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It moves our interior, leaving the impression that we are right and God is wrong. However, never forget that “the thoughts of the Lord are higher than yours, for you are here on earth and he is in heaven, as written in Isaiah 55-8/9.

Be alert: what in your eyes looks like evil, messing with your flesh, like preaching the Word of God to someone the world despises, or fasting at a time of celebration, of abundant food, or entering into a long worship of the Lord .

When the world catches on fire in the pleasures of darkness, without the endorsement of God, the true Christian must row against the tide. Because what seduces the world is not what makes Jesus Christ happy. Just stay tuned as a good watchman.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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He warns that on Judgment Day, all qualities will come to the fore. The positive and the negative. We need to meditate daily on the Word of Jesus Christ. To keep the Crown of life on our heads.

That we are not afraid to fight the good fight. Only those who fight are victors. In the spirit world we need to keep our faith. Do not leave out the main focus, which is to reach eternity.

We will only be able to enter that spiritual dimension when we are plugged into the Lord's will. And the will of Jesus Christ, most of the time, mistreats our flesh, punishes our self.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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We must always remember the Word of the Lord in Malachi 3-18: "Then you will see again the difference between the just and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not."

The eyes of the Lord are upon us all. He knows who is wicked. Detects the wolf using lambskin. The false Christian. One interested only in blessings, not in the blesser, which is Jesus Christ.

He knows who spends time reading the Word, interceding for others, fasting, crying and praying. God watches carefully the Christian who thinks that life is an eternal Instagram.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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Many preferred to increase the calluses of their fingers from browsing so much on social networks, sharing unimportant content. They did not do the same as the farmer, who selected his best seeds to sow on the land.

The easiest way was to embark on the proposals of darkness, to satisfy the desires of the flesh. Every Christian wants to be a child of God, but few try without obedience to his commandments.

The rule is to follow your own direction. They make no sense of wrong and right. What matters is to be happy. Even at the cost of losing one's salvation.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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The rain doesn't come out of nowhere. Before, the clouds are charged in the sky, until their drops, by the millions, fall on the Earth. Through prayer, we ask the Lord to pour out His blessings on us.

But most of the time we want the rain to come without clouds appearing in the sky. This is not how the spirit world works. God is merciful, but He imposes rules.

One of them is to seek him without ceasing. It does not guide the Christian so that he can do this from time to time. And always. In this pandemic period, of several isolated months, how many Christians were concerned about seeking the Lord?

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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It is sexual intercourse before marriage, marital betrayal or even accepting dirty money from corruption to maintain personal whims.

For lack of reading the Word of God and even the teaching cult, millions of Christians adopt the wrong behavior, where God has an obligation to satisfy our desires. The most absurd.

They do not meditate on the Word of Zechariah-10/1: "Ask the Lord for the spring rain, for it is the Lord who makes the thunder, who sends the rain to men and gives them the plants of the field". Thunder is an announcement that rain will come, before lightning comes. It is a process.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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When babies, when crying, often in pain, the mother brought the bottle, so that through the food, the discomfort would pass. This rule continued through childhood, adolescence and until the end of life.

How many Christians do not eat compulsively? Do others go to shopping malls to buy something, to scare off that frustration or even take unnecessary trips?

To circumvent the hard teaching proposed by God, many prefer the short path, where the rule is satisfaction at all costs. It is important to be well with yourself. It does not matter the form for this.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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Sometimes the Lord asks us for something, which seems bad in our eyes, as interpreted by Jonah-3/1, when God asked him to go to the city of Nineveh and preach the Gospel to those people. Jonas refused.

He preferred to travel to Tarshish, which was good for him. Társis is our instagram today. Where everything is beautiful, cheerful, full of abundance. These are the days of the months when women do not suffer the torment of PMS.

It is when the Christian thinks he is right and God is wrong, when asking for something bad, in the stereotyped view of this type of Christian. Many people, since childhood, are wrongly conditioned to consider life as something sweet.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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It is no longer new the large number of students who buy work on the internet to guarantee good grades at school. There are cases of lawyers who plagiarize texts of sentences to mount a good petition and try to acquit their clients.

It is the short path, free from the suffering of remembering excerpts from books read in college. In this sad view of the Gospel, people want God's blessings without effort to win it.

It is trying to enter the promised land without going through the fortified Jericho. Everything should be easy. Worse, as a slave, God would have to satisfy all of our desires.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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It is when the suffering of the countless classes attended for years will bear fruit. We are all here on Earth preparing for admission to Glory.

The difference is that throughout our life we ​​will go through tests, some of them very difficult. Each student will have a specific exam. He will not be able to pass the weight of his cross to someone else.

God's care for his people is great, as the book of Joel 2/9 shows: “The Lord replied to his people:“ I am sending you wheat, new wine and oil, enough to satisfy it fully ”.

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Before exaltation, the Lord allows suffering so that the blessing is valued. The student does not learn at school only that 2 + 2 = 4. He will pass through terrible classes in algebra, trigonometry, equations.

You will have to know the history of the world, what moves the Earth through Geography, natural phenomena through Physics and the various substances through Chemistry.

Because on a certain day, that student will take the entrance exam to enter a college or university. As the number of places is reduced. The vestibular exam will select those trained.

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It is not wrong for this type of Christian to act dishonestly. The aim is to remain happy, leaving suffering aside. When the Hebrews were in the desert, they worshiped the Lord when all was well.

It was enough for some difficulty to arise, they murmured. Some even rebelled and said they missed the time of slavery in Egypt. In social networks, this new type of behavior is repeated.

Few people post there reminiscing about the time of bitterness, revealing that God did not allow them to be destroyed. None of this occurs. Only parties are revealed, the good side of life.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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They only accept to hear what is pleasing to their heart. When corrected, they get tied up in tantrum. In their view, Jesus Christ has an obligation to satisfy all of our whims.

Even those who hurt God's commandments. The important thing in their view is pleasure. It is like the employee who takes bribes to close a big deal.

Or the woman who agrees to prostitute herself for promotion at work, or even the irresponsible student who agrees to sleep with the teacher to escape a “DP” in college and pass.

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But as people are seduced by the false image of Paradise here on Earth, few pay attention to these signs. They ignore how Jesus is love, they imagine that God will never allow moments of pain to speak to us.

At this time, they put it in the hands of the devil. It is wrong to do so. Because God has purpose for everything in our life. Even in moments of intense pain.

He acts and knows why. The problem is that many Christians look like children, in behavior, even after many years of conversion.

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It is as if there were no nights, only sunny days, on a beautiful beach and crystal clear sea. In this type of Gospel, which many consider ideal, Jesus Christ will not charge anyone for anything.

Nor obedience to his commandments. I can do whatever I want, after all I am in the regime of Grace and all my sins "are already forgiven by the Lord, when He was nailed to the cross".

Several Christian people do not admit to being confronted by the Word of God. They hear only what they like. They put aside the warning that the Lord placed before Job, “when he said that he teaches in the midst of suffering”.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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Luís Alberto Alves

“God teaches his servants in the midst of suffering, and delivers them and uses affliction to open their eyes”, Job-36/15. "The Lord does everything for a purpose, even the wicked for the day of punishment", Proverbs-16/4.

Today, millions of Christians believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is like Instagram, where people only post videos and photos of happy moments. Everything is party.

The women appear in make-up, brushed hair, provocative clothes, in front of beautiful beaches, full and happy tables. There is no room for sadness, for something to meditate on. Just pleasure.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.