Did you press record? Yes. John chapter 17, brothers, is located, as I mentioned a while ago in the reading of the word of the Lord, before the trials that the Lord Jesus Christ had to face, the arrest, the unjust trials that they did to him, which in reality were not trials, the condemnation and the crucifixion to which they took him, in the plot of the Jews and the Romans. And it's a chapter where the Lord Jesus Christ intercedes for his disciples. And it's known for the intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some Bibles have Jesus praying for his disciples. And in other Bibles it's known for the priestly prayer of Christ for his disciples. And it is important that this prayer, brothers, is not only in favor of his disciples, but it is also in our favor, because the passage says it right there. He said, not only for them, but for those who will have to believe by the word of these. And it is a prayer that must fill us with pleasure, with joy, with enthusiasm, to know that the Lord Jesus Christ has prayed for us, and that He continues to intercede for us. He is, the Scripture says, at the behest of the Father, interceding for each one of us. The will of the Lord Jesus Christ that we find in this passage is that we will persevere, that we are kept, that we are sanctified, and that we do not mix with the world, because we are in the world, but we are not of the world. So this prayer is important, this passage is important, and I want to see it tonight because we have finished a series in Ephesians 4, from 1 to 32, where there is a call to sanctification, to unity and sanctification of the Church. And I think that verse 17 specifically will help us expand a little more on this topic. I have four points that we are going to study tonight. They are all in verse 17. In the first word, the verse says, sanctify them. My first point is that it is the desire of the prayer of the Lord. What does the Lord Jesus Christ desire here? That God sanctifies, God the Father sanctifies his disciples through the truth that is his word. The second point is the containers of prayer. ¿Quiénes son los recipientes de la oración? Dice, santificalos, se refiere a alguien específico. Y en todo el contexto, cuando lo leemos, se refiere a aquellos que el Padre le dio a Jesucristo. Aquellos que creyeron la palabra del Evangelio. Aquellos que fueron hechos hijos de Dios. Entonces está orando por un grupo específico. Esta oración no es por el mundo. This prayer is unique and exclusively for the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the first point is the desire of the prayer, which is to sanctify them. The second is the recipients of the prayer, that is, who wants to be sanctified, And my third point, brothers, is the means of sanctification. It says, sanctify them in your truth. In other words, the sanctification of the believers occurs only and exclusively through the truth. Apart from the truth, there is no sanctification. And finally, my last point, the affirmation of prayer. Dice, tu palabra es verdad. Hay una afirmación donde enfatiza el hecho de que Dios puede santificar a las personas por medio de la verdad. Entonces, estos son los cuatro puntos que vamos a estar viendo y vamos a dar comienzo al primero. Noten hermanos, en primer lugar dice, Sanctify them. This speaks of the desire of the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the will of the Lord Jesus Christ that everyone who invokes his name be sanctified. In the Old Testament, the prayer, pardon me, the commandment of the Father for his people, specifically in the Old Testament, was that the people should be holy just as God is holy. For example, let's read the book of Exodus, chapter 15, verse 11. It says, Who like you, O Jehovah, among the gods, Who like you, magnificent in holiness, Terrible in marvelous feats, Maker of wonders. Note the emphasis that God is magnificent, great in holiness. And the book of Leviticus makes a call to the people of God to be saints just as God is holy. In the book of Psalms, Psalm 99, verse 9, it says, Exalt Jehovah our God, and prostrate before his holy mount, for Jehovah our God is holy. Notice the call. The call is to exalt Jehovah, to prostrate before Him, and the reason is because He is holy. And the word holy, although I will advance the message a little, means separate or apart. But in 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 16, Pedro, citing the book of Leviticus, says, Because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. So, it is obvious, brothers, that the desire of God, since eternity, when He chose those who should be saved, is for those who are saved to be holy, just as He is holy. That is why it is not strange for us to see that the Lord Jesus Christ desires. This is the desire of prayer. Sanctify them. He wants the people to be a part of it. We read, if you remember, in Ephesians chapter 4, In verse 1 of the portion we were studying, where it says, And our call is