Lucas Cinco, vamos a empezar en el 33 al 39. Va a ser nuestro pasaje. Esta es la santa, inspirada, inerrante, suficiente palabra del Señor. Y lea así en Lucas Cinco, empezando en el 33. Y dice, y ellos le dijeron, los discípulos de Juan ayunan con frecuencia y hacen oraciones The Pharisees also do the same thing, but your people eat and drink. Then Jesus said to them, Can you make the companions of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and they will fast in those days. I also told you a parable. No one cuts a piece of a new dress and puts it on an old dress, because then the new one will break, and the piece of the new one will not harmonize with the old one. And no one pours new wine on old ores, because then the new wine will break the ores and spill, and the ores will be lost. But the new wine must be poured on new ores. Y nadie, después de beber vino añejo, desea vino nuevo, porque dice, el añejo es mejor. Esa es la palabra del Señor, puede tomar su lugar. We have already seen the tension between the Pharisees and between Jesus and Jesus with the Pharisees. And on this occasion, it is very important because Jesus summarizes here in this part, although he does not believe it, what Jesus is doing here is that he is summarizing his position definitiva en cuanto a las controversias que van a venir más adelante. Jesús les va a decir, yo vengo con algo nuevo. Ustedes están con lo viejo, yo vengo a establecer algo nuevo. Y este conflicto, las historias de este conflicto han comenzado We can see that they started when the Pharisees began to murmur and question Jesus, when he heals, when they start with a hostile attitude because Jesus goes and looks for sinners, as we saw last time. He goes and looks for Matthew and goes and enters Matthew's house and throws a party. And Jesus is there among many sinners. And the hostility of the... Jesus. When a paralytic is healed, he forgives his sins. They are scandalized for that, because who is this man who can forgive sins? And Jesus teaches them that he is not only a man, but that he is also God and that he has the support of God to do a miracle that a paralytic gets up from his bed. And the Pharisees also begin to question the testimony of Jesus. What is Jesus doing with sinners? y con cobradores de impuesto y pecadores. ¿Qué anda haciendo Jesús metido en eso? Y es necesario que Jesús les ponga en claro su visión y su misión de que Él viene con una misión transformadora, de que Él viene con algo nuevo, de que Él viene con algo que no puede caber con la religión antigua, con el judaismo antiguo, con el pacto viejo antiguo. Jesús va a venir con algo nuevo. Jesús viene con la misión de un nuevo pacto. Jesús viene con la misión de cumplir muchas promesas del Antiguo Testamento. Y Él viene con una misión de establecer, de transfigurar lo que la gente no entendió del viejo come to give him the reality. He came to be the essence of all the shadows of the Old Testament. He came to be the reality of all the sacrifices, of all the types, of all that the Old Testament alluded to, Jesus came to bring it in a living way, in a true way. Now, it would be fulfilled a lot in the spiritual sense, but Jesus came with the essence. Because the shadows already had their time, and the guys also had their time. So that's why this conflict begins, and Jesus will tell you later, I bring something new, and you will not like the new. You like old wine, and whoever likes old wine never looks for the new, because with that he conforms. Ustedes se van a conformar con su religión, y ustedes se van a conformar con lo viejo. Yo no vengo con eso. Yo vengo con algo que va realmente a transfigurar lo viejo en algo nuevo. Voy a traer yo la realidad. Ahora, lo que se me hace triste aquí también es de que... It's easy to look at the pharisees. It's easy to see that the pharisees are going to start doing those bad things. And we expect the pharisees to always be in conflict with Jesus. But another group appears. Because look, in the version of Matthew of this same narrative, In the version of Matthew, look at what it says in Matthew 9.14, it is the same, that is, the three Gospels are the Gospels known as the three synoptic Gospels that look with the same lens, and the three Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, have many equal stories. But look at what this same story says in the version of Matthew. says Matthew 9, 14. And the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast? And look at Marcos' version. Marcos also gives us the same narration, and look at what he says in Marcos 2.18. The disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, but your disciples do not fast." So, instead of having two groups, the group of Jesus and the Pharisees, we have three groups. We have the Pharisees, we have the group of the disciples of John, here one is left, where did that group come from, the disciples of John? And we have Jesus with his disciples. And among the three, there are like three groups of this religion that looked, You're from that group, you're from that one, you're from that one. And there are three groups. Now, what I find interesting is that when Jesus was baptized, and when John the Baptist says, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, one would imagine, well, everyone who was in the Jordan, se lanzó hacia Jesús, pero no fue así. Jesús fue bautizado y luego se fue al desierto por 40 días y luego pues miramos de que hay como una desconexión. Jesús se va al desierto y luego pues como que Jesús se va y ronda allá por Judea, va y ronda allá por Jerusalén, conoce a varios discípulos en esas regiones, empieza a ministrar. Juan también todavía sigue ministrando. And there comes a time when the two are ministering at the same time. Jesus not so much, but Jesus starts his ministry. And Juan, we have no idea what Juan is doing. Well, Juan is ministering until he is put in prison. And many people who followed Juan and were baptized by Juan were still with Juan. And I stay and say, well, what are they still doing there? And Jesus is already there. It's like there's a disconnection when he goes to the desert and he goes to Jerusalem and he starts his own group, his own ministry without Juan's help. And what happens is that this connection exists. Now, not many people would have been there when When John said, this is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and also John