REPENTANCE AND CONVERSION

   The divine plan of salvation for humanity is based on two aspects:

 1) Through REPENTANCE we can reach the forgiveness of God by an act of his will, in the redemptive merits of the sacrifice of his Lamb, our Savior Jesus Christ.

2) Through OUR CONVERSION we leave the vanities and follow the living God, who made heaven, earth, sea and all things in them (Acts 14:15). It is not an act, it is a process of Life that has as an active principle the gift we were given: The Holy Spirit (1-Th. 4: 8) and with which we are empowered to develop all the values of the Kingdom of God, such as holiness, solidarity and The equality (2-Co.8.13-15).

It is therefore an interrelationship: He gives the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit to the members of his holy nation so that they in turn participate worthily collaborating with him in the construction of his Kingdom (1-Co .3.9))

SNARES OF THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS

   The Kingdom of God was transferred from earthly Israel to spiritual Israel, the Church, through which it grows and develops until its full establishment, when the tares have been removed, and our Savior renders it to the Church, As an inheritance prepared from the beginning of the world for his own people, who are counted worthy of this Kingdom for the service they render to their brethren in the family of faith (Matt. 25: 31-46).

   However, the growth among us of the Kingdom of God or the consolidation of divine sovereignty among those called to participate in this "new regime of the Spirit" (Ro. 7: 6) is often obstructed by certain customs or attitudes that clash with The truly salvific character of this unsurpassed and unsurpassable integral plan of liberation that the Creator proposes for human beings.

Some of the ideas or attitudes that hinder the development of this noble purpose of the Savior are, for example:

   A) To believe that expressions such as "body of Christ" or "holy nation" are merely literary adornments, and That in truth the unity that the Messiah longs for (Jn.17.21) must be conceived only with the imagination or with noble intentions, but nothing more.

   B) To think that the Kingdom of God is only something individual and emotional, something like the crutches used by people who can not stand for themselves.

   C) Believing that Christian salvation consists only in people attending Some temple or building to sing, pray and listen to biblical discourses.)

   D)  Suppose that it is the "sheep" that must provide for the "shepherds", not the other way around. (Acts 20: 17-38, 2-Co.12.14-15) With these and many other tricks is the Prince of this world, through his servants, trying to distort what is in reality constituted as the most powerful means for Salvation of humanity.

TOWARDS FREDOM

   We are making great strides in the realistic conception of the Word of God. However, today when discussing the social aspect of the affairs of God, many still think they are perverting the Scriptures, as if the Church itself was not society. One of the steps we are taking is that, at least, we talked about the gospel of the Kingdom of God, that certainly was what Jesus came to preach, but many still do not understand clearly what it is.

   Others believe that expressions such as "people of God", "holy nation", "newness of the Spirit", etc., to the "theology of liberation" allusion is made. I have understood that this school of thought everything related to the problems of the poor classes of the countries considered as "Christians" also belongs. At this point we would have to clarify something:

   Being "Christian" does not mean being born into a particular country or family or being passive objects of a religious rite in which our moral conscience and desire had nothing to do. Could not be farther from the truth. The terms "safe," "redeemed", "liberated" are synonymous. I prefer the latter because it is less polluted "religious opium". Our Savior wants to free his people, but what is Christian salvation or liberation? Who really are "the people of God"?

   There is no room to explain, but sow unrest among those who are on their way to understand the value of "hidden treasure", which is well above the religious fantasies and unproductive theological rhetoric with which a few Ladino exploit ignorance and suffering of the crowds.