a call to holiness. It is a call to live according to God's will and according to God's character. Because in chapter 5, verse 1, it says, This means, brothers, that the will of the Lord Jesus Christ in this prayer is that his disciples, including us, and all those who will believe until his return, must be sanctified. They must be sanctified. Through Scripture, we have already seen this, that he wants us to live a holy life. In Ephesians chapter 4, verse 17, he says it in a negative way. Dice esto pues digo y requiero en el Señor que ya no andeis como los otros gentiles que andan en la vanidad de su mente. Es decir que primero se nos llama a vivir de acuerdo a la vocación santa con la que hemos sido llamados y después se nos dice ya no vivan como viven los otros gentiles por cuanto debemos de andar una vida en santidad. So, we observe, first of all, that the Lord Jesus Christ says here, sanctify them. This is his desire. This is our first point, brothers. This is the desire that is here of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, notice, brothers, that in verse 19 of the same chapter, right after the verses that we just read, in verse 19 it says, y por ellos yo me santifico a mí mismo para que también ellos sean santificados en la verdad. Ahora hay que entender algo aquí, que el Señor Jesucristo es Dios mismo. Dios es ya santo. Él no está diciendo que Él se santifica en la forma en la que nosotros nos debemos santificar. Él dice, yo me aparto. Él no necesita ser más santo. Él ya es santo. And when he says, I sanctify myself, he refers to obedience to the Father. What the Father commanded him to do, he did. And that made him sanctify the name of the Father through obedience. And that obedience made him live a life in holiness. And the purpose for which he sanctified himself is so that so that they may also be sanctified in the truth." Notice again the emphasis that the sanctification is in the truth. We will see this a little later. In John chapter 8, verse 32, John chapter 8, verse 32, says, "...and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Obviously, this has to do with the point we are going to see, but it is a synonym. Holiness and freedom are synonyms. And in chapter 15, verse 3, John himself says, You are already clean by the word that I have spoken to you. So, holiness, freedom, and cleanliness, the three are synonymous terms. They are effects that the word of God produces in the life of a person. But let's go back to our first point. It is desire. Brothers, in the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ, We learn about the desire we should have when we pray for others. The wife should pray for her husband to be sanctified. The husband should pray for his wife to be sanctified. Parents must pray for their children to be sanctified by the Word of God. Children must pray for their parents to be sanctified. Believers must pray for each other to be sanctified. And the point is, if this was the priority of the Lord Jesus Christ for his disciples, how much more should our priority not be to pray for each other? Isn't that right, brothers? So here we have a good application. that we can take with us today, and that is that I must pray for the sanctification of my wife, of my husband, of my children, of my brothers and sisters in the Church. This is not a prayer for the non-believers, but for the believers. Let's now look at the second point. We saw that this is the desire of the prayer, sanctify them. Now, who are the recipients? of this desire, or of this prayer. It's the disciples, because it says, sanctify them. Look, brothers, in the context, if you like, go with me there. Let's start from verse number 6. Verse number 6 says, I have manifested your name to the men of the world whom you gave me. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Verse 7. Now they have come to know that all the things that you have given me come from you. Verse 8 Because I have given them the words that you have given me, and they have received them. And they have come to know that I have come out of you, and they have believed that you have sent me. And then verse 9 says, I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, porque tuyos son. Estos versículos nos muestran que Jesucristo está orando por un grupo específico. Y está orando específicamente por aquellos que fueron elegidos en la eternidad. Y que en su momento vinieron al conocimiento de la gracia del Señor Jesucristo. It's a specific group. And verse 9 clarifies it very well, doesn't it? It says, I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you gave me, because they are yours. So the recipients of this petition are the believers. And in the same way, here we learn another principle. The principle is that the prayer is for believers. The prayer for sanctification. Because of the unbelievers, we can pray for their conversion, but not for their sanctification. Because the only ones who are sanctified are the