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Luis Alberto Alves You my brother or sister can imagine that during the 3.5 years of Jesus Christ's ministry everything was easy. No! Our Master faced difficulties, sometimes at the risk of losing his own life. After all, the Roman Empire would not accept anyone who jeopardized its rule. Jesus was considered a revolutionary by the standards of the time. He mobilized crowds, with sermons rich in words of deliverance and salvation. The Roman government knew that He could pose a risk to Israel's administration. Especially when he emphasized that he was King. You, my brother or sister, can imagine that your life is difficult. Who sometimes thinks that it is not possible to continue serving God, because of the wars faced on a daily basis. Throws in the towel and returns to the rotten mud from where day was rescued to the light. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

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Luis Alberto Alves Some evangelicals say that the commandments of Jesus Christ are harsh today. You need to make them lighter. And was the Roman Empire at the time when the Lord began his ministry light? No! Even so, Jesus was not intimidated. It went ahead. He trained his disciples to spread his Rich Word and bring deliverance to captives. As it was at that time, Jesus Christ continues with open arms to enable you to face the Roman Empire of today, which has a wide domain of technology, creating and destroying fashion, acting on people's emotional, sowing strife, depression, diseases, bankruptcies, lies and all kinds of spiritual filth to keep people from knowing God. It was difficult for the first disciples of Jesus Christ. But they asked the Master for strength to withstand the bad day, to keep standing, not to be discouraged in the face of difficulties and to keep their heads high, even when right seems wrong and wrong is right. How long will you, brother and sister, keep waiting for someone to fight the battle you need to fight? Wake up from this spiritual sleep and go to your battlefield. Jesus is with you brave man. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves This the devil uses with the demons of fornication, when well-married men and women do not resist temptations and fall into the snare of the fowler of adultery. How many do not give in to the evil spirits that dominate addictions, when putting cocaine, heroin powder in their nose; in the mouth the marijuana cigarette or even the pills of synthetic drugs. Others lower their guard to the demons of perversion, reversing the sexual nature created by God, as narrated in the book of Genesis, when He made it very clear, that “male and female He created”. But what we see these days is a woman having sexual intercourse with another woman and men doing the same, as if it were something normal. The apostle Paul, in chapter 1 of the letter to the Romans, makes it very clear what will happen to people who adopt this type of attitude, which unfortunately was common in Rome, which dominated the world. At a time when women only served to procreate, with men having sex with other men, as if it was something natural. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves They are unaware that Jesus Christ and his 12 beloved disciples faced the greatest war machine that ever existed in this world. They didn't come across a small army of men with no killing technique. They faced a government that had dominion over the entire planet. Whoever rose to stop him ended up destroyed and the survivors became slaves. Jesus could tell his initial group of men, without much human wisdom, most of them fishermen, that this task should be ignored. On the contrary, in the 3.5 years of empowerment, the Lord showed that they would become the salt of the earth, would spread the Gospel throughout the known world at that time. Today, with all the advancement of technology, with no government that remembers the might of the Roman Empire, countless evangelicals despise the rich Word of God. They prefer to surrender to the garbage of the world, served by satan in dishes that look pretty, but full of dirt disguised in a fake decoration. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves It is not news to anyone that Jesus Christ, through the resurrection, imposed a great defeat on the Romans. His Gospel was so strong that centuries later, another emperor, Constantine, adopted Christianity as the official religion of the government, leaving the idolized gods in the background for almost 500 years. But what is the reason for this change? Even persecuted and killed, most of the time under terrible torture or serving as food for lions, the early Christians continued to believe in Jesus Christ. They did not move from the Gospel that He preached in that Jerusalem dominated by Rome. Where people had no right and dominion over their own lives. Unfortunately, many people these days, among them evangelicals, doubt the power of Jesus Christ. For lack of sensitivity they do not study the history of the Gospel. They do not seek to know the context in which our great Master lived. Of the forces that He faced so that we can have life and life in abundance today. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves It is against this idolatrous government, that Jesus Christ will make it clear, that there is no salvation without a person confessing that He is the Lord, the only one who can take him to eternity. The Roman Empire, in addition to subjugating the defeated by its powerful war machine, imposed a calendar, where their gods were present and would mark the trajectory of that population. When Jesus asks his disciples who the crowds said he was, it is because of this scene of great idolatry. For the Jews had no means of standing up to the Roman soldiers. Whoever dared to do this, in the case of the Zealot Jews, through guerrilla attacks, ended up arrested and killed. Israel was under the yoke of the Romans. Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, had a deep knowledge of this and knew that the Jews intended to proclaim him King to get out of the hell in which they lived without being able to outline any reaction to change this situation. However, with the passage of time, disappointment came, because the expected Messiah would not use weapons, but love as a means of defeating darkness, represented here by the Roman Empire. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves Slaves walked without shoes, either on the streets or inside the houses where they worked, without any kind of right, not even to complain. The disciples of Jesus Christ, all Jews, did not know about slavery, and they followed the Master, wearing sandals. Years later, when Paul arrived in Rome and was arrested, he did not enter the prison barefoot. He had sandals on his feet. In the details, Jesus Christ made it very clear that He had more power than the Roman gods. As a Jew, the Lord continued to follow the Jewish calendar, which is lunar and the months are named differently than ours. In 46 BC, Emperor Julius Caesar created the system that months would have 30 or 31 days. But with the names of the months paying homage to the gods of that empire. For the Romans, Mars, the god of war, watched over peace, and hence the month of March is to salute and immortalize his name. The month of May is also another tribute to the god Maya, the deity responsible for the growth of plants that were born in spring. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves As reported by Isaiah, the Messiah would make the blind see (Isaiah 29/18, 35/5); make the cripple walk (Isaiah 35/6); cleanse lepers (Isaiah 61/1), make the deaf hear (Isaiah 29/8, 35/5); would raise the dead (Isaiah 11 1-2) and evangelize the poor (Isaiah 61 1-2). It didn't take long for the fame of Jesus Christ to arouse distrust in the government of Rome, because through his preaching the Lord made it very clear that there is only one God, creator of Heaven and Earth, besides Him, there is no other. Through his sermons, Christ began to fight against Roman idolatry, where the emperor was considered a god by the people. Cruelty marked the Roman Empire. The diet of the poor, especially in Italy, consisted of chickpeas, wheat flour, two heads of garlic and a strip of sausage. Only soldiers had the right to eat well, to gather the energy to go to war and not starve to death. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves The marks of this civilization are so strong that they persist to this day. An example of this are two months of the year, which honor two Roman emperors: Julius Caesar and Augustus, the latter founder of this Empire. The months of July and August are to honor these two rulers, who brought so many victories to the Romans, by conquering different lands and annihilating peoples who resisted the power of their army. Jesus Christ was aware of this desire of the Jews, that He be the King to deliver Israel from the hands of the Romans. It is in this context that the Lord asks his disciples who the crowds said he was, as narrated in Luke chapter 9 and verse 18. Just as it is impossible to hide a lighted lamp under the table, so it was with the works performed by Jesus Christ. As described in the Book of Isaiah, the Master would become known and reveal that he was the Son of God because he would perform six signs, which only the Power of Christ would be able to perform. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

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Luis Alberto Alves Jesus Christ was born during the Roman Empire, which began in 27 BC and ended in 476 AD, lasting 500 years. It stretched from the River Rhine in France to Egypt, reached Great Britain and Asia Minor, connecting Europe, Asia and Africa. It is against this gigantic war machine, which enslaved the defeated peoples, killing part of their soldiers nailed to crosses, where the bodies lay until they rotted. At this time, Jerusalem was under Roman rule. Jews had no political and economic autonomy to do anything. Otherwise they faced violent repression. Rome's power was absolute. Whoever rebelled against this then world government lost their own lives, in a violent way. This tactic was to serve as an example to others, so that they would not dare to disobey Roman rules. When Jesus begins to become known, through his preaching and miracles, the Jews bet that the Master would be the right person to defeat the Roman Empire, since the governors and their authorities had no means of performing miracles. The Romans were idolaters. They believed in several gods. They were confused with the Jews, because they only accepted and continue to accept one God. Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor