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THE YOUTH ACTING IN

THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD

Rev. William Soto Santiago, Ph.D.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Sao Paulo Brazil

It is a great blessing and privilege for me to be here with you in this occasion. May God’s blessings creator of Heaven and Earth be upon you all. Apostle Paul says in Colossians, chapter 1 verse9 to 10:

"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God."

May God bless our souls with His Word and permit us to understand It.

"THE YOUTH ACTING IN THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD."

Every person wishes to act in the perfect will of God, young people want to act in the perfect will of God. The Lord Jesus Christ said: "You shall love your God with all your soul and with all your mind, with all your strength," this is, with soul, spirit and body, loving God not only in the body, in other words, with things you do physically, but also in the spirit, the things you think, with the things one does by means of his thinking, so that which you think is correct, may be also be materialized correctly; and you may serve God with the soul, being that the soul has free moral agency, then believing God with all your heart and always choosing what is right.

Because since the soul has free moral agency, you have the right to believe or not believe in that which God says, and if you believe, that then passes on to the spirit, and you will have positive thoughts, thoughts of faith, you believe in what God says and work with what God says, in other words, you work and live with what God has said.

A young man as individual by doing the work that corresponds in the Mystical Body of Christ as a believer in Christ at the church age corresponding to the time in which he lives, the age which corresponds to the Church, that's where one works in the perfect will of God.

For example, you are working in a factory doing a certain labor, but you say: "I will do that work, but I will do it elsewhere," you are not working according to the will of the factory where you work, because in that factory they have a place where you can do that labor.

And that is just the way it is in the Mystical Body of Christ, there is a stage or age for each period, where the Church is working in the Work of the Lord taking the Gospel, giving people the opportunity to receive Christ and be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord, so that Christ may baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire and then produces in the person the new birth.

That occurs in the time corresponding to each age. It is the Spirit of God who works in the midst of the Church, and Christ reproduces Himself by means of the Spirit in the midst of the Church, producing sons and daughters of God, the sons and daughters of God corresponding to each age.

There is a time of life in women, and there is a time of life in the Church which is represented in a woman, in other words, there are different times in the Church Itself, different ages, as it occurs in women, and that is how the reproduction of sons and daughters of God with eternal Life in the Mystical Body of Christ takes place.

Remember that Christ is the second Adam, and the first Adam by divine mandate was to reproduce himself, for which he was given a companion, Eve, which was part of him, she was not an unequal yoke, God said: "I will give him a help meet, "she was part of him, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.

Now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ inasmuch as Christ is the second Adam, then the Church is the second Eve, through whom Christ reproduces Himself in sons and daughters of God, Christ is not going to reproduce Himself through another person that is not His Church.

The Church that is the help meet of Christ, through which Christ reproduces Himself in sons and daughters of God with eternal Life, for God is creating a new race with eternal Life, God first produces the new birth and then the person is born to eternal Life in the spiritual realm, then he will be born to the physical eternal Life when he receives the new glorified body. It is like being re born, born again in another body, an eternal body which will no longer have any problems, but that will come by divine creation as well.

Now, we know this is for the final time, for the Last Day in the age that corresponds to the Church of the Lord in the Last Day, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, and that is where the youth will be working in the perfect will of God.

We must find the corresponding age where we will work according to the perfect will of God, and then one must hear the Word for that time to know how to work in the perfect will of God, both in evangelism as well as in the Bible classes and in all work in the Mystical Body of Christ, always growing in knowledge of God, growing in the knowledge of the mystery of God in Christ, where all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden, as St. Paul tells us in Colossians, chapter 2, verses 2 to 3.

People, youth cannot satisfy themselves by saying: "I have heard the gospel of Christ, I believed and received Him as my Savior, I do not need anything else, I do not need to hear any more." That would be like when a child is born and then he heard them say to him... Mom says: "Here's Daddy." and the child says "Daddy." and the father says: "Here is Mommy" and the kid says, "Mommy," and there he stopped, "I do not need anything else," he does no longer needs to know who his father is and who his mother is and everything else.

And so it is with God and with Christ, we need to grow in the knowledge of God the Father and of Christ; and the more we know Him, the more we love Him. As well as with our parents also, we need to know our parents to love them more every day, having that good fellowship with our parents.