believers. Now, we also have to understand, brothers, what we are talking about. Because the Lord Jesus Christ says, sanctify them, sanctify them. And here, brothers and sisters, first of all, we need to clarify what sanctification is. Here this is a verb, sanctify them, but the word saint, which is an adjective, speaks of those who have been separated. And it has to do with the action of cutting. If you have a piece of paper and you cut it, or if you have an orange and you cut it in half, what you have done is to separate it. And what God has done with us is to separate us from the world. As much as He has regenerated our hearts, He has given us eternal life. In that act, He separated us. He made us part of His Church. So, the separated are the saints. And these saints have to be sanctified. But I think that before we continue to see the third point, we need to understand what is the doctrine of sanctification. And the doctrine of sanctification has three aspects that must be understood. The first is positional sanctification. Positional sanctification. This step is something that occurs at the moment of regeneration. God saves us, sanctifies us, and positions us perfectly with the justice of Christ before himself. And this happens only once. And this is the action of one alone. It is the action of God. Let's see some biblical references, brothers. Go with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 30. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, In verse number 30, it says, But for him you are in Christ Jesus, who has been made for us by God wisdom, justification, sanctification, and redemption. But note that everything is in the past tense. It says there, But for him you are in Christ Jesus, who has been made for us by God. It speaks of a past time. In Jesus Christ, we have already been sanctified. Now, in chapter 6, in verse 11, right here, brothers, in this book, 1 Corinthians 6.11, It says in verse 11, And this you were some, but you have already been washed, you have already been sanctified, you have already been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. What do we see? That there is a sanctification that has already occurred, that occurs in the moment of conversion. That is the positional sanctification. In Hebrews 10, verse 10, we also see this great truth. Hebrews 10, verse 10 says, En esta voluntad somos santificados mediante la ofrenda del cuerpo de Jesucristo hecha una vez para siempre. Habla de tiempo pasado. Entonces, la santificación debe de verse, en primer lugar, como la obra de Dios que ya ocurrió en el pasado. Dios ya nos santificó, y esta es la santificación posicional. La segunda santificación es la santificación progresiva, que es de la que Pablo está hablando. Pablo aquí está hablando de una, perdón, de Jesucristo. Está orando por una santificación que va en progreso, que va en avance, que es como la aurora del día, que empieza a salir el sol, va el sol, crece, crece, crece, hasta que está en todo su to all light. And it is so strong that there is a glare, how do you say, a reflection that sparkles with so much light. The sanctification of the believers will be like this. It begins shortly until it is in all its splendor, when the Lord glorifies us. So this sanctification is something that is happening at this moment in the life of every believer. It's happening in your life. It's happening in my life, brothers and sisters. And this is how we should see it. Now, let's go to 1 Corinthians again. But now, let's go to chapter 1, verse 2. 1 Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 2. It says here, a la iglesia de Dios que está en Corinto, a los santificados en Cristo Jesús, llamados a ser santos, con todos los que en cualquier lugar invocan el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, Señor de ellos y nuestro. Somos llamados a ser santos. So this is important, that there is a work that is affecting your life, it is affecting my own life, and when we are exposed to the Word of God, both through personal reading and through the meetings where we get together to study the Bible in the service, in Sunday school, or in any group that gathers to study the Bible, the Word of God is sanctifying it. For that reason, there can't be such a thing as a carnal Christian. Because carnal Christians don't exist. The Bible doesn't teach the carnal Christian. The true believer is positionally holy. The true believer is progressively being sanctified. For that reason, it's like, for example, there can't be a case like, I think there was a movie, With this one with Brad Pitt, where it's called the strange case of... that he's always the same age, Chuy, don't you remember? Yes, it's a very strange case, right? That he's getting younger instead of older. Or that the person is just there, he doesn't age. He stayed 18 years old. All the women who did that, right? Or 21. What's the phrase? 