Dalam hal ini dinyatakan kasih Allah terhadap kita, karena Allah mengutus Anak-Nya yang tunggal ke dunia, agar kita bisa hidup melalui dia (1 Jo 4:9)
The final fruit, that I would like to discuss is the fruit love. I could have begun with the fruit love, but then I wouldn’t have to discuss the other fruits anymore. Because if you walk in a self-sacrificial love, you will walk after the Spirit and bear automatically the fruit of the Spirit.
Ketika kamu dilahirkan kembali, you will have the same Spirit as God and Jesus have; Roh Kudus. His divine nature dwells inside of you. Itu pria duniawi tua has ruled all your life, therefore it’s time to Menunda orang tua itu Dan kenakan pria baru itu.
When you don’t put off the old man and don’t put on the new man, dagingmu (the evil carnal nature) will keep reigning in your life, and Gods divine nature will never become visible. Therefore it’s important, ke menyalibkan daging Anda (put to death the evil sin nature), untuk memperbarui pikiran Anda dengan Firman Tuhan (because your carnal mind has to change), and feed your spirit instead of your flesh. Saat Anda melakukan hal-hal ini, then Gods divine nature shall become visible in your life. You won’t rebel against God and His Word anymore. But you shall love Him with all your heart, pikiran dan jiwa, and therefore keep His commandments, and walk in love.
In this blog post I would like to discuss the fruit love in the life of God. How He showed His love towards His people in the Old Testament.
Tuhan adalah cinta
When we go to the Old Testament and read about God; about His works and relationship with His people, we see His great righteous love. God only wanted one thing, and that was to take care of His people and to have a relationship with them.
It all started in Taman Eden, where God created man and wanted to have a relationship with them. Tetapi they became disobedient, and disobeyed His commandment and therefore they sinned against God.
Roh manusia telah mati, because sin entered, and sin became part of the nature of man. Therefore the nature of man became evil and God and man were separated from that time on.
Tapi Tuhan, in His mercy and love, had a (sementara) solution for the iniquities and sins of man. Dia sacrificed the blood of animals to make an atonement for their sins and iniquities.
God dedicated Himself to His people
God dedicated Himself to His people and took care of them. While the love of God was clearly shown to His people, His people often went their own way. berapa kali, did His people became disobedient to Him and to His will? How many times did they lust after other things and worshipped other gods and idols, instead of obeying their one true God and worshipped their God?
Melalui tindakan mereka, you could tell, that God was not enough for them. The love of God was not the love that they wanted.
Murmur and complain
Many times His people murmured and complained about little things, because they didn’t get what they wanted. But by their stubbornness, they hurt God.
The people of God wanted to submit to every image, idol, god, human being etc., except to the Almighty God, Siapa yang menciptakan langit dan bumi, and created them.
God’s people didn’t rely on Him
Why did they behave that way and why did they continuously rebel against God? Because they were carnal. They wanted a visible God. Dewa, that they could touch and worship. They just couldn’t rely on, and trust their ‘invisible’ God.
So what did God do? Karena besarnya kasih sayang-Nya, Dia memberi mereka Hukum-Nya, written on a tablet, so that His will, and the unseen world became visible for them. God made His will and His nature known to them. Karena manusia duniawi could not understand the spiritual world and His Kingdom. They could not understand the Spirit, because their spirit was death.
By making His will known to the people, He made Himself known to His people. Sehingga, nobody can say, when they stand before the throne of God: “tapi Tuhan, we didn’t know that, you have never told us.” TIDAK, Tuhan membuat His whole will known in the written law, He didn’t hide anything.
But the written law, given by Moses, was also not enough for His people. While they had confessed and promised to keep His commandments, they became rebellious. They kept making idols and kept worshipping them. Mereka tidak melakukannya memperbarui pikiran mereka, with the words of their God. But they held on to their old culture, traditions and lifestyle, while they lived in Egypt, which was a country with many idols.
God appointed judges and kings
Later on, God appointed judges, but His people remained dissatisfied. They wanted a king, just like the gentiles. In His great love, God warned His people about the consequences; what they had to do for their king. But His people were not moved by the consequences, and still wanted a king. They wanted, what the gentiles had. So God gave them a king
It didn’t take long, before this first king Saul became disobedient to Gods word. This carnal king thought to please God by becoming disobedient to Him, and to execute his own will. Dia berpikir, that he knew it better than the Almighty God.
But God was not pleased at all with Saul, and took his kingship and gave it to David. Setelah Daud, many kings came; some obeyed and served God, and others didn’t.
God rejected by His people
Karena Tuhan begitu mengasihi dunia, bahwa dia memberikan Putranya yang tunggal, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, tetapi mempunyai hidup yang kekal (Jn 3:16)
His people were still not satisfied; not with the judges, not with the prophets, and not with the kings.
Then God made His greatest love gesture; He sent His own Son to the earth in order to free man from the devils rulership, ke free them from their evil sin nature and to reconcile man back to God. So that God could have a personal relationship with man, just like God had with Adam before He sinned.
But even with this gesture, His people were not satisfied and turned Him down.
Ya, Gods own people rejected Jesus and ensured, that He was sentenced to death.
God loved His people so much, that out of this love, He gave His only Son for them. But once again God was rejected by His people.
Dalam hal ini dinyatakan kasih Allah terhadap kita, karena Allah mengutus Anak-Nya yang tunggal ke dunia, agar kita bisa hidup melalui dia (1 Jo 4:9)
Because He was rejected by His own people, a door was opened for the gentiles. Tuhan melihat, that no matter what He did, it would never be enough. His people would never become satisfied and always lusted after, and desired those thing, which the gentiles had. But no matter what happened, or how many times God was rejected; the love of God remained and still remains.
Love of God
Karena fakta, that His people rejected Jesus Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ came to the gentiles. Dan sekarang, because of the love of God, everyone in this world has the opportunity to become a son of God, by believing in His Son Jesus Christ, dan untuk dilahirkan kembali by the Spirit of the living God.
Satu-satunya hal, you have to do is untuk melepaskan hidup Anda sendiri; Kehendak Anda, dan mengikuti Yesus. Are you willing to do that?
In my next post, I will continue with the fruit love in the life of Jesus; how He walked in love and what this (divine) love really means. Pada hari-hari ini, we often have a wrong perception of the meaning of love. Therefore it’s important to know the real meaning of love, menurut Firman Tuhan.
'Jadilah garam dunia’
