Jezi te ban nou anpil pwomès konsènan repo li ak lapè li ke tout moun, moun ki kwè nan li epi ki vin jwenn li epi ki aprann nan men li ta dwe fè eksperyans. Lapè Bondye, which passes all understanding and shall keep the hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. If the Word has made these promises, poukisa anpil moun fè, who say they believe and claim to be Christians, don’t experience rest and peace in their lives but the exact opposite? What is the cause of this turmoil, enkyetid, mental anguish, epi emotional distress? How can you experience the rest and peace of God in your life? What does the Bible say about the peace of God?
The wicked have no peace
Men, mechan yo tankou lanmè boulvèse, lè li pa ka repoze, dlo yo jete labou ak pousyè tè. Pa gen lapè, Bondye mwen an di, pou mechan yo (Ezayi 57:20).
Pa gen lapè, Seyè a di, unto the wicked (Ezayi 48:22)
We live in a time of turmoil, where many things take place. But as long as we remain faithful to Jesus Christ and stay in the Word and seek those things which are above and set our affection on things above and not on things on the earth, we shall experience the promised rest and peace of God.
Pawòl la di, that the wicked have no peace and shall never find rest for their soul.
Se paske, they don’t know God and are separated from God and live in enmity and disunion with God.
And as long as they keep avoiding Jesus Christ and don’t acknowledge and accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God and don’t believe in Him as the Saviour of their sinful nature and the Healer of their fallen state (broken state ) and Reconciler between God and man, and therefore don’t repent and become born again in Christ, they shall not have rest and shall not experience the peace of God in their lives (Li tou: ‘Lapè a, Jezi retabli ant moun ki tonbe a ak Bondye‘ epi ‘Jezi te retabli pozisyon moun ki te tonbe a').
The carnal man tries to enter a state of rest and experience inner peace through means of human philosophies and carnal methods
People try all sorts of ways and use all kinds of natural means and methods, to find rest and inner peace. They apply (Lès) relijyon yo, filozofi, metòd, ak teknik, tankou atensyon, meditasyon, yoga, terapi masaj, akuponktur, Reiki, elatriye., and do all kinds of things to experience rest and inner peace in their lives.
Even people, who claim to be Christians, but are not truly born again and have not crucified their flesh in Christ, apply this worldly knowledge, bon konprann, metòd, and technics in their lives, to enter a state of rest and experience inner peace.
They not only get involved with these occult practices, but they even promote these occult practices and bring these occult practices into the church.
Since many churches are world-like and are spiritually asleep and don’t possess the discernment of spirits, they allow these occult practices in the churches and defile the churches with these occult practices.
And so these wolves in sheep clothing, who belong to the devil and serve him, enter the churches and mix the faith with the world by Christianizing these pagan doctrines and practices.
They put the word ‘Christian’ in front of these pagan doctrines and practices and mislead many believers with their pious words, which seem credible to them, and by quoting Scriptures from the Bible, which are taken out of context.
Some even claim that these occult pagan practices come from God and that God is the Inventor of these carnal doctrines, metòd, and technics and say that the world has copied them from God.
Why do so many people believe the lies of the devil?
Malerezman, many people believe these lies and are misled by these wolves in sheep clothing, because they are worldly and carnally minded, jis tankou yo, and are looking for alternatives for the things of this world, and because they do not know the Word personally and therefore they don’t know the volonte Bondye.
They love the world and want to do the same things as the world and because the word ‘Christian’ is in front of it, they think that it’s ok to practice and that it can’t hurt and that God approves it. But when people, who claim to be Christians, approve of these pagan doctrines and practices, doesn’t mean that God also approves these pagan doctrines and practices. God is very clear in His Word about pagan practices and the world (Li tou: ‘Èske ou ka separe espirityèl la soti nan filozofi lès ak pratik?).
And so the devil has acted upon the will, wishes, and desires of carnal Christians and originated a.o. Christian meditation, Atansyon kretyen, Scanner kò kretyen yo, Christian massage therapy, trigger-point therapy, Christian yoga, and established Christian spiritual wellness centers, so that people, who claim to be Christians, can experience the same wellness treatments like the world, but only under other names.
They think they have found alternatives for mindfulness, meditasyon, yoga, terapi masaj, akuponktur, reiki, elatriye., and that they can practice it without any spiritual danger and without feeling guilty towards God.
Sepandan, the spiritual aspect is still connected to these carnal philosophies, pratik, teknik, ak metòd, whereby they shall not help them to find rest and to experience inner peace, pito, they shall experience more anxiety, toumant, mental anguish, epi chaos in their lives.
They can believe and think whatever they want and ease their conscious by believing that it’s spiritually harmless, but the ruler of this world is a liar and what he promises is not true, Men, yon manti. And because many are not truly born again and don’t walk after the Word and the Spirit and don’t discern the spirits, but are carnal, they believe the devil’s disguised lies and enter his crooked ways and think they will get what they want and what is promised to them. But they shall receive the exact opposite from him.
What happens when you become involved with the darkness
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace (Ezayi 59:8)
Tout moun, who becomes involved with doctrines and practices that derive from the kingdom of darkness becomes involved with the devil. Instead of rest and peace, the turmoil, enkyetid, and mental anguish shall only increase and by allowing the powers of darkness into their lives, they will be brought further into destruction and eventually be destroyed
The people shall become lukewarm towards Jesus Christ and the things of the Kingdom of God and shall allow sin (seksyèl seksyèl, adiltè, fònikasyon, idolatri, elatriye.) e pèsevere nan peche.
Anplis de sa, they shall become unhappy, enkyete, rebèl, agitated, fache, down-casted, rushed, ensiste, and experience depression, insomnia and shall blame God, Moun yo, the surroundings, and/or situations, while they are responsible for their own actions and the fruit of their actions (Li tou: 'Sa w simen w ap rekòlte' ak 'Sispann blame Bondye!’)
Instead of walking on the way of God, they have entered self-chosen ways and, Jis tankou mond lan, refuse to lay down their flesh by faith and regeneration in Christ and to wete vye granmoun lan e pou mete nouvo nonm lan. Se poutèt sa, they will experience the same malè kòm mond lan.
The Way to enter God’s rest and experience the peace of God
But God forbid that I should glory, sove sou kwa Jezikri, Seyè nou an, pa moun ki lemonn te kloure sou kwa pou mwen, epi mwen bay mond lan. Paske, nan Jezikri, ni sikonsizyon an pa itil anyen, ni moun ki pa sikonsi, but a new creature.Ak tout moun ki mache dapre règ sa a, lapè sou yo, ak pitye, ak sou pèp Izrayèl Bondye a (Galat 6:14-16)
There is only one Way to antre nan repo Bondye and to experience the peace of God, ki pase tout konpreyansyon, and that’s through Jesus Christ and by faith and regeneration in Him and by putting off the old man (vyann) epi mete nouvo nonm lan (santiman).
Only through regeneration in Christ you can become a son of God and see and enter the Kingdom of God, whereby you no longer belong to the devil, since you have laid down your flesh.
Nan Kris la, ou vin tounen yon nouvo kreyasyon. Se poutèt sa, you shall no longer live, the way you lived before, when the devil was your father and you did the will and desires of your father.
But now that you have become a son of God and belong to God and made a choice to follow Jesus Christ, you shall do the will of God.
This means that it’s no longer your way but Fason li, no longer your thoughts but Panse li, not your truth but His Truth, not your words but His words, not your opinion but His opinion, not your will but Volonte li.
Regeneration and following Jesus, means a complete surrender and submission to Jesus Christ; Pawòl la.
Jesus was fully yielded to the Father and spent much time with the Father. Jesus spoke the words of the Father and learned from the Father and did what He had seen the Father do. And so Jesus walked in the Name of His Father after the Spirit in His will.
The words of Jesus are spirit and live and bring forth peace
It is the spirit that quickeneth; kò a pa sèvi anyen: Mo ke mwen pale pou ou, Yo se lespri, Epi yo se lavi (Jan 6:63)
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly (Amòs 5:10).
The world didn’t receive Jesus Christ, because the words Jesus spoke testified of the evil works of the wicked (nan. Jan 7:7)
Jezi di, His words are spirit and life, but for many, the words of Jesus were not spirit and life and didn’t bring forth peace but the opposite. Because His words meant the death of their flesh and its works. And since many were not willing to lay down the works of the flesh they rejected Jesus and His words. Epi sa a toujou ka a.
Paske nan reyalite a, that only a few people are truly born again and lay down the flesh and walk after the Spirit, which means to walk according to the Word in the will of God, only a few will truly enter God’s rest and experience the peace of God in their lives.
Many people think that they have entered God’s rest, men an reyalite, they have not. Because if they would truly have entered God’s rest they would experience the peace of God and the joy of God in their lives.
But many don’t experience the peace of God and the joy of God in their lives, but live in fear, toumant, distress and are worried, fache, down cast and experience anxiety, estrès, depresyon, elatriye.
And because they refuse to follow the way of the Word and swiv Jezikri and become born again and put off the flesh, they rely on the wisdom and knowledge of the world and try to obtain rest and inner peace in their lives through natural means and by applying Filozofi lès, carnal technics and methods.
But Jesus Christ is the Only Way to enter God’s rest and to experience the peace of God. Pa gen okenn lòt fason! If someone comes with another doctrine and another way that deviates from the Word, then the church should reject that doctrine and that way, instead of allowing it in the church (Li tou: 'Is there only one Way to eternal salvation? epi ‘Doktrin move lespri yo ap touye legliz la').
The grace and peace be multiplied through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ
Simon Pyè, yon sèvitè ak yon apot Jezikri, pou moun ki te jwenn yon lafwa ki gen anpil valè avèk nou grasa jistis Bondye ak Sovè nou an, Jezikri.: Gras ak lapè ka miltipliye pou nou grasa konesans Bondye a, ak Jezi, Seyè nou an (2 Pyè 1:1-2)
Ak lapè Bondye a, ki pase tout konpreyansyon, Se pou nou kenbe kè nou ak lespri nou grasa Jezi Kris la (Filipyen 4:7)
If you have entered God’s rest by faith and regeneration in Christ, you shall experience God’s peace and you shall stay in God’s peace by staying faithful to God and by abiding in the Word and by walking after the Spirit and by seeking those things which above, Ki kote Kris la chita, instead of seeking the things on this earth.
Through your personal relationship with God the Father, Jezi Kri, and the Holy Spirit and your experiential knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, our Lord, the sanctifying grace and peace shall be multiplied unto you.
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