In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of accepting Jesus Christ as the ultimate treasure in life. He uses the analogy of an artist who offers his four children to anyone who buys one of his paintings. The preacher urges the audience to consider if they truly desire a good life, family, and relationships, or if they simply want their own desires fulfilled. He highlights the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, stating that his suffering for a few hours can save millions of people from eternal damnation. The preacher concludes by praying for the audience to have hearts that love Christ and for anyone who doesn't know Jesus to find salvation.

Take a seat, brothers. Let's open the Bible to 1 Corinthians, chapter 15. 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 3. For I gave in the first place that which I received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures. Let us pray. Father, in the name of Christ I speak to you. Be what you are, Lord. Be what we are. And the great need we have, Lord, of your mercy. Lord, we live in ignorance. We do not know what your word says. We commit, Lord, many mistakes. We have a constant need, Lord, of your grace. Lord, I know that you hear me. I ask you, Lord, to bless us this night. May the Holy Spirit work in us, teaching us, Lord. Your word, so that we may see the cross of Calvary in the name of Christ. Amen. Christ died for you. How? Why? Why? So many times we say, Christ died for me, lightly, without reverence. Without realizing what we are saying. Every time we speak in the name of Christ, of Jesus, we must do it with reverence. Every time we speak of his cross, we must do it with reverence. That the Son of God died for us is something that cannot be explained. No preacher in any language can explain or understand what it means that Christ died for us. But we are going to see some things tonight. And it is my prayer that you listen very well, because there is no other subject more important than the subject of the cross of Calvary. First, why did Christ die? Well, it says here that Christ died for our sins. The biggest problem today is that man does not believe that he is a sinner. And even the believers do not realize how sinners they are. So tonight, to begin, let's see what Scripture says about you. What does the Bible say about you? What does the Bible say about me? Let's see. Let's go to Genesis, chapter 6. Genesis, chapter 6, verse 5. And the Lord saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was great, and that all the intention of the thoughts of their hearts was only to always do evil. Once I was preaching like this, using this text in a university, and a student came up to me very angry and said, You are a liar. And why am I a liar? Because it is not true that all my thoughts are evil. And I said, young man, first of all, I read from the word of God. It is not my opinion, it is what the word of God says. I am not a liar, I am just reading what God says in his word. And God says in his word that all our thoughts are sinful. What you have to understand is that God is not like man. Compare us to Hitler. We are good people. Compare us to God. We are worse than Hitler. But the young man said, but all my thoughts are not so bad, they are not so bad, they are not so sinful. Look, do you feel the same? If I could, this night, if I could take out your heart, if I could put all your thoughts in a video, and if I could give the video here this night, showing all the thoughts that have passed through your heart, not only your actions or your words, but everything you have thought. Friend, you would run away from here and never return to this place. You would have so much shame that you would not be able to approach any of us. And you know that is the truth. You have thought things so horrible that you can not even share your thoughts with your best friends. And you know that is the truth. But the Bible says that God knows everything you have thought. And not only everything you have thought, everything you have done, and everything you have said. Your words are full of sin. Your works are full of sin. Your thoughts do not speak. So many perversions, so many evils have passed through your heart, and God sees everything. Also the Bible says in Genesis chapter 8, verse 21, If the Lord perceived the pleasant aroma, he said to the Lord for you, I will never again curse the earth because of man, because the intention of the heart of man is evil since his youth. This word can be translated into Hebrew, it is not. What you have to understand is that man is not born neutral morally. Man is born in sin, inclined to sin. Do you have to teach a child how to lie? Do you have to teach a child how to manipulate their parents? How to be selfish? How to fight? How to scream? No. Why? Because what the Bible says about us is true. We are men, women, young people, fallen children. We are children of Adam. Twisted, perverted, full of sin. This is what the Bible says. Now, let's go to Isaiah 64. Isaiah 64, verse 6. All of us are like the filthy, and like a bundle of filth, all our works are just. We all deserve to be like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, drag us down. All of us are like the filthy. What is he talking about? Well, there