did not tell his followers to follow him. Jesus had to be tempted first. Now, what I also find interesting is that when John fell in prison, John also had certain doubts about Jesus. And before he fell into prison, you see that there is what it says in John 3.30, where John says that it is necessary for Jesus to grow and for John to die. Well, when was it really when Jesus grew and when John began to die in terms of the ministry that they had there in Judah? Well, it really is not known. The only thing we know is that there are three groups. There are the Pharisees, that have their own religion, have their own orders, their own laws that they invented. We have this new group of disciples of Juan that, well, Imagine, if John began to have many doubts about Jesus, imagine these disciples of John. What would you do? Well, I don't know where Jesus is, I haven't found Jesus yet, but Jesus is not acting as John really showed us. John showed us that Jesus was going to come as a guerrilla, that he was going to come and that the ax was already set, and that Jesus was going to come as a vengeful Jesus. And when these people started to look at Jesus, Jesus is with sinners, Jesus is preaching the gospel, Jesus is healing, and as if they had stayed, oh, man, what's going on? Because we really don't find a good connection here. And well, imagine at that time, then, the thing would have been kind of confusing. But here we see that there are three groups. Now, imagine also, in terms of the group of John the Baptist, This group, their leader, has just entered jail. They have some doubts about Jesus, his direction, what he is doing, and then this newly baptized people, they don't have much biblical direction, but they have a great desire to please God, and it would have been very easy conectarse mejor con los fariseos que conectarse con Jesus porque Jesus no estaba viviendo una vida rígida de religión. Jesus andaba predicando, sí, en las sinagogas, pero Jesus no andaba haciendo cosas exteriores para to really notice, oh, that's a rabbi who brings a new message, but he also has the same customs. Jesus would have stood out that he did not have the same customs. Well, these people, Juan's followers, would have said, no, well, we go with the most religious, those who fast. Those who comb their hair in such a way, those who dress in such a way, because obviously we are baptized and we want to show that we have a desire to follow God, and the group that draws our attention the most are the Pharisees. And here, as they begin to throw, the followers of the Pharisees fast, and the Pharisees also fast. Also, the followers of John also fast. And look at Jesus and say, your disciples do not fast. What is happening here? What is the disconnection? We have been baptized, we have good dedication, so to speak. And sadly, what they begin to do is intermingle with with the religion of the time, which would have been the Pharisees. And they also get curious about what Jesus is doing, because here we are going to look at these two groups, coming and asking Jesus a question of why he is not living the rites, why he is not doing the customs, why there is a disconnection between the Jewish customs and what Jesus is doing with his disciples. So, it worries me how the disciples of John did not automatically transfer to Jesus. After John introduced them, he is the precursor of Jesus, and we have a group. Also, in the book of Acts, we will see later that Paul finds followers of John who were baptized with the baptism of John, and they did not know anything about Jesus. So, John had a great ministry, but what we see here is that at that time there were certain disconnections that we really cannot give to all. The only thing we know is that here the followers of John are involved in one way or another, imitating the Pharisees, the Jewish religious system. And they say, well, how is it that Jesus is not living what we are living? He is not being religious as we are religious. His disciples are not sticking to the tradition. What is happening here? Well, look at what he begins to say in Luke 5, verse 33. And they also said to him, I mean, here are the two groups. The disciples of John fast frequently and pray. de los fariseos también. Hacen lo mismo, pero los tuyos comen y beben." Entonces, aquí tenemos a Jesús, que supuestamente es un gran profeta. It's the Messiah, and it's the one God had sent to them, and they are looking at the disciples. They are not falling as they should fall with all the rules, do all the rites, do everything that is common according to the custom that we have had, and this is the question. They do not fast, okay? Now, this is a question these days, okay? Because look, I'm going to... Let me explain something to you. Because we have to look at what fasting is. Because you know what? This turns out to be the issue. Why don't you fast? Okay? That's the question they ask Jesus. Don't you fast? We fast and we make prayers and your disciples are eating and drinking and they're in there with sinners like you, Jesus. What's going on here? We fast. Now, In those days, as well as in some branches today, as for example, I tell you, I come from the branch, from a very Pentecostal branch, where everyone asked for fasting. We fasted, I remember when we were little, we fasted every Thursday and every Monday. Why? Who knows, but we fasted because it was the day of fasting and because supposedly fasting brought you closer to God and made you more spiritual and you were already fasting. Now, that does not mean anything of that. You will not find the Bible that gives you a connection with God or that makes you super more powerful, that makes you more spiritual or that gives you a higher level. You will never find it in Scripture, okay? You will not find fasting for that, okay? Now, And what I found interesting, and I'm just saying this, although sometimes when my wife looks at me like that, sometimes I say, do I say it or not? I always said it when I was little. How is it that the pastor is always fasting and I look at all the pastors when they get together and the most chonchitos of the church are the pastors and they spend it fasting? How is that? How is it that they preach fasting and that fasting connects you to God and that fasting gives you all this spiritual? And I look at them and the pastors are very chubby. What's going on here? That was my thought as a child. I've