Lan sampeyan, kang biyen dadi adoh lan dadi mungsuh ing atine marga saka panggawe ala, nanging saiki Panjenengané wis ngrukunaké. Ing badan daginge liwat pati, kanggo nampilake sampeyan suci lan tanpa cacad lan ora bisa disalahake ing ngarsane: Yen sampeyan tetep ing iman lelandhesan lan mapan, lan aja nganti adoh saka pangarep-arep saka Injil, kang wis padha kokrungu, lan sing diwartakké marang sakèhé titah ing sangisoré langit; Aku, Paulus, dadi abdiné (Kolose 1:21-23)
The old creation is a friend of the world but an enemy of God
He wong jina lan jina, Kowé ora ngerti nèk kekancan karo donya kuwi memungsuhan karo Gusti Allah? Mulané, sapa waé sing kepéngin dadi kanca karo donya, kuwi mungsuhé Gusti Allah (James 4:4)
Before you were saved and rukun karo Gusti Allah, through the blood of Jesus Christ, kanthi iman lan regenerasi ing Panjenengane (pati saka daging lan wunguné roh saka ing antarane wong mati), you were the old creation and belonged to the world.
You were alive to the world and a friend of the world. But at the same time, you were dead to God because of your wicked works. You lived in disobedience to God after the will of your flesh, as an enemy of God (Efesus 2:1-3).
You were carnal and had a pikiran karnal, which is enmity with God. That’s because a carnal mind doesn’t submit to God and His law, kang mujudake karsane. A carnal mind is prideful, mbrontak, and pernicious and does the will of the flesh.
Your wicked works (dosa) testified that you were an enemy of God and belonged to the world and the ruler of the world; setan
You were a son of the devil (lanang lan wadon) and his (dosa) nature dwelled in your flesh. Since you belonged to the devil, you listened to him and obeyed him, by living after the will, lusts, and desires of the flesh and doing wicked works.
Your mind was darkened and full of lies and deception that kept you in bondage
Reconciled in the body of Christ
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Amarga Panjenengane iku katentreman kita, Sapa kang ndadekake loro-lorone dadi siji, lan wis mbubrah tembok tengah pemisahan antarane kita; Sampun ical ing daging ing memungsuhan, malah angger-anggering dhawuh sing ana ing pranatan; kanggo nggawe ing awake saka loro dadi wong anyar, dadi rukun; Lan supaya Panjenengané bisa rukuna karo Gusti Allah ing badan siji liwat kayu salib, wis matèni mungsuh kuwi: Lan teka lan martakaké tentrem-rahayu marang kowé kang adoh, lan marang wong kang padha cedhak. Amarga marga saka Panjenengane, kita sakarone padha bisa sowan ing ngarsane Sang Rama dening Roh siji (Efesus 2:13-18)
But when you heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and His perfect work of redemption, you believed in Him, mratobat, and made Jesus Christ your Savior lan Gusti.
By faith in His sacrifice on the cross and His blood and the identification of yourself with His death and resurrection from the dead, liwat regenerasi, you became a new creation and were reconciled in the body of Christ to God.
God forgave all your sins and iniquities! Rahe Gusti Yesus Kristus, cleansed you from all your sins and iniquities.
Jesus Christ became your Substitute. Liwat sedanipun, Jesus abolished in His flesh the enmity between you and God, to present you holy unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.
The sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ made you holy
Liwat regenerasi ing Panjenengane, Sampeyan wis dadi titah anyar; A santo. You have been made holy and righteous, dadi ngono, you can walk in holiness (pisah saka donya lan bekti marang Gusti Allah), doing righteous works instead of wicked works (dosa).
A saint is not someone, who has been declared holy after his or her death by people, because of his or her works. But a saint is someone, sing wis dadi titah anyar; Putraning Allah (lanang lan wadon) in Jesus Christ through His blood and regeneration in Him and belongs to Him and walks after the Spirit in the will of God.
Penciptaan anyar yaiku santo, the old creation is a sinner. Therefore the works of a person testify whether a person is a new creation or the old creation. (Maca uga: ‘Do you always remain a sinner?').
A new creation walks in obedience to God in the will of God and does righteous works. The old creation walks in disobedience to God in the will of the flesh and does wicked works
The sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ made you unblameable and unreprovable
The blood of Jesus Christ is so powerful that it washed away all your sins and iniquities. By the blood of Jesus Christ you have been made unblameable and unreprovable. This means that He has made you without blame, without fault, tanpa titik, and without blemish. You have been cleansed and no one can accuse you anymore. Everything is under the blood of Jesus Christ.
Nanging kita, according to His promise, Goleki langit anyar lan bumi anyar, ing endi kabeneran. Mula, kinasih, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, tanpa titik, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things (2 Petrus 3:13-16)
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Korinta 1:8)
Bojo, tresna karo bojomu, even as Christ also loved the Church, lan menehi awake dhewe; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, ora duwe titik, utawa kisut, utawa apa wae; Nanging iku kudu suci lan tanpa cacad (Efesus 5:25-27)
No one can accuse you, as long as you walk after the Spirit in holiness and righteousness. Because Jesus will return for His Church; Badane, which is holy and without blemish, spot or wrinkle.
Continue in the faith grounded and settled
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, sing, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul (wong Ibrani 10:35-39)
As long as you stay in Him and continue in the faith grounded and settled, which means that you will walk by faith after the Spirit, instead of walking after the will of the flesh doing wicked works, you remain holy, unblameable, and unreproveable. (Maca uga: Apa aku bakal nemokake iman ing bumi? lan ‘Examine yourself, Apa sampeyan ana ing iman’.
But you have to watch that nothing and no one moves you away from the hope of the gospel. That’s your task and responsibility and no one else’s.
Saben dina, you decide what you say, what you do and where you spend your time on. You decide with what things you fill your mind.
If you spend more time on the things of the world, then the things of God and His Kingdom and fill your mind with the things and words of the world, you become world like and shall live like the world. But if you spend time on the things above and gawe anyar pikiranmu nganggo Sabda of God you become like the Word and live like the Word.
Faith is built upon God’s Word
God’s Word is the truth and faith is built upon God’s Word. Nanging, if you listen to preachers and/or read all kinds of ‘Christian books that teach doctrines that derive from a carnal mind, and change the words of God in such a subtle manner that it may look spiritual, encouraging, and hopeful for the carnal eye, but diametrically oppose God’s words and lead to perdition, then it won’t be long before you believe and follow their words above the words of God. You’ll deviate from the Word and become lukewarm in the faith and the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the things of God’s Kingdom.
You shall no longer be grounded and settled in the Word. tinimbang, you become unlearned and unstable and be tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine. You’ll doubt and become fearful and shall not be able to resist temptations.
Only if you renew your mind with the Word and stand on the Word, there shall be no room for unbelief, mangu-mangu, lan wedi. You shall endure and resist temptations and stay faithful to God.
How do you get faith? By spending time with God in prayer and reading and studying the Word of God and becoming a doer of the Word.
Faith is trusting God, believing His Word, and obeying and acting upon His words.
Therefore you must know the Word. Dadi ngono, you’ll get to know God and can trust Him. Because how can you trust a person, yen sampeyan ora ngerti wong? Persis, sampeyan ora bisa
Faith is a seed and must grow. It only grows and becomes strong if you take that little bit of faith and apply it in your life
Faith doesn’t whine, murmur, and complain
Faith doesn’t whine, murmur, and complain. Mulane, if you want to walk by faith, you should stop complaining and murmuring and stop allowing the circumstances, kasusahan, and problems to dictate your life and/or linger in kepungkur, which is all part of the nature of the old creation.
Because the new creation walks by faith and doesn’t murmur and complain, but fights the good fight of faith. The new creation takes the Sword; the Word of God and believes, manut, lan apa tembunge. The new creation stands on His Word and in everything gives thanks to God and exalts God.
Fight the good fight of faith until the end
Nglawan perang sing apik saka iman, Tahan urip langgeng, Sampeyan uga wis diarani, lan menehi profesi sing apik sadurunge akeh seksi. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in His times He shall shew, Who is the blessed and only Potentate, Sang Prabu para ratu, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; Whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to Whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen (1 Timotius 6:12-16)
Let nothing and no one move you away from the faith and the hope of the gospel, but stay grounded and settled in the faith.
Iku ora bab carane sampeyan miwiti, nanging carane sampeyan rampung. Therefore stay in Jesus Christ; tetep setya marang Panjenengane, keep standing on the Word and fight the good fight of faith until the end, Tahan urip langgeng, so that the Lord, Hakim kang adil, shall give you the crown of righteousness at that Day.
'Dadi uyahing bumi’