21 forever, it says. 41 forever? Yes. So, there is no such thing. The believer is sanctifying himself. That's why he can't say, no, well, sometimes I've heard believers say, hey, so-and-so is like that. No, he's a good guy, he's a good guy. He's like five years old, he doesn't come to church. What? What? What? No, brothers, maybe we should take away the name of the believer and it's not an offense to anyone, but let's pray for his salvation. Because we are being sanctified. God's will is for us to be sanctified, brothers and sisters. I don't want to get tired of telling you this, because many times when we enter the church with a question of exhortation or discipline, the feelings come in instead of the truth. If a person does not want to obey the Word of God, and he is exhorted once, and he is brought as a witness, and he is exhorted again, and he is taken to the group of the deacons, and he is taken again, and then he is taken to the church, and he does not want to repent, and he leaves, we cannot say, oh, the leaders of the church are cruel. No, he does not want to sanctify himself. And if he does not want to sanctify himself, he is against the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. against the Word, against the process and the normal life of a believer. Can we see that, brothers? It is normal for you to be sanctified. It is normal for me to be sanctified. It must be so, because this is the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thirdly, brothers, we see that there is a sanctification that is the perfect sanctification, which is what is called in the doctrine the glorification. This perfect sanctification is the final glorification, the consumption of sanctification. We see this in passages such as 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 13, 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 13, and 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 23. But let's first look at verse 13. 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 13. I want to talk about the state of those who sleep. The state of those who sleep is to be absent from the body, present with the Lord. And that means that the sanctification is over. A dead person is no longer being sanctified. There is no purgatory. There is no such thing as a second sanctification or a second opportunity after death. No, that does not exist anymore. It is over. Now we go to chapter number 5, brothers, to verse number 23. Here the apostle Paul, giving the exhortations, says in verse number 23, And the same God of peace shall sanctify you completely, and all your being, spirit, alma y cuerpo sea guardado irreprensible para la venida de nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Esta santificación ocurrirá cuando el Señor Jesucristo se manifieste, cuando todos los creyentes, tanto los que duermen como los que permanezcamos hasta la segunda venida del Señor, nos encontremos con el Señor. And in that sanctification, that's where it ends. And I insist once again on what I mentioned. This is the reason why there can't be carnal believers. Why? The true believer is constantly sanctifying himself. So, Jesus prays, brothers, in this verse of John 17, verse 17, for the sanctification of the second point that we saw. Not for the positional sanctification, but for the progressive sanctification, for our daily life. And I think it is necessary that we clarify that point so that there is clarity. So, let's go to the third point. Let's go to John 17, 17. In the first place, we see the first point that we already mentioned, the desire. It is the sanctification. The desire of prayer is not the sanctification of the believers. Secondly, the recipients of prayer are the believers, who are the sanctified, those who should be sanctified. And thirdly, let's look at the means of sanctification. How does the Lord sanctify the believers? He says, sanctify them in your truth, in your truth. And then later on it says, your word is truth, emphasizing where the truth is. The absolute truth of all things with reference to Christian life, to piety, to future events, at the end of all times, is found in Scripture. It is not outside of Scripture. There are no secondary sources for the truth. There are no secondary sources of information that are necessary to corroborate the truth. The Bible sustains itself. The Bible sustains itself. All Scripture is inspired by God. Isn't that right? And it is useful to teach, to preach, to correct, to instruct in justice, so that the man of God is fully prepared for what, brothers? For all good works. In John chapter 8, verse 40, it says, But now try to kill me, man, that I have spoken to you the truth, which I have heard from God. Did not Abraham do this? Jesus says, I spoke the truth to you, and I heard it from God. The only source of truth is God. That's why when we want to know how the world came into existence, we have to go to the Bible. Because the only witness in creation was God. No one else. And the only true witness who can tell us how this came to