WEBVTT 00:00:02.620 --> 00:00:08.099 Welcome to Burning Lamb Podcast. A daily refresh 00:00:08.099 --> 00:00:12.619 for your life. Jesus is the center of everything 00:00:12.619 --> 00:00:21.000 we do. Burning Lamb Church. Burning Lamb Church. 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:28.899 Burning Lamb Church. You may take your seat while 00:00:28.899 --> 00:00:35.780 I was preparing this message. I was asking the 00:00:35.780 --> 00:00:41.820 Lord, what should I speak of? And when the pastor 00:00:41.820 --> 00:00:46.759 told me at the beginning of the week, he said, 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:51.420 could you teach? And I send him a scaredy cat 00:00:51.420 --> 00:00:55.020 face. And he stayed there and didn't say anything 00:00:55.020 --> 00:01:00.640 else. And I said, oh Lord, I have to get ready. 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.239 What do you want to say, Lord? What do you want 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:11.159 to tell your church? The pastor didn't say anything 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:15.980 else. But nonetheless, I have to go to the one 00:01:15.980 --> 00:01:22.700 that knows it all. And I began to ask the Lord, 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:27.200 what are you going to tell the church? And I 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:28.939 began to be filled with the word of what he wants 00:01:28.939 --> 00:01:35.140 to speak of. And then yesterday, the pastor sends 00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:37.659 me what we're going to speak of today. And so 00:01:37.659 --> 00:01:44.739 that you may know the Lord is so perfect that 00:01:44.739 --> 00:01:47.319 we know that this is effectively what he wants 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.840 to speak of. Because what I had already prepared 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:57.700 is exactly what he told me to speak of. So for 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:02.840 each one of you, this word. word has to do with 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:09.599 and being forged in love and in fire of God. 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.219 from the beginning of the week he began to speak 00:02:15.219 --> 00:02:20.840 to me about love and about the fire of God and 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.419 the same way in the message of the pastor he 00:02:24.419 --> 00:02:27.020 said I want you to speak about two points about 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:32.479 love and the fire of God the fire of the Holy 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:38.300 Spirit and that brings me peace because I know 00:02:38.300 --> 00:02:43.250 that God is involved I know that the Lord is 00:02:43.250 --> 00:02:47.090 going to do something with each one of us. This 00:02:47.090 --> 00:02:50.189 church doesn't have this name in coincidence. 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:57.189 He's making of each one of us a lamp that is 00:02:57.189 --> 00:03:05.969 burning. So the first point, what is love? I 00:03:05.969 --> 00:03:23.710 want to go to 1 John chapter 7 verse 8. Beloved, 00:03:23.750 --> 00:03:28.409 let us love one another, for love is of God, 00:03:28.509 --> 00:03:30.750 and everyone who loves is born of God and knows 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:38.789 God. He who does not love does not know God, 00:03:38.830 --> 00:03:46.599 for God is love. but look what's interesting 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:53.879 it says all who loves is born in God and knows 00:03:53.879 --> 00:04:02.849 God so for me to love I have to know God Not 00:04:02.849 --> 00:04:08.710 only do I love, first I need to be born of God 00:04:08.710 --> 00:04:16.350 and know God. So when I begin to know Him, that 00:04:16.350 --> 00:04:24.329 love begins to be reflected. But in truth, the 00:04:24.329 --> 00:04:27.569 love that we have is only experienced in Him. 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:32.699 And I want to speak about the love of God in 00:04:32.699 --> 00:04:37.620 a different dimension. Where the love of God 00:04:37.620 --> 00:04:40.720 comes to be mixed in with the fire of God. Because 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:45.639 the love of God, when you experience it, it's 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:49.939 like a burning fire within you. It's something 00:04:49.939 --> 00:04:58.600 that comes and penetrates you so deep. that it 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:04.279 begins to burn within you. We know that God loves 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:10.199 with all of His intention. When He comes with 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.199 all of His love, He goes deep into our being. 00:05:16.420 --> 00:05:21.120 When we first get to know Him, we experience 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.459 that love for the first time. That love comes 00:05:25.459 --> 00:05:31.379 and breaks all That love comes and opens the 00:05:31.379 --> 00:05:36.620 eyes. That love comes and turns on the lamp that's 00:05:36.620 --> 00:05:40.680 within us. It's inevitable. It's something that 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:45.199 you can't explain. That you can't avoid something 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:49.540 turns on within you. You are hungry and you're 00:05:49.540 --> 00:05:54.240 thirsty for Him. Now you feel the need to hear 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.600 of Him. You're not pleased with just one sermon. 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:04.199 You hear the word and something happens in your 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.480 spirit. Because that love, when it came into 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.160 your heart, it burned everything that wasn't 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:17.019 worth. Everything that was asleep in your spirit. 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:25.040 And that love comes and opens your eyes. That's 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:26.600 why you see those people that look like they're 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:31.279 crazy. But it's the passion that's within the 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:38.480 person. It's inevitable. And I pray that today 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.939 we leave all, we're burning for Him. Because 00:06:40.939 --> 00:06:47.019 that's one of His promises. That we may burn 00:06:47.019 --> 00:06:57.689 for Him. In 1 John 4, From verse 16 forward, 00:07:03.389 --> 00:07:05.350 And we have known and believed the love that 00:07:05.350 --> 00:07:11.899 God has for us. Says God is love. And he who 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:17.439 abides in love abides in God and God in him. 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:22.620 So one point is that first we get to know him 00:07:22.620 --> 00:07:27.420 through love. But now we have to abide in love, 00:07:27.459 --> 00:07:31.819 which is God. We don't want this love to ever 00:07:31.819 --> 00:07:36.759 run out. And we don't want this love to be contained. 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:42.339 But let it run. that others may experience the 00:07:42.339 --> 00:07:50.259 love of God. But we have to abide in God. And 00:07:50.259 --> 00:07:53.819 we already learned this a few months back. Of 00:07:53.819 --> 00:08:00.579 what it is to abide in God. Now the second point 00:08:00.579 --> 00:08:04.740 is when love becomes a fire in one. We get to 00:08:04.740 --> 00:08:09.920 know the love of God. It's like a push in our 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:17.199 life. So then it becomes a fire within us. And 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:21.329 what does that fire come for? First it comes 00:08:21.329 --> 00:08:22.870 and cleanses everything that is not supposed 00:08:22.870 --> 00:08:26.470 to be there. It's the fire that pushes us to 00:08:26.470 --> 00:08:31.129 continue. It turns everything, it makes everything 00:08:31.129 --> 00:08:35.879 alive that was dead. God is the one that initiates 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:41.379 the fire. We don't initiate anything. He initiates 00:08:41.379 --> 00:08:47.279 it. He invites you. He tells you come. He's speaking 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:53.419 all the time. He tells the fire. But you know 00:08:53.419 --> 00:08:57.399 it's our responsibility that that fire remains 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:03.500 burning. Getting to the chapter of Exodus 2020 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:10.820 is when the Lord asks Moses to go and gather 00:09:10.820 --> 00:09:16.620 the people to be presented before the Lord. They 00:09:16.620 --> 00:09:23.659 go to Mount Sinai. Sinai. They go to Mount Sinai. 00:09:25.860 --> 00:09:30.919 And look what verse 20 says. It says, and Moses 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:36.799 responded to the people. Do not fear, because 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:41.929 to test us the Lord has come. and so that his 00:09:41.929 --> 00:09:47.690 fear may be before you, so that you may not sin. 00:09:52.990 --> 00:09:55.250 So God had a great purpose when he gathered the 00:09:55.250 --> 00:10:00.940 people at Mount Sinai. It says so that fear of 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:04.159 the Lord may be before you and that you may not 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:11.120 sin. The Lord wanted to cleanse them. He wanted 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:18.159 them to experience his power there. The word 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.360 says that we are sanctified in the fear of the 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:26.700 Lord. So to give you a perspective of the story, 00:10:27.179 --> 00:10:34.779 they're in Mount Sinai. And everything is shaking. 00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:41.360 It's the black cloud that is there. It was giving 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:46.820 them fear. They didn't want to grow near. Even 00:10:46.820 --> 00:10:53.340 though God wanted them to come. But if you can 00:10:53.340 --> 00:10:55.600 imagine that moment, the trumpet sound that was 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:01.539 there, and everything was shaking, smoke was 00:11:01.539 --> 00:11:04.899 coming out of the mountain, and then the people 00:11:04.899 --> 00:11:11.539 were terrified. Even Moses, he was terrified 00:11:11.539 --> 00:11:16.539 of what he was seeing. But to the point where 00:11:16.539 --> 00:11:20.759 the people tell Moses, we don't want to go over 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:25.779 there They couldn't handle it. It was too much 00:11:25.779 --> 00:11:31.299 for them. The fear was great that came upon them. 00:11:32.940 --> 00:11:39.100 But there's a difference here. Because when the 00:11:39.100 --> 00:11:44.100 power of God is right there in Mount Sinai, then 00:11:44.100 --> 00:11:49.899 the Lord tells Moses, come close. And he comes 00:11:49.899 --> 00:11:54.899 close to the fire. But the people stay behind 00:11:54.899 --> 00:11:58.860 just watching. You don't think that's a little 00:11:58.860 --> 00:12:02.600 bit familiar of how we see things? Some come 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:06.379 close, one of the fire is there. And others are 00:12:06.379 --> 00:12:13.320 just watching from afar. But you know, when you're 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:14.940 watching from afar, you're only receiving one 00:12:14.940 --> 00:12:19.190 inspiration. But when you come close to the fire 00:12:19.190 --> 00:12:24.389 of God, that fire consumes everything within 00:12:24.389 --> 00:12:30.230 you that's not supposed to be there. The fire 00:12:30.230 --> 00:12:31.789 of God, when you see it from afar, it's only 00:12:31.789 --> 00:12:37.350 amazing. But when you come to the fire of God 00:12:37.350 --> 00:12:41.220 and you allow yourself to be transformed, That 00:12:41.220 --> 00:12:46.340 fire of God forges you. It commissions you. It 00:12:46.340 --> 00:12:49.320 sends you to your assignment. It places you in 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:55.940 your purpose. You're no longer fearful. Moses 00:12:55.940 --> 00:12:57.799 experienced that fire because he came close. 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:03.379 And that's where he was commissioned. He was 00:13:03.379 --> 00:13:08.080 commissioned to his assignment. So what would 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.120 you prefer to do? Being from afar, watching the 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:17.059 fire? or to come close to the fire, and allow 00:13:17.059 --> 00:13:21.960 God to transform everything that is in you. In 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:29.320 James 4, 8, it says, grow near to the Lord, and 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:34.320 he shall grow near to you. It says, sinful hands. 00:13:38.109 --> 00:13:40.230 Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your 00:13:40.230 --> 00:13:45.409 hearts you double -minded So if we don't want 00:13:45.409 --> 00:13:48.629 to be double -minded all of this sin We need 00:13:48.629 --> 00:13:53.330 to come close to the Lord And you see this position 00:13:53.330 --> 00:13:57.509 is different Because this is a spiritual position 00:13:57.509 --> 00:14:03.929 Because we all know that God is within us Why 00:14:03.929 --> 00:14:07.669 does he tell us to come close? If he says he's 00:14:07.669 --> 00:14:12.690 in us, then he abides in us through his Holy 00:14:12.690 --> 00:14:17.250 Spirit. You want to know why? It's because this 00:14:17.250 --> 00:14:21.450 is a spiritual position where I no longer... 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.659 ignore the voice of God. I don't ignore the voice 00:14:25.659 --> 00:14:29.759 of the Holy Spirit. The impulses of the Spirit. 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.960 That's where I draw near to the Lord. And the 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:42.580 Spirit guides me. When one has an encounter with 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:46.799 the Spirit, with the fire of God, they're never 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:53.909 the same. The false falls down and what shines 00:14:53.909 --> 00:15:00.049 is the truth. Everything that needs to be tested 00:15:00.049 --> 00:15:07.149 by fire. Like the gold, silver, it's refined 00:15:07.149 --> 00:15:13.049 in fire. But what comes out of it is the most 00:15:13.049 --> 00:15:17.970 beautiful of that material. The dirt or the messiness 00:15:17.970 --> 00:15:24.809 comes out of the gold. So for us, it's beneficiary 00:15:24.809 --> 00:15:31.909 to be in the fire. Once you're in the fire, You're 00:15:31.909 --> 00:15:36.409 never gonna ignore the calling of God. You're 00:15:36.409 --> 00:15:41.519 never gonna want to quit that calling. You're 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:45.379 never gonna want to go back. The fire of God 00:15:45.379 --> 00:15:49.519 maintains you. The fire of God impulses you. 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:56.700 We all need that fire. Last week, do you remember 00:15:56.700 --> 00:16:00.740 what happened here? The fire of God was in this 00:16:00.740 --> 00:16:06.620 house. And it's here today too. Because the Spirit 00:16:06.620 --> 00:16:10.129 of God, the fire is here. Like it happened in 00:16:10.129 --> 00:16:14.870 Pentecost. The spirit came down. And it came 00:16:14.870 --> 00:16:19.730 down with fire. And it says to baptize them in 00:16:19.730 --> 00:16:25.129 spirit and in fire. Last week the Lord was cleansing 00:16:25.129 --> 00:16:29.730 this house. And He's going to continue cleansing 00:16:29.730 --> 00:16:35.990 us. Let's not ignore the fire. Look, Prophet 00:16:35.990 --> 00:16:42.129 Jeremiah said it. He said that the word of God 00:16:42.129 --> 00:16:48.370 burned so much in him. Look what Jeremiah 27 00:16:48.370 --> 00:16:56.470 says. And you can translate. Oh Lord, you induced 00:16:56.470 --> 00:17:03.990 me. And I was persuaded you are stronger than 00:17:03.990 --> 00:17:12.009 I. And you have prevailed. The Lord prevailed 00:17:12.009 --> 00:17:16.869 over Jeremiah. He had placed the word in Jeremiah. 00:17:19.529 --> 00:17:21.069 Even though through all the problems that he 00:17:21.069 --> 00:17:26.549 went through. Rejection. All the mocking that 00:17:26.549 --> 00:17:31.789 he had to deal with. But he burned so much within 00:17:31.789 --> 00:17:38.890 him. The fire that got placed in him. That he 00:17:38.890 --> 00:17:44.630 said, I cannot stay quiet. Because this word 00:17:44.630 --> 00:17:49.029 that you placed in me. It's a fire in my heart. 00:17:50.789 --> 00:17:57.509 It burns. You cannot stay quiet once you've been 00:17:57.509 --> 00:18:01.450 visited by the fire because you feel like you're 00:18:01.450 --> 00:18:10.170 about to explode. It says that it felt like there 00:18:10.170 --> 00:18:14.769 was a burning heart within my bones. It says 00:18:14.769 --> 00:18:16.890 I tried to be quiet, but I stayed quiet, but 00:18:16.890 --> 00:18:24.210 I couldn't. Moses had experience with the fire. 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:33.339 And he was never the same. Moses was a shepherd 00:18:33.339 --> 00:18:38.720 to his sheep. That's what he knew to do. He did 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:43.819 it for a long time. But when he had the visitation 00:18:43.819 --> 00:18:48.819 in the burning bush, his mind was transformed 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:53.220 in such a way that now he thought about people. 00:18:55.269 --> 00:19:02.130 He suffered the pain that the slaves had. He 00:19:02.130 --> 00:19:08.750 was commissioned to his assignment. There are 00:19:08.750 --> 00:19:12.569 two ways to experience the fire of God. That 00:19:12.569 --> 00:19:16.470 is the same presence of the Lord. Because the 00:19:16.470 --> 00:19:19.789 word says that he's a consuming fire. Which is 00:19:19.789 --> 00:19:25.250 the presence of God. The presence of God sometimes 00:19:25.250 --> 00:19:30.549 comes to us. But sometimes we have to go to his 00:19:30.549 --> 00:19:36.150 presence. His presence comes. When you don't 00:19:36.150 --> 00:19:40.230 even know Him or know who He is In your heart 00:19:40.230 --> 00:19:45.009 is to seek the Lord But that's when He comes 00:19:45.009 --> 00:19:48.930 and He rescues you from where you are The presence 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:55.579 of God comes to you His presence comes looking 00:19:55.579 --> 00:20:00.759 for you. But when you go and seek the presence 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:04.720 of the Lord, that's another different thing. 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:13.640 And he said it here in Isaiah 26 9. Says, I have 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:21.029 seeked you all night with my soul. And as long 00:20:21.029 --> 00:20:23.529 as the Spirit abides in me, I will awaken to 00:20:23.529 --> 00:20:28.440 seek you. What fire, what passion. Con mi alma 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.500 te he deseado toda la noche. With my soul I have 00:20:31.500 --> 00:20:33.859 desired you all night. Saben nosotros podemos 00:20:33.859 --> 00:20:35.940 estar descansando en nuestras camas. You know 00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:38.039 sometimes we could be resting in our beds. Usted 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:40.940 está bien profundo. And you're asleep so deep. 00:20:41.019 --> 00:20:43.660 Pero este espíritu nunca duerme. But this spirit 00:20:43.660 --> 00:20:46.160 never sleeps. Nuestro espíritu está conectado 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.900 24 horas con el espíritu de Dios. Our spirit 00:20:48.900 --> 00:20:51.380 is connected 24 -7 with the spirit of God. Y 00:20:51.380 --> 00:20:53.779 dice te he deseado toda la noche. And he says 00:20:53.779 --> 00:20:56.640 I have desired you all night. Tu espíritu desea 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:59.609 tanto. Your spirit desires so much the presence 00:20:59.609 --> 00:21:04.009 of God. Your spirit desires so much that presence 00:21:04.009 --> 00:21:09.470 of God. It says, and I will seek you in the morning. 00:21:11.490 --> 00:21:15.650 And it's to say that we never stop. There's not 00:21:15.650 --> 00:21:20.349 a specific time. It's not only on Sundays or 00:21:20.349 --> 00:21:25.309 just Mondays. You're sleeping and you're visiting 00:21:25.309 --> 00:21:30.089 the Lord. You're sleeping and He's filling you 00:21:30.089 --> 00:21:33.819 with His fire and His passion. That never stops. 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:39.200 And now that you're awake, now that your mind 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:44.559 is awake, didn't the psalmist said bless the 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:50.430 Lord of my soul? That's where you remind your 00:21:50.430 --> 00:21:57.450 soul each day. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. And 00:21:57.450 --> 00:22:01.190 never forget any of His benefits. Because the 00:22:01.190 --> 00:22:05.289 Spirit is always wanting to. But the soul where 00:22:05.289 --> 00:22:11.450 all of our emotions are. Where our will is. Where 00:22:11.450 --> 00:22:17.579 our mind is. That doesn't want to. But you tell 00:22:17.579 --> 00:22:23.160 your soul you have to bless the Lord. You tell 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:24.799 your soul today we're going to seek the fire 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:30.019 of God. Until your soul is aligned with the spirit 00:22:30.019 --> 00:22:36.059 of God. The Bible says that we are children guided 00:22:36.059 --> 00:22:40.509 by the spirit. Your soul is not what guides the 00:22:40.509 --> 00:22:45.589 Spirit. Your soul is what submits to follow the 00:22:45.589 --> 00:22:50.049 Spirit. You never tell the Spirit what to do. 00:22:52.990 --> 00:22:55.210 Your desires submit to the desires of the Holy 00:22:55.210 --> 00:23:01.450 Spirit. To the impulses of the Spirit. So when 00:23:01.450 --> 00:23:06.589 you don't feel that fire, you tell yourself, 00:23:06.829 --> 00:23:11.970 Bless the Lord. Today we seek of the Lord. I 00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:15.349 know that today you don't want anything. Maybe 00:23:15.349 --> 00:23:19.190 today everything is boring. But we're going to 00:23:19.190 --> 00:23:22.349 get in the fire today. And we're going to be 00:23:22.349 --> 00:23:23.150 one with God.