always had this thing about fasts. Now look, biblically, fasting is a religious exercise. It is. It's a religious exercise with the purpose of focusing attention on God. and our own need for it. Now, fasting is generally associated with a time of prayer due to a sadness of our heart. It is not a bodily sadness. It's a repentance of the heart. It's where you humble yourself before the presence of God. Something is happening in your life. You decide to get closer to God. You decide to confess a sin, to show repentance, to show that you need Him. You don't need the earthly, you need Him. It's not spiritual. It's where you bow your heart in front of God. That's what it is. And fasting isn't bad. But fasting isn't good in the sense that it makes you a super spiritual person. That's not what fasting is. Pongas tu corazon, vengas en una postura de contricion delante de Dios, algo paso en tu vida, estas pasando por un momento, por un valle, te humillas delante de Dios y buscas su rostro. Eso si es, pero de que te hace especial o que te da un super estado, super sayayin especial, no te lo da. No te da un lugar super maximo, un nivel maximo. that makes you more spiritual, that makes you heal the sick, or that makes you put your hands or speak in tongues. The fast doesn't do any of that for you. The fast is not for that. Now, Jesus, in Matthew 6, instructs about the fast. And do you know what the instruction of Jesus is? He doesn't give it as a requirement. He said, In necessity, in throwing yourself to grace, in God listening to you, in that you are battling with a sin, or you are regretting something bad that you did. There is a way in which you must do it. And look, if we go, let me read it to you, Matthew 6, where Jesus speaks about fasting, and he says, When you fast, do not put on a sad face like the hypocrites, because they disfigure their faces to show the men who are fasting, I tell you the truth, that they have already received their reward. Here, Jesus, what he is doing is that he is unmasking the religious performance. En aquel entonces y en el día de hoy también la gente ayuna, ¿sabe para qué? Para presumirle de que ayuna. Oh, I'm having breakfast, brother. Oh, no, don't offer me a sandwich. I'm having breakfast. Oh, don't offer me a coffee. I'm having breakfast, brother. Can't you see me? I have my face like this. I have my face here. Can't you see that I'm suffering? And I'm connecting with God in a super spiritual way. And I feel the power. No, that's not it. That says, what they do is what they do. They are hypocrites. And do you know what that word means in Greek? Doble cara, se ponen una máscara, y se ponen la máscara y hasta Jesús describe cómo ponen la cara, de que se disfiguran los rostros para mostrarse ante otra gente de que ellos están en una vía más espiritual que todos los demás. Y Jesús dice, no lo hagas así, no seas hipócrita, no seas actor, apantallando que estás en tristeza con una cara larga, y ¿sabe cómo le hacían en aquel entonces? ashes. ashes, and they would put on a long face, they would dress in a very ugly way, and they would walk around with a lot of complaints. And people would say, this brother is very spiritual right now, we don't touch him because he's super, right now he's super, he's connected to God. And they would do it in a way to get attention. And Jesus says, when you fast, ¡Cuando ayúnes! Pero tú, ¿cuando ayúnes? Jesús nunca lo pide como un requisito tampoco. When you fast, bow your head, raise your face, so that you do not make men see that you fast, but your Father who is in secret, and your Father who is in secret will reward you. So, Jesus is not against fasting. Jesus is against acting. Jesus is against you appearing something and really not doing it for the reason for which it should be done. Now, let me tell you, If we were to search in Scripture how many times God asked for a fast, we wouldn't be able to imagine how many times God asked for a fast. Do you know how many times God asked for a fast? Once. Once. And do you know when it was? on the day of expiation. Do you know what was said on the day of expiation? The day of expiation is when the whole congregation of the children of Israel would gather around the tabernacle, around the temple, and what they did was that God asked them to offer their souls. And in that, it implied that they should offer their bodies, that they should fast. Why? Because the sins were going to be demonstrated in front of the Ark. The High Priest was going to come in with two little kids, he was going to kill one, he was going to take the blood in a bowl, He was going to enter the holy place, do certain things, and then to the most holy place, and he was going to grab with a swab, and he was going to spray, he was going to spray where the presence of God appeared in a cloud, on top of the ark of the propitiation, and he was going to spray seven times for the sins of Israel, for the sins of Israel, he was going to go out and put them on the other kid, he was going to say all the sins of the children of Israel, he was going to put them on this kid, and what they did was that God, transfería los pecados de que él miraba en gracia dentro del lugar santo era transferido y un cabrito iba a sufrir por esos pecados y le iban a mandar lejos porque porque había pecado había arrepentimiento y dios les pedía un solo día un solo día Well, we look forward, like a thousand years in the future, in Zechariah 7 and Zechariah 8, that the Jews began to fast in remembrance of how God destroyed the first temple, how the Babylonians came and destroyed the temple. And they began, they began to fast for four days in remembrance, in memory. that God destroyed their temple and now they don't have a temple. That was something they added. Now, in the time of silence between the last prophet and the 400 years in the middle of when Jesus comes, what we see is that The Jews began to invent traditions of men. They saw that the Old Testament was not complete and did not tell them everything that really had to come. And instead of waiting for Jesus, they invented a religion, they invented an oral law, they invented certain customs that were not part of Scripture. And the thing is that During that time, a large part of the people of God, if they bet on all the biblical truth, replaced the covenant and an invented Jewish religion was invented, and they no longer obeyed God as he asked