be is God. And in His mercy He left it in the Scripture. And in His mercy, He has left it in His Word. In 2 Samuel, chapter 7, verse 28, it says, Now then, Jehovah, God, you are God, and your words are truth. Y tú has prometido este bien a tu siervo." Look at the hope, brothers, of this servant of God. 2 Samuel 7, verse 28. This is the hope that a believer has in the Word of God. In the first place, he knows that the Bible is the Word of God. In the second place, he knows that as far as the Word of God is concerned, he can wait for it, he can depend on it. In the book of Psalms, brothers, Psalm 12, verse 6, it says, The words of Jehovah are clean words, as refined silver in the oven of the earth, purified seven times. Now, let me, I want, maybe some of you already know this, brothers, but my concern is that we understand the Scripture a little more. When you study the veracity of the Bible, or the source of the Bible, or the truth of the Bible, you have to understand two things. First, the Bible is true in its entirety. That is why the Reformed said, tota scritura, in Latin, tota scritura, and the Bible is true in its parts. que en todas las porciones de la escritura es verdadera. Es verdadera de Génesis hasta Apocalipsis, y es verdadera en Génesis, en Salmos, en Éxodo, en todas partes. Y este versículo nos lo acaba de mostrar. Según Dario Timoteo, 3.16 tells us that all the Scripture is true. All the Scripture is inspired by God. Now look at Psalm 12, verse 6. The words of Jehovah are clean words. One by one. That is why Jesus Christ said, Not a jot or a tilde will cease to be fulfilled in this book of the law. ¿Por qué? Porque la Biblia es verdadera desde Génesis hasta Apocalipsis en su totalidad, y la Biblia es verdadera en sus partes. Por eso el argumento de Pablo en Gálatas dice, no dice sus simientes, sino su simiente. Aún Pablo dice, mira, una sola palabra en singular Debes de cuidarla. Debes asegurarte. Porque una palabra puede hacer todo un cambio en la escritura. Y por cuanto la palabra es verdadera en sus partes, ponle atención aún hasta las palabras más pequeñas en la Biblia. Entonces, aquí el Señor Jesucristo dice, santificalos en tu verdad, tu palabra es verdad. Esta es la verdad de las escrituras. Y hay un Salmo que nos ayuda a entender esto de una manera tremenda. Salmo 19, versículo número 7. La ley de Jehová es perfecta o verdadera, que convierte el alma. El testimonio de Jehová es fiel, que hace sabio el sencillo. Entonces, perfecto y fiel son sinónimos de verdad. Nos hablan, aluden a la verdad. In Psalm 119, verse 144, Psalm 119, verse 144, it says, Justice eternal are your testimonies, give me understanding and I will live. Notice, justice eternal. Not just for a season. not just for something that is valid for a time and then changes. On some occasions, I have seen that there are people, especially lawyers or politicians, who have huge bookshelves full of volumes that all look the same, all the volumes are the same, and maybe they are encyclopedias, they are law books, and it makes me laugh a little because I say, in a time, those books are going to be obsolete. No van a servir. ¿Quién quiere la enciclopedia británica hermanos del año 85? Nadie las tiran. Nadie las quiere. ¿Por qué? Ya es pasado, hay datos nuevos. There are new discoveries. But who writes the Scriptures? No one. Because they are valid, they are true. So, this is what we are seeing here, brothers. Psalm 119, verse 151 says, And all your commandments are true. All your commandments are true. Not just some, but all. And immediately verse 152 says, It has been a long time since I have understood your testimonies, that you have established them forever. Why have you established them forever? Because they are true. The truth does not need to be changed. There is a journalist in Mexico who writes about drug trafficking. I don't remember her name. I don't know if her name is Anabel or Elizabeth. I don't remember her name. But she has written a lot about drug trafficking. And she was watching an interview they were doing in Switzerland, where she went to talk to a university. And they gave her an award for her courage or something like that. And she said, there is only one thing which is important, and it's the truth. It doesn't matter who says it, as long as the truth is said, it's important. Her name is Nabele, right? So, I've listened to her, I saw another interview, and she repeated the same phrase. This woman is right. I mean, speaking of the truth, of the truth of the facts. But how much more of the truth of Scripture, brothers? Yes, how much more of the truth of the Scriptures. Let's go to the verse again, brothers. I don't want to deviate too much from the passage. So it says, sanctify them is the desire. Sanctify them are the believers. In your truth is the means. And if the means of sanctification, brothers, is the word of God, the question for us is, where should we invest the majority of our time for our personal