"THE YOUTH ACTING IN THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD."

It is simple, but it must be done in the biblical way in order of it to work well; we must act according to what is established by God in His Word, because in His Word we have the divine will expressed for us, the Word of God written is the thought of God written.

If we want to know how God thinks? Read the Bible, that is the way God thinks, expressed to us all, it’s like when you write a letter, a parent to a child or children to their parents, or to a certain friend, when they are in love, in that letter if the person is sincere, he is expressing his way of thinking about the love relationship they have.

That’s how it is with God, God expresses His love through His written Word that we have, and we express our love for him believing in what He says and acting in His perfect will, loving Him with all our soul, with all our mind, our spirit and with all our strength, that has to do with the physical body, and by working and contributing financially as well, all physical forms with which we serve God.

So, youth, onward acting in the perfect will of God; some wonder about falling in love, some wonder what the perfect will is in regards to falling in love with ... is it an equal yoke or unequal yoke; the equal yoke, they both must be believers in the same God.

Some people think, "Not so, later he or she is going to believe," sometimes they make the person turn into an unbeliever, because... or that person is no longer as faithful as in the beginning, that's like drinking coffee, you take the coffee and milk and put them together, and the milk will not be as it appeared at first, it’s not going to be the same, even the taste changes, and the coffee is not going to be the same either. In other words, then, what you have is a latte, which is neither coffee nor is it milk, it is a mixture, and that's not what God wants of the believers in him, He wants the believer to be a true believer.

He shows it also in a parable of the true vine, and tells us that He is the vine and we are the branches, and branches or boughs cannot bear fruit of themselves. You take a branch and put it someplace and what it does, it dries; it has to be on the vine; and we must be in Christ so that Christ may reproduce fruits through us. Through us, through the members of His Church is that the fruits of the true vine appear, as the grapes appear coming from vine, but they appear through the branches, through the boughs, yes.

He also tells us to be in Him to bear much fruit, also says that the Father will cleanse us, or saying, He will remove many little things that hinder us; that is why we cannot have things that hinder us in life, that hinder us from giving good fruits; we must stand firm in Christ, the true vine, so that He may bring forth His fruits through us in all aspects of our lives.

He also speaks of the parable of the seed that was sown on the ground, one was not good soil, was by the way side, one was stony, and one was ground with thorns, but the last on was good ground.

The one that produced good fruit was the good soil, it shows us different aspects of Christianity where the Word is sown through the preaching, some listen but the enemy takes out of the hearts of the people what they heard, others are arid grounds, stony places, they hear the Word, receive It with joy but after a little time the Word does not take root because they go through trials, they scandalize, stumble and they leave.

Others, who are represented in fields of thorns, many plants of thorns, it says that all those weeds surrounding the seed that was sown, see? If these people are going to mingle themselves with plants that are not good, if you are in an environment in the midst of people who do not serve God, that atmosphere will not let you bear fruit.

You have to find an atmosphere with people who think like you, so that in this environment you can work with them and bear fruit and bring the message to others. It does not mean you have to be completely isolated from the world, but you cannot be from head to toe in the world, in the world's environment. Every Christian has the environment of God established, in which environment he has to move as a believer in Christ. Christ said, "You are not of this world as I am not of the world."

And now, the environment filled with thorn bushes, it says that it chokes the Word, the riches too, that whole environment where people achieve great wealth and forget God, no time to serve God, when there is an activity they say "no, I have business pending for today," see? That's choking the Word, then they do not have time for God, which is not appropriate for the believer, he cannot have God's time committed to other things, because otherwise, the Word that was sown will not produce the fruit that has to produce.

Then there's the good ground where the Word is sown and bears fruit some thirty fold, some sixty fold and some a hundred fold, in other words, a grain of seed is sown and thirty are born, a grain of seed is sown and sixty are born, a grain of seed is sown and a hundred are born, that's a hundredfold.

That's the good ground, and the good ground is every believer in Christ who acts in the perfect will of God, we all want to be that good ground giving fruit, some more than others as it does in the field, but giving fruit.

May God bless you and keep you, and continue having a wonderful day filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.

"THE YOUTH ACTING IN THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD."