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Luis Alberto Alves So my brother or sister, take the time, before 2021 is over, and open your heart before the Lord in gratitude for all He has done to you. Turn off your cell phone, computer, television, radio and have quality time with God. Remember that more than 620,000 Brazilians did not have this opportunity that Jesus Christ gave him. Don't be arrogant with God. You depend on him to stay alive. By the mercy of the Lord, these words of mine, through my texts, inspired by God, have reached countless countries. Most will never be able to set my feet one day. But through these articles, the Lord allows me to visit them. I prophesy that each person who reads these words will be strengthened and reached by the intense love of Jesus Christ. Happy 2022 to you and your family. May the Lord, according to his will, make his dreams come true, even those considered impossible today by your human point of view. These are my wishes to the brothers and sisters who access this blog in France, Japan, Russia, China, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, South Africa, Australia, Fiji, United States, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Finland, Czechia, Serbia, Canada, Argentina, Peru, Mongolia. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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Luis Alberto Alves Have you also opened your lips to Jesus Christ for having prevented a serious traffic accident from throwing you onto your bed, quadriplegic, depending on others even for a drink of water? Have you already thanked the Lord for the beautiful and wonderful family that God has placed by his side, which is always with you, in good times and bad? The list is huge. But we need the Lord's mercy to continue our struggle while we are here in this dark world. It's time to let go of pride, unbridled consumerism. Of looking only at the material, leaving aside the spiritual. Increase intimacy with Jesus Christ. Could it be that 24 hours a day, you don't have 1 hour reserved for God? Who has help in hardship? Are social networks, soap operas, miniseries, virtual friends, the soccer team, bar and school buddies, the gossipy neighbor or neighbor? When the situation gets bad, it's Jesus Christ who comes to your rescue. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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Luis Alberto Alves Every end of the year, the same attitude is repeated: “people concerned with satisfying their hunger for Panettone, sweets, turkeys, hams, barbecue and buying lots of gifts”. It is not wrong to consume, as long as it is not an escape valve. Just to satisfy the ego and make the “god” Mammon happy. Today is December 30th. Have you ever bent your knees to thank Jesus Christ for the deliverances He has bestowed on you and your family? Have you ever thanked the angel of death for not having taken someone dear to you, such as a father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, grandson, great-grandson or close friend or friend? Have you ever thanked Jesus Christ for not allowing the unemployment machete not to cut your neck at the company you work for and enter the tenebrous statistic of the millions of “Without Work” existing in our country? Have you ever prayed to the Lord that no stray bullet found his body? Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves As a minister of the Gospel, by the mercy of the Lord, for 17 years, I have already witnessed the tragic end of people who decided to play with God. They fell into the lie that satan is good. That it is possible to sin and then ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness and everything goes back to normal, as if nothing had happened. The Lord forgives, but the consequences of sin remain. Jesus Christ has the power to forgive the murderer, but he will have to serve the prison sentence for taking someone else's life. It is the harvest of the fruit that he sowed. The young woman who decided to have sex with the boyfriend she met at the party and later became pregnant, will have to raise the child later. So, my brothers and sisters, meditate on these words that the Lord bothered me to write. I admit that this is a harsh text, but a friend is not the only one who praises, but seeks to alert about failures that can no longer be committed. If you want to go live in Heaven, and stay there for eternity, flee from everything that looks like evil. Remember: the devil does not play at being the devil, but there are Christians playing at being a Christian. Unfortunately! Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves After David's sin, his life became hell. In Galatians 6/7, through Paul, Jesus Christ warns "For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." If someone planted beans, they won't harvest rice. The rule is quite clear in the sowing law. We are free to plant, yet obligated to reap the fruit of that seed. At this time, it's no use fasting, trying to sleep in church, reading the Bible 24 hours a day. The arrow has already come out of the bow. Will not return. The time has come to pay the high price of disobedience. There are people, who at this stage, rebel against God. They accuse him of ungrateful. After all, in their view, it was just a “little sin”... Jesus Christ did not create hell for us. That dark place, the Lord reserved for Satan and his demons. Unfortunately, millions of people are rushing to share hell with the devil and his commands. They refuse to listen to God's counsel. They think they are the best in the world. They will never be wrong. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves In the case of women, what harm is there in wearing a very short skirt to show off your shapely legs during summer gym months? To feel the pleasure, that when passing in front of men, they desire her with their eyes? Some even quote David, as he coveted Uriah's wife Bathsheba, as written in 2 Samuel 11/2-3. Some even reinforce that Bathsheba was not ugly, otherwise she would not have been able to seduce David. But because they are too lazy to read the Bible, they are unaware of the punishment that God sends, after David sends Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, to his death on the battlefield. The prophet Nathan speaks to David and warns that the sword (righteousness) will never leave his house. For those who love to read the Word of the Lord, will know the tragedy that will overtake David's family. As narrated in 2 Samuel 13 1-22. The child Bathsheba was expecting from David dies at a week old. Later, the eldest son, Amnon, rapes his own sister, Tamar. Absalom, the other son, has his brother killed to avenge the crime and goes to war with his father, claiming the throne of Israel. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves As the slang says: “I'm going to go astray in Jesus”! They act like that in their love life, cheating on husband, wife, boyfriend; getting involved in corruption, trafficking and drug consumption, attacking others with gestures and words, being selfish. Finally, the list of errors is long. In the minds of this type of evangelical, Jesus Christ needs to fit his lifestyle. It is the Lord who is wrong to say, in Proverbs 14/12, that "there are paths that to man seem good, but to God it is abyss." How can I refuse to take the prettiest girl in the neighborhood, at the company, at school to bed? Or hang out with the hottest young man in college, in the condominium where he lives? Someone worthy of appearing on the best magazine covers in the world, of exploding social media with hundreds of likes? Something that, according to these people, only happens once in a lifetime. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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For this type of evangelical, Jesus Christ is wonderful only when he pours out blessings. He is like a husband who remembers his wife when making love. After feeling pleasure, he falls asleep and leaves her to one side, or the child who goes to his parents only in search of a gift, without helping at all in the house. At the time of joy he is close, in pain he tries to be distant.

They hate to flee from everything that looks evil, as written in 1 Thessalonians 5/22. As rebels, they only seek to walk in the paths that are displeasing to the Lord. It seems that the fascination for wrong is greater than for the right. Like an ox heading to the slaughterhouse, they don't realize that they are in the grip of Satan and quickly go to hell.

The problem is that this type of evangelical imagines that it is possible to deceive the Lord. He thinks that God is a dull old man, weak-sighted, with difficulty in mobilizing. In the minds of these people, the thought is the following: “I commit my sins and near death I ask for forgiveness and I go to eternity. Because I won't waste my life following the Bible”!

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Luis Alberto Alves The rule is to come face to face with the commandments of Jesus Christ. After all, in the opinion of this type of evangelical, the Word of God needs to stay up to date. After all, we are in the 21st century. A time of great advances in science. Why wait until marriage to find out if the future husband is good in bed? The business is testing first. Well if Christ turned water into wine, at a wedding feast, as described in John 2 1-11, why not get drunk? What's wrong with quenching my thirst in several cans of beer and drinking several glasses of caipirinha while eating a feijoada? Otherwise, according to these false converts, Jesus would not have performed that miracle at this feast. When warned through the Word, they refuse to listen to the Lord's counsel. Some withdraw and say they are short of time to meditate on these warnings. Afterwards, they comment on social networks, with friends, that the pastor of their church is very straight-faced, outdated, that he is always preaching correction. It doesn't even feel like it's in the 21st century. Time of big change! Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves As we are living in a wide-open Gospel age, where some denominations, concerned only with pulling the wool off the sheep, instead of fighting for their salvation, anything is allowed. There is no barrier. The man or woman can do what they think is best. They drink, use drugs, prostitute themselves, rebel at the company, at school, at home; they threaten, curse people in traffic, steal, steal. The business, in the view of this type of false Christian, is to get along with the lifestyle of this world, where Satan has dominion, as it is written in 1 John 5/19. Carelessness, in the opinion of lying Christians, is obeying what the Word of God says. At the celebrations at the end of the year, they drink, speak ill of the boss and the company in the circles of scoffers, ignoring Jesus' warning in Psalm 1. A smart evangelical, in this gospel with a wide door, he is the man who takes several women to bed, stuffs himself with beer, caipirinha, whiskey, cocaine, marijuana, heroin. A tuned-in evangelical is the one who wears skirts so short that prostitutes would be embarrassed or wear shorts that even Satan would be tempted to grab her on the street. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves As in the days when the flood was close, people despised Noah's warnings. They scoffed when they found him working on building the ark. They refused to listen to the Word of God in order to get out of the bad way and visualize eternity. Anyway, Noah was seen as a lunatic, fundamentalist, outdated, straight-faced. Someone who wasn't enjoying the best of life. Preoccupied only with pleasing the flesh, as described in Luke 17/27, people lived on eating, drinking, joining in marriage, and being promised in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. Then came the flood and destroyed them all. Today is no different. As God does nothing in this world, before warning his prophets, the Lord warns us ministers of the Gospel, what can happen to someone who refuses to walk in the right ways of Jesus Christ. Warnings come to us through dreams, visions, through the Word and even when the Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts about the matter. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor