Our hope is in Jesus .

Jesus did not yield up His life till He had accomplished the work which He came to do; and He exclaimed with His parting breath, "It is finished! ( SR 247) . mistreated , misunderstood and finally put to death by those he came to save , our savior gave it all for us . The apostle Paul says " He emptied himself " He came to rescue sinners and to restored fallen humanity back to God, he became man so he could take humanity to the higher courts in heaven . "Jesus Christ laid off His royal robe, His kingly crown, and clothed His divinity with humanity, in order to become a substitute and surety for humanity, that dying in humanity He might by his death destroy him who had the power of death. " ( LHU  345) our only hope is in what Jesus did for us  and what he  is doing for us .He has opened the way so we can be with him " And if I come again , I will take you to myself that where I am you might be also " . The resurrection of Lazarus is a demonstration of what will happen at the last trumpet when the " dead in Christ shall rise first " Our Sister Daisy Roman , is resting in the lord , I remember when I made an appeal for someone to accept Jesus as Lord , she was the first person to raise her hand as a sign of accepting Jesus in her life and later she decided to get baptized to seal her life with Jesus .She is sleeping now , waiting for the last trumpet . For the Lord himself , shall descend from heaven with a shout , with the voice of the archangel , with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall first . We have this hope that soon we will see Daisy , not suffering , not in pain as we saw her last  but with great joy in the presence of her savior . He has finished the race , now the question is , will we join ? I pray that we will have this hope .

fear the wrong advisor

Do not be afraid; I  am the first and the last .  "  People asked an 89 year old man " why do you regret the most doing in your life " ? to that he answered " Worrying about things that never happened "   yet many of us  make our choices based on what we think it will happened if  we do it otherwise  or what people tells us it will happened . I remember when I  came to the United states and one relative knowing that I was a Sabbath keeper he told me that it was impossible to survive here if I did not work on the Sabbath , well  started working on Sabbaths because i was afraid of not making it here in the states . In 2006 I decided to quit my job and start going to church and  God showed me that I did not have to work on Sabbaths , that he could provide for our needs . When I went to seminary , I have learned the lesson , and when someone said " in order to do good in classes at seminary , you have to sacrifice , your family or your health " by the grace of God  I didnt sacrifice anything , I always made sure to spend time with family and I can say that God was there with me all the time . Jesus tells John in the book of revelation " Do not be afraid " but then he adds , I am the first and the last . So the reason we are not afraid is because Jesus is with us from beginning to end and he has showed us in the past that he is  faithful  and that we dont have to be afraid .Because he is the Alpha and the Omega , from beginning to end , he will be with us . So dont be afraid !  Many of our decisions are based on trying to avoid pain and suffering , but there is no guarantee that it will turn out the way we felt , besides , it is better to do what is right then do what is wrong even if we are rewarded by that , remember that God will take care of you . God bless !

Fredy Reinosa 

wanting to be first

Trying to understand God's plan for our lives is easy , the difficult part is to accept it ! The bible in the book of Hebrews presents a group of people that we call the " faith heroes " if we had called them that name when they were alive , probably they would had refused to called that because many of them , were just " ordinary " human beings  who served an extra ordinary God . At the end of that Chapter , we read about " the others " these are the people who did not received deliverance . The author of Hebrews says" Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection." Did these " others " refuse to be released " or God refuse to release them . By Nature , every human being wants to avoid suffering and pain  so what happened ? I believe God refuse to release them , but they die with hope knowing that we serve an extra ordinary God  who allowed his Son to go  through suffering and pain to save the human race and  after He shown that he was not in this to be first , now he is exalted at the right hand of God . So what are we in this for ?  I guess sooner or later we will have to answer to God and to others , the reason why we are in this walk . Are we in this because we want to be first and we are " trained " so that lay people can admire us and sees us as something else . Or are we in this thing called ministry because we love God and people that we can not do otherwise ? I pray it is because we love them as Jesus loves us . 

No Answer

When Job's friends tried to find answers to why Job was suffering , they assumed it was because Job's was hiding sins from God . In Jesus's time the disciples asked about the man who had been born blind  if he had sinned or his parents .As I finished a sermon , Carlos approached , he is a new visitor to our church .And he asked to pray for his daughter who has cancer , I called the elders and we prayed . Later on that day , we went to visit Daisy . She is only 19 and she has been through a lot . First she was in Chemo for one year , then about 2 months ago , they had to amputate her arm and now the cancer has comeback . She was sent home to die . We dont have an answer . What we know is how the great controversy ends .Ellen White says "The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love." GC 678. I told Daisy , if we could fast forward this DVD we could see the end but now we are in the middle of the drama of the movie called the great controversy what we know is that Jesus wins . And at the end , we will be with him . let us live by faith in the middle of suffering knowing that we are closer and closer to the end and I  believe that at the end Jesus will have the answers for everything we've been through .What we know now is that he is with us suffering , we are not alone . so let's talk to him , because he has never promised no suffering in this world what he has promised is to never leave us nor forsake us And that is all we need now .

God's everlasting covenant .

When in January 13 2001 a powerful earthquake destroy my parents house and everything that  they had worked for their  entire lives was gone in minutes . I realized that I need to do something , So I decided to immigrate to the US . I risked  my life crossing illegally  the mexican border and then the US border and walking in the desert for three days knowing that many people dont make it .  For the first time in my life I was away from my family and for the first time I was afraid . I remember praying silently  for God to bless me and that I would serve him all my life . Unfortunately , I forgot about God  but he never forgot about me . In the same way , the nation of Israel , Adam , Noah and every human being has failed to fulfill the requirement of the covenant but Jesus coming to die for us , Has taken our place . As Ellen White says " He was treated as we deserved so that we might be treated as he deserves "  In ancient near stern culture , the covenants were  made by the cutting of animals and pronouncing the stipulations , promises , blessings and curses  but even though  we failed our part , Jesus redeemed us by fulfilling our part !! Isaiah says  talking about Mesiah  Surely he took up our pain 
   and bore our suffering, 
yet we considered him punished by God, 
   stricken by him, and afflicted. 
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions, 
   he was crushed for our iniquities; 
the punishment that brought us peace was on him, 
   and by his wounds we are healed. 
⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,  
   each of us has turned to our own way; 
and the LORD has laid on him 
   the iniquity of us all. 

All I can say is what a savior !

How to know God's will for your life .

Henry Blackaby in his book  " Men of integrity says "The first funeral I ever conducted was for a beautiful three-year-old. She was the first child born to a couple in our church, and the first grandchild in their extended family. Unfortunately, she was spoiled. While visiting the little girl's home one day, I observed that she loved to ignore her parents' instructions. When they told her to come, she went. When they said "sit down," she stood up. Her parents laughed, finding her behavior cute.

One day their front gate was inadvertently left open. The parents saw their child escaping out of the yard and heading toward the road. To their horror, a car was racing down the street. As she ran out between two parked cars, they both screamed at her to stop and turn back. She paused for a second, looked back at her parents, then gleefully laughed as she turned and ran directly into the path of the oncoming car.

The parents rushed their little girl to the hospital, but she died from her injuries. As a young pastor, this was a profound lesson for me. I realized I must teach God's people not only to recognize His voice but also immediately to obey His voice when they hear it. It is life." Many people ask , How can I know God's will for my life ? but when they find it in the word of God they refuse to obey . The apostle Paul in his letter to Hebrews says " if you hear his voice do not harden your heart " I pray that we recognize God's voice but not only that but also obey his voice .

A new life

the 4th of  April at 11:09 pm we receive our third child and our first boy Fredy Reinosa II was born .