Uit liefde, God het sy Seun na die aarde gestuur as 'n offer vir die gevalle mens. Deur die offer van Jesus Christus, the relationship between fallen man and God was restored. Die Ou Verbond, which was sealed with the blood of animals was replaced by a New Covenant, which was sealed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Man could no longer be saved by the works of the law. The only way to be saved was by faith in Jesus Christ and through regeneration in Him. Jesus het gehad die wet vervul het and had taken the sin of the world and the punishment for sin, wat die dood is, op Homself. Almal, who would identify with Him in His death and resurrection, would be redeemed from death and would no longer see the death, maar beërf die ewige lewe. That was the love and grace of God, which was not only meant for His people by natural birth; Israel, maar ook vir die heidene. But the love and grace of God, which was revealed to mankind by the coming and the life of Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection, didn’t give mankind the right to persevere in sin. Because the love and grace of God doesn’t compromise with sin.
Die liefde van God
Regdeur die Bybel, we see how God showed His great love for the people. God wanted to be a God for the people and He wanted to have a relationship with them like God had with Adam before he became disobedient to God. Egter, many people didn’t want Him to be their God and didn’t want to listen to Him.
They were rebellious and rather served the god of this world; die duiwel, by listening to him and obeying him through the lusts and desire of their flesh.
The people did all kinds of things, that went against the will and the nature of God and His holiness. En so kwaad increased on the earth.
The evil was so big, that the sin reached heaven and cried out to God. God repented of the creation of mankind and since they didn’t want to repent, there was nothing else God could do but destroy mankind.
And so the flood came over the earth and later on Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around were destroyed because the people didn’t want to listen to God and didn’t want to obey God.
God redeemed His people from the power of Pharaoh
Even when God had chosen His people; Die saad van Jakob; Israel by grace and redeemed them from the power and oppression of Pharaoh and led them from Egypt by His strong hand, many people remained rebellious.
God showed Himself through the many signs and wonders. God made His will and nature known to them, by giving them His law to Moses, who was His representative. Deur die wet, God het gemaak Sy weë en Sy gedagtes bekend aan Sy volk.
The law of sin and death was meant for the relationship between the old carnal man, wat aan God se volk behoort het, en God. Since the old man was trapped in his flesh, waarin sonde en dood heers.
Instede, His people showed their fear of the Lord by keeping the law, many remained rebellious and disobedient through the weakness of their flesh and didn’t want to submit to His will.
The people of Israel were so familiar with the culture, Gode (afgode), and customs of Egypt, that they compared their God with the gods of Egypt.
But the God, who had chosen them by grace and had mercy on them was not a god, who was created by human hands. Die God, who had chosen them by grace and had mercy on them was the Skepper van hemel en aarde en alles wat daar binne is. God had created them, in plaas van andersom.
Ongelukkig, not everyone was willing to Vernuwe hul gedagtes met die woorde van God, wat in die wet geskryf is, en deur obedience to His words submit themselves to this Almighty God; die skepper van hemel en aarde en alles daar binne.
As gevolg hiervan, Nie almal nie, who belonged to God’s people entered the promised land and did not betree Sy rus.
God didn’t compromise with sin
A whole generation died in the wilderness and never entered the land God promised. All because of their stubbornness and rebellion.
There are many more examples written in the Old Testament of certain things that God had to do, which He would rather not have done.
This was not caused by God and His nature, but because of the pride, hardkoppigheid, and rebellion of people and their nature. Because one thing is for sure and that’s God and His love can’t make a covenant with death, by tolerating sin. God couldn’t do this in the Old Testament and God still can’t do this, since God is the same, Gister, Vandag, En vir ewig meer.
Death was God’s enemy and not His friend. Almal, who belonged to God’s people but lived in sin, in rebellion against the law, would show that (s)he didn’t love God with all his/her heart, verstand, siel, and strength and didn’t belong to God, but belonged to death. Since the person produced the fruit of death, which is sin and not through obedience to God and His law, Die vrug van geregtigheid.
The love of Jesus
Jesus het geantwoord en vir hom gesê, As 'n man my liefhet, Hy sal my woorde hou: En my pa sal hom liefhê, En ons sal na Hom toe kom, En maak ons woonplek by Hom. Hy wat my liefhet, hou nie my woorde nie: En die woord wat julle hoor, is nie myne nie, Maar die vader is wat my gestuur het (John 14:23-24)
Die Woord van God is die waarheid. There is no single word that is written in the Bible and no promise of God that is not fulfilled. Egter, some prophecies and promises are not fulfilled yet. But we also see these slowly being fulfilled as the terugkeer van Jesus benaderings.
God sent His word to His people by giving them the law.
The law revealed God’s will to the carnal people and taught His carnal people, whose spirit was death, of good and evil.
Toe die tyd aangebreek het, God fulfilled His promise of the koms van die Messias, and so Jesus the Word of God came to the earth.
Jesus came to redeem fallen man from the rulership and oppression of the devil, who reigns in the flesh of mankind.
Jesus restored the position of fallen man and reconciled man back with God. So that the relationship between God and man would be restored (Lees ook: ‘Die vrede, Jesus restored between God and man'. en ‘Jesus het die posisie van die gevalle mens herstel').
Jesus made God’s will known to His people
Jesus came to reveal the wil van God deur te verteenwoordig, prediking, and bringing the Kingdom of God to God’s people and calling the people to repentance.
The people of God so deviated from the truth that they were trapped in a manmade religion, that was created by false doctrines of people, tradisies, and their set of rules and regulations, which were not from God.
They had created a God and a religion, that didn’t correspond with the true God and His truth.
But because of the traditions of man, they were brought up in this manmade religion and considered this religion as the truth.
Until the Truth of God; His Word came to the earth Himself and exposed all these lies, skynheiligheid, and false piety.
Nowhere in the four gospels do we read anything about Jesus approving and/or tolerating sin.
This is impossible! Because how could Jesus enter a covenant with the death, who is an enemy of God, by approving sin, which is the fruit of death? Geen, Jesus didn’t allow sin and didn’t compromise with sin, but Jesus called the people to bekering en die verwydering van sonde.
Jesus redeemed mankind from the power of the devil
Jesus het gehuil en gesê, Hy wat op my glo, glo nie op my nie, Maar op hom wat my gestuur het. En hy wat my sien, sien hom wat my gestuur het. Ek kom 'n lig in die wêreld, dat elkeen wat op my glo, nie in die duisternis moet bly nie. En as iemand my woorde hoor, En glo nie, Ek oordeel hom nie: Want ek het nie die wêreld oordeel nie, Maar om die wêreld te red. Hy wat my verwerp, en ontvang nie my woorde nie, het een wat hom beoordeel: die woord wat ek gepraat het, Dieselfde sal hom in die laaste dag oordeel. Want ek het nie van myself gepraat nie; Maar die vader wat my gestuur het, hy het My 'n gebod gegee, Wat ek moet sê, En wat ek moet praat. En ek weet dat sy gebod die lewe ewig is: Wat ek ook al praat, Selfs soos die vader vir my gesê het, So ek praat (John 12:44-50)
Jesus didn’t come to the earth to judge the people. Because it was not His time yet to judge the people. But Jesus came to give the people the opportunity to be saved, through repentance and the removal of sin and by submitting to God and His will (Matteus 9:13, Merk 2:17, Lukas 5:32).
Jesus het gewys, daardie fulfilling the law was not as hard as it seemed. Egter, it all depended upon one element and that was the love for God.
Not everyone loved God as much as Jesus. Daarom, not everyone was willing to lay down his own life and the lusts and desires of the flesh because of God and submit to God and His will.
Jesus didn’t compromise with sin
All the signs, Wonders, and mighty works were interesting to many people, but they didn’t bring the people to repentance. Because the mighty works that Jesus had done in the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum didn’t bring the people to repentance (Matteus 11:20-24, Lukas 10:13-16).
Even the words of Jesus didn’t bring many to repentance. Because of all the thousands of people, who followed Jesus temporarily, because of the signs, Wonders, and mighty works Jesus did, or because they needed healing themselves or another miracle in their lives, only His twelve disciples were left and remained with Jesus (John 6:66-69).
The others couldn’t bear the words of Jesus, because they were hard and therefore they left Jesus.
Many were not able to bear the Light, since they were confronted with their sin and convinced of their sin.
Since many didn’t want to repent of their sin, but loved their sin and therefore wanted to persevere in sin, they did everything that was in their power to extinguish the Light. But since it was not God’s time yet, they were not able to extinguish the Light in the beginning.
Uiteindelik, die mense, wat aan die duisternis behoort het, thought that they had extinguished the Light once and for all, deur crucifying Jesus Christ.
While one Light was only just extinguished, 120 lights were lit
Instede, they had extinguished the Light forever and they could continue their lives in darkness without restraint, they had achieved the opposite. Omdat 50 dae na Pasga the Holy Spirit came to the earth and 120 new Lights were born.
Of all those thousands of people, who met Jesus and temporarily followed Him, enigste 120 were left.
Hierdie 120 were united together in prayer in the upper room in Jerusalem, waiting for the promise, which Jesus had given them of the coming of the other Comforter, die Heilige Gees.
And it didn’t stop with these 120 mense. Omdat hierdie 120 believers did what Jesus had commanded them to do. And because they had received the power of the Holy Spirit, they were able to be witnesses of Jesus Christ and preach His death and resurrection to the people. From that moment many souls were saved and added daily to the Church.
Then opened he their understanding, dat hulle die Skrif kan verstaan, En vir hulle gesê, So staan dit geskryf, en so moes Christus ly, en op die derde dag uit die dode op te staan: En dat bekering en vergewing van sondes in sy Naam onder al die nasies verkondig moet word, begin by Jerusalem. En julle is getuies van hierdie dinge (Lukas 24:45-48).
The Holy Spirit walks in love
Just like Jesus walked in the love of God and called the lost, who belonged to God’s people and reproved them of sin and called them to repentance, the new creation in whom the Holy Spirit dwelled did the same thing. The new creation also walked in the love of God and reproved the people of sin. They called fallen man, wat aan die duisternis behoort het, tot bekering en die verwydering van sonde.
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, sê, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life (Handelinge 11:18)
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Handelinge 20:21)
Maar eers aan hulle van Damaskus getoon, en in Jerusalem, en in al die streke van Judéa, en dan na die heidene, dat hulle hulle moet bekeer en hulle tot God moet bekeer, en doen werke wat by bekering pas (Handelinge 26:20)
This gospel was first preached and brought to God’s carnal people. But because of God’s love and grace, the gospel was also preached and brought to the Gentiles. Deur die genade van God, salvation came to the Gentiles and through regeneration, they were circumcised in Christ and belonged to God’s people.
The new man has been made righteous and holy
The new man was justified by the blood of Jesus and therefore the new man was made righteous and holy, which means that the new man was separated from the world unto God.
The new man didn’t walk in darkness after the lusts and desires of the flesh and didn’t produce the fruit for death, wat sonde is, Nie, hou van (s)he produced before his/her repentance when the flesh was still alive and death reigned in his/her life.
Dié, who had become a new creation, had repented and were baptized and born of God. They were redeemed from the power of death, wat in die vlees regeer.
Death didn’t reign in their lives and they no longer belonged to the kingdom of darkness. But they were born again and transferred to the Kingdom of God and therefore they belonged through regeneration to the Life.
Since they belonged to the Life and no longer to the Death, they didn’t produce the fruit of death, wat sonde is, in their lives anymore, but they produced the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of righteousness.
The new man doesn’t compromise with sin
Die God van ons vaders het Jesus opgewek, wat julle doodgemaak en aan 'n boom opgehang het. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, om aan Israel bekering te gee, en vergifnis van sondes. En ons is Sy getuies van hierdie dinge; en so ook die Heilige Gees, wat God aan die wat Hom gehoorsaam het, gegee het (Handelinge 5:30-32).
Net soos God en Jesus, the new creations also didn’t make a covenant with the dead by compromising with sin.
They didn’t allow sin but they reproved the people of sin.
They confronted the people with their sins and called them to repentance and the removal of sin.
Na alles, they had received the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit can only dwell in those, who are obedient to God and His Word.
The grace of God through the sacrifice of Jesus and His blood couldn’t be used as an excuse to persevere in sin. The Christians back then, knew this very well.
They were spiritual and therefore they saw, just like God and Jesus by the Holy Spirit what sin is and what sin does with people (Lees ook: ‘Wat is sonde?', ‘Die sonde het Jesus doodgemaak‘ en ‘Kan jy aandadig wees aan die sonde van medegelowiges?')
Daarom, they didn’t preach a message of valse liefde and false grace that compromises with sin and encourages the people to stay carnal. Since the true love and grace of God doesn’t compromise with sin, but hates sin and removes sin.
The old man compromises with sin
But an unspiritual man, who thinks like the world and is led by his senses, emosies, and feelings is ignorant about the things which are above, but only searches and looks for the things which are on this earth.
Die ou man, who lives after the flesh is unspiritual and is led by the ruler of this world; die duiwel, who has blinded the mind of this world with his lies.
The devil only has one purpose and that is to kill and destroy every person on this earth. The way he does that is through his seducing lies, which look godly and loving but in reality, destroy the people.
Many churches have compromised with sin
Deur die jare, through the deviousness of the devil, the Church has allowed the spirit of this world to enter and has become world-like. Many churches don’t rely on the Word and the Holy Spirit but have entered sideways and rely on the words of the world.
Their prideful minds assume that they know it better than God and because of that mindset they have adjusted the Word to the will and the feelings, emosies, begeertes, and desires of the old man (ou skepping) en die wêreld.
Baie predikers, who preach behind the pulpit or enter the living rooms via (sosiale) media on Sundays, are not born again and don’t have the Holy Spirit. In plaas daarvan, they serve the kingdom of darkness, since they allow people to live in sin (Lees ook: ‘Die vernietiging van die werke van God in plaas van die werke van die duiwel').
They don’t deal with the problem and don’t call the people to repentance, but they allow sin to have its way.
They wrap the lies of the devil, with their humanism. Therefore their words look piously and it seems like they only want the best for their fellow man and that they love their neighbor as themselves. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Death reigns through sin
Because of the fact that the Church has not closed her gates for sin, but allowed and embraced the world and its sin, satan has taken his place in the Church and has established his throne (Lees ook: ‘The church is prepared for the antichrist‘ en ‘Die troon van satan').
By allowing sin and satan’s power to enter, many believers have been affected and defiled with sin and have developed the same mindset as the world.
Many don’t spend time in the Word and hardly pray. They have become lukewarm for God and the things of His Kingdom. They will only be interested when supernatural manifestations take place. And since the devil has established his throne in many churches, he gives exactly what the people want to see and especially feel and does great signs and wonders.
Many have become indifferent toward sin and don’t mind sin. They even persevere in sin themselves and/or encourage and stand by those who persevere in sin. How do they do that? By not calling them to repentance, but allowing them to sin.
Through the ignorance of many leaders, who approve of everything to keep the church members satisfied, so that they keep coming to the church, en bly na die vlees lewe, the church member also has become ignorant about the will of God and also approve of everything and keep walking after the flesh.
Sonder om te weet, they are on their way to the abyss, only because of all these lies of the devil.
Die liefde en genade van God kompromie nie met sonde nie
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; wat elkeen sal vergeld volgens sy dade: Aan hulle wat deur geduldige volharding in goed doen, eer en eer en onsterflikheid soek, ewige lewe: Maar vir die wat twisgierig is, en gehoorsaam nie die waarheid nie, maar gehoorsaam die ongeregtigheid, verontwaardiging en toorn, Verdrukking en angs, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, van die Jood eerste, en ook van die heiden; Maar glorie, eer, en vrede, aan elke mens wat goed doen, aan die Jood eerste, en ook aan die heiden: Want daar is geen respek vir persone by God nie. Want almal wat sonder wet gesondig het, sal ook sonder wet omkom: en almal wat in die wet gesondig het, sal deur die wet geoordeel word; (Want nie die hoorders van die wet is regverdig voor God nie, maar die daders van die wet sal geregverdig word (Romeine 2:2-13)
Die liefde en genade van God kompromie nie met sonde nie, inteendeel. Die liefde en genade van God oproepe tot bekering en die verwydering van sonde. The love and grace of God deals with the sinful nature, waarin die dood heers en dit lewer die vrug van die dood, wat sonde is.
Almal, who perseveres in sin and is not willing to repent, belongs to the death, since the person produces the fruit of death and is on his/her way to hell.
Wat gebeur in die geestelike ryk, we see happening all around us in the natural realm. The bad thing is, that people are more concerned about what happens in the natural realm than what happens in the spiritual realm.
The call to repentance to the Church
But if the Church repents of her works and return to God and return to God and shall love and serve God with all her heart, verstand, siel, en krag, and if the fear of the Lord returns and the Word becomes the highest Authority in the Church again, and the Holy Spirit will dwell in the new creations, wat saam die kerk is, then a change shall take place, which will become visible in the natural realm.
Daarom, let the Church stop preaching these false doctrines, wat leuens is. Let the Church stop preaching a false message, by misusing the love and grace of God to keep the old man alive and allow them to persevere in sin and tolerate sin, so that they don’t experience any resistance or persecution of the world, but they can live the same lives like the world.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead (Spreuke 21:16)
As long as the Church doesn’t repent and doesn’t remove her sin, but compromises with sin, the Church shall remain rooted in darkness and death shall reign in the Church. The Church shall not be a congregation of the living, but shall be a congregation of the dead. And when the time comes the Church shall reap what she has sown (sonde), which is destruction, instead of eternal life by sowing righteousness (Lees ook: ‘To whom does the Church bend her roots?').
‘Wees die sout van die aarde’
