Anunciando Esperança - Parte 1 | Pr. André | 30 Nov 2025

Very good. Brothers, we are there anxious for what God wants to do through us and in us. We are starting to talk about announcing hope for a world that needs hope. The week ended with victims in Washington D.C. of someone who opened fire with Revolve 757, offering people to kill a girl from the National Guard of West Virginia. The father made a statement, "My girl is in glory with the Lord." Yesterday, at a children's party, at a food fair, a city at 40 minutes away from Sacramento, Capital of California, 14 people injured at a children's birthday party. Four are already declared dead, among children and adults. The world we live in, you don't fool yourself. The only good thing that exists in this world is the message of the Gospel. The world needs hope. We need to announce hope. You can imagine that someone at a party, next to a McDonald's, next to a food fair or inside a party that opens fire. You can imagine that this person is full of the Gospel of Christ, full of the love of Christ. If I and you step on each other's feet every day, we will see this kind of thing, far and near. Some time ago, I was in a restaurant in the east area of Enrico, and I wanted to ask the girl who served the table. You know, you already know, you already solved the place that you will pass to eternity. But I asked the following question, "When your eyes close and your heart stops here, where will you be?" This girl looks at me, a 20-year-old girl, maybe. No, I don't know about it. Here in the rhythm. I don't know about it. My brothers, it seems to me that we are being cheated by so many things. It seems to me that it is possible for you to think that people are knowing what is eternal death, what is eternal life, that people are knowing the next step that this world will take, and the truth is that this is not the truth. Someone, interviewing people on the street about what is Christmas, started asking for several adults and children. Someone said, "Natal is present, Natal is a tree." Someone said, "Natal is a meeting family, Natal is a good food, Natal is a father, Natal is..." Finally, someone said hope. Someone said that Natal is a pagan party. I hear this from time to time, and sometimes I hear it from where I shouldn't have heard it. Why did they make a mix of trying to link the Christian calendar with the so-called pagan calendar of a past culture? Natal is the birth of Christ, regardless of what day and what month it happened. Natal is the birth of Christ. I don't know if you had access to the certainty of the birth of Jesus. What day was it? What time was it? In Belém, the credit card that was registered. I don't need the date or the day. But one thing I want to tell you, Jesus Christ was born. This is our Natal. But this was not created by trade, it was not created by the Church of Christ, the Gospel, the Catholic or the other. Our first character, announcing hope, is precisely the most messianic of prophets. It is the book in the Bible that speaks the most about the promise of Messiah. It is there that everything started. It did not start when he was born, it started when he was prophesied that he would be born. This prophet that his book has been considered the mini-bible, considered a greater prophet, Isaiah, this is our character today, announcing hope. A book with 66 chapters, from 1 to 39, talks about judgment, talks about the promise, talks about judgment of the people. And from chapter 40 to 66, talks about restoration after exile. So 1 to 39, 39 chapters, 39 books of the Old Testament. From 40 to 66, we have the rest, the number of books of the New Testament. Isaiah, he is the prophet who comes to talk about Messiah, much, much before the birth of Jesus Christ. What is Natal for you? What is Natal, are the affected shopping malls? You can imagine that that shopping mall yesterday, on November 29th, was super affected. How many lights, Christmas trees, maybe some reindeer and trunks, how many things were there in that shopping mall yesterday in California? But was that Natal? What is Natal for you? He prophesied between 740 and 700 a.C. 4 kings were there, from the Prophet Isaiah, Zia, Jotam, Akhaz and Ezekiah. As we have already talked about here, the judgment of God between 1 and 39, then the exile, it is 70 years of exile, then the consolation and hope. The coming of Messiah and the redemption of his people is the message of Isaiah. Brothers, Isaiah lived a terrible situation, prophesying in the south, that is, in the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, in the kingdom of the south. They were the target of the Prophet Isaiah, but what was happening there at that moment, so that Isaiah had to talk about judgment. That the situation was lived there, is our target at that moment. Between the prophesies of Isaiah, it is in chapter 66, verse 8. Who has ever heard something like this, who has ever seen such things, can a nation be born in a single day? Or can it give light to a people in an instant? Because John was still in labor and gave light to his children. Many are mocking this verse, the creation of the State of Israel in 1946, when the UN decided for its creation its