As discussed in the previous blog post, God’s Kingdom is eternal and God’s Word is settled forever. No one and nothing can change that. No one stands above God, not even the fallen angel Lucifer. Satan can attack the Word and steal and destroy the words of God through his lies, yet he can’t change anything about the truth of God’s Word and His will. God’s Word is the truth and therefore the Word is reliable. Εκείνοι, who put their trust in God and His Word will not be ashamed and disappointed, απεναντίας. Κάθε λέξη του Θεού, which is written in the Bible has come to pass and still comes to pass. The Word is the truth and it possesses life. God’s Word brings deliverance to those, who believe in the Word and obey the Word, and do what the Word says. Let’s look at how God’s Word brings deliverance.
God rejected through disobedience to His Word
Στην Παλαιά Διαθήκη ο λαός, που γεννήθηκαν από τον σπόρο του Ιακώβ (Ισραήλ) and through natural birth belonged to God’s people, often brought evil upon themselves because of their ανυπακοή στον Θεό and His Word and their evil works.
Because of their rebellion and disobedience to God, God delivered them into the hands of the pagan nations and they were taken into exile by the Gentiles and lived in bondage (Διαβάστε επίσης: The mischief the people bring upon themselves).
Although the people were responsible for their apostasy, it happened many times, that the kings (χάρακα) of the people turned away from the νόμος του Μωυσή and left ο τρόπος του Θεού by rejecting the words of God and wandering from God and leading the people astray and engaged them in their apostasy and their evil works.
They made covenants with the pagan nations, took their women, adopted their culture and customs, and brought their idols into their land, and bowed before the pagan idols.
They placed the idols in the temple, set up high places, sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places to these idols, and did all those things which were evil in the eyes of the Lord.
They didn’t show God that they loved Him through their obedience to His Word and their righteous works. αντι αυτου, they showed God through their disobedience to His Word and their evil works, that they despised God and His Word (Ω. Ιησούς του ναυή 23:16, Κριτές 2:12; 20-21, 3:8, 10:17, 1 Βασιλιάδες 14:7-16, 16:7-33, Ησάιας 5:24-25).
Because by allowing these idols into their land and adopting the pagan religion, Τελετουργίες, and practices and all those things, which God had forbidden through His Word, they actually showed God that He was not good enough for them and that God could not give them what they wanted and needed.
God didn’t meet the expectation of His people
God didn’t meet their expectation. They didn’t find with God what they did find with these pagan idols. Therefore they served these idols and bowed down before them, by doing what they commanded them to do and by sacrificing to them (Διαβάστε επίσης: Η προσδοκία των ανθρώπων).
Because of the fact that they had left and rejected God and His Word and became infidels by committing adultery with the pagan nations, by adopting their culture, θρησκεία (paganism), τελωνείο, συνήθειες, και τρόπος ζωής, and by taking their women unto themselves and by bowing down for idols and submitting to them, God delivered them into the hands of these pagan nations, whom they admired and from whom they had adopted and appropriated everything.
Through their disobedience to God and His Word and their deeds, έφεραν κακό στον εαυτό τους. God was not responsible for that, but they were responsible (Ω. Κριτές 2:14, 3, 6:1, 13:1, 2 Βασιλιάδες 13:3, 17:20).
God brought deliverance through His Word
Fools, because of their transgression, και λόγω των ανομιών τους, ταλαιπωρούνται. Η ψυχή τους απεχθάνεται κάθε είδους κρέας; και πλησιάζουν στις πύλες του θανάτου. Τότε φωνάζουν στον Κύριο στη θλίψη τους, και τους σώζει από τις στενοχώριες τους. He sent His Word, και τους θεράπευσε, και τους ελευθέρωσε από τις καταστροφές τους (Ψαλμοί 107:17-20).
Αλλά κάθε φορά, the people of God called upon God in their distress and showed remorse over their disobedience and their iniquities and sin, which went against the will of God, God heard their call and answered their call through His Word and delivered them.
God appointed judges and kings and spoke through the mouths of His prophets to His people and made the way of deliverance known to them.
Through His Word and the obedience of the people to His Word, God delivered His people from the oppression and power of the pagan nations.
Αυτό δεν ήταν ένα γεγονός που έγινε μία φορά, but this happened several times.
There were kings, who feared God and obeyed His Word and walked in His ways and did right in the eyes of the Lord and there were kings, who didn’t fear God and didn’t obey His Word and left His Word and His ways and did those things which were evil in the eyes of the Lord.
But God’s hand was never too short to deliver His people if they truly regret their sins and iniquities and repented of their evil way.
Βλέπω, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity (Ησάιας 59:1-4).
Ιησούς; the Word proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord
Ιησούς; η λέξη, came to the earth to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and not to judge mankind, because His time to judge on the Day of Judgment had not come yet.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God (Ησάιας 61:1-2)
And there was delivered unto Him (Ιησούς) the book of the prophet Esaias. Και όταν άνοιξε το βιβλίο, Βρήκε το μέρος που γράφτηκε, Το πνεύμα του Κυρίου είναι επάνω μου, Επειδή με έδωσε να κηρύξω το ευαγγέλιο στους φτωχούς; Με έστειλε να θεραπεύσω τους σπασμένους, να κηρύξει την απελευθέρωση στους αιχμαλώτους, και την ανάκτηση της όρασης στους τυφλούς, για να τα θέσετε στο Liberty που είναι μώλωπες, Να κηρύξει το αποδεκτό έτος του Κυρίου (Λουκ 4:17-19)
Jesus was sent to the people of God to give them the opportunity to be delivered from the power of darkness and the dominion of death by making the Kingdom of God known to them and calling them to repentance and the putting away of sin and to believe, obey and do the words of God and to finish the perfect work of redemption for mankind through His redemptive Εργαστείτε στο σταυρό.
Jesus commanded the people to have πίστη στον Θεό and repent of their sins and be Βαφτιστεί and obey the words of God.
Jesus fulfilled the law of God on earth
Jesus didn’t come to change the words of God nor to annul the words of God. Jesus didn’t change anything about the words of God, considering Jesus was the living Word of God. Jesus walked in obedience to the words of God and fulfilled every word, which God had spoken and so Jesus fulfilled the law of God στη γη.
Jesus knew exactly, who would believe His words and obey and do His words and who wouldn’t.
Ήξερε, who was willing to lay down his own lives and follow Him and who wasn’t.
Επομένως, Jesus wasn’t concerned with those, που ανήκε στο λαό του Θεού, but were full of pride and had justified themselves and relied on their own intellect and skills.
But Jesus had compassion and was concerned with the lost sheep of God’s people, who were rejected by the proud and self-righteous people and lived in bondage and needed Jesus the Healer to deliver them and make them whole (Διαβάστε επίσης: Ήταν ο Ιησούς φίλος των τελωνών.?).
Και έτσι, Jesus went to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and spoke the words of God, and delivered them from the power of the devil.
Jesus delivered them and commanded them to sin no more, but instead obey the words of God. Hence they wouldn’t come under the authority of the devil through sin and bow to the devil through obedience to his words and his will and make the devil lord of their lives and give him access and the ability to reign in their lives.
God sent His Word and made them whole
Through Jesus’ death at the cross, Το αίμα του, και την ανάστασή Του από τους νεκρούς, Jesus brought deliverance to Πεσμένος άνθρωπος. Jesus made a way for fallen man to be restored to his original position and be reconciled with God.
Jesus sanctified the people and made them righteous by faith in Him and through regeneration. The living Word healed them, which means that Jesus restored (repaired) mankind in his position and made them whole. (Ω. 2 Χρονικά 30:17-20, Ψαλμοί 107: 20, Ησάιας 6:10)
Με πίστη στον Ιησού Χριστό; ο Λόγος και μέσω της αναγέννησης; ο θάνατος της σάρκας και η ανάσταση του πνεύματος από τους νεκρούς, the new man was reconciled with God.
Δια της εν Χριστώ νεογέννητου, the new man was able to have a relationship with God through His Word and His Spirit.
Αρχικά, God’s work of redemption was only meant for the people, who were born of the seed of Jacob and belonged through natural birth to God’s carnal people.
But because of their fall and because of the goodness and the grace of God, η σωτηρία ήρθε στους Εθνικούς (Ρωμαίους 11:11).
God gave the Gentiles also the ability to be delivered from the power of the devil by faith in Jesus Christ and through regeneration and be transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God (Κολοσσαείς 1:12-14).
Through the rebirth in Christ, there is no difference anymore between the people, που γεννιούνται από το σπέρμα του Ιακώβ (Ισραήλ) και οι άνθρωποι, who are born of the seed of the Gentiles. Γιατί όλοι, who is born again in Christ and identified himself with Him, has become a son of God (τόσο αρσενικά όσο και θηλυκά) and belongs to His Church (Γαλάτες 3:26-28, Κολοσσαείς 3:10-11).
Ιησούς; the Word still brings deliverance
Although Jesus hasανέβηκε στον ουρανό and is seated on the mercy seat at the right hand of God, Ιησούς, the Word of truth, still delivers and still makes people whole.
Γιατί δεν ντρέπομαι για το ευαγγέλιο του Χριστού: γιατί είναι η δύναμη του Θεού προς σωτηρία καθενός που πιστεύει; στον Εβραίο πρώτα, αλλά και στον Έλληνα. Διότι εκεί αποκαλύπτεται η δικαιοσύνη του Θεού από πίστη σε πίστη: όπως είναι γραμμένο, Ο δίκαιος θα ζήσει με πίστη (Ρωμαίους 1:16-17)
The hand of God is still not too short to deliver. His Word still possesses the same power of God unto salvation to everyone, που πιστεύει. But you have to believe first.
Just like the carnal people of God in the Old Covenant had to believe and trust in His words first and act according to His words.
Although we live in new covenant; a better covenant that is not sealed with the blood of animals but with the blood of Jesus; η λέξη, God has not changed. This means that His Word and His will have not changed.
Through faith and regeneration in Christ, we live in a better covenant, in which mankind no longer lives in bondage through his flesh under the power of darkness and sin and death, but lives in bondage through his spirit that is raised from the dead under the power of God and His light and life through Christ Jesus.
Jesus the Word is the Truth and He still brings deliverance to those, who live under the power and authority of the kingdom of darkness and are looking for deliverance.
The Way of deliverance
Many people are looking for deliverance, but are often looking in the wrong places and enter occult ways. But there is only one Way of deliverance and that is through Jesus Christ; ο ζωντανός Λόγος, Και με το αίμα του.
Jesus Christ alone is the Way, την Αλήθεια, και η ζωή (Γιάννης 14:6 (Διαβάστε επίσης: Is there only one way to salvation?)).
Only by faith in Jesus Christ; ο ζωντανός Λόγος, και το αίμα Του, and through regeneration people can be delivered from the power of darkness, by laying down the flesh in which the power of darkness rules and by the resurrection of the spirit from the death, be transferred into the Kingdom of God and be reconciled with God (Κολοσσαείς 1:14-16).
As long as you walk after the Spirit in obedience to Jesus Christ; the Word and live according to the Word, after your repentance and after being born again, you will stay delivered and live in freedom from Him; η λέξη, και η Βασιλεία του Θεού.
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