Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 9

Luís Alberto Alves

So, if you were up to the present day concerned with chasing the material world, it's time to open your eyes and set out on the search for the spiritual. Saving time with Jesus Christ. Guarantee your place in eternity, in the golden streets and billionaire presence of the Lamb.

Do not be more deluded by the cheap advertisements made by Satan that it is better to be happy here on earth, because nobody knows how Heaven works. Be smart and be mindful of the thoughts of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Seek more and more the spiritual. Feed your mother the quality meal offered by Jesus Christ through his Word of life. Escape the deception of Satan. He can only borrow, because he does not own anything. Not even the key to the door to hell.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 8

Luís Alberto Alves

Satan did this to Jesus when he told the Master that if He lay at his feet He would give everything that exists in this world. But Jesus rebuked him. See that the devil has the strength to put some good-looking things in your life.

Luxury cars, mansions, beautiful women or men, he lends a good job to satisfy his professional vanity, romances with disturbed but beautiful people. However, to enjoy this flash of happiness, he will have to abandon the ways of the Lord.

Several people, unfortunately, do this. They leave Jesus Christ in the background to satisfy the desires of the flesh. Exchange eternity for seconds in this world. That will soon pass. And then there will come happiness or eternal nightmare.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 7

Luís Alberto Alves

We know that in this world, where we are passing through, we need to satisfy our hunger to keep the physical body functioning. However, your focus cannot be exclusively on the material, leaving the spiritual in the background.

Today many people forget this detail and pay a high price in the future. The devil, knowing your material need, will invest heavily so that you stay away from the spiritual. At this moment, spiritual cooling begins. Communion melts.

The work gains more space than its presence in the church. Let job worries take Jesus' place in your life. In doing so, the way to leave the presence of Jesus began to be opened and soon it will end.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 6

 

Luís Alberto Alves

It is sad to realize that the people continue to behave in the same way as the beginning of our era. He is not interested in opening his heart to Jesus Christ to live forever. They just want to kill the hunger for the material, not seek the spiritual. For these people, it is difficult to obey God.

Deluded by Satan, they imagine that on the day of the White Throne Judgment, the Lord will act like a lamb, calmly, running his hands over the rebels' heads. He will come as a judge. Lawyer defends, judge condemns or acquits. It's time for face-to-face. Eye to eye, face to face with the Lord.

Do not seek Jesus Christ because of your blessings, but to gain eternal life. To be able to live in Heaven forever. No material food remains eternally within us. Soon he will be expelled. The spiritual will remain within you forever. Has your concern so far been to satisfy material or spiritual hunger?

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 5

Luís Alberto Alves

Few seek eternity. The business is to satisfy the current need. Make dreams come true, which in the vision of Jesus Christ will become nightmares later on. It is to conquer something to fill the ego, feed the vanity and show that you are a well-off person.

There is no concern to think about the future with God in Heaven.

Just filling up your checking account with money to clog up shopping in shopping malls or even in designer stores on the streets frequented by millionaires. Helping others is a discarded subject.

When the news spreads that a man or woman is used a lot by God, that evangelical church will soon be full. All for profit. Improve earthly life, especially if you are in a crisis marriage or without a job. The solution is to get rid of these problems.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 4

Luís Alberto Alves

The situation is no different today. In evangelical churches that watch over the Word of God, without using subterfuge of groups of praises that seem more like musical bands in the world, singing self-help lyrics, screaming, jumping, circus techniques and even the occult, the frequency is small.

Many people want revelations, especially that they will become millionaires, that the unfaithful husband or wife will be crushed by Jeovah, the millionaire boss will leave the company as an inheritance for her, a dealership will put a new car in the garage of that "believer".

It is what I call “evangelical circus”. Without any commitment to the teachings of Jesus Christ. It is the crowd looking for bread that only the Lord can give. After killing hunger, through healing and liberation, they disappear from that place. Christ was used only as a ladder.

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

Do you seek Jesus Christ for blessings or for believing in eternal life? 3

Luís Alberto Alves

When Jesus Christ appears in the 30th year of our age preaching Peace, He is not understood. How to enjoy these moments of calm, with someone sick inside the house? Or forced to work hard hours to pay taxes to the Romans, set aside the tithe for the Treasury and keep the family?

When he saw Jesus speaking about the Kingdom of God, of not living anxiously for tomorrow and imitating his meekness, he did not retaliate violently the attacks suffered in the streets and even at home through family members and relatives, the Lord's speech provoked anxiety.

It is because of this posture that Jesus says in John, chapter 6 / 26-27: “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the bread and were satisfied.

27 Work, not for the food that is lost, but for the food that remains for eternal life, food that the Son of Man will give you; for God the Father has placed his seal upon Him. ”

Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.