establishment. Many prophesies have already happened, prophesied in Isaiah, many have not yet happened, but they will happen. The people of God live for prophesies, live looking at the promises of God. Let's look at Isaiah 1, chapter 11, verse 20. For those who offer me so many sacrifices, it is the speech of God. I ask the Lord. For me, it comes from holocausts, from meat and fat sheep. I have no pleasure in the blood of sheep, sheep and goats. When He asked them to come to my presence, He asked them to put their feet on my breasts, stop bringing useless offerings, the incentive of you and the repugnant for me, new moons, Saturdays and meetings, I cannot bear your assemblies full of iniquity. Your parties of the new moon and your fixed parties, I hate them. They have become a burden for me, I no longer support them. When you understand, extend your hands in prayer, I will hide from you my eyes, even if I multiply your prayers, I will not listen to them. Your hands are full of blood. The people followed the established calendar by Moses. The people went to your place of worship to meet. The people brought offerings to the altar where the offertory was. They burned incense, delivered their animals, but the heart was not in the Lord. The faith, the fear, the hope that something else should happen, did not take part in that people. God calls His servant, Isaiah, and begins to share difficult news. The people who go to the sanctuary, to the temple, to the church, which is the name we have today, the people who complete the ritual, who complete the agenda, tell them that I hope more than that. Tell them that this routine is interesting, but it is not what I want, it is not what I wait for them. Look, the text will continue. Laven yourself, clean yourself, remove your more works away from my sight. Stop doing evil, learn to do good, seek justice, end the oppression, fight for the rights of the orphans, defend the cause of the vihuvah, come, let's reflect together, says the Lord, although your sins are red like scarlet, they will turn white like snow, they will eat the best fruits of this land, but resist and rebel, they will be devoured by the sword, because the Lord is the one who speaks, injustice, she reigns, the poor were on the streets, the orphans were asking, the vihuvahs were needed, the fear of the Lord had escaped from the sides, those who had more and those who did not have had less, an inversion of complete values, this was not only in the people on the streets, this was also among the leaders, writers, priests, everyone had forgotten that it was the true meaning of serving God and Jair, thinking that that plan, that calendar, that sequence, week after week, month after month, was pleasing God. See, the Lord of the Exists will soon remove Jair and help all his sustenance, so much food as water supply, and also the hero, the warrior, the judge, the prophet, the divine authority, the captain and the noble, the counselor, the knowledgeable, the magician, the perit, the curse, but the young in the government, irresponsible, the ruler, here is not a depreciation of the young, in its function, but to govern it was necessary someone with experience, when young talk here is someone, an adolescent who does not know how to enter the right hand or the left hand, you will be without leaders, you will be lost, there will be lack of water, there will be lack of food, there will be lack of protection, there will be lack of advice, there will be lack of professionals, I will show you who holds my people, and not only you, because if I take my hand, everything will be ruined, and in fact, Isaíez here was profiting a difficult time, a time of great difficulty, but later, right there in front, the exile takes place, 70 years, so they begin to understand was the truth, what the prophet prophesied, and in another time, the leaders of the Babylonia went to visit the Kingdom of the South, and the king showed everything he had, his treasures, equipment, the reality, thinking that it was being good, they were only making the list of what to take when they invaded the Kingdom of the South. The lord says, pay attention, because of the arrogance of the women of Sion, who walk with his head bent, flirting with his eyes, defiling with short steps, with infected, staining on his trunks, I hope that no one has here any gold tavern here today, you see? The lord will repair the head of the women of Sion, and the lord will cover the shame of the women of Sion, and the lord will make the effects of them, the pulses, the tresses, the collar, the pendants, the bracelets, the veils, the headlamps, the chains of the twist, the belt, the talismans, the amulets, the rings, the impacts on the nose, the expensive clothes, the hoods, the sleeves, the pockets, the feathers, the linen clothes, the tiaras and the chalices, instead of perfume it will smell bad, instead of strings, instead of heels, jewellery, instead of thin clothes, vest of lament, instead of beautiful scarves, your men will fall off the sword, your warriors will die in combat. You can imagine that all the cities around were already in decay, only in Sion, only in Jerusalem, there was still some, some goodness, and it did not matter if people were impoverished and famished and sedent, it did not matter if your enemy had beaten the door of the city of X, Y and Z. If I am well, everything is fine. And God is saying, "It will knock the door, it will knock the door of a great misfortune, and you will not be beaten up." Do you think, we study this now in the class of juniors, do you think that God wanted to prevent the decay of that city? The prophet was saying, "If they repent, it is time for repentance, it is possible that God will turn the hand of the ship to another direction, if there is repentance, this is not the wish of God, but it is fair and it is disciplinary, there will be no other way to educate you. If they repent, in the midst of this context, Isaías begins his ministry. The promises about mercy are numerous in the book of Isaías, his birth is in chapter 7, also in chapter 9, "The virgin will be pregnant and give birth to a child and call him Emmanuel." We have an Emmanuel in the Church of Genesis. John the Baptist was also prophesied in chapter 40, "The voice that calls in the desert to the unison of Jesus by the Holy Spirit," is in chapter 61, Jesus himself in Luke 4, read Isaías. And he read, "Today, this prophecy is fulfilled," where he read in Nazareth, his Christmas city, and there he was persecuted. The servant of the Lord is in chapter 42, "My servant is the one who sustains me." Israel rejected the Messiah and was prophesied that he would reject. The stone of the tropezole, the ministry of the Gentiles, the suffering and death of the Messiah, the resurrection of the Messiah, the king who will turn. There is no book in the Bible, in the Old Testament, that prophesies more about the Messiah. Isaías has already talked about Christmas. As someone can say, that we are going to celebrate a calendar or a pagan event, we are going to celebrate what was already prophesied in Isaías and what happened. Christ, who came, was born. He was and is the salvation of this world, who continues to need hope. My brothers, there is no hope in anything else. The only plan that someone can have inside the house, that can bring hope and calm the heart, is to trust the faith in God, who has the world in his hands. Israel had forgotten that. How can Isaías announce hope? Seeing and not resisting the vision of the throne. In chapter 6, Isaías saw the Lord sitting in his throne. In the year that He was going to die, he saw the Lord sitting in a high throne exalted. He was wearing his clothes and filling the temple. Above him there were seraphim. Each of them had six wings, with two covering their faces, with two covering their feet and with two flying. They proclaimed one to the other. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of the armies, the whole earth is filled with His glory. With the sound of their voices, the doors closed and the temple was full of smoke. So I shouted, "Aidimim, I am lost, because I am a man of impure lips, and I live in the midst of a people of impure lips. My eyes become the king, the Lord of the armies." Isaías not only had the privilege to have that vision of seeing the Lord sitting in the high throne, but he also had the sense of not resisting the vision. How many of us and how many of the biblical characters had the privilege to have a vision? They had the announcement of what would happen. They were warned. I usually say that our God is proactive with us. He wants to share, he wants to give tips, he wants to prepare, he wants to warn, he wants to take care. He wants to take care, before that happens. Unfortunately, many people live and get confused. It is optimism. With faith, I am optimistic. I have faith, everything will work out. Everything will work out. Everything will work out. Tell me what world is this in which everything will work out. Tell me where is this world, that everything you want to work out will work out. Where is this? Where is this planet? Because it does not exist. This planet does not exist. I will end the world in water through a flood. Prepare an ark, because this is what will happen. But this is not what I want to happen. I wanted my plantation to grow, my farm to continue to produce. I even planned to build another house, another house, another this, another that. But this is not what will happen. What will happen is that a flood will take the whole land. Isaías said that the worst would happen. And that people needed to prepare. First, in the heart. In the heart. Who has a house here, and has already passed through the four states of the United States, knows that there are care to take with a house. Before winter comes. They have to go through the stairs, which are accumulated from land and leaves. Karlin, tell me an interesting story about this. Yesterday I was there on the roof cleaning the roof. Who has an idea of ​​plan B? Do you have to have plan B if there is no electricity? Will the house heat up if there is no electricity? Do you have to have plan B? Do you need to close the holes that the insects or predators will want to try to enter the house to escape from the cold? All this is a preparation. Now, if you do not do that, it does not mean that the flood will not come. Because the flood will come, you do it or not. You have to check the liquid that you pour into the glass, and remove the ice from the car. Because if not, you will not be able to turn on the car. You will not have a vision of that. How many things, someone who by chance, I hope not, put the water there in the container of the radiator, it will break the radiator because it will freeze. Maybe in Florida you do not need to worry about that. But here we need to worry about it. Because the winter will come. The winter will not come only to those who are not alive when it comes. I received a call yesterday from a very close friend, speaking of a relative who is pregnant at 7 o'clock in the morning. 40 or so years old, a young man, 40 or so years old, asking for a morphine every time he is pregnant in the hospital with terrible cancer. Terrible, terrible, terrible cancer. God can cure that man, he can, he can. But he does not want to say that this will happen. The mother, in the hospital room, and every year, believing that the boy will return home. This can happen, it can, but it can also be that this does not happen. Because I pray for my will. But God's will is to know. He is sovereign. Look, I cannot resist the vision that comes from heaven. I cannot even close my eyes, I do not want to see this vision. I do not care about this vision, I do not care about this plan, I do not care about this proposal, I do not care about this desire of God. I do not want to know this desire. My brothers, we are going to announce the hope when we see what the Lord has already said in the scriptures. We prepare ourselves for that, but also do not resist that this will happen. Receiving from God the touch in the mouth. Isaiah 6 will say, "Then the seraphim flew to me, bringing in his hand a live hug, which he took out of the altar with a hammer, with the hug he touched my mouth, and said, "This is what she touched your lips, your iniquity was taken and forgiven your sin." Then he said, "Go and tell this people, listen, listen and do not understand, see, see, but do not perceive." I need this hug to touch my mouth. You need this hug to touch your mouth, because it is impossible to announce the hope, if the hug that comes from the altar does not touch our lips. My brothers, my brothers, friends here and people who are participating in this online cult, I want to invite you to a change, to the sanctification of the lips, to the sanctification of the mouth, to a turn of page in your life today, November 30, 2025. Will it be impossible to announce the hope with meat lips? Will it be possible to announce the hope with the lips that before were not sanctified by the hug that comes from the altar and put in your mouth, to change your word, your vocabulary, your feeling, your love, your solidarity, to the next. Ah, compassion, ah, my name is already written in the book of life, ok, but the rest, the whole humanity can perish because of this. Because your name is already in the book of life. Because your mouth speaks inside and out of the house, in the work, in the car, in the truck, in the Quintal. Passed by the touch of the hug that will be the end. Brothers, the hug comes in the direction of those who, raising their hand, do not resist the vision, raising their hand, do not want to stay with the eyes closed so as not to see the vision. The angel comes in the direction of those who want and not of those who do not want. How many Isaías existed in that place? How many people with whom God would like to speak? How will I announce with the lips that I have today? I need to improve them. I need the touch that comes back. How could Isaías announce the hope, presenting himself as a response to the crisis of his people? Use me. So I heard the voice of the Lord complaining, who will send, who will go for us? And I replied, send me here, send me to me. There is a phrase, I do not know if it is in all of Brazil, but at least there in the pacata city, calm, Rio de Janeiro, who is like this, who does not want to work, tell a story. Who does not want to work, tell a story. Who wants to work, begins to work. Who wants to do, who wants to change, who wants to act, who wants to see the difference, who wants to be the difference. Isaías wanted to be the difference for his people, for his family, for his congregation, for his city, for the kings, for whom he prophesied, he wanted to be the difference. Send me here, you know, brothers, not always the send me is for a very good place. It may be that the send me that you think, or that someone thinks, is for a tribute, a very special place. But it is so good to see that many brothers who give classes, or preach, or take care of several areas of the church, are also open to serve in any other way. Cleaning a bathroom, doing a work here in our living room, carrying a weight, helping someone who stopped with a car there, I don't know where, you use me if you have me. But this call that God made to Isaías, he was much more than that. One of the sons of Isaías, meaning the name he gave to the son, was the judgment of God is near. The name of the other son was the hope of God will come. Isaías, he didn't live with a clothes at the time of going to the celebration in the