"METAMORPHOSIS"

Metamorphosis is the result of a transformation or change!
One of the most common is the transformation of a larva of a caterpillar
that wraps up its web around itself forming a cocoon and waits a period
of time until its wings develop and comes out as a butterfly.
C’mon, all these just to tell me something I learned at 5th grade?
Hold it! Hold it right there my friend! Now I am going to tell you about
The most amazing Metamorphosis that man had ever witnessed!
What is that?
It was the transformation, the change, the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ,
From man to God! Listen:
“Jesus took Peter, James and John his brother and brought them up into a
high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them; his face did shine
as the sun, and his raiment was as white as the light.” Mathew 17:1
He proved them He was God! How wonderful isn’t it?
Another Metamorphosis or transformation is of the person that begins
reading the Bible, starts wrapping up themselves in its knowledge and
Truths and little by little begins learning about God and understanding
how much God really loves us, learns to love Him and to obey Him,
until one good day, falls before Christ and ask Him for salvation.
Then,we come out from our cocoon ready to love God and to serve people!
Do we need to read the Bible in order to have this transformation?
Very good question my friend! The Bible is a Book of Love, Faith and
Truth, and if you think you master them all, you don't have to read it,
otherwise, I don't know what you are waiting for! The answer is no!
You don't have to read it to be saved! Just to believe! Listen:
“And if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your
Heart that God had raised him from the dead you will be saved, because
with our hearts we believe for justice and with the mouth confession is
made for salvation.” Romans 10:9
How long does it take the process of this transformation?
Depends of us! It could take a split second or it could take forever!
God makes the transformation but we supply the ingredients:
A sincere Love, a Faith without doubts, a Truth without lies!
But, nobody is like that!
Yes I know, that is why we have to be honest with God and confess Him
our sins, He will forgive us! And save us!
Just imaging to see the caterpillars get themselves in their cocoon, without patience un sincere, without faith, without love, just looking for their own convenience, and tired of waiting for their "wings" that never developed, they walk out of it and go back to the world as before, as a mere worm.
Wait a minute! Don’t leave! Turn around and get back in it! I assure you!
If this time you really mean it, it will work! PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar S. de C.

"SOUL AND SPIRIT 6"

“THE TRIANGLE”
What happens when we die?
Many people are afraid to ask this question and avoid it altogether, but..
we are not eternal as God,so sooner or later,like it or not: We have to go!
All right! All right! I want to know about the triangle, not about death!
Yes!I know! But this is related with the “triangle”, listen: When we die,
the triangle in which our ME was dwelling, separates into three “I”.
The “I” of our spirit returns to God who lend it to us!
The “I” of our body, goes back to the ground from which we came! And ..
The “I” of our soul remains alive!
If we accepted Christ and our sins were forgiven, we will still have the
company of the Holy Spirit whom will guide us directly to heaven!
But the ones who refuse to accept Christ as their Savior, will remain in
their sins, and they will wake up in darkness without the light of God!
And they will remain in this place until the return of Jesus Christ! Then. .
All the ones that die with Christ will come back to life first! And then,
The believers still alive will meet Him on the air! Thessalonians 4 :15.
We all are going to have new bodies, bodies that do not decay and die,
The “Triangle” of us, will be put together again! But this time, inside
a body that never dies!
And all the world will be together for the final judgment of God!
Christ will separate the good and the bad and send the bad to eternal
condemnation in the place where the fire never quenches!

Everything sounds good but: I don’t believe in a literal hell! A real one!

Jesus says: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: But rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul
and body in hell! Mathew 10:28.
The good news of Jesus is that there is salvation for everyone that
believes in Him, but if you don’t believe it is obvious that you are not
going to believe in what He says, and for your surprise, when you wake
up in the middle of that horrible place called hell, you will not have
anybody with you to help you! C’mon body: There is still time! Listen:
“And if you confess your sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I John 1: 9.
If you fall on your knees and accept Him as your Lord and Savior,
you will begin a new life loving God and serving people!
We were always choosing wrong! Isn’t it time to begin choosing right?
Now is time to accept Christ!
Our only hope to heaven!
PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar S. de C.
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God Bless You!

"SOUL AND SPIRIT 5"

“THE ICONS”
What is an Icon?
An Icon is an emblem or symbol on the computer screen to represent a function or program and by clicking or touching it, we open up a program on our computer, telephone or other electronic gadget to retrieve information we like to see, listen, or both.
Only God gives us good programming thru his Holy Spirit thanks to the
work of redemption that Christ did for us!
Oh! Shut up!
I am tired listening to you talking about God!
All right!Then,stop reading, and go back to the dirty programs you prefer!
But if you’re still here, this is for you: Like I said: Only God makes the good programs that will help you to make a radical change in your life!
God is Love! We humans cannot make love! And I am not talking about sex
but about Charity, help and understanding to increase our values and begin
learning to know people and start loving them, as human people as they are!
Only God can install these “Icons” or programs in the computer of our mind!
Only God can change those bad programs we have when we are profoundly
interested in having a real change in our lives and begin experiencing heaven on Earth without the help of liquor,drugs or other artificial means!
EXAMINE YOURSELF BY CHECKING YOUR ICONS!
Specially the hidden ones you don’t want anybody to see!
When we accept Christ, God gives us good programs to replace the bad ones
that keeps us away from His blessings!
The “Gifts” of the Holy Spirit: Love, Peace, Understanding, Hope, Faith,
and so on, will keep us away from sin, and closer to God Thanks to Jesus!
TELL GOD YOU WANT TO CHANGE! Ask Him for help!
He will send his Son to knock on the doors of your heart!
When you hear his knocking, open them up and invite Him to enter!
OBEY GOD!
Jesus said: If you love me keep my commandments!
And I will pray to the Father, and he shall give you another Helper,
that he may abide with you forever. John 14 :15 and 16.
THANK GOD FOR YOUR NEW LIFE!
I‘m going to tell you a secret: TRUE HAPPINESS IS NOT IN SIN!
TRUE HAPPINESS IS IN LOVING PEOPLE!
Jesus said:“Love God with all your heart,all your soul and all your mind.
And love people as you love yourself! If you obey these two commandments
you will be obeying them all.” Mathew 22-37.

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SOUL AND SPIRIT 4"

“LOVE TRUTH AND FAITH”
All right! All right! Don’t get upset with me!
It was only a question! Can I ask you another one?
Sure! Go ahead! That’s what we’re here for!
You said that spirit means breath, so the question is:
Is breath all there is in the spirit of life?
No! It is not! They are a lot of things involve in giving life, everything
Has to be prepared to receive it! As you can see for yourself, you don’t
Have to do anything to breath, everything is automatic, so all the nece-
ssary things are included in the spirit of life. God created earth first,
so He made man to fit in the earth’s environment to sustain life.
But they are more! A lot more!
They are animal spirits, human spirits, good spirits, bad spirits etc.
The spirit of a human being is more sophisticated than the spirit of an
animal, animals are guided by their instincts, we are guided by our
thinking abilities, and have choices, than animals do not have.
I am going to tell you in other words so you could understand it better:
Spirits are compared to the “Programs” of a computer, our soul just
choose the programs we like, but most the times we choose wrong!
They are spirit of fear, and spirit of courage, spirit of love, and spirit
of hate! Spirit of joy, and spirit of sadness, and so on!
Oh that’s interesting! How could we obtain them?
Well some of those already come with us, like “Gifts” or inherited
from our parents, but also could be bad things we need to get rid off!
O.K.O. K., I understood that, but, I have another question for you:
Is the spirit of life the same as the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is the life giver!
The Spirit of God is Christ’s Spirit!
Every human being has the spirit of life, but not all have God’s Spirit!
According to the Bible, Christ himself gives his Spirit to every believer
that accept Him as their Lord and Savior! The Bible says:
It is not Christian who does not have Christ’s Spirit Romans 8:9.
The Holy Spirit is the one that gives our spiritual “Gifts” some of the
Best are: LOVE, TRUTH, FAITH, opposite of the ones we originally
came with when we were born: HATE, LIE, DOUBT!
Receiving Christ, is to receive God in us!
With God in us.. .. We will never be alone!
Opening our hearts to God is the beginning of a new life!
A life without an ending! Thanks to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ!

THANK YOU LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SOUL AND SPIRIT 3"

“THE PUZZLE”
I’m sorry to disappoint you my friend, but I have to tell you something:
What is that?
I think you are contradicting yourself in what you’re saying!
What? I don’t know what you’re talking about! Could you be more specific?
Yes! I will be!
You cited in Genesis 2:7 That God was saying that He blew the spirit of
life into the body of man and man became a living soul.
And I understood that the soul as well as the body were death before the
spirit of life was blew into the nostrils of man.
Don’t you think you could be wrong about what you said?
Yes! I do! I understood that the soul already alive starts breathing
inside the body, and then, man becomes to be a living soul! But:
Let me tell you something: Although I cannot prove that the spirit gets in
the body at the time of conception,there is one thing I am absolutely sure:
That God was busy giving life to the first human being!
He was involved in creation! Not in destruction! And if you are trying
to find an excuse in the Bible to do evil, you are wrong!
When God starts doing something, He finishes it!
He does not begin something and leave it unfinished like we do!
“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made” Gen. 2:2.
And when Jesus was dying on the cross, he said: “IT IS FINISHED!”
John 19:30. His work of redemption was completed!
Let me ask you something:
Let’s suppose you bought a puzzle, a big one!
So big that you need a hugh table to begin assemble the parts!
The parts of this puzzle are very delicate and they could break very easy,
but before you complete it, somebody turns your table upside down,
breaking all parts of your puzzle, how would you feel?
Oh bad! Very bad, so bad that I could punch that person on the nose!
But, what does this has to do with what we are talking about?
I’ll tell you!
At the instant of conception, the beginning of the new being starts,
cells begin multiplying themselves to the millions or trillions putting
together all the pieces of the puzzle that is going to be the new Being!
Don’t turn the “Table” upside down!
Let our Creator complete the “Puzzle”!
And receive it with love!
Get closer to God! Read the Bible and.. ..

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar S. de C.