them. through Moses, through the priesthood that he had established, the priesthood was already corrupted, the kingdom was already corrupted, and what they began to invent, the rabbis of that time, is that supposedly when God gave the law to Moses, he gave him the 10 commandments, But also through angels, God gave another law to Moses, which were the things that were not written in the law, all the other laws that in a certain way cover these 10 laws, or all the laws that are in Exodus and Leviticus, other laws that supposedly angels gave them. And what they started to do is they started to change Judaism, as God asked them, to a Judaism hombrecéntrico y centrado en tradición de hombre, ¿okay? Cuando viene Jesús, Jesús va a tener mucho problema con sus tradiciones, con lo que ustedes dicen, con lo que ustedes enseñan, con lo que ustedes hacen. Y aquí vamos a mirar de que no es Jesús el que avienta la primera piedra. Es de que son los fariseos que les están empezando a decir, estas son las tradiciones que ya hemos tenido por muchos años, ¿tú por qué no las cumples, Jesús? ¿Qué está pasando? And what happens is that Jesus will then say, I do not come to put the new that I bring in the old that you have invented. You no longer even follow Moses as Moses asked. You no longer have the priesthood as Moses asked. You no longer have the temple as God asked. Why does Jesus believe that he enters the temple twice so easily? to clean it, and Jesus has no problem, and Jesus does not sin in doing it. Who was wrong, Jesus or the Jewish religious system of that time? The Jewish religious system of that time. So, imagine here, the Pharisees fasted rigorously. And do you know how many times they had breakfast? Twice. We can look at it in Luke 18, in that parable that Jesus gives us, in that teaching that Jesus gives us. Luke 18, the key to the Pharisee and the tax collector, where the Pharisee is standing and praying, And now, in this way, God, I thank you because I am not like the other men, swindlers, unfair, adulterers, or like this tax collector. And look what he says, I fast how many times? Twice. They fasted twice a week. to help twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays. So, every fariseo, if it was Monday, it was because they had a long face, dressed like this, special to draw attention that they were fasting. Well, the followers of John the Baptist also started fasting. Well, this is the most popular group of the time. They are the most consecrated, they are the most religious, and the followers of John the Baptist also began to copy what was happening at that time. They also began, with pressure, but to make it seem that there was also a change of life within them. Look, go with me to Luke 7. In Luke 7, Jesus is also going to tell them, about this, about how they are comparing it badly. Luke 7, verse 33 says, That is, he comes with a posture of repentance, fasting, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and they say, he has a demon. The Son of Man has come, in verse 34, to eat and drink. And you say, look, a glutton man, a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. That is, you were never going to be fine with them. One did not do it, and he had a demon. The other did, and he was a glutton and a drunk. So, what they had here was already a developed religious system, an external religion with the aim of achieving the favor of God, bragging to all the sinful men that they were not the same as them. So, the fast they invented were programmed fasts. programmedos de que no tenía nada que ver con pecado, no tenía nada que ver con la postura de nuestro corazón delante de Dios, no tenía que ver nada con arrepentimiento, sólo tenía que ver con vana gloria. personal. We see it when this Pharisee prays and the tax collector can't even enter the temple, and then he turns to see it and says, I'm not like this, I'm not like this, I fast, I give my tithes, I do this, you must look at my God, because he doesn't, look, he doesn't do what I do. So it was pure personal vanity. But what we look at is that even if it is a rigorous fast, if it is not done in the way God looks at it, and it is only something external, with public prayers, with fasting laments, with public alms, that development of that false religion, is not compatible with the new that Jesus brings. Although they looked at the Old Testament as incomplete and how to reach God, they were waiting for a Savior. What is going to save us? No, we are going to have to save ourselves. Instead of believing the promises, they began to rely on religion and the rites that religion motivated them to do. They thought, This is going to start earning us points with God. So look at what Jesus says in verse 34. He said to them, He said to them, Can you make the companions of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? The companions, do you know who they are? The disciples. The complaint is against the disciples. Why don't they fast? Why don't they do what they should do? The religious thing that everyone does. because they don't do it. And Jesus tells them, here is the groom. How the companions of the groom, those who plan the wedding, those who always go with the groom until the day the groom marries his girlfriend, how are they going to be fasting? And you know what is interesting too? The Pharisees had laws against not fasting when there was a wedding. And do you know how long the weddings lasted in those days? They lasted from one day to eight days. It lasted a whole week. And they weren't going to be fasting those days. There were laws against that. Why? Because they were boyfriends. And Jesus in the bottles says, you don't know that the boyfriend is here. How are my disciples going to be fasting, knowing that it's time to celebrate? The boyfriend has come. He has come to look for his girlfriend. If you don't understand this language of boyfriend, well Jesus is the boyfriend of your church. He comes to buy your church. He comes to receive your church. As Paul says in Ephesians 5 verse 25, Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, to sanctify it, having purified it by the washing of water with the word, in order to present it to himself a church in all his glory. his glory. He is the bridegroom, and he is saying, here is the bridegroom. And when the bridegroom is here, no one is going to be fasting. It is Pachanga day. It is the messianic feast. The great wedding of God with his people has arrived, and Jesus comes for a bride. The wedding of the Messiah comes here, and it is not appropriate that they walk with all their faces long. Well, imagine how the pharisees would have ended up. Obviously! First you say that... First you say that you have power to... of forgiving sins. And then you're out there playing lepers. And then you're doing all the things that shouldn't be done among the rabbis, and now you're telling us that you're the boyfriend? Imagine how everyone is like, oh, they don't know what to do anymore. They can't say anything to Jesus because Jesus turns them all around and tells them the reality that they are looking at us. It's a day of joy. It's a time of joy. The Messiah has just come to the sinners, and you must be rejoicing. Why? Because the Messiah is not only going to come for the good. He is going to go all the way down, all the way to the mud, and from there he is going to grab this boyfriend, his girlfriend. It's time for joy. It's time to celebrate. And they are celebrating. And it's appropriate for them to be crying because I'm here. Now, Jesus tells them, there will be a day when they will cry. It's going to hurt them on the 35th, Luke 5. They will come days when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast on those days. On those days they will fast, but not right now. And you know what? The bridegroom, and the word here, pulls more to be kidnapped, just as we look at Just as we see in Revelation 12 where the child is kidnapped, here Jesus uses the same word where the groom is going to be kidnapped and there are going to be days when they are going to hurt, there are going to be times of anguish and they are going to fast at that time, they are going to pray at that time, but right now they are celebrating. Why? Because the groom is here and they are not going to be fasting until the groom has been taken away from them. Well, you know what? Jesus dies, Cruz resucita tres dias despues dura cuarentas dias mas con ellos y ellos no ayunan pero sabe que estoy seguro que en cuanto Jesus ascendio en gloria y ellos entraron al aposento alto yo les seguro de que fue un tiempo de ayuno porque su maestro se habia ido a sentarse en la majestad de los cielos y ellos no tenian nada idea de que hacer Miramos la iglesia ayunando en hechos. Miramos de que su celebración se cambió en una seriedad por el Evangelio de Cristo. No es malo el ayuno. Es malo cuando no sabemos cuándo ayunar. No sabemos para lo que es el ayuno. We do it wrong. God doesn't like it when we do things wrong. There must be a constriction, where this day I am wrong, something is happening to me, I am falling into a depression in my faith, I am falling into a valley, I am going to help. I'm not going to be telling everyone, I'm fasting, or don't offer me anything, brother, because I'm fasting. How dare you interrupt my fast? No, it's a time where, it's a time of humility, a time of dedication to God. Now, this is the part that gets interesting. Because Jesus gives the first parable in Luke. Now the parables, are designed to hide the meaning to those who do not have eyes to see. A parable is for those who do not have eyes, who do not understand. But for those who do have eyes, who do understand. So it is not to simplify things, it is to make things more difficult to understand. Because if you do not have eyes to see, foreign foreign un pedazo de vestido nuevo y lo pone en un vestido viejo, porque entonces romperá el nuevo y el pedazo del nuevo no armonizará con el viejo. Es simple de entender, ¿verdad? ¿Seguro? Entonces usted tiene ojos para ver. ¡Qué bueno, hermano! Pero mire, déjeme tratar de explicarle qué es lo que está pasando aquí, porque Jesús toma esta parábola y la usa de dos maneras que vienen siendo igual, y al último uno se queda acá y, ¿de qué está hablando Jesús? Pues mire, déjeme se lo resumo mirando toda la escritura, ¿okay? Dios, cuando Él hizo el pacto con Abraham, Or we could say, when he made the pact with Noah, God never destroyed the fallen creation. Dios nunca la destruyó. Destruyó los pecadores que Dios se cansó de su pecado y en cierta manera empezó de nuevo, pero siempre usó donde Adán y Eva cayeron y en la condición en la que Adán y Eva cayeron. Luego el pacto con Noé y después empieza el pacto con Abraham. Pues Dios usó todo lo caído He used everything sinful, he used an old order, ruined by the first Adam, and made a pact with this pagan man called Abraham. And God promises him, Yo voy a hacer un pacto contigo, Abraham. Te voy a dar descendencia. Te voy a dar tierra. Voy a hacer yo un pacto contigo. Y Dios lo hizo. Cuando Abraham despadezó esos animales que Dios les pidió, fue Dios el que hizo el pacto con Abraham. Y Dios le dijo, yo te lo voy a cumplir. Y te voy a dar descendencia. and I will give you a land, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in you, Abraham. This is my covenant with you. This is what I promise to you." So we see that after Abraham, that God promised him offspring, we don't look at it, and Abraham didn't look at it until about 20 years later when he had his first child. And then we see that this descendancy began to grow. And what we see later is that, yes, God promised that he would bless all nations through his descendancy, and one would come through his descendancy that he would make all those fixed promises, he would reach them. So, this pact is only to prepare the scene. That pact was only a preparatory pact to establish a platform on which God could begin to work with man. Because since then, God could not work with man. Rather, I could say, God created the nations before calling Abraham. Do you know where God created the nations? in the tower of Babel. They all had the same language. God first creates nations to be able to tell Abraham, in you all nations will be blessed, all languages. Well, what we look at later is that God raises a man named Moses. And he already raises him when that descendancy is already great. And Moses adds more information established on the covenant of Abraham and adds more information, more requirements, a ceremonial administration with the pact of the law in the Sinai. After God had redeemed that offspring that God gave to Abraham and gave them his law, his law is holy, his law is just, his law is good. Well, later we look that God fulfills all the promises. We can look at the end of of Joshua, at the end of Joshua, Joshua finishes his book saying all the promises that God promised them in terms of blessing and in terms of land, God fulfilled them at the end of Joshua. Now, later we see that God makes another pact, placed above the other two, in which he gives the pact to David, and adds more information about a kingdom, a future king, and it wouldn't be more than 400 years when Israel El Pueblo del Norte y el Pueblo del Sur, que viene siendo Efraín y viene siendo Judá, caen, y caen en exilo, y quebrantan el pacto, y en ese exilo Dios les promete un nuevo pacto. Dios les promete restauración. Les promete cumplir lo que Él va a traer nuevo y darle un vistazo a lo que él va a traer, y los redime otra vez de donde estaban en esclavitud, allá en exilo, en Babilonia, los trae para atrás, y los trae para atrás con una expectativa futura de que Dios iba a cumplir la restauración, y lo que miramos es de que ellos ignoraron todo lo que Dios les prometió. de que Dios iba a restaurar, de que Dios iba a mandar a su Mesías para restaurar las cosas y traer él un nuevo pacto, un nuevo orden, una nueva creación, un nuevo espíritu. Iba a traer todo nuevo, este personaje, cuando ellos llegan otra vez a la tierra santa. Ya no es la tierra Look at the transitions in the scripture. The land that flows milk and honey, the holy land, the land. Why? Because what Jesus brought was something new, it was something global. It was to fulfill that promise that he gave to Moses when he said, in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed. It no longer matters a region in a place as small as the Middle East. Now what is going to be yours, Abraham, because you believed me, is that I am going to give you All the land. You are going to be the heir of the world. We see that Paul takes that in Romans 4 and tells him that Abraham was going to inherit the land. He was not going to inherit a little piece of land in the Middle East. Well, look, that's how God started. De que el iba a traer, poner la plataforma, poner las promesas sobre la mesa. Yo voy a cumplir esto. Van a pasar años y voy a dar más información de cómo yo lo voy a alcanzar. Y va a haber más conocimiento mientras que yo vaya dando más. Pero algún día yo voy a cumplir todo esto. Pues viene Jesús. ¿Para qué? Para cumplir. For that, Jesus comes. He comes to fulfill. He comes to bring something new. He comes to bring a new covenant. This Messiah is going to come to take away all the old, which were shadows. Now, these shadows, as we look at them in Scripture, are shadows that God gave. The problem is that the Jews They no longer believed only in this part of the Bible. They already had 613 laws on how to keep the Ten Commandments. They already had certain rites. They already had certain obstacles that they put on the law. Certain things that Moses supposedly received through angels and became an oral law, a secret law. and that God did not give everything he had to give in this part of what he gave in the first covenant, but it was a secret law through Moses and it was only for the Jews. The ceremonial law, what he wrote in Exodus, in Leviticus, in Numbers, in Deuteronomy, everyone could read it, but the secret law was only for the children of Abraham. And on that secret law, on that tradition, they built a whole religious monument. It's like the Catholic Church today. Igualitos, hasta sacerdotes tienen, hasta padres tienen, todo es igual. Tienen su basílica, tienen su templo, tienen sus ritos, tienen sus inciensos, tienen todo. La iglesia católica, en cierta manera, ha asumido todo lo que la tradición judía tenía para el tiempo de Jesús. Y Jesús luego les va a decir, ustedes, es como si yo les dijera, ustedes y su religión que ahora se han inventado, que han tomado del antiguo pacto, también, ese de ese antiguo pacto, foreign foreign Ya ni siquiera celebran lo que Dios le dio a Moisés o lo siguen en la forma que Moisés lo dio. Nadie corta un pedazo de un vestido nuevo y lo pone un vestido viejo porque entonces se romperá el nuevo. Jesús viene con lo nuevo y no se lo puede injertar a lo viejo. ¿Por qué? Porque causa que el nuevo, que está más fuerte y está más sólido, se rompa y destruye los dos. Jesus is trying to show you. That religion that you evolved by a supposed oral law, supposedly that the angels gave it to Moses and that only the rabbis of rabbis and rabbis pass the secret and it is like a wall so as not to offend the 10 commandments of the law of God and how it has been evolving over time. That traditional religion, that oral law, that you have been practicing and that you established yourselves because God did not give them to you. It is completely incompatible with the new thing that I bring. Jesus was telling them, it is not appropriate to amend the evolution of religion, the evolution of the old covenant. The old covenant did not look the same as Moses asked for it. It was already completely different. That's why Jesus has no problem in telling you about his traditions. Jesus is telling you, that old covenant is an old dress. I come with a new dress. I come with the new covenant. Vengo con el cumplimiento del viejo, pero ese mismo viejo se va a aparecer en cierta manera al nuevo. Este nuevo trae salvación. Este nuevo tiene el obrar del Espíritu Santo. Ese antiguo se trataba de todo físico. Todo era físico. En el antiguo pacto, todo te hacías en la carne, todo tenías en utensilios, todo tenías en ciertos ritos, en animales, todo era físico. Lo nuevo que Jesús trae es en el Espíritu. Y es lo verdadero, es la esencia. Jesús no venía a tratar de meter la esencia en lo viejo. Él venía a cumplir lo viejo, pero a que la esencia se quedara sin ningún impedimento. Jesús vino con un nuevo orden para desplazar el viejo orden. Vino con un nuevo sistema para desplazar el viejo sistema. Transfigurándolo, cumpliéndolo. Reemplazandolo. Ahora quizás hay muchos cristianos que dicen, ay, usted dijo la palabra reemplazar. Esa es una palabra mala. Reemplazar. Well, Jesus here is replacing the old with the new. Although it seems the same, that had its function, and I can't sew them all together, the new dress with the old, it just doesn't fit. I come to replace it. I come to bring what is truly the true essence, the true best and true and perfect form of the true essence. I am it, and I come to establish it. Jesus does not change the essence. He is still a dress. He is going to replace the