Every Christian, who by faith is born again in Jesus Christ by faith, is redeemed from the power of darkness and transferred into the light. The person doesn’t belong to the darkness anymore and shall not live in the kingdom of darkness, but the person belongs to the Light and shall live in the Kingdom of God. Through the change of sonship (from son of the devil to son of God), the change of nature (the nature of the devil to the nature of God) and the change of kingdom (the kingdom of darkness to Kingdom of God), the person shall put off the works of darkness, 以便 (s)he shall no longer walk in darkness and shall put on the armor of light, 以便 (s)he shall walk in the light. What does the Bible say about the armor of light? What is the armor of light in Romans 13:12? And what does it mean to put on the armor of light?
Put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of of light
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts (罗马书 13:12-14)
The Day of the Lord is near. 所以, it’s time, 那个每个人, who says they believe, wakeup from their spiritual sleep and arise in Christ and walk in boldness after the Spirit in obedience to the Word in the light.
All around us, we see an increase of the power of darkness. More and more spiritual ground is being taken by the power of darkness, which is visible in the natural realm in nature and the lives of people.
The main reasons for the increase of darkness are: the increase of apostasy, 无法无天, and the lukewarm state of people, 自称是基督徒的人.
Many believers don’t speak the truth and keep their mouths closed about the Truth in order to prevent conflicts or rejection by people.
Instead of standing on the Word, they compromise with the world and approve the works of darkness and even be partakers of the works of darkness.
There is hardly any distinction between good and evil and the majority of believers and unbelievers. 所以, it’s time that those, 谁说他们相信, get serious and show through their lives, that they believe in Jesus Christ; the Word and are sons of God (男性和女性), who don’t belong to the darkness; the world anymore, but belong to the Light.
让罪不再在你的生命中作王
因此，不要让罪在你必死的身体上作王, 叫你们顺从它的私欲. 也不要将你们的肢体献给罪恶，作为不义的工具: 但要将自己降服于神, 就像那些从死里复活的人一样, 和你的肢体作为上帝公义的工具 (罗马书 6:12-13)
Because those, who keep walking in darkness and keep doing the works of darkness and obey and serve sin and death through their flesh, shall not walk in the light.
那些, who keep walking in darkness shall not be the light in the world.
They shall not be able to deliver others from the power of darkness, nor to teach them in the truth of the Word, since they are blinded and walk in darkness and sin still reigns as king in their lives.
But the Word commands everyone, to put off the works of darkness and no longer walk after the lusts of the flesh, but to walk as children of light, putting on the armor of light and yielding their members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
不可与暗昧无益的行为相交, 而是责备他们. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light (以弗所书 5:11-13)
The Word commands, to not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but to reprove the works of darkness by the truth.
把老人推开
因此，要克制你们在地球上的成员; 淫乱, 不洁, 过度的感情, 恶欲, 和贪婪, 这是偶像崇拜: 为了哪些事’ 因为神的愤怒临到悖逆之子身上: 你们也曾在其中走过一段时间, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; 愤怒, 愤怒, 恶意, 亵渎, 从你嘴里说出的肮脏的沟通. 不向另一个人说谎, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 并穿上了新人, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created Him (歌罗西书 3:5-10)
现在肉体的行为已经显露出来, 这是哪些; 通奸, 淫乱, 不洁, 淫荡, 偶像崇拜, 巫术, 仇恨, 方差, 仿真, 愤怒, 冲突, 骚乱, 异端, 羡慕, 谋杀, 酒醉, 狂欢, 诸如此类: 我之前告诉过你的, 正如我过去也告诉过你的, 行这样事的人必不能承受神的国(加拉太书 5:19-22)
To 赶走老人 is an action that every believer is supposed to do. No one can do it for you. Not even God.
God has given you in Christ all authority and power to resist the devil and resist sin; 黑暗的作品.
After Jesus Christ, 神的儿子, was baptized in water by 施洗约翰 and received the Holy Spirit by the Father, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to the wilderness.
在荒野中, Jesus was tempted by the devil for forty days. During those forty days, Jesus learned to stay 听话 to His Father and resist the devil and all his temptations.
Jesus didn’t compromise and didn’t bow for the devil, but Jesus only bowed for His Father, by staying faithful and obedient to His Father and His will.
And just like Jesus, the sons of God should also walk in obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit, to resist the devil and don’t give into his deceptions and temptations, which lead to sin.
And that’s only feasible, if you 爱神 全心全意, 灵魂, mind and strength and know His will and yield yourself to His will, 就像耶稣一样, Who loved His Father with all His heart, 灵魂, mind and strength and knew His Father’s will and yielded Himself to the will of the Father.
神的旨意是什么?
因为这是神的旨意, 甚至你的成圣, 你们应当禁戒淫乱: 你们每个人都应该知道如何拥有自己的器皿成圣和荣耀; 不在于情欲, 就像不认识神的外邦人一样: 任何人在任何事情上都不能超越并欺骗他的兄弟: 因为主是所有这些人的报应者, 正如我们也预先警告过您并证实的那样. 因为神并没有召我们去行不洁的事, 但为了圣洁. 因此，他藐视, 不藐视人, 但上帝, 他也将他的圣灵赐给我们 (1 帖撒罗尼迦人 4:3-8)
And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them (以西结 36:27)
并且不要效仿这个世界: 但要通过心意的更新而改变, 这样你们就可以证明什么是好的, 并可以接受, 和完美的, 神的旨意 (罗马书 12:2)
Through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead and the baptism with the Holy Spirit, God’s will is written in the mind and heart of the new man. 然而, the carnal mind, which is not renewed with the Word and thinks like the world, can become an hindrance in the life of the believer and ensure that (s)he keeps walking in disobedience to the Word in unbelief.
But by the renewing of the mind 与神的话语, the new man gets to know the Father and His will.
Through the love for God and by faith in God and His Word, the person shall obey the words of God and apply His words in his or her life and walk after the words of God and abide in the Word. Through obedience to God, the person shall walk in love 遵照神的旨意.
Sanctification
所以, 弟兄们, 我们是债务人, 不至于肉体, 随从肉体而活. 因为如果你们顺从肉体而活, ye shall die: 但你们若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行, 你们会活下去. 因为凡是被神的灵引导的人, 他们是神的儿子. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, 阿爸, 父亲 (罗马书 8:12-15)
每个人, who has 悔改了 and has become a new creation in Jesus Christ shall go through the process of sanctification. Even when you are raised in a Christian family, you shall go through the process of sanctification after you’ve become born again, 通过 水中的洗礼 和圣灵的洗礼.
During the process of 成圣, you shall put off the works of darkness and put off the old man, who has the nature of the devil and shall put on the armor of light and put on the new man and be clothed with Jesus Christ.
You shall no longer do the works of the flesh, but through the Spirit, you shall kill the works of the flesh and do the works of the Spirit, which produces life and peace.
You shall no longer listen to the lusts and desires of your flesh, that command you to love yourself and the world and reject the words of God, to lie, to rebel, to commit adultery, 到 离婚, to watch A片, to commit fornication and have sexual relationships with someone of the same gender, multiple persons, yourself, someone, 谁不是你的配偶, children or animals.
You shall no longer listen to your flesh, that commands you to get involved with strange religions and/or (东) 哲学, 巫术, 占卜, 到 consult spirits, to walk in pride, to envy others and be jealous, to drink, to steal, to hate, 杀死, to be 不宽容的 towards others, to recompense evil for evil, ETC。.
Because according to the Word, all these works are works of darkness that belong to the old man; the sinner and no longer belong in the life of the new man, who has been made holy and righteous by the blood of Jesus and regeneration in Him.
每个人, who has been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.t (加拉太书 3:26-27)
The new man is clothed with Christ. 所以, the spiritual transformation of the 老人 into the new man should become visible in the natural realm in the life of the new man. 新人, who has been made in the image of the Creator, shall put on Jesus Christ; the Word and shall walk in the light; in the truth of God, in the armor of light.
When you have become the new man, you shall walk after the Spirit and shall love God with all your heart, 灵魂, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself, which means that you shall serve no other gods and have no idols, you shall not commit spiritual adultery with other religions and/or philosophies, and shall not commit witchcraft, 通奸, 淫乱, 说谎, 偷, 杀, envy etc.
How do you put on the armor of light?
You will put on the armor of light, by yielding to Jesus Christ; the Word and the Holy Spirit and do what is written in the Word. As long as you stay faithful to Jesus Christ and walk after the will of the Father you shall do righteous works; the works of light and shall walk in righteousness.
The path of righteousness is not the path of the world. It’s a narrow path and only few shall find it or keep walking on this path (马修 7:14). Everything depends on your love for Jesus Christ and the Father.
Only if you are born again in Christ and love God with all your heart, 灵魂, 头脑, and strength and stay obedient to the Word and the Holy Spirit and walk by faith in righteousness after the will of God, you shall be able to:
- resist all the temptations of the devil,
- fulfill your task in the Kingdom of God on earth,
- be a witness of Jesus Christ,
- do the works of light,
- and stand in the faith.
“成为地球之盐”