are several possibilities, but you can refer to a leper. Have you ever been with a leper? I have. I worked with lepers in the jungle of San Pablo, in Peru. It was horrible, brother. If I had a leper with me, it would be horrible. The smell would be horrible. His appearance would be horrible. Blood and pus. Meat. Toasted. Ugly. Rotten. Rotten. Imagine, a man so ugly that you can't even see him. You can't even look at him. You can't even smell him. The disease is so ugly. To be a leper is a horrible thing. His skin is rotting. It's here. The Bible says that we, before God, are morally like this. Today, people laugh at sin. You also laugh at sin. You like sin. Really. We should not lie. We should not be hypocrites. On television, on the radio, your eyes, you like sin. But for God, it is the sickest thing. Dirtiest. Most perverted. And the Bible says that we, without the grace of God, we are all like a leper. Now, let's say that we are going to try to improve the appearance of the leper. We go out and we go to Dallas. We buy a very, very thin cloth. And we bring the cloth here. And we dress the leper in the cloth. And now it looks very nice. Only a few seconds. After what happens? The same corruption of his body will also corrupt the cloth. And the beautiful cloth becomes so ugly, so horrible like man. For this reason, we cannot do anything to save ourselves through our works. What must be understood is that our works are like rags of filth before God. Our best works are contaminated with the corruption of our hearts. There is nothing you can do to present yourself before God. Accepted. When the Bible says that Christ died for our sin, we have to understand what sin is. In our culture, in the United States, it is almost impossible to understand. Nobody takes sin seriously. Neither the pastors, nor the preachers. We do not preach against sin because we do not want to be offensive. Because we do not want to lose our work, our churches. We speak very nicely, but the world is going to hell because we are not demonstrating through Scripture that sin is more than a disease. It is something grotesque. It is something horrible. It is something that God can never stand. What makes you laugh, God hates. Now let's go to Romans, chapter 3. Romans, chapter 3, verse 10. As it is written, there is no just one. No one here is just. No man here has been just. What does just mean? Well, the word in Hebrew basically means right. We have a stick here, right. If I put another stick next to it, which goes in the same direction, then it is also right, it is just. But if it is extracted like this, it is no longer just. It does not conform to this norm. It is not just. We are not just because we do not conform to the nature or the will of God. We have been enslaved in everything that God has sent us, everything. It is not only one law or some laws that you have violated, you have violated everything and you have done it forever. Not once have I done good to God. Not once. There is no just one. There is no one who understands. Education in the United States is terrible. Terrible. It is horrible. I travel around the world teaching theology. That is what I do. A year and a half ago, a friend of mine from British Columbia sent me a book on logic. Logic. I teach pastors. I teach pastors' teachers. A book on logic. I started reading the first chapter. It was difficult. And I teach logic. The book was very difficult. So I read the first chapter again. Again. It was difficult, but now I understand. You know what? The book was written for children in the 8th grade who lived 200 years ago. A chapter that not even one young person in this group can read. We are not intelligent. We are not more intelligent than before. Compared to the peasants of 200 years ago, we are ignorant. We don't know anything. We don't know how to read. When we talk about leaders, about groups of young people, most of them have not even read the Bible. Not even once. And we are spiritual because we sing songs and we put on Christian clothes. Oh brother, we don't understand. When I talk about sin, when I talk about the need to say everything else decently, they don't listen to me. They laugh at me. Why? Because they don't understand. They don't understand anything. They don't have light. Oh, how scary we are. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God. Sometimes when young people come and want to give their testimony, they say, I was looking for God and finally I found Him. It's a lie. You know what? I'm going to teach you something about theology. According to the historical Christian theology, and also the Baptist theology, you were born an enemy of God. All your life you have abhorred God. There are people who say, I loved God. No. You didn't love God. You loved an idol that you created in your own mind. You didn't love the true God of the Bible. Most people don't understand that man is not only a cheater, but also an enemy of God and hates God. And man doesn't seek God. Man seeks God like a criminal seeks a policeman. We don't seek God because we are sinners. We hate God and God's wrath is upon us. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God. Everyone has disobeyed. Some have become useless. Look. One of the characteristics of a non-Christian person is that he is useless to the Lord. How many people in the church do nothing in the name of the Lord? They are members of the church, but they do nothing. They come to the church Sunday, perhaps Wednesday, but they do nothing. They are useless. A description of the centurions is that they are useless. The church is full of non-Christian people. It says, there is no one who does good. There are many people who think that God has a scale in heaven and if we have more good works than bad works, we will enter. It is not true, my friend, because we don't have good works. We don't have. A person says, well, I am a sinner, but I don't sin much. Well, how many times do you have to sin? How many times did Adam and Eve sin before they were cast out of the presence of God? Just once. And you have sinned so many times that you can't even count. So, it says, there is no one who does good. There is not even one. Verse 19. Ah, let's continue with a very important thing. Look, verse 18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. The principle of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah. Today, everyone thinks that God is my friend. Me and God are, as we say in Peru, partners. Compadres. Amigos. Dios y yo. No. It is not true. God is God and you are not. People don't have God. The God who created the universe and one day will destroy the universe. Even Christians play with God and play with his commandments. How many people can now stand here in this building and start to excite me with the commandments that God has given us? No. Nothing. Why? In today's day and age, we don't talk about commandments. We only say, be in Christ and then we will live as we want. Lie. Because Christ said, not those who say, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of God, but those who do the will of God. There is no fear of God before his eyes. The 19th century. Now, we know that when he says the law, he does not say to those who are under the law so that all mouths are shut and the whole world is made responsible before God. The Apostle Paul used the first three chapters of the book of Romans to convince us that we were sinners, that we are sinners. A man cannot understand his need for Christ unless he first understands his sin and his state condemned before God. Most people do not seek Christ because they do not recognize his need. Most Christians do not love Christ because they do not recognize the depth of their sin and what Christ has done for them. Does anyone have my keys? I never have my keys. Does anyone have my keys? Look at the Romans. Listen. Does it give you joy? Yes, it gives you joy. You need this companion. It does not give you joy, does it? But if you were locked up in a prison, yes, it would give you a lot of joy to hear keys. Preachers, pastors, young people, leaders, listen to me. The reason why most people in our church play with Christ, the reason why most people in the world cannot see their need for Christ is because they cannot see that they are locked up in the prison of God, condemned. Most people do not understand. They do not understand the danger they are in, that they are going to die and go to hell, that God comes with wrath against the sin of man. Most people do not understand this and that is why they do not seek salvation in Christ. We have to be honest. We have to speak with love. But we have to say to everyone, look, we are sinners and because of the sin, the wrath of God comes. The great judgment of God comes. People are going to die and they are going to go to hell. If you do not repent and believe in the only hope that is Christ. Thank you very much. Now, we are sinners. Now, I am going to teach you something that is rarely heard today. 75 years ago, always, but today almost never. Once they have heard, God hates sin, but loves the sinner. Beautiful, isn't it? Yes, it is beautiful, but it is wrong. It is not what the word of God teaches. It is something that looks very nice to be without a pole. And the singers who do not study their Bibles, but write songs too. But brothers, they do not find the Bible. Let's go to Psalm 5. I'm going to show you something that you will not look for. Psalm chapter 5, verse 5. I'm going to read it in the Bible of the Americas. And then I'm going to ask someone to read the same verse in the Holy Bible. Psalm 5, verse 5. Does it say that God hates iniquity? No. It says that God hates those who do iniquity. Does anyone have the Holy Bible here? Can anyone read the Holy Bible? God hates those who do iniquity. Oh, my goodness. So, when we say, God loves the sinner, but hates the sinner, but never hates the sinner. It is false. What does the Bible say? The Bible says, God hates those who do iniquity. We teach so many false things today, in the name of not being offensive. Do you know what scares me? Many of you are not afraid. Read. What does it say? What does it say? When I read this verse, teaching in a theology class, I read this verse and people always tell me, But 1, 3, 16 says, Because in this way we have given God to the world, that he has given his Son, the Son of Man, so that all those who do not believe in him, do not believe in the Lord, nor in the Lord God, nor in the world, nor in the world, are sinners. So God loves the sinner. Well, 1, 3, 16 says, Because in this way we have given God to the world. But Psalm 5, 5 also says something. That God hates those who do iniquity. The two texts are inspired by the Holy Spirit. What does it mean? It means this. In his holiness and his justice, God has to forget sin and the sinner. But his love is so great that God can still love the objects of his hate. What I'm saying is, God's wrath comes upon the sinner. But in his love, God has made a path through which the sinner can be saved. But if the sinner does not accept Christ, what awaits him forever is the hate and the anger of Jehovah. If you reject Christ as your Lord and Savior, the only thing that awaits you is the eternal hatred of an unjust holy God. People sometimes tell me, always the seminarians and the university students say, But God is love. That's why God can't hate. Oh no. God is love. That's why he has to hate. I'm going to give you an example. Raise your hand. How many people here love children? Raise your hand. If you love children, raise your hand. Keep going, keep going. Are there any here who do not love children? Raise your hand. If you love children, raise your hand. If you hate abortion, raise your hand. So, if you love children, you have to hate abortion. If God loves all that is sinful and unjust, God has to hate everything that contradicts his nature and his will. What the world does not understand is that the wrath of God, the word wrath comes from the Hebrew word Ah, which means nose. Many of you were not born in a ranch like me. When a bull gets angry, it gets angry, but it tells. What does it do? Its nose opens. That's what it means. God is angry with the sinner every day. And that one day the wrath, the nose, the fury of God against the sinner will fall on the earth. And the only savior, the only way through which we will be in Christ. Amen. Pastor, are you trying to scare me? Of course. Of course. You must be scared. It is the problem of today. People do not know, they do not understand what is going to happen here one day. They say, but Christ is not going to come in a thousand years. What does it matter? You are going to see him in less than a hundred. If he does not come here, you are going to go where he is. And some of you, not a hundred years, not fifty, not ten. I am not a prophet, I am not a prophet, but probably several people here in five years are going to be dead. And they are going to be in hell. Sad, isn't it? Sad. Now, man is a sinner. Now I am going to teach you something that is the most important truth in all the Bible. And if you can understand it, I am going to teach you. So, you are going to understand you are going to understand more or less everything that the reason is. Why did Christ have to die? Why did he have to die? Well, there is a problem. If God is just, is it fair? If God is just, He cannot forgive you. And if God forgives you, He is not just. Therefore, this problem in all the Scripture, how can God be just and at the same time forgive the sinner? I am going to show you the problem. Let's say that after the covenant, he was educated and killed on the day of his baptism. All of them, all of them, were killed. Right? And when Jesus and John and Mark and all of them were killed, the murderer is coming out of the window. He is not going to catch them. He takes, takes the murderer to the police. The police takes him to the judge. And the judge says, You are all guilty of the murder. The murderer is going to be What are you going to say? I am telling you what you are going to say. I don't like it! You are going to start calling your friends, all your people in your homes. You are going to start writing to the governor, congressmen and senators and all of them. You are going to start calling the television. You are going to start shouting and you are going to start telling everyone that this judge is not a just judge. He is a criminal man. He is a criminal man because he forgave the man who was going to die. Isn't that right? In Jerusalem, one of our biggest complaints is that the judges are not just. In Mexico, they say the same, don't they? The judges don't do justice. Why? Because the guilty are free. It is not just, we say. So, how can God forgive you? The Bible says in Romans 17, verse 15 that for God, he who justifies the guilty is an abomination to God. He who justifies the sinner is an abomination to God. So, how can God forgive you? And all of this is the biggest problem in the Bible. If God forgives you, he is not just. If he forgives you, he is not just. The angels, when they fell, did God forgive them? Did he send them to the Savior? He didn't have to send you a Savior. Neither. How can God do it? How did God forgive you when the justice of God demands it? And if God does not punish you, if he does not condemn you, he is not a just God, but he is like the unjust man who forgave the man who killed his family. It is the biggest problem in all the Bible. The justice demands that all of us go to hell. If God forgives us, he is not a just God. The law demands our death. In very old we use a word that is really Latin. Proficio. Be proficient of me. When, for example, let's say I am your slave and the law says that the slave who steals has to die. Then you go back to the house and I, your slave, am stealing from you. And you grab me and take me to die. To the house where you are dying. I am in charge of the house and I demand that you be proficient of me. Be proficient of me. But when I am really asking you, I am telling you and I am telling you please don't violate the law. Don't do justice. But what's the problem? If the law demands that you die and you don't die, then you are a genius too. The biggest in all life is how can God forgive you and still be a just That's the biggest problem in life. But what's the biggest problem in life? The biggest problem in life is how can God The biggest problem in life is how can God in life is how can forgive you? The The biggest problem in life is how can God in the hands of our Lord Jesus. Brothers, if you are a Christian, if you are a Christian, it is because 12 years ago the Son of God, when he was on the cross, came to his feet and was crushed by his own father. All the life of God that must fall on you fell on the Son of God. And he paid the price with Christ. He died under the fury of his own father. Because no one should die but he died. The Romans did not kill Christ. The Jews did not kill Christ. The cross did not kill Christ. Christ took our sin and all the wrath, all the anger, all the fury of his father against our sin fell on him. Now, let's go to Matthew, chapter 27. Matthew 27, verse 45. And from the sixth hour there was darkness on the earth until the ninth hour. And around the ninth hour Jesus exclaimed in a loud voice, saying, This is my God, my God, because you have abandoned me. Now, you have read the little pockets we give to the sinners, no? Sin separates us from whom? From God. Because of our sin there is no brotherhood between us and God. Because of our sin we are abandoned by God On the cross Christ took away his sins and he was abandoned by God in his place. Jesus, the Son of God, forever has lived in a perfect brotherhood with his Father on the cross. His Father separated from him. The windows and the doors of heaven were closed. And Christ was left to die abandoned by his own Father. We must suffer an eternal separation from God. Christ suffered the separation in our place. Now, when the Bible tells you something in the New Testament, for example, you have to understand what is happening. In the time when Jesus did not have chapters or verses, if a friend wanted to indicate a text in the Old Testament, he simply quoted the first verse. When Christ took away his sins, he was saying basically, do you want to understand what is happening here? Then, read Psalm 22. Let's read what happened on the cross. Psalm 22. There, the first verse that says, My God, my God, why have you taken me away? Aha! A prophecy about Jesus dying, abandoned by his own Father. He says in verse 2, My God, by day I cry and you do not answer, and by night, but there is no rest for me. However, you are so that you live among the savages of Israel. In you our fathers trusted, they trusted, and you delivered them. And to you they cried and were delivered. In you they trusted, and were not disappointed. But I am a worm, and not man. What is he saying? He is basically saying, My God, my God, why have you taken me away? From there, he begins his argument through the whole history of Israel. God, you have never abandoned anyone. Through the whole history of Israel, you have never abandoned the righteous, but here I am, your son, hanged on a cross, on a cross, crying out there, and you abandon me. Why? Verse 3, let's see the answer. You are a saint. Verse 6, but I am a worm. On the cross, the precious Son of God came to be a sinner. The snake was raised in the desert. In the time of Israel, there was a road like this, and all the leaders of Israel had to put their hands on it. And he came as a sinner from Israel to the desert. And there, the animal died, cut off from God and cut off from the strength of God. On the cross of Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ was not only damaged by the strength of God, but the Lord Jesus Christ was damaged by God himself, separated from Him. We had come to sin in our place, so that the companionship between the Father and the Son was destroyed. Someone had to suffer the presence of God, abandoned by God. That's what your husband did. But he did it in your city. But not only that, not only God is a sinner and cannot have companionship with the sinner, but God is just and has to punish the sinner. Do you remember when Jesus was in Gethsemane, what he cried out three times? Father, let this cup pass from me. I do not want to drink it. Lord, I do not want to drink the cup. Lord, I do not want to drink the cup. What was inside the cup? I tell you, the cup was the life of God. The fury, the hatred, the punishment, and the condemnation of a dirty God were inside the cup. And when the Lord Jesus Christ came and hung the cup, He drank the cup of the life of God, which must fall on you. He drank the cup and drank the cup. And when He drank the cup, not a drop of life fell because He drank all the life of God in His place. Imagine, Lord Jesus, imagine a lake and a wall separating from the water behind the wall. A wall a million miles high, a million miles high, and behind the wall, water. An intense body of water. And in a second, the wall is broken. And all the water is falling on you. But before the water can get to where you are, the walls open up and all the water falls, and you are dry and dry. On the wall of God, falling on you, and Christ sat in the middle and drank all the life of God, Lord. Let's go to Isaiah 53, verse 10. But the Lord wanted to break it subjecting it to appearance. But the Lord wanted, the word in Hebrew, Yahweh, or Jehovah, or Jehovah. But the Lord wanted to break it subjecting it to appearance. Because now I have a son. The doctors, about ten years ago, when they saw that my wife had a tumor in her brain, they said, Linda, you will never be able to have children. Never, never, never. Listen, it is impossible. It is impossible to have children. But a year ago, nine months ago, my wife found out that she was pregnant. She thought she had to go to see her husband. And the doctor said, well, I think she is pregnant, but it is impossible. But we have to inform the hospital, because it is impossible. But my father is pregnant with my son. And as you have seen, I love this young man very much. But but if a person tried to hurt my son, I would not kill him. I would go against any army to protect my son. I would go to hell a million times to save my son. I love him, and if you are a father, you know exactly, you understand exactly what I am saying. Imagine, I cannot hurt my son. I would die before hurting my son. But you tell me, that God, the Father, has to break his own son, to kill him. And you want to hurt a heart like shit. You are not a man. You are not a man. You can play with sin. You can laugh against God. You can talk about Jesus as if he were a normal person. And my father wanted to break his own son for us, a lot of dirty, perverted sinners. Why do I want to serve Christ? Because He died for me. He died for me. That is why I want to serve Christ. I am so happy with these people, these happy Christians. They live like women, praising the name of the beautiful Jesus. You have to decide now. You have to decide. You have to serve Christ. You have to serve Christ. You have to do this. Because you can't be here in our homes if He really spilled His blood for me. You have to decide. You have to hide your heart. You have to leave it to these perverts. You have to serve Christ. He died for you, crushed, crushed. The word in Hebrew means crushed, crushed by His own blood. He died for the freedom of God. Now, whenever there is a debate or something at the university, at the university, they say, but how can it be that a man can suffer only two or three hours on a cross and this is enough to save millions and millions of men from an eternity in hell? No, it can't be. How can Jesus suffer only a few hours on the cross to save everyone? For an eternity? Do you know how He can do it? Because He is worth more than all of us together. The songs of today, oh, someone who reads the Bible must write songs. There is a song that says, God loves man more than anything else. Is that a lie? Is that true? I'm sorry, but that's a lie. God loves His Son more than man. God loves His Son more than everyone. But God wanted to thank His Son. His Son is worth more than all of you together. He is worth more than me. He is worth more than all the men who have lived on earth. He is more important than the universe. But He is worth more than all of us. And that's why we must live. Do you know that when I was 21 years old in college, one night I came to my apartment I don't know how, drunk, because I was taking a bed. Drunk. Someone had shared with me about Christ, but I didn't pay attention. I got there, I had money, my family had money. I was there, but I was young, I was going to be a lawyer, and everything else, my world was perfect. It was good. But I got to my apartment one night like, I don't know, 12 in the morning. Drunk. Like 5 in the afternoon. I woke up, I don't know why. But my face and my body were all wet. Why? There in the dark, confused, drunk, because I was wet everywhere. So I went to the mirror and I turned on the light and I saw that I had slept all night in my vomit. It can't be a man worse than me. Two nights later, the Lord Jesus Christ saved me. He saved me. A man so horrible in all aspects. A man so so stupid, so horrible, so immoral, so sinful. A man so cruel. And he saved me. And I went and I bought a Bible and I started to preach in the streets, everywhere. Christ saved me. Christ saved me. My friends who were Christians came to him, please. Everyone thought well of you. Now everyone thinks that you are a fanatic. You are going to destroy your reputation here in the university and everything else. And I asked them, but you are Christians, aren't you? I was so stupid. I didn't know. I thought that all the priests in the church were Christians. But you are Christians, aren't you? Yes, Pablo, but that's too much. Preaching and sharing in the classes and everything else, you have to stop doing it. But he died for me, didn't he? He died for me. How am I not going to accompany him? And oh my God, I was so... my clothes, my hair, everything was perfect. I looked like a young man, but the best, as we say always. I cut my hair, I took off my earring, I changed my clothes and Christians told me again, but Pablo, why are you saying that? You have the freedom to dress as you