sanctification, brothers? In the Bible, in the word of God. That is why it is not good to have 50 minutes of songs of worship and 20 minutes of preaching. Because it is not the music that is sanctified. That is why 40, 45, 50, or an hour of preaching should not be replaced by a play, because the play, however beautiful and true it may be, does not sanctify. Es por eso que la predicación, la proclamación del Evangelio, no debe de ser reemplazada por una conversación o por una charla. No debe de ser reemplazado. La Biblia dice que a Dios le agradó salvar a los creyentes por la locura de la predicación. Y predicación es proclamación. Con autoridad. Con una voz amplia que se escuche. And that authority is in the Scripture. Why? Because the Scripture is true. So, brothers, it's good that the brothers who went to clean up today, to bring things that are there in the other congregation, came here anyway, brothers. Thank you, Lord, because they would have asked for a very good study tonight. They would have missed, not a good study, but a great study of the Scriptures. Very good, and not because I am preaching it, brothers. I am delighted myself to have studied it and now to be giving it. Because it is beautiful, isn't it, brothers? So, how good, how good that we are here and that we are sanctifying ourselves. That's what I'm saying. It's a blessing. Yes, brothers. This brings us to the last point, brothers. And the last point is the emphasis. The emphasis that the Lord Jesus Christ makes, or the clarification where he says in the last portion, that your word is truth. Tu palabra es verdad. Esto es un énfasis. Cuando uno lee la escritura, de cierto, de cierto, te digo. En verdad, en verdad, te digo. O como dijo el Chavo del Ocho, es ciertisicísimo. ¿No? ¿No menosprecian el español malo del Chavo del Ocho? Es verdadero. Es evidente en sí misma. La escritura es verdad. No importa que la gente diga lo opuesto, ¿no es así, hermanos? ¿Cómo dice el mundo? No, es que fue escrita por hombres. Y es que los hombres le hacen los cambios ahí como según les conviene. Perdón, pero esos grandes ignorantes que dicen eso son ignorantes, no lo digo en el más sentido de la palabra, de desprecio, pero son ignorantes porque no entienden la ciencia, la ciencia que tiene que ver con las escrituras. They don't understand the science of manuscripts. They don't know the possibilities that a manuscript can remain for so long and be copied in the way it is copied, even if there is a word that changes. They don't understand that it is preserved by God. The Bible is preserved by God, and the Word is still the truth of Scripture. When Lord Jesus Christ read in Luke chapter 4, the Book of Law, He says, This is what was written by the prophet Isaiah, and today the Word of God has been fulfilled before your eyes. And do you know what He read, brothers? The Septuagint. He did not read the original writings. I read a copy of the Scriptures, and as a seminary professor said, if for the Lord Jesus Christ a copy was good, for me a copy is also good. He is omniscient, isn't that right, brothers? We are not, but He is, and we trust in the omniscience of the Lord. And this omniscience is what leads us to persevere. Brothers, in Ephesians chapter 4, verse 21, Pablo says, if you have truly heard him and have been taught by him according to the truth that is in Jesus. Jesus himself said of himself, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. The truth is in Jesus. He is the truth. What he says is true. y no cambia. Y ese es el descanso que nosotros debemos de tener en esta hora. En Segunda de Timoteo 2, 25 y 26 dice que con mansedumbre corrija a los que se oponen por si quizá Dios les conceda que se arrepientan para conocer la verdad. ¿Cuál verdad? La verdad de la palabra de Dios. So, this correction with manliness is done with the truth. And those who are in opposition must recognize the truth. In verse number 26, right there. And escape from the bond of the devil in that they are captive at his will. That is to say, the only way to escape from the bond of Satan are the scriptures, the truth. ¿Qué nos puede hacer libres? Y conoceréis la verdad, y la verdad os hará libres. Y aquí Pablo dice, que escapen del lazo del diablo del cual están cautivos. ¿Cómo? A través de la verdad. Por eso es la verdad la que nos santifica, hermanos. Conocer la verdad de la Escritura es algo liberador, hermanos. Yo no sé cuántos de ustedes pusieron atención al mensaje en el domingo. But I gave you an illustration, the illustration that when a person is dirty all day at work, if you add another little stain to the hands, to the face, to the clothes, don't worry because it's very dirty. Nobody gets scandalized for a coffee stain or another oil stain on the hands or on the clothes. Are you going to wash the clothes? It's already dirty, what does it matter? But when we are ready to go to a wedding, to a special event, where we buy a special suit, or a woman a special dress, and there is a boy playing with ink and he stains the dress, what a scandal, isn't it? Why does it affect so much? Because the dress is clean. And with that simple analogy, we talk about what Scripture says. John 15, verse 3 says, You are clean by the word that has been spoken to you. The Lord has already cleansed us. We have a clean position before the Lord. Therefore, we must fight against sin so that that positional cleanliness is not stained by sin. And if it stains us, we must clean it because we are clean. We must constantly clean ourselves, brothers. And that is a glorious truth. It is not what the devil says, it is not what I feel, it is not what I think, it is not what people say. It is what the word of God teaches us, brothers. That is the truth. Sanctify them in your word. Your word is truth. And that is what we must take, brothers, tonight. To know, first of all, that the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to be saints. To know that the Lord is interceding for our sanctification. To know that we have a means of sanctification, which is the Word. And, above all, to know that this means of sanctification is the truth. And that it is the only truth in which we can be sanctified. Quiero leer, hermanos, y con esto voy a terminar. Hebreos capítulo número 4, del versículo número 14 en adelante. En Hebreos capítulo 4, el escritor de Hebreos nos dice que Jesucristo está intercediendo por nosotros y nos invita a acercarnos al trono de la gracia de Dios confiadamente. Hebreos 4 dice, en el versículo número 14, hermanos, al 16 dice, Therefore, having a great High Priest who transgressed the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us retain our profession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot compensate for our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in everything according to our likeness, but without sin. What is the conclusion? Verse 16. Let us then approach faithfully to the throne of grace to attain mercy and find grace for the opportune help. ¡Qué gozo hermanos, saber que Jesucristo está intercediendo por nosotros! Que Él es nuestro sumo sacerdote. Por eso dice la Escritura, que si pecamos, abogado tenemos para con el Padre. Por eso dice, si confesamos nuestros pecados, Él es fiel y justo para perdonarnos los pecados y lavarnos de toda maldad. Y la pregunta es ¿por qué? Porque Él desea nuestra santificación. It is His pleasure. It is His pleasure. Above all, brothers, to do what pleases the Lord. It is the pleasure of His soul. And my prayer is that the pleasure of the soul of the Lord Jesus Christ is also the pleasure of each one of us, brothers. May God help us to have that desire to be saints. Because it is not born naturally. Sometimes there is so much struggle, brothers, against sin, against so many things. But the Lord, in our regenerated heart, through Scripture, produces that desire. Let us pray for the Lord to produce that desire in us tonight. Let us pray. Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you, Lord, that we have discovered tonight that your desire is our sanctification. Tu deseas que cada uno de nosotros, que todos tus discípulos, todos los que han creído en ti, desde el padre Abraham, el padre de la fe, el creyente Abraham, como lo llama Pablo, desde el primero de todos los creyentes que se describen ahí en Hebreos 11, donde habla de Abel, y habla de cada uno de los creyentes. Tu deseo es para ellos, para todos, para nosotros hoy, y para los que habrán de creer por nuestra palabra, que seamos santos, que seamos santificados. Y tú has rogado al Padre y sigues rogando al Padre de que nos santifique, que nos santifique a aquellos a quienes tú has salvado. and that this sanctification be done in Your Word, in the truth, because Your Word is the truth. We pray, Lord, that this be our longing, that this be the longing of each one of our brothers and sisters. I pray, Lord, that husbands and wives may grasp the vision of Your Word, and we imitate you, to pray for our loved ones to be sanctified. Let us pray that the pastors in this congregation have that desire for the Church, that we may be sanctified. Let us pray, Lord, that the desire of each believer, for each other, is that we may be sanctified. Let us pray, Lord, so that there is clarity in each one of us, in that, as much as you are a saint, you want us to be saints in all our way of living. Lord, produce in us the desire, the longing to be saints, because it is your work, because you have already sanctified us in Christ, You are sanctifying us now, and you will have to sanctify us to glorify us and present us as a pure and unscathed Church. Blessed be you, Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be you, Father. Blessed be you, Holy Spirit. Because you, our Triune God, Santo, santo, santo. Tú eres la fuente de la verdad. Y en ti nos santificamos en esta hora. En el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, rogamos estas cosas, Padre. Amén. Amén.