Iblis adalah dewa dunia dan telah menipu seluruh dunia dengan kebohongannya. Hanya itu, yang karena iman kepada Yesus Kristus dan kebenaran Allah dilahirkan kembali di dalam Kristus dan dipindahkan dari kegelapan menuju terang, tidak akan percaya dan tertipu kebohongannya. Setidaknya, Begitulah seharusnya. Namun, iblis tetaplah seorang penipu dan di setiap zaman dia membuka tasnya yang penuh tipu muslihat dan dengan sedikit penyesuaian berhasil menipu umat Kristiani dengan kebohongannya. Dia punya banyak cara, tapi tiga di antaranya adalah yang paling sukses. Apa 3 cara-cara yang digunakan iblis untuk menipu orang-orang Kristen dan membuat mereka tunduk pada dosa?
Iblis menuntun orang Kristen dari Roh ke dalam daging
Iblis mempunyai satu tujuan dan itu adalah untuk membawa orang-orang Kristen dari Roh ke dalam daging.
Selama orang Kristen, siapa a ciptaan baru di dalam Kristus, menaati firman Tuhan, mereka berjalan dengan iman.
Namun, segera setelah mereka meninggalkan dan tidak menaati firman Tuhan dan mengandalkan daging mereka (perasaan mereka, wawasan sendiri, pengetahuan, memahami, pengalaman, and worldly wisdom) they no longer walk by faith but by sight and left the faith.
They no longer act by faith from the Spirit according to what God said and is written in the Bible.
But they act in unbelief from the flesh according to what the world and the human intellect say, and what they see, mendengar, and feel.
As soon as people act from the flesh and walk after the flesh, mereka akan tertipu. They shall succumb and give into sin and tolerate and accept sin, dan karena itu, bow to sin
The devil uses family ties
As written in a previous blog, ‘Melalui pintu gerbang mana musuh memasuki rumah Tuhan?‘ the devil uses family members to put Christians under pressure and cause them to leave the words and commandments of God and disobey God and bow to sin.
Christians can oppose lying, pencurian, pemujaan berhala, zina, perbuatan zina, perceraian, hidup bersama tanpa menikah, homoseksualitas, abortus, dll.. but when their father, ibu, saudari, saudara laki-laki, (Grand)son or (Grand)daughter commits these things, will they still stick to their conviction?
Iblis menyoroti dosa dari sudut yang lain
Taktik lain yang digunakan iblis untuk membenarkan dosa dan menyebabkan orang Kristen tunduk pada dosa, adalah menyoroti dosa dari sudut lain. Taktik iblis ini bekerja pada Hawa untuk menggoda dia dan Adam untuk berbuat dosa. Dan taktik ini masih berhasil.
Allah melarang manusia memakan buah dari pohon pengetahuan baik dan jahat. Ketika iblis mendekati manusia, dia sudah tahu apa yang Tuhan katakan kepada manusia, Namun, dia masih mengajukan pertanyaan yang memutarbalikkan firman Tuhan.
Hawa mendengarkan suara ular dan mulai berbicara dengan ular itu.
Eva memberi tahu ular itu apa yang Tuhan katakan.
Beliau menyoroti perintah mengenai larangan memakan buah dari pohon pengetahuan baik dan jahat dari Tuhan serta firman dan sudut pandang-Nya.
Iblis menyoroti alasan perintah tersebut dari sudut pandang lain; sudut pandangnya. Katanya, bahwa Tuhan tidak ingin mereka memakan buah dari pohon pengetahuan tentang yang baik dan yang jahat, karena mereka akan menjadi seperti Tuhan, yang hanya sebagian benar.
Siapa yang Hawa percayai? Dari sudut pandang Allah, memakan buah itu salah dan menyebabkan kematian, Namun, dari sudut pandang iblis, memakan buah itu tidak salah dan tidak menyebabkan kematian seperti yang Tuhan katakan, tetapi menuntun untuk menjadi seperti Tuhan, mengetahui yang baik dan yang jahat.
Tuhan berkata bahwa manusia akan mati, tetapi iblis mengatakan bahwa manusia akan menjadi seperti Tuhan
Tuhan berkata bahwa mereka akan mati, tapi iblis berkata, bahwa mereka tidak akan mati, tapi jadilah seperti Tuhan.
Pada awalnya, Hawa menganggap buah itu jahat dan terlarang. Dia mematuhi perintah Tuhan dan menjauhi buah itu sampai ular itu mendekatinya dan menyoroti buah terlarang dari sudut yang berbeda..
Tiba-tiba, buahnya tidak terlihat jahat lagi. Melalui kata-kata iblis yang menipu, buah itu terlihat menarik dan enak untuk dimakan.
Manusia tahu bahwa kematian ada di dalam buah itu dan memakan buah itu menyebabkan kematian, tetapi manusia mempercayai kata-kata bohong yang menipu dari iblis dan memetik buah dari pohon serta memakan buah terlarang.
Manusia mempercayai kebohongan iblis dan tunduk pada dosa dengan segala konsekuensinya
Iblis meyakinkan manusia dengan perkataannya. Manusia mempercayai kebohongan iblis dan menaati perkataannya serta tunduk pada dosa, dimana mereka sesungguhnya menjadi seperti Tuhan dalam arti mengetahui yang baik dan yang jahat. Namun, the price they paid was high.
Because man had not become what man thought he would become. Eating the forbidden fruit was maybe a temporary pleasure, but the consequences were catastrophic and didn’t deliver the expected result.
The temporary pleasure soon changed into shame, takut, kenajisan, separation from God and the realization of losing eternal life.
By faith in the lie of the devil and the disobedience to the words of God, and enjoying the forbidden fruit, the connection with God broke, man fell from his position and lost his dominion, kematian masuk, whereby the spirit of man died and came under the authority of death and at the appointed time the death would get man and bring man to his kingdom; kerajaan orang mati.
The seed of man was no longer holy but corrupt, whereby the fruit of man carried the death.
To restore this misstep and act of disobedience, itu Seed of the woman, Yesus, came and defeated the devil, dosa, dan kematian, and restored the fallen state, and changed the corruption of man to a complete perfect man through the birth of the new man in Him.
The Word and the Holy Spirit highlight the truth from God and testify of sin, kebenaran, dan penilaian
Firman dan Roh Kudus, Siapa yang tinggal di dalam ciptaan baru, highlights the words and commandments from God, Pencipta Surga dan Bumi dan semua di dalamnya, and testify of God’s holiness and reprove the world of sin, righteousness and of judgment.
They testify with the resurrected spirit of the born again believer of God’s truth, dan itu melakukan kehendak Tuhan, and obeying His words lead to eternal life, but that disobedience to God and His Word and doing the works of the flesh are evil and lead to death.
Namun, the devil is the adversy of God and he highlights the words and commandments of God from his viewpoint, pengetahuan dan kebijaksanaan (the wisdom and knowledge of the world and the carnal man), and from the carnal mind, the senses and feelings, whereby people look at God’s words and commandments from a carnal viewpoint (a worldly viewpoint) and as a result don’t believe but reject God’s words and commandments and believe the lies of the devil instead and accept and tolerate sin.
This highlighting is done by the devil in many ways: through people, pikiran, knowledge and wisdom of the world, (sosial)media, and other channels of the world.
Iblis datang sebagai malaikat terang
The devil also comes as an angel of light, and through the false teachings of his servants or through a word (nubuat), dream or vision, tries to seduce Christians to view sin from a different angle (from man’s point of view and the flesh instead of God and the Spirit) and cause them to justify sin and consider sin as normal, while thinking it’s from God. (A.O. 2 Korintus 11:13-15; 1 Yohanes 3:7-10; 2 Yohanes 1:7-11)
God never opposes His Word
But God shall never oppose His Word. Words coming from ‘the Spirit’ that contradict the Bible should not be believed, tapi ditolak. Bagaimanapun, Jesus says that the Word He spoke shall judge everyone.
The Word is the truth and stands forever. Therefore the Bible is trustworthy and should be believed above the words, nubuatan, Visi, wahyu, and dreams that oppose the words in the Bible.
The sinner playing the victim
Dan yang terakhir namun tidak kalah pentingnya, we have the sinner playing the victim to condone sin. This tactic still works, not only in Christianity but also in the world. Just play the victim and you get what you want and push your agenda. How does this work in the church?
The devil sends a spirit of self-pity that ensures that the person, yang bertahan dalam dosa, feel victimized and plays the victim.
Orangnya, yang hidup dalam dosa, tells an emotional story full of self-pity and tears and come up with all kinds of excuses to exonerate himself and gain understanding for the sin.
This way the person pulls on the feelings and emotions of fellow Christians (termasuk pemimpin gereja).
Dan seterusnya, the devil takes them in.
Now it’s all about whether the fellow Christians are born again and spiritual people or unregenerate and carnal people.
If fellow Christians are spiritual people, they are led by the Word and the Holy Spirit and obey and keep the words of God. They keep doing God’s will despite the resistance, kritik, persecution or the walking away or losing of people.
If fellow Christians are carnal people (natural people) they shall be led by the world and the flesh (especially their senses and feelings (what they see, mendengar, and feel)) and feel sorry for the person and sympathize and compromise and tolerate the sin of the person and embrace the sin in the church.
Namun, there is no excuse for someone to sin and keep sinning.
Examples of excuses that are used to condone and justify sin are:
Some examples of the many excuses that are used to condone and justify sin are::
- Single Christians have their sexual needs. Therefore they are allowed to menonton film porno and masturbate.
- Christian males may watch porn, masturbasi and commit fornication, because according to science, men have more sexual needs and lust that must be satisfied.
- Christians may divorce when their marriage is on a rocky road and they are unhappy. It’s certainly not God’s will that a Christian suffers and goes through rough periods in marriage.
- What is so evil about he being together with a man? He can’t help it, he is born that way
- Children are allowed to rebel and stand against their parents, because they should have their own voice in the home, and when they become older it’s normal, because they go through masa pubertas.
- Little children are allowed to lie, mencuri, and push or hit others, they are just children.
- What is wrong with abortus? You don’t want (muda) people to throw away their future, bukan begitu? You don’t want people to have an undesired child that they are not ready for, or doesn’t fit in their lives, or remind them of…, bukan begitu? atau …?
God is not pleased with people, yang hidup dalam pemberontakan dan ketidaktaatan kepada-Nya
Christians can be led by their feelings and condone sin by sympathizing the sinners, but God doesn’t.
Many Christians have created an image of Jesus being a good holy man, who embraces everyone and tolerates all behavior and condones sin and gives what Christians ask Him for. But have these Christians ever studied the Bible themselves?
Have they studied the four gospels and the Book of Revelation? Or have they created their image of Jesus by hear say; by reading books, seeing movies and series about Jesus, and hearing the modern preaching that is full of own opinions, temuan, doktrin palsu Dan occult elements?
I think that many people, who call themseves Christians, don’t have a clear understanding of Who God is and the serioousness of sin.
Through the redemptive work, Jesus dealt with the sinful flesh, who bears the fruit of death, yang merupakan dosa
Jesus suffered and died to deal with the sinful flesh of man that carries the death and bears the fruit of death, yang merupakan dosa, and not to justify sin.
Jesus broke the power of sin and death and gave the power to every born again believer, yang lahir dari Tuhan, to reign over sin and death and to say ‘no’ to the will, nafsu dan keinginan daging, if the believer wants to. Because that’s what it’s all about; the will of the believer.
Does the believer truly wants to get rid of his rebellion and disobedience to God and put off the unclean works of the flesh or does the believer want to keep doing the works of the flesh and keep coming up and using all kinds of excuses to keep the flesh alive and keep sinning, because the person loves the world and the works of the flesh?
The old creation does the wil and works of the flesh and lives in sin, but the new creation does the will and works of the Spirit and lives in righteousness
As long as people remain the old creation, they shall do the will of the corrupt flesh and bear the fruit of the flesh which is sin. Obeying the words and keeping the commandments of Jesus in the Bible shall be difficult and hard, because their nature wants to do something else.
But if people have become a new creation, they shall do the will of God and obey the Word and the Spirit. They shall live from their new nature and view the words and commandments of Jesus from God through the Spirit and obey them. Not because they have to, but because their new nature wants to.
'Jadilah garam dunia’
