The armor is of light in Romans 13:12 is meant for Christians. Every Christian, koji se opet rodi u Kristu, is delivered from the power of darkness and transferred into the light. Christians don’t belong to the darkness anymore, but to the Kingdom of Light. Stoga, Christians shall not live in the kingdom of darkness, hodati u tami, and do the works of darkness. But Christians shall live in the Kingdom of God and do righteous works. Through the new birth and the change of sonship, priroda, and kingdom, Christians shall put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light and walk in the light. let’s look at the armor of light in Romans 13:12 and how you put on the armor of light according to the Bible.
Put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light
Noć je daleko, dan je blizu: odbacimo dakle djela tame, and let us put on the armor of light. Hajde da hodamo pošteno, kao u danu; ne u neredima i pijanstvu, ne u komornosti i raskalašnosti, ne u svađi i zavisti. Ali obucite se u Gospoda Isusa Hrista, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts (Rimljanima 13:12-14)
The Day of the Lord is near. Stoga, vrijeme je, that all the Christians, ko kaže da vjeruju, wake up from their spiritual sleep. It’s time to arise in Christ and walk in boldness after the Spirit in obedience to the Word in the light.
Svuda oko nas, 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, bezakonje, and the lukewarm state of people, who claim to be Christians.
Many Christians don’t speak the truth but keep their mouths shut about the Truth of God to prevent conflicts or rejection by people.
Instead of standing on the Word, they compromise with the world and approve the works of darkness. They even partake in the works of darkness.
There is hardly any distinction between good and evil and the majority of believers and unbelievers.
Stoga, it’s time that those, ko kaže da vjeruju, become serious and show through their lives, that they believe in Jesus Christ; Riječ, and are sons of God (Ovo se odnosi i na muškarce i na žene), who don’t belong to the darkness (Svijet) više, but the Light.
Pustite greh više ne vlada kao kralj u vašem životu
Neka grijeh, dakle, ne vlada u vašem smrtnom tijelu, da mu se pokoravate u njegovim požudama. Niti udove svoje ne prepuštajte grijehu kao oruđe nepravde: ali prepustite se Bogu, kao oni koji su živi od mrtvih, i vaše udove kao oruđe pravednosti Bogu (Rimljanima 6:12-13)
People who keep walking in darkness and doing the works of darkness and obey and serve sin and death through their flesh, don’t walk in the light.
Stoga, ljudi, who walk in darkness are not the light in the world.
They shall not be able to deliver other people from the power of darkness. They shall also not be able to teach others in the truth of God’s Word. Since they are blinded and walk in darkness themselves and sin still reigns as king u njihovim životima.
Ali Biblija (Božja Riječ) commands everyone, to put off the works of darkness and no longer walk after the lusts of the flesh. The Bible commands everyone to walk as children of light and put on the armor of light and yield their members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
I nemati zajedništvo sa neslagalištem tame, nego ih radije ukori. 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 (Efežanima 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 of God.
How do you cast off the works of darkness and put off the old man?
Every believer should cast off the works of darkness and skloni starcu. It is an action that every believer is supposed to do. No one can do it for you. Not even God.
Umrtvi, dakle, udove svoje koji su na zemlji; Blud, nečistoća, neumjerena naklonost, zla požuda, i pohlepe, što je idolopoklonstvo: Za koje stvari’ radi gnev Božiji dolazi na decu neposlušnosti: U kojoj ste i vi hodali neko vrijeme, kada ste živeli u njima. Ali sada i vi odložite sve ovo; ljutnja, gnjev, zlonamjernost, bogohuljenje, prljava komunikacija iz vaših usta. Ne lažite jedno drugom, videći da ste odložili starca sa njegovim delima; I stavili su novog muškarca, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created Him (Kološanima 3:5-10)
Sada su djela mesa manifest, što su ovo; Preljuba, Blud, nečistoća, lascivnost, Idolatry, Vještičarenje, mržnja, varijanca, emulacije, gnjev, svađa, sedicije, Heresies, Zavist, ubistva, pijanstvo, Revelings, I takav poput: od kojih vam kažem prije, Kao što sam vam takođe rekao u prošlosti, da oni koji čine takvim stvarima neće naslijediti Kraljevstvo Božje(Galaćanima 5:19-22)
God has given you in Christ all authority and power to resist the devil and resist sin; djela tame.
After Jesus Christ, Sin Božji, was baptized in water by Jovana Krstitelja and received the Holy Spirit from the Father, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to the wilderness.
U divljini, Isus je bio tempted by the devil četrdeset dana. During those forty days, Jesus learned to stay obedient to His Father and resist the devil and all his temptations.
Jesus didn’t compromise and didn’t bow to the devil. But Jesus only bowed to His Father, by staying faithful and obedient to His Father and His will.
I baš kao Isus, the sons of God should also walk in obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit. They should resist the devil and don’t give into his deceptions and temptations, koje vode u greh.
And that’s only possible if you voli Boga svim srcem, duša, um, i snaga,h and know His will and yield yourself to His will, baš kao Isus, Who loved His Father with all His heart, duša, mind and strength and knew His Father’s will and yielded Himself to the will of the Father.
Šta je volja Božija?
Jer ovo je volja Božju, Čak i vaše posvećenje, da se klonite bluda: Da svako od vas zna kako da posjeduje svoju posudu u posvećenju i časti; Ne u požudi požude, kao i neznabošci koji ne poznaju Boga: Da nijedan čovjek ne ode dalje i prevari svog brata u bilo kojoj stvari: jer da je Gospod osvetnik svih takvih, kao što smo vas takođe upozorili i svedočili. Jer Bog nas nije pozvao na nečistoću, nego do svetosti. Dakle, onaj koji prezire, ne prezire čoveka, Ali Bog, who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit (1 Solun 4:3-8)
I Ja ću staviti svoj Duh u vas, i učiniti da hodate po mojim odredbama, i čuvat ćete moje presude, i uradi ih (Ezekiel 36:27)
I ne bi se u skladu s ovim svijetom: ali budite vi transformisani obnavljanjem vašeg uma, da možete dokazati šta je to dobro, i prihvatljivo, i savršeno, Božja volja (Rimljanima 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. Međutim, the carnal mind is not renewed with the Word and thinks like the world, and can become a hindrance in the lives of Christians. A carnal mind ensure that people keep walking in disobedience to the Word in unbelief.
Therefore Christians need to obnovi svoj um sa Riječju Božjom. Tako da, they will get to know the Father and His will.
Through their love for God and by faith in God and His Word, they shall obey the words of God. They shall apply His words in their lives and walk according to His words and abide in the Word. Kroz njihovu poslušnost Bogu, oni hodati u ljubavi according to the will of God.
What does the Bible say about the process of sanctification?
The process of sanctification is a process that every person, who has repented and has become a new creation in Jesus Christ shall go through. Even when you are raised in a Christian family, you shall go through the process of sanctification after you’ve become born again (U Krštenje u vodi i krštenje sa Svetim Duhom).
Stoga, braćo, mi smo dužnici, ne do mesa, živjeti po tijelu. Jer ako živite po tijelu, umrijet ćeš: ali ako Duhom umrtvljujete djela tijela, živjet ćete za sve one koje vodi Duh Božji, oni su sinovi Božiji. Jer niste ponovo primili duh ropstva na strah; ali ste primili Duha posinovljenja, pri čemu plačemo, Abba, Oče (Rimljanima 8:12-15)
During the process of posvećenje, you shall put off the works of darkness. You’ll put off the old man, who has the nature of the devil, and put on the armor of light. You will put on the new man and be clothed with Jesus Christ.
You shall no longer do the works of the flesh. But through (the power of) Duh, 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 commands you to love yourself and the world and reject the words of God, i želi da laže, rebel, bludnik, počiniti preljubu, razvod, gledati porno, and have sexual relationships with someone, who isn’t your spouse/of the same gender/multiple persons/yourself/children or animals.
You’ll no longer listen to your flesh that wants you to walk in pride and commands you to get involved with strange religions and/or (Eastern) Filozofije, Vještičarenje, proricanje, Savjetovati se sa duhovima, envy others and be jealous, drink alcohol, krasti, mržnja, ubiti, biti neoprostivi towards others, recompense evil for evil, itd.
Because according to the Bible, all these works are the works of darkness that belong to the old man; grešnik. These works of darkness don’t belong in the life of the new man, who has been made holy and righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him.
Svako, who has been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ
Jer svi ste vi djeca Božja po vjeri u Krista Isusa. Jer, koji ste se u Hrista krstili, u Hrista ste se obukli (Galaćanima 3:26-27)
The new man is clothed with Christ. Stoga, the spiritual transformation of the Starac into the new man should become visible in the natural realm in the life of the new man.
Novi čovek, who has been made in the image of the Creator, shall put on Jesus Christ; the Word and 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, duša, 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, Preljubu, Blud, laž, krasti, ubiti, envy etc.
How do you put on the armor of light?
You put on the armor of light by yielding to Jesus Christ; the Word and the Holy Spirit and doing 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 (Matthew 7:14). Your walk in life 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, duša, um, and strength and stay obedient to the Word and the Holy Spirit and walk by faith in righteousness after the will of God, moći ćete:
- 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,
- Stand in the faith.
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