The armor is of light in Romans 13:12 is meant for Christians. Svaki kršćanin, koji je nanovo rođen u Kristu, isporučuje se iz snage tame i prebacuje se u svjetlost. Kršćani više ne pripadaju tami, Ali kraljevstvu svjetlosti. 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, i kraljevstvo, 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 provedena, Dan je pri ruci: Odbacimo djela tame, and let us put on the armor of light. Prošetajmo iskreno, Kao u danu; Ne u neredu i pijanstvu, ne u komori i bezobzirnosti, ne u svađi i zavidi. Ali stavi vas na Gospodina Isusa Krista, i ne predvidjeti meso, to fulfill the lusts (Rimljani 13:12-14)
The Day of the Lord is near. Stoga, it’s time, that all the Christians, koji kažu 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, koji kažu 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.
Neka grijeh više ne vlada kao kralj u vašem životu
Neka stoga grijeh ne vlada u tvom smrtnom tijelu, da mu se pokoravate u njegovim požudama. Niti predajte svoje udove kao oruđe nepravednosti grijehu: nego se prepustite Bogu, kao oni koji su živi iz mrtvih, i svoje udove kao oruđa pravednosti Bogu (Rimljani 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, narod, 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 nemojte sudjelovati u besplodnim djelima tame, nego ih radije prekori. Jer sramota je čak i govoriti o onome što se od njih čini u tajnosti. Ali sve stvari koje se ukoravaju svjetlošću se očituju: jer sve što se očituje je svjetlost (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 odloži starca. It is an action that every believer is supposed to do. No one can do it for you. Not even God.
Umrtvite dakle udove svoje koji su na zemlji!; bludništvo, nečistoća, neumjerena naklonost, zla požuda, i pohlepa, što je idolopoklonstvo: Za koje stvari’ radi gnjeva Božjega dolazi na djecu neposlušnosti: U kojoj ste i vi neko vrijeme hodali, kad ste u njima živjeli. Ali sada i vi sve to odložite; bijes, gnjev, zloba, bogohuljenje, prljava komunikacija iz tvojih usta. Nemojte lagati jedni drugima, videći da ste skinuli starca s njegovim djelima; I obukli novog čovjeka, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created Him (Kološanima 3:5-10)
Sada se očituju djela tijela, koji su ovi; Preljuba, bludništvo, nečistoća, lascivnost, Idolopoklonstvo, vještičarenje, mržnja, varijanca, emulacije, gnjev, svađa, pobune, hereze, Zavidnici, ubojstvima, pijanstvo, revelings, i slično: o kojima vam prije govorim, kao što sam vam također rekao u prošlosti, da oni koji takve stvari čine neće baštiniti kraljevstva Božjega(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 Ivana 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 za 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, koji vode u grijeh.
And that’s only possible if you Bog ljubavi svim svojim srcem, duša, um, i snagu,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.
Što je volja Božja?
Jer to je volja Božja, čak i tvoje posvećenje, da se klonite bluda: Da svatko od vas zna držati svoju posudu u svetosti i časti; Ne u požudi požude, kao i pogani koji ne poznaju Boga: Da nijedan čovjek ne prijeđe i prevari svoga brata u bilo kojoj stvari: jer da je Gospodin osvetnik svih takvih, kao što smo vas i mi unaprijed upozorili i svjedočili. Jer Bog nas nije pozvao na nečistoću, nego do svetosti. On dakle koji prezire, ne prezire čovjeka, ali Bog, koji je i nama dao svoga Duha Svetoga (1 Solunjani 4:3-8)
I stavit ću svoj Duh u vas, i učinit ću da hodite po Mojim zakonima, i vi ćete držati Moje presude, i učiniti ih (Ezekiel 36:27)
I ne prilagođavajte se ovom svijetu: nego se preobrazite obnovom svoga uma, da možete dokazati što je to dobro, i prihvatljivo, i savršeno, volja Božja (Rimljani 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 obnoviti svoj um s 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 zaljubljeno 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 (the krštenje u vodi i krštenje Duhom Svetim).
Stoga, braća, mi smo dužnici, Ne tijelu, živjeti po tijelu. Jer ako živite po tijelu, da će umrijeti: ali ako Duhom usmrćujete tjelesna djela, živjet ćete za sve one koji su vođeni Duhom Božjim, oni su sinovi Božji. Jer niste ponovno primili duh ropstva da biste se bojali; ali vi ste primili Duha posinjenja, pri čemu plačemo, Abba, Otac (Rimljani 8:12-15)
During the process of posvećenje, you shall put off the works of darkness. You’ll put off the old man, koji ima narav đavla, 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 lagati, rebel, bludničiti, počiniti preljub, razvod, gledati pornografija, 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 (Istočni) filozofije, vještičarenje, proricanje, savjetovati se sa duhovima, envy others and be jealous, drink alcohol, ukrasti, mrziti, ubiti, biti nepopustljiv 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.
Svatko, who has been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ
Jer svi ste vi djeca Božja po vjeri u Krista Isusa. Jer svi koji ste u Krista kršteni, Kristom ste se zaodjenuli (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 čovjek, 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, preljuba, bludništvo, laž, ukrasti, 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 (Matej 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 ćeš:
- 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.
‘Budi sol zemlje’