old with a new dress. It is not that he is going to completely change it from a dress to fiberglass. No, it is still the same. There is a continuation, but he is going to replace the old with the new. Nadie echa vino nuevo en Odres Viejos. Because then the new wine will break the ores and spill, and the ores will be lost, but the new wine must be poured into the old ones. Now for us, this analogy is difficult, because look, what they did at that time, as I tell you, there are people who had a well, and there are people who had fresh water to drink, but not everyone had it. He had to go to a river, or he had to drink it from another place, but he didn't have it there in his house as we have it today. As they did at that time, they sacrificed many goats, many cows, and they took the skin and cooked it in a certain way to make a skin utensil. And what they did was to preserve the water, they used grape juice and they made it into wine so that it would last a long time longer, so that the water wouldn't get bad inside the skin of animals. It was what they did at that time. Well, you know what happens when you add yeast to wine and mix it with water. Well, what happens is that the yeast begins to expand those skins. Well, imagine if there are skins that have already gone through that inflation process. y se hacen viejas, no le puedes echar vino nuevo y echarle otra vez la levadura para que sigan expandiéndose. ¿Por qué? Porque se hicieron viejas, tuvieron toda la flexibilidad que pudieron y ya hasta cierto nivel pudieron llegar. Le pone vino nuevo y le echa levadura más, ¿sabe qué pasa? Explotan. Se arruina el vino. And this soda is what Jesus is talking about. Today we look at wine, we look at soda, we look at all those gaseous liquids, and we say, no, well, the plastic. Although instead you do this to the bottle and you open it, and although you see that it is inflated, and sometimes you are careful because it explodes. Well, at that time it was the same. They didn't have plastic, okay? They didn't have it. It was what they used. And Jesus is showing us this here. That Jesus comes with a wine. Nuevo, un vino nuevo. No tiene que ver nada con la religión vieja o con el pacto viejo. Aunque lo va a cumplir, pero es nuevo. Tienes que mirarlo de que hay una transición de viejo a nuevo, y el viejo ya llegó hasta que se expandió lo más posible, y ya a ese viejo orden no le puedes poner algo nuevo. ¿Por qué? Porque se va a romper. Hay una incapacidad entre ellos. No se puede. El orden viejo, mezclado con religión humana, They have to come before Jesus and the new that he brings, and they have to go. And Jesus is telling them, I come with something new. Don't compare me to the same religion as you, doing it in a different way. I am the bridegroom. I am the fulfillment. I am the Messiah. And if you look at my disciples, different is because I come and I am bringing something different. I am bringing the new covenant. I am bringing in itself what God is really going to establish, looking at Abraham's promise, fulfilling Abraham's promise, establishing the new. His system of works, his system of religion, is not compatible with God's system of grace, mercy, and goodness. That's why Jesus had no problem going to the sinners. They did have a problem. Why? Because they were religious. They wanted to earn heaven for their own works. And Jesus says, if I take the gospel of grace, Si yo traigo las buenas nuevas de la gracia, de que Dios ahora perdona al pecador en mí porque yo voy a sufrir por los pecados del mundo, eso no lo podemos meter en lo viejo porque ya lo viejo fueron solamente sombras que apuntaban a esto. No lo podemos meter. No nos podemos ir en reversa. No podemos. Yo construyo en mi trabajo celular máquinas que forman mental. Well, after they form the metal, it is impossible to deform it. When the metal enters, like a leaf, and the machine begins to form it while it goes through certain seasons. Well, it is impossible to take what is already formed and transform it again. And Jesus is giving them the same analogy. I come to replace the old, and I come with the new, and the new will not fit into the old. You cannot be confusing me that I am just another rabbi who comes with another perspective of how to interpret the law. Yo vengo a interpretarla legíticamente, yo vengo a establecerla y yo vengo a cumplirla. But now he has obtained a ministry so much better because he is also a mediator of a better covenant established on what? Better promises. Hebrews 8, verse 13 says, When he said a new covenant, he made the first one old, and that which is made old and ages is near to what? To disappear. Desaparece, no dice, esta proximo a meterlo en un museo, y siempre estarlo mirando, y mira como era antes. No, a desaparecer, a esfumarse. Hebreos 10, del 8 al 9, mire lo que dice Jesús. Habiendo dicho arriba, sacrificios, ofrendas de locaustos y sacrificios por el pecado, no has creído ni te has compladecido que se ofrecen según la ley. Entonces dijo, he aquí, yo he venido para hacer tu voluntad, el quita lo primero para establecer lo segundo. ¿Qué hace Jesús? Quita. Ay, no, como esta eso de que el reemplazo. No, nosotros no creemos en una trilogía de reemplazar. Jesús sí la cree. Y la cosa no es de que está reemplazando uno por otro. Es la misma esencia que se está reemplazando. Esta es vieja, pero la reemplaza con una nueva esencia de la misma esencia. Vaya conmigo a la segunda de Corintios. Tres. Pablo does an excellent job here. Pablo does a very good job. 1 Corinthians 3, from 5 to 11, look at what it says. Why didn't we say... No seamos suficientes nosotros mismos para pensar que cosa alguna procede de nosotros, sino que nuestra suficiencia es de Dios, el cual también nos hizo suficientes ministros de un nuevo pacto. No de letra, sino del espíritu. Eso es lo nuevo. Lo viejo era pura letra. Lo viejo era puros símbolos. Lo viejo era puro físico. Tenías que tener el candelabro. Tenías que tener el arca. Tenías que tener los sacerdotes. Tenías que tener un templo. Tenías que tener toda la corte de sacerdotes que administraban ahí. Tenías que tener los panes. Tenías que tener todos estos utensilios que Dios pidió. Eran sombras. But now comes the reality. Look at what Paul says, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, because the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. And the ministry of death, engraved with stone letters, was