Ayúdanos en todas estas cosas. Oramos en Cristo Jesús. Amén.