want. Well, I know that I have the freedom to dress as I want, but in the church where I go, there are some elders, they don't like them. But they are legalists! But what do I care? The Bible says that if I offend a brother, I must change. What does it matter if they are legalists or not? But you have your rights! I am so sick of these Christians with their rights, my Christian freedom. Your pride and Christian egoism, perhaps. We are slaves. We were bought. We must live in love and we must do anything not to offend. We must stop thinking about ourselves and we must think about Christ and others. Now that you are here tonight, you are saying never, never to listen to the things of Jesus Christ and what he did to me. So what am I going to do? I tell you what I have decided. I have decided to recognize my sin and to persevere. I have decided to persevere. I can't do anything good to make you accept God. But if you persevere and believe in Christ, you will be saved and cleansed. You will be saved. I am a person who is in life. My friend, God is not like a woman. Christ saved me and I do not regret being saved. It is precious to be Christ. It is precious. There was a policeman a policeman who they say that when he mentioned the name Jesus he stayed a second or two silent in his room because he could not mention the name of Jesus without regret. We do not have regret. I will finish with a story. There was a painter in Europe, very famous. During the Second War, his son and the painter and his son were painting famous paintings together and the son was inspired by the father. The father said to his son that one day, during the Second World War, the son was going to grow up and after a year or a year and a half the father received a letter saying that his son died in the war. The man almost died of pain. But after the war a young man came to his house with a painting of a woman in his room and the man said to the father that you are the famous painter of Portillo. The man said that he knew his son there on Earth and when we were going to go to where he was painting I know that I am the famous painter and I have a painting in his son's room because we were going to go to the field and there was a bullet and he pushed me and he took the bullet and he said Lord, I love your son and I have nothing, I have no money, I have nothing, but I have a painting that painting and he said Lord, give me the painting. The man gave him the painting and the painting was not very good the painting was not good but the man said thank you, thank you. And the man entered his house where he had only his paintings so thin and expensive and he said I'm going to take this painting and put it on the wall because it is the most important painting of this poor artist of my life. After a few years the man died and all the men who collect the paintings came to my house because they were going to give me all the famous paintings and expensive ones and all the expensive ones and they were going to take them and take the paintings to their museums and everything so a man started and said first we are going to sell a painting here and you can decide how much you want to pay so he showed the painting the painting and he said it was the painting And all the men, the artists, they say to me, I don't like this crap. Take out this normal painting for nothing. Who is going to buy this thing? No, we want the paintings. Come on. The painter. No, it's not that bullshit. Who is he? Who is the painter? The painter. Behind. He is touching the painting. He is touching the painting. And he is the painter. And look. I have like six dollars. That's all I have. But I want to buy the painting. Because you don't have it. This one. This one. In the painting. Not me. For me. I don't know where I have to go. I don't care. But I want to survive in a room. Because the room has this. It's all for me. All for me. And they were all talking about this. I don't have it. I don't have it. And the man bought the painting for six dollars. And he sat there in the room for a year. And suddenly the man was there and everyone said, Yes. It's all over. You are my children. And he took off his shirt and said, But I have decided to buy the painting. I don't have it. But the painting is here and I want to buy it. And the man opened a envelope. And he took a letter. Written on the envelope. It said, The one who receives the painting of my son, The one who buys the painting of my son, Receives all that I have. You know that there are many beings who want to have good lives. Many beings want to be famous. Many beings want to have rich prospects. How many of you only want to have the son? How many of you only want to have Jesus? How many of you? Let's go now. Father, Father, I'm sorry. Why? Because you can't preach well. No one can preach well the Cross of Calvary. Oh, Father. Your son deserves better. Your son deserves better than what we are giving. Oh, Lord. Open our hearts. Open the hearts of these young people. To see that the world is full of garbage. And that Christ is a treasure. He is the treasure. Oh, Lord. Give us, each one of us, a heart that loves Christ. Oh, Lord. If there is a person here tonight who does not know you, Let this night be a night of salvation. In the name of Christ Jesus. Amen.