Akeh wong Kristen sing nandhang sindrom ulat. Mungkin sampeyan mikir, apa sindrom uler? Aku ora tau krungu. Ing artikel iki, Sindrom uler lan sabab lan gejala bakal ditutupi, and what Christians can do to get rid of caterpillar syndrome.
What is caterpillar syndrome?
Caterpillar syndrome is a spiritual condition, that many Christians suffer from. A Christian has become a new creation through regeneration in Christ, Nanging, due to caterpillar syndrome a Christian keeps thinking and living as the old creation.
Dheweke confess with their mouth that they have become a new creation, while in their heart they believe that they are still the old creation. Because of their way of thinking and believing, they live after the flesh as the old creation.
You can compare this with a caterpillar that has become a butterfly but still looks at itself as a caterpillar and therefore thinks and lives as a caterpillar.
Have you ever seen a butterfly living and crawling on the ground?
When you see a butterfly sitting on the ground that slowly moves forward, you know something is off. A butterfly is supposed to fly and sit on flowers, plants, and trees instead of the ground.
When you see a butterfly on the ground, you know that something is wrong.
It’s the same with Christians, who say they are born again but live like the world in sin.
How can you become a Christian?
There is only one way to become a Christian, which is by faith and regeneration in Christ; mratobat (and the cleansing of sins and iniquities by the blood of Jesus), Baptisan, lan nampa Roh Suci. (Maca uga: Apa telung unsur sing dibutuhake kanggo lair anyar?).
A Kristen minangka titah anyar (mung lan santo) lan ora ana titah lawas (wong dosa (menyang. Tumindak 13:39, wong Romawi 3:24, 5, 1 Korinta 6:11, 2 Korinta 5:21, Galatia 2:16, Titus 3:7)).
Saiki, Ana akeh wong, sing ngomong yen dheweke Kristen, Nanging aja ndeleng awake dhewe dadi wong suci, ayo nyebut awake dhewe mursid.
Dheweke nganggep awake dhewe wong dosa lan nyeluk wong dosa.
Nanging wong dosa yaiku wong, Sapa sing tiwas marang Gusti Allah lan urip saka negara sing tiba ing pambrontakan marang Gusti Allah kanthi ora setya marang tembunge.
Wong dosa ora urip suci lan ora mlaku kanthi tuhu marang Sabdanipun Gusti ing pepadhang. Nanging wong dosa urip ing pambrontakan lan mlaku ing dosa kanthi ora setya marang Sabdanipun Gusti, ing pepeteng.
Kabeh wong lair dadi wong dosa, nanging ora kabeh wong tetep dadi wong dosa
A Kristen ora dadi wong dosa maneh
Saben wong Kristen dadi wong dosa, but is saved by the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
sopo, who became a Christian after the new birth in Christ is no longer a sinner, but has been made righteous through the justification in Christ and has become a saint. ( (menyang, Tumindak 9:13, 32, 41; 26:10, wong Romawi 1:7; 8:27; 15:25; 16:2, 15, 1 Korinta 1:2; 6:1-2; 14:33, Efesus 1:1, 1:18, 3:18, Filipi 1:1, 4:21, Kolose 1:2-26, 1 Tesalonika 3:13, Wahyu 5:8).
A Christian is healed; reconciled with God lan restored in his position (in the spiritual realm from a fallen position to a perfect position in Christ) and belongs to God instead of the world.
Because a Christian doesn’t belong to the world through the flesh, but to God through the Spirit.
Mulane, a Christian shall no longer bear the same fruit as the world (pakaryan saka daging), Minangka wong dosa (who serves the devil and the flesh), but live as a righteous one, A santo (who serves Jesus Christ and the Spirit) lan metokake woh.
Some people are ignorant concerning the truth of the transformation of the old creation into the new creation on earth and keep walking unconsciously as the old creation.
Other people know the truth but choose deliberately to live as the old creation, because they love the works of the flesh and won’t and can’t get rid of them.
What is the cause of caterpillar syndrome in the lives of Christians?
The cause of caterpillar syndrome in the lives of Christians is a wrong doctrine from wrong teachers, whereby a wrong mindset and expectation are created.
Many church leaders still are (or live as) caterpillars, because they’re not born again or because of ignorance regarding the truth or they chose deliberately to live as caterpillars. Oalah, they think and live as caterpillars.
Yen pimpinan gereja isih mikir lan urip minangka ulat, Kepiye carane bisa ngarep-arep para pamirsa ing pasamuwan kanggo mikir lan tumindak dadi kupu? Mokal! Mulane, Akeh wong Kristen sing urip kaya ulat.
Khutbah fokus ing uler, Dene para pamirsa ing jemaah ora ana Uler nanging butterflies.
Liwat salah martakake kupu-kupu mikir lan urip dadi ulat lan aja nindakake apa sing diarani Gusti Allah kanggo nindakake lan nggawe dheweke kanggo nyipta kembang lan nimbulake urip lan nyengkuyung.
Akeh wong Kristen dirusak dening sindrom ulat
Dheweke tetep mangan, nanging ora diisi. Padha fokus ing perkara sing salah lan pasif lan nglawan mungsuh sing salah, whereby they are an easy target for their true enemies that can continue their wicked works and attack and destroy them (eat them).
The butterflies see their wings, but because of the caterpillar syndrome, they’re afraid to use them and to fly. They’re afraid to fall, while God made the butterfly in such a way that the butterfly can’t fall.
And so they move slowly on the ground, trying to survive as butterflies on the ground, while they have wings to fly above the situations and circumstances and dodge their enemies.
The great miracle of the transformation from the caterpillar into the butterfly has worked out nothing, it only ensured that the butterfly looks better than the caterpillar in the reflection of the puddle, Nanging iku.
God made the new creation by His power
The transformation from the caterpillar into the butterfly is miraculous! No human being can turn a caterpillar into a butterfly. Ilmu has not succeeded in replicating God and making a butterfly from a caterpillar that doesn’t move on the ground anymore but flies in the sky,
God’s power is needed for this miraculous transformation. Just as God’s power was needed for cipta lan ing Wungune Yesus Kristus saka wong mati. And God’s power is still needed for the rebirth of people and the resurrection of the new creation after man dies, whereby man receives a new resurrection body (menyang. 1 Korinta 4:20;15, 1 Tesalonika 1:5).
If we consider the visible transformation of the caterpillar to the butterfly a truth and fact, why do people question the spiritual transformation of the old creation into the new creation?
People doubt and question it, because they are carnal and not spiritual. Therefore they reason from a pikiran karnal instead from a renewed mind and the Spirit of God.
Because they are unspiritual and have not entered the Kingdom of God through regeneration, they can’t see, nor understand and comprehend the things of the Kingdom of God. Minangka asil, they don’t preach the things of the Kingdom of God and people stay ignorant.
A caterpillar crawls, a butterfly flies
The caterpillar lives on the ground and lives for himself and doesn’t do anything except eat. But the butterfly that has a new body with wings to fly (after emerging) pollinates flowers.
Just like the old creation lives after the lusts and desires of the flesh, but the new creation, whose body is buried in baptism and whose spirit is raised from the dead by the power of God, lives after the Spirit and preaches the gospel and the way to eternal life and call the people to mratobat.
The old creation is a sinner and subject to the devil and bound through the flesh to sin and death.
A sinner does sin from his nature and serves the devil, dosa, lan seda. Upah dosa yaiku pati (wong Romawi 6:23).
The new creation has become a saint (pisah saka donya lan bekti marang Gusti Allah) and is resurrected in Christ and the spiritual realm and hierarchy in Christ (who has all power and authority in heaven and earth), above the devil, dosa, lan seda.
The new creation is delivered from the power of the devil and redeemed from sin and death and no longer lives in the covenant with the kingdom of death (the kingdom where the death reigns, Nanging Kratoning Allah, where Jesus Christ is seated on the throne and life reigns.
A change of body (from caterpillar to butterfly) and living environment (from the ground to the air) means a change of enemies. The enemies of the caterpillar are no longer enemies of the butterfly.
We see the same phenomenon in the lives of the people of the Old Covenant (Purwaning Dumadi – John) lan Prajanjian Anyar (Tumindak – Wahyu).
The enemies of the old creation vs the enemies of the new creation
The people in the Old Covenant were unspiritual and lived from their fallen state separated from God. Ing Hukum Musa not only revealed God’s holiness, alam, lan bakal, but also sin.
The Law of Moses and all its (Kurban) laws and rituals were needed to atone the sins and iniquities of the people of Israel and to walk holy in God’s will according to the law of the Kingdom of God.
Wong-wong ing Prajanjian Anyar yaiku titah anyar, Kanthi iman ing Kristus lan regenerasi (mratobat, Baptisan, lan nampa Roh Suci) dening kekuwatane Gusti Allah.
Padha sregep karo Gusti Allah lan dadi spiritual lan urip saka posisi sing anyar ing Kristus kanthi sipat anyar kasebut sawise semangat, ing ngendi dheweke ora mlaku maneh ing dosa, Nanging kanthi kabeneran miturut karsane Gusti Allah lan angger-angger Kratoning Allah.
Dheweke ora kalebu ing jagad iki lan ora manggon sawise daging kanthi gething karo Gusti Allah kanthi ora setya karo tembung kasebut. Nanging dheweke kagungane Gusti Allah lan dadi mungsuh Iblis lan jagad lan urip manut marang pangandikaning Allah.
Wong anyar ora perang nglawan daging lan getih
They were transferred from the darkness into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and didn’t war from their flesh and didn’t wrestle against flesh and blood anymore, but they warred from the Spirit and wrestled against principalities, Powers, panguwasa pepetenging jagad iki, and against spiritual wickedness in high places (menyang. Kolose 1:13, Efesus 6:10).
That was their new battlefield and that were their new enemies.
It was the same battlefield where Jesus Christ fought. And the same enemies of Jesus, who didn’t belong to the world and the ruler of the world (setan) but God and the Kingdom of heaven.
Ing armor and weapons they used, ora karna (kadonyan) Nanging spiritual (swarga).
Liwat mripate sing cerah, Kawruh, lan kawicaksanan, Wong-wong mau padha perang lan netepi tembung lan dhawuhe Yesus Kristus King lan Highpriest saka Prajanjian Anyar, lan mlaku ing dalan kabeneran ing karsane Gusti Allah.
Nanging, Mungsuh-musuh Gusti Allah ora mandheg. Dheweke wis nindakake kabeh sing bisa mlebu gereja lan najis pasamuwan, Pedhot pasamuwan saka tembung, lan nggawe pasamuwan pasif liwat piwulang palsu, sing ora nggawa wong-wong sing luwih cedhak karo Gusti Allah, nanging luwih adoh saka dheweke.
Dheweke ajaran palsu Aja wicara ing perang spiritual nanging korban, lan aja tumuju wong mursid lan urip langgeng, Nanging dosa lan pati.
Ana kupu-kupu ing saben ulat
Ana kupu-kupu ing saben ulat. Anggere ulat ora dipangan manuk, nematoda, or other insects or stepped on by humans, the caterpillar still can become a butterfly.
A caterpillar can’t do it by himself, the power of God is needed. If the caterpillar believes and does what needs to be done, then the caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
Once the caterpillar has become a butterfly, it’s up to the butterfly to renew its mind and change its life and no longer think and live as a caterpillar, but as a butterfly. And to do what a butterfly is supposed to do, namely pollinating flowers so that they’ll be propagated.
In every person lies the ability to become a new creation
In every person lies the ability to become a new creation (wong anyar). As long as people live, they can become the new man.
The old man can’t become the new man by his own power; by a confession, Pasinaon, miturut sakumpulan aturan, precepts or a step-by-step plan, anggota pasamuwan, lan sapiturute.
A person can’t change anything about his fallen state, Semula dosa, and separation from God, himself. Jesus Christ is needed to restore, waras, and reconcile man. The transformation can only be done by the power of God.
Only by faith can the old creation (sampeyan tiba) dadi titah anyar (wong anyar)
Only when the old creation believes in the finished karya nebus of Jesus Christ for fallen man, and believes in the power of His blood and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, only then can the old creation become a new creation through regeneration in Christ.
Not after death, but during life on earth. Because the spiritual transformation starts here on earth.
The glorified can only be given after death, Nanging, to receive this, the spiritual transformation must have taken place on earth.
Christians bear the Name of Christ and have become in Him a new creation, old things have passed away and all things have become new.
Therefore there should be education for the Penciptaan anyar instead of amusing Bible stories from the Old Testament about the old creation for the old creation.
The new man and the new spiritual position must be taught, so that Christians no longer wander as helpless imaginary sinners through life and persevere in sin and have a hard time moving forward as defeated ones and victims of their feelings and circumstances, and situations in life and the attacks of both people as the principalities, Powers, panguwasa pepetenging jagad iki, and against spiritual wickedness in high places.
But it should be that Christians, sing lair saka Gusti Allah, live as saints and righteous ones as sons and daughters of the Most High God.
It’s time Christians awake and be delivered from the caterpillar syndrome
It’s time that Christians live, not as victims but as victors in Christ. Not as faint-hearted, but as bold lions. Not as caterpillars, who don’t do anything except eat leaves, but as butterflies, who go in the power of God and fly on His wind and pollinate flowers and bring forth and sustain life. (Maca uga: The whole creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God).
Open the Bible and study the New Testament, get to know the Yesus Yesus Kristus and the Father and His will with the help of the Holy Spirit. Find out who you have become in Christ and what His purpose is for your life.
Trust Him and dare to spread your wings and do what you are called to do in His power.
'Dadi uyahing bumi’