sanctuary, and then to wear another clothes at home, or somewhere else. Isaías was the last consequence saying, use me. If there is no one, I am here, use me. I don't see that my lips are ready, but then God purifies the lips. I don't see that I am ready. God takes care of his life, and gives strength to him. We are talking about a prophet who was locked up in the middle. Suffering as a response from God to his people. This man was locked up in the middle. The exile would not stop coming, because someone simply didn't want to think about it. But God signaled. God prepared. God made an appeal. God invited. And the choice is always individual. How can Isaías announce hope, believing in the vision of a new time? Chapter 9 will say, "With everything there will be no more darkness for those who were afflicted. In the past it humiliated the land of Zebulon, of Naftali, but in the future it will honor Galilee, of Gentiles, the path of the sea, along with Jordan. The people who walked in trouble saw a great light about those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. There was a light. Because the boy was born to us. A son was given to us. And the government is about his shoulders. He will be called a wonderful counselor, God Powerful, Father Eternal, Prince of Peace. He will extend his dominion. And there will be peace, finally, on the throne of David and on his kingdom, established and maintained with justice and righteousness. From now on, forever. The Zelo of the Lord of the Excellences will do that. The promise of hope, the salvation of Israel was being prophesied there. We are celebrating the birth of the one who came from this promise. I want to invite you to think with me and take practical actions in your life. You know? It is possible for you to resist some things. And for a long time. There are people who are resisting a commitment with Christ, thinking that, if you become a son of God, and I want to make this explanation here, "Oh my God, all of us are not sons of God?" No, we are not. And I can help you with this explanation. All of us were created by God. Being a son of God is a birth certificate that is already ready with your name. And the name of the Father is ready there. And it is already signed by the Father. But there is a little space in that birth certificate that needs to be signed by the Son, who wants to be a son of God. All of us are creatures of God. Being a son of God is your choice. Being a son and being a son of God is your choice. And some people confuse this with several things. There are people who confuse being a son or being a son of God with a vote of poverty, which has nothing to do with that. If God is the owner of the silver, the silver of gold, how can it be a vote of poverty, of miserability, of lack of dignity in life, that is not it. There are people who say, "I will have to stop doing this and that." Well, there is a list of what you should stop doing, even if you make the decision, because you are screwing up with your life. But when you decide to be a son and a son of God, you are saying the following, "Now I have made the right decision." I will deliver my life in the hand, in the neck, in the arms of the only Father who can receive me and take care of me. Maybe this week you had a difficult news, or a difficult correspondence arrived in your mail box, or an email, or a call, or a decision of someone who has directly hit your life. This decision, this letter, this correspondence, this information cannot take you from the balance, if you are a son or a son of God. There are so many things happening, we are seeing in practice, here, in Brazil, in the world, so many changes, so many fast changes. I read a article these days that made me afraid in relation to things that we did not expect could happen, be it in Brazil, be it here or somewhere else. Here is not heaven, and nowhere else can you step on this earth. But you can carry heaven with you. If you understand that the promises of God are for the people of God. Seeing, reading, taking science, believing, living, and sharing. And if you do not share, there are people asking, "Who is Jesus?" "Who is God?" "I am in despair, can you pray with me?" "I am in need of prayer, I am in need of help." And maybe you think it is in such a box, so ready, perfect, that the calamity will not knock on your door. The text will continue. It is interesting that in chapter 2, we will find the following description in the last days. This is what Isaiah, son of Amos, saw about the help of Jerusalem. In the last days, the Mount of the Temple of the Lord will be established as the main one. It will be taken over the hills and all the nations that will run for it. Many people will see and say, "Come, let us go up to the Mount of the Lord, to the Temple of the Lord of Jacob, so that He will teach us His ways, and so we walk in His ways." Because the law will come out of where Jerusalem will become the word of the Lord. He will judge between nations and will resolve the contentment of many peoples. They will make of their iron swords and their steel spears. A nation will no longer take weapons to attack another nation. They will never be prepared for war. "Come, O descendant of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord." Many opportunities are being given. We are here, there are people who are not here. The boy I have here now was a boy who had access to the Gospel. He was a boy who had access to the word of God, the family too. Although at that moment, even in a hospital room, he can fight with his mother and mother. At the time of the terminal illness. Some people, they fit themselves in situations thinking that God will come to change the consequences of the decisions. And this will not happen, because God is fair. This week, I was watching, they made a kind of, put a camera in the room, which, somewhere inside the prison, is called to the people who are trapped, there in the prison. And it is called to those people to say their time is over. You are free to leave. And many people there compared that room and I watched. Maybe there are a dozen people who arrived there, men and women, in that room to receive. So, from the authority, the freedom to leave that prison. In one of the cases, a man arrested for 43 years in a prison, he arrives and the authority tells him, "You can leave, you are now free, you have fulfilled your duty here inside the prison." And he asks for authority. And who is waiting for me on the outside, on the wall of the prison? The authority says, "Your son would be waiting for you, if he had not died last year." So, there is no one waiting for me on the outside? We have a family information and yours. And the man starts saying, "So, why are you taking me out of this prison?" And the authority says, "Look, the social service will give you directions and you will leave that man." Another man, clearly appearing much more than 70 years old, there, receiving also the release of that prison, says, "What license?" "I no longer have a wife, I no longer have anyone out there. On the street where I grew up, no one knows my name. I have nothing to relate to the outside world outside the wall." And the authority says, "You will be free and out there you will find your way." A lady, appearing 60 and a few years old, she asks the authority, "But where am I going?" "If I have news from my family, all of your sisters have died. And the house where I lived, the bank took me, there is no more." And she starts crying in front of the authorities. And many other episodes have happened in that room. What makes me understand, brothers, is that many times we are trapped in prisons, life is passing and the announcement of hope is not happening, because many times we are under a prison, under a prison, under a spiritual negligence, under a chain, in which this is no longer important. It is important, it is an agenda, it is a routine, it is the plan that I myself have for myself, and the life and the house of people is being imploded from inside to outside. In the rooms, in the TV, in the video game screens, a brainwashing is happening. And I fear that when people wake up, there will not be much more to do, because time has passed. And the Gospel was not lived as it could have been lived in its magnitude. The hope, it was simply a little finger inside a bottle of a cup of a life, when it could have been lived in its magnitude. The call of Zahias is the same call to me, to you. I want to live intensely, the convocation, the invitation of God. I want to live in fullness. It does not matter if the news will be good or bad for someone. It does not matter if the consequences will be in the future. But I want to announce hope. Above all, because we are from this world, to announce hope. I would like to invite you to close your eyes where you are. In this morning, Father, we also want to bring to you this theme, also to bring to our lives this invitation, also to put you at your disposal, knowing that our mouth needs to receive a hug, really, that comes from the altar. Not your mouth, Lord, but the mind, all our being, Lord. God helps us to announce hope. God, I do not know what has come out of the lips, Lord, of each one in our congregation, or each one who is here, or who is participating in this cult. But it helps us to want to announce hope. It helps us, first, to live this hope in fullness. It does not matter, Lord, if the news is not good, it does not matter if there is a premonition of something difficult. Our eyes have to look at your vision and your throne, that does not cover itself with bad news, Father. You have been seated on the throne, Lord. There, Lord, Judas was, Lord, pray, Lord, to live as a shield, but your throne was intact. It is for this place that we are looking at this morning. We look at your throne and claim, Lord, for your help, it helps us to be, to live and to announce hope. The days are bad, but they are not bad for those who look at the throne. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. If you feel the desire to understand more what baptism is, I have never been concerned with this theme, but I would like to understand a little better. Tonight we will have a class starting this week, a class that explains baptism. If you have young children or teenagers, we have the class Sunday morning at 9am. But we want you to understand the hope that can only be found on the throne of God.