with glory, in such a way that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was fading. How will the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? In a way, Moses is replaced by the Holy Spirit, in that sense. This is the new thing. The new covenant brings the Holy Spirit, the reality. And you know what I find interesting? When Jesus is in the well, in Samaria, with the woman of Samaria, and he's telling her, no, what mountain are we going to pray on? Jesus says, no, the hour is coming, and the hour is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. And you know how it should be translated in our Bibles? en espíritu y en la realidad. ¿En la realidad de qué? Es lo que Jesús viene a establecer, que es espiritual, que es espiritual. Because certainly, the fathers look for such people to worship. God is spirit, and all who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth, in the reality of what Jesus Christ has achieved. Now, look at what it says in 2 Corinthians 2. Three, nine, because if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more abounds in glory the mystery of justice. Well, in truth, what had glory in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. Do you see that what Jesus brings surpasses what was established in the Old Covenant? It surpasses. Look at verse 11, because if what fades away is with glory, much more with glory is what remains. Jesus says, I come with something new. I come with something new. I cannot put what is mine in the old that you have invented. I cannot put the new covenant in the old covenant. The Old Covenant was only an anticipatory, representative of the true, of the real, of the celestial, of the spiritual, which is Christ Jesus by His Spirit. That is why the apostles reach the Holy Spirit and they know everything. They reach the Holy Spirit and they understand everything. They still have some problems, but the Holy Spirit guides them in what? In all truth and in all justice, in what? In what has happened, what has brought the new in Christ Jesus. Now to finish, Luke 5.39, I would have used two Sundays to really get into the depth. No one after drinking old wine, wants new wine, because it says, the old is better. Imagine. You try Napa wine, or over there in the rows of Napa in California, or over there in France, and you say, no, it's very good, that wine from there. And you say, no, well, I with the old. If you like the old man, you won't like the new one. And Jesus says, you like your religion. Take care of it. Yo no vengo a meter mi religión dentro de su religión. Yo vengo a establecer las promesas. Yo vengo a traer la obra del espíritu. Yo vengo a traer no solamente un cambio exterior, yo vengo a traer un cambio interno. Por eso puedo venir con estos pecadores y salvarlos. Yo vengo con algo nuevo. Yo vengo con algo eficaz. Yo vengo con algo que empieza a cambiar de adentro hacia afuera, no de afuera hacia adentro. Eso es lo nuevo y ustedes no lo van a querer. No lo van a querer, porque es nuevo. Y si es nuevo y Dios lo trae, es mejor. Nosotros pensamos siempre lo viejo es mejor. Pero cuando Dios trae algo nuevo, lo nuevo es mejor. Y ese es el nuevo pacto. Eso es lo que vamos a celebrar hoy. Lo nuevo. Y sabe que algún día me gustaría dar un estudio de qué significa el pan y qué significa el vino. ¿Cómo llega a esa evolución de tomar vino y comer pan? Porque va a encontrar eso en toda la Biblia, el vino y el pan. Nomás que nadie nunca lo come hasta que viene Jesús. ¿Cómo empieza con leche y miel y termina con vino y pan? La Biblia empieza con leche y miel en un jardín con frutas y luego se va a leche y miel y termina con pan y vino. Y Jesús toma esa analogía y nos la pone aquí. Hay un nuevo orden. Hay un nuevo reino mesiánico. Hay un nuevo banquete festivo en lo que Jesús alcanzó por nosotros. Hay un banquete de gracia. Hay un banquete de amor. Hay un banquete de la realidad que se encuentra en Cristo Jesús por su Espíritu Santo. Lo nuevo es espiritual. No es físico ya. Ya no es letra. Ya ahora es espíritu. Ya no es religión ni norma ni tradición externa. Ahora es fe y gozo. en el Espíritu Santo. ¿Qué dijo Pablo en Romanos 14, 17? El reino de Dios no es comida ni bebida, sino justicia, paz y gozo en el Espíritu Santo. Es algo nuevo. Eso no lo podía decir alguien en el Antiguo Pacto. En el Antiguo Pacto siempre era repetitivo. En el Antiguo Pacto siempre era, híjole, a ver cómo le hacemos. Híjole, Dios nos dio los medios, pero nunca vamos a alcanzar. En el Nuevo Pacto es, La justicia. La justicia de quien? La justicia de Jesus. Es paz. La paz con quien? La paz con Dios. Es gozo. Con quien? Con el Espiritu Santo que habita en nosotros. Eso es lo nuevo. Es un nuevo orden. Un nuevo pacto. Y Jesús es el que lo introduce. Y como le digo, sigue siendo tela. de la vieja a de la nueva, sigue siendo vino. Vino viejo a vino nuevo. Así como el verdadero Israel sigue siendo el verdadero Israel. Así como también el verdadero pueblo de Dios sigue siendo el verdadero pueblo de Dios. La verdadera Jerusalén viene siendo la verdadera Jerusalén celestial. La verdadera, el verdadero Olivo ¡Viene siendo el mismo olivo! ¡Solamente nuevo! ¿Cómo? Pues Dios lo podó y Dios lo cultivó. ¿Y sabe cómo lo cultivó? Cumpliendo la promesa original, Abraham. En ti, Abraham. ¿Y qué dijo Pablo en Romanos 11? Que nosotros tenemos los nutrientes y de la sapia de las promesas. ¿Las promesas de quién? Yeah, brah. We're never going to look at this and say, Jesus only came to bring another religion that competes with the others. No. Jesus came to bring the essence, and the essence is new because God does all the new things. Even at the end of Revelation, as I say, Revelation in a certain way, in the spiritual, Revelation has already been fulfilled in the work of Christ. Because what does the end of Revelation say? It's here. I do all things. new skies. Do we expect new skies and new earth? Yes, we do. But are we in the new skies and new earth in Christ? We are in the new skies and new earth today. Spiritually speaking, yes, because Jesus came and reached the spiritual first, and then gave us the material. It's the reverse of the pacts. In the beginning, God gave the material, and then He brought the spiritual. And in the New Pact, God first brought the spiritual, so that in the end, we can enjoy all the material in the presence of God. And this reminds us of that which will be achieved someday.